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VOL. V NO. 66
HONKONG TELEGRATIL
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SOUTH CRIN STOT ANG JOST, LIEL/
The
Today's Weather: Moderate cast or southeast winds, Cloudy, Noon Observatoris: Barometric pressure, 1418.1 mbe, 30,00 in. Temperature, 64 deg. F. Dow point, 57 dog. F. Re- lative humidity, 80. Wind direction, E by N. Wind force, 22 knota.
Low water: 2 M. 1 in. at 4.28 p.m. High water: 0 ft. ni 10.58 p.m.
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At the
Hongkong Telegraph.G
Kashmir's Mr Nehru's
Attitude Unchanged
New Delhi, Mar. 19.-
Ab. Sheikh Mohammed dullah. Primo Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, told today that reporters here
the Security Council's ap- pointment of n Mediator on the Kashmir issue would not change the attitude of the Kashmir Government.
India had only accepted the Council's resolution relating to the appointment of a Mediator subject to the reservation thal they rejected the basis of the McNaughton proposals.
"If the Mediator tries to base
proposals on the McNaugh ton formuln, falture is certain," Abdullah
"We sald.
have clear that made absolutely the only solution of the Kush- mir problem 13 nn overall plebiscite in Jammu and Kash mir under the conditions In which the people of the State shall be able to determine their future freely and without any coercion."
Pakistan, and olked cognised the (Free)
and
cf
Gift
Bombay, Mar. 19-In iron capes and with nearly 3,000 pounds of food pro- vidrd for their 22-day crossing, two special quesis United Hlates boarded a ship here today. They were the Indian Prime Minister, Pandit gift Nehru's
to tho Washington Zoo-two baby
of
the
elephants.
WICIA them was year-old "eleplant boy." who claims kinship with Sabu, the Elephant Boy"
of the film
19-
The elephants will rai car cane, brown sugar, rica
and hay. Cranes holled them on board the 8,000-ion American cargo ship.
Steel Fabricator, which traves for the United States tomorrow-Reuter.
Says Acheson
Is
Bad Security Risks
Govt. Dept. Sacks
27 Employcos Washington, Mar. 19.- The
Depart- Commerce ment has branded 27 cm. ployees as bad security riska and barred them from the Secretariat, oven though they have been formally cleared of dis. loyalty charges, it was dis- closed today.
In addition, alx other em- ployees now under investigation were regarded as so suspicious that they have all been restric- ted to certain jobs.
loyalty
The Department's check programme was criticised
Confused by the House Appropriations
sub-committee, whoso chair. man, John Rooney, said the Washington, Mar. 19-Repre-in
State Department appeared to senlallye Lawrence Smith be "quite clear of subversives." Republican) and today that the but added that the public had Secretary of State, Dean Achean idea the Commerre Depart- call, and not the American ment was honeycombel" with
"confused about Communists. people, was
the
Rusala, Communism and, the The House group made public cold war.
recent hearings at which Mr Smith aid: "Behind Mr Commerce Department revealed
360 Acheron's speech-making tour that
cimployces weru in his belief that the American tabbed by the Federal Bureau understand of Invectigallon ng possible sub- do people nervousness or the cold war and ver
Two
ano versives.
ed"
never
country like Chinn".
"If anyone needa educating about Communism, it is not the American
There has
were in fugees, some of whom India and some in Pakistan.
of the Whatever the people Stats then decided would be ac
Is the ceptable to all. "That
have taken al position we
American foreign policy, but it along, both from the legal and moral points of view," he adds centred in the office of the ed.-Router.
Press,
MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1950.
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He Looks Happy Enough ANTI-U.S. RIOTS
Belgium Crisis
Worsens
Socialists Demand That Leopold
Abdicato
Les muddleheadedness about Heavy Flooding's proposed
Secretary of Stale. In the rest of the country, the true facts About Communism and Russia been known and understood."—United Press.
19.
near
Seretse Khama, whose banishment from his tribal chieftainship caused 1 political crisis within the British Parliamentary La- bour Party, is seen here. smiling broadly after an
interview in Whitehall. Although the ban on his chieftainship remains, he has been allowed to return to his English girl wife in South Africa while-she-is-
her child. — expecting London Express Service.
READY FOR
the TROUBLE
ono
of the
over
ROME
Mar.
stood
IN SAIGON Steel American Flag Expected
Torn Down
MANY PEOPLE
INJURED
Saigon, French Indo-China, Mar.
Strike
To End
Paris, Mar. 19. The strike niovement which started in the French steel industry three weeks ago, and at one timo affected half a million workers, was expected to end in the course of the coming week 19. following a special meeting
night which was presided Georges Bidault. over by the Premier, M.
Thousands of Communist-led rioters demonstrated Cabinet Ministers to- against the United States today and were quelled only after a two-hour battle with police and troops during which the American flag was torn down and the market place destroyed by fire.
"
---Scores-of-persons were-hurt, Including 18- police. men. Some were reported in serious condition. Three rioters were admitted to hospitals but the police be- lieved that dozens of others were wounded and were "afrnid" to go to hospitals.
persons
were
Government experts originally sald that any Increases over the ive percent would involve-- gher prices, but the Premier tened for a new investigation of the possiblilies and the Government stalistician this
produced morning
figures tending to show that increases of deve
seven to cight percent would be possible without inflation.
The
Cabinet
Ministers' meeting tonight failed to reach a decl-
learned. A further meeting is to be held tomorrow morning and it is hoped that final pro- posals will be submitted to a full Cabinet meeting on Wednes
"The Finance Minister, M. ̧
No Americans were hurt. The police could not confirm reports that several
killed. Martial law was declared in the riot areas whero a thick blanket of smoke hung over the amouldering sion about wage increases, it was
wreckage where an estimated $250,000 damage was donc. Order was restored by late Sunday after the police used tear gas against the rioters' stones and bricks.
shot. nt
the The student demonstration "no conflict of vlewa" between
CAS SHORTAGE
He Enid the sovereignty ct Jammu and Kashmir has never been questioned either by the Kashmir Commission or by the Security Council, or even hy
had re
Azad Kashmir Government.
Brussels,
Mar. Before a plebiscite was pos-
Shots were fired sible the entire Jammu nud they have gone out toward Com-seventy-three were Kashmir territory must be re-
regarded as Louvain today and munisnt and Russia. He thinks but 27 were stilt to Inwful government
In Socialists threatened not fully trustworthy. stored
we are confused," which must then have time to He said the American people addition, 71 were discharged or resettle
rehabilitate had
"underrated Com-allowed to resign. Twenty-feetrike after another until hundreds and thousands of re-
of remunism, which torpedoed cases are still pending.--United King Leopold III stepped IN
down to "make way for the fifth King
The French commander was earlier this week in demonstra- Į day. Belgians".
POLICE STAND BY kafed three times and his con- tion of the American sympathy bitter dispute
dition was serious. 6ix der to the Communist-threatened Petsche, told reporters After return to
Were monstrators
arrested, country,
the meeting that there had been 19. Riot Several students. Rome, the throne intensified by the Melbourne, Mnr. 10.--One
for ready hour in Belgium's worst poli-squads
The police.
police
estimated was also directed against the the MinisterS. hundred and ninely square miles tical crisis in its 120 years as trouble in Rome and other that 3,000 students ond 1,000 French and against the anti-
in workers participated of rich pasture land, lying be-
the Communist nation. With an Independent
Vietnam Govern- demonstration which turned ment.
While the gas and electricity tween Shepparton and Murcht-tempers rising and no, solution key Italian cities today as work
the Communists scheduled into a fighting and shouting
workers' strike, now in its 11th Inundated by of the crisis in sight, the coun-
Crudely printed mass meetings
pamphlets day, has not nollecably affected from
to protest melee after the police tried to û heavy try technically was without
called for "Down with Ameri- the supply of current in Paris. 11 government,
against the new emergency push them back. Taturn, Rifle and pistol fire was ex-
The crowd was beaten back can Imperialism and French the mobilisation orders issued police measures.
and Colonisation" It
asked for 10 changed at Leuden and Kwerps,
to the market place where
a sinul number of "Death
key the to stop
Dal," Some two villages len miles north of
workers in the gas plants ap- police with Jeeps of riot in-
alleys around hastily constructed barricades States has been "defeated in effective.
of slogans declared that the United pears to havo remained in- Louvain, but no one was
parked in side jured in the clash involving 100 Parliament
overnmen vegetable trucks. Native police China and will be defeated in persons for and against the buildings, although the streets called in local French troops as
householders have had eh troops, les French: Indo-Chinn." They ask- virtually no cas, dur, if weeks. Are spread from of Rome were quiet. King.
Louvain police salt
In Milan, Geriau, Turin, and stalls to nearby buildings. ett,
Subs.antial Humbers of und
The crowd was dispered withhere?"
"mobilised" Bologna
Florence, the fighting had stopped when rict
workers have re- the
fused to obey the order. squads
SCETIC renched
police were on the alert and the help of the French troops Houses were searched and 1
and the fre was brought under munitions depot allegedly cls-
control. covered in a garage belonging to onc
who was J. Wycken, arrested.
The Communists reacted The Socialista, who bliteris vociferously to the government's oppose Leopold's return, held a new security measures, which · special Party congress at which will ban publle meetings for would be 1,102 delegates appealed for a three months and restore the solution "In a spirit of national nation's police force to its 1948, future concord" but one which barred pre-election strength. Leopold.
General Gordon'save tong Sailing Postponed
The falling of the Shanghai evacuation ship. General Gor- don, has been postponed a third time. Departure time, set for noon toviny, has now been changed to midnight tonight.
Reason given was that or- rangements at the Shanghal end had not been completed.
EDITORIAL
THE
son, have been
weekend rains.
foods
The little town of with a population of 1,300, was reported to be cut of Several other towns were threatened by the flood waters,
Aurora Australis Melbourne, Mur. 19The Aurora Australis--the southern
In Central Australia, floods counter part of the "Northern Lights"-changed the sky to o cun the railway line to the north vivid crimson and green for two and storm damage interrupted the telephone link between here hours today ever several Aus- tralian States,-Beuter.
and Sydney-Heuter.
Reclamation & New Piers
THE Agures quoted by the chairman of the Star Ferry Company al its annual meeting last week, both as to the number of passengers carried during the year and the successful operation of the company in terms of dollars, make impressive reading. But those thousands of daily commuters who feel that it is high time an expanded and better service be made available will find cold comfort in Mir Landale's references to this subject. · It is now apparent that Government and the Company have reached a common under- standing on one aspect-that unless and until new piera are constructed, it la physically impossible to give
u much better service than that which operates when the four existing plers are available for simultaneous use. And in thla con- nection it
the sternest critics of the Star Ferry have never lost sight of the remarkably fine Job which launch crews and plers staff continue to carry out under the most adverse conditions. It Is recognised that consistent efforts have been made to case the problem of the travelling public in their daily task of commuting from home to office and return, and the handling of the vast crowds during the peak periods has been commendable. Nevertheless, the harbour-crossing problem, bad at the best of times, and seriously aggravated when it is necessary, as today, to carry out maintenance work to the piers, which makes impossible the operating of a five- minute schedule, is ono which cannot be regarded lightly or dealt with vaguely. The inevitable congestion which fentures the peak periods at the moment does more than harrass the feelings. of the ferry passengers; it helps to disrupt business, for It means late arrivals nt offices where time is important. Whether or not an organised staggering of office hours would help to ease the situation all round is debatable, but it might be worth the experiment. This, however, could only do
may be observed that
Is
classed as an expedient and represents no permament solution to the problem of quick and easy travel between the main- land and the island. New plers, as Mr Landale emphasised, are essential, and it is here we find Government playing-n dominant role. This was admitted quite frankly in the Financial Secretary's Budget speech when he said that new piers, at least on the Hongkong side, could not be constructed untli reclamation had
And reclamation been carried out. entirely the responsibility of Government. The situation could not be more clearly stated. Firstly, new ferry piers must be bull; secondly reclamation must first he carried out; thirdly, that is Government's task exclusively. The layman, therefore, merely wonders why Government doesn't get on with the reclamation work. The urgency of the undertaking clearly is appreciated by all parties, yet little more than token appropriation has been made in the coming financial year for this pro- ject, and the Financial Secretary seems resigned to the fact that it will be some work is completed. years before the Nobody expects such a vast undertaking to be carried out overnight, but it would be enligtening to be told precisely why nu, attempt has yet been made to start on something which has to be done sooner ur later. Is it because there exists a dis- pute between Government and the Com- pany as to which shall pay for the new piere? It is not a good enough reason, especially as it has already been admitted that the cost of reclamation work must be borne by Government. The building of plors and, the task of reclamation, there- Tore, although Interrelated, are indepen- dent operations, and we fall to see why the second undertaking should not begin before a financial settlement has been reached about the first. Reclamation la a job which Government should hurry along without further delay.
The
and
squads
weakened leaves cancelled.
REDS REACT
were
·
Вно
"What is the Beet doing
EARLIER INCIDENTS
In Ports. 115 mobilised gas workers are due to appear in Other anti-American demon- court on Tuesday charged with AERIAL GESTURE strations occurred earlier this disobedience.
|week. A bomb was thrown in
Workers have been drifting Following the outbreak, a down-town Salgon, narrowly back
of
to work sleadily in the spokesman
Vietnam missing American the
sailors, and steel works of the Paris region. said that Government
force
A hand grenade exploded in A s'eel employer estimated to- used 10 prevent front of the building where the night that no more than 30,000
mission had been or 40.000
+
outbursts. French American sald the murces
native police staying. did not fire on the demonstra-
anil-American
riots
further
housee much anxiety.
and
men out of a total of 300,000 would be striking to- French oMcinty sald the morrow morning. At n series of emergency fors in retallation.
peaceful demonstration by some SOCIALIST RESOLUTION
There was no change report- meetings, which lasted until The Their statement said, "Unless after midnight, the Communist Were touched off the 3000 students was taken over ed for the strikes in Insurance,
today
Vietminh by
rebel textiles, mining and building. such a solution is found, the Party declared that the polico of the U.S. destroyers, government ogitators who Ten thousand dockers nction Committee will continut orders were a step toward Fas- Richard Anderson and turned it into
anti-builders have been on strike and amplify their action by all
cism and the workers would not Stickell, Vice-Admiral Russell
American demonstrations. the means in their power unlies them be enforced.
Berkey Commander of the US
for 10 days at St. Nazaire and The police approved
the the deadlock in the negotiations Leopold III, foally understand-
The polles measures apply Seventh Flect being here on a student march to nearby Chelon la causing Interest ing that the nation's
local Industrialists nisa to activities of the neo-courtesy visit to Bao Daļ, brad to rebulld native takes precedence over his own Fascist Hallan Social Movement, of the French-sponsored Viet-destroyed by fire two weeks ago
fifth King
The strike of seamen лnd makes way for the
charged uam Government.
but en route harranguing Com-Air France ground stall con- of the Belgians (Crown Prince put the Communists
that they
Intended The American aircraft car-munist aympathisers took over tinued. Baudouin)."
primarily to block demonstrarler, Boxer, unable to negotiate the parade and led it to the city the zald The resolution
Toulouse tramwaymda staged Innd-the winding river from the South hall to proteat against the visita 24-hour strike today Socialists would Aght Leopold tion by strikers
grabblog реабалів. United China Sea, lay offshore and her of the American shipë,
Arst move in a higher-wages- by all available legal means,
Press
planes flew over Indo-China (Conid. on Page 6, Col, 1) demand campaign.-Reuter, which are numerous and varied and range from Parliamentary Opposition to general strikes.
The Socialista, who control the nation's trade unions, warn- continue ed that they would
strikes, of flash their system
Encino, California, which would paralyze the coun-
Rice Edgar or 19. - try province by province
Tho
were
and
03 D
Death Of Author Who Created Tarzan, The Ape Man
Industry by industry for brief roughs, the novelist who carried hini through 30 years was raised by apes. The ape-
were
Al
There
Was
in
For more than 30 years he -wrote the stories of hli tabulous
said.
Mar. | Tarzan, whose creator was big Tarzan, Tex., and Tarzana,
Then he began to think about 1lon - Calif., were nomed Bur- enough to wrestle
after the writing. He decided to try it at self, By 1940 Burroughs had tree-roving "English ford" who night after his regular work. created Tarzan, died at his and 93 stories and was busy man's name became part of the try to describe an earthly place, Feeling that he should not periods
The Liberals held the key to home today. He was 74. with new jungle episodes. everyday language of young- the details of which he might the Cabinet dilcmnmu.
More than 30,000,000 of blasters. The strong boy of every get wrong, Burroughs decided to The writer of the tree. { though mont Liberal tenders
the swinging Ape Man of the books had been sold, with radlo neighbourhood was referred to
make another planet his.locale. oppore Leopold's return,
born
cortals, motion pletures, cartoon as a "Tarzan."
Where his scenery was concern- majority of the Liberal voters Jungles
strips, games, toys and a candy Burroughs ofien sold that the
ed, he Belion that came from his pen authority ng the next man.
would be as much an cast their ballots of the King in Chicago.
bar adding to the royalties. the recent referendum.
was strictly on the esenpist side. eight Liberals in M.
"I've often considered writing "It helped me escape being) He was 35 when he completed but it was understood he was Apo Man and the royalties and deeper stuit," the author once broke, and it helps the readers his first effort at fiction. It was Gaston Eyskeng Ins: Cabino,
"But why shouki 17 no off into another realm and called "Dejsh, Thoris, Princess trying to reduce Liberal mem-een rights from them made
Millions of people seem to want share adventures they'd never of Mars." There was se apeman bership to four in any new him a multi-millionaire.
should I take have themselves," he declared, His first novel, "Tarzan of the Tarzan-why
in It, hut it was good enough to government he might form.~-~~
Apcs," was published in 1914 him away from them now?”
carn Burroughs $400, Unlled Press.
OUTDOOR LURE Reuter.
So he kept Tarzan swinging from trees.
Born in Chicago
"I think it was MULTI-MILLIONAIRE
a matter of on Sept. 1, Wants Prosporous
Burroughs recolved a substan- 1875, Burroughs was given ex- readers being ripe for such a Elgar, Rice Burroughs found tial payment for every Tarzan cellent schooling opportunities story," Burroughs commented Western Europe a source of wealth in Africa film made and merely leased by his parents. But text books later. "They had been reading San Francisco, Mar, 19-Lord never dreamed of by those who the rights. The amount varied couldn't compete with the lure Little Women' and similar Layton, Vice-President of the went there in quest of gold, dia- with different studio arrange of the outdoors, and the active books very good literature, but Consulfative Assembly of the monds and ivory. But he neverments Guy producer bald any youngster went from a school- this furs business was some- Council of Europe, told reporters even visited the Dark Continent figure was "the highest pald any room to a cattle ranch in Idaho. thing new." here that
Thousands of miles away, he author per picture and for, the a Western Europe,
In 1900, he married
Emina
The recond story, also without prosperous through union, would created on apeman of the jun- least amount or work."
Hulbert. They had three chil-Tarzan, was rejected. The am- influence Russia to join and co-cles and made him a fellon and Burroughs never wrote a line dren,
Joan,
Hulbert and Johnbitious author took
stock of operate.
movie horu.
himself. The apeman in of a screen play. His role was Coleman Burroughs, Western Europe would accept turn made the author a multi-strictly that of a master who To keep the "family lardor know I wasn't going to hired out the services of some filled, the potential author was write llierature-that is, litera- Russia and her satellites when millionaire. they accepted democracy and Fow figures In American Christian ideals, he declared literature made such an Impast Tarzan Drought in the folthu a saleaman, clerk, cowboy, gold ture in the sense of an are him more than miner and railroad guacu said of his self-analysis. “Y on readers as did the mighty | $8,0000,000 in movie paychecks, turn,
(Contd. en Pago 5, Col. 4)
Reuter.