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DISORDERS IN SOVIET OCCUPIED BERLIN Thousands Jam The Streets To Exchange Old Marks
FIREMEN TURN ON THE WATER HOSES
Berlin, July 28-Disorders broke out in the Russian sector of blockaded Berlin today when thousands of Germans jamm streets before banks in an effort to exchange their money for new Russian ponsored currency.
Newspapers in Western Berlin said the Russians and their Communist controlled economic commission are trying to "cheat the people out of their money." The deadline for the even exchange is tonight. The Russians, through their newspapers, admitted "chaos" existed, but biamed the non-Communist City Government for not providing enough exchange places.
American Military Government finance officials said this is untrue and "tho Russians are trying to make the City Government a scapegoat for their own mis- take."
JAP PEACE
TREATY
Chances
Admitted
To Be Poor
London, July 28. The Aus tralian Foreign Affairs Minis- ter, Dr Herberi Evatt, admitted to a press conference today that so long as the Soviets and the Western Allies were at logger heads over Berlin, a Japanese pence treaty was Impossible.
While reluctantly admitting the poor chances for such a treaty, Dr Eraft added, however, that the Japanese treaty was a "matter of urgency."
Louise Schroeder duce the amount of money in clr- Mayoress Frau defled an order from the Russian culation, or they did not realise what
unwittingly unprepared Commandant, to fire her new antia big task they were facing and Communist Deputy Police Chief, were Herr Johannes Stumm. The three handle it." Western Cornmandants had advised
had lier that the, Russians authority to order unilaterally the discharge of Iferr Stumm. He re- placed the Russian trained Herr Paul Markgraf, whom the elected Govern- inent fired earlier this week.
The Western Commanders advised
Mayores Schroeder
also
to
exchange pro- At one bank the cess was so slow that only 27 persons Associated Press, received new money in two days.
HQ TO BE MOVED
28.-Dr Johannes Berlin, July
Western appointed police Stumm, president of Berlin, announced to- night that the Headquarters of the Force would bo Police Berlin
tu moved from the Russian Sector
who are the American before August 2.
"All Berlin pollcemen
Constitution utc the to faithful
to the report ordered to offices," he declared.
"From now on, only orders issued by the new Headquarters in the American Sector can be regarded as STAMPEDES STARTED The Busstans allowed three days valid."-Reuter. for Germans to exchange their old
for
counterstamped marke
Disorders
reject another Soviet move almed at destroying the city Government and placing. ali Berlin under Communist control. They told her the Russlang have no authority to install Herr Paul Letsch as Deputy Head of the City Food Department, one of the major Jobs in the City.
new
Russian Zone currency. Inducement
erupted at several places among the crowds clamouring to get the new money, When the police could not i11 reaching
handle the milling throngs, firemen "Continued delay Japanese settlement is largely a by-turned water on the people.
ted when The disturbances
proceed for-1 product of the general International
the anxious Germans situation, particularly in Europe," ho said.
ward and started stampedes after No standing for hours in lines. serious injury was reported.
116 stressed that Australla was worried over the possibility of being forgotten in the Marshall Plon as were being bought for supplies Europe
Turning to the Malayan uprisings, the Minister sald the Malayan at thorities were co-operating with the
· Eire Not Member
1c5a.
were told
For Primary
new
Producers......
the term
London, July 28.-The policy Newspapers in Western Berlin said the Russians and their German of the British Government is to
gullty economic commission were
in those of "scandalous and unscrupulous give to primary producers, conduct" in the money
long exchange. particularly.
was Commonwealth, They charged discrimination being exercised against residents of security rather than merely British and Australian Governments the American, British and French offers of high prices for their to quell terrorists in Malaya-sectors. Many of these United Press,
their money was forged and worth products, the Food Minister, Mr John Strachey, said here today. Mr Strachey, addressing the Royal Military Government American Anrnce officers, refuting the Russian African and Royal Empire Societies, charges, that the City Government said that it was found in actuai was to blame, said the City Govern-practico "that security over a num- Western Commanders, had offered primary producers than very high
It.. John to open exchange offices in Western prices for a short period with the July 28. Mr. Dublin,
Berlin as well as in the Soviet zone. threat of ruin at the end of
"It is within our Commonwealth Costello, Eire Prline Minister,
The Russians rejected the offer.
that we can mast easily carry out Parliament today defined Eire's cons-
WARNED IN ADVANCE Ututional position as "a sovereign,
"German"-bankers--in the Sovlet the urgent behests of Sir John Boyd Independent state associated with the
sector warned the Russians in ad-Orr and the Food and Agricultural. British Commonwealth of nations."
He said Eire had ceased formally vance their preparations for handling Organisation of the United Nations were to increase the world production of to be a member of the British Com-the
peoples nor "Neither the native was associated with inadequate", an American spokes- food. monwealth, but was
n whole will tolerate man said. the other members.
the Berlin individuals the world as "Now many
develop at failure to The process by which Eire had
the vast and Arms are faced with a prospect any
practical rato ceased to be a member had been one ∙of gradual development, the Premier
sald.
Of Commonwealth ment, with approval of the three ber of years appeals far more to
In
currency
exchange
of losing their money if they cannot maximum
get to the pay windows after hours of areas and the vast population over waiting. Unless the Russians decide which we have authority."--Reuter, Mr Cestells was replying to an
member to extend the exchange period, only Republican
drawn. Independent
be conclusions can who asked when and under what two
Either the Russians do not want to circumstance Eire ceased to be a Commonwealth country-Reuter. pay everybody and thus again re-
WOMAN HURT IN ROME DEMONSTRATION
woman to her feet Several men ald an elderly after she was knocked down and injured in the de- Wag Colonna which monstration In Rome's Piara touched off by the attempted hasassination
Palmiro Togliatti
Man Who 'Bombed'
THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1948.
Tiny Infant
Surviving
ACCUSATIONS OF TRUCE
VIOLATIONS
Baby Kathleen Ann Eldridge, who weighed less than 11% pounds at birth, naps in her incubator in Phoenix, Ariz, after weighing in at two pounds, one ounce when three weeks old. She's not much bigger than the pencil she's holding. Nurse Victoria Harris walehes the tiny girl, who wasn't given much of a chance of survival when she was born two and a half months prematurely.-AP Picture.
SCAP Announces Revised Japan Trading System.
New York, July 28.-The SCAP Foreign Trade Office here announced today that Japanese cotton textiles would be available for payment in 100 per- cent sterling convertibility, and simultaneously, it slashed prices on 13 Japaneso fabrics.
Chile Wants
The Ajax
London, July 28-Mr John Dugdale, Parliamentary Secre- tary, to the Admiralty, told the House of Commons today thai Chile had asked for the price of the British cruiser Ajax.
Mr Winston Churchill, leader of the Opposition, demanded: "To it only a matter of price?" Mr Dugdale: "No, Sir. It is not only the question of price," Me Churchill: "Would It nat be very inappropriate if on
occasioit some" Majesty's Government have to send a British vessel to make trom the Chileano withdraw the British Islands in Antare- ties than they should find His Ajax on guard over filegal Intruders?"
fature
Mr Dugdale did not reply United Press,
Siam To
Arabs, Jews Complain
To UN Commission
Jerusalem, July 28-The Arabs and Jews each complained to the United Nations Truce Commission today that the other side violated the armistice în Jerusalem.
An Israeli spokesman assorted the Arabs attacked Jowish positions on Mount Zion and Itilled a soldier and wounded 12 in dynamiting a Jowish building. The Stern group newspaper Mivrak said Mr Peter Manashe, one of its staff, was felled by an Arab sniper in the Jowish quarter yesterday,
The Arabs accused
the Jaws of
into the Old City.
They said the Jowish building was
firing moriarB
blown up by an "accidental
plosion caused by the Jews."
Col. Moshe Dayan
**-.
Wa Com- became
mander of the Israeli Oth Brigade,
the Jewish garrison
in Jerusalem.
lie: succeeded Leig. David Shaltfel,
Support For Expropriated
former oficer in the French Foreign Burma Concerns
Legion. Mony observers sald
the
Brld.
preiliminary to shift were. Shaltiel becoming Military Gover- nor of Jerusalem.
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Ernest London, July 20-Mr Bovin, the: Foreign Secretary, said. today that, the British. Government would continue to give full support
The Iernel Cabinet conferred into the British companies in Burma which were expropriated on June 1
in. to a pro and to other British interests Tel-Aviv on its answer posal by Count Falke Bernadotte,
the
to
N. mediator, that Jerusalem be Burma. Discussions, he said, were Burmese Government and the ex- demilitarized and put under Inter- continuing in Rangoon between the national rule.
Government propriated companiesterto Sources near sold there is "every likelihood the Sir Ralph Gign, Conservative, had plan will be accepted in principle, asked what was being done subject to negotiation of details" safeguard the investment of £100.- The Foreign Minister, Mr Moshe 600,000 of British capital sunk In Shertok has been sharply critical of Burma as well as the further £100,- 000,000 advanced under the terms of the plan.
pro- the Anglo-Burmese treaty. In a re- Inve Hebrow newspapers minent display to the growing dis-construction loam.
Mr Bevin said that the position of pute over the status of Jerusalem. Loum!
Intereste commerical flamishkit, the Irgun Zval
t
in
paper, admonished Jerusalem Jews British
hot to accept a Military Govern- Burma was dealt with in Articles 7 full and 8 of the treaty with Burma of general unless you have ment guarantees that Israel will not give October 1947. On the
question, he had nothing to add to up the city"Associated Press.
his previous statement in June. UNDER U.N. CONTROE
July 28 The head- Rhodes, queriers of Count Bernadotte, the U.N. mediator, announced in Rhodes today that the Latrum pumping
an important link station, Jerusalem's water supply, would go under the United Nations control.
The Arab and Jewish forces in
The treaty. provided not for any further loans to Burma, he said, but for the waiving of the recovery of a part of the sum due to the British Government from Burma and for repayment of the balance.
.
The amount due for repayment
In a sweeping move designed to alleviate the dollar shortage which is restricting purchases of Japanese products in soft currency areas, the Latcun area had agreed to give had not been exactly determined, ho SCAP Usted practically every polut the U.N. Truce observers the control said, but it was in the neighbour In the British Empire us eligible for of the
while
India,
Ar-
left
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new benefits. Maloya and Singapore land between the Arab and Jew's hood of £30,000,000-Router. were among the Far Eastern points lines.
"Details of the agreement, and of listed under the United Kingdom
JN. operation of the station are Australia, UN colonies,
Teft Pakistan, Ceylon and South Africa now being worked out," the Count's
and headquarters announced. were listed under dominions
The U.S. destroyer O'Hare the
carrying heading under Burma Wils
Rhodes for, Halfa today
to link "Other countries."
new radio communications together observer teams in Palestine, SCAP said that under this
It is necessary for an
in nearby Arab states and rangement importer to secure from local au Rhodes.
Sixteen commercial radio operators 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 pm. thorities a guarantee of convertibili
It defined this as engaged ty of sterling.
SCAP's sterling com- aboard In "bankable
Dank
In Japan or Press, necounts mercial lilia
for Is acceptable sterling which
Hongkong "business
the by SCAP and Shanghal Banking Corporation Bank of India, or the Chartered Bank
which banks Australia and China are handling sterling proceeds and tho outpayments in sterling under overall sterling agreement."
SECOND BUYING PLAN China, the Philippines, Indo China, Hongkong, Netherlands East Indies as well as Soviet Russia,
and
York also in New the O'Harc-Associated
་
officiat that
ARABS ATTACK® Tel-Aviv, July 20-An
-sald announcement today- Egyptian forces heavily attacked a supply convoy approaching Negev in and that the Hatta-Karatiya area stiff fighting resulted with Israel's offensive near taking the forces
of United presence Faluja in the Nations observers.
Police discovered an underground store of arms ammunition in the Belgium
National Com- came lofteds
of the Arab Netherlands
of the In Jaffa. The hend mittee in under another buying plan. SCAP
had signed the surrender said, "Britain and countries outsida
was captured by the sterling area which have opon terms when Jaffa
the Jews three months ago. arrangements with SCAP account"
who may Japan
A United Nations observer covering trade with continue to pay for Japanese collon
which included "Molotov cocktails? texules at least half in US dollars visited Jaffa, saw the armos cachée and up to one half through an ex-rifles, grenades; bombs and can-
siderable ammunition, vocate who bombed the United Na-
change of acceptable commodities." had tlons headquarters, was turned over
The Military Governor 20-The Govern-
SCAP explained that this Bangkok, July
the teen the to New York authorlles today for
arrangement previously ordered the members of the Arab been
Committee to confine describes branches of ment trial on a charge of malicious mis- chie!.
Kuomintang Party in Slam as ilegal made for the above mentioned coun- National
current Press.. In ordering the former Army and says they will be treated the tries as well as those in the British themselves to their homes.-Unlied
Empire which under the fler extradited, Judge Domenie W. same as other illegal societies. Celotto of the New Haven
The Government's statement was development, could avoid any pay- said he had read "the remarkable made by Mr Prahlt Chumphinit, ment in dollars whatsoever by ship- record of this man" and expressed
UN Charged
New Haven, Conn., July 28-
ad-
Outlaw Branches
Stephen J. Supina, the peace Of The KMT
Court
exchange for or goods in hope
It would be taken into con- Assistant to the Ministry of Interior ping from sterling areas such ster-
Jese cottons, sideration by the New York Couris. and confirmed later by Premier
listed as ecceptable goods Mr Celotto's order came after Pibul Songgram
Mr Lay, Yee-yow, Secretary of
the flyer's lawyer sald a psychiatrlat.
atrat the Kuomintang Party in Slam, had "commodities needed for import into had found Supina mentally petent to understand legal proceed- asked the Premier why the Party Japan such as cotton wool, jute, two could not recruit members, Chinese rubber, dyestuffs, rayon and wood
the Besides
above been pulp." ings-Associated Press.
nowspaper men here had
for specifled plans, SCAP outlined a ordered to stop advertising members and Mr Yew said the third, by which Japanese products Action might damage Sino-Siamese could be obtained by barter arrange
ments.United Press. The Government replied that Cairo, July 28-It was reliably Siamese laws prohibit allen societies learned that a bomb exploded
Cairo Explosion
: relations.
at
David Ades clothing store in the from engaging in pole Press
centre of Cairo today.
Eyewitnesses told the United Press there were no casualties The store is British-registere
According to.
oyewitnesses. D
bomb was believed to have
been
placed on the first floor. They said
It' exploded at about 5 pm. GMT,
which was glosing time.
within Slam-Associated
MR LAPHAM IN PEIPING
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1,000 Walkouts In
Six Months
Washington, July 20-The Labour Department sald today that in the first six months of this year labour unions called more than 1,000 strlices cfort to tyin third, round In
A few windows in the...ylelalty | Lapham, Chlef of the United States wage boosts. But it is believed that
were shattered.United Prúss.
Revival Of Japan Shipping Industry
Peiping, July 26. Mr. Roger D.
this figure is considerably below the Mission to China was today schedul- number of walkouts while labour ed to call on Vice President Li
¡
and confer with other Waghting for its first and second round postwar increases in 1040 and Noida political, military and 1847-United Press. North economie loaders, regarding pro- jects which might receive a share New Dork, July 20-Mr J. Lewis of the American aid funds.
AID FOR SWEDEN Luckenback, President of-the Mr Lapham's visit here, It is be
Important
Washington. July 26 The United Bureau of Shipping, lieved, will have an American announced today that the Bureau bearing in meeting the claims from plans; to send a technical surveyor the North China Provincial Munich States State Department said today that this is being it had received official notification to Japan because It expected early revival of Shipbuliding her under discriminated against in the alloca that the Marshall Plan bilateral areament with Sweden came into United States government auspices. ton of United States Funds, a
Mr. Lapham assured the authori-force on July 21 when it was ratified He report to the semi-annual meeting of the organisation's Board ties here that there will be no dis-hy, King Gustav This formality of Managers that the Bureau's buri-crimination If investment in long florellable for alloca-
Pact En-operating náss in foreign ports "considerably range prospects for industrial and is under the terms of the exceeded" expectations in volume agricultural development warranted mousequte
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