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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1947.
THE UNITED STATES OF
INDONESIA CREATED
VETO INVOKED AGAIN
Minefield. Dispute
Lake Success, N.Y., Mar. 25.
A resolution that: the mine- fleld in the Corfu Strait could not have been laid without the knowledge of the Albanian Government before the Security Council to-day failed to obtain the concurrent vote of one per- manent member-Russin-and the President announced that it was, therefore, fost.
Seven countries voted in favour, Russia and Poland against.
Votes in support of the Anding were given by the United States, Australia, Belgium, China, Colombia and France. When the President called for votes to the contrary,
both Mr Gromalto ani Mr Lange raised their hands. The Syrlan pa- presentative abstained from voting.
This was the first time that the voto has been used in the Counell since September 20 last when Russia cast it to kill the original United Staten proposal for a on the spot Investigation of the Balican situation.
STILL ON AGENDA
Relief Ship
Hits Miné
Belgrade, Mar. 25. The UNRRA ship. St Lawrence, carrying 6,500 tons of potatoes for relief of starvation areas in Bosnia struck a mine within sight of the Dalmatian coast to- day. The vessel was heavily damaged' and is reported to be in a sinking condition, It is not yet known whether there were any casualties.
The ship was on a voyage the Dal- from Maine to matian port of Sibenik. The St Lawrence was one of the three potato ships originally scheduled for Yugo-Slavia, The two other vessels were diverted to another country. reportedly Germany.-Reu- ter.
SOVIET FISH
FOR BRITAIN
London, Mar. 25.
new
Revolution Ends In Agreement
FRIENDSHIP PACT SIGNED
Batavia, Mar. 25.
Nineteen months of revolution, bloodshed and protracted negotiations ended in Indonesia today with the signing of the Dutch-Indonesian agreement, providing for the creation of the United States of Indonesia.
The agreement drawn up at Lingguljati near Cheri- bon, Java, four months ago, provides for the de facto recognition of the Republic of Java, Sumatra and Madura, and the formation by 1949 of the United States of Indo- nesia, which will enter into the Union under the Dutch Crown.
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The Indonesian delegation which "The agreement we are signing attended the signing refused to attend now is meant as the first step in our the reception held by Dr. Hubertus efforts to ilberate ourselves from the
in this country and van Mook, Dutch Lieutenant Gov- darkness
n clear and bealthy ernor-General of the Netherlands bring back
of the objectivity in A atmosphere East Indies, and his colleagues. spokesman explained that it was not which our cry "Meadeka' (freedom)
(Continued on Tago 4) considered ntting that they should at- tend as military operations la indone- alan East Javn had left an inflamed mood among the people there.
there were
feasts)
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This historic day, was celebrated throughout Batavia, however, the Netherlands
Govern The President ruled that the mal-
Eart Indles ter remained on the agenda, but Mr
The Food Minister, Mr Johnment declaring a half holiday for the Gromyko objected. The objection
(Indonesian and the President | Strachey, announced to-day that occasion. In several parts of the city
"Slamatans" was over ruled
and fireworks were Bown adjourned the debate, keeping the Britain had completed a
from
Singapore. Tomorrow Albanian question on the agenda to food contract with Russia under
will be church services and allow any member of the Council to which the Soviets would supply make further proposals for a settle- 10,000,000 tons of canned sal- public prayer meetings and schools ment of the dispute.
of and public offices will remain closed. and 2,500,000 tons mon
The signing ceremony to day took canned crab.
in Dr van Mooke's palace In place Batavia before 80 diplomats and special guests. Besides Dr van Mook, Dr Willem Schermerhorn, Chairman Commission-General
be also
Flood Devastation In Soviet-Controlled Zone
(Editor's Note: The author of the following dispatch, a German photographer for Acma newspictures, rushed back to Berlin, by motor-cycle to-night from the scene of Germany's worst flood dis- .aster in 150 years. He brought back from the Russian zone thr first flood pictures and the first eye-witness account. The Soviet
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Miss Diana Dodwell, daughter of Mr Stanley H. Dodwell, waS married last week to Mr H. J. Armstrong, well-known Hong- This picture, kong solicitor. taken after the
ceremony, shows Mr and Mrs Armstrong father. with
brido's tha (Gainsborough Portrait).
rone is still closed to personel of the other occupation powers.)** TRADE PACT
BY ROBERT BERGFELD Written for the United Press
Freienwalde,
miles
rushed away-have rescue equipment
to
some this area. meanwhile, Soviet Army forces. are attempting to control the rising
REQUEST
The Oder here has already, risen BY BRITAIN 10 feet and German, afficinis fear it may go a further four feet within the next two or three days.
of the Dutch
waters. Germany, Mar. 25. to the Netherlands East Indies, and
This city of normally 10,000 M. Max van Poll, Catholic Party member of the Commission-General, was crowded to-night with more signed for the Netherlands. The than 2,000 German refugees Prices malories un behalf of Indonesia
were Dr Sutan Sjahrir, Prime Minis, who have been driven from their ter, Dr S. K. Gani, Minister of homes by the rampaging spring Economy, and Messrs Room and flood waters of the nearby Oder
River. Santoso.
uncontrolled.
be
After the meeting, the British delegation spokesman declared: "As. the Security Council's clear verdict
The Minister also announced that for Britain has been frustrated by
has importation of still table wines would the veto and
Es experience shown that direct negotiatlon with henceforth be uncontrolled. He said Albanians is hopeless, there only the limit for expenditure for these remains for Britain to bring the wines, roughly comparable to pre- ease to the International Court." war importation totals, would be set As the matter is still technically and the trade itself would allot on the Council's agenda, the British amounts among dealers," delegation expects the Cour to would
Council recommend both parties to seek an added. International Court
verdict. The then remains
whether Importations of sparkling wine, Soviet-Russia will volo ruchre-Vermouth, aperitifs, port and sherry commendation when the time comes. and spirits were not affected by the Most delegates expressed regret new order, Mr Strachey said. Wines that the veto should have been used affected would be those "not exceed- by Russia only a few months after ing 25 proof in the case of European the General Assembly had con- countries and 27 proof in Empire demned its indiscriminate applica- countries." tion.Reuter.
question
COS ACQUITTED
Wuppertall, Mar. 25. General Blumentrit. Fleld Mar- shal Gord van Rundstedt's former chief of staff, was acquitted to-dny of war crimes charges, by a British milltary court here.
The prosecutor suid
there
not sufletent proof to support
allegations.--Reuter.
EDITORIAL
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stio
for
WB.S
Mr Strachey said Jam rations were threatened by lack of glass jars, caused because the coal shortage had and manufacture, crippled glass urged housewives to turn in 300,000- 000 jam inrs.
"Weather loses will be felt during the Intter half of the
year," he warned.
Mr Strachey niso said every effort the would be made to speed Canadian wheat shipments-United Press.
Imperial Preference
ati
to
QUAVE and cogent, Sir Stafford Cripps has outlined the Labour Government's long-term policy katernational with respect
lo trading. In essence, It envisages a gradual return to free trade by the limitation and elimination of tariff barriers, and concurrence in United States proposals International tradic organisation, complementary the International Monetary Fund.. In the achievement of these almas, the British Government has com- milled itself to making Imperial Preference a bargaining weapon. it is to be used in such However, a manner that the Commonwealth nations will be free to arrange their awn reciprocal trade agreements. Air Stafford promised there would be no unilateral aboiliion of Im- perial Preference, and where Britain regarded as pecen- sary any limitation or sacrifice of a preference, the Interests of the Commonwealth countries, would be taken into fall consideration. Bir Stafford advanced a persua sive
Although to argument, hard-headed brinessmen, possibly rather too idealistio and much, too dependent on unknown quantities, such as the willingness of the United States and other members of UN to follow similar polley. Whether Imperial Preference ta only limited, or whether it oven-. swilly becomes scrapped). Hong-
B
that
afforded placing
OF
END OF AN ̃ERA” Speaking after the ceremony, Dr van Mook said: "I the signatures appended a moment ago shall have in bistory the significance hoped for simatories, this ceremony by the forms the end of an ers.
was an xrn in which two entered Into na nations that have
co-operation became alliance for seriously separated from each other through wor and have had to find their way back to each other."
Now the times of quarrelling and negotiating were passed, Dr van Mook declared, and times of friend whip and co-operation had come. In these first days, it would be difficult fix their line of conduct for all to and their place in the new situation. "May we have the heart to tackle the work firmly, joyfully and with- distrust or mental pre-conceived
io," he said.
out
stand in the way.
These people are part-of-an estimated 20,000 Germans who have been made temporarily or permfon- homeless by the raging ently waters.
They
are a pitiful sight-many without food and apparently on the verge of starvation,
German relief workers, short of
and
London, Mar. 26. Britain may seek the removal of The bodies of dead horses, cattle the United States 25-year prefer
pigs * arc being swept rnce treaty with the Philippines as along in the switt current. part of the International bargaining Roads westward toward Berlin are at Geneva next month, it was in- choked with thousands of refugees dicated to-day in the House of Com-
the flood by leaving | mons. who escaped
their homes with only a sacicful of personal belongings.
LOOTERS ACTIVE Reports reaching here sald that German looters were having a field day.
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Huge Profits From Former Jap Mills
Exports To Hongkong Yield £2,000,000
Shanghai, Mar. 25. Thirty-eight former Japanese cotton mills totalling 1,768,480 - yarn spindles, 980,266 thread spindles and 38,501 looms yielded to the Chinese Government a net profit of CN$1,000,000,000,000 (about US$83,400,000) during the past year, according to the Govern- ment-owned China Industries Corporation which is operating these mills.
Textile
The CTIC said the reported pro- it Included CN$80,000,000,000 scat to the National Treasury la canh as well as accounts receivable for yarn and cloth for military use amounting to CNS100,000,000,000. It was pointed out that part of the net profit represented the current value of yams, raw cotton, cloth and other materials now on hand.
The report also disclosed that the £2,000,000 by Corporation carned exports to Hongkong and predicted it ten per cent of the current annual production were exported to the in Far former Japanese markets Eastern countries the Corporation can cam for the Government foreign credits amounting to US$73,000,000 to US$100,000,000.
EFFICIENCY CLAIM
The report pointed to the high efficiency with which the Corpora tion operated the mills, saying pri- vate mills averaged 230 labourers 10,000 and 14 clericals for each spindies compared to the Corpora- and nine labourera 202 tion's clericals.
confiscated in located art mills Shanghai, eight in Tsingtae, seven in Tientsin and five in Manchuria.
The Corporation is one of several concerns Government - operated which have been subjected to heavy attacks by the political enemies of
T. V. Soong.
these of Eighteen Japanese
Dr
"father" of these shaft and
Arms.
The report, showing a huge pro- At, was significantly. released at a time when the Kuomintang's Cen- tral Executive Committee voted for a survey Into state monopolistic enterprises-United Press.
Power & Light Ration Plan
the
President of the Board of Trade, Sir Stafford Cripps, vald Britain will Geneva be under pressure at the
London, Mar. 20. meeting on April 10 to reduce her and in return
A plan to ration gas and electri- Empire Preference
concessions from other city to Britain's 40,000,000 con will seek nations.
sumera was studied by the Cabinet Captain L. D. Gammans, Conser on Tuesday and Whitehall sources food themselves, are doing their best This afternoon a 'ganing nole was vative, asked Sir Stafford whether reported that the Prime Minister,
Attlee, would explain here to avert complete disaster. But blasted in a dam near here to divert the United States-Philippines agree- Mr the flood came so fast they have some of the water in an attempt to ment was "outside the Geneva dig scheme to the House of Commons been unable to form
Cripps an effective bring the roaring river under cau- cussion."
answered: "No, on Wednesday, organisation.
Anyone can ask that these prefer- One German official estimated that ences be removed and as a part of farmland were under water, Some of not be." already 100,000 acres of German the bargain they may or they may
1947 crop season because of the de- it, he said, would be useless for te
MUST BE NEW APPROACH bris carried by the river. Just how
Admiral E. A. Taylor, Conserva- Informed sources said that much, however, has not yet been detive, pointed out that a quota ngree-new plan will ask for public' co- termined,
No one knows how many have
perished already in the flood waters miles of fertile which are swirling northward across, more than two farmland.
117-
and
trol,
ference.
The Prime Minister's announce- ment, it was understood, would deal and of the plan to conserve Kas electricity, and would not include only with the broad general cutline
coal the mention of domestic nilocations.
the
MANY DEATHS LIKELY
tor
The chief of German flood control ment was part of the United States operation, Oxing "target savings There were reports-so confirmed of some 200 drowning. for Mark Brandenburg said that one Philippine pact in addition to pre-based on the size of households, and threatening prosecution in cases of of the reasons the food was causing or sensitiveness on matters Unless they received immediate re-
such high property loss was because Sir Stafford Cripps said: "We gross waste.
Until the rationing system is of prestige must not be allowed to lief, German officials fear scores of
develop LIKE the
the We can spoil this refugees will die of exposure
expected that Poles, who now control the Dder hope that if we can
TI- River's castern bank, had refused to international understanding on these effective It is experiment by hesitation and mis- bunger.
"We
cooperate in flood control measures. matters it will make it less likely, Government will continue to trust," Dr van Mook warned.
further quire householders to refrain from From this side of the flood area indeed very unlikely, that can make it an example to the world
what bilateral agreements of that sort will sing electricity for five hours daily. damage had been done on the Po-be arrived at. If world trade is to Associated Press. Hish banks of the Oder-Unitedbe mantained in its existing chan- ncis by such examples as the Phiup- plne agreement, obviously wo ate going to have very great difcutty in reaching the increased volume of exparts we require, and of support- ing the standard of living wo wish to achieve."
In my entire tour of the flooded The fire departments of Potsdum Brandenburg-more than
by joining hands and by putting orice uren I saw only three boats.
and for all an end to this period of
The lengthy and strife and dispute. sequel to war had brought disappoint- ment and bitterness but that now had to be conquered quickly. Let us start the work of peace with convle- tion and confidence," he said.
on"
kong manufacturers and expor- ters are certain to turn a baleful eye on the Brillsh Government's palley. Cheap labour and the preferences before the war
scope
the for of Hongkong products Highly throughout the emplic. remunerative markets were found for rubber shoes, torches, forch
"There can now come an end to plece bulb, hardware,
roods.
that all local quarrels and strife soft goods, leather goods and raftan ware and furniture.
have so far, retarded or frustrated On
From to-day reconstrucllon. re- the average, these products
can and ward, public utterances quired only Rome 25 percent
must on both sides drop the note materials and labour of empire origin, and for them, manufac-
of distrust, Insinuation and hostill- turers received a 10 percent tarif concession. Any limitation
CLEARER SPIRIT abolition of this preference must have a retarding effect, on Hong- hong's. light Industries, especially as they are now struggling to re- establish themselves in the face of high fabour costs and expen- elve raw materials in short sup- ply. Whether or not the colony's mánufacturer,
confidently face the prospect of losing empire tariff concessions depends solely on a drastic fall in production costs. The Chamber of Commerce is inclined to the conviction that £ Imperial Preference is finally abandoned, Hongkong will have no difficulty in adapting itself, xe concedes, however,
Chat a rever- sion to normal conditions in ́wages and "cosis of materials is a prerequisite for successful com- petition in other markels. ··
can
Eisenhower On
War Prospects
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Washington, Mar, 25. General Dwight Eisenhower, tho United States Army Chief of Staff, declared today: "There is no Im- mediate danger of a deliberately pro- volied war." That, the added, was not necessarily a sign that a war would not occur..
Dr Sutan Stahrir described the agreement as the sign of a clearer spirit and a clearer atmosphere in Indonesia. But there was still n
He repeated twice the statement he trent deal of uncertainty, doubt and distrust about it in the minds of the made in the same words when he was visiting Europe last year, "there Indonesian people. It was still riot clear to the majority of them what is no nation in the world today which would deliberately provoke a zlobal the future held in store.
The Indonesians still stood
face war."S
I was unable to determino
Press.
FLOODS IN POLAND
Fuel Shortage Stops RAF Recruiting
Warsaw, Mar. 21. Floods in Poland have washed away up to 30 bridges and on Fri day two bridges were swept from the Vistula between Warsaw and
from comfortable Progue, hurling seven persons to Philippine treaty of friendship has conscript boys their death the flooding Vistula. been sent to Manila for study by homes and put them in training cen➡
In Silesia, the population was the Philippine Government.
tres which are unheated and with called out for a general fight against spokesman said he could disclose no fuel. to book, foed.”: an RAF. flood ravages,United Press.
London, Mar. 25. Britain's fuel shortage has stopped Meanwhile,
· Foreign 1
Omca recruiting to the Royal Air Force. it. spokesman told Associated Press the was stated to-day, British draft of a proposed British-
"It is not considered reasonable to
detalls.Associated Press.
Tho
DO
spokesman said. Reuter.
Russia Agrees To Give Dairen Back
Washington, Mar. 26. Russia has notified the United
States that she is ready to take "appropriate steps” to carry out to face with the song of Holland, Ho described Ulio recent incidents an agreenient to give China the
guns in hond for killing. looking upon each other as threat or ba
an
|
in Venezia Giulia, the province sur-
To China
Press officer Lincoln White
the Chinese administration and that the port be opened to international commerce.
The Agreement has never been said Implemented... that the United States in the last Meanwhile, American citizens
few days had expressed a hope that havo boon denied permission to Russia and China would complete enter Dairen and a United States
enemy to be annihilated. The rounding Trieste, as "undesirabib / control of the Manchurian port | the necessary arrangements for the naval vessel, was ordered from the
of the
sky was still dark and clouded but things." He said the United States in of Dairen, the State Depart- transfer "in the near future" of harbour early this year upon the
its armed services mus! keep abreast with the signing there had come o sigh of relief from the troubled of the rest of the world and if pos- ment announced to-day.”
sible ahead of them. Air forces today breast of Indonesia.
It was possible to look forward; occupted the dominant position in there were indications that it might war. An air force was the only im thing for retallation I be possible to forget the past and mediate concentrate on hopes for the time someone tried to attack the U. S ahead.
Heuter.
Dairen, which had been under the expiration of its authorised stay.. Soviet military control since the │In urging the exceution
States The Soviet notification was in Russians moved Into Manchuria in 1945 agreement, the United response to an American note to the closing days of the war with also expressed a hope for the re- sumption of., trafo on the Chinese Moscow and Nanking, expressing a Japan.
"The Chinese and Soviot Govern- Changchun railway which enters hope that the "current unsatisfactory
Diat Dairen from the North-Associated situation" at Dairen could be settled ments agreed In August 1045
the control should be turned over to Press,
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