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NO MORE COMMUNIST SCARE IN U.S.

TALK ON STRAITS

London, Oct. 9.

Britain considers that the preliminary conver- sation between Turkey] and the Big Three pow ers on the future of the Black Sea Straits, which it was agreed at Pots- dam should precede any *revision of the 1936 Montreux Convention, have now served their purpose, the Foreign Of fice spokesman stated today.

British He added that the

further Government saw purpose in continuing them.

no

Observers here think this statement indicates that Bri- tain considers the time is ripe to call an international confer ence of the signatories of the 1936 Montreux Convention. Japan would probably be 'ex- conference, cluded from the

while the United States-not 'a he signatory-would certainly included,

The Soviet Government is believed to be anxious to con- tinue preliminary discussions with Turkey until the views of the two Governments are brought closer together.-Reu-

ter.

Confidence In Dakotas

London, Oct. 9.

of Commons today by Captain Garimaria, Conservative,

Reds Infiltrating Into Government

RIFT IN CABINET?

New York, Oct. 8. The New York newspaper. P.M.'s London correspondent, Frederick Kuh, declared to- day that diferences of opinion" about Palestine policy were responsible for the reshuffle in the British Cabinet so far as it concerned Mr. Philip Noel-Baker, former Secretary of State and now Secretary jor Air.

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"Mr. Noel-Baker dissented strongly from Mr. Ernest Beuin's policy towards Pales time where he wanted, the -Labour Government to modu- late its support of the Arab rulers," said Kuh.

"He also objected to Mr. Bevin's approach to the pro- blems of Greece and Spain where he urged a more deter- mined anti-Fascist line." Reuter.

CHINA'S WORST AIR DISASTER

Sichang, Oct. 10.

F.I.B. Charges Of Subversive Acts

Washington, Oct. 10,

The United States Chamber of Commerce, charg- ing that. Communists have infiltrated into the Government and have driven many faithful public servants out of it, demanded today that the Communist Party be forced to disclose its membership and finances.

A report prepared by the Chamber's Committee

on Socialism and Communism named specifi cally the Treasury and Labour Departments as agencies into which Reds have bored.. The report, made public after its acceptance by the Chamber's Board of Directors, also declar- ed that Communists have in- filtrated into labour unions.

Political

It asserted that two of the "top advisors of the Congress Industrial Organization's of

Action Committee are Communista", taking direct and frequent orders from the very top levels of the Communist Party.

Francis Matthews, attorney and chairman of the Committee. refused to disclose the sources of his information neither would he name the perscas referred to in the report.

F.B.L. Charges

A Treasury

Department

spokesman said that the Trea-

sary had no comment

géneral a statement.

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Secretary cd Labour Lewis B. Schwellenbach, commenting GD the report, said that he had

Accidents to Dakota, alreraft A search plane has appointed Commis to investi ⚫ were referred to in the "House i Located the burned department officials to investi. gate and report on charges: of who wreckage of the Chinese subversive activity made through arked if the Government was National Airway trans- the Federal Bureau of Investi aware of the public concern.

Labour Department, employecs". The Parliamentary Secretary port plane in the wild gation against "a number to the Ministry of Civil Avia Lolo country 20 miles-Asscriated Press. tion, Mr. G. Lindgren, replied southwest of Sichang. that the Dakota was a well

established type of transport It is believed that the American aircraft, which had been used pilot and 31 Chinese on board extensively throughout

the may have perished Earlier ac- world for many years. The accounts had said that all on board cidents were rightly a matter were fe but in the custody of of concern, but he was satisfied the Lolos.

of

Drastic Action Urged

Seattle, Oct. 10. Harold E. Stassen, former war, delegate to the United States naval officer during the war, delegate to the United Nations Organisation conferen--

San Francisco' and a ce in

that United Kingdom, corpora, The crash was the worst in tions were justified in their Chinese civil air history. The Republican Party leader, today confidence in this aircraft.

transport crashed on Sept. 20 af-

Although there had been ter taking off for a regular fight three accidents this year to to Kunming. civil Dakota aircraft operated

by United Kingdom corpora- The Chinese Airways is" organ- tions, no passengers were kill-izing a party to go to the scene, ed. but one unfortunately broke high up on the 14,400 foot Lochi his leg-Reuter.

Mountain-Associated. Press,

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Nuernberg, Oct. 10.

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STILWELL ILL

San Francisco, Oct. 10. General Joseph W. Stilwell, 63, hero of the Burma Cam- paign and now commander of the United States 6th. Army, is critically ill from a liver con- dition believed contracted in his phy- the Burma jungles, sician announced today.

Stilwell entered Letterman General hospital at San Fran- cisco and was operated on on Oct. 3. His progress was satisfactory until today--Associated Press.

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'SUPREMO's, FIVE WORDS

London, Oct. 9...

. Five pencilled words on a foolscap sheet. written by Ad-" miral Lord Louis Mount- batten, when he was appoint- ed Supreme Allied CoMMER- der in Southeast Asia in 1949, were the basis of opera- tions which defeated the Jop aneze two and a half years. Inter, it was revealed here to- day by Admiral Mountbatten himself.

Addressing.. an audience of admirals, air marshalá árið of-- ficers at the. Royal United Services Institution 01 strategy in Southeast Asia, Admiral Mountbatten said: "It was a shattering surprise. to me when I was offered the job of Supreme Allied. Com- mander, I immediately got à foolscap sheet and pencil and, wrote down what I felt were the important factors for, the war in that theatre. They were Morale, Terrain, Mon- soon, Disease and Priority.".

Reuter.

In No Meddling

Greek Politics

London, Oct. 9. assurance that British troops never had been and never would be used to support the Greek Government in the persecution of political opponents was given by Mr. Hector McNeil;, Minister of State, in the House of Commons today to Mr. William Warbey, Labour critic of Mr. Ernest Bevin's policy on Greece.

Mr. Warbey then asked if i the event of disturbances in Greece the Minister did not think it de sirable to withdraw British tropps. Mr. McNeil replied: "I ree, I always think it undesirable that British troops should be involved; but I also think that civil dis turbances are highly undesirable.

He also informed the House that the British Ambassador to Catro, had been authorised to ad-

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St. Paul, Minnesota, Oct. 9. The North-West Passage, for which explorers searched several centuries ago, will become a reality on February 2, 1947, when the North west Airlines Incorporated is scheduled to be- gin regular flights to the Orient over the short- cut "Great, Circle" course.

The new route, has already be given final ap proval by the Government's Civil Aeronautics Board and President Harry Truman will give the United States its first commercial air link with Tokyo.

Schedules already prepared call for flights from New York to Tokyo in 24 hours, from New York to Shanghai in 27 -hours, and from New York to Alanila in under 31 hours. New York and Chicago will be, the terminals in the United States. Planes from New York destined for the Orient will make stops in Detroit, Milwaukee, Minnea- polis-St. Paul, Edmonton. An- chorage, Tokyo, "Shanghai and

Gang War Show-Down

Expected

Jerusalem, Oct. 9. Manila. Other ports of call in The Haganah, the the Orient are Seoul, Harbin,

Narking..

Mukden, Dairen, Pelping and Jewish Resistance move- ment estimated to num- Northwest ber 80,000, is mobilising Airlines planes will connect for an · with Trans World, Airline

At Tokyo,

the

all-out "offen-

planes flying westward from sive" against the Irgun India. An alternative route with Zvai

Leumi and the

Scattle, Tacoma, as co terminals Stern Gang, the two will join the main route to the

Jewish extremist or- Orient at Anchorage. Present

flights from Tacoma and Sent- ganisations

according

tle to Alaska will be augment to unimpeachable

ad on November 1' with flights sources here tonight.

through Minneapolis-St. Paul

to Edmonton and Anchorage.

First Survey

1

The "showdown" in what has

hitherto been a purely pro-

The first survey flight over paganda "war" between the the terrorist the entire Asiatic route is to Haganah and

be made not Inter than January groups, is expected to erupt in Jerusalem, the same sources said. 1, 1947,

Although both the 'Haganah Croi Hunter, president and general manager of Northwest and the Irgun Zval Leumi and Airlines referred to the now its "assassination wing the route in his annual report asient Gang, have beta disputing "aadventure" 2 for several months, it had been He added: "For all its hold-thought the Haganah would not laurich a real "purge" in order Fess, it is essentially a

to avoid internal strifes f Business venture based upon a study of traffic potentials. This But the latest outrages, in- a number of British study reveals at the outset the volving

moderate Jews & great need of the Far East for troops, which

cause"

convinced pave transportation, most of which declare are "amearing the Zionist that action, and not was paralysed during the war. Italows also, the need for Haganah machinery and a great variety words are necessary at this vital of goods. It discloses that phase in Zionist history, accord- through private initiative anding to these sources-Reuter. Government, backing, entire, in- dustries are being revived.

Closer Ties

Wine Scandal

dress a further note to the Egyp. "It points to the possibility In France

the

proposed citizenship forfeiture for Americans who "follow the

hydro-electric tion Prime Minister refuting sug-1 of developing line of any other country."

restions. that the conduct of two power and utilising latent re-, :

Paris, Oct. 90° Addressing a Republican cam-

British (By Harold King)

soldiers killed in Alex sources. It discloses that both The French Cabinet: today. andria on March 4 was in any imports and exports, though discussed the so called wine paign rally, Stassen proposed

way blameworthy and proposing that the Party take the stand that "any citizen who treasona-

Paris, Oct. 10.

that the British claim for com- still well below pre-war figures, scandal"

statement issued later bly and persistently follows the

before pensation on their behalf, should are increasing; that crops next

spring will approach, seasonal said: "The Government un line of any other nation to the Four days

averages; that the people are animously wishes to see the exclusion and harm of our own 20,000,000 men and wo-be referred to afbitration.

aatir with the hope of better struggle against the black mar nation-whether that other line

be Communistic, Imperialistic men of France go to the

Large-Scale Infiltration?

"..

No Public Argument

ernment-hed-tendered-an-apology

"New and rapid transporta-

of Fascistacrves neither man-polls to say "yes" or "no". Mr. Hugh Melson, Conservative,ing their lot: Improvement of ket in all its forms, and notably kind nor his country and de-in a referendum on the had asked if the Egyptian Gave their living standards will fur in the affair now being inves- serves, neither citizenship, ncr proposed constitution, and offered compensation to the ther a new era in reciprocal tigated, pitilessly pursued-with-

lands will follow.SS Charles de dependents of the men murdered trade Closer ties with those put regard to partles or per

B018! General public nor civic leadership"

by an Egyptian mob.

said the British Associated Press.

The "wine scandal" now un- Gaulle tonight advised Mr. McNell his fellow citizens to Government were anxious to avoid tion will be continued and will der judicial investigation arose public argument with the Eeyp speed officials, engineers and from rumours that highly vote "no."

tian Prime Minister about those various technicians back and placed politicians and civil ser- "Iconadentaly hope, General regrettable events. The forth between the United States vants had been involved in ex-

reaffirmed in writing that Egyptian Government was unable deaths of the two British military to accept responsibility, for the policemen concerned. Hence, the latest British note-Reuter,

Miami Beach; Oct. 10. Anstazio Somoza, President of Nicaragua, charged in an inter-

sued here, that in the interests of France, Frenchmen and women General de Gaulle declared that will say "no next Sunday,

accepted by the nation it would mean in reality a prolongation of the present regime in artificial”.

set up, organisations, and arings in Algerian wine. Beuter. and equipment that is so badly range for, the flow of goods

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GENERAL MORGAN

Wilhelm Keitel, condemned German Field Mar- shal, who has asked the Allied Control Coun- cil to be shot instead of hanged, declared that he hoped his execution would serve as

view here today that not only de Gaulle Bald in, a statement istian Prime Minister, however, had to make preliminary surveys, 1, tremely profitable illegal den)- "blessing to the German people and a credit to the German Army:" The former chief of Hitler still believe I have not lost the Latin-America but the whole of High Command wrote to the chance of expiating such an error the hemisphere is being infiltrat Council on Oct. 5, it was learned by a death which is due to a ed by Communists and he urged yesterday.

soldier, if he to face the fudg- the 21 American Republics to "get "I will glad to give my life, ment of death," the letter added. together quick and throw the Redst the proposed constitution were

back across the Atlantic." demanded by the verdict, in ex-Associated Press, plation," he wrote..

"All that I have 'dode or omit- ted had its roots in my mental attitude as a soldier, and in the conviction that fete is at all times unchangeable, If I compare faith to the German people, which is unchangeable, with unconditional the Supreme faith to Hitler as the Commander of the Arm so It has been, Keitel continued.

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AG.B.S. Flop At Last

He said "I urge the United States to take the lead and let us all get together and throw the Communists out from Alaska to Cape Horn,Associated Press.

The political parties would be able to dispose ofat their will and without any counter-propo- salsall of the State's papers," the General added.

He affirmed that if the nation voted for the constitution as pró- powerlessness, then anarchy, and posed it would lead" "first", to anally dictatorship all three of Allied Control Councellou

our present altuation." al have been rejected by the which would be deadly risks in. General de Gaulle has thus This is not confirmed. The

NAZIS' APPEALS London, Oct. 9. The Swiss Radio said tonight London, Oct. 9., that all appeals for clemency by "Members of the Control Coun Mr George Bernard those sentenced to death, by the ell for Germany are old soldiers. Shaw did not attend the Nuernberg War Crimes Tribu guilt that has grown up from a ceremony of presenting feeling that is respected in all him with the Freedom armies of the world a necessary and honourable and the basis of St. Pancras at St.

Town Hall, Pancras 'of a good soldlér

London, today.

So: I'hope they will understand a

"If I did not understand the limits to such milliy virtue,

latest news direct from Berlin burned the bridges between hir is that the Control Cornell self and the main political parties there adjourned until tomorrow on whom the Parliamentary Gove after holding two secret steerment in France, depends, He stumbled and bruised his signs today to consider the ap-Reuter. leg at his London flat yester peals-Reuter.

medical advice.

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New Colonial Becretary's Mes Double Tenth Celebrations, Prné Five

A recording of the speech hetimes a week quite regularly

bad fall yesterday. would have made at the cere and most unfortunately I had a mony was played

At

Miniature Italian

Battle In Capital

PROMOTED

London, Oct. 10 The War Office announced to- day that Lieutenant-General Sir William D. Morgan, Allied Supreme Commander, Central". Mediterranean Forces, has been. named Commander of the Bri- tish Army Staff in Washington and Army member of the joint Staff Mission, effective in the

Rome, Oct. 10. least one was killed and nearly 100 others wounded in a three-hour battle yesterday out- side the Viminale Palace, seat of the Italian Government, between police and workers pro- Spring of 1947, testing against their dismissal from a public cessor in the Mediterranean has,

not yet been announced, will works project in Rome. ay tal

Lord

Generál Morgan whose su

A Government communique at Police and helmeted Carabinier! succeed. Field-Marshal 1945 GMT gald that one had died used clubs swords, fear and Wilson in Washington --Asso- of injuries and that 50 demonstra- two armoured care in what, for ciated Press. tors and 29 police, including four three hours, was a fruitless effort, to clear the streets of demon- ofcers, were wounded, A

Earlier reports had set the airstors.

Many of those injured were re number of dead ag at last three norted in a scribus condition, the The Government communique, did: Government communique said: not specify whether the dead man communique, also said that

THE WEATHER The anticyclone now

posters. Runouncing the larming from SW China to the tion of the work project for East of Japan, prESSURG Saturday which set the workers highest over the low

5kg extends from southern. marching against the Vintuale over northern yesterday morning. "had been erroneously put up shallow rough of low pressure

Inreality the communique sald, through the

CANADIAN BEEF

was a policman or worker. FOR BRITAIN

The Government communique blamed trouble-majders for In his recorded, speech,de-It was perfectly plain that livered in a clear but at times if I were to address you in temporer Ottawa, Ocky10 faltering voice, Mr. Shaw said perron, I would flop from time Britain and Canada signed touching off the rioting that timated 20,000 to 80,000 demon "When one is very old, as I am, to time and that would be very contract providing for the mounted to point where au es

at one time. Most of the de- the majorities were still work Philippines. one of the unpleasantnesses is embarrassing, and very unbe purchase by Britain of strátora, surged before the Viminsie that your legs give in before coming, and accordingly I have-minimum of 120,000,000 pounds your head does. Consequently taken this method of letting of Canadian beef in 1947, and monstrators were employees of the ing on a plan for a new projectForecast: Moderate Cricked for B.A.7. [ you are always tumbling about, you hear my voice, but not let marinus of 120,000,000 pounds 1 Public Works Department due to which spuld absort; the unemploy. veering, to East Fair

tumble down about threeting you see me flop," Reuter, in 1948-A4sociated Press

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