1947-04-29 — Page 4

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1947.

NOT WANTED IN Geneva Tariff Talks

CANADA

Ollawa, Apr. 28.

Count Alfred de Marlony, who was acquitted of killing his father-in-law, Sir Harry Oakes,

the Halaman in 1943, is being deported from Canada to Mauri- tl; when a passare can be Arranged, Mr J. A. Glen, Minis- ter of Mines and Resources, an-

nounced here today.

"He is not acceptable to lis country," said Mr Glen,

Count Marigny, of Franco- Mauritius parentage, has been a resident of Montreal" for two years-Reuter.

FLEW TO GET

MARRIED, BUT

TURNED BACK

Undertaken In Air Of Great Secrecy

Geneva, Apr. 28.

The United States to day opened three more sets of tariff negotiations, bringing the present total to eight, including talks with United Kingdom, Canada, France and Australia. Today's negotia tions include India, South Africa, and Chile, which is the first of the Latin-Americans to open trade talks.

The greatest secrecy is being maintained in all these talks, which are going on behind closed doors. United States delegation members have been warned they will be sont home if they divulge any Information on tariff talks at the present stage-

Pravda Says Democracies

London, Apr. 28. Bewildered

bridelcas, and Owen Crowe of Reading, Massachusetts, was back in the United States today after one of the quickest round trips to England in airline annals,

Crowe arrived here by the Pun- American Airlines on Sunday after. noon to marry 30-year-old Mrs Irene Harvard In Cardiff today, but im- migration oficials refused bim_pd- niission

medical on

They grounds. said he had impetigo and would have to go back to the United States.

Less than four hours

he Jater boarded another Pan-American plane and took off for New York. Pan American had to foot a 5325 bill for the return trip. Airline officials said it was the first time in thel memory tha senger had been refused admission because of Impetigo.

The

think an airlines -pas-

"I can't understand it," Crowe såld during his brief stop here. "I paid $323 for this trip and it all has been for 1

Are Rotten

Delegates of countries which started tariff negotiations last week, in the meantime, have

POCKET CARTOON

NOUR WIEGMA

According to this I've

lost twenty pounds."

Turned To Crime For

A Thrill

U.S. Policy Said Driving BRITISH Koreans To Communism

Chicago, Apr. 28.

The policies of the American occupation forces in Korea are driving workers there toward Communism, according to the two members of the World Federation of Trade Unions commission to investigato conditions in Japan and Korea. They said they found conditions in Japan much better.

Mr Williard S. Townsend, President of the CIO United Transport Workers, and Mr Ernest Bell, International Secretary of the British Trades Union Congress, said in an. interview today that workers in the American zone of Korea. were subjected to conditions "incredible In this twentieth century of civiliantion."

Mr Townsend: "As a result, i ding closely to the American Fedora- the whole zone is providing lon of Labour and the Congress of Industrial Organisations in The fertile ground for winning United States. He, however, added: Korean workers over to the "There is one big difference though. bellef in Communism."

They get along much better. There is none of the strife that we have here,"

These men

Mr Bell said the occupation forces provided "full opportunity" for trade unlonism to TOW and flourish in Јарап.

"The greatest problem facing the Irado

union movement in Japan at present is immaturity, of the unions themselves," Mr Bell said. "But all leaders wo talked with showed

He, said the American occupation authorities put in charge of Korean industry men who "undoubtedly were collaborationists while Japan

the occupied country, have no sympathy with democracy," Mr Townsend said. "They are per- mitted to run rampant because the American forces insist on maintain-. ing a hands-off polley in connection with the internal affairs of the coun- For nearly two years, a week-ry As a result of that policy our end thief has been ransacking People do not know what is hap-things are done

pening there."

world.

"The unionists must curb the homies of villagers in quiet

their It had little High Wycombe.

Impatience, get to the basic princi- pies of trade union organisation and got so the inhabitants were

establish confidence of the workers afraid to leave their homes for

in stability of the trade union move- the week-end.

ment.-United Press.

Aylesbury, Apr. 28.

been studying offers for reduc- tion of tariffs and removal of trade barriers, and it is expect ed they would be ready this week to embark on the second phase of actual horse-trading on the basis of those mutual offers, So far, nobody has appeared very enthusiastic about the other porthers concessions, with the exception of the Czecho-Slovpte delegation, which indleated that it was quoted salis- fed with the start.

There is

1 Eeneral Inclination "Luxury and parasitism are among the negotiating teams not to the first offers they receive rampant in the top class of 90-from the United States or others as ciety, whereas living conditions the last word." The British delegi-pathise with the victims during her and misery are becoming worse lon, for instance, has been consoling frequent visits to her childhood at the other pole of society and themselves with the same argument, unemployment ia growing."

London, Apr. 28. Radio Moscow today broad cast an article by Pravda, giving this picture of America

and Britain:

ing

Mrs Emily Maud Clark, 34-year- old housewife, who had grown up among them and gone to London to marry, had been the first to sym-

friends,

*Extensive Tour

The commission, which was eslabe shed at the Arst meeting of the WFTU in Paris In October 1945. made an exclusive tour of Japan and

the both

American and Russian zones in Korea.

Mr Bell said they were drawinit which will be pre- up a briet

sented for Sporon at the meeting |

Prague la

of the Federation in June. If adopted, the delegates will compile a more comprehensive re-

the United States tariff oncession to them as only the open-

Today, Mrs Clark pleaded guilty

port which will be sent to the occu- round. Sources close to the Briat Bucks Assizes to housebreaking-nation authorities and published. tish delegation indicate that shey The prosecutor, Mr Malcolmn Milne, hope the offers may be improved in

He asserted: "We found the the course of the forthcoming nego offences" to be taken into considera-pileated.

26 "outstanding situation in Korea extremely com ulations.

Hon. in a period of over two years.

The broadcast quoted an article. by Marinin on the economic situs-,

said there were nothing. I am not a rich man tion in the two countries, in which he said: "Monopolists are shifting of the postwar all the difficulties period on to the shoulders of the working class alone,

"American monopolists won during the

the colossal war US$62,000,000,000.

sinister These Kains led, as a conséquence, to a rise in prices which constitutes the menace of Indation,

but I will get money to come back." Mrs Harvard, tearfully folding away her trousseau In her Cardiff home, asked: "Why on earth should they send him back?" She said ne didn't have time even to telephone her although he did send in telegram. They met in England during the war, Crowe was a United States Army cook and she was bulance driver.United Press.

E am-

Ernest Bevin

In Berlin

Berlin, Apr. 28. The British Foreign Secre tary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, arrived by train from Moscow today. He described his trip as "very swell, but very slow."

sum

of

Mrs Clark herself sald: "I have done all these house-breakings so quickly, that I have a job to remem- ber them all,"

Both the United Stales and the United Kingdom express dissatisfac- tion with the new French tariff. which is considered too high, but it is understood that the French have indicated they are not intending to The police said they found almost apply it for some time, but in the all of the stolen property, ranging meantime will retain the system of from rugs to furs, la her home In import controls. It is understood fashionable Baker Street, Londen, somo modißcations by France In this

de- Mr Fearnley Whittingstoll, "Since the beginning of 1947, there i respect are expected by the United fence counsel, pleaded that Mrs. are 5,200,000 unemployed in

the Stutes and United Kingdom nego-Clark was chlidless and had vir- United States. The scope of the tutors. offensive punched

American monopolists against the working class becomes very clear when ane observes the position taken by the new Congress, which at present is examining some 200 anti-workers bills.

by

View Of Britain

· Necessity Of Protection The Latin-Americans, who started tariff talks for the first time today, are expected to insist they are not able to make substantial concessions and to claim the necessity of pro- industries for which protection Is claimed

those axc

described economically justified by the availa- billty

tually no satisfaction in Hfe, so had turned to crime in search of Z thrill.

Mrs Clark was sentenced to three years penal servitude. United Press.

tection for young industries. Among FRENCH GOLD

"The working class, however, re- sponds to this vffensive, launched by the reaction, by an evergrowing re- were Gome 3,000 strikes in the United States in 1940, in which 7,000,000 workers took part. The strike movement spreads from day to day. The situation becomes

and more United States."

"War expressed Of Great Britain, be sold:

Mr Bevin made no statement atsistance. There the station, where he was met by the British Military Governor. Air Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas, the de- puty Military Governor, Lt-Gen Str Brian Robertson, the American Am- bassador, Mr Robert Murphy, and Maj-Cen William Draper, Jr.

The Foreign Secretary will

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Tuesday, Apr 20 Swatow and Fuecliow Shanghol (Bea)

2. p.m.

(Sex)

Peiping

Colombo only (Ben) 3. p.m. Tzamkung #Kwongchowwan) Kongmoon

Macau, Talahan & Shekki

Canton (tralny 4. Swatow, Amoy Shanghal

(Air) 330 p.m.

Wednesday, April 18 Straits, Rangoon & Calcutta (Sex) 10.

Workers there had been under foreign oppression for over 40

4. p.. When the Japanese were years. forced out it left a complete vacuum In the industrially, polill- | cally and

"In Japan, the situation was much better. There we found many rern

movement nants of a trade unlons which had 400,000 members when at the height during the early part of the nineteen-thirties."

Two Groups Ini Japan

Mr Bell sald there were two main labour groups in Japan correspon-

HESSE JEWEL

THEFT CASE

NEARS END

4.31.

..

Bangkok Swatów Straits, Batavia

Sourabaya (Sea) Noon. Amoy Shanghai (Bea) 3. p.m. USA.. Central & South America &

Canada vin San Francisco (NO Parcels for Canada)_(Sex) 3 pan., Kongmoon Macao, Teinstian & Shakki

(Kès) 4. p.m. Canton (train) 4. p.m. Amoy Shanghal,

Tsingtao and

Nanking

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Liuchow and Kunming.

(ATF) 330 p.m.

Thursday May 1

Manila P. 1. (Ale) 10. DAL Formosa (Bea) 10. .. Hatphong (Sea) Noon.

Foochow

Strails Amoy Sandakan D. N, B. (Sea)

3. p.m.

Kongmoon Macao, Telnshan & Shekki

(Bea) 4. p.m. Canton (train) 4. p.m,

Saigon, Singapore Colombo, Sydney. Auckland and London Swatow.

Amoy Shanghai & Pelping (Air) 330 p.m.

Friday, May 2

Manila P. 1. (Air) 10. n.m. Salgon (Sea) 10. amm.

Swatow and Amoy (Bea) Noon. Teamkong and Halphong (ses) 2 p.m." Egypt (Bea) 3. p..

of

resources or markets. They are expected to advance the argument that their tariffs are al ready, low and some even among the lowest of all the countries ed represented at the Geneva paricy.

been An increasing desire

(Sea) 4. p.m. on their part-expected to be Ambassador, M. Rene Massigli,

this at

conference-to and published as a White Paper on world markets on introduce stay has aggravated the position of the larger scale manufactures and semi tonight, France will send to Bri. asked the Military Court to con- overnight In Berlin and proceed to workers und has Imagensely enrichic manufactures of raw materials and tain £16,000,000 in gold during vict Colonel Jack W. Durant of

London by plane some time morrow.

more

tense

In

the

to-monopolies, The economic policy of the Labour Party has not produced Important changes.

During a four-hour stopover last night in Wursuw-two hours longer than planned-Mr Bevin conferred with the Polish Premier and the

the

"Recent statements of some of the leaders of the Labour Party lead to Foreign Minister. He gave no indi-ny importance will take place in conclusion that no changes of cation of the subject of their con- nyim versations.United Press.

The bourgeois systems the future. of Great Britain and the Thited Slates resembles pyramids, the four- dations of which are worm-eaten and the tops adorned by gold and dia- monda"-United Press,

Chinese Refuse

!

To Sail Ship

Melbourne, Apr. 28.

The departure of the steamship Marello, due to leave for Singapore yesterday, is still held up because 80 Chinese scamen refuse to sail unless they are reassured that the Customs authorities will not confiscate the goods

Dutch Mermaids

1108

#1

foodstuffs, which so far have been 1947. exported mainly in primary condi- tion.

Frankfurt, Apr. 28. Declaring, "The honour of the United States is at stake," Major Joseph S. Robinson today

Hongmoon Macão, Tanzhan & Shekki Canton (train) 4. p.m. 1 Salgon and Paris Bangkok, Rangoon, Cautta, Karachi, Манга, Cairo, Johannesburg. Augusta. Marseilles. London, New York and Canada (Air) 3.30 p.m.

stealing the $1,500,000 Hesse from Kronberg family jewels Castle, in occupied Germany.

A verdict appears to be possible by nightfall. The trial has lasted nearly TO-DAY'S Ave months, with hearings on voch sides of the Atlantic."

Robinson said: "It is our obliga- tion to see to it that private property, in enemy territory which we occupy

interference is respected, and any

for per- with such private property

a former WAC cap- Durant's wife,

of the inin, was once in charge Castle, and is serving a five year sentence for participation in the jewel theft, and Major David Watson of Burlingame, California, is serving a three-year sentence for receiving part of the loot.-Associated Press.

The gold deliveries, which will be Brazil is scheduled to start tariff made in six instalments of £2,500,- talks on Wednesday with the United 000 on March 31, April 30, May 31, Kingdom, France States, and Cuba with the United June 30, July 31 and August 31, are

and Czecho- in respect of the £15,000,000 de Slovakia also on Wednesday.

fetency on the Anglo-French finan- Industrialists Watching cial agreement of March 27, 1945, Meanwhile, various Interested which was concluded in London on parties have been active behind the April 29, 1946. scenes. A number of industrialists, The agreement prolonged the such as those from Canada, repre-existing mechanism of payments be-sonal gain justly punished." senting steel, textiles and other in- tween France and the sterling areas dustries, have been keeping a watch- until December, 1946 of the £150,- ful

eye on proceedings, apparently 600,000 credit granted to France by with a view to safeguarding their the British Government-Reuter. interests and holding themselves available if

quired for advice. Some advocate extreme care in al- i

structure, dismant- ling the preferential system or other means of protection.

The International Chamber of Commerce, on the other hand, in an claborate report urged that provisions of the 170 presented here. Charter on effective reduction of tariffs and preferences be strengthen backsirske, Nel van Vliet, swimming titude be adopted in respect to quan- breaststroke, and Hannio Termeulen, titative trade restrictions and tarif swimming freestyle, clocked 3 min- preferences. The report advised that utes 42.4 seconds to claim a new the Charter impose on members the

Set New Marktering the tariff stru

chmarks.

Arnhem, Apr. 28.

their

Own

Three Dutch girls, cutting the they had bought in Sydney. Documents served on the captain water like mermaids, set two requires the appearance of the crew new world's swimming records before the Controller of Customs, but the seamen, through a solicitor, tonight, bettering say that they will not be represent- ed. They challenge the Customs to Jet Koster van Fergelen, swimming ed and that far less tolerant at try them in the civil court on charges of attempting to smuggle into Singapore types, butter and biscuits which the Customs had

on

Australin and sell them in Singapore and Hongkong, where they are in short supply, and then share the profits. The Chinezo in the Yochow Iost December declared 000 pounds worth of imports at Sydney, but these were at Melbourne, ufter which the crew has not seen then. Passengers on the Marolta are be- coming impatient at the delay, and the ship's agents point out that the perishable goods in the catego are needed in Singapore-Reuter,

46.3

seconds. seconds in her section the 100 Nel van Vliet timed 1 minute 18.2 metres breaststroke-beating her own' former maric of 1 minute 19 seconds. -United Press,

Budget Secrets Leakage

Big Smuggling

Plot Uncovered

London, Apr. 28. Customs officials reported today that they had nipped a scheme by which nearly £50,000 worth of pearl necklaces were believed to have been smuggled Into Britain from Czecho-Slovakia In scaled diplo matle packages.

оп д Acting

conversation over-

Correspondence

a

Which Comes First? (The Editor, HK. Telegraph) Sir Your editorial of Friday last could not have been printed at n world record in the "three times 100 obligation to reduce Lariffs through heard in a Soha cafe, the authorities more suitable time. Secretary of the Chinese swimming 100 metres. The old re- of the ITO.-United Press,

metres changing stroke", each negotiations conducted with the help found several necklaces hidden in

Upon leaving the Majestic cinema men's linlon, Mr Poon, sald today: cord, set by the same trio in Decem

I was aboard on Friday evening The crew formed an organisation

cases of wines and food sent from No. 1 bus when a traffic Inspector and pooled money to buy goods ber 14, 1948, was 3 minutes

Prague to the Czecho-Slovak Em-

stopped it and loudly berated the bassy in London.

driver. His licence was checked and The investigators sold they were the number

carefully written down satisfied that the officials responsible in the inspector's little note

note book, for the transport of the sealed cases as was the driver's name. And all were unaware that they contained

stopped his because the driver had They said the pearls bus about ten feet from the pavement contraband. always had been removed from the to embark and disembark his pos- the Embassy staff. cases before they were handled by sengers. Maybe that is against the law, but I would have thought that The pearl necklaces were under- had the keenness of the inspector to moving · several stood to have been sold in England been diverted for about £7 euch. The snuggling hundred ex-picture geern off the road, had

been going on for several this incident would not have occur- months, officials said.-United Press. red. As the driver said "What can sound the horn and they I do when refuse to move?" Apparently this inspector, expected him to mow them downl

Zealousness and keenness are good. things, applied in the right manner, but if this incident is an example of the modern policing methods used in the colony, I would respectfully sug gest these two items be scrubbed from the policeman's curriculum

KEENNESS ITSELF.

RUGBY RESULTS

London, Apr. 28. Rugby Union results today were: 'Exeter 3 Nenth 11.

Llanelly 6 Cardiff 0—Reuter.'»

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London, Apr. 29. The Stock Exchange Council, governing body of London's great securities market, announced on Monday it will make a special in- vestigation into a charge

that budget

secret "leaked" in time to allow some stock operators to profit on the market.

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special committee to probe the dc-

cusation at the request of Mr Hugh Tropical Weather

Chancellor of the Exchequer, charge came from a conserva- tive member of parliament, Mr Gurney Braith-Walte, who noted the heavy purchasing of some shares-- particularly in royon companies few hours before Dalton opened his budget or April 15-Assocluted for Press,

Britain's Losses

London, Apr. 20. The Agriculture Minister, Mr Thomas Williams, said in a speech today that 4,000,000 sheep and lambs -20 percent of Britain's dock--had died in the winter anowe, 'cold and flood-United Press.

For Vanguard

Abroad H.M.S. Vanguard, Apr. 28.

The Vanguard had her first day. of real tropical weather today.

A swimming pool has been set up Royal Family on the Quarter

the

Dock and another for ratings on

the forecastle.

Tonight, the Royal Family are. attending the film Rebecca.

Plans for landing on the island of St. Helena tomorrow are now complete and the Royal Family will board the escorting cruiser. Nigeria tomorrow morning off the island. It wenther conditions permit they will then go ashore and spend two, hours on

the island where Napoleon spent his exileReuter.

SUNDAY DANCING IN SCOTLAND

Dalkeith, Apr. 28. About 400 ́couples danced in # public ballroom In what is Belleved to be the first public dance held in Scotland on Sunday since the estab Hishment of Presbyterianism in the country-Associated Press.

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