Pakistan May Have Seat At Japan Peace Parley
London, Sept. 2-The unimimous conclusion of the Commonwealth Conference in Canberra that a preliminary eonference of interested Powers on the Japanese peace settlement should be convened before the end of September raises the problem of whether the two Dominions of India. and Pakistan should be Individually represented at such a
conference.
Efforts To Save Petkov's Life
London, Bent. 2.—-A Forelgu Office spokesman said today that Britain had learned that Nikola Pelkov, leader of the Hulgarian
Party. would not be executed for at least a week because of the con- deinned man's appeal.
an
Agrarian
The spokesman said Britain made
elglith unsuccessful representation to the Bulgarian Government in an effort to save the life of Pelkov, who was sentenced to death on a chargo of plotting to overthrow the government with foreign aid.
Britain could not
regard commutation of the death sen- tence to life imprisonment as natisfactory solution, the spokesman said,United Press.
TARIFF TALKS PROGRESS AT GENEVA
Geneva, Sept. 2.-More than 40 separate cases of tariff nego- tiations will be concluded within a week, an internal progress re- port of the Secretariat. of the Trade and Employment Con- ference said today.
tarit
The total number of negotiations so far concluded have increased to 27, necording to latest information.
The latest reports from Can- herra suggest that the Com- monwealth Powers strongly sup port the claim of Pakistan to send a delegation on an equal footing with all others to any Japanese- peace talks.
Britain, by her recognition of full Dominion status for both parts of India, no less than by the out- standing services of Moslem troops In the against Japan. wil certainly the feelings of her in urging claims in international on this subject. The
attitude of the remaining Powers is not yet known
in London. Two
factors,
the qualifen- putside tions as an activo belligerent against Japan during the war, may ju- Ruence the views of one or other of them on the claim of Pakistan,
One of these is that the balance of non-Commonwealth
and Common-
Eth partners
wealth Powers, which is at present in the proportion of six to five, would be develled ut six each if Pakistan were added to, the list of the 11 Powers at present members of the Far Eastern Commission.
Russian Attitude
The other Is that the addition of Pakistan at this stage night prompt Kussin ao claim separate membership for one or other of the Eastern Jutonomous Soviet republics on the analogy of the membership of the Ukraine and White Russia on the Paris peace conference of 21 Powers in the intermediate phases of peace- | making with Iinly and the four
European satellites.
is
The balance of voting power will be of particular importance if the tentative American suggestion adopted that voting, during the Japanese peace negotiations should be by a simple two-thirda majority without the right of
The attitude
is corn- plicated by the fact that she is not yet ready to admit the members of the Far Eastern Commission to dis- cussion of the form of Far Eastern peacemaking, which the contends should
in the Arat place be fined
to the Council of Foreign Ministers.
The note of urgency in the Can- berra recommendation that an 11 (or 12) power conference be sum- moned before the end of this month, taken together with the Soviet re- Commonwealth countries, fusal to accept such a conference, meanwhile, re-examined the whole which was originally suggested on issue of preferences at a number of American initiative, heightens meetings with the United Kingdom. interest among observers
the bere in The meetings, which were conclud-the question of how and when
now one
The report Indicated that the question of imperial preferences was of the main stumbling blocks of the conference, and was claimed to be holding up a large number of negotiations of the Dominions in addition to those with the United Kingdom,
The
con-
ed today, had given a clear picture India's dual claim of representation of the extent to which conccasions
ons will be decided.-Reuter.. Agreeable, Empire sources fold the United Press today, and it was expected that an answer to the United States latest request for reduction and elimination
of pre- ferences would be forthcoming this week.
Meanwhile, the United States and Australian negotiating teams had another meeting, which was the fourth since the resumption of tariff negotiations, and "some progress" was reported by Australian sources. -United Press.
CAVENDISH
BENTINCK
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1947.
Dab
and Flounder
by Walter
AMERICAN REPUBLICS
SIGN DEFENCE PACT
By CHARLES LYNCH (Reuter's Correspondent)
Rio de Janeiro, Sept. 2. The treaty of 26 articles signed in Rio de Janeiro today after the Petropolis inter-American conference draws a firm line around the western hemisphere from Pole to Pole and says to the rest of the world, "Keep Out.”
Hamburgls Ready For Jew Ships
Hamburg, Sept. 2.--British officials in Hamburg are tonight completing plans to deal with any "fight to the finish" which, there are indications here, the 4,350 Jewish immigrants may stage when the three British transports, bringing them from the south of France, dock at dawn on Monday.
The treaty is the first formal implementation of Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, which sanctions the banding to- gether of nations for individual or collective self-defence.
To meet the charges that the American Republics may have gone beyond the United Nations concept, the treaty, on the initiative of the United States. contains no fewer than seven references to the United Nations Charter in its text of 1,800
The new
trealy reiterates peacetime the main articles of the united the Americas in war. Act of Chapultepec, 1045
Although by no means
words,
for
which
loopholes, it is unquestionably the without strongest formal expression yet of hemispheric solidarity.
The treaty provides that in the case of aggression against any American state, the governing board of the Pan-American Union shall meet and decide by a simple majority whether or not the situation calls
meeting foru
of the Foreign of the American Re- Ministers publics.
Two-Thirds Majority If and when they meet, their actions shall require a majority of two-thirds, and whatever programme they agree upon meet aggression
Conference
Of Consuls
In Batavia
news
Batavia, Sept. 2.-Another informal meeting took place this afternoon between the for- cording to eign consuls at Batavia, де-
the Dutch agency, Aneta,
French Consul-Generat Etienne Raux and Australian Consul-General Charles Eaton are expected to leave morning. for Jogjakarta tomorrow
visil The request that the consult Jogjakarta came from the Republican Government yesterday.
Arrived
Mr Enton recently Batavia from Portuguese Timor to handic the
the Job
assigned Australian Consul in connection with the Security Council decision trat the consuls at Batavia supervise the cease hostilities order.
Hundreds of troops are ready 10 move on the docks if necessary, and the authorities are not excluding the possibilities of a well-timed outbreak of terrorism, sabotage and arson.
Omeials will board the ships to search for suspected agitators or ter- rorists, but
it is learned that tife froops will only use firearms during the disembarkation only as a last msort to protect their own lives.
Senfor military government officials to the treaty, except that no nation herd, will arrive in Bataiva on Sep- will appeal to the refugees through shall be required to provide armed tember 4 on board the Dutch liner, loudspeakers to disembark
Oranje. He will succeed Mr J. M quicily, forces against its will. while squads of German police will While these consultalons are going. Milcheson, who has already left cordon of the landing quay and on, any nation shall be free to go to Balavia and who was temporarily in stand with their backs to the ships. the aid of the victim of aggression. charge of the British mission in Reuter.
SNYDER OFF
shall be binding on all signatories sul-Galle, the new British Con-1
Mr Francis M. Shep-
The realy provides that if one Bataviaepherd comes from London,
American state attacks another, then the parties to the treaty shall conter
where
he spent a short period pend-
and use all possible means to reaching his journey to Batavia. He was a peaceful settlement before resorting British political adviser with the British mission in Finland, with ministerial
to collective armed force.
The western hemisphere, as deßned
It is expe that offer the con- TO LONDON for the treaty, is much larger than
any previous definition and includes, is get under way with the task
of of both Polarervising the cease fire 'order, New York, Sept. 2.-When besides large slices
communiques will be issued the Queen Elizabeth sails from areas, a huge area of Greenland.
Senator Vandenberg, Chairman of by the consular body, which is New York tomorrow, on board the United States Foreign Relations headed by the United States, Consul- General, Dr Walter A. Foote. Unit- will be 148 representatives to Cornmittee, said that this did noted Press.
of who Sir,-in your Innue of September the London conference of the imply any question
sovereignty over Greenland, and that
"Flagrant Lie”
un-
Not A Sure Thing
Was
|
MYSTERY OF
CAVE HOLE SKELETONS
London, Sept. 2-Detectives called in curious hobbyists. known as "apeliologists" today to help solve the mystery of two skeletons found in potholes -enveliko depressions gouged in the hills of Yorkshire by Ice Age glaciers 25,000 years ago.
Twice within eight days, skeletons have been discovered at the bottom of these treacherous "Glant's Ket- tles, as the local folk call them. Not
unili medien! examination is complete will the police low whether the bodles are those of men who died exploring the potholes or were victims of murder,
One skeleton was removed a few days ago and is still under study, Today, members of the Cave Rescue Association were assisting to raise second body from the 300-foot hole in which it was sighted. yes- terday.
4
The Cave Rescue Association was formed by speliologists-men who explore the caves as a spare time hobby-because so many were being hurt in exploring the potholes, 21 some of which teaccs of prehistoric, men and animals have been found.
Underground streams rising rapid- ly and unexpectedly are only one of the hazards of pothole exploration.- United Press.
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"What it means is that we const- ference
Included among the London con-der a landing by a hostile power in
of mortar and artillery fire. representatives will bo
The
claimed communique
the United States Secretary of the Treaus. The question of present so four and destroyed one building. The these places would be a threat to
barrage killed 24 civilians, wounded sury John W. Snyder, who is being vereignty does not enter into it," he Dutch, it is reported, halted the at- accompanied by his wife.
I said. The Legion group will be led by
1, you published a telegram from International Bank and Mone-for-this-reason the Danish Govern the Associated Press, containing a lary Fund and 88 American roent had not been consulted on the communique from the Indonesian Legion members
Britain to motier, just as en route Republic.
Western consulted over the inclusion in the This
visit war sites communique says "Japanese
in
arca of large numbers of her troops
were seen aghting in the Europe.
colonies. ranks" It would be impossible to con- tradict the propagandist truths found in the Republic com- muniques. But in the face of this flagrant lie, I wish to state officially that there is not a single Japanese fighting in the Dutch ranks, or bas been incorporated into the Dutch London, Sept. 2.-Mr Victor
army. Cavendish Bentinck, former British Ambassador to Poland, publle army received its arms from It is well known that the Ro- is no longer a member of the the Japanese and has been Japanese British Diplomatic Service, a trained. In recent military actions, Foreign Office spokesman con- the Dutch prmy has killed and firmed today.
identilled many Japanese serving with the Republican
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The United States, which frankly lack at noon and resumed mortar Paul S. Grimth, Veteran's Organisa- regards itself as the hemisphere. The communique also reported tion national commander, and Norton nation most likely to be attacked continued minor Indo-Dutch skir- Hary of II. Pearl, commander of the Auxi- from abroad, regards the treaty as mishes throughout Java. It said the Associated Press.
the American Legion.ample assurance that, if there is an-
other Pearl Harbour, she will not Dutch shelled Tadjinana, southeast of Malang, and opened artillery fire have to spend valuable time, money
on Bueroctoenggoel, southwest of and manpower trying to rally the
Bandoeng. to her
Fighting broke out in the Boeroe- toenggoel area, the statement add- ed.United Press.
and
Omcial quarters refused to disclose querillos, and live troops and Man Who Killed Experis who have studied
whether the former Ambassador. of many others.
in
Native "God"
died hare.
who was by no means dur for. As we have nothing to conceal, retirement, hnd resigned or had been we have invited the career consuls dismissed. The spokesman stated, in the Netherlands Indies to func bowever, that the announcement did | Bon as an investigating commission,
Santa Barbara, Sept, Major not imply that Britain had accepted and the facts that I have stated Frederick Russell Bumiram, 87, Boer the accusations made last winter by above can easily be verified at all War veteran and African explorer, the Polish Government that Mr Umes. Cavendish Bentinck had been To accuse one's opponent of nets whose exploits included the killing contact with the Folish underground, of which one is guilty oneself, infantive "rod" in Rhodesie, has order to confuse public opinion, is He was withdrawn from Poland not a new trick. It was brought to In Africa, Major Burnham was Gomo weeks after those charges had perfection by a certain Dr Goebbels enraged by the British as a squut been strongly repudiated by the in the lost war. It deserves then the war against Matabele natives Foreign Office, and was appointed same contempt now as it met with and commanded to kill or capture Ambassador to Rio de Janeiro. But at that time..
the native god "Mimo". while waiting In London to tako
Major up
Burnham tracked his appointment, Mr Cavendish
quarry to a mountain CAVÒ and Bentinck was involved in divorco
killed him, for which deed he was.
ven 300 square miles of land in Rhodesia.
proceedings with his wife. Following. these proceedings, his appointment to Brazil was cancelled and Sir Noville Ruler was chosen in h place-Reuter.
KCB For Admiral
D’Argenlieu
L. A. GASTMANN. Netherlands Consul General,
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Editorial and letters appearing in
ven
the
trenty, however, do not regard such hemispheric solidarity 03 "a sure thing".
They feel that despite the trenty, If for example Argentina wanted to remain non-belligerent she could do
Gu
of
the
Forest Hills Seedings
New York, Sept. 2.John Brom- wich, of Australia, is seeded No. 1. The treaty conference was attend-among the foreign entrics for the American tennis championships, ed by 20 American Republics.
Canada, 08 a member
which begin at Forest Hills here on British Commonwealth, was Ins! Friday, week said to be "not interested," but the treaty will be left open for her eventual signature.-Reuter.
Falangists Busy In Germany.
Jack Kramer, naturally, heads the list of seeded domestle players..
The seedings lists are: Domestic players-Jack Kramer, Fronk Par- ker Tom Brown, Gardner Mulloy, William Talbert, F. Segura, Robert Falkenburg, Edward Moylan, Victo
Earl Selmas,
Cochell, Seymour Greenberg and James Brink.
Foreign entricJohn Bromwich, Jaroslav Drobny, Dinny Palls, Colin London, Supt., 2-Spanish Ro- Long, Johansson and Geoff Brown Africa, Major Burnham went to publican sources reported today Reuter.
and that "Falangist ngents in the Edrich Declines.
he American zone
for London, Sent, 2-W. J. Edrich, Middirsex an England all-rounder, has informed the MCC that he is un- able to accept the nvitation, to tour
West
Indies next winter.
After extensive exploration of
during the gold rush
Sir, Is it possible that the, recentered a British commission to recruiting aviation specialists
the Telegraph regarding ZBW are already having an effect? I refer to WRA
a Klondike mine until
the play "Smash & Grab This fight in the Boer War
went over very well indeed. The
of "Germany are
Franco's
army, opparently from Wounded, he was invalided to among the former SS action was continuous, interest was England, and was decorated by
A news bulletin of the Basque the held throughout, and. It was nito and dined with Queen Victoriu-A gether a.F
ertainment.
My congratulations to the producer:
LIS-SEN.
pleasant twenty minutes en.
Paris, Sept. 2-France's warrior- monk, Admiral Georges Louls Marie { and the cust Thierry D'Argenlieu, today received the Inslgun of the British honour of Knight Commander of the Daih
from Mr Alfred Dust Cooper, BH- tish Ambassador, ut a ceremony-In the British Embassy.
Deputies To Moot
On October 6 London, Sept. The Foreign Admiral D'Argenlleu, formerly Office spottesman announced today High Commissioner in French Indo-at Russia had agreed to hold China, left in 1930 the seclusion of meeting of the Foreign Ministers a Carmellle monastery after 10 Deputies on the German peace treaty years as a monk, to join the French on October 8 in Tondon, Navy:
He returned to a monastery
July-Reute
The British and United States | Governments. ‘originally suggested in October 1, but the French preferred
October United Press.
Bociated Press/
Air Marshal Slossor's. New Appointment
London, Sept. 2.-Air Chief Mar- hal Sir John Slessor will succted wartime 14th Army Commander in General Sir William Sim, famed Durma, as head of the Defenes College, the Defence Minis
Imperial try announced today."
delegation reported that Nazi alr-1's letter declining the invitation men had gone into Spain since the stated that he is anxious to establish end of the war by a clandestinsself in his business route-United· Press.
Ships Collide In
River Scheldt
ligence reported today that the London, Sept. 2-Lloyd's Intel-
tons) and the Norwegian tanker Gerdmor (701 Swed'sh steamer Sirius (2,107 tons),, both outward bound from Antwerp, collided in the river Scheldt.
Air Marshal Slessor, who will take the American General Ira Esker. over on December 31, was dejuly to
Both the tanker, which in leak when the latter was Commander of ing, and the steamer, whose damage the Allled Air Forces In the Mediter-is unknown, are expected to return rangan.—Astucidioil PreAR.
I to port.-Reuter,
Edrich added that having played continuously for nearly 18 months he felt that a complete winter's break would ensure · h's form for the strenuous crleket 'nhead when Aus- tralia visita England next summer- Reuler,
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