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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1040.

SETTLING OF BERLIN Eden Suffers UK Railway Workers BRAATHENS

RAILWAY STRIKE SEEN

Four-Power Terms Offered To Strikers

Trains May

Start Today

Berlin, June, 12.

The American Military Government asked 14,000 anti-Communist railway workers on Saturday to accept four-power terms for anding the 22 day Bor- lin railway strike.

A letter from Brigadier General Frank L. Howley to the striking Union, UGO, disclosed he had negotiated a settlement with the Soviet Military Ad- ministration.

It said that the four occupation powers, the Soviet controlled Reichsbahn and the West Berlin City Government had agreed on meeting nearly 100 par cont of the workers' demands for full wages in highly valuod West Marks,

Oil Finds Complicate

The West Berlin government The letter Indicated, however,

obtain agreed to provide city funds 10 that UGO had failed to

formal add to the West Mark payments another major demand, recognition from the Reichsbahn. of workers during the next three The mit was set at 15 General Howley wrote to UGO months. that he had the railway manage per cent.

promise to pay at least ment's 60 per cent of the wages In West Marks and that the city govern

nent would authorise up to Marks.

same per cent in the

Peace Talks her 15 per

Russlan

Vienna, June 11.

today engineers made new oil discoveries in the Vienna basin which will add to Austria's peace treaty and tra- ding headaches, according to United States oll informed authorities.

However, it

was

Sunstroke

Warwick, June 11. Mr. Anthony Eden, deputy leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons, col- Inpred twice In Warwick Cantlo Park this afternoon while addressing a meeting of the United Nations Asso olation.

After receiving medical at- tention he was able to walk 'back to Warwick Castle.

Mr. Edon was believed to have had a mild sumitraka. He was reaching the end of hle speech whan ke out his hand to his forehead and fell bnokwards. People on the platform caught him. After a moment or two Mr. Eden wald. "I am all right" and tried to continue his speech but after fow more words he began to fall again.

Mr. Eden recovered and later fulfilled an engagement at Leamington. He showed no further eigna of being un- well—Router.

Burma Govt| Troops Battle Reds

Rangoon, June 11. Burme Government troops believed rushed to the Assam border and o running gun baltie Reichsbahn revenues eventually fought

with Communist Insurgents who would allow full wages in West had blown

up bridges on the Chindwin river, 20 miles from radio re- United Press quotes informants the border, the army currency.

had who said

that elevated trains ported

tonight. Six Communists He said the Reichsbahn

no It would take

resumo re- would

on were killed. pledged

operations

The Government soldiers were prisals against strikers and that Monday for the first time since

anti-Com-the strike broke out. But a consent from Kalemyo, on the Im- Include this would munist Union lentiers.

siderable lapse of time was ex phal route into Assam,

before normai trafic pected

because would be resumed sabotage during the Walkout-

Press and the conviction of the Associated

United "It is

Allied Commandants Press. Western that this is a fair offer," he as-") serted, "and I have been assured that it will be carried out exact- ly."

Fair Offer

They sad the Ands would In- crease the Russians' reluctance 1o conclude the Austrian treaty and thus deprive Austria of trading her own oll.

Union ofeluis and the offer They said the Soviet engineers

be ratified by recently brought on two new was certain to wells in the Matzen area which UGO within a few hours. Austrian and American oil an thorities produce 130 to 150

The sources said the oil the the Russions are taking from Matzen field and the other Aus- trian oil source, Zistersdorf field, is being shipped North to supply the Soviet Reet and to the large refinery at Stettin,

tons

341y

daily.

Two

demonstrators were **killed and hundreds-injured in riots on rallway property dur

the first days of the strike. ing More than 150,000 tons of West bean have German supplies

Vietnamese Suspects Released

Saigon: June 11.

word

of

North-

Continue Strikes, Ignore Union Orders

London, Juno. 12.

Striking railwaymen called their fourth consecutive Sunday strike last night on North-South lines of Britain's nationalised railways.

Drivers and firemen on long distance runs defied both the Labour government and their own union to strike for 24 hours, beginning mid- night.

The government's statement issued after a Cabinet meeting on Friday night demanded on end to the Sunday unoMcial strikes before negotiations, on the engine drivers' complaint could be resumed.

The railwaymen are demanding that Summer work schedules re- quiring

them to spend nights

away from home be cancelled.

IRREGULARS

HOLDING PAOSHAN

The government's, statement to the strikers declared that the

Rangoon: June '11. Sunday strikes against train Chinese irregulars-not Com- schedules was holding up nego-munists-today held Paoshan, tiations on a general 10 shilling-strategic Burma Road town in In-week pay increase now being the Chinese province of Yun- considered for the entire railway nan, about 90 miles from the industry.

Burmese frontier, according to Dr, Tu Yuen Tan, Chinese Am- bassador in Rangoon

Delny in

19

negotiations on the pay increase has caused a crisis in railway labour relations which railway men describe -08 the most serious in years.

To Meet Tomorrow

Some 49,000 London workers have been called to R max meeting on Monday to vote on whether to paralyas all of the capital city's surface and un- derground railways with ·

strika.

Dr. Tu told Reuter that the Burma road was clear on both aldes of Paoshan and he had heard from Kunming that the Yunnan Governmenį is talking steps to clear the whole areas.

As far as he knew, the Irre gulars were not Communists. A number of British and Swedish missionarlos have lefɛ Yunnan, but some haya akosen to stay, the Ambozandor said.

The Swedish Consulate-General Mawlaik. towards

The Meanwhile, Union leaders call-

said that a large radio added that on the Tenns-ed a mass meeting of strikers in in Rangoon

Avon-number of Swedish missionaries and Berim coast. government provost Liverpool, Bristol

to be trapped units,

combing Moulmeln for mouth for today to discuss the were feared

Paoshan. A Swedish official said concealed arms, had made alatest strike situation. haul of rißes and hand grenndes.

that a party of Swedish mission- The stevedores in these West aries was evacuated from Yun-

rlous welcome to the Government troops re-occupying it, a govern- ment communique reported to- night.

The local population of the const ports have been on strike nan last month, but nothing had centrai Burma all-town of Yen- for three weeks in protest against been heard of the rest, number- angyuang were giving tremen- the suspension of some men foring about 100, who were mostly

refusing to unload Canadian ships in the Paoshan area. involved in a strike of scamen

Reports reaching hero Raid against ship owners.

that a group of British mission-

who ships, most of aries, Eighty-seven

recently passed Yenangyuang, 300 miles North them carrying food cargoes, have through Rangoon, left Yunnan on

captured been held up by the

the British con- West of Rangoon, was

strike. the advice of The Cochin-China prime mini- last night from insurgent While Troops have been sent into the rulate in Kunming-Reuter. ster, Tran van Hu, sald today that Band members of the People's strike beund ports to unload blocked from reaching Bariin he had requested the French Po-Volunteer Organisation, who had perishable cargoes.

lice chief in Saigon to release 23 been in control of the town for by rall.

arrested had Vietnamese General Howley said he

the four months. the completo support of the Bri-French secret police.

French Commandants

They were suspected of belong- when he personally mediated with the Russians and the Reichsbahn, ing to a secret pro-Vietminh As-

Refined products from Stettin are going to Western European tish and countries for dollars which the Russians une to purchase Ameri- can equipment to expand Aus- trian oil fields.

with

by

Retreated

Minbu, 40

Mr. George Isaacs, Minister of Labour, made a radio appeal to both railway and dock strikers on Saturday night to end their

n.socialion, contributing money to The insurgents are believed to stoppages. Unton members had described the Vietminh organisations, They have retreated to Jan earlier offer by the Reichsbahn included Cochinchinese civil ser-miles to the South. American oilmen said the Rus- of B0 per cent West Mark wages vants, who signed a recent mani- sinns also pour Austrian oll "out jand no reprisals us valueless befesto asking for Framediate nego- door" through their cause it was made to the Com-ations with the Vietminh leader, Sovietministered properties in munist-Labour Federation FDGD Dn. He Chi Minh Eastern Austria and into Cze- und not to UGO. choslovakia and Poland.

maths wns estimated at 25,000 stacouth they

. tons.

source

These unofficial strikes," he declared, "only lead to loss and inconvenience to our people be- sides doing untold harm to the cause of trade unionism."

French Claim FIC Success

Salgon, June 13.

A French military communiqup today claimed that more than 500 Vietminh troops were killed and 130 taken prisoner is a week- long land, sea and air operation by French forces, in the plain of Mr. Isaacs wald that the sea-rushes about 06 miles from Sal- men's strike, which caused the tle-up of West coast parts, was said that the operation end- bogun by the Canadian Bea-ed successfully on Wednesday. men's Union which he describ. The French forces included par- ed ав being dominated

byachutists and were supported by Communists.

Tonight's communique re ported that Tygyaing, 100 miles op-river from Mandalay, had fallen to the Insurgents after a day-long battle, A communique from the French

The garrison The Russians refused to re-

Howley's High Commissioner's office sald had put up a gallant resisatnce The oil pouring through Cze-cogulse UCO. General

until their ammunition was ex- choslovakia

this ob- that the arrests had nothing to do in the past two medintion sidestepped

with the precautions for the ex-

housted, the communique sald.

Austria is the third largest-

still lock re-pected arrival in Saigon on Mon-

of In the delta district of Maubin, of off in

Europe. Last cognition from the Reichsbahn, day of Bao Dai, ex-emperor

Annom and fiead of the new fighting has broken out. between

■ Vietnamese battalion. year the Vienna basin produced UGO lenders asserted they were

Vietnam state, set up by the Buddhists and Karen Christians not quite a million tons. The glud to have firm Allied guar-French Government's agreement after

Karen the murder of u

were "There you have the key," he Vietminh installations new wells will increase this, pro- fanties that the Communist men with Bao Dai, Reuter.

Buddhist monk, the communique declared. "Communists in this destroyed and considerable quan- duction to more than the 1,000,- agement

added.

country are doing their best to tities of material captured. C00-ton mark.-United Press.

"An

An internal battle

workers Into sup- among mislead the

do The communique added that a Karens was raging

union which is In several porting a

of 23 Vietminh junks, stated,

Al- convoy by Communists. villages, it

In Arakan, minated

Is carrying war material, was des- to ready 87 ships ore held up. Moslem Insurgents continued surrender to peace missions, the it realised what a drad loss this troyed by a French warship off

central Annam.-Reuter. is to us?''Associated Press, communique stated.-Router.

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promises.

would live up to its Approval Scen

All district committeeman of today on the

UGO will vote

proposals. It was frealy pre-

dicted they would

mingly approve it.

overwhel-

trains

Youth Suspect In Robbery

Nineteen

London, June 11.

George year old

Two million West Berliners who have been hurt by the stop-

elevated page of urban since May 21 jubilantly looked Frederick Thatcher was charged today with boihg of this in London resumption forward to

concerned in robbing Lady service, possibly by Monday.

Brooke, former Ranee of Sara- West Berlin railway yards are

wak. clogged with goods trains from Western Germany. Others have been stalled West, of the Elbe Hiver.

Many Industries are anxiously nwaiting renewal of normal

intropolis.

It was stated that a brooch belonging to the ex-Rance was found in his room.

The charge atated that the youth was concernert with two

rail communications for the others not in custody, Fifteen sterling in notes, a gold cigarette The proposals cleared the way care, a handbag and other or- were 'Lakon £100 power approval of a new teles worth all Germany trade pact.

from the Brookes yesterday,

for four

In agreeing to pay 60 per cent when gunmen entered her Lon-

West Mark wages the Reichsbahn don flot.

said it would charge West Marks

for all its services in West Ber→

En.

Thatcher

Wan

remanded

custody for a week.-Reuter.

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