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BRITAIN ON THE MARCH

Capital And Key Men Flowing Into Australia Tathay Pacific

Unprecedented Trend Developing

brow Sydney, Jan. 1A ! An unprecedented flow of British capital and key workers to `Australia has been. officially revealed.

A Government authority declared: - "The trend is now so marked that it is tan- tamount to moving part of the English

out

Greek M.P. Captured

Athens, Jan, 13.

A Liberal Member of Parlia ment, M. Lucas Kutrapiantos, what captured by "bandits" dur- ing the weekend in a sudden raid on a village in what had been considered a Minje"` arza, it was learned today.

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Manila, Jan. 14. Reports from Bagulo said to day that the Department of Foreign Affairs is ascertaining the rights of Philippine nation- ala whose ancestors at one time dined North Borneo and the Puerto Rican Island of Culebra, "The reporte sold that negoțla- Soilu, Jan, 14

tions with the British Govero- Nine deputies of the Sociallit opent may soon be started for A check with Federal and aulds' representative, Mr. G. A. refuse to approve the Government's which la claimed by the Morp-

position announced today they would annexation of North Borneo, State Government authorities Edwards is now in Brisbane budger as it stands, and promptly te Mohammedan Filipino Sul- today shows that £50,000,000 seeking a site, and says that the ceived a warning from Communist tans. now British capital has alreatly factory requires Immediately Premier Georgi Dimitrov to been invested or not aside for 100 acres, with 2,000 workers, her the fate of Nikola Petkov. industries alone here.

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Petkov, Agrarian Party opposition coming from Britain.

leader, was hanged

here to take advantage of the natural re- sources and the closeness of the Pacific and Asiatic markets."

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They said Culebra Is- land was given as a Royal con-| dero family, whose descebitants cension by Spain to the Escu-

are now Filipinos-United *Press,

Gandhi Begins New Peace Fast

Further investments in fodd- growing and processing are ex-' The expansion

on charges of cospiring against the pected.

of British GovernmentAssociated Pres. steel firma here is already an- The Minister of Reconstruc-nounced, notably the construc- tion, Mr. Dedman, has annouh- tion by Lysaghts of the great- ced that £50,000,000 has aleat rolling mill in the Southern roudy been invested by Anna Hemisphere. probably at Port for branch and auxiliary fac-Kembla, south of Sydney. The coming every day."

Firms auch an Scottish Vac-are at present touring Austra

representatives of British firms tric Limited have brought their Ha, seeking factory sites, or in- own workers.

In the Queensland Parlia-These include a Sheffield cutlery

vestigating future prospects| ment Premier Hanlon has intro- firm, Manchester and Sheffield duced Bill granting the Eng- engineering firms, and Scottish fish Electric Supply Carporn carpet and linoleum firms. tion a lease of the Blair Athol Coalmine, explaining that the company's investment there will be another £12,000,000,

There is a possibility of fur-Australin ther British coal investments Wales. including Powell Duffryn, ac- cording to official sources.

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'NEW DELHI, VAN: 18. MOHANDASK. GANDHI WHO HAS FASTED MANY TIMES TO ADVANCE THE CAUSE OF INDIAN INDEPENDENCE. TODAY BEGAN A FAST FOR PEACE AMONG MOSLEMS, SIKHS AND HINDUS. His followers fear the 78, usual stroll in the garden in or-

"Father of Indian, der to conserve his strength. Freedom," atil frail from an Gandhi has taken nothing but

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is scoking skilled shipbuilders. The Australian Government from the Tyne and Clyde, to ex- pand the shipyards of Southcas last autumn, is jeo-elps of clear water from a

New South Pardining his life.

wooden spoon since he started tire fast at 0580 G.M.T: Inflow of British cotton and peat from

He spurned a Inst minute àp-

Doctors will begin cardful textile capital is not expected Hindu and Sikh delegations to Wednesday, while limiting the several Moslem, checks on his condition on immediately, as shortage of a-postpone the fast for 15 days amounts of water he takes. to give the people a chance to Umately salt and lime juice

will be added to the water

Apart from Mr. Dedman's bour is now keeping one-third total, British Courtaulds Rayon of the Australiah textile ma- are building a £9,000,000 ruyou chinery Idle.-Our Own Corres- factory in Australia. Court-pondent,

Demand For Huge Air Expansion

WASHINGTON, JAN. 14. PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN'S AIR POLICY COMMIS- SION TODAY SAID THE US GOVERNMENT SHOULD ADD BILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO ITS AIRPOWER- SPENDING TO CREATE A FORCE BY 1963 "CAP- ABLE OF DEALING WITH A POSSIBLE ATOMIC ATTACK."

The five man board said the Rense only if the institution of air force contemplated at pre-war itself is abolished under a sent would be inadequate even regime of law." Meanwhile, It for the intervening period. urged development of air power

Associated Press.. as a primary means of defence.

The report said it would be "hopelessly wanting" for the later period when, it assumed, "other nations will have atomic weapons in quantity and the

equipment to deliver them in B, sustained attack on the United States mainland.”

The Conúmission said plans hould be expanded all along the line and call for:

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First An air force groups instead of 55 as at pre- seat blueprinted.

Secono:-Double the present total of 3,500 first line combat aircraft by the end of 1949. . Third:A US$1,300,000,000 increase to bring Air Force spending to US$4,160,000,000| for the 1948 calendar year atd to US$5,550,000,000 for next yenr.

Fourth-An additional US$. 102,000,000 above the budget estimates to modernise the Navy's air arm this year and US$510,000,000 for the same purpose in 1949.

The Commission sald: believe that the United Staten I will be secure in an absolute

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Dembay was cast into gloom as néwa of the fast spread. Trading was suspended in seeds, cotton, bullion and stocks. Mar) kets in Calcutta and Madras re- mained closed.

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London Reaction

'London, Jan, 13. Immediately the TLOWE of Mahatma Gandhi's fast in ad- The President of the Bombay herence of Hindu-Moslem unlty Provincial Moslem League de- was received in London, two clared the fast was a "challenge Indian restaurant owners in the to every Hindu, Moslem and East End, one a Sikh and the Sikh."

other a Muslim, decided to close

The Executive of the power-down for the day in sympathy. ful Socialist group of the Con- Many Indians in London, of Kress Party called upon "every all social classes, cancelled their Socialist to pledge his all for private and public engagements realisation of communal peace as a mark of respect to the aid harmony and preservation Mahatina of the life of the father of the The Indian Workers Assocla- ngli."

tion of London and the Gandhi "matter of deepest shame

The resolution said it was a Society, have sent nossages to that Gandhi should be compelled concern for His health but wish- Mr, Gandhi expressing deep to take such a dire step." ing him every success in his Gandhi missed his first men] desire to establish communal tonight and dispensed with his harmony Reuter.

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