THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1950.
Far East Looms Large
Ship Wrecked Off
Italian Coast
Naples, Mar. 22-The Israel steamship "Merkur” has been wrecked off the Southern Italian coast.
Ten of the crew of 17 "persons have been saved thus far by escar boats
Th from Vibo Valentia,
sinking
tercan Merkur wile en rule from Mes-
sine Sicily, to firma.----- United Press,
Harbour Collision Inquiry
Parliament
PEKING RECOGNITION
QUESTIONED
London, Mar. 29. British recognition of Communism in China was questioned in the House of Commons today.
Mr Leonard Gaminans, Conservative, asked if the Government had balanced the problematical benefits with the “undoubted dislike" of the action by Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
ja t'hion than to re-
There was also the en- which neght lave been given in couragement given to the Malaya, it was true there hack been en Increase of "bandit" Malayan "bandits" and then.ivity. but if it bad been danger of having Chinese affected by the events in China,
the t'omunists
con- he suggested R was much more in
Bets to have been due to the sulates of Malaya, he said.
Communist Chinese Army's Mr Kenneth Younger, the
Progres of State at the i new Minister
Foreign Offee replied that the conflem.
interests Asked how British tried to passenger (the Radlo Oliver of Government
in the Far East had benefited the Steel Navigator) were resbalance these consideration.
Younger by Unfortunately no
There was, he said, a division recognition, Mr
replied: "The Government's de- tions! between opinion
the Central 1D 10
the
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cued. WILS
two the other reri b!
Europos
| People's come! was based
pasrengers (Mer | about this question of recogit-jpo Penelope Osborne, pageMBH | tlun. on re Steel Navigator ansi David Feroy-Williams
of
& Co.). Val:
3. Valuable assis
tance in the rescue work was
rendered by unknown sampans
In the vicinity.
Ui
11feboat from
the
Stord Navigator in charge of the Chief Officer of
and Marine Palic that vergel,
Launch No, 18 in the charge of Sub-Insprefor F. H. Woods.
i
We comiler that the Austma- first sighted, was when
Fairway erving the Central et liqurly and had no claim is night of way Vader dinim 10 of 1899. Table M, (5), and we find that the coxsware of both vessels concerned consider. ed on this ocean
that
Australia was the "giving way" the Aint The
We "tanding on" slip.
and
tind
that the immediate cause of thi collision was the action
As for the
encouragement | P,
Plot To
Assassinate
Voroshilov
on the fuels of situation in China, which were such n tr require recognition according the standards of Interna- tional law and practice, not on a calculation of inme- liate benefits,
PENAL FINES
ስንፍ
con-
"British interests have tinued to encounter difficulties at various kinds since recugu- has tion, was accorded. Thia been in part due to the
conditions prevailing Honalist blockade and in part
No-
In
Sofia, Mar. 29.-Twenty- 91% Yugoslav and Bulgarian diversionists"
tlina." "spica and
Mr Walter Fletcher, Con- went on trial here today, on charges of plotting to as« | Fervative, ald that the first resulting fron step sassinate Marshal Klementi practical
recognition should be the stop- Soviet Vire Voroshilov,
ping of the "extortion of penil
European Premier, and members of monthly the Bulgarian Cabinet,
inesses in Chin Was the fovernment doin Alr Younger replied that the
Government was doing?
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The indictment says that they by the coxswain of the ferry were recrulled by "the Trat-uyghing about this? mayite esplenage centre Man To Whilst fully appa - clating the dieulty of decalinti Yugoslavia" to spy in Bakaria, British when the standing on verrel according to the Bulgarian news all it could.Itenter. should herself take netten as agency.. prescribed by the note to Attire They are accused of "errorist 21 of the Regulations for Pre-activities" and planning to bomb James Griffiths, rejected a sug- vesting Collisioa. we can for the Dimitrov Mausoleum
32'1
NO MARTIAL LAW The Colonial Secretary, Mr
Servicewomen's Re-Union At Albert Hall EISENHOWER
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A land girl in the 1914-18 war and a staff sergeant in the ATS in World is shown at the Albert HallWar 11, Miss Ruth Burton re-union chatting to Pte. E. E. James of Brixton. Miss Burton holds the M.B.E., among her several decora-
Brussels Pact Consultations
Paris, Mar. 29,~~~The Foreign Ministers of the five Brussels Pact nations. Iritalo, France, Belgium, thur Netherlands Luxembourg, will meet in Brussels on April 16 and
Foreign 17, 'the French Office announced today.
The Ministers whose countries are allied in the Brussels
tural defence pact are pledged to meet regularly to carry out the atliance.-United Press,
EUROPEAN
UNION HITS
Lastestion that inartial law should SNAGS
counter
etivity.
Mr
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Kuerilla
tions.
Britain's Labour Unrest Breaks Into Open
London, Mar. 29.-Labour unrest burst into the open in Britain today for the first time since the Labour Party's narrow victory in the general election with a slowdown on docks and 2,700 mine workers, idled by two strikes for higher wages.
The Labour government has been enforcing a wagAN ||
freeze programme.
The strike at Bargoed Steam
Chiang Returns
Colliery involved 1,300 men, and To Mainland --Bleials could not estimate yet. For Few Hours
threatened production in any
National China's President!
there was a suong local denundertion that the Council of hilo at a colliery near Coventryanding was
the
the
European
of way
how many-South Wales col- [leries.
Five hundred surface workers and Commander - in - Chief, walked out in a wage dispute Generalisimo Chiang Kal-shek, involving two riggers and 800 returned to the China maintami underground workers. The hot for a few hours last week after Justine on for the action September when Marshal Vorn- imposed in Malaya to help
Communist affle als
calllery's
station
months of exlle on Formosa, taken by the M in the costwani shilov and Bulgarian
London, Mar. 20. Speaki¦ manned rachówhile by a skele-}
It is reported from Form this occasion. If he con-, reviewed a Murch Past on the
staff of officials. Union
Nation- Stewart in the foreign affairs debate in ton virth anniversary of the entry of
Ifenderron sidered
that the tea
that he accompanied today, Mr Ernest number
members scheduled
mass alist forces on their recond were sa clare that collision end Soviet troops to Bulgarm,
(National Liberal) urged tits, Parliament 712 Irial in being held
Bevin, the Foreign Secretary, not be avertel hy netion of the
meeting for later at
commando raid on the mainland raying that the position Australia alone, his duty was bo pubile in the Soila Palace
on Wednesday, March 22. The Twelve hundred work Balaya Bulgarian anl
was worsening and that contested Mr Winston Churchill's Take such action as word be: Justice,
made at Sanmun Were
dispute over wage rates fot aid to avert collision.; Me cpu- Foreign Journalk.te
Bay, 150 miles south of Shang- law as the only Ministers seemed to be acting cttal bot consider that slight alte mitted.
of controlling causly that they stood in working a new coal seam. Mine ha More than 50 witnesses and effective means to port whilst
elals said the new rates for tans of con
He withdrew with his forces Continuing at full spod const-experts will be heard. Heuter. the trouble.
Assembly.
working the seam had been Alr Githe replied, "During tuled that required action. In
recent weeks hendit activities "You may get resolutions car-agreed upon, but a number of on the same day. putting his helm to tarinand
have ineated reaction to rive in the Assembly without the mon decided on Wednesday and endeavouring to pa tre
or 10
protest, causing complete detalls worked out,
Visit Postponed our own intensified efforts, but any of the Man To, the trwała of the Australia was arting in
there has been no strong local responsibilities involved which stoppage.
Duck workers meanwhile Indefinitely cannot be applied without held mass meetings at three of there
duman for martid law, #ccordance with
The proposed visit to Hong- Jakona,
"The position of martial grave consideration," he said.
Observing that he was going London's biggest wharves, skous of General Marcel M, Car- PRIMARY CAUSE
law would not be an effective
Strasburg
tomorrow.
Ar campaign to halt all overtime Mar. 29-Speaking way of dealing with a situation to
Kained
momentum and pentier, Commander-in-Chief of the flotte of Commons! in which the Government's Devin said that one of the pro work
has been Madame Carpentier, techips,United Prea he was quate
postponed indefinitely. these night. Mr Anthony Eden, Con- police force and
was something in which one
The Generat and wife were two vessels sighted cach other.pentry, sid that the Sander the nunin requirements is the ure Britain could not accept.
alr by
ircin due tomorrow It was virtually to create an they were
positions Plan-lo
South-East develop
Saigon. rektive to each other and pro-Ashund form the extension of effective civil as
ministration
remote executive body in Europe that ceeding at such speeds that
2003 Artich action in Apa
rural
where Chinese was not elected by the people, which Parliament,
London, Mar. 29.-Parliamen- collision cou
could only be avoided That meant an effort to pr-
show papers
that SIX cault by majority in a very tary in predominate. by impedite and driestie action mote stable overnment
"Ail the power nocenstry |ONE The interval between first those countries and not merely! sighting the Australia and the to pay out millions of money can be taken by emergency res small group arrive at decisions Labour Members of Parliament which could be imposed upon voted with the Opposition early enllision, is estimated
the State. The House of Cum fodiny ngattest the GoveriAnent': agree to the motion to close the debate on ons would not Man To's coxswain
Seretse Khama-Reuter. Xunately
Bad-
Spender Plan
Lemon,
primary cause of this collision debate on foreign policy last principat instrument is the posals he would have to discuss Flowed loading and unloading of French Far East Forces,
We find however that
elsewhere. When
in such
ly
those
by the which without stable internal, Cunard Ganyanos (Con
at appro rondition, hart minute. Our estret. calculations uplicate that the! koper
Jittle Very
Mr
nor even by
With Opposition
Mrs. Roosevelt's
servative) ashed what was be the Government willing done to prevent Communistfor one moment.--Reuter. interval may have been same. end a strong delegation to apunts in disguise from volun- "Anti-Bandit for the what less than this. This post [Sydney," he ad. He added teering
in Malaya and being tion should never have arisen, that if the releases of stering Menth and would not have arisen, bad balances were to be regarded trepted.
Mr Griffiths replied that i vessel been handled with as part of this endeavour to im either due and seaman-like care
The | prove economic condition: involunteers for the Auti-Bandit
Munth Man To
were required to pro- was approachlug aAsin, then it ought to be clear-
which ver Hy
duce identity cards, except in stated. main fairway along
Most were nive
of all the the larger towns. Fels to which sh
The contribution
the through
Iveni The nations
towards ecommle recruited way might
associations lu And wwsstability
in Ask ought to be ufficials with
whom the applicants were and measured ne- by the preappraned
Eknown.--Reuter. Bence of the Steel Navigator,cordingly, he said.-Reuter.
b
Coxswain's vision
greatly restricted
The vision
port
of the coxswain of the Australia was restricted to
starboard to an oven
Breater SIDE GLANCES
extent by the same vessel and the was about to cross route along which ferries from the vehicular
the
nre
ferry pict
Hrith constantly plying. vessels were this in a position a motorist to that of a analogous entering a main highway at a blind corner
pedestrian leaving the pavement to cross the road ahead of a stationary bus. We consider that insuth- cient caution was exercised by
Veyson the coxswaina of both
in
or
Ar these circumstances and w! therefore recommend that the Sal Le, of Leung certificate coxswain of the Man To, be suspended for two months and unt the coxswain's certinate of Cheap
Ki, coxswain of the Australia, bo suspended for one month. We further recor mend that the possibility of in-
sound stailing more efficient signalling apparatus on small power driven craft be investi- gated.
We wish to pay tribute to the frankness with which both cox- owning gave evidence at this The mala facts were enquiry. therefore easily established and such minor differences as did exist could be
be readily altri
altributed to the different viewpoints of the wlinertes and the rapid of events. Wo also sequence
to thank the Government forward to coming give valuable evidence, and the officers in charge of the Marino Police and the Marine Licensing Officer for mustering the witnesses and supplying essen- tial information,
wish for
By Galbraith
COWA, 1995 BY WYA BERVICE, INC. T. M. MED, U. 6. PAT, DET.
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"You look grand in your first dress suit, George-you'll be the town's Beau Brummell just like your father was!"
Judgment On
On Chiang
Lake Success, Mar. 29.-Mrs Eleanor Roose- velt said today that the Russians welcomed a pre- text walking out of the United Nations Human Rights Commission because they would have found it difficult to explain to the Soviet people why they opposed drafting of an international treaty guaranteeing the rights of individuals.
However, she continued,
it seemed futile to support the
Chinese Nationalists, Radio Hongkong|||
the
"Hongkong Calling" Pro-
Summary: 0.02
London Melodies-The Melnshrine
Cranme
whose
presence in United Nations was the 1.K.T. official reason given by the Soviet delegation for its 10- week boycott of the world organisation.
Mrs Roosevelt told a luncheon of the United Nations Corres- 'pondents Association:
Studio Orchestra 18BCTS): n.30, ta Demi-
Madame
Heure Francaise (Studio): 7, World New and News Analysis (London Relay 7, 19, Sports Review by B
7.30, Take It Philips (Studio); From Here"-Wilh Joy Nichols, Dick Bentley and Jimmy Edwards (DRCTS): 1, "From the Editorials" (London Belay: D.10, "Hongkong and Cal-Band of ́ R.M. Com- **Most of 13 feel the mandos.Introduced by Captain from the น Nationalists were given every David Jones (Relay opportunity to form a govern-Dragons Club, Kowloon); .40. "A
the Opera"-Puccini' ment representing all the people utterfly Act 3. With the Prin
And Chorus of They were urged to elpale Orelicstra of China.
Can- do 50 by Secretary of State Royal Opera House Itome.
ducted by Oliviero De Fabritis; Marshall. They also had ample.is. "Antarctie Venture" The opportunity to make reforms, to Story of the Falkland Island Do
Tie- appeal to the great masses of endeneles Survey Recorded
Tay): 10, Radio News Reel London the people. They didn't du ro
tely): 10,13, Weatlier Report; 10.16. In my Library-A Talk by 10.30, "I think that the Communism Hore Macaulay (BBCTS):
Thurmay
Pro Serenade A that resulted cannot be solely
gramme of Continuous Music Ar- the result of Russian help. It is
ranged by Betty Drown 11, "Soft quite evident that it is largely Lights and Sweet Music": 11.15. the result of the weak Nation- Weather Report. World Newa and Ifome News from Britain London alist government, which did not Relay Recorded): God Save The do what the Chinese people King: 11.30, Close Down wanted. To support the Nation- alists seems fulle don't very make well sea how we can any other decision, but our own decision must be the result of what Ambassador Jessup reports and what we decide for our lown good.”—United ProfS,
ZO. Rio de Janeiro, Mar. Crowds jammed Mo streets to- opTM day to witness the latest pearance of a "dying saucer. Reuter.
Promise Yourself
DISQUIETED BY OUTLOOK IN ASIA
Washington, Mar. 29.-General Dwight Eisen- hower today described him self as "very disturbed and alarmed” about Communist advances in Asia and he urged military and economic help to Asiatic nations resisting the Reds.
General Eisenhower told the Senate Appro- priations Committee that the picture in Asia was very discouraging" and suggested that Congress carefully consider "both economic and military, help" for that area.
He added that limited į million", mainly for anti-cust
work, the
Ainsan military aid for non-Com- marine
Kround forces, keeping the Alr munist Asia would give Force modernised and for in-
those countries "some sort dustrial mobilisation, of confidence" while econo-
TOO FAR mic help meant "a hope for He said the United States had tomorrow.".
"gone ng for in favour Lot economy" in
He did not believe war was imminent, but sild Amerlen war
ing enough for the Air Force,
warfare anti-submarine Alaskan defences.
An
He urged the United States to thrown open to the pubile, provide
military spendinst was wise,
and a coITIC "taking chances" by not spend-specific ways, ton far."
General Eisenhower's testi- mony at first was to have been
but the sterel,
hearing was It was understood President Tru- at
man wanted the general to stato airfields
This views publicly-United "comePress.
small garrison
each of its major ngainst the
I kind of afe attack of
est
the administrations As for proposed US$13,100,000,000 mill- tory budget, he said, "I would chage it fle" but added quickly that he thought there is possibility of meeting most of the situation pretty well" that figure.
"We ute fairly well on the
line proper
Deliveen economy Bust curity...but in certain details we have been cateless;," he he sald, He added that dworki
any not recommend drasle revision" but "I would | probably add
#few
No Crisis In Indo-China
Vict-
Paris, Mar. 20.-The namese Prime Minister, Nguyen Phan Longt, sald on his return Dalat today ia Saigon from that there was "no question of a Governmental crisis at pre- sent," according to an Agence France Presce report from Sai-
hundred on-Reuter,
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