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MANY DEAD, INJURED IN DISASTROUS
SOVIETS'
LATEST
GODOWN FIRE
DEMAND Over 50 Rescued From
Berlin, Sept. 21.-Russia demanded the immediato withdrawal of all occupation troops from Germany and blockaded Berlin today, as the centre of attention in the Berlin crisis shifted to Paris.
The Russian withdrawal de- mand, published in the off- cial Soviet Army newspaper, Tacgliche Rundschau, is bo- lieved to be part of the Soviet propaganda campaign to win German sympathy and. embar- rass the Western Powers.
it compared Germany to Koren an urged the Germans to note the Soviet uction In Korea where the Soviet troops were scheduled to Jeave by the end of the year.
The paper altempted to give the Impression that German Indepen- the cience would be just around tomer if the Soviet demand was followed.
(American officials In Washington salt they believed the Russian de- mands for the withdrawal of all German occupation troops us part of the Soviet campaign to gain a free hand in Europe and the Far
Enst. They said that the with i
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un Germany its in-"nicely" the recent reports that Russia planning a new castern zone govern- ment backed by a large Communist controlled militia. Informants sald that the militia force is estimated now, at 100,000 men which could be expanded to seize control of all Germany if the four Powere with drew their troops).-United Press,
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Blazing Inferno
WEST POINT BUILDING
MASS
OF
FLAMES
Dead and injured are estimated to exceed 100 in the Colony's most disastrous fire since the 1934 gasometer explosion, 'when, short- ly after 8 o'clock this morning, the Wing On Life Assurance Company godowns at West Point went up in flames.
The first blaze was followed by an explosion and then the whole five- -storey building burst into a sheet of flame which, according to eyewitnesses,
extended far beyond the roof-top.
Terrifying screams were heard as far as the western area of the Peak as flames engulfed trapped residents in the building.
Some of the floors were being used as flats by employces of the company, as well as others, and it is believed that 50 bodies are in the building which was still blazing three and a half hours after the outbreak.
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Eyewitnesses said that the explosion blew a gaping hole in the wall of the.. ground floor of the godown and from it were hurled bales of rubber, rolls of celluloid and oil drums,
According to a Company's representative, the godown was used for stoting dangerous goods.
The sheet of fame which followed the explosion was of such dimension that it licked a building in the compound of the gosworks on the
WIDOW LEAVES opposite side of the road..
$19,098,104
21.-It
AVAR
New York, Sept. disclosed today that the widow of the philanthropist and stel maker. Andrew Carnegie, left a net estate thefore the deduction of taxes) of $10,008,104. She died in 1946.
It
was estimated that federal and state taxes would uggregate more
than $11,600,000.
A total of $2,513,000 is distributed in public bequests.
The bulk of the estate Included 300 items of stocks and bonds to- taling $16,817,003.
Mirs Carnegie also owned
Manhattan real $2,230,000.
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The fire spread with incredible speech through the building
block was ablaze.
The entire fire fighting force on this side of the harbefir turned out almost immediately after the first alarm and altogether nine engines and two fire floats were engaged all morning in combatting the flames.
the
pyjamas cut a woman, with, a child in her arms leap to their death from the burning godown.
About 11.30 a baby was rescued from one of the floors. It was still alive, though badly burned, was immediately rushed to the hos pital.
Between 40 and 50 people were
لعدوية
and AU! available ambulances were i within A few minutes the whole also called into use, about 10 making
The fire brigade, faced with a y trips from the scene of the rescued from the roof of the godown i stupendous task. dici fine work both The fire brigade fought a furious In rescuing trapped people and in battle for three hours fighting the flames.
Two persons
Jumped
from the
Are to the Queen Mary Hospital.
prevent the
by means of the Davis ladder.
TRAM WIRES WRECKED to neighbouring ground floor of the
The explosion which blew out the bloze spreading
godown, also godowns. roof of the building Into the life-They concentrated
wrecked the overhead tramline wires saving net
on a narrow between
two standards and it is lane dividing the blazing godown Impossible Outstanding rescue work Was the Lee Hing Hong godown and
to run trams on that performed by Divisional
particular Oficer about 11.30 there were signs that
route. Tiplady who safely brought a man they were gaining some control of commission all telephone lines to explosion also put out of the flames.
the gasworks.
and a woman from the roof of the burning building by means of the Davis ladder.
He had to make twą trips and
when he had completed the second estate, valued at he almost collapsed from exhaus
tian.
The principal personal beneficiary Up to 11 o'clock about 50 in-
doughter, Mrs
Margaretjured people had been admitted to Cornegle Miller, of New York. Queen Mary Hospital.
Mrs Carnegie also divided $1,000,- 060 equally
four grand- among children-Reuter,
EDITORIAL
BODIES IN STREET ·
A number of charred bodies lay In the street around the building.
Another Mission Fails
AFTER a series of meetings at
Kremlin lasting several weeks, punctuated with Soviet- conducted anti-Western demon- strations in Berlin, the
talks between the United States, British and French envoys and the the Russian leaders have come to nought. Because the nerpilations have been carried out in completa secrecy it is impossible to Just'
Jay why they have falled, when so often they gave the appearance of belux success. It has been Fuggested that the four
powers have come close to agreement on general principles, but that Stalin and Molotoy lost patience over the Insistence of the Western envoys for guarantees of good faith on the part of the Soviets. If thaid in true the canniness of the envoys can be cially appreciated. Even while the talks were in progresí concerning the lifting of the Berlin blockade and the creation of a single_currency, the Soviet military chiefs In the derman capital stepped up their polier of provocation by staring anti- democratie demonstrations against the
Magistrat. kidnapping
Western-controlled German pollse and even American soldiers atid civilians, and then brought the campaign to a a head by india criminately firing on a
at Growd Berliners who had moved Into the British sector. In the face of 01 such
Insulting deliberately behaviour it was no wonder thai.
Western · delegates to the Kremlin conferences Inalsted upon Soviet
guarantees for the Implementation of Any agreement
the
which might be
reached. And
It Stalin and his advisers refused lo-ro: beyond' generaliilea, it inj perhaps, · Just as well. int the talks collapsed. For when
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in
of
comes to Interpretation of pacts which deal exclusively with general principles, the world; with the Potsdam agreement a5 1.1 example, possesses evidenco plenty of Busalan methods "free" lnterpretation. It is now said that the Allied powers are prepared to admit that the Moscow talks have falled, and if that is no, it suggests that the Kremlin never seriously wished for them to turn out otherwise. Although the world does not know precisely the lnstructions which the envoys
received: from their
The brigade brought into action
chemical special foam
The
At midday it was thought that used in the second godown had caught on
fighing oll fires and great attention was paid to the ground floor of the nearby Lee Hing Hong godown where a large quantity of peanut ell is stored.
EYEWITNESS'S STORY
a Telegraph At 11.30
lying in a side lane burning godown.
fire, but firemen were of the opinion that the smoke which appeared to be coming from the building was actually the heavy smoke from the burning godown being blown Into and across the other building.
Late this morning the Queen Mary Hospital reported that all Are
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While hoses are played on flames enveloping the Wing On godown at West Paint this morning, firemen climb Indders to rescue trapped inmates,
War Fear Pervades UN Assembly
Paris, Sept. 21.-Fear of war hung ominously over the United Nations today as the third regular General Assembly opened simultaneously with the crucial meetings of the West's big three on Berlin. Both France's President, M. Vincent Auriol and Argentina's Juan A. Bramuglia, as temporary president, sounded a key note of "fear of war" in their opening. addresses. They appealed to the UN to, look toward
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Dr
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Irgunists Agree To Disband
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Tel-Aviv, Sept. 21.—Irgus. Zvai Leumi, the Jewish torro rist organisation, today cepted an Iaracli Government ultimatum ordering their dis
bandment and the handing over for their "army" to the | Israeli defence forces.
The Government also ordered Irgun members to join the Israell Army and take the usual -- outh of allegiance. As, their part in this agreement for the Hiquidation of the movement, the Israeli Government will not prosecuto Irgun members for licts, committed against Israeli
law in the past.", ".
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An Israeli Government munique sald that the Irgun's representative in Jerusalem accepted 24-hour ultimatum, 'expiring at uson today, from the Government. Failure to do so would have brought Israeli Army action' "with all tho means at its disposal" against them. the communiqué sold.
The communique revealed that tho negotiations for the disbandment of Jewish terrorist organisations had been going
on for some time. "Untit last Sunday, the Government's pro
posals had not been acceptable to the terrorists. After the tñurder of Count Tolko Bernadotte, the Pales- tine Mediator, however, the Govern- thent decided to het strongly, asued ultimatum to the Irgun and outlawed the Stern Gang, who were alleged to be responsible for the Mediator's assassination.
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The
THE ULTIMATUM
ultimatum to the Irgun in Jerusalem stated:
1-They must "observe the faw of the State of Israel with regard to Army recruliment and the pos- session of arms.".
2-They must enter the Israeli Army
3. They must surrender thele
orms.
4.They must take the oath of allegiance.
5-The Irgunisis would be treated like every other Jew,
B.--None
would suffer for breaches against the law committed previously if the disbandment order was complied with.
7-The Israel Army would act with all the means at its disposal If the ultimatum were rejected.
saw 10 bodies, all dead from burn.cosunities received had been placed theme in accepting the presidency of the Foreign-Once when Mr Ernest ing force. In the other parts of the
Mr Eric Norman, of the Sworn Weights and Measurer's Office, was an eyewitness of the outbreak of the
are
reporter
close to the
in
were
wards, They said that injured people
still arriving, There was no report that any had
from thetr injuries since died
ad- mission.
W13 ·A
of
the
He said that a tongue 1 flame leapt across to the godown of the gasworks and a number of coolies
Fire officers sald there danger that the Wing On godown would collapse because
Australia's Foreign Minister, Herbert. Evatt, followed the same Foreign Minister, was already
M. Robert Schuman, the French
Bovin and Mr George Marshall
qf
the
the hall
The liquidation of the Irgun or- applies to its activities ganisation
Jerusalem, where they have hitherto maintained a dissident fight country, the Irgun has already ac
the Israeli de-. cepted allegiance to fence army.
The Stern Gang and Its splinter
He predicted the Assembly could, if arrived. the Assembly a few minutes later.
would, case the world's
troubles.
Mr Bevin was accompanied by Mr Within another few minutes, these Hector McNell,
Minister of State, words were given added
meaning when Mr George Marshall and hir Sir William Strang, the Foreign bou, the Fatherland Front, were Ernest Bevin, strode
Office adviser on Germany, and Sir both outlawed by the Government under the emergency, regulations the in the middle
British They Oliver Harvey,
which banned. started to stampede. However, he tremendous volume of water which beaded for the Qual d'Ormy where imbassador ;in Paris. With
published
thed yesterday, Mr the terrorist organisations. Marshall were Mr Charles Bohlen, was necessary to pour into the at 6 p.m. Paris time, they are to the State Department expert on Jerusalem today, the Irgunt leaders
At
a press conférence held in building.
resume
talks
the French Russian affairs, with
and Mr. Jefferson "Directing the fire fighting opera-Foreign Minister, M. Robert Schu Caffety, the American Ambassador accepted the proposals "in principle". in Jerusalem explained that they man on Russia's refusal to lift the in Faris. Brand, ossiated
but attacked the Government for Its by Divisional blockade. Officer H. Tiplady and Station:
action.-Reuter.,. Officer C. W. Browne.
| succeeded in calming them,
Mr Norman said he saw a man
Hunger Strike Bytions were Acting Chief Oficer C
Chinese Women
San Francisco, Sept. 21,-More- Police and St John Ambulance than 100 Chinese women went on personnel turned out in force, Mr b hunger strike In: the United
W.P. Thompson, Officer in Charge, States Immigration detention quar- Hongkong, and Mr
Rolfe, ASP, ters today a few hours after a 32-being present. year-old Chinese bride killed her- self.
JUTERIE AZ
Mrs Eng Leong Shee hanged her- self after waiting since June 21 to join her husband, who Was # former Army sergeant and is now Philadelphia businessman. Mr I. F. Wixon, Immigration chi
chief here, blamed the demonstration "some kind of superstition they follow when something ro-
happens."
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governments, the', motiva behind the decision of the United Biates, Britain and France
nce to approach the Kremlin can never be doubted: it was to make genuine attempt to resolve as far as possible the strained relations between Rusala and the Western democracies writin #pecial ference to the Intolerable Berlin situation. It ⋅ was withla the Kremlin's · powers to make this averture a triumph of reason and political magnoliy, instead of which- the Western diplomats have been slapped back, while the Soviet militarists and propaganda arents have added · insult to, Injury by
their outrageous behaviour In
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Berlin. The Western powers are now eredlied with the intention of bringing the issue before United Nations which, if they do.
mean at least one thing- the world will obtain an objesilve pleture of what the Kremlin talks amounted log and free thinking people will be able to Judge for themselves who was responsible for their failure and why, This will also have the advantage, of clearing the air, now sʊ thlok and Impenetrablo" with the fog of diplomatic aseresy.
on
Mrs Eng was found hanging from a shower pipe in the bathroom In the detention quarters-United Preis.
Malaya Terrorisnt
Singapore, Sept. 21.-Two Malay soldiers were killed, three wounded and two Malay policemen wounded
STOP PRESS
GRIM-FACED VISHINSKY
Grim-faced M. Andrel Vishinsky, sitting in for M. Molotov, kept his
ahead when his eyes straight Western counterparts → sitting nearby left in the middle of the Assembly meeting.
While the Western Foreign
Ministers discussed whether to toss the Berlin question into the UN. thus formally
close
the door to futuro direct negotiations with Russia, the Assembly continued Its
Godown Blaze organisational work.
Latest
At 1 p.m., it was
The galleries were crowded and hundred of Parisians stood outside to get a peek at the famous men, Mr Marshall drew a big cher from the onlookers as he entered and left the Palais de Chaillot.
officially dis-
Dr Evatt, taking over the gavel, closed that ten bodies had so far drove the Assembly through. Its
been found, and that 35 casualties routine elections of a committee
had been sent to hospital.
chairman who will sit on the/alie- About 50 people were rescued this ring committee. morning, but it is feared that death
roll will be high us a number of the first UN President, was elected M. Paul Henri Spack, who' was
in 10 terrorist incidents in Malaya people were trapped in the blazing chairman of the important commitice reported today. One terrorist was wounded,
| building="
The smoke and flames were still
is under
A Chinese terrorist, shot dead at leaping high and it will be some Sungel Giput, near Ipoh, Perak, two, days ego, has been identified as hours before the fire Chong Plow, leader of the 9th Unit control
of the Malayan People's -British Army.
Anti-
on political affairs.—United Press, -- BERLIN CRISIS TALKS
Paris, Sept. 21. The Foreign | Ministers of Great Britain, France and the United Blates met at the The danger of the fire spreading French Foreign Onice today for has not yet passed,
their second discussion of the Shortly after hair past twelve the Berlin crisis in two days.. Tin production in Malaya con- RASC fire fighting engine joined the tinues to rise in spite of the terre brigade in fighting the Games, The three Western Military General The production of The RASC engine was manned by Governors in Germany,
atcel-helmeted Sir tin ore during August was 5,300 tons, an increase of 141 tons on soldiers. the July total-Reuter.
rorist activities; official figures dis- closed today..
about
dlozen
Brian
Robertson (Britain), General Luelus. D. · Clay' (United [States) and General Plørro Koenig GRANDAMIchat (France) wore present.
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