THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MAY 17, 1948.
Stern Gang BRITISH TORIES WANT Death For
Victims
Liverpool, May 10-Thirty- foue Hebrew Christian - re- fugees, who said they warned by the Etern
were
Giant. the Jewish terrorlat, organisa-, Lion, to leave Falcaline or risk death, arrived here today from Halfa in the troopship Georgie.
They were 20 women and 14 men, blacklisted by the Stern Gant for renouncing their' re- tiian and for working for the Heilbh in professional and In- dustrial capacities,
"Some of them fold. they had boon tortured and condämned to death by the Stern Gang.' There were four email' children with the party. bui most pf (bo re- fugees said they were forced to from their forsen flee families-Reuter.
and
DAKOTAS SEIZED
Action By Egyptian
Air Forco
SPAIN BROUGHT INTO
THE WESTERN UNION
London, May 16.--A campaign to bring Franco Spain into the Western world fold found increasing Conservative support in Britain this week.
Disputing the official policy of the Government that Spain must remain outside until Franco goes, Conservative Members of Parliament left their nor- mal forum to carry on the fight in the columns of The Times, the most in- fluential paper in Britain,
Spain, loft standing in the naughty boy's corner of the international school. room since the war, is barred from the United Nations, from Marshall aid, from Western Union.
The main argument of those who would change this is that if the Western democracies maintain relations with other countries whose ideology—Communism---- they disagree with, why then should they not recognise Spain; even while still dis- liking Franco's ideology?
Big Five May Discuss Palestine
Mr Michael Astor, Conservative Member who was among a group which backed a New Deal for Spain in last week's foreign affairs debate in the House of Commons,"
ught this_argument up in n let-
to The Times yesterday, He wrote: "There is abundant evidence 10 show that the iron hand of dictatorship is far more liberal in Spain than in Russia.
"The policy of the present Go- Lake Success, May 16.-The vernment towards Spain an after- Security Council, resuming its this country adopted towards Rus-
math of
of the appeasing policy which emergency session on Palcatine sia immediately after the war. tomorrow, may call the Big Five
It is -a concession to strength not the maintenance of + together to consider the Arab and uttacks on the new Jewish moral principle, and as such it State.
in the worst traditions of British foreign policy.
Cairo, May 10-The Ameri- can Ambassador, Mr S. Pinkney Tuck, has made representations to Prime Minister Nokrashl Pasha against the seizure by the Egyptian Air Force on Saturday of four surplus C-47 Dakota aeroplanes which Trans- World Airlines had agreed pre-
This move, suggested by Dr viously to sell to Saudi Arabia. Alfonzo Lopez, of Colombia, would Mt Tuck advised the Prime be made under the article of the
asked United Nations Charter which pro Minister of the seizure and Mim to review the decision under vidios for the major powers to con which it was made. No reply had sult together on "joint action" to been received at the time this was maintain international peace and
security. Following Saturday's Dakora Before
the Council meeting, the seizures, AC-54 Skymaster of the Big Five will meet in closed session US Air Force, enroule from to consider candidates for the post Burgge
the U.S. airbase at Dilahiran, Saudi Arabia, was de of United Nations mediator in the tained at Fareul Field here today Holy Land as agreed by the General
Assembly on Friday.
today pending inspection by a representa-
said Reports published Eve of the nation's Defence Minis-
Count
Bernadotte, nephew of the King of Sweden, was being con- sidered
as mediator as well as Mr
written.
to
SUPPLY FLICHT American official said the Sky-
Folke
is
SCAP WILL
LIMIT OPERATIONS
Terrorists
10,--Four Belgrade, May members of an armed Gloveone band, alleged to have terrorised tho countryside mour Celio, were sentençad to death fast night by a Slovene district
court.
The band WAR accused of plundering private property and altempting to persuade se- veral peasant · soldiers to join them. The band' was said to have been captured after short armed battle on March
17.
Several of the bandits? friends and relatives were also
to irled and sentenced
three Imprisonment. cach mentheTM
for hiding or otherwise aiding them..
Qua member of the band was Dentenced to 20 yearsBeater.
INE KE BRAINATOMIELITE DES
Executions
In Greece
16. A
British Labourites Perturbod Tokyo, May 16, The
Scarborough, May tion of General MacArthur's cent minsa executions in Greece, Economic and Scientific Sec-motion of protest against re-
hearquarters today announced to be submitted to the Labour that, effective from June 12, Party Conference which opens the sales operations of SCAP's here tomorrow, was being con- foreign trade office In New sidered by the Party Executive | York would be limited to the this afternoon. disposals of materials such as The Prime Minister, Mr Clement raw silk now on inventory in Attlee, and the Deputy Premier, Mr the United States.
Herbert Morrison, and several other members of the Government were present.
RAGING CONTROVERSY "Apart from this matter of prin- ciple, it has been the direct cause of
The Inventories of Japanesa com- the strengthening of General Fran- co's position in Spain, and has har-modities now in the United States dened the hearts of the Spanish
demo- are Hquidated.
proposal to expel Mr. Alfred Ed- people against the Western
The office will continue to be wards, Labour Member of Parlin- cracles.
The Times' controversy has raged available to promote the sales of all meat for Middlesbrough, East, for goods for shipment to Japan, but his refusal to stop his public cam- paign against the Government's for six days. of Spain was a Conservative Mem- The official statement said the nationalisation policy.
The first to come to the support will not act as sales agent. ber of Parliament, Major Guy Lloyd, office would provide every possible was tho first asiatance to buyers in the United who wrote: "Spain Western European notion to see the States to obtain their requirements but actual sales Red light and to fight successfully from Japan,
negotiations would and Communism.
conducted
Japan through her to participate in the defence of exporters
This is to be effected by a show- authorised com- of triumph utilisation is a
down with the dwindling pro- Western civilisation
munications facilities, and an for
propaganda
For the time being, these private Communist wing of the party on the will continue to be one side and by a strong public Mr M.
a retired Navy negotiations
nationalisation other, captain, and Madrid,
next milled to Mr American buyers and the Japanese policy on the
widespread feeling Lloyd's side with the warning: Board of Trade,
The official reason for the change among delegates that Labour, after "Deliberately to shut out Spain from the Western Union is merely of policy is that it is a forward three years in office, has lately been restoring Japanese trade put on the defensive and that the to sabotage the plan for European step in
have recovery and, to anyone with a completely to private channels. recent inner party quarrels
weakened its position. knowledge of Spain, it is utterly Reuter. incomprehensible."
will not be replenished as wtocks The Executivo also considered a
be
ON THE DEFENSIVE Both moves were seen by de- legates born as part of a deliberata
of increasing attacks..
master was making a semi-weekly Harold Evans, of Philadelphia, who againstureny efusal to allow directly by American buyers with effort, to rally the parly in the face
has already been appointed Muni- cipal Commissioner of Jerusalem,
Count Bernadette, President of the Swedish Red Cross, played a lead-
"OUR
Communist Dhahran later today.
supply flight to Dhahran Field.
The Skymaster was allowed 10 proceed to
Defence Ministry before its depar- turd could not be determined In- mediately.
folly."
in
What it was Inspected by the ing part in the peaev talks before the act of ex Scott Naval Attache formalised by the contracts between stand by the party's'
German capitulation.
The Security Council's emergency meeting way called on Saturday n within four hours of an Egyptian note stating that Egyplian forces had entered Palestine to restore order "against Zionist terrorism."-
Representatives of the Egyptian Air Force uppeared at T.WA, offices at Farouk Field on Saturday with dece signed by Haidar Pasha, Distance Minister and approved by | Router. Pasha ordering the stizure, Assador
Tuck made Ementations but after some delay, Syption pilots took the planes
way.
IC-
Another development was An order banning all light over. Egypt from 7pm. to 3 a.m., apparently a precaution against possible Jewish air raids-Associated Press.
over
Pt.
Maloy
Swettenham
Strike
The strike began on April 27 for higher wages and better conditions
COUNTER-BLASTS
as an
to
There
A
public opinion poll Wad published in
in a London pro-Labour Sunday paper this morning pre-
PRINCESS AT dieting a defeat for
THE RACES
....
Next day, counter-blasts come from other correspondents. One, an Oxford University don, wrole that Major Lloyd's letter is "actually
assistance giving powerful Russian propaganda. It will ob
be quoted
instanco
Paris, May 16.-Princess Elizabeth Singapore, May 10-Two hundred viously RAF MEN HELD UP
labourers working under proving that Russian propaganda is and the Duke of Edinburgh watched when it asserts that the the races at Longchamp this after- correct were used by the nolice guards British London, May
of Western democracy noon from the Presidential box, 18. The
spokesmen Federal Malayan Government today are hypocritical when they talk of backed by a great bank of pink, Air Ministry said today the Com-
in unload a cargo of sugar from a
that they white and blue hydrangeas. monwealth Relations
maintaining freedom; Office has
ship delayed by a three-week old really have no objections to a police The Princess, wearing told its Commissioner in Pakistnu
a white strike at Port Sweltenham. Malaya's state provided
flowered only that it is a
frock and white hat to make urgent
representations"
malu port.
protects police state which
the trimmed with white flowers, follow- rights of
ed cach event closely through By
the correapon. Binoculars, but did not bet. though it was thought to be-Indence had expanded to almost nut to go to look at the horses in The French police advised her sympathy with the stoppage then on full column of The Times. in Singapore and since broken by Two more Conservative Members the paddock as had at first been the Introduction of outside labour.
of Parliament, Major H. Legge-planned, and this deprived the great
crowd Whitsunday
of a chance to and Sir Patrick Hannon, Bourke The Governor, Sir Edward Gent.
see her at close view. provided this joint comment: "Tau recently warned Port Swellenhum
Loud cheers greeted the Princess He said he did not know whether strikers that he would use "direct safeguarding of a bridgehead in
and the Duke as they stepped into the Commonwealth Relations Com-labour" to work the port if they did Europe for those opposed to Coin-
their box to be received by Madame missioner had had any success in not return to work-fleuter.
munism ought to be the main Vincent Auriol, the President's wife, his talk with the Pakistan officials.
strategle purpose of any such (Wer- In the morning, the Royal couple ----Associated Press.
tern Union) plan.
rose early to attend. 3. celebration "However distasteful Generatof Holy Communion at the Anglican Franco's methods may be to us, they ought not to be permitted to cloud the fact that the existence of the Iberian Peninsula and the natural
at
on behalf of the four RAF officers held up there by n
a dispute Üheir medical certificates.
Ministry spokestan saldap- the medical station
inoculated the four which against yellow fever, is not on
ved list although it is Pakistan
approved "a perfecily competent station."
Ex-Siam
Premier
NO VIET NAM GOVT. YET
For England Saigon, May 18-Me Tran Van
Singapore, May 16,-Pridi Pano-tuu, Vice-President of the South myong, former Siamese Premier, and Viet Nam Government, told Reuter only
barrier of the Pyrences afford the practical means of securing a senior statesman who fled after today there might be some delay such a bridgehead, just as, in the last November's coup
century, was the case when d'etat
in the setting up of a Viet Namese last by Marshal Plbul Songgram, will visit Indo-Chinese Nationalist) Central Nepolson was the antagonist". Britain shortly as Pa
Government. private citizen."
Mc Tran Van Huu recently re-
FACTS TO FACE
He escaped from Siam wearing turned from Hongkong, where he : Despite the growing campaign, dark glasses and a false moustache net Bao Dal, the ex-Emperor of the backers of Spain, diplomatic and was smuggled Into Slogapore.
Anuam.
Church in the Rue. Daguesseau, just arcoss from the British Embassy in Paris-Reuter,
are
Pravda Sings The Same Old Tune
Moscow, May 16,-Pravda, the or
of the gan
Russian Communist Party, declared tonight. "Swedish reactionaries and advocates of Nur die co-operation"
were Booking to observers say, have these apparent place Sweden "in the ranks of the He was leader of Slam's wartime Mr Tran Van Huu said he had ly stonewall facts to face.
mercenaries of imperialist monopo. "Free Thal" underground movement | been instructed by Bao Dal to con-
1.-The Western Union (of Br-les." and for almost 18 months was in lact various personalities. ile de tain, France and the Benelux coun-
"The Swedish reactionaries n tight dally radio contact with the Ceylon clined to disclose their names, but
tries is
regional military headquarters of the Supreme Com- they are believed to be members of alliance, and no one else is likely now attempting to embroil Sweden In the Western Union' which have mander, Admiral Lord Louis Mount- | the Indo-Chinese resistance to come in for the moment. batten: Reuter.
omelal nothing in common with the genuine United 2.-The
States' policy is that Spain cannot come aspirations of the Swedish, people. Into the Marshall plan unless the who have no interest in a polley of 10 European nations in the Euro-forming military blocs and aban- pean recovery programing agree doning International co-operation." and this is most improbable unless the newspaper added. Reuter. Franco goes.
3-Leftwing opinion, even of the is set hard most moderate type, against bringing a Fascist State into the anti-totalitarian. camp- even If It considered is form of and Fascism was now undynamis almost benevolent-Reuter.
Heuter.
French President Calls
For "Frank Parley"
Parls, May 16 The French President, M. Vincent Auriol, today called for a "frank parley" between respon- . aible statesmen to put an enl to "these discussions on procedure, these insidious notes, these backhanded blows, and these pinpricks which serve nobody's prestige or in- fluence and even less the cause of peace."..
He Lost His Bet
Paris, May 10.-Completely sober- cd and repentant, a French law student was released today after he was taught by police trying to scale
wall of the British
Embassy where Princess Elizabeth and Prince
the
U.S. Films To Be Philly are staying
sured by acts and the best way to hope, of how the opportunity! Made In Britain
The student, apparently under the Influence of alcohol when caught, anid he had bot some of his friends ho would be received by the Prin- cess-Associated Press.
Labour if a general election took place today.
This has not produced the shock among
which the the delegates paper predicted. Reuter.
Death Of Lord Balfour's Niece
London, May 10-Mrs Blanche Elizabeth Campbell Dugdale, niece Balfour, and biographer of Lord author of the famous Declaration favouring the establishment of a
Jewish National Home In Fricutine.
today. died at Maybold, Ayrshire. Scotland. on Pales- She was an authority 1ine, a close confidante of her uncle during the last three years of his life, and a prominent public de- fender of the principles of his Do- claration.-Reuter.
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matic manifestations is confined by by American companies within the Speaking at a wine festival at reason."
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London, May 10.-Sixtcon mem- pacifo
proclamations which
bera of a "sabotago" gang whose arostep in the creation of a "Arat little not followed by any constructive Island of order, liberty, well-being These will have their earisings arrest was announced "in": Prague proposition while armed fear con-and security."
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