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BOOM IN SHIPBUILDING Yards' Largest Number Of Orders Ever Booked Up For Three Years
London, Jan. 11.
British shipbuilders last year had the greatest volume of orders over recorded, the value of the tonnage contracted for being at least £300,000,000, of which one-third is for export. Some yards are booked up till 1951. Production of new work has not been a record, but despite numerous difficulties 1,100,000 tons gross have been launched, and approximately the same amount completed during the year. Harland and Wolff by launch-* Severe things have combined ing from their Belfast and to crente the need; the immense Clyde 'yards 183,509 tons grosh, refinery projects in this country have set up
'n record for in- dividual firms. "
New production is only partial picture of the industry's activities, for there are more workers on repairs then op new construction.
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U.S. CONSUL'S Bollaert Reports On Bao Dai
ESCAPE
Jerusalem, Jan. '11. Bullets fired from a bush narrowly missed the United States Military Attache in Jerusalem whllo he
was riding on the outskirts of the city today.
The Attache's horse was struck twice by the rifle bullets-Associated Press.
Soviet
und abroad; the fact that the Vessel
United States is becoming an Importer of oil instead of an exporter; and big developments in the Near and Middle East as well ne in the oilfields in Central and South America. In
War Losses
Paris, Jan. 11.
The French High Com- missioner for Indo- China (M. Emile Bol- laert) reported on the progress of his talks in Geneva with Bao Dai, formér Emperor of An- nam, to French Govern- ment chiefs this morning. jin a brief special meeting presided by President
Off Rocks Vincent Auriol.
The Soviet
No casualties were reported little damage was caused,
and
Shanghai, Jan. 11. Bollaert, who returned to The year's output from all addition, ships, railways, steel- which went aground
vessel Podolak, Paris last night reportedly for
at Ami Scottish yards in higher than works and other industries are herst Rock ott Woosung,
further Instructions from his en- Inst year's. The total tonnage is still changing from coal to trance fo Shanghai's harbour. Government, conferred with computed at 450,000 tons, of liquid fuel.
towed into the harbour President Auriol, Premler which the Clyde's share was
last night by another Soviet Robert Schuman, Andre Marie nearly 375,000; the Clyde yardı
vessel, amolny, and a Chinese (Minister of Justice and Acting A number of Scandinavian tog. alone enter upon the new year yards are booked up till 1954
Foreign Minister) and Plerro with contracts of an estimated with tanker orders.
PAmlin (Agriculture Minister aggregate value of over £65,- British shipbuilders are
The Podolak, approximately 2,000) and representing the Overseas 000,000. The possibility of luctant to
tons, left on Friday for Vladivostok Minister) in Aurtol's office nt bour shortages might endanger term commitments, but
take on such long without passengers or cargo sailing Elysee Palace.
have in ballast bar, went aground yester Immediately afterwards a full pow accepted forward contracts | day.
Council of Ministers met in à because cargo, tramp and other The Smolny, passenger vessel
fur- * special sension to discuss owners are still hesitant about route to the Soviet Union, was orther the Indochinese problem replacing war losses now.
dered to rescue by the focal Russian and also reportedly the Morocca authorities, Aboard the Smolny way
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Tankers Ordered Expansion in the oil industry is resulting in shipbuilders bo- A consequence that yards Maj. Gen. V. Raschin, chief Soviet situation as well as the forma ing inundated with inquiries for that never built tankers are Military Attache in China, who is tion of n blzone economic council tankers. In the past few weeks now, booking such work-Our going to MoscoIT for consultation in Western Germany--- United orders provisionally placed in Own Correspondent.
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D.P.'s As American Farmers?
NEW YORK, JAN. 11.
MOST FARMERS OF THE MIDDLE WEST--AMERICA'S "BREAD EASKET"--ARE IN FAVOUR OF A PLAN TO ADMIT EUROPEAN DIS- PLACED PERSONS TO THE UNITED STATES AS FARM WORKERS.
A vocational Aurvey has shown that 100,000 out of 850,- 000 people in European dis placed persons camps are agri- cultural workers, and with the farm population of the "bread basket" area down 20 per cent
on
the 1020 figure, Middle Westerners see no reason why some of the discrepancy should not be made good by displaced persona.
There would be little if any cbjection to the resettlement of: displaced persons in the Mid- die West on racinf, linguistic or religious grourids.
Balts, Slava and other racial groups would find colonies of their own raees scattered throughout the Middle West.
The population of the Middle West is not so stable that the influx of foreign-born farmera would be a problem.
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A man (right) is struck down by policeman's rubber tru chean as police broke up a demonstration during the second day of Rome's general strike. The strike ended when reached on the Chamber of Labour's demand for a $3,500,000 pre- gramme of unemployment relief scorks, (4Photo)
122 agreement quar
Angry Words In "Little
Outspoken Attack Assembly"
Many thousands of Middle Westerners still speak the lan-Mr. guage of their countries and they atfll read newspapers printed in their own language.
Reuter
Took It As An Insult
New York, Jan. 11. Sved S. Hasan, United Nations correspondent for a Commubjet newspaper in Bombay, ap the Federal authorfiles were im nécesskrily scared and behaved staj "in" arresting"" him
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DAILY ALFRIN
For
On Premier
By Labour Rebel
Newcastle, Jan. 11. Koni Zilliacus, Labour Member of Parliament and left wing critic of Mr. Ernest Bevin's foreign policy, today attacked his Party lead- er, the Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, for appearing to be "complacently blind to the dangers to the survival of the Labour Government, as contained in the present American policy."
Referring to Mr, Attlee's re-, will begin between those who cent, broadcast, in which he said want to seek peace and the pre- that Labour Britain stood for sont rulers of the United States mething in a world different who get ready to fight world from both capitalist United war three-Reuter States and Communist Russia Mr.Zilliness "wald:
confrontedd by tho phenomenon of a social ition in Europe and Asia, ling nearly all working
INDIAN JUTE
Year
"end-
The
on
Lake Success, Jan. 11.
United States
won its first test in the Soylet-boycotted "Little Assembly" of the Unit ed Nations today when the As- sembly decided to shelve the more two months debate the Big Five veto power,
The organisation adopted a plan for delayed veto debate: after angry verbal exchanges between the American delegate, Mr. Warren Austin, and Dr. Alberto. Ulles of Poru who questioned the motives of the American manoeuvre.
The Little Assembly, con- ceived by the United States and boycotted by the six natione of the Soviet bloc, vpted 39 to one to set March 16 as the dead- line for proposals by United Nations, members for nitoring the great power veto. In the Security Council. Four nations. United Press.
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GREEK MONEY CRISIS
Athens, Jan. 11. Depreciation of the Drachma
„Calcutts, fan, 10. The
export of jute and jute gooda, under the leadership of "being resumed, following the ex- and Italy and a tension by the Government of India: Loen te jocity of that in Germany, td March $7, 1943 of unshipped:
Mr. Affies did not speak Ikea quotas allotted for the half
log Dec. 21, 1947. Blatsaman
It fa authoritatively learned that brought expressions of concern grizzled like a govern for the cairent half year there is no today that the entire Greek entre pass, rendered peevish by the allataent of raw jute for expert.
ehlightiness of the little confided to her care."
Real Fight
preg
arrer by Immigration authors, "Mr. Attle appears as com-j ties on charges that he violated | placently blind to the "obscend emplexe tenor of Royalists and quillings Indent for And Improverishment, of the The Greek people, as he is to the
dangers of America's imperial
of the Four
the Bombay People
The Government has alloted andconomic rehabilitation pro. export quota for jute goods, which sramame may collapse. will be diuributed on prorata base,
Reuter,
The gold sovereign Jumped from 220,000 to 235,000 Drach-
TRAIN DERAILED |TM"".
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