THE LAST APPROACH Seventh Talk With Molotov Western Envoys Conference
Moscow, August 21.
The three Western onvoys, after meeting together in the British Embassy this afternoon, tonight asked the Soviot Foreign Minister for another interview-the seventh,
A decision on when the meeting will be held will depend on M. Molotov, For this reason, the Western, representatives are planning to keep in the very closest touch with their Embassies tomorrow and are not going for from the capi- tal. The Western envoys' 60-minutes conference this afternoon was believed intended to settle the forms of their final approach to M. Molotov, following receipt of new instructions from their Governments.
Moscow
The Paper's If there should be a meeting! with M. Molotov tomorrow, pondent. F. Cohen,
.
Cortex-
Too Big
Profits
Detroit, August 21. Walter P. Reuther, President of the CIO United Auto Workers, today accused large automobile manufacturera of profit-gouging, and gambling. with the country's economic horlth.
In a statement, Reuther at- tacked the manufacturers for increasing auto prices อาศ trying to "put, the blame on Jabour." He said the profits received from price Increases in, the lant two and A half nionths are -four times the cost of the 1948 wage prices. --United Press.
BRITONS READY TO EVACUATE
New Delhi, August 21. Brillsh, American, Australion said if the and Canading residents In Ily- this would be the envoys' first Western Powers wish to remainderabad will be evacunted by air Sunday meeting in the Kremlin. Berlin "hey must return to
if an emergency arises, according to the Statesman's speclat corres- Observers here still think that
pondent.
| Dise
the next beeling will be the lastPort of
with M. Molotov, probably fol-
the Potsdam ac-
By doing so, he wrote "they
yan blustering, the justice of the was later learned authorita-Soviet position,"
lowed by an audience with Mac & would be remitting, after their i 1yderabad City as far as possible
shal Stálin,
tively that there would definitely
They are advised to collect in
whence they would be evacunted to. Miętras. British Airways' Yorks, normally
mm the United
Berlin Rache to day dented hot hea meeling is the Kremlying the report, which sald Kingdom run, would be diverted that "sports from Moscow in. sicale the Kremlin negotiations
tonight.
In Paris French Foreign with the Western Power envoys Office sources predicted today will be heuken off." the four power Moscow talks will end on Sunday with an- other meeting of the Western diplomats and Prime Minister Stalin.
without ex-
Ruhr Issue
11 sat that the only report it had WIH Benn the Russian- German News Agency. ADN, These sources,
which said that Friday's planned plaining what results they ex- pect, said the negaliations moling between
"falled to "were never aimed
regresentative at taking West
the east and
to evacuate the 300 to 400 re- siteni, Associated Press.
PANAMA CONSUL IN H.K.
Canton, August 22. Mr. E. L Carrera, Panema Consul in Canton, has been op- polated by the President of the Bepublic of Panama as Consul in Hong Kong. Mr. Carrera takes up
up directly the overall problem materialise bremuse of difference his new appointment on August
of Germany."
No Discord
On the enutrary, Hiry said, the conversations were aimeri at "laying down the conditions 124 which four power negotiations could be undertaken on the
of opinion among the Wester
powers
The difference appeared to be over the Soviet demands for a voler in the Ruhr control, the ADN added,
The emborg United Press report quating Radio Bertin that the talks were failing was incorrect. That Vresim resulted from
25.-Reuter.
SHAN OF PERSIA IN FLORENCE
Tel
Avlu
THE CHINA MAIL; MONDAY, AUGUST 23, ·1048,
Three British soldiers (seen here), captured by the farmelite ermy when it over-ran Arab positions, are seen in a Jewish Prisoner-of-War Camp, a amali captured Arab village near They steadfastly centend that they were with Arabs unwillingly and "were not fighting." They are, (left to right) Corporal Bamuel Franks, of 25 Wallace Road, Rounda Green. Oldbury, near Birmingham; Private Jos Simpson, of Murray Street, Perth, Scotland and Private Raymond Higgs. of 20 Button Street. Astor, Birmingham. (AP. Photo).
Talks "Look Like" Breaking Down
London, August 21.
The influential Sunday newspaper Observer, com- menting on the Moscow negotiations, said that they looked like breaking down.
It seems, the paper added, that all the Russians are prepared to do is "to exchange one form of stranglehold on Berlin-the physical blockade of supplies for another, the arbitrary control of Berlin's money, finance and economy." This is not a possibic basia of, Dominions would encourage and ag cement. We can bent the support this policy. physical blockade through the The French, the paper sald, airlift, but we could do nothing might justly point out that the about monetary and economie "original impetus towards Wes- blockade."
tern Union is wearing down" and London, August 21.
Most probably, therefore, we that especially the Farts Organi- The Shah of Persia arrived in shall soon be back where we sation of European Economic Co- Florence by air this morning were. It seems that the Russians, operation needs a tonie badly- After a like ourselves, do not want a that the continuation of Marshall sightseeing tour of Florence, he showdown now, but think will leave for, Venice tomorrow, time is on their side.
that aid beyond this year depends on visible signa of progress towards -Reuter.
"They may still hope that win-Western Union. Reuter. ter will beat the airlift or the moral of Berlin, or that a pro- longed erisla wil wear the Allies down and break their
"Throughout the crisis, it has
unity,
probl be this assured, these Earbled reception and subsequrtil | Rome Radio reported,
informants added, that repara
tions and the Ruhr, were not dis-
cursed but only the main Berlins problems--the Russian blockade and currency reform. They sakl there was no discord among the American, British and1 French envoys,
In London, the British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Bevin, çonferred with the French Ambassador, Rene Mussig, today, presumably about the Moscow negotiailons.
There
erroneous translation of the bridenst,
-Reuter, Associated Press and United Press.
MRS. KOSENKINA OUT OF DANGER
•
Now York, August 21,
belt Hospital's critical list today, nine days after she leaped from the third floor of the Soviet Consulate.
an obvious efforts to estab-
sted and maintain a commun line of action among the three Western Allies. More precisely, it has been diMcult to reconcile
French views.
The French," the paper said, "arc stilt anxious lest the Ger- nion revival should outrun the construction of a united Western Europe, without which Germany would easily again become a dan- ger to her neighbours,”
The Foreign Office declined to Mrs. Oksana Kosenkina was removed from Roose-British and American policy with say what was discussed. was some speculation that differ- ences of views have arisen in Moscow between France and Bri- tain and the United States, United States Ambassador Lowis Douglas did not attend the Conference.
A Foreign Office spokesman Gaid Mr. Bevin will remain in London during the, week-end to be on hand for any development in Moscow,
Breakdown Report Danied
ther a new meeting has yet been
the
n the
The 52-year-old Russian of misrepresenting facts in his school teacher is "constantly reports on Mrs. Kosenkina and improving" a hospital bulletin her status in the Consulate build
ing. said.
The aruncement enne short- disclosed that it was ly after Sovjet Consul General Jacob Izmakin, expelled by the State Depurtinent for his part in the Kosenkin
case, had booked
Mrs. Kosenkina's physlalan, Dr. Grant P. Pannover, Inform. ed Lomakin that the Injured woman had requested that no, one from the Soviet Consulati be permitted to vielt hor. Dr. Pennaver relayed the re
Serious Doubts
Refering to imat week's French proposal for a propara- tory European Assembly, the Observer wald: "There are two serious doubts about the wis dom
A Western
of embly now.
European
The spokesman said the For-Sage on the liner Stockholm. eign Office does not know whe-he ship salla next Saturday for quest to the Consul in a letter
Gothenburg, Swedet.
is that such an Assembly spokesman for the line, the and other Consulate attuches had cut task and might, by fruitless detailing reason why Lomakin would have, at present, no clear scheduled In Moscow "between Swedish American, said the pass- ern Powers and one or the other age for Lomukin and his family been barred previously from the and academie discussion, do more!
representatives of the West-
hospital roomn. was reserved In Europe and that exalted personalities." "H.. We no
harm than good to the cause of referred to Prime Minister Stalin he had no way of determining Up to now the patient's criti-Western
was made recent- cul condition has nécessitated ab- here whether
unity. "The other 19 that we are re- and Foreign Minister Molotov,
ly or some time ago.
sulute rest," Dr. Pennover wrote. Juctant to commit ourselves to in Paris, the Communist Lemakin himself could not be "Under these circumstances the new, perhaps newspaper #Humanite said it is reached. But a Consulate spokes- advisability of visitors was up in the direction of a real We lem Irrevocable, steps dublous about the four-power man said the reservations were to her doctors. As the patient Im- Union. before the Impen.ting made about two months ago. It proves the choice of visitors is Commonwealth Conference gives was a routine return."
up to her"--Associated Press. us an actual assurance that the
talka in Moscow.
MASS MIGRATION
OF MOSLEMS
the
New Delhi, August 21. Indian despatches from front line in Kashmir said today that mass migration of Moslems from areas occupied by raiders to territory occupied by Iridian troops was taking place in Kash- mir and Jammu,
The report Bald that 3,000 Moslems from "enemy-hekt" Muzafarabad In Kashmir-Pakis- tan border reached the Indian Aighting line in Chakoth!, about 60 miles south of Sringogar, capital of Kashmir.—Reuter,
VETERAN JESUIT DEAD
New York, August 21. Brother Edward J. Bauerlein, 50, who did missionary work in the Philippines for the past 17 year, died at the Fordham Hos- pital here today.
He returned to the United States in 1946 after spending the War interned at Fort Santiago and Santo Tomas. Since then he had been stationed at the Jesult Re- treat House, Syracuse, New York-United Press.
WINANT ESTATE INʼU.K.
| London, August 21. John Winant, former American Ambassador to Britain, who kill- ed himself in his New Hampshire | home last November, left: pro- perty In England valued at £INI, "It was announced today GARSON
ciated Press.
Zot I. Chepurnykh, Vice-Con- sul, was asked who he thought would replace Lomakin. Che- purnych replied, "Oh, I think he Is going to stay." Lemakin was accused by the US Government
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