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MORRISON GETS UNDER FIRE OF "PEACE JOURNAL

Berlin, Aug. 15,

Pallco headquarters said that a running battle developed tonight on the boundary between the Soviet and French sectors between hundreds of West Berliners and East Berlin people's police.

The West Berliners rushed over to the East sector side to rescue an unidentified man whom the Communists were alleged to have kidnapped.

One West Berliner said that East sector people's police attacked them with clubs and nailed pieces of wood. They had police dogs with thom...

When the souffle onded, the he invited participants in the kidnapped man was free again. Communist Youth Festival in Several people were slightly East Berlin to "come and visit

Free Berlin." injurexi

Earlier, over 0,000 One of the first groups of demonstrators carried poster whirled East

blue- German youths and saying: "We come at the invita-morched into the French

sectors of Berlin. tion of Reuter." The slogan was American

(Yank) belloved to refer to a recent bellowing. “Aml speech by West Berlin's Mayor, home," Professor Ernst Reuter, in which

Tightening Up Security

In Embassies

Washington, Aug. 15. The State Department reported today that it was taking extra precautions, including the use of inditional Marine guards, to protect United States Embassies throughout the world from Com- munist espionage.

A. Trained "security" afficers" are

asaigned to all key diplo- mate posts and aliens hired as servants are being "thoroughly

screened."

nationals

Foreign Hired 13 elerks are being re placed by Americans wherever possible and measures are being taken to improve the "physical security" of buildings by United States

West Berlin police charged them with truncheons and broke them up with high pressure water jels from special

anti-riot cars.

The

demonstrations

were

and

"obviously planned organised", West Berlin Police Headquarters said. Many of the demonstrators hurled stones

Berlin

the West

poilco and at one place pulled West Berlin policeman acrosa the boundary.

A

Weat .German police said German poople's police that beat and kicked him and took his pistal before 118 nway

managed to free colleagues

Five West Borlin polipernen were

injured by stones and were given hospital treatment.

Over 100 Communist youths were arrested.

Many of the demonstrators

Communist distributed paganda,

ROCKET LEAFLETS

pro-

At several points, along the sector-boundary rockets went up

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1951,

New Bard Of The Royal West And East Berlin Police Get

Eisteddfod Of Wales.

Twenty-five-year-old journalist, T. Glyme Davies, was crowned Bard by Archdruid Cynan at the Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales at Llanrwat recently. His poem "Ruins" was chosen from 20 entries. Glynne Davies is shown talking

to the Archdruid after the crowning ceremony.

In

Big Spy Sweep Germany Brings In "Clumsy Amateurs

Frankfurt, Aug. 15.

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The United States Army has tried and impri- soned nearly 60 Soviet and Czechoslovak spies in the past six months in the biggest espionage sweep of the Allied Occupation of Germany.

The drive started early this year and is con- tinuing, with the object of providing the maximum security for the United States troop build-up here.

diplomats, from East Berlin, showering Anti-British

particularly in Iron Curtain Communist peace leaflets over lands.

The programme was outlined in a report submitted by the Under-Secretary of State to the Senate Foreign Relations sub- Commitice

West Berlin,

Attack By Kashmir Head

started The demonstrations shortly before 5.00 p.m. legal time. One hour later, the police said, everything was back to appointed last year normal. as a by-product of the Senate Investigation of charges by Senator Joseph McCarthy that the State Department was being Infiltrated United Press.

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Argentine Meat Shortage!

Buenos Aires, Aug. 15.

Meat exports from the Argentine have been ban. ned for the time being," because of the shortage of locaj supplies, it

was an nounced here today.

Giving actions im- detafis of the

emergency

posing the ban, meat pack- ing pizat offelals said that' the measure was expected in force Just to remain

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Extradition Demand

fore United States Occupation By Poland

Stockholm, Aug. 15. The Polish. Ambassador

Into Into Running Battle

On French Sector Border

gdan London, Aug. 15.

The third issue of the Soviet English- language magazine "News", issued today, criticised Britain's Foreign Secretary. Mr Herbert Morrison, for seeming to interfere in Soviet internal affairs in his statement in the Communist Party newspaper, Pravda, last month.

"He makes the possibility of an improvement in Anglo-Soviet relations contingent upon issues that are purely, the domestic affairs of the Soviet Union," News wrote.

The Soviet Government held the rule that the domestic affairs of other States did not. concern its relations with those States.

of these throt

countries WDS

The editorial said it felt jus-armed forces. tified In "questioning the since-Atlanile Pact rily of Western statesmen who more than double that of the profess they are anxious to im-Soviet Union." prove relations with the Soviet

Colonel Gavrilov said that it Union but, at the same time,

the alleged that make such improvement condi- was usually

Scyle: Union had kept her tional

which upon demanda

armics at wartime elrength, etern purely internal affairs

and the United of the Soviet 'state in other while Britain

States had disarmed. words, endeavour to interfere in its internal affaire.".

Her Slip Is Showing

Catro, Aur. 15.

Under Islamie jaw, every nants allowed to have four wives, but a young Cairo woman, Maubtra Hassan Abould Hosa, re- verseit the process and toek four hands. the pollee said today.

Apuhtra married; in turn laundryman, a labourer, and motor and shuttled and to another with explanations of visiting her mather or a sick aunt, the police said.

B

mechanic,

from

•

The deception was dis- covered, the police saki, when husband No. Three was invited to dinner by No. Four, and got to bis friend's house to find that his wife was the hostess wom Associated Press,

In rebuttal, he quoted Premier BRITAIN

Stalin's statement in a Pravda

The editorial bald' that op-interview on the demobliisation portents of an improvement in of the Soviet forces International relations "profess war, "The

after the

strength of MEETS HER

the

ine

and air-today, is

to discern in the publication of Soviet Union's armed forces our magaalne some sort of land, naval evolution or turn or change of approximately what it was in

line in the Soviet foreign policy. 1939 prior to the second Wa DEFICIT

Others, contrarily, express dis- War," he wrote. satisfaction evidence of a change of line in

at

finding no

the pages of our magazine.

|things?.

"VERY MODERATE"

The

This

of

it's armed July,

London, Aug. 16.

the Treasury an-

quently appear at one trial. today asked Sweden to ex-inferred today that the Soviet

Britain has repaid the Soviet Union, Colonci "We must confess that both Gavrilov said, was not threaten European Payments Union these attitudes surprise us. Why ing or preparing to attack any no less than $60,808,000 abolish worth of gold in respect of seek for signs of a change of one. "It would gladly

and use the polley by the Saviot Government is regular army at all and in our magazine of all furxis it is now obliged to spend her deficit for the month of

on the maintenance: That policy needs to chang-forces for the further improve-nounced today.

Britain's defiest with the EPU Ing. We Soviet people armly ment of living standard, but in- ternational conditions being what belleve that our Government is a

for July aqualed $120,130,000, pursuing a policy of peace and they are, it has to retain a bare Halt of this was settled by the. od gold and the other minimum regular army sufficient repayment this conviction is founded not on for the defence of the frontiers" half by reducing, the credit that. blind confidence but on facts,"

minimum force "must Britain had previously granted to courts there at the rate of two

naturally be fully commensurate the Union... ARMED FORCES and three a week. As many as

Brd This British defcit for July with the size of our territory four and Ove defendants fre-

Another article in the "News" population and the vast extent of was the biggest on record for any our land and sta frontlers." country for one month except Nearly one third are women.

Trial evidence

tradite 12 mutineers from Union has less than two and a that

"M:atured by this, the sirengih Germany's deficit of $147,000,000 shows

of our Soviet Army must be

Baxt October. Communist agents have encoun- the Polish minesweeper HG-half million men under arms.

In the article on the Soviet regarded as very moderate," he It was not far chort of the, tered relatively little difficulty 11 who have been granted αιτητα forces, quoted by

said.

defielta she was running just in collecting a range of

The argument that the Soviet before the devaluation of Sterling "United States asylum here as political re- the official Soviet news agency, information on

I.N. Gavriley, stated forces wire a threat to the 1949. The armed forces of the United Western world. Colonel Gavrilov Britain's gold reserves from Office announced: troops and installations in Ger- fugees, the Swedish Foreign Colonel

Great Stales,

Britain

and concluded, was an argument to which to meet such deficits is, Sweden refused France together Earlier

totalled more justify the armaments drive in however, nearly three times as from the request

Polish

the West, which was creating a big o

g us it was two years ago, 1. to hold the than five million men. Foreign Minister

"Hence already at that time real mance of another world

Desplie her deficits in the past men

In custody to prevent

thewan-Reuter, abroad, before the numerical strength of them escaping Poland had filed a formal, ex-

The West German police ar- rested one East Berlin people's to have policeman alleged

New Delhi, Aug. 15.

Abdullah, Sheikh

chiet crossed the sector boundary to alt the demonstrators.

West German police said that Minister of Kashmir, broadcast

over Srinagar Radio today ex-many. many of the demonstrators at-

Spy suspects have admitted tacked them and took away pressing tetermination to go

with shend

for furnishing plans

the Russians and their truncheons and helmets.

Constituent Assembly despite Czechs with data on American At one point a group of 3,000

tried to Pakistan's protests because the weapons, troop dispositions, the East German youths

"repre position of patrol dumps, and СТОБУ the sector boundary in Constituent Assembly the instrument

the names of the

of United

Stole formation.

West but

Berlin sents Berith people's will" and "it is our counr-intelligence officers and police drove

inherent right of self-determina- of Germ

German agents working truncheons.

tion to give ourselves a consiitu- the American in East Germany.

on worthy of our national tra- "CLUMSY AMATEURS" ditions and culture”. ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄

United States Intelligence

them back

Some small groups managed to enter West Berlin for about 300 yards beyond the sector boundary, chanting Communist scuits.

would not have interfered if the

Warning against foreing a Security Council

solution

fer

and

tradition request,

The Swedish

Replying

sald that

Foreign omeo Sweden's lawe do not permit

"conditional Imprkenment."

Whether Sweden accepts or zajeels lodny's extradition

ofcera freely concede that the present wave of spy trials is request; the men are expected

10 go dree, A which may create a situation more than a gesture,

Choi hundreds cf Communist and stability, ngt

The police said that they

full of explosive possibilities agents are at large in Western 3,000-atrong column had not for peace,

Germany. been singing Communist songs only in the sub-continent but

The Americans tako cemfort and appeared to be planning a In Asia and the world", Sheikh from thes fact that most of demonstration.-Reuter.

Abdullah attacked the British

thesu ogents arc clumsy for creating "Pakistan at namnicurs,

recruited by threats extension at the

the Middle East szalnst relatives behind the bloc to moet the current

"Iron Curtain." and the promise colonial people's revolt against of easy money. British policies, thereby halt- ing the march of Asian people towards emancipation."

Hurricane Boiling Up

The

Miarni, Aug. 15. Weather Bureau today reported that the first hurricano of the 1901 season, with winds of 100 mph, had boiled up in the Islands some 1,050 miles

Miami and southeast of moving in a northwest or west- northwesterly direction at about

was

He sent messages of good will to "Asian nations engaged nt present in lighting for their right of determination"

The

Their refugee status crabics them to travel abroad and in other Western similar cocos countries have offered rofugees Immediato entrance

vians and ther passports,

For example, thade Lithuanian hermen were granted refugee status and left the country on the came day as Soviet Russia applied for their extradition,

American inteligionge authorities, because of a shortage

MORE SEEK ASYLUM of qualified agents, has been all

Three Poles walked into the but powerless in coping with the influx of Communist agents. police station at Karlshamn Stung by charges that their South Sweden, today and asked and men are obvious and inept" for asylum as political refugees, three said they were stave us instances the Iranians, they have been sending rein-They

other Middle forcements to Germany from members of the crow of five of Egyptians and

the training centre at Fort Hola-a Polish motor schooner which

berthed

In Karlshamn Last night, bird. Maryland.

They have also come in for Their application is boing.co considerable criticism, especially sidered by the Allens Commis from the Germans, for their sin. The Poles arrival brought reliance on Infermers.-Rauler. the total number of refugees reaching Sweden. from East Europe during the past month to 31-Reuter, find

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East peoples whom he wished succes in their "noble efforts"

their "liberate

countries" from "exploitation by British intercals"-United Press.

an-hour.. Reconnaissance aircraft from Miami located the storm at 11.30 season in the Caribbean

and South Atlantic areas. The first a.m. as Lat. 14.7 north

and

70 hurricane was a freak which hit Arabs To Attend

Florida coast, and

North

Long. 58.9 west or about miles cast of Fort de France, east of the Martinique. It was the second blow itself qut in the hurricane of the year but the Atlantic in early June. United first of the official tropical storm Press.

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Opium Caravan

Conference In Pitched Battle

Alxandria, Aug. 15. * 2)

Bangkok Aug. 15.0

An Arab. League source said A 15-man police patrol today the Arab states were ex-fought an armed battle with an pected to attend the Paris meet oplum caravan in the vicinity of ing of the Paleating Conciliation Chiengmal, 'n Thai holiday Commission on September 9,

He added that the Arab states resort, recently.

Tho oplum smugglers resisted wanted to prove their goodwill and their desire Le co-operate with machine-guns and hand- the United grenades After the polleo had and to Implement States resolutions for partition shot their leader, they fled to of Palestine and repatriation of the hills, leaving a quantity of Arab refugeesUnited Prem dplum behind,Router...

FOP

London's Lady Mayores (Lady Lowson) pletured

at Manalon House prior to going off with her husband for an extended tour of Australia. This will be the first stage of a round-the-world goodwill mission by the Lord Mayor. (Central Press)

Insult to injury.

YOU

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months, Britain is still the biggest creditor in the European Payments Union for $231,890,000. Belgium has become the big- gestreefplenst

gold but Belgium's creditor position at $175,400,000 is greord to Britain'.

Reuter

of

Bid To Get Out Of Blind Alley

Bonu, Aug. 16, AD Konrad Adenauer, the F: West German Chancellor, plans to fly to Washington this autumn to negotiate with President Tru- mian personally about Allied occupation: costs, a spokesman for his party mid today

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The spokesman, his Parlia mentry

Secretary Dr Erich Von Brentano, wild that no dalo : had yet boch fixed but tho Chancellor reckoned to go about the end of October or shorts after

Dr. Adenauer has been

"bad been In- vited by Mr. Herbert Morrison, Britain's Foreign Secretary, to vidit Britain this autuhin was thought that the British visit would come first...

Dr Von Brentane said that Dr. Adeninier would also discuss with President Truman the re placement «¡ of the Occupation Statute by a system of treatiny' 'the raising of German troops Western defence and the genral economic situation, fri

on, including the coal shortaga...

Political observers he saw in Dr Adomater's planna, flight. to the United States an attempt to escape from the bind alley into which the Weston Allied German relations have got into the last few weeksiteuler.