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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7; 1048,
AID TO CHINA SCHEME Five Hundred Millions Now Proposed State Department Programme
Washington, Feb. 5.
Afd for China, totalling about $500 million, is pro- posed in a State Department plan prepared for the National Advisory Council, the United States policy-making body in the field of finance, a Council spokesman confirmed today. This estimate which may be changed somewhat either by the National Advisory Council or by the Bureau of Budget before reaching Con- gress-is somewhat higher than the original tentative figures given to Congress by Mr. George Marshall, the Secretary of State. near- ly three months ago. At that time, he spoke of a $400 million programme fa run by 15 months.
The $500 million project fikely to run for about the same per.
American dicials sale this programme was not comparable | To the Burspean res very pro- granume,
The assistance t be sent un der it would be mainly of Uo collef type, notably over the 15 months, but it was hoped that supplies made available would
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Felp in stubllising the situation so that a long-range plan might he instituted later.
No Guarantee The programme may be sub- mitted to Congress within thei next week or two,
Its epponents claim that thei type of supplies to be sent to China wheat, enflon. leein, rien, grains, tobacco and dogs will make it enit for
I'nited States to fulfi its clligations under the European recovery programme. It is also argued that, on past record, there can be no guaran- tee that the Nanking Govern.
Pilgrimages
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New Delhi, Feb. 5. Hundreds of people today continued to visit Birla House, where Mr. Gandhi was assassinated, and the Raj Ghat, where ho Was cremated.
1
The lates stories of how people were affected by the shock of Mr. Gandhi's death concerned Sadhu (indu holy man) who committed suicide, 8 mer- chant who went mad and A RI named Godse—tha surname of the man held for trin on the charge of murdering the Mahatama who changed his name to Gandhi-Reuter.
Swiss
Train Smash
EDINBURGH, FEB. 5. THE CRASH OF THE EDINBURGIL-KING'S GROSS EXPRESS AT GOSWICK, NOR. THUMBERLAND, ON OCT. 26 WHEN 28 WERE KILLED AND 97 INJURED. WAS LARGELY BECAUSE THE DRIVER, THOMAS BEGBIE, DID NOT OBSERVE A DIS TANT SIGNAL ON THE LINE, DECLARED LT-COL WILSON, CHAIRMAN OF THE RESUMED INQUIRY! IN EDINBURGH.
"Nor do I think you tried to observe it," he told Begbie.]
would
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Apology
London, Feb. 5.
WIEN
mere dit- An English magistrate here today told Miss Margrit Herle- mann, 59-year-old Swiss tour- ist, that he
"extremely sorry" she had Intprisoned and
been arrested, charged with fallure to register a change of Jaddress. She was acquitted.
ment will make the best possi Miss Berman first appeared
late
rendered.
[ the assistance in court last Saturday when it was alleged she had been found
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svg it and you did not,"
Heybte said that the tant signal was bscurred b smoke and steam. When he | looked for it at Goswick the homies izgnal was off. II took it for granted that it was safe to go on,.
A sailor, Leading Sloker Keiden, an aequaintance of Begbie's, had been given mission by him to travel on the footplate,”
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Of his presence, Lt.-Col. WH The programme has been pre-steeping in an empty office insou snid: "I find it pared at the insistenes of the big departmental stare. Aficult to dissociate the presence very dif. Republicans in and out of Con. pole witness nsked for the of an authorised man on the gross--Senator Arthur Vandens charge to be withdrawn as
footpine in a serious breach of berg, Governor Thomas Dewey, was found Miss Herleman and regulations from circumstances
committel of New York, Mr. John Poster not
offence in which the accident occurred." Dulles, and many others are against the Aliens Order.
--Reuter, amuny Its
When proponents who
sho arrived from have lastimated that they would France. she lac permission be prejuslevd against the Mars from the Inimigration officer shall Plan unless the State De- not to repart to the police for partment made efforts to "stop two months, Communismi" in an equally eri. tiral area of the world,
Hush-Hush
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is expected to start hearings of the new programmi later this month; as soon as they Chave dispensed with the Mar-
shall Plan
Later, the State Department placed arist curtain of accrecy ver the China aid programine, A spokesman vald Mr. Mar- shall personally had ordered
The magistrate said to Miss Hertemann: "You can go away with ¦ perfectly clean recoril and I can only express the een troubled in this matter"--- greatest regret that yot have
Heater.
Chen Cheng In Nanking
Nanking. Feb, 0. the "enforcement of a "no com- General Chen Cheng, alling ment rule. He even refused Army Chief of Staff and director to discuss the National Advisery of the President's Headquarters in Council's spokesman's assertion the Northeast, returned to Nan- mately $500 million for China king last night by air from Muk- that the plan calls for approxi-den. He was accompanied by |and declined to say when details General Chen Tungkun, the de-
might be formally made public. puty director. -Reuter.
Food And Materials Later it was learned that some $470 million dollars would
General Chen was received by President Chlang Kol-shek short- ly after his arrival. It is presum- ed here that he may not go back, to the Manchurian
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Commencing Tuesday post with
10th Feb., 1948
In
be for food and raw materials. General Wei L-huang now
The additional $10 million to overall command of military $40 million would be far ma operations in the Northeast, chinery to re-equip Chinese fac-Reuter-AAP.
taries.
IL was understood that the National Advisory Council and already approved the pro- gramme and its final presenta- tion to Congress was, therefore, probable within the next 10 dnya,
The
prugtumme,
ORVILLE WRIGHT
WILL
Dayton, Ohio, Feb, 0
The will of Orville Wright directed that the famous plane in which he and his brother made now their first
Right in 1993 should drawn up, is a strictly civilian be left In South Kensington one and involves no military Museum, London. expenditure, despite the in- Wright's attorney, Charles sistence by some Republicans Frankhouser, said that as far that Gnnerulissimo Chiang Kal-as he knew, Wright had never shek should be given direct na-formally indicated that he wished alstance in his war with the the plane to be brought back to Communists-Reuter.
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