1949-11-19 — Page 1

Coca-Cola

les Cold

For the Presartetor of

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, Pot, and on behalf of

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD.

...

The

Dine

At the

Hongkong Telegraph. G

VOL. IV NO. 273

Racing Final Agreement

Tips Reached By TUC

On Wages Policy

By The Turf"

Sulphur

RACE 1

Liberty Diarnond

Gangway

Outsider:-Condor.

RACE Z

Peghrua

Ascot Beauty

Fairy Feet

London, Nov. 18.-Economic experts of the Trades Union Congress tonight reached final agreement on a wages policy designed to support the Government's wish to hold the wages line.

The agreement was reached after considera- Outsider:-Airs and Generation of the discussion between the TUC leaders- members of the Movement's Special Economic Committee and key Cabinet Ministers last Monday.

RACE 3

Estrellita

Happy FanNETA

Mimi

Outsiders--Radar.

RACE 4

Atomic Power

Crown Witnes

Prince Delight

"

Quicider Kentucky Moon.

RACE 5

Duchers Delight

Meteor

Shannon

Outsider Fort Knox

RACE 6

Chief Plot

Lucky Jane

Sportmaster

Outsider. Mying ArroW

RACE 7

Нарку Воу

Jorrocks

Fenrics Witness

Outsider

Diamondfeld. RACE 8

Ringmer

Liberty Ship Meteorologist

Outsider: Aan Hing.

Air Ministry

Official

Sent

London Nov.

Details of the policy will submitted be announced next Wednes- Council

to the General

of the 8,000,000

day after they have been strong movement.

Czechs Smash

Another "Spy Ring'

Nov.

""

1t whe expected in usually well informed quarters that it Jessenital points will be an ap- pent for even greater restraint

han hitherto in seeking wage increased and a call for greater efforts to increase production.

After een weeks' discussion the Special Economic Com- mutter drafted a policy and dis- russed it with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps, the Foreign Minister, Mr 18. The Ernest Bevin, the Minister of Prague, Communist Czech Govern-Labour, Mr George leanes, and ment has smashed anotherthe Health Minister, Mr Ancurla

Bevan, last Monday. "apy ring," allegedly linked with an undisclosed foreign sentenced its power, and lender to denth and 34 ac- complices to prison terms up to 22 years, a reliable source said tonight.

The source said all the men were Czechs. It and the death impos: d ០៧ the Bentenced leader, a former police officer named Oldrich Novotny, was immediately reduced to Ilfo imprisonment because of the

role he played

Homes uprsing of 1945.

in the

FINAL APPROVAL Announcing that fual agree- met had been reached today, a TUC spokesman said that the Special Economic Committee would meet again next Monday to give Anal opproval to the document to be submitted to the General Council.

This was taken to Indicate additiona that amendments or to the original document were decided on today.

the

the

Other developments on the industrial front were:

Richard Coppock, Mr General Secretary of the Federation The source added that

of Building Trade 18. The Air sentences were passed earlier Operatives, said there was no Ministry declined today to today at the State divulge the name of a clerical | Prague. ofcer sent home to England from Singapore because of his Association

Com- the munist Party.

with

official spokesman An

sald the man had gone on leave "to the Air his home,"

and that Ministry is giving consideration to his continuation na elerical officer in non-secret work.

sald 10

The Colonial Ofer had not been informed of the circumstances of the case did not know the unme of the cfleer concerned.

Di Court

reason for the 19 unions in the Federation to shelve the sliding The State Court. If is report-scale

giving wage agreement ed, has trad during the past automate rises to keep parz

hundred with severul

increases in the of espionaES | Living.

four months persons Berused for 巋 "foreign power."

cost of

most cases the forelgo powers. was inade nanually and

was not disclosed.

The

faced

Vice-President Of

U.S. Married

Steel

St. Louis, Missouri, Nov. 18-offered Vive-President Alben Barkley,sliding

no question of automatic wage Increases for a year.

The 100.000-strong Iron and Trades Confederation yesterday to suspend Its scale agreement if other

sperificed unions

ነጻ- wages who will be 72 next Thursday, was married here today to Mra crensen for Carleton Hadley, a 30-year-old

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1949.

Fiesta In London

Heels tapped and castanets clicked at Canning House, in Mayfair's Berkeley Square. The dancers were Mary Tracy (left) and Ruth Pitchford, 18, who was born in Burma. The occasion was a festa organised by the Hispanle Council to help foster relations between

Britain and Latin America..

Call In U.N. For

Severest Censure

Of South Africa

Lako Success, Nov. 18-A vote of the saverest censure and any other stops short of expulsion from the United Nations was called for against South Africa in the Trusteeship Committee meeting here tonight.

CHIN

rc-

colony.

• For. Reservations

Price 20 Cents

Tel: 27880

Chinese Reds' Designs On Tibet Threaten India

CONCERN EXPRESSED FOR SECURITY OF NEPAL

LONDON, NOV. 18.—THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN SAID IN AN EDITORIAL TODAY THAT THE CHINESE COM- MUNIST DESIGNS ON TIBET WERE A THREAT TO INDIA. The editorial said: "The Chinese Communists are said to bo training a Tibetan Communist corps in Chinghai Provinco, on the Tibetan border. It has been spread around that now China will soon bring Tibetan autonomy to an end."

is

The Guardian said the Britain should be prepared ↑ The text of the Communist ilemand as received here differs to assist Nepal if necessary. danger to India that

"If in India's designa for tho | slightly from the original ver- Chinese occupation of Tibet security of Nepal British sup-lon broadcast In TILOTE

U.S. monitoring service.

text cink

fron stronger.

Was

on

may lead to Chinese inter-port is desired, it would doubt Tuesday and picked up by the ference in the independent less bo forthcoming." It said: kingdom of Nepal. "The security of Nepal is so vital to India that if it seems likely to be in any sort of danger India must forestall

IL"

VIGOROUS REACTION. In & special article, the Guardian outlined the changing ciatus of Tibet since the eighth century, when the Chinese Em- peror Kang Het first establish-

tt Was learned that the off- somewhat Whereas the bro1- version merely "repudi-

credentials ated" the

of the cast Nationalists, the official version ""formally demanded" United action. It contended

the Communists the UN membership

paramountcy over the Dalal Lama of Tibet. The special cor- Nations Nepal, the editorial continues, respondent said that as late as that the "Kuomintang" dele- is more vulnerable to Com-1010 the British Government in Emte represented merely the munist attack from its out of formed China that it was "In-Temnants in exilo" and those ria to political

than terested in preserving Tibet's forces will soon be dimina- struc.ure

ted. It left the implied from its lack of arms, and autonomy.

The article added: "A Com- demand that "India is best placed to help the ollgarchy which rules Nepal" munist threat to Nepal would be given

cause vigorous reaction in- and the veto

10 The Guardian said the Bri- dia. There aro

railroads with it. nal Lish Government should

from the Nepal border. leading

The delay-In the publication Gurkha India interfere in relations between into

soldiers of the official text was due to India and Nepal, but hinted om

from Nepal are an important communications difficulties, The part of India's defence force, first official communication re- and India will certainly con- tinue to safeguard Nepal's in-

ANGUS WARD

WARD dependence United Press,

ASKS FOR FOOD

PEKING AND U.N.

Gen.

ground

the

power that goes

ceived here signed by the Com- munist Foreign Minister, Chou En-lal, was in Chinese ideo- graphs that wens somewhat garbled and could not be pro- claridea- and 'the received Peking today-United

from

Press.

ESCAPED GENERALS Nov.

18.-Three Karachi,

generals Chinese Nationalist who recently escaped from the Inr western Chinese province of Sinking Into Pakistan had taks at the Pakistan Foreign Office here today. Lurios

The adjustment in wages, he

Flushing. Meadow, Nov. 18.elsely translated. A It was learned today that the flon was requested The

next d- retrospectively.

Chinese Communist government English version was 35

ight, persona whe

in justment,

February

In Peking has forinally demand- accused Irial today wert

of would

cover a year that

ed that the United Nations vust an underground cluded only a organising

few weeks af er

the Nationalist delegation to the movement aimed at overthrow the deviduntion of Sterling, The Philippinea delegate, be heard before the debate on

Southwest Africa began.

Washington, Nov. 18. United Nations on the ing the Communist regime, and which is increasing living costs. | Judge Jose D. Ingles,

only The missionary had earlier The

It representa Consultat American of espionage-United Press.

OFFER TO SUSPEND quested this in replying to applled to the Committee for After that there work be a speech by the South Afri leave to address them on behalf General, Angus Ward, gaol-Kuomintang "remnants in exile The United Nations announced delegate, Mr G. P. of the Herero tribe in the former ed by the Chinese Com-and not the Chinese people.

German

munists in Mukden, has that the Communist communica- 40oste, on the Union's con-

Mr Shiva Rao (India) asked asked United States offcials to sent to the General Abin

Pres.dent, The British Communist Party

trol of the former League of

the Chairman what the pro- for food, clothing, books and ly ord the Secrecury They had come from Gilgit, Headquarters said i'was trying

Nations mandate of South-cedure would

be, suggesting

State De-

a mountain town dominated by to ascertain the man's hame

that the debate should be opened magazines, the West Africa.

eneral, Trygve Lic, would not

Pamir the .heights of the Le circulated to the for publication in The Daily

KarakorumZ Plateau The Chairman, Mr H. Lans by the South African represen- partment reported today.

and the Worker, but had not yet

Mr Ward's request was pass-member

Blates

Ranges after making their way requests ed on by the American Vice-wm formally trade unions, organisingng, told reporters before the tative with any surUCLA, "We did not

REPORTS DISCONTINUED

trom Communist-occupied Sin- 320 000 shop assistan's employ. Coumittee was due to meet that

action. know we had any associates in

Consul, William Stokes,

It was understood that if some kinng through Chinese Tur- the Co-operative Move- he was not excluding the pos the cleric 11

The church ceremony was ated by of the Air

Mr Lannung agreed that Mr cable from Mukden on Wednes

and over snow-bound kestan Ministry at Singapore," a Com-tended

with the day. The cable said Mr Ward member formally challenges the orly by the couple's ment, decided today to postponsibilty of a delegation sug-

out clothing to be

right of the Nationalist delega-pastes, aunist spokesman said.--United immediate families. Journalists until December 9 a proporni to gesting at the very outset that Jooste should begin

the South African missionary, Unton Government's statement, also sint

Reports today Beck higher wages.-Reuter,

tion to China's seat, Romulo | outnumbered guests-Router,

the Rev. Michael Scott, should and called on the South African laundered.

war, Northwest the matter 10 leader to address the Com-

Mr Stokes' message said Mr Intenda to send mittee.

Ward and his four Assistants the General or Steering Com- vince, said that 13 more Chinese Mr Ingles, tracing the ques all sought food and clothing, mittee of the Assembly. It would officers tion since its introduction in the but did not mention anything be up to this Committee to re- from earliest days of the United about the health of the arrested Nations, charged South African men. with not accepting majority wishes on the subject.

1'ress.

staff

EDITORIAL

the

aun

met

widow.

Stx

a year.

Scientific Romancing

CIENTISTS are supposed to concern themselves only with 'facts. But when it comes to wild romance they eclipse the most extravagant fancies of those who contribute to "pulps" given over to scientific flction. Back in the eighteenth century Kant and Laplace romanced about the origin of the solar system and told a magnificent tale of 'a nebula that shrank as it cooled and, in the process, spun faster and faster until it finally flung off planets. Then other learned. greybeards came along with a poem about a wandering star that entered our part of the heavens and pulled out of

the stuff

which of out -the planets condensed. More re- cently we have been told that the that blew up and 'sun was once a nova threw off rings from which the pinnets were formed. Now comes Nobel Prize winner Dr Harold C. Urey with a dream which is concerned primarily with the earth, but which deserves recognition for its ingenulty, and its departure from ac- copted notions. We have always been have been an told that the earth must Incandescent mass ence upon a time, meaning some billions of years ago, and that it solidified in the process of cool- Ing. Such musings go back to the time when nothing was known about radio- activity. Dr Urey knows all about radio- activity and makes proper allowance for ItAradioactive element like radium is

slightly hotter than its surroundings. Here is material for a new theory of the earth's origin, and Dr Urey mukes the most of It. According to him the earth started cold from a primordial dust cloud. It did not acquire its crust by any process is right. The of congealing, if he

that radioactive elements

were formed heated up the mass and created the crust. Things got so hot because of the cumula- tive effect of radioactivity that iron melted and collected nt the core, with lighter materials floating up to the sur- face. Here we have a sample of the folk- lore of a scientific age. A primitive Bavage could explain the wind. only by supposing it was a blast from the mighty lungs of an invisible demon. The sun and the moon were similarly personified. Today we tell the same tale with L-

provements. We have the old stage- meining the heavens--but the characters of the play-the stars--wear different costumes and talk a different language. Electrons, protons and neutrons strut about where once there were spirits. Instead of Greek gods on Olympus we have Greek symbols in equations. 'The wonder of how it began, the dream- And why not? Crea- Ing, is sill there. tion there is no thenie so stupendous Only a bloodless, dullard would fall to speculate about it. Fiction of the type that Dr Urey has given us has something epic about it....

TERRORIST ATTACKS IN

ERITREA

MOSCOW ORDER

10 д

has

He detailed appeals to place The State Department still not Southwest Africa under akhow precisely where the men trusteeship agreement and the were being held. No State De

representative Union's recent decision to dis-partment

been able to visit the non since Asmara, Nov. 18.-The continue reports

Southwest Africa representa they were saized on October 24 Italian community hero to- Uves

of European on charges of beating a Chinese. day called a 24-hour stops had to be

descent

election

The latest word from air to the

Ward come amid reports that Senate, or of work tomorrow Union Assembly page throughout Eritrea to pro- While the indigenous populaMoscow might have ordered the test against the recent ter-on-90 percent of the toul Chinese Communists to impri- rorist attacks. in which three had no voice at all, he said.

It had no prospect of having Italians, a Greek and an In- any vote. dian were killed.

A representative committee also cabled. protests to the

for

con him. The State Department said it was handling the situa- tion on a "day to day" basle

The Department's Press Off- Michael McDermott, cald that for that reason he would the charged Europeans of rather not speculate on

VIRTUAL ANNEXATION

cer,

United Nations and two labbur oppressing, the non-European future moves the United States

organisations in Rome.

The local authorities belleved that the killings were part of a anti-Italian

new

Wave

of

Ethiopian terrorism, ΠΟΥ cx- can

can

his

in

На

races, restricting their educa-

Consul-General from tlon and even preventing their would make to free the Amort- owning dogs.

The Union's Southwest Atri-prison cell in Mukden.

Affairs Amendment Act · ALIENS WARNED meant its virtual annexation of tended to all foreigners..

While there was little change_ Eyewitnesses to the recent the territory.

Me Ingles maintained that then the Ward case, there were attacita stated that the gang's

14 territory was de facto and de these other developments bear- #Eritrea chief

declared:

of a nation Ing on the Far East: Ethiopian and those who belleve Juro a province

where a policy of racial segre- 1. Robert Strong, in charge otherwise, will be killed."

According to the newspaper gation meant oppression for all of the American Embassy

Chungking, protested verbally Eritrea Neuva (New Eritren), non-Europeans.

the Chinese Nationalist Mr Jooste had refused to to an Indian merchant was ́ chol

when

the session first Government against the shell- dead after his car was held up speak

His opened because of the small ing of the American freighter from 15 miles

Asmara,

profest Eritrean Moslem driver was set number of members present Flying Cloud near Shanghal on

When the meoing did eventual- Tursday. The tree...

the endangering of of the 50 based on was ly begin, only. 37 An Italian taxidriver'

American lives. member nalions were repro- killed: 22. miles from Asmara.

2 The Felping government Earlier this week terrorists sented...

Que explanation

the of Communist China, according tossed four grenades into the main cafo of Adi Ugri, a small division of United Nations man to reports here, again warns

between the General all allens to register their real town 22 miles from here, and power, opened are on patrons, killing Assembly and three Committee property with the Chinese Com

munists-United Press, meeting-Reuter two Italians.Router..

Wha

wan

UN's 59 unless he

commend whether or

from Peaha- frontier pro-

arrived there roday Gilgit. They all intend not the rejoining Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's forces in Southern has China or Taiwan,

addedReuter.

Issue should be taken up at the current Assembly, which less than a month to run.

the reports

Richly restoring and smooth on your palate. One of the good things of life & back to it previous.quality--a drink, that revives you and cancels your cards!

MACKESON'S STOUT

sols you up wonderfully

A.S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

WINE & SPIRIT DEPARTMENT

"Alexandra`Bldg..

Telophone 31261,