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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1949.

EX-SCHOOL TEACHER GERMANS' PRESIDENT

BRITISH WATER SHORTAGE

London, September 12. Britain's water supply will be seriously threatened unless there is substantial rainfall within the DUX SİX werks, the British Waterworks Association stated torlay.

Every house, factory, shipp and ffler must redire conaimption (t long and substantial rains refil the reservoirs, rivers and wells, 31 udlɛleri,

Very little rain has fallen in 1} Last Cesur months, and na teorologists say that there is no sign of rain in the near fų- 14.

Reports of lack of water have been coming in from all parts of

country, particularly from the rural areas,

are

Bonn, September 12.

Theodor Houss, white-haired, 67-year-old leader of the Free Democrats (Liberals,) and a former. school-teacher, was elected first President of the new Germany today.

Four hundred and sixteen members of the 804 Delegate Federal Convention, representing the people of Western Germany, chose their first President since Hitler abolished the office last held by Field-Marshal von Hindenburg.

Dr. Heuss accepted the pre-| Immediately after his election sklency.

the new President was sworn in His victory came on a second and took the following cath. ballet of 800 votes cart after a "I swear to levote my strength

incon- to the good had proved

of the Germun frst ballet

people, to promote its well-being, elusive.

The other two candidates, the to save it from harm, to guard Social and defend the constitution and one-legged Democrat, Dr. Kurt Schumacher, the Inws of the Ferleration, to ful- and the Centre Party's Rudolf my duties in all conscience and Amehaixen, det 312 And 30 votes, to exercise justice before all men, respectively.

so help me Goil,"

ore-armer,

Dr. Heuss has led

that

sidential feld ever since

10.

pre- Dr. Conrad Adenauer urged his

Democrat Party Christian rement the planned right wing roalition by supporting Dr. Heuss for

President,

In South Devon, many villages withou wilter and fre

There were 37 abstentions and have been busy re three vold ballots in the second,

vore. Two votes were cast plepurbing dried-up wells,

for At many places the domestic Dr. Schlange Schoeningen, WBO apply is

is eut off daily from 5.00 was not officially nominate p until 6.00) a.m.

Three delegates who voted th: The position

place; frst tirne illið not take in some

part on the North East coast is des- the second ballot and remained eribed as evitical.

outshle the Chamber,

About 200,000 people in South East Northumberland are Threatened with stoppage of

German Unity

to

Speaking almost without raising his voice, but evidently with great emotion, he said, "It has been

misfortune that our political democracy

Dur

has twice come to us through;

national catastrophe.

but let them

Germans Cheer New President

Bonn, September 12. The bells of Bonn broke Into, trumphant pexis'as Dr. Theodor Heuss, first President of the German Federal Re public, stopped out of Partie. ment House tonight.

A

There, waiting for him, was Mercedes Benz decorated with flowers and streamers.

Preceded by police and ca corted by cyclists on gelly coloured machines, the Presi dent drove at walking pace

into the trs of the pity.

centro

All along the routes crowds clapped and sheered.

Streamers and, faga bung from the ruins of the univer

students sity at Benn and joined in the applause as the procession passed-Reuter.

COLONIAL SHOW TO GO ON TOUR

Loridon, September 12. Provincial Brilain is to have an opportunity to see a smaller edi

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visitors, during the past 12 week+ in London.

Pressing Problem "Foreigners *frequently ask how far the recent post is sull Mr. David Rees Williams. 'Par- nilve in the German soul. It is a liamentary Secretary of State for mercy for the individual that he the Colonica, sail today that a si- can forget, and proples must be milar exhibition will four all the allowed to forget too. But the principal towns in England, Scat- thought troubles me that soine land and Wales during 1950 and people in Germany are inclined 19sí.

abuse that

of mercy. kind

At the exhibition today, Mr. alf water suppiles because the

The only smudge the bitterest People sometimes ink of the Fonthura Reservoir at Roth critics of Dr. Heuss have been German East in terms of cereals Rees Williams presented a powier tury, which normally contains able to lind on his record is that and potatoes which we lack. That produce of Malaya, to one of the

tankard,

of the Un un example 720,000,00 gallons, has become sal Democrat member may all be true

of the Reichstag in 1933 he not forget over the calories tut 500 visitors to the show, a Lon-

*** doner. I being supplied from vote in favour of the Act which the East is, above all, the home-

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strictly but this is

SaturdayRouter. Limited by Con enpaetly

of the he was interrogated by the Ges- for the sake of history and of emparity

the

pipe-lines, lapo but never arrested though there people let other nations bel Water-ranty an standing by and one of his books, called "Hitler's conscious of that too. 30-sation Tanics are being taken Way", was burned in Nazi bot.-j "Among our man pressing by truck to slibfegie points,

problems the foremost task is to Londoners have so far not been After taking the oath today, regain independence", said, the| affected by the shortage except

President' Heuse sald: "I have; President, test

they must

"But the historical trend is not use water

had quite enough of a policy for gamlens and sports grounds of pushing each other with our away from national sovereignty. on more than two days a week.

elbowe. The post to which A European state organisation is Rettier

have been called la not one no longer a dream but a practi- where elbows should be used. cal task."

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It is above the political fight, In conclusion, the President Your Heart and Hopes will

"I hope

we shall succeed in said "Germany has been spiri- race with those who never bringing about the unity of Ger-tually impoverished by Hitlerism gave up this desperate Hunt! many out of the present chaos," but the world

would be in- Heuss added,

poverished without Germany. The fate of Berlin lies near "Let us not allow ourselves to

Killer In Wax to my heart as I have spent half tapse into resentment. We have

London, September 12.

my life in that city, Berlin's fate the political task to get back le is tied to Western Germany but a sense of proportion and thus f Madame Tussaud's wax diligy we must not forget that the fate to regaln our lost place."-- of John Halgh was just us spruce of the whole of Germany is lied Reuter. and dapper today As the famed to Berlin,

little acid slayer in liks palmiost "Eastern Germany is not only days.

the

A vast potato Bekl; it is the

A Tussaud employee arrayed | homeland German men," the hgy in the green suit, red new President said. "It is Gier- and green tle and beige shirt ke mun land—and we cannot give it bequeathed to the famous wax-up."

works

2331341171 just before the National Feeling

rope clused his career on August

10.

"Germany needs. Europe ut

As the trim little murderer Europe, too, needs Germany," wished, the trousers have a razor ne continued,

edge

PATRICK SHAW' LEAVING JAPAN

Canberra. September 12. Mr. Herbert Evati, the Prim Minister, announced today 'the' Lieutenant-Colonel Wiliam Roy Hodgson, present Ambassador to France, will shortly become the "We are faced with the groat British Commonwealth repre- lack of creating a new national sentative on the Allied -Control feeling. We do not want centi-Couneli in Japan, replacing alisin.

Socialism has Patrick Shaw who is returning to shown us where that would lead. Australia,Associated Fress. a jury found him guilty of mur- "The States (Laender) should Mrs. Olive Durand Deacon, have their own life but not their

erense,

and Hagb'r red handkerchief flazes jauntily from his breast pocket,

Haigh was sentenced to death at Lewes, Sussex, on July 19 after

National

dering

New York September 12. a 60-year-old widow, and dissoly-own separate life. We do not

The actress Faye Emerson an- in the body in a sulphuric acid want any standardised Germans. nounced today that sho and

bath.

"Conscious of my responsibi- Elliott Roosevelt have separated Trying to prove himself insane. ty, I accept this office, and in and the plans a divorco "when I Haigh claimed he killed nine per doing so i set it and our common have finished my current sons and frank their blood-As-work above all," Heuss conclud-picture."United Press.

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