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TERRORISTS' BLOOD- BATH THREAT

PACIFIC IS. TRUSTEESHIP

Objections By Britain, Russia

Washington, Feb. 6.

· Russia and Britain

have notified the United States that they desire to defer the final disposition of Japanese man- dated islands in the Pacific antil the Japanese treaty is negotiated.

In separate statements, Moscow and London Informed the State De- partment that they objected to the United States plan of placing the islands under strategic trusteeship with the United States as the ele trustee under the United Nations.

The United States-which macie the plans pubile last autumn during Lize United Nations General As- sembly meeting in New York-bad planned 40 present its proposal formally to the Security Courelt which has jurisdiction over strategic trusteeships.

Creech Jones's

Disclosure

London, Feb. 6.

The Colonial Secretary, Mr Arthur Creech Jones, told the House of Commons to-day that | Palestino terrorist organisa- tions had threatened to turn Palestine into a blood bath if the sentence of death against the extremist, Dov Gruner, is carried out. United Press.

BOMB IN PATRIARCHATE

Jerusalem, Feb. 6. The Greek Orthodox Patriarch, M. Thordoritus, received a telephone call last night in which mysterious voice said, "We placed a bomb in patriarchate because the your Christians are helping the Jews to lake this country away from us."

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elty and

The police rushed to the Greek Patriarelate in the old found a bomb which they exploded where it caused no harm,

The Patriarch told an offletal who

him to-day that he was worried

about more sudi attacks becquae, he ald, "there are fanatics everywhere in every nation."

The police have not yet officially the Incident.United

In addition to the British and Russian objections to any pre-treaty settlement of the mandated island announced. question, Australin has proposed Press. that the problem be deferred until The Japanese peace conference,

None of the countries seeking postponement raised any objections to the specifle plan submitted by the United States to continue occupation of the islands pending final disposi- tion.--United Press.

POLITICAL SQUABBLE

Honolulu, Feb. 7. The farmer Japanese mandated islands which American forces captured at heavy cost of blood are being booted Into the political arena for a showdown fight over which United States government agency shall hold control,

EVACUATION CONTINUES

Calto, Feb. 6. British evacuees, mostly women and children, continued to arrive from Palestine on Thursday. About 1,000 are now quartered in a desert camp on the outskirts of Cairo's fashionable suburb of Mandl.

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Camps officers said that the youngest evacuees were three weeks old baby, and six weeks old twins.

Women voluntary workers' helped

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1947.

KURETSUPOSTI, VOLANSING KJENT DATEJU VICKERSTELLUNGJESININETEEN

Rain-Making In Australia

Sydney, Feb. 0,

Rafn teemed from clouds West of the Blue Mountains, 50 miles from Bydney, Wednesday afler they were treated by a team from the Counell for scientifle and in- dustrial research scientists fly. ing in a Royal Australian Air Force Liberator,

The rain, makers refused to ju- bilate, however, explalaing that although the rests were antisfac- tory, much work lay ahead be- foro a definke announcement of success could be made.

· Dr E. B. Krass said "We now know full well that we can pro- duce good rain given favourable cloud formations, but nobody has the fogglest idea how often we

This can be successful,

C#- sential before we can my whether it is an economi

Economical

proposillon,"

Dr Kraus

Kraus pointed out that con- dillens necessary are a very deep cloud heavy with water reach Ing several thousand feet above the freezing level, and added "as this is a basic requirement, rain making in central Australia out of the question,--Associated Press.

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MAN CONFESSES TO Court Martial New Peace

BE "VAMPIRE”

New Deal For Farmers & Consumers

Debate On Food

London, Feb. 6.

the Opening the debate on world food situation, Mr J. 11. Wilson, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works, to-day sald the report of the Food and Agriculture Organisation Fre paratory Commission represented a new deal for the world's farmers and food consumers.

"This report aims at ensuring that shortage of food for the ordinary prople of the world comes to an end us production increases," Mr Wilson

VOORZA† said.

ALLOCATION

OF COAL

To Be Debated By Commons

Londen, Feb. 0. A piquant situation arose

in the House of Commons to-day when the Mr Ellis Smith, Labour Minister

supported by Mr Winston Churchill and Mr Anthony Eden, forced the Government, amid Opposition cheers to give time for a debate to-morrow industry, which he said had resulted in the closing of works and factories, short time and unemployment.

on the recent allocation of coal

The Minister responsible for the troops in setting the evacuees into allocation of conl to Industry is Sir the camp which was formerly used by Stafford Cripps, President of the New Zealand forces while German Board of Trade, under whom Mr prisoners of war delivered luggage | EUis Smith served as Parliamentary to each hut.

secretary until he resigned on differ- ences of opinion in January 1946.

While no agreement has been reached with the United Nations on the future of these istands there is For the moment evacuees are con- every indication the Americans in-fined to camp but officials said they tended to stay..

were now working out a system of identification cards acceptable to the Egyptain Government which would permit them to visit Mandi, Cairo and the vicinity. The camp officials said they did not know how long the evacuees would remain.

The only question seems to what agency shall control the Islandu, scattered across the vast Pacific to the Asiatic mainland.

A bill recently introduced in the United States Congress would furn control of the Marshalls, Marianas, and Carolines with their more than 50,000 population over to the Interior

He compared the report with Bri- tain's Agriculture Bill, which is now in the Committee after its second reading.

"To-day we are debating a report designed to provide an international background against which our na tional policy and that of other coun- tries would be set," he said.

Mr Wilson declared that one of the most important steps to be taken was to assist farmers so their increased output would not result in a collapse of food prices as it did before the He said food producers feared war. food surpluses.

Attacks Four

Women

Paris, Feb. 6, The police said that Andre Felix, 25-year-old gardener and former Axis collaborator, confessed to-day that he was the "Vampire" who mauled and bit four women in the Paris suburb of Rueil, terrorising the inhabitants.

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Fellz, who

sentenced to national indignity in 1915 for in- telligence with the Gestapo, broke down and confèssed to the last f the four attacks late this afternoon, the police said. They quoted him as sobbing. I did it. Something in- side me male me do it.

The attack was that of January 19 on stenographer. onfronted by Mist Gordon. who sald she recognised him. Felix confessed, the police Balt.

preis. Adelaide Gordon,

11I attacked her, then left her unconscious in the sirect," Felix was quoted as saying. "Riding home on my bicycle, I suddenly rentised I had her clothes and handbag in my hand. threw them off the sigle or the road""

The police said all the other victims also identified Felix and he confessed to attacking them. The victims were Madame Suzanne Vorrichon, 25-year-old saleswoman attacked on the night of October 10; Madame Suzanne Carron, handsome hospital nurse bitten ond mauled unconscious.

the night of December 10: and Madame Raymond Perrault, similar- 35-year-old

ly atlacked on January 15.

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"The British Government has no intention of going into agreements on the basis of excessive prices from the beginning of the agreement and certainly has no intention of main- The mollen euid Felix would

on The taken to Versailles to-morrow and taining indefinitely prices

Probably be KAYEN D psychiatric world markets to-day."

examination-United Press.

According to Mr Wilson, the report represented the unanimous agreement of nations and was a real hope "that very different from what we know before the war",

wo shall go forwart to something Nazi Plan To

BRITAIN'S CONSUMPTION

At question time Mr Ellis Smith The Minister of Food, Sir John asked why plans had not been made Strachey, told the House that Britons to meet the situation. Why was were consuming only seven per cent Industry not consulted or informed. less food per capita than, before the and why were plans announced be-war. fore details had been worked out.

DearHUN Krug of the Department other evacuees eat in messes which caused great

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The evacuets have quickly justed themselves. Children's laun- dry fluttered from a string of lines in front of most huts.

will be coming westward later this month to visit the territory, then will Journey to Guam, perhaps Samoa to look over the situation,

congressional Another school of thought would group the islands into

Sinall children appeared to regard newly created territory of the Facitie.

The Navy.

currently in control, the area as just one huge sand castle hopes to continue without severance and, as one officer put it, most of of military and civil administration. them have taken the evacuation us a

Admiral John H. Towers, Con- big adventure, mander-in-Chief of the Pucite. Special baby food is being issued wants hin successor Vice-Admiral and the NAAFI is generously stocked, Louls F. Denfeld La be named About 100 men are among the Governor-General of

former evacuees. An officer estimated that | mandated islands with both military between 1,900 and 2,000 are expected and civil authority delegated to him. to arrive from Palestine-Associated

Press. -Associated Press.

EDITORIAL

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tion and prevent its recurrence.

Assassinate Stalin

London, Feb, G. A plan to assassinate Generalls aimo Stalin by the Special Duty Ser- vice of the German Luftwaffe, flying

end patched-up British

Unlled the States aircraft, was disclosed by the

British Air Ministry to-day.

The information" released by the

Decisions

Kassassin, Feb. 6.

A British Court Martial here on Thursday, after an eight-day trial of 10 soldiers charged with conspiracy for mutiny, acquitted four of the defendants. They are Privates W. O'Neill, A. E. Jones, J. Carson and Corporal G. W. Lamont.

Convictions were recorded against the remaining six, but the Court said that its findings would not be pro- mulgated until confirmation by high authority.

The six convicted are: Sergeant R. F. Hughes, Corporal G. H. Walker, Lance Corporals W. J. Brad- ley, G. Pountney, D. F. Street and Private H, A. Moore.-Associated Press,

GUILTY OF CONTEMPT

Sequel To Fight In Commons

Offer By

Viet Namh

FIVE CONDITIONS

Paris, Feb. G.

The permanent Viet Nam delegation in Paris offered the French Government to-day con- crete proposals for an immediate end to the bloody revolt in Indo- China.

In to public communique, the delegation laid out a plan to end the fighting which has gone on since December 10, but the communiqua ** concluded: "No other solution car bring peace.”

The plan called for

1. Immediato hostilities.

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2. Immediate appointment of armistice commisions.

3. Immediate evacuatióm of vill ⠀ troops to areas defined by the no- cords of March and April, 1946.

4. Stoppage of troops shipments to Indo-China.

5. Opening of negotiations Bew. tween French clickaim and Ho Chl- minth's Viet Namh government sw the basis of these accords. Reports from the war-torn colony Eave no indication that the Vict London, Feb. 0. The Communist Member of Parlia Namhese were slackening the fight. ment, Mr Phil Piratin, who struck Dispatches reported attacks on the the Press Association Parliamentary French along the Hanol-Haiphong reporter T, D. Lucy in an incident In 'road and near Phongle. The Agencŭ the House of Commons cafeteria on France Presse said Viet Namh arill- December 10 was to-day declared by lery was in operation in the Nam the Committee of Privlieges to be Dinh sector and live miles south of "guilty of gross contempt of the Itanol at Daltu.. Ilouse."

The Committee also found Lucy's demand for an explanation an hour and a half later was "couched in provocative terms" and that he had insulted Mr Piratin. They therefore found him guilty of "contempt of the House".

As bath had apologised at a very early stage the Committee recom mended "the dignity of the House would be vindicated and safeguarded by the House expressing its extreme displeasure at fncidents and record- ing such displeasure."

The Agency also suld Vio! Nami infiltration attempts in groups of forces encircled in Hanol continuet

os large as 50 men.-United Press.

Plane Crashes

Near Madrid

London, Feb. 6. Portuguese airport officials re- port that the Cuban airliner, The blow struck by Mr Piratin Ruta de Colon, en route from was "the most serious feature of the Lisbon to Madrid, crashed in the

whole affair", the Committee ruled,

"Lucy's conduct before Mr Piratin vicinity of Avila Province, wesh struck him was. Improper but we of Madrid. recommend tho House to take t lentent view as he had received some provocation," the Committee said, re- ferring to the altercation in Mr Piratin said: "Shut your mouth" and Lucy replied "and shut yours." On the night of the incident Mr Firatin told the House Lucy had "insulted me and insulted my race."

which

Twelve persons were aboard in- cluding five American crew members. Madrid civil aviation officials an- nounced that the last word received from the liner was when it was 150 miles from Madrid and said it was. about to make a forced landing,

The fate of the passengers in nob known.-United Press.

SPECIAL BARGAINS!

In winding up the debate on the He asked his successor, Mr J. W. world food situation, Mr Strachey One mother of three children | Belcher, who was replying for Sir conceded, however, that there

was in showed correspondents her quarters Stafford Cripps, whether he was "immense redistribution" within - large room containing four single aware that a breakdown in ad-slight decrease in consumption. beds, a table and chairs, She and minstration and organisation had

consternation int Ini He said the food price index had have been set up.

dustrial centres. He demanded an risen 22 per cent over the pre-war Ministry was obtained from captured Assurance that steps would be taken figure, compared with 300 per cent top secret documents and from in- immediately to deal with this situa-after world War I when there were formation supplied by Colonel Baum--Iteuter.

the not the present strict Government bach, former commander of price controls and subsidies.

Special Duty Service. YIELDS TO PRESSURE

Sir John warned against driving

details of this attempt will

the be known," said

Air too hard a bargain for wheat with Dissatisfied with Mr Belcher's re-exporting countries, on the grounds Minis spokesman. plles which included n denial that that such action would drive formers the Soviet leader, the Special Duty In addition to their plans to kill there was a breakdown in organisa- out of business or force them to tlon, Mr Smith said he would raise burn their supplies rather than sub Service explored the possibilities of the matter again and move an ad- mit to ruinous prices.

fights to the United Slates, which journment of the House to discuss “a Mr A. E. Baldwin (Conservative) never got beyond the stage of discus definite matter of urgent publie Im-attacked Government's anti-inflation sion, and organised the wholesale portance."

food subsidies programme,

dropping of agents in Russia, France, "The way to face this situation Is Britain and Italy. If successful this would have meant to encourage the home producer in The peak month for agent dropping breaking into to-day's Parliamentary this country," he said, so that in was July, 1944, when more than 200 business with an immediate debate the next two or three years the out- were dropped and over an eight- on the coal situation. The Speaker, put of farm produce can be raised month period more than 600 men however, decided against this. Atto a very large extent. I do not and women were landed. this point Mr Smith was supported think the Amerleunk will want to Some of the aircraft used on these by Mr Churchill, Mr Eden and other give us another lean when they flights were patched-up Flying For in pressure for a debate to-morrow know wint we are doing with this tresses and Liberators, which had and eventually Mr Arthur Green-one. We are borrowing money from crashed in Gerstated: "One of wood, the acting Leader of the them, buying food with it, bringing House, agreed. He said the Govern-it here and selling it at less than the last assignments given to Kampf ment had desire to shirk debate costa on the other side."United Geschwader 200 was the evacuation and would meet the challenge from Press. whichever side it came on the broad coal issue,

Britain's Economic Crisis

He insisted, however, that to- morrow's ordinary business should be dealt with first.

Mr Greenwood gave an assuranco that he would do his best to have all responsible ministers present for the debate.

THE White Paper published on Britain's economic position heavily under- scores what has now become a truism—that winning the peace is harder than winning the war. We In Hongkong, as well as the rest of the world, courageously have long known that the men, women and chlidren who so fought and won the Battle of Britain, have since undergone post-war trials sufficient to tax their fortitude to the limit. They have had to work as härd, with loan eat; they have suffered two cruelly severe winters and an unbenign summer, that ruined much of their precious harvest; tens of thousands are still without homes; food queues continue. And now, 'almost like a Machiavellian gesture, comes the White Paper which bluntly tells the people of England that unless they are prepared to work muah harder, they face reduced standards of ilving, and the country, financial

Footnote: The reasons given för By Inferanse the White Paper blames the workers of Britain for the, fact that they have done no better than, reach pre-war level of production Mr Ellis Smith's resignation from Sir and export. By unvarnished statement It seeks to establish that only Stafford. Cripps' department included the assertion that austerity was be- through the concentrated efforts of manpower can the minimum production

ing overdone and that the colton and objective be reached. These are challenging and provocative statements to

industries Many there are pottery

ought to be make to the people who put the Labour Party into power. who will nercely argue that it is the domestic political policy of the nssisted more. He favoured, the no

Reuter,

government that has chiefly contributed to present situation: that the continued war-time official centrol Industry,.commerce and finance is the root cause of the evil. But these are political arguments which tend to Ignore certain baslo faits. Firstly, that Britain, as a result of a war sho helped so much to win, became a debtor nation; kepondly, that although her. ́responsibilities have in no way decreased she has, in the economlo world, had to start once again from scratch; thirdly, her technically trained man- power has been gravely deplated by the war, and is not easily to be re- placed; fourthly there is a world-wide shortage of raw materials, having the same effect on Britain's productive powern as a looked brake on a car. bankruptcy....

Obviously intended to shake the British worker out of any complacency from which he might suffer, the White Paper is deliberately dark and foro beding. It does not, for instance, give any credit to the proven resiliency of the British poeple; of their tenacity when facing aorists.and their will to overcome obstacles. But It is knowledge of thesd characteristics which encourage the ballar that the tribute, "This was these finest hour", will be [come"}wat as applicable in 1947 as in, 1940.

Security Council

Compromises

New York, Feb. 6. Russian and American compromises are beginning to break up the Se-. curity Council deadlock on disarma- ment procedure.

The Air Ministry

of important persons from burning Berlin.

After this, they tried to find 1,000 radio operators for underground. work with Werewolves, but this plan tailed miserably.

The Service had a "Suleide Squad" which piloted rockets on the infiial Britain, stage of their fights to baling out after setting the steering mechanism.

Baumbach was a Blunt flyer well- known in aviation, circles,--Neuter,

Proposed Limit

tonalisation of the cotton industry agreed on all points except one as the To

To Presidency

NEW US ENVOY. FORECAST

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The United States delegates, Mr. Warren Austin, and. Russia's M. Andrei Gromykto have tentatively nix-nation committee, mapped the manner in which disarmament should

Washington, Feb. 6. tackled.

The House passed and sent to, the The Committee met again to-day Senate legislation proposing a con to seek an agreement on the single stitutional amendment to limit the disputed point remaining the exact Presidency to two terras. Instructions I should give to the The vole was 285-121-more than London, Feb. 0.

Proposed Dianimament Commission, the two-thirds majority which was The Evening. Standard cave pre-

The United States Insisted on the

required. minence to the news, of Mr Max statement that work would not dup. With two-thirds approval by the Gardner's death to-day and credited licate the work of the United Nations Senate, the measure would go to the "observers at Washington with the Atomic Energy Commission. Rusia States for ralification.

The House defeated proposed prediction that President Truman objected, M. Gromyko urged, that: would nominate Mr Jama Forrestal, such a statement was not necessary, changes in the bill, which was Judiciary Secretary of the Navy, as United When a final compromiso. is reached, sponsored by the House States Ambassador to the Court of the Committee's recommendations Committee chairman and which had Bt James-United 'Press.

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