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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, '1949.

ATLANTIC PACT COMPLETED U.S. PREPARING

Draft Military Alliance Under Study

TWENTY-YEAR TREATY: SIGNATURE IN APRIL

BIG RICE SHIPMENT BY BURMA

Rangoon, March 8.

The Burmese Government announced today that arrange- ments have been made to ship 200,000 tons of rice during this month. This will leave 340,000 -katalanskinaud be complete. the first six months' quota of $20,000 tons.

113 January A February, Burma exported 281,420 fans.

A Burmese Clovernment presentative warned last Friday That

dinlentles export

might increase, in April. (The Burmese Government asked Brilalu some weeks ago for money to linance the expint of the rice crop and for other purposes. One puteume of this request was the calling

of the terrnt forener,)

New Delhi con-

It is authoritatively leaned in Bangun that of Burma's rice export quota of 800,000 109s for] the fiend half of the current year, 261,000 tons www allocated to

India

(The total 1948 quota was 250,000 funt, and at the end of the year it was announced that

the 1949 quota wide at the

same, though it was studied at the time that much depended on the resturgellon of normal renditions

Burma)--Reuter.

CIGS Tour Of British Defences

WASHINGTON, MARCH 8.

THE NORTH ATLANTIC GOVERNMENTS.TODAY.BEGAN STUDYING THE DRAFT OF A MILITARY ALLIANCE COMMITTING THEM TO IM- MEDIATE ARMED ACTION IN CASE OF AGGRESSION AGAINST ANY ONE OF THEM,

Reports of the draft, accepted here as accurate, state that the alliance will

be for 20 yeaTS..

The final Views of the eight, Governments--the United States, Canada, Bri

ARMS SHIPMENT

Washington, March 8.

The United States is preparing to send its first arms shipments to Europedń fignatories of tho At- lantic Pact,

The first shipments, which will probably go to France, Norway and Denmark, 'may be made before the end of June.

their owning efforts. Thus

The Administration hopes the ¡lory to shipment, but 'üntil In- Senate will take funt action 'on ventories have been completed It will the Atlantic-Fact in /April. It is unlikely that a decision

on to how much եր the Administration sees

the he made Pact going smoothly through the be sent to Europe this year.

The Administration is discus- Senate, then a bill to authorise sink with the Western European orms aid will be sent to Con- powers how can Rupplement gress in April.

Stocks of arms are being exa-the United mined in warehouses prepara, certain types of paper

and the Europeans the boules,

The reserve arms value pos sible will be computed at the value of ten cents for every, dol- lar of the original cost, which will enable substantial quantities; to be sent.

tain, France, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg and Norway are expect AUSTERITY

ad to come before the Pact negotiators here on Friday. Official her forcent signa-America the fin de Janeiro Pact Atlantic. ture of the Pact by the end of Powers, of the provisions of the Atimitle Unjas, publication of the the month,

draft early next week.

text should be possible

The eight powers are reported to the agreed that Italy. Den- mark, celnut and Portugal should be brought into the Allinner without delay.

The full text of the Part in ex- pected to be published en Mon- day or Tuesday.

11 Articles

Until then officials of the At lantic Union Powers are misin- taining absolute secrecy.

Besitles preamble the draft contains 11 articles.

Algeria, as part of the French Departmental system. also included in the aren offerten.

Signing Date

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PLAN FOR JAPANESE

Washington, March 9.

A suggestion that the Japan- ese adopt a stiffer austerity pro- gramme brought expressions of from Army approval today planners who are assisting in Japan's recovery.

may supply

Sonate Approval

The Senate Foreign Relations Commitiae, gave informal ap- proval yesterday to the final draft of The North Atlantic PRCL

Meanwhile Dr. Gustav Ras- mussen, Danish Foreign Minister, will travel direct from Capen- The suggestion was made in hagen to Washington by air io- Tokyo by Joseph Dodge, General morrow to discuss Danish parti- MacArthur's Ananelal adviser. cipation in the Atlantic Pact

declined pleners

11 to negotiations, "Aring

Danish ometal comment directly on Mr. Dod-spokesman announced in London ge's statement but they suit today. sharp emphasis is to be placed Dr. Rasmussen upan

The Southern boundary of the area of the Pact is the Tropic of Cancer, which is 23 degrees, 27 |minutes North of the Equator.

The present draft is believed to have been hammered out from as The most important of the 14

American leaft, which was Itself clauses in the draft, ant to the

re-draft of an earlier version right power immediately After The drzi states the principle of drawn up in the Reven-power being approved by the reguliatură penceful settlement of, inter-committee of Ambassadors here yesterday, is the art, vom-national differences,

Washington. mit Hing: menihers to the girmeițile The seeand pledges the signa- It now remains to fx n datu That an attack on one is nat-tories to work

together in the for the actual signing of the Al tack on

will not visil well as the political fantic Union economic ax

and to decide

beller distribution ofLbution on his way to the 'United and military field.

what stage the five Powers, whs American-supplied raw materials States, but will probably break The

and fourth outline will receive invitations to jolu the to Japanese producers, curtail- his return jounicy In London the broad principle that the signa original seven, will adhere to shement of paddest payrolls and a about March 10 when he will taries will assist each other and Pact.

balanced budget.

doubtless meet Mr. Ernest Be consult together.

Mr. Dodge's statement un-vin. Foreign Secretary. questionably is in conformance Dr. Rasmussen will return to with this overall policy. Since the London for the European Coun- return of the Army Secretary, ell 10-hation conference, which is Mr. Kenneth Royall, from Jupon expected to meet on March 28, Army officials said Increasing it was understood.--United Press. efforts will be made to achieve Associated Press and Retter. the newly announced recovery programme for

immediate action.

Such aggression is to be met by including the use of armed force, to restore, or maintain, 'security.

Not Final Text

The Afth roundly commits them to recognise an attack on one as Extimates of the Military Aldu attack on all, mil to immedialy netion, singly or collectively, In-

Programme now being prepar-

ed range around $1,000,000,000 | cluding the use of armed force, (£250,000,000) for the Atlantic for the maintenance or restoration countries.

Another $500,000,- of veurity.

000 (£125,000,000) is estimated for other military Ald

pro- grammes, Duch as those for Greece and Turkey.

of

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ed.

This will largely depend on whether the present tentative timetable, which would make signature possible during the firal days of April, is maintain. The Foreign Ministers of Bel- tain, Franée, Benelux, Norway, The sixth defines in detall whnt Denmark, Haly and Portugal ure. is meant by armed altack, includ-all expected to attend the Euro- ing the geographical limits with-pean Council Conference in Lon- in which the commitments con- den, which was expected to take tained in Article V are operative. place on March 28.

It appears likely that the five

Geographical Area Western Union Ministers at least

London, March 8, General Sir William Slim, meeting of the representatives of The draft was completed at the Chief of the Imperial General the

Neven powers, under The Staff, will leave Trieste tumor- Chaiymanship of M. Dean Ache-

The seventh delines the relt-will proceed directly to Washing- ton or Bermuda immediately after tionship of the Atlantic Unjun ta two-day visit low for la

tosan, Sceretary State, The the United Nations, and acknow the European Council meeting for Athens, the War Ofice said, Norwegian Ambassadra ma Washeriges the ultimate authority of the signature of the Atlantic

General Slim is on the ratington was also present.

Pre Security Counell for keeping Union-Reuter, part of a 12-day tour of Britain's Middle East Command,

The draft cannot be deserthelbence in the world.

He will leave Athens on Fri-as a tool text till it receives the city for Cyprus and go to approval of the seven Govern- Port Said next Sunday. Then he ments.

will spend three days inspecting Britain's vital defenses in the Suez Canal zone.

On Thursday,

Africa is Press.

March

It is expected that the Washe ington Committee of Ambass;= dlors will meet again next Friday

The eighth states that the Pact without prejudice to exlating International Commit- ments, to which signatories mỳny' be already plodged.

The ninth deals with the or- conisation necessary for imple-

17. to consider the replies of imlivimenting the terms of the Pict.

w leave the Canal zone for

cual Governments. Unless any of tntar in North Africa, but the them submit amendments, which War Office said his itinerary in require further discussion, the

indefinite-Associated Committee will then officially

form Italy, Iceland, Portugal orul Denmark, the ather prospective members of the Atlantic Union, of the terms of the Part.

Allowing for a short relay to chable Britain to infurm Commonwealth Powers.

Athens Press Strike Over

Athens, March 8. The Athens newspaper prin- ́ters' strike and owners' lock-out have ended by urder of the Military Governor of Athens,

The dispute, which arose from the printers' claim for a 20 per cent wage increase, will be set- led by the Ministry of Labour. The Greek Government de- creed three months ago that no furthen increases were to be granted to printers because they

PROSTITUTION ILLEGAL HERE

The Tenth and Eleventh are the

Carson City, Nevada, customary nui clauses covering

March 8. other pissile signatories, the The Nevada Supreme Court duration of the Pact and ralifea-hus ruled that prostitution tlon.

Observers here believe that the illegal throughout the State. gorgraphical definition of the area covered by the Pact is the ferri-

Planners here wald that Shi,

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Israel Invents

a

Resin Process

Yoshida's Government may displey Apparent oppoźl- tion

to the programme but they dismissed this possibility purely political for -vote get- ting.

welcome the

planners

Tel Aviv, March 8. Army return to the Army Department facture of synthetic resins from A new process for the manu- of General Robert Eichelberger us rhicinus of has been developed a civilian advisor to the Assis in the Weizmann Institute of tunt Secretory, Mr. Voorhees, on Chemical Research in Rehoboth Japan Occupation policies.

General Eichelberger recently near Tel Aviv, according to an terminster his active service. Jørneli Ministry of Trude Associated Press.

CHINA DOWN TO LAST MILLION

souren,

Hhicinus can be grown in large quantities in *the Southern Israel Desert of Negev.

A

A synthetic resin factory cost- ing about £750,000 is planned Washington, March 8.

for the Rehoboth region by an said that China is down to the

The State Department today American syndicate Associated

Press. last million of her US$125,000,- 060 American military aid money.

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Commander E. B. Most, of the The Anglo-Americans United States Navy Bureau of enter into the problems of Arctic Ordnance, said this today,

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