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Hongkong Telegraph.

VOL. IV NO. 300

RECOGNITION MAY

Wants Ban On Atom Mao To Have

Bomb Production

General Romulo Suggests

Interim Agreement

Lake Success, Dec. 20. General Carlos P. Romulo, of the Philippines, President of the United Nations General Assembly, today called on the atomic "Big Six" to give first priority to studying ways of reaching an interim agreement on banning atomic bomb production,

General Romulo presented several suggestions to General A, G. L. McNaughton, the chairman, when the representatives of Britain, China, France, Rassin, the United States and Canadn met for the first Eine today to "explore all avenues and examine concrete suggestions" in an effort to reach an agreement on atomic control as deelded by the General Assembly at its last session.

eneral Ramadin, in n jetter to mary records of the meetings, wr Me Naughton, BAL

"whenever it 14 dertred appros prid: lo do so."

du mat feel at ndvisulte for me

to present any juverse plans t this time."

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The tunumque sald the practice

of meeting behind

possible, be beneficial and would be con- outlined four

MX powers after pathe fur exploration. These hurd

their brief utting adjourned unit! Jany 19.

He recalled that he had pre- i eloord doors had been found to]

WOR

--A short term "aunistice" An inspection ercompanied by

stem.

4. An interim prohibitona t the use of atomle weapons, with

equate anfeguards,

·

IT

Trade Talks

سم 20

Berlin, December Rellablo German authori- tien said today that East German offelala will open trade talks with the Chinesa

Communista In Moscow during Premier Stalin's birthday celebrations,

They said the East Ger-

Foreign Minister, George Bertluger, the Ger- mat

Moscow, envoy En Rudolf

Pre- Appelt, and sident Mno Tse-tung of Communist Chien will par- Helpate in the falks.

Sources close to the Eart German regime

reported

that a "gigantle" German- ystle<l Trade agreement

way

discussed being Merrow

probably would be signed

early in 1950.

They said this plan Corksh fond-short Savket zone with flour, oil and shor vegetable fals from the Ukenine plus tod. ter lo bald up German catlle stocks-United Press.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1949.

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DEPEND ON "New View" Coach For The Bakerloo

A LEGAL POINT

Ticklish Question

Of Formosa

the Speculation on London, Dec. 20. imminence of Britain's recognition of Communist China subsided somewhat on Tuesday with strong official hints that the Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest Bevin, was awaiting legal opinion before making the long-expected announcement.

The status of Formosa appeared as the legal bone of contention, with the British Government holding that, until the Japanese peace treaty is concluded, the island contínues to be technically Japanese territory. This contention raises the following legal points:

FILM ACTOR ASSAULTED

ACTOR U.S. Of

20. December New York. Robert Whicos, the Alm actor was found and need atoriny in

artres Darna more's apartment.

In

add.lien 10 General! Homale's new appeal, they also and before turm it letter from

Sie Benegal Nursing Rau, of John, who proposed during the General Assemlity session that 3.-Further compromises be the problem of control te thelt-

NEW APPROACH

tween the majority and

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minority plans

1or ulumic

energy control.

4.A new approach to fundamental problem vi trol.

the

cat-

be

General Romulo said that he

these ap still belleved "all proaches should

seriously pursued." But his further sug gestior concernitig priority

the

led by

the international Law Commission, a United Nations upeney.

The Indian delegate's letter VAS not made public nume- diately Reuter,

BEVIN INVITED

London, Dec. 20. The Gov. a world ban on atomic burb

ernment of India has formally i production was prompted by

invited Mr Ernest Bevin, Br the "frightening_rate" uf atomic armaments race.

en Foreign Secretary, at

In New after the fed the erivinoniea communique?

said Della which will inaugurate the į meeting. the six powers that it rad been agre.d. in or Indian Republe on Juruary 26, Forci Med spokesman and cordance with the General As

*ought. sembly's resolution, it mem

States would be kept

bes

-

formed of the progress of the in Marcation,

Perlu reports would, Her fore, be sued, including Ma

EDITORIAL

Parerd Barry-

He was tied by two men who runsacked the place.

Police said Mr Wilcox told them he was alone in Dan's apartment at 9.30 ara, when two me knocked at the door and td they wanted to leave flowers in confined to for Diann, who

effects of a hospital from the 113.

Indonesia

Policy

Statement

Batavin. Dec. 20. In its fret statement of policy, the United States of Indonesia announced today this seven mink coat, it silver fox scurt paint programime. sultense and US$50 in adver

Amented Press.

Poller sak the men

look a

Lut furees

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Rome, Dec. 20. Three people turn

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that

Iniore! #ncial slightly when moltes veralty th

Tu preserve purille peas steloned partreusion of several |

the NY Q R 1150 within the Busteen de

d Th ratio list homestan rights. resented

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The bavitation was convesed subtr

Bumn Mr Beyin yesterday by the Leentre of Foden turb tomu JDPAY

! Landon, Mr Kristette Mchor

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1. Whether the 1150 of Formosa by Chiang Kai-shek's can be legally government countenanced.

2. Whether the invasion of

Chinese Com- make them A

Formosa by the

munists would belligerent power, or whether It would merely represent another civil Chinese

phuse

wwr.

of

the

3. Whether, In the event of such an invasion, Britain could continue to recognise to Chin- ese Communists as a belligerent power.

sources ca Government

vernment,

MANY ASPECTS

of

An

experimental ・ "vista"

ear which will shortly be in

use on the Bakerloe Line,

Principal feature is tho series of glass floor to roof.

pants from

Hitherto standing passen gera have had to crane their necks to see out. Now they will have. S direct eye-lovel view out of the ear.

Further innovation: Largo perthole-shaped windows, to admit light through recesses. into which slåing-doors open. The experimental car has been adapted from a normal vehicle.

--(London Express Service)

HARBOUR WRECK TO BE

Interim Injunction BLOWN UP

Argued

consent

Clark Gable Marries Lady Ashley

HIS FOURTH BRIDE

San Luis Obispo, Cali- fornia, Dec, 20.--Movie star Clark Gable and his long- time friend, Lady Sylvia Ashley, widow of Douglas Fairbanks Senior, were mar- dudo ried late today at a ranch here.

Gable, one of Hollywood's most eligible bachelors, took his fourth bride In a surprise cere- mony before a Lutheran minta- ter, the Rev. Aage Moller.

The British Consul. confirmed that the bride was Fairbanks' widow. She has been known in Operations to remove the Hollywood by the name of her

first husband,, Lord Ashley.. wreck of the 1,600-ton Nor-Gable's first wife, Josephine dramatic coach,

1938.

to click

with

in

the

top

the

Lom

Kai-shek's Use Chlang Forma was seen as strengthen- ing the Communists' intention to seize control of the island, and

"To suggest this is a dis-wegian cargo vessel Halldar, Dillon, now a also as tending to increase the treat to British shipping by the honest case and that there which has lain on the bar- divorced him in 1030 after six

of Com- Nationalist blockade

is absurd," bour bed just off the Naval years of marriage. He married no defence IB munist-held ports on the China

Mr Eldon Potter, Dockyard between the float- a wealthy Texas widow,, Reah ronnt.

The latter consideration declared

beginning was said to have raised addition- KC, in the Supreme Court ing dock and the China Fleetham, in 1931 when he was #Teelively take over al legal complications,

this morning, when he an- Club for six years, are due movier. They were divorced in the Dverently,

to begin next week. nurganise

The Foreign Office was said to peared together with Mr

PERFECT COUPLE Indonesinu perl of the Dutch be considering the "implications

The vessel was captured by

Next year, Gable, then of the Chiness Nationalists' de- Percy Chen and Mr Brook

man, married to "effect the

clared intention of nining Cm Bernacchi to argue on the the Japanese shortly after hos-leading Procession Stopped a new federni ara

began blonde, laughing Carole Dutch Troops

munist-held

Ometal discharge of an interim inuities in the Far East poria. trat shortest within

the British

junction order granted by and was sunk during an Allied bard. To their milllons of fans they were "the perfect couple." has not vel eon- $ble time."

Court in Chambers air raid on Hongkong in. 1943.

But she died in a plane crash. veyed any views on this matter the

against the National Re-At the time she was loaded After Miss Lombard's funeral, to the Chinese, Nationalist ro-

Gable quit tha, movies and en- with a cargo of rice. sources Commission,

tered the army. Since the war's jy

of Counsel on The work of breaking the ship end his name has been raman- both sides the interim injune-up-she

various extensively fleally linked was too

Dolly Con orders against certain cm-

socialite of CNAC and CATC damaged to make it possible to beauties from

O'Brien to Paulette Goddard." players

stal further order salvage her-will be dirceled for

The couple pulled a surpriso will stand

with liberty to apply.

the Government by Captain when they stepped out of Holly- Appearing for the CNAC and WA, Doust of Mollers, Ltd. wood and got a licence in the

County clerk's ofNeo

shortly CATC (plaintifs) are Mir ii, G.

the lion Lou The systematic cutting up of after noon. Sheldon, KC,

Gable's friends said the hand- d'Almada,

L. Wright. the blowing of small explosive some "king" had been a "close The argument is being heard charges. As It will only be friend" with his blonde willowy view of the increased range of improve economy, W

the Chief Justice, Sir possible to detonate the charges bride, known in Hollywood as before Leslie Gibson. fine, communications, housing modern weapons, while Britain

at high water each day, the work Lady Ashley, for "at least 12 pl auheres to the three-mile and health and to prepare pro-

WITHOUT FEAR Pinft. Another aspect is that

will be extended aver several years." His friends said, "After she divorced Lord Ashley about rarmes for social security, and

Mr Potler said that he would months. bring about government super. he appears to be

three years ago Gable often took of breaking say nothing derogatory of any prospect to mediate vision of tentiomie activities

All 'shipping in the area of her out. But nobody dreamed would one in this case but ho

be notified be- | there was ony romunoe.' the the wreck will dir.et them toward pubile wel-hr Nationalist blockade as long

As Formor

comment without fear on furnishes a secure

United Press. base to Nationalist Chinese acts of individuals which could fore the charges are fired,

be described

fraud,

and 5. To intensify the campaign alreraft, these sources sold.

could equally be described 18 Illiteracy. against

improve

Ofice Foreign

fraud on the part of the No- and Jatal dugation

匙 บร hinted that there may

tionalist Government of China. national cultural centre,

recognition this year. At Tues-

"The three cases raise pointe

Colony's Water Shortage

o anyone who has been in Hongkong Tfor number of years the present

Threat of a water famine is but an onniti that the Colony is not yel reminder capable of keeping itself fully supplied for twelve consecutive months. There has always been a water shortage in Hong- kung, and the annual appeals for conser. vation have become almost tedious, The official explanation is that our population is too large to maintain П constant, uninterrupted supply of water from the But even when the existing reservoirs. population was considerably smaller, and we had Shing Mun operating, restrictions were found necessary. The real cause is that the Colony's rainfall is.too. unevenly divided-we receive 90 percent of our rains over a period of eight months, and once the reservoirs have absorbed this. there

of no prospect Important a long time. Hence replenishment for persistent and irritating restrictions in the use of water. Having recognised the necessity of restrictions, the public then owes a duty to see that during the dry senson ny little water as possible is used, and that wastage shall be reduced to the minimum. Tho dificulty is that the greater proportion of the general public is too ignorant to appreciate this duty, and the problem is not helped by Govern- ment's somewhat indifferent attitude to the question of educating them in the ways of water conservation, Government complacently belleves, that it is "getting across" its appeals for saving water to the general public, through the medium Uri- of the newapspera and the radio.

While fortunately this is not the choc. the Press and the Radlo can and do exert some Influence, both are restricted by the fact that hundreds of thousands of in- habitants cannot read, nor can they afford. radio sets. They are, therefore, left completely In Ignorance of the situation, cannot appreciate that they have any

umer.

responsibilities in the matter of nvolding water wastage, and are, incidentally, the people who constitute the heaviest con It is not difficult to obtain ca operation from those who understand the nevessity for conserving our dwindling water stocks. The manner in which the local shipping companies have respended to the uppent to take in less water supplies here is an illustration. A volun- tary reduction of 30 percent of previous consumption is a commendable endeavour to aid the authorities during this anxious period.

teps of

But in dealing with the huge masses of literates which form part of Hongkong's population, a different tech- nique is required if they too are to make the necessary contribution toward the conservation of water. The appeal to them be vocal and direct. The best must

is the mobile public address medium system through which it is possible to rench large congregations of people in the public thoroughfares, and in such a way as to altract and then hold their atten- tion. The spoken word they can under- stand, and by means of it, thousands of water consumers, otherwise beyond the reach of appeal or admonition, can be influenced to behave like respon- eschewing sible citizens in respect to

Mobile public address water wastages. system campaigns have been successfully carried out on behalf of other depart- ments, and it is a medium of education which the Water Authority should adopt, If, in fact, that Authority really believes. a critical water shortage exists. And the obvious department to put, such a campaign into effect Is the Publie Rolation Ollee. The newspapers are. always prepared to play their part in bringing home to the public a sense of their responsibility, but they cannot be expected to Influence those whom they cannot reach. This must be Government's task.

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SOCIAL SECURITY

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6. Peacefully settle the pute with the Dutch over Guinea within one year.

7. Provide a

They

Enid "there are many the question which must be tuled. It must be determined whether Nationalist Wit bo confined tra Chinese erritorial waters, the mite of which ore sill under legal dispute, the Nationalista

inkling on 12-mile limit in

here

no

im.

spokesmen

and Mr DKC. Me John McNeill ship will be carried out by

tional

in the course of his submissions.

his Opening be

Counsel case

dis day's routine press conference of constitutional and interna- New they side-stepped legal ques-

law of the most profound tions regarding the matter, say importance," declared Mr Potter foreign policy log that they could not be

into the new "drawn

it" They dent will strengthen

world,

nounced that there would nation's position in the

at the described the proceedings lead- n skeleton staff Lolster the ideals of world peace only

application. On no routine tg up to the ned forify the morat, political Foreign Office and

or press November 24 the plaintiffs made relations among press announcements and economi

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the nations of Southeast Asin; conference will be arranged be an ex-parte applications

a

union

with

the In-

tween

make Netherlands beneficial to donesia and endeavour to make The United States of Indonesia A member of the United Na- tions. Associated Pres

Weather's Funny Tricks

befor December 23 and 28. his Lordship and an interim in- (Mr. Ernest Bevin, is due to junction was granted. Having defendants Icave London for the Colombo read the order, the

would conference on December 21),-assumed that the order

continue for five days and they United Press.

also assumed, not unnaturally, TO LAY MINES

that maiters would remain London, Dec. 20-The Foreign status quo. But the other side, Ofice announced today that the said Mr Potter, to his astonish- Chinese Nationalist

Government

clalmed they were c ment has warned Britain that it

to remove any assols they mines Intents to lay

outside saw Ot. Communist-held ports on the "The position was serious, so China const Irom tomorrow.

we made an application before A similar nolification has Mr Juailee Gould in the un-

to the United

avoidable absence of your Lord- bon delivered States Government in Washing ship," he added. tom. Britain is seeking legal In the last few days before

opinion bofore replying- Christnias. North Africa has Reuter. had heavy snow, Gales have swept France

and

Britain, while in Normandy summer-liko Gunshine

ripened siraw- borcles and brought apple trees Into blossom.

London, Dec. 20.The world's weather has been playing tricks

has

After heavy snowfalls ไป

NOT DELAYING

Mr Poller said that the defen- dants gave the plaintiffs nolico, to attend. Objection wes taken

Expedition Heads by the plaintifs that no anidavit.

tp

had been fled. "We had no time Ale one," said Mr Potter, "and Mr Justice Gould ruled that Aling of an amdavit, was not necessary."

For Antarctica.

Hobart, Tasmania, Dec.. 20.- Morocco olive trees were broken A 1,400-ton French wooden re- and the crop ruined

Counsel remarked that the by the search ship-left here tonight on weight of snow today in a large fit. second attempt within 1 other side declared quite frankly area east of Fez.

months to land - à party of that it was a dishonest case; tho Thick fog hung over much of French scientiste on Alolle dishonesty did not, of course,

I don't the Southern United States, Land, French sector of Antare-apply to Counsel.

want hindering land, air and water tica.

that acquitiat” "declared Mr trafe. Thirty-two people were The expedition's programme Potter who added that there injured early today when three includes mapping, weather ch was no question of delaying mat fram-cars piled up because of servation, geological and biolo- ters until recognition of the poor visibility-Reut

gical work-Router.

(Continued on Faro 5)

UESTION:

What will you buy her

this Christmas?

ASSORTMENTS OF-

MANICURE SETS, DRESSING SETS, GIFT SETS YARDLEY, CUTEX

VARIETIES OF

VANITY CASES, HAIR BRUSHES MUSICAL POWDER, BOWLS

ETC.

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