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VOLCANIC DANGER IN INDONESIA

FUTURE

OF CYPRUS

London, August 10. Three "Union with Greeco" delegates from Cyprus fed by the Bishop of Kyreniar the Most Reverend Hyprianoo. have asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. James Griffiths, to discuse with them the future bf. Cyprus.

They also wish to submit volumes of elgnatures col. lected in a plebiscite which they declarad showed that more than 200,000 people, ne about 80 per cent of the po- pulation, voted with Greece.

"We cont

for

union

A

a fatter to the Colonial Office a fow days ago and are now awaiting reply," Mr. N. K. Lenitis, a former member of the Legislative Council of Cyprus, nald today. "If the Colonial Office disappoints us, we in. tend to take our cane before the United Nations."

The

delegation, which reached London a week ago, plana to go on to the United States after London, but first awaits tha

the outcome of talks sought with the British officials...Reuter,

BELGIAN SENATE

APPROVES ABDICATION

Brussels, August 10, The Belgian Upper House. the Senate, tonight approved legislation for the transfer of King Leopold's powers to his 19-year-old son, Prince Baudouin.

The Bill was approved Lower House last night. Baudouin will take the allegiance tomorrow.

Djakarta, August 10.

Now volcanic disturbances are signalling dongor for the populous Indonesian archipelago. Government observers are most concerned about renewed activity of Tangkoeban Praboe crater, 10 miles from West Java's big resort city, Bandoeng.

A few weeks ago Tanghoeban Prahoc was

comparatively quiet tourist attraction. You could drive to a tea house at the brim of the giant cone to peer into the cup-like crater. Five hundred feet below, the flat bottom of nardened Java looked like a frozen Jake. White sulphurous vapours seaped from three vents.

In curly July mud bolled to the surface of the openings, and nor- mal temperatures of 98 Centi- grade tripled within a few days. Suddenly the hard crust of the lava lake cracked, leaving four new gurgling mud "springs."

As activity increased, the stench of sulphur reached Ban- doen, and from the city at night, a glow could be seen over the volcano.

A violent mud eruption is almost certainty with a few works, officials of the

governTM ment volcanologient services sald. They predicted that hot mud will spew several hundred feet to the enter's brim, and some will spill over.

Roads closed

Rouds leading to the crates have been closed, and peasants living high on the

have slopes been warned they may have to evacuate. A camp has been set up 'for

government observers standing around-the-clock watches at the edge of the crater sim.

Brome, a mountain 30 miles to the East, started billowing great clouds of smoke and ash last May, of Since then dense streams smoke have often risen

to

height of one mile over the peak and darkened the countryside over a radius of 30 miles.

Poisonous ganes from Keloot have killed some vegetation region but otherwise the

and damage has resulted, volcano is not considered high on the danger list.

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1950.

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Bermuda, Wednesday. The American drops into these exquisite British 18- lands, has his fun, and drops out again,

He doesn't need a passport, an entry or an exit permit, a cur- rency clearance, viso, or offeln document of any kind,

All he needs is his American accent and his dollars.

The Englishman (myself) to get here, and to leave here, needs a batch of Government papers as long as his arm,

IDDON'S

DIARY

| small tin of salmon, Ed. for a dally people rather superior and some-

times snobbish. newspaper.

And when you dine out, 'whe- ther at one of the ritzy hotels or the smart restaurants, your lunch will cost you £1 and your dinner 30%.

British stamp

This sunny country In atamped with the British stomp. It has resisted American encroachment fercely.

claiming beachland.

These charges are not so bad

The Coney Island influence is for the American loaded with dol- completely lacking. There is no lore. Devaluation

of the

flushing neon sign, no hoardings a wonderful or posters, no night clubs, fun sterling has been windfall for him; he can get ex-fairs, amusement parks,

The local people and the visit-. cellent British clothes - Bannels and blazers, cashmere jackets, sliking English dress most decorously, dressing-gowns for half the but the Yanks can be spolted a sunset, wearing their price he would have to pay in mile off

rainbow-coloured," lightning-flash To spend this holiday on British New York, soil I had to pay my American

As for liquor, the Bermudians shirts and ugly tight shorts.

The Americans, who have a 90- income tax in advance,

confer

practically give it away, in the

year lease on the air base here, have done a tremendous job with immigration officials, queue American view. Prestige brand up in the aliens' division of the of Scotch for 188. a bottle, gin building Kindley Field. They ac- Department of Internal Revenue, for 12s., rum for 5s. But the cut tually increased Bermudian ter A river of mud and boulders produce my passport, three photo prices end with the alcohol. Al-ritory by two square miles by flowed some weeks axo from graphs, a letter from my editornost everything else is in the Alling in shallow water and re- Galunggung crater in West Java, vouching for my status, obtain a millionaire's price range. destroying rice paddies along a new visa, lay bare my travellers' five-mile, strip. Observers have cheques, and pay head tax com- been unable to make an on-the-ing in and before going out. spot Investigation because armed gangs of terrorists in the

Cut the red tape make it unsafe for travel. From second

be- hand reports, it is Ileved the food was a Bilding down of old volcanic debris, not

new love flow. In all; 149 volcanoes in Indo- nesla are netive and in a constant sinte of

It is when ferment. their conditions change suddenly that trouble is

expected. They have caused mujor disasters on an average of once every three years and have taken more than 170,000 lives in the Islands since 1800Associated Press,

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Greek-Yugoslav

The U.S. citizen has apparently become the lord of human klod. The dollar is almighty, whether the Union Jack flies over the land in which it is spent or not.

1 announce my irritation over this arrangement and call for a All the privileges and change. facilities handed to Americans visiting British possessions should surely be granted to the English- man spending time on his own soil or returning to American territory.

place to Bermuda is a good start. Cut out the red tape and the regulations for the British visitor and it will be perfect.

These islands are a holiday

conciliation move paradise. If I were 30 years

Move resented

The reason is that these islands 22 miles long and about 1 miles

How are the English from the wide, with a population of 35,000-

I am United Kingdom doing? 40,000, import everything by which they live. Sometimes the sorry to report that we are closing meat comes all the way from down HM Dockyard, after operat- Australia. There is often a short-ing a naval squadron from here age of fresh fruit and fresh milk. for nearly 200 years.

are bolling with they grew i resentment over this retreat. They say if Churchill were Prime Minister the dockyard would not have been ordered to close down.

Bermudians

до Some years vegetables and even sold them to the Americans, but United States tariffs made this uneconomie, and

Five hundred local people will now they grow only a little celery and lowers hibiscus, oleanders, lose their jobs as a result of this economy measure. This is our lilies, bright shrubs, and vines.

So that all Bermuda, despite the Socialist shame.

ht, is a blaze of bloom.

Bermuds 19 bitterly anti- cedar-blight, is n

The flowers bring the visitors, Socialist in other ways. In fact,

and be

called feudal. That and the visitors bring the money. it could

ermuda lives on the tourist, the

I outnumber the white coloured and it lives well. This is a prosby almost 2-1 is never forgotten.

To have the vote here you have perous, even booming, Eden in the It thrives all the mid-Atlantic.

to own property assessed at £60 year round, whatever happens to year

but actually amounting to several the rest of the world,

hundred pounds in value. older and written out I would Today the islands are full of And the plural vote exists here There does not appear 10 be

probably stay here for over. honeymooners, strolling cestatical--if you have property in several Immediate danger of e catas-

London, August 10.

That is, I would stay if I hadly along the narrow lanes, and places you have several votes. I trophic explosion that wil en-

The Foreign Oflice indicated amassed a fortune. Bermuda is batches of women school-teachers, um assured that reforms are im-

DELLA danger Bandoeng, according to today that a British envoy may an expensive place. The price of secretories, female executives of minent, but I wonder. W. A. Petroeschevsky, director discuss a Greek-Yugoslav con-pleasure comes high.

one kind or another, spending of the government Volcanologicaiciliation in the rourse of a To live well you have to pay their holidays "abroad," and hop Service.

exorbitant visit to the, two countries.

sums. And even ing, perhaps, to pick up a husband A spokesman told reporters when you set up your own house- as a final long shot.

the prices are brutal. that Mr. Ernest Davies, Under- keeping Secretary for Foreign Affairs, One and six pence for a loaf of will be passing through Yugosla-bread, 6s. for a dozen eggs, 39, for via and Greece "on holiday and half-a-pound of bacon, 4s. for a for study purposes, not for the purpose of taking any specific diplomalle initiative,"

"But it isn't possible to pre- dict volcano actions with cer tainly," he cautioned. "And all we can do now is wait to see what will happen,"

by the

More spectacular but probably Prince less dangerous at the moment is onth of Anok Krakatau, a belching vol- can Island Jutting from the Suma- ocean between Java anch

The voting in the Senate was 121 in favour (Socialists, Liberals and Catholics), 22 against (all Catholics) and 23 abstentions (10 Catholics and four Communists).

tru.

But, he added in reply to a question, Davies may possibly discuss Yugoslav-Greece FC- conciliation "If the subject comes

for some kind of under-

mile into the air, Such periodist between Belgrade and 1

Four rapid explosions on July 3 shot stones and pumice half a

outbursts are "normal" for Anak Krakatau, said Petroeschevsky, and

for are

undue alarm.

110

cause

King Leupold decided to de- legate, his powers to his son nine clays ago. His decision freed the The volcanological service will nation from a threat of civil war.send surveyors to the island soon to take samples of volcanle mu-

of The delegation of powers will ferial and make a study

The in- When the young recent action, he said. bemporary, Prince becomes of age on Sep-spection trip by flying boat will tember 7, 1051, his father will be the first scientific survey of the abdkale and he will ascend to fland in three years. the throne.

Its

was

Anak (son of) Krakatau built up in the last 20 years by a series of eruptions on the site of Krakatau, an island volcano that blew itself out of the water in 1883.

Unyieldingly opposed to King Leopold, Socialists-and-Liberals have pledged themselves to rally around the new Chief of State,

That thunderous explosion set Threatened with a split following the King's effacement, pro-Leo- off tidal waves that killed 36,000

Catholics poldist

also people in Indonesia. pledged their support.

was heard 2,000 miles away, and two years later ashes were still Prince Baudouin was commis-sifting to earth over Europe." sloned as a Lieutenant-General

have

In the Belgian Army (the highest

runk) tonight before he takes

Its

Cause for worry

roar

the oath of allegiance before a East Java's Keloet, another joint session of both Houses of volcano with a bad past, has Parliament tomorrow. The two Houses will meet to draft a de- cree providing for the transfer of the Royal powers.

the

been cause for worry recently. The temperature of a lake in its erater has risen "slightly". last few months but not yet re- ached a boiling point, Petro- In the Chamber of Deputies | chevsky said. This increased | for the ceremony the Presidents' activity is a danger signal, he ex- tribune will be replaced by a plained, although it does

mean a new eruption la immin- cnt.

throne.

When Senators and deputies

An explosion under the

Athens have been bogged down for nearly two months. Western powers' efforts to get the two countries together started after the Russian-led Cominform de- nounced Marshal Tito's regime as traitors to Communism.

Yugoslavia had long been at loggerheads with Greece during the civil war period in the Hel- lenic kingdom.

Informants Diplomatie

have reported a determined Brlilsh bld to bring Yugoslavia closer to the West at a time of heightening East-West tension in Europe.

Besides Mr. Davies, two other British ministers visiting Yugoslavia. They

Fuel are the Minister, Mr. Philip Noel-Baker and the Secretary for Overseas Trade, Mr. A. G. Bottomley,

arc

Mr. Noel-Baker is also going on to Greece from Yugoslavia. He has close personal ties with seve- ral Greek leaders Associated Press.

'MARCHING RULE' MOVEMENT ENDS

Suva, Fiji, August 10, The "Marching Rule" civil disobedience movement which hampered restoration of British control after the Japanese bur render was reported today to Jakebe folding up.

not

together have approved the de- in 1910 splashed scalding πικά cree, the President of the Senate, and water over a wide area and M.. Struye, and the President of

killed 5,110 Indonesians. the Chamber of Deputies, M. Franz Va. Cauwelaert, will walk to the Royal Palace in Brussels to inform the new Head of State.-Router.

across

'Operation Korea' in Manila

Manila, August(11. Congressional and military quarters today were speeding up measures to get practical implementation of "Operation Korea" under way, following: President. Quirino's forma notification to Prealdent: Tru- man and General MacArthur that the Philippines was plac Ing 5,000 troops at the imme diate disposal (of the United Nations in the conflict.

President Quirinb was expect ed to pross Congress today--the last day of its special 10-day- #cssion to pass à 42,000,000-peso

· (US$21,000,000) amargoncy | ap- propriation bill for the armed. forces, out of which will come funds to defray, the costs of the

milllary expedition to Korea.

The reluctance of some legis- istors to approve, without-iebala all appropriation - bilis requested in view of the big “government denoit has islowed; flandermining,

The authoritative "Fiji Times" ascribed the change from ob- struction to co-operation as lar- gely the work of the Resident ‹ Remembering the dianstor, Commissioner who, the paper people of East Java ware said, achieved this by tact and struck with forror by an earth-

understanding sympathy toward quake in June. Word quickly the Solomon Islanders. spread that the quako wae a Press reports had previously prelude to another eruption of described the "Marching Rule" as Kelont, Actually, there was no an "anti-British rising of the connection between the tremors Melanesian people with pro- and activity of the volomno, ex-American aid and pro-Communist perts explained later.

leading."United Press.

The Bermudians take all the assorted tourists and trippers in unruffled pride. They are a fiercely independent and proud

AFRICAN LEADER WARNED OFF

London, August 10,

The British Colonial Office has told Mr. I. K. Musaki, President of the African Farmers! Union, banned in Uganda after last year's rioting there, that he will be deported if ho troturns to the Colony.

The Africa League, an unofficial African organisa- tion in London, today published details of a letter received by Mr. Musaki, who was plan ning to return to Uganda, from Mr. James Griffiths, British Colonial Secretary.

There is no great outcry about the fact that trade unions do not exist here, that free milk for school children has been rejected as a pampering measure "next thing you know they will be ask- ing for free steaks."

Everybody happy

Bermudians prefer to move slowly. An dligarchy of business men the Butterfields, Spur- lings, Watlingtons, Triminghams, Darrells, *Tuckers, Goslings, Smiths, Coxes, and Trotts-con- trol the island, but they are bene- volent despots.

They own the banks, the shops, the property. They own and run the show and have done for 300 years. They control the Parlia ment the second oldest in the world.

When you say to them: "What progressive social legisla- "They reply: "Why, almost everyone here is happy." the truth is, they are.

And

There are no slums, no poverty, no distress. In the Bermudian gets along well. There is always the sunshine, the sea, and a cool paradise everyone gets along and place to sleep.

The Colonial-Ofice-confirmed recorded that the Uganda - Far-Footnote: In a world of unrest. that Mr. Griffiths had written to Mr. Musaki, but would not dis- close the letter's contents.

The African League, of whose Executive Council Mr. Musaki is a member, said that the letter threatened Mr. Musaki with im- medlate deportation from Uganda because of his alleged part in the rlots of April, 1949, in eight people were killed.

which

An official report published last February placed the blame for the disturbances on the Afri- can Farmers' Union and the Bataka Party, which was said to have Communist contacts over-

seas.

Today's Africa League state- ment condemned the threatened deportation as "complete denial of human rights" and demanded its withdrawal, with an assurance

that Mr. Musaki could return home at any time without being

molested..

́Responsible body

mers' Union, of which you were President and prime mover, was one of the bodles responsible for the plots, which caused loss of life in Uganda.

"Having regard to this raport and to your subsequent activi- tion, the Government of Uganda would feel bound to deport you Immediately under Article" 25 of the Uganda order in Council of 1902 should you arrive In that territory at any time in the near future." ·

Mr. Musakì said that the de- portation order would mean that he would have no chance to an- swer the charges mado, against him, about which his conscience was perfectly clear..

He would postpone his return to Uganda uni Mr. Fenner Brockway, British Labour Mem- bor of Parilament, and Mr. John

Minister of State Dugdale,

for Colonial Affairs, could report to Mr. Griffiths on the situation in The Colonial Secretary's letter, Uganda. He added that should referring Mr. Musak!'s plan- Mr. Grimis maintain the ban on ned return home, said, "The the African Farmers Union and Government of Uganda has con- the deportation threat he would aidered this in the light of the challenge "this violation of liber- by returning to Uganda consequences of a report to the ty"

The consequences to Commission of Enquiry into the whatever disturbances of 1919, where it is himself-Router.

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