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NEW MOVE IN THE
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1940.
BERLIN CRISIS
Air Lift Victims
Joe Stalin Expected To Meet Envoys To Discuss Issues Buried
Western Ambassadors Rather More Hopeful
Berlin Police Cleavage
Berlin, August 1.
Berliners today faced the propert of arrest if they obeyed the orders of their own uniformed police. The latest
Moscow, August 1.
The expected mooting botwoon Marshal Stalin and the Western diplomats may take place in the next 24 hours, possibly even tonight, accord: ing to opinion in some well informed foreign circles in Moscow.
While there is no confirmation from Soviet circles that such a meeting is expected, the atmos- phere in the Embassies of the Western coun- tries--working over the bank holiday week-end was one of considerable expectancy.
order in the battle of the city's British, French and American sen diplomatic steps Wan rival police forces, Issued by a deputy of Colonel Paul Murk-embassies are staying in Mos- graf, the Soviet-sponsored chief, read:
to
Any
Members of the staffs of the week that the object of the pre- "clarify the situation in order to KIVET the week-end. seertain whether there is Normalty they
would have prospect of removing obstacles to discussions, with a view to a set- "All possible steps, including gone to a country house.
(lement which His Majesty's Government desires, and which arrest, will be
laken to ensure
tion thot
be given may
by Stumin.
Blity R Anyone who Stumm will And himself before a Jaw court,"
his own
ence
King Cobra Poisoning
Chapra (India),
August 1.
It was midnight. Bix are - ed men stealthily approached the hours of the richest man in the village of Chapra, near Elhar. Their faces covered by maske, they forced open the door and scattered the inhabitants of the house in a panic.
In a corner was a big black cheat. Quickly, feverishly. the thieves got to work and forced the li Inaldo wero Jewels worth a king's ransom and hundreds of thousands of pounds stirling in money.
The leader of the gang put In his hand to withdraw the loot and quickly drew it
back with a yelt of pain.
Blowly, hissing with anger, aglant King Cobra raised its hooded head. With crite of fear to them it was a bad oman the members of the gang fed in disorder.
Hours later, the inhabitanta of the house' returned and found their treasure silif in- tact with its guardian, the King Cobra, lying on chest. Quickly, the custodian of the treasure-was-despatch. ed.
the
The police are now loak- Ing for a man who died of snake-bite or who is suffering froin the **fecte of King Ccbra poleon.
Agence France Presse.
NO CLEAR SOLUTION
EMERGES
Now York, August 1.
:
we hope may lenil to peace and The Western Allies last week cautiously explored
security in Europe for us all."
The fact that M. Molotov was summoned back from his holi- day shows clearly the very great importance that the Soviet Gov- rnment attaches to the "present
Berlin, August 1. Three thousand persons paid memorial tribute under a blis- tering sun today to Ave Ameri- cans who died in the airlift supplying Soviet blockaded Berlin.
The heard speakers denounce the blockade as inhaman and
the praise
air-lt fliers 23 "heroes who help us resit sub- jugation under a now dictator- ship."
But even ny the Service was being held the Russians, through their official
press, threatened Western Berliners with extension of the alege Into the winter unr less the elected City Government yields to Communist demands for economie control over the entire city.
The Russiana also moved for another turning of the screw In their pressure on Western Berlin. They Indicated that accounts theld in banks in the Russian see- tor of the city by Western Ber-
lin businesses and industries, frozen during the recent currency exchange, might never be releas- ed except at the pleasure, of the Communist-ruled Economic Com- mission. The
Socialist press called the move "a money block- ade."
The Soviet Commander in Ger- that no person obeys any instruc-many, Marshal Sokolovsky, is be-
Heved to be in Moscow, and I
that he, likely
us well nя M.
the dangerous labyrinth of relations with Rus- Mulutoy, will attend any confer-
between
Stalin and the
sia secking a way out short of war. But the
The memorial service, arranged Western powers.
week-end came without any clear solution.
by the Women's Union of West- Dr. Johannes Stumin, a furiner
At such a
a conference the view
em Berlin, honoured Americans deputy to Colonel Markgraf, was
of the Western powers would be
Western diplomats devoted rimes. Involving looting of occu who died in two crashes of sup chief by the appointed police
presented by the "little" three-diplomatic stepa"
and countries The general moression here is much of the week to prepara- | pled
exploiting ply prines, one German City Administration last Mr. Frank Roberts, personal en-
near Wiesbaden and the other in Ber- that Marshal Staliu, M. Molotov tory conferences puving the slave labour. Later, Alfred Krupp on Joly ck, and tomorrow he will open voy of the 3ritisn-Foreign Secre- week,
and 10 other high in a week ago. Simultaneously. and other Soviet leaders want way to an approach to Foreign von Bohlen headquarters
in the they, Mr. Berin, General Walter
peace and would welcome the re-Minister Molotov in Moscow. oficials of the Krupp Munitions the assemblage paid tribute to American sector.
Bedell Smith, American Am-
moval of obstacles to a settlement. But when the envoys
Works were convicted on similar the several hundred German vic- Earlier today, Dr. Stupmi coun- bassador, and M. Chataigneru,
Colonel French Ambassador,
-Reuter. tormandled an order by
tims of last week's explosion at U.S. Britain and France arrly-charges. Markgraf
Berliners!
the LG. Farban chemical ed in Moscow to request the
plant the lifting of
at Ludwigshafen. Russian landļin Chínů pursued its grim course blockade of Berlin, they were without outstanding devolopments, In the audience were Mrs. told that Molotov was out of In Malaya, the drive agains! Louise Schroder, Socialist Lord Communist insurgents continued Mayor of Berlin, and Mrs. Lucius Nevertheless on Saturday night with police und military attacks Clay, wife of the American Mili- Molotov received the U.S. Ambas on Jungle strongholds.
tary Governor.-Associated Press. sador, Mr. Walter Bedell-Smith, and they talked for more than
warning
The British, American and against using the new headquar-, French representatives have kept ters and declaring that all certi-silent since their return. fers m deales and licences issued there
would be invntkl.
being
Berlin Olymple
now
Big Four Meeting
Later in the day, the rank and file police constables Ind in choose between contradictory it- Issued for the police structions swimming championships, held nt the Stadium.
As Colonel Markernf recognised by the Russians and Dr. Stumn by the Western Allies, Berliners tomorrow are expected to regulate their behaviour e- cording to the sector they live
There is no doubt that the en- in.
East will convoys of the three Western pow- thue to use the old headquarters are out to explore every in the Soviet sector and those in venue which could possibly lend 10 a settlement of outstanding the West well Jo to the new
Hufculties in Geray. buldig.-Renter.
Those in the
Mr. Attlee.
He
when
Minister. Mr.
to
town.
an hour.
Britishi
of the
In the Far East the civil war
In Japan the labour problem, hammering for nearly three years, approached boiling point with a controversy over the right of government
The Japanese Ca
sald
them.
Shah Of Persia In Paris
was given
No Refusal
London, August 1. American, British and French diplomats have asked
sce Some well-Ir formed obser- Marshal Stalin, a well informed London vers believe they would offer diplomatic source in an opportunity for discussion said tonight.
definitely could not say between the four powers at A high level. This could
be that Marshal 'Stalin has accept-
After their interview Smith either talks by all four Forsigned, but indicated that he has not
said only I have no comment.
workers to strike. Ministers, or even a big four yet, at least, refused.
were But the fact that they had talked ile meeting-between Stalin, Presi-
ese Cabinet yesterday the requests
of seemed a positive development, forbade dent Truman. French Premier. made
representatives
government employees but Left Wing Unions M. Marie, and British Premier, the three Western powers seek- after the previous brusque "vaca- such action, but
announcement, Molotov
Paris, August 1. it would take a specific order ing to iny the groundwork for tion"
received the between also
and from General Douglas MacArthur The Shah of Iran, Mohum- ending the cold war East and West sow the Soviet French envoys separately.
to stop
And the leader of med Reza Pahlevi, V. M. At the 11 natin Danube River the Communist-dominated conta rousing welcome by the Foreign
Celgrude, Soviet Molotov, last night. Associated conference in
Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei munications workers' union said French capital today when he Bourget airport A. Vishinsky
the Japan is greeting a military ruler landed at Le bluntly told
after his visit to Britain. Western powers to accept the de- dangerous to the rest of Asia.
At the airport to meet the clsions of the Communist-do-
Pranier. royal visitor were the M. Andre Marie, the Foreign minsted meeting or get out.
At Lake Success, the United Minister and former Premier, M. Indonesian Robert Schuman, the Defence Nations tackled the
H. Rene problem ugain, after the Indones- Minister,
Mayer, and members at the Ian Republic announced it had several other withdrawn from the deadlocked Cabinet and high-ranking French pouce talks with the Dutch. The personalities.
Council npproved A As the Shah alighted from the of oblems if the the acquired rights of France in
military band Chinese wide range
played tumians cancel the Berlin block-the Danubian waterway.
idea to Carry out fully and soon the Iranian and French national This exchange came amid frosh the principles of Renville anthems, after which the royal ade.
visitor inspected # guard of highly-placed source In indications that Russia and her truce agreement. Washington indicated that they Eastern satellites were determined i in Washington, a special session honour.
Large crowds, cheered the Shah made oral representations in control the administration of of the U.S. Congress got under and then backed these up with the great river,
14-
This 914 19 with Mr. Bevin's Įstatement in the Commons last
GET
PROBLEMS MORE DIFFICULT
Berlin, August 1.
Life as it is today in Berlin after 40 days of the So- vict blockade, during which the only means of communication for the Wostern Powers and for the-German-inhabitants of the western-sectors- of the city with the outside world are those pro- vided by American and British transport planes, may well last until the weather becomes cooler and the days shorter.
Press.
Prepared
Washington, August 1.. The State Deportment refused today to comment on reports here and in Moscow that representa tives of the Western powers told the Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr. Molotov, in Moscow that their governments were prepared
The doors was open for you to come in," declared Vishinsky "and the door is open for you to go out."
His brusque deckaration was in reply to a French assertion that to France could not abide by any
Indonesian Problemi
negotiate with the Russians on a conference decision which ignorel Security conpsal calling on both plane, a
formal notes. De replied-Prepared-To-Negotiate--inflat
;
The-State with bland "no
*when
informed of press reports from
The U.S. 'Air Force and
the
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way and President Harry Truman as he drove away from the air- demanded speedy action against port.
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toward husty action, particu. the President of the French Re Moscow that the three powers RAF meanwhile continued to fly larly on measurce specially stress-public-Agence France-Presse. had asked for a personal confer-in supplies to land-isolated Bered by Mr. Truman. ence with Premier Josef Stalin. in. In a conciliatory gesture on, Excitement of
of another category However, observers pointed out Saturday, however, the American was provided by the House of that it would not be strange for commander, General Lucius D. Representatives Un-American Ac- the three powers to seek such Clay, said the Western powers tivities Committee. A woman, top-level conference because of were prepared to negotiate with who confessed she had splod for the dangers lulerest in the eur-
the Russians on the currency pot-Russia, told the Committee that rent Berlin crisis.
up in Berku, The Russians have one of the late President Frank- ased the money issue as one ex-la Roosevelt's aldes, Lauchlin cuse for blockading the city, Currie, gave out wartime secrets
I, G. Farben again figured pro- which reached
Russia Curric Some officials here believe the minently in the week's news when made several trips to China for Russians will agree to four-power a US. military court acquitted 24 the President. The ex-spy wit- talks on the Berlin crisis and directora of the Company ofness also named others in gov- other major issues, but they are charges of plotting and waging ernment circles from whom sho zones can now use electricity the Soviet zone is sparing no ef-not optimistic about the outcome aggressive war, but sentenced to sald secret information was ob-
advance of the American prison terms 13 convicted of war tained-Associated Press. only two hours in the daytime fort to tighten its grasp on many in
Leaders and two more hours at night aspects of Berlin' economic life. Presidential elections.
foreign -four hours out of 24. The Obviously, what is at stake is the control of the big industrial chief problems, of course, are
plants In Berlin. mainly
It is already obvious that the problems facing the western sectors are daily becoming more dif- ficult to solve. Not so long ago, no one would have dreamed that the former German capital would be divided into four separate districts os regards power plants, gas works, waterworks, slaughter houses, and so on.
Berliners in the
western The Economie Commission
in
Not Optimistic
American bipartisadent polley-including the man and Mr. Thomas Jewey the food supply and the cur-world-famous Siemens electrical are known to believe that Rus- rency question.
and sie's stubborn policy on Telefunken
works, A.E.G..
Berlin
'on
The widely-advertised intention others which have made Berlin and other issues comes from rea- of the Soviet authorities to feed the most important electrical cen- soning that American unity the entire population of Berlin tre in the country end in Europe. foreign issues will be shattered east and west-hns had little ef-
political fect
domestic
Berlin mun!- Meanwhile, the
ni- during the on the
Herliners in the
administration, cipal
caught in campaign. Western areas, and reports leak-the battle, have not split into two It is believed that the U.S. Am- ing out from the Soviet zone
zone give
bassador, Mr. Walter prophesied by oppos little ground to hope that it is ing parties. So far, the Soviets Smith, made a point on Saturday again to clear Mr. Molotov's mind
comps as
Possible for the eastern zone to have been resisted and the coun
cil is solidly ballnd the Western
All the Berlinor's stomach,
Moreover the way the Soviets | Alles. want to supply the western sec- tors would mean that a German housewife in those areas would have to make a daily journey of from six to eight miles for a ra- tion of soup meat and fats.
Moral Defeat
of that idea.
Bedell-
It was recalled that when Mr. Smith last conferred with Mr. he Molotov early this summer, This fact has been illustrated told the Minister, "It would be a
grave error if others were, to sume that
domestic considera- as the forthcoming
by the moral defeat suffered by
the Russians when they tried to tons, such reinstate Paul Markgraf ar Chief
Unparalleled In History of
election, would in any way
of the police force after his dis- weaken the determination of the dafest may United States to support what it believes to be right. The Amerl-
missal by the tice. And this
On the economical and finan-ice.
authorl-
cial side, the altuation is confus-spur on
the VI munist can people have always known
how to separate domestic and foreign policy."--United Press:
NEW BERLIN AIR FIELD
ed to a degree probably un- | raction in the Town Hall to at- paralleled in modern history. tempt another coup.
The two currencies of Berlin The present situation in. Berlin have the ́sama`nama, the same may last for some time-but a faco value and circulate in op- solution must be found. - Thera
•position to each other, Yester- are inconveniences in the eastern day, General, Lucius D. Clay, oten ne well as the western sec- the American · Gommander-in-
peaceful solution can be tom. A Chief, declared that the Amari- found if the Russians do not lose dens were ready to put on and right of, the fact that the Wert- to auch an absurdity, But, so em Allies mean to stay in Berlin far, the Russlana have ignored, and that the best plan is not an all attempts to settle the all-out attempt to, seize control -monetary problems as if they are of the whole city but a return complete by Beptember the new confident of winning the bat, to the co-operation of quadri-Soviet Schoenefeld Airfeld, near
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