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CRIPPS REPORTED SMILING

London, Aug. 10. Smiling and appearing in better health, Ble Stafford Cripps, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Arrived in London today after four weeks' treatment In a elinle at Zurich, Switzer-

Iand,

Sir Stafford was Accom. panied by Lady Cripps. The Chancellor went through a course of treat- ment for a digestive com- plaint in Switzerland,

Asked if he was now fit, he replied: "I shall to feeling fit when i have finished my holiday". Tho Chancellor expected to spend a week' vacation д hla Gloucestershire home before going to the United States

for vitat falks on Britain's dollar problem, Sir Stafford

Bald he would Prime Minister

at tire home.

Latter's

DOW

thin

tonight

country

Chequers-Reuler,

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

VOL. IV NO. 196

150,000 FINNS NOW ON STRIKE

SHARP ULTIMATUM TO

COMMUNIST UNIONS

Helsinki, Aug. 19.-Fifty thousand more Finns walked off their jobs today in response to a Communist call for a general strike. They in- creased the total number of strikers to 150,000.

The Prime Minister, Karl Fagerholm, held an urgent conference with President Juho Paasikivi, reportedly to ask him to summon Parliament to an extraordinary session to cope with the growing strikes.

It was understood the Ten

thowand food

Industry workers struck Jast night.

President's meeting with the Walk-outs also were reported Premier and the inner circle in the water pipes works and of his Cabinet resulted in ajother Industries. Previously decision to hold off further harbour, bulkdag, brewery and

bakery workers had quit. Work; emergency action and await was at a complete standstill in results of the sharply is of Finland's 17 harbours, worded ultimatum by the ther projects also were idle.

Uulted Press.

Gruesome Federation of Trade Unions,

Transvaal Murder

The Federation threatened to expel all Communist-controlled unions if the strikes were not ended by Tucalay.

by

The Communists staged a noisy mass meeting in Ilclsinki to protest against the death of a striker in a clash with the police, The meeting, punctuated shouts of "fang Fagerholm" and "Down with the bloody Cabinel," adopted a resolution demanding the withdrawal of

U.S. CANTON

CONSULATE CLOSES

Canton, Aug. 19.-The

Cape Town, Aug. 19. A troops from Kent and the right US. Consulate-General here South African miner's wife to hold mass meetings in the closed this afternoon, and told a Transvaal court to-troubled pork city.

day how she held a torch while her husband

cut off

the head of a black servant girl which they later put in a bag and threw in a river.

The

such

us look one life

the U.S. Embassy plans to go to Hongkong tomorrow, due to the Communist ad- vance.

TROOPS RUSHED that the Communists called the Government contends

strikes in an attempt to seize The Americon Consulate is the power. The Government rush only one to clase.

Under pre- ed troops

Into The northern sent plans, all four other timberlands The miner, Anthonic Michael

in an attempt

French, to British,

Dutch

and Holzhausen, 43, was sentenced

discourage any further rioting Portuguese-intend to stay for while foreign and is ocupation, to death for murdering the girl. brought injuries to at least 18 Embassies plan to follow the Evidence showed that she was persons yesterday.

Nationalist government, prob- Communist pregnant and that Holtzhausen

Party leaders ably to Chungking. had been intimate with her.

called a huge meeting to protest!

the more important against the striker's death. Ai archives of the Chinese Foreign The murder was said to have battalion of crack troops look Ofice, however, seem to be - taken place on 21 farm

over Komi after a clash between ing to Formosa, Ceneralissino February 20. The decapitated, police and 2,000 strikers, who Chiang Kai-shek's island retreat. mutilated body of the Girl Bought to march on Joyut 100-miles off the coast. Entika Mkonte, 10, was found

lumberjacks trying to break a in the bush.

-log--jam. --The-police-reported. Kemi quiet today. The is under virtual martial law.

on

STANDSTILL

town

TAYU CAPTURE "Acknowledging the-Com- The Crown conlended that

munist capture of Tayu, 170 Holtzhausen has Ars! shot

miles Northeast of Canton, the Enlike in the head; then de-

Nationalist Defence Ministry capitated her with a knife and The union of lumbermen and said the situation on that front mulliated her body by removing floaters, which claims a men- was unchanged. However, those organs which would show bership of 13,000, struck today Tayu's fall leaves virtually open that the girl was pregnant and in support of the Kemi strikers an easy, valley road to Kukong, that her unborn child was of and asked some 40,000 none 70 miles west. — Associated. mixed origin-Associated Press, union lumbermen to join them. ¿Press.

EDITORIAL

Communist Catholics

Communist

fre

the

TUE

Governments of Poland and Czechoslovakia threatening severe punishment to any Catholic

refuses priest who sacraments to members of the Com

Governments' munist Parly. The two are demanding for Communists the right to be "practising Catholics," and the right full membership of the Catholic Church. By all canons of **Marxism" and “Leninism" that la simply not sense. Both Marx and Lenin would have poured angry scorn on the suggestion that one could be at one and tho

same time

to

A

Marxist and a Christian, The two creeds are, both from the Marxist and from the Christian point of view; Incompatible and irreconchable. If you believe in the Christian revelation, then dialectic materialism fa blasphemy. If you believe in dialectic materialism, the "Christian revelation” is childish nonsense. Marx, Lenin and their followers `were' sincere and consistent in their beliefs. To them the conception of a personal · God”, was,

"the gross superstition. Religion was oplate of the people”—an Instrument of the ruling class to keep the workers in passive subjection. For them

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Com-

n

munist must by definition be an atheist, He could not be a Christian or a Moslem or a theist of any kind. That was-and. Indeed, it must be to any convinced Marxist--axiomatic. The idea that member of the Communist Party should be, or wish to be, a Christian-should want to partake-of-Christian sacraments -

would be unthinkable. Such a desire would not be a mere: "doviation."' It would imply a denial of the essential basis of the Communist creed; A Communist regime, might tolerato Christianity, among its subjects in lis desire to impress that it respects freedom

of

the conscience. Indeed,

Sovlet Government has done so, within limits. But that is on entirely different matter from tolerating Christianity among mem bers of the Communist Party. That has not been allowed, and rightly so, since It is absurd-as absurd as for a vegetarlan soclely to allow its members to eat meat. But now the whole situation has changed. Communist parties are not merely allowing their members to be Catholics, but are Insisting peremptorily on their right to be Catholics and to receive the Christian sacraments. It is as though the Church had demanded for the early Christians the right to sacrifice to pagan. Idols and to the statues of the Roman emperors". The thesis of the Catholic Church, given the Catholic premise, is rational, and logical. You cannot be n Christian and Marxist. The now Communist thesis, given the Marxist premise, Is Irrational and illogicnl.. It' is one of the strangest and most sig nificant things that has happened in. the development of Communism fr. postwar Eastern Europe. What then is the explanation? The⚫

premises have

changed. The Communist parties of Eastern Europe have thrown over their fundamental bellefs and old ideals, and adopted a Stalinist neo-Communism. A Stalinist need have no Marxist principles, It is better that he should have no principles of his own at all. For the Stalinistparties today are a ̈¬strictly: disciplined machine whose purpose it is to malatain the power and authority of privileged oligarchies—a hierarchy, of "olfgarchies" topped by the autocracy of Stalin himself, That is the deeper significance of the Polish and Czech decrees.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1949,

NEW BATTLE

DRESS

A new combat sult for the British soldier to wear in the field will be tested "Upring the next six months. It is an entirely new de- parture from the present clothing, and consists of a peaked

cap, two-plece garment comprising "smack and trousers (enlteil a.com. bat sult), a stiort greatcoat.

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type of weatherproof cape called a "ponche" and all-leather high boots. The soldier above is wearing the complete outßt minus greatcoal. On the right is the greatcoat over uniform.

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Price 20 Cents

27 KILLED IN YORKSHIRE AIR DISASTER Wreckage Scatterd Over Foggy Moorland

Manchester, Aug. 19.

Tel: 27680

Britain Taken By Surprise

London, Aug. 19-Britain was not informed or con-

aulted in advance about the American decision to permit direct relations between Japan and foreign countries, a Foreign Office spokesman said today.

He said that the whole matter would have to be considered by the Foreign Office.

-Twenty-seven persons were killed by surprise by the Washington

Usually well-informed quar- ters. here believed that the British Government was taken-

announcement, and that oficial quarters in Britain do not favour resumption of direct foreign relations between Japan stage.

today when a British European Airways passenger liner and a civilian plane crashed 18 miles apart in fog-shrouded Yorkshire. BEA announced that 22 of the 32 passengers and crew aboard and foreign countries at this its airliner were killed, but another porson died later, raising the death total to 23.

Abdullah Seeking British Support For Islamic Bloc

Master's Permit.

Cancelled

י,

770 spokesman was asked whether It was within the competence of the United States lo toko a decision about the and their con Stephen, aged five, future of Japanese foreign re- blasted through the window by of the Far Eastern Commission Evans cald: "Stephen wps julions without the agreement to the force of the crogh."

ህይ whole.

The BEA airliner, a twin- engined Dakota, crashed near Oldham. In addition those killed, nine passen-

He said the plane immediate- Ho said that there was a gers were seriously injured.ty burst into fames, Royal Air provision which permitted the To the north, near Baildon, Force rescue squads from Bux- United States as the administer- n Proctor aircraft erashed on a ton ruced to the crash scene and ing power in Japan to issue “In- lest fight. All four persons used "walkie

talkie" mobile terim instructions" in condi- aboard were killed.

radios fur communication in tons of urgency---Reuter,

Both crash sites were In the foggy, treacherous .mour- remote areas, hampering rescue tanda and craggy hills. operations and delaying official

accounts.

worst

Rescue squads at the crash

six

The BEA crash was Britain's scone reported babies and young

air disaster since July children lying in the area. Erl 1948, when an RAF Transporttish European Airways in Lon- Command York aircraft collided don said the plane carried

children, three of them under two years of age. It added thot women, seven, men and three crew members also were uboard.

with

→ Swedish plane over London's Northolt airport with the loss of 30 Aves,

BURST INTO FLAMES

f

16

HUMAN CHAIN

POUND NOT

TO BE DEVALUED

Washington, Aug. 19.--- British officials here today

The BEA plane was en route from Belfart in Northern Ireland to Manchester. Among the first survivors carried by stretcher) Rescue workers said wreck-fintly denied a report in the across three miles of bogland to age was scattered over three Now York Journal of Com- Oldham were the Evans family acres on the lonely, boulder-merce that Britain may be Horace, 34, his wife Ruth, 36, strewn hillside. Workers from forced to devalue the Pound a paper mill three-quarters of

before the

FLYING

HOUSEWIFE

RETURNS HOME

a mile from the scens formed Sterling even

a human chain to carry the in- Anglo-American Canadian Jured down to the lowlands. dollar shortage talks next

Most of the passengers were I month.

was

to

bo

reported

British The officials said emphatically and Irish. BEA is holding up that the Pound Sterling would the passenger list until the next not bo devalued before, Septem of kin are informed.

ber, and added also that this The Proctor alreraft crashed should not be interpreted ta during a test flight from Yealon meaning that there was any Field in Yorkshire. A Brazilian intention to devalua It after

reported to have been that date. piloting the plane,

The United States, Secretory As the BEA Dakota Bew from of the Treasury, Mr John Sny- Prestwick, Scotland, Aug. Belfast to Manchester, it lost der, will preside over the 19. Britain's

radio contact "Flying down" through dense clouds. financial

while "letting Anglo Canadian American Housewife," Mrs Richards visibility at the time was de open here on September 6.

talks which are to Morrow-Tait, came back to scribed as "poor," with a heavy ÁB official statement sald day to her husband, Roe, and drizzle dropping from the dense that the purpose of the talke their three-year-old daughter clouds which completely blan was "to discuss the balance of

the area. keted

payments dificulties between Ambulances and fire after a 200-hour round-the-

ap- the dollar and sterling areas world flight which took her

towns rushed to the scene taken to right the existing dis- year and a day. She landed here with her United Press,

equilibrium."---Reuter, navigator, 25-year-old Michael after Townsend,

her light her into which took

cabaret and radio as well as on a lec- iture tour.

of

London, Aug. 19.—British officials believed today that the question of an Islamic bloc would figure prominently in the conferences here between British exports and King Abdullah of Transjordan, now on a visit to England.

Abdullah is expected to of the Middle East and ex- seek British support for tend as far as Turkey and such a group, which would Pakistan...

Her husband, who had stay- include the Arab countries: The subject, probably will be

jed with discussed

the

at home with baby, and who Foreign defended her against charges by Secretary, Mr Ernest Bevin. While strongly favouring closer Press and Individual critics

"desertion," left their, Cam- co-operation of Arab countries in the Michile East, Mr Bevin bridge home to meet her al understood to be doubtful as to Croydon Airport, near London.

He was armed with a bouquet the practicability of the пету

of flowers. He had telephoned plan for Islamic grouping. Capt. Albert

his wife carller. Anderson

The

view prevailing

In Warlid, inaster of the motor Government circles is still that vessel Tal Fung which sank eff closer co-operation in the Mid- Cheung Chau on August 3, had die East, particularly in the his Special Permit to sail as economie field, and systematic master of a British ship can development of the territories in celled by the Marine Court of question is the best guarantee mechanical trouble and short- Inquiry today.

Court for growing welfare and age of found Warlld Wha

grossly ultimate pacification of the Thursday

damaged region. negligent in his duties.

A warning from Sir Harold point, developed engine trouble McMichael, former High Com-nt Cyprus, was laid up at missioner of Palestine, that the Calcutta and finally had to bo Middle East nations should abandoned after a forced lands close ing on the Alaska Highway on federate in being given. attention..

November 22, 1048.

For five months she sang,

The

MacDonald Going To Tokyo

Tokyo, Aug. 19-Mr Malcolm MacDonald, British Commis-

DOMESTIC PROBLEMS Domestle problems of Trans-

MUCH BAD LUCK

Mrv Morrow - Tait's flight Was dogged by. accidents,

money

on lan

Her plano

al one

lectured, broadcast and did odd Jobs

Canada and the United

Ln

sioner-General in Southeast Jordan will rank high on the States to earn money for a new Asia, will visit Japan for talks of topics which King Abdullah aircraft with General MacArthur, will discuss with Mr Bevin and!"

Finally. sho defled the Allied Commander there, and other British representatives Canadian Government's warning other senior

officials during his three-week stay in that her new aircraft was un- Allied carly next month, it was learn-England. ed here today.

British support for formal in-safe and started the trip across Mr MacDonald is expected to corporation of the Arab part of the Atlantic on August 12. arrive here by aly on Septem- Palestine, now oceupled by the

TO SETTLE DOWN ber 3 for about - n’week's visit. | Arab Legion, will be sought" in

Reuter

Ku Klux Klan Chief Dead

Prot

the talks and, according to Bri- Mrs Morrow-Tait later landed tish-sources, Mr Bevin in at Croydon and was met by her generally, disposed. to support husband and [ three-year-old chiargement of Jordan.-United daughter, Anno.

The couple exchanged kisses ....... SYRIA RECOGNISED. for. the first time for a year and

Damascus, Aug. 19—The a day. Atlanta, Georgia, Aug. 19,— Dr Samuel Giron, Iraperial Hashemite kingdom of the The "Flying Housewife" snid Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, Jordan today amelally recor- that she won golig to settle dropped dead tonight, his son nied the new Byrian Govern-down, and would later write a atated hero-Reuter:

ment,--Reuter,

| book,--Reuter.

paratus. from all surrounding and measures which could bo

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