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HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1949.

The Twins Liked London Creation Of New Union

Thess American twins, trene anki Aladeleine Spencer, recently flew back to Brewer (Maine) from London Airport, after two years in Saudi- Arabia with an American øll- company. Like mosi vištora lo London, they thought thr policemen were wonderful; they nino liked the Crown Jewels and London's Exl- drivers. — London Exprem Beryler.

Pl Storm

Believed Weakening

Ono Man Killed By Falling Tree

International Delayed

LAST-MINUTE DIFFERENCES

.

AMONG DELEGATES

London, Dec. 5. The Free World Labour Conference, meeting here, ended its seven-day session today without having taken the expected formal decision to create a now trade union International,

to amend

the composition

of

The Lebanese delegation was anxious to guarantee that the Near Eastern countries should be represented. The

The Mauritius delegation wanted two instead of one for Africa, and

London, Dec. 6-The Creden- tials Committoo of tho Frco

World Labour Conference had received a protest from the Hind Mazdoor Sabha abou! the re- presentation on the Conference of

the Indian National Trade Union

CONRISE, Mr Lincoln the British Trades Congress told the Con- Mr Evans

seats of

the Free the Halinns proposed Ave seats ference here 100 "Representa-

Buch a large issue should have

ship strength.

been raised earlier. The Italian

by 21 vales w proposal was lost to 52. Among those voting for Signor Pus ore's

Amendment were the members of the Freuch Christian Trade Workers Union and the representatives of the American Congress of Indus- trial Organisations, hended by Mr Wal.er Reuther.

the

from

In The Running For Atom Job

These three men are among President Truman's possible cholocs for a successor to Mr David E. Lilienthal as chair- man of the Valled States Commission. Atomic Energy Left to right, they are:

Oppenheimer, wart!

Mexico)

laboratory

Mr

Trades 0% of the Los Alamos,

which perfected the atomic bomb; Mr Paul G. Hoffman, Economio Co-operation Ad- ministrator; and Mr Chester I, Barnard, president of tho (Ar Rockefeller Foundation, Ploture.)

Pandit Nehru On Industrial Revolution In Asia

New Delhi, Dec. 5. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the Indian Premier, said today that Com- munism in Asin was one phase of the "extension of industrial revolution to the East at a peculiar

Uranium Mine moment of world crisis."

Disaster

Pandit Nehru told a l'era conference that Akta wit

of transition from agricultural

|passing through severa stage GIRL MYSTERY: to industrial economy, with de NO VERDICT

The new organisation will) Several delegations wanted not come into existence until the Executive Board provided next Wednesday because of by the new Constitution. several differences of opinion at today's session.

During a discussion of the proposed Consti ution for the new International, Signor Giullo

Pastore, of General Confederation of instead of four for Europe. Italian Labour, sought to havo Mr Oldenbroek said that big-tives of both organisations were D clause Inser ed to ensura ger representation could be interviewed by the Committee. maximum facilities for the given when affiliated organisa-From the Evidence submitted, emigration of workers from flons Increased their member- the Committed could not agree over-populated countries.

to withhold credentials None of the compositions had

tho

Indian National --Mr-J...---¡},—– Oldenbrock, of peen voted

жел

'on, nor-had-the---Union Congress"- Holland, speaking for the Pre-draft Constitution been accepted, The Committee

urged tho paratory Committee, said that when the Conference adjourned Executive Board to consider The discussion of the means of improving the relations Constitution and the voting wil between the two sections of the HIV tonight.

now Lake pince early on

trade union movement in India, Wednesday, immediately before Mr Evans then discussed the the opening of the first Con-nancial obligations to be a gress of the new Confederation.

cepted by organisations which CHRISTIAN UNIONS

ore a

affiliated to the new Inter- During today's discussion, it

national. He said that fit or was announced by the Chair-ganisations-the Hindu Mazdoor man that the Credentials Com- Sabha,

Indian National mittee had requested the admis-Trade Union Congress, the sion to the Conference of a re- finllan Free General Confestera presentative of the Belgian tion of Labour and the Italian Christian Trade Union, repre- Federation of Labour-had told senting 350,000 members,

the Credentials Committee thol This was the first imation the low standard of living in that any of the excluded Chris-

their countries

plunca,

London, December 1-A go- tion walons had decided to at-

Even In China, although the vernment investigator today tend the Conferenes following

lead:rs were undoubtedly Com-wound up an inconclusive hear the briated Invitations approved

on what was being done) inut by the Conference Just weekt.

the disappearance of Dec 3.- The

was "very for from Commu-pretty 20 year old Owenda Mc- More than 158 mendments. The Commitice recommended | Liteyeburger Landeszeitung de-

nism." have been propovert to the drail ¦ that they be adiallied and the clared today that 3,700 person

Cullum from the liner Orendes Chinn, Pandit Nehru sald, had on October 30. Constitution

*1bc ngred question of the finoucial obliga- died in a uranium mine fire in memuaiment provides;

tions of such organisations be

the Soviet occupation zone

a mixed economy under Commu on

defined ther

Mr David Thomson, who con- November considered by the new Execu-

24. This

nist control. He Is ta highest #gure yet

mixext econorny as a continunner direted the Invesilgation for the published

of the old economy, with state Ministry of Transport, said that the previous high being 2,000 The Russians say only one mar

control making Increasing in-he was unable, for lack of evidence, to endorse the entry Ilshed.

The Landeszeitung said

Asked when India wouki rein the Orcades log of "presumed the

disappearance", new estimate was given by

cognita, China, Pandit Nehru re- plied that no date could be given Mat riul witnesses, he said, aro. Soviet zone fire chief who fler this delegate, Mirto West Germany

qu* ¦ In Australin. "The Bratisl but it "could not be very long." Hiccused Berlin Telegraf

He said he had been invited 1x week said the dead numberer by President Sockerno to visit ship on a trip from Sydney to The girl vanished from the These Congresses shafi sçek lu Siamese Embasry in London.

several hundred, then boosted Indonesin

at the

end of this Melbourne. Meure the widest possible The Committee

"not the total to 2,000.

Australion polico month, but that he was unable *** rather satisfied with the foets sub-

have reached a tenth ive con- The Lueneburg

lo go. He hoped to go some clusion of suicide. The girl's newspaper thne decisions by Simple

the Are chief fled Ime next year. majority. Between Congresses Union could be regarded as Fallerah Failers eben in Ura

General Council which sháll | free and independent organisa- British zone on

Pandit Nehru said he knew mother and flance had recently.

died. South East Sunday rather nothing about the 'be elected from all affilated tion" and it recommended a

The Asta defence conference which quired by law because the On...

hearing here was re- than obey orders to take a job organisations on a membership

withdrawal of Mr Buraonsiri's us a fregunrd

he Burmese Foreign at the Johann

Minister, busis, will deal with the business credentials pending further en- Georgenstadt mine.

in London code is a British vessel,~AR. Moung, sald quiries-Reuter. of the International.

sociated Press. It said he showed his identi- might be held in February. ty

Asked if Mr Ernest Bevin. papers, but asked that his name nut be made public be

the British Foreign Minister, cause

his family stilts in the had been invited to attend the Soviel

Inauguration of the Indian Re viel zone.

"ubic on January 20,

Raid On Hamburg

To Was Equal Two Atom Bombs

-Chuter Ede

London, Der. 5. - The Home Secretary, Mr Chuter Ede, said today that the worst single raid of the war was not the atom bomb dropped on Nagasaki but a raid on the German port of Ham- burg.

The damage done by that particular raid was

am

made payment 3,700 Now Said Tocracy functioning on various on the full basis too great a bur. Have Been Killed den though all had made token payments.

The new International shali be called the International Conve federation n! 12** Trude

nous

There shall

he Congteens

meeting every two years.

international shall of delegates of

The new be composed affiliateri national centres and undivitiual træde milons,

SIAM'S POSITION Mr Evans nisu reported that the Commifice bud considered the position of the Siamese Lut- bour Union and its delegate.

The

Duranasri, was sent to the Com

The naine ference Secretariat by the Royal

Frankfurt,

"qual to two atom bombs, he told City of London measures of agreements mited that the Siamese Labour d

defence chiefs.

He appealed for a sense of |

of atomic

proportion in thinking about Mrs Stewart Manila, Dec. 0.-The tropfen the possibilities

which storm

xwept across Northern Mindanao

the and Visayan lalands in the past two days caused at least one death bul apparently did only minor damage, according to report

warfare. It would take 75 Flies To S'pore

received at National Red Cros Headquarters so far. One man was killed in Bohnt by a falling tree.

itom bombs to equal the, total duinage to Germany in the lust war.

"11 woutl

exceedingly De foolish to mintinise the possibile-

les of destruction and loss of

but it would be foolish to

afe.

that the day-

EXECUTIVE BOARD London, Dec. 5.-Mrs Duncan'

Vise Congress will elect an Stewart, wite of the Governor, Executive Board of 19 members, or Sarawak, left by plane today | Europe

North America

her

for Singapore to help minister each noininating four, Asia and

husband, who was the

East nominating Milcile tabbed at Sibu, Sarawak, on three,

Britain equally Saturday

and Laun euch nominating two Amerien and Africs, Australia and New "I believe my husband is n ittle better and

Zealand and the West Indies unless com-jench nominating one. pilentions cet in he should be

Executive Board wifi all right. But I really don't meet

The

Ship Unloaded

By

Button

Melbourne,

to

munist,

trade.

U.

Pandi

The chief said his fire brigade was one among those called to Nehru replied that no gr, num.

Control the fire from Western Saxony Invitations had been isaued

Mr Bevin could

He said he learned that 4,000 but that if Dec.

6. The workers

were underground come, he wou'd be welcomed.- Italian

liner Ugolino

was when an explosion started the Associated Press. unloaded today by "button con-fire, and that only 300 escaped.

--Associated Press.

The ship's loading and un-

"The two largest single roids know very much more about fi at least twice a year and loading fixtures are new to Mel-

thali

A Red Cross spokesman said the storm damaged roads bevention of the aloin bonib means that no form of civil defence is cause of its heavy winds, but there was no indication so far worth anything in the future," of any considerable destruction | he said. of property.

The

were at Hamburg than you do," Mrs Stewart told members of the war with 85-mph winds at and typhoon

Tokyo.

More casualties reporters, the

centre, Dut gradually were caused by the ralds 0721 weakened, and since Monday Hamburg thau by the atom bomb has had only 55-mph winds of the centre.

storm started пя

In Surigao, It caused slight damage to homes. Cebu

at Nagasaki and the damage war to Mr cquai to that from

two atom Commissioner-General in South-

east Asia today:

d

the

bomba," Mr Ede continued.

bourne.

DUNKIRK NOVEL WINS PRIZE

elect from

Its among A sub-committee of

The ship is equipped with a seven to be consulted when remote control loading and un- urgent or important The King sent this telegrams must be

questions | loading unit on each hatch, dealt with between Today wharfles held a little Paris, Dec. 5.-The Goncourt Malcolm MacDonald, its meetings.

box about 10-in by 5-in in their Prize, the most coveted French The Constitution provides for hands and unloaded the ship literary prize for novelists, wat The incendiary raid an Tokyo

establishment of

today awarded to a novel about special nuly by pressing buttons. Iloilo also were hit. but no

"I am chocked to hear of the regional machinery on a con-

The box is In 145 was much greater in loss

on the end of a the 1040 Dunkirk evacuation by heavy damage W0G

reported. of life and destruction than tho

dastardly attack made on the tinental or other sultable basis. long cable and the supervising Robert Merle, a French Kalson Negros Island, which comprises atom bomb of Hiroshima,

Governor of Sarawak ot Sibu, Affiliation, fees to the

wharfe can walk from one side officer with the British Army Con- two provinces, was

also be though

of the ship to the other as he who was captured. it did not

Please convey my sincere sym-federation will be £3 annually obliterate

Dunkirk nt loved hit, but no reports have Tokyo as a city."-Reuter,

[pathy to Mr Stewart and ex-per 1,000 members for orguni-presses one of the four buttons The novel is called "Week- yet been roceived from Rea

press my hope that he may coon sallons with up to 6,000,000 to lift and lower the slings or End At Zuydcoote Cross personnel there.

make a complete, recovery from members and £2 for 1000 swing them to left or right. the wounds which he bas members for additional mem- The remote control unit cuts

The Weather Bureau said that at Z am today the storm waa centre 05 ndles west-north- west of Cuyo, which lies be- tween the islands of Panky and Palawan.

I had 65-mph winds at the centre, but

even

ATOMIC BOMB sustained."

MATERIALS

Fold

(Continued from Page 1) expected Committee about the atomic Kradually to decline in intensity shipments more than a year ago, and continue moving thes!-

While disclaiming all respon- north-west at 11 mph. At 2 p.m.sibility, the Department today it is expected to be cen-two export licences for 1,400 tred 230 miles west-north-west pounds of unprocessed uranium of Cuyo and at 2 an Wednes were approved in March 1843, day 203 miles northwest of while a third Hence for 24 Puerto Princess, capital pounds of uruatum was of PalawaN province.-United proved In April 1943 and Prosk

TERRORISTS REPULSED

Asmara, Doc, A. British military escort killed ong as.. sallant and wounded another Shifta-Ethiopian armes. when terrorists attacked a train nea Massawa over the weekend Five men opened fire on the from

· passenger train 10 miles

Massawa on Saturday. The

ap-

*he

export of 1,000 grammes of heavy water was approved the following November.

Mr Gullion informed the Committee that old records in- red by the State Department rom the old Soviet Supply Division of the Lend-Lease ad-

inistration Indicated that there:

"some consultation” be ween the War Department and be Foreign Economic ad- ninistration before the perintis vero granted.—United Press

British escort returned the fire THE HAIPIAO AT

"There were no casualties among

the escort.

Delegatos

porjulistica

of the Naltan

of Eritre

tuve

TIENTSIN

San Francisco, December 5- subiniited to the Chief Ad-The crew of the Halpian of the ministrator new-security plans China Merchants Steam Navi- because of what they called gation Company which defected "the failure of the authorities" | 90-

-Sentember 10 arrived to give adequate protection to Fientain by train on Decernber thema.

al

Irom Manchuria en routs to Shanghai, the Peking radio sald today. They were welcomed at the station by representatives of Tientsin workers,

The Chief Administrator said that the problem was politica His promised to study the deles gates proposals and sold thol now security stops were being First Mate Hai Feng-yi, who taker but he refused to say headed the party of 63, stated what they wore.

By that, the voyage to Manchuria

AlLochi Ifalian" nowspapers to- following their uprising was a lay bitterly attacked the Adlong and arduous ons-United ministration Reuter Press

half-

bership over 8,000,000.

the manpower necessary to un- The President of the Con- load a hold by nearly The Colonial Secretary, Mr federation and soven Vice- United Press. Arthur Creech Jones, also asked Presidents will be elected by Mr MacDonald to express his the Executive Board and the sympathy and concern Stewart-Assurinted Press,

to Mr General Secretary will be elect Burma To Give

SIDE GLANCES.

1/-3

ed by the Congress.-Reutur.

By Galbraith

DOING. 1949 BY KEA SERVICE, ING. TA MR. BRO, LA NU PÁT. OFFÄŇ,

I'd get along fine at this school if it wasn't for the profs trying to show us up by asking questions in clasel":

Recognition

Hc

Runner-up for the Goncourt Prize was Louls Guilloux with

The Dame Of Patience", wɔs, in accordance with tra- dition, awarded the Theoprasic Renatidot Prize shortly after- wards,Neuter.

SUCCESSFUL NEW CYCLOTRON

Rangoon, Dec. 5.--Burma's Foreign Minister, Mr Maung. London. Dec. 5.Britain's said today Burma will recognise | new style cyclotronnlled Communist China by Christmas. "Cycletron"for atomic energy Mr Maung told reporters the research has been operated suc- decision

means automatic cessfully in, its first

trial. full breaking-off of diplomatic rela

metle roles the Ministry of Supply on. tion with the Kuomintang machine has been under con (Na-nounced today. The new tionalist) government. He

re-

years

Burma's first, Ambassador to struction at the Harwell Communist China will be Mr search station for three Myint Thein, this country's re- and is the largest in Europe.→→ presentative with the Nation United Press.

alists who was recalled last month for consultations here.

Mr Maung returned to Ran goon on Sunday, from London, where he discussed the question of recognition of Communist China with the British Govern- ment.--Associated Press.

Radio Hongkong

ILK.T.

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