1947-02-28 — Page 4

THE HONGKONG telegraph, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1947.

Pearl Harbour Church Supporting

Dock Fire

Pear Harbour, Feb. 27.

All available army? navy and marine firefighting equipment was rushed to-day to Pearl Har- bour to combat a fire roaring along the quarter-mile wooden dock.

Seven fire@ghting tugs rushed to the scene, which was on the submarinc side of the naval hase.

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The oil-soaked dock was raging inferno in a few minutes. A pall of smoke overhung the navy yard-Associated Press.

KNOWLEDGE

OF POLAR REGIONS

CANADA INVITES

CO-OPERATION

Spanish Falangists

Rome. Feb. 27,

Julio Alvarez del Vayo, former Spanish Republican Foreign Minister, to-day charged the Church in Spain "has always supported Franco and still to-day cannot repair this voluntary crror."

Del Vayo, who is now in Rome as correspondent of the American weekly, The Nation, said in an interview in the newspaper Avanti that opposition against Franco in Spain is almost general, and the only elements which support him inside Spain are generally the Church and the Army, especially the latter two."

"Error of the Church," del Vayo saki, "lay in the fact that

COLONEL HELD it gambled everything in Spain

BY SCAP IN JEWEL CASE

on only one-the Falangist card. It did not profit from its long experience of the double game with which it succeeded in get- ting along during the civil wars of the 19th century between Carlists and Liberals when The Eighth Army head-priests were on both sides. But quarters announced yesterday to-day they are all on the side that a special investigating ofli-of Franco, especially the eccle-

Yokohama, Feb. 28.

POCKET CARTOON

REFERENCE

apely

LIBRARY

MATHEMATICAL

SECTION

INQUIRIES

AND THEN MARK. THE- OTAL-R TWO I-X

ATOM BOMB

AIR FORCE

cer, designated by the U.S.siastical hierarchy closely at CALLED FOR

two

Army, will shift the evidence tached to the policy of the

Vatican. against Col Edward J. Murray- previously charged with the custody of SCAP-held jewels in the Bank of Japan and recently possessing $200,000 caught worth of diamonds from the Bank's vaults.

New York, Feb. 27. Louis Saint Laurent, Canadian External Affairs Minister, in vites the Soviet Union and other members of the United Nations to participate with Canada and the United States in develop- ment of knowledge” about them North Polar regions.

In a speech to the Rotary Club of New York, Saint Laurent muld: "I

see no reason why within the frame work of the United Nations there should not be created facilities for the development of knowledge about the unrthern arens on the widert Issible basis,

that

"I have no hesitation las sayin

my country would be happy to co-operate

enterprise in such provided I were established upun proper basis of reciprocity. We are alrendy exchanging meteorological

information upon reciprocal basis “wấth our Russian neighbours. Why not extend the practice to other use- ful information?"

RUSSIAN PRESS CRITICISED

He criticised the Russian press for "false and misleading statements" about United States-Canadian neti-

vitles In the far north.

He denied that polar military

bases had been given the Slates.

United

Saint Laurent said anyone was free to go into Canada's northland. He said they would and less than 100 American soldiers at a small scientific observation post at Fort Churchill, in Manitobal-Associated Press.

U.S. AIR PACT. WITH SIAM

Washington. Feb. 27. The State Department an- nounced to-day that the United States had signed an air trans- port agreement with Siam.

The pact is similar to the agree- ments previously signed with 20 other countries in efforts to establish round-the-world American air routes. The Slam pact permits American Gesinl operations through Bangkok in both directions-to. Salgon aud be- yond to China, to the Philippines and across the Paèle to the United

Statca.

Slamese airlines are authorised to extend services to Los Angeles vla Honolulu.-Associated Press.

Korean Denies

Moscow Tale

Washington, Feb. 27.

Dr Syngman Rhee to-day denied o Moscow report that he came to the United States to oblain arms for a military campaign against the Coin- munists in north Korea.

Dr Rhee, who is chairman of the South Korean Democratic League, said the report, published by the Soviet trade union paper, Trud, is "obviously a Russian smokescreen for what they are doing in north Korca."Associated Press.

Dangerous Burma

Lawlessness

Rangoon, Feb. 27. Sir Arthur Bruce, chairman of the Burma Chamber of Commerce, said to-day that lawlessness in the country

was going from "nd, to worse!

The charges include misappropriu- tion of property, conduct unbecom

to an officer and conduct pre- Judicial to the service.

the

powers

conference

Wain-

Bizarre

Welcome For King

On Board The

Royal Train, Feb. 27. Witch doctors of the Hoan tribu, black dancers in leopard skins and Bantu hymn singers arrayed themselves exuberantly before the Royal Family to-day in New Brighton, a suburb of Port Elizabeth with a progres- sive native housing scheme,

-

The Royal Family drove past medicine men and women whose faces, chests, arts and legs WRI stalced ก the traditional tribal fashion and whose barlies

were adorned with skins, feathers ond beads and surmounted with huge headdresses. Several, Including. women, smoked big tapes.

Leaping, chanting, beating druins, aud brandishing spear, the bizarre Agures exerted themselves furiously when Their Majesties appeared. Here and there nningle native wrapped in animal skin rose from the throng Bapping his arms and legs

ly

In sharp contrast were the Bantu

and

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In grotesque fostilon. Austin, Texas, Feb. 27. Del Vayo said a great occasion for General Jonathan

psulm singers, many of them elder- A BRIGHT LIGHT SPECTACLE of AMERICA'S RECKLESS AGE? weeks Army, Anglo-Saxon Action of France was lost by the wright, commanding the Fourth recommended to-day after the San Francisco

was "disposed to creation of an atomic bomb air Franco when leave." He added that immediately force and universal military after the conference, Franco knew training for sound national that "condemnation of his regime security. was only verbal."

for

"It was then that Franco began to Wainwright told a joint session of play with the Allies and set himself the Texas legislature that the best the political objective of becoming way of ensuring United Stater se- an action eurity would be to build quickly 10 against the Soviet Union." del Vago or more monstrous airplanes and stockple of atomic bombs on said. He added that indirect sup keep port for Franco Cate from the Anglo-Saxon policy which he called "more anarchie than conservative."

The Army nid when investigationally at the Allies is completed a full report will be male to 11-Gen Robert L. Eichel- berger, commanding general of occupation army.

Murray, who arrived by plane on February JR, now held in the Rightly Ainiy stockade.United Press,

ETNA LAVA

DIVERTED

Rome, Feb. 27. The white hot stream of lava the vozing from a fissure on northern slope of Mount Etna in Sicily, which has been in violent eruption for three days, is 'not at present menacing any lages, according to a report from the correspondent of the Italian News Agency, who flew over the volcano yesterday evening.

vil-

The correspondent did not men. tion the fate of Cisterna, evacuated tide yesterday, as the white hot flowed down on it.

The lava appeared to have been diverted from its general line of advance, missing the village of Passo Pisclard, two miles due north ut Cistern, the correspondent said- Reuter.

Against Paying

Athletes

Chiengo, Feb. 27. Mr Avery-Brundage, president-of- the U.S. Olympic Association, to-day declared that the Assoulation had rejected S

proposal that amateur Olympic athletes be allowed ໂຕ collect "broken time" pay equivalent to wages lost while com peting as amateurs.

He said the U.S. Associated "never will yield is stand against payments of any kind to Olympic athletes or ngalnut Olympic participation by athletes who compete with profes- sionala,"

Exiles Not United

hand.

wearing grizzled beards. They all slowly waved palm bran- ches as they stood in front of the Bantu Church of Christ.Asociated Press.

Police Reserve Orders

He said the bombers should be large enough to fly anywhere on earth with Hong Kong Police Reserve Order a full load of bombs and back again. Wainwright said at present there

are only three major powers in the world, one of which is in a state

partial disintegration and the other might become aggressor.

The decline of one will leave us to face this menace alone."Aprociated

Del Vayn said Spanish Republicans in exile were not united and that this helped Franco's regime. How- ever, he added, there is a "spirit of resistaner loyal to the ideals of the Spanish war for a continued fight against Franco and for *The re- establishment of the republle.“

Spanish Republican resistance, del | Press. Vayo said, was compromising and rejected firmly, every monarchical solution. He added that it would be doubly grolesque if the magnificent Spanish Republican eple should be Juan in the throne.---United Press.

concluded with the return of Don

BEVIN URGES RATIFICATION

old

Soames Illness

Said Slight

St. Moritz, Feb. 27. Mra Winston Churchill arrived at St. Moritz by rail inte to-day to visit her daughter, Mrs Christopher Soames, who is on her honeymoon, Mrs Soames, formerly Miss Mary Churchill, met her mother at the station alone. fer husband went to a doctor's office while his wife went to the station.

DAUGHTER FOR MR NOEL BOOKER

Continued from Page 1)

"We are anxious to restore connections which should be valu- cble to Italy and ourselves and I do not limit this to Italy. We want to

Attendants at the couple's hotel establish our trade with all Mediter said Captain Soames had suffered "a ranean countries which have suffer-ight" illness last week-end, which was attributed to ulcers.--Associated ed so much as result of this war."

Press. Mr Bevin turned next to the Danube question and reiterated that "we desire to keep it open for all states on a footing of equality, Further, he said that he hoped to see, the waters utilised by neigh- A daughter wis born of the bouring countries for international Country Hospital, Shanghai, on electric power development.

Feb, 19, to Mrs Booker, wife of Mr Turning to the forthcoming Noel Booker, son of Supt Booker Moscow meeting of the Foreign of the Hongkong Police. Ministers Council, Mr Bevin said: The agenda facing us is a difficult one." He said the voluminous" report of the Allied Control Council In Berlin "makes it clear how great is the task of dealing with a country de- like Germany which has been vastated by war",

MINISTER'S OBSESSION "We cannot afford to have 06,000- 000 forming a depressed area in the centre of Europe. 11 may drag down the standards of other countries and may well prevent the recovery of many other countries.

we have got

"On the other light of Europe. The ruling concems a request to provide for the that ice hockey "amateurs" be I am not sure yet, even after two allowed "broken time" pay for time years, whether the Germans really lost from work-United Press.

recognise the benefits of peace and

FRENCH SWIMMER

FOR AMERICA

Toulouse, Feb. 27.

the si

stupidity of war.

"They have got to learn it, either by implication or in some way, be- cause while there is a lot of talk going about the Westem and Eastern powers, I am obsessed more than Alex Jazzy', French swimming anything else by these major powers champion and holder of many having differences and the result of European and world records, is to these differences being the resur visit the United Statpionships at gence of Germany."United Press.

in the swimming at Columbus, Ohio. on April 4 and 5, according to an aunouncement by the French Swimming Federation to. day.-Reuter

NOT SO SERIOUS

Basle, Feb. 27. Mrs Churchill arrived at Basle to-day to visit her daughter Mary, who with her husband, Captain Christopher Soames, is spending her honeymoon at St Moritz.

It is

understood that Captain Soames is suffering from a slight cold and under observation for stomach trouble, from which he suf- fered during the war.

se and Burma's future would He is not, however, confined to be endangered unless strong mea-bed-Reuter. sures were taken to bring the situa- tton under control:

Addressing the Chamber's annual *Teneral meeting he said also that the public was "completely and dangerously ignorant of the coun- try's financial situation. He urged publication of the budget to inform the people.

The audience included Governor Sie Hubert Ronce and U Aung Sang. deputy chairman of the Executive Commitee Associated Press.

AGED ACTOR DEAD

Los Angeles. Feb. 27.

Ben Webster, for over 50 years

Rugger International

Postponed

London, Feb. 27. The Rugby Lengue international match between England and France to be played at Headingley, Leeds, on March 8 has been

owing to the

ground.

postponed

trozen state of the

The suggested new date is Wed- nesday, April 10-Reuter.

Declines to Watch Bullfight

Washington, Feb. 27. President Truman had declined to

n loading actor on the London and. so a ballight during his forth- New York stages and husband of coming visit to Mexico, The White the film actress. Damo May Whitty. House made this clear to-day in re- dled, here yesterday, aged 02. ply to reperiors' questions concern-

His wife was at his bedstdoing the visit, which starts on March Associated Press.

3-Reuler

RAF Appointment

London, Feb. 27. Air Vice-Marshal Francis Frederic Inglis has been named Senior Air Staff Officer, Far Eastern Air Com?- mand Headquarters, it was announ- ced by the Air Ministry to-day- Reuter

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