1950-03-30 — Page 5

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1950.

Far East Looms Large

Ship Wrecked Off

Italian Coast

Naples, Mar. 22-The Israel steamship "Merkur” has been wrecked off the Southern Italian coast.

Ten of the crew of 17 "persons have been saved thus far by escar boats

Th from Vibo Valentia,

sinking

tercan Merkur wile en rule from Mes-

sine Sicily, to firma.----- United Press,

Harbour Collision Inquiry

Parliament

PEKING RECOGNITION

QUESTIONED

London, Mar. 29. British recognition of Communism in China was questioned in the House of Commons today.

Mr Leonard Gaminans, Conservative, asked if the Government had balanced the problematical benefits with the “undoubted dislike" of the action by Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

ja t'hion than to re-

There was also the en- which neght lave been given in couragement given to the Malaya, it was true there hack been en Increase of "bandit" Malayan "bandits" and then.ivity. but if it bad been danger of having Chinese affected by the events in China,

the t'omunists

con- he suggested R was much more in

Bets to have been due to the sulates of Malaya, he said.

Communist Chinese Army's Mr Kenneth Younger, the

Progres of State at the i new Minister

Foreign Offee replied that the conflem.

interests Asked how British tried to passenger (the Radlo Oliver of Government

in the Far East had benefited the Steel Navigator) were resbalance these consideration.

Younger by Unfortunately no

There was, he said, a division recognition, Mr

replied: "The Government's de- tions! between opinion

the Central 1D 10

the

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cued. WILS

two the other reri b!

Europos

| People's come! was based

pasrengers (Mer | about this question of recogit-jpo Penelope Osborne, pageMBH | tlun. on re Steel Navigator ansi David Feroy-Williams

of

& Co.). Val:

3. Valuable assis

tance in the rescue work was

rendered by unknown sampans

In the vicinity.

Ui

11feboat from

the

Stord Navigator in charge of the Chief Officer of

and Marine Palic that vergel,

Launch No, 18 in the charge of Sub-Insprefor F. H. Woods.

i

We comiler that the Austma- first sighted, was when

Fairway erving the Central et liqurly and had no claim is night of way Vader dinim 10 of 1899. Table M, (5), and we find that the coxsware of both vessels concerned consider. ed on this ocean

that

Australia was the "giving way" the Aint The

We "tanding on" slip.

and

tind

that the immediate cause of thi collision was the action

As for the

encouragement | P,

Plot To

Assassinate

Voroshilov

on the fuels of situation in China, which were such n tr require recognition according the standards of Interna- tional law and practice, not on a calculation of inme- liate benefits,

PENAL FINES

ስንፍ

con-

"British interests have tinued to encounter difficulties at various kinds since recugu- has tion, was accorded. Thia been in part due to the

conditions prevailing Honalist blockade and in part

No-

In

Sofia, Mar. 29.-Twenty- 91% Yugoslav and Bulgarian diversionists"

tlina." "spica and

Mr Walter Fletcher, Con- went on trial here today, on charges of plotting to as« | Fervative, ald that the first resulting fron step sassinate Marshal Klementi practical

recognition should be the stop- Soviet Vire Voroshilov,

ping of the "extortion of penil

European Premier, and members of monthly the Bulgarian Cabinet,

inesses in Chin Was the fovernment doin Alr Younger replied that the

Government was doing?

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The indictment says that they by the coxswain of the ferry were recrulled by "the Trat-uyghing about this? mayite esplenage centre Man To Whilst fully appa - clating the dieulty of decalinti Yugoslavia" to spy in Bakaria, British when the standing on verrel according to the Bulgarian news all it could.Itenter. should herself take netten as agency.. prescribed by the note to Attire They are accused of "errorist 21 of the Regulations for Pre-activities" and planning to bomb James Griffiths, rejected a sug- vesting Collisioa. we can for the Dimitrov Mausoleum

32'1

NO MARTIAL LAW The Colonial Secretary, Mr

Servicewomen's Re-Union At Albert Hall EISENHOWER

RA

A land girl in the 1914-18 war and a staff sergeant in the ATS in World is shown at the Albert HallWar 11, Miss Ruth Burton re-union chatting to Pte. E. E. James of Brixton. Miss Burton holds the M.B.E., among her several decora-

Brussels Pact Consultations

Paris, Mar. 29,~~~The Foreign Ministers of the five Brussels Pact nations. Iritalo, France, Belgium, thur Netherlands Luxembourg, will meet in Brussels on April 16 and

Foreign 17, 'the French Office announced today.

The Ministers whose countries are allied in the Brussels

tural defence pact are pledged to meet regularly to carry out the atliance.-United Press,

EUROPEAN

UNION HITS

Lastestion that inartial law should SNAGS

counter

etivity.

Mr

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Supports The

Kuerilla

tions.

Britain's Labour Unrest Breaks Into Open

London, Mar. 29.-Labour unrest burst into the open in Britain today for the first time since the Labour Party's narrow victory in the general election with a slowdown on docks and 2,700 mine workers, idled by two strikes for higher wages.

The Labour government has been enforcing a wagAN ||

freeze programme.

The strike at Bargoed Steam

Chiang Returns

Colliery involved 1,300 men, and To Mainland --Bleials could not estimate yet. For Few Hours

threatened production in any

National China's President!

there was a suong local denundertion that the Council of hilo at a colliery near Coventryanding was

the

the

European

of way

how many-South Wales col- [leries.

Five hundred surface workers and Commander - in - Chief, walked out in a wage dispute Generalisimo Chiang Kal-shek, involving two riggers and 800 returned to the China maintami underground workers. The hot for a few hours last week after Justine on for the action September when Marshal Vorn- imposed in Malaya to help

Communist affle als

calllery's

station

months of exlle on Formosa, taken by the M in the costwani shilov and Bulgarian

London, Mar. 20. Speaki¦ manned rachówhile by a skele-}

It is reported from Form this occasion. If he con-, reviewed a Murch Past on the

staff of officials. Union

Nation- Stewart in the foreign affairs debate in ton virth anniversary of the entry of

Ifenderron sidered

that the tea

that he accompanied today, Mr Ernest number

members scheduled

mass alist forces on their recond were sa clare that collision end Soviet troops to Bulgarm,

(National Liberal) urged tits, Parliament 712 Irial in being held

Bevin, the Foreign Secretary, not be avertel hy netion of the

meeting for later at

commando raid on the mainland raying that the position Australia alone, his duty was bo pubile in the Soila Palace

on Wednesday, March 22. The Twelve hundred work Balaya Bulgarian anl

was worsening and that contested Mr Winston Churchill's Take such action as word be: Justice,

made at Sanmun Were

dispute over wage rates fot aid to avert collision.; Me cpu- Foreign Journalk.te

Bay, 150 miles south of Shang- law as the only Ministers seemed to be acting cttal bot consider that slight alte mitted.

of controlling causly that they stood in working a new coal seam. Mine ha More than 50 witnesses and effective means to port whilst

elals said the new rates for tans of con

He withdrew with his forces Continuing at full spod const-experts will be heard. Heuter. the trouble.

Assembly.

working the seam had been Alr Githe replied, "During tuled that required action. In

recent weeks hendit activities "You may get resolutions car-agreed upon, but a number of on the same day. putting his helm to tarinand

have ineated reaction to rive in the Assembly without the mon decided on Wednesday and endeavouring to pa tre

or 10

protest, causing complete detalls worked out,

Visit Postponed our own intensified efforts, but any of the Man To, the trwała of the Australia was arting in

there has been no strong local responsibilities involved which stoppage.

Duck workers meanwhile Indefinitely cannot be applied without held mass meetings at three of there

duman for martid law, #ccordance with

The proposed visit to Hong- Jakona,

"The position of martial grave consideration," he said.

Observing that he was going London's biggest wharves, skous of General Marcel M, Car- PRIMARY CAUSE

law would not be an effective

Strasburg

tomorrow.

Ar campaign to halt all overtime Mar. 29-Speaking way of dealing with a situation to

Kained

momentum and pentier, Commander-in-Chief of the flotte of Commons! in which the Government's Devin said that one of the pro work

has been Madame Carpentier, techips,United Prea he was quate

postponed indefinitely. these night. Mr Anthony Eden, Con- police force and

was something in which one

The Generat and wife were two vessels sighted cach other.pentry, sid that the Sander the nunin requirements is the ure Britain could not accept.

alr by

ircin due tomorrow It was virtually to create an they were

positions Plan-lo

South-East develop

Saigon. rektive to each other and pro-Ashund form the extension of effective civil as

ministration

remote executive body in Europe that ceeding at such speeds that

2003 Artich action in Apa

rural

where Chinese was not elected by the people, which Parliament,

London, Mar. 29.-Parliamen- collision cou

could only be avoided That meant an effort to pr-

show papers

that SIX cault by majority in a very tary in predominate. by impedite and driestie action mote stable overnment

"Ail the power nocenstry |ONE The interval between first those countries and not merely! sighting the Australia and the to pay out millions of money can be taken by emergency res small group arrive at decisions Labour Members of Parliament which could be imposed upon voted with the Opposition early enllision, is estimated

the State. The House of Cum fodiny ngattest the GoveriAnent': agree to the motion to close the debate on ons would not Man To's coxswain

Seretse Khama-Reuter. Xunately

Bad-

Spender Plan

Lemon,

primary cause of this collision debate on foreign policy last principat instrument is the posals he would have to discuss Flowed loading and unloading of French Far East Forces,

We find however that

elsewhere. When

in such

ly

those

by the which without stable internal, Cunard Ganyanos (Con

at appro rondition, hart minute. Our estret. calculations uplicate that the! koper

Jittle Very

Mr

nor even by

With Opposition

Mrs. Roosevelt's

servative) ashed what was be the Government willing done to prevent Communistfor one moment.--Reuter. interval may have been same. end a strong delegation to apunts in disguise from volun- "Anti-Bandit for the what less than this. This post [Sydney," he ad. He added teering

in Malaya and being tion should never have arisen, that if the releases of stering Menth and would not have arisen, bad balances were to be regarded trepted.

Mr Griffiths replied that i vessel been handled with as part of this endeavour to im either due and seaman-like care

The | prove economic condition: involunteers for the Auti-Bandit

Munth Man To

were required to pro- was approachlug aAsin, then it ought to be clear-

which ver Hy

duce identity cards, except in stated. main fairway along

Most were nive

of all the the larger towns. Fels to which sh

The contribution

the through

Iveni The nations

towards ecommle recruited way might

associations lu And wwsstability

in Ask ought to be ufficials with

whom the applicants were and measured ne- by the preappraned

Eknown.--Reuter. Bence of the Steel Navigator,cordingly, he said.-Reuter.

b

Coxswain's vision

greatly restricted

The vision

port

of the coxswain of the Australia was restricted to

starboard to an oven

Breater SIDE GLANCES

extent by the same vessel and the was about to cross route along which ferries from the vehicular

the

nre

ferry pict

Hrith constantly plying. vessels were this in a position a motorist to that of a analogous entering a main highway at a blind corner

pedestrian leaving the pavement to cross the road ahead of a stationary bus. We consider that insuth- cient caution was exercised by

Veyson the coxswaina of both

in

or

Ar these circumstances and w! therefore recommend that the Sal Le, of Leung certificate coxswain of the Man To, be suspended for two months and unt the coxswain's certinate of Cheap

Ki, coxswain of the Australia, bo suspended for one month. We further recor mend that the possibility of in-

sound stailing more efficient signalling apparatus on small power driven craft be investi- gated.

We wish to pay tribute to the frankness with which both cox- owning gave evidence at this The mala facts were enquiry. therefore easily established and such minor differences as did exist could be

be readily altri

altributed to the different viewpoints of the wlinertes and the rapid of events. Wo also sequence

to thank the Government forward to coming give valuable evidence, and the officers in charge of the Marino Police and the Marine Licensing Officer for mustering the witnesses and supplying essen- tial information,

wish for

By Galbraith

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Judgment On

On Chiang

Lake Success, Mar. 29.-Mrs Eleanor Roose- velt said today that the Russians welcomed a pre- text walking out of the United Nations Human Rights Commission because they would have found it difficult to explain to the Soviet people why they opposed drafting of an international treaty guaranteeing the rights of individuals.

However, she continued,

it seemed futile to support the

Chinese Nationalists, Radio Hongkong|||

the

"Hongkong Calling" Pro-

Summary: 0.02

London Melodies-The Melnshrine

Cranme

whose

presence in United Nations was the 1.K.T. official reason given by the Soviet delegation for its 10- week boycott of the world organisation.

Mrs Roosevelt told a luncheon of the United Nations Corres- 'pondents Association:

Studio Orchestra 18BCTS): n.30, ta Demi-

Madame

Heure Francaise (Studio): 7, World New and News Analysis (London Relay 7, 19, Sports Review by B

7.30, Take It Philips (Studio); From Here"-Wilh Joy Nichols, Dick Bentley and Jimmy Edwards (DRCTS): 1, "From the Editorials" (London Belay: D.10, "Hongkong and Cal-Band of ́ R.M. Com- **Most of 13 feel the mandos.Introduced by Captain from the น Nationalists were given every David Jones (Relay opportunity to form a govern-Dragons Club, Kowloon); .40. "A

the Opera"-Puccini' ment representing all the people utterfly Act 3. With the Prin

And Chorus of They were urged to elpale Orelicstra of China.

Can- do 50 by Secretary of State Royal Opera House Itome.

ducted by Oliviero De Fabritis; Marshall. They also had ample.is. "Antarctie Venture" The opportunity to make reforms, to Story of the Falkland Island Do

Tie- appeal to the great masses of endeneles Survey Recorded

Tay): 10, Radio News Reel London the people. They didn't du ro

tely): 10,13, Weatlier Report; 10.16. In my Library-A Talk by 10.30, "I think that the Communism Hore Macaulay (BBCTS):

Thurmay

Pro Serenade A that resulted cannot be solely

gramme of Continuous Music Ar- the result of Russian help. It is

ranged by Betty Drown 11, "Soft quite evident that it is largely Lights and Sweet Music": 11.15. the result of the weak Nation- Weather Report. World Newa and Ifome News from Britain London alist government, which did not Relay Recorded): God Save The do what the Chinese people King: 11.30, Close Down wanted. To support the Nation- alists seems fulle don't very make well sea how we can any other decision, but our own decision must be the result of what Ambassador Jessup reports and what we decide for our lown good.”—United ProfS,

ZO. Rio de Janeiro, Mar. Crowds jammed Mo streets to- opTM day to witness the latest pearance of a "dying saucer. Reuter.

Promise Yourself

DISQUIETED BY OUTLOOK IN ASIA

Washington, Mar. 29.-General Dwight Eisen- hower today described him self as "very disturbed and alarmed” about Communist advances in Asia and he urged military and economic help to Asiatic nations resisting the Reds.

General Eisenhower told the Senate Appro- priations Committee that the picture in Asia was very discouraging" and suggested that Congress carefully consider "both economic and military, help" for that area.

He added that limited į million", mainly for anti-cust

work, the

Ainsan military aid for non-Com- marine

Kround forces, keeping the Alr munist Asia would give Force modernised and for in-

those countries "some sort dustrial mobilisation, of confidence" while econo-

TOO FAR mic help meant "a hope for He said the United States had tomorrow.".

"gone ng for in favour Lot economy" in

He did not believe war was imminent, but sild Amerlen war

ing enough for the Air Force,

warfare anti-submarine Alaskan defences.

An

He urged the United States to thrown open to the pubile, provide

military spendinst was wise,

and a coITIC "taking chances" by not spend-specific ways, ton far."

General Eisenhower's testi- mony at first was to have been

but the sterel,

hearing was It was understood President Tru- at

man wanted the general to stato airfields

This views publicly-United "comePress.

small garrison

each of its major ngainst the

I kind of afe attack of

est

the administrations As for proposed US$13,100,000,000 mill- tory budget, he said, "I would chage it fle" but added quickly that he thought there is possibility of meeting most of the situation pretty well" that figure.

"We ute fairly well on the

line proper

Deliveen economy Bust curity...but in certain details we have been cateless;," he he sald, He added that dworki

any not recommend drasle revision" but "I would | probably add

#few

No Crisis In Indo-China

Vict-

Paris, Mar. 20.-The namese Prime Minister, Nguyen Phan Longt, sald on his return Dalat today ia Saigon from that there was "no question of a Governmental crisis at pre- sent," according to an Agence France Presce report from Sai-

hundred on-Reuter,

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