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hanged yesterday, the government
press said. During his trial with
10 others accused of anti-state ac
tivities, Kostov twice protested his
innocence.
Bulgaria holds parliamentary
elections tomorrow. The only can
didates are of the Fatherland
Front, controlled by communists.
Monday. December 19. 1949
From Britain came a report to
day that Russia is boosting her
naval strength with rocket-firing
battleships and long-range sub
marines.
Jane’s Fighting Ships, the au
thoritative naval publication, said
that while the U. S. and Britain
are scrapping or mothballing many
of their warships, the Russians
are believed building three ultra
modern, 35,000-ton battleships,
equipped 10 me rauio-conu oueu
aerial torpedoes and rockets.
Two other Soviet battleships'
were said to be in the blueprint
stage and possibly in the shipyard
stocks. Russia already is known to
have two battleships.
Part of Russia’s five-year naval
plan is also said to envisage a
fleet of from 750 to 1,000 long
range submarines by 1951. and
many smaller war vessels, such a
torpedo boats and mine sweepers.
Jane’s said its information of
the Red fleet was presented “with
all due reserve.’ Moscow does not
publish details of its defense pro
gram.
Jane’s said the U. S. navy still
has 15 battleships, but that only
one-—the 45,000-ton Missouri—is
still in active commission.
The British navy, it said, has
five battleships, none of them in
active commission.
Official circles in Formosa
buzzed today with a report the Na
tionalists will counter expected
British recogni ion of Red China
by severing relations swiftly with
(1 eat Britain.
As the report circulated, police
strove to keep order before the
British consulate in Taipeh. Chi
nese by the hundreds clamored
for visas to enter British Hong
Kong and a haven from what
many consider an* impending Red
attack on Formosa.
Australia’s anti-Socialist coali
tion today took over control of the
government with a cabinet includ
ing a woman member for the first
time in the Commonwealth’s his
tory.
Premier Robert Gordon Men
zies and 18 cabinet ministers were
sworn in by governor-general Wil
liam J. McKell, representing King
George VI.
In Bulgaria, official election re
turns showed almost 99 per cent
of the voters in the capital cast
ballots yesterday for parliamen
tary candidates on the only ticket
offered them, that o tthe govern
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therland Front. Over the rest of
the country scattered returns indi
cated a vote of 97 to 100 per cent
for the Red-sponsored state.
Syria was in the throes of po
litical turmoil once again. A group
of Syrian officers today imprison
er their commander-in-chief, Gen
eral Sami Hennawi. who let last
August’s military coup and exe
cuted President Husni Zayim.
An army communique charged
Hennawi had conspired against
the present government of Pre
mier Hasem Bey Attasi with uni
dentified foreign powers.
Arab sources in Cairo said sup
porters of the late Zayim had
launched a coup aimed at the re
gime which Hennawi installed im
mediately after Zavim’s over
throw. They interpreted the con
spiracy charge as a reference to
Hennawai’s reported support of a
plan for a greater Syria to be cre
ated from a merger of Iraq, Syria,
and perhaps Hashemite Jordan.
The United Nations trusteeship
council makes a fresh start today
on drafting a statute for interna
tional rule of Jerusalem.
Congressman Asks
For Defense Of
^Northwest, Alaska
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WASHINGTIN, </Pi — An Ore
I gon Congressman said Friday
night that every communist ad
vance in the Far East increases
the danger of the “inadequately
defended” Pacific Northwest and
Alaska.
Rep. Norblad <R.-Ore.> then an
nounced that all members of the
Oregon and Washington Congres
sional delegation and the Delegate
from Alaska will hold up a non
partisan meeting next month in an
effort to work out a new defense
plan for the area.
In his appearance on a radio
news program. Norblad said the
security of the Northwest should
be of equal concern to all parts of
the country.
He cited government plans to
move industries inland from the
Northwest, then asked:
"But what of the people who
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j ‘.ration leaders definitely wi.' ask
1 an unwilling Congress to extend
I the peacetime draft for three more
eyars.
It was learned Saturday that
Secretary of Defense Johnson and
Secretary of State Acheson will
urge the extension at the next ses
sion as a necessary part of the all
out defense against communism.
The present act, passed by a re
luctant Congress in 1948, is due
to expire June 24.
One Congressional source, who
asked that his name not be used,
said the selective service exten
sion “is number one item on de
fense legislative musts.”
live there ?What can they do to
protect themselves?”
Next month’s meeting, he said,
will attempt to answer tho-c ques
tions.
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