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THE', HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST
INDONESIANS THREATEN TO RENEW SCORCHED EARTH
Batavia, Aug. 8.-Renewing accusations that the Dutch were making fresh attacks despite the four-day old cease fire agreement, the Indonesian Republic today threatened to continue a "scorched earth policy" in the conflict- with Holland unless the alleged infringements ceased.
The Republican radlo. nt map Jogjakarta declared that great. stacks of coffee and rubber had;
ODOM LEAVES already been destroyed by the
CAIRO
Cairo, Egypt, Aug. D—Wulam P. Odom, 22 hours and 40 min- third utes out of Chicago and a of the way around the world on his try for a new solo record, left here in the plane, Bomb- shell, towards Karachi on a tailwind last night.
stop here.
In a 55-minute He took 1,500 gallons of petrol for his plane and a single glass of orange Juice for himself,
His converted army bomber checked out of Farouk
Air-
Neld at 1630 GMT. Just as the sun was setting across the valley of the Nile-Associated Press.
TAGNOSINUSKASZNOSTISETAR DESAJAMOSTOJNnce
MONTGOMERY
BACK IN ENGLAND
Republicans as the result of the Dutch moVCA.
It was reported in Batavia that Dutch troops had found three Bri- tish subjects, Frederick Woods, hits wife Edith, and Albert Ashworth, who had been missing since Ro
retreated from publican guerillas the ruins of Malang, in East Java,
The Indonesian military authori tles broadcasting from Jogjakarta, tonight announced that heavy fight- ing was going on on Madura Island, northeast of Java
Dutch troops occupied the town on August 6, two of Pamerkasan days after the cease fee order, the
railio auded.
The island capital. Bangkalan, was also occupied and the people were resisting the Dutch forces, It added
Two Violations
Radio
Farran On
Murder
Charge
B.
The
Jerusalem, Aug. Public Information Officer an nounced today that Major Roy Farran was "being held on # holding charge of murder" in the mysterious disappearance of a Jewish youth who reportedly was a victim of vigilantes fight- ing the extremists.
Farran, a 26-year-old hero of Bri- tish Army missions with resistance movements Ja Europe during the war, is bert eld in Allenby Der racks after once fleeing across the the Lebanese border and again escaping from gnol while under investigation in the case of 17-year-old Alexander
A Republican Army spokesman speaking over Jogjakarta carller today, accused forces of twice this morning violating the cease fire, which began in Java nt midnight on Monday,
act us
Rubovitz.
Shortly after the announcement that he was being held for murder, the Jerusalem Supreme Court re- Jected an application for an order Farran and the Inspector- for
show use General of Police to why Rubovitz body should not be produced in court.
POCKET CARTOON:
byOSBERT LANCASTER
1947.
Jewish Agency Charges If those
Against British Govt.
Genova, Aug. 8.~~In a 13,000-word document sub- mitted to UNSCOP today, the Jewish Agency for Palestine charged that the British Government, "far from doing anything to further understanding, has in fact hampered any rapprochment between the Jews
and Arabs.”
UNSCOP
The document charged that, Government of Palestine's memoran- the record of mandatory ad-dum on the administration of Palca- ministration had been one of to Mr Emil Sandstrom.
tine, under mandate," was presented "continuous subversion of paru-chairman, In Geneva, mountcy of law by the arbitrary The Agency reply, refuting the axercise of sovereign authority Palestine Government's arguments
defiance of International point by point, described the Gov
"biased." memo
and "pseudo-objective"
"revealing as the ignorent mentality."
the mandatory power made
in
"Henry! We did not come to Margate to conduct an inquiry into conditions of domestic service!**
trust."
The document, described Jewish Agency's ・ "reply
to
.
HOOVER ON They Don't
Waste
TIDE OF DISASTER
Much Time
Jogjakarta Radio has broadcast n request from the Republican Gov- ernment to the All-India Rodie to in the tran5- Intermediary Mar-mission of information regarding the results of the ceuse fire order. The Director of the Republican Fost and Telegraph Service has suggested to his Indian colleague that regular
cart and o Rubovitz, who, witnesses said, was communication between them should
kidnapped by men in British uni- be brought about for this purpose.
In a radio speech tonight, the Reform, has never been found and has
De Amir been given up for dead publican Prime Minister, Sjarifuddin, appealed to Indonesian Farran was placed in a police
closely with line-up for witnesses to the patriots to co-operate the Chinese population and to gund ping. their property and lives.
London, Aug. 8.---Field shal Viscount Montgomery, looking fit and bronzed, return ed to London by air yesterday after
30,000-mile, seven weeks' tour of Australia. New Zealand and the Far East.
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He told newspapermen that "there is not a word of truth in the sugges- tlons that I have been recalled to deal with Britain's manpower crisis. There have not been any cute pro- posed for the armed forces that I have bol known about."
He declined to conjecture about possible cuts of the number of Brush troops in Egypt or the Suez Canal
also refused to ahut zone, and comment on the Palestine situation.
In India, he said he met Jawa-
barial Nehru, leader of the Congress Party, and M. A. Jinnah, the new Governor-General of Pakistan, and liked both very much,
"The British withdrawal from India will tike ples without any trouble at all," he forecast.-ASSO- elated Press.
Peace Treaty Meeting
London, Aug. 8.-A Foreign Office spokesman said Jodny that the United States had proposed that the Foreign Ministers' deputies meet in early September to discuss the Japanese pracę trvaly.
of
artment's
as
It claimed the
по contrate
in the political field to bring about understanding between Arabs and Jews. In the adminis trative
the machinery of sphere. government has throughout worked as a brake on Jewish
development, while in the economic field "the, Government has done
next
10
nothing directly to promote the growth of a Jewish nolional home"
for except
number of technical achievements for the bonent of the country as a whole.
It said the Government had taken no steps towards tapping the coun- Initiating water resources, Atry's
reclamation works and providing credit facilities, and was doing no- thing against the Arab boycott.
Opportunity Missed
"A great opportunity has been missed and a unique charge has been deserted," the Jewish reply said..
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San Francisco, Aug. 8.------ Former President Herbert New Delhi, Aug. 8. Hoover today called
to force the upon "Hindu Front" a separate new Indian Dominion Govern- America to make peace without Russia and her ment after. August 15 to pro- satellites" to reverse the "tide hibit cow sinughter and to treat of disaster" that is sweeping the Indian Dominion's 30.000,- 000 Moslems ds aliens will be postwar world.
launched at the all-India Hindu In a statement prepared for re-
The Agency said the Palestine ad- tense on his 173rd birthday on Sun-conference st Delhi tomorrow. day, Mr Hoover blamed Rüssla alone
Hindus from all corners of India ministration constituted itself the for the turbulent condilons' of the
--Including saffron-robed holy men, guardian of the old order, Invested curbing the growth world and added that co-operation bejewelled Maharajahs, professional with the task from the Soviet was improbable."
inen and political men are travell-of a national home which might in- However, he pointed out that an
ing to Delhi by train, plane, bullock terfere with preservation of that or-
der." foot.
It sald the mandate had aimed, armed United States can live in rea-
Conveners of the conference m-however, at two-fold regeneration- sonable comfort and isolation."
All firms requiring advertising He said: "Another year after the clude the Dominion Cabinet Minister that of the Jewish people and of the Palestine, one to be effected by the
space exceeding ton war's end finds the earth without designate, the Maharajah
singlo peace, little recovered in production, important princely state of Gwalior. other.
Only once had the British Govern-column inches (other than that of starvation and members of Hindu India's two danger kidnap-increasing
Industrialist families the made a serious effort to reach under contract) are requested to abroad and alarms of another world leading
Birlus and Dalmias.
peace and co-operation between One nation alone, by its re- Not Vigilante
war.
Exclusion Of Moslems
Arabs and the Jews, the Agency give at least 48 hours notice..
was fusal of co-operation and destructive The British officially denied re-
is responsible. If we are to
The 12-polat demand is headed by reply stressed that
No advertisements (with tho member of a
reverse this tide of disaster, then free a demand for the legal prohibition: Colonel T. E. Lawrence brought or excoption of urgent notices) will parts that he was a vigilante gang recruited in Britain
of killing of cows and for the ex Since then, the Government
Welzmann and Emir Felsal together. for the Palestine police force, and nations have but one of two pos-
Abilities.
clusion of Moslems from all also denied existence of the gang.
"First, co-operation from Russin positions" in the Indian Dominiou. hampered any rapprochement by be accepted between 12.30 noon, The Supreme Court ruled that it
Saturdays and to Arab intran move, consistently yielding to Farran did the kidnapping he was
elements in the own responsibility ing pance among peoples outside of which would also bar beefsteaks, issigence, thus strengthening the post- Mondays. ome acting on
without instructions, and the Inspec-Russia and her satellites together directed by religious-minded Hindu tion of extremist
with the subjugation of her inter voters, who have great reverence Arab camp, wherein lay the basic tor-General could not justifiably call mallosal poison squads which is for cows. Ramkrishna Dalmia, lead-cause of failure of the mandatory
Hindu Industrialist, and ing
new regime," it sald.--UnitedPress. The Court also ruled that. Farran
owner, already has could not be expected to "bring the
launched on anti-cow slaughter cam- body," since his freedom was res-
paign through his papers, and tricted.
threatened lo fast to death unless a legal ban is imposed within one year. Religious Hindus consider cowя more valuable than human lives, and scores of people are killed annually In riots over cow-killing between the beef-eating Moslem and vegetarian National City Bank of New York).
He asked the Chinese to understand had that what some Indonesians done was not the altitude of the whole Indonesian population.
Chinese In Dutch Army The Republican Government, hej said, cundemned the action of frres pans.ble elements. He knew some Chinese were in the Dutch Army and that some people were inciting the
bis
which is improbable. Second, mak-
The unti-cow-slaughter
anti-co
Indonesians against the Chinese, but on him to explain the kidnapping posselther is done, then in armed paper chaln
he asked his own people not to fall for "the
Dutch trap to divide the Chinese from the Indonesian copula Gon",
v.on
It was authoritatively stated in The Hague that the Netherlands Government
would reject arbitre tion in the Indonesian question. In cluding arbitration by a Security Counet cammisalun' as proposed by
India.
The source declined
"You can only ask respondent to
it is in his por the corpya bring session, which does not appear to be the case here," the Court ruled.
It is understood that Investigations are continuing to discover whether Farran had accomplices and nino to comment because of lack of concrete evidence murder.United on the report that the Netherlands of kidnapping or would not oppose a United Nations Press. commission to supervise the truce,
Reuter.
Change-Over In
Korea
United States can live in reasonable comfort and use our food surplus
to stave of starvation and want even if it means isolation-which is most undesirable."-Uniled Press.
French Position indus.
In India
"Fifth Columnist"
bas
Rich Hindus seeking merit main- tain cattle shelters where decrepit Bows are cared for by Brahmin such lengths in Hindu-ruled Kash- priests. Cow protection is carried to mir stale that visitors are even for- bidden to bring bottles of beef ex- tract into the state.
The convenera also call upon co- religionisis
to
Gandhi's non- violence creed "because the Moslem
drop League aims at conquest of Hindus-
the situation inton and
tan and conversion of Hindus to
Paris, Aug. 8.-M. Charles F. UN Action Criticised
Baron, Governor of French London, Aug. 8. The "uncon- stitutional action by
India, who arrived in France the Security Council of the United Nationa 121
last month to discuss the future intervening in the Dutch-Indonesian
administration of French India. The proposul. made in note. dispute has left the Dutch
with
left Paris for Pondicherry after was delivered to Britain after the strategic gains and has left the
Washington, Aug. 8.—An au- the of clear-
Cabinet meeting which carller American suggestion for a Americans with the "task of
thoritative source told the discussed deputies meeting this month. was ing up the mess," according to the rejected
independent-weekly The Economist: United-Press-today that the French-India Britain
replied to the carlier In an editorial article, The control of all elvil affairs m
The Cabinet meeting, discussing American nute that slic would Economist stated that Holland, not Koren is being gradually trans- the situation in French India, took prefer to wait until after the being a great power, had Commonwealth conference on the right, and "unless, therefore, the ferred to the State Department, nute of the impending departure of subjeel in August In Canberra. Dutch can Induce a great power to but the State Department de- the British from India. The minis-
The spokesman said that Britain use the velo on their behalf, they nied the report.
ters are reported to have discussed Woys and
of maintaining means had not replied to the new note, but are able to be ordered about by Despite the dental it can be au-
French prestige in India, and also of nhe belleved that the Initiat сопи the Council." ference on
that a change working out a modus vivendi after "Action against rebels treaty
cannot be thoritatively stated should
from military to civilian direction of Britain's departure. be held by
considered aggression and, as long as civil affairs the Foreign
In Korca has been The Cabinet decided that It than the Netherlands is recognised as restarted. Ministers themselves rather
and Stato Department was impossible to accor, double their deputies-United Press.
i
the Japanese
GURKHAS WILL
STILL SERVE
veto
taining sovereignty in Indonesia, Its officials have been informed of (dual Entionality to Indians, as had
military operations there cannot be the move.
a matter for formal Security Coun
may be criticised.
D'een
previously suggested.
The
The Unlied Press was told that Cabinet further decided that French cil intervention, however
rever much they State Department offdale were in- India will continue to be represen-
On the other formed recently in a "secret" docuted in the French Parliament. hand, ones the United Nations trans-ment of the shift in control. aresses Its own Charter and
starts intervening in what are technically
The State Department spokesman, Michael McDermott, at a nevs con- Insurrections, there does not seem to ference denied the United Press re- New Delhi, Aug. 8.-Indian Army be any logical end to the process. Headquarters anpounced tonight that
port of the transfer to civilian con- The Dutch accepted an American trol. Ile refused to comment, how- the British Army would retain eight offer of mediation and the Council ever, on the sistement that General battalions of Gurkhas. the tough was glad to leave the matter in John Hodge will report to Washing-
mountain American hands.
le soldiers from the kingdom of Nepal, and the rest would be incorporated into the Indian Do minion Army when India is parti floned on August 15.
lon on civil affairs, referring that "As things are, the Dutch have got to what they wanted strategically, the Prefs.
the War Department.-United Security Council has asserted its authority--even If unconstitutionally
The announcement said Gurkhas and American diplomacy, with the THE LONG TAXI
would not be compelled to serve against thoir will in either army. The men are Hindus by religion, and none will serve in the Pakistan Army.
United Press.
inducement of American credite as power lever' for obtaining agive- ment, has the task of clearing up the
Reuter.
Chinose Attitude Batavi, Aug, 8. In a cable to Queen Wilhelmina, a former People's Council member, Mr H. H. Kan, to- day requested that he Netherlands Ambasador to the United States, Mr Van Kleffens, be Instructed to point to the Security Council Republican
Resistance Man's Hunger Strike Paris, Aug. D-General Alamiche, population.
terrorist actions against the Chinese former Resistance leader known die further requested that the throughout France as "The Panther,
Security Counell be, neked to, take today completed s
oght-day steps to prevent the recurrence of
hunger strike in a Paris gaol, where such actions-United Press,
he is held on charges of betraying 'some of his Maquis comrades to
thernt. who lost 30 pounds.
Drid van only wall; about his cell with the old of two sticks, sald 10-
day
Kaiser Wilhelm's Widow Dead
My sacrifice will perhaps Berlin, Aug. 8-Hermine, widow draw pubile attention to the incon- of Germany's Kalaer Wilhelm... died colvable delay of the law and its yesterday at her home at Frankfurt- misunderstanding of personal liber-am-Udar. It was learned today. ty."--Reuter.
A direct check to Frankfurt-am- Oder said the causo had not yet been catablished.
Servants
The Kaiserine was 6V.
RIDE
Sacramento, Cal., August 9-A taxleal trip so long that the driver became homesick was related yes- terday by James Smith of Washing-
on, the cabbie.
Well-informed so. rees confirm that discussions are now taking place at New Dell between the British representatives and the French for the signing of a treaty of friendship and at the same time drawing up of a plan on which relations between French India and ex-British India can operate.--Reuter.
Jews Had Govt. Secret Files
Islam."
A proclamation by the conveners says that Moslems living in the In- dian Dominien are "Ath columnists" for the Moslem Dominion of Pakls- tan and demands "reunton of seced- ing parts."-United Press,
Would-Be Suicide Was Unlucky-
Spezia, Aug. 8-Adile Coppola got; mad at her husband today and de-; elded to commit suicide.
Sho ran into an uncleared German minefeld and jumped up and down for half an hour while her husband watched from outside "Minen" signs, She felled to and a mine but had
one more try on the way home.
She jump.d into the river. Her husband pulled her out. United Press.
OUTWARD MAILS
Unless otherwise stated, registered articles, and parcel posts cload 30 minutes Jerusalem, Aug. D.-A.Govern-earlier than the ordinary, mail. If mail ment, source sald palice had found close before 10 ani, registered and parcela dozens of intercepied government
will close at 8 p.m. on previous day.
Saturday, Augurt s papers in a secret Ale of leganah, the
Canton
(Trala) 2 p.m. Jewish underground vigilante group, Manila. P.. (Sea) 3 p.m.
- This source reported that two „Swalow and 'Amoy (Sex) 3 p.m.
Stenits, Batavia, Sourabaya:ɛke Maczmar brief, cases full of documents were in the rear coat of a car stopped a
(8ca), p.m. a roadblock near Jerusalein, Papers included
Inter-office ca government memoranda
The fores, Smith said, were N. R. Ramchandani and F. L. Varma,
engineers for the Govern highway ment of india who were commission- ed to study American roads,
They chartered a bright orange and yellow taxi from Smith's em-
Two Jews in the car were arrested ployers in Washington, he said, and started out on a 10,000-mle Itinerary and later released on ball-Asso- at 15 cents
clated. Preis. mlic.
"I'm married
been homesick
man and have ever since I left home six weeks ago," Smith sild upon arrival in Sacramento Inte Thursday, "but I'm not due back
on
In Washington until August 24.”— Associated Press.
Does It Dress For Dinner Too?
CHINA INSISTS
**
Washington, Aug. 8-A reliable dipomalle cource said today that the Chinese Insisted on holding the for mul Japanese peace conference in China beca se Chinn was the country which "rought Japanese aggression alone for four years while some other. nations'encouraged Japanese agres- elon directly be "Ind'rectly.”—Uilted" Press,
Loudon, Aug. D.-The worm cura- 'Quake Kills Three said he had been complaining of tor of Regents Park Zoo is anxiously Paris, Aug. 8.—The French Press nervousness and breathing difficulties awaiting the delivery of a cigar box
for several days Agtrcy reported today at the east
from Niezria containing one of the.. In the spring of 1940. Algerian city, Constantine, has
Hermine few captive specimens of the coeciva
QUIZ ANSWERS ovacuated most of its 70,000 residents was picked up by the Russians and tido, a
klo, a worm with a face and whis brought from her home at Rossio, kers.
Robin: Could be either. Male and after being shaken by the second
female rabina look, exactly alike, The white worm, classed as Am-Bee: Neither. Worker bees the only violent
earth shotic In two days. the larz mountains, to Frank- Three perions were killed, and four furt to live with her eccretary and phiblan, was captured by the Zoo's ones that visit flowers are sexless. carlously injured in the first quake. She lived comfortabir United being flown to the Zoo-United bird: Gentleman, The female black- her three-year-old grandchild, Frit collectors in West Africa and is Snail: Each Bnail is both Black- on Friday-United Press.
Press.
bird in brown,
Press.
Shanghai (Bea) 3. p.m.
·Teamkong * (vonitchowwan),
Tainahan, Bhekki
and
Macao. Kangmoon
(Sea) 4.m. Canton (Trata) 8 pan, Wuchow (Kwongial Provinco) (Bea) •
Canton and wellin (Air) 3.30 pm. Chungking (Air) 3.30 p
"Bunday, August 10
Bangkok, Singapore. Datavia, Colomba, Sydney and "Auckland. (AR), 10 năm. Manlia, P.I. (A11) 10.a.m.)
Canton,
Kwelin Hankow, Nanking; Shanghal, Kunming and Calcutta (Air). 10 A...
Macao, Tanshan, Shakki & Koagmoon.
(B) 10 a..
Canton (Train}_14_n.m.
Monday, August `?! Calton (Train) 7 n. Shanghal (Bea) 10 am. Macao, Tinalan & Shekkf (Box) 11 a m Swatow (Ben). 1_pati.
Canton (Train) 2 p.m. tra Sandakan, Australia and New Zealand
via Sydney (88) 3 p. Macao, Tainha de Shokki (Sea) 4 p.m. Canton (Be) 8 pm.
Saigon (Air) 230 pm,
Hankaw.
Amoy, Shanghai, Nanking,
Tsingtao, Pelping, Luchow and Kun ming (Air) 30 p.m. Canton and Holhow (Air) 3.30 pm.
Tuesday, Auguzat. 13 Canton (Trains 7 a.m.
Salmon and Paris (Air)-3,40 p.m. Bangkok, Rangoon, Calcutta, Karachi, Desra, Cairo,, Nairobi, Johannesburg. Augusta, Alarsalles and London (Air) Haiphong. Pathol and Ifolhow (Hen) §.
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