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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1949.
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U.S. REPORTED TO HAVE Haunted House Plan For World A
FIRED ON RED PLANES
New York, January 27.
The United Nations World, a magazino having no. official relationship to the United Nations, said yesterday that United States forces have fired at Russian planes flying ovar Okinawa. High U.S. Air Force officials promptly denied the
story.
The magazine sald (that So-, Headquarters of the US. Air viet planes on various occasions Force in Washington said Russian flew over U.S. bases on Okina-planes would have no legitimate
business over Okinawa, and it) wa, which are restricted areas, know of none having been there,
"When these violations persist-Associated Press. ed, the planes were fired, on," the magazine said.
"The clandestino
alghis con-
tinue with time-table regularity over Okinawa, where US, ack- tack personnel now has-slanding.
orders to fire on all unidentned planes as soon as they appear on their radar screens.”
•
General's Denial
General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allied Commander, is
Cat Mystery
Bingapore,† January 27. Cats disappear mysterious- ly in a Bingapore bungalow
· haunted by. A handleen ghost, Within Ava: months”, nina felines have vanlahed
from the dwelling house.
They Janva avery time the hand- lets apparition comes roam-," Ing through the corridors in the wee hours of the morn- 100.
Ouriously, the bungalow's dwellers have not been sonra ed into moving.
There's housing shortage. -Associated Press,
Cardinal Refuses
To Perform
Wedding Ceremony
Rome, January 27.
quoted as saying that General Because of the glare of publicity, Tyrone Power and
Kuxma Derevyenko, chief Bo. viet delegate to General Mac- Arthur's headquarters, said the planes are on legitimate mis- slone "protecting Soviet chip. ping" in that area off the East China cost.
In Tokyo, Lleutenant-General Ennis C. Whitehead, Commander of Far East Air Forces, said: "American forces in the Far East
have not fired on any plane since V-3 Day."
He declined all comtrent op whether Soviet planes have flown over Okinawa,
PAL TRAFFIC FIGURES UP
San Francisco, January 26. Passenger traffic over the Philippines Airlines Pacific route to the Orient rose 371⁄2 December, 1946, per cent in over the previous month, it was announced today.
ber ber.
Linda Christian will probably have no Cardinal
to celebrate their wedding in Rome on Thurs- day.
This was Itarned last night!
well-informed from usually Vatiran sources.
The bride-to-be went fur to- warda confirming this when she told journalists and photogra- phers:
"You see what you have done? Because of all the publicity the Cardinal may not want to offi- ciate."
On Tuesday the couple received informal assurance that Federico Cardinal Tedeschini, Arch-Priest of St. Peter's Church, would of clate at Thursday's morning cere mony in the Church of Santa
Francesca Romana.
On Wednesday Vatican sources said the Holy See had decided that the occasion does not warrant the presence of a Prince of the Church. CarinalTedeschini's secretary sald last night that the Cardinal will not officiate.
A total of 1,433,707 passenger A denial of reports that he is miles was flown during Decem- to officiate will be printed in Or- against 1,080,080 in Novem-servatore Romano, the Vatican
the secretary said. oratiean sources sald *However, air cargo traffle drop- ped 14.8 per cent from 65,264 | English-speaking Preinte of the pounds in November, to $5,888 North American College will prob~; pounds in December-United ably perform the ceremony.
Associated Press.
Press.
.
that an
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London, January 26.
Mr. George Gibson has re- signed his post as Chairman of the North Western Electricity Euard.
letter to the Minister of Fuel and Mr. Gibson sent the folowing Power:
I have considered the report of the Lynskey Tribunal and, in view of the strictures therein on myself, I feel that although I do not accept the decision as
just, must place my resignation in
hands," The Minister replied: "I must
your
Shelved By The West
Lake Success, January 27.
The Western powers, in a sharp reversal of their old
poalition, now oppose the formation of the long-Homage
sought United Nations international peace- kooping force until the German and Japanese peace treaties are negotiated.
#
The new Western powers' ap-
To
Gandhi's Memory
New Delhi, January 27. The first aniversary of Ma- hatma Gandhi's death will be 8 day of re-dedication. celebrated throughout India as
The Congress Party Working ! Committee recently appealed to January 30-the day of his as the nation to pledge itself or
sassination-to the "Fulfilment of the w lived and died.”
The West previously has pressed for early action on
the so-called "United Nations army.'
ac-Imake the United Nations a rosl They have consistently cused Russia of blocking its force in the world. This would formation and thus preventing not be forthcoming until the Mil the growth of the United Na-some real blueprints for a United ary Staff Committee produced tions from a web of words to a Nations peace-keeping force. concrete peace-keeping agency.
China Upsof The United States, Great. Bri- tain and France now feel, accord- ing to informed sources, that no proach appears to be based on at stopy should be taken toward-coelderations, includes lining up land, sea and alf con- (1) enemies in the cola tingents of the United Nations Russia and the West cannot seri-
Congressmen throughout India army until still outstanding peace ously be expected to pool any of are advised on that day to read
their military resources into pacts are negotiated and signed.
The United Nations Muitary common emergency force, even on age to that great spirit, and re-
out a resolution promising. “hom-\ Staff Committee-a group of the paper; and
(2) the
solving to continue in the service Big Five admirals and generals-
clitical upset in Chink will have a far-reaching manity, in the light of his lifa
of the people of India' and hu- ! has done virtually nothing on the
effect on the balance of forceiving message of love, truth and question for nearly a year except to hold regular secret and appar to be allotted by the Dig Five ently desultory meetings in its mid-Manhattan headquarters,
to the peacekeeping foras,
A
non-violence,"
and in all circumstances to the
In the days when the Nation- The resolution places special The admirals and generels have olists held control in China, the emphasis on "The great lesson even stopped issuing their month bulk of the United Nations force he taught adherence at all costs ly press communiques--terse mes-would have been made up of con- sages which quickly became tingents from the four "Western" moral values which give mean- notorious at Lake Success for their countries on the one hand and Ing to life-Associated Press. complete lack of information. Russia on the other.
Ardour Coolad
cil.
Issue Shelvad
Population Problem Of Japan
Tokyo, January 27..
For the first two years of the The prospect of a Communist United Nations" existence, the China has cooled the ardour of United States, Britain, France and many Western power military China consistently lambaited men who previously had pressed Russia In the Security Council and for faster action on the matter.
United Nations officials cm- General Assembly för refusing to
phasise that the entire question of accept the majority view and go ahead with the actual drafting of negotiations for the United Na treaties under which United Nations force has been stalemated tlons countries would make ready almost since the San Francisco Dr. Warren Thompson, Ame- armed forces and war material to conference because of friction be- rican population expert, has be used for peace-keeping work tween Russia and the West. Since on the call of the Security Coun- they first sat down to talk about arrived in Tokyo as adviser for
the UN force in the summer of General MacArthur's naturală
Russia's 1946,
representatives resources section.
Americans, have disagreed with
The first population expert om- Britons, Frenchinen and Chinese ctally invited to investigate this what kind of force each of the mounting Japanese problem, Dr. Big Five should supply and on Thompson, In his recent book, should be "Fepulation and Peace in the details of how they
Pacific," Bald that if Australie and New Zealand wish to main- tain their "White Australia" po- liey in the form it assumed be fore the war, it is up to them to take the consequences.
United
Lately, however, the West has let the issue rest along with such mattors as worldwide .die armament and similar projects believed to depend on refative harmony between the East and West..
used.-United Press.
London, January 26.
The loudly debated question of regret the circumstances under | atomle control, whllo never a dead The military activities in Ma- which you have felt obliged to issue from the propaganda stand-laya cost the British Army, Navy offer me your resignation, which point, is in the same position. and Air Force on addtional I have no alternative but to ac- The old Western argument was £635,000 up to December 31 last, cept. I am sure, however, that that international security is need- Mr. A. V. Alexander, Minister of this was the right course for you ed to promote final peace treaties Defence, told the House of Com-ly or to support a "regional"
for Germany and Japan and to mons today.-Reuter,
to take."-Reuter.
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