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Big Three Agree
On Management
Qf Germany
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2—(/P)—
The Big Three in a six thousand
word report of the Potsdam meet
ing announced the creation of a
Big Five Council of Foreign Min
isters, including China and France
to write European peace treaties,
the first meeting to be held in
London on September first.
It also slapped Franco of Spain
in expressing readiness to support
application for United Nations
membership of all European neu
trals except Spain. Only indirect
ly was Japan mentioned and then
only a military reference “during
the conference there were meet
ings of the chiefs of staff of the
three governments on military
matters of common interest.”
The historic report was issued
as President Truman sped home
on the Cruiser Augusta.
The Big Three agreed in politi
cal matters that quite as far as
possible there would be a uni
formity of treatment of German
population throughout Germany.”
Economically “Germany is to
be treated as a single unit,”
through the fullest use of German
administrative machinery in order
to bring home to Germans that
any breakdown of these controls
rests with themselves.” Germany
must rid herself of cartels and
trusts.
Generally the four powers will
collect reparations from the zones
they occupy.
The communique said that all
four reparations claimants have
access “to German external as
sets.” Russia is to give up claim to
gold captured by the Allies. Rus
sia is to get fifteen percent of ma
chine tools and similar equipment
from the western zones in ex
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Bomb Explosion
Shortens Truman’s
London Visit
LONDON, Aug. 3 — (/P) — The
Evening News speculated that the
explosion of a bomb detonated by
disposal squads a few hours be
fore President Truman’s arrival
might have been the reason for
shortening of the tour of Ply
mouth streets, and missing the
waiting dignitaries and crowds.
The bomb was a medium
weight relic of Nazi blitz days.
Other papers had expressed an
noyance at the change in plans
and blamed the American Secret
Police.
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CAPTURING LUZON 0AM-Yank, of the J8th In.
fantry division cautiously round a curve near the Wawa dam on
Luzon. In their successful drive to wrest the last link in Manila’s
water supply system from Japanese control.
Superforts Effect
Complete
Shipping Blockade
By LIN SPENCER
GUAM, Aug. 3 — </P) — The
Twentieth Airforce has announc
ed that Superforts have estab
1 lished a complete shipping block
ade of the Japanese home islands.
Reporting that huge mining op
erations have been carried out by
the Twentieth Airforce, the
spokesman estimated that Japan’s
teeming millions are receiving
less than half the food and raw
materials needed to carry on the
war and to feed the troops and
civilians, and as a result they are
now dipping heavily into their
stores.
The spokesman said every har
bor of any importance throughout
the home islands and Korea, from
Fusan to Rashin in northern Ko
rea near Siberia have been, and
are being mined by Superforts.
Summing up Japan’s desperate
situation headquarters announced
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Territories
Committee
Touring Alaska
SEATTLE, Aug. 3 — Delegate
Bartlett, with members of the
House Committees on Territoreis,
is enroue to Alaska on an inspec
tion trip. A sub-committee of the
House Roads Committee is to ac
company the Territories group as
far as Anchorage. They will make
an investigation of the Alaska
Highway, and will study the prob
lems of highway transportation
throughout the Territory.
The Territories Committee will
make a thorough study of the
governmental structure of Alaska.
The itinerary of the Territories
Committee, of probably a month’s
duration, calls for stops at all
main points from Ketchikan to
Point Barrow.
WILL LEAVE SOON
FOR THE OUTSIDE
Mr. Stephen Ball who is pres
ently employed by the U. S. E. D.
will leave shortly for the States.
France Had Secret
Agreements With
Italy And Britain
J
PARIS, Aug. 3— f/P) —Pierre
Laval declared at the Petain trea
son trial he had signed a secret
military alliance with Mussolini
after 1936 “to bond Italy and
France together against German
aggression which had already be
gun in Austria.”
The Vichy government chief was
brought back to France in cap
tivity two days ago and said that
General Maurice Gam/eliti and
Marshal Pietro Badoglio, who be
came Italian Premier after Mus
solini’s fall signed the secret
agreement. He testified also that
the famous “Hoare-Laval” agree
I ment binding France and Great
Britain in a secret compact “was
i known to Prime Minister Stanley
; Baldwin and the entire British
| government.”
Laval said the agreement with
Hoare was directed toward block
ing German aggression. He said
the British were informed of the
secret Italian agreement.
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Japs Anticipate
Allied Invasion
Very Soon
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3—(/P)
—Five hundred United States
warships, including battleships,
and cruisers, have been recently
concentrated in the Okinawa area.
The newspaper Yomiuri Hochi,
quoted by Radio Tokyo warned
that a landing operation against
Japan might come in the near fu
ture, “even as early as next
month,” but said if it is attempted
before 1946 the United States
would be able to send only forty
divisions.
U. S. Fisheries
Representatives
Arrive In Nome
Mr. A. W. Anderson and Mr.
Carl Carlson of the U. S. Bureau
of Fisheries arrived from Fair
banks yesterday to meet with the
committee of the Chamber of
Commerce and other interested
persons in making a fish survey
of Bering Sea.
They are visiting Northwestern
Alaska at the request of the Alas
ka Development Board and yes
terday had a long conference with
the committee composed of G. R.
Jackson, Carl Lomen and Antonio
Poiet, who presented information
at hand and reasons why the pro
ject was necessary to be under
taken.
This morning another meeting
was held with Father La Fortune
who showed evidence of the
abundance and variety of sea
food in the vicinity of King Is
land. Winfred Amngayou reported
on the quantities of cod, crab and
halibut around St. Lawrence Is
land and told how the Japs had,
for many years, visited and fished
there with floating canneries. The
survey will continue this week.
ChineseParatroops
To Launch Large
Jap Attacks
CHUNGKING, Aug. 3— (JP)—
Lt. Gen. Wedemeyer, United
States Commander in China in
dicated American trained Chinese
forces, including paratroopers,
soon would launch “large scale
attacks” against the Japs.
They have been training for six
months. He said also that supply
shipments over the Hump are in
creasing but “our goal is sea com
munications.”
Big Three Agreement Makes Germany
Nation Of Farming And Home Industry
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By LOUIS P. LOCHNER
BERLIN, Aug. 3—-Inter
preting the Big Three report it
appears that: One—the conditions
imposed on defeated Germany
make the Versailles Treaty look
like child’s play. Two—The Big
Three intended firmly to hold the
world’s fate in their hands as
final arbiters. Three—The Soviet
emerges as the dominating power
in Europe. Four—Russia, in con
trol of Koenigsberg and former
German Baltic regions, has im
proved her position as a maritime
power. Five—The western Allies'
in the war in the Pacific received
the indorsement of Marshal Stalin
in that the Russian leader agreed
that Italy is to be rewarded by
an early peace treaty for joining
in the war against Japan.
The Versailles Treaty left Gor
man industry, shipping and avia
tion, while the Potsdam agree
ment eliminates any world action
in these fields and tells the Ger
mans to stick to farming and do
mestic industries; thus shattering
the hopes of the Germans that
they may have a nation and again
become a great exporting nation.