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VOL. I NO. 10

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1946.

BEVIN CHALLENGES MOLOTOV Nationalists To

TO PROVE GOOD WILL U.S. Denies Meat

Clash Over Navigation Of Danube At The Peace Conference

Civil-Military Uprising In Portugal Foiled

Debt To Britain

Washington, Oct. 10 (UP), The spokesman of the United States Department of Agricul- ture to-day angrily denied the charge by the British Minister of Food, Mr John Strachey, that the United States owes Britain Washington, Oct. 10.-Official] 50,000,000 pounds of meat. dispatches reaching Washington

The spokesinan sald the United from Lisbon to-night suggest States does not owe anything inas-

Reach Kalgan

Within Week?

Nanking. Oct. 10 (UP),-Gen Fu Tso-yi's forces are expected to enter Kalgan within one week, according to Nationalist military quarters here this evening,

the

NOW

Communists "Second Yenan"

According to the same sour being threatened by another Govern- meat column sweeping down from Puyuan, 50 miles north-cast Kalgan.

ok

Nationalist troops, after capturing Hwallai, 30 miles northeast

O

Any that a reported civil and military much as the 1045 promise to deliver Kalgan, are now engaged in imagin-

Russia Closes Door To Any Eleventh-Hour Compromise?

Paris, Oct. 10. Mr Ernest Bevin, British Foreign Minister and leader of the British delegation to the Peace Conference, at the afternoon plenary session accused the Soviet Union of deliberately setting up a barrier at the Danube River between the East and West and of attempting deliberate and discriminatory action against her allies in, trying to exclude the Western Powers from access to the

Danube River.

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Mr Bevin also threatened to refuse to sign the Rumanian trealy unless Great Britain was given the same treatment in Balkan trade and Danube River navigation as all other countries.

uprising in northern Portugal to Britain 50,000,000 of meat has been thwarted in advance by was predicated by the British pro-

Government prompt

action, Reuter learned from a reliable source to-night.

There is no word of my' fighting and American officials in Lisbon are sBll in contact with Washington 'and Madrid. These officials say that communications with the northern city of Oporto have, however, been

cut.

The spokesman at the Portuguese Embassy said no information al been received from Lisbon and no altempt had been made to communi- cate with that city,

APPEALS OF CONDENMED NAZIS DENIED

Berlin, Oct. 10 (UP),~The Allied Control Council to-day denied all the appeats of the condemned Nazla.

mise to deliver 133,000,000 pounds of Australian and New Zealand meat to the US Army and Navy in the Paci fle.

New York official and business) sources stated that their communion, the Intler contract rollupset so With the war'; end, said the sykes- ls with Portugal had oren - the United States considers mal throughout the day.

not owe Britain The 50,000,000 pounds which we e never. deliverc.i

docs

A Reuter message from Madrid I sat that to'phone commua rations under the 1045 lend-lease agreement.

between Spain and Portugn) were subject to “indefinite delny" to-

Argentine Offer night. The Madrid exchange said they could give no information as to

Washington, Oct. 10,--The Argen- when Portugal would accept cuflatine Ambassador Fir Oscar Ivanisse

Mr Bevs threat matched al-; this same treatment us the others are Here 1 must make it clear though it was not as entegorical given.

that we are not opposed to nationali- ation and have in fact announced in Parliament our attitude towards Reuter. pubile ownerships. But we do held for fir J fr and equal treatment for far vign interests in connection with any policy that is adopted.

as Yugo-Slavia's threat not to ́sign the Italian treaty unless the

Italo-Yugo-Slay frontier drawn to Yugo-Slay speciflen! tions.

Was

Mr Bevin said the Soviet palley of trying to restrict use of the Danube exclusively to countries along its banks gave rise to a good deal of suspicion as to the designs

to

"If Joint companies with the other allies are established by ftumanla or if other countries operate there then we claim exactly the same rights."

are allowed

Both the Bevin and Vandenberg

of the Soviet Union in that part of view were angrily attacked by the the world. le forthrightly challen- ged M. Molotov, Soviet Foreign Young Yugo-Slav Vice-Premier, M.

Minister, to

prove his good deploring yesterday's

nn

tion in that area.

British Cruisers

For Indian Navy

up operations,

Fierce fighting has broken out in Yenking, 15 miles north-east of waliai, it was announced this evening. The town is expected to fall within

a day or two.

The Communist 210 Division has been rushed to the Hwaflar front to reinforce the hurd pressed Red troops there.

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Russia Bans Flight Of U.S. Planes Over Controlled Territory

New York, Oct. 10 (UP),--Soviet Russia to-day issued an order forbidding American commercial planes on regularly established lines to Czecho Slovakia, Hungary and Rumania to fly over any Russian-occupied territory in those three countries. The ban applies to commercial as well as military planes.

As a consequence, Pan-American Airways to-day halt- ed all its lines into Eastern Europe at Brussels awaiting clurification of the Russian order by the US. Embassy in Prague.

The Russian flying ban muy bé temporary as it is understood it may apply only until October

FIRM TURKISH

14, but US, officials are unable | REPLY TO SOVIET to explain the order.

sols.

was

Pan-American hud a plane wh ON DARDANELLES Gen Sun Lien-sung, commander of route to Prague from New York with mails and passengers when the order the 11th War Zone, whose troops was received. The plane was stop captured IIwailal two duys Aned at Vierina and turned back to proceeded Nanicow

Washington, Oct. 10.-Turkey early this Brussels where the service will he morning to Inspect his frontline pegged temporarily, Another plane is replying firmly and at length forces. He returned to Pelping this due from New York to-morrow for to-day to the latest Russian note evening,

Prague" will also be halted at Brus- on the Dardanelles, it

from The It

learned Is unconfirmedly reported from Paris that the United States Ampus diplomatic source.

This follows joint United States andor. Mr Laurence Steinhardt's per- sonal plane. Is In Germany and can- and British action in submitting to not be down to Prague because it Ankara their views on the issues In- would involve transit over flussion

volved and being in turn informed of the contents of the Turklali note. occupied teritory,"

The State Department's message to Turkey will be made publietu- morrow.

On the northern section of Peiping-Honkow Railway, four Com- munist regiments launclied a furious attack on Goverment positions the Sunglintien

Desperate fighting

still progressing, accord tiere this evening. Sunglintien is 30 ing to the tales! reports renching

miles south of Peiping.

aren.

ticht, announced late last nigh; e West End Hotel

would visit the Secretary of Agricul- ture, Mr Clinton Anderson tony and offer Argenti ia's help to combat United States at shortage.

An Argentine spokesman told newspapermen that the Argentine will offer 4.000,000 lbs of boneless canned meat.

man did not attend. No announce-

Strike Spreading

London, Oct. 10.-Workers at three more West End Botels walked out to-night as Labour Ministry officials worked rapidly

Sx key administration officials conferred on the meat situation for London, Oct. 10,-The first of nearly three hours at the White will in

in Eduard Kardelj, who accused the three cruisers to

House last night, but President Tru- to prevent a general stoppage. be handed. division be Anglo-Americans of trying to sit up over to the Indian Navy, by the ment was issued but it was indicated

Kitchen employees of the Strand Palace, Regen: and Piccadilly Hotels veen East and West. He said "If economie hegemony in the Balkans Royal Navy will be the Achilles, that the government is considering joined strikers from

eight other following 1

policy of we are to remove the división be- and of

hotels in the three-day-old tween-East and West which was economic penetration and domina- sistership of the Ajax, which emergency measures-Reuter.

played decisive part in the here referred to

absurdity here is a great chance to help.” Continuing, Mr Bevin said: "We defeat of the German pocket

Speaking of the Danube, Mr Bevin have been denounced and misrepre- battleship Graf Spec at the UNRRA SUPPLIES said: "It scoms a

a little strange that sented for trying to

this and our Baitle of River Plate in Decem- nfter all our sacrifices we should be policy has been labelled us one placed in the worst position, worse economie enslavement, but how can ber, 1939. than we held before the war." The be enslavement if we ask exactly Danube was silting up rapidly parts and navigation must become impossible in a comparatively short

time.

cnsura

Thi

the same treatment for all? Really Daval quarters in London, who udd slated in well-informed

and Great Britain are both unfair unjust."

these slogans that are hurled at that the actual handing over is likely

Removal Of Suspicion

of

to take place in March, 1947.

The Achilles has been returned

FOR CHINA

Gen Josh T, MeNarney's office in Frankfurt announced to-day that air fignis could not be resumed over Czecho-Slovakla and Hungary,

responsible

Is understood The Turkish Inate Meanwhile, Czech airline schedules was submitted to the Council of from

Prague to Brussels, Amsterdam, Ministers in Ankara carly to-day for London. Paris, Strasbourg, Copen-Anal upproval before being despatch- lagen, Stockhulin and Warsaw 'con-] ed, tinue without change.

It largely reiterates the former Suspension of the Pan-American stand and echoes the British

ond cervles to Vienna and the Czech ser- American view that they are willing vice to Belgrade and Bucharest left to discuss the Dardanelles bilaterally, scores of stranded passengers milling but will negotiate amendments to the In the airlines office. Those for the Montreux Convention only at p gen-

1545 Service to Belgrade were not eral conference representing all in=" notified of the cancellation until their terested parties. arrival at the office for the bus to Ruzyne airport.

It also sternly rejects any sugges- tion of Russian millary positions be-" Czech Dental

ing based on Turkish soil.

Commenting on the rounding off of Prague, Oct. 10,--Ant

official the intest Dardanelles episode one in- denial that there had been any ban fluential diplomat here to-day told on flying over Czecho-Slovakia was Reuter that the "position, is exactly Issued by the Czecho-Slovak-News- og It was last August."-Reuter."" Agency here to-night.

-1

smart -dispute.

The Musicians' Union announced

The Agency statement said "some to-night that it had been asked to

foreign news ngencies recently strike D}} musiclana call out un

carried reports that foreign aircraft SPACE PROJECTILE from hotels and restaurants involved. d been forbidden to fly The announcement was made at the

over Czeclio-Slovak territory,

The London Trades Council, where the

Czedio-Slovak News Agency been officially authorised Washington, Oct. 9 (UP)-UNRRA strike leader, Arthur Lewis, urged

to state oficials said to-night that UNRRA all member unions to support the

that no ban has been issued has lifted the ban on the shipment strike.

that there ure no restrictions of steel rails and other transport The first craft union to respond

Czecho-Slovakia Ur equipment to Chinn but the embargo was the Amalgamated Association of against food and other supplies re-

Woodworkers, whileh sald it would Czecho-Slovak territory or on land- meteor-like objects reported over mains effective, at least temporarily.

פטה

THEORY EXPLODED

and on

inver

in

Stockholm, Oct. 10-The Swed- ish Defence Staff have come to the

the conclusion that

majority 01

way

alter the

existing tember 30 were ordinary celestial phenomeria. There was nothing to show they were V-bombs, or any other type of space projectile. ¡

Frequent reporta of "melborn" and "rocket-like objects". tearing through the sky, have been received from different parts Sweden during the summer-Reuter,

AGREEMENT PROSPECTS

"The catablishment of international

Mr Bevin said he knew of nothing the Royal Navy by the New Zealand machinery to arrest this deterioration that would do more than to remove Navy in exchange for the Black and prevent serious disasters is there. Western suspicion of the East and Prince. The ship is now in a Brisa

Tri any Hotel to-morrow. fore vital and of the most extreme especially of the Soviet Union than port and arrangements are being

Mr Bevin said. urgency,"

Meanwhile, concillation officers of situation."-Router. "We do not claim that the previous internn-East's acceptance of the principle made for her transference to the

the Labour Ministry opened talks in of free navigation of the Danube for Indian Navy within the nuxi five tional regime was perfect but at any all countries and the calling of a

The largest of the three is the

the dispute on attempt to settle months. rate it did

Leander (7,020 tons). The Ajax is before the weekend. No details were ANGLO-EGYPTIAN that this great conference waterway should be kept open.

Each of the three the Danubian states

ships to be the smallest.

revealed. handed over to India cost over "We cannot but feel that the So- plus Great Britain and France.

They all mount six-inch guns. The Mir Lewis Indicated his next target vict proposal which seeks to restrict | He appealed for 1 unanimous £1,000,000 to construct.

complement of each ship is 550. The

by urging the rally to

approach Besides the Achilles, the Ajax and Leader did great work in the Indian workers at Bonnington Hotel. the use of the Danube is not only a decisions but the West primarily is

two-thirds vote in the Leander will be handed to the Indian Ocean during the war, intercepting retrograde step but deliberately dis-seeking a

At the Plecodilly Hotel, pickets criminatory action against their plenary session since it falled to get Navy. The Achilles and Leander a German merchant ralder and sink-entered the lounge while waitresses a two-thirds vote in the Balkan were completed in 1933′and the Ajax | Ing with Ave saivos an Italian

were serving tea. Eight big hotels two years later: Lo assist Economic Commission. anxious

and two restaurants are now invol- (Rumanian recovery) but the

Mr Moloter who followed Mr Bevin sold Europe habilitating of

had said the main thing which is made

Strikers marched to the Piccadilly, Infinitely more difficult so long as emerged from the debate on

Park Lane and Palace hotels, where there is a barrier between the West Danube was the "desire to settle the

pickets tried to get more workers problem of the Danube in the peace

in john the stoppage. treaties with the former satellites of by ilotating to the van- "Certain of those who urge the

are

and East in the Danube area."

U.S. View Supported

re-

Germany, Mr Levin supported the view quished countries.

the

first expressed at the opening of the final debate on the Rumanian treaty by Senator Arthur Vandenberg, who establishment of a now Danubian, warned that a free Danube under regime are giving the Impression of .international control was as dictating to the Allied countries or-

to peace

the ders concerning their native Danube

which will be binding on them,”. hoj unity of Germany.

"I want to see the Danube as a continued, great artery of commerce as free as

raider-Reuter.

ved.

Cairo, Oct. 10.-Ismail Sidky Pasha, the Egyptian Premier said in a broadcast to-day that!

agreement

he hoped to reach Paratroopers' Sentences

Quashed By War Office

London, Oct. 10 (UP)—The Minister for War, Capt. F. J. Bellenger, to-day quashed the prison sentences on the 13 British paratroopers convicted of mutiny in Malaya and ordered their release dueto irregularities in the court martial

"The one-sided lack of objectivity! the sea, where marchant ships of all can still be seen in the way in which nations move free and peacefully, the Danube problem is being raised bringing prosperity to these needy now,"

M. Molotov described the machine Commons.

lands

sun

said Mr Bevin.

with loud cheers in the House of land.

Capt Bellenger auswered

with Mr Ernest Bevin, the Bri- tish Foreign Secretary, when he meets him shortly.

ITALO-POLISH "

WOS

TRADE AGREEMENT.

Rome, Oct. 10.-A trade agree- ment between Italy and Poland signed hero to-day by the "I will express the deep sentiments Italian Premier, Signor Alcide dc their Gasperl, and the Polish Ambas- of the Egyptians regarding national ident which they want to sador. see established without restrictions

claust

included The treaty

wo us to establish an era of solid under which Polund con order friendship between the two peoples Italian industrial products to the on a basis of real equality within value of £10,000,000 in the the framework of the United Nations four years, the Charter Sidky Pasha sold.

next. Italian Foreign

After two resturant-Prince's in Piccadilly and Potomac, in Jermyn Street had agreed to recognise the union, the London district. organiser of the union declared: "Victory is in sight."

Placard-carrying employees were parading outside the big hotels to night. They included good-looking young women in fur coats and slacks.

United Press and Reuter,

Office announced. The Egyptian Premier, who is also Closed Shop Polley

The agreement is based on the the. head of the Egyptian delegation exchange of 750,000 tons of Polish The announcement was greeted under severe conditions in a tropical

London, Oct. 10 (UP)—Mr. Wins-

the 1936 coal for

the equivalent in Italinra tan Churchill threw the House of discussing a revision of

and spekte from Tents, Industrial

agricultural pro- the Commons into an uproar to-day when treaty with Britain

devoted his ductReuter.. Dealing with Allied oil interests, he established on the Danube 90 years. Capt Bellenger said "Orders lo Government should not interfere in he naked the Minister of Labour, Mr north of Calro,

the TC- feel justified in requiring ago as "typically imperialistic policy this effect and for the release of the judicial matters and that there was George Isaacs, to state Government's speech almost entirely sat in this treaty that the Rumanian of the 19th Century."

men from imprisonment will be no tindue delay in the trial

policy on the closed

shop

futation of arguments sat out in a fujiginf Government should make foreign ex-! "If we really intend to abandon issued forthwith.

Copt

Bellenger said he was nut

Amid loud Conservative cheers, Mr recent WAFD-ist manifesto, calling change available to the extent re-imperialism of the 19th Century

are responsible for the breaking off of negotiations render the trial so unsatisfactory details with regard to the reasons for dealing quired for reconstruction and the why should we cling to such survivaji: "irregularities in the court martial prepared to give the House any Churchill said "youtter Have with Britain and the submission of

with these running of the petroleum industry." of imperialism as this?" he asked.

that the convletions ought not to be for the Judge Advocate General's you not formulated in your mind any Egypt's case to the United Nations. "We are now being offered a new allowed to stand," Capt Bellenger advice. He He claimed the right of equal treat-

--Heuter. sir" iden c what the closed shop issue answered "No, ment for all in commercial relations programme-equality of opportunity. sald. The quacking come on the when questioned whether the court is and if you have, why shouldn't you

"But if we are to speak of equality advice of the Judge Rumania.

Advocate martial proceedings would be made tell the am not at this plenary session of rights and opportunities of states General.

Mir Isaacs: I should be quite trouble for the Government.". going into details, but I mention it in the matter of waterways let us Mr Winston Churchill caused

Mr Churchill entered the debato Churchill: The quashing of a willing to tell the House if the people in order to reserve my position before talk about them in a fair and honest stir when he asked Capt Ballenger to trial is a very serious matter and would tell me what they mean by after Mr W. J. Brown (Independent)

The Otranto is not expected to the final settlement by the Council) way.

closed shop.

bad asked Mr Isaacs to define "closed The Minister sald he know what shop" and Mr Isaacs requested him reach Hongkong until some time. it meant in America-11 is an to state his meaning "more precisely." on Monday, the Telegraph', was

officially informed this morning.; American phrase imported into this Mr Isaacs made no reply defining country for the purpose of engaing | the, question.

with

wa

of Foreign Ministers. The main The Conube is not the only inter-explain why the Judge Advocate the people ought to imow why.

was suddenly consulted and the] Capt Bellenger: "I will consider

point is that It will be very difficult national waterway,

Secretary for War had to defer to whether it is possible to give a more for us to accept the final treaty un- Let us talk for instance of the his legal opinion after three months extensive explanation for the reasons less Great Britain is given precisely

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when the men were still confined for the qyashing.

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