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MONDAY, JUNE 9, 1947.
PLANES FLY TO AID OF
New US Super Bomber
Fort Worth, Texas, June 8.
A flicet of 100 B-36-super- bombers cach with three times the range and bomb load of the B-29--will be delivered to the Army over the next two years, it was disclosed today..
Thiricen of the six-engine glanta, whose body equals the capacity of four freight curs, are nearing com- pletion here at Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation.
Aut
Brig-Gen Roger Ramey, Commnan- der of the Eighth Ale. Force, the B-308 will be "speeding cross the skies within a few weeks" and undoubtedly is already causing "un"
offices of "ag happiness" to war gressor" nations.
Ile added that "unless history 15 empletely reversed we are going need them" in the thousands rather than the small number on order.
Gen
Ramey said the possiblity had been considered of carrying small fighter planes aboard the super- bombers since no fgther would be available to escort them on missions the range which could reach 10,000 iniles with: 10,000
of pounds
bombe He also revealed that gas turbine engines
100 miles to the may
nud
plane's present 300 m.ph, speed.
discuss Gen Ramey declined to the B-30% atomic bomb potentialities, only
STRANDED BRITONS
French Railway Strike Spreads To Strasbourg
London, June 9..
The British Foreign Office chartered four private passenger planes yester- day to evacuate British travellers stranded in Paris by the French rail strike.
Owners said each of the aircraft would make two or three round-trip flights. The British Overseas Airways also planned several relief flights yester- day and today."
No authoritative estimate of the number of persons involved was avail- able here. An air company official explaining that "quite a number" were be- lieved to have been unable so far to get bus or taxi transport to Paris Le Bour- get airfield.
Meanwhile, London had a problem { He voiced the general sentiment. of Its own caring for hundreds of of the delayed travellers which he would-be continental holidaymakers. said that he had been in Le Havre; Many spent the night in rallway three days and had to sail back to stations unable to get hotel rooms New York soon. in the chronically crowded British capital, and travel agents who were appointed families decided whether tearing their hair trying to help dis-
to give it up or walt a Hille longer. In hope of a settlement, the Sou- thern rallway, its regular Paris boat services concelled, sent B steamer to Dieppe to bring home Keveral hundred Brilons stranded after making the D-Day anniversary to Normandy.-Asso- pilgrimage elated Press.
train
SPREADS TO STRASBOURG
Paris, June 8,
TROOPS TO THE RESCUE smiling troops, took British hoilday- British Army trucks, driven by makers stranded by the strike out to Le Bourget airport, on the out- skirts of Paris, where special planes were walling to take them home.
strike-for The railway
higher weges and other benents-has dis- located passenger and freight traffic throughout France.
Express Company The American today provided specially chartered buses to aid stranded Americans,
Drivers private cars and trucks gave up their Sunday break to earn closed gates of the Paris railway stations.
Parisiens, anxious to
have the usual Sunday in the country, largely used bicycles to get out of the city.
General Charles de Gaulle among the thousands who had to change their plans because
The Army air forces said three fields in the United States are cupable of handling sustained opera- tions of the 130-ton bombers but more
fantastic money outside the construction.-United are under Prusa
"STRATO-FREICHTERS"
The
The French railway strike spread today to another important centre. Strasbourg, the last big town to hold
ubt.
an-
of
their
was
Employees of France's nationalised rail system are demanding a 5,500 franes minimum monthly wage and job reclassification.
Premier Paul Romadier and the Transport Minister, Jules Much, have refused to discuss wage demands until the strikers return to work,
There was no further clarification of the Government's position today, but a communique issued by strikers in the Lyon district said: "Our patience is at an end. The Govern-
General Strike
Called
Colombo, June 8.
A general strike was to day called for next Tuesday by the strike committee- organisers of the strike of civil servants, port workers and general workers which, at its peak last Thursday. brought 35,000 employees
out.
For the second successive day, a bomb was thrown to- day in the harbour district, where 11,000 port workers are on strike. One man was injured. Yesterday. four were injured by a bomb in the same locality,"
Ten thousand engineer- ing, oil, gas, tea and rubber workers are still on strike, but the 10,000 junior civil servants virtually ended their week-old strike yes- terday.-Reuter.
ATOMIC
CONTROL
ment must And the necessary mil- Surprise Soviet Move
Hards of francs to pay our demands so, we may continue to live while working. We ruilroaders of the General Confederation of Workers and the Christian Workers Federation are in complete accord as to what action we must take.”
ONLY ONE TRAIN
Only one traju-Phe Simplon Orient Express was permitted to arrive in Paris today, but nowhere in France were any passenger train departures reported. the Paris hotels were jammed to capa- but nowhere were there dupli- if city.
cations of the wartime - scenes
of soldiers sleeping in lobbles or on park benches..
NO RECONCILIATION
Paris, June 8, Both the French Government and
Central Union
of Railrand check of the leading Paris ho-
In Paris, where stations were closed and Fairfield,
emply, thousands of California, June .
people beselged the Invalides ruil- lant C-97-the "strato-way station, the starting point of
Government-organised freighter cargo-carrying brother of all
motor the 13-20 super-fortress, is under-conch services and of the Air France strike-Reuter going
shakedown fights here in airlines. There were long, queues
for buses,
but
would-be many preparation for service on the Air
travellers were unable to get seats. Transport Command routes to the
The Minister
of Transport Orieni.
nounced tonight that motor-coach the
showed that no prominent for- at Fairßeld J sky glant arrived
morrow and that if the
on the street in force after from the Sulsun
rallway clashing demands, while thousands back Bocing arbase
strlice continued, road and air trans-of.'stranded
weeklong gasoline shortage, rall passengers fretted the plant at Seattle, Washington. After
port would be even further In-in every city in France.
were more scarce than usual. Hired about 300 hours of trial and train-
The second day of the nationwide The one-day-old strike forced the
cars were virtually unobtainable. ing operations, it will be used increased from Tuesday,
railroad--strike-found--more- than "Meanwhile, more than 100 passen 150,000 workers idle and hundreds Transport Minister, Jules Moch regular trans-Pacific service."
gera from the United States. arrived in Le Havre today aboard of trains stalled. There appeared organise, emergency bus services be- the two liners "Ernie Pyle" and the slight prospect of an immediately tween the larger French cities and
(Continued From Page 4) "Marine Falcon, landed today and conciliatory move by either side.
The first of several on order, thervices would be trebled from lo-Workers stood pat tonight on their eign travellers were stranded. Taxis,
One of the new, larger and faster strato-freighters to replace the four-engined Douglas C-45s, Is expected to out the flying time from hera to Tokyo by about 35 per cent. -United Press.
King Abdullah Visits Iraq
Baghdad, Juno 8. King Abdullah of Transjordan ar rived today In Baghdad with Samir Pasha Rifai, his Prime Minister. -
He was met by his nephew, the Emir Abdul Illah, Regent of Iraq.- Reuter.
EDITORIAL
from
who
teft Le Havre in their own cors, which they had brought with them.
Another 376 passengers
the "Emle Pyle" are landing tomorrow noring and will travel to Paris by special buses. They will be fol- lawed a few hours, later by some 200 passengers from the Falcon,
"Marine
Among those waiting for further transport inland were some Ameri cans. One of these snid: "I was
two hoping to spend
weeks in Switzerland, but I am afraid I'l luse most of them."
Trade Unions And Wages
POLITICAL action has often
been necessary to 'give, effect to industrial measures; This was the main reason which led the British Trade Union Congress to In 1000 convene a conference which brought the present Labour tho Party into existence. On question of wages, however, trade unions in Bellala have always been most specific: wages are not a matter for political action, but, insist the unions, for collective bargaining, and they should be handled in the ordinary day-to- day for
functions of the unions, Bat at the Labour Party conference has fust concluded lis Margate, the question largely in the and, the trade movement have never been at variance
on the
question of As long ako as 1878 equal pay. the Trader Union Congress passed a resolution 'demanding equal pay for equal work, and this principle hon been in the
Of the trade
union programme over since Equal Pay for women. Workers 'ww2.00
was the most contentious of the Margate resolutions, but it FLOS roocive tho BUYDOTS ECE- pected principally, because women workers have not organised them. melven, into trade unions and the Labour Party an a poltiical enilly is not inclined to commit fiselt
OF WRICS
of
debates. union ma
dia
when there is no unanimily
of
proposition" of auch · far-
rescising effects. But where the
trade unions came into conillet with the Labour Parly resolutions was on the question of "nation- al wages polley." Since the end of the war a great deal has been heard about such a polley from all sections of society, but nobody has made it clear what is meant by the phrase. When it is urged from the Eight, it has usually that the Government meant
should
Hinted British Attitude To Hungarian Coup
London, June 8.
Well-informed British sources speculated tonight that Britain probably would decide to go along with the United States in asking for a Big Three inquiry into de- velopments in Hungary. A Foreign Office spokesman declined to confirm this, but said Britain was consider- ing the draft of the proposed American note to Russia on the Hungarian situation and would reply in the next day or two.
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Explosive Letters: Reported Arrest Of Woman In Belgium
Brussels, June 8.
Explosives found on a Jewish woman arrested last week by the Belgian security police were in the form of "letter bombs" of the kind recently received by prominent Britons, the Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws reported today.
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The arrest was made on the Belgian border when a woman, stated to be of Jewish extraction travelling on the Paris-Brussels train, was found to possess 10 en- velopes loaded with explosives.
The letters were hidden in the false bottom of a suitcase.
The newspaper stated that the letters were addressed to various persons but the addresses were be lieved not to be their real destina- tion.
MOSLEMS TO SUPPORT
INDIA PLAN
The police seized the suitcase but left the woman free suspecting that there would be accomplices near. The woman was joined immediately by a man and both were arrested.
The woman whose home was not
New Delhi, June 8. revealed was slated by the news
Three hundred members of have said that she belonged the all-India Moslem League paper to to a "secret organisation
She said that the suitcase was | Council-the League's · Parlia- handed to her in Paris by an un-ment-meeting in secrot session known person recognised by n pre here tomorrow are likely to arranged signal and that she was
"almost unqualified to deliver it in Brussels by the same agree on method. Reuter.
acceptance" of the British plan for India, Mr Chaudury Khali- quzzaman, member of the Lea- gue's Working Committee, said tonight.
on
.
MAN MAKES CLAIM'
Genoa, June 0. The large Jewish colony in Genoa on Sunday was diffident and close-
This emergency meeting
of the' Lake Success, June 9. mouthed about a man who,
Council was summoned by Mr Mo- A move aimed at breaking Saturday night, identified, himself to
Moslem hammed Ali Jinnah, tho the Associated Press the long stalemate over inter- of the Stern Gang and who said he as Ami Kon
notice. He himself gavo Lord League President, nt national control of atomic energy and sent 24 felter bombs
Bix days' to. pro Mountbatten, the Viceroy, only loomed in the United Nations.
minent Britons, among them King verbal and tentative acceptance of Soviet Deputy Foreign Minis- George.
the plan, explaining that the final A Scotland Yard spokesman said word lay with the Council. ter, Andrel Gromyko, requested a full meeting of the United bombs have been intercepted-in the. Sunday that no further letter
It is also expected in other quar- Nations Atomic Energy Com-murder-by-post plot against British ters that the Council will Bet the mission, the first in nearly officials, but that pranksters were seal on the Brush formule, which
a form
Pakistan cramming the mails with bogus bomb concedes
of three months, for Wednesday.
(separate Moslem state) to India's Soviet sources, said Gromyko, envelopes.
Meanwhile, Scotland Yard officials 90,000,000 Moslems. 、 would offer new proposals of "sub- said they would look into a report No formal recommendation will stance", prompting speculation that from Genoa, Italy, that a man there be placed before the Council, but Russin may be ready to clear up professing to be a Stern Gang mem- after preliminary statement by Mr her position In the extent of in-
her had claimed he was the mailer Jinnah, members will have an op- ternational inspections she would of the letter bombs.
portunity to express their views on allow.
The Scotland Yard spokesman said the plan. that addressed to a member of the count of his talks with members of
Mr Jinnah will give a 20 letters received none
detailed nc- the British Cabinet in Lention and Royal Family.
with the Viceroy in India. It is sittings of the Council-before-It expected that there will be three passes a resolution on the plan.
This development came as the Security Council scheduled more debate for a global police force and the United National Inquiry Com- five for-the-foly Land Asso- mission on Palestine prepared to
clated Press.
VICHY MINISTER BREAKS PRISON
Paris, Juno 8. Police stations throughout France were warned tonight that General Bridoux, former Secretary of State for War in the Vichy Government, escaped from the Fresnes prison hos pital, near Paris, where he was awalt-
trial. ing
Bridoux, who disappeared this morning, had been undergoing treat ment before facing trial for treason He had been in custody since 1945
was
Other points in the description of correspondent's informant checked the letters given by Associated Press with these received here, the spokes man said, and Scotland Yard plans routine check in Genoa-Asso- ciated Press.
a
Texas Disaster
Inquiry
Washington, June 8.
оп
TO JOIN ASSEMBLY?
It is thought that a likely corollary to the acceptance of the plan may be a resolution calling upon Moslem League members from group “A” under the Cabinet Mission's plan
of 10 last (a
predominantly Hindu Eroup of alx pravineca), and from The Eastern Punjab and Western Bengal
May
the predominantly Hindu ATCAS of the two provinces) to take
In part
the present Constituent The disaster at Texas City Assembly, which has so far been April 18, in which more than 400 oycotted by the Moslem League.
J'anah today held a series of people were killed and the thrivingestings with Moslem
siem League Gult port town devastated, was
by caused wholly
delegates from the provinces, the explosions, twa
ships,
and the oll and chemical cluding four ministers from the Sind
and two lenders from the Punjab, FOUR FATALITIES AT in blasts and flames, were without Punjab Sikhs are to meet in Lahore plants, which subsequently went up About 100 representatives the
Reuter.
MOTOR RACES
blame, according to a report publish-
ed today of an inquiry made for tomorrow to consider the British Berne, June 0. the oll refineries Insurance under-plan. The all-India Committee of Three people-two men and
a writers.
the Mahasabha(Orthodox Hindu The Foreign Omec declined to Diplomatic sources in London. be- small boy-were killed during 10-|
blasts on board the ships up- Organisation) which continues to Premier discuss detalls of the note, but it was lieved Rumanian
Petru day's Swiss Grand Prix motor race, pear beyand reasonable doubt to stand out against partition, today an Anglo-Groza's visit to Belgrade might lead which was won understood to request
by the French have resulted from the detonation derided to observe July 3 as a day. American-Russion Inquiry into the to the formation of a formal or in- driver, Jean Pierre Wimille.
of ammonium nitrate by fire," the of protest, disposal of Premier Ferenc Nogy and formal pro-Soviet Balkan federn- The accident occurred when the report sald.
ACCUSES CONGRESS other events in Hungary. Washing- tion, presumably consisting of Yugo-British driver, Leslie Johnson, "There wa
was no detonation of ex- The Committee passed a resolution, ton asked for Britain's views on the Slavia. Bulgaria, Rumanla and Al- skidded.
bania. nole.
There
was a fourth fatal accident plosive substances within the devas, accusing Congress of betraying, the of the oil industries." country by agreeing to the parti-" The federation ostensibly would during the day when the Italian The report of the United States tion of India without a referendum. The Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest Bevin, may disclose Britain's attitude be Russia's answer to the Truman motor-cycle racer, Ruggeri, was Coastguard published a fortnight ago In Calcutta, Chandra Bose, former toward the request tomorrow in the policy of ald to Greece and Turkey killed in a crash while training failed to establish any specific cause member of the Congress Working
(Contintred on Page, 4) House of Commons, when he is ex- Although Hungary is not a Bulkan Heuter: pected to answer a series of ques-country, the federation well might tions from members regarding dave- be widened to include her in view of lopments in Hungary.
the Communist manoeuvres there. Well-informed sources
ALBANIAN MISSION the key to Britain's position on the These sources believed the idea proposed American note was, the fact of such a federation was behind the that she herself proposed a three- remarks of Marshal Joset Tito and power inquiry into Hungary's in Premier Groza at luncheon in ternal political situation at the time Belgrade yesterday. Marshal Tito of the arrest
est of Bela Kovacs, former said the Secretary General of the opposition | co-oper time had como for "deeper | Smallholders Party several months and Rumania. Premier Groza ro- desired full
believed
M
Yugoslavia
for the disaster-Reuter.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL REBUKES THE
WOMEN OF BRITAIN”-
are
milk
shoulf put celling to wages; when it comes from the Left. something quite different is in- tended usually a minimum wage below which no worker should fall. The trade unioit movement has no quarrel with the Left de- fialtion, but it does not agree that it is Government which
"What a plece of impertinence!" "We have 88 per cent of the meat Sheffield, June 8.. fix the special minimum. The
between
Complaints by "selfish wo- Sir Hartley said. "Not only are we used to have."
Wot have more trade union leaders. at. Margate
men that the British standard cacao ladies who are organising the flour, bread and cake than before campaign not the women of Britain' the war. Wo have less fat, but vehemently
ngo. Russia relected the suggestion plied that Rumania defended tho established
and it died in the process of birth. authority of the unions
political, cultural and economic.co of life was collapsing were con- at all, but merely ́n very amall taking the whole population, only to deal with wares, and as the
IMPORTANT FACTOR
either operation with Yugoslavia.
Coincidentally, an Albanian mis- demned by the British Attorney-section of those who One factor might give Britain resolutions seeking to transfer
And we have half as much General, Sir Hartley Shawcross, politically ignorant or pollucally one ounce per week per head less.
dishonest, but it is totally untrue to agala." danes v described
economic, 0.5 the power to the Government pause, however, CA the Sunday alon,
also whon addressing a meeting near say that our standard of living has Times'. diplomatic correspondents vis
visiting Belgrade. ·Rumours were defeated, it can be expect
had placed -Gen Sviridov, Soviet here tonight.
collapsed.
Adding that after the last war ed that lead will be heard in the
today:
"On the contrary, taking it nil food prices had saared within a year Sir Hartley, who is Labour Mem- Immediate future of the so-called "The growing friction between commander in Hungary, in Belgrade.
nt the national wages · policy. Never- America and Russin In Central and but Belgrade sources said there was ber for St. Helen's, Lancashire, sald round, looking
average or so, Sir Hariley said:" that he had received a communica- carnings, at the social Insurance, at Southeastern Europe is being watch-no trace of him there,
At the very minimum, Premier tion from a woman in London, the security of employment audit would be the same again. If ed with grave concern. In White- hall. The situation has deteriorated Groza's visit was expected to result stated to be sent on behalf of an at food, it is, probably true to say we took off the control and abolished In a pact of friendship and collabora-organisation and individuals of his that the standard of life for the the subsidies, No doubt this is what so soverely in the last few weeks tion between Yugoslavia and Ru-
average man and woman in
this selilah women want, then the ones own constituency. crisis
Ecems to
manla.
Even if no formal Balkan
get what be looming
federation of pro-Russion states by received no,reply" he said. been
food there Britain Is
Giving
an instance of food speci- go without was and the rest would from Russia on her request for do locking treaties and commitments | wk (said to have been - "passed at fically, Sir Hartley said that "noWe should go back to 1838 when cuments incriminating the resigned among Yugoslavia, Rumanía, Bul sons conference and which started large country In Europe, and cer- a large section of the population was Premier, Ferenc Nagy, in an alleged aria and Albania then would pro-out by saying: We, the women of tainly none in Asia have a diet so on the starvation, line and half our plot to overthrow his own govern duca the effect of a federation, Britain, dismayed by the collapse good and well-balanced
as ours children were undernourished." United Proas.
of our standard of life-
| here.
theless, Britain's "trade union 'chiefs will probably find that the workers will
only
continue subscribe to collective bargaining so long as it produces required
· resulta,*** Should this policy · Fall the future It is fairly certain. that there will be a popular de- mand for Government supervision. of wages, "based on an, scceptable minimu
sald
Pasked for particulars-of them, country is higher, PERTANDna with: they money would.
than it
· that on internat Siting for å reply emerged as such; nevertheless Inter-contained a résólution which
ment.
Reuter
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