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Babe Ruth In Critical Condition
New York, Aug. 11.-Babe Ruth today took a turn for the worse and is in critical condi- tion at the Memorial Hospital for cancer and allied diseases.
The hospital where Baba has been treated during the past six weeks announced that his condition suddenly become crifient.
has
All the time, the, home run king had a high tover and congestion in his lungs but still he was able to smile at his friends. When word got out that baseball's greatest slugger was worse, his fans gathered
the hospital halls and in street outside-grown men in sports shirts and kids from the streets who
in
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VOL. III NO. 189
THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1948.
ALLIES FREEZE SOVIET At Wembley
MARKS IN
WEST BERLIN
Retaliation For Russian Action
Berlin, Aug. 11.-The western powers took the offensive in the cast-west economic war in Berlin to- night, freezing all cast mark (Russian sponsored) accounts in western banks. The development came after days of marking time in apparent anticipation of an agreement in the Moscow talks.
An official statement said the action was neces- sary because the Russian created Deutsche Noten Bank had refused to release accounts of firms in western Berlin unless they promised to do business only in east marks.
Many western sector firms had been unable to meet their payrolls as a result of the Soviet action. The Western military governments had been forced to assist these firma by arranging credits for them.
Inside the blockaded city, Germans massed in a square in the United States sector tonight and appealed to the western powers not to make a settlement with Moscow at their expense.
Along the border of the 'Soviet- Western zones, cɗal trains have been are too young to know Raih except massing, rectly to speed to Berlin
as a baseball legend but, who wor- if four power talks of Moscow result ship
him more than they do thein lifting the Soviet blockade. stars of today.
MS
FAMILY AT BEDSIDE Shortly after 2 pm. Dr. Hayes Martin announced Ruth's condition as being "still crical."
on
Zone. The American authorities do not know of any such action. How- over, it was understood that Russla was completing new lines laid out- side the Soviet sectors, hence it was believed the ADN allegation might U.S. transport officials said thate a build-up for execution of the 20 trains are waiting in the Hanover aren about 75 miles west of the Soviet threat, made long ago, to cut Marineborn link which the Russians Allied telephone and telegraph com. declared closed six
six weeks ago “for munications United Presi "technical repairs."
G
VIRTUAL DEADLOCK London, Aug. 11.-The Moscow negotiations between the, Western Ailles and Russia reportedly have been virtually deadlocked for two weeks.
Pool
Bobby, Reed, a member of the Brilish Sea Cadet Corps, gets an autograph fromTM Brenda Helser, U.S. Olympic free style swimmer from San Francisco, at the Wembley pool
-AP Picture.
U.S. Search For Military Stockpiles
While the fans walled downstairs,
China May Assist Babe's family stayed at his bedside.
Plans are ready to divert other What may have been Ruth's last coal cargoes to the Ruhr as soon as
Washington, Aug. 11—The a break comes, the officials reported. pubile appearance took place
Economic Co-operation Ad- A report of food shortages in the June 13 when he participated with other former Yankee stars in the Russian zone appeared today in
ministration today said that of Soviet Hcensed Beszapper. 250 anniversary of the
China, Malaya, Indo-China and the opening of
of the the Yankee Stadium, the "house that Mr A Miller, ·inembar
A well-informed diplomatic source the Netherlands East Indies Parliament In Saxony in the Ruth ballt."
He was 50 hoarse Stute
said the Western envoys expected would benefit from the United from his throat allment then that Russian zone said "We have bitter
Minister
States campaign to secure new hushed fans barely could hear him need for improvement of our food to see the Soviet Foreign
(Mr Vyacheslav Molotov) tomorrow when he spoke over the loudspeaker ration because our physical reserves
break, one way or supplies of scarce materials for since long
spent evening and a system-United Press.
the other, could come then.
military stockpiling. Associated Press.
However, in advance of this meet- PHONES MAY BE CUT
Ing, diplomatic Informants expressed Berlin, Aug. 11.-The Allied au-
the belief that it would take another thorities today feared that Russla
week of exchanges. might be preparing to cut the Allied telephone and telegraph service Canton, Aug. 11-A group of eco- between Berlin and the Western oc- nomic and financial journalists in cupation zone in drastic tighten- Canton is reported be planning a Ing of the blockade. visit to Hongkong to study aspects Such action would compel
NEWSPAPERMEN
COMING HERE
have
been
It
The ECA L authorised. to barter or buy from the Marshall Plan rations and their Colonies goods needed for American defence raw material - reserves.
was understood that Russia. had refused so far to meet the primary conditions of the Western powers:
1. That they will not negotiato Saturday to discuss development A mission will leave for Parly on while the blockade of Berlin con- of resources in European and Far walle tlie
tinues.
The Stillman Eastern territories, That Russians must recognise! Mission in China already has
in- their right to be in Berlin and to
vestigated the possibility of in remain there.
creasing production there,
of the British Colony's economic and Western Allies to rely on radio alone financial affairs
in communications with their ac- whichicupation zones.
The informant sold that until
This journalistic mission, will probably be made up.of 10 The Russian-llcensed news agency, newspapermen, hopes to be able to ADN, alleged that the American leave for Hongkong next week, it is Army had cut the three main tele of a meeting of the Big Four Foreign
reported.Rouler.
EDITORIAL
phone cables serving the Russian
Berlin Crisis In Perspective
THE
HE "Berlin Crisis,” particularly In view of the current dis- cussions in Moscow, can only be Feen clearly in perspective. Il dld not spring, sharply into being as a result of the introduction of a new currency the Western Zone, or the decision of the six- power London .conferenceIn favour of the establkkumení of a German : administration · In 140 -West, For two years and more quadripartita administration of functioned better Berlin had than Any ether. quadripartite organisation, and In spite of obvious-aldiculties -the--KomI- maudatura (the inter-Allied governing saihority): workou Well" "chough.” The ̈reasón--wak. that it bad to work. If the Allied Control Council: for all Germiny falled to agree on this or that each C-in-O could keep things running in his own sonu. the Kommandatura broke Bui down there would be the danger
110
doubl
end.
CH-
broke up the meeting by walking out; finally they announced there would be no further meetings. In that way the four-power ad- minitration of Berlin was de- liberately brought to an Kimaltaneously the Soviets desvented to issue Instructions
muulcipal German
oMcial and police not only in their own xone, but in the tones of the Western Allies. This presaged the currency dispute, and has, incidentally, led to ittaurrection movements on the. of some
Dart Germans in the Soviet area of
to
occupation The blockado of
Ministers Press.
these conditions were met, all talk
WOL premature.-United
CRUCIAL MOMENT
London, Aug. 11.-The Western powers will answer Russia's formula for a Berlin settlement at a Krem-
from the European Recovery plan. China's old programme is separate
The ECA hopes to get rubber and tin from Malaya, the Netherlands East Indies and Indo-China.
CHINA PROGRAMME
In the case of China, the United lin meeling--possibly on Thursday-States wants additional supplies of which may involve the success or tin, tungsten and antimony, The fallure of the Moscow talks, diplo- ECA said Mr Stillman had sent his matic informants reported today, experts as far as Yunnan' Province
Anglo-American-French diplomats to examine mines.
Industries Threatened
Shanghal, Ang, 12.The fear that some. 40 per cent of local industries will have to close doors it the forthcoming semi-monthly cost of living Index registers an Increase of 200 per cent as rumoured was expressed by the Bureau - of Social Affairs Deputy "Com- missioner, Mr Chad Fan-f{}+ yesterday.
The new Index will be issued on Sunday, and reports are current that it will show a rise of between 200 and 450 per cent owing to the big increases In public
Bulity rates and certain commodities, compared with a fortnight ago.
_As_almost_all_firms pay_their_ employees on the basis of the Index, any major Jump in the figure would hit hard those plants and businesses merely 'hanging on In hopes that better ilmes are to come soon. -Reuter.
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ANGERED BY ARAB-JEW
TRUCE BREACHES
Jerusalem, Aug. 11-Count Folke Bernadotte, United Nations Palestine Mediator, today sent his chief Jerusalem Observer to report to the Security Council a few hours after warning both sides that he would get "tough" over breaches of the truce.
The Observer, Colonel Frank Bogley, was leaving for the United States after one of the noisiest nights-punctuated by the bangs of mortars and guns Jerusalem has known since the second truce began nearly four weeks ago.***
Count Bernadotte declared earlier today that if the shelling and mortar fire did not stop he would "bring the situation to the attention of the Security Council. I am not joking, "he said. "I want both sides to know that I can be tough.”---
There was no indication where the inspiring" and nourishing Arab ag- fighting took place in Jerusalem lastgression on the one hand and the night, but it was believed to have double deallaz of the United States been near the Old City, where the seeking an opportunity to rovise. Arab Legion and Jewish forces face the General Assembly's decision on each other at close range,
the other."
At a 90-minute conference today; Dr Bernard Joseph, Jewish Governor of Jerusalem, told the Mediator that the simplest way to avoid destruction of the city, would be the withdrawal of the Arab Legion.
The
focal Arabs had no
not been fighting, he said, and it was "a clear case of
Aggression."
ORDERS EVACUATION
The Mediator today ordered the evacuation by the Jews of Ajaniul and Hirbat Bueria, villages and Hill
the were
British and American oil mono- polists, "Interested in fanning flames of war in Palestine," still active behind the scenes, he declared.”....
"It is in this light that the sudden zigzags in American policy on. Palesilne should ke кооп Reuter.
and
ALL NIGHT FIRING
Jerusalem, Aug. 11-Guns 302 overlooking the Latrin-Remarillery boomed from midnight until kallah road, north of Jerusalem dawn today In the heaviest Aghting The 'Jews' claimed that they in the Holy City since the United cupled: the sector before the truce, Nations ceasefire was imposed.
however, and challenged Count Ber- padotto's ruling.
Count Bernadotte was
The unofficial battis: reached its returning tonight to Haifa, whence he will height when thousands of rounds of rio shots and automatic weapons leave for Sweden on Friday.
Jews who legally left" Iraq for fire resounded. Artillery, seemingly. Palestine
and had not returned to from a distance, could be heard Iraq will be tried by court martial, throughout the city. Reuter's
Baghdad
Correspondent Omela! Jewish sources said Arabs, icurned today.
who continue to violate the truce, In Cyprus, eight British troops and attacked Jewish positions on Mount en Australian officer-all dressed Zion from the old-walled city. |la Arab Army uniform--landed at Most of the fighting was in the | Famagusta from a destroyer after nearby hills and cutskirts. Many baving been expelled by the Le bullets whizzed through streets in banese Government, according to an the centre of the town, however...---- official statement at Nicosia, reported | Associated Press. by Reuter.
They will be sent home as soon
as possible, the statement said.
AZZAM PASHA'S CABLE Azzam Pasha, Secretary-General
Fear Of Famine In Hunan
to their sufferings,
of the Arab League, in a telegram to the Security
Council alleged, Singapore, Aug. 11. The
according to reports reaching Count Mulayan Police announced that Bernadette's Headquarters, that the armed insurgents shot
Canton, Aug. 11-The fear of and Jews had burned 28 Arab villagers
famine has spread throughout Hunan- killed three estate labourers alive.
and In Singning, a The telegram was said to read: Province and critically wounded a Chinese "It has come to my knowledge from county in the south-west of the Pro- labour. "contractor on three an authentic source that after the vince, the people have staged a hun- Johore estates last night.. fall of El Tern, Jewish forces car- ger strike to attract the attention of insurgents on the mainland of the were burned alive by setting are the report says that harvesting
ried, away 28 inhabitants to another the authorities Police said arrests of suspected section of the front, where they according to a report just received
In Canton. Malayan peninsula during the last to their clothes saturated in petrol. time is being faced with deep gloom 24 hours totalled 38.,
This also
occurred during the owing to the widespread destruction The Tederation of Malaya Acting present cease-fire order."
of crops by the worst flood in 20 High Commissioner, Bir Alec New- The Soviet writer, Mr Davydov, boult,
Scars a Malayan language broad-sald in the Government organ Izves 1 Short term purchases. These cast today, appealed for a united
The county chief of Bingning is Ger will be made directly by the United fight against the insurgents by all submitted a
that tia today Count
had Bernadotte
sald
to have fled for four of his lic new Palestine plan and the city itself is reported to be Or it may open the way for new and will not come out of ECA funds.
States Federal Bureau of Supply acas In Malaya
which envisaged placing: Palestine in confusion. Disorders are also re- Big Four talks about a German and
He predicted that "Malayo will inder the mile of a British puppet-ported to have broken out in noigh- maybe European settlement of 2. Long term development, in then energo stronger and united King Abdullah, of Transjordan."
bouring countries the quarrels between the Communist which the ECA will participate, and progress to the mutual advan
with hungry The writer said that the Palestine people surrounding the homes and and non-Communist powers.
Their funds will be out of China'stage of all her loyal people."-Asso-struggle had been aggravated by offices of Government At all events, diplomatic sources US,275,000,000 programme and out clated Pross
offlelal "he unequivocal policy' of Britain | Reuter. on Monday who have followed the of the local currency. fund Moscow exchanges from the inside
see Russia's V ·ML Molotov for
the fifth time in two weeks.
The ECA said the China pré- It may be the last get-together in gramme had two parts: the present phaso' of East-West.ex= | changes over Berlin's and ́many's-immediaté future.
Western Berlin marked thegree it will be a "crucial" affair ECA said the strategic materisi
ellmax of a definite campaign designed to out the Western powers and to leave the Soviets in full economic, financial and political control of Berlin. Siep by, step the Boviet authorities have been carrying out the poller indicated last December, and presumably planned even earlier. They are trying
to sabolare, to
They
destroy all four-power control and alt democratic German In- stliations in Berlin. They trying by uvurpation and co- ring the whole croachment to bring
under their own
W demiantien and that of their
in
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elly
•CHEN for na one of the four commandants had any individual authority. What then brought about the Berlin Crisis which lis threa Allied envoys, now Moscow are so desperately try- ing to solve? The record leaves abt. When the London session of the Foreign Ministers broke down, the Soviel Govern ment decided to try and force the Western allies out of the capitat and... to meIKU I in the Soviet
Action
followed the pro- коле.
campaign, beginning Darania with the sabotage of the Kom- mandatura.. First the Soviet representatives ceused attending: later when they did turn up they
puppet. Com
munist institutions. It is well to recognise that is 'la mo Budden erials forced by currency ref
·reforms, or by Weltern
-or.
by events! {n,
(In, Frunkfark It La and the dates are evidenco-part of a deliberately conceived and methodically carried out plan. Berlin is this year's olilet objec
DAMPAIKA live in the general against
the non-Communini
world.
In a world of critical situations.
programme-is-connected with the The agreed four power silence on China loan programme. The iden the Kremlin deliberations still would be to require China to ear- Prevents British
Foreign Office mark dollars earned by the sale of spokesmen from commenting on the strategie materials for payment of present phase of negotiations. ECA loans.
But it is clear that the cautions
optimism which was apparent here TRANSPORTATION. PROBLEM.. a week ago has been fempered to mood.of "walt and sce"-Asso- tiated Press.
Flood Relief For
Kwangtung
: לי : ::
Soviet Embassy Official Named As Payoff Man By Woman Ex-Spy
clung
Washington, Aug. 11—Eliza Miss Bentley's evidence came as However the Secretary of State beth Bentley. confessed Com the Committee announced plans to (Mr George Marshall) told a press Transportation is a problem, how- ever, as well as actual improvement munist ugent, today.named as hearings at the end of this conference today that the charges week to permit' questioning in Now | wero false. He promised that: the of mines there. Some ECA experts Anatoli Gromov. former First York and Oilawa (Canada) of thren Sumarins, and any other Soviet are cautious about how much Secretary of the Soviet Em- Russian citizens who have broken | citizens who wished to stay here, can get from China: The Commerce for the Red spy ring whose strategic material the United Stalds bussy Itere, na the payoff man with their Government rememe would be protected under the tradie. Johal American policy of granting" Department sald; :nö: Chinese:((anti-
Torce Committee membara will canwhile, Miss Bentley
y to political refugocs. mony was shipped to the United tentacles allegedly reached into co to New York tomorrow (Thurs States in 1047), although some had the White House
day) to question Mr and Mrs Milk to the spotlight she grabbed two Canton: Aug. 11The Flood Re-been shipped this year,
It was the first pubila charge link-hall Samarin, who fled to New York. Weaks ago when sho started namion list of ex-Govertiment - lief Commission here is reported to og tidspertnited States. pounds ins the Russian Government directly oftewart Interviews toy douzenico Floyees.us agents or informants for
China: 0,000,000 Another sub-Committee will go
network. for the repair of food-damaged when total United Slates imports of pressed by the House Un-American former Soviet cipher; clerk whoss the nileged
Rod ne
Among dykes and dams in several Kwang- that matal were 60,000,000 pounds Activilles
*Committee
ovidence: broke the Canadian spy them was Laughlin Currie, former
White House tung districts.
China exported 2,314,000 pounds
CAFA.
'to 'the' anistant BASEof tungsten to the United States ;in | Her: for: 1
late President It appears, howover, that the ap
Roosvelt, who will
wh plleation for the sum now “granted 1947 out of total United States was turned over to the Federal Alexander Panyushkin) charged that
The Soviet Ambassador (Mr testify on Friday. Many of the ac-
cused already have appeared! "to" was made some time ago and that tungsten Imports of 7,000,000 Bureau of Investigation. rising | prices have ́depreciated”; its | pounds. - -
The Soviet. Embassy said
the Samarins were" "kidnapped" by denounce the woman as n frustrated, value: Therefore, it is understood, United States antimony imports in afinchs was "out of town and no of the FBI and demanded their Im drinker,
White Russians with the acquiescence neurotie liar, a nuisance and a heaVY request to cohaldorably Increase 1847 were 30,000,900
„who......', wns. pounds ono, alé, eduld
letting her comment on the mediate surrenderpo; they, could be imagination run away with her the grant has been made-Rouler. United Press,
Bentley charge.
tent home "by the next boat.”. Unlod ProSE, 2
"sword" "Gromov paid. services. The money