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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1940.

PROGRESS AT PARIS

Crucial Stage Reached With Trieste

Meeting Steers Placid Course

(By Sylvain Mangeot, Reuters diplomatic

correspondent)

Parls, Sept. 8. For the first time since the Paris Conference began six weeks ago, it is possible to record some pro- gress in the work for which it was called înto existence to review and complete the five peace treaties, whose drafts were placed be- fore it by the Big Four..

ARCTIC WAR GAMES

London, Sept. 8.

About 1,500 American Army personnel have set of for winter operation manocu- Urcs in the far north of Alaska, the New York Rato→→ sald tonight,

The purpose of the opera- Tion is to test equipment and gather information of the pro- blems of winter operations, the radio added.---Reuter.

Nine responsible committees have during the past week plodded forward, disposing of a clause here and a clause there. They have paused agreed by the Big Four.

It is true that all the agreed frequently to listen, to relapse into procedur- al skirmishing or propagandist oratory of cinusco in the final draft trea- the sort that occupied the first month of the lies now appear guaranteed in Conference but, on the whole, they appear to advance against serious amend- ment by the Parla Conference, have resigned themselves to the idea that their since

it has been shown in real business is to dispose of the five draft pictire

necessary treaties, rather than to remain in Paris inde-majority for modifying recom- to finitely for the purpose of mutual diplomatic mendations is impossible

obtain against tho commop recrimination..

front of the Big Four in de- fence of any given clause.

As a result, Rome of the bolder Conference commenta tors have been tempted to make enleula- furtive mathematical

of the tions of the duration Conference on the basis of the clauses dealt with during the past week.

But even the most optimistic are unable to give any date carlier than the end of October, or the beginning of November. stan- By purely Conference dards, committee work is reach- ing is crucial stage with dia- cussion of Trieste in full swing. Ironically, at the very moment when this question--which was generally and rightly regarded

the result of the publicity which represented it as the focal point of friction between the great

powern.

No Sensations Admittedly the progress al ready recorded by the various committees is of a macdent kind. It had been confined mainly to adoption of the clauses alrently

as the most controversial issue An

between the great powers... comes up for discussion public interest in the Paris Conference has been distracted to the point

that

the

Pellet That Killed A Multitude

Atlantic City, NJ., Sept. 9. Dr. Guy E. Sanvely, executive

the director of

Association of American Colleges, naid today an atom bomb that the Pacific arca

London's Homeless Take Over

London, Sept. 9. Over 1,500 people, re- presenting 500 homeless London families, con- verged on a large block of unoccupied flats this afternoon and took pos-. Session.

In heavy rain, the groups,|

married couples, in mainly young was 900.000 enmo from all parts of London.)

killing persona weighed only 65 pounds, carrying" bedding and bare easen-

He did not specify the target tins. but told an audience of 20,000 Some came in tavia and there watching the finala of the Miss

were a number of furniture vans America beauty contest "last year loaded with household effects.

smail we dropped a

The migration 05 pound

had obviously pellet on Pacifle target. That pellet killed 200,000 people. It is and within ton

organised on a grand scale minutes 1,000 families were shocking that we. a peaceloving people to do that," nation, should have been forced through the doors and were boing The block la in West Kenning- Snavely did not say where he obtained his information concertater this afternoon. parties ing the weight of the bomb.

been

of 400

escorted to individual fats.

"Physical specifications of the were reconnoitring for accom- atom bomb have been among the modation for the overflow from most closely guarded secrets since the block. At 5.00 p.m. nine fur- ther places had been taken over, t: weapon first developed.

home of Officers assigned to pass on the including the prowar information proposed for publica- Lerd Ilchester. Moray House, un-tion, sald in

Washington that where 20 families installed them- no nothing about the bomb's weight | selves-Router.

has been released and expressed doubt that anyone outside a fow scientific and service personnel knows anything

definite-Ass0- ciated Press.

There remain the 26 agreed points. There is guarantee that any of these may not cause a flareup at any moment, but the, general im- pression is that for the time being sensational happenings in committees are unlikely-Reu- ter.

SABOTAGE RESUMED IN PALESTINE

Jerusalem, Sept. 8. · Arab boy was killed in an explosion which wrecked a signal box on the railway line two kilometres from Haifa today. Saboteurs, who were wearing }

of almost total eclipse by out-shirts, shorts and Arab head-

side events,

Rude Reminder

U.S. Byrnes, Mr. James Secretary of State, on Friday, his speech at Stuttgart gave rude reminder that

HOW treaties the der discussion in Paris

ju

the

! pence

un-

are

of very secondary importance in

Anal pattern of

postwar settlement when compared with the treatics with Germany or Japan.

Meanwhile, the Big Four in their informal meetings in Paris continue to be more cun- cerned with the problem of how to resolve the holding of the General Assembly of the United Nations with continuation the Paris Conference than with the day-to-day work of the Conference Itself.

Mr. Ernest Bevin's departure for Lundun yesterday, accom- panied by a large part of his delegation, emphasises the ex- tent to which Britain's current problems of foreign policy are taking precedence over the Paris meeting.

dress are believed to belong to the Jewish terrorist organisa- tion, the Irgun Zvai Leumi.

Two terrorists held up the Arab signalman at pistolpoint and forced him to lie down inside the box. A third ter- rorist carrying a sack of ex- plosives with a fuse attached entered the box and after igni- fuse, all three men made off. The signal box blew ting the

up a few minutes later. The signalman escaped injury.

No General Strike

V.D. Rate At A New High

London, Sept. 8. More than one in United States Servicemen-363

Copper Demand Continues

New York, Sept. 0.

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