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AGREEMENT IN CHUNGKING Re-Constitution Of National Assembly Agreed

Membership Now To Be 2,050

CHUNGKING, JAN. 11.

AN AGREEMENT ON THE MAJOR POLITICAL PRO-

BLEM BEFORE THE POLITICAL CONSULTA

THE OF TIVE CONFERENCE — MEMBERSHIP NATIONAL ASSEMBLY - WAS ANNOUNCED TO- NIGHT.

THE ACCORD BY THE SCB - COMMITTEE ON THE ISSUE WHICH HAS BEEN OF MOMENTOUS IMI- PORTANCE IN THE PROLONGED INTER-PARTY NEGOTUITIONS BROKE A DEADLOCK WHICH HAS PERSISTED FOR DAYS IN THE UNITY CON- FERENCE. THE SOLUTION OF THE STALE- MATE #PAS VIEWED AS A STEP OF MAJOR IM PORTANCE TO THE #HOLE COUNTRY,

The standing committee of the Kuomintang has approved ali dee', for a ruched by the confer-

THREE-FOURTUS

MAJORITY

The sub-committee also agreed i sub-committee that a three-fourths majority of the reconstituted Assembly will be required for adoption of the constitution.

Chour the agreement, the National Assem- bly will consist of 2,050 mem- bera, with the sole task of adop- tion of the draft constitution which will be revised by the 35- member all-party and non-part Ban commission.

The assembly is scheduled to meet on May 5.

Under the agreement, the As-i sembly will include 900 mem-i hers, chosen before the war, of whom the Government anys 603 per cent. are Kuomintang Party members. (Other groups claim the percentage is higher).

Four hundred and fifty seats will be filled by elections, in- cling 160 apportioned to Man-

churia and Formosa,

The agreement means the Na- tional Assembly will open k scheduled at Nanking on May 6 and that, with adoption of the draft constitution. China at last will have a Democratic Gevern- ment.

League

Atom Bomb Era Warship COMMANDER-

Washington, Jan. 31.

The super-battleshi,se ntucky" now being built may be the first America dr endnought built to fit ato- mic bomb era specifications,

Cominander Frank Nash, told the House Naval Com- mittee to lay there would be à review of the design of the 45,000-ton warship after the results of the atomic bomb texts this spring had been assessed. Among other things the Navy wants to so the damage done to the super-structure of warships.

New York Representative Cole criticised the Navy for agreeing to serap 37 shipa under construction. — Ás- sociated Press.

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CASE FOR R.A.F. STRIKERS

LONDON, JAN. 31. COMMENTING ON THE STRIKE OF RAF. PERSON- NEL IN INDIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST, THE "DAILY MAIL" TO-DAY SAYS: "THESE MEN AP- PROACH THE BOUNDARY OF MUTINY WITH WHAT APPEARS TO THEM TO BE A GOOD CAUSE. "WHY ARE THEY DOING ITU

disaatiofled

THERE ARE FOUR MAIN, FACTORS WHICH IN THE MINDS OF THE AIRMEN HAVE FORCED THEM TO SUCH UN- WISE ACTION: IT IS OFFICIALLY ́AN-

"Ond they are NOUNCED THAT REAR- with the way the Air Ministry ADMIRAL SIR CECIL HAR is operating the release scheme. COURT, KC.B., C.BE. HAS Thousands of airmen are being BEEN PROMOTED TO THE held back just because they are RANK OF VICE-ADMIRAL, dental assistants, physical in- WITH EFFECT FROM TOstructors, fitters, equipment as- DAY.

sistants, clerks and cooks, sonne of which trades only require four weeks of training, which many hundreds of new entrants could have passed long ago.

A young and vigorous man still, Vice-Admiral Harcourt is one joined the Royal Naval College as a Cadet in 1904, working his way up to Com- mander in 1926. --Between then-and-1999, when he was promoted to Captain, he

"Two--the airmen are frank- ly sceptic when the Air Ministry state that lack of transport is! the cause of the delayed demo- bilisation.

"Men in the Middle East have the spot to witness

Kiss Me Good Night,

Sgt.-Major

Folkestone, Jan. 31. Thirty-one year old Private Reginald Moule of the 307th CONSERVATIVE AMENDMENT, REJECTING | received the command of various THE GOVERNMENT'S BILL

Pioneer Company of Colegrave ΤΟ NATIONALISE ships. For two years he was

Road, Stratford, London, East, THE COAL INDUSTRY, WAS DEFEATED BY 350 on loan to the Royal Australian been on

was awakened this morning by and commanded H.M. transport misuse. TO 182 VOTES IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS Navy

Australian flotilla of destroyers. "Three-men of the ground a Sergeant-Major who brought TO-NIGHT AND THE BILL WAS READ A SECOND

In 1937 he returned to the Ad- staff feel very bitter when they him a cup of tea in bed. TIME WITHOUT DIVISION.

When Moule stopped ashore at miralty Operations' Division as have to help planes take off or Deputy Director and as Dirceunload very important persons Folkestone Harbour last aignt, counted the 100,000ch for until 1941.

and be told that they cannot re-he was For these services he was turn to England for their e- men to land for demobilisation awarded the C.B.E. in 1941. lease because of the shortage of at Number Three Disembarka-

tion Camp in Shorneclif. As Captain of the "Duke of passenger carrying planes,

An officer and a nen-commis- "Four-that in the Royal Air York" he took Mr. Churchill to

bakit and carried it to a staff car. sident Roosevelt directly after ciple of release has been

In this Moule was motored to Pearl Harbour.

He then took trayed.

"Releases in the Army the. "Duke of York" on convoy}

are Shorneclir.

After work taking supplies to Russia based on that principle; in the

IT WILL NOW BE DEBTED IN DETAIL BY A SMALI ALL-PARTY COMMITTEE AND THEN GO TO THE HOUSE OF LORDS.

Mr. Herbert Morrison, Lord President of the Council, wind- ing up the debate said that the Conservatives had no real and practicable alternative to what the Government was aiming at.

The Democratic spokesman credited the No. Communist, Chou Enlni, with the statement that the Commuu ist Party chairman, Mao Tse

Private enterprise could not tung, might Join the projected all-party State Council and go provide capital for the reorgani- to Nanking when the Council issation of the industry without

the help of the State.

established there.

The remaining 700 are-to-be-Chen-En-lai is alau reported "If the State is going to be filled by nominations, apportion- to have said that he might toor behind it to provide guarantees,

Morrison added.

ed as follows: Kuomintang 220; the Communist-held areas to ai-I say, let it own the show," Mr.

Democratic qonint inhabitants with the de- Communists 190; Longue 120; Youth Party 100;isions and ask their support.—-

Associated Press. non-partisan 70.__

IMPORTANT CONCESSIONS

(By Doon Campbell).

Mr. Richard MacMillan, chief Conservative speaker to-day. furged that this state-ramsopoly should be subjected to a strong independent review which ought to have been included in terms of the bill.

The

He asked what would be the future of trade unions under uz- tionalisation.

Going Ahead America -to confer with Pre-Force the age plus service prin- sioned officer took charge of his

Jerusalem, Jan. 31. General Sir Alan Cun- ningham, Palestine High Commissioner and Comman der-in-Chief, yesterday-told- the Palestine Arab Higher Committee that the Britishi Government had decided to allow fifteen hundred Jews to enter Palestine cach month, pending the comple- tion of the Anglo-Americen Commission of Efiquiry..-- Reuter.

SOVIET

It seemed that they would be ATTITUDE

Was

come either masters or servants

State and either equally bad.

CHUNGKING, JÁN.'31. AFTER A FORTNIGHT'S- BARGAINING, THE KUO

MINTANG (GOVERNMENT PARTY) AND THE COMMUNISTS HAVE GIVEN WAY ON CERTAIN POINTS, MODIFIED THEIR DEMANDS AND ADOPTED A MORE CONCILIATORY APPROACH of the TO THE POSTAVAR PROBLEMS FACING THEM. THIS HAS GIVEN A NEW PROMISE OF THE EVENTUAL ESTABLISHMENT OF DEMOCRACY IN CHINA.

CONSULTATIVE COUNCIL IS READY TO WIND UP AS SOON AS THE LAST SUB-COMMITTEE WORKS OUT THE DISTRIBUTION OF MEMBERS TO THE NATION- AL ASSEMBLY, WHICH ON MAY 5 WILL ADOPT THE NEW CONSTITUTION.

THE INTER PARTY POLITICAL

Inter-party negotiatious on 20 divisions within three months,

the Kuomintang the allocation of Ministries with, while

has

and without portfolios, in the agreed to cut down Nationalist Executive Yuan (Cabinet)

the

re-organised government) months. will continue

ENDORSED

LONDON, JAN. 31. THE UNITED NATIONS DECISION ON THE PER-

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a tasty meal age and length of N.A.A.F.I. institute, he was promoted to Rear-Air Force Admiral In July, 1942. He then service are not determinant fac-feted and presented with

memento-an inscribed pewter commanded the 10th, 12th and tora. 15th Cruiser Squadrons, taking

"Prime Mintater Attlee must tandard and a bottle of whiskey. promise For his stay in camp during part in the landings in North explain the position, Africa, for which he was award to remove all gitimate griev-the night, Moule had a fire in Today he was ed the U.S. Legion of Merit, ances undertake to see that his bedroom.

Later ho

was awarded the there are no unnecessary delays Reen off by the Camp Comman in demobilisation and guarantec dant, Lieutenant-Colonel A. E. -G.D. (Commander of the Bath)

in the Tunisian campaign,

In that no man due for release 19 White, who wished him the-beat- January, 1944, he was appoint-retarded."--Reuter luck Officers then took him

by car to the station.-Reuter, ed Naval Secretary to the First R.AF. STRIKE Called off

Lord of the Admiralty and in March, 1945, joined the British:

New Delhi, Jan. 31. Pacific Fleet in command of the:

The strike by R.A.F. personnel 11th aircraft Carrier Squadron at Cawnpore has been enited off

And was in command of the by its leaders pending considera- Task Group which entered and tion by higher authorities of their re-occupied Hong Kong in 1945, demands which have been sent flying his flag in H.M.S. "Indo-home. mitable."

the He received

Elzbt hundred and fifty RA.F. K.C.B. "for services in Europe" men at Lahore also returned to

Work-Associated Press. towards the end of last year.

MAGIC WORD Major Lloyd George, Libera and former Minister of Fuci and Power, who has been taking an independent line from the said that the Government's conl

bilt would nationalisation get much coal.

Resuming the debate, he said:ED THE BASIC CORRECT. "I have always felt that too NESS OF THE ATTITUDE much stress is laid on ownership TAKEN BY THE SOVIET und too little on reorganisation. UNION. WHICH

"Nationalisation is a magic

Liberal Party in recent months, SIAN QUESTION MEANS Nothing Cheap

I!UT

THAT THE

SECURITY!

COUNCIL HAS RECOGNIS-| And

CON-1

Squalid

FIGHTING WAY TO SURRENDER

Lord Louis Due In Colony To-day

LOUIS

- ADMIRÁL LORD MOUNT BATTEN IS ARRIV ING TO-DAY TO VISIT THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF AND TO CONSULT WITH HIM ON ADMINISTRATIVE PRO- BLEMS, JE WILL STAY AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE.

Bet

Peiping, Jan. 30, A battnion of some 1,200 Japa- nese troops were reported reliably to-day to bo cutting their way London, Jan. 31. through Chinese Communiat for this cce in an effort to reach Tsinan Houses will be going up

Enquiries have been received as Health Minister. Mr. Aneurin ment troops.

& "truce beam" miral Mountbatten has towards Members of Bevan, told the National Federa

this Colony. In order to clarify tion of building trades employers. maid they wore told the Japanese the position, the facts aro

"I am

not commander promised to surrender forth below. anxious that we shall a try to solve the housing driving down prices." he said.

but perander in North Chins Hong Kong, is in command of the

to turn "It would be lamentable if we

we troop Brund to

to the Communista. allowed ourselves

ves in this emer

Authorities sent instructions to geney to be driven into building the battalion not to move bending

houses cheap and squalid

that clarification from the executive

at Pelping-Ace Hives. Reuter.

ciated Press. ~/

any member of the Political Af-! boss but I am not sure from 'he TIATION BETWEEN THE by lowering building standblom to Gen. Li Tsung-ion, the Govern

by mont

W

over

of troops to 90 divisions within six word. Thousands believe that TENDED THAT THE DIE. Year in very great numbers, the to surrender to Central Govorn to exactly what responsibility Ad-

FERENCE BETWEEN IT SELF AND PERSIA IS BET- TER FOR DIRECT NEGO-

THE COMMUNIST "DAILY TWO COUNTRIES, STATES, WORKER" (TO-DAY.

"Mr. Ernest Bevin, Pritish

bent on provoking trouble had the wisdom at the last moment to withdraw from an untenable. position," adds the paper.

the cure for the situation is in The State Council will be em- that word. after dissolution)

The miners would get a new of the Political Consultative powered to appoint or dismiss Council.

miners' point of view that it is Here are a few of the big fairs Commission. concessions emerging from the President Truman's declara- a good swop."

He said that he assumed the talks: Although Generalissimo ton on American policy to China Chiang Kai-shek will be the un- and the decisions at the For miners would receive the same challenged Head of State, he will eign Ministers Conference in tamp from the have less authority as President Moscow aгo believed to be the scend the same cage, reach the Foreign Secretary, who seered would haunt us for the rest of ouri beadquarters by the Kuomintang's with biggest single factor behind the same road and presumably see drawal of his emergency powers. change of attitude, particularly the same expression on the face

Half the councillorships in the that of the Kuomintang-Reu of the pony State Council, which will be the ter..

highest

governmental organ,

will go to the minority, parties

and non-partisans.

-SUCCESS FACTORS

The Communists have agreed

to reduce their armed forece to

CANTON STUDENT

DEMONSTRATE

Carton, Jan. 81. Studente of Sap Yat-sen. Uni- versity dunonstrated yesterday against continuare of American troop in China; against British administration of Hong Kong.and now inst the living allowanco granted do thein.

* The students are trying to get Déunivõrsity authorities to supply

then with biard Instead ($8.500 (CIN), mont

teri

same, mall, de-

(laughter)-Reu-

Hitler Bomb Plot Secret Revealed

!.'

NUERNBERG, JAN. 314

"Thus the attempt to elevate: thene differences into a majori conflict, necessitating Security Council action, has falled.

"Tho discussions had at least | helped to reveal the undemocrá tic state of affairs in Persin and the fact that the Soviet Union cannot be brow-beaten when vital principled are at stake. SECRET DOCUMENTS HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED "Having disposed of the, Per- Security question, the SAY THAT THE LATE PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, | stan MR: CHURCHILL AND VATICAN OFFICIALS HAD Council will now be able to turn FOREKNOWLEDGE OF THE BOMB PLOT its attention to Greece and In- AGAINST HITLER MONTHS BEFORE IT HAP dobesia,

The situation in both coun PENED IN 1944

tries is extremely serious and FIELD-MARSHAL BARON CARL GUSTAV MANNER the case made out by the Soviet HEIM, OF FINLAND, AND MARSHAL PIETRO Union and Ukraine must bo BADOGLIO OF ITALY, WERE AMONG OTHERS given urgent consideration." NAMED IN THESE DOCUMENTS AS FAMILIAR Reuter. WITH THE "PLAN-FALKYRIE" WHICH WAS THE 20

·CODE NAME FOR THE "JULY 20 ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS

member of the Garm

Room!

And

Diphtheria Outbreak Aboard Convoy

SINGAPORE, JAN. 31,

AN RAF, SUNDERLAND FLYING BOAT FROM SELF- TAR: YESTERDAY PUT DOWN IN A HEAVY.

Why

Whilst the Commander-in-Chief, and Royal Air Force the Colony, SACSDA

andation in a aimilar responsible for their supplies the Commander-in- Chief, British Pacifle Fleet, Les

for the m

mapplies and administration of the Naval per- sonnel here. SAOSEA is also responsible for the Civil Affairs sulics, Priorities for Hong Kong have to bo considered in conjunction with

for supplies areas in South East Asia. Com- mind.

responsible

PEAK TRAM STRIKE

SWELL 270 MILES OUT IN THE OPEN SEA BE TWEEN SINGAPORE AND JAVA TO BRING MEDI RA

PEAK TRAM · SERVICE CAL AID TO SICK SOLDIERS IN A TROOP CON WAS SUSPENDED YESTER VOY

DANS DAY FOLLOWING A STRIKE THREE TANK LANDING CRAFT, LADEN WITH SOL OF TRAMWAY EMPLOYEES

DIERS AND ESCORTED BY A FRIGATE, HM.S. WEIN DEMANDS FOR ARE VISION OF WORKING CONDI LOCK KILLIFORD WERE BOUND FOR SINGA- TIONS AND PAYM PORE FROM JAKA, WHEN ONE OF THE FASSEN VICTORY BONDS. CERS FELD ILL WITH DIPHTHERIA. THE OTHER PUBLIC

CONCERNS WERE NO,

The frigate radioed for as log boat's hull but without dos

ing any real damage." { dis tance and a naval vease! was Next problem was to get the But out with a doctor on aard doctor to the trigate,. · sald

this vessel ! could reach voy, two fother men fell light Lieutenant Brown, "The

other - radio call a wall was too heavy to get

whaler from the

elp to be flowza out:

utanent Roxburidonik 60 eventually.