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BIG THREE GIVING PRIORITY The

The Cretan FIERCE COUNTER-ATTACK

TO EUROPEAN

DEFENCE SYSTEM

New York, Sept. 12.

The Foreign Ministers of Britain, France and the United States today agreed to give first priority to organising a West| European defence system, including the question of a West German contribution to it, at their meeting here.

The three Ministers met in the tower of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel here. Informal arrange- ments were made to revise the agenda to enable this item to be considered at their meeting later today.

An American spokesman said that the Minis- ters would agree on proposals on this subject for| consideration by the Fordgn Ministers of the North Atlantic powers who meet here on Friday.

Ife stressed that no final from quences for decision would be reached

world.

the Western

by the Foreign Ministers on Sir Benet Devin, for Entam.

andal

tay he expected an arrangements for the de- "apeement for action" to result fence of Western Europe hom the fall, arminst the possibility of aggression,

The Mini: ters were due to vei view world problems, eluding: Westere defences in the bight of the war in Korea and the heigh-

It would be for the Atlante Treaty Council to make those international tension Fines decisions, he natd.

ay at met four months ago in London.

Held the Ministers would Today consider the organisation of forces for the defence Western Europe and the pro- that duction and nametal avradige. Foreig

of

A silver plaque nt Uw entrance to the suite recalled

In December, 1916, 100) Minister of France,!

ments for Western European | kuwa, Britalu and the Cntivuj rearmament,

The announcement by

States freed there on the term

of the peace treaties with Italy) Pre-SunDORE.

Bulgari

sident Truman of a substantial Finland, Increase of the American forces

In Europe had helped to ureale

the

The Ministers met in private seion with ly interpreters

n favourable atmosphere for dissent at first, custion of the question,

poke, ruan saal.

were

The three Ministers meeting in a closely-guardeel top Anor hotel suite to begin three- day talks which may have vital

The order af de euro, during the three-day meeting was n Bably stated to be (1) We

rm

defence, (2) German

ment. (3) Korea, and the que

Hon of rettyuifiona of Cop- munist China.

meeting formally opened.

Romance

Principals in the extraordinary Cretan "Romeo and Juliet" romance, which brought the island to the brink of civil war, Thassoula Petrakoghiorghis and her husband, Constantine Kefaloghiannis (in riding breeches) after their arrival at Athens airport after surrendering on Mount Ida. The Archbishop of Athens

blessel the marriage but Constantine was arrested.

Attlee

Not

Government Resignation Reconciled To

New German Army

London, Sept. 12.

The Prime Minister, Mr Clement Attlee, dis- closed between the lines of his House of Commons speech today the main points of the Cabinet's brief to the Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest Bevin, on the vital question of German rearmament, lobby observers considered.

Rumour Persists

Washington. Sept. 12, Reilable snurces safd today that an announce. ment

of the Defence Secretary's resignation was

expected Very Spen,"

Itcliable

sources said his resignation was Imminent. The Secretary, Mr Louts Johnson, was at the White House

twice Today-the first time

private for a conference with the Pro aldent and the second time for the regular Cabinet meeting.

When Mr John returned for the Ca- binet meeting, a reporter asked tim: "What do you know of reports that you are or way out?" Mr Johnson tapped the news- man o the chest and said; "You know I won't say

anything and State

I arr coinc fo." Unlied Press.

Mr Bevin was today entering a critical debate Mr Acheon prded as the on the German question with his French and Unit- G.B.S. Operation and

Dr Philly discan, Ainbasas, ed States counterparts. M. Robert Schuman and Spofford, Charman of the Mt. Ar Dean Acheson, in New York.

Successful

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setter of.

control

Laten. Sept. 12. The dneter attending

Mr Oliver Franks, Ambu un mig at George Berman! Show at Luton "Washfrutton, and

ppital gated this aftert.com feat. "Me Shaw's condition ronda zavies M. Se uman had with bus to be satisfactory", X-rays on | M. Henri Bonet, Ambarcati,, Mr Shaw's leg showed that the gat senior effle.ads. operation on his leg wat suereis al tbal The broken

Catie Pact Dej utics, were an huy The United States

the Is ex

the r:ht.

(prekoti tą von in the creatina ; (Läensier; Governtiunta.

of a stront Granny con- | Tough observers thought

wedia Then comumeo that the Cabinet fiú élenity de- ; ariny of the Neth Atlantie 'cided to support the West Ger- Treaty PoAVIS,

2112672 Chancellor, Dr Konrad Adenauer's request for a mollic M: Attire left metalotakat P police force, they fel equally

unds of his hears that jure that the Me Bovis & been authorne not yet become

Government had to that time to support the the notion of rearming Germany!

reconciled to nation of a Pound German

bone was in good condition.

In view of Mr Shaw's agter he }} allowed cru! of bed for some time yel.--lieu-

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BY U.S. TROOPS Key Hill Position Captured In Taegu Advance

REDS RETREAT IN EAST

Tokyo, Sept. 13. American forces of the First Cavalry Division fighting with their backs to Tacgu, hit the Communists yesterday afternoon with a savage infantry, air and artillery attack.

Striking French Defence Plan

Paris, Sept. 12.

The French Foreign Minister,

NEW

Within a short space of time, they crashed through the Communist defences and captured a key hill position seven and a half miles north of Taegu.

An American spokesman in the fighting line said that resistance on the central sector along the east coast appeared to be melting as American and South Korean troops in this area — north-east of Yongchon have advanced over seven and a half miles in five days.

M. Robert Schuman, will pro-

A courier captured last night)vancing in the northeast sector pose to the three-Power con- ference starting New York was bearing a message from a The alvance was made agalna” lony the immediate nomination mander to his corps chief.

on North Korean divisional com- Ught enemy resistance.

"Elements of the ROK Secon It said, "We are suffering very

Corps,

after eliminating Lorce much from the enemy". Because enemy

which impede

not yet been made public, scia uut French proposals for ensur- my effective Western military defence in

well- Europe. Informed sources said tonight.

France also calls for a pooled Allantic nations wak budget, there sources said,

a

of an American commander heading a fulleale general staff for Western European defence.

A

which has an anti-tank battalion has not their attack, advanced approxi memorandum

core we cannot take action. Inmately 2,000 yards this situation we cannot hold the

"A small

enemy force whic You chon front."

altacked a unit of the Untle Enough Russian-made artillery, States 25th Division lato yester mortars and other weapons to day was reported to have with

brief firefight. il 13 good waggons have been drawn after a taken by the South Koreans and "Five enemy YAK aircra Americans In the Yongclion were observed in Pyongyan The French propose that the battle. The booty has been airfield yesterday. These al present permanent military ad- sent to Puran.

craft, which appeared to b Tubers of the Atlantic Council;

new, were struck by friendly al of General consisting

Omar

forces at 5 p.m. Áir observer, Bradley (United.

reported States), Air

three destroyed and General Marshal Lord Tedder (Britain)

MacArthur's hendene damaged."-Unlted Press, aud General Ely (France) be qunrtera estimated that North transformed into a full general Korean forces were losing 2,000 staff headed by American- men a day in killed and wound-

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New Method Of

Delivery

Brisbane, Supt.-13,

It tuok the

HEAVY LOSSES

bombers and fighters ranged all along the front, rec- kel firing and bombing troop concentrations and supply

lines

American Superforts bombed a partly underground arseno? at Kanni, about nine and a batf miles north of Pyongyang, like! North Korean capital.

General MacArthur'a

mid-

STOP PRESS.

JOHNSON RESIGNS

Washington, Sept. 12. Mr Louis Johnson, American Secretary of Defence, resigned today.

President Truman has called

Two 11-12 ton tractors were Explosions following direct rowed

40 miles under water bomb hits sent spurts of flame before a crane lifted them on skyward and a column of smoke to 3 wharf along! Brisbane rose 18,000 feet into the air. Hliver.

The concussion of the tremen- New York, Sept. 12. The tractors were brought by dots blasts rocked the raiders¦ Jureph Bondurant Ryan, de salvare veusel "Boumterang" 10,000 feet above the target in the strict sense or of creating grandson of Thomas Fortune from the wreck on the freighter Reuter. forex under invert We, either West Germ

MUCH BOOTY ta vetinent control.

for contingent with the North Ryan, fell or jumped to deaths Marietta Dal, which foundered

from his room on the 22nd storey Cape Moreton, near Br

Tokyo Sept. 13. The exettist policy force.

Atlantic Treaty,

fashionable Manhattan

bane. in May 1950. Indications Ge many are Lite

from New York

I hate 1.

Boomerang 20 hours tonight release cald that "large upon Gendal George C. Mar- that the United States will press Grandson ui The railroad deliver the two tractors which quantities of enemy arms and shall to succeed him-Reuter, for a German armed contingent (tywan, Hyan was the first were lung live feet under a equipment were captured by how suggest that this que-Lon

of Clem, in Ryan, the barge. Endlier diver Neil Took the United Nations forces yes- will be one of the main and wealthy independent candidate workert live and a

and a half hours terday afternoon while ad- Longshent-tes before the Big for the New York mayorally.

¡singing the Turce conference.

tractors together Police identitled the body from and.sccuring them to the barge. A critical question lett nan Ancrtean passport and per-

Despite their in

period answered by Mr Attlee was how a mal and business papers.

Jon; ander water, the tractors were fresh

American fanerul

when Ryan, 44, checked into Hotel still in good condition an Warwick on Monday, Police landed and fetched

Rood the fount no notes in his room price when auctioned Atlantic army traiter Press.

| day-United Press.

Empire's Heavy Loss

Y the death of General Jan Christian

Smuts, who

never rezovered his remarkably robust health when smitten by pneumoniae skortly after the national celebration of his Kot h birthday, South Afrien loses her most brilliantly dislin- guished statesman, the British Common- wealth mouras a stalwart whose breadth of vision and strength of chracter mode him uniquely influential In Imperial affairs, and the world a man held in the highest estcem, me of the most engaging personalities of his day. For the British Commonwealth, his loss is a severe blow, for his place in the partnership, his tremendous practical contributions tu Empire welfare were anparalleled. except possibly by one of his closest personal friends, Mr Winston Churchill, It is no exaggeration to say that, In this era of international stress, Generų) Jan Smuts is Irreplaceable. Field Marshal, Prime Minister and philosopåer--xutdler,

atudent--he was stalesman,

notable figure In every sphere of actielty. Begin- ning as a rebel against the British Government and as one of the most clusive leaders of commandos in the Borr War-where the Look Winston. Churchill prisoner-he Become tha staunchest of the staunch in support of Klag and Commonwealth, the consolidator' of genuine co-operation between Union and other members of the Common- wealth, an inspiring influence in South Afrlen, for the past two years, he reverted to the role of,politicians, undsubtedly the greatest lving politician, but

the

still a

focus of Party hopes and hatreds personal loyalties and jealousy because of his clusk with Dr Malan, the Nationalist Premier, whose future policy includes secession from the Crown. In contemporary history, General Smuts was

elder sinesman, whose views were respected all over the globe, the chief founder of the British Commonwealth of Nations, a creator of the erstwhile League of Nations, a world war leader of supreme value, one of the principal Ricnicects of the United Nations Charter. In the perspective of another half century hence, General Smuts's netuai achleve ments, great as they have been, will surely become but a hnekground to his status a9 a prophet and secr. His brow was the brow of n thinker. His eyes were capable of piercing contemporary events to com- prehend the great secular movements of history. General Smuts threw himself with passionate zeal into stabilising the Union of South Africa tollowing Britain's grant of a Constitution, creating the League, the Commonweaith, the United Kations, not-ny politiea) tasks of the hour, but as steps in the march of humanity. Up to the moment of the sudden heart collapse which caused his death, it was nut back to old triumphs and tribulations that his mind was turned, but forward to prob.cms of a future in which his experience and wisdom can still lighten the path of those that come after, It mus be long before we see his like again, to guide destinies with such unerring judg

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a German contingent, even in the despatch of still more British divisions

Europe.

UNKNOWN FACTOR

From

to

the Government'a

sandpoint political quarters relt that after the first round the three-day defence de-

the scale

Ameri-

bate Can

of

ald remained the vital,

unknown factor.

That it is still unknowa at the

beginning of the Big Three talks

Peking

of next

Revalues

Currency Upwards

-San Francisco, Sept. 12.

Rising prices in America and Britain was the

must at least raise the possibility reason given by Peking Radio tonight for a change

A

that it may form the subject of in the foreign exchange rate, between the United

eertain nmount of cros

bargaining,

States dollar and the Pound Sterling in relation Bir Winston Churchill, Op- to the Communist currency. position leader, mude it clear in

HITCH IN-GREEK

Was

his speech today that the on- The Radio said that the rate]to over 1,000 cities and rural servative Party is in line with for the United States dollar as points in all parts of China. The American Administration on eusted by the Bank of China This service was now avaliable the armed forces issue. His was now C$31,000 instead ofis remote towns as well as rural plea for still more British CS2.200, and thal for the indian centres. divisions for the Continent was Found Sterling Wats now I claimed that aflaing, from expected by observers here to C$70,210 Instead of C$81,220. Improved service on the part of and an echo in West Europe.--

These rates came

Into forve State banks, remittances Reuter.

en September 8.

The reason

for the change handled by them in July were In Americnearly six times as great as in that "prices

February this year. and Britain have again risen by

"Botes for nearly four percent since mid-

remitting money August," the Radio said, adding,ve been lowered systematical "It will be recalled that since tween cities like Shanghai, Nan- ly and, by now, remittances be- bc-. the

outbreak of tween Liberals and Populists on Korea, prices in America went free of charge,"

Aghting in king. Tientsin and Peking ord the number of Cabinet poste for onch party led to a post- by more than

16 percent pakt. ponenient of the swearing in between the end of June and "The highest rate is less than of the new Greek three-party the second half of July,”-

two percent. Servires. of the Coalition Government under the The Poting broadenst

also banks also include sending Liberal leader, M. Venizelos, reported that 'State banks had monoy directly to homes of re- until noon tomorrow-Router. extended the remittance servico cipiente"---Router.

POLITICS

Athens, Sept. 12. Last-minute differences

the broadcast

HAN

OR

BEASTI

Skin deep

TAKE an ordinary, comfort-loving man, with his pipe of peace and his carpet slippers. Remark his gentlenes and ins offensive ways; note his avoidance of up- necessary effort.

Then give him a stick or a racket or bat, confront him with an inoffensive ball ----- and watch him whack it savagely with wild inkumancries. Put him on a rugger-field with twenty-nine other man-exers, and

watch him cram ten man-hours into one and battle with the best of them.

Butsee him after the match, slaking a worthy thirst with that long cool drink of Rose's Lime

Juice, and watch how civilis- ation descends on him as the level of his glass grows lower.

ROSE'S

BAKING

WITH LIMB

Lime juice

—MAKES THIRST WORTH WHILE

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