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PURGE IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA Action Committees Busy On Opposition

Rumours Of Benes The Romance

Pact With Russia Attacked

London, Mar. 2. The terms of the An- glo-Russian trade agree ment were attacked by Mr. Oliver Lyttelton,

who was President of the Board of Trade in the Churchill Govern- ment, in the House of Commons today.

He complained, the Government had bought 750.000 tons of course grain with manufactured goods which he described about the hardest currency Bn. tain had in the whole sterling

UN

Resignation

'Prague, March. 2. President Edward Benes of Czechoslovakia has not resigned yet. Rumours that he had done so were described as "very pre- mature" in official and unofficial quar ters here tonight. Meanwhile, action committees, which have been

carrying out a purge of Czechoslovak life, have come to stay. Confirming this, M. Rudolf Slansky, Secretary-

General of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, declared today there was "no room for subversive opposition in the Government or In the National Front."

Of Steel

(Continued from Paga:8).

I am afraid there is only Lime for a very brief account of the varying properties of some of these steals. With regard to the

Plain Corbon Steels, their tensile strength and hardness increasOS: in direct ratio with the Carbon

content, whilst at the same time their ductility and toughnces de- crenses. Thus all the structural steels, such as plates, girders, folats, angles, bearns etc. come within the low Carbon or Mild Steel range, baving, approximate- ly one quarter of one per cent Carbon; axles, springs, rails and tyres in the Medium Carbon range; while chisels, knives, and in the edge tools generally are Hard or High Carbon steel cate- gory with approximately one per cent Carbon. Examples of very high Carbon steels, which лге naturally very hard and brittle, and these are razors and nies, A general secretariat of the contain up to one and one half This appeared to contradict National Frent would be estab-ver cent Carbon. Dr. Zdenek Fierlinger, the So-shed with permanent commit clal Democrat Minister of In- tees and regional dustry, who was quoted yester The National Front would have dlay for the statement that the to suppress any political in action committees would not be fluence of reaction and to unite come a permanent feature of the people morally, M. Slansky Czechoslovak life.

The action committees would vent infiltration by "aubversive control the reorganisation of elements." the Rightwing partics, M. Slan

One of the result, of bulk buy.nky said. ing by the Government was the introduction of extraneous mud- ters it the Anglo-Russian haald.

lent.

It was perhaps politically desir

able to a certain section of La- lasur that such a deal with the Sovjet

Government should be mode, but such things were dis: astrous to the proper conduct of ordinary commerce, he said,

He suspected that the price of the grain had been axed and the price of the manufactured goods had been left open.-Reutor.

SUEZ

PRESIDENT DEAD

Paris, Mar. 2.

said.

"National Front"

secretaries.

for

Alloy Steels treated sa summarily.

The alloy atcels cannot be

Briefly

grain

the presence of Nickel increases the ductility, whilst Chromium in

mall percentages has ค reining and hardening influence. A further task was to in- Consequently both these alements Addressing meeting of crease leading party members in Pra- the cunning methods of reac-imilar influence

the vigilance against are normally present in the High Tensile Steels. Vanadium has a gun, M. Slansky said that the tion, to

to that of protect industrial Chromium, and is a feature of action committees would be plants, State property, and the high class tool steels. The spec permanent organs of the peo peace of the working people.tacular properties of High Speed plo and of the popular demo-! The Communist Party would Steel, which can keep its edge erney, according to the Czecho he built up and strengthened even when red hot whilst sutting to the slovak news agency.

still further. Next Sunday, a at great speeds, is due

presence I 14 to 18% Tungsten. The action committees would recruiting campaign

the The stain and rust-resisting pro- The death Wan announced have the right to approve the arty would start, with the pertles of the Stainless Steels, here today of the Marquis composition of the new organs aim of increasing the number are due to large percentages of Louis de Vogue, President of of the Nationalist and People's "f members by 600,000, to reach Chremium: ually of the order the Suez Canal Company. He parties and to intervene in the the target figure of two mil- of 12 to 14%, although there

lion.

are other speclications. All good purge of the Social Democrátic

the Plain Car steek, including Party.

"The last hope of our defeat bon steels contain A certain ed reaction," M. Slansky said, amount of Manganese, "is whispering about a third about three quarters of one per Tisualty They thus place them cent, but if this Is Increased selves on the same level with about 16 times, that is to about

Germans who

similarly together with a high Car-

one ban content of about think of their revenge. But cont, a steet exhibiting remark- they will miscalculate as they fable, properties is produced. This have miscalculated before the is known as Manganese Steel, and forces of peace were strong hardening, that is the more work

It has the property of work enough to foll their war plane."or friction put upon it, the harder kla it becomes. Such a material "ls naturally ideal for rail and tram-

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in one factory' alone, a Mor avian steel plant, it was reliably but unofficially, reported that 1.100 persons have been dismiss ed because they refused to sign a decloration of loyalty to the [new] regime.

SHIP BUILDERS' PETITION

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Hamburg: Mar. 2. The Union of German Shif- yard Builders in Hamburg to- day presented.a petition to the British Regional Control asking

The Czechoslovak civil service that any further dismantling and nationalised Industries have of Hamburg shipyards should hitherto been said to be seriously { stop. averstaffed.

They also asked for a rẻ. vision of the prohibition

Broadcasting to action com mittees again tonight, the Com. munist Minister of Justice, Dr. against building ships larger Alexey Cepicka, said they need than 100 tona. They misintain- not be afraid to exceed thered that the economic existence legal powers as all their decisions, and reconstruction of Hamburg In the interests of the State" would be endangered if these will be sanctioned by law later.

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