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HONGKONG TELEGRAPEL, Fur and on behalf of

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LIIM

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Hongkong Telegraph.

WESTERN EUROPE NOT STRONG ENOUGH TO HALT AGGRESSOR

At Least Not Unaided

Washington, June 6.—General Omar Bradley said on Tuesday he sees no “immediate threat of war," but that Europe must be helped with free American arms to keep any aggressor from start- ing a war "by accident or design."

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that the forces in Europe are not enough to halt an aggres- sor right now, but are strong enough to be "a de- terrent."

He added that with Ume, the stront enough to hurl back at development of new wenpons, altack. But he said the strength and nil-out Innd, rea, and alrjof the Atlantic Pact partners had help from the United

ut egressed

Stater,

considerably

since

the free nation of Europe willst year when, he said, their

of chances of be able to hold their Europe.

only were

area

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successful defence "remote possibility." testified in thes

It now appears, he said, that General Bradley

will the ble to defend the bill to provide emselves, given enough time! support of $1,222,500,000 for the second

and help. The time, he said in year of American arms aid to

will response to a question.

non-Communist Europe and depend on Europe's own effests

Asia

He refused to gue: how long it would take to make Europu

Last Catholic

High Dignitary

Arrested

Vatican City,

June

sil "on

the development of

new weapons."

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1950.

Romping Home Four Ín Hand

Left to They are almost

Favourites in the Happiness Stakes are the Good quads, seen above romping hand in hand down the village street at Westerleigh in Gloucestershire. right, the girls are Frances, Elizabeth, Bridgett and Jennifer.

two years old. (London Express Service).

High Level Talks On S.E. Asia

Singapore, June 6.-

be talks will High-level hell tomorrow ou British South-East Asia affairs at the Johore residence of the South-East Commissioner- Malcolm General, Mr MacDonald.

He could ree little change in Russian strength or weakness over the past three years, Bul

the defection Yugoslavia as ons Communist reflinck which "may be followed by other countries eventually. Rearning Germany would be a good idea from a strictly mis-

The Commissioner-Gen- tury standpoint, Brudley sald.

eral and the Secretary of but politlenlly it cannot

Stale for the Colonien Alr done.

the At the

time,

James Grimths. will dis- "aid" zonbassador, W

Asian problems with cuss plugged, the leading representatives

from to a joint

Malaya. Singapåre; Sarawak and North the Senate Forelan

Borneo. Itenter, Armed Services Itelations and Monsignor Luigi Boga,

committe

Be urned relax. ing of existing restrictions on The Vatican newspaper, Os shipments of industrial equip

Europe to servatore Romano, printed out ment

to intres.ne the America's leaver this arrest that

Rumania their own arms production, Catholic Church in

6. The Vatican nunounced today that

Lanie

the last high Episcopal diga! forelan tary of the Catholic Church In Averell Harriman, Rumania ha been arrested

the Government.

Vicar-General of

of Alba Julia,

programmr by ↑ nems

the Dioce

meeting of

allies

Fable General Smuts

Speaking as a incmber of the Has Good Night

without Diocesan leaders,

After

all suppressing the North Atlantic Treaty Financial

June 6.-Eighty- Pretoria, Harriman re- Mr Greck Catholic Church diocesan Committee,

Jan Smuls, Committee's esti-year-old General leaders,

ported the with the arrest

European military who is ill with pneumonia, had bishops, the fumanian Govern-

mate that

in 1951 would be a good night last night, today's ment demanded the toccses production

the oficial bultetin aici. $300,000,000 above tabout the Latin Rite be reduced

of 1940. He did not two-Alba Julin and Jassi. It output

It added, "His cough is less give on estimate for the 1948 then arrested the Bishop of these

production. However despite troublesome and he was bright two dioceses last year,

morning. the that increase, he said, exist- and cheerful

on furnishing General Smuts' heart condition equipment continues to respond to trest-

the bulletin stated.- removed. United mint,"

The

Vicar-General of

Diocese of

Jassi died recently, lor Icaving Mons Boga as the of

Diocesan

last

ter,

restrictions

production prelale. Rou-should be

Prenk

EDITORIAL

Iculer.

A Long Overdue Project

TUIE Sino-British Club's decision

T

to

promote a campaign secking to bring about the building of a City Hall carns public congratulations, and active sup port. To overseas residents, accustomed to cultural life in town and countryside in almost any other part of the world, it is incredible that more than twenty years could elapse in Hongkong without an amenity which comes automatically into being in civilised society. Allowing by interference dictated for periodic pulitical events, the Government has been inexcusably loggard. And convletion has of affairs will grown that that state continue unless preasure can be exerted by eleur expression of public opinion. When the old Clly Hall was scrupped in the twenties, the Government of the day, profiting handsomely from the sale of a large part of the site to the Bank, pro mised a larger and better civic centre, an improvement on the good old days,' After the war, certain officials keen on fostering communlly life by providing to traditional elvic amenities well up standards, revived the project. It went so far, in fact, that a scheme to use part of the Hungkong Cricket Club ground in the heart of town was pubilely unnounced and the Club warned that they must not depend on retaining possession for more than one year. That project, for reasons not wholly explained, disappeared into a Since, nothing convenient pigeon-hole. has been done; no sign of any intention to get down to the job has appeared. That and Importance of city of the size Victoria should lack anything faintly resembling. Town Hall is an exceedingly dim reflection on those who have con. trolled the affairs of the Colony during comparatively recent years. --Old-recorda show that the iden of building a City

A

this

Hall originated in 1801, when the pro- pased erection of a Theatre and Assembly and 11 Hall was publicly discussed provisional committee formed to make the Plans were preliminary arrangements. approved in 1862. The Government of the day made a grant of a free site in 1864, and the foundation stone was laid on February 23, 1867, by the then Governor, Sir Richard Macdonnell. Two years later remarkably imposing building was opened by HRH Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, and the first performance was given in the Theatre Royal, a wing of the City Hall, by the Amateur Dramatic Club. That such an important personage should be associated with the City Hall reflected the inhabitants of the age in

long-felt

a

realisation

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Deadly Epidemic Sweeps Large Areas Of North Sudan

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Morrison Plays Rival To Woolton In Wooing The Liberals

London, June 6-The Deputy Prime Minis-]

ter, Mr Herbert Morrison, the Labour Govern-

ment's chief strategist, tonight made a flag-out WoodcockForced appeal to "progressive Liberals" to vote Labour at the next General Election.

Hitherto, most of the political wooing of the Liberals who polled 2,500,000 votes at the February Election-has been taken by the Con- servative Party, whose advances have been re- pulsed.

Missing In Affair

Of Generals

Mr Morrison, making a speech in the Ross and Cromarty

Scotland, County

during his Highland holiday, said that in the past

and the Highlands Welnada of Scotland were strong- hold of beralism, and even did better the Liberala there than in most other parts.

But be added that today it

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To Retire

tre Savold, of the United Stales, bent tho British ' champion, Bruce Woodesek, in four rounds for this World Heavyweight title

(British version) at the White City last night.

Woodcook retired at the end of the fourth round with a badly cut left eye.

Full story of the fight appears on Pare G.

BRIGGS

faced two great dangers. PLAN

"Its Parliamentary strength as weakened very much," he

declared.

(The Liberals are only ping strong in the present House of Commons).

GETS

UNDER WAY

Rio de Janeiro, June 6.- M. Roger Peyre, wanted by the French police on 翡 charge of corruption and

Singapore, June 6-The trafficking in influence, has

secret "Briggs Pion" for disappeared from his flat in

"And the other danger is breaking the back of the Aranjeiras, a Rio suburb. that many Liberal lenders have

Last week M. Peyre told moved to the Right compared Communist guerilla warfare days of David Lloyd in Malaya is getting under Reuters that he was about to with

And it somewhat way tomorrow. board a plane for New York George and

distinguish their and Brussels, and that he would cult

Late today Lieutenant General Sir Harold Briggs, the of pro-vatives)"

Director of Operations, had al- returning to tection before

Mr Morrison asserted that ready deployed his forces and Paris

to tell his version of the what the country needed of the announced that a total dusk-to- alfnir of the General

Election was a Govern- dawn curfew would be enforced He said at tint time that he next

he had ment with a working majority from tomorrow night over the wond

that prove

and an adequate Opposition. southern half of Johore Stale. nothing to do with recret mill-

The Royal. Suffolk Regiment iary documents which last year

The present Labour Govern has been shifted from Selangor not into the hands of the Vielmont, which has been predicted to play a leading part in the

to

Khartoum, June 6-Hundreds of people have wait in Belgium for French policy from the Tories (Conser~ died and thousands have been stricken by an epi-Government arsurance demic of deadly cerebro spinal meningitis, now sweeping vast areas of the Northern Sudan.

Much heavier toll is feared before the plague is halted.

The medical authorities here. declaring the whole Khartoum Province

affected warned the people not to kiss or their children, their wives

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area.

and to sleep out in the open

abso The authorities have placed a ban on large gatherings and linkted crowds at coffee huures: parks, restaurants and other places.

Schools

inve

and

BELGIUM'S

NEXT

PREMIER

may spring an election in the operations, supported by Royal an absolute ma-Air Force Aghters and bombers. autumn, has jority of only six and an effec-

The authorities here describe tive majority of nine-Reuter.

'he "Brings Plán" ne "thorough and painstaking." but said that pcelàcular results were not ex- réted at any stage of the trive, which they expected would

aver extend

Day nonths.

Clemency Sought

For Murderer

minh insurgent Government Indo-China, but added that he a ride" "taken for a feared being because he knew 100 much.

As the "missing witness" in Generals, M. The affair of the

charged Peyre was

by the Parliamentary Investigating been Commission with having

"coniset man" in the scandal General Georges involving G.-M. Maric Brussels, June

Revers and General I closed

tele- churches aud cinema: have been Jean Duvibusart, out-going Charits Mast.

Catholic Minister for Eco- Today, an anonymous

Bonn, June 4.-The caller suggested

North Rhinc advised to take precautions.

Reports trickling from Darfur nomic Affairs, was tipped as phone

Reuters that M. Peyre, who Government of

requested th channels have Premier-designate of Bela Brazil as few Brazilians Westph Ba has

the British Commander-in-Chief in

Germany

Private to pardon through official told of thousands of cases and gium, after the resignation do, might have fed into Gundreds of deatha in that pro- today of the Liberal-Catholic fastnesses of the Matto Grosso

Gordon Kenneth Linsel), of the Coalition under the Prime dense jungle forest of the in-

Black Watch, who was terior, which he visited on an M. Sudan Minister,

Gaston today the

Expedition many years ago-deinned to death last month for the murder of a German police- Agent, Mc E. C. Hazelden, sald Eyskens. that

been bad the epidemic checked in Darfur.

vince alone.

In Cairo

The Cabinet formally re- gut following the victory of In Khartoum Province, more the Catholic Party in last Sun- than 100 cases were reported say's General Elections, called decide the issue of King for the last week in May. The to

from volun- authorities said that the plague Leopold's return was increasing there despite the tary exile.

beca rst rains which it had hoped would lead to a decline.

waves years.

Reuter.

to

won.

The Provincla}

State

con-

Minister of

Operation On the Interior. De Waller Menzel

Ali Khan

In the Segamat area of Johore today guerillas ruided a Chinese quatter settlement, a.rangled a woman and bayonetted a youth in death--Reuler,

Demonstrators Carried Away

Paris, June 6-Twenty-six peace demonstrators were car

wrote to Lieutenant-General "led off by the police tonight Charles Keightley,

when they lay down in front nsking fo

of his the National Assembly. Temency in the name

When told to leave the pre- Goverment, a British spokis-!

mires. thoir leader, the man said.

armed ex-Service lawyer, M. "I'm not

one-

His wife was among taken to the police station.

They were later released- Reuter.

those

M. Albertide Viechower.

Boston, June 6-The Pukis- Catholle Minister of the Interior

In Henri Marcals, sald. Linsell is nt present and tan Prime Minister, Mr Liaquat in the

Eyskens Cabinol, COMES IN WAVES

King's un-Ali Khan, was operated on at Bielefeld Prison waiting for a moving." protagonist of the

passed on him by a British The disease hits the Sudan in conditional return to the throne, the New England Baptist Ilos-review of the death sentence

about every eight or 10 sold tonight, "The formation ofpital here today for goltre.

The operation went "very Court Martial in Duesseldorf on was a new Cabinet is a matter of an The last epidemic

and the Prime May 25,-Reuter. satisfactorily" hour." in 1942.

The Catholics were ready to Minister should make "a very

satisfactory recovery," Mr Hazelden announced to undertake a single-Party Gov- day that Egypt had offered to crament, though King Leopold doctor's bulletin sald.

with soine mission

lime ago said that he The Begum Ali Khan under- send a medical supplies to aid the fight against would not return unless there went an operation yesterday for of her appendix among the the removal said, how were agreement the epidemic. He

the situation ever. that

Liberals and Catholics, and the and a stone in the gall bladder. Soelallets who oppose him.

She, too, was reported to be "under control."--Reuter.

The Regent, accepting M. Janking good progress, Eyskens' resignation. asked him

Departure

WILA

the

The Prime Minister and the

Lo carry on as Caretaker until Begum have

Just concluded a United States and

a new government is sworn in,tour of the -Reuter.

Canada-Reuter.

the prisons of a long felt want, weds For Hongkong Scotland Yard On

old structure embodied n museum,

library, two public

large

assembly rooms, frequently used for Prevented

lectures, concerts and national societies' annual balls. Famous artistes made good use of the theatre, much to the enjoy ment and benefit of the public, If as far back as 1861, when the population syas not one-tenth of the figure prevailing today, such a civic centre was considered essential, It is surely regrettable that such an urgent need has been ignored for so many years. Incidentally, the Sino- British Club would appear to answer the 'Municipal Council problem. Such no institution deserves vigorous backing. Assured that the Club would press for many improvements, long overdue, taking their programme step by step, this would nchieve results more greatly appreciated by the community as a whole than any form of municipal council, which might casily become overwhelmed by the im portance of its unimportance,

New Delhi, June G.-The Ave. member Tibet oflcial mision arrived 10 Communist China here today, after their depar ture for Hongkong had been

prevented by Calcutta security police on the grounds that they

and no proper transit visas.

The members of the mission

"Illustrious" Case

London, June 6. Scotland Yard joined the Admiralty on Tuesday in an investigation of a suspected Communist attempts to set fire to Bri- tain's aircraft carrier Illustrious on May Day.

will meet the Indian Foreign

The Admiralty issued a brief veligations Secretary, Mr K P. S. Menon communique saying that three greas," here tomorrow to ask help to magnesium flares continue their journey.

aro

were found

ard..still in pro-

members

Naval authorides sold Scot- In the boiler of the 23,000-ton and Yard.detectives had join- It was carrying fed the inquiry, They said the Communists officers possibility that The mission, who hold Indian carrier while And Burmese Government visas, senior British naval

And some* of Britain's most planted, the Bares could not be to have understood not firllish translt visas to permit erat aircraft-to the launching ruled out until investigations

of the carrier Ark Royal. It is are completed. All them to cross from Hongkong

beleved that the heat of the of the crew were questioned. into China.

hollers was intended to set are "It could have been a dis The mission has been invited to the flares.

gruntled crew member, "..one rfficial Baid. "On the other by the Peking Government to hold talks in Chinese territory No explosion occurred, and hand, the date of the incident across the Hongkong border on there was no damage, or casuals may er barn-significant."United Tibet's political future-Heuler. Ucz," the Admiralty said. "In-Press, se debem

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