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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1934.
MAJOR CLASH ON
EXPECTED
French Ministers Want Debate
To Begin Earlier
Paris, Mar. 25.
A major clash is expected within a fortnight in the French Cabinet over the ratification of the European Army Treaty (EDC).
are
Senior Ministers, who support EDC, planning to press the Government to propose to Parliament before Easter a date for the start of the long-delayed ratification debate, political quar- ters said in Paris tonight.
These Ministers include Maderate Conservative Paul Reynaud and M. Pierre Henri Teitgen, a Popular Republican, who are hath Deputy Premiers.
WAY
9 Witnesses Say
But the Gaullist Ministers have threatened to realgu the Government lakes precipitate action over rutilien- im before France's prerequisite conditions settlement of the | 44X7 Suar problem and the Anglo- American Ruarantees have been fulfillal.
Political quarters here did not rule out the possible cul- Impse of Prime Minister Joseph Daniel's Government over the Issue.
pro-Europeau Army
|
"We Did Have
The
Ashes Of
The Right Man"
Singapore, Mar, 25.
over
wing of the French Cabinet Nine witnesses toki the Singa- areks the Government should pore city coroner today that the face the situation squurely und ashes distriated by air propose to Parliament to start the River Ganges in accordance ratification debate in miki-May, whh Hindu rites had been cor- informed quarters said,
rectly identified by them as General Charles De Gaulle, one those of Hindu millionaire
of France's Bercest opponents of banker Mr Chitambaram Chet- the European army, announced | tiar, axt not those of the today he would hold a press milliomice shipowner, Mr Ene
conférence un April 7,
He was expected to launch unstirer violent utluck against The six-nativa project.
SOCIALIST DEFENDS
Former Minister
came
in
Prue seday EDC
Socialist Felix Govin out in defence of the National Assembly's Foreign Affairs Committee,
Rejection of EDC might lead un reversal of France's foreig" policy, he said.
down. com-
EDC Was turned the North Atlantic Paet tries will propose German entry into NATO.
Is conceiv "But no majority able on this point in the French Parliament," M. Gouin surd.
He was replying to his fellow member, ex-Defence Minister M. Jules Moch, who is an out- spoken opponent of EDC.
Such two-fold
fusal,
M. Gouin Polate France
and
isolationisin
Moller, as is now claimed by the Singapore Police.
Both were victims of the Singapore crush of BOAC Constellation airliner on March
21
ON EDC
New York Report Says
Mao
Expelled South
African MP
Tse-tung In Power
Back
Jap Trade
With China
"No Solution”
Mir
Sam
Kahn, unseated Communist member of the South African Parliament piclured with his three-year- ald son, Barry, at Southamp- ton, after their arrival from South Africa the liner "Bloemfontein
Mr Castle". Kahn was expelled from the South African Blouse of Assembly In 1952 under the suppression
Communism African The
South Government's Department of the Interior refused passporia and his wife for Mr Kahn and child, so the family have travelled to Britain with sworn affidavits to prove that they are South African cluzens. - Express Photo.
13.
The
Police stated that Mr Moller WUN Είναι
Hindu Says MacMahon Ball act In mistake for Mr cremation Chettiar, who was buried in a
New York, Mar. 25. Christian cemetery.
A body
The Professor of Political now lying in the by Mr Moller's relatives and the versity, Mr W. MacMahon Singapore mortuary is alleged Science at Melbourne Uni- Singapore Police to be that of all.
questioned today Mr Chettiar.
Japanese Today Indian and Ceylonese Whether witnesses Said that they
Communist were with absolutely satished
that
The would solve Japan's econo-: Hindu cremation mic problems. body given a ti eeremonial honours been the right one and in tact Writing in the liberal weekly, had lol in state at the Gandhi "The Nation," he said that in- Memorial Hall and teen
reused trade with Red China
hari
scen
trade China
some three would be "of great hinportance" nad accepted by hundred people.
doubted that it to Jupon, but Doubts arose after relatives would be the economie pauncea of Mr Moller's questioned the that some influential leftists in Identification and demanded an Japan have pictured. exhumation which convinced "It seems to me to be still Police officials that they were uncertain whether Communist
French re- saith, would strengthen the United be of States which would deadly consequence for Europe.
Another Socialist supporter of right.
M. Jenn Le Brail, told the EDC.
duerd committee if Germany was unt
-armed and the United States Presse. found itself unlike to defend Europe,
the Americans might
be obliged. In case of war, to destroy Europe's economic power to prevent it from falling into Soviet hands.
LANIEL'S VIEW
to
More evidence
tomorrow.
to
of
More East-West!
Agricultural Trade Urged
Geneva, Mar. 25. China
would be prepared
A resolution stressing Is to be pro-
with Japan to the extent trade
for increasing France- that would enable Japan to be- the need
come an economically and polill-agricultural trade between enlly Independent force in Asia," East and West Europe was
Dutch Sailors
Agree
To Join Ship
he wrote.
Jointly
Mr MacMahon Ball said, "It unanimously adopted today would surely be impetuous and at the last meeting of the unrealistic for the Japanese United Nations Economic Government to fling off the Commission for Europe. American embrace until it hasi a firm and sizable
sponsored by the Soviet Union and Denmark, the M. Laniel has taken the stand
agreement in its pocket unde
He was a British Common-resolution decided that the that the Government would not
wealth member of the Allied Agricultural Committee, which ask Parliament
apen the
Control Commission in Japan In has not met since March, 1950, ratification debate
before
Vancouver, Mar. 25, the France's
early years of the occupa- be convened this year. conditions hud been
The crew-nen of the Dulch tion. He returned to Japan) mel.
freighter Amstelstad agreed to-recently after being absent since The Agriculture Committee Some pro-European army day to man the vessel Ministers are hampered in their return
on its 1947, and wrote the article in was asked to; Journey from bid to seek ratification by the couver to Japan after the ship's
Van Tokyo. current deadlock in the Franco-agents threatened to turn them "I think it is true that Japan German Saar negotiations.
Foreign Minister M. Bidault authorities If they did not
Immigration has neither the will nor the go power to review an aggressive is reported to have told theaboard.
militarism in the near future," Cabinet the negotiations would However, the seamen won a he said. "But the foreign policy surely take a long time.
promise from the vessel's agents, of the more distant future is He went as far as to say that Dingwall Cotts & Co., Ltd, to likely to reflect the domestic the talks might last another improve conditions on the ship changes that take place in the three months before " solution by sert
scrubbing and tidying the meantime. vessel and putting on clean!
was found.
over to the
TWO BILLS
He elted two bills now before as examples of the
1. Examine the short-term in agricultural and food products supply and consumption trends concerning European producers. 2. Facilitate any work carried out within the framework Trade Development Committee. of the
exchange of technical informa- 3. Provide a channel for the ton and experience on agricul-
ture.
both
But Parliamentary quarters blankets, better food and pure the Diet are discussing M. Robert Schu-water.
PRACTICAL SCHEME man's proposal that the National The Dutch seamen, who were the
of the change. One is pattern
Many the government-backed mea-
delegates from Assembly should go ahead with flown from Holland inst week. Euro to a debate without waiting for will replace 19 crew-men who political activities
impose restrictions on Eastern and Western Europa of school emphasised the Importance of Bettlement of the Saar problem. deserted before the ship
According to M. Schuman the
left teachers: the other. also spon-working out a practical pro- Japan. EDC would only enter into force when the Saar issue is solved
Reuter.
Lincolnton, Georgia, Mar, 25. A hound puppy received as a gift sot 13-year-old Robert Matthews up' in business, He raised the ́`· hound, sold her puppies for $18, bought a sew and sold her pigs, bought two calves which he raised and sold, and bought two Herefords.
Ho now owns four Herefords. -United Press,
Against
skin disease and itching
Mitigal
A GENUINE BAYIN:PRODUCE,
DOMANUFACTURED IN
LEVERKUSEM, GERMAN?
regime."
In Communist China
New York, Mar, 25. Communist Ching's supreme leader, 60-year- old Mao Tse-tung, apparently is back at the same old stand.
:
It had been three months since Communist publications or broadcasts reported Mao's attend- ance at a public function, and speculation was rife that he was either seriously ill or dead.
But this week the New China | in Muo's absence, the warn- News Agency said in a Poklog ing seemed especially note- dispatch that Mao, Chairman of worthy. the Central People's Govern- tient, had presided the first meeting of a Committee delegate to write new national con- stitution.
A
Man's prestige in Red China is unquestioned. But his health also is known to be precarious.
He lives in lonely splendour in a new house In the Western Hils scellon of Peking, in the centre of a half-mile circle of protective blockhouses and with The only other recent report an air raid shelter in the back- on Mno bad come on March 16 yard, He goes nowhere with- when it was announced that he out the flanking protection of
*The dispatch took on unusual Lignificance since it was played up in especially large type by Red newspapers.
had reat birthday greetings to | guards.
ness
He is known to suffer from
Kim Du-bong, President of the Standing Committee of North Korea's Supreme People's A4- high blood pressure and also suffers from allments contracted sembly.
arduous Speculation about Moo's "during his long and
fight against Nationalist leader WB3 heightened by
Chiang Kai-stick. rumours that a high-level purge was about to sweep Red China. The latter rumours gained impetus a month ago as a result of a speech by a
man regarded as a possible rival to Muo
21
Mennwhile, during his absence from the pubile eye, many of his functions were taken over by the younger, more energetic Liu. Mao has pushed Red China's land reform programme, which
system
PRECARIOUS HEALTH This man was 48-year-old Lluran head-on into the ancient Shno-chi,
Moscow-trained landlord
and has not "Jack-of-all-trades" who is one been supeesatul, of six Vlee-Chairmen of the Central People's Government.
Llu took over as chief speaker at the Fourth Plenary Congress of the Chinese Communist Party
Llu, on the other hand, is the tough-willed organiser of China's labour groups and a strong sup- porter of industrialisation.
today's Red Chinese in February and waned of leaders, Liu is believed to be traitors even
In the highest the most pro-Russian-United runks of the Party.
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