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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1949.
FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF MALAYAN LEGISLATURE
Evidence At Libel Hearing
Today'
Kuala Lumpur, February 24.
What is perhaps the most unusual and cosmopolitan Legislature in the world-The Fedorol Logisla- tive Council of Malaya—roached its first birth- day with high hopes for a long life. This orgonization has no political parties; the majority of its membership of 75 is unofficial, none of the members is elected.
Settlement In Masbate Case
A settlement was reached at the Portugunsa Consulate yesterday whan survivors and dependente of the 12. Masbate and Jobchun Ohlp- ping Corporation,' agents for the owners, accepted a supe gestion from Dr. Eduardo Brazao for compensation.
The owners agreed to pay $400 compensation to a aurk vivor and $1,200 to mis-
On
Ing member. Tho Chinese
Seaman Union.
moting confusing, the Its members include Malays, on a bit more Paris, February 23.
behalf of the 21 survivors Besgion of the Chinese, Indians, Europeans, Mentri Besars are not consider-
and depandortan of the 23 in ed either vinical or unoMetal, Prussians, Kravchenko libel cuse hear-Ceylonese and
missing, accepted. Third; the largest bloc of 50 They menbers, all unomeini, ure selected to represent such
ings began with the evidence fact, all of those residents of of Andrei Leded, an engineer the Malay Federation who who told the court that rail-carry the all-inclusive name of ways in the Soviet Union had Malayans. their own legal system com- plete with Siote, prosecutora,
The Council,
which
racin)
дя groups
follows: 22 Malays, 14 Chinese, 7 Europeans, was 5 Indians, one Eurasion and one). in
hasCeylonest. February, 1948,
nelled upstairs chamber of what once was the mess hall of the
Belgium To
2th Feb Judges Coutts Po deal thertort-meetings wiederge Unofficial Members ContractLoan
9 a.m. 27th Feb.
Koren & Foochow Shanghai & Keelung ..
28th Feb.? 28th Feb, Ist Mar. 4th Mar.
with railway offencer,
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defence, said this was a continua-
knew that under the Tsar there Include was an NKVR (political police)."
elt
the
ary activity. He was freed by the "sident. In addillon, there are
One of the defendants. Andre Wurmier, leaped to his feet and
crament
#
Second: bloc of, members from the Malay States and the Settlements, 11 in all, These in- #clude the prime ministers (Men- trl Becars of the nine Malay [xlatex, ex-ofelo, and two repre- sentatives elected by the settle- ment councils of the Penang and Malucca. Just to make the situs
Aim
of
Brussels, February 23.
Shipping Receipts
on
Unoficial members arc no- Maitre Joe Nordmenn, for the volunteer forces of the Federalminated by various trade unions, Belgium's Finance Minister has
commercial
organisations, pro- been
authorised to contract tion of a system in operation in Malay States.
There are three blocs of mem-fessional planting, mining, agri-
US$10,000,000 loan with the Maitre Georges bern. Tearint times.
cultural and education elements international Bank for Recon- Izard, for Kravchenko; "I never First ex-ufficio members. They in Malayan life.
struction and Economic Develop of the legislative coun-
ment, presklent of the eil is
Gur- is to work toward eventual
The Joan, which will be used Leded sald that after being for younel! who is Sir Henry self-govermunent of Malaya ns to Annnce Belgium's
economie tured he had been condemned ney, the British high commis-
the King re-equipment, will be repayable sioner for Malaya; the attorney agreed upon between to death for counter revolution-
ary of England and the nine-Malay in Recretary.
half-yearly general und Anancial
payments of rulers. side of the on elther
US$500,000, the first repayment highest court of appeal.
The council is self-governing lo be made on September During exornination, Moltre Izard repented accusations het official members, all personal with the important exceptions of 1953.
defense and foreign matters. the high com-
Interest, not exceeding 4.25 made yesterday that the defence (ppointments of
and missions
An outstanding ali oficials ot
example per cent will also be paid half- had betrayed the name of the
the council's powers in the yearly. Bonds will be issued at various departments of the gov- wilness, Antonov, to the Soviet
standing committee on finance, the maximum price of US$1,000 nuthorities (Antonov was one of
consleting of the financial each. Capital and interest three men the Soviet Governmeni
arotary and 6 Bratz
6 Malays, 3 Chi-
bonds will not be subject to tax asket the French Government to
neee, 2 Europeans and one in- In Belgium throughout the period hand over for trial us wat cri-
dian. It meets every fortnight of the loun,-Reuter, minals).
and approves all government panding, including supplemen. tary expenditures. Other important committees to consider appointed are those establishment of a a University of Maleye, a war damage commis- sion the standing rules and order
London, February 23. Britain's shipping receipts for of the house and
and the privileges
1948 shouki exceed payments by and powers of members.
Federal
million-three than £60 councillors serve volun-times the 1948 figure-the Trans- hef was 17th March
tween her husband and Marshal tarily and without pay. They do, port Minister, Mr. Alfred Barnes, sorry for the record writers." Stalin in Moscow in 1931. Mar-however, have certain free prt- Curriers option to proceed via other Ports to load and discharge
This restored quiet. Shorthand shal Stalin asked him about Na-vileges while on council business, announced here today. writers, now
the tonal Socialism In Germany,
"It is fully anticipated that approaching
These are mailing and telephon-this upward trend will be main- 150,000-word mark in this length;
17 Nazi Menace
railway passage and motor talne in 1049," he added. triu, smilert.
car registration. They also re- told guests at a luncheon on Her husband, witness said, re- The tension enged when Pascal
travelling expenses and Chiarelli gave evidence.
"menace"ceive Gestgarded Hitlerism as a
beard the 18,000-ton Royal Mail to Russin but the Russian leader car allowances; have priority of liner, Magdalena, due to start culating with real Southern ex-
accommodations and exemption
her uberance, he said he was "a dis-did not agree. Neumann was re-
taolden voyage to South He moved from his pest in the Ger- from customs examinations, ciple of Lenin and Trotsky.
America next Saturday, that Bri- odded that he had aidert The man party and sent to Spain to
taln's Informal Session
merckuni fleet totalled 12,700,000 Spanish Repubileans during the take part in the civil war but he
lons, only 1,600,000 civil war. . At the end of the
the still tried 10 fight Hitlerism
A parliament session
tons less then the prewar figure, is In- comrades In Cer. world war he was engaged as an through his
-Reuter. formal and rather simple. Most interpreter for a Soviet repatria-
of the members wear European tion camp at Aix En Province be-
nearly all of the 34 slain by Chinese aurgents in cause he was "the only man in
dress, but Malays appear in. their bright August. He said: the Marseilles region who could arrested because his papers were bojus (shirts) and sarongs. There "We may be Chinese, Indian
not in order. The Hitler Governe microphones and
plifters or Malays by race, but let us so all can hear without difficulty. not forget that we are above all- ment demanded his extradition
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heard to say:
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He said all the 100 Russian
21
sokliers in the camp asked if they could stay in France. He asked them why. They told him that everything in Kravchenko's book was true I knew it all before i read the book," witness sald.
Asket about the work of poll- tical commissars in the Soviet Army, he said; "If you say any- thing against them off you go to Siberia and you do not --come- back."
During the short afternoon in- terval, Kravchenko, who usually spends this time autographing daily average of 250 copies of "t Chose Freedom," was today kept autographing slips of paper and court passes handed to him from young women admirers in the well of the court.
German Communist Party and a candidate for the Presidium of the Comintern.
She told of an Interview be-
mony.
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urney now people, in our resolve from Penang. The other women "My husband was ordered
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Mariah home, in our
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Rashid, a Mulay. work together for the welfare of The spirit and bone of the par- this country and in our United a declaration
recognising his political errors of 1931. He re-liament was best expressed by loyalty and devotion to the fused. In April, 1937, he was the late Dr. Ong Chong, Keng, Federation of Malaya--Associat- arrested. 1 search for him in meniber from Penang who was every prison in town and final.
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A fifth language was heard in being member af a counter- the court today when a German revolutionary organisation. interpreter was sworn in for a Witness sald she was sentenced Witness, Margarethe Buber to five years' imprisonment in Neumann. This witness was in- Kazaristan (Siberia) but shortly troduced by Kravchenko's lawers as "the wife, perhaps the widow of Hans Neumann, former mem- ber of the Political Bureau of the
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