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ANOTHER "NO" BY SOVIET Conference On Danube Turned Down
British Proposal Rejected
Danube, May 13.' . :
| The Soviet Union is understood to have rejected a British proposal for proliminary four-power talks on the future control of navigation on the Danube before a full conference of interested powers is hold in Belgrade.
It was officially stated today, in answer to inquiries, that a Russian note had been received here replying to the British suggestion that the
And Films
Government Bangkok Hold-Up Sequel
London, May 13. Mr. Harold Wilson, Presl- dent of the Board of Trade, told the House of Commons today, that the Government planned to set up a committee to consider state ownership or State management of film studios, which could be let to Independent producers, United Press.
United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and Challenge
France should first meet in Washington.
Dr. Benes
"Not Well"
Prague, May 14. President Benes "has not been well recently", the official pokestuan at his home at Se- dimovo Usti said today.
He raftined to elaborate,
tel
but
the President had made no plans for official activity in the Immediate future because of his health. Dr. Benes did not attend the proclamation of the new con- stitution here yesterday.
The spokesman denied rumours but the President had resigned. He refused comment or î question regarding the possibility of the President
resigning after the May 30 election.
To Duel
When Britain proposed this meeting, she accepted, in the
Rome, May 14. same note to Russia, the earlier
The first duelling match to Soviet proposal that a confer- ence of the Danube riparian come out of the new Italian powers, the United States, Bri-Parliament was in the making tain and France should be held on Thursday.
Monarchist party Deputy, in Belgrade in the immediate
G. Alliata, abstained from vot-
future.
A
Bangkok, May 13.
The police today found in a gold shop, a few bars from the shipment of more than US$2;- 000,000 which was hijacked from Customs officers here while on its way from India to |Macao.
The deputy Army Commander- In-Chief, Et.-Gen. Phin Chun- hawan, is working with the po- lee, who predicted that the bundits would be found and most of the two tons of gold bara're- covered.
Several persons were question- ed, including soldiers of the
Seventh Infantry Battalion, three
Customs ofBeers and the driver of the hijacked truck.
The police found two vehicles
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of Foreign Ministers on Decem-of the President-who ber 7, 1940, it was originally agreed to hold a Danube confer
ence by March 15.
of
The United States then pro- posed a delay until the end this year.
It now appears from the So- note viet reply to the British that Rusala la etli anxious to prea on with a full conference In Belgrade.
The position of Austria, who 15 Danube riparlon power, in any Danube conference, depends off- cially on the signature of the Austrian peace treaty.
The Council of Foreign Minis-
An affcial spokesman in Pragueters ruled that Austria should sit sood that under the new con- In the Danube conference pro- itution President Braes would vided that the Austrian State fum his term, ending 1953. treaty without the necessity of any new treaty was
meanwhile.
election.-Unlted Press.
Sulfa And Plague
Two
Washington, May 14. internationally known
India dis-
plaque experts from
Plused yesterday that iwo sulfa drugs and streptomycin bud prov
effective in trenting—froman" bubonic plague victims.
ed
In a paper before the fourth International Congress on Tropl- eul Medicine Dr.SS. Solncy. and P. M. Wagle, of the Huffkine Institute. Bombay, said the death rale in recent tests had been re-
concluded in the
Whether, in view of the delays treaty, It signing the Austrian the
four
great powers would agree to her being represented in any Danube talks, is not clear.
The Western powers would certainly be in favour of such a course provided that the Soviet Union was willing-Reuter,
was found nens the Seventh In- the House of Savoy by-publicly ja sedan registered in a woman's He dramatised his fidelity to fantry barracks. The other was
ripping his ballot to pieces,
nume in the city. Army unl-
The
newspaper "Voce publicana" added a few personal left in the sedan. The hijacked comments to its report of the gold truck was left near a pubile Incident.
park.-United Press.
Reforms used by the bandits were
On Thursday Alliata sent bis seconds to the editor to demund satisfaction on The Arld of honour.Associated Press.
BENCHES BUILT FOR TWO
London, May 14. Spooners in London parks this summer may have benches built
Trade Unionism In Malaya
London, May 14. The Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. David Rees- Williams, told questioner in the House of Commons today that the for two.
report of, the tinde union mission The suggestion came from Mrs.to balaya was still being pre- George Strauss, chairman of the pared and he could not therefore
Park give the date of its publication. London County Counell's
Mr. Frederick Skinnard, La- Committee.
Mrs. Strauss said, "It must be bour, had asked how many locally very awkward when u young recruited officers were serving In couple want à
the private talk or caninistrative positions in
service in the gossip if others are sitting on the Government samme seat in the park"-United Federation of Malaya and in Sin- gapore, and what provision existed for holding cutrance examinationis locally for the recruitment of Asiatics of the same standard as Europeans.
Press.
U.S. CONDITIONS FOR
AID TO EUROPE
Washington, May 13.
duced to 33 persons per hundred The United States would shut off economic aid to any
patients when streptomycin was
ust·1.
Sulfadiazme shewed B death)
rate of only 4.0 und sulfamerzeine
death rate of 3.9.
Approxl-
European nation which supplied war machinery to Russia, Mr. Paul G. Hoffman, the ERP Ad- ministrator, said today.
nately 2,000 delegates from more in the Senate Appropriations Committee, beginning
than 40 lions are attending the Congress--Reuter,
German Generals Going Home
hearings on legislation to appropriate funds for Marshall, aid, a Senator asked Mr. Hoffman what he intended to do to "control the transla tion of our goods and money" into war machin- ery for Russia.
Mr. Rees-Williams replied that he was communicating with the Malayan Government and would give a reply later.Reuter.
Siam Settles An Argument
Paris, May 14, M. George Bidauit, Foreign Minister, told a Cabinet meeting today that Marshal Pibul Song- gram, the Siamese Premier, had informed him Siam was prepar- ed to return four small disputed provinces to France..
question has been finally! tury to
to the Prime Minister's office, fold a
a press conference after the naceting
arose out of the
SM. Pierre Adelin, Secre-
The dispute "If it is true", "Mr. Hoffman (financial, considerations, In-de- Bridgend May 14. Seventy-six Germun "oficers, said, "that we are furnishing fermining the division of aid funds session to Siam by Vichy France most of them generals, were given aid and if a country is shipping ins between loans and grants, one in 1941 of parts of, the provinces great farewell, when they left such commodities (to Russia), of the basic assumptions would of Alos and Cambodia, and Siam's their isla prisoner-of-war camp they have gol to stop it or we be that the proportion of a pro- request for frontier adjustments gramme to be financed by loans after she had returned the pro- won't furnish the aid."
Schator Homer Ferguson asked must be determined in the light vinces at the end of the Pacife officers were wished good- The lase
190 at the s
estation by a dozen Mr. Hoffman: "Why should we of what the country could pay war. Reuter. welldressed women, soine with send steel to Britain which will after the programme was adopt
be used in the manufacture of ed. Mr. Hoffman said that up to their husbands.
here today to return home.
Mr.
long
authorised shipments worth about
other commodities.--Reuter.
Washington, May 13. President Truman today asked Congress
for an additional $2,434,441,000 for defence-Reu-
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Field Marshals Von Rundstedt, Von Bruuchitsch and Von Mans- tein were not in the party, Vou
Mr. Hoffman also said the oh- Rundstedt and Von Manstein' are jectives of the Marshall plan were in bad health and Von Brau-so important "that we must not chitsch is writing his memoirs. let inability to repay in the im They will not be allowed to settle medidie forseeable future" inter- here as ordinary citizens.-Reu- fere with the sending of old,
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CZECHS' NEW OATH
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Guam, May 14.
Two tagged but healthy Jap- anese soldiers came out of the In Prague, the Minister of the jungles yesterday and gave them- Interior, told members of the selves up two years, and elight Corps that the new oath was a months after the surrender. guarantee that the Security' Corps They had a 1947 copy ́of an "cleansed of reactionary elements American magazine and one of will never cease to work for the them kept pointing to a picture democratic order of our people and multering..
The
picture and for a Socialist government, showed Emperor Hirohito and a which will guarantes a better group of US military police. future."--Reuter,
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