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NEW ERA OF UNITY
IN POWER STRUGGLE
LLOYDS MERGER REVEALED
London, March 28.
Washington, March 28,
|Foreign Ministors of 10, perhaps 12, Western na. tions will gather hero this week to sign the At- lantic Security Pact and open a new era of Western unity in the bittor power struggle with Russia.
Attempts are expected to be made to advance to-
ward an agreement on four or more major in- ternational subjects. These involve Italian co- Ionics, Western Germany, other regional al- liances and Atlantic defence machinery. Most of the European, foreign policy leaders, among them Bri-
Lloyds Register of Shipping, and the British Carporätion” Register of Shipping are to be amalgamated, Sir Ronald Car- rett, Chairman of Lloyds Regis- ter, announced today.
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He is known alap to be in. terested in setting. up some kind of machinery for South Emt Asta to hold Communiem In check there.
Military Staff
Ai- of Allanlle 4. Creation lance defence machinery under the part.
tain's Ernest Bevin and Robert duc Schuman of France, are The British Chepogulio wel
Bul Thursday, here about. be merged with Lloyds Begister under the fille
"Lloyes Bramme are coming carller and Register of Shipping writed with indications are that the Italian the British Carporation Regis Foreign Minister, Carlos Sforza ter," the Corporation name be-night rive on Monday. ing a sub-14216.
If this tople comes up in the Poblation of the 1940ish Cons
men and others, such
meetings here, it is expected to poration Register book will be the Belgaum Pretoler and For-
auly in a general AL. Stout,
be discussed are
will be discontinued and the Birth Coreign Minister,
left Delatt the NIKO
way. peration staff will be merged with comillast not only
after the treaty becomes effec- the staff of Loyals Register. Some treaty bail aise to items out, among
tive. Some sharp differences of wd with the US. tine
themeselves. will elp here
Serreny of State, Dean Ache- upinion are lieginning to emerge,
In this connection. SOIL, INues
requiring retion.
on other derstood here that many Western JWET the Western
AL- trout of the cold war.
Eurepeins believe that the lantic powers should set up some These stes Include: sterntihemed
staff 10 kind of super military evolve their joint strategy.
The French, and possibly the us well, would like to see British us a high-ranking American officer with a big name- dl General Dwight
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the United Nations. The major question la the kind
for of control
the colonica stripped from italy as a result of the
wor
Pacific Pact
ituly
Lloyds Register, established in
whether The issue 1560, reconstituted in 1834 and a worldwide organisation by the sheath exercises a United Nations end of the 19th century, is much tru: ferslip over them or whether The oldest classificatzen zoetely my some other kind of administration
the world.
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Programme To Aid Steel
A
Industry
Paris. March 21. U.S.$100,000,000 pro- gramme to modernise Western with Europe's steel industry ECA funds is being consider. ed by ECA officials,
31 was reported that the pane gamme ralls, for the buying of modern are mining and rolling mill equipment as part of a lung- term plan i Western Europe,
The plati already approved by the organisation for European ecute e-operation Covera Austria, Italy, Britain, Franes, Belgium.
Luxembourg.
and Norway.
Turkey
Mr. George W. Perkins, head of the bustry division of ECA here, said it would be the feel time such a programme is at- tempted on an international basis. He said it is almost certain to be
pproved.
Mr. Kenneth E. Brown, heel of the iron and steef section of ECA, sad that ERP countries asked for aid in buying matern equipment to increase the efficiency of the steel industry.
to
He said US$160,000,000 would cover Western Europe's need for are mining equipment required sa
flow assure a steady materials needed by the clee) m- dustry reach ing proofuetiam fot and rollout mull equipment the production of short supply items, suck its sheets, plates and plate and for such products as reinforcing har, wire rods, pipes and tubes.-United Press.
should I provided,
infiel develop..
Contication 2. tent of Western Germany. This as a lepir of primary concerts for Mr. Acheson, Mr. Bevin and M. Schuman. They are expected to j take it up Inspectul but in- formant conference.
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What to do about regional allagce in other paris of the world outside the Alfanlic area, particularly the Near East and Mediterranean
Bevin M. has already discussed dils pro- hlem with the Foreign Ministers af Cireeve and Turkey.
pica,
Cardinal Held In Isolation
it is un-
man
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1940.
Constitution
For Europe
London, March 27. Five new member States- italy, Elro, Sweden, Norway and Denmark-will be repre- Bentod when the Council of Europe conforanda opens at the Foreign Office hero to. morrow for further work on an already partly prepared Constitution.
According to the plans wo far worked out by the arl. ginal Western Union mem- bors of the Council, the An sembly of Europe is to have
not deliberative but leglatative function.
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It would be empowered to make recommendations to its Ministers, of Committes which alone
would exerclag executive power. It has been further recommended, in the provisional proposals submit- ted to the founding Western Union powers by the Coun. Commission cll'a Permanent
in February, that defence and most economie questions shall not be within the Coun. cil's Jerme of reference.c Router,
Closure Of Russian Consulates
Teheran, March 27. The Persian Government re- like fused comment, confirmation or
D. Eisenhower denial of reports that the So-
or General George C. Marshall- hi control of this stal-Associat rd Presa.
Development Of New Hospital Room
is Government
closing consular offices in
viet down Persia.
its
the
INDIA HOLDS SECRET TO EMPIRE TALKS
London, March 27, India alone is believed here to hold the main secret of the imponding Dominion Prime Ministers" Conference the formula which may enable her as a ropublic to maintain Commonwealth co-operation.
for the
con- 1o be un-
The Commonwealth countries have indicated their desire that India should continue this co-opera- tion after assuming her new status in August. But India herself is expected¡ Arrangements to suggest to the Commonwealth ference are expected Prime Ministers, when they naunced by Mr. Clement Attice,
Prime Minister. the
in Parlic- meet in
ment on Tuesday. The meetings month, how she thinks this can will open at 10, Downing Street.
London,
some time between April 20 and 23, and will con-
nue for a week or 10 days,
There will be no agreed agenda and the talks will take behind closed doors.-Reuter.
of
London
late
next
con-
be done.
The whole future concept of likely to the Commonwealth is hinge upon india's action.
Speculation upon the formula likely to prove acceptable both to Indo and the other nations
ia the Commonwealth sidered pointless meanwhile, since the initiative lies with India and not with the other members of
awealth, Common Suggestions have been revived D graduation of Commer1- wealth
that would membership reconcile the national aspirations But
the
ol
of the various Dominions. political quarters here think that
pince
SHANGHAI
It's Clear
It's Bright
It's
Muland
RAILWAY Mullard
CRASHES
Shanghai, March 28,
Three were killed and more
the new Indin would not wel than 10 Injured in two railway
cute any association which em-accidents ployed a differentiation of statues between the Dominions.
Urgent Problem
On the other hand, several of the Dominions consider the Crown to be the indispensable the Commonwealth symbol of association. This is one of the will have main probleme that to be solved in the forthcoming conversations
The possibility that the whole
morning yesterday along the Shanghai-Hangchow and Shanghai-Woosung railway lines.
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The frat disaster, in which a nicker and a womanı passenger were killed on the spot and seven others seriously injured, occurred when an express collided with a Nanking-bound train just nutside 1B, Chater Road Shangbri's main station.
Both engines
badly damaged ond required several from the hours to be removed
were
The secund accident took
At the same time, usually re- Suviet salt the Bable sources
notifert the Persimm Embassy Government on March 20 of the
intention future concept of Commonwealth trucks. Government's Soviet
relations may have to be modi to close the consulates.
provinces Dec in the light of the changing yesterday mornim wt du pange Reports from
Was clearly military truck was hit by a speed- reaching Teheran said the Soviet world conditions,
when the Dominioning train at a crossing neur consulates in Istahan. Tabriz visupitsei
inet in London Changwanang, on the Shanghai- and Meshed are packing up and Prime Ministers
Woosung railway. last October. than are ready to move. More
The truck driver Wis killed The emergence Persian the ugo, three
years
Itepublican Indian and of inde- Instantaneously and three passen- Government askerl
Soviet Government,
maintained pendent Pakistan and Ceylon has gers on the vehlele seriously in-
jured.-Reuter, to the £t = 12 consulates in Persia, against given an urgency
in Soviet sideration of this new concept. und Persian consulate Russla at Baku, to close down
Pacific Defence in accordance more ad-
agreements.
The
Boston. March 28. Two industrial esigners re- tarted today the evilepment of a hospital room that will save money, Live the norse hore time of let the patient tik care of himself.
The streamlined room requires less space, yet offers vantages than the present stan- dard private quarters because of more efficient use of the available Drea, Frederick Markus and Paul Norka claimed.
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They developed the room fur hupial here to ease the strain caused by o ʼn heavier nemand A. private quarters.
the
which
with
reciprocity
action Southern
of
the new
defence,
are
PACIFIC QUAKE
New York, March 28, Many vital questions of con- A fairly severe, earthquake oc- the South Pacific on Soviet
Government has cern to all the Dominions, in- curred in
security Saturday, the Reverend Joseph J. closed down four consulates cluding Commonwealth
to the South East Lynch, Fordham University seis- since, but eight consulates still in relation exist here. Diplomatie quarters Asian Communist upsurge and wologist, reported today.
Pacific
He said the quake was recorded the Soviet here
believe
the dispro-bound up with the present con- on the Fordham seismograph at by was prompter
4.53 m. and G.55 am. GMT on stitutional problem. of maintenance portionate cost
Clearly the Dominions £3 Saturday and that it probably oc- 10 the results obtained.
It was
reported in Washing- whole can have no complete pics ecurred between the Dutch East) The biggest Innovation toward
last Friday that the Soviet ture of future ton
Commonwealth Indies and New Guinea.-Asso- the conserving of time,
elated PresA. energy
was closing down safeguards for peace and econo- money is
a concentration of Government
development its consular
until at Tabriz, mic two pipes in a shaft between
known.
whether for instance, Water and waste pipes Meshed and Ahwaz. Reports re- rooms.
her na- with not make it cleat India, consistent Vatican City, March 27.
and all utilities are kept together ceived did
outlook, The US. State Department is
constituted a for- tionat aspirations and near the patient's head, permit- whether this
of the con- teels she can be identifed with interested in learning the cir- ting him to get a drink, wash and mat closing down
them. cumstances under which Jozsef regulate the lights without getting sulales.--Reuter, Cardinal Mindszenty is being out of bed. There is a two-way held in prison, the Vatican speaker to the floor nurse. Radio said today.
and
This interest." Vactiean bulky
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move in
news broadcast added, "is due to reports that the Cardinal is kept m complete isolation and is suf- mental depres- fering extreme sion."
The same broadcast said that
A For Minister has Chile's pledged full pport to the Unit- vr! Nations in any Jaysurf the Cardinal.
Cardinal Maviszony is serving a life
by n sentener imposed
Hun- Hungarian People's Court. parian Communist authorities an
nounced recently that Cardinal is being detained in suitable liv- ing quarters and not in a prison cell.- Associated Prets,
"Wonder Drug" In Synthetic Form
Washington, March 27.
The "Wonder Drug" chloromycotin, which has proved successful in the treatment of typhus and other favors, has now been produced synthetically on a practical scale for the first time.
Simultaneously with the an- the new synthetic form of the nouncement today by Parke, drug which was extremely rare Davis and Company, the United and expensive when it was avail- able only DA a natural mould States Army Medical Corps derivitive similar to penicilin. stated that it is testing the drug.
Oficials salt today chloromycetin ruins expectations,
in the Malayan jungles.
that }
A team of doctors and scient-the Malayan tests might lead to ists, which tested the natural a drastic reduction in the fre drug on native patients, in Malaya quency and fatality rate of last year, has now resumed epidemics throughout the world. studies on a broader scale.
The Army Medical Corps said Now the Army unit is testing that one goal of the Malayan tests is to establish whether synthetic chloromycetin will be as odective and safe in treatment of scrub typhus and typhoid fever as the natural drug was found to be last year by the same 'sclentisis.
ATTACHE KILLED
IN AIR CRASH
Bombay, March 27.
The team will also so whs. ther the new product can be used to prevent scrub typhus which struck. British and In- dian troops in Burma and Al- lied forote in the South Paciflo during the last war.
Press reports today said J. W. Thompson, aged 20, press attache at the United States Consulate in Calcutto, and Wing-Commander Hem Chaudhur) of the Indian Air Force were killed yesterday when their piano plunged into tho The Army sald the natural Ganges River
nt Naghangang drug had shown experimental Ghai, 10 miles out of Calcutta. promise against certain viruses Wing Commander Chaudhuri and some stubborn bacteria like was piloting a two-seater plane, a those that caused whooping cough Candian-made Chipmunk, when and uridulant fever. it developed engino trouble at Work is 'continuing at the Army about 2,000 feet after taking off Medical Research School to test from Barrackpore Airport. The chloromycetin In the treatment bodies were recovered about 40 of "D" fever, a virus Infection minutes after the crash-United) similar to the virus of pneumonia. "Frost,
The new lesign eliminates equipment-oxygen can be sucked from a wall outlet and vacuum pipe fucilities permit the Uraining of wounds. Small at- tachments instantly at hand can be plugged into the proper wall outlet United Press.
Guerillas Harried
Athens, March 27. Further losses have been in- flicted on a large guerilla band pursued and which is being attacked in the Mount Tzou- merka area of Epirus, an Army communique sald today.
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Red Army Accuses Western Allies
London, March 28,
"Red Star," organ of the Soviet Army, today accused
the United States and Britain of rebuilding the formar German General Staff and Army in or- der to turn Western Germany into their mili- tary strategic base.
and similar An article on the subject was bayonet fighting, broadcast by the Moscow Radio jaspects of military training.
"Red Star" claimed that hun- and heard here. It said:
dreds of thousands of Germans, mainly of the former Nazi Army, brought into these are being formations-Associated Press.
"A buron known as 'Erfurt has been set up in Neustadt, staff- communique stated thated by the German Generals, between March 23 and 25, the Guderian, Kuchler, Schultz and guerilla band lost 122 killed and others.
261 prisoners were taken.
"They have been set the task
A General Staff spokesman of summarising the experience of said that the original strength of the military operations on the the band was about 1,500. It Soviet-German frontier.
TARUC ATTACKS PACIFIC PACT
Manila, March 28, Luis Taruc, Communist lea-
Д
was led by General Karyrorghis, "In addition, some sort of Ger- editor of the suppressed Comman General Staff has been form- munist newspaper "Rizopastis."
ed under the guise of a military The band, said the spokesman, historical committee.
they are suffering heavily and
"It is directed by the war cri- der of Hukbalahap guerillas. have been constantly engaged in
chief of denounced the proposal of Pre- minal Balder, former fighting for nearly three weeks
Hitler's General Staff, and is aident Ellpido Quirino for They are running short of fool working in close contact with h Pacific defence alliance led by supplica.
special department composed of the United States. Twenty more guerillas were
27 German Generals attached to In 0 letter to the "Manlia killed and 42 captured in other the American General Staff in Times" from his
secret Luzon at Greece.-Associnted Washington." areas
headquarters, Taruc said: "Fresh "Red Star" said that the alleged betrayal of national Interests looma Press.
staff work by the German Gen- as the Quirino administration pre- im- erals is an undertaking similar to
pares to offer,American Germans what the
carried out perialism even more concessions between the two world wars.
in our country in exchange "A Gorman Army actually in being set up in Western dar. bayonets to prop his (Quirino's)
rule," various many in the form of
The letter was written for the semi-military organisations and seventh anniversary of the Huk even undisguised
military movement, which falls today-- formations, the Russian Army Associated Press, newspapera quld.
LARGEST CRANE BLOWN UP
Hamburg, March 27.
A demolition squad, acting on the orders of the British Mill- tary Government, today blow crano, B up Germany's largest 360-feet high floating crane which one of the most striking features of Hamburg's harbour,
The crane had been damaged bombing of during the Allied Hamburg. One of the four lar gest ever built, it could lift loada if up to 390 tons-Reuter.
DEMONSTRATION IN VIENNA
for
As examples of these alleged BAMBOO GROWING
organisations, it mentioned ex- soldiers unions, hunting clubs, sports clubs, industrial police and labour squade.
In the British occupation zone. it said, German youths are being taught hand grenade throwing
PORTUGAL AND
SPAIN
IN BRITAIN.
London, March 27. British chemical research has developed a new type of solenti. fically composted oil structure" which, during the war when Far Eastern supplies were cut off, helped to reproduce jungle con- Vienna, March 27.
ditions in Cornwall so that bam- thero in would. boos
grow Demonstrators against the At-
millions. lantic Pact here this afternoon
Lisbon, March 27.
atructure, provides Senor Nicola Franco, Spain's This soll throw stones and broke windowa of an American-driven car pass Ambasador to Portugal and bro- nourishment which compensates ing the meeting, organised by the
ther of the Spanish-Chief of for the loss of continual sunshine humidity which tropical Communist-led League of Demo Staff, left, for Madrid by air to- and
on- cratie Women: }
Gay.
get in their natural plants A large crowd watched the de-
Bamboos atɑ grown. The discussions he had three vironment.
European countries monstration without much en times, last week.with the Portu- to supply, thusiasm. The marchers held guess Foreign Minister, Dr. Jose which cannot get sulfident for banners with the slogant 6 Caeiro Mata are believed to have their needs from the Far East. Atlantio Pact is a 'war 'past,"— | been connected with the Atlantic Buyers say that bamboos grown Reubet kok
|- In: Britain are:very.mtisfactory..
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