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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30: 1947.

REPARATIONS FROM JAPAN China And U.S. To Get Lion's Share Minor Scraps For Commonwealth

Brisbane, Dec. 29.

China and the United States' will divide the lion's share of Japanese war réparations, leaving the British Commonwealth "minor scraps." This, it is understood, in Canberra today, is the substance of the American Government's -latest proposals which have been accepted by: Australia in the hope of achieving an early settlement in the Pacific areas.

"VIRUS X" MYSTERY

The British Government, it ir į 190009 understood, disagrees with the American propraals, but har not yet advanced alternatives. The American note. suggests the following division of re- parations: China, 30 per cent; America, 28 per cent; Australia 8 per cent; Russin

four per cent.

The United States has in- diented that it will return 18 per cent to the reparations fund. Russia is requesting 15 per cent of the reparutions total, it is understood, and a declining to count her plunder of Manchuria and Korea as part thereof, ex- plaining that this is "legitimat war booty."

The

U.S. Won It

Australian Government takes the view that the Pacific vietery was overwhelmingly due

to Americals, war effort.

Dr. Evatt, the Minister for External Affaira, has publicly

Los Angeles, Dec. 28.

The first death from the mysterious "virus X" which has stricken an estimated 200,000 persons in this, area was reported to-day. The vlosim of the virus infection was a nine-month-old boy.

Dr. George H. Ubl. City Health Officer, nald she allment is spreading else- where Ju Southern Call- fornia. In most cases its effects have been -Associated Press.

Persia

mild...

"Vassal" Of

welcomed Britain's rejection of America

the Russian proposal that the Big Four only should settle the

London, Dec. 28.

Japanese peace, treaty, This Persis, like Greece and Tur showed that Britain and other key, has become a "vassal" of members of the Commonwealth the United States under the were remaining loyal to agree-military agreement signed or ments reached at the Common- Oct. 6. a Soviet Radio com- wealth Conference on Pacific mentator asserted in an Eng

peace, held recently in Can-ish-language broadcast.

berra. Our Own Correspon- "The Persian-American mill- dent.

tary agreement, backed by military dollar credits which are being forced on Persia, is a typical specimen of America. nterference in the domestic affairs of other countries," oc- cording to the commentator, M. Herman Kofman.

British Atomic Secrets

Saying that the United States kad "clearly included Persia in, te sphere of Middle-Eastern BRISBANE, DEC. 29. expansion," he added: "The BRITAIN HAS MADE MA- United States does not consider/ JOR SECRET DISCOVERIES Porela a sovereign state and is IN ATOMIC RESEARCH, AC- practicing these unilateral ac- CORDING TO PROFESSOR tona with an assurance that L. H. MARTIN, PROFESSOR the Hakimi Government will.

A JET FLYING WING

Squadron Leader Erie Franklin, 27, chief test pilot for Armstrong Whitworth demonstrated the jet propelled fly- ing wing (above) atʼBitteswell, near Rugby, Warwick. This bodyless flying wing, costing £200,000, with a fully, laden tako-off weight of 33,000 pounds, is powered by two Rolls Royce engines and has a wing span of 30 feet. The wings are swept bank at an angle of 25 degrees. At ses level it cann cruise for 1,500 miles at 330 miles per hour at 36,000 feet - (APhoto),

ENVOY DROPS HINT ON

YANGTSE

SHIPPING

Shanghai, Dec. 29.

OF PHYSICS AT MEL-| Rot repudiate this unequal Norway looks forward to the liberalisation of

BOURNE UNIVERSITY, WHO treaty which makes Persia, HAS RETURNED AFTER A 3ke Greece and Turkey, a vas TWO-MONTHS TOUR OF sal of the United States."- BRITISH SCIENTIFICį Reuter. ESTABLISHMENTS FOR THE AUSTRALIAN GOV- ERNMENT'S COUNCIL FOR SCIENTIFIC AND INDUS- TRIAL RESEARCH.

British scientists have made two atomic discoveries of major Importance in recent months,

KING PAUL OF

GREECE

Athens, Dec. 28.

he declared, but declined to give general condition

China's navigation regulations and is con- fident that this would mean a marked in-... crease in prosperity for both countries, the Norwegian Ambassador to China, M. Nicolai Aall, declared here shortly before he left for Nanking last night following visits to Norway and Slam.

M. Aall, who was echoing what Lord Ammon, bend of the

recent British Parliamentary Goodwill

King Paul of Greece spentivilon to China, pleaded more than an undisturbed night and his once during his visit to this country, today is ald that before the war Norwegian Professor Martin recommend-In:cet bulletin issued by his Chinese interests in coastal

satisfactory, according to the freighters were widely chattered by. stal carrying

a further clue.

ed the Australian Government medical attendants, despite

to establish important atom-riae in temperature for a short smashing laboratories here to period last evening. supplement British research.

Professor Martin anid British, The King is suffering from science is developing. rapidly recurrence of typhoid fever now. Our Own Correspondent. Reuter.

fly by

Skyways

a trade, that was noted for its economy. After stating, that Nockey, who sacrificed half her 7,000,000 tons of shipping in the war, needed her for a China, with magnificent water. mer seaways, the Ambassador said:

| ways.

like the Yangte comparable with internationally navigable rivers like the Mississippi and the Thames, | mare; ships would ameliorate the im

mense demand for freight and bring down the present high.cost_of_transz

portation. Since China is in the rocess of acquiring a new fleet some of the ships would have to be for eign"

Could

M. All thich-sked: “What

be more Norwegian then, filord? Yet ships fixing every dag may be (found sailing on those still water surrounded..on three sides by Nor

LIMITED wegian land."

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M.. Aall, who returned to Caloo in 1946 an Norway'a fait postțijal Ambassador to - China, was Consul General in Shanghai” during critical years of (when Gen

1927 eralinima Chiang Kai-shek trached Shanghal in the course:

trse of his anti- northern expedition) and 1932. (wher the 19th Route. Ammy fought the Jap anese here) and 1917 (when the Sino-Japanese war" broke out,)—Rau- tera

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