THE CHINA' MAIL,' MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1940.
RUSSIA REPLIES TO LAST WISH COMINFORM DELEGATE
3-POWER BERLIN NOTE
London, September 25.
The British, American and French Foreign Minis- ̈
tors will moat in Paris tomorrow to discuss the now Soviet note on the Berlin crisis handed in at Paris and London this evening.
The Soviet note was in reply to one from the West- ern Allies delivered three days ago to the So- viet Ambassadors in London, Washington and Paris.
the three
Western Foreign Ministers Purin
ere delivered to the So- The Foreign Office" spokes- States *man-announced that the Soviet viet Government after personal
Government today replied to consultation between the latest note from the West- ern powers on the Berlin crisis.
This latest move of the Western The note, it is understood, was
powers was believed to have con- ........ Immediately forwarded in the inued an enquiry by to whether Forelut Secretary Me Te the Soviet Government was will- Beyin. in Paris,
Ing to resume the negotiations on the basis of the four-power direc
ive given to the four 'Governors in Berlin,
spokestion The Fareigo-Offer refused to make any comment in the contents of the Sovjet note.
from! 1 Wednesday, notes Brit, France and the Vailed
SISTERS GAOLED AS SPIES
Soviet Counter
Mily
The three Western Govern- ments believe that the recent discussions in Berlin of the Mill- tary Governors' conference broke i down because the Soviet repre sentative, Marshal Vassily Soko lovsky, clevinled from the agrééd instructions h several respects,
Kremlin fast month, the whole question of the Berlin blockade may be brought before the Se surity Council,
discussions
COLONEL Chang Ya-min, former chief of the Shanghai Garrison, Economic Affairs Section, about toʻdrink one of two bowls of Chiese wine, which he asked for, before he faced Klangwan execution the firing aquad on September 21 ground He was convicted on charges of corruption by utilis "Inig hils"position to manipolkļa "the-ambnetary:"blackkumaréretbe
AP Photo.
Burma Communist Leader Arrested
Rangoon, September 25.
The Burmese Government tonight announced the arrest of Mya Han, Secretary General of a new "Union of Burma Communist Party,” formad by U Ko Ko Gyi, a former Minister.
He also
and
over
the
Freedom. League.
A Government communioną to-
were reported to be heavy.
**ne
of British
AT LARGE IN JOHORE
Singapore, September 25. The security forces in Joharo, cleaning up the Com- munist insurrection in Malaya, had found evi; dence suggesting the presence of someone in Johore who had recently attended a Com- inform conference in Eastern Europe, Major Gondral D. Dunlop, Goneral Officer Com- manding, Singapore and Johore, said today in d'written statement at a Kuala Lumpur press conference.
General Dunlop fald his and British regiments, Attach- forces had found a hut ined to them are Dyak scouts and which there were Malayan Chinese and Males interpreters, Communist and Russian flags
as
well as currency from Yugoslavia. Iraq and India.
"It seems possible that the late owner had attended a recent Cominform conterence and - turned, by
ir General Dunlop Falleged.
Output Maintained
In another hut, he added; the security forces found a
Com- mumist pamphlet published_ap- parently only last month in Eng- find entitled: "Looking Forward." Mr. C. R. Bow itt, acting Chief Secretary of the Malayan Federn- tion, told the
conference the press that Malayan industrial output hind been maintained despite the terrorist activity. The produc- tion of rubber had been affected anly negligibly. The slight drop last month was enly seasonal,
Police today killed two Chinese terrorists in the Ipuh area, in- cluding Cher Fuok, leader of a "killer" squad" operating village near Iph.-Router.
WESTERN
UNION DEFENCE PROGRESS
Washington, September 25. The latest information in diplomatic circles here is that a broad measure of success has been achieved in London by In Negri Sembilan today, Chithe Western Union Five-Nation nese terrorists shot dead two Defence Committee and by the Chinese detectives sitting in
body a ambassadorial
tackling coffee shop.
the political aspects of the pro- blem.
In diplomatic quartere hare, it has been forecast that unicas the Soviet Government appears willing to endorse the directive Prague, September 25.
to the Military Governors Anna and Margarets Cibul-
Ko Ko Gyi has formed, eyewitness, who described the worked out by the representa- kova, two sisters, were today
tives of the four powers at the the party since he went "under-clast as the "Liggst yet" in the
In Perak, 100 surgents twice sentenced to 18 years' and 10
ground" after resigning as Bungoon area.
attacked a villigs in the Sunge! years' imprisonment, respec-
Important progress is claimed Minister of Commerce tively. by a Prague court,
Insurgents, he said, were snip-Siput area near Ipoh and burnt
One In the drafting of plans for joint down the police station. Supply in July, which convicted them of espion-
Ting from behind trees and from Malay constable was killed and action in Germany for mutual de signed from the chairmanship ree branches at the Government | age on behalf of the American
It was also belog suggested in of the Socialist Party, one of forces who were trying to dis-another seriously wounded before fence and for the sharing of bases
and other facilities. counter-intelligence service.
London tonight that the Soviet (the main parties in the Gov-lodge them with hand grenades. the attackers were driven oft.
counter this ernment Anti-Fascist People's Cusualties among the insurgents "Force Ferrets"
Not yet near a final decision, Leo Vinsuk got a 15 years' sen-Government might
possibility by proposing
however, is the manner and ex- tence on the same charges, the
of
ald to tent American mediate
Special jungle squads known as Western European military alli- first. party Czechoslovak news agency report whole field of the German pro- night anounced that Burmese evacuees from the British-owned "Force Ferrets" are attacking
blem by
by the Counell of Forcik" troops, with neval and air sup-Mowchi mines in Karenni State, guerklas in their jungle hideouts,ance. The chief recipient of such Ministers, The girls' mother was sent to
belleved The Soviet note was
from the between Rangoon and Mandalay, an Army statement announced aid, it is argued, would be France. Kuol for six months for falling
lime taken gents a number of villages arrived in Kangoon today. Reu- today. They are formed of men Some reports have put her imme- of the Malay Regiment, Gurkhas diate needs for equipment at 10 to report the case to the author to be long, from the
arinoured divisions and 300 jet to translate it. Observers thought
The communique also reported
Aghters, this indicated, like the coller mopping-up operations in the Sovlet reply to the Western nolc Bassein district of the Irrawaddy given to the Soviet Foreign Detta. Gunfire Was heard In of the Minister to Moscow by the three Fangoun early today from across Western envuys, it was neither the river as the Furmese Navy positive nor a negative rejoinder frigate, Mayu, red on the in- to the three questions of principle surgents near Spram, a big Bri- have arrested an alleged apy of which the Western powers were tish-owned oil refinery. the American counter-intelligence trying to clarify,
cd.
ties.
+
people
Three other
received PLA prison terms ranging from four to live years, while two
defendants were acquitted
Secialty Police
service Bamed
Bohemia Iss
Joseph
Koch,
stated here to have been involved
In a plot to blow up the Czech stoval Parlament.
Next Stop
If this deduction is correct, the three Foreign Ministers in Paris Koch was alleged to have been [are expected to deelde to take instructed to prepare a bomb at the problem to the United Nations tack on the Parliament building-probably to the Security Coun- while all members and Ministers jell were present, by two
Ameriena Sip William Strang, permanent counter-intelligence officers, named Assistant Under-Secretary at the Lloyd me Waser-Altinger, and by Foreign Office in charge of Cer a former Czech Solalist Member man affairs, and Me. Patrick Desan, hend of the German De- partment at the Foreign Offer.
of Parliament,
He was stated to have to come let the British Embassy in Paris to Czechslovakia in April to de- for a conference at the French Ilver large scaled envelope at Forelen Omlee on the Soviet reply du unnamed embassy,
to the three-power nude,
No inceting of the
Foreign
The arrest of a Czech subject in | Ministers hurl been fixed for in- ʼn Prague embresy and of others night, it was offeintly stated at was also announced.— Reuter, the British Embassy.-Reuter.
Vishinsky Ignored Basic Atom Issue
(By Michael Fry, Reuters Correspondent) Paris, September 25.
The Soviet Union's proposal to reduce the arma- ments of the "Big Five" by one-third was re- coived in United Nations circles today with what amounts to tolerant cynicism.
The
1
general reaction among inadequate without an effective most delegates as that Mr. control system, free of the veta, Andrei Vishinsky, Sovlet Deputy they said. Foreign Minister, showed in his Mr. Vishinsky, "apparently speech to the General Assembly ignoring" all the work done by Q. Curtain moderation compared the various Atomic Energy Com- with last year's Assembly, but mission bodies during the past that his speech contained nothing two years, proposed that all con-
new!
"His proposal to set up a "con- trol body" to check on disarma teent and the abolition of atomic
* weapons," according to many delegates, Ignored entirely the
bort. had recaptured
near Syrlam.
The insurgents in the Krea were reported to have two tugs a and two launches filte with small arms.
Biggest Yot
Well disciplined Burmese troops were today fighting the lasurgents, recording to a British
Trieste To Have Election
ter.
MARSHALL PLAN CRISIS HINTED
Washington, Soptember 25.
a
Such figures are unofficial but It is accepted that France would be the country which would pro- vide the hard core of ground man- power for the alliance and there- fore would naturally need larger quantities of equipment than the other nations.
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One difficulty that arises here❘ GREAT BRITAIN is the effect on French polley of
the changes that have taken place
in the discussions because of the several ministers of defence who have been in office
recent As-months.
Informed diplomatic quarters hore today forecast a crisis in the operation of the Marshall Plan paralleling the political crisis in Europe. Observers considered that|tion" and "Ex-War Victims unless there is a sudden im-sociation."
The meeting of the defence provement in the European
"We ministers in One demonstrator said:
Paris next weele political situation many coun- wish to protest against the Ameri-foreshadows an important stage tries receiving Marshall Aid can colonisation of France."-in the development of the would inevitably divert a pro-Reuter. portion of the material and man-power needed for Hal recovery purposes to mill- tary ends. They said that this process is already taking place in Britain.
essen-
Such a diversion, they thought, would mean that the funds ort- finally appropriated
for Euro- pean ald would not now prove
Trieste. September 25. Trieste will have democratic elections as soon as electoral roils could be completed, it was announced here today. adequate for achieving a broad
The peace treaty provided for measure of vent very.
elections after the appointment
of a Governor but it is becoming
mereasingly clear that ns Gover.
nor will be appointed.
Military Aid
The European eris is regard-
The nunouncement added that ed by Eurpean shplomatie quar- the United Stales and British ers in Washington as demanding Governments have decided to an urgent speer-up in the plans "satisfy the population's demand for American mility assistance, This view hes been frequently {for demoerotle representation."
The right to vote will be given expressed by French oMelais. It to all Italian citizens who were also understood to have been such when the Free Territory mentioned to the State Depart- was born on September 18, 1947, ment here by the Chairman of the Western Talon, Commission, and who are permanent residents Gladwyn Jebb, during his recent of Trieste, the announcement visit here. said.-Uunted Press,
PAKISTAN SOLDIERS
Some observers here feel that the critical militery position in Western Europe and the harm it could do to the Marshall Plan muke a combining of the military and economie nld the only logical solution.
TO RETURN
Batavia, September 25.
It is conceded that à full crisis The Indoncalan Republican Government has agreed to a re- might take some months to de-
velop.
trol work should be done "with-quest by the Government of in the framework of the Security Pakistan for the return home of Council,"
250 Pakistan zoldiers of the Bri tish Army still in the Republic, the Republienn Radio at Jogin-
karta reported today.
The Dutch East Indies news
Other Points
in Paris. 200 demonstrators against the Marshall Plan stood to attention and sang the Mar- sellate in the Place d'Opera when police stopped their pro- cession and on its way to the French Ministry of Finance.
baste issue, which has been tho This would mean, according to cause of contloved deadlock in experts, that If the control body agency, Anela, sald that Pakis- the United Nations for the last wished to inspect any atomle pro- | tan's request was made through two years.
duction activity anywhere, any the British Consul-General in More police squads arrived and
the marchers of the Big Five would have the Batavia. The arrival of a Pakis- escorted power to veto such inspection in tan representative, to discuss the Ministry. Many of the demonstra- the Security Council.
banners with matter was being awaited, Aneta tors carried
words "Ex-Servicemen's Associa
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Propaganda Valua
The Soviet proposal, which Other points in Mr. Vishin-reported.-Reuter. most delegates generally regard-sky's speech noted by various ed as primarily of "propaganda delegations were:
valyje," seeks to put the control (1) He had no word of praiso of Frmaments and atomic energy for any activities of the United under the Jurisdiction of the Nations in the lost two years. Security Council, in which each (2) His attack on the "war- of the Big Powers has veto. mongers" in Britain and America This is precisely the point, as was merely a shadow of Mr. many delegates reticed, on which Molatov's charges at the last As- the Atomic Energy. Commission sembly.
more
„and the Compussion for Conven- (3) His speech, while
tional Armaments, arrived at a[moderate than expected, did not completo dead end in the last 12 indicate any sign of conciliation months,
on the part of the Soviet Gov-: In Americna delegation circles, ernment. surprise was expressed that Mr. Altogether, the Soviet Governi- Vishinsky bused his entire case mont's declaration at this Assom- about atomle energy control on bly was regarded in many dele- what one United States spokes- gations as of minor importance man qualified.. misinformation policy, because it gave no hint Belentists at many nations, to the delegates of the attitude working for over two years on which, the Soviet delegation will the problem, had proved con- adopt In the day-to-day work of clusively that a mere prohibition the United Nations in the next
of atomic weapons was totally two months,-ftenter,::
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