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FRENCH GOVT MAY USE TROOPS IN COALFIELDS
Camiguin Villagers Flee Again
Manila, October 3.
Villagers on tiny Cumiguin Island fled for the second time -within a month when heavy rains caused landslides down Mount
Paris, October 7,
The French Government is prepared to use troops, if necessary, to requisition labour and maintain the 13 large vital coke ovens in the strike-bound northern coalfields,
The fires have already been drawn in six ovens and. the furnaces partially banked in the other seven. If they are allowed to go cold, some in- dustries using gas would be paralysed for months, local engineers reported.
Fl
The French Cabinet, Hibokhibolt slopes special meeting strew with lava volcanic ruck, pared the
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER §, 1948.
де the northern enke ovens opera. tonight, pre- Ung at all costs.
Developments
Be strike necessary measures
tonight included The altuation
ot the A report from Southern Philip for the use of troops for pines where Hihakhibok erupted maintenance of the coke oven taking over by strikers
Chalons-sur-Marne railway in September Auld landslides part-as the four-day-old strike
tab Paris-Stras station, on the ially burted a village with vul 320,000 miners was being in-bou line: canle conglomerate. No craniiles creasingly felt in the north. textlie workers were reported, however,
were al Earlier, observers slated that where some rocks pushed from the volcano's ready without gas for lighting crater hail formed a towering but for cooking. shaky wall on Hibokhibok moun- tainside. They Bjel landslides could ensity occur from the 1,100 ert high elr which deve Joped,
towns
A najamvel eut in supplies was possible to preserve the existin end stocks,
The strike situation generally worsened today, The num
of I Red strikers throughout the country deserblad was estimated tonight at nearly down by the 500,000 with us yet no sign
Dr. Arsenia Tiongson, A Cross administrator,
landstides washed
were
were
New Life For Plutarch
New York, Databar 7.
The tallan Consul-Geň. eral hero told the pollca to day that six priceless italian- manuscripts, including Plut arch's "Lives" and a work of Cicero's,
atolen which were recently from
from a library near Trieste, ware believed to be In the United States.
The police have broadcast 13:8ute alarm and notified the Federal Bureau of in. vestigation,-United Press,
US AIR FORCE NEEDS
MODERN CARGO PLANES
Washington, October 7,
It was learned today that the US Air Forco is propar- ing to ask the next Congress for a heavy up- propriation to bagin buying a fleet of mådern cargo 'planes.
It is counting heavilly on the lessons of the Berlin
airlift to put across its story.
"Operation Vittles" is exact- air transportation might be call- ******** | ing a large tall from the total fed on to do and could do sucesss- military transport capacity and fully on a much larger scale in
decided the Air Force
that way
At the same time, the "Vitties" 11 cannot Jonger delay
operation is wearing out planes placing and expanding its pre-for which repincements are get- sent fleet comprising mainly of World War 1 planes.
American Planes Fired On
Manila, October 7, Amerlena L--5 'laison
control mosquito
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There are about 140 C-54% operating In Germany with aaveral more en route to or from maintenance shops in the United Staton. These were fur- niched by the Military Ar
ting rearce, and necessarily It has large share of our total air- It was also learned that negotia- lift concentrated in an exposed tions are in progress to buy 30 position should the cold war turn cr mere DC-4 transports from hot. strike
5,00 planes at Troyes, 16 sprayag mis ton for the Philip commercial airlines for the Ber- I ordered 28 miles from Paris; strikes in Nice pine and United States Govern-in shuttle airlift
C-124s which will curry 25 tons Bordeaux and La Rochelle parents wire fred upon this mor tial stoppages in aviation anding white flying low over the and 90 C-19 troop carriers of a Marikina foothills northeast of total planned procurement of 2.-
727 planes of all types. Manila. other factories in the south.
Confirmation of the threat of
The Air Secretary, Mr. W. Eighteenth Wing Headquarters the strike sprending to callway!
Stuart Symington, answers critles inanced are plane wis damag- and shipping wid
that the best transports in the Troop carriers also supplied meeting this morning attended and the pilot injured but he by General George Revers, the was able to make an ergency world are in good unless combat ve C-82 flying boxears to carry Air Force control the air and the heavy equipment into Berlin. A inding.Associated Press,
urgently needed
bombers and [the list. count, MAT's globa fighters therefore gol the highest operations were reduced by more priority this year,
than 30 per cent and there is
pro The Air Force believes that the lably not much more reduction
was seert
the
_transport and troop carrier
groups.
STOP LIGHT FOR MCARS, AEROPLANES Berlin airlift demonstrated what possible.-United Press.
Army Chief of. Staff, M. Achille Villey, the "Super Prefect" of the strike bound Orpartments,
of with
directors hinting Dockers
at
nationalised ilmex, And jolning the general Atrike
the Ministry of movement and 80 per
Andre Marie, cent of the northern railway workern
Industry and Commerce
were already Said to be out,
Side by sine with Ur Govern Anchorage, Alaska, October f.
It is the only one in Alaska although the London-Paris line Dien's industrial
Jaroblem wine still operating.
present ananelul situation. Franend maybe in the world-a stop
fight
keep airplanes and
rains, Be said residents of four lany ever towird, tregoflation,
affected Agoho, burrio Koguitan, Bogong and Yumbing. evacuated to Misband, Cami
town. guin's principal
roughly five miles from the volcano. The people of adjoining villages also left their homes in fear of on aralauche-Associated Press.
RAF Relief Fund Closed
London, October 1.
A relief sund set up for the
is the
Calioul | intersection.
M. Victor Buguel, the fineralites in exentation on September automobile from tangling at an Secretary
the Communist 30 wa 10,000 hor
million the second Miners' Union, ballenged the £1,052 {tiovernment's right how-Highest mu record,
the Bank af Franco majmuneed throy, beat the mers By using troops
It was an
of 38,000 Thereпse or requsitioning Inbour."
nullum on the totul a week ear- Her, Reuter,
Determined
While the Grevmmen; Jpg pots yet anotanzed the special menj sures it intends to take to meet
survivors of 50 allied armen who the situation, circles close to fir
*tempthing were shot after
Pritust Manister, M. Henri escape in March 1944 from o German prison campi
The French has beenelle, sard that closed the Alt Ministry reported Cabinet was determined to keep last night
ed
The £11,011. 85. was rais- GREEK WARSHIPS
by
sale Dn antedion
among
fellow offers left in the ensip
of the personal effect, and cluth
ing of the
rainer £0.482
adren,
The
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This Greek
IN ACTION
Athens, Oelober 7, warships weni Inte
times the action today in support of Gov-
value of the articles the Air Minernment Ivaops who repulsed a
Istry said. Oferrs not
any of the articles scription lists for
£4,592 58.
on the securing guerla attack signed sub-Macedonian villages
eastern
of Stavros
additionaljad Asprovalta. Greek general
statt communique reported,
All but one of the fund's bene- fictories have been traced, the Ministry sand, and £28 has been turned over to the RAF bene- volent fund to be given to the widow of Flying Officer J, Monds- -chein of the Polish Air Force it she is traced.-Associated Press.
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