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Hongkong Telegraph.

VOL. V NO. 34

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1950.

Japan To Set Up "Consular"

Belgians To Longest Ever

Vote On

The Return Of Leopold

Brussele. Feb

The Belgian nation will shortly! go to the polis to take part in a plebiserin which wi ultimately erode the future of prosimonally exiled King Leopold HI

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posed by

Tonaght's voteraj

Text week..

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of majority out

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pected they got the bull through with the help

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ments among the Taberals thes partners i thema 1 Coalition Governnien

PARTY DIVIDED

The Liberals as a

gearrnily divided

question which for

k

the Hovd

TESTOS Weath

has been splitting the country;

TWO interly

into

carps

The bill becomes low 10 days after it has been published m the Belgian official Gazelle

Then, about 40 days from t day, every Belgian above

5,000,000: age of 20

caliesi W th

the w:11

polls.

askmi

the

L

to the

to "No"

will They answer "You" on following question

"Are you of the rplation that King Leopold shoukt resume his constitutional prerogatives***

The referandum will not be

It is being held to inform the Parliament of the mude of pubite

Bruwer

Lotion, Feb,

Su

George Kirkpatrick, Chief of

Murder Trial

Liverpost 1. * - The longest murder trial

Bellist tegal history ended here Today with a dentk Kelleher tot a 26 year-old Labourer eunsleted nl mut derleg a focal clas huwunger 191 toidup

the condemned Mean George Kelly, had been In Line dock for 32 days during the first trial when The Jury disagreed and 19 on the second, which rud ed with the death sealekue

1

throughout the jonk CZONY PNAJinationis, Kelly staunchly denied thai hin shot Lemari Thom" 11 sear nit manager of the Cinema one night Last March when Thomas Fetusest to hand over the might taklites in the thra

Tee

Lamen

L

Line

1 arrond የነ 1, Charles Connelly, also 25. will be charge wird on

month

* Kelly sh had originally been charged together with Kelly and for 2018

parain the Jury when

disagreed. Heuler.

Stabbed While Helping Girl

Funk Durt, Feb Chandogy udent

A German Env

| Stalised Marburg University to a girl's when he responder cry for help. The United States Army

reported Wertoraday might

was

11

A 1 year-old soldier is being task for enfloning

The vietim

Erhardt! student ut fireslinhagen, 22,

Uversity of Marburg Students m faculty will t let his funeral Tharaday

Offices In

America

COMMERCIAL FUNCTIONS

Washington, Feb. 8.--Authoritative sources said today that American officials will announce that Japan will be per- "within a few hours" mitted to establish Consular type offices in major United States rities. The sources said the first announcement probably would come from General MacArthur's Headquarters in Tokyo. This will be followed by an announcement from Washington. !

It is expected that these "semi-diplomatic" offices will be established in New York. Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles, possibly Honolulu.

They will be called offers of Japanese government representatives and their primary purpose will be tu ex- They also will pedite Japanese commercial interests perform certain functions for the Japanese both in the United States and Japan

71 an expected that the official announcement of the step will be veomigrated try the publur, tion of an agreement between arac the Japanese government Americati officials on this rule.

The United States, as reported by the Taited Press some weeks

decide to undertake C63

agreement with Japan when it became obvious that the Fur Mastern Conutursun as a whole would not give its approval to such an idea.

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The oflens emphasised liial The Army statement said that

these office would not be abejo Goodfendingen Wan endering #

je nabar and will 2,450

fake s tomatory through a dark arch-

hen a Firl who was with They дгр particularly insistent

cried

upon this wut and asked

point because theter has been criticism du setre quat Grafenhagen to take her home

Detters Another

that student

United States Joined in When the

broke

1 or up. of Treffershagen chased the søkiter Japanese sovereign

..

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ConÍVNEDICKS

Tights Tee

The girl and the other studentfore they hunt earned them at a the British Geneintl Stuff in tool Greifendagen with two, irrace, Indie from 1916 to 1920, died in kafe wounds

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EDITORIAL

thai t

American

oll, mis kusini will be merely traile offices plus some other leser functions

Recreation-Welfare Experiment

T

THE

and

THE announced development of the Southern Playground In Wanchai to a sports-welfare centre embrace

in B welcome sign that the Children's Play- ground Association has resuscitated itself. but another Indication of the interest which Government, as well as private individuals, continue to take in promoting the well-being of the Colony's under-privileged. The Southern Play- ground has long served a useful purpose, although it would be idle to pretend that heretofore it has been put to its best and fullest usC. It has long been in danger of becoming a public playground, instead of what it was originally intended for- a recreational arena for the children of Wanchai. The proposal to build a centre in which recreation and social welfare will be jointly developed broadens, in the right direction, the whole purpose of the Southern Playground. This intention is emphasised by the declaration that the cultivate a "Ideal of the Centre is to community interest, so necessary in the development of citizenship and sense of responsibility." Sir Thomas Southorn undoubtedly had the same purpose in his mind when he sponsored the playground, but the fact that this area was never developed to anything like the extent needed for reallsation of such an ideal, thwarted to some degree the original con- ception. The new plans promise to pro- vide the corrective. One striking feature of the new scheme is that the centre and playground will be open for adolescents in the evening. This ensures that fullest use will be made of the facilities available. The children, during the day, will have exclusive rights to the playground, but in the evening young men and women will be encouraged to take advantage of -£he attractions which the Centre has to

· offer. And it is through, these" young .

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people that the ideal of developing the community spirit and a sense of respon- sibility can best be realised. There should also be ample opportunity for encouraging parents to share netively in the Centre's social welfare programme; of helping them to appreciate more vividly and in n practical manner their responsibilities to children and young people. The develop- of the Southern Playground ne proposed represents a direct repudiation of suggestions, all too freely and glibly expressed in some quarters, that long- its under- interest in kong has

this And privileged Chinese classes, acheme possesses the added virtue of not being charity of the sort which saps moral strength. While the recreational, and Hocial facilities at educational Southern Playground will be free, they are of a mature that will help to bulld up, not destroy, character. It is a poslitve form of charitable work which promises to yield worth-while returns. Sensibly the Children's Playground Association has decided not to overdo the scope of the Centre's activities at the start. These . can easily be developed as the inhabitants of Wanchai gradually realise the value to them of such a place, and when they begin to respond to its stimulus, The play- ground-welfare centre at Wanchal can be regarded as an important experiment. If it succeeds, Ds it should, it could be duplicated in other parts of the Colony, especially in Kowloon where the poorer classes are still ill provided when it comes to recreational facilities. Everybody will watch the progress of this new type of educational recreation with considerable interest, and there will be general good wishes for those whose task it is to make the Wanchal experiment function success. fully.

!

There is a tendency in diplo

interpret! quarters Lo matie State Secretary Dean Achesoni

renach conference pressa the "cold war" today in proof that the United States has lost much of its desire for an early Japanese

prace frvaty withenat Rustau

of Mr Acheson') The items lengthy latement was thal 11 ta useless to seek

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Duke Meets E. Germany

King

King Farouk gave a luncheon party recently at the Koubba Palace, Cairo, with the Duke of Edinburgh as guest of honour. The Duke is seen sitting on the right of King Farouk. Mr Ernest Bevin was also present at the luncheon-lon- don Express Service.

Churchill Tears

In To

Attack The Socialists

London, Feb. 8.-Winston Churchill thundered on Wednesday that the Labour Party has marched into Britain's general election campaign behind a smoke-screen of lies.

Prime Minister Attlee declared: "This country has during the past four years made greater progress to recovery than any other." For this he gave the policies of his Labour government full credit.

Purge

BOURGEOIS

PARTIES

Berlin,

Feb. 8. The purging of bourgeois par- ties and Government de- partments in Russian-con- trolled Eastern Germany was intensified today with the flight of two provincial Ministers to West Berlin and the reported arrest of five leading Ministerial officials.

About 20 other Ministerial officials were reported in usually reliable circles to have been either dismissed or suspended.

Political ObserverS foresaw probability of remaining Christian Democrat (CDU) losing the posts they hold in the East German Go-

by vemment, dominated

the Socialist Unity Party (SED).

leaders

Against this background, the Fast German Government to- day announced the forthcoming of a separato Ministry of State Security, hitherto under the

Department of the Interior.

The two provincial officials, Dr Huge Kuntsch, CDU Finance Minister of Saxony-Anhalt, and Herr Fritz Schwob, Labour Minister of Brandenburg,

re-

ported to their Party Headquar ters today in Western Berlin.

Dr Kunisch, who arrived with his family, said he had been repeatedly threatened with new rest for "Irregularities in his

Herr Schwob resigned

following serious critlelsm by the Socialisti Unity Party,

Department Agtrement

with the Baseinus merely for the sake of agreescent

ha

Mr

Westein Acheson rest Europe Grevee and Turkey examples

United where thr States had worked 10 streng The economies to enable them to resist the 4de of CommFLATLINESE A

Diplomatic observers rentar- that while Mr Acheson did

itution it. 11 i pute presume that comme help wa accompanti by military assis

thought that this must be applied

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For that

there is Tendency lo interpret Mr Ache KTM Petrarks as ulicating that the United

CUT Stales 18 Found to the idea of a more pro- longed recupation of Japan. —

United Press,

Air Crash:

All Crew

Alive

Trams Due

To Restart

Tomorrow

Maintenance Men Back Today

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: Mr Churchill spoke at Cardiff; not possibly Fave

Party thus cyfleult ti former Liberal the

vit

where Wales stronghold 1.te won 23 seats in the 1945 his Con- Mal Reneral motor ervatives only three

Attlee starting

got through

"Another thing we could not

have got through without is the

ignificent spirit of the British ple

nine-day 1,000-mile four of the ruktons. He muld Be prople have been adhessed met tings at Industrial | purred by the Socialist priucipto ot fult states" through ration- Watford, o London and Wolverton, a rail me price eontrol and subsidies,

nurse! 80 onles

LOWT Lados.

the wutskirts

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The wide sulf an the strat

of the

ときに rival leaders Kira

their bid for power at the Fel 23 general chiction.

more plainly

SECTI.

Churchill marle tearing attack on

nent.

proach.

WAS YET

which

cornerstone J

Labour Pohy

It

of

days

ago

FORCED TO RESIGN

sonie

Herr Pakosch, Deputy Head of the Borna District Council in Saxony, who was dismissed last week. nino

Western reached Germany today.

Three other provincial Mink- ters, Herr Leonard Moog, Herr

and Bernhard Rohner Siegfried Witte, had

Herr

been re-

moved or forced to resign since the beginning of the year. was reported.

it

Even Herr Otte Nuschke, De- puty Premier of the East Zone and the Christian Republic Democratic Chairman, was him- self reported to be under pres- sure and possibly the next to to purged.

The resignation of Professor Erich Frether, the CDU Chair-

of man

Saxony-Anhalt, had also been called for.

Another six local CDU af- cials had been "sent on leave", and altogether about 50 mem- bers of the CDU and the LA- "One cannot run this country, beral Democratic Party had effectively if one merely takes been removed.

n untruth i tord often enough a bundle of contending interests The Christian Democrats

enough, it becomes and tries to

interests.

play up to those themselves met in Saxony today What one has to des

Al Wolverton, Attlee lat.1 rad "Every control, although utation on the freedom of theone, is an extension of free. arm to other people. We judge the Labour controls, therefore, insofar as are useful to the com- They Hongkong's tram service, Party's political morals and lis

Socialist theory uf govern- mivalty.

curious when in idle for the last 43 days, will

the Commons that although we Alter defended his seglare I probably start again tomor

Kreat many sprechen row morning, Mr S. C. Johns with a homely man-to-man purging that we do away with controls, those on the other Lon, General Manager of the

FALSE IMPRESSION side ask for controls in their company, told a Telegraph

Churchill asserted that the own interests. reporter this morning, that Sochalists, aping the Nazis and

maintenance Communists, he had anked

proceeding are the theory

"that if un men to start work at 1 p.m. today, and, unless any and widely White Horse, Yukon, Feb. serious snags occur, they as good us the truth."

with the affairs of following warnings against "re- have everything He said they have tried to is to deal

this nation a co-ordinated actionary attitudes" and Ex- 8. Royal Canadian Air should

poiled six

members morn-create the false impression that Force officials reported today ready by Lomorrow

Party

Enst belleves Amply whate and try to give fair and

German sources here square deals to all. bellies are the one thing that

said that the Government was that all 12 men aboard the ing.

The six-point proposal, voted will make Britons work.' C-47 which crashed in the

"When you get fair shares, set up hurriedly last November workers at by the

a meeting

and ile necused them of spreading

persons, politically Yukon yesterday were alive. Last night, is fully approved by the story that he sent

troops broadly

some people will get less, but, and

speaking, the great morally unsuitable bad gained The search plane that found the management, said Mr John- tu shoot striking Welsh coal

mass of the people are better responsible posts. It was also the transport radioed that all ston. This proposal, he revealed, maiers when he was Home off, and this country has never said that many of those arrested the Ameriena and Canadian

was drawn up by two represen-Secretary in 1910, although họ

been so healthy on it is today." were implicated in a corrüp- alive, tatives aboard were

the workers of crewmnon

the wors

and

used only unarmed Associated Press. ctually

tion case.—Reuter, but had suffered some injuries. himself two days

ago.

London policemen, including

broken leg, a

The six points ure:

"An extraordinary propaganda crushed chest and shock.

(1) All workers to be re-of falsehood has been spread in The plane crashed On A employed providing they return all directions by the Socialist mountain slope 85 miles west within a reasonable period. government," Mr Churchill said, of here. A mdio voleo trans-

(2) Maintenance men to re- "about the lamentable condi- mitter was dropped to the plane turn one day earlier than the tions in Great

mainly Britain, in order to obtain details

conductors and drivers.

under Conservative Purllaments Ground and air parties

between the wars." been dispatched to the area to rescue the survivors-United Press

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have

about

He claimed that in fuct Bri-

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(3) If the Government al- lows the deported trom men to rein- return, they should bo

toln was making Tremendous stated.

progress in home building, re- (4) The workers shall conduction of the working week, tinue to receive annual pay child weltare and freedom of to bargain for more Given Now Command increases, bonuses and pensions, labour

(5) The workers will receive money when the war broke out no pay during the suspension in 1930. London. Feb, 8. Major-

of the service, but reserve the Instead of the old ideal up- General Robert E. Urquhart, the man who led Britain's Alright to appeal through legal tifling the submerged one-tenth

channels.

of the nation, Churchill said, the borne Division at Arnhem, Hol-

(0) The $3 a day special Labour Party ideal was that of land, during the last war, is allowance to be left in abeyance "submerging the other nine- 10 Lake over command Malaya District - and

of

Farm arbitration..

its

Atomic

Energy Engines

Ships'

For British

London, Feb. 8-British scientists were officially reported Wednesday night ready with plans for pat ting from engines in the nation's ships and powder plants.

A Supply Ministry spokesman Top-level scientists represent- said that the cabinet will being the thres countries go into asked to study these projects conference Thursday at Har

well, Britain's atom head- The spokesman estimated that quarters. Information about within the next two months. it will take two years to build Further

the three countries' atomic re- the atom engines

The ships' engines will take search buildings will probably the 17th pending the result of the Dairy tenths down to their level. the form of a miniature atomic released after the talks.op

Soft-spoken Attlee, who, at

to go into Amerien Britain and Canada (Gurkha Regiment) Division

NEVER BEFORE 61, is eight years younger than pile small enough next month, the Wür. Office

Asked why the workers had his opponent, said that Laboure engine room of a destroyer, use a uniform method of releas

the spokesman said..

ing the results of their atomic announced tonight-Router.

suddenly dropped their planning used to be in terms of

Tho engine is to produce research the underdog

talks will take electricity for Britain's factories The Harwell Expedition Planned original claim for pay during the welfare

suspension period, Mr Johnston (under-privileged). Now, he and homes, will also use atomte into secount President Truman's

the sald,

is to help. all power,

announcement It will turn out steam September 23 Edmonton, Alberta, Feb. 8 sald, "The management would Sir Hubert Wilkos, noted never agree to that. We point- classes.

to drive power-producing tur- that an atomic explosion has the bines He strongly defended British explorer whose plan to ed out to them that nowhere

taken-place In Russiagotan

After similar conferences a thing mesh of government

Disclosure of Britain's plans go by submarine under Aretto the world had such ice from Alaska to Norway was happened before, and we were which some Brilons regard as for the Industrial application of Ontario last September, a num

the Conservatives not going to create a precedent." galling and

atomic easy came on the eveber of documents fonatomic Mr Johnston naked a deputa- have pledged to caso,

of American-British-Canadian, research were released from the ecret cafegory.Associated tion of the workers this morningWithout controls," "Attlee told talks on the release of atomid topor

(Contd on Page 5, Col. 5) his Watford audience, "we could research, secrets --

postponed in 1940 by the war, said on Wednesday. that he still proposes to make the expedition.

Associated Press.

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