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Spanish Monarchy Opposed
Mexico City, Feb. 20.
The Spanish Socialist leader, Senor Indalecio Prelto, opposed restoration of the monarchy which, he predicted to-day. would result in fresh struggles i in a nation not yet fully re- covered from a bitter civil war.
- Preto urged instead that the Spanish people be allowed to choose their own regime by a plebiscite, but added that International pressure
will have to determine the fall of Franco. He said that however great
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1947.
NORWAY WILL
WILL ENTER ANTARCTIC RACE
Government To Support Expedition
Oslo, Feb. 20.
Norway will enter the race to the Antarctic with a sizable expcdi- tion during the 1947-48 season— a preliminary to the great combined expedition projected for the following season by Britain, 'Sweden and Norway.
on May 1, 1931. She clalined her deposits Antarctie mainland areas in 1938.
The reported hunt for radio-
mineral detive uranium, thorium and monazite mentioned in connection with other organisations probing the
The proposed expedition will have
the support of the government ns well as the Norwegian Geographical Society and the Norwegian Whalers
Association, which offered to cover
guerite Uny, on its base on the west lic- coast; Port Lockroy, midway tween the two on the west const; Admiralty Bay, below Part Lockroy, Deception Islandi, near Hope Bay, Acceptios Island, if they
and Lourke Island, in the
is the heroism of those inside Spain South Polar wastes this year, the costs of refitting a vessel furnish Orkneya.
inil.
will play no part in the wegians' work.
Norway
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long-established If Franco sees his cause lost he will
claims to much of the Antarctic, and hand over power to the monarchy. for the elementary motives of self-her claims are better founded than defence and long-standing personal conviction-United Press.
ing it throughout the voyage.
YOUNG SCIENTISTS
South
Grabam Land bas never been crossed on foot, although airplanes have often unde
flights extended over its tortuous mountains and gluclers.
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POCKET CARTOON White Paper On India Presented In Commons
Now meet the wife, old
ACQUITTED OF KILLING
HER FATHER
་
Hertford, Feb. 20. On the night of January 25, William White, 46, returned to his Watford home, He was drunk.
London, Feb: 20.
The text of the White Paper on India which Mr Attice read to the House of Commons to-day is as follows:
"It has long been the polley constitution of India should beiset- of succussive British Governed by a Constituent Assembly com- ments to work towards the posed in a manner suggested with of all communities realisation of the self-govern- and Interests in British India and of
representatives ment of India.
"In pursuance of this policy, no increasing measure of responsibility lips been devolved on Indians, and to-day the civil administration and the Indian armed forces rely to a very large extent on Indion elvilians and offeers. In the constitutional feld the Acts of 1910 and 1035 passed by the British Parliament bach represented a substantial trans- fer of political power.
"In 1840 the conlition Government recognised the principle that the
and
I
the Indian states.
"Since the return of the Mission the Interim Goyemment has been set up at the centre, composed of political lenders of the major com- munities exercising wide powers within the existing constitution,
"In all Provinces, the Indian Government's responsible leglolotures are in office..
"It Is with great regret that the Government and that there are still diferences
the Indian among
are preventing the parties which Constituent Assembly from function- Ing it was intended that it should.
No Clear Prospect
Indians should themselves frame new constitution for a fully the autonomous Indin, and in the offer of 1942 they invited them to set up constitutional assembly for this purpose as soon as the war wax over. "The British Government belleve The ship selected is the former
this policy to have been right
"The Goverment desire to hand test. Blood Aroundsen discovered American coast gurd vessel, North ARGENTINE COUNTER-CLAIM
in accordance with sound demoern-over their responsibility to authorl- the South Pole in December. 1911.Star. loaned to the expedition by
British Foreign Office sources
the principles.
Inte Since they came into [lies estabilshed by a constitution Norwegian whalers, always the most the Parliamentary Commission for said, meanwhile, that no change in
office they have dune their utmost approved by all parties in Indio in the Foreign Affaits.
is The ship daring of seamen, penetrated Franco Orders Study
by carry it forward to its fulfiment.accordance with the Cabinet Mis- forbidding, ice-charged seas of the 220 tons and was bought from the contemplated in the British policy of non-recognition of Argentina's
"The declaration of the Prime slon's plan, but unfortunately there Madril, Feb. 20. Antarctic in 1901 and extended thels United States in 1045 for $105,000, counter-claim to the dependency,
He walked deliberately into Minister of March 15 last, which met is at present no clear prospect that until, in tite The Norwegion Government Generalissimo Franco reportedly operations annually
The diplomatic correspondent of the inst war, they originally planned to use it for fish-
the kitchen, selected a knife and with general approval in Parliament such a constitution and such auther- committee of four decade before bas named a
the News-Chronicle yesterday caught an average of 40 percent of Falange Cabinet Ministers to study
cused Argentina of "claim jumping" mounted the stairway to the and the country, made it clear that they will emerge.
His wife, two selves to choose the fat
it was for the Indian people ition-
their future status "The present state of uricertainty the possibility of the restoration of all whales taken from the southern on the North Sea banks.
Work of the expedition will be while Britain's attention was diver-second Alvor. to which the okler sans each year,
He said that daughters and his little son the monarchy
and constitution and
and that in the is fraught with danger and cannot done largely around Peter i Island fed during the war. Party wing is believedly opposed.
Along with the whaling operations and the Ross Sea. Meteorological some cases "our flags and mar-huddled together in the bed-opinion of the Government the time be indefinitely prolonged. It is
kings were blacked out and Argen- The committee consists of the Norwegian airmen quietly surveyed abservations and biological inves-
but tine markings and ages substitut-room. unknown tigations will be empliasised, Perez much of the previously
White following
It was not the first time Ministers:
Riser-Larson eceanographical observations
and ed."
had come home drunk, and .they Gomez
The News-Chronicle (Interior), Jose Antonio | enust.
was foremost of these unheralded studies of the life and propagation dent, Robert Woithom, said: "It is a Jiron (labour), Carlos Reina Syra
knew from experience that he was Fer-explorers.
of whates will be undertaken. (Agriculture) and Raimundu
safe bet it will take rather more likely to be violent. nandez Cuesta (Justice).
White confronted his family with It is planned to take along a num-than Argentina's special stamps and
knife, and, waving slightly, said: to change Aurum now going to sharpen this ber of young scientists to give them new military maps
they valuable field work
missed mind."
Foreign Office and Colonial Office kulfe. I am going to kill Mr Ware during the war years when Norwny
and en I am corning was cecupied by the Germans and spokesmen said that survey works in next door
British-United Graham Land continues on schedule. back to cut the lot of you up." blackaded by the
He turned and started back down The party at Marguerite Bay, where Press,
an American expedition
will soon
the stairs. start work, is engaged in establishing base on the 5,000-feet plateau is- land from which it may be possible to sledge everland to the icebound east coast which cannot be approach-
No signs
of restoration pre int- minent, however, because Franco and Don Juan retain widely divergent policy views despite the frequen: con facts of their representatives.--Untled Pruss
Heavy Losses For Reds Reported
Pelping. Feb. 21.
The Government inmunced tu- day it had dealt Communist armies such a severe blow that the great Peiping-Tientsin-Paoting triangle of North China is secure for some time to come.
The Chinese press carried Govern- ment reports that the Communists suffered crippling lowes in weeks of fighting, including loss of 12,800 men in a 24-hour battle around Yaotsungcheng, 20 miles north Paoting.
of
The Communists announced that the Government had ordereit all Yenan representatives to leave and they were preparing to withdraw personnel from the United Nations Relief Rehabilitation headquarters herp. It was indicated that supplies would be practically impossible for some parts of North Ching hence- forth. Assuclated Press.
HITLER-LIKED-A- GERMAN KING
to
Nuremberg, Feb. 21. Franz von Papen said in an Inter- view to-day that he proposed Hitler in 1934 that Prince Louis Ferdinand, grandson. of the exiled Kalser, be made King of Germany, and Hither seemed "gatisfied with the idea."
Von Papen is awaiting verdict from the German de-Nazifzation Court, which is expected to give him 10 years' hard labour.-Asso- clated Press.
a
MOSQUITOES IN CAR TYRES
Chicago, Feb. 20.
The American Medical Association
Commander
NORWAY'S CLAIMS
Norway cinima two Islands, Bouvet
outlying at 3 deg. 24 cast longitude, and 54 deg.
26 south latitude, and Peter 1 at 90 de 39 west longitude and 68 deg. 50 south institunde,
.
BRITISH SURVEY On the muinlànd, Norway claims o ple-shaped wedge with its apex at
London, Feb. 20. the Pale, lying between the Falkland, island dependency clained by Bri-} British survey parties on Antorc fain and Argenting, at 20 deg. west tien's Graham Land, employing time longitude extending eastward to 45 honoured polar means of locommotioned from the sea. deg. east longitude where the Aus---dogs and aledges-to-day are trying tralian claim begins.
le complete two firsts before winter night descends-crossing the base of Graham Land and making the first land journey of its length.
Thus the Norwegion clain begins at Coats Land, on the Weddell Sea, and includes Crown Princess Martha Land, Queen Maud Land, Princess Astrid Land,. I'rincess Ragnhild
Britain now has seven.parties total. Land. Prince Harald Land and partling 30 men working on its Falldand lalands dependency survey. They are Norway claimed Bouvet Island on stationed at Hope Bay, on the nor January 23, 1928 and Peter 1 Islandthern tip of Graham Land,
of Crown Prince Olav Land,
This is a whale of
a fishing story
correspon-
Elsie Dorothy White, 19, looked frantically about. At the head of the stairway was an aspidistra.
Father Killed
She picked up the plant, pot and all, and threw it with all her might, It hit her father on the head and killed him.
POLITICAL RIVALRIES Speaking of Britain's workbut in this area, the Times editorlaily coin- The story of White and the as. ment:d: "It would be misfortune pidistra was told by the prosecutor, If the tradition of friendly inter Mr Gerald Howard, to-day at the national co-operation in Antarctica trint of Elsie White for manslaughter. were broken by the intrusion of Practically taking the role of the political rivalries."
defence, Mr Howard told the Court: British
us that those Antarctic | "It seemed to us
Inets are stations
maintained a
defence to any charge of
sald be would
sourcing Mar-throughout the coming winter,
Burlington, Wisconsin, Feb. 20. Once a year a group of Americans gather to tell They are stories and to see who can tell the biggest lie. members of the Liars' Club, and good laughs are their chief objectives.
This year they met here and heard Atanazio Garza, of San Antonio, Texas, tell how he had gone fishing, hooked a fish and fought him for 45 minutes. The fish fought so hard, he said, that "when I got him into the boat he was sweating." He got first prize.
.
winter, because not only was
this young woman justified on Bie
A great cleat of geological, this
lato
con-
in
to
hat come for responsibility for the therefore, essential that all parties
should sink their differences vernment of India to pass 1 order that they
may be ready hands. The Cabinet Mission,
responsibilities which was sent to India last year, shoulder the great
which will come before them next spent ever three months in
year. After months of hard work by sultation with Indian leaders in the Cabinet Mission, a great measure dey to help them agree upon the of agreement was obtained as to the method for determining the future method by which the constitution that the should be worked mit. This, was constitution of India su transfer of power might be smooth-embodied in their statements of May ly and rapidly effected.
Missions Proposals
I was only, when it seemed clear that without some initiative from the Cabinet Mission agreement was un- likely to be readied that they put forward proposals themselves.
"These proposals, made public in May last, envisaged that the future
Hongkong Police
Reserve
meteorological, zoological and ground that she was apprehensive for Order No. 1 of 1947 by mineralogical work has been done by her own safety and the safety of the Mr D. W. Macintosh,
survey parties which have worked rest of the family, but she had
attack on, and perhaps murder, Me Ware."
Police
DRILL PARADES
in the Antarctic almost without reasonable ground for believing that C.B.E. Commissioner of interruption since about 1930. Her father was going to make an The work is part of a long-term programine for the detalled study of th: Falkland Islands Dependency, which includes Graham Land, the Falkland Islands, South Shetlands and South Orkneys-United Presa.
APPROACH OF WINTER Aboard USS Mount Olympus,
Feb. 20. Dispatches from Little America
Mr Howard asked that the charge be dismissed. Mr Justice Byrne agreed and Instructed the jury to res turn a verdict of not guilty-United Press.
Foot and Mouth Disease Outbreak
London, Feb. 20. The annual sale of Aberdeen An-
to-day reported the skies had steared but the expedition planes still were undergoing mechanical revision be- Playing on the housing shortage, another good one was gun when bad conditions Interrupted told by John J. Conville of Cambridge, Massachusetts, who
fights. wondered why he had been unable to lease three-new,Te-newly-erected - Little America foot-and-mouth-disease-and-the-473-
modern seven-room houses he had for $12 month each. He added his failure might have resulted from the fact that he also offered free to each tenant heat, electricity and use of an automobile.-Associated Press.
Japanese Labour To Take
Active Part In Politics
Tokyo, Feb. 20.
Japan's two leading labour organisations--the National Congress of Industrial Organisations, with a claimed membership of 1,700,000 workers, and the Japan National Federation of Labour, with a membership of 1,000,000 workers will for the first time take an active part in a political campaign in the forthcoming elections in the latter part of April in order to push through Inbour's demands for improved treatment, the Mainichi reported to-day.
The paper said both organi- support labour's platform. At the Journal reported to-day that sanitary,sations plan to raily support for same time, the organisations will not stint in providing campaign funds inspectors in Los Angeles, examining
a "joint democratic front" in a for such candidates. freighter arriving from
National The Mainichi sald the fever-carrying fight against so-called conserva- Guinen, discovered
minwater tive political parties which the Congress of Industrial Organisations masques breeding f 9,000 army. tyres.
present Yoshida Cabinet repre- will not insist on the party amila- tions of such supported candidates The Journal said mosquitoes of
sents.
providing they do not run on Liberal type carrying dengue fever and flla- riasis were found in eight of 11
or Progressive Party tickets. shipments of tyres.-United Press.
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The organisations plan to support only those candidates who agree to
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The Japan Federation of Labour, however, will insist on supporting only those candidates running on the Social Democratic Party ticket.
ilves.
us cattle at Reading to-day was
cancelled because of an outbreak of
radio station has succeeded in estab- Jentile which arrived inust be quaran-
ishing direct radio communication tined for a fortnight. with Washington for emergency use The Agriculture Ministry annota- if it is necessary to leave a rescue ved a foot and mouth outbreak among party at the South Pole for the win-pigs ut. Meanwood, Leeds-United ter in the event any ale crows are Proudl lost in the next few days of final survey flights.
A drop in the temperature to 9 degrees below zero warued of the swift approach of the Antarctic win- ter, which is likely to wind up the expedition's work within 10 days. United Press.
WHAT_ATTLEE SAID
(Continued from Page 1)
Lord Templewood tabled a motion for the Opposition, condemning the Government's Indian policy. It amounted to a motion of censure and will be debated in the Lords on Tues- day.
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Jasl.
transfer
of
of
"Although the final authority may not take place until June, 1048, preparatory mensures must be put in hand in advance. Is important that the emciency
the civil administration should be maintained and that the defence of India should be fully provided_for. But inevitably, as the process of the transfer proceeds, I will become progressively more diflcult to carry out to the letter all the provisions of the Government of India Act (1935). Legislation WBI le introduced In due course to give effect to the Anal transfer of power.
Well-Being Of India
"The British Government cannot conclude this statement without ex-
pressing, on behalf of the people or wishes towards the people of India,
this country, their goodwill and good -
they no forward to this final
stage in their achievement of self- government,
"It will be the wish of everyone In these islands that notwithstanding the constitutional changes, the asso-
All ranks of Nos. 1 and 2 Com-ciation of the British and Indian panies will attend Murray Parade peoples should not be brought to an Ground on Monday, Tuesday, Thurs end-and they will wish to continue 'day,, and Friday, February 24, 25, to do all that is in their power to 27. and 28. at 5:30 pm. for Drill further the well being of India."—
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MEETING
All N.C.Os from Lance Sergeants upwards will attend Police Reserve Office, Prince's Building. 1st floor, "Ruone No: 122 on Saturday, February 22. at 10.30 a.m. for a inceting. Dress-Mufti.
Sąd. T. O. TS'O, Senior Superintendent of Police, (Reserve).
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Atemalt:
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ARGENTINE EXPEDITION
Buenos Aires, Feb. 20. Commander Luis Garcia, leader of "It said the Government's decision the Argentine Navy's Anturetle ex- to turn over power to the Indians pedition, reported by rullo to-day without any provision for the pro- that leading parties from the trans-tection of minorities or the discharge port Patagonia are engaged in ex-of other obligations was likely to im-Beamall: tensive survey for mineral deposits peril the In Graham Land, just off the An- Indin. Larelle continent,
A plane launched from the trans- port took advantage of the cltar weather to engage in a photo survey of Graham Land.-Unied Press.
perce and prosperity of
The Opposition will decide on Tuesday whether to force a division. II a division is called, the Conserva- tive majority is likely to defeat the Government-United Press,
CHINA COTTON REQUEST TO UNRRA SUPPORTED
Washington, Feb. 20.
It was reliably learned to-day that top UNRRA officials solidly favour China's request for $49,000,000 worth of cotton to be made into cloth for sale in the open market to bolster the nation's economy.
and it
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Macao, Tulshan, Shekki, 3 ̧pm. Manila, 3 pta.
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The Mainichl predicted that the labour organizations named will concentrate their efforts on electing candidates to the nation's highest-
Sourees close to the organisa- į Koo sold the. Chilnese farmers, legislative body, the Dlet, which is
Wike farmers everywhert, are composed of the House of Coun- tion said the Director-General, elllors and the House of Representa Maj-Gen Lowell W. Rooka, made can exchange their products for. chiefly interested in what they a strong argument for diversion He said the present big need The paper predicted that Katsumi Kikunami, chairman of NCIO, wil of $49.000,000 worth of United clothing
they can get It cheaply they will sell food cheaply. of States funds to a cotton pro- which will be a great help to China be a candidate for the House Councillors, and added that chair-gramme at a meeting of the since it men of other large labour unions, nine-nation Central Committee.
largely agricultural such as the All-Japan Coalminers' Union,
the All-Japan Electrical Workers' Unton and the All-Japan It was also reliably learned that into other relief supplies. Rooks Communications Workers'
Union, Rooks telegraphed the China Office said Chinese suggested that 10 per-
Is Shanghal, and will ask the Cen- cent of cloth go directly and gratis and and from 12.30 12 145, 0.30 107.30 tral Committco to take Cnal action to the poor and five percent of raw and to 11 p.m. when he receives a reply from there, cotton given away for pudding. || II.K.T. which is hoped for early next week. While UNRRA goods have been cold.30 Film Memories: 7 London Relay: both in China and other countries
will run Presa.
for Diet seats-United
VOLCANO ERUPTS
London, Feb. 20.
·It is understood that proceeds from the sales of goods will be put back
Authorilles
It is understood that Rooks car-with receipts going back into the The volcano on Mount Mayon in ried the burden of China's case, al- general fund, the danger in China is Luzon, in the Philipples which has though Ambassador Wellington Koo that favoured merchants may corner river sins of unrest in the part made an eloquent plea for the cotton goods and then raise the price for month, burnt into fe again to-day, programme as "practical any pay above that at which UNRILA Bold the New York radio reported, Tons||chological help in the present altua them wholesale. of smouldering laya aro pouring downtion."
China said this is the reason for the Pedder Building. Its slopes towards the town of Libog.
charge that the Chinese are re- 23676 G. 23738......; √ Rumbles of eruption can be heard ns It is understood that $10,000,000 questing more anteable goods
far away as Manila, 200 miles to the of the unspeat funds were originally "black market" operations.—United Enorthwest--Noster."
Intended for medical supplies. Press.
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