1946-10-24 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1946.

Fog of Depression Over Sun Spots Will

The British Zone In Germany

(By Seaghan Maynes)

THE economic position of the British Zone of

worsened during the

past few months, but there are hopes that the fog of depression now lying over the zone will start. to lift in the spring of next year. This is the opinion of a senior official of the Control Commis- sion, expressed in a review of the economic situation in the zone which emphasised the seriousness of the present threatening crisis.

Blackest entry _on_the_debit side of the economic ledger in the fact that stocks are getting low in the zone.. The huge stocks of coal upon which most of the zones Industries fed during the past year are almost exhausted. Industry will have to exist on what is produced—and that is insufficient now.

money.

ociols, mean very little to the in- ternal economy of the British Zone, although it might serve to prop

lightly

the engging morale of the Ruiir miners, who are recognised as the key men in German, reconstruc tion. The cut represents only about 150.000 tons per month.

While admiting that there is little hope at present of any immediate improvement, effelnis stress impor- tant factors on the credit side of the ledger which are good omens

to

rations.

for

Continue For

Another Year

Spots on the sun, some of) them as big as the earth. will continue to disrupt rádio, wireless and telegraph facilities. for at least another year, Dri John Q. Stewart, Princeton said; University astronomer, according to United Press.

And even then the world will get only n comparatively brief respite from this solar phenomena. Dr Stewart explained, ono cycle is no more completed than another one atarts.

It usually takes about 11 years for the maximum to be reach-

Mufti Fails To

SHOWING

BBQ

Keep Pledges

To Egypt

TO-DAY

The Britiser Broadcasting Corporation has been broadcasting dally in Turkish since the first weeks of the war. At the present me Turkish listeners hear Landon for 15 minutes at breakfast time, half-an-hour in the evening, and 10 minutes at midnight. The broak- fast time and midnight broadcasts, are News Bulletins, with ome music to

if time An up within the morning Oh

Newi perada. The midnight

Bulletin ix intended primarily to List the Turkish Press, and the half hour broad- cast in the evening to half programme and half news, with a poilical com- mentary.

Dr Stewart, professor of natrono- mical pliysics, has been studying sun spots for about 25 years. He recent- ly aided in devising a formula which was based the prediction that the present cycle of sun apols would reach its maximum by about the end of 1947.

The planets in this universe' have always been bothered with sun spots, but they have been more noticeable

earth since the coming of the

radio."

Dr Stewart sald the maximum number of spots counted on the Bun In one day during this coming peak may reach 133 or higher. A hun- dred is usually considered high and 150 very high,

Even at that, the highest number of sputs ever recorded in one day totalled less than one per cent of the

aun's visible surface. Some of the apots are larger than the earth,

Astronomers don't know too much they are huge hurricanic winds and about the sun spots, but, they believe storms sweeping over the visible sur-

tronic affairs.

The same applies to many other. raw materials. The machines producing goods all along the production line from source to store are cracking up under the burden and sufficient replacements cannot be found. The workers have become more and more dispirited: rarely can they see the constructive results of their labours, their wages means nothing. ns cigarettes, progress next spring.

First is the food supply, upon achnapps auf food are becoming which the whole ccunomle structure the recognised barter "eur-depends. The harvest reports, ac- rencies" and the shops have cording to oficials, are good enough

face of the sun. an improvement in nothing worth while to sell for guarantee

Dr Stewart said that the spots prob- ably

the cause of "electrified are Connected with this is the merger corpuscles" some of which penetrate and United the earth's atmosphere, playing mentally and physically exhausted, Slates zones which, while materially havor with the orderly state of elec-

The people generally are tired, between the British

the economic situation and, worst of all, without any hope

assisting In the future. They hear of haus-through co-ordination of production

is theoretically possible that the sun could be turned into one big spot. ing programmes and of masses of and distribution, is also expected to degree the British

In such a case, the sun would have refugees coming in from the cast who help in some

Zone's food situation.

a red glare, rather than its yellow require to be housed.

welcome colou The zone's economists better Any official promises times are taken with handful of the changed world attitude towards sult. They were brought through the Germans, which to-day is much the battle of last winter by promises less harsh and more realistic than a of better Using in the spring. The year ago. They point out that the Tin Industry Revival

now that people did not materialis, change shows

the Promises this winter will be unheed- realise more clearly that, for

Germany good of Central Europe, One example of lack of faith in the must not be allowed to go to ruin. materially authorities directives was the deli-Such realisation helps berate ignoring of warning that, un- the zone's reconstruction plans,

The final asset stressed by less electric power was

the greater knowledge authorities is supplies would have to be cut.

to be fought problems

and In the North Rhine and Westphalia of the regions the industrialists and small the previous year's experience in traders instead used more electricity dealing with them. Administrative- after the Wan uverall cut in electric now being shifted to a large extent after the warning than before. The ly, the burden of responsibility is themselves arid, it supplies of approximately 20 por to the Germans

things do not ge according to plan, The present decision to reduce by the German oficials, and roughly 15 per cent the amount of British and American officials cool exported from Germany will, in before, will be the targets for Ger- the opinion of economic divisionman criticism.-Reuter.

"better things"

ed.

cent.

of

conserved

Nuremberg And

THE

zone

not the

119

International Law

(By Wickham Steed)

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In Malaya

Loans totalling almost one, million dollars are to be issued by the Chin- se Tin Mines Loans committee for the rehabilitation of the Chinese in Industry,

道

Applications for loans totalling

Chinese mining concerns throughout Malaya. More than half have yet to

$20,000,000 were submitted by ling

be considered.

Through the Chinese Chamber of Commerce the miners recently urged the Government to increase their rice ration as a further aid to

re- habilitation of the tin Industry.- Reuter.

Course

and

between

The programme compilers are hard put to it to keep pace with listeners' requesta for musto a well * Anding time for two special talks a week. One of these special talks is by an expert on some relentine,

CEJ. Horlological or tural topic, and the other is in a more personal style by a British speaker of the language or by a Turkish visitor er resident In London. Letters from Turkey HAVO

London, Oct. 23 (UP) ——The Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest Bevin, said In the House of Commons to-day that the Mufti of Jerusalem had falled to abide by his pledge, given to the | Egyptian Prime Minister, to re- frain from political activity

while in Egypt.

Roplying to n Parliamentary question, Mr Bevin said, "It is unfortunately clear that the Mutti has not acted in accordance with the assurance he gave the Egyptian Prime Minister." He added that that British Ambassador in Calro recently brought the Mufti's acti vities to the attention of Premior Sidky Pasha.

Mr Bevin sald Sidky Pasha who was now in London for Foreign Office consultations on Anglo- Egyptian treaty Issues, "now 100 the matter under consideration."

Sidky Pasha received the pledge from the Multi, after British repre sentations which came when the outlawed Mufti fled France to Egypt.

Immigrants In Cyprus. Famagusta, Oct. 23-Two British the Ocean Vigour and Empire Rival, arrived here to day with 810 Jewish legal. Im- to Palestine. transhipped migrants at Haifa from the 600-ton cnique Alma, which was intercepted by the Royal Navy off the Syrian const on Sunday night.

175 merchant ships, averaged about month in the past year, and there is plenty of evidence that the Press and the radio authorities in Turkey and Be Landra Radyosu" at creat value. The photograph shows Mr Berin Kent, one of the announcers in the BBC Turkish · Service, broadcasting a news bulletin to Turkey.

The Immigrants landed here with- out giving trouble but one group,

Rings Taken From interviewed aboard the landing craft

POWs Recovered

which brought then ashore, said that they themselves would give trouble once they were behind barbed wires.

The Immigrants joined the 4,280

making

legal immigrants in detention here, a total of 6,108 houses In five camps-Reuter.

the

wave

United States Naval Academy Tokyo, Oct. 23 (UP)-Two

rings, torn from the fingers of Caut Winfield Scott Cunning-

Stern Gang Warning hum of the United States Navy

Jerusalem, Oct. 23.—A new and Col George S. Patter of the follow the warning issued by the of terrorism was to-day expected to United States Marines while Jewish terrorists, the "Stern

Gang". they were prisoners of the organisation, that "guerilla warfare Japanese aboard the prisoner against

enemy-the Dritish ship Nitta Mara, in January Army would be intensified.

who have already 1942, have been recovered by admitted responsibility for acts of

Gang two.SCAP Legal Section inves-violence against the British in Pales- Ligators.

line, made this warninst in a ment to the Press Inst right-Reuter. New Jewish Settlement Londen, Oct.

Oct. 23, (UP)—The Ex- change Telegraph Agency reported from Jerusalem to-day that new Jewish settlement was established last night in the Judean Hills between Jerusalem and Hebron by the Malz- rall, an extreme religious group.

Paul

The investigators, Lt George Get of Pasadena, California, and Mr Hayami of Honolulu, went lo the home of Toshio Saito, whom they were trailing as a suspect accused of complicity in atrocities committed aboard the Nitta Maru.

$

The Stern

state.

Tokyo. Oct. 23.-Gen MacArthur disclosed to-day in his report on the repatriation of Pacific displaced persons that 250,000 Japanese were awaiting repatriation in the Soviet-

of Dairen. controlled seaport

Salto's wife said her husband was not at home, whereupon the Investi gators begmi a systematic search of! the house. While the two men were JAPANESE REPATRIATION in the main room, Mrs Salto slipped into a side door and, believing she was unobserved, slipped some ob- jects into the sleeve of her kimono. Hayaml, however, saw her and grasp ed her sleeve, which disgorged two rings.

The rings will be retained as trial negotiation representatives Οι the most evidence and later will be forward- Cunningham and Col influentiu States, and encouraged ed to Capt uncompromising and often can- Potter, who are at present.on.duty.in. lankerous public declarations Washington,.. addressed to national opinion in various countries rather than to

to the One Conference itself.

country, Yugo-Slavin, defled the Conference by. refusing to accept its decisions upon the Italo-Yugo-Slay frontier and the territory of Trieste. The Mr. Russian Foreign Commissar, Molotov, accused Britain and the

Losing Possibilities

Of The Future

United States of attempting to impose London, Oct. 23 (UP), The their will upon the

Conference

Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest Bevin. against the interests of the Slavin the Commons to-day refused to group.

sanction official British publication of Yet Mr Molutov, like Secretary the secret protocols of the Russo- Byrnes and Mr Ernest Bevig, endederman non-aggression puct by which by insisting that the Conference had the Soviet und Germany agreed to aune useful

expressing the division of Poland and the Baltic confidence that the Foreign ministers States. of the major Powers will nice upon the problems which the Conference

leit unsoIVAL.

work and

World Opinion

small

"If you keep on raking up every thing that happened in the past, one against the other, you are apt to Jose the possibilities of the future," Mr Bevin shid. He conceded that versions of the secret protocols published in the British press were "avcurate.”

Fishermen Rescued In China Sea

execution of 10 Nazi war criminals and the suicide of Goering at Nuremberg have tem porarily deflected British attention from the close of the Paris Conference and the impending Assembly of the United Nations in New York. GOERING'S success in evading the gallows is thought to have diminished the prospect that unrepentent 'German Nazis might surround his memory with the halo of martyrdom. In some quarters, where the evidence produced at the Nuremberg trial has not been carefully studied, senti- mental protests have been uttered against the infliction of, the death penalty upon the inveterate Nazi villains... HE competence of the Inter- terpretation. In opening the prose-

these apparent Inconsistences the cution at Nuremberg.

British

Britain national Tribunal to try and A1 orney-General based the legally Jeave public opinion in ndemn these malefactors has of the Nuremberg tribunal upon this bewildered and unconvinced, they do not consiflute proof that discord en questioned superficially by international agreement.

The defendants at Nuremberg were at Parts must preclude positive ayree- itics unacquainted with de~!

even upon to FIVE MONTHS ADRIFT ment in New York, not tried for crimes committed 03 lopments in international law Germans in Germany against Ger-

urgent a matter as the treatment or ince the first World War. Had mars. They were tried for having Germany. Secretary Byrnes thinks that the Paris Conference was supe- lo victorious Powers Ignored conspired and perpetrated the inter-

views His development they would national crime of aggressive war und cially useful because it allowed the Malay

of the medium nad Sta.es to be heard. He believes the ave failed to create a precedent saving murdered millions of in- I non-Germans during that war? nont

used Big Four will take account of the L. possibly decisive importance All except three of the men accused r the progress of civilisation. were justly condemned. The three recommendations supported by inc

I who acquitted

were

may still be tried s.rong majorities of the delegations Though internallozal in composi- and ounished by German couris for in Parts. Without fully sharing

n. the Nuremberg court, under its fences

I think it ugainst Germans.

confidence in this Tha

respect, esiding English judge, adopted Nuremberg court only, held them probable that none of the Big iour glish methods of administering alltless of International crime. will be entirely uninfluenced by w International law. By these

world opinion upon the defec.s of the Paris Conference which is Likely. io. Rositive value when its application pan u so mu da je

be expressed at the United Nations geates a precedent. After the frat se op de a se te

sembly. The ultimate appeal of World War, the Allied and associated World War may be heard as comment the Assembly is to world opinion, fawers pubilely

the former

which is running strongly and, in my ner upon the antagonisms between the

view decisively, both against talk of German Emperor with a supreme, Western, Democracies and the group

fence against international morality of Slav States led by Soviet Russin any future war and against polleles and sanctity of treaties. They re- which marked the course and murred likely to foster international conflict.

ucated the Government Holland the harmony of the Paris Conference,

gress towards

restora- progress deliver him up to them for trinh Such talk is responsible

and tion

of peace depend exclusively nd Judgment. The Netherlands maleficent. It intures the significance upon international

onal gatherings. It avernment refused. It invoked the at the Nuremberg trial. It assumes may result from developments, poll plea that no international law that one or more States whose ormed ileal and economic, outside the diplo- on existed against violation of forces vanquished Nazl

criminality matte sphere, Agreements for pro- Lenties aggressive war, and argued may not become guilty of conspiring motion of trade and intercouran be- that offences or crimes cannot legally to tommit or actually committing the tween individual countries pra nót exit except in relation to a law. Prime of aggressive war. Such a leas important than the verbal con-

Kellogg Pact

even more heinous In Its purpose and impending abol

abolition of 1928, the principle of an inter-consequences.

the crimes of between Franco and Britain is national law in the condemnation Nazlem

wholesome sign, as is the orange- Pelping. Oct. 22 (UF) -Gen Alex for increased trade between Vandegrift, Commandant of the International treaty concluded in Paris United Nations can hardly fall to em-

remains to be done th many directhe Marines had been withdrawn which bound all its algnatories never phasise this truth.

Methods of public controversy and tons

on a bath leading to

property, fonal policy and to settle by peaceful procedure by voting adopted at the long before the world can feel that from guarding virtually all Chinese including railways. He sald all international disputes. Paris Conference have not proved lasting pence. Yet the pessimists and

courses. In the areas where they ard oluntarily by Germany. In 1934, of diplomacy as innovations in the discords must and I catastrophic stil stationed along the Pelping- in International Legal Conference at technique of peacemaking. They conflict may turn out to have been Mukden Railway such on Chinwang- Hudapest laid down rules for 118 krisi have - Impeded, confidential · Inter- = false prophets of universal woo

ethods, legal principle acquires a

uld

charged

of

East-West Blocs

Nor does

The

crime in this atomie era would be troversies among luns

than

the

B

In a small salt ship for more than five months, 12 Malay seamen were rescued In the Gulf of Siam by the Norwegian rice ship Halvdan.

Putting in their out of Kuala Trengganu junk Salam for 160-ton Singapore,

men' were caught in

"4 -," " a typhoon.

Although, the Malays carried considerable amount of water, they ran short of food and lived on fish

Several imes they were

passed unnoticed by Singapore and China- The water-logged bound VQEXCIS. Salam wag eventually spotted by Capt Sverre Jensen of the Halvdan The two days out of Bangkok: Malays were taken aboard exhaust- cd. The Solom capsized and sank while in tow.

US. MARINES IN CHINA

of war was established by a solema/The New York Assembly of the men and Soviet Russin. Müch US. Marine Corps, said to-duy that

in use war as an instrument of nu

CANA

This treaty was signed and ratified essentially, superior to older methods } cynies who imagine that the present they are now going through, training i

tao.

More than six million people had been repatriated of

_of_whom nehrly five million were returned to Japan and about one million from Japan to other parts of the Pacific and For East, he said-Reuter,

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EPIDEMICS IN HONAN

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Changsha, Oct. 23-Plague 10% 00 per 100 tolan other epidemies are reported__„pro- 131 by per 100 tolas vailing in many districts in Honin

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ca per tot

972. 100 per ton

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sa remit of the drought since tha beginning of autumn conalder Alexandria gold-was; quoted at 173 nuloiumber of people have * dlød pinstres per fine ounce,

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unchanged. Reuter, openALA STA