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THE CHINÄ MAIL, MON,DAY, OCTOBER 20, 1947,

HOME FLEET REDUCTIONS Strength One Cruiser, Four Destroyers No Operational Battleships

Portland, Oct. 19.

The Home Fleet is temporarily to be reduced to a cruiser and four destroyers, with the remain- der of the ships immobilised, it was officially stated here today.

The release of men from the Service has made the manning position difficult, and it was emphasised in official quarters that the immo- bilisation is only temporary for crew adjust- ments to be made. The cruiser HMS Dig is to be paid off into reserve and the Battleship Dake of York. flagship of the Home Flert, with three cruisers and eight destanyers, will return to their Hame ports next Friday.

A proportion of their crews may be taken from them and asd to relieve en wite are dise Cour release from other

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Only skeleton crews will re- muie on the ship returning to Mjeke Hoane porta.

Gosport Closing

where boys are trained for the Navy, it to be closed.

The autumn exercises of the Homme Plegt, which were to be- gin on Oct. 6, were cancelled beenuse of the urgent need for fuel economy.

About 17 major ships, In-

of cluding the flagship. Duke York, cruisers and destroyers, ; were to have taken part in the exercises.

Pacific Fleet

The anal correspondent of In addition to immobilising the Sunday Times commented: the Home Fleet, the new order that after the reduction Bri- willl Iny up 12 warships of the tain would have no operational Portsmouth Command" and Battleships in any part of the Home Com-world and the netive naval des auber in other

the Empire and its mands, and will greatly reduce fester of The effectivés of British total interests could be left to four small an ft carriers and 11 abroad.

cruiserz pretul out ataong five I normal conditions. the widely separated naval forces.

He ilustrated the severity of Khip with reduced comple

the Homo ments could be put into full the redbretion in commission again within a fework by reenlling that before days. In the present eiren e war, the Home Fleet com- stances, however, the shortage prised five battleships, two bat. of men makes this impossible. the cruisers, two large deel air- Thus of the Home Fleet craft carriers, and six cruisers for as well as 28 destroyers, live remaining Cully banned

and 10 uther the submarines wongoing eruber Superb, flagship of the ship. The pre-war fleet mus Second Craiser Squadron, and tered four battleships in other Agincourt, stations as well as many other destroyers Rist, Dunkirk and Jutland vessels,

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Britain's maken 10,000-ton all of battle class and among cruiser Belfast had been sud- Miritain's newest.

*The Inttleship training denly withdrawn from the Paci- squadron at Portland, consiste Fleet and would be placed correspondent ing of the battleships King in reserve, the George Fifth and Anson, and added. This would reduce the the aircraft carrier Viefarious, Pacife cruiser strength to two or three ships. The West In- establishment is undron, it has been an at Gosport. Dear Portsmouth, wounced, would lose the cruiser Kenya, leaving only one cruiser there, apart from two sloops Reuter

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POLICE BAN MOTORISTS' PARADE

London, Oct. 18.

The police today banned) a demonstration of British motorists, due to take place at the Ilounes of Parliament on Wednesday, against the abolition of the basic gaso-.

for line ration

pleasure motoring.

The demonstrators will be forbidden to enter a large area

of Central London next Wednesday "or ony other days as may be neces- sary for keeping order and preventing any obstruction of the thoroughfares that may be

cated by any car rally organised as a protest against the withdrawal of the basle petrol ration,”- the official arinouncement said. This is the first time the London police have banned 10 whole aren against particular demonstration --- Reuter.

British Workers Go All-Out

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PRINCESS MARGARET RETURNS FROM

A PERSONAL TRIUMPH

London, Oct. 18: Princess Margaret returned by plane from Bel- fast today after a personal triumph in North- ern Ireland, where she made her debut as a Royal star.

The 17-year-old Princess was greated at Heathrow airport by her alster, Princess Elizabeth, and then they drove to the Royal Lodge at Windsor, where the

London, Oct. 19. British workers have answered their. Govern- Royal Family, including ment's plea for more and Princess * Elizabeth's fiance, production with Lieut. Philip Mountbatten, are near-records in the vital spending the week-end.

Both the Princessca wore coal and steel industries. short dresses, Princess Elizabeth Steel production for the wore a pale green heavy linen week ended Oct. 4 was at a auit. with brown suede shoes, rate exceeding 14.200,000 tons gloves and a handbag and no a year, Supply Minister George hat despite overcast skies. Strauss told a meeting of steel; workers at Cardiff tolay.

The figure is a peacetime re cord, and is second only to the 14.700,000 ton rate turned out In the week after Dunkirk.

Princess Margaret wore pale blue linen suit with blue wide-brimmed felt hat, lizard skin handbag nhd suede gloves and shoca.

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Port Of London

London, Oct. 18. Representatives

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a five-day old work stop- At the same time, mine lea- | Dakota which took her page by 580 cold storage| ders forecant that this week's Belfast in the first of the week.workers.

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conl output would be higher While in Ulster, Princess Mar- The dock workers, employed last week's 14,017,000 garet attended several func in the busy Thames docks be tons which was the highest intions, including the launching of tween Tower Bridge and five months.-United Press, a new passenger liner for uso on Brentford, arc expected to the run to South Africa-an paralyse nearly 15 miles of the aftermath of the Royal Family's Port of London if they strike on tour of the Union carller

Monday. year.

Labourites Assail U.S. "Imperialism'

secretarint.

An

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Warsaw, Oct. 19.

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Courage

this

A Belfast newspaper sald, "It required courage for a girl of her age to undertake a pro- gramme of public engagementa In a part of the United King dom with which she had no previous acquaintance. But she has risen magnificently to the occasion and made her visit

Labour Ministry conciliation officials had sought today to end

atrike the

of cold storage workers who walked out last Tuesday from three firma manding bonus rates equal those pald by other firms. The original strike imperilled fresh foods and monts in storage,

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Dockers' representatives voted a to support the cold storage men despite an appeal from the Gen-

great personal succeAR."

Princess Margaret was {eral and Transport Workers cheered by crowds as she drove Union not to strike. United to Belfast airport. Just before Press. and

uncle,

leaving, the Princesses Gov-

FUTURE IN HER OWN HANDS

Eight British MP's told newsmen here that Bri- tain could expect no further ald from America "except under political conditions." The touring group is led by by the Communist parties of Kanat 2111lacus, a left winger nine nations was an answer to who was a British intelligence what he termed the threat of agent in Siberin from 1914 to American imperialism 1919 and for 18 years a mem- pressure on European nations, ber of the League of Nations

The group generally assert Admiral Lord Granville,

that American ald toernor of Northern Ireland, and The Labourites assalled Europe was intended to ward Sir Basil Brooke, Prime Minis the Marshall Plan for Euro- the United "American imperialism" and off an economic

Bald crisis within ter of Northern Ireland, States. Zilliacus

they hoped that the visit had not

London, Oct. 18. tired her, Princess Margaret

The Liberal News Chronicle. an economie recovery which said "The American Congress they asserted. WOR the first is unlikely to approve any replied: "I am not at all tired in a comment on the transfer. to Burma, sald to- economic and credits except under lotoler- and I have enjoyed myself im- of power

mensely."!

day: "Burma will be the first nye in

No Strings

Several hundred persons were country freely to leave the Em- diplomatie war in Europe and able political conditions."

wedge to split Europe under

at Heathrow to cheer when she| pire. But where domination) Wall Street tutelage.

The Party predicted that

stopped out of the plane.-Unit-has gone, friendship remains. Answer

Britain would refuse, Quesed Presa.

"Britain will watch Burma's Zincus said the establish- tioned

to whether that

fortunes with anxiety, with the Communist "in meant Britain wanted no fur- ment of

sympathy, and, if need be, with formation burenu" in Belgrade) ther American money, Zilliacus

help. The new, country car- end others replied that any

ries in her hands not only the long to their country should be

happiness and prosperity of straight business proposition

San Sebastian, Oct. 19.

her own people, but also the with no political strings at- Reliable sources said today that vindication of two centuries of tached. They asserted it was the Spanish authorities have or-

British history."-Reuter." tragedy that the U.S. objec-rested a number of persons re. live Was to restore private butedly for their Communist fen. enterprise in Europe-Associ-fency and have broken a plot to blow up Forts Guadelupe and ated Press.

Epidemic Of Hand?

Cholera

Out

Cairo, Oct. 18.

Fears that the Egyptian cholera epidemic was beyond the control-of- the-health authorities in some areas were rising here today as the latest official figures showed that an average of 15 deaths and 30 new cases were reported hourly in the affected zone, now covering five of the six provinces of the Nile delta.

The death toll in the epidemic, To spur the Egyptians to action which broke out an Sept. 23, was in the campaign against the plague, King Farouk has created an order believed today to excend 2,190,

Alexandria and Port Said are so of valour to be granted to those who give proof of actively participating far outside the danger zone.

Among the latest measures decreed in the campaign-Reuter, by the Egyptian Government in the ani-cholera ca pwogn, which is cost- ing the country ver a day.

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is the banning of all navigation long, the Mediterranean coast be- tween Alexandria and Per: Said, the suspension of all train services be- tween Lower and Upper Egypt, the banning of visits to erinrteries where cholera victims are buried.

The last measure was deemed necessary because

FOUND OUT AFTER TWO YEARS

Rangoon, Oct. 10. Burmese police have arrested two Japanese soldiers who had hidden for over two years in a village in the Thatun district

of the Bairam of "Southern Burma, scene of

(the three-day festival which use the Inst Japanese stand against ceeds the fast of Ramadan) holiday the Allies in 1945.

next week-end when it is customary The men had married Karan

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SHOSTAKOVICH'S LATEST

London, Get. 19. New symphonie and operatic works, including a "Jublice" over tura by Dmitri Shostakovich and a cantata for orchestra.and chorus by Sergei Prokofieff, have been written by loading Russian com. posers to mark the 30th anniver.. sary of the October Revolution, Moscow Radio reported today.

PLOT TO BLOW

* FORTS

San Marcos on the gateway to France.

U.S. TROOPS IN GREENLAND

New York, Oct. 19. Police

the quarters reported

Foreign Minister Gustav Kas. killing of three men during a gun mussen of Denmark sald today fight at Domparia, one-mile-from he had arranged an interview here. Three women, who were with President Truman for Tues said to be accompanying the men, day In Washington, when he will ported to be on their way to the United were arrested. The band was re-present Denmark's request that border to carry

States personnel bo out, the plotevacuated from United Press.

Greenland-As- sociated Prese, -

JULIANA FOR BRITAIN

Amsterdam, Oct, 19. Princess Regent Juliano

and

An opera, "The Unvanquished,” based on a popular Soviet novel which tells the story of the strug- Prince Bernhard of the Nether- #lo of Soviet patriots in the lands intend to leave for Britain

cupation, also has been composed of Princess Elizabeth and Lieut. by Boris Gorbatov-United' Philip Mountbatten-Associated Press,

Prest

Donetz Basin against German oc on Nov. 18 to attend the wedding

Pomp & Circumstance In Commons

London, Oct. 18.

for Mostens to pay their respects women, had assumed Koran With centuries-old pomp and ceremony, the King

to their dead,

LABOUR WOOING

WIVES

London, Oct. 19.

Britain's Government, plagued

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BEDELL SMITH

RETURNING · ·

on Tuesday will open a new session of Parlia- ment that has the unpleasant task of impos- ing tighter austerity on Britain this winter to combat the economic crisis. Booming

the

gun salutes, the Heading the Government's pro. Washington, Oct. 19. colourful riyal proccasion and all gramme for the Parliamentary

third since by man.power ahortages, will Lieat. General Walter Bedell the gay trappings that mark the sol soon slash income taxes for mar. Smith, Ambassador to Russia,

Socialists were voted into power with President traditional State occasion will be in 1945-re expected to be pro ried women with the aim of woo. today conferred ing them into factory work, Gov. Truman for 45 minutes and will in sharp contrast to the "Speech posals for nationalisation of the outlining the gas industry, independence, for leave on Monday for Moscow. He from the Throne"

Labour Government's programme Burma revision of the pénal The wives thus would become will return to Europe by palmost certain to call for high-system with possible abolition of n politically favoured sertion of with ·General Lüctua Clay the community. -Associated American, Military Governor in or taxes, harder work and a low- the death penalty and a

er standard of living. Germany-United Presy."

ernment informants say.

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