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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1948,
RUSSIANS ARRESTED IN Narcotic
PARIS RAID: TO Churchill BE DEPORTED
Paris, Mar. 18.
France will expel a number of Soviet citizens who met last night to reconstitute the banned Union of Soviet Citizens, it was officially an- nounced here tonight.
Hundreds of people from countries east of the "iron curtain" were questioned by French security police in a large-scale check-up/of foreigners' activities in Frante in connection with the arrest of Professor Odinetz.
Expulsion Decision
L
The French Ministry of the In-Affairs will also publish a cim- terlur declared today: "The unique on the subject, it was French Government has discover- learned. Ird that the Union of Soviet Citi- zens, dissolved by a decree on
The announcement followed the December 15, www.reconstituted arrest of a group of Soviet citizens in sterrey, that Re new directing when French security police raid- committee met regularly in dif- led the house of Professor Dimita ferent pinces,
Odinetz, frmer Presiden of the "On account of this brench Union of Soviet Citizens, and ir- The law, the members of the rested the professor and a party
who directing cominiitre.
were of visitors. resent at this meeting, were tuk- a to the jaenists of the Minis try for interrogation,
"The documents and the state ments of the persons in question stablished beyond doubt the nn tre of the crime and the French
The explusion decision was Government has decided to pro- taken directly by M. Much after ered to the immediate expulsion M, Georges Bidualt, the French of these persona,”
| Freign Minister, had been in These persons have totimated formed, officials of the Ministry their desire to return to the So- of the Intertur salt, adding that viet Union, the communique thle was the most important de
fded.
cision taken by M. Moch since his assumption of the office last No vember.
"All facilities have been granted their families to return with hem, if they my wish."
The French Ministry of Foreign
Weapons Cache
Prague, Mar. 18. The Ministry of the Interior today announced the discovery Bf t weapons enche which it
said the National Socialistsį had Intended to tae in captur-j ing Prague's Ruzyne' airport.
Feels Cold
London, Mar. 18, Mr. Winston Churchill, wearing an overcoat In the House of Commons today, obtained an assurance from the Government that the heating apparatus and lifts In Parliament-put out of леном by да unotfl- clal strike of assistant engineers - would be working normally by Mon- day.
of.
Several Government fices and Buckingham Palace are affected by the strike. Today, for the third day, Guardsmen were stok- ing the bollers at the Palace-Reuter.
Australian Citizenship Bill
Canberra, Mar, 18. The Australian Minister of M. Jules Moch, the French Minister of the interior, tonight Immigration, Arthur Calwell, c.nferred with high police uffleinis Anid in a statement today that on the questioning of 'rofessor new legislation, which has been Odinetz and the other arrested approved in principle by the Soviet citizens,
It sens learned unoffelnily that the expulsion under har been up pled to 11 persons and was to be put into effect immediately.
Reuter,
Federal Cabinet, will confer on Australians the status of Aua tralian citizenship in addition to and not as distinct from the general status c British sub- ject, which they now possess.
Mr. Calvell said it should be clearly understood that the proposed strengthen rather than weaken legislation would the bonds between Australfa and the United Kingdom,--Ar socinted Press.
Hard Bargaining Over Austria
London, Mar. 18.
The Ministry aid a large All four delegates offered concessions at today's
meeting of the Big Four Foreign Ministers de- puties discussing Soviet claims to German as- sets in Austria, but no agreement was reach- ed.
number of loaded weapons and Considerable supplies of munition" were found in the shop of a real dealer. Stanislav Miksicek, member of the Na-
The S viet delegate, M. Kokto nil refineries with on tional Socialist Party, near the mos, was ready to reduce by one capacity of 400,000 tons, but M annun1
airport.
per cent the Soviet claim to 65 Koktomov insisted nh 450,000 The Ministry 'snid the wen- per cent of the East Austrian oil | tuns. pons were all of foreign make, output. He was ready to reduce All fle Western delegates
to £43,750) the claim identification marks,
the agreed to let Russin have thed
of the Bled-off, and they had been ex-0.080,000 payable by Austria in complete foreign assets
convertible currency.
Danube Shipping pertly unred
Company though Britain excepted a floating Press.
dock said to have been removed from Austria last month,
with the
for.United
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The Western delegates varice between about 53 per cent and 50 per cent of the East Austrian all capacity which should be awarded to Russia.
The French said they were pre- France at the United States-pared-to-Increase by between- were prepared to raise from 30 £2,500,000 and £3,750,000 the to betwem 40 and 42 per cent worth of goods to be paid by Aus the French offer of what share of tri to Russia. the oil prospecting rights should
The United States delegate con
Coup In Peiping
Peiping, Mar. 19,
Raiding
cleverly-
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The arrests are expected to spread to Shanghai, Taiyuan and Sian, where heroin Wan allegedly smuggled by air to fetch higher prices.
The gendarmes said the ring: used their "immeasurable pro- fite" since VJ-Day to purchase gasoline, tyres, telephones and other communientions equip. ment for the Red armies. Evi dence in the shape of chemicals and printed fabels are being prepared for court trini.
The authorities are still seek- ing five suspects.
Heroin-worth more than its weight in gold-was allegedly manufactured in three scatter. ed workshops. One was be hind a bogus grocery atore. Another was behind a sliding wall in the chief suspect's bed- The third was located. In room. a maze of winding Innes having Aceret trapdoors, reminiscent of a Sax Rohmer novel,-United Press.
OBITUARY
London, Mar. 18. General Sir Francis Davies, one of the generals responsible for the withdrawal of British troops in the ill-dated Gallipoli campaign in the war, died at his home at Elmley Castle, in Pershore, Worcestershire. He was 83.-Associated Press,
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