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British tanks go into action in Asmara riots
Asmara, February 23.
British troops with tanks went into action hero today to break into buildings whore riotars were hiding in the third consecutive day of Christian-Moslem clashes, in which 41 people have been killed.
At times during the day the situation in the Eritrean capital seemed completely out of hand. But at sunset British troops appeared to have things under control.
GRAZIANI HATER OF BRITAIN
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1950.
DON
IDDON'S
DIARY
Problem in arithmetic
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While the British argue about, tragedy, it thinks it would be a Imagine theso skyscrapers crum- petrol and pensions, Americans blessing.
bling." debalo war and peace, This The most starting example of I find that more people seems to
cocked how low country has had its ear
our estate, has fallen be standing stockstill
at the soaring for
moral message under Labour, was given the other ing upwards a resounding from Mr. Attice or Mr. Churchill, day when there were recurrent towers, but perhaps they're only or perhaps both, on the subject reports here that the United tourists.
goodness there's been of the hydrogen hell-bomb. States and Rukala might most for
For this reason, Mr. chill's clear
most devastating weapon. Indication that he Just the U.S. and the would seek talks with Marshal No mention of Britain. Nothing No hydrogen cocktails_yet," no Stalin challenges attention here, about the Big Three; just the Big hydrogen strip-teasers. Even the taking him out of the arena Two
hucksters haven't the heart yet Under Labour we have' come to cash in on contemplated cala- Fire-raisers hid when police routine election speeches, patty patrols appeared and then narges, and countercharges that to be considered a big Power no mity.
The little people struggle on. started new fires. During the have flowed from British politi-longer, but a little country run
by_little men. clans.
There is a local drive against the day, the worst of the three days
Until now chain-reaction which The statement by Mr. Strachey untidy streets, and litterus of disorders, there were 24 the H-bomb has set off seems to that only 250 persons in Britain being fined for cluttering fires
with - chewing-gum in Moslem shops and have produced only the squeak of now have £5,000, or $14,000, per pavementa wooden stalls in markets.
a popgun in Britain, the noises of year after taxes
wrappers, paper napkins, cigar- Several times rioters set fire to
etto on - down to sine.
Cellophane unimportant partisanship,
cartons, and buildings in one part of the city sues which are minor against the American aim
wrappers.
New York is determined to face offer calling the fire brigade to an- background of the bomb.
The United States, under Pro- other
the by false alarms.
"the end future
with its Rome, February 23.
Sooner the better
sklont Truman, has The police fired on looters, kill-
sot its goal face scrubbed. Former Italian Marshalling two and injuring others. The sooner the election is over of a minimum annual income The American taxpayer, hear Rodolfo Graziani told a Mili- After this looting stopped, but the better. Then perhaps Britain within 50 years of $12,000. Ifing the Socialist shout of "Fair
grenades tary Tribunal here today that hand
into will tackle the job of breaking Strachey is allowed to pursue his shares," points out that he he "always has and always groups of people wounded nine. the atomic impasse between Rus- course, and Mr. Truman succeeds already contributed his
The police arrested more than will hate Britain-the enemy 150 people.
sia and the United States.
in pursuing his, then the richest British idealis
and
British man in Britain will have no more of Italy."
The wounded were callmated The 18-year-old Graziani, self-at about 130, all Coptic Christians moral force are noted. America than the poorest man in America. feels lonely and perturbed in the The American minimum will assured and confident, is facing and Moslems.
hydrogen wasteland while the equal the British maximum. 16 his second trial for collaboration
Meat shortage foared
Buddenly it is the veteran Basil- British wrangle among them that what Btrachey wantst with the Nazis. His first trial be- The Ave-Power United Nations selves about devaluation, nation- With the bomb and the election Rathbone, of Liverpool, London, is being fore a Civil Court was abandoned
Commission, now at work inalisation, the dollar famine, and occupying
American thought and Hollywood, who last February because the Court Asmara inquiring into the future other meagre matters,
there hasn't been much room for showered with praise on Broad- declared itself incompetent
of the former Italian colony of
way. There is a lot of war talk here. less serious subjects, deal with military matters.
Every
Rathbone, whose cigarette-cRIO Valentine's there is a new casa-1 St. The burly, grey-haired former Eritrea, today appealed to the Commander denied charges the population 10 cense violence.
tion: Stalin is said to be set to strangely out of place in the has a Union Jack imprinted on The disturbances began when
little sentimental the metal, stars in the revival of "The Heiress." The critics and he had sent Itallans into forced Shifts-members of pro-Ethiopian labour camps In Germany and had
a procession of 4,000 Moslems at: permitted reprisals by the Nazis bands-threw three grenades into Yugoslavia the next.
The American atmosphere lions. The Fifth avenue stores the audiences say his perform- against Hallan partisans.
of a rann killed by full of fear. A Russian ultimatum are decorated with scarlet hearts ance is probably the greatest of
But his career. is considered possible, and there and cupids and love-birds. Graziani, wearing a grey, military
The announcement that ships how can one read couplets about tunte with live rows of medal rib-Shifta the day before.
For the first time Moslem dead are warnings of merchant
bomb's bons and no insignia of rank, had
or even lovers while scientists and poll-Sadier's Wells Ballet will return 1oft
the secreting atom unburied In
to the United States in the au- word เส on the floor of the Court
chair
Lielans drone on about death? stracts, in defiance of tradition, worse in American harbours.
an 18-week coast-to- moved on to the Judge's dins so
An odd kind of arithmetic is New Yorkers stroll the shining tumn an that he could respond to the in-
because people were afraid of being
kill shops, peer at the red-and-gold coast tour has made Americans shot at while burying
20,000,000 Americans in one blast show-cases and the massed ar- very happy.
Valentine heart-shaped The success of Sir Laurenco Christian dend were taken to Or only 10,000,0007 Maybe only rays of
Olivier's "Hamlet" in the popu while under the cemetery by lorry under mill-half of New York would be de-chocolate
cinemas is so great tory escort.
molished by the Arst hydrogen their arms they carry the latest lar-priced
the film will make repent latest horrors that explosion.
performances on the big theatre cireults here.
was
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reply branched out into a speech, interrupted for
enraughts of mineral
water from the large bottle on a table at his elbow.
the
them.
During the afternoon a Moslem named Hal Ibrahim was stabbed in the middle of a street. His as- sallants were cutting his left arm when the police arrived and they
Grazian was so-called Minister of Defence in the Republic which Benito Mussolini set up under German sponsorship in Northern Italy in October, 1943, after his
The city faces a probable meat dramatic rescue from Italian ar-shortage tomorrow, because the cattle market and slaughter houses
тебя rest.
Explaining to the Tribunal of five generals why he co-operated with the Nazis, Graziani said: "I have had no great liking for the Fascists, and even less for the Germans, whom I was taught to hate from early youth.
"My intention at the end (of the war) was to remain neutral and I accepted the post of Minister of Defence only after I got the impression that by doing this I could diminish the evils in store for Italy."
He said that the Nazis felt they had been betrayed by Italy and wanted to make reprisals. He felt that his action would soften,
fled.
in the African quarter were closed.
Libya election
In Tripoli, Ahmed Sef Ennascer, a Senunssl leader, has been elected head of the former Italian colony of the Fezzan, one of the three Libyan Provinces, at a general meeting of tribes.
A council of six members will help him to deal with the affairs of the Fezzan, now under French administration and due to become independent next year under a United Nations decision applying to the whole of Libya.
Discussions were recently held between Dr. Adrian Pelt, United
if not obviate, these reprisals. The Nations Commissioner for Libya, trial was adjourned until tomor- and the French Government about row-Reuter.
ESPIONAGE
TRIAL
Beme, February 23. A 47-year-old Swiss sireralt
mechanic went on trial here to- day charged with having sold im- portant military information to the British, French and United States Secret Services.
He possiblity of setting up some
interim representative. dy in the Fezzan.
forra body
A lead in the grant of a transi- tional form of
of local autonomy in Libya was taken by Britain last Government of the Emir Idris el year in recognising the Cyrenaican Senusel for control of internal af- fairs,
take over Finland one day and H-age. The
cards have been sent out la mil-
current, Will
the H-bomb
edition
boxes,
of the
It is a queer climate in which smoking from the presses,
States im to live. The United patiently waits for February 19 and the forming of a British Government that will assist in the search for an alternative to a war of ext
extermination,
The election being
and ex thoroughly reported haustively discussed, but some of the statements by Socialist states- men appear to the Americans as nonsense.
nos-
There is even a curious talgia here for the Atom Age. The popular mood is to look back on the distant days when the atom bomb, not the hydrogen-bomb, was the worst that man could. devise. Life was relatively simple then. Only 100,000 human beings could be wiped out with a single blast. Now the headling-writers substitute H for A and the selen- tists substitute millions for thou sands.
For instance, Mr. Bevin is re-
I think that. New York is more ported as saying that he hasn't visited a country which doesn't conscious of the terror that could
a tragedy if fall than any other elty. think "it would be Labour is not returned to office." is the target for tomorrow.
Но must have overlooked Residents here, with a sort of
The America.
town United States dreadful prido, say: "This doesn't think it would be a would be the obvious bullseye.
World churches end
The
council session
Gonova February 23.
Executive Committee of the World Council of Churches today ended a three-day session at the Chateau de Bossey, near here. Va The final action carried out, cured had committed murder. by the Committee was the pre- paration of a statement on the right attitude of Christians to- the hydrogen bomb, which will be released tomor row morning.
During the war Ahmed Sef En- nasser led a small force of his tribesmen with the Free French troops of General Le Clerc. These
wards to drove the Italians from the Fezzan.
The man, Willi Gerber, pleaded, guity. He said he had handed
inllitary information
over Colonel Seret, of the French Secret Service, the, French officer. who was killed with Count Berna- dotte, the Palestine Mediator, in Palestine,
Gerber said that before the war he had been paid 600 Swiss francs monthly by the British and 400 franes by the French. Since the death sentence has been abolished in Switzerland, Gerber faces pos- sible life imprisonment.-Reuter.
JET TRAGEDY
Stockholm, February 23, Hans Victor Lundin, a 28-year- old aircraft mechanic, was suck- ed into the air intake of a Swedish jet fighter today and killed. Instantly, it was reported in Stockholm tonight-Associated
Prces.
-Router.
RUSSIANS. HOLD
UP BARGES
Berlin, February 23. Seven barges containing 2,500 tons of scrap metal were held up at the Soviet zone frontler today, a British spokesman reported.
At Helmstedt, on the British zone end of the Autobahn, the queue of waiting lorries increased
The Executive Committee decid- ed to recommend that member churches of the World Council' Churches should take up with their respective Governments the question of war criminals with a view to speeding up the trials in the hope that all such cases might be finished this year.
Dr. Mare Boegner, President of the Federation of French Protes tant Churches, told the Executive Committee that he had made re- presentations to the President of the French Republic against the law of 1040 which required soners, who had been incorporated. during the war into Nazi organi-. sations, classified
"war criminals," to prove their "inno-
cence.
over
The Executive Committee de- cided to send a message to Archbishop Spyridon; of Athens, expressing the Committee's indig- Dr. Martini Niemoeller, of Ger- | nation
the abduction to many, stressed the Inhumanity of countries of Eastern Europe of the present long delays in bring-20,000 Greek children during the ing the accused to justice.
recent civil war
The Primate of Norway,
Bishop Berggrav, sald that 8,000, Greek parents had petitioned the various Governments concerned but not a single child had been returned."
Bishop Berggrav. added that these Governments had alleged in their replies that the signatures to this petition had been obtained by force Router.
to 100.
For one hour in the middle of the day the Soviet check-point Dr. Niemceller said that in oficials refused to
pass any Russia whole categories of pri- vehicles at all. During the after- soners of war-estimated at 40,000 noon they were going through in-had been sentenced as war the Berlin direction: at the rate criminals. of six an hour..
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