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VOL. IV NO. 172

HK TO BE DEFENDED AT ALL COSTS

(BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT). London, July 22.-There is no official confirmation today of reports that the Hongkong garrison is to be reinforced with 25,000 men.

The Defence Ministry and the War Office told me they had heard nothing about it, and stressed there had been no change in policy since the original statement of the Defence Minister, Mr A. V. Alexander.

However, it is pointed out that neither Mr Alexander nor any member of the Government had ever hinted at the number of reinforcements. They con- fined themselves to statements that the Government was determined to defend Hongkong at all costs against a possible attack.

Any figures stated must be the result of speculation as the actual numbers involved are sceret.

Soldier Presses Paternity Suit

SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1949.

CZECH BISHOPS DENY LETTER

TO CLERGYMEN

Prague, July 22. Authoritative Catholic Church sources here today denied a report that Czechoslovak bishops had issued a new letter to the clergy, setting out the terms for an agreement. with the State and demanding that the Govern- ment should not protect members of the Communist-backed Catholic Action Movement.

tions to the clergy, who

London, July 22,-An ex-soldier, Charles Preston Jones, who has fought right through the British law courts trying to prove he is not the father of a baby born after a 360-day pregnancy, today

the right to a third trial of his case.

all under survelliance, with signor Appeal Court Judges, The problem way, Lord Jus-agents of the Government granted permission for this ice Duckmill said, whether it

was contrary to the law today and, because

ono nature that

child, if conceived

todayTM

and

not receive "en. One authority here said bishop does the report appeared to be a quiries by telephone or person- "provocation" which would ally, especially from Western

correspondents." enable the Government to

YOUNG PRIEST accuse the bishops of issu- From a usually well-informed ing a statement without the source, It was learned required approval from the that Father Ludvik Smrzlik, the Ministry of Education, and young priest who was arrested

while on July

crossing the which, by implying a threat street between a convent against members of the the Papat Nunclature in Prague, Catholic Action, could be was to solitary confinement in

Prague's Bly Pankrac Prison. used for a new attack on

Before he left Prague, the Mon- the Church authorities. Vatican's representative,

A

well-informed signor Gennaro Verolino, pro- usually Church authority said that it tested against the arrest of would be most difficult for the Smrzlik. The care may be re- the Czechoslovak any Instruc- viewed with bishops to issue won

Mon- vere Foreign Ministry when

Verolino's saccessor, Monsignor Paolo

Bertolini. recures the visa that lie requires control of their cons

consistorics.

to come to Prague. The priests were more frce,

Today's issue of the Govern-- also but their nelivities were

Gazette for the Catholle ment Judge dissented, directed not later than August 1945, watched, this informant said.

clergy-the

only

publication that Jones', divorce action could be. bom a normal. .and

ARMED POLICE

recognised by the lay authorl- as valid for the issue of reports of Lies may be brought before the healthy child 300 days later. The Government

orders-published a support being given to Catholte Church House of Lords, Britain's

Lord Justice

Buckmill sald Action chould be heavily dis decree from the Ministry of highest Court of Appen. · that it seemed proper that the counted, he claimed. Very few Finance, cutting down the terms

Joars, who ilveo at husband chould have on

although for payment of travelling ex- had joined, op- priests Hampstead, London, today ap- portunity for further scientific numbers had found their names pentes for clergy giving re- pealed against the dismissal of evidence his diverte petition against his and the scientifle question had permission, he stated.

to support his pleas were being used without their ilgious instructions in schoola wife Bertha, who had denied better be examined In a new

A correspondent who at- his allegation of adultery.

trin-Reuter.

tempted to visit the Archbishop of Prague, Dr Joseph Beran, in the past two days met an arted policeman patrolling outside his Poince.

Giving the majority Judgment in favour of a re-trial today, Lord Justico Bucknil said that the child was alleged to have been conceived between August 1945, and February 1946.

In cross-examination, the husband denied that he

had

ABETZ GETS

20 YEARS

of

Churchmen who visited

ir

the

In the entrance of the pas- sage to the Palace, plainclothes police watched visitors. An en- quiry about the Archbishop was came home or had lived with Parts, July 22-A mlitary rebuffed, and the Government

court today sentenced Oto offelal his wife during that period.

in the consistory office Abetz, Hitler's Ambassador to refused to receive the corres- The wife swore that he was on leave in August 1945, and hard- inbour.

and occupied France, to 20 years'

pondent again for five days in October, oral that the child was con- The sentence, decided on by Archbishop have been admitted ceived during the Jatter

the court, period,

the term de- by an officer who "unlocked Judge Burgess, when the case manded by the prosecution. The door to the Archbishop's apart

of was frut brought before him, members

the military ments, and who locked the door decided

was left in tribunal deliberated about ano that ho

again when the visitors left. and 50 minutes before grave doubt and dismissed the hour

Telephone enquiries to the petition.

The matter came to reaching their decision. Asso-Pulice today were answered by:

the ciated Press. the Appeal Court on July 13.

EDITORIAL

WIB

Policy In Japan

AT Thursday's meeting of the For

од

Home

the Soviet Eastern Commission delegate, Mr Panyushkin, again attacked American policy in Japan. General MacArthur, Mr Panyushkin complained, was pursuing a policy which would not only rob Japanese labour of its freedom, but would ruin the country economically. These attacks are not new. They started in the Allied Council, which meets in Tokye, sprend to the more august For Eastern Commission in Washington, and may now be regarded as nothing more than routine. Thursday's attack, in fact, was net oven answered by the American representative

the Commission, General McCoy, who, together with General MacArthur, issued a complete denial of the Russian charges weeks ago. The denials are undoubtedly justified, but to admit that is not to acknowledge that MacArthur's adminis- tration in Japan is above criticism. In the past Britain and other Common. wealth countries have had ample opportunity to complain that their wishes, were being ignored, their Interests neglected and their part in the dofent of Japan forgotten. The Russians have no such justiflentlon, and their complaints are just another phase in their mischievous campaign of obstructionism and sabotage. The assertion, for instance, that MacArthur's policy is hostile to the Japanese "workers is plainly ridiculous. Thess' workers now. enjoy liberties which before the war they nover dreamed of, and

the Communists have been allowed complete freedom of expression: indeed, the Communist meetings and parades which, periodically take place in the industrial cition of Japan 'have frequently surprised post-war visitors, to the country. A more valid criticism of MacArthur is his curiously naive view that Japan is now democratised. This conviction” can only be founded on wishful thinking by

even

statement:

The

Arch-

MacArthur himself or by his subordi- nales, who no doubt strive to picase by telling their commander what they know he would like to be told, rather than what he should be told. The actions of the present Conservative government, headed by *Mr Yoshida, have not been democratic, and the conspicuously impression given is that Mr Yoshida would like to see power restored to the privileged few who held it, and made such disastrous use of it, before the war. It is this reactionary element in Japan which threatens both to take away the new-found freedom Japanese workers' and to sabotage the occupation's policies. If his vision of a democratic Japan is to materialise, General MacArthur must ensure that this attitude is not allowed to spread. The Russians' second charge, that MacArthur's policy is ruining the country, economically, is even more ridiculous.A recent ECAFE survey showed that last year Japan achieved The greatest comparative progress in production of any county in this region. She is regaining her export markets, and from both Britain and America have come protests that the occupation is fostering her industry to an extent which threatens to give her an unfair advantage in world trade. Unfortunately, Japan's increased population, and her fundamental economic position, demand that if she is to be self-supporting, she must be allowed an even greater indus trial polential than she had before The war. Perhaps MacArthur's biggest task is to ensure that this industrialisation does not get out of hand. Japan cannot be allowed to undersell ́at the expense of her conquerora, and, her industry must never again be used to wage war. It is to be hoped that MincArthur's bellef that Japan is now a democracy will not blind him to the need for safeguards to ensure that these things do not happen."

They are to be paid monthly and on the some basis as civil servants-Reuler.

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT CRITICISED

New York, July 22. Cardinal Spellman, Catholic Archbishop of New York, criticised Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt today for her opposition to Federal funds for separate and private schools.

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Prince Charles, eight months old, plays on the lawn at Windlesham Moor, his parents' summer residence, with his mother, Princess Elizabeth, and his father, the Duke of Edinburgh. This informal picture is from a newsreel-(AP Photo)

Inquiry

Wanted Into

Russian Labour Camps

Geneva, July 22.-Britain will request the United Nations to send a commission to investigate forced labour camps in Russia, "where we believe upwards of ton million people are. employed," Mr Corley Smith, chief British delegate to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, told correspondents hore today.

forced. labour

Mr Smith said that the place of employment; la exile, camps, holding something and in a place of detention.

From this the British state- like 10 percent of Russin's ment drew the conclusion that adult working population," "there is thus were the foulest blot on the with and without loss of free- The Soviet document said history of the twentieth dom in Soviet Russia".

that the penal policy in Russia century. were built with slave inbour," was to prevent harm being in-

--flicted-on--Socialist - reconstruc

tion and to re-educate

to make Do

a

and

tries which pay a reasonable wage and which employ free ving in normal condi- tions," it concluded.-Reuter.

men

China Floods Receding

Tel: 27880

Ring Around Changsha Tightened

aro

Shanghai, July 22.- Large Communist forces ..

today pouring into Hunan, China's rice bowl province, tightening the around Changsha,

noose

provincial capital.

Three Communist columns are sweeping into Hunan from

along a vertical

Klangst

lino

north, cast and south: of

Changsha with

the

Central

column about 45 miles from

the city, which apparently is the

Immediate objective of the new drive,

The Now China News Agency reportedl that the Communists captured Pingking and major Nationalist base 46 miles east of Changsha. One

Lluyang

column 'is rolling wards along the

Kiangal - Hunan

Cheklan

railway,

threatening Changsha from the rent. Another column, which crossed the Yangtso at

Ichang, La

now spreading out in two direc

capturing Changyang and klang, 50 and 75 milles south and southeast of Ichang.

This the flooded areas

force, ating Laite, is menac

of

the

ing Changsha's left dank,

The new Communist drive is believed to be primarily de- signed to decimato Generol Pat Chung-hst's army, which is tho main backbone of the remain ing Nationalist strength. It is also timed, seemingly, to reap the rich autumn rico harvest which is essential to the econo mic recovery

of Red Ching- United Prea

MAY BE ISOLATED Canton, July 22-Tho pres- sure mounted today in the struggle for the rice bowl pro- vince

of Hunan, which may settle the fate of South China.

Late private reports from the front intimated the Com- munisis might already havo Isolated the provincial capital of Changsha,

These reporta gave ho detalla but snid conditions Wero "chaotic" in Chuchow, 30 miles south of Changsha, Cutting the.

Chuchow rallway at

would isolate Changsha from National ist reinforcements in the south. Omelal reports also said thera was flerce fighting near Chaling, 60 miles east of the railway to Canton and about 100 miles "This is the way the Pyramids

southeast of Changsha.

Objective of the Reds Chaling. he stated. "The carrying out |

drive is Hengyang. At that In a letter to Mrs Roosevelt. schemes in the Soviet Union is useful work.

of Impressive development adapt the condemned to socially San Francisco, July 22 line continuing south

city, the railway branches, one to this he said: "Your record of anti- Catholicism atlands for all too like the bullding of the

An improvement in China's provisional capital and another OFFENCES Great emphasis

flood position was reported leading southwest into the rich was laid in self wrote on see-a record which you your-cc."

the pages of

Code on the fact by the Communist-control- southern province of Kwangsi.

Elsewhere Mr Smith was speaking soon the Soviet

on the spreading history which cannot be recalled

"the corrective labour led Peiping Radio tonight.

civil

war front, the Nationalists ---documents of discrimination after the British delegation had that

polley of the proletarian state It ald that the water level.reported some successes, unworthy of ún American Issued two documents--one

may not be accompanied by the of the Yangtze and Kan Rivers

A They said Red translation of the Russian Penal infliction of physical suffering had fallen, as noted in several Southward had been checked mother."

thrust with dealing Cardinal's attack was Code The

of the lowering human ports Including Hankow and near Taihe, which is 160 miles. based on an article written by labour, and the other

giving or the

dignlly"

Nanking, and at Nanchang, in east of the railway and 230 Mrs Roosevelt in her newspaper British comments on it.

The Soviet Code gave no Klangs! Province, where the miles north of Canton-Asso- column "My Day." Mrs Rooso- PHOTOSTAT COPY

detalls of the nature of the Kan River flows.

elated Press. velt's secretary sald today that A British statement followed offences for which a Russian the Cardinal's letter had not the document, seeking to prove citizen might be sentenced to draining work on flooded land

been received yet been

and there from the Code that the penal corrective labour.

SUMMER SNOW would be no comment on it un-policy was nothing but a system

The British statement, how-in. North, East and Central China, adding that in Cheklang til its arrival.

of forced labour,

ever, quoted from a Supreme Province peasants were already Munich, July 22-Heavy Cardinal Spellman, who made The photostat extract from Soviet decree of 1940 defining replanting once inundated Lelds snowfalls have been reported the letter public, said that he

and sold absenteeism, the Russlan Penal Code Issued

that with autumn crops.

from the Bavorlan... · Alps in a had written it after receiving here today contained a para- forced labour at the worker's In North Kiangsu Province sudden cold

from

wave during the hundreda persons of all folths" demanding graph warning that as fur as normal place of employment thousands of peasants are worke past few days.

was known it had not been off was the usual punishment for ing day and night to achlove Snow on the Zugspitzó--Ger- ' that he answer Mrs Roosevelt,

speedy draining of over 80,000 many's highest mountain-was The letter sald: "I became clally published in English and, absenteeism,

The Soviet statement laid acres of flooded rice and cotton mong than two foot doop. convinced that It was in the in- therefore, the translation could

down certain punishments for fields, the Radio added-Reuter. Reuter. The Soviet Code lald down "malicious ovasion" of terest of all Americans and the not be considered authorised. cause of justice itself that your three typen of "corrective" rective labour, the most serious mis-statements should be chal- inbour at the workers' normal of which is detention. It gave

leneral ald to education is

one of the biggest, issues now before Congress. In her column Mrs Roosevelt sald: “The cop- troversy brought about by the

forced

cor-

4 list of

of regulations at the "places of

NOT YET A that

request of Cardinal Spelman HEAT WAVE

of detention." The British statement cald

theso

conditions werd "dimcult to distinguish from those obtaining in prisons."

MAN PURPOSE

The British statement said

that Catholic schools should share

nid funds In Federal forces upon the citizens of the The hot weather of thest the main purpose of the

Russian forced labour system country the kind of decision last few days cannot yet be

that the Soviet was to ensure that is going to be dimcult to called a heat wave, accord- Government could undertake "at ing to Mr G. S. P. Heywood, cut rates no regards wages" the Director of the Royal Ob great engineering works and servatory

heavy industry demanded by the Five-Year plans.

muko."-Neuter,

COAL STRIKE

MAY END Mr Heywood told a Telegraph

three

that the 25-day-old Australian degrees above normal for this with the inbour of those coun-

го

03

RED ALIENS DEPORTED

"Thus the Soviet Government reporter this morning that yea- contrives by foros to use cheap Sydney, July 22,-Several terday's mean temperature was

or unpaid inbour, in competition union leaders today predicted about 05 degrees-only coal strike already called off in time of the year.

Highest

temperature come states-would collapse

corded yesterday was 80.0, within two weeks.

They expected the combined about midday. The record fo Mining Unions Council to agree July in 04.0, recorded in 1984,

Landen, July 22--Scotland next week to call mass coalfields'

The

temperature quite fre- Yard offelnis today escorted to degrees at London Airport two of the three meetings at which miners will quently exceeds 90 be able to vote on the issue.

one time or another, in July," aliens with Communist amila- Miners at Collle, Western Mr Heywood cald," "and the tlons whom the Home Secre voted in return to work for next weather we have been. having tary; Mr James Chuler Edo, Monday after. Mr. R. Fagan in the last few days is nothing carlier ordered to be deported.

way." Acting Promier, promised that out of the

John

Malotin

who holds outstanding claims would Offcial forecast for the weak an American passport, was, but be referred to the State, Cont end: No change is likely. There on board: an Air France plane bo Reference Board

ls' no, kign of continued rain, which left for Paris.: Louis Miners at Collle, Western although there may be odd Goldblatt, also holding: ndi Australia, returned earlier this showers. Temperature:- 1's go-American passport, is leaving week 'and, some mines are works jpg to be just as hot for some on another airliner later today, |ing in Queensland-Router. time.

Neuler.

The Radio reported rapid

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