FEELING RUNS HIGH IN LEEWARD ISLANDS
THE GREAT RUSSIAN
Antigua, Leeward Islands, March 7. Fealing is running high hore as this West Indies sugar island awaits the outcome of a meeting tomorrow in London between the Prime Minis tor, Mr. Clement Attles, and the Leeward Is- lands' Governor, Lord Baldwin.
MYSTERY Among the islands 41,000 population, the great
London, March 8. Senior British diplomats be lieve that Mr. Vyacheslav M. Molotov is being groomed to step Into Premier Stalin's
shoes.
question is: Will Lord Baldwin be sent back? The moustached, talkative Socialist son of Stanley Baldwin, Britain's pre-war Conserva- tive Premier, left behind him a storm of con- troversy when he sailed on a banana boat-last month for talks with Government officials in London.
T Upmann 8 marrally based on reports which the ri
He is being put on the carpet, Usht Ambassador, Sir Maurice Peterson, has sent from Museow, reports said, for his too favour- the native to table attitude Sir Maurice warned nguinst expecting any basic change in workers in the Leeward Is Russian foreign policy
re-lands.
sult of Mr. Molotov's release as One thing is clear, Whatever Foreign Minister,
էր becking Lord Baldwin hie Java with the Colonial Office
aver Min recent speech Governor of tho Leeward Islands,
Alexander Bustamente,
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1949,
Grim Reminder New Agreement On
Of Dunkirk
Dunkirk, March 7. Oritish Air Ministry off- ciale and local pafico believa that # headless body found on Dunkirk bench last week. and may be the remains of A Royal Canadian Ale Force Bergeant Gunner shot down' during the Battle of Dunkirk In 1940.
He was probably buried on the shore by the Germans, and disinterred when galan disturbed the sand.
Officials who discovered the body found blue cloth- Ing. a RCAF shoulder flash, and a silver signet ring with the initials P.W.H-Reuter,
Exchange Of Prisoners
Tel Aviv, March 8, Mr.
The first group of Israeli and decision the Government eames Jaroaican politielan and labour Egyptian war prisoners was to on ot Baldwin's future, lender. sold in Kingston: "We exchanged on the Gazu-Faluja The samo viewn were express» many prople here will be dis-need more men like Lord Bald-road yesterday as the beginning et here privately by » high- | pleasant. Loent labour organkan-win in the Colonial Service, men of a UN-supervised operation runking diplomat of one of the tum are pressing strongly for the who will appreciate not just the expected to last for three or Eastern European
reture of the Pear they regard side of the big people but the four days. Communist countries.
as their champion.
side of the working people,
The wounded were exchanged first as laid down by Sunday's conference of the mixed armis- tice cominkesion in the Negev town of Auja,
Typical of the campaign to "We want Governors who will All expressed the opaning that bring Lord Baldwin back is
realise that the bad economic Stalin will ermain number one statement by the Caribbean position which has been left to tran in Russia even if he should Labour Contrèss, published herë, the West Indies by the Colonial resign his gust of Pelang Mini-
The Congress declared that 12
Office policy for the last/100 An Israeli spokesman sold that ter. Bis supreme position will be desire to bring forcibly to the years at least must be rectifled. the atmosphere throughout the safeguurder, they sperylate, by attention of the British" Govern - "Whether they fire Lord Bald-operation was cordial. hist personal prestige
and his ment that the non-return of the win or nend
buck, the Altogether 1,140 Egyptian posts as Communąd Party Soetes Governor would go for towards Colental Empire ON a whole dlers and 155 Israelis are involv- Tury-Genern?
Polilato | restoring the tyramy in which should athl
himed in the exchange.-Associate: aj mernher,
the peoples of the Leeward Is-Beuter.
Press. fonds have for so many years been held by the sugar Barons.
Ailing and 69, he may wish to he freed of administrative chorca, however,
Bellain, the United States arat
I urged that a declded rebuft the saves to the reactionary vest-
est interests of the Leeward Isl
France are likely to pool their els immediately by the return views on the changes to an effort
to form a firmaer picture of the significance pending clarification.
wetun events.--Assorted
مادا
Press,
ESPIONAGE TRIAL BEGINS
New York, March 7.
A Federal Grand Jury today
began investigating the cuse of
of Earl Baldwin to hits office.
Political Ramp
Critics of the Governor are
as outspoken, toal assert that:
be prezid
Secret
Bill To Shield Agents
Washington, March 7,
The
Suez Canal
Cairo, March 7. The Egyptian Government today signed on agroo
mont with the Suez Canal Company after saveral weeks of negotiations.
The negotiations began on January 10 and conclud- ed on February 19, No details of the agreement are disclosed, but it is understood that the ques- tion of applying Egyptian company law to the Canal Company has been settled satisfactorily for both sides.
pro-
The Egyptian laws mulgated in 1847 provide that 40 per cent of the Directors of companies in Egypt and 75 per cent of their employees, must be Egyptian.
The Company is French-con- trolled, with the British Govern- ment holding 44 per cent of the shares.
Forced Labour In Germany
The Company hus 32 Directors, of whom
London, March 7. 10 are British, in- cluding three appointed by the The Trades Union Congress British Government, two Egyp-today published a report alleg- tian, one Dutch and one Ameri-ing that young Germans in the Can.
Soviet occupation Zone have been seized by the police and M. Charles Roux, President of forcibly sent, without notice, to] the Suez Canal Company Board work in uranium mines. of Directors, told night:
pressmen to-
of
"The conventional regime the Suez Canal Company con- tinues. Today's agreement com sol-plements numerous previous agreeinents. It does not mention the application of Egyptian com- pany law to the Suez Canal. which continues to benefit from its unique status."
The agreement provides:
political and irresponsible fac-A secrot bill to shield United States intelligence
tora are behind the
whole
affair Typical of their opinions
are these statements:
A retired civil servant: "The ront of Be trouble is that Lord Baldwin is a politican and put an
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agents and give them new powers whon work- ing abroad went before the House of Repre- sentatives today.
now
held under stuspicion of espion- definitely as he did against the controlled by Executive orders)
age. The jury swt for three hours.
shrouded in the same cloak of secrecy which has marked it since it was introduced almost
month ago.
Percentage Of Profits
The report was made by Sir James Bowman. Vice-President of the National Union of Mine- workers, and Mr. Arthur Robert Society of Compositors, who visit- Willis, Secretary of the London et the British and United States occupation zones lust November as delegates of the TUC Council.
liched in the official magazino The TUC document, now pub
"Labour," stated the two delegates Interviewed a man in a hospital neer Hanover, "This mun," it added, “without being allowed a moment to take leave of his 1. The Egyptian Government family or pack a bag, was plucked will receive seven per cent of from his workshop by a
police- the Company's
profite, man, sent to a labour exchange, with
guaranteed annual medically examined, and put on minimum of E£350,000 (seven a trola to uranlum mines at per cent of last year's returns Jouchimatal." represent about £ £600,000).
QFORG
2. Egypt Is granted five ad- ditional seats on the Board of Directors, bringing her totul to styen.
to-
the
In the hospital, where he was interviewed, were many other young men and women in their teens and early twenties who had worked in the uranium mines or The House Armed Services, States every year in return for
The Company undertakes who had fled from the Soviet Committee said no details will information from them.
under the threat Zone. employ nine Egyptians for
recruit- The House of Representatives man; be explained to Congress. The
each foreigner on the adminis-ment. Lot Baldwin should up-hill is designed to give the Fassed the bit by a overwhelme
trative stoff and our
The TUC report added: "De- Egyptian the voting being technicians for one foreigner. Ing majority, champion of the Central
sertions, sickness and casualties, Intelligence Agency 340 to four.
made stendy inroads intu the very much to permanent statutory authority
The blil went to the Senate, 20 new Egyptian pilots.
4. The Company will engage slave labour force in the uranium Prodit. But that did not
carry out its work.
mines. One refugee necessitate bts
told ranging
The Company has carmarked British delegation that of 100 men himself
con- and women at work at the be- 4,500,000 for large-scale forces und
and emergency powers by the persons who JC-
struction projects. tw
els, comprising a ginning of a week, only (80, and and President,
six-trile curial Missesent responsibility,
between Ferdan sometimes only 50, would still be In a report accompanying the Six*: order in the colony
The Agency, the highly secret In the Department of Justice, and A lawyer: "The whole affair nerve centre for Amerien's intell the Armed Services Com- and Kantara, parallel to the main working by the
mittee said: "The report docs canal, the deepening of the Suez Reuter, Valentine Gubitchev, aged
the around political ligence operations
Canal irresponsible
along its entire length by Russian engineer. They
were amp. It is earnestly to be hoped world, will he allowed to hidrot contain a
explanation
of all the provisions 20 inches so as to bring its depth held on ball after their arrest by that Mr. Arthur Creech Jones, its annual budget in expenditures of the proposed legislation In to 45 feet, construction of a agents of the Federal Bureau of the Colonial Secretary, will not ments and will be excused from such information is of a highly of Lake Timsam.
of other Government depart- view of the fact that much of workers' clty, and the deepening Investigation on Friday night. allow himself to be stampeded
[publishing is
ils payrolls and Ex enfidential nature.
Egyptian Government will The The agents said they founet in by alarmist threats which are
"However, the Miss Coplon's purse a packet of being used as weapons, of politi-penditures, as other departments
Committee on create a municipality at Ismailis, are required to do. Government papers which had cal warfare."
the Armed Services have receiv-at the Northern
end of Lake The Agency will also be Avened a complete explanation. been planted there and
Timsam,
and will take over the Miss Coplan planned to transfer
authority, with the approval of Committee is satisfied that all 40-mile long Abbassia Canal, to Gubitchev.-Router.
the Affarney-General, fo bring sections of the proposed legisla- which supplies drinking water to
to 100 aliens into the United on are fully justified."-Reuter. the town.-Reuter,
are
The chupte heid Judith Copion, aged 27. analysi
RICE MILLS DESTROYED
32, is
which
Rang, March 8. Three were burned to death and rice stocks worth nearly 300,000 Rupees were destroyer yesterday in a blaze which gut- ted rice mill at Dail Bear Rangoon.
Four hours proviously another fire destroyed another Burma rice mill-Associated Press.
an
He denied that disturbances on
the Islands are to be expected if Lord Baldwin is sucked. These threats, he alleged, are being engineered by the Governor and his political followers for purely political purposes.
Union Backing
The people of the Leewards expect they will know the Bri- tish Governinent's verdict on the Baldwin uffair soon after his meeting with. Mr. Attlee,
Meanwhile, the controversy has brought a bliter favour to the suger Islands,
The labour unions of the Bri. tish West Endles are solidly
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