2.
Brink
Coca-Cola
Ice Cold
Anchises
Leaves Shanghai
Shanghai, July 20-The 8,287-ton Britis tiner Anghises, badly damaged last month in two Na- Monalist Alr raids on Shanghai, left here today for Kobe, Japan, to under- *o_repairs.
Sko was towed by the ocean-goingtur, Caroline
Afaller.
The Anchises carried a large consignment of mail, the first suoh load to leave Shanxhal nince the Na- tionalists imposed their Meloeurs" of Communist- held
ports at the end of
June.
11
The Nationalist Govern- ment gave safe conduct to the Carolina Moller, which also brought big mall consignment. the first that Shangpal's foreigners, starved of пеня from bone, have received since the middle of June,
The Anchises was bomb-
ed in the Wiangpoo River. down stream from Shang- lal, on June 21 and June 22.-Neuter.
Quick Action
In Railway Dispute
London, July 29.-The
Government acted swiftly
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SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1949.
SHANGHAI MOB INVADES U.S. CONSULATE
Officials Locked In:
Police Stand
Aloof
Washington, July 29.-More than 100 Chinese seized con- trol of the American Consulate-General offices in Shanghai to- day to enforce back pay demands against the U.S. Navy, the U.S. State Department reported. An official dispatch to the Depart- mont said the Chinese invaded the offices early in the morning, locked the gates in mid-afternoon, fhd prevented the Consulate staff from entering or leaving.
Berlin
Airlift To Stop
Berlin, July 29. The today to avert a threatened Allied airlift, biggest West- strike of railwaymen three ern weapon of the cold war, weeks henco.
will be reduced as from Mon-
Mr clay.
The Minister of Labour, George Isanes, referred the wages elain, of, 05,000 workers on the nationalised network to n Board of Concillation.
By taking this metion he staved off the 21 days' strike notice handed io tim less than 24 hours ago by the 400,000- strong National Union of Rall- waymen,
His decision meant that any strike in the meantime would become illegal.
10 SHILLINGS RAISE
American and British officials announced today that the greatest nir freight operation
in history will be reduced dually, with the lift formally ending on October 31.
Mili-
He has been
The Department was ad- he was present. vised that the police flatly trying to return to the United
Stnice
planc with Am- by refused to intervene and bassador J. Leighton Stuart. that the Communist
the Earlier in
week, the tary Control Commission State
ate Department spoke of the "dimeulties" the Communists Alien Affairs Bureau also failed to take action to were putting in the way of bir
Stuart's departure. restore order.
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The report came from the Consulate-General, Mr John M. Cabot la the Consul-General ut Shanghai, but officials said they did not know whether
QUEUILLE
WINS VOTE
The besiegers were described as former Shanghal employees of the U.S. Navy, which pulled out of that port before the Communists occupied the city late in May. They are de- manding pay for the period since their Jobs ended, plus separation and other bonuses.
MOB LOCK-IN
The State Department was ad- vised that American officials, under authority from Washing- ton, have proposed a settlement Paris, July 25-M, Henri known to be acceptable to more than half the claimants, but Queuille's Government had had been requested by
the a majority of three in a Na- Communist Allen Affairs Bureau tional Assembly vote to- to defer the proposal.
"The Consulate-General hns to negotiate in any way The decision to end the nir night on the "crisis". issue
for refused to fed of vacation bonuses enrgo operation, which
white subjected to duress, more than 2,000,000 West Slate social security em- which appears to be developing Berliners during the Russian
as a pattern ployees.
in Shanghof, blockade of the city, was taken
The official figures were 289 report said. because of favourable stocks in favour of the Government "This pattern, in other cases, of goods now on hand in the and 286 against.
are now.
The Union agreed tonight to traffe take part in the Board of Con-supply the city. cillation.
The Board will consider the Wages and conditions of service of the 95,000 union members em- ployed in railway construction and repair shops and try to pro- mote an early settlement of the dispute by negotiation.
Belgian Memorial To
累
For
Reservationa
Price 20 Cents
British
A general view of the scene at the unvelling at Heriain, in Belgium, of a monument dedicated to the British troops who helped to liberate the country. The was performed by Queen Elizabeth of the Belgians. Field Marshot
Viscount Montgomery was present.
ceremony
COLONIAL OFFICE UNDER
CRITICISM
IN DEBATE
London, July 29.-Mr Leonard Gammans. Conservative Member of Parliament, who recently returned from a visit to Malaya, asserted today that "weakness" by the British Colonial Office was a contributing factor to the Communist troubles in the Colonies, including Malaya. There was likely to be more Communist troubles in the Colonics, he told the House of Commons.
BRADLEY
OUTLINES
ATLANTIC
DEFENCE
hos amounted to a mob 'lock- Washington, July 29. city. Rall, road and water Though the Government Int of foreign representatives The first priority of joint sufficient to majority was the smallest In by employees for purposes of North Atlantic defence is
any vote since the liberation, extortion."
About 20 Chinese and other America's "ability to deliver Queuille expressed But the Western Allies made Premier
non-American former the atomic bomb," General it clear that they will be pre- himself as satisfied in the lob- local
-he-was
was deter-employees-of-the-US-Navy-in Omar Bradley, the United pared to resume the airlift im- bier and said
mined to remain in office. Shanghal occupied the Con- mediately if the need arises.
States Army Chief of Staff, sulato In effect, the vole was
offices
morning, Both nations will
of confidence, though the Pre-seizing the gate keys and pre-declared here today, installations in the
mler had not announced it as thut, the report said.
venting the gates from being such.
zone.
maintain Western
Informed sources said that
It
at Wiesbaden and
one
this
after M.
the As-
LACK OF ACTION By mid-afternoon the num- bers had hen
increared to
the
issue.
The head of the Board is Sir the U.S. plans to maintain in Queuille
taken wat John Forster, u lawyer, who.stallations
hind usked with the four other members, is Rhinemain. A US Air Force embly to postpone the debate
that, on the holiday bonuses Alrendy.considering the claim | oftleist said he assumed for a 10 shillings. n week in even though the lift is ended, which earlier in the week had
to overthrow threntened ercase made by other grades of training flights will
Government. Reuter. rail workers-Reuter.
EDITORIAL
be
Con-
tinued.--Associated Press.
Rubber And Communism.
THE adverse effects on the economy of the Southeast Asin area of the low price being paid for rubber, the chief natural product of the region, and the potential political dangers that might arise as a result of the situation, have The lately been given wide publicity. question is one of real signifiennee. How so may be judged from the reply given by the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonics, Mr David Rees-Williams, during a recent House of Commons debate. He said: "It (the price of rubber) is as low as it can go with safety. If it goes any lower, it will be a great danger in the Far East, and it will be difficult to maintain any security position in that vifal area. I hope those concerned with this' matier will realise what I sny in this respect I mean," Mr. Leonard Ganimanis ngåin referred to this matter in the House,a couple of days ago, and urged 'that the British Government should try to improve the position by discusalon with the United States, the principal, buyer of Southeast Asian raw rubber nå well as a large consumer of synthetic rubber, the use of which, on n'bigger und bigger, scalo has been keeping down the price of raw rub. ber. Now the ... Americans, urë” ac- cused of seeking to force-the-price-still lower. The dangers are apparent to anyone who has been watching the pro-, Kross of events in this part of the world during the past four years. China pro- vides â timely object lesson. It was the collapse of the Chinese, economy, with
on
the
among resulting discontent
the massics, that furthered the spread of Communism In the country. In the countries of Southeast Asia, peoples of many races are dependent, directly or - Indirectly,
rublier. To these millions rubber, in fact, is the means of life. Their contentment con- stitutes a strong bulwark against Com- munist penetration.. At the current price of rubber, only the most efficient estates can make a profit. The position of the smallholders, who supply more than half the rubber, is at best a hand to mauth one. In the present siluntion, the small producer can just buy the, rice necessary for his family from the proceeds of his rubber. If the price goes any lower; he will find it difficult, to do so. Serlous discontent would follow on a mass scale, and the Communists can be depended upon then to seize their opportunity. The Communists have proved a tough problem in the Southeast Asla area since the war, At the moment, the fight for law and drder seems to be winning, and the Conintunists are on the gun. But any breakdown in rubber economy would ngain tip the balance and restore the advantage to the Communists, . * As America is in, the van of the fight against the spread-of-world Communism, It would be in line with her foreign polley for her Administration, to resist any pressure from the synthetic rubber groups. which would have the effect of further lowering the consumption and the price of raw, rubber,
WAS
Mr Gammans was open ing a debate on the Colonies, initiated by the Opposition. "I think it is a fair criticism of-the Socialist Government-to- say that they are apt to regard this Communist troublo 'purely as an act of God," Mr Gammans zaid.
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S. African Chief With White Wife
Inquiry Ordered
London, July 29.-The British authorities have ordered a judicial Inquiry into the appointment of. Serotse Khama, who mar- ried a London typist, as chief of the Bamangwato tribe of Bechuanaland, the Office of Commonwealth Re- lations announced here to- day.
Serete's marriage, who a student at Oxford, to. 24-year- old Butli Williams, caused a tribal crisis.
He was given an overwhelm- ing vote of confidence by his people when they. were asked- to choose between having a wallo queen or losing Seretse [ns_ruler.
But Tsheked! Khama,
me
Regent, and 40 headmen
Ureatened
to go lato, volun- tary exile if Bereta's wito Went to Bechuanaland.
Today's announcement, that Sir Evelyn Baring, High Com- missioner for Basutoland, the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland, has ordered a judi- clal inquiry, followed wide- spread criticism in South Afri- ca of Seretse's appointment. CALLED DISASTROUS
Sir Godfrey Huggins, Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia, called it "disastrous" when asked by the Parliamentary Op of the position to define the Southern
Government's
st-
standardo the social people and securing the post- Rhodesian in responsibility in the work of five co-operation of the people titudo, government itself," he said. Excludes we asked
ACITATION
The South African Govern- ment was reported to have ⠀
that RuthWELIntru should avoid South Africa on The Government was working her way out to join her hus on these lines as well as band. while the South African restricting and Communist
activities
ever possible...
for eliminating Bureau Race Relations
criticized the where-
tribe's decision, Boying that it might lead to n
I am conscious that there "mongrel breed" of chieftains. in our territories a real effort
The Dutch reformed Church by certain Communist agents to Congress in Johannesburg called mako trouble. it and all necessary steps are Britain to withhold recognition We shall combat on time Government to 09k being taken," Mr Creech Jones of Sereise as paramount, chief.
TRIBAL ASSEMBLY
sold.
there must be agitation / malters arising from, the
ᄇ..
The Colonial Ofee had failed to realise that first priority in Colonial administration was the maintenance of low and order.
Mr Gammans thought that a dangerous situation might soon arise in the Colonial Empire be- cau of the price of British
But these troubles were not The Sterling area could very all due to Communists alone. easily fall apart, he asserted. It There were grounds for legiti was no good for Britain'to say
The announcement today sald that Ceylon, for instance, must britation-and-propaganda that Sir Walter Harragin, buy British Britain bought Ceyon tea.
Loods
because by Colonial people and organisa- High Court judge, would pre-
tions for the improvement of side over the Inquiry, their own could foresee Americans giving;
standards and The inquiry would be "into the circumstances attending, and credit direct to Ceylon so that changes they want, General Bradley, who
Ceyon took American goods,
t 15 to testifying before the House of
healthy signation of Serelse Khama as be any
chief of the Bamangwato tribe, and social life in our Representatives' Foreign Affairs GETTING RESTIVE
territories at all," he said.
at a Kgotia (tribal assembly) Committee
$1,-* on America's
Mr Oliver Stanley, former The Colonial Empire was al-
held at Serowe in the Bechuana 100,000,000 military aid pro-
lite restive, Conservative Colontul Secretary, 20 and June 25, 1949,"
land Protectorate between June about 100 inside the building, gramme, said that it was "ay.ready getting
said he took it that Mr Creech he continued, There was a with more outside.
sumed that the United States
disparity
The approval Jones meant agitation by con-Commissioner and the Secretary between
of the growing
High The besiegern locked the would be charged with strategic | British and North American situtional
means and not the for Commonwealth Relations is gates, imprisoning the Ameri-bombing.
prices.
kind of agitation one had often needed before the decision of can staff of 13 people and 35 Chinese employees.
The Colonial Secretary,
seen in the past.: Mr
the tribe to accept 27-year-old Mr Creech Arthur Creech Jones, replying
Jones said he
Seretse and his white bride can to the debate, said that the thought his words made that be implemented. His wife is British Government was aware clear-Router,
now in England-Reuter. thut tho British Communist Party was making a deliberata drive
in British Colonial ler- terten ritories. Much of their pro paganda was also, directed to Colonial students in Britain.
" thinks the Government has Unitert States would
a fairly vigorous line The Consulate report put the maintain the Tactical Air Force taken
activities in of for its own ground and naval ainst subversive responsibility on "the lack
Mr overucas," States our territories ove effective sellon" by the Com-forces and for United
Jones Gale Creech munist Alien Affairs Bureau defence."
aro mindful of the and on "the utter fallure of the
General Bradley said that the gravity of this problem, and the police to afford protection to the Consulate-General or maintain Chiefs of Staff recommendations Colonial Governments and even a semblance or what the were based on the principle that thorities in our territories are civilised world
in meeting as the man in the best position and actively engaged regards minimum standards of discipline with the capability should do this menace," he added. and order."—Associated Press. the job for which he was best
But the menace, Mr Creech suited.
Jones said, would not be met merely by denunciation Communist doctrine. In some British Colonial trritories con- ditions offered
fertile ground for Communist propaganda.
"We can only meet that pro- Paganda effectively by raising
It was also assumed, he said, The new incident closely that the United States Navy and followed the siege of two om-the Western Union naval clots of the American-owned powers would conduct essential newspaper, the Shanghai Even-naval operations and that Bri ing Post and Mercury, by form- tain, France and the closer er employees demanding back countries 'could have the bulk pay and bonuses, The Shanghai of short-range attack, bombard Consulate is without the pro- ment and air defence. tection of
of Marines, the State Department said.
Lost Rothschild Fortune
The
ECONOMY OF EFFECT
ז.
The
essence of the overall atrategy was that there was formidable strength and In obvious economy of effort, re- resources, and manpower when cach nallon was capable of, ita own. defenco na part of t collective strategie plan
The confiscated valuables in- cluded objets d'art and Jowel Jory.-Reuter.
of
ELEPHANT FOR
TOKYO
Frankfurt, July 20-A Ward of one-tenth of its value has been offered for information leading to the discovery of the Rothschild family treasure, which was brought to Germany General Bradley mid that the from Paris during the war, by European Recovery Plan and the Nazis.
the ratification of the Atlantic Pact were the first steps in one Ministry of External
New Delhi, July 20-The Affairs of the most realistic, vital and today
announce; that it was productive strategic plans that had ever been adopted.
"lovely, 'well-be- female elephant "Our
defensive capabilities to the schoolchildren of Tokyo, will be further, improved if the The elephant, about 10 years military assistance programme old, is named, Indira, after the Is put into effect," he satd. doughier of the Prime Minister, "The spectro of another would Mr Jawaharlal Nehru. It wi London, July 20,--Air Chief be master attempting to enslave be shipped to Japan about the Marshal Sir John C. Slessor our Allied peoples has given our third week in August. has been appointed Chief of plan a sonas.of urgency." Air Staff in succession
NEW CHIEF OF AIR STAFF
to
Lord Tedder, who relinquishes In two years a foreign polley the post on January 1, 1950, for this nation. has evolved at his own request, to facilitate which normally would take a the advancement of younger quarter of a century, he added. officer
-Reuter,
-Router.
senginr. Hoved"
Young
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