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MORRISON GETS UNDER FIRE OF "PEACE JOURNAL
Berlin, Aug. 15,
Pallco headquarters said that a running battle developed tonight on the boundary between the Soviet and French sectors between hundreds of West Berliners and East Berlin people's police.
The West Berliners rushed over to the East sector side to rescue an unidentified man whom the Communists were alleged to have kidnapped.
One West Berliner said that East sector people's police attacked them with clubs and nailed pieces of wood. They had police dogs with thom...
When the souffle onded, the he invited participants in the kidnapped man was free again. Communist Youth Festival in Several people were slightly East Berlin to "come and visit
Free Berlin." injurexi
Earlier, over 0,000 One of the first groups of demonstrators carried poster whirled East
blue- German youths and saying: "We come at the invita-morched into the French
sectors of Berlin. tion of Reuter." The slogan was American
(Yank) belloved to refer to a recent bellowing. “Aml speech by West Berlin's Mayor, home," Professor Ernst Reuter, in which
Tightening Up Security
In Embassies
Washington, Aug. 15. The State Department reported today that it was taking extra precautions, including the use of inditional Marine guards, to protect United States Embassies throughout the world from Com- munist espionage.
A. Trained "security" afficers" are
asaigned to all key diplo- mate posts and aliens hired as servants are being "thoroughly
screened."
nationals
Foreign Hired 13 elerks are being re placed by Americans wherever possible and measures are being taken to improve the "physical security" of buildings by United States
West Berlin police charged them with truncheons and broke them up with high pressure water jels from special
anti-riot cars.
The
demonstrations
were
and
"obviously planned organised", West Berlin Police Headquarters said. Many of the demonstrators hurled stones
Berlin
the West
poilco and at one place pulled West Berlin policeman acrosa the boundary.
A
Weat .German police said German poople's police that beat and kicked him and took his pistal before 118 nway
managed to free colleagues
Five West Borlin polipernen were
injured by stones and were given hospital treatment.
Over 100 Communist youths were arrested.
Many of the demonstrators
Communist distributed paganda,
ROCKET LEAFLETS
pro-
At several points, along the sector-boundary rockets went up
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1951,
New Bard Of The Royal West And East Berlin Police Get
Eisteddfod Of Wales.
Twenty-five-year-old journalist, T. Glyme Davies, was crowned Bard by Archdruid Cynan at the Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales at Llanrwat recently. His poem "Ruins" was chosen from 20 entries. Glynne Davies is shown talking
to the Archdruid after the crowning ceremony.
In
Big Spy Sweep Germany Brings In "Clumsy Amateurs
Frankfurt, Aug. 15.
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The United States Army has tried and impri- soned nearly 60 Soviet and Czechoslovak spies in the past six months in the biggest espionage sweep of the Allied Occupation of Germany.
The drive started early this year and is con- tinuing, with the object of providing the maximum security for the United States troop build-up here.
diplomats, from East Berlin, showering Anti-British
particularly in Iron Curtain Communist peace leaflets over lands.
The programme was outlined in a report submitted by the Under-Secretary of State to the Senate Foreign Relations sub- Commitice
West Berlin,
Attack By Kashmir Head
started The demonstrations shortly before 5.00 p.m. legal time. One hour later, the police said, everything was back to appointed last year normal. as a by-product of the Senate Investigation of charges by Senator Joseph McCarthy that the State Department was being Infiltrated United Press.
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Argentine Meat Shortage!
Buenos Aires, Aug. 15.
Meat exports from the Argentine have been ban. ned for the time being," because of the shortage of locaj supplies, it
was an nounced here today.
Giving actions im- detafis of the
emergency
posing the ban, meat pack- ing pizat offelals said that' the measure was expected in force Just to remain
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Extradition Demand
fore United States Occupation By Poland
Stockholm, Aug. 15. The Polish. Ambassador
Into Into Running Battle
On French Sector Border
gdan London, Aug. 15.
The third issue of the Soviet English- language magazine "News", issued today, criticised Britain's Foreign Secretary. Mr Herbert Morrison, for seeming to interfere in Soviet internal affairs in his statement in the Communist Party newspaper, Pravda, last month.
"He makes the possibility of an improvement in Anglo-Soviet relations contingent upon issues that are purely, the domestic affairs of the Soviet Union," News wrote.
The Soviet Government held the rule that the domestic affairs of other States did not. concern its relations with those States.
of these throt
countries WDS
The editorial said it felt jus-armed forces. tified In "questioning the since-Atlanile Pact rily of Western statesmen who more than double that of the profess they are anxious to im-Soviet Union." prove relations with the Soviet
Colonel Gavrilov said that it Union but, at the same time,
the alleged that make such improvement condi- was usually
Scyle: Union had kept her tional
which upon demanda
armics at wartime elrength, etern purely internal affairs
and the United of the Soviet 'state in other while Britain
States had disarmed. words, endeavour to interfere in its internal affaire.".
Her Slip Is Showing
Catro, Aur. 15.
Under Islamie jaw, every nants allowed to have four wives, but a young Cairo woman, Maubtra Hassan Abould Hosa, re- verseit the process and toek four hands. the pollee said today.
Apuhtra married; in turn laundryman, a labourer, and motor and shuttled and to another with explanations of visiting her mather or a sick aunt, the police said.
B
mechanic,
from
•
The deception was dis- covered, the police saki, when husband No. Three was invited to dinner by No. Four, and got to bis friend's house to find that his wife was the hostess wom Associated Press,
In rebuttal, he quoted Premier BRITAIN
Stalin's statement in a Pravda
The editorial bald' that op-interview on the demobliisation portents of an improvement in of the Soviet forces International relations "profess war, "The
after the
strength of MEETS HER
the
ine
and air-today, is
to discern in the publication of Soviet Union's armed forces our magaalne some sort of land, naval evolution or turn or change of approximately what it was in
line in the Soviet foreign policy. 1939 prior to the second Wa DEFICIT
Others, contrarily, express dis- War," he wrote. satisfaction evidence of a change of line in
at
finding no
the pages of our magazine.
|things?.
"VERY MODERATE"
The
This
of
it's armed July,
London, Aug. 16.
the Treasury an-
quently appear at one trial. today asked Sweden to ex-inferred today that the Soviet
Britain has repaid the Soviet Union, Colonci "We must confess that both Gavrilov said, was not threaten European Payments Union these attitudes surprise us. Why ing or preparing to attack any no less than $60,808,000 abolish worth of gold in respect of seek for signs of a change of one. "It would gladly
and use the polley by the Saviot Government is regular army at all and in our magazine of all furxis it is now obliged to spend her deficit for the month of
on the maintenance: That policy needs to chang-forces for the further improve-nounced today.
Britain's defiest with the EPU Ing. We Soviet people armly ment of living standard, but in- ternational conditions being what belleve that our Government is a
for July aqualed $120,130,000, pursuing a policy of peace and they are, it has to retain a bare Halt of this was settled by the. od gold and the other minimum regular army sufficient repayment this conviction is founded not on for the defence of the frontiers" half by reducing, the credit that. blind confidence but on facts,"
minimum force "must Britain had previously granted to courts there at the rate of two
naturally be fully commensurate the Union... ARMED FORCES and three a week. As many as
Brd This British defcit for July with the size of our territory four and Ove defendants fre-
Another article in the "News" population and the vast extent of was the biggest on record for any our land and sta frontlers." country for one month except Nearly one third are women.
Trial evidence
tradite 12 mutineers from Union has less than two and a that
"M:atured by this, the sirengih Germany's deficit of $147,000,000 shows
of our Soviet Army must be
Baxt October. Communist agents have encoun- the Polish minesweeper HG-half million men under arms.
In the article on the Soviet regarded as very moderate," he It was not far chort of the, tered relatively little difficulty 11 who have been granted αιτητα forces, quoted by
said.
defielta she was running just in collecting a range of
The argument that the Soviet before the devaluation of Sterling "United States asylum here as political re- the official Soviet news agency, information on
I.N. Gavriley, stated forces wire a threat to the 1949. The armed forces of the United Western world. Colonel Gavrilov Britain's gold reserves from Office announced: troops and installations in Ger- fugees, the Swedish Foreign Colonel
Great Stales,
Britain
and concluded, was an argument to which to meet such deficits is, Sweden refused France together Earlier
totalled more justify the armaments drive in however, nearly three times as from the request
Polish
the West, which was creating a big o
g us it was two years ago, 1. to hold the than five million men. Foreign Minister
"Hence already at that time real mance of another world
Desplie her deficits in the past men
In custody to prevent
thewan-Reuter, abroad, before the numerical strength of them escaping Poland had filed a formal, ex-
The West German police ar- rested one East Berlin people's to have policeman alleged
New Delhi, Aug. 15.
Abdullah, Sheikh
chiet crossed the sector boundary to alt the demonstrators.
West German police said that Minister of Kashmir, broadcast
over Srinagar Radio today ex-many. many of the demonstrators at-
Spy suspects have admitted tacked them and took away pressing tetermination to go
with shend
for furnishing plans
the Russians and their truncheons and helmets.
Constituent Assembly despite Czechs with data on American At one point a group of 3,000
tried to Pakistan's protests because the weapons, troop dispositions, the East German youths
"repre position of patrol dumps, and СТОБУ the sector boundary in Constituent Assembly the instrument
the names of the
of United
Stole formation.
West but
Berlin sents Berith people's will" and "it is our counr-intelligence officers and police drove
inherent right of self-determina- of Germ
German agents working truncheons.
tion to give ourselves a consiitu- the American in East Germany.
on worthy of our national tra- "CLUMSY AMATEURS" ditions and culture”. ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄
United States Intelligence
them back
Some small groups managed to enter West Berlin for about 300 yards beyond the sector boundary, chanting Communist scuits.
would not have interfered if the
Warning against foreing a Security Council
solution
fer
and
tradition request,
The Swedish
Replying
sald that
Foreign omeo Sweden's lawe do not permit
"conditional Imprkenment."
Whether Sweden accepts or zajeels lodny's extradition
ofcera freely concede that the present wave of spy trials is request; the men are expected
10 go dree, A which may create a situation more than a gesture,
Choi hundreds cf Communist and stability, ngt
The police said that they
full of explosive possibilities agents are at large in Western 3,000-atrong column had not for peace,
Germany. been singing Communist songs only in the sub-continent but
The Americans tako cemfort and appeared to be planning a In Asia and the world", Sheikh from thes fact that most of demonstration.-Reuter.
Abdullah attacked the British
thesu ogents arc clumsy for creating "Pakistan at namnicurs,
recruited by threats extension at the
the Middle East szalnst relatives behind the bloc to moet the current
"Iron Curtain." and the promise colonial people's revolt against of easy money. British policies, thereby halt- ing the march of Asian people towards emancipation."
Hurricane Boiling Up
The
Miarni, Aug. 15. Weather Bureau today reported that the first hurricano of the 1901 season, with winds of 100 mph, had boiled up in the Islands some 1,050 miles
Miami and southeast of moving in a northwest or west- northwesterly direction at about
was
He sent messages of good will to "Asian nations engaged nt present in lighting for their right of determination"
The
Their refugee status crabics them to travel abroad and in other Western similar cocos countries have offered rofugees Immediato entrance
vians and ther passports,
For example, thade Lithuanian hermen were granted refugee status and left the country on the came day as Soviet Russia applied for their extradition,
American inteligionge authorities, because of a shortage
MORE SEEK ASYLUM of qualified agents, has been all
Three Poles walked into the but powerless in coping with the influx of Communist agents. police station at Karlshamn Stung by charges that their South Sweden, today and asked and men are obvious and inept" for asylum as political refugees, three said they were stave us instances the Iranians, they have been sending rein-They
other Middle forcements to Germany from members of the crow of five of Egyptians and
the training centre at Fort Hola-a Polish motor schooner which
berthed
In Karlshamn Last night, bird. Maryland.
They have also come in for Their application is boing.co considerable criticism, especially sidered by the Allens Commis from the Germans, for their sin. The Poles arrival brought reliance on Infermers.-Rauler. the total number of refugees reaching Sweden. from East Europe during the past month to 31-Reuter, find
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East peoples whom he wished succes in their "noble efforts"
their "liberate
countries" from "exploitation by British intercals"-United Press.
an-hour.. Reconnaissance aircraft from Miami located the storm at 11.30 season in the Caribbean
and South Atlantic areas. The first a.m. as Lat. 14.7 north
and
70 hurricane was a freak which hit Arabs To Attend
Florida coast, and
North
Long. 58.9 west or about miles cast of Fort de France, east of the Martinique. It was the second blow itself qut in the hurricane of the year but the Atlantic in early June. United first of the official tropical storm Press.
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Opium Caravan
Conference In Pitched Battle
Alxandria, Aug. 15. * 2)
Bangkok Aug. 15.0
An Arab. League source said A 15-man police patrol today the Arab states were ex-fought an armed battle with an pected to attend the Paris meet oplum caravan in the vicinity of ing of the Paleating Conciliation Chiengmal, 'n Thai holiday Commission on September 9,
He added that the Arab states resort, recently.
Tho oplum smugglers resisted wanted to prove their goodwill and their desire Le co-operate with machine-guns and hand- the United grenades After the polleo had and to Implement States resolutions for partition shot their leader, they fled to of Palestine and repatriation of the hills, leaving a quantity of Arab refugeesUnited Prem dplum behind,Router...
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London's Lady Mayores (Lady Lowson) pletured
at Manalon House prior to going off with her husband for an extended tour of Australia. This will be the first stage of a round-the-world goodwill mission by the Lord Mayor. (Central Press)
Insult to injury.
YOU
!!
months, Britain is still the biggest creditor in the European Payments Union for $231,890,000. Belgium has become the big- gestreefplenst
gold but Belgium's creditor position at $175,400,000 is greord to Britain'.
Reuter
of
Bid To Get Out Of Blind Alley
Bonu, Aug. 16, AD Konrad Adenauer, the F: West German Chancellor, plans to fly to Washington this autumn to negotiate with President Tru- mian personally about Allied occupation: costs, a spokesman for his party mid today
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The spokesman, his Parlia mentry
Secretary Dr Erich Von Brentano, wild that no dalo : had yet boch fixed but tho Chancellor reckoned to go about the end of October or shorts after
Dr. Adenauer has been
"bad been In- vited by Mr. Herbert Morrison, Britain's Foreign Secretary, to vidit Britain this autuhin was thought that the British visit would come first...
Dr Von Brentane said that Dr. Adeninier would also discuss with President Truman the re placement «¡ of the Occupation Statute by a system of treatiny' 'the raising of German troops Western defence and the genral economic situation, fri
on, including the coal shortaga...
Political observers he saw in Dr Adomater's planna, flight. to the United States an attempt to escape from the bind alley into which the Weston Allied German relations have got into the last few weeksiteuler.