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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1949.
SUBMARINES SLIPPING RED SPIES INTO PI
Washington, October 7.
The Philippine Navy wants the United States to supply it with depth charges for use oganst submarines trying to slip Communist agents into the islands.
This was disclosed today in an interview with the head of the Philippine military mission, here to work out plans for the Philippines' share of the new foreign arms programme.
PADRES SUPPORT HANGING
London, October 6. British prison chaplains to- day voiced their support of the death penalty for murder. They also advocated hanging as a mesas cf execution since the stigma which attaches to ex- ecution by hanging adds to the deterrent effects of the penalty."
to
Brigadier-General Calixto Du- que. Deputy Chief of Staff of the Philippines armed services, said his country also needs ammuni- tion for 40-millimetre guns to use against small craft bringing Chin- ese Communists to the islands.
He said there have been reports from remote Southern barbours of submarines surfacing there and the patrol lacks depth charges necessary for
for action against the Undersea boats,
Sketching his country's efforts! to block infiltration, he told of the recent capture of a group of 200 persons landed on the Eastern coast of Luzon.
This group, he said, might have been headed to join Hukbalahap bands in the mountain fastoess of Northern Luzon.
Encouraged By China Events
Coming out in support of the death penalty-one of Britain's major post-war controversies they submitted a memorandum the Royal Commission Capital
General Duque said that the Punishment, saying: Huks-armed bands of opponents "Society may act
on behalf of to the land laws-have been scat- God In the matter of evil-doers tered by Government forces and it has a God-given, right to check no longer operate in big groups. and correct any subversive ele-| But, he added, "if there is a let- ments in its midst and, in ex-up in action against them because treme cases, where no alternative of lack of ammuntion and equip- remedy is prudently available, to ment, they might organise again remove the offenders by death." and emboldened by the Com-
The Commission was set
to up
munist advance in Ching, might report on all phases of capital become more active. punishment, including (1) legal General Duque said principal aspects; (2) whether it is desir- needs of the Philippine armed able and
methods (3) the
of forces
under the rè-armament execution
programme will be small arms The ch
chaplains concluded: "Fear and ammunition, hand grenades of pur
punishment is necessarily a and tear gas, all for use in even! of internal disturbances.---As-
deterrent to crime."
They also supported hanging sociated Press.
HUNGARY ACCUSES BRITON
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Prison
Governors who gave small
evidence also recommended the alzea) Now *? Bargain Prices.
continuance of the present met-
of hod of execution by hanging as Expert Repair Service Under-j "expeditious and humane
For reprieved murderers, the wernors recommended a iong
of de
detention, except in special cases, with two phases:
(1) a period
of "testing" in orthodox prisons; and
(2) a probationary period in
Budapest, October 6. Britain's
"prison without new
The Hungarian Government bars" institutions.
alleged tonight that it had re- The Governors reporter. alcardings to prove that Mr. Wal- "tremendous tumber of ap-lace Harrison, former British plications for the job of hangman, Legation employes. here, had
volunteered
work for the Hungarian police to exchange for the release of a woman from custody
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PROSTITUTES REGISTRATION
Lake Success,
October 6.
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At the same time the Govern- ment announced the expulsion of Mr. Alexander Hoppe Birch, British Legation administrative The United Nations Social Com- official in retaliation for the ex- mittee will ask the General As-pulsion of a Hungarian diplomat sembly to call on all member from London during the "Har- States to abolish registration of rison inciden!”.
prostitutes
Washington Rejection Of Accusations
Washington, October 6. The State Department to- day rejected the Soviet ac- cusations that the formation of the West German Govern- ment violated the Potsdam Agreement split Germany, and delayed a German peace treaty.
Mr. James E. Webb, Assist ant Secretary of State, issued a statement commenting on the notes containing the ac cusations, which were sent by the Soviet Government October 1 to the United *States, Britain and France.
On
Department officials sald that a formal answer to the Russian notes will probably be sent to Moscow soon, and will also reject the Soviet charges-Reuter.
HAWAII STRIKE SETTLED
Honolulu, October 6. Employers and Union leaders announced agreement today to settle Hawaii's 148-day-old steve- dore strikke.
an
The agreement calls for a raise of 14 cents hour plus an additional sever cents month-Associated Press.
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AURIOL TRYING TO NEW PREMIER
FIND
Paris, October 6.
M. Vincent Auriol, 65-year-old French President, indisposed and running a temperature, today began consultations to find a successor to the Radical Premier, Henry Queuille. The President had been resting in his country home at Rambouillet, near Paris, but return- ed to the capital when M. Queuille tendered his resignation, which the President accepted earlier foday.
M. Auriol saw M. Queulile and sanction Socialist demands for then M Edouard Herriot, Pre-wage increases as sident of the National Assembly, move rather than affirmation of a political who had flown to Paris
from a financial principle. Lyons" today.
The first of the Party leaders to interview the President were Maurice Thore Secretary-Gen- eral of the French Communist Party, and its Parliamentary group leader, M.JangınsDuctus." Communists were received firs because their Party is the largest in the National Assembly.
Leaders of all the parties in the Queuille Government will hold a joint meeting tomorrow.
FUNNY WHERE DAT
POUND NOTE
Conservative circles consider the time ripe to bring la Gov- crnment that will cut State ex- penditure, tighten up adminis- tration in nationalised indwa- try, and slash restrictions on private enterprise.
As political activity began to bail, fabour also began to ma-
zoeuvre.
M. AURIOL
The Catholic Labour Union to appease the Unions and said Federation (CFTC) issued an ap- they would no longer support M. peal to Communist and Socialist- Queuille it he continued to re- Disagreement Over Wages mon front Together, the CFTC
fed federations to join in a com- fuse.
The Communists raised their said, the Unions could present the familiar cry that any new govern- new Government with a united ment should include the demand for wage increases. Maurice Thorez, top party leader, M. Queville's reluctance to claimed that M. Queville's re- mees labour's demands was the signation was due to the pres- main reason he resigned, for the sure of the popular reasses"- to Socialists wanted something done Reuter and Associated Press.
Disagreement over wages and price-fixing policy was said to have caused the fall of the 13- month-old Coalition Government But some rightwing circles inter- pret M. Queuille's refusal
HAS GONE
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
MANDRAKE'S STORYŽ
| OF THE COLLEGE OF
KASIC="FROM KINDU EXPERTS. WE LEARNED THE SECRET OF THEIR MYSTIFTING TRICKS--*
at the
RIP KIRBY
Harrison, formerly an electri. The Committee decided to in-cian and security oficer clude
the proposed international British Legation in Budapest, was convention to suppress prostitution withdrawn last July.
article
He and the British Government asking all Governments
24
In
to eliminate any law calling for alleged that he was kidnapped. the special registration of prosti-by Budapest police in June, after Lutes or
of special the arrest-of-a-Legation tele possession
phonist, Mrs. Todagi, and that this decision the Com-the Hungarian authorities tried mittee over-rode objections from to force him to become their France, Turkey and Peru
Turkey's delegate.
agent under threat. Nuri Eren, warned the Committee that legis- lation did not solve the prostitu- tion problem.
The Hungarian statement add- ment was surprised" that the ed that the Hungarian Govern-
British Government should have fallen for "the nursery and
talk of weat underground" when one of its own agents" and had British-Hungarian prostitution was abolished in 1930, thus allowed As a result, legislation had to be relations to
disturbed.-
In Turkey there had been an Crease in social diseases
re-introduced-Reuter, **.
Reuter.
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