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DRASTIC REORGANISATION
OF MANCHURIA
Pelping, Sept. 14. Drastic reorganisatión is being carried out in Man- churia by General Chen Cheng," Director of the President's headquarters in the Northeast, in an attempt to whip the Nationalist forces Iri- to good shape for the coming trial of strength. Besides overhauling the administration to elimin- ate deadwood, Chen Cheng is busily convert- ing various local Pacification Corps into regu- lar army units and equipping them with 'the best arms available.
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against any. American gil on the ground that it would only protract the elvil war).
With previous - poor training and inferior weapons, the Paci- fleation Corns had brep Kite or no match for the Reda.
In any case, as far as Man- Their retraining and incor churin is concerned. tho im- poration into the regular urny | pending battle is likely to ba WIB substantially augment thị fought and won one way ur present military strength of the ather before any potential The Nationalists in Manchurie | American hep could be im- which, Chinese pross dispat-{ plemosted. Nevertheless, it ches have estimated without would be valuable to the Na-, contradiction, ia ni 500,000 tionalists in Manchuria in the form that it would boost their Independent reports from morale which, despite all of Manchuria Indiente that there] Chen Chong's efforts, possibly has been a noticeab'e improves ¦ is not quite so high as repre ment in discipline since Ches sented in Chinese dispatches. Chong assumed olfee on Sept. 2 | Associated Press.
meu.
Army Racket
then Cheng is
down
Ballpoint
clamping kuulek
particularly hard Qaz
Army officers engaging in prt. Pen Factory
vnte business or offering “pro- | tection" to dance halls and other places of amusentent, temptation to which JET have been susceptible, not on.v out of cupidity, but because of the peor pay of the Chinear Army.
Even under the new scale just announced ing Nanking. the pay is still low chmpared. to Western standards with ♫
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Chleago, Sept. 14,
SOVIET PRICE CUTS
Moscow, Sept. 13. Cuts in the price of meat and other foods ranging from 15 to 30 per cent were nounced today by the Coopera- tives Central Committee.
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The price reductions were: nirat 20 per cent, conservés 10, per cent, fish and fish conger- ver 20 per cent, pondsey and game 10 per cent, anuanges 15'. per cent, butter 10 per cent. and marmalade 20 por ceat,- Renter
Atomic Energy Not Answer
Oxford, Sept. 13. The view that man- kind must wait a good part of a century before atomic energy can make
Strikers Interrupt Smuts
Johannesburg, Sept. 13.
Several hundred strik- ing building, workers who demonstrated in the City Hall here today, while Field-Marshal Jan Smuts, the South Afri- can Premier, was speak- ing, forced him to aban don his speech.
The strikers surged into the in while Marshal Smuts, was addressing a meeting of his United Party.
They demanded that he should receive a deputation and created such pandemonium that he had to break off his speech. Marshal Smuts was concluding n campaign, week of the United Party in the Transvaal,
He had told the meeting that the last eight years were prob. nhly the most brilliant in South Africa's history, and the 'mest had stood the test and carried stormy. but the United Party. South Africa to the highest point in the ecuntry's history.
Milton Reynolds, who ran the a significant contribu--Reuter. bullpoint pen den into a multition to the solution of the milan dollar fortune within
"I am
interested in
freeing
1
few months, announced that the world power problems was putting up his pen factory was expressed today by for safe.
Professor M. H. L. Pryce, Professor of Theoretic Physics at Oxford Uni- versity.
myself from some of my basines Iloutvuant-General gutting the interests to devote more time to black market equivalent of aviation research." he said.
Reynolds fast Aprli fiew arounľ US$26 a mouth and. Second
the world with Captain Bill Odom Lieutenant US$8 a month.
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Speaking at the annual ex-
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A indications are that the arui in August' financed Odom's | hlbition of the Association of || 12.10 p.m.--Daily Programme SummETY.
record world solo flight of slight-Scientific Workers, Professor Nationalist plans to recover
72 hours
Pryce confessed that it was Manchuria mig not 'be afferter
The
penmaker's career has been still difficult
to foresee when by Lieutenan G more! Albert one of big gains and losses. In his atomic energy wan'd play ita Wedemeyer's
fortune recommendation youth be made and lost
part in Industrial development. to Preadent Truman, whatever in the automobile tire business.
There were too many techni Late in 1945 he brought out the they are.
ballpoint pen at a retail price of cal and laboratory problems as $12.50, subsequently Introdueix yet unanswered, he said. cheaper models-one of the Intell sociated Press. of which sells for 59 cents.-As-along the usual lines, we shou'd require something like 70,000 tuna of uranium yearly to re- place the other forms of energy" he argued.
Morale
It has become common belief that some form af nid will he fortheming.
Suppecting this view is the enversation in which Were- meyer allegedly told Generalis-
Rabbi's Hunger
sino Chiang Kai-shek that Strike
conditions for potential Ameri. can aid would include, Qrstly, none of it should be handled by
The
Paris, Sept. 13, Rabbi Baruch Korff, arrested ex-Premiere families of T.V. Soong and H.H. Kung last Saturday in connection with and second, no anti-American an alleged Jewish plot to drop leaflets or bomby on London from demonstrations against Ameri- the air, was in a "fouble condi can help shou'd be euntention" today after having main- anced. In the past there hud tained all the week the hunger been student demonstrations xtrike which he began after his
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"This would mean that the world could run its Industries for a short time on atomic energy and then would be brought to a stop for the lack of, sumcient basic material."- Reuter.
VIENNA OPERA IN
BRITAIN.
Folkestone, Sept. 13. arrest.
One hundred and fifty members, The police said today that he of the Vienna State Opera arrivest was continuing the hunger strike at Folkestone today from Galls despite a plan to alop hy theen route for London. Rabbinical College of New York. They are here for a three-week Rabbi Kora, chairman of the season at the Reyni. Opera House. American Political Action Com Covent Garden, and their Arst mittee for Palestine, reiterated performance will be given before an examining magistrate Tuesday. today that the proposed flight was Opera scenery, weighing 80 to have been a trial parachute tops, crossed the Channel from jump over France and not a Zeebruggo in 11 rallway trucks leaflet or bomb run over London. I which had come from Austria.-
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America Heading To A Second 1929?
Chicago, Sept. 14. Fears that the United States might be riding its upward price spiral toward a "bust" were Sounded today as the cost of basle food items pushed close to all-time peaks.
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Senator I. M. Ives sald that survey said that two factors might Congress "will be forteto take cause new boosts: some action" unless wild specu.; 1-Exports of food resulting Cation in grains" and other foods from "the character, and size of is.curbed, The New York Republi. commitments to be made for for- can said in Washington that he elan economic aid under the so-
plan or teared booming living costs "might called Marshall cause the bottom to drop out as other adopted by Congress." It did in 1929 arid in 1920-21:3 2 The short United States Paul Porters, last Federal price corn crop when corn is urgently hoss under OPA, sald in Atlanta needed for meat production. It that the nation would be lucky It is one of the highest priced Items "we do not have a bust." But he in the average family's market. and he thought it was too late Ing.
for. Congress to do much about Meanwhil, there were increas- high prices;
ing demonstrations of consumer Prieps held steady, er staged resistance in many cities. Pre
the recovery movements on most spm*ident" Walter Reuther of modities after dropping somewhat Congress of Industrial Organisa on Friday But from a special tlons Auto Workers Union said Congressional Investigation group that he would try to promote a came a new warning that food national buyers strike to smash prices may go even higher. This "pronteers-Associated Press."
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