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A Wedding Of Purpose Of Sino-Soviet Clash Between
THE DAY
Mission To The Month
Moscow
THE Chou En-lai mission
Tie Moscow momentarily
turns the spotlight
international affairs from Europe and the Middle East to the Orient, and the arrival of the imposing Peking delegation in Russin has, not without reason, started a train of specula- ilon as to the main purpose of the discursions, 1 A part of the theatrical tech- nique of Communist politi- cinns to lend drama tu 10p level conferences by shrouding preparations in absolute secrecy and then to make
overnight announcement of the arrival of visiting delegations. The current visit to Moscow of Chou-En-lai and
an
colleagues, however, Was not altogether unexpected. It was obliquely forecast In an agreement reached in 1950 which stipulated that subjects such as the future of Port Dairen. Port Arthur and the Manchurian rail- way should be discussed between Russia and Com- munist China either befure the end of 1952 or shortly after Japanese
pence treaty had been signed. At face value, therefore, the the Moscow meeting fulfilment of that agree- ment.
11
ik
IT must be confessed that the composition of the Chinese delegation Ja significant. The presence of military advisers suggests that subjects other than industrial and economic nid by Russia to China are on the agenda. It is unlikely that these Chinese
to
Mr Anthony Eden, Foreign Secretary, and his bride, formerly Miss Clarissa Spencer-
Churchill, leave Caxton. Hall after their wedding Jast week. The bride's gown was of liac Shan- tung silk with a finely pleated skirt. On her shoulder she wore a large spray of orchids. London
Express Photograph.
Floods Disaster
Rescue Work Hampered By Rain
Lynmouth, Aug. 18. Rain beating down on the
Conference Shocking
RE-WELDING OF 1950 AXIS
Policy Advisers Advance Views
London, Aug. 19.
British Far East policy advisers predicted to- night that the strengthening of the Moscow. Peking axis would emerge from the Sino-Russian talks which opened in Moscow today.
Indications from intelligence reports were that the Kremlin and Peking were out to re-weld the Axis created two years ago in the 30 years treaty of friendship and to align more closely their policies on the Far East.
to have been The meetings were also believed prompted by growing uncertainties and existing dif- ferences over the Korean war. Both sides were under- stood to have reached the point where 'close' consulta- tion was inevitable before a final decision is made on the Korean issue.
Peking was expected to seek in this first major diplomatic move since the conclusion of the alliance with Moscow a base for closer co-operation with the Soviet in the political, military and economic fields..
in Moscow on Sunday.
The meeting will
followed be
Holiday Tragedy
Freshwater Bay, Wales,
Aus. 18. A bruised and blooding 12-year-old boy came out of the sea here today to tell of a holiday disaster, which probably killed his father, mother and two sisters
was Anthony Sweeney, who with his brother Robert, 21, are be- llayed to be the only sur- vivors of a family of six taking their holiday ob a motor cruiser,
Anthony sald' that the éngino of their motor cruiser had failed and the boat was dashed on the rocks by heavy sČAS,
Aboanl the cruiser were. the two boys, their sisters, Daphne aged 16 and Patri- cla nine, and the parents
The wreckare of the boat was found on the rocks and nearby the body of a man, belloved to be the father. The body of Patricia was also found-Reuter,
CHURCHILL
Fall cuss
the
SUMMONS
CABINET
In
Funeral Mourners
And Police
Munich, Aug. 18.
Police and demonstrators clashed near the cemetery here today as the funeral of Philipp Auerbach, former Bavarian Jewish leader, who committed suicide after being convicted of fraud and embezzlement, drew to a close,
Police said the trouble started when a plain clothes detective tried to confiscate one of the placards protesting against the Auerbach verdict carried by the demon- strators,
Two hundred polletmen, who Funeral orations at the grave- hpd ben held in readinem, side emphasised the conviction immediately aporvached with of Auerbach's friends that bo water cuts. They cecupied was condemned unjustly.
Max Woenner, spokesman for
the cemetery for a short time.
The police report said the the West German Trade Union procession, which followed the Federation,
praised Auerbach's comin to the cemetery, had "heroic struggle" to lessen the neither bcen planned nor guilt of the German people by approved by the Jewish qu- effective restitution. thorities. It had been
up without Incident.
broken
"MISGUIDED" JUSTICE
Dr Van
Van Dam chairman of the An official polic summary Central Committee of German said police-desisted, "for cer Jews said that Auerbach's name tain reasons," from breaking 'up | would always remain associated the demonstration, even though with the idea of restitution and it was
an illegal procession the renewal of Justice in Nazi with placards grossly insulting ravaged Germany. It was all to a court,
the more tragic, he added, that A plain clothes man stepped he fell victim to misguided in when an insulting banner was justice. unfurled.
Dr Neiland, head of the Ger- man Jewish Cultural Community, declared that Jewry would look after Auerbach's widow and five- year old daughter "for Auerbach
too great an
was cnrich himself."
DETECTIVE ATTACKED The report claimed the delces Live was attacked by about 100 people, who forced him back into the cemetery and set about him with wooden sticks, flower pots and other hard objects.
Herr Maurice Weinberger, democratic Acting Choirman of Bavarian widow in Jewish Cultural community, ac- cused the detective of having
Ineldent by
The
his
the
idealist to
the
Dr Schumacher, social
told leader,
telegram that Auerbach's name would always be held in "honourable memory."
-Reuter.
There' was considerable Much significance was attached
the here to the demonstrative recep- speculation, whether the Soviet
rash
grab for the banner. tion accorded by the Kremlin to would abandon Manchuria oF
Reporters found that mourners the representative Chinese de-so the bogy of the Western
London, Aug. 18. at the funeral were of ali reil- legation which was headed by the threat as an excuse for remain-
The Prime Minister, Mrglous beliefs and social levels. devastated' village of Lyn- Mr Chou En-lai, on their arrival there.bo. Eoviet provic Winston Churchill,
Premier and Foreign Minister,
today all people who had teen beiped More South ly wanted a kind of puppet
it as a
Bavarian Restitution Key Witnessmouth and other deluged
red rights in summoned the Cabinet to by state when it secured parts of Devon and Somer early next month by a "Fence Arthur and Dalren
the Manchurian
Port meet on Wednesday to dis- Office, which Auerbach headed. Africans Held
at Flowers banked high set today hampered. rescue Congress" in Peking which is secret Yalta agreements. It has the explosive situa- German trade unions, the Social- frem an extraordinary grave included wreaths
Johannesburg, Aug. 18. Workers probing the muil- expected to be a major demon-sense
Police tightening their crack- assumed that Man- covered debris in which 13stration for Communism in Asia long been
churla may prove to be the first tion in Iran and Anglo- ist Party and the Jewish Ameri- down on South Africa's spread-
can aid organizations.
ing passive resistance campaign bodies have been found. and for freedom from "colonial decisive test in Sino-Russian re- American differences on
Protest banners carried by on Monday arrested 362
non- Some 89 people are miss-
domination"
lations, but Moscow is aware of how to remedy it.
Auerbach sympathisers at the whites on charges of breaking the sensitiveness of the Peking:
segregation funeral read "Down on this Issue-United regime
Nazi Dreyfuss trial" and with the Nazi Judge Mulzer laws. This is the largest num (Auerbach's councel had accused her reported arrested in a single
day: the presiding judge, Dr Joset Mulzer, of having been a Nazi).
Refuses To
Aid Police
ing.
pelley British Far Eastern advisers believe that not all is Damage is expected to reach well between Moscow and Peking at least £1 million, including and that serious differences have troubled the alliance in the past £200,000 merely for repairing tr roads.
number of on a
of problems, includ Korean war
In which Queen Elizabeth and her hus-ing the
China was at times considered band, the Duke of Edinburgh, were
will Join thousands of Britons here to be a reluctant party. in sending donations to the re-
quarters here not long ago that lief appeal,
the Peking regime of Mao Tse-
would default tung
on Moscow
The view hold in official
Press.
NO
PRE-KNOWLEDGE
Washington Aug. 18. The United States had no prior knowledge of the Moscow meeting, a State Department
spokesman ference today,
told a news con.
The Prime Minister, Mr Win- sion Churchill, has telegraphed
of the local and might eventually deviate to the Chairman
"It is to be expected that re- council "to
Into kind of Easter Titolem
of these two 10 presentatives convey deep has been abandoned, sym
Govern countries, which have a treaty sympathy to all who have suffer- ed in this strange and grievous students of Chinese Communiam time to time," he added,
quan'ora 0.9 well
as relationship, should confer from misfortune,"
now assume that the alliance
my
militarists have gone Monrow to discuss any new line of policy to be followed at the Korea cense-fire talks, for if the Communists had decided to break the Panmunjom stalemate this could readily be achieved
Peyruis, Aug. 18. by an exchange of views The key witness, M. between the Kremlin and Gustave Dominici, nent Peking through normal whose farm
the British channels. The presence of
Drummond family Chinese military advisers in the Moscow delegation murdered. has refused to suggests either a desire on take part in tonight's police the part of Peking to obtain reconstruction of the triple assurances of mure Soviet murders. military aid for the purposes of renewing hostilitics in Korea on large scale, or to establish
Clothing, A new, long-term military
household goods, between Russia and Red China, But it, is expected here that alliance between Com-
monetary gifts and 50 tons of however sensitive, will continue the return to full Chinese con- munist China and Russia
quick - drying cement today ter poured into the disaster area, neither aide has any alternative. and the Changchun Railway in quite a while because trol of Port Arthur and Dairen which would become effec-
where residents and hotel keep- tive if and when the East-
Manchuria will be major sub- ON "PROBATION" This is the estimated height ers, with businesses and homes West cold war resolves it- of a man seen by a lorry driver in ruins, inspected their wreck-
Mao Tse-tung, put on "proba-jects of discusalon in Moscow.. self into military hostilities. who unknowingly passed the ed premises.
tion" by the Kremlin, is con-
The Secretary of State, Mr The second alternative bodies of Bir Jack Drummond,
waters subsided, cat.sidered to have proved himself Dean Acheson, has already sald appeals as the most likely his wife and child forty minutes cases of cattle, sheep, rabbile a powerful factor
that such a transfer would make at this time, particularly as after the presumed Ume of the and chickens were found every Stalin who, wiser by his no great difference. Rusala could Russia
possess murder. It is also Dominiel's where many of them for from perience in Yugoslavia, is be- bulle up must
to control system extremely "be
careful assurances about her rights height
their pasture lands and form lieved to
these ports and the Manchurları Tonigh!
in avolding the Impression the driver, Lucien yards.
Russian tutelage over China or formal status, he said.
of Railway, Irrespective of unar along Due, will again take his truck NATIONAL DISASTER
the road, headlights Sir John Shelley, Chairman of of interference in inner Chinese blazing. The police planned that
affairs. the Devon County Council, to
There are belleved to be secret Available evidence is said to protocols to the 1956 Pact and these may also have necessitated the talks.
2
to the use of Port Arthur in the event of a world war,
THE economic aspects of the
Moscow conference Are rather more obvious. The Korean war and the consequent economic blockade which has been
the imposed by
United Nations has, without doubt,
Dominici, grilled by the police ve almes, who insist that he knows more than he will say, was asked today to take part in the reconstruction drama.
"I absolutely refuse," be sali,
"If dummies are wanted, there are plenty of gendarmes 1.75
metres tall,"
oven
for
Ex-
three men of similar bulld, one night decided to make an urgent of them Dominicl, would come appeal to Mr Churchill to treat be pointing to the fact that both into the passing glare. of the "this unprecedented calamity" need each other for the time Hghts for Due to say who most us a national disaster.
being, both claim that they have resembled the man he saw от Meanwhile; the two halves of some enemies and both claim to August 4,
Lynmouth, cut apart by the fight colonial domination which BIG HANDICAP
torrent have been linked again may prove a powerful link for The reconstruction will sl
the time being. by a plank footbridge. be held.
Scanty reports on the current The Bureau of Missing Persons
meeting lists 28 Moscow
have fed authoritative quarters to-believe that the following issues will be considered:
The
The
It
six
to
and
the
Russia 1930
five-year plan which
under
It seems inevitable that the Chinese will have to ask for an
million the '$300 increase In worth of loans granted them in 1950 to buy Industrial equipment over five years.
ns in the economic field.-Reuter.
Differences between
with the
WEEPING CROWD Thousands of Jews and non-
mourners.
the Union's
The campaign-backed by the African National Congress and the South African Indian Con-
The Cabinot will also consider a report on the Lynmouth flood dmaster to determine cuergenos measures and ald for the victims. American pressure for speedy moves is understood to be among the reasons which prompted Mr Churchill to call his Ministers for
iest against. the. Nationalist gov the bier in a second review of the Iraning Jews alike filed weeping past his gress-is being waged in pro- problem since the Parliamentary
synagogue during
trnment's Taco segregation the night.
The glass doors burst recess two weeks ago.
laws.-Associated Press, Britain under the onrush of and the United States over policy Thousands more followed his
graveside.
7 DIE FROM toward the Iranian Prime Minis- comn to the
Auerbach, 45, ex-chief of the
FOOD POISONING · ter Dr Mohammed Mossadegh, and the difficulties between Lon- Bavarian Restitution Office, was
Berlin, Aug. 18, two-and-a-half don and Teheran have delayed sentenced
Seven children Imprisonment by o Ger-
died from British action on the latter's years' Intest offer for resumption of man court here on charges of food poisoning and 270 are 10, accepting after eating bad sausages in Ensi the oil negotiations.
fraud, embezzlement, bribes and attempted blackmall. Berlin holiday camps on Satur-
He took an overdose of sleep- day,
Berlin Woit
papers the next day, ex-reported today. ing tablets
Fire brigades were called to plaining in a letter that he had all faith in justice and did not help transport sick children to wish to be a burden on his hospitals, the reports said.— friends and family.
Rouler.
next
B
ANXIETY SHARED The Cabinet will consider its move in tho Iranian quarrel but my postpone final decision until the return from his honeymoon in Portu-
of the Foreign gal
Secretary, Mr Anthony Eden.
Anxiety that the situation in Iran may get out of hand and lead to a Communist coup is shared by Britain ani United States and both agreed that remedies aust found to secure an independent and stable Iran which remain friendly toward the. West,
But there is. A difference of opinion on how this
cata bo best achieved.
Goverment quarters here are reluctant to discuss the issue and are minimising differences with United States Foreign
the aro bo
left China short of essen- Inquiries have handicapped tial commodities, notably in this area largely inhabited at Barnstable still raw materials and means by Corsicans and Sicilians,
by people as missing.
China is believed to be buyingce ipokesman said today that for
both Governments are now in developing much the traditional Coreican attitude
More bodies are expected to
the Korean wor equipment she needed industrialisation. that "a murder
Russia and full agreement on alms even if concerns only be recovered from sea, washed
1. The Korean
has received from war Clearly Peking is turning, the
the tides, but some nesible up with parules the killer,
the she will therefore presumably they are still at varlanco over. new moves in cap in hand, to Russia for victim and the police."
never be recovered. bodtes may
Britain 1 A farmer.
reluctant assistance in making good me
Riving about
is feared several were ground current diplomatic efforts for a need aid in the military as well the method of approach.
negotiate with Dr Mossadegh the serious deficiencies. And one from this town, today ing boulders swept along by the
eces between the huge roll-solution. pieces
2-Future Soviet multary ald
under
and offered evidence which might
alleged pressure to China and the equipping of Peking has good reason to help to solve the case, the police food torrent.
threats, Exchanges in Teheran beyond feel worried about the disclosed tonight.
growing forete In the Bristol Chan her Shipping
week-end with Dr situation in Manchuria,
farmer told them
henel off the north Devon coast current supplies in the Korean Malik Promises the
'Mossadegh are said to have been over which she continues to caught "suspicious looking tonight reported that a number fighting
3-Economic nid for China's New Diatribentory" bodies had been seen floating
BARRIERY ONLY possess but token control. character""
rooming round his The resources of Manchuria farm in a slouch hat and shorts, the sea,
Anglo American differences United Nations, Aug. 18. | are vital
| have been represented en, being the future of He ran away when the farmer Mr John Ambrose, 58-year- undertook
The of the Royal treaty but apparently has not
Russian Communist China. To dato tried to speak to him.
delegate, Mr caused by Washington's belle? Jacob Malik, today promised that Dr Mossadegh is the
only tho The Chief Inspector of Police Society for the Prevention of supplied adequately.
to China of the United Nations another 40- 4-The return
rure barrier.
Com- Chie Russian-controlled Man-minute diatribe on germ warfare munist coup.
that reason ralkway, of when
the Plaarmament Com-the United Sta la sald to be
States Port Arthur
concessions the Soviet undertook day. which
ald Immediate economic aid on under the 1950 pact.
PORT ARTHUR
a small scale to chable Iran to Mr Mallk served advance
recover, suficiently, to tackle The Soviet may try to circum- notice of the next step in the long-term settlement. veat the retum of strategically | Communist germ warfore pro-
Port Arthur.
The British view is that such be anfely forecast
Important.
The paganda campaign at the end short-term unconditional mea- Poking... will ·
1050 pact provides that in the of a 24-hour session of the 12-sures will only prolong the agony Calcutta, Aug. 10. no A strong earthquake rocked
blind beggar, substantial concessions this south Italian city today, Prasad, was talked into buying any power allied to
Kambeo event of aggression by Japan or nation Commission.
of the country without achieving Japan, The Commission decided the necessary stabilisation: without making big sacri- causing widespread panic,
Nor an Irish Derby ticket the other Russia and China, on the latter's earlier this year that it was not Britain convinced that Dr fces to Soviet desires which There were no reports of day. Today, ho was told his proposal, may jointly use the empowered to, dlacusa specific Mossedogh is the right man to 'clearly are concentrated on damages of casualties.—Asso- | ticket had won him £13,000, Port Arthur base in the Interest charges. of. germ warfare halt possible Communist ups
things military.
of-inilitary operations,
United Press.
sho has had neither
has
means nor the opportunity | police to comb the area, where stable, Devon, has spent many churlan Changon port Dairea mission imeets again on Wednes-sadvocating British
disappeared,
summoned all available | of exploiting that area to the man
over a her own benefit. It may be 12-mile radius. Police dogs assumed that Manchuria have been taken to the farin will figure high in the list | from Marsellles-Reuter... of subjects to be discussed
in Moscow. And it may also Quake Causes. Panic
that
obtain
Benevento," Aug. 18.
ciated Press.
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In
old
Inspector
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