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Quick Work PERSIAN ARMY ADVANCE CONTINUES GRIM STORIES

On Arms Proposal

New York, Dec. 11.

Within 100 Miles Of Provincial Capital There Is

Britain and Russia last REPORT AWAITED

night agreed in princi- ple" on a vast program- me enveloping arms re- duction and a worldwide troop census with

on-

the-spot verification checks of all forces and armaments, the atom bomb.

including

They again reached a dend- lock on the vela issue, however. Apparent agreement came in the midst of a three-hour debate in the Assembly, marked by a series of manoeuvres be- tween Molotov and Sir Hartley Shuweroas, British Attorney General.

Si Hartley twice called it "an historic occasion" and once shook hands With Molotov to seal an agreement.

"the

London, Dec. 10.

The War Minister ] × asked in the House of Cam- mang today whether he would review the case oj- Arthur Davies, sentenced to death on December 16, 1944, whose sentence was later commuted to life penat servitude.

The Minister gaid he was giving careful consideration to the case and was awaiting a special regori,--Reuter,

Pea Souper In Britain

London, Dec. 10.

don. Trafic was slowed to

whole system of

arms and d

Protest By Soviet

In Teheran

Teheran, Dec. 11.

The Persian Imperial troops who crossed the border into the northern home rule" province of Azerbaijan on Monday night to supervise elections are today unofficially reported to be within 100 miles of the provincial capital of Tabriz, having entered the town of Mianeh, midway between the eastern border and the capital.

General Headquarters in Teheran has not so far

confirmed this report.

A new column of Imperial sian newspaper, reported that ircops was advancing from the United States has given 40 Tokab, northwest of Zenian.four-engined bombers to the Fedries (Azerbaijan militia) Persian Government since Nov. put up slight resistance near 22, Niruzabad Jamalabaad and Suleiman Kambi-

It was reported last night

from

Soviet Protest The Teheran morning news-

The

NEW AIR RECORD

Valetta, Dec. 10..

The Auro Lancastrian air- craft "City of London", which arrived here today, claimed to have created a re- cord by flying the 1,340 miles from London to Malta in four hours 65 minutes.

Owned by the recently formed Silver City Airwaya Ltd., the plane carried 13 posangers, including Air Commodore Griffith 7. Powel, wanaging director of British Overseas Air Servicca... Reuter.

All Jews Taken. Off

evacuated

Jerusalem, Dec. 11... The Royal Navy announced to day that all marooned Jewish refugees had been from the Greek island of Syrina by to British wa shida Bay on Crete for transfer to hospital

now en route to Suda

ships.

that the Persian air force had paper, Atesh, reported today A thick fog which blotted out bombed the "heavily fortified" that Central troops were engag (which ed in fighting Azerbaijan De 460 miles of the British Isles Questions before the Assem-

cf Ghalfankuh

Mianeh. carlier mocrats near from Glasgow to London was lift-town bly on the troop census were

paper said it could be consider ing this morning after paralya Imperial troops were buried in the intensity of the in ocean, road and rail trafie: reported to have captured:)

Imperial Headquarters stated ed certain that Mianeh had been discussion and the final effect grounding planes and Indirectly wae to merge the census with causing the death least one

of at

that all bridges on the road to captured by this morning.

The Atesh also reported that the whole broad problem of person.

Mianch had been blown up by.

Soviet Ambassador Sadchikov arms reduction.

The fog settled last night. Bir the Democrats.

The refugees took shelter on The United States, whose mingham, Manchester and Lan Jafa Pishevari, head of the in a strong protest yesterday the rocky little island last week alam bomb would be offered cashire reported the densest blan- Democrat Party in Azerbaijan, charged the Central Government when the 700-ton caique in which to the world almost immediate-ket. The fog was patchy in Lon-broadcasting

Tabriz with breach of promise by send- they were en route from a Black ly under pac section of the ot stopped completely. Radio, said that the struggle ing troops into Azerbaijan and Sea port to Palestine capsized in

traw

storm. સ tentative

agreement, did not Businessmen offered 1 per mile was not a fight between Tabriz thus endangering the Soviet

said directly comment on the British

and Teheran but between free-frontiers..

The Navy announcement The paper added to laxi drivers to get them home

the rescue was carried out in an that Premier Ghavam es Sul- "extremely rough sea and in ex- dom and reaction. proposal which paved the way last night:0p for an agreement in principle.

The Prime Minister, Ghavam tanch was under constant pres- Lreme difficulty." AL Dford conductors walked in The President of the Assem- front of buses, burning news Es Sultanch was selling the sure from the Soviet Union. The destroyer Chevron took bly. Paul Henri Spaak, of Bel- papers,

torches.. Children country in America, Pishevari

The morning paper. Bidar-aboard 488 and the minesweeper gium. cautioned that if the started carol singing to fead said. Persia was not India. He yema, functioning for the sup- Provident took 254. Eight others proposals were adopted.

workman's asked Azerbaijan iu fight pressed Tudeh Party grgan. We were seriously ill had pro the last man for their freedom. Rahbar, said: "The internal and of Rhodes by the Greek destroyer viously been taken to the island renr of another, Пуд регвале.

Martial Law: external enemies of Iran who

emistocles Mersexide shipping had a 24- The Teheran curcespondent Brally succeeded for their ow • Avtalon has as yet been This would include: full re- hour standstill and 500 brides of the Soviet Tass News Agency base ends in creating a civil announced as to where the ship ports of the atom bomb. ⠀ bound for Canada had to post today quoted a report publish war will be duly punished. wrecked Jaws will be taken from

M. Spaak warned the dele pone sailing aboard the liner ed in the newspaper DAD, stat- Our soldiers of liberty will de Cretc.-Associated Press. gates against taking such a Samarla at Liverpool..

Alexandering that martial law had been finitely come out successful in A truck driver. serious step immediately, sugen, was killed in a head-on cu proclaimed in all-northern cl-the struggle against foreign im- geating that the troop resolu-

perialism and fascist dictator- tion; with all the amendments. Hision nest Coleshire, Warwick tricts of Persia.

shire,

The proclamation followed a ship? be sent to the Political Sub- All planes were grounded at clash between mipere and troopt | The Bidaryema said the In- Committee on Wednesday to London's Heathrow airport after at the coal-mining centre of Lernational Labour Federation

5.30 p.m. last night. Planes en

Zirab, in the province of would take action this woek route to London were warned by

the newspaper against "anti-labour atrocities radio to turn back or land some Mazendaran, where clee.

added.

Iran."-Reuter committed in The fog seeped in through the After reinforcements had ar- and United Press. tightly shut windows of Parliarived from Teheran, the troops ment and so obscured the House surrounded the miners of Commons Chamber that MPs sitting at one end could not see their colleagues at the other end. -United Press.

armament would be established by January 1, 1947”.

be blended with the broad arms proposal-Associated Press.

Vendetta KillingsTM

Trento, Dec. 11. Five persons including two women, were killed last night in machine-gun atineks on two homes in the small village of

1 Vetriolo.

A stream of sub-machine gun

1 bullets, blasting through the zwindow, killed Achille Garella, 55, and his wife, Antonietta, 50, and wounded their daughter. Adelina, 25.

The same assailants then turned on their neighbouring Avancini family, killing Anna Avancini and her two sons, Sergio and Narciso,

The police said they believed the killings were the result of difficulties between local farm- ers and the Gurolla and Avan. cini families, who are rich land owners-United Press.

Truant On The

Rocks

Plymouth. Dec. 11. H. M. submarine Truant,"

the

A

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upened fire.

and

In another despatch, the same correspondent, quoting a Per-

To

Blonde Helps Round Up Nazis

Nazis

Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 10.

With the help of a blonde girl, a secret agent in Georgia has exposed the Columbians, Inc., as a vicious, Nazi-type movement plotting to seize the United States Government. Prose cution of the leaders appears certain. Lovely Renee Forrest, 24, of New York, and other non-sectarian, anti-Nazi secret agents of a league cajoled two Columbians into making confessions which revealed that the group planned to seize, power and kill all Jews, -Negroes, Chinese and members of other racial

minorities...

The confessiona were turned General, aver to the Attorney Eugene Cook, who published them. They were made by hand- some, trapping Rapiti Childers, 18, and Lanser Waller, 21, who

which broke adrift in the Chan told of a programme to smuggle

enel last Thursday, has been arms from occupied Germany.

Hound today, half capsized on

The Columbian President

Lucky Shirley

Melbourne, Dec. 11.

Emergency Powers To Stay

Washington, Dec. 10.

Representative Earl

was

A Limit

London, Dec. 10.

The Food Minister, Mr. John Strachey, to- day denied there had! been a breakdown, in food relations with Den-İ mark.

AT TOKYO TRIAL

Tokyo, Dec. 11. Tojo and his 26 co-defendants appeared nervous and uneasy today as the Philippine phase of the war trial entered its second day with the prosecution unfolding seemingly unending and nearly unprintable tales of Japanese bar- barity committed in the Islands during the

war.***

The young Filipino prosecutor, Mr. Pedro Lopez, continued to offer to the Court a formidable bulk of affidavits, documents, records, trans- tripts and interviews, all detailing inhumane Japanese conduct.

Soldiers Refuse To Sail

London, Dec. 11.

Mr. Lopez related the bayonet "Our main contracts with massacre of 36. helpless Filipinos the

Japanese Danes stil! "stand and in a cornfeld; how a quantities of food are flowing officer used Filipino prisoners as in," he told a press conference live targets in order to demon- today, adding that he hoped and strate the art of decapitation; the believed the Danes were anxious sadistic treatment lascivious. Jap- to sell to Britain, and he cer- anese soldiers forced upon Fili- tainly would not agree that any pine girls at point of gun and pressure was being put upon bayonet,

The defendant, Takasumi Cka, the Danes.

Unless Denmark could find former vice-admirat in the Jap- Same way of increasing its ex-onese Navy and Navy Vice-Minis- A War Office inquiry rorta to Britain, Mr. Strachey ter in 1944, wiped his lips often is to be held into the declared, he would have to con- with a white, blue-fringed hand-

conducts of 170 British sider the volume of British im-kerchief.

Seated next to him, Hideki Tojo, soldiers, who refused to ports the Danes were taking. but, he emphasised, that could wartime premier, arched over, sail for overseas. duties not be called pressure.

writing notes and occasionally "There is a limit to which running a palm across his fore- last night in the liner this country can go," he said.

"Empress of Scotland" "We like exporting, but we do fidential adviser, Marquis Kolchi The liner sailed without Emperor Hirohito's chief con-when it left Liverpool.

Kidò, stared at Mr. Lopez's broad . It not like exporting-for fun!"

was a difficult position back.

them. altogether and one which had to

Grim Look

The men, who had left the shi

24 third walk-off in be faced, the Food Minister

Iwane Matsui, a small crumpled in their added. Britain paid the prices

once the proud hours, disembarked as a protest the Danes were asking and the man who was

They climbed down the ship's Dominions would have the right commander of Japanese expecl- against food. and conditions.

tionary forecs in China, sat rigid- to ask. also for increased prices.ty against the background of aor the landing sluge gate and pro- emergency scaling nets, burst out Reuter.

il.

head.

white-lielmeted American MP.

Shigetora

BORMANN ALIVE Navy Minister under Tolo and Shimada, former

ceeded back to Use transit camp at Huyton. Most were picked up Stockholm, Dec. 11. member of the Supreme Military As they marched, they shouted. by buses while marching there. The afternoon newspaper | Council. rubbed his mouth we want justice. We want, food. Aftontidningen sald today that nervously several times with his The Empress of Scotland is a hell the missing Nazi leader, Martin right hand. Swedish town of Malmoe for eign Officer adviser and Ambar- - Bormann, visited the south Toshio Shiratori, former Forship. Several civilians cheer-

jed them. D

At the tamm today all agreed 177 weeks last April and the sade to Rome removed his car that they were receiving · good proceeded to South America phones carry

treatment. "We are being treat- where he is staying now.

Aldra Muto, Chief of Staff in the ed like human beings, one of United Press. --

Philippines under General Tomo them said. They are under open yuki Yamashita, bore a grim look arrest pending the War Office in The corners of his mouth were

quiry,--Reuter;\" curled.

Britons

Fight In

Want To

Spain

London, Dec. 10. Two hundred. British ex-Servicemen; including Paratroops, have volunteered to fight General Franco in the ranks of the International Bri- gade should the Brigade decide to return to Spain, sald Miss Nancy Green, the National Secretary of the Brigade in an interview to- day.

"We have had to send a circular letter to these people declining their offer," Miss Green add- ed. "Although many of the applications came from ex-soldiers who could not settle down as civilians, a great number had genuine desires to finish with General Franco."

Death March Two Bataan Death March sur- vivors took the stand and related the inhuman suffering they, were |forced to undergo at the hands of

the Japanese.

More Labour Demands

Washington, Dec. 1 Former Pfc. Donald F. Ingle

The CIO has girded itself for told the court hey he was ordered an attempt to obtain a second from his sick bed by the Japanese round of pay increases in the and forced to march for nine days major industries, and a guaran- malaria ridden and with pneu- teed annual wage for its 6,000,-

monia.

s/Sgt.

The other witness, Samuel S. Moody, said there were

000 members.

Now that John L. Lewis is only seven men alive today, who stalled, the CIA is stepping out composed the original group from to become the wage pace-maker, the Gapan prison camp where Just as it did in the first post- originally 200 enlisted men and war pay adjustments earlier three officers

were confined, this year. Moody told how the Japanese

Jy

PLANE

CIO leaders are grasping at forced prisoners requesting for their opportunity in a series of Lewis, chairman of the

quinine against malaria to take meetings this week and the next, Republican Committee

bromo-quinine, a laxative, 'night Out of them may come a de- mand for a 25 cent hourly raise. to study termination-of

Prior to the witnesses, Asso- Miss Green made it clear States withdrew its ambassador clate Prosecutor Pedro Lopez, of been seeking a 60 per cent in- John L Lewis reportedly had presidential wartime

the Philippines proaccution sec- erense for His AFL United "absolutely no intention that General Spanish reaction, tion, introduced diarles, notebooks Mine Workers but ho called of? powers, reported that it the International Brigade had at the end of last year.

"neither wise nor International Brigades in any excuding extremist opinions, and letters written by Japanese the coal-strike without getting desirable" at this time to country should re-form for the is that hostility towards foreign soldiers captured by the Allied

intervention in Spain's affairs, forces during the retaking of the | It.-Associated Press. declare the war emer- Furpose of fighting in Spain."

Miss Green worked for 16 predominated greatly over the Philippines, showing that the Jap- gency ended.

ency and the House Re-months as a medical organiser feeling of support for the pre- anese themselves were revolted P.W's ESCAPE BY

on the Ebro front-from July sent regime. T

by the spectate of their own publican leader, Rep. Joseph Mar-1937 to November 1938. She This impression was borne atrocities against Allied men, wo- Lin, Mr. Lewis said the terminalost her husband on the last day out by reaction in Madrid men and children. tion of presidential war powers of fighting by the International cinemas this week to newsreels would have "far reaching con- Brigade., After her re-marriage of the protests and a general sequences" that would adversely she paid a recent visit to Spain, uproar, whereas pictures of affect the United States Army, using her present name, Mrs. General Franco at a recent try's sake, it is sheer of German prisoners of war particularly occupation forces Nancy Brake.

ceremony, roused relatively abroad. He said there were more The Spanish Government did litde public emotionRouter. than 500 emergency war powers not discover her true identity. Dr. Giral "Saved".. contained in as many separate

London, Dec. 10. The compromiss decision of the United Nations Political Committee recommending, the Madrid will have the immediate

acts. Of these, only 46 minor Jones could be repealed immediate- y "without harm to the economy

Reuter.

Extreme Things

the rocks our Cherbourg Penia- Emory Burke, allegedly had let Within two hours of the pub-tion and conduct of the Govern Barcelona, today, the first in withdrawal of envoys from tated" by the gronning of a Fili... make designed for

sula,

delters from Germany regarding

of the country or to the organiza-

ment, i

Charmont, Dec. 11. Spotters throughout eastern One wrote: "Although it is for for an undetermined number

France were searching today

brutality," but admitted killing (who 100 Filipino civilians.

have were believed to Another, who witnessed the tor-stolen an aeroplane, yesterday ture of Filipino guerillas, wrote: from the hangar at Langres "It was pitiful. I could not watch. airport near here and taken off Bombs Explode

Indeed, the Japanese Army does in the direction of Germany

The plane called "Buck." extreme thinga,”. Madrid, Dec. 10:

Yet another said he was "irri- was of the original Herm

tourist Two small bombs exploded in She was sighted yesterday arms..

travel. It had sufficient gas for lication of her story, funds

pino he-bayonetted. five miles north of Cap de la

were subscribed to enable 15 Inciting A Riot

Still another said: "It was hard approximately 600 miles flying, He made these points in oppos- Rambla Cataluma, when crowds Hague, off Cherbourg Penin- }

year-old Shirley Skinner to ing a blanket declaration for the massed there for a pro-Franco effect of saving Dr. Jose Giral's for me to kill them because they airport afficisis said.-United sula, by alreraft of Coastal muy drop all ether cases and in-

The Grand Jury now in sessión travel to the United States for and of wor emergents: Firstly, demonstration against "foreign Spanish Exile Government from seemed good people, but I stabbed Press,

a criyle ve d and killed several,United Press; Command and a naval frigate dict the Columbians on Friday. removal of a nail she swallow-the present procurement and set intervention in Spain" and the When Senor Giral, new to Hurghead Bay," was directed. The State will seek indictments ed 18 years ago. Shirley was up of armed forces was based seen in the Plaza Estaluna New York to be present its

THE WEATHER to her by the aircraft against the leaders for illegal a happy and healthy girl until upon emergency powers; Second- this afternoon bombs did any observer at the United Nations FATHER OF 12

Neither of the

any

An anticyclone is, stationary "Burghead Bay" signalled late last night that she had been sacasion of dynamite and an in- June of this year when haem-ly, repça! would force, the Army.

over Ching and the Eastern and dictment against Burko and orrhage set in and an X-Ray to full back upon recruiting en damage and there were an ession he left Parks with a

A VICTIM virtual ultimatum from his

the Yellow Sea. A deep depres the vessel aground under the Homer: Looms, Jr. Columbian showed the null embedded in irely to obtain manpower: Third casualties-Reuter.

Socialist supporters, and other

Whitchuyen, Dec. 10. sion is moving into the Pacific in cliffs. She stood by all night Secretary for inciting a risk her lung

Ply, it would eliminate the modern- Position Unchanged?

groups that unless he succeeded. Eleven bodies have been the NE of Hokkaido. Pressuru and, when daylight broke today, ment for

They are already under Indict Yesterday evening the Meled staff structure of the Array: Madrid, Doc. In.

In obtaining positive action from brought to the surface here remains low over Li

the equatoriai confirmed the position Gthority police au-

sourts Brening Herald, printed and Fourthly, Limasto sapered social grailed, the taglia, the Unital Nations his Cabinet from the Lowong, Linderen, of money Traubmarine was one of Childers said, that after run an account of Shirley's condi- patents affecting national selenom seemed to think that the United would have to give place to which was yesterday, rocked by

one of fine Negroes out, the Georgiaution in which the doctor and an

defence. Nations Political and Security some other form of opposition on explosion. ---United Press,

Committee's decision that the government. u 1 the "Navy's most famous subgroup planted to organize in that her life would be endan-

Among the seven men Iden- marines, and had been sold to other slates and keep-going

United Nations should with- It is now widely felt that tiled was a father of 12 chil- gered unless she went to Amerf-

draw envoys from Madrid did Senor Giral's mission has just dren. A nct as a whole after the position fled itself. Reuter of Spain with regard to other

There is very little hope for nations

The Hague, Dec. 10. the remaining four men trag, Official Government reaction The Dutch Chamber today re-ped by a mass of fallen rock to this decision was not thought Jected by 74 votes to nine a and coal, Rescue parties wear-

Vatican City, Dec. 10. likely. At present five nations motion that Holland end trade ing respirators, struggling in The Pope today received in have ambassadora in Madrid, with Spain The motion was knee-deep water, are taking private audience, Zir. Eritain, Italy, Portugal, Argen moved by M. Paul de Groot, the desperate - efforts to get to Taylor, President în tina And Brazil. The United Communist member-Reuter them-Reuter

sonal representative-Reuter

a British iron steal corporation that, and finally take over. Chen for an operation-the cost of ON OTHER PAGES

to be broken up-Reuter,

Calcutta, Dec 107

The dusk-to-dawn

loride. In Calotte curfew

nese and other minorities

would

the trip being about 640.

Lellow in the line of extermina Within two hours 2800 was Paga tion and "people who didn't want naturally in shot out would subscribed, including 4640 by Sammipo Staff Trial

in to 23 under our

a bookmaker, while the Austra Pace Three ¿communal disturbarices in New Yorkers, claim Columbian two free passages to America New Revolt by Labour MP. Loomis and Burke, both former lian National Airways offered & Trade Mission Entertained.

Pago Fire MA August will be lifted from Fri- membership, of 0,400, but inves- day night, the Bengal Govern tigatoza way the correct number for both Shirley and her Pact Eight ment announced today, Reuters is dearer 500,- United Pre motherReuter

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