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CHINA MAIL

No. 35563

Established 1845-

THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1953.

East German Minister

Compromise Of Justice Dismissed

THE

IE Legislative Council debate on rent incrensEN ended yesterday on a happy note of sweet compromise. Government, without sacri- Being the principlea embodied in the McNellf Report, accepted amend- ments suggested by the Unofficials with the

Ret result that there will be only one hike of 25 per cent standard rents for domestic premises (anil that to become opérative for another eight months), and two Increases of 25 per cent each on business premises, the first in September and the second

hot

Lift The

Restrictions Demand By Egypt

Cairo, July 15.

Egypt has demanded the lifting of }] military restrictions imposed by British forces in Ismailia next March. These

proafter the disappearance of a posals differ considerably from those advanced by the British airman, the Egypt- andian Foreign Minister, Dr Mahmoud Fawzy, said to-

McNeill,

Committee

con-

Dr Fawzy said: "We havo toki the British that such mea- sures

unjustified and wrongly taken.“

they are very real cessions to popular opinion, | night. No one can seriously argue that they impone excep- tional hardship on tenants, but they do go some way towards correcting [17] anomalous situation, The acting Colonial Secretary wound up the debute in an

effective

manner, being

are

Dr. Fawzy refused to tell re- porters whether a formal note had been presented or whether the request had been made verti ally.

The British Charge d'Affaires, particularly helpful in Mr Robert Hankey, today called correcting misappréhensions on the Foreign Minister at his concerning the exploitation own request. He told reporters and victimisation of sub-that is meeting was "simply a routine one on current matters.' lennnta by principal

Earlier. President Mohammed tenants. quite apart from Nagulb of Egypt recorded a the amendmenta which speech On the Canal Zone provide for rental increases, quarrel with Britai while the revisions of the Landlord | angry crowds shouted and

Tenant Ordinance Brilish slogans pulsidr which have now received building for full hour. the approval of the Legin- intive Council go a long way

making Howard

the

Kenyatta Verdict: Crown

To Appeal

Kitale, Kenya; July 16.

Kenya Supreme Couri yesterday quashed the conviction and seven-year sentences on Jomo Ken- yatta and five other Afri- cans as Mau Mau or- ganisers - but the Crown Is to appeal against the

decision.

Patrola In trouble-spola were alerted fast night clis- against any possible order in the form of African Jubilation at the news.

The Supreme Court has ordered

a retrial of the. caso despite the pics of defence counsel, Mr D, N. Felit, QC, that this would bo oppressive to the accused, who had worn out their resources.—Reuter.

WAR FRONT

SITUATION

"SERIOUS"

CHARGED WITH ACTS HOSTILE TO THE

THE STATE

Berlin, July 16.

Otto Grotewohl, the East German Premier, has dismissed Max Fechner, Minister of Justice from his post on account of activity hostile to the state.

The official East German News Agency, ADN, announcing this said that Frau Hilde Ben- jamin, till now the vice-President of the East German Supreme Court had been appointed to his post.

Fechner, a member of the Centrul Committee of the Socialist Unity (Communist) Party in the Soviet zone, was appointed Minister of Justice in November 1949.

The agency said Fechner had been dismissed by Otto Grotewohl but gave no details.

Free

A West Berlin anti-Communist organisation, the of Jurists, had earlier reported the arrest Fechner's son and daughter-in-law.

Western observers hero be- In the first, in April, Ruk="

leved the Justice Minister was hadze, the Republic's Minister

ints

of State Security, was arrested with wo of his henchmen ftr allegedly framing charges against other Party men.

The two others arrested were

Ordinance fool-proof. The be designed to explain the latest front in at least two places, age of he was ing to disclosures at the Joint

British troop threw a condon

Red

froops

were

reported

almost certain to have been jarrested as well because of the periousness of the charge against Itim

Fechner, who will be di month. is the first Canmunist Mgeladze and Charkvian. Seoul, July 16. Govenment Minister dismissed

They were accused among mriti- Thousands of Chinese outside Russia since the urlag other things of arresting

of Lavrerit Beria, the Soviet the launched three new attacks Minister of Interior.

innocent workers. Ministers ca similar purged earlier were reinstated YELL SLOGANS

on the Central Front late grounds last week.

in the drastic "clean up" which broadcast

The President's speech for yesterday and punched Fechner, the son of a mason, followed the arrests,

Patty atjtha later French and German was suit to

English, holes, in the South Korean Joined the

Tiflis Radio aid that, accord- arrested for anti-Nazi activities

sesalon, DekanoSoy was among developments in Egypt resulting dispatches from the battle and put in a concentration cama. the people selected by Beria In

After the war he occupied a from the sealing off of Ismailia line said today.

2 his attempt to

to seize power. prominent

inv position

the in the Canal Zone.

Others, it said, included Ruk- Socialist Unity Parts formed in

and Rapaya the fusion of the haze, Mamulov and

Minister 1946 from Socialists with the Communia (appointed Georgian

of State Control after the April Party in the Soviet occupied zone

purge) and two men named of Germany.—Reuter,

Shariya hnd Milthteyn.--Reu- SOVIET PURGE

ter. London, July 15. Soviet purge was switched to- day to Georgia, Stalin's birth- ond Sir The Chinese hit the Western place, where the local Minister for Chinese Affairs, For Winston Churchill. Then they end of the "bulge" they had for laternal Affairs was thrown tenants who are unsure of turnect the wrath against the riven in the United Nations out of the Party leadership and their position and who need Britk

d'Affies, Mr line. They jumped off at 4 p.m. others

were named

mon Berkz

as licu- dvice this bureau should ut- Hanitey --with-shouts-of-n-United Press-dispatch said tenants of Lavureli prove of inestimable value.o me to Mother, Hankey,

When President Naguib About 2,000 Chinese rarumed

The Minister, Vladimir Deka- of a close friend but, as the Hon B. C. K

emerges they shouted "Lead us the right Bouk of the new line 950v.

dismissed as Hawkins emphasised yester-to the Canal Zone."

which South Korean troops Beria, who was day, the new department can Observers believed the trame were trying to organise after Soviet Interior Minister only

having being thrown back for Ave days ago for being "an imbecide

perialist hireling." co- in force scene kdays and would miles, public are willing to

with Government then be relaxed and eventually operate and avail themselves of the endod unless there were un-

Jugal position of both land lords and tenants becomes much more clearly defined, with their respective rights and privileges made round Ismailia and searched pushing southward on a 20-mile apparent. Supremely im- traille in and out of the town front, portant too, is the comple-after Egypt had falled to return "We've got a hole in our line,"

mentary Tenancy

provision of

to British control a kidnapped said an American officer. "The Inquiry Bureau British sirman, A. v. Rigdem situation on the front is very

The demonstrating crowd led

to be established under by cheer leaders yelled slogans serious."

the aegis of the Secretariat examst the British

Change

...only be Яuccess if the control sit Lamalia would remain

foreseen facilities which are being Reuter. offered to them to seek the protection of the law. It

major

the public allow themselves Extra

to be exploited in the future, it will be largely their own fault.

Evening Concerts

FATHER Ryan will find ready support from a large section of the community for his suggestion that evening band and orchestral concerts be held in some of the Colony's public spaces, afternoon The Sunday concerts, ду he rightly points out, have been great

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THE NEW FRENCH ⠀⠀ GOVERNMENT

The new French Premler presents the State Secretaries of the new French Government to President Auriol, The group reads first row left to right: M. Jacquet; M. Jolly; M. Christinens; Prime Minister Laniel; President Auriol; M. Devinat; M. Bolde and M. Olmi. Second row from left to right: M. Maurice Schumann; M. Ramarony; M. Schleiter; M. Bugues; M. Thibault; M. de Chevigne; M. Lafay and M., Ulver. - London Express.

Text

To

3 Invitation

Of Big

Big 3 Four Power

Talks

London, July 16.

STA

Britain, France and the United States yesterday invited Russia to a meeting of foreign ministers in late September and said four-power agreement on Germany and Austria would be "a major contribution to peace."

The decision to propose the conference was announced by the Big Three foreign · ministers on Tuesday night at the end of their four-day meeting in Washington.

Identical

notes handed to Federal Government and ther

essentialstega Russin's representatives German authorities in Berlin, to which must peccede the opending London, Parks and Washington propose to the Soviet govern- of discussions with the Soviet proposed that the necting ment a meeting of the foreign government for e German peace should be held at a place to be

ministers of France, the United realy, Holt a major element for mutually agreed upon.

Kingdom, the United States and a general settlement,

"The governments also com Without specifically ruling the Soviet Union,

Umiled sider that at this first meeting This out other topics, the western

furally ur meeting

be powers said the agenda should duration might begin about the agreemerit should be the conditions for the end of September at a place to reached on the Austrian treaty." elections of AD all-German be mutually agreed. The sub--Router.

should be government and final agreement Jeels for discussion on the treaty restoring Austrian the following:

1. The viganisation of free independance, ...The... text of the identical elections in the Federal Re- public, the Eastern Zone of western notes to Russia was:

Germany and in Berlin. This The

development of theid involve

discussion, inter international situation sind the

of

Mail Lost In

Ships Collision

Washington, July 15. The Army Paris, July 15.

in Eastern Ger- alla, of the necessary guarantees

suk today that a at mail and French detectives' today held recent events

Sadom of action for political packages for military men in interrations in six many and in Berlin have intensi- for freedom of movement, free large quantity Paris

Probe the led the universal desire to see dom hospitals to

of the press Korea was lost yesterday when parties, freedom Dekanosov was once a power-

esterday's Bastille-peace more frinly established by and the enjoyment of the baste the freighter Jacob Luckenbach cause. of Russia's Day

existing tensions in a way ful figure in shoping

rlot in the

Place de la

all Germans be-ranke after a collision with the de consistent with the fundamental freedoms by

11 foreign policy. As Deputy For Nation, in

Howalan Pilot fore, during and after the elec- dreighter seven cign Minister he once stood in

killed and rights to freedom.

tions.

miles off San Francisco. **Wulle recognising the fact 2 Conditions for the ex- for Mr Molotov, now number monstrators were

The Army said the Lakelenbach two to Prime Minister Georgi

thair d people wounded.

that

enduring peace can only be The clash between armed Macakny.

and about 2,000 North ultimately assured when certain tablishment of a tree all Ger-carried (1 portoises of first-class man government with freedom mail, 4,077 sacks of parcels and It was Major Ralph Cowan of He and several others were Africans.

baale problems, such as con- faking part

in internal and ex- 430 overseas parcels, oil of which Elmira, New York, who des-linked today with an alleged

Atrolled disarmament, can be of action

were lost-United Press. annual march has

ternal affairs. cribed the front situation as plot by Beria to split Georgia, public opinion here because of desire

perturbed

with

the governments

of new attacks and the people.

problems which are of the Interior Ministry The Georgian purge was an- extent of the penetrations were blacked out by light security nounced at the end of a long the

has opened an inquiry into early solution.

affair and Gaullist and precautions, Bul It was known report by Tulis Radio on a joint

deputies Communist the Chinese broke through at session of the Georgian Com-

pected to call for a fullscale several points yesterday and the mumlet Party's Central Com-

debate parliamentary censors here passed a dispatch mittee and the Tiflis City Party!

National Assembly Late yesterday which said the Committee.

The final casualty list gave Allied Ine was sugging under A second member

seven dead, six of them North pressure from an estimated six Central Committee set up only Africans, from ride fire, Chinese visions-United Press, three months ago after Georgia's demonstrators 44 of them first purge under the Malenkov North Africans in hospital and regime, has also been unsealed.

He was named as Mamulov, 19 policemen seriously wound- but no further identification was

Supply Ends te stel used altre exact size formerly Independent, from the the apparent absence of motive desire to his own pable of

necessary to

be-

An official of the Water Authority of the Public Works Department stated today that it has been found discontinue the extra five hours water supply

which has been given, at recent weekends 1. and tween

-4-p.m The

rencon for this is that although the rainfall recorded at the Royal Observatory has been above normal, certain waterworks catchment areas it been well below normal and some of the reservoirs are

has

cularly to the Tytam group of reservoirs,

FIRE DESTROYS PART OF CITY

а

Paris, July 35. The Indonesian radio heard here, reported today that The public is. informed, there raging tire had destroyed on ca- fore, that until further notice tire section of Djakarta. the hours of supply will be eleven hours per day only in all Some 300 houses districts, o. from 0 am to 11 destroyed, the radio Bald. a.m. and from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. France-Presse.

were

Senate Ratifies Treaties

despite very low Indeed for the time original predictions from of the year. This applies parti- the leur imaginative that the pubile would show no interest in such an enter prise. Nevertheless, in our summer heat, the afternoon is not the ideal time for nir concerts; the open evenings are much more conducive to full enjoy. ment, both for the per- formers and the audience. The Botanical Gardens offer an idont setting for such concerts, for there people may stroll around on the lawns if they so desire without distracting at tention from the music, Government could also make these functions all the mora attractive by adopting an illuminations echome 80 widely used in British jority holiday resorts and decorate the gardens with multi- coloured fairy lights. Evening band concerts aro certain to be a success'atid Fathor Ryan's suggestion is worthy of very serious

consideration.

Washington, July 15.

given,

of

the

The joint session also con- demned the Republic's Minister of State Control, A. N. Rapava, owing allegiance to. Beria, Exut not disclose any action

him agalust

Ropava was restored to the

The

ed-Reuter,

are ex-

the in

STOP PRESS

Republie's Government only in UN Troops

April, after being arrested on

40

LONG OVERDUE

The conclusion of the Ger- man and Austrian treatles, which are long overdue, clearly con- siltutes an essentia. element of the European settlement which the governments regard 03 a

contribution to peace. major

peace treaty can only be

the of free and participation

bill German representative government in a position freely a treaty. Such a such to discuss government can only result from

Gelated with

free elections under which

The com

such a government should be formed and enjoy full liberty of action

problem consultute a which is

capable of early solu- tion if there is good will on all sides. It is equally clear that no real progress can be made toward a general relaxation of tension in Europe so long na this problem remains unsolved.

"In their notes to the Soviet

the

is last of which government dawn that of September 23, 1952, to

charges of "nationalism before Counter-Attack

Stalin's death,

Today his name was bracketed

with that of two former local

Tokyo, July 10.

Party Secretaries, Charkviani The Eighth Army hurled and Mgcladze, who fell into least 45,000 United Nations disgrace at the same time as troops into a powerful Rapava was "exonerated" in counter-attack today against which no answer has yet been April.

Beria,

the

The Senate today ratified three North Atlantic Treaty Organisation treaties to regulate the status of forces

110 Chinese armies in

received, the governments made proposals which constructive The joint session also formal-Central Front bulge. stationed on the territories of the North Atlantic partners.

were fully reflected in the re- ly expelled Berla himself from

of solutions

Germati the Three United Nations divisions

of this Ono of them permits the, commanding officer should ask the local Central Committee,

SECOND PURGE

threw the counter-punch at the Bundestag of June 10 trial in foreign courts of United the court to waive jurisdiction

are de car, These proposals first light of day and were still | year For some accused of and let the telai be conducted States servicemen

Years offences committed off duty. by a military court.

Georgian himself, supervised driving forward at last reports, signed to satisfy the unanimous desire of the German people for If jurisdiction was not walved the activities of the Republic's United-

correspondent

unity in frectiom, The vote was 72 to 15, for the State Department then Communist Party

reported from more than the two-thirds ma-| would enter the case "to press leved to be and is. be--William

personally respon the

battl required for treaty auch request through diplomatic sible for Dekanozov's appoint- Miller's "report" did not say

the whether

divisions were ment in April. Georgia is The resolution which has no

The fith largest of South Korean or American.

The counter-punch was back- of the the Soviet Republics, nations which population of 3,542,000. It was ed by tanks, swarms of fighter where there is danger that the signed the treaty also stated formerly, an Independent state bombers and masses of artillery. Its proportions were such that accused will not be probcted United States shall attend, the and was..absorbed by Soviet because of the absence or denial ¦ that' ́a' ""representative of the Russia in 1921.

observers described it as the biggest Eighth Army attack in two years.--United Press.

ratification.

The Senate also approved resolution expressing the senso

a

-channels.'

of the Senate that, in any case ding effect on any

Atlantic

of constitutional rights in a trial" of any civil 'court trial abroad,

serviceman in a the foreign civil court.--Reuter,

with

This is the second purge in Georgia_since Stalin's death.

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