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THE SYDNEY MORNING HERAtP. TPPPAY. MAY VrVT OVERTURNED ENGINE OF WRECKED TRAIN Disagreement On German Economic Plan ROAD CHECK ON TRAFFIC JEWS ATTACK ACRE GAOL 216 Prisoners Freed In Palestine r. y. Jf, LONDON, May 5 (A.A.P.).

A hundred Irgun Zvai Leumi terrorists yesterday attacked the prison at Acre, north Palestine, and freed 216 of the 550 prisoners. Four Jews and one Arab were killed in the operation. ISo British deaths are reported. The 29 Jews who are still at large are all convicted terrorists. The Arab escaped prisoners are reported to be surrendering in large numbers.

WELL-LAID PLAN SUCCEEDS form, rushed up to carry the prisoners away. mJVw, mJ Lt ip U.S. Plan For Trade With Japan NEW YORK, May 5 (A.A.P.). Resumption of foreign trading with Japan is planned by the State Department to begin by July 15, says the Washington correspondent of the United Press. The State Department's scheme, the correspondent says, provides that private business men of foreign countries may go to Japan under a quota system.

The restriction of numbers would be necessary because of the limited living accommodation. Foreign buyers would discuss purchases with suppliers, but prices would he arranged by the Japanese State Trading Corporation, which would pay th suppliei in yen. FOREIGN FINANCE The buyer would pay for goods by remitting to the Supreme Allied Command's export account in dollars, sterling, or other currency, based on a fair world market value. This currency would be held in the export account to pay for imports of raw material. This system would avoid the establishment of a foreign commercial exchange rate for the yen, and also would, in etfect, provide some oasis for determining such a rate when Allied officials believe the time is right to set it.

It is expected that a combined mission, representing the Departments of War, Commerce, Treasury, and State, will leave soon for Tokyo to put the plan into effect. BANKERS RELUCTANT The mission will also consult General MacArthur's experts on the possibility of allowing American and other foreign business men to finance Japanese manufacturers by providing them with needed raw materials. The foreign business man would hold a lien against the Japanese products as security for the raw materials he financed. PLANE LANDS ON PARKWAY New Yorkers See Rare Feat NEW YORK, May 5 (A.A.P Spotting a convenient break in the traffic, a former 9th Air Force pilot landed a two-seater plane on the Henry Hudson Parkway, near the heart of Manhattan, early last evening. Neither the pilot, John Jewett.

23, nor his passenger, ballet dancer Pauline Goddard. was injured. Jewett was handed a summons from the Parks Commissioner to appear in court to-day for landing without a oermit. Jewett said the engine of the plane began missing and he dival in an unsuccessful attempt to eliminate the trouble. He landed in the centre of the parkway at 114th Street, on a grass strip separating two tratnc lanes.

The plane came to rest partly on the pavement and partly on the grass. Police emergency trucks and radio cars rushed to the area, and a crowd of several thousand gathered. Police had to detour traffic in both traffic lanes for nearly half an hour while they struggled to handle the crowd. REPRIEVE SOUGHT FOR T. J.

LEY LONDON, May 5 (A.A.P.). Two petitions were taken to the Home Office this afternoon seeking a reprieve for Thomas John Ley, whose execution for his part in the murder of John Mudie has been fixed for Thursday. One petition bears several hundred signatures from Australia. The other was signed by several hun dred people in England. RING AN SETT AND RELAX! tu V' 1 BLIZZARD COST TO BRITAIN 200m.

Loss Of Exports LONDON, May 5 (A.A.P.). Britain had lost exports worth 200 million through the fuel crisis, the President of the Board of Trade, Sir Stafford Cripps, said yesterday. This meant that Britain had lost the capacity to import a similar value in urgently needed food, raw materials, and machinery. Sir Stafford was speaking at May Oay celebrations held by the Bristol Labour Party. The nationalisation of basic industries, he said, would lay a firm foundation for the future industrial life of Britain.

For the present, the Government was leaving the rest to private enterprise. It was up to private enterprise, with the Government's aid. to create efficiency in industry to the same degree as the Government could by nationalisation. Television Plan For British Cinemas, Homes OUR STAFF CORRESPONDENT. LONDON, May 5.

The British film magnate, J. Arthur Rank, has approached the Government with a 1,000,000 plan to put television into the cinema as well as in the home. The plan provides for the building of the world's largest television studio and transmitting station on the outskirts of London. It would require the allocation to the Rank organisation of a wavelength which would mean a departure from the monopoly of the B.B.C. The Government is reported to be wilting to meet Mr.

Rank's request In return, Mr. Rank would help the B.B.C. by allowing films to be televised on the normal radio television service to homes. It is understood that by televising films on a large screen system to its chain of cinemas, the Rank organisation would save distribution and printing costs. AT TOP: Wreckage of the locomotive of a picnic train which left the rails and overturned at Camp Mountain, 12 miles from Brisbane, yesterday.

The following carriages telescoped, and there was heavy loss of life. LOWER: Rescuers at work on two of the telescoped carriages. Jewish prisoners had apparently been expecting the attack and rushed to action stations. Machine-guns from the prison walls opened up and then paratroopers from inc oarracxs oegan nring. At least two of the Jewish trucks were hit.

Three of the Jews were killed ir the attack, including one in the uni form of a Royal Engineers captain. Four attackers were captured un injured and one wounded man was captured. SOME KILLED One Arab and four Jewish prisoners were Killed wnile trying to escape. Two Arab and six Jewish prisoners were wounded. Altogether 183 Arabs and 29 Jews escaped.

Among the Jewish terrorists who escaped were a number who had been sentenced to life imprisonment. Qnc other Jewish prisoner was under sentence of death for the murder of his sister. The ambush party near Haifa tried to shoot up a party of paratroopers returning from a bathing parade. The soldiers returned the fire, however, and five of the Jews were killed. Soon after the attack.

British army patrols cut all communication with Acre and put up roadblocks. Four Jewish settlements east of Acre were cordoned off. They will be searched in daylight to-day. Other troops are patrollinf the Lebanese border a few miles to the north to prevent Arab escapees getting away to the Lebanon and Syria. TERRORISTS BEATEN The Haifa correspondent of "The Times" says that masked members of Haganah (the secret army of the Jewish Agency for Palestine) have been visiting the homes of teen-age terrorists and beating them.

They also attacked the parents of the terrorists when they tried to interfere. The correspondent says that Haganah men also removed a mine which the Irgun Zvai Leumi had placed on the Haifa-Acre railway. The Irgun men then put the mine in the well of a settlement. Haganah members dragged all Irgun members in the neighbourhood into a nearby wood and beat them so severely that three were taken to hospital. ATOMIC POWER ENGINE German Scientist's Claim LONDON, May 5 (A.A.P.).

The German Army had an atomic power engine "staggering in Us simplicity," according to Professor Werner Heisenbcrg, Germany's leading physicist. In an interview with a "Daily Express" correspondent at Gottingen, Professor Heisenbcrg said that by threading 800 two inch cubes of pure uranium on thin wires and hanging them in an aluminium tub filled with heavy water, controllable nuclear energy could be released. Germany could not get enough heavy water during the war to fill the tub. Professor Heisenberger said that incompetent scientists who were placed over him by the Nazis also held up His investigations. WOMEN'S WAGES DOUBLE OUR STAFF CORRESPONDENT.

LONDON, MayM. A Government digest of statistics reveals that wages for women and girls in Britain have more than doubled since 1938. The average weekly wage for women in October, 1938. was 1126. It is now 353.

Wages for girls less than 18 years of age have risen from 136 to 1137. The average weekely wage for men last year was 609, an increase of 75 per cent, over the average wage in 1938. Lars lo Stop A survey of road traffic would be made on May 23, the Lord Mayor, Alderman Bartley, said yesterday. All vehicles entering and leaving the city would be intercepted. The census would be the first comprehensive survey of its type' ever made in syaney, ne aaucu.

The aim was to obtain essential data for rcplanning the city's traffic system. Many vehicles travelling from suburb to suburb were now forced to cross the inner city area, which increased delay and congestion and inconvenienced everybody using the streets for local business. Reliable information on the extent to which through-traffic was using city streets was required before new roads or extensions could be soundly planned. Alderman Bartley said. The survey had been organisod by the Joint Committee for Traffic and Parking, which represented the Department of Main Roads, City Council, Department of Road Transport, Police Department, and Cumberland County Council.

SIGNS FOR MOTORISTS The chairman of the joint committee, Alderman H. G. Carter, said that on May 23 traffic stations would be manned by traffic police in 13 streets. Large signs would warn motorists as they approached the stations. Motorists would be handed cards lo fill in when they entered the city.

Information required included the point from which the journey began, destination, whether a call was made in the city, and where parking facilities were required. Alderman Carter said the joint committee had already approved in principle a new road system, which would enable through-traffic to bypass the inner city. The survey would yield invaluable information on the traffic capacities which the selected routes should be designed to carry. Aldermen Bartley and Carter appealed to motorists to co-operate fully in the survey. Motorists would be involved in delays of seconds only, they said, the information sought was of a nature essential to planning new and faster roads and efficient parking services.

EARTH SHOCKS IN COUNTRY Four earth tremors occurred at Gunning yesterday afternoon and two shxik Parliament House, Canberra. The tremors at Gunning were described as "exceptionally severe." They occurred between 2.45 and 3 o'clock and passed through the town in a northerly direction. Buildings were shaken. Two tremors at Canberra occurred in the space of a minute shortly before 3 o'clock, each lasting for several seconds. Canberra Police said no damage had been reported.

"SERIES OF FRACTURES" The senior lecturer in geology at the University of Svdney, Dr. G. D. Osborne, said last night that in the Gunning-Yass district there was a series of fractures in the earth's crust. Slight movements in them had been recorded in recent decades.

Dr. Osborne said some parts of the earth's crus, were "still a little unsteady," and rock structures were adjusting themselves to the stresses and strains placed upon them The "pull" of the sun and moon was associated with these stresses in the earth crust. The Gunning tremors were recorded on instruments at the River-view Observatory at 2.45, 2.47, and 2.58 p.m. yesterday. tllWIYI MY.

111. BOOKING: QANTU EMPIRE AIRWAYS, Noun, Mirgtral Phone: BX1161 SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT AND A.A.P. LONDON, May 5. Britain and America have different views on how the economic fusion of their two zones in Germany should be made to work. Britain favours an over-all planned economy with strong central controlling agencies.

America would prefer free en terprise with only local controls. The economic fusion came into effect on January I this year. British and American officials, after four days' discussion in Berlin, have been unable to reconcile these fundamental differences, which their respective Governments may have to iron out. The officials are disturbed because Germany's future may depend on a quick settlement. Hitherto, the political problems arising out of the economic fusion were set aside so as not to prejudice the discussions in Moscow on plans tor the economic and political unity oi uermany.

Since the Moscow Conference last month failed to settle this question, the need for some political co-ordina tion between the American and British zones has become more pressing. Many British authorities in Ger many believe that, if economic fusion Ms to work, political co-ordination will have to go all the way to political lusion. That would mean setting up a new State in Rurope a Western German Federal State of 40 million people, roughly equal to France. If at some future date, the French zone joined this new "Federation of the Rhine," it would contain 4ft million people. INDIAN T.U.C.

FORMED New Counter To Communists LONDON, May 5 (A.A.P.). An Indian National Trade Union Congress has been formed to counteract the growing ascendancy of the Communist Party in Indian industrial labour organisations. The sponsors of the new organisation, which include the Minister for Home Affairs, Vallabhbhai Patel, hope to obtain the support of the majority of Indian workers. The Socialist Party has refused to co-operate, however, and will establish its own organisation. Unions which affiliate with the new organisation will secede from the existing Trade Union Congress.

Mahatma Gandhi talked with the Viceroy, Admiral Lord Mountbatten. for an hour and a half yesterday. It is believed that they discussed the Congress Party's attitude to the Northwest Fron'ier Province. Earlier, Mr. Gandhi attended a meeting of the Congress Party working committee, at which it discussed the party's attitude towards the partition of India.

INDEPENDENCE CLAIMS More claimants for independence are now appearing on the Indian scene. The latest is the Lucknofe district Moslem League, which has demanded the creation of an independent sovereign State centred on the Lucknow district of the United Provinces. Women Moslem League demonstrators squatted on the railway line near Peshawar and held up the Bombay Express for two hours. Sleepers were set on fire on another stretch of the line in an unsuccessful attempt tc interfere with the running of trains. FOREIGN BUYERS IN LONDON Industries Fair Open LONDON, May 5 (A.A.P.).

Foreign buyers queued for the opening of the British Industries Fair at London to-day, says Reuter. Most of the buyers came from the United States and Latin America. One of the biggest attractions at the fair was a fashion parade. Inquiries for nylons came from Australia, but a spokesman of British Nylon Spinners Ltd. said supplies were limited.

Buyers also arrived early for the engineering and machinery section of the fair at Birmingham. MASS SURRENDER IN POLAND LONDON, May 5 (A.A.P.). The Polish Minister for Public Security, Mr. Stanislaw Radkewicz, in Warsaw, announced that a Government amnesty had resulted in the surrender of 50.000 members of the underground. The Government, he said, had fed.

clothed, and helped place in employ ment those surrendering. The President, Mr. Boleslaw Bierut. said he hoped that the mass surrender meant the complete and nnal liqui dation of the Polish underground. have all heard of cases of smuggling in the 18th century.

The facts of this case are brought up to date to fit in with the latest development of a scientific age. "Wines and spirits bought in France for 15 have been sold on the London black market for 510. "These men, on one "run', got supplies from a French merchant on the pretext that they were intended for H.M.S. Vanguard. On another 'run' the pretext was that the liquor was for H.M.S.

Colossus. 'The liquor was loaded under Customs supervision in France aboard a landing craft, from which the White Ensign was flown. "The police trapped the men after a 'run' on a moonless April night. "The police made a roadblock with motor cars on the road leading from Arne Beach, hid in bushes, then rushed out and surrounded the liquor runners' The attack on the prison was a carefully planned and well executed operation. Before zero hour terrorist bands secretly laid mines on nearny roaas and bridges across the Belus River so as to hold up any reinforce ments rushed into Acre.

Another parly laid mines and ar ranged an ambush outside Haifa. A third group set up a mortar near the Sidney Smith barracks half a mile north of Acre. At rem hour two jeeploads of Jews dressed in British uniform drove into Acre. Thev went into an old Turkish bath house hacking on to the big stone prison and laid charges against the prison wall. Other terrorists, some in British uniform and others in Arab dress, fired machine-guns at the prison and tossed cicnades over the walls.

WALL BLOWN OUT Then four heavy explosions blew out part of the prison wall and prisoners poured out through the breaks Stolen British transport, driven by Jewish girls dressed in A. 1.5.. urn CHIANG VISITS WAR ZONE Sequel To Gains By Communists NEW YORK, May 5 (A.A.P.). President Chiang Kai-shek re cently made a secret trip to the North China battle zone to rally his commanders, according to a pro-Government source in Nan-kinc. This tollosvs several victories oy Communis! forces on fronts from Shansi to Shantung.

Tsivuan. capital ot Miansi, is re pined In be in danger of capture. Communist forces are slowly closing on the city from all sides. Press despatches from Tsiyuan re port fichtinc at fever pitch, and say that all Nationalist aircrari in me area are being used against the ad vancini forces. Martial law has been proclaimed to tit city.

NEW OFFENSIVE The official army newspaper, "Peace Cailv" reports heavy righting in Jehol Province. The Communists have opened an offensive lo break through the land unking China proper to Manchuria. The new Premier of China, Gene ral Cheng Chung, stated in Nanking yesterday that a loan from America was essential for the economic rehabilitation and reconstruction of China. The correspondent of the "New York Times" in Nanking, Tillman Durdin, says a competent foreign economist estimated recently that the Government would be threatened with economic collapse by the end of the star it no torcign assistance was re ceived. EMPIRE STUDY IN STRATEGY British Meetings LONDON.

Mav 5 fA.A.P.). Senior officers from the armed forces of the British Dominions Jill attend the Royal Air Force's first post-war exercise, to be held on Salisbury Plains on August 11 "id 12, says the air correspondent of The Times." The correspondent says that the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal ura leader, is organising the exercise raai lessons learned trom the com-tuned Anglo-American offensive Hnr. 8 the war may be applied to future It will be confined mainlv to study 's? existing weapons, because the im- wuons ot new weapons cannot yet "fully appraised. One hllmlriH nA dinktu uninr I'itish Air, Navy, and Army officers arrived at the Staff College. lor secret discussions on influence of new weapons on com- operations.

fry-Marshal Lord Montgomery ot chairman. Those attending in- Lieut-General C. H. Robert-W, commander of B.C.O.F., Japan, Air Vice-Marshal C. A.

Bouchier, "Wander 0( b.C.O.F. air forces. frizes Instead Of Interest for Soviet Loans LONDON, May 5 (A.A.P.). Mcow Radio yesterday an-jouncea a second 20-year State of about 952 million for oration Projects. The previous in May, 1946, for a similar wm, was oversubscribed within week.

fotelffl? Rusian Cd.knupay on 'he loan. oiJLj during the 20 years "trTLhV in lotteries held Ms.n 'he XrM nUnV 2,300 in Prize-money will PW over the full term. COMMUNISTS RESIGN French Crisis Eases OUR STAFF CORRESPONDENT AND A.A.P. LONDON, May 5. The five Communist Ministers in the French Government have resigned at the request of the Socialist Premier.

M. Paul Ramadicr. This follows yesterday's vote of confidence in the National Assem bly, in which all the Communist deputies and Ministers voted against the Government. "The Times correspondent in Paris says that it has long been clear that France would not achieve stable government until the Socialists abandoned their equivocal attitude and agreed to ally themselves with the Centre against the Communists. The next move by the Communist Partv mav.

be to call a general strike througn those unions which have a Communist-controlled executive. SOCIALIST POLICY This would be a direct challenge to the Government. Paris observers say it might bring General de Gaulle Rally of the French People into the open. The decision to ask the Communist Ministers to resign was made by the executive committee of the French Socialist Party after a meeting of the Socialist Parliamentary group. The Socialist National Council had, however, previously forbidden Socialists to enter a Government opposed bv Communists.

The national coun cil is meeting to-morrtw, and it re mains to be seen whether it endorses the executive committee's direction to the Premier. The London "Daily Telegraph" says that one immediate result of the French political crisis has been a sharp rise in the price of gold and foreign currencies in France in expectation of the economic situation becoming worse. POSTS RE-ALLOTTED The portfolios of the Ave Com munists have been taken over as follows: Vice-Premier, M. Pierre Tiet-gen, becomes sole Vice-Premier: Labour, M. Robert Lacoste (Socialist): National Defence.

M. Yvon Delbos (Radical Socialist); Reconstruction. M. Jules Moch (Socialist). The Communist Minister of Health, M.

Georaes Marrane. a member of the Upper House, did not actually vote against the Government, but resigned on grounds of party soli darity. His post has not yet been realloted. Before the Assembly voted on the confidence motion, M. Jacques Due- los, leading communist deputy, said that wages had risen 430 per cent.

since 1939. Prices had risen 778 per cent. Things might have been different if there bad been a Communist Premier. Reports reachina Paris sav that French troops have repulsed a surprise attack by 200 rebels on a town in eastern Madagascar and have inflicted severe losses on rebel bands. AMERICAN WOOL PURCHASES NEW YORK.

May 5 (A.A.P.). The "Journal of Commerce" says that more American men and women than ever will be able to swagger down the avenue this year in clothing made from Australian wool. The United States is now Australia's best wool customer, it says. During the past nine months 848.000 bales have been imported, compared with 712.000 bales for the corresponding MINERS IDLE IN BRITAIN Five-day Week Starts LONDON, May 5 (A.A.P.). Eighteen thousand coal miners at 20 mines were idle to-day, when the five-day week came into operation for the industry.

Surface workers in County Durham and Lancashire have struck because they are dissatisfied with tne interpretation of one clause of the five-day week agreement. The Ministei for Fuel, Mr. Emanuel Shinwell, addressing a Scottish miners' rally to mark the start of the five-day week, said: "It would be criminal folly if even one ton of coal is lost because a few men with a grievance are not prepared to be patient until the grievance is investigated and remedied. "The machinery of negotiation is adequate, and must be the only method employed. WORKERS' FEARS "Production must not be frittered away in minor disputes." Twelve thousand miners are idle at several pits in County Durham, where 20 enginemen winders went on strike yesterday.

The men are believed to be con cerned about the loss of payments for week-end work. Two thousand miners at three Lancashire pits are idle because 400 surface workers retused to start work to-day. HUNGARIAN SHIPS ESCAPE LONDON, May 5 (A.A.P.). Eleven Hungarian vessels which have been tied up in Linz Harbour, on the Danube, as security pending settlement of a British claim for 400,000 against the Hungarian River and Sea Navigation Company, made oft down stream towards the Russian zone early yesterday. Bellevue Hill, said: "No.

I haven't voted. I didn't know there was an election. Who won?" POSTAL VOTES WERE AVAILABLE The State Electoral Commissioner, Mr. Bennetts, said last night that no provision had been made for a Serviceman's vote in Japan Any Serviceman could have regis tered a postal vote if he had applied ior it tnrougn nis relatives. Mr.

Bennetts recalled that the last time New South Wales Servicemen had voted was in the Neutral Bay ny-eiection in December. wi, when there were two ex-Servicemen candidates. On that occasion, 230 Servicemen. whose homes were in Neutral Bay, exercised tneir voting rignts. About 4,000 N.S.W.

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Liquor Smugglers Caught In Dorsetshire Ambush TOKYO, May 5. Although Queensland troops were able to vote at the State elections on Saturday, New South Wales members of the occupation force have been given no facilities to record their votes for the N.S.W. election. New South Wales troops in Japan were not officially told a State election was pending, no ballot papers have officially arrived in Japan, and no official arrangements have been made for recording soldiers' votes. An Army spokesman said the B.C.O.F.

had not been officially notified' how N.S.W. troops in Japan were to vote. It was usual for the Army to be informed six weeks in advance to make suitable arrangements. At Empire House, Tokyo, Signaller W. J.

Weir, of Marrickville, told me: "Election? First I knew about it officially was what 1 read in today's British Army newspaper, where the results were published." Private R. Powells, of Albury. said: "We're still waiting to be informed how we shall vote. Sergeant M. MacDonald, of, LONDON, May 5 (A.A.P.).

A story of 18tb century smuggling was brought up to date in Dorset Police Court to-day. Six men appeared to answer charges of liquor running. Three of them are retired Naval officers. One of the men, a former sub marine commander, was nned 9,500 and sentenced to six months imprisonment. Another former naval officer was fined 8,500 and sentenced to five months' imprisonment.

The men were caught in- a police ambush at a lonely spot above Arne Beach, Dorsetshire, on the night of April 13. ine court was stacxeo wim mm cases containing more than l.WX) bottles of French liqueurs, brandy, and champagne. ine prosecutor tola tne court: we Amett Douglas Airlinen fly deity between Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Mt. Gam-bier, Wegee, Canberra and Kobart. Abo a daily lock- Shall a Hamilton.

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