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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1947.
BRITISH AIRPORT IN BERLIN BY MYSTERY GUNS
SHELLED War Minister's
Escape
Berlin, Aug, 13, Four shells of unidentified origin landed on the Gatow airfield — British air station for Berlin. -during the night preceding the arrival at the airfield of the Secretary for War, Mr. F. J. Bellenger.
Only one of the shells exploded, and the matter is
now under investigation
while the
When the Secretary of State, from Headquarters, for War arrived at the Gatow other two 'hit trees. airfield tonight, his DC3 taxied), Security officers and ammuni- down the strip within a few tion experts who have been call-, feet of the five-foot-wide cratered la have made a photographic caused by the shell which had study of the shell fragments exploded. He drove off without and the crater. commenting on the red-flagged crater
The War Office in London was unable to comment on the Meanwhile, continuing to m-explosion, aince there is certain, vestigate the explosion of the to be an official investigation, shell Identified by fragments Two possible explanations for as a 12.2 centimetre (five inch) the landing of the shells, put type the British authorities] forward by military experts in find it to be a type used by London today; were: milltary several of the Allied armies tralaing by British roopa la taking place almost continuously
during the war.
the British military tattoo is being held in Berlin until Aug.
Dominion Rallies To Aid Of Britain
Wellington, N.2., Aug. 13.
The Government has called a conferenes of repre- sentatives of the entire community for next week to discuss aid to Britain in the present crisis, the Premier, Mr. Péter Fraser, announced today.
He knew that everybody in New Zealand tean hekind the Government in its desire that people of all sec- tions should get together to discuss possibilities for in- creasing aid to Britain, to find out her most urgent needs, and then to meet them, she said.
Among those invited to the conference are repre- sentatives of workers and employers' organisations, export producers, importers, public bodies, ex-Servicemen's asso- cintians, ancini, educational and women's organisations, und the churches-Reuter.
GERMAN ATTACK ON
BERLIN
G.I.'s
Berlin, Aug. 13.
include anilaircraft practice: Thirty to forty persons, believed to have been Germans, attacked three American sol- diers in a park 600 yards from Spandau war criminals' prison here last night.
They confirmed that four Germany and it might well shells came over, and that thres fulled to explode.
Lieut..General Sir Richart McCreery, Commander-in-Chief 16, and it starts with a display of the British Army of the of fireworks "-Reuter, Rhine, was not in the vicintly af the time, as was reported earlier, although all Tuesday heavy "VIP" traffic
WOR moving through the airport,
Throughout today, the airfield and a vicinity, was scoured for live shella.
Washington, Aug. 14. The British Overseas Air Corporation may soon seek to extend its present Pacific term nus from Hong Kong to Tokyo,
The Russian Wives: Commons Angry
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London, Aug. 13. Incensed members of the Commons today suggest
ed that the British Government strike back at **Russia unless it lets 15 Russian wives to join
their British husbands. The Conservativo member, i Lorth Winterton, who raised the question before the Commons adjourned, said, "I think that official correspondence on the subject, should be put in the form of a White Paper and the Government should conalder what is the appropriate inter- national authority to which an appeal should be made. I think the Soviet Government con- |tinues to take up this attitudo
pending a hearing of the question,
Racket
Uncovered
by some international body, the
Dublin, Aug. 13. Boviet Government should bo The Eire Government informed that it is embarrassing today ordered inspection for the Government to provido
viaas for members of Russian of all incoming mail delegations "
from the United States Brigadier A. R. W. Low, Cen following discovery_of servative member, said one of the reason why women were not
attempts to smuggle Bri- permitted to leave the Soviet tish banknotes into the Union was the shortage of man- country by post. power but the Soviet Embassy! was manned entirely by Russians.
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The Eire post office authorities declared that they will resist any protests against delay caused by
imposition of inspection,. which followed discovery early today of a bundle of British banknotes in a damaged en- velope from the United States.
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He suggested that Britain aak the Soviet Union to withdraw 80 Russian women who were here for various reasons and perhaps, In return, Russia would consider releasing the wives of the Bri- All United States letters were tish men.
then opened and "a substantial Two of the Americans, who can hospital after being beaten The Under-Secretary of collection of banknotes" was BOAC EXTENSION belonged to the guard at the pri- up while standing with his girl Foreign Affairs, Christopher made.
son, fled before the attack, but friend outside a Spandau cafe, Mayhew, turned down the aug-! This is the newest trans- the third was besten unconscious The other was attacked by gestions.
Atlantic currency "racket" and and then thrown Into a lake, four GermaDA who asked for The Independent Labourite, J. Is belloved to have been In- according to the German news cigarettes.
McGovern, said he had conclud stituted by touts who tour dock- A much demanded service in the British zone, which
Private Bell, who is a guarded "that the Soviet Government alde bars in the United States, It was disclosed here today with adds that he was rescued and at the Spandanti Prison, which had no intention of listening to
taken to the American hospital, houses the Nazi war leaders the voice of reason from any travelling to Britain or to peo-
Another report said that two sentenced at Nuremberg, is said part of the world"
ple who wish to send remittances Americans were in hospital after to have been hit with a bag be-1 Lord Winterton, outlining the to relatives in Elre. being beaten up by Germana. Heved to contain a bottle and background of the case, said First Class Private Thomas then jumped on and made un during and just after the war according to the latter veralon, Into the lake.. Bell, of Cambridge, Maryland, conscious before being thrown 30 men connected with various British misalons in Moscow and was seriously in the Ameri-:
Murmansk and elsewhere mar ried Soviet girls and the Soviet government did not object to it.
The shell that burst, tanded the announcement that commer- over the Royal Air Force Station ein air pussenger service be- Headquarters, but the only tween the United damage to the building was to Nippon's capital had
States and received the windows, although splinters an officini go ahead, in a move flew over a wide aren.
Another missile it the air-national civil aviation-United to open Japan to general inter. port perimeter track, 35 metres Press.
The men who manned the Tea Clippers and raced them home through the stormy China Sea, knew the value of a drink which was cooling in the tropic seas and warming when they were drenched with cold spray. Beer was their stand by, giving them strength and courage, stimulating and nourishing at the same time.
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One of Bell's assailants has been arrested and Investigations into the incident are continuing. --Reuter.
Moscow Allegation Ridiculed
ernment.
Tax Threat
pre-war line
buying the notes at the lowest makes welcome re-appearance...
The notes, smuggled into the United States by sailors, can be bought for US$2 or US$3, thus enabling the purchaser to make a 25 to 50 per cent profit with a corresponding loss to the British and Eire Treasuries.-- Reuter.
Sahara Trek
In Danger
Paris, Aug. 14.
to
He said 16 of the wives were granted permission to come ta Britain but some 15 were still in Russla with their five children and they had been told that they would never be allowed to join their husbands in Britain.
A group of British Ex- Lord Winterton said, "It is one Servicemen and their families of the many general complaints held at the French Sabara out that letters sent by husbands to
inced Rome, Aug. 14, their wives and those written by post of Fort Trinquet
desert it For the second time in 24 hours, Russian wives fail to reach the certain death in the the Italian Foreign Office denied husbands or wives as the en42
they had continued unescorted today the truth of Moscow re may be.
their overland Journey to South The wives ports concerning United States
cannot get work Africa, the French Colonial negotiations with the Italian gov-under ordinary circumstance, and Office spokesman said today.
some of these girls have received
Announcing that the trekkers A spokesman said that the demands to pay the childlessness would be allowed Moscow Radio report that nego- tax payable by all Soviet women their journey
continue tiations were under way in Rome over 20. This amounts to 1,600 for an Italo-American treaty of roubles a year. One girl
caravan or convoy was avaliable was friendship, teade and navigation, threatened with imprisonment to escort them across the desert, which would place Italy at the she did not pay."—United Press. the spokesman declared: "It is mercy of American industrial and
certain death to go unescorted financial was "deprived of
into the desert. You can be Hamburg, Aug. 18. sure that the British travellers The Italo-American
Karl Spaeth, former captain in
were not detained any longer agreement negotiated by Ambas- the German army, pleaded not
than wea gador Tarchlani and Minister guilty at a new war crimes trial
necessary for their Lombardo in Washington is to be here today to a charge of having own safety, because the local authorities are always signed on Thursday,
forced Britials prisoners of war to French Yesterday the Foreign Ofico work on dangerous military ob- anxious to be rid of any poten denied a Pravda announcement jectives in
Bayreuth In April, tla drain on their rationed that the United States would bn 1945, "against the lAWE and given a naval base at Leghorn as usages of war." Several prisoners water supplies," the spokesman
said-Reuter. a condition of American loans to wore alleged to have been killed Italy-United Press.
doing this work-Router.
any found
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Anti-Semitic Riots A "Danger Signal"
London, Aug. 13.
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Liverpool Riot Fines
Liverpool, Aug, 14, Thirty-nine adults and children' appeared in police and juventio courts today charred with dis- orderly conduct during August 4 the climax of last week's anti-
Most of the 28 adults were Anad up to £ and made to pay dam- sgo costs up to £20.
Viscount Hall, First Lord of the Admiralty, speak-Semitic disturbances,
ing for the Government during the Palestine debate in the House of Lords today, warned that the recent anti-Jewish demonstrations in Britain were a "danger signal which cannot be ignored."
The police prosecutor disclosed that 36 arrests were made during the night
August 4 and in three Lord Hall declared that Lord Hall said the anti-Jewish mighth the polion casualties in demonstrations in Britain follow.cluded resen officers severely in- ing the terrorist hanging of two jured.-United Press, British sergeants were "quite
illegal Jewish refugee immigra- tion to Palestine could not have been so great during the last
18 months if funds had not been contrary to British feeling and provided from the United States. British justice but this is a dan. Ho reiterated the government's] ger olgnal which cấp nơi tro announcement concerning the ignored," Jews from the intercepted ship, President Warfield-they would not be sent to Cyprus.
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Prince Charles, Prince Regent, returned to Brussels by air today
visit after a six weeks Belgian Congo.
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those charged with responsibl[!- He was received at Mel broock
ties in Palestine and he referred airport by Queen Elizabeth, the
specially to the Jewish Agency. Queen Mother, Premier Spaak
The Marquess of Reading, and other Cabinet Ministers." who said he was not speaking The Prince revolved a great for the Jewish community of avation, from the crowd that lined this country but was expressing the Ave-mile route from the air- his own lows, said, "The Jewish port to the Royal Palace. community in this country viowe would not diaperso until the The crowd before the palace with increasing dingust, detenta Prince, with M. Spaak, appeared tion and dismay the campaign on the balcony-Reater.
of vituperation carried on by a
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only to be equalled by ignorance or distortion of fact."
CHINA WANTS
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Montreal, Aug, 147
A number of foreign countries,
Lord Altringham advocated | including China): have inquired
Increased martial law in Palm-regarding
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