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Future Of Trieste
E agreement signed In London between Britain, the United States and Italy to give the Italians more administrative powers In Triosto's Zone A is the natural culmination of dis cussions extending
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Ostend. May 11.
A hospital patient hero, told he had only a few days to live, bought himself a magnificent comn lined, with white sille. over
past months. The dgree. ment, by itself, does not Bolve the so-called Tricato problem, but it does go a considerable way towards putting the Italjans in Zone A ол something approaching equal footing with the Yugoslavs who have assumed full adminis- trative rights in Zone B. Marshal Tito declares that he will not recognise the three-power agreement; it Is a negative gesture which Poяsessen 110 effective
ubstance, Yugoslavia, can- not be held blameless:: for the failure to date to resolve the Trieste prob- lem. Her own attitude has been uncompromising and adamant. She has rejected all of the Anglo-American suggestions for an amic- able and satisfactory settle. ment, insisting that her claims are paramount. In the final analysis, as it has for
tíme Home
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- Then he surprised him- self and his doctors by making a
remarkable re- covery,
He
the coffin Fold
10 another seemingly hope. Icas Cafe -- 65 – year - old Jacques Smoots. Within » fow days Jacques had re. covered from govero in- ternat haemorrhage.
He sold it to 4 third tely ill patient, He, desperately too, is-now on the way to full recovery, and today ho wa, looking for a buyer for the lucky coffin.—Router.
35 Killed
OF GENERAL DODD
Trial Shots Had Due
Effect On Reds
CORRESPONDENT'S STORY OF POW CAMP SCENES
Seoul, May 11.
Brigadier-General Francis Dodd was released by his Communist captors on Saturday after flame-throwing tanks were lined up in front of Compound 76 and unleashed several trial bursts of searing fire, the United Press was told today.
According to the informant, the Eighth Army Commander, General James A. Van Fleet, told the rebellious-Communist prisoners- that they must release Gen. Dodd alone and unharmed "or we are coming
When Stand in to get him."
Collapses
Buenos Aires, May 11. recognised, the issue must killed__last_night__when_a Thirty-five people were be-settled-between-Italy- and Yugoslavia, and now brick wall being used as that Italy has been given an improvised grandstand a proper status, Yugoslavia, collapsed on top of them as notwithstanding. Marshal they watched B boxing Tito's first reaction to the match at Bell Ville, 250 newly-created situation, miles northeast of here. may deem it advisable to seck
practical
and permanent solution to tlie future of Trieste by holding direct discussions with the Italians:"
Unworthy "Scoop" WHETHER it be genuine or W
ex-
At least 20 were reported in serious condition today.
Hospitals at Bell Ville are érammed with Injured and with anxious relatives,
The wall was 25 yards long and five yards high.
F
The flame-throwing tanks fired but did not harm any of the pri soners who seized Gen. Dodd on Wednesday, and held him captive for three days.
*
On Sunday, Gen. Dodd was en route to Japan for conferonces, with high Army officers, including the Far East Commander, General Mark W. Clark. Gen. Dodd had conferred with Gen. Van Fleet in Seoul,
Gen. Dodd had been scheduled to talk to the press on Sunday, but after several postponements, the Eighth Army announced that no public statements will be made by the General until the current investigation is completed.
on
Any officers indicated that the, There was not any more sing- "At night lights blaze down. press conference now, is postponed ing, shouting or fooling around In the corners of the compound
indefinitely,"
as there had been in previous are three-storey high, houses The United Press informant days when they thought they where machineguns are moun!» said after the flame-throwing had the upper band." The ed, tanks sent several trial bursts of officer gold that Communist fire in the full view of 6,000 Reds POWA
Koje Island, there are on Koja Island were 188,000 refugees from North in Compound 76. the North bold and unafraid of
the Korea. In fach, one settlement Koreans offered to make an American guards. The guards is Temed Hungnam port, from agreement in writing. Gen. Van arust treat the prisoners with a which the United States Navy Fleet then repeated the order to gloved hand.
sex ri evacuated many Koreans during release Gery, Dodd.
On Koje Island, there were the United Nations retreat from The tariks were linoi up many
versions of how. Gen. North Korea, abreast in front of the compound Dodd was captured.. but their number' was not dis-
"Tough diehard Centmmunists Many closed. The informant sald Gen. thought Cen. "Dodd was
soldiers sald they are held on Koje, Non-Com- Dodd's capture was apparently general. Few soldiers on Koje said they did not
a fine munist prisoners of war who the
want to go result of a well worked-out know what the Communists back home were moved from Communist leaders had re-
were demanding,
Koje, Eighty thousand hard- One officer said the a conference. Gen. Dodd
Communiets remain."
The disaster occurred in an open space enclosed by two seven-yard' walls where week- end dances and sports corn- plan, petitions were held.
quested a Lost night the enclosure roofed in by
s crm
WHA
Commu-
core
canvas to protect and two colonels entered the nims "keep making demands United Press. the 1,000 spectators from a compound. (Omcial Army sort of Siko at Panmunjom.”
statements thus far indicated Other soldiers spid they that only one colonel was with understood that the Commu- Gen Dodd when the Com-nists concerned chiefly with the of POWS. munists pounced. He was Lieu- Allied interrogation 1 tenant-Colonel W. Raven.) They wanted it to be stopped.
Zalberg said, "The Army was greatly upset by my arrival en Trade
They
false, publication of the alleged secret report by Admiral Fechtelor at this time is about the worst disservice the French news. paper Le Monde could do to the Western Allied cause. For the paper to argue that for the most part the report merely sums up a variety of opinions pressed by military strategists and politicians in the past does not alter the fact that publication at this moment is mis chievously tactless. The newspaper's action appears
Soon after reports of the se- to be deliberately calculated cident reached
Buenos Aires, to widen the breach In Senora Eva Peron's Foundation opinion between Washing sent a caravan with doctors, ton and London ou
medicines, which the nursza and question of supreme naval reached here early today-Reu- command of NATO naval ter.
atter
the contest started, The canvas, heavy with accumulated water, pulled in one of the walls, trapping 150 people,
is
Mediter.
Police and the local brigade worked among rubble until dawn, releasing the dead and injured...
formant.
Honeymooners Missing
patch
Shukr massed
Sydney, May 11.
The transmutation of base metal into zold — aim of the ancient alchemists is reversed by this product of atomic scivace en view in the heavy engineering section of the BIF at Birmingham, Jean Held, of Harrow, Middlesex, is een seal- ing-a meroury isotope electric discharge · Jamik · It utilkes the mercury isotope 198, produced by the bombardment of gold' with neutrons in the interior of the atomic pile at Bri faln's atomic research station, Harwell, Obtaining a mercury discharge from gold foll, the lamp attains Increased accuracy in length meastaremont-Reuterphoto,
WILD AFFRAY
IN ESSEN
Essen, May 11.
Police gunfire killed one youth and gravely wounded two others today in a wild affray touched off by an outlawed demonstration of 30,000 Communist youths against West German peace contracts with the Big Three.
Fanatical Communist youths fought police with guns,
Japan Wants flaming torches and stones,
Ban Relaxed
The authorities said demon- Rhineland for the masa protest. atrators started shooting and Ignoring the polics an
on the fring at the police, who were meeting, they streamed in by struggling against heavy odds to hired buses. break up the banned rally,
The authorities undertook to One policeman was injured teriously in the
block the main highways into head and
Essen, but the visitors. Altered several others suffered lesser in through er around the roadblocks juries at the hands of the by the thousands and gathered
tive
Tokyo, May 12. Kyodo, quoting authorita- government sources, Japan intends to nego
tal.
Blows Up
Kiel, May 11.
About 50 ton of Ger- man wartime ammunition, salvaged from the_bottom of the Baltic Sea, blow up this afternoon after a firo broke out in an ammuni- tion dump in Jaegerdorf, about 15 miles from Kiel, -on-the shores of Kiel Bay.
Three separate big explosiona rocked the entire area, and the blast waves were felt strongly five miles away, The rumbling of the explosions was heard in Kley
Many smaller .........explosions- followed the main bursts, which turned the area of the dump to a moonlike crater feld. Window panes and lamps were shattered in the surround- ing villages. Nobody was in- jured.
Police cordoned off the area ย wido circle. fearing further small explosions.
RAISED BY DIVERS Huge black and grey clouds hung over the area for several hours. No estimate of thio damage was available,
The emmunition, dumped into the Baltic Sea by the Bri tish at the end of the war, was raised by German divers for scrapping. The dump owned by the State Govereis ment of Schleswig Holstein, w
Polleo believed that in the last of the three big explosions, the strongest of all, two British wartime ses mines that had been salvaged went off.
The origin of the fire was not
determined, yet
Government explosives experts believed pow der had seeped out of some noval artillery shells 'and started burning
through spontaneous combustion.
Police and explosives experis
could not investigate tonight. because live shells were still hurled about from time to time, and it was not yet certain that the fire had died, down.com- pletely everywhere.-Reuter.
Another. Flying Saucer
La Roche Sur Yon,
France, May 11,
A group of people yesterday
KVDs JC-
mob,
In the heart of the city, The | sighted 2 ftat, cgg-shaped Phillip Mueller, 21, of Munich, chief assembly area was the object tying in the sky silently Was shot through the chest downtown Garden Exhibition. and at a high speed, it wa during the brawl and died a
liably reported here today. The police hurried to the area Witnesses added that the
which seemed to wait for 11 to come. on and both them vanished
suspicions flight today between Indonesia Patoerpts from Zalberg's dis- Into a native police station and that torilles, machinery, paints, Youth", an organisation
Port
of
on the
on the horizon.-France-Presse.
The informant said that the are prisoners gradually separated the Gen. Dodd from his two com- Koje Island оп 'D-Day'.
paniens, then pounced on him took away my correspondent's and dragged him into one of accreditation
card temporarily the blocks. The Army refused but returned it. I travelled to either to confirm or deny state- Chinsha on the south coast of ments of the United Press in Korea viu an authorised air
force
courier, At Chinsha NEWSMAN'S STOBY tried to find a military tians- But the Information was sub-port to Koje but none was stantially confirmed by the only available. A sherman took me said Americary forcea in the
correspondent who across to Koje-do in a 20-foot managed to go to the island boat. The trip took four hours tiate with the United States little later. In Essen City Hosp and several times broke up jobject reached a elmilar object ranean. This is a ticklish
Sanford L. Zalberg, correspon- through rain-swept seas. We for relaxation of the present Albert Breckhauer, 24, of gathering knots of demonstra- dispute but оде which
dent for the International News landed at a village.
restrictions clearly
on trade with Kashet, was shot in the back. tor before they could, merge can bo settled
Service, sald in a
a pooled die-
Communist nations. without rancour providing
"Army
and Bernard Schwarze, officer United Press. that the
ARMED PATROLS Co discussions are kept within
worker from Muenster, was shot "Jeeps with armed military at least 20
The negotiations, the same through the knees. Both are in the proper orbit. A report
tanks and the threat of police ran up and down the circles sald, will be started hospital. such as that attributed to
using them had an effect in coastal road. There were armed regardless, of developments in the BALLY FORBIDDEN Admiral Fechteler, even it A man and his wife were re- Saturday night."
freeing. Gen. Dodd at 9.30 on patrols at intervals. It would Korean truce talks,
have been impossible to walk Those quarters declined
The police said they, believed fabricated, is capable of ported missing on a honeymoon
to Mueller, undetected. I walked reveal the full extent of the Schwarze were members of the ***Breckhauer and Bround arousing now
and planned relaxation but indicated Communist "I visited Koje palch added, and rendering more diff and
"Free Darwin aboard
German Island
elight hours on Satur- told them to call them ofan dyes and some other items may lawed in West Germany, after for cult
out- the
private aircraft. composing
day
morning. Evidently I milliery police. Members of opinion relating to NATO The pilot of the plane is Cap arrived
arrived and
and be removed from the list of the Court had ruled that its of MP company duly morning policies. All that Le Monde tain Martin Cherry of Sydney D-Day Dodd Day. I was
took me along. They were banned courteous
violated ams and has done in publishing what who served with the Royal Aus kept under
purposes but kept a
Themplated relaxation the constitution. sharp guard during my reported to L-Col. with almost certainly
tralian Air Force during the stay. The Army said Gen.
The rally in Essen, heavily Actitious report, is to pro- war and since worked us tust Dodd was unharmed. Early on marshal. Whic Walling in his of the United States or embargoes was billed no a mass meeting of
Alanson T. Leland,
provost
the provisions of the Battle Act bombed fuhr industrial city, vide the enemies of the pilot and ferry pilot.
Saturday tanks arrived by Western Powera with new last month, and was bringing 20 Pattona and Shemans filag
He married English grship at koje Island. I counted office I watched the Pattons enforced by Western nations.
Government
"the young generation". The passing by. I counted 20 and
sources said the police forbade it after reporting proppganda ammunition. his bride to Sydney in the ar- in heavy rain down the mud-more came by.
Japanese list of banned export indications that it was shaping. HK Trade Unions craft.
clogged road enroute to Com- First Lieutenant William D. goods to Communist nations, up as a Communist demonstra Aircraft are JESTERDAY'S uproar at
now · searching pound 78, where more than Hall, public Information officer, fixed while under the occupation against the contractual the missing plane neor Purt 8,000 fanatic North Korean told ane that the commander was tion, is broader than that fixed agreement between the Alles the anniversary celebra- Darwin where the aircraft was prisoners of war kept Gen, Dodd iritated with me. I told Lt. Hall: by the Battle Act.
and West Germans now being tlona of the Hongkong and reported three hours overdue.- In custody.
the tremendous human Interest Trade circles in Tokyo, ba-concluded in Bonn. Kowloon Chinese Telephone France-Presse,
**Though Workers' Union is a further
the Army
Youths gathered here from Impact of the story. I requested love ommunist China is epn- kepl guard over me I was able to an interview with the new com templat i revising its polley to all over the Ruhr and the example of the intensifled
talk to men and officers. They Brigadier-General Charles
mending oficer at Koje-do, expand trade volume with the struggle, which has been
F. Western bloc countries, includ-. Bus Crashes Overald Gen. going on for some time for
Dodd was well- Caison. treated.
ing Japan-Associated Press. power within the Colony's Embankment
"An Infantry officer who was "Lt. Hall asked for my car trade uniona. The situation
on duty in front of Compound and I gave it to him. Lt. Hall respondent's accreditation card almost WAS
Inevitable,
Rome, May 11.
76 enclosure for three days after the my request for an Politics.. rather than
About 30 persons were in Gen. Dodd's captivity, said he Interview to the general.
Gen. from Fallians watched the Communists 'membera Interests, have Jured 15 miles
on Colson turned. It down, I was been a predominant can- in the province of Angóna when Friday transfer Get, Godd from cern in many of the unions. a bus crashed over an embank-e test to another. He said he then ordered to leave the island.
I asked Li. Hall to return my Three
New Orleans, May 11, *ment owing to failure of its could see Gen. Dord... plainly,
persona were killed, It is not surprising that brakes.
Gen Dodd was about 100 yards Et Hall sald he was sorry but
card
and two others seriously the more level-handed trade
The occupants of the bus were away and surrounded by a great he could not under insulfons Jured when an oll tanker of About 4 nm. yesterday (Sun- unionists are becoming going to
a football matches of Communists. Nons of protesteden od 10 light tonnage exploded here today) 300 police raided 10 woary of their organisa
France-PressC.
the Reds lald: hand pr Gon, tions being used as politient
Dodd. The officer und wo in card would be returned to me at day. The tanker was unloading Korean hauschelds
Puran. It was returned to mo. to cll when the, catastrophe
harbourine May foruma. The crying need
tend to give them one more
Police arrested
Koreans. * TIGHT SECURITY DECred.-France-Presse. chance to surrender the General
Fight others fled. of many local trade unions
today. If they don't we are Koje-do, aw how tight war "During my short stay on in for members to 'find'
Another 200-palles who went moving in'"
to a korean school in the
town loaders who put membera
the security there. One could
Tornado Strikes
werd met by
1300
Koreans. Interests first and political
mat have walked 100 feet'with-
| After pliched battle out soldiers or military police Toanings last. When this
palice The ileutenant said on Satur picking you up for questioning,
Atlanta, Georgia, May 11.
arrested gisht: Koreans. Thre has been accomplished the More than 120 firemen fought day for the first time since "The South Korjan polico Several persons were injured policemen were injured. unions will function as a blaze today at a rubber Gen. Dodd wma, laken, hostage, working with the Americang and about 24 shops and homes A few hours later about 600 they should, and they will works here,
his coplore seemed frightened scened to be emelent too. Koje word damaged"; when a tomade Koreans gathered in the school, automatically gain the The building
was almost by the gravity of their action. Inland's, compounds ( new hosyly lashed the Georgian town of marched to the i. police station status which is rightfully gutted by the fire, which lasted He cald,They know we are barbed wired with twʊ, high | Alabaho.
Anglated and encliated Acrociated Take hours,--Reuter,
[moving in. They were scared, femine kurrounding each plak -- Pznas,
theirs.
Over 120 Firemen Fight Blaze
London, May 11.
FRIGHTENED
EXPLOSION ON OIL TANKER
י'
Police Clash
With Koreans
Tokyo, May 12. Kyodo reports a Beries of ahousand battles involving police and Koreans was reported from Himell, Hyogo Prefectturo
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