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security police, it was alleged by the official, Evan Kariavanov, Director of the Institute for International Policy at the Foreign Ministry, in the Yugoslav Communist Party newspaper, "Borba."
is no
The object of the coming trial, Sofia" will be more interesting was to intimidate malcontents, than the Budapest premiere be including an enormous me cause there is much richer ma of peasants, and also Tito symterial.
Kostov, he wrote, was in fact pathisers of which there small number.
"a Trotzkyist" and a spy, and Kariavanov
this had been well known to the Yugoslays, who had been warning the Bulgarian Co., munist Party about it.
said that Here latest performance in the Com- inform theatre had been post- posed because the chief actor unlike the famous Rajk, still did not know his part well enough.
He said that the second per- formance of the burlesque in
ARREST OF CANON
Prague, October 16. Roman Catholic sources re- ported today that Monsignor Svec. Canon of Prague's ancient St. Vitus Cathedral, has been arrested.
Kostov, relieved of his Govern ment posts in April, was arrested in July under the section of the Penal Code dealing with "econo- mic sabotage.
be con-
small 20
SHELLS FALL
IN SAIGON
and
London, October 16. New Delhi Radio reported tonight, that Salgon, the prin.... cipal port
capital of Cochin-China, was shelled last night by Vietminh forces (Indo-Chinese autonomists) who are in conflict with the French-sponsored new State of Vietnam.
A few shells fell near • French warship, the repart added. Some ezsualties were
· caused.—Reufer.
BELGRADE DESIRES PEACE
CLASH INEVITABLE IN JAVA, ACCORDING TO
JOGJAKARTA
Batavia, October 16.
SULTAN
The Republican Minister of Defence said today that he fears that the uneasy U.N. truce with the
· Dutch will blow up in East Java, and spread open warfare throughout Java and Sumatra. Sultan Hamengku Buwono of Jogjakarta made this statement on his return to the Republican capital from Batavia, where he conferred` during the past few days with the Dutch High Commissioner of the Crown, H. J. Lovink
The Sultan said: "The rapidly arresting Republican civil deteriorating situation in East vants,
side
ed forces or civilians of the other party," the communique stated.
It added that the Dutch au- thorities are considering what steps should be taken.
Refugees From
Central Java
ties and if the Dutch continue to i were outlawed in the corse has.") 51st-mainly of Indonesian police-
their
Streams of refugees from Cen- -tral Java areas, where Dutch troops have been withdrawn, or- rived today at Sourabaya and others centres where the Dutch Army is in force, usually reliable ser-Dutch sources said here tonight.
The refugees were said to con- Java is full of explosive possibi!}- Such actions, by either
civil servants and meri," Dekhe fertilities agreement of early Augustamatter, and Chines who fear- ed that an armed clash is not only Under it differences were to be at to remain in towns occupied Belgrade, October 18. The Yugoslav Foreign Minis inevitable but will soon spread to settled through a local joint board by Republican troops." ter. Edvard Karse... today ex- the whole of Java and Sumatra." with the help of United Nations
He referred to the trouble the military observers. pressed his come to a "try's desire to
settlement Dutch- and Republicans are hav- with Russta but reiterated its ing to get along in the area where
determination not
to yield the two armies are intermingled.
Earlier, the Dutch unofficially ac-acute of all, incidents of a threats and pressure." The position
firm
Lo
was outlined in cused the Republicans of trying
Belgrade for the Girst time in to surround Netherlands Army
now.
articles given prominence in the outposts to better the Republican official press to replies that M. military position. The Republi-
the attending Kardelj
eans accused the Dutch of dis- United Nations General Assem-arming Republican soldiers and bly in New York-gave to a re- presentative the Egyptian newspaper, Akbar el Jom," October 6,
of
on
Dutch Surprise
The Sultan said: "While the situation in East Java is most
similar nature are in evidence:
There was no officia! firmation tonight
Cart: of reports
looted and
the area
that guerillas had fired houses in evacuated by the Dutch.
Government The Netherlands
over other areas of java. and expected to grant sovereignty to. Sumatra."
Indonesia on December 15 this year. In its session on Monday the Dutch Cabinet will decide on that date, at The
The Hague said November has been set asta
An official communique of the Dutch government in Batavia ex- pressed astonishment at the state ment
According to the communique,
informed source.
The penalty for this crime is death or life imprisonment.
of the United Nations but the Sultan's statement is a viola- target for ending the round table "All those who sympathise with Tito's Yugoslavia will
Since the answers were given, also in charges and counter-tion of the cease fire manual. By conference and within six weeks date the agreements nected with the monstrous Soña the 18-month-old cold war be-charges which have been ung accepting the manual, the parties after that tween Marshal Tito's Yugoslavia back and forth during the past agreed to
radio reached must be, ratified, accord- décision taken some number. of these," Kariavanev and the Russian-derinsted Com- week as the Communist family broadcasts, press reports or any ing to a
2go.-Associated Press has increased in saldi.
in raw reached its highest pitch. Lorm of They would be accused aftensity not only in the Councils Associated Press. everything.
trial and there
Policy Unpopular
He alleged that the Cominform-
St. Vitus is the church of Archbishop Josef Beran, Catholicspired policy of the Bulgarian Government was thoroughly un- Primate of Czechoslovakia who popular and had led to a steep says he has been interned" by crisis, agricultural, industrial and the Government in his palace for financial the last four months.
Petro Kunim, Bulgaria's Fin- ance Minister, had been recent. ly fired and probably arrested. Stephan Tonchiey, the Minister of Railroads, had been removed and the chief of the Railroad Directorate arrested. The
gr at opposition to the ment-sponsored Church Control Government was among Bill which Parliament adopted on transport workers, Kariavanov Friday.
alleged, and a special directorate had been formed "to knock a bit of sease into them."
Churchmen said that Monsignor Svec, who was an inmate of Nazi concentration camps during the way, had been seized on Friday)
Reasons for his arrest Wêre not known but it may have be opposition to the new Govern
Church sources report that more than 200 priests have been gaoled for opposition to this mea- Sure, which makes all clergymen civil servants in the pay of the State but also makes their ap- pointment subject to State ap- proval. Associated Press.
Haganah Man On A Grave Chargel
Tel Aviv, October 16. Lieutenant Colonel Isser Beer,
former intelligence chief of the
Jewish Defence Force, the Haga- nah, today pleaded not guilty to the manslaughter of Captain Meir Tubiansky, who was shot as a spy on June 30 last
year and
later declared to be innocent
Capain Tubiansky was - ecuted by a fring squad after
the
to
The Bulgarian Government had allegedly asked Russia send special instructors.
Among other signs of crisis in Bulgaria, Kariavanov said, was discontent among the workers. Miners, he claimed, were fleeing to their villages where they could get more bread.
The
Government's "muddle- headed policy had alienated the majority of the poor and middle peasants who had ceased carry- ing out the sowing plan.
This resulted in a dearth of wheat this year and forced Bulgarian leaders to borrow 160,000 20 from Russia;
Yerge Of Collapse
"This policy has led But. garia to the verge of collapse, and the trial of Kostov is an attempt to justify the position," Karlavanny said.
Eight more members of the being sentenced by a summary Central Committee of the Bul- court-martial,
whose members garian Communist Party. Karia. included Colonel Beeri. for alvanov added, were at present in lezed espionage during the shel- prison, in addition to Kostov and ling
Jerusalem in May- his brother-in-law, Topencharov. June 1948,
Kontion Georgiev, former Pre- After months of investigation mier and now Minister for the the Israeli Premier, Mr. David
Five-Year Plan, was also declar- declared the sened by Kariavanov to be known
miscarriage
ned this
opened morning.
Ben Guzior
Ma (deplorable tence "a the telephone and sur Technician of justice. Colonel Beeri's trial by political quarters to, be in before Tel Aviv's District Court contact with foreign information I am very quarters and Kostov was only ex-
routing" Georgiev's orders. Sorry indeed, to prosecute the
All these, accused, who I believed acted in
Kariavanov said,
suspecti good faith, thanking that he was were known as
teat performing his duty," said the were allowed for other reasons to Attorney General, Yarcov Shapiro occupy the highest posts in the
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