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SOUTH CHINA MORNING POI

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Today's ・Wanther: Moderate or fresh. North winde, over- exes with intermition) artzale or light rain. Conflaming cold.

Noon Obervationer: Baremetris promtire, 1020,1 mbet., 20.12 in. Temperature, 81 deg, F. Dew point, 48 deg. F. Reisilve humidity, 91%. Wind direction, N by K. Wind foros, 1 kust..

High water: 7 ft. 6 în at 831 p.m. Low water: & in at 2.41 s.m. (Thursday).

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At the

Hongkong Telegraph.

VOL. V NO. 39

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1950.

Chinese-Soviet Treaty Of Alliance

American

Diplomats

Tackle Two Problems

Bangkok, Feb. 14. The conference of U.S. diplomata of the Far East today tackled two

urgent prob-

lems-an Asian alliance ngainst Communism and

ponce treaty for Japan

2

The diplomats also discussed work done under the Thilippine Heconstruction Act

The

20 diplomats buckled down to major questions after sessions of political,

reonomie and social reports.

A brief announcement on the Japanese penen Italy was at | the very least sure evidence the ! Touted States has not abandoned plans for an immediate treaty. believed frequently In

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Statement

saying, “vertain aspire te problem of conclusim of a purs Beaty with Japan"

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modi avtorany!

There warther the diplanals discussed frans of expediting the Azmaty it wens evident, however that the State Department has not altered its previous polas of insistion on the lingortance of an emly treaty. supported tay other Asiatic nations.

Dr Jessup's the diplomats are studying re-

of

nations to Aslan actions "Various suggestions which have been made in the past concern- ing the pondbility of mume kin of regional association in the area.

statement

The Pope Indisposed

Vatican City, Feb. 14- The Pope, propped up on pillows in bis austere bed- room in the Vatican Palace, today continued working despite a light attack of Infigenza,

personal physicians visited him this morning. diagnosed Infurniza with Inflammation of the throat slight temperature and a And ordered several days' root. All audiences have

for been cancelled until ther notice. --Reuter.

Italian Deputies In

Fist Fight

list-ald

14.-81x Italian

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after confidence

Rome, Feb,

Including

woman, drpolies

treated for bruises, biten werr Fand black-eyen at Parliament's

pol tonight fist fight during

debate on Bignor Al- motion

Govern elde de fiamperl's new ment,

Among them was thr Minin. Achille tei of Labour, Signor Mart

bitten on

left-wing Sustaina! tried to storm Deveral benches

who was

An

the bum as Communist

deputies

the Chelation

The 24-minute uproa

Wus

nked by Signor de Gasperi

unself.

In a speech on the internal situation, Signor de Guspert ve sald ferred to a meeting of left- wing deputies in Modena after the shouting of six strikers, an This parade " Modern he brought howls of protest from the left-wing members.

forward 1941 arked Chalian Deanserats

The Sicilian

11

He did not amplify this was understood, however, the Talks revolved around the much

pored Asian anti-Communist

The first part

was suggested Toy_the_Philippines and Thailand. Dr Jessup sad on Saturday winąłej past initial a The S mileary aliinmen i Asia, but if the ympatheti

would by

maliona hirietan god topeiber

panel returauksest one

The eturf stumbling bloc Tudin, which has been STICKAT

to the sidekinen in Asia's wed end wal

The Philippines, fe, have been cool toward Lary poet-Associated Press

EDITORIAL

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Communist de puls. Signor Salvatore Lamar-

Signed In Moscow

MAO PROMISED

CREDITS

Six Articles

London, Feb. 14.-Radio Moscow reported to- night the signing of a Chinese-Soviet treaty of alliance and a series of agreements, including a long-term Russian economie credit to China.

The Moscow broadcast said the treaty was negotiated by Marshal Stalin, Foreign Minister Andrei Vyshinsky, Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-tung and Chinese Communist Foreign Minister Chou En-Ini.

The communique said, "The negotiations which took place in an atmosphere of cordiality and friendly mutual understanding, confirmed the striving of both sides to strengthen in every way and to develop relations of friendship and co- operation between them as well as their desire to co-operate for the purpose of guaranteeing general peace and security of the nations.

The negotiations ended by the payments of deliveries of Indus-

nt aberint

the Kremlin

irint 01

A railway equipment February 14 uf i A teruty of Trom the USSI." friendships alliance and mutual nid between the Soviet Union

People's arut the Chinese publi

Agreements

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If

In

INVALID TREATY

broadcast tule that both M: Vyrhinsky

Proust RIT hou Enlai agreed in an ex hange of notes that the "corres. rhni, had Infitrated among the Chinese-Changchun tilway, poraling treaty and agreements

concluded on August 14, 194 Christian Democrat benches to Port Arthur and Dagens under

the Soviet between China and wards Signor de Gasperi when, which, afer the signing of the

Treaty

Umon have now presen

with Jupes the

berum he was seized by the Minister of

Chinese-Changchun entwny will ' valid " Labour, Signot Marozza

50 deputies of nil, pass into costialde ownership

said that Moscow

both the in the ensuing of the

People's Re・ Moscow Chinese

Peking overn· Campe will public, white Soviet

meals

to mu have agreed from Port Ar After valt attempts to restore be withdrawn

complete guarantee of the t under the Speaker of the House thur

dependent status of the Mon- Gruseppe Granchi

Run People's Republic Signor

remalt of the referendum of 1943 and the establishment with her the of diplomalle relations by Clunese People's Republic

governments agreed that Russ

parties Joined night

Cheapest Then Chamber ordered a 15-minute break

3

fer

Valing in the motion of con- flente is expected later tonight

Reuter,

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the

Au wertement 1 government of the USSI

ve to the gover ninet Chinese People's Reindlale CALE Lit

A Significant Mission

THE full significance of the visit lo Tokyo of the United States Combined Chiefs of Staff has still to make itself apparent, but cerfnin signs are unmistak. I able. There a growing consciousness from the In Washington that, at least armed

more services point of view, EL concrete line of policy is necessary in relation to the Far East. Politically and diplomatically the United States attitude to developments in China and its impact on the rest of Asia has been indecisive and seemingly lacking in practical states- manship. While professing concern for American interests in China, the State Department has done little or nothing to safeguard them. Events may yet justify such a policy and line of action, but for the moment it has the appearance of being unrealistic. Quite a different picture is `presented by American policy of defence In the Western Pacific. Some positke decisions were reached by the combined Chiefs of Staff as a result of their trip to the Orient, and the impression left is that General Omar Bradley and his colleagues have arrived at a very definite assessment of requirements for dealing with any Russian military expansion in the Pacific. One vital decision is the appointment of General MacArthur as supreme operational commander of US. in the Western army and navy forces

Pacific in the event of war. The announce- ment is likely to create a profound impres- sion throughout Asia, and certainly will not evoke popular reaction in the Kremlin. General Macarthur's brilliant military Leadership in Paelfie which finally drove the Japanese out of the key positions which they gained in 1941-42 has not been #forgotten, and if the cold war of the West should eventually become the shooting war of the East, America's outposts of

defence would be in the care of one of the must effeieni strategists and tactlefans General MacArthur's of the present era. appointment also marks a definite move Towards the co-ordination of the American armed forces, in that he would have, in the event of a war, control of the Western Pacific navy as

the army- well as

duties nad significant correlation of powers. Also to be taken into account is

which the

General stature political MacArthur has won for himself since he became Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers. Not all agree with MacArthur's policies and decrees, but none will deny his confidence and certainty of touch. It is unlikely that political considerations Influenced the combined Chiefs of Staff to appoint MacArthur operational supreme commander, but the fact that he has, through force of circumstances, undergone a political education during the past four and half years lends added significance to his selection. Moscow, through its propaganda organd, will undoubtedly Far attribute sinister motives to the Eastern conferences of the American combined 'Chiefs of Staff, and even more to the announcement that General MacArthur has already been named as the military man to safeguard the U.S. Western Pacific defence lines. But objec tive appraisal of the mission which General Bradley and his associates have just carried out permits only one con. clusion: that the United States is sensibly being prepared for the worst and is going to make as certain as possible that there shall be no second Pearl Harbour. The decision will do much to strengthen the confidence of those countries in the Orient which are ill-equipped to withstand alone any hostile attack from behind the Iron Curtain

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Edith

Moller

Inquiry Findings

COURT

CENSURES MASTER

The Marine Court of Inquiry this morning delivered their findings in the investigation of a collision between the ss Edith Moller and a fishing junk south of the Ninepins on January 24 which resulted in the deaths of two Chinese children.

were agreed that the The Court held that they actual extent of the fault and omission of Capt R. H. R. Hall, Master of the Edith Moller, was insufficient to justify the suspension or cancellation of his Certificate of Competency. "We are, however, of the opinion that censure, and we place his conduct merits the fallest our decision on record," said the Prezident, Mr J. Jolly. the Radio Operator, James "We find that Gilbert, failed to interpret correctly the order of the Master especially considering he must have been aware of his own inexperience, and we account for his actions by stressing his incompetency together with a lack of any sense of responsibility, both of which contributed in a high degree to the collision." the Court held.

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Churchill

Overflows Favours A

Direct Talk With Stalin

Edinburgh, Feb. 14. The Conservative leader, Mr Winston Churchill, today hinted that if he again be- came Prime Minister after- the General Election on February 23 he would per- sonally approach Marshal + Stalin "in a supremo effort"

to try to end the cold war.

"I cannot help coming back to this idea of another talk with Soviet Russia on the highest level', Mr Churchill declared at an election meeting here.

on me

"The idea appeals to me at a

upreme effort to bridge the gulf between the two worlds so that live their thout thu each can

friendship,

Icast

hatred of the cold war."

if not in

Discussing the stom Britain's wartime atom bomb, leader said, The Soviet Communist world has by far the greatest military

States London, Feb. 14The usual-

force, but the United ly lazy Thames river has start-

have the atom bomb, and now ed on

told that they a rampage through the we are

have a meadowlands picturesque

more terrible of thousand-fold southern England on Tuesday, manifestation of this awful flooding thousands of acres and power. forcing bankside residents flee for safety.

to

The River, swollen by

four Inches of rainfall in the past

within

two weeks, is rising hourly, and at some points reached two feet of the all-time record crest of the ruinous floods of 1947. Bright sunching burst

land at daybreak, but the Air

"When all is said and done, It is my belief that the superiority in the atom, if not indeed al- the monopoly of this frightful weapon in American hands, is the surest guarantee of world peace."

AMERICAN POWER · It is my earnest hope that we may find our way to some

and Exalted

august foundation for our safely that. Throughout the lower half of this grim und sombre balancing

on southern and Central Eng- Ministry far:enst more rain for Tuesday night.

England the Thames and other

more

power of the bomb," Mr Chur-

rivers had overrun their banks, chill said, adding, "When I say blocked highways,

and in-1 we I must not let you forgel undated business districts up to that we mean the United States, four feet. Seven citics and and it is their power which pro-

tects Thames

towns

not only

an Europe."

the along

for a stand-by

But no deaths or

ordered

injuries emergency. officials did

were reported,

not

beileve

and extraordinary there lapsca damage was any danger that the of 1947

would be repeated. is no threat to London or There is the suburbs, protected by em- bankments buttressed after the disastrous tidal flood 22 years

--United Press. The

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picture

above

shows

Britain, but

Alleging "one of the most administrative that have over taken Mr Churchill said that when Britain was spending such enormous sums upon her army, navy and air force, it was "very odd that we should not have been able to make the

atomic bomb for ourselves by now",

Mr Churchill said that at the girls fouling out over a flooded end of the last world war the

Berkshire, United States, Russia and Br Barden at Sonning.

were called "The where

the flouds are severe. thin

Big Londors Express Servicc.

Three". But with the decision taken by the British electorate In 1945 "we lost for the time being our place and rank in world offairs which we have gained and held throughout the . terrible days of struggle.”

Mr Churchill said that Mr Bevin, the Foreign Ernest Secretary, had followed in main essentials the "right course" in The execution foreign policy.

however, had of that polley, been "marred by many pitiful blunders"..

MINERS STILL

DEFIANT

The full fischnuts of the Court We also miss the fact that

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encumbere! cod

We the thal on the morning with her net or her trawks is of the 23rd January, 1950, the not mistress of her movements

Fattth Moller of 260 23 etarl

out of the not s en approaching uf

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Pittsburgh. Feb. 14.-Amer]- Anglo-ins

coal Ras she could if the were unen; ea's 372,000 soft Company. cumbered and it is the duty of today defied, for the second day approaching unemeumbered running, the order return to was making up to vessel to keep out of the way. work from the Government and We are fully satisfied that the Mr John L. Lewis, their union Hongkong from The Eastwards in Ane clear weather and that; Master had, at

parious tines, lender.

The broadenst said that both tonnage. Offical Number 172,808 way Chalmere

aba agreed

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would "hand over without Limited, of Queen's Building a pensation to the government of the Chinese People's Republic Hongkong. property feured

Soviet by economic orgaminations from

of the vessel was verbally instructed the Radio This "no contract-no work' Japanese owners in Manchuris the Master

Robert Henry Hall holding Operator that whenever re-walkout thus entered its ninth said Mr Vyshinsky Master's Certiflente

Mr Lewis and the of Com- lieving him for short periods a day today. Chou En-Ini

was to call him if he "Shw any employers

to are due meet Their notes that Russia would petency No 594 surd at Sin-

bid to apate on the 7th November. thing", but he should have in tomorrow for another "hand over without compensa.

sisted on his rending and signing draw up a new agreement. tion to the Peking government)

The last contract between Be the Master ¦ the Standing Orders and in tha all buildings of the former milit

to 284" (True)

him specie miters and the employers ex- case have given tary settlement in Peking.

pired on June Tathong orders in writing.

20, 1943. The and hoped for Chanel art at 8.13 he left the

Heuter THE SIX ARTICLES

We are aware of the very bride having handed over the

diffleult

problems Joanning According to Kyoda's transla-watch to James Gilbert who was which confront Owners operat Bon, the six articles

employed on board in the capa-ing vessels In Far Eastern city of Redin Operator and who

Waters, and we appreciate the alllance are:

(1) A treaty aimed at con-has no knowledge of the "Re-Wat

which Ship- Preventing Col- various problems taining new aggression by Japan gulations for

masters have to contend with as and any foreign power or cum-lisions at Sea."

a result of existing circum- 8.30 Aroun 1 connected bation of powers

he sighted two stances,

the but considering with Japan with the object of thing junks slightly

Edith Moller was approaching "In the port bow of the Edith Moller,

Is likely to be committing aggresion."

used by a variety of vessels case of such egression, the par-and it has been clearly estab-area which dies to the new agreement will shed that they were trawling in making or leaving the Port the Interchange military and il pair hending roughy North-West Master showed want of that

aid.

and being closehauled to star- attention and vigilance which other neceon of a Japanese bord.

(2)

When

ubout several

Is utways due when navigating peace tresty

as early as pos- hundred feet from them he made in such an area. sible by the allies who fought an altemtion to port of ten to In the last war.

¡ificen degrees by compass, but (3) The partics the al-at 8.53 the Edith Moller with the Lazice shall refrain telegraph still at-wall speech. ing into agreements with such struck the southerly junk that all was clear when he left ftreign powers as are inimical F 53 HA on the port side of the bridge but there is some her square stern and the sank, doubt in our minds concerning (4) Mutual consultations over with the trawl sull attached, in this matter and, in any event, major international problema.

approximate position

to the alliance,

on a

to

tant about 4.0 miles.

LOSS OF LIFE

on the

bust

SOME DOUBTS

The Master has assured

Commenting on developments in China Mr Churchill said that "the five hundred millions of China had fallen into the Com- but he never- munist sphere" theless did not regard China as having Onally accepted Sovlet "servitude".-Reuter.

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(6) "Cultural co-operation"nepan bearing 330 degrees dis- ficated Mate wo had left the based

spirit of equality and mutual respect for national Integrity and non-interference in each nation's internal affairs. (0). The alliance becomes effective thirty days following the date of ratification,

We have asked

to

We record with regret that a male child of between three and four years of age was killed and i We have carefully considered another male child is still miss all circumstances surrounding this most unfortunate accident, TWO ANNEXES

ourselves if and we are agreed that the The radio sald the alliance the want of obeying the Colli actual extent of his foult and

insuficient in any way omission is includes two annexes covering: sion Regulations

The extension of credits; contributed to the collision. Justify the suspension or can- b.) "The future status of the We feel that it did so and, cellation of his Certificate of We are, however Manchurian railways and Dairen in consequence, we are agreed Competency and Port Arthur.

that the proximate cause of the unanimously of the opinion that The amount of the credits collision was the failure of the bis conduct merits the fullest was not revealed. The Man Edith Moller to obey Articles censure, and we place our deel- churian annex provides for the 20, 23 and 24 of these Regula aion on record unconditional rehirn to China tons and there is no doubt in

We are fully satisfied that the

of

the Manchurian railways, our minds that the 8.8. "Edith Edith Moller stood by and made Dalmat arid Port Arthur im Moller must be held solely to every effort to shat the

(Contd. on Fage 5, Dal 1) blame for the", collision.

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