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CHARGES AGAINST U.S. Colonial

GENERAL IN LONDON

Frankfurt, March 30.

Charges have been preferred against Major-General -

Clayton Bissell, former Military and Air At- tache at the U.S. Embassy in London. The charges are being investigoted to determine whether they warrant trial by court martial, headquarters of the U.S. Air Force in Europe announced today,

The announcement said that the charges concern acts alleg- edly committed while he was Military and Air Attache at the U.S. Embassy in London from May, 1048, to July, 1948,

It did not explain what the charges ure

officials, In and Frankfurt declined to say,

Oficials would not say what artete of war the General Is ar- cused of violating.

General Bissell arrived in Ger- many yesterday.

The investigation of the charge against him is being made by Major General Edwin B. Lyon the U.S. Air Force announced,

No Comment

During the Investigation, Gen- eral Bissril Is represented by 11 special counsel, John E. Hughes,

General Bissett meanwhHe lo staying at the Rose Hotel Ir Wiesbaden, an Air Force re quisitioned hotel for generala. colonels and high ranking offt. cers.

Reached by phone in his roun, General Disseft æk:

*"*1 havé ny comment on the

Air Force nunouncement, The

NEW LABOUR ORGANISATION

New York, March 30. American and British labour Jenders will meet in Washing- ton on Apr 7 to form an In- |ternational Organisation of La- buur in non-Communist na- tions.

Senior offelals of the Ainerienn Federation of Labour, the Con- gress of Industrial Organisations and the Congress will attend the meeting. Brilish Trades Unions Jaries Carey, secretary-treasurer of the CIO, announced,

Officials To Take Course

London, March 80, Labour

18 officers from colonies will begin thras- month courge In Industrial relations hara on April 25. The officers will Include Europeans and 1ocal

in. habitants, And

welta they wifi from

Singapore Malaya, Nigerip, the Gold Coxat, Blerra Leone, Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika, North- ern Rhodeals, Nyasaland, Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, British

Quiana, Windward Jelande, Leeward lolands, Cyprus and Mauritium

como

They will study conciliation and arbitration methods, Joint Industrial and wage councils, factory Inspection and am- ployment exchange services. --Reuter.

HONARARY KBE

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Bollywood, March 30. Douglas Fairbanks, Junior, to

ny expressed profound gratitude for lus appointment as Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

Mr. Corey said the new inter pational

organization

would be designed to replace the World Federation of Trade Uniona, from The honour was announced by which the CIO and TUC have the British Consulata hero last withdrawn.-United Press.

night-Reuter.

UN LOSING ITS CHARACTER, SAYS RUSSIAN WRITER

Moscow, March 30,

fact that there is an investigation The magazine "New Times" said today that the

bas bern previously published. The Investigation is continuing That is the situation."

General Bissell nuld he arrived at Bremerhaven yesterday from the United States.

Anonymous Letter

In Washington, a

spokesman

said that the Air Force started

an investigation of General Bis- sell last August after receiving

nonymous letter

charging him with black market opera- tions in London..

an

The fling of the official churges against General Bissell is up to the European commander because the alleged offences occurred in his command.-Associated Press and United Press.

United Nations is losing its charactor as an im- portant international organisation because the Anglo-Americans are undermining it,

The writer, V. Tatarinov, on the Marshall Plan and libel describing his Impressions of of the Soviet Union. Luke Success, alleged that the It is an indisputable facl, Tà-

tarinov salci, Anglo Americans dominated

that the

Anglo- American bloc the United Nations Secretariat

Is undermining the United Nations, disrupting its practical work, deliberately in- venting stories about the Soviet Union and reducing the Security Council to a debating society. United Press.

and used it as a base for anti- Soviet propaganda.

He claimed that even the United Nations Library ignored Import- ant Soviet writers while promin- ently displaying

works of the anti-Soviet slanders and writers, He added that hundreds of So- viet documents against war-mon- gering and Fascist buried in the files of Lake Sun- cess while the Secretarial Allerl its daily bulletin with propaganda

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BIG GRANTS TO BE ASKED FOR MALAYA

London, March 30,

The British Government will shortly seak authority

for £5,000,000 for the Federation of Malaya, the Colonial Under-Secretary, Mr. David Rees Williams, announced in the House of Com- mons today.

He said the Government had been considering the difficulties of the Federation and the money would be for meeting expenditure incurred by the Federation in maintaining internal security. in 1949. "We shall

also ask, for £1,000,000 in respect of the expenses of the Imperial forces In 1948 and 1940," Mr. Rees

Williams added.

He said that further help, may be necessary in 1950, and in the event of a material change the matter wil be reviewed in the light of the position as it emer- Res.

Mr, Rees Williams said: "His Majesty's Government has been in full consultation with the High that further help may be neces- Commissioner, and it is understand

sary in 1050."

He continued: "A Bill to su- thorise the raising of $100 million has been introduced in the Legis- lative Council of the Federation and will be considered tomorrow. A proportion of the loan, with the British Government's consent. will be raised In London."

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FRENCH REPULSE INVADERS

Saigon, March 31.

Fighting continued yesterday at Moncay, near the Chinese border, where the French forces aro repelling an attack by bands of Chinese Communists, press reports said,

question by Mr. Percy Dalnes, Labour, then amplified today's statement. He sold: "I make the At Agence France Presse re- following statement in amplifica-port from Hanol said the main tion of the reply on this subject force of attackers had been re- given today to Mr. Gammans.

and pulsed

back was fleeing ncross the border Into China. The French news agency sald a few isolated bands had been sur- rounded and were being wiped out.

Heavy Burden

“His Majesty's Government are fully aware of the heavy financial burden placed on the Federation of Malaya as a direct result of the present disturbances.

"I

have informed the High Commissioner that it is proposed to seck Parliamentary nuthority at the first opportunity for the provision of

Government sources placed the enemy dead at 60 and said all French civilians were safe ex- cept M. Lefevre, Provincial Coun- sellor, who was wounded.

Local estimates placed Govern-

£5 millon will be to cover that would not confirm

million, of which ment losses at about 39 but the

part of the direct expenditure of this the Federation Government on termal security in 1949 which It is unable to meet from its own re- sources.

trai

The Prime Minister of Con- Vietnam, General Nguyen Van Kuan, told Reuter today that

he thought the fighting on Tonkin-Chinese border

would

act AL A red light to these Vietnam troops fighting for Ho Chi minh, the extremist autonomy leader.

"The balance of £1,000,000 is an estimate of the extra expendi- ture likely to be incurred on the Imperial forces in Malaya in 1948 and

1949. and which in the special circumstances of the territory Hts Majesty's Government has agreed awaken

to meet.

jesty

Ma

These Incidents should TC- the Vietnamlan con- he scictank the Nationalists Oght-

said.

"The amount of His

Government's assistance ing with Ho Chi-Minh will un- has been decided after full con. derstand the danger implicit in

Mr. Rees Williams was replying in a question by Mr. Leonard Gaminans, Conservative, asked if he would make a state- ment on the application by the Government of the Federation of Malayn for permission to raise a John

by ether means to obtain financial assistance to meet the

sultation with the High Com these incidents. abnormal circumstances In the

missioner On the budgetary "I adherence to the French country

programme and fiscal policy of Union brings with it some re- After

the Minister's

the Federation, stats-

strictions to national sovereignty, mont, Mr. Gammans further

Further Aid

they are as nothing beside the asked: "Doce he realise that "His Majesty's Government re- danger of our neighbours, who there le

much feeling aboutcognise that further assistance may have been

over to to- this in Malaya-about the fact be necessary in 1950, but should talitarianism."~ Associated Press

we made a free gift of there be a material change in the and Reuter. £20 million to Burma, which position which cannot be left for has gone out of the Common- adjustment in 1950, the matter tion that he had represented to will be considered again this year the Secretary of State the neces- wealth? "Does he realise that this is in the light of the position as it sity for a substantial contribution naturally resented by a country emerges."

from the British Government to- which provides un with more Mr. Dulnes' American dollars than the total "Whether the Minister's attention defence requirements in Malaya;'

question was: wards the cost of the security and exports of the United Kingdom?" has been drawn to the High Com- and whether he is in a position to Mr. Rees Williams did not reply. missioner's recent statement in the malce a statement on the subject." Mr. Rees Williams, replying to Legislative Council of the Federa--Reuter,

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