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•Death Lurks In Forest

A team of men, sweltering under protective rubber clothing and gas maska, make inzic way through St. Georgen Forest, Bavaria, to begin one of their twice-daily two hour shifts in, the dangerous tack of removing an extimated 60,000 tons of chemical warfare poisens from the vicinity where they were stored by the Germans First task i to, remove the more dan. The recovered deadly greus chemical shells containing, gases fatal to the lungs and akin. peizans are elther submerged at sea or used in German chemical, industrie Note warning sign for persons who may wander into the dangerous area. (AP Photo)

INDIA AND PAKISTAN DISPUTE OVER RUPEE

SIKHS' LEADER

SET FREE

Lucknow. October 4.

Master Tara Singh, 60-year- { old Sikh leader who has been! detained under orders of the Government of India since February this year, was releas ed here today.

Master Tera Singh was arrested on February 19 this year when

ban

he cofled the Indian Goverment's

bolding meetings

in

New Delhi, October 4.

Devaluation of the Indian Rupee which has brought almost complete suspension of trans- actions with Pakistan will be debated by the Constituent Assembly today.

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1949.

DRAIN ON BRITISH RESERVES REDUCED

Interim Account Given By Cripps

Lake Success, October 4.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps, disclosed tonight, that Britain's dollar drain was reduced by £10,000,000 during the third quarter of this year compared with the second quarter.

He also disclosed that in the 12 days followingTM devaluation day (September 18) Britain's reserves rose by £20,000,000 as a result of money reaching, the country after the al- teration of the exchange rate.

S3 Adimüdie bankers and mer- The resultant figure of reserves

chants at a dinner given by the at the old parity was £351,000 Lord Mayor of Londen, Sir Staf-000 compared with £106,000,000 ford gave these Egures, which he at the end of Jude. - explained were quoted at the old; rate of exchange of $4.03 to the Pound-

Britain's dedeit for the Arst quarter ct 1949 was £82,000,000, and for the second £157.000.000. The third quarter figure was £135,000.000,

Aminst that £133.000.000 was set £7,000,000 drawn on t Canadian credit and £71,000.000 of ECA reimbursements and other Marshall Aid.

ter.

for

Dr. John Matthai, Finance Minister, is expected. Philippines

to present the Government's reasons for devaluating simultaneously with the British Pound.

Reports from Dacca, the Eastern

Trade With America

·Not So Bad

Sir. Stafford, who said that, he, was giving an interim account of the country's economic and Enancial position," declared tha these figures were "not so bad as some people may have fear- ed.

"But they disclose a continuing state of affairs up to September 18 which could not have been tolerated longer.

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Australia

Again Denies Loan Report

Canberra. October ← Joseph Chifley, “Australlan- Prime Minister, exid tonight that a loan, could, ko floated on the public market in America only at a ruinous rate of interest.

He had hoped that there would be no depreciation of

but. the Australian Pound Australia has become the vis- tim of uncontrollable circum-

OANGEL

The Prime Minister was winding up the House of Re presentatives budget debate.

Repeating an earlier denial, he said: "If we apply to the International Monetary Fund for a loan, and no applicazion has been made yet it would be in consultation with the United Kingdom."-Reuter.

ATTLEE WINSTON TALKS ON DEFENCE

London, Octobe; 4. The Prime Ministir, Mr. Cle Leader, Mr. ment Attlee, and the Conservative Winston Churchill. will have a private talk on do force--including atomic bomb

The total defcit was thus re-

£5,000,000 duced to

the

"Even taking the quarter as a third quarter, compared with whole, the annual rate of defcit year at the £65,000,000 the second quars £332,000,000

old rate exchange

This is an impossible burden and one which would very rapid- have exhausted our reserves," Sir Stafford said.

Turning to Britain's budgetary position, Sir Staford claimed that developments soon after Parlia he had "considerable successment resumes on October 18, diminishing the inflationary pres- It will be the third of a series were signs now if defence talks between Gov- sure, but there that pressure was tending to Tament and Opposition leaders build up again.

the first since the recen Anglo-American-Canadian com- atomic munique" announcing an explosion in the Soviet Union. He also warned that "as a 16- The evidence that, Russia has sult of obligations under the At-

he secret of the atomic bomb may lead to an extension of the expenditure ca defence was "al-series of private falks, in which most certain to exceed the origin-

he principal colleagues of both vi estimates by quite an appreci- | he Prime Minister "ánd the Op-

position leader will join able amount."

The Government has already Indian textile mills dependent said that it devalued reluctantly, on Pakistani cotton will be harder

Manila, October 5, having been forced into it by hit: they do not have big stocks of widespread devaluations in other raw cotton

Talics on a long stalled treaty parts of the Commonwealth.

The fact that

Pakistan did

did not Pakistan jute centre, say that lack of commerce between the Philip- devalue its Rupee, thereby in of indian buying has brought the pincs and the United States wi effect, raising its prices to all raw devaluing

during the debate. Reliable reports. in New Delhi today say that both Dominions be-

Prices Stable

religious places, by trying to hold' discussed ons, is certain to be stay use trade almost to a stand-be resumed in the immediate (u-lantic Pact and Western Union'

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in

of his Party, the Akali Dal, represent

5 Sikh opinion, in alieve an inter-Dominion confer-

temple in Delhi

Sikh

In the beginning of this year. members of the Akali Party in batches to Delhi from

marched

ence necessary to solve the ques- tions involved.

These reports say that pending such a conference, the Reserve East Punjab in defiance of the Bank is not likely to fix a rate. Government's order · prohibiting

meetings.

Jute Position

with prices off sharply. Jute is not the only trade stopped by the Rupee disparity. Rupee Rate

ture.

President Elpidio Quirins named the Under-Secretary o Foreign Affairs. Felino Neri, to

Britain's industrial production Other private traders find it al- head a Philippine team followin?

had gone up some six to seven most impossible to conduct inter-a conference with the U.S. Am-

bassador, Mr. Myron M. Cowen per cent above 1848-but in Dominion business.

stood, wishes to conclude nego-

The United States, it is under-spite of this the pressure of de

mand persists", Sir Stafford con- 1inued. emtiations by the end of the year.

and from Pakistan are piling high Bankers say that remittances to

Firms based in India with ployees in Pakistan cannot pay them

on

Sir Stafford, said that unem- ployment. Was fractionally lower than fast year-251,000

against 299,000.

but

Buggestions made in some quarters that the Governman" may abandon its policy of com- pulsory military service and rely on A mall but highly qualified regular, army are dis- credited by official sources. Speculative reports said that ome' such proposal might be ad- vanced, in the Government-Op-

FOREIGN OFFICE APPOINTMENT

With this rise in production A commerce agronment is ex- and some fall in exports we might The main demand

Tara

Meanwhile, the price of the pected to span the way for Am-have expected prices as a whol Singh's Akali Party has brun India's most important import

investments, trade and i to fall. parate representation for the from Pakistan is fute, India al-Pakistan Hupee is sliding, in un-erican

financial activity in the Island "They have not Prices, Lavestion talks-Reyter. Sikh community, who form about ready has increased the export authorised private transactions.

The New Delhi newspaper "The under President Truman's point remained fairly stable--with summe 35 per cent of the population of duty on jute and hessian to pre-

imme-four programme.

decreases and some increases". Bart Punjab, in

the legislatures vent export demands from raising Statesman" reports that

diately after Pakistan's announce- of East Punjab and the Indiajute prices.

Negotiations began in 1947 be-! Union.

Jute mill owners have promised ment of the new exchange ratio, The Indian Constituent As-not to raise prices internally and 100 Pakistani Rupees were quoted tween the two countries and end-j

in disagreement eight sembly decided last- summer not to buy raw jete at uneconomic privately for 127 Indian. At pre-ed

sent it says the difference is only points. Counter-properals have Turning to economy, the Chan- against giving separate repre- prices.

ven Rupees.

to reduced the obstacles It is reliably estimated that about seven sentation for religious minorities.

four! cellor said that. Government. cx- The rate fixed by Pakistan isoints, etief of which is reciprocal penditure would have to be re- the Indian Jute, industry can do without Pakistani jute imports 100 Pakistani for 144 Indian rights for Filipinos in the Uniteduced and the social survices,

London, October 4. Rupees Associated Press.

States for privileges extended while not cut, would have to be

Hebert Hankey, head of the here.-Associated Press.

the stopped from

Department of developing too Northern. quickly.

Foreign Office since 1946, will The cost of living would rise replace Douglas Howard as Bri- "without, we hope, any rise. in tith Charge d'Affaires in Madrid personal incomes," he said. This

"Mr. Howard's' appointment as would place a great burden on Ambassador to Uruguay, was an- the wage-earner.

nounced last night.

I

but granted the Sikh scheduled

castes (Untouchables) reservation

of seats in legislatures for 10 years, along with other scheduled castes. Router.

Washington, October 4. The Senate Foreign Committee has approved the appointment of

Ambassador Myron Cowen,

to the Philippines, to be concurrently U.S. representative on the Econo- raic Commission for Asia and the Far East-United Press.

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UNESCO Dispute Over Germany

Paris, October 4.

The delegates to the United Nations Educational,

Scientific and Cultural Organisation's con ference here tonight defeated, by 35 votes a Czechoslovak-Polish-Hungarian to four, resolution to shelve UNESCO's programme in Germany, for nine months.

SMUTS' VISIT TO BRITAIN:

London, October 4. The former South African Pre- mior, Field Marshal J. C. Smuts, is coming to Britain for a 10-day visit about November 18.

U.S. Move

The British Embassy in Mad- rid has been under a Charge d'Affaires since December, 1949, Meanwhile, in Washington, the when the Ambassador, Sir Vić- US. Senate Agriculture Commit- toy. Mallet, was withdrawn in ob- He will be ruest of honour at a tee ordered an investigation toedience to a United Nations de

celebrating the 75th day into the recent agreement ciston.

Before returning to the Foreign day of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, allowing Britais to use US$175,- | President of the Israeli Republic 000,000 of Economic Co-operation Office in 1945, Mr. Hankey, who The occasion is to take place in

funds. Lo buy 45, was Charge d'Affaires in the last weeks of the month.

Warsaw-Reuter. Marshal Smuts and Dr. Wei- marn are old friends-Associated

A Brazilian resolution propos-Tépidemic. UNESCO cannot fail to Press.

Administration Canadian wheat

The resolution' offered by Senator James Kem, Missouri Republican, directs a full inves tigation into 'the' effect"' of the ing an extension of the programme try to solve this problem. We are was carried by 35-votes-to-tour, still far from Anding the neces

agreement on American wheat Israel voted with the Eastern sary remedy to heal such a so-activities in Germany under re-farmers, the price of wheat in the European delegates

cial sickness.

view and said: "We do not want United States Government's farm "German youth have a ten-a rigid and abstract programme price support programze and

Said:

M Przemyslay Ogrodzinski, chief Polish

représentative, "Western Germany is the seat of German Neo-Fasciem and Bill tarism. The elections as a result of which the so-called Boan Parliament was created, are proof of the non-democratic character

this

of the system which is the out- come of the politics of the occupa tion powers, in Western Germany. The Hungarian, Czech and Polish delegations eorisider (the Brazilian), résolution highly. prejudicial to the aims of UNESCO and reserve the right for their Governments to decide on future measures t

Dr. Paulo de Berredo Carneiro, the leader of the Brazilian dele- gation. called on an extension

of UNESCO's activities in Ger

metime "noting many at the same; importance .of.. safe-guarding

German unity POL

He said: "Those of als who saw the martyrdom of people under Hitlerism have agreed to take all steps to avoid a similar catas trophe Hitlerism is a contagions

JEWISH AGENCY GLOSES DOWN:-

Frankfurt, October 4. The Frankfurt pfice of the Ger agriculture generally man branch of the Jewish Agency

dengy to take up yesterday's but a programme in permanent | Amer the Kem previously attack-closed today. An ancial fight We Knew that Naz contact with reality." leaders are again In power, He warned the German people: ed the ECA agreement, contend-nounced that the work of the the Brazilian delegate added. "Do not betray your own history." ng that it "sticks a pitchfork Agency in Germany was practi Hit is because we are faced Professor Adam Schaft of into American wheat growers.cally Anished and that mass

The investigation will, be with this picture that we have Poland, said: "We have no right|

on had ended. Jewish emigration:

Ofices in Berlin and Munich to be assured that UNESCO to pass over in silence the in-cucted. by a sub-committee of the

Committee, whose would remain open until the end working to fight this zimes-citement to revenge, at present Agriculture

been [of the year after which Jewish going on in Germany. UNESCO members have not yet He urged UNESCO's Executive must remain faithful to its code rammed Reuter and Associate emigration would be handled by Board to keep the Organisation's of principles."-Heuler.

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