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THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1948.

RUSSIA'S EAST-WEST INTELLECTUAL

BARRIER

British Scientists Concerned

London, Oct. 3.-Soviet Russia is today.com- pleting her intellectual withdrawal from the West which is almost without parallel in civilised history,

Scientists here are deeply concerned about the development both because they feel knowledge should know no frontier and because they fear for the safety of their Russian colleagues whose inter- national "views on science may conflict with the new Communist theory and practice.”

Flodden Is Repeated

There seems to be no doubt of the

crect Soviet determination to barrier betwem scientists of the East and Went Only recently Minister for Higher Education Kaftanov urged inventors and research workers not

to disclose discoveries to the

do West on the ground that the mocracles would only use them to strengthen the capitalistic grip on the toiling masses,

Two Soviet scientists, M. Roskin and M. Kluyous, were said in D

But This Time It's A private dispatch to a London news-

Battle Of Words

London, Oct. 3.-England and Scotland-nominally at peace since they fought their last battle at Flodden in 1513 are at each other's throats again in a war of words.

arc

paper to have been detained on the remarkable charge that they trans- mitted Information on cancer re- search to Western colleagues.

NEW TEXTBOOKS Hand in hand with this apparent determination to keep secret Soviet research, is an equally disturbing

Russia Indication that

1s moving The dirk and claymore

towards a straight Ideological line sheathed, the long how and the gun in telence.

Russia is to have new textbooks no longer face each other across the

bloingy based on border, but pen and typewriter are on

the Michurin being wielded with deadly effect.

theory and physiology textbooks will Heads are falling as fast as they did also be revised away from what the when the English executed captured democralle world is learning outside

Iron

curtain. Scots at "merry" Carlisle and the the

traditional These developments in Russia are Scots handed out their border justice, which

hang a was to

to the completely not

surprise bim afterwards.

Radlo West. Several months ago man first and try

broadcast propagunda The Royal Society of Saint George Moscow's began it by protesting that writers began to pave the way by making a on the part for the

the word played by Soviet science in world Identity in

named history.

Russia boasted that penicillin was discovered md used in Leningrad as far back as the eighteen hundreds, Kibachle the revolutionary Invented the rocket plane in 1811 for the while awalling execution assassination of Czar Alexander II, that the jet engine was designed by Konstantin Tuloilovsky in 1903.

Practically every other major In- vention also was traced back to

E press and radio were sinking series of broad claims

"Britain"

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Engines In Collision

Engine of a freight train and another hauling the Atlantic Coast Line streamliner from Tampa to New York after head-on collision near Tampa. L. E. Hicks, of

was killed. AP Picture. Tampa, Florida,

War Not Inevitable,

But It Could Happen

Joint Broadcast By Dominion

Prime Ministers

Australian

Prime

Canberra, Oct. 3.-The Minister, Mr J. B. Chiffey and Mr Peter Fraser, Prime Minister of New Zealand, in the first joint broadcast ever made by the Dominions' Premiers, agreed yesterday that although war is not immi- nent or inevitable, it could happen if some nations attempted to win the fruits of war without engaging in it.

2,400 Communist Followers Arrested In Central Java

INSURGENT LEADERS IN FLIGHT

Batavia, Oct. 3. Two thousand people have been arrested in Jogjakarta, the Indonesian Republi- can capital, and four hundred in Surakarta, Central Java, as a result of anti-Communist agitation, Dr Sutan Sjahrir, former Premier and now adviser to the Indonesian Republican President, Dr I. R. Soekarno, said here today.

Dr Sjahrir, who arrived yesterday after a week's visit to Jogjakarta, told The Netherlands' news agency, that the anti-Communist agitation, fostered by the Moslem political organisation, the Masjumi, was largely the result of the Communist revolt at the East Java town of Madiun,

Among thoso arrested were leaders and members of the Moderate parties, including his own party which brake away from the Socialists carlier this year, he said.

in a

Dr Sjahrir added that a "new approach" would shortly be made to solve existing problems "last attempt to end the conflict between the Dutch and the Repub- licans,

He said that he beileved the Communist forces which had re- treated from Madiun to the moun- tains would not be able to wage guerilla warfare for long, although the area wag fortified by the Japanese during the war.

He thought the local population would not give the Communista the support necessary for guerilla war- fare.

The Republicans were using 5,000 171971 to subdue tho Communists in the Madiun aren, he added.

south

Spitfires Land In Rhodes

Greek Govt. Orders Confiscation

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Athens, Oct. 3.-The Greek urgent notices until noon on day of Government had ordered that issue. Saturdays the two armed Spitfires which 0930. made a forced landing in Rhodes yesterday bé flown to Athens,

BIRTH

planes, MONAGHIAN-To Bridget (Human), wife

Bonorogo and Dungus, the last the Athens news agency report. Communist strongholds in East Java,ed tonight. of any size except for the const harbour of Patjlton, tell yes- terday to Republican forces, the Republican news agency Antara, reported tonight.

LEADERS FLEE SOUTH They both lie near the city of Madiun, the Communist centre in East Java recaptured from the Com- munista last Thursday.

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DEATH

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The plots of the two who are also to be brought to bearing a Athens, have passports Czechoslovak visa dated Septem- ber 2, the agency added.

In the course of Interrogation the pilots were sald to have stated they making airnoid left from a Prague

und Yugo- landings in Hungary slavia for refuelling They then slavi mado for Halta in Palestine where Villagers from Dungus told the they were to land, but having lost Republican forces that the Com- their way and running short musist leaders, Dr Amir Sjurifud- petrol were obliged to din and Muso, were seen on Friday Rhodes. in the village, which is in the Wills

The two planes were fully armed, Mountains.

the Athens dews agency sald, and They afterwards fled southwards, their passage over Greek territory

Dragnets have without It was believed.

Informing

the SAVU the Government been organised to capture

who Communist leaders,

to acize lieved to be attempting to organisentional law......

According to resistance in the mountainous re-

Rhodes, the two pilots glons..

Antara also reported that Sidik the sea before landing and dropped

as the "Tito of fisherman.

a parcel which was recovered by a Arsalan, known

It was said to contain East Java" and commander of the It was vital to other democracies armed Socialist Youth Movement.. maps, mensuring instruments that these countries, in guarding the Fesinde, was captured by Re- documents.--Reuter.

during

recent publican forces just those restrictions on freedom

Communist counter-attack from which they hoped to avoid, he said.

Dungus.

The remnants of the Communist that tho Mr Fraser, declaring

been compressed forces have now in- basle source of disputes

triangle between Madiun, tolerance of the way other people into a lived, said that once the fundamental Ngawi to the north, and Tjaruban, one or have retreated up the slopes of liberiles were infringed.....in country, they were threatened in all

north of Magelang,

the countries.

of Jogjakarta, Republican capital

Ministers' Others had fled to the

Mr Chifley declared that there could be no peace if one country, in order to defend its particular economic or political system, attempted to bring "other countries into line, He warned that small European democra- cies are suffering economic difficulties and added that internal as well as external threats to the democratic way of life must be guarded against.

MR HORNER their security, did introduce

IMPRESSED

ntter.

considerable body of writers, journalists and broadcasters

concerted determination" avoid mentioning England and the English at all costs, even in contexts where it was wrong to use any other term.

WHADDYA MEAN-JUNIOR?

"Junior partners" in The United Kingdom Scotland, Wales ard Northern Irelandrotained

The Moscow University held a their identity, the Society said, and asked "why should not the English, conference on the "part played by Russian scientists in the develop- who comprise 02 per cent of the total electorate of the

United ment of research into the atom and its nucleus" at which it was rald Kingdom?

single important discovery in the through

Saint no!

the field

and of atomic nucicus taken the he Andrew's Society, has

the "strongest exception" to being called generally of the conditions of

London, Oct. 3-Mr Arthur atom has been

Soviet scientists Horner, the Communist Secre This was followed by a series of tary of the Mineworkers Unlon, where "Britain"

used for

who returned to London tonight "England" there are

hunderdattacks on Western influences where "England is used to denote Soviet music, literature, architecture with 14 other trade union repre- the United Kingdom of Great Britain and economy.

Ukrainian The

Institute of Arts sentatives who have been visit and Northern Ireland.

So far Wales

and Northern assalled the "hostile bourgeois na-ing Czechoslovakia, said that Ireland have kept out of the fight, tionalism" of some of its members they saw "an amazing picture" but there are feare that any day Famous composers agreed hastily to of recovery from war damage

their "Imitation of bourgeois may see them send out a verbal Rive up

in, that country. the Academy of expeditionary force. Southern Ire-moderniam, and

Mr Horner said that they went by Pravda

about freely land, under its new name of Eire, Architects was warned

and toured Iron that some of its members WRIG

works, the is out of the battle aren

Peace is not expreted until all under subservience of the decadent foundries, the Skoda

Pilsen breweries and other factories, bourgeois West.-United Press. and broadcasterS have

some of which had been demolished "England" or

Just before the end of the war.

a junior partner.

It asserts that for every occasion participation of Soviet scientists.

Q

writers

write learned to "Scotland" where only one country figures in the story

and "Britain Grandson For

or "United Kingdom" when two or more come into It.-Reuter.

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Mr Horner added that there | 66"

Czecho- In seemed no idea of war slovakia and their Premier had told them that he did not bellove in the possibility of war.

seemed people Madrid, Oct. 3.-The birth of a "healthy" but meat and fats were Wage standards were son to the Duchess of Montoro and her husband, Luis Martinez de Irujo, below Britain's. The delegation spent

a fortnight in Czechoslovakia. was announced in Madrid today.

to the largest included representatives of six trado The baby, heir collection of titles held in Europe unions and four private individuals. outside the Royal Households, was-fouter. born on Saturday.

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Murder Of Boy

The note continues that the boy was shot with dum dum (expanding) bullets in the yard of his home be fore his parents.

The Bulgarian government pro- tested "most energetically against this barbaric crime," insisted that

takon

the against

Sofa, Oct. 3 Bulgaria has sent #note of protest to Yugoslavia about the death on Bulgarian ter- rllory of a shepherd boy from the frontler village of Ressen

The note

that a Yugoslav says Paris, Oct 3-French miners-sergeant "murdered" the boy, Liu-

ben Angelov, on Sept. 20. per cent wage increase during the some 335,000 strong-granted a 15 past week, are dua to walk out to- morrow on. an "indefinite" strike, which, if complete, would cost the country a month's national Income for each 10 days it lasts. The Duches of Montoro is the

The strike, called by the Miners mensures bo Federation, affiliated to the Com-murderer and demanded that an daughter of the Duke of Alba, a

munist-controlled General Labour Indemnity be paid to the boy's former Spanish Ambassador to Lan-

Soviet Washington, Oct. 3.-The

Confederation, don. Her husband is the fourth

is in support of to have in claims challenging the Government's

parents.Associated Press. of son of the Duke Sotoymayor. Air Forcé is reported

a new Jot fighter plane right to decree more economical They were married in Seville in service

powered by the British Rolls Royce management of this nationalised in- October, last year.

The baby is to be named Carlos Nene gas turbine with a top speed dustry.

and 000 miles per A total stoppage would cut down in the ley water. He went sightsee- after the present Duke of Alba who of between 030

hour, the magazine Aviation Week coal production by 145,000 tons a and will is seven times a Duke, ing in Trondheim today

.said today.

day. lecture to the British Norwegian times a Marquis, twenty times.

It added that the plane is the Society in Trondhein on Monday as Count and 24 times a knight. wealth The present Duke's

work of Lieutenant General Alexan- arranged.

Castics and: der Gorgelovich Yakovlev, the estates, thtr Earl Russell,

only Britishcludes vast

ort collections, Asso- | designer of the Russian Yak Alghter passenger on the flying boat, is 70,-valuable

ciated Press.

plane-Reuter. Associated Press.

Oslo, Oct. 3.-Efforts to refloat a sunken Sandringham flying boat in Hommelviks near Trondheim had to be abandoned today, The plane Saturday sank off Trondheim when 19 of the 45 persons on board were drowned. Those killed in- cluded three children.

Earl Russell (Bertrand Russell) the philosopher, one of the survivors, was reported today completely re- covered from his ten-minuto ordeal

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Dr Bunche The Man Who Is Not Afraid

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Parisians were advised today to All their balbs and any comminers with water to prepare for a pos sibie stoppage of work by Water- works men on Tuesday, the latest development In the wave of labour unrest sweeping across France.

Other services in which !strikes aro threatened aro the French posts, gas workers in Eastern France and municipal employees in Nice.

In Algiers, dockers have been out on strike for several days---Reulor..

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More Aid For China Advocated

Halfa, Oct. 3-An Amor!-half of Haganah had tumed out to nadotte-"We are ready to do away

I never felt scared. But with any man."

Probably no other negro had not asked for it." can negro professor in calmly guard me, leoping the lid on the Pales- Oncially, no threatening messages held such an important Interna tino truce in spite of warnings | have been sent directly to Dr tional port. His word is an order but he is for 300 white officers, including from Jowish terrorists that he Bunche in recent days, is the next man marked for aware of the enmity against him as generals assembled from the armed the symbol of the United Nations, forces of the United States, France death.

Ife buld it any threats come "I will and Belgium. Doctor Ralph J. Buncho, acting throw them in the waste basket." His staff sums it up this way-- Washington, Oct. This Houpe of United Nations mediator sinco Dr Buncho read with Interest an "ho will never let Bernadotte down."

Foreign Affairs Count Folke Bernoodtto's assassina Inflammatory headline in the Stern

Dr Representatives. Government Joaned

Committen, in areport issued is hard to scare.

Gang newspaper Bunche was Bunche to the UN from Its Stafe

2010. One tonight urged..... greater Outright "It was the Count's policy not to United States Intelligence Agent" Department staff in

military Assistanco and greater request personal protection but to I also recalls the Storm leaflet dis- year later he became director of the

ald for the Chines

Govern- leave it to the responsibility of the tributed in Jerusalem early in trusteeship department and resigned financial

ment Jows and Arabs to determina what September saying "Bernadotte his State Department post.

Since the United States, Britain' China was a "decisive "area", for protection

necessary." The must go-blessed be the band that former Howard University political does it."

and France have given support to the democratie West, the report mid, sclenco profermor, said that is still The now mediator has been in Bernadatter tidal-plan, UN morale and the Survival of Chick as a nation is vital to the our policy"

formed how Sternists told Amorf in the Holy Land has climbed. Some democraile

predict #peaco

by safety of all democratie nations" Recently when I went to Jerusa- cans in Tel-Aviv a few hours after observers

Keuter. lem," he added, "it roemed as if the cold blooded murder of Ber-Christinas.Associated Press

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