NEW GERMAN CONSTITUTION PROCLAIMED
Emotional Scenes At Bonn
Bonn, May 23.--Members of Western Germany's Constituent Assembly, many with tears in their eyes, today solemnly proclaimed the Constitution of the new West German Federal Republic.
Assembly members began putting their signatures to the formal document, dipping their pens into a golden ink-pot held by two- massive eagles, at the moment when the "Big Four" Foreign Ministers opened their momen- tous Paris conference on Germany.
Then, in the fog-decked A. sembly Hall the members rose
POCKET CARTOON and anng the Anthem, "I have heart and given myself with hand to the country of life and love, my German Fatherland," Only the two Communists among the 05, members refused lo sign the document showing that the new Republie's
Basic Law had been passed.
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Troops
Guard Town Of Insein
Rangoon, May 23.-Burin
The Minister-Presidents an Parliamentary Presidents of the West German Statce, Including Hayarin which has rejected the Basic Law, then sigried to altest The vole of their Parliaments,
NEW EPOCH
The proclamation speech was made by Dr Conrad Adenauer, President of the Assembly,
He spoke of a new epoch be- ginning in the history of the Gorman people, but his speech. contained this appeal, "It the. Allled
dismantling policy Is carried out as now decided then the political building of a now German
will be seriously
delied. We nak
the responsible Allled authorities to look at this question not
from an economic but primarily from a political point of view,"
the
years
the
The Western Powers were re- presented by their Deputy
ese Cachin Chi and Anglo-Military Governors.-Reuter. Burmese troops on Monday atood
guard inside the Karen-evacuated town of
Insein north of Ranggon. Bid For Skins
Insein is now
under mill-
Rejected
Lon. May
Council hás
THE HONGKONG-TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1949.
TANKS ROLL THROUGH SHANGHAI
Labour Party's
5-Year Plan Criticised
London, May 23-Two important moves tonight disclosed the development of a formid-
Chinese Nationalist tanks move through the old French Concession district of Shanghai as garrison troops make a show of strength. Signs proclaim the public should help the Nation- alist forces and their country by fighting the Chinese Communists.- AP Picture.
able opposition within the Labour Movement: Russia's Young
to the "five-year plan" drafted by the leaders. of the Labour Party as a programme for next year's general election.
The draft document will be submitted to the Labour Party's annual conference in two weeks' time. Important' sections of each of the three wings of the Labour Movement the Parliamentary Labour Party itself, the Co-operative Movement and the trades unions--are expected before then to have taken a critical stand.
Tonight, the
of the
Fabian Society,
the
de-
But ho
Thakin Nu
Communists Well Organised
India Solidly Supports Nehru
NOTICE
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GIQ, Far East Forcos announce that Regular Com- missions are now available to rbloused Oficers of the British and Indian Army in the
Royal Artillery [Royal Engineers
London, May 23-Mr Royal Signals
S. K. Patil, Mayor of Royal Army Servico Corpa Bombay," said today that Itoyal Army Ordnance Corps 90 percent, of the peoplo;
and
of India wore behind Royal Army Pay Corps Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru,
the Prime Minister of India, in the happy un derstanding established re- Candidates will be required cently at the Common. to attend n Regular Com- wealth Conference.
mission Board in the United
Age limits vary between 21. | Rnd 28,
Mr Patil was speaking at a Kingdom, and passages will tunehcon given in his honour by be at the Candidates own the Indian Journalist Associallon
which was attended by Mr V. N, expense. Krislinn Menon, the High Com-
missioner for India, the Mayor
Application should be made
of Islington (a North London to District and Sub District borough) and Mr Reginald Headquarters in MALAYA Sorensen, Member of Parlia-and District Headquarters in ment.
Mr Patil said that the atmos- SINGAPORE and HONG phero in which the Common- KONG where full terms and wealth agreement was reached conditions may be seen.
and happy augury of the future relations between Indla and Britain.
was
All applications must reach Headquarters Land Forces Hong Kong by 29 June, 1949.
NOTICE
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enith Mr Patil.
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Mr A. E.
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Announce that in addition
to TIENTSIN telegrama can
of Islington, endorsed Mr Paul's now be accopted for the views that a democratic govern- following places in North ment could only succeed if it Chinn:
was reated in a strong local self-government. He said that
if
Antung,
Changchowku, he had his way he would Changchun,. Chengchowho, Insist that every member of
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Parliament would go through a Chinkiang, Chinwangtno, borough council for at least Dairen, Hangchow, Hankow, Komsomol's Figures three ver
Harbin Hauchang, Kaifeng, ADVERTISERS Mr. R. P, Sabavala, a former Kalgan, Kiuklang, Nanking, London, May 23-Over Mayor of Bombay said that Paoting. Feiping, Shenyang, 21,000,000 young Russians quit India was really an asset Siun, Socchow, Suchowku, graceful way in which Britain are organised in Communist in that she had been able to Taiyuan, Tangku, Tangshan, children and youth organisa-retain the friendship of India. tions, according to the latest of the Association, welcomed Mr Wuhu, Wusth and Yingkow.
Mr Sunder Kabadi, President Tainan, Woyangho, Wuchang,
Patil and other guests-Reuter.
Postpones Visit official Soviet statistics,
To London
called
Flyer Reported To Be Safe
health at
the South
of the
STAR
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another dandy!
the 55-years old "parent" of Dr Adenauer added, "He who the Labour Party, published a bas consciously lived through pamphlet by the veteran pro
1933 pagandist, Mr G. D. H. Cole, and through collapse of criticising the timidity of 1045 when all German state-"five-year plan.” hood disappeared, cannot think
Mr Cole agrees that a second
The Communist boy scout or without emotion that loduya Labour Government would have
ganisation the so-called "plon- new. Germany will-arlse,"
to concentrate mainly on
eers-has over 13,000,000 mem- bers while the membering of the veloping and Improving the in- dustries which have been na Burmese
Rangoon, May
Communist Youth League, has 23. The tlonalised and the social
Prime
Minister, up to 9,300,000. There are
gope services which have been launched by revisas postponed, League organisations in
|nolv 1447,300 · Communist Youth
Teheran, May 23,--Madame the
the Andree.
French 17 Hankow Road, Kowloon. Ha projected to London, it present Government.
Dupeyron, insists that the socialist nature was oficially stated tonight. S
flyer believed missing yesterday Soviet Union.wer alvo
TO-DAY ONLY → The Premier was due to leave
These figures were given at after taking off from a forced Government should be proved by other reforms, includ-
for Britain on Saturday.
the recent congress of the Com-landing in East Persia, was 'o- At 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m. tary administration. It was
ing the abolition of the House-el
Government A
spokesman munist Youth League usually day
day reported to be safe and to. Lords, a reform of the machin said that the postponement has started it new leadership and set Persian oll centre of Abrdan. officially occupied when the,
"Komsomol" which good Karen rebels fled the city on
faclors: been caused by two ery of Parliament, increased (1) Leading British statesmen out the tasks of the League She was the guest- Saturday night after, with City
23.-Lisbon Workers' participation in the standing a
announced management of the nationalised might have little time for dis- championship for the years to Anglo-Iranian Oil Company and siege lasting that a foreigner has requested Industries, and wider democracy liament
cussion while the British Par-come,
her plane was being repaired three and a half months. permission to buy all the skins in the Diplomatic Services and The Burmese Prime Minister organisations
Wog still sitting: (2) Although the Soviet youth by the Company's mechanics of stray dogs and cats destroy the Armed Forces,
ore casliy
that she would the Reports added Correspondents visiting Bured in Lisbon, amounting to
could have only made the largest of the world-the be leaving for home soon, mu's "Little Tobruk" found the some 6,000 a year. He wanted
briefest stay in London, having | American Boy Scout organisu- Madame Dupeyron,
047- to return here by June 7. for tion has 2,000,000 streets filled with gaping bomb the skins for making glovės |
members-year-old grandmother, falled in craters, trees sprawled across the and fur coats.
Simultaneously, the leaders the opening of the Parliamen- the leadership, is still not an attempt to get up a "straight -randa-and-broken-electric-wires
Eatisfied-and-a--new-member-line "long-distance- -record-to- The Council refused
of the powerful-Co-operativetary summer session. festooning tree tops. The mar application, since by law the London, drafting their objections London at the end of June or
the Movement were in conference in Thakin Nu was likely to visit thip campaign has started. ket place. sheli.
skins must be sold by public to the plan.
spokesman These objections early in July, the auction. Joaquim Alves Barbosa are understood to centre on the added. The proposed visit was Correspondents were warned is the only bidder.
at these proposals to nationalise indus- not connected with Common- landmines which the auctions and be buys the skins trial Insurance, a feld in which wealth aid to Burma, he sur Karens had buried in the roads at the rate of two escudos each the Co-operative Movement has red fast week that the secondary schools is. 33,000,000
· Usually well-informed sources | In while still in occupation of the and makes them into cloves important interests.
and fur coats-United Press,
be presented to the leaders of Premier would discusa with the of whom all but the pupils of the Labour Party Inter
British Government short-term the lowest forms are eligible monetary
assistance to finance for month.
Criticism, has already been and Sino-Burma border defence. Burma's eventual rehabilitation Secretary of the Co-operative voiced by Mr Juck
Bailey, problems. Movement,
In a
against
elly.
or
Was
a burned-cul
Inseln was without electricity
water
today. Occupyin
forcen estimated Karen strength AUSTRALIA'S
just before their retreat at not
more than 300. Two hundred NEW INDUSTRY
wounded were found in the city hospital when. Government troops took over.
in the siege-United Press.
C.
CO-OP. OBJECTIONS
They will
this
33 MILL. SCHOOL- CHILDREN
The total number of pupills Soviel elementary and
Burman's rice exports, plans for Plors in either the
The
Qr
the
of
the
the
Karichi from Southern France. -Reuter,
The Smile
That Wins is the PEPSODENT
bul
Komsomal Pupils of fence four highest
forms secondary school are eligible question of getting for Komsomol membership Canberra, May 23,--The Aus- branches of the document to modern agricultural machinery only half of them have become
Party! tralian Government
lle from Britain to assist Burmese organised so far. hopor its wrote: "If we conceal our fears farmers would also be discussed, whaling industry will be a go and misgivings until Labour they added-Reuler. ing concern by June 1950.
hns Irrevocably committed K- Commerce Minister. R.
self to this draft statement, the T said that by then he days, either of the Labour
Civilians able to escape dur- Ing the Oghting told Associated Press they were reduced to a fow handfuls of rice a day. Pollard Three hundred civilians are be- Keved to have been killed dur. Sxpected the whailng base at Government or of the Co-opera- Shark Bay in Western Austen-tive Movement, are numbered.” lin would be producing whole
Another disagreement within oll and subsidiary products the Labour Movement will be This had been established be- carried a stage further on the get a factory ship soon enough, ference. The leaders
of the Chaser ships would supply it.. eight million-strong Also, a private company will Unlon Congress will meat
ELECTION LOSS cause the government could not eve of the Labour Party's con-
FOR LEFTISTS
LORDS MAY
DELAY BILL
The Komsomol Congress stated In its final resolution that there had been serious shortcomings" In both Soviet youth organisa- tans particularly, as far as their work in schools was concerned. The resolution charged in par- ticular that pupils
of many schools were overburdened with social work and other occupa- tions which had nothing to do London. May 23-A Parla-with education. This, the re- Trades mentary Bill that will speed up solution stated, had adverse
the be allowed to take over an old Chancellor of the Exchequer, sporetime soldiers, sailors and pupils in their school work and the mobilisation of Britain's effects on the progress of the Limusol, Cyprus, May 23 whaling station at Point Coasts Sir Stafford Cripps, to stress airmen in the event of a real niso on their health. In a num- The Nationailst Party had scor-in Western Australia formerly again their View that more or
by a Norwegian whaling should be done to keep down published today. the run ed sweeping successes at
wus bor. of
resolution cases, the the cost of living-Reuter,
charged the republican organisa- expence of the Leftists in the company-United Press.
The Bill-entitled Tha tions of the Komsomol even elections" for 2 city administra-
Auxiliary and Reserve Forces Initiated various measures in- tions, election results showed to-|
| Dill-will enable the Territorials terfering with normal school day.
and other categories ot | life.”—United Press. ·
Auxillaries and Reservists to be called out in an emergency for home defence without a
roclamation by the King.
The Nationalists won the con ́trol of eight-municipaiļtes with wide margins, while the Leti ista remained in control of Limasol, Famagusta and two
other industrial to
Nationaltt "won after a bitter campaign In which one person was killed and
In Nicosia, the
several were injured in
窳
series of clasites. Both parties campaigned with the, Blogan, "Union with Greece."---United Prosz
KASHMIR TRUCE DISCUSSIONS
Karachi, May 23 Two mem-
·bers of the United Nations Com- mission for Kashmir, Me E. Col- ban, Norway, and Mr. Macale, Unlled States, arrived here today for discussions with the Pakistan Government on the truce agreement in Kashmir, e
-Pakistan his;inòt (yet 'replied 1-to? the truce":proposilganwhich woru prapented both to India and Pakistan on April 28--Reus
*FEMTOWE PRÈSS SERVICE.
tura around, Gordon! You stopped smoking
expected emergency
t
Under It, various auxiliary and reserve categories, after embodiment in the main forces during an emergency, will he ilable for service overseas.
Margaret Goes Shopping
Venice, May 23.-Princess
The B will Institute Margaret went shopping Mon-
special section of
Fleet
Reserve,
A
oday. She left her hotel in tie Royal
with morning accompanied by Major Hability to be called out for Harvey and Lady Mary Harvey limited period of service "when and walked from her hotel to warlike operations are in pro-
Plazza San Marco. Sho was paration or progress outside the recognised and cheered by a United Kingdom."-Reuter." crowd of
King Watches Cricket
́s. During hor
of the
and adjoining shops the Princess entered a sweet shop where she bought a special kind of chocolate called "boert," some tablets of milk chocolate. and some sugar candy.
London, May. 23--Kind
The Princess then entered George, making his dret appoar ladies wear shop where she ance at a sporting event ince bought a gally coloured silk. His lliness, was cheered by foulard. She returned to the thousands when, in company or hotel at noon, Later the the queen,
he visited Lords Princess visited the battleship cricket ground, today to see the | HMB-Vanguard off Venics and New Tomlanders play against the woke to her father Bver-the
king-looked VETY Edibentillandiaan telaphone A
sociated Press.
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