NO U.S. COMMENT ON S. AFRICAN RACE
RIOTING
Washington, Jan. 18.-Government circles have resolutely refused to comment on the South African rloting, but there was unmistakable relief at indica tions contained in the latest dispatches that the trouble had been brought under control.
Most Americans realised that country, South Africa harboured although its triangular character understood.
Antarctic Naval Agreement
like their own ¤ racial problem, ia not completely
The potential explosiveness of the Union's situation, as revealed in the past few day's ccurrences, came as n shock in most Americans,
The common view among those who have an appreciation of the situation is expressed in a Washing- ton Post editorial today-that the white population, although appar- ently not directly involved in either cause or effect of the rioting, indirectly involved.
London, Jan. 18.-Britain, The editorial declares: "Wider re- Argentina and Chile will to percussions can hardly be foreseen right exchange agreed state-or measured yet." It says that the ments "excluding naval demon- rioting, occurred in animosities of
unusual complexity. strations in the Antarctic during the Antarctic summer 1948-19, it was learned au- thoritatively today.
the
Tho agreement, which was nego- tinted in London, will ban demon- strations by warships in the Antorc fic below
Goth Southern Parallel during the current Antarc tic summer season. It is believed. however that the agreement will be extended later.
The carrying of supplies to existing basen in the Antoretic by tinarmed transports will not be nfected by the agreement.
"The dominant white minority, about four to one, out-numbered denies political, economic and social equality to all non-European groups, different a. somewhat thouri in menstre.
The polley is as old as European Africa, 11 colonisation in South cannot be attributed to the present under Dr Nationalist Government
the Malan Malan, except that Government, unlike its predecessor, is determined not to allow any im. provement in the status of the non- European groups,"
After detaliing the "inder-Hxe into which fell a tiny conditions
concludes: editorial the spark," "Racial discrimination is the crea turo of the European in South Africa, and he will ultimately pay the price of an unchanged situation
ele an zoon as various non-white ments cease to be dominated by
animosities." own mutual Details were subsequently worked
DEATH TOLL NOW 121 out by the Argentine Ambreador, Dr Ricardo de Labougle, and Sir
Durban, Jan. 10--The riots' death Sargent, Permanent Under-roll rose to 121 tonight. Orme Secretary of State for Foreign An African was killed last night and early torlay 50 Africans and
Talks which were initiated London early In November con- tinued here with Dr Junn Bramug- In and an agreement was reached then in principle.
Affairs.
thele
Reuter.
dead by an
Informed quarters expressed the Indians were injured in sporadic opinion
that the present Britishieldents in Pietermaritzburg. cruise in the Antarctic by British The native was shot naval units will not contravene the Indian, who opened fire on him and argeement and will keep to a route other Africans when they attacked above the 60th Farallel,
This house.-Reuter. Meanwhile, the Foreign Office
that Abokesman
the snid today British Government had been in- formed by Chile that the Intest Chilean Antarctic expedition was now on its way to the Falkland Islands.
Details were not yet known, but the spokesman indlented that ac cording to available information the
parcad 10 be expedition inūtine`move.
a
The British Admiralty announced jast week visit, of naval units to Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and a Falkland visit 10 the Islands."-United Press,
"routine
Not Selling Out, Says Selznick
Ahm Hollywood, Jan. 18-The producer, David Selznick, today dented Warner Brothers' studio re- port that he was selling out.
Selznick, 47-year-old actress Jennifer Jones, alara to Warners and other studios, but pointed out that he had been doing this for years.
flance said,
of
his
The Warner announcement sald Selznick, who headed production at
Isaacs Gives
1949 Call-Up
Statement
London, Jan.
18. About 150,000) young Britons will be called up for National Service this year, it was announced when the House of Com-
ract after Blois
tho Christmas Necess
Minister
Mr of Labour, The George Isanes, sakl that there would be four registrations for National Service this year, and the call-up age would remain unchanged, at a little above 18 years and three would months. The registrations lake place on February 28, May 21, September and December 3. he would Mr Isaacs sald nounce further registrations any change in the age of call-up in 1950 as early as he could in order to give young men the longest pos- sible notice.
an- anil
Facilities will be given to those who desire to start Service nt 18
RKO and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to enable them to complete service before organising his own studio, in time for consequent civil activity. "has made us an offer of all his
No decision on the age of call-up for 1040 has been, or could be, properties,"
This would include such stars as Inken until the requirements of the Jennifer
Jones,
Peck, Services Gregory
known. Making a ΠΡΟ Joseph Cotten,
Temple.gUESS, Shirley
Mr Isaacs thought about Valli, Louis Jourdan and Robert 150,000 young man would be called Mitchum, all under
1oup under the scheme in 1040,- Selznick,-United Press,
[Reuter,
contract
·SIDE GLANCES
10-30.
By Galbraith
(COPIL LOVE MY NỮA BERVICE, ÎNG, T, M, RED, AL, B, PAT, OFF.
"The youngsters certainly have changed since our day. Mrs. Feinglo-I'm glad they don't know the things we used to got arrested for!"
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1949.
Film star Wanda Hendrix smiles at Audie Murphy, America's most decorated soldier of World War II, after they had obtained a wedding licence at Glendale, California.
They planned to be married In North Hollywood,``
Dalton Surprises European
Unity Committee
Paris, Jan. 18.—Mr Hugh Dalton, leader of the British delegation, told the six-power European Unity Committee in Paris today that the British Government proposes that Strasbourg, capital of Alsace, be the seat of the proposed "Council of Eurone."
According to a British delegation member, this was one of several surprise proposals Mr Dalton sprang on the Committee.
Britain's Meat Cut
London, Jan. 18-Britain's fresh meat ration is to be rut from Jann ry 23 because of delay In deliveries of meat from Argentina, the Ministry of Food announced tonight,
The ration will be
reduced
from one shilling's worth to 10 pence worth a week. The canned corned meat ration rc- main the same at two-penny worth
Tweek.
The Argentine Government his assured Britain that they will do their utmost to make
-cool-shortage_a_soon ak
but it is anticipated that by the end of March de- liveries will still he 60,000 tons
in arrear.
From January 30, Bellafu's bacon ration is to be restored to two aunces weekly-Bruter.
Most Delicate Phase Of
Negotiations
of the
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"No Other Way," Says Deakin
Paris, Jan. 18-Mr Arthur Deakin, President of the World Federation of Trade Unions, anhounced in Paris tonight that union representatives of the Western democracies had do- elded "there is no other way but to bring our association with the WFTU to an end."
Ho, was speaking at on all-day closed session of the WFTU Execu- live Bureau, considering a British proposal to suspend the organisa- tion's activities for a year.
The formal breakaway of British, American and Dutch trade union movements from the Federation will not take place until tomorrow morning, but Mr Deakin and Mr James B. Carey, Secretary-Trea- aurer of the American Congress of Industrial Organisations, separately told reporters: "Our decision has been taken,"
Mr
not attendid he "may or may
fomorrow's meeting.
Mr Deakin, on behalf of the non- Communist trade union representa- live will move a recommendation to the national centres allated to the WETU to adop! the British proposal for suspension of activities.
He will recommend iho appoint- ment of trustees te administer WFTU affairs.
"Observers believed thore were certain vates the four almost Soviet, Italian and Chinese repre- sentatives and the French Secretary- General of the WFTU, M. Louis Saillant to defeat the three of the and Dutch TO- American
presentatives.
Mr Deakin described M. Saillant's counter-proposal that the Executive consideration Bureau should defer pending meetings of the Executive Committee and Executive Council and Onally the General
Council as
" refusal to face the issue, a device
sidetrack the decision
10
Mr Deaks
main we prefer capitalism
.on
our
said: "It has been sald to socialism. We reject such suggestions with the contempt they are worth."
M. Saillant mid tonight that the proposals aro a "clear violation of erlic and constitutional the democratic
The Dulch, rules of the WFTU," British and American representa- tives showed an "obvious determina- tion to break away from the WFTU, stad M. Sallent, who sald he had little hope of the quarrel being mended.
the
He added: "The WFTU will carry on anyway." He said he had pre- sented the Executive Bureau with a
caliing
the on other joint resolution No oficial details
and Committee proposals were available tonight. ItExecutive won learned in delortation circles General Council to convene within three months to consider the two that Mr Dalton had received a very bard and
brief from fast
proposals-Reuter. Mr Ernest Bevin to prem for maximum powers to the Consultative Council of Ministers, icaving the proposed European Assembly or Parilament with more limited functions the continental partners of Britain originally wanted.
than
The new British proposals to the European Unity Committee today were, according to British, delego- tion sources, drawn up following Mr Bevin's talks with the French Foreign Minister, M. Robert Schu- man, in London last week...
Mouse In The
Chips Cost
Him £10 Fine
London, Jan. 18.-A mouse, cooked In with the chipped potatoes cost Frederick Pilling a Croydon res- taurant operator. a £10 fine today. Pilling pleaded guilty to a charge Mr Bevin apparently persuaded
for human M. Schuman to agree that the Con-
of selling food unfit cultative Assembly proposed by the consumption, but said he kept a French and the Belgians
should cat in the restaurant and did not know there were any mice around. have severely restricted powers.
the place.
As outlined by one of the con- One girl testified that she found tinental delegations, Mr Dalton's a "plece of string" in her chips but proposal provides that the Consulta- learned a few minutes later that il live Assembly should discuss only was the "residue" of half a mouse subjects submitted to it by the another girl found in her potatoes. Ministers' Council and should have "Everyone immediately stopped the right merely to make recom- eating," the prosecutor said. mendations on them.
Pling's lawyer Baid the mouse
Mr Bevin was believed to have was a very small one" and that had strayed through a conceived. the idea
of Strasbourg maybe it being the seat of the proposed Coun- ventilator and fallen into the chip? ell of Europe because of the historic without being detectedAssociated significance of the University town Press.
as a centre of Western civilisation and a link France and Germany,
European between
Rhours,
Ismaeli- Jen. 10.--The Egyptian armistice talks here entered today what United Nations sources described 48 "the most delicate Phase the discussion of unmistice said the trend of today's discussion positions.
If this stage of the talks. con- sidered to be the stiffest hurdle the tackle. Is solis- conference has to factorily passed, the initialling of an agreement is extremely likely.
n draft
The acting United Nations Medi- ator. Dr Ralph Bunchie, żaw the lends of the delegations separately this morning, receiving suggestions and counter-suggestions to armistice prepared by himself and his staff..
Informal meetings were expected on throughout today and fo- 10
with POSTOW
plenary session tentatively aranged olther he to morrow or on Thursday. Such a ful ression would anticate a favourable agreement between the two sides, according to United Nutions sources --Neuter.
The French delegation, It was learned, expressed disappointment at the plan put forward by Mr Dalton today. One French delegate
was "very bad," but he hoped for an "improvement" before the end of the session
4
It appeared probable tonight that the European Unlly Committee would not make a unanimous report to- the five-power Foreign Minis-
London later this month, and that foreigu ambsters themselves would take the final decision.
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The Committer talks lasted one and a half Jyms. Real business lo expected-to begin tomorrow.
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17, Hankow Road, Kowloon. TO-DAY
By the middle of July, Monty's A 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m. delay in attacks, his excessivo cau-
tion, and his reluctance to atfack Whatever you miss in Films this until he had a force as powerful
as that at El Alamein, had many season, you won't want to, miss at officers against him.
over to at went
London, Jan. 10-A student Oxford, who will soon gradunic the re of 37. has been chosen by Party for an all-out effort to oust Mr Winston Churchill the House of Commons at next year's' general election.
A returned serviceman. Seymour Hills, was picked tonight by the Labour Party Organisation in Mr Churchill's constituency of Wood- ford, Essex-a suburb of Northeast London to oppose the wartime Premier.
The Labour Party did not put up n candidate against Mr Churchill in the 1045 election. Hills worked as a printer and then for a car
mattu-
M. Guy Mollel, Secretary General of the French Socialist Party, de- facturer after leaving elementary rutising for the Secialist leader, M. school. He rose to the rank of cap. Leon Blum, fed the French delegates. tain during five years in the British The Belglan and Dutch delegates Army und entered Oxford after be from the Army.--- were led by M. Franz Van Caul-ing discharged
Associated Press, wackert, Speaker of the Belgian
Old Trooper Now Chamber of Deputies, and Dr. Ala-
Family Ship
barda, a Socialist Member of the Dutch Lower House.
M. Fernand Loesch and M, Michèl
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Fire In Shanghai
Radio Hongkong
Liverpool, Jan 18.--The trean-husqui represented. Luxembourg.-11.K.T. ship, Empress of Australin, bulit in Reuter. 1914, has been ro-filted to carry more soldiers", _familles, and when she sells from Liverpool on Friday for Port Said, she will carry an jextri hundred women 'and children. Her re-ft as strictly' ‘a family ship
ly part of the War Office schemo to cut the delay in taking wives and children to their men folks serving oversens.
General to this.
on
ine
France twentieth; returning, he said Monty seemed quite satisfied with his owni progress, as though it were up to Bradley to go ahead. Next day, Ale Chief Marshal Tedder sent. In a
letter upbraiding Monty-the tonu Indicated Monty actually might be Job. Tedder unsuitable for his agreed with Ike the idea of "limited attacks" was all wrong. A wook later, the General wrote Monty that be just had to keep going.
in
Throughout the campaign Western Europe, it seemed lo me General that Monty plagued the with this same sort of worry, the crles for more immen and supplies,
taking bold
the excuses for not Potton-like action,
On September. 11, while I was In London getting supplies from Widowing. General Elsenhower wrote in the diary: "Discussions covered entire field of next month operations. Bradley (as always). most co-operative,
Patton Ramsay has just across Mo
Mozella
unimpressed
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started The Three Buss-Instrumental Trio: $40, come out in p.m. Much worried Terry Lou at the Plano (studio): 7.00, World News and News Analysis (London because Monty seems
Gas Workers Strike Relay): 7,18, Wednesday Night at 7.18" by necessity for taking Antwerp (Studio); 7,45, Percy Faith and approaches." General Ike: added.
Remo, Jan 18-A "progresivo Shanghai, Jan. 19-A disastrous, Orchestra: 3.00, From the
the next day: "After discussamg) steiko among gas workers begun in Are yesterday wiped out a squatters" London Relay); 8.10, Interlude: 4.15, "I'
in the Air Variety Request Programme ways and thenne of supporting left Rome today following the breakdown colony in the southern suburbs of Shanghal After quelling the flames,esented by an eye on tenk, sent Beetle off to see Monty of the talks between employers and
A Telki By Jack Luff-(Studio) "Dermany With the liner Orduns, now firmen discovered the charred And her place in Europe No. 1: The to find out just what we had to do. union officials for wage Increases.
Huhr Industries: 9.30, "Double Indemnity Monty's suggestion is simply-givg|| The city was without gas for one the way to Port Said, the Empress corpses of in adult and a child.
-hour today, Over 1,000 people were rendered A Meters Play by Charles Hatton liin everything. This is crazy....".
Tomorrow. the period of Australl is to maintain a re--
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will be increased, to two hours; on gular shuttle service between Liver- homeless by fire, which broke out
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