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Hongkong Telegraph.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1948.
ALLIES WON'T PERMIT Rescue From
ACTION COMMITTEES
IN BERLIN
Straight Comment By General Lucius Clay
| Machines Led
To Suicide
ал
Croydon, Aug. 20-Mr Cufford T. Ashburner, 40, necountant who WAR couldn't stand the way his new accountingE machinca WETO
breaking
but Town.
le managed to relax a little on his
vacation, his wife paid yester- day.
But in the mornlar when ho was to return to work, Mrs Ashburner found him hanging from the atile rafter,
"He said that the accounts were piling up, everything was
Ia muddle. machines were always breaking
and down there was always a panlo in the office," afte told the Coroner,
Mr Ashburner had worked for 23 years at the Royal Mutual Insurance Society and had seemed content until the machines which always broke down were installed last year,
The
Corner said that he would investigate the condi-
tons In the office.-United
I'ress.
Court Sequel To Shameen Riots
Canton, Aug. 27.-Preliminary hearings against the 20 suspects ar- rested after the Shomeen riols of inst January are now being held in camera by a special court set up here for this case.
Uminary hearings are reported to have included the handful of mill- tary police guarding the British Consulate-General-Reuter.
Frankfurt, Aug, 26.-General Lucius D. Clay, the United States Military Governor, commenting on the rumours that Communist Action Committees were taking over the Berlin City Administration, replied: "Certainly no Action Committees are going to take over the Government of the two and a half million people in the Western sectors for whom we are responsible.”
Communist-led demonstrators, armed with axes, stormed Berlin's City Hall today to protest against the "pro Western" City rule while in Moscow the three Western envoys prepared for a new Kremlin meeting which might end Germany's "cold war."
Another Kremlin meeting is likely tomorrow or Saturday, Reuter's Moscow correspondent stated, but whether it will be only with the Soviet Foreign Minis- ter or also with the Soviet Premier is still unknown.
The demonstrators
tent a dele- Asked about his impression of the Moscow negotiations. General Claygation to Dr Frederick Friedensburg, Christian Democrat acting said: "From the length of Ume the he
the Immediate discussions are going on it looks as Mayor, to call for
the Communist-led
If everybody is trying to reach an application of agreement." He added that he had no Scelalist Unity Party's emergency information and that as far as he programme--which knew all reports of an agreement on the air bridge.
·
would cut out
the Berlin currency were specula- Dr Friedensburg, whose offee lo in the City Hall, 1ld later that the tion.
remain
**"CALM" TALK
He said: "I have not received so City Administration would far
an in office despite the demonstration. any official report about agreement in Moscow. or any in- It has a Social Democrat majority: struction calling for now negotiations in Berlin."
His talk with the Socialist Unity GENERAL AGREEMENT delegation was "calm" and the City Well Informed, London quarters Elders were meeting tonight to de- stated that Marshal Stain and the cide when and where the next City
have reached envoys
general Assembly hould be held, he said.
Herr Kart Litke. leader af agreement, during their conference
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200 MORE BRITISH POLICE
Workers Demand State Control Of Beer And Tobacco
London, Ang. 26.-Tired of watery ale and queuing for cigarettes they cannot gat, British workers demanded tonight the state control of beer and tobacco. A demand for the Trades Union Council to look into the transfer of brewing and tobacco industries to state ownership, was proposed for discussion when the council meets in the annual session the week after next at Mar- gate.
Bernadotte's Demand
the
Ti resolution came from National Union of Public Employers which is in favour of extending socialleation to many private enter- have prises which
not hitherto gured in the British Labour Go-
vernment's
ent's plans. Tuổi mẹ
industries and services still under private control with a view to as- certaining whether the transfer to tite -productive public ownership, labour used more effectively. capacity would be improved and
"CRISIS PROGRAMME"
The motion proposed that the systematic
undertake examination into all the important
In
1.
Romal heavy flooding in Scalland caused widesprend damage. Railway bridges be:n swept away, entle drowned, and many people rendered homeless. Picture shows seventy-two- year-okl Mrs William Dougal being carried to safety from her flood-bound home at Granishouse, Ber- wickshire.
To reach her, firemen had to stretch a rope across the roadway from her cottage to steady themselves, against the waler. Mrs Dougal's bus- hand, aged 76, was rescued in the same way.
North Burma
Insurrection
Rebels Attack Mines
FOR MALAYA
Guerillas On Move
Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 26.- Two hundred men recruited in Britain are to be flown out to Malayn before the end of September to reinforce the 300 Palestine policemen now ser- ving with the special con- stobulary fighting. Communist leti guerillas.
Arms for the struggle wero promised today as news of fresh conflicts came in.
A Government spokesmun sold dre special constables would train, reinforce and lead the 15,000 auxiliary constables recruited local- jy.
There would be more ammunition for the constabulary guarding rub- ber estates and tin mines.
A Government source bere sald Australia had supplied additional Sten
guns and ammunition al Malayan request, and the military were testing for Malayan uso light- weight American wireless sets of which Australia had supplies.
CUN BATTLE Police and troops,
meanwhile, captured seven Chinese in a running gun-battle near Kuala Bahru, 40 miles, north of here, and seized arms | and ammunition.
emnants of
guerilla band who a battic with troops and police in Kedah state, northwestern Malaya, during August 23-24, were believed to have been seen crossing nt I m. local time today the Malaya-Siam frontier.
A communique Issued here sald
"at 1 a.m. local time today, 30 ban- dits were seen moving out of Cherok Bunting towards the Weng area and crossing the Cherok Betike along a path leading to Siam."
The communique also reported two skirmishes with guerillas in Perak
State.
on Monday night, about a currency Socialist Unity Party bloc reform in Berlin, but another Krem-City Assembly, announced
in meeting was needed to work out that the Socinilst Unity Party Elders details.
would not, however, attend the meet- If this meeting Omcial information of the pro-,
successful, ing. He denied ceedings have, hitherto, been scanty, the Big Four were expected to in- "Action Committee" -but--reliable sources stala-that-only struct their Military Governors in up in the City Hall
Germany
who received start
Dr Friedensburg, on-the-spot one of the accused has admitted to
Israeli Troops Must participating in the stoning of the negotiations.
correspondents in his office in the
Bo Withdrawn
A Government- spokesman of the In Berlin, British Consulate-General. The ro-
of 10,000 City Hall, said that the City Elders a crowd
Rangoon, August 20-Sima Duwa Malayan Federation today described maining accused, it is stated, have cheered wildly and song the Inter- would meet tonight to decide when
Stockholm, Aug. 26.-Count
Sinwa Nawng. President of the as "incorrect" a report from Bangkok entered pleas of not guilty.
nationale when 200 demonstrators and where the next meeting of the
Burma Frontier Areas, today con- yesterday that British forces might firmed that Witnesses heard during these pre-smashed down the main door of the City Assembly should be held. He Folke Bernadotte, the United
an Insurrection bas cross the frontler into Siam in pur- City Hall in the Soviet sector-the delegation sent in by the de- Nations Palestine mediator, to-
broken out in the Karenni Hill tracts suit of Malayan insurgents. addition to examining the 70 miles northeast of
DEATH FOR CHINESE of Toungoo. monstrators was calm throughout. day instructed his Chief of I told them that I was in complete Staff, General Ange Lund-motion asked TUC to look into the
tobacco and brewing industries, the i In д letter to
to Sao
Shwe Thulke A young Chinese was sentenced agreement with their demand at stroem, to demand the Jewish control by the state In the reduction "The Karennt people are trying to for carrying arms. He was the tentti Burma Union President, he sald: to death at Selamgor Assizes today Western sector Berliners should be
Government free to draw their rations in the provisional
to of manpower in non-essential In- wrest power from the Burma Union sentenced to death for this offence Russian sector if they wanted to, order Israeli troops to evacuate dustries.
government by armed force."
the emergency under
regulations I also told them that it had the positions they now hold in the council carries out its probe, it Wednesday
The resolution suggested that once Previous reports said the rebels on imposed shortly after the outbreak of become clear that Western Berliners the Red Cross area
attacked the Mawchl
full-scale guerilla activity. did not want to do this."
of Jeru- would call a special conference to mines in the Karenni Hill tracts and As the Communist demonstrators salem. Failing that he will ask consider the entire "crisis program- took the mines area assistant re-
Council were dispersing tonight, anti-Com- the Security
to take me" which is suggested as an alter-sident captive. munist Berliners began streaming action.
freezing. native to wage towards the "Republic Square" In
A report from the Truce Supervi the Brilish sector for a counter-
sion headquarters in Halfa said that Elect demonstration called by the three the Jewish military commander in pro-Western parties. To charge of troops holding positions
WIL
EDITORIAL
after the threat of disorders
hart caused the City Assembly to call off its meeting.
Grave Days In Burma
IT cannot be denied that the
#tale of Burma thave. Alternate
periods
very of
peace and
chaos
run through her history, The new Burma, Independent vince January of this year seems to be falling to ploces, with the Communists an the
beat organised and most forceful element in the country. It is useless now to discuss whether this step should ever have been taken in Burma and Independence granted.
What
Burma represent bomo £ 100,- 000,000 of explist and millions of
of the Berca
best rice iands belong Indians. Thaki
to
Nu stuck to it firmly that due com- pensation must be pald. #Im knew that unless it were, Burma would never be able to borrow the further
sho money that needed. There are two sections of Communists, the White Flags, ometally recognised, and Red Flags, proscribed in 1940 and since then virtually running an Independent state In Central the Hurma. This then broadly
Central position:
Burma dominated by Communists, Red Flaca
to the east, White Fing to the west. Though not actually working together there
appears now to be no motual difference between them. In the western
of Arakan
there
WL
до
Jina
swarms br
but
tration time.
local
began at 0.15 p.m. Loudspeakers had been set up on the Square, which lies in front of the ruins of the Reichstag, and only 100 yards from the Brandenberg Gate, marking the entrance to the
Russian sector.
formerly included in the Red Cross area, had refused to withdraw when asked by United Nations observers.
Count Bernadotte instructed General Lundstroem to contact the Israell Foreign Minister, Mr Moshe Sherick, and inform him that this NO BANNERS
refusal constitutes a serious viola The crowds mostly made their way tiun of the truce. The mediator to the meeting place singly or in pointed out in the message that he small groups and there was no sign will not make the report to the orang banners or organised mar- Security Council until the Jewish ching columns, which had been authorities have had a chance to prominent feature of the Communist examine his demand that they or
der their troops to evacuate these demonstration.
The anti-Communists shouted positions. "Freiheit" (freedom) after hearing their leaders declare that they would not allow the Communists to control the city
#
may be emphasised is that the British Government
her the greatest ald to self-govern- ment that has been given to any Commonwealth country. And when after the war, the Burmele rejected the offer of Dominion status, they were fully helped
province and £30,000,000 of the £87,000.-
been another revoli ainee 1040. 600 credits, granted them since the
cancelled. the war were
never subdued. Outside the By
parties
He Franz Neumann, the Social Burmese pre nature, the
gay,
Democratie lender, pointing to the friendly and
dacolts. most cheerful.
They are particularly hospitable. Politically
ind in they are
the Fice lands
Rod of the
I flag on top of the Brandenbur- Irrawaddy Delts and there are inexperienced and sadly lacking
ger Tor. shouled: "You see the is flying at half-mast. The Soviet In the right men. The first sign Krave fears that the rice export
on which internal trouble
the
Burma depends for flog will always By at half mast Premier Aung murder of the
revenue and other parts of Asia
In Berlin," for food
bo San and coven other Ministers 13
seriously Бал bad
diminished. Aung
The Government months
Had he prestige and Influence.
and holds Hangoon, Mandalay lived he might have held the Hasseln In the delta of the
ills successor
Irrawaddy, The administration country together.
courageous, Thakia
and ΟΙ
but whether
Nu
genuine democrat
blemished honesty:
Wha
un-
he has the strength to weather
be seen.
storm has yet to the Is troubles began last Novem- bes in a violent breach with the Communita.
They insisted that foreign businesses and land alf owned by foreigners, which are be nailonalised under the new
ba should
im- constitution, mediately, seized without com-. pensation. British businesses in
May
of other towns seems
to
have
доле altogether to plores. Burmese troops and pallce are unreliable, some of them LAYO Joined the
the rebels; and
mostly on Government depends hill tribes. If Thakin Na found himself compelled to bow to the
and
White the Flags While
that Band. It is prefly certain these billmen, the best fighters In Burma, would also revolt and the new union of Burma would disintegrate.
TRUCE VIOLATION
From Burma, the important town
of Twante, at the mouth of the Canal which carries Rangoon's food Burmese newspapers today
after being occupied by Communist inclared in Karenni.
The War Office here did not deny guerillas for several hours on Tues-
day. socialisation fight since Labour came awaited from Karenni States-Assoport, 25 miles southwest of Kunta the reports but said confirmation was
Troops and gunboats raced to the
with the nationalisation of the concertin law had been de supplies, was reported safe today
industry
them facing Parliament-on which the Tories anti- put up the biggest
to power-it is extremely unlikely elated Press.
inter
that the Atlee Government would be prepared to arouse the opposition of the brewing and tobacco eats by agreeing to nationalise there industries, at least not during the fe of the present Parilament which ends in early 1959.
GOVT'S ANSWER
TO MEET
BULGARIAN ASSEMBLY-
the
re-
Moscow. Aug. 20.-Tass. official Soviet news абелсу, ported from Sofa. today that
מח
Lumpur, yesterday after insurgents had fred on several launched of the former British-owned Irrawaddy Flotilla Company. Canal shipping resumed. today Reuter.
Shanghai, Aug 27-About 2,000 ounces
were yesterday of gold seized by the authorities from
16
The Government's answer to the extraordinary meeting of the Bul- goldsmith shops which were alleged criticism on weak beer is that male garian Grand National Assembly to be melting bare into ornaments to gold yuan, and barley pro needed for general has been convened for next Monday.to avoid conversion donsumption and that high prices Reuter.
police reported.-Router. are part of the disinflation plan. Tobacco shortage is being remédied by the substitution of empire grown and Balkan tobaccos to mix with Virginia which cannot be bought in full quantity because of the dollar famino.
·Count. Bernadotte's, personal re- presentative in Jerusalem, Brigadier
In International politics, the most General William Riley, United States Marine Corps, reported that the important resolution to be debated Jows hold the Government Arab by the TUC is one submitted by the College and the Agricultural School Electrical Trades Union on Moscow. area which had been under the Red The motion calls on Government Cross Rag
The mediator's instructions
10
States
to summon, a tri-power conference of Britain and the United He told the crowds, estimated at General Lundstroem, ask him to tell with Soviet Russia to try to get 16,000: "We have countered today's Mr Shertok that Investigations down to a settlement of their over- planned
Communist pulsch by post- poning the scheduled meeting of the dentely proved the urled vecued all differences United Press.
the truce when they alaried occupa- City Assembly."
Herr Ernst Scharnowski, Chair- tion of the area held by the Inter-
the
Heat Wave Hits The U.S.
New York, Aug. 26.-The temperature soared
to 101 degrees in New York City today. It was the hottest August 26 on record, New York's hottest day of the year and almost the hottest day in the City's history.
The all time temperature record j
The hottest August 28 up to today hero Is 102.3 degrees reached in was 1033 when the temperaturo was July 1940.
00.3 degrees.
The year's worst heat wave today Eight million residents of the stretched from the Rockles to the nation's biggest city sweltered. Atlantic Coast and rent temperatures national Red Cross and unless they
Perhaps the hottest place in the soaring above 100 degrees in Eastern man of the independent trade union
LI TSUNG-JEN TO de- remove the troops, the attitude will
elty was the subway system, where
cities. "Berlin's organisation, said:
constitute a serious incident
many change makers worked in The mercury climbed to 1012 at mucracy wit not allow itself to be
This is the first time since
VISIT CANTON
underahiria.
Philadelphia, 101 at New York, and thrown out of the window by Red United Nations observers started
18.2 at Boston. Nazis. We are ready to
trucs that they
Hundreds of thousand flocked toAt Detroit and other big industrial Canton, Aug. 27-General Li geheral strike if that is necessary to supervising the
been able to determine which Tsung-jen, China's Vice-President, the beaches and Die police turned have bee
thousands of stop the Communists."
truco violation. is expected to visit Canton at the on hydrants in tenement districts centres,
go walked out or went home becausÉS party is guilty of WANTS NEUTRAL ZONE
large end of this month, well-informed so the kids who could not A full investigation by
the heat, and factories were swimming would have a place to of To protect the demonstrators, 180 statt of UN observers conclusively quarters here report.
elcsed. police stood by, but wero
According not showed the Jews started occupying
sources,cond eff,
Some offices and Industrial plants But, while most of the hation needed. Several hundred police the positions in the Red Cross hold General L is to remain hero for
fell оп Rocky. were reported at action stations In area leading to 'clashes there, ac two or three days touring the clly were closed for the day when the sweltered, the American sector.
cording to reports reaching Count before going to Kwellin, his native temperature went over the 100 de-Mountains and covered the Bernadotte-United Press.
city-Router.
groo mark, shortly before 3 pm. Itinental Divide-United Press.
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