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UN REJECTS DECISIVELY ATOM BAN, ARMS CUT

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Washington, November 13.

The Department of Interler today announced that a post office has been established in the Pribliof islands near the reBering Straits close to Ausela where millions of fur seals are congregated each spring.

The Department said that a biweekly girniælt servies with be provided. The post office will be located on St. Paul Island the population of which in 185-United Preus.

SINGAPORE SOCIAL SURVEY

London, November 1. Singapore's fnd social survey, deaths of which were recrived in London tolay, discloses that 34 per cent of the elly is acutely -overcrowded

and

París, Novombor 13.

The United Nations Political Committee today re- jected the Soviet proposal for a ban on the atom bomb and a one-third 'cut_within a year in the armed forces of the "Big Fivo."

The resolution was defeated by thirty-six votes to

six, with seven obstentions.

The Middle Eastern Arab countries abstained from voting. The Committee then adopted a Wes- tern "cards on the table” resolution.

li voted by 40 to six. with jay an international organ of con- one abstention, to work towards trol, within the framework of the an international control em- Serurity Council, of full informa- powered to "receive, check and publish full information to be supplied by Member States with regard 13 their armed

on to be supplied by member States with regard to their effre

Conventional

Livex And Armaments."

their

The resolution Invited the Se-

effectives and their conven-Leurity Council to report progress

tional armaments."

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to next year's General Assembly. The Committee eluarged the Se-[It called on the 11-nutions in curity Council continue

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Conventional Armaments Con. study the disarmanen problem{ve: tion (which includes the "Ug| in order to obtag concrete risults | Five") to co-operate to Üré u18. as soon as possible.

most of their power in the attain. ment of the objectives.

Arms Information

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The Bavlat Deputy Foreign Minister, Mr. Andrel Vyshin-1 sky, had earlier told Britain and the United States that the strength #1 Russia's armed forcea WAR "nonç of

-your business.

THE CHINA MAIL, monday, noveMBER 15, 1948.

No War Now, Mixed Reception For

Evatt-Lie Appeal

Says Admiral

Manila, November 13. Admiral Williams H. Stand. ley, who was American Am. bassador in Moscow In 1942. said in an interview in Manila Tonight that there would be no war between the United State and Rusda now that President Truman had been elected for second term.

their

Admiral Stamey sald' the Flusstana, In

zpita "Bluffing and blustering," did not want to go to war. He added the Russians had hoped the Republicans would win the election and that a de. pression would follow.

"However, with President Truman in power, such a de. presolan could be averted."

Admiral Standley sald he belloved tho Bertin eril would not develop Into shooting war.but would work itself out "with everybody concerned able to save his awn face."-Reuter.

LORD WINSTER RESIGNS

London, November 14. The British Colonial Office sold

Paris, November 13.

The appeal of Dr. Herbert Evatt, the President of the General Assembly, and Mr. Trygvo Lio, the Secretary General of the United Nations, to the "Big Four" to try and settle the Berlin' problem quickly had a mixed reception in the United Nations..

The general.view here is that as the appeal was made over the heads of the four delegations involved .an official reply from Britain, France, the Unit- ed States and Russia can only come from heads of the four Governments.

The airlift is going on and the

The following questions are The sonie eagerness to not ap puzzling diplomats here: (1) parent in the West, Why has the appeal, asking the Big Four to hold "immediate Berlin conversations" on the question been made at this point?

These conversations

have been going on quite busily in the last few days. The President of the Security Council, Dr. Juan Bra- muglia, saw the threa Western powers' delegates two days ago, Last night he died with Mr. An- drei Vyshinsky..

(2)-Does the appeal ask the four powers to hold conversations under the duress of the blockade? If so, Western diplomats would

Soviet authorities can de nothing

»t war to atop it. short

(4)-What are the propaganda Implications In the appeal?

No one here would be surprised if Marshal Stalin accepted the Proposal very promptly asserting that Russia wild certainly agree to "hold conversation" on the Berlin isc.

of

if the Western powers then rafused to talk under the duress of the blockade. Gorist ого paganda would be expected to make full use of the ammun). tion by accusing Britain, tho United States and Franco sabotaging' the United Nations effort for peace. Among the smaller Berlin (3) the

blockade here, not directly involved, the question as urgent wa the appeal appeal has been greeted with mild saya? The considered opinion of entusiasm and a certain amount Western quarters le that the of scepticism-Reuter. Berlin blockade has becomin more embarrassing to the Soviet Government than to the three Western powers.

In the eight-paragraph Franco- per cent Delginn

resolution, which 11 overcrowded. All but the highest adopted for submission to the professional and business Plasses General Assembly. the Political are affected, state, the report of Committee laid down that; the survey, which was conducted

(1) No disarmament treaty is He refused to give Bgarės asked today thaford Winster has review the proposal with great by Protermor T. A. Silrock, Pro-

ng each ns fiལས་rr

State for yesterday by Mr. Hector Me-signed

of Cyprus caution. BS Governor "authenticated In-Neil" (Britain), "but we will tell where communists have been College. Singapore

the armed forces of the international control borly, at agitating for self-government, The report reveals that

each other state, so long as inter the same time as you tell yourn office for the time being.

Winster, however, will continue Malaya furnished the greater part of hemi-skilled labour Inational agreement has not been gure," he

Politicni

is now in London for conferences diana the greatest number of reached on the types of arma-Committee. clerks: Chinese the shopkeeperstments to be reduced, and so long "Of course, we accept contest," with the British Colonial Secret- Among the educated in Eng- ne organ of control has been the declared. "But we want a comacy, Arthur Creech Jones. Tish, four-dribs reach in second- established;

ary school standard. The Indian mmunity the kant illiterate: Mr. T. P. F. MeNiece, Social Welfare Secretary, presenting the report, said: "No longer can af be said that we are going ahend blindly, ignoring the dangers of a population uncared for in smal There és a sincerity of purpose behind the publleation of This report" Router.

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TOKEN STRIKE

IN NEW DELHI

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The Colonial Office statement trul which would not give our Saturday said that Creech Jones feconomy over to the plunderings "regretfully (21 Disarmament

Lord agreed" to сал only of an international control orgne.

The Soviet delegation here tins be attained in

Winster's resignation and that the an atmosphere

|expected date is being dueussed. Jshown considerable eagerness to; of real and fasting Improvement

|--Avkocinted Press.

Iget the Berlin problem settled. In international "elations, which implies in particular the app!! sation

of control of, atomic enponk

Two Classes

de.

"Gus army now consists of two classes, those of 1940 and 1947. There are just these two classes. All the others have been mobilised and sent hurt. confidence

"You tell us that we

wal not "would be greatly encouraged if reveal our strength. I give States were placed in possession these

(3)

Renewal

figures aru! your

of previse and verillent data, on them," said Mr. Vysulieky. the level of all States' armaments and armed forces,

fric

The solution, therefore, asked New Delhi, November ́13.

Security Council to "puisie Police arruicel 21 workers in

the study of the regulation New D thi today during a two- hour token strike by city workers reduction of Conventionat Arma demauling higher wages and attends and armed forces" through towance and adequate housing.

you

reject

Mr. Manuilaky ('The Ukraine)

put two conditions on which the Ukraine would accept Mr. Mc- Neil's requpet to them to extab.

Appeal May Strengthen

Soviet

Peace

+

Offensive

Washington, November 13.

tish diplomatic relations with Diplomatic authorities in Washington feared today

Britain.

(1) Satisfaction of the

ilk.

the 11-nation commission for Con-raine's reperations claims on Ger- Puller and plekets were ported (rentional Armaments.

ander the Potsdam Agree.

Cat several points to the Industrial

area and tromps stood by. Essen- Report Next Year tiul, services, including electricity and water -tangollen, were

..ffected.

It added that the not

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many

(2) Au end to Britain's "polley of harbouring criminal Ukrainian traitorous

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that the appeal to the Big Powers by Trygve Lio and Herbert Evatt to settle the Barlin dis- pute may have the offect of strengthening what the United States Secretary of State, George Marshall, described yesterday as "a Soviet Compassion elements carrying on should devote its est attention activities."

peace offensive designed to play upon the to formulating Brojsals for the

general desire for peace with the real purpose ¡receipt checking and

He said that it was the Angio- publication American states

were in- of weakening the United States" position." tensled to benefit from

the in

In- formation obtained by an inter- They said it appeared thni the appea! passed from em- national checking agency and only abandonment of their pre- barrassement to Irritation. "under these conditions the very vious insistence that negotia- The following points were request for a reduction of arma- tions cannot be resumed with voted: (1) Any suggestion that ments is condemnable-Reuter.

the Russians until the "duress" the four powers meet to confer of the Berlon blockade is re- on the issue already has been re- moved would enable the West- Jected in advance by Truman. ern Allies to accept the appeals proposals for "immediate con- versations.'

Churchill Says Attitude "Narrow And Partisan'

London, November 13.

Mr.. Winston Churchill, the leader of the Conserva- tive Opposition, today criticised as "narrow and partisan" the Government's refusal to choose British representatives to the Western Union Special Committee on an all-party basis.

US Cannot Enter War Automatically

Paris, November 14.

Though the official text of the appeal was still in the of transmission, the State De-

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Guardsmen today shot dead Chinese bandit who had clutched In his hand a revolver issued to the 20-year-old British (2) The appeal appears to place planter, Mr. Norman Searson, who equally on all of the, four powers The Guardsmen with police at- the current impasse was killed by terrorists last week. process while the Security Council debate tacked a jungle camp in

North has shown the majority of world Belangor State. Mr, Searson was partment here look immediate support for the Western sland. A well informed American attention to news agency versionsger to Western allied unity on

killed in the same area. steps to draw President Truman's The appeal presents some dan- |source predicled US commit of it.

The combined police-military ments under the proposed North

the Berlin issue. In view of the patrol seriously wounded 1wo Atlantic pact will exclude

rendiness apparent French

to other Chinese, believed to belong automatle American entry into President would probably, con- thun

American officials said that the compromise on terms less firm to a "killer squad" working in

Britain and the United the area-Reuter. ta new European war.

fer within the next few hours States, it is regarded here ng be- The informant said the US

in the

ut maiter with Mr. Marshall | Ing the ulmost Importance Congress probably would support in Paris by phone or cable,

the three Western Powers a plan volling for immediate con- that since the Committee was to sullation among signatories if any unexpected development might fore dispatching their replies to report to the Government coa one of them is attacked. cerned, he could not agree that

speed up Mr. Marshall's plans to the General Assembly. should

The Brussels puct signed by return to the United States have

to The State Department ofcials Independent Etom, France, Belgium, Nether-confer status. As the Francn, Govern-land and Luxembourg provides policy issues with the President.

outstanding foreign here said that the United States Coalition,

answer to the appeal would be was not each member state will automa-

in Western European dipto-stated by Mr. Marshall in Paris, eurprising that it should choose teally go to war if any one of representatives from more than them is attacked,

matic quarters here reaction to Reuter. Representa-

To a correspondences with the United States at the British the Prime Minister, Mr. Cle-Government's attitude.

ment Allee, issued today, Me. Mr. Churchill Churchill wrote: "It will be, the

proposed correspondence albuki

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bald

Replying. Mr.

in my opinion, a misfortune if published today, His Majesty's Government per- sist in trying to treat

great cause as a monopoly

the Socialist Party."

Next Saturday

this

ment was

The Cothritter. consisting of representatives of the United Kingdom France and the Benelux countries, will meet in Paris next one party, Mr. Attlee cald. tives of the Brussels Union are in Saturday. The Western Union

Mr. Attlee added, however, that London studying their own five Foreign Ministers at their Paris the main Opposition parties were individual drafts for the proposed meeting last month recommended not represented.

Trans-Atlantic pact with its formation.

who was United States and Canada. Mr. Churchill said He under-Honorary Chairman of the Con- The American Paris informant stood that the alber four coun-gress of Europe Meeting at The pointed out tries concerned were choosing re- Hague last May, has given strong Constitution Congress could not presentatives from all parties. He support to the idea of a Western approve any foresaw lively disappointment in European Union.-Reuter,

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Vienna, November 13. Austrian President, Dr Karl Renner,, appealed I the world to set Austria free in A broadcast during the celebrations of the 13th anniversary of the founding of the first Austrian Republle.

Dr. Henner said that Austria ahould be admitted to the United Nations and should be given self government

He added: "Set tus completely free at last. No longer bar our way into the community of the peoples"-Reuter,›,

MANILA HOLDS SUSPECTED RED

Manila, November 14. The Bureau of Immigration today were holding Yan Yap- bian, auspected Chinese com- munist leader in Southern Min- tiano. Yap was arrested In Davao City yesterday and flown to Manila for questioning and deportation proceedings.

Large scale illegal entries into the Philippines have occurred through the unguarded "hack door" of the Southern islands.--- Associated Press.

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