THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1048.
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10th Kremlin Meeting Lords Spiritual Vs. Apprentices
Believed A Showdown The
London, September 14.
Something like a showdown between the Western Powers and the Soviet Union is believed here to have taken place in the Krom- lin tonight.
The envoys of the United States, Britain, France,
who called on M. Molotov, are reliably stated here to be seeking a final clarification of the position with regard to the four-power negotia- tions for a settlement of the Berlin crisis. Tonight's mooting with M. Molotov was the tenth since the talks began on July 31 and was the shortest the envoys have ever had at the Kremlin,
I followed the Jongest period, Berlin, seemed to be that either of conferences by the three tonight's meeting should produce ravays together, three times really trim basis for settlement or otime methods of yesterday and one today imme-in Blu diately before they went to the dealing with the Soviet blackade
should be tried,
Kremlin.
The faces of all three
were wreathed in stiles no they stepped out of their cars into the hall of the British Embassy. They looked more cheerful than they had after
any previous Kremlin inceting.
appeared
sorders that seemed enlculated la overthrow the non-Communist majority in Berlin's elected City Government.
Returning to the Kremlin tonight the Western eifvoys are believed to have asked the Soviet authori- ties for an unmistakable clarifica tinn of the directive to the MI tary Governors, or it new direc tive on which agreement might be hased.
Borlin Riots
It was thought that the United French re States, fritish and presentatives also raised the ques- tion of the Berlin disturbances, Single Currency
which are being watched in the The position
to be West with concern and which, to abs. After lung and diffent de say the least, are not regarded as
Moscow the four conducive to a calm donations in
settlement owers are expected. to instruct of the Berlin dispute, e Military Governors in Ber-
However, it is believed that the nt Western [ime to produce an arrangement
Powers do not wish to No Comment
for tour power control of a shorterisk losing a long-term agreement curreny that is the currency of on Germany by making too much General Bedell Smith was the the Soviet Zone of Germany--te of the Berlin disturbances
Emerrelate Berlin
now. They feel that if the semin~ bassy. Reportera asked him if The currency agreement is sup-blance of tour-power collabora there would be further Kiemlin posed to be the prelude to the tion meetings. He replied "No com- ting the Soviet blockade problem of disturbances might be ment" as he strode into the study against surface trade from Wes-solved on the spot. In any case, of the British Ambassadia, whose to Germany to Berlin,
they expected walls are lined with portraits of When the directives were draft-Union former Kings and Englant
first to enter
The Britisht
Queens
in restored In Berlin
the
tirat the Soviet would disclaim
respon-
of the Western Powers thought slutty for the disorders-Reuter.
they were so speethe that
nece
Mr. Roberts followed smiling. Military Governors might and forestalled reporters' en-fonly a week to work out the des
quiries by saying: "No corn-tails. ment." The French envoy then entered. He also and "No com mont." The
Intal post Krrinlin "R.
Irrenre then began.
An authoritative observer ST 2 Lock remarked: "We ought in! know after this."
It has appeared to the Wes Ler Powers that Marshal Sokolovsky. Soviet Commander in Berlin, has been either mis- interpreting the Moscow direc tiven or
in the or raising obstacles form of technical detalle.
the Cont Soviet Zone have been conducting a
of
In the meantime,
The mood of the Western diplomimits the nuts, their patience severely tried Berlin
by the discussions in Moscow and campaign
disturbances
Want Inquiry Into Russian Sentences
Berlin, September 14.
A special meeting of the three "Western" Democra- tic parties and the independent trade union, UGO, tonight passed a resolution calling for a public hoaring into the cases of the five Berlin- ers sentenced to 25 years hard labour by a Soviet military court for anti-Soviet action dur- ing last Thursday's demonstrations in the Bri- tish sectors.
The
the
Blackout Strike
Tokyo, September 15. Tokyo was blacked out for five minutes beginning from 3.00 p.m. Jast night as the Tokyo Chapter of the Electri- cal Industrial Workers' Union carried out its original plans for a nuisance strike.
Bailings and houses of the occupation forces were not affect- ed as were large onpanese factor- les. This is the first targe_senle blukeut auske In Tokyo since the
autgrin of 1946.
A similar live-mintile black- but was carried on in three Kyoto districts,
Meanwhile, the fiji Press re- ports thal the local, chapters of Himi and Amagasaki in Hyogo Prefecture are determined to go through with the initial stage of the strike plans,-Reuter.
FLOOD TOLL IN KYUSHU
Tokyo, September 15. The Jiji Press reports 118 per- sons dead and 143 missing as the resolution said: "We according to Soviet low but ac- latest casunity figures in the flood protest against
trial of cording to German law."
which swept the Sogo and these men having been held in Some As Nazis
Nagasaki Prefectures in Kyushu camera and against their bɩing! The Chairman of the Liberal
on Sunday. refused legal aid. In particu- Democratie Party in Berlin, Herr
Two hundred and thirty-eight lar. we protest against the Cart Schwenkicke, described the Thouses were washed away, 290 severity of the sentences, whien sentences as "an set of violence destroyed, 24,000 houses damaged were similar to those imposed and a clear indication that the and 32,000 acres of farmland and
Soviet Union is not ready to look rice paddies flooded.-Neuter.
praceful compromise in the
by the Nazis on politient op de a ponents. Night must remain world."
right even for 1 defeate: Jiation."
The meeting was held in the Schoenberg town hall in the American sector and altended by
He acted: "Their methods are the same as those of the, Nazis. Only their colour is different.-- red instead of brown,"
Dr. Suhr said "it must be co-
ZOU WORKEES IMlekutes and Rup- teinbered that these sentences parlers of the democratic purtles. will Imperil the relations be- The Chairman of the City As-ween Germany and Russin sembly. Dr. Oil Suhr. address which
are forced by circum-
Ing the meeting, sald: "Who can stances to exist side by side.
these en charged were "Even a great victorious na-
say
that in fret guilty, An International on like Russia rust realise this. commission should be set up to The City Administration will enquire into the whole Affair. continue its efforts to secure a After all, they are Germans and revision of these sentences."-- if guilty should be sentenced not Reuter,
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President Truman, in a speech hare, told the story of Stalin and the Pope's divisions. Addressing the American As soolation for the Advancement of Balence fast night, Mr. Tru man wald: "I remember at Potsdam we got to discussing a matter in Eastern Poland, and it, was remarked by the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Mr. Winston Churchill, that the Pope would not be happy over the proposed arrangement.
"Generalissimo Stalin teared on the table and he pulled his moustache like that '(gesturing) and looked over at Mr. Churchill and anld: 'Me. Prima Minlater, how many divisions did you any the Pope has?'.”—Reuter.
DE GAULLE PROPOSES UNIQUE REFERENDUM
Paris, September 15.
“Ganara! Charles de Gaulle is going to poll the French people directly on whether they want general elections, his aides said last night.
This unique referendum of a nation will also be aimed at securing funds for de Gaulle's French Peoples' Party (AFP) It was explained.
The campaign will involve the selling of a 50-franc (94) sticker.
probably be
The buyers will asked to send these on a letter
one
uf
Said She Was Envoy's Daughter
Fight Over Tito
Prague, September 14.
'Twenty Yugoslav appren❤ tices have been arrested and others will be deported to Yugoslavia following a clash between Tito and anil-Tito apprentices-at the-Avla-Works at Cakovice, near Prague, the Czechoslovak News Agency re- ported tonight.
Eleven
anti-Tito apprenticea
were assaulted by a large crowd of Tito adherents, badly beaten up, and tortured, the agency seld. It added that the Yugoslav super- visor of the apprentices' hostel was said to have urged on the ringleaders.
several youths' hostels Com Inform supporters were attacked by other youths, excited by the propaganda of pro-Tito instruc- tors, the agency declared,
Differences Exist
The report on these events was after Professor Issued two days Zdenek Nejedly, Minister of Education, published an article differences existed saying that only between "some of the lead-
of ing circles"
Yugoslavia and other states.
There was no conflict between states or
or nations, he said, adding today by way of illustration:
Chicago, September 14. The Federa) Court
or on a post card to de Gaulle atdismissed a US$2,000,000 dam- his country retreat in Calambey Les Deux Eglises.
Andre Malraux,
de Gaulle's top advisers, will explain the details of the scheme at a press conference on Wednesday.
Matraux ia
expected to explais Just how de Gaulle will translate
the
"There
are still 3,000 Yugoslav appren- age suit by a Chicago woman tices with us."
agency Today's newn
repor! who alleged she was the illegi- timate daughter of Mr. Myron
said that
apprentices had C. Taylor, the
United States grouped themselves into an anti- discussed the Tito camp, which Envoy to the Vatican.
policy of
Marshat destructive The sult was brought by Mrs. Tilo and of a port of the Yugo Eunice Waltermau, 35, the wife stay
the sates of the stickers into supe of a factory worker, against Mr. by hommunist Party controlled
hett
port or non-support for his cam-Taylor and Mr. Joseph A. Ben-
dissolve paign to
These meidents the present
came, it wax of New York, described in understood, legislature and elect
on the eve of the new one. the bill na friend and adviser publication of an official
com- While de Gaulle was stop. of Mr. Taylor. ping up the pressure the
¡munique on a Yugoslav note to Mrs. Walterman said she would Czechoslovakia, Reuter. Premier, Henri Queuille sur appeal to the United States rir- vived his firal test In the cuit court. national assembly by a vote of 336 to 229.
new
The vale was on the cabinet's request for postponement of a Communist request for a debate on the Government's political make-up.
Ahead of Queuille is a severe test.
His cabinet is drawing up series of Annetal and economie measures expected to Involve
price increases in such items as Tobacco railway rutes and stamps
that will hit everybody.
rent is to go up in Parls Wednesday from 24 franes to 35 francs for two pounds.
The new measures will prob ably be given to the assembly on Friday
and debated on Sunday or Monday.
Labour unrest continued large- ly in the form of 24 hour warn- ing strikes. In these right-wing and Catholic
unlons showed tendency to work with Com-
the munist-led General Federation of Labour. The demands of ull three are roughly the
the some-11 increase in the
the monthly mini- mum wage from 10,900 francs to 13,500 fronts (£8 to £11).
One such strike was called yesterday for the whole Lorraine ccal-mining area where an es timated 40,000 workers will be affected. The walkout is timed for Thursday.Assmelated Press.
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pre- Mrs. Taylor's lawyers viously stated that Mrs. Walter- man usaerted her paternity clum in an earlier sult which brought against her mother and Mr. Taylor for
declaratory Judgment in the United States Cabinet District Court in New York.
that
Manila, September 14. In the first of several expected changes, President Quirino's office today announced
That Judgment found "on con- the resignation of the Secretary. clusive evidence" Mrs. Walter- of Justice Mr. Roman Ozata, was man's claim was "utterly baseless accepted effective
today. further and untrue"
Ozats will be replaced by and
Mr. Mr. Taylor is not, and could not Supreme Court Justice Sabino have been, the father of the Padilla. an appointee of the late
Roxas plaintiff, never knew and never Presiden!
to the high had any relations whatsoever court. Mr. Ozata will be appoint- with
mother."'ed to the Supreme Court to n Reuter.
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