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Air crash at Cardiff

A night photograph of the Avro Tudor plane which crashed just "short" "er ́its "länding" point at Lindow Airfield, near Cardiff, Wales, killing 80 of the total of 89 passengers and crew, with rescuers and officials still at work-Associated Prats. Photo.

WAR MINISTER ON ARMY COMMITMENTS

London, March 20,

The Wor Minister, Mr. John Strachey, told Parliament today that Britain hopes to reduce har total Middle East garrison during the coming year, One disappointing thing, he said, had been a tendency for a new overseas commitment for the Army to spring up whenever an old one had come to an end.

INDIAN PACT WITH SIKKIM

It was mainly this tendency which during the past you had precluded the building up of higher regular Army formu- tions in the United Kingdom

self.

Making his first speech as Wor Minister, Mr. Strachey had ear- Her referred to Hong Kong.

He said that Britain did not want to retain large forces per- manently in that Colony, How- ever, the Far East situation made it impossible to forecast when any troops could be withdrawn,

New Delhi, March 20. A formal treaty between dia and Sikkim, Indian State joining Nepal on India's

The building up of the regular orthern border, is expected Army presents one of the main be signed shortly, according problems for the present and im- an External Affairs Minis-mediate future. y announcement,

Mr. Strachey said that the total strength of the active Army to- day is 370,000 all ranks, whereas three years ago. It was 802,000,

The Maharajkumar of Sikkim, In of the ruler of the Slate,

ho, along with

representatives

By April 1, 1950, the strength of the regular Army, including short service officers and men, would be about 185,000.

Not enough

Sikkie's political parties, has on in Delhi for more than 10 ys for discussions with the "We have succeeded in suba- overnment of India, is leaving tantially increasing the numbers

r Sikkim tomorrow and taking of the regular Army, but not by

Strachey said,

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ek with him the agreed terms any means for enough," Mr. the treaty.

fact as well as the la this uf diminished burden of our over- which has commitments

The Government of India took Fer the administration

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kkim in June last year at the compelled us to use National quest of the Maharaja follow-Servicemen (conscripts) not only g political agitation in the nt home but in all overseas thea ale and appolated an odmials- tres Including the Far East."

ator.

Today's ofeint. cannouncement

id that it had been agreed that kkim would continue to be a rotectorate of India and that would for

e Government of India ntinue to be responsible

external relations, defence

hd communications,

The use of these men over- 3026 WAequita_unavoidable.

until commitments could

be

decreased or the number of re- gulars Increased.

The War Minister declared that recruiting prospects, did not look good. With the present high em- ployment and high civilian wages In internal government, the ho believed that recruiting would nouncement said, Sikkim stabilise itself at an annual figure ould continue to enjoy autono- of 20,000 or even less. To main- subject to the ultimate retain the strength of the regular ponsibility of the Indian Gov- Army, 30,000 recruits a year were

nment for the maintenance of needed." bod administration and law and

der.

Sikkim, with an area of nearly 000 square miles, and a popula- on of 130,000, occupies a strate- e position with the Indo- theton

trade route passing hrough a territory.-Reuter.

SAAR AGREEMENT.

London, March 20, The Foreign Under-Secretary, r. Ernest Davies, told Parlik ent today that his chief, Mr. Ernest Bevin, did not agree that he Franco-Saar agreement pro- udged the final settlement of the

If the rate did not improve the forecast was that the regular Army would be down to 178,000 in 1951, with the prospect of a' further decline after that.

These figures were measured against a present need for the 'ae=" tive Army of about 360,000-with Ittle chance of a smaller force being sufficient by 1953.

Malaya campaign

The recently announced plans to reinforce the theatre by the return

the of

26th Gurkhu Brigade to rejoin its parent divi- sion together with additional at forces Indicated the Government's determination to spure no effort to eradicate terrorism and protect the life of the territory.

In addition, the War Omee is

and giving immediate

energetic altention to all proposals for re- organisation and suggested by the local comman

re-equipment

ders, which might enable opera- tions to be more effectively con- ducted.

Earlier, Mr. Strachey had sild. that the gravest problem in the Far East remained the campaign in Malaya against organised ter- rorism, economic sabotage and

murder.-Neuter.

Hospitals bar doctor

Manchester, New Hampshire,

March 20. ! Dr. Hermann Sander, who recent was acquitted in the "mercy murder" trial, has been banned from two Catholic hos-- pitals and a charge has been made against him by a member of the Hillsborough County Medical Society, medical offi- cials announced tonight.

THE CHINA-MAIL,' WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1950.

CRISIS IN BELGIUM REMAINS UNSETTLED

Brussels, March 20.

The Belgian Cabinet critis, caused by exiled King Leopold's demand for a Parliamentary decision on the question of his return to the throne, is still-unsettled.. Antwerp dockers today staged a lightning 24-hour strike against the King's return. Over 20,000 are involved and work on 128 ships has been halted. The Socialist General Labour Federation, the biggest union group in the country, is considering a progressive strike schomo, consisting of two days' stoppage next work and three days the next as a means of press- ing for King Leopold's abdication.

The Catholic Prime Minister. M. Gaston Eyskens, today con- tinued his efforts to form a new Government,

The Antwerp hold-up was the first "stop Leopold" trike taeilly approved by the trade unilor to affect considerably the Flemish Provinces which voted 72 per cent last week in favour of the King's retum,

The series of "warning" strikes planned for key centres through out the country nlvo sprend day to four forge-Industrial warks in bi-lingual Brussels.

Workers in one Brussels fag- tory stopped work for two hours only. In order to stage an anti- Leopold demonstration In the streets,

Tramwaymen have 90 Ignored bills in the depots calling on them to stop for 24 hours.

More than 250,000 workers in the French-speaking Walloon Pro- vinces, which voted only 42.2 per eent for the King's return, went back to work today.

But 2,000 iron workers at Huy. near Liege, quarrymen at Mons came out.

*Liberal statement

M. Eyskens is meanwhile, try- Ing to form a new, Catholic- Liberal Coalition Government to convoke a joint session of both Houses of Parliament and re- peal the Regency Law which exlies King Leopoki; ; :

Rumours are circulating that a Cabinet of Catholics und pro- Leopold dissident Liberals will be formed tonight.

Liberal Senators, after meeting Party Ministers and the Party Chairman, M. Rogert Moth, to- day, declared their determined will to see the present crisis re- solved by a solution of national concord,

After a masting of Its Cen tral Committee, the Commu- nist Party asked the Scolallets:

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loads of Flemish. Royalists plan. to converge -Brükkels, to Im-' pose the respect of the 'nation's democratically expressed will to bring the King back to the throne,

Such rumours, however, Jaro 'flatly rejected in rasponsible

Catholle circles.

Likewise, rumours..of King denied in circles close to Leopold's sudden return before, King's Secretarint In Brussels.

the

Catholic circles, however, can- firm that there are two "schooln of thought" among the Catholic Party.

One is reluctant to any brus-, que moves which could

plunge the country into a period of dia turbance if not elvil war, The other trend, mainly represented by the Party's younger elements, thinks that the King should re- turn immediately Parliament recalls him, regardless of posst ble unrest.--Reuter.

Burma-Japan trade pact

Tokyo, March 21. A. US$49,000,000 trade agree- ment between Burma and oc- cupled, Japan has been ratified. General Douglas MacArthur announced today.

IRANIAN TIES WITH RUSSIA

Paris, March 20.

commercial

Iran seems about to renew relations with Soviet Russia and to seek pn understanding with the Com- munist power, with whom she has 2,500 miles of frontier, said the Conservative news paper, "Le Monde," today..

the United States to be partly re- For this the newspaper held

sponsible,

"The Shah received a trium-- phal. welcome, in the United States," "Le Monde" said.

"Nine-million dollars were ad- vanced for "the equipment of the Army. Waves of American ex- perts poured into the country to sen in what measure they could Truman as the left flank of the All the role defined by President United States.

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"American 'goods commenced to abmerge the Persian market- which is incidentally the origin of a-good part of the inflation and

The agreement, for calendar 1950, is the first formal trade established Been the newly unemployment now rampant in

arrangement

Republic and Irati. Japan. It was negotiated. In) January at

"But the International situailón o trade conference in has evolved in such a way that SCAP officials and there remains little hope of see- Tokyo by Burmese delegation headed by

That Su, chairment of Burma'dal from the United States being

ing either public or private capi Agricultural

invested in Neor East regions too

for balanced

Board.

Dot Vides directly threatened by the even-

the

to join them in a common front | two countries conducted on ta

to bar the way to King Leo- Pound Sterling basis. "Payments pold.

will be arranged in accordance with the

Japan Sterling agreement negotiated last year to which Burma is a signatory. +

Loge Socialist unions are re- ported to be planning a link-up with the "Free Wallonia" move- acnt, the most extreme Walloon separatist organisation.

Flemish mare

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"Free Wallonia". is composed of a Socialist- Liberal majority and a Communist minority. Its Council met yesterday under the Chairmanship of M. Francois Van Belle, Socialist. Vice-Presi dent of the Chamber

pulies.

of De-

tual Soviet advance,

The most that can be hoped for at the moment is the grant of area purely military aid to permit the regions. in question to acquire a strategic value."-Reuter.

Under the trade plan, Burma will send to Japan raw materials and agricultural,

cultural products-rice. crude rubber, cotton, teak, beans, tung ull, lacquer and other pro- ducts. Japan will supply Burmia: with textiles, building materials. machines, enamel and aluminium wares, cement and other 'com- moditics-Associated Press,

GUBITCHEV· SAILS FOR RUSSIA

U.S. SHIPMENTS OF RUBBER

... Washington, March 20.

Shipments, of rubber and rubber products from the

United States in January drop- 'ped 34.0 per cent under a year ngo, the Commerce Department said today.

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A communique Issued follow- The Sacred Heart and Noire ling-the-meeting-said, "The Dame hospitals banned

Council affiring that the 41-

Wallonia will never accept a King Korced

New York, March 20 year-old physician as a result of

Shipments for the month total- upon her by a Flemish diktat. his first-degree murder trial In

Valentine Gubitchev, 33-year led US$7.360,817 against US$0,- "Free The of

Wallonia" also old convicted Russian spy, salled 732,408 the preceding month and a cancer-doomed the death

Abbie Borroto,

warned the Government that for Russia today With orders, US$11,2 patient, Mrs.

3,431 in January, 1949. aged

50, of Manchester, Dr.

Flemish troops and police are never to come back,

Oilly twice before since 1945+- sent into Wallonia to Sander was acquitted on March 9.

maintain Strong squads of Federal and in

und in November, 1818 und November, order this would be considered New York police guarded the 1940-have these exports been as a provocation. The county Medical Associa-

when Gubitchey, In hand-lower than in January, 1930. dock Some tion did not disclose the nature

cuffs, was put on board the Further declines in exports of ing several members of the out-Polish liner

Bators of the charge against him, nor

U.S. rubber manufactures are ex going Cabinet, insist that the only Gubitchey, would a spokesman for the as-

a former United pected, the Department

addco. sociation announce who had

formula acceptable is one which Nations official, was sentenced to noting that foreign rubber the- fled the charge.

would provide for the King's ra-15 years' imprisonment for estories oru operating at high levels turn on the understanding that plonage, which was suspended and are able to satisfy most for- he should abdicate when his 10- he left the country. He, electodeign requirements for rubber pro- year-old son, Baudouin, attains to return to Russia.-Router. QuoteAnsdeláted 'Press. the age of 21.

charge was made by officials, of It is learned, however, that the the two hospitals which barred the doctor. The charge accused him- Dr. Sander of conducting self in a manner unbecoming to a physician.

Before his trial. for the death of Mrs. Borroto, Dr. Sander hud treated patients in the hospitals which today barred his trom Describing the difficulties fac-uring their facilities. United Press. ing the Army in Malaya, Mr. Strachey said, "There can be no likelihood of spectacular success by the Army which could change. the situation overnight. It is only by means of concerted action by all forces, civil and military, that "In our view it is a provisional-progress is likely to be made." ecision and it is the peace treaty In this dificult role, he said, self which will make the final the Army continued to play an ecision", he said, replying to a-essential part with great resolu question-Reuter..

tion, gallantry and efficiency.

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