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THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1945 8 RETURN OF MR. EDEN FAMILY ALLOWANCES STORM M.P.s Complain of Government Cheeseparing STOP-PRESS NEWS i The Danish (vernment broke off diplomatic "relations with Japan last night, and announced that it recognised the Chinese Government cf Chiang Kai-shek. Associated Press. ITALIANS DO NOT WANT TRIESTE TO CAUSE DISCORD More Support for Anti-Fascists Urged From oar own' Correspondent for that child, but for the. second child of body on the spot.

But from Giuliano's revelations to-day it-seems regrettable that the Allied Military Government was not immediately moved to the town hall of Trieste on May 2. Much trouble would thus have been saved. LIFE IN CITY NEARER NORMAL Shops Reopening From onr Special Correspondent Trieste, May 17. Life in this" city has been hardly disturbed at all, on the surface at any rate, by the news of the British-American Note to Marshal Tito on the subject of Trieste. When the House of Commons yesterday went into Committee to resume consideration of the Family Allowances Bill there was a lively debate on a clause which excludes from the allowances children -who receive benefits under provisions of other Acts.

Repeated requests were made to the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Anderson) to change his mind on this point. Sir John replied that the Government's view was that there should be no duplication. "If that course were not taken," he added, the finance of Part I of the social insurance scheme would be completely upset. The course we propose is the only course that would make it possible to bring family allowances into effect before the other parts of the social' insurance scheme came into operation. If the substance of clause 14 is not retained the principle of no duplication, to which the Government attach prime importance, could notbe applied until the rest of the social insurance scheme has been brought into operation." Captain COBB (C Preston) urged the Chancellor to bring in something which was more in accordance with the feelings of the House.

Mr. BOWLES (Lab. Nuneaton) thought the Chancellor would be well advised to take warning. Mr. WALTER ELLIOT (C Kelvin- Mr.

Eden greeted by Air. J. G. Winant, the American Ambassador, on his return from San Francisco. Carrier-borne 'planes of the British Pacific Fleet have made their most successful attack yet, destroying a number of Japanese 'planes and ships, bombing a town, and setting fire to oil dumps in the Sakishima Islands, just north of Formosa, says a Reuter message from Guam.

Rome, MaV 17. To-day the Italian press is flooded by obviously over-optimistic reports stating that Marshal Tito has agreed to leave Trieste, Pola, and Fiume. The Action party paper, "Italia Libera," takes the view shared by many Italians, however, that Trieste should not become an apple of discord among the Big Three nations. "This war ends in 'the atmosphere of a power struggle. The two groups do not fuse they face each other," says the writer, and urges the Western democracies truly to encourage the artti-Fascist and anti-Nazi spirit in Germany and Italy rather than support a reaction in either country.

Libero Giulfano, the assumed name of one of the leaders of the Trieste Liberation Committee, who arrived at Rome last night, has added important details to the story of the Italian C.NX.'s attempt to get in touch with General Freyberg at Trieste on May 2 and 3. Giuliano says that after the Germans had surrendered to the New Zealand Division the C.N.L. invited General Freyberg to the town hall to hand over the city to him. "The General put off our meeting till May 3, but that night regular troops of Marshal Tito's forces invaded the town hall, pulled down the Italian flag, and chased out the Italian C.N.L. Thus any further contact with General Freyberg became impossible." These new details prove how the Trieste Council was unaware that General Freyberg had already been in conference with Marshal Tito's envoys at Ronchi.

25 miles west of on the way to the city, and also that the Council was unaware that the Tito movement had taken over every scrap of the Italian territory from five miles west of Isonzo militarily and administratively except for isolated German Dockets which were rounded up. General Freyberg was faced with a situation for which he had no instructions and he faced them in a military way, negotiating- with the strongest RUSSIAN REPLY ON REGIONAL COMPROMISE AWAITED Cautious Approach to Trusteeship Problem From A LIST AIR COOKE, our Special Correspondent of the people who live in strategic areas. The Trusteeship Council, by the way, will be recruited from each administering Power and a matching number of representatives from other States. The paper does not question or explore the drastic power of any of the Big Five to topple the whole system by casting its vote against the other four. Yesterday the little nations were fighting the veto in a committee studying the proceedure of the Security Council, but at present we have not advanced beyond the admission that nothing, not even a new world organisation, can stay organised if Russia, Britain, or the United States wishes to disorganise it.

Although Commander Stassen is most scrupulous to say that the paper embodies no decisions and no joint commitments of the Big Five, the wording is often so judicious that it does in fact strike a working compromise between the known extremes of opinion. Thus on the ticklish question of how to describe the legitimate destiny of colonial peoples the Stassen paper expresses this general policy To develop self-government in forms appropriate to the varying circumstances of each territory." is a graceful compromise between the Russian demand to see the word independence written in instead and Lord Cranborne's well-expressed alarm at the prospect of offering complete independence to colonies that in the British view are still unfit for elementary self-government. The Chinese have to-dav suggested the phase should be "Self-government or independence." The great merit of Commander Stassen's paper is that it is the kind of agenda Aristotle might have written, pretending to be merely a map of unknown territory but actually an accurate guide through many well-charted swamps. The explorers of the trusteeship are thus allowed complete freedom of move CONDITIONS IN DACHAU French Criticisms From onr own Correspondent Paris. May 17.

To-day Combat publishes a letter froman inmate of Dachau written a week after the liberation which describes the rations as being still one litre of soup plus 300 grammes of bread and a cup of coffee daily, while those still dying are left piled in the corner of the camp till there are enough to bury. The camp is, therefore, still stinking with decaying corpses and overrun with lice and fleas. This is not the only report from Dachau of this tenor. Others have stated that the four American field hospitals are insufficient, while the entire camp is in quarantine for typhus. "Vet another report stated that German labour squads requisitioned to bury in accordance with the original tne sick man xney were going to pay 5s.

If he was going to be able to construct the sort of comprehensive scheme that he wanted he must be able to secure equality in these cases. They would get into a frightful jam on the scheme as a whole if thev were going to say there must be these differential payments for the different classes. He would do everything he could to find a solution of the difficulty. I do not want to lose my bill," said Sir William. I want the committee on all sides to help me and try to see if we can save this bill." Miss RATHBONE (Ind.

English Universities) asked for the estimated cost if these pettifogging cuts were cut out Sir WILLIAM JOWITT replied that he thought it would be in the neighbourhood of 5.000,000. Sir JOHN ANDERSON replied that they would endeavour to redraft the provisions of the bill to remove apprehension regarding ex-Service men and analogous cases. He must, however, make it clear that the principle of no duplication must be maintained. Sir OLIVER SIMMONDS (C Duddes-ton) asked how it could be argued that the Service man who was getting less money than the man in industry should not get the five shillings familv allowance. Mr.

T. DRIBERG (Ind. Maldon) declared that the Chancellor was guilty of an appalling sophistry when he said that in clause 13 he was not doing anything detrimental to the ex-Service man. The clause sought to take away 5s. from him, aBd if that was not detrimental, what was Mr.

TINKER (Lab. Leigh) asked the Government to review the position and give way to the overwhelming opinion of the Earlier in the debate Sir JOHN ANDERSON had suggested that clauses 13 and 14 should be formally negatived and that at a later stage the Government would submit one fresh clause covering the ground covered by these two. Eoth clauses were "Aliens Avoiding Taxation" Major MANNINGHAM-BULLER (C Daventry), moving an amendment to restrict family allowances to children of British subjects and naturalised British subjects, said It seems a little hard to justify the use 'of taxpayers' money for making free gifts to people who are not British." Mr. HOPKINSON. who seconded, alleged that aliens were avoiding taxation and that a large number were a constant source of trouble to the police.

There were cries of "-Nonsense" and Rubbish," and Mr Hopkinson went on "The records of Scotland Yard would show that every word that I have said is perfectly true and that offences against the food regulations are commoner among aliens." Mr. DRIBERG: That is reptilian. Mr. JAMES GRIFFITHS (Lab. Llanelly) remarked, "It is profoundly regrettable that a week after the destruction of Nazism we should have its tenets expounded in this House." (Cheers.) During the depression alien industrialists gave an example to British industrialists in South Wales.

He hoped aliens would stay with us for they had an important contribution to make. Mr. TINKER said the charee of dodeinc taxes applied to a lot of people who were uut aliens. Sir HERBERT HOLDSWORTH re marked Our greatness has been founded on the fact that we have treated a man as a nan irrespective ot nationality." IHr. ANEURIN BEVAN (Lab.

Ebbw Vale), protested against what he called the barbarous indecencies of Mr. Hopkinson. Mr. HOPKINSON said that the aliens he was speaking of were Germans. Sir WILLIAM JOWITT asked the committee to reject the amendment because to put the matter on a nationality basis was the wrong test.

If a nerson liveH here and became an established member of the community, although not a British subject, he thought the person was entitled to tamuy allowances. The amendment was nesatived. Speaking to a Government amendment to provide that the allowance should be paid to the children of narents torn in the United Kingdom, and not Great Britain as provided in the bill. Sir WILLIAM JOWITT said it was intended to deal with the case of Northern Ireland, mm wnom tney nopea to nave a recipro cal arrangement. The amendment was agreed to.

The committee stage of the bill was conciuaea. LIVE STOCK IMPROVEMENT Mr. TOM -WILLIAMS (Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture) moved the second reading of the Agricul ture (Artificial Insemination) Bill. He commended the bill as a useful measure designed to help in the live-stock improvement campaign. Mr.

WOOTTON-DAVIES (C Heywood and Radcliffe). declaring that nature could not be deceived, said that if one interfered with the maternal instinct one might inter fere with the future -production of the species. The bill was read a second time. WELSH BURIAL GROUNDS The Welsh Church (Burial Grounds) Bill passed through the committee stage and was read a third time. ARMY CHIEFS' HOLIDAY General Patton to Visit Manchester? Field Marshal Montgomery and General Patton yesterday left Claxidge's Hotel, -London.

When General Patton arrived in London on Wednesday he said he would spend a day at Effingham, Surrey, playing golf and would then bo to Manchester, where he had his 'head quarters before going into actiop. His visit to England, which is lasting several days, is purely private. night at the home of Major Reynolds at Hindhead, Surrey. Major Reynolds is head master of the school which the Field Marshal's son attended before going to Winchester College. THE WEATHER To-day's Forecast For the 24 hours beginning 6 a.m to-day: General Inference Pressure is high to tbe west ul south-east of tbe British Isles and a trough of low pressure from South.

Norway to South-west Ireland Is moving south in tbe east but Is stationary in toe west London and S.E. Eagfaad Light variable winds: fair but cloudy, with light local rain at first; warm. S.W. England. 8.

Wales. Ireland, and S.W. belaasl Ltgat rarlable winds: mainly fair but cloudy, with local rain at tiroes, especially an tne coast. E. Eagraast.

E. sUttaad, W- 11 Ulan as. N. Wales. N.W.

Enttaad. If. slldlaads. N.Z. Englaad.

S.E. geattsad. S.W. Beatland. aad Isle of Han.

If. Seatland. N.W. Scotland. MId-Scatlsaa, NJE.

Seetland. Orkney and Saettaad. N.W. Ireland, K.E. Ireland Light variable winds; fair or fine; rather warm.

Farther Oatlaafc far the Britbs Isles Unsettled; rather warm. Sun Mean fuses Seta Rises 8eu To-dav of 1.07 ...12 25p.m. 37a.m. To-morrow 6 03 10 08 1 36 B-m. 4 01am.

For erery ten miles north of Ifanchester sunset la later by 29 seconds Lamp-time for Vehicles To-day 11 07 p.m. YESTERDAY IN MANCHESTER WnTtwcsrra Fuse MJTrotmncirir, OasanrriTon. TsDTsasar, MiT 17. Weather summary for past 24 hours: Rain in afternoon. Barometer tendency Hislnf.

Barometer. 9 p-in- lfmfbars 1.016.9. rrbe millibar is toe international unit of barasvcrle cremare. One millibars foae ban equals 29.53 inches of mercury One Inch of mercury, eomua oo-eo mini naT i saiade'tenineratures Orr bulb. 9 59.6: dry bulb.

9 pjs 53; maximum. 60; minimum. 55: humidity (pereentafe). 9 77; humidity (percentage), a p.m- Rainfall, trace; sunshine 0.6- On the other, hand, returning here after an interval of some ten days, one is immediately impressed with how much nearer normal things seem. Many shops are open, for instance, and in the market places, such as that of the Piazza Ponte Rossa, there is an abundance of green vegetables for sale.

Yugoslav troops are as numerous as before and still have machine-guns at their numerous posts throughout the town. But they are beginning to look almost cheerful and certainly less grim. British ships of various types warlike and freight-carrying are in port and the sailors of these ships as well as of naval working parties move freely and cheerfully about the city. The general demeanour of the civil population has lost that appearance of fear which was so marked ten days ago. All this is the immediate impression gained on revisiting Trieste and leaves out any account of what may have happened behind the scenes during the interval.

It is not impossible one is living on a volcano, but the chances of an eruption seem less likely than they did. 'XheTimes' 'Manchester Guardian' Service RUSSIAN ACTION ON BORNHOLM A Danish Interpretation From our Special Correspondent Copenhagen, May 17. The Danish Government this morning discussed problems arising from the fact that Bornholm has fallen under Russian influence wjiile the rest of Denmark is now under Danish legal authority collaborating with the S.H.A.E.F. Mission. It is learned that Government quarters are not troubled about this state of affairs, which is considered to be the natural consequence of a military.

diiaiiseiueiit unaer wnicn seems to lie east of the demarcation line nxea Detween the Russians and the Western Allies. Furthermore, the Germans in Born- xuuiu nisLi uL-nons to ngnt tne while giving in to the Western armies, aciuaiiy continued liRhting after the Germans in the rest of the country had laid down their arms. Even the local German commander refused to capitulate and was arrested by three senior Wehrmacht cfficers. NAZI OBSTINACY German obstinacy also led to the Russian air bombardment of the Born holm towns of Roenne and Noxoe after the rest of Denmark had celebrated V-Day. It is considered to be fully in line with Russian procedure to keep uerman resistance pockets strictly isolated.

Consequently the Russians since Tuesday have not allowed pas senger sea and air communications between Bornholm and the rest of Denmark and telegraph and telephone communications, with the exception of a few Lenborea press messages, have also been fjronioiiea. Some thousands of Russians assisted by Danish Freedom Fighters are still rounding up the Germans in Bornholm whe will be transnnrrj tn The Russian commander stated that the Russians intend to leave the island as soon as all the Germans are out. Nevertheless, it is generally felt that, for Psychological reasons, it would be a good thing if normal communications could be re-established quickly and tha? II also De helpful if members of the Danish Cabinet could visit Bornholm. which so far has been unable fully to participate in the liberation celebrations. TheTimes'Jfc-Manchester Guardian' Service MORE TROOPS LANDED Copenhagen, May 17.

The Russians are reported to have landed new detachments of troops and heavy artillery on Bornholm. the Danish island in the Baltic. Reuter. 28 U-BOATS STILL AT SEA No "Grand Assembly" About twenty-eight German U-boats are believed to be still at sea and have not heard wireless signals instructing them to proceed to Allied ports. These U-boats are probably far out in the oceans and have been submerged for a very long period.

They will be unaware that the war is ended until they surface. Apart from thesp the whole of what remained of the German fleet has been rounded up and is now under the control of the United Nations. The 532. which surrendered to the Royal Navy in the Atlantic, was escorted into Gladstone Dock. Liverpool yesterday, its rusty hull low in the water.

Its big cargo of tin. molybdenum, wolfram, rubber and quinine was soon being unloaded for use against the enemy who had provided them the Japanese. The German crew seemed very subdued, but one, wearing the Iron Cross, smiled occasionally. British experts and officials went on board to carry out a thorough investigation of the submarine, which has a false keel where the cargo of tin was carried. DANISH FOOD FOR EUROPE Washington, May 17.

Danish food will be available for the rest of liberated Europe this year. The United States Foreign Economic Administration and Danish representatives plan to provide for other countries 17,000 tons of beef, 40,000 tons of bacon, 40,000 tons of butter, 4,000 tons of condensed milk, and 1,500 tons of cheese. Reuter. grove) asked what justification the Chan cellor had for demanding powers to say that a child of a soldier on demobilisation should get the allowance while the child of the soldier kept in the jungles of Burma should not. Sir HERBERT HOLDSWORTH (L.

Nat. Bradford said the Chancellor would have to change his mind about the principles he thought so much about and about which the rest of the House did not care two hoots. "Justice has got to be dtine to those people who have enabled us to be here this afternoon," he added. Mr. McNEIL (Lab.

Greenock) described the clause as a device for a miserable piece of cheeseparing at the expense of those who could least afford it. Mr. HOPKINSON (Ind Mossley) called it one of the meanest bits of jiggery-pokery. Men in the armed forces, he said, were to be debarred from the free gift given to, the rest of the population. Mr.

S. STOREY (C Sunderland) that clause 13 approached the matter entirely in a wrong way, and from the point of view of one law for the Service man and another for the civilian. He could not agree that the man still fighting in the Army should be deprived of his family allowance. He asked that the scheme of national insurance and family allowances should be looked upon as a whole and made operative at the earliest possible date. (Hear, hear.) "No Ulterior Motive" Sir JOHN ANDERSON denied categorically that there was any intention to use the power in any way detrimental to the serving soldier.

"The structure of soldiers' pay is under review and we do not know what form itxmay ultimately take. I thought it might prove convenient that whatever payments were made from public funds to a serving soldier should come from one source, and in that case the whole payment should come from the soldier's own paymaster. "The Government will certainly take account in framing new clauses of the that have been expressed. Those apprehensions are absolutely unfounded. (Cries of dissent.) I feel absolutely- justified in repudiating the suggestion that the Government had any ulterior motive such as has been imputed." Mr.

CLEMENT DAVIES (L Montgomery) declared that the House intended that every child without any query should receive the 5s. If the clauses were brought back to the House worded differently but with the same principle the House would not accept them. Captain SIDNEY" (C. Chelsea) shared to the full the criticisms which had been expressed of clause 13 in particular. Lieutenant Colonel MARLOWE (C Brighton) declared that everybody in the House would be against the Chancellor if he came back with the clauses in something like the same form.

Apparently it was his intention to make regulations reducing family allowances because of what was received under other schemes. That was wrong. Clauses 13 and 14 might quite well be wiped out Mr. CAMPBELL STEPHENS (I.L.P. Camlachie) wanted a definite statement from the Government as to whether it was going to accept the views of the 'committee or defy the committee Move to Secure Equality Sir WILLIAM JOWITT (Minister of National Insurance) declared that so far as he was concerned there was no niggardly question of saving money.

One of the great points of the entire scheme was to get rid of the distinction existing to-day between health and unemployment benefit. Previously there was no children's allowance for health but a children's allowance under unemployment benefit. If he were, to build up a composite and sensible scheme he must get rid of that distinction. If they were going to say that this 5s. was to be in addition to the 5s.

paid at present to the second child of the unemployed man it would mean they were going to pay 10s. NAZI CRIMES IN ALDERNEY "Mass Burials" St. Anne (Alderney) May 17. Investigations promised by Brigadier Snow into the reported killings and mass burials of Russians and Jews on Alderney Island began to-day. It was known that the Germans had not practised the cold correctness which they had shown on the other Channel-Islands.

Before the deliverance of the- islands the British authorities had received reports of strange happenings on Alderney. Few islanders were sent there for punishment but foreigners were frequently shipped to it from the other islands, and Russians and Jews in some numbers were seen on Guernsey and Jersey on the way to Alderney. Germans will almost certainly be employed in excavating what are stated to be mass graves and also other suspicious-looking spots. All -buildings will be examined. Mr.

George Pope, had lived in St. Anne for the whole period of the German occupation, told me that at Loney. a common at one end of the island, there is a mass grave. the statement made Dy nun is true, between 1,000 and 1,200 Russians and Jews have been brutally done to death. The Popes were the last British family in Nazi hands on British soil to be set free when Alderney was liberated to-day.

Living Skeletons Mr. Pope told me that there used to be about 2,000 Ukrainians and Jews on the island. At that time the Germans had plenty of food. They put- them on rations that a dog could not live on. They were going around absolutely starving like living skeletons.

We gave them some food and we were arrested. The S.S. were in charge. They beat political prisoners to death. Major Hoffmann was responsible.

He was the commandant during the whole of the period of the atrocities." Mr. Thomas Creron. of Leitch's Court, Dun tocher, Clydebank, who has been a prisoner, said to me Come ashore, you will get plenty of evidence. Hundreds of people hav been whipped to death." Press Association War Reporter. San Francisco, May 17.

We are still waiting to hear from the Russians about how they regard the compromise on regional alliances reached between the four other Big Powers. And it is understood that the Russian delegation is still waiting to hear from Moscow. For the present then this compromise must be regarded as a triumph and with this reservation the conference moved on a little gingerly to-day to attack the problem of trusteeships. The committee dealing with it has accepted the working paper it asked Commander Stassen to draw up. This -paper will be considered the agenda on trusteeship, as if it were a missing chapter of Dumbarton Oaks.

Briefly the paper states that it should be the general policy of trusteeship to ensure the economic and social aa-vancement of dependent peoples and to help them to progress towards self-government. The proposed system does not intend that any territory represented here as a member of the United Nations should become trustee lands. The system will apply to territories now under mandate whose status the administering Power wishes to alter to territories detached from enemy States because of the present war and to territories that an administering Power wishes to put under a system. The authority for administering trustees is divided between the Security Council and the General Assembly. The General Assembly aided by a newly proposed trusteeship council will in the first place consider partitions and trusteeship claims.

The Security Council will decide which parts of the trustee land is "strategic." What remains of any territory will then be administered by a trusteeship council. But the paper is careful to imply that even people who live near harbours and airfields have health, and home, and children. TRUSTEES HIP COUNCIL So the Security Council is empowered to use the Trusteeship Council to take care of the economic and social welfare ELECTION PLANS IN POLAND Repatriation Expedited From a Polish Correspondent. Preparations for elections in Poland are reported to be in process in the Lublin and Warsaw area as well as in the new districts of Western Poland, which are being incorporated from German Silesia down, through Pomerania to the Baltic. The repatriation of Poles east of the Curzon Line has been speeded, and, according to reports reaching Polish sources in London, the election may be In Polish quarters in London there is considerable speculation as to the future of General Bor-Komorowski, the Commander-in-Chief and commander of the Warsaw revolt last year, who is now in this country.

Officially he is the Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Army, having been nominated to this post last September following the resignation of General Sosnkowski, but so far he has not taken over the duties now being carried on by General Anders, who is deputising as Commander-in-Chief. There are rumours that he might be given a seat in the Cabinet and thus bring his authority, to the Government with a view to persuading the Peasant party that is, Mr. Mikolajczyk and his group to join hands with the NO DIFFERENCES ON POLAND mr. stettinius. San Francisco, May 17.

Mr. Stettinius, United States Secretary of State, declared to-night that there was "no question of any differences" between the American and British viewpoint on the formation of a new Polish Coalition Government. He was answering questions following a report from San Francisco that the United States position oh the Polish dispute as defined by President Roosevelt before his death in an exchange of letters with Mr. Churchill differed from that of the British. So far as is known by officials there has not yet been any reply from Moscow to the demands for a full explanation of the Soviet arrest of the 16 Polish democratic leaders.

Associated Press. MR. CHURCHILL'S MESSAGE TO NORWAY Mr. Churchill, in a message to the Norwegian people on the occasion of Norway's Constitution Day yesterday, said To-day the Norwegian people are at last to celebrate once more on May 17 as citizens of a sovereign, independent, and democratic Norway," and they can with confidence aver that by May 17 next year they will have so laboured and wrought' that the ravages of five.vears of occupation will be reduced to the slightest scars on the face of their liberated country. The burden of my message to you is that, in the future triumphs of reconstruction as throughout the past trials of occupation, you may depend on the sincere support and friendship of the whole British people, based upon our ancient ties and our common heritage and forged into an enduring bond by our comradeship in war.

LANCASTER BLOWS UP AFTER CRASH An RAF. Lancaster bomber crashed in Lichfield Road. Wednesfield. near Wolverhampton, last night. Tne aircraft was blown to pieces.

The number of the crew has not yet been established, and the remains of only two have been found. FRENCH CLAIMS AGAINST ITALY Small Frontier Changes Paris, May 17. France intends to ask Italy for certain frontier rectifications, said a French Foreign Office spokesman to-day. France would no doubt place before the Peace Conference details of these prooosed changes, but the spokesman categorically denied tnat urance naa any territorial ambitions in this region. No official negotiations had yet taken place, but the French Foreign Office was under the imoression.

from unofficial dis cussions with the Italians, that the minor adjustments which the French Government wanted would not raise insuperable obsUcles on the Italian side. Press reports about what was taking place in the extreme north-west corner of Italy were "very exaggerated," the spokesman said. French troops had been enthusiastically welcomed as liberators, and since their arrival the population, who from time immemorial had spoken French, had been again able to speak that language, call their streets by their original French names, and listen in church to sermons in French. Reuter. AIR MAIL TO FORCES The Postmaster General announces that all letters weighing not more than one ounce (prepaid -lid.) and postcards (prepaid Id.) will in future be carried by air to British forces in Canada, the- United States, the Bahamas, Bermuda.

Jamaica, Trinidad, and other destinations in the Western Hemisphere, thus bringing the service to these forces into line with the service to the forces in most other areas overseas. An air mail label should not be affixed. Letters for the same destinations weighing more than one ounce may be sent by air at the rate of 6d. for the first one and a half ounces and 6d. for each succeeding half-ounce, and should have an air-mail label affixed.

They may be sent by surface conveyance at the rate of 2Jd. for the first two ounces and Id. for each additional ounce. BELGIAN PAPER SUSPENDED Brussels, May 17. The newspaper "Pouvoir aux Trav-ailleurs which called for a general strike and attacked the Allies has been suspended, said a communique issued after to-day's meeting of the Belgian Cabinet.

Reutes-. BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS Is. 6d. Der line. Minimum two lines All such announcements must be authenticated os the name and address of the sender, and in the case ot Encasements by the aianaturat of bflth parties Postage stamps or postal orders may be sent in psymrxu BIRTHS ASHBURN.

On May 16." nt Haslam Maternity Homr Bo'ton. to BARBARA (nee Balnbrldee). wile ot Captsin JOHN ASHBURN. son (Martin John) 59. Hollywood Road.

Bolton BUTTER. On May 16. at Oroatenor Nurilni Homr. Beaton Chapel, to BETTY (nee Cowan), wife, nt GRAHAM BUTTER, a son. SNAPS, On May IS.

at Hilda Avenue. ToUlnitou. to Mr and Mrs. CLIFFORD BNAPE. 41.

Road, Bury, a brother Xor Colin (Clive). SWALE. On May 16. 1945, st Partslde Nursing Home, to MARJORY, wile ot KENNETH SWALE. a son.

123. SmllhUIs. Dean Road. Bolton. COMING OF AGE BARNES.

Mr. and Mrs. JOHN EDWARD BARNES, of Heather Lea. Wordsworth Avenue. Droylsden.

hate pleasure in announcing the coming of age of their daughter. DOROTHY, on May 18. 1945. MARRIAGES BRADIHAW OMIOIH. On May VI.

ui Edmunl's Church Whailey Range, by tbe Rev. A. Lunt. M.A., FBNK. eider son the late Mr.

and Mrs. R. BRADSHAW. of Dudley Road. Wbaliey Range, to CHRISTINE, only daughter of Mrs.

Elsie ONIONS, of Manley Road. Whslley Range. KUIT POOLE. On May 16. MORRIS KU1T to MARY LILIAN POOLE.

27. Victoria Avenue. Oldstaury. Manchester 20. LIDOINQTOM TOO.

On May 17. at Dean Row Chapel. Wilmslow. by the Rev. E.

I. Wrlgley. M.A.. Major IAN LXDDINOTON (Indian Army), only son of Mr. and Mrs.

I. H. Llddlngton. of Rugby, to eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs E.

TOD. of Chelford fiete Wilmslow) MOTTRAM WARD LI BARROW. On May 16, Stafford. ERIC MOTTRAM WARD. LDA.

to MARGARET LE BARRO'V both of StaSord. SIMPSON LAWREMSOH. On May 7. 1S45, at St. Thomas's Church, St.

Annes-on-ea. FRANCIS HARRY FAULKNER SIMPSON, only ton of Mrs. M. J. Simpson and the late Simpson, lo IRENE JEAN, only daughter of Mr and Mrs LA WREN SON.

both of St Annes SLACK TIMPERLEV. On Msy 15. 1U45. at Hatberlow Chapel. Romiley.

SAMUEL, second son of Mrs. SLACK and the late Mr. Slack, of 21. Curzon Road. Onerton.

Stockport, to DOROTHY MARY, only daughter 'of Mr. and Mrs. T. TIMPBRLEY. of Bredbury Green Romiley.

Cheshire, Silver Wedding SHARP SUFRIH. On May 18, 1920. at tne Midland Hoiel, Manchester, by the Iste Rev. Jscob Phillips. JACK SHARP to RAJS SUPRIN.

20. Mayrille Drive. Witctngton. Manchester 30. DEATHS BURKE.

On Msy 16. at his dsugncer-a resulenee. 3. A libera Place. Rusholme JAMES EDWARD (Ted), in his 81st year, beloved husband of the late Ada BURKS.

Service and Interment at Denton Cemetery on Saturday at p.m. Tnauirlrs to? A. Jsckson. Tel. BUS.

1480. DAWSON. On May 15 at 211, rtuxetn Road. Aabtaa-on-Ribble. Preston.

JAMES PRASEB DAWSON (late of A. Pish Spa Mill. Preston), poceral service at St. Andrew's Church, Ashtou-oc-Rlbble. this day (Friday) at 11 15 am.

CIU.IBRAMD. On May 16. at bis residence. 13. Egerton Road.

Davenport, Stockport. WALTON LONG DON. the loved husoand of Florence Mabel GILLIbRAKD Service at the Stockport Crematorium on Saturday. Msy 19. at eleven-thirty o'clock.

No flowers. Imrmries to Progxatts'. Stockport. PORTER. On May 16.

at Wainwrlght Farm, awmton. tAti is. ueany oexoveu wire oi Aiarrman tsooert PORTER. In her 73rd year Funeral service at St. Peter's Church.

arm ton. on Ssturdsy st 12 IS interment at St. Mark's Church. Worsley, st 1 pa Inquiries to Ernest Crltcbley 8W1 1810 Ir. and Mrs.

w. KERSHAW sincerely thank friends for sympathy extended to them in their sad loss. Ltnley. Swam) Grove. Cheodl Holme In Memormm-.

ALCEfl. In loving memory of my dear QAM." ft Uonrsldft. Rnart RMF.n Um. SfSoRUE. In ever-loving memory ot WALTER eruaiA; uaerwn, near CKDCKport, tmo Passed away May 1940.

JAMES BROOME. Funeral Director, 42 DOWNING ST. MO'l Tel ARnMrteVvV Also at Rni holme. Lonctlght. Bramhail.

and Msrpie. forthe MANCHESTER GUARDIAN KVHTHNO NEWS. LTD. at the Guardian Bislldlnx. s.

cross street. Manchester 2. ErlaST. May IS. 1945.

Dachau dead turn up nearly 50 per cent snort. The total impression is that whereas many Americans on the spot are doing their utmost somewhere high up there is insufficient appreciation of the fact that the men rotting in Dachau have the same claim for first priority care as the wounded on the battlefield This impression is naturally aggravated by the unsolved problem of French representation on the spot in the Allied zones in Germany. The French are not able to look alter their own compatriots and in consequence are inclined to suspect indifference where there is none. The lack of French representation is, of course, linked with a whole series other problems in which responsibility for the failure to secure co-ordination is to an important extent French. The present state of affairs is none the less damaging to Allied relations.

5,000 TIMBER HOUSES FROM SWEDEN Four Types All Permanent Orders for 5,000 permanent prefabricated timber houses are being placed with Swedish manufacturers by the mission sent to Stockholm by the Minister of Works, but it will be some months before the houses reach Britain. There are four types Semi-detached' two-storey houses, designed for rural England. The ground floor includes a living-room and an attached outhouse, comprising washhouse. with sink and copper, w.c, fuel-room and store-room. On the.

first floor are three bedrooms, bathroom, and w.c. Semi-detached two-storey houses which could form end houses of a terrace, designed for Scottish urban areas. Thev have a living-room, kitchen, w.c. and fuel store on ground floor, and three double bedrooms on the first floor. A two-storey terrace type with accommodation similar to the second tvpe.

A two-storey type, designed for rural Scotland and tngland. with a living-room, bedroom, and bathroom downstairs two bedrooms upstairs, and a washhouse and fuel store attached to the house. The waKs of all houses are timber-framed wall units, insulated, and clad externallv with vertical timber board-ins. The roofs are pitched timber, covered with local materials. Party and fireplaces are brick or concrete.

Living-rooms will have solid fuel fires. Hot water is provided for smks and bathroom, and the lighting is bv electricitv. JAPANESE REMNANTS IN BURMA SPLIT Three Main Groups Japanese remnants in Burma, numbering over 60,000, have been split into three main groups following yesterday's new Allied link-up 60 miles north of Rangoon. East of the Mandalay-Rangoon railway 44,000 are estimated to be trving to escape east. Many are trying to withdraw southwards, and mav make a stand at Moulmein to hold open this escape route.

Between the Mandalay-Rangoon and railways, in the centre of Burma, there are believed to be 12,000 more trying to filter east through the 14th Army's positions along the Mandalay-Rangoon railway. West of the Prome-Rangoon railway and in the Irra-waddy valley, in the south-west corner of Burma, disorganised bands numbering 6.000 have been finally sealed off. Some of the scattered in this coastal area are trying to escape by sea. Everywhere they meeting with severe losses Remnants in the Arakan Hills suffered heavy equalities when they tried to break through into the Irra-waddy valley. Over 5,000 of the Indian National Army," organised by the Japanese, have been captured.

Reuter. ment, even the freedom to stay put or lose tnemseives. But it they so choose it will be from their own wilfulness or superior knowledge and not the fault of the map. ITALIAN CABINET CHANGES? Milan Discussions From our own Correspondent Rome, May 17. Signor Bonomi, the.

Premier, left this morning in an Italian 'plane for Mantua, his home town, with his wife. for a short holiday. Mantua is not far from Milan, where all the leading members of the Council of Rome are now gathered- with the Northern Council for discussions about changes in the Italian Government. This morning the Italian Cabinet Ministers De Gasperi, Togllatti, Soleri, and five others, left for Milan, where they will join in the political discussions now proceeding there. When the Northern Council visited Rome last week Signor Bonomi read the Armistice terms to them and discussions took place about the possibility of immediate elections.

Communications are so bad in Italy except by air that the difficulties of an election appeared depressing to the Northern Council and they returned to Milan someCCT" gloomy. Under the circumstances the political discussions now going on in Milan may well insist on big changes in the Government since the elections will take so long to prepare. The Communist party has been favouring Signor Nenni, the aociaiisi leaaer as iremier. Here in Rome the Council did not give sufficient support td his candidature, but since the walls of Milan have heen pasted with the sloean "Wi wan Togliatti and Nenni here." Signor Nenni may yet get tne necessary support. UNWANTED MONARCHY If the Premier is changed, whoever takes his place will still nave to work under the incubus of the monarchy, for we appear to vhave made it clear that the institutional truce must stay until an elected assembly can decide.

The Crown Prince's -visit to Milan last week was a real failure and-he is now in Rome. The Communists insist on "civilian Regency," as Signor Togliatti described it in a recent flnmmnnict Tiartw here. One, way and another Italian xeeiing is weiaing ltseii against the onus of this secret armictino anri nhat fanic to be the Allied imposition of an un- wauicu monarcny. nH tr or- tolas tYt.r, m.t,M4. beginning to become embittered- Today "Epoca," an independent journal, explains way a really Left Government umlaut iu.

over just now. what can a Left Government achieve paralysed by an-unpublishaMe armistice and by this business about Allied supply lines which must not be disturbed A LABOUR OPPONENT FOR MR. GRAHAM WHITE Major Frank Soskice. a London barrister, grandson of Ford Madox Brown, thn artist, hsc hppn sarlnntajJ piuapccuvc Labour candidate for Birkenhead East, to oppose mr. n- Lrranam White, the Liberal member.

Major Soskice, who is 42. has served in East Africa and -the Middle East..