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BRITAIN'S BUDGET › Pleasant Surprises Expected
Based On Grant
Of U.S. Lòan
LONDON, APRIL 7..
BRITAIN'S BUDGET HAS BEEN WRITTEN ON THE AS. SUMPTION THAT SHE WILL BE GRANTED THE $3,750,000.000 UNITED STATES LOAN,
A GOVERNMENT SOURCE SAID. "WE HAVE WORKED ON THE ASSUMPTION IT WILL CO THROUGH. IF IT DOES NOT WE WILL HAVE TO MAKE A NEW BUD. CET.'
Not Deficit
When the haurettor of the [000,000 to Sterling area coun- Exchequer, Mr. Hugh Dalton. iries and £32,000,000 to north presents the estimates of goy-fand south America, Europe and orament earnings awi expuniti{the rest of the world, India is tures for the fiscal year ended the, Inrgest creditor, helding in. March 21, 1946, to the House proximately three quarters of #f Comanna TX1 Tuesday the 2782,000,000 owed to Asia- there will be some pleasant Martic and middle eastern coV- prizes for a mation suggling to tries, recover frem six years of war, Batang of Britain's overwas arcorm by the mill of 1947 is rewarded as a definite provi bility use the dive in crease exports bas succesful than
of its strongest proponents hoped.
It the U. S. Congress refuses to ratify the loan, Britain will have to reduce her impurts will resultant shortages and distren. tions and borrow Sterling from
her banks.
Before the war Britain's AÐ- valued at mal exports were -£420,000,000 and the target for!
this year is £750,000,000. AL-
though this year's goal is 75
per cent. above the 1933 value. it will represent a much smalier volume of goods because of higher prices.
Skeleton
A salaton, believed to be that of a British_soldier "who fell during the Japanese at- tack on Hong Kong in 1941, was found in Camphor Wood, Lazichikok, late yesterday afternoon by Mr. G. J. Whito, of the Gloucester Hotel,
The R.A.F. Polico party that went out was unable to find the skeleton before dark- nere fell, and will go out again this morning.
With the skeleton, Mr. White reported, wes te Boi. dier'a belt and an Army- pattern water bottle.
Second Paris Kidnapping
in
Peace
Senator's Blueprint For Attack On Britain
Washington, April 7.
Senator Mycrts, Pennsyl- vania Democrat, asserts that Britain violated the treaty with the United States by independence to granting Trans-Jordan, formerly part of the Palestino mandate.
The British action violates th United Nations charter, he sold and called upon the Stain D: partment to, explain the lack of i protest; he suggested that th Sennte investigate.
Mycra anid that Britain "bai no right to change the terms o the Longue of Nations mandat Beder which Palestino and th Trans-Jordan territory was “ ministered." Under the Anglo-
unidentified | contended.
Portland, Ore., Apr. t. Delegato a representing 83,000 north-oestern American. college students today voted unanimously
world for federation having authority over the oziating sovereign nations. They also set up a committee that may be the
nucleus
of an
in'ornational
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POLITICAL TRUCE ENDS IN IRAN
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Teheran, April 7. Publication In Teheran of the Soviet-Iranian Pact which appears to have put an end to the U.N.O.& first Ug crisis has ended the political party truce which has pre- vailed for nearly a month..
college movement for their Right-wing circles, alleging that Russia got what she "blueprint for peace."
Youths, including
many
Less
war veterans, urged the Unit ed Nations to consider declin- ino armanients and military training with a view to the eventual abolition of both.
A delegate said that U.N.O. should get up a definite time-table toward creating a savereign world federation Associated Press,
Bartender Shot
wanted" criticise the agreement along three main line#: 1. Without asserting that there had been direct pressu from Russia, Right-wingers say that the 1,000 mile frontier between the two countries arid the presence of Russian troops in the country constituted a form of indirect pressure without which the agreement would never have been signed.
2 They point to the Iranian law forbidding even discussjón of oil concessions during the period of occupation and main- tain that the agreement would nover have been reached if oil concessions had not been dis- cuased.
internal
Heart Stops, Starts.
Stops
London, April. 7.
A healthy 32-year-old wo man, whose heart ceased beat-
London, April 7. The Leadɔn Police today 3. They criticise the fact tha held a beside vigil in. St.Azerbaijan, which is a Iranian nffair, has been George's Hotel on Owen Reed, 20-year-old bartonder of El brought into the agreement ating for nearly eleven minutes was brought back to life by bory Lodge Hotel, Victoria,
Right-wing circles Buy that massage and lived for 26 days, who was seriously wounded; however democratle the cloc-
says "Lancet,” the medical in a shooting incident in the tions which will follow the de-
journal. hotel last night.
all.
parture of the Russian troops, they are sure to return solid Left-wing blous from the North
After revital, the mmg and- and the chaussterieties ut an old person.
The.Woman, an N.L.O, în the
Two Poles living at the hate
shoot- were also wounded. The ing occurred in the basement of
They claim that the arrest of the hotel,
Mohacin Tebatahi, brother of A fourth person,
believed to Sald Zin Od-Din, has been made Forces, Cerwent A simple on charges of subversive activi.her heart stopped beating and operation for appendicitis when be involved, has disappeared.
London's detectives
today are ties and his brother was charg- after eleven minutes raassage,
Paris, April 7. Paris police were tonight American agreement of 1924 Investigating the daylight kid-Britain was required to obtain American permission before taking any such action, Myers napping — the second in month of an man, aged about 21.
He said that taxes on the Britain wound up the Ascal
been The man was surrounded yer- Jews in Palestine have year just ended with a net deterday In the Rue Jan Juures, used of support the administra- ficit of £2,110,929,449 includ the northern suburb of tion of Emir Abdullah, with ing £68,000,000 in new stock Romain Viile, by two men in whom the British signed the pole, who may be able
for a 30-year-old sixed yesterday with complicity. issued notion:lization ! khaki and three women, who treaty which permitted English
n regular pulse was felt and this A bright spot is
to give information. The condition. A British Embassy spokes-pounding at the rate of 90 per increased to a vigorous the posaithe Bank of Englundt.-Assocint-stopped out of a black car. troops to remain in Trang
of the three bility that balancing of tradeed Press,
wounded mon is A revolver shot was heard Jordan.-Associated Press.
arious-Reuter. accounts by the middle of nex
and the man was bundled int year making event car
the car, which drove off at a London, Apr. 7. ings of other Sterling countries freely convertible imo dollars, There are hopes in some quar- very fast pace. the latur
eundit, a of the ters that there will be further in-
concessions. agavement, wh prety sid
confidence in the restore full pound.
Bright Spot
In
The
thee, with
view official full confiden: :
ja
Tax Cuts?
tax const
A month ago, a Russian, Trades Theodore Kolossev, burn in Mos Unions have expressed emphati- cow in 1922, was reported to cally their view that heavy rate have been bundled into a car by in of income tax on overtime carn- three men in the Rue Erlander
ings, does not help the production Kolossey, who had escaped from Sterling restored, overment 212-drive. The champions of ditors will not want to convert harassed British housewife lookia entaji for Soviet citizens due for has not been chase tax, but it is generally heard of since-Reuter. Latest available estimates of realized that Britain's finances are the United Kingdom's external still on a war footing. The Chan-
would like to do now.
liabilities show them totalling cellor stated that nobody expects Delegates Clash
£3,255,000,000, including £2,723,- very much.
Aircraft's Most Deadly. Weapon
Delaware, April 7. The War Department has removed the veil of secrecy from around "Tiny Tim," the powerful rocket which дл Army spokesman said is "By far the deadliest thing ever. fired from an aeroplane.”
Colonel Donald Dichi, com- manding officer of the army air base unit at Dover army air field, said that the rocket" ear sink almost anything that floats
the
foot
Spain Will Be U.N.O.S Next Headache
Sister Kenny
Council the Polish view Has A Kick
the
Attack on Britain
The British Embassy
soon
man in Teheran stated today minute. that no oficial notification' of Later the condition of the Iranian Soviet agreement heart was stabilised and it ro- has yet been received.
mained but the woman's face In lost all its expression, and ba Teheran is pictured as a sinister carno mask-like. She remained centre of secret Intrigue in the like this until her death.. Left-ying newspapers here. The After bringing the woman bapers any that a network of back to life, the doctor said: underground passages led from "I don't think there I the the British Embassy in Teheran smallest chance of recovery and to various places and through If she survives she trust do so them local traitors contacted in a state similar to the one al British officials and got their la in new,Reuter.eminə Instructions... "How mysterious
and unchanging are the silent
premises if the British Em Franco On The
bassy", a paper states. "It is as if a thousand watchful, eyes' behind windows were fixing a
Destiny Of Spain
4
New York, April 7. The Spanish issue, raised unexpectedly by Poland yesterday, seemed likely to be the next problem to plague the United Nations Security Council just when the Council hoped for a quiet period to put ita rules in order. The Polish Embassy in Lon- The former Foreign Secretary,
Mexico City, Apr. 7. don announced that the Warraw! Mr. Anthony Eden, who leads the Police with ġna pistols were Government had inatructed the Conservative opposition in the called in to prevent a free fight Polish delegate to the Security absence of Mr. Winston Churchill, between delegates to the Third
| Jealous gaze on everything to will be the leading Conservative Regional American States Con Council, Lange, to lay before spokesman in the debates
safeguard the sacred interests onference of the International La-"
of the Commonwealth."
Madrid, App I Wednesday and Thursday on the hour Organisation now menting that, the United Nations should
Brisbane, Apr. 7.
General Franco stated that fis budget resolutions,
hare who clashed on the question break off diplomatic relations
Britain has still not received task in Spain had only just begun Informed Conservative quarters of the admission of Argentine with the France Government.
Sister Elizabeth Kenny the any official report of the Soviet-when today the received 80 albume that "Mr. May
Churchill has not unions to
Queensland nurse who griginated Iranian Pact, Reuters Diploma-containing 700,000 sirantures of the conference.
The Embassy announcemeqt eorge Meaney of the American said:
.A method yet decided whether he will in-
The decision of the tervene. It is felt that should Federation of Labour called for Polish government was taken in demanding that the government
of treating infantile tie Correspondent confirmed in former combatants in the Spanish Duralysis, arrived here today and
London.
war presented political issues aristo temptation tour movemngut and bitterly de- very regime in Spain is ondan is her name where, she claims, opinion on it is likely to be ex-
a floken of to Argentine underground view of the fact that the pre-closes clinics in Queensland bear the former ald
Until it arrives, he says, no their adhesion." Premier may find the
Franco epid his regime, 17.1 to take part irresistible.
waunced Argentine labour dele- gering International peace and there has been a misrepresenta pressed In On Friday, the United Nations rates.
British official Zailed to remove the causes which Lion bill, which enables the Tegislation it was decided that the Argan-that peace is indivisible."
quarters and no decision is like had created a state of decadestoe to allow Britain to act in accord- tine should be excluded from the Poland Itaelf has already de- Sister Kenny, said the mothad ly to be taken on whether Briin Spain's ruling classes, could tex ance with the decisions of the group and committee meetings but cended to recognise the Spanish had been successful in America: tain should continue to press for described as cowardly and sy
meaning of the U.NO.. will be up for discussion, allowed to voice themselves at Rep:blican Government of Dr that the treaty anden but an answer to the note to Moscow our regime from Commuller and attacks on but it is not likely to provoke a plenary sessions.
Jose Giral, who is now in Paris. that the treatment was still on of March 2 for an explanation Mesopit; press and radiol that debate.
All the Argentino representa- Poland's case may have the known in Australla.
of the Russian failure to with- we have made good," he declared "It is only a fores to have tives have been most violently at-backing of France, for the tacked by apskestion of the Latin French Cabinet has already augh are not carrying out my under the terms of the tripartite and our day is lying bigh. Wo on the instituto bere draw her troops from Persia "It means that we are not dond American Federation of Labour gested in notes to the Uniter work." she said-Renter. treaty of 1942.-Reuter,
The budget is only one section of an enormous mass of domestic
It has driven holes all the way legislation confronting the House
through a light. cruiser from side to side. It goes through. destroyer as if it were a peic of paper."
The new weapon, which car be fired from any type of American fighter plane or me dium bomber, is described as a "huge rocket of 11% inches in diameter, and 12 foot long.
Several Tiny Tims were used; against Japanese shipping an reinforced pillboxes before th end of the war and it was found that few targets could withstand a direct hit from the which travelled at a speed of -over 1,500 miles an hour."
of Commons.-Router,
Router,
British Intelligence Uncovers Nazi Swindle
•
With B.A.O.R., April 7.
Special Investigation. Officers in the British zone in Germany have discovered evidence of two colossal financial swindles carried out 'by Gormany in Occupied Europo during the war,
States and Britain that the Franco Regime should come be- fore the. U.N.O, and has indi cate the strength of its viewa by cinging the co-Spanish frontier as from February 28
The Polish statement, made; in Warsaw, abid Poland entirled to raise the question with the U.N.O... not only be cause she was a member of the organisation but also "remem- boring that some 1.000 Poles were killed in the defence of
and domocratic
republican
wis
rocket. Inquiry into the affairs of Otto Wolff, one of the biggest Spain"-Associated Press and
Dieht emphasized that the California Institute of Tech nology pravidad much help in developing, Tiny Tim. Dich also said, "It is probable that devised to carry atomic power" in the future, Tiny Tim may be
Router,
MURDERED BRITISH.
PRISONERS
of
my
of her treatment.
British Eye On Youth Groups In Germany
H.Q., B.A.O.R., April 7.
Officers of, the British Military Government are keeping à close watch on Gorman youth movements which are springing up in various parts of the British zones of Germany.
The Colonel said that a bomb occupation. francs worth 59,000 Saleh.traced so far in Switzerpped British; prk:oners-of-war youthg to join the Frolor, the branches,
000 marks..
need to complete our
change the
must
plotely materialist philosphy
4.
imported from forest
сот-
the
WA
must
*soldiers' af our crusade must remain vigilant watch in order to mitiko avre that the historic destiny - of Spalo 'is not interfered with." Reuter,
LONDON'S STATUES COINC BACK
London, April 7: London's evacuated 1 statues are now returning to thetr former sites, King Charles Is.. back again from the Earl of.. Roseborry's estate at Kentmurje, ■ Leighton Buzzard, and fabalng" repaired before going back to Trafalgar Squaro. E
Remembering the birth and development of the Hitler, steel making concerns In Germany, disclosed that be
Jugend, (youth organisation), whose widespread revi- fore the war, Germany paid, for gold abroad in blocked
valist plot was smashed in the American zone last marks, which, after the fall of France were brought
week, the British authorities are wondering what is. back from the French by the firm, very cheaply.
Milan, Apr. 7. behind the spate of youth clubs in their zone. French firms were unable to was sold in Stockholm, and An Allied Military Court here
Yellow and black praters have lowrd to have a contral organi-King George III is being realize their blocked credits and Berse. In this way about 50 today sentenced to 16 years penal appeared on the walls in Ruhr aation, Communist pamphlets, cleaned before being returned to 000.000 marks in exchange for able agcurities were bougnt up throw German courier, who face tlak zone of Berlin, urring and Berlin, have been found in Pall Mall East and., Coclegur were induced to part with 160 000,000 marks' worth of market servitude Max Drindt, one
towns, Westphalia, and the Bri- | same originating from London | his did home at the corner of 4) charge. murdering
thred with occupation currency.
Street. can penetrate only so far where
Meat Bressanone in the South Deistacho |*** Judenbewegung || Anny of the local leaders are - Soon Lord Wolseley wiir re as Tiny Tig rocket will... rip ̈
As occupation francs cost and amount to only 12,000,000 Tyrol la October, 2044 (Free German Youth Move- former German Army N.C.O... turn to his ad alte in Horss through any object at which it Germany only the paper they marke, and the remainder may The two other Germans were ment), which has the four point A military government of Guards Parade, and King Wi is fired Associated Press.. were printed on, they deal still in lying somewhere nou tound not guilty--Reuteri logan, Unity, Work, Construc- ficer eald- today The Hitler liam III will stand in St. James
amounted, therefore, to the wip-tral countries, possibly deposited
tión and Pencs.” **
Jugend started like this. But we Square-Reuter. TRIESTE COMMISSION
ing out of credits without cost ins pérgonal possessions of Goer RAIL AGREEMENT
The movement has been sane have to encourage youth "move" Romo, April 7, The eccond swindle was oven | Ing: 6'2"* DAY AS
tioned, by the Military Govern- menta and at the same time see The International - Boundary moro blatant, GAAN Balther investigations are ex-
Ladies reports that, ment with the provision that it they are not turned into another Commission which has now Secking, foreign exchange to pected to mount the whereabouts the International Railway: Con-fis non-political;y pangate Hitler Jugend overnight, „completed its work in Venezia buy war materiala in neutral of the hidden securities, the forence which audled today in Buy In the Herford district alone, "We cannot clamn down' noW. Guilla announced today that its countries, the Nazis gave Wolfri Otto Weiff died in 1940, but się reached, usernements on throng 40 clubs, excluding sports or as that would drive sucher (membera » were pleävin". Imme" the lob of securing quantities:
his son, Otto Wolf vor trafne across the British French gallations, with memberships inment We can alayiva for London where they currency of oualet subten Zyronken, who spent the war And Ames can donat of: Germany verven 20 and 100 vs sont underground Vo
Workingford Kermany In Por lo
counting ready been established Mill while the movemente personnel tugal, has been brought back to the
tary.... Government of care are are "doroan," and "les motivité: "IZMITIGA Gärtnány, and jaydum for, inter“
over the fact that, af kept under, olose observation Ka Man) Hum rotation, shortly
the movement fa not fal-
prepare their fish report | pagfigy for Lite with for presentation to the denuity currency, which cost. foreign ministers of the called | jones: nothing res powers-Reuter
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