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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 9, 1947.

FRENCH RAILWAYS PARALYSED Total Stoppage Throughout The Country

"CYNICAL” ACT

BY SOVIET

Leamington, June 7.

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An example of cynical in- terference by a Great Power in the affairs f neighbour was the description applied

Eden, the

formuer

Foreign

Secretory, in a sporch mude here today, when he referred

to the ecerat developpenta in Hungary.

In the absence of "full" in- formation, however, # impemail to protnice final judgment, an the cuse, ke it, but it weemed clear that

it

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is a Thore designed to

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KECHTE the establishment

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und the altimate withitrairal Sariet forcen, Renter.

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Britons Stranded

In France

Folkestone, June 8.

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Army Planes Used

As Substitute

Paris, June 7.

The railway strike spread rapidly to the most of France today. At railway_headquarters, the stoppage was described as "total" throughout the country."

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Railway officials said: "Local traffic is functioning around some towns but every hour brings news of further stoppages. The only long- distance train to reach Paris up to this even- ing was, the Amsterdam express. ̧·

The triter- dave undertaken foodstuffs were allowed to pass, to see that fund trains run, but Throughout the day the city's arrivals in Paris have ren low

great terminals were besieged by ung] patchy. The shunting stair V | Desusands of ill-tempered would brindle this frathe have been re- be travellers Brid vacationists

deed

Intnunum.

train

who rane in the vain hope that the strike might be settled.

Four Hundred British tourist, who were stranded m Calafs last

The government mobilized might, beft today by motor coach,

several hundred irmy trucks settes for Paris and some For Baste. They slept in the

which will be pinced at the dis- Blast night and railway officinte [posad of people stranded in Paris The Porative up to who have to return to their homes warm thei

in the outskiris, Air France threw Travel agencies in Paris were a special strike schedule into wiking overtime Malay to solve [operation to maintain Hatson be. the problems that the strike had tween isolated cities. The govern. brought before Hiens.

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FORKS PAS?

Sydney, June 7. The Annual Meeting and Dinner of the Australian In- ventura Society, normally.a decorous function, has just broken up in near confurton. One member „demonstrated a patent fork which, whien button ta pressed in thr handle, pushes the food gent-' ly into the mouth.

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The dinner was proceeding when after a loud click, the fork propelled a generous alice of musage the length of the table. At the second try it “ flung, a piece of potato on

the fellino diners; whercat Inventor, amidst laughter, 70. quested a normal fork.-Okt Own Correspondent.

Burmese Independence Demand

Gun Duel.

Bulgarian Frontier Dementi

Sufin, June 7.

The Bulgarian News Agency states that it has been RU- thorised to deny reports attri. buted to the Greek News

On Sumatra Agency about threats' said to

Coast

Singapore, June 7. Merchant Navy officer A.

Le

Martin of Perth, Australia, de. scribed a gun duel today tween a Dutch light naval craft

have been made by Bulgarian frontier guards to the United Nationa sub-commission. In- quiring into guerilla warfare in Greek frontier areas.

_The_Agency_described as com- pletely false the report that the Bulgar frontier authorities had and an Indonesian shore battery, threatened to open fire on the which he said he had witnessed sub-commission and added that at Sibolga, northwestern Sumn-exchanges between the sub- commission and the Bulgar ira, on May 11.

frontier authorities had been conducted with all the rules of international equrtesy.

The Dutch warship had inter- cepted a Chinese chartered ship In which he was serving din first officer at Sibolgs, where it was unloading what the Dutch de- scribed as an "illegal" cargo of milor tyres, cloth and fuel oil from Singapore, Martin said.

An Indonesian khore gun apened fire and scored a direct

Not one incident of the sort described by the Greek Agency bad taken place, the Bulgarian Agency Bald, along the whole of the Greek-Bulgarian frontier.- Router...

hit on the Dutch ship's engine Still Puts

room, wounding a Duteli gineer.

retaliated

en-

with

Young Men In Business

The Dutch heavy and automatic gune, bombarding the Indonesian port for over an hour until columna Rangoon, June 8.

of ameke rose 100 feet into the

London, June 7. An informed source said yes-

Sir Thomas White Is still terday that the Governor's Ex-afr. Martin and,

Chinese attempts to run the putting young men into business centive Council has re-utlärmed

Dutch "blocknde” of Indonesia-nearly 400 years after his As the authoritles battled this the Burma demand for com-

were contributing to bloodshed | death. plete independence from Great The

there, he added-Reuter. Public Utilities Federation | Britain.

nt announced that the service would be boosted by the use of aring planes,

1,500,000 Held Up · Aa Amerienn cumjuny enh [*perini has from Paris to Calnus

[ with passengers for England and įsituatión a new threat. loomed, Although warned not onde plans for special buses

to go to France, 256 pusit the strike continues, sengers, mostly tourists, left

British

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Folkestone several whane Smeillis with east of living bonus."

for Calais last night the steamer Isle of. Thanet.

un syren fre Cross er orders to sail for

statistics

Terbourg for Alluntie #ners threatened to, strške unless. the When the British plan for government gave them a number | India was announced and the Yesterday the

Lot advantages, including a "high | Indiun lenders accepted at least temporary dominion status, the the Greek ship

Cabinet Meeting

Burmese Cabinet was reported to have discussed and reviewed Inicial cal strike

Such a strike would include gas, Burma's demand in view of the tonight stimated that 1500 electricity, subways, buses

and neighbouring state's decision. held

garbage disposal services.

A mase rally was called for Bamatier is to held an extra-June 19 to reiterate the inde ordinary Caliiniet zoeeting at 9pm.pendence demands, tonight" when he will inform in. terested Ministers of the progress, if any, that had been made in to day's negotiations.

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The bout train from London Travellers have brought 270. and itly 14 de-throughout Prance, including rufed to stay on this side of the 580,000 Paris workers relying on Chonnel, It is estimated that beat traire- to take timin to their there must be at least 1080986, 12,000 manhours being British tourists now "delayed at duly through the strike,

The National railway sydtem 1 Calais,

losing 350,000,000 Tranes in re British tourists reipts each day of the strike, who erassed the Channel in Reuter Friday for continental, holidays ||

"Iron Curtain" returned on Saturday because!

Paris, June 7. France was in the krip of a virtual general railroad strike to

Scores of

of the French vad strike,

The flanel steamer

"Isle

Until a late hour this evening there were no signs that the gov- jernment would buck down from Ets "no work no negotiations" stand. For the moment the Rail. road Men's Federation showed no signs of backing down in its re

of Thanet" brought 150 fuissent-day as 150,009 ratiart men, refusal. gers from Cainis Saturday fusing

Normally on 25 Saturday she Ramadier's appeal to

brings 800 or 900. The If want. Josed down terininals millions in lost capital, there was

ference in

Ju Pred Premier Paul Despite the grave situation return which was costing the country numbers divated throughout the country. that the rail strike

Ine intimation that the government Paris, hub of the country's ruil would have recourse to a requisi- network lay behind a veritabletioning urder which would place

left many

tourists atranded In Frater.- Associtzet Press,

EXECUTIONS-IN SALONIKA

Athens, June 1. Accused of faking part in a plat to separate Macedonia from Greece, eight Macedonian civiẞans were sentenced to death by a military court and were shot in Salonika today.

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Meanwhile some 300 mem- hera of the Burma police force have planned to leave today for Akyal to join the military and civil forced engaged in fighting were members of the Slav termen are deluging the offices of

revolutionary movement in roristle organisation. "Okrana". the Arakan.Associated Press. Reuter.

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It had been alleged that they

Surprise Landing At Tengah

Singapore, June 7.

iron eurtain through which only railmad workers under military The famous Dutch pilot, Captain D. K. Parmentier,

HUNT

SCIENTISTS TO

THE MISSING LINK

Capetown, June 8. South Africa is to be the base from which a'costly

scientific expedition organised by the Univer sity of California and sponsored by General Smuts will set forth in July to spend one year in the remote regions of Africa probing for final proof that man is a descendant of the apc.

Professor Le Gros Clark, of Ox-

orders and force them wrk.qited Press,

back to

Emergency Plans

Puris, June 7, Emergency filus for 310- visional road and air transport to nyereone

travel the nationwide

the holdup, caused by

French Failway strike, were announced- tonight by M. Jules Moch, Su elulist Transport Minister in broadenst.

He said that from

tomorrow, cars will link Parls with a mum her of big towns, including Calais an Le Itavre,

Air

Operations manager of the KL.M. Nether- lands Airlines, surprised aviation officials at Singapore here this afternoon when he landed a Constellation Nijmegen at the Royal Air Force airfield at Tengah, 14 miles north of Singapore, on a survey light from Amsterdam to Batavia,

Tengah, which will shortly be|vice weekly continuing to Syd- completed, will be the only ney. He hoped that facilities Singapore airfield capable of at Tengah airfield, which both Constellation aircraft he and Parmentier considered taking until the Changi airfield is "perfect," would be available to finished in about two years the KLM.-Reuter. time.

It is unterstood that Austra-

Malaya Aids Ceylon

of

would be inèrvas- transport to Marseilles, Lyuns and Bel- lian Constellation planes from Led by Wendell Phillips, Field form.

fort. and military

nuval the Qantas Company, when they and Those and other skulls planes

civilians will carry Director of the Museum

to begin their service to England of since discovered, including one un-Bordeaux, Toulouse, Rennes and Palaeontology of California Uni-earthed only a few weeks ago, Brest.

at the end of the year, will use versity, the expedition will dig for have finally convinced the British!

ready special lorry service would Tengah until Changi is skulls of the ape-like beings under and American authorities that new eacky urgently needed goods, the

but the same facilities have

Singapore, June 7. five feet high who uttered near secrets of man's origin are about Minister said.

Several million clonal- secds than for not been extended to human words, walked on their to be revealla.

from Malaya are to be flown to M.. Morh teminded the country the Dutch. hind legs, used their hands for

an aircraft, owned by salaries that already workers

RAF fficials advised Par-Ceylon

Government to re- manipulating primitive tools, andford, who has come to the Union were almost doubled in 1945, that mentier before taking off from the Ceylon lived in Southern Africa than 75,000 years ago.

more under the auspices of the Royal the total had been increased by Bangkok this morning that he habilitate the rubber industry

should take an enough petrol on the island. The American expedition is the has stated that the discoveries pared-to pay another 12,000 mil Tengah was not ready.

Society to make Investigations, 60 per cent since July, 1946 and

that the Government wag preto make Batavia in, one hop as

This follows the recent visit climax to the Investigations of 80. in South Africa

a two-man fubber inquiry are definitely Han francs (£27,000,000) for year-old Dr. Robert Broom, South mm in the making, and seem to

While in flight, the aircraft commission from Ceylon Africa's internationally

wage rises. fainous represent the transition from ape

The despatch of n large con- anthropologist. The first link in to man:

"This will bring the wages bill sismalled that its petrol safety to 20 per

atmurgia was rather fine and re- sigament has already been be his new chain of evidence came 30 Sir Arthur Keith, veteran Bri- | present," he stated.

quested permission to land ntgun, years ago when a human-like skull tish anatomist, has also complete. Britain's Southern Railway un- Tengah. The RAF hurriedly The Malayan rubber Industry apparently of a tossit bushmanly accepted the South

today African honeed

1947 is expected cleared equipment from the during child was discovered at Taungs view that the problems of man'sNewhaven-Dieppe services from strip to enable the plane to bring into the country $600,000,- in Bechuanaland. Dr. Broom and origin

been london have been withdrawn un-land. have practically

000, states the "Malayan other scientists considered it to be solved.

til further notice and passengers Besides owning the first Con-server," published today by the neither that of an ape nor of a · Primitive Music

on other gervices were advised not stellation to test out Tengah, Malayan Union Government ---- human being. but of an inter.

to travel. mediate type representative of the for further evidence of early man

Besides searching cave deposits In Paris, entrances to rallway the K.L.M. hope to be the first Reuter.

atations

jammed ape-ilke beings from which man and Its

to Inaugurate, a Constellation with has evolved. But the British mu-scientists will look for fossil re- and one man was

American travellers trying to leave the city service to the Far East. exhaustive have paid a taxi-driver hair study of primitive music and pri- milllon froncs to drive him mitive peoples, including the Bordeaux, 300 miles away. Reu-that he hoped a Constellation

ler,

ancestors,

thorities doubted the authenticity piles and make an of this missing link.

New Secrets

In 1930, near Johannesburg, Dr. bushmen of Kalaburi and the pig-| Broom found a fossil brain cast of mies of the Congo.

an adult form allied to the Taunga The expedition was planned

ape child. It was the size of after General Smuts had met lead-the project.

cent more than

were

that

the

reported to

Mr. Plesman, KLM Presi- |sident, who is one of the pas to sengers on the Nijmegen, said

service would be operating by the Arst week in October. The KLM have planned seven ser- vices weekly from Amsterdam to Batavia via Cairo, Baghdad, Karachi, Bangkok and Singa pore in 72 hourò, with one ser-

normal man, remarkably human ing anthropologists. during lo Special films will be taken of In type, and contained beautifully | visit to America, He has accept- the expedition's dincòverles In preserved teeth, almost human ined the honorary chairmanship of Africa. Our Own Correspondent,

"JANE"

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CONCENTRATION CAMP BREAK

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Athens, June 7 The harbour, authorities Piraeus, port of Athens, have been warned to look out for six Bulgarian political refugees and to have escaped in a boat from a concentration, camp on the island of Syrn of southeas- tern Greece.

The refugees are believed to be sailing towards the Turkish coast. The harbour, authorities nt Piraeus have ordered all other Greek porta to keep watch for the boat-Reuter.

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to the KING'S

CHARLES DICKENS'

"GREAT

EXPECTATIONS”.

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"Horrible". Colonial Conditions

Prague, June 7. The shocking and even hor- rible

conditions existing for colonial labour Africa were noted with regret, said yester- day's report of the meeting of the Executive Committee of the World Federation of Trade Unions.

The majority of African ter- ritories in which these conditions prevail, said the report, are un- der British, French and Belgian administration, who have large and influential trade unions.

The Executive Committee de- cided to urge these unions and also the World Federation of Trade Unions to impress upon the respective Governments the necessity for alleviating present conditions in colonial territorien and to grant coloured workera social and economie rights and aid. Reuter.

ENVOY RESIGNS

Rio de Janeiro, Jung 7. It is understood here that the United States Ambassador, Mr. William Pewley, has written to President Truman, his post-Reuter.

resigning

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