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FRENCH COMMUNIST TROOPS

PARTY JUBILANT Attack On Anglo-American "International Trusts"

M.R.P. Advocates A National Govt.

Paris, Nov. 13.

France's Communist Party, winner of Sunday's legislative elections, declared yesterday that it would fight for an independent French foreign policy, and in the same breath attacked Anglo-American "international trusts."- The Communist Party victory is a victory of the French line in foreign policy and particularly the position constantly defended by our Party regarding Germany,” editorialized "l'Human- ite. the Party organ, adding: The Communist Party victory and prices signifies that the French people chapter... repudiate the system of blocs, an want our foreign policy to take into equal account all alliances. It signifies that the French people refuse to enter mio coalition.

would be the final

Schumann said that one of the reasons why the MRP had lost strength in the elections was the deterioration of its relations with General Charles de Gaulle." Associated Press.

Mr. Pollitt Says

INDIAN ARMY

New Delhi, Nav. 13.. The Tuding Intérim Govern- rient has appointed a “com- mitte, to "advise on the coni- plete Indinisation -nf the Ernied threes

within the shartest possible time and with "dne regard 14 Indian national interesta"

The committee of seven will include three senior in-. dian officers representing the three services and one senior. British officer, and will re part within sixy mouths.

The process of Indianizing the armed forces refera to the progressive replacement af ledians for Europeana in the army-Reuter,

Germans Feeling The Pinch

the same time, President Geotges Bidault's MRP Party declared that the elections. which they ran the Communists

London, Nov. 12. 4 close second, had "averted the

Harry Pollitt, General Secrė- Marxist majority,tary of the British Communist hypothesis of

Government headed by Party, today described the sne- that is a the Communists

The Conimunist argan stated cesses of the Communists in the that the election results had French elections as "well de "seriously worried, in Great. Bri-served recognition not only of Air

London, Nov. 13: King George and Queen Elizabeth rode in state to the opening of Parliament yesterday

streets

The

OPEN FIRE

New Delhi, Nov. 13. polica. Have received, instructions to open fra on nil crowds or individuala throwing brickonts, commit ling neemuita - with

10eapons

or committing arson ar lust- ing, a district amagistrate of New Delhi mnounced in

brandcast today. The magik- trato added that persone at tempting to disobey curfeie orders, tecra linble to be pred on after warning-Reuter.

soldiers with fixed bay Italy's

onets.

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on

A security force of more than 5,000 had been mobilised to keep possible Palestine underground elements from carrying out, this gula occasion, threats to uring violence to England.

Police outnumbered spcctators ut some points along the sprinkled roule that the black

New

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New York, Nov. 12 sand-The Italian Govern-

Supreme Court

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Hong Kong Man Held As Drug Trafficker

Washington, Nov. 13.

The Treasury has an- nounced the arrest of Robert Dudley Linville, formerly active in Hong Kong, as "the most important international trafficker, in narcotics," at present listed in the narcotic. archives..

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Carroll Sentenced To Six Months

William Joseph Carroll, 61, Chairman of the Hong Kong Brokers Association for 12 years, was found guilty on one of the two charges of col- laboration and sentenced to six months' impri sonment by Mr. Justice E. H. Williams, Puishe Judge, at the Criminal Sessions yesterday. The jury deliberated for two and a half hours to

find Carroll unanimously not guilty of be ing a member of the Japanese Military Investi- gation Bureau, but returned a 5-2 verdict of guilty of assisting the Japanese to procure 25 kinds of war materials.

35 Die investigators In Train

Linville was arrested in Phoe nix. Arizona, and, held under a

US$75,000 bail for extradition

and gold Royal coach travelled, ment in a new note pre- drawn by tour prancing Windsor sented to the Foreign to Los Angeles, California; for grays, from Buckingham Palace Ministers

said: trial under the indictment and to. Westminster.

in London s

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today

ago.

Crash

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Upon hearing the verdict, Cor- roll kept his head down and his face turned red. Mrs. Carroll, who had been in Court through- out the seven-days' trial, burst Into tears on hearing the sentence und was assisted by two friends Ton leaving the Court room,”

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His Lordship took a little over four hours to sum up yesterday. morning. The jury retired at 12.15 Metz, Nov. 13." pm, and did not" return' until Thirty-five persons were known (245 pm, having their time in Over the scene, traditionally a "The temporary post-returned secretly two months killed and 80 others injured at the jury room.. gay splash

grey ponement of examina. He was specifically charged bound local

|6.20 a.m. yesterday when an east- Mr. M. A da Silva was for the streets, hung on air of tension tion of the Trieste deci- with trafficking in Mexican crashed into the rear of another Castro, instructed by Mr.

passenger train Crown, and Mr. Leo d'Almada e hat was not dispelled by the sion by

pealing of Westminster

the Foreign opium.

standing in the station Abbey's bells or the Royal salute Ministers is being inter- in association with notorisus east of Paris.

of d'Almada. Remedios.. represented Linville ves is Hong Kong Revigny-sur-Omain,

138 miles Carroll. ired by blue and gold uniform- preted by the Italian suppliers of narcotics to the

Announcing Jury's Government as

The authorities said they ex- an in-smuggling rate there," in 1940, pected to find more bodies in the

Rider Watchful Police direct invitation to seek returning to the United States debris. Fifty of the injured were dict, the jury foreman said: Adding n-rider after the ver- watchful policemen at the Vic-Possible grounds for in the same year a tegin a serious condition.

The Treasury statement said. The locomotive blew up as it

"Your Lordship, we, however, the House of agreement between Italy that

Linvill posing as a struck the rear of the stationary have found that there were mili Lords where the King, smiling and Yugoslavia.

**wealthy raucher." and apparently at case, alighted.

led antrain, adding the peril of live gating, circumstances and we, amazing 30-year, Jekylland steam, to that of the impact.

therefore, 'plead that Your Lord- with the Queen. He wore his Ad-

Hyde career of crime-Asso- miral's uniform and the Queen

eiated Press. wore a blue dress and hat.·

d artillerymen,

There Wis 2 solid line of

toria entrance to

The Italian Government is of the opinion that Marshal Tito's statement to Signor Palmira Tog- Hatti Italian Communist leader) element towards

Yeomen in medieval uniforms affords a positive of the problen:

Berlin, Nov. 12. Marshal of the Royal evolvers in their shoulder hol- Force Sir Sholto sters prowled through the crowd,

with ceremonial halberds, escort. ed them inside. Detectives with

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general discussion

Government is

between the two countries.

"The Italian considering with keen interest the passibility of direct negotiations with Yugoslavia. However, any agreement arrived at between the two Governments should have the querantee of the United Nations."

most similar occasions.-Associat-

Paris On Qui Vive

Reuter Paris, Nov. 12.

tain and America, the Parties and its role in the Resistance Move- Douglas, Commander-in-which was for smaller than on men who inspired the polley of ment, but of the constructive Churchill and Houver."

part it has played in the recon-Chief of the British zoned Fro The paper furecast that the struction of French economy." in Americans

Germany, said to- and English would He told Reuter: "Following night that it might be step up their

pressure for the close upon the victory of reac reconstruction of Germany Etton in the Uited States are necessary in places to The French police were fu France's expense" and that "on_

ould Frunch poople have given a new substitute other food-night maintaining a close watch domestic basis-the trusts" would

create dimculties in our lead to the world. It is one stuffs for part of the to be now in this country to try to

for Jewish terrorista reported British country, in refusing eredits and which we in trying to the us un by un- special interest in understand-bread ration owing to organise "an offensive" against favourable accords with our in- ing If Britain, the Soviet shortage, "but

Britain. dustry.

"The French people will res- pond to these pressures and in- trigues by affirming its concern for independence in all domains, political and economic." said the paper, which made no mention of Russia,

have

every-

CANARD

Athens, No. 12 British sources in Athens to day denleds press reports that Union. France and other de-thing possible. will be.derground "contacts" were cly arrived at the port of Argos

Special police agents and un-)

"thirty British warships, sudden- mocratic nations now stand together if they full

in Europe done to ensure that the pecially busy in Paris and the toll, in the Greek island of Cep. work out new forms of economic,

halonia." caloric value of 'chief ports, political and cultural coopera- rations will be avail-

The British Embassy kept up, minesweepers had been concen- They explained that British on-then, for these natlonsable." there will be no new economic

its precautionary measures. trated at Argostoll for the clear- -Reuter..

ance, of Corfu channel.-Reuter: crisis or wars, National Union?

The The MRP President, Maurice have now a new opportunity of Labour Government Schumann, came out with a strong clanging their foreign policy hlat for a national union govern- that we can ment of all parties.

stand four

He said that such a govern- ment could be baard "around a precise and limited programme in which the balancing of the budget

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square with the Soviet Union and a new Europe against the predatory designs of American Big Business."-Reuter.

Total of 175 Seats

Paris, Nov. 12. The Communist Party now have 175 seats in the National Assembly against 161 held by the. Mouvement Republician Populaire. Conser- vatives and Independents have 101, Socialist 96, Radical and Allied groups 63. Results are still awaited from 23 seats.

The C-in-C who discussed the food situation of the zone London last week said it would with the British Government in not be possible to expound a Importa into Germany until the long-term programme for food results are known of the dis cussions now going on between the Foreign Ministers in the United States-Reuter.

French Anxiety

Paris, Nov. 12. French anxiety about British coal policy in the Ruhr {s Istimulated by alarming press reports alleging that Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir.Sholto Douglas, Commander-in-Chief of the British Zote in Germany, has ordered all exports of coal to be suspended.

M. Georges Bidault, leader of the M.R.P. Party and Premier of France's coalition Government since June 24, is expected to hand in his re-

The wellknown political com- signation as soon as the newly-elected Nation-

mentator, Pertinax, writing in al Assembly has chosen its President.

the evening paper "Soir" de- "scribed the alleged British des Electing the President will be, President of the Republic is re- éision as a "brutal initiativo": the Assembly's first task when legated to the background for the und says: "Sir Sholto Douglas it meets for the first time November 20,

on moment, pending elections to the and the British Government Upper Chamber: The names most have emisulted nobody. The frequently mentioned as kán-Inter-Allied Control Commisalon

Molotov Speech Welcomed

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Lake Success Nov. 13. The United States today welcomed the renewed Russian offer to start work on solving the world's armis problems at the current session of the United Nations Assembly. Assembly delegations expressed considerable in- terest in the speech by the Soviet Foreign Minister. V. M. Molotov, in which he said the proposals of Russia and the United States on arms reduction "can be harmonized."

Albania Protests

The accident occurred in heavy ship take into consideration the fog--Associated Press.

'Emp. Of Australia's Passenger Switch

(By Margaret Bradbury)

After years of wartime service in the East, British Empire troops are now finding tha tlack of shipping accommodation is holding up their speedy repatriation. In Hong Kong yesterday 800 Indian servicemen who boarded the "Em- press of Australia" on their way to Singapore and home, were put ashore on the instructions of Army Headquarters here to make room for British service personnel in the Colony who are due for demobilisation or leave in Eng- Land.

This mercy reverses the case

at Kure, Japan, where the Indians were taken on board and British soldiers on their way home had "to disembark to make room for them.

When the "Empress" allo for Enginnd on Friday morning she will carry 3,082 troops and civilians, including: G00 Chinese naval. cadets who are to re ceive sul marine warfare train- ing in Britain.

An official on board yester

Amateur

Smugglers

Increase

Honolulu, Nov. 13. Customs officers

difficult circumstances: under which the neolised was 'involved;" Other third nationals during the Loccupation: traded as brokers for Japanese concerns and procured materials some of which were classed as war materials,

"It seems to us inconsistent with British justice for the prosecution to bring to book one Japanese collaborator in the person of the accused, while many other calla- berators in Hong Kong have, os-i caped-punishment pour

According 10 Carroll's. šiate-

ment, he has contributed a sub- stantial portion of his commis- sion for the benefit of third na tionals, Internees and prisoners of war. Also in 1842 he applied for permission to leave Hong Kong from the Gendarmerie on several occasions, but was refused permission to leave the Colony by the Gendarmerie on the Interven-

on of Yoshikawaza s

"Your Lordship, we plead sut you give the accused the maxi- mum clemency of the law accord- ing to the British Liberal rule based on true humanity, and jus tive to all

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Counsel's Plea

In a statement on behalf of ac cused, Mr. d'Almada said: “Car- Troll's own Judges-members 01 the jury have pleaded most are powerfully for leniency in his favour and it is indeed. difficult

day told me: "The ship will be combatting a rising wave really for me to add very much lu pretty crowded after we leave of amateur-smuggling by what they have already said. Singapore where a number of Americans who hope to would, however, like to draw ther passengers are scheduled get rich quickly by sell Your Lordship's

attention lo, to embark. Our usual troop, carrying capacity at not more ing penicillin, saccharin several points which have a great than 1,000.**

bearing upon this question of and other scarce items in punishment." Commenting United States

on the speech, American, delegate to the United

One Suicide

Ider Senator Connally, Nations, maid: "The United States

China and Japan.

After reading the newspaper chairman of the Senate For has for many years advocated who arrived in Hong Kong on There is no organised gang. British

Among the 2,000 passengers

publication on April 1 last, of the eign Relations Committee, and an disarmament without success the ship's recent trip bask, from said Customs expert Robert announcing an Ainnesly regarding Government's statement welcome Russia's cooperation. We shall not disarm so long as the Japan were 19 Japanese aus Shivers, by his inspectors re-political collaborators, Mr. d'Al- other great powers remain arm-pected, war criminals bosad for cently seized the large lot of mada went on to say: “My Lord, jed. ...

Singapore who were picked penicillin which operators had it is not for this Court nor; for up at Tokyo hy the British hoped to smuggle into China me to question or criticise the at- "There must be real disarma-Minor War Crimes Commission. by giving small units to mem-itude of His MajestGovern ment with adequate inspection to insure effective enforcement."-

Russia's four point resolution The Albanian Government has envisioning worldwide reduction warned Britain that any attempt of armaments and control of the to dear : Albanian territorial atomic weapon, in number 71 on Two Days' Supply. waters of mines will be regard-the agenda of the 51-nation politi- ed as "premeditated violation of cal committee of the Assembly, Dusseldorf, Nov. 12.

Albanian sovereignty," the which still is discussing its Arst An official statement issued Yugoslav News Agency, quoting item: Bere tonight said the grain the Albanian Legation in Bek There is no indication when atceks in hand yesterday in the rade, said. today

the disarmament idea, will come Britain sent a note to Al befare the committee. vince of the British zane were bania on Sunday saying ahe 18,258 tons--the equivalent of would. begin today to clear thei two days' supply.co

mines from the Corfu Straits

at-Reuter.

It could then either: (1) Ask M. didates are those of General de in Berlin was not warned-of Bidault to carry on, or (2), Ap-Gaulle, Edouard Herriol, Vincent what waa potni a new Premier to form an Auriol and Francisque Gay,

being prepared." other Interim' Government until mid-January when the new con- portfolio in the Bidault Cabinet. prosent Vice-President without stitution enters into force.

With the Radicals holding the balance of power between almost equally, poised "blocs" of left and right in the new Chamber all barlies are holding meetings this week to seek a solution of the difficult Government problem.. The Communists the strongest single party with claims to the premiership are meeting in morrow, and the Socialists inte ta krifght train

Communist deputies have been elected in Reunion Island, where the Communists now hold two our of three seats, and the French Siden and French Ivory Coast, where in each case the only de- pily is a Communist.

Compromise?

of the old A the Socialist, Vincent who represented a com-

between Communist and claims ar to strongest A simili compronise

adopted aga question of who will be the

-Reuter,

STOP PRESS North Rhine-Westphalia pro-

Paris, Nov. 13. Purther increases in the Comununie ztrength in the ported by the Ministry of: National Assembly was ren the Interier today when the results were issued for 608 seats out of the total of 619 Alled In Inst Sunday's - general election. The posi

Lan now in Communists 186, M.R.P: 163, Socialists, 104, Conservatives and In dependents, 87, and Radicals 69.-Reuter

shops today and the atmosphere was moro telo. Reuter,

:

Belgrade, Nov. 12

On The Agenda

vision of the veto system in the

They originally numbered 20 | Lers of plane crews making thement in this matter although I but on the way from Kure to United Statdi-Orient run. might feel tempted to express the Shanghai one Japanese com: One air fare officer is held opinion that this palley was mitted suicide in one of the in Japan for smuggling in-44 adopted for fear of offending the ship's cabins by cutting his pounds of sharin, At the susceptibilities of certain persons throat with a sword, was

current black market price in a cerdain races but the fact does On Tuesday these suspects Tokyo, his 44 pounds of this remain that that policy was em were taken off the ship

and common chemical compound phasised by the jury in their housed in Stanley Gaol, They would have brought more than tider: will remain there until sailing US$30,000, or explained: time.

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Amsterdam, Nov. 12.

The Dutch shipping and machine company, NY; Holland of Orderecht, announced today that it had purchased two 18,800 and three 1,500-ton destroyers for ton American. aircraft-carrierá dismantling purposes-Reuter.

One inspector: There is no urge ring because conditions are changing. fast. There ia noregular

THE WEATHER scheduled traffic to the Orient, An Intense anticyclone covers except by air and plane crews China and Manchuria and extends change a often that it in difil-over the adjoining seas. A re cult to set up dependable pipe seler depression over Hokkaido is

lines

moving NE The low over the

RYM Z seems to have lost in-

"But at of people are do ing letter smuggling."-As80- ciated Press,

OTTO IN CAIRO

near Leyte while another intensifying about 150 miles WSW of

moving knots

NW or NNam and

af 8 to 12

Lisbon Maru Master Baye He

Today's forecast Mederate to. fresh NE winds weather cloudy Felt Very Uneasy.

Cairo, Nov. 12. Page Thres

Archduke Otto of Hausburg Kradually becoming Isle, Kowloon Wharf War Loss of has arrived here as the guest of

Six Million

Princess Chivekalt 65-year-old grand-daughter

who was concy, Sultan of Turkey's Viceroy of

The interior, made no men-where two British destroyers, Sauding ahead of it on the tion of day stocks but a the Saumarez and the Volage, approved agenda, are: The Aus senior official stated the stocks struck mines, losing 48 dead, on tralian proposal to consider re- in hand to Dusseldorf could October 22,

Protesting against the un-Security Council:- Cuba's plan de- ON OTHER PAGES Tast three and a quarter doya.

Bread cues seemed to be lateral decision of the British signed to wipe out the veto idea fonger outside some Ruhr bread Government "with regard to entirely and, Russia's pointed Rose Two SE HANN

these straita," Albania replied Allied troops in allen and non- Albanian territorial waters in questions on the dispositions of proposing the setting up of a enemy countries, Joint commission to discuss the All these are bound to bring London, Nav. 12. question and asked Britain prolonged debates

KG Lord Pethick Lawrence and meanwhile to limit their opern- Meanwhile, new invitations Page other British Cabinet ministers tinn to the part of the straits from all over the United States are tonight attending a recci outside the territorial waters. Have complicated the problem of tion to be given at India House, The Prime Minister, diding a permanent home for the London, by R. K. Nehru, leader Enver Hodia, has sent a tele United Nations. However, the ince of the Indian delegation to the gram to Mr. Trygve Lde, the may be narrowed on November preparatory trade commission of Secretary-General of the Unit 15, to dve contenders-Westches the United Nations, and his ed Nations, informing him of ter County, New York City, San colleagues, the delegation, the Britisa note and Albania's Francisco, Boston and Philade

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The Italian Foreign Minister, Belgrade later this week, it is S. Pietro Nenni may visit learned in Foreign Ministry circles here-Hero!!