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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1947.

JAPAN'S REPARATIONS

EXCLUSION 'ACT REPEAL LIKELY

Ottawa, Jan. 23.

The Chinese Exclusion Act, which prevents citizens of China entering Canada, is likely to be repealed in the 'session of the House of Commons starting on Janu- ary 30, it is authoritatively learned here.

It

What legislation will be submitted to take its place is a matter of Government policy not divulged. might take the form of a quota limiting. the number allowed into the country each year, Reuter,

HZJAVEDENE TOTOORAIN E DUE ESPORT

TO CHINA

Shipments Soon

Of

Industrial Plants

Nanking, Jan. 23,

Japan shortly will begin paying off her debt of reparations to China with the shipment in the near future, on the first consignment of dismantled Japanese industrial plants and, other equipment which will be used to bolster China's war-ravaged economy, it was officially announced.

The tolal of reparationa eventually to be made available to China In these categories, It was sald, will be 5,900,000 tons.

ARABS HAVE FOUR-POINT

PLAN FOR PALESTINE

Jerusalem, Jan. 23.

The Palestine Arab delegation to the London con- ference agreed on a four-point plan for solving the Palestine question before the delegates left for London, it was learned here to-day.

Sources close to the Arab Higher Committee said the plan was adopted unanimously by the delegates while they were la Calro. These sources said the Palestine delegates decided not to accept the solution proposed by the Amb States during the first half of the conference fast fall. reported new proposal based

The

is

on the four main demanda which are the minimum the Arabs expected or would accept from the conference.

The first point is understood to involve

cancellation of the British mandate for Palestine and of the Balfour Declaration which pledged that a Jewish antional home would

**

be established in the Holy Land.

Paris Has

No Idea Of

Conditions

Included in the first shipment will be:

1.300,000 tons of machine tools 50,000 tons of ships

330,000 tons of steel and iron. 21,000 tons of chemical equipment 20,000 tons of electrical equipment 17,000 tons of metala.

The reparations committee of the Executive Yuan met recently, it was learned, to discuss arrangements for shipment of the Japanese machinery from Japan to China, and movement of the material from the coast to in- land cities.

The committee estimated that the shipping costs for the first con- signment would be CN$34,880,000,- will 000 and that CN$1,702,800,000 be required to install the machinery and equipment in China.

FLEET OF SHIPS

The Palestine Arabs would also in the Chinese-Annamite quar-three main classes; demand independence equal to thatter of Hanoi of other Arab States in the Middle

East.

Air Stowaway Attempts

To Commit Suicide

Shannon Airport, Jan. 23. An attempt to end her life by throwing herself into the churning propellers of an 8,800 horse-power Constellation at Shannon Airport this afternoon was made by 37-year-old Russian born woman stow- away Anna Zemit, who after crossing the Atlantio from Parts WIN eventually discovered on board an aircraft at Newfoundland and sent back.

Last night Zemlt was detained in Limerick gaol by the police and Held In custody at the airport all morning to awall the arrival of a | special plano from Paris,

When taken to the plane sheirled to reach the propeller blader but when she was within twenty yards of them, she was seized by an airport policeman. She was taken back into custody. Later thero was an urgent call for a doctor as the woman became hysterical.

Several times, according to officials guarding her, she had threa- tened to take her o. "It would save me the misery of going back to Paris" was what she told an Air-France woman representa- Uve. Tesse Morton when later in die afternoon she hoarded the air. craft quielly but made every effort to avold press photographers. Reuter,

BITTER COMMENT

ON U.S. DEMAND

Amery Justifies Empire

Preference

the

London, Jan. 23,

The United States demand for the elimination of Empire Preference was described as "humiliating" by Mr L. S. Amery, President of

Empire Industries Association and former Conservative Cabinet Minister, -speaking at the annual meeting of the Association to-

day.

Submission would mean the aban- " we submit to their bumiliating donment of protection for British demand for the elimination of ali domestle industries and agriculture, Empire Preference, that will be the and Britain would have to face un- end of the position in which the limited competition in her home Empire takes four times as high the proportion of its manufactures from un as compared with foreign coun- irics..

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The committee decided that the materials will be shipped by China Steamship and Navigation Co., with the assistance of the Chinese Navy where necessary. Sixty-two ship of all kinds, with a total carrying capacity of 212,280 tons will be made available for the task. It wna an-market. nounced that the Ministry of Com- munications will have over-all

He warned: "We are living in å charges of shipping the reparations

We must ret rid of the moot Rouds from Japan to China, but in world of sheer delusion if we think BY DOON CAMPBELL dividual organisations concerned will

that there is a ghost of a chance of favoured nation clause at any rate our paying our way in the world in its socalled unconditional form be responsible for moving such Hanoi, Jan. 23. equipment to its inland destination.o open cut threat price compell- and be free to make bargains

Lion.

fair give-and-take terms with in- Viet Namh troops surrounded

The Executive Yuan committee

dividual foreign countries that wish divided Japanese reparations Into "American manufacturers want to to trade with us.

And an immediate outside market for continuing

"We of the Empire Industrica Production equipment, communi- their desperate efforts to escape, cations equipment and national de- production.

the immerse surplus of their mass Association have from the

They want to find jobs warned our fellow countrymen and according to to-day's French fence equipment.

for 60,000,000 Americons by trebling so far as we could the American The committee ประ sci up " communique.

their exports. For that purpose, public also that while the loan itself priority table for shipment,

as they want to keep the rest of the was a perfectly reasonable business The air thunders with mortar fre follows;

world broken up into small econo-proposition, the irrelevant and bazooka explosions, while bullets!

Production

condi- materials-elec-mic compartments, prevented by low tions whistle around the former realiencetrical equipment to be shipped first, tariffs from competing with Amerien could never be fulfilled and that any with which it was coupled of the Viet Namh President, Dr Ho followed by machine tools. steel, even in their own markets and still attempt to fulfil them would make less capable of competing with the repayment of the loan itself Im-. subjects French which is

Communications equipment Amerlen in neutral markicels.

possible" Reuter, - harbour equipment first, followed by road telecommunications and other equipment.

defence 3. Natical

materfal with the priority table in this ente- Rory to be fixed by the National Defence Ministry-United Press.

The third point called for the ca- tablishment of a-democratie govern- ment with proportional representa- tion of Araba and Jews based on the existing population,

73 MURDERS

London, Jon, 23 Seventy-three British were murdered in Palestine „ast year,

are

is now

1.

With no armiste cupied by iron and chemical equipment.

letops, says commualque. much less a

said Mr Arthur Creech Jones, political settlement in

in sight, arbitra Colonial Secretary in reply to ation may be the only way to prevent question in the House of Commons

Indo-China

smoul- from becoming to-day,

volcano erupting hatred and Fifteen of them

dering were Palestine policemen, 49 were members of the

unrest for

for years to come. Battlefield tactics, smashed homes British forces and 13 civillans.

Mr Jones' statement later that no and burning villages, are getting no- culprits had been convicted

anywhere, and although both

was body

French nor the Viel

greeted with surprised cries of "Oh sides admit the folly of fighting. TO-DAY'S

former Colonial neither the He agreed with Secretary, Mr Oliver Stanley, Con-Namhese seem able to find any other servative, that it would have been way out. possible to convict culprits

if more

The Viet Namhese would like co-operation had been received from Indo-China to be placed On the the Jewish community in Palestine. agenda of the United Nations Security

"That is the position. We have Council, difficulty in collecting exact informa-

Regrettable Mistakes tion regarding these most tragie incidents," Mr

declared. Reuler.

Jones

FLOGGINGS FOR YOUTHS

-Jerusalem. –Jan.-22. Flogging df a punishment In Palcaline will in future only be ad- ministered to youthy of 16 years and under, according to an announce- ment to be published in to-morrow's

"Palestine Gazette",

Previously, youths of up

like

2

Vict

Failing that they would third party or group of third parties to step in to prevent the conflict from becoming more widespread. Namh extremists are believed here To be directly responsible for the trouble, which was precipitated by their 19, but a French official with liberal armed uprising on December inclinations conceded that "regret- table mistakes have been made" in French to 18

policy in Indo-China in the The most common criticism by observers here is of the "colossal Ignorance" of Parla, where orders are dictated about local conditions in Indo-China, and especially in Tong- king, where thase orders are sum- marlly executed.

years of age were liable to logging.

-Reuter.

EVASIVE ANSWER

Jerusalem, Jan. 22. Asked whether the Jewish com- munity in Palcaline would intervene in the event of further terrorism, the

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Opinion both here and in Salgon la that everytervers mid:

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and some

"Paris has

Jewish Agency spokesman said at a press conference yesterday:

"From the text of the resolution no idea what is happening hero"

adopted yesterday, by the Jewish National Council that

would not ap-

There is some criticism of China, Great Britain and the United States pear to be the case.

ith regard to the international Im- Monday's resolution, which called plications of the situation here. One

the Jewish

asised is: by force if necessary" attempts

Community to resist question I have heard

by

have the Chinese, British and terrorists to

to intimidate, blackmail and Americans

done to en

enecurage the

on

man as

by the

the Jewish public was inter- Nationalist aspirations of 20,000,000 the Jewish Agency spokes Annamites-is It ny wonder they

sentially a

a stage in in- turn towards Moscow?" ternal self-protection and as showing A number of influential Annamites · the "dissident groups-Irgun Zvai look towards India and Burma ng Leumi and the Stern Gang-that we sources of material as well as moral mean business."——Reuter,

support.--Reuter.

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In Hanoi, Viet Namhese troops en-account in respect of all vessels circled, in the native quarter con- commencing to load in 'Australia Washington, Jan. 24. nued break-out attempts which, the on and after the 15th January, President Truman said to-day French communique said, were un-1947, that Gen George C. Marshall will ambese losses,

successful..

In in Bevere. Viet have a free hand in the State Department.

Marshall

Fighting at close quarters was re- pared ir Namh Dình, but no đề

The President mode this comment talls were available,

A light French detachment, moving'

at a press conference. He said that south from Hano!, occupied an un- ke had held a sweeping review of foreign policy questions with Gen named village which

Viet Namh

of arms,

Marshall earlier in the day, and that troop hastily evacuated, leaving 10 the subjects of the conversation in dead and a quantity cluded. China, South Amerlen, Ger- United Press. many and Palestine.

President Truman said that he had not discussed with Marshall whether) the Secretary of State would per- sonally attend the Big Four Foreign 'Ministers' March 10ing at Moscow on

21.

The remark about Marshall having a free band in the State Department came after President Truman was : asked about" top personnel changes. President Truman said that Marshall had akiced the top ranking personnel" in the Department to stay,--Asso- elated Press.

HOME SOCCER RESULTS

London, Jan. 22.

NOTICE

FAR EASTERN FREIGHT CONFERENCE

The Public are hereby notified that all Receiving, Storing and Delivery charges which have hitherto been paid by Steamship Companies will be for. Consigneca account in respect of all vessels commencing to load in Europe on

The following are results of foot and after the 15th January 1947.

ball matches played to-day:

Third Division, Southern: Cardiff City 3 Reading Third Division, Northern:" Crowe

0 Doncaster Lincoln

2 Rochdalo

0

3

-Reuter.

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