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COUNCIL OF EUROPE COMES INTO BEING
POSERS FOR STATESMEN
Strasbourg, August 8.
"World Cilizee" Ewan Cumerun,
Strasbourg, August 8.
The Council of Europe, the first experiment in creat- ing an international Parliament, come into being here this afternoon when the Foreign Ministers of the 10 founder nations began their first "Cabinet” meeting.
18-year-old Landon udent They met in the beflagged City Hall of this
arrived here today with a list of "awkward"
questions for the slatesmen of 10 nations gathered for the first Council of Europe meeting here tomorrow,
ur-
medioevol, battle-scarred city, as the Council's Committee of Ministers, which will guide the 'next month's discussions of the Consultative Council, main debating body of the Council.
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1949.
Gunman Shot Dead With Own Pistol
Bydney, August 8.
A gunman was shot dead with his own platol in #ya. ney City Park
tonight, the police stated.
Two
men approached WI- Bam
WAS McAndrew, who altting in the Park with his, girl friend. One drew a glin and said: "Me and my mate are going to take your money and your doll,"
McAndrew, anatched the dead, man's gun, shot him and fired at the other man who escaped.
the
The police and that dead man was a well-known criminal-Router.
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SURPRISE MOVES IN BELGIAN CABINET
CRISIS
Brussels, August 8.
The Belgian Liberal Party tonight announced 'that it is willing to form a two-Party Coalition Gov- ernment with the Social Christian (Catholic) Party.
The announcement was made by M. Roger Motz, Chairman of the Liberal Party, after a meeting with his Party. But another Liberal leader said that the meeting had agreed that a final effort must be made to try to form a three-Party Gov- ernment to include, the Socialists.
If the plan of a Coalition Gov- The three Parties, however, ernment is successful, Belgium agreed in principle to a referen- will have a Government after dum. being without one for six weeks.
that The Socialists sald
the M. Motz is to confer Inter 10- King should obtain a two-thirds night with M. Gaston Eyskens, ma
majority Dr abdicate. Th the Social Christian Premier- Liberals sold that if the King designate, whose Party gained the obtained less than 50 per cent he most votes in the elections last should abdicate. If he got 70 per June.
cent or mere his opponents should
Cameron, who is a member of the "Direct Action for World Federal Government." delivered One of the first uels was to is- Each Minister had two advisers egies a letter from his
sue 11 Invitation to Turkey.sting with him. gonisation requesting that they Greece and Iceland to judir the There were two vacant places Be fugled all Comell delega-Council, which would would then fat the tables tony with placards | plans.
become a 12-nation body with reserving them for the Foreign The letter nker: "In
what over 100 delegatesi representing | Ministers of Turkey and Greece why does He Commeil of Europe all non-Communist parties nt-when they are admitted to the etiffer from the previous bloes and sending the Consultative Assem-Committee. alliances which have been formet before every war in history?"
it is not expected that there or their cars to enter the magni-;
"As the statesmen climbed out will be any violent demonstra- Brent 1th century Ci Hall in
tlon against the Council of Europe. ***
Local Communist manifested many signs of its rea-
strength In broiling heat-wave, 'Strasbourg
Iz not Impressive,
The Liberals say that any Gov-agree to his return, but if he b- being confined chiefly
the
Mr. Earl St. John, right-hand
ernment of which they are mem- tained a percentage between these lisation that the new experiment organisation called Fighters For man of the British movie "Czar," bers must follow their francial,Agures it should be left to Par might make city of destiny.
- Peace "Arid 'Liberty which has Mr. J. Arthur Bank, leaves Lon-economic and socint programune to lament to decide. The worin
only a small membership.
don tomorrow with £1,500,000 a large extent. "Unity"
The King rejected the plan to blazoned from huge The Committee oľ Ministers worth of new British films to sell It would also have to solve the lay down a percentage and said faster aral from every shop win-has an eight-point agenda to for dollars,
Royal question-whether or not a referendum should not be de- <day this shel-pocked Rhine- work through.
King Leopuk is to resume his cisive. It should be held merely Janey "[
| Royal functions,
as a guide to Parliament and Hats of the 12 baltom:
This followed a declaration by himself.-Reuter. strunit Derous streets
Joint three-Parly Coalition and jevery prominent building.
broke negotiations.
Itabo urged delegates to place Tefore the Courell" a plan for "People's Workt Assembly" to raft a constitution for Work Federnie Government. --Router.
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Mr. St. Jolin, a middle-aged executive producer of two Cities Films and one of the top men in
h
mzalay wars The Invitation To Germany
were One of the eight points. and from study of the report of the Pre-from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, but last Saturday they
Rink production team, comes saratory Commission which has has lived in England for the last treen meeting i Paris for several 30 years. fraside The City Hall, originally weeks. Is itself divided inte mine) Encouraged by recent box office seuzert from its aristocrate owner subjects,
sucresses in America with Eotiring f Prenela Revolution. Questions the Commzlee must "Hammer." "The Red Shoes."
the Ministers sill Fou at discuss in
the two days before "Quartet," British pronevra are shape arveligerere! O Lables the Consultative Assembly meets, following up with half a dozen: wall interpreters in The follow include: creation of rules of pro- more recent productions which (centre.
ecure for the Comunifier, bad-
British Bras with American
FORESTS STILL BLAZING
apot
EARL'S MARRIAGE
This followed a declaration by the exiled King Leopold declar- my that the final decision on bls.
London, August 8, The Earl of Harewood, nephew return to the Throne should rest of King George VI, and his Aux- with Parliament,
Belgium's three Parties are at will be married on September 20 |trian-born commoner Bancee odds over
the dynastie problem in the Chapel Rayal of historic wo bostile camps stuce the fib-
Jumes Palace. Associated eration.
The Catholics want the King to return. The Socialists want him to abdicate. Most of the Liberate are also in favour of abdication, though the
ket, slaff, privileges and unam hope will further establish which has split the country into S
regulations,
ties, draft, finanefal
nuciences. invitations to new members, the "Madness of the Heart," starring Among the new tins will be elaste of the Committee's bext meeting, resumendations to the Margaret Lockwood, "Adana and Assembly for the nomination to Stewart Gronger. "Obsession," an Evelyn," with Jean Simmons ondi the office of Secretary-General |
acid bath murder film, and "Trol-
and proposals to be mude to the tle Truc," a technicolour musical Assembly for its own agenda.
Under the
heading members it remains
of
new to be seen]
with an Edwardian setting star- ring Jenn Kent.
Mr. St. John, who is travelling New York in The liner of an Mauretania, exports to remain in Germany, the United States for about four
weeks.-Reuter,
Helena. Montana.what attitude the Minsters will fo
August 8.
Lake towards the timing The North West's worst fire invitation to Western in 40 years is still out of con- frot after devastating
acres
killing fighters in 98 hours.
-Reuter.
13
6.000 fire-
The Fatogr headquarters sukl -Jam-taforme praght be brought-under- control this afternoon but A. D. Aubry supervbar of Helena Na- Unnal Piet Warner that ་་ ་་་་་
WEEKEND lavere could wipe out all
Wilh
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Sheath Silhouette Paris Fashion Hit
Paris, August 8,
Jacques Fath flaunts a sheath silhouette as a base for what experts have voted tho most scintillat- ing collection of the season to date. Ho calls
his silhouette "Ligne Jaillissanto" (flowing stream.)
come up the work of the past 96 hours would be wiped out i few minutes The blaze has al realy
Wiped oul an estimated 8,- 000 meres of rich Untberland and It consists of restrained full- Fath's collection shows Jess "destroyed two private ratiches, ness, always controlled by, but-material and -more bejewelled Meanwhile, ringers, servir- tons. And reirased, in the effects than any house in Paris. inen, prisoners and volunteers are majority of cases, in, flowing un- The scene flashed and glittered Aghting seven other major bluzes | pressed sule fold over hips, continuously in costumes for all I four staten.
front and back.
occasions, from early Ranger officials
Buttons are so plentiful that till dawn. situation is so explosive that we one commentator suggested thật, hardly get one stopped when un- if placed side by side, they would Skirts
were so difficult to her breaks out."
reach from Paris to London,
manoeuvre that it took more Free swirls or side rolls of than three hours for manns. fullness,
nung against either
quins to move up and down the front or rear over the thigh, romp in 160 models.. achieve the
flowing effect in Every costume was so beauti- some models. A balancing
soft-fully cut and the material
sajel
"T
In Idaho, 950 men fought two major bluzes both of which are still out of control.
Itt California, two blazes cover- ing 11,000 cres of forest Inte
afternoon
hurning out of control with 400 ness over stiffness-net over skilfully handled that the Amer-
satin, mousseline over faille
tatem em the semie.
press and market forecast
Fashion."
of
In Oregon, the town of Durkee rides to and fro like waves over that Fath would be the "King of was saved from 0.000 aeger hobbled skirts. grass and timber fre stopped by The strapless
bodice reigns Christian Dior, maestro force of 250 J
men-United supreme, and dresses for formal post-war Paris, has yet to reveal occasions have the hem as 15 his secrets to the waiting world, inches from the ground.
-Reuter,
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LEVEL CROSSING
BUS TRAGEDY
Opladen, August R. Sixteen German children were killed and 21 seriously Injured near here today when a apeeding express train crashed into a bus in which the children were re- |turning-from-a-summer-camp.
The accident occurred at a level crossing In Schlesbusch, eight miles North of Cologne and one mile from the bus station where the parents of the children wer were waiting for them.
The
bus, towing two trailers carrying total of 80 children returning from a Catholic can in the mountains, started across the tracks as the gates were about half-way down and just as the express reached the crossing. United Fresn.
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