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UNEASINESS GROWS IN BURMA Armed Clashes Near Homes Of Cabinet Leaders!

Attempts On Lives Feared

Burma, Aug. 18. Frequent shooting in Rangoon and reports of at-

tempts on the live of Ministers heightened gen-. eral uneasiness in Burma,

The latest among shooting affrays in Rangoon took place at the headquarters of the Peoples Volunteer Corps, next to the residence of Prime Minister Thakin Nu.

Shootings also occsirred near the Jubilee Hall where the bo- the homes of other Cabinet dien of the Ministers assassinat- Miniers, and a high policéed on July 19 lay in stale. Kource wall today that these In- It was later announced thu vidents were "probably attempts | the people who entered the on the lives of the new govern-roads around Jubilde Hal! after the duel, did so "at their own ment."

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NEW DELHI, AUG. 19. A. C. BHATIA, HINDU SISTANT EDITOR OF "LAHORE, TRIBUNE." ONE OF THE OLDEST ENGLISH LAN GUAGE NEWSPAPERS IN IN.

| DIA. REPORTS THAT

WEEK,

Rebellion Against

High Prices

Croydon, Ang. 18. Two-thonnand-women quering at a vegetable stull

in the Store Areude at Cropion today, were told, "Wa want to sell this stuff at your price. You tell us the price." The women agreed to pay one shifting for a pound of tomatoes, three-pener rack for ridge cucumbers, and six- petice for a paend of pras and romero-beans, and sizpenes and twopence for cabbagen.

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The store hud given 30 yards of their arcade spuce to farmera and market gardenera who have rebelled against the vegetable prices gand began selling their produce direct- into the public. The movement is spreading to the other. pointy of handor and provinces.

Twic-thousand shoppers are expected to visit Cron- don Arvade again tomorrow when lå tons of vegetables will be on air-Router,"

Pakistan Admitted

To United Nations

With almost all the oppori- tion leaders and partisans UTE- der arrest, offefs) quarters were mystified by the incidents, espo- elly by armed gangs attempt- ing to force their way into Jubilee Hal. The police com mented that the gunmen seemed well trained in guerilla tactics, and suggested the disgruntled elements of the former Japan-The ese sponsored Burma Defence Army might be responsible for the nightly shootinga. They

Lake Success, New York, Aug. 18. The Security Council tonight recommended the admission of Pakistan to the United Nations unanimously.

Security Council rejected Outer Mongolia's. membership application by three votes to three, with five abstentions.

Russia. Poland and Syria, Britain cannot agree here and AS.lno said that Dr. Ba Mau, theated for and the United States, now to the admission of Al- THE Premier of Burma during the Britain and China against. * bania," he said,

Albania's application for Japanese dreupation, now under arrest, was not suspected of membership was also lost in the complicity in the assassinations Commell here today when four of the Cabinet Ministers, but

members voted for admission, four against with three absten 10

Lira

IN

LAHORE AND AMRITSAR LAST his fendership of the opposition

Dhen FORCE Coalition lid him BOUNDARY SOLDIERS OPENED FIRE ON suspicion of being involved jst EACH OTHER TO PROTECT the plot to overthrow the Gay-Britain opposed the admission

REFUGEES OF THEIR RESPEC TIVE RELIGIOUS COMMUNI

TIES

Lrnment.

aware of

The vote on Tronsjordan's application which came before the Council was nine in favour. the Soviet Union against with Poland abstaining.

Russia vetoed the admission Sir Alexander. Cadogan of of Eire.

The Soviet delegate, M. An- of Albania, declaring that Al dret Gromyko, referred to the The Burma police have meth-banin suffered two disabilities. alleged he'p given by Eire to the Axis Powers during the war WHO VERE BEING while continued the campaign EVACUATED BY TRAIN. Lof rounding up di suspected 1. The majority of the Unit-

support the application. pon and raiding private ed Nations Security Councils one reason why he could not Nine voted for the admission Bhatia, describing the telbaturma dumps in the city and out- found Aliania wng

the mining of Corfu Channel. clashes, said the Degen Hindus iving districts.

Russia was against of Eire. 2. The majority of the Bal-and Poland abstaining. and the Baluch Moslems fought A number of other shooting fat Lahore railway station inst incidents, involving the police kan Commission found Albania Thursday, and on the same day. and unidentified men in uni- guilty of stirring up strife in he witnessed a three way clash form, were reported from vari- Greece.

Baluchis omong Sikis,

and ous provincial centres.--Reuter. "Under these circumstances, Dopra-Gruka element; at Amgis. tar, the holy city of the Sikhs.

AB of the groups have contributed outstanding lighững units. to the British Imperial forces.

Reports of clashes between boundary, troops were neither confrmed nor denied by the headquarters of the armed forces, which have been prompt to deny ist. information considered

any accurate.

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Bhatia described Lahore as a city of terror. He said that newspaper which until a nonth ago bad been a strong supporter of the predominantly Hindu Con. HOES Party, had been forced to suspend publication and evacuate its employees, three of whom were stal bed fatally last Wednes. day at the railway station,-As- saclated Press.

Fact Is, Neither Did

Buenos Aires, Aug. 19. Victory claims in the batllo for Asuncion were put forth by both sides on Monday fr Paraguayan civil war.

A

government

the

were

communique from the Paraguayan capital declared loyalist troops advancing in all acctors in pur- suit of the rebels, who are flue ing in complete disorder.

Hunger Strike On Refugee Ships

Paris, Aug. 18.

Shortly after British officials had denied French reports of a hunger strike among the 4,500 Jewish illegal immigrants aboard the three official British ships off Port de Bouc, an spokesman of the French Ministry of the In- terior said tonight: "The emigrants on board. the Empire Rival definitely went on a hunger strike at noon today."

He added that they refused, ing to the Embassy's spokes-

to accept the daily ration of man, characterised

Russia then vetoed the ad mission of Portuga!.

After the Polish and Soviet delegaten had repeated the ac cusation that Portugal helped Franco Spain and maintained friendly relations with it, Brazil and the United States' strongly supported Portugal's admission.

Mr. Herschel Johfson (Unit- ed States; said: "No educated person in his right mind would accuse Portugal of not being peace-loving. Portugal helped the Alles during the war un- like some other countries which could be hintioned."Reuter.

SEA-AND-AIR SERVICE

Washington, Aug. 19,

Airlines

and

by the Northwest

food sent out to them by the Consul General as "a minllclous] American President Lines, an- Entraide Francaise, and that

the food had been returned to shore.

vention."

nounced on Monday a coopara. The reports had stated that tive agreement for interrelated

to sea and air passenger service. the food supplies delivered

morning by a The companies are also con- The emigrants on board the the ships tha other two ships had not yet French relief organisation were sidering a similar arrangement

(on cargo-Associated Press. Jobed in the hunger strike, ne-returned to the quay.-Router. cording to reports reaching the Ministry of the Interior, the apokesman added.-Reuter

British Denial

Paris, Aug. 18.

A spokesman for the British Embassy in Paris tonight alafed that the British Consul-General In Marseilles denied reports of hunger strike by the Jewish refugees on board the

three

Later Boundary Revision Possible

New Delhi, Aug. 18.

British abips off Port du Bouc. The possibility of a revision of the boundaries be-

The ships-Runnymede Park. Ocean Vigour and Empire Rival had brought the refugees from Haifa.

return

tween the new Dominions of Pakistan and In- dia, announced yesterday by the Boundary Commissions, was suggested tonight in a joint statement by the Prime Ministers of East and West Bengal.

A rebel communique said their The reports today, which troops had taken the river port alated that the refugees had

Appealing to the population Punjab with the support of the of Vijetta, south of Asuncion, gone on strike to protest against on both sides of the boundary Central Governments of India thus completing the slege of the the British refusal to

Commission and Pakistan. capital-Associated Press.

All officers would be fully sup- them to Palestine, were, accorto. accept the

award for Bengal, they gold. according to reports quoted ported by their respectivo Gov- here, that nothing could prevent crnments in any action taken)

Bid To "Ginger" Up Ramadier

Lyons, Aug. 18. Moving to avert, what it termed "certain famine and financial catastrophe," the French Social- ist Party today adopted a far-reaching motion designed to permit Government requisition of wheat and other crops if farmers continued ..to hoard.

the

leaders of India and by then-Reuter.

Pakistan coming to a new

agreement,

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