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ANGLO - RUSSIAN RELATIONS

Contrast Between Two Governments' Attitudes

Campaign Against Bevin

(By Michael Foot, Political Commentator).

LONDON, FEB. 5. FACTS ARE STILL FACTS, IT MAY BE IMPOLITE TO MENTION THEM. BUT SINCE A MULTITUDE OF PERSONS RANGING FROM COLONEL MC- CORMICK OF THE "CHICAGO TRIBUNE" TO THE BRITISH COMMUNIST PARTY, IS BUSILY ENGAGED IN A CAMPAIGN TO SUGGEST THAT ALL EVILS FROM WHICH THE WORLD IS SUF FERING ARE THE WORK OF THE MACHIAVEL LIAN BRITISH GOVERNMENT IN GENERAL, AND MR. ERNEST BEVIN IN PARTICULAR, A FEW SHOULD BE REPEATED.

THE FIRST IS THAT BRITAIN, MORE THAN ANY OF THE GREAT POWERS, HAS PROFED BY DEEDS THAT IT IS PREPARED TO GIVE THE UNITED NITIONS ORGANISATION THE FULL EST AUTHORITY EVEN WHERE OUR OWN SEA POSED SECTIONAL INTERESTS MAY BE INTOLE- ED.

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When the actions of the Br tish Government re the sub- jeet of complaint, our response is to demand the most cosiplete" and publie enquiry. When the actions of the Soviet Govern- ment are the subject of com- plaint, their response is to up- puse any such enquiry. There is no getting round those twe contrasted facts.

The first is an attitude which KETCHIKAN, FEB. 6.

can make an international or LINER "YUKON" ganimation work, and the second BROKE IN TWO WITH ITS in an attitude in which a nation FORN PART REMAINING

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WHEN ADMIRALS MEET. Admiral Sir Bruce Fraset, C.-in-C. B.P.F., greets Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten on boned II.M.S. "Duke of York" during the visit of the Supreme Allied Commander, South-East Asia to Hong Kong.

DRAMATICS BY BEVIN AT

U.N.O.

LONDON, FEB. 5.

THERE WAS A THROB IN THE QUIET VOICE OF ERNEST BEVIN AS HE DENIED THAT BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY IN GREECE ENDANGERED THE PEACE OF THE WORLD.

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In

Everything Mr. Vyshinsky say: about Perala may be perfectly true, but why should he be

The heavy British Foreign eager to hide his light under POUGHT TO

bushel? At RESCUE

Mr. Ernest Minister spoke in calm, PERSONS APPARENTLY Bevin who, according to the Rus-sured tones as he addressed the STILL ADGARD

Corinne de United Nations Security Com- Grucognachuoneth The atinosphere was clee- The "Onondaga's" two power would boats fought in icy water and high Jenesia, is not so bashful. Th-tric as he replied to accusations waves. It reported that weather identally, it is not a fact that the of the Soviet Union that pence and spa conditions were improving Persian appeal to the U.NO, was

was being endangered by the Blightly.

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Brilish incitement made

presetice of British troops At Anchorage 1 -17 planes encouragement. That is not true.

the Rus Greece. The second fact is carrying power resene hosts were

Alen-sian note about Grence means, ordered to proceed to tho

The conference room has no tians, while recrue vereals it nuns anything that British

on Ba serar 19 ad the troops should be summarily with elaborate settings, it is almost an drawn from Greece. What would atmphere of austerity. But "Onondaga"-Associated Press.

be the result? It is certainly no elaborate settings or stage ruable that British troops effects were needed to underscore should

never have gone to Greece the drama that was unfolder, f in the first place, and that at the Here was the first issue of one time of civil war Mr. Churchill, nation being accused of conduct- with his monarchial the side of sence of other nations.

ing a policy dangerous to the| used our influence London, Feb. 5.

It is pitiable nonsense reaction,

Bevin seldom raised the level Many ditches, BONIO

of tham to pretend that the whole situation more than 30

filled can now be remelied by the simple of his voice. But the quies can- feat deep. with the bodies of some 100,000 withdrawal. following advice from ference room resounded with the the The only result of with thump, thump, thump of Russian, Polish, French and Bri- Moscow.

huge forefinger of his left hand as he struck the horseshoe table to emphasise his contentionя.

Silesia Horror

on

1 Liah prisoners of war. have been drawal now would be civil war.

dlacovered

the locality

Landsdorf in Silesia, according to the Moscow Radio,

HARD-HEARTED!

Once having engaged so deeply in Greek affairs, the only honour- The broadoast said that

to seek the special commission of the Polishable way out was

establishment of

government which would attempt the work of

Government and Red Army re-

Gold Teeth Popular

Chungking, Feb. 5. Many Japanese in For mosa are having good teeth yanked out and gold ones substituted, a Chinese re- port stated yesterday.

This was being done, it said, to circumvent the ban against repatriated Japan- esc taking with them gold and other valuables. The Chinese authorities, it achi- ed, had issued orders to dentists forbidding them to use gald in treating Japa

customers. -- 12PAC

AURO- ciated Presa.

A throb entered Bevin's speech ISOGAI IN PRISON

as he referred to what he de- scribed as diabolical charges against Britain. To some specia-

presentatives enquiring into an economic reconstruction and en- tors it seemed he might be en alleged massacre by the Germans are fair elections. This was the the verge of tears.Associated

have

mons

established that the Ger- confined over 200,000 Allied prisoners, the majority of whom were Russians and Poles, at the

Landsdorf camp. When the Red Army occupied Landsdorf only 800 people were found.

The bodies in the ditches were piled up in ten to twelves layers. A medical inspection guronted that the prisoners were shot or died of complete physical exhaus Hon, disease or torture.

Material evidence of this mass extermination is boing forwarded. to the International Military Tel- bung in Naronborg, the Moscow

Radio, added.

The

COTOSCA have been re interned and a large crowd at tended the coromany, A-memo. rial will be erected on the site

where the prisoners wero tor- tured to death, the Redo anidame Rower.

ACID ATTACK ON

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Press,

German Vandalism At Louvain

TOKYO, FEB. 6. LIEUT.-GENERAL RENSUKE ISOGAL, FORMER MILITARY

GOVERNOR OF HONG KONG AND A KEY FIGURE IN JAPAN'S BIGGEST MILITARY DEFEAT PRIOR TO THE PACIFIC WAR, HAS BURREN DERED AT THE SUGAMO PRISON AS A WAR CRIMES SUSPECT.

Izogni, who is 62, was named in

NO-TAXES ISLANDERS' VICTORY

GALWAY, FEB. 5- TWO HUNDRED INDE- PENDENT INHABITANTS OF THE ISLANDS OF TURN AND TURBOT, WHO HAVE DECLARED THEM- SELVES UNTAXABLE. BY THE REPUBLIC OF EIRE! HAVE AGAIN BEATEN "TAX COLLECTORS.

In a dawn motor-boat raid or- dered by the Galway Con- cil to collect the equivalent af about U.S.$18,000 in cur-

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DASTARDLY CRIME IN LIVERPOOL

LIVERPOOL, FEB. 5.

THE POLICE THROUGHOUT LANCASHIRE TO-DAY ARE SEARCHING FOR. A THIEF, OR THIEVES, WHO MURDERED A LITTLE BOY AS HE WAS READING A BOOK IN HIS LIVERPOOL HOME AND THEN ROBBED THE HOUSE.

THE BOY, 11-YEAR OLD CHARLES GREENEY OF EDGE LANE, LIVERPOOL, WAS FOUND HANG- ING IN THE KITCHEN BY HIS PARENTS WHEN THEY RETURNED HOME AFTER VISITING FRIENDS ALL THE LIGHTS IN THE HOUSE WERE ON, A FIRË IVAS BURNING, THE RADIO WAS PLAYING AND ON THE FLOOR WAS A BOOK ABOUT BOY SCOUTS, WHICH CHARLES APPARENTLY HID BÈEN READING WHEN HE

WAS ATTACKED.

C.I.D.

Police Hunt

For Murderer

The murder was described by Chlef Superintendent A. W. Fothergill, Liverpool's Chlef, as a "horribly dastardly crime" and was committed, it is thought, to prevent the buy fren giving information to the police,

The alarm was raised by 14-. taxes and arrears, the balliffs found the two islands year old Ernest Johnson-conaln He noticed all lonely outposts in the Atlantic. of the dead boy.

NEW YORK, FEB. 5 of the city of Clifden, of Ire- lights were on in the house and

the front door open. He went THOUSANDS OF CITY land's west const-deserted.

By some grapevine telegraph, inside and saw Charles hanging POLICEMEN WERE the islanders learned of the raid.

from a clothes rack. Ernest SEARCHING FOR A BABY- knew the house to which the FACED They ponted all the livestock ou

MAN WITH A the common so that there could Greeneys had gone and ran PASTY COMPLEXION IN be no seizure and evacuated en round to them. When the Far CONNECTION WITH THE masse the previous night to the ents raced home the house was

RAPE SLAYING OF ROSE island of Aran, about 25 miles in disorder, south of Turbot,

The bailifts returned empty handed but they are

not the first. The Galway Councils has tried vainly for forty years to collect rates and land annuities on their claim that the islands are under county jurisdiction, Associated Press.

INCIDENTS IN BANGKOK

Among the. stoles articles PALERMO, AGED 15. were carpets, jewellery, a mar WHOSE NUDE AND BAT. ble clock, furs pad clothing. Ap. | TERED BODY WAS FOUND parently an attempt had been LAST SATURDAY IN THE made to take away a radiogram. HALLWAY OF AN ABAN. It was moved some distance and DONED BUILDING. caused an electric clock to stop. thereby giving away the time of the rnid.

Polleg said that the girl was dragged from the street into the building as she was en route

dance.

ANOTHER MURDER It was thought that the in- to her home in Brooklyn after a truder (or intruders) 'must have:

Medical examination showed had some knowledge of the that she was unquestionably household movements and of the raped" and died of "manual

strangulation."

business transacted at the house.

Mrs. Mary Greeney, the boy's Police said that the man they stepmother, carries on businees -Chungking, Ecb.5.

Lare seeking bad bisu anneving- B. moneylander, while the women in the neighbourhood. Further incidents In whichther assists in the business They described him as short and Chinese were assaulted by Slamesq have taken place in sectors around and is also a painter and decora-stocky with brown hair and said Bangkok, according to reports tor.

The boy is stated to have been that he was wearing a blue navy reaching the Chinese Government| delegation to Sian.

intelligent and well develped, coat over a brown a my sweater. Several strands of brown hair "Siamese soldiers and policemen and it is possible that he tackled ware

between found clutched the thieves after surprising the girl's ingers. Associated were involved, in the outrages,

n Bangkok dispatch to the them. rtuted a Bar Government Noys Agency.

by a

controlled Central Another murder was disenver-

One report said that a Chinese ed in Liverpool on Saturday restaurant ower and his three, that of a 60-year old Chinese who was found assistants at Lapannin, 50 miles laundryman, north of Bangkok, were attacked stabbed to death in his bedroom

a group

of Stamese Baldiors, over the laundry in Scotland following an argument a Road. Both the laundry' and 50-bahe note. Shortly afterwards, the back-room had been ranksyk- more soldiers armed with rifles, ed and wrecked. Money, which light machine-guna and hand-was in a small box, was missing grenades arrived on the scene.

and a number of articles were stolen..

over

In spite of the efforts of the district magistrate. fires were started, and the Chinese, attempt-

The Liverpool polico do not

Ing to extinguish the flames, were connect the two murders-Reu-

ter. beaten up.--Reuter.

Starvation Spectre In Silesia

PRAGUE, FEB. 5-

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STARVATION, OR DISEASE ARE STALKING SMALL, TOWNS AND VILLAGES IN THE BORDER AREAS OF GERMAN SILESIA NOW ADMINISTERED BY POLAND. NEUTRAL TRAVELLERS WHO HAVE CROSSED THE FRONTIER REPORT THAT ONLY A MIRACLE CAN SAVE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE FROM DEATH THIS WINTER IN THE DISTRICTS AROUND RATIBER, HLUBCICE AND GLATZ AND IN THE AREA BEYOND REICHENBERG IN NORTH EAS- TERN BOHEMIA.'

Press.

New York Shipping Tie-Up

New York, Feb. 5. The strike by 3,500 tugboat workers, supported by 80.000 longshoremen, has tied up ship. ping in the vast New York dar bour and cut off a large portion of the city's, food and fuel sup- plies.

The workmen, who are mem- bers of the local united marine division of the A.F.L*Inter- national Longshoremen's A880- clation, ocially left their jobs at one minute past midnight ou Sunday as a result of the, wage dispute with operators erganised as the New York Tugboat Ex- change. The longshoremen were ordered by union heads to re- fase to load or unload any whip

by normally handled

the strikers,

Troopships returning soldiers from abroad are not affected an they are serviced by army tags.. In' Washington, -Federal

the allied headquarters list sont to the Japanese liaison offico en 10 for apprehension. Jan. NUERNBERG, FES. 5.

Isogal was Chief of Staff of the GERMAN INVASION FORCES "DELIBERATELY AND Kwantung Army when the Japa- SYSTEMATICALLY DESTROYED THE WORLD the Soviet-Mongal forces in the nese were declsively dofented by RENOWNED LOUVAIN UNIVERSITY LIBRARY at onchuria puter. Mongolia In scores of villages and towns land to make way for Polish seizure was seen as a possibly HISTORY PROFESSOR LEON VAN DER ESSEN the

in the event of the city's supply TOLD THE INTERNATIONAL WAR CRIMES TRI- border. As result Isogai and BUNAL YESTERDAY.

his Commander-in-Chief, Lout these regions, they report, settlers.

NO UNRRA RELIEF.. there is practically nothing to

needs becoming desperate. Yoshiro Umezy, Jumin's General

These districts are too remote APPEALING AS A PROSECUTION WITNESS IN CON- military signatory to the surrebat apart from a few potatoos

Mayor O'Dwyer estimated present systera of NECTION WITH THE NAZI OCCUPATION OF dor on Sept. 2, both resigned in and roots and occasionally a few for any BELGIUM, VAN DER ESSEN, WHO IS ALSO THE der Inactive until he literally destitute,

slices of bread. The people are U.N.R.K.A. relief to reach them that the city will be without 80 par-cent of. its normal coal and The only, organisation which other fuel and nearly half ita UNIVERSITY'S SEGRETARY-GENERAL, SAID TWO

In some villages, a system of they seem to possess, according food supply, GERMAN ARTILLERY BATTERIES FIRED ON becams Governor of Hong Kong.

communal cooking is being car to the travellers, is that of the Workere are seeking a forty THE LIBRARY WHILE 43 PLANES ROMBED IT ON

ried-out under the supervision religious bodies, especially the hour week in placa of the pre- THE MORNING OF MAY 17, 1940-

of the clergy. The people go Parish clergy and the roligious sent 48 hourly wage boosts out on forraging parties every orders in chargo of hospitals ranging from 43 cents for licens can to eat from the fields. slovakia are fully aware of their licensed personnel bringing the condition, but they are power top Achlo to $1.85 for licensed

gorosanel and $1.35 for un outbreaks of typhold fever and beyond their territory. Many relicensed personnal, — Associated other discanes owing to the pol-fugees cross the border every

Preso lution of the water supplies and day appealing for help Renter the low physical condition of

Local

Associated Press.

20,000 POUNDS

"They fired systematically at had to caution' him several timbe Police are investigating an the Library and only at the to speak more slowly to enable - acid attack on a dancing hostess Library," the professor related, translators to keep abreast of

employed at the Chinn Em-adding that the building was the him. He recalled that 1940.Ger- TRAIN ROBBERY porium Ballroom last night. only structure hit during the man propaganda attempted to The girl, was attack in Queen's shelling and bombing except for place the blame for the destruc-

Calro Fab. B Road Central, near the Em- one shellburst, in a small house tion on British troops retreat- porium by an unknown Chirues in the University quarter.

Bandits, belleved to have before Nazi who threw acid at her from be The professor.recalled the Swart those advance to numbered about six, lower hind. She suffered, slight in German destruction of the Libr deny moet categorically and themselves-from-the-k Jurica..

ary-one of the best in Europe, most formally that lie, ho to train into the postal

mbit It was stated the same than during the World War No. clai 1.- Associafon Press. tried unsuccessfully to attack At that time, priceless mani

day to collect what little they The authorities in Czechoed personnel to 68 cents for un

There have been many serious less to intervene nd the areng are

There are three main cAUKOR 2. for the terrible plight of the Mr. First, there is the war hich has left its mark on some

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