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hongkong Telegraph.

WESTERN ALLIES CONSIDERING DIRECT APPROACH TO RUSSIA Bevin Warns Berlin Situation

Has Grave Implications

London, June 30-The Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest Bevin, said today that the Western Allies are considering a direct approach to the Kremlin in an attempt to settle the Berlin crisis.

Replying to Mr Anthony Eden's suggestion in the House of Commons for a joint Anglo-French-American note to Moscow "where the power ultimate- ly lies," the Foreign Secretary declared: "The point made by Mr Eden of dealing

at the appropriate moment is very much in our minds." Artvin 180 announced that Britain would reply "shortly" to Poland's the vast all brotest that the Western power decisions for eventual self govern»

a la Mesteru Germany would "divide Europe."

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Soviet the Berlin, despite the a communication Hand on whether, Western

possible re-authorities, not in Berlin where the power is limited, but in Moscow The ath Nott merely blockade with "every

eum blockade source.”

where the ultimate decision Bes." om assured that our He said: a rc-

will Mr Eden' said: "It is unthinkable kerin or would include

American and French Allies

We cannot that we should now draw back. The quest for four power talks.

similar view.

allied withdrawal from a Govern- take a It was learned from

those stouthearted de-effect of Cabinet abandon ment source close to the

in 24 hours, perhaps less, dozens of that the thres Western powers had mocrats who refuse to bow to the Berlin would be catastrophic. With- Germans who had been co-operating already begun consultations on the Soviets".

with the allled Military authorities - form and language the communica-

tion would take.

would be torn from their homes and placed under arrest."

At this point, Mr Bovin warned of a possibility that the decision to stay This, it was understood, was one in Berlin and feed the Germans in of the topics of Mr Bevin's meeting the Western sectors might lead to a today with the United States and "grave situation"-a polite diplo

Mr Lewis matie parlance for the possibility Ambassadors,

forces, French Douglas and M, Reno Massigll of a clash of Associated Press.

ALLIES' DECISION London, Juno 30The Foreign Minister, Mr Ernest Devin, warned the House of Commons today, in solemn tone that the Western Allies

Mr Bevin assured the House

WORDS NO COMFORT

Ile said that the withdrawal would that

be an invitation to Moscow to re- the United States intention to stay peat a performance in Vienna and that He ex-it would destroy forever the West's in Berlin was unchanged. plained that the British opposition to chances of bringing Italy and Scan- the Western Union referring Berlin to the United Na-dinavia into tions by stating that several per aillance. He added that it would

Kive the French and Italian Com liminary steps were necessary before

accession of weeping munists a

cannot belleve the strength

But interds war. Kremlin today Mr. Bevin said: "Should such a

London, June 30,--Mr Anthony any vacilation on our part now. situation arise, we shall have to ask the House to fate it. His Majesty's Eden, the Deputy Opposition Leader would only encourage the rules of Government and the western nilles opening the House of Commons the Soviet Union....gentler words

but that of debate on German policy, and the of Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky can see no alternative

that was ported in the press this morning, are surrender, and none of us can accept Berlin crisis, charged today the Soviet blockade of Berlin surrender."

decision to remain Berlin, mayit could be done.United Press.

in precipitate a "grave situation"

the

COMMONS DEBATE

re-

THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1948.

A view of the Sai Wan cemetery where, this morning, Dominion Day was observed by a short service and the Inying of wreaths at the graves of Canadians who fell in the Battle of Hongkong in 1941.

Wreath-Laying Ceremony At Sai Wan Marks Dominion Day

"They shall not grow old, as we that arc laft grow old;

Age shall not weary them, nor the years con- damn,

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them."--For the Fallen.

These fervent words of Lau- renco Binyon were uttered by

EARTHQUAKE Canadians who foregathered ant

RUINS

GREEK CITY

Athens, June 30-A severe a nine-foot earthquake and tidal wave struck the island of an "set openly directed against their no comfort to me without action to Lefkas, south of Corfu, late to- night and the first reports said effect the words "

Mr Eden was cheered loudly for that the city of Lefkas was

10 stand ever there was a time

allies that Beyla suggested Mr

Mr. Eden said: trying to see how Russians were

the. Military Cemetery in Sai Wan this morning to pay homage to their war dead at a Commemoration. Service of

The service was conducted by

the Rev. G. Hatt-Lipscomb, Senior Chaplain to the Forces.

long the western nerves would last callous threat of untold suffering the second time when he said: "burning (and many of its 7,000 their lives in two World Wars and

also "It is

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the

was

to do of the

this

and hardship to the 2,000,000 clvi-Arm, it is now. If ever there was a population were injured. The lian population in Berlin...there

of causo in which to stand firm, it is tremor was sharp enough to are occasions when the House Commons should make its point of this."

fully understood and

in

In the current war of nerves..

Justifying his policy for proceed- ing with Western Germany and the

he reform, currency

asked Britain House what when Russin walked out

The Foreign Minister, Mr Ernest mag seismographs here in

Athens. It Bevin opened his reply

appealed to Opposition Deputy leader by placing Lefka's gendarmerie

be such an occasion. seems

Mr

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H.K. Priest - Abducted

A telegram was received. yesterday by the Catholic Mission from Walchow stating that the Rev. Father Anthony Wong, a Hong- kong Catholic priest, has been captured by bandits.

Father Wong, says the telegram, was abducted during the night from the Mission House of Sheung Yong Wai. (Walchow).

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Soldier Successor To Gent Possible

London, June 30.-Britain, with lessons of three terror- filled postwar years of ruling Palestine In mind, may appoint a soldier administrator to sucˇ cced Sir Edward Gent as High Commissioner of the Malayan Federation.

Informed. Whitchall cources re- porting this today said that the gov ernment is not considering whether It can best wipe out the Malayan guerilla movement by appointing'a High Commissioner with wide mill- tory experienco rather than a Colonial Affairs specialist.

"They cited as a precedent for such a move General Sir Alan Cunning. ham's term as Palestino's High Com- missioner.

So far, the informants added, no Lanal decision has been reached

The Colonial Office, although beset" by enquiries all day today, has still refused to co

confirm or deny officially that Sir Edward has been dismissed. The dispatch of Colonel P. A. B. Groy, erstwhile Inspector General of

to help reor

Federation

the Palestine Pan

ganise the

Holy

police and intelligence service, another sign that

Land methods of countering terrorism are to be applied in the Colony.

The impression gained in White- hall is that Colonial Office high-ups are beginning to regard the Malayan situation with as rauch serious at- tention as they did Palestine-As- sociated Press.

BODIES FOUND

Singapore, July 1-The police today found the bodies of a Chinees merchant and his son at a terrorist hideout 70 miles northeast of Kuala Lumpur and feared, that the three Malay constables kidnapped

dead men also had been mur- dered.

The Akidnappings tool

ace two nights ago,

with

The hideout had been hastily

MONEY MOVEMENT abandoned and the police found

toot

hind.

be

which the terrorists left The police said two Chinese ter rorist sentries had been killed by, a patrol and a third wounded. The ipoh police, in a communique today, said the Gurkha military sweep last week put the bandits arca "definitely on the run.”

nminced Later, the police announced

ter

that

The opening words of the padre "Brethren, we are met to- were: to remember before God with gother on, this solemn unniversary thanksgiving all those men of the

BAN LIFTED gave Royal Canadian Forces who

Shanghai, July 1-Beginning to particular those whose remains day, there will be no more limitation lte buried in this place...............

on the amounts of money remitted between any two places within Following a prayer, there came the laying of wreaths, after which China, it was announced by the was a prayer of remembrance, the Central Bank yesterday afternoon.

In regard

remittances for Lord's Prayer, a prayer for the re

Nanking, Shanghai, Kwangtung and Latituding the Benediction Fuklea Provies, and sum may be two new murders, both apparently remilled without the need of political, occurred in the state of concluding with

obtaining previous approval from Johore last night. Both victims were occurred the Banking Department of the Chinese. Another murder Central Bank, it was added. Reuter. dt nearby Kuali-United Press.

COOL, CLEAN AIR-

With A

CFFICIAL WREATHS Official wreaths were laid by! Mr Kenneth F. Noble, Canadian Government Trade Commissioner-

(The Govern- j "In Remembrance"

German, Allied control council, in is not an occasion upon which the the full and fatal binine for the the Ministry of Pubile Order for Berlin-just take it lying down?

Refching to the Soviet blockade House should keep

Eden was loudly cheered by failure of the allied postwar policy tents, medical supplies and doctors, In Germany upon the Soviet Union indicating that some families were Mr Devin the House when he called upon Mr Germany, of Western

Nearby Proteza homeless. for repudiating the Potsdam agree-made It looked Ernest Bevin, Foreign Minister, to said that up to today,

to the Soviets that "wements. like a ruthless attempt to starve make plain to

Mr Bevin estimated that in three was less seriously damaged, accord- 2,500,000 Germans far politient are not prepared to be intimidated

by brute force and by blackmail, years since VE-Day, the Soviet Union ing to preliminary reports.

The tidal wave was said to have motivek.

CANNOT SUBMIT If there remains any possible doubt had taken from Eastern Germany

$7,000,000 while British taxpayers washed through the Lefkos water- Mr Devin said: His Majesty's in the Soviet mind, as to our and to find money to keep Ger- front. A Greek destroyer was pro-nent of Canada).

that of our allies, I Governmet cannot submit to that." titude and

the Foreign Minister many afloat and keep the Germans eceding to the island to and in rescue He promised Britain had decided would urge

from starvation." Ho estimated the work. to place at the disposal of the in the clearest and firmest

feed together with the aillea, to make British costs in Germany at £200,- allied effort to combined

000,000, a high proportion of which bad to be paid in US dollars.

SOVIETS ACCUSED

EDITORIAL

THE

and

A Very Fair Solution

for is It

turning,

The

HE statement issued by the General. Clumber of Com- merce puts an entirely new face

to legislato on the move wartime tenancies, and puzzling Indeed to know Just lins gagged, why Government until now, this explanation of to the the landlords' attitude subject.. Furthermore, In the light of property owners' willing

for any claims ness to forego wartime rents, it is bard to warth appreciate. why Government com plicates a simple issue by tur out a draft bill full of contentious

anexplained points. landlords, It now transpires, made their

position clear from the start: her walve all rights to rentals" during

the occupation 'perlod. * Very well then, the baolo repent of any draft to legalisels ll ณ

far as tenants concession. Bo

meets the are concerned this most Important Issue, and further Argument is unnecessary. It la observed; however, that the land- lords

advance two further sug- OND Is that where gestions their premises wore leased for the purpose of storing goods, and these goods have, in fact, been saved for the lessee throughout the occupation, weimbursed in

that the land lords should bo the form of storage, duck. This ible enough in soems to be ressonable principle and the only bone of

..

ybe the contention will probably ⠀! storage feed to be charged. It should not · prove a difficult point to settle. The second sug- station by the landlords: repro-

terms,

sents another concession to cer- tain clames of tenants. Troperly owners have expressed a willing- neas to make refund of rents Dail in respect to frustrated Lenancies,

fall Such tenancies into two categories; tenants who pald rest in advanco, and those who, since the reoccupation, have, In accordance with the existing common law, pald their landlords the occupational rentals.

It

neither case would a great num- ber of tenants be affected, but the fact that the landlords are willing to offer this equitable which concession Is a gesture must be placed to their credit. The landlords, In fact, have so clarified their position concern- Ing wartime

tenancies that it now remains only to see whether Government is prepared to accept their suggestions. seems to be a simple and generally satisfac- tory method of settling wiza

what otherwise

bo a knotty might problem. Government has plead- ed that in drafting legislation seeks to give the fairest possible treatment to tenants. It is dim- sult to see how tenants could be more equitably treated than by basing this legislation on the pro- posals advanced by the landlords, because the effect, for the or- dinary tenaut" of domestic houses, le that all further liability con-

wartime rents is auto

YYODER Wiped out while these:

who have paid rents,to landlords despite suffering from frustrated lenancles, will be entitled “lo: have these payments - refunded. A very reasonable sohailon of the whole problem.

An Exchange Telegraph Agency dispatch sald that 99 per cent of the buildings in the Greek town of Lefkas lud. been destroyed or made He accused the Russians of form-uninhabitable by the earthquake.

The agency said that, according to a now National Party in Eastern Germany, designed early, official reports, three persons to attract ex-Nazis and added that it were known dead and 100 injured

ing

Democratic

"has no Democratic characteristics, United Press.

cxcept in name. We have been gravely concerned to Bea weli. known ex-Nazis recruited to this Party. "He charged the Russians with "routing" the Potsdam agree- ments on the fundamental freedoms and subjecting Germans to mass do- portation, arbitrary arrest, liquide- tion of Independent political Parties and speech."

Plane Crash

Dr M. Bandl), M.D.E., E.D.~~ "They Are Not Forgotten" (The Royal Rifles of Canada).

Mr George Lemny-"In Memary of Our Fallen Comrades" (The Winnipeg Grenadiers Association).

of the

Mr J. H. A Middlecoat "Their Names Liveth Forevermore" In (The memory of our comrades who died in the Far East, 1941-1945 Hongkong Veterans Association of Canada and Auxillary).

Li-Col, H. Owen Hughes, OBE,

behalf laid a wreath on Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps. Dr M. Band, Major (Retired), Royal Medical Corps and Medical Onicer attached to the Royal Etifies of Canada, was interned during the

in the occcpation

camps both Two RAF personnel escaped North Foint and subsequently

Shamshulpo. Dr

Banfill Injury this morning when a Reader in Anatomy at the Univer Mr Bevin said that Russian's Mosquito aircraft overturned ally of Hongkong. constant relteration of the demands and caught fire while taxiing Ruhr, has led some people to as- for take-off at Kai Tak. sume that such a policy was agreed aircraft was completely des- upon at Potsdam. But he added troyed. "there was nothing of the kind."

suppression

for the share of

of free

the control .0

He declared that while Russia

At Kai Tak

ni

al

now

with Mr George Lemay served

Defence The the Hongkong Volunteer

Corps and was a POW in Japan. He is now in the employ of the Canadian Pacific Steamships Limited The plane was just about to leave Mr J. H. A. Middlecoat is General night to Manila when one of Agent, Far East, for the Canadian the wheels of the landing gear National Railways.

This evening at the Hongkong suddenly came off and caused the plane to overturn. The pilot and Club Annexe, Mr and Mrs Kenneth cocktail Mr Eden referred to the Yugoslav navigator, whose identity could not Noble will be hosts nt crisia by saying that allied with be learned immediately, jumped party which is being held to mark drawal from Berlin would be clear of the plane which burst into Dominion Day. "highly discouraging" to those Rus- flames upon striking the ground.

lip service" to the German unity, It Insisted upon policies which made unity impossible."-

sian satellite states among which we must now include Marshal Tito, who are trying to show a dislike for Kremlin control."

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