1948-06-15 — Page 5

Gottwald Calls For New Czech Cabinet

DEPUTY PREMIER'S STATEMENT

Prague, June 14.-M. Klement Gottwald, the newly-elected President of Czechoslovakia, received M. Antonin Zapotocky, the old Deputy Premier, this afternoon and charged him with the formation of a new Cabinet.

The present Government will re-1 main in office until the National Assembly passen a vote of confidence In the new Cabinet whileh will be submitted for its approval on Thurn- day.

Members of the Diplomatie Corps in Prague, headed by the Amerlean Stein- Ambassador, Mr Laurence

hardt, were received by the new President in company with Ir Vlado Clementis, the Foreign Minister,

M. Zapotocky, the new Premier, said in an exclusive interview with Reuters today he was confident of the decisive position of the Com- munist Party and there was no need for violence to preserve victory.

In answer to questions put to hân by Reuters correspondent, he out- ined some of the brand principles which will be followed by the Government the President Ins asked him to form, the composition of

which is expected to be announced tomorrow.

NATIONWIDE PARTY Will ny

political party, other take than the Communist Party.

future in step in Any decisive Czechoslovak politics? He answer- ed: The Communist Party today in the greatest, strongest and best or. ganised political party in the coun- try.

U.S. Loan

For China

Rumours

Washington Denials

Washington, June 14,—Both Chinese and American officials here voiced disapproval today of rumours

Authorlintive

United that the

to the resurgence of currency reform talk, but Pel's office declined iment,

con-

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1948.

Accused Of Gandhi Assassination

HAD EXCESS

PASSENGERS

For falling to renew the cente Sintes is considering a currency of his boat, the master of a cargo rehabilitation loan for China. bunt was fined $25 or five days by

in Sources

both Mr Cairns at the Marine Court this On an acidional charge stroups said, "we are not aware of morning.

carrying such a project," but both declined of breach of rence by further Identification.

passengers on a cargo boal, he was Mr Tu Yee-pel's recent returned $200 or one month. from China as head of the Nanking

here contributed Sub-Inspector McCarthy reported Technical Mission

that defendant's hout was stoppel near Al buoy and 50 persons, in- cluding eight crew, were found en Ilence should have It is now really a nationwide par State Departments

board. The been renewed on April 1. ty and its decisive role is acknowle

Defendant pleaded that he hod ledged by the whole nation and byensions in recent months have denied

his other political parties. Therefore, in they were considering means of re-only just completed repairing

Nanking's habilitating

currency boat

the and intended 10 renew future no force could endanger These and other quarters

the

pointed licence

A: today.

regardin the Communist Party. Only the party out that a major sum would be re-

passengers, he knew that this way own mistakes and WTONE! policies

but wanted to earn could endanger in influence. "I be-red for such a purpose, that the wron

US Congress would have to approve lieve our party is strong enough to

it, and that "Congress is not likely lead the nation to

happler

to undertake such a project at pre- future.

<

a

What is your opinion of the pos- sible value of non-Communist par- ties in future in Czechoslovakia? He answered: "We did not fully re- enterprise and pri- move private vate property. With nationalisation, we have removed only their harm ful excesses.

Ofelals of the US Treasury and

sent."

un various em

the

RUMOURS CONTINUE However, despite these general disavowals, such rumours continue. One such speculation is that Economic Co-operation Administra- tion's China Programme may cou➡ eern itself with Nanking's currency "In our people's democratic re- troubles. Proponents of this theory gime the existence of non-Commu-point to the fact that the Silliman nist parties is not only possible but group assigned to China includes

economist. necessary and therefore we do not U.S. Treasury currency need to make their activity impos- This official is Mr Paul Parker af

the sible."

Division Far Eastern

of the! Treasury's Office of International middle-class with a Kinanec.

nearest The Western

Chinete methods and Western culture. What sources would come to giving sub

gest that the desirability of impro- ving China's currency situation may have been condered on the lower Chinese

American technical und levels. They anphasised however

been that "there has

Sino American policy decision thereon" Associated Press.

Czechoslovakia hins' been known for a strong traditionn

for

regard

He answered: "We are not, in

official

will be the future attitude to these?stance to the rumours was to sug-

WESTERN METHODS principle, opponents of Western eul- ture or Western methods. We have adopted many and shni In the future, lake over all that has been proved good, advantageous and pro- gressive.

"We shall oppose all that is rene- tionary, capitalistic and imperialistic and would endanger peace or our forward development."

Will

the system of

government hich provides for a Parliamentary Opposition-in-future-have any place-

in Czechoslovak polities?

wered: "Cur regime does

He answered:

no

Malaya's Rubber

Exports To U.S.

....

14-Malaya London, June

ex-

money.

SOK!

Accused of the assassina- tion of Indin's Mohandas K.

Gandhi, these men listen to Platts-Mills

Makes New

testimony In New Delhi

courtroom arraignment. Left to right: Nathuram Vinayak Godse, lender of the accused group; Narayan Dattrayn Apte and Vishnu Ramkrish- In centre, na Karkare. second row, is Madan Lal, also accused of exploding a bomb

Gandhi outside a prayer meeting at Birla House 10 days before the January 30 assassination. -AP Picture.

during their

REDS NEAR

YANGCHOW

Imposing the fines, Mr Cairns told defendant that the reguntions, were intended for the sately of PON- sengers. If his boat was not licensed to carry passengers, it meant that it was considered unfit for that pur-"several flying

Jose.

June

Shanghai,

15--Chinese reinforcements were Government this morning speeding to Yangehow, about 40 miles northeast of Nanking following the sudden appearance of columns of Com- munist troops" near there, according to Chinese press reports reaching

here.

Accusations

London, June 14.--Mr John Platts- was recently expelled Milla, who from the Labour Party as n pra- Communist, asserted in the House of Commons today that the Americans wanted to control the British rate of exchange and tariff policy.

They were insisting on these two points in the negotiations for a bilateral agreement on Marshall aid

Washington, he alleged.

thint

He asked for an assurance the British Government would not surrender to the ERP Administrator The power to decide the rate of ex- change of the British currency or the right to vete or, in any way, Interfere with the British tarif policy and structure.

Mr

tho Christopher Mayhew, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign not Affairs, replied that he did want to comment while negotiations were going on.

A Conservative, Mr Crosthwaite Eyre, said that the Chancellor of the given him a specific assurance that Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps, had In no circumstances would power be given under this agreement for the of exchange.

PLANTERS AS Military precautions along the Americans to interfere with the rate

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Mr Wang Mou-kung, the Provin. cial Governor of Kiangsu is sold to have alerted all Government forces on the south bank of the Yangtse guard against a possible Com- munist crossing.

to

This morning, some 2,000 Singapore, June 14-Sixty Euro-munisis armed with modern Dean planters from 13 estates in the pons were reported trying to land Rengam district of Malayn met to in the vicinity of Nanwel, on the

peninsula across night to arrange for mutual protec- Whangpoo nlver. tion and assistance for the police in mounting their fight against the wave of gangsterism.

According to the Straits Times, unomcial reports sald gangsters in the Rengam district were now elimi- noting Kuomintang leaders, three of whom were murdered on Saturday night, and intended to murder the European estate manager later.

Twelve Chinese gangsters, armed with tommy-guns and revolvers, fast night critically wounded

nded a Chinese foreman of a rubber estate known as a Kuomintang supporter.

Other gangsters, who last night shot dead a-Chinese- on--a-Johore

: rubber esinte, are believed to have mistaken hint

contractor.

Planes Attack

Guerilla Hq

Athens, June 14.-Eight Greek Spitüre planes attacked the northern village of Lykorrakhi, thought to be Markos Vañades, with bombs and a headquarters of Communist leader

rockets yesterday, the Pilots said a large concentration

of guerillas was in R

the Grammos

The city of Yangchow, where a 12-hour curfew has been Imposed as a result of the Red threat, is located at the junction of Grand Canal and the Yangtae. is situated directly north of Chin-Mountain village. Large clouds of klang, major city on the Shanghai- smoke and dust billowed up, hiding Informed quarters said Nanking railway-Reuter,

the town.

one of Lykorrakhi certainly is Vafiades main bases,

well-Bill him for his brother,

not exclude and does not make imported £42,300,000 worth of rubber know communal clash in Perak inst possible a Parliamentary Opposition. to the United States In 1947 out of In a But we do not agree that to secure a total rubber export of £92,500,000 | night-having no connection with

démocracy an Opposition is uncon- ditionally or inevitably necessary."

It has been reported that non- Communists fear that action will be taken against them. Can you de- Ane the official attitude to elements which disapprove of the present re- gime?

He answered: "We have no cause to annihilate those who do not agree

Where with today's regime.

the real democratic majority has been victorious,

no need there. Is

for vlolence to preserve victory.

"I declared just after the elections We shall patiently persuade and educate those who do not under- stand the tasks of these times. That we do mean. The Covera- ment will show In deeds, not words."--Reuter.

Falsified Receipt For Vegetables

it was announced in Parliament to

The amount of tin exported to the

United

£7,135,000 States was worth out of total tin exports of

£1,750,000.

To Outlaw

Lynching

political differences-Malays, armed with knives, slashed to death four Chinese at Lenggong

Trade Union The Pan-Malayan

Washington, June 14.The United Federation will meet at Kuala Lum-States Senate Judiciary Committee pur shortly to discuss the Govern- today approved by 10 to three a Bill Mr David Rees-Williams, Under-inent ban on the Federation.-Reuler, to make lynching a Federal crime.

A Southern member immediately Secretary of State for the Colonies,

bitter promised to "ght it to the to Eave these figures in reply

end". question.

The amount of edible oils cx- £5,500,000. was valued ported None went to the United States. The above figures, he said, included re-exports,

at

figures

11

of

The corresponding values of imports into the Malayon Union and Singapore from neigh- bouring territories were: Rubber £21,420.000, edible oils (ant copra) -£2,300,000.-Reuter.

12,514 WOMEN ABDUCTED

Woman Thwarts

Burglar

The Dill, given only remote chance of Senate passage during the closing week of this session, would provide criminal and civil pernities against members of a lynch mob, Southern Democrats have promised to try to talk to death

any civil rights legislation,

Senator James Eastland, Democrat

A plucky Chinese woman ignored the threat of a burglar to assault her and succeeded in holding the intru- from Mississippi, said he would try der in her room by lacking the door to defeat it with every means at his to cut off his exit. She then sum. disposal. "The statement is made moned the Police and had the bur-that what is in the Bill is already in glur arrested.

told the law," he

reporters. "If The story was told by Inspector that be true, then the Bill is an at- G. W. Morrison at Kowloon Court tempt to humillate the Southern today when the burglar, Lam Mon, states. I am going to fight it till 30, was charged with attempted lar-helt freezes over"-Reuter. ceny in a dwelling. He admitted the count and was given six months.

Tak Hing Street, ground floor, was

A tally clerk employed by a New New Delhi, June 14-The total Territories farmer to bring his number of abducted women TC- vegetable for sale at the Govern- covered by May 13 from riot-plagued ment Wholesale Market, was given areas in India and Pakistan Wus 18 months by Mr Latimer at Kow-officially calculated today at 12.514. morning. When she woke up, loon Court today for embezzlement

and falsification of accounts,

From

were recovered

India

53d

The woman, Tang Yin-nin, of 10,

disturbed from her sleep on Monday Moslem women found Lam inside her room.

4,078 non-

On June 12 he took a quantity Moslems from Pakistan,

of vegetables to town and sold them

for $19.30 for which he was given a

It was officially announced that by June 3 43.564 persons in India had

receipt. He altered the receipt and registered, inquiries regarding miss-

the farmer $13.05. ing relatives in West Pakistan.

handed back

market

The farmer got suspicious and made Associated Press. enquiries at the wholesale ard investigation mode by the Government authorities revealed that the defendant had spent the difference and falsified the receipt.

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DEMONSTRATIONS

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British Films Must Double Production

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Greek

eek troops reported more pro- gress in clearing the Soulle Plateau, southwest of Tanninn. The battle for the heavily defended height has been on for two weeks. Reports said 00 guerilin bodies were found in two days and that 136 were known to have been wounded.

The prosecutor asked death sen- tences for 63 of the 110 former naval mek and efvilians on trial on charges of treason and sabotage. He naked life terms for 20 and 10 years for the cthers.

A civilian court started trying 81 members of a Communist execution squad. All are accused of murder during the December, 1844 revolt. Associated Press.

BARGES SINK IN MONSOON

were reported

Bombay, June 14-Four anilors

drowned of barges and a lunch which sank in three Bombay harbour in the last 24 hours us the 1948 monsoon broke with 00- mile gales.

The 130-ton freighter Cossipore, was wrecked 215 miles south of Bombay, but the crew was saved. -Associated Press.

New Foreign Aid Programme

Recommended

Washington, June 14-The Senate Appropriations Committee today approved a "single package" foreign spending programmo providing US$2,125,700,000 - or US$1,175,000,000 more than the House-approved pro- gramme. It approximated the administration's request for the European Recovery Programme and its allied assistance programmes.

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London, June 14.—A £20,000,000 cinema merger, inffeeling 664 theatres, is planned by Britain's film Įking. Mr J. Arthur Rank,

The Senate debate on the measure the Chinese Nationalist govern- The new organisation--known as probably will start tomorrow. (Tues- ment. This is compared with the Circus Management Association-will day).

$400 million, 15-month House grant. Budapest, June 14.--Thousands · combine the vast resources of the The Senate Committee's major 2. Gave $260 million for the Prison For Leader demonstrated outside Budapest Odean Theatres Limited and the change was in altering the House Greece Turkey "quarantine

Com- churches last night, singing hymna Gaumont British Picture Corpora- requirement that funds appropriated munism" programing, as compared and praying "for our rotten Father- tion

the chairmanship of for

and the Far East be with the House grant of $200.million. Europe Land in protest against the na-Mr Rank who is the present chair-spread over a 16-month period. 3. Provided $1,325 million for Copies of photographs taken tionalisation of Church schools.

The Senate Committee provided Army recovery and relief use in Admitting that he was a member The crowds at one point cheered man of both companies.

The CMA will also operate for expenditures, of monies granted occupied areas, with $125 million by the South China Morning Primale of of the Chuen Kung On Trind So- the Roman Catholic

specified for recovery in Japan and Post and Hong Kong Tolograph Cardinal Mindszenthy pooling arrangement for the benefit over a single year. elety, an illegal organisation in Hungary,

Last Saturday the Committee ap- Korea,

Staff Photographers arò on viow Mongkok district, Ho Kan, 20, un shouting: "We'll keep our schools of 20 of the principal British theatre-

owning companies which between propriated US$4,000,000,000 in cash employed, who sentenced to BIX for ourselves."

for the European Recovery Pro- 4. Recommended appropriating

in the months by Mr Lalimer at Kowloon The police ordered them to dis-them now run 510 theatres, Churt to-day,

Making this announcement at gramme frat year operations a $20 million for the United Nations Pollee He was also recom- perso but they refused.

here,

Mr Rank figure just US$205 million under ad- Children's Emergency Fund. conference her mended for banishment.

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House had voted $40 million.

Morning Post Buliding. machine guns, arrived to break up sald he could hold out no hope that ministration requests,

The Committee: 1. Appropriated 5. Approved $70,700,000 for the the demonstration and the crowds the merger would result in cheaper

theatre ceita but he believed US$400 million for China ald, In-UN International Refugee Organisa- slowly dispersed.

$125 million specifically tion-the samo total approved by the

ORDERS BOOKED. were made would result in substantial savings, eluding Fourteen arrests

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Ho, according to Inspector W, G. Morrison, was known to the Police leader of a gang of small boys engaged in larceny and pick- pocket

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