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VOL. IV NO. 83

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH For and on behalf of

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1949.

MILITARY RULE TO GO WHEN GERMAN GOVT IS ESTABLISHED

EUROPE Court Frowns

11 Poople Killed

Many Injured

London, Apr. 8.-Gales sweeping. Europa today. killed several people. They stripped roofs from houses and brought wartimo ruins crashing to the ground. A 7,000-ton steamer aground. Shipping aircraft were delayed.

went and

The Queen Mary docked 24 hours late at Cherbourg this mareing after a stormy, crossing? of the Atlantic from New York. Heuter reported from various centres:

people

were

Berlin:-Two killed and several injured when houses collapsed in the giale.

Hamburg: The

7,231-ton

Dutch steamer Alamak went

On Kippers For The Baby

Margate, Apr. 8.-Coun- ty Judge A. F. Clements ruled here that fried klp- pera and gorgonzola chrese are no proper breakfast for a two-year-old baby.

The judicial finding grew out of a kult by a hotel proprietor who tried to collect from a man who moved out before slaying an agreed time.

He moved, said the man, because there was nothing but cheese and kippers for the baby, and the court said he was Jolly well right-Associated Press.

Reds Engaged

By Warships

aground b the Elbe Estuury to- Nanking, Apr. 9.-Premier Ho day. She refloated by a Ger-yng-chin

man lug.

CRUSHED BY WALL Kiel:--Five people were killed when the gale knocked down the ruins of a house.

tonight conferred with Cioncral Tang En-po, Nanking Shangbai Garrison Commander, and General

J'ai Chinng-hsi, Central China Com- mander, on the two new Com- munist threats to the Yangtse River

line.

of

01

Paris:-An 11-year-old girl

Special Reuter reports from was crushed by a wall blown over at Montigny Les Metz, Chinking, 45 miles enst

Nanking, sald that, Nationalist North-East France.

A ninson was killed at Armentieres and a warships were engaged in man was blown into a water-sel with Red artillery.

The Military news agency tank and drowned. near Mau-

claimed tonight that the Red .. beure.

begun operations Vienna: At least 48 propic Alr Force had

along the Ynogtse River line, vere injured by falling debris.

statement re- Geneva: Ono

was confirming the man drowned on Zurich Lake and a cently broadcast by Peiping workman repairing a chalet root Radio that the nucleus of a Red near Zurich was killed outright Air Force was being when the wind tore off the en-with deserted Nationalist tire roof.

The Hague: The 4,344-ton Greek steamer Agiol Victores,

off the out of control coast, sent cut un urgent call for tug assistance tonight.-Reuter,

pa-

The news agency also nounced the loss of Sanchacho

Agreement Reached By Western Powers

LIMITED CONTROL BY US, BRITAIN & FRANCE

Washington, Apr. 8.-The three major Western powers agreed today to abolish military rule in their zones of Germany when a new German government is established.

The U.S., Britain and France will then retain only limited con- trols over the proposed new German federal republics. Military governors will be replaced by civilian high commissioners. However, occupation armies will remain for an indefinite period.

The agreement ended a long wrangle between the three powers over Germany. It came in what the British Foreign Minister, Mr Ernest Bevin called a "most momentous week." It closed the last great split among the Western powers on a major policy question. It set a goal for Germany's full fledged return to the family of nations. In a communique yesterday afternoon, the Western big three announced they had covered "the whole range of issues now pendingin connection with Germany" and "arrived at a complete agreement.”

In separate news conferences, Both M. Schuman and Mr Acheson said the agreeinent leaves the way open for Russia to join and make the accord applicable to all Germany.

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Mr Acheson said the agree- Western occupation powers and have been

a basis for in- the new German government. months. on the western perimeter of the ment provides

on Dutch Kwachow bridgehead

the creased hope the Western 2--Termination of the present

and the Soviet military government of Western The U.S. military aid pro- north bank of the Yangtse 45 triumvirate miles east of Nanking-Reu-Union muy solve their difficul- Germany at the time the new gramme for West Europe may

ties. M. Schuman said:

German government ter-APP,

is estabamount to US$1,250,000,000 the lished. In its place will be a first year. Including proposal to that the slated "We have

three power High Commission other nations, the overall pro reorganisation of Germany is in

will

exercise

'mainly poval may be around US$2,500,- order. We have done this for whleh

controls over the000,000. Western Germany. It is up to supervisory"

new German regime. Each of if this is ap- Russia to state

the three nations pileable to the whole of Ger

The agreement covered these major points:

US Senate Votes For ERP

Washington, Apr. B.-The United States Senate yesterday approved the US$5,500,000,000 European Recovery Programme for the the next 15 months by a 70-7 vote.

Red Suspects Released

Government.

will have a The formal request for arms

socailea

high commissioner on the new came (rom Britnin, France. cy. The occupallon forces Belgium-the-Netherlands and Madras, Apr. 8.-Eleven

(the will remain in Germany under Luxembourg military commanders.

Brussels Pact powers) and people, detained since their ar

Inst from Singapore

1-A revised occupation

from Norway, Denmark and rival

3-A decision that German Italy. The three other Atlantic November, were today ordered statute "In a new and simpler

authorities. will Treaty nations—feeland, Portu- to be released by the Madras torn than previously existed. government

have freedom to run the coun-tal and Canada-have not sub- The Senate acted speedily an

The statute text was not pub- held under the lined. It is being transmitted try except in specifically defined mitted formal requests, 10 amendments during the day They were

Parliamentarynolds in which Allied powers to reach a finni vote after 13 Madras Maintenance of Publie to the German

At The Hague it was an- Order Act on suspicion of being Council in Bonn, which is try-reserve authority to themselves. days of

tedious debate. The

West German These fields evidently are.... nounced today that the De- Economic Co-operation Ad-active members of Communist-ing to draft n ministration measure now goes controlled

(n) security against a revival offence Ministers of the Brussels Jabour unions in Constitution. The statute dennes

the relationship

the German between

militarism and (b) Pact powers had approved basic relations between Ger- plan for defending many and the outside world. Europe.-Associated Press.

4-A decision that the Ger- man Federal Republic can make 113 own direct agreement with the United States for Marshall Plan

to the House.-Associated Press. | Malaya.-Beuter.

EDITORIAL

The Taxpayer Needs A Voice

TR Walter Fletcher, MP, addressing

M the Hongkong Council of Women on

#1 new

Thursday, gently warned that the Muni- cipal Council (should it ever materfallse), broom, would not although necessarily sweep clean. Doubts in some Hongkong quarters go even beyond that: whether the Council would be capable of sweeping at all, The Colony is still pining for popular representation, but Is now divided on the point whether this should take the form of a Municipal. Council, with severely restricted powers, or whether It should be given a more sophisticated status vis-a-vis the Legis- lative Council. Reconstitution of the Legislative Council by the introduction of elected Unofficial members is gaining favour if only because it is recognised that an effective Opposition is one of the aurest means of keeping nay Government up to the mark. Mr Walter Fletcher, as one of the Labour Government's most discerning critics, would, we are sure, be one of the first to agree with this. Hongkong has long been conscious that it is remotely governed,' but the phrase generally is applied to the control which Whitehall exerclics. The remoteneas, In fact, applies also to the local government, which delights in doing things unob- trusively, almost to a point of secrecy, and then blandly announcing its commitments when it is too late for disapproval to have any effect. Elected representativen would go to the Legislative Council with a popular mandate, for it would be on a programme that they would succeed in the elections, But under the system of selection and nomination it la difficult to avold the

impression that the Unofficials are in the make Legislative Council principally to

to

up the numbers and to lend to the deliberations of the Council a faint air of a Colony democratic procedure: For with as many domestic problems as questions Hongkong, surprisingly few nre put to Government In Legislative in Buch ан Council. Question Time virtually non-existent, and debates, forth- right

Enough

ехргенн popular viewpoints, are few and far between. It is a legislative body which should, at the some time, be the principal forum on public affaits, but very seldom fs. The hels being Hongkong taxpayer feels governed from a great height; that his Interests are not properly protected or advanced. And it is because of this that

he somewhat wryly acknowledges the glowing tributes which are being, poured on the Colony concerning is wonderful post-war recovery and its position as the show-window of the Far East." The Colony's taxpayers have played a not inconsiderable part in the revitalisation of Hongkong, but they stil do not. possess a direct volce in the Colony's affairs. Direct and indirect taxation is levied upon them, but they have representation in the legislature. would not surprise Mr Fletcher to bo Cold that this rankles, nor do we believe he would reject the suggestion that it is past time for the altuation to be cor- rected. Hongkong would not expect legislative and administrative miracles to follow constitutional reform, but if, at first, I did little more than falter the ego of the taxpayers, that would bo something, and it could not be harmful,

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ald. To dale Germany received Marshall Aid through military government arrangements. It also can join "'as 0 full member" In the organisation for European Economic Co-operation.

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Canadian

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Stone Fight

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Price 20 Cents

Tol: 27880

Gets Stuck Burmese

On Candy

Lacking a coin, Brian Kempner, 9, tried for a candy bar the hard way and got his arm stuck up to the elbow in a dispensing machine at Macales. ter College, St Paul, Minn. He wears a worried look as Douglas Fowler uses a length of pipe to free him. Brian is the son of Mr and Mrs Stanley Kempner who came to St. Paul from London at the urging of Macalester students who had been in England on an exchange basis. - AP Picture.

Socialists And Tories Dead-Heat In

LCC Elections

London, Apr. 8.-Socialists and Conser- vatives dead-heated today in the elections for the London County Council, the governing body of the British capital, ending 15 years of absolute Socialist control.

Each Party returned 64 members in this unprecedented result.

The

Sir

Sir Harris thus

of Conservatives and members-Reuter.

Forces

Resume Action

Rangoon, Apr. 8.—Bur- mese Government forces to- day resumed their land and air attacks on Inseln, 10 miles north of Rangoon after the Karens holding It had falled to surrender as planned. As the new battle for Insein began, the rebels were reported to have cap- tured three more towns- Tharrawaddy and the im- portant rall Junction of | Letpadan, 70 and 80 miles respectively north-west of Rangoon, and Twante, 20 miles southwest on the canal linking Rangoon with the Irrawaddy Delta ports.

Bo Sein Hman, the Special Commissioner for Tharrawaddy, was hit in the stomach by rifin from the ground flew over

as his plane Tharrawaddy, and dled a few minutes later

after

the undamaged aircraft landed at Rangoon early this morning.

Seln Hman, who resigned last Friday as Minister without Portfolio, was a leader of the

ment)

Yellow Band" (pro-Govern- wing of the People's Volunteer Organisation militia.

The President of the Karen Union, Saw Ba U Gyi, failed to

the Burma arrive at

Army Headquarters Wils morning to hand in the expected surrender of the rebels at iniin, which they have held for two months. KARENS APPREHENSIVE Official sources here suggested that "ikely split among the Karens at Inseln had led to Saw Ba U Gyi being forcibly pre- vented from bringing the sur- render last night as he was said to have promised.

The formal surrender was to have taken place yesterday, but postponed because the "apprehensive"

was Karens

were

about the presence of Govern- ment unboats in the Hain River, west of Insein. Orders were given later for the with- drawal of tlie_gunboals.

When no word was received from the Karen Union Pre- sident, the Burma Army Head- quarters prepared for a new onslaught on Insein, and Gov- ernment planes dropped their first bombs at.5.30 p.m. (local time).

In

near

Tho Government yesterday extended martial law to four central Burma districts around.

was holds the Mandulay, which

ier.

recap-

the Socialists' The neck-and-neck race was) make

voting

com- Tonight's Government maintained to the last if the strength on the County Council

munique

Government Bald contests in the 43 divisions, ench | 74. of which returns three members. Usually aldermen's seats are troops and "White Band" (pro- The result wiped out a Socialist filled by a Western

"gentleman's agree Government) People's Volunteer majority of 58 over the Conser-ment" in proportion เ the Organisation militia were 'in vatives, Liberals and Com- strength of the Partios returned control of the Henzada rico munists in the last Council. at the poll. But it is not cer- centre, near Tharrawaddy. Political observers immediate tain that the same system will Sagaing disirtet,

70 civilians and 30 Mandalay Jy attributed this sweeping turn- be followed in this Council.

killed in a Communists werd over to reaction against the So-

Percy Harris, cialist

former clash with "White Band" forces, Government's "higher Liberat teader in Parliament, the communique said. cost of Uving" budget for the country-introduced in Parlia-was the only Liberal elected to the Council. The Communists ment on the eve of the polling. Jost both their seats.

Socialist leaders

were expected to hold a prompt In- quest into the shattering re-balance of power in the newtured from the Karens and the

last Connell. He stands

weekend. the Communists verse. They had expected The Foreign Ministers nounced they confirmed and

reduced majority, but not auch middle between equal numbers Eight other districts were al- Labour ready under martial law.-Reu- approved agreements on plant Halifax, Nova Scotia, Apr. 8. a huge Conservative swing. dismantling, prohibited and res-Police used batteries of hoses to

BUDGET BLAMED· and the es break up

battle here early to-1, trleted industries tablishment of pan International day between Canadian senmen Supporters of the Party Ruhr authority, all of which nzembers of rival unions admitted tonight that the were

recently negotiated in which at least eight men were austerity budget was the chief London.

cause of the debacle, which has reduced Socialist domination of Actions taken by the German

Stones and rocks were thrown London to mere equality with government. texcept in the specified delds defined by the during the tight, which broke the Conservative Opposition. Allied powers, will be auto-gul when members of the Sea- The result was expected to

Union ar-stimulate matically effective unless they farers' International

protests are disapproved by the Alliedrived at the docks to take over sections of the Labour Party in

vessels strike-bound authorities.

by the Parliament against the budget. Canadian Seamen's Union.

Some understood

2,300,000 that I

Londoners It was

operations normal government

make up the electorate, which The Seamen's Union accused is composed of residents in an any decision of the

German the rival unionists and the police area that had a significant con- Lovernment will take effect of using sawn-off axe handles after 21 days unless the high and riot guns loaded with shot centration of the national voting commission rules against it.

and

course Holt. An official of the Canadian National Ship-120 members-five moro

The new council consists of plug Company denied that the the Inst body as the result of police had used firearms, but Yesterday also brought dis-

la redistribution of seals, which the Seamen's Union claimed may have cost the Socialiste closure of the first step to toward Implementing the North

At-peamen suffering from wounds

dearly.

ATLANTIC PACT -

A

Injured.

Membera

board. the strike-bound

power.

the

of

then

lantic millary alliance, aigned had been admitted to hospital. This heavily affected the east here at the start of the week

of the Seafarers' and south-east belin of London, by 12 Western nations.

Soelailat, which Eight European signers of the Union were eventually able to traditionally

were partly depopulated by ships, wartime bambing. Pact formally nollfed the US. which inter moved out into mid- It

they would State Department

Canadian

In addition to the 129 Coun- Sca- called the strike clllor elected by the popular need American arms to strength stream. The en their military forces and men's Union

that reports after to step up their Canada shipowners had signed of these 21 aldermen, 11 vacnic U.S. dollars

Eastern vote announced today, there are 21 aldermen on the Council. own military production.

The State Department public International Union, alated

with the Seafarers their seats immediately and the ly replica the U.S. administra-

to the American Federation La- Councillors will have to ap tion intends to propose an armas

point

their successors. The re- programmno to Congress, And it

maining 10, all Labour repre- invited other allianco nations tó

sentatives sit until 1032 bat submit formal ilots of ineir

they do not vote in the election military needs.

of new aldermen,

These romaining 10. added to the 64 Councillors elected today,

Actually the detalled military needs of the European nations

contracts

bour.

The 'Canadian Seamen's Union agreement with shipping com- panics expired Inst October and negotiators for ils renewal broke out--Neufor.

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