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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1947.

"BETTER THAN NOTHING" Truman Signs Emasculated Inflation Bill.

Objections To Restrictions

Washington, Dec, 29.

President Truman today signed the Republican- sponsored anti-Inflation bill passed by the re- cent special session of Congress.

In a stinging rebuke, President Truman said he would sign the bill because it contained some measures needed now, but complained that it contained only three minor points from the 10-point anti-inflation programme, which he recommended to Congress in November.

Asserting that nearly every-business, Industry and agricul- one in the nation was feeling | ure ..to comply, and said: the pressure of exorbitant "Every effort will be made, dr prices, President Truman said: | course, to achieve whatever re- "This bill fails to include key {sults are possible under thi measures which are essential to

·ystem of voluntary agreements, an effective anti-inflation pro- "It is for too late in the gramme. This bill will not re-fight against inflation, however

duce the high cost of living, place our main linnee upon

and it will not keep prices from | volputary action." going even higher."

Saying that he would sign the bill with "deep dianpto pointment" because of its in adequacy. President Trumar warned that "Inflation and

Interference

Dogs To Used Japanese

Dumps

Bingapore, Dec. 30. British Army authorities in Singapore propose to use war dogs to guard supply dumps against looting.

They have applied to the War Office for 50 doan, of ; Alsatian blood strain or Al- satan mixed with the Labrator or Collie strains.

India's Air Force

Get Life Sentence

Ipoh, Dec. 30.

A British War Crimes Tribunal, sitting in Tai- ping, has found three of! four high-ranking Jap- anese officers guilty of using a Chinese political prisoner as a "guinea pig" in their experi- ments with what is locally known as the a highly deleterious tree-latex in! commnó use among the aboriginal tribes of Malaysia.

"Ipoh" poison, In Action

NEW DELHI, DEC. 29. RIAF PLANES ATTACKED

POSITIONS TAKEN UP BY RAIDING TRIBESMEN IN THE MIRPUR KOTLI AREA AND STRAFED THE RAID ERS ON THE URI ROAD. INDIAN DEFENCE SAID IN TO- MINISTRY NIGHT'S COMMUNIQUE ON

FIGHTING THE

THE

IN

In

communiqur

Major Honjo Hireshl, Capt. Utsu Nomlya and Capt. Hokam ada Toshiko wtre sentenced to life imprisonment, Cn. Oikuburo Minoru who, it was alleged, gave

for the erder the experiments. was acquilted. The prosecution alleged that the experiment was carried out to study the effect of the "poh" polson on the skin and blood of a human being. Prepared from the fuice of the "p" tree with other Ingre dients, mainly arsenic, and pos. sibly strychnine, scorpion, bee and venoms, the poison was snake extensively used by the natives of North Malaya and the man islands for painting the lips of blowplne arr'ws,

The trial

He appealed to Congress, when it reconvenes in January "enact promptly an effective

workable programme" to mbat inflation. President Truman gave de the high cost of living con- tails of the rise in prices sinc front the American people-he addressed the special ses- all the American people-ion of Congress on November | KASIIMIR. with a grave danger.”

17. "When I spoke to Con- Ammunition dumps were also grens, a pound of butter in destroyed by air bombing. Washington cost 88 cents. Las dian army troops shelled con week, here in Washington, Lut-zentrations of raiders, inflicting Denouncing the interferenco ter reached a

the new high price casualties, with the powers of the Presi-Pof one dollar and five cents.” dice. dent, Mr. Truman said: "An-

Patrcle using mortars engag other part of the hill which

ed a party of raiders, who were gives me great concern is see-

carrying away loot and 200 cat tion six. This section proposes Republican leader Charles A.

the southwest of Deripatam.

that the

In Bombay. two platoons of President submit to Halleck and Chairman Jesse P. Congress extremely detailed Wolcott of the House Banking Indian troops, with Sten guns. month. Witnesses, who had been or prisoners of the and specifie recommendations Committee snapped back that were stationed at known storm employees for mandatory and conservation the bill. together with the centres in the industrial north Japanese at the Gal, established demned cells, Chan Pak wps saree commodi- powers the President previously of the city and a third stood by that of 20 prisoners in the enn- held, is adequate to bring at police headquarters, as thelected as being the fittest for

biggest-ever one-day genera the experiment. strike of the city's-half million Marks found on the deceased gave the impression that workers began at midnight-later

blood had been drained from the Reuter.

body.

measures for tius.

Snap Back

"Presumably Congress would¦ prices down. then determine in each case Senator Wolcott added: "If whether the conservation mea- prices are not brought down it suses proposed by the President will be the fault of the Presi- should be adopted and what the dent and not Congress." details of the measures should be. and pass legislation as thorising them to be put inte effect.

UMBERTO ́FLYING TO EGYPT

Lisbon, Dec. 29,

"It has long been an estab- lished practice for Congress to enact regulatory measures ir general terms, leaving it to the administrative agencies to determine when the measures Democrats generally alde been living in Portugal since his should be applied, on A basis with Mr Truman in denouncing father went into exile, first heard of of standards and conditions the Republican anti-inflation Victor Emmanuel's illness yesterday Established by Congress.

bill as inadequate.-Reuter and in a cable asking him urgently to go "This has proved to be a

United Press.

to Egypt.-Reuter. practical and workable system. Section six of this bill now pro- poses substantially 10 reverse this historic process."

Senator Joseph Ball said the President's statement looked "pretty strongly like police" and Sennor Halleck salt the President was trying to revert Prince Umberto, eldest son of ex- to "radical New Dealism." He King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, was blamed the "disastrous loose expected to leave here by air today for Alexandria, where his father died fiscal policica of the administra-yesterday of a heart attack, tion" for high prices,

The former Crown-Prince, who had

Far Too Late

The President also denounced the bill for refusing to give the Executive the power to compel

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The sensational case had sim!- lar features to the medical ex- periment conducted by Nazi doc- tors in occupied Europe.-Reuter.

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: London Độc. 29. The new £10 flat rate car tax comes into force on Thursday for. all new cars and those registered for the first Ume this year.

All e old cars will continue to be

*xed at 25 shillings per horsepowe..-Reuter.

Foreign Legion MAJESTIC

Escape

Drama

Singapore, Dec, 29.

Ten members of the French Foreign Legion who jumped overboard from the French troopship. Marechal Joffre, bound for Indo-China, and safely reached Sitiawan, in West Malaya, said in an interview today that they had been "shanghaied" Into the Legion and would not be taken back into it alive.

itpolice lock-up without money or par

port, was recruited into the Foreign Legion.

The French authorities here, was understood, unsuccessfully claim. ed custody of these men. Legally, had

Erich Dietsch, aged 20, of Zurich, the Legionnaires deserted while the ship was in port, they would have said that he was staying with friends In France when he was arrested As had to be returned to the e ship.

The

Department of Iman illegal immigrant and given the Malay an nigration is considering whether the choice of imprisonment or service in

six of whom are Italians, two the Legion.

Swiss, one German, and one Butch,

be returned to their birth.

men.

should

place, their country of citizenship, or

to the port of embarkation-Oran,

The Legionnaires disclosed that

"Got Into Trouble"

Gerard Mars, a 20-year-old Dutch

man, from The Hague, said that he

they were three days adrift on a raft went to Marseilles to see a brother without food and with only rain off for Batavia. Running out

water

ed up.

of

to drink before they were pick-money, he "got into trouble" and was

The escaped Legionnaires alleged

that life in the Legion was "inhuman

end that a few men who tried to

ปี

recruited into the Legion.

Peter Viehall, 21, of Duesseldarl former corporal in the

German

Army, said that on belog celeased

prisoner-of-war camp,

be

best.

ercape from the Marechal Joffre in from

♫

the Mediterranean Into Spanish found that his parents -ħad Morocco wete recaptured and shot, killed, and his home destroyed, so he

after severe

punlahment.

the

the

for two years in volunteered Legion, but later found that he had signed on for five years.

The excapees added that they be ieved that seven other Legionnaires,

The six Italians said that they who jumped from the ship in Malacca Stralts, were drowned, were attracted by French official of

Tani

Disseroch, a 27-year-old lers of work and, after being arrċil- Swiss from Calais, sald that he used in Marseilles for legal entry, spending holiday in France when were given the choice of prison

fic got drunk and, on waking in the the Legion-Reuter,

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