Hay
ON GRAVE
SMUTS
SITUATION IN ASIA
World Must Shake
Off Lethargy
London, June 7. General Jan Smuts, former South African Premier, said here to- day that what was happening in Asia was creating the gravest situation the world had known for hundreds of years.
Addressing a press conference, General Smuts spoke of a "sense of menace" in the world generally, and an "underground cold
war.'
15
General Smute said that all Europeans in Asia were being expelled. Asia, containing two- thirds of the human race, was developing a new nationalism.
KING TO
DRIVE TO
PARADE
of
London, June 7.-The King will drive to a Trooping 1tic Colour parade in celebration of is official birthday on Thurs
As Colonel-in-Chiet the Brigade of Guarda, he will ride alone in an open landau-from Buckingham
Palaco Horse Guards' parade.
Princess Elifabeth, Colonet of the Grenadier Guards and the Duke of Gloucester, Colonel of the Scola Guards, w ride on horseback side by side imme- dlately behind the King'e zar- rlage.
the
The King will remain in his landau at the Horse Gurls' arch and will stand while the Bival shule is given. Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Gloucester will sit their horses behind his carriage.
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The situation was so big that For ro-one could alze it up. over 100 years the people of Asla had been-led by European men, caplial, energy and er- ganising. power. Europeans were now belag sacked.
What would happen in Chlua? In a sense everything was behind an Iron curtain; what SUGA happening in the West was in comparision very sinult Indeed.
Asked about the Indians in South Africa, General Smuts said that raefal problems were inevitable but were capable of adjustment.
for
Не
the
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPII,
UK Second Nation To
Ratify Pact
Washington, Juno * Briain to lay became the second country to complete ratification, of The North Atlantic Pact when ber Ambassador, Bir Oliver
Franks, Banded ihe
Instrument of raillication to the United States, Under- Secretary of State, Mir James Webb, in a brief ceremony
the Stato Department
Bir Oliver expressed the "frm bellef that in the present circumstances the treaty provides the besi guarantee of future peace."
Accepting the docunfent, Mír Webb paid tribute lo the British people who, he sald, find always done their utmost in the Interests at preserving freedom and The Democratlo, way of Tito,
Canada completed rail- Acation of the treaty on May 3-Associated Press.
Calwell's
Drastic New Bill
of a
within one of the three cate-
The King, followed by the Royal procession, will inspect
On returning to the sitting the line. On saluting base.
se, he
paralysed Will dismount
the approach watched on the dais to take anke. and stand the salute at the March-Past, He will drive back to the Palace at the former Premier of South "You have got to stand up to the head of the King's Guard.
Africa added. furnished by the Welsh Guards,
"Be strong, be courageous, be whose colour given by the King rm. last monthis to be trooped.
"The torpor must be shaken Princess Elizabeth and the off. Things are on the
move, Duke of Gloucester, with the colonels of the other regiments very sinister things. There are tremendous movements which of the Foot Guards, General Sir seem to threaten to sweep over Charles Llyod, of the Coldstream Guards, and the Earl of Gowric, people and submerge them. of the Welsh Guards, will ac- company the King back to the Palace. Reuter,
TWO BROTHERS
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1949.
Honolulu Housewives Picket Union
Housewives
protest. ing Hawall's month-long waterfront strike carry placards on brooms call- ing for the ouster of union officials as they picket ILWU head- quarters in Honolulu. At the right Robert-Me- Elrath, ILWU spokes- man, holds up a hastily he painted sign as pickets the pickets.--
AP Picture,
UN Protest
At Israeli
Advance
Jerusalem,
June
COPY CATS
Mr Alexander On
H.K.'s Defences
(Continued from Page 1)
Mr
No
more insis-
gorica is llable for deportation. Colonel Moshe Dayan, told cor look at tho atiack by ourselvra the attitude of the British Gov-i
You
to such a matter as that was | papers which seemed to indicate of the Home entirely based on what hu (Ir that the policy Alexander) had said in his Government with regard statement In the House of Hongkong was in conflict with
Service Commons on May 5,
the
chiefs. This, he Canberra, June 7.-The Im
Mr Alexander was
next asked and, was completely untrue. "We have had these problems migration Minister, Mr Ar-
there had been any contact "Just sows you how much n long time," he added.hur Calwell, today Introduced
with Washington on these mat- value you chaps here enn pince "They are not getting better, as Into the House of Representa-
ters and he replied that that upon euch syndiented distribu- thought they might; they are containing drastle depor
tives the "Wartime Refugee
should be addressed to the tion," be cald. getting worse. The Indians in
Foreign Ofces concerned and South Africa are much happler
Then came this question from tation provisions.
not to Ministers of Defence. He than the Indians In India. Those
added that there was always Chinese correspondent: The El covers every person
Do Alexander, do you think that a Indians of South Africa who re- who entered Australla
consultations with during
tho matters of third world war is imminent? minions turn to India want to come track. the war and is an allen; en-
on any General Smuts said the world tered Australia during the wor
mutual interest.
Mr Alexander: Do you think must lift itself from Its present and has not since Jeft Aus-
WOULD IT MEAN WAR? I am going to answer that? Our that believing
7.-Isracil lethargle state o of
tralia; entered Australia during
A correspondent:, In the event polley is a policy of peace. what was happening was un- the war by reason of any cir
troops early tha morning ad- of a direct Communist attack on one has struggled
and avoidable destiny, of a magni- cumstances attributable to the vanced about five-eighths of the border would that menn tently continuously for
mile along a one and a quarter wort
peace than His Majesty's Gov- tude much too great for ordinary war and has not since left Aus-
mile front up to the fence, sur- tralia.
Mr Alexander: What usually ernment. people to deal with.
rounding the former Govern-
an attack is called the present moment
The Defence Minister, reply. The Bill provides that wilight of man's spirit."
any ment House in Jerusalem, which happens when
emade?
said now the Palestino Head- likened people to birds person certified by the Imini-19
The correspondent: They maying to further questions, quarters the United Nations.
of
he thought negotiations coming DJ they gration Minister
Invade the New Territories with that Isracli The
commander in the
with regard to tho Amethyst armed forces. Jerusalem
aren,
Lieutenont
We have to would continue. He added that Mr Alexander: Controversy in recent weeks respondents that the move was what influenced the attack, was crament to the actual incident has centred on the application peaceful, except for a few burst
on the Yangtse had been fully orders? it by of the "White Australia" policy, of machine-gun Are from Arabs.
The correspondent: Say It is stated by himself in the House and ho had nothing to add or and in particular the refusal to There were no casualties.
by orders. Gamboo, a allow Sorgcont
If it is by take away from it, Mr Alexander: Philippine-born American sol- The United Nations Head-
A correspondent: Any like- dier stationed in Tekye, to visit quarters this morning protested orders we shall deal with the
Hhood of favourably develop- his Australian wife and three to the Israell authorities. The situation when it arises.
demilitarised ares now covers must not ask me any questions ments in these negolations, u children in Australia.
only Government House itself in advance. I have, had to deal far as you are aware?...
with and its immediato grounds.
a lot of questions of this Israelf farmers have already nature in the last ten years.
the Mr Alexander Informed begun ploughing the land taken
pressmen that on his way here over.
In Tel-Aviv today, a spokes- he had. visited headquarters in man, commenting on the report, the Canal Zones, Aden, Colombo said that this area, although and Singapore. On his re- now occupied
United turn trip to England he would Nations, was allocated to Israel visit one or two out-stations.
his conference under the armistice agreement.
Asked about in Saigon, Mr Alexander ex- Reuter
pressed surprise adding that he only stopped thero to see to refuelling and to get a
much- needed breakfast having got up that morning at 4.30.
The Defence Minister next Hongkong's defence position is was asked what he thought very substantially better than at about the Red Radio attack on the beginning of the war in Singapore, June -7----Three the British Government 1041? Unofficial observers here con- Chinese terrorists were hanged published in this morning's sidered that Indonesian-born at Alor Star prison in Kedah newspapers.
Mr Alexander:. I have Mrs Annio O'Keefe-who suc-state today for possessing arms.
Two of the terrorists fell examine it. cessfully appealed to the ligh
British Army trap near Court against a deportation or Into der-would come under the pro- the Siamese border.
Sixty-eight terrorists Mrs O'Keefe
Malaya Asso- tralls during the war and mar commenced in ried an Australian, Mr John ciated Press. William O'Keefe in 1947.
The High Court ruling in the O'Keefe case was regarded na a precedent
for many
such cases. Reuter.
"Events move in waves, but we are not on the crest of the wave, we are at the bolton."
He thought he saw a change In the temper of the British ople. They were sitting down
Last week a High Court deci- sion restrained the Immigration authorities from deporting three Chinese. The Court ruled that they were not "prohibited immi- rants within the meaning of
the Immigration Act, to menace and accepting It
Speaking of the Common- The Bill prescribes a penalty wealth he said, "The land of of £A100 or alx months' im- hope and glory. Not much prisonment for concealing or
-but-hope-is-there. glory!"
usalsting -n-deporter-in- evading The world needed the Com-deportation. monwealth and could not get on
which can be made under the Bill If it becomes law,
IN TROUBLE Hamburg, .............__June 7-The brothers Rudolf Blohm, 83, and Walter Blohm, 61, owner of Ger many's biggest shipyard, were without it. It might not like it It also provides a fine of charged today with remain much, but it needed it badly. It £150 or Imprisonment not ex- 240 pleces of machinery with-
three months for out authority to their brother-contained a fund of humanity, ceeding
against experience and courage. It had offences
regulations In-inw's plant and with willfully what the Americans call "know misleading military government how." oficials.
They were alleged to have ap-
false proved a
document to show that the machines came from the Soviet zone.
The brother-in-law, Mnx Andarere, and three other mein- bers of the Arm
atso were charged.
The case, begun today, is ex pected to last several days. 1t is a summary hearing to decide whether the case goes to trial. -Associated Press.
SIDE GLANCES
The East-West European dis- It need not pute was a "game," be taken too seriously, providing that the people remained awake, The greatest change was taking place in the Far East,
by the
Pay
Terrorists
The Penalty
a
have
SAFETY FACTOR
Mr Alexander: I don't think
I should answer that. When wa have a question of this kind and
we have a ship in that postiton the less a Minister says until the negotiations are
completed the better. It is for
the safety of those concerned-the British personnel. I-am-not objecting to being cross-examined.
Another Pressman: Have your Service Chiefs indicated that
Mr Alexander: I should say to that the circumstances
different.
The resurgence of Europe and visions of the Btered Aus- been hanged since the fighting that when he came to Hongkong
the entry of the United States into the Atlantic Pact showed that things were on the turn. There was no reason to be dis couraged, General Smuts said Reuter.
By Galdraith
ing such wonders
America's 3m. Unemployed
Washington, June 7-Unem- ployment in the United States jumped 273,000 in May to a now postwar peak of 3,239,000,
Burenu the Census
reported today,
The Bureau commented that the increase was contrary to seasonal expectations. The now high in unemployment is 60,000 above the previous top reached last February.
The number of job seekers rose faster than the number of Jobs available because school- ago youth sought work during the holidays-Reuter.
arc
NO CONFLICT
Better or worse?-It lies with The Defence Minister added me.
Mr Alexander announced that on Monday he read a syndicated he would visit "my men of the article in the English-language Yangtse in the Naval Hospital." He was also going to visit the RAF at Kal Tak and the Hong- konit Defence Unit.
Move To Settle Britain's Sunday Strikes
London, June 7-The Ministry of Labour today took action on England's "every Sunday". unofficial railway strike. by inviting the execu- tives of the two unions involved to a Ministry conference tomorrow. "io that the position, can' "be reviewed".
North-Eastern railwaymen have struck for the past three Sundays in protest against new schedules compelling locomotive èrews to spend nights away from home; and this week and there' were signs of the strike spreading to the West and North-West regions.
Bo far they have ignorca ap-in support of the
Asked about the proposed airfield, Mr Alexander replied, "I have had consultations here about that."
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ward, and hoped the number would grow, The British Gov- emment would be grateful if the Press would do their best to influenco recruiting,
An American correspondent: would 12,000 Mr Alexander, troops, nine Spitfires and one cruiser be sumclent to meet a force of 80,000 Communista?
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Joe Louis Cited peals from their union leaders Seamen's Union strike spread will be additional commitments National Assembly today decided w
If the occasion arises? Co-respondent
0.40 "The Terry Luckio Trio, (Blu- to resume.normal Sunday work-today.
Mr Alexander: I have said by 211 votes to 182 to deprive Gibbons (Piano) and its Boy Friends: Two thousand more Liverpool
the leading Communist deputy, deir Record Round About ing so that official negotiations
who
what I have said. dockers joined the 6,000
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make publlo quested the action because of in the Marah dockers at strike forces? I never of the world, was named'
bel of Cabinet Ornerally speaking sure and A the National Union of Railway-support the
An alleged libel.
the Englishman". A Talk by Salvas reports of my intelligence. co-respondent in a divorce suit men-were meeting in London bound Avonmouth.
Concluding the conference, the Ministers in articles in Bonte's got de Sistringo, London Relay); (London nied foday by the Reverend today to consider. their next
appeared in the Drom the Editorials The crew of the Trojan Slar,Defence Minister referred to an name which Matthew C. Faulkner against
weekly France Holy) 0.10, British Concert Hill-London Bynipbony Orchestra) move,. axed 27, n his wife, Mattle,
last week Important conference which he Communist Union leaders feared that the from which troops
and at which Mr Nouvelle on October 2 and BBC78)1530,10, Longs from Cole Rallway Executive-the con unloaded a cargo of 3,000 tons of attended
Porters Musical "Khan me, Kate Now York model desertion i zrolling body of Britain's · na...] fefrigerated meat, said that they']
October last year. Churchill said to the m The sulf alles Faulkner, tonalised
Bonte, who is 80, acts as 1020 "LeBrighidea"-Ballet London Philharmonia Orchestra: 10.35, "Dance and adultery.
Hallways might would not all the vessel while "Well, gentlemen; have you all
For the Communist to Music from Hawaii gult, Reaso then Navy men ware, operating "the I done?”... Mr Church uut I am Party in the National Assembly: Newareal. (London: talas)ILE. aged 33, is a former Baptist suspend
spokesman for the made the current
ties an important decision
the Weather Report...and surrowsy od ho added minister and Army Chaplain egotiations until the Sunday lock gates
when Last February,
Nowa from China; 11.20, cionn Down, The couple have two children, strikes and the go-alow action About 1,000 of the 2,000 Bristol not doing that | Mr--Fausicner enfrendyį HASEGA nt certain goods dopole were and Aromiouth, dockers with a smile. Sill 1 think you French Government took action
held azmaus, meeting this morn- | are a fine lot of chaps and I hope against the Communist.cpmpaign request for
the Bonte's wilt; pariding:against÷Loulet m Britain' Reuter
wwel the stoppages:al, Western ports continue, the strike-Reuter? future.
Chicago, June 7.--Joe Louis, Associated Society of Locomo- there for the past 11 days, while formation you have as to the Parliamentary are (Londen Italay); B.15, "Much Binding.
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