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London, Apr. 20.
A Treasury official said today that the liner Queen Elizabell Ind been place out of the sterling area because British passengers were cutting sterling cheques to dig non-rationed clothes aboard leship.
the
A Treasury order. bany cashing of Briting cheques by the branch of the London Bank' aboard the ship. The official said the ban would also apply. to the Queen, Mary and the Mauretania when they returned to the transatlantic service.
"It is Intended to prevent
privileged persons from buying uir farge quantities of unration ed clothing duty free and to export only quality from the ship's branches of well-known London stores," the official sald. -United Press.
REALZ IPAYMENT IN EJA
Toxas City Disaster
Poison Gas Stops Search For Bodies
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Two Knifed To Death In Fresh
Bombay Rioting
SITUATION "WELL IN HAND"
Bombay, Apr. 20.
At least two people were knifed to denth and 17 others injured here today in communal rioting, which continued until dusk.
The dawn-to-dusk curfew, lifted only last Thursday after the rioting which started carly this month died down, was re-imposed in the. Peral workers' suburb with the new outbreak of assaults.
All was quiet after dusk and the police had the situm- tion "well in hand," a Bombay Government announcement. snic. Armed police pickets were posted in all parts of the city, the statement added.
Reports from Calcutta said that there had been 19 casualties and 120 arrests following communal disturban-
cca.
Mr II. S. Suhrawardy, Bengal Premier, tonight issued an urgent pence appeal to those Hindus and Moslems in Calcutta who are still con- tinuing to ne mult prople. throw bombs, fire guns, throw selds and
to
The situation was tense with con- siderable ponle, but tonight the streets of Cawnpore seemed ta deserted, a Cawnpore dispatch said. A 24-hour curfew was imposed Texas City, Apr. 20.
throughout the city and thousands of Hindu pilgrims who had come Poison gas blanketed the arenab passersby."
the city for a dip in the river Ganges around the Republic Refining! He begged boul communities to be. tomorrow on the Hindu festival of Company plant to-day, impeding have more like brothers" and to Smovati Amavas-new moon were
make "Joint peace parties and pro-stranded at the railway station.
Meanwhile, Admiral Lord Mount- the search for bodies in the cassions to bring hume to all that no ¡lisaster - stricken waterfront one wants disorder and that those batten was believed to be nearing who indulge in or Incite these the end of his consultations with the but British Government, and it was ex- aren. The authorities set up rond dustordly nets are not heroes
the ho
next Icw blocks cutting off the danger rebels against God, man and their pected that within
weeks he would be in own. community."
a position to aren around the plant until the
sound Indian political parties with the outline of a plan nimed nt of the gas had been source
securing agreement between them. located and the air cleared.
Informed quarters said that the Provincial Congress Viceroy's effort has been directed Committee tonight passed a long re- towards bringing the Moslem League One fire st'11 burned amid the
solution demanding immediate dis- Amouldering rubble of the water-solution of the Bengal Moslem League Reuter.
Into the Constituent Assembly- front, binated Inst Wednesday by a Ministes, alleging that it had "woe- series of explosions which killed or fully ignored its primary duty of injured hundreds. The blaze cen- maintaining law and order and lost confidence of law-abiding the wreckage of a huge
citizens." benzol tanks at the Monsnuto i Chemical Plant. The authorltles said there was no danger of the fire spreading.
tred in
The number of persons killed was sill not ascertained four days after
381. Dr Paul Saris,
the disaster. The official tall today
slood at
- Director- of-the-recovery-crews, said it might be another week before the
all
DISSOLUTION DEMAND
The Bengal
The resolution expressed "emphatle of the discrimination condemnation and oppressive behaviour of Govern ment forces, particularly of the re- cently enlisted Moston police force recruited from Punjab, resulting in ring and assault on innocent people,
looting of property."
ONLY ALTERNATIVE
London, Apr. 20. Tho well-informed Sunday news. paper, The Observer," from New Delhi today that partition reported of India into two separate states- Hindustan and Pakistan-before the British leave in June 1948 "seems now to be a certaint
MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1947.
Princess Is 21 Today
Here is a recent study,
taken in South Africa, of Princess Elizabeth, heir to the British throne, who to- day celebrates her 21st birthday. She will mark the occasion with-a. broad- cast to the Empire from Cape Town.
SPECULATION ON FUTURE
DEATH OF
OF KING CHRISTIAN
Dino At tho
P. G. .
For
Reservations
EndOf35-Year Reign
Copenhagen, Apr. 21.
King Christian X of Denmark, died on Sunday night after an illness lasting 15 days. He suffered a heart attack on April 6 and his condition slowly deteriorated. King Christian's reign last 22 days short of 35 years.-Associated Press.
An
An earlier Reuter report said that the King had been unconscious since 4.30 p.m. on Sunday afternoon. official bulletin had said King Christian's strength was rapidly declining and that the Royal Family had been summoned, to his bedside. "
News that the King's condition was critical spread like wildfire in Copenhagen and thousands flocked to the area by the Royal Castle. The Danish radio replaced their light programme with a programme of serious items last night.
A Beloved Monarch
To his people, King Christian of a new stir to the Danish nationa! Denmark was the unshaken
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Victory For Stallholders
Manila, Apr. 20. Chinese stallholders in the elty markets scored an initial victory in their fight to retain their stalls when Judge Rafael Dinglasan of the Manila Court of First Iristance invalidated the government order declaring all stalls in the public markets vacant beginning on January 1. At the same time Dinglasan sustained
the
constitutionality the
of
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of
publie
also on
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Agreement At Last
tock novement in another lost territory, Austria Peace Treaty
during period of stress and an- South Schleswig. xiety. During the war he was o King Christian X, of the house of prisoner in Denmark, but he was Schleswig Holstein Soenderborg- loved by his people more than any Glucksburg. was born September 20, other monerelt in Danish history..
1870. On May 14, 1012, he suc For all groups of the population King of Denmark and Iceland, of corded his father, Frederie VIII, as from communists to the extreme the Wends and the Goths. riphi-he became the symbol of the indomitable sighting spirit, which
He married Alexandrine, Duchess was shown against the German Inf Mecklenburg, April 26, 1898. After two years of peaceful reign the first World War broke out, Denmark re mained outside the conflict, but as a neighbour of Germany it could not avoid being affected. Because of the firm attitude of the King, Denmark succeeded in preserving her neutrall.
varter.
Consequently his journeys throughout the country in the first year after the liberation were like triumphal processions.
13.
During a long fe he lost the title of King of Iceland, he lost the possessions of Denmark in the Went Indies and he witnessed the
During the war, Denmark and her deavours of the Faroe Islands to King lost, in addition to Iceland, the relinquish the with Denmark But it also fell to Thomas and St Jan, which, according age-old association West Indian islands of St Croix, St his lot to receive back the northernto agreement of August 4, 1916, were part of Schleswig, which
Progress
London, Apr. 20. Ministers, in session this after- The Council of Foreign
noon, confirmed several final clauses in the draft of the ponce treaty Moscow said today.
Austria, Radio
for
The broadenst said agreement also was reached on "several" supple- ments to the treaty.
The supplements upon which no! agreement was reached were handed over to the Deputy Foreign Minis-
additional
examination.
ters for
Radio Moscow said.
delegation withdrew its objections The broadcast said the Soviet
to Article. 32,
reunited with Denmark in 1920, and 1000,000. That left Greenland as Den- to see the Second World War bring mark's only colony.
was ceded to the United States for $25,-American Proposed by the
1920 "Easter Crisis
and
London. Apr. 21.. Princess Elizabeth, now оп The Observer sald Viceroy Vis- tour with the Royal Family in count Mountbatten's talks with In-South Africa, will be 21 today rape and molestation of women and dian political leaders had forced him and able legally to become Re-arbitrarily dismissed his government,
to the conclusion that partition was the only alternative" to "anarchy.
The resolution
workers could be certain that all memorandum which the Bengal Con-
bodies had been recorded.
This "résolution" followed the press release today of the 15,000 word gress Assembly Party presented last month to Pandit Neiru. The me The Coast Guard board of inquiry orandum alleged corruption and, in Investigating the disaster wes in re- cess today, but members visited the efficiency by the Bengal Ministry and urged the Guvernment of India to waterfront area, The bourd is ex-withhold development grants from the pected tomorrow to visit seven sur-Bengal Government. viving members of the crew of the French ship, Grand Camp, which ex- ploded on Wednesday, setting off the chain of disasters. The seven men are the only survivors of the entire complement of the freighter. Uniled
Press.
EDITORIAL
Troops in armoured ears and Bren gun carriers patrolled Cawnpore,
Pro Industrial city in the United vinces, after an outbreak of Com- munal assaults, in which three per-
sans have so far died.
Importance Of Intention
THE
als.
task then the
NIE work of the Tenancy Tri- bunals has proceeded, BR- 10 monils that obtrusively for much of it has become very large-
Only ve ly taken for granted. casionally has public interest been stimulated when decisions of the tribunals have raised novel points of las
law requiring judgment from Yet no single court arbitrators. body of laymen has had to tackle more exacting a task members of the Tenancy Tribun-
much
of their Neither has work be
by the been ado easier looseness of the original Regula- tions of November, 1915, which. more than once has led these gentlemen to return verdlets based on commonsense, only to find them reverned by a higher court on legal issues not made expressly clear in the Regulations. The members of these tribunals (the of them businessmen majority
have had
neglect their own interests, on behalf of the community's welfare) have found their work bristling with dimeultics and handicaps, biggest, undoubtedly bring the right to make decisions according to the intention of the regula- tions. Several times their
ver- dicts
have been reversed because were based on attempts to Interpret the
Intention, of original clause, instead of religiously ac cepting the contents of the provi- slons, without qualification, A new Ordinance governing land- lords and tenants has now been. prepared and much of it has al-
who
Llicy
the
ready been analysed and criticised by the press. The revised regula tions onco again emphasise the important responsiblilties placed
on
the Tenancy Tribunals and some effort has been made to give them more explicit guidance in the matter of interpreting its pro- to original In- visions according to tention.
is now per- A tribunal is mitted to take hardship luto au count when deciding on the ques- ilon of making orders for recovery of possession of domestic property a landlord or his fami- for use
by a Is, while the Objects and Reasons make clear the intention of cer tafo other contentious clauses. Nevertheless the tribunals would be assisted, and probably greatly
e in the encouraged,
fullment
if à clause their onerous duties if were inserted in the new Ordin- ance making it permissible in cases of doubt created by lutri- cate legal doctrine and interpre- saljon, to return Judgments based on the intention of the
regulä- tions. This would not deny the right of appeal against a tribunal decision, but it might EQ BOTO way towards restricting reversal court judgments which rest
legal Interpretation without ition of exceptional circum stances. Unless tho prime inteu- top of the Landlord and Tenant Ordinance is to allow every cash to be decided on. Us merits, it is In danger of becoming a football for lawyers; and whatever fis In- tention, IL should be plainly stated, and acted upon according-
however,
delegation and relating to transit and customs frco coni- munication between Herzberg und.
mer, in Lothar. the Tyrol through the Reichenhati-Stein pass.
It
The Soviet delegation also found to withdraw its objec- Possible tions to Article 69, relating to rati-
"The Ministers then went on to the second reading of the Austrian. (Continued on Page 4)
Life in Denmark in the period be- Danes were on the verge of losing neation of the treaty, tween the ware was normal except their courage. for the great "Easter crisis" of 1920, when King Christian for the first and the rest of his ilfe he was unnble The King recovered, although for only time forgot his parliamentary
towards democracy duties
10 walk because
of an incurable wound in his leg. That forced him appointed a new cabinet without
to stay in his chair, but it did not on was gent if King George were totally consulting parliament and the Danish prevent him from vistuing all parts
of his little kingdom, either by incapacitated by illness or acci-people. As a whole,
or with his white yacht "Danneborg," dent.
was a peaceful lime.
after May 5, 1945, when Viscount Peace come to an untimely end Montgomery's forces liberated the as disaster shook Denmark on April country.-United Press. 9, 1940, when the German troops crossed the frontler. King Chris- tlan chose to stay with his people and thus became the symbol of passive resistance.. The King yielded to the German clams, but he never submitted and he never broken.
that he has failed, pressed "emphatic predeces- sors, to induce the Moslem League leader (Mohammed Ali Jinnah, to wipe the slate clean and cast aside the distrust and enmity of the mus jority of the
Congress Party. Jinnah is believed to have been un- bending
in, his insistence on Pakis- tan (Independent Moslem state) and to have predicted the bloodiest civil War in Aslan history as an alterna- tive."-United Press.
CHURCHILL'S
CORRECTION
London, Apr. 20.
Mr Winston Churchill today denied, in a strongly-worded statement to the press, that he had called Mr Henry Wallace a "crypto-Communist."
up
She also will receive salary boost-£15,000 annually Instend of the £0,000 that has been permitted her since she was 11 years old.
She could, if she desired, now set her own separate huuschold. But friends said she would remain at Buckingham Palace until she married-and many intimates bo- lieve that probably will not be for a long time,
Rumours persisted, however, that He lived to see the Danish army her engagement to Lieutenant disarmed and interned, the Danish Philip Mountbatten, formerly Prince navy sunk and the Danish police
force sent to German concentration) •
Philip of Greece, would be an-
nounced after her return to Britain camps. on May 11,
L: Mountballen returned late last
week to his naval duties at the short palace, prisoners
station HMS Royal Arthur in Cor- sham, Wiltshire; after spending his Easter leave near Cannes,
It was learned that Philip's was among the hundreds of presents that have been pouring into Buckingham Palace and Government House In Mr Churchill blamed the British Cupetown. In accordance with Royal Broadcasting Corporation for misre-rule, presents will be returned to presenting what he sold indirectly donors not personally known to the about Me Wallace during a speech Royal Family.
Palace last Friday at the Albert Hall.”
sources refused to reveal the nature of Philip's gift.
No ceremonies, official celebrations or salutes were planned in London
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Copenhagen, April. 21. Prince Frederick
The King and his police guard Denmark has automatically succeeded were allowed to remain' in the his father on the throne and become la an occupled King Frederick the Ninth Associate country, yet free men behind titelred Press, barbed wire.
The palace of the King was the only place in Denmark where the Germans did not, and could not enter, and it was always STILL UNKNOWN with great pride that looked to the standard flying from Amalienborg.
the Danes
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Police this morning were still u The real cause
of the German able to Identify the European who reluctance to make the occupation suffered a fatal fall from the second complete by taking possession of floor of a Woosung Street house Inst the palace was, naturally, that, this night. He was dressed in white shirt would have meant open revolt in and blue trousers, but possessed no. Denmark.
papers establishing his Identity. It was like, a national calamity
Police state that the man had to mark Princess Elizabeth's birth- when the King, on October 19, 1942, day, but she was expected to begin | had
Teddish n fall from his horse. For about 25 years of age.
hair, blue eyes and, was "Ms Wallace says that “I dare no!
an extensive round of social engage-neveral weeks his condition contess publicly or privately the ments after she returned to London, critical. That was the only convictions of my group that war is-United Press..
during the occupation when Inevitable..
Replying directly to Mr Wallace's statements about lum in Scan- dinav, Mr Churdull said:
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was
the
LATEST BOMBSHELL OF PARSON WHO
ADVOCATES UNMARRIED MOTHERHOOD
Needham, Market, Suffolk."
Apr. 20.
In Stockholm, during the weekend; Mr Wallace and replied sharply to
The Reverend W. G. Har- Mr Churchill's, alleged reference to him as a "crypto-Communist." grave-Thomns today proposed Today, Mr Churchill said, "I did the establishment of a pool of not describe Mr Wallace on a crypto-healthy men to help frustrated not for mere lust, of course. Communist. This misstatement was
by the BBC. Klven publicity byte correction on bubles."
who spinsters produce made an
immedinte their misrepresentation being point-
on
ed
out.
Mr
mis-
Wo
What I said was, 'We have It was another step in the cam- had here lately a visitor from the paign of the 58-year-old Vicar of United States, who hus foregathered Needham market to enable Britain's with that happily small minority of "surplus, women in this man-short Tuesday night. He told the Com- much with most women's organisa crypto-Communists who Bre
polley
fy necessary and beautiful. Test Hargrave-Thomas was unruffled. tube babies will produce, robots." "They will become enlightened in
"I suggest there might-be a pool time," he said calmly. of healthy men who would perform Mrs Henrietta Potter, Assistant
of the sexual act for needy. spinsters Secretary
Needham Market to produce beautiful babies, but Women's Institute, disagreed. It is she said. "We won't disgusting,
meetings. Hargrave-Thomas," former have him at our "beautiful Army
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Mrs Joseph Ablitt, wife of a local laflor, sided witli.Mrs Potter. "I used elonary, is morried and has
nurses. to be a happy church worker here. grown-up daughters, both He began his "Bables for Spinsters" but now I cyclo four miles to the campaign at a meeting of the East church in the next village," she said. Suffolk Education
Committee on Mr Hargrave Thomas does not hold
Lions unmarried teachers
to have a anyway. He refused should be permitted to have a baby mothers' unton in his church "because Women who feel the need for if they wished without facing cer- they do not recognise fallen women,
But he did sponsor a women's guld. a child should have one," he said tain dismissal. in an interview, "but 1 in. The letters to the Vicarage: Some of his hat not been publicised.--United That brought a flood of abusive Its attitude toward unwed mothers prove of artificial Insemination. ́emotion surrounding the sexual actiown parishioners left him. But Mr. Press.
In dead set at the forel making nailon to have the bables they want mitico
which Me Ernest Bevin, our Foreign Secretary, has patiently and atend- fastly pursued with the support of nine-tenths of the House of Com- mons."---United Press.
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