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FOUR PEOPLE WERE KILLED AND SEVENTEEN TAKEN TO HOSPITAL WITH INJURIES WHEN THE POLICE OPENED FIRE ON CROWDS TO- DAY. THREE OF THOSE WHO DIED WERE HIT BY BUL LETS IN THE BHOWANIPORE AREA IN SOUTH CALGUTTA, WHERE CROWDS II AD ERECTED CRUDE BARRICADES END THREW STONES.
British Policy On Spain
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TREASON
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China Envoy Far-Reaching
Enigmatic
Washington, Fah. 12. The Chinese Ambuaandar herg, Mr. Wei Tao-ming, re- Juried yesterday from Chung- king where he has been cau- forging with government of- ficjaln Wei declined to make EL NT!
statement. # muid A wd are aident Truman and Sterêtern of Stage Byrner in the course of the next few dopa and "then I won hava something to way."--Associat- nd Press,
DETENTION
YOUNG WOMAN, HEARD AT BARRACKS
THE MARYLEBONE counT ON OCTOBER 10
frem
Purdy
DISTURBANCE
North Allerlon, Feb. 11,
Labour Scheme
LONDON, FEB..... ACQUISITION OF BRITAIN'S 1.047 GAS COMPANES AT A COST.EXPECTED TO TOTAL ALMOST £300,000,000 AND THE FORMATION OF A GOV. ERNMENT BOARD TO WORK. THE INDUSTRY UNDER PUBLIC OWNERSHIP IS PLANNED BY THE LABOUR GOVERNMENT,
THE LEGISLATION #HI PROBABLY BE IN, RO- DUCED SOME TIME THIS YEAR. WHEN TIME BILL HAS RECEIVED ROYAL, ASSENT, THE GOES ERNMENT WILL BE THE ONLY GAS SUPPLIER FOR THIS COUNTRY W11,200,000 CONSUMERS AND THE EMPLOYER OF 125,000 MEN AND WO MEN NOIP WORKING FOR PRIVATE AND MUNI CIVIL COMPANIES
Some Rietlite industr 41 xas Industry is cstitunied by the certain to be involved, but exact British Cas Council at about details of the national; ativa | $181,000,000. According to Mr. plans have not yet been
Frank Jones, Chalet sam of the closed.
British Gas Care the end of The British gas indusi... the fequiuition of all these under-
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A strike by transport worl, | the Polier gesterday, when stu] vra was called for to-day as at demonstrated against LED TO THE "MISTER" IN protest against, what the Tran sentence pašnod na Rashid Al-, THE
CASE AFTERWARDS | port Union President calba, the dol, who was a captain in the RENTAL,D)
AS NAVAL KN nwarranted charge made by Japanese recruited "alizon Na GINEER
WALTER ROBERT
A War Ofee inquiry 14 te bej largest in Europe, usen 210080),- takings is likely to be $272.000,- tional Army."
PURDY BEING SENTENCED
held into the disturbancer over Do tons of coal a year. '1'le | 000," riginally condemned 14 life 10 DEATH FOR TREASON.
Labour government's aim is to the week-end in the Northaller been reprieved.
"The Gaverage ha An- Re has since bei tean gortation, Rashid's sentence
This was slated
the Old ton Military Detention Baerucks | integrate its operations with the nomineed its interad to? 301- war corumtled to seven yo oral,
Bai eserday when the woman frem which 30 ml, serving coal afining and electricity tronalising the industry áut the imprisonment.
Irene Belly Bandey, nged By, was long sentences
ndustries which are also ache-industry cannot take par During yesterday's dem bound over for two years for at Saturday,
duded for nationalisation. olitical controversy, and monst London, Feb, 15
stralian, crowds get fire to mili tempting to extort twenty pounds;
The Police made
By lostay, 400 police, troepsmately, there will-be a Nationand accept the situation," he said. Great Britain pesuty Er tary vehicles,
and civilians, searching a 50- Coal, and Power Corporation to
PRIVATE OWNERSHIP' with Lathis Ibramboo
The had been held over take all u litical step in order elirges
mile radius with the aid of own and supervise all sections of
"We are ready to help, belan staves; 110 ased tear KAS to renton a bemen ralie and
from previous sessions so that the
power industries. conscious of war vekjonalbilities blican regime in Spain," the Shots were also reported to have treason charge could be dealt with army lorries and dying-sqund the fuel and
Founded it all but Under it will be two operating to Howard, ears, kui Gerand
consumers, diployees bien fired from vehicles when
Yesterday, Honar al Vommons was lodd by
boards, one for con and the and shareholders. The prospect. that the Awe of the men. wern allucked. Some prosecuting explained Herfor MacNeill, Partiumentery they
Of the Intal number who at other for gas and electricit of nationalisation will not hold forthe mine during his Mit and; Under Secretary for the Foreips people are reported to have been totter had been hanging over her
tempted to escape by charging These Boarda will in turn back the development res treated for bullet wounds and hund for a long time because
the corrugated iran doors of the delegate authority
to zimal sary to could not be made public.
maret the TowİNK The Potted Slates, Great some areas were made.
The Recorder, Sir Gerald Dod-| barracks, 1.4 changed their Boards who will sếu to the dio | mand.” tain and France are in close Il in now learned that five
The gas industry, denline on touch and There seems to be go
United States galitary chicles, told Baner: "Somebody who nods and return to prisen im tribution and generation of was
the and provide "local" machinery a commodity which normally in they renehed been intended Inter
were among those set on firader to his country has mediately
as such and if that convicted as
street.
The other 14 were r- for meeting the needs of specific, nei pipod lông distances, strew " Fee partite meeting so deal with the
exptured withrat offering re-
up on a local basis and a multi- auiter," he told a questioner
The current net value of the plicity of small units still exists. sistanre,--, Reuter, Associated Press,
There are 773 privately-owned undertakings, handling 64 per cent of all the gas sold. The remainder, or 274, are owned by -municipal---authoritienulat. production in 1944 was 1,787,- 000.000 "thern" or "roughly | 3,474,000,000,000 cubie Fees of
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By Jack Edisond 1.
BAD GODESBURG, FEB. 12
HELLER BECAME A FATHER ON NEW YEAR'S EVE DOGS IVA BRAUN BORE HIM A SUN IN A NURS. ING HOME AT SAN REMO IN ITALY. AFTER
is good, it comes
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It waters down your action and makes it of 'ters gravity. Like many other people you seem Chink
was rescued by the Flack" "uney easy come by is thei
road to happiness,
there United States military personnel were Injured.
An United States offerar. Flight-Lieutenant Hurger J Gabart, was attacked by a moo and attained fractured arm before he Vailed States Military Patice.
Earlier. Howard had told th "STATE OF SIEGE"
Court how the. documents cain- The Mustem League leaders to police-Wands. Blaney. have called for a meeling te-day said, met Purdy. who wan
then to decide on the "future course
wearing a naval officer's uniforia of action" and have appealed to in Jule last. They went out to- everybody to keep calm.
month and Purdy gether for a Pewer military vehicles and Showed her documents which dus- military personel than natal eribed as of treason committed have been seen in the riot af- by it. Latere imaged her th fected area of Calcutta to-day, Janers, sayine, axording to her
statement, that she was the onl
he could trust. Their have been made to get off pblic
friendship apparently cooled off conveyances. Road blocks have und Pardy asked her to return the She refused unless be erected by crawls but curs documents, tying the Congrod Meslem-henromised to Live her twenty privileged treatment and had a League dags have been given pounds.
Hle arranged to meet her at cleared through pauge
Meanwhile the nubile puse. road blocks. Reuter,
NOT HAVING BEEN "EEN TAKING HER USUAL | People in European costumes DRIVES IN BERLIN FOR A MONTH OR SO. WITHIN A FEIT HOURS OF THE EPENT A DE- FINITE. BUT APPARENTLY UNAUTHORISED, STATEMENT TO THIS EFFECT WAS MADE BY GENERE BINSH, THE THEN JAPANESE MILA TARY STUIGHE, TO A GROUP OF JAPANESE NFIUSPAPER CORRESPONDENTS IN BERLIN.
I was contradicted almost im- mediately by the Japanese Am- bassador, who, summoning the Correspondents to him, informed them that what they had been told wils incorrect. He demand- ed that they give their word of Bonour that the story would goj no further and particularly that it should on to account be pigs- ed on to any of their forelset press colleagues.
other in the next 48 hours,
This involved
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Czech Plan Runs
Into Difficulties
(By Guy Bettany).
PRAGUE, ECB. 12.
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NEW YORK, FEB. 12.
Nationalisation of the gas in- NEARLY 190/PERSONS HAVE PETITIONED PRE- dustry has been part of
SIDENT TRUMAN TO ASSUME LEADERSHIP M. | Labour Party's policy for many MEDIATELY IN TRANSFORMING THE U.N, O. years. Last Deeneber an inde- INTO "A TRUE WORLD GOVERNMENT" TO PRE- pendent inquiry commission up- VENT DESTRUCTION OF CIVILISATION pointed in 1944 by Mr. Chur- chill's wartime coalition Govern- THROUGH ATOMIC WARFARE, THE WRITERS'
ment recommended similar ac- BOARD SAID YESTERDAY.
tion.
Dr. Alert Einstein, The petition declareti that it Roberts,
The Commit.ce, acknowledg- writers Sining the Industry ng "reusonally was the conviction of writers Irving Langmuir, "that there can be no adequate clair Lewis, Dorothy Thomps efficient," fund the present military lefense against the and Thomas Mann, actresses diversified structure is restrict- the atomic bomb for protectier of Cornelia Otis, Greer Garson and Ing further progress, and that pulice were formed and a police-mnkind against atomic energy Helen Hayes, and actors Fra- a "basic change" would be re- an overheard her say that she, aged fer destructive purposes derle March and Ezra Stone-quired to get effective results- wanted fifty pounds.
Mr. Howard wider that the and that there must be establish- Associated Press.
ed effective and enforceable Prosecution were of the uninian that Blaney did not intend to take safeguards under rule of law." the money.--Reuter.
Copyright In Speeches?
London, Feb. 12.
The Writers' Board is headed. by author Rex Stout. In the petitlan he asked American UN.O. delegates to institute such action as shall transform the U.N.O. into a world govern- ment without dangerous rlay" and "we ask that should such
THE
Router.
U.S. Gives Support
On
UNITED
Indonesia
STATES
LONDON, FEB. 12.
YESTERDAY OP- POSED THE RUSSIAN DEMAND FOR THE UNIT- ED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL TO UNDER- TAKE AN INVESTIGATION ON CONDITIONS IN THE DUTCH EAST INDIES,
peuco
Dr. Mina Kato, at that time ALTHOUGH A QUARTER OF A MILLION GERMANS Labourite members question-action fail, you should at once chiei correspondent in Berlin of
SHOULD HAVE LEFT CZECHO-SLOVAKIA IN DE-ing of former Prime Minister invite governments of peoples the Tokyo Nishi Nishi," eithe
CEMBER, IT IS DOURTFUL WHETHER A SINGLE Churchill's right to sell secret of the world to hold a constitu decided to break the vow of si-
for the pur. GERMAN HAS CROSSED THE FRONTIER,
wartime speeches he made in tional convention lence or felt that it was caly
the House of Commons, for pose of setting up a work gov binding as long as the original
Both the Russian and the skilled workmen, especially in publication, brought an asser ernment of those people which news was incorrect. At ang American authorities in Ger- the imitation jewellery, insation yesterday from Prime adhere thereto in fall faith and rate, he went out of his way to many, who are due to receive and porcelain industries, where Minister Clement Attlee uphold hope that such world govern- Doctor Wellington Koo (China) Mr. Edward Stettinius, said his satisfy himself one way or an- the Germans expelled from the overwhelming majority of ing the right of any member to ment shall within a short time supported the Russian demand, Government feared that, the ne the might upset Czecho-Slovakia, hive informed the craftsmen are Germans. publish his speechos,
comprise all peoples' on earth" provided the inquiry commission tion proposed
fact-finding Dutch efforts to establish Ameng aigners were former' was to be purely a Prague Government that? Whether the Germans will be Mr. Churchill recently sold
Ovren Tho United States delate in the islands and he belloved the Munich, the home of Eva they are not ready. The Rus anxious to remain in Czecho three speeches to "Life" Maga- Supreme Court, Justice
best thing. would beto
exto wind up Braun's father, and the origina sians have made it clear that Slovakia in view of the repres- zine.
the discussion in Landen leaving source of the information con- they have enough on their hands sive treatment to which they Asked whether copyright bel
A settlement to direct nexoliations tained in the Japanese Military for the present, while the Ameri- have been subjected since last longs exclusively to the man who
hutween the Dutch Government Attache's announcement. For cans have asked for detailed in May is open to doubt. As most made the speeches. Mr. Attieg
and the Indencalan nationalists.
thought it was from here that no ad formation
Dr. Kuo also said bo' to assist them to of them are only allowed the r said he wanted "legal advice"; come to Britain a few moura be- settle the expelled Germans,
the discurajon might be adjqurned tions formerly given to Jews, before answering.
in the hope of successful nerotia- fore his press conference, to tell As things are, it is extremely they would have much more foori | Press.
tlona although...`n "commission the correspondents after un- doubtful whether the expulsions | if they were deported to Ger-
might promote Unitol Nationa harmony also dissipate double about Jar"
Associated
other of 'his customary drinking will. begin for some time, even many. Even with extra rations ROBBER'S honts had made him a little more when they do no one believes allowed to German heavy work- loquacious than usual that he that the glau submitted by the era here for some past their alet BIG HAUL had met scane "very nice people" Czech Government for the re- would be very low-Reuter.
in Munich, including the man moval of 2,500,000 Germans in
who succeeded
Eva Braun eight months can be carried as assistant to Hoffman, oficial through. photographer to Hitler.
(Continued, on Pago 6)
Girl Of Nineteen
Takes Lysol
Meanwhile, faced with the trek mendous task of getting the country's Industries going again, the Czech authorities are find- ing that already the Republic
SABOTAGE SUSPECTED
Yenan, Feb. 12.
Twn Communist members of the
Four robbers, one armed with a revolver and three with daggers, held up Cheung Hakim, proprie tor of an import and export firm. at No. 24, Benham Strand East at..
and about 11 o'clock yesterday robbed him of over II.K.$8,000 and about C.N.$250,000. The Drmed robbers
acconte
Team Walks Into Canton Brick Wall
CANTON, FEB. 12.
THE CANTON MOBILE FIELD TEAM SENT DOWN BY EXECUTIVE HEADQUARTERS IN PEIPING TO CARRY OUT CEASE-FIRE ORDERS BETWEEN THE NATIONALISTS AND COMMUNISTS WAS.ence to show and a "construe NEITHER MOBILE NOR IN THE FIELD, BECAUSE THE MILITARY HERE INSISTED THERE ARE NO COMMUNIST TROOPS IN KWANG TỪNG AND
KWANGSI..
Mr. Stettinlus aracrted 'his be lief that Russia and Kiralan Uk- raine had sol introduced suffrent evidence tive pre
mos" would be served by en investiration under Unt Nations auspicca. It would be Antropriate for 11 express the hupe that the terms of surren- der, résulring the dearmament
of Jannnere in Jay, may be
is desperately short of workers Chinese Political
The team composes of Colonel; Teh in Yenan that government Cheung as he was ascending the Consultative of all kinds. labourers, skilled Council arrived here today on an staircase to the 2nd floor. At hu Paul R. M. Miller, field artillery troops in Kwangtung wers tak-carried out promntly.Associat
ed Press. point of the revolver then forced U.S.A. of Buffalo, New York ing the offensive against the artisans, mechanics and capable American transport plans which him to open the safe from which Maj-Gen. Fang Hou, Cam- East River Column, and brand- A Chinese girl, aged about 10, managers. They are beginning landed with flat tyres.
to realise that their task will
The allot, Licut, Lyle Tippin, the money was extracted.
No arrest has been made.
who registered herself at the Kam Tol Boarding House In Nathan be almost impossible if they ex- said there were three harn Road as La Yuk-chan, was remov. pel all the Germans, apart from parallel cuts on the Inaids of the 'left' tyre and he uspressed the bo-
THE WEATHER
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munist representatives, Major ing them unjustly as bandits and
BELGIAN ELECTIONS Huang Wol-chin, representing not us Communists. the Nationaliste, à secretary und. Being still in Canton, this mo
Brussels, Reb. 12. ed to the Kwone Wah Hospital the small loyal minority, as was fef that these could not have been fair with Hght ensterly winds.
bile field team is unable to as To-day's forecast: Mainly an interpreter..
Political parties are claiming 12st night at 7,20 pa suffering their original intention.
Colonel Miller said that only certain the extent of fighting ou from the effects of lysol, boleved
rote in the general election In view of this situation, caused by natural obstacles.
The Communists, Tung Piwo Yoatérday's temperature: Executive Headquarters in Pul- East River, but reliable sources with Increasing drankness that the Maximum: -76 dogreca at ping can give out news releases said the clashes were mere Belgium on February 17.
...and ha,had nothing to say. akirmishes that had been going determine whether the country 3 pm Minimum:
67 degrees at The Chinese military here has off and on for many years.--As- to, march in step with Macaw dr
Ignored the charges of Gen. Chu sociated Pres? *F
kötar, admission,
half-administered. She died, shortly usually well-informed circles and Wane Jo-fel, came for confer- The Police will welcome any here indicate that as many asces with the party-obairman. her 1,000,000 Germans may bo al- Mao Tse-tung, and other leaders. segaslatence which, wili ustabila
Teal Identity."
lowed to remain, Including most moclatal Press,
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