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Vol. 1, No. 56. Wednesday, November 14th, 1945.
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NEW LEADER IN JAVA UNITED
EMERGES Revived Hope Of Sensible Solution
CHANGES IN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNRECOG
NISED INDONESIAN REPUBLIC BRING NEW HOPES FOR PEACE IN
FORECAST TO-DAY JAVA WERE
SUN
LION MASCOT BLOTS COPYBOOK
Parin, Nov. 12.
A full grown lion mascot of the North African co- loured troopa mauded a child just before the Armistice Day ceremony at a port on want. WHICH MIGHT
MediterraneTILTE the The lion leapt from the
it was pre STRIFE-TORN AS BRITISH
Jeep in which
The the parade. ceding INDONESIAN
child, huse face was badly injured, was saved from death by a soldier's inter vention.
AT
FORCES CONTINUED TO BLAST NATIONALISTS AT SOERABAYA.
36-YEAR OLD SOCIALIST LEADER, AP- SLAHRIR, PEARED SLATED TO EMERGE AS PRIME MINIS- DR. SOEKARNO TER UNDER A SYSTEM LEAVING
AS PRESIDENT, BUT IN A SUBSIDIARY ROLE.
Wallace Gives Warning
NEW YORK, NOV. 1a. SECRETARY OF COMMERCE HENRY WALLACE, THE FOR- MER VICE-PRESIDENT EX PRESSED THE BELIEF TO
THE UNITED DAY THAT STATES MUST MAKE SUB- STANTIAL LANS TO ENG LAND, RUSSIA AND
OTHER WORLD TRADE ALLIES IF BARRIERS ARE ΤΟ DE AND
RUINGUS LOWERED ANGLO-RUSSIAN AMERICAN TRADE WAR AVERTER
Wallace.
addressing the
convention. tional foreign trade said aggressive American leader- world trade expanding
would basio
ship for
оп
multilateral ነኒ forestall a Lende war.
--
cost a
He estimated the war trillion dollars and warned that anuther world conftet would met many trillions. Вестетагу
The Cabinet was expected ful approve this new deal promptly. Sjarir, described as a modernte Int " 15175 with whom the Dutch are likely to deal, snid in An Associated Pres interview
br would make sharp changes in his Cabinet.
He said the polley would be on of reperation with Ale British in the task allotted them under the Potsdamn agreement releasing in Lerners and rosending up Japanese
Of the Dutch, he said: "I shal be for enreraging our getting to ge!hrt."
He and that Sourabaya dghting between the British and National- ists hurt the Nationalist cause, and that one of his first acts as Premier would be to send a three- member commission there to inves tigate the circumstances,
in
JAPANESE TACTICS Meanwhile, warfare between the British and Nationalists rose intensity with navy and field guns and
planes supportion R.A.F.
through troops which hammere at least half of Sourabaya.
A British official statement cited Japanese style tactics in Indone. alan fighting and said: "There is little doubt but Japanese are still
Walinee saidi that actively
without the aid of American dal at So. Pagnged in disturbaACES
lars Britain wasld be forced to strengthen the sterling bloc
Lo
He declared American aid the devastated countries of Europ mut Asia is a business proposition without which they cannot quickly rebuild their damaged econorujes
large markets for. And become
United States ronds or particinate in world trade expansion with the: Waited States ou
basis.
multilateru
Associated Press.
Back In The Oid Home Town
London, Nov. 13. The mure you go to the cinema the more money the cinema wad
That is how Lisey pay you back. work at Long Buckby. Norin ants.
Cinema-goers there-village po pulation is 2, 100-paid over £1,300 in the past six months at the box ulice of their one cinemaer a grocery store,
Now they are to get £127 back.
Japanese uniforms were
found
in sume Indonesian bunkers.--As- Aelated Press.
The lion, which accom- panied the troops from the Chad territory to Germe was in the vanguard march- past a few minutes later. Kenter.
Pacific War
Hero Killed
BEACON. N.Y., NOV. 1. A MUNICIPAL OFFICIAL SAID THE BODY OF COM- MODORE DIXIE KIEFER, A AD PACIFIC WAR HERO, BEEN IDENTIFIED AS ONE OF SIX MEN KILLED IN THE CRASH OF A NAVY PLANE NEAR ON MOUNT BEACON HERE.
was widely Commodore Kiefer
Dixie of the known as Captain documentary war film, "Fighting Lady."
toundi the When
searchers
arias wreckage,
one of Kiefer's still was in the cast which was applied after his arm was broken In a suicide plane's attack on the carrier Ticonderoga off Formosa. He was wounded by 85 pieces of shrapnel
major He had served in alx navy engagements, including Md. way and the Coral Sen-Associat ed Preas.
CHIANG'S NEW BID FOR PEACE IN CHINA
IN
CHUNGKING, NOV 1&
CHINESE COMMUNISTS SAID TO-DAY THEY AND
CHIANG KAI-SHEK'S GOVERNMENT HAVE AGREED Yamamoto's
TO ALLOW THE PROPOSED POLITICAL CONSULTA- TIVE COUNCIL TO SETTLE "ALL OUTSTANDING ISSUES" OF CHINA'S UNDECLARED CIVIL WAR AND THAT THE COUNCIL WILL BE CALLED INTO BEING ABOUT NOVEMBER 20.
THE FINAL ISSUE OF PEACE OR ALL-OUT WAR, HOW- EVER, RESTS WITH THE GENERALISSIMO, THE "IM COMMUNIST SPOKESMAN SAID, ADDING:
CHIANG CANCELS HIS OR- DERS FOR 'BANDIT SUP. PRESSION' THERE CAN BE PEACE."
CONTROL
OF ATOMIC BOMB
WASHINGTON, NOV. 13. BRITISH OFFICIALS INDICATED TO DAY THAT PRE- SIDENT TRUMAN, PRIME MINISTER ATTLEE, OF BRITAIN, AND PRIME MINISTER MACKENZIE MAKING GOOD PRO. KING OF CANADA, WERE GRASS TOWARDS A JOINT ATOMIC POLICY
DESPITE THE DIS- THIS WAS STATED TO LE TRUE
CLOSURE BY THESE AUTHORITIES OF WHAT MAY PROVE TO BE A BASIC DIFFERENCE IN OBJEC MR TIVES BETWEEN PRESIDENT TRUMAN AND ATTLEE.
President Truman talked re- venly of outlawing the atomik bomb.
10.C.s Not
15/0
ne
f
Mr. Attlee is said by his jaociates to have taken the
that it cannot be outlawed fectively and that the way to handle it is to put it under the contrel of the United Nations Security Council.
I
JOINT STATEMENT
secretary The Presidential Wimam Hasset, Loid reporters to-day that President Truman will have nothing to say on the progress of the discussions, but that a joint statement will be issued by the three lenders.
There are no indications when the conference will end, or when Mr. Attlee will leave for Canada enroule for home.
Hassett said the trio will tre conversations, "in continuous more or less."
President Truman is not mee- ing visitors so that he can de vole his entire time to the dis cussions. Associated Press.
Too Awfully
Clever!
London, Nov. 13. To find useful work for tronpa awaiting demob. the Army thorities have offered thousands ofį men to Ministries and local coun-I
The cile for reconstruction Jobs. ofters have been turnud down.
A War Office official stated this to a reporter.
"It the War Office policy be put on usoful jobs," he said. that wherever possible men shall
"But Ministries and councils have turned down our offers and we can't put skilled men on con. Lract
Lrade work, because the unions object that these men do for the proper rate not get the job."
NOT SO SIMPLE The Ministry of Labour said: "It is quite possible that cases have occurred whore
It was not found
use troopa on ponible to Moscow, Nov. 13.
Various worka. The Soviet press has made no
"We have to be satisfied that comment on the Truman-Attlee-
no civifian labour is available and| King atomic policy conference in
also that there will be no dificul- Washington.Associated Prenoties with the trade unions. Un fortunately the matter is not al- ways as simple as it becma." main responsible for the employ- War ment of their men and the Ofice agrees that there are some
MOSCOW SILENT
Soerabaya Almost Japan
Fully Occupied Regarded As
NEW YORK, NOV. 13.
ASSO. IN A DESPATCH DIRECTLY FROM SOURABAYA,
CIATED PRESS CORRESPONDENT VERN HAUGLAND REPORTED THAT SHELLING BY BRITISH DEN- TROYERS SILENCED GUNS WHICH EARLIER HAD SHELLED THE BRITISH-CONTROLLED AIRPORT. HE SAID THE HEADQUARTERS HIT BY THE BRI 151 PLANES WAS IN THE HOTEL PARINGAN. THE BRITISH ESTIMATED THEY ARE OPPOSED BY 20,000 TRAIN D INDONESIAN SOLDIERS AND 100,000 ARM NATIVES, HAUGLAND REPORTED. BRITISH CASUALTIES WERE REPORTED LIGHT. RE- TREATING INDONESIANS SET A FIRE HALF A DOZEN HOUSES AND SUPPLY DUMPS IN SOURA- BAYA
Fire also broke out aboard a Jupanese merchant ship which the Nationaliste abandoned. The
The cincin is owned by the local Rritish anid the Indonesians Co-operative Society, which re, are showing no disposition to cently decided to pay a dividend) surrender.
of 18. 8. in the £.
British Indian forces have Payin out is a simple matter.! Film-goers save the torn halves gained control of virtually all of
of their tickets in Long Buckby, Sourabaya, according to Aneta All they have to do is hand them news agency, as British tank over to the cinema again on divi-
back fanatical crews turned charge of the Indonesian Na- tionalists.
dend day and they get is. 8d. on every excluding tax-they pand
Dangerous Break-Up Of U.S. Power
Shattered
Tokyo, Nov. 13. Macaears
Cameral quarters, after
Miku
The acciaton to ontrust the disputed issued to the new coun- cl was reached in peace talks yesterday arranged by the in- creasingly Influential liberal Chinese
Democratic league,
while war clouda thickened na a result of two other develop- ments:
(1) the Government's call for the National Assembly to meet next May 5, with no word whe ther the Communists will ha given representation which they demanded, and
(2)
Nationalist general s forecast of a major Government Jumy drive into Manchuria "very soon," despite crack Com. munist troops massed to block it.
a
TOP OF AGENDA
The three-party peace talks placed the question of culling an immediate end to hostilities at the top of the political coun- cil's agenda, the Communist spokesman said.
Prophecy
Tokyo, Nov. 18. Kyodo news agency to-das quoted an unidentified Jupo- nese naval expert as dosiar ing that the lato famed Ad- mirat Isoroku Yamamoto prem dicted in January 100 Japan's eventual defeat bo cause of the failure of milit ary leaders and Premier Toj to agree to a landing of attack forces on Hawait at the time of the Pearl Harbour attack.Associated Press.
Butcher Of Warsaw Found In Japan
TOKYO, NOV. 18. COLONEL JOSEF ALBERT MEISINGER, "BUTCHER OF WARSAW," WHO IS AO CUSED OF BEING RESPON- SIBLE FOR THE DEATHS OF 100,000 JEWS IN THE POLISH CAPITAL, LEFT FOR GERMANY TO-DAY ΤΟ STAND TRIAL, AS A WAR CRIMINAL.
He disclosed wires had bean nent urgently summoning Tung! Pou to Chungking. He was the Communist member of the Chin-plane by way of the ene delegation to the San Fran- cisco conference and is now in New York,
The spokesman said Tung Fou will be one of the Communista" seven delegates on the council.
A Chinese Communist spokes man charged to-day that Na- tionalist troops had launched an
Shanlalkwan at the southern assault on the fortress city of
threshold of Manchuria.
reia-
STREAMING IN
Ju
Nationalist Bald forcements were streaming to- ward the front in an attempt to deal a serious blow to the crack entrenched Communist troops there.
The city at the coastal end of the great wall, he said, is still in Communist hands.
The spokesman said the inaus all-out war rests of pance or with Chiang Kai-shek despite I
Accompanied by two United States counter-intelligence oth core, Meisinger la travelling by United States to an interrogation con- tre near Frankfurt,
He had been detained since A prisoner September 12 in stockade near Yokohama and had denied all the charges against him.
He went to Japan in 1941, Reuter adds, and surrendered to the Americans after it was discovered that he was living in A hotel with 100 other German refugees-Reuter.
American
Policy In China
WASHINGTON, NOV. 18. SECRETARY OF WAR PAT
AMERICAN
THAT
an agreement to call another TERSON DECLARED TO-DAY Commanding officers are in the Peace coniurence around Novoi-, WILL NOT BE USED
ber 20.
units where the position is not being handled "awfully cleverly.
IL
EXCESSIVE TRAINING
NEW OFFER Informa..on Minister K. C. Wu said the Government is will- ing for the conference to dis- cuss administration of liberated and nationalisation and areas
TROOPS FOR OF CIVIL SUPPRESSION STRIFE IN CHINA, BUT WILL PROTECT AMERICAN LIVES AND PROPERTY.
The Secretary said: "There is no intention of our troops becom- ing Involved in civil strife la China unless they are attacked, fa which event we may expect Amer
with viger
сал
тоорs to and success."
react
The War Office opinion is that If Cus Lafked to the mon and reorganisation of the Chinese plained the position, the soldiers armies
two subjects which would be satisfied.
hitherto have been barred.
Without commenting on thc reports GD the
AID TO CHUNGKING Communist Shanhaikwan situation, he said
Secretary Patterson said there Government must the troops to that city as a spring-were over a million armed Japan- ese in China and declared, the beard for Government reoccup military problem there, so far as tien of Manchuria.Associated the United States is concerned is Press.
It is
the War: emphasised by Ofice that it is not intended that parades and inspectiona shall bo head-verdune, and they declare they are now investigating cases where it is alexed that excessive train- ing in being done.
of the a survey
vee-pation of that the
lemma M
P. ported to-day 1 255. occupation diplomacy and direc- La nave Bastered the nation's and ecunc- war-minded spiritual
mic control systems.
6414 deauquafvers
Atatement
naid new directives shortly "wil remove many shackles which now hold farmers and their families in
condition approximating
a
very."
ela-
Of the education scheme, about
which there have been many com- plaints, the War Office sny it is now beginning to function satis factorily but is handicapped by lack of instructors
Nobel Peace Prize
NATIONAL CONGRESS
seed
In
completion of the surronder, dis- armament and evacuation of the Japanese forces.
Chungking. Nov. 13. Talks to end the civil war North China will have first place on the Agenda of the Inter-party Political Consultative Council, which is expected to meet next with week.
The Government has sprung a surprise on the Communist Party and the Democratic League with the announedment that National Congress will be convolcad on May 5. The Communists had proposed October 10 and the Democratic League July 7-Reuter.
Writ Of Habeas Corpus
He said Britain, Russia and the United States had formally ro cognized Chiang Kai-shek's Gov- were co-operating ernment and
the Chinese Government forcos in the disarmament and well-informed Japanese sources
Oslo, Nov. 18. The Consultative Council com- evacuation of Japanese troops. Ho anid reshuffling of Premier Saide-
The Norwegian Parliament prises representatives of China's said the points American troops ha, a cabinet 19 p.anned before
three major political parties the liberate will be turned over to re- presentatives of the Central Gov- elections, probably by the end of awarded the 1945 Nobel
prize to former United States Kuomintang (Government Party), They forecast A this month.
And Democratic ernment--Associated Press. and, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Communists possible switch in the war navy ministers to the contemplated who helped build the foundation League.
for the United Nations organiza- new demobliization ministry.
promoting American- A Communist party platform tion by drafted at a mass meeting urged British-Russian understanding.
The prize for
last year WIR BOSTON, NOV. 13. the seizure and redistribution of
International Corn- among the farmers' awarded the GENERAL EISENHOWER farm landa WARNED TO-DAY THAT IF and worker control of major in-mittee of the Red Cross at Geneva Shiga, Cem for work among war prisonera,- AMERICAN SOLDIERS ARE dustrica. Yoshio The Dutch nows agency said RETURNED TOO RAPIDLY munist leader, labeled Emperor Associated Press. many indonesians were filed in FROM EUROPE AN ENDUR Hirohito as a war criminal who futile charges against the tanks. ING PEACE MAY DISAPPEAR should be exiled to China under
AND THE WAR MAY HAVE Allied guard Associated Press. BEEN FOUGHT IN VAIN."
Shiga said the Emperor led the CURFEW ORDER
He told dinner audience that Japanese Communists own "war critical decision is criminals" list and said the party There still was no in cation "the day of The bar operates for some time of the Indonesians abandoning rushing upon us. If the disinto- would launch an. investigation of after the films have gone through
the versary (Tokyo date) of the Pearl the large circuit cinemas, and the the fight. British headquarters gration of our forecs goes too far, suspects on December 8, the sun-
Sourabaya curfew It will provide evidence to
Harbour attack, Shiga ontd the list Alm ordered Government restriction оп
German pet le that we are not copying makes things even more, from 10 p.m. to 4.30 am,
equal to our tank. Keeping the would contain all Government leaders since the Manchurian in- dificult.
The British reported, fighting peace requires the maintenance of
cident in 1081-Associated Press. When villagers have climbed
Не anid American soldiers the stone steps to the cinema they broke out yesterday in Tand- adequate forces in Europe."
of Batavia, should be returned to their homes, expect to see a picture which has foenpriok, part been on the go for two or three when the Indonesians attempted but added: "America's obligation
BREAKDOWN
The 'bar placed by large syndi- cates on small cinemas does not allow Long Buckby the latest Co-operative pictures, said the manager, F. 8. Johnson.
youra
It is something of an event if
a show goes through without at
A
to raid warehouses.
A
to the world and ourselves shoulderAUNKS
Intense fighting, at Sourabaya be fulfiled." least one breakdown. But when is exacting a heavy toll of lives,
"divi" day.. comes along, they'll both among the Indonesian Na
The dinner climaxed a, celebra
thousand pereprus to son him. BY STRAUSS
Anuto Associated Press.
look at their one-and-eight-portionalists and civilians. nlos and say, "It is worth it."
reported some women and chil-
VISION OF FUTURE LOND N
dros were killed when caught JAPANESE LEADERS
in the cross-fire.
The a, mey added that house IN JAVA ARRESTED
Batavia, Nov. 18.
PARIS JEWEL PLOT TRIAL
For
Shanghai Claim
Fabulous Stone
4
COLOMBO. NOV. 18.
MR. A. S. ISMAIL, DF THE ACCOUNTS BRANCH OF THE EXPEDITIONARY FORCES INSTITUTE IN COLOMBO, HAS CLAIMED THE FAMOUS JEWEL "PEARL OF ASIA" ONE OF THE GGEST IN THE WORLD ON BEHALF OF A CEYLONESE, EWELLER, MOHIDEEN, NOW LIVING IN SHANGHAI.
THE GEM FIGURED LAST. WEEK IN THE PRELIMIN- ARY TRIAL IN PARIS OF YVON COLETE, ALLEGED MASTER-MIND BEHIND A COUP TO STEAL IT FROM A PARIS BANK IN "APRIL, 1944, AFTER HERMAN GOERING, CHIEF OF THE LUFTWAFFE, HAD OF. FERED $125.000 FOR IT.
Zurich, Nov. 12. Eighty-year old Richard Strauss, most famous living German composer, who has
"The hearing "was postponed, a Chinese mandarin in stated to been staying for some time at British headquarters announced Baden near Zurich, to-day an- until December that Mokideen belonging to a malosionary 20 have given it to a French priest lamall claimed to-day that three Japanese zone nounced that he has complated A great underground railway
rals under arrent in Java will be some compositions which will obtained the fabulous jewel "for cloty. removed to Singapore to-morrow be released in the New Year, a song" from some stray donter terminus for London was visaged by Herbert Morrison Lord. ing and helping the Extremist for trial on war criminals.
The three Are Lt. General Among them is a Concerto for at £338.000.
London, Nov. 10,
and ahcp wore being loated. The British command said the type of Indonesian attacks and the use of weapons "indicate en strongly that Japanese are guld President of the Council, when he indonesians although proof 18 Natano, commander of the Japa- qboo and orchestra whitch,wdi · In 1892. Inmall said, he learn. I dispose of the jewel but th 1 opened at Charing Cross Under not yet established."Ascociat nose 16th army: of off be played publicly for the rated that Mohideen, who had gone and ordered it to be deposited
ground Station an exhibition of..-ed-Freos
plan for a Beuth Embankment.
"I would like to see all the
main_line, railways (mo, under- ground byo miles from the centre:
In 1948 the Bociety decided to
Germans heard of its axintens
ata Mat- Generali Yamamoto, time in Zurich next January. to Shanghal, had pledged the
coring inspected it thero and and Maf-General Nikimura com Other works recontly Anished Jowel for a Zow thousand dollars a Paris banka mander of Japanese forces in con-aro Metamorphosis for 28 string with a French pricet, who had New York, Nov. 18.stral Java, Jungle instrumente, Senat for 10 not liom heard of since but was began negotiations for adding
bupplied Indonesians Thoy had
Early in the precont century, ter..! with arms and munitions A horns and finally, a now wille belleved to have gone to Paris, it to his other treasure
of the city linking up with path All major markets wore closed other and tubs railwaya under- Monday in observafice of Armi ground,” he said Router.
ške Day-Associated Presa,
olated Press,
for Resankavalier Router.
-Rest
MANILA, NOV. 13,
A PETITION FOR A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS WAS FILED IN THE PHILIPPINES SUPREME COURT TO-DAY IN BEHALF OF GENERAL. YAMASHITA:
It declares that the one-time "tigor of Malaya," who com- manded the Philippines de fences, is not charged with any war crime for which he per sonally is to blame and alleges that U.S. military commission is not a properly constituted au- thurity to hear the war, crime case against him.
Yamashita is on trial on the theses that a qupreme, comman- der is responsible for the nfs- conduct of his troops. None) witnesses have testified that atrocities and murders commit- ted against Filipinos were in pursuance of Yamashita's in- structiona. Amaciated Press
Ike Arrives
Boston, Nov. 13. General Eisenhower arrived by plano from Europe late zosterday en route to Washington to testify on the proposed unification of the 'American armed, foross”,
Authoritative sources In-Wa shington predicted his-tripið a possible prelude to narigument ba 'army chief of staff.---Assoginted Prest.