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Fresh Moscow

Gesture

Uranium Company Reorganised

Berlin, Aug. 25.

The Soviet-owned Wis- muth Company, which has mined millions of tons of uranium-bearing soll for the Russians in East Germany. since the end of World War II, has been transformed into

mixed German-

a

Russian company, the offi. clal East German Newa Agency, ADN, announced tonight.

ADN said that the news was by Herr Otlu announced Grotowohl,

the Enst Gerinan

Prime Minister, in his report on Soviet concessions to East Ger- many negotiuled during bis visit to Moscow Inst week.

He was speaking before the Volkskammer, Lower House of Parliament.

in

East Geriny and Rusala would have "equal khures" the reorganised Wismuth Com- juny.

Hitherto, according to Allied reports. the company, which Belda exploited the uranium

near Aue, Saxony, with German labour, has been registered in Moscow. All directors Soviet citizens.

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The first three Jirectors, Allied reports said, Ilved in

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were responsiblo to the Soviet Ministry of De- fence-whose Interest was in- volved because uranium is, the "raw material" of the atomic bomb.

About 6,000 troops of the Russlan secret police (MVD) organisation helped guard the security of the uranium pro- ject. It consisted of about 200 shafts sunk in the Erzbebirgu,

mountain

running range

along the border of Saxony and

Czechoslovakia,

Up

to 300,000

workero-

voluntary or forced WETE employed in the mlies, accord- Ing to Allied estimates. Many were said to have been sent to the mines after being sentenced for political or economic reasons-China Mull Special.

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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, "AUGUST: 28, 1:53.

The Sweets Ol Another

Friendship

Unusual in his óhoice of companions and in his drinking habits in Reynaud, the fox-whose best friend is Bucar, the apaniel, and whose favourite drink is beer. Reynaud was dug from earth 18 months ago by Mr W. Knight, owner of a pack of beagles and host of the Bell Inn at Ingatestone, Essex. Reynaud was raised with Mr Knight's dogs. Because be likes beer the fox. Is given the lees from the barrels with his food

cach day.—Reuterphoto,

Cool Reaction Of

Spain To

The

Events In Morocco

Madrid, Aug. 25.,

Daring Raid By French Commandos

COASTAL ATTACK · IN SONG YEN ESTUARY

Saigon, Aug. 25.

French and Vietnamese Commandos have struck at the Vietminh in an air-supported attack on the coast near the Song Yen River estuary, 105 miles from Hanoi.

French Navy vessels participating in the at- tack have sunk 10 sea-going junks, a spokesman 'said.

The French Command said that' a Vietnamese guard patrol boat was blown up by a rebel mine on a river 12 miles south of Saigon yesterday. The casualty list included 18 guardsmen missing and 18 wounded.

The latest French offensive dissimilar, were alike in that came as The French Forces' they both took the Vietminh by Commander-in-Chief, General rurprise. This was achieved by Navarre, claimed that he has all ranks keeping the secret and

natched the initiative from his by advance Information. counterpart rebel generalistine, operation between the three ger-

In these operations, Vo Nguyen Glup.

Co-

In an interview published in vices was closer than ever before, the French Forces weekly and the considerable risks taken Journal, the French General, by the air force and navy greatly however, warned that the ex- contributed to the success at the pected Autumn offensive of the ground rebels would be a "tough prob- lem."

Gen. Navarre said that the recent successful blows against rebel installations were mainly

due to the fully-observed secrecy protecting French plans plus "teaks in the bomboo curtain” shrouding Vietminh plans.

Among other factors which

Reviewin

the recent fighting. the Commander-in-Chief said that a number of small posts had been evacuated recently without any pressure from the Vietminh because the rebels had become Ineffective,

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Queen Juliana Visits Flood Areas

Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, followed by officials, pasɛça a group of, workers: clearing away mud-in a street in Kruiningen during a visit to some of the areas in Holland deppäluted by the severe floods last February. Kruiningen has only recently been completely cleared of the flood waters, ---- Express Photo,

Lord Boyd Orr's

Call For Food Talks With Soviet

Copenhagen, Aug. 25.

Lord Boyd Orr, former Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation, today called for talks with Russia to increase” world food production,

He was addressing 400 delegates from 30 countries attending the World Government Movement's Conference

As a result of this regroup had won the French the initia-ing, French and Vietnam night live in recent months Gen. raids had been more and more Navarre listed the re-grouping frequent, and even on the local of French Union

here. troops into echelon, they were beloning to fast-moving task forces which dietate the trend of the war, to Vietminh. In most cases, carry the war into enemy ter- the

they had taken ritory.

The creation of the raiding units was enabled by withdraw ing troops from peripheral out- posle which were of no strategic volut, he said,

HARD FIGHTING

Gen. Novaric predicted hard

4

of the

Survives Fall

Of 100 Feet

Bristol, Aug. 25, Gilbert Taylor, 32-yeaE- old printer of Alexander -Noad, Bristol, who yester

day accidentally fell

fest off the Clifton

ilon bridge,

Bristol,

-100

and

suffered only broken ribe, was stated to be progress- ing satisfactorily at Bristol Royal Infirmary today..

Taylor was

at work

painting the bridge. He jumped on to the

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parapet retrieve a girl's raincoat - which had fallen there; but misjudged, and instead of landing on the parapet foll 100 feet on the slopes of the bridge. — Ching Mall Special

commission had found that War Criminat

Lord Boyd Orr said: "If the, problem with Stalin in Moscow the initiative|| hungry peoples

world during the war.

be- Stalin had replied: "It all in the operations, with the re- were, offered the choice

freedoms and sounds very reasonable,

but sult that most encounters with tween all our

they would America and Britain would never the Vietminh had been success-four sandwiches,

choose the sandwiches. ful.

agree to help!! that

American "Let --- us *täll with tho Saying Russians about

Improving would be possible to double the agriculture and stop the endless world's food production, Lord talk about Capitalism and Boyd Orr added: Communism. Let us talks about "Let us begin by reducing our corn and timber.

expenditure on arms by five per

Bonn, Aug. 25. ¡ The British authorities in cent for this purpose."

The businesamen

released agree but Germany today and say the politicians will never other war criminal from their come in with the plan. Mean prison at Wert, Westphalial while Asia and Africa are begin- ning to revolt."--Reuter.

General Navarre warned that much remálned to be done. For example, many small posts were still invested: others had been taken, by surprise, or captured through treachery, and troops had fallen into ambushes which and sald that the they

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could, and should, have avoided. Furthermore, the Viet

General Rafael Garcia Valino, Spanish. Highghting against the. Vielminh Commissioner in Morocco, today criticised France for in the Autumn... compaigning not having consulted Spain before removing the Sultan season of Morocco.

said: "We should move together in all aspects of drive

In speech in Teluan, Spanish Zone of Morocco, he carry the Aght to the Vietminh. minh, it was known, was pre-

Coughed Up Moroccan evolution.

1944 Bullet

Oldenburg, Aug. 25. former German soldier, Karl Janssen, today coughed out a 16-millimetro

machine-

gun bullet which had lodged in his lungs nine years ago..

"In future it will be difficult | Prince Moulay Hassan said in for an atmosphere of confidence:ply that he esteemed at its just to exit permitting such colla-value the sorrow Expressed by General Garein Valino for "the |boration."

storms which have recently This was Spain's Arst official ravaged the whole of Morocco reaction in the matter.

bringing with them terrible events which have given rise tộ such strong fooling from one end of Morocco to the other.

General Garcia Valino was speaking in the Mexaur Palace

WIDE REPERCUSSIONS

"Thes events are echoed throughout the world where the voice of liberty is heard and in Caliph represents the whose sikies fly the banners of The Sultan of Morocco in the right and democrney," the Spanish Zone.

Caliph sald.

Recent events would affect not only Marocca but the whole Arab and Istunic world, he added.

In 1944, a machine-gun bullet in Tetuan at the customary viit struck

Janssen in the mouth, to the Caliph, Prince Mouiny and entered his left lung. The Hassan, on the feast of Aid el operation to remove the bullet Kebir.

that no at was so dangerous tempt was made to extract it.

Jansson suffered periodically from attacks resembling asthma. He was sent to Dortmund for his health, and suffered a much more severe attack than usual

In a fi of coughing today, ho spit out the bullet. It weighted 15 grammes.-France-Presse.

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General Garein Valiho saigi "I regnet very much as representa tive of Spain your sufferings in the critical moments through which Morocco is passing."

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YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION-Acrom: 1 Armia, 4 Dastard,

Operatio

Annam

the

and the

France-Vietnamese forety should

Camargue (the

Vietminh in paring revenge in the camps on high plateau at Vish and the

rice-nolds) Swallow" (the inson rad) Thanh Hoa. had already shown cracks in the Vietminh "curtain of mystery

Both these operations, Gen. Navarre wrote, though apparently

"IKE" AND

MEXICAN PRESIDENT

TO MEET

the

Denver, Aug. 25. President Eisenhower will "Spain continues to give meet the President of Mexico, proof that she fulis faithfully Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, on all her agreements and keeps United States Mexican border October 19 to dedicato her word and is sincere in her on

Falcon Dam on the Rio Grande, promises," he declared.-Reu-

It was announced today,

LOT.

"Cobalt Bomb

Would Be Act

Of Madman"

officials

The regrouped French Union troops will be increased in two months' time by 19 battalions, according to an announcement by the Vietnam Army, Opera- tions

chief, General Yan Han

In

Van.

said that the light battalions, the first part of the 34

- battalion fonce to be trained by the end of tho year, would be stationed some vital sectors of the Red River della around Hanol and the rice flelds which are pected to be the rebel offen- sive's main target. United Press and France-Presse.

<<X-

Motion Of

Censure

Colombo, Aug. 23. Opposition members in Cey- lon's House of Reprezentatives

President Elsonhower.. willl speaks at the function. It will (Lower House) are bringing a probably be a major address, non-confidence motion against the Presidential press secretary, the Government, charging it Mr Ja

James C. Hagerty, said. with "having signally failed" to Other presidential

engage solve any of the country's major ments announced today by problems.

at Mr Elsenhower's

It also charged the Govern hollday headquarters include ment

with having falled "to pay speeches at Kansas City hood to the universal opposition 99 Missouri, on October 15.

and of the people to the withdrawal New Oricans

on October 17. of the rice subsidy." The Kansas City speech, at (The Ceylon Government, re- the convention of the farmers cently. withdrew the subsidy Canberra, Aug. 25.

of America, is also likely to be on rice because It was the main Professor Marcus Oliphant,

Mr Hagerty cause of the budget defleit. Director of Physical Sciences at a major address,

saide September 28 the Pre of rice.)

Riots followed increased prices the Australian National. Univer- sity, said, tonight; "Only, a mad-

sident of Panama, Jose Antonio The motion of no confidence man would use the cobalt bomb. Remon, will visit President in the Government is to be de

"IL is a two-edged weapon Eisenhower in Washington. which would

bated in the House on Septem- CRUSO as much! Falcon Dam will serve the ber 1. damage the attacker as to the lower Rio Grande Valley, It

members have attacked."

Opposition ries 160 feet above the river AN

notice given

of the motion Professor Oliphant was com- and was built up jointly by the which

WDS sighed by Mr. menting on a London press ́re United States and Moxico under port that Britain might test a the 1944 treaty Chin Mall S. R. W. D. Bandaranaike, the Opposition lender, Mr Pleter cobalt bomb, at Woomera range Special.

Kouneman, a Communist leader, and Dr. N. M. Pero, a Trotskyito Cama Samajlat leader.-China, Mall Special.

here in October.

Professor

Oliphant said the cobalt bomb worked

the

On

theory that by mixing cobalt with atomic bomb material, scientists could produce radio- activity strong enough to con taminate the bombed area for perhaps years.

Aussie Meat

För Russia.

Melbourne, Aug. 20. Australian Department

The

of Commerce has issued per- mits for the export to Russla such o Nobody would use

of kome canned ment and thing because it would mean the area would be inaccessible mutton, Mr J. L. Shute, Chair- the radio- man of the Meat Board, sald off," he ex- today.

to anyone until activity had worn plained-Reutor,

Woman Barrister

To Prosecute

will present His Board had avaliable 1,000 against 83 Kikuyus

Nairobi, Aug.

25 Kenya's first woman bar. rister, Katherine Patricia Hurst, the Crown's case charged tons of mutton for sale on

with murder in the biggest trader-to-irader bails to any trial ever held in Konya, and,

Judge's Appointment country that wanted Soviet arm possibly, the biggest ever in the

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meal

London, Aug. 25. The appointment of Francis

:

written had recently Australian companies

to

all

British Empire, exporting uyus will be charged the murder of Chick Lake Becking ahipments

during the LdH maásáéro," The trial: »will bibe, v-hold wo int thunguri, where, the Supreme Court been

Pasion `àlmast, continuquay-šince. Aphi,

8 Ppor, D Indi, 10 Visible, 11 Dals, 12 Pore 14 Leisure, 17 Arthur Briggs, Puishe Judge in Amuse, 19 Vague, 22 Treated, 20 Vend, 27 Sato, 28 Manager, 29 the Federation of Malaya, to be of beef, mutton and pork

of Appeal, Eastern There was no statement from Faro, 30 Rent, 31 Streets,, 32 Sitod. Down: 2 Random, 8 Spades, Justice 4 Devil, 6 Arles, Tins, 7 Ruter, 13 Pact, 18 Ruso 18 Urgo, African Court of Appeal, was the Department of Commerce 10 Eked, 18 Desert, 20 Averts, 21 Untrue, 23 Hoast, 24 Aware, afinounced in tonight's London regarding the Soviet permits.

Gazelle.-Rauter;/

25 Darte:

Reuter

-France-Presse?"

Legless Man Swims To Safety

Released

He was Heinrich Meister, 47, who had been sentenced to death on January-22,-1046--at- Hamburg for having been con- derried in the --- kiiling of . 30 Allied onto top

"Mr Truman, when President, once made this proposal, nearly 10

years of talk have taken place.

"We tried to take this step in the food and agriculture co- ference in Copenhagen in 1946,

T but time

was premature. Now the has

come for action. "Many say that the Western countries are willing but that the Russians would never come

Innsbruck, Aug. 25. in. But I can tell you some- Alois Geschwandtner, ** an thing else the Russians have Austrian who lost both legs He was released on the ex- during the war, swam to safety piry of his sentence, remission Lord Boyd Orr recalled that when his car föll into the for good conduct and, pre-trial Mr Fiorello LaGuardia (the late Achensee

the Tyrol) custody having been taken into Mayor of New York)-"that yesterday, the police reported account, British officials sold great American" discussed this today, Reuter,

Reuter.

never been asked."

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His, sentence was commut to life imprisonment and lab reduced to 10 years' imprison marit,

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