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By "Rapier"
THE Big Three's reply to Wheel
follows
RACE 1
Outsider:-Samson.
the Soviet note concern-Flight ing the future of Germany Sulphur expected lines. While reaffirming-what-the Radio Star Western Powers consider | Ben Lomond
basic principles, it also Solar Knight
challenges the Russians to demonstrate their good faith and sincerity by firstly, agreeing to free and
democratic elections being
RACE 2
Outsider:-Noyss Viking
RACE 3.
Desert Gold Geronimo High Straight.
Outsider:-Huntmaster,
RACE 4
Fire-glo
Outer:-Gold Medal.
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held in all four accupation Crackerjack Zonex, and secondly, to Panda allowing the United Nu- tions Commission entry in- to the Eastern zone tu study conditions there in order to be satisfied that it is possible to permit LN- 'controlled elections in the area. The Big Three have
no illusions about
the
Caesar Meadowbrook Fleeting Moment
Outsider:-Young Conqueror.
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Argus 11 Hol Folloi
By "The Turf"
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Arabian Mcon
Sulphur
Flight
Outsider:-Speed Wheel.
RACE 2
·Ben Lomond
Winner
Norse Viking
•
Outside::-Radio Star.
RACE 3
High Straight
Huntinaster
Popularity
Outsider:-Geronimo.
Panda
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Ben Wyvis
L'A Tramphe
Outsider: Crackerjack.
RACE 5
Flecting Moment
Castle Court
Aviemore
Outsider:-Armament,
RACE 6
Priority
Airfeld
Tunny
Hol Polloi
Outsider: Glacial Lake.
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Outsider: Tunny.
Soviet note. It largely re- presents bait for the bene. Tap Seeret
fit of Western
Germans.
And the balt takes the
form of suggesting that
Bankfoot
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Outsider:John Halifax.
Ataman
Arabian Doggor
Jeep Lee
Top Secret
Outsider: John Halifax.
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Gold Cup
the Russian plan guaran- Gold Cup teen West Germany armed | New Zealand
neutrality which will en- Olympic Torch able the Germans to cape war. And the
ex- armis
which the Soviets promise
is to be Germany's
A-Klug
very
own and not a segment of
It heterogeneous military
American Carrot
Olympic Torch
Outsider: New Zealand.
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Goodwood
Outsider:-Comel. RACE 9
Jorrocks
Hurry On
Golden Boy
Hurry On Countess Delight
Outsider: Jorrecks,
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combine. The iden is cer- Golden Boy tain to appeal to military National Income
elements
Democrats
Germany,
And
the
but the
body of opinion
in
Social Happy Boy
Outsider: Stirling Castle, RACE 11
la Western main
the Santa Claus Federal Republic have as Valbridge
suggestion Giddup likely to
yet given
they
are
BO
tricked by the offer.
be
Outsider:-Thunder Sky.
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Happy Boy Debonair
Outsider:-Marber.
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Outsider:--Hiram C. RACE 12
Ouisher: Hiram C.
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Strathpeffer
Winged Penforce
WHAT the Big Throe still Chelses
require
to
know from
the Russians is how they propose bringing Into be- ing the suggested all- German Government. At present there are two Ger- man Governments, one in the West Zone, whose members are responsible to a freely elected Parliament, and, the other in the Itus- sina Zone, whose members are Russian- nominees, Principles so entirely op posite cannot be combined; one or the other must be phosen. If the Russians do not accept free elections,
Outsider:---Exquisite 'Love.
Pearl Bridge
Outsider:-Penforce.
Thieves Steal
$600,000
An
Danvers, Mass., Mar. 25. Three
looted men armoured truck of $600,000 today and within two hours two suspects were shot and. captured 50 miles away in New Hampshire and a third was being hunted in Everett, Massachusetts,
the
three The police said overlooked an additional $100,- 000 in the truck, which had just delivered about $1,000,000 to a bank and another customer.
One suspect was shot in the chest as he tried to escape from New Hampshire State Trooper,
forged the pair's speeding car off de highway with a road- block after hearing radio re- parts of the police chase. The other suspect was shot in the upper leg-Uplied Press.
Gruenther Describes Russia's
Great Military Strength
Washington, Mar. 25.
General Gruenther, General Eisenhower's Chief of Staff, said today that Russia had modernised its armed forces and now had the finest army in the world.
Testifying in support of President Truman'a $7,900,000,000 foreign aid pro- gramme at an open hearing of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of little more can be said or. Representatives, General Gruenther said that Russia had roughly 175 divisions of done about an all-German
which about 65 were armoured or mechanised. Government: But if they
"What the Soviet Union has concentrating on' are willing to agree to this
submarines proposition, the next step been doing is to modernise is and now had about 300 of them. must be for them to nr divisions and make them more He pointed out that the Ger- mans had started the last war range for the
United melent," he said,
For the past two years they with less than 60. Nations Commission to be have concentrated on bringing General Gruenther said that allowed to perform its task their infantry divisions up in European defence had reached in Eastern Germany. And, judging from the reception srength and training and given a stage now where he did not which the Commission countered
a complete change in the Soviet attitude if this per- mission is to be forthcom- ing.
IT in not as if any drawing together could be expected
from tho mero fact of negotiation. Other history
but not
them
think
111 the world today,"
General Gruenther added, "Icluded:
not say
men in the Kremlin should ever decide to use it."
1
*FINE PLANE" General Gruenther, said that had phout 20,000
a move.
be
я
Baby Lynette Davey photographed out of fer oxygen tent. Her mother, 18- year-old Mrs, Margaret Davey, wife of a dockyard worker.
is
beside her. Early this month the child, then five weeks old, became ill with a chest com- plaint. As doctors
Dis in a Ply- mouth hospital were examining her X-ray plates a nurse ran in. The
baby' stopped breathing" she said. A surgeon began made an incision and to massage The child's heart internally. After some minutes It began to beat feebly. Other treatment followed, Five hours later the danger was over. "Every day brings new hope" Mrs Davey
told this week.-London Express Photo.
HOTEL FIRE
DRAMA
Six Killed: Others Leap To Safety
Tunnel Explosion Disaster
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GRAVE
CRISIS. WARNING Malan Accused By Opposition
Capetown, Mar. 25.
Senator G. Heaton Nicholls, leader of the United Party opposition in South Africa's Senate, today accused the Prime Minister, Dr Daniel Malan, of precipitating a crisis more serious than any the Union has known.
He moved a motion taking the "strongest possible exception" to the Government's declared intention to "overrule the unanimous judgment" of the Supreme Court which ruled invalid the Act placing coloured voters on a separate voters' roll.
The Opposition's motion cali-
ed on the Government to resign unless it would give an under- taking
that it would act in the Constitu-
accordance with
tion.
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Senator Nicholls, former South African High Commis- sioner in London, declared that by his refusal to accept the appellate division's judgment the
30 Workers Feared Prime Minister had precipitated
Killed, 40 Injured
巍
a crisis the extent of which nobody could sec.
Dr Malan had deluded him- self Into believing that the will of the Nationalist Party caucus represented the Parliament. sovereignty of
Naples, Mar. 25. At least 30 workers are feared to have been killed and 40 others injured to-
REVOLUTION THREAT day in an explosion 2,400
"He has created a crisis more feet underground in
serious than
any with which tunnel being built near South Africa has been confronted here for a hydroelectric since unlon
(1910), graver, Indeed, in many respects than project.
Both ends of the tunnel were the crisis which we had to face blocked by the explosion which in 1930, since he now threatens was believed to have been caus- us with revolution in our whole ed elther by methane gas or conception of the part explosives used in the tunnel-judiciary plays in the main- Iing excavations.
tenance of cur By late tonight 20 of the dead rights and democratic freedoms. and 30 of the injured had been
The power
of the Appellate brought out of the tunnel after Court was to be clipped and the hours of feverish rescue work will of the Nationalist Party by scores of Police, firemen and caucus. Was HOW to become Volunteers.
en-
Twenty men were still tombed.
Minutes after the blast shook very house in the nearby vil-
11910
which
The
fundamenta
"Desperately Serious"
Hoddesdon, Herts, Mar. 25. St Patrick Spens, Con- servative Member of Parliament-and-a-Queen's Counsel, mid here today
that
the
constitutional position in South Africa
was desperately
of
tely serious,
For any Prime Minister
Gay
Commonwealth to refuse point-
Accept the
country
blank to
animous
Supreme
decisions of
Couri
very Berlous matter
fraught with all of us."
Sir
his
A and
danger "for
Patrick had asked to address
been
the an.
of
the
conference Federation of University Conservative
after
Associatform resolution `con- demning the South African Government's racial segre ration policy had been moved And seconded. Reuter.
supreme
the land, realising how cor' the rocks said Se Power in
this Senator Nicholis,
Government la taking the That is what the Prime country, and they will deter- Minister calls the sovereignty mine with no uncertain voice of Parliament.
that this Government must be
Los Angeles, Mar. 25. Screaming survivors leapt into nets to escape a fire which killed at least six people and burned scores of others in a six-floor hotel here today.
The right clork of the 100-tag of Mignano, where the "A majority of one from dismissed unles we are all to room St. George Hotel saved workers lived, families
began
German South-West Africa is go down together." many lives, running through the streaming towards the scene of to be considered quite sufficient Referring . Dr Malan's corridors, knocking onl doors the disaster.
to undo all the work of the activities during the last war, and then hurrying back to the Wives
fathers of the South African Senator Nicholis said, "These switchboard to rouse offers by their husbands the names of
Constitution
are the very people who in the telephone.
blocked entrants to the tunnel. (Souht Wes: Africa, anos too distant past were con- There were 150 people in the One worker, Giuseppe Per- former German territory put tent to storm throughout the hotel, which caters chiefly for santo, gaspet "Its hell down by the League
under South African mandate country challenging tho. there, absolute hell," as he was
of Nations in sovereignty of that Parliament dragged out of the tunnel. For 1920, has been represented in which decided in 1930 to go to God's sake help those men down the Union's House of Assembly war with Germany. there."
since (1050).
Scnator Nicholls said, "The people of South Africa
at the rubble
MEN BURIED He said that parts of the par- tally completed tunnel collapsed after
the explosion, burying many of the men.
All the lights went out and the survivers immediately groped to wards the light of storm Janterns.
entrances In the dul Huts outside the tunnel were turned
into amergency mot tuaries and first aid stations.
The
most seriously injured were taken 'to hospitals at miles
At
male commercial travelleni.
The police wald that 10 people, including a child found talking place. We are trying to lying at the Head of the stairs reach a position where aggression on the Bra; floor, were taken to Burns and other would be so unprofitable that it hospital wi.h would not happen. I do not sub-injuries. scribe to the idea that
Terrified guests fled in their war is Inevitable in any shape or form," night clothes as flames spread, Firemen held nets below and General Gruenther told the caught those who jumped from the that the men in
Committee he was greater moby.
"definitely the upper floors. changed
One of the two men in Room their Kremlin would make the decorwinzert" that the Western en- "They have
defence plan would succeed, odd-312, where the fire is said to to armoured cision to embark on aggression In Berlin this cavalry divisions
Ing that its success was of vital have started, fell or jumpel to week there will have to be divisions and they have now the in Europe,
and most effective. army Elsenhower's headquarters In-America.
Problems taciau
110 General importance finest
and his death in an alley. Europe
The other, Emile Monger, was taken Asked if he thought the Soviet to hospital with critical burns. do
that division
of eir Union would not attack
Fire Department arson in- 1-The development for division they are better (than power, considered to be the Europe until it was strong enough vestigators said that they would Caserta, three and a half
uway'. the fire started. ours) but the 175 division force most effective means of deter-to launch a simultaneous attack not know how
nightfall the worked in the glare of power- on America, General Gruenther until they could question Mir Is a very potent force if the 12 ng on attack.
2.Creation of land reserves, said that might considered Mongee. General Gruenther said that "the smart thing to do".
The flames Welc broughtful searchlights.
The wives and families at satisfactory progress was being But, he added, the Japanese under control an hour after
ther had started. The hotel in those still buried squatted on made towards the establish had made their big mistake
main street near the the ground and walled. ment a European
of might warrant such hopes, Russia
detence when they attacked America and Jus off a
In Rome Senators rore to their donce which would
Include he said that it would be "very chief public buildings, Includ-
the
feet and latened in silence es City Hull German troops. the history of operational Aircraft and had Soviet diplomacy. It is made particularly good progress [been "most gratifying".
The spirit of co-operation has toolish" for Russia, to make such hotel blaze was the third Prime Minister, Signor Alcide : big fire here last night. A few de, Gosper1, announced the only necessary to recall in the field of Jels.
hours carller fumes
disaster. swept the three months' story of He sald that the MIG-15 In "very great progress" had been
through a two-storey business "I assure the Senale" the what happened in Paris use in Korea was "an extremely made in the past year in bring
a few blocks away, Fremler said, "that the GoverTI- wil da everything last year, or the eight ne aeroplane,"
It desroying defence force Gruenther crest that He said that some regarded into being. Conscription periods was months story of what is it as the finest in the world but in all,
"probable" 'that there shops and a restaurant Damage possible for the stricken families land, to repair 13e damage the European still happening
$400,000. NATO would be no attack in Europe was estimated the whether this was true or not it countries. had been increased unless and until Russia had A wing of the suburban Bel caused by the disaster." Koreán truce talks to
[ap- | was a very good plane and and defence budge's raised, Both "there were a good mare of many, casts
innade greater advances in her Air Country Club was burned preciate, the point.
to the point
out in another Are shortly after been established how, the ex- of
own defences,
Club's The strain. were them.". negotiations
Pre-plosion had occurred.-Reuter. General Gruenther sold that Invited by the Russians, about 4,000 of
But, the General aid, he midnight. NO QUESTION '--
wanted to avoid making any as eldent, Mr Frank Wianto, the Russlari
the damage, chiefly and holli, It is now clear, planes. were jet aircraft.
"As to whether or not they sumptions as to what was in the timated
to the kitchen and banquet minds of the Soviet leaders, with the definite intention
General Gruenther said that (the European partnera) will cral Gruenther, said that room at $200,000,- Reuter, that the West 'should be the Rugtans also had a long-fight-there is no question in
WAREHOUSE BLAZE he had no "absolutely reliable"" long kept in play, but range bomber which was a copy our minds," General Gruenther information on whether the So-
Liverpool, Mar. 24 today rejected the application of should obtain nothing. The of the Americon B-20 bomber suid.
now regartied He predicted that the Soviet viet satellites were ready and Seventy firemen from Bootie, Mansar Adabl; the Malay hus-
Birkenhead and band of the Dutch girl, Ber Iine does not imply closing which America
Bertha Union
willing to fight for the Kremlin, Liverpool, would never attack
He cald That the satellite other parts of Lancashire were Hertogh, requesting nny, door to peace. If Rus-as obsolete.
"The Soviet Air Force is ef- Western Europe. sta is prepared to aban-fective largely because of its
Privy Council armies had, however, been ex- engaged. today in fighting a big to the Briqueting an appeal Asked whether he thought panded in the last two years, fire at a warehouse in Effingham against the decision of the don the forcible sovietisa- numbers"
Bald. "It has that the Soviets would attack, He cald that there was In-Street, Bootle,
Supreme Court of December tion of Eastern Germany quality but its pilots are prob the General said, "I do not forms an indicating a #con- The fire, which was discover-1050 giving custody of Bertha talks can be started. If ably not as well trained as ours. think an attempt is Imminent siderable area of disaffection" ed on the first floor of the six- to her parents in the Nother- xle in not, then all the What they sack in quality they do not think it is ever, going within the Soviet orbit
storey warehouse, spread to the lands. Bertha had been ex- Western Powera can do is make up in quantry and in a to come.
"I hope we will be able to second and third floors, Families trusted to a Malay nurse during conflict it would be a very potent. to continue with NATO' force against us.""
"We in the dipo world have so take advantage of that and from nearby Houses were the second world war after the mush at stake that we will det i keep alive the hopes of freedom evacuated because of the possible disappearance of her parents nchema, of defence until
On the naval side, General sensibly and it is within our for these people,” ho said,; danger of falling brickwork who showed up again after the Russla thinks better of it. + Grücather gald, Russia had been i power to prevent the was from Reuter,
|Router.
war-France-Presso.
.there
in
General Gruenther said that
ing an effective
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To further questions, General building thing and jewelleryment
He said that it had not yet
Appeal Rejected
Singapore, Mar. 25: The Singapore Appeal Court-
Whiter teeth in just one.
"week
ure
.
"With what gree ran
they dare talk about the sovereignty
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