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VOL. II NO. 101

THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1947.

U.S. MEDIATION IN CHINA

PALESTINE LATEST

MAJOR COLLINS

FREE

Jerusalem, Jan. 29. Authoritative sources said to- day that Major H. A. I. Collins, was kidnapped by Irgun who Zvai Leumi underground agents on Sunday, had been released and was in the Iladassah hos- pital clinic here.

The Government announced that the High Commissioner, Sir Alan Cunningham, had extended the dead- line for the release of Major Collins before imposition of statutory · mar- tipl inw to give the Irgunist The benefit of darkness to release their prisoner.

Geïì. Cunninghara's ullmatum had been scheduled to, expire at mid- night HKT The deadline of the new extension was not announced, 3- though it was believed it would not extend beyond summrise to-morrow..

It was believed all curfew restric flons had also been lifted to facilitate i the fugamists in releasing Collins United Presi.

According to Associated Press, po- lee sald Collins appeared almost an an hour before midnight at the Ha- dinesh Clinic off Zion Square in the centre of Jerusalem. Collins showed Hittle more than six hours after p the deadline fixed by the British authorities for his return.

An

eyewitness

said

Lost His Wig, But Feels None.

The Worse For The Adventure

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Jerusalem, Jan. 20,

of

Judge Ralph Windham, 42 year old President of the District Court in Teinviv, who was set free last night after 31 hours captivliy at the hands of Irgun Zval Leumi terrorists, was stul wearing his black court robe when the Palestine police ying- squad car picked him up in a textile factory, five miles nard-west of Telaviv. But he had lost his wig.

At 8 o'clock last night, Judge Windham knocked at the door of the Yerushalmy Textile factory. Judge Windham said: "I am Judge Windham". The night walchman said: "Would you like a cup of ten". Judge Windham said: "I should love one",

Ho After taking tea, Judge Windham telephoned the police. had walked for three quarters of an hour across muddy flelds to the factory.

He was blindfolded when klduspped, he told reporters at Tel aviv last night. The kidnappers kept his wig as a souvenir. "I take the hours of captivity as an adventure", Judre Windham said.

Hold that he had been well treated and felt none the worse for his adventure. The Judze is to-day resting at his home in Sarona, the Jewish suburb on the outskirts of Telaviv. The guards at his house have been doubled-Reuter.

Atomic Energy For British Power Plants, Report

London, Jan. 29.

British atomic experts said to-day th" "in theory" all Britain's municipal and industrial electrici'; could be sup- plied by atomic energy within a predictable time, but official sources would not comnient on a newspaper story that the Atomic Energy Committee planned the immediate construc- tion of a nuclear power plant.

as wo can

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to make atomle The Daily Express in a story, hard signed by its science writer, Chap-power avaliable for industry. Dut man Pincher said the commillee had specile plans for future construction Collins mended the construction, with- are largely guess work,

Describing the plant Pincher sluggered to the clinic in a "ler-n three years, of a plant to generate rible condition" He was taken inne-quarter of Britain's electricity role: "One obvious way of using The plant, saving 5,000,000 tons of atomic energy is to make steam mediately to n government hospital. coal annually. would turn out from it and use this to drive steam It was placed under heavy police

next step would be so cut out the Fard. The police said Collins told 1,000,000 kilowatts, using three ton: turbine generating electricity. them "I was badly treated and had fractum yearly. Fincher said.

Britain's first two atomic pites are steam and use the hot gas direct." to fight my way out".

being built at Harwell, Berkshire, United Press. and a smaller is expected to begin working before March. For fuel she has imported about 1,000 to uranium from the Belgian Congo and General Sir Alan Cunningham, some thorium is reported en route.

Commissioner, General Str Miles Dempsey, Commander-in- Chief of the British Middle East Innd

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Nanking, Jan. 30. United States Ambassador J. Leighton Stuart on Wednesday notified Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and the Communist leader, Wang Ping-nan, that American mediation had ended in failure and that the elaborate machinery whien General George Marshall had established for bringing peace to China would be withdrawn as quickly as possible.

The ending of the mediation means the withdrawal of more than 1,000 American officers and men from the Pelping, executive headquarters

as well as an estimated 8,000 Marinės remaining in North China or serving guard duties at Installations connected with the headquarters.

The Communists declined to ex- their reaction pending word press from Yenan. The government press renellan was contained in a statement by the Ministry of Information and approved by Chiang Kai-shek. It that the Communists' refusal to reopen negailailons left the govern- iment no course but to continue the policy of "political democratisation" with the assistance of the minority parties.Akuociated Press.

SIGNAL FOR ALL-OUT WAR?

Washington, Jun. 30. The United States abruptly ended year's eller to meslate between China's warring factions and in- nounced to-day that most of the re- mining United States Marines and army forces there would be pulled out shortly.

Secretary of State Marshall's action was announced simultaneously here and in Nanking. It put squarely up to the Chinese themselves the task of working out their salvation and raised a blg question mark over future United States polley toward China.

PREMATURE One of England's foremost nuclear

Both among diplomats here and in General-Officer commanding British scientists, Professor Rudait E. Peirtee,

Nanking it was viewed as a Hikely troups in Palestine Sir, Henry Cur- executive

Palestine Government Chief Atomic Scientists Association,ut The United States served-official signal-for-a-full-scale-civil-war. brewing between Chiang Kai- drawn up for a power plant. "Asion studying world freedom great number of technical matters formation that atomic energy secrets the Chinese Communists. have to be decided yet," he said. must be carefully guarded unt!! Nevertheless some liope remained "These can hardly be determined adequate United Nations controls that the move would spur the Nit-

are established. until the piles are working."

The United States, with its dele- Uonalists into giving their govern- ment a broad base of "liberal" elu- ante Mrs Roosevelt presenting ila

Secretary, and other members cf he/it was premature to say plans were notice to a United Nations Commack's Nationalist Government, and

Palestine Government Executive Council met in the King David Hotel to-night,

Dov. Gruner, Jewish terrorist sen- lences to death for thieng part in

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of state.

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The Daily Express story said two nothing, with eight member either salvation of the situation,"

The withdrawal

of

Peirles, who is physics professor attack on a police station, lo- at the Birmingham University, said proposals, otherwise took the lead. cuts as urged by Marshall here night agreed to sign an application that a time limit could be set for in the United States Commission on return this month to become secre- for leave to appeal to the Privý

working out the difficulties but he human rigirts in attacking all bar-of Council, it is authoritatively stated. doubled that the council headed by tiers to the free flow of information assumption of leadership by

Menahem Beigin, "Commander-Lord Portal or the Ministry of Supply throughout the world. in-Chier" of the Irgun Zvai Leumi, had done so.

The commission by n vole of 10 to Marshall sold then would be "the unnounced in a broadcast over the terrorists radio to-nigit: "If Dov

possible sites were being considered absent or abstaining, approved the

American Gruner is executed, the British shall for the plant-one la North Yorkshire formation of a sub-commission on forces from China has been urged pay for it sevenfold.

and the other in the Scottish high-freedom of information and the press, by Russia and agitated by Chinese hint "We will be merciless in retalla-lunds. It said that medical advisers Then by a vote of nine to two, with students but there was tion for such premeditated murder," decided on a 20-mile wide safety Russia and Australia against, it gave among diplomatic authorities he added. Then directing, himself belt around either of the site which to a temporary drafting commission the American action was aimed to the British threat that statu- would have to be evacuated of all the tasks of defining the duties and placating either.

danger makeup of the information body. tary martin law would be imposed inhabitants because of the in Palestine if further terrorism con- from radio-active atamle dust or from Associated Press. tinued, he declared: "We do not fear an explosion. "your threats,"

DANGEROUS DUST "There should be no more danger Comparing terrorist casualties to such a plant than in any ordinary with British losses in Palestine last boller plant," Peirles sald. "Atomle year, Belgin announced that more dust is a dangerous problem but one) than 100 oldlers of the Itgun, Stern which would be solved before the Gang and Haganah" had fallca bnplant would be built." the battlefield" during the sinne The Ministry of Supply and all period-Reuter.

EDITORIAL

nuclear scientists

are worlding

Air Disasters In Perspective

afflicted WIE series of air disasters which has

many

tho parts of THE

world during recent weeks has made sickening reading. It were as though same malign Influence had decided, once and for all, to try and who take to convince, people that death and misfortune awalts those the skies. But one must keep a sense of betspective. Important con- cerns like B.O.AC., ELM, ONA... Pan-American and T.0.A., have flown literally millions of miles without a single accident. A crop of the headlines recently crasbes such as those which have made might suggest that air travel to-day Is less safe than before the wari the reverse is the scull. For every one civi! aircraft operating seven or eight years ago, there are now tent. Some increase in the number of flying seeldcats over pro-war Agurex is, therefore, Ingelable.

can the One dheemserting aspect of air crashes is that so seldom direct causé de discovered: One moment a plane is in radio communion- tion with the ground; the next, scattered, debris ar a busül-but-shell. Safely devices there are, in number, and constantly, now once are dis covered or invented. But to the final analysis. It is the human element or some unferessen mechanical defect that sets them at nought from time to time.

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In Europe, leading airways companies have reacted, to the recent 'disasters by ́reducing their capacity loadings. This is a sensible predau- tion. But it will not, of course, stop plate craalses, any more than, iraina reducing speed will prevent railway noċidenta. Within the Imita of human Ingeanlly and mechanical appliances, air travel will continue to become Ingresilngly safer. The margin for error is continually being. brondoned 'and the element of 'rik reduced, despite the painful facts und figures of past weeks,

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Shanghai, Jan. 30. China's 'sixth airliner tragedy in five weeks killed 25 of 26 persons aboard... 11 of them foreign mission. _ary families:

In six crashes, 140 par- sons have been killed, 19 are missing and 21 injured. Officials of the Central News Agency quoted Chinese civil authorities as reporting that only one per son--a seriously injured foreigner survived the ex- plosion of the Chinese National aviation corpora tion transport, 100 miles west of Hankow on Tues- day.

The survivor is uniden- tifled-Associated Press.

BY OCTOBER

Political Leader's Prediction

London, Jan. 30.

U. Aung San, Burmese Nationalist Leader, predicted on Wednesday that his country would have its con- stitution by October.

"Independence acoms to lie in our hands," he said.

Aung San, 3-year-old chinf "I shall say to the people of negotiator with Britain for Burma's Burma: Now we've got an acceptable freedom, told n press conference that settlement, which we shall recom- his delegation which arrived in mend for acceptance. However, in-, London

1 on Jan. 1), would leave by nir) dependence is not yet there; what' on Thurday for Rangoon to begin we've got is a basis on which we can the gigantic trait of building a new proceed to independence in a smooth sovereign uilėn.

and peaceful way": Commenting on the agreement - nounced to Parliament on Tuesday by the British Prime Minister, under which Durme will have an interim government like that of Indla and will elect a constituent assembly in

FIC ISKALBIZABELEMBICARAANZen; April, Aung San sald:

Possible Causes Of

Two Dakota Crashes

Copenghagen, Jan. 30.

A locked rudder was advanced as a possible cause to-day for the tragic crash of a Dakota plane here this week which claimed the lives of Grace Moore, American film and opera star and Prince Gustav of Denmark's royal house.

All investigation committee heard Gorda Neumann, the Danish sin- a witness testify that he had seen ger and film actress who was killed the lock on the rudder. His name in the crash on Sunday had finished

the was not disclosed but

Chief the last scene in her latest film only Control Adviser, M. P. Eskildson, on Saturday.. said as far as we can judge, the witness actually saw what he porta to have seen.".

An official annoucenient from the re-investigating committee of the cause of the crash in still waited. Although The lock may have fallen from there seems to be no doubt that the the plane in flight as the wind was rudder was locked when the Dakota high, another witness testined, adding took off, it still remains to be dis that the pressure may have pre-covered who put the lock in place. vented the pilot. from noticing that Danish personnel at the airport anything was wrong. Or he may have denied any knowledge of il have believed that wind pressure Associated Press, prevented natural movements of the steering controls.

FILM COMPANIES' BAN Meanwhite Danish film companies have decided to include a clause in future contracts prohibiting players from travelling by plane during the shooting of a picture.

AUSTRIAN TREATY

FAILURE TO AGREE

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"We might be proved wrong by events," added. i*:

The constituent assembly should be sitting by May and should draft a new basle law for the country "with-

six months," Aung Son said. The plan left the decision whether Burma is to remain in the British commonwealth of notions up to the Burmene.

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"And frankly," the Nationalist lender id, "that decision will de-

Baid, pend on bow the present agreement is implemented in practice."

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present," he added, "the people cannot be said to have shed all their doubts and misgivings."

On ullier points the head of the powerful anti-fascist People's League and former guerilla fighter said; v

ASPIRATIONS

Burma wania all her 15.000.000 population within the new country and her leadership, is willing to grant autonunty "more than local" to the members of frontier hill case was considered whose but not settled at the conferences in London.

Burma hopes to take her place as anation as soon as possible, joining the United Nations, and plans reparations from Japan. seck

Fareil with u tremendous task of reconstruction, the country will we?- ne foreign capital, "provided it's owners subject themselves to Bur mese law," and will welcome ex- perts and technicians "from all coun- teles."

He said that the United States, China and Thailand (Siam) would be the first countries with which London, Jan. 30,

diplomatic relations would be sought, The Dakota plane which crashed in in addition to Britain and India.

Smiling, laughing aloud at some taking off from Croydon airport on Sturday, killing 2 of the 23 persons of the questions and his own re

San Aung

emphasised abourd, was an machine ferried across the Atlantic tude that Burma means to stand on

old U. 5: Army Ponses,

throughout the conference an atti- only two days before, a coroner's jury was told on Wednesday, whose first acquisitions of her ter

her own feet, friendly to Beltain, It still carried some camouflage Paint and the emaile ollut was not working when Captain Ted Spen- cer of Rhodesia, the owner, took off ter of for South Africa with four other crew members and 18 passengers, including two children, a surviving member of the crew told the court.

OLD ARMY PLANE

The possibility that Captaint Spencer took off in. a snowstorm with cold engines was suggested by one witness as the cause of the crash.

ritory began in 1826, but Indepen- dent.

"I want to emphasise," he said at one point, "at the fact the Bri tish have agreed to present us for membership to the United Nations does not mean that when we get in, the United wa will be a part of Kingdom delegation."

NOT RESIGNING NOW London, Jan. 20.

Aung San sald that the question The Foreign Ministers' deputies

Denny Mail of Pietermaritzburg, of resiguations of himself and other three-hour medling, to-day, in failed to agree on any one article South Africa, one of the survivers members from the governor's execu

suggested a possible structural fault, tive counell, threatened before they of the Austrian treaty.

The Soviet deputy. Mr Feodo: testifying that the port wing dipped left if the British did not offer in- Gusev, rejected as far too general a sharply us the plane became airborne dependence before the end of the Mark Clark and failed to respond to. Spencer's year, "does not arise now" in view proposal by General (United States) for an undertaking efforts to pull it back--Assoclated of the agreement. nt by Austria to abstain from any act | Press.

(Continued on Page 41 which was likely, directly or in- directly, to affect her status of inde. pendence.

Mr Gusev suggested that armed

American wording would allow the Interpretation that a threat to Aus trian independence might come from any quarter other, than Germany,

Both Britain and France advocated provisions in the treaty forbidding an anschluss between Germany and Austria and binding Austria not to undertake such a union.

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Army men and Marines only a re- With the departure of the 9,000

lative handful of America's forces will remain on Chinese soll, These include fewer than 750 officers and men with the military mission at Nanking and a small group of Marines ottached to the United States Seventh Fleet who had been training Chinese saflors at Tsing- tap.

LOAN UNCERTAINTY

The United States action left un- certain the fate of a $500,000,000 loan to the Nanking government which the Export and Import Bank at Mar- shall's request had earmarked fast

year.

President Harry S. Truman, In restating Inst month the United States policy toward China made it clear that before the loan was granted China must put her house in order. Nanking has until June 30 to sub- mit for approval a specifie list of

Was

the

The French deputy, M. Maurice Couve de Murville, argued that nothing in the United Nations Char- ter prevented voluntary renunciation of independence-United Press,

Partition Plan,

The Obstacle

London, Jan. 29. The Muft of Jerusalem, Haf Amin projects for which the money would El Husseinl, fold the London Delly be spent

Immediate reaction Here

Mail special, correspondent in Cairo largely favourable.

last night that so long as partition is Congressmen

จน the agenda, the London were inclined to back Marshall's

ference on Palestine will be a

·PC Lingi Lopes, 19, a member of

judgment.

Representative. Bloom, failure, the Daily Mail reported to the Emergency Unit, pleaded guilty minority member of the house

Democrat, of New York, ranking day when charged this morning before Mr. foreign affairs com

committee, sald "ne

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All Arab countries are absolutely determined to refuse partition and indeed to prevent it," the Mufil was

ing, and keoplag for his ewit' use two one knows better than Marshall gold coins which were part of the what to do in China, reported to have said. "I bellevé the crashed if he says withdraw our medin- that there, is not a single Arab who tion efforts then that is 100, per cent would commit such a national crime Php Wright-Nooth, prosecuting,lowa said he did not consider.

plane

with me

us to support any suggested partition plan. They would die rather that member of the withdrawal of the Americas 1 said that Lopes was n

forces police party sent to the scene of

submit to such a disaster

that the The crash on January 20. At the end from

but declined to comment. Mufli wes critical of the "dispurity" A between the: British measures Chairman Arthur Vandenberg of against Arab revolutionaries in 1086- and the two gold coins were found the senate foreign relations com-20-and those taken to-day against rolled up in Lopes trousers."

Lopes was ined, $250, or two milted reserved comment, saying he the Jews, The Government

* Ffelt he wanted to know more about sorts to none of the sovero monaures through official channels.Asso- that were applied to the Arabs, the cinted Presa."

lóf; thy, day, a routine search of all to Ruha ng "leaving that country | The, correspondent.added

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