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Prepared For Defensive War

Volcano

Still In Eruption

Reynkavin, Iceland,

Apr. 5.

More than one million cubic metres of molten lava from seven craters were, tonight still flow- ing down the sides of Mount Henla, which has been in eruption for the last week.

Work Of Three

Services

Washington, Apr. 6. War Department officials say that the United States Army has plans ready for ` deploying troops and planes to fight the first phases of a defensive war.

They explain that the recent statements of Secre- tary of War Patterson that the armed services have no overall plan for national defence refer to coordinated planning of the Army, Navy and Air plus plans for mobilizing the nation's industrial and manpower resources. Admirał. Chester W. Nimitz, tional planning, in recent months

Naval Operations, as they have emphasized the import

major attention lo the Arctic

theatre of operations.

t:id the Senate Committee that ance of the northern and Pacific the defence plans have been de defences. Oficial Streaming over the slopes o:veloped by the Joint Chiefs of

statements by top lava rock left by previous erup- Staff and

by the Naval, Army and Air Force om. Approved tlons, these rivers of fire provide Secretaries of War and Navy. cials Indicate they are giving; an awesone spectacle.. vixille

Mr. Patterson's aldes said it is many kilometres away..

rufe to usatime that such plans The rain of ashes which fell in the early stages of the eruption are constantly revised and that has nowe stopped. It drove all fish the planning is based on as many of attack by os from the string banks at Vest-possible forms

annaeyjar when it ban. but any potential encmles us Con he fish are now returning. be logically assumed.

Reynkavin, nine kuometres They emphasize #Paul such northwest of Mount Braila, 14 un- |pluns are only "feld plans" for affected by the eruption-Rester.use of men, guns, ships

planes available at the time

EIRE AIR SERVICES

the attack.

Joint Chiefs

Pacific Plans The Ariny ground forces also have been conducting extensive northland experiments. So has the Navy.

EIRE GESTURE TO GERMANS

Saigon, Apr. 6. Obeying Viet Minh orders 80 per cent of the Anaumite fmnsport companies -hero. have suspended all_traffic.

The Viet Mink bid distri-, buted leaflets ordering that all transport should be mis- pended for five days falling which vehicles would be al.. tacked and art ufire.-Reuter,

American Army and Navy bases

Ernie's Doctor Has A Lot Of Worries

Moscow, Apr. 5.

Ernest Bevin, Britain's Foreign Minister, was told recently by his doctors that he had more vital- ity than most men ten years his junior, and that a reasonable amount of hard work would not injure his health.

For the past. six months storienterest in yachting. When Mr. have been. current about the Bevin was recovering from J rofound Foreign Minister's health illness Inst August he convalesced ➡hat he had not long to live, in Dr. McCall's 20-ton auxiliory that he was suffering from a dan- | Bermuda-rigged alcop "Grisette."

eru allment, that he would-United Press. [shortly resign because of his health. As "Ernie" Bevin went

morg

from success to success, the storica In the Philippines. These, with about his health became the Security Council's approval of and more fantastic. But in publle The seemed as hale and hearty as American trusteeship of the

ever. former Japanese mandaten, pre- sumably facilitated planning for the Pacifle between the Philip told Mr. Bevin that he suffered

pines and Howall-Associated Press.

-Spaatz Article

Washington, Apr. 0. Gen. Carl Spaatz, Commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces, Rald today that American al power must be maintained in offensive readiness to meet any threat of aggression.

In an article in the Military Affairs Journal, Spratz said Army and Navy strategists re- the United States would be the cently were able to make more first to be attacked in the next and definite long rangs plans for the war, and the air force must be affar western Pacific defences when "always ready to oppose any the Philippine and United States future aggressora," United

Mr. Patterson has pointed cut that nt present such planning is possible only when all the mem- bers of the Joint Chiefs of Staff varee.

Dolin, Apr. 6. The Ele Government bus or ganized the Trish Air Transport Company and plans service in- side Eire, between Eire and

"The Joint Chiefs of Staff group other enuntries, and between

His c. imposed of uniformed chiets country. outskie th -places

the Army, Navy und Air Force, are and the military adviser to the

Prekten!. Offeinds say the dertaking

It exists and operates only Is a sequel to the comprehehaive | under n five-year-old executive Anglo-Bite når agreement der which Eire secured

Charter services

** ·plamed.

im- Mr. Patterson remarked "no portant flying right in Britain one knows today the authority

and the right to use nirports in of the Joint Chiefs of Staff." connection with the European While military officials decline service-Associated Press. Itu discuss the details of the opera.

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ARCTIC DEFENCES

Ottawa, Apr. 6.

It is said that a' doctor once

from a weak, heart which might catch up on him at any moment. This is renerted to have worried

Soviet Diplomats Pull Out

Athens, Apr. 5. Foreign Minister Bevin and The Greek Foreign caused him to becomu over-pre- occupied with matters concerning Ministry today delivered. his health. However, before ar-passports and exit visas riving in Moscow Mr. Bevin had to the Soviet Embassy ļu thorough overhauling several for Admiral Rodionov,

of Britain's leading medicul

Soviet Ambassador, three specialists. As a result of their very favourable verdiel "Emle" Embassy secretaries and Bevin has ceased to worry about ten other members of his health.

the Embassy staff,

Instead he has left the worry- ing to his doctor, a shy little Scot of 60 years-Dr. Alexander Mc-

It was reported on Wednesday Call. When Mr. Bevin came to ing to Moscow with his

that the Ambassador was return- stuff, Moscow Dr. McCall accompanied leaving a charge d'affaires at the him. Every problem that arises) Embassy. here that gives the Foreign Minis.) ter special worry, disturbs his here, Admiral Rodionov naked health in any way, will be Dr. McCall's problem.

Lot Of Worry

the Yet

worry

1

According to reliable

OureCA

only for exit visas, whereas when be Jant went to Moscow ia

August, 1946 he asked also for an entry visa for his return. He re- turned to

Athens

In January after five months of absence,

It is unlikely that he will leave for Moscow before - Monday, the special plane to carry him and his party has not yet arrived.

The Greek Foreign Ministry confirmed today that the Ambas and sader had notifed his intention t

leave Greece "under instructions from his Government.”

U.S.-Canadian cooperation in development of the Arctic for defence and commercial purposes

"Hard work—yes," suld has moved an important step forward with the

doctor, "but no overwork." announcement that nine new weather stations

Mr. Bevin these days is giving his Scottish doctor a lot to are to be jointly built in the northern Cana- dian wastelands within the next three years."

about. For the Cabinet's hardest Two of the weather bases the work for the beginning, at worked Minister allowes himself which will be jointly maintained least, is expected to be done by itle respite. He seldom gots to

are to be finished this summer, Americans, How the costs will be bed before early morning. one of them at remote and barren shared could not be learned here. Dr. McCall has only just steered Eureka Sound On the north-Howe,

whether, the U.S. him through a long course of western alde of Ellsinore Island would pay any part of the costs. Peace Treaties, United Nations cft the northeast mainland, hare. replied simply, "yes." To a ques- preblems, and foreign aftoirs de ly 800 miles from the North Pol. U:n as to how much the total bates.

Dr. McCall first met Earnest This will be the northern-most costs would be he said: "I do not post in the Western. Hemisphere, recall." American sources

here Bevin' six years ago and has been doctor ever since. In a region where there has been were equally uncommunicative, his personal

Associated Press.

They share in common a keen in-

no human habitation.

The second to be completed this year will be lar to the west at Winter Harbour, on better known | Melville Island in the Northwest Territories, where. American ex- ploratory missions have touched before.

Canadian Control Ann:uncement of the plans by

asked

Yugoslavian Claims

On Austria

Moscow, Apr. 5.

Reconstruction Minister C.The Yugoslav Vice-Premier, Eduard Kardelj, to-

Howe-marked the end of the first stage of a project Arsi broached

by the United States last summer,

when American military authori

day outlined Yugoslavia's territorial and material claims on Austria, which included demands for $150,000,000 of reparations and cession of Carinthia.

Among the 13 members of the Embassy staff going is the pro attache. The total staff numbers thirty--Reuler."

Schacht On Trial

Nuremberg, Apc. 5.

The denazification trial of Dr. Hjalmar Schacht-former Nazl finance expert who was acquitt- ed at the war crimes trial here

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mer State Secretary; and Gen- THE DE LA RÁMA STEAMSHIP CO., INC. cral Hadler, former Military

Adviser to Hüller..

ties showed a pressing interest in hemisphere defence, arrangements. Mr. Kardell has been invited fed payment of the reparations U.S. military forces wit un-by the Council of Foreign Minis-claim out of Austrian current

The banned witnesses dertake virtually all of the centers to express his country's views production and by the removal of

Franz von Papen, former Nnzl struction, it is understood, being in Moscow, and at a press con- Austrian plants and factorlos.

This claim is quite separate diplomat who was also acquitted ference today he supported his better equipped for the task. The sims with elaborately produced from the German reparations out at the war crimes trial; Lutz Ellsmore Tiland base for instance, and ilustrated documents.

of German asseta In Austria, ne Graf Schwerin von Krosig, for- is to be built by forces operating from the Joint U.S.-Danish wea- demands:

The Yugoslavs' have made six expaid he did

not think he iker base at Thule, Greenland. 1. That the Austrian treaty would discuss the question with The bases are to remain under should be so designed to prevent the Austrian representatives now ain Moscow because ho had had Canadian contro; and in charge of Austria again being used as Canadian officers, but the bulk of springboard for German aggres- conversations with the Austrians sion by demilitarisation and dis-in Paris, where they had shown lo Jaln in con- mantling of factories and installa- no inclination tions.

structive talks with Yugoslavia 2. That Austria should ceda-Reuter. "Slovene Carinthia" to Yugoslavia- and agree to frontier rectification in Styria that would bring 120,- 000. Yugoslava and 00,000 Aus- trians under Yugoslav rule, leav ing more than 70,000 Yugoslavs in Austria,

Stalin

Interview

A. Fiction?

to

3. That Yugoslavs remaining

should in Austria

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MUSSO STOOGES APPEAL

GENERAL AGENTS

Schacht is accused under the denazification law by which all MAIN BOOKING OFFICE people in the Reich Government PENINSula Hotel Lobby

tyranny taking part in Nazi

and those who played a leading Tels. 58330 and 58081-Ex. 22 role in the maintenance of the Nazi system can be punished.

Dr. Wolfgang Schwamberger, Schacht's counsel for defence, said that Schacht was unwilling to burden his many friends abroad" by calling them as wit Rome, Apr. 5.

nessta and was convinced, that of Benite he had a good chance of heing

acquitted. Reuter,

be granted Counsel for thiee

The threb men sentenced to

London, Apr. 5. Rear Admiral

"appropriate autonomous statutes" Mussolini's henchmen sentenced Constantine

with possible subsequent popula to thirty yours imprisonment Rodionov, Soviet Ambassador tion exchangea by direct negotia

of to Greece, hus delivered note tion between Austria and Yugo- yesterday for the murder.

the the Greek

Italian Socialist leader, Government, alavia.

4.That Austria pay to Yugo Giacomo Matteotti, nearly 23 denying the authenticity of an Interview purporting to be slavia $160,000,000 of reparations years ago, today appealed with Generalissimo Stalin, for damage inflicted by Austrian against the sentences. published in three Athens nowa. forces under Hitler.

G. That a belt of Austrian papers, Moscow Radio, reported territory running along the Yugo today.

slav frontiers be demilitarised to The note, handed to the

a depth of 20 kilometres. Greek Government on April 1,

6. That Austria hand over war said that the alleged Interview criminals and traitors at present appeared on March 28 in the on Austrian soil. Athens newspapers · Eleftherio Answering questions Premier (Conservative), Vima (Republi-Kardelj made it clear he envisage can Opposition) and Kirikos,

all of which it described as "eloso .to the Greck Govern. ment."

They quoted the Salonika

Hindenburg

newapapor Makedonia (Liberal) Feeds Flames

as their source and the inter-

vlow was said to have been

Berlin, Apr. 6.

British Talks

thirty years the maximum that Russia

.

With

can be passed under Italian law

Moscow. Apr. -5. are: Amezige Dumini, Amleto

When the Anglo-Russian Poveramo and: Guiseppe Viola.

Cesaro Rossi, against whom treaty rovision talks are resum- charges were dismissed because ed hero next Tuesday it is be- of insufficient evidence, has also lieved that both sides, will pro- appealed on the grounds that duce draft texts known to ho should have received an out ready with both sides and will right acquittal-Reuter.

try to hammer out a common text for the revised Treaty of Alliance.ya

New Liaison Offices

Berlin, Apr. D.

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The general feeling among delegates and observers here is that the Moscow, meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministern--| estimated varlior to vend “about

given by General Stalin to the The huge. "Iron Hindenburg," Moscow correspondent \of an ¡the wooden statue of the late Army officials reported today April 16-li now likely to Inat American news agency.

Jerman Field Marshal and Pre- that American and Russiau | longer. de "This so-called interview Isident; Paul Von Hindenburg, Haison offiger at "command nedion from beginning to and," has been split up and fed int level" would bo established in among other things, more time If it does, it would allow, the note said he quoted by the furnaces of heezing Berliners mediately at Poladam and for completion of the treaty Moscow radio. "No auch Inter during the present cold wave. Frankfurt army headquarters revision negotiations view ever took place. As for the The Iron Hindenburg" was content of this Interview, it built during the First World War Germany for the two nations have been held up due to the bears the stamp of other falsi. to raise funds for the Kaiser's new United States-Soviet fact that M. Andrel Vyshinsky, fications hostile to the Soviet army, Berliners, then, were al-agement was negotiated for Deputy Foreign Minister and Union which appear from time lowed to pound. Iron, ailver or more than six months, officials chief Russian negotiator, has ""boom"uhabfé-ind-for-lo-devote to time hi presa organe cious to gold nails into the afatize, dê- the Greek Government..

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