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SIMLA TALKS COLLAPSE No Solution Of Moslem-Congress Dispute
Shaking Blow To Beveridge
Cardinal On Monstrous Warfare
New York, May 13.
The Archbishop of
minster.
West-
The Indians
́SIMLA, MAY 13.. NEGOTIATIONS A COLLAPSE IN THE
BETWEEN THE BRITISH CABINET MISSION AND INDIAN LEADERS FOR GRANTING COMPLETE INDEPENDENCE TO INDIA WAS FORMALLY ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY. APPARENTLY THE NEGOTIATORS AFTER EIGHT DAYS OF CONFERENCES HAD FOUND. NO WAY OF RE- SOLVING THE MOSLEM LEAGUE'S DEMANDS FOR AN INDEPENDENT MOSLEM STATE AND BITTER CONGRESS OPPOSITION TO IT.
Attack On Potsdam
thor Bernard
Cardinal Griffin; today called for a truce "to the monstrous warfare between industry and com-
munity.
He was speaking in a Staten epast to coast broadcast on the "dignity of labour."
United
that
"Remember." he snid,
H
while worker has the right to light injustice which would have victimised him, he in turn mast only to his observe justice net employer but to the whole munity.
"Cardinal Griffin recalled that Pope L X11 proclaimed
The
right of workers to strike but tu dy, he said, it seemed that many disputes were engineered salely to exuge a breakdown in the social system.
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Stockholm, May 13,
MADRAS RIOT
Μπάνας, Μαν 13,
One wor killed and one wounded whGA the police opened fire in Madrua, 100 miles south of Madras, during riots over a conference of "Bravidastaa" movement.
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curfew has been imposed and assemblica of more than five persons have been kanned. Tho "Dravidastan moventent demands independence Darvidians of Southern In- dia on the lines of the Moslem "Pakistan"Reuter.
for
Rhine Wine For Soldiers' Wives
Sir William Beveridge, au-
of the famous Social | Security "Beveridge Plan," on his arrival hero from Oslo, at- tacked the Potsdam Declara-
Boppard, May 13. British wives who come out to tion, signed last July by Gonjoin their husbands in the BAOR oralissinto Stalin, President will find that meat, fats and sugar The sudden end of the nega- Hopes And Fears
Truman and Mr. Clement are as scarce in Germany as they tiations was a shaking blow to A second communique issued
are in Britain.
But they will find that choice the Indians, many of whom ex-jointly by the Cubinet Mission Attlee, which provides for the
Industry, Rhine win, so rarely to be found pected a swift transition from and the Viceroy said, "While control of German the British to a fully Indian greatly regretting the discus-reparations and limitation of in England, is both plentiful and cheap and they will be able to controlled country. Increased sions at Simla have not led to Germany's imports.
buy as much as they like for about hitternes is forecast ni it any agreed plan between the
6d a bottle. both between lenders of Congress and the mediate result. the Masters and the Hindus and Moslem League for proceeding Indians and the British...
with the working out of a new The announcement was made constitution, we wish to make after a final conference of more clear this does not in any way than an hour.
being to an end the mission with which we were charged.”
Announcement of breakdown theeume at the end of a day of state-alternating hopes
The communiqua by Lord Pethick Lawrence, head of the Americn has been called the Cabinet delegation.. said
There is Arsenal of democracy.
that I can see why negotiatora would issue Amerien should But become the ment within a few
Justice prussing their views as hulwark of social
next steps to be taken. Reuter.
Sir William said, "The Atlantic Charter provides that Germany should be dinarmed, but at the some time that all nations shoul! have equal access to the world's, raw materials.
Cosmetics and other toilet re- quisites are much more diMcult to get than they are in England ati the pres
present time.
As to the meat problems, Bri "The Potsdam
Declaration is tish troops are doing their best not in accordance with this prin- to solve that before their wives
it will, if followed. arrive.
They Bre ciple, and
preparing make Germany the breeding "Operation Butcher" for the pur- And pose of shooting the game and fears, ground for political and econontie
wild fowl which abound in the Sir William ia on an extensive rolling wooded countryside of lecture and study tour of Sean-Germany, for the family dinner. dinavia and Finland. Reuter, Reuter.
days ex- Up to the last minute it was to the hoped that the Congress Party and Moslem League would reach some measure of agreement on 1.he long-term constitutional problem.
Evidence Piling Up Against Franco
New York, May 13.
The United Nations sub-committee investigating Franco Spain will receive documents within the next few days purporting to show that agents of the Franco regime have been active in Latin America.
The report that the President of the Moslem League, Moham- med All Jinnah, had sent an cleventh-hour message to Pan- dit Nehru Congress leaders, raised Bome hope that this evening's meeting would pro- duce some now development.
These hopes wero dashed when after the meeting, which lasted 14 hours, the official
announcement was issued.
Moscow Slanging Of Britain Continues
Moscow, May 13.
Criticism of British policy over the Ruhr and Egypt appeared in the newspaper "Moscow, Bolshevik" yesterday Foreign observer V. Linetsky.said that Foreign Secretary
Ernest Bevin's plan about the future of the Ruhr Basin said nothing about present conditions in the Ruhr about its early future.
It simply "proposed to establish 50 years after the end of the occupation Germany's conamic Rheinish Westphalian region." control over the Ruhr and all the The article noted this control is
Interim Government Mexican informants said that Mexico would submit evidence
Political quarters consider next week that Spain's Falangists had engaged in "sub-
that, in spite of the failure of: versive activities" in some Latin-Anmerican countries.
Spanish Republican sources the parties to come to an agree- said representatives of the ment on the question of a long-for
term.settlement, the Mission is Spanish governmicat in exile had received "important docu- determined to go ahead wits its ments" on Falangist activities announced objectives:
1. The setting up of an in- in the Western Hemisphere terim government,
Cheers In Paris For De Gaulle
Paris, May 13.
and were at work on a memor- andum for the sub-committer.
2. The creation of a constitu- tional-making machinery. Observers point out
that
Federation Of
or
to be accomplished by a joint Belgium Proposal
and 2 © & <
Wallonia-
the framework of the Belgian state,
of Allied. commission consisting Britain,
Belgium, Holland
Brussels, May 13. "but does not in- 110 proposal that Belgium A United States spokesman
clude in its composition, represen- should become a federation mad A military pageant in celebra- said the State Department ex- Field Marsha! Lord Wavell, tatives of the United States or up of at least two autonomous tion of the anniversary of V-Day pected to present a comprehen- Viceroy, who ultimately has the the Soviet Unioning
ataics was approved almost un- was held at the Arc de Triompasive deport to this
the committee responsibility of dealing with After mentioning the Ruhr's animously today at the Wallonn morning. Large
about the middle of the week in constitutional crowils
industrial Fres, the writer added French speaking Belgians) con- Place de Tails,
development, as It is natural that the qucation of ference in Chalerol. attended by gathered in the
with day-to-day ad the future of, this region as of 1,200 delegates, standing in the drizzling rain to response to the United Nations constitu
for afermation listen to President Felix Gouin requests
on ministration, has already taken the entire Rizinish Westphollan It was proposed that Belgium Franco Spain.
interests all who shou'd Flanders--- and to watch the parade.
Gouin
It has not yet learned ps to prepare the ground for region yellany people greeted oil wit: whether this repo bend the setting up of an interim are concerned over strengthening sold be split up int cheered him when he euologii tuin any evidence of Falangist government, having the people's the foundations of international cast and southeast half-within the general.
activities in Latin America, but support. He is believed to have peace and security."
And-Egypt Detachments of troops
and a this was one of the points about given an indication of his in-
Commenting on Prime Minister tention to go ahead with the large American contingent receiv- which the sub-committee asked plan to re-constitute his Execu- Clement Attlee's statement in the cd a tremendous welcome. The Russians did not take part in the the United States for informative Council in such way as to House of Commons, that if nege- becomes a third "regional state"
tion.
make it an executive political-tiations with Egypt fail then the or "a federal city" or prefer s0182 Axis Ally
government when he met the previous treaty would remain in or regime.
The proposal was put forward The spokesman indicated the lenders of the Indian native force, the article stated There-
fore the outcome of the negotia- by Professor Ferzand de Hours panied by the King of Cambodia, United States report would con- states.
tions in Cairo is made dependent of Llego University, who was a who is on n visit as the guest of tain documents intended to Informed quarters, consider
on whether or not Egypt show that Franco was an ally that as soon as the members of the conditions proposed to her member of the Belgian
tion to the U.N.0.-Reuter, After their official appearance of the Axis Powers during the the Cabinet Mission return to The article drew attention
Some of the documents Delhi, they will, with the help the unanimity of the Egyptian Molotov. Mr. James Byrns and ive already been published by of the Viceroy, go ahead with press
against auch method of ne- M. Georges Bidault, took the red the State Department, but the plans for implementing the first votiations and said the reply to of the alay off, while Mr. Bevini was in Londen. The four minks. new report is expected to con- of their objectives-the. stttingutera observers on what does
parnde but the cars of their o07- cials were recognised and cheered.
President Gouin was
accom-
France.
this morning at the parade,
31. war.
ter will meat angin four arrow, tain additional information.
morning at 11.00 a.m. for
informal session. — Reuter.-
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up of an interim government, A dispatch from Paris sald
Precautions Taken that Jose Giral, premier of the
The question now is whether Spanish government in exile,
Congress und the 'Moslem left Paris with evidence to be League will be able to work to- BROWN SHIRTS ON submitted to the United No-
gother in an interim govern- tions sub-committee. There was ment and, if so, on what basis. no immediate reaction to There is belief in Indian quart- American delegate Stettinius's
the constitutional-
TRIAL
that era
the "perplexed questioning" of Egypt want could be found in the Egyptain newspaper? "Egypt wants genuine independence. Associated Press.
The city of Brussels would have the right to determine whether i
dolega.
VICTOR IN RETIREMENT.
Twenty-six
Cairo, May-13. year old King Farouk called on 70-year-old ex- King Victor Emmanuel of Italy after the latter arrived at shortly Antonianos Palace,
which for reserved
King
SOVIET-ARGENTINE
They had a long and friendly RELATIONS
chat. It was not their first meet-i ing, for in 1933 Victor Emmanuel. Moscow, May 13 London, May 13. The trial of twelve Austrians proposal-that-the-Council hold making body will begin to
Jatin American diplomatic vir- paid a short visit to Egypt when up action On requests for (Brown Shirts) charged with tip!
function some time in June. cics here predict that diplomatic King Farouk's father was on the United Nations membership, murder of nine Jews in April,
Interim government, however, relations will be established be-throne.
Another visitor to the ax-king- 1946 will open shartly before the pending a study of the quali- is almost a certainty by the tween Argentine and the Sovie:
British Rications and the procedure by end of the month, according to Union in the near future.
was. Prince Mohammed All, Heir Gruz People's Court, The News Service in Germany stated | # sub-committes.-Associated
these quarters. Some Indian
These circles consider that the Presumptive, tonight.
Press,
Soviet Trade Mission now circles expect an important de-cnos Aires, on what appears to clafon by the Cabinet Mission be the most successful visit, will in the next week ten daya.
open the way for such a move. Precautionary measures were
Argentina has never recognised the Soviet Union since the 1917 revolution-Reuter,
On the collapse of German re sistance in Austria, the accused were alleged to have taken the Jews in the mountains of Upper; Styria to work on defences,
When the work was completa. the leader is said to have ordered all the Jewa to be shot. Reuter,
KNILM SERVICE
Giral Documents
taken by the Simla police to night in view of the excitement caused by the breakdown of the Mission's conference wilt In2)
New York, May 13, Jose Giral president of the Spanish republic in exilo, arriving by plane from Parla yesterday, said he would submit documents to the United Nations showing dian. lenders. that the Franco régime is a threa: to world peace-Associated Press
FIRST PARLIAMENT
Athens, May 13.
We want to go hotne." seeing, grested them with crior:
Victor Emmanuel will not re- ceive the press during his visit, nor does he wish to be seen in public. No ane is allowed to enter the palace gardens, and several nolice have been posted
there.-Reuter.
Tass quoted an American news agency as is, source of now. Tong live the evacuation and lion which, it said hitherte wan Egyptian civilians shouted, regarding the airport construc-
Nile Valloy unity-Router, kept secret.-Associated Press.
WANT TO GO HOME B-29 DROME IN ITALY
Cairo, May 13.
Moscow, May 13. Mr. Gandhi is meeting the When the British and Egyptian;
A This dispatch from Rome members of the Mission to delegations, engaged on treaty said that 4,000 German prisoners Now York, May 19.
morrow evening. It is report revision negotiations, visited the of war were building a Flying K.N.I.L.M., the Royal Nother-.
el that Dr. Azad, President of Nile Delta barracks today, Egyp- Fortress airport near Foggin, Sands Indies Airways, plans regu-
the Congress Party, and Motion sources report that British Italy, for the American air force lar air service between San Fran
hanimed Ali Jinnah, Muslim soldiers sponding a day in sight command. elkeo and Batavia. From Batavia Greece's first parliament after leader, may most the members other services are planned to the war will even today with a of the Mission separately to Sumatra, Bali, Borneo, the Celebes royalist majority to consider the morrow. Associated Press and and Australia, with connections in task of reconstruction, atobilian Indo-China, the Philippine Com- tion of economy and clarification
Router. monwealth. Chian and Indla.—As of the monarchy problem. Beciated Press,
Although
government has ret Sept. 2 as
London, May 18. as the date for a plo-
The Royal Geographical So- biscite on restoration of the mon Jorusalem, Hay 19.
archy, it is expected that numbers ciety has awarded its Founders Four British áirborne troops of the liberal party will contend Medal for 1946 to Brigadier were killed and 12 were seriously the vote should-be-postponed until Edward A. Glennie, a surveyer injured in a clash with coloured order is folly restored, election of India for his work on Geo- troops at a military camp at Tal list recompiled and the people - deay. In India, and his contri- Aviv, according to unconfirmed sured of free voting-- ssociated | butions to mapping in the far
Prest. Feports here tonight-Router.
East.-Rout
BRITONS KILLED
EIRE CALL
COURTESY CALL Dublin, May 18,
Rome, May 19. A call for the restoration of Lieutenant-General: Bir. William democratis control in Biro and Morgan, Allied Commander in Lon abolition of military courts was Mediteranean hostie, Today pald made in a resolution passed at that a courtesy visit to King Umberto May Day parado in Dublin toilay 11, acording to the Italian News in commemoration of James. Con- Agency. They and a cordial con- solly, Irish Labour leader exocut-/ varaation, the Agency: added.- ́ed in 1910-Reuter,
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