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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1947.
Bomb Thrown Into New U.S. Presidential
Crowded Market
Alternative 11 ARABS KILLED
To Aid
For Europe
Washington, Dec. 29. -- An Administration source said 'to- day that if the European re- covery programme fails or is and rejected
Congreas by Europe goes to the Communists, the United States may have to spend as much as $20,000,000,- 000 a year on defence.
I
The recovery programme, enlating $17,000,000,000
16. Europeon for countries, is worth trying an cheaper way out even though results cannot be guaranteed, according to th knorce. That is about the theme! Administration leaders will take to the Congress when
Rght launched for the recovery programme.
In the Administration's
1x
view
a drastic reduction of the four-year programme by Congress ultimately would require a longer programme to put Europe back on its feet. It that chances of success prgued would diminish as the amount of ald is curtailed, particularly in the first year.
British
Constables Among Victims
Jerusalem, Dec. 29.—Infuriated Arabs stormed through the streets of Jerusalem's Old City today in search of Jews to avenge the nine Arabs killed by Irgun terrorists, who flung a powerful bomb from a speeding car into the crowded Damascus Gate orange market.
Two British constables were killed-one when terrorists sprayed the area with machinegun fire before the explosion, and one when a group of Arabs opened fire afterwards.
among
The bodies of the dead and injured lay scattered oranges. The Government Hospital report- ed two more Arab deaths to the nine officially report- ed, and at least 37 injured.
Fiance's Tragic Joke
London,
Dec..
20.
Within ten minutes of the explo- sion Irgun Zvai Leumi, Jewish ter- telephoned rorist organisation,
claimed Hebrew journalists and responsibility, saying the Damascus Gate was a "meeting place for Arab mangsters."
of the casualties which
·known to Include Arais and children-occurred nt a bus stop
The estimates of what the United States may have to spend on its
Most military forces are based on the
were possibility that the Soviet Union
Richard women extend its may
influence to the Atlantic and bring virtually
all Stanley Morris, 30, of Bridle Rond, among the crowd Europe under Its control, In this Stanfree, accidentally shot. his 20-near an Arab cafe. event it was said that the United year-old fiancee Sybil Marriott on States might have to about double Christmas. Eve when he produced
revolver as a
joke, its present $11,710,000,000 annual military programme-United Press.
At today's Inquest verdict of
a
accidental death was recorded.
Morris, who was very distressed,
sald
on
A carload of armed Arabs rushed through the Old City in pursuit of a Jowish taxi, which was trying to escape into the Jewish quarter.
When the taxi's escape had been
BAO DAI IN birthday, Miss Marriott went with blocked, the Arabs shot dead the
LONDON
emperor
to
sources
EDITORIAL
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fire to the taxi.
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Henry Wallace For Presidency
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Hand-To-Hand Fighting On Greek War Fronts
GAINS BY GOVERNMENT TROOPS
Athens, Dec. 29-Hand-to-hand fighting was reported from the fighting fronts today as the Government anti-guerilla offensive continued to gain ground against the hard-battling Communists, who are reportedly under the personal leadership of General Markos, head of the newly-proclaimed "Free Greece" government.
Guerillas captured in the wind-shipped hills said that Markos had placed himself at the head of seven' battalions of his soldiers and added that they had been told that artillery and air force reinforcements for their cause were expected from "outside 'Greeco" the vital Konitza front. (Some reports said Markos wanted Konitza as his "capital.")
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Guerilla losses were described as¡gime in Greece will be regarded as heavy in the fighting on Saturday causing "grave deterioration in the and Sunday which included world situation."
volunteered the The spokesmann bayonet attacks on Communist posts between Konitza and Jannina. observation at a news conferente Shooting was going on in the area but would not indicate what action tako if recognition might of the Rambala Heights and near Britain Yeroplatanos and Mavrovounion. should be accorded.
The spokesman said he knows of. Thirty-eight guerilia bodies were found in the latter districis, while no plans for increasing the British other bodies reportedly had been force of less than 5,000 men removed by comrades.
Government troops
have OU
south of
GrecceAssociated Press.
in
BULGARIAN SUPPORT the heights
Sofia, Dec. 30-A mass meeting. cupled Grambala, but press dispatches sald sponsored by a "Committee to sup the guerillas still controlled the port democratie Greece" on Sunday heights of Elafotopos. Vusilikon urged that Bulgarians give moral and Kallvia overlooking the road support to the newly-proclaimed the Bourazan! Greek Communist Government and from Kalp. to bridge.
materially support the Greek re- fugees. Associated Press.
AIR FORCE IN ACTION Favourable weather yesterday
gave the Greek air force Its chance.
北 and pounded guerilla positions,
claiming to have destroyed two of six guns which have been shelling Konitza. Konitza troops are still clearing the heights. The town it- self suffered a major are begun by a guerilla shell.
Military reports from Jannina guerilins sald on estimated 2,000
arcoa the
of were ghting in Grambaa and Kalpaki and were at
TRIBESMEN STRAFED
BY PLANES
New Delhi, Dec. 29-RIAF tempting to move in reinforcements planes attacked positions taken
over the Albanian border.
However,
the
the
Democratic Party and not running heights were reported to have left fighting in Kashmir.
cartridges when it
China's Critical Year
WHAT does 1948 hold in store
WHAT
TV for China? It is an anxious. and urgent question, answer
And
Government
is administratively inent. A second factor of com- civil pelling importance is the,
war, is calculated deeply to
Pacific.. affect the future of the
The 1947 background offers little In the
encouragement.
tho
vorn
The bandits stole 74 rifles, 3,000 the re-election of President Truman. segregation People and an end to guerillas were killed or wounded in in the industrial north of the city
rounds of ammunition, and a num- ber of Sten guns and pistols.
fund
purposes,
added.-
as
well was
CMY
Mr
situation and
Job Still Open
Washington, Dec, 20-A high bad not yet gone into official told the United Press today
him into his parents' home to 611wo Jewish occupants and then set
Chicago, Dec. 29.-The unpredictable Henry Wal- the children's stockings,
lace, twice a Cabinet member and once Vice-Presi. dozen people There were about
REPRISAL MURDER
dent, announced today that he would run as an Inde- in the front room and his mother
which they Que other British constable was
pendent candidate for President in 1948 because, he
up by raiding tribesmen in the He London, Dec. 38.-Bao Dai, exiled brought in a cockerel
prawounded at the Damascus Gute, and
said; the present. course, of the United States was lead-
guerillas in of Annam, arrived here were having for dinner,
six-chambered revolver unether was shot dead by unknown
Mourgan area were said to he Mirpur Kotli area and strafed today. from Hongkong aboard a duced
ing toward another depression and another war. which had been sent
and to him
gunmen-belleved to be Arabs-In
retreating towards the frontier after the raiders on the Uri road, the BOAC aircraft on a mission np-
"This is to keep
in Indian Defence Ministry said in near the gunfight
Austrian
of the United a strong Army counter-attack, In a speech prepared for delivery date for President parently aimed at settlement of a Jestingly said:
order to escape encirclement. Others tonight's communique on the dispute with the French
States in 1048." over the poultry thieves away."
over the national network of the
His He then Alled the chambers with Hospital, also in the Old City.
the who moved northward to the Veloutra terms for supporting future of Indo-China.
revolver Dr C. Malouf, an Arab physician Mutual Broadcasting System, Mr
Ammunition dumps were also Indian He is expected to undergo an 'eye cartridges and elased the
an Independent have already 50 dead uchind against 20 Govern destroyed by air bombing. ns treatment in London, then proceed and was about to "break" it again in charge of the Mental Hospital at Wallace announced flatly and with- Bethlehem, was shot lead today on out qualification that he would be a
army troops shelled concentrations Paris and Inter to Americu. to remove the
the road to Bethlehem. Arab condidate, running on a platform been made, Mr Wallace said. They ment casualties.
of repudiation proposed would be "world included
JANNINA CONFERENCE of There
ralders, Inflleting casualiles, the went off. bren have
reports from Miss Marriott, who was sitting in sources claimed that he was killed whose main planks
and social universal military training and the
The Minister of War (M. Stratony
communique added. Hongkong that Bao Dal, at present
"Wall Street military team that la visited the Jannina
in
military hus- Patrols using mortars engaged a leader the Viet Nam molerates, on arinehair about four yards away, by Jews as a reprisal for the murder peace and economic
exclaimed: "You have got me." Ile yesterday of a Jewish doctor near rights for the "common man."
They also numerous tending us toward war" of
to may seek an American loan.
Eee soldiers party of ralders, who were carrying yesterday "gaming" so he the Government Isolation Hospital
With the backing
included,
said, he
the ital curbing Saigon despatches to Paris news thought she was
"progressive" groups and the Com- papers quoted well-informed put his arm around her neck but she outside Jerusalem.
One British soklier was killed and munist Party, Mr Wallace's entrance power profita monopoly in industry wounded on the Konitza front: Ila away loot and 200 cattle southwest
steps to preserve the conferred for three hours with the of Deripatem. and concrete
Army was coll-
In Bombay, twe platoons of In- three-point collapsed and died. as raying +
when armed The police stated that the revol-two were wounded
into the Presidential
of the American commander of the Second offer had been transmitted to Bro
dian troops, with Sten guns, were nl political observing standards
storm centres Dol
said 150 stationed at known by the French.-Associated ver had a very light trigger.--Reu- men wearing battle dress and steel sidered by
Reports from Larissa helmets attacked an armoury,cast to have as its main result a people, guarantee of the civil liber- Corps and other military leaders. Press.
ter
of Jaffe.
substantial weakening of chances for ties of the
at police and discrimination.
In the and a third stood by terms to the Democratie the Konitza area and co
the biggest-ever United States
to military ald
headquarters, as China,
na to Turkey and High Command have been well Kalpaki area.
The guerillas were reported to one-day general strike of the city's attacked by Me known (The Democrats) have said.
north of lialf million 1 rkers began at mid- The Jewish Agency's mobilisation Greece,
we welcome your have shelled Nesorien, Wallace
to the 'Henry Wallace contributing 73
Konitza, A lilgh Government source night-Reuter. launched last month with a
United support, but we will not change our
who talked by telephone today with. policies." Larget, of £500,000 for "security" skyrocketing prices in the.
will
reach £600,000 by States.
Wallace saiti he personally M. Stratos in the Konitza fighting Mr Wallace said: "The American December 31. 11 Jewish Agency
ap-"was for the humanitarian aspects of area, said the Army appeared to be of the fantastic people read
of the control spokesman said today,
Plan long before it in
many
of the newly-arrived rein- Similar security funds were now propelations being made for mill- the Marshall
forcements being launched In South Africa and try adventures in Greece, Turkey was announced,"
billions for ала China-and
shall action. the United States with unlimited armaments here at home.
"But I have fought, and Slowly
The
source sald he believed un- that Lt-Gen Albert Wedemeyer wan continue to fight, programmes which ecilings, the "spokesman
dawns on
us those newspaper
reports of Ereatly in- not belug considered for the job of Reuter.
our give guns to people when they want confirmed stepped into headlines have
lives....we suddenly ploughs. I fight the Truman Doctrine creased guerlin forces were exag-administering the United States aid
Plan as applied gerated and that the everyday LEAVE CANCELLED
realise we can't have all the people and the Marshall of the world getting ready for the because they divide Europe into two guerilla strength appeared Barlidad, Dec. 29-Iraq
next war without paying for it in warring camps. Those whom we buy about 2,000.-United Press,
food will soon all
FOREIGN OFFICE REACTION cancelled
leave for
food, politically with our with less daily lives aur
desert us. They will pay us in the officers, doctors and nurses, It was clothing and housing."
London, Dec. 30.The British (basic coin of temporary gratitude and officially learned.
then turn to hate uk because our Foreign Office declares today that the programme had been submitted ADMITS NO CHANCE
by any nation of and there were Indications, that it policles are destroying their freedom." recognition im-United Press,
General Vinides' new guerilla .re- would be approved--United Press. leaving. the capital for undisclosed It was probably, the most destinations during the past three portant development so far in the days.
Presidential picture and may rank Among the volunteers examined in political importance with Theo- by doctors in Baghdad. mosques dore Roosevelt's famed bolt
Erich Dietsch, aged 20, of Zurich, during the past 24 hours wore Cx-inc Republican Party in
Singapore, Dec. 20. The 10; eltizenship, or to the pöri of em- į
aald that he was staying with servicenen, tribesmen and students. which split the Republicans and let
The Legionnaires disclosed that friends in Franco when he was de Reuter.
to the election of Woodrow Wilan, members of the French Foreign barkation Oran
admitted Legion who jumped overboard they were three days adrift on rested as an illegal Immigrant and Mr Wallace in effect
the French troopship, raft without food with only rain given the choice of imprisonment er that he did not have a chance of from
Joffre, bound for water to Marechal
drink before they were cervico in the Legion.
Gerard Mars, 720-year-old "Lukewarm liberals sitting on two Indo-China, and safely reached picked up.
Dutchman, from.
1.The Hague, hald choirs say, "Why throw away your Sitiawan, in West Malaya; nid The escaped Legionnaires alleged that he went to Marseilles to see vote?' I say a vote for the new role in an interview today that they that life in the Legion was "Inhuman" a brother off for Batavia, Runnin
1048 will be, the most valuable
few man who tried to out of money, he "got into trouble cost or ever will cast. had been "shanghaled" into the and that The bigger the pence vote in 1940. Legion and would not be taken escape from the Marechal Joffre in and was recruited into the Legion.
the Mediterranean into Spanish
Peter Vichoff, 21, of Duesseldorf, Karachi, Dec. 30-Nineteen pas- the more definitely the world will back into it alive.
Morocco were recnplured and shot A former
corporal in the German sengers, including an American know the United States is
The French authorities hero, it after severe punishment.
Army, said that on being releaseil Jesuit priest, and four crew mem- Hind the partisan reactionary war
understood, unsuccessfully
a prisoner-of-war camp, he bera 'were killed when an Indian policy which is dividing the world in was
The excupees added that they be from of these men. leved that seven other Lencaires, killed, and his home destroyed, to found that his parents had been transport plane crashed on Sunday to two armed camps and making claimed, custody night shortly after taking off from inevitable the day when American Legally, had the lig whether who jumped from the ship in the he volunteered for two years in the
soldiers will be lying in their Arelle serted while the ship was in port Malaces Straits, were drowned. Karachi to Bombay.
they would have had to be returned
Legion, but later found that he ha The priest, Father J. G. Sloan, suits in Russian snow."
Tani Disscrach. 27-year-old signed on for five years. belonged to the Patna Mission in Mr Wallace said the menace of to the ship.
The Malayan Department of Im- Swits from Catals, sald that he was The six Italiana said that they India, where ho had been for eight war "can be met and overcome only
migration Was today considering spending a holiday in France when were attracted by French offenl years. Ho had arrived on Saturday by now political alignment In in Karachi from Bahrein on the America, which requires the origina- whether the men, alx of whom are he got drunk and, on waking in the offers of work and, after being Persian Gulf and was en route, lotion of a new.political party."To Italians two Swiss, one German and police lock-up without money or arrested in Marsailles-for illegal recruited into the entry, were given the choice of Caylon on a preaching mission that end, I announce tonight that I one Dutch, should be returned, to passport,...was shall run as an independent candle their birth-place, their country of Foreign Legion
prison or the Legion-Router.
way of
Tho elvil war has not only be- but Intensified, come steadily results are very much to the dis-
advantage of the National Government. Economically tlie country is stagnant and finar- clolly It Is bankrupt. The | Chinese dollar is well nigh value- less, while cost of living is fan. tastic: Inflation is reminiscent of Germany after World War I, the ironical difference being that the Germans were a delented people, while the Chinese are supposed to be enjoying the fralis of vio- tary. Politically, China is hope- lessly divided with despotism
still in the ascendanay. These are the general conditions under
China antors a new calen
wh
Kuo
blott dar year, and it is these condi- tions which are prompting certain radical and moderato elements to forecast for 1948 a general insur rection against the existing mintang dominated Central Government. But there are many factors which will combine to Influence China's immediate fature. First among them in the traditional, apathy of il:e Chinese towards revolutionary and inxurrectionary movements. And Chiang Kai-shek as a lender,
KORRULLE.
о
· still #zips · the popular - imagina-
tlan, even though there may, be
a widespread feeling that
In view of the recent re- уствен suffered by Nationalist treans, the possible loss of the whole of Manchuria bc to the Communists cannot ruled out, but while any such development would
scrlously lower the prestige of the Nan- Ing Government, jt could probably resist any attempt at being overthrown. Another con- sideration is the extent to which the United States is willing 10 Intervene In China. A
campaign
for all-out aid for Chlang, Kal- shek is gathering momentum, and it Congress should decide in favour of providing milltary 乳白 well as economic and financial assistance, à rapid change in
the general situation could be ex- pected. Economically China's most .free- urgent needs are greater. dom of trade and the', resuscita tion of the purchasing value 1 CN dollar. The first ro- quires improved communications and the removal of many of the irkanmo import restrictions, thus encouraging free Interchange goods and services. This, in it- self, would go a long way
10- wards stabilising China's cur- reney, Tho
yeur opens darkly for China, but not entire- 17 devoid of hope. Implementa- tion of the new consitution could help to restore some con- fidence in the National · · Gisvern- mont both at home and abroad, and it is this confidence ("which the Administration needs if it is
now
to survive a critical 1918.
Of
today army
The Palestine Defence Committee said that volunteers had
been,
FATAL PLANE being elected."
CRASH
Associated Press..
in
voto ever
from 1012.
not be
maximum prograsame for Chinn at this time.
to be
one
He said officials ns yet had no under consideration for the job. He added that discussion and desi- ភួយត to hend the pro- slon on the gramme would not occur unli, after
Foreign Legion.escribed As “Inhuman