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REPUBLIC TO PROPOSE ECONOMIC SANCTIONS.
AGAINST THE DUTCH
Tension Will Relax This Year
Washington, January 17. The leading foreign 1. policy
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New Delhi, January 18.
Economic sanctions against the Dutch will be_ro- commondod by Indonesian Republican dolo- gatos to the Asian conforence opening here on Thursday on the Dutch-Indonesian disputo. The Dutch, in what they termed police action, have taken over important Republican centres in In- donesia and detained leaders. The military moves took place in the lost month.
Aid To Republic
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About 20 Asian and Pacific memorandum proppses sanctions authority In the Republican nations are expected to be re-under the United Nations charter Party, Mr. John Foster Duiles. presented at the conference, if the Dutch fall to co-operate. said today that a relaxation of called by the Indian Prime -streetmeteica krekvents Passaic astuchi-Miminteassment-sozzálátnom. Zawaharlal the United States is probable Nehru, to consider what steps, if any, shall be taken as a result of the Dutch action.
this year.
interviews copyrighted with the United Stries News. ho said: "The Soviet leaders themselves are not affirmatively seeking better relations with the United States,"
But he claimed: "Subject to accidents to stupulty, there will be a gradual lessening of len- xton.
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He said this will
Greur pri marily
Communist brenuse the incties of aggression are becom- ing less potent, they are becom- ing
known, discovered, briter exposed and nullifted and enuse the internal problems of the Communist States require urgently more attention.
be
Mr. Dulles nsists that now Western E ope must in- clude Germany.
"The difficulty today, however,
Lo
the
A spokesman said that a Re- publica memorandum conference will recommendt Ume table for withdrawal Dutch tro, establishment of an Interim Government and setting up at a United States of Indone
Alza.
If the conference wecepts the Republican recommendations, the
Increased Use Of Wood Suggested
is that Western Europe is not
London, January 18, sirong
enough Dr vigorous
The British Timber Develop- enough to feel that it can gest ment Association called yester- Germany,"
asserted.-Reuter day for increased use of wood in
for British industries and creased imports of timber.
HUGH DALTON IN PARIS
Paris, January 17.
In-
in
A memorandum sent by the Association to Harold Wilson, President of the Board of Trade, saith that the USE
of wood place of steel, concrete and aluminium for many purposes Mr. Hugh Dalton arrived in will also save dollars and cut Paris by air tonight to load the
building
costs
have which British delegation to the Euro-climbed steeply since the war,
Many pean Unity talks opening here
substitutes for timber are being bought from dollar Comorrow.
countries and many of the sub- stitutes are more expensive than timber they replace, the the
hope to finish He said: "We our work this week, We shall thus be able to prepare a report
for the Western Union Foreign memo argues. Ministers to consider when they Timber, it said, is one of the meet in London on January 28" cheapest of raw materials. Fur- Reuter's diplomatie correspon-ther use of it will release men-
and productive dent anys Mr. Dalton took with power
been engaged in him proposals which had
capacity
the manufacture,
fully thrashed out by the Cabinet transport and assembly of sub- and which were also discussed stitute materials.
by the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Press.
Ernest Bevin, and the French!
Foreign Minister, M. Robert
Schuman, during their Londun
talks last week.-Reuter.
EX-PREMIER ON FORGERY CHARGE
Batavia, January 17.
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Associated
Explanation Of Akaba Move
The misyandum propeler also that if the United Nations Falls to not or if the Dutch ag
gression .continusa, then the conference countries them selves, will apply sanctions, Under such a move, the con-
ference countries will ban Dutch ships and planes carrying war materials or troops from their ports or air fields.
They will also supply Republi- can Indonesia with material and Anancial ald.
The memorandum makes these proposals:
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1949.
ILO To Meet In Manila?
Manila, January 18.
The Philippine Govern- ment has invited the Inter- national Labour Organisa- tion Headquarters to hold Its Aston conference In Manila next year.
The conference original- ly was fixed for China. The invitation
extended Was by President Quirino through Raghunath Rao, Assistant Director-General of the ILO, during a con- ference.Associated Press.
London Planning
SJAHRIR TO CONFER WITH DUTCH PREMIER
Page,
Guerlain
Lake Success, January 18. The Netherlands said yesterday that Sutan Sjahrir, former Premier of the Indonesian Republic, has agreed to meet in Batavia today with the Dutch Promior, Willem Droos.
The announcement was made in the UN Security Council by J. H. Van Royen, Netherlands re- presentative.
Van Royen told newsinen The Indian delegate, Sir Rama later that this is intended. as Rau, urged the Counell to take ***the first step toward renewed speedy action so the Asian con- know Dutch-Indonesian peace nego-ference on Indonesia will
the Council's attitude as soon as
For Crowds.
London, January 17. Schemes for dealing with the crowds who are expected to at- tend the 1051 Exhibition were disclosed today.
the
New footbridges across Thames from Charing Cross and Gcross Station will bring visitors to the New round-abouts on the roads outside Waterloo Exhibition.
to help
York Road from Watorlou
Station will be erected traffle flow freely.
The schemes, designed to cope with millions of visitors, were an- Troop Withdrawal“
nounced by Mr. Herbert Morri- Immediate release of Repub-on, when he started the hammer
held lican political leaders now
which drove in the first pile fur by the Dutch;
the new 1,700 feet river wall along Withdrawal of Dulch troops by the South bank of the river. March 1, under United Nations supervision, to their lines as they were before the recent action;
Formation of an interim Gov. ornment, based on consultations between the indonealan Repub. tican and
and other non-Republic
Federal States, by March 1;
Elections for a Constituent As- sembly before June 1; and
Transfer of power to the United States of Indonesia by September 1, with the withdrawal of Dutch troops starting at that time-As- Rociated Press.
A
The wall, which will extend from the Country Hall to a point just down-stream from Waterloo Bridge, will cast about £250,000 and the reclaimed land of four and a half acres is to be laid out as public space and gardens.
Mc. Morrison also announced
that the London County Councit and the Lambeth and Southwark
arranging Boroughs are
for a
great spring cleaning and the brightening up of all streets sur- rounding the exhibition in time for the 1981 opening-Reuter.
Reveals Rangoon
Officers' Plot
Rangoon, January 17.
Government communique tonight disclosed a plot by ex-army officors to overthrow the Burmese Government before January 21, 1949,
It said that mutineers of the deserted Burma Rifles, 'who from the ranks last August, are enlisting the support of
the "White Band Volunteers" in Upper Burma.
Government troops frustrated an attempt by the mutineers to march on Rangoon last year.
Rice Money
For China
Washington, January 18. New foreign aid grants ap- proved yesterday by the Economic Co-operation Ad-
The communique also report- ministration include US$1,671,- ed "that a Japanese "henchman" | 000 to China to buy rice in London, January 17. of the White Flag Communist the United States.
that
A Foreign Office spokesman teuder, Thakin Thon Tun. is The allotment la significant in the Transjordan leading insurgent bands in the the light of ECA action over the The former Premier of East today said
Government invoked the Prome district, about 170 miles week-end cutting off all shipments Indonesia. Nadjamuddin Daeng
ས་ of wheat and flour to China. Malaewa, today heard the prose Anglo-Transjordan treaty about North West of Rangoon.
out, however, pointed cutor of Macassar court, in the 10 days before the start of the
In the Tegu district Commun-areas of South China not at pre- Celebes, demand four-year movement of British troops to ist Insurgents are instigating the sent threatened by the Commun-
for misuse of Akaba, the Transjordan port. Burmese to attack senience on him
the Kurens, ils are the regions in which rice authority.
He was commenting on are the communique added.
is the principal food. In North The The
that a former Premier was ported Israel! statement charged with forgery and re-Transjordan spokesman had
The majority of the "Peoples' China wheat and four are prime ceiving. Sentence will be pro- claimed that there had been no Volunteer Organisation" the
Other allotments in a total of nounced later. Nadjamuddin was initiative from the Transjordan military branch of the "Anti- US$11,534,000 in new grants pro- dismissed from office in 1947. side.
Fascist Peoples Freedom Lea- vided US$6,016,000 for tabacco Last October he was placed on Questioned about reports that gue in Burma-which joined the purchases for Western Germany. trial, freed, re-arrested and freed British troops had arrived before, "White Flag Communists" In (Tobacco ranks high among "in- again all in one day when his not after, Transjordan had in- their revolt against Premier [centive" consumer goods in the defence counsel successfully voked the treaty, the spokesman Thakin Nu's Burmese Govern-Western zone).-Associated Press, pleaded that accusations against said the arrival of British troops ment in the summer of 1948 are him were legally unsound. in Akaba had erroneously been known 85 the
reported in advance.-Router.
Router.
Imprisonment Of Republic Leaders
The Hague, January 18.
The Netherlands Government says it did not know that the Indonesian Republic leaders aro con- fined under guard in a building on Bangka Island.
it..
tical
"Whito Bond Volunteers.'
They oppose Thakin Nu's poll- programme and demand that Burmese policy be framed in consultation with the insur- gent Communists.
The White Band Volunteers were expelled from the AFPFL In August, 1948-Reuter.
IRAQI MINISTER
foodstuffs.
Norway's Air Chief On Rhine
Wiesbaden, January 17, The commanding general of the Norwegian Air Force, Lieutenant General Barno Oen, arrived, here today with other Norwegian Air Force officer.
The party, which includes Co- Ionel Jacob Wange and Major Baghdad, January 17. Wilhelm Mohr, and is accompani- Kahill Ismail, Under-Secretaryed by the United States Air Al- the Finance Ministry, was to- tache in Oslo, Mr. Dale Jenson, appointed Iraqi Finance will inspect the operation of the
Berlin airlift at Wiesbaden. He is regarded as one of the The Norwegian officers are due Arab world's leading Arance and to stay here until Wednesday-
Reuter,
duy
Minister..
It added that it is sorry about day that the five captured Indo-economie experts-Router. The United Nations Good nesian Republican leaders are Offices Committee said on Sun-confined under close guard in
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The Dutch previously told the UN Security Council that the nine Republican leaders had been. released from custody and that
GREEK REBELS IN
FULL
five of these had complete free- The
dan.
The other four, the Counell was told, were confined to Bangka but enjoyed full freedom of the Island,
RETREAT
Athens, January 17.
Greek Air Force today roared over the barran Vermion Mountains, strafing and dive-bomb- ing a broken line of retreating guerillas in vengeance for tho' sacked city of Naoussa.
The General Staff said that, three days of burning and kill- "With deep regret, the Dutch Government has learned about the ground troops. pursuing the ing that left the city in ruins, housing and treatment of the Re-fleeing rebels, spilt them into publican leaders on Bangkn, the two columns which are suffer and destruction do not keep Ofelal reports of casualties Foreign Affairs Ministry seid in a ing heavily from Air Force at- pace with unomiclal estimates, tacks on the mountains that rise but the official list includes 300
statement,
..
It added that this treatment is 3,000 feet above Nanusan, West civilian hostages taken, 542 mill- In confict with instructions, and of the city and South of Yugo-lary age men were missing and strong action will bo taken against | slav border.
250 school children missing. those responsible.
A communique indicated that Unofficial estimates any that The Ministry announced that the pursuit was hot enough to some 2,000 were abducted but two high officials have left Buta- force the guerillas "to release many escaped as the
Army via for Bangka to report on the large numbers, of... hostages-they-harassed the retresting columna, situation -Associated Press. ·k'dnapped from Naoussa after å --United Press,
dations.
Sjahrie wason of the Re-possible after it opens
Delhi on January 20. pubilcan Icaders arrested in
in New
that the
December when tho Dutch He told the Council launched their military action Indian Government, in calling the which quickly overran Republi- conference, never intended to ge
Territory
menerabezond"the-framework-of-the U}}}
assured
the
The Dutch statement came as charter. the Security Council onded general debate on the Indonesian Philip C. Jessup, American problem. General A. G. L. Me delegate,
Indian Naughton of Canada, this month's delegate that the United States Council President, hopes that looks upon the Asian conference formal proposal will be ready on with sympathetic
interest.
Не Wednesday afternoon when the hopes that the conference
will Council meets
contribute added support to the Bgain. The Indonesian representative, efforts of the Security Council 1. N. Palar, continued his insis- to bring about a satisfactory and tence on firm UN action against viable peace in Indonesia."--As- the Dutch to force their with-sociated Press. drawal to lines held before the recent attack.
"Hunt For Puppets"
an-
An Indonesian spokesman. commenting on the Dutch
regarding Sjahrir, nouncement expressed doubt any peace negotiations are even being con- sidered by the Indonesians. The snid Sjahrir muy spokesman
designated to talk have been with Drees merely to get in- formation.
arrangements
Expects To Delve into Corfu Case
The Hague, January 17. The International Court of
General MacNaughton agreed, in the meantime, to see what Justice is to ask its neutral bring any, designated Republican go to Yugoslavia for
can be made to committee of naval experts to
oficinis to Lake Success to con-investigations
Into
further the Al-
for with the delegation here. banian-British dispute over the
Informed
quarters belleve
that Sjahrir may be designated mining of two British des- to come to Lake Buccess. It introyers in the Corfu Channel. recalled that he appealed ba
fore the Security Council in the
This was announced today by
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ttish complaint to the United No- SJahrir shows how little they tlons that Albadia was respon- know of the Indonesian menta- sible for the loss of the lity.
U.S. Interost
In fact, he said, the Republican delegation at Lake Success hoping that President Soekarno
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des- troyers Saumarez and Volage in the Corfu Channel in 1946, with the loss of 44 sailors.
·Britain, alleged, that. Yugoslav
will designate Sjahrir to come vessels, acting for Albania, laid
the mines-Reuter.
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