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VOL. IV NO. 214

BIOLOGY HAS MADE A-BOMB OBSOLETE

St. Cerous, Switzerland, Sept. 9-The atom bomb has been made obsolete by a biological product, seven ounces of which is enough to kill everyone in the world, Dr Brock Chisholm, Canadian Director-General of the World Health Organisation, said here today.

He added: "The atom bomb is obsolete. Relatively speaking, it is child's play compared to biological weapons. A few fanatical distributors could destroy mankind by biological warfare.. Manpower is Irrelevant, and heavy Industry has nothing whatever to do with this form of war."

He was addressing members of the World Union of Peace Organisations, a non-governmental body which Is affiliated to the United Nations, The Union is holding a conference in the communal hall of this peaceful Utile village in the Jura Mountains-Reuter.

Argentina Warns Security Council

Lake Success, Sept. 9.-Argentina today warned the Security Council that she might be forced to withdraw from the Council if it refused

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1949.

AMERICAN

LABOUR

SUPPORTS BRITAIN

Washington, Sept. 9.-America's two most powerful labour groups—the Congress of Industrial Organisations and the American Federation of Labour-came out today in strong support of the British Government's economic policy.

Mr Philip Murray, President of the CIO, said that the outcome of the sterling-dollar talks "may determine in large measure the success or failure of our whole effort to strengthen and extend de mocracy throughout the world."

to vote on an Argentine resolution on the admis-actionary voices" taid the to dollar aras

Sir Stafford emphasised sion of new members to the United Nations.

The Council was debating

12 membership applications

of

Some "partisan and re-shortage was to sell more goods

blame for international

throughout his speech that the enly satisfactory solution monetary difficulties at the door of the British Govern- Britain's dollar shortage. was to the deline

His speech was interpreted by officials present as meaning that there was no question Britain devaluing the Pound Sterling in the near future.

from Finland, Italy, Austria, GRETA GARBO ment because it was a L-import more into

Eire, Jordan, Portugal, Cey- lon, Bulgaria, Hungary, Albania, Rumania and the People's Republic of Mon- golia.

ABANDONS

FILM PLANS

Argentina had put forward seven separate resolutions call- Rome, Sept 02-The film star ing for the Council to approve Greta Garbo is leaving Rome the Best seven of these applica-because the wants

to be left tions. A Soviet resolution alone. She has decided to can- called for the admissions of all eel plans to make her new film, 12 simultaneously.

"The Duchess of Lengeris," in

Dr Jose Arce, the Argentine Italy. delegate, had pressed the Coun.

cil to vote on the applications. She complained through a Several members of the Coun-spokesman today that since her cil spent the morning trying to arrival here about two weeks disaunde Dr Arce from press-ago she had been continuously ing for a vote on the ground {"plagued". by press photo- that it would needlessly in-graphiers and the pubile. crearo the number of Soviet

vetoes.

De Aree held to his view and wald that if the Caunell tried to -evade a vole, "I may have to give up my seat on the Counce and awalt new instrucllons freni my Government.”—Reuter.

Air Crash Near Quebec

1.- The

The

spokesman

made

no

Italian backers, who were to cover about 50 percent of the east of the film, withdrew their support several days ago, Nor

bour Government. Mr Mur- Fay said.

"We believe that the British Labour Government has done and is doing a remarkably good Job under adverse circum. stances," he stated.

The AFL recommended that

arca.

com-world

RAW MATERIALS

Britain,

Recovery

of

Dine

At the

For

P.G.

Reservations

Price 20 Cents

Biggest Box Of Choes For Nurses

Field farshal Viscount Montgomery told nurses at the Royal Eye Hospital, Sur-

bilon, Surrey, that he had searched Europe to find the largest box of chocolates could And to present to them. He was, speaking at a cere- mony when he opened the New NurseH" Hume at the hospital. Here Monty is seen offering a chocolate to nurse Brenda Jenkins,

TIMBER YARD

BLAZE IN LIVERPOOL

One

French Premier Completes Year In

Office

Paris, Sept. 9.-Premier Henri Queuille com.

Tol: 27880

Arms Aid Bill Goes Through Senate

Washington, Sept. 9.-A Special Senate Committee today approved a US$1,014,- 010,000 global arms aid bill with US$75,000,000, ear- marked for, anti-Commualst aid in the Far East.

. " .

The combined Senato Foreign Relations and Armed Service Committees voted on March 19 for the mousure, which, carrica US$1,000,000,000 for rearming North Atlantic Pact nations.

Only minor matters remain to be ironed out before the Com- mittees falte a final vote on the arms bill on Monday, Chairman Senator Tom Connnity (Texas Democrat) of the Foreign Re- Intions Committee, said.

As the bill now stands it also contains US$211,370,000

for

Greece and Turkey, US$17,040,- 000 for Iran, Korea and tho Philippines and US$75,000,000 to be used in the Far East at discretion of President

the

Harry Truman.

The US$1,000,000,000. for At- lantic Fact nations is divided -half in cash and half in nuthority to let contracte ba pald off.

Only US$100,000,000 may be apent before the Atlantie Poct Defence Council is organised and recommends the defence plan.

pleted a year as Premier of France today, and claim-sident Truman all the arms ald

ed the country was better off now than at any time since 1938. Queuillo is the first man since the war to head the French Government for as long as a year.

The agreement gives Pre- for Western Europe that he ro quested. The President asked for US$1,100,990,000.--Associat- ed Press.

Quoting cold, hard facts lar. Republicans, Ove Socialist FIVE BRITONS

ON LEONGBEE

motor ship Leongbee, believed to have been seized by the Na- tionaliste as it tried to run the Shanghai blockade yesterday. bers of the co They had signed on us mem-

They Longbee has no pas- senger accommodation for tho had all British subjects, who

Sir Stafford made a spirited 10 dollars alloted to Marshall Ald defence of the contribution countries to buy such

trade of the Sterling modities as rubber, tin, Jute and Aren as a system and outlined be given to Britain on the the prosperous consequences to understanding that Britain sup-follow if trade flowed more plied the goods.

freely between the dollar and

because he is a very factual and four other smaller Centrist Britain was "not to blame for sterling areas. the dollar crisis," the AFL

man, M. Queuille claimed Party representatives, He said: "The Sterling Area maintained.

the following improvements course, on Besenilal Liverpool, Sept. 9.-

The strongest men of the team 10-point plan publisheds, of

Shanghai, Sept..0.Five Bri- by Mr Matthew Woll, Chair-source of raw material supply Nearly 80 firemen fought over 1918.

are M. Robert Seburman, who latish subjects are on board the of Western for over two hours today to 4,000,000 to 4,500,000 tons.

1. Coal production up from man of the AFL Free Trade for the countries

en route to Washington for the Union Committee, said that Bri-Europe, and the ability, to ob control a blaze which swept

monetary talks, and M. Rules 2. Agricultural investment up tish economic collapse would be tain these supplies, assisted In # catastrophe of limitless some cases by sterling grants through a timber yard near from US$170,000,000 to US$209,- Moch, Minister of Interior,

000,000 has been on the heart of this great trad. 3. External debit in balance of and Queuille, Moch has been magnitude for the entire free from

Under both Premiers Schuman mention of the fact that the com-loving world”—Reuter. essential factor in the successing and shipping city. trade reduced by US$185,000, the centre of anti-Communist

of the European CRIPPS' SPEECH

Programme up to date,

The fire was described as one 1000.

1. The French franc Washington,

was activity, calling out troops with- Sept. 0-Sir "If, as a result of further of the biggest in Liverpool since Stafford Cripps, British Chan-economic crises in Britain or in the war. At one point, & chencaring stability increasing in out the slightest hesitation and obtained exl! permits from the did he say whether the dim, cellor of the Exchequer, ad- her parts of the Sterling Area, migal factory and many offices value from a low of 38 Swiss outnumbering Communist force Communists to leave Shanghal.

francs to 180 French to a high with Military which is to have the British dressing the National Press the Aren were to split up and and homes were threatened.

force whenever Associated Press. of 1.2 Swigs to 100 French. actor, James Mason, es Greta Club in Washington today, said dissolve, the result would be

he deemed it necessary to avoid More than 50 families were M. Queuille carne into office Garbo's leading mun, will now that sterling and other worldar Immediate contraction

|___GISENTENCED. be made.

currencies. could not be made, trade, and a recession to restele vacuated as the fire sprenu on September 10, 1948, when violence or demonstration.

ítobert rapidly through convertible until

new tivo

Schuman, timber M.

has Queuille

survived financial bilateral

TO LIFE world

Foreign established.

was forsalen several political attacks on his trade equilibrium was and trading expedients. This store, with flames leaping over

by the Soc

Stuttgart, Sept. A former would

tho

call closest be the Inevitable con-00 feel.

M. Sir Stafford

15-man government,

coming when Minister of Jus-en-age American soldier was hud sequence of dislocating such a

sentenced to life imprisonment Less than 30 minutes after the Cabinet is the strongest France tice Andre Marie was accused today for killing a German girl nothing to add to previous vast area in which mulilateral alarm had been given by

the adjustment trade is being carried on.

failing to press charges and two men in a wild night

French construction

of drinking and shooting. against mild unassuming phy companies who bulli the Recruit 'Russoll Jones, of Fall sician, M. Queuille moulded to- - Allanila

Atlantic Wall for

Marie River, Massachusetts, who gether a Cabinet of six Popu-

resigned under fire. M joined the Army in 1948 when

him Queuille replaced

with he was 10, narrowly avoided handsome young Robert te tears, as he heard a U.S. mill- Coutt, H resistance herd Lary court spare him from Associated Press,

death--Associated Press,"

Montreal, Sept

Miss Garbo has carried her Canadian Pacific Airlines said well-known desire. for privacy today that one of its DC-3 to new extremes since she planes hod crushed 40 miles arrived in Rome. She has taken from Quebec with 17 passer to wearing 故 low-brimmed gers and four crew aboard, and straw hat which covers nearly that so far as is known nonen her face as well na the tradi- survived.-Associated Press. tional dark lasses.--Reuter.

EDITORIAL

statement of

of exchange rales.

after a

said he

He said that the only solis- factory solution of the dollar

Whither Formosa?

it is more than likely, sometime in the future when they have consolidated their position on the mainland, that they will attempt, either by an Invasion in force or by subtler means, to seize control of the Island. That they will bo no more popular with the Formosans than the Nationalists have been will probably not prevent the island from being overrun. From the point of view of anti- Communists, this will be # trngle surrender, In view of what can be done to prevent such happening. From another point of view, which looks upon the arrangement whereby the Chinese Nationalist Government has been allowed on Formosa as strictly a provisional one, pending formal confirmation-or otherwise ---when a peace tronty is algned with Japan, Formosa's status should not be per- mitted to be compromised by China's 'internal

Those political" squabbles.

of THE island

Formosa 19 THE

fast they regard themselves as the logical becoming of international Impor

Buccessors to the Nationalists As tance. Occupied by the Chinese in the

And sovereign overlords of the island, late seventeenth century, it was in 1895 ceded to Japan under the terms of the treaty of Shimonoseki. For Ofly years it served as an advanced baso for Japanese military expansion, while providing Japan proper with raw materiala and food- Btus. With the end of World War Two, the faland was taken over by the Chinese Nationalist Government, who by Allied agreement at Cairo was permitted to occupy the laland even before a formal cession by Japan, which could not occur until n peace treaty had been signed. It was to Formosa (or Taiwan) that the bulk of the Nationalist. Govern. ment's wealth was removed at the beginning of the

when it was year, apparent that a quick sweep southward by the Chinese Communists was likely.. Chiang Kai-shek selected Formosa as à further refuge where he might plan resistance ngainst hla Communist enemies, and it is from Formosa today that the Nationalist Navy and Air Force are carrying out operations to enforce the blockade of Communist-held porte on the Chiness mainland. The status of the island has been subject to much debate. Misgovernment of the territory by the Chinese eince the end of the war has not only embittered the Formosans- including the large Chinese population who have settled in the Island for generations but also aroused much sympathy abroad for the Formosan Independence movement. The situation now has been further conipllented by the rise to power of the Chinese Communists. Their attitude towards Formosa has been mhdo known In recent pronouncements...

who subscribe'to this view argue that the island should be placed under the negle of an international regime, which, would preserve its neutral status until its final disposal to agreed-upon among tho Powers, There Is ample juridient basis for such a stop. And fi need prejudico neither China's case for control-for. whatever Chinese Government represented at the peace conference will have the opportunity to argue it out-nor that of Indigenous Formaanns who favour complete Independence or autonomy under Chinese suzerainty,

and

of

FURTHER STEP "But if, on the other hand, equilibrium of Irade can be ess tablished between the dollar and

the

watchman, the front of the 60- foot store building crashed into wires and blocking the road. the street, pulling down tram

The only casualties

were

the sterling areas, then obvious several firemen who were tem- ly a very great further step will pomarily overcome by fumes. have been tak

taken towards that Reuter,

world

multi-lateralism and con-

vertibility of currencies after

which we are all striving

"It would not be solved fully Four Murders

and finally until all the main currencies of the world become mutually convertible."

Sir Stafford described how Britain's overseas investmenta had been swallowed up by the

May Signal

war and the Income they once New Unrest

ylelded was "gone forever."

ONLY ONE WAY

He said that there was only

one way in which that loss could be compensated for, "that is by earning a larger income from the sale of our goods abroad."

Sir Stafford ended his

speech with

a statement which was again taken by observers as Indicaling that he was stil opposed to

change in the present pegged dollar value of

"'{ the Pound Sterling at $4.03.

He said: "There is no sweeping readjustment of any single item In the complex that will in-

Queuille's

ahas had since the war.

A

STRONGEST MEN

U.S. Closes

Two More

Consulates

ROW

ML

Washington, Sept. 9.- The United States is to make sweeping reductions in its diplomatic and consular in Com- representation

Saigon, Sept. 9.-Indo-munist-held areas of China, China today feared a new the State Department dis- wave of unrest in her main closed today. cities after a night marked

The American Consulate in by a police station battle Hankow is to be closed and its and four murders-one in entire staff withdrawn, and the Hanoi and three in Saigon. staffs of the American Embassy in Nanking and the American Scente of the bottle was the Consulate in Shanghai will be western suburb of Saigon, reduced by a half. where a group believed to belong

Arrangements are now being to the Vietminh(autonomist worked out for the transfer from movement) opened Are on a China of the staffs affected and police station.

any other, foreigners who want fluence the solution of this

There was a brief but brisk to leave. problem that can bring us sud- exchange of machine-gun bullets.

The number of Americans was den and complete relief from our and grenades before the band not disclosed, but it is believed

[to be larga.

·diflculties.”Ibeuter.

་

NO SOLUTION YET

was driven oft

Another baud

A State Department spokes- surrounded o

|man said that the decisions had Washington, Sept. 9. The house, forced everybody out been taken in view of the at-

onct shot the householder, Atitude of the

British Foreign Secretary, Mr that Emest Bovin, sald today the dollar talks had not yet

Vietnamese.

Chinese Com- munist authorities towards

found a solution to Britain's French authorities was shot in

An orderly employed by the foreign diplomatie representa-

tives. dollar shortage. but ho

Tho British Government, nn. Was the back of the bead, after his agreed to look after confident the solution

United would

hands had been tied behind States Interests, in the be found.

surprise *

Impromptuhlin,

affected, he said.~Reuter... speech after Sir, Stafford Cripps addressed the National

In

had

In

the Chineso- district of

Press Club. Mr Bevin said that Cholen, near Saigon, a Chinese the important thing was for the was shot in front of his house. statement of all three countries; Four suspects were arrested to acknowledge that the prob during the night. lem was thora,

He said that ona. could then get the best brains to work in all the countries to find the [right answer to the problem. They had not found the answer yek--Reuler,

The Hanoi crime was tho as sassination of Dr: Hoang Pham ranformer director of the newspaper Tholsu.. He was distance found shot a short from his home--Router,

arcur

Americans Acquiro Old Indian Paper New York, Sept. An Amarican syndicate has bought the controlling Interest in the 79-year-old Civil and Military oldest English Gazette, the language daily newspaper pub- lished in Lahore ond Karachi, Pakistan Arsdelated Press.

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