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· ROBERT_L. WELCH » „placeddy KIDNEY LARISEED,
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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1950.
ALLIES READY TO START ANOTHER BERLIN AIRLIFT
Saving Asia from war and dictatorship
London, January 23. Mr. Phillp Noot Baker. Secretary for Commonwealth Relations, uld today that the recent Commonwealth Foreign Ministers Conference In Cay- lon was to BAYO Asia from civil war and dictatorship rulo.
He told reporters when he Arrived home from Ceylon, That's specially urgent, be
In that
the part of world, the Communists bro
GAULO
doing all they can to Brizo power."-United Press.
MYSTERY MAN TO TESTIFY
London, January 23. A mystery man will give evidence on behalf of 29- year-old Brian Donald Hume,
Borlin, January 23.
Top secret plans to re-mobilise the Berlin airlift were revealed today, as the Russians put in force a "little blockade” of the city, cutting truck traffic to a trickle and delaying U.S. army trains for several hours.
At Frankfurt, reliable sources disclosed that a plan to re-activate the air lift had been ready in the office of the American High Commission for months, "just in cose."
These sources said that the document, bulky "top secret" setting out detailed instructions based on the experiences of 1948-49, was plotted late Inst
year.
The Russians are "still to drive the Western Allies
trying out
of Berlin." Its British Command- G. К. Major-Genera! ant. Bourne, declared today.
new
ile spoke ns the Soviet zonal go- authorities clumped slow" tacties on traffle with the West,
Allied pulley also reuniued the sume, General Bourne added.
"We are here and we are here to stay," he said,
About 120 goods lorries were this afternum quemned up on each side of the zonal frontier cross ing post at Helmsted, delayed by checking the usually rigorous of frontler guards.
Others were milarly held up nt Marienbera.
accused of murdering a car Only two to three were moving dealer, Stanley Setty, defend-through each hour, a third of the ing Counsel told the Jury at
the
Old Bailey (Central Criminal Court) today.
Mr K.F Levy, the Counsel, said that as a result of wide pub- Belty Riven to the dimembered body case, a man entirely uncon nected with it and who did not know
Home had readi eontuel with Hume's solleflors
1 would give o very different picture from that given by the The Jury would be prosecution.
given a background in which they might thisi thai a bendraes und gangsterdom night weit have fund their birth, he said.
This is the fourth day of the ti.nl
The dismembered torso of Sei- from un ty, drapped in parcels aircraft, was found on the mud. dals of the Essex roast Inst Octa- ber.
Mr. Levy said he hoped that the Jury would hear Mrs. Cynthia Hume give evidence on behalf of her husband.
At the time the murder Was Falleged to have been committed In the flat, Mrs. Hame remember- ed willing to her lounge listening to a wireless programme appro- priately called "Jusilee In Other Landsdealing with the trial of the French "Bluebeard," Landry, Mrs. Hume heard that pro- on the only occasion it
gramme
was broadcast.
"On that very evening. If what the prosecution tells you is right. Hume was in that fat murdering Selly. Mrs. Hume will tell you that certainly nothing happened In that flat during that evening that could
remotely murder or the cutting up of budy, Mr. Levy said.-Reuter.
normal value.
Just inefficiency?
Even Inter zonal States military
hold up several
PRISON FOR ADULTERERS?
Brisbane, January 23. Roman Catholic Archbishop James Duhig has started a controversy by advocating pri- son for adulterers.
"A State
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family
weakens
"If we had adulterers jalle, there would be fewer divorces," he said.
which
the committing Kulelde. Governments which allow the divorces lightly and treat question as of 18e importancu are reprehensible," he added.
Mr. G. M. A Sydney lawyer, Stafford retorted:
It sounds hopelessly medieval action."
Mr. Stafford said that if every adulterer was falled there would be more people behind prison bara than outside.
Dr. Parion Babbage, Anglican Dean of Sydney, commented: retrograde "Jalling would be a step and by no means a preveu- tive.
Dr. Babbage agreed, however, as long with Bishop Duhig that
adultery too as society regards tightly this morally-wrong prac-
tire will flourish,-UnitedTM Press,
United
irar
werd
hours
morning when Eastern guards of three queried the papers Passengera.
Goods trains in and out of the capital were running norinally
General Botrae, speaking at n Press Club lunel, said he did not think the latest rod and rail ten- Me dimeuities part of a plan to re-impose a blockade, but were Inemel. attributable to Russian
eney or to nisunderstandings be- tween the East and West Ger man authorities.
леш
Earlier, o British spokesman said that the bottleneck appeared to have been created by the ar vival of Marlenborn of a Soviet Commandant who was in- sisting that standing orders re garding the searching of lorries and the checking of documents be carried out to the letter- United Press and Reuter.
BURMA MAY BE
l'ONE VAST SLUM’
Rangoon, January 23. R. J Erroll, Conservative Member of the British Parlia- mentary Mission visiting Ran- expressed great Room, today fear that the potentially rich Burme may soon country of become one vast slum through lack of development,
U.S. BOOM AND BUST FEARS
Bao Dai's call for discipline
Balgon, January 2à, 'Ex. Emperor
Dai, head of the State of Vietnam,
today strongly re-affirmed hip determination, to restore peace and order in Vietnam. Addresing the first meet- Ing of hie Ministers at Dalat, North West of Galgon, Bas Dai called for the mainten. ance of a
etern dieelpline.
"WA "We are now antering the last atago when no hesitation will be possible. From now on no noutrality is possible. Attitudes must be clear," he declared.
The Prime Minister of
Vietnam, Nguyen Phan Long rald that hic Government should endeavour to strengthen the precious friendships of sympathetic nations. He put France in the frat rank these nationa.--Reuter.
et
Vital need
for Australia
Canberra, January 23. The Prime Minister, Robert today that Menzies, said large-scale Immigration is vital to Australia's very existence.
Arst
Mr. Menzies, who spoke at the opening of the country's ciUzenship convention, suld that in the troubled world of today a nation with a small population is in great danger,
slamp
The Prime Minister declared that Australia must
oul And Insularity, sectionalism
CA- cialism against new immigrants.
"We have a duty," ne said, "to understand that immigrants have made a great decision by becom- ing Australians and we must help and them to become Australian forget their miseries."
nol Indicate, Mr. Menzles did
be would however, that there
the immigration any change in polley followed by the previous Government.
New York, January 23. The U.S. Federal Reserve system fears that present pro-
followed a The country has sperous conditions in the United
which States may ronr into an in- "White Australla policy" flationary boom and bust, u bars Asian nationals from settling banking authority said today.
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Mr. Elliott V. Bell, furnver The polley has aroused wide- superintendent of the Bank of New York State and now Chair-spread opposition, particularly in South East Asia, because of de- mnant of a publishing house, said portations of Indonesians the Federal Reserve would like Maloys Associated Press.
to be in a position to check such a boom before it is too late by 'Judicious use of open market operations.
Speaking at the 22nd Annual mid-winter meeting of the New York State Bankers' Association. Mr. Bell said the Federal Reserve system, however, was suffering from frustration arising from the fact that it had not yet been wartime from its demobiilsed status.--Associated Press,
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RN DESTROYERS SOLD TO INDIA
the
Bombay, January 23. Three destroyers bought from British Navy arrived in Bombay today for the Royal Indian Navy.
They have been renamed tho Rana, Rajput and the Ranjit.
The ships were received by the agship Delhi.
Built in 1942, the destroyers have a displacement of 1,700 tons and a speed of 35 knots. They are equipped with radar.
India will at first use the ships for training.
Halder.
local Mr. Erroll, addressing a Rotarian lunch meeting, warned that unless Burma resumes large exportation of rice she may find her former customers in no need
mer of her supplies.
The Mission, which came here at the invitation of Pyawbwe U Mya, Speaker of the Burmese Parliament, two weeks ago, leaves by air for London tomorrow after a visit which included tripa to the olfelds where Mr. Erroll old valuable machinery given by Britain at personal sacrifice lies unused and dust-covered.-Asso- clated Press..
Berlin, January 23. The Rana 'was formerly the An explosion in an East Ber- The Rajput was the in fireworks factory dlled two Rotherham and the Ranfit was workers and Injured eight others the Redoubt.—Associated Press. today Associated Press.
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Singapore, January 24. An Island-wide cigarette ramp which aims to squeeze more than ST.$600,000 from Singapore smokers before the Chinese New Year on February 17 is in full swing.
The racketeers are refusing to sell all popular brands at the re- cognised market price, but de- mand an extra five to 25 cents.
Cigarette prices are not now controlled, but the Government may re-impose control if official warnings against raising prices are not heeded.-Reuter.
BARONET GETS DIVORCE
London, January 23.
A Baronet won a divorce -to- day on the grounds of his wife's. misconduct with a negro entertainer.
cale
Sir Ronald Gunter, aged 45, accused Lady Dorothy Gunter of Joslin Frisco" consorting with Bingham in a West End love nest uince 1947.
Bingham plays a plano and sings in his own Mayfair club,
The Gunters were married in 1932. They have no children.
The divorce sult. was unde- fended. Associated Press.
Berlin, January 24 William Babcock, aged 52, de- puty United States commander in Berlin, died of a heart attack this morning-United Press,
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