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Dead-End Kids Active In Germany

Gangs youngsters,

Frankfurt, June 3.

of German somewhat similar to the "dead end kids" gangs of American cities, have been steadily increasing their pro-Nazi activities throughout the American zone, an intel- ligence officer of the United States Forces re- ported.

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"RIGHTS" AND "WRONGS" Senator's "Earnest Appeal" To Russia

GAOL REVOLT

Prague, June 3.

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A prison warder inne ed when German S.S. imprisoned at Arasig, 45 milea northwest of Prague, fast night staged a prison revalt,

After an all-night shouliy duel with armed police forca surrounding the prison. the S.S. men this morninu očrv- med the enligg Iuilding of the Aussig National Cam- mitter; of "which the prison forms part.

The German prisonera are Organised 171 bands of the urmed though it has not yet

been they

dincovered

whet **Edelweiss"

by organisation, have as their as the perpetra-

their they obtained tion of Nazi ideology,

arms-Beuter.

Such youths. with the Nazi Iwist still distorting their minds, were probably at least partly res ponsible for the recent retalia- United States tory attacks" troops,

for

behind the un in

grow

but in his report April. General Joseph MeNurney. Commander of the United States troops, emphasised that there way no overall pinaning

which Edelweiss. towns where nothing was offered to the youth to fill in their time,

While further increase i ferreteri it is thought that the situation will be improved by the development of the German

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Earthquake

Disaster

In Turkey

Istanbul, June 3, Rescue squads search- descent by the recent diresing earthquake damaged Lives for the preparation of com- villages in the Turkish prehensive youth programmes as province of Mus report

ed that at least 255 were

a hatitate for Edelweiss sterism-Reuter.

Test Pilot To Be Shot From Plane

Higher Denham, Bucks.

June 3.

Exercise Wisdom,

Tolerance

Detroit, Mich., June 3.

Senator Arthur Vandenberg, calling today for a "People's Peace," warned against any attitude in world peace efforts which would limit peace- making to a "closed corporation of big powers." He said the Paris Conference of Foreign Ministers was a success insofar as it established an Am- erican foreign policy "which invited all our partners in the war to have a proper voice in making our common peace." Speaking today from Wush- ington for a Detroit broadcast. he made an "earuest appeal" ta Russin to exercise wisdom and Who Won The War tolerance in the negotiation o!

Atlantic City, N.J., June 3. treaties. He expressed peace

Representative Waltey Judd told concern over wint he called delegates at the preliminary meet- Russia's "opposition" to calling ing to the 37th annual fnternation- Convention that no a general coaferetice of nationsal Rotary

peace beyond ad the limits of reason and safety."--Associated Press.

We

have i

until all fundamental mattere one nation won the war by itself! are agreed on by the Foreign and no one nation alone, could win Ministers.

peace. He said:

“Twite in 25 years, been unfair to the Germans, well as our own youth, in allowing the Germians to think there was no limit to what they could do without our intervention.

He said that Russia Wis "exercised # V.CO

A veto which is becoming ef increasing concern in connection with all our peace machinery."

Senator Vandenberg (who is

game as previously established

EGYPT

Cairo, Jung a.

The Moalem Brotherhood Association demanded today that the Bauplian Government aal Britain officially to eva-" cuate British troopa from Egupt within two weeks.

They said if the Britiah failed to comply. the Govern ment shoud consider the re- tention of British troops in Baupt as an "armed attack Rovereign- against Egyptian

ty" and bring the cune before the United Nations Security Council, Britain has promised to remove her troops but han net no date-Associated Prena.

R.N. Patrol Fires On Looters

Chinese

Detective Wounded

Another Police Officer was shot by armed rob- bers last night, the third since Saturday, though fortunately not fatally this time. His condition last night was given as "fair."

At about 10 o'clock Just night, a Chinese soldier in klu ki uniform and three civilinn Chinese, each arned with a re- volver, forced their way into 372, Lockhart Road, Wanchai, the

of a 40-year old home widow.

They bound and gagged the inmates and ransacked the pre- mises, making of with a gold ring, $60 in cash, two opium pipes and a pot of prepared opium..

Some 20 minutes later, on in- formation received by the Po-. lice, Sub-Inspector Bell and Chinese Detective i Hol hur- ried to the junction of Fleming and

Here Gloucester roads. they accosted two men, '

The men opened fire and this A Chinese woman was was returned by the two police A running gun battle enrued and the Chinese detec-

advisor to the American delega-ese in allowing them to think theyday when a Royal Navy with two bullets in the

"We were unfair to the Japan-shot in the arm yester-officers. tion to the Paris Conference) could impose tyranny, une patrol opened-fire on 100-left leg. Inspector Bell press- said Russia's attitude is that East Asia and we would never ters trying to make offed home the attack and manag- "they entirely are within their bother.

"We were unfair to the Rus with woodwork from the ed to arrest one of the men killed and 145 injured in rights under the rules of thesians at Yalta and are being un-

The Friday's violent tremor.

other got away. by Big-Power agreements. But fair to them now, if we let them old R.N. Hospital, Wan-near the Luk Kwok Hotel.

think they can impose their dicta-chai. The extent of the shock made it is a lesson of history that torship on Europe and Asia and

During the shooting, a boat- a check on the casualties slow 'rights' may become 'wrongs' that other nations will forever The would-be looters were man was shot through the right as he work.

unless exercised by wisdom and yield." Associated Press.

hard at work at 7 o'clock yester-leg by a stray bullet tolerance rather than with nak "School-Children" day morning when they were ducked for cover.

They ed power."

surprised by the patrol

The arrested mar was dressed London. June 3.

hecls and when in a white shirt, khaki uniform radio commentator took to their Boris Isakov today asserted that they failed to obey the order to panta and U.S. Army issue type Anglo-American plans for or- "Halt" the patrol opened fire boots. !ganizing a post-war world re-

preparing the morning meal. ambled writing lesson for A stray bullet went through She was rushed to hospital, obediant school-children at the kitchen window of a house where her condition is said to which one party dictates and at 65 Wanchai Road dad peue- be satisfactory. The looters the other takes down the dicta trated the arm of a 51-year-old managed to make good their tion in beautiful handwriting."Chinese woman who was busy escape.

Many villages were shaken. people being trapped in their tumbling homes shortly after 5 a.m.

In the village el Varto, 15 shops, 120 homes and a mosque were reported to be wrecked,

Special planes are flying duc- A tough and wiry tors and nurses with food and young Irishman of High-equipment to the stricken zone. er Denham, near London,

carthquake apparently Vario, which les will next week risk his centred on

north-west of Lake Van, and ex- life by being catapaultedtended north to the province of from a plane by a power- Ezerum.--Associated Press.

ful explosive charge

while flying at between

500 and 600 miles per hour.

He is Bernard Lynch, aged 20 and he will be testing the "explosive heat" invented for the benefit of pilots of fighter;

jet-plants who cannot bale outf

The

A Republican, Senator Van- denberg said he would support the present American foreign any administra- policy "under tion.'

He said it guarantees protec- tion against any future Axis aggression and added that it "spurna Expansiouism plague upon tomorrow's peace and security" and seeks to end "inconclusive armistice ди giman which arc postponing

Terror of Drug Rings Retires

Cairo, June 3.

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at high speeds without such a The most-hated enemy of the Middle East drug

device, owing to the high “air) pressure forcing them back in- to the plane.

It is operated by a piston driven by special cartridges and in one fifth of a second it takes itself and its occupant upward at a speed of 60 feet per second. When clear of the plane Lynch will jetison his "chuir" and release a small parachute to check his speed, after which he will open the normal canopy and float down in the usual way.

Optimism in Egypt

rings, 66-year-old Russell Pasha, is retiring in August from his post as Commandant of the Cairo City Police. Since 1921 when he became Narcotic head of the Central

Bureau, Rusacil Intelligence Pasha-his full name is Major- General Sir Thomas Wentworth Russell-has

probably more than any other man to stir of the world the conscience against illicit traffic in drugs. His annual reports on the Eust drug activities real like best-selling

It is thought possible that he! Midare may have to withstand a force have

done

Cairo, June 3. Ismail Sidky, Egyptian Prime Minister, said today that he had no reason to lose his optimistic out

regarding the look

successful conclusion of treaty negotiations with Britain.

A report of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Egyptian So-

23 times that of gravity and doc- thrillers-except that he has mate says that the British dolega- facts and not tions are insisting that measures tors have said they do not know dealt with

for Egypt's defence should take exactly what affect these pres- fantasy. Bures will have.

Hia camel patrols have ranged the form of obligations incurred The test will take place from the desert searching for drug by Egypt in the new treaty. The 1 the the first two-seater model of smugglers, his river patrols report confirms that this the Gloster Meteor jet-plane, have made big hauls of nar-chlof reason for the present diver

gence of view between the two which as a single-seater recent- cotics being ferried into Egypt; ly set up the world's speed re- and his detectives often in dis- cord of 606 miles per hour-guists have nipped in the bud Reuter.

many important drug deals................... Russell Pasha is bold and Most fearless in his methods.

Iran Battle Confirmed

we

of the

hashish

grown in the

hills in the Levant find lis

way to Egypt, In upite of

Soviet

Не declared in a MOSCOW radio broadcast that "under the slogan of a 'driver for peace' the Anglo-American bloc which is forming is trying to forcé its will on Soviet land."

He added: "The new, firm iron policy toward the Sovit Union is nothing more nor less the than exerting pressure on USSR in an attempt to force through a policy which has no~ thing at all to do with peace and security" Associated Press.

Army Of 7,000,000 --

Nuernberg, June 3.

A high Allied military source here said yesterday that Russia has seven million men under arms ber but is preparing to reduce army to 4,500,000 men. He added that the Soviets had released more than 10,000,000 from military ser- vico in the last ten months.

The top-age of conscripted mill- tary classes has been trimined 26 years from the age of 65 to 29. In addition to the current army strength, Russia has 1,500,000 men in the air force and the navy Associated Press.

on them.

LET THE PEOPLE KNOW THE TRUTH

London, June 3. Prime Minister Attlee, in his speech at the Im- perial Press Conference today, said: “In a de- mocratic approach to the problems which I be- lieve to be the only approach which holds out real hope for the world is no freedom more im- portant than the freedom of speech.

"For it is a freedom which belongs not to the press but to the public whose agents in this matter the newspapers are-it is freedom to be given which facts, national and international, on sound judgment can be fored. "Sometimes newspapers ap- land and a people weary after Jabours and depredations of war, petite for facts may prove em-

But but confident and strong. You will barrussing to politicians.

find a people in no doubt at all of so long as you stick to facts we

their ability, having triumphed have no complaint The opin-

over so many dangers in the war, ions you express on the basis

to surmount all problems that facts are your own.

peace may bring. And you will delegations. It adds: "The British of those

саг We these affair.

have

fnd punshakeable resolve delegation insisted

do not agree | build a national life anew and to obligations should be carried out complaint if we

them, we only have the build it in nobler proportions thos not only in time of war, but in with

emergency." any international

right to complain and the public in the past. Reuter,

has the right to complain, when facts are twisted or invented or when there are omissions which distort the whole picture,

that

PALESTINE JUST A "BRIDGEHEAD"

Moscow, June 3.

annual drives in which the Bri- British policy in the Near East is the subject of

several items in the review "New Times,"

tish authorities have in the

"

who sums up. British and American interests there, and states that Palestine means no more. to Britain than a bridgehead for protection of the Suez Canal.

no

"Let-us-have-more-facts. Let

to

"I hope that when your confor- ence is ever, aud you return to your own countries, you will re- port on what you have con `and in doing so will say that you found a full of energy and full of con- fidence, engaged with all our will

na

us have the frecat flow possible of information between mem-on the great adventure, but what

bers of the British wealth.

Let us work for the fullest flow of information between the peoples of all nutions.

Common-so you report, report this-that we in the United Kingdom look with deep and growing affection friends and comrades aur throughout the Commonwealth and feel ourselves constantly sustained and supported by the knowledge that we are members of a great companionship."

"No true interest of the or-

Teheran, Juno 3.

past co-operated to destroy the The longest of these is by Garkonstant Serezhin, Iranian Government oftelul growing crop. Now he has

dinary people of the world was tonight confirmed the report that asked the Arab League to do

ever hampered by letting truth fighting had been renewed in Kur

clare that the nction of the

be known. On the understand-

Sir Francis Low of the "Timos. distan and that "democrata" and

Levant states. in permitting Kurds

ing betwen peoples the advance of India" and Chairman of the word fighting Iranian large consignments of hashish

You, Indian delegation, in proposing a Government forces.

to reach Egypt, with its con-

"The fanning of national strife; Criticising the polley of Genera. of civilisation depends. Speaking after a day of cun-

all voto of thanks to Mr Clement flicting reports, an official said, sequent lowering of health and between Arabs and Jows has al- linimo Chiang Kai-shek's Govern who gathered here. from "Government forces are only de- morale of the people, is an un- ways been the cornerstone of Bri- ment, the "New Times" writes: parts of the Commonwealth and Aftloc, said: "I am sure I express fending themselves. Both demo-friendly and damaging act to tlah rule," he anys,

"The policy of suppressing the Empire, have, particularly at the foulings of this, conference, crats and Kurds are attacking us wards a brother Arab state. An Item relative to the Egyp-political initiative of the Man- this moment in the world's his-whon I say that we are under a periodically, and the only thing

reiterates

Prime Minister for his admirab If Egypt owes Russoll Pashin on the road of British from prolonged slavery is tying vast responsibility.

Egypt's churian population now liberated tory, a vast opportunity and a sense of deep, obligation to the

and encouraging address je to defend can do

wishes for our- no other debt, sko owed him one oclvca."

troops and concludes, "Oral pro- a new and very compilested knol

(Continued qe Page.8). internal of the mises could hardly, improve the China's Government offletai, for his improvement

in Another

"Thia Commonwealth and Em- political

pire has made immense contribu! quoting a telegram from Kurdi health of the people by prevent delicate relationa between Bri| affairs."

consignments: of

and these peoples, who have The review charges that the tions to the well-being of that, and that communications in ing large

area had been cut by the hashish and other drugs enter wish to liberate themselves Chinose Govertiment have been world in the post. It can make Kurds.

ing the country. Each year from the foreign yoke.”

relying on armaments provided by still waster contributions in the Prince Firous, Iranian Minister tone of illicit drugs have been In another artisle, the "Now the United States for military future, for the world has great of Information and Government soixed by his organisation. Tintos" charges the United States superiority in Manchuria, and con- need of experience and knowledge apokerman, appealed tonight for Roiitor.

In Chideas, depend on Le points out that, in contrast the Government changes Soviet forces, in accordance with and boring trying to solve

Moscow Akreemans, have daly disputed questions by Bipolti wadaraway from Chioses: bert): means fanaboard of armed force, -

Renderi

unity among Iraniane to enable

the Government to complete the

important reforme which it has Prime Minister had achieved pan- begun," in upoooh quoted by the frience and security out of chaos Toberan Radio,

1 to his five months Not soflor He claimed

Iranian Reuter,

that

armed forces with "actively par- Judas: "The immed

delpating in civil war in China..

the

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