1949-11-03 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1949.

Ceremony On HMS Amethyst Heavy Quake

Lieutenant Commander Karans (centre) replies to the speech of welcome made to the men

of M.M.S. Amethyst as the fe ate arrived at Gibraltar,

(Associated Press Photo).

CONSTITUTION OF INDONESIAN STATE

URANIUM FIND IN WESTERN GERMANY

The Hague, November 1. The constitution of the new independent and sovereign republic of the United States of Indonesia was published here today, cul- minating long weeks of negotiations by Indo- nesian and Netherlands delegates.. Earlier today, the Dutch-Indonesian round-table conference reached a compromise agreement on the status of New Guinea, which was be- lieved to be the last major stumbling block to agreement between the Dutch authorities and the Indonesian Republicans.

Informed quarters said both Hof, November 1. sides agreed to accept in A German engineer claimed principle the United Nations' today to have found traces of compromise solution, which uraniun ore deposits in the would provide for the pre- American zone of Germany sent status to be maintained bear the junction of the for another year. During that Soviet zone and Czechoslovak time, negotiations would be borders

continued in an effort to find a mutually satisfactory solu-

The engineer, Dr. Albert Kum- mer, told reporters that he found the traces in the Pichtel Mom

Lajos.

These mountains are a South West extension of the Erzgebridge e or Ore Mountain where the Rus-

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This was the first report of tion. uranium being discovered in The Dutch insist on keeping Western Germany.

New Guinea under direct Dutch rule

that great maintaining differences exist between its ecodornic position and that of the rest of Indonesia.

The Indonesians want to in clude the island in the Federal State of Indonesia. A Com- promise agreement New Guinea apparently left only one lesser issue to be solved This involves the demand of

Of some The Erzgebrige region along

East Indonesian population Czechoslovak-Soviet

groups who are mainly

Chris- border is noted for resorts with tian-particularly the Minehasia mineral waters and bracing air

and Ambon to install a separate system of self-government by with supposedly curative powers.

Dr. Kummer

plebiscite. said he

Dutch favour radio activity in both the air and their demands, but the Indo- water of the Fichtel Mountains.nesians have voiced strong dis-

sians are reported to be mining

uranium.

the

zone

Jound

This, combined with the are he said he found led him to believe there might be substan- tiał uranium ore in the Fichtel range.

It is probably-embedded deep the earth and it would be a ostly process to mine lower.

He made the discovery, be ald, while searching for gold nd silver deposits.

He had submitted a report on is finding to the Bavarian State Kining Office and that office is

Avestigating.—Associated Press.

COSMIC RAY RESEARCH

Ottawa, November 1.

approval

The

2: Nobody may be held slavery.

3. Nobody may be punished physically.

4. "Everybody has the right of freedom of thought, freedom of conscience and religion. freedom of opinion and free- dom of expression of this opinion."

The governing bodies in

the

United States of Indonesia will be the President the Cabinet,

the Senate, the High Council of Justice, and a chamber of finan- cial controls.

The President will be elected by representatives of various states and will appoint-in co- operation with these representa- tives the Premier and Cabinet Ministers. The Minister of De- fence. Foreign Affairs, Internal Affairs. Finance and Economic Affairs and the Premier will be authorised to take decisions in case of urgency without const- ing other Cabinet members.

Damage In New Britain

Melbourne, November 2

Heavy earthquake damage 10 buildings is reported from Rabaul, on the New Guinea lasand of New Bain, where a new tremor lasting three minutes shook the town early today.

the

A Landslide blocked road from Rabzuf to the

near-by town of Konopo

The eruption of a volcano on Bougainville Island, in the Selemen

group further Eart, is reported to have forfned a new crater, covering neighbouring harbour with a pall of smoke.

The

hit

A severe earthquake Rabaul and surrounding dia- tricts on October 20-Router.

NATIVE

POLICY "THREAT"

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London, November 1. The "threat of South Afri- ca's native policy" was of "grave concerri" in West Afri- ca, Mr. Justice James Coussey, the African Chairman of the Committee, whose report on constitutional reform in the Gold Coast has just been published, declared today.

Judge Coussey, who is here on leave from the Gold Coast, told Reuter in an exclusive interview: "Notwithstanding the protests t the Colonial Office and the de- clarations that African interests shall be paramount in West At- rica, we are not unaware of the fact that the Union of South Af- rica places its horizon at the Equator.

"We are aware, too, of South Africa's constant nibbling policy, first at South-West Africa and nou at the High

Commission

Protectorates. But I hold, with the initiation

Inquiry Opens

Into Seretse Khama Marriage

Johannesburg, November 1,

Serowe, capital of Bechuanaland, is now under mob rule, a British Judicial inquiry was told at its opening session today.

Tshekedi Khama, the tribe's former regent, would be risking his life if he returned to Serowe, it was stated.

Marriage Root

The Commission, headed who stood up at the inquiry and by Sir Walter Harrigan KC, said that. Seretse was unit to be was appointed by the Britishchier," the petition went on Government to inquire into the suitability as chief of the tribe of Seretse Khama, 29, nephew of Tshekedi. Seretse's wife is Ruth Williams, a former London typist.

Seretse, wearing a smart grey suit, took his seat early in the public square of the mud-hutted capital, but his wife stayed at home.

Tshekedi, too, was absent, He is now at Lokatsi, a village 200 miles to the South, with a num- ber of his followers. In a petition presented to the inquiry he al- for him to come to Serowe and leged that it was too dangerous asked that his evidence be taken in Lokata Sir Walter Harrigan agreed that this should be done.

In his petition. Tshekedi said that when he returned to Serowe ad- en October 5, two persons vised him independently to leave immediately because his life was in danger.

Fired At

Previously, the petition con- tinued, one of Seretse's sup*

Of Trouble

the Bamangwate tribe had so de- It claimed that the condition of

teriorated that an attempt might be made on Tshakedi's life if he attended the inquiry and that a riot would occur.which the police would not be able to without loss of life.

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control

THAT ARRESTING WHITENESS

It is the splash of white that catches the eye, that compels

builder choose Snowcrete for picking out architectural fea- attention, and it is for this reason that the architect and

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ing renderings, facing, terrazzo claimed that he had information and cast stone. It has all the

In a covering letter Tshekedi that steps were being taken to incite people Serowe to turn against him.

living

outside virtues of normal grey cement

At one meeting in Serowe, and in addition, is pure white. wrote Tahekedi, man had said, "if I had a gun 1 would shoot Tshekedi day or night."

Tshekedi the

A statement which made earlier was Commission. In it Tshekedi said

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had arisen entirely because of that that the trouble in the tribe TELEPHONE HOUSE. Seretse's marriage to

2 white woman in conflict with Bamang- wato tribal custom,

South, Rhodesia's Attitude

Forters reported to the policeter of Southern that he had been rec at while sitting in his hut and Tsheked was blamed for it by Seretse's friends.

In Salisbury, the Prime Minis- Rhodesia, Sir Godfrey Huggins, sald today that his Government had not declared Seretse Khama, chief of the Ba- mangwate tribe, and his wife,

one man to admit that Tshekedi Williams, to be prohibited immi- Pressure was even brought by the former Lendon typist, Buth of policy in the had given him a revolver to com grants. hands of an African majority,

that suspicion and anxiety will mit the dead, the petition alleged. be allayed"

They had not applied for ad-

"I reported this to the District | mission to Southern Rhodesia, so "Judge Coussey added: "It Commissioner, pointing out that that netion had not been neces- is for us Africans, not to this was well-considered plan to vary. quibble over technicalities, but incite people to assassinate me,"

to co-operate to make the new Tshekedi claimed in his petition. Ruth Williams married her 27-

Constitution a

success." Britain's attitude, appeared

The petition said that the ru-year-old

African

husband.

in

to mour was spread that Seretse England last year when he was would never be chief while Tshe- an Oxford University law student. kedi was alive and that, there. She is 24. fore, it was necessary that Tshe- kedi should be killed.

be that if there had been mis- takes in the past, the day had been reached when all should get down together to make the Gold Coast a better place for every-

one.-Reuter-

Free Elections The Senate

the represents Federal States and

consists of two members for each state to be appointed by the State govern- ments. The Chamber of Repre sentatives numbers 150 members, will be named one-third of whom by the

Jogjakarta The

Republic and was pub-

two-thirds

by other states. The The lished on the eve of the cloɛ-

Chinese minority will have nine ing of the round-table con- ference. it heralds the birth representatives, the European six and the Arab three members in the chamber.

Democratic State

constitution

of # "democratic state of federal structure" out of what wai formerly the string of island colonies known

** Dutch East Indies. A new State government, com="

the

Within

оде year free and secret general elections must be held in all Indonesia to form chambers of representatives in

"Another rumour was that any. thing might happen to anyone

Italian Cabinet Crisis Caused By Resignations

Rome, November 1.

Italian Prime Minister, Signor Alcide de Gas- peri, is to return to Rome tomorrow from Assisi to face a Government crisis, caused by the resignation of the three ministers who belong to the Socialist Unity Party of Signor Guiseppe Saragat.

all states, which will appoint a The Prime Minister is expected to insist that the

Senate. This Chamber and the new Federal Chamber and

Senate together--but both with

doubled a dou number of members-- will then work out definite

constitution.

three Ministers remain in the Coalition Government.

plete with a Chamber of Repre- sentatives and Senate, will be in stalled before the end of the current year. The state will have a national fing of red and white and the national anthem "Indo

Signor Saragat said today, nesiaraja" (Indonesian People).

The new state also will have advisory body, but has

The Senate is primarily an however, that he did not "Behasa Indonesia" as its

Federal think the Prime Minister's in- wwm common language.

authorities together with the sistence could change the Government The

sand Chamber states that theĮ Sty constitution

Party's decision to withdraw matters concerning To get more information about "will of the people is the basis of mat

indivi other

its members from the Cabi- Canada's National the government's power. This states. On a

questions Government and Chamber net. expressed

will have joint authority.

The Socialist Unity Party Exe- The Government will appoint a dele-cutive announced today that its gate to be stationed in Holland emergency Congress decided that He will take over the authority the Party's policy unification which, before the transfer of with other Socialist groups and sovereignty, was in the hands of towards the Government would 1. Everybody is equal before the Dutch Ministries in Holland.be held in Naples. the law.

--United Press,

The date will be fixed next weekend.

The three Ministers are Signor

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They resigned last night after their Party had called on them. to "regroup all-energies in the struggle for the existence of de- mocratic Socialism in Italy." /

Party Emergency Signor Saragat, commenting on the sudden resignation of ali three Labour Socialist Party (PSLI) Cabinet Ministers on Monday night, said today that his Socialists will back Italy's pro-American policies in Parlia ment all the same

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tinued participation in the Gov. ernment.

Others who resigned were Ivan Matteo Lombardo (Commerce

and Industry) and Roberto Tre meilont (Reconstruction).

Still Divided

Italy's anti-Commumist Socialist factions remain as divided and competitive as ever while still proclaiming their will to unite

Giuseppe Romita's group an A "Party emergency caused! the Cabinet Ministers resigna- nounced defiantly that it would unification :con- tion, he stated, but he promised hold its own that the Party's 40 or so Deputies

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The marriage caused a crisis in Bamangwato affairs, In January, 1949, the tribe offered Seretse te choice of giving up his wife or his chieftainship. In June the tribesmen, at a big assembly at Serowe, decided to accept kim as chief despite his refusal to give

up his wife

Because of this decision, Sere tse's uncle, Tshekedi, who had been Regent since 1926, and 40 head men

went into voluntary exile.

It was announced in Pretoria last night that Secretse and his wife had been declared prohibit- South ed immigrants by the African Government, and that the Southern Rhodesian Government | was likely to Issue a similar ban. Associated Press and Reuter.

Kiel Canal Re-Opened

Hamburg, November 1. The Kiel Canal, closed on

| Monday night by the sinking of a German ship in a collision with a Swedish vessel, was re- opened today. 4

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