THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1949.
Burma May Rejoin The British Snow Grounds
Commonwealth
POCKET CARTOON
Tension Grows In Italy
Police Guards For Consulates
Rome, Mar. 14.-Police guards were strengthened Around the United States
SPECULATION IN RANGOON
Dr Evatt's Hint
Rangoon, Mar. 14.-There is growing speculation here on the statement by Aus- tralia's External Affairs Minister, Dr Herbert Evatt, that Burma may rejoin the British Commonwealth of Nations, but government officials at present are reticent to express any opinion on the possibilities.
Political sources, some of them enjoying Cabinet confidence, believe the outcome of the New Delhi conference will be an invitation to the Burmese government to shed its mantle of pseudo independence and link up again with Great Britain and the other countries of the Commonwealth.
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A full session of the Burmese Parliament would necessarily have to discuss such in- vitation and place it before Parliament before taking any decision, but the
sources arc con- vinced that if the invitation were so framed that the country's leaders will not lose face, it will be accepted.
As with the Japanese. the He said to avert this Aung and British Consulates in Burmese place a
tremendous | San voted for independence but
agreed to a Italy
treaty binding tonight
tension value upon "face," ns
These sources print out that ¦ Barma closely to Britain, grew over the North Atlan-Burbia at present is in no posi- Tun Pe agreed this served tic security pact.
tion to bargain for a lone im- only to delay Communist action. Communists saw through The Communist controlled perative to her subsistence, To- The
walted only National Labour Confederation day she must necept such terms the agreement and called a meeting to discuss call- as may be imposed the grant of enough for Burma to proclaim
her independence. ing a limited general strike in a loan by any foreign bloc.
Tun Pè asserted that withoul the against
alliance Twelve months of disturbed protest
Intervention Interve
Burma which Italy has been asked to internal conditions have placed foreign
"would go completely Red." strain upon joln.
tremendous
id: "Quelling of the never-too-strong <:X- In Rome, Milan, Turin and Burtna's
To wanton destruction present Karen revolt does not said police Bologna, officials
(chequer. and carabinieri had been alert of expensive property, has been mean the end of trouble. This ed for extra duty. The polleended the wholesale rifing of will continue, perhaps for the
treasuries. Arms, Ammunition, next 20 years." 01 the Lunrus
be ໂດ hind foreign Consulates were posted equipment
maintaining the precau purchased for ghting forces.
All this led up to a financial
which crials
Burmese the government connot overcome without outside assistance.
Employees of Pan- American World Air- ways use a bulldozer to tow one of the line's large Clippers from the LaGuardia Field, to the protection of a hangar as a heavy snow storm swept the Metropolitan aren. It was the year's heaviest snowfall, vary- ing from 5.2 inches in lower Manhattan to 10 inches in outlying see- tions of the city. Air, highway, and harbour traffic was disrupted.-- AP. l'icture.
Plot To Kill
Planes
Committee Approves
More Aid For Britain
Washington, Mar. 14. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee today recom- mended the approval of the full authorisation of $940 million of aid to Britain for 1940-50 under the Marshall Plan.
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The
Presenting its report on a bill to continue
Committee the Marshall Plan, the Senato viewed Britain's needs in the light of a state- ment made by Mr Christopher Mayhew, British
for Parliamentary Under-Secretary
Foreign Affairs, on February 23 to the effect that Bri- tain's recovery was virtually complete.
The Committee's report said American surpluses: this statement had led to Committee rejected all propo- Murshall Plan "widespread questioning of the sals that the neett
further
to American should be basically altered aid."
nssist the disposal of American surplus commodities. The report concluded: "In
It sald the ECA had view of the fact that any set- SILENCE ON PROPOSALS
back in Burma He added: "Within
a country as impor-approached by tant ns the
of 109 United Kingdom distributors today tremendous forces are in conflict, Arbitration by neutral
would have a disastrous effect commodities, wanting the ECA Peshawar, Mar. 14. on the whole
Ite- to purchase these commodities European powers, as in the case of India
Northwest Frontier covery Programme. 1 the Pakistan, alone may be The
to prevent them becoming sur- and
milice recommends The Parliamentary debate in
able to restore
the plus in the United States. internal peace
police have discovered " Senate the approval of the full the pact resumed lodny, but
and aid us in our long-delayed
plot to assassinate Khan authorisation requested. with this would be neither fair to the NEEDS ASSISTANCE only secondary, Party speakers
recovery programme." took part. Most attention was Burma
The Burmese government at Abdul Gaiyun Khan, the reminder today must have centred on Labour's plans and money not only to help her ex-present has hung a curtain Premier of the Northwest thorough review will be unford-
Bold extra
"65 1 mere routine tion in the event of demon- strations developing against the Western nations.
have
Premier
that
Com-
to
a
another
been producers or different
The Committee declared that
American taxpayer nor consis-- for tent with the principles of the
on the Communists' obvious port her stocks of surplus tee, around the proposals received Frontier Province, it wased when the justifications
the appropriations. • are Marshall Plan.
In
th
properations for J public but also to import goods essen-from New Delhi. clamour in protest against any Italian participation Western pact.
PRECAUTIONS IN ROME
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The statement said the plot was organized by the Shiris"-a
"Red corps
Volunteer
examined."
The report gave the Com- mittee's approval to the Bill. This
tial to her people.
At the time of writing, there officially announced hero-
Helping Italian immigration: Is not even
official admission today.
The Committee supported on Burma needs foreign aid to
have been - lave of inflation rising in her that proposals
Aid amendment to free 10 vessels to ceived,
the Italian Govern- the ussist recommends midst like a terrifyng spectre,
Meanwhile the country awaits
ment's immigration programme Sources close to the Burmese with ill-concenled impatience
Marshall Plan countries from to other parts of the world than Khan and
10 pledged Extra street police, riot squad government are convinced that
non- April to June, 1949, and $4.280 the United States. Jeeps
future
path ni police trucks were the people of Burma will revert for an official indication as to its founded by Khan Abdul Gaffar allocation of $1,150 million to
violence. to the barter system to obtain
from June, 1949, to stationed
Government officials without in Rome's
of A number major their everyday wants if the go-
Red Shirt million squares tonight. It was the first vernment is unable
signal from Prime Minister followers had been arrested, it June, 1950, to raise a time since the hector pre- foreten loan.
Thakin Nu are exercising such
revealed. was
The purpose of caution-they-are-dismissing_Dr. election Buys of early 1948-Mat ̄
The barter system such police reinforcements were ployed by the
was CB Evalt's statement as "mere press the plot was said to be to check- mate the efforts to bring Burmese during speculation.". in evidence.
Kashmir within Pakistan. three years of the Japanese oc-
The "Red Shirts," who were The three Communist De-cupation.
The Japanese rolled off from derint whether so responsible active before India and Pakistan puties returned from Milun to- |
Evatt would became independent, supported day after weekend consultations portable printing presses their statesman as Dr with Milan labour leaders on the paper currency with such speed have made that statement with the Congress Party, which op
out good reason.-Associated
sub- posed a partition of the Press,
continent.
Line of action to be taken that money lost its value. aguinst
alliance. the Atlantic
The Burmese began to trade The
can
ran out of the
But the man-in-street is won-
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WORTH-WHILE RISK
The report stated: "Most of the expenses would be paid by the Italian Government in re. Any-dollar expenses would come !
allotment to the ECA Summing up the success of from the Marshall Plan
to date, Italy."-Reuter. the report said: "Due to the
efforts of the peoples on both sides of the Atlantic, the risk has proved worth taking. The programme is now successfully
EXPENSIVE
PALACES
London, Mar, 14-Britain's Royal Palaces are expected to cost the taxpayer £110.000 in 1940-50, in Încrease of £32,025 over the current year. This was revṛalml today In thes Civil Estimates for Common Services, (which tolal £82.388,202, .a net decrease of £7.417.123 compared to 1949-50.
Alterations and modernisation of Clarence House, the future London residence of Princes Elizabeth and the Duko of Edinburgh, will require £5,000 over the £45,000, which will probably have been spent on the buliding by March 31, the end of the current financial year.
The original estimate for the [whole project was £50,000.
Royal parks and pleasure gardens, which are mostly open to the public., are expected to cost £802,000an Increase of
£130,470.
Estimates for the Houses of Parliament total £1,005,000, an increase of £374,000, The chief lem in these is £700,000 for the rebuilding of the war- damaged House of Commons
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Munich, March 14-Threa women and five men were con- victed of spying on U.S. forces for the Communist-doininated Czechoslovak government and were sentenced to prison terme ranging from one to eighteen years.
Blonde dimpled Gerle Doerro,
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Rangoon, Mar. 14. The Bri-rested in June, 1948, and sen- months, this second and critical sufficient for one month. tish Embassy in Rangoon today tenced to three years imprisone year should bring the partici- fugee veteran Czech nirman said "We
can do nothing in Partia-
ment. The organisation was pating countries still closer to ment because there the govern- wherewithal for bartering, they described as "maliciously" un-
its Air Force of declared legal by the North- the achievement of those treat today that Czechoslovakia had
purged ment has the majority and our starved,
true the reported dismissal from west Frontler Province Govern- ideals of common welfare and veterans who served with
of the hunds are led Bui we
ment in September last year- peace embodied in the Recovery Western powers in World War They do not want to relive Burma of 27 members
Mission British Services creats such an atmosphere in those days.
Programme." Italy that nobody will have falth
And they have an eye cocked charges of "contamination the Italian government be in
Korens." on Chinn, plagued by disense, de- cause they will know the government does not speak for stitution and death,
Italjan people."United
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NOMINATION APPROVED
on
by
An Embassy statement cm- The Burmesê want none of It.phasises that the British Mis- slon, which is an advisory mis- FEAR OF COMMUNISM slon to the Hurmese Government evacuated Information Minister U Tunon military affairs, Pe recently supported the As Maymys when the Karens seized sociated Press report last No- the town. vember that Burma left the Bri- tist Commonwealth
tenr
Dr with
at the Communists.
independence,
James Boyd as Bureau of Miness were at the health ma
Reuter.
Gubitchev Feels Peeved
II.
The airman served as spokes- The Committee's report makes
man for four Czechs who landed these points:
in .Frankfuri yesterday In a Strategie Materials: It urged plane they stole in Prague.
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Darnall Linda John Sheppard in
the adoption of an amendment sald the Communists believed The Loves Of Edgar
un-
designed to set up that part of Czechs who had served with the
West
were "politically the Marshall Plan programme. which provides for Increased reliable."
He added that such people New York, Mar. 14-The production of strategic materials It said that the services' per-
engineer, Valentin overseas and their transfer to there had little chance now for "All were thrown out of to do their Russlan through rounel continue
a job. that the United States. duty in Rangoon, but that some Cubitehev, charged today
work and our only chance for He said that when the late women and children had left the United States had treated
The amendment urges the work is in the mines."-United Washington, Mar. 14. Thực Prime Minister U Aung San for Penang owing
to the ac him in an uncivilised way and Senale Interior Committee today was called upon to decide be-commodation shortage here.
requested more time to reflect Economic Co-operation Adminis-Press.
a Court- trator to use his bargaining approved len to one the nomina; } tween
denied that whether he wanted continued association; The statement tion of Australian-born
the Commonwealth and the Burmese Government had appointed lawyer to represent power with the European coun- materials and to of strategic the asked the Mission to quit Bur-him in pleading to espionage tries to increase the production
charges.
other agencies Director over the objections of
of the assist John I. Lewis and his idle coal of the
The Federal Judge, Mr Stman United States Government in of their power.
"There is no question of the minors.
Tun Pe stated Aung Sad per- Mission leaving the country at Rifkind, rave the 32-year-old purchasing such materials. had protested against sonally favoured remaining In-
suspended United Nations em- Dr Boyd's nomination by order-side the Commonwealth but was
it sald. present,"
day to decide It empowers him to enter in- Ing his miners on a two-week affald the Communists woud that the first batch
From Penang It was reported ployee another
of British whether he wanted the services to contracts for periods as long demonstration walkout, starting | plunge Burnia Into chaos rather
reached of Court-appointed counsel. as 20 years for the purchase of evacuees from Burma
Gubitchov told the Court to- strategie materials, The group, cluded wives and children of the as if he had been in "an in- in quisition of the Middle Ages."" British Military Mission
understood the Burma. They had been advised He said he
Lewis
Press.
at midnight last night.-United than continue a hated assaga- there today. numbering 31, in- day he felt he had been frented
OFF
tion with the British.
·COINDES PALLY SERVICE.
"He promised to take me riding as soon as he gets
a motor for it.”
his
to evacuate because of the pre- lows of his country, but
since the sent fighting between the Kuren experiences here
of Investigo- rebels and Burmese Government Federal Bureau
tion arrested him and Judith troops.
Coplon in New York on March 4 hnd bled him.-United Press,
to
OFFICIAL DETAINED According
One British woman the party hud an un- eventful trip from the Burmeso capital to the Mala Kuching airstrip near Penang,
The
party made the trip in Royal Air Force Dakotas.
They are bileted in Penang's farnous Runnymede Hotel.
Report Ridiculed
ridi-
Washington, Mnr. 14-The U.S. State Department on Mon- day termed "completely Reports reaching Rangoon culous" a published report thai today sald that the Deputy the US. is preparing to turn Commissioner of Bassein. Mr over alx or more warships to EL J. Hawkins,
Anglo- Argentina. An Indian, has been detained un-
Press officer Mr Michael J.
der section 0 of the Public McDermott told reporters that
Order and
Mr Preservation Act.
"nobody In the Navy. or tho a retired divi- State Department knows any- sional engineer in the Bunna thing" about such a proposal. Tele-communications Depart- The report was published by ment, is suspected of collabora- | the Washington Times Herald in ling with the Karen rebels, then copyrighted story --Associated | reports satdAssociated Press. | Press.
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