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Secret Pro-Arab Palestine Agreement Denied

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Foreign Office Statement

London, Aug. 18-A British Foreign Office spokesman today disputed a claim attributed to ex- Premier Huri Pasha Alsaid of Iraq that their two Governments secretly agreed to work for a pro- Arab Palestine settlement.

Huri Pasha, forced to resign last January after ne gotiating a revised Anglo-Iraq alliance, was purported to have said in a pamphlet published in Baghdad on Tuesday that at a secret meeting last January Iraqi do- logates and the British Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest Bevin, the Colonial Secretary, Mr Arthur Creech Jones and other British expert reached complete agreement le realise the wishes of all Middle East Arabs on Pales. tinc.

CHINA ONLY

ASKED FOR $16,000,000

Disclosure By Mr George Marshall Washington, Aug. 18-The Secretary of State, Mr George

armis

The

Foreign Once spokesman stressed that although British and Iraql lenders discussed all aspects of the Palestine altuation, Britain "en- tered no agreement or commitment" 10, work for a pro-Arab solution.

He added that the British certain- ly emerged from the talks with a full understanding of Iraq's attitude lowards the Jew-Arab conillet in the Holy Land.

NOT RATIFIED

The Anglo-Iraq alliance Was signed at Portsmouth in January. it was never ratified by the Tragi Parliament on the ground that 1 | dil net-realise the country's nations) demands. Relations between the

two countries are accordingly still made

governed by the original Angio- onlying alliance of 1031.. $125,-

pro-

Marshall, said today at a press conference that China for definite requests $16,000,000 under the

China 000,000 gramme.

Air Marshall said, "I am told that there is one question with regard by the Chinese to the statement Ambassador a few days ago to the effect that he was seeing me with the purpose of expediting deliverka į

|

Soon after, riots and demonstra- tions

compelled the Irnqi Government to renounce the revised The nillance, the spokesman said. British were tentatively" asked to reopen talks it a new bild to revise the 1831 treaty.

Britain refused however. and

under the $125,000,000 programme. announced it. was standing by the So far there have been requests for old treaty. only $16,000,000."

Mr Marshall declined to comment on Senator Styles Bridges' statement

Since then, there has been no: move by either side to reopen ne- ofgotiations, the spokesman said.

that only $9,000,000 worth material has been delivered. Lic: refused to comment on the amount actually shipped to China under the programme, but made it clear that Chinese Ambassador Koua state- concerned ment was not primarily with the speeding up of the militory | TALKS WITH GLUBB PASHA ald programome.

The British agreed to supply arms and military equipment to Iraq on as the the same basis of priority British forces in the Middle East under the 1948 trenty.

WASHINGTON SURPRISED

. Senate Informed sources expressed surprise at Mr Marshall's press con- ference atatement that China so ter

that undertaking was But

BLS- mended several months later when the United Nations ordered all par- tles to the Palestine war to stop fighting and called upon its

mem-

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1948.

Little Cocker Cut Up Modernising British

Cookie, a cocker spaniel, pretends he knows what li is all about as Kathleen Driscoll, Boston X-Ray technician, shows the dog where they found a rubber ball he swallower while at play. In her left hand, above the X-Ray nega- tive, she holds the ball, which was removed in an emer- gency operation at the Angell Memorial hospital at Boston. Cookie wears a bandage to prove it.—AP Picture.

THUMB SUCKING IS AFFECTION IMPULSE

Psychiatrist's New Theory

London, Aug. 18-A child who sucks his thumb or tries to swallow a shining watch is activated by much the same motives as certain cannibals in trying to show affec- tion, an eminent U.S. psychiatrist, Professor J. M. Mureny of Boston University told the International Mental Health Congress here today,

S.A.To Stop Assisted Immigration

South

To illustrate the theory, Professor Murray told the story of two Eskimos who indulged in cannibalism.

"Two Eskimos of a worlike nor- thern tribe were arrested for killing a friend," the professor

sald

"When motive for questioned regarding a die act, they replied, 'Our friend was going to leave us. We loved him, dependent upon him and could not bear his loss. So we killed him, chopped his heart and liver in little bits and ate him. Now he is always with us and we shall never lose him."

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Industry

WORKERS' Support for JOINT

ANGLO-U.S. COUNCIL

London, Aug. 18.—Reversing their original opposition to American technical advice to modernise British industry and so help European recovery, British workers are proposing that they should be allowed to send selected workers" teams to tho United States to investigate modern industrial ideas.

This will be one of the proposals | which workers' delegates, represent-

ing all vital British industries, will CZECH PAPER

put to the British employers of the meeting between representatives of the Trades Union Congress and the Federation of British Industries next week.

BLASTS TITO

Prague,

Com- Rude

Aug 18.--The herto, Dritish labour has been munist Party newspaper inclined to be suspiciouTM of the Pravo published an брел letter Cripps-Holtman plan to set up an today blasting Promier Marshal Tito Anglo-American industrial coune!! | and "the Yugoslav Communist Party, to improve technique of production In British workshops and factories.

SOLID CORNERSTONE

It said the letter had been signed by 11 employees of the Yugoslav Embassy but the Embassy denied the signatories were employed there. A fuller explanation of the

The Embassy sald the signatories scheme which aroused a storm of

"minor ometala of some criticism in the British Parliament were when it first became known, has Yugoslav trade delegation in Czecho- however, rallied a large scellon of slovakia" and added no protest was the labouring classes in the United letter, which was addressed to the planned at the moment over the Kingdom to the belief that the United States is sincerely anxious Central Committee of the Yugoslav and it definitely in a position to help Britain become a solid corner- stone in an overali plan for Euro-

pean recovery,

The British workers' viewpoint, which will be explained to Brl tish employers, is that technical dimculties Arc so many and so complicated, that it would help the entire scheme if experts from the various industries here were to go to the United States 期

examine methods and machinery to decide which would be the most adaptable over bere-United Press.

British Success

In Horse Show

of

London, Aug. 18-A crowd 30,000 people saw Britain win the coveted King George V Gold Challenge Cup for jumping at the International Horse Show at the White City Stadium here today for

1 first time since 1938.

Dr T. E. Dongens, the Minister of 30ed with the impulse 'I swallow Fox Hunter.

the

Capetown, Aug. 18.-Tho

African Government

The winner was Lieutenant- today announced that it would Professor Murray explained that cancel assisted immigration-likewise "if a child sees a bright and Colonel H. Llewellyn, who beat the shining watch that he loves because pick of the best horses from France, under which 70,000 Britons it shines and ticks, lie puts it in his Spain and the United States, riding have entered the Union in mouth. To him I love you' is his 11-year-old English-bred gelding, the past two years.

Second pince in the competition In the South The professor claimed that com- was shared by Colonel Wing, of the Interior, stated

an Potilla, n African Assembly that the Union munal service as practised by civi- United Slates Army, Castle Line had agreed to reletselised people and certain forms of captured German-bred horse; Major of Spain, on remaining cannibalism

had men- Marceliko Gavilan. I obligations under the State-

professor of Socio- bred horse.--flouter, cease financing transport, logs, Terguy Segerstedt, discussed the dangers of lack of family life to In speeint cases, he said. Under Government would children. Boys who have lost the continue to help immigrants already sense of family often resorted to accepted by the London Committee sangsterism and crime as a substi- of the South African Immigrationtute, he said.-United Press.

and those who had already Board booked their

passages with Union Castle Line.

such as he

requested only $10,000,000 worth bers to step further arms shipments the Government from the retloned are examples of this practice. Acebuche, an Anglo-Arab French-

They

of arma under the $125,000,000 China military aid programme. Bald that obviously the Chinese want more and are negotiating for more, hut probably Mr Marshall had re derred to requests actually submitted in the final form

A source said, however, that the actual programme has not been in

He said it has really forco long. been operating less, thon a month since officinis got the "go ahead" on

to the Middle East.

The spokesman told news con- that Glubb ference questioners pasha, Commander of TransJordan Arab Legion, has had talks with Foreign Officials this week,

"They did not take place at the Foreign Ofee", he said.

The

the

The Swedish

Too Impetuous An Admirer

Paris, August 18-Lucien Legras returned here yesterday to see his

her.

Jon Government did not propose 14 WARSHIPS girl friend and try to make up with

The spokesman refused to disclose where they took place.

Transjordan Embassy official said July 20. He said he believed that earlier this week that Glubb Pasha, during his two to three weeks stay

to exclude immigrants who could the programme would speed up soon

make a specific contribution to the here, will talk to the Foreign Office and the $125,000,000 would be ex about how the latest £500,000 10-prosperity of the country hausted early next year-Unlied stalment of Britain's annual subsidy into the national pattern and way

to King Abdullah can be spent. of life, Dr Dongeas declared,

The subsidy-totalling £2,000,000 "For such there will be rooni, annually-was paid by the British but only the best will be good for maintaining and equiping King enough for South Africa."-cuter, Abdullah's Army-Associated Press.

Press,

Poland, Ahoy!

Seattle These two "pallors" have sot, out in a 21-foot boat on a leisurely cruise across the Atlantic Leopold 8. to Wareni. Topor-Taperek, 20, (with dog in foreground): plans to visit his parents and be a.. "goodwill ambassador." Dale Norlund, 17 (behind), says he is "just going for: the ride."AP Picture.

Anniversary Of Dieppe Raid

оп

Dieppe, Aug. 18-A two-day pro- gramme of ceremonies commemora- ting the sixth anniversary of the

Comunando rald Canadian Dieppe, in August 1942, not under way here this afternoon with French and Canadian officials and vet of the operation taking part.

roup of

here

A arrived

from England.

veterans

and

Disease Affects

Sugar ludustry

At

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FOR FRANCE

Parls, Aug. 18.-Fourteen Italian including two cruisers, warships, were transferred to the French Fleet In recordance with Article 57 of the Italian Peace Treaty, the French Marine Ministry announced today.

The were at anchor in Tou- ian harbour

awaiting reconversion.

the were

two 3:700-ton cruisers, Aglo Regolo, renamed Chat Urenault and Scipione Africono renamed Gulchen.

They

Washington, Aug. 14-A fungus Four torpedo boat destroyers of disease is slowing the

tons and spectacular 1,700

1,800 tons, the recovery of the Philippines sugar Mitragller renamed Jurien de la industry, Government officials said Graviere, the Volito renamed Duc Pierre the Legionario, now called today.

A3

tons.

a result, sugar production Duchaffault and the Orioni renamed estimates for the 1948-19 crop year Deasing. have

by

first class, Ono dispatch ship, been revised downward about 20

short formerly the Erithrea is now the 20 percent to 600,000

Francis Garnier,

One tanker, Tarvision, renamed Garonne.

Six tugs have not been renamed, They are Ercole, te Porto, Tuicio, Vado, Nerco and Porto Trivasse..

United Press.

of the niinck tons. This figure, however, repre-

"of 200,000 tong the afternoon cents an increase were received over the previous year.

The fungus disease

called the

by the Mayor of Dieppe at the Town Hall and then went to the Canadian Fiji discase. It saps the juice from cemetery where they were to stand the sugar cane, lessening the yield

ry the watch at sides of the, French progressively, until the crop is even- war veterans.

tually valueless. The disease,, new to the Philippines, has spread to all Representing the Canadian Am- bassador, Mr George P. Vunior, was the principal sugne producing Colonel Dollard

The only effective means Menard, millary Islands.

further to prevent attache at the Embassy, Colonel so far found

affected Menard was himself a hero of the

spread la destruction of cane-Associated Press. Dieppe raid.

The commemoration, will continue tomorrow will morning ceremonies at the cemetery followed by the

uguration of the Franco-Canadian MR SIMPSON

exposition of photographle art In the afternoon.

Another memorial MARRIES AGAIN

ceremony will be followed by" a programme of music and Mims- United Press.

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Psychiatry And War Problems

Boston University in the

London, Aug. 18-At the London Conference on Mental Hygiene_to- day, Professor J. M. Murray, Pro- at fessor of Cinical Psychiatry

United States, expressed the hope that the psychiatrist might help in solving London, Aug. 10. London's problems of the war. evening nowspapers reported today Ho said that the psychiatrist that Mr Ernest Aldrich Simpson, studied the fallure of human former husband of the Duchess of lations in the Individual and not in moss, and urged that mass American Colonel Windsor, was married on August 12 the

to Mrs Avril Jay Leveson-Gower, knowledge of human relationship 30-year-old sportswoman and co- should be used in a broader sense cialite.

Reuter,

Court Martialled

row

A young woman who received Vienna, Aug. · 10.-—Lleut. Col. telephone calls at Mr Simpson's ship Walter G. Rischel, former atleche | broking office refused to any any- to the United States Military Mis- thig about the reported marriage. Ceylon's Donation sion to Hungary, today pleaded not “I simply am not talking", she told For Refugees guilty at the opening of his court-newspapermen. martial trial here and his case was, The London Star sald the mar-

Colombo, Aug. 18-The. Ceylon adjourned for 90 days, it was dis-Triage was Mr Simpson's fourth and

announced that closed tonight.

the third for Mrs Gower, whose last Goverment today Adjournment was granted on a husband was Brigadier-Hugh Nugont was giving 50,000 rupees in res- motion by the Defence to give both Loveson-Gower, company director ponse to the appoal by Count Folke United Nations eides time to gather necessary do- and member of a cricket family. Bernadotte, the 'for assistantco/ positions of evidence to proceed with

of Windsor, the Palestine mediator,

Tho Duchess

Palestina.........

lo

in case. This is a normal procedure former Wallis Warfield Simpson, was alleviate the distress of Arab and under the present military court ro Mr Simpson's

wifo-A-Jewish refugees in sociated Press.

Reuter. gulations-United Press.

socond

out

The girl friend kicked him of the door and Legras tried to climo back in through the window. In breaking a glass, he severed artery in his hard and bled to death. -United Press.

Communist Party.

The letter blamed Marshal Tito's regime for "trying to split the United Democratie front and induco the Yugoslav Party from the path of Internationalism."

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