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TWO STARS IN THE Probable Rivals For Stalin's Sceptre

Nationalist And A Revolutionary

(By Roy Roberts)

New York, Nov. 11.

Every time Stalin varles his routine, as he did last Wednesday by letting Andrei Zhdanov occupy the rostrum usually reserved for the Premier of the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolu tion, it stirs speculation abroad.

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You can hear rumours that Stalin is dead, that he is retiring, that his substitute has been chosen as his successor, that he is en route to the Unit- ed States to confer with President Truman or that his 180 or 190 million non-Party subjects, are in revolt.

BOYS DEAD

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Berlin, Nov. 10. The bodies of two Berlin boys have been discovered in the safe of a postal railway carriage. in Anhalt railway station i Berlin.

It is believed the boys were frying is travel without fie keta, eliphed into the safe and were uaphyæinted when the lid of the safe cloped ae- cidentally-Router.

THE CHINA-MAIL,” TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1946.

SOVIET SKY Lifanov

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Singapore, Nov. 10. Though more rice than had been expected is now available in Southeast Asia, the rice deficit territories of Southeast Asia remain pre- cariously near a catastrophe," according to a communique issued after the monthly food conference of Southeast Asta liaison officers. Siam will be able to provide 88,000 tons of rice up to the year's end. China's allocation of 24,000 tons, which she is returning to the pool, is to be available next month. scribed Malenkov as "one of the distribution, efter backlogs due The total rice available for! most dangerous men in Russia" to the Philippines, will give from the standpoint of those who participating territories 74 per A little late you are likely to jobs, was for some years Stalin's wish to see the Soviet curb its cent of their entitlement under hear he was at home using a personal secretory, a member of expansimist tendencies,

allocations for the period July The inner workings of Soviet December, sulla spray on a sore throat like the Party's Executive Committee

and a member of the State Compalities are not for the foreign' an ordinary Buzann.

The conference hopes that But the appearance of Zhdanov [mittee, for defence during the re- observer to now. Master politi- Brazil's decision to ban food ex- last Wednesday talking like most cent war, gaining the Order of sians, like masters in other fields.parts, which affected Malayn, Moscow radio commentator who Lenin for his work on plane pro-have been known to play their indin and Ceylon, would soon be

young hopefuls off against each reversed. serves to comind that there are Politburent.

"Malaya, where there then leave them all at the post urgent necessity for raising the extremely meagre rice ration, can only see far enough ahead to be able to say that the pre- sent rations shilde main tainable until the end of the year.

is on a "mad" against Capitalism, duclioh and being elevated to the other for their own purposes and

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two stars in the Soviet sky which A Revolutionary

in the final heat. scem to be travelling converging } He is credited with being a orbits around the master's chair, more active revolutionary than no longer merely a

But if, on that day when it is sere throat Zhdanov

considered Theag, the type which would for the ninster, if Zhanoy clashes fox six yours us the Soviet Nitn he likely in take greater in-with the horizon-cyeing Malenkov ber Two man. Starting at 16 after tersi in a revived Chintorp. for the sceptre, the fur is going to war service in the Car's Army. Careful observers have dey in Russia-Associated Press, Zhdanov has bet climbing steadily among the Communist - -unti}_noi_01_50-be-ia—2—prabunt

of the powerfal · Palitbaritati. Secretary of the Central Exern. tive Committee of the Party and Chairman of the Foreign Affair! Commission. where "for years he has played a major role in ein ping Taren palies, and Til ng the- Proßaganda Bureau.

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British Proposals For Rumania

New York, Nov. 10. Consideration of the remaining recommendations of the Paris Peace Conference on the treaty with Rumania, not so far agreed by the Big Four, heads the agenda for tomorrow's meet- ing of the Council of Foreign Ministers. The most important of these 's the British proposal embodied adapted by the Paris conference,

Clauses 1, 2 and 4 were not 'n an annex l the draft treaty but Clause 3 was adopted by a

elating to foreign oil rights in simple majority, Himania.. AL contains fur danses,

He is known as a determined |

all cases Russia and the Nationalist to sing at every pro-

United States voted against the blem strictly from the standpoint. They are: To restore property | British proposal. France joined of what is to Rivia's interest. In belonging to United Nations them in opposing Clause 4. this respect his termiption is al- engaged in the petroleums in- Britain's chance of seeing her must carbon may of Stalin's dustry. 2. Componenti a to be proposals entbodied in the final

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star bering the puck for samag sustained dur-draft of the treaty are regarded Generalissingos younger satel-ing the war and for repairs here as slender in view of this Bites in Georgi Malenkov, aged 15. | needed to pal nil properties | opposition within the Council of who has just been shitted fries heck into working under. 3. The Foreign Ministers. However, as the legislative to the executive Rumanian Government to Russia has shang, no hesitation branch of the Government--from modify its Petroleum Law of in continuing to press for adop the Presidium of the Supreme 15-42 dixerimitating against tion of proposals already defeat Soviet to Vice-Chairman of the United Nations nationals. 4. in the Paris conferenet. Bri- Technical experts to be allowed fain, it is thought, may main- He tan served in the Red Army to enter Rumania freely to work tain her oil proposals particular after World War 1, held increas-in oil concerns belonging toy as each of the four clausen ingly important Party organising United Nations nationals.

received more votes for it than against in Paris, though they failed to secure, a two-thirds, majority necessary to convert them into recommentations of

Council of Ministers.

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Melbourne, Nov. 10... The Soviet Minister to Australia, Mr. Lifanov, stayed away from a din- ner to which he was in- vited here on the anni- versary of the October Revolution, because "in view of other events his presence at a public din- ner in Melbourne would not be diplomatically proper

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"Other events" were a counter demonstration organised by Mr. Joseph J. Maloney, former Aus tralian Minister in Moscow, who has sharply criticised, the Soviet Union since his return from that country last February, and who has been strongly rebuked for It by the

asenw Radio, "New Times" and "Pravda."

Mr. Maloney addressed 2,500 people at Melbourne town hall on the "Soviet myth exploded," des

Cowes, Nov. 10. Police throughout the pite protests of the Australian- Soviet Friendship League, organi- Isle of Wight were today sers of the dinner, which had on- searching the island forth the choice of the date jected to the "offensivs implica- three men, believed to for his speech. be escaped German pri-

Mr. Maloney told his audience that Russian standards of living

In The Netherlands Fast soners who landed on were never as high as the lowest Indies, the situation is serious Friday from a French paid Australian workers, food and there is actual starvation in boat registered at Brest was pitifully inadequate and no several districts. In Sarawak and

work was too laborious, danger- are also grave and have since been atous or Blthy to be given to Borneo there shortages."

women.-Reuter. large on the island. Burma's exportable surplus next year is estimated at one million tons, or more than double that of last year, Burma is provisionally scheduled to ship 45,000 tons in December:

The men landed at Mirabel Bay, near the Needles Rocks, and a woman saw three men climb the elide near 3 thickly wooded stretch of the under-eilf, but an intensive search of the surround-

area was unsuccessful.

The communique concluded:

The boat which they abandoned "It is not until next year that

contained papers showing she the benefit of the new rice

came from Brest. The police are crops will be felt, and meanwhile

tinues and the present danger period cou-watching the boat, which is sill on the beach, since it is consider the rice deficited the men are likely to come out territories of Southeast Asia from hiding because of hunger. remain precariously near entas- traphic."-Reuter.

Turkestan Quakes

London, Nov. 11. shook several areas of Uzbekistan ⚫ 'Since

the earthquake that and Kirghizia during the night of Nov. 2 and 3, some 50 further tremors have been feit, said Mos- row endin, heard in London yes- terday.

The earthquake centre was 160 mies south-east of Tashkent. Shortly after midnight on Nov. 5, a new earthquake centre was re- ristered in Turknenia territory, near the western spurs of the

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manian treaty do not occupy the whole of tomorrow's session, the Ministers will presumably press next to the Paris recommenda- tions on which the Big Four are not yet agreed on the Bulgarian, Hungarian and Finnish treaties in that order.-Reuter,

FORECAST NOT CORRECT

Cairo, e 10. Ismail Sidky Pasha, the Egyptian Prime Minister, in o communique issued tonight, described as "not conforming to the truth the statement in the Wafdist Arabic newspaper

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yet another earthquake, this time. some 160 miles north-west of Tashkent. Four hours later on

the same day, the Tashkent seismographic station recorded a fouth earthquake estimated to have occurred 1,500 miles away in

southwesterly direction.

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All these contres, says the director of the Tashkent slation, are linked along a line passing through the Himalayas, the Pumirs, the Caucasus and the northern shores of the Mediter ranean, and they constitute a seismographic zone, of recurring earthquakes. Associated Press,

BRITAIN BUYS FOR INDIA

Al Misri" purporting to give

Istanbul, Nov, 10. the complete textual draft of

Britain has agreed to buy for agreement for a 20-year India's needs 150,000 tons of treaty said to have been reached cereals from Turkey, including

er Sidky Pasha and Mr wheat, barley and other pro

Foreign ducts, according to a report Ernest Devin, the Secretary. This draft contains from Ankara today. seven clauses and two protocols

The report said the agreement covering the questions of the Sudan and the evacuation of Was reached by a high official of the British Treasury after British troops from Egypt.

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Turkish leaders. In exchange, Britain, will supply Turkey with tractors, trucks, ploughing im plements and other industrial! equipment, Reuter.

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Squalls reached 100 miles. an hour. One of the ships will need. towing to Suer for repairs, but the others were not badly damaged,

Many native aailing craft were slap sunk and houses dam- aged, Lena of life was reported.--- Reuter.

OTTO IN CAIRO

Cafro, Nov. 11 Archduke Otto von Bepsburg, pretender to the "Austrian' throne, arrived in Cairo late last night from France. He was received by Mahmoud Fakhri Pasha, a former Egyptian Minister to "France, Olto in the guest of the Egyptian Princess Chevikar. Ansociated Press,

The possibility of their having reached the mainland has not been ruled out-Reuter.

Warsay, Nov. 11. Professor Julian Nowak, 81. one-time Premier of Poland and a noted educator, died at his home here, today. He headed the Palish Government in 1922 and 1923- Associated, Prg38.

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