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TODAY'S WEATHER: Moderate variable or Easterly winds; flue; rather bnky,

1 p. Observations: Barometrie pressure, 1016.3 mbs., 29.08 in. Tenperature, 86.3 deg. F. Dew point; 14 der. F. Relative humidity, 00. Wind direction, East-South-East, Wind foree, 5 knots.

Low water: 3-11, 6.in. at 5.59'p.in, Bligh water: 7 th ${n, ; at 12.11 am. (Thursday).

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West Cuba Russia To

Hit By

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1948.

Boycott

Hurricane Security Council

hit Western Cuba on Tuesday

morning, the Cuban National Observatory announced.

The hurricano was expected to strike Southern Florida, buffeted by another hurricane only a fortnight ago, and atorm warnings were posted

in

Southern Florida from Miami to Fort Myers.

The Cuban National Observatory said later that winds of 128 mph

and there WATE recorded

houses were blown down

The hurricane entered Florida Strofts nt Sunrise

sonic

the and

headed for Florida Keys at a for- ward speed of 13 mph.

At Miami, the Chief Forecaster, Mr Grady Norton, said that unless the storm allers course Miami will get the full brunt in the later after- noon or early evening.

"This i

tense storm.

ባ

small but very in-

A phone call from the Havana Associated Press Bureau reported that the Injured will "probably reach several hundred."

OKINAWA TYPHOON Meanwhile, Tokyo reports sald that a vicious typhoon began snap- ping at the Southeast lip of Japan on Tuesday after causing £2,500,- 000 damage at Okinawa on Monday, U.8. Army weathermen reported winds up to 60 mph on the Sou- thern tip of Kyusu Island and ap- parently only the fringe of Typhoon has been felt so far.

Winds exceeding 100 mph were recorded on Okinawa.

the

Winds reached 130 mph when the hurricane otruck

Havana. Large police detachments toured Havana strects firing pistols into the air as a warning to looters.

Several rivers were reported over flowing in the Pinar Del Rio pro- vince and shipping and airlines con- celled trips southward-Associated Press.

Debate On Berlin

9-2 VOTE FOR DISPUTE TO

BE PLACED ON AGENDA

Paris, Oct, 5.-The Security Council this evening decided to place the Berlin dispute on its agenda. The Soviet delegate, Mr Andre Vyshinsky, then announced that the Soviet delegation would not take part in the discussion. The Ukrainian delegate, Mr Dmitri Manuilsky, also said that his delegation would take no part in the discussion.

Finally, the Council adjourned until tomorrow morning at the suggestion

of its President,

:

The Council's decision to place the Berlin dispute on its agenda was taken by nine votes to two (Russia and the Ukraine).

Earlier, Mr Vyshinsky had said, at the end of a long speech, that he was instructed by his Government to raise a “formal objection" to the inclusion of the dispute on the agenda.

Move Against Hoarding

Canton, Oct. 6.-To prevent hoarding. the local Economic to make compulsory the registration Supervisory Commission has decided of stocks held by merchants, it is reported locally,

Registration is to be carried out through the media of merchant guilds and the commodities affected range from rice, wheat and flour to soap, matches and charcoal and skins and hides.

The main theme of Mr Vyshinsky's speech was his argument put forward yesterday-that a whole series of international agreements, Including those of Yalta and Potsdam, clearly laid down that questions concerning Ger- many and other defeated atates were the province of the Big Four.

He declared: "The Soviet Government considers it impossible and incorrect to discuss this matter here. I am instructed to raise a formal objection to such a proposi-" tion."

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TOMAYA KAWAKITA AND HIS ATTORNEY

American-Japanese Condemned To Die

"Despite the fact that the negotia Maximum Sentence For Treason

He refuted the arguments put forward yesterday by Mr Philip | Mons were informal, somo unidar- Jéarp (USA). He said the_facts standings were reached.

showed that there is no Soviet blockade of Berlin, that there is no threat of starvation of the popula- tion of Berlin."

that

the

rewood, oil and salt to candles arki United

Mr Vyshinsky sald alicgatitos delegate's "baseless

were "nothing but h false propaganda manoeuvre."

The Russian delegate added: The questions of

post-war settlement, the Government of Germany and all questions relative thereto are within the competence of the four- power organs.

Those who are attempting to des-

why do they want to discuss it here, why are they in such a hurry? Such a hurry is very sironge. The future will show their reasons for this very unseemly hurry.

"It is all being discussed as It Ministers the Council of Foreign had falled in Moscow. But there was na Council of Foreign Ministers in Moscow, only informal, unofficial meetings.

Los Angeles, Oct. 5.—Federal Judge William C. Mathes today sentenced Tomaya Kawakita; 26, to death for treason. The judge refused to grant a motion for a new trial on pleas by Kawakita's counsel that the Nisei had been the victim of strange jury tactics.

Kawakita was convicted by a jury that deliberated eight days. The verdict was based on the evidence of former American prisoners of war in Japan that Kawakita had treated them brutally while he was a guard at Oeyama prison camp.

NEW CIGS TO BE ANNOUNCED London. Oct. 5.-The appointment of a new Chief of the Imperial

In addition to registration, mer- Field General Staff to succeed

every 10 days Marshal Viscount Montgomery, who chants must report has been appointed Chairman of about any movement of the stocks the Western Union Permanent De- they hold fence Council, is expected to be

This anti-hoarding measure is announced within the next few days.

Lord Montgomery will be second being taken as part of the steps to ed to hit rew.post...It Is. learned combat rising prices which were troy these ortons and who are now authoritatively, however, that his one lime 100 per cent above the successor as Chief of Staff will be August 10 level fixed by the Central | giving them the coup de grace raust we not right in supposing that it even if Kawakita were to leave his more

institution of bear the responsibility for refusing

cent ment of Germany. 80 per moment, it is some above the level at which it should really be.

Kiven an outright, and not an acting appointment.

Government on the

1

POLITICAL GAME?

"They want to shunt this ques- tion into the Security Council,” Are

the new currency. At the present to use them for the peaceful Getus- they are playing?

is some kind of political game that

"The Soviet Government consi- ders it impossible and incorrect to I am discuss the matter here. tion to such a proposition," he con- cluded.

than

Judge Mathes commented that The case cost the Government US$250,000. — United court a free man, "his life would Press, not be worth living."

"He would own conscience and he would feel

BOMB

Canada Gives Warning

Parls, Oct. 5.-Canada gave the warning that the Atorm Bomb will be brought under control on Western terms or not at all.

Brig. Gen. A. G. L. Mc- Naughton delivered the Cann- dian warning to the United Nations Political Committee, and flatly demanded approval of his proposal to send the UN Atomic Energy Commission back to work to draft a treaty based on Western proposals to tame the Atom.

Ho sald if there were unanimity or at least a preponderance of sup- port for such a treaty, adequate control of Atomic Energy could be worked out. If the <division, re- mains however, the treaty will not be written

Dr Vindirir Clementis, Czecho- clovakia Minister of Foreign Affairs, however, said that despite the Canadian demand "cur attitude is one of suspicion."

He accused the majority of ezert- ing "unqualified pressure” to secure approval of the Canadian - proposal but said "we must do all possible to keep the road open to further negotiation."

Lieut-Col Wit R. Hodgson Di Australla denied the Russian usser- tions that the majority plan was an American plan solely benuatting, the United States. Every member of the Commission, he said, made proposals to the majority report and took part in the debate.

SEEKS CLARIFICATION Like Gon. McNaughton he called for Soviet clarification of their pro- posal set up an atomic control agency at the same time as the atomic bomb. Is 'banned. He asked the Russians if they incant, what they said in the English transla- tion of their proposal..

Col. Hodgson said he considered neither. the Soviet nor, the: Capa- dian proposals- adequate.

Col.

the supportea Hodgson Belgian and French suggestions for the formation of a sub committee to and draw up an acceptable resolution.

try be plagued by bis REMITTANCES TO

he had betrayed other Nisel who CANTON INCREASE

Lord Montgomery was appointed Chief of the Imperial General Staff In June, 1046. The appointment is customarily for three years, though Lord Alnrbrooke held it for Ave Meantime, the shortage of meat years during the second World War, here continues owing to the fact Britain and Syrin that Article 107 / insiructed to raise a formal objec- for it. The only real use the fa

In normal circumstances, Field far that meat dealers do not wish to sell ahal Lord Montgomery would have at the controlled price since this, continued in the post for another they

say, will mean a substantial nine months-Reuter.

loss to them--Reuter.

EDITORIAL

Anti-Smuggling Pact

THE Chinese authorities have

good reason to

congratulato

themselves on the initialling of the charts under which the Sino- British anti-smuggling agreement witt be Implemented almost

No immediately.

sovereign

01

Power could be expected make a more important conces- sion than that accorded under this Maritime paci whereby Chinese Customs patrols are permitted to operate within defined portions of the Colony's waters, and gracious, acknowledgment of this privilege which Mr Chang Fu- yen, Director General the GMO rande yesterday will, it is to be hoped, be echoed

more

the

cerlain Hongkong allocation of walers wherein Chinese customs constant may patrol, and the searching of incoming rail, road and water passengers, cannot of So itself resolve the problem.

contraband far as is possible

bo seized commodliles must before

get a chance they

of 'reaching the Colony, either by vigilance sea or overland. The

Areas

*

of t/10 Hongkong preventive officers, must, if it is possible, be

by the surpassed

energy and enterprise of thelr Chinese counterparts in the hinterland. The polloy of self-help to which several prominent Chinese leaders

verbally have in Nanking.

subscribed in weeks must be em- Since the reoconpation, Hongkong

recont braced whole-heartedly in the has done much more than. rivo

Beld of smugging detection. lip-service to its desire to afford all the practical

In emphasising this there is nazistance

no Intention to belittle the work feasible in making effective: the

carried out so far by the Chinese economic recovery of her great

Maritime Customs within iha neighbour nation. Through our

bordering Hongkong. rendy regulations and restricilons the Colony has done ber utmost Labouring under big difcuttles to give buoyancy and confidence such as

Intricate long and coastline, Airily to the National Dollar

land Inadequate recently

the and

to

stations, and the omnipresent Gold Yma And Hongkon danger of attacks by bandits, the world that always recogaleed

GMC in this part of the have operated fearlessly and in- muggling Is Injurious to the Chinua

telligently. It would legitimate trade of boLH

-appear, and the Colony. Her willingness though, that they need' better assistance from their preventive to hocept a major role in dealing with this nefarious trafo colleagues in the interior and at Shanghal, exemplified through the anti- certală polats such as

'Amoy and Swatow, to namo smuggling agreement? Yet, after duo consideration has been given few obvious elites where much to the important and far-reaching smargling originates. "Therefore, concessions pusde by the Colony, while we bellove the Sino-British

- eari. it is not out of place to remind anti-smuggung... agreement the Chinese authorliles thai primo- become an effective instrument in responsibility- for eradicating the operations against contraband. dealer, wo kto also firmly con- smuggling rests upon them, The

vinced that it must be implement. principal source of Kmuggling les within China. That is where it ed two ways. Hongkong has now starts and that is where' itɛakould done her full share the rest in

up to China. most vigorously be tackled. The

his

7

DEFENSIVE MEASURES Mr Vyshinsky vigorously attacked the arguments of the United States, of the Charter excluded

from the

had served their country and died

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Salvador's Ambassador to Washington,

Davis Mr Hector Castro, sald that the Soviet proposal indicates that the Russians are more interested in

In "destroying the present atomic weapons than in the future.

White Russia's Foreign Minister NZ.V. Kissetev accused the West of "waving the biggest stick”, ever of with the atomic bomb and declared

Canton, Oct. 5.--Overseas is of a traitor could serve

anmittances to Canton have shown example to others of weak moral notable Increase since the new cur- Abre."

rency came. into being, according to at most could be held to have been

The defence claimed that Kawakita financial clitics here,

These remittances totalled

more brutality and, if that were than US$200,000 guilty of

last month,

the case, he should have been tried figure said to be 'double that in Japan by a war crimes court. August. October remittances are "this is a programeve of a clear and

CAST LOT WITH ENEMY expected to exceed the September candid warmonger."

Judge Mathes rejected the contengure-Reuter. tion, declaring, "While in Oeyama, Kawakita was not content with being

an Interpreter, but cast his lot with the enemy. His devotion first and last was to Kawalelta. He thought

United Nations only questions aris-

The Syrian delegate said that he ing between the victorious powers and their former enemies now under could not see how Russia's blockade occupation. occupa

of Berlls could be reconciled with "It would be absurd and ridi- Article 107 of the Charter. It was culous to say that the

defensive not applled against Germany. or measures which the Soviet authori- some of its Inhabitants, but against ties were compelled to take in the the other partners in the occupa- Soviet Sector of Berlin had no rollon, lation to Germany and were directed against the other occupation au- (Article 107 says: "Nothing in

"he said. thorities,"

the present Charter shall invalidate, After announcing that Russia or preclude action, in relation to in the dis- any State which during the second would not participate cussions on Berlin, Mr Vyshinsky put World War has been an enemy of he could be on each side at once nil his in his brief case as Mr any signatory of the present Char- and go with the vietor in the end."

his papers

The Judgo declared that the ex- ter, taken or authorised as a result Manuilsky announced that his de-of that war by the Governments tent of Kawakita's treason was legation would also take no part in having responsibilty for such ac-limited only by his opportunity. the debates.

"He would have blown up our Asked after the meeting whether:

Pacific Fleet or given the chemy his ann

announcement meant a walkout,

the secret of the atomic bomb if he had the opportunity," said the Judge. Kawakita took the sentence with- show of emotion, and his coun- sel. Morris Lavine, immediately sub- mitted a written motion of appeal.

FRANSK said: "You will see

tomme

Asked whether his meant that Soviet Russia to leave the United Na- intended tions, Mr Vyshinsky replied: "No: We have not left the Unlied Nations. My statement was quite clear. We will not take part in the discussion of the Berlin case in the Security Council

Mr Vyshinsley in his statement des- cribed the Western Powère currency reform in Berlin as an attempt to blow up the economy of the city "because obviously it was impossible to have four currencies."

Ition").—Reuter.

Concessions To

Chinese Schools

Bangkok, Oct. 5. The Siamese Government has agreed to make two concessions to Chinese schools at the insistence

out

Treason carried a minimum sen- tence of five years in prison and a maximum entence of death.

"Do you know any reason why the Court should not impose the of the Chinese maximum penalty?" Judge Mathes Ambassador. Dr Hsich Pao-s1ð. jankod Kawakito.

The Bangkok Post reports the concessions are:

I am Innocent," the prisoner said slowly, "I never did commit

1. Chinese schools will be allow-treason against the United States, I

ask the Court for mercy."

of a Chinese primary

COUNSEL'S ALLEGATION Earlier in the day, Lavino charged that the jury, which deliberated for

The currency reform undermined ed to teach the Chinese language the peoples' economy in the Soviet for 10 hours a week in each of the Zone, but when defensive measures four yeara were taken to localize a dangerous school. situation, it was said that they were

2. Chinese teachers will be allowed eight days, was forced to return a directed against the authorities and to teach for two

успга without verdict of guilty through coercion.

and not in the interests of Germany having first. lo pass an examinatione accused the bailiffs of telling in the Slaniczo language. 17oy jurors that the judge would keep INFORMAL DISCUSSIONS

years.

7-

to

found

in action until they Mr Vyshinsky and that the Berlin Will, however, have to sit for the them

langungo examination ofter two Kawakita guilty, question roll within the compotence

Mr Mathes rejected Lavine's of the Council of Foreign Ministers.

claims on the grounds at hy had "There were conversations - in

The concessions are considered falled to support them with afidavits Moscow, in which Mr-Frank Roberts Important ones Chion, since or other, evidence and termed (Brium envoy), General Bendell under the Private Schools Act only Lavine's statement a "glorified fish- Smith (U.B. Ambassador) and M. nve hours a week can be given to Ing expedition." Chataigneau (French Ambassador) the study of a foreign language. The trial of the bespectacled pri- took part. But there were informal Some Chinese schools have been soner was one of the mast complex discussions.

Mr Roberts himself said that if closed for a year for violating this ever heard in the Federal court here. for three the doors could be opened then the law and for employing teachers who Evidence was presented

witnesses Included question would be entrusted to some have not passed. Siamese examina- months and

well as use more important than himself, in ons. The new ruling would, in scores of ex-soldiers

worked with other words, the Council of Foreign effect, walve the harshest portions Japanese, who had

of this law,-Associated Press. Kawakita in prison camp.

Ministers

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