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"THE CHINA" MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY:8,- 1948.)
SOVIET FIGHTER ACTIVITY IN AIR BRIDGE ROUTE TO BERLIN RUSSIANS TRYING
NEW TACTICS
Bedin, July 6.
Warnings of Soviet fighter plane activity in the vicinity of Western air corridors leading to Bor- lin were given to American and British pilots tonight.
Warnings to fly above 5,000 feet, and remain well.
within the corridor were posted in the Tem- pelhof aerodrome briefing room.
Now Tactics?
"Several Soviet @ghters came tween Berlin and Western · Gar- up and flew in formation with many. had "increased noticeably one of our planes, about three in the past couple of days." p.m. this afternoon," the brief- ing officer told the United "They seem to have been un- Press. "Four or five of our usually busy today," he said. planes reported unusual Soviet fighter activity this afternoon In the area between Fulda, and Berlin. Several said Soviet fighters came up and looked us over!
"
The Tempelhet briefing officer sald Soviet fighter activity near the air corridors, which are the Role remaining supply routes be-
AMERICAN MINERS WALK OUT
Pittsburgh, July 6.
A walk-out of 40,000 coal miiners in pits owned by steel companies began today and the bulk of commercial miners in Western Pennsylvania staged a sympathy walk-out,
The total goal production Western Pennsylvania, which employs 50,000 miners was only 20 per cent of normal,
in
It was believed Incrested fighter activity was the ba ginning of the Soviet campaign to crowd Western Ailled planas off the airlines over which they mave been dying 300 and mora planDO dully In their drive to beat the Soviet-im.
pored "hungar blockado" Berlin,
ways
Broker To Wed Princess
London, fuly .. *The angagomeni, was ane" nounced in London, today of Princess Helene Henriette Marie de Ligna Belgium to Peter Prandis (Whitwell, a London stockbroker.
The Princess is the young. est daughter of Prince and Princess Albert de Ligne of Brussels, one of Belgiums old titled families.
Mr. Whitwell, 87, was an Infantry major during.......the war-Associated · Press.
Sterling Pact Postponed
MYSTERY
US MOVE IN MED
Washington, July 0. The U.S. Navy Department said today that movements of seven of its fighting ships in the Mediterrancan have "åb- solutely nothing to do with Palestine."
Officials said that the 27,000 ton carrier Kearsarge and the destroyers Massey and Merideth left Naples for "routine training exercises", The Massey will later leave the carrier to visit: Piraeus, Greece.
From Istanbul the 12,000-ton escort carrier Palau and three light cruisers sailed for Cyprus. The Palau will take aboard, at Cyprus the bodies of the Ameri con consul general, Thomas Was- san, and the U.S. Navy Engineer Herbert M. Walker, killed by Arab sniper bullets in Jerusalem recently and return them home,
The Russians protested against landings of big British Sunder- Innd flying-boats on Lake Hava Gatow next to British-operated
London, July 6: airport, charging that the water- The signature, of the sterling and around Berlin were balanco agreement · between under Soviet control. The Sun-Britain and India has had to be derlands are part of the. giant postponed "probably until The cruisers Fargo, Huntington i Western Allied air fleet pressed Thursday," it was learned from into service to break the Rus- alan blockade.
the British by the Soviet Direc- The protest was despatched to tor of Water Transport, who de- flared Lake Havel was closed "to landings by Western Allied planes.
Russian Protest ~ :- Simultaneously an 'authorita. tiva source
said that Soviet Marchal Vassity Bokolovsky sent The big United States Steel a letter of proteat during the Lucius to Goŋeral Corporation reported all 14 of. Its work-and
Clay, U.S. Commander, against Pennsylvania mines, employing
the halt of exports to the Rus- 70,000 men, idle, resulting in a dally loss of 85,000 tons of coal.
stan occupation. Zone from the The captive miners" (those Western part of Germany. whose output goes to a' paren! The source said Gen., Clay re- Arm
Jike a steel company) stayed plied that inter-zonal trade could away from work because of lack not be resumed as long as the of a contract. The
com Western powers were denied the use of the Berlin-Helmstedt pantes refused a new contract
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MISSIONARIES
TO WED
Boston, July 0.
air-lift of food and vital to .the "blockaded" capital
with continued
today planes landing every four minutes at Tempelhof Aerodrome:
A total of 135 piacos, carrying
and Juneau will provision nt. an official British spokesman Cyprus, then rejoin the U.S. Sixth Tick Fleet wherever it is in the today.
Mediterranean at. that time, the Navy said.
Sir Stafford Cripps, Chancellor of the Exchequer, has been so occupied with the Marshal Ald affairs that he has been unable to study fully the final draft of the agreement,
Agreement hea been retched' on all points, it is understood, and now only the matter of the final draft remains..
Units of the U.S. Mediterraneun Fleet sailed from French Riviera today, the aircraft carrier Coral Gibraltar and the Sea going to baltleship, Missouri to Algiers.~ | Associated. Press.
stage as that, with ·India, and The agreement with Pakistan, | signature was expected to be des
until
the week-end.- however, was understood to have layed
advanced Reuter, reached not such
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BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay
"The Authority (no Authorities?
WOES OF A BRIDGE MAN Touite a stunt if a sleight of hand WHENEVER a writer of bridge. expert could get away with it, A missionary romance was re- 504 tons of food, touched down
at. this Americon-controlled air pulls a boner, such as reporting and his opponents, not recognize ported from China' by the Am-
a card played to an early trick the second appearance of that erican Board of Foreign Mis-port in the 24 hours ending at sions today with the marriage of 4.00 p.m. (local time), and in the and then used again on a later important little card."
Here's hoping the mental ex- six Sunderlands one-and we all do it his ava fourth generatión missionaries in landed on Lake Havel,
period Bame
lanche of mail shows how keen ercise of conscientious readers Tientsin.
beneficial' enough to offset The bridegroom is Edward
Despite the choppy conditions, fare his rendors' minds. "I'm sure wo other feelings over this the Sunderlands all made per you will wish to correct your their Clark Riggs, MD; of Denver, fact landings and, having dis-self," writes one who
should funny
quirk of the mind-or Colorado, a former Army Medicni for their cargoes of Argen- have said, "kick yourself." An- what stands In lieu thereof. Corps Captain, and the gride is
you Intended to
every letter bod Practically Frances Louise Whitaker. RN, ting tinned meat and meat soup, other says:
were soon on their way back to start arguments with this hand, something nice to say, such as herself a native of Peiping, and Finkenwerder, near Hamburg. let me congratulate you on your "I" z
"I read, your articles, avery day. daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. United Press, and Reuter.
overwhelming success. Bessie and enjoy them
Immensely Robert B. Whitaker, Congrega-
contends 5-Clubs could be made With.thanks for those bouquets, tional Christian Missionaries. In
(becauso You said so), and.. we hope our confession will bo Tientsin.Associated Press.
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