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Togliatti Shooting Aftermath
ITALY'S NARROW ESCAPE
FROM CIVIL WAR
The
HEAVY DAMAGE IN SHELLING OF JERUSALEM
Editor-in-Chief:-W. J. Kentes.
Asst. Ediforan Mackenzie.
· Rome, July 18. (Pollantes' deed would have had their offensive too far. It be-i Three platol shots fired into no ominous, consequences. The gun to peter cut even before Di Business Manager: W. H Nolloth Communist leader Falmiro Tog-attempted assassination was de Vittorio brought it to a hali.
Jarusalem, July 18, liuit last week by an irrespon-plored by every sector of politi The Christian Democratic sec-
Old City's Holy place among the most sacred sitio Sicilian law student brought cat opinion.
tor of the Confederation, which of Christions and Moslems-took the brunt of 24354' Italy, fearfully close to the kind The Communists attempted to did not approve the general of civil war which could spread represent Pallantes as a tool of a strike, already had ordered its
Friday night's pro truco Jewish attack. (four lines)
| around the world.
reactionary conspiracy. But followers back to work. Many During a 10-hour uninter- They touched of 30 hours of they produced no concrete evi- others were returning with, the rupted pounding by approx- Subscription Rates:
Communist inspired violence in dence. They abandoned that at same
with which | Imately 500 mortar bombs some spontaneity this sallent of the East-Westtempt and then blamed the Cav- they abandoned
which challenged
their jobs the of them six incliers, almost all the ernment for having "created the first day. Italians generally, had the many Holy places H.K.318,00 struggle
authority of Premier Alcide de climate of hate" which poisoned had enough of the inconvenience hit. H.K.$30.00 Gesperi's Government, killed 10. the would be assassin's mind. and the bloodshed.
Surveying the results of their
DEATHS
wounded more than 200 and ILK $72.00 damaged the country's econo-
mir recovery effort.
The final result was a setback to the prestige of the Communist leadership
strengthening of the ment's position.
Italian
and A
Covern-
By CHARLES
CUPTILL
H.
The effects might well be felt NEWBIGGING On July 16th ni
beyond Italy's borders - In Yugoslavia, where Farnham, Surrey, D. L. New has refused to bow to Moscow's Marshal Tito bigging ("Buggie") late of
excommunication, and in France, Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & horrassed by threats of the same Co., Ltd. Shanghai and Tien-kind of political strife for which they tsin papers please copy.
the attempt an Togliatti's Ufo suppited the excuse there.
But despite the failure of the XAVIER-On July 12, 1948, at general strike-which the Go the age of 75, ANTONIO ernment called "insurrectional" WENCELAUS XAVIER,there was a clear warning, in dearly beloved husband of the week's events. Annia Nalbeldian Xavier, uncle to Chaille, Nina, Munic and George,
PALESTINE TRUCE
Defeat Not Accepted
They made it plainer than ever that the Communists have not accepted defeat in Inst April's clection as Anal.
In a world which seems to be boiling up most discontented toe abide turbingly, the acceptance by the Arabs of the demand for a further truce in Palestine comes as a welcome surprise. Were there any real indica- tions of a genuine spirit of compromise also, the situa- tion could be viewed with the
If the Communists kod been by normal processes, 25-year-old Antonio
RED STAR
optimism that guides Count Bernadotte, who thinks that both Jews and Arabs recognise the. necessity for peaceful relations between the two communities and for economic unity.
A more practical reason for the Arab decision is probably, that events since
RISING
A week ago you might still have said that Stalin was the in the most noted Communist world. Today two others run blm very close,
The first is Marshal Tito, whose character is now being blackened by the Cominform and who may be on his way out; the second is Marshal Vassili Sokolovsky, the mar man who has prepared and is carrying out the siege of Berlin (and who is definitely on the way
was born in the
the resumption of hostilitiesin).
Sokolovsky
have done little to encourage Kostikt district of Grodno, near
kavo
Ап
showed:
were
Associated Press survey
the andi
Contempt For British Authority
Berlin, July 18.
adventure, the Moscow trained top Communists, who sometimes
One direct hit on the Holy sito of speak among themselves in Rus- Sepulchre, traditional sion to keep their secrets, could Christ's tomb, And some cause for satisfaction. Two shells exploded in th
They had thown they could tie courtyard and 10 around up the nation's economy, almost Basilica.. An Arab mother completely on short notice and her child who sought refuge in aprend terror everywhers. They the Basilica were killed,
Mr. John J. Sims, the British had had another rehearsal for u An Abyssinian priest was occupation officer arrested by more determined effort another killed in the small Greek Or- the Russians as a "spy" last time.
thodox Convent across the road. Wednesday, It is now generally recognised
today described The Communists had been blundered in calling the able In some places, as in Genon when their patriarchate was hit confinement for
Two Greek priests were killed how he was kept in solitary general strike. Perhaps the and Leghorn, to get the better of The Flagellation and Condemna in a filthy, stinking coll,"
three days less precipitate if their top rask tough riot squads, even disarm were hit three times, the Eace thorities with showing their re Communists would
been Interior Minister Mario Scelba's
tion
shrines on the Via Dolores He charged the Soviet 211- leadership had been Ins coming them.
Home Convent once. mand,
solute contempt for British au- Twenty two shells exploded on thority in Germany. The Debit List
the Armenian He was arrested without warn- Catholle Patriarchate, further ing while investigating the hold- Het was somewhat damaging the shrine.
up of British controlled barges The Latin Patriarchate was hit, near Wittenberge, he said. Ac- Popular sentiment, while con- its stained glass windows damag-cording to a
a diary he kept of demning the shooting of Togcu. latti, recolled at the exaggerated
his experiences, he Was mado The Franciscan Monastery was to ile scale of the reaction.
on stinking straw in several times from almost
blank range. The shells Russlan
lorry, guarded by four Army
tommy gunners and
But the wily Togliatti was in the hospital. Tough, experien- ced Giuseppe di Vittolo, Com- munist secretary of the General Labour Confederation was In Paris on his way home from the International Labour Organisa- tion meeting in San Francisco. He hurried to Rome but arrived too late to influence the decision. Communist Error
The debit heavier:
and
[hit"
around
wooden boards as a bed.
ת
WILE
The
bled that the whole affair, had point
The workers themselves grum, been futile. The government had came from the Jewish held Notre taken to Berlin, where ho given convincing proof almost Dame de France just outside to put in a call furnished with three everywhere that its claim to suffi- walls, In Tactics
cient force to defend the Repub. Shells fell, on and outside the food was "Inedible". lle against insurrection was no Sixth and Seventh Stations of When Interrogated, he was told Apologists for tho general bluff.
the cross. An entire family was it was "all a mistake", but was sirike say it merely formalised a Gravest of all, the unity of the killed by one shell.
not released until two days later. apontaneous action of workers Communist dominated Labour The ancient agony olive tree-Reuter, which began almost as soon as movement was imperiled by the in the Garden of Gethsemane news of the attempt on Togliat-[Christian Democrat's threat to was damaged. t's life became known.
secede from the Confederation. If the Communists had been They charged use of the general satisfied with the first day's de strike for political ends violated nionstrations, however spontane the Federation's ronstitution. ous they were, they could have All in all, Moscow could called them off with good grace. scarcely have felt pleased. As The error lay in trying to carry Isociated Press,
Serious
North
Clash In
Italy
Florence, July 18.
belief among Arabs in their the. Polish border of the Ukraine, One hundred and fifty armed police and five arm- capacity, at the moment, of of peasant parents. achieving their political ains
by military means.
Those
Arabs who have not been in the fighting have been an-
Spoilt Priest-
Like Stalin, he was destined
for priesthood, and went to a
oured cars rushed 50 miles to Siena today fol- lowing reports of disturbances when a gronade. was thrown during the funeral of a victim of last week's general strike.
More than 40 shells exploded in the temple area of the Mos- ques of
of Omar and Elaska, Islam's third most holy site. Seven direct hits broke the windows and damaged the furnishings of the Mosque of Omar and one hit the "Scene of the Miracle", the traditional spot from which Mohammed ascended
on a
a white horse.
to heaven
The Austrian Catholle Hospice,
New Plan For Indonesia
Batavia, July 18. A plan, drawn up by non-
now used as a hospital suffered Republican leaders at Bandoeng several hits.
to settle the Indonesian dis-
Civilian casualties in the at-pute, will be handed to the tack were officially estimated at Indonesian Republic Govern- 40. One soldier was killed and ment and to Dr. Hubertus Vah two wounded.
tho
| Governor General
Six inch mortar bombs struck Mook, the Dutch Lieutenant
Masque arca aggin... „today
plan, form und caused three casualfex As-solution passed at a meeting of sociated Press.
gered by the truce decision theologiant seminary. Like Stalin. Communications with Siena were cut by order of the Iran Regency
На
was Deputy Chief
of Staff
ond
was pro-
Ministry of the Interior.
Council
of
non-cans, outlines
the
institutions and. Parliament
the proposed United States of Indonesia.
After drawing up their sug- gestions to eat the Dutch-In-
the
and it may prove to be he became a lifelong revolution- casier for the Arab leadersary and took part in the October
donesian Republican deadlock, to show a responsible spirit volunteering for the Red Army.
1017 Revolution a year before
According to an account re-Abbia San Salvatore, 60 miles
the non-Republicans themselves in the further negotiations
celved in Rome, however, two south of Siena.
were divided as to whether they Teheran, July 18. revolver shots were fired from with Count Bernadotte than in the Red Army at the outbreak the headquarters of the land-met with resistance. One police the Iran Emergency Council committee.
should send their ideas direct to The names of members Police entered the building and
United Nations, good offices to produce an
of World War II. agreement of
oted 10 Chief of Staff as the workers trade union at the man was injured.
were officially announced today. which will satisfy public mated
Some leaders did
not want to Germans approzched-S
Smolensk..funeral procession of.. two
The funeral at Blana was for In a Farman (Royal order) by-pass the committee's Dutch-- opinion in Cairo, Amman,
three
times a year, policemen who were killed t
Police Sergeant Virgilio Ranieri, issued by the Shah on Saturday Republican conference now meet- Damascus and Baghdad. perhaps on Red Army Day or on
who was captured by rioters at night and addressed to Abbla San Salvatore, and whose Hossein Hazhir, Iranian premier, the Republican capital-Router.
Abdul Ing at Kaliurang, near Jogjakarta, For the moment, there is the anniversary of the October
dead and mutilated body was the Shah said that in his absence little to suggest that the Revolution, the Marshal holds an
found later, and for Nations' United
will find
common D
rwo or
-Spoilt Man?
to over-
Perhaps it is easy who has created such a dilemma estimate the ability of the man for us in Berlin.
Soldiers
L
To Be Tried
another the
the regency council will handle policeman, Batista Corbone, the country's urgent matters.
compothers.
Majile
MOVIE DEMAND.
who was killed there.
The Council
of It was confirmed in Rome to-three
of the
Shab's ជើងផ night that pollen reinforcements Prince Al Reza Alireza,
Prince were sent to Elena after
Shanghai," July 10, this Colamreza and Prince Abdulreza morning's incident at the funeral together
Chinese movie producers haya with Hazhir
Reza sent a petition to the Chinese and because of the general ten-Hekmat, the ston in the area.-Reuter.
Speaker Government for a Hakim, former Premier US$80,000 in foreign exchange to
grant Mohemmad Saed, parliamentary enable them to make necessary deputy and wartime premier purchases abroad, the Chinese Mohammed Sade Tabatabael, press reported today. Field
Marshal Ahmed
They also demanded exemption Ahmedt War Minister and Hos- of movie-making equipment and sein Samiel, the Court's master materials from import restrictions. of ceremoules.-Associated Press. Heuter.
omeinl reception at Potsdam, but mediator he is no back-stopping host and de-hrs little interest in what comes nominator capable of form-from the cellar or the kitchen. ing the basis of an agree- ment acceptable to both
Shanghal, July 19. sides. The Arab consent to
Twenty-six Chinese soldiers the new truce was, in itself, hedged about with conditions
Chinese theatres last Friday | involved in the bombing of twoj --or demands for the accept
night will be formally tried by ance of conditions-which One is apt to forget that a court martinl this morning TRADE PACT
needs no would themselves be suffl- Sokolovsky
mandate before a joint tribunal_formed cient to preclude the pros fore he can do what seems neces Headquarters, Police and Ger
from public opinion at home be of delegates of the Garrison
Erague, July 18. Czechoslovakia and France pects of an agreed settle-sary. Still less does he have to darmerie, it was learned.
have agreed to exchange goods ment. Nevertheless, Count consult any other country before
Twenty-three of them
were to the valus of five milliard Bernadotte will resume his acting
Czechoslovak news task with the good wishes
And who knows that, when he caught on the spot on Friday and crowns, the sends the Allies a particularly have been unofficially questioned agency announced tonight,
The agreement Included a pro- of all who sense the import awkward Note. at three in the by a court martial department of
the Garrison Headquarters. They vision for compensating France ance of peace in the Middle morning whether it a piece of were again questioned last even over the next 10 years for pro- East. His recommendations brilliant timing or merely the fact
perty "nationalized", in: Czecho-
Franco will export coal, cres
metals, having thrown a grenade, con- and fessed that three other soldiers chemical products to Crecho- machinery and
curried grenades that night but slovakia in return for metallie escaped after the explosion. products, glass, textlies, sugar. Yang's confession led to the sweets and woodwork products. arrest of three privates-Reuter.:-Router.
and finish into.
named Yang Tsu-yung, suspected
of
of a week or so ago had that the Russians start work lateing One of the arrested soldiers, slovakla after the war. closer regard for the real- "Sokolovsky has a son, á daugh- ities that any previous solu-tet, and three grandchildren-ot tion offered and they might | 51. easily form the basis for fur- ther discussions. Unfortun-
JOHN FISHER.
ately, the important thing is Eastern Europe, and Pre lacking; there is no indica-sident Truman has pointed tion that the passions that to the way in which the new have bedevilled every earlier Bill discriminates against attempt at an agreed settle them. ment have cooled off.
Displaced Persons
While Zionist sympathisers in the United States have been supplying funds for A Limited but real help has illegal immigration into been given.to. Europe's thou-Palestine, others in Congress sands of displaced persons have been blocking the entry by the recent Bill opening of Jewish immigrants into the doors of the United America.
FLYING FORTRESS BOLTS FOR AZORES
Halifax, Nova Scotia, July 18.)- mystorious B-17 bomber, whose nino-man crow promised the Canadian authorities they would return at once to the United States and flow instead out over the Atlantic last night, land- ed in the Axores early today, apparently on its way to Palestina.
The : plans - 'wen"balloved sto have only enough, petral to ny to Now "York," "with" Httle, to “spare. Although the crow members were supposed to be headed for the United States. -the plane, hended cut'ta sen Tri- made the 1,000-mile night to mediately after the take off and
-the Axorés
States to 200,000 of them in. It is instructive to compare the next two years. A larg- the British record. Before er Bill known as the Stratton the war, 80,000 refugees from
The battered war surplus, into Canada and had promised Bill, which would let in Hiticrism were given asyluma Flying Fortress took off from they would return to New York. LTD.400,000 has been on the and a further 70,000 were ad- Halifax last night in bright
stocks for a long time. mitted during the war.
moonlight, under strict orders 28001.
Together with the mea. Since then 130,000. Poles and ever, the crew took and won to return to New York How- aures taken by other coun- about 05,000 other displaced a gamble with a low petrol tries, notably the United persons have, come in, Such supply. Kingdom, it would have is the apathy of the world The B-17 came down safely at emptied the displaced per at large about this masa dis- sons camps of all their pro-tress that the adherence of Santa Maria,irport in the Azorem, the Air Sea Rescue Con- sent inmates within four one more nation to its cont of the Royal Canadian Air by cutting of one engine at times
The authorities
speculated that There are about a stitution is still necessary Force here reparted hold Milk the plane could have made the million displaced persons on before the LRO can come The Canadian authorition, who trip fairly callly. They pointed the books. Many refugees properly into being It Fortress last Sunday, released the excellent and the plane had impounded the converted-Flying out that dying: cuditions) werO trying to enter the camp work is still carried out by crow only after they had paid favourable winds for an Atlantic
· since 1945 *ate:"Jaws V from in providional, committee him **US$100/ang, for illegal, entry, eroming United Press.
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