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Hongkong Telegraph
TUESDAY, JUNE zo, 1950,
Polio Epidemie SENATE DECLINES Queen Mary Goes To Races
In England
London, June 19.
Seven cases of infantile paralysis were reported in the London area today, of them an adult. Official relurus fur the week
ending June 10 showrd
were that there 70 cases In the whole of the England and Walen,
10
Jag first weekly total re- corded so far this year. Only 17 casch were noli- fied in the correspondlor week fast year.-Heuter.
Storms
Ravage Bengal
Calcutta, June 19.
"Unpricvdezit<<" Jamirlides tad killed 105 people in Dar- Keling, West Bengal's summer capital and 6,000 latte
feet uphill
TO GIVE TRUMAN
A BLANK CHEQUE
The Arms-For-Allies Bill
.
Washington, June 19.
Two United States Senate Committees today recommended Congressional approval of President, Truman's second year $1,222,500,000 arms-for- Allies programme.
But they did not sanction a proposal in the programme giving the President inrestricted power to ship arms to any nation at his discretion. They refuted to dip inta | A number of Congresonen European recurely
fur favour the sending of arms to Sind breautre of her anti-Com-
part of the cost.
for anns aid to
funkts
ta
not
Queen Mary, who observed her 83rd birthday on May 26, arriving at Ascot for the Races. The Duke of Norfolk is also seen.
Malcolm MacDonald
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GENEROUS'
Six Nations Meeting In Paris To
Launch Schuman Plan
Paris, June 19.
The Schuman Plan enters the first stage of its life tomorrow with the meeting here of the six- nation conference which is to launch it.
M. Jean Monnet, real author of the plan, which bears the French Foreign Minister's (M. Robert Schuman's) name, is determined that the talks shall reach some practical agreement on a scheme for a West European coal-steel merger by the end of the year.
Trumped Up Treason Trials
02
The negotiations, to be open- ed in the French Ministry Foreign Affairs by M. Schu- Bn, are expected to run into the late autumn.
M. Monnet, France's
who will
der-man
011
De
delegation
to the talks, is resolved, If pos sible, to have the much-di- rugsmi supra-national authority
that is to run the pool in ef- fective being by the beginning ut 1952.
The
London, June 19. Mr Ernest Davies, eign Affairs Under-Secre- Germany, Italy and Benelux
(Belgium, the Netherlands tary, declared in the House Luxembourg) an
The conference will be at. For-tended by delegates from West
and well as by
Of
President Uruguay Shot
AKO
Buenos Aires, June 19. The President of Uruguay, Dr Luis Batllo Berres, was wounded a fow days
"when person close to him fired ave times st him," the Argentiue newspaper, De- mocracia, reported today.
"The motives for the at- tack were
personal, not
political," the nowspaper stated.
It added that the President was not serious- ly wounded and would shortly be able to resume
normal notlylles. -
Reuler.
Tozrential
of Commons today that M. Monnet and his experts, Rain Havoc
there was no foundation for that Czechoslovak charges present or past members of the British Embassy Prague had engaged
at
in
nol
The British, who have joined in the Plan so far, will be kept informed by the head of the Economic Department of
the French Foreign Omice, M. Herve Alphand.
ity a vote of 12-9 the For ignomist Mand, but the State De Itellations and Armed Services, prtment is understood to up- Committees
the are this upproved Mutual Defence Assistance Bill. Tu Bil would permit Mal Det Storma und floods have ( This provided $1,000,000,000 for friendly nation "whose ability
Atlantic to defend itself is important killed at least 130 people mifilary aid to North
Part nations: and $222,500,000 the security of the United "South-East States to buy arms and equips and have injured many more) in West Bengal's northern A, the Philippines, Korea, ment from the United States. districts of Darjeeling and Persia, Greece and Turkey. Answering question, fr President Truman had asked Connally said that the supposed Jalpaiguri during the past
authority, under Israel and the Congress for
Arab States two weeks
the Bill, to transfer 10 percent could come under this section, of the arms aid to any other but added. "It is not contem- nations if he decided that this plated that they will"
In addition
European was necessary for United States security.
supplies, the Bill provides for The Commiflex restricted $131,500,000 for Greece, Turkey
Persing this authority
$75,000,000 for to apply only The daily average rainfall at to any European nation whose South-East Asin; and $10.000,- some places his been mor
000 for Korea and the Philip strategle locution made it Im- Four swollen than 18 inches.
portant to the defence of the planes, rivers have wasted away por North Atlantic area,
The Committee had tions of roads, railway bridges
Committees' decision moved to reduce the allocation, The and cattle.
was annoullred by Mr Tom he said.
Mr Connally expected that Tire flooding of the river Cranally, (Democratic Senator, Csi inundated the tea-pro- Texan who presided over the the Bill would go to the Senate
on Thursday. ducing town of Jalpaiguri, closed joint session.
ATOMISED SUBMARINE under the Bill Arang aid cutting off communications and
The Senate Armed Services only if the the
electricity would be given Aid water cupply,
security of the North Atlantic Sub-Committee today approved he told a Dul authorising the United aren wire threatened,
States
Navy
build The flood marooned 35,000 | reporters.
first nuclear-powered people in the town, and the And President Truman would world's
Mr Malcolm MacDonald, British Special Com- Government in supplying them first comult the North Atlantic submarine.
The measure, authorising the with food and medicine by air. Governants.
expenditure of $339,000,000 for missioner for South-East Asia. today saw ex- The West Dental Premier, Dr
this and other
Czechoslovakia, alleged to have weapons, has Emperor Bao Dai, hend of the Vietnam State, soon Lian Chandra Roy, today met
The transfer provision met already been approved by the after arriving here by plane from Singapore for Prague trial. ivil, police and military chiefs here in a high-level conference instant Republican opposation on House of Representatives,
the rounds that it would give I still requires the approval "10 days' holiday." to discuss food supplies and re-
full Armed Services pales to tonds and railways, the President a blank cheque tour the
Meanwhile, engineers battling his arms to any part of the Committee,
to the atomie In by
addition submarine. the Till would Democratic leaders had said nuthorize the building of a that I was designed to retarge new submaring expected be capable of remaining urutchlen grave cmurientty in which United States, action was under water for perio is far
rently needed.
Tonger than the "Snkel" sub-
landslides and gales have re- paired sections of vital roads and waterworks, saving! nagy from, starvation in the floodeif Prens.
Jul
District the Midnapore 50,000 people were aftertia by 180-foot breach in the bank's
of the river Khiris tributary of the
River which Cos-ye Cooled 51 square miles of a residential area--Reuter,
EDITORIAL
Those
OPPOSITION
world Ureatened
t
10
the
Taking "Holiday" In Indo-China
Saigon, June 19.
He also saw several French officials, but not M. Leon Pignon, French High Commissioner for Indo-China, who had left by air for France a few hours earlier.
M. Pignon is to be on hand for the conference of Pan, in the Pyrenees, at which France A reperter naked Mr Connelly marine.
will in the detris of her Other vessels mvolved were of Muno havia could receive azna
*atest political settlement with phen the new provisiona
n new ennial-tyre combat sub-
the three new Independent Teclined to moment, rag-marine and an experimental
under-water target Cambodia and Loos int that he "could not go into high-speed thane details."
Water
LTHOUGH the Colony has experinced
Asl ut seven weeks, or thirty steady ruin, usually reserving the real downpours for the week-end, the published analysis of the water storage altuation on both sides of the harbour shows that the shortage cannot be considered over. The Tytam system, it is true, is overflowing, but before the Jubilee Reservoir teaches that comfortable position, it can take an additional inflow suflicient to provide the entire Colony for between thirty and forty days It Is not, therefore, diflicult to understand the inability of the Water Authority ni present to increase the supply, now seventeen hours from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. Less easy to appreciate is the ofllelal hint that no change is likely to ho made until next October, which clearly Implies that any variation then decided will be for the worse. With second part of the cautionary statement there can be no quarrel. Residents will well recall the drain on the reservoirs in the early Spring of this year and the growing apprehension that a crisis might be at hand. Rainfall was 'well below normal and until April provided balance, thoughts were beginning to throw back to 1929 when shipping was bringing in supplies from other ports and filling tanks specially erected on the Praya. Hongkong in the end easily avolded a repetition of that disturbing business this year but the threat of acute shortage brought realisation of the necessity for constant watch as supplies lower, and that at the close of the rainy season, in October or thereabouts, when the seasonal depletion begins, restrictions have to be imposed Immediately. Similarly, it will be agreed that it would be taking needless risks for the authorities to・ Aft · restrictions (completely" prior, "to the signat "that" a11
A
zubmarine.--Reuter,
Restrictions
reservoirs were full to overflowing. What we cannot so readily follow is an attitude indicating that even when fresh water is pouring over the dams and speeding to waste
in the sea, Government has no intention of providing a 24-hour supply, We would prefer a little consistency. The argument apparently mainly resta on the fact that in periods of high consumption, there is a struin on the efficiency of the filler-beds. Additionally, it is disclosed that on hot days in summer, the amount consumed in a single day, may jump to 42 million gullons. A "host" of other reasons to boost the Water Authority's morale were not supplied for the layman's assessment as being too technical. WYC are open to correction, but does the case for curtailment hold together? The pre sure on capacity to supply comes always at the height of the day when a full service is sustained, not during the night Moreover, wo from 11 p.m. to û a.m. vividly recall the official objections ta our suggestion in May that the house- holder would much prefer a brenk in supply in the middle of the day provided the waterworks were willing to extend the evening hours from 8.20 p.m. to 10 p.m. It was contended that two supply perlodu each day were objectionabic—— although they had been the rule for months because the mams empty', relling get airlocks and there are chances of pollution. Apparently, too, there is a wastage of time, bullding up pressure, causing many complaints. So far so good. Do not all these reasoDA objectively bear the exactly same relation' to the cause for elimination of any break at all? And in times of plenty, this would mave much trouble and gratify mány?
MALAYA
Italo-Chinese Sates of Vietnam MASSACRE
Bao Dai is flying from Saizen TRIAL
10 Pau tomorrow for the run ference.
Mr MucDonald's arrival colselded with exporta from London that Britain was stil examining what aid she could provide French troops lighting The Communist Vietminh guer rillos.
activity Inconsistent with their diplomatic status.
The
or
DEBATE IN GERMANY
At Rheinfelden,
In Canada
Chicago, June 19, Torrentinl week-end raine
7 abated in the United States,
near Basle, but heavy floods continued in West Western Canada and brought a
about 100 French and
that
und
Government is German Deputies today began declaration of martial law in British
the their first Inter-Parliamentary Idaho. considering its reply to Czechoslovak demand for the debate on the Schuman Plan
In British Columbia and the withdrawal of a Secretary of with agreement
the Pacific Northwest, at least nine :) the Embassy at Prague (Mr scheme for merging
their
coal
persons were dead Adrian McLaughila)
the and steel industries was a vital than 2,000
and more homeless. In ground
all. of activities against step towards European unity. the week-end weather had left
Count Richard Coudenhove 41 dead, three missing been proved at the
Secretary-Generat recent Kalergi,
of several thousands hameless. the Eurepenn Parliamentary The South alone counted 18 Union and organiser of the drownings in "There trumped up treason conference, said, "Tad such sticky
4 vrive
of hot,. weather, rints have become a sickeningly wise, daring
white familiar feature of life behind policy
generous Spartansburg, South been proposed
Curalina, and the Iron Curtain." Me Davis adopted in 1927,
37-year-old man died of tun- there would declared.
stroke. have been us third Reich and up second world war."
Loud
greeted chstag
Loere.
Q
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The situation remained criti- en in Brills Columbia, where the slate of emergency was de- President, einred in the town of Harrison, Honorary nut
些
sprin 25
resort conference, Vancouver. Five hundred re-
"They are designed to serve the dual purpose of liquidating apponents of the Communist re-furmer
lierr *me and, at the same time, dis- zurage all contact by people of the countries concerned with when he declared, speak for sidents were ordered evacuated all the German delegates in
Wertern diplomatic missions.
Paul Chairma of the
"We regret very much that saying that we have come here
the circumstances in These coun- irles prevent genuine opposition and that any attempt at oppost- tion is mek in this way." Neuter.
New Zealand
Los Negros, June 19. An Australian Army officer alleged here today that Japanese Australian and 35 Indian war troops bad machine-gunned 110
in Malaya prisoners
in 1942. poured petrol over then, and though some of them were still British alive and "screaming terribly" the possiblet them alight.
The officer,
A dockers strike, which tied lity that his visit was a prelude Hackney, of New South Wales, up the port of Weilington 10- to closer Franco-British
reliable
Uunily sources discounted
mili-
Lieutenant B.C.
•
Rear
water filled the town. Town officials reported: "We
which have
to reinforce the bonis already unite us."-Reuter.
Press,
lost the flight"-United
Strachey Was Ipoh Grenade
Under Orders
Strike Stacey tonight defended his
Dock
Wellington, June 19.
tary co-operation against Com-Who is the only living curvivor day,
of the
was "one of the
threatened
lomp>-
ter
under the orders of
Outrage
Singapore, June 19. Ceylonese senior Govern- officers were killed in Perak, tonight when a grenade was
thrown at
Thambyal,
their quarters.
They
were
V.
London, June 19. The War Minister, Mr Johu
The action 12x carrying arms ont ment operations against Communists | Ipoli during his recent visit to hand Malayn,
"I carried arms because I was tonight to requested to do so by the on- Bnancial assistant to the Public other New Zealand cery in command of my party at Works Department in Ipoh, and mass killing, told his spread to munism in South-East Asia.
variout times,” he told Mr D. Vijayadram, acting Assistant These British sourcea con-story in a sworn document read parts.
Dockers dischortingt
William Prescott (Conservative) Registrar of the Supreme Court dered that Mr MacDonald to a War Crimes Court trying
Anny oflcers black from an oversens
who had questioned him. slup
In Ipoh.. would be taking advantage of senior Japanese
"1 wng stopped work, when a demund
Thambyah, whose hia holiday to acquaint himself nere.
Investigating offers sald that for an extra shilling an hour these officers." he added-Reu-In Ceylon, was due to family is with French-Indo Chinese
dirt
September-Reuter. the killing
money was turned down. problems.
The President worst, if not the worst, to be Zealand
of the New A British official statement
Waterside brought before Court since the Unlos, Mr Harold Barnes, said Workers said that Mr MacDonald would be absent from Singapore for end of the war."
tonight that if the dalpute was Lieutenant Hackney's clate-
by Thursday, about a fortnight. He would
ment cald that the prisoners not rettled avail himself of the opportunity were herded together and then would be treated on a national
basis," which whille on holiday to have la- machine-guns "belclied forth amenn that all ports would be formal talks with the French storm of death."
paralysed. and Vietnamese authorities, the It went on: "After the first statement cáick-Router.
Thirty slips burst, a few remained standing,
were Idle in
Dusseldorf, June 19. but they
Wellington tonight, were 20on hit by
and all The Central Committee of the West German further Bre.”
inter-island ferries were delay- ed. At least one ferry left her Chancellor, Dr Konrad Adenauer's, Christian De- then poured fare on the wharf, The Japanese petrol over them and set them
mocratic Union met in Bonn today to decide the Auckland dockers decided
w support
future of the Coalition Government in North-Rhine the
Secret Decision also prisoners were scream-carlier today
it
was taken to
Communists Lose Over Half Their Seats
On Oil Ban and yelling terribly," the undertook-Reute y aculon Westphalia, where the Christian Democrats topped
statement said,
It
Bill's Fate
the poll in yesterday's State elections.
Centre 16.
and the
Capetown, June 19. The South African Senato Coalition. (Upper House), today approved
Adenauer
Charged with responsibility for the killing are Lieutenant
Herr Kari Amold, the Pre-1 Catholic Cairo, June 10,
General Takuma The Egyption Council of M Ministers
Nic One Vote Decidesnior of this jurgest West-Ger- Communiste 12. yesterday took already serving a life sentence
State, which included the The Christian Democrats a. secret decision on the imposed by a British Court for
Buhr Industrial area, and leader gained three seals, the Social- northward
in Malaya-and of petrol War Crimes porsage
of the left wing group in the Democrats Iour. *The Com~ Captain Shogo Nonaka tankers through the Suez Canal
C.D.U. wants to continuo the munists lost 16 seats and the The Prosecutor, Mr C. V.
Christian and Social Democratic Catholic Centre four. and oll supplies for Israel, It was revealed today,
Rooney, said that he would produce sworn affidavits from
But Dr Konrad
Two main reasons were given The terms of the decision four Japanese who all alleged by only a one-vote majority the and others in the CD.U con-
for the Communist setback have not been disclosed, but at Nishimura ordered the third reading of the Govern- sider it an unnatural alliance, the Polish East German agree- Dr Salah El Din Der, the execution.
ment's Controversial Group It was believed here that the ment recognising the Oder Egyptian Foreign Minister, told Earlier today the Court found Areas Bull designed to establis Concioni, Almilar to that in the Eastern frontier and the oficial
Central Committee
Ling favours Notre
as Germany's Reuter that is purpose was "to Major Hiroshi Itsul and Cap- separate living areas for make
bure that
no unrefined in Hirayasu Shina guilty of separate races
Federal Parliament, of Christian West German claim that there petrol goes to Isrpel'
murdering eight Austrailan. The voting was 20 for and 19 le ddded that any country prisoners of war at Tavoy, in against. trying to send unrefined oil to 1942, and gave them-x lite sea- The Bill --now goes to the Israel would be put on the tenen and 10 years respectivo- Governor-General for assent-- black listener.
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Revier, prẮ.
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and Free Democrats.
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