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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 5. 1949.

GOOD PROGRESS MADE Aircraft AT DEFENCE MEETING

Secret Talks On New Military Measures

ANGLO-U.S. DISCUSSION

London, August 3.

Secret talks on the défence organisation for the North Atlantic Treaty, between United States and British Chiefs of Staff end- ed here this afternoon. General Omor Bradley, United States Army Chief of Staff, said afterwards: "We have been discussing again this afternoon the details of the or- ganisations to be set up under the Treaty. We are very happy about the course they have token.

Immediately after the American chiefs had left, Danish and Norwegian do- fence leaders arrived of the Defence Ministry. A British spokesman said that they would hold courtesy talks with the British joint Chiefs of Staff.

RUSSIANS

REJECT

PROTEST

Berlin. August 3.

The Russians turlay rejected |

Western

Allied

complaint

1:

Anglo- is known that the US talle email nji two 10- bleas

1. The 1920 and taze of land, sew and an torres beerssory the kerp.

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Eine

Carriers For East

Valetta, August 3. H.M.8. Triumph, the 13,- 350-ton Mediterranean Fleet aircraft carrier (Captain F.M. J. Hutton, commanding) will leave Malta tomorrow for the Far East.

She will be accompanied by the 1,710-ton destroyer Charity (Lieutenant-Com- mander P.R.G. Worthy com- manding).

Two Mediterranean Flept frigates, Cardigan Bay and St. Bridges Bay, left Malta for the Far East on July 25, while the 13,100-ton Fleet Carrier H.M.S. Ocean was detached, from the Fleet at the end of June and passed through the MediterraneDa for the Far East a fortnight ago. Reuter.

Holland Ratifies

The Pact

Recognition Of Chinese Reds Before Year-End

London, August 3. Official sources said today that it is possible that the British Government will recognise the Chinese Communist regime before the end of the year.

It is pointed out that there can be no formal diplomatic relations until there is a properly constituted government for the whole of China and it is believed that this will be proclaimed. after the fall of Canton.

Most observers belleve that Canton will be in Communist hands by the end of Angust,

The escape of the British fri- Kate, Anethyst, it is thought, hac placed Hong Kong in the fore- front of the "col wur" and it is expected that the Communists will exert pressure on the colory after Canion is capturert.

Consular advices from North: China recently were said to have pressed for Foreign Office con- sideration of comitions under which the Communist regime cân be recognised,

MISSING

PERSONS MEASURE

Geneva, August 4. Menahem Kalany, Israeli observer at the United Nation: Economic and Social Council's

ninth session, told the Council that his Government attaches The Communist authorities re- great importance to the UN opened the Yangise River to draft convention to unify legal shipping today after forbidding procedures for relatives of miss- pll traffic

Amethysting persons. escaped.

since

The lingue, August 3. The Upper House of the Dutch Parliament today passed by 20 votes to two (both Communists) a cent His ratifying the Alan- Monte Paet, Field- Marghal Lad Komiery, head

Western ert the

Holland is the only member of the 12-nation Alliance whicht Une Defence Cominitiee, bat

The Communist said Amethyst briet. informal meeting with the has not yet ratified the Part.

U. Strikke+l". Dr. Dark

Dutch rammed the passenger steamship, three. Ameriem Cluefs of Staff

'hoted States

bead-Foreign Minister, toki the House | Kiangling Liberation, naval

the Government believes several hundred after that 1

persons in its quarters

Western Europe ci count on dash down the Yangtse.

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Leadin

A Uarlsd States, Navy head-Immediate help from the United

The extension of franelal anud military nút necesary from, the Puded States ansch quartets spokestinti Rive 712 la leg ex let! fendefatis of the desenssion,

Girat

Britain.

the eventua +21 2.16671 forer

that the Soviet Zoan Radway viean bluejackets Adompstration is not honour usual

outsrels

Admoral Baby

States in the case of an attack.

armed

vi

A special UN committee recent- y drew-up the draft convention. designed to aid the relatives of more than 1,000,000 persons who Killing diseppeared during the war with-

out a trace.

crew

of

These relatiyes have been un- ble to marry again or to inherit Property because of the absence of death certificates.

The Shanghai press lashed out. at the British declaring "The | people of China and the

whate

Mr. Kahany said: "We have work now see that the imperia

very many relatives in Israel of tists are accustomed to returning these people who

for

disappeared. good. The Amethyst

That is why we are particularly sank The Klangling interested in the matter. We con- Liberation and Janks killing sider an International convention several hundred innocent fellow highty desirable and urgent." Chinese."

Mr.Kahany sold his Govern- The Democratic League's "Wenment considers the convention Wer Pao said: "The British im- which is under discussion in the

He said that the Atlantic Part 1. Connolly, Uited States naval Commander is the biggest step that Beltand Taken in collective and has ever of "hr Pastern Allhabe

headscurity. A pair of pistol-carrying Amer- Mediterranean, whose

Earlier in the debate. Mr. W. reinforced The quarters Be in dexadon, P17745

C. Wendelaar, of the Freedom Bratsh ex-letvicemen falso present, ing the agreement on PRV 10

the The United States, Danish and and Demeracy Party, said that

he hopes Marshal Stal will West Berlin

employees by Cabinet ofhers as Be donit Claefs Norwegin tenders are bong r

get the same chance that ther which

King Grinster 1 regent six-week at the two compities are.

af hart huel, hati Palace tonight. railway strike Was ended,

Part on the

were Buckinghain itetinde The A≫ Force thier, Lord Ted- Th Danish Norwegian Party, criticised the Government Peralists committed a crime by Council--to be satisfactory, but

andl In a letter to this three Western i dr. Admutal of the Flend Lord Readers will be guests at lunch for hot consulting

riolating the territorial Integrity reserves the right, to make sug- of China. They made the escape gestions-United Press. Commonfauts. The Deputy Chief Frwent the Elaef of the trial torparts of Admiral Connolly -- overscus territories about the

by bombarding a merchant ship The Soviet Zone Transport

Pret.-- Reuter. eral Stall, Field Marshal Sir Routes and Asstended Trens, | General

and mastering nur people.** Division, 3. V. Voerubski, sate! Willam Slim, and Sir Willturn that the Soviet controlled Raj-Eliny, Chief Staff Ollers of the way Authority The Berthelaahuli i Ministry of Detence. has be there and Porrectly tu

This Defence Minister Mr. A the agreement,

ut

M

V. Alexandri, did not participate, He absence

the tented that

techmeal thum A Western contentum thaq they talks Ope agreement to puy 80 per cen at 1 policy making.. the ads avmen' mok should be

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to workers sche Ivyond in Berlin hot workert m Est B- Jim is apparently faced mi an tu- Content interpretation, he said.

16 Codebert that,

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the

tangotiation for enkrog the wax- work stalky, only the question of workers hyny ant wonking In

the Word retors was discunsel,

A Bustels - pokan man satel tem night that the Staed reddy date contradicts the guardee, Prven

At Work Soon

The Danes and

Norwegians

Mr. J. Von Kieft, of the Labour

the Dutch

Dutch General's Order To

are meeting the American joint Chiefs of Staff tomorrow morn. The iner.

The Danish

$, t•14*

defa

and

leaders Lieutenant-General Vice-Adr pral Ebbe Goreta A H. Vrotek.

The Norwegans. Van de band Bovard Dawlon General.

Beer, General W. Handens ta j

General Bima Green. Admiral Tour Denfield,

chief zaid

by the Rubway Admpostatina B.S. Naval Operations, arct Penticton by Mayr-Get- end Krishnan, the heart of theories that it will not be for longt bestore delene organisation for

Soviet Military

Transport División.

"The agreement

Government De North Atlantic Powers wil

be at work.

1341

of the

He Dunks 11 15 pembabie to pay 60

the new organisation will per cent of the wages of the railwaymen living in the Weg-iwarking before the ent

torn sectors of Berlin in West: year, marks can only be interpreted i In one way.

of

Paris Talks

The Americans, who arrived "To amend the agreement by from Frankfurt last night, ore withheiting payment West leaving for Paris tomorrow after macies from Western sector rai-then discussions with the Danish waymen employed in the Eastern and Norwegian defence chiefs. sector is a deliberate breach of They have alrendy met Italian the agreement,” the spokesmunand Laxenbourg military leaders United and discussed

with the States necupation authorities the dca- Atlantic Pact

of American act role troops in Germany.

asserted.

The British spokesman cribed the Soviet action s

XL

To Troops

Batavia, August 3.

Dutch Commander in Batavia, Lieutenant- General D. H. Buurman Van Vreeden, broad- casting tonight, told Dutch troops that they will share with the Republican Army the duty of protecting the population against robbers and looters.

The

Evacuation Of Foreigners

Fatal End

To Woman's Gallantry

Meanwhile, in Shanghal, the American

Shipping President Lines

announced that It is seeking safe conduct from the

10 Chinese Nationalists send the liner General Gordon through the blockade to Shang. hal,

The

Flushing. August 4, Kathleen Linn May Garcett

of Ipswich. Suffolk, aged 28.

She will remove 900 foreigners went overboard in the Scheldt, from China on about September near Flushing, oh Sunday night 15 if the safe conduct is granted, when their little yacht "Vic- Don foreigners include toria", in which she and her British, Dutch, American, French, husband and two friends were Scandinavian and her nationals travelling, got into difficulties. wishing to leave the Communist- She tried to swim ashore but 11|| {{.

was not seen again.

The shipping company said 11: said: "Apart from the is seeking the safe conduct at the forces on the other side who behest of the US. State Depart- -vaused their arms fram convie-met-United Press and Asso-

New Dorman tion, there are groups who ore eated Press.

Long Plant

only out for robbery and lot. It cannot expected that these groups will follow the cease fre order to the letter,

Miskellesbrough, August 3. “Against these groups. every Dorman ng anit Company human society which socks to Larited, the steel and engineer- mamtain law and order will con- ing firm, munere today it is to tinue to net." spend £9,000,000 10 building a new steel plant.

1952.

in hand.

Meanwhile, in a 100-minute broadcast from Jogjakarta the The new open Jength plant will indonesian Republican President, have a capacity al 10,000 tons of Dr. I. R. Soekarno appealed to- ingots weekly. The work is due night to Republicans to support

completion by September the cease fire order. Lus

· Referring

10 the round-table Thu company already has a

conference between the Dutch £2,50,000 expansion programme and the Indonesians, which is to It said the new facilities come "Now the world is a participant, be held at The Hague, he said: under the national development NOW deliberate misinterpretation of a in Paris they will have talks plus for the steel industry

thanks to the United Nations straightforward agreement.-Reu-with French, Belgian, Dutch and proved by the Government and

Commission. Portuguese defence leaders.

coincide with the movement 20- President Soekarno thanked An American official in London words

the Republican armed forces for today denied a report

by Tass, steel production on the North East their loyalty in carrying out the oficial Soviet news agency,

orders to continue the struggle that plans have been made for a

The Government now has legis- alter

after last December's "police meeting between the chiefs and lation pending in Parliament call-action" in Indonesia. Yugoslav representatives.

ing for state ownership of the While no decisions on an At-steel industry by next spring. lantie defence organisation ure Associated Press. being taken at the present con- i

ter,

GASPERI-TITO MEETING ?

Rome, August 3.

The Hallan Government today ferences, they are designed to declined to enafian or deny, out-pave the way for a later meet- right rumours of a projected ing of the 12 signatory nations. imeeting

between the. Princ

Minister, Signor Alcido de Ga-

peri, and Marshal Tito, the Yuzo- slav Premler,

Regional Defence

The Danish and Norwegian de-

After vague official statements fence chiefs stayed for an hour

const

greater concentration

RAEDER'S WIFE ESCAPES

Frau Erika

ip-

of

Berlin, August 3. Racer, wife

Hitler's. Navy chlef, now serving a life imprison-

carlier today, a source close to with the British joint Chiefs of Erich Raeder, the Prime Minister's Office to- Staff

night said that Signor de Gasperl

1s unwilling to deny the report outright.

"It seems too brusque," he

stated.

This is taken, by some circles here as an indication that Signor de Gasperi leaving the way open for such a meeting but that the initialve should come from across the Adriae.-Router,

MARRIAGE BID SUCCESSFUL

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character of the struggle

Is changing and the goal of us all is nearly reached. The Re- publican territory is smaller now, but the Republican spirit has beten stimulated everywhere. The cease Are is a test for us-for the Republic and the whole Indone sion people,

"The eyes

and vars of world are fixed on us."

Prezident Bookarno appealed to the Dutch to discard colonial tendencies.

the

A spokesmen for the visiting ment term In Spandau prison The semi-oMcial Dutch news group said after the meeting here, has fled from the Soviet agency, Ahota reported today a that they had discussed de. zone to Western Germany, the general Indonesian Cabinet re- falls of a plan for a Standina-American-controlled Berlin Radio shuffle. vian regional defence organisa. reported tonight.

Aneta sald Mohammed Halta

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NZ VOTES FOR CONSCRIPTION

in

Her husband said that his wife,

a good swaminer, had jumped overboard at 11.30 pam, to swim ashore.

The Victoria had earlier been taken in tow by a pilot bout which came in response to her distress signals. Because of the bad weather, the cable broke and The Victorta lost touch wer the resente vessel. Later, however,

bont pilot got another line on board and towed the Victoria into Flushing harbour..

the

Wellington, August 3. New Zealanders have voted by

overwhelming majority

Police said that the Woman, favour of peace-tire conscription, who is the wife of James Nelson according to a preliminary count. Clark (her maiden name is Gar- On the completion of this pre- cett), had decided to swim ashore minary count the final figures to get assistance, Associated were declared to be 535,401 In Press. favour of conscription and 152,- 310 against.

The Prime Minister, Mr. Peter Fraser, in organising a nation- wide referendum on the subject, arament Labour Party and of the had the support of both the Gov- effcial Opposition, the National Party, but a number of trade unions stood out in opposition to perce-time conscription.—Reuter.

OPERATION FLY

COUPLE PICKET

A CONSULATE

Sydney, August 3. The Dutch Consulate here was pleketed for five hours today by Dutchman and hist Austrailon wife who claim that the Nether- landa East Indies Government owe them $9,000,

They are Mr and Mrs. Adioph Van Heyningen of Sydney.

IN MANILA

Manila, August 3. Mr. Heyningen, who said that "Operation Fly's

1 public they will continue to pleket he health-sponsored drive on files Consulate tomorrow, claimed that and mosquitoes in Manila, is on he was a wartime agent for the Army Netherlands East Indies' Shipping in cames. A Philippine helicopter and seven trucks are Organisation. busy blowing fog all over city to eliminate the insects.

The spraying 'begins at 8.30 a.m. and ends at midnight. The drive is expected to continue all this week.-Router.

the

ADVERTISING ON RADIO MALAYA? Singapore, August 3.

may adopt|

Radio

Legal action brought by him against the Dutch authorities was relected, he said, by the Austra- Han Supreme Court on the ground that the latter has sovereign in- munity.Reuter,

MIDINETTES BACK AT WORK

Paris, August 3.

tion within the framework of Frau Rueder, aged 76, had been retains the Premiership and the sponsored broadenst by adver- 12,000 midinettes in a week-long the North Atlantic Treaty. in Soviet custody since 1945, the Cabinet consists of four Moslems, users to help towards wiping strike Field-Marshal Sir William Silm, report said. Last month she was two Nationalists, one Christian, out its yearly deficit of Straits work has been resumed by the Chief of the Brilish Imperial released but was ordered to re-une Catholic, one General Staff, sold that the talks port periodically both with the American and pollee.-Reuter. Scandinavian leaders hact

been

very sisfnátory from the Bri- tish point of view.

3.

STORM IN, BAY OF BISCAY

Hostings, August · Jacqueline Fleur Alan, 18-year-

10

representative

the local of the Greater Indonesia Parly

WRONG NUMBER

The Committee which has led

announced tonight that Houses

of Molyneux, Charles $1,500,000.

Montaigne A Committee

and Agnes Drecoll. set up by the the firms have promised revised and five Ministers without party Malayan Federation Legislative affiliations. The report said the Council suggested today that, if wage scales and a bonus while Sužan of Jogjakarta Vice- all available broadcast

the new scales are being work- Premier for Juva and

ed out. Referee Minister.

The

other Committee urged 6jarirudin Prawiranegara, wha

strikers to stay out until their employers agree headed the underground

to the same emer

terms.--Reuter. is sait!

• Long Beach, August 3. Addio Velho, 44, was washing geney government,

to

time,

from news broadcasts and apart special talks, is lensed to adver- Jisers, the resulting revenue would reduce the, dellcit by about one-third.--Reuter.

PI CHAMBER PRESIDENT

U.S. IN THE RED

her bands in a public washroom have been appointed Vice-pre- yesterday when a woman old daughter of Colonel and Mrs.

step mier for Sumatra.-Reuter and J. A. Alan, of Karachi, Pakistan,

pet up behind her and smashed United Press. London, August 3.

a heavy rock against the back stoday obtained a Magistrate's Storms from the British Isles, of her head,

Washington, August 3, Miss Veino stag- consent for her marriage to accompanied by heavy rain, are gered and turned around to And

The Treasury says the

U.S. "Manila, August 4. 21-year-old student against her tonight loshing the Bay of Biscay the stranger's

Government ran US$1,487,033,000 arm raised to

Giessnu, 'August 3. Aurelio Periquest, prominent parents' opposition.

coastal orea forcing Ashing strike again.

Insurance An optical works at Heuch-

in the rod for July, first month company executive, Both parents flew from Kara- Radio reported.

ing-feels to stay in port, Madrid "Oh, you're not, the one," said helm, near Glessen, has begun was elected new President of the of the fiscal year.

the assailant when

But the deftelt was less than in ehlto England in on unsuccess--

she saw the production of cameras the Chamber of Commerce, of the tul attempt to persuade their "In contrast, Southern Spain is the rock and disappeared. Miss weighing less than three ounces,

Miss Veino's face. She dropped alzo of a pocket cigarette lighter. Philippines for a three-year term, the Arat-month-of-the-previous Periquet succeeds Gil Puyat, fiscal year. July is always a daughter to abandon her mar-sweltering in

a heat

wave-Velno, had two ditches in her for export to the United States who has been president since poor month for Government in- riage plans,--Reuter,

scalp.-United Press....

and Latin America, Reuter. 1945, United Press.

comeAssociated Press;

Reuter.

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