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The China MAIL, THURS DAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1040. :

ALLIED GENERALS CONFER Discussion Of Blockade And Drawing Up Arrangements To Restore Communications

Berlin, August 31.

The four Allied Military Governors of Germany assembled in the Control Council building here promptly at 5.00 p.m. to dis- cuss the Berlin blockade and the currency problem

TITO GIRDING FOR FRAY

They talked for 65 minutes and parted in good humour, "There will be further meetings," a British official statement revealed.

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to be in a good mood.

An Americon announcement said that the four Military Governors will meet again tomorrow In the Allied Control Authority building. American circles quoted by look, d amiable. The other three the German news agency, DPD, Governors followed Morshal Maid that the four generals Sokolovsky. They, too, appeared would resume functioning Belgrade, August 31.

The conference room was filled the Allied Control Council as Today's reshuffle of the Yugo from today-restoring the four-Military Governers had left. The with cigarette smoke after the slav Cabinet, with the promo-power rule over Berlin which sh trays contained many, tion, of the two Ministers re- was broken by the Soviet walk-igrette ends. including some cently denounced by the

Russian ones out of March 20,

with inng

card- Cominform, was' regarded by

D. Clay, the board holders, observers as a tightening of the

When the meeting ended after ranks around Marshal Tito.

an hour, an offlesia British an- nouncement was issued bearing The promotions were for: M. depends on what you mean by un

on the solution of the currency Eduard Kardel), the Vice-Pre-amicable."

and blockade problems and mler, who replaces M. Blanoy American police guards lined showing the world the first con- Simitch, the only non-Communist the corridors and were poster! ot

otcrete results of

of the month-long Minister in the Cabinet, ns For-

the entrances of the

building, egotiations in Moscow. eign Minister; and Generni Alex- ander Hankovitch, Minister of the 'Interior, who received the

ditional offer of Vice-Premier,

General Luciun American Military Governor. when asked whether the meeting had been amicable, sold: "That

Currency

Drastic Cuts In Australia

Canberra, August 31.

Mr. Joseph Coy, Aus- Bralian Prime Minister, to day announced new drastic patrol cute of 20 per cent for private motorista and ten per cent for ether users, as from October.

Mr. Chifley sald that' Ausi trailun stocks, down to 00 per cent of the pre-war 'toval, had to be conierved for de fence.

Not only the dollar, but the world supply position was becoming increasingly difficult."—Router.

SOVIET REPORT DENIED

Berlin, August 31. A British officiol statement tonight categorienlly dented a official Soviel report in the newspaper, Tuegliche Runds- chau, that Major Lebedev, the Russian control officer of Ber- in Radio, was "abducted by the British Intelligence Service."

Major Lebettwas detained by the British military polire

on

An American 'ofleer had orders The four

four Military Governors 10 prepura dit.net for the God-met on the direct orders of the August 23 and released the next nors, their Deputies and their Moscow negotiators who con-

terlinient advisers.

day. ferred at the Kremlin for the The British statement tonight When the meching had been inainth time last night and were saldi Major Lebedov was arrested M. Samitch Whi appointed

progress half an hour, an Am-old to report back to Moscow because his car was exceeding the Minister, withoul portfolio. M. erican major

then a matter of Urgency, standing in Kardel felinquishes the chair-c

speed limit and narrowly missed corridor outside invitel annoship of the Central Fecleratur

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colliding with a lorry and because Blockade And Currency he refused to produce his papers Economic and Political Control He bought then a whisky men. Russian officers into the canteen.

They

were understood to to the British military pollee and Then they set fulking

have been instructed to draw showered abuse at them. laughing and clapping one

up arrangements for restoring Fand other on the back

Commission.

A new Ministry of Science and Culture will replace the Federal

Commission for Arls and Scien-

CCN,

Other posts were led as fol- lows:

General Cheerful An American

an 1

-

photographer

accused

communications between Tuegliche undischuu Berlin and Western Germany, the British Intelligence Service of Introducing the Eastern trying to kidnap Major Lebedev alcohol for mark as the sole currency for und "win him with

their purposes."-Reuter,

and

Berlin.

who attempted to snap the scene | M. Bingoled Nechkosivh, Pre-was requested by the major not Political circles Berlin sni siden! of the Federal Control to do so

to cbset

it would em-great significance in the fact that Commission and Vice-Premler. burross the Russians,

the meeting was held in the AL M. Svetozar Voukinanuviel,

General Piere

Kornig

the Bird Control Coluci) building in Minister of Mining.

French Military Governor, was the American rector and not t

M. Rudoljube Tebolakovitch, Minister of Culture and Science.

M. Mmiko Tobarovich. Minka- ter of Agricolture (replacing M. Petor Stambollteh).

M. Bane Andrejew, Minister and President of the Government Commission for Water Economy.

the headquarter of the Gover-

the mins.

the first to arrive at 4.30 p.m. Be smiled as he came up stairs and waved his cane at the #sembled correspondents.

and Marshal Vassill Sokolov-

LIFE GUARDS AT WINDSOR

The last meeting between the

Windor, August 31. Military Govenions took

Pince

Bechuse of the withdrawal three Western Governors visited Grenadier Guards, who are go- nearly two months ago, when the from Windsor Castle duty of the Marsleal Sokolovsky to ask for ing to Malayn next week. Life the lifting of the Berlin traffle Guards took over guard mount-

Before that they ing duties at the Costle today. bad Sokolovsky walked out of the years that troops of the House- not met since Marshal This is the Drst time for many last Allied Control Council meet-hold Cavalry have provided ing on March 20.

Windsor Castle guards-Reuter.

General Sir Brian Robertson, the British Military Governor sky (Russia) arrived mul taneously at 4.65 p.m. General restrictions. Clay arrived at one minute to five, M. Pawte Gregoritch, Minister

General Koenix

was closely and President of the State Com-followed by General George P. mission for Public Health Hays, the United States Deputy

Observers hrre pointed out Rouler.

Military Governor. Financial ex- that the DPD and DENA reports ports accompanied the Governors. that the Control Council was re-

Earless

Ones Would Be Bad

Shanghai, September 1.

A few minutes before the surning its functions were prob-

a

meetings being regarded As such.

The Soviet 'blockade" begun

meeting was due to begin, it was ably based on a misreading of confirmed that the four Gover-the official statement that nors would confer in the main meeting of the Military Gover-when the Western powers intro- Conference room, where the Al-nors had taken place and that duced their new German cur-

into the led Control Council used

capital, in the othere would be, further meetings.rency meel before Marshal Sokolov Not Council Mecting"

heart of the Soviet occupied Zone. The Russians have argued that Today's conferenco Was the move endangered the econod- never regarded as a meeting mic structure of their Zone. of the Control Counell, and Berlin now has two forms of cur- British officials said that there rency-Western marks and Euct-

question of further ern marks.-Reuter.

sky's walk-out on March 20 end- ed their regular deliberations.

Marshal Sokolovsky

wr the

Death penalties and the cut-first of the four Governors

ting off of ears for violators of the Government's new econo- mie decrees was recommended, to the Shanghini City Council.

A citizen of Pootung, across the. River Whangpoo from the Shang- hai Bund, petitioned the Council for drastic measures to "put teeth into" the present Economic re- forms. Ho recommended the

death penalty for the worst offen- ders and the cutting off of ears for "light cases,"

"Then the public will be able to recognise the bad people," the pelitioner wrote.

crees

Captain S. C. Chong, Economic Police Chief in Shanghai, told a reporter that violators of the da-.

be laible to punish- mny ment ranging from seven years' imprisonment to the death pen- nity. Minor offenders will receive. three days imprisonment, he said.

Associated Press.

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STALIN'S SUCCESSOR Moscow Radio reported tonight that Colonel Gon DIES IN MOSCOW

August 31.

oral Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov had died. General Zhdanov, 51-year-old Secretary of the Cen- tral Committee of the Soviet Communist Party was sometimes termed the "logical successor' to Marshal Stalin.

lie was one

of the prime | Party, of the Soviet Union and movers in the foundation of the USSR: Connell of Ministers, the nine-nation Cominform lust which sold: yeor.

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most forthright member of the Russian Politburo. Trained as master planner ef Russia's for- elgo polley, he had been picked by Marshal Stalin to expound the critical moment:

"The death of Comrade Andrel Alexandrovich Zladanov, o falth- ful son of the rarty of Lenin and Stutin, who devoted all his life to serving the great cause of Communism, is a very grent loss for the party end the whole So- viet people,

"In the person of Comrade at parly polles markedly Zhdanov the party has lost

an

His association with the Com-outstanding Marxist theorellefan, inform, set up t Belgrade in September 1047, was a natural Sequence to his previous job as

ANDREI ZHD'ANOV

a member of the Central Com- ittee of the original Commun-

very gifted propagandist of the reat Idens of Lenin and Stalin, structors of the party and one of the most prominent con- the Soviet State."

Born on February 2. 1890. the son of a school Inspector. Zhdanov Joined the Commun Ist Party when he was only 19 and set out to spread Bolshev. * Ist propaganda' among the Russian soldiers at the front.

Powerful Influence

He became Secretary of the Leningrad Communist Party. In 1938, he was promoted Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Soviet Congress, where he created a new Isureau of Pro- pogando,

mony

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and petrol were discovered.

Six hundred- police made the search during the Inst 48 hours. Aliogether they detained 1.000 Announcement from the Central persons, but 948 were released Committee

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