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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, "1949.

Won't Be

TORY "NO CONFIDENCE" MP's Salaries

MOTION TO BE VOTED ON IN HOUSE TODAY

HO-TUNG ON FUTURE OF HK

London, October 25.

The chief of the Conservatives, Mr. Winston Chur- chill, tonight tabled a resolution in the House of Commons censoring the Labour Govern- ment's £280,000,000 measure as insufficient. The motion, which takes the form of an amend- ment to a Government resolution, amounts to a declaration of "No Confidence" in the Government.

It will come to a vote on Thurs- Sir Stafford is understood. 10

Paris, October 25, day at the end of the two-day de- have spiked some of the critics' Sir Robert Ho-Tung, elderly | bate on the economy cuts an-guns in advance by a compre- Hong Kong financier, was re- nounced yesterday..

hensive review of the cuts dur)

circumstances,

ceived today by France's Pre-Mr. Churchill's resolution in which he explained why sident, M: Vincent Auriol, in which is endorsed by other Con-under immediate the Elysee Palace and receiv-sarvative Opposition leaders, Pre-

ed an autographed photograph frets that in the national ener

gemey to which we have been

of the President.

ever-

the defence reductions could not The heavier MEGERELA

Only A Squeak

roar,

had

London, October 25. The Prime Minlater, Mr. Clement Attlee,. today ruled against a cut in the salaries Members o* Parliament from £1,000 to 2600 a year. A Conservative Member,

Mr. Christopher' Hollis, urge ed in the House of Cammont that this should be done by legislation so that members could show an example to the country In view of the

urgent need for economy,

Mr. Attlee said that in any event membera' zalaries were bot regulated by Statute but by resolutions of the House of Commens--Reuter."

STREET BETTING ADVOCATED

WORLD PRESS COMMENT ON UK AUSTERITY

London, October 25. Britain's £30,000,000 cut in defence expenditure and the new shilling prescription health plan, drew most attention in world Press comment. today on yesterday's austerity announcement by the British Government. Criticism of the new

measures was tinged with acceptance of their inevitability in Britain's fight to preserve the living standards of her people.

One Belgian paper, interested in ↑ Western Union, said that the.de. fence

arbing

cuts were particularly dis- German paper described the

new health levy as a symbal; of "the frost which has recently nipped the British Government's social plans".

comment

the unnatural

brought His Majesty's Governi

Here is a summary of Fress The reaction of one section of The 86-year-old Chinese, well-ment while taking no sufficient

be that the Party appeared to

Johannesburg the measures to prevent known in the Far East as

Driving down Britain's living standards will not banker, ship-owner and philan-ncreasing dangers of infation at the Government, expected to pro-

DR economy

London, October 25. thropist, arrived in Paris cartier home and the consequent rise in duce

help anse

anyone including Africa, the this week en route to Hong Kong the east of living,

London's police chief today | Johannesburg "Star" said. or to restore merely given a squeak.

Another section argued that if advocated the establishment after visits

and be national credit abroad, at the

It pointed ∙ 10 in England

imposed Scandinavia where he was re-ame time make no positive pro-it were possible to cut national of licenced

British street betting strains

economy and said that "stop-gap seived by the Royal families of posals to stimulate production by costs by the amount Sir Stafford

the necessary incentives tour announced without causing fresh shops to solve the problems measures and painful cuts are not dividual effort throughout the pubile hardship, the Government caused by the present ban on remedies and it continued Loo

should have forestalled Opposi-cash betting off the race long may speed the patient

ion criticism by doing it earlier. course.

cach nation.

Robert in an sated

Coala”,

DOCTORS PREPARE

Washington, October 25. The Washington Medical Society is drafting plans for a medical

corps. 10 deal with atom casualties in 'any-atomic attack on the American capital! A spokesman of the Society that Washington aid today doctors intended to set up a thain of casualty stations round. the city.

At a meeting of the Society, to the Office of Civilian Defence

presented a report estimating that! about 200,000 casualties could be expected in any atomic raid on:

not The report which was endorsed by the Defence Depart- he said that unless there was advance warning ' of the attack i and sufficient preparation, people within 200 metres c the atomie air-barst would be killed almost at cree and those within a six- alometres radius would varying degrees of ijwy

He is to fly on Sunday from nation." Brussels for Hong Kong.

Before seeing M. Auriol, Sir The Government motion, which

But there seemed a general Sir Harold Scott the Metropo interview deprestands in the names of the Prime sense of relief that with an cles litan Police Commissioner. told

No Incentives fears that the Chinese Minister. Mr. Clement Atletion so near, the economy cuts the Royal Commission appointed Communists might attack Hong Mr. Herbert Morrison, the De do not greatly increase the pro-by the Government to investigate

Melbourne: Production musi KOCAR-

Premier, puly

Sit Stafford blem of maintaining Party al-Britain's gambling industry that have incentives as well as make Chancellor of the Exchelegiance in the Cripps.

constituencies,— | London's policemen could net sacrifices,

"Melbourne quer, and the Trade Minister, Mr. Harold Wilson, says: "This Housp

Reyter:

stop

the man in the street ille Herald", said. It was here that gally backing the horse of his the programme of Prime choice.

Clement Minister, Mr. approves the lines of action

Attlee. deal with the present economic

The inculties

present system

restemed to fail. outlined Is

in the

The "Sydney Sun" described carded as "one law for the rich Prime Minister's statemesz), roadie

he

the icy economies" as having and another for the poor." stated

no more effect than throwing

"I have strong reasons to be lieve in the good judgment p Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai (Foreign Minister of the Peiping regime) in not taking any steps to attack Hong Kong," he said.

"I have not met either of them

but I have carefully studied the

remarks made by General Mar-

shall that both of them are very:

signcre and honest.

that he

Sir Rebert added thought Man would act reason. ably but declined to comment on whether his regime should

be recognised.

" have also read carefully."

October 24" Confident Of Majority

to

are

Government quarters conndent of getting a substan- tial majority when the vote is! taken on Thursday as the Go crnment position is impregn

able in a straight Party vete.

Mr. Morrison may speak on the

he continued, the autobiography of General Mao written in Chi-second day and the Prime Minis-

"

ter will wind up the debate.

tives.

Schoolgirl's Story Of

Vision\

night.

Her-

was

I led to constant attempts to corrupt the police, a certain ne- ber of whom succumbed to the temptation.

fined to course betting is cen- counts at present.

betters with credit e-

the

the

an ice-cube on a bush fire" and

to

sation.

the

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newspapers (

measures

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did

rective

GRUMBLING IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA

Prague, October 25. An official report today on con- ditions in the Czech foundry industry said that there were in- cessant complaints and frumbling especially Emong

Warkers commung workers;

titan

A Defence Office official was caid that the only remedy was quoted as saying that about 5,000

re-create the national wealth dissipated by nationali doctors would be needed to deal with casualties caused by a single Erlangen. October 25.

The Australian Prime Minister. Hiroshima-Reuter.

tomb of the type dropped on Another German school-girl

Mr. Joseph Chifley, declined to today claimed to have seen a

To the public. the present comment. vision of the Virgin Mary with the Child Jesus at the village gambling laws were unintelli- Paris: French of

last gible, Sir Harold said. Heroldsbach-Thurn

splashed

prograceme Public sympathy was with "super-austerity".

and bockmaker.

many 10-year-old Rosine She was

The macerate "Parision Libre” would people

help him

to ca

it "England's great Brade. of the village of Heng. nese, from which I note he went The chief Opposition speaker. Rosine had not exchanged views

evade the police, the Commis- penance". through a very hard life and, in

sioner added.

The influential Conservative to present arranges | with other local children, round- according my opinion, when reen have

The Cournissione disclosed evening paper "Le Monde" hard gone through such

Eives ments. will be Mr. Anthony Eden, ing to Church officials at

that .3,342 bookmakers and thought that the they will invariably act with deputy leader of the Conserva-oldsbach-Thura,

*10*** (bookmakers' runners) not provide the "psychological Since early this month, seven outs wisdom....

that

would soon *be A second amendment

to the school-girls have claimed to have were arrested in the London area shock" There is no reason to believe Government motion was tabled seen daily visions of the Madonna last year, and were fined a total necessary. that they will attack Hong Kong. tonight by the Left Labour Ine in the village. More than 70,000 of £30,235.

He agreed with a member of because the population there

there dependent oup of Labour men Pilgrims have journeyed about 90 per cent Chinese and inexpelled from the Party for at-

hoping to witress the reported the Commission that cash betting on horses was an ingrained habit such attack the Chinese sociation with the Communists. any*

miracle.

of the British people-Reuter. special commission of three community would be the greatest Their resolution declared, in

priests and three

Has Laymen sufferers."

part, that "the present economic been investigating the children's Sir Robert added that in any aimculties are the direct result claims, and will report their case he intended to return

Archbishop fe of the foreign policy pursued by results to the

of Hong Kong to share its future is Majesty's Government with Bamberg. Monsignor Joseph Kotb. with the territory's residents the approval of the Conservative

Addressing a youth pilgrimage

the Atlantic Pac" it added.

The Party, which has led to the at the Monastery of Vierzchaei-

Socialist

"Le Peuple" London, October 25.

thought the cuts annoying political, military and economic lizen (The Fourteen Saints), on

but Mr. J. L. Palmer, retiring Fre inevitable, and the Catholic subjection of Great Britain to the Sunday, the Archbishop recom-

British "Lfore

that it Belgique" United States."

mended that reports. ci the vision sident of the Guild of

treated with reserve.

Newspaper Editors, told the an-absurd for Britain to invest on

Frankfurt: The "Allgemeine place in my Archbishopric for that be deplored, the Conserva- herself. I should be very glative as well as the Socialist view Zeitung" of lain said that the But one should never encroach that "the past and present re-chilling health prescription was en God's will" če said-Beuter cord of the press required some 2 "mbol of the frost which has measure of purification and con- recently nipped the British Gov-

ernment's social plans." urol."

The "Wiesbaden Kurier” said "Let us remember," he said,

that Britain is today fighting for "that the press is the first target the living standard of her people. for which a dictator alms when

Vienna Viennese newspapers

Associated Press.

Dutch Civil Servants In Indonesia

table conference committee which

servants, they saki.

PRESS FREEDOM DEFENDED

increase in the number of white collar" workers and non-working Defence Cuts

<rities who "we not always of lack of know- The Brussels:

Independent right because "La Lanterne found the British ledge of the real conditions." Government's silence on its de- "There was general dissatisiac- fence cuts particularly disturbing. tion because of lack of working

is certain to shoes, linen and clothes", concern not only Western Europe report said.-Reater. but also the signatory nations of

This reduction

A third umcadment, from the be the Holy Virgin selects anual Guld meeting here today such a scale.

small groups of Liberals, XANI that the House, "convinced that the British people will endure any sacrifice proved to be neces- mary for the economic betterment of the nation, condemns the in- adequacy of the Prime Minister's measures".

Election Guessing

from the

RAF-EGYPTIAN

AIR GAMES

Was

he is striving for power. Let us described the cuts as "Draconic"

be careful lest we agree to any and as "Attlee's last chance"

The

The Calvinist Hague steps which might open the door to bureaucratic control.

read paper "Trouw's" headline "With the freedom of the press "Attlee Puts The Clock Back

the exercise of

WESTERN GERMANY'S RADIO CIRCUITS WITH:

The Hague, October 23. Dutch civil servants working in Indonesia can have their position legally guaranteed for two years after the transfer of

The announcement of the Gov-

Cairo, October 25.-- 'sovereignty to the archipelago

erument's emerzency, programme stay, usually started if they wish to

In their closest co-operation Parliamentary since the war, the British and fresh reliable sources said today, speculation on the general elec-Egyptian forces will test the is inseparably linked the freedom The independent Conservative

The

tion date. provisions had been agreed

air defences of the Suez Canal of the individual to exercise De Telegraf" said that the cuts Some political circles deduce in six days' joint air manoeu- those three atributes upon by the Indonesien round-

of which were too little and too late- economy programme is dealing with the future of civil that the election is likely before, which begin on Wednes- the human personality is com Reuter.

day.

posed-a capacity for thought, for next April, when, the next bud- The morning paper, "Al Misri feeling and for get is due. They reason that the said today that 50 Egyptian figh-will-power."--Reuter. They added that it was a com-Government is unlikely to deferter aircraft will take part with premise between the Dutch and the dection until after the bud RAF planes in defence man000- the Indonesian views on the get, which they predict-will convres against a "Red" attacking duration of the sovereignty tran-tain unpopular measures.

British bases at Akaba sition period, and was the last

But this line of argument is re- and CYPAL attempted point needing settlement in the jected as unsound by a consider-

to keep Social Committee of the conferable number of Government sup- the manoeuvres secret byr shen porters, who believe that the Ad- the Press not to mention them,

local newspapers The Dutch had suggested a ministration will not precipitate out

and stories three-year period and the Indo-n election because it is afraid published details ****Associated Press. nesians originally were only will.10 "face the rausie ing to agree to one year."

At the end of the two years. the dew United Republic of Indo- nesia

could draft provisions covering the employment and regrouping of any Dutch officials who decided to remain in Indo nesian service.-Reuter,

exce.

The leaders tested. Parlia imentary Labour. Party 'reaction" to the cuts

in a two-and-a- half-heur meeting today, dur- ing which there was sectional criticism that the Government's defence economies were inade quete.

force from

Cyprus.

have

ISRAEL CHARGES

Washington, October 25.

A State Department spokesman'

sald

today that Mr. Edward S.

THE ORIENT

Cricker, the United States Amnected with the Orient soon by

Frankfurt, October 26. Western Germany will be com bassador to Iraq, had been asked

to investigate Israel's charges that three direct radio circuits, the Jews are being persecuted and US High Commission sancunced

tortured there.

Two of the circuits,

L

radio Yesterday, Mr. Ellahu Elata, telephone and a radio. be Tornell Ambassador here, will be direct to the Phi Tokyo, October 25..

sked the State Department to Republic. The third, a radio tele- Netherlands officials in Tokyo investigate the situation. He said graph circuit, will be to Japan. are discussing a renewal of that Israel would probably accuse Communications between West- the Japanese-Netherlands trade Iraq of violating the Declarationern Germany and the Orient rog agreement which expired on Sep- of Human Rights before, the are routed mainly through: the tember 30-Associated Press, United Nations-Reuter

United States Associated Press.

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