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VOL. II NO. 130

MR DANIEL MCBRIDE

A 50-Year Alliance

Treaty Signed At Dunkirk

Dunkirk. Mar. 5.

A treaty binding France and Britain to set Jointly against any possible future aggression by a Germany, and pledging the two countries to a 50-year alitance was signed here to-day by the British Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest Bevin and M. GeorgeS Bidault.

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MAN WHO CAPTURED RUDOLF Snow Returns

HESS IN H.K.

Mr. Daniel McBride To

Tell His

His Own

Own Story

“TELEGRAPH” EXCLUSIVE

The man who really captured Rudolf Hess in Scotland when the former deputy Nâzi Feuhrer landed there in May, 1941, is now in Hongkong,

He is Mr Daniel McBride, pumpman of the Empire Garden, which at presént is being "tidied up" at Taikoo dockyard.

Mr McBride is to tell exclusively to "Telegraph" readers the story of how he arrested Hess on that early summer evening, and of the conversation he had with the Nazi No. 2 in a lonely Scottish farmhouse.

A Nonniderable amount of recreev has alwayя veiled the landing of Hess in Scotland on May 10, 1941. First official reports were so vague as to leave the general public, bath

and elsewhere, "all

at

Без

Home

at

to

Laler, reports came through Hongkong that a former, one David McLean, had been the man respon-

sible for capturing less and wh

had held him in his farmhouse unt!! a military escort arrived.

When newspapermen attempted to persuade McLean to rennet the scene, he refused on the grounds that he was not "fitted for film work."

To-day, nearly six years after the event. Mr Daniel McBride is able to disclose that it was he, and not McLean, who first caught Hess after he had liberated himself from The puck also calls for

purachute; that it was McBride, and action by France and Britain inf'only he, who took Hess to the farm- case Germany defaults

house; and that he was the In uny

only economic obligations Imposed in her man to talk with less until a Home surrender or In the forthcoming Guard escort arrived at the farm- German peace settlement.

stead and took the Nazi into cus- The two countries under the tody. treaty's' terms also will "taken

Mr McBride's lips have been seal- all possible steps to promote the pro-ed until now because, until his de-

subject sperity and economic stability" of mobilisation, he WOR

secrecy regarding his part in the affair. are the

each other.

All the treaty's provisions subject to the provisions of United Nations Charter.

Mr Bevin and Mr Eldault affixed their signatures in the tiny Dunkirk

to

Now, he says, the full and true story can be told, and he offers it. in his own words, to "Telegraph" readers,

The story will appear in two Instalments, the first to-marrow, and the second on Friday,

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A year Inter he broke into the BBC with a play, "Log of the Hop- per 9,” which was a seafaring drama, In 1039 he joined the Royal Corps of Signals, beginning a second war career. The following year he did his first broadcast with on Ack-ack balloon barrage concert party in Scotland, stationed ot Bishop' Bridge, near Glasgow.

from the army to the merchant navy,

to

RUDOLF HESS

CANADA TO

GO OWN WAY

Ottawa, March 5.

The Secretary of External Affairs told Parliament yesterday that Canada would have her own foreign polley and not speak through Britain even though she might fail to get all she wants in foreign counelis.

Mr Louis St Laurent made a

Two years later he was transfer-statement during the all-day debato red, under War Office Instructions, obtain full role in shaping the Ger- centred around Canada's fallure to For the next two years he helped man-Austrian peace treaties, princi keep Britain's life-line intact sail-pally because of Soviet objections. Ing

As a posible way out of the diffi in merchant ships through enemy mineflelds, air assaults and culty. Veteran Howard Green pro- submarine attacks.

posed "We should take advantage of our membership in the British Em- | pire .we fought as an empire and we should make treaties in the same way,"

Mr McBride came to Hongkong as a member of the crew of the Em- pire Garden last year. He and the ship are due to sail at the cri this week.

Riots Flare Up In Lahore

af

New Delhi, Mar. 4. Communni riots flaring up through Lahore's walled city brought 30 deaths and injuries to 47 students. and policemen to-day.

An 11-hour curfew was immediate- ly imposed and troops were called out to prevent the situation from getting out of hand.

Hindu und Sikh followers baited Moslems who had proposed an all- Moslem League Ministry for the province in place of the coalition Ministry which collapsed on Sunday

night

The rioters tossed bricks and bol- Ittes and swung lathis, causing the. police to fire 20 rounds on them.

Hindu and Slich business men shut their shops

In protest against u Moslem Ministry. Hindu and Sikh Jenkins, that they would never ac-→ cept Moslem rule. United Press.

Mr Louis St. Lourent said he was

Palestine

And UNO

Moves To Expedite

Inquiry

Lake Success, Mar, 5. United Nations Officials were reported to have taken preliminary steps to expedite immediately the inquiry into the Palestine problem, when, and if the big five' powers give the go ahead signal.

Although Britain has not yet placed the case before the United Nations formally, authoritative quarters said that Mr Arkady So- bolev, Assistant Secretary General in charge of Political Affairs, already had directed his oldes begin "putting together the busic factual materia)."

to

This preparation was started im- mediately after the Secretary General, Dr Trygve Lie, in his talica with the big Powers' representatives advanced a proposal that a United Nations Fact Finding Commission be established to study the problem and draft the recommendations be- September. fore the General Assembly meets in

Informed quarters also

reported

that plans for an economic commis- slon for Asia and the Orient would

he laid before the United Nations Economic and Social Council within the next few days.

A small group of experts who had been working on the plans behind closed doors for several weeks met twice on Tuesday and were said to

To Englandh

London, Mar, 4.

A swirling blizzard blan keted London with a fresh coat of snow late to-day and hattered England's South- cast const with rain and slect, whipped by gusts of rain ranging up lo GO m.p.h.

Temperatures dropped below freezing point after a brief thaw and ronds were described

ns very dangerous in and around London.

Drifts piled up rapidly on East Anglia roads which had been cleared only a "week ago. Visibility was

only 15 yards in places and traffic was vir- tually at a standstill.

some

The Air Ministry pre- dicted a thaw would follow the storm late to-night and that rain would melt most of the snow before it froze. -United Press.

2017 ANZANIA

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Korean Govt. To Be Set Up

Not Recognised By U.S. Authorities

Seoul, Mar. 4.

A "Korean Provisional Government" headed by Syng-1 man Rhee as President and Kim Koo as Vice-President, but not recognised by the US. Army will be promulgated within.48 hours, reliable sources said to- day.

Kim Koo, former President of the wartime Korcan Provisional Gov- ernment in Chungking, has lined, up with representatives of Kim Sung- soo's Democratic, Party and Rhea's nominally nun-political: National Association for the Advancement of Korean Independence, to form thin government.

A pubile announcement is ex~ pected as soon as Kim, Koo and the ACESTEARTFLAKEZ31,Democratic Party can settle their

Tommy Guns Seek Out Terrorists

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differences over Cabinet posts. It is believed Kim Koo is holding out for the Chungking regime with himself as President and Rhee as Vice- President. Influential Democralle Party members however hold out for Rhee an head of the Provisional Government.

U.S. military authorities said the Military Government has no cholec but to ignore the Provisional Government-United Press.

CRITICISES RUSSIA

BY ELIAV SIMON

Washington, Mar. 4. Jerusalem, Mar. 4.

Representative Paul Shafer, Re- British troops, with tommy publican of Michigan, in a speech guns and battle equipment, prepared for delivery on the House mounted into orange groves of floor, said to-day that the United Hedert district to-day to ferret keep her promites to reunite Korea States should demand that Russia

true

"in very sharp disagreement with be planning to submit their recom- out terrorists who attacked and set up a

mendations to the Council by Thurs-supply depot last night. and visional govern

Mr Green's remarks-Arsociated Prcan

day or Friday-Associated Press.

Greece Appeals To

U.S. For

Money

Washington, Mar. 5.

The Greek government in an urgent plea for American aid, asked the. United States for funds to meet their immediate needs and also for American economic and technical experts.

He said the wounded two soldiers,****

policy of doing nothing is selling Koren Some quarters speculated that the town the river the same de Poland." operation might presage the exten-. "If the United States is over-to sion of martial law to North Palen-have a pesillon of respect dilď pre- tine.

siige in the Orient the pledges have made to the Korean people United Tho uted

friends by

we

I have just returned from a Ay-must be made good. ing visit by car around the coastal States could not win martial-law area, which I found-denying the Korean people self- contrary to alarming reports cir-government, maintaining sensorebko, culating quite normal.

preventing them trading withi' the rest of the world and treating them I went through Tel-Aviv, Ramat-not as Alles, which they were, but Gan, Ben-brak, Petah-Tiqva, and ns enemies, which they were not,” found life continuing in full swing as he stated. If nothing had happened..

He charged Russin is trying every

It is true, as I was told by Tel-possible to entrench Communism Aviv's Mayor Rokoh, at 12,000 men manis Into the soil and that

North Koren and infiltrate. Com situation did not change. But the a solution promised by the Calro Mayor added that he was optimistic 1045 were likely to be unemployed if the overy day which passes wilt make

about overcoming all difculties.

A CHALLENGE

the text of the note which sald that preceded by a proposal from Sena

The State Department-published General Marshall's statement was Greece now is without funds totor Mr Pepper, Democrat of Florida, finance their Imports, even of those that the United States refer consumption goods that are most the Greek problem to the United essential for their subsistence." Nations. Any other course, Pepper said, might be interpreted as an "im- The note said that Greece needs perialistic move" aimed the funds to make the immediate wo are going to carry on undeclared Rusala. "It

"To us this is a challenge," he de- purchases to enable the civil

clared. and war at all: critical

This has given us a test for peace" Pepper selves without outside help. told reporters. Associated Press.

nt

Ile say he only managed to get lenders told the Governor, Sir Evans military forces to restore security there is no hopeints of the world-whether we are able to manage our-

Text of Alliance The text of the 50-year

FIRST WAR VETERAN Anglo-French Alliance" ap peurs on page 4.

Mr Daniel McBride was born at 121327mano Wentyes Bay, Scotland. He was serving his apprenticeship as an subprefecture building the tafgest engineer atter when World War structure still standing in the de- broke out. In 1915 he joined up vastated city where, in 1940, Hitler's with the Royal Naval Division and troops inflicted

on Britain her found himself in France, He served greatest defeat of World War II,

through the war until 1010. A joint statement of the Foreign Ministers after the ceremony said "The Anglo-French treaty of alliance and mutual assistance defines or- rangements worked out between the powers for establishing" a Arm basis and within the frame- work of collective

security as laid down by the Charter of the Unilwed reciprocal and special Montes which they contemplate to prevent the recurrence

German mevinec."

Associated Press.

EDITORIAL

of a

Ave

into the Royal Naval Division be cause they reduced their minimum height for an enlisted man to feet two; he is five feet four.

After the war, Mr McBride joined the merchant service as a fireman.

In 1936 he become a "landlubber," by which time he had been promot- ed to third engineer.

started to write short stories and had an of them published-mostly of the nd- venture type-fiction, but based on fact and personal experience.

Serious Coal Situation

STOP PRESS

Test Match

Lindwall when England's second

that

and to create means of self-support for the future.

No specific sums were mentioned. Earlier, the Secretary of State, General Marshall had said that the nid to Greece is matter of primary importance to the United States."

TREATED AS URGENT

It was the arst formal statement made by the Administration

had

Bince

5000

Fire Engines Saved

The Mayor pointed out that the average Tel-Avivian probably had more than the averago Englishman In Britain as food trucks rolled in continuously.

Bulford, Mar, 4. ling this

If the

declaration more dificult- United PruBS, ··

Britain And U.S. Coal Supplies

London, Mar, 4. The Prime Minister, Mr Clement Attlee, said in the House of Com- mona to-day that the Government tion that was carefully considering a sugges then that Britain ascertain whether

tould spare coal Slater for Britain without reducing alloca tions to other countries.

Other possibilities also were being

with things here Tru-

hot-

atly strikes shut down the

Abraham Krinizi, Mayor of Ramat- Gan, said some men were already out of there due to lack of, "but we are tack- rew Smith added 10 runs to his over last week's top secret White-House tor at Bulford Garrism prevente "they would be convinced that the question perfod Mr Atties mit month Smart work by a telephone opera- took a good look at things," he said, considered, Mx Attlee Bald during

had intelligence and night

score before being caught conference. Marshall said that the er by Talion behind the wicket otr

of fire engines racing a only way of President through Truman's urgent attention and con- gandire to attack a fire threatening in to open the gates of the country, ejected an effer by President TTL-

discussed gliders at Netheravon, 1 was re- was resumed this morning. Smith red that it had been

is no use answering evil with evil. bound for other nations, United hat scored 24.

with the Congressional leaders,

vealed to-day.

Joseph Sapir, Mayor of Pelsh-Press Compton continued to bat care-

Tigva, half-century old fally after being Joined by Bedser. President Truman will very

General Marshall promised. that

The gunfire set alight six square colony which is reputed to be

Jewish

and the total was raised to 100 forgive

miles of grassland and threatened a bed of extremists, suld there were NEW YORK STRIKE 7-Reuter:

a full

explanation of what Bulford garrison, fire brigade and several plants were closed down and number of gliders standing nearby. 4,000 unemployed there because United

New York, Mar. 4. Press

action the Government contemplates Ealisburg and Ludgershall brigades orange groves were inaccessibić, adida

the to bolster the anti-communist Athens

A strike, early this morning com- wicket appeared to be in good regime.

were called to the fire and then a condition

plately shut down the Cotton/Ex- "But we do not believe this will change Building and called out all and not likely to tako

few minutes later it was realised disturb our economy," he added. clerks on the floor of the' Cotton Ex- excessive spin. Another large The 250 word statement was issued they would have to pass through the crowd

was present at the start of by the State Department Ds Mor-barrage of 25-pander to reach it.

DOGGED CONFIDENCE

elevator operators and other play..

shall was preparing to depart for the

maintenance workers. ENGLAND ALL OUT

Moscow conference

The operator at Bulford garrison Their cheerful Information sound-power plant of the 21-store bulld It made quite clear that "in the the fire engines to warn them of the several score

on Wednesday rang all the places on the routs of ed like propaganda until I mot England were all out for 108, Aus- light of the world · situation"

ing and also such things as barber tralia requiring 214 to win.

Unifled

the danger. States

They were stopped from standards of life, who were dogged- The walkout followed termination

of people from tilshops Inside It Compton, b Toshack 78, Bedser, st to help. Tallon, b McCool 4, Wright not out decision which

It get the stage for a able to reach the fire unharmed themselves before long. -

disposed entering the firing area and were ly sure that things could, right of a contract with the United Finiin- Congress 1. Hutton did not bat-United | share-on the, large scale ald.

Reuter.

clal Employees Organisation which -Press.

ended Inst midnight United Press. Marshall disclosed that Grecce has appealed to the United States directly. Meanwhile there have! been discussions with Britain which cewise had been bending Every effort to help."

The The note of the crisis

WIS last week by a note from Britain reportedly pleading

Washington; Mar. 6.ed as the proposal failed to men- America possibly will issue an in- Inability to continue the financial support of Grecce as a postwar learned that the Far East Com- urged complete settlement of the Arthur, authorising the propos

It has been authoritatively lon Indo-China, while Australia terim direclive to General Mac- bulwark against further the Soviet dominarios.

mission move to make advance vidual claimant received payment.

reparations issue before any indi- advance removals young Rome, Mar. 5.

Meanwhile, Korea, and

and its The Ministry of the Interior an-

Japanese reparations to China'

prob MILLIONS INVOLVED

The other especially noedly coun-lems is another Oriental Issue re- nounced last night that Mount Etna

and a few other needy countries mentioned were the Philip celving high level amelal considora had ceased erupting, i and assured Sicilian mountain dwellers they are stod to have been told that the within the Far East Commission most devastated.

Congressional leaders were under-tries, has encountered difficulty Pines, Malays, and the Netherlands tion in Washington within recent

East Indies na the arcas. of Asta daraja ** in no further danger because the flow taking over of British commitments itacif. of lava is expected to advance only would involve probably $250,000,000

It authoritatively indicated departments began inter-part

The Wer, Sinto and

and Commerce: a few feet before it cools and hop-in relier, outlays and credits this

the United States hopes the pro- mental conterences seeking a solu It is understood that the Frerich posal eventually will gain the Com-tion of the Russo-American Imparse dens-Associated Press.

member of the Commission object-mission's approval but if it falls, in Korea. -Associated Press.

JONGKONG is beginning to scrape the bottom of her coal bin, existing stocks being such that some measure of gas rationing will become in-

Immadlate cause of -'evitable unicas, shipments are delivered very soon.

the colony's coal shortage la a strike in Calcutta which is tying up both coal and shipa scheduled for Hongkong. There appears to be no early prospects of a settlement and may that our February coal allocations will not arrive for several weeks. That such a situation has arisen may tempt one to condemn thoed responsible for maintaining Hongkong's coal atooks, on the grounds that apparently there has been a breakdown in planning for the present contingency. But any such criticism must take into consideration a variety of factors. Most Important is that the whole world to-day is suffering acutely, from shortage of coal, as well as labour to mine it. World coal famine le on the same loval as rice and grain shortages, Because of this coal has to be rationed out, Hongkong is not permitted to go into the world market and obtain whatever coal she can. She has to accept allocations in the same way as rice. These allocations ars,made by the Washington and London Coal Boards and-they are based on available supplies. Thus to date, Hongkong has received roughly five. eighths of har requirements under the allocation schema.

Automatically the question comes to mind: what about coal from and Japan? Here again Hongkong is thwarted. The majority of China's coal fields were so badly damaged as a result of the war that the cannot apare a single ton for expart, General MacArthur has said that Japan needs all hir coal for rehabilitation services, although it is, a fact that, under an agreement made very early in the reoccupation days, Japan pro-tightened mised to supply Hongkong with certain amount coal, and she has.

· honoured this agreement. However, this has to be included in the colony's tatal cool allocation and le not an additional Intake. Thirdly, there is the question of cost. Hongkong at the moment is faced with the danger/of Having to take American coal which costs just about twice`na, much as coal from Burma, South Africa and elsewhere. It is, in fact, prohibitive in price, and Ita uso would entail either a heavy subaldy or a soaring of fuel and power charges. "

China

The position is admittedly disconcerting, rendered more so by the knowledge that neither the government nor private concerns can do much about it. Everything hinges on the Calcutta strike boing wattled and

•Hongkong's' February cost allocation coming forward quickly. In the meantime, gas consumers should prapare themselves for possible restric .tlone.

LUNCH SCORE

Australia, 2nd Inns. 22 for no wicket. Barnes not out 17, Morris not oul 5.—United Press,

ETNA DANGER NOW OVER

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