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CZECH STATE COURT SENTENCES DUTCHMAN Peking

REGIONAL PACT IN THE MED.

Ankara, March 4.

Progue, Match 4.

The Dutch businessman, Johannes: Louwing, was sentenced to 15 years' härd labour by a State court here today after a three-day trial on charges of espionage, economic' sabotage, and helping Czechs to flee the country.

The Czechoslovak defendants in the same trial received sentences ranging from 25 to 30 years' hard labour,

He added that behind the en- activity of the tire trial the

A high diplomatic source said today that the proposed

The court ordered Louwers treaty of friendship between

to be expelled from the coun- Turkey and Italy "will pro- try at the end of his 16 years' Dutch Legation could be clearly -bably-be-the-forerunner-of-a Mediterranean regional pact, eventually including Spain.

against

sentence

| seen directed against Czechoslo

vakia. The maximum sentence of 23

From Louwers's statement, he years was passed on R. Staven-maintained, it was evident that cikova, 45-year-old senior.woman-not-only he but-almost-ail-the clerk of a State firm.

members of the Dutch Legation in Prague had engaged in anti- State activity and had

KTOBALY misused and abused their rights of extra-territoriality.

Louwers, together with other defendants, took the verdlet in complete silence as the whole court stood before the Judges who included one worgan Judge and one military judge.

d'Affairs, Mr. Van Der Gaag, told Reuters

The Dutch Chargo-

The Foreign Minister, Nedg- meddin Sadak, will leave at the end of this month for Rome to signan Italo-Turkish agreement, This preliminary treaty will be broadened in conformity with the United Nallons Charter into a non-military Mediterranean pact of co-operation

Com - munist propaganda onslaught in thin part of the world.

Expected

join such alliance arc Greece, Lebanon, Louwers. Syria, Egypt and other members of the Arab League.

Suggestions of a Mediterranean league have been made at regular intervals since the conclusion of the North Atlantic Pact. There is no confirmation for the diplomat's report in official quarters.

that the State Prosecutor had an demanded the death sentence for

Turkey hopes, 13 a a Moslem uation, to wincitorate some of the bitter feelings aroused in the Middle East by a proposed mer- ger of Syria and Iraq, Turkey has plans to eventually link Moslem Pakistan in a friendship arrange- ment with Moslem nations on the Mediterranean.

Spain will be included in the Mediterranean pact after it Is fully recognised again by the United States and admitted to the United Nations-Unlied Press.

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Ho

ged.

detention

weeks for 11

The Prosecutor named seve ral members of the Dutch La- gation. Including Mr. Guag, and the former Dutch Minis ter, Mr. A. Merons, as helping people to escape from Czepho slovakia on falso passports. Emphatic denial

cur-

Louwers's lawyer would advise him to appeal against the court's sentence, Mr. Gang said.

They gave them foreign' added that he was not allowed rency, sent their, luggage out by to visit Louwers after the court diplomatie mail and abused their rose. He intended to protest 20 status by direct participation in the Czechoslovakan Foreign Mi-economic sabotage, it was alle- nistry over Louwers's incommunicado panding the trial

Louwern's sentence Included the confiscation of all his proper t After sentence hud been meted out, the President of the Court summed up the main points of evidence against ench of the defendants.

Other sentences

The Prosecutor's demand for the death sentence for Louwers was understood to have beeni reduced to 18 year'e hard fa- bour in view of his corteselon as well as the fact that he was not a Czechosovak citizen, Dr. Karel Rodovsky racelved 25 years, the Horansky brothers 10 and 16 years respectively, the Vavra brothers 10 and 20 years respectively, the rubber stamp onil maker, Chmela, six years the businessman, Burian, three.

Muller and Horonsky, tried in their absence, received " life sentence, and

also tried In his absence, 20

DI

In his closing speech in the trial, the State Prosecutor asked for exemplary sentences.

"Our enemies in this country and abroad must understand that we shall not allow our Republle to be disrupted," he said,

He said that the activity of the defendants could not be judged without reference to the interna

London, March. 4. Mio Tee-tung, head of the Chinesa Prople's Government,”^ and his Foreign Mihiater, Chou - En-lit, arrived' in Pak- Ing tonight, from the Boviet Union, where they concluded

30-year tranty of

friend-

ahip und alilanoo with Rumia, the Now China Naws Agency reported in a message recalv. ed in London tonight,

Mad arrived in Moscow In the middle of December. He was joined some weeks later by Chou.

The treaty was signed on February_14_by_Chou and the Soviet Foreign Minister, Ani- drei Vyshinsky-Reuter,

HAIL FALLS ON PYRAMIDS

· Calro; March: 4. Hall fell on the Pyramids today. Experts say it was one of fow such storms recorded in history, Individual hallstones four centi- metres in circumference fell for about eight minutes.-Associated Press.

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Ho recalled Louwers's state- AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 0.30 P.M. ments that Dutch Lagation officials sold their motor cars for enormous profits and that currency frauds were almost re- gular,

THE SHOCK-DRAMA OF

OUR WAYWARD

Mr. Gang said bere tonight that Louwers's defence counsel Westerner, Louwers considered that he was just gathering eco- nomic Information.

told the Court that, being a BOYS GIRLS!

Louwers's counsel said that what was considered in Czecho- slovakia economie espionago was. regarded as ordinary Informa- tion I

in the West.

Mr. Gaag said that he moat emplatically denied charges in court against the Dulch Legation as completely false,

He intended to lodge a formal protest with the Czech Foreign Ministry, he added.---Router.

U.S. ARMS FOR INDO-CHINA

Washington, March 4.

A reliable diplomatic source said today that when the French! aircraft carrier, Dixmude: reaches Norfolk, Virginia, next week, it will load 60 training the arma 'aid planes under programme and also-war mat- erials for Indo-China.

tional at Pact and its The Dixmude will make two mainspring in the United States voyages as a total of 120 trahing were clearly visible from the de- plùntes will be sent to France. tendants--who were supported by The planes are badly needed by the foreign diplomats of those French Naval pilote as obsolete.

CITY

ACROSS

THE

RIVER

with

countries which had given up Spitfires formerly used have bus STEPHEN MCNALLY

their independence—he said.

Secret message

come too dangerous to fly,

ment

Spare parts and other equip

for

combating the Com- munists in Indo-China will also "We can see that it was not be loaded on the Dixmudé and merely a struggle against our these have been paid for by country but mainly against the French free dollars. Other equip- Soviet Union," the Prosecutor ment under the arms aid pro- gramme may be loaded on the

continued.

"It is a struggle between the Dlxmude if there is room in her

· Imperialists-and-the-forces-of holds-United Press." progress anal peace."

The Prosecutor wald that Louwers tried to send a secret message from prison to

friends

at the Dutch Legation in Prague. In it Louwers said, "Cease all deliveries, intervene with the Queen," according to the Prose- cutor.

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