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THE CHINA MAIL," TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1940.

DRAMATIC PARIS PHASE Major Peace Conference Questions

America's Demand For Our Bases

Which Way Will Cat Jump?

THE FOURTH MEETING OF THE FOREIGN

Washington, Apr. 29. The move in the Senate for bases from Britain in connce- tion with the proposed loan, may bring the first Congressional showdown this week on one of the nation's pressing postwar International problems of what

American-built AT to do ab ut military llations the world.

all over

The Senate will get the innuo in the forms of an amendment which would require Britnin ta yield her tile to the Atlantic bases now under a 99-year lease and permit commercial use of

PARIS, APRIL 29.

MINISTERS HERE TODAY IS EXPECTED TO OPEN 'A DRAMATIC AND SIGNIFICANT PHASE IN THE FOUR-POWER PARIS CONFERENCE. ALL EYES ARE NOW TURNED TO LONDON, WONDERING WHAT THE BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY, MR, ERNEST BEVIN, WILL BRING BACK FROM HIS CONSULTATION WITH THE EMPIRE PREMIERS.

Spanish Socialist Conference

Madrid, Apr. 29,

A delegate, armed with full authority to speak decisively for many thousands of Sucialists in- side Spain, is believed to have arrived in Toulouse already, for the Congress Spanish Socialist Party meeting which opens here this week.

Strikers' Threat

Sydney, Apr. 20.. The strike of 9,000 meat sworkera hore le creating a critical treat shortage throughout the Sydney area. Dispute began when two wor korn

were dientianed from Riveratoja Abbalcijs 'for signalling the antoking reccan five minutes, carlu. A

The strikers have threaten ed to extend their, walk-out, to the cheese, butler and bacon processing-Associated Press,

Argentine Loan To Spain

الهدا

Buenos Aires, April 29.

THE SAME TIME, THE RUSSIAN DELEGATION — ENTRENCHED IN THE SUPER DE LUXE HOTEL PLAZA ATHENCE, INTO WHICH IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PENETRATE WITHOUT A PASS SIGNED BY THE RUSSIAN POLICE AUTHORITIES-IS LIKEWISE THE the Prime Minister of the whareby. Argentina will lond

Spanish government in exile, will Spain CENTRE OF SPECULATIONS,

be decided.

Vital questiona, including that Foreign Office sources re- of whether the Socialist Party portod that an agreement

The comparative concord and Western authority and culture be-

secondary hind the iron curtain." agreement

All four of these Italian pro-

LWO

should

continue to

collaborate

them by the United States and points in the Italian peace treaïblems are "dyname" because of chance to talk with Mr. Ernest signed on Tuesday and denied

also of other instaliations be- fore the British can draw any funds on the projysed loan.

Me Farlan 1, Benast r

Demo- crat of Arizona, has proposed! amendment and Senator the Tom Stewart, Democrat of Ten- that he nessee, told newsmen

welcomed

With the question of Italian re

30,000,000 Pesos ($7,500,000) to buy food- It is believed that this delegate stuffs in this country will be may also visit Paris and seek a Bevin, the rh Foreign Secre- the loan had any "internation- the Anglo-tary, whom he knew previously,al or political importance".

The delegate may stress the view Diplomatic circles in Duérios that the Socialists in Spain con- Bider the Cabinet is unsatisfactory and is not going far enough to the Right.

of those

who are dubious about some of ions. the, conference in the con- the questions are again side. whom they claim are often 00:ment's policy of assisting na- |

which marked last week's open-

phase of the conference is underlying British and Russians

and views therean in us an agreeable, probably promising. pastorf over Russian battle for control of the

Aires expressed surprise that ture

Mediterranean. to the conference synĺphony,

If an agreement is reached on but everybody in the conference delegation circles realises that the one or more of these four points

the loan negotiations came at a time when Franco's govern- the reason for optimism for the ren! issues e ahend.

ment is before the United Na- success of the conference and fu

Socialists In Spain take the tions Security Council for pro- parations and the Italo-Yugoslav ture peace of the world will begin who are frontier temporarily relegated to to be justified once observers; the leadership

according to ex- view that it is necessary to follow able investigation, but Foreign within Office spurces said the loan is examination by technical commnla-perienced

lean those but if disagreement persists, or Spain and

in exila consistent with the govern tracked and postponed, then it is of touch with realities.

tions whose economy has been want

a tyve generally forecast in well-inform- ed international quartera in Paris of Party

Although details of the loan that this will be a clear indica Labour Party and they approve! tion that the real will to sacrifice of the expulsion from the Party have not been disclosed, it is national claims in the interests of of the former Premier Juan Ne-understood to contain stipula- understanding and grin and the former Foreign tions that food cannot go international compromise will be more apparent Minister, Julio Alivales del Vayo, directly to Spanish distributors because of their pro-Communist which, the Foreign Office tendencies. by its absence than by its pre-

sources said, would. prevent There are other currents inside Franco from using food to con- sence.

the Party, hut this is dominating one at present. Heutrol the Spanish domestic situa

tion. Associated Press tex.

expects it to drow maximum strength from those openly opposed to the loan or

og another subject of its provisions and still have not ing week can hardly avoid trea if

Ing one

alor importance involving vital made up, their minds,

However, Senator MaeBank, and hitherto contradictory in- Democrat of South Carolina, tereats of Russia on the one hand, on the told a newsman it was his un- and the British Empire derstanding that "satisfactory other.

being made in progress" is

for the separate negotiations acquisition of commercial rights for bases that the United States had built on Empire soil.--As- acciated Press

Mr. Byrnes At The Races

Paris, Apr. 29. Mr. James Ryrnes, the United States Secretary of State, ac companied by his wife, visited the Paris races yesterday.

As he went home, he walked through a crowd in the paddock. hin grey felt

One or more of the four remain ing major questions in the Italian treaty must inevitably come up to orrow, unless the Ministers have decided to devole the fourth mee! ing to whether or not Germany and Austrip shall figure on their agenda.

Major Questions

These major questions are: (1) Dispos of the Italian co- lonics, especially Tripolitania, which Russia claims sole trustee ship, but which

lies across the narrow strip of water separating Europe from the North African const, and a. sensitive point on the British Empire's Mediterran can lifeline.

Nothing that happened last week gives any indication which

will jump way the cat

on the four burning points of the Italian problem,

"Least Dangerous In French quarters, it is hoped too expectantly- though not that Mr. Ernest Bevin will re- turn willing to go some consider- able way to support the French regarding Western Ger. view many.

If this is the case, it

is possible that the French may support the American and British delegates in regard to the outstanding burn. Dr.

In the best informed conference circles, contrary to general b lief, Trieste is regarded as

the least dangerous of the Italian - pics, for on Trieste it is under- lood it is not excluded that the British and Americans maybe willing to make big concessions to view.- the Russian point of

Reuter.

smlling and raising appel and close to the Turkish coast, which ing questions in the Italian treaty.

the

(2) Future sovereignty over the Dodecanese Islands. which lie hat when the

press photographers took pic constituted Germany's strategic even af er Allied tures. One pretty French girl stronghold, rushed up with a pen, asking for troops had forced their way into an autograph, but Mr. Byrnes de Rome.

·(3) Itallan frontiers with clined, smilingly.

France, Yugoslavia, Austria Mrs. Byrnes, wearing SMBIL

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and finally the Parisian hat with a bunch of (South Tyrol)" flowers, seemed to enjoy the meet-port of Trieste.

(4) Allied supervision over ing and took a great Interest in the horses. She watched the Italy.

Dynamite TAces through a pair of outsize fleld-glasses loaned her

American officer.-Reuter.

by an

Boston, Apr. 28..

On the last mentioned point. the Americana have a plan for a Commission joint Allled Control

year or 18 to operate for one

because

Travelling Wrong Road

Thesembling the British upset by the war.

the gre

Dr. Schuschnigg On The Ills Of Austria

Romo, April 29. Kurt Schuschnigg, Austria's fast Chancellor before the Anschluss, told the Associated Press yesterday that re- habilitation of Austria depended on the illimination of

make tha prozent four occupation zones, "which economic intorchange impossible," and an early with- drawal of the occupation forces.

The peace and well-being of Europe," Schuschnigg assert- ed, "calls for the establishment of a security system which prevents great powers threatening smaller. coun- tries as Germany menaced Austria after Hitler came to power,"

with at present, adding As the foreign ministers in tria Parla prepared to debate a solu-some bitterness, "I was a per- tion for the Nazis' unwillingsonal friend of my predecessor The "He de France" sailed for months. The Russians are reso

partner in war, including the (Engelbert Dollfuss, who was Cherbourg last night, being the lutely opposed to this,

reported proposal by the United nssassinated in 1934) and as first "luxury" ner to depart they fear that if they accept the

Warsaw, Apr, 29. States that Russia should re- long as his name cannot be men- Allied from Boston since the war, with

control

Declaring that the Ministry duce her present occupation tioned in Austria, I don't want ADA Italy, the British 'over

and of Public most of her 180 passengers either principle of joint Americans engaged in relief work Americans, and possibly even the 150,000 agents in making masschnigg said Austrian economy

Security employs foree of 200,000 men. Schus-to go there."-Associated Press. or refugee Europeans returning French, will claim similar control

PLANE TRAGEDY IN their homelands.-Associated of Bulgaria and Rumania, the arrests, the Polish peasant party would be crippled because "the

Stanislaw

CANARIES Banczyk, Russians occupy the best agri- bringing Western observers and leader,

warned parliament that the part cultural areas."

"Unlike followed by the Provisional Gov-

the British

Madrid, Apr. 29. and

All occupants were killed ernment is not democracy but Americans who bring their food the road to totalitarianism or ain," he said, "the Russians and when an American two-engined dictator secretariat."

the French live off the country, plane, travelling from Casablan- Banezyk urged the "freedom That means that a considerable ca, of man" in Poland and said that amount of food is not reaching the people's referendum which, the Austrian people." is to be held on June 30 "cannot

Getting Worse

to Press.

British Troops Clash With Jewish Civilians

Jerusalem, April 29.

All Jowish settlements and a numbor of towns in the south- west section of Palestine were declared out of bounds to British troops yesterday. The order resulted from an incident last night in which, military authorities reported, a group of soldiers wrecked the inside of one house and injured several male inhabitants, two seriously.

replace the general elections He expressed appreciation of which we desiro should be held the efforts made by the relief

crashed into the sea in flames off Port Nass, Lanzarot Island, in the Canary Archi- pelago, it is reported here.

Big oll patches on the water were the only visible remains of

as quickly as possible and not agencies to help the Austrians, the accident when several fish- later than July 28."-Associat-but declared that the situationing boats, put ed Press,

off from Port was still "extremely serious" Naos to the scene of the disas and that "things were growing ter.. WAR CRIMINALS IN

The aircraft was on its week. varse."

nation, A hungry HIDING

Schuschnigg maintained, wasly trip from Casablanca to the London, Apr. 20, unlikely to achieve political re- Canary Islands-Bouter. Moscow radio yesterday quot covory, the more so since Aus

WORKERS OBJECT The military announcement said, adding that the clustics

Havana, Apr. 29. pald order Was restored took place in the north coastaled Tass dispatch from Zagreb tria was "never truly a nation,

Cuban sugar workers are op- by military police and other cities of Beer, Tuvia and Nsaying that 52 Yugoslav war either before cr after 1918." In troopa rushed to the settle thanya: In Nathanya, centre of criminals were still hiding in the years following 1918, he ex-

plained, frequent reorientation posed to the sale of the 1947 United to the ment which in south of Tel Aviv Palestine's diamond cutting in any Yugoslav war crimin- of Austrian policies bewildered sugar crop

dustry, a number of shop winule also have found asylum in the people and prevented unity. States at the same price that Another incident was report dows were smashed. A fuli en- the Allied Occupation zones in Those who recalled the Aus- was tentatively agreed upon for ed to have occured at Nathanya,quiry into the affair is now take Austri, Tass Was quoted, trian empire- even objectively this year's crop, President on the northern coast, but no of- ing place, the communique dis-particularly__in the French were, attacked as reactionaries, Josus Menendez

in the coastal area.

›ficial details are available,

The military announced that

an inquiry had been opened `to' find the ringleaders.

closed.ABBociated Press.

Mayor's Appeal.

Italy

of the Sugar zone, where General Baljakovic, he said, while those who opposed Workers Federation said yes- 'Mihailovich's former right-hand the idea of a greater Germany 'erday.

Menendez said the 1947 crop Tel Aviv, Apr. 20.

man, former war minister Na were called traitors. After 1993, The Mayor of Tel Aviv, the big varatic and Mussolini's figure however, patriotism mean ad- should be sold under "effective There was widespread specula- Jewish city near Jaffa, in order, hend Quaternik, are still at vocacy of Austrian indepen- guarantees for industry and tion, but no official statement, to avoid disturbances, today a-large-Associated Presa dence. After the Anschluss the workers." "So far nothing-of situation was again roversed, the kind has been offered them that the incident may have been posted to the public not to form recrimination for the terrorist crowds in the streets. He made

1945 brought yet anothor re-by the United States.—Asso- vorral.

ciated Press. Won't Return

attack on a military car park in his appeal in view of the order

closing Rinces of entertainment in

Tel Aviv on Thursday night in Tel Aviv by the local British Mill-

EXPLORER DEAD

V* New York, Apr. 20. Caplain Robert A. Bartlett, the which seven airborn solo tary commandant who stated that Newfoundlandian

Azatio X- "I am Armly. convinced that NO MORE CAKES IN S.A. were killed by armed civilians. he held the town responsible for plorer, who took part in Admiral Austria will be able to live as 6

Capetown, Apr. 29. Associated Press.

the roount murders of British Peary's 1000 expedition to the mall nation," the former The manufacture of all cake, Goldlors.

Bouter.

British troops clashed with group of soldiars entered tão/2olo, died horo today apod 70 chancellor declared, "provided | confectionary and macaroni in

Bottiemont of Beartavis damaged some houses and wrecked the leberler of the house,

London, Apr. 29.

Jerusalém 'Clash,

Jorissalem, Apr. 29..

her economia situation can be the union of South Africa wili worked out, and provided no one Jowish clvilland here in rioting that, was deeply deplored by

The American Army has to great power in Europa.is, per the authorities, an official was posted her toalett day handed over 80 war crimin-mitted to threaten and strangle

Investigation is being made to diet to the Czechoslovak authori- its small neighbours. A MAN commitinique announced today,

the ringleaders. All Jewish Beveral elvilians ware Injur-ville and come town" and out ties for punlahment, the Prague Schuschuleg hald he had no Intention of returning to Aus ed, one seriously, the statement of bounds to tepops, Bastar) (A

Radio reports-Beuter.

stop on May 1, due to the wheat shortage, T. G. Strauso, mimater of agriculture, amongood, yester assicultu

Biscuit production fraz cháored 2ut of 40 per cent of the pre-

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