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TITO MAY APPEAL TO THE UNITED NATIONS London And Belgrade Exchange Views

WEST NEUTRAL IN DISPUTE

London, August 31.

A Foreign Office spokesman said here today that the possibility of Yugoslavia bringing her dispute with the Soviet Union before next month's session of the United Nations General Assembly is an obvious one.

Britain has asked Yugoslavia whether it intends to accuse Russia before the

U.N. Security Council of threatening the peace of the world.

British officials, who reported this today, said Marshal Tito's Government has also presumably been asked to pass along any proof of Russian troop movements around the Yugoslav-Hungarian frontier.

They said the Western powers} themselves are keeping out of the quarrel between the Tito regime and the Soviet Uniom.. They do not intend to raise the hour be fore the Security Couned them- selves.

form.

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Yugosinvi, these suures said, may remain silent for the time belig unless Russian pressure against it takes

HMITZ netive

The

Informonin streerd the Informal nature of th Anglo- Yugoslav exchanges The British query came in the course of these informal talks. There has been nofiritish Tote on the subject.

Yugoslavia was calm today in the face of spreading rumours of hostile trong concentrations on the Cominform frontiers, a new st note from Russia and speevainition. that Marshal Tito muy seek UN, Intervention in the dispute with Russia,

Oficially there was Fa con. firmation of troop movements or Indiention of counter-thrusts to a Russian-promoted offensive in the

Balkan coll-wor

I should be emptinsised that

themselves the Yugoslava

are showing no Concern over the possibility that the strugle To twren their Pountry and the Cominform may turn into a shout- ing war.

Belgrade Colm

The American Embassy In Belgrade is taking things calmly and showing scant algne of anticipating a showdowe now in the dispute,

On the outskirts of Belgrade, Yugoslavs thronged an outdoor presentation of ballet, Theatres are packed. In the restaurants, there is little gossip about war.

If, Caninform troop movements ore part of a scare plot in a wor of nerves, I looks like a futile campaign.

Italy's position in a tensing Balkans situation was outlined to

elements of about five divistona are near the Yugoslav border, The Yugoslav Trade Union or-day by a Foreign Often source as

"R" today arcused the one of "wait and see. Russian anut Cominform press of Army. slandering the Yugoslav

Artain

of berlinge

campaign enlunay was hunched against the Yugoslav army because it consti- kutes the main uistocles to the moms of the Cominform States.

"The Cominform people know well that the Yugoslav army is one of the main pillars of our Socialist State and the protetor of the people," the newspaper continued.

"Just as the Army stood as one man besides the resistance move- szint against the attempts to sub- I

it will re- jugate our etmiry. mum the reluble supporter of the people's regime of

Yugoslyn,

of the Communist Party of the Central Comunice, and of its Commander - In - Chief, Conkude Tho, who me all resisting the at- tempts to destroy our indepen- dence wherever they may me from."

Tanjug. the oflein1 Yugoslav news agency, today denied foreign press reports of Yugoslav troop concentrations in Macedonia,

Reply To Note "Borba." the official Yugoslav newspaper, will tumorrow reply to the Soylet note of August 20). in which Yugoslavia was necused of betraying her own interests on Slovene Carinthia.

This latest Saylet reply re- peats in the main assertions from the preceding nate of the Soviet Government of August 11. with the difference that this time the reply has been far more exten- sive," the "Borba" article stated.

"Thia verbosity, on the one hand, shows that the Soviet Government finda it difficult to defend Its Incorrect position and o it ventures Into verbiage and

Tacts.

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1919.

Scientist Czechoslovaks Seal

Under

A Cloud

Newcastle-on-Tyne,

August 31.

The British Association for the Advancement of Science voted today to postpone the nomination of Professor J. D. Bernal, the physicist, for membership in the organisa- tion's Council because of statements which he is report- ed to have made at the recent Peace Congress in Moscow.

The Association, holding its 111th annunt meeting here, decid- ed that the physleist, a Professur at Birbeck College, and a former

wer

Cambridge lecturer, should ans-

questions to

to be put fa him by the Association after his re-

turn to Britain.

Park, In a

a speech at Gorky Moscow, on Friday, he was ported to have said: "It was not mass bombing that defeated, Ger- nnny but the herple Red Army

Professor Bernal also said: " capitalist countries, the direction of selence is in the hands of those whose only aim is to destroy anci torture people so that their own profits may be secured for some years longer.

"They

show this by their cholce of weapons not

of weapons

contest

against equal opponents, but weapons of mass destruction meant for destroying

flolda houses and the poisoning

men. women and children."

farold Brigadier-General Hartley was

was appointed President of the Association.

Professor the Western

Italy's framediate concern was any to avoid entanglement in

Once Balkans clash, a Foreign source stated, but she was keep- inst watchful eye open to see how the dispute might affect her elains-shared with Yugoslavia--- to Trieste.

the

American

Washington, Secretary of State, Mr. Dean

Acheson, sirl that

Powers are in coltation on

Russia's "war of nerves" on Yugo slavia.

for

of

Sir

A

Austrian Frontier

Vienna, August 31. Austrian Foreign Office offiotals said tonight that Czacho- slovakia has closed its border with Austria without explana. tion and sald the Foreign Ministry le concarned because of the avidence of Bovist manoeuvres near the Yugoslav borders.

No One official said: "The border la hermetically seated.

thin Incoming or outgoing traffic has been permitted since morning."

Neither the Austrian Legation in Prague nor the Czech Legation in Vienna can explain the action, he added.

"The only answer we have received was, 'We no not know how long this condition will last, but there is nothing serious behind it.'”

The source said the Foreign Ministry la concerned over the closing because of increased evidence of manoeuvres by Soviet and satellite troops near the Yugoslav border-United Prass.

RUSSIAN MOVE AT UN FAILS

Lake Success, August 31. Russia foiled here today in an attempt to have In- danesia removed from the category of "non self-governing territory" on the grounds that it is an independent State.

Mr. A. Soldatov, the Soviet delegate, proposed to the United Nations Committee on non-self-gov- erning territories that it should refuse to discuss the information which the Netherlands Govern- meant had submitted about Indonesia.

He said that a study of the Linggadjati agreement proved that the Republic of Indonesin had become

independent State.

an

Hernal, asted 48, was

The subsequent "Renville ag- wartime adviser to the Ministry

reement", to which the Nether- of Home Security, and later scientide adviser to the Chief of

lands Government referred, had been Imposed un Indonesin by Combined Operations.

He Is

force and was, therefore, not legal Is a Fellow of the Royal Society.

and binding, he said, In March this year, he was one of the four British de-

No information relating to In- legates to the "World Peace Con-

therlands, should. therefore, be discussed in the Committee.

NOT FOR EARS OF CHILDREN

The United States, he said, is developments very watching

The closely.

Western Powers' Ambassadors in Belgrade are in consultation with each other, but there is no spectul programme for gress" in New York whose vians donesia, transmitted by the Ne-the War Crimes Court trying!

consultation,

Mr. Acheson said that no re- quest for arma has been made to the United States by Yuga-

layla. The Communist Shanghal quoted by "Liberation Daily, Pelping Radio tonight, editorially necused the "Tito blue of "be- traying the Yugoslar prople and degenerating completely into tool of Imperialism.

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Recent developments In Yugo- "Fascist slavin had exposed the countenance of the Tito bloc", the this editurial said, adding that bloc had turned "renegade to Marxism and internationalism."-- Reuter and Associated Press.

REFORM MOVE IN NIGERIA

were revoked by the U.S. State Department-Router.

TARIFF TREATY REVISION

I

Mr. A. 1, Spilts, Netherlands, said that the Committee itself had no competence to decide on

the righteousness of what infor- mation it should or should not Hisc1199.

He was contradicted by Mr. L Tich-iseng, China, who thought that the Committee had a right to deckle whether information tran- smitted by governments did. in fact, deal with a non-self-gover-

Hamburg, August 31. Lieutenant General Sir Frank Simpson, President of

the former. Nazi Field Mar- shal, Erich Von Manstein, to- day asked British mothers to remove their children from the Courtroom so that they would not hear "terrible things."

The President interrupted an Assistant Prosecuting Counsel who was presenting documentary evidenc

Several young boys left the Courtroom. Children of British Control Commission officials, ne- companying their mothers, |attended cach session.

have

About an hour later, two more

He was supported by Mr. B. Shiva Rao, India, who said that British women entered the Court the Committee was entitled to with a five-year-old boy. Ap- scrutinise the question whether parently not noticed by the Pre- the information properly fell un-sident, he put on earphones and to the evidence. But der Article 73 (E) of the Charter.listened

former Field Marshal von Man- stein saw him and disapprovingly shook his head.

Real Question

a the

Karachi, August 31. Britain has agreed in prin- ciple to a revision of her 10-ning territory. year-old

tariff trade and agreement with India as far as it applies to Pakistan, a usually reliable source said here tonight.

said that it is This source unlikely that the Dominion of India will press for any such revi- sión at present as she is enjoying

Earlier the Court rejected reciprocal advantages but

This Article asks governments

that submission London, August 31.

defence Pakistan's case only about 10 per which administer non-self-gov- The Colonial Office announced cent of her exports to Britain are erning territories to submit reguments mentioned by the Prosecu- people who compiled the docu- explanations without concrete today the appointment of four granted favourable duties while lor information to the United Na- tion should be called as witnessca

tions on economic, social and for cross-examination., "On the other hand, such-wor-Nigerians to the Nigerian Ex-about half her imports from Bri-

ecutive Council. Recently it hastain enjoy preferential rates. diness shows also that the Soviet

The new agreement with Bri-educational conditions Government is aware that it is had only one African Member,

territories.. here defending Itseif, since it has and his appointment lapsed tan, which will be fairer

Pakistan, will probably be con- committed an undemocratie act in some months ago.

cluded before the present agree- abandoning the just claims of

The appointments were made, Yugoslavia to Slovene Curinthia."

the Colonial Office said, pending la allowed to lapse, the same

source said. Members of Belgrade's National the completion of a review now approaching the Yugoslav border Defence Corps today assured Mar- going on of the Nigerian Con- during the last two days, They shall Tito of their support in the stitution, giving & greater share are said to have tanks. Support-struggle against "the apostles of in the Government to Africans.

the Cominform." ing planes are also reported to

The

resumption and strengthen- To all their manoeuvres weing of the Nigerian representation have moved West In Rumania.

are opposing our growing So-

Executive Council was on the clalism which cannot be demo-recommended by unofficial Mem- lished by the insults of Moscow orberg of the Legislative Council a other Cominform countries," the 11s le meeting, the Corps' message said.

ment said.-Reuter.

Suviet troop and plane move- ments reported near the Yugoslav- Rumanian border are believed in Belgrade to be n sharpening of the anil-Tito "nerve war" and not a threat of Soviet milltary action.

Usually reliable sources in Bel- grade reported that elements of two Soviet armoured! divisions stationed in Rumania have been

The reports came as Moscow Radio was repeatedly broadcasting the full text of yesterday's note accusing Marshal Tito of "double dealing with the West.

Russian HQ

Italian Interest

The Italian Minister to Bel- to be grade, Signor Enrico Martino, cut setting up short a holiday in Austria today

The Russions are said

concentrating and

the Yugoslav rituation with the Carlo Storza,

headquarters around Timisoara, to hurry to Rome for talks on about 30 miles from the Yugoslav border. In North West Itumania.

According to the sources res- ponsible for these reports, the jatest movements mean that the

It was later announced that he will return 10 Belgrade morrow.

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