1947-06-26 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE-20, 1047.

BRUSSELS DISASTER Eight Dead In Ministerial Building

Huge Explosion And Fire

Brussels, June 24.

Flames swept from the basement to the roof of the Ministry of Education building across the street from Parliament today and firemen said they had counted eight dead.

Flames raced up the elevator shaft from the film library in the basement and in a matter of minutes had cut off several workers on the top floors.

A man, who was rescued by jup from the basement through the fire ladder from n sixth floor elevator shaft and cut off severnl window, anid: "There was some people from the fro escape. ^ punle because the flames roared number of women lost their heade and several jumped screaming on to the roof below. I believe at least three of them were killed,"

Easier Time For German P.O.W.s

London, June 24.

German prisoners of war in

The flames spread from the Ministry roof to catch the adjoin- ing building, used as offices by

the Ministry of Justice, but after on hours-long battle hampered by low water pressure and a

wind, firemen thought they had the flames under control.

The official in charge of the library in the basement said

AND NURSING

THE BABY

London, June 24.

Ste German welfare work- ers; studying British social services hera for the part three weeke, declared today that Britlik husbanda 1m- prerred them more than any- thing else in Britain.

Dr. Helga Prolirus, Ham burg Radio broadcaster and leader of the party, said: "I was amazing to ace how Bri- tish husbands help their wives in dally life and how they do the washing up, shopping, and sometimes even the faun- dry and mending.”—Reuter.

SCAP Policy Objection

Sharp Protests

To America

Tokyo, June, 24.

The strongest possible pro- test will be made to the Unit

Court-Martial Formula Modified

London, June, 24..

The findings and sentence of a British court-mar- tial will in future be announced forthwith in open court after they have been determined. This was one of the recommendi lons-accepted by the Government-made by the Lewis Com- mittee of inquiry into British court-martial procedure, which was set up after the court- martial of certain British troops in Malaya for mutiny in May last year.

werd

The recommendations announced in the House of Commons today by the War

Minister, Mr. John Bellenger. STALIN others are "under active con REFUSES

sideration."

ed States by the United King-Some have been accepted and dom and Australia against the American-authorised second Ja- panese Antarctic whaling £x» pelfilon, it was learned in Bri- tish diplomatic circles today.

It is described as a SCAP at- tempt. to "write a peaco treaty piecemeal,"

"The

other

Those accepted-they will be

Lake Success, June 24. put into effect forthwith-are Generalissimo Stalin has de- the following: Advocate should cease to retire vitation to join with the

Judge clined without comment the in- with the court when it is con- four leaders in the United Na- sidering its finding. For eons anniversary broadcast on Australia especially la an- xious to prevent General Mac- Pesout there should be no June 26. Arther deciding matters relat he retires with the court for plenned a half an hour

change in the practice whereby The United Nations radio has: pro- ing to Japan, which should be consideration of sentence.

from gramme the peace

with messages properly settled at

"Findings and sentence President Truman conference and the question, of

(United be announced by the States), should Antarctic whaling is consider-court-martial forthwith in open (Great

Attlee Mr. Clement Britain,) M. Paul ed to fall in this category.

Although the Allied Council court after they have been de Ramadier (France), and Mar- termined. A copy of the charge shal Chiang Kai-shek (China), former for Japan was given the oppor- sheet should be supplied con- to mark the second anniversary United States Ambassador to tunity to discuss the extension the rehabilitation of Asiatic na-

ad-tions Charter. northern Pacific waters, it vance of a trial."

M. Paul Henrl Spank (Bel- tlona "that were devastated by has never been given the oppor- Those under active considera Japan should be the first order Lunity to discuss the far-reach-tion by the Government, which (United Nations Secretary Gen- gium) and Dr. Tryve Lic business, reserving for ang implications of Antarctic Mr. Bellenger said lower priority the

were, im-cral) will broadcast-Reuter. reconstruc- whaling-Reuter. tion of Japan.”

Chicago, June 25.

Paul V. McNutt,

Britain will be allowed to spend an assistant noted a red glow on the Philippines, said today that of Japanese Nghing rights infidentially to all members of afof the signing of the United Na-)

in British sirops, restaurants the lm shelves and tried to stamp and movie theatres after next out the fire.

Big Explosion month, but they will not be at-1 Jowed in the pubs.

F.

The Secretory of War, Mr.

"There was a terrifle explosion, followed by others," the toffelal

3. Bellenger, announcing sald. the new arrangements in'n writ-j

Three hundred years away, n

ten parliamentary reply today. polleeman directing trame heard safd there would be two condi- the explosion. tions which would unable pri- soners to receive these benefits they must not be classed as Nazis, and their output of work must be satisfactory.

"It was a hell of a noise," he said. "A longue of fame shot from the building 20 or 30 feet and hid the building from sight.

Six trucktipads of troops were Part of their pay will be rushed to the scene to help fire given to them in sterling, in- men rescue screaming women Rfond of an a credit, and they clerks and carry out Important will be allowed to go anywhere documents from the within a five-mile radius of archives. their camps,

This concession is intended to' boost incentive among the prl- soners. Mr. Bellenger said, and it would be subject to review in the light of results-Reuter.

TAXI-DANCERS' GRIEF

or

west Regional Committee of the

In an address before the Mid- |

MeNutt said: Far East American Council Mr.

He

British Paper

Washington, Juné 24.

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court-martial shortly

Portant, are:

I

in

Frigid Solo though Welcome

(a). The Judge Advocate. | General should be appointed in future on the recommendation A United States official sald of and should be responsible to

Chancellor, today that thero fa a British pa- the Lord "However much we may urge per dumocracy upon the Japanese Commission asking the prohibi- not acting on the Judge Ad before the Far Eastorn the responsibility for acting or

Jaffa, June 24. people, we shall be building a ranchine primed for military in the Antarctic.

tion of further Japanese fishing vocate General's advice in any Thirty thousand Jews living aggression ngainst our inter

particular case should remain in the predominantly Arab town cat8, unless we solve the pro- should insist that this be voted cerned.

added; If Australia with the Secretary of State con- of Jaffa stayed at home, when blems of the Orient as a whole, on by the Commission and ob

the United Nations Spocial (b). The Judge Advocate Committee on Palestine motor- and not merely the problems į tains enough votes to support General's department should as ed here from Jerusalem today. of Japan, because we happen to the

-paper, then the United Boon as possible be recon- The fifty-four thousand Mas- be the occupying power there. States As the fire progressed, Senators

representative would stituted so as to separate the lem and Christian Arabs in and deputies Alled the windows and we certainly will withdraw Press

"If we withdraw from Japan, have

л velo power.-United functions of pre-trial advice Jaffa also showed little inter- of Parliament

and of prosecution from fune-est when the Committee's 20- across the street, some time in the future, and watching

tions of a judicial character. car convoy streamed into the Eventually, Parliament was sue-strong in the centre of millions other phase of aggression and cease to be a responsibility of

operations. leave that nation economically will have set the stage for an- The former functions should } town. pended and the Senate

A handful of idlers watched. doctor who are economically weak, wo war."-Associated Press..

Ministry

Parliament Suspended

rescue

was sent to help emergency am- bulance units from all Brussels hospitals.

Between 20 and 30 people were reportedly hospitalized from burns or broken legs, sustained when they jumped 20 feet from the Ministry roof to the top of the adjoining building.

Tientsin, June 24. Four hundred taxi-dancors today naked "sympathy" for their plight following the ban on dancing which has closed the city's 18 dancehalls.

Dancing In forbidden in Tien- tain as "out of place at a time when soldiers are fighting zeal- Practically every piece of fire! ously in the front."United equipment in Brussels was called, Presa.

out-United Press.

The fre reportedly started when a cigarette was dropped in the film ilbrary in the Ministry A basement,

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the Judge Advocate General į Jaffa's. mayor extend a formal and should be transferred to greeting to Judge Emil Band- the directorates in the depart-stroem outside the municipal ments of the Secretaries of War hall. No other members of the and Air. The same should be Jaffa council were present. done in the department of the Earlier at Ramleb, an all- Judge Advocate General for in- Arab town, the mayor gave a

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legatea, but again the boycott "The Committes recognises Imposed by the Palestine Arab that there may be substantial Higher Executive was every- reasons preventing the imme-whore manifest.-Router. dlate adoption of the above re-

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Paris, June 24, new economic policy, aimed at the re-establish- ment of confidence by a spurt in production, will be necessary to offset the psychological effect of France's new austerity law, according to experienced political observers here. To achieve this, more coal ministers in favour of more, and raw materials from abroad rather than less, planning, these and a new home effort are need- observers believed tonight that ed. This, it is argued, means this Government had not many Reuter. dollar credits and more free-weeks to live. dom for private enterprise.

The Bill passed by the Na-

As M. Ramadior's Govern- tional Assembly this afternoon, men! includes a number of providing the Government with

Death Of

Dr. McNair

Chicago, June 34.

some

£83,000,000 of new re-

venue and £134,170,000

of

Perry Festival

economies, means roughly that Revived

Tokyo, June 25.

CHEN LI-FU’S PICTURE OF CHINESE COMMUNISM

(Continued from Page 6)

One of the main great task of the Kuomintang is to preserve Its unity under the leadership of Generalissimo Chlong Kai-shek.

Mr. Chen said that Communist claims to AN effective system of land reform is propaganda. Their socialised systems have

been de-

The festival will be held at to whom it is alloted.

Actually, Mr. Chen wald, the

system has

the State will get nine per cent| more money out of the taxpayer

veloped to play upon the stupidity than was contemplated in the The historic "black ship"

of the masses without regard to original budget.

festival which commemorates increasing agricultural cfficiency At the same time, it means Admiral Perry's arrival in Ja- and production. Thus, the land is an increase in the cost of Iv-pan nearly a century ago will divided into equal portions with- The death occurred here today ing. "Everything will go up be revived next month for the out regard to fertility or indus- of Dr. Harley Farnsworth Mc is the fear in the minds of the first time in eight years. try and experience of the person Nair, authority on China and pro-workers, and the succession of

Shimoda-the little fishing vil traditional family fessor of Far Eastern history and strikes is likely to increase. institutions at the University of The worst symptom sine lage 90 miles from Tokyo where proved through centuries the best Chicago.

1938, according to M. Edouard the first American flag was way to handla the land question. Dr. McNair, who was 55 years, Daladier, former Premier, is raised over the initial United Under this system when a land- died of a heart attack,

this month's "investors' strike" States consulate in Japan.. owner dies his property is divided He lived in China and travelled |--the refusal to buy Govern- The Japanese observed the among the Bons who must assumu extensively, throughout Asia for ment short-term bonds.

arrival of Perry's black ships responsibility for the welfare of 15 years, and served during tho The public is now back in annually at Shimoda until it dependents, any of their number war us canstiltant for the Far Easthe inflationist panic which M. was prohibited. by the militar tern section of the Office of Leon Bhim managed to check iste in a pre-war wave of anti Strategic Services.

by his price reduction campaign | Americanism. Dr. McNair was the author of fast December. Reuter. many books on the For East, including "China's Internatiorial Relations and. Other Essaya," published in 1928, and "The Real Conflict Between China Japan," published in 1939.

He was.

ot various time tributing editor to the "China Weekly Review" and a member of the editorial board of the "Tar Enstern Quarterly," United

Press.

Sulyok Defies Communists

ant

сол-

Budapest, June 24.

Press.

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Associated

Another Hospital Mystery Death

Macon, France, June 23.

renowned

who may dle or be incapacitated. The family system meant con- tingal distribution and redistribu tlon of land and served to pre- vent want and disorganisation. among the people

It is my meeting with Chen Li-fu, who 遇 usually described by Leftist writers de un Rod

ultra-reactionary,nemy of all

baiter" and An things liberal," and I was sur-

anently prised to sco

dressed smallish man with a thatch of grey.

hafr

over a high forehead who looks and talks much like ab in- tense amiable professor વધુ philosophy.e

AIR MERGER

ing the formation of `an' air-

A new mysterious death in the hospital of Macon, where French police have been investigating reports of alleged wholesale poisoning of patients, was announced today by the hos

Ve Batavia, 'Júnò 24. pital's chief surgeon, Dr. Raymond Denis.

Dr. Albert. Plesman, Presi-} The caso brought the Ust of called in three other doctors and dent of the Royal Dutch Alf- suspicious death in the model the local coroner's physician, all linca (KLM) today announced hospital to 10 in the past three of whom confirmed his suspicions the morger of KLM and Tho Deszo Sulyok, opposition leader, years. All the victims have been that death had not been normali Netherlands Enst Indies Air- today charged in Parliament that women who had undergono The Deals revelation was ex-ways Corporation, foreshadow- human rights in Hungary were gynaecological, or abdominal sur-pected to! spur· the respected only for the Commun- gery. Surete Nationale, to renewed ef ways corporation in Indonesia Ists and sometimes their partners, Dr. Denis, did not reveal the forts to solve the mystery of the with Dutch and Indoncatan but never for the opposition." name of the latest victim, but "Hospital of Death

participation-Router. ***Sulyok spoke in the debate on said she was a young woman, met “Insoluble”, psy the treaty which contains a clause upon whom he himself had since they ended an unproduc. for the protection of human operated for a tumour last week Live 24-hour pulling of rights. He said he would call in the hospital's clinic. She ap Marie Demussy, chief nurse at

Rangoon, Jung 24. - | upon the big powers to enforce peared to be recovering normally, the hospital for the past 16 years, Rescue, squade using RUS human rights for everyone, add then suddenly developed a awol the officers have announced noth manke brought out 75 workora Ing. "We do not want the rezulte len face and blackened. tonguo,ing new and said only their in- | trapped in an army cold stor- of the election to be failed by which were also the symptoms in yusügation was continuing. News, age depot when ammonia pipes police tricks and we sale that the the other alleged, poisonings. | paper reports have Intimated, burst today. Three civillan 15- war of nerves at present, being || "Although the death., occurred however, that the polled are pre- bourers were killed. Of the waged in this country, be stopped.” last week, it was not made public, paring to drop the mystery as in-- 76 workers rescued, many, were

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