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THE CHINA MAIL, TUES DAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1948,

AMERICAN AID FOR CHINA Washington Keeping Plans A Secret

Possibilities Of Military Help

Washington, Feb. 8.

One of the best kept secrets in Washington this week-end was just how the United States in- tended spending the approximately $570,000,- 000 aid for China which, it disclosed, it will seek from Congress.

There was

how considerable speculation over much would be car-marked for commodities and reconstruction equipment and whether the plan envisages any military aid or cash for currency stabilisation.

or

WORKERS 800 Security

GOVERNMENT

Paris, Feb. 8.

The police intervened to- day at Lille in northern France when 200 demon- strators of the trade union movement of the Nord De-

started to partment

hiss and boo the Government at a meeting in the Catho- drat Square.

A short scuffle followed, in which * number of placards were broken.- Renter.

Soviet Lodges

Roodly Protest

Authoritative official sources All these factors led observers to the $570,000,000 there WIN

passibility, speculate that no whatever at present of the Chinese programme could include a size- receiving uny currency stabilisa-able amount in cash Hen money in addition to the supply of military aid, $570,0000,000 general and pro- gramme for 15 months beginning on April 1. However, they did not rule out the possibility that same cash for this purpose might the $570,000,000

be Included in programme.

Final Step

of W

from Vienna today,

Measures

In Delhi

NEW DELHI, FEB, 8. THE BIGGEST NUMBER OF ARRESTS SO FAR RE- PORTED OF MEMBERS OF THE RASHTRIYA SWAY. AMSEVAK SANGH, THE MILITANT HINDU ORGAN. ISATION BANNED BY THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT LAST WEEK, WAS REPORT- ED TODAY FROM EAST PUNJAB.

Since the round-up began four days ago, 122 members of the RSS have been arrested in the province.

Security measures have been tightened in Delhi in the past few days, guards being posted ' at the residences of all Mimis- tra.

of any United States money for aid would go in Chiang Kai-shekary

had "broadened his | serviceiten, tried us take over prison- | Trompa

currency stabilisation in China. Chinese here are known to have

toward

until he

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Moscow, Feb. 9. The Soviet command in Austria has protested to the United States the "provocative at. The State Department's disclo comand at

tracks of the American military poller sure of the amount of nid

duty, wanted to give Chinn was the Tinalu Soviet servicemen of

which have occurred within the Ins

The area In which Pandit step in a complete reversal

few days," Tass the official Soviet Nehru, the Indian Prime Minis polley toward that country since

news agency, reported in a despachter, and Sardar Patel, the De There bos been considerable

late 1946 and early 1947 whet listerince of opinion between President Truman and Secretary

The note, according o Tas paty Premier. occupy neigh Chinese and

oMcials American over the question f effectiveness of State Marshall asserted that no alleged that the United States il-bouring hauser. rrembles

putier had beaten up Sovice armed camp with police and

Katex guarding

Al Government" tu Include others being escorted by Savier Trumps grounds, and with tenta in front

and had Fanied off à Soviet citizen.of them. submitted requests for a stabili-political elements.

Whatever might have been the who has not yet been turned over

At the Council House, where sation loan of $300,000,000 to considerations involved the basic the Suvier authorities in spite of the Constituent Assembly meets, $500,000,000. They contend they fact is that the Administration 15 repeated

armed police are posted every ditest. con "nake a good start"

quoted a now definitely committed

prees and form a ring remedying the chaotic monetarymulti-million programme for Chinathe

from few American authorities ituation with that amount.

high Lieutenant-General Tsion,

round the Jobby:---Reuter. and the next question

Sevier ollicist in the Soviet adminis Congress will do to it.

Congressional criticism of the ion in Austria, declaring that in However, most American au- el bol aid programme, which now incidents, "Soviet servicemen will be the rities have been dubious, tolais $0,933,000,000 for the compelled to take meastres of self-

There is defence."--Reuter, serting that it would take muching year, is mounting. more and still might have no ap- no doubt that the overall Agure |preciable effect, Unus resulting in will be reduced. Whether some of the reduction will be ni tho a sheer waste of money,

Earlier this week reports cur-expense of Chinn or whether the come will rent here had it that the entire China programme China aid programine would be put through intact at the expense of into commodities. However, the the European and Middle East

tell. fact that these reports from the same assertedly offeial United Press. sourets which retensed erroneaus Beures for the China programine

U.S. Doubtful

05.

stemmed request

whole cast doubt on their

accuracy.

In addition it was pointed out that $570,000,000 was mu extreme- iy large Bgure for the purchase of commodities for 员 little more than a year when most commodi- ties the Chinese really needed, such as wheat, petroleum and rice, were in extremely short supply.

Red Army Vigilance Demanded

MOSCOW. FEB. 9.

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Protest

Paris, Feb. 8. Carrying hanners proclaiming London, Feb. 8. Ankara Radio reported tonight "l'eace with Vietnam" and "We want Servocratie taxation," Paris Coni- that a Rumanian sergeant,

munists and inerrbers the left wing only occupant of a foreign plane political and trade unius marchents which landed at an airfield near day marched from the Place de la Istanbul yesterday, has been in-Basille terned. Reuter.

Machine Gunners Mow Down Tribal Formation

Jammu, Kashmir, Feb. 8. Indian machine-gunners mowed down a mass formation of advancing tribesmen raiders at point blank range, when they are estimated to have killed some 2,000 of them in a two- day battle around the town of Naoshera, in western Kashmir.

Ka-tumir

Indian patrols Init recovered 955 baddies of the raiders and more were being brought in after what was des "RED STAR," ORGAN OFscribed as the bitterest battle yet in THE RED ARMY, TODAY the campaign in Jammu provines of URGED ALL RUSSIAN SOL

The battle began before dawn on DIERS TO BE VIGILANT Friday when. 11,000 Pahans au "CONSTANTLY 'READY TO

tribesmen attempted to worm Indian PREVENT NEW AGGRES Army positions in the hill around SION AGAINST THE SOVIET | Nanchera. UNION AND ITS ALLIES" All the attacks were repulsed,

Hand-to-hand fighting brake

"The press of the United when sage raiders penetrated in States, confronted by irrefutable|Imlian Army positions. facts which brand the Ameri can militarists, is still keeping:

a stubborn silence."

Gandhi's Ashes

not

to the

Plave de la Re- publique to comtiemorate the revolu tion of 1848 and the Stavisky riats of February 1954, which brought about the downfall of the Government.

Crowds cheered the demonstrators: who also carried drawings of scenes during

the 1848

1848 revolution.

Among the marchers were pro-

minem Communist leaders, including Maurice Thorez, Mi. Jacques Duclos, and

and M. Marcel Cachin.

M.

The groups represented included the Union of Frenchwomen, the Na- tional Front, the France-USSR Move- ment, and asociations of departers, resistance patriots and ex-servicemen, ~Reuter.

LORD SANKEY DEAD

London, Feb. 8. Viscount Sankey, Lord Chan-} cellor from 1929 to 1935, died at! the rin, arding heavily their his home yesterday. He was 81. rasstalties.

He had been British Member of} Some of Mahatma Gandhi's asher | the Permament Court of Arbitra- were today taken from New Delhi ton at The Hague since 1930.- to Jammu, scene of fighting between Associated Press. the tribesmen and Indian forces in Delhi southwest Kashmir, New Radio reported.

At Jammu, the ashes were carried in a mile-long procession, led by the local militia, ând will be buried near a monument

be set up to to be

the Mabatma's

n'a imemory. The other portions of the Mahatma's ashes will be immersed in about 110 hudy rivers throughout In-

dia three sacred places The addition to the main ceremony next

in

After the battle, the Indisis set Thursday at Allahabad, where the "Only two papers have left uut in pursue and Indian artillery Jumna and Ganges rivers mert.- their stupor

atal broken this and Air Force caught the raiders on Reuter,

conspiracy of silence," the "Red Star" said, adding that these two papers were the New York Herald Tribune and New York World Telegram.

Even they, the "Red Star*** continued, try to dętrnet from the seriousness of the Russian charges against Iran by saying.; with a Ene of reasoning design- ||| ed for "politeni simpletons," that Russia's charges are an- other phase of Soviet pro. paganda.-United Press.

Moslem Guard Outlawed

NEW DELHI FEB. 9, THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT TODAY OUTLAWED THE MOS LEM LEAGUE NATIONAL GUARD AND ITS RIVAL ORGANISA- TION, THE KHAKSARS,

The Government described the two groups a contributors to poisononte coinmunallam,

"Police declined to say whether the banning of the two Moslem grauns meant that their leaders would he seized. Any such arrests would be not 4 smaller scale, since many, Moslems have been driven from India by the communal violence,

National

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Της Moslem League Guard supported militantly the mand of Mahomed Ali Jinnah, now Governor-General of Pakinan, for a separate Moslem deminton, The Khakusta has been

equally

militane bur anti-Jfonah.—Ayunciated Pren,

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