EGYPTIANS STILL IN POSSESSION OF GAZA
CANADA'S DEFENCE SCHEME
Oliaw, December 28. Canada's defence programme next year will be the largest in her peacetime history
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Tel Aviv, December 28,
The Israeli Government tonight officially denied Arab radio reports that Egyptian-held Gaza, in South West Negov, has fallen to Jowish forces, An Israeli military spokesman said the pressure against Gaza has increased. He again refused to confirm or deny an Egyption report that the Gozo coastal strip is cut off.
Implementation of the armia. tice resolution or at least to get Information regarding it.
He denied suggestions that f the Israeli silence about the; Negev situation is due to milli- The emphasis will be on
setbacks. The security mecraft, improved anti-subiungme į tary
and black-out on all vilicial reports further forces vessels, nirborne troops" training in Aretle warfare, and sporulation continues.
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Annent! This torbox, Mr. In Cairo, 13 spokesman of the Bronke fuxkon
Defence Ryption Wor Ministry dered Minister, shaled 41 € mot give that hearth forces had broken figures, but H can be assumed i hinugh to the const South of we will spend macht munė on Gaza. isolating it from other chefence in 1920 than in Bit Beypti prestioras The Ministry when we had the largest ammunt, sand the Ereption positions wer Ja our peacestane history"
start and that the height re- ported occupaed WIN 25 mules East et Gara
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Tir disclosed that Camelia is with 4
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The Istacle densal followed a Stales for a certain type of jet
Unfret Nations Oghter which he twofed, will
Supervisy eventually
the Beatishsulquam eos aunessprement regala Vampire et ses att as the huge af best night that the Enya- had comptained that the Jaraclis had cut of Gaza tromn the Seidh
single seater jet figher Reval Charton An For
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Mr. Brooke Claxton Bald that atthough the United Slate had taken the lead in jet
Canadian meist design, Chink the Vampire is, in many best jet fighter in ways, thr the world.
"But there
fot our wrionakamat Ameriran pers mat type anal alandarels and in ermy way we can with the Lint- and State deste te meldest,
We het plenty of driverbale the knot wat Tayang! fo arbapt Hui- Type to Noa th production method
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The Israeli spokesman would not comment o the Egyptian
Jak t comulattal He
could be revealed that the operation alang the constul strip slackening of! but would not віту whether thin wan due ta the BUCCCDS or falfure of the Jewish attack.
Air War Spreads
الد بأن
Gak tghtog was still con- me to the Gaza area, but the tort spread over Bir American | Faloya pun kel, where the Egyp- Reuter
tians have been trigged for more than two natio
Siam Campaign On Illiteracy
The spokesmim vlanned thail two smelt lighters of an un- insetosed Type engaged NIY Egsplitor Fang planes over Faluja toway, One Ery plan plane was beloved to have been shot down and three tief, les maried. The other Iwe flow. This was the rst time
that the Exyptians had used this type of pie, he added.
New York, Decealer 28.
Frank Lauback today Dr. left for Bangkok, where he his been invited by the Siamese Government to spend 10 werdts in Paris, when the Security
institung a
nationwide cart-
paign against illiteracy
Cal
Dr. Laubach, a Congregational Sy Christian missionary,
is widely dews of
The Counet decided to defer consideration of the Palestine question untit 10-
morrow.
The British resolution
SUK-
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 80, 1949.
The Dog Had:
Jogjakarta City
The Last Word Of Bewilderment
Manila, December 29. Four were killed and eight others, including * girt, wounded last night in near- by Rizal City when 17-year-
Tirona old Adriano
blazed away with a 45 calibre platol
love at a rival in æ
affair and the latter's friends in a
bar.
Two of the wounded were Bitten by
dog no they scampered for safety.-Unit-
ed Press.
ODOM TO TRY FOR RECORD
Wichita, December 29, Captain Bill Odom will try to gestert that from January 1, break a ten-year world record Delgium and Colombla should be for non-stop distance flying by repineed by Culm and Norway light planes early in January. on thes seven-gallon Palestine The Beech Aircraft, Corporation Commuter.
announces that Captain Odom will (On January 1, Helgium und faltempt to fly non-stop from Colombia retire as members of Honolulu to New York, a distance the Security Comer), baving of 5,010 milles. completed their term of office He will pilot a 185-horsepower and Cabn und Norway take their | eingle-engine Beechcraft Bonanza. place). Reuter.
United Press,
Atomic Engine To Propel Warships
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Chicago, Decomber 29.
The Atomic Energy Commission today announced that contract has been arranged with Westinghouse Electric Corporation to build an experimental atomic engine to propel warships.
Alfonze Tammuto, manager of Company. He said its object AEC operations 131 Chicago, is to produce a nuclear power suth the project would be car-plant which may be adapted to ried!
vessel Jointly
naval by AEC's propulsion of a Argonne national laboratory within the shortest practical
The Westinghouse time.
here and
Exchange Rate For The Yen
DESARRO tis debate On Palesime
after Situation Faris Bey, lunch today,
The Helt gale,
accusert the
Tokyo, December 29. for vio- of responsibility
Oficlats of the Japanese int the
and for the re-Government's Economic Stabi- He expects to visit India, New newal of lighting in the Negev
He said Isruel ships had been fisition Board say there Gamen, Australka and Korea be
Jews trong possibility that a single fore returning to 1 United mbarding Gaza.
have defied the Security Council international exchange rate for the Yen may be fixed before the
known for his literacy work,
States.
developed
Ise added.
The
Dr. Labuch methods while working among thei Moros in Mindanoo in the Philip-trom falls short of the steps that Fincs-United Press.
the Security Council should wike, us it 15 the only one, any dete gation will support it. We think it is better than nothing. We de not want the Security Council to do nothing at all on this mutter
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Jogjakarta, December 29.
.Republicans in this captured capital, are glum and
bewildered.
With their army scattered and their top leaders in- terned, they pin their hopes on guerilla activity
at home and on diplomatic aid abroad.
However, the Dutch are al-} Most of the shops, Chinese- closed or do ready receiving co-operation operated, remain from
through Indonesians In
half opened the business
doors. Restaurants also are Jogjakarta area.
closel Large railroad workshops, for operating again. example, BEC
Home
The Netherlands' Indonesin coming inta current Ex-
A line of job seekers waited at guilder is slowly the gate today. Workers also are circulation. The returning to other factorles and change rate with the Republican offices in the area. Dutch officinis rupiah
saict.
1 remains a major question
just
how much help the Re- Publican cause will get from its scattered army. The issue is:
With Indonesitt turn into an-
guerilla-ridden
piler
China?
1B
to 500 rupiahs guilder.-Associated Press.
NEGRO FILES Indo-UNIQUE ACTION
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An intelligence officer for the Philadelphia, December 20. Dutch brigade in Jogjakarta zaidi A 25-year-old negro; who the Dutch have plans on how
lowserved in World War 11 os a the Repubilean Army planned to merchant marine deck officer, deploy and collect their officer today filed an equity action in In case of attack. The after suld information in Dutch hands a Federal court against his in- "segregated" concerning locations t various duction into concentrations showed the plans United States Army. clic mot materialise.
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Such service would cause cm- barrassment, pain, angulsh and loss of personal dignity, Devreaux Tomlinson contends in an affidavit
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The city of Jogjakarta Itself accompanying his plea for a pre- in little
Army Injunction. damaged. Not moro
Tomlinson, who seeks to then eight bulidings were des.
train operation of the Selective troyed and most of
these by Service Act in his case until the demolitions laid by AG.
matter is decided, also cinima that publicans.
he will be denied the opportunity far training service and advance- ment granted to white inductees 703 Bank of East Asia Bldg., solely because of his colour.
Named a defendants are Selec- live Service oficials, including the Director, Lewis B. Hershey.
The Repubilens fargest office building was seized intact.
So was
the State Bank which the Bank of Java already is operating.
ruce ΟΓ
Judge George A. Welsh Act Thursday for a hearing on the Free In-petition.-United Press.
The Dutch radio staff with a own equipment has moved into three bungalows from which the
"Voice of Republic's donesia" once was heartt.
Military traffic had kept the of bullock drawn roads clear carts, the city's chlel supply method. As a result there was a until the Air. Tamto
require serious rice shortage sald
Dutch Imported the all
im- ment for the project were pro- vider by the Navy Department's portant staple from North Java.
Distribution began on Monday. Bureau of Ships.
ex- In Washington, military perts sail such an atomic power piunt would make it possible for surface fleets and submarines to remain at sea indefinitely.
The start of this experiment is
• gratiflying to highly
naval officers, some of whom have felt the AEC has been slow in laun-
the ching
project. Several Commission members Atomic expressed faith in the feasibility of an atomic engine for warships, date of which could 'carry the heavy shielding necessary for protection more casily against radiation than aircraft.
They based their statement on the Cabinet's decision to organise a Deliberative Council to deter mine single exchange rate as the first step toward implementa- tion of General MacArthur's nine- pot economiz. programme for Japan.
It is understood that
wage
Special Plant
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A few peasants bring in small of vegetables and div baskets business in small groups ouside the city's large markets. The long lines of market stalls still ure bare, however,
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CHURCHILL OFF TO FRANCE
London, December 28. Mir Winston Churchill jeft London today for a private visit to the South of France, where on bis he will continue work war memoirs.
During his stay he will be the guest of "Life" and the New York "Times."
his
He was
Accompanied by wife and daughter, Mrs. Oliver. -Reuter,
MACHINE BETTER THAN HUMANS
New York, Decembar 29.
A new machine with mechanical fingors and 'brain' makes one part of an automobile engine botter than human hands, an engineer reports.
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maintained,
по
The 'brain' goog
work when the bushinge slide down an incline to be loaded onto trays, with the thinner ande in alots.
The brain
detects any
turns
The Westinghouse Company at a letter Pittsburgh was given contract for construction of an
It is not a single machine., that quality is Meanwhile, Government off experimental nuclear reactor to
system of
said. automatic cials have begun work on a wage meet specifications
for eventual It is a stabilisation policy in line with use in ship propulsion, according handling that produces 100,000 day. the economic stabilisation pro- to Mr. Tammaro.
valve guide bushings a gramme.
The bushing is an iron costing Westinghouse will face the 2% inches long, and fatter on task of designing 2 amali, If one end than the other. possible. portable, reactor
about any bushings pointed the similar to the hugo atomia The process, called "automa- wrong way. Any pieces coming plies now in operation at Oak tion", WHE described to the down with the heavy end for- Ridge in Tennessso and Han. American Society of Mechanical ward fall into an opening and ford, Washington. One of the Engineers by Leven L. Bean, straighten up to fall slim-end main jobs will be shloiding the Director of production engineer- first into the trays, crew from dangerous radiation, ing of a division of the Ford
Motor Company.
Mr. Charles Ritchie, of Canada, proposed that the vote on the British resolution should be post- ceiling will not be imposed. poned until tomorrow to enable
Stricter emphasis will be placed his Government to study it.
on Lax collection programmes, Mr. Alexandre Parodi which are regarded as essential (France) ald he thought the to achieve the goals of the econo- Canadian euggestion reasonable mic stabilisation programme.--- and desirable to further the Reuter,
RESCUE DRAMA ON GREENLAND ICE
Washington, December 29.
The U.S. Air Force headquarters announce that the 12 airmen stranded during Christmas on a Greenland icecap have boon rescued.
The men were picked up by The Air Force said it had been C-47 aircraft from an airbase in error in announcing that 13 270 miles North West of the men were stranded crash scene, the Air Force said.
The C-47, which was specially
equipped with skis for landing,
peak.
In Pittsburgh, Charles Weaver, head of Westinghouse's new Atomic nounced that about 600
Final inspection also is done automatically. It detects dil- Hands and Angers electrically ferences in coatings 10 times operated take the bushings from thinner than sheet cf news- Power Division, An- one operation to another. They paper, Bean said.
men, have a delicate and accurato "Automation" In a word coined mostly engineers and scientists, touch better than human hand to mean automatic handling of will be employed on the projecting. Delaya and Inefficiencies parts in manufacture. Bean said
al a special plant which is to due to human causes are avoided the system is the nearest ap be in the Pittsburgh area. Con- and no human effort is needed proach to complete automation." struction will stort within beyond spot inspections to neo-Associated Press, several months.
Estimates of how long it will take to build an atomic boller range
from two to six years. Scientists in Pittsburgh point out that
the possibilities of an atomic One of on the ice boiler are tremendous.
them
thinks that, if fully utilised had assumed that two and properly harnessed, it can men were on board "the glider produce power equal to that which made the lant previous turned out by 3,000,000,000 tons rescue attempt when In reality of coal or 200,000,000 gallons of there was only one. Seven men were stranded on
Philip
Ross, Сде of the when their plane Westinghouse engineers CAX一 December o was forced down,、
marked for the project, points ships Five others joined thera from out that this would give the
time to time in unsur cessful an indefinite cruising radius on reselic operations. — Associated} a relatively small amount Press.
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returned to its base at Blule West Eight.
The C-47, equipped with a jet apparatus to assist lake off, is presumably refuelling at Blutc West Eight before, taking rescue men to Labrador,
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