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BELGIUM THREATENED

BY FURTHER TROUBLE

Brussels, August 2.

The threat of a now Cabinot crisis hung over Belgium tonight as some of King Leopold's staunchest supporters declared that he had been "be- trayed" in Party talks feading to his decision to leave the throne, The Catholic Prime Minister, M. Jean Duvieusart, who played a leading port in bringing the King back from exile 11 days ago, has already had to be dissuaded from resigning, sources close to the Government said today..

INSIDE STORY OF CRISIS

Brussels, August 2. Belgium was within 20 min utes of a revolution yesterday. The capital would have been stormed ut 7.00a.m. if King Leopold had not eigned his proclamation quitting the throne 20 minutes before.

Reuter's correspondent at Brus- sels learned these facts tonight from reliable sources close to the Government, whe disclosed tha full story of the dramatic moves that ended the 10-day monarchy.

It was story of a tense clash between the King and even hid staunch supporters in the all- Catholle Cabinet, as angry Wal- loons marched on the heavily guarded capital.

The anti-Leopold demonstrators had orders to storm Brussels at seven o'clock if Leopold had not ngreed to the Socialists' terms,

Leopold there Kourets dis- closed, tried vainly to impose his own conditions and once even staged a walk-out on his own Cabinet,

At one point during the all- night wrangling, the whole Gov- ernment, unshaven and huggard, tendered their resignations-ex- cept for the Minister of the Interior, M. Albert de Vleescha- wuer. He alone stood solidly by his King

Leopold called him to privato consultations as the other Minis- ters anxiously

the watched minute hands of their watches ficking round towards

sever o'clock--and civil war.

word

Eventually, they sont to the King, closeted with M.

de Vleeschawuer, that they could wait no longer and would leave the Palace:

The Minister of the Interior hurried out to them and pleaded on behalf of Leopold for the withdrawal of their resignations,

Leopold, he

he announced, had agreed to sign the proclamation unconditionally.

Urgent telephone calls were made to the Socialist leaders, who Immediately countermanded their for the march on the

orders capital.

Thus ended the crisis-and the 10-day resuined reign of Leopold III--Reuter.

ASSASSINATION IN SYRIA

Beirut, August 2. Reports reaching here from Syrin today concerning the assas- sination on Monday night of Colonel Mohammed Nasser, Syria's Air Force Chief, alleged that he was the victim of a dis- pute

between himself and the Army Commander.

King Lec old himself-the

mover

Two Communist deputies, who most heavily guarded monarch were arrested as they organised in the world-was known to an anti-Leopold meeting outside be bitter about the

Brussels' Stock Exchange last which preceded the announce-ght, wore released this morn- ment that he would hand over

ing. his Royal powers to his 10- year-old son, Crown Prince Baudouin.

One of them, M. Lallemand, Secretary-General of the Belgion Communist Party, recently spent several weeks in Moscow.

pro Letter may be published

While lugs flow at half-mast in sign of mourning In Leopold Flanders towns today, there were heated exchanges here when M. Duvicusart como face Parliament. to face with Catholic Members of

While more than half a million workers throughout the flocked back to duty, a train left country

Brussels for Paris-the first inter- national express to leave the

Catholic Members of Parila-country since the crisis. ment, summoned to hear a report from the Premier, severely criti cised the Cabinet and the Catholle Party leaders for yielding to the Socialist and Liberal enemies of the King.

Deputies and Senators demund- ed an official account of what had occurred during the all-night series of talks which preceded King Leopold's historie decision.

The Premier, grim-faced, walk-

up at

British tourists, held Ostend by protest strikes, stream ed into the capital after many of them had spent the last two nights in schools as guests of the const resort Town Council,

Catholic Senators and Deputies have called on the Government to stand fust and not to resign, a Party spokesman said tonight.

There were two reasons for

ed out of the angry meeting. the Premier's visit to King Leo- Later he drove to heavliy-guard-pold today, It was learned from ed Lacken Palace, where Leopold a high Catholic Party source. One and the new "shadow King" Bau- was to talk over the draft of the douin have stayed cloistered since Parliamentary Bill under Monday night's tense

whleh ment.

develop-Leopold will hand over powers to

his son.

Cabinet to quit?

A possible split in the Catho- lic Party, when the Leopold "affacement" Bill comes up for debate next week may swiftly load to the fall of the Govern- ment, political quarters distad,

pro-

More than 100,000 anti- Leopoldists from all over the country today flocked to the vil lage of Grace Bealeur, near Llege, for, the funeral of the three de- monstrators shot dead in a clash with gendarmes on Sunday.

The funeral, in the Pluce des Martyas (the viilugo square), de- veloped into what was in effect u mass demonstration against the King, with speeches by Socialist lenders.

Crowds swarmed to the top of neighbouring sing heaps to gain vantage points. Others wrecked cemetery walls as they climbed over in an attempt to reach the graveside.

Gravestones were knocked over by the crowd, while parents and wives of the three shot workers wept silently by the coffins.

Police in pro-Leopold Antwerp, Flanders "capital," where bombs exploded during the night, five

stood-by-today-to-guard--against any further incidents,

The other was to discuss the publication or otherwise of 自 jetter sent yesterday by Leopold to the Prime Minister, in which

THE CHINA" MAIL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1950.

King unveils war memorial

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A Memorial to the Metropolitan Police who was unveiled In Westminster Abbey by the King. Men and women of the Force marched in font their lives during two world ware procession from Horse Guards Parade to the Abbey, led by the Metropolitan Police Central Band. Men of the Mounted Branch with pannoned fancos provided a guard of Honour for the King, accompanied by the Queen, as he arrived at the West Door of the Abbey. Memorial in a Roll of Honour containing 1,076 names.

Tha Photo shows: talk with a member of the guard of honour as they

The King and Queen (Associated Press Photo).

leave the Abbey after the ceremony.

America going ahead with hydrogen

bomb

Washington, August 2.

The Atomic Energy Commission disclosed today that it has contracted. with E.I. Dupont de Nemours and Co. to build plants for the produc- tion of hydrogen bomb explosives.

he made it clear he felt he had President Truman last month asked Congress for $260,000,000, with which

been abandoned by all his Cabinet except one Minister-Reuter.

U.S. PLANS TO ARM EUROPE

Washington, August 2. Johnson, disclosed today the

The Defence Secretary, Louis the United States plans to send more than US$2,000,000,000 worth of tanks, planes and artillery to Western Europe to guard against mechanised us- cault by Soviet Russia.

to develop the hydrogen super-bomb.

Dupont will design, build tritlum can be quickly converted and operate the new produc- to the production of atomic fuels tion facilities at a site yet to

for peacetime uses.

Dupont has be determined. In picking been doing preliminary work in the site, the Commission said,

connection with the project. it will take into account mili-

To oversen tary considerations, including

the project the AEC set up. a new vulnerability to attack.

operations office, its ninth major field in. #tallation which will be headed by Curtle Nelson, 45-year-old Nebraskan who served with the wartime atomio project.

nouncement, Congressional sour

As the AEC was making its an- ces hinted that the President may soon ask for more money; to push the completion of the H-bomb and expand the production atomic bombs.

Mahon sald after

of

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SERETSE KHAMA

TOLD TO LEAVE

Johannesburg, August 2. .Secretse Khama, the banned Bamangwato chief, his English wife, Ruth, doughter

and their baby were today

to

days to leave Bechuana n. 14 The Commission

The order came after

proved and Dupont impossible to reach an agree- are looking for a site they want. ment with them It is expected to cover about 206, arrangements for their departure.

in regard Democratic Senator Brien Mc-000 acres more than 300 square the United Kingdom Information

miles. Several communities have Office announced here today. With the Secretary of State, ference with defence chiefs that

□ secret con bid for it. peared before the House Appro-its H-bomb and A-bomb

Seretse, whom the British Gov- Dean Acheson, Mr. Johnson ap- the United States should expand

ernment exiled from Bechuana- priations sub-Committee to urge

land for pro

mitted to return for the birth of gramme substantially. "There is

bis daughter last May and to five years, wan per- prompt approval of President no question in my mind but that

settle Truman's request for an addi- our atomic stockpile is the chief tional $4,000,000,000 in States arms

United deterrent to expanded Soviet ng-

legal dispute with hi unele, the former to North Atlantic

Regant gression,

Senator

In addition, the President has McMahon

Tshekedi. Pact allies and other free na sald.

asked for a supplementary sum Séretse tions.

Dupont will build and operate programme.

of $260,000,000 for the hydrogen booked to leave chate by air on Mr. Achesun bluntly informed furnaces similar to the huge pro is a widespread Impression

for the H-bomb project atomic

August 16-Reuter. the sub-Committee that the best duction hope of pence

"piles"-at- situation lay in rearming the expl

the greatest speed.

PAY

The regular Congressional ap. propriation for the Atomic Energy Commission this year would pro- vide about $650,000,000 for the atomie programme.

Chairman McMahon said there

that

D; the United States is spending |

manu-

OT

а усаг on

about $1,000,000,000 atomics. Actually, he said, only a little more than $500,000,000 was spent last year.-Usiled Press.

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and his family are

WESTERN UNION STAFF EXERCISE

in the current Washington, where the United States and its allies with explosive, plutonium, is

The Government will

Brussels, August 2. all costs and Dupont will get

Sonior military officers of the Mr. Johnson revealed that

only one dollar fee. Dupont bullt

five Western Union countries aro more than half of the total old

and operated the original war-

attending EL staff exerciso time plutonium plant

.at funds was earmarked for heavy

оп the

Fontainebleu, near Paris, from com combat

same basis. The now reactors equipment which the

August 1 to 4, directed by General Western

Montreal, August 2. countries races will be of advanced de- European

de altre de Tassigny, Cominen- algn, the AEC said.

A group of 15 international der-in-Chief, Land Forces, West- ber of Deputies (Belgium's Lower type invasion from the East. An-silver-like metal, Lithum, will be the date for a strike unless their Air Force of Britain, France, Bel-

need to repel a panzer- For the H-bomb project, a soft 90,000 today set August 22 an

unfons with a membership of ern Europe. other $400,000,000 would

Officers of the Army, Navy and be transmuted into heavy hydrogen wage-hour demands on the Cana- gium, Holland and Luxembourg earmarked to expand arms pro- called tritium which scientists din railroads were met. duction In Western European countries themselves. A Marshally can be triggered into ultra- announcement was made follow-one of a series of periodic meet-

The

are participating in the exercise, least double their military out- Plan official said they must at the H-bomb does not develop spokesmen for the International Western

violent explosion by the A-bomb. ing a series of meetings by ings held. to study problems of or if world peace, is assured, Brotherhoods-Reuter.

Europena

defence.

Rumours rife

One bomb was thrown at the city's Socialist Party head- quarters, Another crashed through the windows of the office of M. France Van Caulawaert, the Catholic President of the Cham- House).

any casualties or serious damage. None of the explosions caused The military censor has forbid over, transport running normally Brussels, with its protest strike den the publication of nay detalls and cafes and shops reopened, was concerning the Colonel's death instill a city of rumours. the Syrian Press, but a deputy. Abdullah Yunis, made reference

to it in yesterday's meeting of that an attempt had been made One, denied by the police, was the Syrian Assembly.

to assassinate M. Paul-Henri Spaak, the Socialist leader and former Prime Minister.

He said: "This crime proves that ohnos has attained its maxi- mum mits. Those who killed

Nasser can kill the Assembly President, the Prime Minister of for that matter, any deputy."

M. Yunis added: "It is time to speak frankly and I predict that the assassins will not be punished but elevated in rank."-Reuter.

ternationally famous lawyer

Earlier today, M. Spaak-on in-

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well as a statesman-went to the war-scarred town of Nivelle, 26 miles from Brussels, to defend three trade union leaders charged with inciting public disorder.

The Communist leaders had proved in Korea that they would loose armed aggression against weak neighbours even at the risk of glarting a third World War. While the stepped-up arms aid programme would not provide absolute security from a Red in- vasion of Western Europe it would be a long stride toward greater capacity for collective could not long survive-United defence, without which the U.S.

Press,

Mystery submarines sighted off the Australian coast

Canberra, August 2,

Australia announced emorgency plans tonight to construct a fleet of anti- submarino vessels after authoritativo sources disclosed that foreign submarines had been operating off the Australian coast.

The Navy - Minister, Joseph | concerned' is a strict secrot. Francis, announced that Aus- tralia would construct six 2,000-ton anti-submarine frig- nter, at a cost of £12,000,000, to strengthen the nation's sub-havo marine defences. ⠀

Authoritativa sources disclosed at the same time that the Govern ment was converting an East coast naval base into a owerful fortress equipped with bomb proof submarine' pens.

Hundreds of oxports were re- crulled, some from Britain, a tho, Government rushed construc- tion plans. I CAN

Some of the foreign submarines

spotted in Australian waters were

to our merchant shipping," ho Sources sald Bahermen first sald, dotected the submarines, believed to be among the world's largest, Construction of the frigates undersea craft were believed to. fastest and most modern. The will interrupt the programme to add now destroyers, to the Aur- teen op long-distance -tralian Fleet, the main cruises in the Pacific to text latest The acting Prime Minister, constructional, techniques,

A. W. Fadden, said- Australian' in-, fantry, forces in Japan would be built up, immediately to full war strength to provide stroops for Korea at the earliest possible date." Reliable sources míd, some 400 baltio-Hardened" veterans, inay be flown from Australia almost Immediately under the” plan- Al- though Mr. Fadden dit, nat-men- tion the size of the force to fant "Such submarines in the post authoritativeDONA

Bez boaldo the UB:: troops in Kores

The Navy Minister, in an- nouncing the frigate program mo, said development of large submarines with high ander water speed and capable of long submarion made it nos sary to modernin the Royal Australian Navy's mantlisub marine forow

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