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TOMORROW
Diana Barrymore Robert Cummings
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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 30, 1949.
London Locomotive Crews On Strike; Defy Union Orders
London, May 28.
No trains will loovo King's Cross Station, the big London termingl, for 24 hours from midnight tonight and railway traffic in North Eastorn Britain, from London to the Scottish border, will be almost completely paralysed by a locomotive crews' token strike in defiance of. union orders.
London men, lining up with their colleagues at York and other depots, reaffirmed their decision not to step on the footplates tomorrow or on suc- ceeding Sundays until a dispute over new lodg- ing turns is settled.
The stoppage, following a less drastic Nerth East regional token strike last Sunday, Is a protest railway sche- against pre-war
Race Course Dope Ring
Sydney, May 28. Detectives here are investigat- ing the activities of course doping ring which bas
race
wen
been operating in Sydney, Mel- Jonk bourne and Brisbane for a period and is muid to have hundreds of thousands of pounds. Inquires have not reached the stage where early arrests are ex- pected, but some of the principals are known.
The detectives have proof that some stable employees had been to provide opportunities for dope pills to be given to horses. stable owners, trainers, Many hands, businessmen and chemists, who were alleged to have won large sums through dope frauds, Leen interviewed.-Reuter,
have
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Anti-Partition Candidate
London, May 20. The Anti-Partition Leagua of Ireland in to put forward A Parliamentary candidate to McNell, oppose Mr. Hector Minister of Bata, in his Scot. In tish division of Greenook, the next general election.
This will be the first time such candidate
taken
be no
the field in Britain and is a protest against the clause in the troland Billpaused by the House of
of Common, with that there guarantees
should dules Torcing workers to spend
chango In
In the status of nights away from home. Crews Northern Ireland as part of
unnecessary. said that this was
the United Kingdom without Strikers
will picket King's the consent of Northern
the Ireland Parlament. Station beginning at mid- ht, Yoric train crews
dele- night,
The Anti-Partition Lorgue gutes decided that Sunday strikes of Ireland, which has
the Rull- would continue until
than 100 branches, was form. way Executive. which manuges ed to urge In Britain the the State-owned Railways, per- abolition of the border be- manently withdraws the pro- tween Elre and Northern Ire- posed new lodging turns.
land-Router.
Broms
до
In Bristol, centre of one of two British port
unoff- clally strike-bound sult от Canadian Seamen's Union
uMclai stoppage, port tonight were debating whether! the Government would direct troops to unload other perish. able food cargoes after they finish discharging a cargo of bananas tomorrow.
Cargo Of Mutton
more
ANKARA KIDNAP
ATTEMPT
The
Ankara, May 28.
authorities Turkish
The officials were particularly concerned about 5,000 tons of re- Irigerated Argentine lamb des- tined for London and still in the charged today that four repre holds of the British vessel Mem-sentatives of the Soviet Em- line at Avonmouth, onc
of the bassy here had attempted to ports where kidnap a Russian woman who three Bristol area
had refused to return to the 2,800 men are on strike, Nearly 4,000 dock
workers Soviet Union. They said the at- Bristol out in the
and tempt failed. Liverpool areas in sympathy with; The authorities said that four strike of the Canadian Sea-Russians, driving a Soviet Em- men Union members after some bassy car, went from Ankara to had refused to unload Canadian Aduba on Thursday for an abor- ships.
tive attempt to gain the custody
came
Troops today resumed the un-of Mrs Saniber Gassanov, wife leading of the perishable banana of a former employee in the Ern- cargo from the steamer Bayang bassy at Ankara. at Avonmouth and were sald to Mrs. Gassmanov refused to oc- company her husband to the so- Deakin, General viet Union six months ago when
be making good progress.
Mr. Arthur
Secretary of the Transport and he was recalled after a copy of General Workers Union, to Victor Kravchenko's anti-Soviet which mo
most dockers belong, call-book "I Chost Freedom" was re-
ed on the Liverpool and Avon- ported to have been found in mouth men to return to work. thele home.
sald
The men must not follow un- The Turkish authorities tried to oflein! leadership and failure to the Russians first do this would involve not only Mrs. Gassanov into returning
talk
See Why, the deckers but Britain and the with them. That failing, it was
in...
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Princess Margaret Captures Paris
Paris, May 29, Princess Margaret took her first look at Paris yesterday and said breathlessly, "It's,wonder- ful." Parisians who have seen so many celebrites that they are inclined to be a bit blase about new ohes reacted in much the some way.
One Frenchman said. "She's ference here will join Princess lovely."
Looking demure but digniled. the Princess slepped off the train from Switzerland at the Gare de Lyon yesterday morning.
Princess Margaret had lunch with Madame Auriol, wife of the French President, at the Elysee Palace, Two French Cabinet Ministers were there too.
At cocktall time, Princess Mar- garet attended a reception at the Canadian Embassy, balancing a gloss of champagne for an hour while chatting with representa- lives of the British Dominions
their wives.
and
At this party she was vivacious and in high spirits. She confided in one guest that while in Italy her mother, Queen Elizabeth. wrote that England was not en- joying the
the best of weather.
"Come down to sunny Italy," she wrote back.
Thesmall reception was held diplomais Africa,
Margaret for dinner,
the
Princess Elizabeth and Duke of Edinburgh
meanwhile lett Belfast today on their re- turn fight to England after n three day visit to Northern Ire- land.
a
On their way to the aerodrome, crowd of some 10,000, people broke through the police barriers and brought the Royal car to temporary stop.
and
women Cheering men,
bless you," and cried: "Good "Come back to us soon".—AB- sociated Press and Reuter.
Strike In Honolulu
Honolulu, May 28.
The striking CIO Longshoremen had voted about 70-1 te reject the plan of Cyrus Ching, chief of the ending at the home of the Canadian Am-Conciliation Service, for
their walkout immediately and bassador, To It came
submitting the dispute to a fact- from Australia, South
finding board. Canada nnet Indin.
Toriny the Princess will attend church at
the Embassy chopei and after that will go to a plenic which is expected to be at Ram- boullet, ometal residence of the French President,
The announcement was made by a apokesman for the International Longshoremen's and warehouse- men's Union. The tabulation of ballots observed last night by the Territorial Labour Department was incomplete, the spokesman On Tuesday Foreign Secretary said, but he added that uncounted Ernest Bevin attending the big votes would not be able to change
Foreign
con- the result.United Press
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