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Thongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1948.

Clay May Snag In Moscow Talks Feared

Meet Sokolov

REMAINS SILENT

to-

Frankfurt, Aug. 30.- General Lucius D. Clay, American Military Governor in Germany, refused late day to confirm reports that he is scheduled to meet with Marshal Sokolov and other two Military Governors in Berlin tomorrow.

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Heports of such a meciing sumably to work out detalls of the Moscow agreement on currency in Berlin were persistent in responsible quarters,

Adding to the speculation won General Clay's mid afternoon decl- Bion to return to Berlin tonight. Original plans called for a Frankfurt slopover tonight to be followed by "Joint Staff conference with British oficiais.

Just before the Press meeting. General Clay spent more than an hour in a radio teletype discussion with Washington. Aldes said that the Under-Secretary of the Army, Mr William H. Draper, Jr., a former Major General in Germany, was at the other end,

SIDESTEPS QUESTIONS

As usual, General Clay side- stepped all questions on Moscow

as being outside his jurisdiction.

General Clay said that he did not anticipate the Moscow decisions would block or hinder the formation of a West German Government meeting of the 07

delegates

from the

·

Henry Wallace Pelted

With Eggs

Third

Party

Burlington. N.C., Aug. 30.—Mr Henry Wallace, Presidential candidate, we struck by eggs and tomatoes sought to deliver a speech on Burlington's main street today.

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Standing before a crowd of 2,500 Mr Wallace had just begun; "I would like to take this opportunity.... when the shower of eggs and tomatoes fell about.

Surrounded by police, the Third Party leader Klepped inte his ear, In which ére scated two Negro women, another appointment on his Southern tour,

and left for

As Mr Wallace stepped from his egg-splattered car in nearby Greensboro later, he was greeted with boox Then came another avalanche of eggs and tomatoes. One nezro was seen tossing eggs.

An emergency quart of police was called out.

The crowd, estimated at more than 1,000, shouted "Get on back to Russia, Henry" and "We can handle our own problems. Henry,"

Mr Wallace teled for about Ave minutes to speak.-Reuter,

Rebel Losses In Malaya

FIRST OFFICIAL FIGURES

Singapore, Aug. 30.-One hundred and thirty-five rebels have been killed and 72 wounded since the middle of June when the Communist insurgent action flared up in Malaya, a Kuala Lumpur communique issued by the Federation Government stated tonight.

But Observers Are Cautiously Hopeful

NO COMMUNIQUE

London, Aug. 30-London diplomatic sources feared tonight that the Moscow talks had struck a snag, but advised "cautious hopefulness" rather than either pessimism or optimism.

These sources declined to be too dismayed by the announcement that there would be no com; munique tonight and expressed belief that the build up of the expectation of such an announcement has been premature.

Well informed officials pointed out that the major difficulty is in working out in detail on what is to bo agreed in principle at the last meeting with General- issimo Stalin. It is generally confirmed that there is general agreement then on plans for creating a currency and for lifting the blockade.

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When and if the communique Is Tonight's talles at the Kremlin issued, it probably will only stale was generally successful, it WILD that the four powers agreed upon believed in well informed circles in certain matters and it has been re- | London. The first reports of the ferred to the Berlin Commanders

from Mr Roberts, it was meeting Western diplomats were not considered in London, sup

suggest that encouraged when informed that the the absence of a

a four-power com- Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister, M. munique was not necessarily a bad Andrei. L. Vyshinsky-just back sign and did not indicate a break-

meeting for the scond time. from his "triumph at the Danube down or even delay in the negotia- conference--was present at today's tlong for a a settlement.

The renewed delay in issuing the M. Vyshinsky is generally recog-expected Interim Moscow communi- nised as the Soviet "hatchet man" que is interpreted in London

Soviet In dealings with the West. But no menning that the

Foreign responsible quarter is willing at

Minister today produced amend.. es

ments-either to the draft communi- this stage to blame any delay out-

him.

que or to the draft directive to the four MIMary Commanders Ju Ber- lin-which the Westem envoys felt obliged to refer to their govera- ments

Government casualties were given as nine police killed and 34 wounded, eight Army personnel killed and 10 11 states of the three Western Zones

wounded, and five Royal Air Force personnel killed. draw up a constitution for a new regime scheduled for September 1 in

Chinese insurgenis, in a 100-strong ) The communique described 13 in- the Rhine River town of Bonn.

tin nine cidents throughout the Federation, "We have no word indicating any dawn attack on Tambah change of position toward the Gov-la Negri Sembilan,southwest including ap attack on a European said. "I can see no reason why there peau manager and a Malay special during which a grenade was thrown. crnment of Western Germany," he Malaya, today shot dead the Euro- estate manager's bungalow, a clash with uniformed Chinese terrorists should be anything to-interfere with constable with tommy gunk.

and a terrorist attempt to block a Bonn

Jie wa the 11th European killed railway line by placing a sleeper The Generai said that he has not

across it. yet decided whether he would at-shuce the guerilla war broke out.

Chinese insurgents using Ston tend the opening of the Bonn As- At nearly Pertang police station,

guns last night shot dead a Chinese same insurgent sembly Indicating that it was de-attacked by the

pinying basketball on the pendent upon Moscow and the Der-group, another Malny special con- skirts of Kluang, Central Johore. in developments.

stable was killed and two wounded.

Insurgents who raided the Ulu General Clay doubted Berlin re- The Insurgents launched a three-

Pedas Estate in the Scramban presentatives wo

would be allowed to pronged concerted attack at dawn Lenggeng area of Negri Sembilan take any official part in constitu- against the mine and the police lion proceedings as many Genuan station, after felling frees to build yesterday shot dead an estate driver leaders suggested.

n_rond block and cutting the tele- and threw three bottles of tar and paraffin into the estate garage phone wires to the bungalow.

where

lorry and a parked.

PHONE WIRES CUT

"It would be inconsistent

while contending that Berlin is a quadri- partite city, he explained to let it associate itself at the same time with

tripartite # United Press.

EDITORIAL

Government.-

One of two more terrorists killed in the past 24 hours shot himself after being wounded. it was re- vealed today in a police communi- que issued at Kuala Lumpur.

Future Of The Colonies

THAT

. Britain Jus fell It necessary to make clear her attitude to the question of the United Nations and colonles some days before she is due to present colonial stock-taking

at Lake Success means, not that she hat any reason to fear, world Judgment her colonial policy

and methods of administration. but that she is fully conscious of the pressure which Russia and her atellites will try to impose on the UNO colonist commlitee "new order" to bring about within all colonies. Britain can well afford to stand firm on this Issue, for the declared objective of British colonial policy today

one too that LA (and

already manifesting itself) is preparation the of the colonial peoples for status of self-government. This assumes the achieve- self-governmeni In

objective meni

terms

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ment

of

which the British people familiar-namely, govern- entirely responsible to its own legislature and not to any external

authority. More gresive elements in the colonies

as guaranteeing regard

Apid expansion of the parlia mentary system of government

pro-

the

which will replace the existing European bureaucracy by minis- ters enjoying the same position in the Commou- asminkter

wealth. And to many, including

the civic-conscious

Hongkong, there

people of 越 growing

To this

frritation at the delay in pushing

on with that process.

boun riven the answer that In the present conditions. the replace- ment of offelal bureauorady by effect a small Intelligentsia In

the colonies would means that continue to be governed by

of the group unrepresentative

ob. people. The mate of the

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sense of frustration has

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The British Foreign Office had no comment to make and said that it did not expect any definite word from Moscow until early morning.

EIGHTH MEETING

Reliable were

In a gun battle which lasted 20 minutes, the insurgents drove back the European assistant manager and for lo go two Indians who tried police assistance. The estate tele- phone wires had been cut.

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DEATH FOR SNOOPERS

WHO SEEK

MILITARY INFORMATION

Rangoon, Aug. 30.President Sao Shwe Thaike of Burma today decreed death or transportation for life to any person trying to collect information about the Burmese Army.

The special ordinance signed by the President applies to anyone trying to get information about the movements, finy Burmese numbers, description and dis position of armed forces engaged in the present campaign against the insurgents.

Burmese Insurgents and troops fought a gun battle on a Mandalay- bound-train-as-it--stood in Pyu station, 120 miles north of here. five days ago, according to delayed reports reaching here today.

FIRING FROM COACHES The insurgents, who had already wires, ,clambered aboard the stationary train, screened themselves behind or inside coaches, and fired on troops who tried to eject them

off.

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The position after last Friday s Loyal troops and police today meeting, it was reliably believed, occupied Thayetmo, a town In the "Brigh sources are was that an agreement in principle oil districts 160 miles northwest of placing odds at better than fifty- had been reached to instruct the Rangoon, from which British fami- fifty that there would be

com-Military Commanders in Berlin tolles were evacuated three weeks ago, munique at tonight's meeting. The work out the

Government administration in the technical plans with- Americans have been more cautious, aut delay for raising the blockade town had been restored, it was taking overy opportunity to point and for the issue, under just four officially announced tonight. Thayet- out that past experience of nego- tiations with the Russians should be power authority, of the Soviet mark mo is 40 miles north of the important communications centre of Prome, the as the sole currency for Berlin. remembered.

Tonight's meeling is the eighth It is known that many Western, next major objective of the Govern-cut telephone eft in a series which started Generalis-power amendments were tabled atment forces,

A telegram received in Rangoon from the vicinity of the manager's simo Stalin on August 2. The Friday's meeting, and it is assumed

employee of of the Pajam

Estate in prospects are that now it will be that M. Molotov's counter amend-today from. a British

British-owned Steel Brothers bungalow of

the end of the week before another ments provided, the main tople of the the same area.

cement Armat Theyoune said that it The civilian passengers fled for Chinese meeting and decision can be rench-discussion today. Reuter. munk be

social advance

cover [s was believed that Prome bad also

bullets splintered the Police are drove off 11

ed. whereby the mass of the people

coaches and ricocheted been retaken, but this was not con- wooden The French Foreign Office was COMMUNISTS DEFIED dressed in black who were observed Able

The are

to understand

The from Lenggeng policenso apparently surprised.

around the station, platform. firmed in tonight's communique. 50

attackera

driven were eventually responsi litles which they have

30. The senior Berlin, Aug. tonight's meeting, French sources undertake. This in- arreed to

of the The Singapore newspaper. Straits said that it would probably be the committee

Berlin City SITUATION "ALL QUIET" volves economic and educational

rimes, suggested today that the Com-Last and a communique would prob- Council again defed Communists

Sections of the rallway between to progress, not only

Hift the

be issued this

The telegram requested that Bri- evening today and named a five-man dele-

Fvu and Ein. 90 miles further north, munist onslaught had slowed down, ably great proporilon of people out of

although the insurgents were still far United Pres.

gation to represent Berlin at thetons evacuated from Thayetmo be were also removed by the insur- poverty, low living and

allowed o poor

TWO HOURS AT KREMLIN

return, since the situation gents, but the line from beaten.

convention to draft a charter for a

was quickly health, but also

elve апт

was now "all quiet." Moscow, Aug. 30. The envoys of West German government. colony the

Wanton killings were indepen economie

The communique frequent and the Communist capa- the three Western powers spent twa The Committee decided to post-

also reported restored. dence without which political

Security measures around Ran- city for mass attacks on villages hours

regular Council meeting action between Government forces the pone a government is quite meaningless.

and estates and mines have certainly Kremlin this afternoon at their scheduled on Tuesday until a com- and insurgents in the Hanthawaddyroon's barricaded Secretariat build-

four-district south of Rangoon, and. In ing No imparilal student can fall to

-were today being further not increased, the newspaper de-ninth crisis meeting with the Soviet munique is issued on the appreciate

creat

tomor➡ progress

clared.

Foreign Minister, M. Vyacheslav power talks in Moscow, and until the Tharawady area northwest of tightened in readiness for already made under British

the Council Rangoon." The Russians promise 011-

in Molotov.

row's opening of the sixth session The

Impression general ministration in most parts of the

It said that Burmese naval patrol of the Burmeze Parliament, Communists Malaya was that the

General Walter Bedell Smith, the police protection against Communist- colonial empire: equally may it

States Ambassador,

boats sald led, rioters.

attacked insurgent strong- effectively United more were being hit be said that no one can fall to

Communist members of the Come holds near Myaungmya and Bassein, The session will be largely devoted and when they came out that the ex- realise that many of the colonles

wherever they were contacted

Delia, killing to budget matters. The controversial the situation may be said to be Im-pected interim communique on the mittee walked out when the matter in the Irrawaddy

Land Nationalisation Büt, which in A long way to go have

secret month-old talks would not be arose of naming a delegation to the several Insurgents, proving, the newspaper said. before they can take their place

sessions at Bonn on Wednesday Police have offered Straits $3,000 issued tonight,

Crack Kachin troops. froin the hill effect calls for the transfer of land In the world

self-governing 11.

Asked if there would be further the purpose of writing a constitution

Burma, from capitalist landowners-many of of North-West reward for anyone giving informu units. Hongkong is particularly

of Mr J. meetings at the Kremlin, he said: for the American, British and French tribes. tion on the whereabouts

specially flown to Rangoon carlier them Indians to the cultivators, occupied zones. conscious of the fact, though it

"I think so."

this month, are, being transferrell will also be dealt with. Resistant R. Rutty, the Australian

M, Andrei Vyshinsky, the Soviet Thus the Communists once more to the offensive against Prome in an sill feels, and with fustification.

manager of the Kuala Reman Rub-

The Communists will not attend that the first steps towards this

ber Estate, who disappeared after Deputy Foreign Minister, was again expressed their determination to attempt to smash “at all costs" the

the session, which was postponed present at today's canterance, which prevent any close ties between Berlin administration the Communists' aro abjective are being unnecessarily

a terrorist ambush near Kuantan,

from August 15 because of the con-.' delayed. Hongkong is certainly

began at 5 pan. Moscow ume (2pm.and Western Germany. To them said to have set up thiore, pro- Pahang, last month. contemplating the opportuni-

GMT). He first accompanied M.Berlin is a part of the Soviet oc- Government sources said here to fused political situation, and insur- option of

Mrs Rutty and her daughter have Molotov to the eighth meeting

day. on cupation zone.-Associated Press. ty of exercising the

returned to Australia.

Friday. severing connections with The

A similar reward was offered for From the Kremlin, Ambassador rest of tha Empire, which self-

Information leading to the arrest of Bedell Smith, Mr Frank Roberts, the Kovernment logically offers,

the terrorists responsible for the it would certainly

to see

British envoy, and M. Yves Chatal- murder of Mr. David W. Jenings, gneau, the French Ambassador, re- more vigorous action

acling rannager of the estate, and officially to lay the foundations

turned separately to their Embassies: two others killed in the samo am-

that thought will

It was assumed that they were

Paris, Aug. 30.-M. Robert after M. Paul Romadier, the So- of self-government. There

bush.—Reutér. be general agreement with Lord

writing short separate despatches to Schuman, the Popular Re-cialist leader, hod announced his Schuman might take over the Foreign Hailey's observationi

Cabinet this Affairs portfollo himself. their respective Governments. After that

Fallure to form a wards, the three Western diplomata publican ex-Premier and the morning. If M, Schuman falls, the States securities, slumped on the Britain is to "secure the

ot the American outgoing Foreign reassembled

Minister, President is expected to call on M. Paris Stock Exchange" today, and and willing association of colonies with the rest of the

Radical and former now, highs were chalked up for gold Embassy for their usual post-Krem- will go before Parliament Rene Mayer, lin "working meeting." at which they Commonwealth, the

It must be Government's thik London, Aug. 30-A strike, which would prepare their joint report for tomorrow night to present his Finance Minister. to give them tangible proof that began over a cigarette lighter and immediate transmission to London, Cabinet. It is within

hin the orbit of the now threatens the food rations of Washington and Paris.

around one million people in 'and

The envoys drove to the Kremlin and not

short conference among London, spread today clae.

DO after a or in afiliations where that their

provision themselves at the French Embassy. bext

workers future

of wholesale merchant walked off their Jobs In Marshal Stalin was present at two Hles." Hongkong's future will ever

butter and suet factories.

of the meetings in Ue teries.. the be led to that of the mother

Nearly 250 workers are on, strike second and seventh, Į country and the Commonwealth. but the contentment of that affiliation will demand something more than the existing system of government.

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at the firm. They have declared that they will 'not return unül 45- year old Jack Bryant, who was The aim of the talks is to find a dismissed because he took petrol basis for four-power agreement on from a Jerry to All his lighter, is the Berlin crials and Germany · as reinstatedRouter.

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Schuman Forms New French Cabinet

may: form

Observers

M.

the coins. On

black currency market, M. Schuman may not meet the

were 'reached for new peaks the Radlerls the dollor, 'sterling and Swiss franc.. same hostility from

Hakers in the Department of Indo It was thought possible tonight and Moderates as M. Ramadier. Ho

must seek, however, to conciliate Et Loire and Vienno-rich agricul at M. Schurman

the Socialists, with their all-out tural districts southwest of Paris Cabinet composed entirely of his State control polley, his own silghtly were selling bread off the ration

Day-long talks with own party,

liberni party and the Radicals today after protesting against the ap-more other political leaders had

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the rationing parently falled to bring the support and Moderates with their M. Schuman needs to, form a Con-beral views.

system. Even If the parties agreed on a They said that this year's wheat ition, but his final reply to Presl- dent Vincent Auriol is not expect financial and economic policy, the crop was big enough to feed Franco choice of a Finance Minister to auc-for two years. The official reply to led- before tomorrow.

Franco's M. Schuman,

last ceed M. Paul Reynaud would be this was that it was necessary. Premier but

build up stocks---Reuter one, begin his task difficult, it was beileved.

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