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COUNCIL OF EUROPE

TO DISCUSS

POLIO ON THE

GERMANY

Strasbourg, August 29.

The question of Germany's admission to the Coun- cil of Europe will be discussed tomorrow by. the important General Affairs Committee of the European Assembly,

INCREASE This was announced tonight by M. Georges Bidault,

New York. August 20. More cate

the Committee Chairman, after a day-long private meeting.

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1949.

Briton Was A Dupe Of Forgers

Vienna, August 29.- Friedrich Overndorfer, 61. year-old naturalised Briton who fell from a hotel win- daw to his death hora Imst Friday, was a dupe of Inter. national forgars, British po. Ilop officials sald here today.

Tho $50 forged United

States notes which he hand-

to American agente shortly before

death were believed by Overndor- far to be genuine, they said.

ed over of poliomyelitis-The dreaded kifantile paralysis plague But nt, a reduced rate of in. crense, Were reported today by the

· United States inedical Authorities.

The mumber of cases throughout the country was put at 19,591- compared with 17.300 on August 21 and 11,400 at the corresponding time last year when Amerlea had

its second worst outbreak.

The worst year on record is 4910 when 30,000 enses were re- corded.

The medical mitiorîtes. Suld, while 3,000 new cases were torted In the August 18-27 perlod, this figure was 20 per cent Jess than in the previoits mine

days.

news

Other infultle paralysis reported by Router correspondents. today was as follows;

Hang Kong: This Colony, where Infantile paralysis be came a notifiable disease only in August of last year, has had only three non-fatal caser this year and only Devon deaths aince the beginning of 1940. The Hugues Sixteen cases have so far been reported in Holland this month compared with 11 in July but a heath spokesman said: "There has never been anything like an epidemic in the Nether- Jands and no special measures are considered necessary Love fu-item- ter.

HUK ACTIVITY IN BATAAN

Manila, August 20. The Daily Marro" reported this evening that dusident ac- fivity in Batana Province, North of Manila, has asstäned alarming Proportions an íl large force of

Communist - li

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napplage terard

Hukundabaps

of the

kil kills which

paralyses wor in industries by

workers.

****Aceh residents of the tow

of Dinalupihan were reported to ave been kidnapped on Sunday. Their fate remained unknown to- day, the newspaper, sale,

Ten aber workers previous- ly kidnapped by the dissidents, the repert adster, yzene

found floating in a river.

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Committee will tomorrow have before it Mr. Winston Churchill's proposal that the As- sembly hold a special session next January with German representativas present.

Scots Girl Married. Maharajah

London, August 20 The 20-year-oki Maharajan of Jouthpur, former ruler of 2,000.- 009 people, secretly married young Scots girl last September, it was revealed here today.

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The maninge became konw through the visit of the Matura- Jah's wife to her brother, Mr. D. Merite, a comuneretal traveller, Staffordshire town u!

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[be Stoke-on-Trent,

The former Miss Melitude an

big sized car Trum ones, weming flowing fad Indars and accompanied by India sevouts to stay last night brother's home,

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The Maharajah and b wife, who b disevibed in the hotel Jisi as 12:0 Mabarance, arrived

at Cinidge's Hotel in Lansing on Friday, They are Gecupying

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Best Porn site, and are booked to stay for about two weeks,

The Matuur Jab serverted il fathe, 1947. Beuter

Collier's Lucky Escape

The question of Germany's ad- |muiasion can only be settled by the Committee of Foreign Ministers, "Upper House" of the Council of Europe, but the Assembly, in en- led. to make a "recommendation to the Ministers,

~~~ * Any ~ ~ ~ ~ Kuch resolutiendaTION" would require a two-thirds ma- jority.

Observers consider that

a ré- commendation in favour of ad- mitting. Germany has n good chance of securing the necessary majority.

Already, the President, M. Paul- Henri Spaak, has expressed the view that Germany will before long be taking part in the Coun- cll's work,

British representatives are ex- to support any proposal preted that Germany should be admitted. but some

will French delegates probably make their agreement the Saar as a separate entity. conditional on the admisalon of

Workers' Status

At present the Star is economi- rally linked with France but is * politically part of Germany.

Italy, with 1,600.000 unem- ployed, today 'sought support of the European Assembly for mave to encourage emigration

from over-populated countries. Senator Stefano Jacini, Italian Christian Denverat, submitted to The Social Committee a proposal that workers migrating from one meinber country to another should be guaranteed equal status to that

floral workers.

"

.

It was evident that Overn. dorfer was a "raw amateur." He bought the bills in Lon- don and offered them for sale openly in Vienna cafea. The very first lot of nates he sold wore handed over to en American agent.—Reuter,

TOLL OF AUSSIE FLOODS

HUMAN RIGHTS EUROPE'S TEST

Strasbourg, August 29.

that

The "Human Rights" Committee of the European

Consultative Assembly decided today freedom from interference in peoples' private lives should be a test of whether a nation is fit to belong to the Council of Europe. Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe, noted British legal authori- ty, who is Chairman of the Committee, dis- closed that the 23 men group approved such a test by a vote of 16 to 3. All 12 of the Council nations are represented on the Com-

mittee.

The Consultative Assembly was out of session while its six stand- Ing Committees worked out re solutions for the Assembly to de- bate and approve or reject. The Assembly is due to meet again on Wednesday.

Sir, David's Legal and Ad- minktrosive Group known as the "Human Rights" Committee "be-" cause its main project is a Bill of Rights for Europe, was the only one to report its work this morn- Others will probably make Ing statements this evening.

Sir David announced that his Committee had approved the final wording of the first four guaran-

SURPRISE MOVE ON BORDER-

Frankfurt, August 20.

For the first time since the war the Anglo-Russlan zonal border at Luebeck, separating Schleswig- Holstein from Soviot-occupied Mecklenburg, was wide оред

18!

tees out of a list of 11 which the word for 24 hours

Sydney, August 20. Floods in the Kempsey district of New South Wales,

now remo estimated celing, were lonight

dred

und homeless damaged mocks, crops and pro- perty worth more than £2,000, 000. Two people were reported missing.

thousands

Committee will recommend to the.

crossing the border sali that the Soviet troops had bee Assembly.

The "Private Affairs" resolution withdrawn over a wide part of said that everyone should have the zonal border into the interios But today the to have taken seven lives, rend-munity against arbitrary Inter- of Mecklenburg.

ference with their private life, guards were replaced by large home, family and correspondence. forces of German police, accord- This, Sir David said, was based ing to on Article 12 of the United Na-

ple crossing the border, ing to people

Crowds streamed over into the lons Universal Declaration British zone at the week-end. One Human Rights.

of them burned the turnpike_ał Bir David said that

some the

former crossing point at Ro ,members of the body whom he

thenhausen and danced round the

About 200 squme miles of ter- ritory was swamped this week- end by the swollen Maclery river, in what were enlculated to be the worst floods in the district since 1803.

Tonight, as the waters receded, they left the knnin strees of Kempsey town thick with mud and debris among which the 7- 000 people searched for furniture and other household belongings,

of

did not wish to identify falt that this was going too far "as a test of whether a nation should be. long to the Council of Europe.

dames.

The withdrawal of the Russlan frontier guards from the zoupl border at Luebeck was not only a surprise for the Western zune

but,

appar- frontier policemen, ently, was also a puzzle to the few Soviet zone, policemen

con-

Fair Trial Member nations will be asked to sign a binding agreement on any Human Rights declaration passed by the Assembly and will be sub-trolling traffic at the official cross-

ing point at

point at Luebeck-Elchholz. ject to explusion if they violate it.

Other classes of immunities and Omeinl

that the reports any umber of Soviet zone policemen freedom approved were:

Freedom of life, liberty deserting into the British zone is

constantly growing. personal security:

and

The town was vompletely without light had water and the

Freedom from torture or cruel, sewage system had broken down,

In the

weeks, 19 .past two been halt inhuman or degrading punish- "People's policemen" were detain- It looked as if it had The proposal also contains plan for giving emigrant workers

by a cyclone, with more then ments and right to speedy trialed near Luebeck when illegally dual nationality, pending the crea-

30 buildings swept away and by a competent court;

crossing into Schleswig-Holstein. any kind of Immunity from

All said that they had fled from tion of

hundreds damaged. common European naz

arbitrary arrest, detention Dr tionality.

the Soviet zone because they fear- emigrant Under this plan un

Wrecked cars and

ed that they would be recruited trucks lit-exile: Perth, August 20.

The right "in full equality" to a worker would be entitled to obtered the rands. The police

for the Greek guerilla forces or The British collier Avismort. tain the full status of citizen of estimated that more than half of fair and public trial by a court;

because they could no longer 7,000 tons, whose cargo of #1,700 the host country while at the same the 25,000 people in the Maclery nocent until proved guilly;

The right to be considered in-

stand what they described as the lons of coal cought fire in the In-time retaining citizenship of his river district had been affected

Soviet inhuman treatment by Immunity from punishments dian Ocean a week ago, arrived in own country. Reuter.

by the floods.

specified for

zone police of people crossing the Fremantle today.

heavier than those

border. the offence at the time the offence was committed;

Some of its coal curgo is st smouldering and holds are' flooded, We were lucky to get in-it was worse than war," suic the muster of the Avismort, Cuptsin J. Thompson of South Shields, Eng- land.

For the past 12 days the crew had little rest. he told a reporter. They had been fighting fires cun- tinuously.

Captain Thompson said that no sooner would they quell an out- break in one part of the cargo of cool than another fire would break out elsewhere,

The Captain has not been asleep

Land Reform In Pakistan

BгOA,

Hof, Bavaria, in the

the In one

Maclery river had

Near bean more than 17

(These provisions were largely miles wide for over. a

American wask, taken from Articles 9 and 10 and the police said. At least 15,000|11 of the United Nations Code.) cattle were, drowned,

Immunity from slavery or ser- vitude and complete outlawing of The police said that they fear-slavery or slave trade of any kind,

ed the death roll might prove to-Associated Press. be more than seven, when it was possible to contact the many isolated farm housĖS in the Kempsey district.

Reports said that doctors fear- ed an outbreak of typhoid and that Australian Air Force planes also dropped needed medical supplies. food, blankets clothing.

KING - INVITED TO AMERICA

κατά of Germany Russian antries at the official crossing point at Guthonfuerst have refused entry into the Bo- vlat zone to abouį 130 travellers In the past three days,

The Rusalan sentries tore up the Identification papers of soma women, they added.

Czechoslovak troops and work- ers' columns are busy sealing off Washington, August 20. the common border with Bavaria, natian Premier and the Pre-fugees arriving in Hot today. Britain's King and Queen, the according to Czech political re-

They

said that all streets and

Karachi, August 20. The Working Committee of the Pakistani Government Party, today recom- Muslim League, the or out of his clothes for five days.mended sweeping changes in West -Associated Press.

Pakistan's land tenure system, In-

and sident of France are to be invited cluding the abolition of big estutes

by President Truman to celebrate lanes Icading from Czechoslovakla

were the 100th anniversary of the Soo to Bavaria The Working Committee's meet-

being mined

ing, which was attended by Lia-

drinking water locks linking Lakes Superior and ostensibly to prevent Czechs and quat All Khan, Pakistan Prime are running low. Bull-dozers and Huron in 1955, according to plans Slovaks re-settled in border areas after the war from taking their with discussed in Washington,

SHAW BOOST

FOR SHAW

Frankfurt. August 29. George Bernard Shaw, 03-year-

Minister, and the premiers of

Supplies of

road

I

grading machines,

Sind, North West Frontier and timber cranes and trucks, were Mr. Truman has signed a bill belongings with them by road In East Bengal provinces, asked the used to clear away the worst of setting in motion plans for the possible fight to the West- central and provincial govern- the debris.-Reuter.

ments to implement most of its

| recommendations Immediately.

The Working Committee recom- old Irish playwright, replied to a mended the immediate abolition membership form sent him re-without compensation of Jagirs cently by the British Goethe Fes-lunds given by the Government to tival Society: "Why Goethe-certain Individuals and exempt why shouldn't it be Shaw?"

Unger, Honorary

from revenue,

Wilhelm

In its resolution, the Committec Secretary of the Society, recount said: "We accept the principle of ing this today, said that he had abolition of big zamindaris sent a form postcard to Shaw (estates) and direct the central several weeks ago asking him to and provincial governments to become a member and sponsor of take necessary steps in this direc- the group, formed in memory of tion." the German poct.

that

no

It did not, however, say that it The postcard. Unger said, was has accepted the "proposal of a returned with red penell under-League sub-committee ining the printed words "All Bri-landiord should own more than tish intellectuals should rally 150 acres of average good land. round the memory and works of The resolution said that farmers Goethe."

duce instead of rent, should pay paying Batai, a share of their pro- cash rent as soon as possible. In the meantime, they should have a bigger share of their produce, the resolution added.-Reuter.

"Why Goethe-why shouldn't It be Shaw?" was added in red pencul at the bottom of the card.

Show joined the society, Unger said. Reuter,

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