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Royall Reported To Have Asked For Change In Germany

Washington, Jan. 30.-The Army Secretary, Mr Kenneth Royall, who is on his way to Japan, was tonight reported to have asked President Truman to turn over to the State Department the job of ad- ministering occupied Germany, but Government officials said they had no knowledge of such a re- quest.

Mr Royall was said to have made the request in a letter to the White House shortly after his re- turn from Germany on January 3. He reportedly sent a copy to the State Department for its informa tion.

Search For

Missing Superfort

London,

Jan. 30.-Three

Mr Charbor Ross, White House knew Press Secretary, said he nothing about the reported fetter. The State Department spokesmans was also silent.

Ar Royall's nitles said they not kiww

a letter whether such had been rent. If it was, they ndd- er, any Information about it would have to come!

from the White House as a matter of volley."

There is nothing How United States Superfortresses Army's attempts to get rid of the left. Waddington, Lincolnshire, job of running the occupation zone and Marham, Norfolk, today to or Germany, Military leaders have the repeatedly fried to shift the task continue the search for

15 the State Department in the past, B-29 Superfortress with

claiming that the Army should be

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 1949,

HOTEL FOR PILGRIMS—The building (foreground) being constructed near St. Peter's (background) In Rome will house pilgrims who will visit the city during Holy Year of

1950. Offices of Catholic Action groups will be in the building,

Army's attempts to get rid of the Bubble Gum CNAC Plane's Landing

men on board which was report-elleved of its "dunt responsibility"

flight from as soon as possible. ed missing on a Dakar, West Africa, to Britain

on Thursday night.

have

10

the job,

The proposal almost went through

but Mr late 1947,

Truman American aircraft from all parrerended it because of the

tense bren of Europe and Africa

American-Russian relations and lack inabilised

to look for the missing plane and the Royal Air Force is of State Department personnel to do also co-operating in the search.

Air Force lend The American quarters in London announced to- day that flares had been sighted last the missing hear the area where Superfortress had sent out its last MESSAKE.

The

The

statement said

One ligh Government offelal sold why Mt a change Royal would recommend he could not understand

time. at this

He said Russo- relations American

more wero Istrained than ever and "it is burdly the time to make a change in our German policy,"

the

Port Lynutey, Ships have left French Moroces, to search for the plane

Asked the flares

about this, one of Mr were nighted 50 miles north of Lag Royall's nides sald, I don't know.

the It added: whether

Secretary made [1 Palmas, in the Canaries

But if he did, the SCH current proposal or not. "With the prevailing

would be being south-east, the possibility of reason probably this being the drift position of the Army's lack of funds."

He noted that President Truman's encouraging." survivors is very

which, burtiet china.

US$235.000,003 proposed n A conglant radio

come eut in occupation costs during the it was thought, might have from the survivors, was picked up 1850 fiscal year, and said the Scere- tary might feel that available funds on Friday by wireless stations La Palmar and Rio de Oro, West should be used strictly for military

purposes. Africa.--Reuter.

Separate Peace Report

(Contiued from Page 1)

at

i

One report said that Mr Royall

fact was prompted by the

that

General Luchas Clay, United States commander in

Europe, had

ex-

He

pressed a desire to step down, was said to

to feel this opened Iway to

to reviewing the entire question

the

of military verauis civilian entrol.

ITowever, Army sources said Mr Truman has asked General Clay to stay in Germany until the tension caused by the cold war eased off.

L's chief emissary in Nanking is known as "Wang Yi-tung" and his

The State Department has tradi- chief emissary in Shanghai is re-

tionally been reluctant to take over Chen Ming- ported to he General

the administration of occupied areas. of Kanur-

it a "thankless consider shu, former Governor

omeials tung province. Both were reported

*** job" at best, and one for which the to be working behind in lain of secrecy in their efforts to Department is only partially pre-

pared.

tight cur-

get Nanking and Shanghai-to-fol-

New Fad

In Canton

Canton, Jan. 30-Cauton's enterprising street merchants have discovered a new gold mine.

In less than a month, they

hawked

cum, bubble

have

hitherto attle-known com- mudity here, into a major fad, enjoyed by

from everyone dirty-faced street children to well-dressed adults patronising

better tea-house n the

cabarets.

The street hawkers say that they bring the gum fu from It nelis Hongkong themselves.

for GYS10 for four pieces.

Last week, while its head- Hines told of major govern- changes mental and milllury both here and in Nanking. Canton's popular dally Chien Kwo used It main culiorial for an attack on the new fad,

that The paper estimated more than 20 percent of the

city's

wasted population

bubble on US$4,000

-Fu every day. At the same time, JL attacked the chewing habit because It was a menace to health-United Press

STALIN'S

OFFER TO

TRUMAN

Continued from Page 1) While Washington digested latest pronouncement from

On Red Airfield

Shanghai, Jan. 31-The China National Aviation Corporation here confirmed last night that one of its Cam- planes, with 19 persons on board, had landed in munist territory, according to the North China Daily News.

It was earlier reported that a CNAC plane had been "tid- napped" in mid-air and forced to fly into Communist territory. The CNAC Operations Control

Taft-Hartley

said last night that the plan Repeal Bill

a DC-3 No. P 135, took off from Shanghai with a crew of three and 16 passengers,

The pilot was an American but his name was not known1.

The plane was on a routine sche duled light to Tsingtao. No reporis were received and when the plane was overdue, search aircraft were sent out to crisscross the area.

One of the search planes eventually plane had found that the CNAC landed at Tsinon (capital of Shun- tung province) airteld.

The searchers were not able to

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Act repeal

Truman's Taft-Hartley bill starts on its rocky road. through with industry, Congress tomorrow

administra labour and even some tion officials prepared to fight some of its provisions,

The bill, which keeps closely to laid down the pledge Mr Truman

calls on in his election cam

campaign,

Repub- Congress to throw out the lican-sponsored labour law and re- Act with slore the old Wagner determine whether it had made n added provisions to give it "teeth." forced landing because of mechanical It omits practically all the

Tafl-

trouble, but reported that it appeared.

Hartley provisions which the Cham-

to have alighted safely and without ber of Commerce. damage.

due west of Tsinan Hes almost

280 miles Tsingtao, about

away This was thought to tend to confr the of a "hold-up" in mid-air.

story

thought it must Aviation circles unlikely that the pilot would have Hown there voluntarily. If he had said, he trouble they had engine would have either flown straight on or jurned round and come back also apparently

Reuter.

this the

thing

that Generalissimo Stalin's!

Mr George Marshall favoured the Kremlin_the_only_positive Pope's Plea

low the Felping example and sue charge when he whs serving as American oficial sources were saying for a local peace settlement.

Army Chief of Staff, but changed was

minel after A spokesman for Aeting Presi-is

taking over as statement was regarded as Important and deserved und would receive the closest study--Reuter,

dent Li Tsung-Jen said he knew Secretary of State.-United Press

the two dissident nothing about

Kuomintang members and he had no

contact with them.

the close to

that sald President "encouraging: results" from Peipinag

with

Earlier, a source Acting

In conversations

his envoy,

“Ike" Optimistic

Now

York,

accom-

the

For Better

Family Life.

of the United States said should be retained.

the ban on closed These include shop and restrictions on Union shop, ofldavits from non-Communist Union officers and the right to use breach for

of contract. unions However, the measure overrides the objections of Inbour by asking for injunctive powers to halt Jurisdle- lonal strikes and boycotts. It would leave intact the Government's power to seek injunc- tions in national emergency strikes,

Aides to the Federal Mealation Director, Mr Cyrus Ching, said he would resign it his service was re- turned to the Labour Department-as. the Truman bill recommends.

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Bolivian Eucharistic TWO ROBBERIES

SIGNIFICANT SIGN London, Jan. 30.-London obser- vers consider it significant that, for Jan. 30,-General the first time, a member of

hns mentioned Vatican City, Jan. 30.-Pope Pius Soviet Government Huang Chi-han caused him to be Dwight Eisenhower, speaking before the possibility of lifting the Berlin XII said today that the consolida- minstration lenders

Christian family was the New York State Bar Association blockade without imposing any con- tion of the "unshaken" in his effort to reach a

with despite the bitter said he did not think war

ditions about the circulation of the one of the most urgent needs of our Press. times. peace settlement

Vatican Communist broadcasts, Seme Nation-oasia was likely because "War Soviet marks in Western Berlis.

the Spanking

through ailst believed, however, that peace not the acceptable way to

It was generally believed in Lon-

"There prospects foundered on the hardened

their 'Congress, the Pope said:

The lie declared int he based his bedon that the Western powers would Radio to the Communist demands that Ching belish their purpose."

are few needs", as urgent as of Eastern have no objection to lifting gaoled us a "war criminal,

ef the Instability

of the Christian Europe, with the defection of Mar- transport restrictions on Berlin" encounter

and the demanded by Generalissimo Stalin conso

keystone which sup-

carried cul shat Tito as an example,

thr simultaneously with the lifting of family, the

Two robberies were industry there had

those imposed by the Soviet Go-ports human society, which is

dome crowning the whole building in the Yaumati district during the fact that

weekend. bren re-established.

three But, he ackled, there was always vernment.

on Saturday, The view has been held in well of creation.

such are of

fin- At 8 pm

Canton "Few needs All wary war.

for

Into No. 858 the possibility of

in London informed quarters started were stupid and could be

au-mediate importance as the cultiva- men broke the Soviet

and gagged the in- some weeks that Lstupklly-Reuter,

attempt,

Meanwhile, Nanking's City Coun-

cillors continued their efforts or a local peace "if the worse comes to the word" They met twice today and were reported to be ready to ask President L for permission to send a civle delegation nerosa Yangtze into Communist lines to suc for peace-United Press.

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I hope aupper. will be reaaf paveiðum

cookies and apples are making me awfully hungry!!?

1

the very

of the mates cxistence four power save through

to solve

the Berlin human race and to lasure that the cash and clothing. crisis and arrest the Western de fruit of the redemption is not just velopment of the British, French and in it."

United States occupation zones' of The Pope said that "unity, inits- On Lane, wna walking in the street Germany.

PRACTICAL MOVE

In the early hours of Saturday morning, Wong Wal-chong, of Wah transcen- at the intersection of Hamilton and solubility, and even the

when two men nality (at the Christian Shanghal streets dental family are today in danger."-As-held him up and relleved him

$2,000, Observers also fell that the sociated Press.

No orrests have yet been made. statement

Premier by the Soviet constituted an important practical move, not merely a rhetorical appeal to warld opinion.

In Paris, the news was greeted with, satisfaction tonight. Details of the reported

reached slulement Paris too late for the Sunday after- noon papers and Frenchmen heard the announcement in the 7.00 più. GMT news bulletin.

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News and News Analysis (London) Re- Stalin's statement than over their night, but today's communique re- ported street fighting in the port,

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Government reinforcements States. But it came within 24 hours after a tough Moscow denunciation ported that parts of the town were

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leaders meeting the Karen Norway that caused some concern.

were led by Saw Ba U sold this Premier One British authority added up to a policy of "intimidating Gyl, President of the Karen National

Union. Pro-Government the weak and coaxing the strong."

Britons felt that Stalin's answers said they were, demanding,, among Britain other things, Government recognl- did not directly 'concern except for the statement on the tion of a separato Karen Stale and Baw little the formation of a Coalition Govern- Berlin blockade. They

on this ment to work for internal peace and prospect that the answer

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