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in the United States Zone of Germany was ros- cinded today, to expirò on March 1.

Four officers and four soldiers who make up the Russian Mission's authorised strength have been asked to leave the American Zone by that dote.;

letter to the

Lucius D. Clay..

that your

Notice that the Soviet Re-that sufficient time has elapsed patriation Mission-will be re- since, the surrender of Gerninny quired to close was given in a for the voluntary repatriation lo It would appear Soviet Military be completed.

repatriation activities Governor, Marshal Vassily So-could be conducted by your ac- kolovsky, from the American credited Military Mission. Military, Governor, General

advise you "I must therefore that effective March 1, the Re- The order is to be carried ou!patriation Mission will no longer dospite a protest from the Soviet be accredited and request that Marshal that the Mission's work you withdraw its personnel by.. is, indispensable, that a declaión | That date."—Reuter. can be made only by the Gay- ernments concerned nud is not within the competency

the of Commanders-in-Chief of the oc- cupation forces in Germany.

The decision to stop the opera- tion of the Russian Repatriation Mission was taken because the voluntary repatriation of displac- ed persons, who are Soviet citi- zens, has virt

ceased, the Army's European Confmand Headquarters stated tonight."

Any remaining responsiblilt. lex may be handled by the ac-

credited Soviet Military Misalon In Germany, the Army sald. Both missions have been operating from headquarters in Frankfurt.

U.S. And Jap Reparations

Washington, February 10,

Mr. Kenneth Royall, Doore- tary of the Army, disclosed today that, the United Blates will bon announce Its pool. tion on the Japanese ropura- tions questions. ·

This matter has been bai fore the Far Eastern Com-

mission for more, than a year. The United

In- States has dicated that it sarks no tar parations from Japan, but other members of the Com. mlsion have been unable to arrive at the proportion of the reparations each should

· receivd.~Router.

Marathon Libel Case Drags

On

Paris, Fobruary 16.

Victor Kravchenko, Russian-born author of the anti-.

Soviet best seller "I Chose Freedom,” was not present at today's hearing of his libel suit. against the French Communist weekly. "Les Lettres Francaises.“

Only Poles Loft Repatriation activities among He displaced persons have been car- ried out under the Yalla Agree- inent and the decisions of the

Council of Foreign Ministers at

Moscow in April. 1047.

The departure of the Russlan Repatriation Mission will leave the Polish Mission, out of six such bodles which originally operated In the United States Zone.

Czech and Swedish Mia- The sions were recalled in 1947, the Venezuelan Mission in February, 1940, and the Yugoslav Mission last month.

General Clay's letter to Marshal Sokolovsky said: "It is apparent

Grim

is ill with stomach ulcers, the court was told. Kravchenko expects to be able to attend when the trial is resumed on Monday.

Gains On Wall Street

New York, February 17.. A slow dribblo, of buying orders kept stock prices mov- ing upward on Wednesday,

Finial quotations generally werts ihoad by fractions to around two points..

Transfers, 700,000 buying and selling, was mainly by profession al traders. The general publie held aloof.

Among gainers were Douglas Aircraft, United Aircraft, Glean Martin, Lockheed, Woolworth, Santa Fe, Paramount Pictures, Western Union, Philip Morris; stumblers included Union Pacific,) Southern California and Edison.

Dow Jones averages:

stocks 02.07; industrials 173.25; rnils 34.41-Associated 40.41; utica Press.

SILVER AND GOLD MARKETS

London: Silver, Spot fine ounce 482; Forward 43d; Bar, Gold, per fine ounce 172/3.

New York: Silver, Bar, (asked price) 11% els; Bar, Gold, per fitio ounce tomeial)

$35. Bombay: Silver, Ready, per 100 tolas Rupees 187, Annas 14; For- |ward no trading; Marwari (un- ofcipi) no trading; Gold, deliver ed, per tola 118, 06; Forward (un- oficial) no trading: Gold, Sover- eign 70, 00, (One tola is equal to 36th of an ounce.)'

Bar, baht- Dangkok: Gold, weight of 15.244 Orammes. 532. Exchange Rate (Selling) Bangicolt on New York T.T. 19.93; London 6250; Hong Kong 380,

Alexandria: Fine Gold (Dirhem) 144; Egyptian pound (Fouad) 440; Sovereign

393; Sovereign (King) (Queen) 391; Napoleon (Louis) 320; Union Latine (1 coin of 20 france gold) 200; Turkish Gold (American pound 310: Dollar gold coin of 5 dollars) 420; Pure

Prices: Paris Free Gold Silver (per Kilo) 600. Napoleon 5,425 Fra; French 10 colus 2,400; Swiss franc 6,125; Sovereign Union Latine. 4,025; Sov 6,300; Half Sovereign 2,040; U.S. $20 Coin 24,900; U.S. $ 10 Coin 12,050; Sovereign (in free U.S. S Napoleon (in per ounce $84.0; free US$ per ounce) $910; U.S. Dollar noles (in black-maricet) black- 430; Sterling Notes (in

Swiss Franc Notes market) Georgi Luzhner, a former Uk (in black-markey, 109.

ris Free Market Rates: rainian peasant, said he knew

Ingots: Fine Gold from personal experience that the very of counterpart per gramme with de- Ingots, description in the book on collec- 234/244 Fra.; Without counter- tlvisation and, Soviet concentra-part 700/738; Silver ingots, per

More than 500,000 words of life. An angry scene followed. A evidence and speeches had al- lawyer defending "Los Lettres ready been spoken when the Francaises accused the witness, 12th session-the last of this Madame Gerklenko, of being an

"Informer" fourth week of the hearing began this afternoon.

There were other signs today that the principals were feeling the strain of the lengthy debate.

A woman witness for · Kray- chenko said that she was forced to spy for the Soviet secret police by threats against her daughter's

Scenes In Greek Town

Florina, February 16.

Trucks laden with bullet-torn corpses rolled through pasturelands, today, delivering the romains of Communist guorillas to the "boneyard” just South of this town.

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ANGLO-INDIAN FINANCE TALKS

Now Delhi, February 16.

Five hundred" bodies of guerillas, who lost a key battle last week-end to Government troops in Florina, have been lined up in 36 rows at this im- provised cemetery. More dead are still being loaded in trucks in the surrounding hills and the rebel death toll is expected to climb to over ̄000.

Florina is five miles South of the Yugoday border.

fr two other small rooms, about 100 giris in baggy brown pantaloons and faokuta,``mom- bera of the Communiat Army, | aro, hald.

Kravchenko's lawyer shouted: "When you attack this witness you attack the regime which turns her into a spy.”

Story Of Torture

Two prosecution witnesses, both displaced parsons brought to Pariz for the trial, made statements to confirm Incidents In Kravchenko's book:

tion camps is tric.

He knew of cases of

cann-Kilo 6,000b, 7,400s; Platinum in-. iballem during the Ukraine 80s, per Kilo 800,000b, 850,000s. famine. In 1932, he added.

The other witness, an electrical engineer hamed Babinin, who had lived in Dnepropetrokaka, said he was arrested by the Soviet secret police and that after four days of questioning, accompanied by blows, jeera and torture, his ankles were so swollen that he had to be helped back to his cell hy two guards.

The hearing was adjourned until next Tuesday-Reuter,-

-Router.

ANGLO-POLISH 'DEBT TALKS

Paris, February 10. The Polish and British negotia- tions on Polish debts in Britain have been delayed.

The date for the resumption of Franco-Polish debt talks can not be fixed yet owing to dimeulties In timing-Reuter.

Their Finest Hour

(Continued from Page 6)

My account of this Italian bo closed tragedy may fittingly

,

23, 1943.

profoundly admire though you ||

T.

WAS

paration for this war by Hitler and the Germans, I was the only foreigner to see at close quarters this loathsomo 'clique bandits

of preparing to plunge the world into a

a bloody war. Now, in oc- cordance with gangster rule, they are planning to suppress a dangerous witness.

But they have miscalculated, for already a long time ago I put a of mine and various docu- diary ments in a safe place which will -prove, more than I myself could, the crimes committed by thong people with whom later

that tragle and vile puppet Mussolini associated himself through - hig vanity and disregard of moral valnes.

New York, February 17. The Mexican Peso sold in New York banks on. Wednes- day at 14.28 cents, equal to a rate of seven to the dollar.

This marked of the

one

sharp-

A buildozer walted in a pan- est peso declines in several months. The decline is regarded ture to plough a common grave here as a reflection of peso weak-for the dead. Townspeople seek ness in Mexico City which de-ing to identify friends and re-here by the letter which the un- veloped from a scramble for gold latives peared over the shoulders lucky Liane wrote me shortly be of Army personnel and gen- fore his execution at the orders of darmes to sco the

bodies.

his father-in-law. This in turn is attributed to

Not far from the graveyard

December. Verona Lin recent action by South Africa proposing to sell gold for non-is the gael. Three hundred pri-Signor Churchill. monetary purposes at a rate of soners have been crowded into You will not be surprised that as about 6.50 dollars dne ounce one room, many of them await- I approach the hour of my douth I should turn to you whom I higher than the long-standing ing treatment for wounds,

an the cham- US$85 price.-Associated Press.

plon of a did at опс time make an unjust statement against me.

never

Bussolini's accom- alice in that against our

tor and that fighting side by side with the Germans. Indeed the opposite is the truth, and If last Aligust I vanished from Rome. It was, be- cause the Germans had con vinced me that my children were in imminent dangor. After they had pledged themselves to take me to Spain, they deported me and my family, against my will, to Bavaria.. Now, I have been nearly three

monthe in

in the prisons of Verona- abandoned to the barbaros treatment of the 6.8. My end is near, and I have been told that In a few days my death will be decided, which to me will be no j more nor less [than] a release from this daily martyrdom, And I prefer death to witnessing the shame and irreparable damage of an Italy which has been under. Hun domination, "Loath-Some Clique The crime which I am now about to explate is that of having witnessed and beon disgusted by -the cold, cruel and cynical pre-} (To Be Continued: Tomorrow)

The guerillas paid a big price Discussions between British and Indian Government offelals on the in troops and equipment in their working of last year's sterling effort to seize this town. Their balances agreement anded hers defeat has proved a heavy blow leader, Nicholas today, the Finance Ministry an- for their now

Zachariades, in his Initial cam- nounced.

paign after succeeding General Markos Variades,

The meetings, which began on February 2, covered a wide range of financial and *supply matters Captured equipment as well as and enabled the two Governments bodies underline the complete- to have a clearer appreciation and ness of the defeat. The steadily- a better understanding of each growing stockpile of Communist uthor's problems, it was elated.arms in Florian'; Includes · nine They should ensure the smooth mortars, 50 Bren guns, 60 tommy" working of tho agreement the guns, 400 rifles, 30 bazockas and umcial communiquo added.-Reu-over 100,000 rounds of small ter. *

arms ammunition-United Press.

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This testimony of mins should be brought to light so that the world may know, may hate and may remember, and that those who will have to judge the future should not be ignorant of the fact that the misfortuns of Italy was not the fault of her people but duo to the shameful behaviour of one man.

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