People's Gift To King Haakon
Oslo, Aug. 3-The Nor- weglan people presented King Hankon with a yacht on his 75th birthday, cele- brated by the whole nation today with festivals throughout the country.
The yacht, paid for by collected money, is the 600- ton motor yacht Philante, built for Mr Tom Sopwith in 1937 to act as escort and storcahip for his racing yacht Endeavour II, chal- lenger for the America's Cup,-Reuter.
OBSTACLES CONFRONTING MARSHALL
BY R. H. SHACKFORD Washington, Aug. 3.-The U.S. Secretary of State, General George Marshall, leaves for Brazil next week during what officials privately admitted might be a critical month in rapidly-deteriorating interna- tional affairs.
Gentral Marshall will bend a delegation to the Inter-American in Rido de Conference opening Janeiro on August 15,
Six weeks hence the United Stales resumes its running battle with the Soviet Union in the United Nations Assembly and the Council
of Foreign Ministers, and six months from now,
15
hoped, optimistically the "Marshall Plan will be well in
operation,
General Marshall's objective is a "hard line" against Soviet Lotulit- arlanism on a dozen fronts, so the initiative will be, with the United States when the autumn meetings start and until his plan for European rehabilitation can be under way. But
crises are developing rapidly in many prens.
For
General Marshall to enter the autumn incetings with his best foot forward wili, require footwork in the closing weeks of the summer in the economic, poli- tical and diplomatic fields.
British Crisis
. settlement of disputes.
some fancy
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"Most Dangerous Man” Reveals How Hitler Rescued Mussolini
Dachau, Aug. 3. The former SS Lieutenant- Colonel, Otto Skorzeny, awaiting trial as a war criminal, tonight revealed the details of one of the war's fabulous adventure storics-how he located the secret Italian prison where Mussolini was held in late 1943, captured the heavily guarded Duce with a handful of glider troops and sneaked back to Ger- many safely with his large, bald prize.
The scar-faced Skorzeny will be tried with nine others here, beginning August 18, charged with having slipped behind American lines in American uniforms and having killed American prisoners during the 1944 offensive.
The man, who was alleged to have bren
Hittar to commissioned by
In early kidnap Gen. Elsenhower 1945,
art has written
impressive, 8.600-word manuscript entitled "The Mussolini Event"
as the "most Here is the story dangeroun man in Germany today"
telly.
ordered to
"In July 1043, I was the Fuehrer's headquarters in East Prussia; Adolf Hitler informe. me that he was firmly resolved not to leave his friend, Mussolini, in the lurch and to prevent his extradition to the Allies.
"Mussolini wag for Hiller not only an ally of similar political crueletions but also his one and only great friend.
AVIATION DAY
"Hitler said he belloved Mussolini to be the last of the andent Romans of Caesarian tradition,'” It is quite evident that I had nccepted a tesk which offered only a small chance of success. We were under strict orders and let only five men into the secret. I and my adjutant, Karl Radki, had luck in the Bay of Naples. Wa learned that a local girl had a boy friend ort a
a convicis Island in the bay. The two had hit upon a sema- phore device to communicate with each other. The girl received news to the effect that a leave for the pre- sent would be out of quistion since a high personalily had arrived on the island.
10
Constantly Being Moved "Later in Rome an Italian naval
IN RUSSIA "But a Carabineri sergeant sald
༩ ༢,
Huffine
"My, he's certainly in a hurry to win, Isn't he?"
Wedemeyer In Midst Of China Civil War
BY ERNEST HOBERECHT (United Press Staff Correspondent)
Peiping, Aug. 3.Lt. Gen. Albert Wedemeyer's fact-finding mission, after nearly two weeks in China, now finds itself in the middle of a civil war. Here in North China, in the ancient Chinese capital near the Great Wall, it is easy for Gen. Wedemeyer to see the "facts" of the war between the Nationalist Govern. ment and the Chinese Communists. The Japanese are gone, but peace has not arrived.
Jook
U.S. To Press Balkans Border Watch Plan
Lake Success, Aug. 3.-The United States will reviva its vetoed plan for, a Balkans border watch in the United Nations Security Council tomorrow, and serve notice to Russia that another veto will not block the Western powers' efforts to check the strife between Greece and fier neighbours.
Rulers For India And Pakistan
ma-
A fresh proposal for long- rango trouble-shooting chinery will be laid before the Council by the acting American delegato, Mr Herschel Johnson. · Russia killed the original plan five daya ago with a veto,
The American resolution will be Introduced this time
under punitive chapters of the Charter in support of the formal request by Greece
enforcement gelton
for
1 against Communist governed AL
London, Aug. 3.-The King bania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia dos has formally approved the ap- their alleged wilempt to upset the
Government and Greek
and Install Com- pointment of Rear Admiral
munism in the country. Viscount Mountbatten
United States proposal is ex-
Governor-General
of
usi
than to bring another Soviet veto,
Ivrea by the
Western
Dominion of India and of Mr and then another series of manocu- Mohamed Ali Jinnah
powers to rep 15 the Balkans caso alive until the Governor-General
o f the General Assembly convenes on Sep- Dominion of Pakistan, with amber
10. effect from August 15.
በባ
Af American ofclol said Mr Johnson,
would re-emphasise An India Office statement tonight America's stake in Greece under the announcing the appointments states Truman Doctrine but he would seek further that the following Governors to exhaust every course within the of provinces which, after August 15, United Nations framework before will form part of the Dominion of considering any move outside it to India
have been invited and have build a fence between Greece and
continue Teed to
to scrve ng her three northern neighbours, Governors in the same provinces; Lieutenant General Sir Archibald
Gromyko Will Fight Edward Nye, Governor of Madras: This would amount to rejection, Colonel Sir David John Colvite
for the time being, of the Greekt Governor of Bombay; Sir Muhammed plan to invite countries which fa- Saleh Akbar Hydari, Governor of your a Balkans border patrol to set Assam.
up a commission on the Greek alde lot the border In defiance of Russia's The King has approved the ap-refusal to let the Security Council pointments of the following as keep a border watch there.
Soviet sources said, meanwhile, Governors of the other provinces with effect from August 15:
that Mr Andrei Gromyko is ready The Dominton of India: West to make a fight for the plan to Mr Chakravani Rajagopa-clamp United Nations controls on charl; Mart to Greece, to forse the Madhavlal Trived; the Central Pro withdrawal of all foreign milltary vinces and Berar, Mr Mangalda Pakwasa; Bihar, Mr Jairamadas Daulatram; Orissa, Dr. Kallas Nath Katju.
officer informed us that he had just gone nahere from an Italian cruiser in La Spezia which had taken Mus- sulin! away from the convicts island It now became apparent that Bado- glio was constantly moving Muss0
in from one place to another.
"A few days later, we received a
Peiping itself is surrounded with the American flag painted on was in fresh report that the Duce
by the Communists. It is one the side, he can
down al Sicily. We travelled there only to And that the report was false of the scattered Nationalist fortresses atop the hills, soo new moats being dug around ancient Again we learned that an area sur- rounding Saint Maddalena, north-strongholds in North China, villages and see road blocks across east of Sardinia, was particularly which sometimes are and some winding highways. On the ground times are not linked by rail lines, he can so marching soldiers and closely guarded on August 27. went there dressed as a simple sal- depending on whether or not the observe sentries at the Felping city gates as they carefully search all these vital, Communists cut
persons who come inside the ramb- he himself had escorted Il Duce to supply routes. Generally speaking rock walls.
The cause of all this, according to Moscow, Aug. 3.
morning, the Nationalists hold cities Chiang Kai-sick, is "urarsed rebol Forty-the harbour on that very
and the Communists
hold
¡llon," and yesterday Gen. Wede-
personnel from Greek territory and eight Soviet planes, flying in where Mussolini took of in a sea-
A further investigation showed villages.
meyer received Brst-hand informa- formation to spell the name:
to bar any military ald to the Greeks, Gen. Wedemeyer came by plane, Ition on the local situation from pro-
An important statement on the "Stalin" clearly legible against that the Duce was now held some- the
Soviet plan is likely to be the first. Russia's where in the Appenines, possibly in and he will fly to other Nationalist-minent local Chinese. sky, opened
the area of the regions of the highest | held towns while in this part of Around here the Communists use
The Dominion of Pakistan: West; order of business when the Council China, From his big silver aircraft guerilla warfare while in Manchuria Punjab, Sir Robert Francis Mudie: convenes "Aviation Day" celebration, at- Gran Sasso.
tomorrow to resume the tended by Marshal Stalin and
Decided To Risk
they employ guerilla warfare com
Sind. Mr Ghulam Hussain Hidayatter East-West diplomatic battle bined with positional warfare tactics tallah; Northwest other high Government leaders,
Frontier Pro-over the Balkans. at Moscow aerodrome today,
on some occasions.
vince, Sir George Cunningham. Wedemeyer
All parts of the Russian proposal conferred
with General Ld Tsung-jen, who is Chang King)
The statement continues that the including the attempt to blame the has also intimated that he will Greek monarchy for the current Hundreds of thousands of specta-
Kal-shek's personal representative in due course formally approve the strite in Southeastern Europe ware tors cheered enthusiastically when
ment as Governor of the voted down overwhelmingly in ear- the planes appeared, forming their
Provinces of Dr B, C. Roy.
lier stages of the debate, leader's naine.
Another
Roy is at present in the United feature of the
plane,
"I invented a story that my Kirl friend was supposedly living near Gran Sasso and begged an Itallun friend to look her up. He informed entirely me that the valley cordoned off and that the hotel at the foot of Gran Sasso had suffered eviction
It of all its
personnel.
was
display was a flight of 30 planes forming was strongly rumoured that Mus- an ideal spot to cut of completely the five-cornered Soviet star abova solini was hold in this hotel. It was from the rest of the world-more
the aerodrome.
southermost
Montgomery In
Singapore
cables. Then We
the
DIFFICULT OPERATION
PERFORMED
The Escape
The "Nine of us put the wireless up-
here, and with Gen. Sun Lien- chung, military commander in Hopal· province..
.
DT
The British economic crisis tops
Driving Out The People States and on acting appointment,
Poland's Ona Vote all others in priority at the moment. General Marshall's alarmed econo-
Many persons in villages and small obout which a separate announce American and Brish officials said towns ore making efforts to reachment will be made, will be noocs- they doubted that Mr Gromyko mie aides are searching for ways to
would get more de Britain over her present dificul-
they [sary,
than is usual Chengtu, Aug. 3.-A bearded large Nationalist cities which "Aviation Day" was marked by than 6,000 feet above sea level and
feel will be safe from the Com- Hies, until the Marshall Plan begin=
A further announcement will he support the one vote of Poland- Marsale Pien vare emphasis in the press and on the not a road leading to it. We planned old man knelt before an Ameri-munisis. Airlines are swamped with made about the Governorship of the when the showdown came on his to operate. that the bottom will drop out of the radio on Russia's ambition to make! to land with gliders near the hotel.
can surgeon and touched his ticket applications at slop-overs Province of East Bengal, the India resolution. The Soviet proposals to its herself a leader, in world aviation. Plan unless Britain
in North Office stated-Router. A strong delachment was to go up forehead on the floor. Some various Nationalist "bases"
were left hanging last Tuesday when Russian designers, the Avessano valley and seize Two famous
China.
Mr Gromyko's -veto killed the present precarious position.
Alexander Yakovlev The British Government
and
Everywhere a traveller has
Sergel telephone station Parachute action one had just told him that the
L goes
Mrs Naidu Appointed American Balkans proposals, and the ap-
madness. of the Ilyushin, were working on a civil was regarded as sheer
operation which saved his life North China-Tsingtao, Tsinon and
matter.
to permit was dropped pealed for drastic revision
"On September 0, Allied radio basle principles in the
Tientsin-there are reports that the American aircraft which would fly 1,000 miles
had never before been perform-Communists drive property owners Naidu, woman poet, will be appoint- Indonesian Aghting.
New Delhi, Aug. 3-Mrs Sarojint emergency Council action in the loan agreement. The proposed to the Eastern Urals in four hours reports claimed that Mussolini had town of already been extradited. Neverthe-
ed in China.
out of farms and small villages and ed Acting Governor of the United changes would exempt the
There is certain to be more de- British and to the
Known as the Badoock-Bacon "puli divide up the loot with the former Provinces unill Dr B. C. Roy, now bate on the Indonesian altuation in temporarily from clauses which pre- Central Asia in a day, it was an-less we had to risk the venture.
or proctdal pocrest class, who then are delightest in the United States, can return to the Security vent
Council this week, them from
"At noon September 12, we had through" operation. discriminating nouneed in Moscow-Reuter.
12 gliders, two planes and 108 men moidectomy, it is a rare and difficult to co-operate with the Communists. take over, it was reliably under-with Russia and India pressing for against American trade and allow
ready. No one was to open fire procedure developed only three years Such a typical story was related by stood here today. them to import more food from
some condemnation of the Nether University Erik Watts, one of the managers of sterling areas.
before I fred.
Temple With only US$1.000.
ago by two
She will be the first woman to act lands for its use of force against wwww
T could see our goal--the hotel physicians for the treatment of cancer the Kailan Mining Administration. 000,000 of the loan left, the British
as Governor of an Indian Province, the Indonesian Republicans. It is I gave the order to release towin the
In Tientsin, he related how the lower intestines. plan to cut imports from the United
Mrs Naidu, who has often been possible that the Indonesian case States, curtail military commitments
noted a grave When 67-year-old Gung Wing- parents of a Chinese boy working abroad and look to the United Statoz
error a supposedly fat slope clearly yang came to the West China Union, for him had been driven front the India, is a former President of Council convienes
to as the "Nightingale of will come up again as soon as the tomorrow after- to assume most of the financial bur-
showed a slant of 40 degrees, I Hospital, he was near death. Dr store in the country village by the Congress and now a member of the noon, but American officlule sulit shouted dens in Germany.
crash landing...then the Charles H. Arnold removed 16 inches Communists, who then divided the Congress Working Committee.
they would insist on resuming the crush.
of Gung's lower intestine and pulled store's contents among Communist Other Major Problems
"We wormed out of the wreck and the remaining intesting down so that sympathisers.
When asked about her becoming Balkans debate. Singapore, August 3-Field Mar shal Lurd Montgomery, Chief of the rushed the hotel yelling Mani in Gung will have the normal digestive
Acting Governor Other major problems are:
of the United Pro- Watts said: "It is generally the vinces, she said: "You are putting a
Indonesian Truco 1. Korea-the United States- Imperial General Staff, told on Halto. (Stick 'em up)..
functioning.
some story everywhere. The Com-wild bird in a
It is expecled that the Balkans Russian stalemate threatens another porters here today that he was going
Modical Interest
munists drive out the people who
Cage more or less permanently divided home on his own volition for per-
The United Provinces, neighbour and Indonesian debates would delay 58-year-old former army country. There is little to indicate sonal reasons-nobody had asked ori
noi will
co-operate
with them to territory to Tibet, has a population start of the debate on the Anglo- is sche- the finding of a common ground for instructed him to return to England. paratus out of action, and by now curgeon, who came to China only six they will not have to feed them. of more than 58,000,000 of whom Egyptian disputo,, which
" merely thought I had been away I could see the well-known head of months ago, performed the opera-This puts an additional heavy strain over 30 percent are Hindus-Reuter.duled to begin on Tuesday. 2. China-the economic situation long enough," he said. He added the Duce framed in a window, tion only a few times previously in on food supplies available in larger i
Meanwhile, United Nations diplo- the tilies "The front portal was secured by the United States. He said to is more hopeless but not as urgently that he was disappointed that he
mány, refugees
mats are elated by the news from Indonesia that both the Dutch critical as Britain's. There are had not seen General Douglas Mac machine-guns but one of the officers best of bla knowledge it had never going."United Press. major doubts here that. Lt-Gen Arthur, Supreme Allied Comman and I managed to shove the guns been done before in China. Wedemyer
solution der in Japan, who was the only one inside and jump over them. force for three and half hours under con- Gung was on the operating table can find the General Marshall failed to And in of the leading military figures.he had our entrance. the period of almost a year that he not yet me
met.
"Mussolini
and three
Italian sinuous spinal anaesthetic. All lead- would be: spent in China.
officera
Chinese physicians Askd British arms
were in the, room. I saw
at West Union 3. Indonesia-the
Chine to the help of the second.gilder nose-diving 200
Hospital came man's prepared of come
watch. prestige and that of the Western Singapore In case of another war, nyrds away. The third was prepar- democracies throughout the Orlent Lord Montgomery said: "What war?ing to land.
Gung is a farmer in the small As yet no shot box village of Chungling, 30 miles north I had not heard there was going to been fred. Another gilder hurtled of Chengtu. He said he heard is at stake,'
with a terrifle impact against the the famous hospita. run by Ameri be another."Reuter.
missionaries, hotel surrendered without everything" and one day he decided which "cured further resistance.
to walk to Chengtu' to see if they "I reported to Mussolint that the could cure him. United Press. Fuehrer sent me as a token of his Mussolini em- friendship. braced me and assured me that he and daily expected hia extradition to would have the Allies but that he
"Meanwhile a
had landed put an end to his life beforehand. on the valley but smashed its landing designed to bring new blood into the although other restaurants might not
cleared them
makeshift landing place and another landeil.
"In Patios Di Mare, three planes It is understood that Prince awaited us and we climbed into one Charles talked over with General of them and off we went to Ger- Smuts the Regent's plan to build a many."-United Press, royal residence in the Congo, where Belgian monarchs could spond some time each year.
white
4. The Balkans-Greece's serious charges of aggresalon against her neighbours Bra headed for another Soviet veto, which then will chol- lenge the United States
and the other Western nations to take direct action.
5. Japan hopes for an early be
ginning of the Japanese peace treaty were blasted by the almost un-
SMUTS' VISIT TO BELGIAN CONGO Pretoria, Aug. 3-General Jan Smuts, South Africa's Premier, re- urned here today from a visit to the Belgian Congo, during which he Four drafting the treaty. China pro-
was decorated with the Grand Cross poses that she be allowed a modified of the Belgian Ster by Prince Reg veto.--United Press.
gent Charles.
animous desire to defer it until inte this year or early the next. Russia wants full veto power, with the Big
Odom's Flight Postponed
*
Chicago, Aug 4-William Odóm Informants added. that Prince postponed the take-off of his salo Charles intended to spend part of world flight, scheduled for today,
each year in the Congo during the until tomorrow because of a "crossed period of his Regency. He is look wire" in the insulation system. ing for a suitable site for a home. Odem's backer, Milton Reynolds, which is likely to be in the note said it would take several hours to eastern mountainous district around! check the trouble.Associated Press. Lake Rivu-Reuter.
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Sir-In this hot weather, very often I like to have a sandwich lunch with a glass of milk. I have found that a lot of other people do the same. Up to a
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Ing milk shakes, etc.
If one does Victoria, in the Colony of Hong ing, Associated Press, pending nationalisation measures In not fancy paying more than double view of the country's economic crisis without milk.
for a milk shake, qne has to do appeared in most London newspapera¦ on Sunday.
Is there a milk shortage? Or is sort of business Official quarters, working on crisis this just some
policy?. to plans while most Britons were ro- China, died in her home here
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'Sir, Now that the Traffic Depart- tary.
Foreign of the
Christian Cabinet secret. Missionary Society.
almost
ment is showing some activity and invariably well- She served with him in China for informed London observer sald that both motorists and pedestrians, per- trying ta'Improve road conditions for 12 years, most of the time at the It now looks as if nationalisation of taps. this is the time to call their University of Nanidingssociated the iron and steel industry, schedul-attention to the East-to-west traile ed for the ression of Parliament block between Wellington Barracks which opens next October, will be and Garden Rond, which has been dropped.
geiting worse daily. The question was disclissed' by.
This Jam is worst in the morning the Cabinet last week and although rush hour, I consider myself lucky nothing was finally decided, the if I can get past the Garden Road opinion was strongly expressed that light from Wellington Barracks this was no time to nationallur the less than
10 minutes. Sometimes industry." the observer said the hold-up is even longer. Associated Press.
I notice it number of empty trucks Fench morning in this long string of vežilcies, also, a number of military. vehicles. Perhaps a check should be Vienna, Aug. 3-A warning to made as to the necessity for these British troops in Austria against valilcies to be cluttering up an im-
sued today in an order to the time. Some types of traile smuggling currency into Britain was portant traffic route at this particular may occupation forces which declared possibly be diverted to Kennedy that offenders would be able to Road, cevere disciplinary action-Reuter."
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