THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1949.
W. Allies'
' Protest On TO SEA IN A TUB
Berlin Rail
Anglo-Iraqi Talks On
Pay Rejected oil Pipeline
RUSSIANS CLAIM TO BE Expected In London
HONOURING AGREEMENT
Berlin, Aug. 3.—The Russians today rejected a Western Allied complaint that the Soviet Zone Railway Administration was not honouring the agreement on pay to West Berlin employees by which the recent six-week railway strike was ended.
Within Two Wooks
London. Aug. 3-Anglo-Iraqt talks on the re-opening of the Kirkuk-Halls of pipeline are
expected in London within the
exi fortnight,
Diplomatic afficinis sold today
that the Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest Bevin, was likely to dis
use the issue when he met Prime Minister Nuri Pasha of Iraq 5000.
arrived 1:1
Neverthe-
en a letter to the three Western Comman-Nurhay. His Aides dants, the Deputy Chief of the Soviet Zone Trans-sald that his visit was mainly
medical treatment, port Division, Mr V. Voccudski, said that the private and that he would have 1055, ho expected to seo Mr Soviet-controlled Railway Authority (the Reichs-es
Bevin nfler
Strasbourg the bahn) had adhered correctly to the agreement.
meetings of the European Par- that linment, which Mr Bevin is to contention A Western
attend, the agreement to pay 80 per-
Iraq's Regent, Amir Abdul cent of the railwaymen's wages
at present should be Illah, West In
marke extended also to workers who Britain. He, too, according to diplomats, is here for live in West Berlin but work Iraqi
Lincoln's Message
In Danger
US Told: You Need Change Of Heart
New Inspiring
is niro
In East Berlin "Is apparently private reasons. banci
incorrect Inter- pretation," he wild,
on an
He added that, during the negotiations for ending the six- week strike, only the question of workers vingt and working in the West sectors was dis cussed.
the
Lincoln and Jefferson, by which by May the "Soviet-I
the American people had come by thele success. "today ap
to be in danger." Mrs, peared Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, India's Ambassador to United States. told an audience at Columbia University today.
in
During the Palestine war. Iraq shut down her pipelino from the rich Kirkuk fields to ffalo. She has refused ever since to re-open it.
Emil Meyer of Carlstadt, New Jersey, bents the hent in his bathtub special." The craft consists of a a wooden platform 50-year-old bathtub supported on between two balsa wood pontoons (not visible in photo). Meyer is an old hand at building speedboats.
(AP Picture).'
Aga Khan, Begum Reconstruct
Daring Hold-Up
ROBBED OF JEWELLERY
WORTH
£137,000
Police, gendarmes and Mobile Guards armed with tommy guns were manning road-blocks over a wide area around the Aga Khan's villa at Le Cannet, near Nice, hoping to trap the bandits, who ambushed. the Aga Khan's car and made off with the Begum's' jewel boxes.
Angela To SHOWING Have Church
TO-DAY
QUEEN'S
7
Wedding
London. Aug. 3. The film actress, Angela 'Lansbury, who was refused a marriage cere- mony at Landon's Bow Parish Church because both sho and her future husband have been married before, will wed to- morrow at the Chapel of M Columbus Church in the river. atda district of Chelsea.
Misa Lansbury, grand-daugh- ler of the famous Labour leader, Mr George Lansbury, flow the with her Atlantic last month
alm actor Poter lance, the Shaw, in the hope of being married in Bow Church, where her grandfather worshipped re- gularly.
The ceremony
1
St Columbus is a Church of Scotland church.
will be per- formed by Dr R. K, V. Scott. Dr Scott said the Church of Scotland permitted ministers to marry a divorced person, provided he or she was an In- nocent party in law.
"The couple told me that they wished to be properly married new be- and make a really ginning, and I thought the right thing to do was to consent," he added. Reuter.
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UK MAIN SUFFERER Britain, more than Israel, has suffered. Because of this, the A British spokesman said to-
Biritish
had to Ect have reply their night that the Soviet
refined oil, including "Tintly contradicts" the guaron-petrol from the United States,
Nice, Aug. 3.-The multi-millionaire Aga Khan Aug. York,
Raliwaywhere dollar payment is neces- 3-The
given by
and his Begum tonight took part in a police recon- confirmed sary. and message of Abraham Administration
General Kvashnin, the
If the Iraq-Haifa pipeline is struction of the armed hold-up earlier today, when
Editoriala Israel's Hatin four bandits robbed them of jewellery worth more head
Mary-opened and
resume work.
thethan 150 million francs (£137,000). Government Transport Division. refineries
"The agreement to pay 60 per-British will be able to get their cent of the wages of the rail oil products for Sterling.
Iraq has maintained the pipe waymen living in the Western sectors of Berlin West, marks line closure because of the can only be interpreted in one United Nations embargo on the supply of arms to mid-Eastern way.
amend
The countries. the agreement
iraqla To
argue by withholding
of that while the payment
arms embargo West marks from Western sec- Insts, a state of war exists in the tor railwaymen employed In Middle East and they, therefore, the Eastern sector is a de-feel justified in shutting off the
breach of the agree-flow of oil to Israel.
Nonetheless,
many British
that report
Iraq's British spokesman de diplomats ment," the spokesman asscried.
situation at the scribed the Soviet action as a ceonomic
They moment is not healthy. deliberate misinterpretation of a
agreement. - feel accordingly that now is the ime to press the Baghdad go- straightforward Reuler.
vernment to re-open the pipe Ine outside a general Palestino settlement, if necessary,--As- sociated Press.
"Your atom bombs and your skyscrapers will stand you h
le stend unless that message is taken to heart and put into practice," she said.
wert
About 2,000 persons present in the University Hall, and at the end of the address they applauded Mrs Pandit for several minutes.
The United States had dono great things and was destin- ed to do greater things, Mrs the coun. sold. But Pandit
need of the try was in great wisdom of the ages.
There was
nation
no point
having the
In one ability to
"All the begging bowl" of almost
all other nationa
while many
liberate
The
Sir Frank Stockdale
others were steeped in ignorn Found Dead
and poverty.
"Freedom should be shared,
London. Aug. 3,--Bir Frank The world's troubles today arise Stockdale, 66-year-old deputy because we are selfish and be-chairman Cause we attach a value to things Developmenk
found dead in that are really valueless."
Mrs Pandit said that America London flat early today, when she first arose had people
Ile left his
Arabs Battle
Letters To
The Begum tought offered al
5,000,000 francs for reward of
the Information
to leading arrest of the robbers.
The Aga Khan and his Begum, accompanied by a maid, -hod just left their villa in his when chauffeur-driven saloon
Sir, four men, wearing dork glasses,
of the jumped in front
car Along nd menaced the party with of the tommy gung.
The Editor
REQUISITIONING FOR ARMY
Battle Begum's tewel boxes and made Terminal station in the Kal Tak
Tribesmen
In Haifa
OL
In any
The correspondent "Pass] - With regard to (b) and the issue bearing the factors of (a) in Please" in
HK. Telegraph for mind the polley has been wo August 2, is ap- take OVICT empty, buildings. under the impression But for Isolated Instances this They sinshed the tyres of the that the scheme to which he polley has in fact been carried Aga Khan's vehicle, seized the refers included a Passenger oul.
The effective working of the This is not correct na railway is essential both to the own car towards aren, off in their Cannes. They did not touch any
the area would be used for military and the civil and a
yards and of the Jewels the Begum was goods
Locomotive great deal of dislocation to sto wearing, including bracelet shops, whereas the slle Bug smooth running would naturally
for the und a clip, but they look her gested
Passenger result if the suggestions crocodile skin handbag con-Terminus would be to the north p Along
were im- Please' of the present
PASE taining 200,000 francs.
Jordan Road
plemented. the of
Coloniat
Ferry. The Aga Khan returned to the
case such
the Although facilities for Corporation, was
villa and telephoned the police, scheme would take some three travelling public are not yet bed in his
Halla, Aug. 3-Two Jewish
who later took statements from years to complete, and would all that could be desired, the other people officers and two
the need financing. Finance other Administration has no intention all four occupants office last night were killed and 30 were
millionaire's
car. The Aga wise avallable by the sale of of submitting passengers travel- Khan had noted the number of Railway land in the Taimisatsul with a spiritual force equal to in-good health, his brief case wounded today during pitched
between Arabs
the assailants car, but the police area would not be available unting...or arriving by train to the greatest in any other coun-packed with work. He told a battles
at a military
stand for long periods exposed had been der his scheme suspected that this spiritual colleague he was going to Do Drase tribesmen try. But today that
to the elements P If shelter car faked.
Apart from these considera-be afforded thEED STARMON. was getung somewhat busy.
camp near Haifa. a widower Frank was
Later the Chief Commissioner. The trouble began when over
w. the Nicolons, both Government and the Signor Battini, of with two sons-Our Own 100 Arabs stoned a small group
Police, reconstructed the hold-up Services have proceeded con- When of Correspondent.
tribesmen. Associated
ndds:
Arabs Press
A Druses
on the spot, the Aga Khan and riderably faster than it would retaliated, the
the appear
-correspondent the Begum taking part of 40
the began firing machine guns and years in
nce the Services have At the time of the hold-up, knows since t Colonial Service, Sir Frank rifes, damaging a number at has seen duty in every British houses
killed Falkland colony excevi the
A Jewish officer was when he attempted to intervene. Islands,
Military police threw a cordon around the camp and arrested a number of Arabs. A group of The Hongkong Telegraph has armed Druses then attacked the convoy transporting the arrested received a donation of $50 from men to prison and killed another Mr
Sydow Chr. v.
to the Jewish oficer Amethyst Fund. Previously
force dim.
She said in the course of her address: "You have tremendous should be but power power, judged in terms of the ability to Humani create, not to destroy. emotions are not controlled by material things."
The last war ended in defeat all round, rather than victory.
"change. of Calling for a heart," Mrs Pandit said thot Western civilisation had twice led the two generations in
world into wars.
"Therefore, let us find some thing on which we can plant our feet firmly and get together," she said.Reuter.
Sir
veteran
Amethyst
acknowledged Chr. v. Sydow
Total:
Fund
and
tho
The Druses inhabit the moun. tainous Jebel Druse region near $1,305.00 the function of the borders of 50.00 Palestine, Syria and the Hashe- of Jordan-- mito Kingdom $1,355,00 | Reuter.
UK Union Bans SIDE GLANCES
Communist
London, Aug. 13-A British
Communist, Mr Norman Ken-/
nedy, has been
banned from
his union holding office in juntil May 31 next your be- cause he was prominent in a campaign alleging extravagant expenditure on Clarence House, Princess Elizabeth's new. London home.
Mr. Kennedy was the London district secretary of the Amal- gamated Society of Wood- workers. He had lost his poal- tion as his union's representative to the Trades Union Congress next month.
Disciplinary action. was taken by, the union under a ruke deal- ing with charges of "bringing the society into discredit."-- Reuter.
Danes Claim World's Best Car 'Phone
Copenhagen,
- Aug. group
of
engineers Danish today claimed to have develop ed the world's best car tale- phone.
From a
car atted with this telephone, the engineers claimi, a subscriber can enli not only. any other car similarly fitted, but any normal telephone sub- scriber, bothing Denmark - and
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with pretty weltreuses—when 'I' drop In ñO SES" "CM
ways order a snack!”.
Public Relations Oficer, E. A. BILLETT, Major,
Deputy Assistant of Public Relations.
the Aga Khan and the Begum alre
already requisitioned some to Nice 408,500 sq. ft. of Railway land Their way were on
to catch a plano to Airport
an against 483,300 sq. ft. of the OUTWARD MAILS
United Aulace mall to London, from where they plan- laren mentioned by him, and ned to return to Deauville to this land can be made suitablo Kingdom vis Horts per AMB
will be Carthage
closed an meet Prince Aly Khan and his at Infinitely less cost to the
follows GF.Q.--Parcels August wife, the film star Rita Hay-Services than the scheme he
4, 5 pm. Reg., August 6, 9 #DLI Ord.. 936 ADS
worth.
Spiritual leader of 20,000,000 Ismaili Moslems, the Aga Khan is fabulously rich.
proposes.
The Railway Administration at Kowloon Station alone han- dles at the moment some six
The Begum, who became the thousand passengers per day Aga Khan's fourth wife in 1944, told Reuter tonight: "My hus-With their luggage and personal band I are greatly distressed by effects, und Yaumall deals with the attack. At the same time some, two thousand. There are also large numbers of passen- we consolo Ourselves by
and gers handled to and from out- cafe flecting that we are
stations
figures sound.--Reuter.
Yugoslavia
Hits At
for Juno were 124,028
Kowloon C.P., Farrels, Angert 4, 5 pm; eg, August 6, 8.30 am.; Ord, 9 A.EL
This mail is expected to arrive at London on or about th September, 1949.
Unregistered correspondence, enly for Shanghal, Tientsin and North China can be accepted at senders rtak, and will be for warded as opportunity offers.
Unless otherwise stated re gistered articton and parcel Pests close· 30 minutes ritor Than the ordinary mail. If mails close before 19 am, rogisternā and parcel posts close at 5 p.m. en the previous day. halls are closed at Kowloon Central FORE Omer half an hour earlier than Le OF.O. closing times.
and Local 203,230, This mum- ber could not be handled adequately even by part use of Kowloon Station for other
pur- poses. Furthermore, it is quite
THURSDAY, AUGUST 4 the Important that Railway
Closing Times By Air Canton, (Kowloon 0) 10.m should remain efficient for the
p.m. 4 p.: (GPO) 9.30 am. purpose of transport of troops 1.30 p.m., 3.20 p.m.
Taipeh, Foochow, Kwailla, Chung. and supplies to and from the
occasioning, Chengt Luchow Kunming arines and as an alternative to watow and Amoy, 3.30 pm.
Rangoon, Calcutta, Karachi, (Basra, Nairobi. Mombas Dar-es-Salaam, the road.
Mauritii. Johannesburg and Caire Belgrade, Aur. 3-Tho
Portions of the Railway go-
vis Karmeti), Alexandria, Rome and Yugoslav newspaper, Borbs, to downs not in use by the Rail- London (Kowloon CPO):30 p day accused the Soviet Union
Soviet "Scum" New Territorica as
official
of employing a "worst scum" Way Authorities have already (GPO) 5 D.m.
Iri
the
been allotted to them and
their stores. The Railway could
Bingapore,
RADEkok, Batavia, Colombo, Byd- counter-revolutionary others are reserved for handling e Auckland, B pm.. campaign against Y Yugoslavia.
Japan, B. pum
Closing Times by Bas Rabaul, Australia and New Zen-
Amer. D
of Answering a Tass agency re not function in a couple
flavis
port that "brutally
Recused
wat buildings opposite the extremity and the Sydney, a pun.
of Chatham Road Camp as has bran
Soviet
citizens In Yugoslavia, Borba the Russians of at-
tempting to give respectability con
concerning their Fascists,
to "White Guardists,
Japan, 8 pm.
Tengkok, 5 pm.
Rangoon and Calcutta, à p.m. Swalere, # pan.
4 pm.
Teamkoorion, Madagascar, Bom-
Straite,
bay. Aden, Zarpt and, Europa, via
FRIDAY,
Cleeing Timer by Air
Manila, Guam, Honolulu, USA and
Air Parcal Posts for Mandia, Hono-
suggested......... The Army requisitioning throughout spies and other enemies of project bas bean governed, inter
atio
by two factors: Socialism."
tactical considera-London, UST • (a) The recommended that Tass ask
"What kind of Soviet tions regarding situation, of per itself.
sonnel camps and maintenance citizens are involved?"
"If Tass and its leaders told establishments, and (b) the Canada p the people the truth about desire of the military authori tahu and UBA, ((Kowloons CPO) 490 revolutionaries, against whom or social disturbarica as possi-samples and Small Pacte sales these paid persons and counter-tles to cause as little economic pm; (GPO) 6 p.m. the people of the Soviet Union The principles of (a) and (b) Kowloon (20) 1.30 p.m.; (GPO) 5 have fought so many years and
"PAL sked their blood, the Soviet are both contravened by
say the Along Flanse's suggestions. people would surely
The importance of (a) jean- people of Yugoslavia are right."
Borba, said the Soviet leaders not be too strongly stressed and must be given to "deliberately forgot past crimes precedence
(Printed
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"Haiphong and Tanol, B
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Amoy DM. their counter-revolutionary came letter under review: would be Haiphong," a pan.
Yugo- against Socialist unsatisfactory and not condam 1 - Vanen; 3 pun.j palgna alavia, United Press, tone with the milliary plaus Beaton, & Sam
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