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WE STAY IN JAPAN' U.S. ARMY SECRETARY MR. ROYALL REPEATS HIS DENIAL OF TOKYO STORY

BRITON WOUNDED

Washington, Fobruary 16,

Tho U.S. Secretary of the Army, Mr. Kenneth Royall, Foday persisted in his denial of statements at- tributed to him that the United Statos considers Japan valueless in the event of war.

IN POLAND He declared that at the meeting with correspondents

Warsaw, February 18.

A secretary of the British

Embassy in Warsaw, Mr. A. C.

in Tokyo, at which he is reported to have ex- pressed such an opinion, he did not discuss American, strategy in the event of war.

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1949.

Manila Has A Second Quake

100

Manila, Fabruary 17. A second quake In than two daya gently rocked Manila last night. The Phillp- pine - Weather Bureau timas it st 7.45 p.m. with a tremor (eeting 10 seconds.

The epicentro is estimated to be 237 milos from the capital on North West, South West axia

On February 15, a sharp quake of Intensity five was recorded, due to the slipping of the earth's crust some 87 miles, Bouth of Manila. There was no damage.—Assoolated Pross.

COUNCIL SAYS A DEFINITE "NO"

TO NORTH KOREA

Lake Success, February 16.›

The United Nations Security Council today refused,

by a vote of eight to two with one abstention, to send the application of the People's Republic of Northern Korea to its Membership Commit» tee for considoration.

The Council, yesterday sent

the application

of the American-backed Southern Korean Gov- ernment to the Membership Committee.

In a two-and-a-half-hour de- bate today, however, the Soviet-

Space Ship supported

Maule, is lying in hospital-here Mr. Royall reiterated the views he has expressed To Dominate in abstained.

"today with three bullet wounds inflicted by men who made a raid on his home shortly after midnight.

After an

WAS

he operation, sold in Be "gravely ill."

Two minsked men broke · Into

Mr. Maule's lonely country house

15 miles South of Warsaw demanded money,

atid

Mr. Maule rushed at the men, who Bred three shots, wounding

him

After mands

their

man

since leaving Japan, saying that ho considers the United States can hold Japan against all

comers.

The Earth

who

ledged as such by the Generat

•Assembly,

"Should the Security Council

of Asiatic despotism 5,000 years comprises the same nations that

Northern Korean Government received only the give the application of Northern votes of Russia and the Ukraine.we have decided to give therap

Korea the same consideration as

The Council's action brought tion would be politically mis

plication of Southern Korea, our immediate sharp criticism from chievous." Mr. Jacob Malik (USSR), Washington, February 16.

With Northern Korea's applica said: "The Anglo-American bloc The Secretary of the Army to ask them some questions.con- The Curtiss Wright Corpora- has perpetrated a new act of in-lon overwhelmingly lost, it ap

pears all the more certain-Rus- and he would tion, builders of aeroplanes and justice against one of the world's sla will cast ita 30th veto if the was closely examined at a press corning Japan

no stalement himself..

aldest peoples, engines, reported today that

which has just conference on the statements he make

Membership

Committee (which Is reported

made in

United

been liberated from to have

Statcs Government "I mnde no statement about Tokyo.

Japan-military or otherwise." he scientists are working secretly:

sit on the Security Council) re- Dr. T. F. on'a space ship which will flash ident of the Security Council,

Telang (China), Pre- ports favourably on Southern declared.

Korea's bid for a UN seat, as through the atmosphere at was outspoken against the Nor-It is almost certain nearly

6,000 kilometres anthern Korean application.

United Press, hour.

"In the North we have a re- A chart issued by the

and nature of firm zime, the origin thut secret shows

Government which are unknown to us," he research is being conducted on a said. "That regime persistently 4,000 to 0,400 kilometres an hour defled us. rocket plane and a guided jet missile with a speed above 3,200 kilometres an hour.

When it that there.

Questioned about a transeript in the stomach and shoulder, of the discussions at the Tokyo

repeating

de meeting with correspondents on for

money to M: February 6, Mr. Royal! said that Maula's wife, the

ferent raportu fed he did not know that any trans- without taking anything fromcript had been made because he Mr. Maule, said to be about 45 had not regarded it as a press years old, has lived in Warsaw conference in the ordinary sense.

the house.

for three years, first as an official |

However, Mr. Royall admitted

thority" who had held the meet- ing with the correspondents.

of the United Nations Relief and he was the "high military nu- Kehubitation Organisation and for the past 18 months as an Ein- bassy secretory.

Before the Wor ho

Mr. Royal said that when he several years in India as a tep har seen the correspondents in planter. Reuter.

Tokyo he told them he wanted

spent

Ding-Dong Battle For Burma Town

Rangoon, February 17.

A swaying battle was fought out on Wednesday on the fringe of Karen-hold Insein, North of Ran- goon.

Strongpoints changed hands

several times as Government forces sought to penetrate the hard core of the Karen defences around the town.

town.

Bhuttle

The three times as the attackers slip-

by

both

Currency Devaluation Question

out was pointed were several dif- attributing the statement to him, he declared: "I am not going to be put into the position of arguing on the specific wording."

Not Leaving

He said his statement that the United States is not going to reported leave Japan has been correctly in the Tokyo press.

Asked whether there was any- one else 'present at the Sunday evening meeting in Tokyo who could have mado statements similar to those attributed to him which might have been inter preted as having his approval, Mr. Royall said: "There were so many views expressed at the meeting by different people that

I am not prepared to challenge

Another Voto?

Scientists believe that the na tion which first creates an outer

our gulding or space platform for launching atomic rockets will dominate the earth.-Reuter.

them as regards their implica- The

tion.

" do not think anyone stated that in their view we should withdraw from Japan in the event of a war, I did not get that impression. I gave no ap- proval to any statement made by anyone."

Mr. Royal said that of course he would not determine any such policy as United States with drawal from Japan.

"In the Bouth, we have R. Government certified to us, by own Commission to be based on the valld popular whi of the people and to acknow.

Immigration In The Colonies

London, February 16. Colonial Secretary, Mr. Arthur Creech Jones, is to ask the acting Governor of the Gold Coast to give further consideration to certain points in the now immigration procedure, he told the House of Commons tonight.”

A former Colonial Secretary,

or race,

as

to do,-

DE MATOS HENCHMEN ARRESTED

Lisbon, February 16. Six prominent supporters of General Norton de Matos, Op- position candidate who with- drew from last Sunday's Presi dential elections, have been ar- rested as Communist clements involved in subversive and re- volutionary attempts

The authorities in Lisbon said they had not been arrested be- fore the elections because tho Government did not wish to give the

Impression that any pressure was being put on the Opposition.

The arrested men

include Senor Manuel Mendès, a

writer, and Senor Mario Soares, a uni versity student- both of whom were members of the Central Committeo"

General

The

a doctor at medicine, Benor Ramos Costa, a doctor of economics and Benor Francisco Zenho, a university student-Reuter.

Sir Pater. MacDonald, Conser-de Mates candidature

others are Senor Manuel Mr. Oliver Stanley, Conserva-vative, objected to the fact that tive, said that a common citi-the restrictions will apply, irres- Palma Carlos, a lawyer, Senor

Armindo Rodrigues, zenship between citizens of the poctive of nationality

to British subjects as well United Kingdom and the aliens colonial territories has been es- Owners or partners in busi- "That question rover arose.tablished. Under those circum-nesses or professions in the Gold to obtain It never came up at all in any stances, how can there be dis-Coast will now have discussions," he concluded. crimination against United re-entry permits before

they Kingdom citizens entering into leave that territory. New part- ners in a firm will have to show British colonice, he asked.

that the expa economie interest ansion of the busi

No Justification

Mr. Royall said: "I don't think

JAPAN HIT BY BLIZZARDS

Tokyo, February 17.

ness is

in the

of the Gold Coast before getting

a permit to go there.

of

the

Colonial Development

London, February. 16.

Sir Godfrey Evans, who

Armed trucks with protective covering maintained service to feed the Government Washington, February 18. troops in the front line,

The Secretary of the Trea- Continuous automalle are pun-sury, Mr. John Snyder, suid cututed by shell bursts told of here today that the question of the terrific effort by the Govern-currency devaluation should be ment troops to recapture the explored with European Mar-

The main action of the day shall aid countries.

Mr. Snyder, who was address- I said anything that gave the im was the "Battle of the Monas-

ing the Senate Foreign Relations plication that we were going to tery.". This is a Buddhist monas-

He thought this would have heated a Commission to study tery regarded by the Government Committee, added that these no pull out of Japan. Certainly I

an unfortunate. effect on the re-settlement problems in. Bri- as the key to the Karen positions, tloris should make greater efforts had no intention of giving such

proper to put their

development financial house in an implication. But no one can changed hands monastery.

order.

Gold Coast by private British ish Guiana and British Hon- be entirely dogmatic on how one ped into the roles of defenders, produced notable signs of lin- tainly there is no

duras in 1947-48, said today interests. Mr. Snyder aald the past year may interpreti one's words Cer

Mr.--Creech-Jones-replied that that the Commission's report Swift counter-attacks

justification sides changed the pattern of the provement in the financial situa- such an implication that was so

A heavy snowstorm which hit the Gold Coast Government am- envisages expenditure of from tion in Europe. But some nano- for from my mind."

ded their Immigration law Just: £14,000,000 ended

to £20,000,000 Olelal reports late on Wed- cial problems still exist.

Mr. Dean Acheson, Secretary the Western Honshu area today September, with his

Its plans will absorb. 100,000 ernment troops, are in possession United in the

Mr, Snyder suggested that the of State, also denies that the disrupted 80 telephone and 140 to control the immigration over the next ten years.

States explore with these United States Government con telegraph circuits linking Hiro- people whose Intended occupation immigrants in the two colonies

the utmost secrecy templates

withdrawal

of shima and other districts in that might prove detrimental to the during that period, he said.

economie development of the of whether they American question

troops from Japan, oren.

Bir Godfrey, who was address- ? should devalue their

inhabitants of to either now or in any future war.

the Go

Gold Coast. Ing the Royal money

Empire Society, balance their internationa? AC- Mr. Acheson, at his wookly The snowstorm also disrupted is the settled policy of His said t is planned to

to set up counts and thus rollove their de- press conference, also densed rallway service on the Yakaguchi Majesty's Government in the Gold forestry project

in British pendence on United States ald. that the United States Govern-Line West of Hiroshima,

Coast, as in other West African Gulane,

costing more than Reuter.

Meanwhile, a Kyodo newn dia- territories that the advancement £4,000,000. Plans for the do- ment regards Japan as indefen-

patch from Hokkaido said that of the African peoples shall be velopment of British Honduras sibir.

Mr. Acheson sold that he was

a severe blizzard caused heavy safeguardad: not only in the include setting up 1 referring to reports of statements damage to 90 fishing, craft off political sphere but also in the plantation and a 30,000-ton sugar which had been attributed to Mr.

Eastern Hokkaido-United Press. economic field," he said-Reuter factory in the North-Reuter. Royall. He reminded the cor- respondents that Mr. Royall hod also denied making any state- ments to this effect,

battle several times.

nesday afternoon said the Gov-

of the mandatory with the cour Karena preparing yet another

counter-offensive,

Road Blocks

.

Behind the monastery tho Karana have established

road blocks directly!

of

- outside the town of Inaain.

Government sources described Wednesday's fighting as fluid and .pcattered.

the

WILLIAM TELL,. MODERN STYLE

·Bedford, February 10. Clark Morgan, 34, has been ac A Burmese Government com- quitted of kliling a tavern heuper munique released last night said friend in a 'modern version of that the suburb of Bassem, 70 "William Tell." He was charged miles West of Rangoon, is now with the manslaughter ou infested with Communist insur- February 0 of Thomas B. Leary.

gents who Bro harassing tho Morgan admitted the shooting,

Government troops,

The communique said that the Karens are reported to he re grouping East and West of Bos. soln.

It added that 50 Karens were killed during fighting at Hlegu, 26 miles North of Rangoon,--| Associated Press.

Tito Claims On Austria

London, February (167 The four Foreign Ministers" deputies conferring here on the Austrian treaty agreed today to hear a further statement on the Yugoslav claims.

Britain, France, and the United States last week realsted the Soviet proposal for a new hear-

deputies wrote to the Yugoslav Deputy Foreign Minis ter, M. Ales Bebler, today that 'they' will hear a statement from him en say aspect of the treaty if he formally asks for the portunity a

They added that to any case "they"--will@hlso hearing to the sea further Austrian point of (view)BA, bopy, of the letter sent]

10 M. Bebler was forwarded the "Austrian, Legation hera.

The

subaustrian / caseˇWILIG

be presented by

op

to

Dr.

Karl Gruber, the Austrina Fog: elma 2 Ministor, who we flewer to Vienna today. But for expect

Mr. Acheson said there is no change in the United States polloy regarding” Japan.........

saying he tried to shoot a small Mr. Acheson sold the reports whisky glass off Leary's head. from Tokyo, published in the He had tried the stunt only on American press last week, do not Leary's repeated Insistence.represent any views held by the Reuter.

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