Make Bevin To
Statement On Palestine
London, May 27-Deputy Prime Minister, Mr. Herbert Morrison promised the House of Commons today that the Foreign Minister, Mr Ernest Bevin would make a statement in the House either to. morrow or Monday about Palestine,
Mr Samuel Silverman, Labour, urged for a fullstedged
Gallagher, Mr William
Communist, Palestine debate. Auggested that it should be made the subject of a vote of confidence in Mr Bevin.
COURAGE OF
THE ROYAL FAMILY
Dramatic Wartime
Disclosures
New York, May 27.-The unqualified determination of
Mr Morrison reserved his decision on both points.
A Foreign Office spokesman said toward the that Britain's altitude
Arab reply and recommendations for any further action would be dis- Cadogan, closed by Sir Alexander Britain's representative 111 the Security Council at Lake Success,
The spokesman said: "We cannot
1 say yet what our point of view will br. The Arab reply will be studied here and new instructions will be going out to Sir Alexander,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1948.
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Film Life
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British And Indian Producers Interested
"We believe that the Arab offer to consider any further proposals perlod ending within the 48-hour
means that the
wül ro- New York. May 27-Film on Friday night, Arab Foreign Ministers
Aminan during that the Royal Family, Prime Minis in in
producers both in Britain and ter Bir Winston Churchill, and period."
India were interested in making PUBLIC EXASPERATION the whole British Government
a film of the life of Mahatma The British public and press to Gandhi, Mr Ezra Mir, Indian to stay in Britain and go down
becoming film producer, said here today. if necessary under a Nazi in the meantime
was disclosed in an creasingly exasperated with vasion
He added that he might attempt Devin's Palestine pelley.
the biography on his return article based on the secret
Guardian all
Lor demanded again
Mr Mir, who is at present touring President Franklin D. Roose Britain to withdraw Its 21 regular the United States, anid that a new
officern
from Trans-Jordan's
impetus had been given to im velt's personal assistant, pub-army
Anh Longlon.
production in India since the end
·lished in Colliers Magazine
Although that or
British rule. the here today.
nce
Mr The
papers of Mr Harry Hopkins. Times, Dally Mail, and Manchester. Indin next autumn.
| Arno
Missionaries
Fall Into Hands Of Chinese Reds
CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS GUTTED
Peiping, May 27-Refugees from Red Man- churia reported today that at least five of 21 Canadian priests and nuns caught behind Com- munist lines in the. Szepingkai region north of Mukden are under house arrest or imprisonment. Catholic quarters say there is no news of the others.
Headed by Bishop Louis Lapierre of the Quebec Foreign Mission, the priests have seen their church, hoa- pital, school and other buildings in Szepingkai completely gutted in three sanguinary battles for the strategic rail- way hub, the refugees said.
Six Canadian sisters at Liaoyuan, 50 miles west of Szepingkal, "were Helpined in the upper part of their school building, but recently have been allowed to operate a dispen- rary, they added.
Fathera Alphonse Caouette, Paul- Emile Lachapelle and Luclen Lafond are being held under house arrest at Paichentze, near Szeplngkal, ac-
these cording to
reports, while Father Antonio Bonin and Brother Laurent Benudalre are in prison at Laaoyuan.
"PEOPLE'S TRIALS"
Catholic
Marshall
Lists Soviet Obstructions
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Washington, May 27-The Secretary of State, Mr George Marshall, has sent to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a quarters are also con-list of Russian actions which corned over the safety of Chinese are said to have prevented
Rome of whom just peace being attained. priests and nuns,
have been julled or reportedly
before "people's trials." to brought
The 1st is reported authoritative- when One sisters was tried
shely to cover about three dozen
more violallons by Russia of agrec~ stayed behind advancing Communist
20 orphans, ments made during recent years lines to take care of
missionary information with the United States and various according
other Governments. here.
Thirty-nine priests of the Queber luterned by Foreign Misalon were the Japanese in 1941, but were later returned to repatriated, Seventeen the area in 1946.
Marshall sent the list in response to a resolution in the Senate by Re publican Senator Homer Capehart which asked for the detalls to sup- port President Truman's statement pedition to Bishop Lapierre, in a message to Congress on March the priests who remained in Szeping-17 that one nation had persistently and and thereby blocked a just world Pilon. Brothers Pineault kai after its fall were Father Laurent violated its International agreements
Clerks of S. peace. Bourgeault-all free Vintor and Father Joseph Gleuteln of the Swiss Bethlehem Misaton So-
belleved Informed sources the Cabinet has authorised Mr Be-activity had fallen off slightly from vin to reent the 21 officers loaned the peak wartime rate of 300 full- The article, written by Mr Robert
to Trans-Jordan under the Anglo-length filma per year, "it is only Sherwood, famous playwright and
new production wartine Traus-Jordan Alliance if the Arabs the full before another of Mr Roosevelt's
the
In 1,700 screenings at assistants, declared that Mr Chur-rejected the truce appeal. Foreign boom." Film chill had told Mr Roosevelt that if sourees said today however, that Mr
cinemas throughout Indin were and his Cevin has ill apparently not de- Britain went down, he
population. Government would perish with it" flutely made up his mind to recall reaching only 20 per cent of the
country's vast them
would be Mr Hopkins said that he learned
years there Air Bevin is believed to be alive that the British Government did not
cinemay operation, fining over President Truman's re- 5,000 have even # skeleton
of an American preslicted. evacuation to Canada or anywhere ported intimation
The Indian Government, he said, eiety. Ile loan and
for Israel. thought that the report has helped was aware of the tremendous educa- the Arabs to decide agadest a tree. tional potentialities of the screen in Industrialisation, hyglene pramoli "Sleps The Times bluntly said: must be taken to ensure that Bri- lish officers are no longer associated in the Holy with Arab operations land,
else.
fot
He claimed that Mr Churchill be- lieved that "If the United Kingdom fell, the Empire would be ended-
sl at least temporarily teadership of the remain
the utts of the British Commonwealth would pass to Washington."
QUEEN'S REPLY
that
He qualed Queen Elizabeth
to sustpes- declaring. In response
be the Princesses tions
Princesses "the evacuated, that could never leave without me and without the leave could never
Of course, the King will King
leave." never
Other dramatic writings of Anglo- relations in the crucial American opening days of the last war tained in Mr Hopkins papers were:
Churchill sent
Mr
message
Cull-
arms
The Manchester
Guardian
went further: The only way to prove our innocence is for Mr Bevin to a full statement withdrawing make a all support for the Arab League, stopping all supplies of arms while ghting continues and withdrawing the few British officers still with the Arab Legion. Sooner or later too, Mr Bevin must drop his hostility
to teach."
TART COMMENT
a dramatie The Daily Mail tartly said: "Mr
but 'in
over
he
literacy. The motion picture theatre boom would begin as soon as conditions settled on the India continent. Mr Mir is surveying latest velopments in lm techniques and equipment used in the United States. He will leave for Hollywood
cle-
towards the end of Junc.-Reuter...
Werewolf Chief Arrested
SWISS INTERVENTION
State
Department officials sald tudny that if the document is to be made public, it almost certainly will have to be by the Foreign Relations Arthur Committee or by Senator Vandenberg, the Committee's Chair-
man.
LOW INFANT MORTALITY RATE
the
Swiss efforts to secure the release of 30 other Swks priesis and nuns
It is reported that the document held by the Communists in North
.agree- Manchurin show little hope of suc- is concerned mainly with cess, it was reported here. A scheme ments made by the Allied powers at Potsdam and in to secure the good offices of a pri-at Yalta and
Councils in vale Soviet citizen as an emissary Allied Control have
come
to nought, according to Balkan states and Central Europe. there reports.
Apparently none of the violallons The Communists a few
months
of the charged against the Soviet Union is
new.Reuter. ogo announced that some Swiss priests have been imprisoned at Taitsihar, 178 miles northwest of Recently Harbin, for "espionage."
the Communist broadcast sald in Co
Reds are investigating espionage charges against all 11 French priests held at Sienholen, 120 miles south of Pelping, A Chinese priest who escaped from Slenhslen said the page of "confessions" daily for 50 priests had been forced to write a to 70 days, were denied sleep until daily "quota," and were grilled ceaselessly. they fulfed their
There are also Swiss sisters and German parires at Yenki, 220 miles cast of Changchun. There has been where they were reported to be in physical condition. United jinor Press,
Adelaltic, S. Australia, May 27.- Infant mortality rate of 24.27 per to be the lowest in the world. The 1,000 in 1947 in this state is believed statement was made by Dr Helen Mayo, chief medical officer of the Mothers and Babies Health Associa- tion.-United Press.
Hamburg, May 27-Forder Fases a major alleged to have been detail- in the Bevin and President Truman reem to Mr Roosevelt summer of 1940-a year and a halt almost like two infants playing with ed to organise the Werewolf as before Pearl Harbour-appealing to matches in a gunpowder factory,tance troops in the Brunswick aren him to bring the United States into this war in Palestine is allowed to
in Hamburg after seven-week
# the war as the only means by which sonad, it could involve the whole 1844 and 1045, has been captured Zone Police world. And if that were to happen search by the British |·wor France might be saved;
In the same period he asked Mr the blame would rest with bungling today.
States of statesmanship."
Peter Behrens who is also wanted Sources close base, but warned that the Once doubted that even if Britain for the healing of anti-Nazis before
from the Arab the "war" was discovered working in news of them since a year as FERCY, FRANKLIN for and on behalf of British Army would destroy
Hamburg's city waterworks. Suez Canal if and when the British recalls its officers home fleet would be liquidated in Legion, it also the defence of the homeland, and it
Roosevelt that the United
Navy should take over the Singa-
pore
the
a successful Nuzi invasion of Britain should take place.
was
menth
Much of Mr Hopkins' information pulled from the voluminous papers betwten Mr Roosevelt
that MP Church!! at Reuter.
mediately
to the
Foreign
stop im- would the £2,000,000 a year military subuldy and suspend arms shipments to Trans-Jordan.
the
The authorities have been looking for Behrens for months but inten- sified their search during the lust seven weeks following the arrest of They believed that a suspension his former chief and one time minis- of these clauses of the Anglo-Transfer of Brunswick, Dietrich Kingges, It is alleged that Behrens as early Jordan Treaty would have to await perk.--
1933 was the Security as
responsible for the ira some resolutiun Council blaming the Arab States for rhoating of 11 resistance men in cald breach of
Palestine. blood during the "Riesenberg" purge In peace
in the Brunswick area. United United Press.
Press.
BRAWL RUINS
FILM CAREER Dean Reproves
Cannes, May 27-Pretty Russian-
Was born Mrs Anna Haniotis, 25.
franes 25,000 awarded today damages as a result of a night club
Critics
London, May
27.-Doctor
Soviet Protests Rejected
Washington, May 27-The United States today rejected as unfounded a series of Soviet protests alleging American planes interference by
Phone Service To with commercial navigation over
Be Restored
London, May 27-Telephone com- munication with Spain and Gibraltar A. C. by land line will reopen on May 31,
to- teday.
waters adjoining Japan.
A State Department statement giving details of the American reply delivered two days ago in Moscow, declared:
"In no single instance in the more announced than 50 cases to which objection has been made by the Sevlet Gov- clergymen, brawl in which flying crockery rut Don. Denn of Westminster, one of the Postmaster General
said. Britain's foremost
Princess The line will be extended to the ernment was there evidence, either her in three places and, she
Any reproved critics of
Geuta Islands of recgoing and Balearin
and from the Soviet notes or from in- the ruined her film career.
undertaken may be in- Elizabeth's Sunday
Melilla in North Africa and the vestigations The award, which
United States authorities, that the two months study night clubbing in Paris. crcised after e
He accused the critles of "narrów Canary Islands. of committee
experts, ณ 20-year-old Mrs Edward Sabbathrianism."
The told the lower House
by
against
a London bookmaker.
1s
Harris, sald to be the daughter of
ot The minimum charge for a three aircraft in question were in such an
of the minute call from the United King- nititude or position regardless convocation of Canterbury that he dom to Spain or Gibraltar will be the altitude that they constituted Mrs Haniotis had asked for 20.-deutored expressions such as those 18s. 6d. Instead of the present 21 any interference with commercial
contained in recent resolutions shillings-United Press. 000,000 francs damages
She said that a plate, broken In adopted mainly by Scottish religious the scuffle, cuf her face, shoulder groups, censuring the Princess and her lawyeringe Philin for their Sunday re- and chest. produced a letter from an Italia Iaxation in Paris.
court In
flim company saying that she could
Meanwhile, copies of some of the
not be hired because of the scars, resolutions have been delivered n Associated Press.
Good Anglo-US
Relations
Southampton, May 27.-Rotiring Ambassador Lord Inverchapel
from New York his arrival today
an sald that there had been "immense change for the good" in Anglo-American relations during his
two years' stay in office in Washing-
ton.
No.
10 Downing Street and formal acknowledgments sent without com- wents on behalf of the Prime Minis- ter. Mr Clement Attlee. A spokes- Downing inan sald that, No. 10 Street had also received many letters from persons the country over de- fending the Princess and her husband-Associated Press.
Bernadotte On The Way
Paris, May 27-Count Folke Ber- nadolte, United Nations mediator for
" take no credit. for it." he added, Palestine, left le Bourget airport
"but there has been a very marked this morning on the first leg of his growing together."
Stating that the preliminary talks plane trip to the Holy Land.
on
Palestino were "perfectly
terised the job of Ambassador Washington as "very tough”
Count Bernadotte, at the head of
friendly, Lord Inverchapel charac-a delegation of 11 men, took off in a in specially chartered Dakota transport. Rome airport, The first stop is the said. The plane carried no registration
Ile said he planned to leave mon officials with Chilean born Lady Inverclmpel
for his home in Scotland where "I number marked under ita wings. It shall do absolutely nothing until I was painted white and bore a red want to and then I may do a bit of cross and the United Nations insignla
as a safety measure.--United Press. writing."--Associated Press.
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