THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI, THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1948.
INAUGURATION OF ITALY'S
Lana Arrives In England
Southampton, May 12,
Lana Honeymooners Turner, film star, and her fourth husband Bob Top- ping, millionaire tinplate helr, arrived at Southamp- ton this afternoon in tha liner Mauretania.
Their marriage, which was the fourth for both. took place in Hollywood on April 26.
I
Miss Turner promptly denied reports in the British press that her trousseau cost $30,000. She said she. was "staggered" by the starias.
The Toppings will later visit Franco. →→ Associated Press.
NEW PRESIDENT
Parliament Applauds Speech: Crowds Cheer
Rome, May 12.-President Luigi Einaudi took his oath of office before a cheering Parliament to- night and the last of a 21-gun salute signalled the historic event to an estimated 500,000 Romans jamming-streets for the presidential parade.
Eighteen Italian army fighter planes and six twins engined bombers circled Montecitorio Palace of Parlia ment as President Einaudi made his inaugural speech. The big bell of the old palace rang for the third time in the short life of the Italian Republic to herald Einaudi's oath "I swear to be faithful to the Republic ✨ and to observo the constitution."
Then monarchists, senators and rights which are at the base of the deputies, who refused to applaud life of a citizen, political rights and Humanisentanter i when Einnud! entered the hall, social rights and the rights of stalked out before the oath war liberty that are guaranteed by the
constitution."
him to
BRITAIN'S
'ATOMIC
WEAPONS
read.
to
Ida Einaudi, the President's wife, sat in the central box of the As sembly hall, directly opposite the President's platform. A huge tricolour Next hung from the balcony to the bench below.
London, May 12-Mr A. V. Alexander, the Minister of De- of the House fence, assured Commons tonight that he was satisfied that adequate progress was being made in Britain in onts the development of the most Einaudi,
of types modern weapons.
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receiving the highest priority and mounted, saluted Einaudi
of
Einaudi's wife preceded
the Quirinale as the parade passed through streets packed with people. Every balcony and window was all- ed with onlookers.
The Einnudle will live in a small vlita within the Palace which was
the former home of kings. The pre- sident's wife sold the staff would be reduced. because and quietly,"
"we live simply
Far East
Barge Trip
Tactics In War On Seine For
Exercises
..
བོད་པ།་་
Lanion. May 12/Britain's Bghting Services are to study how to fight a war in the Far East when they meel on "Exercise Bamboo" at the Camberley Star
In College Surrey from May 24 to May 20. General Sir. Montagu Stop- ford, who commanded the 12th Army during the Burma Cam- paign, is preparing the exercise "; I collaboration with the Navy and the Air Force.
This third annual exercise, ordered by Field Marshal Vlacount Montgomery, Clef of thin Imperial General Staff. follows a flight of six Lincoln bombers
from
to England Singapore last month to de- monstrate how a British striking forco.can be provided at short notice on the other side of the world.........-Reuter.
Debutantes
At Garden
Party
London, May 12. Many debutantes of Britain and the Empire were presented today to the King and Queen at the first presentation party this 2,000 year, attended by over guests at Buckingham Palace.
For the girls and their escorts,
de-
attendance at this party count us a formal presentation. The butanics did not, however, have to make the complicated and
low curtsey which was carlous
evening customary at the formal courts before the war,
pre-
Royal Couple?
were
Paris, May 12.-Plans minde today for Princess Eliza- beth and the Duke of Edinburgh to glide through the heart of Paris on board a barge on the river Seine to next Saturday's reception.
Captain Howard Johnston, British Embassy Naval attache modo fest voyuge along the route. His de- einion, however,
nubject to approval by French police officials for security arrange- responsible ments,
One possible objection was the fact that such a trip would carry the Princess and her husband underneath a series of bridges. If the barge voyage is approved, thou- sands of Parisians will get a fairly good glimpse of the Princess.
Ing
Workmen are putting the finish- of touches to the exhibition
eight centuries of British life in Paris, which the Princess is to open formally with a message in French Dn Friday afternoon-Associated Press.
RAILWAY PRECAUTIONS Paris, May 12-A police inspector will be stationed every kilometre to Paris of the 513 km. Dunkirk railway on Friday to guard the train carrying Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh to the French
for their Whitsun visit.
of the 513 officers will be zone extending responsible for from three to five kilometres each side of the line. Special security check-ups have already been made In these zones.
Besides this, oll the
special security measures for journeys by the French President or visiting
heads of state will be taken through-
on
out the weekend.
Careful checka have already been made in Faris and other big cities of France
persons in the "watched" Kat "bob" or abbreviated curtsey made
Instead, they gave the simple police,--Reuter,
The men bowed. to Royalty on ordinary occasions.
When President Einaudi acknow- ledned П four-minute tribute Parliament with Joylal wave his hand he turned to stare upward and smile broadly at his beeming wife who looked youthful in a grey spring kat and grey and block sult.
A LIFE SENATOR BRIEF CEREMONY
No fing flew over the Palace until The Parliament ceremony lasted Einaudi arrived and then the Italian
20 minutes. Then Signer tricolour was hoisted.
Assembly President Before his resignation, Signor De atomic Glovani Gronchi and Senate Presl-Gasperi visited President Einaudi dent Ivanoc Bonomi rode through for a courtesy visit and presumably
to. the crowded streets of old Rome to
talk over the programme for Research and development were Quirinaie Palace. A company of the formal routine resignation.
Carabinieri, once the king's
Just before receiving De Gasperl with
Einaudi signed all types of weapons were being
decree making for- estimated mer President De Nicola a Senator considered, he said in reply to ques-drawn sabres whille an tions.
120,000 In the Palace Square shouted for life. The Presidont was cm- We declined to give further la-Long live the President."
powered in January to appoint fvc
The party was on auslerity lines wea- formation concerning atomie
His first act after his inauguration such senators in recognition of out by the King's order--a compromise garden the resignation of standing service to the country but party, and the King and Queen, and pons. "I do not think it would be
was to reject in the public interest to do so".
Premier Alcido De Gasperi, formally De
to make Nicola refused
any members of the Royal Family, he said.
confirming that the next government appointments, Last month, the Minister of Sup-will be virtually the same as at The new government will be the moved informally among the guests rly, Mr G. R. Strauss, was question-
For the first time since the war, ed in Parliament about delays in present. De Gasperi's press spokes-sixth to be headed by De Gasperi atomic development, alleged to have man said the Catholic Premier would since the end of 1946 when he took the State Apartments on the first
mandate to head the over provisional charge until the taken place in 1047. While not
Italian Government egain im-1016 referendum which created the door of the Palace were used and confirming that there had been de-
mediately.
Republic. His premiership has been a long marquee stood in the grounds lays, Mr Strauss said higher priori-
Earlier De Gasperi, presented his a steady growth of power for him with a covered way from the bow ty had been given to hasten atomic research by a
decision in March, resignation to the President at 7.09 resulting in the elimination of the saloon to the buffets, where tea was
p.m. local time.
Communists and Leftwing Socialists served.
The women wore afternoon gowns 1047.
Prezident Einaudi's Inaugural from the government-United Press.
and the men lounge suits or unl form-Reuter. speech was short. He spoke in firm, dry voice, paying tributs to the man he replaced, Enrico De Nicola "who carried out the work of the first president of Italy with exactness, scrupulously and with devotion. To
Dr J. D. Cockcroft, Director of the Research Establishment, told a Government committee last your and that shortages of material labour had put the Establishment's work alx months behind schedule, -Reuter.
Australia And Pakistan Talks
- Sydney, May 12-Negotiations for trade part between Australia and Pakistan are proceeding, but still appear to have some way to go, was learned hare today..
The Paltistan Trade Commissioner lis
Mr R. H. Rahman, Australia, commenting on a Sydney Morning Herald report from New Delhi that a trade pact was about to be free te, said negotiations were going on, but he knew nothing of an impen- ding.pact.
receive a
11
HOMES FOR
Enrico De Nicola goes the gratitude THE TROOPS
of nil Italians.*
The President spoke of himself in the third person to say, "He, who before the June, 1040 election made statement on the form Republican Italy should have, gives to the new regime something more than mere
no
adhesion."
Parliament applauded Loudly, indicating there was no resentment in any quarter because Einaudi once supported the monarchy.
IMPORTANCE OF DEBATES Einnidi said: "Your debates in very important to Parliament are the life of our nation and the only regret 1 feet today if that cannot be among you to join in these de- bates." Signor. Einaudi, was elected
and
On the
and between the court
Maldistribution Of Population
Sir
must
-Sir Ronald Weeks, a
of the security
Death Sentence
To Remain
Parliament today voted by 102 to Vienna, May 12-The Austrian 20 to retain capital punishment as emergency measure to combat postwar crime.
Was
The Austrian constitution which abolished the death senteneo
The polico amended after the war because of the high" erima rate. recorded 172 murders in the
eight months.
past
Austrian For the first time in history members of Parliament werd not bound by their parties of vote en bloc. However, all members of the People's Party voted to retain the death penalty while all the four Communist deputies opposed It.- United Press.
STARY
THE PERFECT FILMING OF THE BEST-LOVED BEST-SELLERİ
ATREE GROWS IN
KUN
London, May 12.-There are op-
London, May 12-Britain proximately 1,500 quarters avall-
Phone 58335 able for married officers and 11,160 plan to reduce her population "to for married soldiers in the United n point where the economy can be
TO-DAY ONLY Kingdom, Mr Emanuel Shinwall, the balancɛd,”
industriallat, told the At 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m. Secretary for War, said today in a prominent
Royal Empire Socfety here today Parliamentary reply.
Depuly Roughly one-third of the omeers' after a world tour.
Ronald, a wartime two-thirds of the soldiers' Chief of the Imperial General Statf, also be a pro- quarters are up to 1038 standards.
said there should Provision made for building at Home portionate dispersal of Industry. In is mainly directed towards the con- the Empire and further decentra- struction of permanent and tem-lisation of Empire defences.
quarters and the porary married
"Emigration must be planned on relief alement and improvement of married quarters.
A much greater and bolder, scale percentage of married and it must not be of a certain to the Semte in the April election. soldiers in the regular army tecom- group of people-the abl: bodied Omelas of the Australian Com- Signor Einaudi sald he believed modated in married quarters, Mr but of whole communities, includ
nt present appro-int the young and old." merce Department in Canberra said the Italian constitution must "pre- Shinwell said
percent of married a pact was possible in a few months serve what is good in the present ximately 27.
Describing the redistribution of as the outcome of the recent Geneva national life but must also give soldiers have their families living
a "wor tarlit ogreement between Australia, guarantees greater
of
Britain's population as equality with them in married quarters,
the general said it That is what I
is paid to operation." No whenever possible.
compensation India and Pakistan.
The Department's latest bulletin and Parliament have to do.
soldiers for whom married quarters called for "great statesmanship and the Em- 115 Lei are not available. They do not political harmony within stated that when
"Let us look upward, private negotia-
pay charges for rent, furniture, fuel pire."--Reuter, tions were resumed, the present tariff might give way to a comprehensive resume our road and work for our
on the most favoured country so that she attains moral and light which are paid by soldiers quarters.--- social occupying married agreement
greatness, freedom of life, Ration principle.-Router.
and civil justice and material pras- Reuter. perity and that in this hall we may always hear the cry 'Long Live Italy."
Parliament loudly applauded. The red robes of Monsignor Francesco Burgongini-Duca, Vatican Kuncio 10
Japan Increases
House Of Lords
Italy, brightened the Reform Impasse
Postal Rates Tokyo, May 12-A four-fold in- crease in poslal and communications rates in Japan is scheduled to go into emmed diplomatic box in which effect in the middle of June, Japan-American Anibassador James Dunn
ese press reported today.
for
London, May 12.-Mr
German Officers
Farewelled
Bridgend, South Wales, May 12- Seventy-six German officers-most of them generals were given a Clement great farewell-when they left their camp here
and O'Campo Gimentż were pre-Attlee, today ruled out the possibi- island prisoner-of-war lity of an immediate agreement today to return home,
Under the new rates, the postage sent.
- Before taking the oath, President between the Labour Government and
reform of the House of Lords,
20.
CINTUST FOR
CTUR
DOROTHY MCGUIRE JAMES DUNN JOAN BLONDELL PEGGY ANN GARNER TED DONALDSON LLOYD NOLAN
TO-MORROW "LAST OF THE REDMAN"
(From. Fenimore Cooper's. Immortal "The Last Of The Mohicans") #
The officers were wished goodbye station by a dozen well- a postcard will be increased from dl told the press: "I accent:d the Conservative Opposition on the at the
with their dressed women, some 50 sen to two yen, and ordinary
the task given me by the will of letters from 1,2 yen to five yen.
A great deal of time had already husbands. a task which consists
As the trains drew out on the Telephone and telegram fees will Parliament,'
the con- been spent in seeking an agreement in guarding
to the port of Harwich, also be increased, it was added-essentinily
stitution and, therefore, those between the two parties, he told Journey
the i several of the women gave
Jon HALL Reuter.
the House of Commons. But there had been failure and he did not generals bouquets of carnations and replied by thinks it would be useful to reopen tulips. The generals
kissing them. the discussions at the present mo-
Marshals Field
Von Rundstedt, ment.
ALLEGED
:
SLAUGHTER
OF BABIES
Athens, May 12,--An Am crican officer-get out today to find out the facts in one of the worst horror stories of the war in Greece-that guerillas had deliberately slaughtered 40 babies to get rid of them.
They
The discussions between the two Ven Brauchitsch and Von Manstein Answered parties followed the Government's were not in the party. Von Rundstedt the announcement that it would reform and Von Manstein are in bad health the Upper Chamber to admit elected and Von Brnuchitsch is writing his Call
They will not be allowed Members to limit the hereditary memoirs. principle and cut the period during to settle bere ns ordinary, citizens.- which the House of Lords may hold up legislation parsed by the House
of Commons.
The talks
broke down after
д
The story was based on a brief the rebels, who were surrounded by dendlock over the laiter point.
offensive. The government by the Greek gov- the
Widespread regret was expres announcement
persona, ernment, which said the slaughter others. We some elderly.
the slopes of lust died in the cold in the rugged in the press and in political quar- ters that the discussions have ended after so much had Mount Ghiona, 100 miles northwest country.
unsuccessfully
took place high on
of Athens.K guerillas wire,
There was a report that Ameri- been agreed. Reuter. + the report. the can liaison officers actually had plc- According to
figist Hardtures of the atrocity. However, this in pressed, they strangled 40 babies, was denied today.
Lt-General James van Fleet, chief
Max Intrator Ill
Reuter,
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The gold exports amounted crying
would not belray their
of the American military mission,
Paris, May 12-Max Intrator, 355,000 ounces and Australla position. The babies ranged in age nevertheless became interested. He from a few months to three years, sent a special American Investiga who made the headline for days sending all current gold, production Into Britain to help meet the dollar tinit officer to the scene and the when arrested 10 months ago the report said.
alleged sent connection with an
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