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VOL. IV NO. 237

Tito Banking On Getting Mao As Ally

Belgrade, Oct. G.-Yugoslavia's quick recogni- tion of the new Chinese Communist governmeni was interpreted in Belgrade today as a first move to obtain a partner in Marshal Tito's anti-Moscow home rule campaign.

It is no secret that Yugoslavia's political strategists have been banking heavily on the possi- hility that the Chinese Communists, once victory is consolidated, will follow Tito's example in revolting against Moscow's heavy-handed rule.

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FOUR SHOT DEAD IN

SOMALILAND

More than a year ago, at an informal press confer- ence, n senior Yugoslav Government official predict- ed nectirately the course of events up to now in China, and went a step further in claiming that she will ulti-· mately follow Yugoslavia's lead.

11 is too early to kay Jun Lake Success, Oct. 6.--- Four people were killed and what wit happen, But Yugo- 19 others were hurt when savia's early gesture of friend- police opened fire on Somali ship was obviously designed as

campakin to spread ! "Titolam," which Africana demonstrating att of B

already has Mogadishu, Italian Somali- the Kremlin worried. Innd.

Mosha Pijade, Meanwhile,

Presi- Vice-President of the

and one of Tito's chief

articles

Karian

the H

In the newspaper trial of Lasio

treason

CHARGE FLUNG BACK

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1949.

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Vigorous Purge

Under Way

In

Czechoslovakia

POLICE COMB PRAGUE;

WIDESPREAD

2

ARRESTS

Prague, Oct. 6.-Road and rail traffic to and from Prague was being checked tonight as police combed the city making widespread arrests and investigations. Roads have been watched. all this week and overy traveller has to satisfy the polico about his identity. As the measures were takon, first-hand sources reported continuing arrests.

Newspaper Fined For State Dept.

Contempt Of Court

the brought to

་

Investigates Clark Case

and

was given Czecho-

go beyond Some persons who had! But the nitesta

Communist Party been questioned said that Mary.or

circles. Literally, dozens of they had been given stern priyaty sources report the dis "don't talk" warnings. appearance of lawyers, no longer Just what is happening is un- allowed to practice, of profes clear, but shooting incidents sional and business men thrown have occurred and many ad-out of their usual occupations and evidently numbering many ministrative. chiefs-in-the Ministries are under arrest or hundreds, who had been punish... od cconomically but left mean- held for investigation.

that awhile in personal freedom Everything suggests

1s going

Attention seems to have been on and New York, Oct. 6. The vigorous purge is

of non-Communist poli- For contempt of court, the China Mail Ltd. was fined $3,000 by

unreliability aro bers suspected. of

tical parties..." The incidents occurred yealer-dium

One theory 19 that the day but were revealed today by advisers, has completed a series

the Chief Justice, Sir Leslie Gibson, and Mr Justice Williams in the Full State Department is invesundreds at least of persons paid especially to former nem-

Multiplying reports of arrests, Clark, 42, held on a double Mr G. Clutton, British de-of

W. H. Nolloth, printer, publisher and businesstigating the case of Leonard being picked up by the police.

lisap Budapest trial of Laszlo Rojk, mysterious Court this morning. denouncing Nations Borba

charge in Canton, surges, to the United legate.

In Political Committee.

manager of the company, was fined $1,000 and J. 1. MacKenzie, acting murder

China, according to General pearances and more shooting in which evidence

incidents circulatid in Prague of conspiracy | Rajk.

William "Wild Bill" Dono-incide

Jonight. So many local resllovakia, may have set events

·fle zaid that the demonstra-

Sources outside in motion. ho accused

Foreign observers also con- tios were planned against then a glove's-off article, he editor, was fined $3,000.

The contempt was that on of the respondents song to fin England, to ventilate matters van, wartime head of the

it thought should be Office of Strategic Ser-Prague have now reported the

of friends and sidered that the

may oction very proposals for the disporni sald openly that

and all admitted that they were

dls ppearance attention of vices.

been hastened

by the of Italian Somaliland which had itusala of "inflaming the Com-

inform satellites into the hope September 30, 1949, they justify the articles complained of which

relatives that it is now evident have been made in the Committee,

of Jugoslav did publish in the China in contempt of Court by their Government. In pursuance of of grabbing parts

He said he was notified that arrests number many hundreds. following factors:

1. Discovery of on arms Zafrullah

territory and of provoking or Mall items tending to bring publication. Mohammed Sir

incidents and promoting

Kralove last the FUNCTION OF JOURNAL that policy the newspaper had

dump in Hradec the administration of Khan, Pakistan Foreign Minis- der

WAR CONNECTIONS Mr d'Almada s.id that the dealt with numerous questions the Department has Instricted

month. Clark criminal law in this Colony

to investgate, ter, said he sympathised with economic blockade.

Reports of arrests come from

2. Lust Saturday's killings in the view that the military ad-

by the judges and magis-China Mail was the oldest newa-of public Interest in the Colony.a man from Hongkong to go to CRAVEST POSSIBLE was reported to have appealed minis ration had to maintain

Colony into apes in Hongkong, having been stablished in 1845 and having

lo General Donovan for aid to widely scattered sources. Prague which three men were shot dead Slip- law and order, but the

Pijade's outspoken review trates of this

and disregard,

record of unbroken publica-

The Attorney General the prevent his falling into Com- seems to be suffering some de-nd others injured by tommy-

Kun #re from shouldgree of hysteria..

a mysterious pression of political activity was aung back at Russin the charge disrepute

has failed to The items complained of lon except for the period

Griffin, KC, whomunist hands

Oncial sources are slient but "black car." It Han J.B. occupation. Japonese

there can be no doubt that an 3. Suspicion of Incendiariam which on Monday The facts submited so far had lold an election recently by were a lending article and the

for Its outspokenness and had Hooton, Crown Counsel, com..... not shown that there was dis- noting that the Soviet herself in two letters in the corres-nd always been a paper noted appeared together with Mr Aenpture the city while he was in

depart-night destroyed large-build- pondence column, one head-s held the belief that the

He was reported to have said extensive purge 13 going on in in a fre not given her people a

the Ministries' where the repondents that

of the of a newspaper in a

goes beyond the Interior-Reuter. Information gained

The purge learned lessons from the tactics other "Heads I Win, Tails Colony,

investigations. Anyone of Hitler and Mu

Mussolini by

mong other things, to bring to inform itself as to facts before tured for You Lose."

Lancasters For hind Japanese lines during the under suspicion is being arrest- POLICE INJURED

Government criticism and as to the lay while working for the OSS be

ed, even

if the only cause la the ter

c'tering

the he attention organising

al the On behalf of

the authorities matters presenting criticism Leo Hon.

sme connection in the distant respondents, hostile Nairobi, Oct, 0.-The British Yugoslay deserters and distri

Donovan said General appeared which, in its opinion, required propaganda.

In giving the Court's decision, Foreign Oce announcedt 20 He added that the Kremlin d'Almada, KC, who

or Trotsky sympathies,

London, Oct, 0-Six general that' Communists with wartime night that two demonstrators would cut dare to hold an cices together with Mr John McNeill, Investigation or correction, and

was the gravest possible.com which Cinck might have

would want, Western associations are affect reconnaissance Lancasters from Air Force Coastal Grist), offered would attempt to question the

the Royal had been killed and 13, injured Ition now because it first needed Instructed by Mr D. H. Blake from that point of view no ong the Chief Justice said that it did not know any Information Past with the vaguest Western

tumpt to cuggest that the judges the Communists

1.

will leave their Six policemen received minor victory in its row with Yugosla- (Wilkinson and

and magistrates in this Colony He said: "Clark was attached

Divi- For example, a new chief har Command, injuries from stones thrown by vin in order to justify Its pre-an apology to the court in the usefulness of the role

fullest terms. He said that one by the local newspapers.

their important to the OSS Intelligence vlcus "lles."--Associated Press.

The China Mall itself had had falled in

sion in the Yellow River region been appointed to the press see. Cornwall base on November 1 demonstrators.-Reuter.

cid this view also that such a duties.

during the war. You can't tell tion at the Ministry of Foreign for the Far East, it was an~. MITIGATION

what attitude the Communists Affairs, in which there has been inounced today. "ole was particularly necessary

They will train under the might take towards him."

a number of Communists and lore

as compared with the

others associated with the war operational and administrativé utles of a newspaper in Eng-

He added that the contempt United Press,

time Czechoslovak Government control of Air Headquarters, Far lund,

where there was represent in this case had been millgated

East Air Force.-Reuter, Parliament or be

in London, iation, be it

another thing.

order or rioting or an attemp. end order, he to upset Jaw

added-Reisber.

EDITORIAL

that Yuoslavin

chance

10 vote for ten and a half years.

of

mented

La:1100

ghol.

if they

He said that the Russians had ed "Local Justice" and thendion Hongkong bad, should have been at pains to that he did not want to be torment chlefs are being replaced. ng near the Ministry-

buling

altors,

Devaluation. Aftermath

re:

to

LTHOUGH Sir Stafford, Cripps an- nounced this week that the drain on Britain's dollar reserves had been duced by £10 million during the third quarter of this year, It is still too early to calculate the relative gains and losses Britain may expect from devaluation. When he made his momentous announce ment last month Sir Stafford was careful to warn that side by side with the un- doubled advantages of devaluation went certain very real rights.Chief of these Is the danger of a rise in production

was designed costs. Devaluation enable British goods to compete nt lower prices in the dollar markets-a benchit which will be nullifed if the cost of pro duction is allowed to rise. There is considerable anxiety in Britain at "pre sent that this will in fact happen, Britain ls in Importing country. These Imports which she buys from countries which have followed her example in devaluation should not be any dearer. But goods bought from the dollar coun- tries, or from countries which have not devalued their currencies in relation to sterling, now cost appreciably more than they did before September 18. This has given rise to the fear that the cost of living in Britain may riso- more steeply than Sir Stafford anticipated. This, in turn, is almost sure to bring new wage claims from all branches of Industry, Coupled with the increased price of somo raw materiala, these claims scem certain to force production cosis up. It is difficult to see just what can be done to combat this vicious circle, but it is certain that radical action is necessary to consolidate whatever gains may accrue to Britain from the new rate for the pound. Re

the

trenchment in the cast of government is à solution often put forward, but Labour Ministers are unanimous that this will. not be done at the expense of the Wel- fare State. Indeed, it is reported now that Britain's budget may have to be revised to the tune of £150 million to cover unexpected defence and national remedy health service costs. Another which frequently suggested" is wage stabilisation. The most hearty pre- ponents of this policy are seldom so enthusiastle in their support for the pegging of profits and dividends. British *Increased- ilrm continue to announco profits-sometimes at the same time-aG they announce that production costs are increasing and that the price of their goods must consequently be raised. The Government's appeal to the unions to forgo wuge claims Is unlikely to have the much success while there fa even suspicion that dividends are continuing to grow. It is the poorer paid worker who bears the brunt of an increase in the cost of living, and wages in some

·British Industries are still so low that' there must be a measure of sympathy. with workers who ask for increases to keep pace with the cost of lying. won. Bri Devaluation has by no means tain's battle for economic survival; t can rather be likened to the loading of guns before an attack. The campaign will be long and arduous. It will demand: sacrifices of everybody: - harder work,

and

of

played

in some local Council, be- by certain circumstances: there ause it was by elected members had been a full apology made behalf of the members by counsel on therefore by caster of access to the publle,respondents, and, secondly, the China Mail had a record of Counsel said that in Hongkong Food service as a newspaper in the Bystem of representation

this Colony. But against that article was different, for which reason there was the leading

not Look the view kc. newspaper

and two letters attacking,

the its

particular

specifically but generally, usiness, more so than it was administration, of justice In Hongkong. One was forced to the conclusion-that the persons responsible had acted mls chievously and without any sense of their responsibility o this occasion.

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WAG

PRESSURE

FOR GENERAL

ELECTION

It was quite clear, that such contempt merited punishment but he did not propose to Impose imprisonment but fines on the respec'ive respondents, His The Lordship said.

London, Oct. British Cabinet will meeti

next Thursday and may r Ten Years

then decide whether

menerat election is to be

held this autumn or next Prison For

spring.

of

Tokyo Rose

The Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest Bevin, will have returned from the United States in time for the meeting-the first since Mefore debate in the British Housa Commons.

ely under It has been generally lord that the Cabinet "Big Thrte" the Prime Minister, Mr Clement Attlee.. Mr Bevin, and Tute Prime Minister, Mr to Herbert Morrison-wished

"Tokyo Rose" showed discussions on have further

lection timing before making a visible emotion as sentence

recommendation to the pronounced. Cabinet as a whole.

war.

AMERICAN ENVOYS TO

CONFER

Oct.

6.-

he

Washington, The U.S. State Department today summoned its envoys in seven Eastern European countries to London for an on informal" conference. October. 24.

The leading U.S.. diplomats from Rusola, Poland, Czecho slovakia, Yugoslavia, Hungary. Rumania and Bulgaria wil at- tend.

of

The Assistant Secretary State, Mr George Perkins, will fly from Washington to attend the meeting:

JD

Cur-

The State Department did not dis- divulge what would be cussed. It said that diplomats will "exchange views and dis

In- cuss questions of mutust terest and concern."

that Arst time This is the San Francisco, Oct. 6 American Inst. Wock's devaluation

Michael Ministers from the Federal Judge Roche today sentenced Iva tain" countries have been dum- belleva Omeials said that they d'Aquino to 10 years in moned to meet together.

fing prison and &

of

one topic of discussion will be how, 19 combat the "outrageous US$10,000 for treason.

propaganda" against the U. S which is being spread through out the seven Soviet countries

The problem of what to do in case of trouble in Yugoslavin and probably more austerity. This is

Mr Roche also denied

150, expected to be high on counsel. tions by the deferico An influential section of the not disputed. But to force the workers

of the agenda. Cabinet hended by the Primo Wayne Collins, for arrest

The State Department said to carry an undub share of the burden is

Minister is still belleved to judgment. for acoultial and for an unwise polley which can in the long

favour a spring election, But a new trial. Me Colling said he that London was chosen as the run lead only to strengthening of

taft wing pressure for an im- planned on Immediate appeal toile of the meeting, because of Communitum..

mediale appeal to the country the ninth, US. Circuit Court of its central position.--Assocluted'

Press, Appeain United Press. 18 mounting-Reuter

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