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FRENCH CABINET VOTED Independence HEADLONG RETREAT
OUT OF OFFICE AT THE FIRST TRIAL
Resigns After Three Days
Paris, July 4.
The three-day-old French Cabinet of M. Henri Queuille (Radical) fell tonight when Socialists joined other parties in voting it down: M. Queuille, who knew that 'Socialists, Gaullists and Communists were against him, was reported to have gone to the Assembly session with a letter of resignation in his pocket.
Chose Queen's Home By Chance
The Scent petion in help- inst 10
down vote
France! thirteenth government since the
19 war was in opposition Queuille's most rejecting P Erneral debate on the compori- tion of his Cabinet.
The Queuille Cabinet resigned it was defeated by 331 votes to 221
its Art in the Assembly,
petrance iss
on
7-
The hostile vote slemned
from Socialist epposition to the London, July 4.
inclusion of certain Conservative
the Government Gerard O'Brien, 20-year-old Ministers in mantener charged with annull-i
Paul
anti
of M. especially Queen Reynaud, who is regarded by ing Mr Alice Knight,
at Marl-hem as the mouthpiece of big Mary's housekeeper borough House, London, chose business, the Queen's home to break into
The President, M. Vincent "by accident," the Prosecution Auriol, will now have to start
ileged at
Blow the
Street looking for a new Premier. Magistrate's Court niny
designate for the second time In less than a fortnight, Mr F. Donald Barry, thr Meanwhile, the Queuille Prosecutor, add that there was Cabinet will conduct
Current
no reason to dlabelieve O'Brien's Government business with M. tatement that he did not hava | Rabert Schuman at the Foreign the faintest idea which house once.
he was breaking Into.
He
to
DIFFICULT TO SOLVE
It was believed that the to break was prepared
steal that new crists will be difficult to re- uny house to
There was fresh talk in night, and it was pure chance:ove.
lobbies of dissolving! that he broke Into Marlborough the
Parliament and holding new elections on.
. House, Mr Barry added.
O'Brien was charged with as-
Though a Socialist was ex- sulting Mr Knight with intent pected to Le asked first
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to rob, and with belt armed form a new government, polt-
with
ebarget
handbag at Caxton Halt Marlborough House.
near
was any
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SOUTHERN KOREANS
Day Toast
Only American
#1
1.E. Mr J. F. Nicoll drinking with Mr Karl Rankin, the American Consul-General, toast to President Truman at the Independence Day cocktail party in the Gripps last evening. (Stuff photographer)
Strong and Massive Sense of
Moral Behaviour
London, July 4. a knife. He was also cat eirdes dict not believe
with assaulting! Mr tonight that there
Mr Lewis Douglas, United States Ambassador Winite! Halph, Mrs Kalht's prospect of a Socialist succeed to Britain. said here tonight that it was hearten- attendant, and with stealing a ing in the task.
They saw the Popular Re-ing to realise "that there is in the world a strong publican leader, M. G. and massive sense of moral behaviour" and that it
of the Bidault,
near-Radical,
as possible could "quicken the actions of men and of nations M. Rene Plevin, inter enndidates chances of success.
with better in a righteous cause"-the defence of South Observer took tonight's de- Korea.
Me Dony cald O'Brien made statement to the police saying that he had a lot of drinks that night and climbed over the wall house aut knowing whose jute it wat
feat of the Queuille administra Addressing the Independence | which there had been an act
tion as a clear indication that
I no government of which
can
the be
Parliament.
He pleaded not guilty. was sent for trial at the Central Socialists disapprove
in this Bailey) formed Criminal Court (Old
London-Reuter.
EDITORIAL
* Neuter.
11
Air Cover Air
Prevents Tragic Debacle
U.S. INFANTRY DIGGING IN
South Korea, July 5.
Heavy panzers led 25,000 Communists in a swift strike south at Korea's rice bowl after engulfing Suwon, battle centre 25 miles from Seoul
Mr Bevin To Take Holiday
London, July 4, Mr Ernest Bevin, the Foreign Secretary, ts likely to leave the London clinic recovering where he is
troen a recent operation, Fame time in the middle of oral week, It was learned well- from a. usually Informed source today.
Mr Bevin will then take a short holiday before re- the furning
1o work at Foreign Office, probably in the beginning of August.
Press reports that he would leave the nursing home next weck-cuck were retarded ture-Reuter.
as prema-
Mr Churchill says:
American tank-busters are waiting for them
at this tense, expectant front-line to somewhere on the paddy field-lined road from Suwon.
The North Koreans, in "their most efficient concentration" of the 10-day-old war, were moving!
in force behind tank spearheads to locate Ameri- can positions, an Army spokesman here said.
to the Royal There had been "no con-parently similar tact yet," he said, between Australian Air Force's roundel, according to reports by seven American ground troops and different witnesses, he said.
In Tokyo, Lieutenan:-General British Horace Robertson, Occupation Forces' Commander,
the Northerners though General MacArthur's Tokyo Sir Hara headquarters announced said that it was impossible for
earlier that G.I.'s had been Australian Mustangs to have In battle for the first timu made the attack because there yesterday.
OF
Mediation Offer Not Received
Washington, July 4. An American State De- partment spokesman said today that a reported offer from India to mediate in the Korean war had not been received here up to carly this afternoon.
The spokesman said that it was difficult for him to see how the United States could take part In any mediation efforts with Russia, since the Korean war sie was one between North Korea and the United Nailuns-Reater,
Growing Strikes Threaten
Britain
London, July 4. were no RAAF, planes in the air at the time.
Three growing strikes to War-planes exploring the un-night threatened to dis-
No-Man's-Land north of
British industry-food dis- tribution, rail transport ami coal mining.
Two Red-starred King Cobras: of the type given to Russia cary under American Lend-Lease this Amerienn line reported six organise vital, sectors of attacked a British patrol frigate northern tanks inside the an eff the Korean coast, damaging cient walled city of Suwon
DIGGING IN It slightly.
Suwon and its important air- Independence Lay found the With 2,000 troops drafted into
Central Meat Mar strip fell after a feree struggle G's puzzled and stil dinging London's
northern approaches, while their patrols swept far toket, the strike which last week uli the
north looking for Koreans the
the robbed many L adoners of their the outflanked South
attacked from Two hundred slaughter-house
N. KOREANS ing back before Com-enemy. Sweating in the doom meat ration was held in check. heat, sometimes,"dragged their workers in North London joined
MUST BE SMASHED
Mr Winston
munist tanks.
the air, they ROUT THREATENED Late last night reports from powerful anti-tank guna
position and settled down the Suwon front said that ot- lacks by North Korean planes an early show-down.
Officers scanned the horizon threatened to turn the South
from road Korean withdrawal from the through field
inta for
straddling.
there
were
hourly
advance
in- Fuards'
armour,
strike today and a threat of the symphathetic action by London dockera
remained.
A strike by 200 railway men
may
In Scotland a mirike in protest against the refusal of the State- bristling
run coal Industry to grant an- city into a rout.
but
was no gung.
shillings a other 15
week to Four fighters resembling with
400,000 lower paid workers Must:
and reported to be sign of the Northerners. London, July 1.
United States reinforcements
swept through more collerles, Insignia. bearinst the Russian
10 are streaming up steadily with until tonight 10,244 miners had Churchill
strafed Osan, bombed and
work. south of Suwon, as the equipment which
stopped warned tonight that if the Communists triumphed in retreating South Koreans pars creases the Korca a third World Wared through the buning town in ability to deal death to tanks at Banbury, 70 miles from Lon
trucks and on foot.
key weapon of the North Korean dan, in opposition to changes in
scheme, be forced on the
their pensions would
Fightors
ngain hit the rn on laught Western democracies.
and Riding where Australian
South Koreana, spread next week-end. Unlike the
armies Eight hundred locomotive of the American i of unpanion ble aggression”—
to white weckly-gunned reported Day dinner
Mr Churchill told the Ameri- Mustangs
before
the drivers and firemen at Pedding- Govern- the Society
London
the
only at
remained
ave attacked advanced Ameri- cracked recognised by can Society at an Independence
An Americans now pack tremen-ion, main London terminus for Dore.ester Hotel, he gaid that I ment of Korca
can frontlines by mistake. Day der: "It is of vital con
West-country trains, voled to- who watched ye-witness the Republic of Kova-against the United Nations.
the dous anti-tank fre.
day to join. sequence that what the Com
the strike TANKS CAPTURED? The disturbances of the peace minists began in Keren should planes through blizoculars to.d
Friday evening- If me that they were Russian-type
apale of uncon- Among the
J in Korea had not begun in the not end in their triumpa.
with D Armed rumours reaching here OBJECT TO DELAY United States. They were not that were to be the case, a third.esembling Mustangs,
star in a blue circle
The Meat Market strike also considered in No. 10 Downing World War under terrible con-white
or similar to the Australian aign, was a report that South Koreans
deliveries tanks and affects
of butter, had captured four
to Stroet. They were not launched ditions would be
NOT AUSTRALIAN
four armoured cars at Chechon, margarine, bacon and eggs in the Security Council. They hurled upon us."
Mr Churchill
Latest evidence seemed to 70 miles east of Suwon. One hundreds of London shops, did not begin in South Korea.
the The strikers ray that they that should a now
show that it was North Korean tank
In bandling a and disturbances of the World War come, "we shall not nihters peace, this act of unpardonable be trampled
theuins." when started aggression, North Korean organised troops the 38th in
force crossed Parallel.
Korea Disturbs Europe
Hoon as
stroke
the
"There
that the
However, warned
forced
captured
by
the
on
not Australian Southerners was being brought object to delay in serfdom and Mustangs which raked Amert- down for experts to examine claim for a 19 shillings weekly
auference
nny inorc
callbre.
substantiat
Both the marking of
114
e of the United The Atomic Warning European Payments
To Korea Urged
Washington, July 4.
Union Certain
tions scheme to be compulsory,
want membership of their pen-
Cold War-ter
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In Berlin
Berlin, July 4. Emergency measures to supply Western estimated 50,000 Berliners with water in their honies failed today
following the
01:1
THE wave of disqutel over Europe stantial majority to Germany's entrance
provoked by
into the Council of Europe, the Moscow-inspired
a decision
anwago rise. and
spokesman 31 Identify has not
can advanced positions yester- with the which is Inevitably linked onslaught on Southern Koren
strikers have The Banbury that to ams to mo better
American spokesman stated here. He added day, an
and fremen Schuman Plan in its proper perspective. been dispelled by the sharp American re-
here. He showed hope for settlement with Soviet d
American planes kept up their colled on drivers
the Railways" wen throughout The Germans west of the Soviet Zone
the Com- builct dự Russia, following
out of a strafeder
offensive sweeps tort. Some confidence has been restored
yesterday, rockets munists defeat in Korea on a Kotent lorry Immediately after punching
lato ropd tern region to join the strike brilliant Schuman greeted the in the sense that the U.S. defence chiefs
"It was only then
than to drift the 25-minute raid and Self-
con Junctions and tanks and straf- every week-end until their pen- two reasons.
siens claim is conceited. They kuve demonstrated their determinazion
enthusiastically for
normallying and with that
bombing Northern Security Council considered the focalized coale
pared it for a not to be caught napping, and very interest obviously was involved,
problem In a wholly inwfaton. Nothing is more dangerous
han to drift," apparent
fin to the the Soviet's
West by Germany pledged effectively, but
Mr Churchill said he did not fired by a Mustang. There was troop concentrations and con- meeting, the legnilty of which
in voys. was not then and has not since think the situation large-scale industrial culmoness when probably seething inward.
amalgamation of
One American F80 jet fighter instead of voluntary-Router. been doubted by any member dangerous since e outbreak
the was hit by tank fire north of ly creates suspicion that things are not interests could rightly look forward to un
atlending," Mr Douglas said.
of the Korean conillet, but
ap
(Contd. on Pare 5, Col. 4) quite what they seem. Already there
increasing measure of self-government as
"I thought It streat rocket-Aring fighters were become international tension
Northern Edded: "The act of the have been rumblings in the Balkan area,
before."-United Press. Korean forces was bluntly noticeably abulting the territory governed relaxed. But enlightenment demanding a
democratic
of way
life by Tito, unforgivable sinner against the
labelled as an act of aggression. against
My Government's nation, which Kremlin, and secret service agents are on totalitarianism does not eliminate
WIS In accordance with the alert lest the co-ordinated and well.
threat of an attempt at imposition; rather
Charter Nations, the reverse. To stall the planned Invasion by the North Korean
thrent, Dr
and the action of every other country have been taken in re- Adenauer insists on the necessity for a satellite troops represents a mere teint,
sponse to their obligations un- seeking to tie down as many U.S. forces federal union in Western Europe, for a
der the Charter and in answer as possible while the real coup is being solid bastion of resistance to pressure
to the call of the Security Coun- from the East to be created. It is in-
cil to restore the status quo." mounted. West Germany, too, is inclined to study the scene with apprehension, teresting that the Socialists in the Bonn
Korean adventure viewing the
Parliament opposed association with the Council of Europe on the ground that it would be infra dig to join on an equal status with the Saar, und that in any case there was no evidence that Adenauer's policy of "currying favour" with the Hig Three had produced practical and bene ficial results. It is possible that they were playing the role of loyal upposition hoping to strengthen Adenauer's hand in negotiations for relaxation of Allled con trols, but whatever the facts as to that, nothing is more certain than Adenauer's revulsion to anything suggestive of a Communist-dominated Germany and his conviction that, at some time or other, the Issue will be put to the test. With the Korca crisis as a revelation of Soviet tactical duplicity, Dr Adenauer kas posed a problem for the Big Three warranting corneal study.
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dangerous example of what the Soviets could easily duplicate in Central Europe on what they fear might be regarded in the Kremlin as the line of least resistance. Monday's formal application to the High Commissioners of the Big Three for de. finite guarantees of Western Germany's security emphasises the atmosphere of of occupation troops vigli. Presence does not satisfy the Chancellor that a sudden thrust by Communist forces train- ed behind the Iron Curtain could not re sull in the overrunning of West Germany. Undoubtedly there
In Dr The Adenauer'a mind than this alone. second round of negotiations en the pool. ing of the heavy Industry resources of Western Europe began in Paris also ou Mouday. Less than a fortnight ago, the Bonn Parliament gave approval by a dub..
more
Mr Douglas. "overwhelming
The Washington Post sald today that North Korea should the said that
be warned
ikelihood of tho and might
London, July 4.
British financial officials indicated today that
of an atomic attack it Com-final_greement on the European Payments Union weight of the moral opinion of munist forces did not withdraw would probably be reached in Paris before the the world lies squarely behind from invaded South Korea.
week-end. that have | tl measures
authorised."Reuter
Dutch
been
Destroyer Neglect no For Korea
of
prematuro cloredown of pumps in the Russian sector.
Hundreds of
persons queued
at hydrants in low regions in
the Neue Koreln district when
tapy in their homes on higher
| ground went dry,
For one hour a normal water.
Legal drafting of the agreement would then take some time, so that it might not be formally supply pwed freely this after- signed until September.
noon after West sector officials requested their Russian sector counterparty to supply water on
"America's part in the pro- paganda battle is just as vital as the military component the police action," the Post sald
editorial. Fin an
meant is tho military maxim. The Invaders A meeting of Ministers in the incorporated in the Paymentsa tempatary emergency besis. must be told that ou means Executive Council, with the Union agreement,
This supply was soon halted on In general, no O.E.E.C. coun- the orders of the Soviet district will be used, even If this ro- British Economics Minister, Mr
will be allowed as Chairman, fry quired the employment of the Hugh Galtske?),
lo dis- Mayor, West Berlin officials suid. The Hague, July 4.
among to throw them will be held in Paris tomorrow criminate
the others. United Press. bomb, atomic The Netherlands Government back," the Post sald-Reuler,
Алу liberalisation evening.
or restric- hna ordered the Dutch destroyer
tws of trade by any country Indonesian now in
to be applied to The Council meeting of senior would have
O.EE.C. Ministers on the Organisation all other waters, to join the other naval
Co-uniformly. forces
for European Economic Operation will probably late on Thursday morning.
Sir Stafford Cripps. Chon- the beginning of the new Mar- said 'in a statement today. that cellor of the Exchequer, will go shall Ald year. The intra- they had no plans at present
European payments rehome for for caling up reserves or usin to Paris early on Thursday.
The British officials said that the past Marshall year expired conscription to obtain men.
trade
Reuter. rules would be lon Juna 30,-Reuter.
Evertaco
operating
an-
оп Korean
wateru.
It was officially
nounced today,
NO JITTERS
Washington, July 4. Naval authorities sald today that a report that an unidenti- Econ This has been done to give ned submarine had been
off the effect to the Security Council's in the Gulf of Mexico
coast had been recommendation of June 27 to Florida give aid to South Korea, the an- "evaluated as very doubtful."
Reuter, nouncement mid-Reuter.
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Countries NOT AT PRESENT
start
The Union agreement would be retrospective from July –– 1,
The
Washington, July 4, Defence Department