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BEVIN HOPEFUL PACT ON GERMANY
RUSSIAN PLAN ON GERMANY
Moscow. May 5. Russia may press
for te- examination of the whole Ger- the Big man problem when Four Foreign Ministers meet in Paris. Western observers here belleve.
It is believed that Russia muy propose the following programme:
London, May 5.
The Foreign Secretary Mr. Ernest Bevin, told the House of Commons today that he is hopeful that the "Big Four" Foreign Ministers' meeting on May 23 will find an enduring settlement of the German problem.
In a cautious statement about the lifting of the Berlin blockade and counter-blockade next week, the Foreign Secretary'said that Britain will approach the new Council of Foreign Ministers in a spirit of firmness and reasonable-
ness.
After reading the four-Power announcement of the
successful New York blockado-lifting talks, Mr. Bovin added: "The British Government welcome this agreement.
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1940.
Position Of Hong Kong
(Continued from Puge 1)
but it does raise other problema,
water supply,
"It is true we are sill short such as extra demands on hous- Ing, education and community of water, at times; but this has
facilities in relation to the fac- always been the case, and seems likely so to remain, though not tories, additional for purely engineering reasons. Power supply and transportation, and there must therefore po A great deal has however been
some regulation by zoning and done with regard to water supply,
town-planning, electricity, transportation and in- dustry.
usually show a direct profit out of normal revenue is also com- mon experience, but additional revenue can be obtained from concessionaires who cater for the general public. There are how- ever many indirect profits to the Colony in having a good airport. Let us see that when we get it, It is worthy.
"Our ear part is also of vital Importance to us alf, and must be kept eMolent and cheap, with Incrazend and Improved facilities for passengers
and cargoes of all kinds, Including better and safer padown o commodation and gallway - no- cess to the ship's elde.
"Our public transportation
"The fact that industries are growing here, where we have to Our ship building yards have import not only raw materials, not bullt ony largo new ships 09
but also power (in the form of they did before the war, but al-
coal or for the Electricity though they themselves still bear undertakings), and where labour scars of war, they have done
ore no longer lov, is, I think, significant, much in reiting, repairing and costs
and demons- keeping in
old vessels, service
trates the confidence which the also touched some and ve
Colony inspires, the wise com- smuller excellent new craft. The bination of good Government and Electricity Supply Componies aro
with dificulties utter a word of caution. private
enterprise. But I would systems need great development. still struggling and dedays in getting new plant,
The greatest bottleneck in trans- "No one grudges the worker Aportation at present is of course but the situation la steadily im-
decent living wage, nor the ma- proving in spite of rapidly in- terial increase in the standard of reiting across the water from the
Island
mainland, where creasing demands.
to the living which he enjoys, even if for obvious physical reasons the "The public transportation
one sometimes wonders whether greatest development of industry Companies have improved und
the possession of a Parker 51 pen and perhaps residence and re- extended their services though is quite essential to the plumber "It was not we who were res-withdrawn illa pence treaty has not to the full extent required; who comes to replace a washer on
creational facilities must occur. 3. Negotiations for the Ger-ponsible for the breakdown in been signed and free elections
Our present double-decker
terry systems are one's kitchen tap. mon peace treaty.
the four-Power arrangements for held in the Eastern zone.
strained far beyond their "clas- "But with high wages must the limit" by the Increase in Germany and at all times we have been ready to discuss Ger-
go high production and good traffle, and I am one of those who work. Fundamentally,
what many with the other Occupying
are convinced that the tunnel is matters is not how much money the best answer; even with tits, circles are con- Diplomatte
Powers. But we could not do su
A worker vinced thint Andrei Vyshinsky,
so long as the duress continued.
may receive, but terries at least to outlying parts rather the Soviet Foreign Minister, will en
Berlin have)
cost of what he will still be necessary. produces, the coat of a ton of phasise that Germany should be
steel fabricated and erected, or one country and abandon oppost-borne their ordeal with courage
and restraint and their resolutio tlun to a federalised Germany.
a cuble yard of concrete In to make this agree The Berlin agreement
has has helped
place, or the cost of moving Jation in the worst parts of the raised hopes of possible eventualment possible."
load from one place to another:
Withdrawal of Allied occu-
pation forces from Germany.
2. Organisation of central
Kovernment for the entire country.
4. Four-power control over all Germany pending signing of the treaty,
Brm
"The people of
"Mr.
General Bir Brian Robertson, British Military Governor in
the four. Germany, old that Power communique was quite difficulties clear, and no potly are expected to hinder the rals. ing of the blockade.
He not disturbed by the fact that the communique did not specifically state that the Russians between must
restrictions Berlin and the Soviet zone.
DIEL
would regard it as part of the agreement that there should
no
Fir
be
Mr. Bevin paid high tribute to understanding on broader Ger the men who have run the Ber- man problems and of possibly in airlift for over 18 months. The increased chances for a
operation will continue until the prace. Western
observers have felt alluation has been finally cleared
up. he said.
such restrictions other than almost unqualified optioslam ever
Bevin announces that he
the purely mechanical ones aris since it Best became known that the America and Russian dele- will visit Berlin on Saturday to from the fact that two dif- working and to ferent currencies are involved, he see the slritfi gales in New York had started
thank all concerned for thrie sa'd informal talks-United Press.
work.
have had no instructions to Mr. The Opposition leader,
withdraw the airlift and do not Winston Churchill, said that the
propose to do so," General Ro- would be
wel-bertron added. announcement comed with general rejoicing and
RUSSIANS TOLD OF AGREEMENT
Moscow, May 6. The Moscow radio told Rus- stans yesterday of the big four agreement to lift the blockader
"The firmness shown and, above all, the powerful aid and consis- tent policy of the United States, with whom we have worked hand! in hand, has appreciably lessened the sense of war tension whilch A Cach day has hung over us
on Berlin and to call a meeting brought out its fout inciderts Foreign in Berlin." Mr. Churchill adord.
of
01 the Council
Ministers. "The announcement Churchill Warning
aroused wide interest
the Russiaus,
Several forriga
hope
atmong
diplomats here
that the expresa planned settlement of the Berlin dispute may lend to solution of "everal other problems dividing the East and West.
One envoy said: "In a situation such as this everything is possible and I have advised my Govern- ment that the agreements may be bouder than one Buspects."- Associated Press.
MOSCOW WISHFUL
the
ing
"We intend to raise our stocks in Berlin as soon as the blockade
comes off "Reuter.
we
even
have busty ize Kowloon, the
once despisert Kowloon which in recent years hos in
several ways taken the
lead in engineering progress. "Recent
in announcements Council lead us to hope that it will not now bo long before
transportation
across the har. bour, so vital to such a large number of our citizens, can bo mado
to satisfactorily
Сера with the many-fold increase in passenger traffic.
Major Factor
"One major factor of the last years has been the rapid increase
the
or the cost of running an office, even Including a Government Department.
transit
Competition
Presidential Areas
"It will be destruble, in order to reduce the density of the popu
town, to develop new residential This is a areas further afield, process which has come about in ali major cities. It will necessi- tale improved and extended cheap. transportation, possibly by
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cargoes, or
other ways, he brought across the harbour in we must keep our total produc-annel. The industrial develop- tion costs low, and increases in ment of the far shores of Kow- standards of living must beleon Bay will also need road and balanced by higher output. There rail services.
"Ot other essential develop-
"Since we must compete in the in textile mills and other indus-world markets, whether in export trial enterprises in
the Colony. "The increase in industry in Colony is a welcome sign, since it obviously sound ex- onomy to have a balanced pro- portion of commerce and indus- try of various kinds, not, in other words, to have fall one's eggs in one basket. It will provide em ployment for considerable num
Battle
Decisive Raging In Burma
Rangoon, May 5.
be more
the
can
The re-
seems to be a tendency in the world today to demand a higher improved water supply, improved ments should be mentioned an standard of lving without ac- cepting the responsibility for re-in quantity, since its quality is bers of uur teeming population,ally earning it, to take all with- already of a very high standard,
out being willing to give.
new roads and piers, reclama- "It does not require
of course buildings, muchtans, and thought to see that the efficient especially cheap housing for
of the workers
Jower income worker who can produce hi a lower price than His моте im- groups. We need improved civic- dolent competitor will
ore amenities, including a Town Hall likely to survive, when the pre- where citizens meet, with cultural facilities such as a Public of war is over, Sent nitermath
We need A modern And we no longer have what is Library. called a seller's market. Unless sewage disposal system, to keep we can keep costs down, we will the harbour clean and to reduce be unable to maintain our pus placement in the Central district
risk of epidemies. tion, and may and ourselves in a
of the
wasteful and cavernous slump with its attendant
unem- of ployment,
erected in the older misery and trouble, buildings. the ideal
for days. by modern and more effi- breeding ground for unrest and subversive reactions, cient structures is
proceeding Perhaps production costs at not but we must not forget the risks the only factors controlling our of fire, disease, and overcrowding ability to survive, but excessive which are inherent in many of profits and poor quality will also the tenement slums of our City, cannot be influence the potential customer, a fact of which we
cannot believe that no and it is still true that honesty is proud.
civic pride or the best policy. These are things
public sentiment can be aroused to see that some- on, which we might think with advantage, remembering that as thing better is done, and I think we all have a responsibility to always, example is better than
our fellows, and that as in other
to good
"But," he warned, "our JIRI - cuities are not yet over.
"Although this
particular Three hundred Karen hill rebols were killed in the Impediment has been removed from our path, we new ap proach the problem of future of Germany and It by no means follows that dimicut. ties may not arise even morc embarrassing and puzzling than those which we have encoun- tered."
past three days of bitter fighting in the Daiku sector, about 70 miles North of Rangoon, the Burmese Government stated tonight.
On behalf of the Liberals, Mr. Clement Davles said that the last seven or 10 days will be thought or as historic. They had seen the THINKING
«greement on the Commonwealth and India, agreement on thr Moscow, May 6, Council of Europe and now this Soviel economists continue to final agreement
"which might he intrigued by the prospect of lead to the peace we all desire. nother Amerlenn depression. Western Allied political obser- The latest forcenst, by 1.vers in Berlin said today that ag- Blumin, writing in the magazine cording to the official communi- Problems of Economics: Theque announcing the date for the blockade in the capitalistic venomy, driven by lifting of the elemental laws, is heading blindly German capital, the Russians did towards bo unavoidable economic | not undertake to restory erisis.Associated Press.
communications between Berlin
En
ASSISTANCE FOR BURMA
Rangoon, May 6. The British, Indian and Pakin tan Ambassadors torny conferred Bangoon with the Bernese Prime Minister, Thakin Nu.
The conference was reported to have been held in connection with the question Commonwealh assistance for Burma.-Associated Press,
If
and the Sovlet zone or between East and West Berlin.
West Berliners, will therefore, still have to be supplied from the Western zones, these obser- vers said.
French Government circles wel- come the decision to lift the blockade and resume four-Power
falka.
Not Disturbed
The Western Allies are said to
be agreed that troops cannot be
Wallace Version Of Berlin Issue
Washington, May 5. Mr. Henry Wallace, Progressive Party leader, said hero today that a Russian offer on March 21 to lift the Berlin blackade was deliberately withheld from the public "because it explodos the myth on which the Atlantic Pact is based." Mr. Wallace is one of seven (5) A general reduction of witarases due to testify before armaments.
(0) agency
A
The rebel columns, which al- tacked three Government strong- points in the area, were routeri following day-long fighting. It added.
Rebel
concentrations in the area are feverishly digging in Just South of Dalku, where they had been strafed by Government planes, the official communique also said.
Military
herc observers that the outcome of the fighting
Ray
around Daiku will determine the tate of the Karen Insurgents.
Government troops in the grea are now engaging the bulk of the Karen forces withdrawn from all Central Burmese
Rectors for win or lose" thrust towards the capital, they added,
û
South West of Rangoon, Gov. ramont troope ernment
bave inflicted heavy casualties
2les on Karen re- bels in the rice growing areas North of Bassein, where the to be
Karona are reported burning villages.
the South Eastern coastal strip,
planes bombed rebel lages around Moulmein port.
In Upper Burma, a rebel com- mander and 15 other insurgents were killed in an attack on tail- way workshops near Sagaing, 25 miles South of Mandalay-Reu- ler.
overnment in nine vil-
INQUIRY INTO AIR CRASH
Rome, May 5, The Italian Government has fast ordered an Inquiry inte night's air liner crash near Turin, in which 28 people, in- cluding 18 members of the Turin football team and its British trainer, were killed.
A question has also been tabled In Parliament suggesting an in- vestigation of the present state of the equipment in Italian clvil aircraft. It was reported today the Senate Foreign Relations Com-"
that the Pope knelt down and new United Nations multice to argue against the Pact...
to build a productive
prayed for the victims immedin- He urged the Committee to economically unified Eurone, with- tely be heard of the crush. withhold action on the Pact until
Two football teams from Milan, out. barriers between after a Foreign Ministers con- West, and with aid to Asia, Latin Club, will attend the funeral East and the Milan Club and the Inter- ference is held on the German America and Africa-Router.- question.
thinorrow-Reuter. "This is our great-It may be our inst-opportunity to arrive at peaceful, settlement of our dif ferences with Rusala," he declared.
Mr. Wallace suggested that the United States and Russia alt down together and settle their differences.
Vice-President
The former offered
11 six-point basis for dis-
cursion which includes:
(1) Al treaty to form a unified
and democratie Germany, stripped
of
war-making potential.
(2) Agreement to refrain from
interference in the Internal affalta
of other nations,
(3)
Agreement by both nation
to give up all military - bases in
Other United Nation- countries,
and to stop exporting arms.
(4) Unrestricted trade, free
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Washington, May 5.
President Truman said today precepite of many uncertainties] places, the voice of the people!
effect.
in the world today, defeatism and can make Itself heard
not
the proper pessimism are companions for our time, since
and
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and
that a meeting between Mar- shal Stalin and the three West- ern leaders is not necessary to
"There are ample opportunities bring about a settlement of the that attitude produces (tle that for Engineers in the Colony In disputes over Germany.
is worthy. Let us therefore plan the future. Let us then give of President Truman told his boldly, that the Colony may grow our best, let us pull together in weekly
that better conference press
fitting honest and conscientious endea- there will
vour, to make of this Colony of for monument to be no necessity
eurs a real example, of which we such a meeting if the four Foreign citizens. Ministers reach agreement at the
"Hongkong's geographical posi- can be proud." meeting in Paris later this month. tion makes it the logical hub of is happy at the chance now a vast network of Shipping and He is to take up
where
left they had ar lines, and one of our greatest off 10 months ago (when the needs is an airport capable of Berlin, blockade began).
safely and expeditiously handling the traffic which is so rapidly The President would make no
volume and both in comment upon the reported state-growing ment by General Lucius Clay weight. Such an airport presents United States Commander in Gor- en engineering problem of consi- many, that agreement with Rus- derable size but not exceptional sla can only be temporary difficulty: that it will be costly is
obvious; that airports do
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