THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1949.
Was Stalin's In Flames After Derailment Prisoner For Nine Years
Man's Evidence In
Law Suit
Paris. Feb. 22.--White-haired
Nikola Antonov,
witnesses in the
one of three Kravchenko
Jibel case wonted by Moscow told the for "war crimes"
crowded court today that he was Stalin's prisoner for nine years and was once beaten in- sensible by the Russian secret police.
Viitor
To-
The witness described Kravchenko, nulbor of the Soviet best seller "I Chose Freerome" as a man of "high charactes. day's session opened with an
by Kravchenku's counsel etition that the Kremlin and ds Park Em-
"deliberately Interfor bussy were Ing with the eier by densating three wil- that France had oves
110SSIN
trial as war criminals.
The presiding judge.
M. Herri
Burkheim, said the Soviet request,
handed in last night,
was beyon
the court's compslejer, Kravchenko | himself, who has been 11, was in.
couri agado Boulay.
CAMP TREATMENT
A heated argpameist
Judge and lawyers for
between the
both slces Antons entered the ended when
During his years t witness box. Soviet concentration camps, he hurl bern forcibly fedi, kept for six days i In a small snit cell hardly able to move and then put under a power. questioning, lee ful, light stated.
Another time he was subjected to the "monkey" treatment, Nine men Erl 211721 92 after Bred questionst
the other, some 18
and
Some
sally. He had to answer right away. When he said that a million pri soners were held in one group
Durk- Concentration crops Judges heim asked him through an uter
ter to eundem that this was what
the meat.
Kravchenko's
lawyer
special
110 sakt
currency would produce notes used in Husstan concentration camps to show the size of the prison system.
Antony sail he had bera tener to 16 years but al
Ife fitted from an amnesty, been arrested three times and sprint concentration nine years in Soviet camps.
benar-
Witnes sak that or series of camps of the Baltic White Sea canal i milion construction lean lebi prisoners. He denied accusations rade against him in the Soviet note. He said he came to Parts from the French cupation Zone of Ger- his case had been many. wheir exammed by three Commissions...-
Ru of
mended which
affeers.
a
He ho hern recognised a Kemming displaced person, he ackles, !
COURT PANDEMONIUM
in the Pandemonium broke out
minutes later and a few court Kravchenko and M. André Warm- ser, the of the defendants, almost cute to blows about questions put -to-Antonov,- --
"the gangway", farred Gendarmes hetween the two men who shouted insults at each other in French and shouted that Russian. Kravchenko he wanted to get from the French authorities in Germany all the dos Antonov and cuments concerning "stop this comedy by these provera- starter
slagging teurs." This match between Wurmser and Krav- Durkheim Judge chenko, while banged on his desk and shouted for order.
Agam Pandemoniun broke out when Maitre Izard annminced that the plaintiff would get all the do- Antoney from the cuments about French Zone and put them before the entire
th
Heavy black smoke towers into the sky from several burning tank cars of a Missouri-Kansas-Texns freight train which was derailed near Mokane. Ma. The ears were loaded with crude oil. No one was injured in the accident, be lieved to have been caused by a broken wheel. About 50 ears of the train were pulled to safely down the right-of- way-AP Picture.
Bye-Election Battle Fever Mounts In South Hammersmith
London, Feh. 22.-The Labour Party today threw an assault force of all 30 Socialist bye-elec- tion victors since 1945 into the final fierce stages of Ham- at South the key Parliamentary contest mersmith, London.
Polling takes place on Thursday. A tempestuous eve-of-the-poll clash is expected tomorrow when the Conservative Opposition leader, Mr Winston Chur- chill, will lead his party's attack on this Government seat in a seven-mile tour of the constituency.
1945
The Government won Hammersmith at the
A general election with the small majority of 3,458. Conservative win would be the first Government loss of a seat won or held in 1945.
would
Conservatives
to the electors
Greek Foreign Minister's Plan For Regional Pacts
TO CONSOLIDATE THE ATLANTIC AGREEMENT
By SYLVAIN MANGEOT, REUTER'S DIPLOMATIC
CORRESPONDENT)`~
London, Feb. 22.—The Greek Foreign Minister,
M. Constantin Tsaldaris, told me in an exclusive in-
POCKET CARTOON
terview today that he had outlined plans for regional Invention
pacts extending possibly to Pakistan, when he saw Mr Ernest Bevin, the Foreign Secretary, yesterday.
M. Tsalduris said he believed an Atlantic Pact was the key to a world security system since it would establish a principle of American policy. He also envisaged a stage-by-stage consolidation of regional security by the Mediterranean powers, but was ready to agree that discussions should only become formal after the signing of an Atlantic pact and prepared the ground.
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M. Tsaldaria said, he had had a full discussion with and his Mr Bevin yesterday about the Atlantic Pact own ideas about extending regional security to the Me- The first step would be "Northern diterranean, Mediterreanenn Pact," linking Turkey, Greece, Italy, He hoped it would eventually be France and Britain. possible to solve political problems and allow Spain to join.
The second phase wenslik be
enstwards extension to fe in Greece,
Turkey,
Saud
Iran, Iraq, Syria, The
Israel, Egypt. Arabia, Transjordan
Lebation,
en Pakistan,
even
and possibly
M. Tsaldaris admitted that many faced the fulfilment f Problems such a scheme, but said he femly favoured extending regional assu- elations to span the worlit.
He gave New Delhi's Asian Con- ference as an example of how the Lelea of regional association was spreading.
BEVIN SYMPATHETIC
himself Mr Bevin had shown sympathette to the conception of a Mediterranean Pact, be sad, but he
could not disclose what the Foreign Secretary's attitude had been.
World Peace Mission In
A Yacht
M. Tsaldaris did not belleve the ant, a French professor and a Atlantie Pact would affect the de- German student will attempt to liveries to Greece or Turkey under sail around the globe in a 12- the Truman Doctrine. He, felt these
Makes Wood Fire-Proof
Knoxville, Tennessee. Feb. 22, -A former Army chemistry student, who experiments in the kitchen. has come up with la homemade process to "flume- proof an ordinary six-room frame house."
The inventor, Troverse Schmidt, 43, can treat lumber so that when sub- jeeted to the 1,800-degree heat of a blowtorch I merely chars but does not Annue. When the torch is with- drawn, even the charring stops.
A "Class A" fire generales about 1,200-degrees of heat.
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The idea was
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world
of
might even increase. He was co-metre yacht to "serve fident that Greece itself was on the pence.” upgrade politically, militarily and
Sponsored by the "Society economically.
He described the recent battle of Friends," the three have prepared important to sail the seven seas for two years the mist Florina
yet. but said in a metur-supported vessel which Government success that the Greek has still to be bullt. Lack of money
1rom
going prevented them has there was evidence Communist forces involved had re-
ahead with their plans for the time treated into Yugoslav territory,
being, it was learned today.
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KILLED
No contnet existed between Athens and Belgrade since the Cominform The initiator of the plan is Holis attack on Yugoslavia last summer Wynam, 25, of Auburn, Massachu-
ON SALE "Food and Flowers" Nos. 1 and M. Tsaldaris held out no hope setts who covered 150,000 miles on
and 2 by Dr G. A. C. Herklats Over with the Tilea, U.S. Navy carrier in the Pacifie of an understanding
He holds a mus-
thirty untrations of local Auwers and during the war. regime.
Karachi, Feb. 22.-Captain Neville frulla. Price alx dollars. Obtainable st "ler's certificate and now works as
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com- a Pakistan Orient Airways,
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Captains. C. M. Post." The Socialist campaign is embar-
lent today near Karachi. Parls pro- northern neighbours rassed to some extent by Communist United Nations decisions and she eldest of the crew, is
Neville Stack, was between the T. is also
Memorandum Forms, Visiting Cards. En- intervention. The party has re- awaited United Nations action to Im-tessor at ethnography. He
the International two wars a test pilot and a leading OFFICE STATIONERY, Letter ends pioneer in long-distance velopes etc. Orders now taken, "S. C. AL. paliatest Communist support,
uplement these policies in the fteld of chairman
He made the first light | Post." aviation. cannot prevent the
Greece was prepared to Orphans Organisation and a member British conciliation.
neroplane-fight-to-India in-a-Gypsy CASTLETONE FINE STATIONERY. Three from representing
Moth in 1920-27. of her northern neighbours to admit Society. that Labour is receiving help from play her part but the recent refund of the French Listard Expedition aviat
During the late nineteen-twenties and 23 heels notepaper, $3.00 per bez Red Cross repres
representatives to in-
about
abducted
and early nineteen-thirties, Captain vestigate reports
made a record-breaking flight chlidren did not seem to show any
Hans Joachim Trumpler, 20, of Stack made a Increased readiness to fulfil Unite
He was in the squadron Nations policy, even when the Soviet Heidelberg, left high school only last linking London with the European
year. He now studies law at the capitals.
up the desert Union had voted in favour.
The elimination
General Retielberg University and claims to which opened of
Sea several route from Cairo to Baghund.
served In hoth world wars. Markos as leader of the Greek Com-have sailed the North
was in line with the times munist forces
The troup, also aided by American Cominform policy of ruthlessly sup
Scout organisations, plans to of Communist Boy form ንና
build the yacht at the Havighorst pressing
He recalled that other tendencies shipyards in Bremen, Germany. The
will be vessel
named "League," to a local application of Communist esse theory, as distinct from a strict im Trumpler said. The three have al- Ainscow ready preparet blueprints for the
this quarter-Reuter.
CZECH REDS
24-hours Both sides attach great significance, final
campaign. Every to the contest in this part-industrial. Labour campaigner of experience is
West London Jobing his party's muster. part-residential
Barough.
A Conservative victory
Mr Churchill's greatly stimulate followers, depressed after Labour's
in de revent substantial majority fording a seat at Battey, Yorkshire. A Government virtury would elate the Labour Party, which carlier has taken a somewhat pessimistic view of the lammersmith prospect, but has been chered by recent developments. PRESTICE UNIMPAIRED One of these was the Govern- ment's Batley majority of 3,000.
1 indicate Laken
that Labour's prestige hal net suffered from the publicity Riven
the Lynskey Tribunal which recently investigat- allegations of corruption iza Government circles.
The other way the Government's "show-down" with the Opposition in
Prague, Feb. -Czecho- Parliament last week over the cost
Bruin's THEA of rumang
Health slovakia's Communist regime Service,
marked its first anniversary by Churchill had earlier
measures
to "go Estimates as a whole as "the most and ordering followers
A
Conser over to the offensive" against misenleulations," wild
the Health
their enemies, vative vote against
last Estimates was expected in week's debate
k
cri-
TIGHTEN UP
ON SECURITY nationalison, M. Tadaris added.
Ing quietly at the witness bar waiting iticised the "enormous Supplementary lightening security
Meanwhile,
wilness, middle-aged IL Antonove. Lilyn woman in a black dress, was stal-
ext
to be sworn in.
Madame Aulonove
experiences of
described the
in the ber arrest Soviet Union.
next Anstrel Vasilkov, the M. witness, came into court un crutches. He toll the court how members of his family had been killed or imprisoned by the Soviet secret police,
gratit The court adjoined morrow. Reuter.
The Health Minister, Mr Aneurin Bevan, forced the issue by chal-were lenging Mr Churchill's followers to from vole against them, if the
As the government began a series i
of the of ollicial commemorations Feburary 1910 coup, these were the developments:
Red leaders sald these enemies receiving Onancial support the West and the lenders Oppo- riticised officials and members for fosition did not rise to the buit. It wavering under pressure.
recognised that u vole against the new National Health Service, even on cost, might have been converted into valtable political capital for the Government.
the Labour supporters regarded
Arst-class tactical incident
Government, which score for the may reflect upon bye-election re- sults, not only at Hainnersmith but in the two other contests pending it Sowerby, Yorkshire, and North St. Pancras, London,
The whole of the Conservative Parly's "talking strength" has been moved into Tfaminersnith for, the
Still Going Strong Newton, New Jersey, Feb. 22.- Miss Antur Schenck, who quit work missionary 50 years ago be
didn't cause her doctors suid she have long to live, is celebrated her 102nd birthday.
a Pres
until
Miss Schenek served as byterian missionary in Persin her doctors advied her retirement in 1899.
She aid she has been feeling fine since then-Associated Press.
tesuck
1087
as a
CDITORU PRENS MERVICIA
Ray Helle
"On the other hand, keeping it in the kitchen does have Its advantages."
BLUEPRINTS PREPARED
plementation of a central directive. had been put down inship which would have 75 square
Poland, Czechoslovakia Raria-Reuter.
and Bul
Children Rescued From
Bondage
Tokyo, Feb. 22. More than 200 children sold into bondage on farms have been rounded up of and returned to their parents, the Kyodo News Agency re.
cells,
Armed Parly members were or-
the dered. to patrol
streets Prague. A confidential Party circu
ten-man lar. Issued to its warned that "foreign imperialists ported..
the Czechs
principal and called an end to a attitude
are
all
meires of sail with a hundred horse power diesel engine.
A special two-radio set will also Costs are be added to the yacht. estimated lo run as high as 50,000 The vessel has been de- marks. signed similar to the one used by Captain Slocum who sailed around the world from Boston in 1900. 10 addition to the three, Englishman and another American have been asked to join the crew, Trumpler explained. He said that all three of the original crew are unmarried.
TO SELL PAINTINGS
one
between
net 1-
Ile sald that the idea of soiling around the world was born in the They plan to sell the three men. course of correspondence
und drawings 'children's paintings while anchoring at the world's most It said most of the children, earne under 15,
from poverty important harbours. The stricken, areas in North, Central come will Anance their trip and ge
to charity funds. Jupan's and Northwest Honshu,
that It will be Trumpler mun island. The action, was taken
te, Tochigi Prefecture Labour easier to receive military govern Office.
Meanwhile the Japanese Govern- the vacht and the necessary exit by occupation permit than to collect the amount ment, spurred on authorities, was pushing a general of money needed for the plan. Anquiry into the child slavery ques-
toward "capitalist rem-
for ants." Highways leading out of Prague were closely checked several days last week. Even by Cabinet Ministers were stopped for Identißcation
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If they are umble to obtain the sum, Trumpler said, they would try to buy a second-hand boat or char- fer a vessel.
POLICE ACTIVITY
Roadblocks disappeared over the tlon. weekend, but spot checks reported-
-SLAVE BROKERS INDICTED ly were still being made. The
The yacht will stop at the follow- The procurator's ofee in Fuku- Identity police have been making
shima Prefecture, one of the largest In street
thus ung harbours once it has left Ger- labour checks for several days cara, cafes and restauranta
in sourcen of such
said 10 "slave brokers"many. Templer sald.
Dover, Le Havre, Lisbon, Tangiers, Prague. The police threw a tight covered.
of Naples, Cairo, Adèn, Ceylon, Bata- cordon on Saturday night around had been indicted on Prague's international telephone selling children at prices via, Sydney, Santiago, Panama, New Glasgow, Bergen, central and scrutinised the papers from 20 to 2,080 yen (about seven York, Boston, of every, visitor.
centa to US$7) each.
The procurator said nome persons Copenhagen and Kiel.-United Press. Parliament today, set
the singo tind sold their children for 50 pounds
NOTICE for a purge in the Army by passing of sweet potatoes, but that prices for nbill to reorganise the officer corps 15-year-old girls ranged as high as and permit the dismissal of officers 6,000 yen (about US$20). who fail to comprehend the prin- Authorities mid most of the deals ciples of the people's democracy". were arranged on a false adoption
basis.
Child foater-home Members made speeches. charging or that provious purges had been in labour laws do not cover domestic suffelent and that there still were help, and this is an apparent loop- "unreliable elements" in the Army, hole for usinut purchased children on
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