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COMMENT, OF

THE DAY

The Beria Mystery

Lavrenti Boria,

the

I deposed chief of the Soviet

secret police, has escaped from Russia and is looking for friendly asylum in the United States,, it is event

of tremendous significance. But the reports must be treated with the greatest circumspection. It need surprise nobody that' following the original report published by American newspaper that Beria bnd flown out of Russia and found sanctuary in the "deep Houth of Europe", he has now been "located" by another news- paper in Spain. This is the sort of sensational chain reaction welch develops

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Escape Story Backed

By Nicaraguan

MYSTERY GROWS

Paris, Sept. 23.

The Madrid correspondent of the Paris when an event of world-wide evening newspaper, Le Monde, today said that a importance is claimed, but Nicaraguan named Falla claimed to have met happened, it is not easy to Lavrenti Beria, former Russian Interior Minister, accept the. Berla

escape in a Gibraltar-registered near Malaga, in

nur proven. to have

story on face value because southern Spain. it enn be taken for granted i

car

that when the Kremlin i The Monde correspondent said Senor Falla hierarchy decide

to was the source of the Madrid newspaper ABC's Time For A

employ every

liquidate one of the State's report that Mr Beria had parachuted to Spain. highest officials, they are i going 10

The Monde correspondent, Mr Jean Creach, possible safeguard against generally reported to be one of the best informed la escape from the coun- French newspapermen in Spain, added that Senor try. It is not inconceivable Falla was known in Spain and particularly in time before he was publicly Malaga as a multi-millionaire,

that Berla realised some

than

4

was on

Demarche Says Bevan

disgraced that he

The report added that for the past two years Russia's "Facade Of Malenkoy's black list, and Senor Falls had claimed to have very close connections It may also be assumed that with Mr Richard Nixon, the United States Vice- Belligerency" occupying the position he President, and Senator Joseph McCarthy. did he was in

London, Sept. 23. better position

muxt

ile also to

the claimed connection whether

documents and Mr Aneurin Bevan, left. with the manager

of the San subsequent batches given to his wing Labour leader, today successfully plan an escape

Diego from

Union, Californian agents were genuine. the country. Thus newspaper, which first published

The while the natural inclina-the report that

dieguments-habl been said that "Mr Vyshinsky Mr Berla had bandes over Co Ured States will maintain a facade of tion is to dismiss the story escaped from Russia.

officials. They chime to des out belligerency when Russia is of his flight to freedom na

The Monde account said that United States, out 3cbet

Soviet sabotage plans against the at her weakest.

ther on Sunday evening,

Senor more like training exercises, the "The be Falla

tried to get "high Colonel rat

demarche to Russia. If the Spanish Ogure to arrange a Colonel Amoss was warime meeting between General heat of the Estem European the Spanish Chief of Divinor of the Office of Strategic the San Diego Services. Now retired from ammy service the heats the privately financed International Services of Information with headquarters published before hore-Realer.

a hoax, the possibility of

it being true cannot

entirely dismissed.

WHAT does appear to be Franco,

and

A

State, established beyond doubt Union manager. is that Homeone, either The report pointed cut that Berla or an impersonator the report of Mr Berla's flight has been making overtures through intermediaries for

not WON

Monday.

sanctuary in the United Senor Falla claimed that the States in exchange for San Diego newspaper manager Soviet state secreta. If had a letter to General Franco

it in Berin, the Western from Mr Nixon, who comes from

California.

Faila,

allies could expect to secure

Senor "According to information of even greater

after a mysterious rendezvous importance than that given in front of a Malaga bank and to Russia by Anglo-at kilometre 17 of the road to American atom spics. The Algeciras, he had met Mr Berls former, secret police chief accompanied by two Spaniards possesses complete know-in a

ald.

Monde

ledge of the intricate Soviet correspondents said to have

Was

The

Soviet Purge Spreads

The

moment

Is ripe for a

United Stales insiste that ideo- logical barriers should stand be- fore world reconciliation, the United States will be more re- sponsible than Russia for a new war."

Speaking of the position of England toward other nations, Mr Bevan added, "I am morO convinced that only in taking

between Russia

and the

middle Pod States can, we save pace. India has shown the

way. As before, the Conserva- tive government has ranged it- self behind the United States."

"If the United States does not

he modify its policy," said, "nothing can prevent a head-on collision

between, Russia America

"In

and

the green car." "Mr Beris operators working oversens.

Spain on Even more important, he is that he possessed the names of and September 10, aware of the identity of all Communists camouflaged in spread today traitors who are working to- the services of Western nations, day for Russia in the Le Monde said.--Retiler. Western countries. With RECEIVES DOCUMENTS this information the whole

spy system and the principal told him that he had landed in Caucasus areas of Russia, where opinion is not anti-American or

свсаре

man

Baltimore, Sept. 23,

"Mr.

дасе

Floods In

The NT

McCARTHY AGAIN!

New York, Sept. 23.

Senator Joseph McCarthy (Republican, Wis- consin) urged today that the United States with- hold aid to Britain unless she stopped trade with Communist China.

"We do not want Allies who cringe and sur- render in the face of an enemy threat or who lick the enemy's hand and furnish him with the weapons of war," he said in a speech here.

This was a renewal of qttacks which Senator McCarthy do- Hvered on the same topic in May. At that time, he said, "Let's sink every accursed ship carrying materials that result in the death of American boys."

1

Rebuilding Of Famed Church

London, Sept. 24.

DEEPLY TOLERANT London, Sept. 23.

this

public country, the Trans- purge in Lavrenti Beria's Influence was anti-Russian Public opinion is formerly extremely strong, deeply tolerant, We have behind to the little aule us a powerful body of opinion nomous Soviet state of Dagestan, for peace to mobilise,"

Bovan concluded his which borders Georgia, Berla's

speech by stressing the import home state.

ance of the German danger. Colonel Julius Amoss, head The local radio from Mak-Once the rearmament of Ger- of Russia's carefully built-

Senator McCarthy, addressing mon-many is accomplished, he said, convention of the American up international espionage of a private information ser-hach-Kala, in Dagestan,

Institute of Wholesale Plumbing dis-war will inevitably follow. Ger ring could be smashed out vice, said here he had received tored here, reported the

St. Clement Danes Church, from a missal of two Deputy Premiers mán unity can not be achieved and Heating Supply Associations once one of London's loveliest of existence. It is this batch of documents

claiming to represent of Dagestan in a reshuffle also then except through

today, displayed

London buildings but now a burnt-out possibility which demanda Lavrent! Beria,

fallen

Russian involving several other Minis- forces, he added, for the

wartime ruin, is to be restored that the growing reports of Minister of the Interior.

berial changes.

will never allow a unified Ger newspaper clipping. Berla's

He quoted it as reporting an and used by the Royal Air lms The man purporting to be a

many to join the Western camp. Major claim that the A session of the Supreme Mr Bevan said that he con- investigated until it is com-Soviets

increase in shipments of goods Force as its only permanent

Britain were intended

to Communist church. Soviet of the Uttle Republic, sidered Western insistence to from pletely established whether show that Beria was willing to

It will be restored to the which has a coastline along the

Chim before the Korean truce: create the European Defence they are genuine or false, divulge Kremlin secrets in re- Caspian pea, also approved a Community as the best way to He added that members of the richly carved, delicate style of This may be the West's turn for asylum in the United decree which deprived Beria of keep Germany permanently di- British House of Commons had the 17th century architect, Sir golden opportunity to fling States. Colonel Amoss said membership of the Dagestan vided and perpetuate the danger spoken of Britain's intention to Christopher Wren, who designed aside the Iron Curtain, there was "considerable doubt" | Supreme Soviet.

of war,

The only solution, he increase this trade, The dismissed Vice Premiera salt, is to unify Germany and and in were named as Adzhtove and to keep her unarmed

order to avold her competition Yusupov (no first namYLLO wort given). The Supreme Soviet of on world markets, to force her can't sit idly by" while Ameri- war two, and only

Walls and the tower remain. Dagestan confirmed their dia- to contribute to a work fund for

and the Chinese Communists did But the carved wooden galleries mismal and also the appointment equipment a sum tantamount to a passible military budget. —

not account for others,

and pink plaster carved celling ns First Deputy Premier of a

France-Presse. hominee named Shamkalov.

France Presse. The Dagestan reshuffle follows the announcement yesterday of

of Georgia's

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The church was set on fire by Sonator McCarthy said: We German bombs during

worldl the stone

can troops were still imprisoned

The Senator said an effective blockade of

are to be re

rebuilt.

the China const church has stood on the could be set up without using of the Strand, for nearly one Stone Island site, in the middle a single ship.

the 'small-faradze, and Real Life Drama For example," he said, ""wa

the First Secretary of the Central

Committee of the For TViewers

Georgian Communiat

A.2. Mirishkalava, together

| thousand years. “....

The first church, it is said, Britala merely toll

that not was built in the time of Alfred the Great, about “AD · 800.-—-- Party,

ondent-not one furting-of Chicago, Sept. 23. the billions we voted to streng- China Mail Specint with some other Party officials. Television viewers today saw then her will be given her on

dramatic

of a long as she ships one rescue

single MARTIAL LAW Soviet Republic, Azerbaijan, woman who had climbed on to tem to Red China." which borders Georgia and a 20th floor ledge of a sky Ho said that Hof course, the { Dagestan, the Prime Minister, scraper here and threatened toppensers will scream that this Mir Djafar Abbasovich Bagirov Jump to her death. was expelled from the

In

a third. Trans-Caucasian the

munist Party in July.

Com-

and

and

it

PROCLAIMED

Teheran, Sept. 28, For more than an hour, from we will have to go

alone."

Martial law! was groclaimed fired office workers

police, Areman

in two Iranian cities, near tho "We do not want to go it Soviet border, it was learned For many years up to 1938, a priest Beria was Security chief with tried to reason with the woman, alone," Mr McCarthy said, but here tonight

*thono Allies those alleged Th juridiction over the Trone Millicent Armin, aged 30.

These were repressive. was rescued when she || Allles-must be for us for surer Sho Coucous areas of Russia,

against opponents in recent years he had con reached back into the building against us. We can't tako half Premier Zahedi's regime were. stued to maintaka close

being stepped up. The two cities with there Soviet Republics. enabled her rescuers to

This week'a 'developmenta In her arm and pull her to safety, island in a Communist son, then the shores of the -- Casplan. Sen, Georgin`atid Dagestan seem to The incident was relayed we will go ft alone, and, as halp and Tabas, in the Khorasan Indiente that the purge of "Beria throughout the country by a me God, we will win it alone, province near the eastern Soviet "men", cortiniow-Reuter.

local television studio-Reuter. Reuter.

|frontier-France-Presse,

links to pat her pet, boxer dog and in mich; "If we are left on an are Scumeh' Serns near: Resht on

Anglo-Egyptian Agreement Soon

London, Sept. 23.

An agreement in principle and possibly a settlement of the Anglo-Egyptian dispute over the Suez Canal zone was expected by members of Parliament here today to be announced before Parliament re-assembles at the end of October.

Backbenchers of both sides of the House said they believed that the Foreign Secretary, Mr Anthony Eden, "would like to have the Anglo- Egyptian agreement in the bag" before Parlia- ment re-opens "because there is bound to be fire- works when the question comes up in the Commons."

They did not discount the have been going on in Cairo possibility that Mr Eden might were so called because

of

nly to Cairo from Grecce to protocol but actually they were put the final touches" to the negotiations." Angla - Egyptian agreement The Foreign Office maintained

before he files back to London its complete silence about the on September 30.

Anglo-Egyptian situation but a "degree of great optimism" was reported from the Egyptian Embasry here.

The possibility of a final settlement being reached soon was also cot discounted.

Members of Parliament sold that the "Informal talks which

Last week's torrential raing caused the Shum

· Chun River to overflow its banks and flood the countryside near Lok Ma Chau in the New Terri tories. These two plc- tures illustrate the extent of the floods. Top shows acres of paddy fields under water, and above, a Bally bridge awash just out side of Taipo. The flood waters have since receded. -Photos by A. F. Prior,

North America

Africa

Reports from Cairo suggested that an announcement of settlement

might be expected, very soon, but ble cure hero belleved

that it would be today.

no

It was pointed out that there must be some points which must be referred back to Lon- don and that the flani word on the British side must be given. when the Prime Minister, Sir

Winston Churchill, holds D Cabinet meeting called for next weck.

Members of Parliament said that foreign affairs, with the Suez Canal question high on the list, continue to dominate the discussion of the top rank- ing Ministers who are anxious to ensure that by the time Parliament reassembles there will be no real opening for an attack on the Government's. todign polley-United Press,

Socialists' Foreign Policy

London, Sept. 23. The Labour Party's National

Committee today: Executive agreed on the lines of a new foreign policy statement which includes proposals for "neutra lising" both Formosa and Korea. The

- statement, to be issued eve of Labour # Saturday, anual delegate conference, will

German oppose

"genuine effort" has been made. to get It is four-power negotiations, authoritatively learned. — Reu-

СП

also

rearmament until

DET,

Protests To UN

New York, Sept. 23. Guatemala protested in the United Nations General As sembly today against "the con=- tinued occupation" of - Belize (British Honduras) by Britain. --Router.

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