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CHINA MAIL
No. 35563
Established 1845-
THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1953.
East German Minister
Compromise Of Justice Dismissed
THE
IE Legislative Council debate on rent incrensEN ended yesterday on a happy note of sweet compromise. Government, without sacri- Being the principlea embodied in the McNellf Report, accepted amend- ments suggested by the Unofficials with the
Ret result that there will be only one hike of 25 per cent standard rents for domestic premises (anil that to become opérative for another eight months), and two Increases of 25 per cent each on business premises, the first in September and the second
hot
Lift The
Restrictions Demand By Egypt
Cairo, July 15.
Egypt has demanded the lifting of }] military restrictions imposed by British forces in Ismailia next March. These
proafter the disappearance of a posals differ considerably from those advanced by the British airman, the Egypt- andian Foreign Minister, Dr Mahmoud Fawzy, said to-
McNeill,
Committee
con-
Dr Fawzy said: "We havo toki the British that such mea- sures
unjustified and wrongly taken.“
they are very real cessions to popular opinion, | night. No one can seriously argue that they impone excep- tional hardship on tenants, but they do go some way towards correcting [17] anomalous situation, The acting Colonial Secretary wound up the debute in an
effective
manner, being
are
Dr. Fawzy refused to tell re- porters whether a formal note had been presented or whether the request had been made verti ally.
The British Charge d'Affaires, particularly helpful in Mr Robert Hankey, today called correcting misappréhensions on the Foreign Minister at his concerning the exploitation own request. He told reporters and victimisation of sub-that is meeting was "simply a routine one on current matters.' lennnta by principal
Earlier. President Mohammed tenants. quite apart from Nagulb of Egypt recorded a the amendmenta which speech On the Canal Zone provide for rental increases, quarrel with Britai while the revisions of the Landlord | angry crowds shouted and
Tenant Ordinance Brilish slogans pulsidr which have now received building for full hour. the approval of the Legin- intive Council go a long way
making Howard
the
Kenyatta Verdict: Crown
To Appeal
Kitale, Kenya; July 16.
Kenya Supreme Couri yesterday quashed the conviction and seven-year sentences on Jomo Ken- yatta and five other Afri- cans as Mau Mau or- ganisers - but the Crown Is to appeal against the
decision.
Patrola In trouble-spola were alerted fast night clis- against any possible order in the form of African Jubilation at the news.
The Supreme Court has ordered
a retrial of the. caso despite the pics of defence counsel, Mr D, N. Felit, QC, that this would bo oppressive to the accused, who had worn out their resources.—Reuter.
WAR FRONT
SITUATION
"SERIOUS"
CHARGED WITH ACTS HOSTILE TO THE
THE STATE
Berlin, July 16.
Otto Grotewohl, the East German Premier, has dismissed Max Fechner, Minister of Justice from his post on account of activity hostile to the state.
The official East German News Agency, ADN, announcing this said that Frau Hilde Ben- jamin, till now the vice-President of the East German Supreme Court had been appointed to his post.
Fechner, a member of the Centrul Committee of the Socialist Unity (Communist) Party in the Soviet zone, was appointed Minister of Justice in November 1949.
The agency said Fechner had been dismissed by Otto Grotewohl but gave no details.
Free
A West Berlin anti-Communist organisation, the of Jurists, had earlier reported the arrest Fechner's son and daughter-in-law.
Western observers hero be- In the first, in April, Ruk="
leved the Justice Minister was hadze, the Republic's Minister
ints
of State Security, was arrested with wo of his henchmen ftr allegedly framing charges against other Party men.
The two others arrested were
Ordinance fool-proof. The be designed to explain the latest front in at least two places, age of he was ing to disclosures at the Joint
British troop threw a condon
Red
froops
were
reported
almost certain to have been jarrested as well because of the periousness of the charge against Itim
Fechner, who will be di month. is the first Canmunist Mgeladze and Charkvian. Seoul, July 16. Govenment Minister dismissed
They were accused among mriti- Thousands of Chinese outside Russia since the urlag other things of arresting
of Lavrerit Beria, the Soviet the launched three new attacks Minister of Interior.
innocent workers. Ministers ca similar purged earlier were reinstated YELL SLOGANS
on the Central Front late grounds last week.
in the drastic "clean up" which broadcast
The President's speech for yesterday and punched Fechner, the son of a mason, followed the arrests,
Patty atjtha later French and German was suit to
English, holes, in the South Korean Joined the
Tiflis Radio aid that, accord- arrested for anti-Nazi activities
sesalon, DekanoSoy was among developments in Egypt resulting dispatches from the battle and put in a concentration cama. the people selected by Beria In
After the war he occupied a from the sealing off of Ismailia line said today.
2 his attempt to
to seize power. prominent
inv position
the in the Canal Zone.
Others, it said, included Ruk- Socialist Unity Parts formed in
and Rapaya the fusion of the haze, Mamulov and
Minister 1946 from Socialists with the Communia (appointed Georgian
of State Control after the April Party in the Soviet occupied zone
purge) and two men named of Germany.—Reuter,
Shariya hnd Milthteyn.--Reu- SOVIET PURGE
ter. London, July 15. Soviet purge was switched to- day to Georgia, Stalin's birth- ond Sir The Chinese hit the Western place, where the local Minister for Chinese Affairs, For Winston Churchill. Then they end of the "bulge" they had for laternal Affairs was thrown tenants who are unsure of turnect the wrath against the riven in the United Nations out of the Party leadership and their position and who need Britk
d'Affies, Mr line. They jumped off at 4 p.m. others
were named
mon Berkz
as licu- dvice this bureau should ut- Hanitey --with-shouts-of-n-United Press-dispatch said tenants of Lavureli prove of inestimable value.o me to Mother, Hankey,
When President Naguib About 2,000 Chinese rarumed
The Minister, Vladimir Deka- of a close friend but, as the Hon B. C. K
emerges they shouted "Lead us the right Bouk of the new line 950v.
dismissed as Hawkins emphasised yester-to the Canal Zone."
which South Korean troops Beria, who was day, the new department can Observers believed the trame were trying to organise after Soviet Interior Minister only
having being thrown back for Ave days ago for being "an imbecide
perialist hireling." co- in force scene kdays and would miles, public are willing to
with Government then be relaxed and eventually operate and avail themselves of the endod unless there were un-
Jugal position of both land lords and tenants becomes much more clearly defined, with their respective rights and privileges made round Ismailia and searched pushing southward on a 20-mile apparent. Supremely im- traille in and out of the town front, portant too, is the comple-after Egypt had falled to return "We've got a hole in our line,"
mentary Tenancy
provision of
to British control a kidnapped said an American officer. "The Inquiry Bureau British sirman, A. v. Rigdem situation on the front is very
The demonstrating crowd led
to be established under by cheer leaders yelled slogans serious."
the aegis of the Secretariat examst the British
Change
...only be Яuccess if the control sit Lamalia would remain
foreseen facilities which are being Reuter. offered to them to seek the protection of the law. It
major
the public allow themselves Extra
to be exploited in the future, it will be largely their own fault.
Evening Concerts
FATHER Ryan will find ready support from a large section of the community for his suggestion that evening band and orchestral concerts be held in some of the Colony's public spaces, afternoon The Sunday concerts, ду he rightly points out, have been great
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THE NEW FRENCH ⠀⠀ GOVERNMENT
The new French Premler presents the State Secretaries of the new French Government to President Auriol, The group reads first row left to right: M. Jacquet; M. Jolly; M. Christinens; Prime Minister Laniel; President Auriol; M. Devinat; M. Bolde and M. Olmi. Second row from left to right: M. Maurice Schumann; M. Ramarony; M. Schleiter; M. Bugues; M. Thibault; M. de Chevigne; M. Lafay and M., Ulver. - London Express.
Text
To
3 Invitation
Of Big
Big 3 Four Power
Talks
London, July 16.
STA
Britain, France and the United States yesterday invited Russia to a meeting of foreign ministers in late September and said four-power agreement on Germany and Austria would be "a major contribution to peace."
The decision to propose the conference was announced by the Big Three foreign · ministers on Tuesday night at the end of their four-day meeting in Washington.
Identical
notes handed to Federal Government and ther
essentialstega Russin's representatives German authorities in Berlin, to which must peccede the opending London, Parks and Washington propose to the Soviet govern- of discussions with the Soviet proposed that the necting ment a meeting of the foreign government for e German peace should be held at a place to be
ministers of France, the United realy, Holt a major element for mutually agreed upon.
Kingdom, the United States and a general settlement,
"The governments also com Without specifically ruling the Soviet Union,
Umiled sider that at this first meeting This out other topics, the western
furally ur meeting
be powers said the agenda should duration might begin about the agreemerit should be the conditions for the end of September at a place to reached on the Austrian treaty." elections of AD all-German be mutually agreed. The sub--Router.
should be government and final agreement Jeels for discussion on the treaty restoring Austrian the following:
1. The viganisation of free independance, ...The... text of the identical elections in the Federal Re- public, the Eastern Zone of western notes to Russia was:
Germany and in Berlin. This The
development of theid involve
discussion, inter international situation sind the
of
Mail Lost In
Ships Collision
Washington, July 15. The Army Paris, July 15.
in Eastern Ger- alla, of the necessary guarantees
suk today that a at mail and French detectives' today held recent events
Sadom of action for political packages for military men in interrations in six many and in Berlin have intensi- for freedom of movement, free large quantity Paris
Probe the led the universal desire to see dom hospitals to
of the press Korea was lost yesterday when parties, freedom Dekanosov was once a power-
esterday's Bastille-peace more frinly established by and the enjoyment of the baste the freighter Jacob Luckenbach cause. of Russia's Day
existing tensions in a way ful figure in shoping
rlot in the
Place de la
all Germans be-ranke after a collision with the de consistent with the fundamental freedoms by
11 foreign policy. As Deputy For Nation, in
Howalan Pilot fore, during and after the elec- dreighter seven cign Minister he once stood in
killed and rights to freedom.
tions.
miles off San Francisco. **Wulle recognising the fact 2 Conditions for the ex- for Mr Molotov, now number monstrators were
The Army said the Lakelenbach two to Prime Minister Georgi
thair d people wounded.
that
enduring peace can only be The clash between armed Macakny.
and about 2,000 North ultimately assured when certain tablishment of a tree all Ger-carried (1 portoises of first-class man government with freedom mail, 4,077 sacks of parcels and It was Major Ralph Cowan of He and several others were Africans.
baale problems, such as con- faking part
in internal and ex- 430 overseas parcels, oil of which Elmira, New York, who des-linked today with an alleged
Atrolled disarmament, can be of action
were lost-United Press. annual march has
ternal affairs. cribed the front situation as plot by Beria to split Georgia, public opinion here because of desire
perturbed
with
the governments
of new attacks and the people.
problems which are of the Interior Ministry The Georgian purge was an- extent of the penetrations were blacked out by light security nounced at the end of a long the
has opened an inquiry into early solution.
affair and Gaullist and precautions, Bul It was known report by Tulis Radio on a joint
deputies Communist the Chinese broke through at session of the Georgian Com-
pected to call for a fullscale several points yesterday and the mumlet Party's Central Com-
debate parliamentary censors here passed a dispatch mittee and the Tiflis City Party!
National Assembly Late yesterday which said the Committee.
The final casualty list gave Allied Ine was sugging under A second member
seven dead, six of them North pressure from an estimated six Central Committee set up only Africans, from ride fire, Chinese visions-United Press, three months ago after Georgia's demonstrators 44 of them first purge under the Malenkov North Africans in hospital and regime, has also been unsealed.
He was named as Mamulov, 19 policemen seriously wound- but no further identification was
Supply Ends te stel used altre exact size formerly Independent, from the the apparent absence of motive desire to his own pable of
necessary to
be-
An official of the Water Authority of the Public Works Department stated today that it has been found discontinue the extra five hours water supply
which has been given, at recent weekends 1. and tween
-4-p.m The
rencon for this is that although the rainfall recorded at the Royal Observatory has been above normal, certain waterworks catchment areas it been well below normal and some of the reservoirs are
has
cularly to the Tytam group of reservoirs,
FIRE DESTROYS PART OF CITY
а
Paris, July 35. The Indonesian radio heard here, reported today that The public is. informed, there raging tire had destroyed on ca- fore, that until further notice tire section of Djakarta. the hours of supply will be eleven hours per day only in all Some 300 houses districts, o. from 0 am to 11 destroyed, the radio Bald. a.m. and from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. France-Presse.
were
Senate Ratifies Treaties
despite very low Indeed for the time original predictions from of the year. This applies parti- the leur imaginative that the pubile would show no interest in such an enter prise. Nevertheless, in our summer heat, the afternoon is not the ideal time for nir concerts; the open evenings are much more conducive to full enjoy. ment, both for the per- formers and the audience. The Botanical Gardens offer an idont setting for such concerts, for there people may stroll around on the lawns if they so desire without distracting at tention from the music, Government could also make these functions all the mora attractive by adopting an illuminations echome 80 widely used in British jority holiday resorts and decorate the gardens with multi- coloured fairy lights. Evening band concerts aro certain to be a success'atid Fathor Ryan's suggestion is worthy of very serious
consideration.
Washington, July 15.
given,
of
the
The joint session also con- demned the Republic's Minister of State Control, A. N. Rapava, owing allegiance to. Beria, Exut not disclose any action
him agalust
Ropava was restored to the
The
ed-Reuter,
are ex-
the in
STOP PRESS
Republie's Government only in UN Troops
April, after being arrested on
40
LONG OVERDUE
The conclusion of the Ger- man and Austrian treatles, which are long overdue, clearly con- siltutes an essentia. element of the European settlement which the governments regard 03 a
contribution to peace. major
peace treaty can only be
the of free and participation
bill German representative government in a position freely a treaty. Such a such to discuss government can only result from
Gelated with
free elections under which
The com
such a government should be formed and enjoy full liberty of action
problem consultute a which is
capable of early solu- tion if there is good will on all sides. It is equally clear that no real progress can be made toward a general relaxation of tension in Europe so long na this problem remains unsolved.
"In their notes to the Soviet
the
is last of which government dawn that of September 23, 1952, to
charges of "nationalism before Counter-Attack
Stalin's death,
Today his name was bracketed
with that of two former local
Tokyo, July 10.
Party Secretaries, Charkviani The Eighth Army hurled and Mgcladze, who fell into least 45,000 United Nations disgrace at the same time as troops into a powerful Rapava was "exonerated" in counter-attack today against which no answer has yet been April.
Beria,
the
The Senate today ratified three North Atlantic Treaty Organisation treaties to regulate the status of forces
110 Chinese armies in
received, the governments made proposals which constructive The joint session also formal-Central Front bulge. stationed on the territories of the North Atlantic partners.
were fully reflected in the re- ly expelled Berla himself from
of solutions
Germati the Three United Nations divisions
of this Ono of them permits the, commanding officer should ask the local Central Committee,
SECOND PURGE
threw the counter-punch at the Bundestag of June 10 trial in foreign courts of United the court to waive jurisdiction
are de car, These proposals first light of day and were still | year For some accused of and let the telai be conducted States servicemen
Years offences committed off duty. by a military court.
Georgian himself, supervised driving forward at last reports, signed to satisfy the unanimous desire of the German people for If jurisdiction was not walved the activities of the Republic's United-
correspondent
unity in frectiom, The vote was 72 to 15, for the State Department then Communist Party
reported from more than the two-thirds ma-| would enter the case "to press leved to be and is. be--William
personally respon the
battl required for treaty auch request through diplomatic sible for Dekanozov's appoint- Miller's "report" did not say
the whether
divisions were ment in April. Georgia is The resolution which has no
The fith largest of South Korean or American.
The counter-punch was back- of the the Soviet Republics, nations which population of 3,542,000. It was ed by tanks, swarms of fighter where there is danger that the signed the treaty also stated formerly, an Independent state bombers and masses of artillery. Its proportions were such that accused will not be probcted United States shall attend, the and was..absorbed by Soviet because of the absence or denial ¦ that' ́a' ""representative of the Russia in 1921.
observers described it as the biggest Eighth Army attack in two years.--United Press.
ratification.
The Senate also approved resolution expressing the senso
a
-channels.'
of the Senate that, in any case ding effect on any
Atlantic
of constitutional rights in a trial" of any civil 'court trial abroad,
serviceman in a the foreign civil court.--Reuter,
with
This is the second purge in Georgia_since Stalin's death.
are
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