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VOL. II NO. 368
Bidault Puts In His Spoke
Threatens To Block Big 4 Decision
French
London, Dec. 9. Foreign Minister Georges Bidault indicated in a clash with Russian Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov that he would block any Big Four decision on German economic unity until France gets an answer to her demand for control of the Saar.
'The Uniterl Slates and Britain approved economie already have
absorption of the industrially rich Saar valley by France, but Russia has not committed herself.
Briefing officers of
the United
States, Britain And France told
of the newsmen
incident in meeting of the Foreign Ministers' Council.
Before Bidault threatened the new deadlock, they said he pressed Molotov for a decision on the Sanr. but got only the answer that the Council would have the "time and occasion" to discuss the Saar prob- lem.
The Council reached tentative! Agreements on some secondary points regarding the economic fu- ture of Germany, but the accords were overshadowed by disputes.
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102 Killed In 10 Days Revival Of Emperor Worship US Govt's
Of Bitter
Arab-Jewish Fighting
TEL-AVIV STRIFE RENEWED
Jerusalem, Dec. 10.-Bitter communal strife burst out anow this morning in the all-Jewish Tel-Aviv and first reports said three Jews had been slain, boosting the unofficial Palestine toll of dead for 10 days of Arab-Jewish fighting to 102.
A police armoured car was set afire during the fighting by a "Molotov cocktail," in what Jewish sources said was an operation of Irgun Zvai Leumi, the extremist Jewish underground group, which has been in constant conflict with the British.
Unofficial reports said a Jewish policeman had been wounded fatally in the Jewish sources said other armoured cars came on the scene at armoured car attack. once and sprayed the street with bullets for 40 minutes. One of the other two persons
a girl. At least three persons were reported injured. killed this morning was
Former HK Journalist Lauded
In Japan Reported
London, Dec. D.-The reported attempts to revive Emperor wor- ship in Japan will be tho subject of a question to the Prime Minis- fer, Mr Clement Attlee, in the House of Conimons to-morrow.
Mr T. C. Skeffington Lodge, Labour, has given notice that he will ank Mr Attlee "whether he is aware that there is evidenco in Japan of a movement to reintroduce Emperor worship and whe- ther he will instruct the British representative on the Far Eastern Commission to press for Immediate action to probibit activities of
ils nature."
British press reports on Emperor Hirohito's vialt to atom-bumb blasted Hiroshima last Sunday said flat the Emperor was greeted "with fanalical adoration" by 500,000 people lining the streets,
Mr Hessel Timan, chief Far Eastern correspondent of the Dally Herald and author of several books on Asia and the Pacific, de- clared in his despatch: "It was a memorable day for the world, for It proved that Emperor worshipping in Japan is back where it starled."—Reuter,
RESUME WORK ORDER BY FRENCH UNION BOSSES
Paris, Dec. 9.-The Communist-controlled. majority of the General Confederation of Labour tonight issued "resume work" orders to its 20 striking unions, effective tomorrow.
Plan For Rationing
MEAT AND PETROL INCLUDED
Washington, Dec. 9.—The United States Government submitted to Congress today legislation proposing the re- tioning of meat, petrol and other commodities.
Mr Willlarn C. Foster, the Under-
Secretory of Commerce, told a
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee that the bill, handed to the group by the Secretary of Commerce, Mr Averell Harriman, would also permit the Government to buy up the nation's entire crop of wheat and certain other com
commodities. Mr
Foster said the bill was de- signed to give President Truman the authority to allocate and fix priorities on scarce items, including The decision setting the nation's, wages and prices," M. Mayer said.
livestock and poultry, steel, grain back key Industries
in motion
Land grain products, goods wagons M. Jean Jauhoux,
non-Com-and other products and materials, followed an emergency meeting of munist minority leader in the CGT the National Strike Committee.
control and thus
the Inflationary who was against the strikes but trends in the United States. At one time the strikes, affecting supported the workers' claims, said ininers, dockers, rallway workers, in a radio address that the Govern- the lust
postal and telegraph employees and ment must now tackle the problem other government and Industrial em- of stabilising wages and prices and
measure would give ployees, involved over two million guarantee adequate purchasing President the authority to restrict people.
power to the worker. Acts Dr
of sabotage on railways cul- minated in the deraliment of a Paris-Lille express near Farns Auran
the loss of 21 lives.
This morning's fighting in Tel-ningham, in an interview last SUR- Aviv followed a wild fight during day. which a taxicab army of Jewishi He was given to understand that Administration would volunteers beat off a two-hour attack the British
and continue to function until by Arab machine-unners
moment. grenade throwers in what some In- formants called the fiercest fighting since the United Nations decision to partition the Holy Land.-Associated Press.
ARAB AMBUSH Tel-Aviv, Dec. 9-A Haganah in- telligence officer, Joseph baum, described by friends as an authority on
shot
for
withdrawing
ASSERTION REFUTED Sir Alan Cunningham, 'iri an off- clal statement tonight, refuted Khalid's assertions.
Tho
reasons were given to Dr Khalid," his state- ment added. "It was also explain- ed to him that equivalent arrange- ments were being made for the Arnbs."
with
dicating a projected British with-line trains.
The
any
WIDE AUTHORITY
other materials, if he found after pubile 'hearings that a shortage was unsically affecting the "indus- trial production ог the cost of
Senator John Cooper (Republican
NOT ALL SATISFIED
Reports from Marseilles tonight living.
Paris had been without dusimen indicated that not all dock, fram- Teltel-
and almost without a postal service, way and metal workers were satis-of Kentucky) asked Mr. Foster whe- had suffered water, gas and elec-fied with the resumption order and ther the bill implied authority for tricity cuts and at one time had no the general
tomorrow consumer rationing. reaction to local trains and only a few main morning was anxiously awaited.
Many informed observers con- sidered the CGT in its statement allempled to avoid dissension among those who wished to continue striking by appealing. to them as martyrs.
London, Dec. 9.-Lieutenant
Arab customs, was British officials said the Council General A. E. Percival, British
a Bedouin, encamp- agreed generally on a British pro- commander at Singapore, took killed today when Arabs ambushed pasal for drafting common the occasion at the Malaya his car hear
him as he fled across a field. export-import programme for Ger- Campaign Officers Reunion last ment, disarmed his Arab escort and
Teitelbaum
was killed near the night to salute Harold Guard,
Arabs yesterday veteran United Press staff cor-spot where respondent; who was with the burhed Joshun Globerman,
supported Haganali
meanwhile unofficial British estimates with claim that its troops had killed 70 Arabs in an Arab attock last night on the Hatikva quarter of Tel-Aviv. Haganal sources said the attack
FINE JOB BY British forces at Singapore and
MINERS
during campaign.
coal-qur
most of their
Pacific
deep mining and opencast working troubles. I have rend most-news.formed Arabs crept through citrus
In Dunkirk were mined.
fons
houses on
Were
of
so far as is known
The great ports of Marselles and Havre were almost idle as a result of atrikes.
Federations of the
"(2) To congratulate all those who participated in the butlle, or supported it."
to
"(3) To adopt a declaration be made to French workers and to publish it throughout the country
4) To call on all workers to reinforce their unity within the CGT.
distribute
available
It was "all finished and won," he added.
Referring to the London meetings
Mr Foster replied: "It would include that power."
The Administration's contention was that it should have the power to ration, H necessary, to halt runaway prices.
to
tho
**X-
The measure presented Committee would extend the port controls and priorities power up to March 31, 1950.-Reuter.
Purchase Of
C&W Assets
Pretoria, Dec. 9.-The Union, Gov- of the Big Four Foreign Ministers, ernment has reached an agreement at which he represents France, M. with the Coble and Wireless of Bidault said that yesterday's session South Africa, Ltd., for the purchase had brought to 500 the number of of the Company's assets as existing
1047. the South
hours he had spent with the Sovlet on October 31, Foreign Minister, M. Molotov. This African Minister of Posts and Tele- was so many more hours than the graphs announced to-day. "(5) To
French chief of the
Communist funds,
particularly to families of the Party had been able to have with Telegraphs will assume the respon-
The Department of Posts
ind : heroes, who either fell or were im- M. Molotov-Reuter.
nibillly for the conduct of the ex- prisoned during this battle.
ternal telegraph and telephone ser vlees of the Union with effect from January 1.
tele-
This was interpreted here as in-
drawal from the Arab towns
Jenin and possibly Jaffa, Nablus, Gaza. Dm-
A British soldier was shot dead
DECISIONS ANNOUNCED by unknown gunmen in the Jewish. Hadar Hacarmel district of Haifa
Tonight's National Strike Com- mitter communique said: "The Na- M. Didault, Foreign Minister, com- tonight, it was officially stated,
Fifteen Palestinians, nine Jews
tional Strike Cummittee meeting on menting on the termination of and six Arabs
either shot, December 9, after having heard the Fennee's greatest post-war strike, Constituent said in London that the French Gen. Percival said, "I am happy
stabbed or beaten to death today. to any that we have here tonight us
since the United
and wishing to fulfil its | Government had won n political
London,
duty towards French workers. has struggle between "forces of civilian- Dec. 9-British
guest o representative of the was Drst planned and the opera- the tenth day
tion carried out by Arabs in uni-Nations announced its decision to
decided:
tion and those elements which are miners Inst week beat
The Arabs poured heavy partition Palestine. all output American press to whom I feel sure
to extend a form. would wish me
Arc on records since the fall of Dunkirk in you
the. Haganah
"(1) To give an order for the the very negation of it." All was quiet tonight in the bor of automutic hearty welcome. Harold Guard of 1040.
Tel-Aviv der zone between
and resumption of work, effective from the United Press Associations was position from orange groves north
of the slum
uni-Jaffa.-Reuter.
lomorrow, quarter, while
• They wou 4,200,700 tons from out there with us and shared all our
EVACUATION MOVES London. Dec. --The Arst steps werk. 4,953,400 tons
Jewish
towards the complete evacuation of paper accounts of the campaign and plantations to the cast of the town- the uf the outskirts
Palestine, now being taken, include With four weeks to go to the car can only say that he did a first a surprise attack on
can see village of Salume-United Press.
the movement of stores and equip- of the coal year-on-January-3, 1048, class job of reporting. 1 it is no longer a question of "Will that he is well remembered by most
CLAIM BY ARABS
ment, the "thinning out" of
troops from certain areas and the making the miners reach their target af of you and I know there is no need
for Jerusalem, Dec. 9-At least 1,500 of arrangements the United 200,000,000 tons?" but "How much for me to ask you to extend to him
thes
of the will the target be beaten?"
proverbial hospitality
Palestinian Arabs, after completing Nations Commission to take over. With 185,080,200
The timetable, so already Services."-United Press. mined this year,
there remains
Harold Guard will be well re-military training with the Syrian 14,919,800 tons to be obtained in thembered by many of our readers. army in Syria, have slipped back from reliable sources, may be sum-
Syrian-Palestine border marised as follows: four weeks.
He was the first manager of the cross the
and dispersed to strategic points
May 1st to 15th-The British As the miners have exceeded the Hongkong Bureau of United Press, throughout the Holy Land, informei Government 4,000,000 mark each week during and in 1941 went to Singapore to Arab sources said today.
mandate, probably about this date, of arms and transfer November, there should be a con- open up UP bureau there. He is "Several lorries' loads"
responsibility to the
tele-communication, iderable balance on the 200,000,000 now attached to the London office and ammunition were being sent United Nations Commission over a
and telephone radio services ton target.-Reuter.
to the Arab armed forces in the peric
of about two weeks. In
within the
the Union and to and from. Hebon area of southern Palestine areas already evacuated by British On December 7 the Government
the Union will be State-owned and Transjordan, one through
source troops, full responsiblilty for keep-transmitted new proposals to the
State-controlled from that date. ing order will puss to the United
CGT8
Executive stated.
Committee 113 Singapore, Dec. 9.-A Far Eastern
The Minister, Mr W. Mushel's, Jewish casualties in the past 16 Nations.
follows:
bureau of the World Federation of statement said that the transfer of hours, according to reliable Jewish May 15 to August 1-Areas re- Monthly allowance of 1,500 francs Trade Unions would be formed at a control of the external services. sources, were
killed and live maining in British occupation-the retroactive to November 21 to work Federation conference to be held at was the climax to protracted nego wounded.
"bridgehead"—will be ere who did or did not strike.
next year, Mr Ernestations between the Union Gov- The Irgun Zval Leumi in a state- evacuated district by district with other words, workers who resumed Thornton, President of the Austra ernment and ment to the Hebrew press appeal the British retaining responsibility work wouki realise the sum of 800 lan Counell of Trade Unions, said the adoption of the
the Company after ed to the Haganah High Command for their own security until they franca living allowance for Novem- here today.
recommenda tion at the Commonwealth Tele- to allow them to join in the de-
leave.
ber.
Mr Thornton, member of the communications Conference in fence of Jewish lives and property. The precise timetable is contained The Goverment would abandon
British troops tonight enforced a in a top-secret operationul plan
on his way the Commonwealth ·Governments Falaries and agreed that steps would Communist Party. is few between Jaffa and Tel-Aviv, command and for security reasons be taken to stabilisc wages and back to Australia by air from the should take control of their respec- Paris meeting of the World Federative external tole-communications the trouble spot in recent Jewish-the
military will not disclose in prices until June 1.
systems.Reuter. Árab outbreaks.
advance which districts and in what A new minimum wage guarantee tion Executive-Reuter. At lenst dozen Arabs and six order are to be evacuated first. will be established to become effec- Jews
tonight reported to No date has been set for the tive from December 1. have been killed with scores more British police force to be out. In Family allowances will be paid to wounded in last night's gun battle the preliminary phases, however, striking or non-striking workers in that area.
by 22 changes are being made in ratio of and will be increased A battalion of British troops troops and police in certain areas cent moved into the "bottle" area tonight Router.
EDITORIAL
of United Press.)
Big Four Stalemate
DEST
ESPITE a certain amount of
agreement
procedure, un there appears to be Bitle hope that the London conference of Foreign Ministers will ad- vance very far. towards work- ing out a German peace treaty. Progressive discussions on prin- ciple issues are being statemated insistence on Day- by Russia's ment of reparations as a prere quislie for the econonile unity of persists Germany. M. Molotov
United
An this demand in the face of strong protests by the States, Britain and France that Germany cannot afford to
tions from the Western Zones only if they are unnecessary to German
Mir peare' economy. Marshall, Mr Bevin and M. Bidault are convinced that Ger- many needs the remainder of her
the capital
equipment for purpose of
proper neldeving a
economy, and that any reparations at this stage
the
further would,
In the long run, mean they must
coino
out of the pockets
of
American and British taxpayers, Ever since the fruitless Moscow conference the
between
Russia and the split
remaining three
Powers has been on the pay
another $10,000,000 in repara- tions, and at the same time help
Herself make
to
WH
of,
Inter-
pretation of the Potsdam ment,
and whether circum
since that stances economically
agreement was reached in August, .1945 have a changed that some of the conditions then laid down can- not now be
applied. reasonably
"Initial
balanced to a degree that relieve the Western Powers crippling rehabilitation costs, M. Molotov unceasingly repeats that the principles of the Agreement must be carried
Potsdam
out
that
of
in full, and that any alternatives
violation of constitute a
study A
tho agreement. Potsdam Agreement autgests that M. Molotov han something of a case, for the relevant. articles'read: "Reparation claims of the USSIt shall be met by re- movals from the zone of Ger many occupied by the USSR and from appropriate Ge
German ternal assets (and that) 10 per Industrial caplial equip. cent of ment as is unnecessary for the German peace economy shall be removed from the Western Zones
be transferred to
ex-
the
Soviet
or
to Government on reparatious ac count
without payment exchange of any kind in' return"" The contingent clause here that Russia is entlited to, repara-
.
In what was called the
of Allied control," ro-
orations WeL
ro-
peric
will surrender its
X
Com- (6) The National Strike mittee, which has accomplished Its mission, has decided to dissolve itself."
✅ GOVT. PROPOSALS
Far East Trade
Union Bureau
Al
All
Praph
tion at
hoot al sight" dusk to dawn cur- {worked out by the British militar until June i its decision to block Central Committee of the Australian London in July and August that
and camped in the orange groves
separating the two towns.
the
COUNTER "INVASION"
Dr Hussein Khalidi, secretary of
Another 10
Arab Higher Committee, said Years Of Peace
tonight that any Invasion of Pales-
tine by Jewish displaced persons Forecast.
from
Europe would be met by a "counter-invasion of Arabs from
neighbouring,
cofantastic", the
per
The CGT statement commented: These are the results you have ob- tained for yourselves alone, by your strike action."
The statement continued: "Wo of giving take the responsibility the general resume work for to- morrow, December 10.
will resume work at the same timy as civil servants."
REASON TRIUMPHS
"Workers
Wreck In Harbour Fairway To Be Lifted In Three Sections
After months of dificult preparations, the forward section of the sunken Japanese cargo ship that lies just East of the Kowloon ferry path will be lifted this week. .. Part of the huge salvage scheine, which cuts through metal by shoot- which has cleared Victoria. Harbouring oxygen through on electrically of come 100 wrecked and sunken charged tube. Developed by the ahips, the removal of this wreck-hts Americans during "the war," the oxl- San Francisco, Dec. 0.-Dr Arthur
been one of the most difficult and are cuts very quickly and II. Compton, Nobel prize-winning
The communique made no men- ticklish foba in the entire pro- especially constructed to work under today forecast atomic physicist,
but tion of the fact that the CGT's. Ex-gramme, claims to have killed 7
pence for another 10 years,
and National Committee
on the sca more than 100 warned that milions of
The forward section, weighing 000 and wounded
Because the ship lies persons ecutive
Committee already floor just a few hundred feet away tons is now in the process of being Central Strike others in last night's battle.
would die intanatomic war
had Dr Khalldi, speaking at a press things go wrong."
turned down these some pro from the main waterline between slung on to three pieces of 9-inch
the day that they conference, said that there would be
wore Hongkong and Kowloon, it could not cable wire. The section will be lifted He added: "I will not say another pornis
submitted. Arab Government-in-Exile.
be broken by explosives and the today or tomorrow by two special- war will wipe. every body off the
M. Daniel Mayer, Minister If there is an Arab Government, face of the earth
entire job had to be done by divers ly constructed lifting barges. The and it will not will be set up in Palestine, he destroy civilisation-there will be
with cutting torches.
remaining two parts, weighing 1,200 The operation was further ham- and 1,000 tons, will be lifted by the
He denied undoubtedly en-
visaged as part of the economic price which Germany lad to pay for losing the war. but it is
striking that in two clauses deal- ing with this subject emphasis
Jewish Araby
Do
Tit
ATL
of
Labour, who conducted the negotin tions with the CGT, on hearing the
bald: I cannot hide my
water.
that Is placed on-the condition reparations must be of a natura considered
unnecessary to Gor-
added. Molo- man peace economy, M. lov's argument. today therefore means, as Mr Marshall has point- of an international volunteer force enormous setback. We will have to back." start, all over from the way ed out, that Russia
being formed under the command of considers
The Chancellor of the Washing payment of all reparations as
the British officer, Captain Royton University said, on the other Forran, to fight on the Arab side, hand. 10 years of peace would go condition to the economic unity of the German people
Dr Khalidi said: "We do not, want a long way clear
toward preventing another Spain here," violation of the principles
Third World War. Intention of the Potsdam Agree-
He said that the action of
"The
forces which unlied the ment.
Palestine And so long as Russin
Government in with United States are at, present at remains adamant on this
drawing the British police from Tel-
work throughout the world and 10 there is no
Aviv area was in contradiction of years of peace will strengthen the the assurances given him by the trend 10 permanent peace," Dr. High Commissioner, Sir Alan Cun- Compton sald.--United Press,
"Asked if he had any knowledge some pieces left. But it will be resume work order,faction. It Pered because the ship Iny abreast end of the month.
and
Iskue
hapo of ·agreement
between the Big Four.
the
nt slack fide
when
they
When the operation is complete, only would seem that rencon and in of the tide and divers could work telligence has triumphed over force. would not be swept into the wreck-four wrecks will be left in Victoria Harbour, two at the Fast *The working class has made age.
end and two at the West end. All between "Six divers worked in shifts for of these are worthless for salvago discrimination necessary ..
the economic aspects of their claims several months to
cut the wreck and will be blown apart by explo- und political exploitation of these into three pieces and make it ready sives, the entire programme will
for lifting Before the wreck was finished within six months... claims.
debris and Now, the Government, faithful cut, a cargo
of steel
The Royal Navy and the Salvage to its promises, can begin consulta- mineral ore was removed.
Department. have cleared over 100 The divers worked with a special large and small wrecks since "the tions for a general regulation which would fix the equilibrium between wȧrilme Invention-tho oxl-arc, 'liberation."