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COMMENT OF THE DAY
Moving Forward MR, Lyttelton's rejection
of the 12,000-signature petition for elected repre- sentatives to the Legislative Council and the introdue- Llon on the same day of a Bill to extend the Urban. Council voting franchiso provide an interesting, though probably accidental coincidence, The dls- appointment which the ardent reformists who spon- nored the polition feel over Mr Lyttelton's decision may be somewhat assuaged by: Government's Intest move to ineet popular wishes for in- creasing the Urban Council
electorate. It is, at any rate, a move in the right, direction, and when the Bill becomes effective cundidaten elected to the Council will be entitled to feel that they represent to
greater
degree the articulato and civic-conscious sections of the community. · Extension of the franchise may also bo the immediate fore- runner of increased Urban Counell powers. A correlated question also raised is that of enlarging still further the composition of the Council, for if it is to be endowed with added responsibilities it will most certainly need more members to share 'In the Jaborious but highly im- portant select committee work.
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BERIA TO GO ON TRIAL Now Under Railways
Merkulov Planned To Overthrow
Dismissed
Moscow, Dec. 16.
V. N. Merkulov, the mitilater named in the State Prosecutor'a miale» ment on Beria lins since been dismissed from the office of Minister of State Control, newspapers here disclosed today.
The State Prosecutor's Katement sald Beria and his associates “had murder- ed People who they thought might expose them."
had killed MI. S. a member of the party from 1902, a former member of the Presidium of the All-Russian Ex- traordinary Commission (Veolicka) and member of the GPU Collegium
under Dzerzhinaky,
Tlie
statement on Merkulov said: "In connee- tion
with the fact that the proseculor disclosed cri- minal anti-state actions of V. N. Merkulov during the ' period of his work in tha organ of the MGB (Interior Ministry) and the MVD (Ministry of State Security) of the USSR. the Pre- eldium of tho Supreme Bovlet
Council of the of Ministers of the USER, on
September 17, 1053, dismissed V. N. of Merkulov trom the post Minister of State Control of the USSR."Renter. -
Queen Lands At Suva
Soviet Regime Says Indictment
SIX OTHER MEN CHARGED
Paris, Dec. 16.
The trial of former Soviet Minister of the Interior, Lavrenti Bēria, dreaded chief of Russia's far-flung network of secret police and, at one time, reckoned to be second only to Stalin in power, will take place shortly, the official Tass agency reported tonight after publishing a sum- mary of the indictment against the former minister, who was placed under arrest shortly after the assumption of power by the present Soviet Premier, Georgi Malenkov.
The Tass summary, which discounted all rumours that Beria had escaped out of Soviet Russia, said that the Soviet judicial authorities had investigated the activities of the "traitor Beria" and had found, that he had planned to overthrow the Soviet regime and to restore capitalism.
The conclusion of their investigations, said Tass, had revealed that Beria had plotted to set up an organisation to assume control of the Soviet Union →→ an organisation directed by his Ministry of the Interior which would work ac- tively, through other branches throughout the Soviet Union, against the Com munist Party and the government of the Soviet Union.
Beria, the report continued, serving the interests of foreign capital, intended to place the Ministry of Interior above the Interests of the government and party 90 as to give him для opportunity to seize power and to Liquidate the Soviet workers and peasants in order to restore capitalism
and to re-establish
the bourgeoisie in power in the country.
dispute with Government's proposals for enlarging the electorate, nor of the addi- tional classes of voters of which it is intended aholl come on the registor. In one respect Government has
Suva, Dec. 17. gone further than the
Queen Elizabeth II landed original ргорови! nut forward by members of the hero at 10.30 a.m. local time Urban Council-not only today (Thursday). will registered teachers be The Royal Yacht Gathic enfranchised, but alsy dropped anchor in Suva teachers in exempted Harbour to the accompanion agent of foreign capital and schools. And to give the ment of a 21-gun salute by vote to the majority of civil Fill artillery at 8.20 a.m. servants is logical, pati-local time today-8.20 p.m. cularly us many of them
But the GMT., (4.20 am. HK time). pay salary taxes. provision which will prob-Reuter.
ably receive the most
popular approval is the 16 DIE IN
-enfranchisement of every-·|-
body who has paid salaries PLANE CRASH
tux or personal income tax
for four years. This is the
ment
an emer- went out
of
Tass said that, on June 28. 1953, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet had examined a communication from the Coun cil of Ministers "on the criminal vetivities of Lavrent Berla as his activities to sabotage the
Soviet State."
Tass added that the Supreme Soviet then decided to depose Viet- Beria from his post as Premier as well as from htt position as Minister of the Interior of the Soviet Union in order to bring him to tell. The agency added that. the Supreme Soviet on August 8, 1953, had ratified
decres the of the Praesidium dated June 26,
1953.
ALLEGED ACCOMPLICES Linked with Beria in his "criminal activities," the indiet-
LAVRENTI BERIA
"Masking and carefully hiding bis criminal past, as well as his Felations
telligence
dictment adopted
50
in- the in-
With foreign ›
services,"
continued, "Borla
method
his main calumny, intrigues, provocations and other detivities against bonest workers, against work- ers he found in his way pre- venting his carrying out, his hostile intentions to the Soviet State-in-order to
... to assume
*Indictment went on: "Having succeeded, thanks to those
criminal methods. Important posts
in
in
| talclick calzasła, in Georgia, and,
of the in the Ministry later Interler of the USSR with the criminal plan of seizing power, Beria and his accomplices de- voted
to themselves
setting ccecunts with persons who
SHARING
OF ATOMIC
SECRETS
Mr Eisenhower's Proposition
Washington, Dec. 16. President Eisenhower to-
Arrest
Miss Ella Eppenberger, the friend of American Air Captain Harold Dahl who were both arrested recently in Paris in con-
dis- appearance of a box con-
nection with the
taining gold weighing
56 lbs, and valued "at 130,000 Francs (Swiss). -London Express.
Man Lives
troubled them," not stopping at day called for revision of In Bottle
to share the use of actual With
Snake
even the most despotic action, | atomic secrecy legislation and basely deceiving the party to permit the United States and government."
"CAKEERIST AIMS”-------- Among the charges levelled atomic weapons as well as
Linz, Dec. 10. against Berla was the assassina-atomic information with its
Rayo, a 61-year-old Austrian Kredov, a member of North Atlantic Allies, Ilon
fakir who has lived in the Communist Party since 1902.
bottle with a polsonous snake Tass said that, in pursuit of
at his weekly for more than a year, will leave his "carcerist anims," Beria and press conference on the
Kafil next Sunday.
He elaborated
to share
state-
Rayo, whose real name
д
is
Strike Cancelled
UNION CHIEFS' DECISION
London, Dec. 16. British rail union chiefs tonight cancelled a national strike of 400,000 key work- ers called for midnight next Sunday.
They took this action Immediately they received o firm promise of all-round pay rises from executives of, tho state-owned rallways.
The terms of the agreement were expreted to be
Enounced in the House of Commons later tonight by Sir Walter Monckten, the 62-year-old Minister of Labour, who brought the two aldes logether after last Satur- day's strike call, and has kept negotiations in progress Monday.
Tonight's
settlement
sinco
was. reached after almost five hours of talks at the Ministry of La- bour between the employing Transport
tho British
mission, and leaders of Bri- tain's three major rall unions.
The settlement involven more than 600,000 rall workers',ac= cepting a recent award of ́ an extra four shillings sterling a week per man, which they re- jected as "disgustingly low.”
But it is linked with, a firmi promise by the Commission to revise the whole wages struc- ture of railway employment in
the Now
This revision will mean
ad- percentage pay increase ditional to the four shillings a week awarded by
In- dependent tribunal and necèpted by the Commission.—Reuter,
NYK Win On
Line
Appeal
Singapore, Dec. 10,
The Singapore Court of Appeal today reversed a high court judgment which held that the Nippon Yusen Kalsha Shipping
was able to
pay damage to a Singapore ship pilot.
Capt. W. Balch, the pilot, was injured when boarding the com pany's Mautetru Maru, to pilot the ship into Singapore harbour, Balch, who was injured when the ship's gangway collapsed, sued amounilag for special damages, am fo $$44,000 and unspecified demages. made wher the case came up to However, no award had been
the appeal court last Septembér,
The appeal court today up.
Guam, Dec. 18. Sixteen persons were killed farthest yet that Govern- and 17 others injured today
gone towards applying the principle of when a crippled Air Force B-29
bomber, attempting representation through gency landing,
his accomplices had intriguod ment by the Secretary of De against an eminent member of fence, Mr Charles E. Wilson, to taxation, and no one will control and smashed into an ment continued, in the organs group of conspirators" in im-
of the
the NKVD and the MVD portant posts in the Ministry of
the Party and the Soviet gov- the North Atlantic Council yes- Rudolf Schmied, was put into held the doctrine of common deny its validity or appro- Air Force housing area.
Interior from March, 1953, and were police) priateness. The signs ure The big four-engined plane (secret
ernment, Sorgo Orjonikidze, in terday that the United States the seven feet by three feet bot-employment and ruled that the conspirators had Im-
whom they saw "o man who was seeking legislative permis- tle here on December 13, 1852. pilot "was engaged in commÜN that Burely, if a little cut a fiery swath through the Merkulov, a former Minister of these
Security
In the Soviet Union mediately started to persecute military housing units.
hlm from sion prevent
Mounted on a special lorry, work with the rest of the ship's "pertinent in- in the Minister of slowly, the Urban Council squnt
of honest "workers"
the would The Island Command said the and recently,
pursuing his career.”
formation on nuclear and other he has sinco visited more than crew when he accepted the
11,184-mile piloting assument, moving towards
100 towns during Others Indicted Ministry, who had refused to its dead included five children, the State Control.
new weapons,” ultimate objective-that of nine members of the plane's crew wh
with Berta
Vassily
The agency wald that the in- "execute the criminal orders of were:
European tour.
As such, ruled the court, ho mer Director of Beria and his gang."
vestigation had shown former
that
Existing legislation not only Although he has lost about undertook the risk of neglige attaining the status of 4 and two other adults-United] Dekanozov,
a section of the NKVD and re- SABOTAGE CHARGE Berio and his accomplices had forbids the exchange of atomic 60 lbs, in weight, his general once on the part of his fallow municipal body.
cently Minister
The indictment further ae- murdered Kredov because they information between the United health was reported to be good. servants and was not entitled to of the Interior of Georgia, as well as a deputy cused Berla of attempting to had cause to suspect Kredov of States and its Allies but prevents (Contd. on Hack Page, Col. 2) | damages. —France-Presse, AR
material on Beria's atomic bombs and shells from www to the People's Commissar of sabotage collective farms and to possesiminal mucord. Internal Affairs in Georgia; V. undermine other branches of G. Kaboulov, former deputy to Soviet life. the People's Commissar of In-
jk
Press.
CADBURY
FRY
CHOCOLATES
of
The indicunt also levelled being placed under the com- mand of non-American officers the NATO Supreme
Mr Eisenhower made it clear today that he wanted the law that amended in such a way these atomic weapons could be
In 1915, said the indictment, the can the defence potential of
charge of attempting to within ternal Affairs in Georgia and tracing Beria's record in the the Soviet Union against Berin. Command. then Deputy to the Minister Soviet Union, Beria had com-
Berla was accused of murder- An Security
the Soviet mitted treason by agreeing to
several recently, Vice-work for the "counter-revolu- Ing Orjenikidze and Union, and,
of others
In order to mask, their in tionary intelligence services Minister of Internal Affairs
Azerbaijan" which, it was the Soviet Union; Serge Gogildze,
#evil designs.” was operating under) Tass revealed that the Beria made available to the United former Comunissar of Internat claimed
case would be examined at a States Allied Commands freely Affairs of Georgia and more Briilch control. recently a director
director at a a section
special session of the Supreme, as required by the military In 1920, the indictment con-Court of the Soviet Union, but necessities of defending any of the Ministry of the Interior: tinued, Berla committed a new
director of 1" act of treason in Georgia by no date was mentioned for the line set for itself by NATO.
Mechik, fo
former section of the NKVD, and re-entering scerelly into contact cently Minister of the Interior with Georgian Menshevik intel- in the Ukraine; and N. Vladzir-gence services, which was a mizaki, former director of the subsidiary of the British intel- Investigation Stelion of the ilgence service. Ministry of the Interior,
Tags
tacking any support within the
hearing.-France-Presse.
Collision Kills 1, Injures 13
MAKES DISTINCTION
He emphasised however that he was not promising to share with United States Allies the aclentiile processes, of, nuclear fission or the building of atomic weapons.
The President said he was referring to a position where NATO Allies and the United States
defending the integrity of a line that had to
years their "criminal activity Intelligence during the civil wa:: | at Fukuoka, Japanese National be held,
Ware
་ ་
GUILTY PLEA
said the indictencat,, Beria revealed In a report that and his accomplices based all followed the main details of the their criminal plans in the "sup-
Tokyo, Dec. 17. summary that Beria and his port of the reactionary imperialist
One paslerby was killed ant accomplices" had pleaded forces abroad." Javestigation 19 passengers lujured in a three- guilty to the indictment.
had established said the sun-way crash involving a Japanese The indictment charged Berla
mary that Beria had already express train, United States and the others indicted with him established contacts with foreign Army truck and jeep last night of "carefully masking" for
In the years following that act Polleo reported today. Toss said that, after the death of treason, centrued the in
In that case it would be The crash resulted when the of Stalin, when the "reactionary diotenent, Beria maintained and
stopped after knocking foolish to think that the United Jeep 1st dorpes" were inten-broadened his Imperialist doros
Padareb ••
and dowd'a
pedestrian who later died Slates could not and must not sifying their activities to under-criminal relalicas with the In hospital.
shara soms particular kmd mine the Soviet state, Beriadoreign intelligence services, and The locomotive,..a coal and of information with its Allies. quickened his actions to achieve with spies sent by them."
water car, and the first passen-He added that, they would be criminal ends."
These spics, said the indict- It accused him of using the meat, were sometimes protecteer coach of the 13-car express dependent upon this zame kind overturned as a result of the of support as the United States organisation of the Ministry of by Beria from being discovered, collision
would. the Interior to seize power and.
SECRET RELATIONS
The army truck, en route to "As Itaruko" air base from Ashlyn,
When correspondents, pointed
trus, continued the indictment for indlelment continued: “wed landed on the tracks in the out to the President, that some
had permitted
the unmasking: traitor to his country, and as
of the truo intentions of ・ this telligence wiVices, Besityl- an embankment to avoid hittiny (that the United States was pro
In handsome presentation boxes and "decisive
In the shortest possible time a spy sold to the foreign : in-path of the oncoming train press reports of¿Mr:Wilson's.
during
minutes earller after going over statement in Paris bad implied "enemy
the country," the time of his
criminal motics, and with the aid of his a deep
posing actually to share atomic sures were then taken to put accomplices, Georgian emigros, * Operation of both up and
weapons with her. Allies or to an end
to htt traitorous | Menshevik and other counter- down trains on the line' was|put".theso weapons: „In Allies the ladiciment | revolutionarier, maintained suspended as a result of the hands, bir Eisenhower / repiled contlated.
secret relations with the agents accident, but railway authorities this would depend upon the cir- The indictment accused Berta of several foreign intelligence said the line would be cleared cumstances At the
time.m Full todayRauter. of pulling "members of his services,”
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