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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, APRIL 5, 1948.

Offer Europe

U.S. May Military Aid

IMPORTANT TALKS

IN WASHINGTON

Washington, Apr. 4.-The Truman Administra- tion is expected to decide soon whether economic help to Western Europe will be backed by military support.

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The arrival in Washington of the Belgian Premier, Paul Henri Spaak, one of the architects of the military pact for Western European nations, may result in talks contributing to a decision.

to withstand both the war, nad There has been persistent specu-

internal demands of Communists and Intion among Washington amelala

the external dangers of Russian ex- that Spank and the highest Ameri- can leaders may go into the mill-panston,

An anti-Communist measure,.it is tury problems raised by the recent

of a broad strategy to make creation of the bloc Morshall part plan countries determined to keep Western Europe so strong that Rus- be definitely will Ituráinn

of out power

Western expansion

"hecked at its present limits

nlitical stability will be restored to he whole continent.

Europe.

of

of

Spank arrived with a party Belgian Government offells headed by Prince Charles and including

and

Until a few months ago the hope be was that this objective would

Paul Degronte, Minister of Econoecemplished entlicly with economic

Inle Co-ordination who probably will be concerned with organising the country's role in the European recovery prograinme.

LONG-RANGE PURPOSE

The main purpose of the Marshall- Plan long-range is to enable Western European nations to recover

NOTICE

from

THE HONGKONG AND

AND WHARF KOWLOON GODOWN COMPANY, LIMITED

Notice To Shareholders

ADOPTION OF NEW ARTICLES

OF ASSOCIATION

Notice is hereby given that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Members of this Company will be held at the office of Messrs, Jurgine, Matheson & Co. Ltd, Pedder Street, Hong Kong, on Wednesday, 28th April, 1948, at 12.15 p.m., or at such time ns the Ordinary Annual Meeting of Members to be held at the same place at Noon shall terminate, for the purpose of considering ad, if thought it, passing the following Special Resolution:-

help except for military assistance to Greece and Turkey.

The formation of a Western Euro- pran Union was favoured both for

10 and

make economie strength

that they known to the Russians

annot pick off the Western States ne by one.

SITUATION CHANGES Within the Inst two months the situation has changed radically:

Britain Not Worried

About The

Budget

London, Apr. 1.-Britons, who usually love to try to uess the surprises in the annual National Budget, don't srem to care much this year.

The budget, to be opened in Par-surplus of £630,000,000 in the Anan- Blameat On Tuesday afternoon, clnl year which ended Inst Wednes- nny day. seems to hold no prospect of sizeable tax cut. Neither is it likely that the Chancellor of the Exche- quer, Sir Stafford Cripps, will try to run his fingers much deeper in

This followed the Communist coup in Czechoslovaktin, Moscow's demand the taxpayers' pockets. for a mutual defence pact with of fear Norway's Finland and

and the, Com- | Russian pressure,

munist's bid for power in Italy in the Arril 18 elections.

Many of America's leading officials have come to believe that economic help alone may not be adequate to quarantee a return to the fold of the Western countries.

The iden of this problem took a fore

definite form after Britain,

the France, Belgium,

Netherlands and Luxembourg agreed in Brussels a month ago on Political, economie and milltary measures for Wostern European Union.

The pact provides for other nations to Join the group and both American and European leaders ex- peet it to be greatly expanded.

POSSIBLE ACTION Assuming the communists

are defeated on April 18, Italy is ex pected to join and the Scandinavian countries might do su

That takes the stakes out of the guessing game.

For good or ill, the taxpayers fate already has been written and packed away in the Chancellor's re leather dispatch box.

EUROPEAN

UNION

"Delegates of five nations sit around the table as a conference on proposed western

union

opens at the alain miniatry

European foreign Brussels,

Belgium. From right fore- ground to left are: Baron Van Dutch Harluxma Thoe Sloten, Duteli Ambassador to Belgium; l'aul Hedri-Spaak, Belgian Premier and Forglen Mluister; Fernand Van Langenhove of Belgium. conference chairman, and Wal- Belgian ter Laridan of the Foreign Ministry's political section. Others are unidenti fled. Ar Wirephoto via radlo from London.

of purchasing TORIES GAIN

But one of his biggest problems is to combat inflation, and the govern ment figures one good way to do i is to soak up a lot power in taxes.

the basle believe The guessers rate of income tax-43 percent--will Is some stay unchanged. There speculation that exemptions may be broadened a little to free more lawer paid workmen from income taxes.

Sir Stafford may alter purchase taxes. They were raised drastical- Since then Sir Stafford retreated to a study ly last November, over the garage at his farm in a spending has dried up and shelves

valley to are fuller. Financial circles country wooded

for finish his job. His budget is one of unworried. The market has been

In the United advancing slowly but steadily the biggest secrets

Scotland Yard about a month.Associated Press. Kingdom, yet no

local special agent nor even the constable guarded the door.

west

Neither Sir Stafford nor any mein- ber of the government dares to drop even the slightest hint of what's in store.

TOBACCO CONCESSION? :

The only persistent report among the budget guessers in newspaper and Anoncini circles is that Str Stafford will likely whittle

abit from the price of tobacco..

Two lines of American action to

Higher duties imposed a year ago support an enlarged group have been added one shilling to a packet of 20 considered and both may be followed. cigarettes bringing the price up to

pence countries would three shillings and four One. European "That the New Articles of}

the United States packet. propose and

mutual Association produced to the would accent a

defence The object was to get the citizenry thus eut Meeting, and for the purpose of treaty. The effect would be a guaranto trim its smoking ond identification subscribed by tee that if Russia attacks the west down dollar. costing imports of US

act with tobacco which Brlions prefer. David Fortune Landale, Chalf the United States would

Now the guessers believe tobacco out delay. man of the Company" "and" of the

Two, the United States would will be coming in under the Marshall Meeting, he adopted as the re-enact the wartime lend-lease plan and the Chancellor. can afford

brms and to cheapen "smokes" a little. Articles of Association of the principle of supplying Company, in substitution for military equipment to nations whose defence the President considers es- and to the exclusion ofsential to the defence of the United |

Sir Stafford could afford to cut existing Articles of Associatina

States.

be a radical taxes. The Treasury piled up Either course would of the Company."

departure from peace time American foreign policy--Associated Press.

A copy of the Proposed New Articles can be inspected by any Shareholder at the Ofces of the Company during the usual office hours.

By Order of the Beard of

Directors.

C. E. TERRY. Manager and Secretary Hongkong, 5th April. 1948.-

NOTICE

THE HONGKONG AND KOWLOON WHARF AND GODOWN COMPANY, LIMIT±1)

Notice To Shareholders

Ordinary Annual Meeting. Notice is hereby given that the Fifty-seventh Ordinary Annual Meeting of the Members of the Company will be held at the Offro of Messrs. Jarálne, Mathe- Mon & Co, Ltd.. Pedder Street,. Hong Kong, on Wednesday, 28th April, 1948, at Noon, to receive and consider the Report of the Board of Directors and State- ment of Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1947, to elect Director and to appoint Auditors.

Closing of Transfer Books Notice is also given that the Rogister of Members and Trans- fer Books of the Company, will be closed from 15th April, 1918, to 28th April, 1948, both days In- clusive.

By Order of the Board of

Directors,

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C. E. TERRY, Manager and Secretary. Hongkong, 6th April, 1048.

BELLIGERENT RESOLUTION

INFLATION PROBLEM

Isotopes For Czechoslovakia

Prague, Apr. 4.-Russia.

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has

Sydney. Apr. 4.—The Annual Con-red to deliver isotopes products ference of Industrial Groups of the of atomic reaction-to Czechoslovakia Australian Labour Party adopted a for use in medical treatment and resolution to overthrow the Gov- experiment, according to the Com-

ernment "by arms if necessary."

The resolution urged Federal and State Labour Government to enquire into the activities of the Australian Communist Party,

munist Youth Mlada Fronta.

Are

IN LOCAL ELECTIONS

elec- show

London, Apr. 4-The first re- sults from four-day local tiona throughout Britain thai Labour suffered 'heavy losses at the hands of the Conservatives. Complete but unofficial results of revealed that Saturday's voting Labour won 32 seats and lost 100. The Conservatives gained 138 seats,

U.S. Task Forces plus five new seats they had never

On Manoeuvres

contested before, artd lost nine.

The number of seats at stake In the elections for rural and urban District Councils totals 2,572. Elec- tions will-be completed on Wednes- day. There were no elections today.

London, Apr. 4.--The United States Task Force under the command of

largely in small Polling was Rear-Admiral Harold M. Martin. which was at present in the Persian villages and thus did not cumple Gulf, has passed through the Suez opinion in the large industrial' aren, The largest town Canal and is 10 curry out inctical where the bulk of Labour support exercises In the Mediterranean, the is believed to be.

in the elections was Headquarters participating United States Naval

Harrow, Kite of the famous boys' in London announced tonight.

The flagship of the task force is school, where the Conservatives got the 27,000-ton aircraft carrier Valley thumping majority. The Conser- vatives won 13 seats to Labour's one Forge.

tactical and the Counell is now composed of The announcement says exercises of a routine nature will be 26 Conservatives, seven Labourites

three

Independents.-United carried out between this fores and ond the United States Mediterranean-Press.

under Task Force Shermon.

Admiral Richard L. Conolly, Com- mander-in-Chief of the United States Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and left London Mediterranean, the

Vic:-Admiral

today for a Greek port, where he will embark in a cruiser to witness the exercises and to confer with the American naval commanders in his command area, which includes the Mediterranean, the Middle East and Northern European waters.-Reuter.

AMERICAN JEWS DEMONSTRATE

Movement paper,

New York, Apr. 4.-More than 20.000 Jewish war veterans from 13 (Czechoslovakia last year refused States and the District of Columbla to accept a supply of isotopes from marched down Fifth Avenue here America оп the grounds that the today, carrying placards protesting Mr T. Junor, the President, told conditions intringed Czechoslovak against the United States policy to- the Conference that if Labour is to

sovereignty. The Americans had wards Palestine.

Memorial services were held in remain in office the Communists asked that scientists of any nationali

Park for Jews must be crushed-Reuter.

ty should be permitted to attend Madison Sounre

denounced the Czech institutes where the isotopes killed in Palestine.

placards The were being used),

The paper also reported that Amerienn reversal of policy and de- the United Nations Czechoslovakia was building its first manded that

decision be upheld.- of partition factory for the manufacture penicillin at Roztoky, near Prague, Reuter. using Canadian equipment delivered by UNRRA-Reuter.

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P.I.-SIAM AIR TREATY LIKELY

Moniin, Apr. 4-Following the Philinnine Republic's recognition of the new Siamese Government, an Oslo, Apr. 4-Norway is to send air treaty between the two countries, a small force of police to Finnmark similar to those which the Republic and North Troms, near the Finnish has concluded with Britain and the border, "to avert difficulties which United States, is slated for negotia- the increasing tion in the near future, according to might from

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offelal circles today,

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The tremora lasted 15 seconds. No casualties were reported.-Reuter.

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