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VOL. HII NO. 147

RUSSIA AND HER SATELLITES HOLDING BIG CONFERENCE

London, June 23,-A Conference of the Foreign Ministers of eight Eastern and Central European States has begun its sittings in Warsaw. A communique broadcast by the Warsaw Radio said: "On the initiative of the USSR and the Government of the Polish Republic, a conference of the Foreign Ministers of the USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Poland, Rumania and Hungary has begun its sittings.

Two Israeli Ministers Resign

curfew

of

"Those taking part in the conference are: M. Molotov, the Vice-Premier and Foreign Minister of the USSR. M. Enver Hodja, the Premier and Foreign Minister of Albania. M. Molarov, the Vice-Premier and Foreign Minister of Bul- garia, M. Clementis, the Foreign Minister of Czecho- slovakia. M. Simich, the Foreign Minister of Yugo- slavin. M. Modzelewski, the Foreign Minister of Poland. Mme. Anna Pauker, the Foreign Minister of Rumania. M. Molnar, the Foreign Minister of Hungary,

of

Prime

THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1948.

It was estimated that more than 1,000 special guards were in the Polish capital.

Big Fight Postponed

New York, June #3.-To- night's world heavyweight cham- Jon plonship fight between Louis and Jersey Joe Walcott, the open-air Yankec Staðlum. has been Dosipened until tomorrow (Thursday) rain and night because of threatening weather.

The declalon, was taken by promoter Milke Jacobs shortly after the weighing-in eremony. He had promised an announce- ment at 7.30 pan. (GMT) but the rain and a forecast of further threatening weather caused him to reach an earlier decision.

the

Louis At

weigh-in, scaled 15 stone 3-1/2 pounds, his heaviest fighting weight ever, and Walcott 13 stone 1243/4 pounds.

This is the first time within that a world living memory

Gght has heavy-weight title

because of weather conditions. However, Louls' first bout with Max Schmeling was delayed for a day in 1936.

to

Louis said he would return his training camp at Pomp- ton Lakes, New Jersey, Im- mediately, and would have a light workout in the hope of keeping his weight near that registered at the weigh-in,

Walcott will remain in New roadwork York and do some

Fark through Central

Loula scowled. All Wrough the ceremony which was held in semi-privacy In a dressing room at Madison Square Gar- Walcoll was smiling and

supremely confl apparently dent.

Bсcл, AA far as could be

onc Louls did not exchange word with Walcott.

been postponed "The conference has for its object The hundreds of security officers Con-altending all delegations were re- London, June 23-Two Ministers a discussion of the London

ported to have arrived in Warsaw for resigned today from the Sve-week-ference on Germany.

days ago in readiness Government old Provisional

"The conference was opened by M. some Israel-less than 24 hours after Modzelewski, the Foreign Minister today's influx of Slav politicians.

1,000 SPECIAL GUARDS between Haganah of the Polish Republic, after which Bloody bottle

Zvai and Irgun

Cyranklewicz, 110 Jewish troops

M.

Poland, Minister Leumi forces who ran an arms ship

greeted the ashore at Tel-Aviv and seized the Foreign Ministers present.

of the Jewish

"The Foreign Ministers taking part The first official statement TC- northern bench

And capital.

reported in the conference have expressed teased in Warsaw the Israeli

1con- their gratitude to the Polish Republic over Moscow Radio on the In the meantime, Government today firmly enforced for the hospitality received.

ference confirmed only the arrival "until further a sirket

of M. Molotov, M. Erik Molnar, M. Stanoye Simich, M. Vassili Kolarov, notice."

nime Anna Pauker and Enver Hodja.

made in the No mention. Warsaw statement or over Moscow from Italy, of delegates Radio

Eastern France and the German

diplomatic sources in but Zone,

Signor that Warsaw believed

Signor General- the Palmiro Togliatti Secretary of the Italian Communist Parly, and M. Jacques Duclos, acting Secretary-General of the French were also at- Communist Party. tending the conference.

from Germany

followed

the

The Ministers who resigned from the Provisional Government are the Minister of Religion, Rabbi Judah Fishman, and the Minister of Im- migration, Mr Motho Shapira,

Their resignation news that Count Folke Bernadotte, United Nations Mediator, was likely to fly to Tel-Aviv from his neutral on Rhodes to island headquarters

personal Internecine clash.

make

*M. Modzelewski. the Foreign Minister of the Pollsh Republic, was elected Chairman of the first session of the conference,"

In

The communique was first given

and then repeated in Polish various foreign languages, starting with Russian.

circles

Representatives

was

General

BIDAULT INVITED

Warsaw Well informed investigation of the sald tonight that the conference of Eastern European Foreign Ministers Tel-Aviv was quiet today under was preceded by a secret Cominform the first curfew to be clamped down meeting in Prague, which began In the Holy Land since the endinginst Saturday. of the British mandate on May 15, The French Foreign Minister, M.

The city's northern beach was 10- Georges Bidault, had been invitert were believed to be Herr Wilhelm day in the hands of the Irgun Zvni Leumi gunmen who defied the truce to land 800 volunteers from the Euro- pean arms ship. Altelena, and fought back fiercely when Haganah Jewish regulars shelled the vessel and set it on fire.-Reuter.

POLICE FIRE ON. DEMONSTRATORS

Naples, June

23.--The

police

to the present Warsaw talks, they added.

Pleck, and Dr Otto Grotewohl, ju. Pleck

tho

Soviet-sponse Chairmen of

Party Socialist Unity

said that at the Moscow

Radio It was firmly established tonight that the purpose of the conference, Warsaw Airport, the Polish Premi Wllanova and members of the Polish Gover

when the now being held in Palace in Warsaw is to secure Slav ment, met M. Molotov unily for the Russian proposals to Soviet Foreign Minister landed.- set up a separate state for Eastern Reuter, Germany, with headquarters

tho

opened fire here today in a clash betwal talks were taking place

with

זורת

Leipzig.

The main work of the conference will begin tomorrow, it was stated. the chief delegates tonight! About 15,000 unemployed and a reception was being given by demonstrating outside the Prefect's the Polish President, M. Bierut. Office.

Polish Foreign Office sources sald Thirty-one persons were injured, that the question of Poland's wes- not be dis- including 20 police, according to

tern frontler would The crowd cussed. fought the police with sticks and The unprecedented security mea- sures taken in Warsaw have excced- Many arrests were made, but the ed those taken during Hitler's visit city WAS calm This evening during the war, Polish Informants Reuter.

Ansa news agency.

stones.

EDITORIAL

only

caid.

Wartime Tenancy Bill

A

law

of

As

some

most many

from Joolers. The Arst of these two groups represent the Important class, Inasmuch property owners, or their agents. the refused to acknowledge to Japanese their ownership, where- upon rent was exacled from the Office. tenants by the Property

tandlords The fact that

from refrained deliberately claiming title to property, during

now the occupation surely musi deny them the right of claiming

of arrears.

rents, Absolution should be given to any tenant who paid rent during the occupation period, whether to the landlord or the Japanese Property Office.

美好 framed dratt bill as now

which must

#

half-way measual salisfaction.

fail to give

IN some measure the public will.

derive consolation and reas- surance from the acting. Attorney.

of the General's explanation proposed Wartime Tenancy bill. It is officially claimed to be

to designed protect measure tenauts, and to make it impossible,

under

cir- certain except cumstances, for landlords to take recourse to the ordinary Habilities governing the

real

trouble tenants. But the about the proposed legislation, as at present understood, is that fis effectiveness is not blanket.

explains the Mr Strickland

tenants who come within the relief clauses of the bill are those who were (a) elther interned or tlio Imprisoned. absent from Colony, were evicted owing damage to the premises caused by thic the war, evacuated from premises under duress, declared to be enemies by the occupation authorities: (b) If landlords, ac- cepted payments or rent in yen

exchange.. or at a fixed rate of Any tenant coming within any foregoing categorica of the qualifies for protection against the which normally ordinary law

16 DAY subjects the tenant to full

during ment of rented premises

period of enemy War or a occupation. Left undetermined-is the position of two other classes tenanta. of occupallon-period Those who had to pay rent to the Japanese Property Office because the landlords or their agents had falled to come forward and re- 1110 cister dieir properly with Japanese authorities: and those who, although not called upon for rent during the occupation, wero allowed to remain as: tenants in order to profest the property

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Sir Neil Ritchie Flies To Kuala Lumpur To Discuss Malaya Crisis

PLANTERS WANT MILITARY ACTION

Singapore, June 23.—Sir Neil Ritchie, Commander-in-Chief, South East Asia Land Forces, flew to Kuala Lumpur from Singapore, today to confer with the High Commissioner and Army chiefs on the disturbed situation in Malaya. Troops and police were taking up new positions throughout the peninsula today as the uneasy quiet, tense after last week's murder wave, was broken by a new clash between Chinese gangsters and police at Bidor, 40 miles south of Ipoh.

After a running gun battle, the 1 gangsters escaped into the jungle.

Royal Air Force, Regiment troops i have taken up garrison duties in the northern most state of Kedah and the southernmost state of Johore.

the Straits Times, According to

asked Selangor planters yesterday the High Commissioner, Sir Edward Gent, to order Immediate action on military scale against the present ask lawlessness and, if necessary, London for reinforcements.

1

In London, Me Jolin Platts Mills, who was expelled from the Labour

because Party

of alleged

pro Communist views, asked the Colonial Secretary, Mr Arthur Creech Jones, In the House of Commons today why the he was not

consulted by Governor of Malaya about the de- cision to outlaw the Pan-Malayan Federation of Trade Unions, the nine State Federations of Trade Unions, and the Trengganu General Labour Union.

The Colonial Secretary replied: "There was no occasion to consult me. These bodies did not comply with the requirements of the trade union law in the Federation of Malaya on their applications for re- gistration.

citizens

Mr Platts Mills: "Will you take us to the next stage and resist a to obtain plea by the Governor powers to deport British who are lending Ogures in these trade unions, knowing as you do, that the object of the Governor is to send these proposed deportees to that small part of China attil governed by Chiang Kai-shek, where they will be executed."

an

NOT

TRYING

TO GAG £

Washington, June 23-The United States is not trying to gain control pound and other of the British

the under Mr Creech Jones: "That is

European currencies entirely different matter. The ques-provisions of the bilateral agree tion is concerned with registration." ments to implement ECA according Mr William Gallagher, Communist, to the Under-Secretary of State, Mr asked it wus not the case that the Robert Lovett today. big rubber planters and tin mono-

Mr Lovett emphatically dented at mules were responsible for the sup-

that the Stato could

do Department had any such purpose felt, he said, that they pression of the trade unions. They press conference

the Labour in mind. He pointed out that the that anything now

in. Europe Government was in office.

European discussions undertook to establish some sort of Mr Creech Jones replied: "There Anancial and budgetery stabilisation. is no suppression of trade unionists He said the countries themselves re- at all. This is an application for cornised the necessity for such an registration, and all that is osited is action if recovery is to talca place.

with."-Reuter, that the law should be complied

100 Earthquake

Eddle Eagan, Chairman

Com- the New York Boxing mission, arged them to make it sporting contest and A good then explained how the Juda- ing would be done. Louis and Walcott, with memories of the controversy

over the split de- cision

of their previous Oght, listened intently as Eagan said:

are going "The officials Judge each round as a contest

reaching Batavia said today. the rounds are in itself. It

COR-

"They have not been registered

They are, because of this. sequently, deemed by law to be un- but have the lawful associations 10

even, then the officials will give their vote on points"-Reuter.

right to appeal within 30 days against the refusal of the Registrar of Trade Unions, In the first instance to the Chief Secretary, and in the second to the Supreme Court."

London Strike Means Huge Loss Of

British Export

Earnings

London, June 23.-The Prime Minister, Mr Clement Attlee, told the House

of Commons this afternoon that the strike of 20,000 dockers which has paralysed the Port of London for 10 days will cut off millions of dollars worth of British export earnings.

the Faring a vessel In the Thames until He

why Wis explaining

300 Many ships bound for troops had been moved to the East with cargoes worth hundreds the end of July. docks at noon to unload perishable of thousands of pounds sterling are held up, but no Indian-owned ships foodstuffs.

are involved, it was learned today. Scindia steamships are not expect

As well as causing hardship and great inconventence to millions of households, the strike affected the possibility of hitting Britain's six- months export target and widened still further the gap in the balance of payments, Mr Attlee said.

While Mr Attlee was speaking, It the was officially disclosed that

of himself ond combined appeals trade union leaders had so far hind little effect on the strikers.

1.589 dockers had Tonight, returned to work, but 19,017 are still idle.

Dockors wha met Members of Parliament at the House of Com- mona pst night had declared that if troops were brought in, the strike would undoubtedly be extended to docks throughout Britain.

An official of the Peninsular and Orient Line said: "We do not know how long our ships will remain in the Thames-Reuter.

Currency Battle Flares Up

In Divided City Of Berlin

Berlin, June 23.-The Western and Soviet sectors of Berlin barred the use of each other's currency today as the "battle of the mark" flared up to split the city into two money zones. Soviet sector residents may carry (held up an emergency meeting Into the Western the City Council. Eastern money seclors but not spend it there, while Western Zone Germans cannot take the new Deutsche marks into the Soviet Zone at all.

ing

of

Socialist Unity Party members of the Council and sympathisers in the gallery rose in a body as the meet- began and shouted: "Splitters. Some entrances to the Hall were splitters, splitters."

non-Com- blocked and munist Councillors had difficulty in

The three Western_Commandant's declared last night's Russian money reforms "null and void" in their reported and ordered the Deutsche

But a spokesman of the Central sectors

Strike Commitina stated after this marks put into circulation. They getting in. morning's meeting: "We have not yel did not stipulate that the new Soviet made any contact with any other currency itself was vold. port".

WOMAN HOWLED DOWN Frau Schroeder, who presided,

At a special meeting this morning, was howled down when she made

to suspend debtaments

On Mr Birlekland's statement alone, that he belloved most lawıl- lords had accepted the position that they could not collect rents, although empowered to do so by law, it would have been reason- uble to expect any ordinance Intended to protect tenants to go the whole hog. Instead

tenants Lypes of certain guaranteed Immunity. The post-. is tlon of

cleo everyone undetermined, but the Implication legally that landlords can obtain back rent from them for tho occupation period. The General Chamber of Commerce,

ping was tied up in the docks to-Western sectors of the city were Black marketeers in the clly were we are fold, is willing to go

night and other vessels were strung swiftly closed this afternoon when draft bill further than the

out along the miles of warlime making concessions to

Chat down the Thames River. tenanta; it is to be hoped

their proposals include protection for the tenants mentioned above, and that Government will incor-

them in the final Doralo

dinance. In this case it

the British, United States and an impassioned plea for order.

Berlin The Rsusian-controlled French Commanders decided to closo

that Western announced TROOPS TO UNLOAD

banks and shops, to peg prices and Radio

could not change until Berlinera who Issued, their old Reichsmarks for the new Mr Attlee told the

House of "new final instructions"

Sovlet currency in their own sectors Commons that the troops would SHOPS SHUT DOWN

Western perishable foodstuffs

Comman should cross into the Soviet Zone Earlier unload

the Immediately, and If the

strike dants ordered Frau Louise Schroe- and change their money there.

From Saturday, 'the radio stated, continued they would later move der, the acting Lord Mayor of all fares on Berlin's railways, in- all other cargoes.

Berlin, to ignore the Soviet cur- ciuding the elevated railway would rency instructions in their sectors.

have to be paid in the new Eastern shutters iri Shop

merk;

About 100,000 gross tons of ship-

tho

three

today reported offering counterfeit wharves news of the order came through. Sevlet Zone stamps to fix to the old

The

Swedish, six

OT-

three Norwegian, two Russian, two Finnish and one Dutch.

vessels included

scens

that if there is to be a dispensa- tion, I must apply without ex- ception.

Many shopkeepers heard the news Reichsmarkt notes. (In the Soviet over the Western-controlled

railin network and rushed out to tell their neighbours.

Queues formed in front of food

Ono of Britain's largest car shops, which were exempt from the manufacturing concerna disclosed closing order that nearly £700,000 worth of their

reform, old Relchmarks circulating in the Eastern Zong will bo.validated

nominationa). by stamps of different sizes and de-

Sales of these stamps were brisk despite the Russian threats of sovere Communiat demonstrators, carry-punishment for anyone caught in car and other vehicles, awaiting Ing red banners saying "Down with legal activities connected with the

export, are being held up,

those who wish to

split Berlin," changeover-Rouler.

Shocks

Batavin, June 23,-More than 100 earthquake shocks rocked the island of Sangihe late on Monday reports

The shocks were said to have caused considerable property damage 'but casualties-it any-were not yet

known.

He emphasised the present United States position on currency reform Is merely to Implement those sections of the act requiring such action on the part of the European nations. the draft of the He admitted that bilateral agreements currently under discussion here repeat some of the acts and provisions in the form of "conditions" for aid

Mr Love!t said, however, dis- cussions with the British, French, Swedish, and Danish representatives are making progress and possibly there will be announcement on the status of the negotiations tomor morning,,

He said he doubted tie Paris press Sangile of the Sangl and Talud reports that a "note" has been deli- Island group is between Northern vered to the French outlining the Celebes and the Philippines. It is United States requiremetits under agreements-United the most northern island of the the bilateral

.Press. Indies archipelago.-United Press.

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