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'THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1946.
Sino-Indian Ties French Air Liner FACTS ABOUT THE WORLD'S Truman's Link
Strengthened By Embassy Creation
(By Doon Campbell)
When the old signboard "Indian. Agency General" was unuailed from the wall of 12 Peiping Road, the newest embassy in the capital of China was momentarily without an Ambassador and a national flag.
Outwardly there was hardly any. thing to indicate that overnight one
of Nanking's most juntor, diplomatic
missions hul blossomed into a top runking embassy,
Twenty-one embassies and four legations are now established insille Marking's anclent elty wall.
the
Observers were scarcely surprised when the Governments of China and Indin raised
status of their respective diplonatle missions to the level of embassies.
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Passenger's Allegations
Chiro, Oct. 28 (UP)-A sur- vivor charged to-day that the pilot of the ill-fated French nirliner which crashed in the Egyptian desert refused to heed the appeals of the passengers that the plane should land at Cairo although the radio had failed six times since the take- off from Paris..
Ellay Sasson, Oriental secretary of the Jewish Agency, suld the pilot snapped "Mind your own businesa"
when the passengers recommised Calro as the plane circled the airfield and suggested that he should land.
The pllol, Sasson declared, kept reassuring those aboard that he was fully confident and
of pick- capable airport. ing our Cairo
Sasson said the plane after passing Calro continued through. Upper Exyp: until the fuel ran out and
FOOD SITUATION
TWO-THIRDS OF POPULATION NORMALLY UNDERNOURISHED
TWO of every three of the world's population nor- mally are undernourished and many more probably are doomed to malnutrition in the future, the Population' Reference Bureau reports.
causing the agricultural
Bureau was organised; than its food supply, "a non-profit scientific weakest to starvo. educational organisation for pur-methods have greatly increased food
While intensified Bases of gathering, co-relating stocky since the days of Maithus, and distributing population recent death rates have been reduced data."
One of its aims is to and birth rates incrensel.
During
With The Press
And Public
(By William Hardcastle)
·
When a newspaper story he gins "The White House said to- day...."the reporter is almost certainly quoting the Missouri drawl of a tall, Bad-looking ex- newspaperman who, for £2,500 n year acts as chief link between Mr Harry Truman and the press and public.
tlon as a means of improving the combined totals of the United enlled Presidential Press Secretary,
world conditions.
Being neighbours and passessing crashed into the hill as the pitot culture. Mr Clinton P. Anderson as
two of the largest sets of humanity in, the world, there are many econ- oile, cultural links and traditional aMhilles binding China and India.
New Inventory
Pandit Nehru, Vice-President of the Indian Interim Government, who bas consistently championed the de- mocratic aspirations of United Chinn, has just. sopounded a new inventory of big Powers,
Mr.
Nehru boldly named the United States, the Soviet Union, India na China as the "Four World Powers,"
China kewise attaches great im- portance to the consolidation of her
tried to make a forced landing an the desert platenu.
The
airliner Caught fire and the passengers hail to break out of the Being wreckage. They started tumbling downhill and piled up apnst a rock on the edge of n 20- fool precipice. All of the 18 passen- stern were injured..
Joseph Ellahi l'erlman, aged 33, engineer of the Jewish Agency, died of burns.
The passengers were stranded on the desert for 46 hours before reach ing hospital.
He is Mr Charles G. Ross-news- point out what it considers to be the ten years preceding World War Ile" and none of the reference books papermen familiarly call 'him "Char- the need for population limita-1, the population increase equalled
say what the "G" stunda for-so States, Great Britain and Canada. friend of the Chief Executive since The Bureau fears that in
these figh School days, and one of The Bureau, in its latest bilen-atistica are the roots of to-day's top members of that important but
disputes.
unofficial body tion, quoted the Secretary of Agri- Population Bulletin, organ of the enemies term the White House "L
which political Burenu, nid,
"the Increase ofchen cabinet.". may have set the stage for the pres Washington observers, Mr Ross has 503,000,000 between 1900 and 1040 In the opinion of most experienced
oር of sent world food crisis, if not also for
the most unpleasant and least World Wars I and II.
rewarding posts in the American Government. Though, .ns the Presi dent's No. secretary, he ranks as an important adviser on matters of lask policy and protocol, his main is to keep the press informed about everybody and everything in the White House.
nying: "The present food crisis in not an unusual situation is only unusually severe. There's never enough food in the world to give everyone what he needs to ent, at any given moment. Two-thirds of the world's people
chronically undernourished.
ure
sources
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Daily Conference Every morning at 10.30 am-ex- cent on Sundays or when the Prest- dent is out of town-he holds press conference: reporters who spend the clay hanging, about the White House lobby_hoping to catch and interview
office and hear his pccount of Mr Truman's activities.
relations with India. Chinese Benzene Derivative food producing capacity of such values that go with bi, is incalculable." Presidential callers shuffle into his
Foreign Offer official told me that
the appointment of the first Chinese Sweeter Than Sugar
Ambassador to New Delhi was a matter warranting the personal al- tention of the Generalissimo,
The official said that the General issimo would choose one of our best men" for the post. There has been Inevitable speculation, although well- informed quarters Bre unusually reluctant to suggest a name.
Qualified Candidates
A few key Government officials who are most frequently mentioned as well-quniffled candidates in un oMetal circles are Dr Kon Nal-kung, Political Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, and
Dr Wan Yuan-ning, member of the Legislative Yuan and
mazt, (Dr
"Pork Barrel"
The bulletin insists thint only through exploitation of natural re-
modern by
mechanical Evidence of Mr Anderson's claim methods has the world been able in support B tremendously increased ix witnessed daily DN starvation population. But it maintains that mounts in India and China.
the price for his exploitation must The Population Reference Buren be paid. said that easing of this chronic food, deficiency is supposed to be accom- Jacks in their book
British scientists Whyte. and "Vanishing plished by increasing the food pro- Lands" state that "the price that lucing enpacity of large countries has been and still must be paid, in like China, Russia and Indin.
soil and social security, prosperity, But, i said, "assuming that the health contentment and aesthetic
large parts of the earth could be doubled, this would be no match for the increase in papulation" which shold result if death rates of these
uring the past 60 years the New Work, led by the United States, are cut to the levels of the U.S. Great Britain and Canada.
has been the world's "pork barrel." Suspiciously eyeing the Old World, Population Factor the Population Bureau urges that How in the time for the United though most people think A
the Stutes to conserve its natural re prerent food famine stems from sourceя war destruction, the Department of Porulation experta estimate 100,- Agriculture anys "world production 000,000 people as an ideal number of all foods in 1945-40 was about for the United States.
The Infest five per cent less than in pre-war." count is 40.000.000 above that figure. It points
however. that At the same time, the end of ben-nilowance
for wartime population American resources 1 beginning to cuts the per capita food be seen. Oflein! surveys show that production, about 12 per cent. Thus known usable reserves of 22 essential increases in population account for minerals have been cut to a 3- aluut seven per cent of food de- year supply; that we are losing the fielencies.
equivalent of 200 40-nere farms The Population Reference Bureau every day through erosion that in gures reiterate the 18th Century the 30 years from 1909 through 1988 tends to increase far more rapidly per cunt. Malthusian theory that population U.S. standing timber decreased 40)
may
Prof Pleter Eduard Verkade Delft Technical University, Holland, has reported the discovery of a new chemical compound 4.000 times as sweet us come-sugar which promises far-reaching economies in food, candy and beverage industries and help to end the worldwide sugar shortage.
Addressing the Chiengo section of Chemical Society. American Prof Verkade said the new substance. which he declared
the sweetest known to man. is zene derivative. Developed during the war, it is alrendy being manu- factured in the Netherlands and has been used successfully as sweeten- ing agent there and in several other Еигорела countries where it
the
is by far
has
Dr Sun Fo's right-hand Wen was
was one-time Chinese represen- lative of the Ministry of Information in Hongkong).
While the appointment of these two
been pitented, Verkade said the officials is doubtlessly acceptable, has been filed. He said the enormous application for an American patent Ja questionable if the Government could spare either.
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Dr Khn, born in Kwongsi 50 years held top Government posts ever since his graduation from Lingnau University in 1922,
industrial potentialities of the com- pound are suggested by comparison
with saccharine and dulcine which agents in practical use until recent- were the only synthetle sweetening
Dr Wen Yuan-ning, 40 years old, i 13. graduated from. Cambridge Univer- 700 times as sweet
He said succharine is only 200 to sity, and was a Ministry of Informa- while dulcine is 70 to 250 times as ва сапе sugar tlon's representative in India four
Kweet. He said paryllortine, which years ago,
of common
per-
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The Implications of the decision to is a compound described as a open un full diplomatic relations be-m
fime with taste 2.000 times tween India and China are many and sweet as sugar, formerly held the
record for sweetening power. far-reaching. Revival interests which have waned some-
He said the new benzene deriva- what since the
slight colubility in monumental travel tivo hrs only records of Huen Teang and other Chi-water but due to its high sweetening nese Buddhist scholars in the early
power this solubility is suficient in centuries, has nirendy begun.
every respect. There in
in no doubt that the growth of a Pan-Asiatic sentiment will cer- tainly be accelerated.-Reuter.
Jap Peace Conference May Be Earlier Than Thought
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BERLIN BOROUGH MAYOR INJURED
Berlin, Oct. 28. (UP)-Marlin Kellermann, deputy Mayor of the Berlin borough Mitte, was in 3 critical condition in a Berlin hospital to-day as the result of an October 26, accident in which his chauffeur was killed by a German iúghway police.
Glu, Oct. Shigeru Yoshida told the press to-
(UP). — Premier | day that he hoped his Cabinet would continue in office until the peace Kellerman's driver, Herbert Hora, treaty conference on Japan was held. He believed that, owing to the favourable trend toward recovery of worldwide economy as well as trade, the peace conference might be held sooner than was commonly expected.
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He runs through the day's calling list, ticking off the reasons for the various visits, issues or forewarns of any statement by the President that a due that day, and
submit himself to all and any questions about the White House and its for flung interests.
Often enough in time of crisia, domestic or foreign, he has the press into his omee several lines a day: while, say, crucial strike often negotiations are going on in a back- room, he is at his desk until after midnight.
Generally speaking, he is frankc with the Press, Indulging rarely in diversionary no comments" or don't know he seldom goes "off the record" elther, but allows news- papermen to quote his words direct, or else to attribute them to an identitled "White flouse spokesman." Watch for Traps
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Of his many other dulles-press surveying, contacting, speech and statement formulation-his chief is that of stage managing" the Presi Ident's own weekly press conferences. Here, he is supposed to listen close- ly to every, thing the President says, advise him on a tricky question if necessary, and head him off "booby traps that cunning reporters try to set in the frank give-and-take these sessions.
of
It is, in fact, for his part in these conferences that Mr Ross has suffer- ed most criticism; it has been said that, if he had grasped the full sigui
Washington, Oct. 28 (UP).—Army
Washington, Oct. 27 (UP)-Mr Air Forces sources disclosed that
Thomas MacDonald, Commissioner Improved rockels were being deve- loped which would penetrate much of Public Roads, announced the
to ficance of the occasion, he might have farther than the German V-Z that establishment of a new division recently soared some 100 miles ut begin the $100,000,000, four-year, averted the severe mistakes the Pre- White Sands. They Fald the missiles Joint United States-Philippines pro-sident has made at his recent press theone. would be equipped-with-
conferences-particularly autogramme of restoring highways, streets which touched chambers which would open
от the recent matically on reaching the lonosphere und bridges in the Islands, and for "Wallace crisis,"
Whether such criticism and take "samples" of rarified ut- economic rehabilitation
ed, k is not mosphere for study by scientists, lupment.
One thing ensy to say. is cerluln, however, Ross is sincere. other data to be recorded by cameras
say and technical equipment built into Mr MacDonald named Mr Francis som
fanatically devoted to. his rockets.
Turner us division engineer for the
It new office. He said the United schoolday They reported long strides in the States had allocated $9,960,000 for The development of guided misses bun work in the present fiscal year, ter- emprasized that push-button war minuting June 30, 1947. The divi
te was still a long way off-some 10 to son ollice in Mania would, be part 25 years anyway.
was shot
#111 to death by a German policeman when he ignored when- ins to stop at a roadblock neur Bernau, 30 iniles from Berlin.
The car was travelling nt 30 miles an hour when it crashed into
tree, injuring both Kellerman and | his wife, the police said.
Kellerman,
Socialist Unity Party member, is the second Ruslan appointed official to be involved in
week. shooting within a
On Octo- 23 the body of Hans ifommerschmidt, Mayor of Ruhlsdorf, Brandenburg, was found near Berlin and the
ber
in a ditch
receive on behalf of the Owners police are still searching for his
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Scientists are working to give rockets "automatic pilotny pneumatic motors to operate the rud- der, first to be turned auto- matically if the yocket swerved off Its course-also on a plan for guiding| missiles from the ground with radio. Other rockets will be guided by a "homing device", clrecting them to a factory ship or other turge metallle targets.
SIDE GLANCES
and deve-
of a larger rehabilitation programme divolving port and harbour work, air transport, the fishing industry, school and hospital reconstruction, improve ment of the public health and broad personal transion programme.
Scientists said the rocket also could be equipped with the proxim- ity fuse to explode I in the air near En approaching aircraft formation.
П
Is justi-
in
friendship founded
experiences together. The friendship has ripened though hath graduated from Independence, remained constant ever since. They Missouri. High School at the
same time. While Mr Truman fret went into farming, then the haberdashery business, then into arate and Bnally national polllics, Mr Ross carved out for himself a distinguished career in American journalism.
"Elder Statesman" Apart from a spell as professional of journalism at the University of Missouri, Mr Ross spent 28 year's working for the highly respected St Louis Post Dispatch. All but five
were those years
spent in Washington, first in general.report-
work,
of
By Galbraithing, which won him a Pulitzer Prize
then D5 an "elder statesman
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journalist confining himself to wrii- ing occasional reflectve, Interpreta- live articles on economie nad poli- tical developments, which were widely
redd not only in St Louls but throughout the nation.
The day after Mr Roosevelt died, Mr Truman rang up Mr Ross and said: "I want you to be my secretary." Mr Ross accepted promptly and has held the post
ever since.
press
He is one of several fellow MS- Hourlong whom the President has gathered round him as White House
and "kitchen cabinet,"
***Charlle Ross has one of
the
toughest and most difficult jobs the President has to offer.
always under the pitiless
glare of the American and the worldpress and radio, he is spokesman of the executive head of one
of the earth's bree major
powers:
can
Mr Altice himself and his Cabinet In the House of Com- speak mons; Stalin addresses the world only an and when he chooses; but the President of the United States, from tho day to day, speaks through dimdent, drawling tones of school friend, Mr C. G. Ross-Reuter.
TROOPS IN JAVA
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SLAV CONGRESS
Belgrade, Oct. 28 (UP)--It was announced to-day that the Slav Committee In Yugo-Slavin has re- ceived a letter from the Executive Committed of the Council of Canadian South Slavs informing It that a special delegation numbering 15 members will attend the Slav Congress in Belgrade.
JAPAN'S PETROLEUM
Tokyo,
Oct 28-The Japanero Government was ordered to-day to terminate the petroleum monopoly by dissolving all statutes and ordin- ancea pertaining to the distribution of petroleum. The move, according to a SCAP announcement, is to im prove the allocation of critically short supplies.
The SCAP directive ordered the Japanese authorities to place petrol under
government agency.-
Yugo-Slavia plans to have a net- work of powerful radio transmission stations, according to the radio com. mittee which is nt present meeting Central Now. in Belgrade. The plans call for the
erection of now stadions and the 1947 as well as the founding of a strengthening of the technical domestle radio Industry as soon as forces of existing stations during 'possible,
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