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ATLANTIC DEFENCE PACT DISCUSSIONS

Threat To Destroy Rice Crop

London, November 1.

Preparations for an early meeting to discuss the project of an Atlantic defence pact have gone forward smoothly' behind the scenes on this side of the Atlantic,

Diplomatic observers here believe that no meeting

terms

of the

of the prospective, Atlantic defence union -powers is likely to be called until after the results of the American elections are known. Rangoon, November 2

Some Lime will have to The present task of the Per- Burma's Red and White Flag

It is be- Communist Parties in the rice clapse for the new Administra-mament Commission, growing delta district of Pyntion to take itu beurings on leved, is to produce n joint draft Atlantic pon are threatening to destroy major international problema. for the

A meeting of the seven powers Union, which the Western Union the new paddy crop due to be concerned was undoubtedly din would agree to support collective- harvested this month.

varly at any meeting with Canndu russed recently in Paris, however, 'The

and the United States, Communists

with Washington Drentening to prevent the trans-likely meeting place and with an

This draft, observers under- port of rice to the port for export. unspecified

unspecified date early in the

stand, will be produced soon by "The Communists are demanding

New Year

ear tentatively in mind. a deadline agreed by the Foreign at the farmers allow them to

The interested parties are the Ministers of the Western Union Jep the harvest for their Own

United States, Canada, Britain, itio

ance and the three

in Paris. France

Benelux countries,

also

Rebels in the mid-Western Nybigyan district on Munday at Incked the hospital at Nelogy and booted the town's medical sup- plies.

military communique

lated.

In Rangoon, the Burmese prest reported that members of the Criminal investigation Depart inent and the Special Patice Branch decided at a meeting here to resign if the Government does not accede to their demands for the restoration of pre-war allow

on the

Do

In the meantime, tha per manent commission of the Wes- Union has been given the tern tank of co-ordinating the Wes- tern Union end of the prepara- tions for the coming negotia. tions for the Atlantic Union.

Under Review

No Change In UK Attitude Towards Spain

London, November 2. Mr. Christopher Mayhew, Britan's Parliamentary Un- der-Gecretary for Foreign Affairs, and in the House of that no Commons today change has been or la com- templated" in Britain's policy towards Spain

have stated many times that Spain has been outlaw. ed by the United Nations and We are perfectly consistent la polley," he applying this

Press declared-Ausoolated

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Getting Down To Business

London. November 1. It could then be submitted Mr. John Strachey, Food without delay to the new Admini-Minister, sald tonight that he strution In Washington and to believed that "get down to the Canadian Government,

Final Stop

At that point a decision could be taken on calling a meeting

Interested of all the

powers, which would represent the final formal stop towards the con- clusion of the pact.

The purely defence aspects, Of an Atinntic Pact are under con stant review in the joint Ameri- The

Ua jon C.L.D. and the Speciali can-Canadian-Westerni

Commission Branch of the Police would form Permament Speckad

to protect Washington and in the Permanent Committees Burma's rillions. Associates Military Committee of the Wes-falling geographically within the

tern Union In London.

Press

Diamond Smuggler Was Given Away

Manila, November 2.

Philippine investigators disclosed today how the smuggling of diamonds from Bangkok to the Philippines on board an American Embassy plane came to light.

་

valu-

.. National Bureau of Investi-1ks asserted to have told the Pili galion authorities said a Filipino recipient that he learned the pino claimant for the jewelsplane and its passengers ware the appeared at Clark Air Force be searched for smuggled buse, 50 miles North of Manila,ables. Thereupon the sergeant was said to have thrown the gems into when the Embassy

plane the sea, hiding a few stones on

person and in the plane.

It is now regarded in London 35 virtually certain that the eventual adherence of countries

framework of an, Atlantic Union has been accepted In principle by Washington and Ottawa and the five Western Union Powers,

Whether such countries пя Portugal, Eire and the Scandini- vian group would be invited to attend the preliminary discussions with the seven powers or not i one of the decisions which still have to be taken before any date or place are finally fixed for the first meeting-Reuter.

WAKE TRAGEDY KILLS 25

business" was the one relation- ship which it might be possible to have with Russia today.

He was answering Opposition criticism in the House of Com- mons of the Government's policy in trading with Russia while the "cold war" Insted.

"We are trading with Russia because we think it is good busi- ness to do 50," he said.

Speeches made by Opposition Members, he said, amounted to a suggestion that Britain was already at war with Rubai. "That is not the view of Mem- bers of the Government. I think the arguments used are grossly unsound and extremely danger- ous," Reuter.

Millionaire Killed In Air Crash

Oklahoma City, November 1.

Separate air crashes involv- ing two military planes and Hicraft one civilian-operated claimed 19 lives in Oklahoma and Texas today.

Thirteen lives were lost when an Air

transport Force C-47 crashed is a thunderstorm near bodles and Muldrow, scattering shattered parts over a wide area.

Naples, November 1. Twenty-five people who had athered to mourn the death of a friend's wife were tonight be- Officials of the Denver Produc- Hieved buried in a house undering and Refining Company here

arrived early last month. The lo podiemands have been re 350 tons of earth and rock swept nanounced that the bodies of the 1

would-be recipient complained These to the 13th Air Force authori- | covered, ties when an American' sergeant failed to hand over a package

of gems entrusted to him, in Siam.

The sergeant, who

in now

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down by a landslide at Posillipo, near Naples, today.

at what ho Chagrined at

be- lieved

to be a double-gross, the Filipino then reported the mat-

Rescuers were working by tor to the Air Force authorities. searchlight. Two Cabinet Minis

faces tera--Signor Glovanni Pozio The American sergeant custody and facing court martial, prosecution by the United States Minister for Southern Itallon Af- because the offence took place on fairs, and Signor Ruffnele Jervo- American territory.

lini, Minister of Posts and Tele- Investigators believed that I communications, were watching statement would provide clues the rescue work. in running down n Filipino jewel smuggling ring-Associated Press.

Airlift In The Fog

Berlin, November 1. Perlin airlift planes, flying blind through heavy fog, made radur-controlled landings at the rate of one every four minutes at the British-controlled Gotow airport today.

The American-controlled Tom-

airport, pichor

however, was closed to all traffe.

"Templehof is completely en closed by high buildings which Shrow their reflection to. the radar screen and make flying ex- tremely dangerous," u Royal Air Force spokesman said.

·

Britain Leave

The landsilde was caused by beavy rains.--Reuter,

Will Not Germany

́ ́London, November 1.

The Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Chris- topher Mayhew, told the House of Commons today that Britain evacuating Germany.

Mr. Raymond

does not contemplate

firm's millionaire President, and had been three other persons tound near the wreckage of their plane near Roaring Springs, Texas.

The plane hal been missing since last Thursday.

Sill another crash

occurred

near Temple, Oklahoma, sending two occupants of an Oklahoma National Guard B-20 to their death. United Press,

CHINESE TRADE WITH INDIES

Batavia, November 2.

A trade commission from China has begun work here on a barler agreement for exchanging Chinese lextiles for Indies rubber.

tht nine-man commission,

A

Best of its kind from China since the war, is expected to complete arrangements which were begun with the commercial counsellor to the Netherlands Embassy in Nan- king-Associated Press,

THEIR FIRST:: WHITE BREAD:

Johannesburg, November 1. Thousands of South African children tasted white broad! for

day.

Blackburn Millary. Governor, made it quite (Labour) had asked whether clear that he was expressing an purely hypothetical The nest of 40 barges with food the remarks on October 27 of spinlon on and coal for Berlin returned to the British Military Governor question which would have to be

carefully considered." Hamburg today after being held in Germany, General Sir Brian Mr. Blackburn sald

that he by the Russiaris at Wittenberg on

Robertson, advocating Allied thought the General's statement the first time in their lives to the Elbe since June 24 when the

"s grave blunder." Any White bread was sold, for the blockade of the capital caught evacuation of Germany on cer- was

tain conditions represented the idea of evacuation of Germany first time today, since, the intro- them.

brown would be a betrayal of millions duction of the standard Government's policy.

of Europeans, he added.

loat seven years ago. Lines Mr. Frank Beeswick (Labour) formed outside bakers thought evacuation under pro early today-Reuter. per safeguarda "would sensible solution.

The remainder had this morn-

Mr.

replied: Mayhew

No, ing passed the British Zonal bor. der. Their food cargo had Sur. In replying to the question mostly gone bad.-Reuter,

pyt to him on this subject, the

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to evacuate, would it not make Germany a prey to Communist aggression?!!

Mr. Mayhew commented: "We

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COCOANUT OIL į

TO HK

Singapore, November 2. Singapore exported just under

70 tons of coconut oli to Hong Kong in September, the Registrar are not, of course, contemplating of Statistics announced, Asso- evacuation.Reuler.

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POPE'S ATTACK ON TOTALITARIANISM

Castel Gandolfo, November 1. The Church rejects state totalitarianism and super-

́stitious worship of technology.

This 'declaration was mado, The Church, in its soola)]

doctrine, Insluts always on, dus today by Pope Pius to a large

regard for the inner dignity of gathering of workers from the

man." Flat motorcar plant.

Vatican City officials described the talk as important."

+

Ho asked "If the Church do mande an, equitable, salary for the The Pope obviously referred to worker in his labour, contract, it Communism

and

Communist it demands' affective assistance states but not once were they for bim in his material and spiri- mentioned outright

tual needs, what is the motiva; if He said, "For a long time if it is not that the werkorn has bad affirmed that religion human being, that his labour makes the worker weak and capacity must not be contidored negligent In his rally life, that it and treated, as a saleable article

like

oplam qulating him, with and that his labour 'always to- chopervar lite berend. The sea pradanting supersonal contrilju