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Involved Problems In Pacific Defence

LONDON, APRIL 26.

DISCUSSIONS ON PACIFIC DEFENSE PROBLEMS WERE CONTINUED AT TODAY'S MEETING OF THE EM- PIRE PREMIERS WITH MR. CLEMENT ATTLEE AND OTHER BRITISH GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVES. THE PROBLEMS INVOLVED IN PACIFIC DEFENSE ARE SO GREAT AND FACTORS AFFECTING THE SITUATION SO MANY, INCLUDING THE FUTURE OF JAPAN, AND OF OTHER TERRITORIES WITHIN THE AREA, AS WELL AS THE ECONOMIC AND MANPOWER SITUATION WITHIN THE EMPIRE AS A WHOLE, THAT THE DISCUSSIONS ON DEFENSE ARE LIKELY TO CONTINUE FOR SEVERAL DAYS.

Salvation Army Election

The establishment of military mivaiona in the key centres of the British "Commonwealthı, working in close cooperation and constantly exchanging ideas and views on the overall ade- quate defense of Britain, the Dominions and' colontes-with- in the framework of the United Nations accurity arrangements

was discussed "today. It In understood that general view of the British."

the

Combatting V.D.

Frankfurt, Apr. 20, Army medical officers ves- terday recommended that the Finited

Statoo occupation troops in Europe be given plenty of work on drill an a

fighting the excés- sive vanercul dixcuse ráte and

e, implement General Me- Narney's disciplinary crack- down.

He said the veneral rate tran now 211 casce per 1,000 carly. Associated I'rcaz,

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Sunbury, Apr. 26. Forty-seven members of the Salvation Army High Council, who have come from every con- tinent, assembled here today for Australian and New Zealand the first meeting of a ten-day representatives was opposed to session to select a new General to the creation of a bigger Im-! succeed General George Carpen-perial General Staff, operating Ilalf a dozen or more ter, who has retired from the from one central position, like weight economy mode! automo

ost,

The first conference since 1939. it was opened today by Com- misaloner Charles Baugh, Chief- of-Staff, Commissioner F. Dyer, Great Britain, was elected Prosid ent of the Council for the cur- AT 2.30 rent session with Lieutenant- Commissioner Norman Marshall, 6,15

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Palembang Refinery Still Out

Singapore, Apr. 20. Restoration of the main oil re- Gnorios in Indonesia will not begin unt there is a politlent settle- ment of tho' present diflculties in Indonesia, state oil company exc cutives in Singapore,

Although a certain amount of oil is being produced at Tarakan, in Dutch Borneo and at Mir Sarawak, restrention has not yet begun of the giant refinery et Palambang; in Sumatra.

The biggest in the East, the Palembang refinery was operated by the N. V. Nederlandsche Kolo- niale Petroleuis Maatschappij, & subsidiary of Standard-Vacuum. The installation was restored by the Japanese in 1943, but was; later damaged by strikes carried out by the British East Indies

Fleet.

Oil stocks left by the Japanese are still belag used in the South

East Asin area, with some re- placement imported by Shell and Standard-Vacuum from the Per- alan Gulf.

Strict rationing for civilian con- sumption is expected throughout the refineries in the area until

bilcs designed to eell in a price What was favoured and agreet range lower than any now pra- Sumatra and Java and restored, duced probably will make its and until tanker losses are re- to in principle was the decentra-

placed-Reuter. lisation of direction providing for appearance next year. the setting up of a joint military Pacific was concerned, mission, so far as defense of the

COLONIAL PROPOSALS in New Zealand Australia and the United Kingdom.

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It will be one of the results vf the recent Chevrolet

and Ford disclosure that their cars in that field will be introduced in 1947.

Dar-es-Salaam, Apr, 26. A conference hero of the East Although none other long estab African Arab Association has un lished car maker has admitted animously agreed on the

prin plans for such production all are ciples If this principle is accepted later know to have carried on

of the British Colonial by Canada and South Africa. it ments

on experi- Ofice's White Paper proposals with models devoid will mean that joint missions will price

of for inter-territorial reorganisa. sarily a member of the Son, to set up in Ottawa, Melbourne, increasing refinements and tion in East Africa, which in-1

frills that

has brought clude the creation of competition Wellington, Pretoria and London, from year to year to vehicles in African High Army, Each nominee will be pected to answer fully to ques-all in clo

all in close touch with one an- their present low prices. There sisting of the Governor of Kenya, ons on policy and will be asked other, and the machinery of con- may be some small cars with Uganda and Tanganyika, and

a statement; for ence sultation will resemble that al- units of smaller wheel base and elected, the General is the ready in existence between Brl-wheel engines. So far ag has supreme head and the High Countain and the Dominions, under been disclosed, however, the mo- which the Prime Ministers are dels projected by Chevrolet and daily informed of events, both of Ford are to be full-sized vehicles, direct

and indirect concern to Trade scurces say that the their respective countries.

of the lower potentialities The extent of actual contribu-ear marked for is far reaching to priced tjons that Australia and New Zen- ignore. So it is fair

assumption land will make to Commonwealth that by the time Ford and Chey- defence in the Pacific has not yet rolet bring out their cars in that been decided, and this question Chrysler, Stubaker, Nash, Hendon, will be left to the Dominion Ca- Whilly's and perhaps even Pack binets and Parliaments them and will have competitive models selves. Router.

readyAssociated Press.

cil has no more to say.

Only one member of the Coun- ell, Lieutenant-Commander Hare wood from Australia, was unable to attend the session. Two dele- rates from the United States, Commissioner C. Pugmire, and Commissioner T. W. Wilson, have brought their wives.-Reuter.

Noel-Baker Takes Part In Rescue

London, Apr. 24. Blown over the edge of sridge by a sudden violent gust while "climbing the great Gable Moun

tain in the Lake District vester-

day afternoon, Captain Wilfred Noyce was rescued from the Hellfire Gap by his two compan- bians carly today and taken to u

nearby hospital.

The rescuers were Philip Noel- Baker, British Minister of State, and C. A. Elliott, Headmaster of Eton College.

Cairo Talks Veil Of

Behind Secrecy

Cairo, April 26.

Close secrecy is still being maintained by all concerned in the talks for revision of the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936, which have now been in the informal stage here for over ten days.

Members of the Egyptian de-cil, Hafez Afifi, reiterated yester- legation appear to have been day that the discussions leading Captain Noyce, 28-year-old son sworn to secrecy by their lead to revision of the Anglo-Egyptian of Sir Frank Noyce, of Grayshutter, Sidky Panha, Prime Ministreaty are proceeding satisfac Surrey, suffered fractures of his right leg and shock due to pro- ter, and neither they nor the torily.

British delegation have disclos He made the coinment in view longed exposure in bitter weather, -Reuter.

MISSING BANKER'S ART COLLECTION

Vancouver, Apr. 20. The problem of the disposal of the $250,000 art collection belong- ing to Henri Bar, wealthy Shang- lint banker, has apparently boon solved.

progress.

of

ed anything of the talks now if what he termed Dossible mis- understanding of his speech before the Overseas Press Club when hu criticized some results of the Bri- thetish treaty and expressed the hope

that no one will deny

18 the right to be a free and independent people."

Rumours circulating in Cairo range from agreement on basis of negotiation to disagree ment verging.on rupture.

The facts emerging through this tangle of reports appear to be that, though an agreement

Ho emphasized "We are most eager to have the friendliest rela has not yet been reached on the ions with the British and de- Charles Claudon, French bases for discussion, many ob-clared "The vast majority of my Consul-General here, said yester-stacles have been cleared from compatriots day that a Paris dispatch report: the path of the negotiators. It against the British."-Associated ed that Bar's son was en route is hoped that when the expected from Touquet, France, to Paris, fresh instructions from London

to arrange to obtain possession of the collection.

Bar disappeared on April 17 at sen from a passenger freighter en route from Shanchal to Yan- couver.--Associated Press.

BRITISH NOTE TO POLAND

London, Apr. 26.

arrive, a definite move will be made to establish the bases and agenda for the negotiations.

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Rail Strike

The situation is complicated Decision

by disagreement within the Egyptian delegation, centreing round the order in which the points for negotiation are to be graded.

A note was handed yesterday to

All Or Nothing the Polish Vice-Minister for For eign Affairs by the British Am- Sidky Fasha has tried to per- bassador in Poland, which remind-sunde the delegates to accept

grudge

Cleveland, Ohio, Apr. 20.

A nation-wide railroad strike to:

start Bay 18 was ordered today by the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmon and Locomotive En- gineers.

The unions, representing nearly 300,000 caflroad workers, ordered

ed the Polish Government of its the principle of taking up first the walkout after rejecting re- various undertakings that elec- the withdrawal of the. British commendations of the presidential tions should be held at an early forces from Egypt, and only fact-finding board zer a wage in- late under conditions of freedom. then the Egyptian demand for crease of 16 cents an hour and it was officially atated in London union with the Sudan.

changes in some of the working today

Tuka. On the other hand, Ali Maher There is reason to believe that Pasha, former Premier, and called the strike for last month The two brotherhoods originally Britain has been somewhat, dis- turbed by recent reports of the Markam Edeld Pasha, another bot postponed it ponding recom arrest on April 8 of over 40 mom- former Premier, are both deeply mondations of the fact-finding: bers of the Pollah Christian So- committed by, public utterances | board. cialist Party-Reuter.

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REFUGEES IN PALESTINE Jorusalem, Apr. 20.

Canbarın, Apr. 20: ̈ The United States has opened slating that the delegation Begotiations with the Australian should follow the line of either Government for the purchase of obtaining everything Egypt Eight hundred and oighty Australian real estate, to be paid wanta, or else accepting nothing. for with surplus American army Some members of the Egyp- which i sine of dollars worth, tian delegation are said to be

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