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In replace the old. At the Fl of March J wide amnesty w granted by decree. Many thousands

of convicted prisoners were released and thousands of

others had their sentence i balved. It was noted the Lime guilty

that prisonera counter.

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the the

revolutionary Activities or of offences against the Stale Strelf were excluded. Nevertheless the amnesty was a fact and seemed #ignificant one. At same time there was outspoken condemnation of the methods of the security police in the ease of the Moscow doctors who had been Calsely accused of attempting

poisor to prominent Soviet personali- ites and who had been coerced into making untrue confessions of their gullt. THESE

were

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мікам. But even more hopeful was the announce ment that there was to be

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IN BELGRADE

Big 3 Meeting

Symbolic Parade By Called

Yugoslav Students

BRITISH READING

READING ROOM

RANSACKED

Belgrade, Oct. 13.

Tens of thousands of Yugoslavs crowded Belgrade strects again tonight, demonstrating against the `Anglo-American decision to hand over zone "A" of Trieste to Italy, Tanjug, official Yugoslav news agency, re- ported.

Churchill Proposal To Be Discussed

London, Oct. 18. The Big Three Western Foreign Ministers are to meet here this weekend at which Britain is expected to seek American and French support for highest level talks with Russia.

the

Str Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, made the proposal for heads of elate of Russia and the Three Big Western powers to meet on world problenu last May and

Greeted by deafening whistling and catealls, ten students dressed revived It on Saturday.

us Italian police and bishops rode through the capital symbolising "the entry of Italian troops into Trieste," Tanjug said.

An effigy of "Italian imperialism" was burned by demonstrators at another place in the capital.

Tanjug described tonight's demonstrations as "the acme of the resent- ment of the Yugoslav people.'

The agency said all traffic. in the capital had come to a stop while pro- cossions filled the streets, carrying banners, flags and streamers.

The British and United States information centres were cordoned off by demonstration at militia while, about 200 yards away, Belgrade students held 11 Students Square.

Earlier today Yugoslav student demonstrators entered the British reading. room here through a back window, removed all the magazines and newspapers, and made a bonfire of them in the street.

said.

Among the few items leti Trieste ware enforced, Tanjug the great Powers to decide their belind was a picture of Sir Winston Churchill, pinned on the wall out of reach. The do monstrators also tried to remove a number of documentary Alms, but were caught by the police ns they trled to lako them Away.

Announcing the Foreign Ministers meeting tonight, the Foreign Office said the British Foreign Seerotary had invited Mr John Foster Dulles, the United States Secretary of State, and Mr Georges Bidault, French Foreign Minister. "to. discuss problems of common interest,"

The talks will take place on Friday and Saturday," They

high will give

priority

to Trieste following Presidon: Tito's threat to march into zanej "A" If Italian troops take over from the Anglo-American forces,

obstacle to prevent a solution of Trisle immediate and drastic

داز

guarantee

under the

reform of the penal code, For it is the penal code with

provisions for sentencing to imprison- ment or exile "by decree of an administrative organ" in other words without any kind of trial — which had made nonsense of the constitution. Six months have passed since the pro clamation of the amnesty and the promise of reform of the penal code. What pro- gress has been made? So far there is none to report. No more has been heard of the penal code. It WALA not mentioned at the August session of the Supreme Soviet. Mr Malenkov in a speech lasting nonrly two been told to "act vigorously" hours said not single against such offenders.

21 word about it, or about the constitutional

measures,

in

(The Tagliamento is river

MAIN OBJECT

The main object of the meet- fate without their_agreement." ing, which Mr Anthony Eden The question of prestige had proposed.batore the Anglo already" become the principal American decizion10 quit was announced, is to the situation caused by tho review and plan future Western Anglo-American decision, the strategy

trying to reich added. "But stubborn settlement with Eastern European newspaper insistence on an unjust decision countries and People's China. will bring an even fuller loss of High in iliis, category

will prestige in many parts of the come the proposed conference to world, and will cause even solve the post-armistice Korean greater: bitlemess among the problem. The United Nations citizens of Yugoslavia," it warn- countries with forces in Korea

cd.-Reuter.

people of

have now agrised that the United

States should hold a preliminary conference with People's China

at Parumunjoin on October 25,

This will negotiate the timing

Germany

Recovery

Smiling happily, Ginette Cohen, the six-year-old girl who was shot In the head in Egypt, and was flown to England for an operation, leaves hospital with her parents Mr and Mrs Vicior, Cohen, after a remarkable and rapid recovery-London Express,

Important Mau Mau Trial Opens

Nairobi, Oct. 13...

Two young Kikuyus were charged before the Supreme Court here today with "conspiring to assist Mau Mau" in what was described by the Crown as the "most important Mau Mau trial since Kapenguria."

The prosecution said the two Kikuyus

Kirlo, son

of Gitumu, and Kamau, son of Gatama were members of the Mau Mau Central Committee.

"We say these men are part of the General Staff of the terrorist organisation who make operations in the forests possible," the Crown Counsel said.

"Yugosinvie has taken ail measures necessary #ió' prevent | the Anglo-American decision on Trieste being implemented," Mr Krajger was reported to have told cheering cro. 4.

The

The news Agency

also quoted Tonight, the protocol section the speaker es szying that Italy of the Yugoslav Foreign Office and Yugoslavia would be on an Invited British Embassy officials equal fooling "only when the to discuss the situation.

frontier between them is on the Tagliamento And when The Protocol Chief, M. Sloven Yugoslav border embraces all the Smodlaka, sald that existing conditions, the Yugo-villages and regions inhabited

by Slovenes,"

KEEP CALM, APPEAL slav chorities could no longer the. security of the British and American reading

well inside Italy; und at its

Trieste, Oct. 13. rooms

Pro-Italian newspapers here without exceptional mouth is about 40 miles west of

today called on the

and place of the full Korea Tiese measures Trieste.)

and ex ""We do not demand a recti-Trieste--to remain calm as the political...conference. were being discussed between

with city tensed to meet big de change views on its composition. the Embassy and the Yugoslavs. fication of the frontier

for to- On European Italy

problems, the but, if there is talk about monstration scheduled

themorrow by Yugoslavs from all Ministers will first approve the The Yugoslav Home Office, equality, we must raise

Anglo-American zone. text of the new, Western Mr over the

note referring to yesterday's incidents question, of our frontier."

The draft, which the British and American Krajger was reported to have The meeting was called by to Russia information centres in Belgrade, sald.

parties formed largely of Slavs has been drawn up by Western to who supported Yugoslavia, and experts here, is expected to warned tonight that police had

THE ATLANTIC PACT was in answer to a small pro-renew the Big Three invitation Italian procession by high school to

Mr Vyacheslav Molotov, press students here yesterday. Referring to Italian

Soviet Foreign Minister, to

and The Home Office, quoted by speculations whether the Atlan-

Folice, by late tonight, had conference on rights of Tanjug, the

be put into Yugosiny tic Pact would Soviet citizens which (It news agency, said militis had operation if Yugoslavia resisted, not yet announced whether or Austria at Lugano Switzerland,

the probably around November 9 where permit

Router. promised in guarded the information centres Mr Krajger said: "If the At-not, they would

demonstration. If it does take April) would be "ancredly yesterday against demonstrators, lantic Pact is a real defence pact

police

LEAVES TODAY observed" or about "Sovict The statement added that the for the nations of Europe, they place with or without

observers believe legality." The phrase once centres were open and working will have to protest against the permission

clash between decision of the United States there will be

Washington, Oct. 13. Italian supporters.

„and the fewer The United States Secretary recurrent day after day in normally.

been.

Yugoslav the Soviet press has

of State, Mr John Foster Dulles, supporters, withdrawn from circula-

"In that case, its members The city's population, nervous will have Washington rirport The Home Office statement would have to raise the question after President Tito's threat that for London tomorrow night for

The Kenya Legislature to- also denied the correctness of of the further membership of his troops would march into a ble three conference with the foreign press and news agency Italy In the Atlantic Pact." zone "A" if Italian forces took foreign ministers, of Britain and night debated a motion by

Tha

Commnumirt

State Department member : V. Cooke criticising: of yesterday's

asked by the pro-France, over, were zaki

the Government's handling of and newspaper. Borba,

the the British

Italian newspapers today to spokesman said today. Anglo-American degision to to drop such reforms can American information centres

Ignore alarmist propaganda. He will take with him.only the emergency, raturi Trieste Cily to Italy was "Alarm is

unjustlied," the two advisers Mr Douglas Mac There in the capital, in particular an example of the dictation of

Stating his motion only be surmised.

was one that they had been "aliacked" the big Pawora to small Powers reply to Yugoslav propaganda" Arthur, the State Department's of "no confidence »"

Giornale di Trieste said in a

Mr Cooke is a natural inclination to

by demonstrators, and even which

And nephew Counsellor

of complained link it with the

that operations fall

reminiscent Was of "destroyed."

and Munich.

General MacArthur,

Ms against Mau Mou were, not Beria and to conclude that The

remember that Robert Powers

head of the boing Bowic, officin Yugoslav news Barba called on the big

conducted with the he was the advocate and

armed forces have Policy Planning Staff of the necessary vigour, determination, which their action taken all measures necessary to protagonist of reform ・and / "gency reported 10,000 people to stop and think of the con- stala ust

Slate

Imagination and sense of urgency. Department, that he and it vanished attended a mass mosting tonight sequences

BEY at Koper, in the Trieste zone B. would have on the reputation of meet

the emergency,"

Mr Dulles was expected to simultaneously. An alterna- They heard Mr Boris Krajger, the dolomacy of great Powers newspaper sald

arrive in London on Thursilay. Fifteen Yugoslav tive surmise is that the a member of the Yugoslav all over the world,

corvelles He is due to retum to the United "Yugoslavin and the majority and two sloops were anchored States on Sunday without visiting promises were made by a Government, say that "there will"

in this part of of small and medium-sized off Capodistria, a promontory in any other points in Europe new Government uncertain be no peaco of Itaclf

on States would no longer permit Yugoslav zone B, Just south of

had

tion.

THE

been

official

MASS MEETING

E reasons which have led the Soviot Government description first to promise and

soon us

then events in

decision

and Britain.

Yugoslry

Decisive Talks Predicted

and seeking Europe" it the popularity; and that the promises were forgotten as the Government felt necure. The satellite atates k always follow the Soviet pattern and horo it has been discerniblo that not only have they failed

a moro

informal taiko

with

of

12

today.

the Anglo-American: zone, It Router. was reliably reported on Sun-

day. They were said to be still

today. there

Tel. 21433.

Alleged Murderess Laughs In Court

Sydney, Oct. 18. 63-year-old Mrs. Carolino Grills, who has been BC. cused of murdering three people, two of them rela- tives, and attempting to murder two others, laughed in court today, when it was suggested that she had im- pregnated a jar of ginger with rat poison.

She appeared in the Centra) Criminal Court here today on one of the charges that fot adtempting to murder with poison her totally blind sister- In-law, Mrs Eveline Lundberg,

69.

.

Mrs Grills, short and plump, niso awelta trial on charges of, murdering her stepmother, Mrs Christina Louls Adelaide Mickelson, 67 and Mrs Angelina Thomas, 83, a family friend, i

She had been further charged In lower courts with murdering Mrs Mary Ann Mickelson, her brother's wife, and attempting to murder Mrs Christina Eveline Downey, 47, Mrs Lundberg'a daughter.

Mrs Grills told the court to day that she had taken some rat poison to the Lundberg's home about five or six years ago, but denied putting it in any food or drink,

EXPLANATION -

Grills said there was no thallum pest exterminator

or any other poison in her. pocket when the vialted Mrs Lundberg on April 2 last year and added that she had not. served her with a cup of tea on that day.

2

Asked to explain how one- eleventh of a grain of thallons miphate was found in the pocket of the dress she was wearing that day, Mrs Grills said she noted

hud

e rat in tho backyard. of her hoste after the had dressed to go bilk

She did the poison, gob or ther hand while she was preparing with..some, bread. “I put “mo hand in my pocket for a hand kerchief and

anky thing 1 cm explain,” she added. Mrr Grills, who told the cours

Lundberg

that is the

she tookar of ginger to Dire

last February, was asked by her counsel did you

ever zout the ginger das ihallit or do anything to it with • à hypodermic syringe?”---

Sho replied with a mugh “On no"

"The trial was : adjoumed— Heuter.

· ALLEGED · TRUCE

VIOLATIONS

One witness who admitted

Panmunjom, Oct. 13, Opposing both the motion and having taken the Mau Mauthe

tho

The Communists · fled ning Chief amendment,

Potter, minor truce violation charges subscriptions alb, described today a meeting Secretary, Mr H. S.

were referred to the recent drastic against the United Nations to handed

08 measures in over and where,

Nairobi and said day. everyone stood facing Mount the fact there, had been no The Reds" alleged that Allied Kenya, Kirio led them in the labour standstill in the city aircraft crossed the trisce line

Communist authorities ""were into

territory Frayer "that God should grant showed the

United Pres), us powers to get Europeans ahead of the enemy."---Reuter. out of our country and loave

the country for ourselves,"

ARMY'S ULAIM

heels of an Army Headquarters His complaint. came on the report that security forces hind killed 100 Mau Mau terrorista and captured a further 108 in one of their most succcesful weeks since, the + Kenya KIDATA gency. begaIN -

Strange Object Which drink

Radio Trieste tonight, broad- Strange Object

cast a message from the Allied Com- Military Government

up just

Sighted

Of the 108 terrorista captured five were wounded General Cairo: Oct. 18. mander, General Sir John

Erskine's Headquarters maid.......... Teheran, Oct. 13. Major Salah Salem, Egypt's Minister of National Winterton, banning all political

A metal-like object, sighted Moro than 1,000 Africans, to live up to assurances of Guidance, predicted tonight that the next Anglo-Egyptian | meetings and processions.

The message said: "In the over three towns in northwest

were screened in, the drive, to expected on Saturday or "liberal" polley. meeting on the Canal issue

Nairobi of the *** intereste

of people of Persia over the weekend, has clear

anti-social but that in Eastern Gor- Monday will be decisive,

widespread spectation elements, of which 1,100 of Trieste and zone A, the Com- cauard mány and Czechoslovakla

Major Salem, one of the five-discussed Britain's right to re-mander of the zone: belleves here, authoritative sources said them were charged with various offeracion before ...magistrates there has been an inton- allication of repression

man Egyptian delegation to the occupy the Canal zone base in that it is now the moment to today.

the con. The object was scen travelling courts and over 800 were retr Britain's the case of attack-but that this Buspend temporarily

the northeast tencbd to varying terms of im- especially in the trade General Sir Brian Robertson has been discussed witherit | ccasion authorising meetings, at high speed to unione while in Poland and Mr Robert Hankey, declared previous consultation with the processions and demonstrations and reported to have blown prisonment and ordered to be front of Hamadan, repatriated to Kikuyu reserves, there has boon developed 'n at a press conference tonight:

on the part of political spela about halfway between. Mr. Michael Blundell, leader Egyptian Government.: now offensive against the "Wo, will discuss fully and

border, of the Europears elected mem- Teheran and the Iraq Catholic Church,: Thoro frankly. the

One of the "biggest problemsons and parties."Reuter overall picture for

WILL RESIST -

the scurons wold,

"bers, (moved an emerdment to has been a modification of the settlement of the glant Suez facing the negotiators, Major

Army units may be sent out Mr Cooke's motion, the malu economic policy, but there Canal military, bayo and try to Balem sald on Sunday, was the

Washington, Oct. 13 to soch the neighbouring purpose of which, was, to write question of uniforms for the has been no "liberalisation" reach decisive rosulis,”

The Yugoslav Foreign Minis, mountainous area for fragments | Uis Colonial Secretary, to allow Major Balem sald last Satur-4,000-Brilish technicians who

after an hour-long talk with the to trace its origin, i

the Kenya, Governament, 2 Secretary of State,,Mr John Egyptians would not accept Foster Dulles, that his Govern-One account said the dying The majority of his colleague. the presence of uniformed ment would resist with all object had a brilliant head and he said, could not wupport a curving """ tail - of- flame- mition of no confidence in the He said the negotiators during Britons in their country, hejmeans" ma Améridan-British

Governmetit, the last three months" had added.--Reuter,

characters of the regimes, day that he believed it would were to stay behind to work ter, Mr. Koca Popovic, said today of the mysterious missile so se jigtester powers of choclators by

and no change la the

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