French Cabinet Crisis:
BIDAULT TO TRY TO FORM NEW CABINET
ARGENTINA HAS STRIKE FLARE-UP
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Buenos Aires, October 23. One hundred thousand meat workers voted today to stop work for 24 hours, after mid- night tonight, in protest against layoffs in the industry. It was one more work stopp- age to irk the government of President Juaz D. Peron, which came to power with labour backing.
The strike
aimed at the Ministry of Labour, which au- thorised the Swift packing com- pany of Rosario to lay off 250 men because of a lack of work.
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Paris, October. 23.
M. Georges Bidault, former French Foreign Minis- ter, tonight became France's third Premier designate in 18 days.
As leader of the Popular Republican Party, he was consulting Parliamentary leaders after ac- cepting a mandate from the President M... Vincent Auriol, to try to form a new govern. ment.
Meanwhile, many political observers considered that a serious situation had arisen, making -elections in the near future inevitable.
Inquiry Into U.S. Civil Defences
Washington, October 23. The Congressional Atomic Energy Committee will open The meat workers have bea a far-reaching public inquiry staging one and a half hour stop in January into the state of pages each shift is the packing the United States' civil de- plants since last Thursday bolster the demands that the fences against atomic bomb- government return to its formering, it was revealed today. policy of making layoffs the sub- Ject of arbitration between union, management and the Labor De
partment
Meat For Britain
to
A spokesman for the meat industry said the stoppage will slow down shipments of meat
now
Earlier today, M. Edouard Her- riott Speaker at the French-As•=; sembly, failed in a last-minute bid to reconcile the view of So- cialists and Radicals to enable the Radical france expert, M. Rene Mayer, 10 form a government.
Mayer abandoned negotia- Lions for a Cabinet early today after five days of inter-Party conferences.
No Agreement
Henri Prime
The Speaker, several times Premier before the war, met M. Mayer and M. Queuifle, cut-going Minister, for the Radicals, and M:
Mollet Guy
'and M. Charles Lussy, for the So cialist. but failed to get agree-
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1949.
Aircraft Stuck In Mud
· At Shannon
Shannon Airport, Eire.
October 23. A chartered Viking aircraft which brought 31 Turkish seamen here from Istanbul was tonight firmly embedded In the mud where it finished after running off the landing strip`earlier today.
None of the passengers or the five crew men were in- jured. The seamen, who are to take former Irish ship to her new ewners in Istan- bul, went on to Cork by road. The chief zeronautical off- ser of Eire's Department of Industry and Commerce is to come here tomorrow to in- quire into the freak accident.
Reuter
Refugees Reach Canada
Montreal, October 23. Scores of Jewish refugees who fled Hitler's Nazism a decade ago, have reached Montreal, refugees this time from Communism in Shang- hai.
CANTONESE BY RADIO
Vocabulary:
491 (k) (3)lik.. 499, (k'an) (1)kun. 493. (ngak) aguk (1). 494. (hang) hung (2). 495. (tenh) (3)dzaw. 496. (pang) bong(1). 497. (char
jun (1)- £97. (cban) Combinations
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9. (2) Yau (3). 10. (3) Mai (3)1k. 11. Choot(1) (3) k 12. (1)Kim (3)LE 13. (3)Dzaw shau (2).
Lesson 43 (B)
14a. Bong(1) (3)dzaw (or). 14b. Bong(1) (1)mong 15. Jun(1) (3)bai, General Expressions:
7. Haan (1) (3) geem. 2. Shaang(1) (3)woot. 9. Daam(1) sum(1). 18. (1)Shing (3)shut 11. Son (3) (3)yoong
12 (2) Yay soa(3)-(3)yoong-
13. (3) Dzon (3) lik
The Wang's Family (Continued)
Strength Power. Energy. Industrious.
To deceive. To cheat.
To assent, To consent. Willing. To assist.
To help. True. Real
Powerful. Strong.
Horse power.
To exert one's strength. Industrious, Diligent An assistant
To help. To assist, To aid.
To help. To assist. To aid. Truly. Really.
Thrifty. Economical.
Living Life Way of life. To worry.
Honest. Sincere.
Credit Trust. =
Trustworthy
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not
To make an effort
12. (1)Wong seen(1)-shaang(1) Mr. Wong has been industrious
13.
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shaang(1)-(3) woot gau(3) shuc(1)-(3)(cok, (1)m shai(2) daam(1)- Sum(1).
14. (2)Kui (1)m shai(2)
daam(1)-sum(1) (2)moh- duk(1) (3)shik (3) weak- jeh (2) (2)moh-duk(1) jeuk (33. (2) Kui (3)shut.
ment.
15. was rumoured that Earlier, it at Herriot would be called
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to form a government of national safety and dissolution.
It was learned late today that to offer AL Bidault has agreed himself to Parliament as Premier without preliminary consultations
with Party leaders.
The chairman, Senator Brien McMahon (Democrat), said the Committee staff was already lay- ing the ground work for the which grew out of the hearings,
has disclosure that Russia atomic explosives.
Meanwhile, he said, members In Le Mans, General Charles of the Committee
the
inspect de Gaulle, leader of the Right- atomic plants throughout the na- wing rally of the French people, tion to ste at first hand what the in a speech today-the 18th-day United States is doing to main-of the French Government crisis-
bomb
production called for a strong government in
France.
tain its atom lead over Russia
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Four members of the sub- committee, headed by Represen- tative Chet Holifield (Democrat), left
this week-end for Los
to Britain. which dependa largely upon Argentine beef to fulfill her scanty rations The strike of a thousand sugar werkers in three Northen pro- vinces continued. with municipal employees supporting them in a Alamos, New Mexico, to confer sympathy strike. The city gov-with experts at the bomb assem- erment of Tucuman gave thebly base. civil servants 24 hours to return to work or be fired.
Provincial transport workers voted general strike effective November 5 unless the govern- ment increases minimum trans- portation fares by 100 percent
Strikes also continued among 11,000 flour mill workers and several hundred drug laboratory
workers-Associated Press.
Senator McMahon declined to pass advance judgment
Call For Unity
Speaking at the unveiling of
* Resistance monument, he said that neither Communists nor people who accepted the 1940 armistice should be ex- cluded from French unity. "Nothing is more necessary defence programme, but
than to us at the head of the members of the Committee known to be concerned about the
are country à government which shall be just and strong and to rally nation's relative unpreparedness for coping with the catastrophe people for its renovation," he
of an atomic attack.
on the
A A nationwide United Press survey recently revealed that only a very few cities have even begun to make plans for dealing with the problem.-United Press.
SOVIET SCIENTISTS TO CONDUCT RESEARCH IN ANTARCTIC AREAS
Washington, October 23.
A group of Soviet scientists who will conduct re- search in the Antarctic left Odessa early this month with a Russian whaling fleet, it was reported here today.
engage group will
According to the report, the
dur said.
Appealing for an end of the purge of collaborators, General de Gaulle said, "For the nation the book of its hard history the the moment has come to close in
chapter of severity and open that of clemency."
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General de Gaulle also đê clared. "Once more France threatened, she must look to the future."--Reuter.
Bookshops In Prague Besieged
Prague, October 23. Publicity in a broadcast from Britain on Friday night brought a rush of customers
to
A spokesman for the Jewish Immigrant Aid Society said very few of the 129 will be allowed to remain. The others will be allowed to remain. The others will be looked after in homes in Montreal until immigration au- thorities decide to which coun- tries they will be sent.
escape
Ten years ago, most of them- there are young children in the group now-left homes in Ger- many, Austria, Poland and the Ukraine to
the Nazis. By devious routes, they finally reached Shanghai, engaging, in everyday jobs and professions. the Chinese Communists swept into Shanghai.
Then
the Jewish Refugees again, families moved once more across the Pacific to Canada, their final destination still unknown.
Sponsored by the Canadian Jewish Congress, the group en-
tered Canada.
The refugees said the Com- munists allowed them to bring had been no organised persecution their personal belongings. There
in the Nazi tradition "But we were not allowed to ear a Hv. ing."--Associated Press.
CHILDREN FOIL SPY PLOT
Prague, October 23. 'Three thousand Fague children aged 12 to 14 today played a de- fence game to foil a group of plotters against the State.
They made a survey of the countryside and denounced to the security police and the Army any plotters observed, according to an
oficial announcercent.
The children proved that they had leamed well to read maps, use telephones and radio trans- under the direction of older members of the Youth Movement and apprise the situa
on correctly, it added-Reuter,
Prague bookshops this week-end seeking copies of mitters in
Karels Capek's play about dictatorship, "Power and Glory."
considerably scientific research of an un- specified nature.
The report is received with special interest here because of previous Soviet public statements that there is reason to believe that. urarium is to be found Mr. Antarctica. These statements
were followed by the official Rus- sian
Boot_rocognise any international.
agreement concerning the future of South Polar
the Soviet Union is not a party.
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'But would-be buyers found continent The area of Belling that the book, quoted in a broad- hausen's explorations—przsum -
Berlin, October 23. cast to Czechoslovakia by Sir area of any nation's Robert Bruce Lockhart, was un-
The British iincensed Sozial- ably an claim -- Ites directly below cbtainable except on
an under- democrat said today that an am- South America, already an area
black market at
ed convoy of 1200 East German ground
high
peoples police have been sent to Bulgarian arned forces on the Yugoslav frontier.
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(1)yun
17. (2)Kui hoh(2), (2)yau-
son (3)-(3)young.
18. Yun(1)-wai gom(2)-
Jeung(2), gaw(3)-gaw(3)-
dob(1) son (3)- duk(1)-gwaw (3) (2)kui lok(3).
19. (2)Kui hoh(2) hung(2)
bong(1)-(3)dzaw (1)yun., 20. Tong(2)-(3)yeuk (2)yau- (1)yun (1)kau (2)kui bong(1)-(3)zzw, (2) kui yu:(1)-(3)ding (3)dzon- (3)lik bong(1)-(1)mong 21. (1)Yun-(1)yun ́doh{1}
(3)wah: "(2)Kui jun(1)- (3)hai hoh(2) (1)yun lok (3)."
and thrifty during his whole
lite, consequently he has same money in hand.
Now, his life is comfortable enough and he need not WCITY.
He needn't worry about having
nothing to eat or to wear.
He is very honest.
Ee doesn't deceive. people.
He is very trustworthy,
Secause of this, everybody trusts
him.
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He is vely willing to help
people. Should anybody beg for assis- tance, he will certainly do his utmost to help him.
Everyone says: "He really is a good man."
(To be continued)
World Bank Head On Development Of India
Aboard the ss. Amsterdam, New York Harbour, October 23. Eugene R. Black, president of the World Bank, told members of the New York State Banks Association holding their annual convention aboard this luxury ocean liner, "I can think of few more important or challenging tasks for the Bank than that of assisting development of India." →
Mr. Black chose India as his text at a time when the Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Jawaharlal
Departing from the usual prac-ing industry." However, he add- i tice of 'describing the Bank's ed, it is inconceivable that two operations in general terms and countries so mutually dependent alluding only briefly to specific could not iron out their differ- projects in which it participated, ences in the near future. Mr. Black devoted almost his en- tire address to description of In- dia's economy and the way in which
the Bank assisted in YFA launching the vast economic de- velopment programme designed to make India sex
self-sufficient in food production and improve its internal transportation system to facilitate industrialisation and distribution of goods for home consumption and export
Observing that loans to India were not without some risk, Mr. Black said the risks were of a character worth taking. He said one of the present difficulties was On
Nehru, was beginning his tour ca great industrial and agricultural
centres of this nation,
Mr. Black said India was 7 vast country, newly independent, with many economic problems to resolve, and yet it holds out great promise for the future.
He emphasised that, aside from political problems bound to im- pede progress in a newly-inde pendent country, India's eco30- mic problems in many respects countries around the world resembled problems of other
the
He noted India's tremendous sterling balance, which is He said it these differences equivalent now of approximately. contmued, "they could serious US$ 1,500,000,000
£600,000,- ly injure the Indian jute process-000 sterling-United Press
or
of conflicting claims by Britain, prices as works are not now be- ; strengthen Argentina and Chile. warning that Moscow would
It-also-extends a small distancing published: into an unclaimed area which has Soldier Schweik", is also almost despatea from Frankfurt on: Oder which India art bakistan the
Jaroslav Hasek, author of "Gold The newspaper published a the devaluation question, to which been intensively explored. by
American expeditions and pre- Buyers look for copies of the the convoy had 18 anti-tank guts, value of India's jute exports.
Completely
out of circulation., in the Russian zone saying that and which inevitably affects the United States officials believe United States.
sumably would
be claimed by the
Works
these two Czech clas- 3 heavy anti-aircraft guns, small that Russia is about to lay claim
sical authors iz second-hand arms and field pieces and was Rear Admiral Richard Byrd, bookshops, but this month the led by two Russian officers-Ad- to a segment of the Antarctic con- tinent on the basis of early 19th
American Antarctic explorer, re-
Government is to take over all sociated Press. century exploration by Russian cently said that information had
such premises, incorporate them warships commanded by Captain reached him that Russian ships
in a monopoly organisation and Fabian von Bellinghausen a Ger-
and planes had visited Antarctica. ban the private sale of second- man in the service of the Czar Presumably Admiral Byrd refer- Alexander 1.
red to activities carried out by the Soviet ships which have visit- ed the Polar waters each winte in the past four years. Officials bere understand that these fleets beli- had been equipped with touch the Antarctic copters--United Press..
First Discovered
The Russians claim that Bel. linghausen was the first ac.
•tually to
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