THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1949.
All Quiet On The West Congratulated On New Post Syria Willing
German Election Front
28m EXPECTED TO
VOTE ON SUNDAY
Frankfurt, Aug. 9.-Germany's first post-war general election promises to be the most peaceful ever, judging by conditions five days before the estimated 28,000,000 voters go to the polls next Sunday.
Correspondents from all over the world are flocking into Western Germany to watch the first free German general election for 16 years. They contrast the present inertness with the feverish atmosphere at pre-Hitler elections.
Hoardings in the main streets of most towns are crowded with Party posters, but the huge_white- washed alogans which were such a feature of German elctions in the twenties and early thirties are almost entirely absent.
ISRAEL
SEEKS
ARMS
Fear Of Arab Arms Raco
London.
Aug. 9.-Israel's Foreign Ofco has sent high- ranking officials to both sides of the Iron Curtain in search reported here today.
of
arms and ammunition, it was
Gershon Hirsch, neling bead of the Western European De-
Office, is at present in London visiting Parts, Brussels
partinent of the larget! Foreign after
and the Hague.
S, Ellnshiv, head of the Eastern European section, of the Foreign Omcc, is at pre- sent in Moscow.
.israeli sources
sald emissaries were secking to
for Israel purchase arms
AS
both
it was feared the Arab states would stage a large-scale arma- ments race as soon as the Mid- arma embargo was
Jifted.
British Government sources said they were award of the
British o elals said, however, : Israeli oficials' missions. that they did not anticipate large-scale arms race because bolli Arab and Immell monetary
today Just tourist dle East Lorelel Rock, public, are The historia and the Fortress Chiren-attraeilos, not hoardings.
of breitsteln on the Rhine, which
The vote-winning power of were decorated with gigantla
tradition militarist Ilammer Swastikas and
and German Sickle emblems in the election will be tested at the polls for campaign of the Welmar Re-the first time since the war in parts of the British zone, ne- cording to British political ob servers here,
look
small much to of Right-wing ex" Groups
"Get- tremists known as the
Party" and Righlist "German Conservative Party" respectively but 10 the-well- organised "German Party",
resources were limited--United
Four Men On For the test the observers pour
$2,500,000
Gold Charges
-New York.
Aug. D.Fuitr Cullty men have pleaded not here to Federal indictments charging that they took part in diverting $2,500,000 in gold the European blackmarket,
to
The men are Achile Parria, 48, accused un leader of the operation. Allen James Geist, 24, Vincent Angeloni, 48, and Wood Ward, 32.
man
TIG! no
"SOLDIERS' HONOUR Solidly
Big Crowd
Greets Churchill
ຄ
In the entrenched
Saxony rural part of Lower where first arese after the
Strasbourg, Aug. 2-a blɛ. war sa regioni party of the
crowd greeted landed Interest, it is now ex-chrering
North-West Winston Churchill as he gave panding all over Germany in co-operation with the "V" sign in the main station ex-soldiers and officers or-square when he arrived here to- ganisations as a Party defending day. the "soldiers' honour" and af
Ile looked well after his holl- tacking any policial erced which
day in Italy. He was smoking involves international Hes.
a light According to reports reaching big cigar and wore
suit with n gay British authorities
this Grey alpnea
the
The United States Attorney General, Mr Tom Clark, President Truman's selection to fill a Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Frank Murphy, receives the congratulations of the Secretary of Labour, Mr Maurice Tobin, as both leave the White House after a cabinet meeting-(AP Picture).
Hebrew
Ancient
Bible Scrolls Discovered
MORE THAN 2,000
YEARS OLD
London, Aug. 9.-Fragments of the Old Testa ment in Hebrew, more than 2,000 years old, found in Palestine, are believed by British archaeological ex- perts to have been part of ancient records hidden by a lot monastic Jewish sect when struggling for re- ligious and political freedom.
To Sponsor New Pact In Middle East
Damascus, Aur. 9.- Tho President of Byria, Field Mar- shai Husui el Zaim, announced today that he was willing to sponsor an "Atlantlo Pact" for the Middle East provided tho United States pledged economie and military ald.
since his
Syria's strongman, who has ruled the country military coup in March, told the Associated Press in an exctualve interview that he was willing to take the leading role bloc in creating a regional directed against Communism.
Such a pact would provide a second line of defence Turkey,
behind
United
which the States is now arming, he said.'
Zním said he was not willing
such to have Israel inside pact because it would create. "
Communist column with
leanings."
sup-
"Svrls would give a positive assurance that any arms plied for such a part by the United States would not be used against Israel except In self defence, he said,
The Syrian ruler said he in- tended to fortify the Syrian
to fully
avoid the frontier
of futuro Israeli possibility aggression.
ARMY EXPANSION A bid army expansion had "strong Syria aldeady made enough to defeat fernel now if Syria is attacked," he said.
The President promised that Conati- the forthcoming Syrian tution would fully guarantee civil rights without qualification. Tie said he hoped to achieve in Syria the modernisation and re- forms' that Attaturk brought to
Turkey.
not by force by evolution and the United Syrlu wished States to exert more pressure on Esrael at Lausanne the Pre- said, to bring · a final sident solution on Palestine.
The
Jows were being
"obstinate" and blocking the
solution.
sald he had The President asked the United States, France and Turkey each to furnish military advicers in Syria and officers were raid that Syrian being sent to those countries and to Britolu to study.-A£50- clated Press,
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10 Closing Times By Air Holhow, Talpela, Swallow, Amey, Chungking and Chengtu, 330 pin,
Salon and Paris, 5 p.m.
Federal Judge Gason L. Par- tierie set trial for September 7.
The men were indietet lusti
The fragments, now under examination in Lon- week on charges of having vle-glannie la orientation has been black and white bow tie.
don, are from one of a number of tattered leather OUTWARD MAILS Inted the Gold Reserve Act of accompanied by bitter struggles
So dente was the crowd that scrolls recovered from a cavern in the foothills of 1634.
within the Party leadership.twice his way to the Mayoral
the shores of the Dead Sea after a chance discovery The Amistant Unlled States
The Party's official leader, car was blocked by enthusiastic
in 1947 by a goatherd rounding up his stray animals. Attorney, Mr William Koerner, Herr Hellwego, who opposed said that Parrilla hired other the charge in the spirit of the Strasbourg young men and wo-
The discovery of the cavern men, to buy fine gold from the Hanoverian
The scrolla, stated to have regionalist tradl-ten, elapping hands and shout-
Ing Vive Churchll,"
the scrolls near the Treasury Department on
the low has
been written in the 3rd or 4th holding been increasingly
as Dead Sea is taken as a further pretext that it was to be used
pushed side by the younger
Earlier, on the main platform Century BC and identified for making jewellery,
Old icd
Testament confirmation that it once formed nationalist elements
by Mr Churchill had been welcomed texts of the
secret archives of the Actually it was sold in Europe Hans Christoph Seebohm, who by local dignitaries of the Euro-Books, are calculated by experts the at high prices, the Prosecutor
the in represented the Party
pean movement and his son-in- to have been part of a library Essenes, who are known to have! of had their headquartas in that sold.
Bonn. Assembly,
law, Mr Duncan Sandys-Reu- hidden by the Essenes, olle
the three great religious sects territory. of ancient Israch.
AL
British the
Muscum. where the fragments are under laboratory examination, experts
that sald today
Would they to "enable the Hebrew Bible look the Greek translation the face for the first tire in Christian history;"
Described
Parrilla, who is already out! on $10,000 bail on a Brooklyn was re- grand larceny charge, leased on $2,000 ball (21 the Federal charge.---Reuter.
NO PREDICTIONS The Party, whose meeting are
Uber hopes
ter."
regularly concluded by singing Russian
to gather sufficient strength to make any anti-Socialist Govern- Siment of Christian Democrats
Von Manstein's
Counsel On Way To Hamburg
"and"Free" Democrats "dependent- on its support for Parlin- mentary majority."
•
Wood
For Britain
London, Aug. 9--Contracts
fr
as the most impor-
Among four of the recovered scrolls which have been under Is exomination
the earliest known manuscript of the Book of Isalah. Other Books of the Old Testament have also been Identified.-Reuter,
under which Soviet Russia will tant archaeologien! discovery Britain To
Although there are only five supply Britain with about ever made in Palestine and the
of
days to go before the electorate
100,000 standards of soft-wood most
confirmation Important chooses a goverment for the
here by ever obtained of the Bible, the have been concluded of Western Germany, representatives whole of
the two texis are reckoned to be 1,100 none of Frankfurt's German-
countries.
years older than дву provious controlled papers today thought
are re- known examples and The Boord of Trade the election campaign worthy of
algarded as certain to take pre- that front-page mention.
nounced
shipping willredence over the Greek trans-
Mr 8. C. London, Aug. Silkin, one of two British de- fence Counsels for the former Nazi Field-Marshal Erich Von Political observers are an-begin nimost immediately and lations which at present forai hienstein
forthcoming willing to predict whether the that the total amount may be the basis of the Bible. at his
trial, was leaving | unusually calm election cam delivered before navigation
salu today British experts war crimes for Hamburg today, It was an puten means n very low poll. closes this year.
that it
may by 20 years beforu out in the nounced by the British sponsers A sample poll carried of a public defence fund,
British zone has shown increasing Prices are lower than those the texts and their implications are fully digested in relation to The sponsors, Baron De L'Isle Interest in the forthcoming olec-paid last year.
The supplies will include the Bible as it is known today. and
Viscount lions there, with about 10 per- Dudley
AGE CONFIRMED Bridgemou, also announced that cent of voters stating that they 12,500 standards they had collected £1,020 and will go to the polls, compared and 0,000 standards of white- had now closed the appeal. to only 5 percent a month ago. wood from the Soviet zone of
They raised the money to-Reuter.
Dund
provide British Council becauso
the trial will be in accordance
with British law.
Mr Winston Churchill-contri SIDE GLANCES
buted £25.
The other British Counsel, Mr
R. T. Paget, Labour Member of Parliament, "has undertaken his brief without fec," the Peers antil.
.. Two German lawyers will nesist the defence.-Reuter,
US "Rebuffed By Chinese *People"
Chi
Berlin, Aug. 9 The Boviet- controlled newspaper Taegliche Bundsoliau sald today that the American White Paper showed that the United States had at- to intervene in China templed but had been rebuffed by the Chinese people,
Intervention in "American
shown by the State- ment of Secretary of State Acheson that the defeats suffer- ed by the Nationalist govern- ment woro not for lack of United States arms but rather because of the desire of Uhe Chinese people to put an end to the Chiang Kai-shek regime.”
The paper denied that "the hand of Moscow was behind the Communist victories in the Far East and attributed these. ylatories entirely to the "strong hand of the Chinese people, who desired to rid their soil of the imperialist clique. United Press.
7.4
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of red-wood
Guarantee Market
For Sugar
Closing Times By Bes USA, Central and South America
via San Francisco, 3 p.m..
Formosa via Keelung. a p.m. Canada via Vancouver, B.C.. 3 p.m. Manila, Mauritius, Momban, Marques and South Africa via Dur
Bangkok, 3 p.m. Amoy
and Korea vla Inchon, 4 THURSDAY, AUGUST 11 Closing Times By Air Swalow, & Amoy, 8.30 a.m. (reg); 9am. (nd).
Talpeh, Foochow, Kwein, Chung. king. Chingtu, Luchow, Kunming. Swatow and Amoy, 330 p.m.
Rangoon, Calcutta, Karachi. (Daaro, Nairobi. Mombasa, Dar-ra-Salaam, Mauritius, Johannesburg and Cairo vin Karachi), Alexandria, Rome and London, Kowloon CPO) 4.30 p.m.: (GPO) D.10.
Singapore. & D.
Bangkok. Balavia, Colombo, Byd- ney and Auckland, 5 p.m.
Japan. 8 p.m.
Bangkok, 3 p.m.
Manila, 3 p.m.
Straits, langton and Coleutia, a
London, Aug. 9.-The British |
Closing Times Ny Sea Government is to guarantee to Ceylon, Madagascar, Maurtulus, Commonwealth sugar East and South Africa, Atten and elelent producers markets for agreed Egypt. p.m. tonna ca
re- at reasonably The British authorities be-munerative" prices, it was an-
naunced tonight. leve that the obscure Hebrew script, in which the ancient The Colonial Office said that scrolls have been written, cou- the long-term arrangements By Galbraith. Bring their age and authenticity, would include negotiations with Canada. I p.m.
Though differing
Germany. Reuter,
A BORICE, ING. F. M. REGLU. PAT, OFF.
That might bo my son Jim.now-he pilots one of those big liners. I wish he'd got some safer job that wouldn't worry his mother all the tima!".
little from
the producers to fix the "reason. the present Hebrew alphabet, it ably remunerative" prices. is identitled with the remote 4th and 5th Centuries before Christ, when the Jews returned and Persian from Babylonian captivity.
World Crisis "Only Moderate Recession"
The anouncement that the give these Government would
firm assurances" to producers followed talks just ended with representatives of the British West Indies Sugar Association
p.m.
Swatow, 4 p.m.
FIDAY, AUGUST 12
Closing Times By Air
Manila, Guam, Honolulu, USA &
Closing Times By Bea Australia and New Zealand Sydney. 3 p.m.
VIA
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Denis Hata. Dawn Replying to a Polish stale-
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D come 10 on end," Mr Adarker the commented: "The statement is where, as in the British West only true in that there is Indies, sugar production is the moderate world-wide recession, main and indispensable basis If it means that the economic of a healthy economy, this will situation of India has taken a be given special consideration
In fixing the quantities of Inmates of the Girls Training who are said to: bo-operating downturn, it is wrong.
"Our Industrial production is sugar to bo increasing from month to month,rangementa” by these ar-School In Mandaluyong, im- from Argentina.
mediately cast of Manlia, Can
on Sunday evening, 11 The arreated man said that ho although
Treasury and Food Ministry caped wo have not yet reached our interim targets." representatives joined Colonial was bolstedly reported to tho did not know any member of He added that, in spite of Dulce experts in the talks with Maniin Police authorities to the ring except the person who handed, him the notes, adding balance of payments dimeulties, the West Indian delegates, who day. India had no serious unemploy-included Mr Alexander Dusta- The roform school opcapper, that he merely distributed them, from 13 to usunily to tourists or people ment or starvation problemas monte, Jamaican Communica-whose ages range alleged by the Polish delegation. tlons Minister and Labour 18, have not yet been found going to the United
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Colonial territories адс
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Had 10,000,000
Forged Dollars
POSITIVELY HIS LAST Hollywood, Aug. Jomes
20
Escapes Manila, Aug. 9-Eight young track of dollar counterfeiters, bachelor"efore his marriage
last
Rio de Janeiro, Aug. 9.The Stowart's positively last Sao Paulo police today arrested Dearance" said a sign outside ODO or Hollywood's luxury man who 10,000,000 coun- terfelt dollar notes in his pos-taurants on Monday night.
Inside, the man, who has Boan zersion.
The authorities are on the called "Hollywood's most gligible
was having a stag to 31-your-old Mrs Glotla McCican," a' former, model, 34
They will marry at the Brent wood Presbyterim Church here tonight.
Guests at Jimmy's, atng (party Alm star friends, included David Niven, Jack Bonny, and Stiles Spencer Tracy. - Associated
Preas.
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