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VOL V NO. 79
Wor the People to it HONGKONG TELEGRAPHY. For and on béhats 01
SOUTH CHINA LANG POST, LIEL
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TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1950.
CRUCIAL INDIA-PAKISTAN Li Tsung-jen
TALKS
Encouraging
Progress
New Delhi, Apr. 8. — A joint communique issued on hehalf of the Prime Minis- tern of India and Pakistan, now conferring here, said CONVETRU- today that their
tions reviewed the situation in East and West Bengal and Assam "primarily with a view to devising ways and means that would solve the immediate and urgent prob- lem of restoring a full sense of confidence among minor- ities in these areas."
The negotiations, which will deal with other common prob- lems, will be resumed tomorrow, the communique cald.
the Indian Pandit Nehru,
Prime Minister, was believed to reported to his Indian
volleague
Cabinet
ea this morning
on the opening meeting of the
conference yes quarters here!
Well informed
indicated tonight that the talks Letween the two Prime Ministers
made
gress" and hind been
atisfactory pro-
on several
have said that agreement reached minoritiesing the problem of
In Washington
The U.S. Defence Secretary, Mr Louis Johnson, greeting General Ll Tsung. jen at Blair House in Washington. Left to right, the visiting Chinese are: Dr Shao- Hwa Tan, of the Embassy, Gen. Li Tsung-jen, and Dr Wellington Koo, the Ambas- sador. (London Express Service)
Violent Battle In
points regarding problem of Indo-China
in East
Bengal and Assum
The two Prime Ministers had meeting this afternoon which Insted two and a half hours,
For the first time today the two Prime Ministers issued Joint press communique.
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Malicious Campaign Against Mr Strachey Persists: Two U-Boats Denounced In London Off US Coast
CRYPTIC STATEMENT BY U.S.
DEFENCE SECRETARY
London, Apr. 3.--The smear campaign against the War Minister, Mr John Strachey, with whom is now involved Mr Shinwall, the Defence Minister, is prominently featured in both the British and American newspapers.
Today, an official spokesman of the Government de- nounced sharply the American news agency report from The Hague that the British and American military chiefs had arranged to keep confidential information from the War Minister, Mr John Strachey.
San Francisco, Apr. 3.--- The captain of a Unlied Slates destroyer, sent to search for mysterious sub- marines reported off the California cosat, stated to- day that he made two con. tacts with what "from all Indications," appeared to ne U-boats
of the latest design. "Ona
le
for
the dived and other conducted evasiyo tactles, whiols we tracked about one hour," he wald. The captain said it was his oplaton an a for- nter submarino officer that contacta had been sub- marines.
The United States Navy said that по American submarines were operating In the ares concerned.--- Reuter,
The spokesman said: "If those who are ent- AND STILL ployed by them in London to interpret political life
NO TRUCK WITH THE Homes In Sea in this country to America did not, as soon as they
WITCH HUNTERS
Saigon, Apr. 3. — An TRUMAN ORDERS SUB-POENAS
offensive by Vietminh in- surgent
forces, described here as their "most violent yet," and ended in a "burn THE OBJECTIVE ing defeat." French com- According to informed quur- ters the reference in the cum-unique said today. munique to devising
ways
The offensive has been raging vince, about, 70 miles south
for over a week in the Travish
of here.
restore confidence among min orities in East and West Bengal and Assam means the setting up of machinery to inquire into
"Very Rood" results were ob- the origin and extent of diror- ders in these areas and to sustained when French gest steps to prevent their re-battled to free
naissance group attacked by a currence.
to
aircraft light recon-
strong Vietminh force, the com- munique added,
TO BE IGNORED
President Key West, Florida, Apr. 3.- Truman formally announced on Monday that he had instructed the Secretary of State, the Attorney-General, and the chairman of the Civil Service Commission not to comply with subpoenas for the secret government loyalty files.
President Truman sent a letter to Senator Willard Tydings, chairman of the Senate sub- committee investigating alleged disloyalty in the State Department.
Of Rubble
London, Apr. 3-Rain- Loaked earthquake .rc- fugees, many of whom had fled
night on Saturday from a claema showing the "Last Days of Pompei,"
returned from the hills tonight to find their homes level with вся of rubble.
This
worst series of earth tremors In 40 years also hit Pisa, elly of the Leaning Tower. An examination of the Tower today showed no increaRD the in its lean, though
lind trembica ground beneath it.
Collapsing war-damaged buildings Injured people in Leghorn On Saturday and Sunday, deaths were reported. Reuter.
flvo
No
HER
saw this story, inform their head office that it could IN not conceivably be true, they ought to have done.
"They were told by telephone that the story SCANTIES was obviously untrue, and if they did so inform their head office, and the head office still insisted on running the story, then I can only say that the the star or agency's boasted love of facts is nothing but Chase's "Ne Orchids for Miss hypocrisy."
official
Paris, Apr. 3-Nicole Riche. 23-year-old French actress and James Hadley
Blandish today admitted to
on Examining Magistrate that the Grand Guignol (world- famous "horror" theatro) a complete hoax.
wus
No questions have yet been "Trustworthy private infor- her alleged kidnapping from lodged in the House of Commation supported the inons by the Opposition seeking information about the report, but it is possible that some may be naked within the next day DF 50,
denial of the story." the dispatch said. However, some United States officials have privately ex- pressed their bellef in the past. week that it would be wirer to keep certain information from of his Mr Strachey beenuse Communist sympathies in the 1930s."-Reuter.
UP TO SHINWELL
Washington,
Mlle Riche cald the spectacu lar "kidnapping" stunt had at the instiga- been organised tion of the theatre manager. A Alexandre Dundos.
Today's
charge
followed
several days of speculation the French
in
Tho New York Times said in a dispatch from The Hague toelay that some Important
press wheller or American officials concerned with the military security of
not the "disappearance" of the would ke
blonde, dark-eyed Nicole be- the United States
tween the acts of last Thurs Mr John Strachey re- to se
Apr. 3.-The
was B publicity day's show placed as the British War American Defence Secretary, Secretary..
Mr Louis Johnson, said on a stunt or not. Mr Truman wrote: "No Pre-
News of her "disappearance" Both Prime Ministers,
served The subpoenas were
has ever complied with
"They appear to be trying to rival here today that it was up their recent public statements.
week last
on the Attorney-sident
order of the legislative HOWRAH CLASH force a change indirectly, mak to the British Defence Minister, after leaving her dressing room Emmanuel Shinwell, to de- with a fur coat flung over the have agreed that it should be
"Several fierce attacks, which General, My Howard McGrath, an
Calcutta. Apr. 3-One per-ing their feelings known to the Mr
the newr
cide whether Atlantic Pact negligee she wore in Act 2 has the responsibility of both Gov-
produce confidentia!
killed when Police British Government."
secrois would be given to the far duyn cecupied the headines veruments to afford security and led at times to hand to hand the Secretary of State, Mr Dean branch, directing the executive
Out
"mis paper declared. today on minoritica,
accom- to struggles, were repulsed. protection
French press, Pre opened fire
Sidney British War Secretary, Mr John of the The dispatch, to be respon- of crimes in snipers and infantry surprised Acheson, and Mr Harry Mitchel branch to punish those
noted thal
both Air Strachey, or not,
panied by photographs of her Ja the asaltants from the rear and of the Civil Service Commission. documents, disclosure of which on was
scantily-dressed They were ordered to appear was considered by the the recent co
before
Senator ident to be contraty to public creants" sinted
He cited a long Hsible for arsun in a village of Emanuel Shitwell and Mr Louis Just back from the Atlantic a variety of Tuesday forced them to retreat, leaving
the Howrah district, a West bances, to compensate and re-
denied dead in
an Defence Ministers meeting at poses. habilitate victims of disorders, behind several hundred
Tydings' group with confld, ntial interest."
American news agency report | The Hague, Mr Johnson told The police of all France files on a number of persons of Presidents
"esponsibility of the executive Bengal Government communi
The communique sald there that Mr Shinwell had agreed reportors that
Wan no rearched for her for three days Milla "Very important quantities of employed by or connected in branch to malttain the Integrity que announced
of confidential information when
ineldent
certain in that
miillary secrets higreement among the American and then on Saturday other no
from
in the disclosure would be con-
Mr Joint Chiefs of Staff to with Riche's
reappeared armaments fell into our hands." some way with the State Depart-
The Calcutta or Howrals today, should
hold Strachey. --Reuiter.
Information from Britain company of many newspaper- trary to public interest."
"I would be Beuter.
"found" her 10 Mr Strachey was men who had President added: derelict in my duty if I failed
the forests outside Parks, She He said that he had concurred was still in her scandles-Reu- to do so."
ter,
distur
Inoted property and and wounded. rezuver punish rumour-montera,
Some kind of machinery to achieve these declared objec- (Contd. on Paro 5, Col. 6)
EDITORIAL
ment.
An Embarrassing Conflict FOR
more
OR peace of mind, both official and public, the sooner there is final settle. ment of the ultimate fate of the 71 air- craft which operated until last year in China and now are grounded at Kai Tak, the better. Their presence in Hongkong, with their legal ownership the subject of diapute, offers the Colony nothing but disturbing the embarrassment, because the underlying issues have, international unfortunately, reached an
not want these level. Hongkong did planes, nor have anything to do with them, and far above anything else, the Colony certainly did not und does not relish being compulsorily placed in the position of legal arbitrator, determining their future one way or the other. Their presence at the nerodrome clutters up the fing! Whatever the assemblage area. result of the long-drawn-out Illigation, with its complications involving party and international law, one side rights will almost assuredly be displeased and expressing no bones about will make
play mediator resentment. Trying to seldom evokes any thanks, and when politics attempt to force their way into the forefront, the diMculty automatically increases, despite Hongkong's very clear position, merely that of adjudicator on the basis of accepted law. For that reason, the interventions in the House of ComMONS are much to bo deplored. Hongkong's been business in the
1:00 part scrupulously correct. and it creates n wrong impression, gravely wrong, when questioners in Parliament so phrase their approach to the Colonial Secretary, or his Under-Secretary, as to suggest, In broad terms, that executive action could be sponsored from Whitehall. Particularly, when Air Commodore A. V. Harvey, if he has been adequately reported, puts his
argument on the level that while it is extraordinary for Britain, accepting aid from the United States, to hand over air- craft to the Communist Government, he would not mind if the People's Govern- ment in Peking had responded to the recognition which the British Govern- ment gave them. Mr Harvey denies any intention of slighting the legal authorl- that will he tles in the Colony, and accepted. It is, however, an intellectunt exploit to follow the argument that an net possibly justifled by the establishment of proper diplomatic relations, loses its validity when the party concerned prefers to hedge. Britain's association with the Peking regime, good or ill-favoured, is entirely beside the point. The only matter involved in the legal adjudiention, and be discussed, outside the that cannot courts, because the case is sub judice. Au Mr John Dugdale revented on Friday, on appeal has been lodged by representatives the of the Chinese Nationalists, and further representations are to be heard before a higher couri towards the end of this month. In the meantime, Sunday's sabotage, causing damage to seven of the grounded planes, is disturbing. The reflects on Immediate reaction that it
has much the Hongkong authorities reasoning behind it. Troublesome though the business undoubtedly is, circumstances have placed the aircraft into the control of the Government, and forced on them a legal conflict. Responsibility on hand rests with the Hongkong courts, but the responsibility for protection of the planes from saboteurs rests with the Hongkong authorities. The C.N.A.C. pro- test and demand for effective guardian. ship was to be expected. That there must prevent a recurrence bo measures to should be axiomatic.
one
Li
who stood
Meanwhile. in Washington, the Senate investigators put of the defence until Thursday tes!!mony of Mr Owen Latti- the Far Eastern expert more, whom Senator McCarthy charged as a Soviet spy.
to
L
WHS
Grupon
Johnson
he
kept
BELGIAN POLITICAL CRISIS
from
King Leopold Sticks
To His Guns
But the terse communique issued after King Leopold saw the Liberal Premier-designate, M. Albert Deveze, did not indicate whether the King meant a joint session of the two Houses or separate sessions.
as lon
War Minister.
+-
there
with one paragraph of a state- ment prepared by Mr Shinwell pamgraph which denied that American military chiefs had, agreed to hold back Infor- mation from Britain.
But he had refused to sign the statement, Mr
Johnson sald.
VERY PLEASANT He declared that in his own
Adding To The Mystery
Avalon, California, Apr: 3- An ex-German World War I corporal from Detrolt, who was World War
capacity as Secretary of De- Imprisoned during
II for helping a German airman
Jolmson
A few hours later an unlden-
miles away.
a motorboat Mr Shinwell and would con- to escape, rented fence, be had dealt only with
here last Saturday and disap- tinue to do so.
Asked whether Information peared. given to Mr Shinwell would be passed on to Mr Strachey, Air tied submarine was sighted off own doland, "That is his the South California const 120- Constable K. McDavid said llig own relations with Mir
officers had Shinwell had been very plea-that investigating
but had sant, he said, and added, "If noted the coincidence This Was the Issue which the King of his consultations took a great part in the meet-no concrete evidence"
ing. No one took a more help-neet the two events.
German corporal, "Theodore hrought down the Catholic with a view to forming a new
ful part. Ile contributed much Doray, aged 51, naturalised Liberal coalition three weeks Government. The King
of the pro-American citizen, left his wallet the unanimity to firmed hle position as stated in
gramme."-Reuter. age.
his declaration of March 10"
GRAVE QUESTION
con-
Hundreds Flee
to con The ex-
ho the boat as security for hired. The boat was later found at sea with the lights on and the engines turned of--Reuter.
Senator Theodore Green sald Latimore had askest that Mr for additional time to prepare hin reply to McCarthy's charges.
Geneva, Apr. 3.-King Leopold of the Mr Green also announced that
had postponed Belgians today formally reaffirmed that he the livesligatorg
the decision as until Tuesday
Me would abdicate by a decision of Parliament subpoena to whether Carthy's documents. The delay alone. was necessary because Chair. of the man Millard Tydings Senato Foreign relations investi
not gating sub-committee would be able to attend on Monday.
arrived Senator Tydings Washington only on Monday Hague, T: from morning where he attended the Atlantic Pact defence strategy meeting.
McCarthy Senator Joseph suggested on Monday that the Secretary of State, Mr. Dean
A Joint
give session would Acheson, had not told "the
Catholics-the only Party truth"
who wholly support the King'o about his connections the with Mr Owen Lattimore. Acheson sald last week ho does rotum aller ve years in exile not recall ever having met Mr small majority. In seponite his retum, the King promised
two votes they are Me-sessions Lattimore, und denied
cision. get support Carthy's charges that Mr Latil-short of a majority in the Lower to abide by
When he came out of the from Monarchist Liberals.
would more was the chief "architect"ouse, but might
villa today M. Deveza
Sydney, Apr. 3-Hundreds For
London. Apr. 8.--The im of tho Administration's
The Liberal statesman-the not say anything more than abandoned their homes and fled Eastern policy.
only from rising flood waters in New mediate threat of another spring Senator McCarthy unid in a third Belgian to try to form these conversations can format statement that he knows Government since the coalition be carried on if they are secret." South Wales today as torrential strike on the London docks was
minutes at the
"It is a very grave question rain turned rich farm land into removed today when the Com- the of Mr Lattimore's secret recom- fell-spent 90
munist-tinged committee of mendations to the State Depart-King's lovely takeside ville which could affect the whole of an inland sea.
He had tried unsuccess Europe, not only Belgium," M.
The swollen MacQuarie, and rebel dockers called off their ment on Far Eastern policy. He day.
settle the crisis by a
Lachlan rivers, sprawling over week-old ban on overtime work.
However
the committee's threatened that unless Mr Ache-fully to
M. Deveze "could not as their banks, have cut off town- san makes them public "imme-compromise under which King Deveze added.
ho will reveal them Leupold would return, then db-
It is extremely dis-dicate inter in favour of his 10- whether Prince Baudouin was ships, put roads under water claim that the ban had been
and cut off rail and telephone percent effective, was disputed Bajd that ho
by management officials. They would communications,
had turbing to And that Congress year-old son, Prince Baudouin. present at the talics.
He was expected to give up Ho
Brussels
The Wagga Wagge district, said no more than 12 ships and the American people cannol
attempt probably return
delnyed daily, and that Cabinet-forming depend upon the truthfulness of the
faces a new threat, and worre the ban was lifted because of to Genova this morning. themes who hold the highest on his return to Brussels, prob tonight in the plane which flow devastated by Goods last weeks, been zid
positions ably tonight.
If M. Deveza gives up the floods for years have inundated poor response amonk, ten doc most honoured
The communique, read that the nailon can give them.
of the attempt to form a Cabinet, the rich farm lands in Victoria, kors. It had been feared at first by one
will whero hundreds have left that the movement would blos Certainly, the American people correspondents
principal Secretaries Regent, Prince Charles, are entitled to truth from the King's
Devere left the then call on a pro-Leopold their homes and thousands of som-into a general dock strike,
United Press- heres ato, under water-Reuter, Secretary
of Slate."United soon after M.
villa, said, “M. Deveze Inform-Catholle to try-Router. Press.
to
In that declaration, following
the nation voled in favour of referendum In which 57.6 of
Parliament's de-
to
Flood Peril
DOCK STRIKE FEAR LIFTED
"