IL
EXTRA RICH NIGHT CREAM
Colonial Dames Hollywood
ACTIVATED
WITH
VITAMIN
D
On Sale at Leading Stores SOLEAGENTS NAN KANG CO, UNIÓN BLDGBLK.
The
HONGKONG TELEGRAPTE For and on behalf of... ・・・
BOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD.
Printer and Publisher
Hongkong Telegraph.
VOL. III NO. 65
France To Expel
British "Purge' Of Reds
Morrison Refuses
• Commons 'Dobaté
Y
London, Mar. 18.—The leader
demand
of the House of Commons, Mr Herbert Morrison, today refused for a full dress Commons debate on the "purge" of Communists from British Government positions, an- nounced earlier this week by the Prime Minister, Mr Attlee. Forty-one "rebel" Members had signed a polition asking for a debate and the request was made formally this afternoon by Mr Harold Davies (Lab).
Dil
Mr
Mr Morrison's refusal grant u -debate brought criticism from aldes, with the antagonists, Churchill (Cons) and Mr Gallacher (Communist) bath arguing that a debate should be held on the prin ciple of the "pure": Churchill
n
Anally served notice" that the Conservatives, although the main in support of the measure," would formally demand that a full dny be devoted to the debate.
MORRISON'S RETORT Mr Davies requested a debate in view of the
grave feeling in the country" concerning nanounced plans suspected subversives
Soviets
BANNED UNION
LEADER ARRESTED
Fighting In Council
Paris, Mar. 18.-France will expel a number of Soviet citizens who met last night to reconstitute the banned Union of Soviet Citizens, it was officially announced here tonight.
Hundreds of people from countries east of the "iron curtain" were questioned by French security police in a large-scale check-up of foreigners" activities in France in connection with the arrest of Professor Odinetz.
The French Ministry of the Interior declared today: "The French Government has discovered that the
Union of Soviet Citizens, dissolved by a decree on De- cember 15, was reconstituted in secrecy, that its new directing committee met regularly in different places, and learned from the police the existence of the latest
meeting.
law, the members of the directing "On account of this breach of the
conumittee,, who were present at this meeting, were taken to the premises of the Ministry for interrogation.
"The documents and the state- of the persons In question ments from the Civil Service,
established beyond doubt the nature the of the crime and the French Govern. "He talks about feeling in country," said Mr Morrison.yment has decided to proceed to the view that there is something of a immediate expulsion of these per- feeling of relief in the country," sons.
10
rcinove
Mr Gallacher, who was silenced. These persons have intimated their earlier this week when he attempted desire to return to the Soviet Union" to sing the "Red Flag" when the the communique added. "purge" was announced, sald heated-
ly: "Apart from whether there
Is
portant decision taken by M. Moch adding that this was the most Im-
since his assumption of the office last November.
It was learned unofficially that the expulsion order had been applied 10 11 persons and was to be put into effect Immediately.Reuter,
PROFESSOR ARRESTED
Parls, Mar. 18.-Professor Dimitri banned Union of Soviet Citizens in Odinetz, former President of the
France, and some 11 other Soviet eltizens, were arrested by French FAMILIES MAY GO
a raid on "All facilities have been granted security police in
closed tonight.
his
concern or rellet in the country, Isat to their familes to return with them.Paris house last night, it was dis- not the case that this is a very if they so wish." serious statement, with serious con- sequences for sume people?
both sides, Mr Gallacher retorted:
The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs will also publish a munique
Madame Anna Odinelz, wife of the com- professor, who was editor of the
was banned on the subject. It
newspaper, the Sovlet Patriot, told Reuter tonight: "I. was
1
The announcement followed the
Odinetz,
FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1948.
Preparing
Dine
At the
For
Reservations
Tol: 27880
Price 20 Cents
For War 2 U.S. GENERAL LEAPS
LEBANESE ARMOUR.—While reports of now violence from the Holy Land fill the front pages, scenes like this are becoming common through the Middle-East. Here armoured cars of the Lebanese army parade through the streets of Beirut while hundreds of spectators jam the sidewalks. Lebanon, un Arab state, is training its army to be ready for any emergency.
5 British
Soldiers
Killed By Arabs
?
Jerusalem, Mar. 18-Five British soldiers and three Jews were killed in an Arab attack on a Jewish convoy near Haifa today, it was officially stated.
A British official of the Palestino' Railways way today shot in the head and seriously injured by unknown gunmen in the German quarter of
alin.
Five minutes later, a British soldier
the some area. British troops later pleketed the area-Router.
thought the Leader of the House was deeply concerned about minorities."
Interrupted by cries of "Oh" from learned. "If you listen, you will hear the arrest of a group of Soviet citizens present here in my home last night in a military truck was shot dead in tramp of many
million feet and when French security police raided and saw several French police ar- before long maybe the laugh will the house of Professor Dimitrit my husband and 10 or 11 of be the other way round."
his guests and order them from the President of the former
house Major Tufton Beamish (Cons) Union of Soviet Citizens, and suggested that Mr Atlee's statemen! arrested the professor and a party
"After a sleepless night, raised constitutional questions. of visitors.
told by the police today that my "If there were adequate feeling in M. Jules Moch, the French husband
was being held at the of the Interlor, tonight security police headquarters the House that the Government were Minister
for taking the improper constitutional conferred with high police officials
questioning," course, the right thing to do would jon
of Professor the questioning motion of Odinetz and the other arrested Soviet be to put down censure," said Mr Morrison,
citizens Mr Churchill said: "In the main) The expulsion decision was taken we are in support of the measures directly by M. Moch after M. Georges which the Government with great Didoult, the French Foreign Minis- reluctance have felt it their duty to ter, had been informed, officials of
(Continued on Page 4)
the Ministry of the Interior
suta,
EDITORIAL
Why HK Feels Frustrated
THE Valting Minister of Stic
for Colonial Affairs has only
to read the so-called debate in the House of Lords in which the future of Hongkong was mention- ed, to appreciate why this Colony suffers from a sense of frustra- and a growing feeling that, belnz geographically such a small place and
80 far away Britain, we are not regarded the
Imperial Gove
Government sumlelently important to worry Haeli about. Lord Mancroft's challenging proposition that the British Government should
by
38
rezand-
publicly declare its policy ing the future of Hongkong was, be it
noted..
completely ignored by Lotd Hall who replied for the. Government Possibly, to Lord Hall and others
Home, the
future of the Colony is of no great moment, but here it is constantly being thought about of. It is here. In eyes' wh
and spoken
Love where one can spot the,
Mancroft quite
is hore where
which Lord correctly declares
are being cast on the Colony.
wa can red and appreciate the subtle underground activities of those who would
and attempt to force their
for one end only.
: embarrass the local
ad SINIS
the
In
polley expediency which is
of dictated In part by the
the Colonial in part by the and
the Forelin Office is ornically regarded appeasement, and because, for the most part It is a negative polley. It is treated with a certain amount 'of contempt by the public. Whether .or. not tha British
3.3
„Government should publicly..des clare its polley concerning the Juture of Hongkong is a matter as much of polities and diplomacy of opinion. Possibly the TC- sponsible Ministers are perfectly satisfied that this is a subject better left alone at this time; and we, ourselves, do not necessarily agree with Lord Mancroft's de- mand. The grievance is that the British Government
vernment so deliberate.
ly ignores this part of the debate when answering the opposition. The subject is casually brushed aalde as though it had never been
no
mentioned. Perhaps Lord Hall as representing the Admiralty was make a reply In position to ma about future Holley vis-a-v}x Hongkong: but he might at least have said so, and promised to bring to the attention of the proper departments. It has been noticeable that in the House of Commons any questions" desting with
Hongkong receive the most- verfunctory replica. The subject of an airport has for so long рго- the...stock. duced Put answer
maiter is under. active
consideration that it re cently inspired the classic.
supple. mentary
"BAN the Minister Question
say when Government- will pass from active considera- tlon to passive action?” That, very neally, expresses the feelings of Hongkong / wblok' has become wearled of the procrastination, euphemistically known as "active" consideration" which appears to be applied to all of the Colony's. affairs demanding. Imperial Gov- ernment neilon or decision.
RUSSIA'S INTENTIONS Lako--Success, Mac10Faris
Al I was Bey
Khoury, the Syrian member of the United Nations that Security Council, sald tonight Russia's main objectives In sup- porting Palestine partition are to wreck American-Arabian friendship and hinder 'the European recovery progrummo by interfering with the Arabian oil supply.
Russian sources had earlier said several houses were raided and that another person arrested
M. Temetillo, former Secretary of the Union.
was
In
he
a statement to Reuters, Raid he could not understand why Russia should support partition,
50
COAL MINE
DISASTER
Belgrade, Mar, 18.-Dispatches to Belgrade newspapers on Thursday placed at 71 the number of miners
killed in a coal mine explosion in the Istrian Peninsula.
An unknown number-at least 10- ere missing, the reports said. The number of injured was placeed at 90.
(Reports from Triesto
on Wed- nesday night and dispatches to Rome newspapera on Thursday morning around 300. placed the death toll of the blast at The accident occurred
Daily Worker Editor Resigns
London; Mar. 18-Mr.Douglas A. Hyde today announced that he had resigned as news editor of the Daily Worker, the British Communist Party newspaper, because he has become Increas- Ingly disturbed by the Soviet foreign polley and was appalled by Twiat has happened in Czechoslovakia.
It becomes obvious to me that the movement for which I had fought and worked for so long was destroying those very free- doms and decencles for which it claimed to be fighting," he said. Communism is incapable of pro- viding
다.
a cure for an extremely aick-world,
Mr Hyde, who has been Communist for 20 years, added that he intends to become *member of the Roman Cathollo
Church-Beuter.
#
FROM PLANE
Injured After Baling Out
Berlin, Mar. 18.-Brigadier General Telford Taylor, chief of the United States War Crimes prosecution team at Nuremberg, was among the nine passengers and crew who baled out of an American Dakota transport aircraft which developed engine trouble today over the Soviet sector of Berlin.
General Taylor was injured on landing, it was learned from officials at the Tempelhof airfield, but tho extent of his Injuries was not known. Some of the other passengers were known to have landed safely in the northern suburbs of Berlin.
The Dakota was flying from Tempelhof to Nuremberg.
THREE WOMEN JUMP
It was learned offelally thatenino. people, including three women, and three crew members baled out to re- duce the load on the Dakota, which developed engine trouble at about 1.800 feet.
All those who baled out, atxcept for one crew member, havo biden located and are in hospital with riight Injurler. Although they feared the engines might catch fire, the Lieutenant Squires, and the reined with the piane made a perfect jariding at Catow Airport In the
Bri Tempelhof that
It was learned at Brigadier General Taylor's wife was one of the women passengers who made a parachute jump. The other two women were wives of American judges on their way to Nuremberg.
The full passenger list is being withheld pending the investigation of a report that one crew member died after baling out-Reuter,
FATAL FLORIDA CRASH
Tampa, Florida, Mar, 18. Ten
men were killed and four injured after B20 crashed and burned as it was landing in fog at Tampa, Florida on Thursday.—Adso- ciated Press.
5-DAY BUDGET.
DAY SEZON KIRKENDEDE SUSCITAZINE and the
Record Flight
Sydney,
Mar,
18-A British
DEBATE
London, Mar. 18.-Five days have been allotted for a debate by the House of Commons of the budget Government survey of Britain's economic position.
Budget Day will be on April 6, when Parliament resultes after the Easter
Mr Churchill, leader of
The raid 'on the professor's house vigorously, because she had neither in the Racha mines on March 14) Hastings four-engined transport air- the Conservative Opposition, main-
was carried out during the night and the number of arrests was believed to be 10, but precise details are stil!, lacking this evening.
any love for the Jews nor any special interest in the establishment of a Zlonist Slate.
Ho sald he could only presume that Russia's secret aims were: A spokesman of the Soviet Em-
1-To spoil the friendship be bassy in Paris told Reuter: "We tween the Arabs and the United have no offcial information the French authorities about
from
the
arrest of theso Soviet citizens,
bow hinder
in order,
(A previous Belgrade dispatch craft, which arrived in Sydney on tained his objection, expressed last quoted the officia! Yugoslav Agency Thursday, made a London-Sydney week, to the budget and survey Tanjuo as saying that 171 persons flying time record of 464 hours. were killed, among them some Ger-
being discussed together. He thought The previous London-Sydney fly-a five-day continuous debate "most man war prisoners).
Ing time record was held by a usual
Mr Herbert Morrison, leader of The Associated Press correspondent Constellation aircraft with 49 hours.
The Hastings also broke the non- the House, replied that it would be at Trieste who tried to reach the stop record from Karachi to Ceylon very difficult to segregate the survey the supply of off scene of the explosion was turned with a time of the Middle East, which is back although-his-Yugoslav visa was average speed of 345 miles an hour possible to arrange for a break in five hours at an from the budget, but it might bo we can tell you this much the essentini to European recovery. statements you have feard are borne 3. To obtáln a footing in the
the five days-Reuter. out by real facts." "The spokesman Middle East through any inter- Representatives of the Ministries declined to make any further com- national military force, which would of Mines and Labour left Belgrade ment.-Reuter.
include Soviet contingents.
investigate the 4-To encourage Communlan in disaster, the proposed Jewish State-Reuter. The Government ordered 50,000 dinara to be paid to each family Mar. 18.-Fighting broke
ARAB LEAGUE DECISION out between Communist and non-
which lost a member and an addi Beirut, Mar. 18-Abdul Rahman tional
3,000 for each surviving Communist members of the Council Azzam Pasha, the Secretary General
CHAMBER FIGHTING
Paris,
revi
An
Thursday to
of the Republic-the French Upper of the Arab League, said tonight childAssociated Press. Chamber-today when M. Henri that at their meeting here, the Monnet, a supporter of General
Political Committee had Charles de Gaulle, called for the Security Council's re- "purge" of Communist elements in quest for Arab co-operation to caso the French Atemle Energy Commis- the tension in Palestine and had cariat.
come to the conclusion that the situation, there did not constitute a The uproof broke out as M. threat to peace. Monnet concluded a speech in which The
men,
Committee held,
Abdul
STOP PRESS
Hard Labour
For Soldiers
Associated Press.
Military Chiefs Ready To
Back Truman's Programme
Washington, Mar. 18.--America's military., chiefs re- vealed plans for building a mighty striking force to back up President Harry Truman's new stop Communism stand. They endorsed his call for a draft. They came out for raising the ceiling on armed forces manpower. They said a strong, mobile fighting force is being, developed. They put the whole programme up to Congress which has the final say.
There was no indication what Con- should move into Germany or other he demanded that "atomic research Rahinan Azzam sald, that it was not
gress would do. Manyon Capitol parts of Europe, US forces there for national defence should be en-in the intentions of the Arab states
hill wanted to wait, get more facts could not stop them. Forrestal. told-- trusted to a group of independent to
Palestine by Interfere in
and think it over. forco
the Senato Armed Services Com- free of Communist discipline." unless
The Truman foreign governments in-
administration was
tration was mittes he believed an increase of putting on the pressure. tervened to Implement the partition.
Diplomatic from 070,000 to 900,000 would be re- The Councillors exchange hented
The Committee also thought it
officials openly weighed the possibility commended for the Army. He said. insults and soon came to blows, Indyleable for the Amb Higher Com-
Russia might extend its control over undisclosed manpower boosts would despite the efforts of the President, mittee to give the United Nations
new areas of Western Europe, while also be proposed for the Navy and Sentences were passed this morn- the draft and other military measures Air Force. M-Gaston Monnerville, to calm Security Council Information . on them.
Palestinc.
ing by the Chief Justice, (Mr are still being considered in the US.
• This would end the boycott by the Justice E. H. Williams) at the cri-
He said his Department is working Omelal dispatches told of throw M. Monnerville then suspended the Higher Committee of the United Naminal sessions on three soldiers and Soviet barked "international brigade" full speed on industrial mobilisation meeting and ordered the Council tions, since the Assembly's proposal an Indian clerk who yesterday divisions polsed in the Balkans for plans. He said a "strong, mobile. Chamber to be cleared.--Reuter. to partition Palestine.--Reuter. pleaded guilty to stealing 12 Sten a possible push into Greece.
striking force" of balanced land, sea guns
State
sald and air components is being de Department Driver R. S. Bouli, was sentenced Russia's recent demobilisation moves veloped. to four and a half years hard labour; apparently mean "no change at all Plo B. J. Duckett to four years; in the number of troops in the Soviet Senate Armed Services Committee press poll of the Col H. Adamson to two and aArmy. American military experts indicated a majority of, the Com- half years; and the Indian clerk, cstimated Ruslan strength at-more mitteo favoured a universal military Jaffer Mohammed Alarakia to tour. than 4,000,000 men. years.
training bill. But the House Rules Present American strength is Committee showed no such.. willing- 1,302,000. This in 340,000 below US ness. A great many members of authorised astrength. 199
both Houses of Congress remained Secretary of Defence James V. cool, if not hostile, to reinstituting Forrestal said that if Russian forces the draft-Associated Press
"There's No Excuse
For Wasting Water
CAN WHAT YOU CAN
The
An' infornal