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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1949.
UN Assembly Troops May Be Called Out
To Discuss Trial Of Mindszenty
Flushing Meadows, Apr.. 12. The United Nations i General Assembly tonight approved the inclusion on its agenda of discussion of the trial of Josef, Cardinal Mindszenty, Primate
Royall's AnswerTo
Charges
of Washington, Apr. 12-
Hungary, and the 15 Bul-The Army Secretary. Mr
garian pastors.
Kenneth
Royall, today angrily denounced as "total-
The voting was 30 in favourly incorrect" charges by ex- and seven against, with 20 ab-President Herbert Hoover of the in staggering waste
stentions.
Eariter today, Hungary and Armed Services, Bulgaria both protested to the Mr Royal demanded that the Assembly against the proposed discussion of the trials of Car-closed meeting dinni Mindszenty and the 1s Armed Serviers
thrown open
to
of the Senate Committee be the .press so
Bulgarion Protestant pactors. that he coukl answer Mr The
made in 10 protesis WIKO
Hoover's necusations, He added cables to the delegaten, due to
that the Air and Navy Secre- approve
Steering Com- the
tarles would want millee's recommendation
privilege.
the United Nallons investigate
the trials.
protests suld
the same
Mr Hoover, chairman of the Hoover Commnission on reor- the government, Both
the agonisation of
the told the Senate Committee ycs- clusion of the trials in
ferdny that the three Services Assembly's agenda would be n
of "staggering were guilty in the unjustified interference
the states waste" adding up to $1,500,000,- internal affairs of
ODD yearly. concerned.
INQUIRY CONDEMNED
"I don't wish to say that Mr Hoover misrepresented facts or erroneous inferences permitted
However, the Secretary made
In the afternoon session, to be drawn." said Mr Royall, Yugoslavia joined with here is an outstanding American Eastern neighbours in con- and a strong supporter of adc- demning the proposed inquiry, quate defence." M. Vladimir Popovie, the Yugo- slav representative, criticised the a point-by-point attack on the "motives behind the proposat Hoover Commission's recent re-
He
the report sald and said it was a part of the port. tendency to use the United criticised the Army for asking Nations as a "tool" to interfere funds to modernise 102 tanks in the affair of the Eastern which it did not have in its European states.
that.
possession.
"The explanation
Denmark, Iceland, Norway and after the request was made, we Sweden told the Assembly today transferred 102 tanks to the that they aid not favour a dis- Marine Corps, sold Mr Royall. cussion of the trini. M.United Press.
Gustav Rasmussen, the Danish
Foreign Minister, speaking on behalf of all four powers, said
To Break Dock Strike
C.M. Customs CABINET WILL
Protest To
Royal Navy
Shanghai, Apr. 12.
In a statement to the press tonight, the Chin- esc Maritime Customs said that a protest had been addressed. to the British Navy over the sensational smuggling case uncovered by Cus- Мол- tenis officers on day in which a British ship is involved.
The ship is the Green Archer, a fleet auxiliary vessel manned by civi- llans, most of them without Chinese, and
British officers or rat- ings.
The Customs claimed that the ship smuggled from Hongkong woollen textiles, saccharine and radio parts.
Two Chinese arrested admitted operating a smuggling ring, bring- ing goods in the Green Archer.-Reuter.
METEOR BURSTS New York, Apr. brillian! meteor
12.-A streaked
that the trials had occasioned HOUSE APPROVES across New England skies dur-
"great conrern" in the Nothern countries as elsewhere.
ERP BILL
DECIDE TODAY
Transport Union's Appeal To Men
London, Apr. 12. Troops may be called out to unload 50 ships in the Port of London. idle through a strike which today involved more than 13,000 dockers. Urgent moves to safeguard the nation's food supplies are expected to follow a Cabinet meeting `to-
morrow.
Official efforts are expected to avoid the delay in handling food supplies which occurred in last year's London dock strike. Then, there was initial hesitation before troops were drafted for unloading essential supplies.
An early statement in Parliament is likely on the strike, which began yesterday when 7,000 men stopped work in protest against the dismissal of 33 men, mostly stated to be too old for the work or in failing health.
The National Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers Unlon, which called the strike, has de- manded a pension scheme is a counter to the employers' pro- posal to dismiss 8,000 dockers over 05 years of age.
оп
the
to a call for strike action against
French dockers re-
Fleeing Burma Rebels Bombed
Rangoon, Apr. 13-A Burmese Army spokes. man sald yesterday Karen rebels ficeing southward along the Itangoon Mandalay highway
Central Burma were bombed and 'strafed by government
planes.
.
in
The Karens were withdrawing towards their headquarters at Toungoo, and were al tacked near Yamethin, 300 miles north of Run- goon. the spokesman said.
In South Burma, Karens and Communists occupied Pantanaw, a the In rice centre. large rice growing dis- trict between Mynung- mya and Pyapon, rebels were "heavily punished" by government forces, a communique said.— Associated Press.
Cabinet Crisis In Greece
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Reds Land Yangtse Island Near Nanking
MILITARY DEVELOPMENT
Nanking, Apr. 13.—China's Communists yesterday increased their pressure on the government - already sweating over a Red ultimatum-by landing on a Yangtse island 70 miles Southwest of Nanking.
Possibly 1,000 veteran Communist troops made a successful crossing to Taiyang Island under cover of artillery fire, the official mili- The attack began on tary agency said. Monday night. Contact with the island was lost, Reinforcements were sent to the South bank.
of the island Tho capture
His experience in Moscow, Bug- would give the Reds a spring-gests. that the Sovieta are still board for the drive into South unwilling to back the Palping Chin. Competent quarters be- Government for total success in lleve the main attack may come China
at any time if the government
stalls over the ultimatum,
Dr Fu plans to meet his "old
friend, Mr Bevin," nt Southamp-
Government officials conferred ton on Friday before flying urgently on the Red demands, by BOAC to Hongkong. which call for virtual surrer der.
Bald
Semi-official Chinese quaters
and
Dr Fu insists that his talks the Reds extended the with Mr Bevin will be strictly
personal deadline for
reply from Informal and Tuesday to Friday. The general that they will not be raising feeling in Nanking is that the any political questions such as Communists
Dre now ready to recognition of the Communists.
over- the Yangise in
When Dr Fu arrives in Hong- directly kong he will proceed to Nanking. But he
eross whelming
force, and will not walt too long.
hasn't
This broad river, the dividing decided whether he will occupy line between the Communist the Foreign Minister's position. North and the Government He states he will South, is unlikely to prove much bis arrival..
of
a military barrier to the
veteran Red columns.
ANKING ATTACKS
The operation at Tatyang Island, and renewed attacks on
decide after
Dr Fu is meeting Mr Atlee
tur conversations
tomorrow.
and lunch
TRADE REGULATION
San Francisco,
Apr. 12.- China yesterday Anking, about 80 miles farther Communiat Southwest along the Yangise, took a step toward trade with were the main military develop the outside world by setting up ments of the day. The new temporary regulations govern- attacks were reported ing foreign exchange. The an- beaten off. The rest of the nouncement was made by the
for Communist radio al Peiping. Yongise was quiet, except 12.-Theminar Communisl attacks.
Anking
There has been some barter
from troinloads
all parts of Cars awaiting ship- Britain. ment were jammed bumper to
the' qunyskies, bumper o11 Reuter.
PAY CUTS DISPUTE Paris Apr. 12.-A strike board two Canadian ships The important Transport and Rouen Harbour, the 7,100-ton
and General Warkers Union, with no Westminster County
docker mem-7,105-ton Sun Valley, has been estimated 20,000 bers, has urged its men to stay referred to the Department of Embassy at work but by tonight 6,000 of Labour, a Canadian ing the night and burst in o them had stopped in sympathy spokesman sald here today.
Tira seamen struck in response blaze of glory. An airline pilot with the men of the other union. Washington, April 13. The suid: "Parts seemed to be fall-
The National Dock Labour alleged pay cuts issued by the Greek Prime Minister, M. (The Anking-Taiyang sector since the Reds seized control of M. Rasmussch continued: US. House of Representatives-ing-all-over Rhode Island."
Observers reported seeing the Board said night that there Canadian Seamen's Union on Themistocles Sophoulis, might-well-be-the-scene of North China, but a free dow of to 43. votes
attack. Communist
goods has been impossible be "We have considered with keen approved by 354
US$5,580,000,000 phenomenon all the way from was no indication that the strike Saturday.
the handed to King Paul of the major 2 argu- yesterday
other Brilish fused to finish unloading
crossing here would sever, the cause of the lack of exchange attention que different
to Long would spread to Muine,
Hellenes tonight tho TE
links between 200,000 troops of agreements. matter: Bill to keep the European ite- Portland, ruents bearing on the
in the Island, New York, while a little ports. Fourteen of the 50 shivs ships.
hint The Westminster County ar- signation
hia entire the Nanking-Shanghai area and of
There was no What has determined our nt- covery Programme going.
in the day an Air held up are carrying foodstuffs of Democrats earlier titude is our conviction that the
A combination and Republicans brushed aside Force pilot reported seeing "a and mony are waiting to tordrived on March 31 and the Sun Cabinet, and was asked to 150,000 others based on Han-broadcast of possible exchange Valley 'સ few days later.--
kow, 375 air miles Southwest rates. These rates will be set matter should first and foremost
form a new Government. Reuter. ait attempts to cut the amount ball of fire" fall to the ground vital export goods.
of Nanking.).
daily by the People's Bank of be treated as a matter
provided by the
China (Communist.) MELBOURNE STRIKE
The action carried a threat to the pence treaties."
The Chinese press, was full of
The People's 12-Dirty Melbourne, Apr. (Continued
The radio sald resign if King Paul
rumours of everything from a dishes were tonight piling up in sign a decree expelling M. Communist cease fire order to a Bank of China
appointed "the to handle the seamen's mess on board the Spyros Markezinis, Minister report that the Communists had Bank of China" 9,000-ton inter-State steamer.without Portfollo, because of agreed to modify their terms foreign exchange. This
sailing was allegations associating him with and be lenint with so-called to be a new Mamunda, whose
bank the Com- because the crew foreign exchange smuggling. postponed
"war criminals. Well informed munists are setting were
unable
official quarters Perce
discounted at Government's should do the washing up,
M. Markezinis yesterday re- The dispute Brilish vessel
to leave the Cabinet these reports.-Associated Press. institution is the
of China. The 1,000-ton
arose between fused
to clear his who have without action and seamen Sheldrake, which came from Pa- cooks
Farcign exchange Each group Judicial position. lermo, Stelly, with nuts, oranges, separate unions. lemons and eggs, was to salmiininined it was nol its job. for Hull tonight. She was to Tonight fresh mess gear
M. Sophoulis, in a letter to every meal and the King, explained that polit! day berthed at a London whart,
was threatening struck work supplied for where men had
stacked un-cnt tension used dishes were Her 2,000-ion cargo was partly washed
a possible Cabinet unity and a re-examina- pending unloaded.
ruling by A Commonwealth tion of the composition of the the remaining Conciliation
Commissioner. Coalition was necessary. "There
difficulties fore, to solve the be Reuter.
which have arisen, I submit my resignation."
under
Bill Asso- | near
Newcastle, Delaware-
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ciated Press.
¡Reuter.
EDITORIAL
Reverse For The Socialists
2
on
пушу
SEEKING SUPPORT
Four strikers representatives let London this afternoon for the northern ports of Hull and Liverpool, in the hope of galning support of the dockers there for the London strike,
was hoped 1,000-tons
of cargo could
NOT TO JOIN IN
The Watermen, Lightermen und Bargemen's Union, which has 4,000 members, decided at a tonight not to mass meeting Join the London dock
four key bye- won Labour recently VEN to the keenest analysts it is a EV
manner as to elections and in such a dimcult tak to define with any
still Its policies were influence
that suggest degree of preciseness the
Something the electors. local acceptable to which party politics have
remarkable must have occurred to, cause elections In England. Ever since the
such a voting swing, especially in London eclipse of the Liberal Party as effective
where, for 15 years, the Socialists have segment of the House of Commons 25
metropolitan and held control of the has been for
It age, the tendency years
remarkable that local councils; and council and candidates in the county
influence must
which the surely have heen the
unloaded at Hull, municipal elections to line themselves up
vessel will reach in 24 hours. new super-austerity Budget which binds
Minister elther with the right wing, or the left
Mr George Isaacs, 12 months to the country for another candidate's
of Labour, today described the wing party machines:
"chol- upon heavy taxation, high cost of living, and
London dock strike as a nomination now almost depends
But there
He told the bare necessities of life.
lenge to authority,"
it was
#no bis willingness to run under the banner.
be
contributing Parlament that secondary n of Socialism or Conservatism, with the
doubt inspired by motives hos- factor-Labour's over-confidence in its natural result that local elections are
tile to the best interests of the of
party appeal and with it a slackening of being
dockers and to the public;" all the given
appearance
always in organisation. Labour has But it electlans. 'minlature general
attached exceptional importance to Hs has often been demonstrated that the
showings in
was local elections-it through them
Arst ihat the Party made its presence felt, in the political field. Through the control of County, Borough, Urban and Rural councils it has been able, unobtrusively, to introduce
legislatiori
administration local
and
any following a Socialist pattern, and serious loss of this control, such has now occurred, must of necessity come as R Hevere shock to the Party. But the out- the county council elections come of cannot, with complete confidence, be taken as an assurance for similar Tory successes in the next General Election. There is still more than a year to run before these are held and the national altuation may, by that time, present an entirely different picture than it does today; moreover the issues then will be more profound, with purely local interests giving way to wider influences. Neverthe- ICas the Bocialists have suffered disastrous defeat at the polls which, if repeated at the Novomber Borough and Urban elections, must cause them to bo extremely nervous about the outcome of the 1950 General Election."
voters are not prepared to regard these contests as much more than an opportunity. for returning men whom they think can best serve the local needs, irrespective the of party affiliations: John Smith, local boy who made good, is fur mare ikely to capture the votes, of his fellow citizens than the imported can- didate, no matter what his party con- nections. Nevertheless the highly or- ganised party, machines have exercised a considerable Influence over local elections during the past two decades, and while the candidates for these contests do not openly make a display of their political well known and sympathies, they are recognised by the electors. Thus there could be, and there may well be, great significance in the county council elec tions resulta of the past week which have seen the Tories gain 360 seats and the Socialists lose 362. And in the light of the record-breaking achievement of the 1. Labour Government is not losing à single seat in bye-elections since 1945, this sudden landslide must be credited (or In the case of the Socialists, debited) to popu-- lar renction to Sir Stafford Cripps' Budget.
the publictive of the Steve-
to
"Congress" Delegates
Limited
who
wus
dici not
The King. answering the that he agreed Premier, sald with M. Sophoulis' views re- garding the political tension and resignation, bul accepted the entrusted him with the task of forming a new Government.- Reuter.
GEORGE POLK MURDER Paris, Apr. 12.-The or
12. A Greek Athens, Apr.
Stock- "World Journalist, Gregorios ganisers of the Congress of the Partisans topoulos, and two other Greeks went on trial charged
strike, of Pence," opening here on today
with the premeditated murder which was described earlier to April 20, today protested of the late Mr George Polk, re- day by the Labour Minister, Mr George Isaacs, as "a challenge against the French Govern-porter for the Columbin Broad- Mr Polk's body, bound and to authority" and "inspired by. ment's decision to limit the casting System. motives nustile to the best in number of delegates from blindfolded, was washed ashore terests of the dackers and to Russia and Eastern Europe. at Salonika on May 16 last year, had left his a week after he The Congress Preparatory hotel to try and contact the The
that only Greek guerillas. He had been meet Sir Commission stated will dores Union
the back of the Chief eight delegates from cach counshot through Robert M. Gould, Ministry of Labour, tomorrow; allowed Into France.
in French Government would Anna, was nieo in the dock to- meeting was arranged responce to a letter from Sir choose the delegates from lists day, charged with being an ac- The two other ac- Robert, in which he said the submitted by the national com complice.
"feels he snittees,
cused, Evangelos Vasvanas and Labour Minister
being Adam Mouzenides, are explanation
Dadoo, leader of the tried in their absence.
the
Industrial Commissioner at the try in Eastern Europe would be head.
The M. Stachtopoulos' mother,
The
should have some
of the action of the Executive in lending official support
is clearly en strike,"
Dr Y.
the
in Indians in South Africa, has The court rejected a defence
from Congress
request for an adjournment on illegal notified what
London that he cannot get the grounds of the absenco of witnesses. including The great dock area, lined by British authorisation to attend, material rows of idle ships, was prace the statement mid. #
mother.
groups of
tically deserted tonight. Small The Preparatory Commis Mr Polk's wife, Rhea, and her that the Yugo The indictment was 40-pages dockers clustered | statement. round the dock gates and the slay Popular Front, with 8,000 long. General William Dono- public. houses in the neighbour 000 members, the All-Indian van, Chairman of the American
with 800,000. |Committeo Union Congress,
on United Europe, hood.
Warehouses were piling up and the Amerlean Labour Party who went to Greece last year to with dollar-earning. exports, had announced their support of investigate the murder, allend
ed the trial-Router. continually swelled: by.
the conference-Reuter,
Dr Fu's Views
.
(Our Own Correspondent)
Fu
deposited with
China," It
seems
up. The financlai Central Bank
main
must
be
"The Bank of can be used only
with the Bank's approval for
Imports and exports,
PROHIBITIONS
London, Apr. 12-Dr Ping-chang, the chosen Foreign
the As heard by The Associated concerning his
opinions Minister of Chinu, stated today
Press at San Francisco, the Communists in China.
Dr Fu thinks that the Soviet broadcast warned that private Union does not estimate the individuals are "prohibited from strength of the Chinese Com-dealing in, hoarding, or trans- munists as highly, as the Chinese ferring of foreign exchange.
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