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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
TRADE PERMITTED AN AUTHOR REPLIES
WITH GERMANY
London, Feb. 25.
The Board of Trade an- nounced yesterday that British firms will be per mitted to trade with Cer- many beginning March 4 through * rovision of Britain's trading with the enemy regulations.
The revision was timed to coincide with similar action by the United. States, the Board said. Associated Press,
.
TIME LIMIT
SOBERING
TO INDIANS
Melbourne, Feb. 24. Mr Richard Casey, former Governor of Bengal, in au article in the Herald said to-day that though the situation in India without doubt contained seeds of civil war, he believed the British decision had not in- creased this risk, adding that a time limit would have sobering effect on the Indians.
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Mr Casey's article, in connection with Britain's decision to hand over power to the Indians, said: "It has been my personal belief, ever since I was in India long enough to have. a point of view, that the sooner we landed over political power in India the better. Our position there has been increasingly intolerable rmy year.
"There is no skubt the siturtion in India contolus reds of civil war, but I do not believe the rezent Bri- Wish decisions increase thris
awful
risk.
"The decision to get out In 15 months is firm and blunt and will clear a lot of bluft and bluster out of the way. I believe a time limit will have a sobering effect on a wide range of Indian politicians, who will be up against reality of personal res- ponsibility for the first time in their Ilven."--United Press.
Adm
d’Argenlieu
Faris, Feb. 24, Admiral Thierry d'Argentieu, French High Commissioner for Indo- China, has arrived by air from Sal- gon to report to the government on the Indo-China situation.
It has been widely rumoured that the government will replace Admiral d'Argenlleu, but aflelal elrcles have declined either to confirm or deny this.--United Press,
CRASHED PLANE CREW RESCUED
New York, Feb. 21. The crew of eleven of a wrecked R-20 were rescued from a Greenland ice cap in a daring flight by an Army C-54, which enrried them safely to Thule, Greenland to-day..
The pilot of the rescue plane landed his plane on the snow beside the wrecked aircraft, which crashed on Friday. Using rockets lo nid his take-off the rescue pilot headed his plane bacle to Thule, 200 miles south of the scene of the crash. Reuter.
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History Of World War II
Indicating that future editions will be revised to cor- rect inaccuracies about the Battle of Hongkong, Dr Fran- cis Trevelyan Miller, author of "History of World War I," has written a long letter acknowledging the "Hong- kong Telegraph" lender on his book, published on Jan- uary 18.
I regret, of course, that your headline charged us with inaccura- cy" while favourably speaking of our work as "monumental. This might be said of many press reports which come to us, 'arid on which we must rely.
In the editorial, the "Telegraph" described "History of World War It" as "monumental, but inaccurate." and pointed to four instances con- cernfig; the defence of Hongkong. They were; Brigadier J. K. Lewsen named as commander of the colony's garrison, and being credited with twice rejecting surrender demands; |
the statements that the siege lasted ¦ valved in recording! # global war 10 days, and that when gund re- malted unmonned because of heavy cusunltles, Americans took over va- cant positions.
TEXT OF LETTER
The text of Dr Miller's letter, which we belleve our readers will
find of Interest, follows:
Your letter arrived and has re- ceived my careful attention. thank you for calling the clipping to my attention and your execlient advice.
The "Hongkong Telegraph" holds high position in our esteem and we value your judgment on world affaire. You are doing a grand Job In China,
NO SECURITY
IN ATOMIC
BOMB ALONE
St. Louis, Missouri, Feb. 24. The Army Chief of Staff, Gen Dwight Eisenhower, addressing a civic group, said to-day that America's or any other nation's security cannot depend on power of atomic bombs alone.
*
He said defence weapony and nation's co-operative spirit Were equally essential.
"I decry loose, and sometimes gloating, talk about the degree of security Implicit in a wenpon that might destroy millions overnight,"
"Those who
Gen Eisenhower said. measure security solely in terms of offensive capacity distort its meaning and mislead those who
pay them heed.
"No modern nation ever equalled, prior to the outbreak of war, the crushing offensive power uttained by the German war machine of 1930. No modern nation has been broken and smashed as was Germany six years later."
CUT IN BUDGET
Gen Eisenhower sold it would be foolhardy for the United States to deercase her milltury strength before an organisation capable of policing the world comes into being.
Without mentioning the current Republican drive in the House of Re- presentatives to cut President Tru- man's proposed budget for the Army and Navy, Gen Eisenhower warned against over-economy which would leave the nation's defence in "military nakedness."
"Time and again we have proved the staggering extravagance of penny, wise policies," Gen Elsenhower said.
-United Press.
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From your own experience you know the tremendous problems in-
while it was in progress, when there were so many conilleting reports in our best press reports and oficial statements,
I wish you would tell your readers that here in Amerien we organised a staff of eminent authorities to mill the evidence. We kept in touch with all nations possible in munication and their embassies in Washington. We appealed to the Chinese Ministry for ald
com-
Most of the time we could not make connections with Chinn, espe cially Hongkong after the Japanese occupation. The Chinese Embassy here could give us but little informa- tion. Radio messages to China were unanswered. A message to General Chiang Kai Shek was unanswered,
DESK MEN'S JOB
This required us to confine our- selves largely to whatever communi- ques reached our War Office und also to depend upon dispatches from our war correspondents, also AP, and London sources with British In- formation Bureau.
On our staff were three members of the staff of our New York Times men on the cable desks who were receiving some 50,000 words a day from the world-wide fronts. Much of this, as you know, was contredie tory in its reports.
The statements which you ques- tlon were given to us by the cable- Fur
min
who was covering the
Enclern fronts and is now "official" man on news to and from Japan and China. His standing a high and his accuracy is dependable insofar as he can judge from a distance. The statements we published were all published in our leading Ameri- can journals.
im-
The accuracy of our authorities is attested by the fact two of our staff have been appointed-to portant missions on fact-finding in ite countries now under reconstrue- tlon. They consider our work "monumental". (as you do the ndverse circumstances.
t
DOUBLE CHECK
under
WILL the war entled and com- munications reopened these serious problems were solved. It is now a simple matter to get direct state-
those which ments (such as have kindly sent us), We are doing everything possible to "check
and double check."
you
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1947.
TO HANG
Col Kennouhe Noma, for- mer chief of the Japanese Gendarmerie in Honghong, was sentenced to death yesterday by the War Crimes Court.
ROME DUEL CALLED OFF
Rome, Feb. 24.
The scheduled Pacciardi- Benedetti duel of honour was called off to-night with a "natis- factory understanding" as an. other potential duellist appeared on the scene.
Randolfo Pacciardi, 48, secre- tary of the Republican Party and veteran of four successful duels, and the Monarchist leader, Tullio Benedetti, 50, settled their impending affair of swords with pens.
Then Giovanni Artieri, author of the article in Benedetti's Monarchist
which called paper
Pacciardi a
"coward" and brought about the first challenge, challenged Patciardi. Picciardi's and Benedetti's seconds agreed that the met to-night and duel between the twe should not be the matter was held. They sald settled "with an
agreement signed by all four representatives".
Erroneous Evaluation
The
said; "The agreement Giornale della Sera editorial which provoked the trouble was based on an erroneous evaluation of Pacciard's speech, which did not put in doubt the gallantry of the army but only that the techinical preparation of the StofT caused the army's
Pacciardi, in an interview with another newspaper last night, sald he had chnicnged Benedetti, owner of the Giornale della Sera, instead article, because the considered the of Artieri, author of the offending latter beneath his dignity.
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argu-
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AUSTRIAN TREATY:
Agreement NotReached On Economic Clauses
London, Feb. 24.
The economic clauses of the Austrian trenty were taken at a gallop at this morning's session of the Special Deputies for Austrin. Proving to be easily the most con- troversial section of the treaty, the articles in question were rapidly disposed of on the basis of almost total dis- agreement, and in this form they will go forward to Moscow.
To-morrow the deputies for Austria hope to hold their last mecting at which they can formally adopt their report for the Council of Foreign Ministers,
As had been expected, two of the most controversial sections proved to be the definition of German assets in Austria and compensation to be paid by Aus- tria for United Nations pro- perty.
British deputy of falling to base his standpoint on the Potsdam ngree- ment and on the criterion followed in the ense of the Finnish Balkan treatles.
Potsdam Agreement
Lord On the question of Ger- man assets, three-formal drafts from Britain, the Soviet Union and the United States, which were tabled to-day, are to be sent to Moscow. There is also a fourth informal French pro- posal.
The critical difference between the British and Soviet standpoints on tits question remains unchanged. Britain wishes to limit the definition of German assets which must be handed over by Austria to the Allies to two categories-property which property before the Anschluss and property voluntarily handed lo German nationals after the Anschluss,
was German
The Soviet proposal still wishes to include as German assets the property seized by German nationals and after the union of Germany Austria and properly developed by German capital and labour in that period.
In the course of a short coveren- tion, M. Fyodor Gusev accused the
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(Continued from Page 1) pubory arbitration would be asked for and if the League challenged pluyera their right to this course, would strike to bring the matter to a testRouter.
EMERGENCY RULING
Glasgow, Feb. 24. In order to meet the Government's request to avoid mid-week football wherever passible, the Scottish Foot-
and the Scottishi ba't Assoclatión Lengte to-day deelded for the first time in the history of Scottish foot- ball to introduce rules ensuring the finality of one game.
All Cup ties until the end of the season will play an extra 20 minutes if the scores bre level after 00 minutes. If the scores are still level, play will continue ten minutes each way until the scoring of a goal ter- minates the match.
SCOTTISH CUP DRAW
The draw for the Scottish Fout-
ball Association Cup fourth round, to be played on March 15:
Dundee v. Aberdeen or Morton. Arbroath v. Hearts or Cowden--
Rangers_or_Hibernians v. Dumbar...
East Fife v. Falkirk or well.-Reuter.
We venture to say, however, that a study and analysis of reports from
The Pacelardi-Benedetti affale al- the Far East during the war would tracted volumineus newspaper space tradictions caused by varying view- show many discrepencies and con-
and great public interest because it involved the most nationalistically points of the tinies China has been controversial subject in Italy-the and still is a point of contention.battle and because the principals.
performance of the Italian soldfer in benth. Contemporary history has the al-symbolised one side in the continu-ton most insurmountable difficulty of
Mounrchist-Republican trying to adjudicate these discrement.-Ualled Fresa. Pencies. However, contemporary history is of utmost importance as records what was being said and being thought at the time the events were taking pl
place. Future his- who can work with free torians, access to all materials, have a com- paratively simple task.
Smugglers Use communique stated that
One-man Sub
Rome, Feb. 24.
We and now that even some of our War Department reports are in conflict with later day material. For instance: General MacArthur's n certain Japanese General in the Philippines had committed suicide. Later it was discovered that the General had been removed to Japan and still later (after the war) he was placed on trial as a war criminal and sen- tenced to death. This is but one of many similar instances.
MANY CONTRADICTIONS
Mother-
Degenerating Influence Of Hollywood Assailed
Washington, Feb. 24.
The "degenerating influence" of radio and the movies, loss of prestige by the churches and failure of the govern- ment in its contributions to cultural progress are endan gering the democratic way of life, Mrs Eugene Meyer said to-day.
Mrs Meyer, a writer on social problems and wife of the owner of the Washington Post, spoke before the 21st Women's Patrio-
The newspaper, 11 Messagero, reported from Como to-day that a one-man submarine had been "captured" at Lugano after. A survey of dispatches from China tic Conference on National De- numerous profitable trips carry- ing smuggled contraband mer chandise. between Italy and Switzerland.
The submarino, six metres long and three metres wide, was reported- ly built at Milan and taken to Por- lezza, on Lake Como, for assembly. It then made nightly voyages on Lake Como, carrying 10 quintals of mer- chandise, each way, including meat,
guards on both shores.
our in
during the Japanese occupation fence. shows many contradictions. Even during recent days the Chinese-
readiness to "Hollywood shows a Communist Issues and news dis-sell the nation's welfare down the patches Bro in conflict and people ascertaining the truth as each group
have great difficulty
river if only it can make money," Mrs Meyer said. "Many of our fim mente. makes its own contradictory state-peddlers. Both take advantage
producers are on a par with dope of humanity's lowest instincts Our
chapter on China paid the highest tribute
making money." to China and the struggle. Chinese people for their heroic While reserving her sharpest barbs
It seems to us that for Hollywood and the radio indus
for
low income groups, a "good taire" of the nation will lose respect for private enterprise.
Communism and Socialism are "on
Mr Meyer said. the march throughout the world.
"The school, the church, publie housing, health services, films and radio must all make new and greater contributions to the preservation of! the family If democracy is to rur vive."-United Press;
OUTWARD MAILS
Unters
otherwki stated,
Regustored
try, lauter tobacco eluding custofns and border dates, etc., while we desire to have neglect,. inadequate health laws, the earllor than the time stated below,
comparison to the principles we women who, she said, nover were them correct, are minor matters in housing shortogo, churches and most establish. The great thing is the war is wont
that more confused, unhappy and in
The newspaper sald the organisers of the anuggling trade were both Italians and Swiss.
It said the submarine was forced to emerge, at the Swiss shore three days ago was seen and taken. Into captivity at Lugano. United Press.
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secure."
Gröator
Armalit
Tuesday, February 25 Salgon, Singapore, Colombo, Bydney, Auckland, London, sum
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Amoy. Shanghai, Nanking, Hankow, Tsingtao, Felping, 3.30 p.m. Seamail:
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Macao. Trinkhan, Shekki, i ́pan,
We must remember also that our greatest historians on long-part wars and events are in conflict over the facta. The Napoleonie Wars have the greater meree to the home Train:
In some respects, she said, radlo is many diverse findings, Even our because it "goes right into own American Revolution is told one home." Radio, however, makes a way in America in our schools and greater effort than the movies to another way in Great Britain
in
the
their schools. Our American Civil "compensate for gangsterism; sex War of 80 years ago is still a battle- and sadistic violence with good ground of facts and figures. Authori
Your letter
music, lectures and plays,”
The officer sald the movement ties here found bundreds of "errors" appeared to have originated in the in H. G. Wells' great "Outline of contribution, she
The movies could make a valuable Autumn of 1945, but there was no
History,"
cald, by treating evidence that it had been based on deeply appreciated. We feel that a Shaw in previous periods
present-day social tragedies as did and clipping aro Henrik Ibsen and George Bernard from Nazl leaders, He stated that so far no single do-long-view attitude will permit you
Mrs Meyer, said that "unfortunate. minating figure in the conspiracy to be considerate of our problems-ly the established churches are ca
with your understanding of human preoccupied with material posses He expressed amazement at the nature where two people "on the sions" that their influence is felt surprise shown by some quarters spot at the Ume" saldom report the the least among the people that a subversive movement should same story. We chall reviso future needing it.
most exist in Germany. "The Germans editions to meet these controversles have been dealing with subversive and again thank you and your edi movements throughout the Continent tora,
had been discovered.
of Europe throughout the war and one presumes they learned: some thing," he said,--Reuter,
for
thels
Preservation of Family gs,
co1operation. Fraternally yours.
She said that unless the housing (DE FRANCIA TREVELYAN MILLER) shortage is solved and publie
Historical Foundailons.
housing programmes encouraged for
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Wednesday, February 26
Rangoon, Calcutta, Delhi, Johannesburg and Cairo, 330 pm.
Beamalls
Shanghai, 0 a.m.
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Straits, 3 pm.
Shanghal, p.m.
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Hood for Britain asserted at the British draft does refer to the Potsdam agreement and General Mark Clark indicated that, in the United States view, the whole trouble arose in the interpretation of the Potsdam agreement.
Challengingly, Clark said that in the
General Mark pust 18 months, he had seen much misinter- pretation of the Potsdam agreement by the Soviet Command in Austria.
The whole issue was referred in 11 p.in. this disagreed form to the Council of articles covering the constitution of Foreign Ministers
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The military committee deputies had been instructed to ask the Austrian delegation whether *
H standing army of 50,000 men, in- cluding frontier guards and
Eendar merle, will be sufficient or whether they consider 55,000 to be necessary. This completes the deputies dis- cussion on the draft of the Austrian treaty. Only work of substance re- maining to-morrow is the drafting of a covering note to the Council of
Foreign Ministers.-Reuter,
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