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ministry said strikers hurled
grenades and fired on govern
ment forces passing a road block
near Ales. A striker was killed and
two police were injured seriously.
The communists, leading the
coal strike, hope to embarrass the
European recovery plan which
depends on French coal. Some 30,
000 troops have been sent to com
bat the anarchy in the coal fields.
Paraguay said she had put
down a military revolution 20
hours after it broke out. Col. Car
los Mantanaro, rebe^ leader, sur
rendered.
Some cabinet ministers were in
volved. Panama police said yes
terday they squelched a revolt be
fort it started. Peru contended
with a political strike of San Mar
cos unviersity pupils.
Loyalist troops and communist
inspired rebels fought at Yosu in
southern Korea. The army said the
12,000 rebels—three times larger
than previous estimates — are
about under control. The Chinese,
hard pressed by communists, talk
ed of a possible Dunkerque retreat
from Manchuria.
The Berlin socialist newpsaper
Telegraf said a German general
and two other ranking officers of
Moscow’s “Free Germany commit
tee” have escaped to the western
occupation zones.
Yugoslavia asked security coun
cil intervention in Trieste. Mar
shal Tito's commnuist government
accused the U. S. and British mil
itary governmnet in the interna
tional territory of flagrant viola
tions of the Italian peace treaty.
A Warsaw dispatch said that
while Poland talked of peace,
there are abundant signs that re
semble preparation for war. Po
land’s commnuist govern m e n t
backs Russia all the way.
The British parliament opened
and heard King George VI call for
socialization of the British steel
industry. Lawyers said the labor
government is trying also to na
tionalize the law profession .
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Wednesday. October 27. 1948
A treaty of military alliance be
tween the United States, Canada,
Britain, France and the low coun
tries is expected to go before the
Sena'e-within three months, Wash
ington advices said today.
U. S. defense department offi
cials already are working with the 1
non-communist European country
military experts on the program of
mutual military help. The program
would cost the United States sev
eral billion dollars over the next
few years. This will be in addition ,
to the billions being dropped into j
Western Europe from the U. S.j
treasury to support the Marshal]
plan.
Foreign ministers of the western
European Alliance announced last
night they will ask a north Atlan
tic defense* pact with the United
States and Canada. It would be the
first time in history the U. S.
would be party to such a peacetime
military acord. The formal steps to
! conclude the pact are expected to
|s‘art soon after the Presidential
election next Tuesday.
The British, French, Belgian,
Dutch and Luxembourg view was
that the pact would provide a pro
gram of orderly .unhurried mili
tary rearmament; standardization
of military equipment and train
! ing; the development of a common
coordinated imperial and foreign
policy in the Middle and Far East
and Africa; and the evolution of a
united air, land and sea strategy
under an American commander.
Russia already has welded her
satellites in eastern Europe into a
similar, but even tighter, military
accord. In the Russian camp are
Poland, Hungary, Romania, Yugo
slavia, Albania, Czechoslovakia,
and in part, Finland.
Secretary of state Marshall and
l British foreign secretary Bevin
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ilso mulled over the next western
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power move in the Berlin blockade
crisis.
An American war crimes court
in Nuerenberg acquitted 13 top
German militarists of plotting to
4art World War II.
A big power plant In the Rus
sian zone of Berlin went down, and
communists quickly screamed
“sabotage by reactionary ele
ments.” Germans opposed to the
Reds as quickly declared the
charge false.
French communists threatened
a general sit down strike in north
ern France to support the nation’s
striking coal miners. At least 30,
000 troops and police patrolled the
fields. Italian communists called
general strikes Tor Friday in the
orovinces of Florence and Reggio
Emilia.
Israel told the United Nations
she is rejecting an order of medi
ator Ralph Bundle that Jewish
troops withdraw from newly won
positions in the Negev desert of
Southern Palestine. The Jews said
it is a question for negotiations.
Yugoslavia assailed the United
W. A. Carson, of the Carson Con
struction Co., arrived to look over
the work of his company which is
now constructing the Maynard
McDougal Memorial Hospital.
States and other western powers
for their policy in Greece. Her
deputy foreign minister told the
U. N. political committee the U. S.
is aiding Greece only to obtain a
base on the approaches to Russia.
The committee had before it a
resolution calling on Yugoslavia,
Bulgaria and Albania to stop fo
menting Greek civil war by help
ing the communist rebels.
Southern Korea put down a
week-long revolt, which the gov
ernment said communists started.
The city of Yuso was taken, but a
fourth of it had been burned.
A battle between Chinese na
tionalists and communists seemed
to be shaping up between Mukden
and Chinhsien. It may determine
: whether Chiang Kai-Shek’s forces
| can hold even a toehold in Man
churia.
POSTPONE DEBATE
AT SERVICE CLUB
The debate scheduled for next
Sunday at the Service Club—“For
and Against Statehood” has been
postponed for two weeks due to
illness of Charles Jones.
Carl Dewey will replace Mr.
Jones in the debate which will be
held on Nov. 14th.
Arrangements are being made
for another speaker for next Sun
day and announcement will be
made in Friday’s paper.
JAPANESE WHALING BOATS
PREPARE FOR EXPEDITION
TOKYO, i/P> — Two Japanese
whaling expeditions will sail for
the Antarctic next month.
One fleet, headed by the moth
ership Hashidate Maru, will sail
from Yokohama on Nov. 12. The
other, headed by the mothership
Nisshin Maru, will leave Yokosu
ka the next day.
The expedition, the third since
the end of the war, expects to take
35,000 metric tons of whale meat
and 20,000 metric tons of whale
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