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VOL. IV NO. 204

Surprise Move At German Zonal Border

Frankfurt, Aug. 29.-For the first time since the war the Anglo-Russian zonal border at Luebeck, from Soviet- separating Schleswig-Holstein occupied Mecklenburg, was wide open last week-end for 24 hours.

People crossing the border said that the Soviet troops had been withdrawn over a wide part of the zonal border into the interior of Mecklenburg. But today the guards were replaced by large forces of German police, according to people crossing the border.

Crowds streamed over also a puzzle to the few Soviet policemen controlling into the British zone at the zone

tradle at the offelal crossing week-end. One of them

point at Luebeck-Eichholz. burned the turnpike at the Official reports say that the former crossing point at number of Soviet zone police- Rothenhausen and danced men deserting into the British

zone is constantly growing. round the flames.

In the past two weeks, The withdrawal of thepeople's policemen" were de- Russian frontier guards from tained near Luebeck the zonal border at Luebeck illegally crossing into Schleswig- was not only a surprise for the Holstein. Western zone froniler police-

ENTRY REFUSED It but, apparently, men,

waj

TITO BLOC

IN CHINA

SHANGHAI SAYS

19

when

All said that they had Ned from the Soviet zone because they feared that they would be recruited for the Greek guerilla forces or because they could no longer stand

and what they described as the inhuman treatment by Soviet

zone pollee of people crossing the border.

the

Near Hof, Bavaria, In American zone of Germany

Russian sentries at the offelal; crossing point ni Guthenfuerst IMPOSSIBLE have refused entry into the

Soviet zone 10

In the about

past three

Shanghai, Aug. 29-Anavellers

Цруб.

150

-editorial today In the The Russian sentries tore up Emancipation Dally asserted the Identification papers Di that the formation of a some women, they added.

Czechoslovak troops "Tito bloc" in China within

and workers' columns

busy

with

arc

to

Bavaria, according riving in Hof today. Czech political refugees ar-

or outside the Communist scaling off the common border Party is not possible. It warned, however, that "wo must awaken to serious possible effects of the line taken by Marshal Tito."

Czecho-

TUESDAY, AUGUST 80, 1949.

ATTEMPT ON FATHER'S RECORD

Donald Campbell drives the Bluebird II at 135.34 miles an hour on Lake Coniston, England, In a futile attempt to break the water speed record of 141.74 made by his father, the Inte Sir Malcolm Campbell, in 1939. (AP Picture)

Soviets Concentrating

Dine

At the

For

P.G.

Reservations

Price 20 Cents

Tel: 27880

Effect Of Dollar Shortage On

Far East Defence

SERVICE CHIEFS CALLED TO CABINET MEETING

(By OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)

LONDON, AUG. 29.—THE BRITISH CABINET, MEETING TODAY AT NO. 10 DOWNING STREET, DISCUSSED THE EFFECT OF THE DOLLAR SHORTAGE ON BRITAIN'S MILI- TARY COMMITMENTS IN THE FAR EAST.

The Chiefs of the three Fighting Services were called to Downing Street this evening as the meeting entered its most critical stage.

On Crisis In Balkans BIG BATTLE

London, Aug. 29.-Highly-placed experts on Russian affairs said tonight that the Soviet Union had relaxed activity in Europe to concen- trate on the deepening crisis in her Balkan empire. The shift in emphasis was said to be the immediate result of the rift between the Kremlin and Communism's bad boy, Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia.

Experts pointed to the

MAHARAJAH'S Sofia meeting of the Comin-

SECRET

MARRIAGE

form countries as evidence that Moscow was determined to dispose of her Yugoslav "problem" na вoon as pos- sible.

-

IMMINENT

IN BOLIVIA

Bevin To Confer With Government at La Paz, the

Acheson

capital.

continue to send men and mate-;

1. A modification, not of tariffs themselves, but of the

9. Conditional release of Bri- tain from Acticio of the 1940 Anglo-American -- Joan......... agreem ment, which forbids trading dis- ermination against the United States.

The Foreign Secretary,| Measures which it is suf- Mr Ernest Bevin, is under sested could be taken without reference to Congress include stood to have told the the following: Cabinet that present mili- tary commitments in the Far East, which obligé administration of existing Units. Britain to keep large re-ed States tariffs, and Customs serves of troops in Hong errangements so as to caso the kong and Malaya, were too position of Sterling exporters.

Certain declatons to stock- Buenos Aires, Aug. 29-costly for Britain to bear

plle raw materials at present A decisive battle was today alone..

either not being purchased by believed to be imminent at He is believed to favour mük-America from the Sterling Area, Cochabamba, second city of Ing a forthright statement to the or being bought at very low Bolivia and major strong- United States that Britain cannot prices. point held by the Nationalrials to act as a bulwark against Revolutionary Movement Communiam, without ald. which has risen against the

CRIPPS PLAN- London, Aug. 28, The Bel- lish case for the Washington dollar-sterling crisis talks was OVERSEAS INVESTMENTS Another sign of the changed

Faced with a rebel threat to completed today when . the Moscow approach to European

bomb La Paz, Bolivian Air British Cabinel gave unanimous They said that nii streets and

Proposals that would assist to Sir Stafford Innes leading from

the under-developed territories London, Aug. 29. The affairs was seen in the decreased

Force planes yesterday raided endorsement Soviet

pressure against Turkey

New York, Aug. 20. Mr Cochabamba airfield for

Cripps's proposals for a the

solu- of the Sterling Area to raise tion. slovakia to Bavarin were being 26-year-old Maharajah of

and Iron. There have been Dean Acheson and Mr second time since the revolt mined ostensibly Ho prevent Jodhpur, former ruler of hints that Russ

No further Cabinet meetings stood to figure prominently la

their standard of life are under will not at the Chinese people study more border

The editorial suggested that Czechs and Slovaks resettled in 2,000,000 people, secretly present press for revision of the Ernest Bevin have agreed to broke out early on Saturday.

were expected here. after the war married a young Scots girl areas

Britain's case for long-term to follow the Washington dollar 1930 Montreux

Sir The rebels were today stated Marxism

Stafford, Who n better taking to obtain

solution the dollar-sterling understanding of the Mao Tre-them--by road-in-a-possible last September, it was re-give voice on entry of ships into talks with a detailed review to be holding important public Chancellor of the Exchequer, son of the

"the"Dardanelles." tung's call for "leaning to one night to the West."

vealed here today.

of all urgent political ques-buildings--in Cochabamba and Mr Ernest Bevine

América Is expected to bo well as the airfield and to be Foreign Minister, leave on the was considered ย The marriago became known ties rather than abandonment of States and Britain, the New in its barracks.

change in

In actions facing the United besleging the loyalist garrison Mauretania on Wednesday for asked to increase oversees - through tho visit of the Moscow's long-term objectives.

Washington where the talks will vestment in such Sterling Area Meanwhile, the New China

Maharajah's wife to her brother, As further evidence of the York Times reported today,

begin

on September 7.

countries, and also to consider News Agency released the trang-

Troops sent by the Govern- trench

The "Big Three-Sir Stafford arrangements that would enable lation of the American White dug by Czech troops only a few

was being traveller, i the Staffordshire

hire perts listed Moscow's apparent don

Mr sides.

(Britain), Mr John such countries to export their correspondent, Paper on China and also the text

of Stoke-on-Trent,

acquiescence at present in the

Snyder of U. S. Secretary

of State yards from the Rehau-Neuhau- The

and reasonable Douglas Abbott (Canada)-will former Miss McBride fading Soviet influence in Iran, James Reston, sen_highway, and that similar Acheson's letter of

of transmittal

works were being earried out arrived in a big hired car from her lack of activity in the ro An all along

will be a gap of only the Czech-Bavarian London, wearing flowing Indian cent Communist-staged strikes The Agency accompanied the border.

robes and accompanied by In-in Finland and the go-easy tac-Washington, to follow the dollar have been suppressed by local tween remedial action which text with new blasts against

ference to the United States the economie "Big Threo" and Bavarian border police stated din servants to stay last night tics of Communists in Western talks, would include a survey of garrisons with the aid of the could be agreed without re- dve days between the meeting of the United States, charging that that two Czech planes of the at her brother's home.

Europe, mainly France

Congress and the situation, not only in Ger- people.

and that which can the meeting of the International but many and Austria,

Id the Unlied States Goverment German

The Maharajah and his wife, Italy,

Monetary

Bir Messerschmidt - 109

Fund, The National Revolutionary not.

which "absurdly belled the victory of fighter type crossed the border who is described in the hotel

Yugoslavia and China as well,

Movement, which had the sup- Observers point out that in Stafford and Mr Snyder will Mr Reston said,

attent .or the Chinese people into on Saturday

national directors. and circled for list as the Maharance,

officers, retired considering short-term remedies arrived at

port of army

The crux of the crisis to be Soviet domination of China." It several minutes over the Claridges Hotel in London on

"It would also touch on the after the collapse of its regime this distinction is vital, added that this conclusion of Bavarian

Reference to Congress on a examined in Washington in the town of Renau at a Friday. They

occupying facts resulted from America height between 1,200 and 3,000 a first Bloor suite, and

distribution of arms, if any, wh-in July 1946, when its leader, are looking at the world from the feet. before returning in the booked to stay for about two on the Balkans and on a settleder, the United States military Fresident Villaroel, was hanged controversial subject, and the rapid run-down of the gold and atandpoint of her own "Im-direction of Asch, a few miles weeka.

ment" of the Yugoslav "heresy", assistance programme, and the from a lamp post by a mob in period of education of opinion dollar reserves of the Sterling

belleve, organisation of the machinery

The present leader, necessarily preceding it. would Area. perialistic experience.”—United across the border

These tactles, experts

Paz Estensoro, in rule out effective action before necessary would Involve:

to administer the

next summer. PICSS,

Uruguay-Reuter, 1. Tightening

Moscow's North Atlantic treaty. of grip on satellite countries through

further a series of

ske" to avert the birth of any "Tilvism in China.

to President Truman.

EDITORIAL

their belongings with

TRENCH DUG

ant!-tank

convention

However,

is

They also said that a huge Mr D. McBride, a comunercial { change in Russian tactics, ex-in a dispatch from its Lon-ment were closing in from two Cripps flied States) and Mr | doline-earning producia

slovakia.-Routers

town

Uldial

дра

in Czecho-

The Maharajah succeeded his father in 1947.—Reuter,

Four Years After

THE entry of Admiral Harcourt's task force into harbout four years ago today ended three years and eight months of enemy occupational rule-a dark chapter of misery and suffering, of physien! us

well

Today ns mental enslavement. Hongkong remembers its liberation-the bringing of succour and the restoration of liberty and hope. Much has been accomplished in the Intervening four

years.

In trade the Colony's life force the resulta achieved have been remarkable, for surpassing__„the roulest expectations possible immediately after the war. In other ways, too, Hongkong has made progress. Prewar prejudlees which split and estranged classes and communities have, to some degree, been broken down. The Government has followed a much more Iberal "polley: among notable changes are' (1) making #advancement to formerly "closed" posts In the clyft service open to all who show. nbility and merit," and (2) opening formerly "reserved” schools to children ́of, áll, råces, Business frois have not Tagged behind in this respect, and many, people who in the old days would have found it hard to get to the top, despite qualifications, and fitness, now occupy high positions of responsibility and trust. We now have women Jurors and justices

LIKELY TACTICS

Soviet attention is expected to centre, during the months ahead,

purges of administration and i ormy posts.

2. Closer economic

Simultaneous risings in

agenda, approved by towns were offelally stated to have to draw distinctions be-outer.

four

nuve

PARALLEL POLICY

"For the past two or three ties with years, Britain has left the in- Cominform members, aiming at to the United States, but the itiative on the China problem synchronising their economies feeling here now is that the do- with the Soviet five-year plan.

munial

Heuter.

La Paz. Victor

Finnish Factories

At Standstill

wages policy.

by

a

dismissed" ultimatum to the

at a

A main cause is the recent drop in the Area's exports to the dollar confrina

Britain, banker of the whole Sterling Area, is chiefly affected, but the crisis affects also every Commonwealth country.

varying degrees, and its reper- cussions aro felt not only in European and other nations, but of the peace; women also serve on ofleinl

terioration or the situation now

in the dollar countries as well, committees. On the other hand, much

3. Development of a system call for a review of the

Ailled that should have been done in these four

of triangular trade transactions

POSITIVE IDEAS between Russia and the satel- position la relation to the Com- years has been left undone. No serious

Helsinki, Aug. 29.--Finland's largest factorios engaged]

The "Big Three" will first advances in south China, lites to Increase

with exchanges

at Van agreed effort has been made to tackle

"Britain feels that in the long in reparations work for Soviet Russia word brought to a seck to arrive high

ths

Soylet Union beyond Grun Its vitol strategic and living costs, which still plague all except

arrangements

standstill this afternoon. When more workers joined the diagnosis of the causes of the made Already

economic interests in Hong-

methods for the very rich. Shortage of housing, high

under regular trade agreements, kong, Malaya and Singapore Communist-led strikes against tho Government's pegged crials and upon me

short and long-term solution. 4. Tightening the blockade of are bound to be affected, and rents and key money silll constitute a deep

Britain has already taken the Yugoslavia 10 the maximum

challenged, perhaps even

negative but necessary, measure problem for thousands upon thousands,

the Chinese Communists.

in Turku, Finland's second threatened to cease work un- of proposing a cut of dollar forcing vast numbers of families to crowd 3. Strengthening the Albanian

"One of the objectives of the largest town, only 150 of less the Town Council with- coastline together in acute discomfort, with grave

and utilising to Devin mission

000,000 a year, and the coun economically and will be the achievement of the utmost,

lovement on the 2,600 employees at the draws its "resume work or be imports at the rate of £100,- effects upon their health and happiness.

strategically, important Albanian parallel United States and Bri- Crichton-Vulcan shipyards striking building workers and tries of the Commonwealth plan similar euts totalling about School accommodation is still for from

ports.

ilsh policy to deal with tho were working. The yarda crane operators..

£70,000,000. adequate, and thousands of children are -

Communist threat in the Farare constructing three cargo: With factory meetings being

But at Washington she will still without the fnclities for nequiring

held up and down the country, Fast Me Reston, concluded. vessels of 3,200 tons each more fren are expected to come put forward the positive ideas even an elementary education. Poverly

by and three tugboats for the out on strike. The strike of the arrest the dollar drain by earn-

which

she is planning "<to and disenso lurk at every turn, lingering

Soviet Union-part of the Communist-led provision, wood in more dollars. These aro like a pair of evli ghosts. The promise

US$13,000,000 worth of re- and forestry workers and tim-based oa a production plan of constitutional reform, carried back by

parations

floaters had almost petered Finland goods

out, the first returning `Governor ́ ́ after, the

but the striking members of designed to bring down Brilish must deliver in the next six the Transport Workers Union; costs and thus reduce the price of the commodities she exports war, sill remains unfulfilled. An in-

months.

a Communist stronghold, sull teresting balance sheet could be strack

London, Aug. 29. In

Only 30 of the 200 employees kept all but five of Finland's 23 to the dollar area-Reutor. by adding up the credits and the debita.

In the Turku bolt factory were ports closed. Sources, baslug judgment on high level reports from behind attempt to cut down the backlog working. The factory, the only

TRUMAN'S REFERENCES Four years gone-and once again darken-

trade Russian and Pollsh

London, "Aug. 20-President the Iron Curtain, said the of orders for free spectacles, the ing clouds are beginning ́`·lo gather on Kremlin rulers had been warn- Ministry of Health announced one of its kind in Finland, was unions have sent telegrams of Harry Truman's referisces in

hard-pressed to maintain Ita sympathy

with the strikers his Philadelphia: speech today: the horizon. The next few months may eu of the effects which survival today that It will give each deliveries buforo the strikes against the "police terror to the forthcoming dollar talks bring a test is great as any that has of Tolsm would inevitably patient only one pair for the started.

Dock workers In Gothenburg, in Washington are regarded in faced us here. We must not be blind to

In have on other satellite regimes. time being

the 'Panslo state metal Sweden, have sent a message to London as "most helpful and Each patient has been getting works, near Tarku, nearly 900 the government urging it to call encouraging for their succes the realities that

The reports were said to have Jio ahead. What

intimated that the watch on two patrs. More, than 3,000,000 || of the 1,000 workers were out. off ita "terror."

a Foreign Office spokeema said constitules our strength, and what are "subversive clements"

applicants are walling to get | The other state metal works at The messages referred to a tonight n time for our weaknesses? This r

satellite countries

police and The President's views on the being | theirs. The glasses are supplied WRE efocktaking, for thought and for decision, Intensided as a result of recent a part of the womb to lombo, on the west coast, was clash between the

working normally.

plekola is Keml, west Finland, tulks are fully appreciated and consultation among cominform National Health Service.-As- Turku is also facing a strike 11 days ago, when two strikers shared in London, the spokes” members-United Press.

sociated Press.

of municipal employees who were killed-Neuter,

· man·added.--Rouler.

SIX MONTHS

Experts are convinced the Kremlin will go to any length, with the exèrption of aRETOS- sive war, to eliminate Titolem within the next six months, and. will therefore abandon for the timo

being expansion elsewhere Europe.

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