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Death Penalty Demanded In Sofia Trial

Sofia, Dec. 12. The prosecution tonight demanded the "severest, penalty under the law"- death-for the first five accused in the Sofia treason trial.

;

Mr. Dimiter Georgiev, the chief public prose-- cutor of the People's Republic of Bulgaria, spoke with great force under the glare of lights in the crowded Sofia court.

"There can be no mercy for traitors, sabotours and spies such as the accused," he declared.

In his final plen, which followed the presentation of documentary evidence for the prosecution and defence, the prosecutor developed much the same theme as his Hungarian colleague during the trial of Lazlo Rajk in Budapest.

He charged that the ac-with all the severity that the cused had plotted to tear law allows."

The prosecutor begno by Bulgaria away from ita

resume of all of the Riving a peaceful path of socialism evidence presented at the trial and from the side of the since it began last Wednesday, Soviet Union, and that they

the hearing of all witnesses and Earlier, the court completed

expert commissions.

had done so under the in- structions of the British The high point of today's and American intelligence session was the testimony "of Bervices.

Dul- He declared that the garian conspiracy, whose leaders were in the dock today, was only one in "a long chain of con- spiracies against the people's de- mocracies, conspiracies which began during the war with the Churchill plan for 0 front in the Balkans,

pecond

Independence, the pro oculor

said.

one

on

foremost of Bulgaria's Communist authorities on the Macedonian question. Mr Kislu Kalalbjlev spoke for one hour this intricate problem and the basle differences between Yugoslav and Bulgarion the leaders on its solution

Ilo sald that the Yugoslav claims for annexation of Bul

Macedonia came Cx-

be-

This plan was realised only garlan with Greece, which had lost ftremely close to succeeding

fore the Cominform resolution. "Had this plan succeeded." he said, "half the population would have fled into Bulgaria proper."

ANTI-TITO SENTIMENT

Yugoslav charged the

the But- with asking

10 employ terrorist out anti-itc

Mace-

reconcile themselves

THE HONG NG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 194

Acting President In US

In U.S. Lectures By Nobel Prize Winners

General Li Tsung-Jen, Acting President of National Ist China, and Madame LI are pictured following their arrival at the International Airport, San Francisco, from Hongkong. General Li, en route to New York, said through an interpreter that his sole purpose in going to the United States was to obtain medical aid for a severe stomach allment. (AP Photo),

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U.N. MEDIATION ON KASHMIR

Stockholm, Dec. 12. Some 400 professors and students at the University of Technology in Stockholm today heard the Nobel Prize winner of physics, Dr Hideki Yukawa, give a lec, ture on the "meson theory and its developments."

lo

Dr. Yukawa, who received the Nobel Prize for his contributions nuclear science, was intro- duced to his neademle audienco by the Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Professor Fredrik Western. Dr Yukawa, Dr William

of the Univer

After Dr

Francis

the

Glauque of

sity of California and winner of Chemistry Prize, spolos on "Some Consequences of Low in Che- Temperature Research in

of

mleal Thermo Dynamics."

Professor Waiter Rudolf Hess Switzerland, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for 1ec- Physiology and Medicine, tured on his discoveries on the functions of the brain

rain at the University of Medicine.

Tonight the Nobel Prize win- ners will be the, guests of the Swedish Royal Family at a gala dinner in the Royal Palace,- Associated Press.

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London, Dec 12.-India will support United Nations. mediation over the whole field of the Kashmir dispute Harlan, former German film during the coming hearing of the dispute by the Security Concil.

This was made clear today by Sir Girja Shankar Bajpai, the Secretary-General of the Indian External Affairs Ministry, before his departure by air for New York tonight.

COULD NOT STAND BY

But, he thundered, the British and American comunanda also

Ho wanted to occupy other coun- trics in the Balkans including lenders Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, but Karlans Were prevented only by the methods to root Red Army, After the war they sentment in Bulgarian

Sir Girja Shankar Bajpal, donia. could nat

1015, during a visit to the accompanied by the Indian capital at Yugosios Macedonia, Deputy Home Minister for the witness testified, Marshal Kashmir, Mr Dhar, left to- Tito told him: "Give the Bul- lay for the United States to garian Macedonians to me for attend the United Nations two yours them into perfect Macedoniana Security Council, which is He said that the Bulgarian now expected to consider Macedonian population the Kashmir dispute on the fused to Accept Belgrade's basis of the report of the condidates as leaders,

"The Yugoslave told me that United Nationa we should adopt state measures Commission on December 17

to the loss of these countries to the imperialist By artern. began to plot against theso countries.

Continuing, Mr Georgiev said that these powers could not stand by and see the cons.rue- tion of socialism with the help of the Soviet Union.

All of the plots against the governments in Eastern Europe had been developed under the instructions of either British or American agents.

tu

and I will moke

make them accept thel or 19. agents, and I answered that such terrorist methods were Incom- things," the witness said.

u

director, who was exonerated

Copios of photographs

by a Hamburg civil court Inst April on charges of crimes against humanity, taken by the South China will have to face a new trial

| Morning Past and Hong Kong before the same court.

The highest German tribunal Telegraph Staff Photographers for the British Zone here today that quashed the Hamburg

verdict and ordered the court to

court's

on its contents or recommenda- tions beyond reaffirming India's approach to a settlement in Kashmir, as recently outlined sel a now trial. in London by the Prime Minis- Harlan was charged with ter of india, Pandit Nehru, re-racial discrimination and crimes against humanity for producing mained unchanged.

It is

Pandit on anti-Semelle version of Leon Nehru as the Feuchtwagner's world famous only possible means to a quick book, "Jew Suss." and peaceful solution.

Anybody who dared to TC- The alternatives, he said, were sist the orders

of the

Nazi Joseph

recalled that

continuation of war, which Propaganda Minister, Kashmir

dia ruled out, or a prolonga-Coebbels, was threatened with tion of the existing deadlock, the guillotine, Harlan told the which would do nothing to ad appeal tribunal here today. vance a lasting settlement.

"I do not. in the least fent SUPPORT FOR MEDIATION fully

I have tried to be In resting his Government's nothing more than an artist. It

was impossible to stand up of the principle support

Goebbels," he said. Reuter. mediation, Sir Girja explained that In the Indian

View, this mcdiation should

Pending the publication of

Girju preferred not to comment

" must point out here," he sald, "that the number of perpatible with our way of doing the Commission's report, Str cons employed in the American and British Legations in Bul- garla

is extraordinarily high. Bulgarian public opinion asking: What are these people dolhg here, so many of them.""

KOSTOV'S GROUP

"Then they began such struggle for power in Bulgarian! Macedonin that it wasted my the more than under nerves Farist occupation,” he added.

He said that he was told by the Yugoslav leaders that "here

WAR VICTIMS

The prosecutor charged that is the way we do things: who- CONVENTIONS

and you should

learn

when the conspiracies, led by ever is against 48 gets the. reactionaries, had failed, the knife, Anglo-Americans utilised their from us". agents within the leadership of

various Communist

had

whom they

parties

succeeded in

hiring many years ago.

In Bulgaria, he sald, they placed all their hopes on the hief accused, "Kostov and his

Yugoslav

SIGNED

HATED DIMITROV

said that Macedonian leaders hated Berne, December 12. Georgi Dimitrov and constantly Russia, the Ukraine and agliated and plotted against Byelo-Russia signed the four him,

of Geneva Conventions of 1949

accused

him

group were helped in this by chauvinism, of a false attitude on the protection of war vic-

over

Into the Western camp." Mr Georgiev went on:

the

almost although the Hungarians

of on by bad weather.

cover

tho

fo

whole dispute and should not STILL OFFICIAL

SECRET

London,

nerely be confined to the ques- tion of demilitarisation in Kashmir by an agreed pro- gramme of troop withdrawals.

While in London, Sir Girja

Dec. 12. Whether the met Mr Philip Noel-Baker, the Britain can manufacture Secretary for Commonwealth atomic bomb is still an official

and Relations,

Sir Stafford secret.... Cripps, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, today.--Reuter.

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The Supply Minister, Mr L G. Strauss, told the House of Commons that it "would not be In. DEMILITARISATION

the public Interest" to dis- close the answer. Lake Success, Dec. 12.The Asked why It was against United Nations Kashmir Com- public

"since it is Interest, towards the Macedonian questims today. the clique of Tito--this cliquetion and of

mission today recommended known that the United States stander they any composed of spies for the Bri- could think of,"

The three delegations arrived at the Security Council ap and the Soviet Union can make the witness tish and American Intelligence concluded.

In Switzerland on Saturday, two days late, for the formal point a mediator to bring India it and neither think it is incon services who took

on all sistent with their public interest and Pakis.an together Further details party and brought

of alleged signing, in which 29 nations Yugoslavia

Issues over Kashmir: to have those facts known," Mr unresolved issu sabotage of trade relations be- participated.

The Commission, in its third Strauss did not reply-United General Nicolal Vassilievitch Bulgaria "The tween Hungary and

interim

report to the Council, Press. British sent their best people to were also given today by wit- slavine, the Sovet delegate, ex-

nesses who said that some of plained that the plane bringing member Commission

doubt that the five- expressed Yugoslavia and the Balkana. | PAS

ths accused had dragged out the

was the three delegations They sent the son of Churchill,

from "most flexible and desirable in- negotiations for four months Russia was held up in Vienna tune to continue they

in the strument Randolph, because cognised clearly the Trotskyito and made the signing

task impossible Max Petit Pierre, head of the views of the Tito clique, realis-fagreement

The report said that the pre- had Swiss Political ing that they could be placed offered good, terms and valu-who is to became President of troops in the state was

Departmen, sence

of large numbers

"Tito

ducts as tobacco.

received

the three delegations peaceful atmosphere. hopes.

es. But the British

Nothing could be done against 05 President of the Geneva Americans were not satisfied it at the time because the

"The demilitarization of the with their success in Yugoslavia. other negotiator had known the conventions last summer.

conference which worked

outstate is essential to permit the They wanted to enter also into that Ivan, Toulov.

holding of a free and unfetter- Slavine expressed for the leadership of the Com-director of foreign trade, one of

ed plebiscite," the report add- Russia munist Party of Bulgaria. In the

several accused,

"a Kostov

minor reserva- | ed. tions on the Convention for the Kostov they found their man

of the Peaceful settlement GREATEST OBSTACLE "An experts' commission on the protection of civilians, Russia Kashmir issue was imperative,

In the

of in-it sald, and "the electrification contends that in casc

Commission "The Bulgarian peoplo wani sabotage

civilians in a foreign belleves that it can be reach- union betwoors our brotherly and water power project also ternes

If the national govern- country, countries, but we want it to be tratifled that the accused, Step-unt of the interned persons is

ed." former Minister of ment

MAIN PROBLEMS an anti-imperialist union, not a hanov, coup d'etat against the Soviet Finance, and the former Minis unable to act as their protector

is fllega

After giving a pletorini 're- for to the tor

a neutral state Union nor our subjection

of Construction, Schularov,

report who is not now on trial, had or other body to act as their view of the case, the Anglo-American imperiallats"

power without the listed the three main problems to the been responsible for the loss of protecting obstacio

of 4,000,000,000 leva through sabot-consent of the government of in the dispute as follows: of the plan

1 Disposal of the Azad and Bet-jaga of electrification..

scrvice.

of not

in the fined their highest able machinery for such pro- ( Switzerland later this week, I conducive to the creation of a

The greatest realisation London, Washington

late

he sald

Rod

mati."

of an

was

former

which they are nationals.

2. Wiüidrawal of Indian-

had been the It was also tostlied today that Ivan Koutelnikov, representing (Free) Kashmir forces.

Communist some of the accused had given Byelo-Russia, and Alexandro

vatioconomic secrets to the former vitch Bogomoletz, representing Pakistan regular forces from the

•arade. uerov, and that was

reason'

The son why "they plotted

die | American Military Attache, | the Ukraine, made the same

loader,

ngainst him, slandered him and tried to drive him to his death.” Ho said that the accused were no simple nationalist dovin- ttonlets but were proven tral- tors

The prosecutor, said that the guilt of the accused aggravated their "great in clligence and the leading positions they held in

the party and the stato: api

know, very well what:[ they were doing. Treason is the greatest crime against the people under the laws of our country and our cons'itutions.

VAN RESUME GIVEN

By the sentence which you will hand down you will giva ni conspirators everywhere a good lesson, and make them think before entering, Into the service of foreign powers against e www.noople.

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There is no claim for marcy fox - the accused Kostov, Sie- Biasesov, Tavlov, Fisticor nud. Elev- rokov." You must “phulah” thèm

Colonel Järgevich-Reuter.

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"The question of the

3. ern areas,

The

Commission

also pointed out that certain other factors, difficult to evaluate," may have thelg effect on the attitude of the Indian and Pakistan » Go- vernments.

Those were "adjustments yet to be made on various terri- torial, mallitary, Onancial and humanitarian questions résult- ing from the partition of the

| sub-continent."—Reuter,

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