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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1950.

INDIA SCEPTICAL

OVER OVER

TIBET

No Credence Given To Reports That "It Is All Over"

British Support To Tibet In

Security Council

New Delhi, Nov. 14.

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Official Indian quarters today gave credence to reports that the Communists had en- tered Lhasa and that "it was all over" in Tibet.

They were also sceptical that Communist China and Tibet had agreed on peace terms.

These statements had earlier, been attributed to an Indian Government spokesman (the spokesman was reported to have said: "It is all over, Lhasa and Peking have been able to reach agreement over relations he-

tween Tibet and China").

re-

Conflicting reports were ceived here from Tibet today.

The Prime Minister, Pandit Nehru, was reported to have stated that, according to reports received by the Indian Govern- ment from Lhasa, the situation there was "entirely different from what was indicated by press reports."-Reuter,

BRITAIN'S STAND

London, Nov. 14.

Britain will give full support to the Tibetan complaint against Chinese intervention, which reached the Security Council

yesterday, diplomatic quarters in London believed tonight.

But it was thought unlikely that

delegation

the British

would itself sponsor the. Tibcian complaint. Sponsorship will be necessary in the case of Tibet's complaint against China since it comes from a State whch is not a member of the United Nations Organisation,

The

Volunteer Hand

Grenades!

San Francisco, Nov. 14. Peking Radlo announced tonight that students of the Yenching University in the Chinese capital had begun a fund for the pur- chase of hand grenades for those Chinese volunteers who

Icaving were dally for Korea "to fight shoulder to shoulder with the Korean People's Army."

The movement W3S spreading to other schools and organisations, the broadcast added-Reuter.

Colombia Offers Troops To U.N.

Washington, Nov. 14. Colombia today. offered a battalion of infantry to help the United Nations forces in Tibetan complaint the Korean fighting. It is the strongly protests against the first Latin

American republic fact that Chinese Communist to make such an offer. The troops crossed the Sino-Tibetan battalion would consist of about 1,080 "specially trained Army frontier into Tibet while nego- tiations on Tibet's future status troops.-United Press. was proceeding.

The precise instructions to be sent to the British delegation at Lake Success were still under discussion in London today.

CONDITIONAL

In the British view, the con- ditional British recognition of Chinese suzerainty over Tibet, contained in the 1911 agreement

with China-which was never ratified does not justify the use of force by Peking against Lhasa.

British recognition of Chinese suzerainty has always been con- ditional on the grant by China of full locul autonomy to Tibet. -Reuter.

Teeth For A Japan Allowed Large

Xmas Present

Korea, Nov. 14.

Pío Edgar Batten was looking for two front teeth and the bullet which knocked them out.

Describing tho ambush in which hc was caught with three other Marines near Wonsan, he said that the bullet knocked him in the mouth, left his lip bleeding and knocked out two front teeth. But ap- parently it dropped at his feet or he swallowed it, because there was no exit hole and he could not find it in his mouth,

Doctors promised Batten two new teeth for Christ- mas-United Press.

NEPALESE

CHARGES

Overdraft

On Sterling Area

Tokyo, Nov. 14.

The United Kingdom was believed to have in- dicated its intention to allow Japan an overdraft of up to £10,000,000 to £15,000,000 in order to help ease Japan's seasonal lack of sterling in its trade with the Sterling Area, according to the Jiji News Agency today.

settling Arab Spy Was Proud

The idea of allowing the overdraft apparently followed current difficulties in the question of payments which, are believed to be preventing |

Haifa, Nov. 14. Japan and Sterling Arca coun- The Haifa. District Court to- trics from signing the 1950-1951 day sentenced Shaukat Shellabi, trade agreement calling for an a 20-year-old Arab, to seven exchange of £186,000,000 worth years' imprisonment for "pre- of goods.

paring and attempting the col- Jiji sald that Japan, under lection of information prejudi- the

coming trade agreement, cial to national defence." would import £93,000,000 worth of goods from countries Before participating in the pact in ad- dition to £30,000,000 to £40,- 000,000 worth from such non- participants as Pakistan and New Delhi, Nov. 14.

Burma, The Indian Foreign Office

Japan's major imports of raw wheat and cotton informed General Singha, the wool, Nepalese Ambassador, when he concentrated between called there today that the al- and March of the following

hostile legation that

elements year while Japan's main ex-

of colton piecegoods, in-India-were--contrary to the rayon goods and machinery are. usually concentrated in the April to June period.

REFUTED

had been organised and trained porte facts.

The Ambassador was also assured that the Government of India would not allow Indian territory to be used as a base of operations for hostile activities against Nepal, as had also been alleged in last night's Nepalese Embassy statement.

King Tribhuvan of Nepal called today on the Indian Pre- sident, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, and later on Pandit Nehru, the Prime Minister.

The Government of India, it is understood, have not yet replied to the Nepalese Government's communication announcing 2 successor to King Tribhuvan,

The present position is that the King of Nepal, now in Delhi, is the legal sovereign of a State to whose Court the representa-

Little Jennifer Lyons, three, went into St. James Park in London, to feed a few forlorn little sparrows. - But the duck waddled onto the scene, ate much more than his rightful share of the food and the sparrows were left feeling more forlorn than before.

art October

These circumstances were responsible for causing Japan's sterling shortage during the five-month period beginning October, the Jiji news agency said-Reuter.

tives of India, Britain and United States are accredited.

the

Official circles added that the King, who is on a private visit to Delhi, is in no way associated with elements in the State.-Reuter.

the Nepalese Congress

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