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PEERS GO

DO THE

The

TODAY'S WEATHER: Light or moderate variable winds. Fine and havy,

Noon Observations: ́ Barometrio pressure, 1003,6 mba., 29.03 in. Temperature, 87.8 deg. F. Dew point, 77 deg. F. Relativo - humidity, 71s. Wind direction, ESE Wind force, 1 knot

Low water: 2 in. at 5.35 p.m. High water: 8 ft. 3. In at 10.45 m. (Wednesday).

Dine

At the

Hongkong Telegraph P.G.

VOL. IV NO. 174

HOME TO DISHES

London, July 25-Some British Feers go home early from Parliamentary debates to help their wives with the dishes, the #louse of Lords was told today.

Seventy-eight-year-old Lord Petklek Lawrener, former Labour, Becretary of State for India, said: "I have heard it safd in jest that Your Lærdaliips go home earlier than they would otherwise because Peers have to help their wives will

their

washing up.

"From Inquiries I havo made among my fellow Peern, there is a good deal of truth In that.

While we do not select our duties, we, in common with large proportions of men throughout the country find that we cannot expect our women folk to oster for all our needs and that they require come help from us, That is true, I believe, of all classes of the community,“

He was speaking about married, women al work, in a debate on Britain's economie position.--Reuter.

French Minister's Action Provokes Political Crisis

Paris, July 25.—An extraordinary meeting of the French Cabinet for tomorrow morning was call

ed at short notice today by the Prime Minister, M.' Queuille, The Cabinet will consider the critical poli- tical situation which the Socialist Minister of Labour, M. Daniel Mayer, has procipitated by approving substantial pay increases for employees of the Na- tional Social Security Administration without consult ing his Cabinet colleagues.

Elephant Migration

Johannesburg, July

Over

Ja

25.-

have

The wage increases take the form of holiday bonuses equal to a week's wages and other advantages.

The right wing Parliamentary group--the Party of Republican Liberty has already voted for

elephants 3,000

withdrawing its Cabinet repre- migrated in a mass the sentatives

throughout the Employers constal area of Kenya, after

driven

thut M. Mayer's boing

from their usual country fear haunts by a drought, which is precedent will set off irresist- described in some areas as the, b

ible demands for wage

in all the Protests are creases,

of Southern more lively as the employees

100 years. tracis

TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1949.

Opposition Truman's

To Arms

Aid Programme

STRONG OBJECTIONS BY VANDENBERG AND TAFT

Washington, July 25.-The Senate's two most influential Republican leaders today opposed President Truman's arms aid programme as being too wide in scope and giving the President too much power.

Senators Arthur Vandenberg and Robert Taft after Mr Truman had sent the $1,450,000,000 proposal to Con- both announced their opposition to the plan only a few hours

gress.

Senator Vandenberg's op- ment, I think study should be position is considered

cs-Civen

CHANGE OFpecially significant since he

EGYPTIAN CABINET

Africa, from Capetown to the Elgentic National Social ment.

measure

to an Interim whilo the major plans awalt reports to the next Congress supported the

Atlantic under Article 9 of the pact." treaty. Senator Taft voted} against that pact.

Senator Taft said: "The pro- gramme presented by the Pre- sident and the bill to carry it The two Senators said the out demands that Congress programme constituted "another substantially lend-lease programme." They functions relating to forelga said the Chief Executive would policy

any

真

lic

abdicato

and authorise tho

alliances throughout

FOUR POINTS

also

cited these fou

points of criticism:

"government within a nation" the world and involve is in

said they doubled that any and all wars, civil or ex- President ha

直接 everternal, going on anywhere demanded such tremendous the world." powers in war or peace.

Senator

Re- Vandenberg, publican foreign policy leader In the Senate, said it was his first Impression that the entire programme "must be rewritten and curtailed to get nelion at this passion of Congress." He said he announced earlier that he favoured nid on a small scule and until the North fair

Atlantic Treaty nations had set up a system of defence under pact.

Alexandria, July 25. be given arbitrary discretion to State and Defence Department Premier Ibrahim Abdel give arms nid to any nation or to make Hadi Pasha resigned today,

They and King Farouk imme diately ordered the former Premier, Hussein Sirry Pasha, a non-Party man, to worst in

form a coalition govern- Great

of

Kenys, are

affected. Famine Security

said Hussein Sirry Administration are

pald than clvit Pasha would include the oppo- among the natives in some East already better and Contral territories is being servants doing comparable work. Bilian Waldist Farly in his new

Government averted

M. Mayer defended his de-government, which would em- only by action in rushing in foodstuffs. cision in a statement in the Na-brace all major political parties. The Wardists had demanded a Shipping has ceased on some tional Assembly in which stretches of the mighty Congo said that it was the policy of new government to ensure a

ses national election in October, River, whose waters have the Government that bonuses shrunk for below

their usual should be given where no price but it was not believed until to level, setting a transport prob- Increases would follow.

day that the Wafdists would be willing to collaborate with other parties.

Administration.

lowers-Reuter.

Hot Spell In Holland

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do not show

too much

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HOMES WRECKED BY PLANE

This scene of destruc- tion in Seattle was caused. by a C-16 plane that- crashed with 32 persons aboard, and then ex- ploded. The centre house was demolished; "four others damaged. The plane's route was toward the camera. It hit power lines atop poles in the background after taking off with # faltering engine. Six persons were killed, and 36 Injured. (AP Picture).

Charged With

Teaching

Communism

Chinese Reds

Take Chuchow

Canton, July 26. The Chinese Communists have captured Chuchow, a railway junction town south of Changsha. This information was received here by phone this morning from usually reliable Chinese merchants in Changsha,

The occupation of Chu-) chow has not been admitted officially.

Russian

The new commander of Atom Bomb

Changsha, General Chan Ming-yen, is defending the city.

Flerce fighting is taking place

The

1. Arms ald could be given

to the east of the city. any nation or "government

sound within a nation" selected at the

of heavy gunfire was arbitrary

Manila, July 26.-Mrs audible all night. Houses in discretion" of the President, whether It was

Louise Fernandez, samo districts were shaken. In Marie' Asia, Africa or the Professor of French at the

It is believed this action is ericns.

Far Eastern University, has taking place in the country be- 2. The President would bo

charged by members yond the Hunan Bible Institute. given power, without further been

Communists' The

objective appropriation, give away of her class with teaching appears to be the Changha "uny property of any Govern- Communism, and the Uni-airfield, which runs parallel ment department except atomic versity has appointed three with the railway about half a

and merchant ships."

bombs

me

for

to

AUTIS

ald

and

and

Armed troops are making re- gular patrols through the streets of the city. where Inw and order are being well maintained.

HEAVY FIGHTING

lem for the Belgian Congo Independent Parliamentary

FIRST BREAK his decision groups felt that Contrastingly, in the southern would encourage workers resignation to the King did not Abdel Hadi Pasha's letter of

Even-Administration-leaders Senator Tafi said the program- members of the faculty to mile from the station.

The tall spiked wooden gates. areas of Southern Africa- nor- throughout the country to insist give his reasons for resigning thusiasm. The chairman of the 000 in addition to the suggested the charge. was given 72 hours have been manned.

contemplated equipment conduct an investigation.

of Changsha city have been en transfers of at least $1,000,000,- mally a dry semi-desert-the on

Mrs Fernandez, who denied closed. All the city's pillboxes holiday bonuses. Some mem- best rains have fallen since bers of these groups were said and stating that his govern-Senate Foreign Relations Com- $1,450,000,000 appropriation. 1934. The desert is bright with to be preparing to ask their re ramme of ending terrorism in Congress would

ment had templeted its pro-mittee said he felt confident

within which to file an answer 3. The President could ac- to the students' complaint. presentatives to resign from the the nation Cabinet.

and carrying out type of military assistance bill cept foreign materials in part She told reporters she was no certain reforms, Their decision to

this year, but he declined to payment

Communist,

the charge postpone It is believed here Britain is specify If the President's recom-import them into this country against her was "false this notion was taken al a meet-prepared to use

and ing of the right wing groups this corner stone of the new Middle

Eypt as the inendations would be fully met. free of all duties"

malicious." afternoon. The Democratic and East policy.

4. The programme Involved arbitrary than Senator Vandenberg's oppost-powers "more 25.-- Socialist Resistance Union. Hussein Sirry Pasha, who is tion marked the first time that those of the World War 11 to over which has two Ministers in the 57, hended n neutral cabinet

a bipartisan 80 degrees Fahrenhell all over Cabinet, deelded Likewise but during the war.

foreign policy lend-lease act-United Press. Holland today. in the hottest passed a resolution

An engineer, leader hud broken with the Ad- describing he is Egypt's foremost experi ministration on foreign

STATE DEPT. EXPLAINS affairs spell of the summer. Higher M. Mayer's action as "threaten- on Nile River flood control. He temperatures are

Issue since he came out for a Washington, July 25. The forecast for ing the financial equilibrium." has tomorrow-Reuter.

never dabbled in Party strong United States stand In State Department explained to politics.United Press.

world affales in 1045. He said day how President Truman's the President's "statement of arms ald proposal will apply to policy puts too much emphasis certain countries of the

For upon arms."

Eust, Middle East and Latin America.

Thie

Hague,

July

Therinometers soared

EDITORIAL

Reuter,

Troubles In Red China.

ONCE again the Chinese Communists

in

Nanking have admitted armed opposition from the peasantry in areas under their control. The first Indlention of trouble in the country districts came In the form of a message issued by the official New China News Agency and brondenst by the Communist. Radio at the end of June, stating that peasant uprisings had occurred in Honan Province and in certain areas south of the Yangise River. It did not specify these latter oreas, but Shanghai sources disclosed that the Communist Authorities · In

Klangsu Province, in which, Shanghai is located, and in Anhwei Province had been having difficulties with a part of the rural population. The Communists pinced the blame for these uprisings, on the Nationalists who, it was anid, had sent

special agents into these arena to

·organixo intrigues and “bandit” activities. Now, nearly a month later, the Com- munista admit similar outbreaks In Manchuria. The Intest reports seem to suggest that the trouble in the North- castern Provinces has been more serious than that experienced in Central Chinn, for mention is made of guerilla warfare, blowing up of bridges and rallway lines. and sabotaging of industrial under- takings. Once again thèse activities aro attributed to "bandits". and Nationalist agents. The statement, almost in the same breath, that these uprisings are not politični, and also that they are

Nationalist-inspired is somewhat hard to reconciliate. Such action obviously entails great Immedinte danger or hazards punitive reprisals, and the peasantry are hardly likely to run these risks unless either they are genuinely in opposition

to the Reds or have been recruited to work for the Nationalists for pay. The suggestion is made in some quarters that the rebels are peasants strongly resisting heavy taxes imposed by the Communists. However one reads the reports, the impression remains that thero is agrarian discontent in Communist-held areas,

and that this discontent Is not limited to one or two small areas but existe on a wider scale. Whatever the basic cause, the problem bėcomes a'political' one for the Com. munists. Detalls are lacking to permit of any true appreciation of the situation. Dissident elements aro 'to be found in every country, no matter what regime is in power. Sufficient to note at this stage that such opposition has been reported, and is not only denied but admitted by the 'Communist authorities. Rend together with reports of diMculties experienced by the Communists in their efforts to administer the industrial regions that have, fallen into their hands, the news becomes integrated into a pattern-hazy yet. but which may become clearer as

Information seeps more

through the "bamboo curtain.”

...

Is

"Since some sort

of action before adjourn necessary

LONDON DOCKS NORMAL

London, July 25.-Work was normal in the London docks

today.

Mr

Ler:

It had been alleged that she used French publications about Communism in her classes.

Mrs Fernandez is a French woman married to a Filipinu. She has been teaching at the University for 10 years,-United Press.

Bus Runs Into Power Mast

on

moun-

The

Communists have artillery division In action,

Containing probably Lain guns and mortars.

Heavy

fighting is also re- Immediately enst of Ported Hengyang, south of Changsha,

Troops from Pingklang have taken Paihsui, on the railway 32 miles north of Chengsha.

Unconfirmed Chinese reports stated that, the Communists

Report

*Paris, July 25.--The weekly magazine, Samedi Soir, said in a copyright article today that Russia exploded Its first successful atomic bomb on July 10.

It added that this was the real reason for President Truman's Blair House conference with.........__top__American atomic authorities."

The Samedi Soir sald the explosion took place in Siberia near longitude 46 East and latitude 53 North-United Press.

TYPHOON IN SHANGHAI

MOST STREETS UNDER WATER

Tokyo, July 26. The

It said that $300,000,000 out Ports, July 25.-Forty people which struck southward from of an overall $1,430,000,000 were injured, two seriously, the Yangise River have taken Navy authorities: reported would be applied to Greece, when a bus carrying 50 passen-Changteh, an important Hunan Turkey, Korea, the Philippines gers ran into an electric power city northwest of Changsha, today and Iran. In addition, Latin mast near Clion-sur-Mer, West This is not confirmed offelally. { "Gloria,”

per-ern France-Reuter.

American countries are mitted to purchase arms with their own money, but receive no outright grants as do the North Atlantic Pact nations and the five other mentioned above.

--Reuter.

DEPUTIES AGAIN

DEADLOCKED

that Typhoon which ripped across Okinawa" killing one child and causing still un-, determined damage, t'has

"immobilised".Shanghai.

The report sald most of," Shanghai'e streets are under two to four feet of water,

There were two to four inches of water on the floor of the U.S. Consulate on the Bund, the report sald. Peking Road

London, July 25-The Big Four Foreign Minis was under three feet of ters' deputies drafting an Austrian peace treaty to- and at least one foot of water. day reached deadlock on 2 new Soviet proposal probably blown up from the

Whangpoo about the care of Allied war graves and memoriale. heavy River And from rains--was swirling along

Water and wind caused tensive but not serious damage

·

the

to the US. Consulate. That

office closed its doors unt££*

war

mal.

the

It said that arms and equip- 'ment that will be supplied The Minister of Transport, special nations will come from

told the the Alfred Barnes,

existing stocks and will House of Commons today that amount in value

to about 25 Docks Emergency. Committee percent of the $300,000,000 |hind.' dono "a" very fine job" Yund.

The remaining 75

per- during the strike which ended

cent

will be supplied with new last week. ".

The question of lis continued procurement.

Irt. existence had yet to be decided, entitled "Aid to Other Coun- an overall statement he said.

The Commons, will debate trien," meaning those outside The Soviet delegate, Mr ples had not been followed of the Bund the docks

dispute tomorrow the Atlantic Fact, the Deport- afternoon, at the request of the ment sold partially. Although George Zarubin, asked for World Watained peace treatie Conservative Opposition-Reu- the programme gives primary the proposal to be written Mr Zarubin said that

to the needs of into the treaty as an article. Nazis in Austria had attempted facilities were restored to nor- emphasis European Atlantic Pact coun-This would state that Aus- to tries

destroy Soviet it

does not do so to the tria must respect, preserve memorialain particular exclusion of urgent needs in other areas which are important and maintain the graves of Viennn--and the Austrian Go- service,

memorial .In

The storm disrupted electric Borrowed Sloop

emergency to world stability. United Allied and United Nations vernment had not taken steps Generator Was pressed For Cruise

nationals and the memorials to prosecute them.

service. 'I' `FRANCE'S · CALL

The report also said water {andi emblems" of the armies. Stockholm, July 25.Two Paris, July 25.-The Foreign

During a long discussion of had backed up in the sewers of which is still being Shanghal, accused of borrowing a warship today called for American Germany.

Air Zarubin submitted com from Sweden's naval base of military aid to France imme Mr. Samuel, *Reber (United promise proposnis that Austria; Associated Press. Karlskrona. The authorities diately after she ratified the States) recalled that the Soviet should deny relief refugees sald that the men spent the North Atlantic Pact.

delegation had opposed: a refusing to return to their na- COMMANDOS week-end in the motor sloop M. Schuman made his ples similar. United States propomitive countries or if they had Sargitta, cruising around Karl- as the National Assembly to for the Italian peace treaty. fought or collaborated with the

HERE akrona Archipelago while

then enemy. sumed debate on rotlleation at The Soviet delegate had squadron of other warships and almost the same time that Pre-persuaded the Western dela-

Press.

main Soviet

but an

Into

coldiers were arrested today and Minister, M. Robert Schuman, that fought against Nazi displaced persons and refugees.whipped by rain and wind.

them.

<

Sir Victor Mallet (Britain) The troopship Empire Wind-: n minesweeper searched for sident Truman sent to Congress gates, to leave such ́ arrange-sald that Britain would not rush arrived in Hongkong" this his bill for $1,450,000,000 mill-ments for bilateral agreement agree to foren the repatriatlon | morning and barthed at the When they

returned-sun-tary ald for Europe. Unlied between the countries concern-of refugees and displaced per Kowloon Wharves." |burnt-early today, they said: Press,

ed, he said.ELL,

sons. but the Western deputies She brought the 3rd Marine' "We have had a glorious sail," (President Truman's arms ald M.Marcel Berthelot (France) promised that they would study. Commandos and "miscellaneous Reuter.

speech in detall on Fare 5) Įsald that he regretted the exam- the new proposala-Reuter. “ other units.

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