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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1849.'
Bligh's Barometer Still Being Used
Suva, Fiji, March 2.
The barometer of the Bounty is still tapped and
of Norfolk Island. every morning by Ray Nobba
read
A.M.D. Towner revealed this when he disclosed that he has the soup turden of Captain William Bligh, who was skip- per of the famous British man o'war when its grow mutinied in 1789. The turnen was presented to Townor by Mrs Charles Fish of Norfolk Island, one of the direct descendants of the Bounty mutinoors.
Towner said Mrs. Fish also has an autographed lithograph of Queen Victoria, sent to the descendants of the mutineers with har amnestyUnited Pros.
RICE PRODUCTION STILL BELOW PRE-WAR AVERAGE
New York, March 3.
To Over-Population In Asia Emigration Not The Answer
Sydney, March 3.
MUNITIONS Emigration is not the solution of Asia's excess
FACTORY BLOWN UP
Istanbul, March 2. Heavy casualties are feared in nn explosion which wrecked a private small arms ammunition factory at Sutluce, on the East bank of the Golden Horn, here tonight.
Some 200 employees were, in the building at the time.
The
to
population problem, says the widely travolled Australian writer, Frank Cluno.
In a discussion of the White Australia policy in the ..Sydney newspaper "Truth," the internationally known travelogue writer said: "For Asiatic ployment and food for their own people within their borders. They must learn that they cannot encroach, without war, on the lands of other statesmen, the political problem is to find em- people.
"Their problem would be made casior if they could inculcate the doctrines of continence and, res- ponsibility among their own people.
RUSSIANS BACK TITO DEMANDS
London, March 3, Russia Jined up with Yugo- slavia yesterday behind a plan to erente self-governing Slovene province in Southern Austria.
Soviet backing of Yugoslav claims, renewed despite tha Cominform's fight with Marshal Tito, sharpened the East-West "This is not a problem for logical fact that It seems a pity disagreement in Big Four talks Austrian independence mention but quota Australia to solve. We can do to absolutely nothing to find liv-voites deliberately treat
On ing room for people who pullu- travels in India, China, Japan, at the treaty conference
the basis of extensive French Deputy Foreign Ministers
The explosion shook Istanbul. A smaller one followed 10 min- utes later. Smoke from the ex- putea plosions/several thousand
feet in
in the air.
appeared explosion have originated from a fire from a chemical laboratory, setting off four store rooms of explosives. Several
hours afterwards, the factory was still ablaze. The of further explosions pre- tear vented immediate rescue efforts.
Ten fremen who tried to ap- have believed to proach were
Police and sol-policy lost their, lives,
tonight evacuated nearby diers inhabitants,
Rico production in Asian countries still is 6,200,000 tons below pre-war average, although planted arcas equal those of 1939.
The Food and Agricultural Organisation of the Unit-
ed Nations reported this yesterday. Asin produces 94 per cent of they ate daily in pre-war years. "Moreover," it added, "the the world's rice crop.
danger of starvation is ever pro- millions who sent among the
exclusively op depend almost rice for food."
FAO
Thousands of Asians, said, continue to receive only fraction of the amount of rice
Tropics As Producer Of Paper?
Los Angeles, March 2 The tropies may freplace the North countries as a producer of paper and pulp in the near future, according to Harry B. Manderson, Australian facturer.
manu-
In
ad-on
an
#21
hero
autonomous province.
The
late indiscriminately, and are Malayo and Indonesin, Clune
creation of not assimilable into our own said that large families are the joined in apposing population. Our aim is to rule in those countries.
a province make Australia a Home for the
He sold that the over-popula-Yugoslavs sald such White Race. We are entitled tion of Asia is the result of recit is needed for fair treatment of Slovence in Austrian Carlathia. parents who, to do that. It is a policy which less. breeding by
The US. Deputy, Samuel Ro- general are devoid of any ber, described Yugoslavia's fur- menaces no other country."
Clune said the White Australia sense of moral responsibility to
their
offspring vital to national safety procreate
They
merely ther claim for annexation of to indulge their in- unspecified amount of Austrian "Communists, with their fellow
territory 0.5 travellers, including some clergy-stinels, and do nothing, or
Russla 20 men and Journalists of the 'pink little, to ensure that their all-unjustified.
territorial ofalm. variety, keep on plugging the spring will have
sources Western theme that our national policy is of life.
diplomatic 'unfair to Asiaties."
still hopeful of finding a compromise, The treaty · dlaciu- two and a hnic years ago.-Associated Tress.
very
the necessities
Clune attacked suggestions Reckless Breeding
that Australia should establish #quota
migrants.
Scores of people were injur. ed by flying debris when houses tumbled under the blast of the explosion. Windows eight Said the world The bulletin
kilometres away wore shalter-; production of paddy rice during
ed.
four- The Golden Horn is a 1948-49 totalled 145,000,000 tons. This was 2,400,000 more than the mile wide inlet of the Bosphorus most of the elty is previous year but 2,900,000 be on which
situated. low the pre-war average.
The plant had been making Consumption requirements have increased 10 per cent since 1939 anti-aircraft shella for Egypt and Jin rice-eating areas of the world,
Syria. FAO found, This Is due to a
spokesman Government in popula-sak the death toll will be about
The Ogures assume that the
Allempts to reduce population 100,000,000 increase
immigrants would be young pressure by emigration followed tion in those areas the past 10:15, but eye-witnesses
more bodies in the wreckagefadults, in approximately equal the success of modern selence in
years.
saw far
The bulletin also reported: Reuter and Associated Press. 1. Wholesale prices of rice everywhere are around 300 per cent higher than 1930.
Small Surplus
2. Burplus rico available
Pre-war
figure
ROME CRISIS BLOWS OVER
Rome, March 2.
are
system for Asiatic He added that in the majority (sions started
A suggested quota of these countries the large ma- of 1,000 yearly would result in Jarity of women-folk are merely 350.000 Asiatics in Australia in chattel-slaves, without education bearing hope, who begin 90 years, he said.
children in their teens, and keep bearing children until They themselves die, usunily at an early age.
Elementary Fact
ratio of men and women.
im
or
un
an
unwarranted and
supported the
Communists Join Karen Campaign
Rangoon, March 3. Communists have joined the Katen rebels In an attack og Mandalay,
curbing plague and famine death
"But," he said, "this is not accompanied by any attempt
A communique said the at- on the part of" nationallstic
tackers have taken up new posi- Aalatic statemen to Inculcate tions below the river where they the doctrines of birth control are running intu Government re- by continence, ör a sense of moral responsibility in parents. toward their offspring.
No Obligation
sistance.
It sold Kuren snipers Inaldo Mytinge are being wiped out.
"It is also assumed that these tolis. Aston Immigrants would inter- marry with one another and not with White Australions, and that the average number of children "Every country has been cut-
bom to the women would be timber faster then it ng its
four. Assuming that the grows, and as a result the whole
Manderson for export in 1949 is less than
migrant females are all young world is over-cut,"
aculis and that 500 of them are one-half the said. "But bamboo and tropical
This is because deficit ardas The Italian Prime Minister, admitted per year, a statistician
An official spokesman said the grass offer an excellent source of
that in 30 years the short bre pulp suitable for mak- of the world have Increased. Signor Alcide de Gasperi, after estimates
railway town of Myingyan, 90- At least 13 rice countries will a Cabinet meeting tonight, an-15,000 women admitted during ing several kinds of paper in-
miles South of Mandalay, is in eluding newsprint, and the supply be represented at the first Innounced that the Vice-Premier, that period would have produced
"Hence, there is no moral ob- the hands of pro-Government ternational Rice is almost inexhaustable."
Commission Siam, on
"Signor Giuseppe Saragat, has about 50.000 children.
three generations their ligation upon Australians to do Karers, meeting at Bangkok,
children,
White Band PVO's have estab- Krandchildren and anythlag whatever-by means of
quota-to relieve Mr. Manderson, who is return-March 7. They are Burma, Cey-withdrawn his resignation.
the lished 22 secret headquarters in Ing to Melbourne after a trip to lon Cuba, Ecuador, Egypt,
of over-population In Rangoon from where The resignation was subralled great-grandchildren would swella trivial
they are Sweden, explained that tropie France, Indin, Italy.
faster than Netherlands. Pakistan,
several days ago as a gesture of the total number to ten-fold the pressure
actual Krow!lis
quota-number admitted. Asiatic countries. that is caused directing an spring up
protest aginst criticism of the This is such an elementary bio- by a lack of the sense of moral strike whose aim is the cutting. man can cut them down. Auspinos and Slam.
Government by a member of his trail and New Zennnld are well
obligation among Asiaties them from power of Thokin Nu and Norris E. Dodd, FAO Director own party on the release from
selves."
his colleagues in the Cabinet. on the way to being self-sum- General now visiting member prison ot Prince Vaterlu
Ho claimed that wherever These PVO's, who fought the cient in the manufacture of pa- countries in the Far East, plans Borghese, an alleged collabora
there has been Aslatie immigra- Goverment for five months on a per, he said.-United Press,
tion, racial problems have arisen, difference of opinion concerning and concludes that Asiatic pean coalition with the Communists, ple, because of language, re-entered Rangoon two weeks ago. ligion and other factors, are not ostensibly to fight the Kurens nt 'good settlers."
Itisein. Middlesburg, March 2.
Informed sources "They do not assimilale easily
said that Government The South African Minister with the people of other lands, when the Burmese for Economic Affairs, Mr. Eric The question is not one of refused a fresh issue of arms and Louw, told a political meeting superiority, but of undoubted ammunition to the PVO they Associated today that the Soviet and busie
fighting. -- 'difference." "—United stopped Consulate in Pretoria had pro-Press.
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Roberto Tremelloni," tional distribution and consump-Minister of Industry and Com- tion of rice-Associated Press. merce, have withdrawn their
lendered resignations.
London, March 2.
The Cabinet approved the A jet engine powerful enough | nomination of Signor Tremelloni to propel a plane at, more than as permanent Italian representa 1,000 miles an hour Is being live to the Committee for the
nt
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RUMOURS OF NEW PACT WITH EGYPT
London, March 2.
subjects in the country who need Cairo reports that the United States has proposed a
protection but yet the staff of
the Russian consulate is of ex- traordinary magnitude.
Mr. Louw said there is 20 doubt that the Consulate is the
ker.
three-power alliance with Britain and Egypt were denied today by a Foreign Office spokes-
man.
centre of the Communist pro- "We have no knowledge of The Egyption Ambassador in London is reliably expected to paganda drive throughout South-any such proposal," he said. call on Mr. Ernest Bevin soon. ern Africa. A special Russian courier travels to Moscow from In diplomatic quarters here, An appointment for him to call the Consulate every month with the reports are considered highly at the Foreign Office yesterday since tho United was cancelled at the last minute. secret documents, he said.-Reu-improbable,
States Constitution prohibits her
Observers
here said that though from taking part in foreign al-Britain and the United States Hances. This provision can only may
have discussed jointly RUSSIAN'S FALL
be waived, diplomatic sources whether circumstances are pro- OVER CLIFF said, as in the case of the pre- pillous for reopening negotio-
to posed Atlantic Pact,
revise the Anglo- after the tions Naples, March 2..
most delicate manoeuvres of in- Egyptian Alliance, they consider- Naples police said today
temal politics.
ed it out of the question that the that Dr. Nicolaj Polejtskyrov,
Observers here said that an United States should be a party *ged 25, secretary at the local Russian Consulate, found dead on undercurrent of truth behind be to such negotiations.
In Washington, the Secretary the seashore on Sunday night, hind these alliance rumours from
be that
of State, unofficial
Mr. Dean Acheson,. fell accidentelly from a 200-me- Cairo
out to described the Alliance reports as fanciful-Reuter and
The
may
tre cliff. He was posing for his feelers have been put photograph at the time, they add-revive negotiations for revizion somewhat
of the 1930 Anglo-Egyptian Al- United Press.
ed.
A strolling photographer, who had been held for questioning was released today. Router.
liance, following the return to the Egyptian Foreign Ministry of
Ahmed Khashaba Fasha.
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