Troops May Be Used To Break French Coal Strike
CABINET'S PREPARATIONS
Paris, Oct. 7.-The French Government is pre- pared to use troops, if necessary, to requisition labour and maintain the 13 large vital coke ovens in the strike-bound northern coalfields.
The fires have already been drawn in six ovens and the furnaces partially banked in the other seven., If they are allowed to go cold, some industries using' gas would be paralysed for months, local engineers reported.
The French Cabinet, at à special meeting tonight, prepared the necessary measures for the use of troops for the maintenance of the coke ovens as the four-day was being increasingly felt old strike of 320,000 miners
in the north, where some towns were already without gas for lighting or cooking.
Whe
In supplies A national cul possible to preserve the existing coat stocks
The strike Altuation generally worsened today. The number of
£11,000 FOR
strikers throughout the country was RELIEF
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estiinted tonight at nearly half million, with as yet rw sign of any move towards negotiation.
the
Dockers were hinting at joining General strike movement and 80
of the northern railway percent workers were already said to be out although the London-Paris line was stil operating.
the General Victor Buguet. M. Secretary of the Comumanist Miners' Union, challenged the Clovernment's right to browbeat the miners ustrat troous or requisitioning fabour."
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London, Oct. 7.—A relief fund set up for the survivors of 50 allied airmen who were shot after altempting to escape in Germun March 1944 from prison camp has been closed the Air Ministry
last! reported night.
The £11011/88./0d, was raised by Ian auction sale among fellow officers left in live camp of the personal effects and clothing of the shot air men. The sale raised £6.482/3s./64. STRIKE DEVELOPMENTS
Bids averaged at least 20 times the the Government has not value of the articles the Ale Ministry While
"special said. The yel
Officers nanounced
not securing any of measures" it intenda to take to meet
the articles signed subscription lists for an additional £4,592/5. situation, etrcles close to
All bit one of the funds bene- Prime Minister, M. Henri Queuille,
the been traced ficiaries วาดH said that the French Cabinet was de
£26 has been termined to
to keep the northern coke Ministry said and
turned over to the RAF benevolent avens operating "at all costs."
Developments in the strike situa-
fund to be given to the widow of flying officer J. Mondschein of the tion tonight included the taking over by strikers of the Chalons-sur-Marne Polish Air Force if she is traced.—
Associated Press. on the main Paris- railway station,
of 5,000 Strasbourg Inc, a strike textile workers at Troyes, 100 miles) from Parke, strikes in Nice, Bordeaux and La Rochelle and partiu! stop- pages in aviation and other factories in the south.
Marine Court
was not
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1948.
Canadian-built Ships For Yangtse Service
One of nine ships built in Quebec and soon to be
delivered to Chinese owners.
Nine vessels will soon begin a 12,000 mile journey out of Canada's
inland
the St. great
waterway, which Lawrence,
will eventually curry them into the inland waters of another country, China's histork Yangtse tiver.
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Bao Dai Invited To Paris
Vietnam's Future Geneva, Oct. 7. Tho French President. M. Vincent Auriol, has invited the ex- Emperor Bao Dai of Annam to discuss the future of Viet- nam with him in Paris, it was learned on good authority here today.
Bao Dal has not yet replied to the Invitation but it was underfood
that he was willing to go to Paris
to confer with the President within the next two weeks.
Was
In
The President's invitation brought to the
ex-Emperor Geneva tonight by his secretary. Mr l'ham Von Binh, who arrived from Parls accompanied by Dr Phun Huy Dan. the Vietnam Minister of in- formation, and Nguyen Hui Tri, the Vietnam delegate to the United Nations,
Circles close to BAD Dal said to- night that it was unlikely that there would be a meeting here, between Bao Dal and M. Emile Bollaert, the French High Commissioner in Indo- Chine.
(M. Bollaert arrived nt New way back to today on his
Delhi
Parls.)
The ex-Emperor was understood to be dissatisfied with the degree of independence given to Vietnan
by the French Government.
Dal and M. Bollnert signed
Bao
the
Buy of Along agreement of June last, by which France recognised the Independence of Vietnam with- in the French Union..
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So shollow arte swift is the that no ordinary
Shanghal, Oct. 8.-Mr M. L. Yungise River
Qureshi, the Pakistan econo- vessel can navigate on its waters. For centuries small
craft have mist, left Shanghai yesterday French Senate of which he carried commerce on the river. On they sometimes
metines for home after spending about already a member. He added, how- upstream voyages
a fortnight here as a member ever that he did not wish to con- met currents of 14 knots against
tinue in his present position and dragged of the expert committee
ap-desired which their vessels were
to resume his political with towlines manned by stmining pointed by the United Nations career in France. coolles. But a vessel of 8-foot draft Economic Commission for Asia manned by a crew of 70 and capable and the Far East to consider the of carrying more than 350
the desirability of making speciul passengers was the dream of men who operated the Ming Sung financial arrangements for the Industrial Company.
promotion of trade among the They took this problem to Britain countries of Asia and the Far bit found the shipyards there 100
exacting a task. East. busy to tackle so In the United
they mel another problem-high costs and the difficulty of obtaining American In Canada they found exchange.
For having insuleient Are fight- Cormation of the threat of the
anding and life saving equipment en rallways strike :preading to
master of E molor shipping was seen in a meeting this board, the
attended by General George trading Junk was fined $200 or two morn ng
of Staff, months by Mr Calens at the Marine Army Chief Revers, the M. Achille Villey, the Super Pre Court this morning.
He had two instead of tive are Depart- fect" of the strike-bound
some directors of the extinguishers, and eight Instead of with fients.
The vessel 21 ifbbelts Andru nationalised mines, and M.
licensed
but the answer. to carry passengers, hind a crew of 20. it was last sur- Marie, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce,
Govern- veved on March 3 this year. Side by side with
Defendant said that the missing inent's 30
Industrial problem is the
to be Frane lpment had been taken
he had present Anancial situation.
repaired, but he admitted notes m circulation on September 30 were $10,000 million (about £1,057 not hand then replaced.
Expired Licence million)the second highest on re- cord, the Bank of France announced icday.
36,000 JL was
increase an million on the total a week earlier- -Heuter-
the
of
SHORTAGE IN BRITAIN London,
British Oct. B.--The Government told the Nationalised that it is coal industry yesterday falling in its task and must Increase preduction immediately.
Fuel Minister Hugh Galtskell de livered the bad news and the de- mand for action to the National Coal
The master of a sampan was fined $15 or three days for falling to re- new his Hcence, which had expired on June 30 this year.
National Health Scheme Successful
London. Oct. 7.-Health Minister Aneurin Bevan said in a speech. in London today that 90 per cent of the with population hnd registered
since doctors
Britain's national health service started on July 5,
by He confidently expected that Board and leaders of the Mine the end of the year virtually 100 workers Union at a closed door per cent of the population would be session
In the scheme. "The present level of output
Mr Bevan added that practically insufficient to maintain exports al
and the have joined the service the present rule for less to enable all the active general practitioners number of dentists taking part in to 80 per ΕΤΟΥΑ the scheme has een!-Reuter.
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them, to be increased next year to 23 or 24 million tons," an official statement quoted the Fuel Minister as saying. Exports are now at the rate of about 16,000,000 tons a year. "There must be better attendance at the pits, increased proportion Ince workers and a more regular. task on completion of the daily which ultimately the level of mine output depends," the oficial state- ment Laid.-Assoclated Press,
of
States
cabin
Before his departure. Mr Quresh!
atisfied told Reuter that he was
with the work of the committee and felt confident that the recommenda- tions of the committee, if acted upon, At Quebec the construction, of nine would go a long way towards the versels began, the largest of which achievement of the object in view.
283
Το feet in length.
Besides his work in the expert being keep the draft of the ships as committee, Mr Qureshi took the op- shallow as eight feet, weights were |portunity of his short visit to Chunu calculated in ounces. Hundreds of to study at first hand the compost tons of aluminium went into the con- tion, direction and future plans of struction of decks, bulkheads, fe- China's foreign trade. boat davits, furniture. Even tiny and bolls were made of nuts
unatic the aluminium. To
huge
COLONY'S TRADE
-
craft to make their way upstream He said that this study had re- against the challenging waters of the vealed that there was great scope And Innglse-Rorge-electrically operated for trade between China wwing winches were designed. Pakistan to the mutual advantage of
both countries.
On the voyages to China, Canadian crews will take the vessels across the Atlantic, through the Mediterranean and the Suez Canal, ueross the Indian Ocean and the Chinn Sea.
Freighter Aground..
On the oventa in Indo-Chinn, he
said his view, which had the French
Government's approval,
was that
the aspirations of the people of French Indo-China should be re- cognised
and
acted upon within the French Unton. The
problem was only with regard to Vietnam, namely who were the people qualined to represent the views of the inhabitants of the province?
Government, ha French added, would have to be careful to see that the authority was trans- ferred to representatives of the whole population and not to political minority.
The Communists, he added, were with the Nationalist mixed up movement of Dr Ho Chi Minh and
The
any
had been established that there was a strong bond between the Communists in China, Burma and Malaya and those In Tudo-China, especially in Vietnam.-Reuter.
BUYING SPREE DYING DOWN Mr Qureshi proposes to break his
Shanghai. Oct. 9. The buying return Journey at Hongkong for
spree in Shanghai is gradually dying a few days in order to study do the spot what he described as the down, as less and less people are
the jamming
shops. Observers latest developments in Hongkong's
this development to the against the entrepot trade
back-describe
fact that the wealthier people whose New York, Oct. 7-The Danish
grouard of disorderly cross rates and pockets are stuffed with gold yuan freighter, Paula Dan, 5,130 tons, ran hard aground early today four the existence of a free exchange derived from the conversion of gold market functioning side by side with bars and foreign currencies, have, of Chesapeake
City,ma miles south
an oficial exchange market having during the past few days, purchased Maryland.
fixed rates of exchange." She
оп New York arrived in
cough to last them for a long time. Besides, observers sald, the res South Light when was bound for September 20 from Valparaiso and she grounded,
The Paula Dan is owned by J. Lauritzen of Copenhagen.--Reuter.
has
He will also examine the "elfests of the restrictions recently im-quirement of producing resident Losed by the British Goverment on certificates
reduced the
huge ving crowds to a
a limited number the working of the tree exchange buying market of Hongkong."--Reuler.
as records of
purchases on the buyers certificate.
Russia Challenged To Reveal Armaments
Expenditure
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There were two reasons for up-
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not the slightest idea of how this was disposed of,"
are stumped
Meanwhile, the Police Commis- sloner
Mr Schobern Yu, is
expected
to order today some 0,000 members
of the police force, Youth Corps and the Defence Ministry's Corps to in- vestigate
essential
commodities stocked up in the city's gedown, shops and hongs la a major effort to stamp out hoarding-Reuter.
posing that these proposals were not innrie him stumble over words, Mr Recorded Voice
realistic foundation for
armament, Mr MeNell said.
a It was pure demagogy to say that the Soviet Union would be sacrl-
accepting fieing nothing in
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Mr McNell said that in 1937 the Soviet Government spent 17.3
roubles on milliard
armaments Today, it spends 66.1 milliards."
Speaking with a passion that McNeil said: "My country under-
6. Programme Summary; 0.01, "T- took a savage disarmament and de- after the
vellers Joy" A Comedy Thriller by John Episode 8: Polish "Mr Vyshinsky knows down to mobilisation programme
traditional for
Juwelt. (BBCTS) my Richland, Centre, Wisconsin, Oct. This is war. the last man and the last halfpenny what the United Kingdom is spend-country and is traditional for all 7-About 2,000 friends, relatives Corridar: 8.30. Pisiter Time" Presented by Philip Burn (Studio): 7, Saxophone countries. We and curious onlookers gathered ut
Recital by Emilio Salonga with Piano we Western European
Cristobal be deprived ing on armaments, what men
the funeral of Mr Enoch Jewel and
accompaniment by Vicente have. how WC train them, are at the bottom of the scale, re-
(Studio); 7.15, A Talk on Sports (Studio). what weapons they arc using duced to the Irreducible minimum-heard his recorded voice pronounce
fome following words on a loud- 7.30, "Band Stand"....Black Dyka Mills where "Even if the United States is de- and
Band (RACTS): 8. World and will but facing us is this Brure of 66.1 the they are. But anyone,
speaker. "I will bid you all good-News London Relay): 615, "impressions including even perhaps milliards." against Chung You Tak Mow Fung, prived of some fetitious advantages,
anyone from those states which are
Mr bye till we meet again-up yonder, Frederick or privileges, these advantages are known
Changing to a lower otherwiso
in the closest relation with the McNeil added: "What I ask in a Please arise to your feet when Charles Mow Fung, merchant, of those of mass extermination, and the
Soviet Union, will anyone tell us series of proposals
that will per-repeat the Lord's Prayer."
Jewel, an 80-year-old bachelor, with any certainty, where Russia's Mr Vyshinsky cold in conclusion men are placed, how many of them suade the peoples of the world that who died on Sunday, had recorded World and Home News (Landon Relay)
Russla Soviet
In earnest and has
a sermon to bo ployed at Mr Prior said he was for Mow that the Soviet Union insisted that there are ow much fussia is spend nothing to hide."
funeral. He also wrote his disarmament measures and and even
He then declared vehemently: Fung and, through an oversight the
obituary, selected and inscribed his appearance was not entered.
tombstono and chose the "People in many parts of the world,
own have to date would be paid by defen-prohibition of atomic weapons, such ing, on them?
as it had proposed, be subjected to
observing Soviet expansion
funeral prayers and music-Reuter. "strict," "stringent measures of con-
become afraid of Soviet Russia. plaintiff, trol, to see that they are carried
mis- "Perhaps their fears are out"
placed: perhaps in these abut of Mr McNell (Britain) immediately took the floor to reply.
countries of Eastern Europe nothing calm and the
SWITZERLAND IN He began his speech with a de
18 huppenlag:* all people are devoting themselves, ni fence of Mr Bevin on the charge of
rebuilding to Mr Vyshinsky says,
MARSHALL PLAN their economies. Geneva, Oct. 7-Field Maraisal misquoting Lenin and then turned
That does not matter what does copy began examining scattered Geneva, Oct. 7.--The Swiss Stato Viscount Montgomery, accompanied to the Soviet proposals for reduc-
"In 1947-48 the proportion of the
x-Council (The Upper House today by a salt officer, is to spend a two- tion of armaments,
Antional income of the Soviet Union matter is that the people of the world fragments of the B-20 which
are not convinced.
ploded
and killed eight crew mem-approved Switzerland's participation weeks winter sports holiday here in
in armaments was what "Mr Vyshisky knows perfectly bers yseterday while teating secret in the Marshall Plan by 32 votes fo Mr. Pent the tourist, office February,
porcentage? What percentage? Mrwell that none of us could withstand electronic equipment. nounced today,
Vyshinsky, havo a guess. Five per an appeal for disarrasment if he Guards were posted to stand over The new chief of western Europe's realistic proposal and is not
of cent? Ten per cont?
could show us that it was well based, the wrecked plane soon after the defence forca de axpected to arrive eigned create the condition
Published figures say 17 per-I do not want to commit myself to he on February 14. The annual Moat- confilence from which, disarmament
conta not incondiderable. gure. this rough and unjust system, but if crash. gomery Cup competition in ski jump-may proceed," he said.
That is the published figure. But conditions of trust are displayed to
Captain H. W. Moore, one of me ing instituted by Viscount Mont- "We all know that our govern-
completely certain it us, this Committee would go forward four survivors.who parachuted gomery in 1848 is to take place on ments and the peoples we represent, I am not
ends there, because last year there at a tremendous pobe towards dia safety, said he could not discuss the participation two days ago by 150
or how he votes to 7. The opposition February 20 at the Field Marshal's including the Soviet people, want
condition on which was an estimated budget surplus of nemament concluded Me McNall-cause of the explosion
from Communists.-Reuter. and others escaped---Router. request to enable him to attend per above all the
141 milliard roubles," and I havo | Reuter. Sonally-Asociated Press.
peace may be buill."
dant, he added.
Woo for Mr P. C. agreed to the transfer.-
Monty's Holiday
NOT REALISTIC shall all know that
proposal is
'an "We
Vyshinsky's
not
a
de-
that "I obsérvo
Mr Vyshinsky is getting busy with if lot of figurch But I am a Scotsman, and although I may have no head for logle, I have got a head for figures."
At this point, Mr MeNeil's voice rose and looking straight at Mr Vyshinsky, he asked him:
"HAVE A GUESS”
"Hush Hush" Men
On The Job Waycross,
7- Georgia, Oct. American "hush hush" scientista
onc.
independent member. There are no The opposing vote came from an Communists in the State's Council. 40 The Lower House approved
was
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