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U.S. MAY FORCE ISSUE Bring Czechoslovakia Coup Before UNO
King Of The Collieries
Pant finnon, Mar. 14. William King, the Welsh shiner who set up a record weekly output of TI Lons
of coal in January.” har smashed his own record.
Working on his knees in a neam, with, only two feet six inches headroom, King last week hand cut and. hand loaded 20 tons of au- thracite at the Tumble Col. llery near here, the colliery announced tonight-Asso clated Press.
Crisis In Few Weeks!
Direct Clash With Russia Possible
Lake Success, Mar. 14. The United States was reported on Sunday to be ready to vote for a United Nations review of the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia. Informed sources said that the United States de- cision was taken with the full knowledge that it might bring the Security Council its most serious crisis to date..
The Soviet delegation has slovak question may produce a been grimly allent on the fanus similar clash and possibly an but no delegate doubts that other Soviet walkout, if the Russia will fight bitterly to bar Council votes to place the case a Council debate on the Cze-on its calendar. choslovakia issue.
The big power veto does not The first test will come on apply to admission of items to Wednesday, when the. Council the agenda In the opening Is due to decide whether it will round, therefore, only Roven ndmit to its agenda Chile's de-affirmative votes are needed to mands for an investigation of assure Council consideration of Russia's part in the coup.
the Czechoslovak coup.~~~~A880-] The Chilean delegate, Her-ciated Press.
man Santa Cruz, made his de-i mand on Friday but the issue is so serious that no delegate will cumment until he has re-
celved instructions from Government.
hia
State
Supervision Order
arment
It Can Happen Anywhere
Sydney, Mar. 14.
Saying that "what hap- poned in CzechoslovaŽÍK could happen in Australia," the deputy leader of the Australian Commonwealth Opposition, Mr. E. J. Har- rison. tonight urred Royal Commission to in- quire into Communist ae- tivities.
There WAS evidence of internationat spying tivities throughout Austra- Ila. Mr. Harrison said. Ito listed 10 major unions which, he declared, were Communist-controlled, and added that Communist "colls exuted in both Com- monwealth and Stato pub- lic servicza."-Reuter.
Too Much Senseless Talk Of War
Bydney, Mar. 15. World-wide rumours of war with Russia are without foun- dation because none of the treat powers is in a position to WAKO war, said the prominent atomic research scientist. Pro- fessor ALL.E. Oliphant, yester- day.
Boston, Mass., Mar. 14.
Senator Robert Taft, Republican aspirant for the United States Pre- sidency, said today he
Another Clash? did not agree with Mr.
Berlin, Mar. 14. The American decision WAA The Allied Control Council in James F. Byrnes, former taken after consultations be-Germany has ordered zonal enm- Secretary of State, who tween Warren. Austin, U.S.manders to supervise former officers of the German police, fire brigade, said yesterday the Unit-chief delegate and the
merchant marine and the Department. ed States would face a
in effect it means only that
forces. crisis
This is because of the possibility | with Russia in the United States believes that they might serve as a skeletois four or five weeks.
Chile's proposal is entitled to a far the remilitarisation of Germany. Professor Raymond Firth and Sir full heuring. It does not com- according to a report issued today Ben Lockspelser. Professor Ou So-mit the United States to sup by the American Military Governphant arrived in Sydney by air
port any specific Council action.
ment.
from London yesterday. The Czechoslovak question
The report recorded that the agree- may induce another clash of the on the control of German of kind that precipitated Andrei Contncil in January.
firers was rescheit by the Control Gromyko'a walkout on the ques- tion of admitting the Iranian, Zonal commanders will aho baye case to the Council's agenda.
to make periodical reports en Russia felt so strongly about entages of ex-officers engaged in to eliminate such adverse propa- scientific research, education and ganda, he added, Associated
¡Press.
Senate Taft anid that viet Russia was only consolidat ing the sphere of influence al- lotted her by the Yalta Agree-
ment.
Russla dominated Czacho slovakin before the Communist coup there, which was just con]
idation tactics, he said. "We are wasting our time that fanue that Soviet deputy nart.-Reuter. this means war," he addled. Foreign Minister Andrel "The European recovery pro- Gromyko staged his famous giamme, will not have any ef walkout. fect for at least six months."
of the situation in Italy, Senator Tuft unid.
He refused to participate in "If the Communists win in the elections tranian debate. The Czecho- the Council's subsequent there, what can we do? That
is no milltary move."
He added that he did
No Veto
not world situation was "still a war
With three other well-known lentisis. Sir Howard Florey,
מזון
atomic
He. sald it would be between Ave and 10 years before Rui could be considered nation in a military sense. talk about war at
There is too much senseless the moment the and nations should get together
Famed Lady Of The
Manor
Passes
London, Mar, 14.
think the Communists would of influence-not a military Excited villagers at Sinnington, Yorkshire, dis-
win in Italy and that the whole war."-Reutor.
Communist Intrigue In Austria
Vienna, Mar. 14.
closed today that their mysterious Lady of the Manor died on Thursday in her 20-room man- sion, taking the secret of her solitude with her. Twenty-five years ago, Miss Hilda Kendal, then 49, closed the shutters of Sinnington Hall, bolted the gates and doors and withdrew from a world which had known her as tho eccentric member of a wealthy sporting family.
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Vice-Chancellor Adolf Schaerf sald today that the Communists were planning to launch-a-huge-
The mansion and grounds re. mained untouched.. Cobwebs propaganda campaign soon in an attempt to clouded the windows. Inside make Austria go the way of Czechoslovakia. the locked garage Was An American automobile of 1907 Schnerf, chairman of the Aus
Pravdo, the Soviet Commu- trian Socialist Party, and he had manufacture worth an estimat-nist Party newspaper, today been -informed the campaigned £1,500 sterling.
attacked Dr. Manuel Roxas, would be waged with posters in-
The mysterious spinster President of the viting Austrians to let the emerged from the cluttered and who, it said, "not so long ago Philippines Communists lead them toward dusty house only at night. Vil-was a member of the Japanese the "end of reaction, prosperity lagers said she invariably head, puppet government which sign- for the working class and end ofed for the Nun's Walk adjoined the black market."
the declaration ing the manalon and paced up against the United States."
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"After the war, the Ameri munism had suffered a "terrific
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tance movement.". demonstration..of "muscle-flexing to scare the Government", but, he returned later with a nego recently outlawed. the Huk Declaring that Dr. Roxas had added, the Government did not evangelist, but apparently did scare so cnally. He said the not live with his sister-Unit-balahap organisation (the in Government refrained from custed Press.
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Red Leader Killed
dependent left wing guerilia movement) and the Peasant Union, but later modified' his claim that they enjoyed Soviet support, Pravda added: "It is. hardly necessary to say that the absurdity of these Inver- Shanghai, Mar. 15. tions is well known to Another Communist guerilla both Roxas and his masters.
"But Roxas lies without
If given time to set up an army of 55,000 men before the
is leader has been killed by Gov-ahame. He plays the role an Alling left, he continued, Government would be able toernment troops in the environs cope with. Infiltrations of parti- of Shanghai. wadignam pigned to him by the Wall sans. He said his country prob According to a Garrison Street stage-managers in the ably would ask for a revised Command source, Chow Chih-general chorus of slanderers." Allied control agreement, under
Reuter,
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the French and British min, who had been terrorising Governments would adopt the the countryside around Shang- American "pay as you go" polley hai,' was 'idlled in a. bomb
for their troops if the Londen, plosion last Wednesday ex Heavy Battles In this kits and his head was later Greece Predicted
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Quake Recorded
Bydooy, Mar.15)
The Riverview Observatory At Sydney on Sunday recorded, an earth- quake, in the vicinity of Guam, 1,300- miles, northwest of Byds
cut off and exhibited in various Washington, Mar, 14, villages-Reuter.
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