1949-12-17 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1949.

HOPES OF ELECTRIC CURRENT Gov't Silent On

RESTORATION DIMMED London Wrangle Over Terms To End Strike

UNION STATEMENT

London, December 15.

Hopes of a full restoration of electric current tonight faded as Cabinet Ministers, chiefs of Britain's nationalised, electricity industry, trade union leaders and unofficial strikers were this evening caught up in a wrangle over the terms on which the strike should end.

The 2,600 men who stopped work at the beginning of the week, bringing widespread blackout to parts of Southern England voted today to resume work pending further negotiations on their claim for special "heat and dirt" bonus

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At Barking-biggest power station in Europe the strikers want back, but at the three other stations they refused to sign a declaration that they were returning to work "unconditionally".

Creech Jones

On Malay Compaign

| The Home Secretary, Mr. (Uhutes Eck letd Parliament that

the tiovernment did not anticipate that it would be necessary to einni geney powers Talent with the situation.

fixture

to

One of the unton leaders, Mr. Funk Foulkes, President of the Electrical Times Union, told a ro- port

Her Husband

Search For Survivors

Miami, Florida,

December 16. Aircraft and ships today scarched for the burning hulk af the 021-ton Dutch motor vanel Dorde, shattered

by

an explosion off Miamil,

during the

but the "was believed to have sunk

the night, carry ing with her 10 of the 11 vío. time of the explosion.

Thirteen survivors are safe, sight are in a Miami höŝpitel and five ara en boged a re- "souɑ ship, the oil tanker Wii- Hemaburg, bound for Phila- delphia.

Those brought to Miami were taken from # lifebart 800 miles off the Florida cost by the tankar Sparrow's Roint Reuter.

Recognition Issue And Hong Kong

Report Britain Has Atom Bomb

London, Decombor 15. British Government officials threw up a quick screen today against 'questions on a London nowspaper report that o British atomic weapon would not be tried out in Pacific tosti as American super-bombs.

"There has never beeri an official statement that

Britain dlready had an atomic weapon to test and we cannot comment one way or another about it,' a Ministry of Supply spokesman said:

Nothing has been disclosed om. cially of what progress Britain has made towards the develop ment or actual production of aħ atom bomb although several atomic energy establishments for rosearch or the manufacture of plutonium have been built or are under construction.

Following

recent American- |British-Canadian alomie talks in Washington, participants said that Britain had the knowledge necta-

it had been

Communist Prisoners

In Riot

were

Calcutta, December 15. sary for atom bomb production Fifty-two bul disclosed that

persona suggested that Britain could use reported to have been in- the United States as an "atomic jured today when 250 Com- arsenal" instead of building Its munist prisoners, wielding London, December 15.

own elaborate and expensive broken furniture, fought The Foreign Secretary, bomb factory.

police, firemen and wardens Mr. Ernest Bevin, attended a

Whatever Britain has to offer in for four hours in Calcutta's cabinet meeting at 10, Down-he atomic world now would be biggest gaol.

boration.

The warden said rioters were

She Can Picking Street on Thursday, when guided on decisions taken by thair

the ministers reportedly con- representatives with the United subdued by pistol shots and tear sidered his recommendation | States and Canada about the that recognition should be exact form and extent of colla-aa, given to the Chinese Com-

Unofficial reporta said 17 fire- munist government before

Entwptok atoll in the Pacific soners were injured, five serious- men and policemen and 35 pri- the end of the year.

Ocean is the American

proving tround for atom bombs. British Informed sources said that the scientists pitended the last Amer. The fighting broke out when

with recògal- lean atom bomb tests there,

prisoners men and women who tlon, which is still in an impon-

I had been 'Held for weeks without trial-staged a protest demonstra- tion against the bi-weekly scorch of their rolls by wardens,

Gettysburg, South Dakota,

December 15. Ilse Deriniowania, aged 23, of Hamburg, Germany, can have some 50 pro- spective husbands in the Mid- West of the United States,

cles that the only conditions Lorulen December 15 Riposed when the unions met About JONE

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derable stage, included: firstly,

British scientists are equally the question of Hong Kong. concerned with long-range weapon

The Foreign Office has noted tests held secretly at the care

the Chinese Communists fully guarded Woomera rocket made no mention of the Crown range in Australia.

declared inton- Colony in their

that

The Mayor showed the letter

tions of "berating" ali Chinose to some, reporters,

territory under foreign rule, al- Answering letters are now at though they have arriving daily although the Mayor Tibel.

mentioned

run-

Uk Buce miserakred ning "anely hearts" agency.

One 36-year-old lows farmer

drove 388 miles to get first-hand information about Ilse from the Mayor.

It remains to be seen whether the formal terms of recognition—

mutual respect for sovereignty and territory-will be applied to Hong Kong by Communist

the

regime,

Reports recently suggested that some new experiments were con- templated there but nothing has been offlelally disclosed.--Reuter,

Students 'Declare War’

The man said his mother pro- Secondly, the situation regard- Museethigs of suose of the apted the trip by suggesting hing Taiwan. Mr, Bevin has made j

shouhl picked out a girl for a clear the British government's wife.

the contention that Tatwan is techni Lacking a stonographer.

cally Japanese terrory until the Students at nearby Malines Mayes sald that he was bundling pence treaty with Japan is signed.

"declared war" today on stu- Communists dents here because. about 100

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POPE AUTHORISES MIDNIGHT MASS

Vatican City, December 15. The Pape has outhorised - The celebration of Midnight Mass on New Year's Eve through the world in honour of the Catholle Church's 25th Hely Year, it announced here today

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As a rule Midiught Ma 13 celebraded only #1 Christmas Eve. The announcement issued

mass

their future action,

up the lettera nɔ they arrived and forwarding them to se for per- sonal attention.-Reuter.

B-29 Crashes, Kills Five Instantly

Roswell, New Mexico, December 15.

A B-29 Air Force bomber, crashed and burned near Walker Air Force Base here tonight, killing five mon instantly. Nine other members of the crew miraculously escaped death, although three were in critical condition and one was soriously hurt. The others suffered only minor injuries.

Captain A. Pyatt, Walker Base public information officer, credit, od the quick work of the Air po-" lice and

with Basa firefighters saving the nine survivors.

"They got to the scene In a matter of minutes," he and "It was a marvellous rescue job and miraculous that all of the nien weren't killed."

The big plane was on a routine training fight and was returning to Walker. Base at 5.10 p.m. MST when it'suddenly plunged to earth two miles from the base. Equip- ment sped to the scene from the base and from nehirby Roswell.

by Cardinal Aloisio Moselia also leased by the

Holy Year

Cle-

authorised Catholics to receive mency Division of the Italian

Holy Communion at the Year's Midnight Mass.

Now

Government.

Ben-

The plane was attached to th 500th Bombing Group at Walke. Busc.-United Press.

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ofter

Antwerp, December 15,

If the Chineso should attack the recognition by the British govern- students from Antwerp yes- ment, the technicality arises whe-terday stormed. Malines mus- ther Britain could continue re- mum and stole-a 400-year-old cognising a belligerent govern doll, the "Opwinjoorke".

ment.

Thirdly, the question.of Britain's The tiny wooden figure, dress- treaty relations with Burma. Aa cỡ in a gold-buttoned cloalt and in the case of Tibet, Britain is very dear to tho inhabitants of under no obligation, but if asked Molines, was stolen by

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Women prisoners overpowered women wardens, bound their hands and feet and locked them in a cell before joining the men.

The prisoners broke furniture and crockery and seized places to fight the wardens, according to the prison announcement. The firemen and police were enfled.

The Atefighters played hoses on the demonstrators, but fell back after a furious charge in which several Bremen wore injured. The

fire, police then opened United Press. breaking up the demonstration/-

HE HAS HAD ENOUGH OF No. 16

Cobra Rapids, Iowa,

December 15.

Mr. J. F. Williams, eged 67,

man," has filed suit for a divorce

by Bunna for military ald for habitants of Antwerp once before, often called Iowa's "most married defence

tho Anglo-in 1775, and later recovered, purposes, Burmese treaty would make it hard for Britain to refuse Burma was invaded from North. United Press.

IT The doll is symbolic of an old from wife No. 16. In his petition' the | Antwerp custom practised 500 Bled here today, he said the for- years ago. Unfaithful husbands mer Mrs. Louiso Parker of Cleve- were taken by their friends and land, Ohio, who became Mrs. tossed in a blanket. The custom Williams in 1948 after a postal was stopped by the Church as romance, had left him. Buenos Aires, December 15. there were too many accidents. Argentina la bidding for world

Mr. Williams said that her par- As a result, a goll was tossed trade by granting pre- in the blanket instead. This had ting words were: "I would not live (erential customs treatment to the effect of publicly announcing with you in paradise." Mr. visitors. A

Government that "Monsieur 60 and so" had Williams married for the first decree permits tourists to bring in been unfaithful to his wife. time in 1904 and remained wed.to motorcar tax free and export The police were today still the same wife for 24 years. His ermits are waived on souvenir searching for the dummy hus-other marriages were relatively purchases of national manufac-band-Itcuter.

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