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THE-CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER. 21, 1948.
Strikers, Police Clash:
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FRENCH MINING TOWN IN VIRTUAL STATE OF SIEGE
Human Beacon For Plane
Most, October 20. Hundreds of Czech miners! formed a mass human bentoni ut an airfeld here to allow a plune to land at night withi blood plasma Bown in for n
Paris, October 19:
Twenty security guards ware injured and about an equal number of strikers wore hurt when strik- ing French miners clashed with troops and police, who carlier had occupied pithoads at Roche La Moliore, near St. Etienne. Eight strikers wore arrested:
The strikers hurled stones and lumps of iron at the soldiers and police while the latter replied by using the butts of their rifles. The battle lasted nearly an hour.
When the Government forces { "ammunition"--stones and jumpa worker infuvel in an Explosion. arrived at the Roche La Moof Won-day plied up In readiness
Thele Bekering pit lamps out Here coal mine. they fout for the battle,
A Baunily will informed source
lined the field's boundaries,
The inters and other workers 1,500 miners massed and wilt stated that sirlet orders had been
them. After are attached to the Stalin inc. ing for
B few tories which produce chemicals minutes' hesitation, the strikers and synthette petrol from eval left quietly, A bit of fune from an oven,
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the workers. Soon after, nou, however, the Mana was negtakary for an initiers uttarked with Jarger operation but none was available forem, Earlier reports said, the minara had improvised barricades from pit props, ready to resist police entry.
in this town.
One of the plant's pilot, took [off for a neighbouring, city and
obtamed the pluma, but when the With the font waters rising in unlot returned it was duck. The some trike-bound mines, the Korfeld was not equipped for Communist-led
Miners Union night landings. The miners and headquarters at Carmaux, 40 their cup-lamps were speedily; miles North East of Toulouse, mabilsed, Du plano made a safe earlker today called on pit miners landing, and the injured workman and their wives to bar the way was atved-Associated Press,
tu thr Government security squads sent to profeci volunteers al the pumps.
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St Etienne Is virtually la state of siege. It is estimated that early 10.000 troops fund serity police. are now
the
given to all troops and police' in
the mining areas not to use re-
arms,
Today, the 16th day of the strike, found many towns in the North completely without elec- tricity and in some the waler supply was also cut.
The Poris evening paper, France Seir, reported thot ik. many areas the strikers and of- fered to keep the safely services going in mine. threntene by flooding and that in some the local Communist leaders had al- towed them to do su
While police nerupled
more witheads in the Loire Department, the Ministry of the interior re- ported that safety services in the Pas de Calais coalfeld were not assured.
She Made Too Bloody Much
Shanghai, October, 20. Mrs. Kwon Tal-zo was. charged by a Shanghai pro. curate court today with soll- Ing blood at a profit.
The
woman atalmed her business as well as her profit was legitimate. The police
didn't mind the business 20 much but they didn't ap prove, of the profit.
have sold
She is alleged to 300 so. of donated blood' to the fourth municipal hospital. She charged the hospital 30 gold yuan and gave the donor only 10 yuan.Associated Prest.
Alarming State In West Java
Batavia, October. "19.
A battalion of crack Indo- nesian Republican troops cross- ed the truce line Into Dutch- held West Java during Sep- tember and had since clashed. five times with Dutch forces.
This announcement, in a Dutch
communique, Army
coincided Mines Endangered
with independent reports that sub- versive activities were "increasing There was immediate danger alarmingly" in West Java's rich In four mines, into which was rubber and tes plantations, #1- ter had begun to flow.
British property, Armed police patrol the town
cluding The Minister of the Interior, stay
and night. Citizens
AFM. Jules Moch, conferred with
The troops were sald to be of frequently atoppod and
Division, which asked
the Siliwangi the Prefecla from the Birik for Identification papers. All
evacuated West Java February 1 bound-coalfields on the worsen under the agreement signed on public meetings have been
ing situation since the Miners board the American, ship, Ren- prohibited.
DONEST,
More Trouble
The police headquarters at St. Etienne expect more, serious trgu ble when the troops are to take
3.15 pm, News, Weather Rehurt and over the two most, important-cpai wines in the district at Courlot and Chatelus
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The Dutch communique said the Indonesians suffered tosses
In
Clarence Day's
Union's decision last night to con- votr tinue
indefinitely the withdrawal
of safety, teams at first limited to 24 hours.
or
A spokesman of the Ministry mcusures to end the activities of denfed that there were any Negro the remnants of the battalion. troops
tank units
Dutch Army stato. Another In the At the strikers'. headquarters, Northern coalfields-the
ment sald
that Republican reason It was being said that the miners
Communist-led forces fighting the Communist given by the intended to defend their pickets Union for its decision.
in Central Java: had there with all their might*.**
deadlock Three other mines were taken Northern area, the
continued in the main strike over by the police early today centre, but in, the Easter coal- Surakarta Nine or ten pitheads are still onelda nearly 10,000 miners-40 Mudian. former. Communist cupied by the strikers.
The
Quer three amait towns
Gouth of Burakarta.
not far from
The decupation of the Roche per cent of the total-were back stronghold recently recaptured by La Malfere pithead by
at work today. The area is pre- Republican Government troops.
mirale the Phet, Parl Bentir. forces was carried, buskelminantly, Catholic-Anoler.
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town started howling, warning the miners to come and strengthen' the pickets at the pilhends,
When the Government. forces arrived at the pitiendo. they found a sulten, angry crowd of miners "ready to do battle," but who, after ☐ moment's hesitation, dispersed,
Women Communist supporters inined the pickels at the pithends today prior to the expected ar rival of the troops. Stocks of
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