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TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1950.
POLICE CLASH WITH DEMONSTRATORS IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE
London, May 7.
Mounted police and riot squads clashed with crowds making a belated May
Day demonstration in Trafalgar Square today.
The demonstration extended to Oxford Street, about
mile away, where
mounted officers rode into crowds which were throwing traffic into
confusion.
FATE OF BRITISH TRAWLER
London, May 7.
The disappearance of a British trawler in the White
Some of the demonstrators with slogans carried banners
of a Communist flavour. One pincard read, "We want peace. The American warmongers."
There were several bond-to- hand clashes between foot police! and demonstrators.
Many banners were torn from the hands of marchers, and their wooden standards broken.
DRAMA OF MISSING TRAWLER
London, May 7: Similar disorders were reported
A voice, believed to be that from Tottenham Court Road near Oxford Street. Groups of vary of the skipper, Alexander Sen is expected to be the sub-ing sizes, starting from different Smith, of the Welsh trawler, places, attempted to converge on Milford Viscount-missing in
Trattle was ject of questions in
Trafalgar Square. House of Commons this week.
the
The 337-ton Grimsby trawler, Etruria, seven days ago sent a message: "Russian naval party bourdings."
All the efforts of the Foreign Oillee sien to get information from Moscow have met the same blank silence as had followed this Inst signal, Wives, relatives and shipmates of the 20 men missing with the Eirurla have waited for news all week.
The "Sunday Express said to- day that an impenetrable dark- ness covers Husslu,
"An American aeroplane touch ed the fringe of this dark world. It vanished.
"A Briksh trawler also camd near the fringe of the land of mystery and darkness. Both ship and crew have vanished.
"More than 1,500,000 Germans
of
held up for time in the Strand. the Atlantic for three weeks Police rode their horses on pave-came over the loudspeaker ments to make shouting groups at a Scottish lighthouse to-j move along.
day while his brother, Wi- llam, sat transfixed by the radio.
for-
Political processions are bidden by a Home Office Order.
It was not apparent immediately who had organised the demon-
stration.
60 detained
William Smith was convinieed it! was his brother who, with his crew of 22, had twice been given up as lost, presumed dead.
The volce-weak but distinct
•
Dutch festival of tulips
tablezu, doplating a horse pulling cart, made of spring flowers, is soon passing through a Dutch villaga during the Tulip Festival held in the Dutch bulb ares recently. Bearen of flower decked wagons paraded through, the villages of Lee, Hillegom, Sassenheim, etc.
-Associated Press Photo,
Call for
restoration
of Germany's economy
Washington, May 1,
The police detained 60 peo- ple, 31 of whom will appear on was heard to say: "This might be various charges In London my last call. Batteries going flat. 40 minutes courts tomorrow. Position 72 degrees magistrates' following the turbulent scenes. North 17 West." Communist and left wing de-
This would place the vessel The monstrators, carrying banners North of Iceland and East of
"The with the slogan, "Peace,"
that
the North Atlantle driti War In Malaya" and "Down With Greenland. Local shermen said The Atom Bomb," clashed with could have carried the Milford hundreds of foot and mounted Viscount there. police in and near Trafalgar
Wam Smith and a lighthouse; Square while attempting to defy the ban on political processions keeper heard the message at 4.30
"Once allowed to enter they "But they desperately need this morning at Tarbat Ness light- in metropolitan London.
prevent house, near Inverness. They could jobs that could come from in- could not be thrown out except The ban, Imposed to further clashes between support- not reply for the lighthouse radio dustrial expansion and they by force. The seizure of Berlin want to share in restored Euro- would open the way for a Com- ers and opponents of Sir Oswald can only receive, not transmit, Mosley, pre-war British Fascist
They contacted the Admiralty, pean economy and help make munist campaign of irresistible pressure to destroy the German Republic. But as long as Western was recently renewed for another and an urgent call went out to all it a going concern
trawlers and other vessels to look at security is not in dis- and freedom to all Germans, St- Soviet aggression. Berlin remains a symbol of hope three months.
Police grappled with demon- out for the Milford Viscount and
mantling German plants or in in cannot consolidate his grip on the Square Itself, listen for any further signals. atrators in
separating of German territory East Germany or subjugate the traditional site of public meetings
but in restoring German econo- Western republie"-United Press.] at the foot of the Nelson Column, others back at the
my, thus strengthening her pre- and turned
sent friendly Government and head of nearby Downing Street,
enabling Germany to play a con- where the Prime Minister, Mr. Prague, May 7.
structive part in building a new President
Gottwald Clement Attlee, lives and works| Klement
Europe." and all the members of the Cze-at No. 10,
Banked Government, choslovak
the Soviet/ by delegations from Unian and Eastern Europe, today watched a giant parade. In Wen- ceslas Square in the heart of Prague to celebrate the fifth an- niversary of the city's liberation by the Red Army.
American Federation of Labour today called for restored German economy, Gorman economic integration with Western Europe and pro- tection of Berlin from any Communist conquest.
In a monthly survey of the international scene circulated to all of its mem
bers, the AFL said, "The German people do not want Communism.
are simply stated to have vanish ed. Billions of civilluns, deported from: the Eastern province Germany, have vanished. So have millions of Japanese. The civilis- ed world holds no more herrity. ing problem."-Reuter.
PRAGUE PARADE
Delegations from the British, French, Italian and other Com munist parties were also grouped round the Government party.
A two-hour parade of armour, artillery and other weapons be-
Mosley speech
marchers'
The area of the search is about 100 miles inside the Arctle Circle to the North of Denmark Strait.
A United States Air Force B-27 bomber took off from Iceland this afternoon to search for the Mil- ford Viscount.
secure
way of integrating
The survey supported the sug- gestion for a permanent Atlantic A Royal Navy spokesman at council to deal with economic, Hand-to-hand struggles be the Forth naval base at Rosyth, political and military problems.
It said, "Such a council would tween the demonstrators and po Scotland, said a message about lice occurred in various parts of the radio signal received at Tar- provide a the West End, including the Ox-bat Ness was being sent to the Germany into the Atlantic com- ford Street shopping centre, ne ashery protection sloop, Cygact, munity of nations. Germany's thousands converged on Trafalgar which was off the North West Participation is greatly needed Square for a rally called by the Irish coast on her way to Iceland, and any danger of her dominating the group would be averted by of the strongest London Trades Council.
seized Constables
But Mr. J. C. Ward, managing the presence
including the United powers, banners,
tore them up and smash- director of the Milford Steam
States," Trawling Company, the Viscount's ed the wa
sticks, Police on
on horseback rode their owners, described her reported horses among murchers in the position as completely and abso- tween lanes formed by blue-Strand, which opens into Tratal-lutely fantastic. After saying he averatled workers' militiamen gar Square. Police also broke up was glad a search was still being
followed by a three-hour
reach made, he declared: "If the radio march-past of students, school another party trying to
Trafalgar
Square from the North. message received at Tarbat Ness children, members of various
Mosiey
today addressed about is a hoax, it is a shocking thing." workers' organisations and other
people in Ridley Road, East Reuter, popular bodies-Reuter..
London district with Jewish population-and-the-scene of repeated post-war fights be- and anti- tween his supporters Suez, May 7.
Fascists. The Dutch motorship Tabinta,
About 200 police stood by to with 1,040 men from Jakarta, ar-
to control the meeting-Associated rived here today en route
Pres and Reuter. AmsterdamAssociated Press.
was
large
Strike threat in Finland averted
Helsinki, May 7. Finland's Trade Union Federation and employers to night resched an agreement on wages and averted a gen- eral strike callad for tomar.
row.
Under the agreement wages will be increased before being pegged to the cost of living index, so that they will than keep in step with prices, Reuter.
Berlin danger Turning to the Invasion of Berlin threatened by the East German Communists on May! 28, the Survey said that safety) smM of the olty depends on the Allied occupation forces
SOVIET RUSSIAN PRODUCTION
Moscow, May. 7.
The Central Statistical Ad- ministration of 'the USSR an-
nounced industrial production in the Soviet Union for the firat. quarter of 1950 as 22 per cent higher than in the first quarter of 1949. (Annual production. figures are (not given).'
The communique sald that al- though production rose markedly In the Brat quarter of this year, some individual ministrica did not meet their quarterly plan. production quotas. This was lald' io failure to fulfill January as- signments because of lack of pre- paredness of a number of enter priscs for difficult conditions of this year's winter.
However, the statement added, In February and especially in March, the under-fulfillment of the January plan was made up in significant menfura Associated Press,
TRAIN HITS MINE
ARMS SHIP It said, "Berlin is an island of
Cherbourg, May 7. freedam completely surrounded
The United States cargo ship, by Soviet tyranny. If under the guise of the May-28-youth rally, American Clipper, bringing 1,500
-Trtonbul, -May-7. Of American arms for 500,000 Moscow-directed young tons Wausau, Wisconsin, May 7.
Two were killed and two others. France, arrived here, tonight. Mr. Ralph Kromenwetter, Mayor German Communists peacefully
the second American critically injured when a Greek of Mosinee, Wisconsin, who was march into Western Berlin they This is dragged from his bed during a can foment strike and civil war arms ship to arrive in Cherbourg reconnaissance train
the United States pro- mine in the Turkish-Greek-Bul- mock May Day Communist coup, and by familiar methods attempt since
of military aid to the garlan frontier region, Press re- died here today of a cerebral to complete their peaceful con-gramme haemorrhage suffered during the quest by destroying its democra- North Atlantic Powers came into ports said today.
operation.-Router. demonstration.--Associated. Press. tie Government.
struck a
The mine was in Greek ter- ritory at Ureyish.
Damage to the main line forced. the West-bound Simplon Express, which left Istanbul for Parls on Friday night, to rotura to the Turkish frontier town of Kara- aghatch.
There is a large Communist population in Ureyish,
The authorities hope to have the track restored by tonight to allow the Simplon Express to pass through-Associated Press.
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