PEKING MINISTRY TAKES OVER STATE AND PRIVATE TRADE
San Francisco, March 15.
The Communist Ministry of Trade in China has been made the respon- sible and chief organ for controlling_State_and_co-operative trade and directing private trade throughout the areas under the control · of Mao Tse-tung's Government.
Peking Radio reported this tonight.
This was a now decision on the co-ordination of State trade taken by the
Government Administration Council in Poking, the Radio said.
BAD NEWS FOR UK INDUSTRY
Manchester, March 15, Cotton men who studied U.S. yarn products for two months today gave the Bri- tish cotton industry the bad news that U.S. mills are at least two and one-half times more efficient than Britain's.
' Lakes
cotton the British worker 2.03 times oS Jong to
The purpose of this latest 1930, while direct exports of docision was ¡given as:
(1) To ensure the fulfilment of the Government's import and export plan;
(2) To regulate the homie market and the supply and de- nand of goods throughout Com- as to promote munist China sn the swift rehabilitation and deve- lopment of production.
The Ministry of Trade will set State-operated elx special up
These will deal
and cotton cloth cual, local products Inneous goods,
companies.
In foodstuffs, Balt, yam, and misce}-
Other concerns
Branches of these
bristics to U.S. from China show- ed a drop of 38 per cent, com- OM- pared with January, 1049. cials predict an even larger pro- portion of Chinese bristles will reach the United States vid Russia,
The use of the pound sterling Instead of U.S. dollars has sumu
lated Hong Kong's trade with Germany. Recent shipments of German
goods to Hong Kong included dyestuffe, medicines and cameras. Some of the medicines were transshipped to China. German Importers Agents for are buying feathers and tung oll on the Hong Kong market.
About 300 tons of tung oil has been shipped from provinces South of the Yangise to Hong Kong by railway, Hitherto the Peking authorities have been ex-
“'Wanton'' raid on (Shanghai
San Francisco, March 15. Peking Radly reported to night that Nationalist bomb- ors raided Shanghal city at noon on Tuesday.
It wald that over 60 bombs were dropped and that alx people were killed.
The Radio described the
· reid-as-wanton - and -alleged- that it was under the direc tion of American Imperialipta. -Router.
CH-17
HK AIRCRAFT CASE RAISED
IN COMMONS
London, March 15.
The British Government "rojected a proposoj in the'
House of Commons today to send a Commis- sion-to-Hong Kong to investigate the-handing- over of 71 formar Chinese Nationalist aircraft. to the Chinese Communists.
****** | Air Commodore Arthur Harvey (Conservative) urged this move "rather than leave the mat- ter in the hands of the local Court of Hong Kong."
GUINEA TICKLISH PROBLEM
Jakarta, March 15. Indonesian leaders are al- most certain to make the fu- of Dutch New ture status Guinea one of the questions of discussion when they meet Dutch Ministers at the first conference of the Nether- lands-Indonesian Union here on March 25,
1
Air Commodore Harvey was porters of the Central People's a Director of tho Far East Government, without opposition
in Aviation Company Hong from the supporters of the other
side. Kong from 1930 to 1935, and was made an honorary major- general in the Southern Chinese Air Force in 1934.
Mr. John Dugdale, Minister of State for the Colonies, replied confidence in the local Court and that the Colonial Office has every does not consider à Commissl.com of Inquiry necessary,
Harvey said he Commodore was disatisfied with this answer and will raise the matter again.
Mr. Dugdale sald the aircraft
Alr
"I have been informed that an appeal from the judgment given on February 23 has been lodged, but no fresh injunctions havo been applied for. The olrcraft are still in Hong Kong."
--- British attitude
The planes have been ground- their ed in Hong Kong since crews went over to the Com- munists Inst November,
The United States Government protested
carlier
The movement in Indonesin for are still in Hong Kong althouse | against the reloase of the planes.
New
the Chinese Nationalists had not applied for a fresh injunction to
this month
It claimed that they were bought
companicavorting tung oft through Tien-grown to such an extent that the keep the Reds from moving them. I by Major-General Claire Chen-
troduce the same amount of will be established in all major Sarı-na-his-American-counter- part, the team sald in its report,Chinese Gitter to regulate the
in some British mills the figure supply of esential goods Is down to 1.01, the report said, populace.
but it ranges up to 3.06 in others,
The team, representing sections of the Industry, spoke for the Federation of Master Cotton Spinners Associations on its tour of American inlls last n November,
October
"Lower
The report declared: productively in England does not meon that English operatives hard, In necessarily work less Diany cases they work as hard or harder.
The team made these observa- Lona:
nccom-
1. Mechanisation, panted by lower production costs,
creates maintains and
employ meit rather than reducing it.
2. Work assignments pro- viding less than
reasonable task are unfair to workers in other occupations and constitute as grent disservice to the opera- tives themselves as to the em- players and the pubile.
3. Every man and woman
the should produce
muximum volume of goods consistent with the required quality and maintenance of conditions,
4.
the
tsir working
for re-
Work assignments which overburden the workers and do not provide reasonably
·laxation are unfair to the opera tives, economically unsound and, will eventually lead to lower and not higher production.--Associal.
Press.
Russian teachers in Peking
to the
Six other trading concerns have been or are being established. These deal in bristles, local pro- ducts for export, fats and oils, imported goods, tea and mining products.
All there State
concerns will
handle China's import and export trade. The Ministry of Trade will regulate their capital and stock.
The Ministry will also deter- mina the wholesale process of essential commodities in the major cities, the Radio further reported,
Success claimed
Peking Radio reported that planned economy is proving its success in Manchuria where fac tories and mines under the North East Industrial Department have or passed their targets. completed or
The increase in the output of essential products was:
Electric transformers: cent above the quota.
Copper: 44′′
per
cent
45
per
cent. 40 per cent. Cement: 25 per cent. Coal: 11 per Production figures for iron, cuke, power, motors, bicycles, sulphuric acid and rubber goods were also above those of previous quotas, the Radio aided-Reuter.
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OIL WORKERS REJECT "SACK"
Haifa, March 15. Workers in
the Anglo- Iranian Oil Company's refine ries here today rejected the Company's dismissal order, and demanded that they be laid off when the refineries close down.
This would amount to a holl- day with pay while the refineries are running on a caretaker basis pending an increase in the de- liveries of crude oil,
The Company announced last month that most of the workers
June would be dismissed by only plant maintenance men be ing retained.
Crude oil formerly reached the refineries by tanker through the Suez Canal and the pipe-line channels from Iraq. Both these are now closed, by the Egyptian and Iraqi Governments.--Reuter.
JAPAN COTTON YARN OUTPUT
the inclusion of Dutch Guinea in the new Republic has
Government, which la fighting for popular support, dare not ignore
it.
Informed Dutch and Indonesian sources agree that unless the Netherlands Government gives way on this and other issues a serious split in Union relationa may follow,
In fact, they said, high-level representations are being made to have the conference postponed for several months because the present time is considered too
dangerous.
The New Guinea question is due to be settled this year, but the
Netherlands Government did not expect the matter to be. brought
up at the initial conference.
It had no objection to putting the matter on the agenda but
would rather go no further at
Air Commodore Harvey asked nault, former Commander of the
American Flying Tigers volun-- in what eireum- Mr. Dugdale stances the planes had been re-teer ale squadron in China, two months before Britain recognised leased to the Communists.
the Peking Government.
Court case
persona
who
Britain considers that she can- not interfere for political reasons with the decision of the Hong
taken an Kong court,
purely that the legal grounds,
plancs should be handed over to tho Chinese People's Government,
Reuter and United Press.
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Mr. Dugdale replied: "Semen months ago, the Government of Hong Kong permitted the China National Aviation Corporation to bring to Hong Kong a number of aircraft which had formerly been based at Shanghai. In November last, litigation began in the courts atong Kong with regard to the aircraft between
be regarded may supporting the interest of the broadly on Central People's Government on the one hand, and persons sup- porting the interests of the Chi-
Rome, March 15. nese Nationalists, and later of A Rome court, today pro-
companies,
visionally released Monsignor Eduard Prettner, Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank Bldg. Cippico who has been held for the last two years on charges of embezzling 1,000,000,000 Hre. The Prosecution asked for the
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other. tion.
Well-informed circles here be- Hleve that the Netherlands Gov- ernment is anxious to keep con- trol of New Guinea in order to have a volce in any future fence policy for South East Asia.
Reuter,
on the
"The object of both sides was to establish a right to the air- craft and to remove them from
BERGMAN SUES physical control of the
EX-HUSBAND
"Op
Was
unfrocked
Hong Kong." The statement continued: de-
February 23 last, judgment was adjournment of his case already delivered by the Chief Justice of twice adjourned-without fixing Hong Kong, but it merely decided any date for further hearings. that the aircraft, being in the The former prelate, one-time the Vatican's secret keeper of employees
the traced by from archives, who now accepted orders the Central
Italian People's
two years ago after police Government,
en he had escaped from arrest in were in de facto control and pos- the Vatican.
that session of
Government, and -In addition to charges of em- that the
therefore it would violation of the immunity
abezzlement, Cippico was accused of stealing jewellery and of for- foreign sovereign governament cation which had been made, that court hearing last year that he He frankly told a previous the alreraft should be delivered
made ja profit out of dealing in a receiver appointed by the foreign currencies. To
bea of a
Osaka, March 16. Japan's cotton yarn production [in February hit the post-war Hollywood, March 15,
record of 36,339,087 pounds, an
Ingrid Bergman asked Increase of 5,271,182 pounds over January, the Japan Spinning Superior Court today for us for the court to grant the appli-sele
wie
tody of her 12-year-old daugh- Manufacturers Ass
Association
ter and sued her former hus- nounced yesterday.
band, Dr. Peter Lindstrom, for US$154,000 in cash and a divi-Court. sion of property.
for
Cotton cloth production February totalled 58,824,530 square yards, an increase of 9,- 920,935 square yards over Jan- uary.
Press comment
The Chinese Press
says that trade circles in Hong Kong at- tribute the present slowdown of trade with China to the Peking Government's policy of, direct trading with foreign countries. China's trade with Soviet Russia and her satellites is being dona
The Increases were attributed on a barter basis. China exports to improved inflow of raw cotten soya beans, beancake, tung oil, during January. bristles, and
tea to
them, and The Association also revealed San Francisco, March 15.
Imports melais, machinery and that the number of spindles in- Russian professor's and ex-industrial chemicals.
stalled and operable in February perts are teaching in the Chi The U.S. Commerce Department totalled-3,787,184-and-3,709,208,
Increasing exports of respectively-Reuter. mese.Communists' new univer- reports
Chinese bristics from Russia. sity in Feking,
which are thus gaining dollars that should have gone to China. They reached a monthly average of more than half a million U.S. dollars in the first six weeks of
This was disclosed today by Peking Radio in a broadcast heard by the Associated Press in San Francisco.
The broadcast said. lectures be- the New un Monday in Chinese People's University. En- rolment was 1,000 students.
gan
The
The radio explained the pre- sence of the Russians by saying.
close combination of learning and practice and the study of the experiences of the Soviet Union are the guiding principles of this university of a now type."
POLAND LEAVES WORLD BANK
Washington, March 15. Poland has withdrawn from The curriculum is heavy in the World Bank and from the Marxisro and Leninism, econo-International Monetary Fund. mics and technical courses. There also is a two-year course in the Russlan language. Associater
Press,
RUSSIAN ENVOY IN PAKISTAN
Peshawar, March 15. M. Alexander G. Stetsenko, the first Russian Ambassador to Pakistan, arrived in Peshawar tonight accompanied by his wife .and 17 members of his staff.
He had travelled from Russia via Afghanistan. He and his party will leave, by train for Karachi tomorrow evening-Reuter.
The Polish Ambassador in Wa- Winlewicz, shington, M. Josef formally notified both organisa- tions of Poland's withdrawal yes- terday afternoon,
It is the first resignation from the Bank since it was formed in 1945.
The Bank was set up after the war to finance reconstruction in war-damaged countries and ald development in backward areas.
Its sister organisation, the Fund, was established at the same time to promote the growth of international trade,
Czechoslovakia is now the only member of the Bank and Fund among the Communist Eastern European countries-Reuter.
MANILA ELECTRIC FINANCING
The Swedish actress, whose romance with the Italian film director Roberto Rossellini caused United States Senator to de- nounce her on the floor of the Senate
ate yesterday, also demanded and an accounting of all cash personal an
and cal property, which she said was in the custody-of
Dr. Lindstrom and 10 other un- identified defendants.
The suit filed by the actress' Hollywood attorney, Greg Bout zer,named Dr. Lind from the Bank of America, five John Does Washington, March 18. and five Richard Roes us defen- The Securities and Exchange dants. The actress said the $154,- Commission today approved a 000 was the salary RKO Studios new financing plan of the Manila paid her for acting in "Strombol" Electric Company of Manila. the film she made for Rossellini, Under the proposal, the Philip- the father of her child born re- pine utility will transfer 480,100.cently in Rome.
She asked that she be declared shares of new 20-peso par com-
mon stock to Associated Electric sole owner of an interest in the Company of New York for 97,220 filin to which, she said, Dr. Lind- shares of now outstanding 100-stron claimed part title. The suit peso par common,
requested that she be given tilld The transaction will all part of to a list of personal property that refinancing plans of Manila Elec-was attached to the sult and that tric designed to provide new the defendants be restrained from; funds to finance construction. -- | disposing of this real or personal Associated Press.
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