THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, ́S EPTEMBER 30, 1946.
EUROPEAN BLOCS CLASH AGAIN Dispute Over Rectification Of Greek Frontier
Belgrade Threat Not To Sign
Paris, Sept. 28. An Immediate attempt to block discussion on the Greek claim for "strategic adjustments" of the Graeco-Bulgarian frontier was made when the claim came up before the military committee of the Paris Conference tonight,
The claim had been referred to the military com- mittee by the Bulgarian Political and Terri- torial committee for reports on its strategic merits.
the Political committee: The military committee considers any increase or decrease of fer- ritory would probably improve ur wenken the ponsibilities for local defence but strategic se- curity includes political econo- mic and ethnic questions which are not within the scope of
The issue was the cause of a major clush in the Political committee between Western and Eastern countries. When General Mussor, chairman of the military committee called on the Greek delegate tonight to speak in support of his amendment, several of the de legates of the Eastern countries } this committee." immediately asked for the floor General Stavin (Soviet) back- on points of order.
d the American proposal Hay- Poland WZIN followed bying that General Calder had Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. | hanged the whole colour of the All three maintained that this tebate and put it on proper was purely a political matter lines. The proposal was adopt not within the empetence of d by 16 voten to the military committee and four abstentions. urged that it be sent back without further discussion to the Political committee.
Possible War
In a long dinettsalon which Tollowed, Admiral S. Manula of Yugoda vin necused Britain of trying to force the committee to discuss something which was outside a competence, and the Soviet delegate, General Nicolas Stavin declared: "We are not here to discuss the questions of possible war between Grecce and Bulgarin."
Colonel Laius, in a technical statement on the Greek de mands said there were a num ber of weaknesses in the present defence line for Greece.
The
defensive positions
Grevce sought to require could not deprive Bulgaria of suit- able positions for her own de fence. The demanda were the
with
PE SAYS TRUMAN
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West Point, Sept. 20, President Harry Truman, here for a football game, ves- terday told cadets at West Point Military" Academy' that "we believe we are poing to have permanent peace,"
The President said that peace is what we are work- ng for" and assured the mili- Jary cadets that the country needed their leadership even fn peace-Associated Press.
it. There were three abaten- tions.
Slavs Won't Withdraw
The committce nino enilorsed the preposed frontier between Italy and the free territory of Trieste, which provides for a "free" corridor between Trieste and the Italia port of Mon- caleone.
Appeal For A Big Three Meet
Chicago, Sept. 29. Two former United States Cabinet members yes- terday urged a meeting between President Truman, Prime Minister Clement Attice of Great Britain and Generalissimo Stalin of Rus- sia to "counsel about peace" and "bring an end to the bitterness and terrifying war talk that alls the atmosphere."
Bomb Test
On City?
uny future
Washington. Sept. 28. Major-General William Kep-, ner said it would be profitable After the voting. Mr. Kar-
to try out the affects of the del), the chief Yugoslav dele-atomic bomb against typleat gate at the conference, made a
city structures in statement which he asked to be tests of the weapon. two
recorded in the minutes saying that all Yagcalavin's efforts at reaching unanimity had failed. He added: "The Yugoslav dele- gation wishes to state clearly on behalf of its Government that it will not sign the peace. treaty with italy if this treaty contains a decision made here today and that Yugoslavia will not withdraw truos stationed in Western Istria."
In the Italian Economic com- mittee Dr. Milan Bartra of Yugoslavia made a formal pro- lest on behalf of his govern- ment following the defeat by eleven votes to seven of a Yngo- stay amendment aimed at se curing the transfer of German assets in Italy to certain of the Allies.
i
of the
The General made the com- ment ut a news conference in i
bis appointment as which commanding general Technical Training Command of the Army Air Forces was on-
fic nounced.
formerly Was deputy commander of atomic bomb task force.
He stated he was not advo-
the
cating a special test on a model city. but merely believed that the experiment, if included in new and broader test, would be profitable.
Danube To Stay Closed
New York, Sept. 29.
Russia served notice on the United States' last night that military measures in the Danu- bian area are of primary Im- portance, implying that the Soviet has no immediate in- tention of opening the Danube River to free navigation bc. tween the Russian And the American occupation zones.
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The Soviet declaration was IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES (CHINA) mule at the United Nations Economic and Social Counell meeting, as the United States gained support for a proposed international conference on the subject.
the Charging that
United States propon was a counter- measure to Yugoslav and Czech Both Harold Ickes, former demands for the return of Secretary of the Interior, nað vessels held by the Americans. Henry Morgenthau, former Se- Soviet representative Feunov cretary of the Treasury, apokeanid that the United Statca at n meeting here.
was attempting to avoid Sceur- ity Council consideration of these claims-Associated Press.
Morgenthau urged 1 Big Three meeting saying that the Roener it was held "the agoner' we can bring an end to the bitterness. recrimination and terrible war talk that fills the atmosphere."
He declared that "Amorica must stop pouring thousands of millions of peacetime dollars into the bottomless pit of war preparations.
He
War Talk
Just Another Stunt?
Providence, RI, Sept. 29, Captain Edward Jones, for- Lieutenant-Coknel with the United States Army stround and air service in China, snid
mer
To bring this to an end." in an interview that it was in- he added, "we have got to stop | possible that any 'American air- all the war talk, war thinking | men, are living as slaves of Lolo tribes in the and war plamming that is going aboriginal on in Washington today in mountainous western China.
A former high places."
officer executive Unid Congress "must with the Division of Military make sure the atom bomb is Intelligence charged with re never used again, that it is trieving American airmen for- banished from the arsenals of ved down in China, Jones said 8cvetal isundred the nations for all time. Once that cut of
of American the bomb has been securely and permanently outlawed I am con- planes in China during the war, fident that our major difficul- { only three planes
were Jost ties with Russia' will rapidly track of and none of these was near Lolo territory—Associated disappear."
Press.
crash landings the
The extreme, western Istria becomes part of the free ter- ritory under the draft treaty
Big Four Line The Yugoslav Government,
Instructed he said, had delegation to declare that was the committee's duty "to and erg that the nations who were the
of aggression victims should not be denied the right Lo claim certain rights to Ger- inan asseta in Italy."
Mr. Kardelj'a threat amowits to a Yugoslav refusal to withdraw her troops from that territory,
votes
by their
Asked about Stalin's state- ment that the bomb could not be decisive in war, General Kep- ner replied that the bomb is the most potent weapon ever developed.
Morgenthau pointed out that the American budget "calls for Czech Claim The Hungarian sub-commit-
military expenditures of more than $13,000,000,000 out of a The committee then adopted tee approved by four
"The amount of destruction | total budget of $11,000,000,000. by 13 votes to 2 an American with the abstention (Australia) depends on where it is dropped. This expenditure of $13,000,- amendment directing Italy to a report submitted facilitute auch transfer of Ger- rapporteur, Mr.
F. Costello whether it is a thickly popu-000,000 is not in payment for man capital na might he de- (New Zealand) regarding theated area, I think he (Stalin) the last war; it is preparation minimum compatible with manded by the powers occupy-bridgehead which Czechoslova- also said something about it for another war. Greece's security. Without these ing Germany who were entitled kia is claiming opposite Bratis-being used in a war of nerves. Well, I think the people of positions n effective defence to them. of the Greek frontiera
This report recommends the Hiroshima and Nagasaki possible.
cession to Czechoslovakia.cf theatswer that better than any- clad." he concluded. Ass0- 6173 Borthern half of the territory ciated Press,
riginally claimed and of three villages out of five in the ter- ritory.
/4H Russia, Poland, Czecheniova- The frontier should kia and Abyssinia abstained
defen-
be drawn between 15 to 20 kilumetres beyond the sive positions.
British View Brigadier Arthur Dove of Britain said there was substance in the Greek claim
some
from a purely military point of
νέειν,
Lt. General 3. D. Calder of the United States proposed the following reply be forwarded to
from voting.
The Italian Political and Territorial Committee approv- ed the Big Four line in the frontier hetween Italy and Yugoslavia.
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GRUESOME TASK
Warsaw, Sept. 28. Polish workers are sifting two tons of human ashes of scores of
The Australian and Canadian delegates insisted that the sub- The five members of the committee's report should in- "Slav blog" voted against it, clude a clause that a decision but Russia, abiding by the had been reached "regarding people shot by the Germans in principles of the previous Big the controversial question the gardens of the former Army Four deelsin, was one of the cording to the principles of the lonicers school in Aleja Szucha 12 countries which supported
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during the 1944 insurrection. They also insisted on a bet- These occupied with this grue- ter balanced presentation of some task say there is little hope both the Czech and the Ilun- of identifying the victims but are garian points of view.
hopeful that rings, identification The sub-committee then pre-dises or other identifying marks eceded to evolve accurate de might be found to establish the marcations on the map of the identity of some of those killed.-
territory to be ceded.-Router. Associated Press.
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India Delegate's Long Talk With Molotov
Paris, Sept. 28.
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Mr. V. K. Krishna Menon, Secretary of the India League in London, who is now in Paris as head of the special mission for the Indian interim government, had a two-hour interview with the Soviet Foreign Minister, M. Molotov, this morning, but refused to make any comment on leaving the Russian Embassy at 1.30 p.m.
A spokesman för Mr. Menon said his chiof
"seeing WEA several other people” before re- turning to London early tomor-
V.D. Checked In Malaya
row.
Although Mr. Menon refused
G.I.'s Doing A Bad Job
St. Louis, Sept. 28. The morala and attitudes of replacement troops in the Orient are lowering American prestige and endangering the nation's diplomatic - programine for
peace. Dr. Oscar Johnson, pastor of the Baptist Church, said on his return from a 22.- 000 miles tour of the Orient.
"Young American service- men are landing in the Philip pines, China and Japau feeling that they are on a vacation with pay. They do not have the combat veterans' respect for our Oriental Allies and by their conduct are damaging the re- putations of all Americans, in declared these countries," he here today,
He said the Japanese appear to be the actual conquerors in the Orient because they arc making fnster progress in restoring their country and pro- viding food than the Chinese or Filipinos.
He said General Douglas Mac- Arthur was the main reason for this development because he looked upon his problems as being theological and spiritual cucs as well as diplomatic.— Associated Press.
GeorgeSanders Up Against Women
Hollywood, Sept. 23.
to comment on the nature of his George Sanders' vacation plans talk, an Indian spokesman in have been thwarted by feminine close contact with him said opposition.
in
earlier this morning the dis- Sanders had been trying cassion was over highly secret vain to get reservations to By to matters which could not and England as soon as he finishes would not be disclosed.
"Rel Ami." He heard that nelor
Singapore, Sept. 29. The incidence of venereal disease among British Service personnel in Singapore is now lower than before the war.
Medical Department figures "There is no connection be-Arthur Treacher had cancelled show that the dlacasa has been
he had Treacher ar- reduced considerably in the tween Mr. Menon's interview his trip.
and the penco conference sub-range with the travel agent to past few months, owing to sugjects," the spokesman sald.
transfer his plane seat to George. cessful treatment with pent-
Ho added the meeting doalt But the agent's mother heard cillin and willingness of women
exclusively with. Indian and about the proposed switch. Sho to report for treatment. Social
Russian relations,
mudo, her son promise tu-cancel Welfare workers and the mill-.
"Pandit Nehru selected Mr. Sanders' reservation. It seems she tary and civil police have co- Menen for a secret mission to had heard Sanders' caustic re- aporated in this. The military M. Molotov himself, because of marks about women. police, after tracing women his
"No Communist buckground,'
son of mine," she .... known to be suffering from the the spokesman sald.
clared, "is ever going to do any discano, hand them over to
Mr. Menon Was formerly thing for a man who says things socin workers who invite the Communist councillor for these that about women." girls to present themselves for
London Borough of St. Pan- The "weaker", scx, eh?—Asso- free treatment.
cluted Press.
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"Former patients bring in
Informed quarters here be- their friends, and it is clear love that we are gaining their con- Menon's interview was to gain
the purpose of Mr. NO MORE fidence," said a social welfare Soviet support for the now
Hamburg, Sept. 28. worker.--Router.pd
Thuringia, the province in the Indlun interim government Russian zone of Germany, to Reuter.
atan' the influx of refugees. This find boon arranged with "the Con- trol Administration' authorities in The Constituent Assembly to Berlin Thuringia
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CAIRO CABINET
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Parla, Sept. 28.
* Alexandria, Supt. 28. night passed a law defining the ever take in the The Egyptian Cabinet resigned powers and wethod of section of 20,000 rofugees. With a pre today, The Premier, finall Bidky | the membora i afg the 1: Second War. A population Vartininted as Pazha called by Vaakating, vot this.), Thamber, of: the "Council a -26 1.300.000 Thuanzia has alrendy miniatura at him, kama / tonlakiem Ronubilo,” by Bishow a handassa padtalked a 150,000 galutin
SOVIET ENVOY
WITHDRAWN
Teheran, Sept. 28. The Soviet Ambassador Sn Persia, Ivan V. Adehlkov, is to leave Teheran shortly, according to diplomatic quarters, for what is described
"leave" in Russia. but he is not expected to
His successor. will be the Chief of the Middle Eastern Department of the Soviet Foreign Office. M. Shirsoft whe arrived in Persia on Thursday- Reuter.
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