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DEBATE ON COLONIES

For

Economic Basis

Social Services

PURPOSE OF POLICY

London, July 20. The Colonial Secretary, Mr. Arthur Creech Jones, told Parliament

today that the British colonies cannot proceed fast with pol itical development unless their social services are expanded and unless we build up in the territories a sound economic basis to sustain the social services we are trying to create,” Opening a House of Commons debate on the Colonies, Mr. Creech Jones said that the broad purpose of British Colonial policy is to bring stability, good order and mutual prosperity to the world.

The policy is to do this in co-operation with the Colonial peoples by building up in the Colonial territories responsibility and the conditions of good living and to achieve those things inside the Commonwealth.

"We are anxious in our re- how much further some of the union conditions there, sald that lations with the Colonial peoples British Colonial groupings could important as tin and rubber are, Mint there should be nsteady be fieri up into effective govern-Britain must remain in Malaya

all discrimination | ment federations or new govern- not only because of them.

There Ля and full co-operation with then ment machinery.

much higher res-

elimination

in the great tasks which have It im Interesting, he wald, to

to hete" he added.

Mr. Creech Jones also cold that within the next frw years Purliament would have to consider

GERMAN DOPE RING SMASHED

see the success of some of the

experttuents over the past few

years:

Ceylon has Dominion status,

ponsibility than to make profits ponsibility is to help unlift the the people and to stimulate the development

out of tin and rubber. That res-

social condition

of

Malta has acquired internal self- of democratle control. government, the West Indies are Mr. Walter Fletcher. Conser- discussing the problem of federa-valive and Managing Director of

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1949.

BRITAIN'S AID TO THE COLONIES

London, July 20. Britain has given or pro mixed 180,500,000 to the British Colonies since Janu- ary 1. 1944, the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Arthur Greach. Jones, said in a parliament-

reply today.

ary

This included £120,000,000 under the Colonial Develop-

•ment and Welfare Act of 1945, 15,544,000 grant-in- ald of administration.. £8.- 918,000 for defence and re. construction in the Far East, £2,539,000 for aubeldies. mainly for food, to Malta and certain West Indian ter ritories, and 13,500,000 for claims waived by the British Government, chiefly in the Far East Router.

THE DUSK OF A NEW DARK AGE

PRODAT July 20.

ISRAEL AND SYRIA SIGN ARMISTICE IN NO MAN'S LAND

Syria-Israeli-Border, July 21. |The Syrian-Israeli armistice, which has been under negotiation since April, was signed today in o tent in No-Man's-Land in Northern Galilee. The signing took place in a short ceremony of which both countries were represented by their delega- tions. The United Nations were also represent- ed.

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The agreement provides for the withdrawal of Syrian foreca West of the international border of Palestine and for damilitari- sation of the occupied oren.

An exchange of prisoners is to be regulated by the mixed

Armistice Cómmission.

stice Com

Israeli. hes ow concluded armistices with all her neigh- bours: Egypt, the Lebanon, Jor- dan and Syria.

Syria is now expected to join the Lausanne peace talks.

JOANOVICI

GETS GAOL SENTENCE

Under the agreement civil ad- ministration

atlon of the demilitarised area is to be Israeli but Arabbian villages are to be permitted Arab police forces,

but had 10 remain in Landon 20

Water Source

AX-

ถ

German

Paris, July 20. Joseph Joanovich, Bessara- rog-picker millionaire. was today sentenced to -five. There are 60 Syrians and 30 years' imprisonment on charges Mr. James Chuter Ede, the

Israelis involved in the

of supplying the German Army British Home Secretary, de-change of prisoners,

with material and of "intelli- clared today in a speech read

gence with the Gestapo. for him here that the dusk of

Joanovich was further sentenced a new dark age for the spirit

In Tel-Aviv, the Israeli For- to national indignity and ned had fallen on vast populations cign Minister, Mr. Moshe Sharelt, 600,000 francs, and the Court

Czechoslovak

told Parliament today that ter-ordered the seizure of his pro- and under the

ritory recovered through the Sy-porty to the extent of 80,000,000 similar regimes.

rim-Israeli armistice Mr. Chuter Ede was 'to have gives Israel a "water source" for

agreement francs, addressed the International As-the Northern area of the nation. viel, alleged to have made a for- Colourful. 44-year-old Joano- sembly on Religious Freedom, Speaking an hour and a half tune in scrap iron deals with after the agreement had been the Germans, wan drrested in Gon, and the East African Au- a frm of rubber merchants, Baid because of the dock strike.

signed in "No-Man's-Land”, he November, in this century, he said. men said: "We paid a price for what-villa after a year's man-hunt by

1947, In thority his come into being for that in and rubber for many had become easy victims to theid: carrying out the economic ser-

years to come-at any rate as

we Rainect through the French police, vices of that vast region.

long as the present dollar crisis claims of new authoritarion doc-ver

agreement."

indictment against him, i Jasts-must be the two main

Mr. Sharett sald that the mau.read at the start of the 15-day "Scientific research more been put in blinkers.

has once Israell aim was the withdrawal trial, took three and a half hours

of Syrian troops from Palestine to read. must accept the decisions.not of,

territory.

and this had been The Prosecution called 54 wit- Mr. Oliver Stanley, Conserva- the laboratory and the free dle-

achieved, not because the Live, former Colonial Secretary, cussion of the experimenter, but clans were beaten.

Sy-nesses and the defence 163. but because Joanovici, a Jew, said that though he favours Ime of the political bureau.

claimed he they

accepted United Nations gave millions of francs "Victorious perial Preference he does not be-

to the azgressive

also,Realstance Movement, paid Ges- and "we hope lleve preferences can give Communism in the last four years because they have in view future tapo ransoms to free Resistance

the Colonies the priorities they need has, by successive usurpations relations with Israel"

leaders and helped Allied air- in all cases. He therefore fastened the yoke of Intellectual

Israel's Parliament will debate men to escape. favours the Government system and moral slavery on vast num-

"While Joanked to necessary

nt- the agreement next week, of bulk buying in certain cases bers of people to whom it denies though according to its terms no trial, three

was awaiting temporarily the dollar

am- for the very

and reason that he is all knowledge

utterance, ratification cefiing

needed, and of expenditure in Co-Fo

busted his wife, Hova, and shot: against it outside the Colonial except that which is leaders "omes into effect immediately. and killed her. ionial territories, but the Gov. Em

de Empire-it usually gives a hard proclaim as orthodox." ernment Is mindful that de-

deal ୧୮""

U.S. Hopes velopment work and the ex- pansion of Essential producte should not be prejudiced

com-

Mr. Creech Janes said a some. what difficult period had been reached when the price levels of some of the principat inorities had slumped, but the Government will do everything possible to re-udjust or help h the situation arising from this recession.

-

Dollar Ceiling

It had been lower

factors in closing the dollar gap Bulk Buying

;

trines.

and

and

to the Cze- of sport and i

mediation

Governments

to the consumer.

After references Asked to deal with the Malayan choslovak control

In Washington, Mr. Dean Ache- rubber situation

situation as affected by religion, Mr. Chuter Ede said: Ison, United States Secretary of by American synthette rubber, Mr. "The dusk of a new dark age for State, praised the this mor, if possible, the atan-David Rees-Williams, Colonial the spirit has fallen on vast po- dard ilving lowered in any Under-Secretary, said that thepulations under this and similar

British Government thinks there regimes.

The

meni

The squat, heavy-featured millionaire was given 24 hours to lodge an appeal.

His brother and two business

of Israel and Syria on the sian-associates were sentenced as fol- ing of the armistice.

Heidelberg, July 20. Agents of the United Slaten Army announced today that they have smashed Germany's.) largest post-war dope ring. Ger- They have arrested six mans who tried to sell on the black market oplum, cocaine and morphine worth £80,000, The agents sold that they have seized 230 grammes of inor- phine, 900 Krammes of cocaine and nearly two kilogrammes of nplum in three raids in Heldel-

The Secretary said in a state- Mr. Lennox-Boyd, one of the is no greater danger to stability "Let those outalde this grim ment to the

that the press berg and Stuttgart, when the six chief Conservative speakers, ex-in the Far East than a further

Ex further shadow, as they see it steadily. armistice

evidence men were' arrested.

pressed general approval of the fall in the price of rubber.

that contending parties can ind remorselessly deepen Into mid opium The

recovered had

policy the Minister had indicated.

it "Itu as low se

night

with ways of reaching agreement en 90

blackness, guard found been

scattered on the He said that the needs of the

with

safety. If It

Any unceasing goog a Heidelberg

watchfinisa ground in

the difficult problem. wood. Sterling Area today are the op- lower it will be a great danger The 72-year-old aunt of one of

Night that they enjoy.

Mr. Acheson portunities of the Colonies. Only those arrested had senttered four in helping in that way are they kilogramines of the furcotic in likely to help themselves to the an attempt to hide the evidence fuller life they need. of her nephew's activity.

for the!

way.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd asked some

re-assurance, about

Search for the remaining two kilogrammes of missing oplum is prospects of the rubber industry belog made

can

nies.

บร

"It is plain that the freedom hope that this ed: "It is my Dolopment will

for the Battle-

Agreement Reached On Austrian Claims

In the Far East and it will be dificult

maintain to

any of the human spirit can never be increase the security position in that vital assured to a nation that is not achievement of a final Area. 1. hope those concerned resolute to defend it."-Reuter, ment at Lausanne.”—Reuter. with this matter will realise that what I say In this respect, I mean." in Malaya.

Mr. Rees-Williams said he The arrests follows by only

How long would the present would not go into the question five days, the arrest of two Ger-

record

of 698,000 tons of rubber raised by Sir John Barlow as to mnas, #Turk and a former produced in Malaya continue? whether Malaya takes too many American soldier In Wiesbaden he asked.

dollars. legally possessing on charges

"There are one or two sinister Two factors to be taken into heroin valued at £12,500.

signs. The herculean task has account are the Singapore entre- The United States Army Heat-been achieved of great produc-pot trade and the fact that the quarters at Heidelberg sairi to-

tion under

appalling difficulties. Malays have had to buy rire The night that Dr. Kurt Steinbach. This, with gangster wartare con- from outside at price over which former German Army physician, tinuing all round the plantations, they have no control. one of the arrested Germans, has must draw from this House the confessed that the drugs came from an abandoned Wehrmacht medical store.

of

The Army Identided four the six men as foriner Wehrmacht officers.-Reuter.

NEW BERLIN RAIL STRIKE?

wages

"We have a big scheme for fullest admiration and praise for additional nerenge of rice both in our fellow citizens there, whether Afalaya and Borneo," he declar- British, Malay. Chinese or In-ed.-Reuter. dian," he said.

Small Profit

RAF Jets To Visit Turkey

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London, July 20.

ara

four Foreign Ministers' deputies, who drafting an Austrian State Treaty, today reached agreement on the article dealing with Austrian property in Germany and Austrian renunciation of her claims on Germany.

following main points

The were resolved:

lows:

Marcel

Serambolgia - xix months' imprisonment, national Indignity, 200,000 francs fine.

Victor Terre-live months' im 200,000 tranes fine. prisonment,

national indignity.

300,000

Marcel

Joanovici -

franes fine.--Reuter,

PROTEST IN HAMBURG

for 10

Hamburg, July 19. Dockyard workers, employed by Hamburg shipyards, downed togis this afternoon minutes as

an anti-dismantling protest. They were protesting against last week's demolition of the slipways of the flamburg shipyard of Blohm and Vors the dismantling of a part of the Deutsche Werft shipyards in Hamburg, and dismantling in the Ruhr.

The shipyards concerned are engaged in the construction fhing and coastal vessels per-

by the

an agreement the Western' de-mitted recently puties were faced with a Bo. Security Branch-Reuter viet ultimatum to accept the Soviet vlow on all points.

Mr. Zarubin replied: "On this

1.The property of Austrian nationals in Germany, includirig that forcibly removed after the Anschluss, is to be returned, ex-item, yes." cept in the cases of war crimin- als and people who have bean Ce-nazifted.

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There had been only a smull margin of profit for the rubber companies this year. Seventy per cent of the cost of rubtier pro-

ESSEN DISPUTE duction went in labour, Any foll In the price of rubber must have

Essen, July 21. Berlin, July 20. considerable

He regretted that so little pro- The Works Council at the Tro- consequences on

London, July 21. West Berlin's railwaymen may Britain's whole

had been

made on A squadron of British Royal

thepach Farafin Works at Dortmund economy and on

Air Force Vampire jet fighters

question of former German as- has called for a mass demonstra- strike again if the Soviet-con- the rubber producers. trolled Railway authorities con- Sir John Barlow, Liberal Ng-will visit Turkey next month on Germany will be responsible for them not because the Soviet de the trial of six men accused b

2--The occupying powers Insets. Agreements had escaped tion tomorrow at the opening of tinue their refusal to pay 60 per tional, thought the amount of a flight from the RAF base on laying down the method of res-legation had cent of the workers'

indollars Malaya is allowed to re- Cyprus,

rigidly maintained the British Military Government of titution.

Its draft but West marks a spokesman of the tain from

because it has refusing to work on diamantling. her exports to the

Ministry An Air

spokesman States-about

maintained the decisions of the But the trade unions have disTM West Berlin Railwaymen's Union United

half-isaki today that details of the 3. Austria will - valve All

Foreign Ministers and would con- claimed responsibility for the de too great in the circumstances.

| Night

are being worked out by claims on Germany and German tinue to do so, he added.-Reuter.monstrations. Reuter. "It is no real service gave

to the the Middle East Air Force Com-nationals which were putatand- Inn undertaking to make such Colony and a great disservice to the mond in Cyprus. The numbering on May 8, 1945 (the end of a payment when work was re-Empire as a whole If one part is of planes involved is not definite- the war), except those arising sumed at the end of June after using a greater number of dollarsly known in Londen but it will from contracts and other obliga- # five-week strike.

than is reasonably necessary." probably be six at least.

tions entered into before Che The Western Commandants to- jhe said.

The Vampire single-seater jets Anschluss. day lodged

a formal complaint: Sir John protested at the time are among Britain's on the subject with the Soviet and in certain directions the dol-fighter planes. authorities,

lar expenditure was reduced,

- told a reporter

The Soviet

latest type

No agreement was reached In The Air Ministry spokesman long discussion of a Soviet The Railwaymen Union's "But I hope the Colonial Se-declined to say how many of proposal dealing with restitution spokesman, Herr Franz Wald-cretary will look into the point" them are stationed at Cyprus. by Austria of property, mostly heim, who is deputy chairman of be added.

Ho belloves it will be the first works of art or archaeological ob- the union, said that his union ΗΣ am sure if the matter were appearance of Vampire fighters Jests, looted by the Nazis during; would hot take steps without brought suitably before Malaya in Turkey-Associated Press. the Auschluss period. previous consultation with the they would see how very short Western Commandants-Reuter, of dollars we are here and that

NO OPERATION

ON CRIPPS

Zurich, July 21.

we deserve a greater proportion than we are getting.

LUMBER FOR BRITAIN Washington, July 21

The deputies then debated 'u subject brought up yesterday. -m the Soviet refusal to include ex- German railway locomotives "It might be possible to bring

and rolling stook among former them into the consulations cón-

The Economic Co-operation German issets which the Foreign cerning dollars going on at pre-Altministration said it had agreed | Ministers have agreed shall go sent. If a Colony carna enor-to finance purchase of US$12,- to Austria......

Sie 'Stafford Cripps will not mous, quantity of dollars like 936,000 worth of Canadian and need to undergo

an operation this it should have some right to United States lumber for recovery for his stomach allment, an off-say how they are to be spent." use in the United Kingdom-A

sociated Press.

Strength

elal of the "Living nursing home here sald today..

Bir Stafford who arrived here. with Lady Cripps. on Tuesday, spent his first day resting in his room. He is expected to receive treatment for several weeks. Associated Press.

CAIRO NURSES -IN BRITAIN

Big Leaks

He urged the Goyarnment to plug some of the holes through which dollare are Itaking In that part of the world. Slam, for instance, fax shipping far more rubber to the United Stakes than she can possibly produce. This led one to suppose that there is a lucrative trade shipping rubber from Mallays, to

with

the Americans

London, July 21 Biom, healed the Government Five Etyplan hospital matrons, will tour London hospitale dur- to nogotiate Ging the next two weeks, the Bri-not to push wynthetic, rubber at

tish Council announced, today the presenti rato.

The matrons have been attend-1 Mr. Blanley Awberry, Labour,

United Press.

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Mr. Samust. Raber, the United States delegate, asked the Bos vlet representative, Mr. George: Zarubin, IT In order to reach

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