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Dangerous Balkan Situation Cleavage Between Soviet and Western Groups
POLITICAL TENSION IN GREECE
ATHENS, OCT. 21. SYLVAIN MANGEOT, REU TER'S DIPLOMATIC CORRES. PONDENT NOW IN ATHENS REPORTS THAT REPUBLICAN
OPINION IN GREECE ON THE
LONDON, OCT. 21.
SITUATION IN THE BALKAN SAID TO-DAY: "IT
THE "NEW YORK TIMES" IN AN ARTICLE ON THE
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CONTROLS THE ́OTRANTO STRAITS LEADING OUT -OF-THE-ADRIATIO WILL LOOK MORE TO WEST AND
·THAT RECOGNITIOŃ OF THE GOVERNMENT MAY Nearly 74,000 men, women our offices for Nos. 5, 7, 10 & 12. HELP TO STABILISE THINGS SOMEWHAT IN
and children of all nationalities, collected by the Japanese from GREECE. BUT THE GREEKS WILL "ERTAINLY SUSPEND THAT
all over Malaya, were set to RECOGNITION OF A COUNTRY INSISTING ON ITS
work on the Siam, Burma rad 1939 BORDERS MEANS THAT THE ALLIES. WILL
Kura railways, of whom 62,000 NOT BACK GREEK CLAIMS ON THE KORITZA “AND
are missing, according to in- ARGYROCASTRO REGION OF SOUTH ALBANIA,
formation supplied by the Ja- panese themselves. Only 12.0001
GROCERIES & SPIRITS at rea Meanwhile, Marshal Tito' la, having broken with doctor returned, stepping
onable prices. Efficient delivery, ser- up the propagaida Petru Groza, Primo Minister-- About 24,500. are known to vico. Man Ting & Co., Gloucester about 5,000 08-Arcade (Des Voeux Road entrance). campaign for revisionist claims of the Rumanian Government en havo died and on Greece, In this, he clearly the State Department's advico caped, most of whom aro be Tel. 20859... has the mute backing of Mos- and having heard nothing since.lieved to have died in the jungle.
However, the easing of cen--Router. Internally, Tito's situation is sorship in Bucharest is clearly GOVERNMENT.
increasingly
uneasy. Weatern a victory for Burton Berry. The extrome loft is
18 openly diplomatie pressure is encourag- Amorican Representative there. hostile blaming the Regent and ing stiff attitude by very side-f In Hungary the succese of British policy in Greece.
REGENT'S LATEST MOVE IS DIVIDED BETWEEN
THOSE WHO RESERVE JUDGMENT AND THOSE WHO ARF OPEN- LY DISAPPOINTED THAT HE DID NOT MAKE ANY IM- MEDIATE SWEEPING CHAN- GES IN THE
COMPOSITION OF THE
cow.
|Organising
The communists are believed to able opposition within the coun- the moderates in the election S. EXDOrts
bo gathering their forces for antry, Subasio eventual counter offensive.
Right Wing supporters have Ambassador.
paina
taken
Imposing
to stresa that they have no Intention of thair wishes by force.
The Greek Regent would appear to have three possible courses of action.
One, to retain the Premiership and form a now government which then would attempt to tackle Greece's economic crisis and hold the political balance, pending the elections. Two, to transfer
the
Premiership to name other person. Three, to acknowledge failure to effect couperation between the opposing political forces and retire from the political scene.—Reuter.
LONDON'S NEWEST HOUSING ESTATE
London, Oct. 21.
One of London's first post war housing estates has been started by a twenty-four year- old builder, G. H. Harrison, who
de-
resigned after results pleased London and consultation with the British Washington. Communist
monstrations, have however, be- gun in the Provinces and a coup is not to be excluded at a future date.
The Opposition is keeping in close Liaison with King Peter and politicians are grouping around him, including Doctor Vladko Matchek, leader of the Croat Peasant Party.
DISCONCERTING REPORT
A Serbian Diplomat who re- turned to Yugoslavia after the Tito-Subasic agreement but who
has
just slipped out of the country to join this group has made a disconcerting report on the internal situation.
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POLAND ALSO In Poland, private reports are leaking out that support for Alr. Boleslawaber, Berut, tempor
ary President of the Polish Provisional Government is warn- ing fast and that the Russians who are now sending "în special force to clean out the "bandita" are also losing favour.
A neutral observer considers It is understood that he told] Berut has, perhaps, as little na Matchek: "There Ja general ten per cent of vote behind him discontent and real collabora- now and that Stanislav Nikola- tion between the Communists jozyk, former Prime Minister and other parties of the libera- and the present Vice-Premier, tion front which serve as a privately claims sixty per cent powerless camouflage in then probable exaggeration.
All over Europe East of the name of democracy.
All important posts are held | Stetin-Triesto line a cleavage Communists, including between the existing Govern- local position, such as the Pre- ments friendly to Moscow and sidency of the Serbian-Bosnian the opposition movements lean- and Croatian Federated Goving on the West is growing. and potes- ernments, all of whom, are local | This Is an uneasy
who enforce tially dangerous
situation. Party Secretarics strict controls and suppress in-| Router. dividual liberties.
by the five He is to put up 306
in the army for
Nerved years. brick built houses on Ruislip Garden Estate in
eighteen months and intends that men from the forces to get the first
choice.
bal
The houses with three rooms will cost £1,180.
Before the war they would have cost perhaps £600.-Reu-
ler.
LUZON HERO
The Russians have lost their traditional popularity and the regime could not last without their support, although seven soldiers re- hundred thousand main under arms and the Ozna -secret
police--are every- whoco.
If they had a chance, a vast majority would vote against the government."
BULGARIAN TENSION In neighbouring Bulgaria, the situation is becoming tense on the eve of the elections, with the parties outside the Fatherland Front counting on Western sup- port and refusing to participate
San Francisco, Oct. 21. The war department has an nounced the award of the Con- gressional Medal of Honour posthumously to Private First Class William Shockley, who maintained his position under intense enemy fire and urget his comrades to withdraw ay ing he would 'remain to the in the voting. end' to provide cover.
This creates a situation simi-
to that
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70TH CHINESE ARMY IN KOREA
Shanghai, Oct. 20. The Seventh United States Fleet announced to-day that it had land- od units of the Chinesa 70th army at Kirun, Korea, in the first major Chinese-American amphi- bious operation of the war. The surrendered Japaneso wore Co- operative-Associated Press.
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Rank Washington, Oct. 20. The export-Import bank estab- lished a $100,000,000 credit yester day to finance the export' of 800,000 bales of cotton to Europe. Similar facilities are under con- sideration
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Tokyo, Oct. 20. General MacArthur, despite the rigours of nearly four years of war and the strain of administer-
physical
fect
tion and is believed to have secured Washington's backing when he visited London during the Foreign Ministers' Council.
Barnes actually Baved. tnc former leader of the Agrarian is, in "per-Party from arrest and got him out of the courdry.
MICHAEL'S PREDICAMENT
had been reports, that
ing conquered Japan, and
Headquarters spokesman. MacArthur might retire because In Rumania, King Michael of heart trouble. The spokesman is awaiting a reply to his new said the general, "nover has been note to Washington and London more fit than at present in the asking what he should do next, entire four years of campaigning." ---Associated Press.
Farben Goes
Washlifgton, Oct. 21.
The American army has taken over Germany's big Farbon chemi-
Tacloban Ceremonies
Tacloban, Toyte Island, Oct. 21-
cal and munitions plant to destroy Filipinos, American soldiers, forever the corporation's stranglo- nailera and nurses paraded yester hold on German industry and end day in celebration
of the first its war-making power, the war anniversary of the American Innd- department announced. Most of Ing in the Philippines last October
are in the American-occupied CONÒ.~~~ÁSBO- The
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Tacloban and the town of... au estimated: 30,000 people was cap-
LIFE SENTENCE
Dachau, Germany, Oct. 21. Josef Hangobl, an Austrian, was sentenced to life imprison mont to day for shooting to death an American flyer, on November 11, 1944. A mill tary government general court martial imposed, the sentence. Associated Press
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