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No. 35794
RUMANIAN
Established 1845`
MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1954.
COMMUNIST
Spy Scare EXECUTED FOR TREASON
M home
FANY
Australians
ht
and abroad will
watch with concern the actione of thelr Primo Minister, Mr R. G. Menzies in the next few weeks and, If the Fates are kind to him
at The forthcoming
elections, in the next few months, For after a long exile in the background of eventa the problem of in- terval Commitatiem has stepped into the limelight again in
sensational fashion. A Ruselan diplomat has sought asylum in the country after giving the Government apparently copi-| $15 reports on Communist
21
espionage in Australia Very erious revelation for, apart from the existence of the British Commonwealth's long-range
weapon
and
atomic bomb testing site at Woomera-an obvious target for Communist espionage, occupies a very important position strategi
Australin
enlly in relation to South- enst Asia. Mr Menzies has known of the dangers of internal Communismn for years and only the his more drastic methods of
many Constitution has thwarted
ridding the country of this It will be recalled menace. that only a few years ago,
introduced Mr Menzies bill into the House of Repre- sentatives to ban the Com-
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munist Party and to arraign Communists in court with of onus
Former Minister
Of Justice
ONE-TIME
OF
ASSOCIATE
LENIN
London, Apr. 18.
Bucharest Radio announced tonight that Lucretiu Patrascanu. a veteran Rumanian Com- munist leader and former Minister of Justice, has been tried and executed for treason.
Bucharest Radio announced that Patrascanu and a number of accomplices were tried by the Supreme Military Court of Rumania on a charge at paralysing the of "criminal activities aimed struggle of the democratic patriots against Fascism."
A second accused, whose name was given as Kofler, was also sentenced to death and executed. Bucharest Radio said. The trial took place from April 6 to 14.
Three other accused, named by Bucharest Radio as Silber Stefanescu and Kalmanovic, were sentenced to life imprisonment.
In all 11 people Military Court.
were tried by the
Supreme
Two other accused, Baron Moksony Starcea and Torosian, were given 15 years' imprisonment each. Three accused received 10 years and one eight years' imprison- the
proof of ment. their affiliations and activi- ties not on the Crown, but on the accused. In short, under this bill it was neces- sary for any person accused of Communism to provò his
the Court! Innocence,
to
not
prove his guilt. The
many opponents of this bill
S. Korea
Be At
Το
Geneva
and their numbers ranged Conference
far beyond the Labour
almost
the
means."
dubious" that the
Lucretiu Patrascanu, who was 59, was one of the founders of the Communist regime
Rumania,
Ings
the
after
Britain's Fine Weather
Easter
London, Apr. 18. Easter sunshine drew Lon:loners out of the capt- tal towards the coast today in their thousands.
Road traffic daubled com- on pared with yesterday
the main roads to the coast, and 25,000 Carn an hour were running nose to tali towards the country and roads senside on 20 main out of the capital.
Trattic was also heavy in the North of Engand, with vehicles more than 1,000
an hour heading out of
North Manchester for the Wales coast and even more making for Blackpool.
Thousands
of people crowded the main line stations for day train trips 10 the const, although lo- morrow Monday) will be the railway's big day for excursions.
weather is Dry, sunny promised for tomorrow Mall (Monday). - China Special.
Russia's
Military Strength
LATEST NATO ESTIMATES
Paris, Apr. 18.
can
A new NATO estimate of Communist military power indicates that Russla field 300 divisions within 30 days' notice, but the "im- pressive and steady" Red build-up is not "alarming", it was learned today.
The NATO report, awaiting approval by the 14 governments be onging to the crganisation, scid the Kremlin had the same standing orTNY of 175 divisions the but ngo, her European satelites had jumped from 60 to
two years
of
RO divisions.
ся
strength
This
of
1952.
19 NATO's first estimate "Soviet
let military might com-
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PRESSURE
THE
Paris, Apr. 18.
The official communique published by the pied for relcase to the pubic French Ministry of the Associated States here- to-
Authoritative
since formants
-
it showed the night mentioned increased Vietminh pressure
Youth Kills Impressive and dady" growth against the north-west secter of Dien Bien Phu,
3 Hold-Up Gangsters
Marseilles, Apr. 18. Three Marseilles in gangsters met their deaths today at the hands of their
The
was and continued harassing raids against the entire
French Union defence perimeter.
of the Communist forces, whlie unde:Kring the build-up, "not sudden or
alarming The most spectacular evidence, the sources said, was in jet power. Russia now has 10,000 lighter
planes of which 9,000 more than double the 1982 evaluation are jota.
report did not The NATO
confrmation of widely publicited reports that the Rus- riana are apoeding delivery of a new-type long-range-alrategie Jot bomber
CONVENTIONAL BOMBERS
Of the overall botal of 20,000 planes under Kremlin control, it service are almost entirely the was sald, the bombers now in conventional TU-4. This is the counterpart of the B-29,
P
third, maid. the
Air Search Intensified
It
Soviet
American
The communique said that on the night of April 16-17, the Vietminh had unsuccessfully attacked positions on the eastern side of the beleaguered fortress. During April 17 French Union patrols carried out reconnoitering raids as far as the village of Ban Cony, one to two miles south of the entrenched camp without establishing con tact with the Vietminh.
Here is newly-promoted de Castries, Brigadier Commander of the French, garrison at beleaguered Dien Bien Phu in Indo- China, who has declared that the fortress, can hold out against the Viet minhese and that the French Union forces "can", win the battle of Dien Bien
London Phụ
Express.
3
Mrs Petrov
;
Leaving
Melbourne, Apr.
Mra Evoklyn - Petrov, write the Russian Becret Servlob Vladimir Chietin
| large quantities of ninmunition, the Taybinh and Chaudon** gyda
place
00
Australle,
who renounced 'list' week and was
asylum, will have, tomorrow
night by le In Cambodia, French Union forces repulsed a Vietminh at-on her way home top.
The Prime Min tack fo the night of Saturday, to Sunday.
Robert Menzies, we tonigh Calm prevailed elsewhere in he had no reason to ballave
Ambasador to Aus Sovlet Indo-China, the communique
tralia leave of ddded-France-Presse.
Me Natal
14 Babies Saved From Death
would
Generalov,
the same
as had been rumoured. Rumours that the
Savin
Ambassador had been recalled
to explain Petrovs to Moscow
after the defection circulated
As a lawyer by profession, he victim."
The French Air Force dropped were taken by the Vietminh In. came of a family-of distinguish
The three entered a bar where
food and material ed Moldavian Intellectuals, and
Vietminh glona. artillery to the cast and anti- they had demanded "protection his father was a noted historian.
from the proprietor. Socinilst before 1914, money"
aircraft.
Were being ..BUTLE owner's 22-year-old son
aircraft Patrascanu was
only Rumanian Communist who knew volunteered to get the money
pounded by Frene one of
during the night of Saturday to
Clashes took Lenin personally and had deal- and came back shooting.
Sunday. His first bullet felled Party Opposition at the timu
with him in the early
inan
north of the airfield. Seoul, Apr. 19.
The young the intruders. saw potential dangers in
Announcing today that South twenties,
The Kremlin has 175 divi-
conditions up the gangster's pistol
weather He
ol
Good the picked this
leader mensure which could Korea would attend the Geneva
bocame
with both signs but within 30 days could enabled the French airmen to on firing and went (25 Kive
dictatorial
conference, President
He killed another and flaid Sygnam Rumanian Workers Party
300 diyisions, the report attack Vietminh communication powers to any Prime Minis Rhee said the conference must the Communist Party was known hands.
lines and it was banned
convoys chiefly by the mortally wounded time before the final ter, quite apart from the represent
Against this Soviet array, the Rumanian Prime Minister, who died later in hospital.
provincial road 41 north-west NATO fact
Im-consuming attempt for Korea to that it
for the end of of Yen Chan and on provincial A fourth underworld charac- its
goals was an
RUSDA booked four seats on attain unification by peaceful Marshal Averescu)
George-ter was also killed in a bar in 1954 are: Same 40 "ready" divi- rond 13, about 20 miles north of founder, M. Christian portant and dangerous de-
British Overseas Airways Car vitch Rakovaks, went to Russia this seaport a few hours later slons plus 60 M plus 30 days" Fan Yen.
poration parture from the procedures
Constellation leaving Reading, Berks, Apr. 18. "execution,"
divisions. The NATO air target of British justice.
part in This woe a gang Dr Rhet told a press confer- to play an important
however, and
had no connec is 6,500 planes of all types in
Two daring murses saved all driey tomorrow for Rome. The communique' said that ence that South Korea had de-the Soviet politics.
Western Europe by the end French Union forces Had been but one of 15 newborn babies/Reuter the United
Ied the Party tion with the other shooting. Patrascanu
today when Are awept 4 WHILE no one can doubt the layed accepting
All the dead men had police of the year, over 4,000 of which, able to free the post of Quang maternity ward at a clinic here attend the
was able
Grenades Outrage sincerity of Mr Menzies States invitation to
underground untli he
ja hoped, will
be first-class Phuong Ha and supply its garrk- because ronference
discovered Bister S. Holland Geneva And the
Marrakesh, French ot fighters, Liberal-Country
as well as to complete a
before dawn. to become Minister of Justice in coalition Party
South Korea had been "highly to come into the open in 1944 records.-France-Presse. in
On the
Morocco, Apr. 18, and with conference the Arst
sca, NATO experts mopping-up operation in the the fire shortly Rumanian Coalition
Soviet expansion in area between Song Traly and he gave the alarm.
Two gramades were thrown, measures they have adopted would achieve any result, "ap Cabinet after the
reported country broke
another nurse shuttled in and Russia's vaunted submarine the Red River. ngainst Communism, the prehensive" that the conference with the axis powers. He headed
out of the burning ward carrying four minutes apart, at two The fleet.
Navy now
separate cafes in the centre of violent denunciations the
provide would
Communists still
delegation the Rumanian
between 350
Vietminh and 400
casualties in the
The two nurses carried all the the town today, ajuring thres one of Party used against Com-more time to prepare for wars to Moscow in September 1944.
area were listed as 18 Snorkel-equipped subs in action Delta Ho was reported to have
killed and 11
inbables out before the fire brigade young European men, prisoners munist activities revealed and afraid that the
urged and arrested in
way to completion, or on the and will be made known all over hysteria
been
The second grenade caused · à Northern Laos. French Union arrived. However, one six-hour them seriously. Bources said. St. John's Newfoundland,
one of the the world as a great success, May 1948 and was at the same regrettable recklessness luthus making
It was understood the NATO troops were
on reconnaissance old Infant died of burns and South Korea's
Apr, 18,
Three others were sent alight shock to weather shock. ita thinking on this particu- situation infinitely more difficult time expelled from the Central of the Rumanian Committee
Planes carried out an intensi Command desires to make public patrols despite
Franco-Presse. Communist Party, since then ho fled search today for a United the latest estimate to prevent conditions in Middie Lace. The to hospital but will live-United walters but fallot to explode...
plane any letdown in Western public Vietminh carried States Naval Privateer
The successful attack against French has been in prison-Router.
Friday over opinion about rearmament. missing
submitted to Union rearguardi and lost over Greenland with nino men on report has been
had the NATO member governments 100 men dead or wounded, (Earlier reports sald 10 American servicemen for approval, informed
TWO CLASHES said, in the plane)
SATELLITE FORCES
clashes The weather was clear today,
between Viet- The report said the Soviet minh and French Nairobi, Apr. 18.
Union forces An attempted hold-up was and six additional planes joined
the hunt this afternoon, team-satellite forces @ when here foiled"
today
the latter. The
Vietminh lost effectiveness restaurant pro- ing up with aircraft based on 20 divisions stronger were turned out to the advantage of quiek-minded
Thule in north-west Green- approaching
⚫ action killed, including of Russia's 20 an African prieter bombarded gunman with plates
crack troops. Artillery and tanks chief, and 19 prisoners. and cups land, and Narsarsuak, on the comparable to that
southern tip of Greenland,
T-34 and Josef Stalin On the central Privateer of the
plateaux, and drove him off.
aircraft, A
hand-to-hand fighting fierce The propriotor Erwin Lewis,
o! Czechoslovakia, standing behind the counter
the hold-up the who Navul and Coastguard/types are being fed to the satel- i
Newfoundlte armies
took place on the Pleiku aren of Argentia,
Rumania, Hungary, on Federal Road 19 near Hang when unarmed
pitched loud, was on its way to Alert, Bulgaria, entered, and man
WAB understood Soviet at the gunman until Ellesmere Island, when it was Poland and Albania, crockery
Just on Friday afternoon. he fled.-France-Presse.
Canadian north-west forritaries)
A
mild
lar Bubject. With the of solution," Federal elections only weeks off it is only natural the Government coalition several
conference
Dr Rhee sal during the last South Korea weeks
effort to
made every
obtain assur-
ETS
will make great play of "defnite and positive latest reports of Communist ances" from the United States, activity during the com. "We are happy to Say that
received now paign as proof that their assurances anti-Communist actions of very clear and encouraging and well that they will enable us to go to 1949-1951
confidence founded. But the coalition considerable hope."-Reuter. must make certain there is no repetition of the whole-
were
Geneva
with
and
cale and reckless allega Tries To Kill Wife
tiona of Communist conspiracies which
were offered three or four years ago as an explanation of the
A Second Time
Castell Mare di Stabia,
Apr. 18.
recurrent industrial trouble. A 29-year-old Italian, M.
It became the Government's Catello, walked out of prison virtually after serving a term for trying explanation of
to kli) his wife and, with a every trivial trade union complaint. Applying these dagger in his hand, tried to do
again. Like the Arst time, he failed. will The wife was only slightly in- Cabello is back in gaol today
methods there is a danger that Communiem become as big a mania in jured. Australia as it is in some
Hections of American think-France-Presse.
ing.. It would bo BB well if after the elec- tions both parties allowed the Royal Commiselon not tip to Investigate the alleged expionage to proceed with its work and to recommend such notion as is necessary, and ensured that anti- Communist feeling does not degenerate into wild accusa. tions and cheap slander which, could constitute a
Hold-Up Foiled board.
was
were
The
since
'on'
sources
now reported
Two
bad
out on un-
Yang. The Vietminh engaged estimated four battalions in
ΣΤΟ
Ellesmere Island (part of the officery hold most of the top the battle and was able to set
Slashed To Death lies west of the extreme north-trol their training and equip fire to several French trucks.
of
these forces and con-
With the exception ping.
Albanis, the satellite could
in- bo quickly force. Albarin is isolated
of Greenland, little western shores Nairobi, Apr. 28,
Juppa about 800 miles within An Asian farmer,
forces to the Russian fight- Circle, with about an Singh, and an African amployee Arctic
Ita castern coas were slashed to death today by other 700 miles to go to the a gang which attacked and North Pole. looted & farm near Nairobi.is about 176 miles from Thule, France-PressO.
--Beutor.
Egyptians Slay British Soldier,
And Kidnap Another
Cairo, Apr. 18.
A British military spokesman charged today, that Egyptian assailants kill- at Port Said in the Suez Canal. ed one British soldier and kidnapped another Zone.
the (British) driver, and ara
ing
taln nations by Yugoslavia.
Wes
Vietminh However, the forced to withdraw, after inter- Union French by vention bombers.
:
They were
Bald to have an the French Union casualties from the rest of the Iron Cur-estimated, three companies while
Informed sources said NATO were described as heavy. experts believed
Russia may
RIOTERS RAZE
mines and documents.
A VILLAGE Cay delta, and Tu
on
BOOD consider the satellite French aircraft also blasted forces reliable enough to leave the Chec Roo area. "Klions alone as a buffer force in Succonful mopping-up opera
tions were carried out in the Central Europe United Press.
area north of Qui Nhon, enabling
seize the French to
gronades
in the Song Further south,
Hod area the coast, Vietminh regional ⠀⠀ Colombo, “Apr. 197, The village of Samantural in clements lost 15 killed in assher the Vietminh North Ceylon was almost levelled with Vietnamese unla in the | last · · night by a wild cinsh | Phantiet en camialties...:(nine
political sustained· 11 two local between
killed and two wounded) doring Firing maging clubs ambushes with French Union and brandishing torchica, the fores
betors of thaj kucon, alledge Town Council me, injured 30 other all ***** burned the village's
The spokesman sala Daroo, but died shortly afterwards. definito threat to democracy Egyptians opened fire on a Bri- Meanwhile, the Egyptians making arrangements for his sections in that country. The offen-itish military vehicle. Just after drove off in the vehicle with return," said this British spokes- ders must be punished, it arrived in "Port Said from its Brillah driver. Vosko Kecurity measures may have Port Fuad by the ferrymorons The Egyptian to be tightened; but it is
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today incident, said, hay cordoned kr The y A question on which Angescorung soldier with are promptly informed of Maikar, Carl Zo Labour,
∙not
the Suez Canal
critically
the coalition on that
to the ground. Women
diren fed into the
during the beltsen
the infants.
Presa.
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