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COMMUNISTS STAY AWAY Tathau Pacific
Constitutional Deadlock In France Long Wrangling Without Result
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samuti priple anikka Paris, Jan. 14.8. The National Assembly tonight officially began its 1948-session without the Communists after wrangling over its Parliamentary leadership for nearly 24 hours, so y
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But the constitutional deadlock, caused by the Communists' refusal to accept the nominations on who should preside over the Assembly, had been only temporarily settled, observers thought tonight.
Threat To British
Firms
HONGKONG-LONDON OND MUNICIPAL WARD, ON
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SASHUPEIPING, JAN 15 ARMED MEN OFFICERS FROM THE 'PEIPING SEC- JANUARY 18 DEMANDED MONEY FROM TWO LEAD INO BRITISH FIRMS HERE AND THREATENED IMME-
The impasse began when M. Marcol Cachin, presiding over yesterday's first session of the
TONBRIDGE
TRAGEDY
Tonbridget Jan. 15. Firemen searching1 debris of m house badly damaged by "fire" du i| Cornwallir Gardens, Tonbridge, found the body of Mri, Angell, the wife of a member of thi Tonbridge Urban District Coun
"The cause of the fire is not known but palier and firemen are salished that Mri. Angeli w ntone in the house when the fær started and in bed and asleep. -Reuter
year as "Father of the house. Reds Hang On Vice-Presidents and Secretaries To Women
refused to accept the list of
presented by the leatiers of the various Parliamentary groups.
*He_ad}burned the Housh to. night after Communist objec- tions had been overruled the Communist leader, M: Jac- The non-Communists wanted quea Duclos, third on the list of Vice-Presidentsdatend of first, a position to which it is claimed he is entitled because the Communists are the largest single party in the Assembly, ndjourned the Houze tonight Shortly after M. Cachin had
committee reassembled without the Communists, and with M. Maurice Violette; nec-; 'Bardon Harmon, British Cobond oldest deputy in the Assem sul in Peiping, revealed this hly, in the chair. today. Harmon telegraphed a protest to the British Embassy
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The armed group demanded new members of the Bureau of
1948
Secret Plan For
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›À1EAKE› SUCCESS, JAN. 15. - GREAT BRITAIN PREPARED "TODAY TO LAY BEFORE THE UNITED NATIONS PALESTINE COMMISSION AN EXPANDED AND HIGHLY SECRET PLAN
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„The Commladan,” whitch will supervise the partition of the Holy Land, has agreed to a demand of the British dolente Sir Alexan der Cadogan, that the detailed Blueprint, for transferring au thority to the United Nations wil be kept "strielly confidential." Hainburg, Jan.: "142" Repeated representations have Retting a pace beyond expecta been made to Russia about femaletions, the five-nation group Is German army personnel imprisoned ready to follow up the Cadogan hearing by calling Hoshe Shertok, in Rumia, the Brkish occupation au-
German Zonal Advisory Council thorities said today in a statement och chief of the Jewish isited in reply to speedy repatriation,
Tatert Britain programme, the The British authorities added they. Francisco; faces up to the Philippines dolegüte, Mr Vincente do not believe that further repre- main problem by preparing to. sentations to the Soviet authorities introduce proposal designed to would produce palpable results." prod the Security Council · into Almilar reply was given to anonsidering immediately the neces
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quest for Inquiries to be made insity of an international police in the disappearance of children force to back the partition.
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SOVIET AMBITIONS AS MARITIME POWER
Washington, Jan. 15.
Navy, today 'asserted that the United States "must face the prospect of great Soviet sea power in future," with a large Red Navy fleet "based In the Port Arthur-Vladivostok- Petrapavolovsk area" of the Far East,
the of the
of the Hong Kong and Shang- the Assembly, and said: "I hal Bank and the Asiatic hereby declare that the Petroleum Company the pay National Assembly Bureau la Lieut. P. W. Rairden¡ Jr., of the United States ment of a substantial sum of constituted." money for raising Anti-Com- He then closed the session.
The Assembly will reconvene munist forces.
tomorrow when, according ob- Failing payment, they thres-servers, further trouble is ex- tened immediate conscription of pected, since the minutes of the entire Chinese staffs of both yesterday's · proceedings were
Writing in the quasi-official He then pointed out" that companies—Associated PreaR, hot adopted by the Chamber to-
magazine United States Naval Iri-Soviet goal for the end day.
stitute Proscedings, Lt Rairden present Five-Year Plan was n The Communists maintain predteated:
merchant marine twice the pre- that call the minuten have "Russia's mercantile ambitions war size and "that means about beed approved, the election of in the Pacific and the planned 3,000,000 gross tons of Russian the high M. Edouard Herriot as the per growth of the Siberian fisheries merchant shipping en manent head of the Assembly is and the Petropavlovsk terminial of seas by 1930.United Press,
the Northeast' passage 'must be
Madridin bita paved sgjerni not logal.
added to other factors calling for The minutes, which were re-naval expansion in the Paclic." jected-today by the anti-Com-j He suld the... largest ... Russian munist majority, must como up) fleet undoubtedly would be based again for approval or amend in the Black Sea os "Rumla bnce ment tomorrow. Reuler.
Faked Passports Scheme
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London, Jan, 15.-1 Special Branch officers, in- vestigating the plot to smuggle Ellena from Germany to Cana- da, through Britain.
on faked
British passports, believe that
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LANA -TURNER SACKED
Hollywood, Jan. 15.
they uncovered the scheme BOON"} Lana Turner, weaters and alt. after it came into operation and was given the hounce today right were able to atamp out the lour of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer traffle. before it reached serious studiós, propotions.
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again bids strongly for control”öt the Dartlanelle, but the Becond largest would be on the Pacific Coast, with the Soviet Northern fleet along the "Murmansk Run" and the Baltic sen fleet in "third and fourth positions in point of size,
Li Rairden saw Soviet designs on trade with India; the Nether- lands East Indies and Indonesia,
Soviet Goal...
access to that
A Vietnam Victorý • in¬Indo- China would give the Sovieti
trade and the
Russians hope to enter the Indian market soon as the British pull out." he wrote. "How that' will affect the Dutch in the East Indies no man knows, but the Indonesian eRepublic might be disposed
deal with Moscow."
it was thought that balysion was connected with the blonde The studio denied that the saspen about 30 people with faked star's highly publicized romances.. passports have passed through A spokesman said she went off the England and have succeeded in payroll for refusing a choice part in reaching Canada,
knew multimillion dollar epic, but The first clue was the dis. the surfio was supposed to be very covery of an error in a passport | unhappy over her romantic in the possession of on alten capades-United Press. who had arrived at a Scottish airport: week ago; › 411
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Gandhi Breaks His Doctor's Orders
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It was undertood that the names of 80 allena" who worn} bølleved to Have entered Consula with faked passportloweddin cabled to the Royst Canadian Mahatma Gandhi, the spiritual leader of India's
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On the accoud' day of his fast; temper if this sort of to bring about the unity of keeps on happening in Pakis Hindus and Moslems, there was tan7," Mr. Gandhi asked.— no sign of any change in the Reuter. condition of the Mahatma) ex-
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