Australian ic overseasP.O. Box 38 Telephone 23F(Es;GeLoc: .14 Cl;t Office, Sydney, a newspaper.TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1946Published Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday Subscription G/- a quarter tin advaticc), 7/- bookedRK'OR OF MALTADouglas, M.P., has been appointed lor nf Malta in succession to l.leutenaiit-hrciher. K.C'.B., D.S.O.. who recently Douglas was born in Canada in 1889. Jmvcrsity. Hr has been a Member of since lOlU. He served as Parliamentary mentary Sccrclary, Ministry of Kdura. ms since l.een Parliamentary Private ir. llr has served ns a member of the lie Anglo-Srottish Railway Assessment ;s Loan Hoard, anil also as- Chairman London County Council. Hr- is Chair-i Select Committee on the Estimates, entail Mr. Douglas* resignation »f bisDouglas with his Scots wife, in theirjff Attachere:ret organisation:rets” OfetaiinedOTTAWA, Tuesday, ought and obtained top secret pol-to British and American policies, the final report pf the Royal Com-ling that there exists in Canada a nd directed by Russian agents in.y? lt;‘AThought for To-day tCttvo every snno thine ear, but %few thy voicc. lt;$Take cach man's censure but lt;?reserve thy judgment, $$ VSENTENCED 10in-tIsetheoi‘Vlier$iiiywthe1A*(«5n-ianfi-ra-hntfuliralterlIhotil:vnlvOd.■ at :rct [lotleal tme i ini thet’kirn-igh di-i of *11-as-ivll hip en-Ive, i ofinstoreiblchatjst-uk,ling2CSSnn-liolrGen. Mikhailovitch and ChefniksBE LG RADK, TiiCSClay.General Mlkhollovltch and other Chctniku sentenced to death yesterday, were given eight and a half hours in which to appeal. They were told that they had the rigfct' lo appeal to the Presidium of the Yugoslav Parliament, but because of shortness of time for appeals, rumors spread (hat the executions might be carried out quickly. There were unconfirmed reports that the executions would take place In private.COURT PRESIDKN'T BITTERAm attack on British and American Officers in Liaison will; Mikhaltovltch. was delivered by the president ol the Court (Djordjevireh* before sentencing the Chetulk leader to death.These British ai d American n Ulcers were constantly pushing Mikhnilovitch to fight. against the Cciuinunl.sts. and .‘.n reality inducing him to collaborate with the invader In the struggle against wi uprising of the people. They were an expression of certain ;rrcles abroad which wanted to further their own Interests in the Balkans and not the Untercsts or the Balkan, peoples. lie added.OFFICERS ARE NAMEDDJordJovitch named Ma.ior Hudson, Colonel Bailey. Hrigndier M. Matter-r«on and Colonel MeDewell as in-r\i vid uni iy responslhie.An American j».urji,ihst. Hay Brooke, was held responsible for the dissemination or false nropapanda praising and explaining Mil:hallVilch‘;i treacherous work.*1ttrrxjE___fAmerica Signs British Loan BillWASHINGTON, Tuesday.President Truman has signed the British Loan JTtll. Ho said, ■•The loan goes far to remove the danger of rival antagonistic economic b ocs. The Anglo-American agreement 13 not directed against any oth'T country. The trade system wo sock is open to the 5I11H0 ini; terms to all the United Nation:}. jThe lt;j-'nin£ ceremony was attended by a la rue Catherine o: i-otabies, in chiding the British Aiuhnssaiior (Lord Iuvcrciiapel) and the Secretary of Slate (tVr. Byrne*).JVIr. Truman lined *«W pens to sign the :nensurc and handed them to the principal visitors oh souvenirs.HOSPiTAL BENEFIT FUND Last OpportunityIn the advertising section of this issue, persons who contribute to any local hospital fund, or to the Hospitals Benefits Association with headquarters at Orange, arc informed that they may arrange to transfer to the Hospitals Contribution Fund of N.S.W. (which operates State-wide) without loss of benefits.The K.B.A., and all local contributory fluids, were compelled by legislation to terminate at .Oth June, hut. during July only, members arc given the opportunity ot linking up with the State-wide Fund through which benefits may be obtained by the contributor, and by cach dependent in any public nr licensed private hospital in N-S.W.. for a period of 10 weeks in each year.Member; who arc not paid up to the end ot‘ ’June should send the membership book, with amount- owing, plus a. payment toward advance membership, lo the secretary of the local public hospital, or the Hospitals Benefits Association. Box 120, Orange.Those members who woro paid in advance a I the end of Juno should send the membership book, with letter applying for transfer, to either the secretary of the local hospital or the Hospital Benefits Association.Under no circumstances will a transfer be considered after 31st July; a mattor of particular interest, to persons the age of GO or over, who will not be accepted a.*: new members to ttic State Fund./The rate of contribution as from July 1 is Oil per week only, for a family (Husband, wife and children up to tho age of 17 years) or male adult: and ad for females of any age, and persons under 21 years of age.Maternity benefits aro available to those who pay Gd per week.Tho Secretary of the H.B.A. is negotiating with the new Fund to keep the Ornngo office open as the Central and Western branch office of the Hospitals Contribution Fund of N.S.W.r*»,s Hght For mifionRIGHTS AS A LEADING BELLIGERENTThe Question of Peace TreatiesNEW YORK, Tuesday. Although it is nearly a year since the Pacific fighting ended the first peace treaty has not yet been effected. We are between two worlds, one dead and the other powerless to be born,” declared Dr. Evatt in a broadcast last night.“One result of this uncertainly and instability, is that the United Nations, formed to maintain pence, do not know what pence it has 10 maintain, nor whether Justice and democracy are to i*e its guiding principles.'1“If justice is sacrificed tho seeds for n new armed conflict will be sown. The world needs an orderly structure in which ti: carry on peaceful pursuits; but. even order and Mability are not enough. /.AUSTRALIA'S RIGHTS“From the beginning, Austra’ia has insisted upon its right, as one of live leading belligerents, particularly, thal the nations which had borne the brunt of the fighting, are aosolntoly entitled to a corresponding share in the peacemaking.“Australia, at every stage, has tried f to insure that democratic procedures arc adopted. While The war was still raging, Australia, like other belligerents, acquiesced that the Powers with the largest lorces were entitled to play the dominant role in war strategy; but Australin has consistently protested against action licing tnkon prejudicial to a settlement in accordance with tho principles and procedures of justice and democracy.THE GREAT POWERS“Wo regarded with great, and growing concern, the gradual revelation of Great Power understandings and commitments which have :» decisive bearing on questions which should be taken up by the belligerents as a whole; but the Big Throe has not consulted other belligerents regarding them.CONCESSIONS TO RUSSIA“For example, there was tho granting of territorial concessions in tho Notth-wcst Pacific *o Russia. Such I prior bargains almost hopelessly prejudiced final settlements.J “Despite Australian and Nev: Zoa-I land protests, scant consideration wasauthority which has never been granted yThe major Powers purported to act in the interests of all other belligerents.THE JAPANESE SURRENDER“A. jiimtlnr attempt to brush Australasia aside was mado in the Japanese surrender instrument, which at first pro; oscd to mention inly four Power .s. one of which was Russia, a uatlun which only participated in the Pacific war for a very few days.“It was only after utrong protest by Australia that we and other Pacific belligerents were graciously permitted to sign the surrender Instrument.“Small belliorrnts also were excluded from adnhv^rativo agencies and jurisdictions administering enemy territories in Europe.Dr. Evntl expressed the opinion that most of the trouble \:\ tho post-armistice administration in Europe would have been avoided if all activc belligerents had been consulted,Bidault In F;jueorgc Bid-ault, French Itcpubl i c u n leader, recently denied Chief of State, has made m 0 r e 1 r o jr r css in French political c i r c I e sthan many observers had believed possible.ARMEDFORfB/“The stage in 1 armed conflict if t fore n political sett occlarod the Prcm'i mg on the anuoun and Indian troops drawn from tho \ East Indies except the Rhio Avchipeln SJnhrh uddvd. •“! Allied-coin rolled ;i Sumatra, in Dutch presenting the Du! beach heads threat He said tho ban 01 additional Dutch f Sumatra was cSSci the perimeters.TWO MENMELB A post-mortem bodies cif William but Frederick Dew in the river at the that they had been inr been shot in t Dew was shot tl; nud Shcargohl thro head.CHILDREN MURDERED SN M “To Improve the German RDOCTOR AND ASSISTANTS ON fVIENA doctor and two women assistants are on t Austrian Court on charges of the mass children.111 given to smaller belig^crents. even hi diseases.The doctor is Ernest Illlng (-12). *■ psychiatrist, and his assistants, women doctors Marianna Tuork (32) and Mar-garcthe Heubsch (13).Tho hospital where the children died was used for children up tn 18 years afflicted with mental, lung, and otherthe European armistice arrangements. Tho names of lessor belligerent:: have not. oven been menttunod apecificially in tho armistice term., where the Powers are conferring upon themselves anGIRL’S fa:sPolice have rove; old girl who allege man had almost bush at Pagewood had admitted that true.Last night she tlt; accompanied a bo; HMs at Pagewood. has been cliarget nal knowledge ofEnglish CiforAfrican Contingent Arrives in England for Victory ParadeAfter two years lighting In Burma, loll Mjldicrb from the 82nd West African Division were called .may from thrir jungle p:ilrols and brought straight to England un the ‘•Mauretania” for the Victory Parade. Nearly all these mew were decorated, and most had. fought in the Abyssinian campaign. This Division became one ol the finest lighting forces in Burma, and suffered heavy casualties.Plcturc shows: A group nf West Africans resting in the sun. They have come straight from roundlng-up patrols in Burma. Most of them have either the Military Medal or the British Empire Medal.ir.ATOMIC SECRETS TO BE WITHHELDiWorld-Contro! System Must be First CreatedWASHINGTON, Tuesday.The United Stales will not destroy its atomic bombs nor yield atomic secrets, until an effective world-control system is created, declared John Hancock, member of the American delegation of United States Atomic Commission, addressing the Institute on atomic information.He said that at least the United States must insist that violations be punished swiftly and certainly, and operations of ihe atomic authority must net be interfered with by the veto device. r. JAPANESE SCIENTISTSJapanese scientists knew more about atomic energy at tho time Hiroshima was bombort than the Americans ‘believed, Dr. Philip Morrison, of tho Los Alamos atom project, fold tho institute on world control of atomic energy.Dr. Morrlaou said he and otherAmericans talked wltu Profoupor Ni-shiua. one of Japan'n foremost physicists. about n month after Hiroshima was bombed. They wore amazed at tho professor's intelligent questions mi the b«-nib, indicating his awareness. Obviously the bomb was no secret, to N’l-sfcinn. iSIAM’S APPEALNEW YORK. Tuesday. Slam has formally asked the Security Council lo intervene in the border dispute .with Frcnch Indo-Chlnn.The charges allege that defendants gave tho children an overdone of veronal, luminol and morphine,MERC1* KILLINGSIlling admitted killing a “certain numbor of children. He claimed lie was shown, In 1942, in Berlin, a letter ordering the mercy killing of men-talJy-deficicnt children.Illing said I10 was informed that thin order could not be published as law “for foreign political reasoun.All tho accused claimed that tho alleged murders wore ordered by Berlin to “purify and improve the physical standard?,- cf the German race.Two doctors, Jokclius and Hyde, ,who wore allegedly implicated in the ‘ . * mass killings of children at Stelnhof to J 01 Austria Hospital, near Vienna, are missing, j X,Jckelius, who allegedly killed thousands | A,wu«t bv * of mentally-doficlent adults, was one. ^ “J* a“reported engaged to Paula Hitler, the 1 Fnhrer’s Hstcr and hnusckeoper. nol juht ^ ^travel, although t phatic that it woi Idea nf air travel.Australia, a few cd the Dominion transrort. A Don last night stated ing at tho end oJ ister of Transport the day and the a assured tlioy rueDinny Pails Criticises WimbledonInsolent And UnnecessaryMELBOURNE. Tuesday.Dinny Pails* criticism of tho umpiring at Wimbledon, and htn statement that, to get on. players had to bow to pettifogging officials, were conaldcrod as insolent and unnecessary by the Lawn Tennis Association Inst i#lt',ht.Mr. H. A. Pitt, senior vIco-president, said the statements were to bo regretted. •Sir Norman Brookes (president) stated that as Palls had not boon sponsored by t.ho L.T.A.A. 110 action could bo taken at present.It was pointed out by Gordon Rennick, N.S.W. delegate, that N.S.W. hail tnkon notice of the report and would deal, with the matter when Pails returned.It. was made known at the meeting that tho Yugoslavian players are anxious to play tho intorzone final of tho Davis Cup hi Sydney. That being so. there may be a complete alteration of the dates of the intorsUtc lournnmonts. However, it was dccidcd to await word from Yugoslavia before making any ai-toraliun.ATOMIC BOMB FORECASTMELBOURNE, Tuesday.Dr. Karl Compton, chairman of President Truman’s evaluation committee on atomic energy, when addressing a mooting at Sydney University last night, said atomic bombs in another war would fall liko raids of In con-diaries. He added that ho hoped that the next atomic bomb to be oxplodcd would be tho last.“UnlimftFoiMR. CHURCH~LUXEM Unlimited armei were advocated Churchill in an *ui ber of Deputies.Mr. Cluuchi'l sa Icclive l'orci; exert world centre, m. l.l fall powerless. !l would resnnu Its 1 Europe, in the fori *'80 that none of enough t.u nvimctiRISE IN P/NEV Due primarily in opera ling co.-papcp-- and llnishelikely j i;,v in jthe NO'A York Jon DROBNY 1Tn the trhvnr.nli tween Australia, slnvia, Drobny n Pails 1 Australia • Harder beat Vesl 1 Yugoslavia' G l. suited In a tie, flv