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Food Minister To

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Thongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1948.

Hunger Assails Ruined

Prof. Jond's

Offence

and broadcaster who be-, camo, during the

war.

London. Apr. 12. - Dr London, Apr. 12-The Minis-Cyril E. M. load, author ter of Food, Mr. John Strachey, said today that ho took a "parti: cularly grave view indeed” of an Incident of racial discrimination in which a London restaurant refused to serve a meal to an unnamed coloured man, den- cribed as "an extremely dis tinguished lecturer of London University, well known in his own part of Africa."

alrendy He said $20 had

told Parliament that he considered that

British Com the interests of the

nonwealth were most seriously in- jured-by-on-example of racial dis- erimination such as this appeared to have been.

"I am investigating the incident i and will take appropriate action." he mid

"UNCHRISTIAN ACTION"

Mr Thomas Driberg, who raised the matter in the House of Com- mons, said this "grossly unchristian and undemocratic betion," offensive British subjects, to many millions of would have "very grave repercus- slons in our African colony."

onc

the

Mr John Lewis, Labour, said the proprietor of the establishment- Rules Res

of Restaurant-in

End principal West thoroughfares- the Strand-had made a statement justifying his atulude.

or

In the circumstances, would the Minister be prepared to say, if cases of discrimination, racial, colour creed, were brought to his notice, be would withdraw the restaurant's food licence.

Mr Strachey said there seemed to be no doubt that the incident took place. but ho tad not been able to investigate It fully..

before having done so," he said.

CUSTOMERS OBJECT

Britain's No. 1 exponent of popular philosophy, was to- day fined £2 and ordered to pay £21 5. Q. costs after he had pleaded guilty to travelling on a train with. out a ticket.

He was summonsed for travelling from London to Salisbury, Wiltshire, with intent to avoid payment of the 17/1d fare Reuter,

KEDATANTESSERADABANNE PANTALONE GIRL TEATRINE ZARARININ CALE

AIR SPEED

RECORD

British Plano Flies At 605.23 MPH Hatfield, Hertfordshire, Apr. 12. A 26-year old former fighter pilot, John Derry, to- night completed a 100-kilometre International closed circult in six minutes, 9,6 seconds, at a speed of 974.0259 kilometres per hour (605.23 miles per hour).

This beat the existing record by over 84 kilometres an hour.

Mr Tom Bell, the managing wings,

Bogota

CITY WILL TAKE 5 YEARS TO REPAIR

Colombia Breaks With Russia

Bogota, Apr. 12.-Hunger spread today through the blasted Colombian capital heavily damaged by a wild weekend of bloody rioting, looting and burning. However, amid the ruins of this once beautiful moun- tain city the chiefs of 21 delegations to the Inter- American conference met to decide whether to carry on their work despite the wrecking of their head- quarters in the capital.

It is doubtful that the conference could be con- tinued in Bogota. It will cost millions of dollars to repair the city and an estimated five years to put it back into normal working order.

Although the government claimed that order had been restored, police and army troops were extending Snipers control from the centre of the city outward. were being routed from their strong points with rifle fire at times and with anti-tank guns when they were too strongly entrenched.

take Con-

nt-

The Communists certainly parti-capital, where the Army, up to now, cipated Is the rovolution. They has been distributing milk and meat. may have planned and deliberately The formers were assured of air- Derry was flying a De Havilland precipitated it. But the damage to craft protection along the highways, "I must not arrive ut a conclusion 108 research plane. This is Bogota was done by mob of ill- A delayed Reuter's despatch from peculiar bat-shaped little machine clothed, ill-fed and ill-housed people. Bogota said that there was no with

protruding shark-likewhose

motives were to loot, not electricity, that the water supply stabilising An and swept-back

was contaminated, that bodies were polities.

No metropolitan city of this

rotting in the streets. director of the restauront, said at

Planes

in to Fram The time and speed were official hemisphere ever has been so com-

were flown the time of the incident that he was

ly confirmed

Acro pletely sacked by a mol.

sume ci the Pan-American IFUL

by the Royal prejudiced against coloured

p.m. on Friday until early Satur

to Panama, ference delegates people. but most of his customers Club officials acting on behalf of the

day morning the mob was king. objected to them.

though senior officials of the nations, of the deaths in that night of terror elding Mr George Marshall, the of fighting American Secretary of State, were the result not

to Kel the Western were We

those who were trying to staying on Hemisphere re-among

unity talks restarted. political power retain Usurp or Fessar, whose name 1 do not know, corded was 106 kilometres per The deaths resulted from

People, inving in the streets to- fights

numbers than "In order to respect the wishes of hour on one of the legs."

at were Laver loot... Colombians killed Culom- day in greater our customers," we have made it a rule of the restaurant not to serve i The flight was sponsored by the blans, probably in most cases hot anything since Saturday,

searched by troops, and were for- and the De knowing their targets.

bidden to outer the area of the coloured

people. If we coloured people, they would only be Havilland Aircraft Company.

Capitolio, where the Conference is meeting. unpopula with the white customers

Federation Acroniulotte Interna- Hint was the order of the day. Most

"In this particular instance, ationale. whitte man bonked à tabla 11:1 arrived with coloured Kul}}

African who is a University pro

come."-Rauter.

Derry said: "The conditions very good.

The highest speed'

allow British Government

Dino

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For

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Reservations

Tel: 27880

Price 20 Cents

Discuss Soviet Democracy

Restrictions

General Lucius D. Clay (left), American military governor In Germany, and his British counterpart, Licul-Gen. Sir Brian Robertson (right), met In Berlin, to discuss what nction would be taken against travel restrictions Imposed in the Soviet zone separating Berlin from Western German zones.-AP Wirephoto.

ARMED ARABS HOLD-UP

VISCOUNT SAMUEL'S SON

Palestine Truce Discussions

Jerusalem, Apr. 12.-The Honourable Edwin Samuel, eldest son of Viscount Samuel, was held up at gun-point today by two armed Arabs in Jerusalem. He was told: "Come with us in Jerumiem and sald he was con- or we shoot". The incident oc-fident the British authorities would curred in St Julian's Way, Jeru co-operate in protecting them be

tween now and May 15, when the salem, in broad daylight, less mandate ends. than 50 yards from British troops manning the entrance to the security zone.

One of the armed Arabs stuck a FIRES ON ALL SIDES

gun in his stomach, grabbed him by the collar and started to, pull hima. and another This correspondent and that would be bad for business. The previous record was set up in

A correspondents' pool despatch, towards the Arab quarter. A second "Coloured people should go

in February by M. 4. spent Friday night in the United to Hampshire restaurants where they are wel- Lithgow in a Vickers Attacker jet-States Embassy wet as delegation entries out of the country by plane Arab gunman came up on the other

sent from Panama, put the and women of U.S. und propelled fighter.-Reuter.

Fires raged on all sides as the mob deaths at about 500. Reuter's cor- · The Hon Mr Samuel shouted for loated the downtown section and set respondent in the city put the total help and began to struggle with, his fire to nearly every major building damage from arson, wanton looting abductors. except the well-guarded presidential and wanton destruction at more than paluce.

£2,500,000, and said that a four main thoroughfares was blocked by mile stretch of one of the city's the lames still Beking out of masses

EDITORIAL

An Unalterable Date

N May 15 the British Mandate

minated In conformity with the expressed and unanimous with of the Unlied Nations. Suggestions

being are

made that the end should be postponed, that Britain should continue for another few months to be responsible for maintenance of law and order. They come too late. Mere pro- longation of the Mandate for u few months would achieve nothing. The situation in August would not essentially differ from the situation in May. It has not

On 15 the Bushehe ter

ho

is

essentially changed for many years. There would be purpose la discussing here the right and wrong, the wisdom er folly, of past policies of the Balfour declaration, of the League Mandate and so on.

The

past unalterable. We are concerned only with its effcola.. And the effect of old polleles has been that there ure In Palestine today in a country the size of Wales-two peoples contending for supremacy; peoples of different

languages, religious traditions: . neither desiring to blend, with the other into common nationally; each ta- alstent remaining distinct and

ор

on

becomlug dominant.

That

,

ad

the dellberately created situation with which the British Govern- ment has been trying to cope for ricarly 30 years. As the Manda- tory Power It has for most of the period managed to impose peace. It has provided a good ministration: it

It has promoted the economic development of the country, It has, in fact, been a benevolent foreign despot, could do no more. And that clearly. Is not enough. A per- 'manent foreign despotism, how- over benevolent, la acceptable

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quarters

of rubble.

"AGENTS" ARRESTED

Breaking free, he sprinted for the safety of the security zone. and they could open flashed post the seniries before fire. "They did not have time to ask mà for my identity card," he commented after- wards-Reuter.

INFORMAL TRUCE TALKS

New York, Apr. 12,-A special on- the-spot truce commission is likely

Rioters also set fire to the Em

Four times during bassy building. the night and early morning those in the Embassy prepared to leave when fires from the first floor shot; neither to Jews nor Arabs; nor

as high as the third floor. To make

The breaking off of diplomatic re- tolerable for the "despol." More- the situation worse no lights were lations followed on the Government's over. even this system has low allowed In. ihe Embassy office announcement that two "Soviet become unworkable, The great

three except

essential agents" had been arrested, and that Jewish TKC (whatever Is

unes-the telephone switchboard. 13 unidentified foreign agents had origina) to leave the countries of the communications roum and one been "caught"

to be sent to Palestine in the near fomenting trouble. Eastern Europe and settle in for the correspondent to write his

Some of these, the Government a result of today's Informal Security future, observers here believed as Palestine has transformed the dispatches.-United Press,

Radio said, were taken alive. situation

has increased both

The Government argument that

Council's discussions on a trusteeship | · that and truec. Jewish pressure and Arab ro-

RELATIONS SEVERED

was inspired

by Com- sistance. The

Washington, conflict has be-

Apr. 12. The the revolt

The Russian delegate, M. Andrei Colomblan come more lutense

blaming munists seemed today to rest on the Government, than before

assumption that neither Liberals nor Gromyko, attended the meeting, held Communists for the revolution which swept the country on Fri-the Conservatives would have killed in the American delegate, Mr War- Dr Jorge Elelcer Gaitan, the Opposi- | ren Austin's, office for the first day, today broke off diplomatic re-tion Libéral Party leader, whose as- time. lations with Moscow, joining Chile sassination on Friday touched off the A number of members made pug- and Brazil in the Western Hemi- whole show. sphere anti-Russian `bloc

In Washington, officials held that to be proposed to the Arubs and the Bogola Radio, announcing the there

no real proof of the Jews. It was understood there was break and the arrest of a group of Cold

Colombian charges against Com-general "foreign agents," also said that the munism, but that there seemed 21-nation Pan-American Con-

4-be · considerable circumstantial be ference, interrupted by the revolt, [evidence. would be continued at Bogota, to Reuters reported from Bogota truce on the spot. show the world that "Communism that the Communist headquarters, The basis of the truce, could no! triumph over Colombia opposite to the Capitolio, was unreliably learned, would be a "stand- and the rest of the nations of this touched amid the general wreckage.

agreement" which would Ilemisphere.

Reuler.

"freeze" the Arab and Jewish forces The decision of the Pan-Ameri-

под can Conference delegates to

the war. And, as a direct cou11- sequence of war conditions, boll sides are now well armed. For the Mandatory it is no longer a question of destroying and dis- arming

armed forces. Nothing less than a major milf- tary operation will today enable either Britalri or any

other out-

side authority to impose peace in Palestine. It is an operation wiilch

Would

uld require more troops

to

Jowish-Arab

the Ini

con-

of President

Was

to

gestions for the terms of a truce-

approval for establishing

a special commission which would

on agent of the Security Counell

to observe the implementation of the

it was

dre.

II was recalled

"expected to cease

the Jews that

than are even now employed; and which would require a ruthless- ness which no, British government and no British commander is pro- pared to employ. There seems to

in their present positions, where be a growing realisation of the snassive dimculty of any volley of

tinue at Bogota suggested that they AND THEN ONE they would be "enforcement,"

feel the Government There is a ten- dency to look for a solution to a

Mariano Ospina Perez has the ON HONGKONG? have consistently claimed that the Jewish-Arab truce as a prelude situation under. control, but do

settlement. layed despatches sent yesterday, London, Apr. 12.-The Colonial only real-truce could come about Now to that

there long run and received through Washington Secretary, Mr Arthur Creech Jones, when about 7,000 Arabs who have Infiltrated Into Palestine from out- is clearly no alternative, Whether today, said that armed rebels were sald in the House of Commons to side were forced to withdraw. It can come

me before instead of

sill openly walking the streets of night he hoped to make a statement. An American spokesman stressed after a destructive and bloody Bogota.

on claims in respect of war damage after today's meeting that the pro- civil war remains to be seen. Bul These delayed despatches added and losses in Malaya soon. Reuter.posal for a commission would have quite certainly the continued pre-

gunfire from rifles, machine

to be submitted for Washington's sence of the British administra-

guns and one-pounders mounted on

approval tion will not serve to bring about

tanks, continued in the heart of elther a truce or rapprochement. the city, and that the popular Indeed, the one thing that

that might shake both Arab and Jewish leaders' into sanity is perhaps the realisation that responsibility is within a few weeks going to be entirely upon their awn shoulders.

that

Liberal Party, whose adherents largely formed the revolutionary

crowds in the capital, had demanded the resignation of President Ospina Perez.

The Colombian Government today appealed to farmers to bring food into the starvation-threatened

When the rains come there will be no more restrictions. But

until then

Save Water

CEASE FIRE RESOLUTION

Another suggestion today, which appeared to And favour, was that the Security Connell should, as soon as possible, pass a resolution calling on both parties lo, censo fire,

Mr Austin Etressed the Impor- lanes of protecting the holy places

The negotiations are expected to take the following course:

1. The President of the Council, Dr Alfonzu Lopez, in consultation with other members, will draft a truce agreement and cubmit it at another informal meeting of the Council.

Thing Of The Past

The Two Oswalds Reach A Conclusion

London, Apr. 12.-Oswald Pirow, leader, of the South African New Order" move- iment, said at a joint press con- ference with Sir Oswald Mosley, here today that he considered "Democracy, like Faseism and National Sociallam; is a thing of the past.

"I think we are in a stage of development of which it would be foolish to predict the future and it

new

Jossible something

evolve", he deelarcd.

wil

Mr Prow, a former Unlon, De- fence Minister and..a-leading - ad- vocate of South African neutrality during the second World War, Is visiting Britain to discuss relationa with Sir Oswald's Union Movement. Sir Oswald, founder of the pre- war British Union of Fascists, was Interned throughout the war for security reasons.

EX-FASCIST AGREES

Agreeing with Mr Pirow's view, Sir Oswald said present-day facts necessitated a political creed "bo- yond Fascism and Democracy."

Mr Pirow sold the main reason for his visit was to discuss personal- ly with Sir Oswald the implication of his Union Movement in relation to the development of Africa "south of the Sahare."

only be

De act with the whole-

hearted

there, he said, could

co-operation

of all the colonial powers. In such a scheme,

Germany

would have to be accepted

as "a complete equal."

The alternative

to auch an all-- embracing European plan seems to me to be at worst the complete Bolshevisation of Europe and, at best.

*axistence

he

America," s

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Mr Pirow said he had negotiated with itler in 1938 with the consent of Mr Nevlite Chamberlain, (Britain's prewar Prime Minister, now dead). concerning

a Jewish National Home-possibilities being Tanganyika, Madagascar and British Guinna.

He thought the scheme might have been carried out but for, the out- break of war.

THIRD WAR INEVITABLE

Mr Pirow considered a third world war, this time against Russia, as inevitable. South Africa would be in It up to the hilt," he added.

do not see how Europe can have. the Russings resolution recover until

been pushed back into Asia, where they belong." he said.

Mr Pirow said he would prob- ably

visit the United States, He might to Spain and Portugal week. He had friendly con- tacts in all three countries.

2. The Security Council will meet formally to pass any drafted in secret sessions.

3-The President of the Council will-communicate the Council's pro- posals to the Arab and Jewish re- Another private presentatives in meeting.

During the meeting, draft truce terms, described as "based on prac- tical reality" were presented by the American delegate, and considered by the meeting.-Reuter.

Si Oswald said that-his move- ment firmly intended to fight Bri tain's next

election- general Router.

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