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STRIKE CRISIS IN FRANCE

Premier Schuman Wins First Round Communists Begin

To Lose Ground

Paris, Dec. 3.

The French National Assembly overrode Com- munist opposition by a decisive margin early this morning and approved the first article of Premier Robert Schuman's drastic, Ave- part anti-strike. bill,

The article, suspending for three months the pre- sent French law, punishes strikers by a maxi- mum of a 180,000 franc (£400) fine and three months' imprisonment.

The vote favouring the article was force. The ensuing battle ended with; 402 113, with only the Assembly's disposal of the strikers. Three Cummist bloc opposing it. The mobile gourdsmen and an undeter other four articles of the hill will mined pinber of strikers were injur be debated and voted on one by one. et. After that there will be a vote on the

lll as a whole. The

Cabinet met Ing night under M. Robert Schuman, to consider wage claims by civil servants.

The strike position in Paris 'yeu terday

remained unchanged hut

dislocation as transport

as a result of the strike was slightly less serions, Underground railway service was restored after the police had evicted

strikers from the capital's six main power-stations and naval engineer had restored power supplies to the railway.

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London, Dec, 2.

-A' government spokesmah - today politely squelched the scheme of à British busi- ness man who thinks Bri- tale can make £1,000,000.- 000 In forcien currency by sponsoring the biggest lot- tory the world has ever known.

The whole idea is con- trary to the ethics of the Labour Party," the spokes- man said,' “It doesn's stand Д chance "~~Associated Press.

Violent

Snowstorms In Germany

Siam's Umbrage Over Ecafe

Bangkok, Dec. 2, Siam's delegates to the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, who arrived home last night from the con- ference at Baguio, in the Philippines, declared to- day that they did not "walk out" because they did not "walk in."

Duayather Thevakul, one 0 the delegates, anid they wen to Baguio because the Confer ence Secretary reminded Slar not to fail to attend the meel ing, and they went ready to co operate to the full.

Troops cuinpleted the clearing of pickets away from mine entrances in that non-strikers could begin getting out vitally needed cost. An Arocini-

dPress dispatch from Lille estima| est that alunt 75 percent of the miners wer returning to work. The return of all hut a handful of

of the Lorraine steel workers opened a

Frankfurt, Dec. 2. 5 serious breath In the national metallurgical trike Violent snowstorms have forced

The Government announced that

They were not permitted te that ail bur one American plane to

even wher offices were functioning normally. There has been Sintes Army Dakota, mixing since the conference scussed whe

alandus the search for the United present their case interruption of the telephone Friday with 20 persons on board, thether they should be permitted to participate. They were of States Zone said tonight,

fergil seats as spectators. "We Military police detechnients were, | #yed out," M. Thevakul said. however, continuing the search for

Mie took the decision on his the plane, thought to have crashed in the Kaiserslautern area

own initiative

later and the am the

conference decision WAS too Franco-German frontier, it mited.

The last radio

Inte, he added-Reuter. contact with plane missing on 1 flight from Pisa to Frankfurt, was establishe midday today, according to the cre of one search plane. This message said that aerial arch operations could be observed, "but did not an swer the question about the fate of the crew-Reuter,

Trois travelleit at reduced speed ordered "ervice despite the arkir Gerinan news service in the United:

after four cuaches of one had kees derailed at a place where the rail had been unbolted-presumably Malateure,

Mali lile traffic from the prin ripat Paris railway stations was mir- mal.

uburban services still afected,

The police, using tear gne, cleared Strikers, who had been spirred on

at

Try Conunusist leputy, from the railway

and depots Mcation Limuges, central railway junction of France. after clashes lasting Boura

for

the

of

by the Post, Telephone and Telegraph workers. The National Union of Shop Employees has issued 4 strike call effective on Friday to all its 250,000 members except those in food stores-Retter and Amorist. cd Press.

Record British Coal Output

London, Dec. 2,

With the coal output last

the

U.S. Army

Sugar Deal

Washington, · Dec. Z Senator Joseph McCarthy (Re- marke publican, Wisconsin) inlay public a Jetter to the Army Secretary (Mr. Kenneth Royal) demanding

week at 4.203,200 tons, miners SINKIANG DANCERS that the Army explain the purchase Fer in Britain need produce only 19,220,600 Lons in the four re maining weeks of the year to beat the Government's 200,000,- 000 tons target.

In the French National Assembly. after a Communist attack on Speaker, M. Edound Herriot, spending M. Ranut Calas,

the House passed a

vote ser in M. Herriot

Meanwhile, M. Bidault, the Min. ister for Foreign Affairs arrived in Paris at noon today and left again for London by train thin evening after conferring with M. Schuman,

the Prime Minister.

The subject of their conversations was not revealed,

the

The total coal production up

of

Shanghai, Dec. 1. Sixty-five of the best dancers of

remote Chinese province Slnkinng today arrived an will tour of Central China,

a good

to November 20 wna 180,779,- The dancers are from the little 500 tons compared with 174.-know Tien Shan (Mountain

of 411,900 up last year.

to the same time Heaven) region; secing civilization

for the

first time to put on a week's performances locally.

Last week's tonnage compar-

-United Pres

A highly placed neutral official tolzy expressed the belief that the vious week and 4,266,200 tons seen an ocean and live in a part of A special cruise on the ocean is ed with 4,245,000 tons the pre-being planned since they have never Canemials are beginning to love fleir

first big offensive in

in the week ended November the world most distent from the sea. Ferach "call war."

15.-Reuter. French Ministry of Labour sources estimated the number of strikers at "well ander" 2,000,000. At its peak the strike movement idled 3,009,000

nearly

men, The Communit placed the figure as high as 4,000,000.

Sabotage incidents increased

workers began returning

jobs

their

In number of localities pitch- battles were fought between police end strikers. The must serious in- tident was in Paris where

Renault a strikers rake into the Saluso motor plant by knocking down part of a wall with a tractor in an effort to oust an occupying police

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Teheran, Dec. 2.

Circles close to the Persian Imperial Court today severely criticised the broadcast last night of the Persian Prime Minister, Ghavam Es Sul- taneh, in which, they said, he hinted at the Court when talking of reactionary forces.

Friends of the Prime Minister

It was signflicant, they sidd.

of 1,600,000,000 pounds of sugar a: about US$1 per hundredweight ove

price the world market

waid the facts

Senator Mecard that the sugar

before him was purchased about October 15 for largely in Japan and Korea, with amount going to Germany, a small

He asked Mr. Royall to explain why this purchase was made jus two weeks before the end of price

of the Army's money for such pur control on sugar and whether ang consideration was given to the use pascr af this time.

He also arket what effect such sizable purchase would have on the clomestic price of sugar and the cost of living of the American people.

the Senator asked the Secretary

addition,

whether General Douglas: MacArthur had requested Kuch

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Canberra, Dec. 2. The Immigration -Minister, Mr. Arthur Calwell, today told the House of Representatives that the Govern ment had decided that another citizens of the Malay States m leave Australia,

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Mr. Calwell said 14 Malays cover-

that Ghavam did not mention said today that the Governmented by a previous ruling were at pre- the part played by the Shah erlain was still on but Ghavam sent awaiting repatriation-United | and the Army in the liberation still had a majority-Reuter

of Azerbaijan from separatist in- surgents,

Without the initiative of the Shinh, Mohammed Riza Pahlevf, Azerbaijan would not belong to Perslu today, they declared.

IN GLORIOUS TECHNICOLOR British and Americans here con

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revision of the statue of Bahrein The Missions to Seamen Island as a move to please the Season 1947–1948 11 Russians and

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