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EUROPEAN COUNCIL DISCUSSED Survivors Of Ship | Hungarian Primate

Western Union Countries Start Work On Details CHURCHILL'S PLEA

London, February 3.

The Western Union co untries. today started working out details of the proposed Council of Europe and hoped to avoid the pitfalls that the United Nations encountered.

Shots Fired At Train

Shots

fired were

At train Canton-bound

from Kowloon on Wednesday night, According to vernacular prin

nivasages from the Kwangtung

capital yesterday.

The train left Kowloon at

3 p.m. on Wednesday.

later,

Four

WAR

hours

до travelling

Kuthan hear Station about 10 miles from the Canton terminus, shots were fired at it from a hill- alde.

After the train arrived at Canton, railway guards, in specting the train for damage, found bullet marks on the Inst carriage. None of the passengers was Injured.

The firing occurred in the Jam neighbourhood: whore robbors, disguised as pasGON – gers, held up an express' front Kowloon recently.

Looming CKR Strike Averted

The looming strike threat Involving more than 1,000 rail way, workmen of the Canton- Kowloon Railway was avert- ed when settlement a reached at Canton last even- ing.

The problems of the Council came up as diplo

matic representatives of Britain, France, Bel- gium, Holland and Luxembourg met for the first time since their governments approved the principle of a European Council, The Council will be composed of two bodies—in ona ovary nation is to have "veto;" in the other the larger states will have more votes thon the smaller ones and there will be no veto.

This plun, it was learned, has considerable support the Western among

Union nations. They gave it support un the basis of experience in the United Nations where de- bote has flourished but action has seldom resulted.

The European Council as now suggested would be composed of two bodies:

Veto Power

1. A Cabinet composed of a ninister from each manber coun- try. This Cabinet would meet privately and would make deel- Mons. But as no country is will ing to give up its own sovereignty all important decisions would have to be unanimous. Thus one coun

And in reference to the United States he said: "We are moving forward in a goodly company. From fur ACTUSS the Atlantiq comes to our tortured and shat-

tered continent a mighty surge of health and strength,"

Mr. Churchill, again referred to the United States in discussing the Western Union.

"I have always felt that the structure of world security should be founded upon regional organi= | salions. That

now what we are doing, or striving to do, in the Western Union. In many ways this regional structure is already coming Into 'being. It is already a vast reality on the other side of the Atlantle Ocean."

Mr. Churchill said the Brussels meeting this month on European federation would be another for- ward step in the grand design.

try's "no would veto any pro- UN Example posal except procedure:

On

A Consultative Assembly composed of about 100 members.

"There must be in European This Assembly

would

meet supreme court to which breaches public and pass resolutions but of the declarations of human rights its decisions would not be binding so valiantly and majestically pro on any country. This would be claimed at Geneva by the govern- similar to the UN General Assem bly. One big difference would ments of so many powers can be

Still clad in their under- wear and wrapped in woollen blankets, 19 survivors of the l-fated Portuguese fraighter Masbate,

sank which

five minutes after colliding with the Helang Haing on Mon- day morning off Focchow.

པ་་ arrived here youterday by the

Hal Yang from @walow. Greeting the survivors were officiale of Jobshun Shipping Company and relatives at the- Douglas Wharf. ("China- Mall" Photo).

Nationalist Evacuation Continuing

Collision

Twenty-Five Members

Of Masbate Crew Reported Still Missing

(By Our Harbour Reporter).

Twenty-five members of the 48-man personnel of e

the sunken Portuguese freighter Masbate are still missing, survivors said on their arrival Hare from Swatow by the ss. Hai Yang yes- terday.

Nanking, February 3. Nationalist forces today eve-, cuated Nantung-on-the-North Pattaya bank of lower Yangtaej 100

Offers To Make Peace With State

Budapest, February 3.

his Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty began

treason,trial, today with an appeal för delay while he made peace between thre Catholic Church and Hungary, but the People's Court immediately turned down the request, *

The Cardinal asked in a letter to the Justice Minis ter, Dr. Istvan Riesz, that his case be separ- ated from the six other co-defendants and suspended while he attempted a peace mis- sion.

The letter was read as the trial opened in the small,

chilly room of the main court.

The building was heavily guarded by militiamen, arm- ed with tommyguns, stationed every few paces. Each of the seven defendants was flanked by a guard on the long bench

the facing

tribunal where

seven judges ant.

told the court The Cardinal that he had written the letter in his own hand-writing and of his own free will.

The letter added that he had had time to think the pintire matter over for the past 30 days, and that during this period, he had come to realise that "becaus of my activities, the agreement between the church and state was delayed,

It added that the Cardinal felt that even the Holy See could not object to the establishment of peace under such conditions.

After the letter was read, the President of the Court, Dr. Vil- mos Olty, conferred with his aix fellow judges. Then he rejected the Cardinal's appeal for delay, recessed After that the court briefly.

When the court resumed Car-

had

Bunche Invites Arab States

Rhodes, February-- 3,

The Acting UN Palestina mediator, Dr. Ralph Bunche, announced today that he had invited the six Arab 'States

10 to come

Rhodes for armistice talks with Israel,

The invitations were sent on January 30 to Iraq.. Tranajordan, Byria, Lebanon,.. Baudi Arabla. and Yomon None of the States, hau- regi piled, thus far..

King Abdullah,of. TERAN jordan proposed an medlate

of acceptanco. invitation to join arimistles talks with Inreal when he met the iraqf Regent, Abdul. Illah, at → desert pumping-- station

fast night," it was understood in Damssous, toi ?

'day-United Press and Rou...

tor.

A

SARGODNO

„Toth, Catholic press, head before-

Hungary's liberation,

The Chinese chief cook died aboard the ss. Hsiang Hsing shortly after he was picked up from the sea. The missing persons include the Portuguese master, Mr. C. V. Gomez, and the Portuguese chief officer, Mr. Edward Benttey.

dinal Mindszenty-took the stand The Masbate, was struck on thud followed simultaneously by for destioning. The other aix de

The 56-year-old Prince of the miles North West of Shanghai, the starboard side of the violent shake-up, he related. Kendants, meanwhile, "

Thrown Off His Foot

led back to the

cells to await Reliable reports received) in third hold by the Chinese

Burn in accordance

Church-the first Cardinal to face- their

with Nanking said that Communist steamer in thick fog at 5 am.

a lhy court in' modern times- The fireman was thrown off his Hungarian judicial tradition. forces entered the suburb of the on January 31 off Foochow at feet. city, which is near the

He rushed up to the main

was led into the, Marko Street The Cardinal" listened know Yangise crossing.

impas- well the given position of 26.35N deck hard on the heels of his sively to the court when the long courtroom this morning by :

and 120.46E. She sank five colleagues, and saw a bigger ves- list of charges against him was

uniformed police, the collision. sel with her bow embedded in the read. He is accused of conspiring took the first seat on the long Communist forces have now minutes after

The short-statured Primate starboard side of the third hold. to overthrow the Government, at defendants" bench facing the Yangtse at several points on a

the to restore 160 mile stretch to the East and exploded, killing an unaccount- and "I felt she was going to go espionage,

monarchy. ed number of the Portuguese down at any moment," he said. South East of Nanking.

dollars and opposing raised dals: Cardinal Mindszenty of Nanking, fighting between the ever, were wounded by flying lower the Masbate's lifeboats, but

At Icheng today, 30 miles East vessel's crew. Several, how-

Several seamen attempted to Government attempts to streng-face slightly ruddy despite weeks looked in - normal condition, his then democracy and socialism.. Communlet and Nationalist forces splinters.

of detention: He listened with is reported to have died down to

Agrees In Principle determined milen to the opening

formalities. skirmishing, following the Nation- alist naval bombardment of the city's two gaten.

To the right of the Cardinal Was

defence counsel, Dr. Kalman Kiebko, hitherto an

al most unknown attorney,

To the left of the prisoners" bench another raised platform The Cardinal's co-defendants held the prosecution headed by are Dr. Justin Baranyal, 'a unt- Dr. Gewula "Alapi and Marton versity

professor; Dr. Andras Bodowl.

was be that the UN General Assembly referred and by which these hu-eached the North bank of the The boiler of the sinking ship The Masbate was, then trembling | tempunk black market deals in seven Judges' who.. were.

4

man rights may be proclaimed and voto defended," he said.

He said Western Europe stilt had to work und breath in the shadow-of-the-sword.

We are saddened by the fact that the new United Nations Or-i ganisation should have been so It has made a far less hopeful start in these first four years than did lis pre-

"But saddened though we

· ARRESTED

arc

The Fs. Hsiang Hsing sustained damage on her bow port side: The has not been estimated yet, She took the survivors to Swatow under her own steam;,

extent

liowever.

Chinese

seeing 'that there was hardly time to save themselves that way, they jumped on to the Hsiang Hsing. which was at that moment versing and pulling away.

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American

Cardinal Jindszenty, in his re-letter, said he agreed in princi- ple with the accusations and had concluded after long meditation that on agreement between the Church and the State should and could be reached.

Prince

his

on..

Zakar, the Cardinal's secretary; The were almost no onlookers Paul Esterhazy, richest in the antreata leading to the court. landowner in Hungary In accordance with an appeal

prowar and accused of black market from the bench and the remain- dealing in American currency; Ing Hungarian Catholle authori- Miklos Naty, secretary of the ly, there were no 'demonstrations Catholic Action Group: Dr. Bela reported anywhere in the The "CHINA MAIL" | Ispanky, a priest; and Dr. Laszlo country-United Press.

alver ench country i one while the European Assembly would give the larger States more The last train from Canton voling power. yesterday arrived late last night stance, that Britain and France

It has been suggested, for in without passengers. It will re- sume the service this morning. have elght times to many votes

as tiny Luxembourg., Belgium torn and sundered. Tickets were not sold dur

and Holland and others of the g the negotiation, and it was

smaller countries would have

Meanwhile the Nationalist Gov- loo late for would-be passengers more votes than Luxembourg but

ernment was reliably reported to board it when It left the fewer than France or Britain. decessor, the League of Nations.

today to be endeavouring to ex-

Twelve survivors were picked Chinese city.

The Consultative

from Assembly we must not lose heart for faith Pedite the Communist reply to its up the all-covered sea in More than 1,000 workers, would be the propaganda sound- threatening to walk out, delayed ing board of the European organi- because it is along these paths that occupoppeals through Communist thick fog by their bomrades in a

Occupied Peiping.

Halang Hong lifeboat. They were the last train from Canton on sation,

the human race con find, satisfac-

If preliminaries are successful, landed aboard the tion of its needs and desires." the five-man non-partisan delege-steamer an hour after the peel- Wednesday for more than an Mr. Winston Churchill, mean- United Press. hour. The men sat on the track while, pleaded today for a Parlla-

tion recently appointed in Shang- dent. The chief cook died of his while negotiations were under ment of Europe which will pre-

hal and Dr. Shno Lit-ze unofi-wounds thortly afterwards. way between their representa sent the concentration of united POLITBURO AGENT cial lender of the Nationalist

had Clothing

to be taken lives and the railway authorities peoples in concrete and deßni-

peace delegation, is expected to

aboard the Hal Yang yesterday for advance payment of wagestive form.

ily to Peiping.

to the 10 survivors. The secund Athens, February 3.

officer, the bosun and the quarter John Blanas, member of the Other Nationalist efforta to master are meanwhile at Swatow, Communist Party Politburo, who hasten the opening of peace being interrogated by the Chinese Mr. Churchill spoke

came to Athens on a "special negotiations are believed to be Customs regarding the collision is pleased to announce

The arrivals were still clad in that The General Markos", simultaneously in progress through mission for diplomats, leaders of internation

Some had woollen was arrested today.

secret contacts in Communist underwear, al organisations and members of

blankets, given

ven by the Halang Volume of Parliament Lathe London Gulld

The Minister for Public Order, territory.

Rentia, said that

Political and military uncertain-Haing crew, wrapped round them. Hall after he had received the Constantine

arrived

in Athens two ty is meanwhile heightening the They include eight from the en- gold Grotius Medal from Holland Blenas In recognition of his services to

months ago to organise Com- tension in the capital, caused by gine-room, four deck-hands, twu the Communist nerve war from from the purser department and Committee" to the cause of peace.

eight from the compradore's staff. Among many difficulties and "sabotage, execute and terrorise." the North Shensi radio..

During

Observers here today could A number of them still bear occupation grave perila Britain and the Ne-

place on time limit on its duration, scars and wounds of the London February 2.

therlands, together, with

their Greece, Blanas served with

Nationalist Government circles plosion. Sir William Strang, new Per- neighbours, are striving to form ELAS, the Leftist resistance ar- manent Under-Secretary - for a closer unity than has existed in ganisation, as a Commissar Foreign Affairs, who left London Europe at any time since the days the Peloponnesus, — Associated last month for a Far East tour of the Roman Empire," he said." before taking over at the Foreign Ofice, recently visited Indonesia,

and rice rations.

The dispute remained unsettled Strive For Unity

when the train was allowed to leave for Kowloon. As it was al- ready filled with passengers, the workmen were persuaded to come of the track and allow the train to proceed.

STRANG'S VISIT TO INDONESIA

it was disclosed today,

Sir William had conversations with representäliveJ (of the Crown and with Indonesian Re- publicans and the Federalista.— Reuter.

The Weather

A¢ 6600 GMT (1 pm. BEST) from, a small anticyclone, over; Central. Chlon, a ridge extends ERE to the Honra,

Today's VornemátiĽtækt variable winda becoming moderate BE. Forty at Dest becoming partly cloudy.. [***Yoqterday's' Weatherin

Maximum 79á den, Pah.'

·Htaliums, 10.8 dest, Feh. Bunshines, 7.1° hours,

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the

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Communist Agents Busy In Germany

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are

Second

WINSTON CHURCHILL'S

WAR MEMOIRS

"Their Finest Hour

were, however, optimistic about! Substantial sums, accomodation the prospects of an early success and food are being provided by in current negotiations,

the local agents, Jebshun Ship- The complete army of General ping Company Twelve of the Lin Pino's Manchurian Red forces, arrivals, most of whom meanwhile paraded through Pal- Northern Chinese, have familles plug's streets today In a four-in the Colony, Others are staying hour demonstration of Communist in boarding houses,

military efficiency and. American Eye-witnesses told, of how they and Japanese equipment.

were caught unaware, their fran- People of Peiping Ined the tie escape, and the nerve-racking will commence in the "China roads to watch in calm reserve rescue of those foundering la the Mall" on Monday next. Day but obvious awe this striking conolly sea.

by day you will read the trust with the straggling disor Hok Fung-men, 42-year-old stirring story of a momentous derliness of the Chinese armies Areman of the Masbate, was in era...those desperate months the engine room when he heard Spearheaded by armoured units, intermittent hootings at about 5 of 1840 when France fought. motorised divisions began a.m. “Suddenly 1. heard a dull and fell, when Dunkirk be- | moving through the Southern cate shortly after 30 om. An estimut ed 30,000 troone prased in review. workers, Tons of thousands municipal employees, and univer- The Russian-sponsored Ger-awakening them from their alty and middle school students man' Communist People's Coun-lethargic sleep, and revealing to moved parallel with the Red ell called upon Germans to take them who are their enemies and army in organised singing, danes their fate in their hands, who are their friends" sing and chanting formations-- promising them that the Soviet Meanwhile, the British Con- Reuter and United Press,

Berlin, February 3.

In direct contrast to reports of new Russian peaco moves, Communist agents in Germany aro urging mass demonstrations against the Wes- torn Allies' occupation policies.

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