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SIHOTSTXCHAN GED ACROSS BORDER IN TEN SE TRIESTE

Flood Damage In Quebec, Ontario Amounts To Millions

Briton Urges Atomic Bomb Shelter Policy t

LONDON, March 32 - (Reuters) a-Sir John Anderson, former chair- man of the British Advisory Com- mittee on Atomic Energy, today urged the devising o! a policy of shone; ggaiHSt atomic bombs - a policy which could be put into ef- fect at short notice,

opening a debate in the House o! Commons on civil defence, Sir John, former Chancellor of the Exchequer in Winston Churchill's wartime coalition government. said the consequences of an explosion ‘ of an atomic bcmb might. for the purposes of shelter policy. be con- sidered under four heads:

i1) ‘The blast from the explo- gion; ('2) the risk of {flash burns - burning by the radiation of heat; i3) radiation and (4) con- taniiilfltiOfl.

The blast wave of an atomle explosion, he said. presented all the characteristics of an ordinary explosion, except immediately near

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Americans To Stay In Berlin

BERLIN, March 22 _ (A?) — Americans intend to stay in Ber- lin. Gen. Lucius D. Clay said to- day. This was the United States Military Governor's blunt response to a Russian boycott which virt- ually halted ' four-power’ govern- ment of Germany.

The boycott was-accompanied by renewed suggestions in Russian- conlroiied. newspapers that the western Powers get out of town. Clay said in an interview:

"We are in Berlin by agreement. just as the Russians are in Saxony and Tiurringia (territory conquer- ed l-‘y United States troops) by ag- rcrmcnl. We intend to stay."

Coming Events

"Dance in Fort Augustus School Monday. March 29th. Good music.

“Unloading ‘blur of hay at Brudzilbane on Monday and Westley. Walter G. MaoKenzie.

"To arrive. cu- of choice dou- ble re-cleaned 2 O.W. Mberta

Strong Language llseil By British Delegate To ii. ll.

_...._ By PAT USSREB.

LAKE SUCCESS. hfarch 22 - (OP) -- Britain declared today that the tide of Communist advance must be "dammed back" gnd warn- ed that "there is an undeniable risk" that it may riot be possible to do thig by peaceful means.

Sir Alexander Cadogan told the

Warns 0f Danger In

emoeratic

Rights And Privileges

Solemn warning against tamper- ing with democratic rights under the guise of ‘benevolent’ dictator- ship was sounded in the Legislat- ure last week by Mr. D. L. Mathia- son. Junior member for the Fifth District of Queen's, in speaking in

the Budget debate. "We are so engrossed in provin-

before long it is quite possible that we may be called upon to defend

Mr. Mathieson said. "One demo- cracy after another is falling in the approaching tide. Were it not for the courageous stand of tho President of the United States we could anticipate that very soon another country would be sub-

Security Council that the Com- munists had assumed control in five Eastern European countries by intrigue and "the latest example is the win d’etat in Czechoslov- akia. which bears the regular hall- mark."

The British delegate spoke af- ter the Council had voted 9 to 2 to hear Jan Papanek, former Czech representative to the United Ne- lions. present his case that Mos- cow engineered the Ccm-nunist assumption of power in his coun-

try.

Declaring he had direct evid- ence that Moscow engineered the Government ahakeup in Prague, Papanek. who was ousted by the new Communist administration from his UN. post. said: "God help me, I shall prove this to you."

He said direct pressure from Prime Minister Stalin himself fo-ced Czechoslovakia last year to reverse the decision to participate in the Marshall Plan conference in Paris.

"I categorically reject any sug- gestion that President Benes is a free man." Papanek said. He con- tended that Benes would have re- sinned If he were free.

Sir Alxander blamed Russia dir- ectly for the Communist grab in 9'" "l- Itwasthesame familiar pattern which had swept Romania. Bulgaria, Albania. un- kary and Poland into the ovlet sphere.

Sir Alexander's denunciation of Soviet expsnsionlsm was the strongest big power attack thus far in the Council on the Communist drive in Europe.

Chinese Gov’t Army

011$. $3.50 per 100- Book.

"Dance in Vernon Hall. Easter-l‘ Monday. March 29m. Good music. Lunch served.

_“Notlce—-Gar Cement due ti» ar- ‘ rive about April lst Get. your orders

now. G. C. Green, Emerald. “Loading ogs at Fredericton for Liinsda ckere every Thursday‘

till 11 A. _M. llld COiVUJI ll-lltll 1.3. D- L. MacDowell.

"Offer for limited time No. 1 Timothy Seed 10o lb. in 120 lb. bag lots. no charge for bags. Clark Bros. Mount Stewart. Montague, 5t. Peter's Bay Stores. .

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Ordera on oar d anlalt ‘mndlsl. roofing paper. felt paper, "lir- Oourt a Son.

"Fellini-up Debate and Oom- "Hniiv Meetlnl. Cherry Valley fhooi. Wednesday evening at 730

. P. Molsaac, Secretary.

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mzl! (second floor) Saturday.

Men 21th at nor. u. ivy Duc- fnm Women's-madam.

"Notion-Car Hay arriving this {"3- Book your. This is lestcar “l? letting. G. O. Green, limer-

“Tlure will ’ be a gel-Inn's mm School. Tuesday. ‘mlhfitlnll7hllofalitlwee "hr-ma in a Potato Warehouse a as Road.

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NANKING, March 22-(AP) The Chinese Government's army, like a pundl-drunk fighter, has never recovered its balance since the Communists dealt a hard blow to the heart of China six month; ago.

Chlang Kai-Shek has just ex- pressed fears of collapse in Cent- ral china. descylbinl it as his Gov- ernment's last reservoir of strength, but foreign observers date the complete lo of civil war initiative to the Reds from the time late in Austin when one-eyed Conrmunlst Gen. Llu Po-Oheng thrust lnm the Yangtze valley.

War Warning Given

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merged. It is a time when we might very properly analyze what the functions are of a democratic institution, and the duty of legis- lators in this and other democratic assemblies.

“There was some criticism that the leader of the Opposition brought up the question of fiscal need. I think that should be re- peated every year, because it is something we are all inclined to forget. If we neglect doing so. there may come a time when there will be nobody combatant to speak to the Dominion Government on this subject. If it had not been for the interest taken in the rights of this Province many years ago we would now be in a very prim- itive state. 5o I wish to compli- ment my colleague and leader for carrying on the traditions and bringing our education on the subject up to date. '

“As for the financial history of the Province for the past year. i think the main criticism has been well expressed by the leader of the Government himself when he vigorously criticised the heads o.’ the various departments. particul- arly the Ministers of Public Works and Highways, and Health and

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Forecast ilew Price Boost In Newsprint

TRENTON. NIL. March 22 — (AP) Newspaper publishers were told today they may expect further increases in the price of newsprint. .

The warning was made by Cran- ston Williams. manager of the Am- erican Newspapci- Publishers As- sociation, in an address to the New Jersey Plihllfvls Association.

“Further advances in prices may be expected unless publishers in- dividually talk with their sources of supply, outlining the great in- creases in publication costs for the newspapers including payrolls as well as newsprint," Williams said.

The present base price of Can- adian and Newfoundland newsprint is 897 a ton.

Willlims said total North Amer- ican hUWSpfillt production for the first two months of i048 ‘was 12.275 tons below the first two months of i947.‘

In United States House

WASHINGTON, March 22 -' (AW-The House of Represent- atives cleared the decks today for ‘immediate debate on the question ofbuildiag a_ 00.205.000.000 Illlhet Communion: in Europe and the For East.

Warned that the possibility of a third world war “is not very re- mote." the ‘Home rules committee called for 1s hours of general de- bate to sis-rt shortly after noon tuners-ow.

IAmendments to the far-ranging measure-which adds military and economic aid to Greece, ‘Put-key and Chile to the 85.800.000.000 European Reeoveryrrogrun-vrill be taken up neat week.

House Moors

prldb final action‘ shortly after April 1. Ill/h '

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qgu came quickly on two other

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force-military. if neeessay that will stop them."

Action to provide sum a force- inlllt-ary as well as eooswrnie- eon- graaslonal fronts:

1. The House passed a bill Providing B 055000.000 advance to France. Italy and Austria to tide them over rmtil the

European Rsoovery Program can get going. The measure now goes to the Senate.

2. The Senate Foreign Rs- lations Committee . ‘- ed sasooooooo for dun»- _ $100.000.000 of it to be used for weapons or other military pur- poses at the option of China's anti-Conununlat government.

an this lies mama the 06.20a- 000000 llouse bill. which includes:

U500. for the Recovery e the". Moth of Piepeiodent ‘Err; fill . other j [are uaiv anil- m) . and e temporary

ciai matters that we forget that

democracy" in the outside world."

Four Deaths‘ Attributed To Flood Gonditions

By The Canadian Press

Damage was estimated in mil- lions of dollars today as residents of suburban Ottawa, Southern Ontario and southern Quebec took stock of widespread destruction caused by roaring flood waters that boiled through streets and farms, halting business and cutting roads and railways.

Melting snows and heavy swelled the freshets that trans- formed ice-locked streams into surging torrents. spilling over their banks to carry away homes. build- ings. bridges and municipal in- stallations. At least four deaths were attributed to flood conditions. One man was missing.

Three of the deaths were in Ontario and one in Quebec. where lwilfrld Martin, 50. succumbed to a. heart attack while watching giant ice floes battering down buildings on Bromptcnvillek main street. .

Otilier deaths: Jirmany Lindsay, 5. drowned in the swollen Gan- araska River at Port Hope; Andy Liz-rose, 7. drowned in flood wat- ers in a field near Lindsay; three- year-old Betty Byer. drowned at Stouffville. In addition. Fred Varivauikenburg. 75-year-old trap- per, was missing after being seen

rains

Sunday in a small boat. on a swollen creek at Napanee. The flood situation at-a-glanoe:

Ontario:

Grand Riven-worst apparently over as river recedes after reach- ing at some points highest levels recorded since 1883. Widespread destruction and 40 _ homes still

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ExpeetiianarlaToBaelr ll. S. iln Palestin

OTTAWA. March 22 - (GP)- Canada. will probably support the United States proposal for a tem- porary truateeship over Palestine now that Washington has sudden- ly switched its policy from parti- tion of the Holy Land into Jew- ish and Arab states. .

The Cabinet here will consids: the question tomorrow and is ex- pected to approve the plan to back the new U. S. scheme.

Gasualties Mount In lloly Land

JERUSALEM. March 22 4am -,-The Holy Land tonight experi- enced the bloodiest 24 hours of Jewish-Arab communal violence since the U.N. decision on partit- ion. Incomplete casualty figures showed B6 dead in widely scattered engagements.

British military roared into act- ion at Haifa and Hartuv in an

attempt to check Palestlrws ria- ing tide of civil war.

Battles still were raging at Haifa on the Jerusalem-Lydda railway line. British reinforce- ments rushed into l-lartuv which hag been under Arab attack for

four days. The settlement is lur- rounded by approximately 1.000 Arab liregulars.

Lumberlaelr Sentenced To Be flanged July 1S

MONTREAL. March H - (OP) - naoul Blllnet, the lullblrllck who collapsed Friday when a Court of King's Bench jury convicted him of the I060 murder of Mrs. Noelle Denoinrnee. today was sentenced to be hanged next July l0. Mr. Just- ice Wllfrid Iialuro delayed sentence Friday when Eeainet collapsed and had to be taken out of the court room.

Shooting Affair In ll.S. Province llouse

HALIFAX. March 22 -(CP)— Raymond Flemming tonight. was charged with wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm alter Alexander Fraser, 34-year-old Province House clerk, was shot in the hip as he entered his office in Nova Scotia's legislative building.

Other clerks in nearby offices said Fraser had just returned from lunch when the gunman fired at him. Fraser staggered into a washroom pursued by his assailant whose gun had jammed. ,

Shortly after the shooting RCM.’ P. reported that a mam giving his name as Raymond Flemming had walked into their headquarters, directly across the street from Province House. He had been handed over to city police.

When two clerks went to open the washroom door after the gun- man left Fraser shouted: "Don't open it if he's still there.”

Fraser's condition was not con- sidered serimis by hospital author- l itlcs.

No reason for the shooting was advanced immediately by police. '

Change Seen In British Thinking

By Stuart Under-hill

LONDON March 22 —(CP)— Events in Europe in the last few weeks have resulted in a sharp change in British thinking-the people's interest has been dragged off their own problems and focus- aed on the troubled continent.

Until the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia. it was hard to arouse rnuoh public interest in any development not directly affecting Britain. Now, although economic difficulties are as great as ever. there ls a new appreciation of the international angle.

‘Ilhere is no desperate feeling that war Ls inevitable. But there is wide-spread frustration. worry and fear at the political forces wrest- ling with one another across the English Channel.

The Englishman who had im- passively watched the reorganizat- ion of the Empire felt a twinge of

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concern when reductions in the strength of the armed services were announced recently. A. few

cnonths before he probably would have agreed “with a group that wanted the forces reduced almost to nothing, ostensibly to provide manpower for civilian production. For years. Workers in this coun- try have sizzled everytime anyone suggested that the Franco regime in Spain be recognized. But when Portugal suggested Spain as a partner in the European Recovery Program at Paris last week-a sug- gestion politely ignored by the other countries present -— there wasn't a. murmur of protest- That silence indicated that con- fusion now is prevalent. Thousands of workinglmen must think: If it came to a showdown. which would be the worst-the Franco regime or Ccmmimism? They probably will never like Franco but if Foreign Secretary Bevin had to swallow the bitter plii of recognizing the

Power Situation In Ontario llas improved

TORONTO. March 32 — (OP) - Compulsory interruptions of hyd- ro-electric power service ended to- day with the QIIIIOUIICQIIIQIIt by Robert H. Saunders. chairman of the Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission that improved water conditions had made the blackouts no longer necessary.

Mr. Saunders added. however that the end of compulsory inter- ruptions did not mean there was iota of power available. Voluntary rationing would have to continue. lfiirtherntore, 1f water condition! became worse or an emergency arose restrictions would be rekn-

posed.

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still difficult. has changed to the degree that Britain is less cancer-n- ed about supplies of wheat other grain obtainable in sterling and soft ciurency areas.

source during and after the war, now is being supplemented by large purchases in Australia, a sterling iarea. »

.a.vailable. food authorities hesitat- ed to relax rationing shortage of potatoes. Their intent-

ration if it was maintain the potato allocation on the present basis of three pounds a head weekly.

the market from the earliest crops and in a. few months the Govern- ment will know whether the in- creased potato acreage will produce quantities needed to meet unrat- ioned demand.

Parliament At A Glance

an all-time hlgih capital expendi- ture program of 82.800.000.000.

strength to defeat by a vote of i9 to 72 a ruling that a section of the dollar-saving program had been beaten on a standing division.

Centre) described as a "costly de- bacle" failure of a Combines Act prosecution against dental supply firms.

to stall

handling of Government legisla- lion.

lous legislation. The Senate sit.

INSANE CRINHNALS AT LARGE

Spanish leader. he could be sure OUIBHE. . 0 t" of the nudging sympathy of many Mfcmhugxé“ _ (CQL _ T?“ °7 m‘ “mmvfl-S‘ criminally insane siayers who

escaped Saturday night from the Ontario mental hospital here still were at large tonight. The iilfltlvll. Melville Wlikie of Owen Sould. and Henry Leo Cada Rouge. Mich, hospital guard and lifted his keys.

Yiigoslavs Would Trade Trieste For Gorizia

Confused

Voting

Scenes witnessed In

Commons

Bread, Potato Rationing May End In Britain .

l B! James McCook LONDON, March 22 --(CP) _

The next few months nzay see the end of both potato and bread rat- ioning. infontned sources said to- day.

The world food situation, while

and

Wheat from Canada, the main

Even with adequate bread grain due to the

bread to

on was to increase the impossible

New potatoes now are coming on

Yesterday

B! Dollllll How

OTPAWH. March 22 —(CP)— One of the segments of Finance Minister Abbott's dollar-saving program was tainted with parlia- mentary defeat today, but Government marshailed its voting strength to put things aright amid a. storm cf protest. '

The Commons’ confusion passe-d even that provoked week WlhEll Trade Minister Howe virtually asked Government sup- porters to defeat his own motion that a wwheat bill be split in two.

It saw:

1. The House, sitting in committee of ways and means, take a standing vote ‘vuiich de- feated the Government 43 to 39 on one of six sections in the resolution that would imple- ment the ZS-per-cent excise tax

sur- last

e l patrols in the two

Italian Sift Pleased With Trieste Offer 4 '

(By Philip Clarke)

ROME. March Z2 —(AP)—Th.l United States Military Govern. ment in Trieste announced tonight that shots had been exchanged at the tense border separating the Yugoslav from the U. S-Britisl! Zones of the Trieste Free Terri- .tory. The

incident involved police zones. One po- ‘liceman was wounded. He was a lmember of the party on" the Bri- tish-American side of the line.

Announcement of the outbreak came as the Italian Government accepted with satisfaction the Wes-tern Powers’ proposal to re- turn the entire AOO-square-mile free territory at the head of the Adriatic to Italy.

Meanwhile, Yugoslavian Foreign Minister said his government ii ivilling to consider giving the my of Trieste itself to Italy provided Yugoslavia gets Gorizia, an Italian town north of the great port.

Such an exchange was proposed

announced Nov. 1.8. before the I ‘an peace treaty Z M1‘. Abbott then Argued was signed. remier Alcide da that 1?"? Fesiillltm" must be Gasperi said Sunday in a political

put as a whole and that the vote on the sub-section had been a mistake and didn't count He appealed the ruling of WH. Golding iL-Huron- Perth). committee chairman. that the motion had been lost.

3. The Government, on a formal vote, defeated the three Opposition parties 79 to 72. thus leaving a vote on the

‘Reefer Car

Stressed

(Canadian Prose) Trade Minister Howe indicated

The Government marshailed

John Diafenbaker (PC-bake

a group _ of

Two Liberal Senators combined a proposal for speedy

Tuesday The ‘Commons will discuss van WI

of River overpowered a

speech, possibly anticipating s. re- newal of the offer, that "we could not. accept ‘Trieste for Gorizia."

De Gasperi and Foreign ivlinis- ter Carlo Sforza were travelling tonight and were unavailable 10'». comment on the Yugoslav state- ment. Forcign Ministry official! declined oqrnrnent.

The fatehof Trieste has become an issue in Italy's parliamentary‘,

gilltOelé resolution for a later election of 1km “won at the night sitting, a C.C.l". lézlrinlilmfigljisgrgi m" ‘m. l“ 1S“ "l amendment which would have Because u meg“ (Continued on Page 5 Col. T) proposal last Saturday from the United. tes. Britain sa-l