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NEW FRENCH GOVERNMENT

Schuman Announces Coalition

Coalition Cabinet

Royal Couple To Visit Australia

Brisbane, Nov. 24. Princess Elizabeth and Lieut. Mountbatten aro| expected to arrive in

Australia next March for a tour of this Dominion and New Zealand.

Tentative arrangements are not completed but the tour in under. stood in well informed quarters to be their first big official job and not in any sense a post.wed. dlog pleasure trip.

Australia wants them as son as possible and Morch is expected to provide the most comfortable travelling weather.

Troops Rushed To The Capital

Paris, Nov. 24.

Premler Robert Schuman announced today the formation of a Coalition Government, ending France's four-day political crisis. The Premier presented his Cabinet to President Vincent Auriol at Elysees Palace shortly after midnight. It is composed of six members of Schuman's Popular Republican Movement, MRP, five members of the Right Wing of the Socialist Party, three Centrist Radical Social- ists and one Moderate Independent Re- publican.

Manchuria

Danger Warning

Nanking, Nov. 24. The China Press, re- presenting the viewpoint of the Kung family, warned in an editorial today that unless China holds on to Manchuria'

Schuman:

The new Cabinet 21 announced by in fares. That was the way recent with American help, she

rioting began in Marseilies.

Premier, Robert Schuman (MRP); Forrign

Affairs, Georges (MRP); Interior, Jules Moch (So cialist); Junilce, Andre Marie this morning.-Associated Press,

Authoritative sources hope the Royal ur will not be postponed ogoin na Australians and New Zealanders felt out

Schuman continued his talks with will lose the strategic in- HidaParty Tenders throughout the daydustrial area to the Com- alter negotiating unul after o'clock munists and make Rus-

sia the greatest Eastern power.

Teigen (MRP): Soci

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(Radical Socialist): Armed Forces, Pierre Henry Affairs including

Daniel Mayer (Socialist),

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Pal Cour-Floret (MRP); Public Works, Christain Pineau (Socialist): Econ mic Affairs and Finance, Rene Maver (Radical Socialist): National Educa

San Diego, Calif.. of things tion, Marcel Naegelen (Seelalist); after their Majesties successively Reconstruction, Rene Coy (Indepen toured the United States, Canada Francois Minerand, (Radical S

dent Republican) War and South Africa. The Duke of Gloucester Is known urged at Buckingham Palace that the tour should be made in 1040. -Our Own Correspondent,

Call For Leopold Return

have to

Brussels, Nov. 23, Supporters of King Leopold II voted today to launch an active cam paign for the return of the exiled Belgian Mon- arch.

A National Congress attended by several members of the Cob. inet and led by Albert de Vlees chauwer, former Minister of Co- tonics, asked the Regent, Prince Charles, to take the initiative in resking Leopold's return.

Leap: ld, who currenkered the Belgian armies to the Germans la 1940, was burred by Parliament from returning to the country In 1015. He is living in Switzerland, If appeals to the Government fail, the Congress voted, Leopold's supporters will demand a national plebiscite on the question of hit return.—Associated Fresa.

DENMARK HONOURS

BRITON

rialist

Veterans

Commerce and Industry, Robert Lacoste (Soctalie): Agricul ure, Pierre Pilimtin (MRP): Polic Health, Madame Poin-a-Chapuis (MRP).

Troops

were rushed

the inte capital to reinforce the already wallen garrison of mobile guard-men and police, ready for experied traile tormr raw morning when the Pasts underground opens with Serravel fares.

Reservis's of the 1947 class, recall- recently to the colours frous thris homes In provinces surrounding Paris, were ordered to report imme diately to Imegie Fontainebleau about 40 miles south of the capital Schuman's principal difficulty in

forming his Cabinet, after his your the National Assembly, came of confidence on Saturday night g

the Socialists and Centrist Radirat Socially

Team

The Socialists abjected strenously Schuman's intended appointment of Radical Socialist Rene Mayer ik

Nov. 23.

The world's largest plane, 3 400-passenger trausport by the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation for the United States Army Air test Force. nade its first flight today.

Ten-thousand people lined Lindbergh Field here to watch the test and thou- sands

crowded more

the surrounding hills and housetops,

The transport, knowa 245 KC- has mix pusher-type engines and weighs 132 tons. It carries a crew of nine. Kruter.

Far

The lengthy clitorial pointed put thas Manchuria made Japan the greatest For Eastern nation and China could become a great Far Eastern nation if she held the Northeast, Instead, the Communist plan for cntrol of Manchurin is almost 90 percent fulfilled and the Government is holding on "by its teeth" in hopes that aid will be forthcoming before it is too inle to turn the tide, the paper said.

The editorial said, "If the Gov. crnment is able to reconquer and develop Manchuriu, China could eventually become the most powerful state in Asin-could stand as a bastion facing Russin and as a potential US, ally, in any future globul eenfilet."

The article added that other. wist China will be at the mercy of the musters of Manchuria and the Communists, already produc ing arins and ammunition, would be able to enquer ull of China. -United Press,

Left Support For De Gasperi?

Rome, Nov. 24.

Minister of Economic Affairs becaust Two moderate Leftist parties indicated today they might soon be ready to join the government

of Mayer's known sympathy for General Charles de Gaulle. Mayer's Party, however, insisted ett hi nomination.

Million On Strike Meanwhile, 1,000,000 persons were on strike, Paris stations all but closed down because of the rapidly spread. ing railwaymen's strike.

of Christian Democratic Premier Alcide de Gasperi.

They were. Randolfo Pac- This was the first time the clardi'a Republican Party, Repubilcana and Saragat So- which is amall but endowed claliste, for whom Pacciardi ap with prestige, and Giuseppe neured also to speak, had in- Saragat's Socialist Workers' licated willingness to join a de Party, which broke away eight Gasperi Government which A walk-out of dock and portmonths ago from the pro-Com- lacked Communists-Associat- workers war set for tomorrow and munist Socialist leadership of ed Press. civil servants in the Paris regioa

were to decide whether to join the Pietro Nenni. school teachers' strike.

In a joint communique issued The trike of metal and building last night, the Party leaders workers in the Paris area continued said they had decided to ex-

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