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Labour Day M country in the world, is
in almost every
Labour Day--the day when trude unioniste publicly reaffirm their solidarity and their ballet in the rights of the individual. That, at
is Jeust,
ira truo
the countries of the free world. Elsewhere the celebrations assume an entirely different form. The contrust is algut- ficant und deserves under- llaing. Here is how today will be observed in the free world:
of from hundreds thousands uf platforms, speakers of all nationalities wlii rend A special pro- clamation. in 4 different countries millions of work-
urs of the International Confederation vi Free Trade Unions will murch in demonstrations, They will proclaim their belief the in free speeen and in
of free men. The rigtits workers in Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand will pledge their solidarity with the workers America, Japan, india, t'akistan, Southeast Asia, Jordan, Israel, Greece, Africa
Scandinavia, And restating their faith in the brotherhood International of mun, pledge themselves anew to the cause of free- Qum, and declare themselves again for the defence peace. And how will May 1 be marked in the countrion benind the hion Curtain 7
CHINA
No. 35805
Earthquake
Established 1845
SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1954.
Kills
11,
Makes 20,000 Homeless
EIGHT TOWNS IN
CENTRAL
GREECE STRUCK
Athens, Apr. 30.
A violent earthquake rocked central Greece today, killing at least 11 people and making about 20,000 homeless in eight towns, the Government announced tonight.
Army engineering units were being rushed to the stricken area, which is in the 1,500-square-mile province of Thessaly, about 150 miles northwest of Athens.
The Ministry said the panic-stricken popula- tion of the entire province of Thessaly were living in the open air tonight.
The communique said 10,000 inhabitants of Kardista were homeless and 75 per cent of the homes destroyed or uninhabitable. One person was killed there and 14 injured. Kardista is a town of 14,- 000 people.
were
in Sofades, 981 houses were seriously damaged and six people were killed. The number of casualties among the 4,000 population was not known.
A total of 101 people were injured in the province. Most communications with the region have been cut
Columns of silent men wil by the earthquake, It was reported.-Reuter.
will
be
LAST YEAR'S QUAKE
almost
march in the shadow of the Kremlin. There
Washington, Apr. 30. Tanks and armoured Cara
ruada News of a perious new earth- down the rattling
la Greece caused i with bombers roaring over- qunke
to the American head. in Prague, Warsaw sensation and Sofa, in Budapest and capitul today where it was re- exactly a workers called that Bucharest, the wht be marshalled together year ago the saine country sul- ut factories and oflices, Inered a similar catastrophe. the cities and capitala
The Amerieva Red Close Dhu
awwunisurs maon. Whited Usa auread, are standing by, speak reatty to stay the quesaVE DA and free help as SOUR US I to criticise Their guvern- quest is made.
in Russia and her menta.
countries
of
the free world, the workers the Foreign Operations AQ-
own will organise their murches, make their own speeches, free against injustice
to
A Red Cross
the cased
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spuitesman res
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The Queen
Leaves For Tobruk
Supplies Flown Into Dien Bien Phu
Hanol, Apr. 30. Every available French aircraft
hurled into WAS the Battle of Dien Blen Phu today to permit trans- port planes to fly in sup- plies
the besieged defondern.
For
were
and
able
ما
French
fighters bombers neutralise Vietminh anti- aircraft guns long enough
the
of thousands French Union defenders inside the garrison to pick up food and ammunition which could not be para- chuted to them yesterday. -France-Presse.
Eisenhower, Dulles Split ?
FROM DEREK MARKS
Altericona
here
iro
How Beria Was Arrested
New Revelations
Munich, Apr. 30. Nikola Khokhlov, Soviet agent who deserted to the West, told Russians in a broadcast Interview today how Lavrenti Beria, execut- ed Interior Minister, was arrested at pistol point in his office last June.
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sald Berla's office in they entered the Lyubyanka Prison, Moscow, with
levelled
Bezia pistols. offered no resistance and was
lift
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officials police
miao wont to Berla's private fortress alo-
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Sequel To
Typist's Death
London, Apr. 30.
A middle-aged married man, accused of the manslaughter of
a pretty young typist who died Waa from an "irritant polson," alleged to have said "dear God, what an awful thing I have done, when told he would be charged with killing her.
A detective gave this evidence in court today.
The accused man, 44-year-old Arthur Kendric Ford, was re manded in custody.
Ford was charged with un- killing 27-year-old lawfully
A typist in tho Beity Grant, London Chemists factory where ho is office manager.
Betty Grant became violently after sharing 1 last Monday
sweets coated
another girl,
Malins, Juno
Details of Khokhlav's broad- cant beamed at the Soviet Union Geneva, Apr. 30.
Radio today of
by were given an The possibility
an
American- Elsenhower-Dulles split has Liberation,
main topic in sponsored anti-Communist radio been the
station. Geneva today.
Beria was executed tast Yesterday Mr Elvenhower December 23 for high treason.
MANY MISTRESSES came down firmly in support of
Bald, bad Berta,
Khokhlov that nothing Britain's view
of should be done about direct ac had an enormous number
mistresses and charges against tion in Indo-China until the re-
of the
"women who had are him listed conference sutts
fallen
into bia accidentally Entebbe, Uganda, known
clutches. This is taken here to mean a
Khodalov also disclosed that Apr. 30.
complete reversal of the poll- Queen Elizabeth and the ces put out by Mr Dulics.
a secret Soviet report fast July had said that "one of the major Duke of Edinburgh left here
In- by air tonight for Tobruk te creasingly concerned at the ap- shortcomings in the poilcies of the state administration was the meet their children Prince parent lack of co-ordination of
that the state Icadership their Geneva fact that policy between Charles and Princess Anne, delegates
was concentrated in the hands of was concer and
Washington. for the first time since the
This morning,
ala private one person." Lo Royal Valans OI
Tour began five meeting of American journalists and State Department oficials, neurly
months ago.
the that disclosed naon dollars worth of aid.
The British Overseas Airways Geneva delegates had no prior Un his occasion, a is pound
Argonaut took off on time at knowledge of Mr Eisenhower's the the location
Bight of une p.m., GMT for the to
important statement. mors meant that most of
nearly ten hours to Eder aka commemorate the rights of anmediate Us
More and more Empiro deje- report obviously referred rushod to hospital suffering from by the American airport, Tobruk. free speech and freedom to furnished
The Queen and the Duke of gates are taking the
at conterence on Far East to Stalin, though he was
A detective said at the double organisa - two bright army and Navy.
Edinburgh had paid a visit to peace. Today Mr Eden lunched referred to by name, Khokhlov
OB the girls today, jewels in Democracy's
in fact The United States is
the newly apened 000-square-
with Mr Molotov and Mr Chou sald. It had been distributed to quest mile Queen Elizabeth National En-lai.
the MVD officers and leading Com-that Ford had now "completely They these jewels still contributing to reconstruc-
discussed crown;
tion work the areas nit oy
Park on the last day of their
procedure to be followed for munist Party officials in Mos recovered" from the poisoning have been stolen from the
China Mall Special. calling Indo-Ching talks and the cow. people of the satellites by the 153 earthquakes,
Khokhlov, former MVD For the whole of the financial stay in Uganda.
They went "nough riding" possibility of settlements in both masters. their Communist
Captain, surrendered to Ameri- Without those two things your 1953-64, American economic through lifty miles of the park i Indo-China and Ko
authorities in General Bedell Smith, No. 2 can the May Day they celebrato totalled 218 milion dollars, of today for closeups of large herds
of elephants, buffaloes und to Mr Dulles in the State Do-last February telling them ha is a mockery and sham, which technical assistance other big game in their natural partment arrives in Geneva to- had been sent to
Dr George Okolovich, a white
London, Apr. 30, cynical fraud against the counted for less than US$1,000,- surroundings. Reuter,
morrow. Mr Dulles himself is
He had Russian loader living in West Iraq has freed three Israelis workers.
Leaving on Monday,
time Germany. announced his already
a gaol since January Khokhlov's wife and child when the British airliner in lable, but even so his inaistence
crucial are silil in Russia and he has which they were travelling made on sticking to it at a time has raised much comment. broadcast an appeal to try and a forced landing, Israel
Rave them.
tonight. -London Express Service.
satellite speakers and the marchers will do as they are told. They will not be allowed to criticise the regime. For 80 years, May Day has been the heritage of free labour,
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Dulles-Molotov Meeting
Geneva, Apr. 30.
The US Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, will
meet the Soviet Foreign Minis- ter, M. Vyacheslav Molotov, al
11 am. (Local time) tomorrow
at the latter's residence.
''
Was
This
initiative
Making Progress
It added that this person "had some chocolate taken decisions over the head with Ford of the Central Committee (of 18-year-old
beauty queen. the Communist Party) causing former
Central Government to giria died of poisoning
the hours
after returning wither away and destroying the
meaning of lis
from the office. Ford existence.
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not poison effects.
Frankfurt
assassinate
A
Both
a few home
Was also
Israelis Freed
held in
Radio
Radio Free Europo, a private
have arrived by train in American anti-Communist radio Teheran, the Radlo said. atation here, said today that The three are Mr and Mrs Khokhlov told them- Moscow Yaacov Ben Zaria, both 69, and
Barnes, 81.
regarded all "satellite" states as Mrs Minnie spokesman said in
An
Leaders in the other Com- February that Iraq claimed the munist countries were regarded three were being held as host- as "temporary and expandable." ages for Buven Iraqi officers Khokhlov characterised East alleged to have been interned
unreliable. Vainikkah, Apr. 30. The Australian Embassy staff, It was considered that the ordered out of Russia after the two statesman would continue Soviet Union's diplomatic rift crossed the their talks
energy with Australia, on atomic
which they had started again at Soviet-Finnish border here to-Germany as the "weakest link in Israel. The spokesman said Genova Last Wednesday night on their way home from in the satellite chain," the radio the Iraqi allegation was
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Prince Was Drowned,
Inquest
Verdict
Slough, Bucks, Apr. 30.
Prince Nicholas of Yugoslavia, 25-year-old nephew of the Duchess of Kent, was drowned when. his super sports car plunged upside down into a ditch full of water and trapped him underneath, it was found at the inquest here today.
The Prince, driving alone in to arphyxia due to suffocation the early morning
Tho darkness by drowning.
upper air along the main road to London, passages were filled with mad. appeared to have missed a sharp (Otherwise he only had a few turn in the road near here and I scratches. dived straight into the side of
the road. The car turned com- Mr Alan Philip Hay, Secre- pleialy upside down with its tary to the Duchess of Kent, four wheels in the air.
gunt of the Queen, Identiffed the body.
The jury roturned a verdict
of death by misadventure.
Ho said that Prince Nicholas, who was returning to London
They added a rüder, suggesting the erection of a sign calling from a weekend with friends in motorists' attention to the dan- the country, was a very EX- gerous bend in the road.
perienced driver, He was used
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