THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1949
Devaluation Ratified SHUTTING DOWN FURNACE
By Indian Parliament
PAKISTAN TRADE "MUST
BE HANDLED FIRMLY"
New Delhi, Oct. 6.—The Indian parliament today ratified and approved without a division the Government of India's action in dovaluing the rupee.
Winding up a two-day debate, the Finance Minister, Dr John Matthai, announced the Government's decision to appoint an ad hoc com- mittee to consider what measures should be taken to meet problems created by devaluation,
The Committee would also, of State trading and issues arise determine from time to time ing out of devaluation of the
Patent Claim whether adequate progress rupee would be act.. up at the
"Fantastic," Says Ford
1
was being made in Imple menting the measures, he said.
Replying to a point made by soveral speakers that India's re- Ilance on the Sterling Area London. Oct. Mr Henry should be reduced as far as car possible, Dr Matthat declared Ford, the American magnate, today described the that the right direction would claim of $251,000,000 put for ward by Me Harry FerguSON, A British tractor manufacturer, for alleged patent infringement, as "fantastic."
be not to reduce or destroy trado connections with the Sterling Area but to build he new ones in other areas so that the existing trade
up
connections
earliest possible moment.
Mr Neogy said it was-1712– possible to ignore the situation that had arisen on account of Pakistan's policy in the mailer of currency, devaluation..
Mr
EXPORT LOSSES As a result of partition, Neary sald, India had lost on the export side two important materials, Jute and cotton, and had become an importer of these commodities from Pakistan.
e said he had been trying bring about a long-term understanding with Pakistan re- garding jute and cotton, and as the result of informal discus- sions between himself and the Pakistan Finance Minister, Dr
Mohammed Ghulam
10
an agree-
with the Sterling Area "will not The two millionaire indus be so large a proportion of our trialists went their separalo total foreign trade." ways today-Mr Ford with his wife to Paris, and Mr Ferguson Earlier in the debale the to his British Midlands home-Commerce Minister, Mr K. C.
a Juxury Neogy, anounced that a comment was drawn up is April after conferring in Landon hotel all yesterday. mittee to consider the question last bearing the signatures of a
Before boarding the Paris
secretary of each Government,
But, the Commerc plane, Mr Ford said that he pre-
Minister ferred not to discuss the sum ho
said, the agreement as ultimately had offered Mr Ferguson, but he
ratified by the Pakistan Govern- added that Air Ferguson was
which amitted clouse "entitled to
claim three times
"The two Governments
Will
the amount be thinks he has
54 Saved
suffered in damages. It is a big From
Wreck enter into negotiations with
ment Gold, view to a more comprehensive sement being reached with to the product on London, Oct. 0.The 64-referenco
solo of jute man crew of the 8,300-ton Bri-manufacture and Mr Ferguson cald today thatish motor vessel, the Fantee, and cotton There discussions were Innded nt St. Mary's, are intended to deal with long-
figure in any country. It cer tainly looks a fantastic figure in „print"
the Ford proposals were com- Scilly Isles, today after their range problems." pletely unacceptable to him. ship had been wrecked in dense Seven Stanes' The stalls of the two million-mist
Land's aires are wondering if anotherleef, seven rollen off
End.
on the
The crew were
meeting 'cun be arranged ur whether the law-suit, which han
picked up been filed for nearly two years, rescue vessels which raced wil be settled in the United
to the spot when Captain J. Stites Court.-Reuter
W. Andrews, the master of the! Fantee, rent out an SOS.
British Jet Engine For America
Presentation By
Ambassador
Washington, Oct. 6. One of
followed the This Wane fue Vessel toin
Mr Neogy said that the Indian Cabinet and rated the agreo- ment within a few days of signing, but after several weeks he was informed by the Pakis
Minister that he on Finance was not in a posllion to get his Cabinet to agree to this clause being retained in the agreement.
he said.
vananmen at the Carric plant of United States Steel's Homesicad Works at Pittsburgh, (Philadel- phia), remove a fuel and air mixing unit from a blast furnace in shutting down the furnace in pre- paration for the present steel strike. (AP Picture).
Chaplains Favour The Rope
"DETERRENT TO CRIME"
London, Oct. Bellish prison use chaplains today voiced ilsel We have therefore perforce support of the death penalty for They so auvocated to think of becoming self-suffi- murder. cleat in the matter of jute and since the stigme, which attaches hanging as a means of excau.ton
abandoning cotton production."
lo execution by hanging adds to adding that it would be possible the deterrent effects of for Indin considerably to In- The Faster was Liverpool- crense her jute production for penalty." bound from West Afclen, via the next year, Amterdam, with 21 Keneral cargo, telling ol coda | Reuter,
wreck. Crew How ship
Mars Scaplanes Grounded
Parl United
Harbour, Oz1. a. A Pacific States
Flec'
tho two original British Jet engines, from which the first American modela were copied, spokesman confirmed inday that Mars culpanes and beer will be presented to the Smith-all conian Institution on November groundel;
0, the British Information ser- vices dnnounced today.
The spokesman sald he k
not have any details at present.
The Philippine Mara arriver: as the Whittle safely at Honolulu on Septembe of its engines har
Known technienlly as W-1-X, and poputorly
engine, ftir its inventor, Sir 6 after one
Frank Whittle, it was built for dropped Into the sea en route the world's first successful jet-, from California. - Associated propelled circraft-the British Peers.
Gloster E-28/30,
Sir Oliver Franks, British
Ambassador here, will make the 1,499,992 Over
presentation to "ymbolise the complete technical
collabora
tion between the two countries
throughout the war years."
the
The
Eight
TRUMAN
SIGNS
ARMS AID BILL
SHORT CEREMONY
IN WHITE HOUSE
Washington, Oct. 6.-President Truman today signed the $1.314 million foreign arms aid bill to back up the North Atlantic Fact with guns, tanks
and planes.
7the President
Greece, Turkey
Under the arms programme, which now becomes law, 14 nations in Western Europe and the Near and Far East will receive American- weapons and equipment for common defence
ainst. aggression.
signed the The total funds-$5,809,990,- legislation at a short ceremony 000-inciuric sums for nld to in the White House.
and for the the military commanders of the Austria, Japan and the Ryukyl The arms bill became law as ensta of occupying Germony,
12 Atlantic Pact countries were Islands,
unified the preparing to work out
defence plans for Western Europe
United States got the Coming out in support of the Military Headquarters death penalty-one of Britain's Washington. major post-war controversies.... with.ey submited a memorandum mililon worth of arms aid to The arms bill provides $1,000 thero the Royal Commission on eight Atlantic Pack nations, of Capital Punishment, saying: $211,370,000 for Greece anu supply of this commodity, Mr Society may act on behalf of $27,640,000 for Persia, Koret Neogy said.
| Go. lu the maiter of evil and the Philippines, Neogy Baldi that the doces it has a God-given right million for Chinn. Governm,ni would shortly an to check and correct any sub- Under the military aid bill, noutice measures calculated to versive elements in its midst | Western Europe will receive
irvelop India's exports,
and, in extreme cases, where pe an immediate $100 million fin Mr K. M. Munshi (Congress) alternative remedy is prudently cash, with another $400 million
Pakist n avaliable, 10 said that trade with
remove, the after the 12 Paet nayons have | must be handled "strongly and offenders by death."
out and obtained Ormly," and urged the establish-
Presidential approval for an in
OTHER SOURCES The same was the case
cotton and, moreover,
alternative sources
K
วัน
and $75
ment of a trading corporation The Commission was set up tegnied defence sysem. for this purpose on the lines of to report an all phases of capi-i the wartime United Kingdom tal punishment, including
legal aspects; (2) whether st Commercial Corpor tion.
(1)
The remaining $500 million can be USLU to pay for later
Dr Shyamaprasad Mookerjee,d.sirable and (3) the methods arms contracts-Reuter. Industry and Supply Minister, of execution.
xpressed his conviction that
The chaplaine concluded: the sooner India freed herself
om the dominating economy" "Fear of punishment is necess of Pakistan the better for her. sarily a deterrent to crime.”
The House finally passed
They also supported hanging that as a means of execution. substitute motion stating "the Assembly ratites and ap-
Prison Governors who gave broves of the action of the Go-
in vernment
devaluing the evidence also recommended the
of the terms of gold," which continuance
present
The measure also creates funds
authorised previously but never legally frovided-dhe operating the Economic Co- operation Administration for the fiscal year-Beuter. anal three months of the 1949
MANSTEIN
TRIAL
Defence To Call British General
Hamburg. Ocl. G.-Sir Arthur Comyns Carr, chief prosecution { FOREIGN AID
counsel in the trial of Field- Washingion, Ort. --Press-Marshal Er.ch Von Alans.cn, to. dent Truman today signed the day made an "emplatio protest oli pruviuling tunes to carry on against the chief arience law- American foreign nid programmerer's description of
Most war crimes Judges as "praute! until June 30 next year. of the money-$3,770,500,000 Judges". Is carmarked for the Marshall
the
Aliki.
Munich, Oct. B-Visitors to the Government accepted in method of execution by ng OUTWARD MAILS attributes their judgment to
annuat "Oltinberfest" ta place of the Finance Minister's as "expeditious and humane." The Whittle engine was
popular Bovarian Thanksgiving original motion which only pro- For reprieved murderers, secretly sent to America late in Festival) here have broken a 30-nosed that the situation created the Governorn recommended 1941 for studies which led to year-old record by drinking by devaluation of the rupee be a long period of defention, ex- American jet aircraft develop. | 1,500,000 pints of beer and taken into consideration. -cept in special cases, with two
coting 10,000 chlekens.--Reuter. Reuter.
phases: Sir Frank Whittle and Mr
ment.
Patrick Jolinson. managing director of Power Jets, Ltd..
which proposed the prerent SIDE GLANCES
tion, will attend the ceremony
-United Press.
To Be Tried For
Plane
Murder
Albert was
on
Quebec, Oct. 6,-J. Guay, Quebec jeweller, today committed for trial on a charge of murdering his wife by dynamiting the aeroplane in which she was a passenger.
The case will come up at the Criminal Assizes opening October 11. The Prosecutor sald that he hoped to go ahead with the trial on November 7.
Guny's lawyer said that he would ask for a postponement. During the bearing, 20 witnesses have pieced together the Crown's reconstruction of how. It alleged. that Guay caused the nirersfi to explode in, mid-air on Sep tember 9. killing 22 -passengers-Reuter.
"other"
BANDITS WORK IN COUPLES Now York, Oct. 6-Bandite operating in pairs in Boston Massachusetts, and in Montreal, Canada, stole more than $30,00 in armed hold-ups today.
In Boston they staged a hold- up in the fashionable Copley Plaza Hotel and left with a $16,000 pay-roll
In Montreal two other men escaped with between $15,000 and $10,000 from a branch of the Carindian Bank of Com merce Rate
By Galbraith
hope you enjoyed your vacation as much as we did,
Mr. Walker-oura, i meani"!
(1) a period of "testing" in orthodox prisons; (2) a probationary
and perlod
in Britain's new "prison with out bars" institutions,
a
The Governors reported "tremendous number" at ap- plications for the job of bang. man-Reuter.
Hitler Was Right,
After All
ann. Oct. 6-Some Nazi alms could still be fully advocated, Herr Herbert Mlessner, a 'm m- of the "National.... Night' faction in the West German Bundesta, told a press con- ference here today:
ber
"We still can underwrite a large number of the aims of the National Socialist Party," hu caid. "If Hitler had adhered te a lawful State, we perhaps would all bo anito content to- uny."
Herr Miessner said that hie German Right Party rejected dictatorial methods and racial hatred. The Porly stood solidly for a lawful State-Reuter,
Oct
Wolfaro Statos
0--Social Washington, security benents will bo extend-
110-40.000.000 Americana if- The United States Senato passes Presidential measure, up:
House by the Representatives yesterday, Neuter.
provett
finde
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On Monday, October 10, the General rost úmeo and Kowloon Central Post Unce will open from 8 a.m. to € pa. The other Branch Post Ofices from 8 a.m. So Noon. There will be oko des livery of registered and ordinary' correspondence at 1 a.m, and one collection only from pillar boxes. The l'arcel Braten, bizasy Order Omes and Pops Restante wit be entirely closed.
Unrechtered voteespondence only for Bhanghal, Tienisin and North China can be recopied at senders' risks, and will be forwarded as opportunity offers. Unless otherWLDO atsted re- parcel gistered articles and posts close 30 minutes éntiler iban the ordinary maik· 37 malis cioso before 10 m. registered and parcel posts close at D on the previous day. Dialis ura closed at Kowloon Central Fort Once half an hour earlier than the G.P.0. closing times.
FIUDAY, OCTOBER 1 Closing Times By Air Taipeh, 330 p.m.
Hwalow, Chungking and Chenjtu 330 pan.
Manila, Guam, Honolulu, Usa & Conado. & p.m.
Air Parvel Posts for Manila, Hons. Julu and USA, (Howloon CPO) 43) p.m.; (GPO) 5 pm.
Ordinary. Ale Hill (Printed_Sint- ters, Samples & Smail Pickat Ports,, for Mandia, Guam, tionolulu and USA (Kowloon CPO) 150 p.m.
(ar) p.th
Sir Arthur sald "Page's re- marks yesterday about the 32 alstinguished Alliea junges were Insulting enough. But when no refers to then us ‘prairie junges
surance, the
vi insul ichovandendum.
Mr R. T. Paget continued his defence speech today by accrug- ing that during he aqvance 10 Russia Von Manstein re-. fused to allow Hitler's order fur the shooung of captured com- missars .o be carried out in 10
urea of his command,
t
Mir Paget misclosed that British general with experierico of guerila warfare is to
witness in Von called as a withes. Manstein's defence,
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