1949-09-28 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL WEDNESDAY, SEPT

28, 1949.

OPPOSITION TO JORDAN RIVER DIVERSION PLAN

The

London, September 26. Goverment of Jordan has been advised by the British firm of irrigation engineers, Sir Murdoch MacDonald and Partners, against agreeing to a diversion of the waters of the river Jordan under a scheme, understood to have the general support of the Government of Israel.

This scheme, known as the Hoys Report, is the work of American engineers working along the lines of the plan for a Jordan Valley Authority to increase the economic absorption of Palestine.

allocated

LUNCH BY AIR

Nottingham, England,

September 25 Members of the Nottingham Rotary Club, hope to have a lunch, packed, in loc, flown ia them from the United States in a Stratocruiser.

only the

A Rotary Club in Philadel- phia invited them to lunch, but, they could not go to the United States Provided the Bruch Ministry ef Food Lanctions the scheme, lunch will leave America.on October.& and the Nottingham members will tuck in October 10—Reuter..

the

On

The plan was initiated in 1939 should be by the American soil conserva-waters left over, as it were, from Lowdermilk's grandiose tion expert, Mr. Walter C Lów- †Mr.

Ischeme to take the Jordan - unters

dermilk.

"

"The Jutors-overladende serie tiverastal plain.” claim that by an Irrigation plan

The MacDonald Report arges of the involving the diversion

that the Loewermilk proposals the number of Jordan waters,

in "must be very strongly resisted." persons who could settle

that al Palestine and find there an ade-It states in conclusion quate means of subsistence would the Jordan Valley Authority prn- posals relate to Israel or Arab be crease by about 1,500,000.

The firm of Sir Murdoch 3fae-Palestine, West of the Jordan, Donald, who were appointed by with the guarantee of only very the Jordan Government to pre-little water for irrigation East of £13 millionthe Jordan, and with no regard pare a scheme far irrigation East of the for the needs of Syria and The Jordan, were asked this summer Lebanon, to report on the effect that the Hays scheme would have on ir- rigation prospects for the Jordan Kingdom.

separate

Guaranteed Half

the

Reasonable Proposal

It ends on a constructive note by saying. We understand that there is a proposal to divert the river Litani in The Lebanon into the Jordan Basin.

of the irrigation or

Bombed

Plane

Probe

Quebec, September 26.

The brother of one of J. Albert Guay's mistresses questioned today about the plott in which Guay, a jewellery sales- man, is charged with time-bomb- a Quebec Airways plane ing

killing 23 per- which crashed,

sons.

The police questioned Gen- ereux Ruest, aged 49. crippled jeweller

brother of Mrs. and

the

bomb.

Guay was charged on Satur- day with the murder of his wife, but not with the murder of 22 aboard the other passengers plane. Until Sunday, only Guay, his wife and his two mistresses, Mrs. Pitry and Miss Robitaille, were involved in the affair.

The Hays Report proposed that, in

for the compensation

"If the river Litani is included the it would make the scheme even Westward of diversion

an interna-Marguerite Pitre. who admitted waters of the Jordan, the King-more truly one for dom of Jordan should be guarantional Authority."

dispatching a package on zeed half the annual flow of the The report urges that the pro- piane for Guay but denied know- Jordan tributary, the river Yar posed Jordan Valley Authority ing that it contained a muk.

should be expanded to include Ruest questioned in his small Commenting on this basic the Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and jewellery shop, denied all know- recommendation.

British Arah Palestine as well as Israel. ledge of the case. Bem advised the Jordan Gov- Observers in London considered ernment: "The Kingdom ef that the report would form the Jordan at this stage should not basis for either Israeli-Jordin admit as adequate for its needs negotiations on the use the proposal totally to divert Jordan waters for the Jordan and provide as com-of an appeal by the Jordan Gov- pensation only one-half of the ernment to the United Nations. annual flow of the Yarmuk." It was considered in London The MacDonald Report also re-that the proposals it contained jects the contention of the Hays were of first-class importance for

Mrs. Pitre, who is under police that Report

"only 200,000 the

of economic future

guard at ber apartment here. duriams (44,000 acres) of land Middle East,

admitted getting the bomb parcel can be irrigated on the East of

It was recognised

the abcard the airliner a few minutes the Jordan."

share of the waters of the Jordan, ¦ before its take-off- which goes to Imael will form The police said Mrs. Pitre, who one of the factors limiting the denied knowing the lethal size and development of the tents of the parcel, was seen with Israeli State and will be the Guay at the railway station main influence determining the few minutes before she left for number of immigrants which can the airport with the packed bomb. eventually be absorbed.-Reuter. Witnesses said, the police reveal

ed, that Guay gave her package with instructions to "get there fast and don't miss the plane."

The report favours immediate work by Israel to develop under ground water supply and storage on the coastal plain wadis (gul- chers) and drain the Lake Hupeh marshes..

The MacDonald Report states. The Kingdom of Jordan cannot agree that the important alluvial plain on the West of the Jordan

NEXT CHANGE AT THE

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BRITISH ANTI-SUB PLANES

the

London, September 28. The British Ministry of Supply took two new anti-submarine pla- nes off the secret list today.

On is the Fairey-17, powered by two turbine engines geared to- gether to drive two four-blade propellors in opposite directions on the same shaft

Happy-go-Huggy propellots will Holiday!

DENNIS

MORGAN

ONE DEFORE

ANIS

PAIGE

Afternoon

Technicolor

If one engine is shot out, the will still operate from the remaining engine...

An official of the Fairey Avia-

Co, told Fairey-17 will be the seat the most ad- vanced of its type in the world. This same company built the famous torpedo plane, the Sword- fish which helped sink half the Italian Beet at Taranto.

C'

th

The police said a taxi-driver, Paul Pelletier, quoted Mrs. Pitre as telling him to drive last but carefully.

This does not contain eggs."

Pelletier said she told him she held the parcel gingerly.-- United Press.

GERMANS TO EMIGRATE

Berlin, September 26. Western Germans are to be allowed to emigrate or take up permanent residence, abroad A somt British-American annonce- ment today said that the restric lions on visits to other countries were being removed to give the Germa

free laccess to the out world as much as possible, and to reduce the refugee and unemployment problems

Up to now, journeys- abroad The second plane, which is still were authorised only if they were undergoing tests, is the Blackburn considered to be in the direct YAS. It is powered by a piston interest of the

the Military Gover- engine but may be converted to a ment or or the re-education of propeller & turbine power plant Germany, or where compassionale. later. It also has counter rotating reasons for travel outside. Ger- props-Associated Press.

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HONDURAS DISPUTE INTERNATIONAL ISSUE

London, September 26.

Britain has reld Guatemala that the dispute be

tween the two countries over the ownership of British Honduras must be judged at the International Court of Justice in The Hague on a strictly legal basis as "this is the only fair way in which justice can be fulfilled." The British point of view. was contained in a note delivered to the Guatemalan Government on September 8, the text of which was published by the Foreign Office in London today.

Guatemalan

The note was a reply to one declared that the а

from Guatemala on May 27, which protested against British plans for the development of the Crown Colony of British Honduras.

It also criticised the failure of the British Government to answer earlier notes which pressed for the issue to be carried to The Hague Court on an equity basis.

Government would be perfectly free to put forward any argument which "had any bearing on the legal issue."

The dispute over the ownership. of British Honduras, revived by Guatemala after the end of the Second World War, turns on whe ther Britain fully discharged the obligation of the 1859 Anglo- The British note rejected Guatemalan Treaty, by which the Guatemala's protest against de-frontiers between British Hon- velopment while the ownership of duras and Guatemala were

fined. the colony was unsettled.

It challenged the Gutemalan claim that judgment on a legal besis would prevent the use of certain relevant arguments, and

de-

Observers in London said to-

night that the latest exchange in the controversy had not changed the standpoint of either Govern- ment-Reuter.

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Hungary Expels Yugoslavs

Budapest,, September 26, Hungary tonight ordered the summary expulsion of practi- cally every remaining-member of the Yugoslav Legation staff in Budapest.

Ten representatives, including the Fist Counseller, M. Dusan Sakota, the Military Attache and the clerical and commercial staffs, are covered by a 24-hour `wan-

Almost the only ugoslav diplomat not affected is the Minister himself, M. Jovanovic.

The order was contained in note a long, sharply warded manded to the Yugoslav Legatoa tonight. It reiterated the charges made at skeppesen tried here M. Livio Rajka former Hi

Foreign Minister, garian Yugosiy conspiracy against the Hungarian, Government. It reject- ed as arrogant Marshal Tita's note jat Jast Saturday, which protested

trial. against the Rajk

that be-

The arder declared cause it has been proved that the Yugoslav Legation in Buda- pest is a centre of espionage and conspiracy the Hungarian Arnment has decided

to

end to. this ded:

wies

Gov put an situation." The The note Hungarian Government hergante notifies, the Yugoslav Govern- want that in future (it will, take and hired care that assassins enter

in the guise of Yugoslav diplomats."

The term hired assassin” re- ferred to a

charge made during that two the trial of M. Rajk "experts. In political assassina tion", had been sent to Hungary of the last year 25 members Yugoslav Legation.

Hilgary

The actual task of those men, it was alleged, was to prepare the assassination of the garian Vice-Premier and Com- murist leader, M. Matyas Rakosi, and other Party chiefs.

note ordered The expulsion those named to leave Hungary by tomorrow evening

Yugoslav's Minister to Hur- gary, M. Jovanovic, who was not included in the expulsion order, has held his post here since last April-Reuter.

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