approves
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY JUNE 15, 1950.
Naval Intelligence
Britain Attlee's action over the Schuman Plan
SWISS TO TRY PEAK IN
HIMALAYAS
Geneva. June 14.-Swiss mountaineers are planning an expedition to scale, for the first time, a Ilimalayan peak over 20,100 feet high, it was learned here today.
The name of the glant penk cnonot be given until the ex-
authorised by pedition is Government of Tibel.
London, June 13.-Most British newspapers today approved the reasons given by the Prime Minister, Mr Clement Attlee, for Britain's unwill- ingness to join the Schuman Plan at the outset.
But several newspapers commented that his statement that Britain was willing to co-operate in achieving European unity would be received sceptically at home and abroad because of the Labour Party Executive's apparent opposition to joining in economic planning with non-Socialist Governments.
"Wulle The Times said that it was The paper declared,
Government's the
duly "to Labour rejects the idea of a prove their titude of appro-super-Government to impose val and support for
the
agreements does belleve that there
scope for in immenso by deeds us French initiative
agreement between of Governments irrespective
That is their political colour. n positive
voluntary the well as words and to press on with the present review of the Wil
servants and project by civil
stage when experts to
At present, Britain holds the record with Manda Devi, 25, 645 feet. The altitude record
the
of 20,000 on Mount Everest their findings can be the basis Europe polley for unity of
of Cabinel policy."
AN OVERSIGHT
is held by the British Mallory
"It is fair to say that so far of 1024 when expedition
hava proposals George
and the Schuman Leigh Mallory
When the Brilish Govern- nn unbeen examined in Whitehall on Andrew Irvine died in successful
to reach their merits in the tight of the ment's White Paper giving the attempt
of the exchange of views between the French Govern- the sumenit. The peak itself practical requirements
British and European coal and British and
ment on the Schuman an is still unconquered.
First news of the Swiss ex-steel Industries."
published yesterday, The Manchester Guardian WAS
that an important pedition, which is to leave next
the Schuman Plan was found year, was disclosed in today's said that
"a departure of high sentence had been left out by Journal de Geneve by the was
an oversight. famous Swiss Alpinist doctor, promise implications." Eduard Wyes-Dunant.
FRENCH FIRST?
An experienced Himalayist, he envisages an expedition on a grand scale, with aircraft Parachute supplies and recon- noitre difficult routes.
French. Norwegian, Russian and British climbers are ac- tive
in the Himalayas. A French expedition now on Daulgahiri, in Nepal, may foil the Swiss in their desire to be the first to reale 20,000 feet
summit.-Revier,
Salt smog
"If it succeeds we shall re-
This sentence, which original- outride.
in a slatement gret having remained In that case we shall probably appeared
British Govern-
to the find como mechanism by which defining the
plan. Britain can be associated with ment's nititude
nid, The British Government pool," the
the Manchester 13 actively engaged in workin Guardian continued.
inspired by the of proposals been we have "Meanwhile,
In the hope French Initiative out-munoeuvred by the quick that they may be able to make and ruthless inciles of the helpful contribution to the French Foreign Minister. Wo
Schuman Plan." shall have to wait for another consider the opportunity
industry at Issue of European our own pace,"
CYNICISM
The Daily Mail said that the alleged contradictions between Mr Attlee and the Party Execu ilve's statements wouki "be re- ceived with cynicism 1T1 Washington, Paris and other
wha
The British Ambassador In Paris, Sir Oliver Harvey, asked to explain to the French Government that this omission from the White Paper version was merely an oversight.
The Minister of State, Mr Kenneth Younger, apologised for the omission of the sentence when
questioned In Parilament that It was today. He said inadvertently omitted when the being poper commented, original documents were "While, the pubile here will not collated for publication. plunge headlong into untried erratum slip would be included experiments abroad, they dis- in a reprint of the White Paper.
still over capitals".
Pacific
The
Honolulu, June 14.-A white own the arrogance of their-Reuler. haze called a salt smog blan-rulers in lecturing the world! keted more than 3,000,000 square i The Conservatives Yorkshire miles of the Pacific today and Post said that Mr Attlee and weather experientis blew the British Foreign Secretary
Ernest romain until strong it away.
preoccupation with the furistic and economic questions" raised The blanket cut visibility to three miles in some spots and the Schuman Plan "seem to
was
Mr
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air at 8,000-feet where the usual British Government's non-co-
Jerusalem Problem
An
Daughter of Hongkong's Director of Education, Miss Judith Ann Rowell, was married at St John's Lieutenant John Charles Cathedral yesterday to
Longley, RN, whose home is in Farnham, Surrey.
ARMY MAY PULL OUT
OF EGYPT
→ Slim Warns
Cairo, June 1t-Ficla Marshal Sir William Slim. the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, in his recent defence talks here, threaten- ed Egypt with the evacun- tion of British troops, the Cairo weekly, Akher Fun, said today.
It quoted him an Baying: *I fear that in the event of the ovacuation of Dritish troopa from Egypt they would not return, and the Egyptian Army for some time yet will not be strong on a sente which will permit ila troops to face age Cression."
Egyptian ofeinis who took. part in the talks, according 20 the weekly, said that Field Marshal Silm repented hist | threat several times, mentioning Istacli ombitions and the seriousness of the International situation.—Reuter.
Soda water celebration
The uncles arranged for faster
a marriage.
•
Frankfurt, June 14-Tho professional faster. Willy "Hero" Schmitz, today broko the alleged world record of 40 days and 13 hours without food
Detroit, June 14.-The father of 17-year-old which he said he set 24 years Maritsa Bourneas demanded today that his son-in- law reimburse US$1,500 which he said he spent for an unconsummated marriage,
The wedding of the girl' and James Bourneas, 23. Inst October 23 was arranged by two uncles. Bourneas said he did not think it was right to consummate the marriage because he thought Maritsa into the pressured Was
The marriage ceremony. was annulled on April 11.
the
Mickale
Madias,
girl's father, claimed. that he spent |
Pakistan
Border Incident
The 48 year old hunger artist sat up on his couch in a glass cage at the Frankfurt Zoo and toasted his new record with a battle, of soda waler. His hands shook but his spirit was unbroken
He said, "I am going to slay In here for at least 53 days or even longer until I starve out that Indian Fakir in France who in trying
this to grab championship of mine."
Merindrah Burman started his hunger test in Lille seven days after Schmitz went into London, June 14-Pakis- bis glat enge here. Willy has
$1,500 for the wedding gown,tan today denied reports lost 15 pounds-United Press. the ring, church, reception hall, that her troops were in- food, drinks, flowers and a suit volved in recent incidents on
Ho sald Greek for Bourness.
custum provided that the bride the border with Jammu on groom paid wedding expenses.
Bourgeas, part restaurant, told the
owner of
June 11.
A Glatement mado public here said that from preliminary that the Judge he inquiries it appeared
DEGREE FOR MRS PANDIT
to
Vijaya
did not receive that aniount encounter was between Kach-
New York, June 14-New Madina gave him $50 mir troops and Paltistan armed York University today awarded He said have blinded themselves to
as a wedding gift and lent him police.
an honorary degree of Doctor of over the ocean from the fact that extended
the
which he issue
$150 for the ring, is 23-
Madame of the Pakistan Laws The Office Wake Island to Honolulu. Most sentially a political one."
paid back. Boureas also sald
$900 High Commissioner in London Lakshmi Pandit, Indian Am- contributed of the haze is composed of The paper
that said
the Handed Back his mother
circulated the full text of a bassador to the United States, Galt, which
towards wedding expenses. evaporated
Defence Ministry communiquejto
to whom the Vice-Chancellor trapped beneath a layer of dead suspicion was bound to linger reason for the that the real
Lake Success, June 14-The
The
Mr Harold couple did not know Issued in
Karachi today. It of the University,
nce Voorhis, pald tributo BA United Nations Trusteeship
until the uncles said: "Attention of the Defence cach other operation is to be found not
Council voted today to send arranged the wedding, wif the Ministry has
to woman who has emerged as been drawn
·help of the R.S. Simpson, chief of the so much in M, Schuman's pro-
parents.-United
reports appearing in the Indian one of the great lenders of thui - pivotal sub-continent where press alleging that an encoun- Honolulu port weather buregu,posals as in the Government's ; the derusalem problem back to
meels on June 11 on East
West and West denied that the fog had any con suspicions of any non-Socialist
ier took place
of Pakistan the bowlers
und meets East In
epochal nection with a possible atomic administration."
Jamnu between troops of the renaissance of humankind."— explosion-United Press.
Indian and Pakistan armies. United Press,
trade winda died.
UNUSUALLY PRESSED
NATIONALIST graph
NAVAL ACTIVITY
110
the General Assembly.
The Council, by a vefe nine to one, with one absten- tion, reported that I was
of
reso-
Press,
Sitting On Volcano
In
"There
13
of
of
2
Incident-al Ambassador
The Conservative Dally Tele- able to implement the stolute for internationalising the Holy
were In fact, no saic that the White
troops of The Pakistan Army in Paper "eertainly confirms the City. impression that
British
the locality at the time, and it Only Iraq opposed the could have sub-lution, which Government
preliminary in appears from declared that scribed to so inusual a declara-neither Israel nor Jordan was
Capetown, June 14-The guiries that the encounter was on to unusually pressed upon prepared to collaborate in im-
South African Minister of Letween a detachment of Kash-
mir troops and npзrly
Buenos Aires, June 14.-The Justice, Mr Charles Swart Pakistan armed police. But the Dang Telegraph plementing the statute drawn
up by the Council on April 1.
Argentine Foreign Ministry has understood that the declared moving voiced the same suspicions us
"It The Yorkshire Post about the y
Indion and recalled Dr Oscar Tascheret, Mr Awal Khalkly, for Iraq. | second Leading
the meeting of Taipeh. June 14.-The Na-
Government's real motives
declared,
Delhi, it was learned here to- "Efforts to inter-Government's Bill to outlaw Pakistan military commanders Ambassador to India, from New
took place shortly after the tionalist Navy announced to-
official The
Party nationalise Jerusalem have not Labour
with the Communism, "We in South incident,
United it. the Daily Herald. day that its ships were con- paper,
ald, been exhausted."
Africa rebuked Tory papers for "dis
arc sitting en Nations observers present, and Dr Tascheret was recently in- tinuing their attacks
that a further meeting was held volved in ut tortion
Its wildest"
said that Ic
the Counell the Cheklang coastal town
declaring that the Labour Party | should not prejudice
on June 12. future volcano," had of Haimen, 120 miles south Executive
"rebulfed action by the Assembly on this
lle told the House of Assem- "close European unity."
point-Reuter, of Shanghai, with
bly here that the vast majority of the electorate was convinced range brondside barrages."
the city,
that defnite legislation "to meet The Navy said
has been Invaded by
the deadly danger of Com- was)
munism and destroy it" Nationalist commandos,
urgently necessary. "aflame and Communist bodies! were strewn over the city."
that A communique claimed
Communist of the 80 percent Installations were destroyed as well as more than 30 Junky
which
the harbour.
on
in
It was belleved
returned
that the commandos
to the ship after blowing บท
the
Installations, although
The
it
FCm
was not mentioned in the com- munique.
Elsewhere,
Navy ported that a Communist ob- servation plane was driven off above Tachen Island, 75 miles south of Tinghal, off the Chic- kiang coast. This was the first that the Communist air forco has been mentioned Nationalist communiques.
Ten junks also were reported sunk out of 40 o Wenchow, 170 miles south of Shanghai. United Press.
time
"KILLING ON THE BORDER”
in
Isbanbul, June 14-Turkey protested to Bulgaria on Tues- day against the alleged ambush murder of a Turkish Journalist by Bulgarian border guards.
protest suld
Th
that the killed Arif Neelp Bulgarians
of the Paskali, correspondent
Chuy- Istanbul newspaper
along the yet, as he walked border on the Turkish side.
It said the shooting followed by only a few days the "kid napping" of two Turkish children by Bulgarian guards- -United-Pres.-
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COPUL YOLU BY KIKA DERVICE, INC. T. M. REG. U, B. PAT, OFF.
***on, I'm putting in an extra large garden-symptoms aro. Litere il be a heavy rush of visiting relatives this summer!?
was
"Who will deny that the world of today is in a state of
great danger?" he said.
a cabaret
Incident
"Defalls are being awalted." with an Englishman, Mr John
-Reuter."
| 33 RECOVERED FROM PLANE
Bahrein, June raven bodies
"Is there any right-thinking man who will deny that South covered from Afien Itself is in danger?"
14.-Twenty-| were today re- the Air France crashed into Gulf near here
on
who was
In
the
Edwards, Kenneth
31 May acquitted New Delhi of assaulting Ambassador-Reuter.
Hail Kills Cattle
Lisbon, June 14-Heavy hall rainstorms on Tuesday
Skymaster which "Even South Africa's eldest the Persian statesman now battling against early yesterday, killing 45 of the and death
Com-occupants. 1:20 described munism as an undermining and diabolical influence."
which
The Bill, debate on will be restricted to 30 hours, provides for a maximum of 10 year imprisonment for "Com- munistic activities"-Reuter.
An army marches on
Ottawa
Ottawa, June
14.-Millions
of tent caterpillars, forming a
wide
lake
front half a mile
and
summer coltage
on a district today as residents tried vainly to stop them with DDT and other insecticides.
miles long. "marched"
The crawling army stripped the leaves from thousands of trees as it moved through the forest arth of the Gatineau hills at a'rato of half a mile per dayUnited Press.
night and early today killed many cattle and ruined crops in The total number of bodies central Portugal, the authorities recovered is now 33.
The bodies of 17 men, eight: women and tyo small girls were recovered today.
They had not yel been identiaed-Router.
"Mias. Jones said if was late again it would be on my report card.”
Lowton #reen Marzion,
nnnounced today-United Press.
Radio Hongkong
ILK.T.
d. "Hongkong Calling Programme 4.03, Light Variety with Sumavallaro (Plane) and is
Orch: 630, A Programme of Erio Conter: Take It from Here, with and For Nichols, Dick Henley so,
Jimmy Edwards. (BDCTS} Demi-Heure Francaire. (Studio: World News and News Analysis, London Relay); 6.16, "Band Call," With the end of the South Blaffa Introduced by Capt. David Jones. (Relay from the Dragons Club, Kowloon): 9.40, Sports Review by A Philips. (Studio); 9, "rom the Editorials London Relay
Weather
Report; 0.11,
10
Opera." "La Boheme" by Puccini. Acts 2 & 5 With the Principals Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala Milan Conducted by Umberto Berro. Novelty toni: 955, New Concert Ensemble: 10.15, wa sil have to Taik, No. 5., “Having The Last Word, Same hints on how to Argue.” -Recorded): 10.30. (London Relay
Thursday Berenade." A Programme of Continuous Muela Arranged by Belly Drow:: 13, Radio News Rech.
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