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SHIP FREIGHTS 'WAR' CARRIED TO BRITAIN
Dutch Sending Ships To United Kingdom Ports ACCEPTING LOW RATES
TENSION RISING IN RANGOON
London, March 30.
The Dutch shipping lines, waging an all-out freight slashing offensive against British and Indian companies on the Eastern route, today carried the "war" into Britain.
They announced they ore sending five ships in the 7,000-8,000 tons class, to pick up cargoes in Britain, something never done before, during the next seven weeks.
They added that they are accepting freight rates 60 per cent below the rates of the International Shipping Conference, from which they havo withdrawn.
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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1849.
TOO MUCH HONG KONG WAR HUSH-HUSH DAMAGE CLAIMS
IN LONDON
Melbourne, March 30.
An attack on what it call. ad the Atmosphere of my. story around the Common • wealth Conference, announc ed for April 21 by Mr. Cle ment Altlee, the Prime Min. 1ster, in the House of Com.. mona yesterday.
was made
by the "Sydney Morning Herald" today,
The paper wald that uncer. tainty and evon misgiving would be atimulated in the public of the Commonwealth
by the excessive reticence. and added: "The question
e public discussion on Commonwealth matters should not be regarded in the same fight
or * 'open'
'secret'
diplomacy between nationa entirely foreign to
other."
each
Other papers wald the Con ference would be of great Importance, with India' fu ture status as probably the chlof item on the agenda.— Reuter,
'White Hope' Of British Aviation
Rangoon, March 30, Rangoon police were order- ed to stunci by today after adherents of the pro-Commu- pist White Band People's Volun
The Secretary of the Con-{ Two years ago a Danish line Organisation had kid-
this trade. Teen
ference, known as the India and sought to enter napport some policemen,
once Dutch line sought the protection Ceylon Conference, This followed persistent room- ours that the PVOs Trum the 111-
called a meeting of Executives of their fellow members and in- formed thes Conference that if
London, March 30. Teror
massing
admitted with- outside the of the British and Indian Limes or
the Danes were
The De Havilland Aircraft city for large-scale infiltratum enteerner!.
out some safeguards being given An offelal statement said Ove The war is being carried into kidnapped police had attempted our camp," he told Reuter, "We to the thatch they would with Company announced today that i hopes to put Into the ab this to make inquiries into it recent shall night back"
de of repeated protests year a new jet airliner which is ormed robbery here. The polter The Conference comprises the by the
Dutch, the other Con- expected-to fly from London to were later released after
1200% - Hollowing lines: the Peninsular térence members permitted the New York in about seven hours. tioning.
Orient, thic British-Indio Danish ne to enter the trade. The plane is the Comet DH-100 Tension
Ellerman arst is an outsider and Anally as Britain's first et airliner, and is mounting in Ran-Stenshup Company. goom in the absence of an offletal Lines. City Line, Brocklebank's, şa full Conference, member. announcement of a reported on- Harrison's Glen Line, Anchor "Bet noted that the Danes the "white hope" of British civil derstanding between the Goven-
Italts and the two Indian were not
permitted nt United aviation. ment and the PVO kaders, Andes
the India Steamship Kingdom, Swedish or Norwegian Experts believe the plane will Company and the Scindia Stearn ports, but only in the flamburg. put Britain Ave years ahead of Navigation Company,
putting the airlines Antwerp range, thereby The London agente, who the burden of the Danish com- when it comes into service-pro- have been instructed to accept petition practically entirely
on bably in 1932. cargoes for the Dutch ships in the shoulders of the Dutch line. Britain, are Yan Ommersen.
winch the PVC would be given important Cabinet posts.
Official sources sald » Anal settlement with the PVOS is un likely before the relvin of the! Prime Minister. Thakin Mu, re- parted to be capital of
Burma.
at Myitkyina, the Kachin State, North
The Rangoon district magistrate today ordered a dusk-to-dawn confew without explaining why. | Rods Parodo
Police hurled tear gas bomba today to disperse crowds of strik- ing Government employees who attempted to picket the ofres of the Controller of Posts and Tele graphs in Rangoon. Some of the Strikers were arrested.
Later, Indians carrying a flag bearing a hammer and sickle, marched through the streeta chanting "down with the Capitallats." Unidentified rebels enptured the important rall town of Talkky,
Lane. companies
They
act for the Holland- Bombay Karachi Line and the
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London, March 30. Opposition Members of Parliament today question- ed Mr. David Roos Williams, Under-Secretary for the Colonies, about the different attitude adopted by the authorities in Hong Kong to- wards war damage compensation compared with that in Malaya and Barneo, Replying to Mr. Leonard Gammans, Conservative, Mr. Rees Williams said the total number of claims for war damage compensation received by the Government of Hong Kong was 14,723, amounting, to the nearest thousand, to £38,610,000.
Mr. Gammans: "Does the Minister not feel that, in view of the number of claims and the amount of money involved, the Government of Hong Kong- might be asked to adopt a different attitude, and that what is being done in the payment of
Bomico compensation in
and Malaya might be followed in Hong Kong?
Mr. Rees Willama: **2
Formosan League In Hong Kong
Lake Success, March 31. The United Nations sald today that it has received a communi- ention from the Formosan umLeague for Re-emancipation in
afrald we could not make an-Hong Kong. but declined to dis- other approach to the
Hong close the contents. Kong Government on this matter, They have fully considered it, and for reasons given to the House they have decided not to adopt a compensation scheme of the kind in Malaya."
Air Commodore Harvey, Con- servative, asked what proportion of the cinims had been settler.
Mr. Rees Williams told him that there was no question of settlement because there was no scheme.
It is customary for the UN to withhold information on com- munications from private or non- governamental organisations.
A despatch from Hong Kong en that 10 Formosan Sunday said political organisations had asked the UN Secretary-General, Mr. Trygve Lie, whether it is possible to place before the General 3- sembly a proposal for plebiscite to determine whether the For- mosan people want independence. The Assembly meels in New York next Tuesday.
Under the UN rules, the Gen- Mr. Gammana: "How can the cral Assembly agenda is limited Min later defend ам
entirely to items submitted by nember different method as between governments. This would rule two colonies? Why should out any proposal for a Formosan man who has lost everything plebiscite unless such a measure in Hong Kong not be compon- is sponsored by one of the 58 no- tions in the UN.-Associated Press
sated?"
HK Decision Unalterable
there was not
BIG BLAZE IN QUEZON CITY
Manila, March 31. Surplus goods with an esti- meted value of between 500,000 and 1,000,000 pesos went up in fames which burned the Sur- plus Property Commission depot in nearby Quezon City.
The De Havilland Company disclosed today that the airliner have a cruising expected to
Mr. Rees Williams: "There are speed approaching 500 miles an
First, there was a Holland-Bengal-Burma Line- "The Dutch, therefore, with-hour at about 40,000 feet. It will differences. together known as the United drew from the Conference, but, carry an operational flight crew contributory insurance scheme in Netherlands Navigation Commitful of
of the serious
four and up to 38 passengers, Malaya, which con- sequences to all concerned, con-accommodated in fully reclining Hong Kong. Secondly, Hong Five Ships
seats similar to
American Kong became extremely wealthy. tinued to maintain the Con-
Trade recovered very rapidly and "sleeperettes." hoping The agents fold Reuter that ference rates of freight,
It will be powered by four De to a large extent the same con the ships coming to British ports that
might stli wiser counsels
Havilland "Ghost" engines, ditions have not obtained in the bound for india, Pakistan and prevail."
mounted on low, swept-back whole of Malayo." Ceylon
Lemsierkerk,
Ommerens added that the
Mr. Alan Lennox Boyd, Con- Streef Kerk, Lieve Vrouwekerk, Dutch attitude changed when it wings and will have a retractable
with
The fire started in grassland Lienerkerk and Leuvekerk. The was learned that the Conference
servative: "In view of the fact near the depot yesterday after- first would arrive at Glasgow on would announce that the Dutch
that the people who are bene noon and raged until late Inst Sixteen Comets are being built | Btting by the new prosperity night, despite the concerted ef- April 9, then call at Liverpool line and withdrawn,
London,
ments by Dulch
at the De Havilland factories at may not necessarily be the same forts of Quezon City, Manlia,
who as present plans March 7 would invalidate rebates Flatfeld, 30 miles North of Lon people June 2,
everything Philippine Army and U.S. Army By went,
during fremen. Lack of fire hydrants five cargo
through bad vessels and that reduced rates of freight the same would have taken on Eastward- would be offered. At
Some exporta have foresoon widespread uncertainty about the in the depot area hampered ef- bound cargoes at British ports.
instituted time, the Conference
wor, and in view of the forts. the now allinora flying to the
Burned
ranged goods
from "This is the first time we have lighting committees" at Ant-
Sydney, Australia, in little more decision of the local government, than 24 hours. They bellove will the Minister have a new Quartermaster, supplies to office body in doubt us to the inten-
equipment and refrigerators.-- they will whip the cream off investigation made?" ions of the Conference.
United PresA. the North Atlantic traffic be. cause of their speed and com- fort.
and
that ship-
steamers after
42 miles North of Rangoon, taken on cargoes in Britain," the werp and Rotterdam, leaving no-
Government press release ndmil-agents informet Reuter. ted tostay.
Butch Giving the
standpoint Buddhist
monasteries were razed to the ground when Karens on what they called "the Indian
Th freight war." they said: burned down Shweinung village two Dutch lines have been mein- in the rice-growing district of bers of the Shipping Conterence Myaungmys, South West of Ran- for over 25 years. They serve the ports of Hamburg, Bremen, Rot-
According to + statement.
several other Burmese-populated
villages in adjoining areas were also destroyed-Reuter and As- sociated Press.
NEW PLANES FOR BOAC
London, March 30. The first of 22 Canada IV planes, ordered by the British Overseas Airways Corporation. was officially handed over at London Airport today.
"This was the first shot,"
Van added
Ommersen, naturally the Dutch are fight- Ing back.
tricycle under-carriage steerable nosewheel.
A
lost
conditions
new
been announced
DO YOU KNOW
Air. Rees Willams: "I regret I cannot promise any 1 investigation in this matter The prototype is not yet ap- because it has proaching the flying stage, but it for a considerable period, and YOUR HONG KONG?
the unalterable "In some press and radio re- may be flying before the end of that has been tertiam and Antwerp. They have ports the Dutch are accused, of the year, the company said to- decision of the Hong Kong Gov- never loailed or discharged atclaiming the bulk of the Ge-day-Beuter. United Kingdom or Scandinavian
man trade. It is the lack of the ports.
German trade, compared
mainly
with
of
this
services
COMMONS SNUB FOR PIRATIN
London, March 30.
The Communist Member of
the
The British and Scandinavian before the war, that has left the lunds in this Conference earn traffic passing through the North their livelihood
in the Continental ports
a shadow trade of their own home ports. the pre-war volume. where they have no competitors, "All the Dutch seek, is a ̄rca- except the two Indian lines, sonable share of the trade to en- which have joined the tradeable them to maintain their two since the war.
sailings a month. Granted Danish Line
arsurance, the Dutch line are pre-Parliament, Philip Piratin, ask- "The Dulch ure the only lines, pared to restrict their except the Belgian line Trom to fortnightly sailings."-Reuter. ed the Goveminent in
House of Commons today why Antwerp, who rely entirely on the trade at the German, Dutch
the United States had been "atom in
allowed to station this and Belgien ports and
Belgians the trade they have to compete with three Bel- The United Nations Relief and bomb squadron" in Britain.
Mr. Arthur Henderson, Seste- Swedish. one the fish, one
Nor- Rehabilitation Administration to-
for Air, replied day voted itself into history after tary of State
that all American squadrons in winding up its last post-war re- Het scheme, which cost just under Britain are here for goodwill and purposes. He said he training $4,000,000,000.
reason why
Bomber
The plane, flown by a Cana- dian crew, reached England yes- terday from Montreal.
its debut for BOAC on the Far
und
A 40-passenger alveraft. Canadair IV is expected to make wegian and two Indian iines.
"After the war two Indian lines sought
admission to the Conference readily
Eastom
though the recent British
amalgamation of the
South
BOAC
the
run,
American
may result
Airways with
In some
of
new Canadian-built planes Bring the South American route. which was once operated by Tudors.-Reuter..
Type BX 665 X
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ine
and the Dutch assented, noither they object to Belgian entering the Antworp trade. These three lines had
HISTORIC JOB
Washington, March 30,
an
the 500th
Group
The Central Committee of saw Bo UNIRA formally resolved at a long-range inal meeting today that its five fleet of 30 B-20s should not be and a half year's emergency task welcomed with the rest merely www complete. 'The remaining because its wartime function was right to share in the traffic of funds already have been turned to drop atom bombs on Japan.
Mr. Henderson was cheered by over to successor organisations.—
the House-United Press.
their own countries.
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Note Of
Of Caution On Empire Talks
London, March 30.
The British press today, expressed doubt that the forthcoming Commonwealth conference would
· make constitutional readjustments to include Republican units within the Commonwealth framework.
"The Times" editorial said: toples must inevitably be whe- "Working out of an appropriate ther the Commonwealth can con- tinue in the different form al- new relationship with India may be more difficult for some of ready adopted by Elre. the Dominions than for the United Kingdom."
It
added: "Only when the views of other members on in- dian. proposals have. ascertained
The Telegraph" olted Pre- mler Nehru's reported pledge to make India an Independenti Repubilo, about which there Iri strong feeling in South Africa.
"If we are conference approach
to contemplate d drafting of a formula to define Commonwealth composed of some the new relationship.........
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can
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It commented that the South might this not mean later, secur- African
Daniel Malan, ad benefits without shouldering
en Premier, is of special Importance. „ret responsiblitiles, and what, in such The Daily Telegraph", editoria case, would be the attraction or al' also struck a cautious note on advantage of maintaining & Com
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ernment"-Reuter.
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