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Savage Rioting In New Delhi
SITUATION REPORTED TO
BE OUT OF CONTROL
(By DOON CAMPBELL, REUTER'S SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)
New Delhi, Sent. 7.—Indian and Gurkha troops tonight patrolled the streets of New Delhi, seat of the new Dominion Government of India, where savage communal rioting and hooliganism broke out in the last 12 hours.
Among the sights I saw in a tour of the city today were: A human body being consumed on a bonfire; tongas (horse-drawn carriages) ablaze in the middle of the main road; flames licking the yellow paint off a Mosque and veiled Moslem women queueing up for sanctuary at a police Atation.
had remained
In one police station a 18-year-old, built city, which Moslem lay with a smashed skull practically untouched in the fierco beside three other corpura,
religious clashes until today becouse British Tonight, apart from sporadle hit of its large American and and run incidents, the situation was population. under control of military and police, who had already made clear with rifle fire their determination to
Rioting started this morning in the exclusive Connaught Place shopping area when police fired on mobs wild-eyed louters in break
stamp out the outer from į systematic destruction of big stores.
Sikhs have been
carrying their swords, worn as res The mobs filed, but the gun powder ligious symbols, in the streets of apparently Infuriated then and short, Delhi for the next ten days, under bloody skirmishes rapidly developed
order Issued by the District over the city,
an
Magistrate.
Taxi drivers, bus conductors and Ice, cart drivers took cover as the fighting spread.
Pandit Nehru, Indian Prime Minister, with Sahdor Baldev Singh, Sikh Defence Minister, toured the
This correspondent saw 60 Mos- disturbed orcas during the day em men, women and children trek-
There is an clement of panic- In
king fearfully down deserted Par- some areas, where citizens are not
(Continued on Fage 4) quite sure who is fighting who, di They Just who is the aggressor. barricade themselves in their homes, and hope for the best.---Roule
NO TELEPHONES London, Sept 7-The Exhange Telegraph correspondent reported from New Delhi today that the situation appeared to be out of con- trol and was deteriorating rapidly. with
12 persons officially dead and the telephone system broken down completely.
The
Exchange Telegraph sald Mos- iems cowered behind locked doors throughout the city and that every shop owned by a Moslem In Con- naught Place had been looted.
200 Injured In Soccer Stand
Collapse
Bombay, Sept. 7.-Two hundred spectators, among them women and children, were injured, 45 of them seriously, when u wooden stand collapsed at a football ground here tonight.
The
against Incident.
poller charged with lathis demonstavitors after the
The accident acorred #ve minutes
The correspondent said six com- ses could be seen from his office win dow, lying untouched in the street in what apparently constituted Sikh vengeance for Lahore masuaeres after the interval of the quarter
The, correspondent also sald he saw Moslems being burned alive nel-of-the-Western-Indian-premier- | football tournament-the Itovers carly today, reminiscent of the great Cup-between the Staffordshire Re- massacre of Calcutta a year ago. He
giment and Mohan
Bagan, crack said Mr Gandhi's arrival was await-parent ed with great impatience with the Indian team of Calcutta.
hope that peace would be restered. cord crowd of 12,000. Thousands of
The match was watched by a re-
-United Press.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1947.
Grimthorpe Miners Defy Leaders:
Refuse To Return To
Yorkshire Sent. Grimthorpe, 7-lain. today heard the grim mewn that the mining coinmuny Yorkshire Oils Lic mouth fown had voted against a return to work in the nation's worst coal strike since the war.
of
Defying # unanimous "go back" call from thele own area unton, this Grimthorpe men reached this decision by n show or hands majority after a three- hour menting that ind bern hoped to end a dispute involving nearly 70,000 sympathy-striking miners in 54 pita-half the south Yorkshire coalfeld.
The Minister of Agriculture, Mr Tom Willams, who attended meeting, immediately the
con- demned the deelsion 19 regrettable In view of the factors Involved"—an evident, reference
"very
sirike has to the fact that the already ensi Britain over 350.000 tons of coal.
Afice the
speculation vote centred on whether the sympathy striiters would continue to sup- port the Grimiltorpe miners in view of yesterday's call by the Yorkshire arca council of the niners unten, urging an 1212- mediale resppilon.;
Observera believed that the council's action in appointing a three-men fact-finding rummilice Grimthorpe tu investigate the
men's grievances as soon as they went back to work might have cut the ground from under their fect.
Hopes
of a settlement, reigned yesterday, were founded on the view that the men would accept this plan in the betier, that
whica
Work
the commlite-whleb
Included
iwo miners with practical ex^ ;
perlence
of coalface working-
cm right
would prove
HELP.
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refusing to work on an extra two feet stint
Der The Grimthorpe strike, which started a month ago when men at the coalface rejected the extra work plan ordered by Joint commitice of
of the National
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Coal Board and the Mineworkers* Union and were joined by about 2,000 other workers in the same pit, has already
down 'slowed Britain's vital textile, engineer- Ing and steel industries, severely hitting the export trade.
Three thousand industrial firms and 100,000 homes in Yorkshire while cuts, are faced with Kas 60.000 Yorkshire men and women
are threatened with part-time employment.-Reuter.
14 Arrests In Connection With
Plot To Bomb London
David indicated that other arrests were unticipated.
Paris, Sept. 7.-Fourteen persons were under arrest today as the French police continued to round up suspects in the alleged plot by the Stern Gang to bomb Lon- don in retaliation for the return of the Exodus 1947 refugees to Germany, Two of those arrested were The police belleved the leaflet rald; Americans: Rabbi Baruch Korff was to have been followed up with of New York City, who recently an actual bombing raid on London. announced plans by his "political Half a dozen home-made bombs, action commitice for Tree Pales-mad: from Bre-extinguisher casings, fine" to institute a parachute in- were seized, along with two alleged vasion of the Holy Land, and Re- Sternists identified only as Jacques ginald G. M. Gilbert, originally and Olga, at an apartment in the of Birmingham. England, but an Paris working quarter. American citizen.
The identity of the others arrested Korff, Gilbert and Mrs Judith and the charges against them were Rosenberger, 23, of Hungary, were not revealed by the police, but Jean taken into custody yesterday at Tous- David, an assistant to the Minister sous le Noble airport here as they of the Interior, announced that the prepared to take off in a private police were looking for persons Im- plane laden with "warning" noticos plicated through papers found in the that they allegedly planned to drop homes of those arrested at the alr- over London.
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NEW PHASE IN DOLLAR CRISIS DISCUSSIONS
British Proposal Anticipated
London, Sept. 7.-A British proposal to supply Europe with dollars out of the International Monetary Fund until the Marshall Plan comes into action is the plan anticipated by British-financial quarters-to-be-put- before Mr John Snyder, American Treasury chief, when ho reached London tomorrow for talks with Mr Hugh Dalton, Chancellor of the Exchequer.
It is generally held that his arrival disappointed spectators later demon-heralds a new phase in the world TROOPS ON PATROL
strated noisily at the Football Com-dollar crisis discussions. New Delhi, Sept. 7-Truckloads (mittee's
headquarters near Wic of green-uniformed Indian troops ground, demanding that the day's with cocked automalle rifles patroll- proceeds be given to the victims. ed the next streets of the European The announcement that the. section of New Delhi tonight after play of the match would be free did Hindu-Mislem rioting and looting not satisfy the demonstrators, who broke out, leaving at least six dead. tore up flower beds and caused other
The District Magistrate told the damage.
rc-
United Press he anticipated a declara- The police dispersed the crowd tion of martial law in the British- with tothis charge-Reuter.
EDITORIAL
Workers' Tenements
TIE proposals of the Hongkong Trophy of the Usos
to construct, 2,000 dwellings for workers spotlights once again the plight of the labourer and skilled worker with regard to living ac commodation
tlfs Colony. Primo interest in the housing prob. lem has to now, been centred
up. on the needs of the minority, largely because they, represent the more articulate section of tho community, and also because the actual loss of better-class, proper ty in consequence of the war was greater than that suffered in the tenement areas. It must also be appreciated that the so-called de Freased classics of Chinese have always displayed a willingness to Ilve
in overcrowded surroundings, thereby, ht some incasure, con telbuting to their pitiful existċuce, Large familles and the clan code
as well as the prin hospitality, as elpal tenant system, have inevil
converted what werpi
of
? geclable" tentments into shualid
This situation prevalled before the war, shells and bombs subsequently aggravaled the prob- Jem, requiring as many, if not more, people to cram themselves Into fewer tenements. Moreover, the conditions under which fens of thousands are living today, are notonly unhealthy, but un- economio. Despite protective legis. Iation, familles are being mulcted 530 and thore mouth for. bed.. space for which they should only
be paying $10, and it is this factor which has, to a great extent, In- fluenced the Manufacturers' Union to promote a building scheme for workers, High rents for inade- sub- quate accommodation form a
stantial part of high labour costs,
ing wo
which in turn are making 1) Im- possible for small Chinese factories to export local products; where- fore, it is argued, production charges can be lowered by afford-
decent accommoda tlon at cheaper rates, the benefits all round will make the
project worth while. The draft plan ap pears to be sensible in conception, bul, lico ofher, building schemes already mooted, it is handicapped by two difficult requirements free or cheap byliding sites and capital, at low fate
Interest, Allenation of land on give aWRY terms may permit the eventual no cumulation of unearned profits at the expense of the community: alternatively Government may have to become
landlord- responsiblilly Rapparently skupa, Neither
Is cheap money: cosy. to ablain despite Hongkong being bloated with idle capital. Lenders are will boldng for their four and
a
five percent, and quick re- turns. These considerations, how ever, should not deter the Manu- facturers' Union from · pursuing their project. They would he well advised to put fi quickly into concreta form and submit to Government for approval and as- siglance.
recalled Mr Financial quarters Dalton's statement of August 7 that he planned to "raise the question whether we should not extend and modify, so far as the constitution permits, the purpose for which the Fund may be used."
Mr Snyder will be in London for the second annual meeting of the "Bretton Wood Twins"-The Fund and International Bank for Re construction and Development-and it was believed that Mr Dalton would press energetically to have his propo- en added to the agenda before the meeting opens on September 11.
to
cure
The Fund, at present, Is limited
short-term operations to temporary "disequilibrium" and these carry a very heavy scale of interest charges, while the Bank's activities -as its title implies-are limited to development and reconstruction.
DALTON'S IDEA
It is pointed out in London that neither can do much to cure the present situation of violent long ierm, disequilibrium of trade. and currency difficulties.
Peace-Loving Russia
STALIN EULOGISES
London, Sept. 7. Premier Joseph Stalin, describing Russia as "great peace-loving power" that unspecified charged today "agents of imperiailsm are trying in some way or other to provoke a new war."
In a message of greeting to Mos- of Its 300th cow on the occasion anniversary today the Soviet Jenter said that it was "no wonder" pro vocateurs were at work, because "for the Imperialists, war is most profitable thing."
The plot was unofficially inked to the recent discoveries of large arms caches in the Paris urea, in which members of the Stern Gang and Irgun Zval Leumi were im- plicated.
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FIRST JEWISH REFUGEE SHIP DOCKS AT HAMBURG
Warning To Passengers
Hamburg, Sept. 7.—In dead silence, the Ocean Vigour, with the first of the three shiploads of 4,350 Exodus Jews, glided out of a mist and docked at Hamburg's almost deserted quayside today.
were
Just before she decked, the Jows. on, hoard told that an hour's grace had been granted them as from tomorrow's landing time. In that hour they must make up their minds whether or not to land pencefully.' If they do not begin to move. within that time, the British will use force.
The disembarkation, expected at dawn today but held up by thick fog in the Elbe, was postponed until tomorrow so that the Jews could be taken to the two prepared camps near Lucheck the same day.
pair of shoes, Slogans op streamers umjong others were "Exodus--mark of shame for British democracy,” "We shall open the barred gates of Pristine." and "Down with Bevin terror in Palestine."-United Press.
There was still no definite In-
ONE-DAY STRIKE dication tonight that the Jews would or would not and quietly, Hamburg, Sept. 7-About 40,000 but observers in Hamburg expect Town in the United States Zone pt no forther excitement before to-Germany will stage a one-day strike morrow..
tomarrow in protest to the British Government and the United Nations over the sending of the Exodus" Jews to Hamburg, the British Newn Service in the Zone said tonight,
The Jews in the hospital.on board the ship Ocean Vigour rejoined the rest in the cages rather than risk! being sparated from the main group and possibly moved to British hos- pitals.
Mr David Treger, President of the Jewish Central Committee, handed a A Ministry of the Interior ofetal
When offered the hour for their pretest to the American Military sald Rabbi Korff and his aides had final declaton. the Jewish leaders Government of Bavaria, for forward- been under surveillance for some
on the Ocean Vigour made no coming to the British Government and time. At his headquarters in the ment except to ask permission to the United Nations, the News Ser- Hole Crillon here on Friday the canter with representatives of the vice cold. Rabbi announced that he had made Jewish Agency, reported Boyd
"The brutal and inhuman treat- an official request to the French France, Reiter's special correspon-ment on board the ships surpasse government to be allowed to use dent on board the ship, France as a base of operations for hls parachute invasion of Palestine
He was re by European Jews. ceived by the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean le Tourneau, who
the abruptly turned down request,
Rabbl Korff, pointing to the recent letter bomb explosion in the Lon- don Post Once, told newspapermen at that time that if the Exodus 1947 Jews were forced to land in Ham- burg, "London will become a more place to live In than
Ten thousand leaflets were taken from the Rabbi and his aides by policemen who, disguised as mecha- nles, swarmed around his plane as he was about to take off for London. The leaflets said in part:"
"THIS IS A WARNING" "This is a warning. Your govern ment has plunged the Crown of His Majesty in Jewish blood and
Arab solled it with
oil. Your Government has violated all articles of the Palestine mandate and inter- national law and has invaded our country.
* SILENT ARRIVAL
all the barbarism of the
Middlo Ages.and can only be compared with the cruelties of the Hitler regime," the protest doctaned
The Empire Rtival passed Cuxhaven
"The British Government has des- at 3.30 pm. local time. There was troyed the last hope that there is a no reported. movement up to that better and more humane world out time by the Runnymede Park, the of the defeat of Germany."-Router. third of the alpa which had brought the Jews from Port de Boue, in Southern France, after their refusal to go ashore there.
As the Ocean Vigour drew near to the quay, several hundred Jewish men, women and children emerged from the holds and filed quietly on to the deck, there they lined the rai's and gazed silently at the small
cficials group of British
silence Was there. The strange bruken by the voices of the children: from the snips.
More Fascist
Demonstrations
In London waiting
British, troops and officials had been standing by all night, expect Ing the disembarkation to begin be- fore 5 am, but the fog had reduced Visibility to 20 yards.-Reuter,
BEVIN BURNT IN EFFIGY
Belsen, Sept. 7.-With the burn- Sunday Hockney, scene of regular
inga
the
London, Sept. Mounted-police- were out in the East End of London tonight to break up clashes between Communlits and the British League of Ex-Servicemen which is sold to Include former members
Sir of Oswald Mosley's Union of Fascists.
On horseback, in lorries and on foot the police converged on Ridley Rond in
meetings of ing in efgy of the British Foreign League, which have resulted for the "We will carry war to the very
Secretary, Mr Ernest Bevin, and the past month in stone-throwing, Bre- works and knuckle-dustez, Oghting heart of the Empire. We will strive shouting of anti-British slogans, some and subsequent arrests and injuries, with all the bitterness and anger today protested against the British
of
10,000 Jews at this d'splaced camp
were Motor-cycle patrol men our servitude and our slavery. We
ready
to rush reinforcements and a are ready to fight today in a war decision to bring 4,500 Jews aboard Black Maria" was parked ready. of liberation to avoid a war of sin-
three ships to Germany.
supporters Although opponents
Eeague The demonstration was organised present when the police ordered the very tomorrow. Call your sons and daughters back from Palestine now.
by the central committee of the meeting to close down, most othe Otherwise you risk never seeing liberated Jews in the British zone unweildy crowd had been attracted them. again."
the
manv of. the
and were.
No specific charges have yet been with beadquarters at Belsen und by reports of previous meetings,
committee's president Josef plao:d against the alleged platters, the
Tonight, the police took no chances. who were held Incomunicado, Rosenzaft, addressed the crowd,
Immediately the meeting started the Under French law, they can be held
Long before the protest meeting speakers' platform was cordoned off. for 48 hours without charges, with-
crowd afterwards moved camp's "freedom out Juwyers and without notification started at
of their native square" groups of Jewish men, wo- along to a nearby Communist meet- men and children marched up in ing, but the police broke it up, too, to the Embassies countries.
milltary fashion carrying placards few minutes later after there had The Jews were believed to have and streamers denouncing the Bri-baza cries of "We Want Mosley" been
and counter cheers of "Down With trapped on the basis of informatish government, llon furnished to the Ministry of the
Fascism." Stalin's 900-word eulogy of the Interior by what the French press Altached to a straw dummy re- Mounted - police rode Inte the capital termed it as the rallying called a "mysterious personage well presenting the British Foreign Ser- densely packed crowds.
activities of retury was a British fing with a black Spasmodic fist: fights: broke qui point for "all peace-loving peoples informed about under the banner of peace" and ) Jewish organisations In France."-wasilka super-imposed. The dum- and at least six persons were ar-
herald of the movement of toiling. United Press.
my was fully clothed down to a rested.-Beater. humanity for liberation from capitalist slavery."
The Russian capital got a beautf- Mr Dalton, it is understood, willful Indian summer day for its, 800 urgo that the Fund's resources should be. used to it: the present anniversary birthday present, Radio dimculties and that the first stop Moscow reported.
·-be-a-drastic
towards this rest rates, which reduction in the
ICE CREAM POPULAR
the
Two-Party Greek Government Formed
imme-
Athens, Sept 7-The now political crises in post-war Greene, armament rightwing med
Palient negotiations to this end groups. | two-party Greek Government
under Američan, advice 'started ́n The Liberals, on their part, have under the premiership of 87-week ago when Mr L. Henderson, agreed that I such policy thou The broadcast said 14,000 fee year-old veteran Liberal states-head of the United States State Detail ruthless notion should be taken at present increase hy one-half of one percent for every year that the money is borrowed and still further cream vendors and mobile tunch man, Dr Themistocles Sophoulis, partment's offea of Near Eastern against the Communists for focatr
ing -armed, rebellion. for any sums borrowed over and through streets and squares thronged There are 24 Ministers and one what is called here an "historical date commencement of a large pro
counters did lively business, moving was aworn in here tonight. Affairs arrived.
achieved. The discussions have
The new Government plans above the statutory 25 percent of with hundreds of thousands of any country's Annual quota,
Under-Secretaryship of State In understanding" between tha twu gramme of public works, which will uropie.
parties, which have been opposing absorb unemployed in the country-'-- If Mr Dalton had his why the Bands ployed. In all squares, and the now cabinet,
side and give means of a decent live- Fund would be used as a cop-gap Gorky Street, which lends to the Nine portifelion and the Under- one anotlier ever since 1920.
Concessions from „both * partiou hood to amnested guerillas, - source of dollars for Europe pending hugz Dynamo stadium, was bedecked Secretaryship of State, as well as
in
of u agreement full application at the Marshall with pennants of various Soviet the premiership, go to the Liberals, have ended
Such policy is intended to lesscz following wita hold the
posts: miderate polley; which has been Plan next spring, or its partial ap- sports-societies. plication, perhaps next December.. Open air concerts were held in Premiership, Justice, National Econo-welcomed by al sections of public Communist influences over the hard- | brusued working classes and peasna- the afternoon throughout Moscow my, fuppl
Fupply, Public Works, Mer- opinion, except the Communists.
try. Mr Snyder is also expected to with an orchestra playing from chant Navy,
Public Order, Air, Their reaction is to describe the decurs Britain's particular financial specially bullt platforms,
Posts and Telegraphs, new cabinet as a "democratle
erate shop crisis with the Bank of England and streamar carried the slogan, "Long Thirteen of the Cabinet posts to window of American Imperialism.helleved, that its policy of modern- other authorities, ironing out points live Moscow, Capital of the USSR
to the Popullsis and their leader, The Populists on their side have tion at home will eliminate the criti- that were left unsettled during the Moscow received gifts from Paris. Dr Constantin Tsaldaris, becomes matte concessions of agreeing to ex-cism which I assumes have. Ham- recent visit to Washington of the Rome. Vienna, Amalerdam, Stockt Vice-Premier and Foreign Minister. tend leniency to guerillas by offer- pered Greece western ullies in glv- The formation of this "Governing amnesty to those who lay downing Greece support in dealing with British Treasury expert. Sir Wilfrid holm, Oslo, Helsinki, Sofa, Warsaw Eady-Retter.
and Bangkok-United Press.
ment ended one of the most serious their arms and of agreeing so dis- the Slay, blog-Reuter
A
hugo Health.
The new Government hopes, It: in
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