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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1947.

Britain's "Battle Of The Commons Rejects

Balance Of Payments" Appeal To Britons To Give Utmost To

Increase Production As Urgent As Period Before D-Day

London, July 23.

Declaring that Britain is involved in a “battle of the balance of payments," in which her econo- mic survival as a great power is at stake, Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade, appealed soday to all Britons to give their utmost to incréase production. Without mincing words, Sir Stafford Cripps told a Rotary Club luncheon here that the "situation is as urgent for our future as was the period before D-Day." He added:

the

HONOUR FOR

AN MTB

Greenock, July 23. The Royal Standard › waz flown by a motor-torpedo-boat for the first time today when King George, QueenTM Eliza- beth, the PrincessCK Elizabeth and Morgaret and Licutement Philip Mountbatten boarded MTH 2018 and made a Royal pression, lasting G5 minutes, through the Home Fleet of 100 grahtips and auxiliaries in the River Clyde.-United Prens

Rumanian

Journalist

Kidnapped

Vienna, July 23.

A Rumanian journalist, George Nenison (nephew of the late Nicolina Titulescu, famous Rumanian Foreign Minister) was reported here today to have; been kidnapped by men describ- ed foreign secret police agents in central Vienna yester- day morning.

#15

Amendments

London, July 23.

The House of Commons, tonight began to reject one by one, the amendments made by the House of Lords to the Government's Trans- port Nationalisation Bill, the first bill of the present session of Parliament on which the Government was defeated in the House of Lords on any of the clauses.

The overriding Labour majority rejected in turn the provisions made by the Conservative peers that the Minister of Transport should give no direction to the Ruling Transport Commission which would prevent it from paying its way; that the Transport Commission, instead of the Minister, should name the executives of the nationalised industry, and that Scotland should have a separate execu- tive.

The House of Lords made a total of 233 amendments to the Bill, but most of these wero drafting changes.

In the others, the House of Lords, with its Conservative, majority, tried to curb the power of the Minister of Transport and to decentralize the control over railway, Inland water and road transport, 2001 after

This in not the first time a Coastal Force craft has been ng honoured, however. A "}}" M. flew the Royal Standard when His Majesty visited the Normandy Cogent D-Day.

"Seldom in the world's his- | Sir Stafford Cripps deplored Jory has a greater call come to the fact that the Marshali offer; any nution, a call for sourage huid become a subject of “poli. and leadership, Let us welcome tient controversy between that challenge And meet it with two parts of Europe whose reports were' coal, steel, electric ail qur resources and energy,lationship, he said, should be

that the British Common-close, wealth of Nations, by its prac In conclusion, the President tient lentiam, may play its full of the Board of Trade said that part in helping to save

the most important factors in

the

jawer and transport.

"A shortage of any one of these factors,” he anid, “would have a disastrous effect upon Britain's recovery programme."

work from what otherwise will the balding up of Britain's ex- Reuter.

be an economic chaos."'

Sir Stafford Cripps warned | that we cannot continue to live on hack as a country any more than we could ng indiel. KRAİR.” The only remedy, he said, in in Britain's own efforts and. "if need be, in our own abstinence."

Britain is running out of her dollar credits at an alarining pace." Sir Stafford Cripps told)

Ministry Of Food Profiteering?

London, July 23.

his audience. Dollar expendi A charge by Lord Lyle of Westbourne, Chairman

tures be said, are

expended

FAW

roughly for foodstuffs, materials, machinery. Minis, tobacco and newsprint "and lit- fr or nothing else."

"With our present level of imports of 70 to 80 per cent"

of prewar level)," Sir Staf-i Ford Cripps continued, "thereb is no cut we can manage with- out à serious dislocation of pro- duction in either foodstuffs or raw materials.

of the West Indies Sugar Company, that the

Ministry of Food was making a 50 per cent pro-

fit on imported Jamaican grapefruit, retailed

here for almost 10 times the price paid to Jamaica_growers, was denied in the House of Lord today by Lord Henderson, the Govern- ⚫ment spokesman.

Lord Lyle,, who, according to a thumping profit, clearly denied the sugar company director Mr. to anybody associated with a pri- Alan Walker, wns asked. byvate enterprise."

Jamaica citrus fruit growers in Lord Henderson told Lord Lyle "We have, in fact, cut out the ventilate what appeared to be a that he would bring this informa increases we had hoped to scandalous position," asked if the tion to the attention of the Ford achieve in food-in itself Government wanted to make this Minister Mr. John Strachey serious matter, especially as re-profit to replace the losses it was Reuter, gards variety-and we have suffering due to inefficient buying. mude a few adjustments in raw He declared that the grapefruit. materials where we can afford cost the Fond Ministry 23/4 per to do so without any materin! cose, Including freight insurance effect on our export production, and eartage, while they sold at for

"But all that does not amount 30/-.

to a very great deal. As to spe- Commenting na Lord Lyle's cini_machiners, which is im-statement, Mr. Walker described ported because it is unobtain the Food Ministry's earnings as able in this country, we must not cut that since it is the basis for some of our hopes for an

Increase in production.

More Cuts?

Doesn't Call

Tobacco imports, he said For British

have been

cut drastically,

"though we may have to do

more, of course, if things get Protest

worse."

While the Chancellor of the

Exchequer, under the terms of

London, July 23.

zone

Nenison was stated to have feared for some time that he would be kidnapped by Rumania Government agents The debate was the subject of and had been trying to escape wide constitutional interest as a to France. A ban on all Aus- result of recent suggestions, in- trians leaving the Soviet

cluding those by Mr. Herbert pf Austria, without a special Morrison, the Lord President of stamp on their documents, made the Council, and the Minister of this impossible.

Health, Mr. Ancurin Bevan, that if the House of Lords show. ed signs of obstruction, Socialist legislation steps might be taken to curb its powers.

Large numbers of Hungarians, Rumanians, Poles and Yugoslavs who have tried to cross the bor- der without a permit, are re. ported to have been arrested at the zonal frontler by Soviet troops and deported to their

own counirica.

Some who have elected to re manin in Vienna are said to have been kidnapped and taken back to their homelands. Reuter."

Britain's Armed Forces

London, July 24. Britain's military forces con- aisted of 1,297,300 men and wo- men on June 30, the Secretary of State for War, Mr. Bellenger, told the House of Commons-on Wednesday.

Included in this 'total, he said, were 806,200 in the Army, 303,000 in the Royal Air Force and 188,100 in the Royal Navy

Associated Press,

Appeal To Britain

Singapore, July 23.

Peter Radcliffe, a former Lieutenant-Colonel of the British Army, broadcasting over the Jog- jakarta Radlo tonight, appealed to the peoples of the British Commonwealth to urge their respective governments to "put an end to the brutal colonial war in Indonesia." The situation in Indonesia is the exact counterpart to those which we fought in the last war" to stop," he added.

"If we let this cruel example of aggression go un- challenged we shall probably experience the same situation in Europe within the next ten years," he said. the

Colonel

Radcliffe said this given by the Dutch if they over-

UNUSUAL ACCIDENT

Frankfurt, July 23. The American-licensed news agency Dena today reported that 11 people were killed Last night Hear Hamburg when they were mcept from the steps of a a train by the door of a freight car on an- other train passing them in the opposite direction,-Unit-

ed Press.

French Farmers On Strike

vest.

Paris, July 2

Political quarters here did not Two thousands people are es- expect that any showdown will Uimated idle in the spreading result on this Bill, however, and strike of farmworkers, threaten- there was little question that It Ing France', meagre wheat har- would eventually be passed by

The strike began in the Auneau both Houses of Parliament with region, Eure et Loire Department, cut any move by the House of where 300 people loft their jobs Lords to re-insert the amend-seeking more pay. ments thrown out in the House of Commons.

The toughest battle of the carly amendment discussions was on the question of the ap. pointment of Transport Execu- tive officials.

"Mud-Slinging"

of Lords.

Agence France Presso lays that three men were wounded when the strikers fired on them at one unspecified spot 'as they tried to pass through the picket lines. The Agency and the bulk of workers United Press, were not leaving

their joba-

Refugees From Franco

Accusations of "smear tactics and mud-slinging" by the Op- position were made by Mr.

Aldudes, July 23. Morrison, after Mr. Henry Groups of Spanish refugees, Strauss, Conservative Member including women and children, for the Universities, had charg- have crossed the Franco-Span- ed that political patronage was ish Pyrences frontier and at the bottom of the Govern reached here almost daily dur- ment's unwillingness to accepting the past two weeks. the change made by the House Groups, mostly of two to five parsons, have taken the advant- age of the disappearance of Mr. Strauss accused the

from high BNOW

mountain Government of having already passes to cross, into France des fixed the men they wanted to pite the careful watch by Span- All at least some of the posts.

ish border guarda. Renamed Lord Latham,Most-of-the-rofugees- said. Labour Peer and leader of the they fled the high prices at pre- London County Council (who sent prevailing in Spain or be recently indicated his intention cause they feared arrest for vot- to retire), as the likely first ing no in the recent referendum. Chairman of the Ruling Com

All are being sent by the mission, but was promptly told French border authorities by-three Ministers Mr. Mor Bayonne, where their cases are rison, Mr. Barnes and Mr. examined.--United Press.

Bevan that this was a serious. charge which Mr. Strausa seem- ed unwilling to substantiate.

Mr. Morrison supported Mr, Barnes that there had been no "Irregular practice".

the new Finance Bill, has au- The Foreign Secretary, Mr. thority to cut film imports, the Bevin, made it clear in only other imports of those House of Commons today that morning that he saw Dr. Soe run Java and Sumatra," he said.

The House of Lords move to listed by Sir Stafford Crippa he believed that any action karne, the Indonesian President, The British people had approv

against the that can be cut is newsprint.

British Government's have a separate Executive for alleged cases of who told him. that if the British ed of the

across the people could put An end to the action in giving India indepen Scotland was condemned by Mr "The Government has acted" guerilla attacka

end un-dence. Therefore they were jus- Barnes as a nationalistic attempt, Sir Stafford Cripps said, "ns Greek frontier should be taken war in Indonesia and

at what which would have no justifica- moderately as was possile in through the United Nations and necessary bloodshed, the Indone-tifled in feeling angry

would never forget it was happening in Indonesia. hotion in fact-Reuter. the circumstances" in regard to that the situation did not calling people

Colonel Radcliffe said that 10 said. newsprint imports.

for n British protest to Albania

not taking

putting Initial Gains and Yugoslavia.

ever propaganda. He was strand- ed in Jogjakarta, so he thought

The cuts made so far he des. cribed as "warning cuts,"

"Unless some major action is

taken to right the world short-

was not

sidos. on

:

Ho said that he was impressed

Round The

Mr. Bevin told the Conserva- he would give the British people by the behaviour of the Indone tive Member, Mr. P. U. Dot- the facts about this full-blooded fans, but it was clear that with age of dollars and to relieve the ner, that the United Nations colonial war on a large scale. neither equipment nor experience, Security Council wnd fully in- The Dutch were imposing a the Indonesians could not stand present great pressure on ster- formed on the reports of varl-settlement in Indonesia by force up for long to the Dutch. World ding-dollar exchange, we sholl ous frontier incidents, which which it could not obtain by The Dutch would inevitably Inevitably find ourselves under had been investigated by the negotiations," he said.

make initial gains, but could

July 23. the absolute necessity to curtall subsidiary group of the Unital Tho Dutch technique was never be happy or prosperous in LONDON: Sixteen Lincoln our imports much further than Balkan Commission

again, unless and familiar in Europe where, when Indonesia

the bombers took off from the we are doing today.".

brought before the Council by you did not get what you wanted situation quickly settled.

R.A.F base at Binbrook to- * Dollar Problem

the Greek Government.

by rattling a sabre you resorted "It is doubtful if many Dutch- The dollar problem is one

to war, Colonel Radcliffe added. mon will romain alive if they win day for Gander, Newfoundland reason, Sir Stafford Cripps The matter had been taken up

The Indonesians feel they are all the battles," declared Colonel on the first leg of a 14,000-mile goodwill fight to the United said, why Mr. Bevin "has by the United Nations in the ence. The Dutch do not wish to

Bghting for their national exist- Radellife, thrown Himself with

He concluded by urging the States and Canada. auch name of the British Govern- whole-hearted energy into orment, he said, and "I think we restore law and order but only British neople to put an end to

colonial status.

the altustion in Indonesia so that ganising a response to the Mar- ought to stick, to, that instru-

“You can guess how much ja- ja similar gituation might over shsil offer."

ment."--Router.

dependence Indonesians will be 'again .confront them.-Benter.

"JANE"

ERIC'S GIVEN ME THE SLIP, FRITZ!~~~ HE STILL DOESN'T. REALISE

I'M A FRIEND IN DISGUISE!

HULLO!

Bernard-

WHAT'S THEA

de as Collection

de Printemps.

GOOD HEAVENS!- HE'S WALKED RIGHT

INTO THE LION'S

* MOUTH!—HE MUST.. HAVE GONE TO S M. BERNARD'S

DRESS-SHOW!!?

HE'LL BE A MURDERED !!!

FEL ECOS BUT HOW ON EARTH

¡DID HE GET OUT WITHOUT BEING SPOTTED BY ALPHONSE THE:

APACHE P

BOMBAY:-Fifty thousand atudents; demonstrated. against increased school and examina- tion fees today.

ROME: The United States Under-Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, Mr. Clayton, arrived hore from Geneva togiay for a two-day, conference with Italian government and econo- mic leaders.

MILAN: The prefecture of

· Milan... refused to confirm or deby today a Turin newspaper report that he had reported to the Ministry of the Interior "that recruiting for an InternE

tional brigade to fght in Greoce was going on in Milan United

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