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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1948.
Another Problem Posed For United Nations
FUTURE OF ITALY'S PRE-WAR COLONIES
Paris, Sept. 15.-The United Nations had another new problem on Wednesday-what to do about Italy's former colonies in East and North Africa.
The issue was passed to the UN General Assembly by representatives of the big four Allied powers in a letter to the UN Secretary General Trygve Lie in which they informed him that Britain, France, the United States and the Soviet Union were unable to agree on the colonies' future.
The letter, signed by the French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman, Mr Lowis Douglas, American envoy to London, Britain's State Secretary, - Mr Hector
McNeil and
'Russia's Vico-Foreign Minister, M. Andrei Vyshinsky, was the last act of the abortive conference on the colonial question, which opened here on Mon. day.
Shocking Wastage In Shanghai
U.S. Aid Materials Rotting Away
Shanghai, Sept. 16.-Ame- rican aid-to-China officials get het up everytime they thinks of the immense stockpile of
in surplus rotting away country.
this
To the last the Western powers and Russia, differed vehemently e11 whether the meeting was a Foreign Ministers Council as established at Potsdam or merely, as Me Vyshin- sky contended, a four-power meet- ing. The letter evaded. this point. It was written on a plain piece of paper without a letter head.
are the
African
under
the
Ban On Unauthorised Flights
4
Ministry's Ruling
To Be Dofied
London.
Sept.
stated that
Passing the question to the United Nations was in accordance
15. The with the Italian peace treaty which Ministry of Civil Aviation an-, gave the big-four one year to denounced tonight that passenger cide the fate of Mussolini's former
After this period which and cargo aircraft which en- empire. expired on Wednesday at noon, the gage in unauthorised flights to Issue automatically
to the Britnin may in future he de- General Assembly.
tained at the airports at which ABORTIVE ARGUMENTS
they land here. Involved
East colonics of Eritre
The announcement and Somaliland and the North African colonies of under the new regulation no aircraft
registered in any State other which
than Tripolitania and Cyrenaica
Great Britain or Northern Ireland Italbins protiped th name of Libya. The big four have and carrying paying passengers or argued the future for year with goods will be permitted to take on board or discharge passengers OF out approaching any agreement ex-bo
goods in the British Isles, except in cept in the case of Somalian.
Special deputies of the four accordance with the terms of any the United power did sgree in principle that agreement between italy should receive a trusteeship Kingdom and the State In which over Somaliland but they remained the aircraft is registered. divided on details. The Russians al one time proposed giving all the colonics to Italy as mandate then a surprise lust minute manoeuvre, International trusteeship urged an aver all of them. Mr Charles Stillman, head of a
Mr Lewis Douglas, speaking to special "construction programme"
after Wednesday's correspondents ECA inission to China, tins indicated session, said the United States that clearing up this mess of meta; favoured a year's delay in deelding and organising
into useful and It usable machines will be a test of on Eritrea and Libya because Italy might be in a more stable positien then to assume the responsibilities of trusteeship.-Associated Press.
Funnelled in through Lend-Lease, UNRRA and the special cheap sale of US
to Army wartime. surplus China, tractors, barges, boals, con- struction machinery and a myriad array of basic capital goods are with Kradually being overgrown weeds and vines on Point Island. five niles from Shanghai's famous Bund,
China's ability to help herself.
Until a few days ago, it looked
as though Chinu was going to let the whole matter slide. But
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survey reveals that cranes have been moved on Lo man-minde Point Island and that a start in sorting out the engineering material been made..
STARTLING PARADOXES
bas
The vista on Point Island presents startling paradoxes,
In a country where wood is 80
ITALIAN REACTION
Rome. Sept. 15. The Italian Britain at arcused newspapers hostility when they reacted today to the failure of the Big Four to find solution for disposing of Italy's former colonics.
time, hope
by
Aviation
The Minister of Civil
craft to land.
may issue special permits for
air-
•
Mr Gordon Fillery, Chairman ol African Mercury Air- the South ways, tonight, announced the inten- tion of his company to defy the new British Government regulation designed to end unauthorised flights
South
TO CARRY ON
in
Charting Strike Strategy
Harry Bridges (standing), president of the ILWU, shown at conference in Seattle, Wash., with strike lenders. Jason Hopkins, Seattle longshore president (seated left) and secretary, Jack Price, right. AP Picture.
Troops May Be Used To Break Maritime Strike
San Francisco, Sept. 15.-The Army said on Wednesday it would use troops if necessary to move cargoes out of strike-bound West coast ports. The threat drew a quick retort from Harry Bridges' CIO Longshoremen key union in the 14-day old. mari- time strike.
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While Bridges' pickets at Army employment offices and in Seattle were discouraging stevedore applicants, his office issued this reply to the Army troop warning:
"If any labour union in the country, regardless of affiliation or political or economic views, stands idly by while the Army engages in strike- breaking in behalf of a group of arro- gant employers, who will bargain with a union only if they can select
union's officers, then the orga- nised labour movement and collective bargaining are on their way to ex- tinction as free institutions."
Army Secretary Royall announcod in Washington the possible, use of troops after Army reports of em- barkation found it slow going in hiring stevedores direct.
HOW
ERP
HAS BEEN
ALLOCATED
Paris, Sept. 16.-The United States has sent Europe more than US$1,250,000,000 worth of food, goods and machinery since the European Recovery Pro- gramme went into operation last April, Mr W. Averell Harri- man, special envoy to Europe, announced on Wednesday.
scarce that buyers measure. boards have been suggested are not only African route to the British State ing for Army loading jobs here ment through the European head-
with a tape rather than estimate roughly with the eye, hundreds of tons
Mr Harriman made his announce-
quarters of the Economic Co-opt- tion Administration (ECA) here.
Less than two hours after the Ministry of Civil Aviation stated that passenger and cargo aircraft which
un-authorised engage fights might in future, be detained at airports at which they land here, Fillery asserted: "We intend to to sending passengers
MEN CALLED "SCABS" continue
Africa and returning them
Mr Royall indicated that efforts At the same
to Britain by air." that
at hiring of civilians would conl. somet
thing favourable would emerge
Recently the Mercury Airways tinue, but addert: when the United Nations discussed flew several aircraft to and from To the extent that the Army is
was expressed the question
this country in spite of the provi-nable to load its cargo by employ Sign Signor Giuseppe Brusacu, Under- sion in the British Civil Aviationment or by contract, troops will be Secretory at the Foreign Ministry.
He said:
The CIO pickets told men apply- "The solutions which giving a monopoly on the Souths used to do the loading."
"scabs" owned lines.
they would be
and the ships they work would be listeri na Mr Fillery. explaining how he "hat." heped to beat the new British or-
At Seattle,. 400 pickets milled dler, said: "I shall buy
The French received US$37.500,-. legally a about the Army employment oflee000 worth of cool, metals, dairy charter plane.or else we will-register and handed out pamphlets accusing a plane we buy with British the Army of doing "a clever job of
products and industrial equipment registration which will place it cut-strile-breaking.
in August, bringing her total for th akle the Act, In fact, a Viking we The Waterfront Employers As- period to US$337,700,000. have practically bought is already soclatlon has announced it will not Beirut, Sept. 15. The first ship-registered in Britain.”
deal with Bridges' union until its ment of aid for Palestine refugees,
officers
sign
non - Communist under the United Nation's Inter- Mr Flery suid he had told the affidavits under the national Children Emergency Fund Minister that the refusal to refuel net.
Taft-Hartley Progezinme, arrived. on Wednesday Mercury planes was a contravention in Beirut from New Jersey, U.S.A or the Chicago Civil Aviation Con.
The shipment consists of 174,000 vention which says that discrimina pounds of foodstuffs and 29 drumstory action must apply to all con of DDT.--Associated Press.
tracting states,--Reuter.
contrary to the legitimate desires of the Italian people. Init also to the
of lumber-from empted local populations crates-are falling apart under the colonies."-lester, impact of rain and sun...
Barges, bottoms up, lie on top of each other in the long gross like so
shingles splintering mony warping with the seasons.
and
Co-
intrlente Rubbor tyres on struction machinery, lining several roads of this island, are estimated to be worth US$300 each. There are four tyres to ach machine. They are nearly all rotting and fat.
Two hundred Asking bont, salled across the Pacific at the risk of American lives, stand bumping each other at the island'a cast end, Brought out to China· during
minbitious UNRRA programme-- which yielded salaries of US$800 a month to such "experts" as repe spilo.r
3.rathe fishing boats have sonar, two way radio and the latest in refrigeration and marine engines. After two years the tons of fish that these 200 craft-presumably destined to go on bumping tuch
other
in their bottoms hit the river bed-have caught can be counted on the fingers öfn hand. Some of these once-spanking craft have be- gun to list..
Hitherto the conveyance of the Point Island stockpile to China effected largely by benevolent Wwx foreigners. All Rigns have pointed 10 the fact that once reaching Chinese custody official movement of the goods ceased.
Now with the prodding of the US Economic Co-operation Administra- tion China offico Chinese officinis are tently making motions of breaking up the surplus log Jam→ Associated Press.
Hashish Seized
San Digo, California, Sept. 15- Customs agents found 20 lbs of Marijuana (hashish)-enough to make 20.000 "reefer" elgarettes-in a motor car entering the United State: from Mexico yesterday. It was hidden in a spare tyre,
They charged a youth of to with smuggling...
The youth said he was from Los Angolca, and the agents suspect that the drum may have been intended for Hollywood. They sald” Mexico was the biggest source. of supply for tho increasing, number uf Marijuana smokers in the United States
"Reefers" sell illegally for from)) $1 to $3. each/---Reuter.
of CHUY
former
Aid For Refugees
H. C. L. QUESTIONNAIRE
Locality
Hause or Flat
Number in Family
Rent
Food
Servants
Light and Fuel
Schooling
Clothing
Transportation
Insurance
Entertainment
Any Other Items:
Street........
No. of Rooms
Name and Address (not for publication)
TOTAL $
01
Britain was second on the list with ITS$87,400,000 August and US$31.100.000 for the
worth of food whole period.
OTHER ALLOTMENTS
OFFER TURNED DOWN For that reason, it turn.d down a unlon offer to handle Army cargo
Allotments to other participants in during the strike at pre-strike rates, the ERP were as follows; Bizonia,
Thereupon,
the'
August. US$83,100.000; entire period Army started efforts to hire its own loaders-only April to August, US$142,800,000.
the union because pleketed by
Greece, US$31,000,000 and US$OB.- the Anny did not do its hiring 300.000. through unlon hiring halls.
10 be
The possibility that an unaffiliated 000. stevedoring concern at Seattle might handle the Army cargo was raised by the union here. The 'unlon said it had a contract with Spragu: and Company of Seattle and would work for the company lading Army car
goes.
The company was reported to be attempting to contract with the Army on the basis of pre-strlic conditions.-- Associated Press.
Fighting Around Mandalay
Rangoon, Sept. 15A Burmese Government communique: tonight reported a. battle, trainst Com- munist-led Insurgents in the Mandalay district, in which 22 in- Burgents were killed .and. 20. captured.
It also reported attacks. by, lo- surgents on three towns in the Yamethin, district, south of Manda- 1y, all of which were repulsed' by the Government forces.
Minor clashes took place in the Sagaing district between Yomethin and Mandalay, the communique added-Router.
Publicly Rebuked
Los Angeles, Sept. 16-The Los Angoles Presbytery has read a pubile rebuke to the Presbyterian minkstór who married millionaire Bob. Ton- ping and Lana Turner, the Film actress. in April. for falling to ob serve the law of the church on C marriage of divorcees.
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Under the church, regulations, o minister may not remarry divorced persons for one year after silyorne
The minister, the Bev Dr Stewart McLennan after hearing the rebuke read before 300 churchmen si
arcent the rebuke in all humility" Heuter.
Italy. US$31,100,000; US$148,300,- Austria, US$27,500,000; US$81,000,- 000,
Netherlands, US$84,700.000.
US$25,300,000: Denmark, US$20,300,000; US$32,- 000.000.
Norway, US$17,100,000; US$28,- 300,000.
French zone Germany, US$4,100,-
·000: US$23,000,000,
Trieste, US$2,700,000; US$7,700,000. B.Iglum, US$2,200,000; USS2,200,-
000.
iceland, entire period, US$2,300,- 000.
Wheatfopped the list of "Com= modities purchased "followed by coul Coal purchases or the p.riod totalled US$127,000,000; the wheat total was US$230,000,000 ---Associated Press.
Chinese Reds' Big Task
TAIYUAN WILL BE HARD TO CAPTURE
Taiyuan, Sept.-16.To tako this capital city of Shansi the Redis will have to overcome a defending force of 220,000 men-150,000 regulars 70,000 militiamen.
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Both sides appear to be waiting, the Nationalists until they have. reorganised and regrouped their and the Reds according to Yen, until they have massed about 200,000 men for a concentrated attack designed to take his city.
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The Nationalist defchees exiena Into the hills which gird, the valley In which the small walled city 01 Taiyuan stands.
ΙΠ these hills are cool, Iron Dri other mines from which the foc- tories of Taiyuan draw their lif blood. At many a workshop the are producing machine tools to turn out Implements of war.
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