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CHINA'S BID FOR BALANCE OF TRADE

Preparations have been com- pleted for the early implementa- tion of a seven-point programme. mapped out by Mr. Chen Chi- tien, Minister of Commerce and Industry, designed to speed up. production in Chinese industries and boost the nation's foreign trade.

Attention will be eoncentraled, Reporters & General Ore 32312 for the time beh, mainly on the textile industy, which it is in- (four Ines)

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lowed by agriculture" sericulture H.K.$73.00d animal bogbandry,

By THOMAS ALDEGUER

He says that the prospects for

this year's' collon, crop hardly look bright," as all the main cot-

Berlin Newspaper Claims Russians Arming Workers

Berlin,, September 20.

ton-producing areas are affected The British licensed "Montags Echo charged today

by, the Cominüinilat rebellion, b estimates that from 600,000 -10 700,000 hales will be forthcom- Ing from these areas for next year's use.

dustries under principles which shortage of 1.400,000 bales next

In order to meet the expected The

are not in contravention of inter- ∙national co-operation.

In this connectin he is re-

year, Mr. Wong suggests that the Government should requisition us much as posible of the next ported to be ready to revise Cue crop, and that at least 20 pe

cent of China's total cofion tex-. ite products should be exported in exchange for raw cotton.

loms tariffa.

Mr Chen's programme; which is the completed in the coming sour, erviatges the use of Unit- ed States akti

developing cominunications and

power re sources, and the textile, electrical, chemical art machine industries.

Mr. Chen, a lenter of the joung-China, Hari and one of the "few non-Kuomintang Minh ITALIAN COLONIES ters in Chisn't fry Constitutionnt

He hopes, mirung other things. Government, is said to be hope- | that his plan will enable China ful of establishing a resonable

to surpass the record figure of protective poller for Chinese In- US$30,000,000 worth of textiles

exported last year,

Lory

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Shortage Of Experts

In other industries, however, nevelopment

be slowej mainly because nt the neuth shortage of qualified technicians and engineers,

At the song time, he thinks the Government should increase le raw cotton port quota,

China,

that the Soviet authorities were arming, work ors in the Soviet zone and have approved plans for a similar move in Bodin,

newspaper predicted a Communist, attempt to seize control of Berlin by force will follow.

Il cited as substantiation new headquarters in the British for the story # statement sector to consider the growing allegedly made to a meeting Communist minority to an orderly threat of the Soviets and Berlin's of Communist functionaries government. by Hermann, Matern, Berlin ∙Western, newspapers reported Communist leader and one that the, Soviet military-adminis-

tions.

of the Kremlin's fair-haired tration was considering bringing boys in Germany, who said: the city's Mayor and other out- |standing non-Communists to trial "We will have weapons quite before a Russian military court Meanwhile, the Government la legally when the situation on a 'charge of Fascist provoca considering a plan to nationalbe Uree of the four so-called "Gov here comes to a head." | ernment banks"--the Bank of The newspaper said the state-

The "Montags Echo" said M. a Soviet China, the Bank of Communitenment was authorised by tions and the Farmers Bank at approved session of party chuit- Ernst Fleuter, elected Lord Mayor men on September 15-18 at which who has been denied office by it was agreed to reinforce the

Soviet opposition, the Soviet sector German police with Mayer, H Ferdinand Friendens The fourth of the group,

burg, the Assembly President, M. Central Bark, is the only one ups of armeil werkers trus-

Otto Suhr, the Socialist leader, M. that is wholly Government 'own-

Frunz Neumann, and others who ed.

"Reports previously were ro. ceived from Saxony and Thuring that Communist functionaries and Communiat advisers ате proc- tising shooting alongside pelice formations," the paper sakt.

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Each of the first three men tioned financial institutions a capital of 30,000,000 Chinese

017 dollars based

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The

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addressed the September 9 anu- Communist mass meeting in Ber lin are marked by the Soviets for possible prosecution.

To meet part of the demand valuation of the Chinese eur- "These developments confirm for technical experts, the Na-rency. Many of their sharehold-the Communists are preparing functionarles

Resources Commissiones are private citizens.

The Dena news agency said the Angle-Ainertean airlift

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The "Monings Echo" also 142 ported! that Communist Party

ure boasting thre the Soviela may try to cut off

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The United Nations As sembly has had another dim- cult item ackled to its already dilleul agenda. It must t was beyond possibility now make a "recommenda- ¦ that the Ministers should tion" as to the disposal of agree in a few hours when the former Italian colonies through their "deputies And this "recommendation" they had been disagreeing will, in fact, be a decision. | for over two years. Fur under Annex 11 of the Nevertheless,

three the Halian Peace Treaty, the | Western Powers pt once "Four Powers have agreed agreed to hold a meeting oftoral

to seize power by force." to "accept the recommendu- the Council: with the pro- which controls the majority

Informed take appropriate vise on the part of Britain the pation's heavy industries and Government" Banks well

quarters report foret.” make the

that the Soviet military adminis measures for giving effect to and

co-operating to the U.S.A. that Mr.

Commerce Ministry's scheine Although almost invariably retrating recently made available

American

ond British air Ernest Bevin und Mr. George success-hus taken under

iteferred to as "Government banks,” a Jarpe

number

of automatic force oficials sate there was no It has been, in fact, evident | C. Marshall could not attend | wing some 409 technicians who these three Institutioris are con- pistols tor Berlin and the Rus new evidence of any Soviet in- for a long time that respon- | in person. There is pre- | reverfly gradunted from Chinese trolled by a small group of in-siar zone Police,

tention to Interfere with the nir ability for setting this diffi- | vedent for this. M. Couve colleges and universities.

alyiduals who have served 11 Dena niso claimed that spreial supply route. The Soviet air

had been troops cult problem would be de.

one time or ether in the role poilce Murville

concen- manoeuvres, represented

which Inst week af bankers

Government brated

in several centres in the placed thrown 01) the Assembly France in the Council meet

offcials,

scores of planes over Ber- Soviet zone under an alert to in, have ended, they suld, and Under the fernis of the ing in New York in 1948

prevent "ass desertions by 50 the altuation along the air cor. viet troops and to supervise the ridors Treaty, the Four Powers" without any objection being

was described

08 ultr political training of the would, taken. they agreed that

Jocal normal." But this time the

police." within a year of the coming | Soviet Government promptly into force of the Treaty, announced that without the "jointly determine the final disposal of Italy's territorial possessions in Africa". And if within a year, they could not agree then "matters shall be referred to the General | which the only visible pur Assembly tf the United pose is to provide an oppor- Nations".

tunity for accusing the West- It was from the beginning ern Powers of having violat an admission of failure: of ed the Peace Treaty. It was failure of the Foreign Minis- an opportunity which M. ters, during the months spent Andrel Vyshinsky, the Soviel drafting the Treaty, to reach Deputy Foreign Commissar. any kind of agreement on at once seized as if this were this question.

the main purpose for which he had come to Paris.

physical presence of all the four Ministers the meeting could not be regarded as a meeting of the Council.

It is an old manoeuvre of

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The intervening time has

But the sequel was even not been entirely wasted. "The deputies for the Italian stranger. When, after M. colonies" have had innumer- Vyshinsky had spent a day able discussions. The Com-in arguing this point, the

of mission

Investigation meeting got down to busl- which was sent out to study ness on September 14-there conditions in the colonics was just one day to go. themselves-and in parti- the morning M. Vyshinsky cular to form some idea of simply repeated the familiar the wishes of the inhabitants Soviet thesis that all the -has produced voluminous colonies should. be placed and workmanlike reports under Italian trusteeship. which will be available for In the afternoon he sudden. the delegations to the As-ly abandoned this thesis and sembly. They register many proposed, instead, that Libya. disagreements among the Eritrea and Somaliland Commissioners. But they should each be placed under provide, on the whole, an indirect United Nations trustee- valuable factual survey. ship. In each case there will be would be an administration And no delegation able to complain that it is appointed by the Trusteeship

being asked to make deri sions without adequate fac tual evidence.

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Council with an Alves Council of representatives of each of the "four", of Italy and of local populations.

This technical furce, after re- celving further training, will be utilized in developing four vital industries--power, petroleum and steel.

coal mining.

Mr. Wang Lar-seng, acting director of the Cotton, Yorn and Textile Band here, revenis that China's raw cotton supply for the next four months will just thout meet her local needs, but that from March to November next year tere will be shortage of over 1,400,000 bales.

"Not Mutiny-

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According to the Chincie Army Grgan, "Penes rally" 22 of the 24 directors of both the Bank ut Chura and the Bank of Com-

The Soviets applied for munications

known are well

authority for five planes to cross capitalists who have been in the

the Western zones en Youte to the husiness for several decades or who, at one time or another, have

Meanwhile Eerlin's City Assems | United Nations in Paris-United served as a Government official.bly will meet inte tudny at its Press,

The paper changes that being classified as "povernment banks," these, monetary liouses have been reaping profit. by enjoying the privileges reserved for that

group.

Crew Trouble" the directors have interlocking

London, Septembar 21. Mutiny is reported to have broken out in the 7,175-ton Greek steamer,

Nicolas, Oran, been.,.in which has Algeria, xince Sunday, ac cording to a Lloyds massage. The Nicolas, bound from Rotterdam to the Pireaus, it owned by Lyres, and Lemos Limited, London, whose spokesman in London

denied tonight that there WAR 2 mutiny on board the vessel, saying: "It is hot a mutiny- JUL crow trouble." -Reuter.

Moreover, it asserts, many of

interests in er minercial banks, industrial enterprises and fac- tories. With low government loans accessible to them, "they uble to have been

manipulate financial developments of this country to their cwn selfish ad- vantage, which incans they have bren able to control commodliy prices and speculate."

Assembly To Meet

New Era In Dutch Colonial History

The Hague, September 20.

now era in Dutch colonial life began today when acts of Parliament, giving new legal status to overseas territorios, were read simultaneously in Holland and the Empire.

At the Hague, the new acts, { Other bills to revise the consti- The Peace Pally claims the which were passed by Parlia-tution provide for an annual in

people

abdicated Dutch same handful of manage the three Janks in quesment last month, will be read come to

who

the

tion control, directly or indirect-this afternoon at a public ses-ruler, the appointment of Secre ly, some 5,000 commercial banks sion of the Supreme Council, in arles of State to take over some in this country, and demands anal law and district courts, Immediate investigation into pre-

In Indonesia, they will be read public session of the High

sent banking practices in Chinn.

Reuter,

UK VISIBLE ADVERSE TRADE BALANCE UP

SFIVE MILLION

London, September 21.

at

Court of Batavia, while in Suri nam and Dutch Antilles, a pro- clamation will be made at u public session in the Courts of Justice at the same time as in the other parts of the Kingdom.

Constitutional changes Cover

more routine duties of Ministers and authority for any part of the territory or kingdom under ex- ceptional circumstances be takeri over by specially appointed civil

government organisations.

The last official act of Queen Wilhelmina on September 4 was

which to sign these blits, by the constitutionally closed the epech-In Dutch history, which she herself had Inaugurated. Almost her first official act in her speech from the throne in legal 1991, she announced a new polley and independent statug to the by which the Netherlands Dutch Enst Indies and Dutch stituted itself as the guardian of West Indies, and by which its colonies and colonial peoples

four bills, the most important being that which adds a 14th chapter

a new Rive

con-

The United Kingdom visible adverse balance of union will be established, whieh and to educate them for the part

trade in August was £39,100,000, $5,500,000' above July and £800,000 higher than in June, Exports during August valued of £130,500,000 were £15,100,000 less than July and £3,500,000 less than June. The fall from July, however, was only about 3% by value in the daily rate as August had less working days.

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The end of this 12 months' effort has been a strange one. It was an idea which Mr. The "deputies" finished their James Byrnes had put for work and reported failure to ward in the summer of 1946 agree on September 1-14 M. V. M. Molotov, the Soviet days before the date when, | Foreign Minister, had then in default of an agreement. ridiculed it. No baby, he the matter must pass out of caustically remarked, could the competence of the four thrive with half, a dozen Allowing for a rise in prices manufactured goods fell by £14-

the volume of ex- 200,000 to £115,200,000, Powers and Into the lands nurses. Experts were un-since 1938,

ports in August is provisionally The exports of cars and chassis. of the Assembly.

animous, in thinking it un-estimated at 133% of 1938, as totalled only 14,651 the lowest On September 5, 10 days workable. And the United compared with 149 in July and since December last

year 173,000- before the "dead-line"; the States had dropped the suges of exports shared in the 000 wore £11,800,000 below, Judy

138% in June. All three main August Imports t Soviet Government proposed gestion, accepting the view

and the lowest since February. fall. a meeting of the Council of that however attractive in

Impuris of food, drink and to Foreign Ministers the theory it would be it was in Ford, drink and tobacco at £u.bacco pt £73,000,000 and manu- £40,100,000 ground that this was requir-fact quite impracticable. 800,000 wore £800,000 below July factured gooda at

20,700,000 and £8,300,- ed by the Treaty.

Yet, this plan, unanimously and raw materials at £6,400,000 fel! by It was a curious move. abandoned two years ago.. were £1,900,000. lower

compared whlie 000 respectively as

with the Firstly, the Treaty does not has now by an astonishing

rose by £3,- require a formal meeting of volte face-performed during

100,000 to £58,200,000, Re- the Council either to secure, one day-suddenly become its theatrical attractiveness exports fell by £2,200,000 to agreement or to register dis- the official and avowed and of its giving smaller £4,200,000-Router. agreement. The only refer Soviet policy. It will pre- powers through the Trustee- ence to the Council in Annex sumably be the solution ship Council some volcë in 11 is a provision that the de- which the Soviet bloc will the administration, this new puties shall consider the advocate in the Assembly. plan will secure quite con- question "with a view to

Not support. What is the motive behind siderable submitting to the Council of all this? It seems to be to enough to carry it, but Foreign Ministers their re- prevent the Assembly from enough to prevent any other commendations", But that reaching any decision.

recommendation from secur certainly does not make a There was a hint in one of ing the necessary two-thirds meeting of the Council man- M. Vyshinsky's speeches that majority.. datory.

Russia may argue that tho The result of such a dead-on, was executed”, by, 'd, firing Secondly, to get the For-correct procedure has not lock in the Assembly, would squad today for corruptión in eign Ministers themselves to beên, followed and that, be confusion. All the office. -

but raw matf4, 2ch · July figures!

Cofonet Shot For Corruption

Shanghai, Sep Colony Chang Xu-min, lomer chist of the Economie, Affairs Section of the Wodsüng Gaf.

a conference at a few days' therefore, the Assembly is machinery provided for in Chang was convicted Kome notice was obviously impos- not competent to handle the the Treaty would have time ago but affirmation of the sible, even had they been problem. If is an argument broken down. And it hay verdict President Chiong Kol- less preoccupied, than they which might tempt delega- well be that the considered shok was handed down on Mon- are at the moment with far tions wishful of avoiding res- plan of the Kremlin say this week. mare important matters. ponsibility.

since it cannot get its own Chang was found.mulity of Thirdly, the meeting, would Failing that the Russians way--to create the maxi-pecation and diverting confe. [ented goods to private, usé.- clearly be only a formality, may hope that, because of mum of confusion.

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