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MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1947.
The Bodies In MARTIAL LAW IN PALESTINE
The Bag
St Leonard's-on-Sea,
Mar. 16,
The police here are only half-heartedly looking for a man who must be the most embarrassed purse snatcher in the world to-day.
Sighting a young woman leaving a local bank with a purse under her arm, the culprit leaped from an automobile, snatched bag and sped off.
the
The loot-three dead kittens, which were to be dropped into the nearby sea, -United Press.
Marshall Says 'No'
Informal Talks On China Rejected
Gale Hits Southern England
FLOODS INCREASE London, Mar. 16. Sweeping over the Atlantic, a south-west gale with gusts of the hurricane force struck south-west and south coasts of England to-night.
DA
Trees were uprooted, roots were tiles and stripped of slates and fences and hoardings flattened gusts of more than 110 kilometres on hour hit trong and villages.
The danger from rivers in flood intensified as the wind whipped the swirling waters and below Windsor the Thames burat its banks at Dut- chet.
Water poured through the breach rendered and many families were humeless.
above
metres The river is two normal at Windsor, where the worst floods since 1894 are being
ex-
Bloods
"SUMMER TIME" Meanwhile, rapidly rising and threat of further torrential rain of "Summer marked the first day Time" In Britain to-day.
Moscow, Mur. 17. Secretary of State George C. Mar-perienced. shall rojected on Sunday night a Russian request for Informnt discus- sion on China as the Foreign Minis, ters Council prepared for a week of discussions on German reparations and economic which many obser vern sald held the itey to the success or failure for the four power meet- Ing.
Mr Marshall offered to exchange with the Russian and British Foreign Ministers Information about the Chinese situation.
British Informants sald British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin was expected to reply to Mr Molotov in the same manner as Mr Marshall,
TEXT OF LETTER
The American delegation made public Mr Marshall's letter replying to Mr Melolov's request for the Chino conference.
The Lext follows:
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Across great stretches undated country men, women children fled to upper rooms of their homes to escape swirling waters, or evacuated
altogether as walls, or even whole houses, collapsed.
In some places, such as Bedford, where waters have subsided house- holders spent Sunday morning digging mud frum their Itving
rooms.
Two of the worst flooded arcas lo-day were the Thames Valley and the fenland of Norfolk and the Isle of Ely.
HOUSEHOLDERS MAROONED
In London, where the afternoon temperature
55 degrees- reached the highest for two months-the service, formed to
water
EX
Swing FromN Labour
Perth, Mar. 10.
The Government of Western Australia, which han been in office for 11 years, was faelug defeat to-day as the results of yesteruty's general elections camb in
The Agures so far show a swing away from Labour with a probable loss of seven seats and a gain of one. An Labour previously held 20 seats out of seats 50 this nel loss of six would destroy their majority.
The surprising feature of the results was the Government's failure En two metropolitan constituencies which had been many Labour strongholds for years. The
partien, Two opposition the Country Democratic League and the Liberal Party, went to
on a coMMNOTI the 'polls
Kramme.
The Liberat
so far indicate
Party
pro-
successes
a likelihood of its leader, Mr Ross McLarty, becoming Premier in the evali- tlon guvernment.-Reuter.
CALLED OFF
Authorities Finish Immediate Task
Jerusalem, Mar. 16.
In a special communique announcing the with- drawal of the statutory martial law imposed in Palestine two weeks ago from 12 noon to-morrow, the Palestine Government states: "The Army and the Police have completed their immediate task."
The communique points out that statutory martial law can and will be applied again if
Recessary.
The martial
communique stated law was imposed 05
that
A
renall of a series of outragen with the object of carrying out action by
directed the security forces avainst the Jowist dlasident groups "It had no other political purpose."
The communique added that an
After quoting the Palestine Government communique which said there had been instances in the com- munity of willingness to aid in era- dicating the senseless evil" of terrorism, the radle said: “If this by the extent of the Jowish com munity's co-operation we are satin-
Jewish terrorists Lo-night
fied."
blew
pipeline near Hulfa. up the Iraq Petroleum Company's
Meanwhile four British soldiers- members of the Corps of Milltary
Palestine
appreible mumber of former mem-Police-were slightly injured in
berg of the Irgun Zval Lost and Tiberias, Northem.
to-
CUSTODY OF Gang have been appre- night when their Jeep was blown
PACIFIC IS.
U.S. "Thumbs Down' To Amendments
Lake Success, Mar. 16. An officia! spokesman sald to-day that American officials and will refect three, British Australian
10-
amendments morrow wben the United Na- tions Security Council resumes debate on the American plan for exclusive United States Trusteeship aver Japanese- mandated lands.
hended .by
law
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Aid To Greece Described As “Filling A Vacuum”” -
Washington, March 16.
The former Under-secretary of State, Sumner Welles, to-day endorsed President Truman's proposal to grant $400,000,000 aid to Turkey and Creece as "surest means of preventing war and ensuring
the peace."
He said obviously either the United States or Russia must fill the vacuum created by Britain's in-. ability any longer to assume her traditional responsibi- lity in the Near East,"
He said Russia will fit the SALATONICJ MENEME KAKAANSE Kaakkurat Vacuum "unless the Unlied States lakes effective steps to check, all further attempts on the part of the Soviet Union and impose her jurisdiction over the weaker peoples who desire to preserve their democratio inde- pendence."
Welles said that from a prao tleal standpoint the United Nations is poweritss to help Greece principally because Rus-
and the Western govern- ments could not reach an agree- ment within the Security Coun on the course to be pursued. He said the United Nations is still able to operate only la a "rudimentary way"
and that
"during the earlier years of lis existence can never function successfully unless
the great powers are able to agree upon baslo policies of the issue."- United Press.
Political Tussle Over Dead Body
Funeral Postponed
Shanghai, Mar. 16. Kuomintang organisations and leftist public bodies are to-day engaged in a frantic struggle- for possession of a corpse.
Each side wants
n hand in his
PRODUSE NATASÇURSAKEN CARESSAT funeral, to make him a "martyr" for
U.S. Loan To Russia
Army and up by a mine-Reuter," the police since the martial law was clamped down. It is not desired to extend indefinitely the loss of employment and dislocation in the economic situation of the two inenti- tles. For these reasons the martial
is being
lifted and the oppor- tunity given to the communlly to
and not Intensify
diminish their co-operation which is essential to a country free from terrorist activity which has ban so widely condemned by all responsible bodies and people.
Reuter.
CO-OPERATION,
London, Mar. 10. An official spokesman said to-day that martul law was being with- drawn in the Tel-Aviv and Mea Shearlin sector of Jerusalem "due partially to evidence of the Jewish
willingness community's operate against terrorists", the Ex- from change Telegraph reported Jerusalem to-day,
to
"Dear Mr Mulutov: I have your national re letter of March 11 relating to the combat Hitler's
Dre raids on the The United States has prepared matter of the execution of provisions
minute last any
The martial law order has been in of the Moscow Protocol of December capital, to-day rescued marooned also to reject
amendments submitted by New Zea-effect for 13 days, The British com- householders and pumped from floc'ed basements.
that Netherlands.
un, of Londoners relied
1945 with reference to China. "When this question was
raised
In the t, where flooding of filter land, Indin, the Phillppines or the munique cing the end of ze-
by you in the Council of Foreign beds disrupted water supply,
Ministers I stated would be pleased to exchange with
you
millions
Thought Possible
The British
London, Mar. 16.
and Italy, and
its cause. While the struggle goes on, the funeral procession has been postponed indefinitely.
The deceased was Liang Jen-to, an obscure employee of large Chinese department store. He was killed on February D during a serious clhah that broke a meeting called to spon- sor an anti-American demonstration urging a boycott of American goods.
press speculated to-day, that the United States next may off er a big loan to Russia, spon The leftists, calling the case' the sor alliances between Turkey, Greece
"February 9 Tragle Incident," charg- offer a US$600,000,000 loan to Korea.
ed that Kuomintang secret police The Sunday Dispatch's diplomatic the audience, and that Llang was breke up the meeting by attacking correspondent said that the Ameri- one of the "Chinese, Gestapo's" vlc-. can Secretary of State,
General tims. George Marshall, probably would seed a "down to brass tacks talk" in Moscow with either Generalls- simo Stalin or Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov.
Soccer Until
June 14
SEASON EXTENDED
London, Mar. 16. A joint meeting of the Football Association and Football League
strictions
re-imposition or a "similar process....
...at any time or if necessary". However, this place The three countries probably will nice if Mr Bevin while I am in Moscow, but recrecy supplies were bron get temporary seats in the Council provision was not taken seriously by
from outside, The Water Board Council of Foreign polled for a real neet 4700 to-morrow to comment on trustee- either the Jes Ministers, Information concerning water
with capacity of Thip-agreements.--- Confident.of_final.) ....... In-the-words-of-Emile Ghoury... omelalg in London to-day_decided .........into reverse gear."--- the execution of the revision of the 400,000 salons, and the fist 400 of approval, the Americans Moscow declaration regarding China. these are expected to be concen-Mr Warren Austin, was depicted us member, "The Jews once again get season to June 14 to enable the com-
not in the
It desirable to engage in any con- ference, however informal.
tankers
delegate,
"This I will do but I do not think trated in London by to-night.
Impatient at efforts by Britain und The Thames Conservatory Board her dominions to delay anal action suggest that each of us furnish many
said to-day that the river floods in on the plan.
places were equal to, ог the other with stated. Information worse than, the great floods of 1020, before April and that each of us and the river is still rising.
EXPECTS APPROVAL He was said to be hoping for a make available n Copy of the In the low-lying fen country the Information furnished to the Chinese already critical situation is made proval before the end of the week. Australia and Britain have proTM
Government.
ster, assurances of my esteem." Associated Press..
Worsh because tugs and barges
--Ileuter.
Please accept, Mr Foreign Mini- } carrying clay to stop brenches in the posed specific changes in the terms highest banks cannot get under the bridges, by which, the United States plan to maintain sole custody of 623 islands famous making up the baltie Morlanas, Carolines und Marshalls.
up at the New Zealand turned last minute with lends that all states which fough, the Pacifle war be permitted to speak their plece in the Council before it gives inevitable approval to the American plan.
EDITORIAL
New Political Drama
SPEAKING with Rooseveltlan
to a
day.
bluntness, President Truman last week served notice on Russia that the United States was willing to go to almost any lengths to provent Communism dominating Europe. Secretary of State Mar- hall seconded the mation 24 hours later with a diplomatic de- claration before the Foreign Ministers Council in Moscow about America's Ideas as to what
democracy.
racy. Mataly at Mr Molotov. it read schoolmaster's admonition pupil who had not
quile played the
A game. A Ister, the British parliament allgned fiself with Mr Truman's
Dolley Dow
by voting a £19.000,- 000 DVD grant to
Greece to help the country, withstand its obnoxious communist elementa. All this was accomplished without Blogie direct reference either to Bussia as an influence, or com mimism as a political force. 1ệ has been left to Senator Robert Tart to discard the cloak of diplo matid phraseology and to tell the world exactly what President Truman and hir Marshall meant by their speeches. - Benator Tali has told Russla ihat. If she per sists in her expansionist 'pro- gramme, which is taking the form of injecting the mallra virus of communism into countries weak to resist, it may
well war with the United States. first practical move to counter. Sevlot foreign policy is to make. avaliable $400,000,000 to freeco and Turkey. for the purpose of
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mean
The
strengthening their economic and military resistance; the second will be to insist on an American system for the democratisation of Ger.
many.
Tess
Rusala, always keenly sensitive to the velled hostility of the western democracies, immediately dubbed the American and to „Grecen and Turkey as D
ahame- exploitation of American capitalism, arguing, with a certain degree of
of logic, that if Greece is by the
people, why should country need any assistance the United States in for- istings policles.
ying a government so freely
Britain's position, in this political drama, so far as Greece is concerned, is that of an actor who was formerly
star, and is now sympatheti-. cally watching his successor from the wings. France will view the kdevelopment of the drama with With Communists of
the
never
holding political balance power she will hesitate to align herself with any move calculated to antagonise the Soviets, She is solely concerned with seeing that
agala
shall there be a United kmenacing Germany; the States and Britain feel last Ger- many will only become a menace If Soviet influence is permitted to (dominato. It is plain that power- ful ideological forces are con- fronting each other, and it wit require high statermanship and a coneliatory aptrli on both sides if the peace of the world is to be saved.
to
Palestine Arab Higher Committee
with it".
on extension of the English football
COUNTER-CHARGE
The Kuomintang, however, charg- ed that the leftisis--notably the De- mocratic League members whom The Dispatch quoted what it they refer to as the talls of the said were Washington reports that Chinese Communisis"-called the the United States was expected to meeting under the pretext of spon- - offer a big loan to Russia If she soring a movement to encourage' the will "put her expansionist polloy consumption of native goods, They alleged that when the speakers ad- If the Kremlin refused, then the vacated an anti-American' boycott United States would expand its and started attacking the American Moderato Jews interpreted
policy of alding resistance to Soviet policy in China, a major portion of lifting of the ban as proof that they
expansion to include other Eastern the audience realised they had been right in counseling the
European countries, Hungary In To-day's decision must be ratified British against such a move in the by the Football Association Council
particular, the report sald.
being misled into a 'political gather- ing. When that first place. Both Jews and Arabs at its next meeting on April 11, but
group tried to doubted the British cloimus for the no opposition is expected. In ac-States may send a fleet into Mediter. Llang.
The paper also said the United Į withdraw, a clash developed, killing success of the curfew.-United Press. ordance with Government wishes no raman waters is a show of strength.
TYPICAL CESTURE
mid-week matches will be permitted except on statutory holidays within that period.
pletion of League and Cup competi- the tions.
Jerusalem, Bar. 16. Announcing that the Jewish Agency Executive had "learned with pleasure" of to-morrow's con- cellation of martial law in Palestine, an Agency spokesman said: "One thing we have learned in our dealings with the British is that when they make a mistake they are always ready to go back before it is too late.
wore
"Liong is a victim of these ambi-
A report from The People's tious politicians who try to blind- "special correspondent" in Moscow fold the public and lead them to paid General Marshall was consider Communism for their own aggron- The International and inter-league Ing backing a treaty of alliance "be- dizement" Kuomintang organisa- programme are to be carried through tween the Mediterranean powers tions claimed. as arranged, except that the match most affected by the Russian expan- between England and France will slonist policies-Turkey, Greece and be played at Highbury on Saturday, Italy." May 3, instead of Wednesday, May
7.
of
"Such an agreement would have the Anancial support the United States and, if necessary the three countries would be arm ed to resist aggression.”
STEAL A MARCH
While the Kuomintang authorities
Shanghai's city and
government were threatening criminal charges
under false pretences thus ngainst those who called the meeting turbing. the social order," the leftists
dis
stole a march and gained control of the funeral arrangements.
Players' contracts will be renewed on the playing season scale through-
cussed, though officials who attend- out the extension. Next scason's arrangements have yet to be dis-
The correspondent also wrote that ed the Home Office conference a the United States was considering. The leftists started a fund cam- few days ago pointed out that the US$0,000,000 loan for Korea. necessity for cutting out mid-week sport may
The continue next winter,
People's and plan would be made accordingly, column sald President Truman, as a political gossip gesture of assistance toward Britain Mr W. C. Cuff, President of the on the Palestine question, had order Football League, said after the meet-ed the Federal Bureau of Investiga ting: The decision to extend the tion to "keep an eye on all societies season will safeguard the competi- appealing for the Jewish cause and tive element of the game and nt to put a stop to illegal immigration between the same time meet the wishes of organised in
the Government."--Reuter.
America."-United Press.
The Irgun Zvai Leumi, the Jewish India and the Philippines Indicat- ed that they would take advantage its secret radio "the Voice of the terrorlat organisation, claimed over of the invitation wangled by New Zealand. They must appear at to-Fighting Zion" to-night that none morrow afternoon's meeting to get a of its members was among the 78 people arrested during the period hearing. None the objections
of
Australians of martial law in Palestine, though voiced by the British,.
were deep the British authorities stated that 12 and New Zealanders
of the 70 belonged to the Irgun and enough to prevent final approval of
15 to, the Stern Gang. the trusteeship agreement.
The radio said: "The martial Russia, once considered to be the Inw has failed. This was a punitive only threat to approval, has enthu-measure to starve the people and slustically endorsed American
create informers. We have had no losses In the operations trol of the strategle Islands.
March. 7 and 14.
con-
"OPEN DOOR" POLICY.
One British amendment would re- quire complete "open door" econo- mie polley In the islands, striking out a provision which gives the United States economic preference.
Many Casualties In Punjab Disorder
New Delhi, March 16..
Troops opened fire to-day to disperse a crowd preparing to attack the village of Adhwal, in the hilly Attock district of north-west Panjab, it was officially announced in Lahore, Attock, 40 miles from Peshawar, is separated from the Kohal district of the North-west Frontier Province by the Indus river. Casualties were heavy.
Heavy casualties from system
Rawalpindi Itscit is back to mor-i
mal.
of
paign in their newspapers for their arranged for a large funeral proces "martyr". At the same time, they sion in which "thousands" were to have attended. The procession was to have been anything but solemn as those in the parade were to have denouncing the. Kuomintang. shouted slogans and carried banners "secret police" and its "masters" the Americans.
was
pro-
However, the police stepped in and, all of a sudden, the casket containing Liang's remains spirited away to an unannounced desifnation. According ta *Kitomintang newspaper
accounts, this was done by the widow "who did not want the Communists to capitalise or her bereavement."
SUBSCRIPTION CAMPAIGNS
American ofetals, however, will reject the British proposal on the grounds that would limit United Staten power to close off strategie parts of the area' to all foreigners,
The trouble, was mainly confined
Now the Kuoraintang authorities The strategical purt of the in the Attäelt district io Pind!
Mahatma Gandhi, who spent three Shanghal Dre
for trusteeship agreement gives
arranging the Cheb, 00
miles south-west United Slutes authority to
Liang's funeral. No dato, has yet In build Rawalpindi, and the area along the tinues peaceful, though curfew the islands into secret naval
and railway.
1 Bengal, is now studying the situa- that the authorities are still discus- milliary bostions for use in this
maintained. There have
ton been no
In Bihar, BCC110
of bittering whether the funeral shail' be an country's national security
another fresh incidents in the Multan dls communal rioting as well as in the United Nations' village, Nuilah, have been reported. trict.
last November. elaborate affair, held under pollee He met the Governor,
protection for just a quiet family still to be achieved system of col-Fifty houses were burnt.
Houses
Sir Hugh affair attended by high city officials Clashes in Punjab between Hindus, Dow, last night, lective security.
and shops were looted at Ochri and Moslems and Sikhs have resulted in
or their representatives. The second British proposal would Jalwal villages in the area. All in 1,036 killed, an official
artnouncement The Bhar Government has or stipulate that the United States must dus have been evacuated from Jand, said.
ranged to
Meanwhile, the leftists have not notify the Council before it closes near
drop copies of the completely "disowned" Liang. Their Campbelipur, Baslam and In Demares (Un
(United Provinces), Govemment part of the area *to outsiders. villages in the neighbourhood. where communal disturbarers start- Samachar,"
newspaper Bilar fund campaign is continuing. And American officials will contend that All trouble in the Dudial area ined on Thursday, four people were speeches at prayer meetings plead pared to raise
containing Gandhi's the Kuomintang authorities are pre- they already are bound to do so and
the Jhelum district of the North- stabbed to-day and casualties totalling for amlly between Hindus and to match the leftists in their contri
dollar for a dollar. turn down the British amendment. west Frontier has ceased, the an-led 40%
United Press.
It was officially announced Moslems, by aeroplane over the bution to nouncement said.
that 007 people have been arrested.; districts affected-touter.
a penelon for
the "martyr's" widow.United Press.
Lahore, captial of Punjab, con-months riot-tom districts of been set for the occasion. It is said
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