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MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1948,

French Miners Abandon PONDICHERRY ELECTIONS

Stronghold

After A 36-Hour Siege

SECURITY TROOPS FORCE OPEN MAIN

ENTRANCE TO PIT

Paris, Oct. 24.-One hundred miners, who had barricaded them- selves for 36 hours in the Alouettes pit at Montceau mines, north-east

BRING DISTURBANCES

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Pondicherry, Och 24,--8tx persons were injured, one of them seriously, today in clashes, between Communisia and French Bocialists as French Indians went to the polls for Municipal elec- tions.

Meanwhile the French Indis government has received a com mualque from Paris annoancius that the French government does not recozniso "any decision', which might have been Imposed on the population of Mahe,"

This communique sided that the incidents in Atabe originated from "external hooligans whose sotieities have constantly been painted out to the Delt! government since last August."

(Male was the scene of reported riots last week when several thousand persons were sald to have crossed into the Mundelpality from India to stage pre-election demonstrations).

The Municipal elections in French India today will be followed by a plebiscite on the incorporation of the French territory Into the India Union.

Elsewhere in French India the streets of towns and villages were deserted. People were staying Indoors to avold clcction skirmishes-Associated Press.

of Lyons, abandoned their stronghold this morning after a 36our Commonwealth Will

siege, in which 2,000 troops and police took part.

Security forces, working under the glare of are lights, had sealed off the pithead last night. The strikers inside promptly raised the tricolour flag and sounded sirens to call other miners to their aid.

Troops forced open the main entrance of the pit without serious resis- tance, it was reported, then waited overnight inside the mine enclosure before resuming their effort to clear the miners from the central colliery building..

REPRISAL

KILLINGS

Rangoon, Oct. 24.—Reprisal· killings in the Pegu district above Rangoon of White Band PVOS by colleagues opposing surrender are officially reported today.

said

A Government statement PVOS who expressed their inten- tlon to lay down their arms are regarded as "betrayers of the cause" by the other elements,

four Hanthawaddy district.

When the workers left the pithead this morning, the Prefect of the Seine Et Loire Department told them that the police had intervened not to break the strike, but to safeguard national property. The police detained only those men considered as "doubtful cases", or suspected of having carried forbidden arms.

A team of mine specialists was ordered to re- enter the pit and set the security equipment, includ- ing the ventilating system and pump machinery, going again..

cost France

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Rearm To Support Western Union Bloc

London, Oct, 24-A pledge on behalf of their people to rearm in order to back up the. anti- Communist Western Union bloc was one of the out- standing achievements of the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' conference which concluded here last weeld

2.

Representatives from eight overseas Dominions and Colonies agreed that this result alone justified their meeting. The decision was of far-reaching importance for a variety of reasons:

2. Indin,

principles

In the Western Union.

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FRONTIER

AFLAME WITH RENEWED FIGHTING

Emergency Meeting On Palestine Situation

Haifa, Oct. 24.The whole northern frontier between Israel and Lebanon was aflame with re- newed fighting. A United Nations spokesman said Israeli forces lashed at the Arabs on land and in the air but neither side gained much headway in ground fighting. Israeli forces charged the Arabs broke the truce by launching an attack. The Jews claimed they had driven Arab fighters across the border into Lebanon.

The UN spokesman said Jewish planes bombed points inside Lebanon and shelled some Lebanon points early today.

The Arabs appeared to have cut the Jewish supply route to the northern settlement.

At Cairo, air raid sirens sounded tonight and anti- aircraft guns fired but the all clear sounded an hour later. An authoritative source said Egypt has demanded, an im- mediate meeting of the UN Security Council to deal with the fighting.

The situation in Northern Pale In Halfa, a United Nations spokes stine where rhting flared up near man tonight stated that fighting still the Jewish settlement of Manara on continues in Northern Palestino and Saturday is now "static", an army, the situation along the entire front It marks a decided change in

spokesman said today.

is scricus. policy on the part of Australia, who

Ho sold that by the capture of .ISRAELI AIR RAIDS had been strongly opposed to any

the Sheikh Arab height North of economie or military line-up · be-

An Israeli Manara and a few heights South of bombs la raids last night on Blide, plane dropped 17 Children of the strikers at In Marseilles, two Itallan workers tween the Commonwealth and Wes-

Manara the Arabs had opened up Montceau Les mines will get a free | who molested a non-striking miner tern Europe.

At the

Meisse Diebel and Houle, across the conference,

secondary supply road to Eastern Lebanon, border, midday mehl, every day, from to- on his way to work, were seized by Australia's Dr Herbert

Evatt was

Galilea.

United Nations The

capture of the observers reported. morrow, following 2011 ngreement the police and escorted to the fron- one of the champions of the creation

heights gives the Arabs an oppor It added that several dead bodies (renched ́

Jewish artillery was reported to between the municipal tier in conformity with a Cabinet of this) "middle bloo" between Russia.

tunity to snipe at Metulah, a Jewish be shelling Bilde today. Observers dressed in PVO uniform were seen authorities of the town and the decision taken last Friday to expel and the United States, and he has

Northern border floating down the Pegu river.

added different factions involved in the from

were on the spot at all important France immediately

town, bo ony crusaded for acceptance. of the Today's military communique ro-strike.

spokesman again denied polate on the front, the spolicsman jolning in strike action. foreigners ported a concerted drive by Army,

on military and economic

allegations that the Jews are added. added. The Montceau Les mines strikers M Antoine Pinay, Secretary of embodied with the other newly in bious raid to test rebel strength declaring that "if there is Navy and police on Rebels occupy- yesterday released about 100 police State for Economic Affairs,

Scoul, Oct. 26.-An amphi- continuing hostilities around Gaza, "The Arabs have imposed dusk : ing

river villages in the and Republican Security Guards Inst night that the miners strike dependent States of Pakistan and at Yosu

e is any fght-to: dawn curfew in the Old City of whom they took prisoner on Friday. had already

was announced lasting around Gaza it must be fighting Jerusalem, a Reuter cable from the It said the rebels were using Bren Troops occupied two other plts, million tons of coal.

three Ceylon, rallied with great eagerness night by the South Korean amongst the Arabs themselves. Hoiy, City sald today. The official guns and trench mortars in an al-St Louis and Mauorand, in the same

to the new concept of a

He estimated that more than 2.000 reason given for the curfew was "to The Communist weekly, Humanite Commonwealth as the balancing Army. The rebellion began at Egyptian soldiers tempt to withstand the government arca early this morning. The police Dimanche, today called for allout force. Indla realises that in the Yosu last Wednesday morning.

were put out of reduce night theft." but unofficial assualt but eventually were routed.

action by the latest custody for

operations

sources said that it was intended to Toungby police station, South of took 25 strikers into

miners,, saying: | present critical state of world affairs The Army said the Innding party the Negev area.-Associated Press. was burned down by carrying truncheons and missiles, support of the

"Neither murders, nor provocations | she cannot remain alone and Isolated.

withdrew from Yosu after suffering It was reported.

nor threats, nor slander repeated by

SIX casualties.. It gave no other

EGYPTIAN REQUEST MIE MAYOR'S APPEAL

INDIA'S FUTURE

details, A striker servile press and radio have been A1 St Ellenne, where

Disclosure of the raid was coupled Nations Security Council, will: hold which were being watched by United London, Oct. 24.-The United į apart. from, a few isolated incidents It added that the Tharrawaddy was shot when a police patrol opened

e patrol opened age of the miners, for the strike in to proclaim herself an Inter Pen by the sunouncement that Fosong: an emergency meeting in Paris, on Nations observers, the district rebels attacked-government fire yesterday, the

Tel-Aviv After made an appeal to the strike cum-f-just They are fighting simply for.į Republic. The Indian Premier.an-in-the-southwest-corner-of--Korca: Tuesday morning to consider the

Tsraeli spokesman forces guarding ricemills.

the right to live."

stated. dit Nehru, made that perfectly clear was regained from. the rebels де two hours resistance tho.

At Palestine situation. guards

to the other delegates. It is

of 'noon.

Generally, the cease, fire had been It is part of

The army relook Sunchon drove off the rebels who used brens,

from the rebels on Friday

The meeting has been enlied at the observed by both sides, he added. night stens and trench mortars, It Was

India's programme of Independence.

The spokesman denied that there The situation at Kwangyang, seven request of the Egyptian Government, stated.-Associated Press.

It means India will have both

which alleged in a letter to the wig any "untoward activity, in President and a republic; but India miles east of

Sunchen, and in the Council's President that Jewish Bethlehem or along the Jerusalem- does not want to go too far. She Chito mountains fart

farther cast was forces

had violated the last truce Lydda" railway, despite persistent does not want to deprive herself of suld to be "obscure."

ordered, by the Security Council South Koreah'

reports of fighling for control of the officials said

Leaders of the Arab States met line outbreak has been confined to

in Amman again this morning to small isolated area, Capture, of the

He said that Battir-eix miles end their...weekend talks on Palen- from Jerusalem and from the other remaining rebel held towns should

tine

My warto kliled the Secretary

who

of the local Cultivators Association, the communique said.

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EDITORIAL

mittee and local trade union leaders to negotiate a solution, proposing that strikers' representatives should meet him at the City Hall tomorrow.

Progress Reports Needed

To the man in the street who

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is being made towards the final objective, and surely the community Ic entitled 19 be told what that progress amounts to and how much

the neirer

of self- Colony is to a measuro bt

government than

progress re- months. Monthly poris, would supply the informa- tion and

sustain general would Interest in an Important reform. In the matter, also, of hotels and boarding house rates, the public

being badly

when negiceted It comes to Information

on pra gress, if any, being made by the committee specially appointed, to Investigato

subject. The commitee has said nothing about a sellvilles; whether they have progressed to a stage that

Dormit

an interim report:

looks forward to reasonably quick results, one of the most tantalising features of Govern- ment administration Is what, on the surface, appears to procrastination, but in reality is the ponderons movement of the official machine. Reforms and Innovations are mooted with the customary blare of publicity and then are allowed to fade out of publilo sight and mind for months at a time until the original idea becomes blure of the memory *and first enthusiasms can no longer be revived. One clasele example is the proposed Municipal Counell. First announced by Bir Mark Young on May 1, 1840, the cested constitutional reform

Adegree aroused

but

A

to

Aug-

of Interest wilch WAS maintained by broadcast by the Governor on August 28, 1940, by Bir Mark Young's despatch to the Secre tary of Riate for the Colonies in October of the same year “which ho advanced recommenda- tions for the introduction of the franchise' And the creation öf a Courell, and by Mr

Jones's memorandum of July 1. 1947 in which the majority. of the Governor's proposals. wero approved. Since then brief an- nouncements have been made of the temporary appointment' of a cadet officer to start, preparing the ground for an doctorat rericier and more recently the return

from

will whether

this

ihe investigation Hely to-end soon,, or whether 'It - will require

more months

can

to complete. In fact, the public only assume that the 'com- mittee is meeting and falling its functions. A progress reporă would reassure on these points. There aro other directions

In Government could take which the publie. more Into Its con- ndence and supply Creech

Information Interest. of

Progress reports an the fisheries scheme which enviasges mechanisation of the Colony's fishing feet, the creation of a substantial trawler fleet and the development of marine schools would silmulate pobile Interest in these projects, and would demonstrate that thing positive is being done, The New Territories develop- ment plans and the agricultural research stations are shrouded in secrecy, gel here is a profeet- which should and could be kept constantly before publle attention through monthly reports. The people should be told more and more about whit Government lờ doing, especially when so

many

Me W. Corrie to the functions. But as to progress, or even a hint as to the probable date for bringing" the Coune!! into being there has been not a word, and a subject, which should be kept actively in the minds of - the ・・ publis, is・・ allowed - to- become forgotten. It is accepted that an undertaking · of this -nature Involves edheīderabis Ispade ⠀ work "and" preparation,

· but presumably “some” próɣtem

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of its activities directly meet": the Ilves and welfare of large sections of the community -

able to break the Indomitable cour-

The prefect of the Department of Seine Et Loiro tellay issued an order forbidding "any public or private meeting of whatever kind for the duration of the strike in the coal- felds."-Router.

Nationalists'

New Tactics

It is India's fixed determination

*

technical and material aid from the rest

of the Dominion. which she would enjoy In the event of war, There are also trading and

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• the

in

reduce casualties from Jewish re- prisal shelling.

Negev area, in southern

120 was "all quiet"

advantages which India enjoys. It end organised resistance, but mop- the ore the Regent of Iraq and rallway-"has been in our

is India's Intention; therefore, remain at least an associate within the Commonwealth.

the Korean

today

hands

Prime

Gaza

ARAB'S ACCUSATION.

ime Minister left by for some time." Previously, the toping up may take some true. nir for Damascus.

Jews had orfly claimed occupation the feld at From

Kwangju,

The Arab Chiefs of Staff were to os for as. Deir Esh Sheikh, nine Associated Press *** correspondent

continúe meeting in Amman to miles from Jenisalem Not until the committee of legal Tom Lambert referred to the Yosu

draw up details from the politicat ·Unconfirmed reports today said Shanghai, Oct. 25-The evacuation of the north Honan rallway junction experts, at present studying remodel-operation as "an attempted landing." leaders instructions. It was under-the Jewn were attackitig Belt

ling of the Commonwealth Con-

sold Не

Army and stood that one of the major items Safarn, two-miles from Jerusalem. of Chengchow was decided during President Chiang Kai-shek's last stitution, has concluded its work will Navy co-operated in the attempt on discussed was King Abdullah's

it apparently was

to the visit to North China about a month be clear just how this new con- Saturday, "but

Arab Palestine unsuccessful,"

Government

An Egyptian military proclama- ngo, uccording to Informed circles in cept of the Empire will be put into

shape. The legal experts will also Lambert said at least, 80 and Nanking quoted by Chinese press and a formula for breaking the link possibly 236

In Tel-Aviv today, an Israel tion tonight authorised the Ministry Koreans have been military spokesman confirmed reports today.

last of War and Marine to call up divil kled during the disorders. night's Arab claim to a victory in almen for service la "any locality." The Nationalist High Command, with the Crown.

American ndvisers snld nelther Northern Palestine. the peorts said, decided to revise

Nokrashy Pasha, the Egyptian the former strategy of defending a

: SUBDUED OPTIMISM

side was very aggressive,--Associated Fawal El Kawukji's Arab Libera. Premier, Bald tonight that the alert Press. .. The elly to the last man and adopt new

conference broke up on

tion Army and Lebanese troops, he was caused by "two unknown pinnes tactics, emphasibing moblie attacks. note of subdued optimism., Delegates

PRESS COMMENT

stated, had gained control of a which were driven off" by Egyptian Washington, Oct 24-Two capilai secondary Meanwhile, General Chang Chen,felt they had come to the meeting

road inalde

anti-aircraft fire, Lebanese

An Egyptian spokesman late last sloner of Honan Province, disclosed of the once-mighty British Empire.

South Korea disorders both saw the the Jews. that

the future Government

opera Since

the last conference, South kelihood of ronclan in the United

(Last night's Arab, communique

continued to violate the Security tional plan

Notions. on the Honan plain Africa bas become Nationalist.

whether

from Damascus claimed that 250 Council's pose Are: order by at- ** the" Rhee government would consist of the massing of the

tacking a number of Egyptian There was much astonishment at copes with the disorder firmly but Jews had been killed while trying positions in Palestine. He said the bulk of Goverment forces in: cast the conference, however, when South justly will be a teal the Korçan to escape from the Manara settio- Egyptian forces had repulsed attacks, Honan.

Africa's delegate, Mr E. Louw, ro- Republic's claim to stability and in-ment, and that "the Jews were de- "Infilcting heavy losses Another Chinese report claimed vealed that his country had no in-dependence, sald the Poot

feated all along the front, abandoning enemy," that at least half a million Govern- tention of seceding from the Cum-

(Continued on Page 5), fall kinds of arms and ammunition.") (Continued on Page 5) ment troops, including armoured monwealth. In fact, South Africa, units, are at present concentrated | like the rest of the Commonwealth in north Kiangsu, east Honan, south nations, has been red, ilght Shantung and north

Antiwel wishes to co-operate to the fullest Router.

Governor and Pacifcation Commis- to witness the further, disintegration city newspapers in editorials on the terrliory previously dominated by night declared that the Jewa "had

Peiping Police

Catch "Tiger"

Peiping, Oct 25.--Pelping econ. namic police who arrested many "lies" nabbed their first "üger", on Saturday.

and

for mutual self-protection.

Mr Louw declared South Africa would do everything possible to strengthen the African "bration Lutted Press.

Reported Arrest Of Ex-Minister

on the

Berlin Crisis Solution Rests With

Paris, Oct. 24-Alast- minute change of front, by the Soviet Government is Now

Russians

its authortues in Germany to In. the blockade but that the order should only taiso affect, when tho currency accord was reached.

According to Western spokesman,

this "token" lifting of the blockade would be totally, unacceptable to Bellain, the United States and France as it would mean that the currency problem would still have to be negotiated under the duress of

existing blockade,

regarded by informed sources of the Council at the last meeting in Paris as the only chance of is not acceptable to the Soviet delo solving the Berlin problem at allen in its present form.

Usually reliable sources said today tomorrow's meeting of the Se- that the Soviet delegation's objec curity Council.

tions are two-fold;

1. They object to that part of The position tonight, after yes the resolution which says that the The

Warsaw, October victim was Wang Cheng-Ling,

24-Usually terday's meeting between the head Berlin currency shall be under

The Impression in Western delegu- sources said today of the Soviet delegation, Mr An- quadripartite control. head of the Food Merchants Guild, wellinformed

and The acting who was, charged with hearding a that Wlodimierz Lechowicz, Minister drei Vyshinsky,

It is said the Soviet argument is tion circles is that Mr. Vyshinsky's large supply of

of Food until the post was abolished President of the Council. Dr Juan that this is one of the matters to conversation with Dr Bramuglin Polico said Atsturbed the last month, has been arrested for Bramugid, appeared to be sull one be decided by a meeting of the four yesterday was in the naturo,

last minute. Söyle? attempt, to gain market by baylha way above ceiling financial irregulalities in his minis- of stalemate.

Military Governors and that the further concessions before taking a were held by prices for food stocks.

No meetings were

any Security Council has no jurisdiction dinal decision. Wang, 42, is a, native of Shantung

There was no officiat

Involved throughout over any decision in advance.

Whether the Soviet Government and a graduate of Shantung Univer-

Lechowicz was a member of the today, nor did any of the key. du- 2.The Soviet Government con will now decide to give its tacit Democratic Party and was ence the logations appear to have obtained not agree to lifting the blockade bo- support to the resolution by abstali........

problem has beening from the vote tomorrow.or merchants were arrested on Batur Committed,

settled. day for displaying military Unofficial reports cald that ho was The position, therefore, sill up- A proposal was apparently men-fore continues to remain d'a zocret Maniforms, the unauthorised sale of arrested week or 10 days ago pears to be that the resolution pro- tioned yesterday that thb Soviet locked up in the Kremlin" walls,--

which are bandedAssociated Press, United Press,

posed by the six "neutral" members Government might issue an order to Reuter.

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of the

of a

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developments.agta