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NEW EFFORT TO SETTLE AUSTRIAN TREATY
Now York, Sept. 25.-The Big Four Foreign Ministers were reported today to be planning to meot early this week in a now effort to and the stalemated negotiations for an, Austriun treaty.
Informed sources at the United Nations General As- sembly saw in such a meet- ing the only means of break- ing the protracted deadlock. Any meeting of the Foreign Ministers would have to bo held in the first half of the week, sinca
the British
Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest Bevin, is due to leave on Friday for Canada, re- turning to New York only in time to sull for home on October 7.
The Soviet Foreign Minister, 51. Andrel Vyshinsky, has always refused to accept any deputy In the absence of tho
Secretary. British Foreign
The New York Times sold that it was believed that any meeting would be In An informal consultation and not a formal meeting as the Council of Foreign Ministers,
The deputies of the Foreign Ministers may meet again hera tomorrow but the Soviet deputy, Mt. Geo
LE
George Zarubin, was so un- compromising at Friday's meet- ing, at, which all the disputed points were reviewed, that
considered that the de pulles would be able to do no at another meeting than
W03
inore
to prepare the question for submission again to their res- pective superiors.
The delay in settling the Austrian treaty is considered to be blocking further progress towards a peace treaty will Germany.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1949.
FIVE OF
A KIND
Quintuplet calves, considered rare in cow circles, feed at the Reading Fair
in Reading, Pennsylvania, as pretty 15-year-old June Eliassen watches her
charges. The heifers are owned by June's mother. (AP Picture).
De Gaulle Says French Feeling Apprehensive
Bordeaux, Sept. 25.-General Charles de Gaulle told an open air meeting in Bordeaux Central Square today that the Atlantic Pact," "would be good if America had been able to preserve the monopoly of the atomic bomb." If the atomic weapon is to be in the hands of both camps, the Pact as now drawn up will lose a great deal of its efficacy for Europe, he stated.
He said that the French | security assured, I say people were feeling "in-this is not so,” he said. creasingly apprehensive. Off- "Everybody knows that the| cial leaders in the countryed up owing to the temporary French economy is only bolster- keep repenting that stabilit
the Imports under
Marshalt and Plan. The ty has been acquired
budget is only balanced by inflation.
POLLITT
ATTACKS
DEVALUATION
The
franc has had to admit to n fresh devaluation imposed from outside in disquieting and Irritating conditions. The ques-
THE REAL
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Will Press Japan Will For Veto-free Peace Conference
advantages
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Tokyo, Sept. 25.-The Government will proas for the convening of a veto-froo Japanese peace con- ference in diplomatic notes to 11 countries this su tumn but will take no hasty action to call a confer- enco without Russia, according to official' opinion hero.
Prospects for an early The United States and Brilish peace, conference are still drive for
conference a peatu based on the belief that believed to bo alight, how was
now Russia will consider it in ever, since neither Russia her interest to abandon demands nor the United States has for the veto in order to gain
Brent shown signa of backing potentially down on the key dispute that would come from getting The United States occupation over the big power veto forces out of Japan. right at the conference.
MORE TO LOSE Despite suggestions that the These officials say the only United States and Britain reason that the Russiaus heli may decide to hold a con-out for a Japan peace conference ference and write a Japaneso Veto in the past two years la did not want to allow the they peace treaty without us-precedent of setting a break in ain, informed quarters be the
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It was pointed out that while American experis generally the U.S. Secretary of State, Mr agree that Russia expecta to Dean Acheson, and the British gain more from an early Japan Foreign Secretary. Mr Ernest peace settlement than do other
Pacific
alles. The Bevin, announced agreement on
Anglo- the "urgency" of setting Japan's American willingness to proceed with writing the treaty is based pence terms, there has been on the belief that the majority octat indication that and the United States want to vote of the 11 nations particl-
would pating in the conference peace which
protect immediate Western leave Japan in a legal state ofterests in Japan while in the
frame
no
war with Russia and subject to with
Д
separate settlement
Russia.
BIG FIRE IN VIENNA
Vienna, Sept. 25,--Fire swept
through a third of a square milo spread from an outbreak at the municipal omnibus garage near the Reichs Bridge spanning the Danube.
of Vienna today when anmes
Seven large blocks of bulid. ings, wooden buildings of the Siemens Schuckert Works and nearly 10,000 cubic feet of tim- bor blazed as firemen baitled to stop the fire from spreading.-- Reuter.
FOR FEAR Bathing Beauties Had
Sydney, Sept. 25-The tions of prices, salaries, housing retiring President of the United Nations, Dr H. V.
and reconstruction are more actile than ever.
"The nation must be warned that nothing obliges nor pre dispores the United Stales to take part on a big scale in the direct and immediate defence of
No Costumes
NINE ARTICLES
Britain and the United States have been againat suggestions of a meeling of the Foreign Ministers on the German ques- tion during this Assembly ses- sion, according to usually well- Informed sources, unless the
Kuala Lumpur, Sept. 25- Austrian question is first solved.
The bathing queen contest in They do not want to tackle
the Lucky World Amusement the German problem until Aus-
Park was delayed two hours tria
ง out of the way.
Evatt, the Minister of Ex- today because ternal Affairs and Deputy entrants did not have bathing a dozen of the The
complete upparently
Premier of Australia, said suits. Ureakdown of the Austrian talks, however, with alne articles of
The town had to be scoured the treaty still to be worked out,
today that war rather than London, Sept. 25-The
the atom bomb was the real before the contest could be has produced the Impression
completed.-Associated Press. that the Foreign Ministers may British Communist Party our continent.
cause for fear. have
to meet on that problem today denounced the Labour
Government'a devaluation "As long as Europe does not Commenting
President themselves,
constitute a cure and powerful Harry S. Truman's announce- The nino articles on which policy
the as
"biggest bridgehead, do not let us ex- ment of an atomic explosion in the deputies are still unable to swindle in history" and peet that armadas will arrive | Russia, Dr Evatt added,
Tho agree deal chiefly with the dis-urged workers to demand to disembark their armies," enemy that must be fought is position of former German at higher wages and strike General de Gaulle said.
not the particular weapon bui war itself. "We know that England
"There are rules of justico would fight at once if the West which should be used to pre- Were altacked, but we know vent war. The United Nations also that, because of air power, stands for peace and for a sys- she has strategically ceased to tem by which peace can be ob- be entirely an Island.
In
Austria and the return
assets held by the Russians as "war booty," which the Western powers say were not enemy pro- perty. Reuter.
UMBERTO
REUNITING FAMILY
against any drop in living standards.
The Party secrotary, Harry Pollitt, in a speech at Shefeld, said: "It is a crime to conceal from the people that devalua tlon is, above all, a victory for American big business."
He charged the Government with swindling by "trying to persuade the people that de- valuation of the pound is the only way to prevent mass un employment and solve Britain's economic problems".
Nice, Sept. 25.-Ex-King T Umberto of Italy said today is the opposite of true. Devaluation of the pound It
UP TO THE FRENCH
"We know she thinks first of her own defences and would not risk the main part of her forces to the continent,
"It is up to the French people to ensure French security. The immediate security of Europe snd North Africa is, in the first
instance, the responsibility of
he was trying to unite all the signal for the flercest cut-France."
for limited throat competition
of the capitalist world." markets
Ho
power
tained.
מס
"My falth in the United No- tions is firm and unwavering. As Mr Truman has stated, the UNO Is the chief bulwark the people of the world against war.”—Assocfaled Press,
Bus Accident Kills 42
o!
Brno, Czechoslovakia, Sept. 25-Forty-two people were re- the members of his family, th
Pleading for "active military |ported to have been killed in a but insisted that this family
bug which was said to have said devaluation would unlis, equipment and mobility," reunion had no special signi- bring higher prices and more he said: "As French military crashed over a steep hillside
affirms itself, ficance.
co- near here last night, and more unemployment.
According operation from others will be
to the reports, Rumours had been circulating STRIKES AND GO-SLOWSnore forthcoming and Europe which were unconfirmed, there hero recently that the reunion
were 70 passengers in the bus, will lift her head and look to was to reconcile the ex-King
"All trade unionists should us. and his wife, Marie Jose, or to
I beleve that the organi- which rolled to the foot of the
hill-Reuter. demand higher i now
wages.cation of Europe must come arrange the transfer of the late Any section of workers who re- Victor Emanuel III's body from sort, in defence of their standard
from Europe itself. North Africa the late King's will.
action, such as go-slow move-free Europeans should be the Regarding the rumours about ments, token strikes or strikes, starting point. France should Marie Jose, a spokesman for official or unoffelal, should re-take the initiative Umberto
ba soon as
to Italy or to open of living, to an forms of mass "A vast referendum of all
conceded the exceive the full support of every her public powers really repre- Queen was expected to arrive section of the trade union move-sent the nation and not merely hero from Switzerland, but he ment." declined to specify any date for
political parties in the process her arrival.
He also said that when Parlin of dying Umberto's son, Victor Em- mont meela on Tuesday to "The German people must be manuel, arrived from Switzer- deoate devaluation, "It should included among the peoples of land last night. He was met by be bombarded with demands Europe. his father.
from workers for an end to the "Despite the cadness and anger Umberto said his mother, ex-present policy of betrayal and which the mere mention of Ger- queen Helens, was confined to for adoption of an alternative many arouses in millions of men,
can
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