Gangsters Caged In Italy
Italian gangsters are caged in a
Naples police court ** with their trader Giuseppe Lamarca (outside cage, extreme right, dark suït) who is manacled, they face 51 charges of hold up, theft, blackmail and attacks ca pelice. At left Dr. Lutgl Caporale, defence attorney for the men, reads a statement
to the court. Lamarca has written his will, leaving a house to Caporale. This house, says the bandit, will become a "holy thrine" visited by thousands of pilgrims during Holy Year. (Associated Press Photo).
AMERICA ACCUSED OF SETTING UP BASES IN SPAIN
Plans To Re-Arm Italy Discussed
Rome, November 14. Plans to te-arm Italy under the Atlantic Pact were discuss- ed in Rome today at a meeting of US and Italian officers and diplomats.
military
Moscow, November 14.
V. V. Borovsky, writing in "Pravda", charged today that all Spain's airports, harbours and naval bases have been rebuilt and ex- panded with the aid and under supervision of American experts.
The Iberian peninsula is being prepared for use as
on American military base, he said. Borovsky said the recent Iberian Pact to the new conditions in Spain of and to prepare technical details courtesy visits Admiral Conolly, Rear Ad-connected with Spain's adherence miral Maning and Generals the Atlantic Pact." Douglas were nothing but The U.S. Ambassador to Italy, inspection tours of the Mr. James C. Dunn, ended the first of a series of closed sessions American military bases con- and re-trolling Franco's army and construction in treaty limited strategic arried forces under the Atlantic Spain." Pact defence system.
aimed at modernising equipping italy's
"Anti-Franco“
The paper declared all these
preparations of the
THE CHINA-MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1949.
Pontiff On Distortion Of Justice.
Vatican City, November 14.
- The Pope, in a speech published here today,··2%+ clared that the administra tion ef. Justice in many coun tries had reached a crisis De. cause-of- the distortion or Justice by State absolutism.
The Pope said that the cause of the orals Tay in the Abhit between true and Talze law, - „ The simple Tact of be-
ing declared compulsory by a legislative body is not sand- clent fo create trile law," he said.
Eight days 200, the Pops feld-Italian Cathelle Jurista that no Cathalle Judge could rightly grant a civil divorce except for reasons of the
utmost importance.---Reuter.
SERETSE KHAMA INQUIRY
Serowe, Bechuanaland,
November 14. Native drums were throb- bing overtime today in the windy, sun-baked village of
Serowe telling the Bamang.
Britain Forming ARP System
For Atomic War
London, November 14.
Britain called today for volunteers for a civil de fence corps to be trained for an atomic war" This does not mean that war is likely," said the
Home Secretary, Mr. Chuter Ede.
"It is a common sense way of ensuring that our system of national defence is com plete."
Mr. Ede spoke at a news con- ference at which he announced that active, retruiting will begin throughout the nation on Tuesday for the defence corps authorised by Parliament last summer.
corps
The swid succeed the war- time Civilian Defenec. Corps which was dissolved in 1945 after seeing Britain through the
h the Nazi hiltz
BRITONS HELPING GREECE
Athens, November 14. British experts are work- ling in Athers to help more "Some people are still inclined, than 20,000 Greek people who to say that the atom bomb has have artificial limbs.
eliminated all possibility of coping
with air activity in future,” Mr. Albert E-Whiting has arrived Ede said. We do not take this in Athens from England, for four view.
months to advise artificial limb
"I do not know if atom bombsfactories here and at Salonika. are ever likely to be used against He will be Assisted by Dr. St us or, if so, in what numbers.
Jcha Euxton, orthopedic surgeon. Both were in Greece last March to study the local artificial limb programme.
Better To Be Prepared
"But two things are certain. The atom bomb has not remov. ed.the.possiblity of those forms of attack against which civil defence was so useful fast time
And it is better to make some
Mr. Ede said that volunteers in
Because Greece's two state arti- ficial limb factories are to meet heavy demands of the unable
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wato tribesmen of the closing preparations for this stages of Seretse. Khama's "We believe civil defence is not battle for the Chieftainship of less but of mere importance and the future of his white that before." Queen, the former London typist Ruth Williams.
The Commission of Inquiry ap pointed by the British Govern- Civilian defence against the ment to decide their fate re-open-atom bomb would be a feature amputees.
Ev ed today after its return from the campaign, Mr. Ede said. A
To provide a further supply of Lobatsi,
the handbook is being produced for artificial lirahs, an American with where it heard evidence of Tshekedi Khama, instruction en methods of mini-ECA's Public Health Division, Dr. Seretse's uncle and former Regent mising the effects of radiation and P. A. Linquist, is now in Western 0% the tribe.
other action should an atom bomb
find an additional fall. he said. Associated Press Europe to
source of supply. - and Reuter,
The major cost of the project, as well as that of sending twe Greek technicians to England for further study and training, is being met by ECA's technical as- sistance programme.-Associated Press.
Tshekedi opposes Seratse's ac cession to the chieftainship on the grounds of his marriage to a white
woman.
The only witness today was an. other of Seretse's uncles, Seragola, said that as soon as the mar« riage was known, Seretse's uncles advised him to leave Ruth but he
who
refusedribal 'meeting decision
which later accepted Seretse and his wife was perfectly-degai, Seragola daimed, and added that the tribe was even more willing now to accept Seretse as chief.
American money
army lack only one factor the Spanish people."
"Pravda" published a map of
The Spanish people had not The talks are expected to last Spain, which originally appeared forgotten anything had not for about a fortnight. They are being in the Spanish
gotten the non-intervention policy heid in the Italian Foreign Ofice paper, "Mundo Obrero," showing of the Western powers which Mr. Leonard Unger, U.S. State 54 large airports, 37 landing fields brought Franco to power, it said. and eight bases for naval aircraft Department representative
all built or being expanded under indicated that U.S. arms Italy, shipments t Italy will begin the leadership of Americans and soon after enapletion of the talks, placed entirely under Americar The Italian Defence Linister.control. Randolfo Pacciardi, after
recent
"Pravda" died British sources claiming that about 95 per cent of the Spanish people oppose Franco, "Pravda corcluded: "Hundreds
of millions of people in the entire The article stid, for instance, world ardently sympathise with visit to Washington, said the that Baracas airport near Madrid. the Spanish people struggling United States had assured Italy's Spain's largest, has been under with arms in hands for biberation defence needs.-Associated Press. American control since 1944. The from the fascist dictatorship and
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As far as he knew, Seragela,
London, November 14, said, Seretse was receiving no deprived of the right to belong
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M. Gomulka, once the Secre will be put into service on Tshekodi was stin drawing the £1,300 a year which Brilam paid (Communist Party, fell from Lydia, Palestine, the
tary-General of the Workers Tuesday between London and British
was
to the tribal chief. Those mem- bers of the tribe who could a-Power in September, 1943, when Overseas Airways Corporation ford it paid Seretse something of he
The Governement-owned air- their o parte seil, national cused of pro-Tito announced tonight.
Last week, the Polish Deputy sine said the trip will take less sociated Press.
Minister of Defence, M. Edward than 12 hours in the new Cana Ochab, accused M. Comalks of diat-made. Argonaut pressurised
weakening the confidence of the airliners. Polish people in the Soviet
BUAC'S York bilanės, which Union."Reuter.
have been in use on the London- Lydda route, take over 18 hours for the journey.
PERSIAN VOTING PAPERS BURNED
Teheran, November 14 Persia has burned all the and cancelled
airfield, which can accommodate the new interventionists, Ameri-voting papers Franco's entire air force, recently can imperialists."United Press.
was inspected by Admiral Cutter, chiet of the United States Army Transport Command, and Colonel D. Robertson, commander of the American air force in Germany, it sald,
"Pravda"
zisc charged that similarly Spain's 44 harbours had recently been modernised at a
missions.
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Rangoon, November 14.
Government naval forces shell-
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The Argonant is similar to the British Douglas DC-8 but has Jin-line engines-Associated Press.
REWARDS FOR INFORMERS
London, November 14.
Exche The Chancellor of the
the trecent Parliamentary elec- tions because of the "incom- petence of certain election offi-ed concentrations of Karen rebels. cials, inadequate protection of near the Irrawaddy Delta rice
town of Frapon and destroyed ballot boxes and other re two rebel-held villages, Goveraquer, Sir Stafford Cripps, disclos- gularities.
ment communique said today.
ed that the Government will pay The rebels filed, leaving three rewards to "Lipsters" who inform authorities af vications of British Government troops also attack-currency control acts.
The rewards, which will pre- | ed· a rebel, village-near the main
sumably
for tips on sach paid
A communique today from the Bridgetown, Nova Scotia, Electoral Supervisory Committee
November 14.
said that Shah Mohammed Reza Otto Strasser, former Pahlevi would not open Parlia
dead.
ue said.
question.
cost of 4300,000,000 pesetas by follower of Hitler, today tele-mexit until after his retur, from rice port of Moulmein, on the violation as angging of gold American military specialists. The phed to the United Nations the United States, which was not Gulf of Martaban, the communiq-2nd cizrency, will be sanctioned ir i
Secretary-Generalcould obtain mant
Trygve expected before the end of next harbours were periodically being
nta.
investigation provès them to be of inspected by American militaryLie, asking how he cou
The rebels retreated after two value in detecting violations, Sir Germany.
by the Nomination of Senators permission to return to
Dr. Strasser, who was expelled Shah will also swalt his return. hour feeding in which Stafford told the House of Con-
the Nail Party in 1931, He is due to leave for the United Diey suffered heavy casualties, it. mons in reply to a "Cannon Fodder"
United Press. lived in
Slates in President Truman's-own was claimed, Reuter. varinthep he has aircraft, "Madenendence”- tomor-
parts of Europe. until 1941. Morever, Borovsky said Amebeen living 1:
Canada
He has row-Reuter ricans were working out a pre-made many vain requests to be jest to co-ordinate the construcllowed to return to Europe. tion of railroads on the entire The former Nari official bas! tberian peningula 10 figk all declared that he wants to start' in navat, air and land communica Germany a sew political party, tions" in Spain and Portugal anti-Commwit but not Fascist
with the French border.
At the same time the 'newspa- per charged that in anticipation
#demand for of the American Lcannon fodder," France is inten
sifying the military training of youth as evidenced by plans for a "youth front" which will train 330000 next year" compared to 70,000 last year.
it added that the Spanish-Por- tuguese alliance, concluded in 1947 and intended for the bencht
-Reuter
Pretoria, November 14. A direct radio telephone · sez- vice between South Africa and be United States opened this I-morning-Associated Press.
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