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Bevin Answers Questions On Arms And Oil

London, Mar. 15. Mr Ernest Bevin, the Foreign Secretary, deprecated the linking in Parliament today of the British supply of arms in Iraq with the question of reopening the Haifa- Iraq pipeline.

"It would be far better if Members wanting an answer about the pipeline would ask questions about the pipeline and not about the supply of arms to Iraq," he said,

him, in view of Britain's in- timate treaty relationship with Iraq, to discuss this question "because the mere hostility of the Arah of Middle

Mr Somerset de Chair, are now closed, by the Egyptian Conservative, hud urged and Iraqi Government-Reuter.

PEACE, NOT WAR Washington, March 15.-The state Department sald today that some of the warlike state- ments made recently by officinis Eastern governments have been made for

may

League towards Israel can- poses of

..f internal consumption not for ever close the supply

of oil from Kirkun Haifa."

to

The State Department reiterated

its conviction that peace rather than war in the prospect in the Middle East, despite the fears of A Labour Member, Mr disturbances expressed by some In that Woodrow Wynti, asked whether officials and the press Britain had obtained any under-region.

Congressional Necord taking from Irag about reopen→

tetter from Assis- ing the pipeline before recently published a supplying her with arty

151

The

tant Secretary of Slate Jack

McFall

Democratic L

:-

Mr Bevin replied: "No. Any resentative Thomas Lane, who Arms supplied to fg by the prac

had written to the State D- Government British

protesting

ngainst fulfilment of our ubligationspartment

to the Middle under the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty,arma shipments

He said he had discussed the

try concerned,

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Mr McFalt wrote: "A re- question with every Aruba connewat of the Arch-Israell con

includhu Iraq, and the feeling was "very let would be a tragic develop- ment which must not take lense,"

Government place. This

17:0 watch DA been keeping close developments affecting Poles- Mr Bevin did not reply when tine, and on analysis of avali

Labour Member, Mr

tan able Information does not war- if the British Mikardo, naked

taken in taxpayer must go on indefinitely rant the conclusion that serious

are being

for a renewal of

paying for

arm to co to Iraq

measures preparation

that were used to prevent the the hostiliter. British from getting sterling out,

The pipeline has been closed AROUSED PASSIONS since the Palestine war, causing

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1950.

Colllery Under Reconstruction

A general view of Mosley Common colllery, Boothstown, Lancashire, showing a modern pithead. The colliery is being reconstructed, and the comple tion of half the coal prepara- tion plant marks the end of the first stage of the work. The total cost of reconstrue- tion will be more than £500.- A minimum of 600 tons 000 of coal will be treated every hour, or, working two shifts, 8,000 tons per day,

NSW

Shah

Declares

Strategic Persia Needs U.S. Aid

Karachi, Mar. 15.-The Shah of Porsia, Mohammed Raza Pahlevi, said hero today that if the economics of the

bo East countries could strengthened, "tho

LABOURtion of an ideological bloc would be easy," accord

PREMIER NOT

TO RESIGN

Sydney, Mar. 16. Mr James McGira, New South Wales Labour Premier, to- "There most certainly have night changed his mind the loss of an annual output of been inflammatory and bellicose about resigning as head of statements made in both the

pany's refineries here today re-quick jeeled the Company's dismissal

cool.

Some of pronouncements

of Near Eastern have been made for the

order, and demanded that they oficiufs

be "lak off" when the refineries covernments may close down,

This would amount 10 a holi-tic consunni Purpose of domes-

day

with pay while the refineries

radio and

suine

to re-

present,

the

ing to a Government press note.

Answering 12 questions

compiled by a Government appointed committee,

the

Shah, who is now on a visit here, was quoted as saying that "close-sentimental. ties" existed between the the Middle countries of

East, but they had to be "cemented by some mate-} rinlistic ideas."

Referring to Marshall

Ald

MINDSZENTY

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Vatican City, Mar. 15.- The well-informed Catholic

New Guinea Issue Is Thorny One

Mar.

15.

Djakarta, Indonesian leaders are most certain to make

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The delicious

for the Inclusion of Dutch New 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m. Guinea in the new Republic has grown to such an extent that the Government, which in fight- Ing for popular support, dare not ignore it, this source said,

Dutch and In- Informed donesian sources agreed that unless the Netherlands Govern- ment give way on this and other Issues a serious split in Union relations may follow,

In fact, they said, high-level representations are being made to have the conference post- poned for several months he- cause the present time is con- sidered "too dangerous."

The New Guinea question was due to be settled this year but the Netherlands Government did be not expect the matter to brought up at the initial con- ference.

It had no objection to putting the maller on the agenda, it was funderstood, but would rather g

na further at this stage than to appoint a Commission to investi- gate the question.

lieved

Netherlands anxious to

Well-informed circles here be the that Government was keep control of New Guinea in! order-to-have_a_volce_in_any

future defence policy for South- cast Asia-Reuter.

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They suggested the Car- agency said was in the hospital of a posts in the Administration of 2.00, 4.45, 7.15 & 9.45 p.m. dinal

prison, and that the the new State should Budapest Communist Hungarian govern-served for native Eritreans and JAN of ARC

The Shah, who returned here information

about 4,000,000 tons of oil for the sterling area.

Arab and Israeli Press concern-the Labour group in Prime The Iraqi

Minister, ing a renewal of the fighting State Parliament. Muzahim Ainin Pachachi, satd While such an attitude on the

Io had announced his inten

and the Point Four plan for day that the health of Hun- last December that Iraq would part of journalists la deplorable

a written

ald to under-developed areas refuse to reopen the pipeline and harmful to the eventual tion to resign in

(outlined in Point Four of Pre-gary's imprisoned Catholic

Josef Statesident until the Palestine problem was establishment of good relations statement to the Parliamentary

Arab group after the Party's

Truman's Inaugural Primate, between Israel and the

hnd to endorse solved. Reuter,

address in January 1949), the Mindszenty, siates, with bitter fighting only Executive refused

said that Persia in the

worse recently, REFINERIES CLOSE so recently terminated, it would four of his Parliamentary sup Shab

that porters ns Labour candidates in

past had been a "proud coun-

The agency sold the Cardinal Halfe, Mar. 16.-Workers in lie too much to expect

to But

Was he agreed relain try and had begged help from

sulfering from Basedow'S Comhghly aroused passions should the forthcoming State Election. the

Mar. 15. The Anglo-Iranian Oil

Asmara, the

leadership of the group after a nobody."

Association "Now we cannot be prouder disease, a goltre allment which Party caucus had asked him to

the causes protruding eyeballs and Italo-Eritrean than Britain, France and reconalder his decision.

accompanying spells of delirium, other treat nations.

by today asked the United Na illness wag caised He became Premier in 1947.

"My country is in one of the The Observers and interpreted his

most strategic positions in the strong drugs administered to tions five-power Commission on Eritrea for an indepen- | That make him declare things con- world," the Sbah said.

conscience," Arident Eritrea. The letter continued: "This decision to resign as disclosing

not belleve serious split In the New South

is why the prosperity of Persia trary to his the most

said. are running on a caretaker basis Government does

is important to world problems. of the Party

the United The remains for pending an increase in the de- that the remarks of Individual Wales Labour Party, liveries of crude oil.

press commentators powerful branch

States to decide which way she The Company announced last should be taken us a reliable in- in Australia.-Router.

is able to extend help to my month that most of the workers lention of any serious or im- COSGROVE'S MOVE

crrent

country."

ment had retused the ilungurian that Ethfople should be given would be dismissed by June 1.mediate intent on the part of the

Mar, 16. Hobart, Tarmani,a

on his Recess to the Red Sea through only plant maintenance men respective governments

VERY IMPRESSED being retained.

a "free zone" ut Massawa and hostilities. At

Mr Robert Cosgrove, dissolved

said: "It is believed that Assab. Crude oll formerly reached the the relations between the ArabThe Labour Prime Minister,

from a tour of East Israel are governed the Tasmanian House of As- yesterday

the Hungarian Government refineries by tanker through the States and

armistice agreements rembly today for an early and West Pakistan, sald he was

Cardinal may die in feels the Suez Canal

and the pipe-line by valid

States In Election, passably in mid-Apri. very impressed that in the short .from Iraq. Both these channels signed by then

OF Pakistan's He did so

niter the Assem-period carly months on 1940.

history, prison, and has alreany wltempt U.N. SUPERVISION bly's Speaker, Mr W. G, Weed, "this nation has been able to ed to cure him by sending han Nations trusiceship.

the mountains of Slovakia,

Mr Astaha Wolde Michael, of three Independents meter such military might. R

of the Eritrean "In these agreements

Phone: 58335%/W partien committed themselves holding the balance of power Inis encouraging and gratifying to but now has decided to try a Vice-President

that this neighbourly and new cure in the prison hospital." Association of Ethiopia, who

The Cardinul was sentenced Ito refrain from further the House, had announced his

to represent 192,000 brotherly country has such an

life tam on anti-State Eritreans living in the country17 Hankow Road, Kowloon. acts of hostility, and the execu-Intention to resign-Reuter,

outstanding military forco at its

they all declared thant charges-United Press. tion of the

command."

REPORT DENIED

annexation by Ethiopia. agreementa

In an address to the Pakistan d by

Bucharest, Parliament today, the Shah said

The Commission-on That

during his tour he had American mdio correspondent's

Monsignor Gerald Pakistan Burma, South Africa, particularly admirett

the di- report that

O'Hara, the Papal Nuncle in Guatemala, and Norway are re- lechnique and cipline, health, equipment of the Pakistan Navy, tumma, would soon be at-presented--is to propose a solu rested on espionage charges, was tion for Italy's former Red Seu Army and Air Force.

British administration since its He said that since Pakistan described here today as without colony, which has been under stages of and Persia had similar beliefs foundation.

a similar creed, "it will be

correspondent in rapture in the early iritdin Venlee, Mar. 15.-Red perfectly logical to state that Home claimed his information the war-Reuter.

most reliable of them will stand united came from "the in St Mark's to

maintain peace in this part sources at the Vatican.

Monsignor O'Hara is occupy- the heart of of the world."

The Shah appealed in his ing his paince as usual.

Reuter mea- to the Big Powers to According to a "come to the reller of the sage from New York, the ADC

INDIA KNOWS

COMMUNISTS'

provision of

the one

the

15 being activers United Nations on the spot in Pales-

ASSAM PLOT tine. There representatives

have reported tranquil.

that the area is Should a threat to

New Delhi, Mar. 15 peace arise in the Near East. 1 India's Deputy Prime Minis-would ter. Sardar Vallabhai Patel, United replied in the affirmative to and

be the duty of the representatives

Nations the Stoles concerned to

which re-

a question in the Indian port this development to the

tion that there had been an

outside India,

to a

Security Council,

As conflict.

stated

PROTEST PARADES IN

VENICE

ofed raid on the village tions to this end. Should such province, where Communist-led

States

Osca

a

The ABC

Mar. 16. An

Falling independence,

favoured Asacciation

claimed

DEFENCE

the

United

which

and avert this correspondent in Rome reported PLAN STILL

The Shah is leaving for homo tomorrow morning-Reuter.

CURFEW LIFTED

Parliament today whether mains charged with the main- any Communist plan for tenance of peace in Palestine flags flew

"In considering the export of Square, in dislocating the Governments to the Near East from the of the Enstern Indian Pro- United States and from other Venice, today as protesting vince of Ansom had been countries, the Department has strikers paraded through dress the the gondola city against smaller discovered.

constantly kept in mind

of poverty and its evil last night that, according to the But he negatived the sugges-danger of enhancing the Pyesterilny's shooting of five state

cluility

of a renewal

Rumanian Government, three of the workers by the Italian consequences." Palestine

runs had confessed to spying infitration of Communists from an analysis of all intor police.

for the Vatren and the United above

Strikers' road blocka 4180

States. The Government alleged The Member who asked themation available to us does not

serious prepara paralysed traffe throughout the questions had referred Mr Patel indicate any

Bombay, Mar. 15. The cur-that they had implicated Bishop. near Galliali, about United

Information be received, the

unions are staging a 30- tew has been lifted in all areas O'Hara, ke said.-Reuter. of Bombay, and the city is nor- Government trade six weeks

hour protest.

days of The to have been

were the mat again after two only frame

police precautions Influence in an attempt to pre- armoured cars manned by steel- stringent by th

the ralders.

"potential trouble armed with against helmeted police Mr Palel said that the raid vent such eventually, both in Nations and out was organised by stroup of the United

rifles and tommy-guns, grimly makers." Revolutionary Communist side."

patrolling the tense aren around Breda engineering works, Mr

did not the Party of India for the purpose

McFall'a leter of collecting funds,

identify the government of in- where the five men were wound- He added that the case was dividuals who made the alleged ed last night in an angry de against factory pronouncements.monstration under investigation-Reu-warlike

dismissals.

express This morning the train from Trieste arrived "hero

with hour late an windows after being stoned by strikers along the Ilne,

perty was slat which pre- I would be quick to use all of 10

looted

the

stilt

ter.

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"He'll keep that up until someone offers him a cigarette,"

USSR Envoy To Pakistan

Prahawar, were

The police today arrested 24 people-two of whom ing the total number of arreats carrying lethal weapons-bring- so far to 264.-Reuter.

smashed Students To

All further trains were halt-

ed in the area.

Outside Venice,

the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. Prince Mohammed Abdul, was held up and was unable to continue his Journey to Switzerland.

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London, Mar. 15-Dim- culties about the financing and co-ordination of Brus- sels Pact military defence plans lie behind the decision to hold a joint meeting of the Foreign Ministers, De- Mfence Ministers and Finance Russian Ambassador to Pakistan, next month, it was learned Alexander G. Stetzenko, the first Ministers in the middle of arrived in Peshawar tonight ac-

reliable usually companied by his wife and 17 from members of his staff.

source in London today, Ho had travelled from Russia

and his These via Afghanistan. Ho

10 by the French will leave by train for referred party Karacht

M. Robert tomorrow

Minister, evening. Foreign

in Parts yesterday, Schuman, Reuter.

M. Schuman was reported to Brussels have said that the Fact

still lacked powers

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