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RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA IN UNITED KINGDOM RUNS THROUGH EMBASSY

Talks On Indonesia Postponed

The Hague, March 9.

A round-table conference on Intlonesia, called by the Dutch for next Saturday, has been

postponed for a few weeks be- cause the Republicans have not

werpted the invitation,

for Indonesia has Bakeri the Security Council for a ruling on whether the Commission should agree to attend,

ed caglial of Jogjakarta,

But is is hirlieved that the Dutch

The аракевтал sald, the Netherlands' delegate, 2. H. Vani Floyen, has not been instructed

make a definite announce

London, March 9.

Lord Vansittort, former diplomatic advisor to the Cabinet, alleged today that artificial jowellery has been smuggled from Prague to London in Czechoslovak diplomatic bags to finance Com- munist propaganda in Britain.

1

He told the House of Lords that recently a member of the Czech Embassy in London and a man in Prague hit upon this method of paying for pro- paganda and particularly a system of intellig gence in British factories.

Ho

said the Rumanian Logation in London had been reduced to the status of a sub-section of tho Savier-Information Servicosus, indeed, havasallıyız the satellite missions,

Lon Vorsittart said there are jeailed the Foreign Secretary, about 75 Rumanians in the Ru- Mr. Ernest Bevin, "this labour

Angio-Rumanian

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1049.

Czech Says:

Malicious Lie

by

London, March 9.'

A Czechoslovak Embay official hero tonight described As a malicious lle, allegations in the House of Conmont today

Lord Vansittart that diplomatic bage at the Czechoslovak Embassy In Londen were used for amug- gling artificial jewellery to finance communlit propa- ganda in Britain.

Told of the speech shartly after its delivery this after- the noon, the Counsellor of Embassy, Mr. Edward Golde- tucker, told Router: "Thoro is not a grain of truth in the allegations, which

are A mailclou tle. That all there is to say.”—Reuter,

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Hong Kong And Arctic In Touch

!

STALIN REMODELS DEFENCE CABINET UNDER MOLOTOV

Warsaw, March 9.

The Soviet Inner Defence Cabinet has boon ro modelled 'under the direct control of M. Vyacheslav Molotov, who was released from his duties as Soviet Foreign Minister last wook. This is according to information reaching political

.quarters here today.

r

the

M. Molotov is stated to have The report, presented to the been charged with

long-Scim (Assembly) Commission, term co-ordination of the in- said the class composition of the dustrial and military potential of officer cadets now being trained the Soviet Union and her allies for a service career is 47 per In Eastern and Central Europa, cent of working class origin, 35 This move, these sources per cent of poor or middle class stated, reflects the growing So origin, and 18 per cent of "work- viet alerm at the progress of Ing intelligentsia."

the

European Recovery Pro-

During the next two years,

gramme and the success of the) recent North Atlantic Pact moves the National Defenve Ministry will complete the registration of The the Wet Tentong plas e de

It is believed here that the the reconstiluted first task Soviet Defence Cabinet has been training, the Marshal stated, to call, Eastern Union" meet-Renter.

gence

ing of satellite Service chicla with their political and intelli- Rosyth, March 9.

nides, which is reported Britain's light aircraft-carrier Idue to take place

Some

on

quarters

here

formulated

for

army reserve

NEARLY LOST HIS RECORD

An official spokesman here soldmanian Legution in London, who lackey of Western Europe." the Dateh Cabinet has revised are grouped and controlled in He considered an insulterable original rejection of the Security

Suclety, insolence that Britain had re- Council's demand that the Re whose principal

In Hungary members are Jeeived no reply to the several pabllean Indonesian Governacent Messrs. Gallacher and Piratin be reinstate in its Dutch necupltunist Members of Partiotes on the treason trial of the Vengeance (13,000 tons) was in shortly.

inn Protestunt pastorm. 15 Bulgarinn

touch with Hong Kong during

belleve that the next step will be the ment), Priit (Independent

British diplomacy should be her trip to the Arctic.

emissaries summoning of

from Member bor

of Parliament), developed to cope with the ad-

HMS Vengeance was also in each country concerned to Mos- will insist on Republien kaders tewlett

Johnson

"Red"versary which comes to us from touch with Brian, Canada and cow for briefing on the fresh So- ( g dreiding to take part 111

Haldane behind the Iron Curtain. Dean of Canterbury)

Lord Simonstown, the naval base in viet moves to counter the grow- round-table conference before al the scientist and a

Teterboro, March 9. Communist) Vansittart declared.

South Africa. lowing them to go back to dog-and Solley ta

ta left wing

ing Western Influence

Bill Odom'nearly lost a new Mein- He complained that

In Scan- British The Royal Navy's cold weather dinavia and to discuss Jakarta.

ber of Parliament).

diplomats could not move a mile trials in

revised world record last night when the Arelle Circle were priorities for heavy

industrial he found no offcial of the Na- Lord Vansitturt asserted that in Soviet and satellite countries 05 per cent successful, Captain

production.

tional since last year when the Yugo without the secret police piling John Terry,

Aeronautic Association who commanded

The Polish preliminary, na. Preinler, Marshut slay

Tito, after them,

Vengeance Its three weeks'

his at the airport to witness tional defence budget for 1949, landing. a spark of Indepen manifested

"Totalitarianism bends ment at tomorrow's meeting desce and was promptly excom- routh persons

us us-putrol in Arctic waters, said.

presented yesterday, bad to maintain

provides Scientists have learned much

Nearly

exhausted after the the United Nations Security municated by

for An expenditure of £35 by the high priests of relations," he added,

about the effect of extreme cold

8,000-mile non-stop flight from million, or Council.

more than 12 per Honolulu, Odom the Kremlin, the Cominform had

on personnel and ships' gear, but

realised cent of the total national bud- the record might

that canaliset Its Western communi-

bad weather reduced flying trials still discussing the Dutch mitations through three agencies--

not be re- get, compared with 22 mil-cognised and telephoned the air- to two half days. tion with the Republieans and

Iton last year, Irials Tactically, he said, the have made Repubble attendance the tumanian Consulate in Milan M. Andrel Vishinky to the post

and the Legations in Berne and of Soviet Foreign Minister will proved that

light

aircraft car- mean a further degration of the riers cannot move In pack ice "During the recent French relations between the East and without risk of serious damage

and that movement by night is Lord Vansittart added that it difficult because radar does not there are any more abuses by the pick up the flat pack ice. Hungarian representatives เ The cold had no efect o mised will be trained in 1949 - Omcials at the airport hur- Lord Yanalttart sald he

the Hungarian Club in radle and rartar transmission-cording to the methods perfected riedly telephoned the NAA in been prompted to raluc the London, which he described as Reuter. nvention of totalitarian diplo- nothing but a hotbed of Com- macy by what he described se munism, should be closed.

The Indonesian Federalists are

of the conference a condition for Üheir own participation,--Reuter,

BIGGER KICK IN GERMAN BEER

Frankfurt, March 9, German brewers, granted 15.- 000 tons of barley for beer pro- duction, have been told by B- zonal Biletals that they Pail strengthen their brew For alo- Jmentic consumption for th spend time in tinder a year,

The newly-inithorised which is subject to approval by the various slates, is nearly dive fimes Elronger than it was

Holency,

Paris.

Hotbed Of Communism

He thought the elevation of

coal strike, the Rumanian Lega- West. Hot In Paris was used for the Transmission of funds and orders tur subversion," he said.

had

Britam,

Under-Secretary

two Soviet diplomatic attempts Lord Henderson. Joint Parlia- to never the last ties with thementary Western world

for Foreign Affairs, said the whole root of the trouble is the dif-

terent conception of diplomacy lken by the Soviet Union. She | jured it as a weapon in the cold

Bevin Called "Lacky"

When Britain sent a note about the triol of Joset, Cardinal war. year ago. The barley allowance | Mindszenty, the Hungarian Pri- was conditional on the Germans mate, she not only got a very fulfilling their bread grain pro- impertinent reply, but the Hun- duction quota.-Reuter,

garian Vice-Foreign Minister had

'RUSSIA MAKING THE ATOM BOMB'

Goettingen, March 9.

A German atomic expert is almost certain that Rus- sia is making atomic bombs at two remote Siberian industrial centres.

Professor Werner Heisenberg,, Heisenberg did not describe Nobel Prize winner and wartime the death ruys head of German atomic research, the Russians are studying, but which, he said,

also says that Soviet scientlats he said there is evidence that may have made dangerous dis- Soviet researchers have reached

of death the first stages in the develop coveries

feld In the rays.

ment of such a weapon. Professor Helsenberg said that

The rays

probably have not Information leaking through the been developed sufficiently to the iron curtain supports the belief of any military value at the pro- that the Russians are producing sent time, but he insists that sume atomle weapons at their new city Soviet discoveries are dangerous of Atomgrad and at the special for the future.-United Press. industrial centre at Uchto, which resembles the United States'

Relief from the present tension and confidence In In-

Terror

port.

Red Army Model

The only official who had seen the landing was a representative Three-quarters of this sum is of the Civil Aeronautics Au- devoted to tho Army, which thority, but the National Aero- Marshal Roła Zymierski, the Na- [nautle Association is the body

Minister, pro-that has to certly the landing.

tional

Defence

by the Soviet Army.

Campaign's

Effect On Mining

London, March 9.

ternational peace would come Prospecting for new tin-boaring arcas in Malaya has

not from Boviet, propaganda, but Sovlet deeds for paace, he

Bald.

The Soviet Union hopes to destroy the Christian Church as a centre of spiritual resistance and to use a puppet church as a neans of controlling the minds and sympathies of the people.

A Good Answer "No one

any longer believes the confessions extorted by the totalitarian police and used

added.

Lord Henderson

boon slowed down by the disturbances, the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Arthur Creech Jones, told the House of Commons today.

The protection of miners and ised. but it is not at present pos- mines has been carefully organ-

sible to provide individual corts for smali prospecting par- des in remote areas, he said,

that the

CS-

Minister proposad to do to bring areas in Malaya now oc- eupled by Chinese squattere under proper control and ad- ministration.

informed

the House

23 that a

Washington and asked a cer- tiflente signed by the CAA would

sold do. The NAA

the petrol tank and instruments would have to be checked, by the CAA re presentative.

Officials theroupon dashed over to Odom's plane and found all the petral drained

out.

They were about to break the news to Odom when they ran into the CAA representative, i who told them he had supervised the draining of the petrol.

They telephoned Odom, who went to sleep in peace.-Reuter.

INDIES TEA FOR GREAT BRITAIN

London, March 19. Britain hopes to get more tea "I

on from The Netherlands East In- The tin production targets for February in

committee dles this year, but will not get 1949 to 1951 are based on the appointed by the High Commis enough to abolish the tea ration. assumption

existing stoner has recently submitted

proposals for absorbing into the mentary Secretary to the Minis- Dr. Edith Summerskill, Parlia- social and economic life of the try of Food, said this today. country, groups of squatters who Reuter, are law-abiding and wish to make their homes in Malaya.

these trials," Lord Henderson said: "Soviet diplomacy has exasperated Western world into the European Recovery Programme and now

tern.

mines will be rehabilitated and that new ground will be brought into-production..

Con-

the Atlantic Pact, either of which Mr. Norman Hulbert,

Mr. Creech Jones was replying

our would have seemed

incredible servative, who had asked I ho "The committee's report, which resulted in wakening the Wes-conditions in Malaya, it is im- bringing the squatter areas un-

It seems to have knows that under the years ago.

present includes recommendations for world Into a sense of its possible for prospecting for new der proper administration, is now mission, beliefs and affinities, Breas of tin-bearing ground to receiving the urgent attention of and to have pushed it into

go forward to replace thoro arcus the Malayan Government. cohesion.

now being worked out.

Reuter. demise of American isolationism. "it is responsible for the final

Under these conditions, Mc. "Our diplomacy has not been Hulbert said, it will prove im- slow to take advantage of this possible for the tin-production situation. In the work which has torget, set in the four-year plan, been done in developing the to be reached. He asked what is European. Recovery Programme, to be done to provide adequate the Western Union and the At-protection for the miners in view Ottawa, March 10. lantic Pact, and in other ways, of the importance of this dollar- East Ural mountains which se- Mr. Louis St. Laurent, Canawe may reasonably be expected learning commodity to Britain's

Asiatic dian Prime Minister, has denied to offer a very good answer to recovery. from

atom factory at Oak Ridge, Ten-

4

riessee.

Both

arco

Atomgrnd and the Uchita are South West of the Siberian capital of Irkutsk, in the

parate

European

Russia.

SECRET WHEAT

PACT DENIED

he has a secret deal with Presi- the impending and imponderable Mr. Walter Scott-Elliott, The German scientist sald dent Truman which would enable menace of the East."-Reuter. Conservativo, asked what the Soviet atomic research has been Britain to buy Canadian whent cloaked in remarkable increoy, should the United States declare but that enough information wheat a surplus commodity. has filtered through from Ear- The Prime Minister said: "De- tern Europe to convince him mocratic Governments do that Russia has succeeded in function by making so-called producing atomic weapons. 'secret' arrangements.”—Reuter.

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