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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1943.
COMMUNIST ACTIVITY IN IRAN DEVELOPING
TEHERAN SENTENCES
OF DEATH
Teheran. August 2.
A military tribunal today sen- tenced live more alleged Tudeh
un Party leaders to denth charges of anti-Slate activities and diffusion of Communist 1paganda.
Teheran, August 2.
Iran's underground Communist Tudeh Party is be-
ginning to show signs of aċtivity again. Slogans have begun to appear on street walls call- ing on the "toilers, labourers and peasants" to "unite in order to break the chains of ex- ploitation and imperialism."
Letters have been addressed to prominent officials warning them not do act against the "freely ex- pressed wishes of the masses"-- or else.
Other letter have been received by cinema and thentre månagère with warnings not to show anti. Communist and anil-Russlan flons and performances.
Polt en circles in Teheran be- the beginning or a which campaign han's Communists plan to launch in the autumn.
Seventeen others were sentene-lleve this ed in prison terms of up to 10 concentrated
years,
Ave enen sentenced to death, and seven of those awarded prison terms are reported to be in bidding.
the
By that time, elections to the Majlis and the Senate will have Com- been completed, and the
certain Communists are more than
they will never be given a chance to obtain a single seat in House.
Against The drive munist-supportex) Thden organisa- tion began in February after the attempted assassinations of the Sheh,
The Tudeh interested
either
А
Communists
wrecking Travel The Government charged that the Tudel Party sponsored the seven-year general improvement tempt and outlawed the Party, plan, which is to go into opera- Informed Bources kay that on a 5001 D9 the elections are the Party La 1 operating over. underground, and arrests are continuing
throughout the
country.
Besides these studentvil today, 10 others have been sentenced in death sad about 40 olbers given pat ipsum, refences in Teheran 85 well as unknown numbers sen- tonvert! ter
elsewhere in Iran, Associated Press
prium
Sheriff Averts A Lynching
Bread Riots
This programme Is to do for iran what the Marshall Pion is doing for Western Europe. This the Tudeh Communists are fully D% their And Just aware of.
comrades has tried to French wreck Froth CTOBOGY ny strikes und riotn. the Iranian according to politi- Communisty.
will try to create ral wobservers,
inife tured lister habers worker and pesants le revolt agatart the Government,
thel
The serious bread riots which
hiroke out recently in various districts of Azerbaijan seemed A forerunner of events in the Crowds marched near future.
on the Governor's palace and disarmed the miiliu. The Government is fully aware Nashville, Georgia,
stated August 3 of all hezarts, and hus A Nashville sheriff last night that necessary precautions will be also aver the lynching of a Negro taken. But the Government
hos first to deal who was suspected of attempting katiws that it
with its own corrupt officials. W rope a white woman.
A 10-year-old farmer's wife reported that she was attacked by Negio while her husband was Taking the three children to Spray school und that her Negra sereas frightened the
Dy.
tat
Corrupt Officials
Dismissed
Decorations For Malaya Gallantry
London, August 2. Two men, Sergeant Bhalt Clutton, of the Grenadier Guards, and Rifleman Cha bitat Sunwar, of the Brigade been Gurkhas, have awarded the Military Modal service In for distinguished
of
Malaya, the
War Office an
nounced today.
Sergaans Clutton, of Bir. mingham whe Redding section of men in an action against
the bandits, received hut con. Decious
wounds tinued to urge his men for- ward to the attack. ward to
Bifleman
Sunwar
was member of an escort of two vehicles, on the Karak-Men- chle road when it was at- tacked by a group of bandite. Although wounded, he engap. ed 20 of the enemy single- handed.--Router.
Kesselring Appeal For Clemency
Wiesbaden, August 3.
war
01
Dynamite Smashes
Village
A kneeling statue of Christ is almost undamaged in the wreckage of the church- yard and cemetery of Pruem, French Zene of Germany, Forty houses were destroy- ed, at least 14 kliled and between 50 and 60 persons injured when a dynamite dunip exploded in the village. The dynamite was stored in a bunker, once an ammunition depot of the German Army. (AP Photo).
INTER-INDONESIAN TALKS SUCCEEDING
Batavia, August 2.
The second session of the three-day inter-Indonesian
Dr.
conference onded here today, with 'broad ag- reement on the organisation and status of the proposed United States of Indonesia. Mohammed Hatta, Prime Minister of the In- donesian Republic, spake of the spirit of unity which the Republicans and the Federalists had. discovered during the inter-Indonesian con- ference.
Former German Field Mar- shat Albert Kesselring's coun- set has appealed to the British War Office to quash the crimes sentence passed Kesselring, the German news. agency. DENA, said tonight.
Dr. Hatta sair that he is con-trusted with the formation of a Kesselring was sentenced to death for war crimes by a British fident that this spirit will grow Cabinet.
will military court at Venice in May, and that the conference 1047
Later the sentence was com- reach a successful conclusion.
The Sultan Hamid, President of muted of life imprisonment.
His counsel, Dr. Hans Latern West Borneo, said that he agreed expression of ser, hus toll the War Ofee that with Dr. Hafta's
MOVE TO STOP NEW WALK-OUT
Berlin, August 2. Berlin's Western Comman- dants moved tonight to avert another crippling rail strike by Govern- authorising the City ment to pay Western mark wager to all rail workers Hving in Western Berlin.
Innor Cabinet
At the same time, a high Al- Within the Cabinet, the Minis-Jed official said the commandants ters of Defence. Foreign Affairs, charged the Soviet military ad- Affairs, Finance and ministration and the Soviet-con- the responsibility for German re-unity and added that the Feder Internal
to be designated trolled railway management with prisals in Italy did not rest with lists feeling of reserve towards Welfare are
The holders breaking” an agreement to pay, of the confer- these, with the Prime Minister, Western Berlin workers in West- the Wehrmacht, but with the the Republicans was dispelled at special posts. Security Service-a Nazi organl-the Arst session
an Inner Cabinet, ern marks. ence
Only will form
1,910 of the sation-the
in Jogjakarta, ngency sald.
They approached
second which in an emergency may act Western section's 10,000 railway
for session with confidence, and their
workers are effected by the order. the full Cabinet. were fulfilled,
One of the three Cabinet no- They live in the West but work expectations stated.
minators Is to be appointed as in the Soviet rector. Prime Minister, and the other two will hold special posts.
When the President has been
The same point, the lawyer added, applied to the cases
Von Colonel General (Friedrich Mackenson and Lieutenant Gen- tenced to death by a British mill- ral Kurt Maclizer, who were non-
Steps are being taken, accord-
those Govern gly to dismiss ment employees who have been for the scarcity of responsible Later in the day or angry mob foodstils and other commodities, A high-ranking Government of white men began to form un
Press told the United The quisarts of the Negru district official
"We do not want to see Iran be- Negro vas of the owIT
Rume another China. There is no dragged from his hane,
The mob grew to 1,500 and earthly reason for anyone to be- State Troopers, who had been come a Communist if he has ade- rushed to the scene, set up road quate food, clothing and shelter,
well as i blocks and searched for weapons.) D
a secure job. The sheriff told the crowd that| "Thin," he added, "the Govrin-tary court at Rome in November, the Negro did not fit the woman's ment is trying its best to provide description of her asallant and, for all Iranians, and this is what explaining that he route! watch for possible mob and continue his investigation of the same Lime, persuaded the crowd to hand the Negro over to
action
By dawn today, tension had essed and most of the mob had! dispersed. Reuter,
ELEVENTH-HOUR REPRIEVE
Karachi, August 2. Threo minutes before two Pathan tribesmen were due to be hanged in the Central Gnol here, an order was received al- lowing them to appeal to the Privy Council in London.
The tribesmen, who had been sentenced for murder, wert be ing escorted to the gallows yes terday when the order arrived. Reuter.
the Shah himself wants people."United Press.
for his
BAD HEALTH OF GERMANS
1940. Their sentences were also commuted to life imprisonment and Dr. Laternser has appealed for their quashing with that of Kesselring-Reuter,
"The
the
The Constitution
he
and the
algnty.
The conference aflopted the red chosen, and the Cabinet appoint- and white flag of the Indonesian ed, the Republic of United In Republic and the Republican Na-donesia will be considered ready tional Anthem for the future to receive the transfer of sover- Republic of United Indonesia.
It was decided that Indonesian The conference did not in should be the official language, dicate when the President would REDS GAOLED
conference resolved that be chosen.
decided that both The Netherlands
The conference IN INDIA
and Indonesian Republic should cede the Senate the People's to the future Re | Council should be formed 03 Sovereignty New Delhi, August 2.
formed as soon as possible. The Government of India an- publle of United Indonesia.
Com- It was decided to form a tech- tion official yesterday deplorednounced today that 2.700 the bad state of health of the munists were in Indian jails on nical committee from the Repub- charges of looting, licon and Federalist delegations German people, but added that June 30 on
to draw up an Interim Constitu- the means for Improving it is arson and-murder.
Latest figures are not availa- ilon, based on the conclusions of available if the Western nations continue their occupation long ble, but are believed to be smal- the conference. enough.
Chicago, August 2.
An American Medical Associa
ler, the statement said.-Associ
Dr William W. Bauer, director ated Press. of the AMA's bureau of health education who
Indonesians As Commanders
All railwaymen who work in Western sectors are 'already paid in the Western-backed currency. The commandants acted after of the railway union leaders threatened to call a new strike of railway and elevated train workers unless Western
mark wares were paid to all workers. who struck for similar demands. in May and June.
The
trade union chairman, Rudolf Waldheim, sald two weeks ago that the union was donaldering the
itriking again.
ponsibility of
The Commandants told the
City Government to pay workers
It stated that it had discussed in Western murks because the The Constitution, when draft- the relationship of the Republic Administration and railway man- The #gement are not living up to the in the proposed strike-ending agreement, an AI-
points.
ed, is to be sent to the delega- of United Indonesia and tions at The Hague for initial- Netherlands just returned diphtheria, whooping cough and ing. after which it will be cir-union, and had reached agree-lled source said.--United Press.
eulated to the Governments of rent on from a four-month tour of five intestinal diseases in Infants.
again key areas in Germany, listed three main problems ket.Ith front.
on the
The ions are to continue
2. Tuberculosis is the most the Federal States and German rampant disease in Germany to-returned to The Hague for signa-at The Hogue,
lure by the delegations.
Bombed-out sanitary facili-day; Ill-odministered public
lies, which are more than over- health and health education pro- crowded, and spreading typhoid, grammės-United Press.
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The conference decided that the Republic of United Indone.
sla should be chosen by repre sentatives of the Republie and the Federallats.
SUICIDE ATTACK
BY HUKS
IL added. The Repubila
United of Indonesia shall take over thè of Indónesía debts and widets (the Netherlands East Indies). the conference decided. The President of the Republiekled
Manila, August 2. Three Constabulary men were
when a group of
Com: munist-led Hukbalahaps staged
of the a suicide attack on a constabu
The President, in consultation of United Indonesia is to be the with the representatives of the Commander-in-Chief Federal States, Is to nominate Armed Forces, and the common-lary garrison in the village of three persons who are to be en-ders of the three services are to Santo Tomas Hear San Juan i
be Indonesians. Foreign officers Neuva Ecija Province, 70 miles may be employed if they become North of Manila, on Monday.
According to survivors, about The conference laid down that five to eight dissidents succeeded Dutch forces should evacuate In- in penetrating close to the con donesia at a time and in a mon- stabulary barracks where the The Huks ner to be decided at The Hague troops were steeping.
suddenly let loose a barrage ut conference.
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Free elections by secret ballot the sleeping soldiers, the for a Constitutuent Assembly are vivary said.-Router. to be held within year of the transfer of sovereignty-Reuter. |ORE OVAT LOKOON D FRONT O
NEW POWERS
FOR JOHNSON
Washington, Aurist 2.
The House of Representatives today approved by 385 óta to advan Bil giving the Defents Secretary, Mr. Louis Johnson, new powers ma •hand of all the United States armed forces. The House's spproval
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