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llalestine Seen As Base For Britain In Middle East y

(By M" B0911)

513,0, Au . (AP)—The pro- posed evacuaiior of Britain's "oops from Egypt after a. stay of s4 years is concentrating attention on Palestine's possibilities as a base from which Britain may guard her oil and key communb CBiBOHS in the Middle East.

Most military men agree that g ll the best base in this part of the world. If the front door on the Mediterranean is clos- ed as it was to a considerable cx- tent by Axis airplanes for a time during the Second Grea: War, supplies con come through the Red Sea. It has airfields. army and naval depots built up over a

riod of many years and is a crossroads of commercial air lines. rt has the rich farmland of the Nile Valley and the Ruban work- ers of Cairo and Alexandria to back up a military force.

Since the war, however, all Egypt has been demanding that ma British re-negotiate the treaty under which they operate here, and take their for es out. There have been demons ratiom. and gronndes have been thrown into British service clubs and among British soldiers on the streets. Britain's Labor Govern- ment, hoping to win EZYDfs good will and a new alliance, proposed a withdrawal agreement.

Few export this to he accomp- lished overnight’. Reliable ‘sour- ces say. however. that the troops definitely are going and that the first phase, involving withdrawal

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of trorvps from Cairo and other cities to the Suez Canal zone within something like ' eight months. is already tlndcr way.

In the Canal zone the R. A. l".|

maintains a major base with sup-K

porting shops, and the British army has enormous supply depots. When Britain will leave tht last of these has been the subject c-f much discussion between Anglo- Ecyplinn delegations negotiating the now trootv, Three to five years is one period mentioned.

Next to Egypt. Palestine is re- gardcd its the best available base. It lies across the path of any at- lack on the canal from the north- east. It is noxt door to Egypt and connected by rnil and road. Should

Coming Events

"Talkies - Emerald Thursday. "Talkies — Moi-ell Tuesday.

"Movies at Borden konlght.

"Picnic at Grand River on Wed- nesday, Angus. 1th.

"Talkies — Malpeque Wednes- day.

"Dance and refreshlnents at st. Patrick's School. Lot 2M. Aug. 5th.

"Dance. Mount.Stewart Hall, blvlluay, August alh. Rollie Mac- henzlcs orchestra.

"DANCE 111d ICE Cream Bi. D011-

agh School, Thursday. Aug. 8th. Hughes‘ orchestra. "Anniversary meat supper. St.

plat-id's Hall. Georgetown Thurs- oal‘. August 8th.

_"Come to stiighrs Church Plo- gtl; at Cropaud. Wednesday. August l .

"Dance. St. 'I‘ercso's llall, Mon- day. August 5th. Webster Orch- eszra.

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"Annual Chicken Supper. Corran Ban. Wednesday. August 7th. Meals serrcd frc-rn 5 o'clock. Dance. ice cr om, etc.

"Como to outdoor dance RlisllCO- villi: Bridge. Monday, August 5th. Refreshments. Good music.

"Collecting lions for Davis an! Fraser L.td.. every Tuesday Write 0r phone collect. R N. Dawson.

"ice Cream _and Danw. Orwell

Ijob thcy started a umek 3gQ_

Egypt agree to the return of Bri- 'tlsh forces in an international lelmeggency, they would be right at

an .

The coastal plain o! Palestine. between Tel Avlv and Jerusalem, already holds several R. A. fields and can take many more.

Haifa offers a partial substitute for the naval facilities of Alt-x- andria and Port Said. and a pipe- line from the Mosul oilfielcll h Iraq makes available fuel for the Mediterranean fleet there.

To the east, across the Goad Sea and the River Jordan, lies Trans Jordan, the desert and

mountain Kingdom of King Ab- dullah. Britain has treaty rights to maintain troops there.

Farther to the east and north is Iraq, reputed cradle of civiliz- ation. whose 11-year-old King Felsal II, grandson of another Bri- tish ally of the First Great War, was welcomed warmly on a re- cent visit to England.

N.B. Fires Under Control

(By The Canadian Press) |

MONCTON. N.B.. Aug. “new”. pails of smoke hung over burned

woodland areas of Eastern New Brunswick tonight while weary forcsters maintained that; vlgiL

waiting for rain to help finish the

E311)’ this morrung Chief For. 95m‘ G» L- li/illlel‘. after a tour of the burned area. said the fires were undercontrol. but with a Sllfi breeze swinging up later to- dav. flames again appeared.

The lire. however. was either burning over land already black. erred by flame. or wasldeep-rooted l lrrbushland and bog where Mlllerl said onlv heavy rain could extlng-l ulsh it.

The freshcnlng breeze today turned the fire into the blackened area. in the Aem Lake district. onlv five miles from Moncton. and there uuls no immediate danger.

The menace to Shediac, North-

umberlalad Strait resort town threatened earlier in the week. was also eliminated for the pres-

ent but Miller said that four days cf steady raln would be needed to dcslroythe fire menace altogether.

Saturday forcsters moving be- hind a spearhead of bulldozers scored a victory over two fires in (he Aero Lake district and at Scoudouc. eight miles away from

course. In December i940 he went

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Appointment As Quartermaster 5th Div. Signals

Maj. ‘F. S. Jenkins HALIFAX. Aug. 3-—'I’he appoint.

meat as Quartermaster of 5th Dlv. Signals. Royal Canadian Sig-

lzeen announced by Military auth- critics.

‘Major Jenkins enlisted ln _No. 6 District. Signals, R. c, signals (NPAM) tn 1937 and received his commission as a Lieutenant with this unit in i930. when war broke Out ln 1939 M8101‘ Jenkins report- c-d for acllve service and served with the Sydney detachment of No. 8 District Signals until June 1940. At that time he proceeded to the Canadian Signals Training Centre. Vlmv Barracks. Kingston. Ont., for a six months signal

overseas and joined the Signals holding unit in England where he was employed in training Artll- lerv Regimental Slgnallers.

In Mav i941 he become 2 i/c No. 1 Line section 1st Con. Corps Signals. In November that year he was made O.C. No. 2 operating w)’, 1st Carl. Corlls Signals. In May the following yvar Major Jenkins became O.C. of the 7th

Anti-tank Regiment Signal sec- tion and remained with this unit until March 1943. At. that. lime

lle scrvcd as administrative officer

No. 2 Coy. lst Canadian Corps Signals. In June 1943 Major Jenkins

went to Armv Signals as O.C. No. 3 Can. Pigeon Section with ‘the rnrlk of Captain. After serving

‘nere, when they prevented them from merging. l

Through the fire-break torn by‘ the heavy machines. the flre-,‘ fllzhtintl crews were able to move. attacking the fire on a new front.

The third major fire in the Moncton area. botwcen MacDoug- oil's and Scotch Settlement. l2,

clouds of smoke ionlillli as roots o trees burned by last week's crow-n fire continued to amoulder.

muffin. ilas Resigned

‘ANKARA. Aug. 4- llable informants sllid today I"l~>

mler Sulcru Saracoglus cabinet \vould resign tomorrow and leeccp Poker. an old-time politician with rightist leanings. lvc-uld he isketl to form n new government.

_ These informants said such art-l lon would represent tho gala-call upheaval ln the Turkinsh Govern-t mcnt since the death of President

(APw-Ro-

Kemal Ataturk in 11138 and the subsequent. election by the No- tional Assembly of his successor. (Jen. Ismct Illrlilll.

(In a dlsplalch from Istanbul

Sunday, Reuters news nqont-y .~’l|fl the Saracoglu Government "un- expectedly resigned today" add-

Hall, Wednesday, August 7th. Mill-

"lce cream and dance. Emerald "All. Monday. Aug. 5th. Sponsored by the C.W.L

“Ioc Cream. Dance, Fort Augus tus ‘Hall, Tuesday. August 61h. Rollie McKenzleh Orchestra.

J "Chicken Supper in grove of St. H°hhs Church. Belfast. August. 7th. Ours 4 to 7 (Standard Time.)

"Buying dressed. daily. St. Peter's Bay.

Poultry, live Md P. A. MacDonald.

"Collecting B; w: Davls a riser every Thursday. Write mo i" Phone N. A. Cutcllffo. Freder- "Oh. D. L. McDowell.

""814: Su r". alone. other gfwmenu. stclla Maris School d ounds. North Rustlco, Wednes- w. August ‘Itth.

“Meet! ofTh-e-Prince Edward {$18M Rendlstered Nurses‘ Associa- cztos misc": "slat":- beglnnmg-n 3'00 p‘ '. “Ills t.

"leldlnu hon at st Peters for ‘Rayner-om us. each ‘meson. M truck olekuo service from farm

cor. phone Roddle Pratt Llli-lfl-lf-mt-Ltt

"call-mil"! ma: for» Davis and five"; even mdav. Sourls mo.» A“. _rtuno Bridge. 81v Fortune

anoole. Dunou Brldnetnsm acorn bt all.

view Qrche5,tra_ Presldcclt Inonu to form a new _ cabinet.)

“fill-the. Ice Cream, Bnzav 'ns:l"";)"l!1u. former iUP-"llll milli-

ut] p1 ‘ Lt [I 5 i‘ . ccamo prcnlicl" it oll y,

A 111518318 . ‘ch00 mun‘ ' 1042. aflcl‘ the death of iDr. Rcfik

in: that Poker had been tlok/‘(l by

Saytlam. The present cahlllcl. was reformed in March. 1943. but Saracoglu retained the lnololer-

shliip.

ormai announcement of the cabinet resignation was expected simultaneously with the first meeting of the National Assembly which will contain a sprinkling of opposition deputies, including 62 members of the new democratic party chosen in the elections two weeks ago.

Support Ambassador In tinder-Dover Struggle

WASHINGTON. Aux. 4—(AP)— State Secretary Byrnes and act- inl Secretary Acheson threw their su port behind Ambassador Arthur Bl ss Lane Saturday in what n?» pears to be an tinder-cover flirllklzle with President Boleslatv Beirut of Poland.

Some diplomatic authorities here take the view thnt thc incident i: simply an event in the greater conflict over eastern Europe be- twem the United States an-l Rus-

sa.

What Messrs. Byrnes and Ach- eson did was issue an extraordin- ary statement declarlna ihfli "P" spte a recent unusual attack on Ambassador Lane

by President

Beirut "Ambassador Lane. con-

tinues to enjoy the complM W1‘

fidence" of the American Govern- merit.

The statement was N" F" M"

with the ap roval of Mr. Byrnes, Lwho 1| in srls attending the - p000 osntanaci.

miles avrav. was sending up dense .Ma.ior and made C0. of Admin-

~' 750000.000 American loan but

in this capacity for four months he was made Security Officer 3rd Can. Div. Signals in December 104-3 and served with this outfit until the cnd of hostilities. From Mav 1M5 until October. .\ta.ior Jenkins served as SPO. in No. 3 Call. Robot Depot, when he was promoted to the rnnl: of

tstration Coy. No. 3 Wing 3rd Can. Repat. Depot. Major Jenkins re- ceived a "Mentioned in Despat- ones" during his services in the Western European theatre of war.

Ho rcltlrncd to Canada and re- tired from active service on the W11 of May i046 with the rank of ltfni-lr.

Prior to the outbreak of World War II. Mainr Jenkins filUZhi school in Alexandra. P. .I.

Mei": atlfl Mrs Jcnki‘ and son. Gralhnln. rc=ide in Charlotte»! (own Mrs Jenkins. “lilo was an lilti~li>l~ ~irl lust recently arrived in the Dominion.

Britain Makes Limited Ilse 0f Loan Funds

(By John Scull) WASHINGTON. Aug. 4_(APl-— Great Britain has begun lo spmd part of tile recccllLv-granlcd $3.- on

for liplitcth purchases. 'El'.ibas_ officials said IOtiEV.

High prices m the United States were described as a factor in tho hold-down.

Tho first drafts on the $300000.- 000 advance the United States ric- posited in New York already have been drawn. they said. but cXJPl- ly ho\v much has been spcnt has not been determined.

Those officials said the initial slice of the American credit would pay for "essential purchases" such

as dried eggs, cotton. motion ic- ture films, wheat and other ood items.

All those represent purchases such as Britain made in the Un- ited Btates during wartime but which they say she would hove

been forced to cut drastically had not Congress approved the loan agreement. last month.

Although the next purchases "le- pend on availability of "cons. these officials estimated that the 8300000000 instalment would last three to four months under pre- sent market conditions.

Rising prices for scarce Ameri- can products. they rcported, nro causing some British economic cx- perts to favor delaying largo-scale orders until the cost situation shows some signs of levelling nit

Under the terms of the loan Bri- taln has the right to spend tho American credit wherever she chooses.

nals (Reserve Force) of Major p1. —S. Jenkins. of Charlottetown, has '

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lPaul Spaak of Belgium‘ Steel Strike

Criticizes

PARIS. Aug. 4—(CP) Paul assailed the Big Four Saturday for ignoring the smaller states m pre- paring the European peace and for asking thr- smaller powers for re‘ commcndaliccls only all-P!‘ SEVETEW handicapping them. .

Speaking before the ill-power peace conference. the president of the United Nations General As- sembly declared: “The great pow- ers mcet together among them- selves. Thoy prepare treaties with- (out ronstllling us; they attempt to i-ntposc upon us rules of YUM“: which. in practice, prevent us from securing acceptance cf our points of view; they place brfirc

us (he painful dilemma of ‘TC- cepting-somctimes against -our own _]U(il{l‘l'10flf—\-Vil&f they have

drawn up or else destroying an agreclnccll that has been achiev- ed only with difficulty, and then. finally, having thus handicapped us, they ask us to make them a few recommendations." _ M. Spaak's address ciimaxed slx days of disagreement between the Big Four powers and the Vi’! 2n- vitctl sialcs on the question of voting. The Belgian _dclegalcs views underlined the views prev: lously expressed by Dr. _ \.. Evatt of Australia. a champion of the rights of smaller powers, ‘ Dr. Evall. said in an interview‘ totiay that the voting maiorlty

Henri Speak of Belgium bitterly"

Big ‘Four

right of consultation with the council of fo_reig_n ministers as a conference majority and not as in- divldual powers." he solid. M. Spaak halled_as the H105! important" declaration of the c_orl- ference thc promlse of State Sec- retary Bymes of the United States to "sustain those recommenda- tions made by a two-thfrds malm" itv." - ‘The rules committee is expected to hold two sessic-ns Monday l" an attempt to complete rules of procedure for approval at a con- ference ptlerlary session Tuesday- The committee will dccldc on the question of the two-thirds ma- jorlty-proposed by RUSSl£l—‘~'Pl" sus a simple malvmy-DIOPQSPF-l ‘Y

Dr. Evatt and several delegates from smaller countries. M, spaak said of the Byrncs

statement‘: "If the other hi: 119w- ers. in addition to their promises of free and complete dlscussltlin. are wlillng to accept ta alrfllfir engagement. it seems to me ‘t 9 atmosphere would suddenly cear and that our work here would not underway in happy circumstan- ces."

The conference was I _ today after Saturdays > i130 which saw Greece demand slices of Bulgarian and‘ Albanian terfirti- tory and serve notice onnhenflft -_ i-rlg that she expects tvlifllhffine

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Negotiations Resume Today

Brockihgton Ap- pointed As Mediator In Dispute

One was the appointment of I... W. Brockington as a medator in the steel dispute. The other was an appeal by Pat Conroy, dlan Congress of Labor

Wage had been fully heard. The acceptance n_v Mr. Broc-klnq. ton of an invitation by the Com-

for the "material damage inflict-

still is the vital issue of t.lle cort- fercnce. “We ask .fcr the basic

(By John M. Hlglhtower)

WASHINGTON. Aug- 4—(APl— American diplomatic authorities arc privately predicting that re- cent tiurgcs in the economic field in Russia foreslladow a tighten- ing of Communist party control throughout the Soviet Union dur- ing tho ncxt I2 to 1B months.

Exports familiar with contliti ns inside Russia say that (he Soviet government. actually has moved vigorously to stamp out ineffi- ciency, ncgligcnce and dishonesty in local industries but that it is believed lo- have taken advantage of the vacancies thus created to place party members atguin in control positions. '

The situation points up what appears to be one of the basic planks of American policy ‘oward the Soviet Union. This is the fact, llS reported by fully-infornlcd oi- fit-inls bore. that the United States must nct in tho belief that Premier

Russian Purges Foreshadow Tightening Of Party Control

other invaders.

tenlial enemy of the future. Thus the Russians, instead of knocking down barriers between the Soviet Union and thp western world, and instead of rslaxlng their lrc/n grip on their own pct)- ple. are constantly, according 1o this belief, tightening their lines of control and taking security measures in anticipation of an eventual war with the WJSlEPH “capitalist? states. What. the United ernment can do in the such an assumption on of its own c-ffi-cials was by one of these officials this way: The United States must umstant- ly confront the Russians xith sil- uations in which they should find it more useful to themselves co-operate with the rest c-f thc world than to fail to co-opcrate; when it is not possible, the _Un- ited States should adhere strictly to its principles of trying to pro-y tect. the rights of c-thcr pcoplos

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M BY STUART UNDERHILL

(Canadian Press Staff Writer

LONDON, Aurl- 4 -(CP Ortblels- An nrticle in ltic Moscow rcws- parcr Pravda Eututviay accused the Canadian government of on campalm and alleged existence it‘. illf- Dominion of a ‘srsrct orgvnizal wnich it said “Engages . provocation :1. undermine ‘rlenr v fElfllinns be- tween thc Soviet people and the people of Clfiadli."

As recorded by the Soviet fvlflllliOl‘. the article by Divzd Znslavrl;_y' recalled thc Canadian government allhollllcsrneat six months ago fhat secret informat- ion had bcen llVPTl Soviet agents in Crl ada. Zuslavsky said the tzovclunncnt “could cnsiiv have settled the whole incident by ordinary diplomatic methods" but chose instrod “to lrfiotc ‘l petty incidert into '1 big ovcnt cf Inter- ffatir.'..zl dimensions."

‘For more than half o year the Canadian anti-Scvict press hid slzridclotts fabrications. relying on some ‘secret material‘ collected by l. special rogrnl cont- mlssion . . ." the article SllCl.

"The commission worked with studied slowness. From time lc time it published interim rcpor" in which it stated that a ‘wido- spread consplrntcriai organization directed from Moscow bod been re- vealed.

"Greedilv lapping up these vague hints. a reactionary press pointed in gaudy colors a h "rlbie picture of a ‘secret (X-rniwcrn‘ existing evcn now. of i ‘fifth column‘ in Canada, of a revolutionary char- acter. and so forth and so on."

Referring to testimony by Iltcr Gc-uzenko, cipher clerk in the Soviet entulssy at Ottawa who was the crcwlrs star witness. Zaslavsky salcl the commission's conclusions "are all built on sand-- or rather dirt-and the onzv simple and irrefutable conclusion front this piflflil siorv is that Canada. turning herself into a tool of tr.-

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Accuse Canadian Govt. Cif Anti-Soviet Campaign

ternatlonal intrigue. has allowed oi despicable zvroiroozteur to pull her leg . . . and (has) fallen lnto the footsteps of the war incendia- rles. "There is a secret. organization in Canada indeed but lt is not whore the commission sought ‘it. This organization. conlmandlog large sums and grelt DOW! 2P1?- a worker in 1 foreign mission to wolf: for it, corrupts hm. buyli him, teaches him now to carry out anti-Soviet (crloolnal against his motherland. obtains secret docu- ments for Sotlet Embassy with his old-tr. a word. lt ought-IN 1h P!" vocation to tlllclerlnlne frlcndlv re- lations between the Sovlcmncoplc and the people o: Canaan

The article 111 pot identify tho alleged organization in nn_v way but. said lt was ‘vcrv well known to Canadian outhoritiesf

Zaslavskv said CflIlRfilJllS had been “poisoned wlllt fillfil-Snviut lies“ for six months “but the poisicr. h-ld "lot worked." Soviet writers whoJnd been in Canada were convinced that a warm and firm sympathy was felt for thc Soviet Union ‘in the widml Circles of the Canadian public.

Honorary Degree Fer Field Marshal

HALIFAX. Aug. 4—('CPl -F‘icld Marshal Viscount Montgomery will just about have time l.» sli-p lnto a cap and gown hofort- he receives an honorary degree from Dalhousie University upon his arrival here Aug. 24. Tontative

plans. announced tonight. c-ill for the. convocation ceremony to he- gi-n an hour and a halt otter his ch33. the Mauretania. docks ncrc. r. A. E. Kerr. prr-sldcrt: of Dalhouslo. will ccnfcr the Jcgrco. and Dr. H. L. Sttnvart. senior pro lessor. will rcad ihc citation.