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VOL III NO. 152
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1948.
Sir William Government's Yugoslavia's Communists
Gent To Be Relieved
Report
London, June 29.- An au- thoritative Whitehall source disclosed tonight that the British government has de- cided to relievo Sir Edward Gent of his post as High Com missioner for the riot-swept Federation of Malaya.
Sir Edward is now on his way back to London from, the British colony in the Far East, which has
| been swept recently by a campalgo
of organiced violence.
Ho is due back in London on Friday night.
The Colonial Office announced on Monday night that he was return- ing to Britain for "consultaupas."
Asked today whether Sir Edward would be returning to Malays, a Colonial Office spokesman sald briefly that he had "no"comment" to make.
however,
The Whitehall source, said the question, of a successor is already being studied.
Sir Alec Newboult, Chief Secre-
Lary
of the Malayan Administration, in acting as Governor until a new man is appointed, the source said.-- Associated Press.
Singapore, June 20-Two guerilia bands, striking from the Malayan jungle, captured the town of Jerantut in Pahang State on Monday night.
Warning
London, June 20,- The Government intends to put
· Into - foros. the emergency orders to deal with the threat to Britain's food supplies and trade if the 13-day-old dook irike does not end tomorrow. - Tiils was stated in the House of Commons today by the Prime Minister, Mr Clement Aluce. The orders are expected to "Include provisions for re- quisitioning buildings and transport, billeting troops for the dock areas, and meakUTES to fight possible sabotage.
Today, a mass of over 8,000 Port voted
resolution G
proposed by the sirike leaders to return to work tomorrow. After this vote, the 2,000 Birkenhead workers who walked out yes- terday in sympathy with the London Cockers decided to re- sume work late tonight. The Liverpool dockers are also ex- pected to follow the London lead-Reuter.
S'hai Strike
Ties Up Ships
Shanghal, June 30-Two Ameri- can ships and one British vessel were among the many ocean-going ships tied up hero by a strike call- ed yesterday by hundreds of stove- dores to back up their demand for Increased wages,
Both globe-girdling American Rogera of the ships, the Mount American President Lines, and the Ploneer Tide of the United States Lines, which were scheduled to do par early this morning, have can-
their sailings.
Reject Indictment
MARSHAL
TITO
DEFENDED
Belgrade, June 29.-Yugoslavia's Communist Party angrily rejected tonight the Cominform charges against Premier Marshal Tito and his government. It said they were "based on fabrica- tion" and were a "plain slander."
In a formal statement the Party's Central Com- mittee said Russia and other members of the Cominform had lodged a bill of complaint without hearing the opinion or any opposing arguments from Yugoslavia.
The Cominform-the Communist Information Bureau-accused Tito and other Yugoslav Communist leaders on Monday of pursuing a hateful policy to- ward Russia. It accused them of leaning toward the Western powers, conducting a "wrong", foreign. and domestic policy and departing from the Marxist- Leninist line in favour of a policy of nationalistic indo- pendence.
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Tonight the Yugoslav official radio broadcast the reply of the Party's Central Committee.
The relders sot fire to the police !station, thea withdrew with at least five hostages including a police officer, after shooting up the town, 250 miles north of Singapore.
received unconfirmed reports of n Reports said the bands Invaded the police station and engaged in
battle between Yugoslav units.
(Other unconfirmed reports print- a. pitched battle with the police. The
colled
Іл While rejecting the charges, the ed Rome Bid Soviet troops Anally police
capitulated when they
The British vessel, Bilver Briar, Committee called upon Party mem-crossed the Danube inte Yugoslavia ammunition," ron out of
miles from Belgrade, and More than 40 persons have been serviced" In Shanghai by the Java-bors to close their ranks even lighter a few killed in two months of violence China-Japan Line, could not Cnload and to exort more effort to canother Soviet troops moved toward which British authorities blame on her cotton cargo yesterday.
tinue building up Socialism in the Belgrade through Serbia.) the Communists Associated Press. doll whether who will be able
of the walk out and it is country: to leave on schedule tomorrow, even if the strike is settled by then.
The · stevedore... strike does not affect coastal shipping, which comes under a separate atevedores' union.
The Bureau of Social Affairs is mediating in the dispute.-Reuter.
Counterfeiters Caught
plates for
Frankfurt, June 20-American Criminal Investigation oMeers have crushed a ring of counterfeiters of ew, printed In America, "Deutsche mark notes, it was revealed today.
"Seven
Germans and one Pole were arrested by agents who found counterfeit notes, 20, ani 50 Deutsche mark banknotes, in their possession The arresta were made a week ago In Frank- fort and in Welden in Bavaria, All were brought to Frankfurt where they are held for trial completion of investigations.-As- sociated Press.
EDITORIAL
No
DEATH ́ SENTENCE
omcers who caused the deaths of Tokyo, June 29.-Two Papanese
thousands of Filipinos in the Ameri- can Army on tho Batoan Death March were today sentenced to hang by United States Eighth Army milltary commission.
The officers are Major-General Yoshitaka Kawane and Colonel Kurataro Ilirano, Affidavits from pending the Filipinos said some of the pri-
soners were tortured, shot, bayonet ted and buried alive.-Reuter,
But Whose Fault Is It?
ono need
quarrel with Marshal Sokolovsky's state. ment that the creation of a new currency system in the three Western zones has "completed the ülsunion of Germany." That Iamentably true. But neither the other currency reform nor any aclfons of the Western Powers bas caused that disunion. They aro not the cause but its unavoidable consequence. The really deci. alve sleps in the whole evolutien were taken in the first few months of the Allied sccupailon- and by the Russians themselves. It was they who dropped between the East and West an *Iron Curtain" across which there has -not-for now nearly thred years ---been any fres ́movement either for persona ar: for goods. It is they who again and again have refused to agree to the restoration of such freedom of movement. was they, who in flagrant breach of the provisions of the Potsdam agreement, carried out, in the Ørst month. s series of sweeping economic changes in the Eastern zone without even discussing them with the
Western allies Whether the changes were good- or bad is irrelevant. The point is they were carried out unilaterally, they effectively destrozod the economie unity of the country, and made, impossible that common economic polles which the Pots dam protocol had declared to be emential. One consequence of
that initial Itussinti“, breakaway, and of the continual insistence of the Rusalans en following in the Eastern zone an entirely separate polloy of their own, bas been to "render", impossible the .carrying. out of any Jolni etirṛency ̧ koform
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Reports from the Greek side of the border said machinegun and on Monday night. Greek Informants mortar fire was heard in Yugoslavia
Billy Hughes, 10, crawls from a car in which he and a friend were sitting at Montgomery, Ala, when a -huge tree was blown across -it in a thunderstorm:. Both occupants were unharmed. ---AP Picture.
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Plan For Rehabilitating China's Rural Areas
Shanghai, Juna 20-A five-year plan for the rehabill- tation of China's rural areas is among a mass of recon- struction blueprints which have been drawn up by officia! and private Chinese organisations based on the United States did-China programme, Chinese, sources here dis closed.
F
how
FIRST CHARGES Belgrade was chlm. There was Tho first charges against the not the slightest outward manifes Yugoslav Party, the reply said, tation of the angry political atmos-were made by the Central Committee
The scheme,"mapped out faintly fogether constitute the foline" of phere.
of the All Unión (Dolshevik) Com
June Tokyo,
20-Twenty-four by 20 private bodies, calls for the the region south of the Yangtao, is munist Party in letter dated March hours after the
quake, fires were expenditure of US$30,000,000 be- | said to be making, rapid headway. 20.
tween 1949 and 1953, and includes, All makeshift bridges on the the other members of the Cominform
This letter notified Yugoslavia that still burning in Fukui,
Weary and tattered people, still an experimental land reform pro- 350 hilometre Canton Hankow suffering from shock, searched Jeet Involving an arca
of 23,000
Railway have been replaced by had been tola of the charges without
square kilometres in eleven dis permanent structures, traffic notifying Yugoslavia's Central Com umong the debris for lost friends
tricts.
been restored on 1,000
kilometres and relatives. munist Party about them,
Corpses lle. here and there on The rural plan aims at increasing of the 1200-Kilometre Cheklang- The statement Hungary Later
what once were the city's pavements. the production of: (1) Foodstuffs, Klangsu Rallway, and the Hunan- supported those charges and that
Many refugee groups are gathered including mixed grains, marine pro- Kwangal-Kwelchow line is in work- Yugoslavia still later received similar along the raliway and riverbanks, ducts and fellers from all other-Cominform members except Italy and France.
The Cominform is composed of Communist
from representatives Commu Russia, France,
Italy.
Bulgaria, Rumania, Poland, Hungary, Czecho slovakia and Yugoslavia.
Anglo-US Defence Pact
Denied
London, Juno 29.-The Prime Minister, Mr Clement Attlee, today denied the existence of
for defence Russia.
Fild
on the
The All Union Communist Party members accepted the attitude of any Anglo-American agreement their Contral Committee "before against Soviet having beard the opinion or any
argument to the contrary' part
of the Yugoslav Party, said the Mr Attlee told the House of Yugoslav statement Commons during question period,
Morning newspapers did not carry "There is no defence agreement the Cominform statement lambasting between the British Government and Tito and his principal Communist the United States Government, al- aides. But the news seeped through and starts are close and cordial,ces the city by grapevines. འ
There appeared to be no founda- Mr Konn! Zilliacus, Left Wing
of martial law, tion for rumours member of the Labour Party, had
or other events troop movements asked Mr Attlee whether his an out
of the ordinary-Associated nouncement of March a still held
Press, good-that war between this coun- fry and either the United States or Russia could equally be disregarded In considering British policy.
Mr Zilliacus also asked for 15- surance that the Anglo-American agreement for joint action in case of hostilities with the Soviet Union In Berlin or elsewhere did not oblige Britain to go to war if the United |States entered into military conflict
with the Soviets.
POLICY EXPLAINED
Mr Atiles replied: "The policy of His Majesty's Government in regard to security continues to be based on our obligations under the Charter of the United Nations organisation. I
and
1,100 ramie silk and Jellometres. uarding what posessions — therincluding (2) Textiles, / ing order again throughout Its
wool (3) Lumber, including mp- Meanwhile, the National Resour have been able to save,
Others, including old men
lings, timber forests, economic ces Commission is hoping to receive almirsaly through forests and state-owned forests. (4) some part of the United States aid women, wander the streets.
Exportable commodities, including to this country to enable it to speed The Military Govenment head tung "off; tea, slik and bristles. up its programmo of expanding and
Old Palace-com-
co-ordinating, baste industries, cr quarters, in the
pecially those in Central and South pound in the city's centre, were lo-
China. night distributing food, clothing and medicine.-Reuler.
SOME HIGHLIGHTS Highlights of this programme, as
PRIORITY PROJECTS Under the plan, projects along the more. thickly populated and more accessible regions near the coast will be given priority. In this connee revealed in Chinese press reports, flon 12 provinces-Kiangsu, Checall for the generating of 2,000,- klang, Antiwel, Klangsi, Hopel Shang-000,000 volts of electric power, pro- tung, Hupch, Honan, Fukien, Kwel- chow and Kwangtung-ate said to have
bene- been named as chief ficiaries of the rural programme. TELEGRAPH AT
comprehensive
|NOON TOMORROW
(Thursday)
The
most
NAZI TO HANG Hamburg, June 29-Herr Arthur Konrad, former SS supervisor of the Havensbruck concentration camp, was sentenced to death by hanging here today.
Schenk Herr Walter
and Herr
of the many Heinrich Schaefer were sentenced to costly 20 and two years' imprisonment, re-schemes now being studied spectively, for maltreating inmates. Chinese Government is one sub- by the Ministry of Com- mitted --Reuter.
munications. It entails
an expenditure of 00
met by the Chinese Government and
and rehabilitation by the
SOKOLOVSKY BECOMES Amillion Chinese dollars, partly to be
LITTLE CONCILIATORY
Berlin Juno 29—In a letter to the British Gover- nor. Lt-Gen Sir Brian Robertson, the Soviet Comunan- der, Marshal Sokolovsky, tonight expressed the "hope Berlin and that resumption of rail traffic” between Western Germany would be made possible', before
Berlin's supply of food ran out.
of
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Tomorrow being a general kollday, the Telegraph will be pub lished earlier.
The paper will be on sale at 12 noon, instead of the usual time, 2.30 p.m.
Contattilehallen
of
of
partly by United States aid.
The main projects outlined in the plon include:
or overhauling. Repairing materials obtained under the
duction of 4,000,000 metric tons of United States afd-Chino programme coal.and 18,000 metric tons of railways and harbours military or economic importance, steal, repairing of 270,000 tons and construction of new railways in vessels, manufacture of 25,000 ton
| of paper, and refining of 1,000,000 China's northwest and southwest.
(2). Maintenance or improvement barrels of gasoline.
The N. R. C. is also aiming at important national
authorities tons of tungsten, 4,000 metric tons for antimony, 2,000 tons for tin in Yunnan and shipping the provinces
3,500 tons for alumínium.
the same time It expects to
of
tho
most
highways, and
cannot undertake to say in advanco Marshal Sokolovsky explained that protect the economic security of the to build now to Stance, pro- Kwongsi, 12.000 fuels for gold and
In an extremely conellatory tone, 1 Soviet military administration to assistance to Provision of financial production target this year of 10,000
1f
CSA
economic
ald to private shipping. of
for the whole of Germany. crippling Inflation which grown up within Germany is largely the outcome of the whole- sale flooding of the country with Russlan occupation marks. The results have been disastrous. Without
controlled and stable currency all sane economie and financial planning has been im- possible. The vast discrepancy between the perred level of wages and prices and the amount of in circulation bas, pro- currency duced a barter and black-market system which has played havoo with all rational
and all control. Thus the Western allies have been faced
with
Inescapable dilemma. Economic recovery was Impossible without drastie currency reform which would give the country a money in which sellers could have confidence, and a price-ware system having sane relation to the volume of cash in existence. The choice had to bo made sooner or later, and there coold
bo only 'onze': choles, Economia necessity had to cut weigh political disability. Accep tance of the inevitability of partition had to be preferred to acceptance of the inevitability of collapse. The decision has been taken and with it the division of Germany becomes complete. Or rather, the fact of division
try to go to war if the United States General Robertson's headquarters said it could not yet be น completely accepted. And
were to go the
to war with the Soviet reported that he had not yet received since there is still danger Western need arises. Union in any policy of the Western allies is al
Marshal's letter and would impres-the
be able to saa the Boy will be brought into last based not on fiction but on
slon correct?
probat
not ba reality. When Marshal Soko- lovaky complains that division is, now complete he should add that Is simply the logical and of process which kas bron inevitable, since the firmi decisivo Steps towards" partition were taken by the Soviet Government in the salumn of 1945.
A
Colourky said that furthermore
protective measures
tions on rivers, and along coast.
of
zone and. Greater
(3) Opening how these obligations will operate the railway lines on which Allied Soviet decupled
an act of aggression occurred. and German freight from Western Berlin, since the currenty reform in routes of
to and Western Germany endangers the vision the British Govern- Germany normally travels ment naturally reserves the right to from Berlin, "are still out of order, economy of the Soviet Zone and and repairing of shipping installa-produce 300,000 metric tons of irons
tho Soviet conclude arrangements for national but
transportation
Berlin, defence, based on Article 51 of the authorities are taking all measures
mat (4) Expansion of air fleets and ore, 40,000 of pig iron and 10,000 of Charter. Regional arrangement for to make resumption of traffic on that
motors, 1,200 pieces of processing defence already exists in Eastern Une possible."
remain in force for the time being, ground Installations to promote air steel products, 7,000 horse power of
transportation.
10,000 bicycles machinery,
-and (0), Extension of postal service to Europe,"
The Soviet news bureau read por but he said border traffic was again
for Germans who hold rutol districts Zilllacus pressed Mr Attlee: tions of the letter to the United Press "Are you aware the arrangements and said the text would be passed referred to in these two countrica along to the Russian-licensed
(6) Overhauling of existing fela- for
distribution in the United States an agency, ADN, ATO
"As for automobile traffic between graph installations in non-military
resumod linen "for strategie ute", as
autordeoordmitting this equn- Communist nowspapers.
Is that
Mr Attlee: "I am not aware.
that stater” provalent.
United
In
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now Phases issued prior to i vinces.
to
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and frontier pro- 44,000 apindles.Reuter.
Helmstedt and Berlin, Sokolovaky areas and opening of new telegraph Report Unfounded
Zone.
the.
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COMMUNICATIONS
the
Washington, June 29-A U.S. Navy oficial told reporters today The official organ of the "Kusmin- that there is "absolutely no founda- it arrived some time "He said the railwayut that
was tang, the Central Daily News, retlen" for a report that an American carly tomorrow.still cut of order, but. the ports that Important reconstruction warship had shelled Arab positions added that they had Soviet transport authorities are work on China's communication | In- Palestine. The Deputy Opposition leader, no previous indication a letter was taking all measures to make resump systems and mining and industrial The Syrian Minister of the In- tion of trafo on that line possible. enterprises are being undertaken terior reported the alleged incident by asking whether Mr Attlee had The Soviet news bureau story “He Anally pointed out that the south of the Yangisa river, which in Cairo on June 28, and said the any Information as to how defence said, "Marshat Sokolovaky, in a food supply for Berlin was secure has
enjoyed comparativo. peace protest was made to the United arrangements wers working in letter sent to General Robertson | for some weeks and expressed the since V-3 Day.
States. Southeast Europo
today in reply to the latter's letter | hope in the incantime that resump- Repair work on the Canton-Hori- The Binte Department said, it had Mr Attlee did not reply-United of June 20, confirmed that protective:tion of railway traffle will be pos-kow, Cheklang-Klangal and Hunan-not received such a protest,--As- Pross.
measures were taken, by the - sible."—United Press,
Kwangsi-Kwelchow railways, which sociated Prem.
Mr. Anthony Edon, raised a laugh expected.
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