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Former Nazi Brownshirts Sentenced

Osnabrueck, Aug. 26.- Seventeen former Nazi Brownshirts charged with setting fire to a synagogue at Meppen and maltreating Jews during the 1038 pogroms

wero sentenced here today to prison terms ranging from six months to six years.

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SABOTAGE IN YUGOSLAVIA

LARGE OIL

REFINERY

REPORTED BLOWN UP

Belgrade, Aug. 26.-Reliable reports said to- night that Yugoslavia's largest oil refinery was blown up on Wednesday night at the Adriatic port of Rjeca (Fiume), and Cominform-directed sabo- tage was suspected.

About 10 days ago, according to persistent but unconfirmable reports; four planes of unknown Testifying before the Ger- nationality flew into Yugoslavia from the direction

Criminal Court. Paul Alexander recalled how he was forced to march througİ the lown of Meppen scantily clad while Brownshirts beat him.

Alexander told the Court that he was then dragged to the Brownshirisheadquarters and forced to crawl over broken singing Jewish Rines while

hymns.

Later, the Brownshirts threatened to shoot him but he

was released

Britain

and escaped to

Josef-Eckeala-former Nazi district leader in Meppen, was of crimes against found guilty

humanity and sentenced to six years in prison.

Three former Brownshirts re- ceived two and a half years and two other two years of im prisonment.

Ten of the accused sentenced to six months' gaol-- Reuter.

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Argentine Deputy Draws U.S. SUBMARINE

Revolver In Chamber

Buenos Aires. Aug. 28---- The Argentine Chamber of Deputies today approved the Anglo-Argentino frade' paci by 96 votes to 28 after a stormy 44-hour continuous re- sion,

Half a dozen Cabinet Ministers had defended the pact ́against violent attacks by the Opposition.

Tempers became BO frayed at one stage that a Perpuista depuly, Eduardo Colom, tried to draw a revolver. Cries of "Imbrelle" and "coward" were repeatedly heard above the bell calling the Chamber to order..

The debate began on Wednesday night, and when dawn broke today the deputies were still pleading and anarling.

The Chamber also decided by 97 votes to 20 to pass to a special committee a Radical resolution proposing the nationalisation of the Argentine petroleum industry and the establishment of a Biale monopoly.-Reuter.

of Albania and bombed the Yugoslav air force Student Tells Of

centre at Pristia, only 22 air miles from the Albanian frontier.

These reports said one that Yugoslav flak batteries Yugoslav military plane fired for four hours during was destroyed. They added the daytime assault. How- ever, the reports could not be confirmed.

Cuts In Armed Services

London, Aug. 26.-Cuts

Gere

All the reports came on the heels of the Soviel note of

measures"

August 18, which warned that

"more effective would be taken against Mar- shal Tito's government unless it stopped "persecuting" Soviet citizens.

The report of the refinery ox.. plosion said uncontrollable fires til raged. In the "United Yugo- clavia" plant, which

the

processes

Experience Under Soviet Detention

SINKS AFTER EXPLOSION

Seven Lives

Lost

In Arctic Rescue

Washington, Aug, 26.—The United States Navy submarine Cochino exploded and sank early today while on training manoeuvres in Arctic waters. All persons except one man were saved from the Cochino before it sank, but six men were lost overboard from a sister submarine during rescue operations in stormy seas.

The rescuing submarine

Helsinki, Aug. 26.—Norman Greene, British technical college student, declared tonight that he was locked in a dark room for 10 hours on being seized by Russian guards is proceeding with survivors the Tusk's crew overboard as when he wandered into Soviet territory from Finland. to the Norwegian port of Greene, who was handed back to Finnish authori-Hammerfest, the nearest ties by the Russians yesterday after almost two port where medical assist months' captivity-enid that Soviet frontier guards took ince can be given to the him for a spy.

injured.

pass

HURRICANE

HITS

FLORIDA

a sub-

Cochino.

AUSTRALIA

TO DEPORT Navy destroyer, is racing nt f38 CHINESE

BY PLANE

Mountainous seas swept 12 of

they fought to save the Cochine's survivors and six men, including one offeer, were drowned. The other six were pulled back from the sea.

The Samuel B. Roberts, a U.S.

all the crude oil that Yugoslavia He was on a cycling trip and left a note saying, 'Going The Navy did not say how speed towards Hominerfest in the staffs of Britain's imports. The plant was taken with three friends from an over the border.

mony were injured or the ex-surgeons and medical appliances "Suddenly were armed services were report over from the italians Town international students camp canie rushing up with

Russian soldier tout of their injuries.

for the wounded-United Press. been

Lite The only fatality aboard peace treaty, hnd |ed to be under consideration

greatly expanded by the Yugo when he disappeared.

machine gun, shouting, Stoy Cochino, whose normal comple- TUSK IN HAMMERFEST today, as part of a new ecoslav Government and was the He told a reporter: "WeChatt). He fired a shot in the ment is 85 officers and men, was

only modern Yugoslav refinery.meant to ask a guard if we could air and five other soldiers come civilian, technleinn Haned Hammerfest, Norway, Aug, 20. Sydney, Aug. 20,- The. nomy drive.

American along the actual frontier up. They searched me and took Robert Philo. The other FIX The

submarine Commonwealth Immigra Civil and

SHIP SET ON FIRE service personel

line. I went ahead of the others my. belongings-a box of victims

were members of the Tusk arrived in Hammerfest to- tion Department has char- employed during the war on a

Simultaneously, it was learn- temporary basis and now sur ed from responsible sources

maiches, threepence halfpenny, crew of the submarine Tusk, day after carrying out a darlag tered and two Finnish marks,

a plane to take 38 which had pulled alongside the rescue operation in Aretle waters Chinese, claimed to be pro- plus to ministerial requirements, that the 8,000-ton Partizanca,

These men were to savu the crew of the are expected to be affected.

Yugoslavia's largest ship, was

BLINDFOLDED

swept from the deck of the Tusk explosion-wrecked submarine hibited immigrants, to The Air Ministry said that its

severely damaged when it was

"They blindfolded me and by heavy seas during the opern- Cochino,

Hongkong tomorrow, Sun- reductions

being were

set on fire in Split two weeks

brought me to a hut. Theretions. in connection with a

The government hus upo.

was locked in a dark room for 10

Five crew members of the day, usually reliable sources report from a six-mon com started an investigation, but so

hours.

COLD WATER TRAINING Tusk were treated at Hammer stated, hera today, the mitice, appointed a year ago, to far no report has been muc

"Next morning I was again

fest general hospital for in-

The Chinese were arrested in Air Ministry or- on what also is suspected 419

blindfolded and laken about First details sald ar ex-juries. One of the men was said the first big drive to deport London, Aug. 20.-Notice of review the

30 miles in a truck. When the plosion aboard the Cochino oc to be seriously injured, but the about.. 800 wartime refugees a receiving order in bankruptcy ganisation and recommend im sabotage.

Three trains have been

scarf was removed from my curred and was followed by others had sustained only slight under the provisions of the Com was given here tonight against provements,

The Air Ministry spokesman destroyed in the past month in Palm

The Deach, Florida, Aug. of prison barracks

eyes I found myself in a sort re.

Navy otherwise

said Solomon Wulkand,

the injuries in the explosion come monwealth Government's War- was umble to confirm the the same Adriatle

Cochino area. On 20-A hurricane

anct Tusk, together 150 miles off the Sidney Stanley, who disappear-

Norwegian time Refugees Removal Act, every five

The ed

Interrogation

which makes alleas who entered Britnin from

enrlier this ports that one In

Monday night Togor Yujasino- the rich Florida gold coast along the

started with the submarines Toro and const, in Arctic waters. would be dismissed.

Minister of Railways,

next morning At a 40-mile

nve Corsair, left the zubmarine year and turned up in Israel.

An American surgeon was re- | Australia during the war liable An Admiralty statement said:vic,

stretch of shoreline o'clock, Grst by a woman who base at New London, Comice ported to be en route to Ham-to deportation He was a leading witness be-

on from Fort Lauderdale men to be reductions, possibly which

in "Some tribunal fore

"sabotage." He Beach today. Shortly

Iminigration officers aro efore spoke English badly and then ticut, on July 18 for a Trans-mortest by plane from Oslo to

cruise vestigated alleged

und aid in treating the wounded ported to be still rounding up corruption among both uniformed and civi-the

Han personnel, are likely, but it said the Cominform campal dark, winds of 90 miles on itour by another who spoke fluently. atlantic training

United Press. British Government offices.

visit to London-

Chinese for deportation but they crashing was asked everything about an informal waves tical attack and then was folent

myself from the time of

Ireland. They

have my

were The ofllelal hotice described too early yet to say where the which had begun with a poli-

derry, reductions will be made."

birth economile-blockade, against the fabulous homes and A War Office spokesman-ex-lowed-by- Stanley as all agent and said

plush seaside hotels ̄ ̄ ̄of this

engaged-in-cold-water training. that his present place of re-plained to a reporter that the had failed and nowadays we push

home spasum

"Sometimes they would talk exercises in the Arctic at the the Ridence could not be ascertain-return to peacetime conditions can expect sabotage."United Winte

polilles for half an hour and time of the accident. wealthy.

then suddenly shoot a question The hurricane took its ed by the petitioning creditors. had ended the need for army

Arst

at me, Stanley announced

TITO DENOUNCED

a Sydney In Haifa welfare officers, who were re-

Life in Malmi, where its winds

said that ho would in May that he has changed tired men doing a voluntary

San Francisco, Aug. 20.-The were weaker. Andrew Johnk-

men wounded in the explosion as the Commonwealth Crown of the Schlong

Chinese Communist Radio de-man was drowned when he at League for a short time, but exact his

Young Communist Ben

not give the of its sister submarine, Cochino, Solicitor's Department on Sun- Chalm.

He said that their dismissal nounced Marshal Tito tonight tempted to

the catas- secure his

the Tusk's commanding officer at until the Australian High small

morning to prevent tho wns now A first dividend of five shillings was not directly related to the necusing the Yugoslav leader of bont in a 50-mile gate.

non-political. This trophe, but said Hammerfest said tonight. seemed to make

flight in the Pound Sterling on a 1927 dollar

would not travelling the

the nearest crials and

a good im- was road us The storm moved inland at a

purt where

Court could deal with a legal pression.

inodical assistance could be

Speaking by telephone from bankruptcy was announced 1 lead to any great ravings.

Chiang Kai-shek.

speed of 18-20 miles an hour,

"After three weeks of Inter-

the given

remote Hammerfest, Commander action to test the validity of the April £ fortnight after he No question

The broadcast heard in San headed in of big service

a west-north-west sald "Tito is sittingdirection-United Press.

rogation I was left alone in my vanished from his luxury tint

The 1,525-ton Coclting, the Robert K. R. Worthington said deportations. cuts or of any change in the Francisco,

cell, and the great boredom Arst U.S. submarine lost since dan merfest by plane that the purpose of the

an American surgeon had

Mr Mosley gave the opinion in Park Lane, London-Beu-government's conscription policy on 12 volcano." Associated

World

War II. was built in had arisen, he added.-Reuter Press.

WROTE TWO LETTERS August 1945. The Cochino and

from Oslo. He will board the migration Department's

to defeat legal action to "I was given half an hour's Tusk were ships of the Balao Tusk and care for the wounded. was

The submarine's destination allow the Chinese to remain in exercise every day behind a class and were

Snorkel

was not given--United Press- . "guppy"

Australia-Reuter. alockade which had been speel- ally built round the barracks. before completion. The Cochino's "I amused myself in my cell skipper, Li-Caidr R. Benitez

in

tor.

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to

EDITORIAL

Job

wurned all rail the alert for

Press.

Southeast Asia Union

NATIONALIST

09

· CHINA and South. Koren are apparently to be dropped from the plan to establish 罷 regional bloc of anti-Communist states originally broached at Baguio Inst month. General Romulo, the Philippines representative to the United Nations, whom President Quirino has delegnied to prepare the groundwork of the plan and to sound out Interested nations, 'prefers to call the states to be so aligned the Southeast Asia Union. In his address to the University of the Philip pines two days ago, when ho outlined

his conception of the proposed · Union, never once did he mention Nationalist China, one of the two originators—with the Philippines-of the plon. It may bo recalled that during his recent trip to Washington, President Quirino found his. original Pacific Union plan met with only.cool reception, From various Ameri-. can statements since, and from. Generat Romulo's studious avoidance of the mention of China. It may fairly be assumed that, Philippino officials have, taken the hint and are prepared to restrict the grouping forming the Union In order to obtain the backing of the United States. General Romulo states that the proposed Union, on which ho will sound out the countries concerned when he returns to Lake Success, would ́extend from" New Zealand to Pakistan. The area covered is certainly - extensive, but one need only recall the plan of | conquest = put into operation · by tha Japanese during the last war to see how India and Pakistan, on the one alde, and

samo

Australia and New Zealand, on the other, can be closely connected with develop. ments in the central part of the are the real Southeast Asin aren comprising Indonesia, Borneo, the Philippines, Indo- In this China, Malayn, Slam and Burma core, Communism has gained more than a toe-hold, only Borneo being free from Communist activity. The pattern of Communist infltration in this area is identical with the Japanese plan of Imperialist expansion. It is an octopus, with China as the body and tentacles extended throughout Southeast Asin. It is intended that the new Union should operate within the framework of the United Nations. Regional groupings are perfectly legal under the United Nations But this particular grouping Charter.

is vastly different, for example, from the nations subscribing to the Atlantic Fact -It is an area of mostly poor and backward peoples just emerging from colonial status to newly-won freedom. Economically, however, it is a rich arca. If ils resources could ba developed in such a way, under United Nations sponsorship and with the backing of the United States and Britain, as to raise the general living standard, much of the present discontent, on which Communism has thrived, will ' disappear." Such an enlightened economie programma will be more effective thanmilltary action, In the long run, to contain Communism In the area, and gradually to reduce it to Impotence..

huge

roared Into

to Palm

of

BURMA PLANES IN ACTION

The

remainder

rc-

refused to disclose tho

of

the

DOCTOR ARRIVES

Oslo. Aug. 20.-The submarine Tusk will leave Ham- merfest, on the Norwegian

number arrested.

U.S.

LEGAL ACTION

Mr C. Mosley,

"1 old then I was a member Chino's crew aro aboard the Arctic coast, tomorrow with the solicitor,

began.

The Navy did

location of

injured.

converted to submarines

Itangoon, Aug. 26-Burma by cn.ching mice. I got tince. of Puerto Rico, was executiva

Army Radio reported tonight that Burma

Force planes

.

battle of the

"The guards gave me an officer of the submarine Daco bombed and strated the Bans English dictionary and some when it sank a Japanese cruiser I wan magazines.

second allowed to in the stronghold at Tantabin, infilet-write two letters to my parents Philippines. Ing heavy casualties on the

but I do rebels.

not know if they Earl'er, the Radio had report-arrived. I was not allowed to ed the reoccupation by Gavern-write to the British Embassy in ment troops of Zigon which is Moscow,

no

FUMES IGNITED Navy experts said the blast probably

from a spark which ignited highly vola.ile

from fumes

the Cochino's batteries,

waves

como

wero

In the Myitkyina district about "Tho Russians sald they 350 miles north of Mandalay on

would

contact the Embassy the trunk railway. It is also themselves, but when I asked Just a few miles from the Chin- tor results they said there was Commander E. Shepard, of ese border.

erday I was taken to the

naval

headquarters said: "If the Twenty insurgents were kill-

to big enough ed in another clash, in the dis-border without being blind-wego men off the Tusk, I don't trict.--Reuter.

folded, and handed over to the sweep Finns. Both the Russians and see how they were able to get the Finns treated me well." all survivors off the Cochino, i mula The British Consulate in liel-If you have to abandon sinki is arranging his passage In Heavy seas, I cannot think of home, but he will have to stay a harder

to got

Economic Mission

To Near East

Lake

Success, Aug. 20——Mr R. Gordon Clapp, chairman of tho Tennessee Valley. Authority Board, has been appointed head the newly ercated Econo- mic Commission set up by the Palestine Conciliation Com---

mission.

Reuter.

thing that in Helsinkl until the Finns have aboard another submarine." prosecuted him for illegally The normal complement of crossing the border-Reuter.

the Cochino is 85 officers und men, but n Navy spokesman soft. oight officers and 70 en- llated men were aboard when

to CHINA MAY GO the submarine called from New

BEFORE U.N.

'London.

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Washington,

The teathing cruise was part Tho announcement of Mr

Aug. 28-The Chinese Ambassador, Dr of the postwar Navy pro Clapp's appointment was made today by Mr Trygve Lie, United Wellington Koo, said today that cramme of indoctrinating men Nations Secretary-General his Government was considering of its submarine fleet in cold

bringing China's civil war crisis water operations. before the United Nations.

The Cochino's battery room, occurred, Dr Koo mall the matter had where the explosion been under consideration by his contained an undisclosed num Sir Harry Lauder

Government for

about two ber of batteries each four feet months, but no decision had high and about one and a half Is Weaker.

been reached.

feet wide, Cmdr. Shepard said Strathaven, Scotland, Aug. The Ambassador talked to.ro-when the batteries were being 20 Sir Harry Lauder, 70-year porters following a 30-minute charged they gave off hydrogen. old Beolab comedian who is conference with tho Deputy which became "highly explosive gravely ill at his home here, Under-Secretary of State, Mr ut concentrations of thros per- [becamo; slightly weaker today. Dean Rusk. He would only cent or more. IIe supposed the

Ile is suffering from cerebral say: "We had a general ex- Cochino was recharging batteries. TEL 3120) thrombosis And uracla change of views on the situation at the time of the blast and had Teuter.

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