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BOMBAY RIOTS SPREAD

SEPTEMBER 5,

Greek

Area Of Four Square Miles Involved In Clash Plebiscite

Daylong Battles From Rooftops

Bombay, Sept. 4.

Unofficial estimates give the Bombay riot casual- ties for the three days up to midnight tonight as 150 dead and 450 injured.

Rioting has spread from the square mile where it was confined yesterday through congested' industrial districts enveloping four square miles.

taken

Pitched battles have the place of sniping and stray assaults. Crowds threw huge steues and tossed torches and flaming balls of aga soaked in petrol or parafin.

An all-day battle raged across

At dunk, reports of clashes and In riots were all pouring in. a tocnilty hitherto unaffected, a motor lorry carrying a band of hooligans and loaded with ant- munition In the shape of stones and other missiles drove along-the

U.S. SEAMEN'S STRIKE

New York, Sept. 4. One hundred thousand sca- men members of the Inter- national Seafarers Union are due to go on strike along the Atlantic and Pacific coasta and on the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, the Union's Vice- President, Mr. John Hawk, has announced.

The strike has been called in protest at the recent de- c'sirna by the National Wasc nb Bsation Board. ARNO- ciated PreES.

the narrow alley between the main highway, the occupants pelt-given us 88 dead, 185 injured.-

rival communities living in op- posite buildings. The constant thud of heavy stones on tiled and corrugated iren roofs sounded almost k artillery.

At midnight the riot zane looked like a city under niege, with residents peeping through shutters and half closed doors at atcel-helmeted police parties and military pickets tramping the deserted streets.

Worst Scenes

ing stones at roadside shops.

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Casualties today are officially.

Reuter,

Yugoslavia And The Future Of Trieste

Paris, Sept. 4. * Ales Bebler, the Yugoslav deputy Foreign Minister today rejected on behalf of his Gov- ernment the compromise frontier between Yugoslavia and Italy, proposed by the Big Four Foreign Ministers. He made it clear, however, that Yugoslavia would accept the internationalisation of Trieste on certain con-

ditions.

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In Kalachowki, in the labour area north of Bombay, one of the worst accnea of the rioting today, people belonging to rival communities battled from At housetops with brickbats. midnight, the batile culminated with a flaming torch landing on one roof and setting it afire. From the ground floor of an adjacent building ॥ child The Military Committee In Its screamed at each thud of fly- shortest and most successful ing stones landing on 100fs. meeting to date made such

Meanwhile, considerable new progress that when it adjourn

British ed sf reinforcements

of 24 military troops reached Ebay this articles of the Italian treaty afternoon and started patrols had been provisionally agreed. immediately.

Beginning on Thursday 12 countries claiming reparations from Italy will state their cases

The textile Inbour area north of Bombay was the scene of fierce clashes this afternoon. The police and military open- ed fire several times to dis- perse rival crowds. One pubile hospital admitted 120 cases to day, while another in the heart of the riot affected area re- ceived 40 cases.

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Rus-

A general debate on the dis- Canada supported the amend- puted frontier questions

ment. begin tomorrow.

M. Andrel Vyshinsky (Soviet Union) said

Bome people were worried in chse

siu got into an advantageous position. "The representatives of Australia, Brazil, Canada and South Africa are afraid the Soviet raw materials might suddenly get in the way of row materials from those countries and that traders from those

seventeen

thing

from the reparations

to the Italian Economic Com-countries might not derive any mittee. As the result of n ballot taken this evening the programme." countries will be heard in the following order: Greece, Al- banin, Poland. Yugoslavia, Rel- gium, Brazil, Britain. Ethiopia, Holland, Norway, France Egypt.

and

Each country will be allowed thirty minutes and no general discussion will be allowed after each statement.

Official StatementTM An official statement tonight Bays: "Tension in the city, mainly caused by stabbings, spread to other arena in the

Brazil moved an omendment course of the day and the Com- missioner of Police has extend- to Article 54 of the Italian ed the curfew order to the new-treaty-Russia to provide raw ly affected areas. Sixty out of materials to Italy ai commer- 70 cotton mills in the city, how- efal rates for the manufacture uver, were working normally of reparations commodities- today.

adding the words "if necessary” to the article.

"Undesirable ciements Are being rounded up a large num- bers."

The statement adds: "For the first time since the disturbance began two days ago, there were three or four clashes between the opposition factions today, but prompt intervention of the police prevented such clashes from as- spming serious proportions. The The police opened fire on 11 occasions and the military once during the day and a total of 73 rounds were fired between 7 am, and b p.ni. Two persons were killed and 13 were injured as a result of the flring."

"JANE”,

LD ALES

The Brazilian delegate said his amendment was not design ed to hamper Russia but would allow Italy freedom of trading.

Here is a decision of the Council of Foreign Ministers we do not want to reverse," he declared. "Russia inalsted in the council that the heat means of paying reparations was by deliveries out of curent pro- duction.

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Claridge's A Citadel

Challenged

Athens, Sept. 4.

The Central commit- tee of the EAM (Left Wing group) tonight de- cided to demand that the Council of State, the supreme court for dis-

London Sept, 3. Security precautions to pro- Lect King George of the Hellenes from united visi- tors after his return to London today, have transformed the fashionable Claridge's Hotel in- putes between citizens to a building more closely re- and the state, shall de- sembling the Supremo Allied clare Sunday's plebiscite Headquarters of two years ago.

on the monarchy invalid. The first line of defence is

The EAM claims to hold a ring of uniformed policemen documents which prove falsifica- patrolling every entrance to the tions and irregularities in the hotel except one. That is the

referendum, staff entranc`, but here two staff commissionaites keep watch on either side of the

doorway. The police are, rein forced by the hotel's top-hatted blue-coated commissionaires, each one over six feet in height. In the King's suite arrange- ments for his protection have been trebled. In addition to the King's personal bodyguard of hand-picked powerfully built mon, the cream of the hotel

waiters has been recruited to watch every

every paykaze, door and every possible means of entry. It is understood that the precautions have been taken to guard against any Republi- can demonstration directed at the King-Router.

Byrnes To Make Statement

Berlin, Sept, 5.

Un-

The official results for all but one of the polling stations show that out of 1,779,224 voters on the regiator, 1,185,675

voted for the King, 621,640 against, and 8,502 votes were declared Invalid.

The Greek News agency anid tonight that the heads of the foreign cbserver minstone in Greece had expresse!

their

complete satisfaction with the order in which the plebiscite had been carried out.

HENNESSY

BRANTY

Mr. Stylianos Genatas, the Greek Deputy Prime Minister announced tonight that special security measures suspended on the eve of the plebiscita of the monarchy would not be $25 reapplled, "unless irregular minorities sought to impose their will above the crushing popular majority shown by the reforendum."—Router.

LONG TOW

San Francisco, Sept. 4.

The Secretary of State, James F. Byrnes, will make an precedented speech on Friday at A 7,500 mile two-perhaps the Stutgart that will "lay on the longest in maritime history-ið tine" American policy in Ger- over. An ocean going tug palling many, a high military govern- three oil barges in tandem, each ment scurce stated last night.

pick-a- barge carrying another The Russian and British back, has reached Shanghai two Military Governors in Germany and a half months after leaving

San Francisca. have been invited to hear the

A cargo of vegetable oil con- address.

aigned to a Chinese corporation mado the telp without incident.--- Associated Press.

Mr. Byrnes will head for Stuttgart from the Paris Peace Conference to address a select! audi:nce,, which will include German officials of the American į occupation zone, high American army and military government officials

the the Chiefs of quadripartite administration of Germany-Associated Press.

VATICAN - AND RUSSIA

London, Sept. 3. The Vatican'radlo, referring to the Communist criticism of the Vatican's attitude to events in Eastern Europe, sald today that there was no conflict between the Holy See and Russia.

The United States, Britain and France objected that this placed a burden on Italy's economy. From this struggle emerged the decision that Italy. should supply commodities and that Russia should supply the raw materials.. From our point of view it would have been better to impose an obligation on Italy without the, ponding obligation on our- selves," said M. Vyshinsky. It appeared that a conflet did

Addressing himself to Brazil, exist, however,

the between Mr. Willard The United Australia. Canada and South Church and Communism, not be- States) said the origin of the| Africa, M. Vyshinsky sald:cause the Church was opposed to clause was that Italy was un- "Are these four countries the social justice demanded by against commercial agreements? Communism but because of the Certhinly not. But you are Communist denial of the exis- against commercial agreements tence of God, the radio said between Italy and the Soviet Reuter. Union? If so why do you not say so. Why not propose a clause that Italy сап make commercial agreements with any country except the Sovlet?"

able to supply commodities, un- lesa the Soviet agreed to pro- vide, the raw materials, There- an obligation fore it imposed on Russia and to amend it he Suggested. would be to nullify the intention of the clause, Mr. Glenvil Hall (Britain) agreed. Australia, South Africa and

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