Tank support in Korea
An American medium tank blaste at enemy positions. In South Korean hills as a sol. dier, arauched in the weeds in foreground, observes hits. (AP Photo).
Parents to see film of the "jungle girl"
Singaporo, August 22.
A 13-year-old Dutch girl, for whose custody her parents in Holland waged on unsuccessful fight in the Singapore, High Court recently, will soon appear before her parents-though not in flesh and blood.
A 600-foot colour film showing the story of Mario Hubertinah Hertogh- the "Jungle girl"--and her husband, Che Mansoor Adahi, will be on its way to Holland and Europe shortly. The film was taken by John Thiesser Jr. of the American magazine, Life.
GREEK CABINET SWORN IN
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from showing any discrimination to colour or creed.
He said. "In Malaya we live in cosmopolitan State where yellow marries black, and white marries black."
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5. 1536
French & Portuguese
possessions in India Make a “Splash"
prove tough problem
London, August: 22.
Franch and Portugues possessions which the Indian Prime Minister Mr. Nehru, has called "foreign pimples on the map of India”, are prov- ing more difficult, to remove than the Indian Government anticipated when they attained independence in August 1947.
The three Governments in New Delhi, Paris and, Lisbon still have different .ideas about the status of these foreign possessions in the Indian.
peninsula.
. Indians still regard them as essentially Indian and nuld the view that their transfer to Indium sovereignty should follow logically upon the de parture from Indla of the Bri tish Etaj and the emergence of
SWEDEN STILL A NEUTRAL
Stockholm, August 20.. Despite its support of the United Nations action in Keren, the Swedish Government has not abandoned its policy of neutrality and freedom from alliances, the Foreign Minister, Mr. Cesten Unden, said today, In a speech at Linkgeply. Mr. Unden reaffirmed the Govern- nent's stand that freedom from alliance in peacetime and striat neutrality in wartime
was the basic policy, which, however, might be subject to reservationa use to Sweden's membership in the United Nations.
"The war in Korea concern the whole world. The aggression, is directed not only against South Koren, but against the whole palley conducted by the Unlied Nations in the Korean question.
"The
attack is an effort to overthrew by force the provi- sional solution of the, Korean question laboriously reached by the UN Assembly," Mr. Unten
said.
India as an independent Re- public.
The French and Portuguese, however, do not hold with this
idea and have inalaled that the merging of their possessions with the Inlah Unlon can be carried out only with the,consent of the populations concerned, subject to picbescites. New Delhi apparent- ly regards the plebeseltes or re- ferendums and any subsequent froatles merely convenient
legal forms for registering the morging of the French and Por- tuguese possetstons with India.
Mr. Nehru admitted as much when he declared last August that if the referendum to be r Tanged in French India were to against the merger, some other salution of the have to be found..
problem would
200
1948, agreed in principle to allow
The French Government in June the people in the five tiny French settlements aggregating square miles with a population of 323,205, to decide their own fate. They took their time over making that they insisted under French law should be a strictly French referendum.
Important areas
of union
One plobescite was held among the 38,000 inhabitanta of Chan dernagore which is a tiny suburb of Calcutta. The vote went over whelmingly in favour with India, but nothing very definite has yet been arranged.
Pichescites as the other terri- tories have frequently been ar ranged, but were then delayed or deferred under various pretexts.
never
Chandernagore was consider. ad of Sittle economic impor. Sweden gave its moral support tance to the French, and the
UN efforts
plebescite to stop the
there was to the aggressor and as material support taken seriously. But it in a offered a field hospital which is
different matter with Pondi- now being organised as quickly charry, “Mate. Kirikal and 28 possible, he added.
Yanaon, which represent considerable acoumulation French vested interests. The. Portuguese Government regards Gao, with its 1.537 square miles of territory and its popula
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Thiesser said, "I want to clear up this idea that a spreading in Holland and Eu. rope that this marriage had been forced on Maria by her foster-mother. Che. Aminah,
The de Hertoghs, however, and other Interested parties.
have renewed their efforts to re- I want to tell them the real
cover the child from the custody
ས] the terrible misfortung story of the family here. 1 of Che Aminah, who has been should occur that the Korean war want them to listen to Mr. nursing Maria for the past eight develops into war between the Athens, August 21. Mansoor's voice and
Delamore, know years, Shearn and
a big powers, Sweden's polley will all-Liberal Greek that here is a quiet cultured well known legal firm, has served be that of armed neutrality," the Cabinet led by M. Sophocles man who knows what he notice on Che Aminah on behalf Foreign Minister satd-Association of 624,117, in quite a diffe- Venizelos
in by wants."
of Marin's parent that she handed Press, King Paul tonight.
over the girl to the possession of The Liberal Ministers sworn in
Merio's recent marriage to 22. tonight form a skeleton govern-year-old Mansoor, a Malay school sant which, M. Venizelos an-teacher, has come under
much cunced earlier, he would try to criticism by a section of the local broaden into a coalition on the
Press. In Singapore the law la icturn of the Sochl Democrat
that in Christian marriages the leader, M. Georges Papantheon,
minimum age for a girl is 14 and from the United States, probably the Muslim law is the same.
new,
tomorrow.
was sworn
M. Venizelos sold that he had already secured the support of the Populists.
חנן
In
the Dutch Consul-General "failing which legal proceedings will be taken against her."
Parents attacked
BETTY SEES TWO OF HER QUADS
Sydney, August 21.
A letter in the "Mon-in-the- Street" column of the "Straits British-born Mrs. Betty Saro Times", signed by one A. Corvia- saw two of her quadruplets to Romanski. altackert Maria's an editorial, entitled "A Wed-parents for their uncompromising day for the first time, when
The influential "Straits Times".
M. Venizelos, having secured ding" sald, "It cannot possibly be the support of the Populists, the right to let n Dutch child of 14 Unionista and about four Inde make such a fateful cholec her- pendents, could count
itself.
At the least, she should majority of-136-seats-in-the-Par-have-been-allowed to wait until Hument of 250.
she is more mature in mentality Parliament, originally due to ut personality before making reassemble in October, will be such a decision," recalled carty next Imonth to give its verdict on the new Cabinet in confidence vote.
The skeleton Cabinet sworn in tonight consisted of seven Min- isters with M. Venizelos Prime Minister und Minister of Foreign Affairs as well as of Defence and Interior.-Reuter. ·
Russia asked to account for prisoners
Lake Success.. August 21. The United States challeng- ed Russia today to tell the United Nations General As sembly what the Kremlin has done with 1,800,000 Germon and. Japanese war prisoners.
The paper sale, "If her parents can prove that she is under 14, a very serious situation will arise."
Thiesser hopes to show the flm to Hudiences in the Continent and America.
“Inconsiderate and inhuman"
He said, "These photographs and the story I will write are for Life but the Alm and record- Ings are my own collection."
Maria, dressed in silk flowered baju and dark blue sarong, re- corded her speech for the nim in Malay.
to
Addressing her parents AS "Mr. and Mrs. Hertogh, Marla
their, nattempte termod koparate her from her Malay foster-mothar "inconsiderate and inhuman."
"I am ashamed to know of the
Supported by Britain and grud things you are trying to do. Australia, the United States For three months 1. have bathed placed on the provisional ngenda in tears in the Social Welfare of the Assembly session, which Home because you and the Dutch opena at Flushing Meadows on Cohsul tried to separate me from September 19, the following item: Che Aminah," Maria said.
Failure of the USSR to repatriate or otherwise account for prisoners of war datained in Soviet ter- rilory!
The tri-power action. Inter preted as indication of the new gloves off" attitude of the Western powers toward Russia, came as the United Nations Security Council members were meeting privately at 3 pm. to seck ogalń a way out of tho, pro cedural knot in which the Soviet Union has snarled the 11-nation Rroup since August 1-Unlled Press.
AIR SURVEY OF QUAKE REGION
Gauhati, August 21. Assam Government officials to Jay began, a four-day, aerial aur- vey of the Brahmaputra valloy region of Upper Burma, which was devastated by violent earth tremors, last Tuonday,
Cha Mansoor, I am happy with "I am happy with my husband, the family I love and therefore do not disturb me."
Husband's ap
appoal
Her husband in his recorded felland and the West to retrpla speech appealed to the people of
CHILD STAR HIT BY BOOMERANG
wag Melbourne, August 212 Smashed in the face by a boomarang, Niéky Yordley, aged 11, : Australia's – favourite, child plesile surgy "now" movie actor,, la recovering from
Nicky: guined fante in Bush Christmas" grid, han since appeared in Muraka Stockades and "Dilter/Springst The But'a nose was crushed by the toe boomerangi://12 fäexerily thrown by a playmato, after the børs, round the; Atwriginal rend- Cake,waves.ck con- in-bilailand i nene v Abair
Əlacinia United Fresse
KAn Indian Air Force Dakota Will 1f particularly ever the dipengar tax dieisigh, which had
"which "overlooks attitude Maria's own happiness."
The letter said, "It is easy to surmise that forceful deportation from-Mulaya-would-wreck her personality, which has already been exposed to severo strains, und result in on unerasable psy. chic traumu."
nurse took them from their oxygen tent inte her ward for a few minutes.
Her
Mrs. Sara sat up in bed and smiled radiantly when the nurse handed the bables to her. condition improved still further tonight and all four babies Alison, Phillip, Judith and Mark -continue to make good pro-
gross.
Doctors at Bellingen Hospital are still taking every precaution to safeguard the Quads. They are extremely hopeful of wir
survival.
Mario and her husband are getting numerous attractive offers from foreign lm-producing com- panics for their photographs and life story but they refuse to accept then.
offer Rejeeling an
of £2,000 Presents and gifts of money from foreign Alm-producing continue to pour into Bellingen concern, Mansoor said he had no from people acutely conscious of intention of making money out of the cost of living problem now with Muria, He facing Betty and her ambulance turned down the offer on "social attendant husband, who already
Associated Press.
his marriage
rent light. Many observers be- Hove that if a plebeselic were held there, Fortugal would win it.
Salazar's
stand
The Christian Goons differ from other Indian communities in that they have adopted the Cutho- lle religion and an almost West- mosphere of Gen is Eurasian. ern way of life. The whole at-
and
RAILWAY
STRIKE THREAT
Washington, August 21. Railway guards walked out In three key centres today as the first step in a threatened nationwide train strike.
President Truman called on his Labour Adviser, Mr. John R. teelman, to get representatives of the management and the unions together in a bid to reach an agreement.
The countrywide dispute con- cerns wages and hours. Today's strikes were called for five days. The turds said that the Itlen was to call attention to the fact that the dispute had dragged on for almost a year and a half without ⚫ decisión.
In Louiseville, Kentucky, 260 switchmen on the Kentucky and Indiana terminal rafteoad left their jobs. All of the line's 200 employees were rendered Idle, a union oficial describing the walkout as 100 per cent effective,
In St. Paul, 175 employees of the Minnesota Transfer Railway Company failed to report for the Carly shift.
In Cleveland, Ohio, the river terminal rallway owned by Re public Steel Corporation closed down when 200 then went on strike. Employing about 400 workers, the line serves the Re public Steel's big steel plants. The steel company has Infd off 1,300 of its 7,000 workers.
Guards and ticket collectors Baking for a 40-hour webk without loss in the present、 48- hour
pay for those in yard nervice, have insisted that the
President should take over the nation's major lines.
The strike is due to sprend tomorrow to two short-line.rail- ways handling coat and atcel Reuter.
INDONESIA'S NEW PREMIER
Jakarta, August 21.. The President of Indonesia, Dr. 1. R. Soekarno, tonight called on Dr. Mohamed Natzir, the leader of the Masjumi (Re- publican Moslem) Party, to form-Indonesia's-first-Parlia- mentary Cabinet.
The Portuguese Prime Minis- ter, Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, has refuted Mr. Nehru's "Mother India" theory by a reference to the Inclian Congress Party's agreement to the partition of the Indian continent into India Pakistan. He said that if India could reconcile fiself to the for-
Dr. Natzir is a close associate mation of the separate state of then it most certainly could not Mohnined Halia, Prune Minister Pakistan within its boundaries, af President Sockarno. Dr. object to the continued presence ond interim Foreign Minister in of territory which has bean Por- tuguese since the 10th century.
the outgoing Government, and Dr. Salazar made it plain that first Prime Minister.
Dr. Sulan Bjahrir, Indonesia's Portugal will never negotinto the transfer of any part of the Por-proclaimed a Unitarian State of
Last Tuesday,
Dr.
Sockarno tuguese patrimony. He is averse Republican Indonesia to replace to a plebescite and considers GOR a 16-unit Federation. to be legally and morally an im- mutable part of Portugal. He sald that if India absorbs Gon it will have to be by naked aggression, and the Goans have been nervous bad two years ago.United Press.
and religious grounds."-United | have ៦ four-year-old son ever since India seized Hydera-
Press.
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