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Franco To Visit Portugal

--- Madrid, Det: 18. — Gen~~ erul - Franco's officlat" vixit · -to-Portugal this week-end is expected here to streng- then both the Spanish and Portuguese regimes. The Caudillo wil probably leave Madrid with 'Dona Carmen France and their danghter, Carmen, by road tomorrow for Vigo, A Spanish weat coast porti near the Portuguess front- tlet.

They they will join the Spanish cruiser which will take them to Lisbon Saturday.

Opinion

divided

whether General Franco is likely to meet Don Juan

of Bourbon, the Spanish Pretender. who fa Now staying at Estorii, near Lisbon. Some Monarchists think that Don Juan may absent himself from Estoril during General Fanco's vist-Reuter.

U.S. ENVOYS GATHER IN PARIS

For the Pretetir ni

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Hongkong Telegraph.

VOL. IV. NO. 247

BUKIT SERENE TALKS:

Position Of Hongkong Top

On Agenda

Bukit Serene, Johore, Malaya, Oct. 19. British diplomatic and military chiefs will meet here during the first week in November under the chairmanship" of Mr Malcolm MacDonald, Com- missioner-General for Southeast Asia, to discuss economic, military and political aspects of develop- ments in the Far East during the past year.

It is considered significant that Me M. E. Dening, Head of the Far East Department of the Foreign Office, who necompanies Mr Ernest Bevin, the Foreign Seere- tary. Lo Washington recently and Mr David Rees- Williams, Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Colonial Office, will be present at the four-day session.

The principal topies for discussion will be:

The present situation In China and whether the Chinese Commun'sta will push against Kowloon and Hongkong. observers here think

MILITARY

MRING AROUND

the high authorities my In- formally that the Communista would not hesitate the British do not take firm stand.

ond

Vietminh forces

YUGOSLAVIA

2. Whether arms and troops Belgrade, Oct. 19. On the Paris, Oct. 19. The will be sent to Indo-China to eve of the crucial United United States Ambassadors Minh

help Moscow-trained Ho Chi Nations vote on Yugosinvin's to France, Italy, Britain, now carrying on a war against bid for a Security Council the Soviet Union and the French, or whether the seat, the Communist Party Czechoslovakia, Mr Averell border themselves

Communists will cross

organ, Borba, accused the from China Harriman, the Marshallto

Soviet Union of massing Lake the rich rice-lands, Plan roving Ambassador, Most onlookers expect the for- Russian and Soviet satellite mer eventuality but are taking troops in a ring around the СЕГО 10 Jatter.

and Mr John J. McCloy, United States High Commin- sioner in Germany, will begin a two-day "exchange of viewa" here on Friday.

for

Mr George W. Perkins, Assla lant Secretary of State European Affairs, will attend.

nce

the

be prepared for the country.

BURMA REDS

Borba said that, at the be-

3. The present situation in innlag of August, Soviet mill- Burnu

unita began streaming and whether help for tory the Burmese Communists will through Rumania towards Hun come through Yunnan province,ary, and in September Russian

llungarian

So inr. the Yunnan mliitary troops were observed arriving

chief is considered to favour In

44.

5

Elits four

The stability of Thailand. How long it may be be- and

frontier towns,

The Ambasractors

Mr the Nationalists, but it is not where they began digging in. David Bruce (France), Admiral | known how longt he will do so.

The

Fald paper

Hungarian Alan Kirk (Hussin). Mr Lewis

Rumanian military and Douglas (Britain), Mr James E. 20. Ierorism in Matura, where Police units were shifted at the Dunn (Iinly), and Mr Briggs (Czechoslovakin),

the situation has much in-me time and concentrated la proved

recently, renches the frontier areas, where "they are digging trenches, stringing wire ^ United

proportions of war, Sintes

ant building 6. Whether the provisions of entanglements spolterman aid that the Am-

Hogue conferences gan pillboxes."-United Press, bassorios were taking advant- The age of Mr Perkins' visit to Paris Folly "for this unofficial get-together

Embassy

to discum questions of mutual!

concern.

The spokesman

10 give details.

a

bring peace to Indone.

BRITAIN'S STAND

Oct. Londuit,

19.-Britain

It is expected that the con- ference will make de alte re-today rejected u Russian claim comincndations to Whitehall,

that election of Yugoslavia to was unable Therefore, it is considered un-

likely that an informative com- the Security Council would be

will be mmunique

unlawful and unjust. Issued im-

! -Associated Press. EXTENSIVE TOUR

the Ambassadors mediately-A Several of will take port at the Lordan meeting of the chief of Amer). Į can

will

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1949.

Premier At Aldershot

Dine

At the

For

P.G.

Reservations

Price 20 Cents

Tel: 27880

Cabinet "Crisis" Committee Holds Hurried Meeting

SPLIT OVER DEFENCE

SLASHES REPORTED

LONDON, OCT. 19, THE POSSIBILITY THAT THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT MAY BE PLANNING CONSIDER- ABLE DEFENCE CUTS WAS INDICATED TODAY BY A HUR- RIEDLY CALLED MEETING OF THE CABINET'S ECONOMIC "CRISIS" Committee WITH THE CHIEFS OF STAFF AND SERVICE MINISTERS.

Present at the mooting were the Prime Minister, Mr Clemont Attlee, Sir Stafford Cripps, Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, Mr A. V. Aloxander, Defence Minister, Viscount The Prime Minister, Mr Clement Attlee (left) chats | Hall, First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr Emmanuel Shinwell, War. with Pte. Dennis Hughes, who has just been swimming with rifle, ammunition, pack and bayonet in a demon- stration, during a day he recently spent with Army training units at Aldershot.

Judd

Reveals "Essential" China Report

Minister, and Mr Arthur Henderson, Air Minister.

4,000 Dead In Flood In Guatemala

Also called to the meeting terpreted by some quarters as WILB Mr George Strauss meaning that the future of con- who, as Minister of Supply is closely linked with the scription was discussed. The

fs, responsible for Britain's question atomic research.

..

power.

of industrial man-

Earlier, today Cabinet leaders to insist that there is a Cabinet Speculative reporta continue were strongly pressed to in split over the cuts programme clude defence cuts in their new and Government changes have economic programme when been predicted it agreement is they faced a secret meeting of not reached Guatemala, Oct. 19.-The the 392-strong Parliamentary mounting toll of Guatemala's Labour

defence Party. Total

RESISTANCE flood disaster was officially costs in this year's estimates

Ministers named as likely to estimated today, at approxi-were £750,000,000-an advance mately 4,000 dead and at of about 16 per head of the resist the severity of cuts in

their own population. least $50,000,000 property

department include the Health Minister, Mr Ancurin damaged. Seventy thousand Mr Attlee and the Deputy Bevan, who is responsible for Washington, Oct. 19. Republican

MY Herbert the £200,000,000-a-year health Minister, Represen- or more people are home Princ tative Walter Judd today made public a "secret" less,

Morrison, warned the meeting services. that the new econorny cuts. report on the Chinese Government in 1944 by a

"rich and poor The Foreign Minister, Genzalez due to be announced next Mon-cradle to grave" social services. State Department Foreign Service officer which Mr

Arevalo, announced the totals, day--would be severe. But Involve an annual expenditure Judd said revealed "either incredible miscalculation on the basis of far from com- they were unavoidable if de- of between £800,000,000, and

plete reports, and or misrepresentation."

€900,000,000, www valuation was to succoni, every Indication that the J1 is understood that

Any

cuts in these services disaster would assume

involving a reduction of benefits. greater proportions.

would arouse a Labour outery. But severe trimming of costs 1 may be possible en construc-, tional projects for new schools, hospitais, health centres and other public buildings.

Mr Judd said the document, prepared by John Ser- vice, was one of the "essential" reports omitted from the recent White Paper on China issued by the Secre- tary of State. He said this memorandum and others like it had led the Government to adopt a policy towards China "leading to unmitigated disaster" for the United States in the Pacifle area.

correspon-

there

the

even leaders <lid not in any way commit themselves to the Party On the subject of defence economics.

Senor Arevalo received wad that 1,000 homeless children have been collected Escuintin, their parents appar. ently dead.

crop has

high as

n

The overall

LOWER SALARIES

There Is as yet no official

AN OBSTACLE

Authoritative quarters have that Dri- A Foreign OMec spokesman

He said the State Department

Coffee producers say at least repeatedly indicated The memorandun said the 30 percent of Guatemala's $33,- tain's present onerous oversens commenting on statement had not seen fit to make publie United States was tending to 000.000 coffee

อ

been defence commitments were an diplomatic missions In London. Oel, 19-Colones made by Russia's Foreign "certain telegrams,

"prevent Eastern Europe похі week. David Rees-Willams, Colonial Minister, Mr Andrei Vyahinsley. dence, reports and other docu-

reforms and demu destroyed. Senor Arevalo said cbstacle to my severe economies hint of the total capital which is cratic reorganisation ot They

50 except possibly in the Adminisely to be involved in the on Tuesday, ments" which he claimed had Chinese Government" by "con-percent. discuss the most Under-Secretary of State, said at Lake Success

the it might run as

tration.

Government cuts, though вете effective methods to combat today that he hoped his forth, accused him of trying "to bring been used, in part to prepare tinued and exclusive support of

speculative .reporta suggest propaganda by Iron Curtain coming tour of the Far East pressure" on United Nations the White Paper. He said be

bethe Kuomintang."

A rich grazing belt, from 20 | If the Government decides to £400,000,000. countries nt this meeting would be fairly extensive, but ¦ işembers to vote for Czecho- Was Issuing classified papers

to 40 miles wide and stretching jeut defence costs materially- GEN. WEDEMEYER Reuter.

(Continued on Page 5) slovakia-Associated Press. one by one so that the Amerlean

more than 200 miles along the and official quarters are com- people who "can read" could Mr Judd aice Introduced Into Pacific Coast, in hard hit, many pletely silent on this point-It Judge for themselves whether the

House record an address ranchira losing all thele live-would, be widely interpreted as they would change the im-made by General Albert Wede-stock. pression sought to be given in meyer in 1948 at the celebra- the White Paper."

EDITORIAL

New Phase In The

THE political phase of the Greek war began when the Greek Army succeeded in driving`ui) but a few isolated bands of the remaining rebel forces into Albania. Before submitting Greek charges against her northern neighboure to the General Assembly, the United Nations Political and Security Committee voted unanimously to set up a Conelllation Commission and give it three weeks to try and settle the dispute. The period is now up, and the Commission has reported that it has been working in vain. At Lake Success, Mr Vyshinsky has given the impression that his Government hus washed its hands of the affair. If this were true, Albanin' and Bulgaria would abandon the guerillas, Yugoslavia long ako closed off their most important line of supply and retreat. The failure of the Commission, however, suggests that Soviet Russla is not yet ready to come, to: a settlement on this question. What is going to happen now is difficult to fore- cast. The same question might be asked about Austria--the object of a cat-and- mouse play on the part of the Soviet Government which has defeated the Foreign Ministers and their deputies for more than two years, leaving Austria suspended: Indeßnitely in the no-man's- land between peace and war. But in Greece, the situation is more dangerous. An important part of the Greek Army Is encamped in the Grammos sector, just within the Greek side of the Albanian: frontier, after a long and desperate battle in which 3,500 men were killed or gravely

Balkans

wounded. On the other elde of the frontier are the main elements of the rebel forces, estimated at about 12,000. The Greek representatives in the General Assembly have assured the Western governments that they have no intention, in the event of a fresh attack, of chasing the Invaders across the border and carrying the war into Albanian territory. It has been strongly impressed upon them - that such a move would disastrously weaken their moral and political position in the eyes of the world, and they them- selves are well aware that restraint in victory is a vital as endurance-in-war- to their hopes for national Independence; unity and peace. But to the war-weary soldiers on the Grammos, front, at Just within sight; of the safe hide-outs of their enemies, the temptation to follow the attackera across the line if they strike again will be very great, And the people general will he behind them, for kid- napping of children, brutal raids villages, forced conscription of peasants and a campaign of destruction that bas left a tenth of the population homeless, have alienated such popular sympathy as the rebels may have had in the beginning, and put an overwhelming majority of. the people on the Nationalist side. It will not be easy for any government to keep the army or the people quiet unless there is some definite näsurance of peace. The Hallon situation, has entered a new phase, and other means of preserving the peace will have to be found.

Was

anniversary

fet

New

Yorks.

tion of the Chinese Republic VILLAGES FOODLESS Mr Judd said the report by General Wedemeyer succeeded Major-General Patrick Hurley. General Stilwell

situation for the Government. Mr

Hi Judd

Ti10

John Service was furnished by

Destruction of roads and com- as commander munications makes it extremely who investigated the

Chinese of U.S. forces in China,

dimcult to uppraise the extent said that General of the disaster. Many villages Congressman

the Wedemeyer, who had "succeed-are entirely sald

Isolated, foodiess memorandum was "obriously" ed brilliantly in China where and lacking medical supplies. submitted to the State Depart General Stillwell "had falled,"

Cuba, the United States and ment..

called for full

support of many

neighbouring

Latin "But Service's conclusions re- Chlang. This support, Mr Judd American countries have rushed garding the Communist move-added, was not given. United

by plane to the stricken ment in China represent elther Press. incredible miscalculation Or misrepresentation, Such mis-

takes in the armed Royalty Back

forces.

--

arca.

A planeload of Cuban military engineers left Havana.

II

The Guatemalan Government Emergency Heller

[000 fund to start.

From Holiday commitice and gave it a $0.000,-

London,

One idea, said to have been considered by the Cabinet, was acut in the salaries of Ministers

showing how ruthless it con The Prime Minister and law siders he present economy cut officers receive £10,000 each a mus! Lo lo prove effective. year, and other Cabinet and.

The presence of the

Labour Cabinet-ranking Ministers £5, Minister, Mr George

Isaacs, In000. the defence talks today was in-

ALBION

Anuther

which proposal. might obtain some support is that, an patriotic festure, menibers of Parliament should

jugree to a cut in their £1,000 a

year salaries-Reuter

SAVINGS LESS

COMES OUT London, Oct 10-The Chan-

VICTOR

cetter of the Exchequer, Sir. Stafford Crips, disclosing-to- night that the British people wero saving less, said that the Government had no intention of "freezing" savings,

of stormy 8005 despite n Balmoral Guatemala city. Other parts of Castle, Scotland.

Guatemala reported even damaged hull. Princesa

ceza Margaret got in heavier rainfall, Associated yesterday

[Press.

leading to disaster, would pro- martial In the duce court

Rosyth, Scotland, Oct. 19. He caid that the Governniente State Departmtrit,

they warn

-The unfinished aircraft

believed in the democratle way promotions," he declared,

Oct, 19,-King The Service report, addressed George and Queen Elizabeth none

Scattered rains continue, but carrier Albion berthed at of voluntary savings and have compared with cloud-the Firth of Forth port on set ourselves against the totali- te tienerul Joseph Stilwell, then came to London by tmin tonight bursts of the rat 15 days of Tuesday night-victor over alan way of forced loans lo commander of the US, forces 20 minutes apari They had october, when 30 inches fell in in China, had as its subject been on, holiday

the State" "Tho Need for Greater Realism

Sir Stafford, who was ad- in Our Relations with Chlang

dressing a rally to launch, a Kal-shek." Chlang was then

The 18,300-ton carrier, on tow

now

stimulate campaign. to head of the Central Govern-

savings, disclosed that since from Jarrow on Tyne to Rosyth April 1 this year £42,000,000 ment.

Be sting out, was holed on the port side near the storm. in amoro had been paid out than

had been paid In-Reuter. osion with the small British

A Buckingham Palace spokes- mian 'said he know of nothing to substantiate reports published In America' indicating that the mem-Princess might, visit the United

in States and Canada next year-

Associated Press,

SITUATION IN 1944" In part, the Service orandum said the situation

"both China In 1944 had military importance and tur- reaching political significance

It adviced Stilwell that Kuomintang Government

was

Elixir

FORD PLANT

ΤΟ "CLOSE

steamer, Maystone, on Tuesday.

the

the Albión.

"

'PAY. CLAIM"- The Maystone, a 2,025-ton London, Oct. 19,-Thio

main |coal freighter, sank with "the British trade union for Govern- 'Detroit, Oct. 10-The Ford insa of 20 of her crew of 24nent employees tonight refused Serum Not An Motor Company today announc- She was en route from Scotland to withdraw or reduce its wage ed that all car and truck pro-to. Lantion, Iler four survivors claims in response to the duction would thut down on were picked up by tuge towing Government's "work harder in CE crisis because of Ita

November 15 because of military.

appeals. for the same pay op Ineffectiveness and

Mr L. C. White, General was approaching economie diz-

Paris, Oct. 10 The Pasteur strike-induced coal and... sicol

A raging North Sea gale blew aster." It went on to say, that Institute repeated denials today shortages, which have forced

Clerical

Association, declared "passive inability to meet these that it is working on a magic the Inying off of most of its the Albion off her course into Secretary of the Civil Service the North Sea on Tuesday, but that the Association had no in 110,000 production workers, in a constructive way, stub

serum" that will prolong man's stubborn

Ell. Breech, Ford executive the tugs shepherded the big shintention normat life span. unwillingness to runmerge

The Institute, France's lead- vice-president, said: "When the back into the Firth

or more pay selfish power-seeking in

ing research laboratory, said it drikes are settled, it is estimat-today. morate unity, and the statement was still getting many requests ext it will take at least giz The Albion was manned by cent increases for 60,000 clerical of Chlang himself" werd from abroad for its corun weeks before we Enn obtain civilian crow. Although Inunched jeficer and equal pay for sumetent evidence of the bank- which, it said, is only aimed at surient steel to resume full in. 1947, her completion was 150,000 temporary clerks. rupicy of

Kuomintang leader-¡ treating nervous ailments.--As-proddiction of cars, and trucks" delayed by Britain's economic estimated to cost £10,000,000

socluted Press.

United Press.

difficulties.Associated Press, fozather---Reuter.

ship.

of

ef Forth enims for

Withvirawing its

per

The Unton is claiming 18