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YUGO-SLAVS BOYCOTT FINAL Army Called Out ONLY THREE SMALL RED PEACE CONFERENCE SESSION
Decisions on the Italian Treaty Not Acceptable
Byrnes Appeals For Return Of
The Wartime Unity
Paris, Oct. 15.-Yugo-Slavia boycotted the final session of the Paris Peace Conference to-day, notify- ing the Secretary General at the last moment that the Yugo-Slav delegation could not participate in the final meeting.
When the final plenary session, planned as a politè ceremonial closing of the unsuccessful attempt to make peace opened, the ten Yugo-Slav seats were empty.
the
Basic Political Agreement In
NEI By Nov 30
.
No Diversion Of UNRRA Supplies To
Butavin, Oct. 15.—The Dutch Yugo-Slav Army
Commission-General, sent out from Holland to negotiate with. the Indonesian leaders, hopes to
Belgrade, Oct. 14 (UP).-The reach a "basic" agreement with apepcial three-Power UNRRA them on the future status of Investigation Commission report Indonesia. by the end of nexted to-day that it found no evid- ence of diversion of large quan- month, it
officially Was nounced here to-day.
tities of supplies to the Yugo- Slav Army.
an-
The truce, ending the year-long hostilities between the Allies nucl Indonesians In Java, was agreed on between the British. Dutch and Indonesians yesterday on the basis of the present military positions.
The commander of the Indone Sudirman, last night broadcast "the sion "Army of the Republic," Gen
people and Issued orders that every- thing be done to prevent
news of the truce to the Indonesian
fighting.
The chairman, Dr Quo Tai-chi received two-thirds vote in the Pence (China) called the meeting to Conference regardless of how order as though nothing had United States voted in the conference. Mr Byrnes appealed again for n happened and suggested that return of the war-time unity and the Conference formally ap snid: "Just as no one nation, had the prove the list of decisions taken power to win the war so no one on the trenties in the last five nation has the wisdom to dictate the
pense." days. After the translation, the
Answering M. Molotov's criticism Chinese chairman said that be-of United States insistence upon Dutch foro voting he had a communica- calling Peace Conference before tion to announce.
all the Big Four agreed on all major igstips, Mr Byrnes said he thought {Continued on Page 4)
1
Dr Quo
then sald that 나오겠
Secretary-General, Just before the
meeting opened, had received a letter?
from the head of the Yugo-Slav
delegation, Dr Eduard Kardelj, Vice Kenya To Be New
Premier of Yugo-Slavia, saying Yugo-Slavia found, it impossible to
take
part in the final meeting of the
Conference.
The galleries were jammed and press galleries were illed for the
HQ Of British
first time since the opening days 11 Middle East Forces
weeks ago,
the
--The-Yugo-Slavs-have-threatened nearly a dozen- times during Conference to refuse 10 sign the London, Oct... 15.-Kenya, trealy with Italy 1. In its Anal British colony in East Africa, is version, it includes the compromise "French Line" for the Italo-Yugo- being considered as the location of the General Headquarters of Slay
British Forces in the Middle Enst, after the withdrawal from Cairo.
frontier.
The conference has voted down by two-thirds vote all of Yugo-Slavia's requests with speet to her frontier with Haly and on Trieste.
Yugo-Slav Methods
further
The Commission
concluded that
it could state unreservedly that, a greater bulk of the 2,000,000 tons of UNRRA supplies sent to Yugo Slavia had been effectively aiz- tributed among the people of the country and undoubtedly suved millions of lives in Yugo-Slavia.
The Commission released 1,352-word report to the press after n 10-day investigation of speelfie and general claims that UNRRA misused in Yugo- suppues were The truce clauses, providing for Slavia both by the represintatives the "stabilisation of the ratio of and the Government, Allied and
Indonesian
forces" meant that the total number of The Commission, consisting of forces in the Netherlands Col A. G. Katzin, of South Africa, East Indies after November 30 Mr C. Hart Schusf, of the United would not exceed the present com-
States, and Maj Burby uf bined Dutch and British forces. France, was appointed on "@cto- ber 3 by UNRRA Director-Generat LaGuardia to make survey of UNHRA operations Yugo-Slavia and will report fully to him in the United States,
provided that the truce was not violated, tho' statement said...
MA Heneral demobilisation by both sides, as specified in the truce, will obviously depend on the pro gress of political negotiations,"
formal
in
The report said: "The Commis- sion has found no evidence of diver-
have
of
Some two hundred leaders and sion of large quantities of supplies members of irregular Indonesian to the Yugo-Slav, Army. From fighting organisations ulong the time 10 time UNRRA regional East coast of Sumatra have been directors
reported that arrested for not obeying the orders vehicles, thought to have been at of-the-oficial-Indonesian-leaders,-UNRRA-origin, have been seen high Republican spokesman, quoied military use. Such reports said lo-day. by the Netherlands News Agency, been brought to the notice of the Government as they arose and ex- planations requested.
A British plane to-day tout Mo- ommed Roem, Indonesian Minister Sveriadnema, of the Interior, and Air-Commodore
Indonesian
"There have been admitted
To Quell New
Riots In India
•
Calcutta, Oct. 15 (UP),—AU- thoritative quarters reported to- day that military forces were rushed to Noakhali to quell local clashes which had broken out between Hindus and Moslems.
The reports said rioting mobs were raiding villages in Noakhall district In the face of police realstance. The pollee reportedly fired on the mob at Nealthall to-day wounding
six
persons
Reports sald the military forces were delayed a few miles south of Noakhali because of the shortage of rivercraft, which is the only means of access to Nonkhall. The river- boots were destroyed when Japanese invaded india,
the
New Congress Leader New Delhi. Oct. 15-Acharya J. B. Kripalani. former - General- Secres Ty of Congress, becomes the new President of the Indian National Congress, it was stated to-day after Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, former President of Congress, has announc ed his decision not to stand for elec- tion as President.
AREAS IN CHINA PROPER AFTER FALL OF KALGAN
Shanghai, Oct. 15 (UP).—The fail of Kalgan, which is the deadliest blow to Communist milltary prestige, has reduced the so-called China liberated arens, excepting Manchuria, to insignificant pockets which appeared vulnerable to carly” liquidation.
The comparative ease with which, Kulgan was taken is expected to Kuomintang who advocate the ex- encourage, extremist facilons of the termination of the Communist armica" and reduction of the Communist Party to on armyless minority, and Youth Party. similar to the Democratic League
Greek Bandits
Mine Roads In South Thessaly
There are now three main Com- munist Dockets in China Proper, each exposed to momentary Govern- ment attack, The first pocket is around Yonan, the Red capital,
Athens, Oct. 15 (UP).—Nows- which is believed to be defended by papers reported to-day that formidable elite groups under the bandits extended their activities personal command of Gen Chu Te to Southern Thessaly and mined Communist Commander-in-Chief In China. This pocket is believed to be the road between Athens and linked with the Red forces in Shansi Larissa for the first time. who hold only minor cllies as a resull of Gen Hut Sung-nan counter- Reports sold four private trucks, Shansi atong the Tatung-Wuchowed while travelling between Athens offensive which mopped up south and eine Red Cross truck were hijack- and Larissa. The road was mined rallway.
nem Domokos, which is between The second important pocket is in
lem M. A. Jinnah, President of the Mos- nerth Honan between the Peiping Lamin and Pharsale, on the edge of the territory controlled by the Right- the League, to join the interim Hankow and Tientsin-Pukcow government were announced here to- | railways, where the
ist bondlf chileftain, Gregori Souring. Communists Abdul Rabnishtur, Ganzaforni ishat atack on Pasting.
All Khan, Chudrigar recently launched a diversionary Sourias complained in a recent in- terview with the United Press that and J. N. Mondal, Minister for the The third pocket je in north | Leftist bandila were moving in on Scheduled Castes in Bengal.-Reuter Kinngsu-cast Shantung where Gen his territory. and United. Press.
Chen Yi's New Fourth Army once threatened the American naval buse
The
names of the four members of the Moslem League selected by
us
Britain Rejects Jewish Request
Reports sald bandits were hijack-
of Tsingtao. This pocket has now ing trucks to 'selzo food and clothing Been whittled down by Governme bulld up supplies for the winter. campaigns along the Grand Canal to They have been stripping gendarmes a narrow strip which is in danger of and soldiers some of whom they have being sliced into three sections one
and taken prisdners. Prem south of the Lungia rallway
The Greek Cabinet was scheduled east of the Grund Canal, another to confer with the prefects of Larisan squeezed between the Lunghal and and Trikkala at noon to-day to dis- Tainan-Tsingtao Railways, and the third t 4
and
London, Oct. 15.-Britain has northern
narrow strip along the cuss the increasing bandit activitics those areas. The Minister of ahore of Shantung Public Order, Spiros Theotokis, re- rejected the Jewish request that Peninsula, including the now isolated turned from Larissa last night to the Palestine immigration quota ports of Chefoo and Welhaiwe altend the meeting. be increased immediately to Central China above Hankow was
One large Communist pocket · in ja
The Minister of Public Order, 4,000 or 5,000 per month, it was decimated in a Communist attemur Spiron Theotokis, was asked to-day learned to-day... -in-
to stage-a second "long march." Why Government was not able to However,
the Rightist bandit leader, authoritative
Nationalist
that capture sources estimate Eave the assurance that the present 80,000 mch under Gen Li Hsien- Gregori Sourlas, If. foreign.corres- quota of 1,500 per month-which isnien, tried to fight-sneakthrough pondents were able to contact him. customarily
M Theotokis replied that the Gov- the the government cordon on the Shensi crnment forces are too occupied fight- "illegal" immigrants reaching
border to reach the main force in the
ing other elements now to bother Palestine by underground routes- Yenan area. However they felled to with Sourlas. will continue for the time being. reckon with Government scouting
have
le.
for
loys in the required information being received but grounds member specifle allegations have not been to established. The reported instances have involved less than 200 vehicles (Continued on Page 4)
of the joint truce commission, the Indonesian headquarters Jogjakarta in central Java, where they are to report to Dr Sockumo, President of the Indonesian Re:
The Prime Minister, Mr Clement M. Kardelj in his letter to the Attlee. announced this in the House Secretary-General sald Yugo-Slavia of Commons to-day in reply to public, on the results of yesterday's sought methods of work at the Con- question ference which would have made it (Conservative), who had asked if by Sir Peter Macdonald
truce agreement. possible for the "maximum of active consideration was now being mutual understanding and harmony given
lo the
among the countries which during ing such boily of
the
war had fought shoulder to
shoulder.
Mr Attlee said: "The General
in
They are expected to Invito Soedirman, Commander- In-Chief of the Indonesian National of Army, and Vice-Admiral Nasir the Indonesian Navy, to come Batavia and take part in the com- milssion's sellvilles-Reuter.
the location of General Headquarters in the Middle East after the with drawal from Cairo is under examina- tlon at the present time.. Kenya is among possible locations heing con-
sidered."
the and
The announcement confirms views held in most political even
military quarters that such move was inevitable, writes Reuter's Political Correspondent.
Franco Regime.
of to
Is Thoroughly
Unpalatable
Anti-Government Demonstrations In Cairo
one,
said
deducted
fron
sources
Jewish Agency leaders asked for a planes which hunted them down. quota increase during the course of Aside from the Communist force conversations with the Colonial of unknown strength
guarding Mr Creech-Jones. Secretary,
The Yenen, the strongest concentration Agency President, Dr Chalm obviously is in Manchuria which' is Weizmann, reported to Mr Creech- almost entirely cut off by land Jones
that such n concession might routes to Yenan. There la specula make it possible for the Agency to tion that the Communists, when ineet Britain's demand that effective if they form ther own government,
taken to steps be
end terrorism in the Holy Land. Pabilcation Denied The Prime Minister, Mr Clement
BRITAIN sends nOTE OF PROTEST TO POLAND
Jewish may make Manchuria, the capital, London, Oct. 15 (UP),—The For-
keeping
underground agencies eign Office spokesman announced to- throughout China possibly under the day that Britain has sent a note to direction of Yenan until the strong Poland protesting against the alleged hold is
is lost.
Attlee, told the House of Commons to-day that he had no intention of
two
The largest Communist held elty in "mishandling" of two British diplo
CH| Polish militin Neutenant and publishing the correspondence be- Manchuria is Harbin, It is believed mats at a hotel in Rzeszav by
Communials will hold men In Russian uniform. self on the situation in Palestine. Harbin as long as possible, daring
open frontal The spokesman sold the British This, in
tween President Truman and him.
that
the
WEST END HOTELS STRIKE ENDS
were searched at point and mishandled by the trio who, after striking up an acquaintance with the two Britishers on the street, hnd in- vited them to the hotel,
The note demanded an investign- tion and asked for the return of a cing-camera alleged taken by the trio.
STOP PRESS
NAZI LEADERS GO
"But unfortunately our expecta tlons failed to come true and, on the contrary, another method, one of taking decisions by means of voting, was accepted, a method which- when vital problems of a nation and
in reply to a question, by the Nationalisis to the fate of peace among nations was
London, Oct. 15 (UP)-The Capt Gammans, Conservative, was altack on the city in which there are Consul at Katowice and the Third in question-is Incorrect formally because it leads to the im-
McNell. in the House of Com- "Why not?" and Capt Gammans full-ledged Soviet citizens. position of the will of one group of
mons to-day said that General- asked if the Prime Minister did not States upon other sovereign and
issimo Franco represented, a realise that the question of Palestine equal countries. At the same time Politically, Kenya is probably the
was doing more to poison, Angio- thoroughly unpalatable regime, American relations than anything it is unjust in its essence because it first choice since there is no queation permits the solving of problems not of unfriendly, or even passive, popu-
but rejected the idea of an else. According to objective criterions butation as there might be in Egypt or
economic blockade of Spain.
Capt Gommans said that the House, according to the point of view of the Palestine. The climate is excellent
"This Goverment has
was entitled to know what repre special interest of the group repre- and the port of Mombasa is capable
repeatedly that because of his pro-sentations had been made by the senting the majority of this con-of extensive development as a naval
Lonifon, Oct. 15 (UP)-An eight-mammaTE ZENETANYE WESTERMATOCMEDICI ference."
base.
Cairo, Oct. 15 (UP)-Steel-Axis activities and because he falled Prime Minister to the American
day sirike.. which affected London's to unity Spain, it is our opinion that Government on this subject, M. Kardelj continued that despite
Strategic Importance
helmeted police were rushed by Franco should
Mr Attice said that he was not most fashionable hotels and restau- go. We agree we these methods, his country did not Use Mediterranean is now. a
Strategically, the war showed that truck, to patrol Cairo's main want that done but without civil prepared to accept either of those rants, ended to-night in victory for
"bomb cease to co-operate actively in mak-alley" for sen convoys and surely streets to-day where violence war. The business of organising an statements but clearly it was a the strikers.
for consideration whether ing every effort to reach agreements
qucation
The strikers primarily comprised of vital interest to Yugo-Siavia. He lines to the East and Middle East was feared from the crowds economte blockade is not an easy
wers via the Cape of Good Hope, demonstrating against the Gov-this country severed economic republished or not. So far as he was union-the National Union of Gen- It would not be effective if the correspondence between. Presid kitchen employees and waiters who said Yugo-Slavia did not hesitate to
ent Truman and himself should be were seeking-recognition of their make important concessions, but that Naval strong-points at Gibraltar and ernment.
tions with Spain.. We.woull have it did expect its co-operation would of Africa afforded bases from which on the western and southern coasts
organise, with the Communist nations aware, there was no precedent-eral and Municipal Workers, be appreciated and find a
At a three a half hour meeting to- British armoured cars accomponi and taking in the United States, Reuter and United Press corres escort ships sailed, ponding echo among all the other easier to maintain the ocean supply British installations were located, but navicarts." he stated.
It would be ed the civilian police to areas where Brazil and Argentina, a system of
day, the Hotels and Restaurants Ar- delegations
sociation agreed to recognise the route from Mombasa to Basra for
NUGMW, provided the strikers re- tion-supported by several other ing the oilfields in Persia and Iraq
called out,
turned to work immediately. delegations were not understood
Hundreds staged a demonstration and appreciated as they should have than to daininin land lines of com- been by a certain number of dele munication vin Palestine and Syrin. in the centre of the city against FPYTHON SHOT IN
The crowds: Turkey, if necessary, could be sup-mier Sidky Paska, gates especially during the last piled the same way and might be shouted "Down with Sidy." "No plenary meetings of the Conference where the method of outvoting fully | given
some help and protection from trip to London." "No negotiations." ally Cyprus. character of ruthicas-
Under
the new draft terms for
The Premier was Acheduled 'to ness and finally proved to be a United Nations Trusteeship sando confer on the Anglo-Egyptian treaty method by the means of which no tory PowerBritain-would be at Secretary, Mr Ernest Bovin, beford Lugard Road, Peak district, in London with the British Foreign dend by a Shantung detective in
An 11-foot python was shot identified, solutions can be taken."
to establish bases in Tanganyika next the latter departs The U.S. Secretary of State Mr to Kenyn while similar terms would Nations Assembly meeting in New about.
for the United James Byrnes, spoke briefly after probably be agreed for former
p.m. yesterday. the Conference had formally adopted German South-west
The Africa, which York,
huge reptile wan scen the list of plecisions it had taken on seems likely to come under South Anticipating major trouble, dozens wriggling along the hillside, by an the treaties in the Inst week.
African ownership or grusteeship. of police armed with riflex and staves RAF officer who immediately con- He reiterated his earlier promise The base at Ceylon would provide guarded. the Government buildings. facted the Police, and the detective to support in the Council of Foreign another link in the chain to the Far No incidents however, had been re- was rushed to the seche. Locating Ministers any recommendation, which East and Australia.--Reuter.
ported at an curly hour to-night. the snaite, the officer fired neveral
Ho, said the efforts of his delega-the supply of British troops defend/no British troops, however, warn |
bssumed the
LUGARD ROAD
MURDER IN · CRETE
Atliens, Oct. 13 (UP)—It was re-
pprted to-day that the Yugo-Slay Maharajah Dies After
political rofugee, Pyarle Voyolac, was murdered at Canen, a village on Crete. The murderer has not been.
· TO THE GALLOWS
jemberg, Oct 10, (UP)Most of Nazıdom's eleven arch conspirators -If riọt all of them-are presumably dend as this is now written (3.20 am. Nuremberg time-2.30-a.m. GMT)
No oficial word on the progress the executions, which were sche- Tour of Night Clubs duled to get under way, after mid-
night in
in Nuremberg has yet been announced and the grim prison here: Lisbon, Oct 15 (UP). The Maho has been
shrouded in absolute
shots at its head and body, killing round of night-clubs who it wile Challowe
rajni of Chota Udepur dled to-day secrecy since early last night. ****** in a Lisbon hotel room from cerebral
However, there were no indica-i. haemorrhage, following an all-night tions that the final "March to the had falled to start on it outright.
The Maharanee, who with the
the schedule, . The reptile had a large head, Maharajah had arrived in Lisbon for Herman Goering was presumably about the sire of a man's closed fist.
n thort visit last Friday, asked that the first to die. However, it was At its thickest part It had a cleats remains be cremated on wood not known in exactly what 'order cumference of about 10 inches. pyra in the Hindu tradition, but it the other fen Nazla were hanged. Although it has not been weighed, was suggested that cremation be con-
ducted in the usual manner.
it is believed to Up 50 lbs.
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