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Anglo-US JEWS NOT

Aviation

Policy

Agreement In Sight

Washington, May 5.

An almost complete Anglo- American agreement on all pre- gent and prospective problems of international commercial aviation policy is being worked out here between officials of the British Embassy, the. United States State Department and the Civil Aeronautics Board. it: wns learned authoritatively to- day. Talks are going on in private.

The chler problems under dis- cumion are:

of policy towards

1. Unification

Russia and those of her so-called "satellites" which are maintaining

a strict ban against foreign air- lincs.

*

2. Development and supervision

Nationalisation

Bill Passed

London, May 6.

A big Labour majority in the House of Commons today ap- proved the government's inland bitt nationalisation transport which will bring all the British railroads, bus lines and long dis- Lance trucking, operations under government ownership by next January.

By a vote of 308

to 104 the House defeated the motion by and Liberal the Conservative members to reject the $4,200,- 000,000 transpori billthe most bitterly fought of all the gov ernment's nationalisation mea- aures and sent it to the House

Lords. The

blit passed its vital recond reading In Commons lant De- ceber by a 302 to 204 vote.-- Associated Press.

of

TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1947.

TO

BE HEARD Global Police

BY UN ASSEMBLY

Russian Proposal Outvoted By

39-8: Palestine Latest

New York, May' 6.

The United Nations assembly by an overwhelming majority today denied the privilege of its floor to the Jewish agency for Palestine, but ordered its key political committee to give the agency a hearing.

The special Palestine assembly climaxed four days of wrangling on the Jewish representation with these decisions:

1. It voted 39 to 8 with 7 abstentions and 1 absence to reject a Russinn backed proposal granting the agen cy the right to present its case from the floor of

the Assembly,

2-It voted 44 to 7 with 3 abstentions and 1 absence to direct its political com- mittee to hear the agency "on the question before the committee" and to send to that committee for its decision other communications received from organisations relating to Palestine,

Lester B.

Pearcen

of

Canada, hüls in the region of Safnd, northern

Force Debate

Lake Success, May 6. The United Nations Security Council will open debate this week on the organisation of a global police force.

on

For

Reservations

It will take as a basis of the debato a widely spilt report of the Miliary staff of the Council.

The United Nations

officials Bald yesterday the Council session would

be held Wednesday or Thursday,

long awalled The

summary from the Di-Five committed showed that Russia was oppos- Ing more than a third of the general principles laid down for the

International force which were agreed upon by the others.

Admirals

and Generals from the United States, Chins, Russia, Britain and France were able to concur on the 25 points, but most of them were copied from the United Nations Charter

which was stated in broad termS.

The Soviet Union disented on 14 of the remaining 10 articles. -Associated Press.

KORNGARZAKAMAHUMANIZAMABARISUHDELL.

chairman of the political committee, Palestine, for which it was thought Up-To-The-Minute Sports Results

Success The latest reports sald at

of strints into and Inside GerLEY ESCAPESsday forendon at Lake Sumes, that other Arabs might be heading

many.

3. Development and supervision with New Zealand and Australia

of airlines info and Inside Japan THE GALLOWS

British and United States officiuls the were stated to have agreed that best way to begin plereing the "ran Immediately curtain" was to press for a commercial aviation agreement -like that reached at Bermula be- tween Britain and the United States last year for government controlled fares-with the "satellite" countries,

RUSSIA HOLDS OFF Finland and Czecho-Slovakia have already agreed to such pacts and it was hoped that similar agreements with Poland, Yugo-Slavia, Hungary and Rumania could be concluded in the foreseeable future.

There was little hope, it was un- derstood authoritatively, of achieving such an agreement with Russia at present

out there to

London, May 6.

to bugin actual work on the setting men-prisoners and attackers-were of a committee of inquiry on Poleskilled and about 23 others wounded tine.

at the time of the break. Nineteen prisoners, eight of them wounded, were recaptured and 15 others, be- were cap-

Eight Britons were wounded in the

The Assembly's action resulted from a compromiso move by a com-

countries.

Thomas John Ley, 66, formari bination of Slay and Latin American leved to be attackers,

Minister of Justice of New South Wales was saved from the gallows on Monday by an order of the Home Secretary.

Ley and Lawrence John Smith, 38. joiner, convicted on March 24 for the murder of a bar tender were sentenced to be hanged next Thurs- day.

Ley made various appeals which were denied. The Home-office set aaide the death penalty on the basis of the finding of two doctors who held that Ley is insane now and was at the time of the murder.

They reported he is suffering from Paranola, a form of fixed delusional Ley was ordered to be insanity, removed to an insane asylum and Smith convicted of the sentence of being Ley's accomplice was com muted to life imprisonment.

Victim of the murder was 35 year old John Mudie, whose body London. The prosecution

tine-Associated Press.

tured.

Simultaneously the Arab higher committee officially requested permis-battle with the attackers, it was dis

VIGOROUS MEASURES on to speak for the Arabs of Eales closed tonight-Reuter

London, May 5. The Minister of State, Mr Hector McNell, told the Commons to-day that Britain had taken "vigorous, extensive and varied" measures against illegal Jewish Immigration discussions to Palestine.

FIVE AMENDMENTS

Flushing Meadow,

►

for

South Africans' First Cricket Victory

London, May 5,

The South African crick et team gained their first vic- tory of their English tour at Leicester today, defeating the country team after two days' play by a margin of

ten wicketz...

Today's cricket scores were: Surrey v. Essex 175. Surrey 628 for six (Fishlock 160, Parker 101).

MC.C. v. Yorkshire--MCC. 134,

Parisien, both offered, 50 to 1 Per- minnent Way, offered, 60 to 1 taken. 50 to 1 Arbar offered.

The next cailover will taken place

son 104). Yorkshire 01 and 00 on

Mar

PRO GOLF TOURNEY ^ Southport,

Lancashire. May 5. Caught in a crosswind and occa- stonal showers of rain, few players shone in the first round of the 30 lop-Southport £2,000 professional holes, qualifying test for the Dun- golf tournament, which began over here to-day.

N. Y, May 5. Dr Aranha (Brazil) announced to the United Nations General Assem- bly when it resumed

Mr McNeil, sald and 343 for nine declared (Robert Lions would be allowed to appear been to some dle the measures, and today on whether Jewish organisa

plenary session that Ave declined to detail them on the two. amendments were being placed grounds that it would lessen their Cambridge University v. Sussex- at the before the Assembly.

efficacy.

He declined to say which Sussex 200 and 85 for two. Cam- The Assembly, at present, has a countries had agreed to co-operate bridge 350. recommendation

from the Steering with Britain and which had either Oxford University v. Gloucester. Bedell

Committee, backed by the United refused or had offered only partial shire Gloucestershire 245 and 138 The United States ambassartor t

Walter Moscow), General

for two. Oxford 234 (Pawson 103). Smith, is known to have been in-

whether the Jewish Agency

Mr Harolnd Nutting (Cons) asked; formed recently by the Soviet Foreign

states and Britain, that the decision co-operation.

Leicestershire v. South Africa Palestine or other

tions "Can you say what is the use of Leicestershire 128 and 121. South the Birkdale and Hestkath courses Minister, M. Molotov, that the Soviet

by asking governments such Government does not wish to dis-

should be heard shall be

the Africa 218 (Alan Melville 104) and the Assembly Political Committee, Italian government to stop emigra- 25 for no wicket.

The little Australian, Norman Von cuss the mat

matter now!

Poland has another resolution, sup- tion of Jews into Palestine while

Nida, winner of the recent Brand- The hope was

ported by

DERBY CALL-OVER

Lochryn tuornament in London, and will eventually change and her in- found in a surrey chalk mit near Hussin, that Jewish re-taking no steps or very few steps day, however, that the Soviet polley

The callover on the Derby, running Robert Halsall, a local professional, session.

UNBRA does not encourage emigra on June 7 was:

ahured the best score of 75 on the first amendment Introduced tion into Palestine?"

11 to 8 against Tudor Minstrel 170 yards Birkdale course. The lead Mrs Maggy Brook an elderly woman today was by Dr Sava Kusanovic, Mr McNeil replied that he could to 2 Blue Train, both taken and

This provided not accept that assumption....

offered

20 to 1 Sayajirao offered. 22 on the Hesketh course which is 200 shared by the 67- yards shorter was. to entice that the General Assembly should known to both men. Smith testifled of Yugo-Slavia.

"We are in close contact with the to 1 taken and wanted, 22 to 1 Migoll year-old former British Ryder Cup he had accepted money

hear representatives of the many dimculties," he said.

25 to Petition offered. 33 to 1 Jewish and other populations of insisted that he knew nothing of the to

Mr Nutting commented: "Obvious-Stockade and Tite Street, both taken were 17. murtler.

Palestine. The effect of this resolu-ly the Italiane don't want Jews in and offered. 33

that the Italy and they are dumped on them. lon would be to ensure Political Committee would hear not Surely the Minister must realize they but the Arab Higher are only too anxious to get them

out."

There was no further reply. United Press.

Was

urged plantatives shall be heard by the to see that an organization such as

that Loy's motive was jealousy over

The

two proposals; First-the Mudie to Ley's London spartment but recommend the Political Committee Italian government, considering their offered. 25 to 1 taken and wanted player, Ernst Whitcombe and Keith

terest in international aviation will compel her co-operation in that field, ALTERNATIVE SCHEMES Talk on the development of civil aviation Inside Germany are center ing on creation of an Internationally con- trolled German airline to run domestic routes linking the principal elties an idea put forward tentative Government British ly by the

(Continued on Page 4)

EDITORIAL

to

Ley, business man, came England in 1928 after a political Australia Associated

career In Press.

Let's Have Some Honesty

A variety of subjects, affecting

in a greater or lesser degree the lives of the community, are causing considerable agitation and resentment. Government cannot afford to remain much longer aloof or patronislag. Fublle anger has been violently aroused by the sledge hammer tactles of official- dem in obtaining passage of the Inland Revenue bill and patience in this autocratie form of govern ment (no matter how benevolent

rapidly Intentions) tag. Tauntingly the R.

111

tion enacts this, wilhokis informa tion on that and generally be

the same haves despotically, at

to ilme nsively referring

of self-govern- reater measure

dangled before A carrot the nose of a dunkey which he may be able to seize sometime in the future, but certainly not at The cause of pubile present.

Ism is Government

Government's seeming dishonesty the

It has been least, Kay about the Moratorium,

Twelve

cynicism

equivocai

to,

months ago assurances were given that this was receiving pressing consideration, Just how enthusias- tie have heen the

Anal

The retort that. Che

with the imperia)

racat is not convincing... What of pressure has been brought to bear on Whitehall from the Hongkong end to get à selle ment on this vexing and per

Government subject? significantly silent. Ir 10

plexing remalia

Puiscally done something to

expediting

Learn

the problem, a would help to allay and suspicions. The people do not mind being told bad newA; what they dialks, is being kept in the dark. There is also the ques- tion of reparations. A considerable interval has elapsed since Govern- ment first invited claims, and, pres

TC-

them. But sumably, received when the Hongkong Telegraphi last week sought Information on the subject it was informed that this was a top secret," and that public Information at this stage "embarrass likely to cause was

"delicate ment," and make altuation more difficult." What is No secret about Hongkong's parations claims? All we tried to find out for our readers was (a) whether the Hongkong Govern

to lodge A claim; (b) if so,

with SCAP lodged directly through the Imperial The papers recently have been

from

Tokyo, full of reports London and Washington about the percentages of reparations which various co

countries expect er

ment had taken sad it been

hope to

or

Governmealy

Jews, mmittee. Chile and White Russia both tabled formal

resolutions that the Assembly should decide to give a hearing fo the Jewish Agency for Palestine be- fore the Assembly's Political Com- Chile, in addition, recom- mended the Assembly to send to this committee its decision and any other communications from other bodios that might be submitted to the As- sembly's special session.

Other resolutions favoring hear- ing for the Jewish Agency betare the Political Committee were submitted by Argentina and Uruguay.

BRITAIN'S ATTITUDE

STOP PRESS

Watchman. Kills Armed Man

An armed man was shot and killed by a Chinese district watch- man in Waterloo Road near Shang

Street about 10 o'clock last night

hai

men

who

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COAL BOARD CHANGES FORECAST

London, May .

Reports of impending changes

Britain's Board, coming

in

National Coal within fivo months of the mine flelds pass- ing under national control, are widely credited in industrial circles here.

official con- They are without firmation here and would be regards ed not so much as confirmation of "split" in the Board as reflecting the inevitable "lecthing troubles of a new and untried institution.

The Coal Board is running Bri- tain's

Arst nationalised industry. Not only has the Board taken over in the midst of Britain's postwar fuel crisis, but it hus been confronted from its very first day with the need for very difficult emergency de- cisions.

It is no secret that as the Board settled down to these problems certain amount of friction arose on) matters of policy, organisation and personality.

POLICY DIFFERENCES

more.

The policy differences concerned the introduction of the Ave-day week at the present time. Members In charge of production were said to have expressed misgivings over this, while members in charge of labour relationif supported its urgency. Debates have been rather lively on another

fasun-that allocation of scarce. labour

to the training of new miners and also in- troduction of new equipment, and Improvement of mine capacelieve

Production members who that technical imp Britain's 'coal offers the only solution to

problem. and that this improveme

should have absolute priority that the labour members of the Board had started + large-scale-

de training scheme on their own

con- partmental responsibility, and sidered that their programme was (Continued on Page 4).

Flood Relief Fund

LORDMAYOR! OF LONDON THANKS H.K.

London, each with 74. There compt- ranck of Bel- Van Donck of Bel- glun

and several leading British pro

A telegram was received this fessionals, The only Belgian com- peting. Arthur Devulder, took 82 over morning by the South China the Birkdale course. South Africa's Nieuwenhuys took two strokes mor Bracewell Smith, Lord Mayor of Morning Post, Ltd., from Sir over the

same course. One hundred will qualify for the competition pro- London, expressing his "heart". per to be played on Wednesday, felt thanks for your magnificent Saigon, May 5.

Thurdoy and Friday.

first instalment of £10,000" for Negotiations to settle the five

FOOTBALL RESULTS months old fighting between

the relief of Britain's flood vic- the

of the Scottishms. French Government and Dr Ho Chi Football results

Viet Numi (Indo-Chinese League, Division A Aberdeen 2-

The fund is now nearing the fow Nationalist) administration will start Morton 2 Rugby Union Bridgend

Llanelly 16, Ponty-second lakh mark, only a "somewhere near Hanoi" before the. Cardiff 12.

hundred more dollars being required. weekend, informed circles said here pool

Acknowledgment of latest contri-

appears below.

tonich-ranking military oficial

buently

i

Heather Wang

acknowledged (per "H.K. Telegraph") $104,781.70 Leigh and

500.00 100,00

Chinese Staff: Hongkong. & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd. Ltd. and Star Ferry, (2nd donation) Management and Staff: British General Electric Co.

Ltd. ***** James Eastman Kodok

(Hongkong)

TURNS PROFESSIONAL Pauline Betz, U.S. and Wimbledon will proceed to Hanol, amelally the Champlon, and Mrs Palfrey Cooke Viet Namh capital, within the next former U.S. champion who is under It was understood authoritatively

Viet Namh 48 hours to meet Vo Nguyen Glap, suspension by the United States here that Britain, while not devlat-.

Secretary for Foreign Lawn Tennis Association, announce Affairs, ing from the previous view that it'

today that, they had turned рго- it was added. would be desirable to leave the de-

The basis for the negotiations was fessional. Their professional tour will risten to the Political Committee,The watchmen challenged four

be acting secret, but an early calling off of begin in Los Angeles on June 7. appeared to would be

to accept Yugo suspiciously. Three walked

the hostilities was predicted to JACK LONDON WINS Slavin's combinate which has the The fourth knocked the

away: enable the settlement of the talks in Jack London, London heavy- district

a peaceful atmosphere. effect of allowing only the Jewish watchman's revolver aside and fired

weight, from whom Bruce Woodcock This sudden turn in Indo-Chinese took the British and Empire titles. Jewish opinion point blank, but missed. The other and

events was believed to be the result two years ago, knocked out does not heard as ing

of a "perennal report" which the Britt of South Africa in the second pillar. French War Minister, M. Paul Coste round of a scheduled B-round con-M.F. and P. Before the Interval, the President Watchman dodged behind

Flore!, and the Navy, Minister, test tonight. read a letter from the Arab Higher the men ran away the watchman

opened fire and shot one, in the Louis Jacquinot, made to the French After the fight, London's manager Lo Tau Chung formally requesting re-

head.

M. Commissioner,

to Emile said that "I am prepared

of General Post Staff the debate on

Outca *** Later a Chinese reported to the Bolleart, after their recent military London for £5,000 for a return with Mr and Mrs A, Vago equal grounds with any Jewish polite that he had been wounded inspection bodies. The letter states: "In

Indo-China Woodcock. I am sure he will win." view

Reuter.

Reuter... of the fact that the Palestine pro- in the body by a stray bullet. blem is at present being discussed, we ask that the Arab Higher Com- mittee, representing Arabs in Pales

Agency prevent Arabs from be- ihree men then opened fire and the

common in

to obtain, the Inference being that they have put in their claims and now awall allocation. Hongkong has a legitimate call on whatever reparations. It is decid- ed Japan can afford to pay and, Government had done its job propose claims. Why not ctly, it would, by this time. have fell the public whether it has or not, and what the prosent score LT Thirdly there is the cost of living

atles which index

salem.-euter. one correspondent with plenty

yesterday sno

snooped at with

do

of justice. The index figures aro blatantly Talse In so far that they

not begin to

represent the whole cost of living. Not inton- tionally, but in fact, the index is dishonest. People need homes to live in as much as they require food and fuel; they also need- clothes; must travel from Kow- Icon to Hongkong and vice verna; must use gas and electricity

well as firewood; must pay ser- vants. All these items form part of Hying costs. (always have done) and to exclude them is an attempt to fool the pubite, Some honest- to-goodness "statements are await- ed on these subjects. ⠀

As

High

tour in

Severe Cuts In Finance For American

Washington, May 6,

Information Services

back

ritories

:

1,500,00

$40.00

Co.

100.00 100.00 2.00

.200.00 100.00

405.00

,52,00

$3.00

The Staff of

Craw- Lane, ford, Ltd.-te Staff and Students of the Rural Training College, Sheungshui, New

New Tor- be permitted to attend and be on this problem," The Arab |

Per Wah Klu Yat Po:- delegation, would consist of six mem- The House Appropriations

Leo Choi Cho $ bors and would include Jamal "Kus-

Sun Man School seini, nephew of the Mufti of Jeru- Committee, saying that, tho

'Students' Club 17.00 United States faces the choice American precedents and American and $3,703,386 for participation in

Ng King

7.00 principles." The Department had the UNESCO, PRISON BREAK LATEST of cutting expenditures or "go- asked 331,381,220 for the Voice of

the appropriations Chang Pong.. In approving

5,00 Jerusalem, May 6. ing into bankruptcy", today America" and related activities. bill, the Republican-controlled Com; While airborne troops surrounded alashed the fiscal 1948 budget

32.00 Thus the Committee wiped out the mitice released testimony of various (11th. Instalment) $82.00 the Jewish settlements neor Acre

State Department's daily" "broadcasts officials: prison today, the Criminal Invest-requests of the State, Commerce to 47 countries In 24 languages and 1. General

George Marshall,

£40-0-0 and $198,222.70- gation' Department started the and Justice Departments and also Information, libraries, cultural prior to going to Moscow, testined

screening of all Jewish males after Federal Judiciary: to $685,028,- altaches and

Information officers. It that he intended to follow Former yesterday's mass

brent from the

Donations should be addressed. sold the Department's foreign ser- Secretary Byrnes' foreign policy. grim Did Turkish

to the General Manager, South An official statement ton

tonight saldquested.

necessary entertaining with govern- Hoover, testifled that the Communist that the total number of Araby and

China Morning Post, Marning Jews freed

ment money and criticised the De- | problem hus "grown worse" and for by terrorist attacks on The Committee cut $60,409.505 partment for being too generous in i every avowed Communist party

Post Building, Hongkong. the gaol was 216-33 Jews of whom from the State Department's $279,- acquiring luxurious living quarters member, there are ten others who

Cheques should be made out four

are dead and 183 Aroba. 037,023 estimate. The group voted for foreign services.

are ready to do the party's work." to "British Flood Relief Fund,” The 20 Jews all at large weTO to deny any funds whatsoever for

3. Representative Karl Stefan, all, convicted terrorists," the an- the State Department's controvers $3,000,000 of $5,820,000 requested for ment to quit letting Ruslan visitors, However, the Commitico approyed during bearings urged the Govern

For the purpose of acknow- nouncement added.

„European and Asiatic

ledgment will donors, kindly Arab prisoners were reported to programme because Congress had South American cultural relations. inspect American alreraft factories Indicate their names in Block be surrendering in large numbers.. not specifically authorised it and be It also voted $12,578,240 for US unless the Sovieta reciprocate. Mounted, police were searching the cause it is slightly out of tune with participation in the United Nations United Fress.

Loftars:

•

008. from the $698,621,528 re- vice has been doing too much un- 2. Tho FBI Director, Edgar