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THE RURAL RECONSTRUCTION OF CHINA
ECA Nominees For Nanking
Washington, Sept. 21.-The ECA announced today that the two United States members of the China Rural Reconstruction will leave for China next week by air. They are Dr Raymond T. Moyer and Mr John E. Baker who were appointed by Pre- sident Truman last week.
Dr Moyer told the press that the Chinese members of the five-man commission have already' been appointed. He said they are Messrs Chiang Mon-lin, James Yen and T. H. Shen.
Dr Moyer said that when he and Chino, the full Mr Baker reach Commission will meet at Nanking to decide on the brand outlines of the rural reconstruction programme. He said the programme would in- clude "all aspects necessary to bring about the stabilization of conditions fluence
Communist in
Dr M pointed outhat the Commut straughold has been in rural area. He sold the Commis- sion will attempt to alleviate un- satisfactory conditions
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He to Communist propaganda. sald white agricultural reform will be emphasized, economie conditions in general will be studied, including marketing, adjustment of landlord- tenant relationships, enforcing land laws, public health and educ tlon.
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Some Tips For
Married Bliss
Belfast, Sept. 21.--Want a life of married bliss? Tell your wife you love her
at least once a day and three times on Sundays and holidays.
That is the advice of the Rev. J. M. Mcllrath, 89. of the Irish Presbyterian Church, who has written an essay on "Love, Courtship and Marriage" to celebrate his diamond wedding.
His best tip for wives: take it easy on cosmetics~~ "Face powder may attract, but it takes baking powder retain. Association
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Press.
De Moyer said the rural people in China are suffering from bad local government and administru tion. He said he hoped, that the Commission could improve these conditions and also bring reforms in fax collection and methods of army, recruitment.
The Commission was established following
of letters an exchange between
the Chinese and United States Governments last August 4. The Chinese Government has agreed to extend ita full co-operation to the Commission's work. Dr Moyer said his group will work closely with the ECA China Chief, Mr Roger Lapham,
He said part of the responsibility will be to recommend curtailment of aid by the ECA if it uppears to the Commission that results are not being obtained. Under the law the Commission is authorised to spend $27,500,000 on its work or ten per cent of all of the $275,000,000 which is China's portion of first year recovery funds.
ONLY A START
Dr Moyer said that part of this j money will be used to establish a Joint Chinese-American secretariat and technical staff in Nanking. Both i Dr Moyer and Mr Baker emphasised that sines the first year's China ald programme expires next April
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1948.
Woman Warrior Leads Her
Rebels On White Horse
Rangoon, Hep 21,-A government communique sald today loyal troops la Central Burma had defeated a powerful rebel force commanded by a woman warrior named Ma Khin Nyunt.
The woman rodo a while horse and led her fiæblers luto an atlack on Burmese voldiers encamped in a Toungoo district villige on Sunday.
After the battle had raged for three hours, reinforcements reached the loyal troops.
rebels finally
The village was burned and the. Communiai ted retreated, leaving 87 dead, the communique mild.
Other rebel forces launched twin attacks on the road Juncture of Ilmawdi, 30 miles above Rangoon on the highway to Frome, official said
Burmese troops in that area had to be reinforced before the rebels retreated.
The government said loyal troops new control the coastal-city of Moulmein. The announcement säld insurgent Karen tribesmen In the area were surrendering-Associated Press.
EMPLOYER
Which OR TRADE
the main factor thought would prevent this the impos- sibility of combining two opposing armies which now exist in China.
ECA ofeluts described Mr Baker and Dr Mayer ng lwo of the United States greatest Ching experts. Mr Baker was adviser to the Chinesa Government for a number of years
1920.--Uulter Press.
Scotsman On
Murder Charge
Bruges. Sept. 21. A Scotsman, Herbert Frederick Stephens, age 30. will be charged at Bruges As-
Wednesday
the with
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Fizes murder of his wife Lucio Di Meo at Blankerberghe on July 3, 1947.
Stephens, a mechanic who was horn
Linlithgow, Scotland, in sail to be the adopted son of a wo- man living at Finchley Road, Grays, Essex. He served with the Royal Air Force during the war aut met his wife, who land a son from h earlier marriage, after the liberation
of Belgium.
According to polter evalence, Stephens was alleged to have shot his wife with a rifle while she was sleeping in the early morning. He ther went to the police and made
statement claiming that he was *suffering from loss of meinory.
In addition to the murder charge, Stephens will be accused of ob- taining money, by false pretences by
In deliver. Associated
UNIONIST?
Auckland, New Zealand, Sept. 21-Unless Sir Laurence Olivier is described as an "employer" he will be a trade unionist while in New Zealand or else be unable to accept any professional en- gugement, it wris learned on Tuesday.
This in the result of an Actors! Equity Agreement reached between employers and employers in New all overzeas Zealand unter which artists coming to New Zealbird will be required to obtain transters. Irem their own acture unkow to the Dominion Union,
While in New Zeal nd, actors will under the New cone inporarily Zealand award.
The antemebl provides that com- pulsory unionisan is to apply to all! profesional actors and entertainers |
earth New Zealand, including
members of overem touring coin- panies such as the Old Vic group
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Industrial
Mobilisation Plan
Canberra, Sept. 21.-Fickt sha! Lord Montgomery estimated in 1947 that Russia would be unable to go to war inside 10 years, Jupan inside 25 years and Germany in- side 50 years, the Australian Army told Minister Mr Cyril Chambers the House of Bepresentatives Tuesday,
KING LEOPOLD
Will King Leopold Return?
JULIANA PRAISES
U.S. AID
21.
The Hague, Sept. Queen Juliana drove to
Parliament today in a golden coach and in her first speech from the throne praised American aid for helping to restore Dutch prosperity.
Holland's pageantry was on din- play and crowds lined the streeta despile the chilly drizzle.
In her address to the joint season of both Houses in the unclint Knights Hall, the Queen said that without American ERP, Dutch Fecovery would be seriously impeded.
The overall picture for the mition woy sull "difculi,” Queen Juliana said.
She also made two references to Indonesia. She regarded its rela tions with the Motherland as s troublesome.
She expressed Holland's wish “ salisty the
Just aspirations of peoples overseas."
The Queen stressed the desirabi- lity of econonsie union with Belgium and Luxembourg and Holland's desire to elimite all obstacles 10 ifs consummation.
In conclusion, she enlled for con- timed efforts from her people, "still suffering from the after-effects of war in the midst of a world which does not yet know real perco.”— United PreRY,
Black Marketeer
Executed
Shanghai, Sept. 21-Colonicl Chant Ya-ming, who was assigned to track down blackmarket, opera- fors at the start of the Government Reform programme. wns excented at Woosung Garrison today,
Chang was convicted a month ago himself. of blackmarket operations
He formerly was head of the Shang- hal Economic Section.-Associated
Press
Ships Take Refuge
Havana, Sept. 21. The Canadien steamer Shismellion, bound for Miami, and
Icefield the steamer (registry unknown) also bound for Miumi, today took refuge at Nuri- tas, Cuba, to await the passing of a tropical storm. dispatches here
expected to hit
Senators To Decide On Referendum
Brussels, Sept. 21-Forty Belgian Senators decide today whether the public will have an opportunity to vote on the ques-said. Mur-tion of the return of King The storm was
Havana City later in the day and Leopold the Third.
King Leopold has been in exile to affect the Island's three western in Switzerland since he was freed provinces-Reuter. from German custody at the end of the war.
ir the Senators levide the people should be consulted, there is no need for King Leopoldi to start Their report Argt must go packing. back to Parliament to be approved. Then, when a Referenduin Law has
drafted.
that date for a plebis- cite must be sel Actually it is
not a plebiscite that being considered today but what Parliamentarians call a "Consulta- uve-Referencium." In other words, al hough the Belgian citizen may be asked for his opinion._the_majorily. vote which results will not neces barfly be binding on the
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Washington. Sept. 21. ~ The United States Department of De-
Mr Chambers, who was speaking today
the during the Australian's budget de- fence announced
that Viscount Mont- joint chiefs of staff have handed bate, said
Chief of the Imperial to the Munitions Board a compry-gomery, hensive plan for industrial mobili- General Staff, was a "great personal Minister Stalin, sation in the United States in the friend of Prime
him and with event of extreme emergency.
had often talked probably knew more of the War potentialities of the world then any other man outside Russia."
Saying that "if we talked more of peace and less of war. our peace Mr prospects would be better," Chambers declared that he believed the next war would be a "push but- ton" war.
A spokesman for the Defence the Board has Department said already accumulated *$700,000,000- worth of over 50 different kinds of raw materials.
50 far. 12,000 plants have been scheduled ૧૩ the surveyed and
cflielent producers of specifle military items that would be, re-
sired in bulk in an emergency,
The Department hopes to survey 30,000 plants.-Reuter.
"Another conflagration will be the end of civilisation and perhaps the Almighty has given us chance to decide on war or peace, he added.-Associated Press.
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the present education problem would էր altacked from two sides: 1. attempt to teach the people to appreciate the necessity for recommended reforms and 2. a general education pro- gramme in citizenship and, if pos sible, an attempt to curtail rural
teracy. Both men expressed the hop: that after the Commission establishes the groundwork, work will be continued for the next three or four years re- gardless of ECA appropriations. He said that continued work could be Ananced in the future in part by counterpart funds now being set rside by the Chinese Government in Its own currency in return fog ECA
i will be the duty of the Com- mission to recommend specile ECA expenditures for rural reconstruc- tion projects under the programme. However, Dr Moyer emphasised that there is no intent by the-Com- mission to carry out Chinese In- ternal laws and they will, merely Inake recommendations to Chinese Govemment.
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NEED FOR REFORMS He said there are Increasing In- dications that high Chinese Govern- ment ofleials recognise the need for such reforms. He said the Commis- alon will probably choose three or four provinces where the co-opera- tion of the provincial governors, can be counted on to start gramme. :
the pro-
Mr Baker denied that there wos || any chance of over creating Chinese Govárnmerit
with
Com- munist co-operation. He said he i
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SECRET VOTING
'If the Iteférendum eventually takes place, ail Belgian men and women over 21 will be called on tu vote.
'Only known collaborators with the Germans will be barred. Voting will be obligatory and secret as it is in comununal elections. Belgians who do not vote in elections face a Ane unless they have a valld
excurs
Leopold himself will be informed of the result of the vole bul that will be by no means an invitation to retu
return.
The Senate pul Chamber of De- frst would have to meet, then putles
low would have to be
passed ending the present Regency of Leopold's brother, Prince Charles, For
only Parliament, which pro- claimed the Regency, can invite the King's return.
since the end Ever
of the war Belgian politicians have debated for or against
from the platform
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country's
the exiled King and his alleged re- lations with
ith the Germans
during try's Nezi occupation. Belgian displeasure over Leopold's abrupt surrender to Germany and his refusal to leave Belgium when occupation was imminent, have prevented his returning to Belgium.
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CHINESE PROTEST. TURNED DOWN
Bangkok, Sept. 21-The Siamese Government today rejected the Chinese Government's protest against the recent arrest of about 300 Chinese secret society lenders.
Siam turned down the Chines demand for the immediats release of the arrested men and for full detalls of the charges against them. An eMelal source here and the Siam Government was contemplating the reduction of the Chinese immigm- tion quota to 3,000 from the present quota of 10,000-Reuter,
Forecasts Outlawing Of Communists
New York, Sept. 21--British, Member of Parliament, Mr Albert Edwards, forecast today that the Communist Party will be outlawed in Britain witliin the next five months.
Ife made the stalement to reporters 'when he arrived on the Queen
Elizabeth) for a two months. leclúrrí tour of the United States-United Press.
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