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CHINA MAIL LAVAL SENTENCED
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Vol. 1, No. 27.
Thursday, October 11th, 1945.
Price 10. ets.
BIG FIVE BREAKDOWN Mr. Bevin's Statement In Parliament
More Comforting
Final Letters
LONDON, OCT. 10. THE FOREIGN SECRETARY, MR. ERNEST BEVIN
SPEAKING IN PARLIAMENT YESTERDAY ON THE BREAKDOWN OF THE CONFERENCE OF THE FOR-
SAID: EIGN MINISTERS IN LONDON,
་་? HAVE REFRAINED SINCE THE CLOSE OF THE COUNCIL FROM MAKING ANY PUBLIC STATEMENT UNTIL THE HOUSE MET.
"THE CONFERENCE OPENED ON SEPTEMBER 11TH AND HAVING STUDIED THE TERMS OF REFER- ENCE OF THE COUNCIL, WHICH WERE LAID DOWN
THE IN THE PROTOCOL OF
BERLIN CONFER- ENCE, I THOUGHT IT RIGHT TO SUBMIT TO MY COL- LEAGUES AT THE OPENING OF THE MEETING A SUGGESTION AS TO PROCEDURE, I SUGGESTED THAT IT WOULD BE IN CONVENIËNT IF SOME OF THE MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL HAD TO BE EX- CLUDED FROM SOME OF THE MEETINGS.
would be even more
"It
in.
convenient, I said, if some members
had
to be asked to leave pari
way through d
while meeting
some of the items on the Agenda
wore
I felt discussed.
business of
that the
R.A.S.C.
of the Conference could CAMBER
be much more easily arranged if
be agreed
that all five
could mombora should take part in all the discussions, oven although the matters related to the peace settle.
but meat,
power to take decisions in the Council was con fined to members whose govern. ments bad signed or were deemed signed relevant terma of
to
the
States
EXPLOSION
ELEVEN CHINESE WERE INJURED, SEVERAL
OF THEM SERIOUSLY, IN AN EXPLOSION AT THE R.A.S.C. CAMBER YESTER- DAY.
TO DEATH
the 'PANIS, OCT 16 PIERRE LAVAL WAS CONVICTED LATE YESTERDAY OF
INTELLIGENCE WITH THE ENEMY, AND ATTACH ING THE SECURITY OF THE STATE, AND HE WAS CONDEMNED TO DEATH 7 MOWAN, IN We Marda kan THE 24-MAN JURY AND THREE JUDGES TOOK ONLY ONE HOUR AND TWO MINUTES TO RETURN (THE VERDICT AGAINST THE FORMER VICHY PREMIFE" IN ADDITION TO THE DEATH SENTENGE, THE VERDICT INCLUDED CONFISCATION OF PROPERTY AND LOSS OF ALL CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS.
The yerdict of guilty brought|- an end to the bizarre trial ga which saw the defendant twice| expelled, from his own hearing, and which he finally refused to
Terrors
attend at all. He insisted he Of Next
did not wish to associate him- self with a trial which he de- scribed as " judicial crime.”......
Generalissimo On The Future Associated Press
OF
・ CHUNGKING, OCT. 10. OUTLINING THE FUTURE POLITICAL STATUS
CHINA, GENERALISSIMO CHIANG KAI-SHEK, IN A BROADCAST LAST NIGHT ON THE EVE OF CHINA'S "DOUBLE TENTH" CELEBRATIONS, SAID: "POLITICAL SELF-GOVERNMENT WILL BE EN- COURAGED. LEGAL STATUS WILL BE ACCORDED TO ALL PARTIES. PEO PLES' COUNCILS WILL BE ESTABLISHED IN TOWNS AND CITIES. A NA- TIONAL ASSEMBLY WILL ВЕ CALLED SOON." - REUTER.
TOWARDS SHAPING
COUP D'ETAT
MONTEVIDEO, OCT. 10. ACCORDING TO AUTHORITATIVE INFORMATION FROM
BUENOS AIRES REACHING HERE TO-DAY, IMPOR TANT MILITARY MOVEMENTS ARE TAKING PLACE AT RAMPOLIMA. DETAILS OF THE MOVEMENTS ARE UNKNOWN OWING TO THE STATE OF SIEGE IN ARGENTINA MOTORISED AND INFANTRY FORCES ARE TAKING PART.
IT IS ALSO REPORTED THAT THE NAVY AND AIR- FORCE ARE~ TO`FRESENT A JOINT, ULTIMATUM TO PRESIDENT FARRELL, IN CONNECTION WITH THIS, THE ARMY IS REPORTED TO BE CARRYING OUT STRATEGIC DEPOSITIONS OF TROOPS. A little after 4 o'clock: thus military afternoon, eighty planes arrived at the Bixth of September Aerodrome.
The Information adds that General, Juan Carlos Basel is expected to side against thủ ||| Farrell regime, d
SOME DEPRESSION
Paris, Oct. 10. Piorre Laval, Vichy Primo Minister, and his three defence counecia were not in court when the Public Prosecutor began his summing up in the fifth and last session of Laval's triak ,,:|
Before the semion opened, defen ding co
had been told official- counsels ly that hearing would continue in spite of all objections.
Laval himself
refused to still back on
his decision net to appear in court, though he was reported by chief counsel, Albert Naud, be showing some depression at the
prospect to bo what he considered Inevitable death sentence.
of
an
War!
WASHINGTON, OCT. 10, GENERAL GEORGE MAR SHALL CHIEF OF STAFF OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY DISCLOSED, IN A REPORT TO-DAY, WEAPONS WITH "WHICH AMERICA" - 18', PRE- PARING TO ENTER
THE ATOMIC ARENA.
He spoke firstly of rockets which gulded themselves to their targets by electronic devicça.
Secondly, 600 miles an hou fct-propelled bombers and other bombers capable of taking load of more than 100,000 pounds of bomba to attack "any spot on carth and return to a friendly bano,"
"TRIAL OF POLICY" M. Leon Noal, former French Thirdly, jet fighters travelling Ambassador in Warsaw, the first at the speed of sound. witness called to-day, declined to Fourthly, Afty ton bomba, give evidence in Laval's absenco
General Marshall, was present saying, "It is morally. Impossible ing his blennial report to the War Becretary, for me to resume my depositions United States without the presence of the ac Mr. Robert Patterson-Reutor. coned."
For America's future defence In summing up, the Public Probe urged: firstly, intensive scienti secutor described the proceedings fic research and development, with ne a "trial of pólloy embodied in the
backing of public funds, the person of ene man.”
should..
id. by continued unrelentingly He indicated Laval who had always borne a grudge training
20 9. man and, secondly, continued military with permanent peaco against parliamentary democracytime altizen army trained and and agafant Britain. Router.
ready to take up arms, backed by
a
TO APPEAL.
a regular composite force strongly Laval's defence: counsel is to backed by air power appeal directly to the Govern-
Painting A grim picturo of the ment to quash, the sentence of war in the atomic age, he said,
"It no death" passed on Laval this
longer appears
practical to conceived as hemisphere defence as a satis
basin for Our security,"
afternoon and to obtain a re- continue what we once Truman's
Message To
Earlier reporte said that the Chinese
Byrnes, the Secretary of State for
United the
They were engaged in clear- Government, took the same view ance work at about 680 p.m. as I did, and M. Molotov said he when the accident occurred. agreed with my proposals If, as Details were scanty last be understood it. It.meant that all night an investigations into the five members of the Council should sttend the meeting and if they coude wers still procettling, hut military crisis was talking place desired to participate in the dist is thought that some cordite and confirmed a split between
WILD
mixed with the sand General Avalon and the Vice- which the labourers were clear-President, Colone Peron. ing and the explosion was caus- ed in the shovelling process.
The second theory is that one of the labourers was smoking and dropped a cigarette on to cordite.
cussions.
All
being agreed on this inter- pretation of the Berlin Protocol, the proposal which I made was adopted without dissent
MUCH PROGRESS To be sure, when we passed opening this resolution at our meeting we believed we had faith fully interpreted the understand ing reached by the signatories f the Protocol. In accordance with this resolution the Council held sixteen Plenary meetings during ten days of hard work and ha made much progres not only on general questions but on treaty quations as well.
had practically reach on agreement on the draft of the treaty with Finland and had made provisions
for reference of this question to the deputies. We had also made considerable progress on the draft of the treaty with
Itale had considered and satis factorily disposed of neveral as pacts of this treaty, for example, the difficult question of the Italian Yugoslay frontier, The Counci agreed to hear the views of the
governments of Yugoslavia and Italy, as well as those of Australia, South Africa and New Zealand.
"After these hearings, the Coun- cil instructed their deputies to roport on Hine which left th minimum of the population under allen rulo. The deputies were also asked to report on the inter- national rogime for the port of "Tricate.
"The cossion of the Dodennes
to Greece was proposed but no final settisment was renched.
COLLECTIVE TRUSTEESHIP "There was one question of th disposal of the Italian Colonies which the United States Delera
tion put forward, a proposa which His Majesty's Governmen instructed me instructed
they
and and wolu
grent
to support sinc felt this was a wiad far-accing proposal
which avold friction betw on the Powers In those areas and world give a chance for a great experi- in International cooperation. The American proposal provided for
the placing
of all these Italian territories under a collective trus- tecship of the
А д.
groedtions
a discussion that this ouestion of trusteeship of the Italian Colonica should be
referred to our deputies who
would make the widest possible ved of the American proposala 160-01 and take into account the alter- native proposal of a single state trusteeship.
Thus, on this difficult mattor
Official quarters in Uruguay | are without Information but addition to the military, activity at the Campo de Mayo..there is said to be a civil movement as
in 1980.
Later.
WASHINGTON, OCT. 10. PRESIDENT TRUMAN, IN A STATEMENT ON CHINA'S 10" "DOUBLE
HOLIDAY CELEBRATION, SAID TO DAY:
trial, of his cage, 11-met
Tonight Laval is in the police preball said that the
cell fnPaxin. He will be trans- ferred back to Fresnes prison sentifle to-morrow. Reuter,
GENEROUS OFFER TO BRITAIN
WASHINGTON, OCT 10.
IT WAS EMPHASISED IN SOME. QUARTERS HERE TO- DAY THAT THERE HAD BEEN TION OF ANDERMENT
bomb was not alone nong advancon that made possibilities of futuro advances no
and electronlod, had become equally: Ineródible.
NO MISCONCEPTIONS "In order to prevent any possibh misconception of terrible poten- tialitios of the future--- have asked the Commanding-General of the Army Air Force, General FL Arnold,
ta prepare an estimate at the capabilities of other modern weapons
of ng- NEITHER 94 following picture of war weapons
Drawn
дет
"The American people join me to-day in saluting the people Police said that until Investi-
of China, gations
completed
"For the were
Vice-President Peron hag re- no
first time in 14
Quoting from General Arnold's statement, beyond the fact signed all his portfolios.
yeare the Chinese are able, to
report, General Marshall gave the that the explusion was purely The resignation of Colonel celebrate without fear
πότε
being developed: Peron of his post of Vice-Pre-gression,
NORAVAN Wacan direct rockets t accidental, could be lagued.
The men who austained Insident and also of the port-folios "The tremendous, sacrifices
BRITAIN targets, by electronic devices and juries and who were detained of the Ministry of War and which the Chinese people mude ON THE RATE OF INTEREST by new instrumente which guide in the Queen Mary Hospital Secrétariat of Labour was of- for so long in their stirring re- TO BE CHARGED ON THE them
accurately
to sources of for treatment were:-
ficially announced by the Ar-sistance to the Japanese in- PROPOSED LOAN TO BRITAIN, best, light and
magnetiam. Tang Chung, Chang Choy.gentine Minister of the In- vader finally has been rewarded BY THE UNITED STATES, by their
such Chan Chuen-pui, Ho Kar-yu, terior, Senor Quijano-Router. with a 'doable ten' victory over Neither had the commercial rockets aro, struck to the heart of Chan Kwai, Lee
attracted by the beat Chung, Au A LITTLE PREMATURE?
the enemy.
policy talks reached such an ad- big factories Sam, Lee Chi, Tang Khor,
Washington, Oct. 10. "On behalf of the American vanced staro as Dancial negotia of the furnaces. They are so
Hons, Senator Tom Connolly of people, I take
although pleasure in re Chung Sang and Ching Chuen.
insurmountable mitive that in the apace
large room, they, aim themselves Texas, Chairman of the Senate affirming our abiding faith in difficulties were not expected. Foreign Relations Committee, the ability of the Chinese no- The negotiations would be finish- toward the man who enters, in said to-day
viewed he
the tion
to accomplish the de-ed by November 1st, except for reaction to the heat of his body." overthrow
the of militarist mocratic objectives established certain details which might remain andrelded, regarding_lease-Jend government of Argentina "us for it by Dr. Sun Yat-sen End settlements and surplus property the removal of a threat to peace in pledging our assistance and and harmony in South support for, the attainment. of America."Associated Press. this end."Associated Press.
CALL FOR
WORLD
FEDERATION
NEW YORK, OCT. 10.
A CALL FOR- A "FEDERAL CONSTITUTION OF THE WORLD
TO PREVENT AN ATOMIC WORLD WAR". WAS INCLUDED IN
LETTER
PUBLISHED IN TO-DAY'S "NEW YORK TIMES" FROM TWENTY AMERICAN LEAD- ERS, HEADED BY MR. OWEN ROBERTS. A FORMER JUDGE STATES OF THE UNITED SUPREME COURT.
The signatories include Profes- ser Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann
CHINA'S NATIONAL DAY
All ships in harbour flew the Chinese national flag at their mastheads pester- day in honour of China's. Independence Day
The Services in the Co- lony observed a 7p.m. "cur- fow," the object being to give the Chinese communi- ty a "break," as it were, and full freedom to cele- "brate the occasion in their
own way.
we had, despite livermont views, and Senators Fulbright and Top roached genorol agreement as per.
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to the basin on which it could be The lending American not curthar enesv་གས་
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OTHER TREATIES
papera suld to-day: "How lon will the United Nations Charter.
To continue with my account endure? With luck, a generable
CHUNGKING AGREEMENT.
LIKELY
Chungking. Oct. 10.
A "general agreement" has been reached on political questions be tween the Communist and Central Government negotiators, according to the first. Kuomintang officin statement on the progress of th unity negotiations, insued las: night.
one
Goering's Jewel Hoard Impounded
FRANKFURT, OCT. 10. THE GOERING · FAMILY JEWELS MAY BE SOLD TO FINANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN IN COUNTRIES OPPRESSED UNDER TH NAZI REGIME, IT WAS AN NOUNCED TO-DAY.
The statement
was made by
Treasury officiala agid, sugges General Chang Chih-chung, head of the Political Department o tions had been advanced, for th the National Military Council and confiscation of the jewela, which
of Generalissimo Chiang Kai- are estimated roughly to be wore
125.000
pounds aterling. shek's negotiators.
The jewels were seized at th He said:
"Problems concerning
castle in Bad Vel Reichmarshal's democratisation of political ad-
nationalisation denstein and they are now bein ministration.
in a vault of the Reichsbank hold armed forces and equality botween
in.I political parties have been tho
man discussed
and a satis
troops is stored. solution la expected." до said that the results of the talks will bo officially
announced shortly.
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General Mao Tse-tun, Chair. of the Communist Party will return to Yonan very shortly ~ Panter..
"hey want it and now is the tim to ret it.
San Francisco Charter In
varically illogical unless we are
of the work on peace treaties fait enough to have peace by ready to take the farther dono in the early part of the luck? Peace by law is what theconary to organico peace."
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GENEROUS OFFER
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FASTER THAN SOUND
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"We will produce within the next few years jot-propelled bom bera capable of flying to to six It is unofficially reported that hundred miles an hour to their the United States has offered a targets at altitudes of over forty credit of over one thousand million thousand feet. The development pounds to Britain on tarms require of even greater bombers capable ing no repayments for a period of of operating at stratosphere al- five years. There is no confirmation titudes and speeds faster than yet.--Reuter.
sound and
bomb londs of Car to attack any more than Petrol Rations pot on earth and to return to a
friendly base. To Continue
"Improvement of our jet fighters may well produce within the next five years aircraft capable of London, Oct. 10,
speed of sound and reaching tar- The Minister of Fuel and gets two thousand miles away at altitudes of above fifty thousand Power announced in the House
foot. of Commons that it was not "At this very moment 'wo are possible to abolish petrol ra-making a single bomb weighing tioning or increase the ration forty-five thousand pounds ta at present. Civilian consumi-keep pace with a bomber already tion stock available at present under constvetten which will carry such a load. Air-ordnance amounted to 450,000 tons. or
engineers have blue-printed B about 40 per cent of the cor- bomb responding stock held at und uf-1938.
the sand pounds one hundred thou-
+
-POINTS OF DÁNGER": Only negligible quantities of
General Marshall warned thai- petrol have been brought from all these weanons and their pos sterling sources and the dealbla combinations made air ap ficiencies could only be met byproaches to a country, points of purchases from dollar sources, extreme danger,
The United Kingdom was 4n-
by American volved not only in the purchas
The proposed sale for thing of large quantities of oil special educational fund probably from dollar sources, but was also wou'd include other Nuri loo having to pay dollar. freights. which has not been claimed b the legitimate owners.-Associated Preas...
CHUNGKING TRAGEDY
Chungking, Oct. 10, Mr. Li Shao Shih, Secretary
General of this Chungiding office
the Comniander of the 18th Arur group was killed in an accider to-day-Router.
Router.
WORLD GETTING BACK „TO NORMAL AU
"Many Americans do not
vet understand, the full im- plications the formless Berlin and the cities Japan
of
with
the continued develop
ment of the weapons and techni. quer now known to us, the elties of New York Pittsburg, Detroit. Chicago or Car circo may be subiect to annihilation from other In a matter of hours," bo
Hollywood, Oct. 10. Leo Russell Marshall said to
must make it cloar to the lay aho had soparated from the potential gangsters of the world 1lm actor, Herbert Marshall, that if they dare break our peaco nd was considering a divorce.they will do so at their great,
Associated Fread.-
'peril.”—fienter,