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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY,

NOVEMBER 7, 1949.

ALAMEIN REUNION Wage Claims Threaten UK Economic Policy

Britain's wartime Premier, Mr Winston Churchill, and Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, shake hands on their arrival at the Empress Hall, London, to join 10,000 desert veterans of Alamein at the biggest reunion so far held,

Mid-East

:

TUC GENERAL COUNCIL

MEET THIS WEEK

TO

London, Nov. 6.—The Labour Government's new economic policy, based on the devaluation of sterling, may be threatened by decisions or lack of decisions-by the leaders of the country's 8,000,000-strong Trades Union Congress this week.

The koynote Government's policy greater production nt legs cost, and the biggest single factor in its Buccess or fallure will be the degree to which wages can be held at present levels.

on the Increased the declaration of

In making is need for restraint

wnge claims and an appeal to the trade union rank and file to mnke the co-operate to Government's, policy a muecesa.

Doubts have been expressed on all sides whether such a de- claration and appeal will bring Any response at this time, and nothing has been said or done to remove these doubts

Last week trade union leaders turned down a detailed plan to peg wages after lx weeks of worried discussion.

Tomorrow, the economic ex- will meet

perta of the TUC again to approve the final re- commendations to the General Council of the movement, which meet on Wednesday.

After the fallure to agree

week

carefully thought-out and almost revolu-

plan, tionary

observers here now expect tomorrow's meeting to produce little more than a

Jast

m

Countries

Seek U.S. Arms Aid

Washington, Nov. 6.—Middle Eastern countries have ap- proached the United States for military aid, diplomatic sources disclosed today.

that

countries me) Saudi- ! Shu Asiatic They Baid

10 be sounding Arabia and some other Arab a reported

But the United States on pos states had inquired about ble arms gifts buying American arms early i

next year,

and

ponibly

made through

The

seta

getting arms gifts inter

The Liquirien,

channels, were

diplomatk

parently prompted

$1,314,000,000

by

CHINA'S QUOTA

ther

progførune

FRENCH FOREIGN

POLICY

[ot $75,000,000 aside ponsible we in the China arcu, American nuthorities (but some

mlutary AASIA- tance programme which in Just be spent Ketting started.

more effectively on

the

enter- By similar propaganda prises, rather than weapons

Ometals connected

Under

this programme United States will help arm te Atlantic

pact

partners

The re.

Reds Take Over with the

University

San Francisco, Nov. 6. The Sun Yat-oen University of Cam for

MAP site" 111703

Nov.

In a report by the

clase

4m. INVOLVED

now

'Big Five"

To Discuss

Defence

Foreign Ministers Moot Today

U.S. EXERCISES IN PACIFIC

United States assanit western troops land on On the contrary, many trade is, decided unions have

Oahu in an exercise do and Paris, Nov. 6. The signed to "liberate” the press forward with more

laims than have bigger wage

time Western Union's "Big Five" Hawaiian Islands from a heen made At any one

Tho enemy. -the Foreign Miniators of mythical since the war

About half the country's

Britain, France, Belgium. climax of recent American 8,000,000 trade

claims, and the Netherlands and Luxem- exercises in the Pacific, Involved in these

was preceded more than half the lenders of bourg-meeting here the TUC General Council are morrow, will discuss how responsible for handling them-

the existing defence or- at the same time as they are

unionisia are

+01

discussing how to encourage ganisation of Western Union will be affected by the

restraint.

the attack

by a heavy "bombard- ment" of shore positions

creation of the North Mme Sun's

Treaty Defence

Three million workers in the engineering arki shipbuilding Industries are concerned in a Atlantic elain for a £1 a week rte. Cominlasion. I which will be discussed astoin i

next Thursday,

AL

An

the

arlier meetings unions concerned have shown determination to

the prera claim, in spite of devaluation.

This week's conference will the by discus

appeal engineering employers that the claim be withdrawn because of the country's crisis.

Leaders of more than 1,000,- 000 callwaymen are expected p❘ meet again this week to discuss the alrategy in submitti claim for higher wages for the lower-paid redwaymen.

Seven

MINERS' CLAIM

a

for

Greeting

To Stalin

San Francisco, Nov. 6.--- Sun Yat-sen,

Dismantling "Among Foreign Ministers' Biggest Problems"

Paris, Nov. 6-Observers in Paris predict that one of the main tasks of the British, American and French Foreign Ministers at their Paris mect Ing this week will be an attempt to solve the prob- lem of German dismantling.

The three Western Occupying Powers place alightly different emphasis on the various factors of the problem.

While this will be the most urgent item before the Minis- tera, meeting at the Consulta- tive Council of Western Union in its seventh quarterly session, the agenda expected also to the political con-

The United States has for include secuences for Western Union of Madame devaluation

and the proposals widow of the founder of some time taken the lead, latterly through her out for economic and financial uni- the Chinese Republic, has fication which emerged during sent greetings to Marshal spoken Commissioner, Mr

meeting of the

of John McCloy. In proposing Inst week's

Stalin on the occasion European Organisation

the Russian Revolution. the abolition of dismantling. Economic Co-operation.

A Vice-Chairman of the This is partly because she is The degree of co-ordination

Communist Govern carrying the main burden of between the eventual High Com- mand of Atlantic Union and the ment, Madame Sun said that, aid for European recovery

Union Com-lke her late existing Western

and partly because she is worked Chinese mand

Russian Revolution "the traditionally less frightened out.

birth of the hope of mankind." of German recovery, leading

Foreign to renewed militarism.

On the other hand. France, traditionally anxious to take no German risks of a revival of aggression, is reluctant to make experiments in unrestricted German production.

hast stili to be'

Chinese

The

people

htsbare

regarded

Communist

Do

1br the 4

hundred thousand I is felt some Western Union claired experts, notably in France, that Increased bonusen related to the It would be mistakeu polley at Midster, Mr Chou En-la, also designed toth stage simply to subordinate sent a telegram of gree'ings to cost of living.

ML. organisation

Soviet This tim

thin maller

counterpart, benefit lower-paid men.

Andrei Vychinsky, nccording to Washington. Gis likely to be argued before an

Peking Radio tonight arbitration tribunal coon.

SEPARATE COMMAND

factor

can

dis-

Red

But according to latest – ro-

como

to

would itself produce suggestions for an alternative to dismant ling, for the High Commissioners to submit to their Governments. ports from Germany the High Commissioners will Paris

without any such German proposals In their pockets,

The

reason, nocording to thee reports, is that German were being proposals which Prepared were based on penenting the Allies by repara- tions from current production, and that Britain refused in ad- vance to consider this

com-

There is a general feeling that the dismantling problem will only be solved by a top- 'evel décimon by the Foreign Ministera. Some new approach Is needed, observers

feel, to out what has gradually become an impossibly tangled skein.~ Reuter.

precedence in deciding E

observers believe that the problem has largely resolved itself into a question of prestige,

France and Britain un with willing to abandon vious

stand political pressure

under

their pre- German

Germany's New Anthem

Published

believe that the money might Fear Of Germany Nominers have already

Longer Dominant Washington, with the i and military arselative programme: Fear of Germany has ecard

Next Tuesday and Wednesday

In his message, Mr Chou said, Iran, the Philippine report that all requests for milito be the dominant

Government and people A separate Western Union The the shoe trades workers will and

SECURITY FIRSTI Somntary nid are being examined, but Turkey.

in French foreign policy for submit a claim for an all-round Command, it is argued, would of the Soviet Union have always left out of the pave not t-ted on this.

Britain, who in earlier con- Countries

in nearly 107- The American attitude, how the first time

a week rise, and on Thur

100.000 provide an additional incentive been the most loyal and reliable

has supported gramme are now trying to get

the not hostile century, the Foreign Policy|day

lenders

and guarantee to the Brussels friends of the Chinese

people troversies in Saudi-Arabia is reported ever, is apparently

furniture traden workers will Powers, and need not prevent ever since the October Revolu- policy of rational dismantling. to have more been specite this The little countries, it is under Association said today.

is likely to insist in Paris that merely

tribunal in favour stood sought at first

the closest collaboration with ton French argue before a

must considerations others in seeking aid.

believe that the friendship security queals from the Arab canines permission to buy arms in the chief of the Western European of new cost of living bonus Atlantic defence planning once

Research Association. said which would bring an immediate the latter's machinery has been between Chinu and the Soviet take

B

whteher or not all dismantling mentioned tanks and jet fighter US.

Union will become more con- If the requests were granted, France was still deeply concern-Increase of 12- or more a week. brought into working order. plance,

officials of the military assis

ed with

security Achieving

The Shop assistants and disribu-

five Foreign

Ministers solidated and developed in the can be discontinued. be would

Some world workers employed by the

hardly be expected

for ngainat Gemany, but the prob- tive

to common

struggle programme lance

Jem

Movement had called on to co-ordinate orders

been

relegated to Co-operative

DSSCES in detail

the technical lasting peace and the People's at a granted under the

second place by French interest cussed

wage rates

con details involved this is rather Democracy."-Reuter, 'out- Without priority,

in organising Western Europe terence nt Blackpool today.

"ONLY REDS ARE of other the task of their Defence Minis. bo

will certainly & number Among orders might never

and forming a strong democratie

tess but they

TRUE SOLDIERS" claims now pending is one by discuss the political implications aligament agabist Communism.

Moxow, Nov, 0The The

alternative methods of FREE WEAPONS

post-war the National Union of Bank Em- of the cited report developments leading to

for a 12- the ployees

percent co-ordinating the Atlantic Fact Army 'newspaper, the Red Star,

But a strong boty of French the by th

sald today that "only in officiala conceded, Anerkenti

new partnership between anlary increase and another by and the Brussels Treaty. was taken over

"enstedde counFonce

Da CX- the National Union of Teachers and Italy

time The Mudsters' meetings, ex- Soviet Union, in people's de informed opinion here is ap- Cultural and Educational See-

today in the however, that Milliary

for a flat rate increase of £150 a Canton

ald could ampk of French concern in co-

days, will mocratic countries and in Newparently convinced that dis-man Republic was published for

mantling must inevitably be dis the pected to last tion of the

now seeking

afford not

to buy

begin tablishing a tight bond between year.

with the formal sima China exist soldiers in the true continued, primarily on political Soviet-licensed Berlin Commitico on November 3. the tries"

Neues Deutschland. if any large

No moral appeal from the ture of conventions on social sense of the word."

grounds, Communist Endle reported to probably

FILMY weapons. the Middl Western European power.

The Russian soldier was

NO. POLICY

It was

Hons TUC is expected to halt these security and medical assistance.

composed by scale rearmament

I noted that a customs unton United States

the question of These aim at the unification of new type of soldier, which has the

brother of Eisler,

the Com- East began,

had boen signed be- chims and

facilitica ur-existing would have to distribute many treaty

wages will soon become

so that no never existed before," & "con-

They argue that, in the face munist, Gerhard Eisler, a mem- the two nations with a Some American twe

of one Western Unionciously self-denying participant of the establishment of a Com-ber of the East German Socia pot Cabinet problem unless the tionals weapons free.

and can beneût in any of in

Ger- munist-dominated military operations,"

East

list Unity Party Execu ́ive, who proposition before union, but the agreement had TUC can produce a new plan country

the others. almost overnight-Reuter,

"an intelligent and noble man garters are already thinking of view toward eventual economie

man Government, the Western fed from the United States. putting this

not yet been ratified by either

knowing what he Is fighting Powers cannot afford to allow FAR EAST PROBLEMS

The words there ure three Congress next year.

to problem dismantling Ministers Congress, In including Irau in nation.

will receive for," the puper declared. The The report added that France military assistance

An al soldier in the capt-continue to play into the hand verses of eight lines each set to pro-

Becher, the operation, neemed more reluctant than the ramme already in

cial economie commitices and talist world would be a "ving of the political enemies of the slow, solemn melody are by

new West German Federal Johannes R

officiat "Poet Laurcale" of the with

IL decided it was in America's na United States or Britain to co- OUTWARD MAILS reports from the cultural, finan-

under

the heading of "Other automaton" because Iran operate

telligent soldier to help

was feared ar tional Interest

and recalled M. Georges Bidault's

Questions of Mutual Interest,'

All attempts to find an agreed new Republic.

The anthem it begins "Arisen maintain her sovereignty

three reaction to Mr Winston Church-

the are considered likely to discuss "the most suspect, element of

the armed forces," it added solution between territorial integrity.

of

and the from thy ruins and looking out Arabill's proposal to admit Western

Far Eastern problems.

High Commissioners Reuter.

futuro, Germany, The rearmament

to the Council states, however, would be sure Germany

Federal Government have fall-towards the Europe.-United Press.

will be sung to alarm IsradUnited Press

ed because no single policy has our united Fatherland,

London, Paris emerged from

Fine fast time tomorrow on the and Washington.

At one time it seemed that the 32nd anniversary of the Russian West German Government) October Revolution-Reuter.

duy

At a meeting attended by BAR niembers of the staff students rsity and workers of the Univ..

LI held on the previous day. Fan-fu, head of the Cultural at Educational Sertion, said thai lectures, apart

from

rosuming

be taken to would change ita curricula and system so that it would become a "reat

penule," the university United Preis

measures

of

Radio Hongkong

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Color, Irene "Hongkong Summary; IZJI, the Regiments"-(A the Bible

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Campbell (ORDS): 12.30, Calling Programme Marching with Relay from Auditorium--Kowloon). A Wight 1.15. and An- Orchestral from 1. Melodica

Crow and Brush Radio-George

Or- Blue Mariner Dance

Sumner. chestre with BarÒRIA (BBCTS): 130, Frederick Boyno at the Organ, (ORNS): 245, "Concert Hour 3.5, Down Honolulu Way" with Bing Crosby: 4, World Nows; and Willer (Plane 4.10, "a"? Vocal) and His Rhythm: 4.30. The End of the PlayA Mystery Play by Felicity Douglas. (BBC): 3, Hound-About- Variety "Record Request Programme: Prisented by

(Studio). Palmer. Jaklo

Calling Programme "Hongkong Summary: 0.02, Children's

Frost. Hour--Presented by Jack

Hall (Studio): 4.30, Portuguese Hour" (Studio); 7, World

New and News Analysis (London Ho Lay); 7.30, My Bongs For You"- Sung by Maurice Hoary with a Or- S:ction of the BBC Dance chestra. (BBCTB): 130, "Off the Ita Gib- cord-Presented by Ronnie

6, "From the (Studio); bon ZdHorizia (London Relay): 8.10. Taika

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6.30.

"Picture

Interlude; &is, Linda Cater. "Like at I Zipresented by Audrey Foster (Studio): Parade The Story of the Britai fim "The Last Days of Dolwyn" by Emlyn Willam. (BETA) 9.35 "Concerto" Mendelssohn Con

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RADIOS

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On Monday, November 1, the General Post Offes and Kowloon Central Post Office will open from .. to Nov. The other Branch Post Onces from $ an La 10a.m. Thers will be one delivery of registered and or- dinary correspondents at 19 .32. trom collection only and one pillar boxes. The Money Order omes and Porta Restante will be entirely closed.

With madlaża efect and chill further notice no further correspondence can be accepted for Amy and Foochow

Unregistered letters only for Foochew, Canton, XwRtow,

Tientsin and North Shanghai, China can be accepted at sen- dar elska and will be forwarded as opportunity offers,

Unless otherwise stated

parcel and articles gistered Posts close are bour Barlier than the ordinary mail. if malls close before 19 am, Exgistered and parcel poste clows at & p.. on the previous day. Mally" are closed at Kowloon Central Post Omes half an hour earlier than the .. closing times.

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7 Closing Times Dy Air U.S.A., and Canada. 12 noon. Rangoon, Calcutta, Karachi, Cairo (Nairobi Mombasa, Dares Salem, Mauritius and Johannesbur

Londoli via Cairo), Home and (Kowloon Cro) £1.30 am:

noon.

Japan. 12 noon

two

the in-

These are expected to include

INDIAN MESSAGE the Chinese Communist Govern-

New Delhi, Nov. 6-Sardor ment, the status of the Bao Dal

Patel, the Deputy Vallabhabhal

de- regime in Indo-China and the

Prime Minister of India, Of transfer of the effects

clared in a message to Marthal sovereignty by Holland in In-Stalin, the Soviet Premier, on donesin

Finally, it is considered cer- the 32nd anniversary of the Soviet October Revolution, that tain that the Benelux Ministers "India looks forward to will be anxious to be as fully tinued informed ns possible on the Soviet Union in the maintenance agenda of the talks which be of world peace"

gls here on Wednesday between

the Foreign

United States,

France-Bleuler.

Britain

co-operation with

con- the

The message expressed the Ministers of the "best wishes and greetings" of

and the Indian Government and n- tion to Marshal Stalin, hly Go- vernment and people.--Router.

ISRAELI CABLE

(Tel-Aviv

Anti-Aircraft Practice

London, Nov.

that

Radio reported tonight Israel's Foreign Minister, Mr David Ben Gurion, had sent a to Marshal greetings telegram Stalla on

the occasion of the anniversary of the Russian Re- volution.

The Jewish people, while engaged in rebuilding its State

The military authorities an Ponounce that practice firing from Stonecuiters Island gun sito will take place between the hours of

ancient homeland, will and 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Wednes- in Ita

never forget the heroic fight of day.

This will

Soviet Union against the will result in bums over the West Lomma Channel, East of Nazi foe and faithful assistance Taipeh, Chungking and Cherthe Northern end of Lan Tao towards the revival of Isael's

Bingapore, Batavia, Bydney

Auckland, 12 noon.

Bangkok and Colombo, 12 noon.' olhow, Kwallin, Lüchow and Kunming 12 noon.

11. noon

Closing Times By dea Bandakan, I am,

Taland, and a ground burst at a Independence" Southpoint in the New Territories on stated. Reuter. Francisco (No a bill approximately midway between Fak Sha Kiu and Tai

USA, Canada, Central and

America

Parcals for Canada), 12 noon.

Straite, Aden and Egypt, 13 nuoti Farmoka Via Keelung, 12 noon. Bangkok, 12 noon.

Marilla, 13 noct

TUESDAY. NOVEMBER, S Closing Times By Alr Manila, USA and Canada, a p.m. Cumming Chungking, Chenstu Lluchow, Kwalyang, Holow Taipeh, 3.30 pm.

Mo

enis Have been mada for the patrol of areas affected In order to ensure that ships, aircraft and persons are not ex- posed to danger.

the message

Prof. Joliot-Curie

In Moscow

Professor London, Nov. Jean Joliot-Curie, head

of

In the event. of unexploded France's Atomie. Energy Com- In Moscow andhells bring discovered the publle mission, arrived

No Manila, Guam, tionolulu, USA and are reminded to leave well alone today, according to a Moscow

and to report their location to the broadcast monitored here,, A Farcel Pods for Manila, Hononcarust military.or police reason was given for his visit lulu and USA, (Kowloon - 0220) - # PIL) (GPO) 5 pm.

Canada, B pum.

authority.

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Government.

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