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VOL. IV NO. 110
THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1949.
SWAP HONGKONG FOR FORMOSA
You See, It's Just Our Own Fault!
London, May 11-The -Colonial Secretary, Mr Arthur Creech Jones, to- day, said it was the fault of the people of Hongkong if Bey had not acquired
the constitutional position they desired.
Answering questions In the House of Commons a
whether the Hongkong legislature had the con- Aldener of A Jarge and
responible section of the
community. MIT Creech
Jones sald
clanges
commitutional
**CTC constantly
under review.
"As in all Colonies, the
constitutional portion constantly under
[x
review
and, where weerssary, steps taken." said the Secre- tary, adding, "The low- news of constituilonal change in Hongkong arises froin the apathy of the general public." United Preas
NEW AIRPORT
STATEMENT
London, May-11.Mr Arthur Creech Jones,
the British
Colonial Secretary, in a parlla- mentary reply today. sall that it had been decided in principle to proceed
with the construc-
tion of a new airport on the shores of the Deep Bay in the New Territories.
It was' pot yet possible to say When the new civi aerodrome would be ready for use, he added-Reuter.
SUSPECTS HELD
It in--fearned
PROPOSES MP
Mr Teeling To
Submit His Idea To
The Commons
Israel Voted A Member Of The United Nations
Flushing, May 11-Isreal was voted into the United Nations tonight an the 59th member of the world organl sation. The Arab delegatta walked out of the General Assembly immediately after the Assembly voted to accept the Jewish stato in Palestiné,
Krael became a nation under UN auspices one year ngo Baturday. Opposition to admitting to the UN came Balldly from the Arable bloc, with no other state joining the negative
vote,
The galleries burst forth into loud cheering when the result of the vole was announced and the General Assembly President, Dr Herbert Evalt, repeatedly rapped for order.
Dr Evatt Invited the Jewish Foreign Moshe Sharelt, to take a place on the speaker's platform DIinisters, Dr Immediately below the presiding officer's dala officer escorted Dr Slurett to the platform and the galleries, A protocol Joined by applause from delegates on the debaling floor, again broke out into wild cheering-United Press.
THE CAIRO AGREEMENT British Financial
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
London, May 11.-A Conservative MP has a plan to make a deal with the Chinese Communists to "swap" Hongkong for the island of Formosa,
He is Mr William Burke Teeling, who was a member of the Parliamentary Delegation to the Far East in 1947, and at one time roving correspondent in the Far East for the London Times.
The first step in Mr Teeling's campaign is to ask the Foreign Secretary next Monday whether, in view of recent events, the Government will consider the position of Formosa under, the Cairo- agreement in order that the surplus population and industries of Hongkong may be transferred there.
Mr Teeling told me today that "Formosa is ten times more useful to us than Hongkong, and much more tenablo."
Ho added that it had harbour and air facilities and was rich in camphor and tea.
FOR QUESTIONING only given to Chinn under despatch of 6,000 British troops, pence treaty with Japan, shouldgerously overcrowded and the the Cairo agreement pending a Hongkong was becoming dan- be given to Brilain under the population was beginning to feel terms of the treaty ln exchange corriered. for Hongkong,
that quite a number of persons have been taken in by the CID for ques- loning In connection with the murder of Insp.-R. F. C. Olivier and 'Sub-Insp. I. Haynes, of the Marine Police, who were assassinated on board the Police cruising launch No 1 in Port Shelter early last Friday morning.
EDITORIAL
JUST
Пч
"Formosa was never intended to be given to the Communists. and the population would fight against it being handed over to them," 'declared Mr Teeling.
;
The London Times this mom- China Morning Post and Hong- ing quotes yesterday's South kong Telegraph editorials under the heading "Confident Mood In Hongkong."
The Council Of Europe
STLAS
there
a tendency to exaggerate the possibilities and the Importance of the creation of a Council
a statement
Expert In Germany Slain By Burglar
Herford, May. 11.-Control Commission, military and German police were today · hunting, for two men who are wanted for the shooting of Sir John Sheehy, Assistant Finan- cial Adviser to the British Military Governor in Germany, earlier today.
Sir John was shot dead after a struggle with one of the two intruders, who broke into his house at Vlotho, midway between Minden and Herford, in the centre of the British Control Commission headquarters.
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Traffic Into Western Berlin Is Resumed
U.S. Jeep Passes Barrier
Berlin, May 11.-An American Army jeep was the first car to leave Berlin for the Western Zones when the blockade was lifted at one minute past midnight (local time) to night. At the same moment, street and domestic lighting went on in Western Berlin.
A report from Helmstedt, on the British- Soviet zonal border, said that a British road convoy, heading for Berlin, passed through the British checkpoint at six minutes past midnight.
The first jeep out of the city drove through the Western checkpoint at. Hamelin bridge on the southwestern outskirts of Berlin and headed down the road for the Soviet checkpoint 300 yards away. It was a jeep of the United States 16th Infantry, commanded by Lieutenant William Frost, of Louis- ville, Kentucky. The other occupants of the jeep were Private First-Class Horace Scites, of Logan, West Virginia, and. Sergeant James Bonds, Gorum, Louisiana.“
of
Pollee patrois, who checked cars and pedestrians was set for 1.23 n.in.
stlil the Soviet Zone. Its departure passing between, the Soviet and Western sectors
The military train this evening, followed by a goods train and will be were withdrawn at midnight, then by a coal train,
Most of the barriers on the see- tor boundary were already taken down on Wednesday.
GOES SMOOTHLY.
SLIGHT HITCH
A German threw a bunch of the
Earlier-four hours before flowers into the Jeep as it start-counter-blockade
Berlin blockade and the ed over the line. It was followert end at one.
were due to by a second jeep and then by a night floon!
minuto past, mid- German-Mercedes with an-at-was-reported. It was stated time) hitch tractive piri at the whool. that the Soviet authorities had demanded that all tralis through their Zone to Berlin The big Soviet sector power Zone engines,
should be drawn station of Klingenberg, began to
by Russian' deliver electric current to the before midnight, Herr Rudolf master at the Helmstedt mail- Western sectors a few minutes when Herr Mueller, the station „Complications were averted Wissel, the West Berlin elec-way station, announced later tricity "Everything has gone smoothly," over
chief, told a reporter that all outstanding difficulties he said.
over
the on The river sleamer Kong Fat
traffic
of have been The stream of vehicles_passed overcome, after day-long con- was pirated by a gang of about 50 armed men on the Canton body, the intruder rushed from gave their papers only a cursory Ume-table has been Axed for. As Lady. Shechy bent over his check post, where the sentries West Zone allway experts. A quickly through the Russian versations between East and liver early on Tuesday morn the room. German police said glance Colonel Boris Kalinin trains crossing the Zonal bor- ing while en route-to-Hong-the-man-led entered the house Chief of Staff of the kong with valuable cargo. by breaking a window, while an Garrison
Soviet der, accomplice watched
of Berlin, supervised outside. wires to the house
the operations at the check post.
Soviet Each train crossing the zonal
border will have As the British road convoy but the Russians have dropped Sir John, who was 59, had a
change locomotives at Russian request,
River Piracy Reported
German police stated that shortly after 2 a.m.. Lady Sheehy heard a noise in her husband's room on the accond floor. On entering she saw Sir Jelm throw a shoc at n stranger In civilian clothes, who then fred a pistol Her husband fell dying the bullet, having Dene- trated his heart.
The vessel, a converted LST of Telephone 208 tons and flying the Chinese were cut.
communications
police
with
10.
to
rall
Kis suggestion is that He added that with refusers i. But the confident mood is not
but down, questions Formosa, which.......wan authorizing in from China and the shared by MPs who continue to
Secretary of State
regarding Hongkong's defences.
Mr Gammans Colonies for a statement on the Is to ask the for the murder of two Police inspectors. RESIDENT'S APPEAL Taipeh, May 11.-Directed at
. recent
Washington repart that the disposition of Taiwan cannot be inade until after a peace treaty
is signed with Japan, 91 local civil orkant- pations in an appeal cabled to -acting-Fresident Li Tsung-Jon, eclared that Taiwan is China's and
urged that its sovereignty be protected.
Asserting such contained evil design, the 91 flag, left Canton on Monday civil organisations claimed that morning, as she was steaming peer in Government service. Soviet checkpoints at Helmstedt also have to be changed. This At 4 o'clock the next long record as n Anancial ex-poured through the British and the demand that personnel will Taiwan strategically poses as a screen to
along near Lin Fa Shan, she Educated in Ireland at St Tar- Immediately ufler midnight to means that British and American China's southeast. Racially, the group said, "we craft and several motor bonts College, Maynooth, and Univer-Berlin as the blockade was in by Russian Zone locomotives.
was surrounded by a landing laths College, Tuam, St Patrick's reopen are all direct descendants the Chinese
trains will be pulled into Bor- It
sity College. Galway, he entered said, "All Taiwanese were
listed German angered by a report emanat
She was
and with Western Zone, engine the India Civil Service in 1914 British military then boarded
police linked drivers and femen... about 50 men, who held up and Burma until 1837, except for a
by and served with it in India and arms to hold back a crowd of ing from Washington displayed overpowered
almost 800 onlookers, by the local
the
British officials in Berlin and press that the disrobbed the few
crm and period of military position of Talwan cannot be board, who were mostly cargo
duty from.
Still standing in the station on the
Helmstedt refused to comment passengers on 1917 to 1020. made until
the truckset out was
reports. "The whole From 1037 he was a senior milliary passenger train, listed bility and we do not intend to a' peace treaty signed with Japaň.“
owners
matter is a German This re goods to Hongkong
accompanying their member of the Indian Centrala DBA-671, which will be the interfere," a British spokesman 'responsi- part,
they said, apparently car-
Board of Revenue
first Allied Iran to cross into and also ried an evil design.
The pirates then directed the Government
Additional Secretary. 10 In another resolution, the 91
in Berlin stated.-Reuter, the to steam to
of India civi
in the organisations
Wong Nai Finance Department. He was Chung, where accomplices were knighted In quested that a new currency be waiting. in small boats to take the British Control Commission 1043. He joined Issued immediately-Associated off the *Press.
VCBS's cargo. consisted of over 400 barrels of Public. Revenue, and was made This on July 1, 1947, as Director of "POLITICAL GARBAGE"
wood oll, machinery and other Assistant Financial Adviser to goods, and seas valued at over the British Military Governor Taipei, Taiwan, May
$300,000. 12.- "Political garbage loads" Is the
last August 3-Reuter term selected by the writer of an article In the Central News to describe many pro
Daily minent
Chinese who have fled to Taiwan from personalities çivil, war areas on the Chinese
are
periment (for it i
an experiment) -succeeds, the Counell may acquire, a great influence and an Authority which may be of Europe. so there is now a danger of undervaluing
very real even though not legally enforce- the achievement and it able. It Is a flexible Instrument which importance. 'The "federalists” naturally dissatisfied. For, in their view.--And-It-may well succeed or survive where experience can adapt to circumstances, there is no remedy for Europe's troubles a more rigidly built except the establishment of a European
structure might break under the strains and stresses (or West European) Federal Government which are certain to come.. For thesė and a Federal Legislature which, in a reasons the form which has been chosen wider range of matters, would become la almost certainly a wiser one than any the sovereign authorities for the whole which would have commended itself to Federation. And there are others who, more formal theorists. In any case some not going so far as this, would still have such form was the only possible one. For wished to see the new Council and its this is a constitution which has no organs given Home measure of direct
academic exercise on paper. It has to be sure of the approval of parliaments,
authorlly, however limited and in how- ever restricted, a field. In fact the Council will not have direct power or authority, The_Committee-of-Ministers can only Tüke unanimous decisions: in fact it can only, as it were, register the agreements reached by discussion arid negotiation. The Assembly can only make "recommen- dations" which any member State can adopt or ignore as it chooses. Moreover the scope of the Council's activity will bo at the same time limited and vague. The Statuto precludes it from dealing with questions of defence: and these, for those member States which are. prepared LU enter into a system of collective security, are already dealt with by the Brusseln Treaty and the Atlantic Pact. Econowle question's are not specifically excluded. But they are already In charge of the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation. And it would. only cause confusion if the Council were to attempt to interfere in a work which is being very efficiently done by another body. There remains the wide field described in the Statute as "economic, social, scientific, legal, administrative and cultural". Certainly there is wide. enough scope here. The new organisation is not trammelled-by-specific Instruc tions. Within the prescribed fleld it will have a very fren-hand. It will-have ́possibiliiles of development. If the ex-
and
ultimately of the electors,-of ten separate demecrails countries. And It is out of all reckoning that any scheme involving the acceptance of a supreme authority of a multi-national council, overriding the sovereignty of national. parliaments, would be 'so approved and~ accepted. Whatever their personal views, the Ministers of the ten countries aro well aware of this. It is no question of, nny one or any group of them "holding the others; back." They have ati been working within certain limits. And theso limits are Imposed by facts—including“. the all important fact of public opinion and public desires. The majority of the people of all these countries desire a closer union. But they destro a form of co-operation between the independent partners and not a union by any kind of”. fusion. That dealre for fusion may develop. It certainly does not exist, it cannot be Imposed or forcibly created. So at any rate for, the time being, the Council is left with no actual direct power and with Its functions and ila purpose defined in somewkat general terms. It is something rather of the potential than of immoclate-importance. But that has been true of many 'major' historical developments Only the future- ean value the real historical significânce of the Conference.
And
mainland
atro
of and was forced to a stop.
Those people have been arriv- Ing day and night by air and in strongly criticising them the article alleges that they have brought with them "much trez sure sucked from the people on the mainland."
The
people attacked by the article are politicians, members of the Legislativo Yuan, mem-
bers of the Control. Yuan, mem
They
expect
Crew
pirates also took away six of In addition to the cargo, the
Sai Chuen, a director the passengers, including Chan
of 93 Connaught, Road, Central, of the Kwong Sun, Hong Shipping Co., charterer of the Kong Fat.
Shanghai Requisitioning
A Canton report states that Shanghai,May
12.--Gold,
terday and reported the occur- other forms of capital will not the vessel returned there yes- silver, foreign exchange und rence to the authorities. of the kidnapped" passengersquisitioning of commodity stocks Five dome under the scheme, for re- were also sald: to have been announced by Mayor Chen Liang released.
early this week, according to local reports.
Among the main items affected will be cotton yarn,
bristics,
WHERE IS SIR tung oil, frozen eggs and other
ROBERT?
export goods,
A worked
bers of the National Assembly and the well-to-do classes
the Taiwan: people, to feed them, to give
Iletfa being them quarters and to wait upon them after they have ruined the cables today that although Sir for about 100,000 tons of essen- Our London correspondentshipped abroad to exchange These export articles will be mainland. Now they have come Robert Ho Tung has arrived in tial foodstuffs and coal. down to Taiwan to ruin it also," London, there is some mystery the article says
As it
regarding fils whereabouts:
As to the borrowing, of sup- 15 known that there are much UNRRA supplies in ware
plies or money from the public, The Hongkong Government marking that those who are houses in and around Shanghal, cer, he adde, has had many able allould give motidy,
Mayor Chen is quoted as rew the-local people are wondering enquiries, but has no informa who are not able should give whether these supplies will be tion.
those: transported, to Talwan where they are much needed. They
Our correspondent says he is This plan will be centred. feel that aircraft
10 now trying to trace Sir Robart. around what are described af devoted to transporting "poll Kal Tak sirgeld before leaving
space...now Note when interviewed at "super-rich famille apes ENG tical garbage loads can be for England last Monday week, tary contribution those who are Better used for the transport.of Sir Robert said his intention was rich
While in principle it is volun commodities plied up in Shang-to stay at the Grosvenor House will be compelled to offer some hat and elsewhere.--Reuter, --
but refuse to contribute Hotel, Park Lane,
donation Beuter...
service."
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