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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1948.
HARD BARGAINING ON BERLIN BLOCKADE BRAATHENS
Western Envoys Meet Molotov For Third Time.
Hopes Of Satisfactory Settlement Rising
Moscow, August 9.
The envoys of the three Western powers met the Soviet Foreign Minister, M. Vyacheslav Molotov, for two hours and 40 mi. nutes in the Kremlin tonight-their third meeting in a wook.
Crisis Threatens In India
After the conference, the envoys drove to the Bri- tish Embassy for a discussion among them- selves. This lasted half an hour. Then the en- voys returned to their Embassies to write their reports.
It was a hot summer afternoon as the three cars carrying the envoys swept through the Kremlin gates for the conference, which began at 5.00 p.m. local time.
tish
British
He met the
Anti-American Campaign
Saigon, August 9. Vietnamese leadors in in- do-China were today stap. ping up an anti-American campaign.
Newspapers and tracts ac cused the United States of supporting "French Colonial Imperiallats," and in Indo- neala wanting "to exploit the Indonesian people in co-opera. tion with the Dutch colonial- Juto."
Neutral observers sald that the propaganda la "part of a general plan elaborated In Moscow."Associated Press,
PALLIATIVE THE BEST PROSPECT
London, August 9. Whatever optimism existed today over the prospects of another big four meeting was tempered drastically by the fear that east and west could novar agree on Germany.
Reuter's correspondent in Paris cubled. The recognition by the Aliles of the Russian mark cur- rency for the Eastern Zone and Berlin against the abandonment other by the Russians of the city's blockade,
Chaos Throat
Another
Moon Murder
Three children, who heard his screams, saw a "youngish" mon run out through a large hole in the wall of the building.
Some of the most influential dficials in the Governments of the Western Powers felt that way. The best they hoped for was a palliative which might prevent the situation from de- teriorating to the brink of war and disaster for, the whole world.
Such an attitude. which may appear hopeless on the surface, was based on there undisputed New Delhi, August 9,
facts: Firstly, The
Manchester, August 9. West wil The Indion Prime Minister.
Mr. Frank Roberts, the Bri- be further conferences between
never voluntarily abandon all of Four-year-old Joe Creamer, Pandit Nehru, said tonight that drove from the
special representative, the Western diplomats in Moscow
Germany to Russia to become an-third Lancashire child murder- Pakistan's "admission"
Em-and the Soviet Foreign Minister
satellite.
ed at the time of a new moon before busy in his shining black Hum- the current series of negotia
the Second
Russians the United Nations Kashmir ber car. flying the Union Jack
will fin recent months, tions there.
never give up Eastern Germany hanging from an electric wire was found Commission that its troops Jon the bonnet.
Mr. Marshall nude the state-
if the prospect that a united in the blitzed ruins of a fac- were Oghting in Kashmir Ambassadors, General Walter ment an hour after today's meet-
Germany might join the west meant that its case before the Bedell Smith of
ing in Moscow had ended during
against the cast.
tory here last night. the United
a short greeting to a group of
According to the information United Nations had collapsed.
States and M. Yves Chataigneau girls of
Thirdly, unfortunately there la the American Legion available in Peris, the
pressure no "third way" for Germany ex- of France, at the Kremlin and
Auxiliary who had called on him
on the Soviet currency following cept to remain divided between "This admission gives rise to they drove in together.
of the State Department.
the monetary reform in the West-cast and west. grave Iznutes, he added. Fight- Mr. Roberts told pressmen out-
The real struggle between cost The Secretary of State, pointern Zones is becoming so strong ing in Kashmir between troops of wide the Embassy after his returning out that the latest Moscow Rugstore Zone economy and it was for all Germany.
that it is gravely aliceting the and the west is over the control from the Kremlin: "We had
meeting had onded only an hour therefore thought very possible talk with M. Molotov. That Is previously, added: "They have a11. M. Smirnov (a Sovlet De- been engaged in a long discussion that the Russians would be pre-. puty Foreign Minister) was also and there probably will bepared to make a limited settle- Pondit Nehru, who was ad- present."
others,"
ment in
in order to stave off com- dressing a pulle meeting at the Neither he nor the American
ele, economie chaos in their opening of "Independence Week" and French Ambassadors would
Zone. In New Delhi, added: "We do not say whether this would be wish to do anything that mayal meeting with the Soviet For- cause hardship and misery
to eign
Minister. Correspondents millions of people, but if forced took General Hel Smith's re- by Pakistan, we are quite determark: "We will tell you the mined to act strungly".
whole story as being addressed to them sarcastically. Pakistan troops had been fight. The envoys went to the con. ing in Kashmir since the begin-Iference armed with fresh instruc- ning of the campaign. Only from used on their reports of Friday's tions from their Governments May onward had they given up meeting with M. Molotov, which their use as tribesmen, he said. also insted two and three-quar-
On Hyderabad, Pandit Nehruter hours. and the State had no choice Decisive Meeting?
two Dominions was bound to have far-reaching effects on their rela- tlons.
but
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to India. Ac. Earlier. They had met at the
ccezion would not
to accede
Hyderabad
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Embassy to
on the
be India's their briennes
discuss negotia-
Complications
.
In Paris, it was learned from an authoritative source today that the diplomatic talke bo- As far as the French Foreign tween the Western envoys and Minister M. Robert Schuman, was Soviet Russia may result in A concerned, no information on the settlement of the Berlin pro- diplomatic situation in Moscow blem sooner than was expected. was made available. Officials had received stringent Instructions The talks may result in a set-fron M. Schuman himself to ob-in Europe for the west to seek, tlement on the following basis, serve complete silence.-Reuter.
RUSSIANS HEDGE ON CLOSED RAILWAYS
Berlin, August 9.
It meant equal partner tions timed at Anding a basis for The Berlin-Holmstadt rail link with the British Zone,
Big Four talks on the German crisis. It is exactly a week since
#hip in the Union.
were
The unrest in Hyderabad had the three, Western envoys changed the entire complexion received by Mermal Stalin and of the problem and forced
the M. Molotov in the Kremlin and Indian Government 10 take aine draslic measures, the Premier wa days since the first approach
said.--Reuter,
Freedom Of News
The
was made to M. Zorin; a Deputy Foreigni Minister. The whole negotiations have been shrouded *n secrecy.
In London, It was believed in well informed quarters to day that the meeting between the Soviet Foreign Minister and the Western envoys In Moscow * may well prove decisivo, in
finding peaceful solution of the Berlin crisis.
cut since the blockade of the capital, began seven wooks ago, is not expected "to be usable. within a short time although repairs are going on as usual," the Soviet Zone railway director declared tonight.
The director, Herr Wilhelm { Besener, denied that a Russian order to prepare coal transports on the line running from Ber- in to Helmstedt had been re- reived.
the
Colonel William Babcock, Geneva, August 0.
Deputy American Eastern
Commandant and Western delegates to the United Nations that the session would be a mat-the Russians had ordered the Diplomatic observers assumed in Berlin, said earlier today that "Economic and Social Council ter of hard bargaining on the railway authorities to be ready, today passed unanimously the Joint issues of the Berlin block-"at a moment's notice," to move first Article of an International ade and curruncy war. Both cant trains on the line. Convention to guarantee free-sides are expected to slate the dom to gather and news.
transmit
furthest
concersions their Gov- ernments were prepared to make. an agreement is not reached
wrote Reuter
The Article, the first of 14 in at this stage, the proposed Convention, defined diplomatic correspondent, it is the meaning of the phrase "In- thought the only course left for formation (ur news) agency".
the Western envoys would be ence again to see Marshal
The next step, it is thali
The Soviet delegate, M. Pavlov, said last week that the Convention must either be the publication of as drawn up in March and April an agreed Big Four announce by 58-nation Conference on ment on the Moscow exchanges freedom of information was "not and a conference on Germany or worth the paper it was printedelse a final appen to Marshal
Stalin.
on"
It is understood that he will Marshal Prediction introduce extensive amendments
to the operative Articles of the Convention-Reuter.
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And casting aside all Idea- logical factors. It is a fact that the Western powers are trying just as hard to recreate a Ger- many that will be on their elde As the Rusalans are trying to create Communist Germany that will be to the Soviet camp. Should she fall into the Soviet orbit, there would be little left On the other hand, if Germany Calls completely under the con- trol of the west, it would be a major defeat for "democracy" Russian style.
Complicating this always is the fact that France has an entirely different view about Germany than the other members of the Western alliance. As the victim of three invasions by Germany, France France wants a
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Running for help, they brought passer-by who cut down the body, which had been stripped except for an undershirt.
Each of Lancashire's three child murders during the past six months has been committed white the moon wes new.
Eleven-year-old Quentin Smith was stabbed at Farn- worth by a killer who tore off most of his clothing.
Little June Devaney, 3, was kidnapped from her bed in a Associated Press, Blackburn hospital and killed. -
BURMESE SENTENCE ON
BRITISH OFFICER
Rangoon, August 9. under the Marshell Plon which A special magistrate's court | anticipates that Germany will at Insein today sentenced a become the cornerstone of West British subject, Captain D, ern European recovery although Vivian, to five years' "rigorous with, adequate safeguards against imprisonment" for violation of her rearmament.-United Press. the arms act
ATOMIC ENERGY
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Captain Vivian, who was charge of the British Army Ord- nance Depot at Rangoon, was ar rested in June last year and; charged with complicity in the disposal of arms.
New Delhi, August 0. The Indian Government today Earlier today, Dr.
up n three-man Atomic
Captain Vivian claimed at the Stumm, the Western sector police Energy Commission to conduct a hearing on April 21 that under chiet, had ordered the release of useful minerals and to promote he should be tried by a British Burvey of Indian territories for the Anglo-Burmese Agreement German policemen arrested at the research. The Commission, work-court. German news agency, DENA, re- of the Prime Minister, Pandit Young, Royal Electrical and Me- orders of Colonel Murkgurt, the ing directly under the guidance Earlier in April - Major CI: ported. The arrested men were Nehru, will take steps to protect chanical Engineers, was acquitted then supporting Dr. Stumm who India's interests in Ilved in the Soviet sector of the with
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atornic energy, the an- supply arms to Burmese.-Reu- nouncement said.-Reuter.
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