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HONG KONG, SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1946.

U.N.O. DEBATE ON SPAIN Gromyko Supports Polish Proposals

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The Parlington Exposition Pe plowed into the rear end of the road's Advance Flyer at a speed of Po miles an hour today and the Red Cross reported that in- 50 were killed and 125 jured. An immediate check. known however, placed the dead at 38.-Associated Prean,

WROTE 900 POISON PEN LETTERS

Hastings, April 26.

For two and a half years. lay officers of Christ Church, Hastings, have been swamped with s flood of anonymous of letters, accusing them drunkenness and immorality, with mur- threatening them der and demanding money.

Today, a 600-year-old British statute passed in the Mediacval days of Edward III served to convict Miss Ethel Mary Sel- wood, a laundry proprietress, as the author of the letters.

She had sent out over 900 of

Asks For Action, Protest By

Not Talk

NEW YORK, APRIL 26.

RUSSIA APPEARED TO BE HEADED TOWARD ANOTHER DEFEAT IN THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL TODAY, UNLESS UNEXPECTED REVERSES STAND AGAINST AN INVESTIGATION OF FRANCO SPAIN. LAST MINUTË EFFORTS ARE BEING MADE TO ARRIVE AT A FORMULA WHICH WOULD EN- ABLE DELEGATES TO RENDER AN UNANIMOUS DECISION, BUT RUSSIA'S POSITION SEEMED IRRE- CONCILIABLE WITH THAT OF THE MAJORITY. RUSSIAN DELEGATE ANDREI CROMYKO RECOMMEND.

ED THAT ALL UNITED NATION MEMBERS BREAK- OFF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH SPAIN IMME- DIATELY AND SUPPORTED THE RECOMMENDA- TION OF THE POLISH DELEGATE, OSCAR LANGE. LANCE PROPOSED THAT A UNITED NATIONS IN- VESTIGATING SUB-COMMITTEE. SHOULD WORK OUT "PRACTICAL MEASURES" TO BE TAKEN AGAINST FRANCO SPAIN.

that the responsibility of any de- gate.

Most of the delegates argued, der Cadogan; the British dele- Gromykos opposed · the Franco United States, Australia, Pri- ciding action against resta on the Council and should tain, the Netherlands, Mexico on the proposition. be determined only after the and Brazil proposed inquiry is completed. The Chinese and Egyptian dele To instruct the sub-committed to gates did not enter the discus- draft recommendations would sion.

There were two major prož mean the Council had prejudged

blems on which the delegates Gromyko's blunt stand sought some solution before Fri- against the investigation

of day. Spain, by the Commission stall- ed the Council and caused turce

the case.

and a half hours' confused de- bate which ended without a de-

the letters since 1943. Her vic tims included a former Vicar's warden and Sunday school su-cision. perintendent

former ami CL teacher in the Sunday school.

instructed the One letter teacher to leave £1 in the west door of the church if she wish ed the letters to cease.

Mies Selwood Vigorously dent- ed that any of the hundreds of letters had been written by her. The bandwriting, she said, was certainly not hers.-Reuter

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The Council adjourned until 1600 G.M.T., Friday (1.m., Hong Kong time, Saturday) after arguing in vain over succession of resolutions and amendments which had mem- bern thoroughly bewildered at times,

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Gromyko remained opposed to Hodgson's proposal despite direct appeal from Sir Alexan-

Machine "Spells" Books To The Blind

(By Muriel Penn)

London, April 26.

Blind ex-servicemen-and civilians-may shortly be able to "read" ordinary printed books and newspapers as well as typewritten letters and documents by means of a loud speaker spelling machina.

The machine, invented by a French professor, M. Paul de Saint Quentin, who came to London when the Germans swept over France in 1940, can be made in either fixed or portable models and can be plugged in to any electric electric point were point like a wireless set. If no available, it could be powered by an accumulator, bat- fery or a hand generator,

Professor Saint Quentin cati- transparent white letters on a rentes that un Initial order of black ground. 1,000 working models would cost As cach letter, projected on around £10 each but as mass the cylinder from the table production gets into swing, the above coincides with the cor- price of the machine will fall to responding letter on the cylin- around that of an average wire- | der, it blocks the light passing less set.

through the letter to a photo- The machine consists of a electric cell inside and so pro- transparent topped table on duces an Impulse which is trans- which the book or typewritten mitted to the photoelectric cell

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Two Proposals One was Hodgson's amender proposal that a sub-commission of five Council members be ap-

Severed:

Sofia, Apr. 26. Bulgaria broke of diploma- Ilo... relations with Franen

Spain today. Associated

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pointed to inquire into state ments made before the Cuncil concerning Spain, to call for further statements, documents and evidence and 1 report back

ul an indefinite date.

The other proposal ja Lungo's resolution which would note that "unanimous condemnation of the Franco regime" was ex- pressed in Council debates and appoint a sub-committee of five members "to study the basis for an at decision to he reached by the Council and to prepare a draft resolution con- taining recommendations as to the practical steps to be taken." Gromyko stated that he would not object to a committee propused by Lange.

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Cable And Wireless

London, April 26.

So strongly do Cable

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Portamouth, Apr. 26. Diantisaal, from the Royal Navy was ordered by an Ad- miralty court martial for 15. junior officers who refused to gail from New York on Jan. 30 the grounds that they were not given suitable ac- commodations.

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The men who pleaded inno- ent were found guilty of con duct unbecoming to officers and of improperly leaving whip and wilful disobedience.

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London, April 26. Ronald Stripp. 19-year-old

ership that they intend press conscript, who described coal-

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FAREWELL DINER TO C.-IN-C.

"I HAVE LOVED THIS JOB; I REALLY HAVE, PAND VICE- ADMIRAL SIR CEĊIL HARCOURT, K.4.2 ALDERS.. C.-IN-C., HONG KONG, SPEAKING IN GULO AT A FAREWELL DINNER GIVEN IN HIS HELDUR BY: THE GENERAL COMMITTEE OF THE KING KONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMEICI ## ("*~ GLOD- CESTER HOTEL LAST NIGHT.

AMONG THE OTHER GUESTS WERE VICHAL GEVAL DA. EDELSTEN. MAJOR-GENERAL F. W. SEA, BRE GADIER D. M. 'MACDOUGALL, CONVERT D. HA EVERETT, AIR COMMODORE W. A. IN PE -K, AIR. COMMODORE B. V. REYNOLDS, CCI W THOM SON, COL C. B. H. DELAMAIN, COL C UNSOVA. MR. C. G. S. FELLOWS, MR. ARTHESS "E AND MR. D. H. BLAKE (CHAIRMAN O

HONG KONG CLUB). Proposing the toast of the

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ing for the appointment of 2 mining as "alavery," was fined guest of honour, the Chairman, Royal Commission of Inquiry £25 with the alternative of Mr. R. D. Gillespie, said: into the whole matter, "be-

"Since you sailed into Hong one month in gaol today for Kong Harbour as Victor and Li taken which may bring disas-Labour order to work in A you tor to the strategic and com* coal mine. mercial system of Communi- cation."

fore any irrevocablo step is failing to obay a Ministry of berat or some eight months ago. OFFICES

This announcement was made by Sir Edward-Wilshaw; Chair- man of Cable and Wireless, at a wireless conference in London; he added that it was the inten tion of the Government that the bill should be promulgated by August 1.

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have worked unceasingly for the rehabilitation of the Co- Stripp was fined £5 in Jan- lony. It is due to your leader Lary for a similar effenac. He ship, understanding, and encour said he had volunteered for the agement that, of all the areas Henry Very Army and Navy, bat had been ravaged by war, Hong Kong is a ten-year le x leh z pij turned down because he was list- making the most rapid progress whip became> *. ed as a mine conscript.

towards recovery. The whole by valchs és V Stripp's father, pleading on Colony owes you a deep debt of behalf of his son, said, "I am

greed pozity gratitude. under the impression we fought portunity also, on behalf of the was fired 3 -9 edend

"I should like to take this on- | Lightherse for liberty. There are thousands business community, to thank pay SINOP Sir Edward said that the na-of miners kicking their heels in the members of the Services Kinctos Petons top tionalisation of Cable and Wire-the forces. Why not release under your command for the less means the disintegation of them?" a system built up during the past eighty years." The Cont were thousands of Britons who any considers the whole scheme felt the same way, but added to be fundamentally unsound," that the law must be obeyed.-

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freely given us. There was n his own l-g time when business men feli that the Services really had nut, much use for them they re- garded them as a necessary evi, and perhaps not always neces- aary but if that has been the case, it has certainly not been so under your Admin "istration.

Cable and Wireless entertains the gravest fears as regards EIRE METROPOLITAN concessions held in foreign

Vatican City, "Apr. 26. countries if the proposed scheme

The Pope today announced the which is international in char-appointment of Monsignor John acter can be nationalised with-F. Dalton, Bishop of Meath, out, serious danger to the inter- Metropolitan of Fire, suceding ests held by it in foreign coun- Cardinal Joseph Mackory, trica.

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"All branches of the Services; Navy, Army, and Air Force not forgetting Civil Affairs If these interests were lost Catholic Primate of All Irma have done everything they could to help us get going again; utl- through this scheme, the whole who died on August 13, 1946.

The now Archbishop became lity companies have been assist- British cable system would dis- Bishop of Meath in June, 1943. ed, passages on H.M. ships and, ling the t intergrate and this would not Ho is 63, a graduate of both Ox- on R.A.F. plants have been do it take a affect only cables; to foreign ford and Cambridge universities found for us, guards have been stances wi countries but also the main ca- in England and is regarded as provided for pur godowns, and of the bles linking the dominions and India with the United Kingdom

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ATTEMPT TO SOLVE · SPAIN PROBLEM

New York, April 26.

The "Big Four" conference in Paris will seek to reach an agreed solution on the problem of what action is to be takon towards the Franco regime in Spain, it is fearned authoritatively here tonight.

The

Foreign Ministers are expected to take up the subject of Spain in their first general review of the world diploma- tic situation and to seek an agreement on their ultimate goal in Spain.

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(The Peace Conference- See Page 3.)

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Reviewing the history of in- vestigations made since the Ja- pancae Manchuria affair in the League of Nations, Gromyko The Paria conversations on generally assist the Council in told the Council that nothing this subject are not expected to examining this business. had come out of them, and said delny the Security Council's

It is believed, however, that demand for supplementary proceedings on the Spanish the Poles and Russians lean to- evidence against France and the question. since the majority of wards giving greater powers to formation of a comission to ex-the delegates favor the setting the committee, enabling it, for amine the case would represent up of a committee to examine example, to visit France and "only a repetition of bankrupt evidence regarding the Polish consult the Spanish Republicans methods of the past." Asso- charges that the Franco regime there.-Reuter: cinted Press.

is causing international friction and endangering world peace. Differences over the powers and status of the committee have, however, developed in the 1course of the inter-delegation conference held here today In preparation for tonight's Coun- cil debate. page, projects the letters, magni- | perforated alphabetle sound film

Madrid, April 26. M. Henri Bonnet, French, de

Rome, April 26. fled overal times, on to a reinatead of the white-on-black

controlled Spanish || legate, has been canvasing for volving glass cylinder, which is letters of the first drum and on marked out with the alphabet in reception of the impulse "spells" press, commenting on the pro- support for a compromise de Minister of Interior: Giuseppe Romita announced yesterday that "a few persons” have been arrested in connection the letter by means of a loud posal before the United Na- nation of the powers, of the committee, which goes too far

with the removal of Mussolini's body from Milan. He speaker or carphones if the tions Security Council to send for some and not far enough for

an investigating · commission others.

declined to identify the persons arrested saying he did The two cylindera revolvo to Spain, said that representa-Proposing that the committee not want to interfere with the investigations now tak fairly rapidly-at the rate of tives of “onomy" "uations should make actual recommen-

ing place. several revolutiona per second

In Milan, the Chief of Police so that the blind "reader" has would not be allowed to entor dations regarding action to be taken against Genera! Franco, Singapore, Apr, 20, the words spelt out to him at this country,

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The Catholic "YA," terming both the British and United cemetary had been arrested but which was signed by the "Cen-south an sch gorous imprisonment was pass Braille. The speed can bo ro- the charges against Spain as States delegations, who are at there was no indication whether tral Executive Committee of the

Minin pa ed by the Ipoh Superior Court gulated according to the needs "Soviet tactics in a war of nor- one in regarding the commit.ce they are among the persons to Fascist Democratle Party.".

Piecing together these ex-Bunakin en Abdul Zakariah, a young In- of the "reader."

you against Spain," said, "We as an instrument for asslating whom Romita referred.

Romitu denied reports that corpts, the message would ap- Maxi, klan, cl dian Moslem, charged with mur- Professor de Saint Quentin do not refuse to report to our the Council's discussion.of whe-

Mussolini's body had boon given pear to rend: "Duce, you are at der.

has offered his Invantion, free friends, but we have no reason ther action should be taken ̧*

a secret new,burial at Prodappio last with us. We asked the au- Zakariah returned home to of all patent rights or Royalties, to report to the United Nations. They do not regard it as a

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Gore 2. lodger, and seizing a scythe, he, libraries of the two great Bri- contly invited "friendly" mom- under the Charter, would be a to the whereabouts of the body, given honourable burial, but our Inflicted wounds from which the tigh associations for the blind bors of the United Nations' So matter of action subject to vote A letter to Mussoliul found request was consistently ignor-pated in 23+ B** War 21 13

St. Dunstan's for men and wo curity Council to send invest of the great powers, a pinned on the board of his coffin ed." with

Political polióe have been | the Eber men blinded on war service, and gators to Spain to determine the While not anxious to restrain is the latest development in the the civilian National Institute truth of the Pollah, charges its powers unduly, the British ayatory of the former Duce's mobilised throughout Italy in hera, M for the Blind, and of the French that Spain is a threat to world feal that the committee should missing body, which was stolen an affort to trucs · Mussolini's annoimenes Institut National pour les ponce and I harbouring Nasi zit in New York to sift the avi- | from his pauper's grave in a body Associated Press and enmo ku

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