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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1947,
SOVIET RATIONING TO GO? Buying Wave In Russia
Moscow, Dec. 10.
A member of the Politburo has announced that conditions have been created for “abolition during this year of rationing in the Soviet Union.” He liriked this with price revision. The announcement was carried in a report by George Malenkov on the September Commun- ist conference in Poland at which the Com- munist Information Bureau (Cominform) was created. Malenkov's statement, published in Pravda today was the first statement in the Soviet press for months on plans to end ra- tioning.
MOTOR VESSEL Accord DAMAGED Reached
London, Dec.
Lloyds shipping infelit. In Moscow
gence reported from Ant- werp today that the Swo- dish: motor veriel, Rigoletto (2.465 tons). had returned thern today under is own power, contrary to first in- formation that the vessel had run aground.
She was damaged slightly
and was being repaired.
Reuter.
NO KASHMIR SOLUTION REACHED
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Rusalan took it to mean that how the well-disciplined press their ration cards would be gone | pretended not to know what was before the end of the year happening while Moscow's shops.
Melankov said, "The Soviet were raked bare of goods.” state has already carried out a Molankoy reported that series of measures for abolish- | “agents of foreign intelligence ing » multiplelty of prices with services" were persistently seek.
Lohore, Dec. II. the purpose of preparation for ing weak "points among several Pandit Nehru, Prime Minister the end of rationing." He did unstable groups of our intel- of India and Liaqat Ali Khan, not say what this aeries of mea- ligensia who bear on themselves Prime Minister of Pakistan, dis sures wan. He Implied they the imprint of the old lack of cussed the Kashmir question at woud be announced when ration. faith in their own strength and conference here late last night, are infected with the disenso of but it is believed that they found sycophancy
no_agreed solution to the problem. Buying Wave
before everything
--Reuter, The Stockholm newspaper foreign. Such people are fed- Morgen Tigningen published alder for foreign intelligence,ser- despatch saying rumours of an vices." impending end of rationing und
ing enda.
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The report announced that the Central Committee of the Con munist Party is working out a new official Party programine and preparing changes in Party statutes
paper money touched off a . Ho linked this as a primary tremendous buying wave in Rus-cause with the present all-out sin in the last days of Novem- campaign, against gervility to ber. Birger Lundberg, the foreign influences being waged paper's Moscow correspondent, by the Soviet, press, literary, said the purchase panie began scientific and other circles. on Nov. 29 when the more well- to-do Moscow 'residents stormed Jewelry and fur shops, and Mos- cow's biggest department store.
Lundberg wrote, "They bought all they could get, valuables, fur
are people who spent hundreds of thousands of roubles in one move who
are sill anxiously asking what they should do with hoarded rouble packs at home."
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Melanikov reported that pro duction of coal, copper, alu- minium, nickel, cloctric power, tractors, and several other types of machinery" had passed the pre-war level last July. Except for edal, this had not been dis- closed previously.
Molankov revealed, however, that the international situation had prevented the import of equipment needed by the Soviet economy.
He said that as supplies of luxury shops, stores and ware houses began to melt away, people became interested in foud, vodka, caviar, fruit and all
Melankoy's report is considered other choice commodities disap- peared. Farmers withheld one of the most important Soviet perishables from the market, documents of the year -A¤- sending eggs, buller and meat] Boclated Press, still higher..
Lundberg commented, "It was
a remarkable spectacle to wit.. ness how mere rumour from month to month would create a pante unequalled in the 30-year history of the Revolution and
Goebbel's Plan For Fashions
NUREMBERG, DEC. 10. GERMAN CHIEF CIVIL SERVANTS QUARRELEDİ OVER WHETHER BERLIN OR PARIS SHOULD BE THE WORLD'S FASHION CENTRE WHEN PARIS FELL IN 1940, IT WAS REVEALED DURING THE TRIAL OF HIGH NAZI CIVIL SERVANTS HERE TODAY.
Otto Abetz, former German Ambassador in Paris, sent a memorandum to his chiefs in December 1940 in which he op- posed a schemo by Goebbels to destroy the French fashion in- dustry and to make Berlin the main centre, it was stated.
Abatz
France would have to give up its heavy | industry as the "future part of the German Reich" but "should not have to give up the fashion industry.
said that
But he proposed that France! should not be allowed to ex- port fashion creations, thus protecting German fashion
houace. Abeta was then or dered to requisition new Paria creations. Consequently many
ed to New York-Router,
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LONDON, DEC. 10. BRITAIN AND RUSSIA WERE BELIEVED. TODAY TO HAVE REACHED AN AGREEMENT IN PRINCIPLE FOR THE EXCHANGE OF BRITISH MACHINERY, FOR SOVIET WHEAT AND TIM- BER.
A high Government Bource said that Mr. Harold Wilson, President of the Board of Trade, was scheduled to leave Moscow by plane today to re- furn to London, leaving behind a team of experts to work out quantities and other details of the agreement,
The Fource said that Mr. Wilson in his reports to Lon. don indicated that no snags or dificulties had arisen in his trade talks with the Soviet Trade Minister, A. J. Mikoyan.
·Mr. Wilson flow to Moscow a weck ng❤-United Press.
Germs Greatest War Threat
Los Angeles, Dec. 10.
A germ weapon and not an atomic conflict is the great threat of any future war, warned Dr. Arthur Compton, noted scientist and Nobel prize winner.
He said he did not consider the bomb within 10 years but of atomic bomb alone was enough rudimentary type. He added, to win a war yet," "because In "When they find out how much order to win you have still got trouble it is to make a bomb I to occupy a country."
will not be surprised it the Dr Compton said within an- Russians adopt some other wed- improved to a point where enemy other decade bombs might be pons, possibly germ warfare.” countries
He said a war of germs could could be blanketed
than atomic with atomic warheads
be more horrible making occupation unnecessary.
warfare because germ weapons | "But before such
alm at wiping out all life where- tually arrives the forces at work as atomic weapons are primarily
intended to destroy property. to prolong peace may remove the threats of war," Dr Compton Dr Compton was chairman of said: He added these forces the department of physics at the would commence the spread of University of Chicago when the idea and travel.
first chain reaction unclear fis- Dr Compton belleves. the slon Was produced there.- Russfans would have the atomic United Press,
ben even-
› Hended by flag-bearers, a Communist contingent parades through the streets of Bari, Southern Italy, on their way to attend a meeting to discuss the results of the general strike, “just concluded.
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Fear Of Drop In USE SHEAFFER'S
Ruhr Coal
Essen, Dec. 10.
French dress designors emigrat coal production in the Ruhr, which surged up-|
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wards during the first fortnight of November, has now practically levelled off at a dally figure of just over: 280,000 tons.
Experts, some of whom were due to these packages. But the a few weeks ago; predicting the supply, is now running tutu dally production figure at 300,000 09 tons in the immediate future,
Boden Warning
Athena, Dec. 10. countrywide scarch in Greece for a United States a drop in the near future that in his opinion as long as the
are now talking about a substan-A
La The General-Director "stressed military plane with four ocHerr Heinrich Kost, 17-year miners received their present cupants, missing on a flight old mining technician who on rations and auditional incentives, from Rome to Athens, was sus- Nov. 19 became head of the it should be possible to maintain pended at nightfall today and newly formed German coal production at the present level will be resumed tomorrow. management is now running the and even possibly raise it slightly bend radio message longirtin. But
from the plane yester can supervision and he himself increase on the present prod day, picked up by another plane forecasts that absenteeism is illon Brura wa foutjar the in flight, said the crew and one with a subsequent fall in produc: dimepitler
likely, to -IncrenDÓ! barply: 3000 tion until a nimber hassanger were) baling just as
hey had run into a storm, Jane had circled over Atl Mirfield":
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