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VOL. III NO. 257
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1948.
FRENCH GOVT. STOPS Early Peace
TRAIN SERVICES
Broadcasting Stations' Two-Hour Strike
SITUATION MAY IMPROVE BY NEXT WEEK
Labour Government's Measure
To Nationalise Steel
London, Oct. 29.-The British government will become the owner of 107 companies capitalised at £195,000,000 under its iron and steel nationalisation programme published yesterday.
Conservatives are already waging an all out fight against the plan but the government's overwhelming strength makes its adoption virtually a certainty. The government indicated that the Stewarts and Lloyds, Thomas Firth paid out the government has authori bill would not be rushed, however, and John Brown Ltd. Burnelle andy to recover the money from the companies and political observers predicted that Company, Guest, Keen and Neltic- Directors.
There are about 800
In engaged
the iron and steel months would be spent in Parlin folds, Hadfields Ltd, John Lysaght. Corporation, inentory wrangling Final passage the Lancashire Steel
business in Britain. Of these 242 may not come until late next year. Taken into government ownership outright through a stock purchase arrangement will be all firms which turn out 50,000 tons or more of iron uro or 20,000 tons or more of other products per year.
GOVT. LICENCES Firms producing less than those amounts but more than 5,000 tons per year will be required to obtain government licences to continue in business.
and
The United Steel Companies, Willlain Beardmore and Company
Lord Clydesmuir, a Director of Colvilles Ltd., one of the firms to be nationalised, described the measure in a luncheon speech at Glasgow
Paris, Oct. 29.-The Ministry of Public Works tonight directed the French railway authorities to cancel a considerable number of passenger trains from next Wednesday until further notice, it was announced by the Railway Administration.
A Transport Ministry spokesman said that 28 out of 34 coal ships. in French ports were held up because of the dockers' refusal to handle imported coal..
A cold spell, with a-sharp northeast wind, tonight caught many Parisians without central heating in their strike. apartments because of the 27-day-old miners' The temperature at 6 p.m. GMT
Reven, degreeя Centigrade. It is expected that the minimum to gistered during the night would be zero. The logleal, Office predicted a cold weather spell until Monday.
Technicians of the French broad-
was
be re- Meteoro- next
The Ministry of the Interlor an-
strikers from the
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Treaty Urged
Landon, Oct. 20. -The British Government considers there chould bo ал carly peace treaty with Japan, the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs Mr Christopher May. hew, fold the Commons today.
towards Prokress
a trenty had not been satisfactory and there had been too long a wall already, he said.
To a criticism that Je Industrial activity of Japan was being "regalvanised," Air Mayhew wild Umt if Japanese industry was being reactivated, then that was in a sense a rocasure against the inroads of Soviet Communism. But in deny her the right of economie recovery
did not seem to be fair, or togical, he said.
The Government's view was that there must be a level of Industry in Japan which allowed a reasonable standard of life for the people and Just repiration for those who nuffered from Japanese Eresion-Reuter,
More ERP Funds Are Required
UN To Consider Sanctions
Israeli Actions To
Go On Trial
Paris, Oct. 29.-The United Nations Security Council passed to a sub-committee on Friday the hot issue of econo- mic sanctions against Pales- tigo.
* formal
*The Council, 'without vale, but with Russia and the Soviet Ukraine abstaining, set up a Committee to study a resolution proposed by Britain and China. The resolution would have the effect of forcing
Israci withdraw from pusitions In the Negev Desert she wen in recent bard fighting against the Egyptians.
The Council's action, somo ob- servers said, is expected to delay the economic sanctions question un- til after the elections in the U.S. on Tuesday.
The Soviet Union announced that it would not support the resolution but and the Ukraine also opposed agreed to work on the sub-commit- tee, which includes representatives of Britain, China, Belgium France Associated Press.
and
ARABS ATTACK
Oct. 20-The Army said on Friday that the force
Tel-Avly,
Yorneli
Washington, Oct. 29The of Arab attacks on the Central and
Marshall Plan Administrator, are engaged in the basle processes casting network went on strike for nounced today that 212 Republican Mr Paul C. Iloffman, confirmed hours at 7 GMT tonight. A security guards, 77 Mobile guards today that he would need över Ingot manufacture spokesman for the technicians sald: and police and 15 soldiers had been $1,000,000,000 more to keep the of digging iron ore, blast furnace two
the campaign for European Recovery Programme "We have gona on strike because injured since smelting. steel
made in eviction of the
pithead began on October 18 going between April and June and stoel hot rolling.
In terms of capacity, the govern- our demands which were yesterday as "a spanner in the works ment will acquire 87.5 per cont of/June have not been satisfied" --- when the cool strike was a fort-1949:
the ore producers: 0.0 per cent of The French National Radio hel- night old.
None of the Government forces the smelters: 09.3 per cent of the work went off the air when
radio resumed had been killed in clashes with the ingot plants, and 93.0 per cent of the strike bekan. The
Transmission shortly before 8 p..strikers. rolling mills-Associated Press.
GMT but only recorded music was played.
of industry."
Compensation for the companies will be made by the issue of "Br- tih Iron and Steel stock" equal in the opinion of the Treasury to the value of the company shares on the ida e of transfer, taking into conside-
of
Kovern- | ration the market value
mont securities on about that date.
The compensation will be based) upon slock exchange quotations on certain unspecified dotes or atree-
Minister the nationalisation programme, but in-nents between
stockholders' › ro-
Firms producing less than 5,000 without tens year cean operate Hicences. The
car
specineally exempt
clusion of
motor
same steel
industry
is
the from
Subsidiary Supply and the companies will put the government presentatives. If no stock quotation into tho-business of turning exist on the selected
dates
ni
out such finished products agreement falls, compensation will as tennis rickets. printeri ink, be settled by arbitration. safety pins and other mor and
minor goods.
be
The Nationalised firms will allowed to retain their old names and trade marks,
300,000 EMPLOYED
The companies to be nationalised, Including their wholly owned sub- sidiaries, now emplay about 300,000 persons.
over.
FIRMS LISTED
The bill will prohibit any unusual Among the more prominent firms
proft taking by the private owners Included in
Dormon the list are
just before the government takes Keen Long and Company, Guest Baldwin Iron and Steel Company. It requires that stock dividends Richard Tomas and Baldwins Ltd.. and interest payments be held to the Various South Durham Steel and Iren Com-minimums set out in the pany, The Steel Company of Wales, company charters. If any excess is
EDITORIAL
Stalin's Cheap Propaganda
M'Pravda
Stallo's Interview with
about the Berlin Security dispute and the recent
subject Council debate on ke was palpably intended for home consumption--more salted meat "for a population already suffering Indigestion from a seven course To the workl propaganda feast. which has been allowed to know the full facts
Berlin of the problem it in. Insghablo Inter- wilfully lude, for Stalin has permitted himself to prevaricate, lie distort and propagandise. claims that the Western Powera' cavoys. who vislied Moscow actually reached an agreement with the Kremlin to solva the Berlin Issue, an -akreement which their Kovernments repudiated. But documentary evidence already on
411
Tragic Death Of
Paul Kong
JUMPS OR FALLS FROM BUILDING
damage
expected.
was less than had
the
Northern Palestine fronts had in- creased in the past 24 hours and the Jews have given up some ground.
A Jewish spokesman sald Iraqi was shelling the far el Ain area, just artillery, 15 miles from Tel-Aviv. East of the Jewish capital, on Friday morning and that Iraqi infantry cap- Mortured a second height inside Jewish He told a press conference territory in that area. that he would shortly write to The Jews apparently are replying the President telling him that only with artillery and mortar fire.— the original appropriation of Associated Press. $5,055,000,000 was not enough The French Premier, M. Queuille, has culled a meeting of his Cabinet to keep the programme going tonight to discuss, it was believed, for the full 15-month period proposals to send troops to unload until June 30 next (end of the American fiscal year) and that something over $1,000,000,000
CABINET MEETING
He stressed, however, that from
Radio Headquarters in Parls were Inundated with telephone enquiries as to the cause of the break.
Isl
region, engineers the Loire took possession today of the pit occupied by strikers. Engineers coat ships at eight French ports.
The Minister of Public Works, M. into the important Christian Pineau, who descended
bas asked the Couriot pit at St Etienne after its was cleared earlier today found that General Staff to send troops to un-would be needed in addition.
been load Imported coal "banned" by the dockers in support of the miners' strike. The soldiers will be sent to July 1, 1949, "there will not be the
and tained at its present rate". Nantes, St Nazaire, Dunkirk
Exact estimates of what will be needed for the April-June period Boulogne, it was earlier reported.
but available The Minister of Public Works, M. next year are not
put the figure at Jules Moch, corller had announced reliable reports that troops and police were moving $1,200,000,000. into plts in the northern coalfields and had occupied the objectives set for tomorrow as well as those for today,
Soviets Ban Parcel Post
M. Paul Ramailler, the Minister at Defence, said today that he had Dieppe, Rouen, Le Havre. Bordeaux. need for much if recovery is main Berlin ban virtually all German such hopes of an improved situa- next week in the tion beginning strike-bound coalfields that the re- turn of troops to their garrisons within a short time could be al
NO RESISTANCE
Paul Kong, prominent Hong-rendy foreseen. kong tennis player, jumped or fell to his death from one of
House He said at the moment no ress- the the floors of Morina
Central this tance was being shown and Queen's Road
back to work tendency was grow... morning.
ing.
held in
Frankfurt, October 29.-- The Russian authorities-in
parcel post shipments between the West and the
former German capital, the Military Government announced today. The ban went into effect several of the For the second full year
ahead of schedule when to June days
Germno railway programme, July 1, 1049
cars carrying 30, 1950, it is expected that Congress parcel post to Berlin, were halted will be asked for approximately $1,000,000,000,
and
WAR
at the Russian zone border carllér Up to last night, 712 people had
this week,
a joint British been arrested in striko Incidents, It was announced by the Ministry Mr Hoffman gave an optimistic American announcement disclosed.
The reason for the ban "transport difficulties" according to He hit the pavement hend A spokesman of the Ministry of spokesman. Of this total, 441 ar- report on general conditions in the
rests were made yesterday. Of those Marshall Plan nations. the
the German postal officials in the first and death was instan- the Interlor sold tonight that
Government now holds 75 percent arrested, 020 were being
foreigners. "In the direction. of self-help the Russian zone. taneous.
are making 52 foreigners Another
had been countries of Europe
Until the embargo was ordered. fore 9 o'clock. One passer-by said in the Loire Basin are in police expelled from France-Reuter. good in their pledges to us-and the rall cars carrying mall parcels and
The tragedy occurred shortly be-of all pitheads in France. All pits prison. There were 85
same goes for mutual aid”, hands. Troops were unloading coal
small packages for the Germans in he saw the body falling the today at
He again singled out Britain for Berlin. have entered the Russian the increases she has achieved in zone freely at the two American and production and exportz and the British zone crossing points. Now narrowing of her balance of pay- the omcials said that the Berlin ments gap.
parcel post system will have no ser- "These all must be rated as great vice available to or from Western achievements," he asserted. Reuter. Cermany-United Press.
ground, but he did not see whether it was caused by leap or a full,
The late Mr Kong was employed for the as sports goods salesman Dunlop Hubber Company.
SEALED LETTER FOUND
A basket and a cont belonging to
La Pallice, Dieppe und Cherbourg. No coal was unloaded at any other French port.
The
the deceased was found in his office Transpostry of Public Works and
and
Major Actions
In Burma
Attempts to halt the movement of coal trains brought no results and all trains are running to schedule.
tonight announced the
Rangoon, Oct. 29.-Friday's this moming as well as a sealed suspension of two National Railway of the In- letier which was handed over to directors "on account
the exercise military communique_reported compatability between the Police.
an appeal two major actions in South and When the
of their functions Issued to the railway workers aimed Central Burma. It said that a arrived
was fought nt preventing the functioning of the two hour action railways.”
between Government troops and The non-Communist Inbour Force Ouvriere informed the French Pre- 100 rebels at a village, five miles mler, M. Henri Queuille, tonight that North of the town of Bassein they intended to appeal to all miners in the Delta. to return to work without further delay.
polico and ambulance on the scene it was im- possible to identify Kong owing to the nature of his injuries.
Howover In his pockets Were found several visiting cards bearing the name of Paul T. C. Kong, to gether with a number of bills and Dunlop Rubber correspondence
my stationary. Company
Apparently Kong arrived at the office very early this morning, and ly the office boy was present. only
Paul Kong was a veteran Far East tennis player of long repute.
More than 20 years ago he, with Gordon Lum, represented China in the Davin Cup.
0
The rebels burned the village but Government troops recovered large quantity of paddy from. the retreating rebels.
that in district,
and the rest of the big powers. Moreover his studied Jusult of the "neutral" countries who, he is quoted as saying "suppert a policy of aggression, a policy of new war." will do unleashing a no good service to the Soviet cause. If Stalin were doing hils ulmost irretrievably to widen tho breach between the East and the West he could not go about It more effectively than by uttering the sort of statements he has to Pravda. There is no hint of coycillation in his interview; 10 suggestion that he can appreciate any point of view other than his own; no utterance that indicates ho even desires to consider ✡ reasonable solution' to' the Berlin dispute. The whole tone of the interview is offensive, und lacks even
dignified saving grace of
Presumably the world outside of Russia and ker satellite neighbours is not expecl- ed to take Me Stalin's effort too seriously, but even if 11 be intended solely for the benellt of Stalin's subjugated celtizens, it remains a menace. It is a false and unwarranted pleture of the. Berlin problem and the interna-
he appeared in the final of the Valenciennes (northern coalfelds) tlonol diplomatie developments men's, doubles with but they have asked for pro ection, saying Meanwhile, the Regional Autono- which have attended : It will
Just to the Tsui brothers.
that they were being threatened by my Commission inquiring into the be believed by the Rusalans be-
Ho played regularly for the strikers, he added.
question of separate stales for the 'cause they have ne opportunity
Chinese Recreation Club in the The Motal Workers Federal Karen, Mon and Arakanese minort- of hearing the truth, and it will
"A" Division of the tennis leaguo, Counci! ot the Confederationtics appolated n Sub Committee for represent yet another Impulso
generally partnering Lee Wal-tong Generale du Travail, at u meeting dealing with the problems relating intended to arouse haired and
LATER
In Paris tonight, decided to put to the specific requirements of each suspicion of the western world
to the eni-minorky, It has been
that the forward immediately the
rovcales 12
ordinary minds of Russian. Mir .Stalin has long scaled letter found in the late Mr plovers arganisation demands
Karen sources told the Associated Kong's office was addressed to his wage increases based on a minimum been, recognised as unpredictable,
wife.
living wage of 15,000 francs
that the b-committee Press but no one expected him to
told his month against the present, national pointed for the Karens, will decide prostitute his Intelligenc
He is reported to have and compromiso his Integrity for the wife yesterday that he Intended to minimum of 12,000 francs and the the all important problem of whe- applicatiort of a wilding scala ther the Karens should have a state visit Macao today on business. make of cheap propaganda.
Kong leaves a widow and, two whereby wages should rise with the within Burma or outside with com. children.
cost of living
pipte sovereignty—Associated Press.
diplomuzey, record to show that while the talks nearly achieved agreement did, in fact, In principle attain that end, it was never allowed to be implemented because the Soviet military chels in Berlin deliberately ignored the necessary directly from Stalin and made further discussions on that level Impossible. This apart, the Stalin interview follows pre- cisely the mme Jine ad
that pursued by Messrs Vyslilisky and Molotov for months pasii non- Bezsical accusations“ of war- mongering by tho Western Towers and plovs platitudes about thus "forces of peaco" eventually prevaillur - meaning of course, that everything will be fine so long na everybody skreen, with; the Soviets. The Stalin interview falls to contribute one lola to the furtherance of ́ ́ peace or friendliness, between · Russia
ORDERED TO WORK
Communist trade union leaders ordered miners back to work in two The communique stated Paronku Gard Department mines in the south the midwestern tonight. The management interpreted Government forces raided a rebel this as Communist move to change encampment encountering 200 rebels, or go-slow, strikke. In the battle more than 00 rebels Kong was a Singhal Interport
over to the southern and central were killed and the remainder fled. player and for several years figured coalfields led the movement back to The Communique added that mop- prominently in the Hongkong" ten-
of the work, A Ministry
Miners In
nis championships. Two years ago spokesman sald. Safety
Interior ping up operations are taking place
at along the Pakonku district border.
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