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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1940.
RAIN BREAKS OVER Estimate Of
FORESTS, BRINGS
TO BORDEAUX
HOPE
Opposition Groups Busy Germany
In
the
de-
Frankfurt, August 24. Opposition groups have manded
reconstruction of the governments of five of the 11 West German states as a result of the Federal election a week AKO
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In most of the states the de- mand came from the right wing parties. In Bavaria, it was the Socialists who called for a change Union the Christian Social government.
in
Paris, August 23,
Rain clouds broke over flame-swept forest lands South West of Bordeaux today, bringing hope to weary, smoke-blackoned fire-fightors that the end of their three-day bottle against the dis- astrous run-away blaze was in sight.
But new fires are said to be springing up after travell- ing unseen through the undergrowth and the battle is expected to last several more days. Rain matted the pine-ash graveyard of scoros of villagars and fire-fighters who died when o 30-metro wall af flame turned almost 60,000
✔
Fire Damage
Washington, August 23. Officials of the United Staten Fornet Bervice today estimated that the fires which have swept some 40,000. sores” of federally-owned Western forests In recent days have caused damage of about $250,-
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emphaaleed that the
a. To was a rough one and
Is subject to revision. It does not cover the damage to watershed areas which off- clala cald was impossible to estimate in dollars.
it cost about $80 a day for each of the 3,000 men on the fire fighting liner - United
'rea.
hectares of the forest into a wilderness of Daggers And
scorched earth and blackened stumps.
Troops and civilians kept up their search for victims.
Newspapers not the death-roll at 80 with 150 missing.
The Prefeat of Gironde esti- mated that 84 people died in his Department, one of the eight The opposition parties in Ham-ravaged by fire. burg, Bremen, Schleswig Holstein and Bavaria based their claims on the failure of the government paitles to poll a majority in the Federal election. In the Ameri- cun zone state of Hesse, the gov ernment's majority dropped con- siderably.
Any changes in the state gov- ernment would also change the
PROPOSES ECONOMIC SURVEY
Lausanne, August 23.
composition of the Federal Up- The United Sister today pro- per House, the Federal Council | posed an International economic
of the Bundestag, which under survey of the Middle East with the Bonn constitution, consist of n view to speeding settlement of
the Arab refugee problem. representatives of the state gov- crnment's voting under instruc- flous.
At present, two governments With seven seats in the Counell, are purely Socialist: three gov-
ments with 12 seats are pure- ly Christian-Democrat or Snekad Christians; and one with four seats is a Liberal-led coalition.
Bombs In Saigon Area
"NOT GUILTY” PLEA BY
VON MANSTEIN
Hamburg, August 23. Grey-haired Fiold-Marshal Fritz von Manstein, aged 62, pleaded not guilty today to the first four charges against him as a war criminal, Earlier the British Court trying Field-Marshal Von Manstein on war crimes charges rejected a de- fence submission that the Court was not com- petent to deal with the case.
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Von Manstein faces A charge indictment, and defence counsel had argued that he was! entitled as a prisoner of war to
trial by court martial.
Both the prosecuting and fending counsel agreed
that
de- it
was the Arst time a British Court had been asked to decide on the validity of the Royal Warrant governing war crimes trials.
-Defending, Mr. Reginold Paget. King's Counsel and Labour Member of Parliament, cinimet at the Royal Warrant denled Manstein the protection of the laws of evidence, confronting him with documents he had seen and testimony taken behind
Blies Are found every hour- but a great many people are be- have been completely lieved to cremated.
The end of the png drought]
Salgon, August 23. A woman dressed in black and lessened the danger of fresh out- breaks,
wearing a berel was the leader Freshi reinforcements of men of a gang armed with daggers, | his back. and
werd equipment
on their bombs and revolvers who nesat- may to the South West Including sinated two Viotnom Civil Ser- 30 Royal Air Force fire-fighters vants in their from Yorkshire,
To Confor
Tho
M.
French Premier, Hanri Queuille, will confor with members of Parliaments from Do- and landas the Gionde partment next wook on relief
measures.
Frant
The Government
10 decided francs
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home at Phun Tuin, a Salgon suburb on Sun- day night, the police here stated: today.
The victims were members of the Vietnam Information: and Postal services.
never
Vietnam To Remain
Semi-Neutral
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Batavia, August. 23. The Vietnam leader, Ho Chi Minh, said on Tuesday in a rodio interview with an American cor- respondent that he felt that the area he is leading in rebellion against France can remain semi- neutral in the Asian cold war.
Questions were put to him by Andrew Roth, contributor of if such things happened in the United States magazine, criminal court In England, "The Nation". the High Court would quash,
Gross Miscarriage
had
answers
the proceedings, as a gross mia) | Roth said that the questions Thailand to carriage of Junilan," he said. were 'sent through "After four years," Mr. Pugetithe secret headquarters of Ho in continued, "there is not a shred, Toukin 'und it took three weeks of justilention for denying Man- to receive the answers. stein what you would give to the
and The questions The bodies of four other Viet-neanest sneak thief."
The Prosecutor, Sir
were (in part) Arthur nam citizens, with dagger wounds
Q: Do you feel that the ap- were yester Comyns Carr, submitted that the in their stomachs,
the inaln Chinese dey found tying outside the house 02-year-old Commander had lost proach of has already F
of the murdered Civil Servants. his status as a prisoner of war, Communist forces to the Viet
buck
has 100,000,000.
to nam border
the ef- The identifies of the new victim having been brought
Germany In August, 1943, and feet of pulling Vietnam towards were not disclosed.
Meanwhile Vietminh (Indo-discharged from the Wehrmacht, the Soviet side in the cold war? Manstein-thic 38 ond. inst
A: No. Insurgents Chinese autonomist) today operied revolver
German to come before a British Q: Do you think that United fire War Crimes, Court-is remen who drove into Cholon with killing
charged States support for France's ra- Russlan prisoners storation of Ban Dal is an at- (Saigon's China Town) to put and Poles, murdering soldiers tempt la puit Vietnam on to the PAL A Are started by Vietminh and civilians by starvation and United States alde of the cold
disease, systematically exter-war? Heavy damage was done by minating Jews and typsies and A: Perhaps not. the fire to shed and stores be-| devastating entire regions during Q: Do you think Vietnam can longing to a French company, scorched earth retreats-United completely resist these pulls?
Earlier, insurgents had sprayed Press and Reuter. Cholon houses with revolver fire and tald some mines which, however, dil now explode.→→→ Reuter.
Mr. Paul A. Porter, American
One repart assessed damage Commissioner at the United Na-
4,000,000,000 francs. Tribunals in the ravaged areas Lions Palestine Conciliation talks proposal to his
ave instructions to deal quickly here, made the
huve French and Turkish colleagues.
ant drically with Arc-raisers Mr. Porter returned to Lau- | Four mure ariests were made sanne yesterday after 10 days of yesterday. consulations with high Govern- Thousands of troops, reservists, ment oficina in the United Statesvillagers and Bremen have fought
the flames since Saturday
The harrowing tales they tell fill columns in French newspapers. One man saved himself by
and France.
The whole composition is rather more in harmony with a broad- It is not yet clear what bearing ty-based central coalition than the proposed survey would have with the Right-wing government on the embryonle United States which is now
consbieret likely plan for economic help in resetillarrowing into the sand,
Seven bolles were found heap- to emerge from the lower house, ing the Arab refugees. Estimates
Bordeaux-Bayonne of the number of Arab refugees ed near the
Palestine vary between rond. One man had gnawed hit Of the governments now under from
fists in agony. fire from the right, that of lam-500,000 to 1,000,000-Reuter.
burg will come up for the new elections this autunın, and that
of Schleswig Holstein next spring.
The Hesse government has sh far shown itself unwilling to titke concessions to the right, In Isnvurls, and dissolution or re- construction may depend on the Socal Christians ability to come to terms with the_near-separatist Bavarian porty. Reuter.
Maiden Flight Of Hermes V
August 23. The world's biggest nir-screw airliner, the Hermes V, made its malden flight today.
It flew for 30 minutes at about 2,000 feet, and the flight was described as completely success- ful.
Walkout In Finland
Weakening
in Cestas, where 200 houses were burned to cinders, a woman
cxc remains recognised the
of her husband by some keys and wandered through the streets carrying his remalus which were wrapped up in newspaper, report said.
ont
bomb throwers.
Criticises UK Reception
A: Yea~~Associated Press.
Rift In Austrian Talks Widening
London, August 23,
Of Students Mr. Ivor Mallet (Britain) at the 20th meeting of
Liverpool, August 23,
While comins are piled up in a The Anglican Bishop of Liver- corner of Cestas Square.
pool, Dr. Clifford A. Martin, mid
The badly-burned village of that when coloured students
Saucats, neur Bordeaux, was arrived in Britain they were met.
the Austrian Treaty Deputies charged the
·Soviet Union with intending to repudiato debts—— incurred to privata 'Austrian firms by Soviet- run enterprises in Austria.
Helsinki, August 23. again three-quarters rlaged by by Communist agents, who gave The Deputies with eight days to go before their Sep-
the them a friendly welcome and
Only an estimated 13,000 Fin-re this afternoon
during
nish workers were on strike to- funeral of the Mayar, M. Jean shelter when most alone. day and the walkout seemed to Giraudeau, who was killed while Dr. Martin, who was criticis- be weakening. About 25,000 had fighting the flames. He has been ing the
the
th
been reported Idle on Monday. posthumously awarded the Legion coloured students in Britain in
The transport strike was re-ot tonour.--Refer. ported to be failure and fum- ber workers were back at work in large numbers.
The government has yielded to a certain extent by decreeing that pulp workers nt Kemi will be paid at the old rates-instead ' of suffering a wage cut-if they, return to work today. The Kemí workers were the first to strike against threatened wage cuts, Powered by four Bristol In Helsinki and at Turku, the Thesetis air-screw turbine engin- dock strike was complete. Some es each developing 2,500 horse- 20 police protected 38 volunteer power. the Hermes is pres- dockers at Kotka, Associated surised for sub-stratosphere fly-Press.
ing and has a maximum cruis-
ing speed of 353 miles per hour. Maximum range is 3,050 miles. During its flight tonight the Hermes V did 345 miles per hour without being at fall throttle.- Reuter.
THREE
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IN LONDON
London, August 23. Austrion Minister Washington. Dr. Ludwig ein waerhter, arrived in London by air today for talks with Dr. Karl Gruber, Austrian Foreign Minis-
Italian Police Baffled By Bandit
after
came
tember 1 deadline to draft an Austrian Treaty drifted further from agreement on the import- reception given
ant article about former German assets. September issue of the Liver-
Mr. Mallet brotight up the payment on the 45th day pool "Diocesan Leaflet" added:) question of how private Austrian the treaty came into force. "It may be weeks or months be- firms would be affected by th Otherwise, under the present fore these young-folk meet - articles' provision from a mutual | Soviet draft-Austria might have -- Christian family, and when this Austrian-Soviet waiver of claims to make her first payments only does happen, they are not always and charges arising from the dis-15 days after the treaty encouraged by the reception they posal of these assets,
into force to correspond with the receive."
Previously it had seemed that return of war booty, Mr. Mallet Thousands, of young men and there was full agreement on the said. womch from Africa and India waiver, as the paragraph dealing Mr. Zarubin
his maintained come to this country with an idea with it had boen formerly ac- propoml for a first payment en that England is a Christian coun- cepted by all four Deputies, the first day of the new monta
it Mr. Mallet said that try, and hopeful that their re
was after the treaty came into force, ception will gonerous,
limportant to make clear the So- He added that the transfer of coming and kind, he said. viet Union should not repudiate war, booty to Austria would take
gradually "In the meantime, they have debts to the considerable number place
within two found their friendships in Com- of private Austrian firms.
months of the treaty coming into force. munist circles and are well on the way to becoming, Communist The police had attempted to missionaries when they return to close in on Gulliano and his band their own land."-Reuter. in their mountain hideout yester- day after a fresh outbreak of baridit violence.
Palormo: August 23. Baffled and angry, the Italian police fell back today in face of mountain lop sniping by the Sicilian brigand chief, Salvatore Guiliano,
wel-
WINDERS' STRIKE IN LANCASHIRE PITS
Soviet Reply
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Mr. Zarubin described the United States draft for a promis- The Soviel delegate, Mr. sory note for this payment
conditional. George Zarubin, in reply
He said it did not of conform to the Geneva Conven read the old Boviet draft
tion of June 7, 1230, which, laid the paragraphs, stating that it The bandits sniped at the ad-
was in striat conformity with down rules for a simple promise vancing officers from the cave-
the Paris agreement of the 310 to pay.--Reuter. ridden mountainside near Faier
Four Foreign Ministers. mo. The
have" "ún
Mr. Mallet declared that be authorities
the bandit successfully
Manchester, August 22. cader for more than five years,
in the could only assume the Soviet About 200,000 minors The Deputy Minister of the Lancashire coal pite wars made Union intended to waive claims
Ashille Marazza Interior,
has idle today by a strike of a fowot only by the Austrian Gov-
also by private | arranged to return to Rome to- hundrod liftmen, who operate the ment, but
pit cogres night to report to his superior,.
The pit winders' stoppage WES Is known in Austria, the better. Mario Shotba, after taiks
staged against official union advice he added. Mr. Zarubin did not the Sleillan police chler.
Rumours that
a domand for higher | reply. enforce
tho Providing Austrin paid the Se- made his escape from the Sicilian wages in Yorkshire, where hills persisted in Rome today, winders started to strike on Satur-viet Union a lump-sum of US$180 Among the tales was one that day and all of the 115 plis in the million in return for Guillano had been taken to North district were expected to be af handing over of war booty, Mr. Mallet urged the first Austrion on the Austrian Treaty.-Reuter." Africa by a submarine.-Router, fected-Router.
It was thought that Dr. Klein-
thej waechter would advise Foreign Minister on the effect of American opinion of deferring the signature of the Austrian treaty or of substantial concessions Russlar
Dr. Gruber arrived. In London last Saturday. Today he paid n formal call on Mr. Ivor Malle,
the British Deputy at the talks
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