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HOW STRONG ARE RUSSIA'S FORCES?

Stockholm.

Russia is reorganising all her defence forces in such a way that she can hope to be able to fight an atomic war even without the atom bomb.

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SAFETY IN THE HARBOUR

about

The most tragic thing evening's Sunday yachting fatality was that it would not have occurred had the yacht carried a life-buoy

and

City Clangorous

book

OF

Emlyn Williams is alan tailor- ing Audre Roussin's Paris hit. "La Petite Hultte," to Gertrude's

of the United States' and their Film chiefs met over tho needed for the Pollah people's own

"Come, gentlemen, behave your Commander-in-Chief ja nasty week-end in New York and have requirements.

Russia's next-war strategy selves. The tired, hungry work little gainin, a Congress-tanned forwarded a strong protest to

15 watching.

Missouri Jackass hide.""

the British Board of Trade. for the Navy too Swedes believed

"Do not let the Palestine issue The spectacle Is not edifying, I delivered Gertrude Law- to be based especially on mobility split us.--Exercise restraint give and one wonders what has got frence's trunk to hor pver the

the up with the use of between 200 and

abure

caluminy. Into the

was world's new No. 1week-end. She

in London than 200 When your Zionist newspaper. | nation.

at the same time that I was, and 300 submarines, more M.T.B.s, and well over 500 mine- the New Yorke Post, calls Britain

The current political wisecrack 1 was sorry she didn't getan big- malignant cancer amoak.against the President is: "1 ger and belter Press. sweepers and small patroi vessels in

nations," 'you fire of all kinds.

demeaning wonder what would have hap- Miis Lawrence hopes to star The Red Nuvy is still wenk in yourselves, not insulting us.

pened if Mr. Truman had been "Lady in the Dark" in London "When your columnist-commen- alive.""

in the autumn. heavy warships, but two new air-

Krasnaja tator Walter Winchell. with his New Weapons

craft carriers the Snama and the Voroshilov-are 700 newspaper clients and his

radio listeners, Bag- In New York we are not busy- Outstanding factor in Kussin's said to have been recently com-120.000.000 defence position now, the Swertes pleted, both of 22,000 tons, with gests that the only Marshall alding ourselves too much with the

Sir Cedrle Hardwicke, now in belleve, is that all three Services, 60 aeroplanes on board.

Greater New York is celebrat- | Landon, told me just before Army, Navy, and Air Force, are In addition, the Red Navy has for the inhabitants of Downing- at present undergoing Intensive three elderly battleships, two new street and that the British are ing its golden anniversary, and left that he hopes to spend

building (each of 35,000 making Hitler look tiken soln.must days there are parades, a year at the Old Vic. reformation

Clack Gable, who and re-equipment, ones

pageantry and wealth. The town bought a British car, will spend with two main general aims in tons), is who are

"When some of your cruisers, and at least 05 destroy-pear fools, not s

car is banging the drum and blowing his summer holiday in England. view,

deplet toonists

docan't Foreign the bugle, laying claim to being bùt Secretary, Mr. Bevin, as a Nazl the biggest, best,

richest, most m there. *tupendous elly, The Royal Sovereign butcher and international black-modern, most

guard, your hands are smented money and trading market, Amusement poluce and suport with pitch, not ours.

"You are big boys now.

You and manufacturing centre on have grown up, let your intel- earth. lectual stature measure up to your size.

❘

Russian defence into independent, A simple thing, costing these self-supporting units, capable of days about $70. This discurrying on a wor even if Russia's tressing affair, which cost the life of one man

and gravely imperilled another, was, in fact, a tragedy that could easily have been avoid- ed by the taking of element- ary precautions.

branches of ers To make all

No responsibility attaches to anyone directly concern- ed. It has not been custom- ary for yachts in Hong Kong to make any special provision against an accident of this nature. On the contrary, the reverse is much nearer the truth: on few craft in the harbour used for purely pleasure purposes is it con- sidered necessary to guard against the odd mischance. The yacht went out equip- ped as the majority of other yachts are equipped: no danger. was apprehended: no measures for safeguard were deemed to be necessary: not the thought flashed across anybody's mind.

We have, in Hong Kong in this respect, a very curious

Any craft

By GORDON YOUNG

great cltles and lines

of

com-

These two tendencies are par-

ticularly clear, say the Swedes, in the reorganisation of the Russian Army which has been going on since immediately after the end of the war.

Mobile

Forces

Total peace-time strength of the Russian Navy is around 100" 000 mien. It is divided into four main fleets:/

based

tons).

ARCTIC,

years

measurements. for Britain should be arsente election,

our

I

has Just

expect to make

Strike They'll Like

扛

pro-

Its profits upon the British mar-featured players who have lost ket and wants no part of the their box office lure. Hollywood's

desperate need is cam-most-

BLAMES.

+

t.

new:

will

his

Now there is danger of an

strike. The Screen Ac- not denying it. The actors'

that place is big. It is dollar decorat- tors-Guild la demanding

and television rights be included in THE NORTHERN

"Anyone who calls Britalis aed, dynamle, clangorous.

their It is the super city.

contracts, but the on Murmansk, now being cancer deserves to become strie- colossal.

disease himself. transformed into the north's grent-ken with the

However, I think I will move ducers so far say "Nothing do

ing." eat naval base with material tak- Anyone who suggests sending out for the summer months.

to Downing-street is Hollywood

Many companies actually would Is trying hard to en from German ports. This fleet arsenic

trouble munication

with keep out of the Anglo-American welcome a short strike so that had been

the 29,000-ton former utely asking for destroyed includes

wrangle. It depends largely for they could get rid of a lot of vel Sover-Scotland Yard, by surprise aton.-bomb attack.

battleship Royal British 3. To train all three Services in eign, now the Archangelsk.

THE BALTIC, with buses at Madness and Shame "boycott British goods" new weapons, and thus to take

Finland, Kaliningrad

paign. full advantage of technical know-Porkkala, in

There is no campaign in Holly- Television is expected to throw edge gained from study of Ger- (Konigsberg), and Tallinn, and

"You know, J. have been back

of jup some bright new talent. I man war material and equipment including the 37-year-old battle-

now, and at first wood against the exhibition

British films because

of the think we hold our own with the furnished by Britain and America ship October Revolution (23,600 eight days

when I saw the monstrous lies

| Americans_there. during the war.

the grotesque villfication Palestine mess.

film The American

Industry Danny Kaye writes to shy THE BLACK SEA, based on and

which your Zionists ore using

Is so intensely preoccupied with that his new leading_lady Odesna, with the battleship Sevas against us I was outraged,

"I said: This is not a family its own problems that apart from probably be Marlene Dietrich.

of bitterly David Niven announces that topol (20,000 tons), also 37 old.

THE FAR EAST, with two quarrel this is madness.. And putting out a batch

then I met the others among biased newsreels (as usual) it is he will make "The Scarlet Pim

Holy Land to the pernel" in London, leaving I was leaving the heavy cruisers the Kalinin and you, the non-Zionists.

politicians and editorialists. lovely wife behind in Hollywood angry, but they were ashamed. Kaganovitch (each 8,000 tons),

In addition, naval flotillas are

They do not talk

However, Hollywood has one to take care of the children. nhout

Doth men Bre battling the -- maintained on the Dnieper, Danu-"Bloody Bevin" doing his bloody his argument with us, and again

business Anglo-American anti-Britlah

and, be- and Amur Rivers, work. They do not see awns-is over the

going to toka big com- lieve me, it is be, Volga,

tikas on Mr. Attice's walsicoat tax, agreement. The and on the Caspian Sea.

panies here charge flatly that some battling.

U.S. Footnote: The

hould. Under the dynamic--leadership buttons

"They do not think ald

Britain is not living-up-to-oither. for

the letter or the spirit of the know that it buying-British- of Air Force Commander Kon-

for Air Britain is money stantin Vershinin, the Red

tion. no intention of doing so. Force is piling up large stores of They admire and respect us and agreement and apparently has could mean solling out civilsa-.

and all the The Soviet know what they A school for the training of com- the new jet planes. mando troops on British lincs has propaganda Journal in Stockholm, world owo us.

**They дре buying British been opened at Viborg in what News from the Soviet Union.

Brilish films. British ailuation.

used was formerly the Kardian Isth-cently stated that the Soviet air-goods, seeing

ships-it 40,000 travelling in craft industries delivered mus of Finland.

aro they

spending for commercial purposes, any

1947 anything, In

more dollare on Britain and for junk-or-any-sampan-used-

Беер

DS long-distance alone.

Britain" since the "hate-campaign rocket solely for fishing, somewhere

which Swedes

ara began. Soviet scientists, meanwhile, along the line comes under Bay are

a radio-known to be working on new the control of the Director controlled version of the

weapons of many kinds. Swedes vi.

are inclined to think that the of Marine. If a motor boat Simultaneously the Russians are

aiming

to make the present trend in Russia's military is used for conveying passen-

capable of functioning quite organisation indicates that research gers across the harbour, it is independently of whatever may is going on along lines different regularly surveyed and stan happen to the civilian population from that of the atom bomb,

Each of

of Russia's five main Army dards of safety are demand-

commands

being are It cannot move unless ed.

even

It has aboard sufficient life: buoys or other safety devices adequate for all the persons

One after another, divisions have been sent-home-from-Germany to the interior of Russia for reor- ganisation and training in the use of new wespons.

All the emphasis is on mobility.

SO Wery regiments have aeroplanes of all kinds

ments in

organised as To Beat The Atom largely self-contained units, cap-

murder.

Dignity Departs

what may be happening to the told me: "It is probably true that ordinary lack of than

other

it is licensed to carry. To rest of the country.

extra-

GANGSTERS SLIP THROUGH POLICE NET

Chicago, June 28.

Police officials today believed that armed gangsters who took refuge in a quarry on the outskirts of Chicago last night-had-escaped in the dark and boarded a goods train.

employ certain vessels' with- I cores to Swedish sources, are: They have some good scient-vituperative thunder fils the air. they combed the quarry which but finally decided to wali until

-boat-and-with-no-experience

shout abuse among honey-combed with ravines. American

Bullion Movements

"Why not listen to them and spurn and shun the anti-British fanatics who are viointing the rules of decency and human con- More than 200 police guarded the quarry through- duct?"

out the night, but most of them were withdrawn I am saying

because that

this morning. someone had to say it. able of fighting, moving, and pro- One of Sweden's leading scien- The America. I have come back

Alded by searchlights, the visioning themselves regardless of thats, Professor Manne Siegbahn, to is also showing an

The police used bloodbounds

hunted for the .men restraint in and were in radio contact with police

night, Zionist. the Russians are behindhand in directions The five main commands, ac- their efforts to control, the atom. National dignity is departing and six observation acroplanes as throughout part of the

miles of daylight-Reuter, Whila the Zionist raise de- covers two square out a certificated coxswain

WESTERN ARMY under ists working for them, but that

howls against us the heavily wooded country and is and/or engineer in charge is Marahat Rokossovaky, with head is not enough. It is a question/mented regarded as a serious offence. quarters at Ipsterburg, in what of scientine equipment and indus-politicians

The gangsters were leaving trial development as well, and it themselves. A glant slanging

betting establishment which Yet any Tom-Dick-or-Harry was formerly East Prussia.

THE NORTHERN ARMY, under may well be that there the Rus-match and mud-slinging contest

they had robbed--when may acquire a 20-knot speed- Marshal Voroshilov, whose com.slans have encountered difoul-}ls being held across the land at terminals and whistle- great

the policernant, answering and ranges from Murmansk toties."

halts, in the big city stadiums.

alarm, tried to intercept them, of handling such a craft, no the Southern Baltic coast.

So the conclusion the Swedes and in the village squares.

They shot him but he managed THE SOUTHERN ARMY, based have reached is that, pending the knowledge whatever of the

Every other man, according to rule of the road, he may Crimea

a'

# on Odessa for the defence of the development of something really the orators, is an idiot and a to crawl to his car to send out

alarma. Afterwards, rodlo new and sensational, the Russians fool, and the rest are scoundrels. carcer about the harbour at

THE ARMY OF THE CAUCA- are reorganising themselves to Even-the-head-of-the State. Mr. running battle ensued between become infected the gangsters and police putrol his own discretion and, ex-SUS, for the protection of the oil meet the atom by means of mobi-Truman, has

finally cors and In

and the gangsters cept he should come. into fields.

iity in defence and big reserve with the tantrums,

across the country took refuge in the quarry. collision with

THE EASTERN ARMY, bellev- stores, not necessarily with ag- weird trek police a

votes. he scoffed and ed to be still under General Ma- gressive intentions, but at least seeking launch, he is subjected to no

linovsky, based on China, on the with the hope that they can never gibed at Congress, describing it controls, no test of efficiency; Trans-Siberian Railway east of be immediately paralysed through as the worst in history. Con- he is, in short, able to cock Lake Baikal.

gressmen, sneer at the President 4 snoot-at-the-Director of Marine. As with motor- craft, so with sailing craft.

Today, the Swedes believe, units CARNIVAL Not subject to any regula are beginning to return to the tions beyond any that may commands from their reorganisa

There has been an be imposed by the Commit- tion centres. tee of the Yacht Club, the increase in numbers recently in owner of a pleasure craft both the Northern and Western sets his own standards. Armies, though Swedish estimates There are no rules to which of actual Agures may be somewhat he is required to conform, and no power to impose them.

We are not normally ad- vocates of additional regi- mentation. Generally speak- Ing, we take the view that government is most efficient- ly carried on with a mini- mum of essential controls.

Trained Men Back

excessive.

One military contributor to a Stockholm weekly review in an article asking pertinently "Why is Marshal Varoshllov so strong?" estimated that something like 220,000 men with 1,500 acroplanes the Northern are available to Army facing Sweden between Murmansk and Leningrad.

Base Reserves

...

at

Other reports reaching Sweden put the total of troops now at the disposal of Marshal Rokossovsky But no special reason seems in the Western Army at around to exist for the making of so 750,000, ranged over the Baltic, Poland, Germany and Hungary. marked a distinction between with about 250,000 of these in commercial and pleasure Eastern Germany.. craft that the first comes under close and frequent in- spection and is required to adopt clearly defined safety Total strength of all five Army

commands the Swedes put mennires while the other is around 200 divisions representing completely ignored. Prob- approximately 2,000,000 men. This ably the simplest method of total which could be quickly in- dealing with this problem creased by calling up reserves in would be to leave it to the the event of war, does not in-

clude the Red Air Force. Yacht Club and private own- Simultaneously with the, train- em, subject to a loose super- ing of these men, the Russians vision by the Director of have been building up large base Marine" "Should he not be reserves of arms, seroplanes re- placements, and food to supply satinied with the steps taken he would be fully entitled to each Army in the field request more

effective powers.

Travellers from Poland, say ex- tennive supplies for the Western Army are hidden in the great

atomic attack.

Washington, June-28. The Department of Com- merce reports that exports of refined gold bullion in May- were 901,472 troy ounces, in-

Return Ofcluding 868,410 to Venezuela, By Dick Turner Italians'

MAS

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Property

London, June, 28.. The Board of Trade nounced today

12,872 to Portuguese Asia, 8,724 to the Philippines, 8,605 to French Indochina, 7,295 to Lebanon, 2,330 to the Netherlands East Indies, 1,310 to Siam and 1,132 to Portugal.

Silver

were: exports

60,045 to ounces, of which 31,046 were Colombia, 18,206 to the Nether- tands East Indies and 17,393 to Brazil.

an- the Custodians of Enemy Pro-

that.

Gold Imports were 5,927,317

perty are transferring Italian troy ounces, of which 4,489,444 nationals property in Britain come from the United Kingdom. -1,129,654 for the Valon of South to the Italian Government, Africa, 157,783 from the Nether-

under

a new Anglo-Italian, fands, 114,408 from Colombia financial agreement.

"The transfer involves a provi

and 12,020 from Argentina.

Gold imports were valued at

slon of detailed records to enable $157,131,000, $39,230,000; $5,522,- $4,004,000 and $1,471,000 the Italian Government to make 000;

Silver Imports were 8,855,073

'the

the necessary corresponding pay-respectively. ments In Italy, and it will not be possible to say when any part- ounces, of which 6,810,707 came cular amount will be dealt with," from Mexico, 834,814 from Cana- da, 624,388 from Belgium and an announcement said.

"The Italian Government wii Luxemburg, 260,397: from decide whether property other United Kingdom, 184,238 from than liquid assets is to be realised France and 144,723 from Yugo-

stavio. or released."

Gold earmarked for May in- The announcement said that, payment to creditors in the United creased by $2,841,000, to $3,883,- Kingdom of all claims against and 900,000-Router debis dus from Italy, has begun. "Creditors are advised to get

in touch with their debtors

in

Italy to agree to the amount and

other particulars of "their 'debts,"

it said. "Payments to creditors

TO DIRECT AID·

FOR CHINA

Washington, June 28.

Mr. Harlan Cleveland of Wa-

will in general, be in the same shington, DC., has been named order as the lire deposit made in Director of the ECA China Ald Italy by their debtors, but it will Programine.

not be possible to indicate when [any indiviSUNA

made.

A native of Harwich Fort, Max- will be sachusettes, Mr. Cleveland was payment w

deputy chief of the UNRILA BE- "Payment in respect of the slon to Italy and later of the Italian bonded indebtedness will 'UNRRA China · Mission,-United also begin shortly."-United Press. Press.

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