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Nazi-Soviet REPATRIATES TOLD TO "GO" Last Hours Of The
Pact Text Found
London, Oct. 14.
The text of the agree- ment, supplementary to the German-Soviet non- aggression pact of. Aug. 23, 1939 has been found, in Germany.
Bajor Mayhew, Under-Secre tary for Foreign Affairs, dis- closed this in the Ilouse of Commons today when answer- ing a question by Mr. Thomas Reld (Labour), who asked if the Foreign Secretary had ob- tained from the archives of the German Foreign Office any German- evidence of a secret Soviet treaty in connection with
S. C. A. Sends "Ultimatum" To To-Yuen Hostel Inmates
Br-h-h-h?
London, Oct. 15.
In order to save coal, Lan don'a council schools have been ordered not to light firen. unless the temperature falls fo 50 degrees or less. An L.C.C. directif says that the children should be encouraged to wear their heaviest clothes in class and that they should be given some form of PP every hour-Associated Press.
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this non-aggression pact. We Will Not
Asked if he could say what the terms of the agreement
were, Major Mayhew replied: Give Up The
"No, Sir, no. Not at this moment."
There were cheers when, Mr. Ernest Thurtle (Labour) asked if it was intended to publish the agreement, but Major May hew said publication. was rather a different matter.
Professor Savory (Conserva tive) said that the texts of both secret protocols had al- ready been published In Bri- taiu, adding: "I have them in my hand now. The intention was to divide Poland along the lines of the Nareth, Vistula and San-a fourth partition of Poland "
Mr. Richard Stokes (Labour) asked if in considering; publica-
tion the Minister would incor- porate the negotiations between Britain and Russia which pre- ceded the German-Soviet treaty Major Mayhew replied that this point would be borne in mind-Reuter.
Sudan
London, Oct. 15,
Influenced By A Minority
(By Margaret Bradbury)
Fourth episode in the case of the 1,700 Chinese re- patriates now in Hong Kong from Java versus the representatives of Dutch tin mining firms here, from whom they are claiming "occupa tion" payment, is that the repatriates have been ordered by the authorities to disperse to. their various destinations all over the coun-
The
try--with the alternative that if they do not
agree no further food or accommodation will be supplied.
decision was made at a conference between
the Secretariat of Chinese Affairs, the Dutch Consul General, the Labour Officer, represen- tatives of the Supreme Court, Relief depart- ment. Police authorities, the Chinese agents of the Dutch firms and three representatives of the repatriates:
A Foreign Office spokesman said yesterday that Sidky Pasha, the Egyptian Premier, would arrive in London, on Thursday The repatriates are now de- for direct talks with the Foreign manding respective lump pay Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, on ment of $1.42 a day for three revision of the 1936 Anglo- years and eight months because, Egyptian treaty.
they say, they were ecntracted to work for the mining firms
One informant déclared today "there may be certain minor modifications in our views but on this basis. During the oc-
cupation of the Dutch
East
it is certain that Mr. Bevin will, Indies they worked for the neither give up this country's Japanese and received Japanest rights to remain in the Sudan oni the present basis nor evacuate military yen in payment. Their savings were in this currency, Egypt as early as the Egyptians and on the reoccupation when are demanding".
was devalued their
He also expressed the view the yen
at a that it was more important for me was exchanged the Egyptians to agree among
high loss. themselves on what they want
Until the full payment ia than it is to persuade the British made up, say the repatriates Government to see things the they will refuse to move from extremist Egyptian way."As either the To Yuen Hostel or sociated Press.
the Aberdeen camp, ip the be- lief that they have both moral and legal grounds for reim- bursement from the Dutch Government.
Arabs Find Truman "Incomprehensible"
It was pointed out to them
that if the minora, disperse to their homes a very limited number might be left behind to negotiate their case with the appropriate authorities.
The S.C.A. is now awaiting
a reply to their "ultimatum."
No Controls
On U.S. Meat Prices
INVASION OF ENGLAND
London, Oct, 14. The Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, today 02- nounced in the House of Commons that he hoped to make à parliamentary stale- ment qn German plans to in- vade Britain in 1940 carly in the next gession, which begins in November.
He told a questioner that his statement would also deal. with the circumstances in whith all military unite in the United Kingdom were alerted against invasion on & September evening in 1940.-— Reuter.
Britain's Lend-Lease Role
(By David Condon)
London, Oct. 14. At the height of the war the United Nations were aiding each other to the scale of about £4,500,000,000 yearly, ap- proximating to the total value of world exports in a good pre-war year.
This is revealed in, the third report mutual aid, better known as Lend-Lease, issued to- day by the British Government. Mutual aid by Britain began im the summer of 1941, the report states, and consisted at first only of aid to the United States and Russia. Later it included all the 'European allies and China.
F
The report shows that during the three years ap to the end of the war the value of supplies, sor- vices and capital received. by the allies from Britain after exclud- ing oil obtained under Lend-Lease
Condemned Nazis
Nuernberg, Oct. 14.
It was officially announced at Nuernberg this-
evening that the 11 condemned Nazi leaders will be hanged on Wednesday: The Prison Commandant's office, however, declined to disclose if the condemned men have been in- formed of "the day" Russian sources report that the executions will start at one minute past midnight.
The nervousness of the doomed men is increasing, but a prison official said tonight that "there have been no hysterical breakdowns. Today, most of the condemned men are trying to com- pose their nerves by smoking and reading." The condemned men have not yet been notified that they will hang on Wednesday.
Today, all the occupants of the death cells were asked if they believed that Hitler was dead. All said "Yes,"
Streicher declared: "I think Hitler had gone so far that suicide was preferable to life." The concentration camp lea- der, Ernest Kaltenbrunner, be- came a bit irritable over his cigarettes. He, complained that
Yugoslav
Walk-Out Protest
Paris, Oct. 16. Yugoslavia officially he was having to roll his own withdrew from the Paris cigarettes yesterday. Tonight,
he was still grumbling, but still Peace, Conference yes- rolling his own cigarettes. terday as the parley con-
Reading Bible
ducted its closing ses-
All the men to hang on Wed-sion. nesday were visited by prison chapinins today. Some of them In a letter to the Conference in reading chairman (Dr. Quo Tai-chi of found consolation
China) Yugoslavia announcçã the bible.
Meanwhile, Dr. Schact, Nazi that it would not participate in financial expert acquitted by the final approval of Conference the War Crimes Tribunal, has decisions, and would conference writter to General Lucius Clay, ciate itself with its recommenda- the United States Zone, asking Deputy Military Governor for tions.
for his release from Stuttgart Yugoslavia's deputy Premier, prison, as his arrest is "illegal". Edvard Kardelj, author of the Schacht was arrested acarletter, declared that his nation Stuttgart on Oct. 7.
was taking this, action in pro- test against the "onjust" de- cisions imposed upon it by "ruthlessness" in "outvoting
Dr. Friedrick Bergold, legal defender of the missing Martin
Bormann, Hitler's deputy, at Nuernberg, was said by the
A few minutes after the American News Service to have asked for Schacht to be moved, session began, Dr. Quo an- under guard, to Nuernberg.nounced that he had received where he would defend him be the letter, fore the de-Nazification court.
The Yugoslav seats were Press Secrecy
conspicuously vacant on the Prison officials steadfastly otherwise crowded floor of the refused to confirm or deny that Palace chamber. All members the executions will be carried of the Big Four were in their places. The Yugoslav boycott
out in Nuernberg.
Washington, Oct. 15. President Truman an- nounced in a broadcast here last night that he at the conference that millions would remove price con- of Chinese and British. had trol from meat. He vir- amounted to over eight per cent
of the national income and 10 Eight correspondents chosen I was. presumably in protest suffered through the loss of de tually ruled out the pos- per cent of Britain's total war by poll, to tell the story to the against the Conference decisions valuation of currency-and that sibility discussed last expenditure.
-world-were-directed to be ready on Trieste and the Italo-Yugo already, a great deal of indoney
Details of mutual aid to other to go into seclusion on Tuesday, slav frontier to which the had been spent on their ac-week of the United
and were told they would not Yugoslavia
strenuously commodation and food allowan-States borrowing 20,000,- countries show that France re-
ceived £160,000,000, Poland be allowed to contact the out-objected.--Associated Press. ces while in the Colony. 000 lb, of meat from Bri-£228,000,000, Greece £34,000,000, side world until after the
Minority Obdurate
tain.
Czechoslovakis £20,000, Norway executions, £7,000,000, Belgium, £4,000,000,
I was told by a Chinese official
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Hong Kong
Paris, Oct. 15. President Truman's pronouncements on Palestine, and especially his most recent one, have been incomprehensible to the Arab world, Azzam Bey, secretary-general of the Arab League, told a Paris press conference yesterday.
None was told where he Asked for his reaction to the serted that at the London con at the meeting that in his He blamed the meat shortage the Netherlands £14,000,000, President's appeal to Britain to ference the Arabs gave gut- permit 100,000 Jews to enter antees for the religious, cultural opinion most of the repatriates on the reluctance of Congress to Yugoslavia. £14,000,000, Denmark would be taken, but they will were willing to return to their pass price controls. ended £1,000,000, Turkey £32,000,000 see the gallows shortly before
the executions, Palestine, he replied:
and civic aspirations of the Jews." "Throughout the last year we
In the case of Egypt; le said homes but were being influenced with the warning: "It is plain and Portugal £18,000,000.
does not Commenting on the relatively Britain evacuates' im by a small community urging that the present law
the report spokesman for the American have been unable to understandess
the "don't guarantee the prevention of in-high aid to Turkey, Truman wante imediately, there will be clashes them to continue
states that this aid was given to Security Guard,, said the con- what President
move" strike.
[dation."
meet Turkey's vulnerability to a acmred men were still in their and is trying to do. It is very for the next 10 years."
Ho paid tribute to the British-
During a long discussion, all easy to talk when one has no res
full scale German attack and assigned' cells here: President Truman's leading the need of modern weapons to The only photographer per- Li-Gen. Sir Adrian Carton de ponsibilities. It is a shame that policy, however, with the state views were exchanged before a big country like America, which ment that "they have been very the repatriates were told that Republican opponents today enable her to meet such an attack mitted at the hangings will beWiart, VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO, could take 100,000 Jews or 200,- Intelligent. They realize that they might have free transport wore big grins over what they The report concludes by stating from the United States Army now on his way home from Nan- 000, or 1,000,000, without feeling this is a new world and that to their various places of origin termed a "confession of failure", that in accordance with the spirit
be delivered to the Allied Con- mission as the personal represen the effect, should attempt to dic- times have changed since the 19th in China but could not remain involved in the dramatic re-l in which they were begun, the Signal Corps. The prints will king, where he has completed his tate to a small one Hike Palestine Century. They have shown a
versal af policy by which he vast flow of commodities and ser where the appearance of 100,000 sincere desire to negotiate."As
It was also suggested to them lifted price controls on meat, vices exchanged are not to be left trol Council in Berlin, and it is tative of the Prime Minister, ar- Jews will radically alter every-sociated Press.
writes Reuter's William Hard-standing as monetary liabilities up to the Council whether any rived by air in Hong Kong on
but cancelled by common consent will be made public-Reuter Tuesday afternoon. castle. They believe that the
and Associated Press, apeech was a virtual confession of defeat coming Con-
thing," he declared.
Azzam Bey named
cipal points:
two orin-
(1) That the attitude of the Arab League toward the Jews and Palestine has been misunderstood and misrepresented. He differen- tinted between Zionist politics and what he called the "world Jewish problem."
(2) He appealed to France for
friendship and understanding re- A
garding the relationship between. the Arab League and the Arabic population of French North Africa.
Britain's Med.
here on their present basis.
Shift Of
Bases
London, Oct. 15.
"Failure"
-Renter
gressional elections three weeks Common Law" For All
honce. ***
his
Nazi Criminals.
(By Edwin Shanke)
Berlin, Oct. 15.
Gen. Carton de Wiart will be staying with Gen. Festing during his visit before proceeding to Eng- Land,
Decorated
Nanking, Oct. 15. The Foreign Ministry - nounced today that Lieutenant- General Carton De Wiart has been decorated by the Chinese Government with the Order "of the Cloud and Banner (Grand' Cordon) 4
President Truman. opponents declared today, has been compelled to bow before the Republican storm and publicly concede that he is at Jewish Agency spokesman said yesterday that
present incapable of getting his reports that Britain planned to shift her major
own way, either with Congress The Allied Control Council coordination commit- military, naval and air bases from the Medi-
or public. terranean to East Africa were "designed to
tee promulgated a directive today for all Ger- many which means that hundreds of thou- get America to accept her policy in Palestine."Only Democratic Senators and Congressmen dissented today
chorus of sands of German war criminals, militarists. Authoritative Whitehall sources inseparably with Britain's status from the general
approval of the President's and Nazis now can, be arrested and punished Saying that the Arabs have disclosed last week that the there. frequently exhibited a "traditional transfer of Britain's main supply One informant said that "so speech..
according to a common set of principles. Lieutenant-General de Wiart to Many housewives, questioned sympathy" for the Jews, he as-and administrative bases to Kenya iar, there has been no funda
The directive was aimed at It also provides for laternment convey to the British Premier his appreciation of the valuable |sidered because her future in the discernible in Middle Eastern preferred to pay a little more of Nazism and militarism.” guilty of specific crimes are con“ } during his term of appoint-
and Tanganyika was being con-mental Anglo-American discord by reporters, said that they complete and lasting destruction of Germans who though not services rendered by the General.
Britain Praised
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for their meat If they could
It is added that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has asked
sidered dangerous to Allied purment. Reuter.. Middle East was so unsettled.
It is patterned after the denaz- The Falestine issue is a poten-walk Into a shop and get it than The Agency spokesman said the
veillance of others considered reports "came at a time when the fatale ja long-term unity, to have to wait in long queues neation law which has been ef- poses and the control and sur- fective since June in the Ameripotentially so dangerous.--Asso United States has committed but we believe the arguments and then get none,
ciated Press. self to defense of the present favouring continued collaboration status of Turkey and the Dar- far outpoint any other,” he added.
Associated Press. danelles Struits.””,-
In addition, he said, "It is worth
Higher Prices
can zone.
XMAS CHEER
FROM JAPAN
Washington, Oct, 15,
THE WEATHER
moderate anticyclone is ata- “tionary over North China, and.a depression is moving acrosn, the Sea of Japan. Pressure is low to The United States Commer-the 8 of the Carolines, and m shallow brough of low DTERUTD Forecast Moderate NE winds, Hos along the coast of China clouds, improving slowly.
Yesterday's weather
An American Meat Institute The actual implementation of official, speaking for large pac- the directive is left to each zonal kers today, estimated that it commander. Accused of Being a British SPY: nothing. United States interests BIG RUSSIAN: CROP would be at least ten days be-
The object, the Control Council fore meat began to appear in Page Five
have concluded a series of agree-
Moscow, Oct. 15. “Shadow of Actual Famine,”
menb
establishing American Russia's first full peacetime shops and 90 days before the sald, was to establish a comaci trade was normal, The gablic policy covering "punishment of Page Siz
aviation,, oll and other interests raw cotton crop will be 40 could not get meat immediately war criminals, Nazis, militarists cal Company announced today Singapore Shipping Bottleneck more firmly than ever in Pales percent greater than last year because "stocks are at a record and industrialists who encouraged that Christmas ornamenta from
Queries
Line Saudi Arabia, the Lebanon declared "Pravda" yesterday in low level and pipelines are and supported the Nazi regime Germany and goods, and Christ Page Seven!
and other parts of the Middle an editorial empty Prices, he added, and the complete and lasting mas tree bulbs from Japan will
In 1988, the Soviet Union] would of courss be higher than destruction of Nazism and milf- be among the first products in Maximum: 76.0 deg. Fah World Consumption of Commar- East"
cial Cotton.
Whitehall sources made no stood third only to the United those laid down by the Office of taram by imprisoning and res-ported by the USCC. They will Malmum 683 Fa
tricting activities of important be exhibited at a display room Maral Humalaty': 95%. secret of the tatt that they con- States and India as a cotton Price Administration during the participants or adherents to these being opened soon in New York Sunshine: 12 hei Paos Elokt
sidered American security in the producing nation. Associated
Associated Press.
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