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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1947.

BIG FOUR CONFERENCE

BREAKS DOWN

Postponed Indefinitely

"IMPOSSIBLE TO MAKE ANY PRACTICAL PROGRESS"

London, Dec. 15.—The Council of Foreign Ministers tonight ad- journed indefinitely. The Big Four's decision to adjourn indefinitely came after their longest session of the present Conference. Foreign Ministers' deputies, however, will meat tomorrow.

The

Mr George Marshall (United States) proposed the adjournment at the end of today's meeting. This was generally believed to have been the "show- down" session after last Friday's bitter discussions over German reparations.

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Mr V. Molotov (Russia) had put forward new Russian proposals for solving the problem of the Austrian peace treaty. Russia would take two-thirds of the oil pro- duction of the territory of castern Austria instead of 90 per cent now claimed German asset. He also proposed that the Council of Foreign Ministers should hear the delegates from the "Gorman People's Congress” in Berlin. This was not agreed by the other Ministers.

Done refuses to ogree."

Europe.

was their own responsibility, Mr Molotov said.

account

The breakdown of the London Conference came suddenly and dramatically with the problem of Germany's future still unsolved and only half their agenda, completed in 17 meetings. The conference foundered on the rock of reparations, all the western powers opposing the Russian claim for payment from current German production. When it became obvious tonight, was drawn oft for German account, after the longest meeting that Mr Mr Marshall added that the Soviet Molotov had no acceptable new Union's demands for

reparations

"The Soviet Government cannot proposals to make, Mr Marshall for itself and Poland were utterly be spoken to in the same way as

the adjournment.

impossible of achievement on prae-

the present Greek Government." tical

concluded by saying grounds, It was Mr Molotov economic . Mr Marshall declared. "No useful clear that an agreement could only that the problems before Coupe

purpose cnt, therefore, be served by be reached under conditions which cil were soly

solvable if the views of continuing the conference."

would not only enslave the German till its members were taken into Mr Bevin, alter a a long review of people, but would seriously retard the British stand, said: "History will the recovery of all be our witness.

I now wonder the Council of Foreign whether Ministers will ever be able to settle the Euro

European and German problem." After the western Ministers had turned

down Mr Molotov's request that a 17-man delegatlon from the Communist.

sponsored German People's Congress should be heard, Mr Marshall brought the conference back to reparations.

FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE He said: "We have reached quite

evidently h fundamental difference regarding the question of reparations. Mr Molotov's Jast stalement seemed to be a repetition

felt

itself

no

UNACCEPTABLE

The United States, delegate was

Eurly in tonight's Intal session, "It seems impossible at this time Mr Marshall flatly rejected Mr to make any practical progress," Mr Molotoy's

declaration last Friday Marshall sold, therefore, re- that reparations should be taken luctantly conclude that useful from current German production, purpose would be served by debate on other points on our agenda, and I suggest that the Council of Foreign Ministers might now consider ad- bringing the conference back to the journment of this session."

question

after Mr of reparations Molotov had started today's meet- fention by asking his colleagues to ing with an attempt to divert at- discuss the request of the "German People's Congress" to bo heard by the Big Four.

MOLOTOV'S ASSERTION Mr Molotov cald that it was clear that Mr Bevin and Mr Marshall were neling "according to one plan." Neither, he said had followed agenda and both ad Ignored Soviet proposals.

the the

He said that the French delegation

(Britain had refused to grant visus for the 17-man delegation from this Communist-sponsored

the

Four Meet Their Deaths

In Ships' Collision

New York, Dec. 16-At least four persons were killed and several reported missing early today after a collision between two tankers off Curneno, Dutch West Indies,

Dispatches from Willemstad, Curacao, said both ships were affame and that the count of the dead and missing was being compiled as victims were being landed.

The Argentine innker Los Pezos and the Venezulan tanker Tucapita collided in Curacao Bay. The British motorship San Eliseo was standing by.

The Merritt-Chapman and Scott Corporation, owners of the ocean-going tug Killerin, which ran aground about one mile off Morant Point, Jamaica, said the vessel was in no danger.—Associated Press.

Repayment Of Internment Advances Queried

London, Dec. 15-The feeling in Shanghai against the repayment of the £1 a week allowed to British subjects in Shanghai while interned during the war was referred to in the House of Commons today by Mr Edward Teeling, Con- servative.

Interim Aid Approved

Washington, Dcc. 15.---The House of Representatives today passed the final version of the $567,000,000 interim atd bill for Europe and China, which now goes to President Truman for algnature,

The Bensle also approved by a unanimous valce vote today dhe final version of the inferint nið bill '' approved by a Senate-House of Representa-

tives Conference.

Mild objections to the Inelu- slon of China were voiced in the Senate before the bill was voted by Senators Styles Bridges (Republican) Claude Pepper (Democrat). Reuter.

and

U. S. Telegraph

Workers

May Strike

Washington, Dec. 15.-A pre- strike of 50,000 workers American telegraph

way of three trade unions. no

He asked why over 500 of these notices had been issued and why the money could not be recovered

Dine

"At the

P. G

For Reservationa

Price 20 Cents

British Forces Evacuating

3 Jewish Areas

Jerusalem, Dec. 15.-British forces are expected

to have completed their scheduled withdrawal from the Jewish areas of Tel-Aviv, Ramat Gan and Petah Tigvah by midnight tonight, it was officially stated here.

A 500-strong force of Jewish civil guard-the Mishmar Haam-will begin taking over security. duties tomorrow in this area, a quandrangle in which roughly two-thirds of the Palestine Jewish population lives.

This Jewish force will also be responsible for policing five Arab villages, with a population, of 5,000 in the area.

A solitary British armoured car is guarding the former security, stronghold at Sarona, on Tel-Aviv's] boundaries, most Britin police having already withdrawn to the "No Man's Land" between Tel-Aviv and Arab Jaffa.

A dusk-to-dawn curfew in this restless area between the two cities in still being enforced by British troops.

BAZAAR RUMOURS · The rumours sweeping the bazaars of Jerusalem's Old City

Russian

Living Costs Lowered

Moscow: December 15.-- The new Soviet food prices published today will mean a reduction of 50 per cent in family expenditure..

Ds reparations from the Japanese today reported the secret return lo The most signideant cut is In

in the peace treaty.

price is eight

now Palestine of Abdul Khader. Hus- flour. The Mr Christopher Mayhew, Under-seini, a kinsman of the called Mufti roubles a kilogram, a' reduction of Secretary of State for Foreign and a former Arab guerlita leader over 400 percent from the "com- Affairs, said that the notices re-in the 1937 disturbances...

mercial price" and 12 percent from quested the refund of. advances Ho was here, the rumours, said,

the ration price. -*- made by the protecting power as charge on British funds against to the partition of the country.

to organise active Arab resistance undertakings to repay.

This, with a 12 percent cut from the ration price of bread and a ton A Transjordan Frontier force car percent reduction for cereals. will was blown up and an Arab trooper produce economics in family bud- wounded

Mustashla station, castern

pollco Eets. Jerusalem

near

A concession rate of £2 per per- son was adopted though the cost to public funds at its highest was

today, about £25 a month,

The best quality of beef is now There was no miston

pricing port, atrastate thatable doubles less then the no intention of press a sergeant and Q trooper both rationed price and three times re- ing for repayment where hardship Arabs of the Frontier Force were duced from the would be caused.

wounded when grenades were

commercial price.

The fact of internment by itself thrown and automatic fre di All meat, will now be available at did not, it the opinion of the at two Transjordan Frontier Force Government, constitute grounds for vehicles in eastern Jerusalem,

u claim against an enemy tell- of the vehicles being burnt out.

gerent.

onc

cheap prico in unlimited

quanti- ties instead of a small quantity. which was formerly supplemented from "commercial" shops or on the open market.

Many of the internces associated One Arab was killed and seven with large Arms had had their others wounded when four Jews, salaries "pal throughout the war. wearing British Army uniforms, be-

NEW CLOTHING PRICES The scheme had worked well. Large leved to be Irgun Zval Leumi numbers hd pald up and large terrorists attacked an Arab Bus with to the old ration price but is about Butter at 64 roubles approximates aumbers hnd been exempted. grenades, automatle weapons and three times less than the commer- Reuter.

Molotov cocktails" near Lydda Air- port- today,-

SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION

Earlier today, it was reported from Tel-Aviv that a Jewish settlement police convoy guard was killed by an Arab sniper near two Jewish colonies in Upper Galilee.

HAGANAH CLAIM

cial price.

Men and women suits, utility and best quality, are from 300 to 400 percent less than commerical prices. merelal pelee. Soap is ten times below its com-

The prices quoted apply of the statements which we largely had not disputed what the other Congress),

to the Moscow area. The new notes will were without foundation.

be of the same denomination as the "We have failed to reach anwo had said. It was apparent, Mr Mr Marshall said that this request Christmas

old, except that 30-rouble notes will 15.-The London, Dec. agreement on the treaty for Austria Molotov sald, that the three delega-was

Colonia! not acceptable, nor was

be replaced by 25-rouble notes. Secretary, Mr Arthur Creech Jones. Haganah,

The Jewish defence organisation, of old, they will carry the picture As because the Soviet Union has de-lons had taken up a common front matter on the Conference agenda.

claimed today munded for

to have of Lenin. On the back of the 100- M Georges Bidault (France) said was threatened today by leaders today attended the renaming cere- destroyed an Arab forward defence rouble note is a view of the Kremlin self properties

and against reparations for the Soviet special privileges in Austria In Union

mony of the 1,200-ton ship John position the Congress in

and to have inflicted On adjournment Mr Molotov sald: represented the German people. which

of The preliminary results a Biscoe, which.

looking across the river from on Thursday, will casualties when gun ducts between south banks. far exceed any rightful claim and, "This cannot be regarded except Mr Bevin said that the proposal nation-wide ballot, they said, showed sail for the Falkland Islands with Arabs and Jews south of Holon, in

decision to net in the some uni-was not acceptable to him either, a vote of 10-1 in favour of a strike party of 25 scientists

and their the Jaffa district, were

No foreign news renewed

whatever ap- Interal manner as before." As the and then from the Chair called the

this morning.

noured today in Pravda, to support union demands for a 15 assistants.

Soviet other three delegations are agreed Conference back to the question of percent wage increase.

Communist Party official newspaper, The expedition belongs to the on adjournment, the Soviet delega- German reparations.

amillated to The unions,

the Falkland

Meanwhile, a spokesman of the which was entirely occupied by the Islands lion will also have, to agree. But it

American Federation of Labour, Survey, established in 1943, to ex- that the demand for the immediate reform, pictures of the new notes Dependencies Jewish Agency announced today decree formulating the monetary lore the now-bound islands and withdrawal of the Arab Legion, if and reports of meetings approving represent workers throughout the Mr Marshall said: "We

Antarctic mainland. reached qulie evidently a funda-City.

not from all Palestine, then to Arab the reform. Formerly a naval vessel, the John areas in the inental

New York, the representatives Bisene has had her broad bow and made by Its difference regarding

Holy Land, will be question of reparations, Bir of the American Communications wootien hull specially strengthened Jerusalem, London and Washington pay"-Reuter.

representatives in

amount and to the extent

if the Soviet claims were admitted, it would be at the price of Aus- tria's Independence."

After declaring that a large part of the products of eastern Germany

EDITORIAL

H.K. And The Rice Ban

[ONGKONG 'cannot fail to take

I notice of two important an-

nouncements concerning rice made during the last few days. The first disclosed that the Maca0 authorities have agreed to Mr T. V. Boong's Auggestion to impose ban on the export of rice to Hongkong: the second revealed that the world's rice harvest for 1947-48, while materially greater than last year, will still fall well below the pre-war average. A third report, which has not yet been publicly admitted, but is being whispered, in

Canton well as Hongkong, is that Kwang-, tung faces a rico famine next

усах

because

of

Door

ав

crops. Here then are three influctices which will probably have some effect on the Colony's rice Sup- plies in 1948. The Macao ban is probably prompted

the threat by of`shartages In Kwangfung and

be Interpreted

an en-

Can

deavour to

to consolidate the anti- amuseling agreement

Its

between Hongkong and China. It is clear Mr Boong considers that the

списка clandestine export of rice is on of his major administrative prob- lems, and that he making prevention » · prime abjective. This is understandablo

and Mr Boong.

will not

not lack sympathy In his mission, more especially if he can simultaneously carry out other measures which will help. to being stability to Our Dear nolghbours. The difficulty which confronts both the Canton and

to

and

that

NO AGREEMENT have United States, except in New york

the

the

Workers were quoted as saying: In "The effect in a great increase in

Molotov's Inst statement seemed to Association-afiliated to the Con-

Walland Is equipped with quicklifting within the next 24 hours, following a repetition of statements gress of Industrial Organisations-wine

winches for Journeying through the

We

to reach the

Saar Constitution

which we largely felt were without voted yesterday to call out Cin-

Arab killing yesterday by pack fce foundation.

British Legion troops of 12 Jews and the ployees of three major cable firmas

in have failed to reach agree- on New Year's Day if new contracts meteorological stations

the wounding of to others. ment on the treaty for

From Cairo, Reuter reports that Austria were not negotiated by December Antarctic.

Mon have volunteered for one or because the Soviet Union has de- 31.

Arab League leaders, including the Paris, Dec. 15.--The Saar Consul- nanded for

two

years' exile in the world's most Secretary-General, Itself properlics and

Azzam Pasha, Lative Assembly today adopted un- Wage Issue Deadlock special privileges prohibitions,

Isolated weather stations where they and the Mufti of In Austria in The three unlons involved-the will relleve others who have already there for two hours to-day.

Jerusalem, met animously, minus one Communit amount and to the extent which for

The vote, all the clauses of the agree Telegraphers Unlon, completed their Umo at points scat- delegates declined Commercial exceed

rightful any

claim

make nny ment with Franco under which the and

Unlon tered hundreds of mlica which far exceeded what free Aus- not the Telegraph Workers' Union-the Antarctic and Grahamsland. which the Premiers of Transjordan tory

the Telegraph Employees"

apart in statement after the meeling, from new constitution of the Saar terri tria can afford.

strike last Reuter.

comes into effect, It was "If the Soviet, claims were admit-

called off a threatened

and Iraq were absent.-Reuter, Union

reported here.-Reuter. the Western ted, it would be at the price

spring when af

Company granted five cents an hour wage increase and the equivalent of "closed shop.",

for

to

Austria's independence and in vio lation of past agreement.

The Soviet Union has refused

An

· Liថ permitted agreement Lurnish vitally

necessary informs- tion with

unions 1 respect to reparations' re-

to reopen the wage issue in This was done but a movals. Thus, we have been asked October.

dendtock ensued. to reach an agreement while in- formation essential to such agree-

Presentatives,

Company and the

to.

British Bantamweight Retains Title

were

Macuo

governments is the Im- plementation of the rice export edlet, for, as is well known, the pertinacious Chinese merchant is skilled in the ways of avoiding restrictions especially when the return for the risks 1 д commensurate market. There Is no suggestion that Hongkong has been offietally approached about the Macao ban and presumably Canton is taking the Colony's -co-operation for granted. It needs to be stressed, however, that first and principal responsibility for the prevention of smuggling out of Kwangtung

Manchester, Dec. 16.-Peter doing “enough to earn the verdict fighting back when Kano tried to reats with the Chinese adminis

Kane retained his bantamweight providing Cornelius did not get in crowd the Belgium. There iration. We

expectcu cannot bo

a knockout. Not one by

knockdown really no heavy blows landed, how- outpointing. Joe A union spokesman said that title carry out the whole of Canton's

was registered during the' fight. 2,500 workers of the Mackay Radio Cornelius of Belgium over 15

ever, but in the ninth Kane really prevenilye work, and it ta only.

ment is withheld by the Soviet re- and Telegraph Company, the Com-rounds here tonight.

Borne of the onlookers held the shook Cornellus with #

right upper reasonable for Kwangtung

opinion that Cornellus did enough And in the tenth Kane was Kane seemed to use the entlièr government to satisfy

Mr Marshall Bald that the Soviet mercial Cables It

better to earn the decision, but referee fighting

than proviously delegation had refused to agree to Cables Division of Western Union rounds for sizing up his opponent Peter Mulr no doubt was influenc- though he was still unable to force

whom he had outpointed over a ed by the fact that Kane did near- relinquishment of property interests would be affected. Reuter.

ble way through the Belglan's guard. shorter distance in a non-iitle fightly all the forcing and when he did

In the last few rounds, however, Stimulating Siam's [earlier this year.

lond a punch 1 was crisper than Kane was, more successful and Unce or twice the Belgian was those of his opponent.

landed several times Rice Production

wifli both watned for not hitting with

hands. During the first two rounds Kane closed glove' but often- Cornelius Washington, Doc. 16-The UNO with skilful use of fils left lead had was forced to miss with some right In the fourteenth he landed three

counters and Comellus scored, in Food and Agriculture organisation Kano rations which are eked out from

times with his left and Cornellus guessing.

short range. appeared worried but he lasted out, is launching an attempt to stimulate the allocations

Cornellus covered up cleverly to the third with lefts Interua

"An Important part of its industry rice production in Slam as part of evada Kane's best punches and Neither landed really telling blows the fifteenth round by the affective tional Emergency Food Council. has been placed in a gigantic Soviet Its efforts to meet the world food was always willing to come back in the first four rounds but in the use of long lefts which poked into If that market became completely trust which chjoys special privilege shortages.

after Kane had a bout of attacking. Ofth Kane landed one 10 the Kane's face. suspended.

beneft would

and which is put above German

fact On the request of the Siamese In

the Belgian's counter alomach, and head. Kwangtung but little and would

law,

In another fight here, Jackle presumably

perpetuity," Government, an international mis- punching after taking blows

That

Early in the sixth Kane's head Paterson, world, Brlish Empire and Inldre tho Colony's 2,000,000

Mr Marshall said.

sion under the FAO's direction will threatened damage, amazed the was knocked back and in countering British flyweight champlon, bent. Al population considerably. If there "These Soviet practices in eastern go to Slam In January, hopeful of crowd who warmly applauded he found the Belgian's defenco Chavez, Mexican-American are to be sacrifices and conces-

Germany have prevented Germany restoring the rice production there Cornellus.

from sound. The Belgian rushed Kane California, alos they should

from playing its part in the recovery

poinin over ten not be one-

to pre-war lovals which approxi- As the fight progressed, however to the ropes with

two-Asted at rounds. sided.

of Europe,

mated 6,000,000 metrie, tons an- there was little doubt that Kano, tacks towards the end of this round (Continued on Page 4)

Both men' weighed in at eight nually.Associated Press.

was ahead on points and always and in the next surprised Kane by stone four pounds-Router.

tho

us that

is contributing its maximum shure. It is also fair to remind Canton that much of the "free market" rle in Hongkong helps Chinese population to keep subsistence level which they would otherwise have suffer it dependent solely on the

our above

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of

the

H

in

Germany "unilaterally seized under the guise of reparations.

a large

As malters now stood share of the produco of custern Germany was drawn off for Soviet account.

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