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Still No Agreement Over Indonesia

Brussels, Sept. 18.-Mem- bors of the Central Com- mittee of the Indonesian round-table conference who arrived here on Friday from The Hague for week-end talks, held another ves hour meeting today and then returned to The Hague,

The delegates refused to make any pream statement, but it is understood that a communitque will be issued in The Hague to-

morrow.

Today's meeting was presided by M Johannet Van over Merzeveen, the Dutch Minister for Overseas Territories.

M. Willem Drees, the Dutch Prime Minister, who presided over the meetings on Friday and Saturday, hud feft for The Hugue earlier to prepare his speech for the opening of the Dutch Pur- Hameni on Tuesday.

The talks have been taking pince In the Chateau de Namur, a hotel situated in the grounds of Namur's unclent citadel,

the

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19,、 1949.

Cripps Explains Devaluation

from

(Continued from Page 1)

raw!

dollar imported

This has been provided for by materinis might go up in price a Royal proclamation which If dollar prices did not fall. will be published in the London Sir Stafford hinted in his Gozetle. Trustee, saving banks Government's and Post Offer savings will re- speech at anxiety that any

the

small rise in imam open. the cost of living brought about by devaluntion might lead to new claims for blither wages.

APPEAL TO NATION

WORLD-WIDE REACTION

A world-wide devaluation of soft currency tonight followed Helinin's decision lo reshice the Pound Sterling exchange rate from $4.03 to $2.80.

The Numur meeting caine os n surprise. It is believed that the klea to hold the conference there originated when

member of the United Belgian

He appealed to the nation "10 Nations Commission for In-avold anything that increases donesia,

M. Raymond Hor- the com of production", any- The French Government an- romans, invited members of the Bing which Fed in this wouldnounced the suspension of the Central Committee to spend be contrary to the very purpose tree market

roli for which devaluation was bebut further notice. vinye Jn Belgium.-

A communique aid that transfers of Je saying that the step he had currencies would be suspended announced was the most serious and foreign accounts in Frasce the Government could take. Sir | blocked. Stafford added that Britain's

York financial

a

Jew

Reuler.

:

NO AGREEMENT

made.

11

antil

The three principal de- legates to the current Dutch Indonesia talks. Photo shows, from left. Dr J. H. van Royan, re- presenting the Nether lands Government, Dr Mohammed Hatta (with glasses). Premier of the Indonesia Republic, and Sultan Hamid II. bend of the territory of West Borneo and chairman of the delegation from the Federal Territories of in-

donesia,

THIRD CZECH

BISHOP

foreign CONSECRATED

KONNI ZILLIACUS ATTACKED BY MOSCOW PRESS

London, Sept. 18.-Moscow Radio today at-| tacked Mr Konni Zilliacus, independent Member of Parliament, when it. broadcast an article from Pravda, the Communist Party paper, calling him "Tito's advocate in Europe."

PLANES FOR

Pravda said that declara- tions by Mr Zilllacus about visit to Yugoslavia "have been received with in-

E. GERMAN dignation by all the true

POLICE

Demperats in Europe."

tion

In that

POCKET CARTOON

CRET OF LIVING

"Is this another of your elled hints for more housekeeping money?"

London &rpreti Sortion.

Former Nazi Prince Loses

Property

Mir Zilliacus, an extreme left winger, was recently CX- pelled from the British Labour Party, He was received by Mr Berlin, Sept.

18. The M. Vyacheslav Molotov in Mos- Soviet authorities in Ger- cow in 1047 when M. Molotov

was Soviet Foreign Minister. many have approved the "After his return from Yugo-, immediate equipment of the slavin," said the broadcast, Eastern Germany police "Zilliacus described the situn- with 600 aircraft, to be in most favourable way, speaking Prince Josias Za Waldeek, who

country in the Fritzlur, Germany, Sept. 18, creased to 1,200 by next about the high standard of life is serving A 20-year sentence spring, the British-licensed und the excellent economic for concentration

camp cruel- Sozial Demokrat alleged to- situation there and the solidly ties, has been convicted of being day.

of Tito's regime,

the secund a Nazi "offender," "He went so far in his lying worst type of Nazt. The newspaper said that this that he forgot about what people Boog had been announced at a secret

from his followers meeting of the Soviet Zone Ad-who in no way can be described greeted the verdict in a German ministration for Interior Affairs as Communist had to say about Denazification court. in Berlin last Friday.

Yugoslavia." The

de- announcement, K

The broadcast then quoted the clared, was made by the former correspondent of the London, Nazi General Brandt, who has Daily Telegraph on the "Insta- been "designated commander of bility" of the economic situation the Eastern German Polleo Air In Yugoslavia. Force," and his deputy, former Colonel Hartnnek.

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The court confiscated 70 per- cent of the Prince's fortuno and assessed a five-year labour camp sentence as punishment.

Prince

Josias was the only German of royal blood convicted by an American war crimes SOVIET NEEDS PEACE

court, Tried with other leaders "By the spring of 1050, the

of the

Buchenwald notorious Police Air Force is to be reiti- "Mr Zilliacus noticed nothing concentration

camp, he forced by fin anti-aircraft of this. Does he

of charge. understand originally sentenced to life im- corps and several searchlight that to praise Tito is the same prisonment. But ils sentence |inita," Colonel Hortnack un-¦ thing as to defend Franco and

was later reduced to 20 years.— pcunecd.

10 according

the Teildaris?" Praydn osked.

Associated Press. Prague, Sept. 18. A Sovial Demokrat.

The Pravda

avda article was re- Most Sovlet leensed papers printeil from

Cominform circles third new Catholic Bishop today carried an official Soviet organ, "For a lasting peace, for a

the Sept. 18-It was learned at sterling-dollar dificulties de tonight were shocker at the was consecrated here yes-news bureau statement denying People's Democracy.". Chateau de Namur today that mandel "immediate and drastic new rate of the Pound Sterling terday, it was learned today "all British and American press the meeting of the Dutch-treatment if we are to preserve considerably lower than ex from Church sources.

In Oslo, Mr Zilliacus sald to- on the strength round-table con- the stability

and day that the attack on him by Ho reports peeted. Trude observers there

ald that Britain may expect an is Monsignor Matousek, 33-as of the Soviet Zone Ger-Pravda "only strengthens ny

man People's Police.""

conviction that we should scrap inediate revival of American year-old former local chap "The People's Police have not the Allanlle Pact and the whole future merchandise buying as a result Our

Hain at St Wenceslas Church, been equipped with any heavy polley of anti-Soviet power poli- Final Showing Today At of the decision.

arms, neither tanks nor guns. tics and anti-Communist Inter-2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m. tin AUSTRALIAN RATE "We have decided upon there

the Prague suburban and its strength is considerably vention

lower than that of the German

state

Chateau de Namur, Belgium,

Indonesian

of sterling

and

ference steering committee and increase our dollur earning so far not reached any agree-power--two absolutely essential ment on the future union be requirements for tween Holland and its former

paperity." colony.

According

to one representatives

of

The

ever

the

Indonesian federalists were yeste." he sold. reluctant to make the necessary Sir Stafford also tald thai concessions,

this afternoon.---Aasu -

SERIOUS RISK

to end ciated Press.

----- RED CONGRESS---

Jogjakarta, Sept. 18-The Red Communist lender organt- ser of Saturday's banned In- doncsion Kuerilla congress

It was clear that without threatens to hold congress marked reduction in the dollar price of exports and an increase in sales pressure there was serious risk that Britain's dollar earnings would not be high enough to maintain the flow of essential imports,

Now

ment of business today,

Prime Minister

to

£100 would

No

ACTIVE RESISTANCE "The only task of the Soviet Zone police is to maintain peace order, te guard the frontiers, Industrial plants and other public property.

"The Western German pollee, on the other hand, have been

"I know the Soviet Govern- ment and people want and need peate as much as Britain does." Mr Zilliacus told reporters. "I believe further that the tension between the Great Powers was a prime factor in the tightening of relations between the Soviet Union and her neighbours that precipitated the break Yugoslavia."

with

.. Mr Zilliacus lectured at Oslo

A formal meeting had been steps Lecause we are determined Currency changes affecting parish of Uuslo, arranged for 11.30 am GMT not to try and solve our prob- Commonwealth and other coun- Monsignor Antonin Elischner, pollee in the British and this morning but was post-lems at the cost. of heavy un-ries are shown in the following an elderly Auxiliary Bishop at-American Zones." the poned.

employment of by attacking the reports:

tached to the Archbishopric orment sald. Australia: delegate, social services that have been

The Prime Minis.Prague, performed the consecra ast few fer, Mr Joseph B. Chifley, an- tion ceremony In the Church of ponded

nounced in a special broadcast St. Ignatius, from Canberra that 'tre Aust-

ather members of the Han Pound Sterling would be Church hierarchy were reported and some of Belialn's export prices The conference was scheduled to the dollar markets had been devalued in the same proportion to be present.

An too high, and in a number of a Sterling.

Mr Chifley said that the new to the lay authorlies for per- application had been made cases those markets did not bring a good enough return to par rate was $2.24 to the Ausmission to hold the ceremony at Pound and

SPEECH AT, OSLO. would St Vius Church, but no reply equipped with guns, tanks and encourage manufacturers and allur exporters to expand their dollar operate as from the commence was received. Church authori-machine-guns which were

Mr Zilliacus said that he has de- exports.

ties said that as restraints hadivered by the British, Amerlean British The

always stood for a "policy of added been put upon Dr Josef Beran, and French

friendliness with all that the present rate of Aus-the Archbishop of Prague, it

Armies in

con- these countries" (governed by tralian £125 16

to the tradiction

Potsdam was found necessary to arrange Agreement.

Communist remain unchanged,

based on regimes) the United Nations Charter. simple and private ceremony The Commonwealth Bank, Dr H. C.

Governor of the elsewhere.

"False reports on the Soviet Zone People's Police serve Coombe announced that the consecrated

Two other new Bishops were other but provocative aims. They meeting arranged by the Provi- no today to 500 people at a public new price

irs Slovakia

on are to deceive the German slonal of gold in Australia August 14-Monsignor Ambrose people and to divert their atten

Norwegian Committee would be £15. 9. 10; ounce, compared to the present signor

per fine Lazil, of Trnava. and Mon-ion from the war preparations in attacked the Western anti-Soviet

Robert Probozny. price of £10. 15, 3.

| ROZNAYA......

of Western Germany under the

lendersluip-of-the-Anglo-Amert-policies and advocated friend- In all three cases the Church can warmongers."

ship with the Soviet Union and appointed them "In Partibus The Berlin Executive Com-the. Eastern European peoples' Infidelum" that Is, Bishops mittee

democracies-Reuter, of the Communist- without local Seer. In only dominated Socialist Unity to military Intervention, "but we "Don't let us lose the advan-

one of the three cases was the Party today appealed to all will have a congress this month. tages of this change because we African

Southt Africa: The South Czechoslovak Gevernment con- Party members to "organise an If an open congress is im- do

Prime Minister, Dr sulted-Reuter.

active resistance against the not go all out to get the Daniel Malun. announced that possible, we will meet secretly business," Sir Stafford said,

steadily extending American somewhere in the hills."

the new par value of the South "This is a step that we cannot Afran

Egypt: Egypt

imperialism and its German Pound would be 38.4

tonight an- the preparatory committee with and shall not repeat. It pro- trains of fine gold, or $2.80 ounced the devaluation of the followers in the Western sectors

Republican Vides a

immediate compared with a previous value Egyptian Pound at the rate of of the city."-Reuter.

31

*55.20857

$2.871. The cut in the rute be- grains of the gold, come effective Immediately. quivalent of 54.03. The de-

All banks will be closed to- valuation would be immediately morrow and the Stock Exchan RELIEF COTTON

and

secretly somewhere in the hills. The congress was due to open an Saturday morning near Prambanan. outside the Re- publican

capital. bur was broken up by military police en Instructions from the Repubil- can Government

It was here that Sir Stafford Dr Coombe Raild that the appealed to British manufac-banks would open for business Congress leader Djoni told the turers and exporters to redouble in Australla today as usual, Associated Press that he was their efforts to sell their goods } forced to adjourn congress durin the dollar market,

OTHER COUNTRIES

He said he intends to enlarge

members of

The

great and

Army to be sent as a delegation opportunity-let

seize Us

to President Soekarno.--Asso-gerly and with both hands," ciated Press.

Red Tide In

China

he added.

THE EFFECT To London experts expect that the immediate effect of the devaluution of the Pount

Tective

Dr Malan said that the ex- Tuesday, Songe rutes between South

will be closed tomorrow

Norway: Norway tonight

Afrien and the United Kingdom, devalued the kroner from 4.90

The

the

n

30 percent will be to make British goods more attractive in

while dollar markets

dollar goods will be more

expensive for this country to buy. Baltimore, Sept. 10.-The change does not concern chairman of the Senate Armed Internal value of the currency. Services Commitier, Senator Prices in the shops will Millard Tydings, said in a radio most cases remain the same as broadcast today: "It will be a the internal value of the Poundland miracle if the onslaught of the has not altered. Nor bas the Walter Communists is arrested short of value of savings altered.

the

Nash

Mr

Sweden: Sweden, financiers, bad forecast It

FOR JAPAN

Kobe, Sept. 18. The

first

for Peace.

In his speech he

BERNADOTTE MEMORIAL SERVICE

Jerusalem, Sept. 18.-The| first anniversary of tho assassination of Court Folke

Π

chlof

United Nations

and nil those countries whose to 7.14 to the dollar. The rate shipment of American relief Bernadotte, former United eurreneles have been devalued of the kroner remains 20 to the cotton for Japan's poor children, Nations Palestine Mediator, in The

same degree. would Pound.

sent by the United Nations In-was commemorated at emain

same, but that some

whoa ternational Children's Emergency service adjustments would have to be

Andrews nt St 20 Fund, arrived in Kobe aboard Church in Jerusalem today. the case of 1 de in

countries

President Pierce today. whore currencies are devalued percent devaluation of the Stert- the Preside

casi In the church, whose ing, tonight suspended all pay- to a greater or lesser degree.

The raw cotton, first of 1,382 ments with foreign

window facing the Old City is countries bales valued at $250,000, is New

Zea-

holes, ***The

until further notice.

stored temporarily in the Mitsui still plereed by bullet This decision of the National warehouse until textiles Belgian soldiers formed a guard

the Bank was taken to give the companies to manufacture the of honour and the Consular Wellington today that the New the southern border of China,' The dollar rate of $2.80 to the Zealand Pound will be devalued new value of the Crown in rela-

chance to discuss the cutlón into cloth are designated.. Corps Inid a wreath on the altar. country Mr Tydings sald it was hear-Pound instend of $1.03 as at

In addition to the cotton, 870 The service was attended by tening

en to Sterling.

fenses of skimmed milk worth representatives of the to see

Israoll recent reports present has been chosen as the at the same ralt n's Sterling. that the Nationalist troops had most likely one to hold for un the Pound to $2.80. Banks will They forecast that Sweden will by UNICEF to Japan are

Lire: Fire fonight devalued Financiers

shocked. $200,000 of the $500,000 allocated Government, army and Were been making

ex-justice and hard fight in indefnite perled

but exchange devalue some pinces and that there ap- The official price of gold will open tomorrow

by only 20 percent. pected to reneh Yokohama soon omcera.

from

San Francisco.United peared to be some dissatisine-be adjusted accordingly and the dealings have been temporarily causing an appreciation of the

suspended. tion among the people in Com-International Monetary Fundi India: The Indian Govern about eight percent.

Crown in relation to Sterling of Press, munisi-held territory, who were has approved the new rate.

'ment, in a statement issued in finding they did not like Coli- In on offical announcement Now

Argentina: Business circles in Delhi, announced that munism so much after all tonight the British Government the Rupee will be devalued

Buenos Alres said to He said the tide might turn said that banks and Stock Ex- the same rate as Sterling.

following the announcement of against the Communists, but changes would be closed to-

the devaluation of the Pound FRENCH UNDECIDED this prospeet should not he morrow, Monday, September

Sterling, that they expected the France: The French Govern- Argentine peso to tollow malt. counted on.---United Press.

ment tonight announced the

HOLLAND CONSIDERING Oslo, uspension of the free · market nold until further notice,

Holland: The Dutch Govern-Slates Air A communique Gnid

tonight that inent

announced completed transfers of foreign exchange "inds itself compelled

flight from would be suspended and foreign sider taking a similar step" totodzy. Piloted by Norwegian-services were therefore held.--

ccounts in Froner blocker. that of Britain in devaluation, born Colonel Bernt Dalchen, the Associated Press.

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TO-DAY ONLY 2.30. 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m.

the same as those in the service held on Saturday at St George's, (on the Arab side of Jerusalem.

U.N. officers originally plan- ned to hold a joint service for Acabs and Jews in Mandelbaum Squaro, situated between the lines. Arab Legion

andi Sept, 18-A United Israel Army agreed to the ar- Force Superfortress rangements, but, the Arabs in- the first non-stopdicated they would not attend : Im

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Alaska, at 11.30 am. Eastern losed tomorrow.

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Sterling.

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The

PROTESTANT CONVENTION

San Francisco, Bopt. 18- Belgium Bolglan Anancial Colonel Balchon, on export on Episcopal bishops from Japan he British decision to devalue circles thought that the devalua-polar flights, intended to attend and the Philippines will bo

Lion of the Pound would be the rally. He is an

among the guests of honour at followed by

of member of the Club-Reuter, the devaluation

the 50th triennial general con- Tho French Government ether. European currencies. An

vention

the Protestant would decide Ils position only cint close to the Promier, MMFRANK MORGAN

tion of

Church of San when in possession of all the faelsi

Gaston Eyskens, told Reuter: Denmark: Denmark tonight I do not think that there will FOUND DEAD

Bishop

of California, the 'ollowed Britain's example and be any devaluation of the

Rt Rev Karl Morgan Block, an- from Belglas frane Oreck Premter ypteran screen Jevalued her currency

Ifollywood, Sept 18.The nounced today that Most Rev. 4.81 kroners to the dollar fo

star, Frank Michael Hinsuke from Jopon 1.02 kroners to the dollar, bas. ordered Greek banks to be Morgan, aged, 80, dled in his and Most Rev. Izobelo da

Reyes,' Jnr. will be presentat closed" tomorrow following the steep here today. announcement of the devalua- His wife, Alma, found the convention on September tion of the PoundReuter, doad.-United. Press.

20 to October. 7-United Press............-

The Sterling value of the kroner remains unchanged at 10.30 to the Pound...

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