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VOL. IV NO. 249

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DIFFICULTIES

16-DAY-OLD FRENCH CRISIS UNSOLVED

Paris, Oct. 21.--Strong opposition within the Socialist grouping is delaying the efforts of the Radical finance expert, M. Rene Mayer, to form a Coalition Cabinet to end France's 16-day-old crisis. The Socialist Parliamentary group and Execu- tive Committee are meeting this morning to con- sider whether or not to join M. Mayer. Their decision is expected later in the day.

Coal Strike Negotiations Broken Off

M. Mayer, prominent supporter of the European Economic Co-operation plan, was elected Prime Minister by the National Assembly last night by 341 votes to

134

"middle-of-the- 9751 21 road" programme.

The

Socialist and most uf Republierny-two

the Popular

New York, Oct. 21.-The at the fargest partles-voted for coal strike negotiation col-him though a majori'y of the Inpsed today. The govern-Socialist Party Executive in op- ment has ordered a cat in; posed to joining his rail passenger service due toi ment on the ground that he is

too right wing. dwindling cont supplies.

Cover-

One thing which hos streng- The Federal Mediator, Cyrus

contheid M. Mayer's hand today munomced, after ferences

States to the emphatic decision of the with United

M. Henri Corporation fictuin, that the Radical ex-Premier, company and the United Steel Queuille, not to take on the I workers were still deadlocked.

Premiership again if he fails. Inter-State Commerce

11 was the resignation of M. ordered all coal-

October 5 after on a con Queallic railways with busting

differences 011 the or less to Cabinet supply

of 25 day cut passenger operations by 23 wages-prices problem that pre-

The Commission said percent. some railway coni stocks

The Commitalon

reached

had low "dangerously

de- further level"

Arc And

and that "an uner- creasing, Feney exists, requiring mediate action ku aff sections of the country".

im-

Direct Federal intervention in

Calcutta Municipal the coal walk-out appears t

Workers Strike

Videutta,

wven

Oct. 21.-Twenty-angrily broke

cplated the crisis.

Then, M. Jules Moch, Since Socialist,

tried to form a ไปเด Government but failed to sals- the Populine Hepublicans on

proposed Cablart posla.

distribution

WITC

R

of

Intak

the

OlcTVITS

Inclined to pessimiĮ about M. May cr'a but when eveninal certainty.

hi in chances Northern

of achievlag uncertatu, remun

forming

vi operators

enaikk coni Western

off negotiations Radicals, Socialists, Popular Re-

Mudera.es thousand employees of with John Lewis United Mine, publicwain,

Whate Sulphur right wing. the Calentin Municipal Corpora- | Workers

They said they commenced an indefinite Sprogs totny, tion strike at midnight, demanding were getting nowhere and call-, Increased wafer

od for government intervention, and reduced working hours.

AL

The strike followed the Mi Ching suddenly called cit the tallure of last-minute negotia- | plans to bring Lewis and tions between the representa operaions together in Washing- lives of the employees' unions on Monday in favour

Sum olier idem: the West Bengal Govern

not announced. United Pre ment--Reuter.

and

EDITORIAL

which W

In lus Assembly speech last nigh! the new Premier gave the main points of his programe- Anantal stabilisation, re-trim-

action of free colfective bar- gaming in private industry, con- trol of the right of civil servants for strike and economies in Slate expenditure. Reuter.

A Brighter Outlook

THE "teething troubles" which British Corporation ex- Overseas Airways perienced with Argo nuls on the Far Enst service have now been remedied, and after anccessful proving flight the new aircraft are again in operation. inconvenience has been caused in the Colony recently by the late arrival of maily from the United Kingdom, but this has not always been due to engine trouble. More often than dot the cause of delay has been bad weather along the route. The monsoon season in India this year has been a particularly bad one, and been held up aircraft have frequently between Bangkok and Karachi. On one occasion the airfield at Karachi Туде under twelve Inches of water, and no air- craft were able to land for about four days. The BOAC principle of operation is the maximum speed consistent with safety, and though it is sometimes difficult to draw the dividing line, there can be no quarrel with this general aim. "Delays there may be, but BOAC's safety record is a good one, and passengers, partă- culurly, will agree with the vid motto: better late than never. The monsoon season la now over, and with the Argonnuts' engine defects put right, Hongkong can look forward to fewer delays. Air transport generally is a tople which has received much attention recently. The accounts ∙of the British airline corporations for last year, published earlier this month, showed heavy losses, but the combined deficits

the lowest yel ..recorded. Blore passengers flow in the corpora.. tions aircraft, and the rate of loss for each mille flown, was substantially lower, These results were achieved with reduced stuffs-the result of the recent economy campaign-so that an increase in efficiency li indicated. Britain's air-

were

war.

will

on

lines are stale-owned, and, in common with other Government services, have to effect further economies in the future. This is no easy task. Their main the interruption of handicap has been Some

civil production caused by Britain's war- fime concentration an military aircraft. This has compelled the corporations to operate mostly with uneconomic aircraft, placing them at a disadvantage with the United States, which continued te produce civil machines throughout the

New British aireraft are now

much the way, and the outlook is brighter. British corporations should be able to achieve much better results when they begin to use jet and propeller-jet nirliners, in the production of which Britain has established a convincing lead over the rest of the world. The speed of these new aircraft, and their freedom- from noise and vibration, should make them popular-with the travelling public,.. and other operators may well have to Sir buy shilar types. Thanks to Frank Whittle's pioneering work on turbo-jets, and the skill displayed by the British aircraft industry in their develop- Britain is at present the only ment, country able to supply these new types, and the export industry should bencßit appreciably. Blodern aircraft, however, take many months to progress from the prototype stage to the stage when they can be put into: service throughout the world. The first jet airliner is no1 expected to be In general service for another year at least, but even this will be much carller than other countries can maunge. Construction of the new types must be pushed ahead as quickly as possible to enable, Britain to make the most of her, advantage.

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1949.

Desperate Leap

Prague

Police

Firemen get a net under Mrs Helen Schwandt as she leaps from a foot-wide, third storey ledge outside her apartment in Chicago. Her husband, Edward C. Schwandt, said she was trying to escape from carller to police with policemen. We had gone documents to have his wife committed to the psycho- pathic hospital, where she was taken after this leap. -(AP Picture).

Gaol For Eleven American

SAID

Reds

with

Arrest American

Embassy Official

DIRECTING ACCUSED OF

ANTI-CZECH SPY RING

Praguo, Oct. 21.—The security police here arrested Samuci Meryn, of the American Embassy staff, shortly after presenting a note at noon today accusing him and another official of organising a spy ring. The Czech Foreign Office demanded that the other official, Mr Isaac Patch, should leave Czechoslovak territory within 24 hours.

Britain's Submarine Research

London.

Taggart maintained contact The protest note declared in advance that Mr Meryn. with the leader of the organis

tion, Major Nechansky, either who did not enjoy diploma-directly or through Meryn. tic privilege, would be ar- in autumn, 1948, Meryn took

In his car

two

radio trans- rested shortly.

for Individuni groups Ceteka, the officini mitters news agency, aunounced to Slany region and two others that the arrest had already to Pisek. The transmitters were

American-made and were been carried out,

Tonight,

Czech

the

two

anti-

thin WO3

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the most perfect type.

PROOF CLAIMED

of

short

The protest note stated that

the Before leaving for authorities Czechoslovak had absolute proof that these United States, Birge introduced the leaders of the organisation men directed

leader for a relatively Oct. 21.-Lord Stato espionage organisation into Isaac Patch, who acted as

Czechoslovakia.

States Embassy ilme before being sucecoded by Hall, First Lord of the Ad-

The United

Embassy oficial, the miralty, said here today he cald tonight that it was making another.

Secretary. Mrs Louis no comment. The whole malter Third

instructed the thought that Britain was

was being referred to Washine Schaeffner, who further advanced than any tosi.

group until all of them WETO other naval Power in An Embassy spokesman raid arrested.

Patch was leaving research on new high speed that Mr.

The activities of all those submarine types though it They asked for an extension of

mentioned consisted of instruc- "flatly refused."

ting and informing the groups was "quite true that one of the time limit but

Powers had n

FROM MANCHURIA the major

in their espionage activity and New York, Oct. 21,-Sentences varying between

an in Mr Patch came here as

receiving information, in large number of submarines, $10,000 three and five years' imprisonment

Attache late last year from ing the technical needs of the fines were imposed today on 11 leading American some 280 or more."

Manchuria. Mr Meryn is an group for carrying out 'espion- Addressing a luncheon ecle-

case of Brige Embassy clerk and an Ameri-age and, in the Communists found guilty of criminal conspiracy.

the anniversary of

can citizen.

and Taggart, also in mediating Ten of tho nccused were trating

Britain's historie nuval victory.

protest note sald that the between this organisation and The sentenced to five years' im-

of Trafalgur, Lord the Buttle

organisation

the "treacherous group" abroad espionage prisonment and the other to ftati

naval d; clared; "Some

established in March 1948 by which established Itself in the

of "Council

Free the so-called former oficiul of the The fine of Powers are working on the new

W. three years.

test high

American Embassy, by securing Czechoslovakia." peroxide-propelled $10,000 was imposed

Mra Schneffner allso mediated submarine, which is expected la America

the services of Vladimir Nechan

and each one.

sky and Vaclav Karl, who be between this organisation give a speed of about 20 knots These sentenced to five years'

But there

other illegal organisations, and came leader of the organisation. under water.

out their ware: E41

many difficulties and we are

The two men built up anume this summer carried 44-year-old General

ber of illegal groups composed fusion with an illegal group or Newport, Rhode Island, Dennis,

citizens whom Birgo anising escapes abroad. Secretary of the United Statervanced, in fact I think more

of Czech Oct. 21-Dr T. F. Talang, Communist Party; Henry Wins-

80, as any other naval Power in

Tho Ministry of Foreign this field of research.

met regularly and whose activi- Nationalist

Affairs knew that Mrs Schaeff- China's chief

33, Nestro, the Party's There Is, to our knowledge, is be directed,

left Czechoslovakia Secretary; Joha

This activity, the note ndeed, delegate to the United Na- Organising

October 18. Williamson, 40, Party Labour

was espionnge against Czecho- tions, declared here today are

49.

The note said that all the Jacob Stach: 1.

slovakia in favour of the United that Communist control of Party Educational Director: Gil-

States Birge had instructed the "facts" were confirmed by proof the corroborative state- all China would lead half | Gerd Green,

Green, 43, lit

Illinois Stule

leaders of the groups in explonage and SEA SUPPLY LINES

work and received from thein ments of the arrested leaders the human race into the Party Chairman; Gus Hall, 39.

"We are still first and fore- Chairman

of the organisations concerned,

of Ollo State Party

maritime Common-splonage Information...

Birge, another as well

as by statements Carl Winters, 43, Michigan State nost

of the the other members former Embassy official, Spencer

groups who knew of the con- or- work of the bstructionel

tnels and operated the trans-

tho altion in July last year, mitters, which were discovered Czech authorities. -- while Birge kept for himself the by political supervision of Its work. Reuter,

CHINA

ENTERING DARK AGES ent

dark nge

a better life.

"As a

:

Setrol

on

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operational at no submarine present which can get a spaert of 20 knots or over submerged," he said,

#A

maintain ines.

war

Through Lord Hall continued, In a speech prepared for de- Party Chairman: John Gates, wealth," livery to the Naval War College 36. editor of the New York adding that prosperity in peace Le Taggart, took charge of the

would Lond defence in Irving Potash, here. Dr Talang said that the Dally Worker; Communists would make China Vice-President

40.

of the Fur depend on Britain's ability to her sea route cupply. a satellite of the Soviet Union and Leather

Workers' Union. instead of leading the people to affiliated to

[ The Congress

was marked and Trafalgar Day "Communist control of China Industrial Organisation;

Benjamin J. Davis, 46, n Negro, in bustling Trafalgar Square, the heart of London, by will make co-operation between Communst imember of the New China and the Western de- York City Council.

holsting the dramatic message mocracies impossible," he said.

spelled out in signal flags which Nelson flew on the eve of the consequence, a Com-

PERMITTED TO SPEAK munist China will not be able to

famous battle: "Britain Expects utllise foreign capital and forem The three-year sentence was

That Every Man Will Do His technical know-how, both of pagged on Robert G. Thompson.

Duty." which are essential to a pro- The prosecution, had demand-

Empire High Commissioners gramme of rapid economie deve-ed 10-year sentences.

Calumo in Nelson's lopment la China," he added. Twelve Communists were ori.lad wreaths at the foot of the

nally Indicted, but the trial towering

centro of the Square as IMMEDIATE PROBLEM

Foster, Wiliam Z. Dr Tslang said that China's | Of immediate problem WAS the Party's National Chairman, was buglers sounded the Last Post. a minute's silence in overthrow of the Chinese Com- postponed when the trial be- Thon the crowded Square ob-

gan on January 17, because he served

the world's of munists.

suffering

from heart honour "Unless this is done, China was

famous sailor and Admiral Each defendant and his law- Reuter. yer was permitted to speak bo- fora Judge Medina passed cen- tence..

will enter the dark ages and trouble. with China, In the course of time, all Asia with its one thousand million population half of the human race," he de- clared.

the the

most

Eugene Dennis, the principal Gales Said

Unlikely

The Royal Observatory said that although this morning

Last month Dr Tsiang accused accused, said: "The nation will this Fascist-like the-Soviet Union, in the United look back on Nations General Assembly, of trial in the years to come with violating a treaty of friendship shame and anger. We face the futuro wth Supreme confidence. with the Nationalists, and of

"We are not guilty of any directing and alding the Chinese crime, and, least of all, of the Communists-Reuter.

allegatlon that we conspired to teach and advocate the over- throw of the Government by fresh northeast winds are likely to be experienced in Hongkong force and violence."

today, gales are unlikely.

The No, I signal, huisted at As soon as Dennis had finish-4-am was still up at time of ed speaking, the other defen going to prees., dants rose in order and raid that {

STOP PRESS

/ DEFENDANTS SMILED

Tho centre of the tropical

SIGNAL DOWN After Judge Harold Medina, ESE of Hongkong,

..

his statement would serve for depression was early this morn- then

ing reported about 300 miles moving the sentences, WNW: Winds of gate force had announced

reported from the Prains of the defendants smiled. werd most

Winston and Stachel waved inst night, but this morning their right hands to friends or Indications were that the pro

the rear of relatives in the

dress of the storm had been Gates craned his checked by the strong surge of 10 the the Northeast monsoon blowing obviously seelding his along the China coast, and that was beginning at the the.depression Denals looked be cellbig.--Router,

The No. 1 typhoon signal was hauled down at 11.45 a.m. today,

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