1947-12-29 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, MÒN DAY, DÉCEMBER 29, 1947.

THE CONFLICT DEEPENING War Memoirs Of

Service Release Figures

London, Dec. 28.

Relenses from the three Services up to Nov. 30 are 30,880 ahead of schedule with

men, but

6,330 fewer women have been released than plan-

ned.

The Royal Navy have released 724,580 men since June, 1945, 18,080 more than the programme, and 78,040 women, which in 340 under the programme.

The Army figures are 2.774,900 mon (5,800 more) and 214,300 women which is 4,860 under.

The Royal Air Force figures are 022,270 men, which is 7,000 more. and 165,000 women, which in

1,030 under the programINE.

During November, 56,060 men and women were relensed bring- ing the total since June 18, 1948, to 4,809,410.-Reuter.

MISS FRANCE CHOSEN

Paris, Dec. 28.

A blonde, 22 years old, Yvonne

Vieux, wo hatted as

Disquieting Political Symptoms Developments In SHIP'S OFFICER

Eastern Europe

London, Dec. 28.

Several grave signs of deepening conflict marked

the week which has elapsed since the Big Four Foreign Ministers returned to their respective capitals after the breakdown of the London Conference.

Even the diplomatic lull over Christmas, which

I

KILLED

Port Said, Dec. 28 The British Third Oflcer of the Empire Rival, (7,045 tons) was killed yesterday while trying to stop a fight Somali mem- between two

bers of the crew, it was dia- closed here today.

The Empire Rival is one of the vessels used for ferry- ing Jowish illegal tamil- from Haifa grants

to Cy-

prus,-Router. was scarcely broken by the Christmas Eve announcement that a Greek rebel government had been brought into being, has not been able to obscure these disquieting symptoms.

the Western power

the rebel Greek Government under the hiel pointef last week

that the premiership of the guerilla General reign Ministers failure will bring Markos as conclusive evidence that the Savist Union in fact regards the wore toouble in its wake was the at-

in Washington hy Re-London failure as decisive and irre oblican Senator Arthur Vandenberg parable and intends to draw this con-

lusion in all areas of friction. hat the United States ought not to entine

a creation of

Communist reparation deliveries tates the uther side of the ironGreek "government" may have littis urtain.

more than

propaganda significaner This declaration cannot be written 11 Greece itself but its diplomatic In- future of the 2 the war ery of an opposition Bustice both on the

since the United States Gov. United Nations and on the policy of ender.

hi the rastern bloc of states may be rument resins wedded to

very serious, partisan foreign policy and, necord-

Wert

in eastern Europe. fog to urazlly well-informed quarters

which are members of the United in London, similar views were €2.

Nations, 19 enter into diplomatic re- re- weeklations with General Marko

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to

prewed here by Mr. George Mar.

hall before he flew home n

states

gime, the way would be open for the

showdown which has

yel

The issue is a serious one which vest

shaken the world organisation.-Reu "M185 will cause some straight talking be

France" today, having been electween the Wexem Allies themselves ed last night by a Paris audience. Ernest Hevia is known to oppose Irum line-up of 24 French beauties in the Palais de Chaillot. reversal of policy at any rate at a part of his She will be

receive presen

clothed,

Mage,

beauty treatment, get fresh hand-policy of "hot lamuning doors." He bag and all femtulne access resisted Britain to the continuance

of reparation deliveries when from leuding Paris beauty anu Toshion houses for the next year, gave the

House of Commotis

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as well as near and n bicycle.-week his account of the Foreign Min Reuter,

listers fallure.

Singapore, Dec. 28.

No Provocation

In

the

Mr. Patrick Scrivener, who will be the senior British Foreign

In view of the increasing integra- Office

representative South (an of the Anglo-American occupa remain East Asia when Lord Killearn's in zones in Germany it

Britain and long term expires next April, arrived outful how here toilay on board the Dutch United States could take a different liner Willem Van Ruys. Mr. ine about so critical Scrivener was formerly the Bri.which it seems clear will have to be hrashed aut directly between Lumion frew and Washington in the next wecke.

tish Minister to Syrin-Reuter,

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mantter

But other aspects of policy, the onduct of the Western powers since

4

he London breakstown has not bees

ovocative, So far from having eady-made alternative plan for erstern Germany, the British Gov. rent has been caught without a micy and is now looks as if it will eile end of January before one has een fuemed.

Mr. Bevi's on the next stage have ret to go before the Cabinet. If they In next week, the way will be teared for a major public talement of policy during the House of Com foreign affairs debate on Jan.

Warning Shot

22.

So far

ter.

Henry Stimson: Anglo-U.S. Dispute

Now, York, Dec. 28. '.

A statement that General Joseph. "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell was withdrawn from the China- Burma-India theatre of operations after Generalissimo Chlang Kai-shek had refused to cooperate with him was made today with the publication of the wartline blography of the former Secretary of War, Mr. 'Henry L. Stimson.

The diary, which is being released Of President Roosevelt, he maid: in the Ladies Home Journal, said the | "Mr. Roosevelt as a wartime inter- Chinese leader's active interference nasional Irader proved himself 10 with General Sellwell's command of good as one man could be--but on this theatre and President Roosevelt's man was not good enough to keep | Inability to get along with the Am-track of so vast an undertaking.”—

erican general cost the Allies an ex-Renter, tra winter in that theatre.

The biography made the first of Scial

disclosure of two years' of dix- agreement between British and the United States war leaders over the opening of a second front in Western Europe,

The Tate

Mr. Stimson said that bad or General George Marshall bren commander-in-chief, the invasion of Europe would have taken place a year earlier,

Chiang A "Feudal

Autocrat"

*ssessed THE OTHER LOVE

New York, Dec. 28 Misa Maria Formicola, a 21- year-old Italian girl, whose ex- G.1. fiancee was killed led from smash the day she walled from Italy to marry him, was today reported to have accepted an offer of marriage from Mr. Frank music teacher Aldi, a young from Yonkers, New York.

Mr. Alidi made his offer after seeing Maria's picture in the

Brothers

Washington, Dec. 28: The American war chiefs had call- The former Secretary paper, when she received wide publicity because of the Immid for a full-scale cross-Channel I gration Bard's decision to bar vasion of Europe to take place in the of War, Henry L. Stim- her from the United States bo pring of 1943. President Roosevelt Son, in his biography,, cause she had no plans for mur replaced this plan with the 1943 made the following ap- rloge to any other ex-member of North African invasion, which, Mr. the American forces.

with the British opposition. Stimson said, was only a compromise praisals of leading per- sonalities of World War General Marshall and he became II. 10 exasperated with British objections

landing in France that they ask ed President Roosevelt "to turn our bucks them and take up the war on Japan."

She had received many other

offtra of nid from Americans.— Reuter.

NANKING SHOWDOWN IN DISPUTE WITH REDS?

New York, Dec. 28.

| The Scripps-Howard weekly “Washington Calling" column predicted today that the Chinese Gov- ernment will "force a showdown with the

President Roosevelt said that was oo much like threatening "to take up your dishes and walk away."

Summing up, however, Mr. Stimon said: "When all arguments

have been forgotten, this central fact will remain: the two nations fought a single war and their quarrels were the quarrels of brothers."

Chinese Communists in the coming year-also B.B.C. Far

with the Soviet Union on the Manchurian question" if the United States gives the Chin- ese adequate support.

Hashish

Addicts

Increase

The column added that the showdown with the Commun. ists would be military and that with Russia would be diploma-1

tle.

Eastern Broadcasts

LONDON, DEC. 28. THERE WILL BE NO CHANGE IN THE BRITISH

Generalissimo Chlang Kal- shek was an "ignorant, BUB- picious, feudal nutocrat with a profound but misconceived de-. vetion to the integrity of China and to himself as her saviour." Joseph Stalin was a "man who could not be fooled."

General Charles de Gaulle was a man of "arrogance and touchiness" and hard to get along with, but nevertheless a genuine symbol of the French resistance,

Pierre Laval was n "mere quisling."

General Petain, formerly a fine uclier, turned "senile."

The late General Joseph Stil- well was one of the country'a greatest solliers and his CBI nsignment was the toughest to be handled by any United States military officer....

Mr. Stimson called the cap-:

"Oficiula in Nanking speak of the coming offensive in Man-BROADCASTING CORPORA ture of Myitkyina one of the churia as a foregone certainty. THE FAR EAST DUE TO THE military eples of the war."

TION'S RADIO SERVICE TO great and insufficiently noticed If it comes the Chinese Govern- GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCED

Gen, George Marshall was ment will learn whether Russia 10 PER CENT. EXPENDITURE is willing to let China pus its CUT ON ITS FOREIGN SER- the "nest soldier I have ever CAIRO, DEC. 28,

VICES,

known."-United Press. house in order without inter- THE HASHISH HEMP DRUG,ference. WHICH TEMPORARILY. DIS SIPATES THE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL

AILMENTS OF

POOR AND WEALTHY ALIKE, 15 DEING SMOKED, CHEWED AND DRUNK IN AN INCREAS ING SCALE IN EGYPT.

British the vacuum in picy still persists. Though the ques- af talks between Mr. Bevin,

So norlous is the increase in the use of this drug that, for the first time in recent years, the Egyptian Mr. Marshall and M. Georges Government has found it neces bank, on the future of western Bary to naues communique con siermany remains in the air, nothing peddlers and users of the drug.

taining a warning to growers, define has been proposed.

The communique was prompted Eastern Europe there have

by a recent series of articles in The earliest

was a statement in the

press tending to give the impres Soviet-licensed Berlin

newspapersion that the use of hashish is falk.iche Rundschau

Jast week that

not as harmful as had been sup. of Germany pawer control

many | posed and that it may even have roke down, all Berlin would be re-

certain advantages.

Erz

On the contrary, one-quarter of an hour will be added to the gen. "At the first obstruction the era overseas service directed to Asue between China and Rus- South-East Asia, Burma, Malaya sin will be taken before the and South China, but a three- world court as a breach of con- quarters of an hour cut will he tract or before the United Namade to the Latin American ser-

vices. tions 19 a threat to world

Tho cut will be introduced to peace.....

make the minimum difference to coverage all over the

formed sources think the results are likely to determine the po

he. Orient."—United Preas,

copes several ominous developments certain sections of the Arabi litical and economic future of

if fute

garded by the Soviet Union as part There has also been discussion

of the Soviet occupation zone. This of hashish taking from a religious

Je

is put a point of view which would point of view and the opinion has

the Western powers Acceptable to

been expressed that to use the and the article was generally re-drug is not contrary to Islamic garded in diplomatic circles in Lon- doctrines-Router. Jon as a warning shot marking the start of a struggle for Berlin.

Descisive Break

Hurricane In

The Talgliche Rundschau incident Black Sea

was quickly followed by manoeuvres

attributed by official British opinica

IFE

London to the local Soviet authorl-

ties to dislodge from office as Chair-

man and Deputy Chairman of

Istanbul, Dec. 28.

tor.

Drowned Himself In Public

"The success of th: show-B.B.C. down plans depend on the type world, Mr. T. O. Beachcroft, 45-74, DROWNED HIMSELF IN

PARIS, DEC. 28 M. HENRI PIQUART, AGED volume and timeliness of aid sistant director of publicity, told FRONT

OF PRACTICALLY In- Reuter today. from the United States.

"Wo haven't lost

POPULATION a language THE ENTIRE through this cut, The European OF HIS NATIVE VILLAGE OF service in 22 languages has not TAINBLEU, ABOUT 50 MILES

DORMEILLES, NEAR FOUN been touched by the cut."-Reu- SOUTH OF PARIS. THE LOCAL

POLICE REPORTED TO-DAY.

M.

fastened a heavy iron chain, attached to a 40-pound ball of lead, around his neck and, followed by a crowd of curious villagers, walked the full length of the main street of Dormoilles to the floating village platform on, the Seine,

Lessons In English For Foreign Miners

London. Dec. 28.

The National Coal Board is working out a large- scale comprehensive project for teaching Eng- lish_to_foreign workers by mass production methods.

Many were today reported in. peasants, many of them illiter the iured by a hurricane which has ate, will have learned suff

|

Was next 12 months, one of which, with a capacity 10,000 Sorb, Croat, Yugoslav | of 2,000, ls in operation near Pollah and Ukrainian forme. the old cathedral city of York. They will bo drafted to school camps, where, in two Christian Democratic Union in

will be taught the blown for 60 hours along the cient English to get on intel. months, they Eastern zone of Germany, Heri Turkish Black Sea coast near Higently with their jobs and fee simple everyday English, asi Jakob Kaiser and Herr Eros the ports of Eregli and Zon 1 home in Britain.

well as aumething about the Lemuner

guldar, 250 kilometres east of These European voluntary strange new world into which Whether or not the elimination of

werkers, most of them dieplaced they have been plunged, these two political leaders from of Istanbul.

said persons, will arrive in batches

"Pilot" Group Reports reaching here fce for having failed to support the

750 a week, About Their teachers will be chosen Unity Party's heavy damage had been done of 500 to Communist Socialist campaign to send German delegates in some towns and hardly a 400 are already at work and a from ameng themselves-for o address the Council of Foreign gingle house remained intact. further 800 are at present un-among the peasants is a sprink Ministers in London foreshadows the Roofs were blown off and clec der training for the mines. ling of diplomats, judges, bar- iramediate creations of au rast zone tricity supplies cut by the hur- Others are being taught Eng-risters and university students. German Government, It is obvious that their disappearance from poliicans which was accompanied tical life would make, its establish by heavy rain and snow.

Ships anchored in the two It would be possible to interpret ports were reported to have the Christmas Eve announcement of} been in difficulties.—Noutor,

ment easier.

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-AND THIS LOOKS

LIKE ONE FOR ERIC-

FROM LYDIA ------ AND ANDTHER FROM HIS FIRM!--- AND

HE'S GONE OUT

WITH FELIPE......

Hall.

These will be trained In masa- Immediately on their arrival | teaching methods by a "pilot"| the European volunteer workers group of 80 seachers. The 80 will go for examination and are at present doing the first documents to holding campa mass-leaching job at two school samps in Staffordshire, Four more school camps are to be eet up.

WHAT!—AT THIS HOUR?-WE MUST STOP HIM BEFORE THERE IS, BLOODSHED!

The Nati:nal Union of Mine-! workers have agreed to co- operate in placing the 30,000 volunteer workers in industry.

Already almost 6,000 are em- pleyca in British pits--mostly from the Polish Ro-settlement Corps, which consists largely of nen from the Polish forces in Britain who did not wish to re- turn to Poland-and it is hoped lo, attract more during 19486)

Thero, with the masses of

| European volunteer workers, will wash long way towards the bolution of Britain's house man. power shortajla and help in.the. Ktürtherance of thermaport drive |: to beat the tennommer delais m #Hauler:

Piquart

washing

He calmly locked himself in a [building on the platform, harri- caded the flimsy wooden door from within, and jumped into the river.

-Reuter.

COGNACY

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