1948-09-14

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1948.

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INDIA'S GRAVE STATE Takes Uath OF EMERGENCY

Governor General's

Proclamation

KASHMIR MAKES AN OFFER

New Delhi, Sept. 13.-The Governor General of India, Mr Chakrarvati Rajagopalachari, in a`pro- clamation tonight declared that "a grave emergency exists whereby the security of India is threatened by internal disturbances."

Informed sources. interpreted the proclamation as a precautionary measure to enable the Govern- ment to meet the situation arising out of the Hyderabad operations and their possible repercus- sions,

Section 120 of the Government of India Act of 1935. under which the proclamation was issued, envisaged two kinds of emergencies-the first in the event of a war and 'disturbances of a the second in the event of internul serious character.

the

The present proclamation restricts itself to second emergency. It empowers the Governor General to assume full legislativo powers in respect of provin- cial matters,

Indian

military

police tonight, tion of foreign nationals by air from; disarmed a platoon of Hyderabad Hyderabad State is still going State troops guarding the Nizam's although the original plans provided plalace in New Delhi, where the or its completion yesterday.

General, Mr Axent Hyderabadi

and his staff S.M.A. Razvi, Maybe.

are

They then mounter!

guard there This action followed a report from

Indian #bat

troops flyderabad guarding the Indian Agent General

been disarmed and rezidence had the Agent General and his staff re- moved to on hab.),

Ja Madras tonight, Mr C. A. Gault, the British Deputy High Commis sloner, disclosed that the

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Must Be United Says Monty

Sept. 13.

Portsmouth, Field Marshal Viscount Mont gomery, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, who today lit hera a "Torch of Liberation," which will be carried Eindhoven, Holland, said that Britain and the countries Western Europe "must united."

Air Gault, who is in charge of revention arrangements for the Hy- further derabad evacuees, said 'that fights have been arranged for today because many people had been un- able to get ready at such short notice and others scattered over the State probably found it difficult to reach Hyderabad Airport in time.

BRITISH OFFICERS REMAIN Ten British officers serving with the Hyderabad Army decided two ago to stay in Hyderabad, days according to a delayed report from Hyderabad Lodiny

that

Juliana Van Orange: Nassau stands on the dais in New Church, Amster- dam, as she takes the oath of fidelity to the constitu- tion administered by Dr R. Kraneberg (foreground) President of the States- General. Her husband, Prince Consort Bernhard, sits on the dais holding a The Royal plumed hat. Crown is on the cushion behind Dr Kraneberg.— AP Picture.

Bernadotte's Instructions

Bombay received in

On Refugees

Europe Seeking

17 Yugoslav Students Arrested

Prague, Sept. 13.-The official Yugoslav news agency Tanjug, reported on Saturday that 17 Yugo- slav students together with their professor and his wife, had been arrested by the Czech police on Satur- day afternoon at the student hostel in Cakovice.

The official Czech news agency, CTK, today dis- tributed the Czech version of the incident based on the official report from the Ministry of the Interior, but not issued as such.

It said that "action, was taken" on September 10 against 20 Yuro- slav apprentices and an unspecified number of other apprentices were "removed from thic apprentices'

home in Cakovice and will be sent back to Yugoslavia."

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Republicans' Hopes Soar

Timber

EXISTING

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It was estimated that about half the East's requirements could be met from European sources-mainly the United Kingdom and France.

SAVING DOLLARS Equipment

from nol available Europe will have to be bought from the United States

one of the and

Committee principal taaks of the was to reduce such dollar purchases from the United States to 2 minimum.

The Committee muy urge the Tim- berber producing countries should receive tonns for purchase of machinery from the Bank or directly from the countries producing ma- chinery.

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Timber producing countries Austria, Greece. Czechoslvakia, Po- land, Finland and Yugoslavia.

Washington, Sept. 13.-Re- Committee.

publican hopes of cracking the dependent

Democratic "solid Include Denmark, France, italy

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MISCELLANEOUS

Europe's largest potential timber producer, the Soviet Union, has never yet attended any session of the Rhodes, Sept. 13. Count The CTK said that the Comin- The report said that the Niram's Folke Bernadotte ordered Israel form resolution against Yugoslavia

The countries producing machinery Government had assured the officers

on timber ports they would be transferred on Monday to re-admit Arab caused 3,000 Yugoslav apprentices

to three Palestine Czechoslovakia to divide into two from

arguments erstwhile the Army to civil employ-refugees

opposing groups whose villages and to rebuild their ment if hostilities broke out.

actual South" l'osc

and to the highest the Netherlands

the United frequently developed into homes.

FOREIGN Lady gives lemoona ia artiselal He said battles with clubs and crowbars point today since Mr Herbert Kingdom. The Government of India is shattered"

of flowers making, reasonable focs per hour Professor Gunnar Myrdal driven out and in one case involved

Hoover won the 1928 elections, Sweden,

ar per course, hours to suit pupils. Do- of Inducting officers from the Indian 8,000 Arabs were

Executive Secretary O talls may be obtained daily 10 m Dominion provinces Madras, and their homes smashed by bing.

Economic Commission for p.m. at SA Wyndham Street top floor. of Bombay and the Central Province Israeli troops in violation

Republican strategists figured their the

Entrance. Wailington Street) Hongkong. chances have improved considerably Europe told the Committee that the adjoining Hyderabad to administer the areas of Hyderabad occupied by the truce.

FOR SALE as the result of the growing battle proposal before it may well he- in other their forces, it was learned reliably

Important between the regular Democrats and come a useful precedent the rebellious. Southern Dixiecrats. (and perhaps even more

undertakings looking to the revival MOON CAKE Specially made tonight.

and the ro- ground-put all only, guaranteed, 'good · They said on a basis of returns of East-West trade from the 1944 presidential election, habilitation of European economy" for caiing present it rival Fiente for the Middle Autumn Festival Please call Shin Kee Yuen, Calne Itond or the Republicans might capture at-Associated Press.

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Yuen, 13ennessy Road, Wanchal, Tel. 27008. JUST PUBLISHED:' New edition of London, Sept. 13.-Three hundred Weights and Measurements of Cargo ex- villages in the United Provinces ported from Hongkong and South Ching compiled by the Sword Measurers. . $15 have been flooded by the rivers from the South China Morning Post. Ganges and Jumna, but, no loss of

Brkish High Commission sources in New Delhi suld tonight that they had been informed the 10 British officers in Hyderabad hud resigned their commissions but that they had no confirmation of this.

The High Commissioner had ad- leave the vised the oMeers to Hyderabad State forces in the event of hosillitles breaking out between India and the Stale.

KASHMIR'S OFFER

way.

"BODILY TORTURE" Last week, "these quarrels balled The villages are Ein Ghazal, up especially among the apprentices of Haifa, nt the Dimitrov Plant in Cakovice," 1jzim and Jaba, south along the Halfa-Tel-Aviv high- a part of the nationalised Avla uero- plane factory where "Titoites fell Count Bernadette. the United upon 11 apprentices and bloodily Nations l'alestine mediator, reported tortured them," the agency said. to the Security Council that Jewish forces

attacked the three villages on July 18 at the beginning of the so- The Arabs were forced cond truce. to evacuate after a seven-day land and air

he said, the attack.

Later, Jewish forces destroyed the villages

and Jaba.

The Yugoslay counsellor in charge of the apprentices' home was said to have directly inclted his charges to these terroristic acts."

The agency said that the Czechi work at the Avia plant called in

Lot Ein udolie said his inveat-the-police.—

Count

Referring to the days when, as Commander-in-Chief of the British Armies in Europe, he had his head- quarters-for-n-time-in-Eindhoven. Lord Montgomery said: "Little did

watory found 8,000 former villagers we think in those days, as we saw a close, thint the war drawing to

A report from Srinagar tonight the Jenin area. They placed the

had number of killed and missing four years after the defeat of our sald the Kashmir Government enemies we should still be living offered a battalion of the Jammu about 130. Count Bernadotte said: Arab allegations concerning the of international and Kashmir militia to the Indian in an almosphere

captured aro of the number killed and That it Government as uncertainty and distrust, should be so must be a matter of Kashmir people's solidurity with enormously exaggerated." bitter disappointment and grent their Indian brethren.”

Count

Bernadotte asserted the concern to all of us.

Kashmir's Hindu Maharaja, Sir Jews "could not be excused by the "Let us, however, be strong in Hart Singh, acceded to India after avowed desire to make the Halfa- highway safe becauso entered by Tel-Aviv State had been stand firmly resolve, to

nghting between villagers and Jews raiders. un-

before this truce."-AS- occurred

our

freedom and justice in this

for

the

settled world. Never again do wo

Kes ure

wish to see the Continent of Europepoint Union (ng was hoisted at suciated Press. luid waste by the ravages of war?",

from Bezwada tonight said; Yerupalayam rallway station, inside

The fame-carrying ceremony Hyderabad State territory, today chould be regarded as a symbol of after Indlan police had rounded up unity among Britain, and France, local Hazakurs.

The

for Free India."

people Belglum and Holland, the countries

reports spoke of through which the torch will pass, cheering the polled as "liberators" Lord Momtgomery said. "Let and raising slogans like "Victory be a reminder to all of us that It was through unity and strength that we were delivered from our chemies in the past," he added- Reuter.

Strike Tries U.S.

Army's Patience -

Washington, Sept. 13nformed Army sources indicated on Monday that the next 24 hours would see the beginning of an end to nemy dopartment palience over the stale- shipping rhato in the Pacife const tie-up.

THE PAPER STILL VIPCAME OUT

were

MEAT CHEAPER IN MOSCOW

London, Sept, 13.-Radio Moscow said today that the price of meat dropped on Moscow farm markets "another 10 per cent since the be ginning of September."

garlanded Police officials wall flowers when a train carrying the captive Razakars, reached Laswada station tonight, it was .ro The broadcast sald: "Vegetables parted, Villagers gave milk and are 15 to 20 per cent cheaper than fruit to the police as the train passed they were and wayside stations, it WOR kald flooded with dairy produce, Router.

and vegetables."-United Press.

Observers recalled that on Sep- tember 10, an article by the Com- munist Education Minister Zdenek Nejedly, was published in Prague declaring that the Cominform quar- rel with Yugoslavia was "purely a Parly inatter" and that "all treaties, agreements and relations between are still valid us and Yugoslavia just as before."

have "WC M. Nejedly added: about 3.000

apprentices Yugoslav here. I goes without saying that our attitude toward them will not change in the slightest."United Press.

U.S. Cotton Pays

For Meat

Fot

Prague, Sept. 13.-The Premier revealed tho markets are M. Antonin Zapotockv,

meat yesterday how Czechoslovakia

meat from her eastern neighboure so quickly. Inst Februarv-it was paid for in American cotton.

Diplomat's Daughter Given

A Suspended Sentence

New York, Sept. 18.-Mrs Nancy Fletcher Choremi, 27-darkhaired daughter of a United States diplomat- and two women who were convicted with her of being $100 per night call girls, received three months' suspend- ed sentences toddy.

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"I am so happy, Mrs Choremi said following the sentencing.

the caso to the

Speaking to a harvest thanks giving meeting in Pilsen, M. 7nno- tocky charged that the non-Com- munist ministers who were ousted in February sabotaged the supply

Programme.

When Mrs Ludwila Jankovcova Teftwing Social Democrat. took over tha: Ministry of Food, from

right-

winger, M. Vaclav Majer, February, he rald, "the March meat. rations were not covered at: all We had to give American cotton bought for dollars in exchange for meat."United Press.

lenst two Southern staten if the rival Democratic factions split the Democratie vote about

evenly. Those would be the states where the 1944 Republican vote approach ed or bettered 30 of the Democratic

votes

300 Villages Flooded

With

Obtain

Licence Farms. 10 cents each. There are at least three Southern life has been reported, New Delhi K. Government Import and Expert states. whers.Dixiecrats will be on Radio reported today. the November ballot Virginia,

United Press.

The Ganges is still rising althoughable at 3, C. M. Post Tennessee and North Carolina, it is still two feet below the record ON SALE "Fond and Flowers Now. 1

level renched 25 years ago, the port added.-Reuter.

Flying Boxcars

For Germany

Frankfurt, Sept. 13.-Five CE-82 fiving boxcars had been transferred from the United States to Germany,

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Air Force headquarters announced 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M. tonight.

They are flying from Field, Massachusetts based at Wiesbaden,

Westover

and will be

Three had already arrived and another is due tonight. The Afth olane developed engine trouble and is due tomorrow.

First

Lieutenant George

Kemper, Flight Commander

hape of the planes said that they can carry a two and a half-ton army orry and have a load capacity of seven tong.

Major General William H. Turner of the Airlift Task Force, sald that they will not be used on the re- qular: airlift schedule, but only to carry bulky and oversized airport construction and equipment which normally has to be dismantled be fore it can be flown to Berlin- United Press. .

HAM AND EGGS

SHORTAGE

Shanghal, Sept. 13 The old epigram about "If we had some ham

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Negotiations between striking 'CIO Iongshoremen and wotes front em- ployers in regard to movement of Bring supplica were sald by Army sources to be continuing.

The sentences were pronounced he's appealing

higher court. the Army Royalt Secretary of

an by Judge Arthur Markewich,

Asked about the plans to by to was described as still hopeful

8, he found Mrs Last July be reached EO agreement could Army overseas cargo could be Choremi, whose father is the United Casablanca, Mra Choremi said: "Wo States Consul General at Casablanca, plan to leave very soon. My hus- so understanding. I am

we would have some ham and eggs THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE thoved.-Associated Press

ASSOCIATION gulty of charges of loitering in ber band is

INSURGENTS CUT

If we had some eggs" midtown apartment for the purpose much happier now.

Mr Chorem), a wealthy Egyptians

originally created for Shanghal's

inform We are pleased to of prostituiton.

RAILWAY LINE

benefit, but it is right on the beam. colton dealer, arrived in. this coun

Septembar 1, to aid. his

There are not enough ham or eggs all members that new badges Rangoon, Sept. 13-Insurgentsi wife. An he left the courtroom, ha

In the markets to make it worth of better quality are now avall. have

a section of the told reporters that he planned to hang on Mandalay milway, south of while looking for them. It is learned that she had mado his family abroad as soon as

pro not bringing stocks to the mar can be exchanged on payment New York, Sept, 13-When the plans to leave by plane, this werk possible, "but frst we fire going to Tounggo, tonlaht's Government com-assert that farmers and poultry men able and if desired, old badges

husband,

Nancy is very tired and munique announced.

keta.. Dealers sald they refuse to sell of an additional charge of $5. compositors walked out on strike for Casablanca with int night 24 editorial workers of George and her ave-year-old son, the country,

The rail service between Rangoon at the August 19 ceilings, of Com John. York Journal

The only direct evidenco submitted tiy New

However, dealers are being ac- but a skeleton' service was running. meren manned the Unotype macho Judge Markowich' specified that against Mrs Choremi during the trial and Mandalay had been suspended, and: the composing room atone

WCTO suspended was that of a wire-tapped telephone

stocks back, in the hope of getting a statod. publish the paper in time for dis-"during the good behaviour, of the conversation sho had with Milas other points on the line, it was used by the authorities of holding Blavier on May 20 in which the

prico

increase: tribution today,

The editor and publisher Mr defendants

were,

Road traffle between. Rangoon The other two

diplomat's daughter agreed to keep

Not only ham but other forms of Bernard J. Ridder holed the delino Blavier, 33, Belgian artist, a date with a man after she was Prome to the northwest, recently pork are scarce.

An offer of cumshe does not help volunteer staff.

"have fun re-occupted by Government forces,

the "Sorry no egge”? The dispute with she compoaltors and Margaret Starr, 80, blonde assured that she could

and be paid at the same time," had boon remimed, the communique either

stock response.United PreSS, added.--Heuter. over a proposed change of daughter of a retired Minister. began

Bit Choromi's attorney said that United Fress. working-hourssit:fire

the sentences

women

'and

Dealers

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