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THE CHINA' MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1950.
Seretse refuses proposals for abdication
London, February 21.
Saretse Khama, African Prince who married a white .
wife, has rejected a British plea to give up his throne for the sake of Empire unity.
He has told British Government leaders that his future is in the hands of the Bamangwato people who elected him chief last year in Bechuanaland.
TOLL OF
FIGHTING
IN JAVA
Jakarta, February 22, A total of 1,240 Indonesian soldiers have been killed defending a West Java city invaded by followers of the Darul Islam.
The battle for Tasikmalaja, be, tween the Indonesian Army and the fanatical Moslemn movement which aims to set up an Islamic state of Indonesia, has been rag- ing for the past 10 days, over since Dutch forces withdrew and left defences to the Republican Army.
President Soekarno said last week that forces under the Dutch renegade, R. P. P. (Turk) Wes- terling, have infiltrated into the Darul Islam. The movement is a potent rebel force in West Java, Indonesia's major trouble spot. Delayed reports reaching here gove this picture:
One of his advisers, who reported this today, said that Seretse emphasised that he is willing to carry out any deci- slon his people reach.
The
Headmen of the Bamangwato In 1949 decided overwhelmingly that he and his white queen, the former Landon typist Ruth Wil- liams
should be their rulers.
South colour-conscious African and
and Southern Rhodesian Governments have been pressing Britain to keep Seretse and Ruth off the Bamangwato throne and ao atop what they think will de- Into a major crisis in vick-white relations throughout Africa.
ар
Britain ofcially frowns on race discrimination.
Acheson denial of spy charges
Washington, Fabruary 21.
The Secretary of Stats, 'Mei Dean Acheson, today dented charges made on the floor of the Banate last right that Communists are employed in the State Departmant.
The charges were made by Banator Joseph
R.
McCarthy (Repubiloan, Wisconsin), who alleged that * person who once passed highly secret United States Information to
known
wn Soviet agent in an Important
can listening Buropean post is at present one of the 1.0. Foreign Ministers.
- Was R
He also alleged that there sizeable afth column of Communists in the State Do- partment.
According to the Benator, the
White House 'and
the State Department · prepared soma Information to be sent to another, Government but before it left Washington It appeared in Moscow-Reuter.
MARQUESS IN ACCIDENT
·
ELECTION INFLUENCE ON PACIFIC TREATY
London, February 21..
Thursday's General Election will largely determine
Britain's viewpoint on the Pacific Pact - ad- vocated by Australia's Minister for External Affairs, Mr. Percy Spender, on which the major contesting parties have different ideos, official sources said today.
They recalled that the British Labour Government gave a cool reception to the proposals by the Philippine President, Elpidio Quirino, for a Pacific Pact last year.
admit :: India's membership a5 0 republic
ng-
Conservative leaders bellove the Labour Government's ten dency to favour India has gravated the differences between India and Pakistan, thus Icaving "a loophole for Communist peno-
tration into the sub-continent.
The Conservatives hayo nao re- ferred to the unfinished task of saving India from Communism, in assessing the strategic value of a Pacific
Mr. Churchill several times re-. A Government spokesman at East are still looking for a lead, ferred to the supreme value of that time said that there was Just give them this lead jointly Australia to the Commonwealth, 110 basis for such a system and with the United States, upon and reviewed the Austrailan posi- Com- that an allianco
such whom leadership In the Pacific tion consequent upon the with vulnerable components as Na- must inevitably fall." tlonalist China and Southern con- Korea was hardly worth aldering.
Labour's view
ора
last wor
Mr. week, Labour leaders believe, how. Churchill made the Conservative Party's Asia policy clear when be lead murt aver, that the
he said he did not believe China left to the Aalatic nations La- bour spokesmen contend that NDY
munist At
In Aala.
was lost irrevocably to Commun-
Mr. Winston Churchill's position, on the other hand, came out strongly for reproducing in Asia the unity against aggression which is taking shape in Europe
to so effectively
contain the Kremlin's ambitions.
Most observers believe that a Conservative Government under Mr. Churchill would support Aus- tralia's advocacy of a dual system to embrace the Eust as well as
London, February 21. The Marquess of Milford Haven, driving his car, was in a were collision with an oysterman cross- Nonetheless, it Seretse
box of voluntarily to abdicate. iffe Bri-ing Piccadilly with a tish Government would be help-oysters last night.
the West. Marquess and his Amer- ed out of a sticky situation.
Two British Ministers accord-ican-born wite escaped injury.
The oysterman, Ben Gold, of ingly pleaded with Seretse in a two-hour session last Thursday fashionable Mancita's Restaurant,
was taken to in hospital, his in to give up the throne.
Juries not fully determined Associated Press.
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In own interests The Ministers were Philip Noel Baker, who heads the Ministry of Commonwealth Relations, and Lord Addison, chief Government spokesman in the House of Lords. An Informant, who attended the meeting, said the two men After the first five-hour pitch-stressed that it would be in the Seretse's own ed battle in the streets, the Darul best interests of
abdicate, Istar units withdrew
were to from people if he
with avold trouble The Invaders re- firstly, to Tasikmalaja.
Africa
Southern and turned the following night, at- South tacked the prison, set free 29 pri- Rhodesia, and secondly to avoid soners and killed an additional 11 internal tribal dissension' because Indonesian soldiers.
of his marriage to a white wo~
Since these two altacks by the fanatical Moslems, there has been almost continuous rifle fire heard in the elly day and night for the past week.
4
Dutch Army sources said the Netherlands Army has postponed its withdrawal from Carcet, a sister city of Tasikmalaja. The Dutch are remaining in Carcet at the request of the Indonesian Government.
in
The Government is maintaining
sizable occupation force Tasikmaloja, probably as many as six battalions of about 4,000
men.
These twin cities and nearby villages in the heart of West Java's Darul Islam area have been the scene of rioting, pillag-
man.
Seretse, the Informant added, made it quite clear that he was opposed to giving up his throne for the woman he loves-but for a different reason.
The reason was said to be that the Bamangwato people them- selves had categorically accepted Buth as queen.
The talit ended inconclusively. Another meeting is due after the General Elections are over-As- soclated Press.
YUGOSLAVIA AND HỌ CHI-MINH
Belgrade, February 21. Yugoslavia granted recognition
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On the diplomatic front, the Government announced that it has notified the Soviet Union that! it will send representatives to Moscow soon to work out details of
The Foreign Minister, Edvard Kardell, sent a telegram to Ho the principle saying: "Led by
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The Foreign
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London, February 21, Arthur William Kiddy, retired Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, said India is the London newspaper editor, died
In Barnet at the age of 01. the strength
of the He was City Editor only country with and stability to form the nucleus "Morning Post from 1914 to of a Pacific alliance against Com-1937 when it merged
with the munism.
"Daily Telegraph", and thereafter For this reason the Labour til 1940 was Assistant City Editor Government has gone out of ils of the "Telegraph." way to bolster the Indian Gov- From 1805 to 1933 he was ernment in this role, even to the London financial correspondent of extent of resisting the Common- the "New York Post."-Associated wealth constitutional structure to Press.
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