1949-02-19 — Page 1

Drink

Coca-Cola

TAKUL MARE RET

Ice-Cold

CHINA MORNING FOOT, LEZ

The

TODAY'S WEATHER;"¦ Moderato Easi winds,・・ Fale de fine,, with morning haze; mild.

10 a.m. Observations: Barometrio pressure, 1020.7 mba, 30.14 in. Temperature, 66.9 deg. F. Dow polut, 57 der. F. Helative humidity, 70. Wind direction, ESE. Wind force, 10 knots. High water: 5 ft 8 in. at 1.85 pm. Low wator: 2 ft. 4 in at 8.25 pm,

"Dina

At the

Hongkong Telegraph

Telegraph G

VOL IV NO. 41

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1949.

US SENATE DISCUSSES

Death Of Ex-President Zamora

Buenos Aires, Feb. 18.- Senor Alcala Zamora, former President of Spain, died in Виепод Aires this morning. He was 71.

Known for his oratory and simple living, he became the first President of Spain after the fall of the Monarchy in 1901. Deposed by the Cortes shortly before the civil war in 1930, Senor Zamora went into exile, first in France and then in Ar- gentina.

N. ATLANTIC

PACT

But No.

No. Agreement Is Reached

MAY BE SUBORDINATED TO

UN AUTHORITY

Washington, Feb. 18-Mr Dean Acheson, the Secretary of State, today discussed the proposed North Atlantic-Pact for three hours with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee but no agreement was reached. The Chairman of the Committee, Senator Tom Connolly (Democrat) told reporters: cannot even say any tentative agreement was reached."

"You

Senator Connolly said the Committee and Mr Acheson went over the terms of the proposed security agreement in its present form. "Several suggestions were made on a phrase here and a word there, but it will be some little time yet before it is ready to be made public," he stated.

*MIC

The Committee was meeting in secret session but Mr Acheson was believed to have presented them with a tentativo draft-of-the-pact. The-terms-have-been- discussed for more than six months by the North Atlantic powers in Washington on the basis of a morandum prepared by the Permanent Commission of.. the signatories of the Western Union security alliance. The pact would have to be ratllerms outlined by Mr Acheson to- fecl as a treaty by a two-thirds day, these may require more pro- longed negatlations, It would not then bo possible to keep to this

She's Miss Australia

For

Reservations

Price 20 Cents

Tel: 27880

PALESTINE ARMISTICE TALKS

ON LAST LAP

Miss Beryl James poses at the ocean's edge near Sydney, her home, after being chosen "Miss Australia of 1948." With the title goes a complete wardrobe of clothes and a six months luxury tour of the world. She is 24 and a photographic model. Nearly 200 other girls competed.

----AP Picture.

One Killed, Twolnjured

He first became a Cabinet Minis-vote of the United States Senste. ter in 1917. Five years later he The material which the Secretary retired from public life till 1930. of State took to the Senate Com-schedule.

Ол the basis of comment by when he enterged as a prime mover mittee today is not a final version

He is expected to Senators on the pact so far, the in the events that led to the over- of the treaty,

take back to the Ambassadors' Com- throw at King Alfonzo.

Не chine from

Andalusia-the mlitee of the North Atlantic powers "Garden of Spain." Dark-skinned, in Washington suggestions made by shabbily dressed and Insignificant the Senators today for amendments looking, ho preferred his Madrid to the pnet,

main line of opposition may be In Berlin

to the former Royal Palace in drid, using the latter only for i

his official duties.

HOPED-FOR SCHEDULE

It is possible that more than one

1That the pact may involve the United Sintes Government in B moral or legal obligation to go to under certain prescribed" cir- cumstances, desplie the provision of the United States Constitution

Shooting

Karen Troops

By Pounded

Barrage

Rangoon, Feb. 18.-Burmese government troops continued their advance on rebel-held Insein yesterday under cover of a .terrific gun barrage

Control Of Beersheba Is The Main Bone Of Contention

London, Feb. 18.--The Egyptian-Israel armistice talks in Rhodes today entered what observers described as the "last lap" of discussion .over Beersheba, chief town of the Negev,

The Egyptians have asked the Israelis to evacuate their troops from the town and substitute a civil administration, according to an authoritative

source.

This source added that the Israelis would refuse as they did an earlier Egyptian demand that they should evacuate the town entirely.

Conference circles in Rhodes generally predicted the Egyptians would accept the Israeli viewpoint that they must retain full military control of Beersheba, ✡ vital road junction.

were

The Israeli representatives reported to have told the Egyptiana that the town was too far behind the front lines to..constitute threat against Egypt.

#

The expected return to Rhodes of the Iarnell legal adviser, Dr Rosen, was held to indicate in in- formed quarters that the drafting of an armistice agreement might be well under way by the week- end, with a possible signing carly next week. It is not now believed possible for this to take place at the week-end,

cus

EIGHT DIE IN AIR DISASTER

Buenos Aires, Feb. 18. Rescue teams, travelling by Well-informed sources in Damaş-

disclosed details of a Jewish Jeep and mules were tonight Lebanese armistice draft agreement rushing across difficult moun- at several tainous country to reach the |wreck of an' American Embassy [G-47 plane in which eight people were belioved to have

have been.

"frontier meeting Up

JEWISH TERMS The Jewish terms were suld to̟in- clude:

1. Withdrawal of the Arab died. Liberation Army (sponsored and financed by the Arab League) and two Syrian Army regiments from Lebanese territory.

Jewish National Fund.

The

tina.

Az-President-he-returned-to-the-meeting-with-the.Senate...Committee that only Congress can declare war. crackled on Berlin's dividing supported by air and`naval nc- Palestine belonging to Lebanese wrecked__plane__which

EDITORIAL

2-That it is inconsistent

Nations Security Council.

with

MAY PROVOKE REPRISALS 3.That it will humper the Euro- pean Recovery Programme by necessitating turning the direction of European economy from recovery

around Intein's

pounded Karen-held points along the waterfront.

nationals.

is

the

_war_ on, a.,

The C-47 crashed yesterday in the mountains 60 miles west of Salta. The wreckage was spotted today by 2. Liquidation of Lebanese rural Colonel R. D. Knapp, Chief of the properties in Galilee by safe to the United States Air Mission to Argen

3. Jewish civilian rights in the

***Argentine and Chilean aircraft helped United States Lebanon to be preserved.

planes, in- Berlin, Feb. 18.-Gunfire

Jews undertook to pay com- cluding two Flying Fortresses rushed pensation for private property in from Fanama, to search for line today as trigger happy tion. Treasury considerable sums from his may be necessary. The pact nego

flight from Panama to Buenos Aires. The government spokesman said £50,000 a year. tiations were originally due to have the principles or machinery of the German police in the Soviet

Egyption salary of about

newspaper, Al The names of the sight occupants After his elections he gave his first been completed by February 5.

United Nations Charter and under-sector wounded two persons planes bombed and strafed Karen Ahram, reported today that a pro- of the ill-fated plane reported killed day's pay'to fund for poor children. {

railway posal to It now hoped that it will be

leave the Old City of will not be issued until next of kin dominates both the Jerusalem to the Arabs and In 1941, after he had left Spain, a ready for signature by the Foreign mine the authority of the United a few hours after shooting positions

the are notified. and killing a drunken motorisk. station which Franco court sentenced him to 15 Ministers of the participating powers

being The plane, the property of the If opposition develops years' exile and confiscation of hlt next month.

All the victims were Germans, and mail approaches to the town, New City to the Jews

10 miles from Rangoon,

studied by the Sub-Committee of United States Air Attache's Office his fortune-Reuler.

In the Senate Committee to the

The Russian controlled police. While government land forces ap-the Palestine Conciliation Commis crashed in the mountains 60 milca

ruliway, naval gunssion.

west of Salta yesterday, according force also engaged in sporadic proached the

JOINT COUNCIL

to a statement issued by Brigadier fist fights with passengers on subway and elevated trains.

K. Hovey, the Air Altache General B. Unofficial reports said the Karens,

The proposal provides for the

today. The American licensed news-who want to set up an independent Representatives of Arabs and Jews, reach the scene of the disaster late

establishment of a joint Council of

The rescue teams were expected to mado an unsuccessful paper Tagesspiegel denounced Karen state,

delegates from govern

the United tonight after travelling six hours the shooting of the automobile all-night bid to knock out

Buddhist

Sintes, Britain and France Д ment forces occupying

to ar through rough driver as "murder."

minister both parts of the Holy City country.-Reuter. monastery overlooking Insein.

It also calls for disarmament of Tho All the incidents grew out of the

communique government blackade within a blockade which said Dghting 1:25 broken out in the the Old and New elles, with the Als return of Arab refugees to the New the Russians now are imposing on major towns in the Yamethin the Western sectors of the city. The trict of Central Burma. this City and Jewish refugees to the Old. Soviet move is being bolstered by area, the communique said, the re- The number of refugees affected is

Barcelona, Feb. 18.--Threo ban- roadblocks built of paving stopes and bels, who were not otherwise 40,000 Arabs and 200 Jews.

The paper added that Arabs are dits armed with pistols held up a identified, were using armoured cars.

escaped with 00,000 It said a six hour attack upon opposed to the internationalisation bank and the rall

town of Lewe had been of Jerusalem as it "will not stop the pesetas. (US$8,500). It was the third Jows from realising their ambitions bank robbery in Barcelona in recent

months-United Press Dr Philip Jessup, new Uniled a vegetable dealer ignored a com- repulsed.

The communique added that gov-there."Reuter Sintes Ambassador-at-Large for in- mand to halt as he drove his truck ernment reinforcements have been ternational negotiations, fonight toward the American sector, raised the question whether the pro-

Soviet controlled police fired four rushed to the defence of the towns-

of Ela and Pyinmana posed North Atlantie Security Pact ahots at the Truck.

The bullet

ciated Press,,

Preparedness Costs Money

THE fact that today, almost four

have

anable

must expect to suffer in this respeel Emphasis in the forth- coming budget assuredly will, bo OR defence expenditure. The new Hongkong Volunteer Defence Force must be Ananced. Firstly I has to be' capitalised, iben maintained, which means recur- rent annual expenditure. For this the money has to

Lo be found, without any guarantee that the will eventually prove And for every million dollars ncoded for the

DG

DI

years after the cessallon of the hostilien In Europe, the British Government Ands it necessary to introduce a military budget of a trifle less than £700 million is a significant indication that the only reward for tho world after five

of menial years and physical horror is an uneasy armistice with the gods of war, Once again is the old philosophy accepted; that to keep the peace, nailons must remain prepared for

defence of Hongkong, a million la war. And, unhappily, the trond of political events throughout the

lost for Improving public world go far towards Jusifying services. We cannot afford both this frame of mind. In easter

at the same time. Thus it

0311 Kurope, the post-war years

anticipated that a .number only too conclusively that

nf worthy

the schemes for nations Bre

promotion unable

of pubile welfare will ily to protect

themselves, have to be shelved for the time they become "absorbed," fortelt

that we must Inasmuch belor, ing completely their Indepen→ adopt the attlinde that the future dence to a powerful neighbour. of Mongkong is essentially linked

realisation of Ukla

threat

with our preparedness to any moves to deprive us of sovereignly. I must be anticipat ed that the tempo of the Colony's development-social, educational and cultural-will be down alowed

Korento demands for Morcover, it is a matter for some doubt whether, even with severe pruning of general expenditure, the Colony's revenus the

at sufficient to meet the present la of reallsing ila original Increased demands for defence

spending.

possibility of ridiculous being asked to produce more But

by revenue

means of further veriain · cultural and

coonomic

direct and Indirect taxation achievements, UN has failed, and

cannot be ruled out. In short, the as a deciding influence In main-

problem is; are we prepared to taining the peace of the world, it make sacrifices in Jiving stan has lost the confidence of the

deuy ourselves peoples.

But increased military exponáltares do more than sustain the nervous tenalon; they

And

At la

that

Impels the Norwegian Services chiefs to protest cuts li that country's defence budget, for Norway, la highly vulnerable any State that decides to become an aggressor. The whole tragedy of big defence budgets today their peccssity-and that they are vitally necessary is, perhaps, 'the'rravest socusstion that can be levelled at the United Nations. A United Nations

organisation.

capat, would have made a

armaments raco proposition.

help

from apari

The

our

to rearmament.

4. That it is unnecessary because arms can be supplied to freedom- loving nations to resist aggression without a treaty under the Truman Doctrine.

•

5.—That it may provoke Russlan reprisals against the European sig- natorics and thus precipitate да international crisis.

6. That the United States should avold entangling alliances with European nations.

Iron stanchions,

IGNORED COMMAND Yesterday's shooting occurred when

In

escaped ANOTHER WAR Charles C. Bond, American Public CRIMINALS LIST

on

the

should be subordinated

to the au missed the driver, but struck two fangoon-Mandalay, railroad.-Asso- thority of the United Nations Secu- bystanders German man and rily Council.

14 year-old girl. The eri suffered Washington diplomatic circles, a leg wound and the man was hil generally, accepted that if this were in one hand. The truck done, the Pact could not operate as Into the American sector, intended-to check aggression-be- cause the Soviet Union would veto Safety Oflelal, said the staying of any action proposed.

the motorist on Thursday night In a speech at Des Moines, Iowa, "comes close to being murder." He Dr Jessup touched briefly, but singl-added: flcantly on n question which had, It was at least hitherto, only been debated

The at police work. diplomatic level,

Chineso

Nanking, Feb, 19-The Communist Party is preparing an additional list of war criminals. In irresponsible China, according to the North Shensi

night motorist un-Radio last

When

en it has been completed, tha but the questionably. was drunk,

It was Communist Party will be ready to delegates to the peace talks, direct result of the Russian appoint the negotiation of the Pact regard it blockade for, without the blockade, the Communist announcer i

The

announcer was answering we should have the free intercourse "Kuomintang Ministry of Informa between all occcupation sectors as

It has not been discussed in the shooting was unwarranted. press, although these connected with

seriously

the

new

funds.

as of vital importance.

SIGNIFICANT ARTICLE

dards and expansion of social services for defence needa which, if than accepted philosophy is true,

to reduce standards of our only real safeguard -for

Iving. and divert funds from essential social Borvloes Into unproductive channels. logigkong

i

the

future? This will probably be the question posed when the next budget is presented.

fall within the provisions of Chapter

a

The

Dr Jessup said: "It the activities provided by four power gres- tion's secret Instructions" which ho quoted na seeking to binme tho of the States which sign such a Pact me motorist was shot twice in Communists for continuing the war.

(on regional arrangements) of the the back, and his car was wrecked-Reuter-AAP, Charter, they will be governed by when he sought to escape from the those provisions."

Soviet controlled police by speed- Article 53 of Chapter 6 of the Ing into the American sector.

bo

RUSSIAN STORY

Passengers said yesterday, clashca on the city's transit lines occurred UN Charter states specifically that

Russlan "no enforcement ucilon shall

controlled polloo sought to search them and solza taken under regional arrangements, According to the Soviet licensed when

wald the or by regional agencies, without the news agency ADN, the driver was their belongings. Some

police not only were taking their authorisation of the Security Coun- shot because he tried to seize a

gun. Western sector food and fuel packs, but also were cil" with the exception of measures policeman's against ex-enemy states of World police sifd, there was no evidenco going through their peckat, books, to War II.

It also states that the Security | The Russians have, tightened con- Meanwhile, the American-British Council shall at all times be kept trois along their sector boundary to airlift supplying blockaded Western

a landmark. Tha fully informed of the activities halt what they describo as smuggling Berlin passed undertaken or contemplated under oz contraband supplies into Ameri-millionth ton supplies carried tinen regional_arrangements.

can, British and French sectors of the lift started last Juno arrived at Berlin.

Gatow airportAssociated Press,

(Continued on Page 14)

of this.

confiscate Western money.

and

and mountainous

Bandits Rob Bank

Richly restoring and smooth on your palats. One of the good things of lilo is back to its previous quality-a drink that revives you and cancoli your caros 1

MACKESON'S STOUT

sols you up wonderfully

A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

WINE & SPIRIT DEPARTMENT Alexandra Building

Telophone 31261