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LONDON EMPIRE CONFERENCE

Special Meeting To Be Called To Deal The

Present Dollar Crisis British Request For

"Big Sacrifices

11

Canberra, Aug. 30.

A special conference of all Empire countries is to meet in London to deal with the present dollar crisis, it was authoritatively learned here to- day. The Commonwealth countries expect that Britain will request the acceptance of austerity dollar living, comparable with the worst war years.

The Conference is to meet in London about the same time as the meeting of the International Bank and the Monetary Fund talks, which be gin to September 11. It is believed that all Commonwealth countries have accepted the invitation to the talks.

The Conference has been call national e of the same time as the In. ernational Fund meeting, it is understood, Firepla Empire male expert then in London for the contereface might be able to exotin the (British position ta experts mother · countries. notably the United States, who be present t the world also

Austendo, it is understood, is resigned to a British request di make big sacrifices to tie the Euphie over the dollur crisis.

It is pointed out that the pos

le British quola under the In. fernational Bunk and the Mone. tury Fund £162,500,000, which merely a "drop in the bucket" Empire's by contrast with the needs.

Australia has already up. jointed a high ranking economic advlee as her representative at the tables.

Financial circles in London

that the conference is to be held

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WAR OR PEACE?

Lake Succen, Aug. 31. Faris el Khoury of Surin, retiring President of the United Nations Security Council, asid on Saturday thai the Ave Great Powers

hold the balance between peace and war and that the future looks gloomy, with people speaking

War ar "Third World a one speaks of the weather."

He gaid this balance between war and peace lay with the Great Powders rather than with the all nations and added that the ages of billions of people throughout the world were turned toward thone Power-Asiciated Pres.

of

Executed By Firing Squad

Madrid, Aug. 31. Fourteen condemned persons are reported to have been executer! by a firing equal at Carabanche prison on Thursday.

Mondtary Fund buy dollars with their own cur. reacles to rectify trade unbulance, the Dominions as well as Britain must be presumed to be entitled to draw their own quotas-up to one-quarter in the next year,

Loans from the banks for in

They are anid to include two ternational reconstruction, how. ever can, only generally speak.alleged Communists who were con- vleted of murder and robbery is ing, be made for definite recon-

purported attempt obtain

to struction purposes, and therefore funds for the Communist Party. until discussion have taken

Executions are usually announe place, It is difficult to see how rd by the Government Press 'Offer the

ask Dominions could

for but it declined to give any infor loons from the Bank.-Reuter. mation.-Associated Pres*

It Depends On The

Point

Of View

London, Aug. 30.

welcome unequivocally the news "Punch" came out this week, as it has been doing for the last century, and it carries one of those symbolic cartoons about the state of the na- tion in relation to the world,

at a thue when Bretton Woods representatives will also be conference in London.

A clariflentine should be pos. ble at the propused September Commonwealth "dollar crisis' Desference in London on exactly

what re Britain and the Com- monwealth countries con hope to draw from the Bretton Woods stitution and from? the Inter. Botional Monetary Fund.

Quotas

It is known

This one is about the coal situation, and it shows two antagonists in a prize-fight ring. One is a monster dollar bill with money-bags for hands and head and dollar signs for eyes. The other,

dinner contesting with this giant before a jacketed ringside audience, is a grim little Bri- tish miner. The caption on the cartoon is: "The Black Hope."

The interesting thing about this cartoon is that it is inter- preted in one way in London and another way down in the Welsh coalfields.

60.000.000

and

RAT-EATER WANTS A

SPOUSE

Tokyo, Aug. 30. In the prevailing acute in housing shortage Tokyo, a billboard on a telephone post by a Jap- anese offering a room to

Q

woman attracted the interest of a reporter of the "Mainichi Shimbun.

Inquiry revealed that 59-year- old Ichiro Akimoto is willing to give the room to a woman but she must become his wife and put up with his eating of live rata,

also told Akimow

the "Mainich!" reporter that he has | 100,000 yen saved up to share) with his wife in starting anme) business.

his He sald he developed taste of eating rate during the war when he suffered from the shortage of futs.

"I eat an average of 24 rats like them alive, monthly. 1 big and fat, which I akin hefare: caling. I am

There not crazy.

is nothing so good as rats in Keiling the required fats for the human body's system. The taste is like chicken," he tolli the reporter.

Akimoto said he gets his rats; by placing rat trapa in neigh bouring houses.

The rat-cater sald he has not had any applicants ao far but hopes he can get a young wife.

"There is nothing as good as |

a young wife. I also hope she will have some trade such an midwife because she then would be able to look after me for the reat of my life," he sak).--i United Press.

Argentine Shocks

Petropolis

can

than 6,000,000 tons to Italy.

In 1929 they, were still pro- that Britain has

ducing 258,000,000 tons and ex- the right to buy for sterling

porting more than

In 1935. they were able tons. one-quarter uf her £325,000,000

an to dig 207,000,000 tons, International quota under the

In London It is seen na Monetary Fund during the next Illustration of Britain's need to export nearly 40,000,000 tons. yeur, but the exact purposes for produce and export more cual. And just before the last war

Petropolis, Aug. 29. which this sum could be used If this can be done, London they were still beating the ex-

Delegates to the inter-Ameri. will probably need clarifying. officials feel sure not only Bri- port target of 30,000,000 tona

conference, especially those Siner, broadly speaking, mem-tain but the nations of West-annually.

theof the United States, were shock. bers of Bretton Woods who hasern and Southern Europe will From the beginning of pand their quolus to the Inter- he relieved of the necessity of first World War, however, theed today by reports from Buenos baying coal in the United labour force in the coalfields Aires of pro-Government news. States and Germany with their has steadily.dwind'ed. In 1913, paper dwindling supply of dollars.. there were 811,800 workers on policy.

In Cardi, however, the the celllery books. Today there miners cee it not only as an are 719,000, and only 579,900 of illustration of an international these actually showed up for

work steadily last month. economic problem, but as typical example of London's at- titude towards the miner.

PENICILLIN NO CURE-ALL

Dundee, Aug. 30 Sir Alexander Fleming, dis- eoverre of penicillin, warned on Friday against regarding the germ killer as a wonder trent- ment to cure all s

*

Main Reason

attacks on United States

The Critica, once a firm friend of the US. but at present a strong supporter of Juan Peron's govern- ment, charged that U.S. policy to impair sovereignty, sought weaken the United Nations the formation of con- through The main reason for this timental blocs and establish a great dec'ine seems to be his basis for a military poct at the In subsequent conterence at Bogota. None of the delegates would torical and psychological. the "bad old days," the people

upon the at in the Welsh valleys came to comment publicly

tacks lest it upset the final duys When times were bad, and the conclusion that there was

Petropulls conference, the miner was flat on his back. no future in mining.

Conse of the the spectatore were highly in- quently, as soon as they get which enter on its final series of different to his plight.

alternative Jobs-as they have plenary had since 1989-many of them United Press. went away and urged their aona to go away too.

When times were good, they say, the gentlemen around the Used properly it will give re-ring were not so interested in mirkable results, he told the the miner as in the dollar, or

its equivalent in pound stor British Society for the Advance- ment of Science, but added; "It ling is my good sucking a few pencil-

lozenges to cure a septle in fretion of the finger."- United

Press,

¿The sensational best-

sollar comes to "Tull Rower on

The screen!

Darryl F. Zanuck IRENE DUNNE REX HARRISON

LINDA DARNELL

ANNA AND THE KING OF SIAM

Ducted by JOHN CROMWELL- Produced by LOUIS D. LIGHTON

20

CENTURY CON

COMING TO

THE

QUEEN'S

Now, the coal miners say, many of their old mining com- panions have gone away to other jobs, and those that are left are

expected to fight an unequal battle without any as surance that they will get much reward if they win.

The Point

Political actions contributed to this drift, and cost the mines almost the number of mea re- quired to produce the needed ex- port quota. When France fell In 1940, Britain was sending her about a million tons of coal

sessions tomorrow.-

NO GUARANTEE OF IMMUNITY

Berlin, Aug. 30.

citizens of Allied nations who own German property..

The point of this is not tha a month. When the Germans The Sevlet commander in Ber- General Alexander the miners are spitefully set- occupied that country, the mar-lo, Major tling old scores or that Britainket was lost, and over the pro- Kotikov, told a 'press conference for tests of the Ministry of Fuel,plans for Germany offer no guir. that Russin's saciulistion today is sitting around waiting the "Black Hope" to knock out the Cabinet decided that min antee of immunity to private the dollar problem, but that the ers should be transferred 10 mentality in the coalfields is the armed services. different from the mentality in Down in Cardiff, therefore, London, Washington, Paris or the general feeling is that the Geneva, where the statesmen are agreeing that unless the Dritish manage to export 30,- 000,000 tons of coal, the econo- mic crisis will not end.

Kotikov said German property owned by the Allied Governments history of this problem is too would be protected from socialisa- long, and the feeling

in the tion.

So far is known, however. minefields la too bitter, to be removed by long-range plans the only such property in Ger and exhortations from London, many is the "Soviet AG"

of newly established cartels owned

Proof Wanted

•

group

recently

by Russians. These are composed of German factories Laken over by the Soviets,

Katikov called the press confer-

In London, the people aro talking about and longing for "the good old days"-meaning, the days before the war when Britain was collecting billa in- there is a future in what they jenes to express his disapproval of stead of paying them.

The miners want proof that

are doing. They need

now tho French, British and Ameri- But down in Cardiff, ono can-machinery, particularly to cans blocking socialisation in Ber- not talk to miner for ten transport the ccal underground.lin-United Press. minutes before he refers to the They need more miners in the "bad old days"-the days when most productive pits and more the people of the Welsh coal houses near the mines.

over 94 per cent of the pre-war Unless the present plethora inland consumption of 180,000,- mining region dug cheap coal for little recompense, and lived of long-range plans are scrap-000-which is a lot nearer to mainly on the dole.

pod for new, hard-headed short- the pro-war standards than In 1913; British miners pro-range Improvements in the most countries in this' part of duced 287,400,000 tons of coal, plts, the general view down in the world.

and exported 79,000,000 tons of Wales in that the 1947 exports, The 'conclusion,' therofore, Is it. In 1032, they produced al-If any, will have to come out that for the time being the conf most 250,000,000 tons and ex- of inland consumption.

miner, cannot produce enough ported over 64,000,000 tone: Preduction In

the United com to cope with the export

over 8,000,000 tona to the Bal-Kingdom this year will prob- problem. This responsibility tic Bearogion, nearly 8,500,-ably be in the neighbourhood will have to be met not only by 000 to Germany, 13,000,000. to of 200,000,000 tons, and if 30,- the miners, but by further France, 6,000,000 to Ho'land,000,000 tons are to be exported sacrifices on the other side of 3,500,000 to Belgium, and more the country will still have left the Welsh hills--Reuter,

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