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TRIANGULAR TALKS IN LONDON ON STERLING CRISIS
London, July 8. — The Anglo-American- Canadian talks on the Sterling-Dollar crisis were adjourned here this evening in an atmosphere described immediately afterwards as "excellent." They will be resumed to- morrow morning.
Leading the tripartite discussion are Sir Stafford Cripps, British Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, Mr John W. Snyder, United States Secretary of the Treasury, and Mr Douglas Abbott, Finance Minister of Canada.
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was focussed,
Today's talks, spread over (proached today as an interna- two sessions lasting a total tonal problem of which Bri
situallon tain's immediate of three and three-quarter only a par hours, took the form of an The problem exploration of the present dollar and gokl position of the Sterling area and that area's export and import trade with the dollar coun- iries.
There was an analytical dis- cussion of the factors at work
on the eve of the conference, by Sir Stafford's Parliamentary that the dollar and gold reserves announcement on Wednesday of the Sterling from £471,000,000 ns at March 31 fast to £406,000,000 on June 30.
U.S. RECESSION
area fell
In the present disequilibrium The drop in reserves was due
the Increased
of trade and drain on the reserves.
Solution
Sterling
deadlock
to a variety of causes, including the American recession, resulting
of the Dollar- in a fall of Sterling exports to
the United States,
WO9
MID-OCEAN
a-
be
of
SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1949.
“Lucky” Luciano Taken
Im
By Rome Police
Rome, July 8--Wearing a green garbardine suit, a rainbow-hued lie and suede aloes, Charles "Lucky" Luciano, once vier "King" in New York, sat glumly in a Rome prison cell foulght strenuously denying he was linked with an International drug trafficking ring.
A police flying squad "picked up" the former gangster In his luxury apartment in Rome's exclusive Partoll dis- trict yesterday after receiving what they called a "radio Up" from New York.
In the same apartment was Erea Lisson, who de scribed herself as Luciano's "girl friend." She told re- porters today: "I know Lucky is Innocent.”
Eight other people were delained with Luciano on auspicion of being linked with an alleged dope ring snux- gling cocaine from Italy to the United States,
Police said they uncovered die ring when an American carrying two kilogrammes (four-and-a-half pounds) of cocaine was arrested at Rome Airport. All nine suspects were questioned at police headquarters, then laken to the grim Regina Coel! ("Queen of Heaven") prison.
Luciano, who was expelled from the United States in 1046 and later deported from Cuba to Italy, was put in a damp-walled eeft which housed many of Mussolini's poll- tical prisoners in the year when the gangster was leading a. prominent role in New York's underworld-Reuter,
Changes Sought In Divorce Law
London, July 8.-Women living in Britain whose husbands desert them and go abroad will in future be able to apply for divorce in this country if a private Member's Bill, which was passed by the House of Commons today with Government backing, is approved by the House' of Lords.
MUTINY
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Extends To Colonies
Over 10,000 Men Stands
Now Involved In London Strike
London, July 8.—The number of workers involved
in the dock strike roso to 10,000 today when the Govern- mont sent over 1,000 troops and sailors to unload food cargoes. An official statement said that 10,213 men wore out-an increase of 400 over yesterday--and that 105 ships wero idle.
False Gold
Strike Story Explained
the
is not
settled. Mr
see l it n
The strike began last asked to issue the emergency week when dockers refused proclamation If the London dock to unload two Canadian Chuter Ede, the Home Secre-
stoppage shipa involved in the Cana- tury, sald that the "only ren- dian Seamen's Union strike. son why we have to deal with The dock employers claimed the trouble in this country is that was a breach of contract that Communists and refused to call labour for chance of fomenting unrest, in- other ships. The men main- Juring our trade and, hamper- tained this was a lock-out bying our recovery and with it the employers.
whole process of Morahall Johannesburg, July 8-
werd first moved in Aid in which the recovery of You when 300 men started
Western Europe depends." How a false report of
Mr Ede sald: "The issue with fabulously rich gold strike were handled today, mostly by or
ships which we are faced is not one on farm Dankhaarheid, ad- crack troops from
a legitimate Industrial disputa the Guards but
a challenge to the whole joining Erfdeel, in the regimenis-Reuter.
authority of the State and it Orange Free State, came to
must be met.
its bo issued to the world was
present situation the country told by a journalist today at an official commission of
kept well in the forefront today. back to Newfoundland, married
covered deserted her, went wife whose husband refuses to
Despite the ultimate. on objective of free American and had six children. She had to apply to the High
scamen when the arrived in Rotterdam July 4, were not confirmed by Rotterdam police. The police cald they
have been warned by the Greek
of Sterling, usually well-inform- ed United States quarters here saw no reason to suppose that Mr Snyder was pressing for any thing like immediate converti- Uility.
unloading meat. Soverni
Watermen, Lightermen, Tugmen
afford delays in the turn-round cannot
London, July 8.-The British Government requested Colonial Cover- menta to suspend tem- porarily the issue of all licences for imports from dollar countries, except in
cakes
where mah step would have grave effects.
spokesman of the Colonial Office said that the suspension was. Lem. porary pending the meeting
of Commonwealth Finance Ministers beginning here next week.
The suspension will cor respond to the standstill order which the Chancellor of tho Exchequer, Bir Stafford Cripps, told Far- llament this week has been operated
here since last month.Reuter.
SPANIARDS ASK FOR REFORMS
the re-
Madrid, July 8. The leaders of BARGEMEN TO GO OUT
tho Spanish The Finance Ministers of the
economic Falange Party have asked London, July 8-An unofficial Commonwealth meet here next
Generalissimo Francisco meeting of 400 member of the of ships and the hold-up of Franco for fundamental re Thursday to examine the whole economic structure
exports. the This is one of a number Reginald Manningham-inquiry in Johannesburg into and Bargemen's Union tonight
forms, including an end to "The Government has decided press censorship, Sterling area. Their talks will of minor changes in the Buller, Conservative, who steer-
the incident.
decided to strike in support of!
that unless the Port is fully affected by the powerfully outcome of the present tripartite divorce law advocated in the ed the Bill through the House on the South African Press As-
Harold Robertson, a sub-editor the other dock workers.
The men will stop work to-working without discrimination moval of price controls, and conference between Britain, the Bill, which the House of of Commons, said that to take sociation, sald in wvidence that morrow evening at the end of
ships by Monday better food distribution. Unlied Staler and Canada,
they will advise
His Lords is expected to ap-advantage of the new proposal on Monday, June 6, he went to the working day.
The lightermen believe that Majesty to issue a proclamation The IcderS who made the the woman must have Uved in the clock exchango where brok when they leave their im- under the Emergency Powers appeal are the Civil Governors in that Washington's urgent desire
Britain for three years. Allen ers and others told him of ru-portant positions the work of Act, 1020, declaring that a state each of Spain's 50 provinces. It Rotterdam, July 8.-Re- to end the division of the world Sir Thomas Moore, Conser-women could
mours of a strike at Dankbaar-the docks will come almost to a two zones one
also start pro held.
of emergency exisia." ports from Athens telling into
a low-vative, told the story of a Scots- ceedings, 、 ----
was the result of a four-day about a mutiny in mid-other a high-price soft currency and coldler 30 years ago. The
standstill-Reuter, priced hard
hard currency area, the
Robertson said Joseph Mine,
GRAVE STATEMENT conference held in Madrid this woman married to a Newfound-
In future, under the Bill, Free State Corporation, told him managing director of the Union ocean on the Greek vessel, area continually res
STATE OF EMERGENCY Mr Harold MacMillan, for the week, during which the Party restricting Ita
Opposition, said that the Home leaders visited the Generalissimo hard cus
husband currency purchases-waa
support her will have the right
that he know gold had been dis- London, July 8-The British Secretary had made B "very at El Pardo Palace,
to de Erava statement which in the 011 Dankbaarheld and Government's decision Court results
The conclusion of the con- convertiblity to live with her parents here. for maintenance. At the moment pected ere good and he ex-clare a'slate of emergency on | crippling circumstances which
Anal results that night. Monday comes after 10st surround the country reveals a ference have not yot been Robertson said: she can only go to the
"I was con-three months of industrial crisis very serious situation."
published in the Spanish press, A childhood friend wanted to
pelice vinced that there was a strike, in British ports and only a year
Mr Leslie Solicy,
who was The Falange lenders sharply marry her but she could not court, where the maximum she and on the strength of that I after its inst such proclamation. recently expelled from the criticised the activities of zomo got a divorce because she could can receive is £2 a week for telephoned my office to release a hen, on June 28, 1940, it was Labour Party, said it was a members of the Cabinet, accord- not make an application for herself and 10 shillings a week story-but as an unconfirmed re- a strike of dockers, centred on "scandalous" thing for a Labouring to reliable Information, but divorco em chưa country. She for cach child,
London and Liverpool, that led Government to invoke the Tory did not challenge General Franco, could not go to Newfoundland
strike regulation of 1820 In this himself. because there was no divorce
I would leave journalism".
"It said that if it were denied to the proclamation. law there, so she had been con-
It coincided, with a broadcast demned for 30 years 10
In his reply, Mr Ede said that When the report was officially appeal to the dockers by the the dispute concerned was an
According to observers here, alone.
live
denied soon afterwards by the Prime Minister Mr Clement unofficial one organked not for Civil servants should only be the Falange lenders asked that: Anglo-American - Corporation, Attlee, and was followed almost industrial but political purposes, allowed to hold one post; price Robertson again visited Milne immediately by a return to
Mr Ede added that throughout control should be abolished; the asking for a statement to clarify
work.
the dispute the police had food control polley should be the position. Milne, however, Only four times before has
instruction to watch for that his name was
ΠΟΙ ΑΠ
any totally reformed, been declared
of physical or other In- mentioned in the original report under the Emergency Powers
thero had been; and therefore it was unnecessary Act of 1920-in 1921, in 1924, Umidation but
They said that in some pro- vinces the bread ration was only for it to be mentioned now. during the great 1020 general
Amid cheers, a Labour Mem-
in Issued on eight days tho "He peemed completely in- strike, and last year. different," added Robertson
ber, Mr John McGovern, asked month. Measures should be talten The Act provides that the Advocate, Intervened to say that The Hague, July 8-The Associated Press.
King may Issue a proclama- when the Government, allowing against unemployment and hun- he certainly did not give that Royal Dutch Airlines KLM an-
tion if at any,
for the development of political ger. Changes should be made {advics,
nounced today that they were
limellberty, was going to deal with in high State posts, where the Ony action suspending their air service to
threatened is of such a nature the Communist Party and ru holders were "physically tired.
TC- out." the
China
area in view of the Santa Cruz (Tenerife), July "uncertain
Chinese situation". 8. The volcano on Las Palmas to be calculated "by inter- cognise that it was in the per- Kering with the supply and vice of a foreign Power and
Censorship should cease and The
suspension will be effective Inland began erupung. today | distribution of food, water, doing everything it could to
the Spanish 'newspaperman July 10 and the Canton terminal with heavy explosions. Love fuel, or light or with the means wreck Britain's economy-Reu-
should recover the freedom of of the weekly Batavia-Canton flowed down to a point near one of locomotion to deprive the ter.
his profession-Reuter. schedule will be shifted to of the principal roads. No community or any cubstantial Bangkok temporarily,-United casualties have been reported - Prees.
Legation in The Hague nbon! trouble on board the ship, which might make necessary the assistance of Greek police - on her arrival.
The assistance was refused, "tind "when"the ship arrived the Captain said that nothing had happened. He never had such
quiet Journey, he said. The ship was searched members of the cross-examined, but no evidence was found of any trouble.
and
Crow were
One stowaway, an American, was on board who was tempor- arily held by the police-Asso- clated Press.
COMMENT
RICID LINE
that some
Nor was it belloved that the senior officials of the United States Treasury had committed themselves-to-n-rigid-line-for or against currency devalua-
"I have brought her case to tlon. But it is no secret that every law officer of the Crown many people in Washington in the last 25 years and the im-. think
currency piled advice was that the only readjustments
may have to relief she could have was to figure in the movement toward live in sin," Sir Thomas Moore convertibility,
It was pointed out that the] United States sees a cut in Bri- tish and European costs as an other means to enable trading (Continued on Page 14)
added.
Mr John Wheatley, the Lord
Hindering The Reporters
OOD relations between the Press and Service and Government depart- ments in Hongkong are occasionally prejudiced by Incidents--all avoidable...... caused by Inck of, or incomplete, appreciation of the functions of the Press and the duties of newspaper reporters. The Press, for its part, considers it is entitled to information- and facilities for obtaining Buch information--which affects and is of -interest to the public. So long as this b
conceded, It has no intention of prying info the Internal affairs of official departments always provided, of course, that these affairs are being efficiently and honestly conducted. Least of all doca it want to violate "security" or to report "official secreis." Wo consider the preventing of newspaper reporters from boarding the troopship Dilward on, her arrival here with reinforcements on Thursday an unwarrantable Interference with their duties. By no stretch of the Imagination, could it be said that tho movement of the Dilwara was secref the units and the exact number of troops. on board were announced from London before she sailed, and photographers were aboard to take pictures on her departure. Nor could the hon be excused on the ground that having reporters on the ship would delay the disembarkation. Reporters have been meeting troopships on Innumerable previous occasions, both in war and in pience, and we know of no Instance where the off-loading of men or materials was slowed up by the presence- of pressmen. The very fact that other reporters, ignorant of the ban, went on
board the Dilwarn and obtained their stories without upsetting the Army's arrangements
tota one
makes the Imposition even more ridiculous.
:
Radio Licensing THE number of summonses taken out against realdents for failure to renew their radio licences demonstrates a fundamental weakness of the Heçnsing system. At present, the radio owner' pays for a licence for one full year from the day he takes it out, which means that licences are falling due for renewal practically every
day in the
year. According to law, of course, it is incum- bent on the holder of the licence to remem- ber when he must renew It. In practice, a large proportion of radio owners forget -pressure of daily affairs boing the reason advanced by more than one who has appeared in court. If the Department responsible issues reminders at all-and- several licence holders have never received any-It is usually after, the renewal date. The sending out of reminders, must necessitate a permanent staff. Tho, system, It would seem,. could be made simpler, more convenient for all concerned, and vastly more economical for the Government, if it were patterned, after the motor car licensing system.. Car licences aro renewable on July 1 each year, and Bulelent publicity is given to this 'when' the period comes around. The person who takes out n' licence for a new car in the interim pays a proportion of the yearly charge. We recommend this system for radio licensing.
She has to walt three years before she can get maintenance at the full seale allowed by the Divorce Court. Under the Bill, she would no longer have to wait.-Reuter.
KLM SUSPENDS CHINA RUN
port.
Solu
Volcano Erupts that
Associated Press,
United
Protest Against Arrest Of Consul
States To
Washington, July 8-The State Department today ordered the United States Embassy in Nanking and the Consulate-General in Poiping to protest immediately to the highest appropriate Communist authorities against the "arrest, deten- tion and treatment" of William Olive, United States Vice-Consul in Shanghai...
emergency
portion of the community, of the essentials of life."
WIDE POWERS
Once the proclamation is made, regulations can be made by the Privy Council, to talos immediate effect, giving the au- thorities wide powers to secure the essentials of life of the com- munity. Such regulations must be laid before Parliament and expire seven days later unless | approved by a resolution of both
Houses.
In telling the House of Com- mans that the King is to be
Clashes In Sydney
Sydney, July 8-Union
The Department spokes- brption parade in his jeep.
to. reports from man, Michael McDermott, According
Shanghai he was. Beaten and said American officials in kicked by the police aftor ne leaders said tonight that Nanking and Peiping were cidentally overturning an ink-negotiations with miners also instructed to protest at well of the police station.
become more difficult
had
once against the "arbitrary McDermott insisted that there because they resented the was "no" political significanco" treatment accorded to off in the fact that Nanking and prosecution and punishment cera of the Consulate Felping officials were instructed of union officials. General in Shanghai who to protest to the highest Com- went to the police station to munist authorities. inquire about Olive and tako sulate "s now in the process of there would be
Hold the Mukden Con- Federation declared tonight that being closed" and Consul
him food.
none.
Mr Idris Williams, the Presi dent of the Australian Miners'
seillement He said that besides the pro- General Angus Ward is all 23,080 pita ght-old strike of pitmen unless men impri- tests at Nonking and Pelping has never yet learned whether were freed and
there. Ho
the Department zoned, for contempt of Court the American Consul-General Ward received instructions to wer
Anes imposed In Shanghai, Mr John Cabot, if
clone
through continuing efforts to contact who had been daked strike sympathisers, Includths.
the Communist were walved.
1.-Clashes between police and Olive, but that so far as the by the United Slates to Department here knows they
broke out today. There dockers, have had no success.ANA the
order.
or "by other
werę, › ścuffles among ferowde said there was nothing when polleo raided Communist Olivo was arrested
on definite yet about when Am-headquarters, and fights and a Wednesday by the Chinese bessador Leighton Stuart would demonstration outside the ComTEL Communist-diregled polica al return to Washington for conmonwealth. Arbitration Court legedly for blocking a Red celel'sultation-United Press. Reliter
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