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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1949.

NEW BELGIAN GOVT. WILL SEEK Look What Happened!

S. Africa

To Reduce Indian Population

Capetown, June 28. The South African Govern- mont plans, as a long-term policy, to reduce the Union's Indian population to a minimum, Dr T. E. Donges, Minister of the Interior, reaffirmed in the Senate today.

tias.

Their lori-tenn policy was to increase restrictions, and this immediate policy was to see that segregation was applied, only between Indians and Euro- peans but also between and Negroes

rullans

There was now a quarter of a million Indians in South Africa, į Dr Donges sali, lle asked what difference that number would

make

uf

to the subcontingat India, with a population of over 400 million, if repatriation took, pince.

The principle of transfers of population, approved at the Polain Conference,

was al most a regular matter of policy today,

he declared. it had taken place between India and Pakistan, and war happeting!

in Palestine and Europe.

Dr Donges said that to bring down the Union's Indian popu- lation to 1 "irreducible minimum" was a matter which could not be achieved in one

year.

LESSON OF RIOTS

When an Opposition Senator interfected: "Or one century. the Minisler soid that he did Bot want to be pessimistic. The Government has declared this to be our policy," he added, If there was any lesson to bo

learned from the recent Natal riots, It was that mixed Brens were dangerous, he sald."

the Govern The object of ment's segregation policy was to nvold friction created by such arons. The Government did not at present treat the Indian population as a separate entity Lailing under particular Ministry, Dr Donger stated.

The community was dealt with like all other people, under various

departments.

The

varie Government had approached the

KING LEOPOLD

Czech

Bishops Denounced

Catholic Party Backs Govt.

The

Prague, June 28, --- Executive of the People's Party-formerly known as the Catholic Party under: the leadership of Monsignor Jan Sramok-tonight issued natatement supporting the Government against the Czechoslovak bishops..

manifest

RETURN

OF

KING LEOPOLD

Van Zeeland To Form Cabinet

Brussels, June 28. - The triumphant Social Christian (Catholic) Party announced tonight that it would try to return King Leopold to the Belgian throne "by all constitu- tional means available."

...

Robert Houben, national secretary of the Party, made the challenging announcement only a few hours after the final returns from Sunday's elections showed that the Catholics had gained an absolute majority in the Senate and missed absolute majority in the lower House by only two seats.

Political observers folt sure any attempt to return Leopold to the throne would set off serious labour disturbances and bring violent objections from the Socialists, Liberals and Communists.

Evacuation

Of Jogjakarta

M. Houben said that as the first step in their pro-Leopold would campaign, the Catholics seek the repeal of the 1045 law which bans Leopold from the irone.

The Ministry, of the Interior gave this breakdown for the Chamber of Deputies: Cathio- lica 100 seals, a gain of 13 over the 1046 election. Socialists 60, £1 less of three, Liberala 29, a gain of 12, Communists. 12, loss of 11. In the Senate the Catho- lics won 54 scats, a gain of

Liberals 14, gain of nine, Com- munists five, loss of six.

Proceeding Smoothly three, Socialists 33, loss of one,

After a full investigation, the Executive found that from the Government's endeavours it was

Batavia, June 28.-The that 1 wanted to evacuation of Dutch forces of the from Jogjakarta, Central execute the provisions

Constitution regarding

Java, is "proceeding Dew freedom of religion and of

smoothly" according to religious functions."

schedule, and is expected completed this month, the United Nations Commission for Indonesia announced today.

This statement Was Issued after leaders of the party, which is in the process of reorgan- isation, met under the chairman ship of M, Alois Petr, Minister of Communications, "to And

to

ba

Indian cominuulty, suggesting that when the bishops gave 10 and the Premier,

The establishment of Advisory Councils.

cils, representing adus and Moslems separately, under one Minister. The dea was not favourably received.

a way to renew peace Ini A Republican press release the minds and heart of Party quoted the Republican Emer members and of all Catholics.gency Government as saying that it would not return the RIGHTEOUS DOUBTS

mandate of the Goverment to the Republicau President, Dr The Party Executive said

R

Hatto, until they reply to the demand for an return to Jogjakarin and cath

loyalty of

10 the able to discharge their respon- "righteous democratic regime, doubts arose as to how far on free from any pressure

whatsoever." the side of the representatives the desire to of the Church reach an agreement was real and honest.

are

The Emergency Government was also reported to have decid- ed not to return its authority to and Dr President Sockarno

By the repeal of Part Two ot the Astatle Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act of 1948, the Government had In- alented that it was not prepared

The statement described the fatta until it had heard a arat to give franchise to Indians. Government-sponsored "Catho-hand report on the recent The repeal was the first step in

Fe Action" as "the manifestation Dutch-Indonesian agreement. the long-range polley of roof the desire of the priests and patriation.

If Indians were given the Catholle believers to solve the franchise, it would be clear that they were accepted--as-a-per-- manent factor in the population.

-Neuter.

MISPLACED

LOYALTY

28. Shortly

probby of the

relations

After the Government is re-

the

of stored in Jogjakarta. Church and State by agreement." Emergency Government want a joint decision on the ̄agrcément "Nobody standing up against thla elementary movement would to be taken by the Soekarno Government, the Provisional -serve the interests of the Church, working Committee and the Re-

but would stand ngainst the State and his legni Gover-publican Parliament and

Command, tho Every member of the Army High Parly should show that lie statement said. stands unconditionally for agree- SUMATRA MEETING

ment.

ment and join the Catholic Ac- tion."

the

'A spokesman of the In- London, June

continued:donesian Republican delegation The statement

talks after the decision of London "The Church should not be mis- to the Dutch-Indonesian dock workers, who stopped und by those who are led by stated here that the Emergency work in sympathy with striking reactionary political alms In Republican Government met re- Canadian seamen, to go back to their actions."

but

not to

work tomorrow unload any Canadian ship, the

Minister of Labour, Mr George

OFFICIAL DECREE

Isaacs, told the House of Con Ministry mons that it was "intolerablo"]

A

decree issued by

of Education

strike over

Mr Leancs said.

cently somewhere in Sumatra"

the Emerernment.

earlier

to

and decided, that the authorlty of the Central Republican Government still rests with the

Dr

floem, tho that British trade and recovery Church circulars

today cald that all Catholle Chairman of the Republican

and should be interfered with

by a

com-delegation, said here tonight a dispute between munications, including pastoral that he was expecting to hear two Canadian unions.

letters, must in future be sub- from the Emergency Republican to The dock

mitted in advance to the State Government In Sumatra as workers loyalty m

authorities.

where and when he could con- should be to their own unions and not to a "lot of imported Zdeneck Nejedly, has officially of the latest

The Minister of Education, M. tact them to explain the terms Dutch-Indonesian agitators whose only object in this case is to disrupt the flow declared that bishops who im- agreement. of merchandise in our country," posed Church fines of a political He said that he expected

character on priests were them- do this before the return of Thirty ships

selves breaking the low and the Republican Government to 3,827

ilable to workers were lule in London's munist newspaper. Rude Pravo,

penalties,

the Com- Jogjakarta...... docks,

Dutch and Indonesian Re- reported.

hove Engineers and

depot Dit

publican representatives warned

agreed on June 22 that Dutch workers added their support by The bichaps

priests, when

Sunday's forces should evacuate Jog- declaring the Canadian ships pastoral letter on the conditions jakarta, the former Republican for an agreement between the capital, allowing the Republican "Black" and refusing to repair Church and State was sued. Administration to be restored or refuel them.

that if they failed to read it at thero ns a first step to trans- Canadian freighter Mass they would be liable to ferring sovereignty The

to a pro- Seaboard Ranger (7.190 tons), punishment under Canon Law-posed United States of Indonesia whose Canadian crew struct Reuter.

by the end of 1949.--Reuter... three months ago soon after her arrival here, mailed empty from Liverpool last night with a new crew for an unknown destina- tlon, it was learned-Reuter,

and-

Beaverbrac and Argomont

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Royal Visitors To Nottingham

Nottingham, Juno 28-Prin- cuss Elizabeth and the Dulas of Edinburgh today vialled No!- tingham, the city around, which the legend of Tobin Hood was. sown, to join In the 500th an- niversary of its Charter from Henry VL

Cheering crowds grooted the Princess, in a dress of, rose pink printed slik, patterned in: dell cate grey and black, and a wide brimmed straw hat he

She drove through the an elent city with the Duke, KGUST.

had

last

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When Los Angeles Police Officer Kenneth Booth responded to a report that a couple of nudists were cavorting around a back yard he never thought the "case" would end like this. But with the tempera- ture hitting 97, who could blame him? The nudists are Terry Ann Goldman (left) and Dickie Watson.

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Russia Preparing For 1951 War Says Writer

New York, June 28.-Russia is preparing for war with the West by 1951, a former Hungarian Finance Minister warned today.

Mr Nicholas Nyaradi, writing in the July

2 issue of the Saturday Evening Post said Deputy Soviet Minister V. G. Dekanozov made the disclosure last July during a conversation aboard a Danube river steamer.

7

Communists Cultivating Plains Of North China

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San Francisco, June 28,- The North China, plain In Managor,

now carpeted with millet,Telephones: 20013, 20010, 20017.

corn, cotton, peanut and-

other crops, Palping Radio

aald tonight in reporting greatly increased-cultivation

PRESS

of many crops, including PHOTOGRAPHS rice, this year.

The Radio said that the Com- munist Government had granted loans in seeds and grain to help pensants reclaim waste-iund, 100,000 acres of which had this

Copies of photographs

year been sown in thres locali- taken by the South China ties in Chahar and Hopei pro-

vinces alone.

The Radio also reported rapid Morning Post and Hong Kong

Industrial, commercial and cul-

tural rehabilitation at Tsingtao Telegraph Staff Photographers wilere oil, coal, cotton and other Industrial materials are now re- Kularly flowing in with the re- storation of communications,

INCREASING TRADE The broadcast also quoted a Hankow message which reported. growing trade between Wuhan and other Communist-held arena.

According to this report much cooking cil, flour, rice, cont and gasoline had been im- poried into Wuhan during the Arst three weeks of this month.

The State-owned Trading

its

aro on view in the

Morning Post Building.

ORDERS BOOKED.

NOTICED

TO

Wuhan ADVERTISERS

Company, the report Raid, is to sign contracts

with Shanghai and Tientsin oll, counterparts whereby tung tea, tobacco and peanut oil will bo exchanged for coal, yarn and gasoline.

Peiping Radio further report- ed that in Tientsin 45 iron work-shop-70 percent. of the total number in the city-are working again. These works are now producing such things as farm Implements and machine parts. Production of hardware in March was 500 tons. In May it had increased to 630 tons. Reuter.

4 AIRMEN BALE OUT OF PLANE

Wiesbaden, June 28. - Four American airmen received minor Injuries after baling out of a burning B-17 Flying Fortress today while on a routine train- ing light 15 miles north-east of Wiesbaden.

M. Paul Von Zeeland, Catholic prewar Belgian Prime Minister, tonight agreed form a new Government to re- place

Socialist-Catholic the Coalition under M. Paul-Henri Spaak, which resigned yester-

following the day

Belgian general election.

M. Van Zeeland, a brilliant economist, is a leading member of the Christian Socialists (Calbolics), now the biggest party in both Houses of Par-

LIBERALS CAIN The

Party made some gains In the election, the biggest goins being recorded by the Liberals The Socialicis suffered alight for the moment; not for another POCKET CARTOON bale out by the pilot, Captain L. losses, while the Communists three years anyhow. But then mel with 1

netback, ELVETC

it will be inevitable-inevitable Since the resignation of M. the Westerners will start Spaak's

Government, it had It because of their fear of Soviet become increasingly evident that

The

United States power

eparing them for Catholle would be called upon

a 'preven- to form a

Live war and, for, our part, we Administration, M. Spank made it clear yester prevent their 'prevention."

have got to be ready in 1951 to day that he was not prepared to undertake the task of leading Nyaradi, who

new

"Another war?" Mr Dekanozov

was quoted as saying., "No, not

resigned na a new Cabinet.

Finance Minister and fed to the Saying that new Socialist- United States rather than up- Catholic Government was prae- prove a

falsified budget for licable, he added that would "not Hungary, said Moscow hopes to be a a good formula" for him to achieve a first

class satellite re-assume the Premiership. But army of 1,850,000-men-within-

thought that he would the next two years. He charged retain the post

of Foreign Russin is arming all her satel Minister in the event of another Utes in violation of various Socialist-Catholic Coalition being peace treaties. He said Bulgaria. formed.

Rumania and Hungary fre King Leopold's aide-de-camp receiving

and arms

medium told Reuter in Geneva tonight tanks

heavy well that "the King is fairly satis-motorised artillery, fed" with the Belgian election Nyarudi wrote:

rote: whether the results. "There could be sur-Russians actually will start at King is war in 1951 will depend as prises, yet and the keeping in close touch with ***

much on the effectiveness of

as

death

Brussels," the officer said.

the Atlantic Pact and the Mar- TO REPORT TO KING shall Plan as on such impender- He added that the King's ad-ables as a possibility of Stalin's

and viser, Professor Jacques Pirenne, early

continued and his secretary, M. Willy American monopoly of the Wemnes, would, "in all probablatomic bomb. But they certainly lity," arrive from Brusseis in a intend to be ready for war by few days to give the King & then.” personal account of the situa

tion.

NO PROBLEM. Nyoradi said that when he There was still no confirmation protested to Mr Dekanozov that whether the King would suit

would be difficult for the

SHA

*No, THAT way.”

Korea Recovery Programme

a communique either in Brussels United Slates to start a wor Washington, June 28—

his

one of

or Geneva. The Swiss Govern- because. of its constitutional The U.S. House Foreign ment does not normally allow political notivity by foreigners requirements, one of the Soviet Affairs Committee deferred In the country.

nides said: "A declara- final action official's

on formal ap- and King tion of war is no problem tor Leopold's statements are usually the United States. I was in the proval of the proposed $150,- published in Belgium.

United States with the Soviet | 000,000 Korean recovery The King spent today in hi lovely lakesido villa at Pregny,

purchasing mission when the programme.

wore Americans near Geneva, attending to cor Pearl Harbour. It was only a attacked at

Meanwhile, the Senate Foreign respondence,

trick of Mr Roosevelt's to make Relations Commitee began its The Christian Socialists want people think they were in dan-own consideration of the pro- King Leopold to resume

gramme, requested by President throne. The Socialists would the Navy knowing that the Trumau only accept the King's abdica- tion in. favour of

Japanese had broken

The Economic Co-operation his 18-year their codes used the very samo old son, Prince Baudouin,

code for alerting their forces at Administration (ECA) approv The Catholios hope that they

Д $780,000 allotment may bring about the King's ro-

a time when the Japanese were ed turn with the help of the Roy still negotiating with the Ameria Korea to pay Ocean transporta- allst elements in the

cans in Washington. Naturally, lion costs on various shipments Liberat Party-United Press and Reu- the Japanese thought the Ameri" and buy $6,000 worth of indus cans were preparing to strike i telal machinery and chemicals. ECA ap- the so they struck first. It was a Simultaneously, simple matter after that lo in- proved grants of nearly $15,- damo public

000,000 to Western Germany and opinlog Widow Freed On Nyarudf

Western European nations. that at this even said anotiter of “

Committee dis- The House pontanos said: sufilut ls why cured the

recovery Korean we have got to be careful in programme for hours on Tues-

Americans Berlin. The

may day, finally deciding it needed down moro Information Ghent June 23.—A:38-year trick us into shooting

from the

ter.

Fraud Charges ·

»

to

old London widow, Mrs Muriel some of their aeroplanes. Then State Department.. Grace Hardio-Bick, ac- they would have an excuso for Committeemen would not dis

war on the Soviet close what information quitted here today on

was charges declaring

Was

the State Department were ask- ed to appear again on Wednes-

of alding in a 2,000,000 Belgian Union right away" United sought. But representatives of france Insurance fraud - on the | Pression ife, polley of her late husband Two other, Britons, Derek Brown GLIDING RECORD far for further questioning and Enger Mine, were found

DESPRE ! Their names were withheld, qulity and were both sentenced Casabiance, June 28,—Tha

Much of the discussion

ind

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Two Belgians and a Dutch Madame Marcella Cholanet, a moeling was devoted to w girl, accused of siding in Uts French airwoman, Hving in Fox, type of policy statement should fraud, were also found not, French, Morocco,, this: afternooer bo included in the bill...¡ “Sómo, gulity, Brown, > an- vinstrance chimed ið have set up a new | Commiftisemien want to express broker, was accuted of having woman's world sliding record by the intent of the US, govern insured Máray HardlowBick's flying 140 kilometres, persever ment to aid any area. In Asla husband; after his denth ---Reu-S115: Deer:from:Fex to Bouber against + Communism: 6040+

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The four men, all members of the crew, were ordered to Wallace,

of Line Springs, Iowa, after one of the engines burst into flames. Captain Wallace safely landed the burning plane at Wiesbaden Airport, where the fire was extinguished-Reuter,

WASN'T JOKING

Richmond, Indiana, June 28 Cab driver Ray Seal thought that Mrs Dorothy Minnick, 20, was joking when she told him he was driving her cuicide on the evo of her sixth wedding anniversary. When the

to her

driver let her out at Whitewater Bridge, Mrs Minnick sald to

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