THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1948.
Czech Communist Party
Boss Murdered
-"Just
thought!
You're blowing instead of 'drawing!"
ECA Mission To
China
Washington, June 2. An eleven member survey mission to China was announced today by Economic Co-operation Ad- ministrator Paul G. Hoffman. It will report on industrial projects! to be financed by ECA for re- covery purposes.
Most of the experts. Mr Hofman Guld, will leave San Francisco on Friday by plane with Mr Roger D. Lapham, Chief of ECA's
special mission to China. They will reach Shanghai by June
7
Shot At His House On Election Eve
· Prague, June 2.--A Moscow-trained member of the inner circle" which runs the Czech Communist Party was murdered on the eye of the elections, authoritative sources reported today.
The nation's first big time war political murder came early on Thursday morning when an unknown gunman fired three shots into 41-year-old Augustin Sram, who trained Czech partisans in Moscow during the war.
Blueprint For West Germany
London, June 2.-The Six Power Conference on Germany has reached full agreement on a blueprint for a Western Ger- man regime, an official con- ference communique disclosed tonight.
Was
"Brothers sond you greetings," a gunman told Sram after he called to the door of his "home. Then he fired and fled.
Super U.S.
Airport
New York, June 2.-The world's largest airport-the New York International Airport at Idlewild Queens -opened on Tuesday.
Commercial flights at the $200,000,000 airport which covers 5,000 acres are not expected to begin until July 1. The airport was opened on Tuesday for familiarisation and ferry flights; in full operation, Idlewild will have seven runways from 6,000 to 9.000 feet long and will be able to handle 1,000 flights every 24 hours-United Press.
A wide police search was reported | munnLII APASATAMENTE JUNGTITIVE JE unofficially to have brought several arreala.
News of the murder was with= held
until yesterday when a three- line news item was published which Identifled Sram GLB a "resistance leader and partisan."
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It is learned from authoritative | sources, however, that Sram was a member of a tight circle of about half a dozen men who direct the London, June 2.-A Common- policy and its execution from within wealth conference to discuss Jon Hail the Communists' 52-man central diplomatic relations, security, committer. Sram received an anonymous letter be convened in London
Friends of the family disclosed defence and economic ties will
A day or two previously which month, It is learned from com-
petent sources,today.
"condemned him to death. It
notes.
It is believed that the blueprint reported that others received similar provides for a German constituent Assembly to be set up in Septem- Hi friends said there was no ber and for a six Power Ruhr con- question that the murder was poll- lien. Byt sources here, however, trol authority.
discounted the speculation that it came from a split within the top
the Party. of
1 opens the way to establishment
n Western Ger
German Government of probably next year to be based on federal struelure, adequately pro- the rights of Lander and on
n
The survey group is headed by a central authorit
Is! of
Stillman, who Mr Charles
Treasurer Vico-President and Time, Incorporated, and a Director of the Foreign Policy Association,
MISSION MEMBERS
Safeguards against resurrection of German aggression are provided by the Allled control of allocations of the Ruhr products and by the con- tinued milltary occupation with a possible retention of Allied troops after the Other members are Mr Edgar Min certain danger spots Hastings, transportation engineer,
mine engineer. R. Paulick,
Mr Sherman Chickering. San Francisco lawyer, Mr John D. Sumner
and Mr
Mr Paul C. Parker, was hammered
Moyer,
Raymond T. adviser, Mr Charles A. Powell and
after
The shooting came at 7 o'clock on Thursday morning. Sram's wife was reported to have answered a knock at the door and to have re- turned inside after calling her hus- band. It was not known whether the Sram died Immediately shols were fired.
Sram-was not widely known as
Com of the top men in the
With the same nerve munist Party.
par- which he trained his tisans he flung himself into his office of the work in the central
in the or- Communist Party and ganisation of the partisan
onc
with
move
withdrawal of the occupation forces, Informed sources said tonight. ALLIED SUPERVISION Details of the blueprint which out In weeks-long secret negotiations in London are submitted to the six report
concerned for ap-Obrano Lidu sald today: Governments
"Unofficially Sram was known as proval. London decisions are in the
ommendations which a of recommendati
specialist in portisan matters. nature
con require Government ratification. Among other duties he was The survey group will study pro It is envisaged
expected
Mr J. E. Whittemore,
Mr
next
The tentative date has been set for July B.
Jawaharlal Pandit Nehru, Indian Premier is among the Common- wealth representatives who has ne cepted the invitation to personally attend the assembly, these sources added.
The political situation in Europe, the Dominion's desire for clarifien- tion of Britain's commitments under the Brussels Five: Power Pact and the Government changes in South Africa were said to have prompted Mr Attlee to advance the meeting of the Commonwealth politicians. Original plans were for the meeting to be held. in late autumn or carly. next year.
electrical expected to be released shortly when merief tribute in the Army paper, to deal with the question of com-
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Hugh engineers, utilliy Wilkinson, administrative officer and Mr James Grant, special assistant to Suliman.
to The agenda was understood seek clarification of the Common- wealth
and countries' attitude contribution to the Western Union, mon citizenship, and 'with the new situation in the Indian Ocean pen- ding decision this year of India and Pakistan on whether they will re-
posals for the development of rall- | Government at the German cerned with screening applicants for toin Dominion status.-United Press.
to
act the known to have
are lo
Who
ng unworthy purging
Part No Surrender
claimed le was โรง been instrumental in members of the Communist Party," Observers here speculated that this connection enemies made in might possibly be involved in the
Japanu direction ut indication as to the investigation-United Press.
have Party membership road, factory, power and other in extensive
nowers. partisan service. up the but will be dustrial projects to build
and France Chinese economy. ECA expects to United States. Britain of $00,000,000 about spend
the
In its foreign policy, defence and constituent Assembly $330,000,000 aid fund voted by Con- an
Anatice. The ress for Industrial purposes. Most will draft a constitution on federal will be free to de- of the rest will go into food and ray lines. Lander materials. The mission's report is elfo whether members of the A
be elected or ap- due by August 1.-Associated Press,
sembly pointed.
Control The International Ruhr
representa- Authority will include
Britain, tives of the United States, France, the Benelux countries and is believed Western Germany. It that the United States and Britain will have two votes each and the others one.
POLICE - EJECT
STRIKERS
Singapore, June 2-Seventy-nine labourers were ejected today from among 1,200 strikers at the Klaps Bali and Lima Blas rubber estates. Four hundred police ejected the strikers while 100 troops stood by
Contrary
expectations, the ejections were carried out without Incident.
Police escorted 51 Indian evictees and 25 Chinese off the estates. They hundred cutting seized several knives and other potential weapons from the remaining strikers. - Reuter.
accor-
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Lords Negative. Death Penalty Suspension
Of Honduras
In Cinecolor
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British
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The question of socialisation of
London. June 2.-The House of
In this case, be added, the wishes to be presented when payment is the Ruhr Industries supported by Lords refused tonight to agree with
make immediato Britain was understood to be left for the Commons In-suspending the of the Inhabitants were quite elenr. made, should
repre-application for same to the Com- the Germans to decide in
Britain for five The constitutionally elected death penalty in
sentatives of the people of British pany, dance with United States sugges- | years.
By a vote of 181 to 28 the Lords Honduras had spontaneously placed tions-United Press,
struck from the Commons-approved
Bill Criminal Justice
clause ad- suspending hangings, and then vanced the bill to its third and final the people's Legislative Council.
Death Sentence
Defence.
For Nine
Warsaw. June 2---Nine Ukrain- ians were sentenced to death yester day for the 1947 murder of General NEI RICE LOANS W: Swierczeski, Vice Minister of А Warsaw Military Court gave Singapore, June 2-The Nether- Iands East Indies will lonn the 13 other co-defendants gun sen- Philippines goverunent 15,870 tons tenees ranging from 10 years to ilfe men sentenced of Siamese rice If the Philippines imprisonment. The
in Siamese to death will repay the loan rice or in Sterling at a price not Ukrainian Nationalists band.
prices
quoted for
higher than Sintese rice, it was learned today.
tho
General
reading.
ņ
on record, on March 10, by micans Payment should be made to Hongkong and Shanghaf carried unanimously The of resolution car the colony's
wish that
Banking Corporation, Hongkong their national status as loyal British
By Order of the Board of The Teen wete, which cut across subjects and the position of their
Directors, party lines, came after two days of country as a component part of the debate that Jammed the Chamber British Commonwealth shall remain and the galleries. I the Commons unchanged." votes to reinsert the clause and up-
proves the Bill three times during the current session, the measure would become law despite the Lords disapproval. Associated Press.
U.S. Task Force
Leaves were members of the
Malta
Swierczowski's murder
2. The American Malta, June 20, 1047, signalled a wide naval squadron of the Eighth tast G: M. Villarseran, representing manhunt for the Ukrainian insur force, comprising the cruiser Ro- chester, flagship of Vice-Admiral the Philippines, said he had for rectionists in Southeastern Poland. warded terms of
the F. P. Sherman, the aircraft carrier loan proposed
General Swierczewski, under
destroyers name of General Walter, command-Philippine Sea and five to Manila and was awaiting an
five day answer. The rico in question ori-ed the International Brigade in the left here today after a ginally was consigned to Indonesia. Spanish Civil War. During World visit for Suda Bay, Crete.
Fourteen American warships at NEI representative sold the War II, he commanded the Second
In the Mediterranean and Polish Army which was formed in was possible because of
waters are due for relief shoringe of storage space. It Manilathe U.S.9.R. He was accepts the loan, it must be returnered the organising genius of the war Polish Army.-United ed by the end of 1948, he stipulated. post
Associated Press,
The
Joan
SEVEN
Press,
also cons-Pres 10.
NAZI DOCTORS DIE
ON THE GALLOWS
Landsberg, Germany, June 2.-Seven Nazi doctors, convicted of atrocious experimentation on prisoners, went to their deaths on Wednesday on the twin gallows used in the 1940 Neuremberg execution of topflight German criminals.
about
The departure of the relief ships under the command of Rear-Admiral T. L. Sprague, Commander of the Sixth Carrier Division, was delayed death because of a launch accident off the
Atlantic coast, involving the of the carrier. Kearenge.-Reuter,
Japanese War Criminals 'Plaint
June Moscow,
2.--The main Japanese war criminals had escaped trial and walked about free, Pravda, the Soviet Communist Party's news- twin paper, claimed today.
war
tho
Their hands were
Karl Brandt, personal physician open courtyard where
to Hitler and the most notorious of gallows stood.
the group was arrogant and defiant tied behind their backs and guards
tume.
The paper said the chief culprits Japanese Indus- were the heads of Ja na he mounted the steps of the flanked them as they approached trial monopoly concerns. It severe gibbet at the dark gr stone prison the 13 steps leading up to the noose.ly criticised tho. "unfair atülude" of where Hiller himself onco
served The condemned wore black shirts the American counsel at the Inter- and trousers without belts, suspen national War Crimer Court in Tokyo and said the 28 defendants All protested their innocence and ders and shoelaces.
on trial did not exhaust the. handful of correspondents, now the injustice of their "brutal foe- the Americans. Each was allowed including two women prison guards chief Japanese, war criminals.
Joachim and an official witnessed the hang- "It is quite obvious that thany of few last words. One Mrugowaky cried: "1 die 08 ings which took an overall time of the chief war criminals have been German sentenced by the brutal 70 minutes.
were hidden from trial and are at large enemy Germany will rise again." visited by their families for the instead of being in the dock"
They were taken singly to the last time on Tuesday-United Press. Reutor.
Д
Only a
The prisoners
said, had also been passed at publie Similar resolutions of loyalty, he
in various parts of
cetings
country.
the
Thie Foreign Secretary was
to-
G.B.S. THOMSON, Secretary and Chief Accountant.
Hongkong, 1st Juno, 1948.
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