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ABORTIVE REVOLUTION IN Paratroop Verdicts
NORTHERN PORTUGAL?
Government "Unaware Of The Motive":
"Complete Calm Reigns"
ing the balance between KALGAN CAPTURED
the British and · Ameri-
can effort.
"It is in the interest of Anglo- American friendship
that the
truth should be told,” he said. "I would like to pay tribute to the part of the American forces in Southeast Asia. Although at no time was there more than one
-- brigade fighting on land, their cu- gineers and air force put up a magnificent performancë.”.
Sir William Slim, Commander-. in-Chief of the 14th Army in Burma, said the first thing he had to contend-with on going to Burma was to convince every man that what he was aiming at was possible.
The myth of Japanese invinci- bility was such that it was dif flcult to convince people that the Japanese-were-cnlv-dirty little- yellow ants and, not supermen) General Slim said.
Nanking, Oct. 11.
Kalgan, Chinese Communist stronghold" in Chahar Pro- vinor, was captured by Gov-
day.
RUMBLINGS OF DISCONTENT
Washington, Oct. 11.
ernment forcos at 2 pm. to Official dispatches reaching Washington from Lis- bon last night suggest that a reported civil and military uprising in northern Portugal has been thwarted in advance by prompt Gov- ernment action, Reuter learned from a re- liable source.
Although it was reported earlier today that General Fu Taoi-ute forces were making "blitz" advances"· on Kaigan, the nowe came as a surpriza to the Capital.
ment official A high Government tonight confirmed the capture of Kalgan, and added: "We do not consider the capture a victory. It is just a further development which we hope. will eventually bring about a settlement." ·Ha reiterated" that the Government was still seaking d'peaceful settlement. -Reuter.
For the Arst four months they troops, but devoted themselves to dealing time they obtained an efficient at the end of that with the drop in morale among fighting team-Renter.
F-M SMUTS SAYS:-
"United States Of Europe” Needed
The Hague, Oct. 11- Field Marshal Smuts, South African Prime Minis- ter, called on Britain to take the lead in form- ing a United States of Europe, when he ad- dressed a joint meeting of the Upper and. Lower Houses of the Dutch Parliament today. If Britain would not take the initiative, he suggested that some of the smaller states should persuade her to do so.
"In Eastern Europe, a Slav general group is al- ready forming under our eyes," Marshal Smuts declared, adding: "And why not? Why should this be resented or feared as a menace to others? Is it not wiser and safer to regularise these groupings which correspond to deep-seated national or ests? I do believe that the United Nations need such buttresses to their overall world structure.
General Smuts proposed two flights and insights of a genius alternatives.
are beyond the range of com-
ARCHBISHOP GAOLED
Belgrade, Oct. 11.
The Roman Catholic Pri- mate of Yugoslavia, Arch... bishop Aloysius Stepinac, was
sirteen today sentenced to years forced labour after ber ing found guilty of "crimes against the state," the Tupe- slav News Agency reported.
In addition, he was order- ed to lose all his civic rights for a further five years. Reuter,
Fress.
There is no word of any fighting and American officials in Lisbon are still in contact with Washington and Madrid. These officials say, however, that
much communications. with the northern city of Oporto have been cut, The spokesman at the Portuguese Embassy said no information had been received from Lisbon and no attempt had been made to communi- cate with that city.
New York ...official and business sources stated that tugal had been normal through their communications with Por
out the day.
A Beuter message from Mad- rid says that telephone commu- nications between Spain and Portugal were subject to "in- definite delay" last night. The Madrid
exchange said they could give no information as toea Portugal would accept calls Reuter.
Official Statement
Lisbon, Oct, 11.
An official statement signed by the Prime Minister, Dr. Salazar, on yesterday's military rising in the north of Portugal, stated:--
"Certain officers, dismissed from
the army, infitrated the Sixth Cavalry Regiment stationed Oporto and persuaded 70 men to
revolt.
at
These men, led by one officer, marched towards Aveiro but sur- rendered. without a struggle, fol- lowing the prompt action of troops from the garrisons of Coimbra, Pixucira da Foz and -Aveiro,"
concluded.Renter.
Quashed
London, Oct. 11. The Secretary of State for War, Captain FJ. Bel- lenger, yesterday announced the quashing of the convictions in the Malayan mutiny charge, in which 243 British paratroopers in Malaya were recently sentenced by court martial to two years' imprisonment with hard labour, Orders to this effect and for the men's release were being issued forthwith. The advice he had received, the War Minister added, from the Judge Advocate General with regard to the trial was that there were a number of ir- regularities which rendered the trial, as a whole, unsatisfactory, and the convictions ought not to be allowed to stand. Discussions of the sentence in-
posed by the Kluang court mar- tial on the 243 paratroop mutin-
sers convicted of mutiny were un 39,535 SQUATTERS
derstood to be the reason for the summoning to a Cabinet meeting yesterday of Captain F. J. Bel lenger, British War Secretary.
Captain Bellenger is member of the Cabinet.
not s
The report on the proceedings by the Judge Advocate General was in the hands of the Cabinet and the Army" Council. If the Judge Advocate, found for in-, stance, any technical illegality in longer." Associated the court martial proceedings. that would almost certainly lead to the release of the men.
Otherwise, the Army Council, not the Cabinet, could; if it thought fit, quash or reduce their sentences.
Lisbon Quiet
Madrid, Det.-11. Passengers arriving from Lis- bon this morning said here that everything was quiet when they
left Lisbon and there were no
signs of any special precautions in the streets.
One informed source, close to the Foreign Office, declared circles that Dr. Salazar was an that it was known in British
"old and tired man," and even though his rule was "benevo leat, he could not be expect ed to remain: Prime Minister | age-Reuter,
from Oporto indicated that the The travellers said that reports disturbances there had apparent ly been provoked by a food short
R. N. Cruisers For
Indian
Navy
London, Oct. 11.
The first of three cruisers to be handed over to the Indian Navy by the Royal Navy will be "Achilles," sistership of "Ajax" which played a decisive part in the defeat of the German pocket battleship "Graf Spee" at the Battle of River Plate in December, 1939. This is stated in well-inform is "Leander" (7,020 tons). who add that the actual hand- ed naval quarters in London, "Ajax" is the smallest....
They all mount six-inch guns. ing over is likely to take place The complement of each ship is 550. "Leander" did great
The ship is now in a British port and arrangements are be- ing made for her transference to the Indian Navy within the next five months."
Italian raider.-Reuter.
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Throughout the week, the Bri tiah press has reported a growing public outery against the severity of the Kluang seatcaces.
Wives and mothers of the con-
of Commons, interviewing mem- victed men have visited the House bers of Parliament and present- ins petitions signed by hundreds of thousands of people throughout Britain. Associated Press and
Reuter.
London, Oct. 11, Minister of Health Ancurin Bevan told the House of Com mons today that a total 39,536 persons are living as "squatters" in 1,038 Army camps in Britain,—Associated Press.
Nazi Chiefs
To Die On
Wednesday
Berlin, Oct. 11 The Allied Control Council has rejected all appeals by the sentenced London, Oct. 11.. Nazi leaders. All those Questions ranging from com- who were sentenced to pensation for the 243 men of death will be executed the 18th (Lancashire) — Para-
Compensation?
chute Battalion, to calls for next Wednesday, alteration In the Regulations The Rowing were sentenced. wil be put to Captain F. J. to death all by hanging: Her- Bellenger, War Minister, in the Mann Goering, Joachim Ribben House of Commons on Tuesday.trop. Fritz Kaltenbranner. Alfred. Mr. Hector Hughes, K. C Frick, Julius Streicher, Frits Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Labour, will ask whether as the Sarckel, Alfred Jodl, Arthur suffering and indignity inflicted Seyss Inquart and Wilhelm Kei
caused by tel. Martin Bormann was also on the men were irregularities caused by officers, sentenced to death in his absencs. the Minister "will take steps The piese of Goering, Jodl and to compensate them adequately Keitel to be shot Instead of hang.. for their sufferings and indig-ed have also been rejected. nity and what steps be proposed The executions will take place to take to assess and pay such before a four-power commission. compensation."
In rejecting the pleas for Major Manningham Buller, with Reeder's plea to be shot in- clemency the Council also dealt
an ed
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The Government statement in March, 1947. added: "The Government is un- "Achilles" has been return work in the Indian Ocean dur- Conservative, will ask what stead of imprisoned and said it aware of the motive of rebellion."ed to the Royal Navy by theing the war, intercepting a were the irregularities which could not intresse sentences. Im The Government considered it Royal New Zealand Navy in German merchant raider and led to the trial being invalidat posed, by the Tribunal-Renter. necessary to take over the coun- exchange for "Black Frince" sinking, with five salvos, economic inter- try's main telephone comununica-
tions. out the country" the statement "Complete calm reigns through
Precautions
Lisbon, Oct. 11. Extraordinary military and If jealousy among great moner men. I fear that Europe police precautions have been powers inhibits their taking the cannot wait until there is a invoked here and informed lead, could not a number of change of heart in France and sources said they believed the smaller states come together Germany. Her case is too move was caused by Govern without such sponsorship and urgent. Let a European econo- ment suspicion of an incipient set the ball rolling by forming mic council be formed to cor uprising against the regime of a regional group, with its ap-ordinate and guide the common Premier Antonio de Oliveira later. The largest of the three propriate council? he asked: economic affairs development of Salazar.
He added that if none would this continent." venture to take the lead towards
All private telephone commu- "Such a council has already nications between Lisbon and Buch a political and, regional been recommended by a Com the provinces were cut by Gov- solution, let-a-start he made mittee of the Social and Econo- ernment order. by forming a European economie Commission of the United police and the anti-Communist All troops,
Por-
Each of the three ships to be handed over to India cost over £1,600,000 to construct.
Besides "Achilles," the "Ajax” and Leander" will be handed to the Indian Navy. "Achilles" and "Leander" were completed in 1933 and "Ajax" two years
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mic council to coordinate and Nations. A practical step has volunteer legion, "Legino STRIKE STILL
SPREADING
guide the common economic already been taken in the plan tuguesa," have been called to affairs and development of the for the customs union, between barracks.. continent or of as much of it Holland, Belgium and Luxem- The preventive measures in as, may choose to join the bourg. As soon as Germany is Lisbon appeared to have been .scheme.
Referring to Mr. Churchill's affairs, her case for membership latively few persone
in control of her own-economic adopted so discreetly that re- The idea of a United States of could be considered by the other any change. The life of the Europe based upon reconcilia-interested neighbors," he con- city appeared normal and or tion between France and Ger- tinued. many Field Marshal Smuts
derly Associated Press. 'said.
London, Oct. 11.
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This might change the whole
scene
in Europe, but these
Timely Action
Rumblings
noticed
London, Oct. 11.
London hotel strike spread further Last night.
London, Oct. 1L
Nuernberg, Oct. 11. Joachim YOU Ribbentrop, Hitler's former Foreign Minis ter, now under sentence of death for his part in the Nazi conspiracy, has written to Sir
tories of bravery in Japanese prisoner-of-war-Alexander Walker, "care of
camps are told in the citations to awards for distinguished service to Royal Air Force Offl- eers and men today.
Many of the awards are to af- ficers who by their intervention
with the Japanese, their bearing Mr. Truman
and their welfare work, men's lives.
severely beated.
A
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to
John Walker and Song London," aking him to give a job to his son, stated -Major Teich, a prison official,
Sir Alexander Walker was' formerly Chairman of John Walker and Sons, whisky dia- tillers, but retired before thre
wir.
Keeps His Mouth Shut, bombing,
1.
Minister
The address used by Ribben trop is the firm's prewar head. quarters which were destroyed
Ribbentrop was said to have had dealings with John Walkers- in his wine business before ho embarked on a political career, -Reuter.
THE WEATHER General altuation:-Pressure
In one case it is recorded that when British personnel in a prf soner-of-war camp refused. work as tradesmen," drivers and mechanics, all senior officers were
Possession of a wireless sot Washington, Oct. 10, meant certain execution. The cita-President Truman told tions tell of officers who but his press conference to- At the Piccadilly Hotel, where one-valve sets, hid them in hollow pickets entered the lounge while bamboo poles, the seats of stools day that he had replied "The state of the small powers Authoritative diplomatic sour later at the Russell Hotel-both raised morale by giving nightly from Prime
waitresses were serving ses, and and even in a pair of clogs, and to the note of protest today is so precarious as fast to ces said yesterday that reports in the heart of London the staff news bulletins picked up from Attlee. become unendurable and sooner had been reaching the British left in-support of strikers. Eight the BBC WARRANTIES ON OTHER PAGES or later they may be forced to Government for some time, big hotels and two restaurantd are H.K. Award
attach themselves as satellites to suggesting that opposition was now involved an ef
The President did not disclose Manchuria and relatively log
is high over Central China and.. some planetary great power. developing to Dr. Antonio Sala-
Sergeant James Ralph Hardy the content of his reply, d Strikers marched to the Pic received the George Medal for his President received last week-end, seas 8 and E of the Continent Could this not be prevented by zar's "regime in Portugal."cadilly, Park Lane and Palace work as the receiver and scuder was a protest against PresidentA complex series of depressions Mr. Attien's zote, which the over Western China and the Towards a United States of a timely action which will pre- "Deep rumblings of discon hotels, where pickets tried to get of important messages between Truman's demand that substan- is moving NE across Japan, serve their independence in the tentment, if not exactly a civil more workers to join the stop officers at Shamshulpo prisoners-al romigration of Jews into At 0900 hours GMT yesterday European system, guaranteeing war," can be expected, these page. their freedom and security? sources said. PARA After two restaurants-Prince's British Intelligence officers, af without waiting for a solution of centred about 800 miles NE of of war camp, Hong Kong, and Palestine should begin at once, a depression or typhoon was "In case jealousy among the A Foreign Office spokesman in Piccadilly and Fotomat, in Walchow. His dances, who is the Palestine problem as a whole. Manila, moving NNE, speed 10
the Top great powers should inhibit their said he had no comment to Jermyn Street had agreed to re- Irish, asalated,
taking the lead, cannot the num make on the reports from LBcognise the union, the London
The British note was under- to 16 Imots. gether without such sponsorship erament had taken measures declared: "Victory is intight most brutal torture including the and then to have untested at ita ber of smaller states come to bon that the Portuguese Goy district organiser of the union the Japanese and subjected to the in publication of the statement winds, weather ane
Eventually he was captured by stood to have requested delay Forecant: Moderato and set the ball rolling by a to prevent a possible clyff and Placard carrying employees Japanese "water torture but he contents as endangering British regional group with its appro-military rising
paraded outside the big hotels last refused to reveal the names of negotiations aimed at a final al night: They included good-look-the officers associated with hir ing young women in fir coats and activities. His fiancee was also further to say today on the Pale
tion of the Palestine problem
President Truman, had nothing slacks Reute
Hinc situation. --Renter
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priate council?' Smuts con- Portuguese Embassy officials cluded Reuter and Associated said they had "no Informa Press
Fon" on the report,
punished Beuter,
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