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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1950.
Serious spread of Paris strike
Paris, March 8.
|The nation-wide French strike wave, for higher wages tonight spread seriously in the Paris. region with decisions to stop work tomorrow. in the following State services: A National insurance, and pensions, dust-men, road- sweepers, park and garden staff, hygiene and sewer workers and lock-keepers on canals. Trade unions reported that | After an early rush for candles the number of building workers in untielpation of the strike of on strike la the Paris region gas and electricity workers a
midnight tonight,- Parisianın heard' had risen to 20,000.
with relief that the Government Representatives of
had decided to take over these Industries.
industrial the
workers National Conciliation Commissions ure trying to settle difference
have paralysed production in motor car factories and other plants for, 12 days.
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M. Jean Marie Louvel, Acting Minister of Public works and Minister for Industry and Com- merce, announced this in a special broadcast.
A Renault spokesman claimed back-to-work movement had begun in the nationalised Benault factory and that 40 per cent of on whether to striko. the workers are now back.
In the Northern France coal- fields miners are voting today
The position in the three-day under- strike of Parla bus and ground (Metro) services ceased ar transport workers drifted back on orders from non-Communist unioris.
PRINCESS RUMOUR REACTION
Water cut
Textile workers in Llife can. tinued to strike and a 24-hour walk-out by water-workers cuf. the water supply.
Air France said that the sixiko at Le Bourget airfield, near Paris, is not affecting arrivals and do partures.
The staff at Orly airfield are
returning to work.
Ten thousand Insurance ployees
are on strike in Paria today. ↓
Coalition Government for Graece...
་
Athena, March 8 Lenders of the thres Graak parties announced tonight that they have agreed principle on the formation of
•'■' Coalition Cabinat, 15:
The Party leadera-were-the- farmer, Prime Ministar, Mr. Nicolas Pikatyran, hond or a dissident Libarel group, Mr. Sophocles Venizelos, chief of Manother | Liberal section, and
Mr. George
the Social Democratio Cen
Papandreaw, of
Centra Party
Discussions aimed at
at recon- ciling views of home and for- eign policy took place today, though
result the finial Sunday's General Election in not yet known-Reuter,
MRS. ACHESON ACCUSED
Senator Joseph
of
BRITAIN WANTS HARSH JAPANESE PEACE PACT
London, March 8: Britain wants a harsh peace treaty for Japan-one that would keep the
defeated country under rigid Allied control for years.
She also wants the island kingdom to pay an unspecified amount of war
reparations to nations which suffered through her aggression, Qualified diplomatic officials who reported this today said "the" British ideas are contained in a secret memorandum sent recently to the Unit- ed States.
The document sets out in fortress isle of Talwan which go general terms the principle: to China, the Kuriles lands which British thinks shoul which have gone to Russia, the Spratly Islands: ¡in the · South shape a Japanese peace pact'
China Sea whose future has still to be settled, and other Island groups in the Pacific.
Fearful of a
reviving Japan, Britain and her Common- wealth partners want a Japanese
воед peace pact written as possible.
The informants sald the Bri tish plan would sentence Japan to an indefinite term of military, Industrial and political control by the Allies by providing for:
The disarmament and demil tarisation of Japan, including her potential war industries, throt ling her aggressiveness; control of her internal politics to prevent her from going either Communist or militarist.
fast
The treaty has been held", up
American
protest to Taipeh
since the armistice by the inability Washington, March 8.
y of the big powers to agree on how to start writing it.
U.S. vidwa
The Secretary of State, Mr.
·Dean Acheson, announced to-- day that the United States has protested against the Chinese
American freighters near Tsingtao on February 27.
The British plan got a blanket bleasing from Commonwealth Russia and Red China want | Nationalist-air attacks on two Foreign Ministers who discussed pact in Colombo in January. the subject of a Japanese peace
translating the general terms of The Ministers agreed to start
·
only the big five powers to do the job. But the United States,
ond
Mr. Acheson told the Press that
Government charged that the attacks represented un- more try to get Russia and China lawful endangering of American per, endangering American Ilves on the Isbrandtsen Line's Flying Clipper and the United States Line's Pioneer Dale:
ence.
Washington, March 8. Mrs. Dean Acheson, wife of the United States Secretary of
Britain and France want all those nations who fought actively State, was today accused of
against Japan to participate. the American protest to the Na- being associated with a Com-the British plan inte detalled pro- the Western powers raake
The British have suggested that tionalist Emmunist Front organisation. posals. The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, is expected to Tuxi drivers threatened but did Wisconsin Republican, declared to day that talks with that end in
R. McCarthy, announce in Parilament on Mon- to join a general peace confer-property and were wholly impro- not carry out their threat to make tho Senate Foreign Relations view will start in London among the worst traffic jam Paris has Committee that she is listed on the eight Commonwealth countries ever known in the heart of the the records of the Un-American in a month or so. elty for an hour tonight in protest Activities Committee as a spon- against taxes, the price of petrol sor of the Washington bronch of and the Government-ixed fares. the Congress of American Women
Paris has about ·10,000 taxis,
Communist Front organisa- Hadition. Hundreds of Parisians
London, March 8. A Buckingham Palace official today shrugged his shoulders wearily when asked about reports that Princess gathered in the boulevard but all Elizabeth is expecting her they saw was specially reinforced second child in September. trafle police strictly enforcing a
With resignation, he said: "If no parking order-Reuter. can, give you no information whatsoever. At least onco a fort night I am asked if Princess Elizabeth is having a baby and cach time I am obliged to that I know nothing whatsoever because I do not."
or sister.
soy
VAPOUR TO FIGHT COLD
"I
British plan
While the British plan is being studied closely in Washington, it
The British version would:
Check the country's trade and industrial production-beyond the standard points of merely disarming and demilitariaing Зарми;
If Rumla and China still re. fuse to come in, Britain wants the conference to be held any. way-with- "two chairs kept symbolically empty for the two countries to occupy if they change their 'minda.
on
Mr.Acheson made it clear that the United States still considers the Nationalist blockade ülegal.
He disclosed; that the Ameri cans had encountered fresh trou- bles with Chinese Communists.
In Washington, the Secretary All American official representa- Senator McCarthy also asserted is considered irrelevant until the that Dr. Phillip C. Jessup, U.S.U.S. produces a draft treaty of of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, today tives in Communist China are
her Own. The State De charged that the Soviet Union being withdrawn without difficul Ambassador-at-Large, who
partment has announced that still wants to hold a Japanese ty but the Communist authorities now in the Far East, has an un- usual affinity for
Its experts are working on a peace conference within the nar- are refusing to issue exit permits Communist
busi- draft. Its contents are likely to row limits of the big powers and to a number of American causes.
look more like the final article refuses to permit other Allies in nessmen representing utility and Senator McCarthy made the than the British Commonwealth the Far Eastern war to partiel- banker interests.
The local Communist authori- pate in treaty-making. accusation at the opening of the product.
for with- Asked at a Press conference to ties gave no reason Inquiry into Senator McCarthy's
comment An odourless, invisible vapour charges that a Communist spy
the Sino-Soviet holding the exit visas. In pre- persists through which holds promise of ward-ring is operating in rumour
the State
an carly vious cases, however, the Com- agreement calling for Japanese peace treaty, Mr Ache-munists sorgetimes have detained London that 10-month-old Prince
son said the Russians were merely ranking business oficials as vir- Charles will soon have a brothering off one of mankind's great- Department.
Senator McCarthy said: est health nuisances-the com-
beckoning countries of the world tual hostages to assure payment. back to the controversy over of dismissal pay to Chinese em- Buckingham Palace announced mon cold-is reported in the will discuss Dr. Jessup in more. tinent to note that this gentic-
procedure and were not attempt-ployees. Under the Chinese law five months before Prince Charles American magazine "Hygeia." detall later but I think it per
The vapour is called tri-ethy man (Dr. Jessup) new formulat-
ing to make any positive contri- the dismissal pay ranges up to was born that the Princess Wag
Ban all military training:
bution to the solution of the to several months. after lene glycol, which has a remark- ing top flight polley in the For having a baby but only
Rigidly cut down Japanese civil Japanese peace problem.
Mr. Acheson has arranged the and was Ehat affecting half the civilised aviation and merchant shipping; strong rumours had been circula-able affinity for water
Recalling that the United States use of three or four landing craft Ling for three months that she was used by an air-conditioning manu- world, was also a sponsor of the
facturer as early as 1939 to ro-American-Russian Institute," Guard against possible revival has consistently insisted that the of the American President Lines pregnant.
evacuato Americans member nations of the Far to
from from the The Chairman,
E. of a Japanese espionage system Eastern Commission Millard Princess Elizabeth, who looks move, excess moisture
Tydings,
should be Shanghal. Three hundred Ameri Maryland Democrat, militarist cliques in the islands alim and well, is making plans to air.
spica By accident it was discovered promised Senator McCarthy one could export" join the Duke of Edinburgh-now
vital full-fledged participants in writ- cans have asked for transporta- Ing the Japanese treaty, Mr. tion from Shanghai and another glycol-altered of the most complete investiga=| Western territories; tri-ethylene serving with the
this coul
Acheson said he was certain that 1,000 foreigners are also looking Fleet in April. She hopes to air acts as a preventive against tions in the history
Limit or prohibit the produc- the Soviet Union wanted to res- for transportation-United Press. leave by air on or about March colds.
In the Senate recently, Senator tion of various aluminium or triet the conference to represen- Subsequent tests revealed that 28.
Coromunist She was in Malta from Novem- the glycol vapour is not harmful McCarthy detailed. the cases of 81 steel alloys (used in the aircraft fatives of Russia,
bad
and shipbuilding industries) and China, the United States and ber 20, her seaond wedding an- to humans, and that, in addition persons who he said are
security risks. He named no of synthetic oils; riversary, until last December to being a killer of bacteria, it is 28,-Reuter.
deadly to the influenza virus as names but said that they either
now or formerly were the No overseas possession
ink well.
State Department Router and closed that in a vapour-treated Associated Presss. room housing 320 men only 12 were infected with cold as com- pared to nearly three times as those sleeping in a many among
In experiments being
Mediterranean
that
VIOLINIST DEAD
Prague, March 8. Jaroslav Kocian, famous Czech violin, ad the late Jan Kubelik died today at the age of
Mass tests for
dia humans
try.
Berne, March 8. A series of lectures that French
in
P
to
Control the importation of these and similar materials which could be used for secret rearmament purposes;
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Britain.
Disagreement in Washington
RHODESIAN TALKS: WITH PORTUGAL
Salisbury, March 8. Sir Godfrey Huggins, Prime Mr. Acheson said he felt he Minister of Rhodesia, Iis to lead Ministers and could not go beyond his statement omcials to London and Lisbon,
a delegation of of January 12 in which he leaving on March 16. Bind Japan to pay an unspect- serted that the Russians were
Their object is to secure fed amount of war reparations consistently blocking peace for countries she damaged during the would find methods of restoring the port facilities at Beira in Portuguese agreement with the out of current production to Japan, but the United States Government for the expansion of that country to the community Portuguese East Africa and to of nations either by a pact or discuss the investment of British
mechanians.
glycol-vapourless room conducted General de Lattre de Trasny were the most widely known of at Bellevue Hospital in New York, the dangers of Communism Czech violinists.
Kocian had appeared on concert a doctor is using glycol vapour Europe has been cancelled because to control the spread of such they might intringe Swiss neu- stages throughout Europe. He was a professor at Prague's music virus diseases as mups and Ger- trailty General de Lattre is
man measles. Preliminary results chief of the Western Union land pre-war conservatory for the past years-Associated Press.
have proved highly favourable, forces.---Associated Press.
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