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BURMA ARRESTS GO ON Curfew Precautions Unrelaxed
YORK'S CRASH
Buenos Aires, July 24. Four persona scoro killed when a four-engined trans- port of the Argentine mer- chant air flest hit a truck" child landing at Moren air- At least five persona port. tvere reported injured, conne
seriously.
The plane, an "Auro- York," burat into flames and can destroyed, it was making a practice flight preparatory to departure for London to- morrow on a regular scheduled flight. United Press,
Illinois Mine Disaster
West Frankfort,
Ill, July 24.
Myochit Leaders
Detained
Rangoon, July 24. Reports of further arrests in the provincial centres of Burma were received here today as the Rangoon police continued the interrogation of the three men believed to be the killers of the seven Burmese Cabinet Ministers last Satur day. Five days after the assassinations, civil life in Rangoon shows signs of a return to normal, although curfew is still being rigidly enforced and the vigil by the police and the military is unrelaxed.
The Executive Council is be- ing given the status of a "ful ly authoritative Cabinet," and this nows has helped to some extent to ease the situation here, The first meating of the new. Búrmese Cabinet, with Thakin Nu, Aung San's successor as Prime Minister, was held in the Constituent Assembly Chamber today. The next session has been postponed until July 28.
As these arrests continued in the provincial centres, the Ran goon police continued the In terrogation of the three men believed to be the killers.
Illegal Arms
C
POLICE RAID ON CARTIER'S
Parle, July 24,
The police announced today that they had ralded the pro- mises of Carlier, swank Jewel. Lare on the famed Rus de la Paiz, and had seized 20,000, 900 francs worth of gold and foreign currency belonging to viembers of the, stáj "Erianda and; cliente,"
and
The police said they had also seized papers tending to show that the firm had failed to declare to the currency control authoriting certain Jumis in ite possession `abroad. --United Press,
Confession
Not Taken Seriously
The American authorities are skeptical and claim that several other suspects atill are not
They continued to search for legal arms, and it is reported that more than half of the quantity of firearms and mani- A monument to the memory tions which disappeared from
Seoul, July 24. of. the assassinated, Ministars is a, military ordnance depot four An explosion at the to be erected in front of the days before the assassinations
The Korean police an Old Ben coal mine near Constituent Assembly Building, have been recovered from secret nounced today that' Han West Frankfort is te. The Counell Chamber, whore dumps In Rangoon and the Chi-keur, 19, has con- fessed to the assassina- ported to have trapped the asalnation occurred, will suburbs.
be preserved 118 A national Thakin Ba Sein, lendor of the tion of the Leftist leader, 22 miners late today.
muscum, where the portraits of Dobama Asiynone. (Burma for The fire chief, Alta McGee, the murdered men will be hung. the Burmese Party), who was Lyuh Woon-heung, last operating the police radio circuit | Two other prominent, mem- detalnod last Sunday by the Saturday. hundling communications in bers of the Myochit Party, police, is likely to be released efforts to reach the trapped whose "leader, U Saw, was ar- shortly, a Party spokesman stat- men, enya i la not known how rested after the assassinations, ed_today. many of those still in the mineure among the latest arrests. The Party today passed a re had been hurt. Mr. McGee, says One is U Bå Yin, former solution expressing their deep-climinated. he sent out radio appeals for Education Minister, who is held eat and most sincere regrets at blond plasma and has received in custody in the central.Burma the "untimely death" of U Aung adequate response from relief town of Meiktila.
San and the other, murdered agencies.
The other is reported to be Ministers. He says the blast was con-U, Aung Tha, a former Vice- Ained to one entry, blocking the President of the Myochit Party, The Burmese press also re- ported today that the police last night held two officerà of the Japanese-sponsored Burma Defence Army who had received military training in Japan with the murdered Prime Minister, U Aung San..
main' shaft.
Other miners in the pit made their escape through an air shaft-United Press.
Estonian Spy Ring In Sweden
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Stockholm, July 24.
The afternoon newspaper
The police said the youth told them he arrived in Seoul from North Korea 26 days ago. He confessed he smuggledi an American army 46 pistol tled to a belt and concealed begeath his coat Into South Korca. He gave no motive for the slaying.
The resolution also criticised the allegations against the Do- banta Asiyaone and its leaders by the Burmese Communists, who, the resolution said, wero "trying to take advantage of the unsettled conditions in the country and trying to mislead investigations of the crime.”—cal party organisation. Reuter.
BURMA SELF-RULE
London; July 24.
"Expressen" said today that it The Government is to introduce legislation at the
had learned from an unnamed source that un exile Estonian government has been operating
in Stockholm for somê tímo,and has received financial backing from Estonian organisations and private citizens in the Unit-The ed States.
"Expressen" said the dis
beginning of the next Parliamentary session this autumn to give effect to the transfer of power to the Burmese Government under the constitution to be set up by the Constituent Assembly, which is now sitting.
Government will do its utmost to carry the necessary bill through Parliament as soon as possible.
I
closure of an exile government The Prime Minister, Mr., It was also agreed that im- was one of the ramifications of Attlee, and the Secretary of mediate steps would be taken a suspected any ring uncovered State for Burma, Lord Listowel, by an exchange of malaslons be by the State Police yesterday.
The morning
Parliament newspaper announced this in-
tween the two countries to exqminė and, if possible, to
The American Authorities point out there is still, no ap- parent connection between the alleged assassin with any pol!!!...
Progress on the сляе шля greatly impeded when the Korean police refused to permit U.S. Army investigators to see Han or read his confession.... The Korean police also re- fused to hand over the platol to the Americans, who have one of three slugs fired at Lyuh. Later in the day however, the polico handed over the pistol and the ballistics-reault will be known on Friday.
It is also learned the polico belatedly promised "full co- operation" with the American authorities United Press.
And Still
"Morgen Tideningen, which is today, is the outcome of the re reach a provisional agreement They Come
and con-
Jerusalem, July 24. 'Two Jewish illegal im between them some 2,000 migrant ships, carrying
close to the government, refun- cent Burma Goodwill Mission
Thakin Nu, commercial relations
on defence, finanes, nationality, ] · ed to get excited about the spy to London under ring and said the police. regard who has succeeded the late Aungtractual obligations arising out the whole affair as a "minor San as Vice-Chairman of the of the transfer of power.
matter."-United Press.
Executive Couhell.
This agreement received the approval of U Aung San and his.murdered colleagues just passengers, are now in before their assassination last t h e Mediterranean, Saturday.
heading for Palestine.
One ship was last reported The Government agreed that passing through the Straits of the present Interim Government Messina, shadowed by RAP of Burma should become the plates, and the other "some- provisional government until the where along the North African transfer. The senior member coast.”
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Jerusalem, July 24.
The aim of the missions will be to reach provisional con. The illegal immigrant ship clusions by, the time the Con- "Return to Zion,” carrying 400 stituent Assembly has drafted Jewish refugees, is sailing for Burma's constitution. A AN the Palestine shore, but the If Burma decided to become Royal Navy is on her track, a an independent state outside the | Haganah, broadcast 'stated to- Commonwealth; both countries night,
Was
would try to maintained the It is also learned that a large most cordial relations, and take | underground'arme, cacho all practicable steps to that end, discovered by the military in
-Router.
Tel Aviv today. No detalls were inuniediately avfdiable United Press.
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