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Vol. I, No. 21.

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BIG SPEED-UP IN DEMOBILISATION Three Millions To Be Released by June Of Next Year

80,000 A Week Before Christmas

LONDON, OCT. 3.

TO RELEASE

THE GOVERNMENT'S DETERMINATION

AT LEAST 3,000,000 MEN AND WOMEN FROM THE SERVICES BY JUNE 1946 WAS EXPRESSED BY THE MINISTER OF LABOUR AND NATIONAL SERVICE IN A BROADCAST LAST NIGHT.

THE GOVERNMENT, HE SAID, INTENDED TO KEEP TO THE PRINCIPLE OF RELEASE BY AGE AND LENGTH OF SERVICE, WHICH HAS BEEN ACCEPT- ED BY THE MEN AND 'WOMEN IN THE SERVICES: AS FAIR AND REASON ABLE. THE GOVERNMENT HAD ALSO GIVEN ITS PLEDGE TO DEAL EQUIT- ABLY BETWEEN THOSE AT HOME AND THOSE OVERSEAS.

TORTOISE AND THE HARE

There is a "terrifio Jam" of officiala bound for Hong Kong at Colombo, a new arrival from Coulon told the "China Mail" bearerday.

Most of them were schedul- ed to travel to Hong Kong by air. Our informant used the "alower" sea route and very fm of the 200 who were in Colombo when he left have yet arrived.

VINDEX REACHES SYDNEY

SYDNEY, OCT. 3.

H.M.S. VINDEX ARRIVED

At the time when the original estimate was made of the release of 760,000 men and women by the ; end of the year, the limiting factor Was the extent of military com mitment. The rate of releas would now depend mainly upon transport facilities.

Was

thr

firm determination of the Govern- ment to organise those facilities

Ho as to release at least three mil lion men and women by June 1946 By the end of this year, 1,500,000 men and women would be released in Classes and B.

Tuking into account releases un compassionate grounds and wast age due to discharge on medical o other grounds, over 1,500,000 men and women would have left the Services and be free to take civi lian employment.

The effect of this new plan was greatly to accelerate the rate of

release.

In the inst three months of th year, the average weekly rate of release would-be-an-high an 80,00

CEASE FIRE AGREEMENT An Unfinished FALANGISTS MURDERED

It

Kandy, S.E.A.C.,

Headquarters. Oct. 3.

was announced of- cially here yesterday that an agreemont for a "ceased. fire" order in French Indo*- China has been reached at 4 meeting between the French Authorities and the lenders of the Anna- mito independence move- ment.

The order became opera tive last evening.—Reuter.

Japanese Cabinet

May Resign

Symphony

LONDON, OCT. 3.

THE FATE OF THE COUN IL OF FOREIGN MINISTERS AND OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN ITS PRESENT FORM IS EXPECTED TO BE DECIDED WITHIN THE NEXT FEW HOURS AS THE BIG FIVE MEETING FOR MANY HOURS MADE STRENOUS EFFORTS TO FIND A WAY OUT OF THE DEA D- LOCK WHICH KEPT THEM UP TO TWO O'CLOCK

(G.M.T.) THIS MORNING.

HEAVY-EYED AND WEARY MINISTERS RETURNED TO THE CONFERENCE TABLE AT TEN O'CLOCK

AFTER AN (G.M.T.) THIS MORN ING

EIGHT HOUR RECESS AND SAT WITH M. MOLOTOV AS CHAIRMAN UNTIL 12.30 P.M. THEY RETURNED AT 2.00 PM. AND MET UNTIL 3.00 P.M. UNDER THE PRESIDENCY OF THE CHINESE FOREIGN MINIS- TER, MR. WANG SHIR CHIEH. NO POSITIVE RE- SULTS WERE ACHIEVED AND LATER IT WAS AN- NOUNCED THAT THE COUNCIL HAD BROKEN UP. The Foreign Ministers of China,, sistance on the procedure laid Russin, Franet and United States down at Potsdam, which, ac- TOKYO, OCT. 4-A RESHUF-

are leaving for home to-day to re- cording to the British stand- FLE IN THE JAPANESE CABI port to their governments on the point, was superseded by later NET MAY BE EXPECTED IN breakdown of the Council of Five.

plans, worked The fundamental cause of the Ministers Brst THE NEAR FUTURE, IT WAS HINTED HERE LAST NIGHT deadlock, which has occupied WHEN THE JAPANESE

ter House. the big five during every sen- OFFICE. THE FOREIGN OFsion since the week-end, in Rus- FICE

AND THE MINISTRY OF

Bal- THE IMPERIAL HOUSEHOLD Bia's insistence that the CONFIRMED THE REPORTS kans peace-making be narrow- ed down to Britain, Russia and THAT THE CABINET IS PRE PARING ΤΟ RESIGN EN the United States, thus leaving MASSE.

out China and France.

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lier

the

out when met at Lancas-

"So far, no suggested com- promise has proved successful and the conference would have broken down long ago were it

not for the fact that no dele- gate cares to take the final rea-

"The fact that the ministers

The Allied Command yesterday

Router's correspondent ear-ponsibility for terminating the

stated: full accounting oʻ demanded

"The discussion meeting. Japanese production in military of possible forms of compromise terms as well as an inventory of again occupied the Council of have felt obliged to go on try. "xlating stocke in

govern Foreign Ministers when it meting to achieve an agreement i hands. Complete information is this morning under the pre-

a. testimony to their fear

or an average of over 11,000 a day also demanded on the annual pro-sidence of M. Molotov, the So- disappointing, public. opinion al

for seven days a week. Reuter.

R.A.F.'S HUGE TASK Under the Government's scheme, which Mr. Isaacs announced woul require employment of every avail able plane ad ship, it fa

estimated that the R.A.F. will carry back t England over a million men b IN SYDNEY TO-DAY CARRYtween now and the end of May. ING REPATRIATED IN- "The Times" says the new plar TERNEES AND PRISONERS deserven warm welcome and OF

WAR FROM HONG should satisfy all the critics.

promises an important speeding KONG.

release without upsettin up of There were huge crowds out une rond principies laid down i to greet the ship.

the Bevin Scheme. Sydney was naturally chiefly The "Manchester Guardian" also interested in the 126 survivors commends the Government for it of the 221st Victorian Regi-achievement in

afferring the n ment, under Lieut-Colonel Wmarkably with speeding up so re-

and se

service basis of release. Any

Of the original 1,200 men,

officers only 126

and other ranks survived the battle and prison camp conditions. Reu-

an

I

3. R. Scott, D.5.0., who put u interference would have been fatu such a valiant fight against the for the men have for months been Japanese at Ampon in 1942.

building all their plans upon it.

ENTHUSIASM The "Dally Telegraph" calls i substantial

improvement, True Blue Tory as the paper i complimenta the Government upo a "fairly

irly considerabie administre tive achievement" especially view of the long distances so man” of the men have to be brought.

The "Daily Express' is also en thusiastic, carrying a huge stream. er on its front ongo: "1,500,000 OUT THIS YEAR."-Reuter.

ler.

ARREST OF ISODA

Kandy, SE.A.C.

Isoda

Headquarters, Oct. 3.

Lieutenant General head of the Japanese organisa- tion whose aim was to inspire subversive activity in India and the Indian Army, has been in- terrogated at Bangkok by Intel- ligence Officers of the Forces.

Gandhi's Gospel

LONDON.

in

duction of arms, ordnance, munition and automotive cquip- ment for the years 1941 to 1945.

Reuter.

VAMPIRE'S TEST

London, Oct. 3.

viet Foreign Commissar.

REPETITION "Apparently, the negotiations have advanced little beyond the stage they reached last Saturday, though it is said that each of the delegates 1s becoming more practised in the statement of bla own view- point.

The new naval plane Vampire did over 600 miles an hour on test to-day. She carries four "So far, M. Molotov is still heavy guns, and bombs or roc- taking his stand on literal in-

rels-Reuter.

Germany's Food Shortage Headache

LONDON, OCT. 3. PAINTING WHAT HE CALLED A "SOMBRE PICTURE” GERMANY NOW FIELD-MARSHAL MONT- OF GOMERY SAID HERE YESTERDAY THAT IT WAS NOT PART OF HIS PLAN TO PAMPER THE GER- MANS. HE SAID:

"THEY BROUGHT THIS DISASTER UPON THEMSELVES AND THEY MUST FACE THE CON- SEQUENCES. ON THE OTHER HAND I AM NOT FAMINE AND PREPARED TO SEE WIDESPREAD DISEASE SEEP THROUGH EUROPE, AS IT INEVIT- ABLY MUST. IF WE ALLOW HUNDREDS AND THOUSANDS OF GERMANS TO DIE."

Stressing the difficulty of,

food distribution and the bad

harvest in Germany, Field: BRITISH OFFICER

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Marshal Montgomery said there was only one solution- to import food into Germany. ост. 3.THE They would not import

LON Allied GANDHI SOCIETY OF

foodstuffs if the world DON, OF WHICH PROFESSOR G. S. DARNA IS CHAIRMAN

short of supply, if they could General Isoda IN tried to set up a fifth column in MESSAGE ISSUED ON ' help it,

OCCASION OF GANDHI'S

Lieutenant

in India and among his inter- BIRTHDAY SAYS: proters were allied officers, who had bean countering the work of his organisation during the

War,

After his examination, he was flown to Singapore, where he is being detained. Reu- ter.

STILL HERE

The "Highland Monarch! did not sail yesterday,, but, the length of the postponement could not be ascertained last night. Some of the. passengers were allowed ashore.

Rumour had it that the vessel' might not salt until Friday.

"It is not in the creation and control of violent weapons but i the effacement of violence itself s the roots, wherein lies the hope o mankind to-day. That is the mes sage of Gandhi.

"In the phenomenon created by the atomic bomb lies the suicide of the human race,

"It is the gospel of Gandhi, bas ed on truth and non-violence' which alone offers a solution o the complex national and interne tional problems and which alone holde out prospects. of pence earth,Router.

Field-Marshal Montgomery add ed: "To prevent the spread o opidemics, they must keep on th minimum of standard of nutrition in Germany.

"They must also feed the miners in the Ruhr if Western Europ was to get any coal this winter.

WOUNDED

Saigon, Oct, 27. An Annamalt sniper to-day opened fire on a staff car of the RA.F. Regiment, carry- ing officers on tour of in- spection. One British officer was wounded. The situation generally is quicter--Reuter.

CHINESE VICTORN CELEBRATIONS

over the world, in ita desire for pence,

a

beer

GRAIN OF COMFORT "The failure of the presen! session to produce anything of the most meagre resulte has

for nearly been apparent fortnight. But it had hoped that after more carefu preliminary work, the next ses sion might prove more fruitful "If the Foreign Minister rannot produce any sort of final agreement, the future of bot!

of Council and

interna tional co-operation in the pre sent form will be jeopardised.

"The only grain-of-comfort-| that remains is the dogged per sistence with which the Foreign Ministers have continued meet. They have already spen. sixty hours in a fruitless dis cussion of protocols and com muniques-Reuter.

The

to

UP TO THE END The United States Secretary of State, Mr. James Byrnes, one of the leading figures in the Counci. of Foreign Ministers session whic has just ended, said to-night:

"There ment.

thable age

cea which dove-

Madrid, Oct. 3. Two high officers in the Falangint organisation were shot dead last night. when five armed men broke into the officer in the heart of Madrid beat on assaя- sination. It is believed to bo the work of an under- ground organisation wor- king against Franco. Reuter.

BIG THREE MEETING URGENT

WASHINGTON, OCT. 3. OTHER MEETING OF THE

THE POSSIBILITY OF AN

"BIG EARLIEST

THREE" AT THE POSSIBLE MO- MENT IS BEING SERIOUSLY DISCUSSED IN WELL INFORMED QUARTERS HERE, FOLLOWING THE FAILURE OF THE COUNCIL OF FOREIGN MINISTERS IN LONDON.

Sources, which consider such a conference a necessity, if the world is not to be split up into two animosity ridden "blocs, foresee the initiative for nuch move coming from London father than from Washington or Moscow.

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President Truman પ્રક quite categorical last week to the effect that there are no plans for another meeting between himself, Prime Minister Attlee and General- issimo Stalin.

The American

prominently

press to-day displays accounts of verbal and personal clashes at the London conference. - Reuter.

JOHN MOVES SWIFTLY

San Francisco, Oct. 8. Events move swiftly theae

days.

John Brewer was to-day.

married

Two minutes later, he w2N drafted for service.

Two minutes later, he was given three days' leave of ab sence to proceed on his honey-

Reuter. moon. -

loped were oxplored in a spirit o MR, JINNAH'S VEILED

conciliation and there is good res

son to believe that with continued

patience and understanding on al THREAT

sides, an agreement on essentials can be attained. ·

"We are determined upon-that- jutcome," he concluded,Router.

Atomic Bomb Secret

Washington, Oct. 3.--The secre

of the United States plans to safe guard the atomic bomb as mear" to keep world peace is believed t have been given to Mr. Mackenzi Kinz, Canadian Primo Minister before he boarded the R.M.S Queen Mary at New York

for his third visit to, London,

Mr. Mackenzle King's

Get the cotton-wool ready-for day for his thi

ear plugs,

LOGICAL THINKING Referring to the re-education of German youths as the "moat im

Tollowing portant long term, obligations Field-Marshal Montgomery said: Big victory celebrations are to visit to the White Ho

House on Mon "Preliminary investigations hav ba beld. by the Chinese community day for a two-hour private con- shown that the average Gormati next week.

ference with President Trumpo has almost forgotter The official Victory Celebration the bellef has been strengthened to think

Day is Tueday, October 9. The that Canada world play an in.

La isation to be set up to ensure tha+ Tenth, and the 11th is to

.or boy or only repeat catch-following day comes the Double fuential part in any control organ

cas

to the atomic bomb will be an ndo-

Bombay, Oct. 3. Mr. Jinnah has cabled to Mr. ∙Attlee protesting against the "unwarrantable oncroachment"- envisaged in President Truman's on Palestine, and adding that any attempt to appease International Jewry in this manner not would earn the resentment only of the Moslem Arabs but of Moslem India.Router.

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EARLY RELEASE

Canberra, Oct. 3° Mr. Forde told the House of Representatives 'to-day that an Australian who had been a pri- soner of war for 60 days or more, would be eligible for im- mediate discharge from Servicos.-Rcuter.

the

LIVERPOOL IDLE, NOW POSSIBLE

London, Oct. 0. Seven miles of the Merseyside docks aro now at a standstill; in. ‚Çónsequencù, of the extension of the unofficiat Birkenhead...dock

and slogans without any Iden as to what they really mean general holiday-presumably Hong Kon

Their standard of icnowledge la give a chance to recover from the quate insurance againat war strike. Over 15.000 men are now

Router.

affected.--Router. 0th and 10th. abymally low."Router.

"Friday is a good bớt för eloc- tricity," declared a Electric Company official last night