1949-07-22 — Page 1

Coca-Cola

Cler+Cold

For the Proprietor of HONGKONG TELEGRAPH For and on behalf of

SOUTH CHINA BORNING

The

TODAY'S WEATHER: Light or moderate Southeasterly winda. Fine apart from a few brief scattered showers.

Noon Observations: Barometrio pressure, 1000.0 mba, 20.80 in. Temperature, 86.9 deg. F. Dew point, 77 deg. F. Relative humfully, 70%. Wind direction. E by E. Wind force. 7 knoja. Low water: 1 ft. 7 in. ng 284 p.m. High water: 3 fi, d in. at 10.28 p.m.

Dino

At the

P.G.

Hongkong Telegraph

Telegraph G

VOL. IV NO. 171

SCARE AT COMMONS

ROYAL

GARDEN

PARTY

London, July 21-The guests at today's second Royal Garden Party were thoroughly screened, follow- ing a scare earlier this week. Police took special precati- tions, demanding invitation curds at the great grill gutes, which were only par- tíally opened,

An Intruder-a raan described as "harmless but mental"--had ellmbed

the Paleo wall And wandered about the gardens: where the marquees were set up today for teu.

CENTRE OF ATTRACTION

More than a thousand gtests, Including many American and Commonwealth visitors to London, attended the Garden Party at Buckingham Palace, the climax of London's sum mer social senson. The sun shone on the best fashion show of the year.

FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1949.

DEBATE FOREIGN AFFAIRS

To Reduce

Berlin Airlift

London, July 21. - The Foreign Secretary. Mr Ernest

the Hevla, fold House of Commons to- day that the Berlin airlift would be reduced as soon as supply reserves in Ber- Jin were enough to hsi for five months.

He added, however, "We Are polug lo keep the machinery of the airlift in existence in case anything happens."

He hoped nothing would occur, but reminded Tar- llament there would ol- ways be difficulty In deal- ing with the Rosalans. United Fress.

EXPLOSION

AT

CANTON

ARSENAL

Anxiety Over British

Business

In

China

NO COMMUNIST AUTHORITY

5

London, July 21.-The position of British business in China was causing considerable anxiety, Mr Hector McNeil, Minister of State, said in the. House of Commons tonight in the course of winding up a debate on foreign affairs.

"Quite plainly," he de clared, "there is no Com- munist authority for all

China or even the parts they

represent.

cesses.

ton-

..

July 21. The office of the China has received the cable

from the Chamber of Com-

Mr McNeil and that Bri- 1 He said that this area did If these people manage to work tish efforts to make contact not present an altogether out a satisfactory agreement. and we are quite confident with the Communist authorialuomy pleture.

"In all parts of that area we about it, it may have a quite'de- ties in China had not heen oro stil neeting systematie at- cisive effect on the general cc- entirely successful.

tempts by the Communists to covery in Southeast Alu," Mr. disrupt the normal life and McNeil concluded.-Reuter, people are having their suc- economy: But the ordinary

SHANGHAI CABLE The guesta got close-up views of the entire Royal Famliy as

London, threaded they

London their way

"In. Burma, for We have not despite all the

example,

Association separately and informally

dimculties, on even had a formal request extraordinarily

following through the crowds. The centre

Kood: of attraction won the newly-

for recognition, not that we tribution to recovery has been Shanghai engaged couple-the Earl of

could accede to it in these made by this year's rice pro-merce: duction, Harewood, the King's nephew,

surprisingly 21. The conditions."

good Canton, July dark,

altractive and

Аба

total He continued: "Rejection of their promised quota of $21,000 of 707,000 tons out of Kwangtung Provincial Ar Marion

22-year-old Aus- Stein, trian-born planist.

senal, across the Pearl River our attempts to effect a working tona"

relationship tends to contribute All eyes were on Miss Steln, from central Canton, ex- to a stagnation of trade. The The Government, Mir McNeu who Wan in a long garden ploded today, blowing artil-position of British business in said, extended party frock

of petunia pink

congratulations - causing coniderable on the progress made in Indo- withi navy borders, as the Earl,lery shells and ammunition China in

the sky above the anxiety. So long os no work nesta where all sides had ar In morning clothes and

Brey into

her suburb of Honnn. Officials the Chinese Communists, distress manship in

ing arrangement is accepted by opportunity to "Hopper," fed her

display states- trying

circum- mother through the "Garden" feared heavy casualties in and dislocation will continue to stances. entrance-lie gateway at the this, the third, blast at the be visfied on all sections of the We believe, and there is alde of the Palace reserved for arsenal in three months.

Chinese people."

reason to hope, that a round- Mr McNell also spoke about table conference may be held at Southeast Asia.

The Hague during mid-August.

Inyalty

and]

It was her first offeinl visit to the Palace and the Arst time

she had attended a Royal func-

The cause of the blast was not known. There were по

tion. Her flance introduced her bombs in the arsenal. The buik

to the King and Queen.

LORD AMMON

LOSES JOBS

of the stores were 75 mm, 50 calibre and rife shells and 20,000 rifles,

Omelals did not know the fato

of an estimated 100 troops on

ឌ

WINSTON CHURCHILL'S

ON-THE-SPOT DECISION

London, July 21.-Mr Winston law, constitution or any one to duty at the arsenal. They said Churchill said. today that he deal with."

(Continued on Page 5)

For

Reservations.

Price 20 Cents

Tol: 27880

Guardsmen Unload Ships Truman

Guardsmen from Chelsea Barracks went to London docks to help unload strike-bound ships. They were assisted by naval men from Chatham. Photo shows the Guards helping to clear the cargoes at Royal Victoria Docks.

Master Of Inchmark Suspended By Court

Silent

On Atom Parley

Washington. July 21- President Truman flatly refused

today

to say whe- ther the United States was considering an atom-bomb- sharing programme with Britain and Canada. Ho told questionera at a news › conference that no deep, dark secrets were involved in the secret atomic confer- ence which he called at Blair House Inst Thursday night.

He said there was nothing alarming about the secret alomie' conferences which have been held since the Blair House meeting, but when asked whether he had any intention of telling the British how to nuke atomic bombs ho replied with a quick "no comment”.

President Truman sald the truc facts about tho Blair House meeting-which was so secret that photographers were barred from the pavements in even- front-would come out tually. However, ho added that he had no plans per- sonally to release them.

SECOND MEETING

The chairman of the House- Senate. Atomic Energy Commit- teo, Senator Brien McMahon, has officially announced that the Blair, House conferets dis- cussed atomic relations Britain and Canada.

on

with

met

Most of the conferees again

Wednesday. The second meeting was as secret as the first. It took place in the chamber

on -Capitol Hill, and guards were stationed at the door and window blinds insido were drawn,

Capt. Oscar Vernon Richard William Basham, master of the stranded Inchmark, had his Master's Certificate of Com-Atomic Committee's petency suspended for a period of 12 months from today by the Marine Court of Inquiry which this morning delivered its report and findings on the loss of the single-screw vessel which hit the Schilpad Reef in the Arafura Sea on May 29. The Inchmark was on a voyage from Thursday Island to

London. July 21-Lord Am-same residence outside the huge took a rapid, on-the-spot deci- Mr Churchill slated: men, who precipitated a govern- wall which surrounded the arcasion to support President statement was made by Pres-Hongkong. ment crisis by issuing an order were belleved to have been Franklin D. Roosevelt's surprise dent Roosevelt without consul-

dock strikers to return to struck by pleces of shall demand for Germany's un- tation. with my.

10

work or lose their closed shop casin

WIK

EDITORIAL

.of

The Strikes

Behind The

ourselves."

Mr

Across the

COMMUNIST SPEAKERS DRENCHED

other

of the vessel were

as follows:

The President said the atomic discussions were relatively un- important. The persona par- Ucipating in them, however, are not. These.....perrons.constituto the United States' military, severely censured,

diplomtale, atomic and Con- for seriousgressional high command. contributory negligence in caus- ing the stranding.

All other officers of the ves sel are exonerated.

The abandonment of the ves- the instructions of

Such information as has come out of the meetings Indicates that the subject is a complicated one, Involving sharing of atomle information, row materials,

DECISIVE BATTLE SOON IN CHINA

Canton, July 21-A Government spokesman said today that eight Communist armies were on the move in northern Kiangsi in two main arcas cast of Changsha and Hengyang, driving southward and westward from Nanchang and Anfu.

Ho unid that in the northwest Further north, the Nation at least four other Red Armies | alists, who have been practically

was there on

The Court recommended conditional surrender, though the spot. I had very rapidly anil guaranteed wage benents, The first blast

that Capt. Basham be grant was at $.45 he knew that the British to consider whether the state discharged from irls

p.m. At 8.30 p.m. explosions of Cabinet would have advised of our position in the world was

ed, for a year, a Certificate government positions tonight. His big artillery shells punctuated against it.

such as would justify mo in

of Competency ns First resignation ag Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentle-Ing of small

the almost continuous pepper-

not giving support to it.

Mate. arms exploding. The wartime Prime Minister "I did give support to it, but men-at-Aris and Chief Go-Flying smoking fragment

The Court also found that sel was on a debate on it was not the was, replying in

Iden which I vernment Whip in the House of shrapnel could be seen arching foreign affairs in the House of had formed

Joseph Tomaszewski, the Second the Underwriters and therefore atom bombs. themselves and in my Lords

mlad." was requested by the in all directions.

The

lender

Mate of the Inchmark, must be is outside the jurisdiction of atomic explosives produced in Prime Minister.

Commons to criticism by the

Conservative added that he had not the

severely, censured for serious | this Marine Court,

this country,-United Press. Lord Ammon retains his post Fire brigades and other res- Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest alightest doubt that the Cabinet

Sydney, July 21.-Hoses causing the stranding. All other contributory negligence !n as chief of the Dock Labour cuers were forced back by the Bevin, that insistence on "un- would have advised against it. were turned on Communist omfleers Board. It was in this capacity lying shrapnel. The area was that he issued an order to the blocked off half a mile in every conditional surrender" had left "But working in

great speakers who tried to ad-exonerated. alliance and with loyal and dress workers at dockers-United Press,

La shambles | direction.--United Press.

in Germany"no

powerful friends

several

- Mr Nell Garland, Acting ocean, we had to accommodate Adelaide factories, tonight. Director of Marine, Was Pro

The Communists were also aldent of the Court, with A- LABOUR PROTEST pelted with flour and soot Cdr J. B. P. Stirling, and Capts Labour

J. W. Tinson, H. J. Cairns and Members protested "bomba" and booed.

F. N. Booth, Master Mariners, when Mr Churchill said that he Theso incidents coincided

as Members. was by no means Inclined to with reports of growing do- think that great

barm came mands by miners in the New Mr H. Capstick, of Deacons, from that particular, phrase. South Wales coalfields-main appeared on behalf of Capt. Mr Devin sald: "I the coal-producing centro in Aus-Basham and also held a watch phrase had been put to me as o tralia-for mass meetings to ing brief for the owner of the member

Cabinet, of your

whether I decide

the four ship, Messrs Williamson and would never have agreed to it." week-old nation-wide strike ship, the Inchmark Steamship He did not complain but it was should end.

| Co., Ltd., P. & O. Building, Hong- "rather hard for the leaders of Originally, 23,000 miners

kong. the Opposition to criticise me struck work, throwing hun After reading a report on their were continuing their drive isolated at Ichong, on the north when they left me such a alom-dreds of thousands of bles to take on."

workers idle, but some have investigations, the President an against the Nationalist Moslems bank of the Yangtze River about 200 miles straight west of Later In the debate, Mr Chur- since gone back in Western nounced the findings of the Court under General Ma Pu-teng.

A decisive battle, which has lankow, crossed to the south chill again referred to the "un-Austraila and Queensland.

been expected in the Changeha- bank under the pressure of Lin conditional · surrender", añ- nouncement

NO VOTE TAKEN

1. That the pingle screw steel Hengyang aren, appeared to be Piso's 38th, 39th, 41st and 47th and

The said:

armies. phrase unconditional surrender A miners' meeting at Single whose Machnack" of Hongkong developing rapidly. was not brought to me to agree ton, New South Wales, today whose Master wan Oscar Vernon William Richard. Bashan, It was voted for a settlement of their Certificate of Competency. No. General Liu Po-chen's 13th, Ists at Shas! and Klangning also

The spokesman said' that Red

Farther east, other National to in any way before

very claims by arbitration and called 007980, stranded on Schilpad 14th and 15th Armies attack crossed the river. The Reds uttered by that great, ก

august, all-powerful ally, the for mass meetings.

Island in a position 7-05 5 and led across the Kan River, with driving westward against Me Miners at Muswellbrook booed 13263 E at or about 0150 hours the main fighting at present Eu-feng's Moslems President of the American Re

were said public, but I did concur with

but no on May 20, 1949, the cause of cast of Ichun, southeast of by the spokesman to consist of him after he had said it, and I

the stranding being a reported the matter to the

west | Changsha, and nf Yangchi and the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 6th Armies south-westerly set for Cabinet, who accepted the

the Master made no allowance Anfu, which is southwest

which Fenghuangya, west and south of southwest of Melhalen, which is decision."

at 20 miles west of Sian, and at 2. It

that adjudges

the Nanchang,

Fengcheng, 30. miles northwest of Miensien. He said Crack Master, Oscar Vernon William Richard Basham, Certificate The spokesman ald Liu Po Nationalist forces.

.of

were being Competency No. 007980 London, chen's 12th. Army wan driven sent in to try to stem the Red was continuously negligent in from Klan by the Nationalists AdvanceUnited Press.

responsibilities who later in the wake of the for Germany. "America took dolayed by waterside works for the sole navigation of his Communist detouring

GEN. MA HUNG-KWEI one view at one time, then al-decision today to walk off their | ship from Carpentaria Lightment around the area took tito

Vessel possed at 0020 hours on initiative to evacuate the elty," Mu Hung-kwel, powerful gover "The men did this on hearing May 26, until the vessel strand. He claimed that the Red 18th nor of the distant

Canton, July 21-General that two omcials of the Aused on Schilpad Island in the

northwest Watersido Workers' early hours of the morning of Army was checked near Yung province of Ninghsia, arrived in tralian Federation had been gnoled for May 29, 1940. contempt of the Federal Arbitra Ceruncate of Competency

3. The Court suspends his LIN PIAO'S ARMIES Canton by plane today. He was reported en route to the United ton Court-Reuter

The Government spokesman Sintes for, medical treatment. Master, (5.8.) No. 007980 for a said the 42nd and 43rd ed Lived As Woman. period of 12 months from the armies under Bed General Linden. Ma Hung-kwel and his date. of these findings and re- Plog were driving westward cousin, General, Ma Pu-tang. For 26 Years ⠀ commends that he be granted, and southwestward from Nan Governor of the northwest. prov

Certificate for a like period, Helsinki, July 21,—A 45-year.

Fenst

their tough Mr Churchill sold that when old man who llyed. for 20 years of Competency on First Matechang. roaching Shangkho and vince of Teinghai, recently have

southwest of Nanchang, been SEVERE CENSURE DE Morganulidu (American) disguised as a woman to nvold

in the area directly north of Mohammedan troopers into the plan on

dismantling German milltary, service committed The Court also finds that Ichun. Ha, and the Red 45th night drainst Communists on a war industry was put forward, suicide hers today, when he was Joseph Tomaszewak! the Second and 10th numlas were.being.row.fairly large-scale --Associated

"·" (Continued on Page 813 arrested by the police.-Reuter. Mate of the vessel munt: bo grouped near, Nanchang +Press.

THE strikes by which Britain, Australia and Canada are al present beset would appear to be more than a coin. cidence. That these three partners in a stern battle for economic survival should at the same time be affected by labour trouble prompts a search for the forces at work behind the scenes. There is no doubt about the relationship between the strike of Canadian seamen and the "sympathy" stoppage by London dockers. The appeal for support went out from the Communist-inspired Conndian Sea, men's Union when it feared that it was -getting the worst of its'squabble with the, other Canadian maritime union, the

Union. Seafarers' International

The British dockers who responded are members of a Communist-influenced 'body, the National. Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers. The evidence of this stoppage being purely a Communist manoeuvre is strengthened by the refusal of the British Transport and Gêneral Workers' Union to lend either Its `physical or maral support to the Canadian

Seamén's Union' cause. The strike of: 23,000 || Australian miners, which has paralysed the country's Industry,' is also Communist-inspired. It began; with n three-point- demand by 'the' Communist- led Minors' Federations for long-service: leave, a 35-hour week, and a 30 shlilings a week wage riso, in accordanco "with", the usual practice, this claim. was sub- mifted to the coal Industry's tribunal for consideration, and the men actually struck while it was being considered by

the tribunal. Even now, while the strike continues, the dispute is will before the tribunal. The Australian Primo Minister, Mr Chifloy, has described the Miners" Federation's refusal to submit to the usual arbitration as a deliberate threat to the Australian people. His words have a wider application. These three strikes,. coming at this time, are a serious threat to the economy of the whole British 'Commonwealth.. And ́there is, unfor- tunately, more than a suspicion flini that is what they are meant to be. The Communists base their hopes for collapse of the western - democracies on the Marxian theory that there are thres fundamental confilets always present in a capitalistic world: the conflict between labour and the employers, the conflict between capitalist countries themselves in the fight for markets, and the conflict between colonial peoples' and their rulers.( Evidence of any of these condicts in the capitalist countries is always seized on Jubilantly by. Russian propagandists,* and the opportunity to provoke them is never lost. The Moscow hope is that these three conficts will ultimately bo the undoing of the capitalist ayatom. Evidence of trouble in the Colonies has not been lacking since the war; the present sterling, crisis is regarded as a result of the struggle for markets; remolning to be fomented is the struggle between labour and capital. The present wave of strikes fits In well with the Communists' designs.

DISMANTLING

Union leaders when they tried to address a meeting, vote was taken.

At Swansen, miners declared

themselves in favour of, con tinuing the strike, but observers hir Bovin said that he was said that many miners did not completely upset and hindered by the Allies" in the programme cargoes at Brisbane has been his duties and

Meanwhile, the leading of in the diamantiinst programme

volo.

tored it, appointed enquiry com-job, mittees and then put up in en Uroly different proposal"

The dismantling scheme now worked out was fair, and based on security,

Wa

have a responsibility. 10 Belgium,

am, Holland, and. France, all of whom were overrun and I do not think that sloppy, sen- timent about business is the right approach to the problem."

the

AK

fong.

*move-

throwing