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AGREEMENT ON BLOCKADE? BRITISH VIEWS ON
Transport Committee Works On Details
Berlin Currency Still A Difficult Point
Berlin, September: 4.
Agreement in principle on the lifting the 77-day old blockade of Berlin, was believed to have been reached at today's fifth con. ference of the four Military Governors for Germany.
Typhoid Ship's Voyage
Durban. September 4
—Passengers vi the 9,584-100
The Governors discussed the Soviet blockade and.
inter-zonal trade in detail.
Gondral Clay said "Further meetings will be held" but added that it has not yet been decided who- ther they will meet un Sunday.
The key transport committee metà at. 10 in. tomorrow to continue working on details of. lifting the blockade.
Curling
It didste ferrulous, truftehlerf Italtaz Harr Toscan which to the remumatting was instruc- arrived here yesterday after a ted to reduce in writing, points voyage on which five
pouple of the unicament Tas arrigel ded of typhoid, were today al- tarapentents, fus Towed to land after being in-t
blockarte hoculated.
It is pursued that a meeting The The wall des Kejt uttler plasen - jun Sunday will depent in ,vation for, several weeks, «leport progress ivide by the Trompet
trend.
were Riven Comuuitter The new
„heeting time= blood tests and kejit on board. Crow mortia.
Governors will probably he called hilo spes Slány of the Treeana's 858 jav se sengers were delament in hospitalston when the fearsport muminit> at Zanzibar and Mombasa pa tep- ton flashes its report.
t
forin
postponed mieling Counell will now be Monday,
Originally elled for
of the held on
Autost
20, the session was' postponed when Cominunat demonstrators seized the City Holl, which is in the Sovart sector,
He Preferred To Write
Greenboro, N.C..
Ceptember 6. A 19-year-old youth, B.G. Wilson, today pleaded guilty to throwing the egg whien apattared My Henry Wallace (Third Party prealdentrai
"candidale) horn.
The Judge gave Wilson hle choice between a UB350 fino and writing 100 times the famous Voltaire quotation: "'t disagree with what you any but will defend to the death your right to may 16"
Wilson wrote.
United Preis.
United
BIG BATTLE IN BURMA
In the next few days, Geriaun
Rangoon, September 4. parties Ib the Wistern 5 sectors Heavy fighting between Bur- forces and will protest, to the three Western mese Government
33 of whom Counts venues: the "un-500 insurgents. lamrable conditions" in the Su- were killed at Tantabin, on the
upper reaches
Rangoon virt sector, it was learned here.
The protest, drawn up by the river, was reported in a Govern- Social Democratie Party andment communique issued here
tonight. supporteel by Christina. Demo crate and
uf
3 beral Democrats, The communique muid that the of situation. in the Tharrawaddy hom suspects and nurses fton! The Governing met for nearly stater) that over a per cent
| De non
- Communist elected area: between Rangoon and 1: Three hours for Dar-es-Salisats were rushed
Ju the Soviet Prome, the instrrgent-heki cily The four-power finance sub-Count ofledn Zanzibar yesterday to lank after
31 1200 miles North West of the committer also niet. today, sug-Sector have been dismissed the patients There,
that the question of a
Russian orders.
capital, was quiet, The Tesennin was first quaraas | Resting
The Social Democrat Mayor of
It gave ho thed a week nga oft Zwazibar, single currency for Berlin is stijl
Indicution of the when
Lichtenberg Borough resigned to-
which has day in protest against. Russian xitunilon at Prome,
by unofficial reported orders to dismiss four Social De-been inberat fiffelal-United Press sources to be in the hands of
pro-Government Karens-Reuter
a 20-year-oVI. Liverpool the major matter before the MI girl, Miss Dorven Fozard, died of try Governors.. typhoid on hard-Router.
Peron "Reform' Measure
'Burnos Aires, September 4.
Soviot Hint
The sub-committee is charg. and Reuter
ed with working out details for
the Introduction
of
a sing'e currency and the Soviet-llcena ed German news agency, AON, forecast
that the Western mark "will be withdrawn in Berlin on September
A spreial nefing of the trans- pori experts is being held to- morrow and ease rise to nine- diate rumours that the blockade
President Jajan. Peron signed 2 (would be lifted “al any moment."{ bill last night' providing for r
COMMUNISTS OCCUPY SIAMESE VILLAGE
In responsibt. marters, such alFive form of Argentina's 95-year-old | development was thought untike-| constitution to give permanence is, amer the Military Governors to the ideals of "Permisen.“
Will have to report back to Mos- Within, six months--possibly as ens, upon any agreements which early
as November the nation 107%
they Of their All eiret delegates do a coven-may reuch,
Min which will re-write the pre-
Nu netails of the netud refins intended bave yet been disclosed,
sub-committees
Fed
Bangkok, September 4.
hundred armed Communists occupied the Siam- ese village of Cherng Khao, near the Malayan frontier today, according to reports received horo.
61 "suspected persons" in the past 24 hours, Malaya in The Russians were reported to Alalayı
a substantial modification design-nationalised, and under
ed to reorientate and bring up to date our Magna Carta."
power control.
*City Council Meeting
BARODA
CLIMBS DOWN
-
BERLIN TALKS
London, September 4.
The second phase of the attempt to solve the Berlin crisis as a preliminary to fresh nogotiations bo- tween Russia and the, Western powers on the Gorman problem has not yet reached its crucial stage. Through the Boviet-controll- London and Parly, to say no- ed Berlin press, Moscow is hint thing of other expectant re- ing that the four Military, cipients of reparations, will not Governora, in trying. to reach be enslly persuaded that a.rever an agreement on putting into sal of policy, agreed laboriously, practice the directives they is likely to speed European re- received from Moscow for lift-covery, ing the blockade and Iritroduc- ing the Soviet mark as the solo Berlin currency, have run into a difference of Interpretation
It is not yet possible to say | whether the- difference—which' is rumoured to centre on the con- trol the Western powers would exercise over the issue of Soviet currency-la a difference of sub- stance or due to bargaining, to read the most Invourable sense into the Moscow directive.
On the answer to this question depends whether there is to be a temporary solution to the Berlin crisis followed by four-power talks on the whole German.prob-
Hem or not.
4
Berlin Foors
Officials of the Western powers appear convinced that the Moscow terms' were
110
Politically, the move is seen here and in Paris as a blunder In paychology and timing.--Rev- ter.
FUNERAL OF DR. BENES
Prague, Septeníber 4. Dr. Eduard Benes; who died yesterday. will be buried on Wednesday at his country home of Sezimova Usil after lying in state in Prague.. it was an- nounced tonight.
Befies made this wish short- fly before he diert
Memorial ceremonies will be clearly drafted that no major held In Prague's
Wenceslus differences of Interpretation is Square, possible unters one side or the Under the tuneral plans drawn up by a special committee; direct- other is seeking a rupture.
ed by the Cabinet. Dr. Benea's Non-Communist opinion in body will remain at Sezimovo Berlin fears that the introduction Unti until Mondny. of a single currency there, under He will e In state first in the whatever formal
hall of the Sezimovo safeguards, entrance would mean the virtual surrender! Üsti villa and then.in the Pengu of the Western powers.
Beyond the problem of Berlin, the political future of the two The funeral ceremony will be- halves of Germany looks omin- gin in the National Museun on us. The Western powers appear Wednesday when the body will to have entered the Moscow talks be faken to Sezimova Usti for on a somewhat paradoxical burial. Reuter. sumption.
the German capital by the War Memorial building from
In Moscow, they take the line |that political and economic deve-
lopments
in the west of Germany
in no way prejudiced the chances [of eventual conciliation of four-
power policy in Germany.
In Bonn and
Monday morning until midnigh! on Tuesday.
Zanzibar
Tension
to-
Nairobi, September b. Frankfurt, they
Police and seem to encourage the German ments arrived at Zanzibar
army reinforce- authorities to act as though the day to head off threatened dis- Moscow talks put no brake on
ordern arising from a gerierni setting up a provisional Govern-strike call. ment in Western Germany cap-i So far no Inekdents have been able of subsequent extension to reported on the Island, which is the whole of Germany.
a British protectorate.
U.S. Blunder
A four-power agreement,
Dock workers demanding high-
er wages called for all African workers throughout the protee- torate yesterday th strike in sup-
would appear observare, is port of their month-old stoppage. considered possible in Moscow
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The guerillas, who were re- crossed the However, the British and Am-ported to have sent constitution on the proposed ericans have offered in provide frontier to Siant from Malaya,
European and Chinese volun- rails from the Western Zunes to captured the village council of el-
on condition that all the conteers pitched in today to handle convert into a noble track the ders and cut communications
cassione come from the Western essential services and to prevent present single track railway line with the surrounding area.
powers.
any threat to the Island's food Ju a broadcast before the sign- From Berlin to Magdeburg nod
units of Siamese police Strong
In other words, the Western supply, United Press. President - Perunattacked Standal (North of Magdeburg), were rushed to the aren
powers are expected____ to / consent those who opposed toru. The according to Allied transport of= -in-Kuala_Lumpur-the-police-
to establishing conditions which pre-11 Corastitation. he salt, was cera quoted by the German news announced that they had detsin- suited to, the years when Argen-gency, DENA.
would lead directly to the setting lina was a country of shepherds
up of a Central-and undoubted- Barbda, September 4.
Ger- The Maharajah Gackwar ofty Communist-controlled ant a nation of 16,000,000 people, have agreed but to have reject-bringing to 4.617 the total hold
"The proposed retorius.
shed the Western delegation's con-uniker the emergedey regulations Baroda today gave full respon-man Government in Berlin.
dition that they should be inter-enforced early in the Commun-sible government to the people of the Marshall Plan Administra
Washington, on the initiative President said, "would represen
tourist uprising.
Winds of 65 to 85 miles an Hongkong-Bangkok: Every Tuesday & Saturday Fare: $340.- A Malay labourer was wound of Baroda at a special Durbar tor, Mr. Paul Hoffman, has ex-hour swirled about New Or- ed in one of three unsuccessful held here.
ploded a minor diplomatic bomb- leans today as a small, fast- Hongkong-Penang, via Bangkok: Every Tuesday Fare: 8589,-
asking shell by attacks fast night on European
Britain and moving hurricane swept up to- The ceremony tin mine employees at Tronoh,
was the cul- France to reconsider the repara-ward the city from the Gulf Hongkong-Singapore, via Bangkok: Every Tues. Fare: 3820.-, mination of recent discussions Dr. Otto Sul, Chairman of near Kampah, Perak State.
The police reparted from Negri dar Patel, Indian States Minis-
between the Maharajah and Sar-ons policy in Germany in the of Mexico.
Predicted course of the hurri- interests of European recovery. Berlin City Counell,Sembilan that right armed Chi-
This, with the announcement cane would take it along the nese last night seized 11 Malays ter. during which he had agreed that the Bizone tops the list of Western Mississippi coast which General Agents: South East Asia Trading Co., (Slani) Ltd. who were searching for two man to grant Baroda
recipients of the last-four-months, was battered severely by a hur- Government missing in the Mantin jungle dis-
and establish - Regency
bears out what has become apricane on September 19 last year. Counci 31. The since August
parent from the trict
-attitude
New Orleans city officials or rule when he was absent abroad. American officials in Paris that dered 2,700 persons to be moyed Booking Agenta: eleven escaped water.
Early last month, the Barpda Mr. Hoffman sees Western Ger- from a wartime housing project Guards Leave
Legislative Assembly apcused the
the pivot of European of light frame buildings A550- The Sarawak Dyak Association Maharajah of "misusing State
Jciated Press. today denied the Russian allegt funds" and demanded his abdica- tions that its membership still go tion. for head hunting and eating hu man flesh and that the "British resorted to the aid of cannibals in this fight against the libera-
people Lon of oppressed Malaya."
President Peron did not refer 10 uny reform which would al- low him to continue in office when his.... six-year....term expiręd in 1952-Reuter."
the nounced today that the much-
RUSSIA'S STOOGES
..
FORM BLOC
Berlin, September 4.
"The official Soviet newspaper in Berlin, Taegliche Rundschau, reported today that Borlin. Com- ́munists and members of other Soviet-sponsored parties have banded together in a "Berlin De- mocratic Bloc."
"
in
The statement- was Issued through Sir Anthony Brooke who said: "We are not head hunters.
Apart from the Communist-that, of a time when negotiations The Dyaks in Mulaya are part
of a disciplined territorial force led Socialist United Party, the are going vn in Moscow and who are voluntarily fighting the
Communists should Communist thugs.* bloc comprises the Soviet-Berlin.. the Sponsored
of
Keize the intiative to abolish de- the
battalions of British Two Guardamom left London this Liberal Democratic and Chris-mocracy in Berlin,"
afternoon to embark at South- ampton for Malaya.
groups
This action follows the same
tian Democratic parties, the line as the frequent interference pro-Communist "Free German of the Soviets in the past few They were the Second Bat- Trade Union Movement" and weeks in the self-administration talion of the Coldstream Guards. two representatives, unknown of the city, without consideration and the Second. Battalion of the
Western German political for the attempts of diplomats Scots Guards,
commanders represent and military
.in
circles, claiming to
the Social Democartic Party.
At meeting yesterday, the "Dernooikatic
elected
four-man committee charged
the
다
with opening negotiations with City Administration on emer- measures to counter
Kency
poverty in Berlin.
tion."--Reuter.
who will spend
to tonight aboard their troopship
reach unity on the Berlin ques-ant soil tomorrow, when the War Minister, Mr. Shinwell, will motor down from London to see them
Guards by bands, the Led marched through London streets
BANDITS ACTIVE IN KWANGTUNG
-
The Communiat Neues Deutsch- lund, commening this morning on the formation of the bloc, hinted that It might be developed into a rival of the present "City" Ad- ministration, which has an over-
Canton, September 4. An alert whelming anti-Communist ma-
was declared at jority
Tan-shul-kow and other points "With the constitution of the in Taishan county bordering on West, Democratie Blos, the workers of Kalping, county, to the Berlin have at least & body which wliere Communists and bandits represents their interests and are active outside of the town- protects their rights," the paper-lets, according to Chinese Press stated.
·
Familiar Pattern
reports.
It was reported the bandit bands were from the. South West,
-wistour. TM vation-39
He refuted the allegations and dew to New Delhi for talks with Sardar Patel.
The Maharajah, who wili continue to occupy the throne, further undertook to reimburse the Baroda State tremspry for money "taken
from State
funde."
Baroda is now in the Union of India and is the first Indian Princely State to be incorporated.
Reuter.
Don't
fail
today with their colours furled TO SEE THE
escort an
with fixed under bayonets. The Colonel of the
COMPLETE RANGE Coldstreams heeded his battalion OF оп horseback from Wellington Barracks, neur Buckingham
Falace.
The Third Battalion at the Grenadier Guards, who are also going to Malaya, are due to leave Liverpool September 9---- Reuter and United Press.
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Lanton, September 5. area near Kwangchowwin whence Hundreds of flm fans gathered The Spcial Democratic chair-they infiltrated North East along on the Thames Embankment early man of the City Assembly," Dr. the South bank of the West River. today to watch Myrna Loy con-
It was earlier Buhr, described the "Damera bandits, sacked.
reported that template drowning herself in the Hoylen county fait ebbing. Thames," She Was tic bloo" as "ulmply an attempt by the Boclafiat Unity Party seat on the East River, but there being filmed in a scene for a new to set up action committees to is do confirmation. Large num- picture The Case of
bers at, Government
Lady troops are Brooks," Powerful lights wore
Bolzo the administration of deployed along the lower reaches focussed on the steps at Cleopa
of the river to check the brigands | tra's. Needle, reinforced by an- ›The^) British-licensed - Tolograf | and Communists. - Associated | other battery `on Waterloo Bridge.
--Router.
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