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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1948.
JAP PLOT AGAINST OCCUPATION POLICY
Rumanian Throne Loses Powers
Bucharest, Jan. 1-A govern- ment decree today turned over virtually all the power of the Rumanian throne. vacated by King Michael, to a five-man High Presidium, which also pro- claimed a new flag and new coat of
The decree will as to the Rumanian Parliament for 20- proval, when i reconvenes on January 20.
The decree provides that the
oldest man on the five-man
Council be
President of the
Presidium. According to this, the post of President will go to Professor Constaniln Parhon
noted historian unaffilated with any party.-United Press.
PRIČAMAZAN KERMANNsatmuss
ANGLO-IRAQ TREATY
PROGRESS
London, Jan. 9.-The meeting | between Mr Ernest Bevin, the
Washington, Jan. 10-Renewed reports of alleged sabotage of Japan's economic recovery by Japanese officials and businessmen are being circu- lated in the United States.
The allegation is made that militarists and officials of Japan's post-surrender government are implicated along with business interests and black marketeern.
Summing
up the alleged vanished, it is claimed, "and only senndal. World Report, weekly tiny proportion was sold legally. news magazine, said:
It is claimed that when the Japanese "Japan's industrial trusts are surrender in 1945 it ordered materi- Government decided to holding vast hourds of rawals in stockpiles, to be sold for the materials while
shortages publle benefit. strangle production.
"The stocks Japanese army supplies with official collusion. They are being sold slowly, na huge profit, 121 the black market.
US
wero Jooted from supplied making officers turned over
"A plot to thwart recovery, boost
скрепяв and discourage
the occupation, may be involved.“
The occupation authorities have far not taken a hand in the alleged irregularities, it is under- stood here, but this polley may be changed.
Washington officials concerned with Japanese affairs have long felt that secret efforts
were going on in dann nimed at defeating Allled
reparations policies.
Stockpiles Vanish
Japan's war slockpiles, sumclent to supply that nation's pencetime economy "for four years." have
Foreign Secretary, and the Iraq SOUTH POLE
the
treaty delegation, led by Iraqi Premier, Sayid Salam Jabir, at the Foreign Oflice this afternoon, is expected to prove decisive.
Mr Bevin is leaving London this week-end, hoping to resumie his in- terrupted holiday. If this is to prove
slon.
A En
Present umens are good. further morning's hard work committee was put in today by the
IN EMPIRE
DEFENCE
directly to business con- cerne in exchange for bribes or executive
World Jobs,"
'Report sinted.
"The Zaibatsu companies, Japan's family monopoly powers, obtained the biggest share of the spolls. Much of the loot is gone for good, but other stocks are being recovered by police searches.
Fraudulent Gains
"Polites as well as profits
may There is evidence be involved," the magazine said. that Japan's ultra-Conservatives have filled the campaign chest of their Liberal Party with some of the fraudulent
"Some observers feel," World Re-. port conrhuded, "the whole situation was part of an organised plot, de- Aighe Tower
to shore up the economic of the family trusts, tide them through the occupation period and help them regain control of Jaran."
World Report continued with this story of alleged happenings:
Government "Insiders"
Traded In Commodities
Washington, Jan. 9-Mr Harold E. Stassen, a Repub lican candidate for the Presidential nomination this year, today told the Senate Appropriations Sub-Committee that high Administration "Insiders" had made a proflt of about $4,000,000 by trading in commodities since the war..
Mr Stassen also told the Sub-Committee, Inquiring Into speculation, that Mr Edwin W. Pauley, Special Assistant fo, the Secretary of the Army, "did not make a full dis- tlosure" of his trading activities when he appeared before the Committee last month. -
Mr Stassen said that his information was that Mr Pauley had actually made a profit of approximately $1,000,000 through his trading and did not lose $100,000 as Mr Stassen said Mr Pauley had inferred,
He urged the committee to "carry through".a_com. plete investigation, declaring that the Integrity of the Government was involved,Reuter.
Talks On Indonesia Face Total Collapse
Batavia, Jan. 9.-Unless a compromise on the Indo- neslan, "cense fire" Issue is reached before next week, the Dutch-Indonesian negotiations, sponsored by the Security Council's "Good Offices” Committee, are in danger of col- lapsing, it was reliably learned here tonight.
GREEK REBEL
GUERILLAS
REINFORCED
said. the
British Zone Food
Crisis
CHURCHILL
RECEIVES
VISITORS
Marrakesh, Jan. 9.-The first public visitor to see Mr Winston London, Jan. 9.-Urgent top-Churchill, since Lord Morn level consultations are going on issued a reassurance about his among ministers and ocials patient, will be Si Hadj Tami El dealing with occupied Germany Glaoul Pasha, of Marrakesh, here today in an effort to deal who is to lunch with Mr Chur- with the worsening of food chill tomorrow. supplies in the British zone and to prevent a repetition of the springtime food erlain of last
Responsible quartora fully aware of the deterioration of the effective rations in the zone, and particularly in the Ruhr, even before the outbreak of local strikes drew his book, will also attend attention to it.
The
rallons
effectively distributed. had fallen from around 1,500 calorien:
Although Britain's wartime leader on the world for normal consumers to some 1,234 has put Marrakesh calories by the end of the last ration-little of him, usually only a ficting map, the town itself - sceg very ing period, with each week's actual distribution hind the rations called up.
year.
here
Ora
El Glaoul Pasha, one of the richest men in all Africa, who leads nearly a million people in tribni splendour and
and omnipotence, is an old friend of Mr Churchil. scientific adviser during the war, Lord Cherwell, Mr Churchill's who arrived here by special plane today to help Mr Churchill finish
choon.
the
Iun-
the afternoon when,
glimpse in logging somewhat be-after a morning's work on his book,
The distribution in some areas is Pasha's
he passes by in one of El Gleaul slightly higher and more effectively turning from his favourite valley 'n
cars, heading for or supplemented by "black market the Atlas Mountains with his paints supplies, but the downward trend and casel, but in the streets and has been noticeable and the process cafes and is the bustling teeming has not far been checked.
Thie
square or market place the talk, is failure to maintain
The mainly of him.-Reuter, rations is entirely due to the vir- If the talks collapse, the tual collapse in the distribution of
SO
The refusal of the states to share
possibility of the dispute being potatoen, meats and fats as between referred back to the SecurityThe different German states. Council or of the Dutch resum- ing the right of "freedom of action" (as they did just before carrying out the "police action" last year) might then face the "Good Offices" Committee, it was stated.
The climax of the present alun- tion-described by Dutch sources tonight as "critical"-is expected out Sunday.
aro
Most of the supplies were taken Athens, Jan. 9.-The War by "control associations" and "con- Minister, George Stratos, said trul companies," which had semi-today that two regiments of Kovernmental status, these were controlled by the Zai-
Actually, guerillas, believed to have come Sydney, Jan. 10.-The recent batsu familles, which had handled from Albania, had been report- possible, there remains only some 40 Australian landing on Heard terials during the war.
allocation and distribution of ma-ed in Bulgaria opposite the
With Holland's co-operation, the hours in which to bring the nego Island and the South African dence Indientes they "allocated" the
The evi- Greek border.
Republican Ambassador at large, Dr tiation to revise the
Mir Stratos said it was believed Sutan Sahrir, and the 1930 Anglo-
Vice-Pre- Icogl' Treaty to a successful conclu-Occupation of Prince Edward loot among their own companies.
they carne through Yugoslavia sident, Dr Mohammed Hatta, Island are widely interpreted
following the guerillan' defent at returning to Batavia, a spokesman of here as part of an overall plun
Konitsa and the retreat into Albania, the Netherlands East Indies Govern- of Empire defence devised by
Cmdr Morton Sunderland. United ment said today. Lord Field Marshal
Inited States Mediterranean Stales naval attache, Mont-
These two Indonesian leaders are Fleet expected to reach Datavia tomor Iraqi delegation and Foreign Ofee gomery during his recent visit
described Was engaging in manoeuvres, row-Dr Sjahrir from Singapore, to the Dominions.
EOLA
"routine training and Dr Hatta from Sumatra-with exercises," which might bring the Republican Prime Minister, Dr within sight of Greece and
Amir Sjnrifoeddin, who left Singa- Greek Islands.-United Press.
pore for Sumatra by special plane Rumours Denied
today.
The "Good Budapest, Jan. 9. The rumours
Offices" Committee that special brigade was being will fly on Sunday to Jogjakarta recruited in Hungary join the with the Republican delegates, in-
Greek Government", of cluding Dr Halta and Dr Slahrir. General Markos were denied here today by the Under-Secretary for Information.
experts.
Tomorrow morning. the Foreign sir Secretary has arranged to see Robert Howe, Governor-General of the Sudan, who is now in London.
for one-
Government Losers Zalbatru companies were able to materials at official prices, obtain hoard them speculatively and resell them through the black market for 10 to 50 times as much. There is evidence that 800,000 pairs of socks, sold by the government Fifth of a yen per pair, were resold nt
Bo yen. leading Actually the government received
nothing at all for most of the sup was collected for goods worth be "Free plies. Less than 2,000,000,000 yen tween 100 and 200 billion yen official prices.
Both sites appear to be parts of an Empire lifeline ringing the South Polar seas.
Prime Minister J, B. Chifley has
with just spent two days Sir Robert will give Mr Bevin the Army, Navy and Air Force men in views of the Sudin Government on Melbourne. The Daily Telegraph the constitutional proposals worked out in Khartoum last summer ast well as his opinion of the possibility empire defence responsiblllifes are of breaking the deadlock over the expected to be announced "In the
Sudan issue, which has, ac
for, prevented the revision of the 1030 Anglo-Egyptian Treaty.
Sir Robert Howe has already given his views on the constitutional re- form proposals to the Egyptian Government in Calro,
aald that deinils of Australia's new
ni
next
The total quantity of goods carted three or four weeks." Australia
may never be known. About purchased two nircraft off
arsenals, recently from the United 24,000 dumps at carriers
houses and Kingdom, and these may be used to
government were involved." police the, route.
If the Japonese
factories
Government
ware-
It is understood that one purpose had obtained full payment for its of Chifley's talks with military
the cost of stockpiles, it would have had enough lenders is to ascertain
and cover all deficit budgets No arrangement lins yel
Service requirements in the next to been
occupation costs since the surrender. made for the British Ambassador in two years.
Associated Press. Persons close to the Government Cairo, Sir Ronald Campbell, to meet Mr Bevin, but Sir
said Britain Ronald
no longer could Is at
of the vast present working daily at the Foreign the bill for defence
Empire trade routes, and that the Dominions of South Africa. Aus-
Office.
pay
He is expected to report to thetalia and New Zealand had been Foreign Secretary on the prospects asked to fill the breach,
FIGHTING IN
KASHMIR
the
Final "Amendments"
Breaking its silence about the Speaking at a press conference,
progress of the negotiations, he sald that no force wns
the being Good Officer recruited, and that General Marks caid that it would complete
Committee today had no official or unofficial repre- discussions sentative in Hungary,—Reuter.
Aid Funds Near End Athens, Jan. 8-Greece will have exhausted $300,000,000 of United States ald by June 30, Mr Dwight Griswold, licad of the United Stater Aid Mission in Greece, de clared today, according to the Athens
news agency.
Mr Griswold added that he hoped that, meanwhile, the European ald Grecce programme would include after April 1.
for
of revising the treaty with Egypt These informants said that, be- before the Foreign Secretary leaves care of the changed political situa
A milliary programme would for the country at the week-rad-tion in India and the United States,
finenced out of the total earmarked Reuter,
influence in the Mediterranean, it New Delhi, Jan. 8-A Government for reconstruction of the country.
South communique today said that the Wis probably felt that a
All said beyond June 30, he em- Pulur roule for air and shipping Indian Army in Kashmir' hadphasised, would require new Janes
would bur the safest and launched no attack on rebel positions credits. Personally, he hoped easiest to defend in wartime.~~~As- around Naushera, 00 miles southwest further aid to Greece, but Congress sociated Press.
of Srinagar. It said fighting was would have to decide. bitter and the Moslem rebels had been
reinforced with 50 truckloads of soldiers during the night.
I also said an Indian patrol clashed with a Moslem force of 200 mien rear the Pakistan border, kill- ing 30 and driving the rest info Pakistan.
SPANISH
SOCIALISTS
ON TRIAL
Ocaun, Jan. 9.-When the
Austrian Oil
Price Hiked
trial of 17 Spanish Socialists, Vienna, Jan. 9.-The Russian Including four
Women.
"The aid of the American Mission in Greece is the improvement economic conditions, and I believe we shall achieve it," he added. Reuter.
No Sumbarinos Washington, Jan: B.- The United
the
on its latest informal suggestions to the two parties the week-end meeting with the Republicans.
The Dutch delegates, the Com- mittee sald, had recently submitted "Anal amendments" to the proposals of the suggested truce agreement, and had formulated
a number of principles as the basis of a political settlement. These
proposals were formally discussed by the Committee
with the Dutch Cabinet Mission headed by Dr Louls Beel, which returned home this week, and with both the Dutch and the Republican delega tions. on boord the United States Navy transport, Renville, in Batavia harbour.
It was reported from The Ingue today that the Dutch Government is expected to make a statement on the situation In Indonesia at next Tues- day's meeting of the Dutch Second Chamber-Reuter.
Benelux Ministers
The report said Indian fighter States Navy today followed up the planes strated Moslem positions announcement that Greece had re-
To Confer hegan oil companies in Austria, which elsewhere in Kashmir. It said there celved six motor gunboats under the Greek ald programme with a denial was "nothing to report" from the that area at Uri, 50 miles west of Srina-
any submarines were to be will car.
where
Moslem forces
were sent to
tack against the Kashmir capital.
here today, the prosecution de have a complete monopoly of manded sentences ranging from Austrian oil production, one to 30 years, alleging that raise their prices tomorrow by the accused wanted to promote 100 percent, according to a re- revolution. attempting to, reorganise a clandes- trolled
Green
reported to be massing for an at- by Mr Carl Vinson,
The denial followed a statement ference of Benelux Cabinet Minis-
The defendants are charged with port in the United States con- that the Kashmir, war, which was six submarines would also be trans-will be: Baron
Vienna
tine Socialist Party and forming an Wiener Kurier.
of
W.
The Hague, Jan. 9.—A' con- Congressman lers will take place here on January Reports from the front indicated from Georgia, to correspondents that 20 and 30.
The Dutch Ministers attending ferred to Greece.
Van Bocizcloer newspaper, started ten weeks ago by lightly-
the (Foreign Affairs): M. Gerald Mr Vinson, a member armed guerilla forces protesting the Armed Services Committee of the Juysmans (Economic Affairs), Mr executive committee to replace the The report added that the Aus- State's merger with Hindu İndia,
the Mansholt (Agriculture) and M Dr original committee of the Socialt trian Chancellor,
Leopold had now developed into almest a Lower House, said, following
Navy
that he had meant to
Hendrick Vos (Transport). Party imprisoned in 1946.
Figl, is to appeal to the Nussians formal battle.-United Press. not to deal this "catastrophic blow"
say "six
The three Benelux trade union not submarines" when to the
he spoke
federations, at a meeting here today, to them after today's announcement unanimously approved the Marshall that the United States was trans-a plan. Discussions will be con- ferring four fleet type submarines to tinued in the near future.-Reuter. Turkey and that Greece had received the gunboats.-Neuter.
The defence asked that the 30-year and the 20-year sentences demanded to Austrian economie lie. in six cases should
six months and the remainder of the accused acquitted.
No violence had been committed, no firearms had been found in the possession of any
of the accused and the defendants were all anti-
defence
Communiste, the
Baid.
a re-
The prosecution alleged that the accused wished to promote volution "similar to a civil war" and did not modify its demands, Reuler.
or
an
U.S. Tax Cut Proposal
victory
Marshall Denies'
Rumours
Washington, Jan. 9.-Gen. George Marshall, Secretary of State, today denied reports that he would resign
If Congress failed to give him ade-
quate funds to carry out the Euro- pean recovery programme,
would be inconsistent with everything. I have learnt in publie service", he said.
"I might be asked to retire, but that is a different matter."—Reuter.
-be reduced to Such an increase would mean that Austrians would have to pay 215 schillings per litre of petrol, and it would be cheaper to impart oil from abroad. than to it
buy from the Russians at this
price. According to American Bources here, in the first 10 months of 1947, Washington. Jan. 9.-Speaker The
sole aim of the accused, the Russia exported 230000 tons of Aus- Joseph W. Martin, Republican of defence said, was to provide a politi-trian oli, About the same amount Massachusetts, said today he expects cal organisation for such time
Austrians the House to pass, about January 20. as was handed over to the
the the Koutson bill cutting personal there was a change in the regline for home consumption whic which, they thought, could be remaining one-third was gold at income taxes by $5.600.000 yearly. brought about by peaceful means. fantastically high prices on the A115- All signs polut to an
casy trian black market..
for the Knutson bill, despite Prezl- United States sources claim that dent Truman's recommendation of the object, of such a sudden rise in a far different individual tax cut- prices would be either rapid enrichting plats. Mr Truman proposed $40 ment
attempt wreck credit for each taxpayer dependant,
to Austrian economy and bring about effective this year. The loss in re- fellure of the Morshall Plan's venuo would be made up by an in- the attempla to make it self-supporting. crease in corporate taxes. →→Router.
The Knutson legislation would go much further. It would Increase personal exemptions from the pre- Madras, Jan. 0.-In the All-India sent $500 to 3000, extend to all tennis singles semi-ilnais, Bergelin Bombay, Jan. 9.-Sheikh Moham-
siptes the right of husband and bent Appa Rao 6-1, 6-3, and Johans- med Abdullah, head of
wife of split income for tax pur non beat A. E-Owen 8-6, 6-3. Interim Government, known as the Kamakura, Jan. 2-Ą 26-year-old poses and cut taxes 10 percent in In the doubles quarter-finals, "Lion at Kashmir," arrived here to Japanese policemen and an 18-year-high brackels and 30 percent in low Johansson and Berge beat That- day from Delhi and is due to leave old telephone switchboard girl drank brackels.
Bergelin ham
7-5, 8-2- Menon
Johnnscon and by air for New York tomorrow, poison at a Japanese inn”, here in The House Republican Steering Bergelin beat Appa Rao and Nara- He is loining the Indian delegation a double love, suicide attempt. Committee will discuss the 'legian-yana Itao 0-4, 0-3 in the semi-finals. at Lake Success, where the Kashmir Doctors rescued the polteemian button on Monday. It is expected to question will be considered by the the girl died..
In the mixed doubles. quarter- endorse the principles of the Knut-Annls, Miss Khanna and Johansson United Nations Security Council. It was the second case of love son bill and give it the green light beat Mrs Tewand Tow-7-5, 0-0.-
Sheikh Abdullah, who is 43, has suicide reported
January and speedy passage. since
Miss Woodbridge and Bergelin beat not been .out of- "Indla before but the first in the vicinity of Sonate leaders are not committed Miss Roberts and F. C. Desarom 3-0, Router.
Tokyo.-United Press.
to the Knutson plan.-United Press, 6-0, 7-8-Neuter.
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the
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