British Govt.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1949.
Still
Opposed To Conference Franco Spain
STATEMENT IN HOUSE
London, May 2.-The British Govern- ment told Parliament today that it would oppose any move to include Spain-"with her present regime" in the Council of Europe, the Organisation for European Economic Co- operation, the Atlantic Pact or the United Nations.
Mr Christopher Mayhew, the Parliamen- tary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, said in reply to a question: "So far as we are aware no proposals to rescind the recom- mendation of the United Nations Assembly of December 12, 1946, have yet been before the present meeting of the United Nations.
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On S.E. Asian Defence Forecast
Balgon, Alay 2-A full dress conference to plan the detener of Heutheast Asia against Com- munism will be held as naut an France and Holland selitle (brir wars in this area,& 10a-freacit Informant said today,
The informant, who refused to be identified by nationality, multi the conference would Include the United States, Britain, France. Indonesin, India, Stam, Burton and a Vietnamese government representative of Indo-Chin
However, he said, the Dotch roust first arrange for the get- ting up of an independent guv- ernment in Indonesia, ntul th
likewise French Bust do
In Indo-China,
10
The United States has stipu- "would Hike to reaffirm that Spain from specialised agencies,, inted the conditions to avoid
Is made to rescindi we do not Intend to support it."
being criticised for supporting? if a move the United Nations recommen- The question had been asked the colonial tactics of some of
the Western powers. dation about the withdrawal of by Copt. F. E. Noel-Baker.
travelled Ambassadors and the exclusion Labour, who h
the war making The
refuncil Spain slee 1
informant of the present Government
contact with the opposition. speculate about a date or place Diplomate obrervers in Lon-for such conference, but said don tonight concluded that, if a the need for It was "urpat, for motion to rescind the United danger is opgranching with great Nations resolution requiring the strides."-Associated Press. withdrawal of Aisbasadors from Madrid were brought be fore the United Nations, Britain would abstain from voting.
Strike Of African Stevedores
Want Wage Of
25/- A Day
Durban, South Africa, May 2. -About half of Durban's 1,200 African stevedores жего on strike today for a ware of 25 shllings a day..
The strike has seriously aTec led work in Durban harbour and sesterday only one of 13 chips could be handled. Many salt ings are expected to be delay- Dil.
ercwb.
Me Mayhew told another ques- Goner. Mr George Jeger, Labour, that no consultations on Spain had taken place recently, with the United States. though the two Governments "keep in touch on this as on ather through the normal diplomatic channels."-Reuter.
Damaged
Ships Limp
subjects To
US
U.S. OBJECTION TO LOAN REMOVED Madrid, May 2.-The State Department has removed its former political objections against the United States In- port
Safety
New York, May 2-The 7,180- ton Indian cargo ship Jalaketu limped to a safe anchurage m part early today after being in o collis on in fog last night with the 10,172-ton American tanker Marine Leader.
The Jalaketu was stove in be- Export Bank granting low and above the water line funds to Spain, according
and one of her holds was flood- touch led, Madrid quarters in close with diplomatie and financin circles.
The Marine Lender, which
damage
He i obove suffered water line, limped in under her own power and anchored off the quarantine station on Staten 15- land, in New York barbour.
Neither ship reported uny in the collision casualties
miles seven which occurred Routh-west of the narrows be-
and tween Brooklyn
Staten
Six skeleton gangs, protected
This <loeg not mean that by armed potice, were at work on several ships today, hided by Spain will immediately receive European members of the ships'n loau from the Bank, it was Instead, the way understood. The strike action followed has been prepared for her to the distribution of large num-obtain a loan, provided she can bers of leaflets. purporting to full the Bank's conditions. come from the total Zulu Work- A number of questions have cra Union, calling on all Atri- stil, to be solved before a loan teland, the entrance to the Up-
to strike until wage de-¦gen be Loated, but this is be- anands were met.
lieved bere to be just a matter, per Bay. Omcials hoped the strike for discussion and negotiation. The Indian rhip reported that would not last long. 15 the That the matter of a loan to Africans are not really organised Stain by the Bank was reach for such an action and will reing a practical stage retrned to ctive no strike pay.-Reuter.
cans
Mysterious Car Tragedy
was at anchor when struck by the tanker about midships, according to the Coast Guard, Fog had tied up shipping in
b. iniiented by the departure from Madrid for New York to the harbour.
People Say Statue Wept
Dozens of persons flocked to a four-room flat in Syracuse, N.Y., to watch Shirley Anne Martin, 11 (above), kiss the forehead of a broken statue of St Ann. They said they saw what appeared to be tears falling from the statue's eyes. A Catholic Priest called it an "extraordinary occurrence.”—AP Pleture.
Commonwealth Aid For Burmese Govt. Discussed
London, May. 2.-The Foreign Office today' confirmed that the question of aid to Burma was discussed at informal meetings of the Common- wealth Prime Ministers last week.
COAL-
MACABRE MONUMENT
Officials said, however, that they could not the Common- confirm Rangoon reports that wealth countries had already ogreed to provide a loan and arms for the Burmese government.
The officials said: "At the Now Delhi
the conference question of ald to Burma was discussed, though no decision
when the was reaches ference adjourned,
"But the question of ald to Burma was kept under con- Jaration and discussed die oppropriate Prime Ministers during the Commonwealth co- rence in London last week." in the meantime, it is under- stood that the majority of Com- Ministers Prime
May *.--The - that Thokin Nu's famed Nazi concentration camp agreed
Mauthausen, be supplied at government misl
nest Linz, it from whfel has bren furned Into with capitol to save collapse.
tutional-monument to the memory of the prisoners who lost their res there opened today.
day of one of Spain's leading The Coast Guard had urder-monwealth
Senor Andres ed an inquiry into the accident;
early banking to start today.-Reuter,
Anonelcro,
whase
Surent-to-Britain-
For the past few privately and stade
years,
oficially, Spain bus been enecavouring to per
American burks and
Strange Tragedy
Columbus, Georgia, May 2- United States Government Near Stuttgart
The police are investigating the offices to lead
to
by
agreed It has been tacitly that Commonwealth
FL
luan should be made, but decisions on the form and ext nt of such ald must awalt the return of
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Lovett Testifies On Pact
Washington, May -Tho former Under-Secretary of State, Mr Robert Lovett, said today that Congress would have to dcclare war before American troops could be sent under the Allantlo pact, to repel a Kussian allack on Norway.
Me Lovett, who lauched the treaty negotiations, sald he did not belleve the paéi's pledge of mului assistance would power the President to intervene in Europe with arms without a Congressional
declaration of
war.
em-
The former Under-Secre- tary was testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Coin- initice,
He denied that big power pres- sure had brought sinäller nations into the defence alliance, and said that Norway, Iceland and
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Mr Lövsti urged the Com- milice to approve the treaty as security sential fo American ant world peace. Ile sak that slready there had been conerete evidence that the mere signing- of the treaty had contributed to- ward these ends. Mr Lovett elted recent agreements with Britain and France for the futuro Ger- Western of Government
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sense of
confidence" pro- vided by the treaty.
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States policy.
"I feel condgent that fluctus- flons in our relations with any foreign power will not succeed in diverting our attention from these basic interests," he said- United Press.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
"Missions". Along
The Yangtse
Sir-la connection with your editorial in Saturday's issue of your paper regarding the shell- ing of the four British worships on the Yangise and of Ine gallant mon serving aboard, I would say I agree there is no doubt these men carried on in the traditions of the Navy, all right.
As to whether or not the matter would serve to confrin in the stead- that confidence fastness of the British Navy. I would venture to submit that this question certainly does not arise at all in this case. In any arise at a case. I think that any crew of
ship, whether
Britisi, American, Portuguese.
any
1
would have behaved manner as those on the war- ships question. So much so that the ca incident, I submit, would not serve lo confirm or let down the confidence In the Of afsadfastness
the Dritish Nat
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The "punishment house" wasiings on the part of Admiralty is The her money
a matter of conjecture. restored to its former state,
the Ministers of India, with mystery of the young British help to overcome her economic
gas chamber, the issue that arises is whether the Stuttgart, May 2.--The United | the Prime
ta their wife of a Fort Benning sergeant difficulties.
crematorium and execution and Admiralty will
further give States Army authorities to Pakistan and Ceylon atter the coroner's report said The objections to a private day that all American sergeant respective
capitals. United
prison cells, and the hut known empty approbation to the sur- Press the "ellber jumped or was push-loan were finally removed early was found castrated this morn
as "Starvation Hut".
vivors and stop there or take ed out of a car."
ths year and the Chase Nationaling in a ditch
Rangoon, May 2-Two
steps to ensure that incidents in elty. neor the
will not rebels
A stone monument marks the shnilar circumstances attacking Mrs Arnold Hakula was found Bank granted Spain $25,000,000. They said the soldier, who is hundred dead on the highway about three It was believed here that at ***
thousan:ls in North Burma rifle bults, where
be repented in the future. The
OPENS ***now in a hospital suffering rcop train
fact that the gallant men died miles south of here early yester least feelers have been put out in fron loss of blood, had appars were given a running baltie by were executed.
heroically on the decks of the TO-MORROW! body, battered almost the day. Her
past few months in theently lain in the ditch for most troops on boord
of
Amethyst, Consort, Black Swan was lying direction
Br lain, France beyond recognition,
cording to today's
and London, does not indeed near the family car. Her hus- Switzerland and Holland in the of the night.
munique. An Amerten sentry, standing
so-called "missions" to of Be. band. Arnold Hakala
hope of getting credits, draw.ng
wione. The train was en route to the sletter, Michigan, was picked uprights or loans of some sort. guard to the Stuttgart area, was road and rail junction town of
found dead this morning, sholkinu
Surely it would not be worth by two military policemen who
here circles
the headquarters from
talk of high traditions and came upon the scene during a hopeful that other nations may the temple with a 30 calibre town of Shwebo, rieur Mandalay, of the camp's 24 huts were pre-
served, and the sites of the gallantry If the men involved routine patrol. He was suffer follow the United States lead, bulit. Army investigators said
This is the area in which the
and unnecessarily shest blood that the absence of powder burns combined White Band People's other huts planted with flowers ing from severe shock and the enabling Spain to obtain
this mission in police said
unidentified foreign capital she
the, and gross to make an attractive carrying out needs. suggested that it was not suicide,
Volunteer Organisation, --Reuter
question. motorists were "preventing him. Reuter.
EX-NAVAL RATING.
two
from doing himself bodily harm, The police said the
rnotorists
told them Hakala tried to throw himself in front of their enr.
In the back seat of the Hakala car were his two daughters, the younger aged ten months. The joent police 'bad nut yel today. him early questioned They cald he was in no condition coherently. Fort answer Benning officers said the Keant told them his wife "was there and all of a sudden I look. ed backs and she wasn't".
to
ser-
Mrs Hakala, whose Christian name was Shella, was a British! war bride nud came here from London United Press.
NEW MAYOR'S FIRST ACT
Shanghai, May 3.-OB 14
day 05
first
the full-fledged
Mayer of Shanghal, Mr Chen Liang ordered that the inter- rogation of some 350 students recently on tho arrested
of being pro-Com- suspicion
be speeded up not guilty
reporters
munist agents and those found released.
told
The Mayor that General Tang En-po was the aver grently concerned Budents now under arrest and Instructed the authorities con- cerned to speed up the ques- tloning on a just and strict
Unals.
Commenting on the evacuat flon order affecting 18.local. colleges and universities here, Mayor. Chen sald that this step alimed at "avolding danger. to faculty members and students in the event of war.”—. Reuter.
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official com-
The opening ceremony was performed by the Minister of the Interior, Mr Osker Helmer. The laundry building has been Inta a chapel. Five converted
PV, and Communist forces are park.
nown to be carrying on anti- Government activity.
The communique
Fald live rebels were killed, with no los to the Government troops.
swung in low Burmese pla
The camp walls, which onec. bristled with electrified wires, have been mended. The former staff buildings are to be' con- verted to a guest house for to attack and unval unbout the thousands who are expected who to make the pilgrimage to this
tragle spot-Reuter,
opened fire on Karen's were ambushing river craft on their way, to Kangoon with 9- 000 refugees on board, It is ofti- cially reported.
The unbush took place nea the Twante cunal, 27 river miles from Rangoon.-Assu- clated Press,
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Sir Missie for Dancing: 11: Radio News Museum--Reuter.
Heel (London Relay); 11.15, Weather John declared the whole pro-report; 11.15, Summary of news. vince of Bugando a "disturbed 1.20, Clone down.
Police omcers may use such of a man and one a woman force as they consider neces»
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Imposed a temporary
Lress censorshly. He proscrib- Newspaper Office
on the Bataka Party of Uganda,
Whon Sholl Explodos which is known to have. Com- Goes Up In Flames
Manila, May, 2The morn- ng paper, Chinese Commercial News, was among the establich- monts burned in a spectacular tiro early this morning..
munist confnets overseas, and Augsberg, Germany, May 2-the African Farmers Unions.
Armoured cars Four German children were i
were trana killed when an unexploded shell ferred to Uganda from Kenya exploded near here today. the same day to help the local Police sad the children found forces control threatened de- the hell while playing in monstrations against the first The building - and plant of
of the East African the
totally newspaper. · were eandpit. It exploded when they meeting threw it against #wall-As- | Central Assembly at Kampala. destroyed. The loss., was placed
--Reuter.
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