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Costly Communist Revolt
Singapore, Oct. 6. The
Communist revolt in Indonesia bas cost about 1,000 lives,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1948.
ECA'S FINE WORK
FOR CHINA
Big Programme Of Economic Aid
Republican officials said today. RICE, FLOUR AND COTTON
These Informants
zald
the
lost 150 Inen, Republican army about 300 civilians were killed by Communists, and nn catimated 800 rebels lost their lives.
Mr John Coast, a British adviser to the Indonesian Republic, told the news conference that Musso, lender of the attempted coup, brought to Java orders from Moscow stipulation the date for the action. As a result, he
were salu, the Communista forced to go ahead although they were not prepared.
Shanghai, Oct. 6.-Here is what the ECA China Mission has done to date in its US$275,000,000-pro- gramme of economic aid to the Chinese people:
Landed more than 105,000 tons of rice and flour in
China;
Landed or shipped 305,000 bales of cotton; Provisionally allocated US$22,250,000 for replace- ment projects;
Allocated US$22,000,000 for petroleum products.
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The total cost of this part of the help the Chinese people help them- ECA programme-in money. spent selves.
bas Production
been US$118,050,000. End allocated-in
none of the Mr Coant sald that because of the The money rovers goods and equip-established whereby
of foreign American aid will waste in ware- coup, the Indonesian Republic willment requiring outlays
houses (godowna).
ask the United Nations good Ofees currency. This aids China to col- Corantiaalon for removal of Dutch serve her foreign assets, economic Republic
A
restrictions which, the The job of the ECA China Mission constiiule is to see that this money is spent Enys,
blamed Mr Coast
the or allocated in ways that will en- blockade.
the Communist uprisings on
poor sure basic economic improvement in From the beginning, ECA andard of living directly resulting China.
"blockade."--Associated |as endeavoured to ensure that the from the
fund administers are used to Press.
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In the post-war's greatest human
DISTRIBUTIONS
Here are some of the things ECA has brought to China:
1. Food-ECA has spent 20,000,- 000 US dollars for grain to dule.
All the rice grain is from Siam; at the four la from America.
A total of 71,045 long tons of. ECA rice and 10.150 long tons of ECA flour had been distributed up to September 27 and September 25 respectively.
Under present plans ECA is scheduled to furnish 40 percent of rationing needs until April 3, 1949. The Chinese Ministry of Food is responsible for the balance.
2. Replacement US$22,250,000 has been provisionally allocated for replacement of 14 war devastated utilities throughout China. This in- cludes railways, power companies, mines, and sugar mills.
MILLIONS FOR PETROL These projects were chosen after thorough investigation by the ECA's Industrial Survey Group.
ECA Bas allocated US$22,000,000
wili for petroleum. This
mean additional quantities of aviation gasoline, automobile gasoline, diesel oll, lubricating oil, grease, crude oil, kerosene and fuel oil.
3. Cation-Three
hundred
and
five thousand bales of ECA cotton have been delivered or are enroute
Secretary of state George Marshall (left) reaches ncross the aisle 10 con. gratulate British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin (right) after the latter Nations told the United General Assembly in Paris that Russia will be to blame if a "black fury, the incalculable disaster of atomic war,” falls upon the world. Mr Bevin made his blistering attack on Russin As the Western Powers prepared to nak the Security Council to act on the Berlin crisis.-AP Picture.
FIGHTING
NEAR
to China at i cont of US$54,700,000 MANDALAY
Of this quantity 70,000 bales have started moving to the mills.
Of the final manufactured pro- dudts turned out 50 percent will be exported for foreign exchange. The balance will be released in China for
consumption.
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LATEST AUTHORISATIONS Washington, Oct. 6.-The ECA today announced $994,145 in recovery authorisation
countries, for four bringing the total to date since the beginning of the ECA programme to $2,024,755,295.
Rangoon, Oct. 6.-Nine insur- gents were killed in clashes with Government forces at points near Mandalay and in Upper Burma, a Burmese Government communique fasued here tonight reported.
Apart from the brief information in these Government contained communiques, it is difficult here to oblain news of happenings in the Interior of the country.
that the
"While
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Trial Of British Oil. Man: Minister's Protest Note
Bucharest, Oct. 6.-A second note was handed in by the British Minister to Rumania, Mr Adrian Holman, to the Rumanian Foreign Minister, Mdme Ana Pauker on October 4 concerning the trial of Alexander Evans, British oil man.
Evans was arrested on June 7 on charges of misusing £24,000 of the Steaua Romana, an Anglo. Iranian oil company subsidiary.
Evans several The new note sakl the sum alleged arked for ball for to have been misused by Evans was weeks ago "In view of Evan's age made up in two charges, one of and falling health and to enable him £10,000 and the other of £14,000. to prepare his defence."
sum hnd "This latter
been dropped from the original charge for lack of evidence," the note said. Now Evans, whose case was await ing anal sentence on September 10 is being re-examined for the dropped churge.
The
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"STRANGE PROCEDURE"
on to say pole goes previous notes had drawn attention to this "rather strange and irregular procedure," but assurances had been given that the case would be finally Judged on October 4,
the
On October 4, the note said, the Rumanian court approached the British Consul General and suggest- The semi-offlelal New Times of ed that Evans he released on bail of The authorisations Were as
today Burma reported'
times £90,000-four follows:
Austria: $850,000 which is dividedstago was sel for "a large measure about
in regard to). whitch Evans is now being held. between ocean freight $450,000 and of conciliation" between the Govern amount of the funds
dissident ment and the inland freight $200,000.
section
The British note said the British of the leftwing France: $14,300 which is divided Bund
Volunteer
Consul General rejected this pro- Organisation] between spare paris for miscel- People's laneous working machinery $13,000 which recently joined the insurrec-posal while awaiting judgment"
premised. It also pointed out that tion against the Government, and ocean freight $1,300.
"An important announcement is the British Legation had originally Denmark: $30,000.
expected within a few days," paper's political correspondent wrote:
Trieste: $294,000 United Press."
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New York, Oct. 6--A daring new operation that prolonge life, at least temporarily, for some "hopeless" Tel-Aviv, Oct. 6.-It was reliably
cancer victims is announced in the journal Cancer.
1 reported tonight that Frederick Sylvester, the British employee of
the relieved of pain, and some The operation removes the Jerusalem Electric Corporation. pelvic viscera the orgons and part entirely free of pain. held by the Israeli authorities on of the large Intestine in the lower Very likely, the cancer had started' charges of complicity in the Ben abdomen
It was developed by Dr to spread to the bones, lungs, liver Yehuda Street explosion of last Alexander Brunschwig, famed or other parts of the body before February, has been recommended Memorial Hospital surgeon... for release by the prosecution
American
the operation, Dr Brunschwig sald. It is too early to tell whether the ultimate Cancer death from such a spread in any of
in 22 the patients.
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had already notified the court Socioly, describes ocials in Jerusalem to this effect, patients; 21 were women 32 to 03 and his release was expected "ry | years old, noon.”—Reuler,
The first operation was performed in December 1040 and no con cancer clusions yet can be mode about lis All 22 were dying from
sald. But it in pelvic organs. They were con- status," the surgeon
might save lives if it were done early Prison For Taking
sidered hopeless, in the last stages in cancer of the pelvis that could la pain not be controlled by X-rays, „he of cancer, and all were Part In Murder” Other methods of treatment had
added, operations After extensive surgery, elimina- Shanghai, Oct. 7-Cheng Tsung- failed, and the usual oper pao, henchman. of late chief of the were no help, Dr Brunschwig said. tion from both bowel and kidney is Thirteen of the 22 were living handled. by n rubber bag which is Japanese puppet secret service-in
report. Shanghai, was sentenced by the at, the time of his
The hermetically sealed to the abdomen. Dr Brunschwig said the row. Shanghai high court to five years times varied from seven months to Imprisonment for participation in two weeks for those most recently operation apparently is "the most
80 surgical attack the murder of Yoh Hwe, a chief operated upon. Some had returned radicat
to work. Five died within short described for pelvic cancer, and also justice of the Nationalist was periods after operation, and four would appear to be among the most ment, Chief Justice murdered shortly after the retreat others succumbed from one to eight radical of abdominal operations that have been carried out with some of Nationalist forces from Shanghai, months later -Associated Press.
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