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Anxiety Over Kashmir
MR ATTLEE APPEALS TO INDIA AND PAKISTAN
London, Sept. 1. — The Prime Minister, Mr Clement Attlce, has cabled the Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan on the lines of the communica- tion sent by President Truman, appealing to the two countries to accept the latest proposals of the United Nations Commission for a settlement of the truce dispute in Kashmir, the Press Trust of India learnt today from authoritative sources.
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The British Government has been kept informed of the progress of the Kashmir truce negotiations at all stages, and Mr V. K. Krish- Menon, India's High
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Shanghai, Sept. 1- The British-owned North China Daily News today carried Π front page apology to renders for lack of foreign news.
This followed the order by Communist Military Control Com. mission banning foreign
agency news
the paper said.
reports,
Shanghai's two Soviet daily newspapers pub- shed the usual number of foreign news tele- grams, crediting them to Tass Radlo.
AID. RUSHED
TO SAVE
CATTLE
Sydney, Sept. 1. phibious
army
called
on Mr August 25.
Attlee
on
Mr
It is understood that Menon explained fully the starkl taken by the Indian
ment
regarding the
Govern-
Commie-
sion's proposals for a joint India and Pakistan meeting, on Kashmir.
According to Informed poll- tlent circles here, appeals made President Mr Attlee antel hy Truman are not to be interpret-
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n
as anything more than
reflecting the
these which
two
friendly gesture anxiety
countries
amicable
share to sce an settlement
Kashmir dispute,
the
British
PEACEFUL SOLUTION In the case of the Government, the source said, the anxlely for finding #penceful solution in Kashmir is all the the fact that more because of
the disputant countries are both members of the Commonwealth.
It may be recalled that recent. ly there was a Foreign Office conference here attended by the
En British High Commissionera New Delhi and Karachi as well ins the British Ambassador, in Washington, Sir Oliver Franks, -Am-I was suggested at the time that the conference discussed the "ducks"
Kashmir problem.
(DUKW) were rushed to The sources emphasised that
the flood-stricken Kempsey area of New South Wales today to take fodder to thousands of cattle maroon- ed and starving in a sea of mud.
The "ducks" will go out lo morrow to sandhills sticking out where 6,000 cattle, of the mul without food for six days, are dying from starvation and weakness. But formers doubted whether they could carry unauth food to feed all the herds.
More than 15,000 cattle died last week-end when the Macleay River burst its banks and turned 200 square miles of land into a raging flood.
there can be no suggestion in this appeal of Britain offering any kind of mediation In dispute.
of
the
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BRITISH ATTITUDE The oficial altitude British Government is said be that the Kashmir question a domestic dispute between In- dia and Pakistan in which British Government is most re- luctant to do anything but offer friendly advice.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1949.
Most Unusual Pet
Bad Grain Crops In Russia
Washington. Sept. 1.- The United States Depart- ment of Agriculture said to- day that there had been a serious decline in Russin'a grain crops.
In a report on European graini prospects, the Department sald that its lennings of news from behind the Iron Curtain showed that "In the Soviet Union heavy rain and other harvesting di- culties have caused a consider- sble reduction of the grain crop, which looked promising earlier in the ceason."
The Department's report sald
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culties in a number of regions continued early in August,
"Much of the grain that wris cut was still unstacked early in August; and
probably
de-
during the heavy
ruf which were widespread,"
terlorated
the report said,
CROP LOSSES
"Considerable crop
The quality of the
ELECTED
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Bonn, Germany, Sept. 1- Dr Konrad Adenauer was losses today elected leader of the
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15,000 German
"Peace Invaders"
Western Zone
Neustadt, Bavaria, Sopt, 1-Crowds of Soviet Zone Germans, estimated at 15,000 strong, today brushed past West German frontier guards and American patrols to "invade" the United States Zone as part of a "Peace Day" celebration commemorating the 10th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II.
less to stop the surge of the "peace invaders"
Vere reported, thus reducing 139 Christian Democrat and the actual barn' yield of what Christian Social delegates in German West promsled to be a good erop of the new
and Federal Parliament. · train-wheat, rye, oats
An Executive Committee was. graln
time. Dr report Adenauer was given a mandate to continue the negotiations for. the formation of a Government, The Departinent said that
re-which he is expected to bend as good sugar beet crop wAS
In the Chancellor, ported to be maturing Lleraine, the principal Sugar
of hept region
ber
added.
Union.
elected at the same the regions,"
the
The mandate will be based on Sovlet e economic "free enterprise" policy pursued by Dr Ludwig
W!
Lo be
In contrast with conditions in Echord when he controlled the Prussia, the Department said German economie polley in the
Administration of the Bizone. that weather conditions be-
Dr Erlurd has been tipped as tween mid-July Arct mid- Minister of Economy in the August viere favourable toi
future West German Adminis- the grain harvest in the rest of tration, Europe.
The negotiations In Yugoslavia, the Depart-conducted with all men of good. ment said that the bread grain, win."
A special resolution states. which had already been har vesteci, was "slightly better however, that the Social De than in 1940."
by Insisting mocrats
had! changed economic policy. "destroyed the precondition for of the two large co-operation parties in the Federal Govern- ment."
on
De
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Outside of Russia, the report said that the bread grain out- put in Europe may turn out to Dr Adennurr will be assisted Many of the Germans had
be not far short of last year's in the leadership of the parly been brought to the zonul
"Nothing short of barbed wire the 1935-39 average.
crop and close lo 90 percent of jy three deputies-Herr Jakob DC- Kaiser, former Christian border in four special trains
and machine-guns could have
However, from Sonnenberg, Thurin- stopped them," said one Ameri- suffering from a drought.
France was still mocrat leader in the Soviet As Zone, Herr Fritz Schaeffer, the thegia. The trains were embla-can officer, adding that on an a result wheat yields would be firs
pustwar Premier of zoned with banners declaring average there were only three lower than last year, though Davarin, who was deposed by
Huards to every five-eighths of still above the prewar average, the American Military Govern "We Promote Peace."
mile of frontier. 31
In Britain, whent yields were ment, and Herr Friedrich Har A cecurity
Onicials said that the "in-
floor average, zapfel, former Party Government tonight vasion began when about 100 reported to be above Military
leader in the Dizonal Economic said that many of the "peace Germans walked unchallenged though below last year.
The fruit crop was reported Council-Reuter. invaders" in fact carried house- past the guards on the United
goods and hold
heavy suit-States side of the frontler about to be good in most of Europe, but the potato crop was expected that suggesting
their noon. was prompted by Waves
to be considerably smaller than surging
frontier 1948. Prospects for sugar "They are still coming and it through the fields, forests and beets were generally favourable.
impossible to slop it," this ronds, oficer said. He reported soldiers and Soviet border police frontier crossings
various taking any action. places.
the
The lext of Mr Attlee's cable is not available but it is learned that it generally follows Presi-journey dent Truman's appeal,
cases,
other motives.
Is
The substance
of the latest proposal put forward by the Kashmir Commission is not Under others from the
known here. But one quarter Health Department volunteers here suggested that this might have begun collecting ecreases be a move to get the two coun- which litter the area, To tries to agree to neutral arbitra-cils here
West German flame-throwers. tion-en-nuch-points-of-difference -disease, may be used to destroy them.
as have arisen out of the carller frontier patrols The alleinl deathroll in the disaster is now six, but police proposals of the Commission for
implementing the ment.-Reuter.
venti
are still trying to tree n girl of 12 and two younger children who were last seen on Satur- day in a smnil box which was being swept along by the swift flood waters-Reuter.
BOLIVIAN REBELS BOMB LA PAZ
Irure agree-
Margaret Named
For Poise
New York, Sept.
her "social poise," Princess Margaret today was named one of the 10 model women of the by the Vogue world, chosen School of Fashion Modelling.
wax
officer of the
at
of others followed, across the
neither Soviet
with
A constabulary ofleer near off-Coburg said that one train he Military Government.
sold that
ball the saw rive from the East Zong train. "looked like a refugee and American
with people droped_over_the_ -were-power" roofs, out of windows and even
on the locomotive,"
Uniformed members of the
Zone's Free German) Youth Organisation arrived by cars at Rodec, in the United
Greta Garbo Soviet
Determined
~~Reuter.
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TO-DAY
New Fiji Chief 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m.
Justice
London, Sept. 1.Mr Jolin Henry Vaughan, Attorney
Reds General in Fill, has been ap-
Attack U.S.
Japan Policy
pointed Chief Justice there, the Colonial Office announced to- night
Mr Vaughan
was appointed
Resident Magistrate in Zanzibar in 1929 and became Assistant Attorney General there in 1934- Не Wha appointed Solicito General In Tanganyika. twi
General in Fiji in 1945.-Reuter,
|States Zone, this afternoon and San Francisco, Sept. 1. years later and became Attorney
vainly tried to organise a de-The Communist New China monstration.
Trucks. motor rycles and News Agency in a Peiping? blcycles streamed past American broadcast tonight said that
To Be Alone Zone guards, who were unable the United States was fol
to stem the tide. the officer added.-Neuter.
planes bombed La Paz twice to the U.S., for being a "help a film here have
mate and fashionwise." The duced the same rengilon as all a mammoth midnight torch-
today in the first of such other
Bolivian revolution.
In the frst attack,
plane dropped a dud near
rebel 11:0
stato radio and telegraph office.
nomed women
Nature Supplies
silence.
by the
Japan.
редие
(11) "undeclared lowing Rome, Sept. 1.-Greta
pence" policy towards Garbo's desire to be alone"
'IN BERLIN
to enabling her today caused the Swedish
Berlin, Sept. 1.-There were participate int internu- The Indian Ambassador film star, now visiting Italy, no observances in three Western tional conferences, establish
States, the United
Madan
to leave her Rome hotel for Sectors of Berlin today of the
und consulates. the last Vijaya Lakhsmi Pandit,
wars foreign villa universary of #intelligence" named for her
secret suburban
beginning.
begin "other bllateral acti- and Madarne Henri Bonnet, which she has rented.
The Soviet-occupied Eastern vities." Reports that she would make Sector, however, began its cele
The Agency said this polley La Paz, Sept. 1.-Rebel wife of the French Ambassador
so far pro-bration of the "pence day" with
unvelled the true countenance of American imperialism." were other major news itens about light parade in Potsdam, on which showed that America was attacks in the six-day-old | Americans.-United Press, her in the past 10 years—the outskirts of the capital.
The Red Army newspaper in bent on delaying the
effect to
a "long-term Italian hackers were reported Berlin, Taegliche Rundschau, occupation of Japan and swiftly tonight to have withdrawn | published the text of a note transform her into a main buse The Realism
support of a film in which she sont
Communist-: for conducting American aggres London, September 1-The was to have made her delayed' dominated German Soviet Zonen in the Far East."
Their decision was People's Council to the Govern- (London) Open comeback.
It alleged that America hud Alr Theatre Company had understood to have been taken ment of Poland declaring:
openly allowed Japan to unite "It is a natiorial obligation with "reactionaries in South- batteries re-reached the third act of "The after conferences in her hotel
which Tempest", by William
for all democratic and peace-cast Asian countries through The reasons for their action loving Germans to opposes all bilaterm activities "to build a polled the second raid, was made from a great helght speare.
Stephane had just delivered were not given. and lasted only a few minutes. his une, "The sea canuot drown The film was to have been elements who attempt to mia reactionary front to organise
the new German-Pollsh Far Eastern anti-Communism." The Government high
The Duchess of Langeals" and border
for the unloosing of This would also bring about mand has ordered its troops to me."
There was a thunderclap and was to have been made in the another war. The Ill-famed "an anti-popular crusade to en- attack four towns still in rebel
with rain. Performers Florence area downpour of
Britain's imperialistic German policy
circle and attack tho. People's hands.
audlence dashed for James Mason Q8 tho leading towards Foland with all its in- Democratic New China from the and
man.-Reuter.
vazion belongs to the East now outside and to suppress national and will never be repeated.
independence and peopleá' re- CHARGE AGAINST WEST
volutionary movements of East- ern countries."--Reuter, In an editorial commenting on the anniversary of the war, Taegliche *Rundschau sald:
Five hours later, three bombs
tell near the runways of La Regents Park Paz airport.
Anti-aircraft
com-
The revolution has spitt country in two, with the front running roughly north to south from the border of Brazil to thai of Argentina,
The loyalists control the more populous and productive castern two-thirds of the country. about 270,000 square miles with 3,500,000 inhabitants.
Tue rebels' have -one-third of 125,000 square miles and 500,000 Inhabitants-United Press.
Julian Huxley Indisposed
1:40
London, Sept 1-Dr Julian Huxioy, 62, British; scientist and philospher was reported "indis- posed" at his London homo to day. Members of his household said, he was suffering from over. work and wws: "Just resting.".
He was, from 1940 to 1940, Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation- Associated Press.
"
cover.--Associated Press,
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cently formed, to capture the outlaw Communist newspaper Island's uncrowned Barliner Zeitung saki: "Nobody "king: Salvatore Giuliano, 10- East
of: Die Eibe River liever day made its rat captures madel on indication of attacking two bandits.
the West Thong Soviet Union But the men turned out to has never threatened any coun- belong to a minor band and not try with a war. Ehe, on tho to Giuliano's
Giuliano himself was in contrary, has consistently pur-| sued a policy for maintaining hiding after Issuing his ulti- matum, which expires on Sop- While the Soviet-inspired tember 10, threatening "open Easton Sector para prea; war against the Government chod" of "Bubai andaniragrifot unless it granted his request, for pence Allied-Hounsod, papataisni aplebiscite among: Steliansin the West reported on Russia's determine whether he is an out- or a national hero.a' preparations forwarAsso- | Izw clated Press.
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