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Nikola Petkov Hanged Despite All Protests
Sofia, Søpt. 23.—Nikola Petkov, the leader of Bul- garia's recently suppressed opposition party, the Agrar- ian Union, who was sentenced to death on a charge of Ireason last month, was hanged in the Contral_Pri- son here this morning, it was officially announced to-
day.
Petkov, the statement added, ; to commute the sentence into one of had been condemned "for Hav- forced labour for life, the Bulgarton ing tried to overthrow the legal News Agency reported. authority and restore Fascism in the country by conspiring with military organisations."
The sentence was carried out in the presence of the Prosecutor General of the Sofia Regional Tribunal, after a commission of the Bulgarian Ministry of Justice had submitted a report saying there was no reason for the county's President
India Civil WarBlamed
On Jinnah
Earlier, Tanjug, a news agency of neighbouring Yugoslavia, had quoted the Bulgarian Communist news- paper, Rabotnicesko, na saying that the execution was Indispensable to save the institutions of popular liberty, national independence and sovereignty of the states."
Reuter's
diplomatic correspondent In London
ndon reports a British Foreign Office spokesman as saying that the news of Petkov's execution was 50 Tave that a sistement on it could only be framed by the Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest Bevin, himself. one of the first matters
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1947.
DAB
AND FLOUNDER
by Walter
REVISIONOFGOVERNMENT IN INDONESIA PROMISED
Forthcoming Talks
The Hague, Sept. 23.—The Netherlands Government planned to form a central organisation in Indonesia "in the near future" which could develop into Mr Bevin was expected to give him an interim Federal Government, declared Dr Louis Beel, the Netherlands Prime attention to on his return today
Minister, in the Second Chamber of the Dutch Parliament here today. from the Paris plenary session of
conference the 18-natt:n
on the
The Prime Minister, who was sources to supply the wliole of the aid to Europe. Marshall plan for
outlining the Dutch proposals popullition, Perkov was arrested on June 0,
the Indonesian National Assembly having de to deal with the
him of his Parliamentary situation, at its present stage, prived Immunity, and the first British pro-added that his Government also New Delhi, Sept. 23.-Mo-test came the very next day. hammed Ali Jinnah, Governor- General of Pakistan, appears in- tent on forcing war with the Union of India, the Jamsahib of Nawanagar, former Chancellor of the Chambor of Princes, charged at a press, conference Loday.
Nawanager explained that threats of war between India and Pakistan were intensified by the decision of the 4,000-square mile state of Juna- gadh, ruled by a Moslem, to join Pakistan, desplie: the fact that 82
percent of its 800,000 were indu
He described the little state, which is one of the Kathiawar group in - Western India having access to the sea, as a "Pakistan pocket on India's Anak."
Oppression Charged
Archbishop Attacks Divorce By Consent
London, Sept. 23.-The Archbishop of York warned the Government today that it must act with speed and certainty to prevent divorce in Britain from becoming "divorce by consent."
Speaking at Solby. Yorkshire, į asks her husband to take the blame the Archbishop, Dr Cyril Forster for her sin, or the muddle-honded kindness which makes him thinic-it Garbett, assorted that it was chivalry to do so.". the Church's duty to warn the Only the zetion of public opinion,
stato against the danger that in- creasing divorce brought to its social life, and outlined threo definite actions that might stom the ever-increasing tide of broken marriages..
ho
cald, will arrest thin rot in married Hfe.
Ho remarked: "There have been false idens of marringe in the post when a woman was trented 05 1 canary in n-gilded cage ar. 48 D child-bearing slave without interests The Archbishop urged that civil beyond her home." marriages be conducted with thei Dr Garbett sald ho belloved divorce KUTO solemnity
and ceremony ** petitions in Britain might number those in church, the more. to im- press upon the parties that they were 50,000 this year. He said he was not optimistic as to measurable Im-
United Press.
entering_in_lifelong union.
piritual
Dr Garbett who, with the Arch-provement in the immediate future bishop of Canterbury, Dr Geoffrey Francis Fisher, are the shepherds of the
Ilfe of Britain's pre- Anglican population, sald dominantly the Governinent should alve finan-
support to marriage cial
guldarice camcn and establish a inartinga
RITA welfare service as proposed in the Church's report.
The Slate should
also make it
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2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m. more difficult for collusive divorce-TO-DAY ONLY-
to be granted, he declared. Such
Slace then there have been many i planned a limited revision of the of the forthcoming talks between the Dr P. Sirula, head of the mission. divorces, the Archbishop sald, would
..
protests from London and Washing- Dutch constitution to prepare ton to Sofia and also to Moscow, for a new political structure of since the former Allied Control Cum the Dutch realm in the shortest mission for Bulgaria had a Soviet possible time.
protest chairman. A was registered with
the first Bulgarian
political envoy to come to London since the war on the occasion of his first
Foreign formal vift to the Fore
offer. Last Sunday, umelat spokesman of the British Foreign Office said that with the coming into force of the peace treaty with the Balkun slots, any further suppression of polical liberties or victimisation of political opponents by parties in power would constitute a breach of
those treaties,
The mission took seven tons of medical supplies to the Indonesians and reported that more is needed, Without help from Singapore, Aus- It was thought In Batavia today tralla and Indin the Republicans that Singapore might be the scene
would have been in a bad way, said Republi-
Doctora In the detachment ported can leaders, which will be conducted
that the Indonesians have Dutch and the Indonesian
have by the Security Council's Commis been able to manufacture their own sion of three nations-Australia, Bel-chloroform, had obtained. good re- Rium and the United States.
sults with ordinary thread in sewing The Dutch authorities, however, up wounds and had attained anti- assumed the talks would be held in tetanus serum, from the only horse Batavia and
and were clearing 40 rooms in the capital of Jogjakarta. In the overcrowded Hotel Des Indies. They said Indonesia had no food
shortage.—United Press.
A basis for the Commission's work may be provided by the report of the six Batavia consuls investigating the cease Are in Indonesin for the Security Council.
if not checked.
"develop into divorce, by consent MARIA MONTEZ
"easy divorce."
Dr Garbett criticised severely SUSANNA FOSTER
Grounds For Divorce "Public opinion should condemn the custom by which a man some- times gives his wife grounds for divorce by spending a sordid night in an hotel with a woman in whom he takes no interest 'und the woman has been hired for the purpose," he
Chinese Mission Salgon, Sept. 23.-The four Chinese military experts who are to nid the Consular Commission in-sald. vestigating violations of the "coase
Captain Woo Ying-tsun is heading the mission.-Router.
"I hardly know which is worse
OUTWARD MAILS
A revision of the constitution could not take place until after a con- ference of the realm, Dr Beel said. Therefore a small preparatory study commisiert would be set up and Its composition made known shortly.
that Dr Beel said
the Dutch Government faced the result of the eaning report by the foreign consula
Their report-likely to be com- in Batavia, the capital of Java, and pleted by September-30-is expected the survey by the United Nailong in Batavia to say that the obser- fire" order In Indonesia arrived the meanness of an adulteress who Security Council's three-nation Com-vance of the cease fire is impossible here today from Shanghal, and will mission, with confidence".
in the areas where the Dutch and leave tomorrow for Singapore .on He promised the Dutch Govern- Republican forces are intermingled. their way to Batavia. "Judicial Murder"
ment's full co-operation and snid-Reuter. that they were actuated by a desire
•London, Sept. 23,-The executin of the former Bulgarian opposition
to arrive at a genuine solution.
"The Dutch! Dr Decl added: leader, Nikola Petkov, was described
Government expresses the as "judiclal murder", in a statement
urgent the work of the three- by Lerd Vansittert, the wish that the Foreign Ofee, Mr Clement sults within a very short lime", molesting their women and causing Davies, leader of the Parliamentary To Help Van Mook them to seek safety in the neigh Liberal
Raymond The Government Intended to in- and Mr Farty, bouring Kathiawar atates.
Labour Member of stal
n special body to share the
The interim report which the con- those
Issued with authority-and responsibility with Dr Van-Mook, sula are drafting is expected to be diamonds.
Dr
Board of Trade regulations pro- After a consular meeting today a hibit the, malling of a large range of communique was issued, saying it goods. had been agreed that the Nether- **** HEAVY PENALTIES
ada indies and Republican authori- be invited to present their views on certain questions re- lating to the present situation which
investiga
He alleged that Moslem police
oppressing the Hindu for
former
Consular Report Batavin, Sept. 23-The Consular Commission intends including some factual material to the United Nations Security Council,' Aneta, Dutch news agency, learned reliably today..
and military foresi guards in Jura-issued to nemt Under-Secretary nation Commission may lead to re- conclusions to its report of gathered
gadh were
population, defling their temples, in the
He alleged that he had made
unsuccessful
attempts to meet the
Sind Province", he added.
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butal murder of Petkov," and lighten his heavy task,
"Let us
eneral.
should
of Com-forestales of Indonesia" to be erged from consular
must nevez
tions.
MAILS WILL BE OPENED
(Continued from Page 1)
The Moslem ruler, Rasulkhan, who
Sir Makabatkhan the ready by the end of this week.
resemblance between M. Dimitrov, ber. Was his brother prince". Neither had V. P. Menon, the Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Uke It was also planned to abolish the Secretary
to the Union of India's Communist dictators in general, and Dutch Commission General which Department for the
Indian states, Hitler and Goering, like Fascis: dic egotiated with the Indonesians the been allowed to meet the Moslem lators
Linggadinti Agreement, formally ruler, who "is virtually a. puppet inj
the lesson that there signed in March of this year and the hands of Junagadh's Prime must be no appeasement
for the establishment of s Minister, Sir Shahnwaz Bhuttoo, and munism and that we other officers who are Muslime from again invite aggression by being part of a Netherlandia Indonesian Chairmanship of the consular volved.
weak. On the ointrary, we must be Union under the Dutch crown. strong and resalule in our defence Two Two
act in future as Government] Reuter.
advisers,
The Dutch Premier also said that the responsibility for security in the areas of Indonesia now under Dutch control would be given to a mixed police force-mainly Indo- nealuns which was already being formel.
The consolidation of the country through the formation of A pre liminary administration for those areas would be continued,
Offenders will be able to EL maximum penalty of two years in prison or £1,000 fine or both. In currenev cases, however, the Court may impose a fine of up to three times the amount of currency in-
meetings is at present in the hands! The Treasury spokesman said the decided upon of freedom and the rule of law."- would embers of the Commission of the U.S. Consul-General, Mr Wew procedure was
ter A. Foote, but will In future primarily to slop Britons travelling alternate between the consuls abroad from mulling to their vici- United Press.
tion address large amounts of ster-
10 circumvent currency lings gulations,
Troops Despatched
"War is unthinkable, but it seems that Jinnah is forcing it on the In- dian Union," Nawanagar sald.
He revealed that the Govern- ment of India had already despatched troops to the borders of the Kathia- war States, which have acceded to India, in order to protect the smaller states and their Hindu populations. He said he had asked for a plebiscite in Junagadh to decide whether the population-wished to join India or Pakistan and said that the situation was rendered more
precarious by
BIG BRITISH
AIRBORNE
MANOEUVRES
Salisbury Plain, Sept. 23--
the fact that the smaller vassal state Great Britain today staged its
of Mongrol within Junagadh had biggest airborne
Nawanagar warned that increase since the war,
already decided to join India.
of communal, tension In Junagadh would embroil the entire Kothlawar
manoeuvres
The Army and Air Chiefs of Staff,
states, with nearly 4,000,000 popula-Field Marslial Lord Montgomery and
tion of which only 500,000 Moslems-United Presa.
wero
Sholto Douglas
Denies Reports
Air Chief Marshal Lord Tedder, saw 1,000 men'with guns, jeeps and other; equipment parachuted on. to the dropping
zone on Salisbury Plain to the "seizure of
גזה
mon each with The first 000 men, 30 lb. Jdtbng of equipment, were parachuted from 47 Dokola planes. The Dakotas were followed by 10 Halifax transports dropping guns, Jeeps and gun teams.
Hamburg, Sept. 24-An emphatic
Then came the arrival by air of denial that his resignation as Mi-airfield
construction equipment. tary Governor and Commander-in-This came in gliders. Aming the Chief of the British occupation zone equipment was a seven-ton buli- was due to differences with the dozer, a scraper, tractor Bnd Foreign Offee over policles regard-grader, which were used in a de- ing Germany was made by Marshal monstration of preparing an airfleid Douglas at a news conference Tuesday.
of the Royal Air Force Sir Sholto surfer demonstration was when
tion
on
:
Banana Bandages
TC-
It will also tend to prevent Brl- Calcutta, Sept. 23.-An Indian tons frem buying up the pound skr Red Cross medical mission return-ng abroad for as little as US$2.70 ed from Indonesian territory in the and mailing it to themselves in Bri Dutch East Indies today with praise tain.
The official rate is US$4.03.
for the ingenuity of Republican The spokesman said there had military doctors who Improvised been considerable black market ster bandages from the trunk of the Eng flowing between Britain and Dr Beel-sald that these arcan banana tree and surgical reissors France and Switzerland, -Uniled contained sufficient economie
from automobile springs. re-
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Readers are invited to answer the questionnaire below, cut it out and return to the Hongkong Telegraph, Wyndham Street, envelopes to be marked "ZBW Questionnaire."
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(2) II not, why not?.
A
for
A Dakota snatched a glider from the Sir Sholto Douglas, whose resigna-ground by swoophig low with
as Commander-in-Chief of the dangling "ish-hook. In the gilder, British zone was announced by the It was pretended, were important Foreign Office on Monday night, told prisoners captured on the airfield reporters that he was retiring at the and wanted at headquarters end of a normal period of duty a questioning,
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as had been reported.
one desire
when his retirement becomes effec-
tive in November was for a complete
rest for a walle, he said.
Sir Sholto revealed that he was
Force to go
from .tho Royal Air
4,000-Mile Trip Abandoned
also returns into public life.
He did not discount suggestions
Birkenhead, Cheshire, Sept. 23----- might ho
for slection to The seven-man crew of the 138-ton Parliament. He answered questiona
sehooner Brooklands, today abandon-
that
Tun
as to whether there had been dised their second attempt to sail the agreement between himself. and other people or organisations that 4.000 miles to Jamaten from Birken- head, after the vessel had received a
in Bar here,
the Foreign Ofee by saying that ho might be able to tell. incro severe buffeting outside the Mersey November when he had cotirod Associated Press,
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An attempt to sali last week was 3. Copenhagen, Denmark. 4.An- abandoned after the vessel's bul- antus, an early Christian, withheld works
weather.
1. The
turkey family. 2. The "Amazon River in South America.
WCTO
· smashed' » In' rough
part of his gift to the church, and The schooner, owned by a Jamalca led agout 11. 5. Switzerland grant. ed to her by the Congress of Vienna trader, A. Harris, is intended for In 1815, 6. John Wesley.
coal work from Trinidad,—Router.
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