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Gun & Tear Gas Battle

Rome, Mar. 20-A! least 12 persons were injured in an hour-long gun and tear gas battle between Communists and police at Cerignola. The police arrested a number of Communists and Left Wing Socialists on charges of organising a demonstration against the police before the Communist headquar- ters

at Cerignola, an official said, United Press.

VOL. IV NO. 66

ROBBERY AT

FALCONER'S

Articles Worth $8,000 Stolen

Between the tilla hour on Saturday and mid-day yes- terday, thieves gained en trance to Falconer and Co. Ltd, well-known local jewel- lers on the ground floor of Union Building and de. camped with watches and articles of jewellery to the total value of about $8,000.

It is learned that one of the decorative grills on the top of the

main

was broken open.

For the Proprietor of

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Today's Weather: Light vailable winds; weather fosET and mild: considerable clearances over land,

Noon Observations: Barometrio pressure, 1013.5 mbs., 20.02 in, Temperaturo, 74.9 der, F. Dew point, 69 deg. F. Relative humtally, 84. Wind direction, East. Wind force, 11 knots,

Low water: 2 ft. at 10 p.m.

hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1949.

Communists And Mosleyites Fight Hand To Hand In

London Streets

18 PEOPLE ARRESTED: POLICEMEN INJURED

London, Mar. 20.-Crowds fought hand to hand and stoned motor buses in London's East End tonight as more than 5,000 Com- munist supporters and other anti-Fascists tried to break up a march by 150 members of Sir Oswald Mosley's Union Movement.

Glass marbles, steel ball-bearings and fireworks were thrown in the roadway to impede mounted police as they charged up and down, clearing a way for the procession.

Eighteen people, including several women, were arrested. Eight policemen were injured.

Policemen rode in vehicles at the head and end of the column, which was flanked by constables on foot at yard intervals. Another 12 mounted police and 200 on foot followed the marcher.

Long lines of truffle wore held, Kingsland Road. where entrance

A report was made to the investigations

Police

and are proceeding.

up,

Foot

As soon

A

series

as the

of

place

Children To

Throws 4 Russian

Currency Outlawed

Safety

New York, Mar. 20-A mother saved her four small chlidren today by throwing them from the third floor of a burning apariment house into fire- men's nets and then jump- ed to safely herself,

Mrs Sadle Barrett. 28,

her and

children-Perry, four monile. Elchard, 14 months, Linds, three years, and Danny

alx-were taken to hospital suffering from contusiona.

Fire broke out at 7.25 a.m. and Mrs Barrett and her children crawled out onto a ledge when she saw the flames. She hysterical when the

War

fire- men arrived, but was able to drop the childron, one at a time, luto the nels below. -United Press.

Israeli- Lebanese Armistice

Signed Yesterday 2,000 | The battles began when Oswald Mos- the members of Sir

Ras en Nakura, Mar. with ley's Fuscistic "Union Group"

sought to parade through the 20-Israel and Lebanese streets in Tottenham, a strongly delegates signed an armis- Communist district in North-tice agreement on Sunday cast London. Many marcher night.

In Berlin

Berlin. March 20-The Big Three Western Powers today outlawed the Soviet- backed currency in the western sectors of Berlin and said that they were ready for any Russian re- prisals.

The United States, Bri tain and France ruled out the Soviet East Mark on the first anniversary of the Berlin "cold war," which started a year ago when the Russians walked out of the Four Powers Allied Control Council.

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10 Members Of Ho Ying-Chin's Cabinet Chosen

LIST TO BE compleTED BY THIS AFTERNOON

Nanking, Mar. 21.-A spokesman for the Premier, General Ho Ying-chin, last night gave Reuters an incomplete list of Ministers for the new Nationalist peace Cabinet.

He said the full list will be completed by the Premier by Monday afternoon and then telegraphed to Canton for the approval of the Kuomintang Central Executive Com- mittee.

for

The incomplete list is as Such a move, they believed, would show the Nationalist Go- follows:

Premier and Minister of No-vernment's real sincerity

Delence--General

peaco tional

Ho peace, and permit any

formula drafted by the Na- Ying-chin.

Chia tionalist leaders to be submitted

in

Mr

servers

ob.

sald none of them should cause a breakdown if they were brought up at the projected peace talks-Reuter.

Whampoa Dock Development

Canton,

Depuly Premier, Ching-teh, Vice-President of the to the Communists without the Examination Yuun.

prior approval of Kuomintang Minister of Economic Affairs-bodies.

Nationalist The Joint Three-Power an- Mr Sun Teh-chi, former Chair-

offlelaldom is, that the ne-man of the National Resources nouncement said

meanwhile, said to have been to save the Commission. tion was taken

further

their discouraged in of Minister

the Interior- western city government from

Chief of peace efforts by the leakage of Taxes have been General Li Han-hun,

Communist alleged new

do. bankruptcy.

of but most of the civil servants and former Governor of Hainan name of the Chinese National payable in cheaver East Marks the President's Military Bureau mands, inclutting the change

Chinese have been paid in the stronger Island.

Minister of Finance Mr Hsu Government Into the

Government, the People's West Marks

Some Western quarters ex-Kan (no change but his appoint-

the Kuomintang substitution of pected quick Russian reprisals.ment tentative).

"Blue Sky" flag by a now one, Minister of Education-Mr might They said the Seriels

of a the inauguration close down the Berlin elevated Han Li-wu, former Vice-Minis- and

"United States of China" with the railway and seal off the Soviet ter of Education (appointment

Ching as South

one of the also tentative),

Minister of Foreign Affairs states. had lined anti-Fascists

There is no offelal confirma- Went.

Dr

Ping-chang, present The

"Down trouble tonight began sircets, shouting

such demands have REFORM EXPLAINED -

Ambassador to Moscow Lap- tion that

actually been received when t Union speaker mounted a loudspeaker March."

Movement Fascism" and "They Shall Not

Vassily Marshal

D.

Soko-pointment also tentative).

Minister of Communications Nanking, but Informed van in Ridley Road, Dalston, the

procession

Lovsky, Soviet commander

not chosen. scene of many previous clashes moved off, headed by a band of

Germany, observed

Minister of Judicial Adminis- between Morley supporters and big drums, de drums and wore black battledress and The UN Mediator, Dr"cold war anniversary by

tration not choten. anti-Fascists.-

cymbals, thousands rushed to shirts with swastika`nimbands.

Commissioner of Mongolian One hundred police, part of intercept it at various stages of

Ralph J. Bunche, informed manding that a Russian A Communist "command a large force drawn from all the revised four-mile route.

government in tion mission be allowed to enter the Isracl

the British zone to search for and Tibetan Affairs-Mr Pal WAS set up near the FEUD SETTLED parts of London, inttled with a About 20 women and young post"

Parade Tel-Aviv that Syria has Soviet property stolen by the Yin-tee (no change),

Overseas Chinese Affairs crowd trying to break into the girls marched behind the male starting point of the

and quickly mobilised a agreed to enter into armis- Nazis. He said the British have Chicago, Mar. 20-The teng-street Mounted and foot police Union members,

change). crowd of come 300 Leftists who tics negotiations with Israel. honoured only 53 of 546 Russian Minister Mr Tai Kwel-sen (no standing feud over wages and cleared the area around the van,

gaid property claims. hand-to-hand marched' on the Mosleyites.

Jewish authorities

Minister without Portfolio In explaining the new cus- hours between Qie Amerkan forming a cordon four deep.

al stood scuffles took

West

Mar. 21, The constables

number)-General reform, rency

Major-General (seven railroads un 16 unions was

Men and horses milled about these talks-the fourth with as Green, Tottenham, the North

Arab neighbours Bourne, British commandant in Chang Chun, head of the Pack Executive Yuan has earmarked settled today on the terms laid shoulder with locked arms

develop- tried to press. to London terminal of the Mosley in the streets for nearly an hour their crowd down by the Presklential fact-the

about while behind the police line would probably be held soon Berlin, told a news conference fication Headquarters for South-US$7,500,000 for the

the Each speaker march. A crowd

Whampoa ment of both General wards the van.

Chang west AL way.

China, Andiag board.

was flanked-at-either_side_by_a_5,000 people held up four_mutur parate gol

for-any-Soviet_counter..Chih-chung:Governor General harbour and the Whampoa arca

and added that the for Northwest China; Dr. Chu this year. Under the agreement, about bodyguard of two young men buses, Stones were thrown and least one policeman-was-pulled along the Israeli-Syrian that the Western Allles were The Lebantac-Israeli spree-Russions were in a “weak pusi-

farmer Minister

Mr Lin Yi-wan, Chairman of one million employees start at black, or dark blue battle the windows of one hus were from his horse by Communists, frontier.

Con- with broad i broken. Another had its tires who threw his helmet five-day 40-hour

ment will be signed from dress type suite

tion to retaliate. week

ir in triumph.

lausly here on Wednesday. September 1 with the same pay leather belts. One held a large deflated.

Brig-General Frank Howley

Minister of Food, and struction Commission, is quoted A dozen hastily erected forms

as saying SECOND ARMISTICE The police diverted paraders

American they received for 48 hours. They Union Jack and the other

commandant, said!

appointed, by the local press three others to be with Communist speakers also get a wage increase of seven Union Movement flag.

crowd from their planned route, but

This is the second armistice The best way to make anyone including one nomination cach that this sum will be used for "dis- motorcycle By a lust minute decision, the addressed thee, wailing

Communist cents an hour retroaztive to last;

io terms is to convince from the Young China and De-the police diverted the march from before the marchers arrived. October. Reuter.

followed patch riders"

the Jewish state and her Arab como

that his tactics are a mocratic Socialist parties. Extension of wharves to enable marching coturar and directed neighbours. An armistice, with

seven 10,000-ton steamers to bo the Leftists to new points of

simultaneously moored along- NANKING AGITATION attack. Along the line of marcis Egypt was signed last month. failure. It must be obvious to Reuter-AAR

side them; (2) further dredging Talks with Transjordan, are the Russians that their blockade

has not succeeded.

Shunghal, Mar. 21-A nlove- The Big Three announcement

2,000-ton vessels to reach Israeli-Lebanese negotiations

"As from Marchment is afoot among Legislators the Pearl River to enable have been in progress in this said simply,

in Nanking to get General Ho humpon harbour; (3) to es- senconst village

The Lebanon- 20 the East Mark shall cease to Ying-chin's new Cabinet begin tablish water and electricity Palestine border since March 1. be the legal tender in the wea

peace talks

with the Chinese works and (5) the building of ectors of Berlin.”

Босп Communists as

as it is Lebanon, like Egypt and Trans-tern sectors of

more godowns.-Router. insil-A jordan, Is member of the The currency reform

according to Chinese Arab League.

tuted In June by

the Western completed,

reports today,

Singapore, Mar 20.-The High disturb the did not Ai West Green, where the

seven nations of the Powers

These The

Legislators ore

Diso Commissioner for Indo-China, But the

snia "Unionists" had planned to end Lengue set out to destroy Israel situation in Berlin

favour the abolition of M. Leon Pignon, is expected to their demonstration with a poll after the British mandate in Russians, in a counter reform, Kuomintang Party rule under arrive here tomorrow afternoon tical raily, the second big bal-Palestine was terminated last declared the Soviet East Mark which all major policies must on his way to Salgon. He will

be approved by

MacDonald the party's meet Mr Malcolm the developed. Communist loud-May and the Jewish state pro- to be the sole legal currency in

Berlin. In view of the Soviet Central Executive Commilleg the British several claimed its own existence.

Commissioner speaker trucks cailed

the Western Powers The Arab military campaign move,

or the Central Political Coun- General, here. Associated thousand people to the scene.

In the adopted

under arrangements

Press. failed to crush forecl. The police met them.

closing stages of the Palestine which both currencles were legal

ghting Israel! troops seized in the Western sectors, almost all of Northern Palestine and drove over the border into Lebanon.

EDITORIAL

A

Collective Security Pact

THE essence of the Atlantic Pact is collective security, and as such can be regarded as an instrument calculated to deter aggressive action on the part of any country not a signatory to the alliance.

No attempt has been made to hide the fact that it is intended to represent a safeguard against further Soviet expansion in Europe, and while

tu

is not surprising the Russian propa- gandists are bitterly assalling the pact, it is pertinent to note that it came into being solely as a result of Soviet policy in Eastern Europe and Germany, and because of Russia's non-co-operative attitude in the United Nutions. Russia, therefore, has only herself to blame in finding opposed to her a powerful bloc of Western powers, who, while willing to concede to the Kremlin the right to apply any political doctrine it cares In its own country, are determined withstand any attempts by the Russians within the to impose their system Western hemisphere. The North Atlantic Alliance is a natural development from the Marehall Plan and the Benelux ngree. ment, serving in the first place to con. security solidate the gains to Western which those two economic and political undertakinge have so far achieved. Not Atlantic Pact in the a single article suggests aggressive designs, and so care- fully has its terms been framed that It does not violate either the spirit or the functions of the United Nations. There will be no hesitation on the part of the member states to sign, the pacl, is there likely to be any serious attempt to prevent ils ratification. It is ndmitted that the United States Con- examine gress and Senate will closely

пок

and thoroughly debate the conditions of the alliance, but as the must controversial point-the preservation of Congress's

satellites-though this

more that

under

in the

crowds hurled battles and ball bearings at the paraders and

rats. shouted: "Rats, with the rats!" or calling!"

down

"Germany

SECOND BATTLE

While patrolmen battled the Leflish mob, the Mosley men dispersed and silpped away, A few were recognised and benten The Communists by rioters. then staged a demonstration of their own.

Several speakers mounted

boxes

agreement between the

under way.

ceremon-

young

SANG : Mr Kwan Chl-yl, the Whampoa Harbour

cil.

following purposes:

INJUSTICES Australia Opposes Japan's

ECONOMIC INJUSTICES But it did not work out. The Big Three announcement said. had Iraq has never agreed public-the dual currency system

OBSERVING TRUCE

Participation In Pact

(1)

decide whether constitutional right to the country shall go to war-has been of the satisfactorily settled, the sting

A opposition has been largely removed, more important consideration is whether Russia

counter- will be stung Into action. Diplomatic observers are reported to believe that the Sorlets will intensify the "cold war" by endeavouring to foment strikes and acts of sabotage within those countries who have aligned themselves together under the terms of the Atlantic Pnet. Others foresee the of similar sort Kremlin Initiating a

between alliance

Hussin and her little could be

to armistice talks although her resulted in economic injustices. troops are observing the current Both merchants and the Wes- than window-dressing Inasmuch

and addressed the crowd Palestine truce. Saudi Arabia tern city government were re- the suffering from before the police broke up the and Yemen never took an active portedly the Communist "brotherhood" in

fact that while both curreticles Impromptu meeting. Balkans hos

part in the war against Israel. Eastern Europe and the

one West Mosteyites

text

Israell-were legal tender, of Tho rumour that through its

was not Mark was valued at four East already manifested itself

would attempt a new meeting at Lebanese agreement Tottenham Town Hall sent disclosed. It will be released at Marks.

Before completion of such a bloc voting in United Nations committees.

defeat Japan. The memory of The Three Power /announce- crowd of nearly 2,000 Tito and Yugoslavia may render 'dimcult

[surging toward the tons |Tel-Aviv and Beirut.

It was rellably learned that ment made the following points: treaty there is not a prayer nor wartime Japanese atrocities will it is conceivable,

1. Western

a forlorn hope that, Australia for a long time colour the Aus- Berliners muy a solid alliance, and

one of the thomlest' problems building.

Soviet-backed East will set down at any table with tralian attitude toward Japan

the Australians view Also, in the negotiations-the ques-possess but not probable, that, this defection, and

Several young men mounted n

Australia, however, is anxious with dark suspicion Japan's in stalled bus while their comrades tien of Syria troops on Lebanese Marks without fear of prosecu- Japan. the fait accompli of the North Atlantic

An in- let the air out of ita tyres. A soll was not mentioned in the tion. However, this money may

treaty ex- [dustrial resurgence. be used only in the Russian to see the Japan Pact, may persunde Russia into a mere

stone went through the window agreement. tractable diplomatic policy. The immu

of another bus and its passengers "In the interest of securing an sector or at places such as the pedited and this has been urged stance of this is the restriction

Soviet-controlled elevated rall-consistently by the Minister for of imports from scrambled for cover underneath.

Israel Armistice,

apparently table policy which Russia has followed

The police defended the waived her original demand that way where East Marks are ne- External

Japan's expanding population Evatt. But Australia also insiste merely had the effect of losing for her

marchers because they had ob- any agreement reached with cented..

2. Until April 19, half of the that Russia participate in the further tends to check any real wartime friends and dividing Europe into

tained offelal permission for the Lebanon also bo binding on

softening of attitudo. the

Inspired trenty. pence while It has also aroused two camps.

proposed demonstration,

Syrian unlis in Lebanese terri-rents may be paid in East Marks. 3 Taxes may be paid in East

that belleven ruggestions active dislike and distrust of the United

counter-tory, informants sald.--Associa~ | Marks untli April 30. meastires were unauthorised. ted Press. States, which should be sufficient for any nation to think twice about its future actions,

be

If the Kremlin is wise it will ndmit to itself that its truculent policy has done nothing but get Russia ostracised that it by the democratic world and can repair this damage only by joining the world councils determined to genuinely co-operative in the interests of international peace and prosperity. When are manifest, Russia will these signs once again be received into the family of nations.

A

the

Communist

the

STRIKE THREAT

oven

con

Sydney, Mar. 20—A Japanese treaty must be negotiated before Australia will sider permitting her to join any Pacific pact, it' was learned today:

Affairs, Dr Herbert talked about in Cantan

Canberra, however,

now

Japanese

German 4. Wages and salaries must the Japanese must await com- should be permitted to emigrate

and to New Guinea infuriate Aus So far as was known, Mosley

be pold 100 percent in West pletion of the

tralians who think Hokkaido himself was,not present. A key

Marks, starting Monday.

Austrian treaties,

Од Even after completion of the should Grst be exploited. 5. Rationet food in shops organiser of Mosley's group ad-

treaty Australians the other hand the Aussies are dressed the paraders before the

Hamburg, Mar, 20-Heinz may be paid for in East Marks Japanese first battle began. Mosley was

most likely will baik about interested in the recent reports Investigating founder and head of the openly Bockler, Chairman of the Trade until April 1.

today The Three Power announce Japan Joining the Pacific pact. that Japan Congress, sald pro-German, pro-Italian pre- Union

The Japanese will not like this population control.

While the national attitude is million coal ment, which did not come as a about war British Union of Fasciels. that

sald the Western but they must remember that and steel During the war he was gaoled miners

workers surprise,

would have put the Australians generally refused to unyielding there is a change of for several years as an enemy would strike if negotiations for Powers

of troilans; for instance the dis the democratisation sympathiser. In 1947 huor-wage increases of up to 30 per-reform into effect months ago accept the American assurances some in some Individual Aus-

to give timt

closure that some members of Balafactorily but they had wanted Kanised his movement, adopting cent did not end

tho United

Nations Security Japan is succeeding. prin for the workers.

The Aussics also feel they the Australian occupation force "neutrals" approximately the same

time fo bui

voled aro marrying Japanese girls. enough Ho declared that an Increase Council ciples as before the war

ths basic wages of Ruhr devise a settlement of the East do not have. avolding use of the unpopular in

was InevitableWest currency and other prob-in the occupation commensurato That shocks Australia United Fascistlich--Reuler and United |coalminers

lems in Berlin-United Press. with the price they paid to help Press, Press.

Reuter.