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THE CHINA, MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1940.
PARTY LEADERS IN BONN Paraguay Plot Japanese Visitors
ASSEMBLY AGREE ON MOST CRITICAL ISSUES
Montgomery Plans For Arms Help
Bonn, April 24,
Party leaders in the Constituent Assembly here to- day reached agreement on all the critical issues, except one, concerning the drawing up of a ..West German Constitution.
This concerned the form of ly as the Social Democrats had
I wished. religious instruction to be given in State schools, which is a point of great difference be- tween the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats.
general agreement The fellows within 48 hours the con- cillatory Allied note giving the
Increased ald Germans
#copie in drawing up their own constitu
Washington, April 24, Usually reliable diplomatic sources understood that recom, mennutions of Field Marshal
and Lord Montgomery
other officials at Fontainebleau were incorporated in the bill as far as they concerned the Brussels Pact nations.
arms
It was understood the bill had hany sum carmarked for them eut of the $1,150,000,000 total for the Atlantic Pact, but this had not been broken down individually,
Field Marshal Montgomery is arged strongly reported to have that arms aid be allocated, as n whole to the Brussels Pact na- thens and divided among them uc-
cording to estimates inade nt Fontainebleau,
Diplomatic sources understood that separate amounts were ear- marked in the aki blt! for Nor- way, Denmark and Italy. It was believed Norway might get more than the two other countries be-
hat It cause for months past
need for pointed out its vilal arms. On two occasions the Nor- of De- wegian Undersecretary fence, Mr. Dag Bryn, has come here,
}
Nothing was included for Ice- Jund, which did not ask for arms. -United Press,
Fighting
In Burma
Rangoon. April 23.
Government reinforcements
|
lon,
new
A new agreed formula on the distribution of financial and legla- powers between the lative Federal Government and the in- dividual States was transmitted to the Military Governors tonight In preparation for tomorrow's meeting between them and the Assembly leaders.
Apart from constitutional changes, the consent of the Federal Council will m ba necessary for tfio tax laws af- fecting State revenues, Fedoral to financially weak granta States. JAWE affecting Blata frontiers And thos creating new Federal authorities. Apart from the financial and legislative proposals, the other parties are prepared in principle to meet the Christian Deninerats' demand for a shortening of the draft.
Discovered
Buenos Aires, April 24, The Paragusy police havs arrested a man aftor the dis covery of what is batiaved to bo' * revolutionary
of against the Government President Molas Lopez, 10- cording to raporta from
plot
Asuncion received here today. had seven co- Paraguay ния volutions within 14 months. The arrested man was said 10 possess money and documents to organise a coup.
In
The former President, Senor Higino Morinigo, who resigned under pressure June, 1948, and Sonor Victor Marinige, a former Foreign Minister and Minister of the Intertor, were alleged to be Implicated in the plot. Rev. ter.
ORTHODOX
EASTER MARKED
The Christian Democrats, how- ever, are unwilling to pass the articles dealing with the right of parents to determine the type of religious instruction which their
Jerusalem, April 24. children should receive in State Church bells have been ring-: schools.
Financially, the new formula complies with the Allied demands for a separate administration for State taxes, but pravicies that the Federal Government has suf- Belent taxes for its own tasks the new legislative proposals re- of the Federal duce the powers Council, though not as drastical-ter.
I was suggested today by the ing in Jerusalem since raid- and Russian Social Democrats that the ques-night as Greek Lion of denominational schools Orthodox Catholics, celebrated by their Easter. Midnight Mass should be left to legislation
was celebrated in the Russian States which are generally to be responsible for education-Reu- and Abyssinian Churches, in the mainly Jewish quarter of Jerusalem, but attendance was small.
Mr. Harry Pollitt Has Trouble In Plymouth
Plymouth, April 24.
Stones were hurled through the windows and doors.
were broken down in a hall whore Mr. Harry Pollitt, the Secretary of the British Communist Party, addressed a meeting here tonight.
were toriny rushed to Nyaung-There was an uproar in the meeting when he referred
lebin, a rail
centre 90 miles of North
Rangoon, where force ghting against the Karens is in progress, an official communique said tonight. I
The Karens are also receiving reinforcements from the sur- rending area, The communique elaimed that 500 Karens havu Nyaunglebin been killed in the
Burma area, where
Air Force planes are continuously pound- ing rebel positions.
Government troops drove off a Karen attack on Daike, 12 miles com- South of Nyaunglebin, the
be- munique adited, In a clash tween Government troops and rebels near the Irrawaddy Del- 70
to the Chinese Communists' shelling of British warships on the Yangtse River.
were
Orthodox Easter services also taking place in the Old City. which is held by Transjordan forces.
In Moscow, churches were crowded out for Midnight Masses last night to celebrate the Or- thodox Church Easter. Alexei, the Patriarch of All the Russias, ottelated at a three-hour service [1] the pucked Yelokhovaity Cathedral.
After the service. Moscow be- lievers broke their seven-week
paschal
To Switzerland
The first Japanese citizens permitted by General Douglas MacArthur to leave their country are now visiting Switzer. land. They are members of thu world famous industrial Mitaul family who, pro-war, controlled third of Japan's in. Photo shows Takasumi Mitsul (left) dustry and commerce. and his family in front of the capital in Bar, where they are now on a visit from Japan..AP Photo.
No Indefinite Delay
Seen In Formation
Of W. German State
fast with special Easter food,
hard-Mr.
cream. cheese,
For the third successive day Sailors headed a crowd which boiled eggs and cake blessed by police had to shepherd Mr. brushed aside the police guard priests. Pollitt away from hostile outside the hall and broke' down crowds.
PERON'S FOES RELEASED
the doors.
Many diplomats attended
the
Mr. Pollitt had been speaking Cathedral service.-Reuter. for about five minutes when he referred to the Yangtze River in-
cident.
This
This storted a stream of in- terruptions which, after a few minutes, developed into
roar,
]] Un-
forcing the Communist leader to close the meeting,
Police shepherded him into a cloak-room, while more than 5,- 000 people walted outside for him
Buenos Aires, April 23. Cipriano Reyes. former Ar- gentine deputy, and others ac- used with him of plotting to hill President Juan Peron and to leave. Moulmeinyun, miles South of Rangoon, 60 Com- his wife, has been set at 'pro-i munists wero 'killed, it said. A visional liberty by a court Mandalay, Government troop killed 50 White Band" members order. of the PVO--Reuter.
Lu town of
Mr. Pollitt said in his specch
Washington, April 24.
Robert Murphy, high-ranking State Department German expert, does not believe there will be indefinite delay in the creation of the proposed Western German state.
In a round-table radio programme transcribed be- fore he left on Friday, Mr. Murphy was asked what would happen to Western plans for Ger- many if the setting up of the German govern- ment were indefinitely delayed.
Yugoslavia Blasts Czech Action plied.
The
"I don't believe it will be in Western Germany for well indefinitely delayed." he re-over two years. The time has
come to move ahead."
He said the new states must be based upon a constitution drafted by the Germans them- salves because if the accupying powers drafted a constitution it
Prague, April 24. Yugoslav Communist that there was not yet sufficient organ Borba today charged evidence to enable the people to that Czechoslovak officials had give a balanced Judgment of the barred Yugoslav delegates Reyes. President of the Argen- tragic happenings of the past few from the "Little Pence Con-would last "only as long as we
tine Meatworkers Syndicate, is salej
rival of persona! the President, and was arrested in late September, after the dis- Sovery of an alleged plot to as sassinate the Perons on October A demonstration by crowds mutter carrying mode) gallows, followed WHS understood.the police announcement.-Reu-
ter.
Damascus, April 24. Syria's Chief of Stale, General Husni Zaim, today received the Lebanese Premier, Riad El Solh. The promotion of friendly re- 10. lations between the Lebanon and Syria wis
one of the discussed it Reuter.
days.
Hurl Chairs
and filled maintain troops in occupation to gress" in Prague
enforce our will." their places with traitorous refugees, according to the 'off- cial Yugoslav news agency Tanjug.
He said the United States' ob-
Jective in Germany was a pence- leving German people with ade- quate economie bases, ilving in
Then the sailors started hur- ling chairs at the platform. Mr. Pall1t's supporters warded of} Quoting, trom Borba and other friendly association with their blows.
·
Call For Young Blood
Mr. Hoffman Bald that to avold Nazis regaining important positions in the management of Industry, the Germans would have to depend upon young men and will probably them among
have to find the workers. He explained that such young- er men could not have been He policy-makers under Hitler. noted, moreover, that successful always drawn management is from workers.
Mr. Murphy suld the interna- Belgrade newspapers. Tanjug said neighbours." His voice was hardly audible the Prague Congress was an in-
tional Ruhr authority would be above the din as the allora mult to Yugoslavia.
Mr. Murphy said the establish-
an experiment in controlling the ment of Western German state allocation of coal, iron and steel
not prejudice "Fortunately it
eventual between German use and export. confirms that would some of the leading men at the unification of Western and East-It would make sure Germans did USSK and countries of the ern Germany.
cried, "Rubbish" when he said that stop
Leon should have taken before the British ships went up the river.
not discriminate in various ways Above the uproar he shouted, people's democracy may one day
"Ultimately we want a united such as quotas, tariffs and price "I say quite sincerely that no start, without any justification. Germany," he added.
fixing.
"Products of the Ruhr can be-
said:
the
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A PRODUCT OF BRISTOL-MYERS
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Mr.
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whatever hic politics, struggle against Socialist Yugo- could be any
other in his heart slavia and this struggle will bo The Economic Co-operation come a source of great peacetime but sympathetic with the re-anore important than the struggle Administrator, Mr. Paul Hoff-wealth, not only to Western Ger- latives of the British boys who against warmongers and aggres-man, who also participated in many but to all Western Europe." met their death on the Yangtze 6CTS."
the programme, said it was im-he sal
said. River."
Commenting on whether Allied Borba charged that, by delaying? Probable the new state could be- Meanwhile, Mr. Pollitt today the granting of
come visas. Czech
programme ended in 1952. weak Germany,
Murphy of arranging the incidents at his Yugoslav delegates denied French
The third participant, the As
Secretary of the Army,
"As between strong and weak dey.
Voorhees, sald the answer must be neither. A gress in Paris to attend the Prague spirit and courage of the people strong Germany, if it is still un (In Dartmouth, Mr. Pollitt was sessions. rescued from a hostile crowd by It added: "Instead of being he hoped conditions would reach us and the world. A weak Ger
was amazing. He said regenerate, might be a threat to the police after he had answered supplement to the Paris Con questions about the Communist gress, attended by delegates who per cent of the pre-war stand- many would be a cancer spot of
political and social shelling of British
unrest, as warships on were refused entrance by French ard by
They. the Yangtse River).
reaction, and instead of refusing
have done pretty well well as an economic liability.
"The only ultimate safety for us Mr. Pollitt added: "One thing this reaction, Czechoslovnik lea on town, county and state levels,' is clear, the blame for the death ders acted as if they wanted to said Mr. Murphy. "Four years is in a peace-loving people with дл equitable economie base, of splendid Brlish lads on the turn
have passed since the end of hos- their Congress Into Yangtse will be placed at the door Cominform Bureau factional mivel tilities and local and state goy-living in friendly association with
ing."-United Press,
craments have been functioning their neighbours."United Press.
of the Government.”—Reuter.
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