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Commonwealth Agreed On Necessity For Building Up Defence
NATHANIEL GUBBINS
London, October 20. The Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference, mocting in soćret session here today, agreed that the "danger of war must be met by build- ing up of armed forces to deter any would-be aggressor."
OFFENDS A communique issued after today's plenary session
of the conference said:
"Dofonco and the maintenance of world peace wara
the subjects of discussion at the Prime Minis ters' meeting this morning and this afternoon.
London, October 20. Mihail Macovei, Rumanian Minister In London, enlied at The Foreign Office today tu protest against references 10 Madame Ana Pauker. Rus "The discussion was opened.||
Prime manian Foreign Minister, mude with surveys by the
enlumalst. Minister of the United King- by A humourous Nathaniel Gubbins, in the Sun-dom, the Minister of Defence day Express on October 10 and and the Chief of Air Staff. 17.
"In the discussion there Wste Agreement that the danger wir must be met by bulding up armed forces in order to deter muy would-be HEgressia, and that freedots must be anfeguard- ed, not only by military defen- sive mensies, but also by ad enseing
economic welfare,"
The defence meeting. from which no officin) Information of
emerged any kind
afterwards, attsmiled by an even large inuster than usual of British Government lenders.
The Minister left
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mentira on the subject at the Foreign Office, a Rumsolan Lego- then official saki tonight.
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to a letter to the Falltor, printed In the October 17 issue the Sunday Express, Mr. Paul Cognea, of the Rumanian Legation. 4x- thessed surprise. at finding Mr. Gubbins "despicable insulence" about Madnroe Pauker in the newspaper.
certala "I have often read In
da British papers that the press Rumania is not free." he wrote. "It is certainly not free to insult similar manner the British Foreign Secretary."-Router.
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setal
anti
Monty Was Thoro
The Chiefs of Staff. Includ. Ing Viscount Montgomery, ra tiring Chief of the Imperiat
CANADIAN SANCTUARY FOR WANTED MEN
Paris, October 21.
France is taking stops to secure the extradition from Canada of four man convicted in thair absence of collaboration with the Germans during the occupation.
CONGRESSMAN SEES A PLOT
The men had sought refuge i in Canada, and had been allow- ed to stay in spite of a depor- tation order.
General Staff and now Chate
of the Western man Parmanent Defence tion, were also present.
Union Organisa-
The General
LAW OF DEFAMATION:
Eats Noodles COMMITTEE PROPOSALS
་
Shanghal, October 21.
Major Ganbrat Chiang
Ching-kuo, qon of
China's
27.
President and economic boss of Shanghal, couldn't buy rice today so he had to buy
him sooratary noodiar, nounced. He said the noodles ware not of the best quality. The bulk of Shanghai's 5,000,000 Chinese resident who hadn't broken Chlang'a retroactive anti-hoarding lawa
have been eating noodles ever since his price freezing regulations stopped the flow of rice into, Shangnal-Aro- clated Presu.'
Reds Should Stand Aside
New York, October 20. The chief of Mr.
Georg
London, October 20.
Lord Porter's Committee on the Law of Defamation has issued a 52-page report as a' White Paper. The committee has been sitting-with the exception
of the war years-since April, 1939.
The Committee's main pro- in the nature of things, remain,” posals aro:
jenys the report.
the
"Defamatory statements trans-
1. Wide extension of categories of newspaper re-milled, over the radio in a blond- porta entitled to "qualified pri-cast teaching many millions are calculated to cause as much, it vilege."
nol, more, damage than written 2. Brondening of the Unsla
reports in a newspaper, however upon which the scope of defence Inrge the circulation. of justification and of fair com-
MW.
recommend that state ment should be placed;
ments by 3. Alterations in the laws alm-should be deemed published In radio transmission ed at providing reliet to "inad-writing by the person. vertent wrong-doors," while pre-corporation responsible
Arni or for the chatneter tecting the
of those whose reputation hns been at tacked,
broadcasting."---Reuter.
Turn: From Red -
To White
Every Prime Minister lank
While the Committee does, not In palet the debate and observers
recommend general nasimilation assumed tonight that the military Marshall's policy-planning stuff of the law of bel and slander, so defensive measures referred
as to make all sinnders action. said today that Russia and her able without proof communique re-
of special the officia!
satellite authority must some- damage, It lale to co-ordination of defence
considera all oral
Shanghai. Ochiber, 21. policy among all
all members of how be brought into collabora- statements broadcast over the Altogether 1,100 Soviet Rus- the Commonwealth.
tion with the United Nations or endin should be actionable with-clans in China have renounced The Commonwealth pin to wind up
Nations persuaded to "stand aside." Jout preof of special damage when Soviet citizenship in the past their historic Mr George F. Kennan, the defamation is unintentional.
few months, Gregory Bologo, London talks tomorrow-a day Secretary of State's top expert in
the It recommends that thens of the original schedule Soviet afairs, said that the tur- tiff's remedy should be restricted chairman of the Russian Emi- after an almost unbroken series rent confilet within the United to requiring defendant to publish grants Association, announced. of private meetings
12 Nations was between the majority an explanatius and unet
apology and of United Nations members "act-that if such explanation and Shanghai residents and the rest plenary sessions of debate.
Several Prim
tng in support of the Charter and apology is published no damages several months now local English- Ministers public statements have adjudged the group of governments who should be recoverable, this Conference, the first of its refure to abide by its provisions
Prime
in
kind, an outstanding success. or recognise the over-riding inter-
fb/
ihe
Committee Reports
Медг
of-
national obligation which the Charter constitutes."
Fair Comment
Another recommendation
that
defondant should
SPECTATORS FIGHT
FOR TRIAL
SEATS
Munich, October 20.
which
Seven hundred of these are
reside in North China. For
language news papers have been currying daily announcements of Russians renouncing their puss porta.
are
that the correspondent of the Bri- sh Broadcasting Corporation In Greece, Kenneth Matthews, would be released "within a week".
He added that the guerilla forces were "educating" Mat- thews. The Greek guerillas sop- tured Matthews on October 11- Reuter.
SIAM DEPORTS.
CHINESE
Every subject of common and
The switch from Red to White found A means must be
"to vital interest to all the Common-bring wisdom
be en hos tipped the census balance in to those whose
titled to succeed in defence of China in favour of White Rus- wealth
Nations-economic. de- thoughts today are oriented solely
Justification if he proves a substans. There were *bout 7,000 fence and international affairs-
Sto the pursuit of political great.
stantia! portion
cach category of defamatory of
before the problems u hast of
and ****ness in the form
world
Now there allegations is questions more particularly
domination."
is true, that the re-change-over. ferfing two or three, or more. "If we cannot do this and it
maining allegations which have more than 9,000 White Russians, dominions, have been thrashed these people remain stubbornly
be true deland under 6,000 Soviets-Asso- not been proved to out in the Cabinet room of No. unwise, then we must pereunde
not add materially to Injury to cisted Press. 10 Downleg Street, or at in them in their own Interest to
plaintiff's reputation. West stand formal "get togethers" in
"Though the law as to delama- BBC MAN TO BE aside and permit other; End hotel sultes.
modification,
RELEASED The visking statesmen collee-peoples of the world to proceed at tion requiries somo
Jost with this business of develop-the basic principles upon
31
are is founded tively have no outstanding businent of International association,
not amiss,
Prague, October 21. iness after today's debate.
for which the conditions of life Faults are best met by pruning
The Minister of Justice in They
will
features, objectionable tomorrow in our time cry out so urgently away reports of the two com and which have
aimplifying pro- General Markp's guerilla cabinet, been so long modifying, and
Miltiades Porphygenis, in a press cedure. But some anomolies must conference in Prague today sald mittees set up to find now and delayed."-United Fress. speedier methode of Inter- Dominion cousultation this in- cludes defence arrangements-- They are Dr. Charles Enunamuel and to examine ways .and Boussart, Julien Grudens Labe-f means of raluing the status of Montel. Dominion High Commissionera. dan. Dr. George Benoit and Dr. Jean Louis Hue, One of Before dispersing, some of the Paris, October 21.
them. Lubesun, had been sen- Prime Ministers will have further! The British Foreign Office tenced to death.
informal group conversations in
the and the American State De-i
over said that he London The spokesman partment officials had used did not know why the men gat Reuter. threats to force Count Folke to Canada, and would not cont Bernadotte, the assassinated ment on the Canadian authorities United Nations Mediator for refusal to turn them over to the Palestine, to change
police, beyond saying that French
A plea of "not guilty" was Chruda probably had considered recommend report and
that
entered on his behalf after he 10 be political refugees. them the Negev district of southern
had refused to plend. He was "We are still trying to get them' Palestine should be
given to and will go un
un trying
added.
of charged with shooting two law (Mr. C. D. Howe, the Canadia
the Berlin organisation of the enforcement officers and burn-} Acting Prime Minister, sald in
Communist-led Socialist Mr. Celler said that he would Ottawa today that Canada had de Parly since it was formed more covery,
Unity ing their bodies to escape dis-, where he was was arrested in possession of a large quantity divulge the source of his incided to admit the men. "The than two years ago, has been re-
of stolen jewellery. The trial is An American prosecutor, who formation "at the proper Juvesti enses
ale closed so far as the placed. the Press Section of the read the charge, said Helm fled to peeled to Lake three gation into the alleged activities Canadian Cabinet is concerned. Party announced today.
¡days-Heuter. Czechoslovakia and joined and at Mr. Robert McClintock, of the There is no intention of reviewing His successor is Hans Jendrel-American military unit as an in- Middle East Division of the State them," he dec
declared,
zky, up to now Chairman of the terpreter after his home in Dres Department, and Sir John Trout- Montel, Labrdan and Boussart Communtal-led German back, of the Middle East Office of were
Trade den had been destroyed, in an stated 近 an Order-in Union Federation.
Allied uft raid. the Foreign Ofee"
Council, Issued on Saturday, to In political quarters in Berlin, The proseculor, Mr. James These two men, according to have confessed to using. false the move is regarded as a new Greenhill, said-Helm-managed to
-Two-Spanisn-stowaways---w-Te- Mr. Caller, arrived at Count Bernames to escape from France and example of the "purge" of former have himself fraudently tran-
reported In the Swedish steamer nulotte's headquarters in Rhodesenter Conada.
Social Democrats and "other un-sported to the United States. in a
Batavia, October 21. Polaris (2.183 tons) when she All the men were reported to reliable elements from leading repatriation ship through the use without an Invitation and told the
Indonesian Republican late Mediator that if he insisted be working in the Quebec Pro- positions in the Socialist Unity
on.. troops called at Tynemouth today of his fluent knowledge of have exptured the Porty-Reuter.
Communist her way from North Africa to in recommending hat the Negev vince.)-Reuter.
"American." Her was later deport-stronghold of Pallitan, the Re-Stockholm. should be given to the Jews, nei.
ed.
publican Government announced They were kept on board. They ther the United States ao
nor Great
The murders, the prosecutor
to were stated Britain would support his report
yesterday.
have stowed said, took place on May 9, 1948, Patjitan, on the South Java away at Vigo, where the Polaris in the General Assembly.
when Helm was travelling in a was one of the last cities called for attention. Reuter. Jeep with an American and a Ger- commining Communist hands man detective to view the site of after the fall at their short- GERMAN PROTEST
The
Communist mated by Republican
his
the Arabs instead of the Jews.
A United Nations official here,. jwhile admitting the presence of the two afetals at Rhodes, stated that Count Bernadotte's report was completed before their ar rival.
Mr. Celler also alleged that be fore
his death the late Mediator told Israell officials that the Negev should be Jewish territory and that Jerusalem could not, and should not, be internationalised.-- Reuter.
Russian Purge In Berlin
week-end.Some 700 spectators fought for seats today at the opening of the trial before a military court here of 17-year old Wilfred Helm, accused of killing an American and a German detective.
Bangkok, October 21. but managed to take a loaded Siamese immigration authorities pleto! from the brief case of have deported 20 Chinese, half ene of the detectives and kill of them convicted of profiteering and the other half being newly them both with two shots, He subsequently fled to Belarrived immigrants unable to pay
their entry fees,
Berlin, October 20. D. Karl Litke, Chairman
SJARIFUDDIN NOW REPORTED · ALIVE
Batavia, October 21.
Or four
Red Strongho'd Captured
n hidden grave where a murdered hived American soldier had reportedly,
been buried. |Dr.
Amir Sjarifuddin, the former Republican Socialist Promier reported yesterday by the Indonesian Republican news agency, Antara, `to have been murdered, was today said to be
still alivo.
(the
The source of today's denial Commander of Madiun was Ancta, the Dutch news former headquarters of the in- A agency in the
Abdul Rachman, East Indies, surgents) and quoting the Dutch Army Con- at Indonesian Communist leader. tact Service in General Javn. Republican headquarters, sald Colonel Djokosujono's troops were well armed. Reuter.
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UK Trading
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leaders at
Those deported for profiteering. were nwners of small food stalls convicted of selling pork or eggs at prices above control. -- Asso- ciated Press.
FLEEING FRANCO
Tynemouth, Northumberland,
October 20
Heidelberg, October 20, Trams were halted and shops
Helm, the prosecutor sald, 10,000 men, are scattered in out- closed for an hour this afternoon was manacled during the trip lying regions. Reports from when about 18,000 Gennans pack-
ed a public square in Heldelberg. Joglekaria, Republican capital, to said the Government was prepar-
demonstrate against high Ing to meet extended guerilla prices and to demand what they tacties because the Communist termed a moro equitable distribu- units still were generally intact tion of wages and of the econo-
mic burden. There
were nu in- and armed.-Associated Press.
cidents.
In a similar meeting at Miana- RUSSIAN STOOGE
beim, 00,000. Germans stoppert work to protest against the eco- nomic situation in the Bizone.-
Balance
THAMES SCHEME
London, October 20.
London, October 20, British exports in September amounted to £131,000,000 half
Berlin, October 20, a million sterling more than ki Lieutenant General Waller Von | Router. August and
£14,700,000 lower Seydlitz, former President of the than in the record month of "League of German Offer" in the Board of Trade stated Moscow, had left Berlin for the Soviet Zone city of Schwerin to Allowing for the rise in prices inspect a police school; the news- Plans and 'estimates for a Dr. Sjarifuddin was reported to
since before the war the volume paper De Kurier reported today. £2,000,000 development scheme of exports in the third quarter Persistent German reports of the South bank of the Thames, be with Muso, the Communist
of this year was estininted Rt few days ago, which the Russians which Includes # £1,250,000 leader of the uprising in the
Landon, October 20. 138 per cent of 1938, compared had denied, said General Beyqlitz concert hall for housing the woods west of Mount Willis in Norbert Schultze, the German with 134 per cent in the second had arrived in Berlin to re- 1951 Festival of. Brilola, have. Central Java, according to the who wrote "Lili Marlene," the quarter and 238 per cent in the organise the Soviet Zone polica been approved by the London Dutch Army Contact Service. song sung by the Eighth Army first quarter.
on military lines-Reuter.
County Council-Reuter. The Communists were be and all the Allied armies as well For September it was 132 per Hleved to have caches of food as German troops during the cent, as against 133 in August and ammunition In the moun- way, will face à denazification and 149 th July, and about 12 tains enable them to aarry court in Hanover on Friday, per 'cent short of the end of
Radio on the struggle for a consider Bremen
(the American year_export_target for 1848. able time.
Forces network) said tonight.
The largest Increase Was With Dr. Sjarifuddin and Muso Schiulize is accused of "bene- €1,400,000 for machinery. were Colonel Djokosujono, the fitting from the Nazi regime.—- Nearly half of this was for Communist-appointed Military Router.
agricultural tractors.
TAI HANG JEWELLERY
....
Re-exports £5,500,000.
were
WAR
MORE LIKELY".
IN 18 MONTHS
London, October, 21,
valued at War is more likely in 18 months than it is, now, Mr.
Eric Johnston, President. of the American Movie Producers Association said today.
Imports, at £100,400,000, were £4,400,000 below the August figure and lower thun in any "I think there-is-little-kell-their-reputation they could-not- month since February...
hood of war in the near very well be expected to The adverse balance at trade future," he stated..... was thus £33,100,000, nreduc-}
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BRITISH ENVOY SEES MOLOTOV
+
have
enough Information about the out- side world to be"nfrald of•wor. Mr Johnston sald wars werd
Differences between idealogles planned when people wanted them and failure to understand thesa and "I can tell you that without differences could lead to war, said. exception people in Europe do not Mr. Johnston. want war.”
"One of the crying needs of the Asked if he had a fooling that world today is better understand- averywhere people were des ing between pooples and a neod perately afraid of war, ho mold: to raiso the standards of living of
· The • Russian: Foreign Minister, well, maybe they are but I did pooples everywhere," he said, you V. M Molotov,today" received not get that general idea during "This can be achieved only by
Maurice, Peterson, British maltaip? mat san
a, slow process of recovery inter- Ambassador, for -- #-- 40-minute) - He added that if countries-bo- spersed with relapsos,2%-Unived - talk United Press.
hind the Iron Curtain live up to! Press,
Sir
Moscow,' October 20,