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Three Planes

Missing

New York. Mar. Air Rnd

nea

5

searchers

scouted Lake Michigan and the Allantle Ocean off Rhode Island today, hunt- ing for three aeroplanes missing with a total of 10

persons obeard.

twin-engined

Alr #lx

ntar

Force C-45, carrying men, radioed it was nlog out of cas last night, then crashed and vanished In 10 stormy watern of Lake Michigan, Near Westerly, Rhode Island. with private planes two four

persons aboard collided in the air the coast and disappeared early yesterday morning.

The Coast Guard re- ported that Its culter Sundew picked up a body four and a quarter millen east of Milwaukee today. The area is about 25 miles -north-of-the-point where the twin-enginest transport plane

belleved 1 AVILN have gone down-United Press

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VOL. V NO. 54

China Swept

By Plagues & Epidemics

Free-For-All In French Assembly

Paris, Mar. 5.-The French labour crisis deepened tonight as fighting broke out in the Na- |tional Assembly arena again and Paris transport workers voted to strike at 5 a.m. Monday for an indefinite period.

the government's anti- The marathon debato on

Communist charge of sabotage bill, interrupted by u Right Wing benches, was resumed at 9 p.m. but Com- munist deputies continued stalling tactles with winded peeches from the tribune.

Inrults were

long-

the with

The decision to strike, which sheen thwartet in the afternoon.

the ression, complete break- Throughout followed the

Interrupted between Communisla down of

of negotiations unlan leaders and the Transwinging of the!: desk Tids and port Ministry, was taken at a catcalls, mass meeting of 3,000 subway from all-recko-of-tha Chan-

here

Republ Popular her offer the and autobus

Parre Dantiajoin, who claim higher pay and on run

de pity. of 3,000 defending his amendment re- Interim wake bonus francs monthly.

ucing the penalty for rabotar- Communist, Catholic and Segility afd hipments from "albt tronsport unions tacked death the strike move.

Free

employees

FISTICUFFS

for all Bghting broke out again in the Assembly as 40 list-swinging Communist de- puties charged the Right Wing during the debale.

the

Bald:

10 Imprisonment, "People who would stop thes: hipments are not traitat 5. under They have just fail propaganda."

Moderates end Nhâlials want the penalty reduced because the verminent would not sentence

by Ruards quickly block-violators to denth but probably

would put them in gnol.

The Communists have ordered trandle their followers not to

ed Cominunists trying to cruss

Assembly

but floor, San Francisco, Mar 5-rimeted security forces were

es military shipments to French Peking Radio reported to trapped between swaying masses

that day

widespread of shouting depuller-Commu-Indo-China--where the French- plagues and epidemics are nist shoving toward the right supported Bao Dai is struggling and tight Wing deputies push-gainst the muerlins of Moscow- sweeping over China. It ing toward the Leftist deputies. trained Ho Chi-mh-or from

States or The United reported that the outbreaks

are

Onc

The

No one was hurt, but clothes Atlantic Pact nations. extending throughout were torn, A Sociullat deputy the country.

sounded the sirens for evacuat h the chamber and the session The radio said that an anti-was suspended until tempere

Communist wh plague team with enough vee-cooled cine for

million people ruded ried to bypass the line of guards from Manchuria to the southernby leaping to the stenographers the tribune was most tip of Kwangaung province, table beneath Another team went to Futien stopped by a flying tackle. province, the southeastern coast The Communist attack was-United Press.

as well as Chahar, adjacent to ted by Deputy Manchuri

Antonie Gr who jumped over his bench and ran for the Right Wing deputy who had

Smallpox vaccine was urbed Alfred Code-Floret,

to Stukiang, Szechuan, Honan,tust shouted across the As- Shantung, and Anhwei prviner endly hall at him: "Shut up. while diphtheria experts have you common ertmina!!”

also gone to Shangtung Honan, the Communist broad- rast reported.

other

met a Few Assembly after the Premier hours Georgen Bidault, faced with the Tabour critis In mnet rerious two years, promised the lower

workers "remedy for salaried injve tice" but aid the bat op budget most not be jeopardised

Heavy Polling In

Greek Elections

Athens, March 5.-Greeks i The Assembly still had to dis-swarined to the polla today to pose of some 22 amendments to register their votes in the coun the anti-sabotage bill and try's first general election since Sperial clinic: ar being appeared the resumed session 1910. established on the baths of the would continue well part mid- Yellow River to combat Kala night, Communist deputies had azy fever, the Radio raiti, mid-

held the floor during most of ing that the production of rerums the afternoon in un attempt lo and vaccines is being spended shut down the bill.

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rench the Nightigt benches had sociated Press.

EDITORIAL

THE

Despite early morning rain, queues formed early at polling and other stations in Athens

centres, although voting bik to was low in country areas.--As-

Hard Bargaining And Chaos.

of the THE eleventh-hour settlement

American cont strike appeared almost out of the blue, to break grave fears of economic chaos and make unnecessary the drastic step of seizing the mines, which would have minimised the national emer- gency while creating an atmosphere of has That Mr Lewis grealer tension. apparently achieved an unexpected victory fa not likely to earn him heartfelt con- gratulations, except possibly from the recalcitrant miners. What is not so certain is whether this in the end of the struggle, or the beginning of a new approach by higher quarters. Strikes always end ant some time or other. But the fact that in the United States coal strikes occur so frequently and that they almost always require intervention by the government before the men get back to their job, and that on

renched agreement is seldom

before widespread damage has been done to the operations of their primary indus- irles-this is puzzling. At well-timed intervals for many years Mr Lewis han The put pressure on the mine-owners. Ürst stage automatically is án oftempt to` settlement. bargain for n compromise And yet, ns the conclusions of the recently created Truman fact-finding board reveal, neither side has discovered how to bargain reasonably and intelligently. On the face of things, over the years, Mr Lewis has improved the lot of the miners immensely. Wages have gone up appreciably. Signifi- cantly, however, the number of miners has dropped by more than one-third, with the inference that persistent friction -driven many to get out and find more placid conditions. For those that remain. This has been of assistance. A shortage Increases their bargaining position. When

has

in

A sirike is called, stockpiles above ground are not in that quantity to prevent the carly development of unemployment other industries, the laying off of thou- with the sands of men not concerned

Trains original collision of interests.

Steel mills are services are cancelled. compelled to close down. And so it goes Con- on, like a snowball In its effect. ditions today are more disturbing than they were prior to the Pacific War. Then Mr Lewis had complete command over his Union and could get the members back to work, if he said the word. On the occasion, he avolded a devastating fine from the Federal Judge, Mr Keech, only because he could satisfy the Court that the order to return had been given and that it had been disobeyed. That, however, is not the greatest concern of the government. Its real interest, the public interest, demands some form of action which precludes this sort of anarchy. In other words, the and the agreement between Mr Lewis

cool operators should not be regarded as closing the book. It might be valuable, for future reference, if President Truman established immediately a further. fnet- Binding board directed to make a thorough investigation of the mining industry and a betler suggest methods of bringing sense of order into play. Something on the same lines

be Bug. might

The chief gested for Hongkong also. difficulty in retting industrial disputes settled and avoiding either walk-outs or lock-outs, is a lack of adequate machinery for fair examination of the points of friction. It matters little where the main fault lles. It can be overcome by Govern- ment Initiative and direction. The main object should be to develop a greater con- fidence on both sides.

MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1950.

Widespread Nationalists'

Air Raids

Tatpeh, Mar, 5-Na'lon- nlist warplanes based on Hainan Island today struck alone the Kwangtung Coast, hitting Canton, Shumchun

from Hongkong and Kongmoon near Macao.

the

17

Scrosa

The gun duel between defenders Nationalist

1.

Amoy and the Communists on the neighbouring Namoa Island is Increasing In tempo, official sourers said. These sources sald there have been

several landing attempts recently. the Tuneshan Island is

smali island soull of only Klugmen

s in Nation- at barefo Kinemen Les between Amoy and For- mosa

the weat of the re- fugee Nationalist govern- meni.

An aflick I dispatch from "Hollow, capital of Hainan Island, again charged that 1)IC Chinese

Cominnintata were sending troops from Kwanc'ung PEDYINCA Into French Indo-China to fight with the rel

But rebels there. No details were given.

There were after_se Ports also that the Com- munists in Kwangal pro- vince have been assaulted repeatedly and that a total of 600 soldiers have been kliled-United Press,

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Sun Fo Maintenance Case: Defendant Fails

To Appear In Court

Lengthy argument as to whether it was necessay or not for Dr Sun Fo to appear in person to answer a summons claiming custody and maintenance of Sun Joan Sun, alias Lily Sun, aged 13, ensued at Central this morning between Sir Man-kam Lo, appearing for Sun Fo, and Mr M. A. da Silva, who is representing the complainant, Nancy Nyi, the first concubine of Sun Fo between 1933 and 1937.

The hearing was before Mr Hin-shing Lo and the Court was largely attended with a good sprinkling of well-dressed Chinese women.

Sir Man-kam Lo, referring to the hearing on February 10, when Mr Silva raised the point that Mr Y. K. Kau (who deputised for Sir Man-kam) could not give a plea and that Mr Kan should have offered some explanation for time non- appearance of Sun Fo, said that whether it was necessary for the defendant to up- pear was purely a matter of law and not a matter of courtesy or discourtesy. it was not in the tradition of the legal profession for an advocate to draw the atten- It was the greatest respect that an tion of the Court to the absence of a client. advocate could pay to a Court was that the Court was capable of looking after its own dignity and of punishing-any-discourtesy.

Sir Man-kam Fald that he was surprised that Mr Slivn had asked for ari authority to be produced to show that this was a civil case and that a plea need not be taken His Worship, he

seld, sat in criminal as well as civil jurisdiction.

Referring to Ordinance 48 of 1935, under which the case was brought, Sir Mon-kun queried whether the section referring

Fuel Oil Convoy On Way To Canton

Fu-l oil convoys on the Hongkong-Canton road have now become a common sight-and they have been the subjret of recent attacks by Nationalist war planes. This picture shows one of the convoys en route to Canton.-Photograph by NEA.

U.S. Soft Coal Strike Over:

New Wage Contract

Washington, Mar. 5.-John L. Lewis and the soft coal operators signed a new soft coal wage contract today that will start 370,000 striking miners streaming back to the pits immediately.

After signing the contract, Lewis immediately dispatched telegrams ordering his miners to return to the pits immediately. The first of the returning miners are expected to report on the midnight shift tonight. The back-to-work ment probably will be in full force for the 1 a.m. shift.

move-

3. Elimination of the "willing detalls worked out by lawyers A representative of the 20-

Union and the opera called "captive mino" owners and able" clause in the old con- for the cald the new contract, which tract under which Lewis called tom

The miners

were Jubilant provides for a 70 cents dailyudden strikes.

the contract gave raise for miners and a 10 per- 4. Limitation of holiday although

something less than the cent increase In operator con- remembrance perioda for mine them tributions to the welfare fund, disasters to five days per year. concesions which Lewis wrest- from some small Indepen- would raise coal production

The contract calls for tome d Cox about 25 per cent.

administrative changes in the dent producers. The new con- runs, until July 1, 1952, Lewis and representatives of welfare fund, The neutral tract

can be reopened Ly either the operators affixed

their trustee will be Josephine Roche, but

on July 1, 1951.-United signatures to the document as now director of the fund and a part movie and newsreel cameramen union employee. She replaced Pres. ground away. The signing for Senator Styles Bridges, who re- mally dissolved th: nire signed. month-old

deadlock contract

EXCLUSIVE AGENT that plunged the nation into an

closed shop To handlo the economic crisis.

issue, Illegal under the Toft-

cruuing those owixed by mem-in the coal pers

of the Producers

Southern

was

Demonstration Mars Visit

Wan

to the custody of infants was a crimla l matter. There not one syllable to say that it was a criminal offence.

Egypt's Role In The Middle East

Cairo, Mar. 5.-Egypt's role in Middle East defence hos been discussed nt i

conference by fortnight's

"How can a civil application before the Supreme Court be her diplomatic envoye to the reme a criminal one before this world's main capitala, an

sald Court,"

Sir Man-kain official

dis- "With the greatest respect, I

communique

have never heard such utter closed here tonight.

nonsense In all my life,"

The communique Usled the

Sir Man-kam sald that it was following subjects *a baving unarguable that this was purely been discussed:

of Egyptian

a civil matter and thero was no (1) Decisions reached at the question of taking a plea. The recent conference summons stated that tho defenenvoys to the Arab capitals.

(2) Erypt's national aspira- dani was called upon to show cause why an order should notions be made against him.

CANNOT BE COMPELLED

"It is absolutely sumelent for

(3) World peace.

between the (4) Relations Eastern and Western blocs.

(0) The Arab collective security pact.

(0) An lelam-Christian rap- prochement to Aght Commun-

me to say that this is a civil case and that the rieferfant cannot be compelled to attend ism.

in a civil matter," he added. (7) Economic and social

"In this case all your Worship | nitaira.

can do is to order payment of (8) Consular treaties with

$10 week and it is recover foreign powita.

able by civil debt. I do not

admit that this is quasat criminal. 1 do not think that this summons is

criminal one; there is no

question

posing impr

The option of a

of ins

without

proceeded

(9), The United Nations

RIGHT RESERVED

The communique said that the conference discussed the sub- Jeels from every angle, reser- tuving the nation's right as an authorities and concluded effective, peace-loving member

Sir Man-kam quole

by saying that Mr Silva was ut-of the United Nations. terly wrong in raising his objec

ob. the cunfereare dis- should not servers,

with Britain cussed relations from the political and economic viwepaints, including Egypt's Sterling balancez.

According to informed

tion the

nt previous hearing. law the defendant appear and I take the fullest responsibility for having advise Dr Sun Fo not to appear and he is not appearing today," zald..

he

Other *questions Heussed

Counsel then said he had u were sigps to explain Egypi's -

the form of

ttle complaint to make as to atitude towards the Big Powern summons on the and the role played by her to ground that it did not state protect the Middle East against developments which what order the complainant was "serious" secking. "I complain that this may threaten world peace.” summons does not give me in- formation as to what order the complainant asks for. My friend saya that he has not seen the summons; I am not surprised. I am not asking for an adjourn ment or anything like that."

(Contd. on Page 5, Col. 1)

The conference

pointed out the necessity for taking "more measures to defeat effective

spread against propaganda Egypt abroad," and for giving more power to Egypt's diplo- malle representatives in foreign capitals. Reuter.

State Opening Of Parliament

Today: Duke's Ordeal

London, Mar. 5.---The 41-| robing room. The Royal Family year-old Duke of Norfolk will enter the Chamber of the will face the biggest ordeal House of Lords after a further

"backward-headed" at tomorrow's State open and the King, with Peers and ing of Parliament-his Commoners standing silently.

procession

LEWIS'S TELEGRAM Hartley law, the contract pro- Tunis, Mar. 5.-Five persons Unexpectedly, the agreement videa that UMW will be the ex-were injured and there aressed covered ali zots coal mines, inclusive union bargaining agent during an attempted Let Wing famous backwards walk to will lead the Queen to a Throne

George to the beside his own.

Princess Elizabeth will sit in Industry until the demoreiration which mard the lead King Coal Federal courts

a chale at a lower level. decide whether arrival of the U. S. Ambarsador Throne,

to France, Mr David Bruce, in The the provision is constitutional. Association.

The King's speech is expected Bernard Marmaduke FitzAlan Southerners, who are

respon

At the moment the contract Tunla yesterday,

a cautious Govern- aimed,

€200.000

Mr Bruce, who is making an Holand, 10th of his line and to revest for nearly one-four of

someon

No reference is air tour of French North Afrien, England's premier Duke, has toment polley. the nation's production of soft workers were idle in

backwards through aexpected to "dynamite" zubjects been into the miners themselves, will be guest of the French Pre-walk coal yearly, had no

Jean Mons, atlabyrinth of corridors gazing such as steel nationalization, for Italtrident General. hospitals eluged in the agitement reach-schools were closed

chilled from lack of fuel, coal La Marsa, near Carthage, during fixedly at the King without the which a law has already been 10 riay

twitch of a face muscle

passed, but which need not be being his stay. electricity were

The demonstration occurred as Lewis sent the following bric! and

But an

an Britain's Earl Marshal, put into operation le.cgiam to ul United Mine rationed and railway truffle was

of the time. was visiting the American in supremo command Workers districts: "Our contacin 'n sharply cut basis. An in-he

at Tunis-ceremonies on State occasions, The Conservative Opposition,

the been approved by policy cum-dustry spokesman cald it might Consulate General

he has always done

Job whose leader, Mr Winston Chur- milteo and execu.cd by the two weeks or more before Associated Press.

without tripping up.

will be informed of the Dituminous coal operators, Ad coal started flowing into the

The Duke will meet the King contents of the Royal speech to- Blanes will resume work."

can, if it cares, attack the in Anal form, tho contract quantity.

-Two Parliament, when with Princess Lewis

were Elizabeth, the Heir Presumptive meni,

called for:

depleted stockpiles any JOHORE, AMBUSH

the

Singapore, operators

Маг

chill

for some

and Queen at the entrance of rnment at an early mo-

9 the Throne, they arrive after Conservative opinion is divi- State drive from the Palace ded whether the Party should for the King's speech from the challenge the Government now. Mr Churchill and his "Shadow" will meet early this Throne.

Following the Duke of Nor Cabinet

and 1. A 10-cent wage increase signed the contract immediately Malay special constables

a British assistant | was approved by the killed and

thro! and for miners, raising daily pay to after t

manager 200-man union'n

wage policy estate

were US$14.75.

which had been Malay special constables 2. Ten cents per ton increase committee,

The vote seriously wounded when they by all day. industry payments

was a mere formality, For all were ambushed on the Eldrid miners welfare au retirem practical purposes, the agree estate the Sgamat bo' . King and Queen will weak to decide their policy- rund, bringing the total to ment

when Johore concluded

yesterday afternoon. ¡l} rents per lon.

Lewis nodded assent to legall was announced today, Reuter, I walk slowly towards the Royal Reuter,

to the

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