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VOL. II NO. 158

Don Juan Confident

Forescos Restoration

Of Monarchy

London, Apr. 7. Don Juan, Pretender to the defunct Spanish throne and now in exile in Lisbon, believe Spain, would vote "decisively" in free elections for restoration of the Monarchy, the "Dally Mall" re- ported today.

le suid he is convinced "that if Britain and America deal with the Spanish question in a practical way it could be solved in three months.

Don Juan did not elucidate on this point in his Interview with Brian Mail's special Connell, the "Daily correspondent, which took place on Saturday in the Pretender's luxurious viila overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.

"I renard the mechanics of an actual change-over as a simple pro- blem." Don Juan told the correspon-

dent. "When Franco foes he could hund over to u Regency Council which could supervise the Interim ar- rangements

FRANCO MUST CO "The most important thing in that Franco goes. I know there is opposi

from the pri- tion to be expected

vileged classes he has built up but I think wo can meet that problem when the time comes.”

The

The

Prízist and Paðilder

Hongkong Telegraph.

NEW

TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1947.

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Lift Shaft

POLITICAL-CRISIS FACES Falls Down

LABOUR GOVERNMENT

MENACING ANIMALS

London, Apr. 7.

The Times to-day report- ed from Adelaide that thou- sands of wild horses, donkeys, mules and camels were devastating great areas of the northern part of South Australia and southern

the Queensland forcing evacuation of some ranches, and that an aerial assault on them was proposed.

The Times said the animals had multiplied greatly during the war when little attention was given to their control.-United Press.

BEVIN GETS SARCASTIC

Pretender -relterated that Hopeless Atmosphere

Franco's recent proclamation on the Monarchy was absolutely un-

acceptable.

Juan said he expected to

Don Pronounce his manifesto on Franco's

At Moscow.

Moscow, Apr. 8, Russian Foreign Minister V.

announcement to-day or to-morrow M. Molotov proposed today that And therefore he could not be ex- pected to "make a declaration of far- the German people be allowed reaching political nature before its to choose in a plebiscite between publication."

Position Vulnerable Over Conscription

London, Apr. 7.

The British Government stands in a more vulnerable position over the In last present peacetime conscription crisis than over any previous issue. week's debate, a large part of the Government majority was provided by the Conservative opposition and the bulk of votes against the Government by a section of its own followers.

One section of Labour in the pre-

in

the

of American

The perpetuation of this unnatural the confidence and hopes of free situation might have produced a peoples everywhere?—United Press. considerabie extension of revolt. LOGICAL DEVELOPMENT

Manchester, Apr. 7. sent Parliament in any case had Commenting on President Tru- always been deeply suspicious of man's policy, an editorial Conservative support of the Govern- Manchester Guardian said: "The ment's policy. Any Indication, there-Truman doctrine is fairly logical fore, that the Government was pre-development of the Monroe doctrine, pared to lean upon the opposition for especially in the way it maintains help in carrying out the aspects of persistent motion of democracy Į

polley

of the policy Labour parmant to some of the persiste

world. would have produced throughout the Resentment even among some of the

"Had the President pursued Party members, who are completely searches further into events of 1823

he would and loyal to the Government and con- he

盘 close analogy in the way his predecessor also turned demnatory of rebels.

thoughts to the Eastern Mediter- ranean....President Monroe

was all for American Intervention Greece), and in the first draft of his the French Invasion of Spain, to great message he proposed to rebuke acknowledge the independence of Greece and to ask Congress for a diplomatic mission to Athens,

On the other hand by deferring to the dissidents, representing pro- bably one quarter of its total parlia mentary support, the Government has incurred: Conservative unter which may now be expressed in a refusal to vote for the amended conscription proposals,

Equally, the Government may

ru-

A man fell down the lift shaft at Windsor Housa garly this morning, fractured his skull and sustained lacer- ations to the head. He is

in the Queen Mary Hospital and his condition is report- ed to be serious.

The man, Wong Chau, Is reported to have been visit- ing the night watchman at Windsor House, with whom he is friendly, but just how he came to fall down the lift shaft police have not yet been able to ascertain. They are conducting in- 'quiries. FINANCIARENKORB

Conference On Trade Barriers This Week

London, Apr. 7.

The representatives of 18 countries will meet in Geneva on April 10 to open negotiations for the relaxa- tion of tariffs and the removal of trade barriera in what is termed the biggest attempt in the history of economic life at multi-lateral commercial negotiations.

The conference will also discuss the establishment of an International necessary complement to the trade organisation which is to form

International Bank.

the

International Monetary Fund and the

Tho

Union of South Africa, Soviet Russia. the United Kingdom and the United States.

Tel: 27880

Death Of Sir Cecil Clementi

Former Governor Of Hongkong

London, Apr. 8.

Sir Cecil Clement, former Governor of Hongkopp and the, Straits. Settlements, died sud- denly at his home on Monday.

Sir Cecil, who was 71. was. successively Governor of Hong- kong and the Straits Settle- ments, and High Commissioner for Malaya between 1925 and 1934, when he retired on the advice of his doctor.

He was an expert on the Chinese language and literature, and among his publications was b volume of translations of Cantonese love songs. -Associated Press.

Sir Cecil Clementi was created a GCMG in 1931, having being knight- ted, KCMG five years previously. He w35

created a Knight of the Grace of Order of St. John of Jerusalem in 1920,

BRILLIANT SCHOLAR

Born on September, 1, 1675, the son of the Inte Colonel Montague Clementi, Judge Advocate-General In India, Sir Cecil was educated at St. Paul's School and Magdalen

Oxford

He had a brilliant College, scholastic career. He was hon. Scholarship, 1995, Soviet Russia has no far not taken mention Hertford

took 1st Class Moderns In 1896, was part in the discussions.

hon. mention Irelants and Craven Colombia, Denmark, Poland, Peru,

same year, 1. Mexico and Syria, who are members Scholarship in the

Boden Sanskrit Scholar in 1897, took his B. A. in 1898 and his M. A. in Preparatory Committee, are expected 1001. Sir Ceell was also an F.J.G.S to send agam observers.

and M.RAS, and was made A number of inter-governmental and

College, organisations will also attend the lion. Fellow of Magdalen

Oxford in 1931. He was made a Hon. LLD., Hongkon

University Im 1925.

The Pretender said "The examples centralised and federal govern- | havé incurred the ire of the hand of its aspects the Truman ferenco is the second resalon of the of the United Nations, but not of the !

of Greece and Italy have shown that ments, but his demand ran into core of its followers this only complicates the situation further and alves additional reasons a stone wall opposition from the

for political conflict."-United Press. three western democracies.

REJECTS SOLUTION

Lisbon, Apr. 7...

I

who have no consider and may use for rebels

to be a weakness, this this concession But basically, it is thought that the Government

the possibility

lity of lock short time later Mr Molotov closed against will have been The Spanish Pretender,

proposal

George C. Mar-might have resulted in the adminis Juan, to-day categorically rejected Secretary of Dust by uned States sharp division on conscription that Generalissimo Franco's solution for shall to move on to the next item tration's defeat and resignation. the Spanish problem in a statement on the agenda-German frontlers in which he said, "No one can ex- pect my agreement to any decision meaning the abandonment of my

Don

Foreign on Tuesday, and British Secretary Ernest Bevin sald carcas tieally that he had reached a point where he did not care what was din

Spaniards, may you always be cussed. faithful to your King."

Don Juan's secretary fanued the "We have been here for four weeks statement from Don Juan's house at and have accomplished absolutely Estoril, The proclamation was nothing" Mr Bevin said.

wis

answer to

1

debate on con-

The British Cabinet will consider all implications of the situation at Its meeting next Monday or Tues- day and it is believed that between now and the next scription, it will be made clear to the rebels that their further hostility on this issue might bring down the Government-Reuter.

CO-OPS CONDEMN POLICY

the

in Moscow.

which

forthcoming Goneva con- is carefully linked with the Preparatory, Committee of the United United Nations and the early demo Nations Conference on trade and cratic evangelism of the republie."-employment. The first session took United Press.

place in London in October. 1946. I.L.P. DECISION

Countries invited include Australia, Chile, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chiña, Cuba, Czecho-Slovaklá, France. India,- Lebanon, Luxembourg, the

Ayr, Scotland, Apr. 7. The surprise decision to hold a

(Continued on Pazo 4) special Independent Labour Party

Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway.

Soviet Hostility At Lake Success Continues

Lake Success, Apr. 7.

Russia today opposed the British and United States view that before nations can disarm there must be estab- lished a fool-proof system of security.

no provisions for establishing the armament resolution. Such a posi tain and the United States. The re-ment." kind of guarantees required by Brition would only slow up disarmu-

ments.

conference.

LIKELY PROCEDURE Tariff negotiations are expected to be given priority at the session and the following procedure is envisaged: (1) cach country to compile a st of goods in whose exports it is in terested and for which a reduction (2) of tariffs is asked from others; each

to compile a' schedule

of country which it is ready to

grant by way of reduction of toritts or otherwise.

A total of 138 bilateral combina- tions of negotiations are anticipated In this procedure.

•

A tarift steering committee, com addressed to the Spanish people. It

His remarks pointed up to the

posed of representatives of all the the Pretender's

Im set up Llandudno, Wales. Apr. 7.

delegations, will be Franco's proposed law, by which he hopeless atmosphere overlying the

The Co-operative Party,

the opening of the mediately upon would be permanent chief of state, Foreign Ministers' Council so far as

The Soviet delegate, M. Andrei start disarming there would have to session to plan and guide riegotia proclaim his DWT SUCCESSOF and any concrete accomplishments are

usually reflects the opinion of the concerned, and they fit in with talic non-trade union rank and file in the Gromyke, told the United Nations be established a strong United Nations in broad lines. into convert. Spain formally kingdom again,

among the British and American de Labour Party, to-day passed a re- Disarmament Commission that there tions army to keep security.

On conclusion of the negotiations M Gromyko said:

will not 17 schedules of tariff concessions are Don Juan's statement said Franco's legates concerning the ending of the solution condemning the proposed was nothing in the General Assembly

United

States old to Greece and Tur-resolution last December to indicate conceal the fact that such a position to emerge, each of them setting out plan

was the opposite of Spain's conference in about two weeks.

that disarmament depended on the of the British representative is a

the products und lowest rates of duty as a "menace to world peace." historic method of succession.

In the course

discussion key as of a

The Party's annual conference

creation of a security system. He de bad symptom for the point of view applicable to imports from a parti. He said the system could be which thowed anew the cleavagÓ

of its own

clared that the resolution contained of future implementation of the dis-cular country. changed only by joint action by the between the cast and west on the overrode the objections king

and the nation through the creation of the German government, National Executive that adoption of

TO LAST FOUR WEEKS Cortes. He said the Franco pro-it Marshall warned that the United Frelen Secretary, Mr Ernest Bevin, resolution would hinder the

Discussions on a charter for an in- posal violated this system.

central

solution contained no reference dir- Commenting on the British

and ternational trade organisation wilt He charged Franco was trying to States did not wish to see i

German government set up. the

that disarma proceed on The Co-operative Party constitutes ectly or indirectly, to the need of United States views

the basis of a report prolong his personal dictatorship and "his eternal" position as chief of nature of which "might eventually

into an autetratic the largest non-trade union affiliate safeguards before reducing armament must be preceded by the esta- which has been drawn up by the be transformed

blishment of strict internallonal con- Drafting Committee in Lake Success state under the camouflage of a

of the Labour Party and is its second government."Associated Press.

financial contributor, Govern

"On the largest

contrary", stated Mtrol system, the Soviet delegate sald: in February. The aim of the new monarchy-United Press.

ment considers its resolutiens no nointed to the necessity of establish- | #Kree with this position as it is not the development

to im Gromyko, "the General Assembly "The Soviet Government cannot organisation would be to encourage portant that it sent the Defence

International with the General Minister, Mr A. V. Alexander, uning as soon as possible reduction in in accord

As trade and to seek to bring countries mbly resolution on Sunday to Llandudno to plead, suc

Such reduction would

disarmament. closer together by mutual concessions cessfully, with the Party not to vote

strengthen interna-System control can only come into and the removal of trade d against Government's conscriptiontional security and confidence."

force when disarmament has been The tariff discussions are bill.

M. Gron

to last come four weeks during He declared that any delay in be- which some of the hardest bargain- insistence that the tion condemning the proposed Ameri- mos gent step required was the ginning practical measures of dis- ing yet encountered in trade talks can loans to Greece and Turkey with conclusion of a convention prohibit United Nations authority in the eyes

Arnament would undermine the is anticipated in Intermed quarters. out recording a vote. The resolution Ing the use of atomic ener

The conference

to Is war energy for

expected of the world and would put a grave sald the leans "rostitute, menace purposes, adding, "wit

ithout such to world peace and are the negation convention it would be difficult and responsibility on the United Nations between two and three months,

is adopted in Geneva a full on trade of democratie

consequences that might international principles for the pre- | perhaps even impossible

en conference 10 salve for up servation at which the grave sacri- successfully the question of interna- arise.

and employment will be called, pre- The Australian delegate, Colonel sumably in autumn of this. flces of the last war were inde."

fional control over atomic energy" Hodgson, declared that an effective which would take final decisions. The resolution insistéd an attempt

system of control was fundamental in So far no government is pledged to bypass the United Nations would

any disarmament scheme and ho

the charter for an impair UN's authority,

to any part of proposed the immediate appointment international trade organisation. or u cominiitee to examine practical The British and Commonwealth measures.

delegates left London to-day for Geneva. The British delegation will be headed by Sir Stafford Crippa- United Press.

EDITORIAL

Unrealistic Rebel MPs

To Mr Churchill and his Opporl-

ifon colleagues the sight and knowledge of Labour MPs in re- volt must be comforting and en couraging; to Mr Altice and his Whips distressing and perturbing. The Prime Minister has had two examples of the determination of

back-benchers to these

Inspose

their contrary views in House of Commons debates the Brst on the subject of the Government's the vis-a-vis policy foreign

Russia; the and United States second over the conserlptian bill, Both times the small but compact amend- Rroup of rebels fabled ame ments, and although heavily de- feated when it came to the

alvi-

atons, they succeeded in sowing the seeds of doubt and, distrust within the ranks of the Labour their Bignificantly

Intervention on the conscription

influenced

Party.

measure apparently the Cabinet to reduce the period conscript service from months to

10 a year-adeâinile con-

of.

18

cession to the minority group and

1

a siap to the Conservatives who had voted solidly with Govern- ment on the original bill in the belief that Mr Attlee would per- mit no amendments, The Labour Farty chlefs have also had to defend themselves strenuously before the Trade: Union Congress. and the Co-operative Wholesale Soclely convention-farther evi- dence that party members, apart. from APs, are not happy con- cerning the Government's current policies, either at home or abroad.

The rebels withlu Westminster are small in number, but there is no doubling their genuine. belief that Mr Bevin is committing Britain to foreign, polley that will even- tually involve the nation in other

major

They are, to what vague us to

Mr

war.

Кепега?

" trille however policy they desineral alternative to Bevin

adopi.

be described ON terms it can- middle-of-the-road in which, pre- sumably, Britain would endeavour Lo hold a

between the a balance

Bely and Ru United States

Russia, The

soon lacks realism. Left a

debtor nation as a re- sult of the war, Britain has lost of her one-time bargaining ver in internailonal diplomacy. power She

with must now elther the United States or with Russia In an ideological war which has already started. Mass, opinton in England. Is solidly against the Russian way of living and any Indication that Mr Bevin was would leaning towards the Soviets

in the immediate overthrow result of the Government.

The alter- native is to give the fullest pos- sible support to the United States an major international issues, The question is not so much whether this policy will involve Britain In another war, but in the event of whether another world conflict,

has correctly

allied the nation

Britain has herself.

never set suffered the indignily of being a turncoat, and it is inconceivable that the Labour Government to lead her loto would allempt such a position.

To-day's session „pted 1 resolu Govepeated the Soviet becomplished #

TRUST BETRAYED

Mr T. R. Edmondshm, of Notting- ham, in moving the resolution, sald, "President Truman has betrayed the trust that history has placed in his hands and has been guilty of a piece; of statesm: nship without parallel in its irresponsibility in the postwar period.

'BAD SYMPTOM”. While reaffirming the Soviet be Hef that strict international control of atomic energy was absolutely new cessary, AI, Gromyko argued that this had nothing to do with disarma- ment. He attacked the British point al view that before nations could

any

The Disannament Commission then, adjourned until Wednesday after moon.-Reuter,

a charter

last

It

In 1812, Sir Cecil married diario Penelope Rose, MBE, daughter of Admiral C. J. Eyres. They had one con and two daughters.

Sir Cecil Clement entered the Colonial service as a Hongkong Government

1899. Cadet

pussca

He passed

Cantonese In 1900 and in Pekingese in 1906. He was appointed Assistant Registrar- General in 1901 and became a mem- ber of the Board of Examiners in Chinese, the following year. In the same year he was seconded for special service under the government of India, and in 1803 seconded for famine relief work in Kwongal. BRITISH GUIANA & CEYLON

From -1803 to 1000 Sir Cecil-was- a member of the Land Court, Assis- tant Land Officer and Police Magis- trate in the New Territories, He became Assistant Colonial Secretary and Clerk to the Council in 1007; al- tended the International Optum Conference at Shanghai In 1900; was Private Secretary to H.E. the Ad- ministrator in 1810; Acting Colonial (Continued on Page 4)

BRITISH FLOOD RELIEF

year

Already

State Seizes Telephone Plants As

Nationwide Strike Begins

"He hup betrayed all the principles of democratic Internationalisin such

Rare embodied in the Charter of the) United Nations, and has digressed-

Washington, Apr. 7. Picket lines have appeared in all, "there is nothing we have to do to from the path set before the Amer!-

The State

In New maintain them:"" of New Jersey the large eltics affected. can people by President Roosevelt.".

York supervisory staffs were stand- The United States has more 'tele-. The conference also adopted a re- seized all the 204 plants of the ing by to handle emergency call

any other country- phones than seluilon calling upon Government to New Jersey Telephone Company The strike will tie up long distance more than 20 million to a population slamp out an

any colour bar in the today, 12 minutes after it was calls, but many cities, like New of roughly 130 million. armed forces.

notified that the first nationwide York and Washington, will be able The text of the resolution was as follows: This conference is firmly telephone strike in the United to use dial telephones until meghanl

cal dificulties crop up. of the opinion that the method of States history had begun. proposed Amerienfi aid to Greece and

Operators in the overstas division constitutes a menace to world The strike started after failure in New York City joined the strike Turkey peace and negation of the democratic of all-night efforts by United States soon after zera hour, but there will principles

of preservation for the hielt the grave sacrifices of the Inst Government conciliators to get at bo no immediate interruption · off has been that the Federation wanis least a postponement. Called by operation of Irised wires serving war were made. Further, the con- the Federation of Telephone Workers press and radio. ference insists that this attempt to the strike directly involves, more bypass the United Nations Organisk than 300,000 workers and

members Hon will seriously impair the authori. 65,000 ty of the organisation and destroy unions have also walked out.

Strikers are demanding an in crease of $12 a week: on wagen ranging from $28 to $50 h week and revision of nine points in their con-

tract.

The chief obstacle to a settlement to deal direct with the American Telephone and Telegraph Company as the parent, while the, company about An official of the telephone, com- said that the unions should negotiate

of unaffilated pany said that' such wires were with the various. State companies.

set up for continuous operation und | Reuter

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