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THE DAYE. GERMANS DEFY FOOD
The Soviet
Reply
USSIA'S reply to
the
Rais Three myltation to
hold a meeting of Foreign Ministora to discuss European problems, notably the future of Germany and Andlising เบก Austrian treaty, in not particularly encouraging. It seoms beyond the wit of the Soviets to give a simple "yes" or "no" to a simple proposal; they always find it necessary to encompass their replies with conditions, either stated or implied. Thus, while expressing willingness to join in four- power
a
on
versial Far East issues. And
PARCELS
France Faces
Postal Strike
BAN
Thousands
&A Revolt Make Journey
Paris, Aug. 5.
Franco faces tomorrow a complete paralysis of lia postal services and another "revoli" of winegrowers in the 'south
The strike of post office workers which started yesterday with
strike
(General
call by three unions, in-
Communist cluding the controlled CGT Confederation of Labour) WIN tonight spreading rapidly
In Paris and in other provinces.
mil
The strike is to become effective tonight and to- morrow morning in largo cliles of France.-- France-Presse.
To
Berlin
Berlin, Aug. 5.
Thousands of East Germans again defied a rail travel ban and increased reprisal threats by their Communist government today to collect American German food parcels in West Berlin.
East Berliners again came unhindered and returned home with their parcels intact. There were no demonstrations.
But East Germans told Reuter that Com- munist Party officials wearing armbands inscribed "Helpers of the People's Police," had reinforced
5 Air Crash armed police guards on dozens of East German
Survivors Rescued.
Valted States Air Force headquarters in Britain
aald the main aircraft
search had been called off just before down.
wireless
New Star
railway stations, where people were stopped from In Kremlin
going to Berlin, and those returning had their Western food parcels confiscated,
Taogliche Rundschau, the Soviet High Com- mission's German language newspaper here, said col lecting centres had been established on railway plat- forms for food parcels which misguided persons had collected and later given up voluntarily after realising their error.
East Germany
Hierarchy
Paris, Aug. 5.
The Soviet Tass Agency
in its account of today's
Despile 'warnings not to accept them, these hungry East Berlinera Awalt the arrival of the first 1,000,000 food parcels,, weighing 5,000 tons, which were offered to them free. The East Berlin City Government executive council have told the people, that it is an attempt to recruit agents for the West, and that they must not enter West Berlin to get the parcels, and that those who defy the order will be punished. - London Express.
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The Hungry Thousands
They Made 'Confessions Ludicrous
Wife Ploads For
Gooled Husband Minister Promises To Intercede
London, Aug. 5.
Mr Imro Horvath, retir Ing Hungarian Minister in London, today promised the wife of the gaoled British businessman, Edgar Sanders, he would deliver a personal message to the. Hungarian President begging for his release.
Men Winifred. Sanders had pleaded with the Minister for 20 minutes at the London Lega- tion, seeking the release of her husband, imprisoned with Mr Robert Vogeler, an American businessman, four youry for alleged espionago,
njo
The United States secured Mr Vogeler's release two years ago but Mr Sanders is still prison.
Mrs Sanders left the Legation dejectedly, shrugging her.. shoulders,
sold:" "Really
Lo
there is nothing."
But the Minister later told reporters he would personally hand her message to Mr latvan Dobl
President of
tho
Hungarian Presidential Council, whom he described as the only person with the constitutional
right to free her husband from
his 13-year sentence.
Mr Horvath said he had re- at her own request and had discussed
Freedom Village,
Aug. 5. Private Jack Heslop of Bradford, Yorkshire, told ceived Mrs Sanders correspondents that after with her the message she wish- British troops turned "pub-ed to send.
confessions" into 4 laughing stock, the Chinese abandoned it as a form of
TO VISIT
VISIT punishment.
tomeeting of the two cham- KNOWLAND The continuing stream of East, cessions to
bers of the Supreme Soviet Germans collecting parcels in enable her to carry through the mentioned the presence of spite of the rail travel ban was new course" policy.
They said official East Ger- Nikita Khrushchev in the explained partially by the fact that the travel ban does not mat courous indicated that the government seat in third apply to the monthly or weekly Soviet Union would grunt some place after Georgi Malenkov all tickets of people, whose de estod after the runt and Vyacheslav Molotov. business or work makes theso |trips necessary.
or
the wishes the East German
Ambiguous Russian Note
con-
Khrush taboy is a
FAR EAST
AVOIDS REPLY
Asked whether ho would recommend his Government to release Mr Sanders, whom the Briush- Government has al ways regarded as Innocent, Mr Horvath made no reply.
pred
to
Hungary has no consulates in Britain--apart from the consular
sidered here DS confirmation developments out there," he ex-it took about three medis section of the London Legadoo-
+
that
discussions, they complicate the situation by insisting that Communist China must take part in conferences dealing with international questions. Yet the Kremlin must know that the Big Three could never agree to the Peking Govern- ment participating in dis- cusalons concerning Ger- many
and Austria, An attempt to turn the Big Four meeting into a Big Five conference and to broaden the
will agenda
most certainly be resisted by the West, and Russia knows this full well. Why then has Mir Molotov raised Red China's position in replying to the Invitation to talka purely European Issues?
London, Aug. 5. ONE possibility is that the
Five survivors and several Soviet leaders are playing bodies are known to have for time while they sort out been
the pleked up from their internal differences. American reconnaissance Another is that the Russian bomber which crashed flaming policy is running again on into the Atlantic early today.
British Naval beadquarters at the Stalinist lines of non-
and
Londonderry, Northern Ireland, that co-operation,
“When you did anything wrong Molotov is being awkward sald that the survivors were distributed between two of the
they used to make you write out over the agenda to ensure ships searching the crush area,
n conicalon and then read it that the meeting cannot take
17 rovali-including a cut in Three other ships are attri
Krushtchev who is secretary
in front of all the chaps. But The Minister said Bira Sanders place. And
finally it got to be a joke....For was write the merge third searching the main crash area
occupation costis, reduced e-of the Central Committee of the Other East Germans gaid they parations, a cash loan and food Soviet Communist Party has not
Washington, Aug. 5.
more serious possibility in that Moscow in pitch dark.
crimes such as either bring it or post it to him had bought tickets to places akk
hitherto been considered 05
The Senate Republican breaking out of camp, defacing within the next few days. is simply up to its old game
outside Berlin and "Just stayed The Western groups said East member of the Soviet govern- leader, Senator William camp property, sprending Mr Horvath, who hop re of provoking disagreement
put" in the train until they Germany's economic problems ment.
Knowland, of California, rumours etc. they had a guard-presented his country in London in the Western camp in view
reached Berlin.
hebi boen the subject of talks in
house."
for two years, is returning This was taken here by obsaid today he proposed to of the divergence of British
Somo claimed to have come by Moscow, Warsaw, Derlin and
Heslop said that at first treat- Hungary next Tuesday: pervers as confirmation of and American opinion over
bus, by thu bing 11fts, on Pengue, Beat of the
a make Soviet
trip late this ment of prisoners was very bad But today in a room dominat- counterpart But the B-29 rescue planes bicycles. recognition of Communiet
to the American change in the Soviet hierarchy
to Korea, Japan, but later it improved. first indicated by Tass Agency autumn
ed by a large painting of Mr Marshall Aid Pinn organisation. China.
"We got up a lot of concerts. Matyas Rakos, Hungarian Com Most East Germans reaching Router. The Russian con-would continue to circle above
in a communique announcing Formosa, Indo-China, Thal- throughout tention that problems the searching ships
here said they would store their
that
Premier Georgi Malenicov land, the Philippines and sang in the choir and we sang muntat Party Secretary would relay parcels with friends or relatives
had visited a Chinese exhibition other parts of the Far East, songs like 'Holy City'. They former Prime Minister, he re- affecting Asian nations need the night. They
stopped us full-scale discussions by the radio messages from the ships to until they could take them home
singing songs like erived the press for the first time now showing in Moscow, now this
Senator Knowland, who yes-Land of Hope and Glory' or since his arrival. the shore. The ships five
In lending
which railway station controls powers is was not powerful and com- had been relaxed
sited Khrusque, Tass first
Immediately terday was elected to succeed God Save the Queen'. nothing but a red herring. munications with the land had Their
and before Senator Robert Taft, said he after
~"They ̈ ̈ ̈alto fear
Malenkov
The American Government chief
was that if
stopped "Di chag The invitation extended by been bad.
alone to playing The British Grenadiers' secured Mr Vogeler's freedoms they were en carrying parcels
Marshal Voroshilov, President would make the trip
He on his mouth organ. the United States, Britain The search planes would be for several people, they would
of the Presidium of the Supreme confer with leaders there.
by making concessional, ataca no, "Whenever we at a conoest reopening Hungarian consulatem and France expreasly reinforced by others at dawn.
be searched and all the identity
Soviet. Previously in the list of has made three previous trips to A United States Air Force
Krushtchey the Far East since the Second we had to write the script out in the United States. referred to the questionsfof
cards they carried confiscated.
party dignitaries C-47 carco
the That
came after Voroshi
and submit it for World War. Voroshilov. result in
censorship, and Austria-spokesman sald a Germany
would plane would stay out over an-
This advancement was
"I want to keep abreast of They sent it to hearïquarters and publication of their names as questions which bear no direct relations to contro- other spot in the Atlantic, 285 Public
ling it back" miles southeast of the main Prospective Western agents and saboteurs" and would bring 150- area where a search plane earlier mark fines (about £12) for each if the Western powers per-reported sighting debris card other than their own. mitted subjects such as the parachute alk. establishment of foreign The British destroyer, Tena- bases in Asia to be included clous, had been sent to search in an agenda for dealing this second area. with European problems, Force Convair RB-30, crashed any prospects of an agree in the early hours of the morn ment being reached about ing. It was not till 1600 GMT Germany and Austria would that the Manchester Shipper
Two anti-Communist West Big Four Foreign Ministers, fade into oblivion. This is picked up the first survivor."
The NB-36 ls a reconnaissance Berlin newspapers, Kurier and the State Department said why it is essential that the
STEADY PROGRESS very version of the B-36 atom bomber Telegraf, made this the subject today. should Big Three
World's largest operational for leading articles on the plight
Meanwhile, on March 14, carefully study the Soviet, it was on its way from of West Berlin's 230,000 un-
Khrushchev note and consider all its Travis Air base in California to employed
was elected first implications. There is the American bomber base at
The anti-Communist informa-This Soviet reply does not ap-secretary of the Central Com- point in adding yet another Lakenheath, England, with nine tion burenu, West, claimed that pear to reject the proposal of a mitice of the Farly replacing to the already long list of officers and 14 men aboard.
Malenkov, who was "relieved of teachers in the town and four-power foreign minister his functions at his all district of Schwerin, furcical Big Four Foreign Reuter.
East meeting. but there is so much Germany,
had received Ministars' meetings.
an ambiguity in the language that quest. official circula warning them a great deal more study, includ- He has made steady. progress, Splendid News
Sydney, Aug. 5. missal if they collected "begging tish and French, must be given the Kremlin since 1938 when he Dr. Harry Messel of the THE announcement that the
parcels" in West Berlin. Secretary of State for tho
became first secretary of the Sydney University Alomle Re- before a reply can be draft the Communist Party of his native search team, sald today: "It wa Western Berlin police Bald The West Invitation Colonies has persuaded Sir
Capetown, Aug. 5.
German
were lesa Soviet Union was issued on Ulamine.
guard our uranium we can bulid Alexander Grantham to
The traditional rum ration
end of the
In 1940, he was called to up a Fort Knox in Australia remain as Governor until
I has been banned by the South activo and hundreds of July 15 at the
Germans got through the border Washington conferenco of the Moscow and appointed Secretary which will completely dwarf the middle of 1955 gives African Navy.
parcela British, French and United of the Russian Communist Party anything the Americans ever safely with their food
East German queuing at West States foreign ministers.
the most important party in thought oft" be served with Berlin food centres said travel | The Soviet Union's reply to the USSR. He was at the same (Fort Knox is the stronghold
German has occupied his important local brandy, Instead of im- controls at East
and day had been interpreted in the named the first secretary of where the United States keeps distinguished ported rum.
East Berlin railway stations had London and Paris as an accepthe Federation of Monow. office with
her gold reserve). The brandy will be available been relaxed.
tance of the proposal, but con-
But, he added, We should success since 1947 and no
at noon every day for every
CONCESSIONS FORECAST taining differences with the previous Governor has over
West Berlin ori-Communist West on the subjects do be dis- tion which gave him frequent not keep it all for ourselves. uained so completely the allor over 20 years old.
Younger men and teetotallers organisations claimed, today that cursed.
access to Josef Stalin himself. It is our duty to provide some confidence of the com- will get threepence for each the Soviet Union was about to Th
The State Department spokes Khrushchev suffered another of it for the United States and the campaign for Bonds on whom our security munity. We offer, also, con- tot they miss. China Mall make considerable financial con- man, asked if the Soviet note setback over gratulations to Bir Special
a. professor of discussions, replied that it ap- Alexander on creating the
parently uld. but added that Despite this fallure, Khrisht Physics of Sydney University, the aid he had been nasured by State record of being appointed
entrusted with Department experts chov wa
mission of the Government that Australia the Colony's Governor for
studying the ndio had not yet most important
of the would keep ample supplies of eight years. This is cloar
agreed on this,
preparing the reform that wrcement party statutes Officials sald
announood at her unium ore and would not
also
wald testimony to his executive
he had been told Australia's and administrative talents
in Washington had not been the 18th Congress of the Party export all of it. He reached on the meaning of the on October 9, 1952, which are recognised na
Soviet note which seemed to The election of Khrushchev uranum deposits had adequate keenly In Whitehall as they
contain many conditions re-as first secretary of the Central security guard, China Wall Sir in Hongkong.
Committee quiring further
of the Communist Sporini. DAN study the Part Yesterday four hundred Allied (tured before the
at Alexander's willingness to
In Ite formal statement, the Party cemod the time to servo a further twelve troops were released including election vietmy last year and Department said that the Soviet be the high water mark in his
Communists
Mustang Crashes his subsequent appointment by note raised many lexues which fortuner months when he is fully 20 Britons. The
President Elsenhower.
ho has apparently entitled to a richly deserved mid they will release 392 more
Among the first; Americans were not related to the Wol's
Invitation, which I declared stepped into third place in the A Mintang of the Indonesian retirement is also a sign of today.
Mr John Foster,
Dulles, repatriated today was Major his high sense of duty American Secretary of Stald, Thomas Harrison, identified as "ended youred to deal in a Boviet timer sanctum head Air Force crashed at an airfield at the old Bolshevik, In, Bouching, Vleet, Java, this released the nephew of doutedant concrete way with a major over which is fully appreciated
Harrison, source of international tension Klementy Voroshlloy, Politburo morning kuling the pilot, a MED General ·~William
1930- Franced second de Fight vateran and widely applauded. The grooted some of the
**Lieutenant. Many of them did not know senior Alliod, truen delete the question of Germany "-
United Press:EN extension of his term of office is splendid news, who he was, having been -cap= | Reuter
no
and
WORKLESS BENEFIT Hundreds of West Berlin un employed and pensioners again collected Western food parcels, surrendered by East Germans
a "rising plained, - Washington, Aug. 5.
Heslop said the Communists and Britain has banned - trade star" in the Soviet government. the Britain, France and
He and three other Senate brought dan south in a train with the country ust Mr San the old In
Stalinian Politburo, United States would have to he occupied 10th place (he leaders were forced to decline anti were actually building the ders' release,
an invitation to accompany the railway ahead of them. "Serne- consult each other before it entered the Politburo in 1939).
Mr Solwyn Lloyd, Minister of He was seventh on the let in Serretary of Slate, Me" "" "John | times we'd wait while they state for Foreiza "Affairs, told could be decided if Moscow's
current paired the track in front of us.
six the House of Commona, last with We stopped at one stations after Stalin's death and by the
Foster Dulles, on his
hours while they built a small month that the new Hungarian President Syngman Rhee
Senator Knowland said the bridge and ladd 300 yards of Government of Mr Imre Nagy alumn trip would last about trai" he said. China Moll was considering a new British
| Special,
approach in the matter-Reuter, month and would be before an extended ́visit to the aren by Vice President Nixon scheduled for October-Reuter,
trip to Korea to confer The plane, a United States Air
note was an acceptance of the proposal made by the at rail terminals, from an East West for a meeting on Ger many and Austria by the Berlin distribution centre,
A formal statement issued by
Department the State
said:
the restricted presidium formed May Day celebrations this year ahead of Marstal he had already skipped into Afth place Bulgarin and Koganovich, drsta vico-premier.
own rc-
A Potential Fort Knox
Brandy Instead we face instant dis me at the Bri-into the innermost councils of
Of Rum
Hongkong considerable From now on, South African satisfaction. Sir Alexander sailors will
are
POW Exchange Continues
Panmunjom, Aug. B.
The second day of the prisoner exchange under the Korean armistice began at Panmunjom today at 9 am. local time under cloudy skies.
prisoners.
Republican
This was an important promo-
ett open the door for Big Four the yatining of the Kolkhozen jpogrezzolato a
Presse."
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