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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1949.
Slogans In
TRAFALGAR SQUARE Anti-British MAY DAY CLASHES: Piping
COMMIES MOBBED
INCIDENT AT LONDON EMBASSY
London, May 1
Sine young demonstrating
believed 10 be Commnum t
chained and patlocker! then- selves to the railing t 171 Amatean Embay In t
verbi Siptar, Mas Lat might aurel slamabed
American slegates are: buted leafleta.
kat Square, a
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torre
strong mounted and took pulice moved
Enst Ind terught into the Londen, where Sir Oswald Mng
Bish Vison Tex. former
Fastast leader, arrived in Ridley Roud, the East End sloven center, for May Play social evening) With his #upporters.
Hidley Road, Jargely Jewish.
situated
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London, May 1.
Police and May Day Demonstrators clashed in London today in a swaying battle losting over two hours as Communists and their support- ors tried to form processions in defiance of the official ban on political marches.
The
At one stage anti-Communists, including Mosley supporters, entered the fray, attacking march- ers who attempted to reach Trafalgar Square, traditional centre for public meetings, close to Whitehall, the Government quarter. Trafalgar Square meeting was organised by the London Trades Council in place of its custom- ary procession from the banks of the Thomes in Hyde Park, which come under the temporary ban on political processions in London recently imposed by the Home Socrotary, Mr. Chuter Edo.
Shorls before 3 pun. several hundred people hail the clin the Squares
Young people
Way
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coming under the Red flag of Bociallam",
San Francisco, May 1. May Day parade scenes in China's Red capital, Pelping, Included procession made the pao. Up as "enemies of ple--Uncle Sama linking arme with Japanasa generalu and John Buils dragging on strings of battleship called Amethyst."
This was reported today by the Communist Paiping Ra dio which says that minions of people partielpated in the celebrations in hundreds of towns and cities.
Pei. City
Mr.
Above the gates of ping's old Forbidden two glant portraits of Mao Tse-tung and the Com. mander-in-Chief, Chu Toh, were sat up.
Banners called for Increas ad production and the trans. formation of China into an industrial country.-Router.
Opposition To Israel Membership
Flushing Meadow, May 1. Arab opposition is likely to
MRS STANLEY AND FRIEND LEAVE FOR PALESTINE
:
Paris, May 1.
Mrs. Sidney Stanley, wife of the principal Lynskay.
Tribunal witness, and her friend, Mr. C. Roson, left their hotel here tonight with the intention of flying at once to Palestine, the hotel mana- gor said.
A few minutes earlier, the floor waiter, who had attended them during their two-and-a-half-day stay in Paris, said they had moved out of their suite.
Mrs. Stanley arrived at Bourget Airport on Friday booked in at the fashion! Queen Elizabeth Hotel,
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Badgered by journalisla, and Mr. Rosen later moved into the Prince of Wales Hotel, which is altuated nearby.
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Alt day yesterday, Mrs. Stan- managed to avold seeing journalists. Mr. Rosen appeared once or twice' in the hotel en- trance, giving affable but evasive replies to questions.
"I happened to be on my way to Parks at the same time is Mrs. Stanley, so we decided to spend a holiday, here," he said.
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A Reuter despatch from Tei be heard in the General Assem-Aviv today said that D smat! bly tomorrow when approval is yacht from Ramsgate, Kent, car- to Dunkirk asked for placing the question ried Sidney Stanley
on his way to Paris, according to of the admission of Israel to
British Jewish informant the United Nations before the that eity, who claims to be his Minor Political Committee, thus personal friend. He wishes ensuring an early debate.
h
remain anonymous,
In
to
ite said that after reporting to the police on March 31, Stanley left for the South Const in
The British Communist lender recogul- Their rafted for immediate threaded
Democratie selling rm of the Chinese song the rowds Left Wast
publications. Ban Government", withdrawal of all from Chinese of the British warships Max plosth mainst JOIN
Column shone waters and the sending of special famous Nelson
ambassadors to Nanking to open bright, Spring sunshure, E the
the new Dazesis of extra police were trade negotiations with
China. the Square. stationed The Union Movement ghel was
Shortly tre for the meeting Shinwall At Coliseum Breeted by a storm of cheet
then and
We carried small
At a Labour Party ungled with bees and hisse, as
May Day tonight
Coliseum In the harved, stanching erect in a big fir Bags around the crowd A
Tomunists fearsress | Twily Arteriean Touring car
Theatre, De War Minister, Mr. unfunded
he ma nearby street,
Emanuel Shlnwell, said that banners
and prepares to area, then -populated
wished to send greetings to the march into the Square,
workers of
countries. All
senci
Israel's application for admis- Potter
Jo
interced particularly raced
those of France." slon has been delayed on the hostile
sertion of
"I send regular Mr. Shawell added: them, but
Political Committee first
andreetwngs to the crowd got there banners were
to the workers of the agenda by the drawn-out de- torn elow is
Andreetings
countries on the they
the Continent bate on the Italian colonies. before blows exchanged W715
--yes, and to the workers of So-
The Steering Committee has was restored.
viet Russia, for we cannot fail
the Assembly were brought
recull their gallant exploits recommended to prevent
terrific that it send Israel's application anyur
their during the war, to march into struggle over the past
help to o the Minor Committee meeting since the time of the Revolution, to speed up the present session.
Malin, Mr. Charles
pr The traperillett by external fears,
Lebanon, protested in the Steer- by capitalism.
Fine
Committee against giving Stanley had little British money "We glory in what they have
Israel's
日 application special on him when he left, but obtain so for achieved and send my
would er plenty of dollars in Parls from good wishes to them, even if
the continu- | an American publishing house us
พน they do not hear what i have
in the near
advance
for his payment sald. Two hundred miners bombard- ed with bad eggs a small) Com- munist group holding an open
has since the end of the becn the
of resented Acene viotent clashes between Mastey Burgarters, who staged meet ings there. and anti-Fasciats Meshy's ocial evening" heki
in a public house, while a erowd of several thousand surged outside, heki In check by the police.
Mounted police inter position
to
When Sir Owwald left further attempts
the Square, anel the the public house, the crowd had dwindled to as few dozen Bons procedcal.
"Down with
shouts
Fascism" competed with sebeering by Mosley supporters as he drove off.-Reuter.
De Gaulle Attack On Government
From East End
time hundreds
walking to
of
city the
districts.
of people wardi
At the same
from
were the centre
Eastern the
of them carrying furled many banners. Towards the end of
it series
horseback anel On uated or seizing carried
by
the
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carried
30
years
standing. This, he said, not be conducive to ance of real peace future.
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wailing car and was rowed to a small yacht which had left Rams- gate the previous night.
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To Write Memoirs
After
12-hour
crossing, Stanley landed near Dunkirk and went on to Paris by road.
awrneirs.
that when
a two- Stanley's
non-appearance
Palestine.-Reuler,
"Capitalism Collapsing"
Moscow, May 1. "Pravda,” the Soviet Com- munist Party's organ, azid in a May Day. editorial today that capitalism is dying and wants to drag the whole of mankind with it to the grave.
that
"Everybody
can see
the age of capitalism in com. Ing to an end, that no offerts frantic reaction will save collapse, that all historical develop- leading to Com- muniam," the newspaper de- clared. Reuter.
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It from roads of mont are
HOLY CITY AIR RAID ALARM
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Jerusalem, May 1,
Air raid sirens sounded here tonight as thousands of people, assembled for May Day proces~ | slons, hastily took cover after explosions
had been heartl throughout the Holy City,
The explosions app red to be about one mile outside the city, on the South, fin. the neighbour- hood of an area which Egyptian troops had been evacuating all
and
day.
lo
He also Intimated
The informant claims that he the matter reaches the Assembly was Instructed to go to Tel Aviv of viol
violent incidents, police air May Day meeting at Thur-door the Arab States will agree to await Stanley's Arrival
foot concen- nicoe. South Yorkshire, today. that the decision to send it to the confesses that he was puzzled by
banners The eggs struck three of the chief Ad Hoc group requires desnonstrators, speakers, who the
on the third majority-Reuter. tearing them to shreds and meeting despite the miners' hos- Paris, May 1. Breaking the staves.
tile attitude, and heckling. General Charles De Gaulle The detricnstrators, including
The demonstrations followed today accused the mediocri- many girls and women, engaged questions from spectators about ties now in power in France" the constables of agreeing to "revive the Ger- scuffles. man Reich."
sald;
lic
"The arrangements now consented to by Washington, London and Paris mount to the
Ger a centralised revival of many,"
In hand-to-hand the action of the Chinese Com- munists in firing on British war- ships in the Yangtse River re- cently-Reuter,
Policemen Lest their helmets in the melee, and their horses
to be
TUC Approach To World Unions
Senator signal a large body of
were hit
Acting upon whal appeared
Commualsts managed to form
into themselves
procession Addressing a demonstration in
holster but the with banners the Bois de Boulogne here, he declared that Moscow had decided, police quickly dispersed
DUBLIN PROTEST
Other Communists
them in the Bags and this new
London, May 1.
Wants Move Britain's 8,000,000-strong Trade Union Congress is
On Cartels
·
to approach trade union movements in other countries throughout the world to invite their trade union inter- help in forming a new national.
association with the
in favour of this polley some time ago, expecting a centralised Ger- Square waved their many to "play hall" with the So-banners and cheered
Washington, May 1. viet Union.
attempt but their cheers were
Senptor Harley Kilgore to- who booed "The present French Govern-drowned by crowds
day urged strict enforcement of ment--the
TUC which took chloroform: tean in chorus.
The General Council of the It was the chooses this moment to try to
Pollitt Speech
United States policy calling for
decided
in TUC has
on this arst the initiative
forming the nike us believe that the Atlantle
WFTU four years ago. Some people helped the pailee the breaking up of Germany's positive action since the British, Pact guarantees the security of tear flown Communist
The General Council has also banners, vast industrial combines. Fai-United States and Dutch members everybody and in consequence that
the World Federation of approved a decision to inform the of France. This is a condence
Large groups of demonstrators lure to carry out the policy will of
into the then rushed
road to result in the loss of one of the Trades Unions walked out of that Secretary-General of the United trick," the Generni said,~~Reuter.
Nations Organisation that the march to Cranbourne Street objectives of World War II, he organisation in January. where the Communist Secretary, said.
The two great American or WFTU is no longer a represen- Mr. Harry
Pollitt, was due to Senator Kilgore plans to bring ganisations-the American Fed-lative body able to claim recogni address Communist-organised directly to President Truman's eration of Labour and the Con- tion and meeting.
attention this week a report of greas of Industrial Organisations United Nations.-Reuter. Dublin. May t The police counter-attacked to the official Army investigating are involved with the TUC in A large crowd filled O'Connell break up the procession as hun comittee, which accuses General the new move.
BARODA MERGES. Street here today for [1 public dreds of cars and scores of Lucius Clay and three of his top Consultation with other nation- protest against the imprisonment double-decker buses were stalled assistants of disobeying orders to al trade union centres-most of
WITH BOMBAY of Cardinal Mindszenty of Hun-sinid the milling, fighting crowd, break up pre-war German mono- which are still
within the 'now
Bombay, May 1. gury and Archbishop Stepinac of Mr. Pollit!. at his meeting coles,
Communist-Jed WFTU will be-
The Indian state of Baroda to- Yugoslavia.
told a crowd of 2,000: "In Chinn Senator Kilgore also said the gin immediately.
day merged with Bombay The meeting passed a resolu- the second
The TUC in committee's report should be made
hopes
that a preli Province. greatest event tion proposed by Mr. Frank Faky modern world
is being public so that Congress and the minary conference may be called In a farewell message history
to his Speaker of the Dalt (Parliament)
con- people would know what is hap- a fairly early date.
3,500,000 subjects, the Gackwor and seconded by the Lord Mayor
to its tremendous
pening to national policy on Ger- A strong TUC delegation, (Ruler) of Baroda, known in the clusion" of Dublin, Mr. John Breen, re-
The first was the
which had recently negollated West as a race-horse owner, said: cording "detestation of the crue!
Ruselan man cartels, Revolution
"Everywhere cartels exist, the with the two principal American feel relieved of a very great tyranny of atheistic Communism
movements in the hurden and responsibility, and which inhumanly
second, shortly to be witnessed, door is open to government inter- trade union persccules
ference with business and in many United States, has reported to the more se as I am putting you and Catholics Romu
in Eastern
European countries, cartels are General Council complete accord your destiny in mightler hands". operated as units of Government on future international policy. policy," the Senator said.-United
Europe."-Reuter.
brough!
is the "the entire
оп 1917, and the
event culminating
Chinese continent
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ELECTIONS OFF
IN BURMA?
Rangoon, May. 1. Burmese elections, due to be held by July 4, are likely to be postponed for an ladefinite period, sources close to the Government states.
The informants sold that tho Election Supervisory Committee, appointed by the Government, hos recommended to Presidant Sao Shwe Thaike that the elections be postponed indefinitely, owing to the steadily deteriorating condit- tons in the country.
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The sources added that a post- ponement might necessitato an amendment of the Constitution which lays down that elections must be held within 18 months of FOR YOUR Independence Day January 4. 1940,--Reuter.
REBELS' CLAIM
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A May Day broadcast by the From Greek Radlo today, claimed that Government forces had lost 12,484 men since April 1, includ- ing 1,200 captured.
The Radio added that in the first four months of this year the "Monarcho-Fascist" fosses talalled 30,500 officers and men, of whom 2,540, were taken prisoners, Reutar.
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The curfew enforced in Jeru- salem 'made exact observation Impossible, but it is not believed that shells had fallen within the city.
Three days ago sporadic rifte shooting broke out in Jerusalem between Arab leglonnaire and Juraeli soldiers, three of whom were wounded.
Today was the day fixed under the Israeli-Transjordan armistice agreement, signed in Rhodes, for withdrawal by the Arab League from certain positions now allotted; to Israel-Reuter,
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