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on a sterner oil, and on imports determined to call a conference certain In Washington in September or settlement than is advocated by materials. October to draft the peace treaty the United States.

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Russin rejected the American proposal to submit the Japanese

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While the Amorleans see in

ghly Japan's

competitive textile industry one of the prin cipal sources of paying her own The United States will noti

way towards recovery, Britai will

la mindful of how Japan before peace treaty discussions to an ask for reparations, and

conference, and oppose any large-scale repara- the war, thanks to cheap labour, eleven-nallon made the counter-propsan! that ton cialis na being dangerous deprived Lancashire of much of

its export market. the Council of Foreign Ministers, anti self-defeating.

The State Department con- Among Japan's pre-war ter-1 including the representative of

Germany.ritorial possessions only the China, should prepare the treaty tends that just as

under the Marshall plan, is Ryukyu Island group is likely to concerning Japan,

the "workshop" for become a serious bone of contes- But, the United States has become

tion. Okinawa, the laland which One thing emerges

Japan's from the Lamb Case: if the law decided to lift the drafting of Europe, so Pacific and Aniatic

was conquerred only aftor the Council of industrial strength.

JCAA of thousands of American is as argued by Crown Counsel. the Japanese peace terms out of recovery depends on

The Australian atlitude

lives, is in this group. and interpreted by the Court, the Foreign Ministers.

Russia Inst Spring unexpected. contendis appears to have undergone a time is overdue for revision of

The United States the The most ardently that a clause of the law.

Potsdam change recently. It was thought, y agreed to American trustee. instance, that Australia ship over the former Japanese fought for and jealously pre agreement states that the Coun. for served of our human rights the cll of Foreign Ministers was would advocate Imitations on mandated islands, but Molotov peacetime Industries, than also dropped a hint that

protect very comerstone of the demo-created for the purpose of deal- Japan's

her own in return he would expect some cratic way of life is the freedom ing only with European peace capecially

nascent textile industry.

part in the administration of the But on hls recent visit to Ryukyu islands. The United of the subject and the right of terms.

The United States Depart-| Tokyo Dr. Herbert V. Evalt, States, because of the important | any man, suspected of wrong- doing, great or small, to imme- ment puis it this way:

"If Russia should be absent Australia's Minister for Exter- strategie penition of Ryukyu, In nul Affairs, said that post-treaty certain to oppose such a demand. diate trial by his peers.

from the cleven-nation parley

The US considers Japan ita Court, said Sir Henry Blackall, this autumn, It would not be a economic controls by the Allied

Powers should not be wide- main sphere of influence. It in his judgment, "sces no in case of the other Powers ex- propriety in ant Immigration cluding Russia, but of Moscow spread, but should be limited to

exports and imports. Officer making use of his powers boycotting the peace efforts." if circumstances afford justifica- tion in law for his so doing, even if the real or principal votive is to prevent the escape from justice ut the person so detained." We can Kee only oppression and the abuse of power. It is a well re-

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to hold

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on a minor charge while investigations into a graver offence are being inves- tigated: and none will challenge it virtues since there is no in- fringement of the code requiring that the suspect be produced be tore a Magistrate within 48 hours

It of his arrest. is a vastly and WC tre different matter,

Easy Peace

almost complete control there thanks to General Douglas MacArthur, and it hopes that the peace conference will not upset

MacArthur's General post-policy.

The Conflict His views may have been in The American treaty proposals fluenced by General MacArthur,

like to see are complete. These proposals, who would promise un ensy peace to Japan. Japan will lose all outside the Japanese mainland, | but la the American view tha industrial power of Japan, with the exception of her war indus tries, should not be throttled.

territories

Differences aro bound to arise among the nations who are to pass judgment on Japan at the treaty discussions, but there will be fewer snags than arose over the peace treaty for Germany.

present

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By Dick Turnar

EXPR, 1947 NY MEA BENYIDR, INC. T. AL. REG. U & PAY

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"Bofore we begin, do you mind giving me that blonde's telephone number?"

BARCLAY ON BRIDGE By Shepard Barclay

“The Authority on Authorfileg!

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himstil then, decided to protect against over-rulls by scoring the spade K and A, leaving only the One of the most satisfying out as the sole trick winner to single plays you can make is that which he could afford fosing.

Next he scored the club Q, ruff- There are three Germans in fortune, as he considered then, in which you force an opponent to Teheran today, former members to be taken prisoner by the waste the high trump on a sideed the club 3 with the spada G of Hitler's Wehrmacht, who Russians in the fighting at suit trick you would be sure to discarded the club 8 on the may be said to have special Linz, After a apoll of read lose anyway, while you discard aA, ruffed the heart 2 with the other spade 4, scored the diamond À, The Far Eastern Commission,

making near the Turkish bor. worthicas card from your

holding and thereby promote ruffed the diamond 2 with the which consists of Australia, By JOHN ROBERTS der, he was sent to a Russian old

into trick-winning spade 0 and then made the crucial trump prison-camp situated at a dis-rank. That sounds like an elabor fead of the heart 4. In his own Canada, Chinn, France, India. coming to a pretty pass, when it the Netherlands, New Zealand, caune to love the country of tance of about a hundred and ate description, and it is, But the hand he still retained the spade is possible to hold a man 19 days Philippines, Russia, Britain, and their adoption better than the fifty kilometres from the Per-play occurs so seldom that It is and diamond 8. East, who had to before him, had the spade a sian border. In this prison entitled to whatever description play

the astensibly for a piffling immigra- the United States of America, country of their birth.

and club J. If he discarded tion offence and it is not con has been meeting in Washington Guenter Ritzcier just camp he fell in with two other necessary.

club, the spade 8 would ruff, mak- ing the 12th trick for Mr. Hazan. sidered

prefer for the past eighteen months, twenty-three years of age and captives who had entered Rus

z{a. with Hitler's inshading |

Instead, East ruffed with the charges, to test the Immigration and has succeeded in hammering a young officer in a German

spada, whereupon Mr. Hazan Officer's authority before a out many common principles in Panzer Corps when the Nazis hordes-Gustav Sengotta, an older man, formerly an inspec-

discarded his diamond and kept Count of to give the detainee an preparation for the peace parley launched their legions. eastward tor of police, and one Kale SJD

the little spade to ruff East's club Whatever differences may in their massive bid to overrun

overrun meyer, a serjeant-major in the HKJ963 W F

on the final trick. opportunity of offering a defence.

arise, they will not be confined to the those between the United States U.S.S.R.

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to be free until he has been found yuilty by a properly constituted Court. To throw a man into Stanley Prison under Ordinance which was drafted be- fore the war for the purpose of controlling the unwanted influx nf Chinese into Hong Kong, re- for pudiates the need either proven guilt or just punishment. With the merits of the Lamb Case, as such, we are not parti cularly concerned. There is, in the circumstances, however, a vital principle involved. Only in times of the greatest national we prepared, in emergency are the interest of the common weal,

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What card of the sult, should States and Russia bitterly accused each other they were interned by the Per- did it in a snappy rubber game. vulnerable).

sian authorities, and in due He won the diamond Q lead with of obstructing the work of the Commission.

the K laid down the club K and West lead against South's 3-No course were sept to Teheran. Fredick H. Osborn, United | Thursday that Russia has con. At first they were kept un- A in preparing for, some ruffs, Trumps if East had bid spades?

atomte deputy, charged onsistently attempted to

der restraint by the military police there, but after a time they were released, given Immi- grants' permite and, believe it or not, they received every as- sistance in the power of the au thorities to find ways of earn- ing their livelihoods.

100 Years Ago

obstruct

constructive work in the United Nations Atomic Energy Commis-

sion.

Answering the slashing attack on the United States by Russia on Wednesday, Osborn told the Commission that Russia

must

"Coals To Newcastle"

Is Small Stuff

Tokyo, Sept. 11. The man who sold refrigerators to the Eskimos or brought coal to Newcastle had nothing on William Brooks, a Philadelphia business man who is begging SCAP to let him bring silk to Japan.

The Japanese, according to Brooks, favour the idea but the stunned officials of the foreign trade division of SCAP's Economie-and Scien- tific Section are still undecided.

with the

:

to surretider, even temporarily, Stater

the thuse principles affecting liberty of the subject for which our forefathers struggled. Even then, if we acquiesce, in time of great peril, in the limitation of those rights, it has always been by force of a distasteful necessity and

realise that the only atomic con

For a while they enjoyed the trol treaty acceptable to proples the clearest understanding that the power entrusted to au-

of the world "will be one which luxury of living as guests at thority would be used with the

docs away with national rivalries" the. Officers' Club, but, present- ly, they all found employment, and provides "real security." (FÂRE) greatest possible care and dis-

Osborn said the United States and Teheran added three self- crimination and relinquished at

approves "whole heartedly" the supporting citizens to its po (From the files of the "China second report, now before the pulation. HK$180.-the earliest opportunity. If it is

still possible to detain a man for Mail''),

Today you may meet any 35.-

one of these three former mem- We know not of what material Commission. In direct answer to 19 days without any specific

"The representative of the So-bers of the erstwhile German charge being brought against the bench of Magistrates is com Russia, he said:-

Union has charged that Armed Forces in the streets of him, the only fair inference isposed of at Singapore; but sure

we are (and we say this In per viet

In the month since his arrival, American cigaretics on the Japan. that familiarity with an uns feet truth and with all sincerity) others than himself have stated the Persian capital-and they accustomed power has bred con- that in Hong Kong; from the Chief that agreement was impossible. are in comfortable enough cir- 31-year-old Brooks has fired more ese market for yen through the 200.-tempt and that the high value of Magistrate downwards, it is dan That is not my view. Such a state- cumstances, each of them the propositions at the Japaness than distributing agency of Prince

without foundation in very picture of a solid worker he aced bullets while a private Higakun, the Emperor's uncle...

in Division 27th our treasured personal liberty has gerous and unfair to bestow upon ment is

"All I Want Is......" the Justices summary jurisdiction tact, as is proved by the records with a steady job. 350.-

been forgotten. Of the respon-in criminal cases. Were there not of this commission

and its Guenter Ritzeler, ono-time Okinawa.

"All I want is permission to in sible officials, it is impossible to other, and more substantial, ob-committee, which show also that officer In

vest yen in Japan, I do not even a German Panzer

He has established himself as circumstance the Soviet Union has consistently. Corps, is an inspector for a

want to buy exportables. Just in. believe that they acted in any Jections--the more conscious sense of exceeding the of not one of them having a legal since the begining of our work big firm of constructional en-a "holy terror" not only with the vest it, say in ball parks," he said.

education is in itself enough to resumable limits of their authorisatisfy any person not wedded to attempted to impede the gineers, and is earning a good occupation authorities but also He attributed the failure of the for the with his competitors, who pri- Japanese coal programme to lack ty. If they did not, their action crotchets that an unpardonable in- desires of the majority to formu salary making roads

vately are moaning because he of incentive among the minem on the late specific proposals." is all the more alarming in its novation has been made

Gustav Sengotta, Inspector of bought $150,000 worth of manu revelation of a disregard of the established courts.

harder for American cigarettes Count For Nothing? - We have already stated need for utmost care in the way

police in days of yore, will be factured pearls after they had who, he claimed, would work "Do the views of 10 of the na. glad to drive you about Teheran sald SCAP was asking too high and other consumer items.

a price.

Brooks charged foreign trade deception, intended such power should be applied. opinion that the Potty Sessions is

mora

tions at present represented on any time you care to hall him His plans are to bring Amerl-omicials with "lack . of imagina." If they did, they display that con-draw public attention from the

can wool, cotton, rayon, nylon tion," but admitted they tempt of personal fights and damnatory fact that the inferior this Commission and of the three in the smart taxi which he liberties which has been, and still courts of Justice in Hong Kong other nations who voted with the owns himself.

be pro-right In rejecting his earlier pro Kniemeyer,

sericant and all-yes, silki-to. once are under the thumb of the majority for the first (atomic) is, one of the hallmarks of the Executive. When a sense of jus report count for nothing? Must we major in the late anlamented cessed here by the Japanese un position to import old einther into totalitarian ideology which the ties regard for public opinion conclude that agreement is pos- German Luftwaffe, is a faml-der the supervision of American Japan, sell them for yen, buy. American cultured pearls with yen and sell world has fought so desperately or a decent and becoming respect sible only on the basis of terms liar figure at the wheel of the designers catering in

sults, to eradicate. His. Honour the for English constitutional faw, laid down by the Soviet Union, Swiss Minister's car, and is Brooks said he had received no Induces the Government to estab-which would place no effective rather proud of the fact that Chief Justice came close to exh the inferior courts as they liestraint on aggressor natidis?": he ́ ́is regarded as one of the fomcial word regarding his pro- pay SCAP customs duty on the. posing the inherent weakness of are established elsewhere in Bri- Brazil. and China Joined the the Immigration Officer's position tian colonies, then we may 100 United States, Canada, France Fate has led these threo -'es- when he said: "If the execution cause to alter our opinion-but and Britala. În approval of the of the Ordinance is being dis certainly not sooner. pensed with in the manner de (eo called) which are the curse of

Of all the contemptible reforms second report. Poland served no capiata to a land where aym- tee that Important parts of the them the second chance that pathy and kindnoga have given document were inacceptable and scribed (the free movement with the age, none are so perfect, she would abstain on the anal mkny a man-and doubtless out check or hindrance of ridiculous as tha meddling of Chinese nationgla) this would Colonial Governors with seem to be contrary, to a constitu- court of law. If these Gentlemen! tional principle enshrined in the will not be satisfied with, the laws of their country, the sooner Bill of Rights, but it is not an they retire to a more congonin istic before this Court. De atmosphere-Russia or Bengal that as it may, it is the most in this better for themselves and the partant issue involved in the coloniato.

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