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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, 'NOVEMBER 15, 1048.

BULLETS FLY AS STRIKERS AND POLICE CLASH IN PARIS

Paris, November 13. Two strikers, raported to be suffering from bullot wounds, were taken to hospital, after shots had been fired in a clash between police and strikers in, the Western industrial suburbs of Paris Puteaux and Suresnes, this ovaning. Eight other strikers were injured.

The clash was a sequel to the 24-hour general strike in the Paris area ordered by the Communist- led General Confederation of Labour in protest against Armistice Day incidents near the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A French 'news agency sulk the.shots were fired by strikers (but eve witnesgas later told Reuter they were, flred by the police.

UN Fund For Arab Refugees

Paris, November 13.

The Social Committee 'of the United Nations today de elday to set up a spoolal or ganization to administer $20,500,000 fund for Palestine Arab refugees,

A

Me. Trygve Lio, the Sacro- tary General, was authorised ..to advance Immediately

sum up to $5,000,000 from the United Nations' working capital to get the programme started.

Membor nati

nationa are being asked to make as soon no possible contributions in kind or in funds. Voluntary ald by non-member states will also be accepted-Rou-

Paris suburb, when demonstra- tors held up a bus on one of the low services still running, A sailor aged 18 who was are rested in the Champs Elysers of the after the riot on Armistice Day The Director General

Appnared in court in Purls to- Pavin Municipal Polier. Georges Bionice. amenallyday jon a charge of carrying a headed

It was al- poiler enforcement prohibited weapon. sent to the district, a mainteegel that he did not take part in the demonstration but police of Paris,

who searched him as he enne l out of a cinema, found he was { Two carrying a dagger,

acen

working clark which was gripped toatey by || 24-hour strike culled g

Tende Communist-led

Union Council of the region."

The Puteaux-Suresnes pro

hes to the West of Parks just over the river Sebu from the Bois de Boulogne.

The woable began by the agen this morning when strikers tekli to stop nan-strikers from gou back

work. to

Four strikers' leaders were arrested but were fates released.

Bus Wrecked

In the late afternoon. about

He was fined 3,000 francs.

ler.

***

aber persons charged after the rioting will appear in court on November. 20.-Reuter.

Defence Chiefs' Informal Talks

London, November 13.

400 persons inarehe towards The United States Secrotary for Defence, Mr. James Forrestal, conferred informally with Mr. A. V. Alexander, the Defence Secretary, and Service Chiefs hore today before leaving by air for Bor- lin.

the Tuvaus Commissariat Police. On their way they trend to stop buses which were still cumming in deliver to the strike ralf. One bus was wrecked by the strikers.

Later a slepuintion of strikers Mr. Forrestal left Washington on Tuesday and visit-

was received at the Pulevas Police Commissariot md aske

for the release of a striker are

stel at Putemax.

The shruation tonight was stil calm will about 300 Mable Guards standing by at the Putes

pole station.

nux

to taken

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ed Paris before coming to London yesterday to confer with British officials. He is understood to be having important talks with Western European Defence chiefs on American support for the Western Union's defence plans and the defence aspects of the projected North Atlantic Alliance.

NO GUESSWORK P&O B.I. E&A

ON LANDINGS FOR NEXT WAR

Argentia, Newfoundland,

November 13.

If and when Amerleán troops hit benches again, odds are that they won't be plunging into the death traps of powdery sand as they did on Iwo Jima and other Pacific islands during the last war.

Thousands of American Soldiers and Marines died on those beaches beenuse men and machines got Estuck in the shifting volcante dust and vehleles were bogged down.

But next me there won't be any guesswork. Military planners will know whether, the benches they are about to attack are liazd or not. Several university scien- tists working on the problemy tried their technique during the recent landing manoeuvȚES of Argenta.

It bolla down to applying the knowledge of geology to the Interpretation of serial photo- graphy.A scientist believed that

Interpretation by proper

01 aerial photography, scientist believed that by proper inter. pretation of

pletores, such deadly landings as that on Iwo Jima can be avoided.

This scientist's method works, ns follows: The scientist studies the the beach photographs under a powerful magnifying glass to de- termine the form of land and-ilx geological origin. He decides whe ther it is glacial, volennic, coral, constal plain or delta. With that information he can tell what soll is likely to be found and whether the sub-soll Is loam or rock.

Then he studied the shore con volutions. These findings are then correlated with studles of tides and currents to determine where the atmest beach is likely to be.

Other experts will study ple- turce of the tide to pick the (deal landing time,

A legal inquiry was opened tonight Into the слое of the clash and the shooting, it was officially announced. The

Mr. Forrestul's visit coincided It is understood the Cammis- nouncement Bald one of the with a series of secret meetings sion is drafting a North Atlantic wounded

hospital in

London of the Permanent Part for submission to n confer- was a man aged 74, for whom Commission of the Western

chce of high reprezentatives of no profession was given.

United States, Britšin, France and which consists of 0 The sermint ided that Union,

Although The Benelux countries to be held 17 policemen were Injured, six British representative and the

In Washington early in the new London

of the year. of whom had to an off pity.

Ambassadors other four Brussels Pact TE nations.

Services Cut Off

The strike deprivid Paris of newspapers and almost paralysel * Danisport system, Gas, water and elveteleny services weer ent off in some distriers and Luger- als had to be postponed until Monday,

All printers obeyed the strike call. Only about in 'per cent of the normal tromspara servicen a Paris were running.

The undergraund railway stations opened as usual this morning 0 tarded hy police

Explosion In New Ship Kills Three

Half A Century

Several drafts of the proposed pact already exist. 11, is general- ly assumed that it will provide for mutual guarapices over a

a century.

the scientists silli have not perfected the techniques, 40 per cent of their calculations proved to be accurate in the Ar- gentla landing.-United Press.

Soviet Feeding Plan Failure

Jung period-perhaps as long as Mr. Forrestal called at the Cabinet Offees in Whitehall this

Berlin, November. 13, morning for a conversation with

The Brith Military Govern Mr. Alexander On his arrival ment stated today that the Soviet here last night, he went to No. offer to feed all Berlin, made ut 16, Downing Street, for a talk the end of July soon after the the Prime Minister, Mr. Ailled airlift began, has turned Clement Attlee.

uut ja be a "disinal_failure." Mr.. Forrestal'a 24-hour Lon. le latement said that only dan vialt ended at a luncheon 78,000 Western Berliners-about today given by Admiral Richard 3.7 per cent of the total Western Conolly, Commander In Chist|seclors' population-registered for of the United States nava' food' in the Russian sector dur- forces in the Eastern Atlantic ing November: and the Mediterranean, at the Of these, 26,000 were either United States Navy Headquar-Ilving on the Soviet Zone or sector lers in Grosvenor Square.

boundary, or, living in the West

Tacoma, November 13. Three men died and at least after the independent Unton four others were injured today Vi of Underground Train Workers in an explosion and fire aboard had announced that it would the luxurious new Swedish not take part In the strike. motorship Los Angeles. Many lincs, however. were Ralphe La Fidute, a refrigera~ without pawer and most Pari-tion engine, died from the sians walked to work.

effzets of carbon monoxide The Christian Mineworkers fumes. The body of a Mr. Olson. Trade Union tomiit simplet

for the builders, was engines rumours that it would take part removed from the engine roomy,

with th

The third man, unidentified. was dead on arrival at St. Josoph's Hoapital. All the read men word

travelling with the ship which was

in the joint netion. Cùmmunist-led" GGT. It ndvised

all its members in continue at their jobs as hitherto,

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The guests included Mr. Alex- but working in the Erst and had der, the Chief of the Imperial been in the habit of buying their! General Staf, Sir William Slim, zatlons there.-Reuter, the First Sea Lord and Chlet of the Naval Staff, Admiral of the In Central France, striking . Ita maldon cruise.

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Washington, November. 13.

ARRIVALS FROM ATLANTIC COAST Mines in the Puy de Dome De- due to sail tomorrow for Har- the American. Military Governor

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1944, the Navy sald-Reuter,

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