1948-10-22 — Page 7

FIGHTING IN FRANCE: GOVERNMENT TO MOVE

Disorders Spreading In Northern Coal Towns

RED FIFTH COLUMN IN ALASKA

Juneau, Alaska, October 20.

A House sub-committee said today that it found evidence of Russian fifth column infit- tration in the Unites States- controlled Little Diomede island between Alaska and Siberia,

It also reported that Russia al- talued information about the city of Nome "which could have come Caly from residents."

Paris, October 20.

More fighting between French security troops and strikers occurred tonight as the Government decided to take steps to deal with growing dis- orders caused by the 17-day-old stoppage in the Northern coalfields.

At the same time, the Secretary of the Communist- led French Miners Union, M. Victorin Duguet, sqid the strikers would "fight like lions" to pre- serve their right.

Security troops fought a crowd of more than 1,000

strikers who encircled their lorries at St. Etienne in the Loire Department tonight. Windows in tho drivers' cabins were' smashed by stones. Many people were injured on both sides.

ve women.

The police arrester 23 men and )

The demonstrators hadless 200 from an nemis factory and 200

workers from another Captory.

Several hundred naners

elve-

deal with the disastrous con- vequences" of the strike.

Police Stopped

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1948,

HK Seed Oil For Britain

London, October 21, The Ministry of Food are nounced yesterday that in' Agreement with the Board of Trade, applications, will be considered for the import of further quantities of dead oll from Hong Kong.

The maximum price to be fixed for Imports will be-an- nounced later, Associated Praan.

British Planters Murdered

The Official Story Of The Rocket Bomb

London, October 20.

Rocket bombs can be used for a prolonged offensive

1

only if supported by a strong Air Force to guard installations and supply lines.

This is the deduction drawn from the official report

of Air Chief Marshal Sir. Roderic HII.

Marshal Hill's command. The Tactical Air Force was re- served for use against wider ob- jectives in connection with the Invasion.

Air Marshal organised Britain's TChief defences against the flying bomb and rocket in the final stages of the war. His report was pub- listed today.

The Air Chief Marshal adds Massed anti-aircraft hatterles that the Germans, who develop- and speedy fighter aircraft wero ed the flying bomb," may be used against the flying bomb un- pardoned for a certain lack of

from one-half to three-quar-judgment if they fancied them-, ters of all approaching Britain selves on the brink of changes were shot down. The operations comparable to those which fol- against rockets were limited lowed the rifled barrel and ma- largely to trying to locate the chine gun.... firing points, then attacking them fiercely.

Cermon

rocket

Singapore, October 20. Chinese insurgents today ambushed and shot dead two Air Chief Marshal Hill says British planters, the manager the of the Craigilea Estate in Muhr. "must be regarded merely as

offensive Johore State, and his assistant. { harassing attack," although izz

About 30

stopped the seven months 2,611 persons were 'planters' car on its way to the killed and 3,830 injured from t

estate from an adjoining Chinese in London alone, rubber planation, it was officially anted in Kuala Lumpur.

the

men

Bad Judgment

Because of its ale superiority, Britain always had the means of keeping the rocket offensive under control, Sir Roderic maintains.

He adds: "Yet the A-4 rocket cannot be dismissed as a mere The Malny driver, who was freak. Practically, it was a new allowed to run away, sald he saw weapon which brought new

the insurgents trag two hazards to the lives of millions Britons from The car. marchand set new problems of defence." them about 20 yards, and shoot

through

The the head, Troops surrounding the strute-them gie northern coalfield area had driver ran to the manager's wife, Nome Dart Litte Diomede

pected ordern to move in and oc- strategically are situated in the real hard lamps were put utight still not received the ex-who telephoned to the police.

When the poiler arrived they United States Northern

action today in the second act atefence

laf sabotage

reported since they the pits. system.

AL the Mont Ceautes Mines, found the car stripped and burn- umers' strike begon 10 days or Central Eastern France, strikers

zaid Railway headquarters Recording to the French

tel press agreed to volunteers het as

here today that the railway agency.

safety teams after the Prefecturo į

line was blown up North of The

batteries of all the lamps had decided to withdraw troups

Tagah, in Perak, last night. were found to have been removed from the pitheads, a Communist in the Vermelle pit of the same trade unionist mold.

A patrol train preceding Bethune group as the No. 2 pit

night mail was derailed. where yesterday all lamps were

there were no casualties. found sinushed, Similar acty

of alleged age were

reported

frum other pit lamp-roona In Bethune group tonight.

The two-n aub-committee comprised Representatives Charles Jersten and O.C. Fisher,

Mr. Jersten sald he could not divulge at

the present

exact nature of the advance Soviet fifth column activity.

During its seven-day inves- tigation the sub-committee held hearings in Anchorage. Nome. Kodiak and Fairbanks,

The two sub-committer men. bers left for San Francisco today.

United Press.

Civilians

Evacuate

Pantanaw

Rangoon, October 21.

The town of Pantanaw in the Maubin district has been eva- cuated by civillans because of terrorist activity by rebels, Wednesday's military com. munique reported.

In rebel

Strikers, occupying the electri- city station at Carmaux, In the South, put up barricades to pre- sabot-vent armed police from Dusting

w them.

Police on the way to Carmaux by rail were stopped at Albi, to the North, where several hundred miners uncoupled the engine from their train.

the

At the Mazingabe pit, 500 lumps out of 700 had been destroyed,

"Reign Of Terror"

Several people were injured to- day when security guards, ex- who had peiled striking miners

nt

M. Duguel said tonight thatay nearly ail miners throughout occupied part of the electric sub- France were observing the strike station

the Decazeville, in order except in the Moselle area Aveyron Department of Southern of North Enst France. where France. troops "imposed a reign of ter- This sub-station supplies the

ror,"

to all pils and power

In the neighbourhood.

ed.

Cardinal Mistake

"If the flying bomb and A-4 rocket were to be regarded as the substitute for the Strategie Bomb- or Force, a cardinal mistake was to suppose that these novel wea- pons could be used effectively in the absence of air superiority a reasonable Immunity from air"] which alone could have provided

tack.

کرنا

"Only alr superiority could ensure that places where the missiles were stored, serviced and fired, and the crews who Brod them and the vehicles which earried them

road and rall, would not be subject to systematic interference." Air Chief Marshal Hill says the problems of air defence "will not remain static," He does not, however, indicate what, if any, measures have been developed against the rocket #inct.—Neu-

"For if the enemy had begun to fire at a much greater rale heter. could no longer have lived from the hand to mouth. He would have but been obliged to store rockets and fuel in bulk near the firing area.

-DJ

In London, Mr. Malcolm Mac-Valuable bambing targets would Donald, Commissioner-General then have been offered to us...." for South Enst Asia, was

The operations against rocket celved by the King at Bucking-sites were largely carried out by ham Palace today.--Reuter. Spitfire squadrons under Air

INVESTMENTS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA

Paris, October 20.

factories Mr. Hector McNeil, British Minister of State, said tonight he was convinced that only investment in Africa and South East Asia could give Europe, and particularly Africa, a reasonable chance of recovory.

Ho sald that safety devices

this withdrawn earlier

week

Town Threatened would not be restored until the

The water supply and electri- Government removed the police

felty were partly restored at Lens and troops from the pitheads. He said

and that in the Moselle

nearby Lleven, in the Pas de district, about 4.000 men, repre- Calais. At Lens, however, It was thought that mensures would senting 10 per cent pf the miners of the region, who had returned have to

Pautunaw has been hands for six weeks.

The communique said the re- bets were working a "protection He claimed that the Govern- rocket" and had collected more ment had cut the electric current than £1,500 from merchants and stopped trains to rouse public others.

opinion against the strikers and

be taken to maintain

to work were mostly freed Ger- safety services in the coke ovens, man ex-prisoners and other fur-where furnaces were dying down. The town itself, which is be- eigners who were forced to work.

low water level, was threaten- éd with flooding because the withdrawal of safety teams by the Minara' Union had stopped the powerful pumps in the acco water which normally divert

A Government convoy of coun-ind employed force after 14 days. try Ixials en route to Rangoon He armed that the Miners' with gray was shot at by insur-Pederation is still rendy for dis. gouts but escaped unharmed. the cussions provided 'cprnuunique - nitded.

the Goverh

into a canal, Five other towns in the area without water, reported

heat.

Only Nation To Be Trusted

Boston, October 20.

No further details of the rebetent will agree to abrogate cer- light and hour railway strike bomb.. said here today that the i

attack in the petroleum centre of Yenanoyat reported on Tuesday were given in the communique

but it said that several persons alding the rebels had been arrest- ed.

The rebels suffered

170

cns.

WINDSOR SEES KING GEORGE

tain decrees affecting their status and conditions.

Were

ac-

pro-

man oppressors, such measures today, with armed police guards new force."

were not considered.

the

He said that in the next few years the "demand for capital for development purposes will far exceed the supply."

Sandhurst's Sovereign's Parade

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Camberley, October 20. The frat "Sovereign's Parade" took place at the Royal Military Academy, Sand- hurst, today.

Sir

General

Jemes Steele, Adjutant-General toʻthe Forces, who was received by the Com- mandant, Major General H. C. Stockwell, inspected the parade of nearly 1,300 offeèr cadots and presented the awards,

After the Adjutant-General's address the senior division marched off the parade ground in slow time with their colours followed by the leading and

Earle, Adjutant, Major Charles

charger, while the re- on his mainder on parade presented

arms.,

for

out

£8

Further, the world dollar de- In his address General. Steele ficiency this year was calculated told how at the last passing out jat $10,000,000,000, "Therefore, in parade in July the King was so the efforts which Europe must impressed that he gave" instrucĄ go on making to reduce her dollar tions

future passing expenditure, both investor and parades to be known A Japanese clergyman, whose borrower will see in Africa and Sovereign's Parades", Christian school at Hiroshima (South East Asla Increasingly at-i were

was destroyed by the first atom {tractive sources of supply":" ~~The "King had also approved Today's

the renaming of the Champion He added: "I am reasonably in the Mediterranean region was United States was

Sovereign's Com- Company to only convinced that It is only by In- Inet Government To Act

complete stoppago,

pany. country in the

world which vestment in such areas as Africa cording to lutest reports.

which General Stocle said he Was Trains jeft: Marseilles with de-would "be trusted with the that the terms of trade M. Rober! Lacoste, the Minis-

fearful, destructive force."

have been running against us can proud to have been the officer reduced ter of Industry, told a press cen-lays which

The clergyman, the Reverend be redressed to afford. Europe, singled out by the King to take ualties during the recent attack ference tonight that nine mines|gressively during the day. Trofllc Dr: Takuo Matsomoil, delegate and particularly Britain, area the salute at the first Sovereign's

the World Methodist Con-onable opportunity of recovery. Parnde. by Government forces in the were already flooded in the vital was interrupted at Arles Mirames to

and Nice. Motor coaches did a ference, said in an interview that Toungoo district. Associated northern coalfield. Press.

He said that it was the first roaring business at higher prices "despite the act that America "Such developments must, of Senior cadets on parade today

was first to use the bomb I feel course, bring great and time in any French miners' strike than usual,

proper entered Sandhurst in May 1947. Roll traffle throughout the that it is the only nation that benefits to the that safety teams had been with-

people of these | Reuter, was slowed up can be trusted to administer the drawn and "even against the Ger- French Riviera

areas as a first charge and this is posted

IN THE AIR FOR He believed the decision to use in fact a principal reason for the at stations. An

express

that the British The Minister of the Interior, M. was due to leave Ventimiglia, on the bomb first was taken reluc- great schemes

1,000 HOURS Jules Moch, told the Council of the Franco-Italian border, at 2.17 tantay and was forced upon the Government is undertaking".

GMT to try to run the United States by the press of Ministers today that half the p.m.

Mr. McNeil examined the pro-

Fullerton, California,

October 20. The Duke of Windsor visited miners in the Lorraine Depart- gauntlet through Monte Carlo and mortal conflict, he said.

Dr Matsomoto's school was blem of supplying the capital

mono- Nice to Paris,

of the

Two pilots in a tiny "Soviet satellite blown to bits by the bomb and 18 needs at Buckingham Palace yesterdayment have now returned to wor

him This is the only region where a 'Madmen And Criminals” teachers and 330 students killed, states".

plane are trying to keep in the nir for 1,000 hours, and break The strike committee at Nice Ft was pulled from the debris

as the world He said: "It la plain that Bo what is claimed announced that they would a day later, badly injured bu

viet Rusala has a political or flight endurance record

in stop the train if it got as far not burned.--Reuter.

perhaps a strategic Interest hours established in 1939 As there,

Car- California by Captain W. In the capital development of Only one train left the Can-

these countries. depot, Ines

where 256

iroll

The pilots-Richard Reidel and out of 270 were on strike. The

Hollywood, October 21.

"But it must also be plain that William Barriss-took off M. Francois Milterand,

Railway the Camminist-led

Sabu, "elephant boy" of, the Union Secretary of State for informa had said that they were striking films, was married yesterday to there is a quite justinable and here yesterday in their plane

undertandable demand from the "Sunkist Lady" and propose tion announced aftor the for 24 hours for the claim of a the actress, Marilyn Cooper, 'who

inhabitants of

these countries stay in the air until December 7. Cabinet meeting that the Gov. minimum wage of 15,000 frames plays in his latest pleture, "Song

themselves for capital develop The plane will be refuelled by of India", had decided to take a month.

from* a

petrol ments, since they are perhaps hose "the necessary measures"

The Federation of Socialist De- They met on the set.

no other method by which Sabu,

driven along the airport runway puties and Municipal Councillora

the plane flies low. of the Pas de Calais Department Mysore, India, was discovered by can raise their standard of living, when

Reuter. today appealed to the Govern- the British producer, Sir Alexan- and ment to take action against the der Korda, 13 years ago "madmen and criminals who put became an instant hit in Amer- the interests of Soviet Rusala be- ca as "Elephant Boy"-Asso- fure the lives of France's chil- ciated Press.

·

London, October 21.

the brother who succeeded

coal

stoppage has so far been reported.

to the throne, King George VI. main break in the French co

The Duke arrived in London on Monday from Paris for, what was described as a private visit at Marlborough House with his mother, Queen Mary.

of

His American wife, the former Wallis Warfield Simpson. stayed In France. There has been no confirmation Ja London published reports abroad that the Duke of Windsor is seeking appointment to an official pust.- Associated Press.

in the coal basins of Auvergne and Haute Lovic, however, a total strike of the 2,800 miners, In- cluding all safety services, was reported today.

ernment

Defence Against "Death Clouds

Stockholm, October 20.

Sweden is to train her air defence workers in methods

of dealing with possible attacks by radio-active

“death clouds” caused by atom.bombs..

stocks

to

Iren."

men

SABU MARRIED

The Federation stated that, NEWFOUNDLAND

moved by the people's protests against the activities of the Com- ¿munist leaders who have not

hesitated to cut off water, and electricity supplies, it formally

AIRLIFT

St. Johns, Newfoundland,

October 20 The United States, military

condemned those who, in servile authorities prepared today, to obedience to the Cominform's start an "airlift" to fake food and orders, deprive children of fond other supplies to Amorican out-

|attention.”—Reuter.

land rill strike-Reuter.

This decision follows a report aminato" reservoirs and foodd the hospital sick of essential, posts, isolated by the Newfound- by the Military Research Institute stating that five kilograms (about IL pounds) of radio-active sub- stances could wipe out Stock- holm's 800,000 people...

To guard against the smuggling of radio-active substances, off- |cers might have to be equipped with a simple apparatus which detects the Gamma rays given off

Shellers would saven comby them. munity from the worst effects of radio-activity, the report said; and, the best defence would be shelters with stong Walls at least a metro (about a little more than a'yard). thick and specially ventilated.

The report, dealing with me. thods other than atom bombs

An attacking army could be checked by radio-hotivo bombardment, the report said, whilejam potential raider, wome barking troopa · In ships, 'be paralysed.

One of the biggest problems was, that radiatione, from those

that an attacker"might"-use to forms of attacks could not be spread radio-active substances, made to die away quickly.

ald fifth columnists could "con Reuter.

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