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NEW FIRES SAID SPRINGING UP IN BORDEAUX AREA

Pais, Aug. 23. - Rain clouds broke over flame-swept forest lands southwest of Bordeaux today, bringing hope to weary, smoke-blackened firefighters of the end of their three-day battle against the disastrous runaway blaze.

But new fires are said to be springing up after travelling unseen through the undergrowth, and the battle is expected to last several more days.

Rain mutted the pine-ash graveyard of scores of vil-

Von Mansteinagers and firefighters who

War Crimes Trial Opens

Hamburg, Aug, 23.-The British Court trying Field Marshal Fritz Erich Von Manstein on war crimes charges today rejected a defence submission that the

Court was not competent to deal with the cane,

when a 30-metro wall

of fame turned almost 60,000 hectares of the forest Into a wilderness of scorched earth and blackened stumps.

Troops and civilians are keeping up their search for vic- ปรกส

Newspapers Fet the death roll at 80, with 158 missing. The Prefect of Gironde timated that 84 people died in hi Department,

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eight ravaged by fire.

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of the

Bodies are found every hour but a great inany people are helieved to have been complete- 17-ly cremated. Von Manstein faces a charge indletment, and defence counsel had argued that he was entitled os a prisoner of war to trial by court martial.

The

The end of the long drought danger of fresh lessened the outbreaks.

Fresh reinforcements of men equipment are on their Both the prosecuting and de- and fending counsel agreed that it way to the southwest.

GOVERNMENT AID was the first time British court had been asked to decide

French Premier, AT. on the validity of the Royal Henri Queuille, will confer Warrant governing war crimes with members of Parliament triate.

from the Glonde and Landes Defending, Mr Reginald Department next week on Pagel, King's Counsel and L-Ve INCAKUPCA. Bour Member of Parliament,! The Government has already claimed that the Royal Warrani derided

Krant 100,000,000 denied Alanstein the protection]

damage

to ald.

Hou francs of the laws of evidence, con-| One report assessed fronting him with documents at 1,000,000,000 franes, he had never seen

and testimony t taken behind his boelt.

"If such things happened in a criminal court in England, thej High Court would qual tho proceedings ag gros miscar- riage of Justice," be sold.

raisers.

made

Tribunals in the ravaged areas have instructions to deal "quick- and drastically" with re- Four more arrests were de yesterday. Thousands

of troops, reservists, villagers and Aremen have LOST STATUS

fought the flames since Saturday. The barrowing tales they tell fill "After four years," Mr Paget columns in French newspapers. continued, "there is not a shred One man ved himself by bur- of justification for denying rowing Into the

sand Seven Manstein what you would give bodies were found heaped near to the meanest sneak thief." the Bordeaux-Bayonne

The Prosecutor, Sir Arthur One man had gnawed his fists Comyn Carr, submitted that the in agony, 01-year-old lost his status as a prisoner of

commander

Ind

road.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1949.

German

Elections

Voters mark their ballots in a Frankfurt polling bureau as the West German Republic held His first elec. tions. The conservative Christian Democratic Union

Parly topped the voting. (AP Picture).

Strong Yugoslav Reply To Russia

Belgrade, Aug, 23.--Yugoslavia told Russia in official note, today that it was "under no condition willing to allow anyone whosoever to interfere in her internal affairs."

ORIENTAL STUDENTS

Ministered To By

Polish Government Attitude Towards Church Stated

Warsaw, Aug. 23.-The Polish Government does not intend to interfero in the internal affairs of tho Church in matters relating exclusively to doctrina and belief, the pro-Government Catholic daily, the Slowo Powszechne, said today..

4

The newspaper, which is should have the support of often a medium for inspired every loyal Polo. comment on Catholle mat- The Slowo Powszechno ters, was making the first announcement was interpreted disclosure of the exact here as an attempt to soothe nature of the negotiations public opinion and rensure the being held in Poland bo-body of the Catholle clergy that recent measures threatening tween the Government and heavy penalties for the "abuso" Church lenders.

Appealing to Poles to study the present deadlock between the Church patriotic and

ot religious freedom do not signal the start of a manoeuvra to destroy Lie traditional structure of the Catholic Church and sinie in in Poland. Reuler.

dispassionato manner, Slowo Powszochine m declared that the Pollsh Govern nient recognised the funda- mental schlem between the Catholle and Communist philosophies.

"All conceptions of a national Catholic Church in Poland are only provocative nonsense," the newspaper said. It added: "But the Polish bishops cannot have relations with the Anglo-Saxon; world, whether that should bo

London Washington,

in

Rome."

TWO MATTERS

of-

The only principle which the thal Church must observe is

the Cutholic Episeopate should its Lehaviour tig- regulate

modern Polikl cording Lo raison d'etat.

According to the Slowd Powszechne, this incans the, Church and Government must

net on only two matters:

1. The Church must not contribute to strengthen inter- national policy. opposing Poland's retention of her new

many.

2. The

Church

must

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Yugoslav

Communists Liverpool, Aug. 28.-Tho MAYOR KILLED

Bishop of Liverpool said to In Cestas, where 200 houses day that Negro and Oriental war, having been brought back were burned to cinders, a wn- students arriving in England to Germany in August 1943, and man recognised the charred re-are being met at the docks discharged from the Wehrmacht.mains of her husband by some Manstein, the 38th and last keys, and wandered through the

by Communist glad-handers. German to

come before

streets

remains carrying his British War Crimes

Court, which were wrapped up in

As a result, the Bishop sald, charged with killing Russian

many of them are "well on the Communist prisoners and Poles, murdering newspaper, one report said,

way to becoming While coins are piled up in a missionaries" when they start soldiers and civilians by starva-

corner of Cestus Square. tion and discase, systematically

home to Africa, India and The badly burned village of China. exterminating Jews and gypsies

Sarcats, near Bordeaux, was and devastating entire regions during "scorched earth" retreats.are this afternoon during the Martin, declared:

agata three-quarters ringed by The Bishop, Dr CHiford "good will". Yugoslavia pre-

-Router.

Ex-Hagana

Officer To Be Tried

is

funeral of the Mayor, M. Jean

"They might return as mis Giraudeau, who was killed while fighting

He bassionaries of the Christina way of the, fumes.

lile if church people

| been posthumously awarded the

Legion of Honour-Reuter.

KILLED IN FIT OF PASSION

their cause."

dock

RELEASING PRISONERS

The

note said Yugoslavia would, repatriate all Russians in Yugoslav custody as a sign of

mided to release imprisoned

"However, the government

ATTEMPT TO SOOTHE

The Government,

it said, was only neting to gain Catholle matters which agreement on

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At 2.30, 5.15. &

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"White Gua

Guards" despite their Abdullah of Jordan is to- undeniable gulit."

right the guest at dinner of of the Federal People's Repub- the Foreign Secretary, Mr cilles served the cause of Christic of Yugoslavia considers to Ernest Bevin, at his private |-“A-STOLEN -LIFE” with the same vision and devo-its duty to emphasise that it is residence in Carlton Gar- tion as the Communists servo an independent sovereign state

dens, London, the Foreign, and that its peoples and ita

* SHOWING The Bishop made his observa-government ure, under no con- Oflice spokesman announced. Diplomatic quarters here cx- tions in the September issue or dition, willing to allow anyone

and Mr his dioecsan lendlet.

whosoever to interfere in their peet. King Abdullah internal affairs.

Bevin to continue the private Tel-Aviv, Aug. 23-Lt-

"Further, the Yugoslav He said Communist agent

which they had conversation Col Isser Beeri, former in-old Wilhelm Fromin was sent to meets the lonely visitors as they vernment also underlines that yesterday in the king's suite in from outside has his London Hotel. This is bo- telligence chief of the prison for three years here to come off the ship, "takes them to pressure

herleved to cover irrigation and Jewish .'defence force, day after confessing

home and gives them a friendly ro far had any effect to killing

for Jordan Hagana, was today com-Johann Steincek, 83, in a fit

of passion after a lover's quar-nre most alone,“ mitted for trial. before

rel." District Court on a man- A Germon court in the Soviet before these young folk meet s slaughter charge.

Berlin, Aug. 23-Sixty-your-

Vil

Go-

welcome and shriter when they internal polley, nor will it have development plans

in future."

It may be weeks or months

as well as the future of Arabs in Palestine, which King Ab- The 400-word Yugoslav noto dullah is known to wish to in-

HARD PAST

sector, which passed this sen- Christian family, and when this was handed to correspondents corporate into the territory of An examining magistrate at fence, found "extenuating cir- does happen they are not always by the Government press office Jordan

the reception

Itchyoth

found today

there was a case to answer on

that cumstances,"

Evidence Wha given manslaughter Fromm hit Steineck over head with

Melr Toblunski,

л hammer. After

a charge of the Captain executed by a firing squad on keeping her body in his room. found June 20, 1948, after conviction for three days, he was

martial.

encouraged by

For

the afternoon. It was King Abdullah today visited Army school at restrained in contrast to what the British that they receive," he added. Asso-Tate in

Wiltshire. Ac- the clated Press,

Yougoslavia has described as the Warminster,

Glubb "insulting, harsh and unfounded companied by Colonel

of the Arab in the Russian note. Pasha, builder charges" The Government sold It was Legion, the King watched in- "surprised" that the arrest of a fantry demonstrating their At- "few White Guards who areness to fight over difficult ter- Soviet citizens, people with a ruin hard past who have violated the Highlights of his visit came

the when tho laws and hospitality of

men went over the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia," gruelling assault course, Dublin, Aug. 23-A cheque could touch off "such an angry for US$80,000 from

GUESTS AT DINNER Francia note"-Unlied Press.

of treason by summary courty the woman's son, sitting un- conselous in a chair with a gas Colonel Beeri was one of the tube in his mouth.-Router.

members of this court martial, which sentenced Tobianski for alleged espionage during the

shelling of Jewish Jerusalem

May-June, 1948.

12

in

After months of investigation,

A

Red Saboteurs Sentenced

Cheque

Maynooth

Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop i

Athens, Aug. 23. The Greek

of New York, for the Maynooth:

gool terms and acquitted 20 in

The

At tonight's dinner, King Abdullah will be necompanied

the Israeli Prime Minister, Mr military court at Florina today Theological College restoration David Ben-Gurion, declared the sentenced 55 persons to death, fund, was handed over today at SAIGON GANG by his son, Prince Nalf, by the court

martial

judgment to life imprisonment, 20 to Maynooth, County Kildare. "erroneous"

"deplorable miscarriage of justice".

Two months ago Tobianski munist saboteurs. was posthumously promoted to) major and re-interred with those sentenced military honours-Reuter.. United Press.

to

day

оп

Jordanian Cabinet Ministers at in London and Parla and Major-General John Glubb the mass trial of alleged Com John F. Daltor, Archer LED BY WOMAN present

Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ire-

Saigon, Aug. 23.-A woman Pasha, Commander of the Arab Three women were among land, by the Rt Rev. Monsignor dressed in black and wearing'n

Legion.

Among the British guests in- death John Carrigan.

Since its foundation in 1705, beret was the leader of a gang vited were Mr Hector McNeil, daggers, bombs Minister of State, Sir, William Maynooth College has trained armed with

Permanent

Under over 10,000. priests for dioceses and revolvers who assassinated Stran in Ireland, America, China and two Vietnam civil servants, In Secretary at the Foreign Office, Kirkbride, British Africa. Last March, Pope Plus their home at Phun Huan; Sir Alex

Sunday Minister to Jordan and Servico Ecut a donation towards its ex- Saigon suburb;

night, the police here stated to chiefs, Field Marshal Sir Wil- tension-Reuter.

Ham Stim, Chief of the Im- The victima were members perial General Staff, and Mar of the Vietnam Information and chal of the Royal Air Force Lord Tedder, Chief of the Air The bodies of four ather Staff.-Router. Vietnam citizens, with dogger wounds in their stomacho, were yesterday found lying Miami, Florida, Aug. 23 outside the house of the mur- The first Atlantic hurricane of dered civil servants. The Iden

has veored north-ities of the new victims were ward and 'is expected to para

not disclosed.-Reuter. the Florida coast. The United said States Weather 'Bureau

today that

cls- tho carly turbances, with winds up to 100 milee an hour, was about 300 cust of Melbourne.

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Death Of Panama carthquake has mounted to 137.

President

'Ankara, Aug. 23.-The dealh

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Anatolian

the Intent figures according, to reported today by the semi- official Turkish news agency,

"The number of persons gravely

Panama City, Aug. 23-Senor was moving a" northerly direction

at Domingo Dinz, Arosemena, Injured is 956. Houses completely hour, but Liberal President of Panama destroyed number 1.500 and about 13 miles an

forecasters estimated since last August, died today partially destroyed 1,304, .... storm

movement in hospital.

The earthquake struck the today and He is being succeeded by Erzerum region last Thursday.

|| Senor Chanis-Beulor,

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