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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1049.
Sterling Area Talks On Trade With Japan
London, July 21.
Two senior British officials leave for Japan today for talks timed at reaching an estimated £150,- 000,000 two-way Commonwealth-Japanese trade deal.
A Board of Trade spokesman said the discussions, ..which will involve most of the Commonwealth countries, are designed to lead to the liberalisa- tion of trade between the sterling area and Japan.
NANKING ECONOMIC DRIVE
The British officials—Mr. Alan F. Gilbert of the Board of Trade and Mr.Don-Henley of the Treasury-are to be joined In Office re- Tokyo by a Colonial presentative.
Australian, New Zealand, In- dlan and Ceylonese will supple- ment the Commonwealth nego- tintors who will work as a unit. One of the problems Common- representatives hope to have wealth self-settle is to get Japan to liquidate accumulation of night the sizeable. term the sterling she has built up, since
VJ DAY. block-
Nanking, July 20. The authorities here begun a drive for 4 sufficient economy in the against what they "Imperialist economic ade."
New Heights Of Fancy By Wallace
Washington, July 20.
Mr. Непту A. Wallace, left wing Progressive Party' Presidentint candidate last year, charged today that Mr. Winston Churchill
liably reported to be aban dening his previous support for the North Atlantic De- fence Pact, and urging a new understanding with Russia,
"Ever
Mr. Wallace sald:
Mr. Churchill may though continue to pay lip service to the Pact and the palley,
the
"AUTHE
fact is that both the and the La- Conservatives
น bourites In England agree that the cold war is ended.
facts Ingak more
реак eloquently than propaganda. The British have been rush- ing through a trade agres- ment with Rugain. They are rushing bilstefal agreements which will close the market for American goods."-Reu ter. by
The Board of Trade spokesman said Britain" does not want 10 to find herself in a position Kome taken The first step was
uf
to liquidate having shortage day petrol cope with the
holdings which shot prices up to US$2.50 Japan's sterling
payment in dollars. per gallon.
The "New China Daily" sakd: "In an effort to break the im-
For A Year
General
Douglas MacArthur
perialist economie blockade, buses has the statutory
of the state-owned Nanking
right of de-
Public Bus Company are being manding payment in dollars for converted into charcoal burning an Allied country's trade deficits vehicles. The company suspended with Japan.
service on July 19 for necessary conversion work which is expect.
ed to be completed at the end of the month."
Britain's
came
So far he has not exercieed that right In and, the spokesman said, has
the British assured
that at;
least until
the
ond of the
year, there will be no demand for dollar payments.
Sequel To Purge In Bulgaria
The
Softa, July 20, Bulgarian Parliament
NEW HOPES OF END TO LONDON STRIKE
London, July 20.
New hopes of ending London's crippling dock stop- page emerged tonight after a day of confusion and conflict between the Government and its own National Dock Labour Board.
As two vital meetings affecting the 15,000 idle dockers were fixed to take place tomorrow morning political quarters speculate on what will be the fate of 76-year-old Lord Ammon, Chairman of the Dock Labour Board.
Lord Ammons statement to docker last night was
under
TROOPS TO WORK ON COAL?
snow-
Sydney, July 20. The Australian Cabinot today considered emergency action to end the nation's crippling coal strike as the winter's worst buzzard struck New South Wales and Northern. Victoria.. repudiated after midnight by the Government,
Record snowfalls of 15 inches the oficial "Lock-Out are reported in some areas, with- The statement ordered the men". Bût
the to return to work or risk smash- Committee” leading men heavy snows still falling. ing the scheme
which stated: "The attitude of the mon Some communities are
bound and heavy livestock losses dockers get a guaranteed week's is stiffening," pay whether or not there is work It said it had had a telegram are feared, in the Northern gra- for them.
from eight ships in Gothenburg zing felds. Strong, cold winds The Government feeling that harbour, Sweden, expressing soll-hit the Sydney area, but there is this threat would cause resent- darity.
no gas and ment throughout the nation's
of persons who tireds of thotricity and hun- The number of dockers clear docks-made
that the have stopped work, mounted to are shivering in misery.
15,509 tonight. scheme is not threatened,
Cabinet members have decid- Lord Amition"esponded with The number of troops in the ed to call out troops.lo.dig opens. 23,000 strikers 6,770 cut cost the comment: Why the Gov-Port was ñercased ernment has gone crazy and done yesterday tu 9,033 and more return to work immediately. Re-
liable sources said the Govern what it has done and spoiled the Servicemen are standing by.
give the whole show I do not know".
Troops are working 94 ships ment
would 17. munist-led miners only Lord Ammon had a 20-minute and civilian dockers interview with the Prime Minis- Forty-five vessels lie idle, four chance" before
The Victorian Premier, Mr. ter. Mr. Clement Attice, this are under-manned and nine are afternoon.
waiting for berths. The Government
that he Political quarters feel that, '30]
had instructed the Vic- was closely
London he does not voluntarily resign questioned for over 30 minutes torian Agent-General
offer of 28,000 tons of the Dock in the House of Commons on its to accept on chairmanship Labour Board, the Prime Minister clash with the Dock
of British coal for Victoria, hard Labour of Boord. will demand his resignation.
hit by the three-week-old nation- Mr. Isaacs sald that the Gov-wide miners strike. ernment could settle the strike
"Twelve thousand tomorrow if it had the power to
his
Isaacs' Statement Mr. George Isaacs, Minister of Labour, told Parliament today
from
that the National Dock Labour deport the people who had stir-
made
statement had
Boards things difficult.
Perhaps the next few hours, he said, would see whether the
The paper sald the step was inken to save petrol and cut the cost of operation, Revenires re-
only cently amounted to third of the petrol expenditure.
It suggested culs in the con- sumption of petrol and encourar- and Ing more use of bicycles horse-carta as a means of trans-'000. portation,
Britain is anxious to increase
The Central Committee of the possible.
") would rather see the mon Two radio set factories respond that volume to an estimated two- Bulgarian Communist Party ex-
somewhat willingly ed to the call for self-sufficient way total of £150,000,000 ou con- pelied
its ranks him from
go back on economy by planning a large dition that
Japan buys more June 14 because of his "anti- than try to dragoon them back Increase of production-United from the sterling area.
Soviet, anti-Bolshevik
actions" to work" he said. Japan needs Malayan rubber, which showed a "nationalist ten-
winen tin, iron ore, wool and salt from dency." the Commonwealth countries.
The trade deal, the spokesman one-
said, will be for one year. The has unanimously deprived the Labour Board's threat was more belag Commonwealth and Japan last former Deputy Prime Minis- valuable than the steps
Government. of his taken by the year did
a two-year volume of ter, Traicho Kostov,
believed the Government is right business of about £57,500,- seat in Parliament.
to seek as much conciliation as
Press.
FRENCH POLICY IN VIETNAM
Mostly Textiles
In return she sells textiles, slike and light machinery to the Commonwealth countries. Paris, July 20.
of her About three quarters The French Government will exports to Commonwealth coun- continue its present policy Intries last year were textiles and Vietnam based on the agreement silks.
te The
Bulgarian Fatherland a coalition of Government Front
Mr. Isaacs and the Prime Minister were under fire for half
red the dockers up.-Reuter,
Russian Protest Rejected
Rome, July 20.
unless
are calling
Com-
"one
the
AST
Thomas Holloway,
oway, said tonight
in
tone of coal are due from India in the
tons
next two wooks and 18,000 from Britain in the next six weeks," the Premier added. Mr. Holloway
also unle
that the State Cabinet called together
to
has
been
make final
arrangements for unloading coal aboard the 7,000-ton Canadian ship Haligonian Duke, beld up here for nye months by a dockers" "black" ban.
Earlier, the Victorian branch of the waterside Workers' Federa- tion decided to endorse the Union's decision to continue the
ban.
and Reuter,
Luciano Declines Invitation
Last week the Governmen! The Italian Government to called for volunteers to unload coal but deferred action in the an hour in the Commons.
Sir John Anderson, Conserva- day rejected Russia's protest hope that the waterside workers said he was personally against its decision to join the would lift the ban.-United Fress parties, expelled him on June 30. tive,
at the Government's North Atlantic Unlon Kostov was appointed Deputy "ghost" Prime Minister and Minister of action in repudiating the Dock Electrification and Natural Re-Labour Board's warning to the dockers. It is bound to be inter- sources in March, 1948.
The Central Committee of the preted as a weakening on the Communist Party part of the Government, he a- Bulgarian with the ex-Emperor of Annam, Until last. March, she sold a carly in April relleved Kostov of acrted.
• Mass Meeting Bao Dai, the new head of the good deal of machinery and his posts as Deputy Prime Minis- of the Committee capital equipment to India, which
din, ride for economic and financial ques the Colonies, M. Paul Coste
flons, and member of the Central Floret, told the French Council had an open licence
with Japan.
Committee. of Ministers today, according All that changed. though,
Parliament also agreed that French Government spokes-when the Japanese began
should Kostov
be prosecuter pile up too much sterling India under the penal law for "heavy
open licence trade-Asao-crimes against the State."
Kostov will be prosecuted for economic sabotage, the penalty for which is life imprisonment or death.
State, the French
man.
for Minister
to
M. Coste-Floret said that the then revoked the Government has no intention of for for Japanese adopting
cí the proposal
the elated Press, French Socialist Party Congress, which called upon the Govern- ment to do everything possible to arrive at a truce to be guaran~ teed by United Nations observers, to be followed by
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Calcutta, July 20. Police tonight cleared up the mystery behind the 14 human bodies cut into pieces and pack- ed in bundles-found in a pond in the Southern part of the city last night.
After day-long investigations the Police
announced that the corpses were remnants of dissect-
fer, Chairman,
Parliament today also agreed that another member of Parlia ment, Georgi Hulchev, a member of the Agrarian Party should be
espionage
prosecuted for trenson.-Reuter.
BIG BERTHA
and
Frankfurt, July 20. A 140-ton German "Big Ber- tha," which fired 1 four-ion ed bodies stolen from city hos-shell, is being taken to pieces at pitals by attendants.
The thieves, it was sald, soaked Eschenbach, Bavaria, the United the bodies in water to remove the States Army Headquarters here flesh and sell the bones to medical disclosed today. students.
The
two first of
Rome, July 21.
Charles "Lucky" Luciano, for-
።
in-
today that he has declined a po- treaty-are lice "invitation" to return to his
Sforza, and
As the debate in the Chamber of Deputies on the Pact moved towards ratification, which is re- garded as almost certain, the Italien Foreign Office rejected the Soviet note of protest, made earlier today, even before recely- ing it. meetings
A spokesman of the Foreist which are generally expected to Ofice, saying that Moscow Radio the 24-day-old broadcast the protest before it decide whether
be ended, reached Rome, claimed that its mer New York vice "King," said London dispute will this week took place tonight. allegations that Italy
is Leader of the Stevedores' and fringing her peace Lightermen's Unions had a three-
reabsolute fantasy.
| native village of Lercara Firiddi. Count Carlo
Italian hour discussion. Afterwards they
Luciano was "asked" to leave announced they hoped to thrash Foreign Minister,
Signor town after a police interrogation. out tomorrow #
policy which Palmiro Togliniti, Communist They held him for a week after would enable a, general resump-leader, are due to wind up the the arrest of a nan
trying to. tion of work.
week-old debate wor
on the Pact leave for the United States with
a guanlity of cocaine, Observers heretake it for Luciano, who has lived in Rome to be held tomorrow, will be a mass gathering of dockers when granted that Russia's protest is since his deportation from the the leaders of these two Unions designed chiefly to reinforce the United States, said today: "There Rome. will present their recommenda- last-minute appeal against the are 2,000,000 people in
Pact expected from Signor Tog- There are 200 people in Lercara
Firiddi. The Union has llotti.
more people there. already stated that it favours
Count Sforza is
expected to are around, the better I like it.” return to work
reply to the Russian note, na-Reuter. Mr. Arthur Deakin, General well as Signor Togliatti, when he Secretary of tho' Transport and addresses the Chamber. General Workers Union-the Later it was learned that the third union with members Soviet Ambassador, M. Mikhail Among the Idle dockerid Kostylev, had delivered the tonight that he is satisfied that] Russian note to Count Storza at the great majority of the men the Foreign Office this afternoon. Involved want to go back to -Reuter." work.
The second meeting, which is today.
tions.
The Lightermen's
The gun, which ran along Men's Attitude Stiffening
The gruesome
discovery had rollway lines and had a range
"The road is quite clear for carlier aroused, suspicion that a of about 30 miles and a 20-inch
was at large bore, is one of four captured by a general resumption of work," gang of murderers
the Allies.--Reuter, in the city-Reuter.
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CZECH FLEES TO GERMANY
NENNI ACCUSES
VATICAN
Vatican
Rome July 21. The left wing Socialist leader, P. Nenni, accused the tonight of employing its decren
Catholics excommunicating part of an anti-Communist cam-
fomenting
paign aim
aimed at
third
World
Nenni,
orld war.
18
a
of the a close follower Communist Party line, spoke be fore the Chamber of Deputies in
Paris, July 20. an effort to block ratification of
Jaronie Smutny, former head
the North Atlantic pact He
of the Czechoslovak Chancellory said: "If the pact in ratified we in Paris, has fled from Frankfurt, will organise ourselves to pre- the "Free Czech Committee here vent the carrying out of this said today.
polley." United Press,
The Committee's Secretary- General said that news of the flight of Smutny had been receiv- ed in a telegram from him from Frankfurt,
MADRAS STRIKE
Madras, July 20. About 1,000. Communista'd
It is believed in "Fred Czech circles" that Smutny will now press workers today observed a have something to say about the one-day token strike here, de-
wages manding increased end of the Benes Government in the release of people detained by the. Madras Government, under
1048.
The 58-year-old diplomat was accompanied by his wife and 28 the Public Order Act.. year-old son.
and
The Government/ released 21
They crossed the froutier late of those detained but arrested
17 of the strikers-Reuter. on Monday night, Reuter,
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