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End Of
Soviet Treaties
VOL. IV NO. 77
Foreseen
Moscow, Apr. 1.-Well in-
formed diplomats in Moscow forecast today
that the
Anglo-Soviet and Franco- Soviet trenties will soon be dond prets.
They were commenting on the new Soviet memorandum de- nouncing the Atlantle Alliance.
When the Soviet Foreign Ministry first denounced the Atlantic Alliance early this year, many diplomats took the view that
the two 20-year treatles were in jeopardy.
The Russians now raine just this point-that claures in both treaties stipulate that neither party shall join alliances direct- ed against the other.
Russia rays specifically imt the Atlantic Alliance is directed against the Soviet Union.
The memorandum, delivered yesterday in the Western capl- ials, added that statements by certain American ofciats ad- mit that the Alliance is aimed at the Soviet Union.
EXPECTED VIEWPOINT If Russia takes this view-it is rensoned in Moscow-then Surely the Russians will, upon the signing of the Atlantic Al- Hance in Washington, look up- on the Anglo-Soviet and Franco- Soviet treaties as invalid.
The executed in London on 20, 1042, said in article
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144 INJURED IN
NANKING
RIOTS
Tonight Students Clash
When
You Go With
To Bed
Fog Causes
Shipping Collisions
London, Apr. 1-Ships groped their way through heavy fog along Britain's coast during the night and a number of collisions were reported.
Soldiers
Nanking, Apr. 2.-Garrison Headquarters announced that 144 persons were injured in two clashes between soldiers and university students on Friday afternoon. Eleven were seriously hurt. The others injured included 85 students and 48 soldiers.
The curfew was Seven were arrested. advanced two hours to prevent further dis- turbances.
The clashes resulted from anti-government demonstrations after a government peace delegation left for Peiping to negotiate with the Communists.
Other ships found themselves N.Y. Taxi
In troubles
Thames
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A garrison spokesman sald demonstra- that 2,000 student tors paraded through the city and then went to an army re- lo distribute centre ception propaganda. Then the fighing started. The spokesman sald
Drivers Strike soldiers attacked the students.
to
The British steamer Belakar, early 2,188 ions, was beached today after a collision with the Swedish sicamer
then treaty. 2,447-ton Anglo-Soviet
The demonstrators May Nordic in the
the Presidential estuary, No Ilves were
New York, Apr. 1.-New York marched tanker lost. The Swedish oil
taxi drivers. siruck work at office to protest. Soldiers fal- and the dawn today with both sides lowed and attacked again. The Suya, 10,431 tons, Danish freighter California, the Union drivers and the Com- soldiers accused the students 4,109 tons, collided about a pany, owners-predicting blood of being Communist agents. halt halt mile from the Galloper and violence. The Union alleged Garrison police finally broke up lightship opposite the mouth of that the companies had 's- the fighting.
tributed guns to "scab drivers." the Thames.
companies said the Union A 403-ion Brillch coasting The vensei, was believed sunk after had brought in armed men "from
to frightened colliding with an unidentified the ship, four miles off Dungeness. ller crew was reported picked up by a coaster.
"Each of the bith contract- ing parties undertakes not to con- cludo any alliance and not to tako
part In any coalition directed against the other high contracting party:""
The
Franco-Soviet treaty, executed in Moscow on Decem- ber 10, 1944,
"The contracting parties un- dertake not to conclude any alance and not to take in any coalition directed against either of the high parlles."
5:
sald in article
the
The cross channel
minellelds"
drivers.
от
For the first time since early zaart
York steamer, in World War 11, New
the contracting Isle of Thaney, en route to police were placed
orders, emergency" from Folkestone, Was Calais
"gravest original fagbound
French for with 3,250 police in special strike off the At the time of the Soviet declaration against the more than 14 hours before she regiments..
have issued Atlantic Alliance, both the Bri- could make port, Two hundred
Union leaders tish and French Embassies in passengers slept aboard the
orders-that- not awheel must Moscow sent messages to Paris ship.
treaties The Meteorological
Omec turn, but the operators of large and London that the
winds fleets sald they would try to freshening
owner-dri- might be regarded as invalid by sald
would clear the dense fog along operate and many
would run as the USSR.
vers sal they the East and Southeast coasts.
usual despite the Union threat but that the rest of Britain's
to "wine them off the streets."
Reuter. coast would remain shrouded in mist.-Associated Press.
The French, according to in- regarded this formed sources, in a more serious light than the British did.-Associated Press.
EDITORIAL
Α
that
It's Still Not Satisfactory,
LTHOUGH, possibly, more words than necessary were used, the Budget debate which took place on Wednesday and Thursday is entitled to be regarded best which Legislative as one of the Council has indulged in for years. The Unofficials, on their part, exhausted every contentious point which might reasonably be described as being of "public interest." The official spokesmen, on their part, honestly tackled the criticisms and sug- gestions, and, by and large, proffered replies. Un- reasonably satisfactory doubtedly one of the most penetrating criticisms concerned the use of current revenue for capital expenditure, which, it was suggested by Mr Landale and Me Cassidy, might be better financed through loans. To sustain thele argument they pointed to Hongkong's public debt which is remarkably small in relation to the proven prosperity of the Colony. argument gains weight method of financing capital expenditure from revenue cannot be divorced from another feature--which many regard as a defect-Government's system of budget.
The
Government's of ting, reply to queries about financing capital expenditure is that the official system is Bound bookkeeping. "By meeting capital Jur current revenue expenditure from we are really inresting our surplus balances in capital assets," argues the Financial Secretary, and, from thla point of view he is right. But to the taxpayer of today, the capital assets of tumorrow may render him nothing. He is a with the uneasy feeling (and a sense of unfairness) that he is being made to pay in full this year for something which others in years to come will enjoy without having to make
essence
This
because the
left
the Hame
revenue means
even Include contribution. This could Security costs, for security is surely as any based as much on long term
Extraordinary. Works Government Security is a permanent necessity for Hongkong, and to suggest that expendi- ture for it is unusual and non-recurrent place it in a false position. There may be a thin dividing line between capital expenditure to be financed from revenue should he and from loan, but these capable of distinction. It is all the more important If meeting capital costs from loss of essential social services. This is the big weakness of the It official reply to criticism on the point.
a budget of should be possible from almost $180 million to introduce and sustain more social services than the Colony now enjoys. Instead, the 1919-50 Important programme provides for no development in this direction. Relatively speaking, social services are going, to be. worse off this financial year than Inst, and, as it has been demonstrated, the grent bulk of the budget is being devoured elther by non-productive departments or is being absorbed by undertakings the cast of which should be spread over several years. Some of the Unuficials have made strong point about this, and the Financini Secretary hna offered a plausible reply. But on balance the crities still appear to have the most appealing case and we hope that upon they will continue' to impress
need,
for Government the
not only revising this method of utilising current also the desirability of revenue, but cstablishing a budgetting system that will enable the public to appreciate just department costs, and how much each why.
a
was
A government spokesman shid the ineldent serious and Premier Ho Ying-chin consider- ordered a full investigallon.
STUDENTS' COMPLAINT
death penulty The
In threatened for any soldier vading university grounds to continue the clashes,
said Student demonstrators the government was insincere in its efforts to negotiate peace. perialism" and demanded They-attacked "American im-
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SENSATIONAL MURDER
TRIAL
OPENS
Woman Shot: Body Dissolved In
A Drum Of Acid
Horsham, Apr. 1-The prosecution alleged today that John George Haigh admitted shooting a wealthy widow and dissolving her body in acid.
The prosecutor, Mr E. G. Robey, was opening the Crown's case against Haigh, a 39-year-old business executive who is accused of the murder on February 18 of Mrs Olive Durand-Deacon, aged 69. ・・
In one of Mr Robey said Haigh made two statements to the polleo. them Haigh said: "Mrs Durand-Deacon no longer exists. She has disappeared completely and no trace of her will ever be found. How can you prove mur der if there is no body?"
he
Scientist Found Dead In Flat
| Vladimir
For China
STASSEN'S PROPOSAL
Boston, Apr. ・ 1.---Mrągy Harold Stassen today pro- posed a US$1,000,000,000 "MacArthur por year, Plan" to bolster Southern China's resistance' and to | fight Communism through-
out Asia.
Addressing the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Mid- Century Convocation at the spot on the programme where President
Truman originally
Plan
was scheduled to speak, the former Governor of Minnesota and present President of the University of Pennsylvania sald:
"Clearly the Marshall in Europe has been the most thing significant single, right we have done since the end of the war. It is high time wo had a paralel MacArthur Plan in Asia."
It was in a similar setting that General George Marshall. addressing Harvard University's 1947 commencement, frst voiced his gigantic programmo for European recovery.
Mr. Stassen, who
was a 1048 President aspirant, said of his MacArthur Plan for Asia:
LONG-TERM VISION "Supported iri a major way, it should be long-term in its vision, continuous in its execu-- tion, carrying the anme flexibl- lity of detailed application and the same concept of objectives and requirement of self-help an the Marshall Plan."
Speaking before 13,000 men and
present ut Mr Stassen said the gulf between Russia and Western world resulted from
The
differing philosophica Soviet trust in power and democratle bellef in the liberty of man. Ko
said: The prosecutor
"The, this out with the sludge and case the Crown presents here this was found."
suid that The prosecutor today is the case that this man committed a carefully planned Halgh returned to Crawley the
next day "and found, as murder for gain."
Mr Robey alleged that Haigh said-though actually this was not a fact that the destruction admitted taking Mrs Durand of the body was complete and
London, Apr. 1.-Professor said that since Russia respected only power, only fear of super- Vyacheslavovilch he emptied the drum completely Tchernavin Deacon to a storeroom near his
would proveat distinguished for strength plant at Crawicy and shooting
Soviet aggression. refugee her. In the back of the head and left it in the yard.".
-Dramatically, Mr Robey said: Russian scientist and a
"We must..conclude_that_wo. since 1932. "while she was examining some
"The accused
was found dead" in- *WBS
don are foolhardy to contribute by had not gone a gas-filled room of a Londpi Phen he removed her Per. Every piece
were 20 There
flat today. The tenant of the our Inaction or by our with eventually."
ald to. Communist safely in sian lamb cant and jewellery: pounds of melted body fat, flat, Anna Drew, aged 40, wasdrawal of
were looked inside her handbag and
foot eroded found dead there last night. domination of China."
BASIC DIFFERENCE fumed took what he thought was the part of the left
three gallstones, and She had been ill for sometime. Mr Stassen sald the only thing worth taking-30 by neld.
bone 18 fragments of human cash." sald
eroded by acid.
wakomunist broadcast an-shiftings in
Α
.
Mr
"Found intact were and lower dentures."."
wrong.
living conditions. Meanwhile, the government's delegation. landed housed Pelping. The delegates
in Peiping's Lits hotel. nouneed the arrival of a 20-man Robey,
"the reactionary party from
DRUM OF ACID Kovernment," including six de-
"Then he put the body ot legates.
Another Communist broadcast Mrs Durand-Deacon alo said the Nationalist government drum of acid together with the "is intensifying war preparations handbag and the rest of its while sending representatives rather useless contents."
Haigh, who
resided at the to Pelping for peace negotia- tons". It asserted the govern-same hotel as Mrs Durand- ment was pushing conscription,
returned to the hotel TV Deacon, former and
premier
trip
to the next day, February 10, Mr
prosecutor said Rabcy Soong's contemplated
caid. France was to seek munitions.
Mr Robey said that at the was an engineer by occupation but was only a nominal direc- -Associated Press.
hotel Haigh
if Mrs asked
was ill Tho
Four Jews Ambushed &
Killed
Durund-Deacon
1
Professor Tchernavin, former-
basic
ly of the Petrograd Agrono- difference in the East and West upper mical Institute. was in charge philosophies explained the fall- of biological and technological ure to set up a United Nations Mr Robey told the court:
Iaboratories at Murmansk for strong enough to preserve peace, "It must appear crystal clear "There can be no doubt that four years until 1930.
that no major portion of the Haigh obtained money by kill-
follows the Ing this woman and selling her He was arrested but escaped world that
the concept of jewellery and had taken the to Finland with his wife, and materialistic first step to realise on her valu-son, who were visiting him at nature of man can be lancluded able fur cont another. £50.” the Solovetsky concentration or will permit itself to be in-
(Continued on Page 14)
A GAMBLER
The
Haigh
Lor 01 Hurstler Products of manufac-
a plastics Crawley, prosecutor said that Haigh then turing company. sold Mrs Durand-Deacon's gold tur and ruby watch
suburban jeweller.
bracelet to a
"Haigh drew no wages from the company and, as he hini-
"He then went to Crawley to self hus said, he backed horses see how the reaction in the drum and sometimes he made sub..
stantial gains." was," Mr Robey continued. "He
did not think it complete so he l "But, doubtlessly," Mr Robey left it there and took the fur added, "ho also made in the na
ture of things substantial losses cost away."
in the because-and it is a matter of The small courtroom
Horsham Town great signicance on February Tel Aviv, Apr. 1-An
300-year-old
an unsecured four occupants of an Israell fall was packed with about 507, 1949, he had
It overdraft at the bank of £83 military car, ambushed last reporters and 70 spectators.
was the most sensational mur-5s. 10d. that was subsequently re- of night 15 miles west
der hearing in Britain for years. duect to about £5 on February the 23. Queues fonned before Hebron, were shot dead, it
On February 7 Haigh was was officially stated here court opened for the few seate
available. tonight. The car was found
Haigh, smiling, was brought owing. The hotel a considerable hand-sum of money for board and riddled with bullet holes in in through a side door,
lodging-nearly £60. He was being pressed by the manage a ditch in an uninhabited cuffed to a policeman.
Mr Robey said Haigh and
ment for payment," Mr Robey There was an Arab woman from the hotel reported declared. "It is important in Legion post two miles away. to the police on February
this case to look at the financial thnt this man at position of An Israell spolasman claimed that Mrs Durand-Deacon the assailants "must have been missing.
"On February 21," continued time because it has, in the sub- to mission of the prosecution, a Arabs under the control of the
on this case of the Arab Legion
military Mr Robey. "Inigh returned
Importance."---Asso- spokesman earlier sald the am- Crawley to find the reaction in bearing
cinted Press. buch fook place on the rond the drum of acid almost com- greatest between the village of Al Quei-plete. baba and At Dawnyima,
arca.
west
20
was
fat on the
the
The King Drives To Windsor
London, Apr. 1-King George palace today left Buckingham for the first time cinco
his
camp.-Reuter.
THREE
LEADING
LINES
WHITBREAD'S
LIGHT ALE
LIGHT BEER SPECIAL WHITBREAD (STOUT SMALL WHITBREAD
PALE ALE
HANDBAG FOUND, at Habron, which is held by
"There was a piece of the Legion.
Israel has reported the inci-and bone floating dent to the United Nations, the sludge, so he emptied off spokesman said, und "is exercis-sludge with a bucket into the
It
on to the Ing increased vigilance" in the yard and tipped
taking area, but
no punilive ground opposite the store.
"Then he pumped some more action.
Informed saurees sald lite neid into the tank to decom- operallon on March 12. Accomm-Sole Agents: A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. signature of the recent agreed pose the remains. The acid, he panied by the Queen and Prin-
from Alexandra Bldg. the cess Margaret, he drovo Israeli TransJordan armistice found, had not attacked would not be held up as a red plasile handbag he had put the palace to the Royal-Lodge, zult of the Incident-Beuter. In with the body and his lipped Windsor,-United Press.
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