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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1949,
MORE SELF-RULE
FOR BERLIN'S CITY GOVERNMENT
Berlin, June 16.
The Western allies today gancallad 500 diractivas of the past four years in Berlin to give the city government more self-rulo.
Western Berlin is now operating on a basic law that gives the Socialist-controlled magistrates con- siderable leeway in running its affairs.
Britons Hiking To Rome
The allies
by
have retained and large their powers only on international questions and
security.
The list of cancelled orders sent by the Western governments to the Lord Mayor, Professor Ernst Reuter, Include such
directives
as imposition of curfew restric-
repair
and for schoola tions,
distri- labour courts and food bution.
Franco Calls Ministers
Madrid, June 16. Spanish Cabinet Miniators were unexpectedly summon- ' ed tonight to General Franco's residence outalde Madrid, the Pardo Palace,
A Cabinet meeting is nor. mally hold on Fridaye and there is considerabis apacula. tion as to the reasons for tho special session.
General Franco has just returned fram A visit to Barcelona and other placto
in Catalonia-Reuter,
BRITISH PROTEST TO EGYPT
BIG FOUR MEETING IN FINAL STAGES Probable
Results
Of Conference
Paris, June 15. The "Big Four" Foreign Ministers, after a 75-minuto secret session tonight, issued an official com- munique saying that they had discussed during the past few days an Austrian treaty and a modus vivendi relative to the situation in Germany.
The communique said that the Ministers adjourned until tomorrow after the delegations had pre- sented different proposals.
NEW TYPE AT-BOMB TESTED
Washington, June 15.
of
a
Dr. David E. Lilienthal, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, today revealed that tests of a year
ago had proved the effectiveness new type of atom bomb,
The tests were conducted secret- ly at Eniwetok in the far Pacific, Mr. Lilienthal mentioned that as he defended the Commission against charge of waste and exces- sive cost in the construction of a London, June 15. A French Foreign Office spokosman said that in new plutonium plant at Hanford. He said the plant was urgently The Western officials also dis-
The Foreign Office has instruct-
principle tomorrow's meeting will be the last.
needed to produce material for Ambassador cussed the rail strike situation in
the new type of bomb successfully two-hour meeting today with-ed the British
Cairo, Sir Ronald Campbell,
Tonight's meeting, held at the either until later in the day or tested at Eniwetok. out deelding on a future course. lodge another protest against the
Mr. Lilfenthal said
the
testa The strikers rejected
stopping of British ships in the French Foreign Offee, was the, until tomorrow,
of the present con- Meanwhile, Mr. Vyshinsky proved the effectiveness of rede offer Tues-Suez Canal by the Egyptian au- shortest Power compromise
telephoned Moscow, and was sign and refabrication. Ho dis- thorities,
called it an French sources
lator able to agree to the meet- closed that the Hanford plant will every step of the way by
move to delegate
at the The British Government may ultra-confidential working session. Ing
French Foreign fabricate plutonium into the form except for the Channel crossing more power to the Germans, the
Col-also nak Egypt to pay compensa- from Dover to France.
It was used in the bomb tested West dissolved the Berlin
The Ministers had cancelled by the
at Eniwetok. lection Commission which served tion for losses incurred
their earlier secret meeting, st debt confiscation of British cargoes and
London, June 10. Five men and women equipped 300 with 40 pairs of shoes and pairs of socks set off today on an 1,800-mile walk to Rome.
They hope to get there about
a
the middle of November travelling | day* another
foot
The men are Kenneth Parfitt, 40, of Southsea, Dr. Nell Paulson, 45, of Nottingham, Dr. Eric Paul- Frank son, 38, of Portsmouth,
and Watson, 34, of Liverpool, Lenard and Macey Hurst. The only woman in the party is Mrs. 27.-Associated Paulson who Press,
Offence Against The Pope
Rome, June 18. Laura Dian, 21-year-old beauti- ful, black-haired Communist Senator, will be tried soon on charges of offending the Pope's honour in a political speech last year.
Her parliamentary immunity an a Senator was lifted when a Chom- ber of Deputies sub-committee authorised the trial.
No date for the trial has been set.
a Four
to to
ference.
payment for Berlin banks which by the delay of ships, reliable the Rose Palace--where all othed only by Mr. Charles Bohlen disperse the work formerly con-
The
Office
an an agrency to receive
The four Ministers were assist-
He anid the plant is needed to
New centrated at Los Alamos,
only known Mexico, how the
bombs ara place where atomic produced.-United Press,
+
lay dormant since
A soiurea sald. the war. Jay new committeo will be set up to deal directly with the city ernment and the Berliner traat Bank.
200-
Mr
and
AI.
discussions were held at
the Soviet Fereign and Mr. Robert Murphy for the request of Earlier this month, the British Minister, Mr. Andrei Vyshinsky. United States, Mr. Andre Smir
The British Foreign Secretary, nov for Russia, General Sir Brian
Robertson Zen-Government warned Egypt that
for Britain damages would be claimed in con- Mr. Ernest Bevin, was the only Alexandre Parod! for France, noction with the stopping of the Foreign Minister to arrive at the these sources said.
cancelled Strikers' Demand
British ship "Khett", which was Rose Palace for the
Vyshinsky was smiling Meanwhile the striking non-ordered by the Egyptian authori- session.
Dean Mr.
Acheson, United broadly when he left the meeting. Communist callway workers ties to discharge 442 packages of
Reporters questioned him but. radio equipment
Stale, who and States Secretory of
Russlan which demandad today that tho Aus- textiles,
other goods bound for Beirut.
Lo have presided, had been he replied in #lans give guarantees in writ-
unable to tell him of the cancel-could not be understood, ing for thele safety bofore they
Intion in time. will go back to work.
His solitary afternoon promises particularly to the stoppiniz b The verbal Soviet that there will be no retaliation two ships, Glenroy and Ben Moe against the workers who engaged
in the 25-day old strike against
Was
The new British protest refera
bule.
Concrete Results
Recovery In Gold Market
Johannesburg, June 15
at the corresponded to Mr. Palace
Probable concrete results Of stroll in the Bois de Vyshinsky'n
when the the Paris conference, authorita- Boulogne yesterday The Egyptian Government on-secret session was adjourned for tive French sources said, are as
The Johannesburg Stock Mar- the Soviet-operated railway ad-nounced that it will stop ships Ser
ket opened weak in all sections the Western follows: ministration are worthless, the carrying_war materials to the two hours
(1) A treaty with Austria go today after last night's near panic Middle East and seize their car Powers considered the new So- their viet counter-proposals to
for advanced that it can selling of shares in the two com- goes.-United Press.
own joint plan submitted on Sun- day,
strike leaders said.
The strike leaders said their fear kidnappings, artests men and other reprisals by the Rus
to work with- sians if they retum: out adequate
guaranices,
Brigadier- American General Frank Howley and the Major-General G. K British Bourne charged that the Soviets settlement sabotaged the strike
The
JAPAN-PAKISTAN
TRADE PACT
Karachi, June 10.
Pakistan and Japan have signed.
while
Authoritative
French sources this this explanation of pave afternoon's cancelled meeting:-
Counter-Proposals
Western
on Berlin states. for political reasons-Asspelated Press and United Press.
The Italian law strictly prose- cutes offences against the honour of the heads of foreign The Pope is recognised under the Ds the 1920 Italo-Vatican,pact chief of a sovereign state.
Dayide Lajold, director of Milan's Communist branch, "Ni- ta," recently received an eight- month suspended sentenco for
Western Union Ministers Meet
such an offence. He was ordered not to repeat his attacks on the Pope in his newspaper.-Assocla-Ave
ted Press.
SLIM TO VISIT NORTH AFRICA
Luxembourg, June 15.
Western Union nationsBri- The Foreign Ministers of the tain, Belgium, Holland, Luxem- bourg-will meet here on Friday for a two-day routine session.
This will be their first meeting here since the signing of the Western Union treaty in Brussels in March, 1948. Previous meet- Ings have been in London, Puris and The Hague.
London, Juno 16. Field Marshal Sir William Slim,
The session will be held in the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, will leave London by air on Luxembourg House of Parliament. Sunday for a five-day visit to Mr. Ericat Bovin will lead the The other British troops in North Africa, British delegation. the War Office announced.
Foreign Ministers attending will He will spend Monday and be M. Robert Schuman (France), Tuesday in Benghazi and then M. Paul-Henri Spaak (Belgium). visit Tripoll before returning to M. D. U, Stikker (Holland) and London-Associated Press,
M. Bech (Luxembourg)-Reuter.
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be signed in the near pardes primarily concerned in the
future.
▸
(2) The certainty
be re-catablished.
that
the
Erfdeel gold strike.
Soon after, however, there were recovery in Berlin blockade will not indications of some
Free Stato Gold Mining issues, (3) Establishment of contact with selective Improvement else- between the four Minis- where, though the Market under- ters which, from now on, tone was healtant. will have
a permanent character
to counter-proposats
German trade M. Robert
a seven-point trade agreement to the Soviet proposals begin on July 1.
and East-West
The French Foreign
The cause
last night's selling was due to the Central Mining
nouncement
Minister, and Investment Corporation's an- that the fourth toid the deflection HOT the fabulously earlier today, rich
50,305-inch pennyweights
Schuman,
French Cabinet ear
Japan's imports will include submitted yesterday were sent to raw jute, salt, wool and hemp. Mr. Vyshinsky before this after after a 90-minute meeting of the section at Erfdeel had shown only Pakistan's imports will include noon's session was due to start. three Western Foreign Ministers, 231-inch pennyweights, cloth, cotton yarn, spindles. Mr. Vyshinsky asked for time rayons, electric plant, electricnt to considor them.
At his request it was initially g goods, glass, fron, rolling stock, clocks, watches and bicycles.decided to delay the start of the Associated Press.
meeting and then to adjourn it
RUSSIANS SENTENCE "FALCON" LEADER
Berlin, 15. Nineteen-year-old Juergen Geruell, a leader of the German Social Democratic "Falcon" Youth Movement, was today sentenced to two and a half years' imprisonment by a Soviet sector
court.
on
that the
The "Big Four Powers
shares of the Free State might reach agreement
who hold options an Gold Areas,
16 shillinga Austrian
WETC treaty peace
before over Erfdeel, September 1.
this morning Options were 0/0d. In yesterday's last selling the black-out which has covered the share price slumped 15 shillings proceedings of the conference after touching 33/0d. carller in
the pro-Communist the day.
Breaking through
since
Sunday, th
the
new
"Ce Soir" ve the
gove
Union Free State Mining, the foller
account of the counter-parent concern, began today at 14 in shillings, later rose to 16 shillings proposals by Mr. Vyshinsky but then sagged to 14/9d. Last answer to the Joint West plan for Berlin and East-West trade night they had slumped to 15/60.
after touching 23/0d-Reuter. put forward three days ago:
Buggested proposal that the
Council of Foreign Ministers should be maintained and meet periodically and that a 'Committee of Continuation' be set up in Berlin to maintain con- tacts between the Blg. Four be tween sessions.
The charge was "actinging car, according to eye-wit- | against the peace of the German nesses. people by spreading harmful The nine
In accused-all contained in
their teane included blonde 17-year-old twing, and Ruth Briebach, The Berlin Executive Com-
rumours newspapers."
legal
During the trial Heinz West-
the Eva
phal, 24-year-old Chairman ofmittee of the Social Democratie
the Falcons, was arrested
after Party tonight
he had protested in Court at the
trial of his nine colleagues,
Economic Body
and
Saxony Threatens
Not To Pay
Gerukan
Hanover, June 15. Dr. Georg Strickrodt, Economic "Linder its authority would be, Minister in Lower Saxony, threa- placed an all-German economia tened today that Lower Saxony organisation representing East will suspend its payment of oc- and West, which would study cupation costs if the British Mill- the problems of Inter-zonal ox- tary Government disapproves the changes protested to the
all commercial financial balance plan concluded Council of
between the Western Foreign Ministers
questions." Conference observers deduce States, f against today's arrest of Heinz
Brian "We are simply not able to raise Shouting for help he was cur- Westphal by Soviet sector police. that because General Sir ried down the stairs of the re- The Committee described the ar-Robertson was Mr. Bevin's sole 500,000,000 Deutsche marks not to another 200,000,000 creational hall of
the
Soviet rest as a disregard of elementary adviser at tonight's secret session mention sector gasworks (being used as a human rights by the Communists. the main subject of the discus-Deutsche marks for various addi- dion was the actual situation in tonal payments to be made to the Court) and bundled into a wait--Reuler.
occupying Power," he explained. The Western German States on Kailure to settle the West Berlin railway strike must have June 14 approved a preliminary law for the balance of debts be- direct repercussions OTI any tween the States which antic!- modus vivendi, since it is ad- mitted in delegation circles that pates the transfer of 250,000,000
Deutsche marks from the finan the final termos of the Western
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Among the latter is Schleswig Holstein, which today demanded a settlement 110,000,000 Deutsche marks, from
of the strike as a preliminary to the wealthy States, claiming to be Including the right of access to the poorest Western German pro- Berlin from the Western zones, vince because of her tremendous is believed to be one of the hurd-over-crowding with Eastern Ger-
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