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THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN. FRIDAY, JUNE 8. 1945 MORE SAVING NEEDED Sir John Anderson GERMANY'S ALPINE REDOUBT Fortifications Discovered in Italian Tyrol PROBLEM OF THE BRENNER FRONTIER From our Special Correspondent ISLANDS THE KING Cheering Crowds FINAL SYMBOL OF LIBERATION In glorious sunshine the King and Queen stepped ashore at St. -Helier. PARIS CALLS FOR MIDDLE EAST CONFERENCE Five Powers Invited PRESIDENT TRUMAN NOT IN FAVOUR More French Charges Against Britain to us like any other Tyrolean houses, but on close examination the walls were 700 U-BOATS WERE SUNK Final Statement HEAVY COST IN ALLIED LIVES The final joint statement regarding U-boat warfare by the President of the United States and the Prime Minister was issued from 10, Downing Street yesterday.

It shows that over 700 U-boats were sunk during the war against Germany. The statement says With the surrender of Germany the Battle of the Atlantic has ended. German U-boats have ceased to operate and are now proceeding under Allied orders." Beginning an September, 1939, it has been a long and relentless struggle demanding not only the utmost courage daring, and endurance but also the highest scientific and technical skUl. Germany's object was to cut the Allied sea communications, upon which the maintenance of the Allied war effort depended. "This included the movements anH The French Government has issued invitations to Britain, the United States, Russia, and China to a conference on Middle East questions, but President Truman stated last night that he did not favour such a meeting.

He believed that the situation could be worked out without it. The Arab League Council, -which has been meeting in Cairo, last night issued an official statement, in -which it said that the Council had decided that France attacked Syria and the Lebanon, and the League was taking the necessary measures in order to resist French aggression. General Roget, French Commander in Damascus at the time of the disorders, told correspondents in Paris yesterday that order was re-established in the city on the morning of May 31 The British military, he said, intervened the same evening. He denied that he gave the order to bombard Damascus, and said the French -were fired on first. He admitted that sandbagged and heavily armed buildings" next to Parliament House -were then' shelled.

General Roget repeated the allegation that British local officials helped inflame Syrian opinion. Bolzano, June. The legacy of war in the provinces of Bolzano and Merano which Italy received in 1919 with her frontier up to the Brenner is a chapter in itself. Here the Germans moved 'in, in strength, October, 1943, and here they made what was certainly intended to be part of their famous Alpine redoubt Our armies have met with stores on this scale across the frontier in the Austrian Tyrol, but nowhere else. The other day a German officer came to our Regional Commissioner in Bolzano with a list of purely industrial equipment which had been moved into this area since October, 1943.

I have a summary of the list, and it includes 17 different armaments and war production, units, and 27 storage dumps of rubber, elec trical equipment, rolling-stock, food, snoes and leather, and ammunition, The 17 production units produced ball- oearings. ammunition, small-arms ox all kinds, generators, tuning-quartz, fuses, optical instruments, and aero engines. Thousands of foreign and Italian workers were employed, and plant was brought here from Leipzig, Frankfurt, and Cologne, as well as from Milan, Turin, Ferrara, Venice. Brescia, Bologna, Trento, Vicenza, and JNOceto. INDUSTRY IN TUNNELS Most of this activity was carried on in specially scooped-out tunnels in the Dolomites.

Everywhere one sees camouflaged factories, and wherever, as frequently happens, the great mountain roads round Lake Garda or farther up the valleys wind in and out of tunnels the Germans built a new road for their traffic and used the tunnels for their factories. One begins to wonder up here whether future war industries in Europe will not grow up far away from their usual centres similar unbombable moun tain districts. With swift mountain streams like the Adige, enough power is at hand to dispense with coal. Rubber and iron dumps have to be, and were, made. It is certainly disturbing to move in what is still very beautiful mountain scenery, five and six thousand feet above sea-level.

with quiet Tyrolean farms and vineyards dotted on the high green slopes of the hills, when you know that hills themselves often have great dyna mited hollows in which all the modern instruments of death are being made or assembled, out of ear shot and far out of sight of the rest of mankind. Beyond Merano, on' the road up to the Riesa Pass into Austria, the cliff-like faces of the mountains are treacherous. Here are no factories, only a most intricate system of forts whose underground entrances are a long way back from the road. You must scan the mountain face carefullv to see them. Then there are houses in the open valley which looked SIR EDWARD GRIGG RESTATES BRITISH ATTITUDE the greatest difficulty had been experi- Jersey, yesterday to visit the newly freed Channel Islands.

They made the passage from England in the cruiser Jamaica, which flew from her mast the Royal Standard, the red flaa with the gold anchor that is the King's banner as Lord High Admiral of England, and the Union Jack to signify his presence as an Admiral of the Fleet. Islanders in Jersey had been awaiting the Royal visit since Wednesday morning and went wild With delight when they sighted the ship in the distance and knew that their Duke "the King is always known in the islands as the Duke of Normandy and his Queen were coming jjmong them. The visit was the final symbol of the liberation of these islands, the oldest possession of the British Crown in Europe. The Jamaica fired a 21-gun salute as she reached the anchorage and the ship's band played the National Anthem as the King and Queen went ashore. They drove round Jprsov car for an hour.

In the State Chamber the King made a speech and received an address. Everyone in the island turned out to cheer, and flags were everywhere. Before lunch at Government House the Kins gave the Military Cross to the parents of the late Major inehaU. "YEARS OF TRIAL At St. Helier the King, expressing his great joy that the islanders were restored to freedom and to their ancestral relationship with the Crown after a long period of suffering, said There is much to be done before your island can regain its former prosperity, but I am confident that by your endeavours, which will have the fullest support of my Govern ment, the destruction wrought by the enemy will soon be repaired and our fields restored to the abundance for which they have so long been famous.

Our thoughts have often been with you in your years of trial, and the Queen and I are deeply moved by your heartfelt expression of welcome." The Bailiff, in a loyal address from the Assembly of the island, had welcomed the King and Queen. The island was profoundly grateful for the aid and succour so promptly and in such generous measure brought by the armed forces with whom there have been established during the short interval since their arrival relations of the utmost harmony and goodwill," and the Assembly was confident that the island would soon be, restored to its former prosperity. GUERNSEY'S GRATITUDE At Guernsey, to which they travelled bv air, the King said that he had felt deeply for his people in Guernsey and Sark throughout their long years under enemy occupation. Only a few weeks have passed since my forces landed in your island and I can already see evidence of the hard work which has been done by the members of my forces and the inhabitants of the island to repair the damage done by the enemy and to prepare the way for you to regain your former wellbeing." The King and Queen left Guernsey in a Transport Command 'plane yesterday evening to return to England. They flew with aa escort of Spitfires.

The King and Queen arrived at Nort-holt Aerodrome on their return from the Channel Islands and drove to Buckingham Palace. ROYAL VISIT TO THE ISLE OF MAN For Three Days in July The King and Queen, accompanied fay Princess Elizabeth, will make an official visit to the Isle of Man from July 3 to Julv 6. when they will be the fcuests at Government House of Lord and Ladv Granville. Lady Granville is Queen's sister. the j.ne royai visitors win arrive at Jurby by air and drive through Sulbv Glen and alon the famous T.T.

course to Government House, where the evening the first of three official dinners, followed bv a reception, will be held. On the Wednesday they will nay an official visit to the towns of the island. On the Thursday, for the first time SUBSIDIES AND PRICE MAINTENANCE The fourth of the series of radio broadcasts to be given before the election was made last night by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Anderson. It was chiefly an appeal, for a continuation of the savings movement, although in a reference to free enterprise versus State control he insisted that "it would be the height of folly to deny private enterprise the most favourable conditions for its development." Having declared that he was not a party man. Sir John said they had to see that so long as there was a gap between expenditure and national revenue there was an adequate volume of genuine savings.

The savings movement, therefore, was perhaps greater than ever, for savings were needed balance the national accounts, to provide the money required for houses, factories, ships, buildings, and the means of production, and, above all. to prevent the danger of inflation. "Apart from the terrible hardships which inflation would inflict upon persons with small fixed incomes, it would be a gross betrayal of all those who, with great public spirit, have responded to appeals to save. In exercisinu control of national ex penditure duty often compels me to say no to projects wun wnicn i. am personally in sympathy.

Similarly, I may often have to insist on the maintenance of tax burdens which I know to be heavy because the cost of giving the desired relief would be more than we could safely afford. The nation cannot allow expenditure to outstrip its revenue indefinitely. That way lies disaster. SUBSIDIES AND WAGE RATES In war we have to borrow heavily, and for some time after this war some borrowing will be inevitable, but we must keep before us the absolute necessity of balancing the two sides of the national accounts at a reasonably early date. We have to keep prices at a reasonable and stable level.

This policy is to-day costing us more than 200,000,000 a year in subsidies. This will be wasted unless all concerned cooperate to maintain a correspondingly stable level in wage rates." Our financial system required careful regulation and the maintenance of certain controls no more, of course, than was necssary, and one hoped less and less as time went on. But apart from that there was an essential background which could be described in one word, confidence confidence in the soundness of our national policy, confidence that certain social evils which the late Government were pledged to remedy would not be neglected. Do not be too ready," he said, to believe anyone who tells you that he has a single sovereign remedy for unemployment. Secondly, there is the vast subject of social insurance, including a universal comprehensive health service.

We have a plan already worked out in great detail. There is housing. I have had to ask myself as Chancellor of the Exchequer whether we can really afford these things. My answer, and it is a carefully considered answer, is that with confidence in the soundness of our policy and with a high level of national production we can and shall afford them. I say this not only on grounds of humanity but because they are essential to our productive efficiency as a nation, and it is for this reason that I have given so much attention of late of adjustments in taxation designed to encourage the use by industrialists of the most modern plant, machinery, and buildings.

PRIVATE ENTERPRISE Dealing with what he called the most controversial topic in his speech, private ownership versus public ownership," Sir John said My admiration for our public services is unbounded, but nothinK in my experience leads me to think that any organisation or any technique has yet been developed inside the machinery of govefnment equal to dealing with all the normal hazards of trade and industry. Let us pin our faith to free enterprise, which has served us well, on which our prosperity has been built, and which has inspired our spirit of adventure. Do not be led astray by the prejudicial use of such words as capitalism, profit, or monopoly. The State has alwavs the right to check abuse. A very long period of trial and experiment must be necessary before any considerable change could safely be made.

There are certain activities, hitherto wholly or largely in private hands, which may well require a large measure of public control. But with great respect to my friend. Mr. Attlee. I entirely disagree with him when he says that you can have under public control a spirit of enterprise which is lacking to-day.

and I equally decline to follow him in the suggestion that we can look to what it has been possible to do under the stress of war as a guide to our policy in time of peace. TAXATION BURDENS It would he the height of tolly to deny private enterprise fair and favourable conditions for its development. It would be a betrayal of the interests of the nation to secu-e the worst of every possible world by encouraging a wholly delusive belief in speedy extension of national control and thsreby obscuring the absolute necessity of giving to private enterprise the conditions necessary to its success. Those conditions involve, in my opinion, freedom from all controls not absolutely necessary, and a progressive mitigation of the present intolerable burden of taxation. As I indicated in my recent Budget speech, I hope we may be able, not later than this autumn, to make definite progress towards the re-establishment of those essential conditions, but to make quite sure of this you will have to see to it that the present Government is returned to GERMAN "JETS' Improvements Suggested by Inventor use 7.

Heinrich Sernhard Oelrich, the German inventor and maker of the jet-plane the F.W. 190 and Me. 109 and 110 fighters, has surrendered his designs and suggested improvements to the United States Army. He claims to know many secrets and plans of German industry, and supervised the erection of a jet-plane factory at Budweis, in Czechoslovakia, in 1943. plans include designs and improvements for 'planes, motor-cycles, tanks, and a new artillery fhqjl Reuter, found to be six solid feet of steel and concrete and the windows apertures for Dig guns.

rne uermans never naa time to move their (funs in. nave been wronsfly impressed by the MaEinot Line, but these fortifications remain im pressive because tney stretch over such distances and roads are lew in uus rugged part of the world. The oeonle wno live flere nave lived here for centuries. Thev are mostly small farmers who produce a little wine for exchange purposes. Just now they Darter it lor ciotning ana lootwear.

in peace-time, these last twenty years, they were toxa to lorget tneir uerman language and go to the Fascist schools, where no German was taught and where tney were tola in Italian that Mussolini was always rignt, ana later tnat tnev were to become empire-minded and fiaht the whole world for Italy rmhts in 193U tne boutn became tne subject of an agreement between Hitle? and Mussolini. These Tyroleans were to opt for Italy or for transfer to the Reich. Out of a Quarter of a million of them about twenty-five thousand opted for transier, the rest did not register their opinions When it came to leaving homesteads which they had Known lor boo years ana more oareiy 2,000 embarked, and of those some appear to have been settled by the Nazis in Luxemburg and are anxious to come bacic Since the German occupation of this region a fairly strong anJi-Nazi move ment developed with a lew partisans. But by a mishap the partisan movement was badly led by a Captain who has since been arrested for f.aking possession of 22,000,000 lire belonging to the province of Bolzano and setting himself up as the Allied military authority two days before, we arrived there. Many Italians in worked under Clairval.

but an odd situation has arisen among the Italians. Italian people one talks to in the street tell you about the German occupation in no unmeasured terms. "You know they sun-pressed the Fascist Republican party here, and we had to meet clandestine'y." For many Italians that was the extent of their "resistance." nor is it to be wondered at. MUSSOLINI'S BOLZANO Mussolini had a reallv hideous new Bolzano built alongside the old city, and filled the block flats there with Italians and with new small industries. I had last seen Bolzano in 1923.

and could hardly take in the ugly tenements that have gone up there since. As for the old town, it is very badly damaged by bombing, though the main square preserves its pretty characteristics. Apart from the Italians in Bolzano (now about 45 per cent) there are no Italians north of Solurno, which is about fifty miles north of Trento. The graveyards in these places have had their inscriptions forcibly changed into Italian the people" speak some Italian after twenty years' schooling, but at heart they remain Austrian. It is unfortunate that the N.L.

in Bolzano now has nine members, of whom only two are Tyro-iean and the rest Italian. This does not give the Tyroleans much confidence In the new Italy, and as for their welcome to us, it is reserved, because they feel that we are going to insist on Italy's Brenner frontier. formerly went to Western Germany, now in the American and British and French zones Is there to be co-ordination of progaganda and administration and agreement on repatriation Germany should not fall into two separate parts, a west and an east. The views of the Western Allies on this subject have been made abundantly clear. The difficulties that the Western Allies are still encountering in settling the French zone are minor ones.

France wants to have Cologne in the north and certain parts of Baden in the south included in her zone. Neither Britain nor the United States has yet agreed to these proposals, but it would be an exaggeration to call the difficulties insurmountable. FUTURE OF BAVARIA Westers Germasy, Juse 7. Reports that Field Marshal Mont- Field Marshal is at his Tactical H.Q. and has not been to Britain since the Berlin meeting.

This was authoritatively learned at 21st Army Group tolay. Marked differences in policy are apparent in the various groups of occu pation, in tne zist Army Group administration Germans so far have been appointed only to minor posts and the placing of authority in the hands of German subjects is carried on under rigorous supervision. The recent appointment, however, in the American sector of Friedrich Schaffer as temporary Minister President of Bavaria and the apparent intention of the Americans to restore the democratic and Catholic Government of 1933 are indicative of far greater autonomy for Germans than has yet been reached in either the British or Russian zones. Reuter. FROM MUNITIONS TO BUILDING Workers' Return The announcement by Mr.

Butler. Minister of Labour, in the House of Commons yesterday that he was proposing shortly to register former workers in the building and civil engineering industries who are now employed elsewhere as civilians with a view "to their return to these industries is welcomed by the building industry. An official of the National Federation of Building Trade Employers told a reporter that many thousands of building trade workers left the industry in the earlv days of the war and went into miurticn factories. We welcome the Minister's decision whole-heartedly," he said. more especially as -the release of Class men from the Army does not seem likely to produce the number of men expected." Every building trade operative should be got bade to bis old job.

sot only from munitions but from doing odd job maintenance work in other Homixff debate is Cosuwu em oaxt CHANCES OF A UNITED POLICY IN GERMANY Problems Outstanding with Russia From our Diplomatic Correspondent supply of armies, and air forces during successiui campaigns wur continents. Losses have been heavy both in lives and materials. At the ntak. in if)4 and 1942, the issue of the struggle hung in the balance. On the other hand, over 700 U-boats have oeen sunk and manv others destroyed the Germans themselves in the final stage.

Most of theie successes have been achieved by the combined Allied naval and air forces. Others are due to mines laid from aircraft and ships and bombing in harbour, and a few U-boats were lost by marine dangers. But success was achieved. Thanks to the sailors an-i airmen, the scientists and technicians, the. shipbuilders and the factory workers, the convoys reached their destination and enabled the soldiers and the airmen to fulfil their tasks.

We, President and Prime Minister, in this our last joint statement on the U-boat war, can now report that the Allies have finished the job." SAN FRANCISCO DEADLOCK OVER Veto Question Solved San Francisco, June 7. The Big Five has reached complete and unanimous agreement on the interpretation of the Yalta voting formula. A high American official at the end of the Big Five meeting hailed the end of the deadlock which threatened the fate of the new United Nations charter. Mr. Stettinius said at a press conference An agreement was reached which preserves the principle of the unanimity of the permanent members of tne council all actions taken by the council, while at the same time assuring freedom of hearing and discussion the council before action is taken.

Earlier it was announced that Russia had convened a meeting of the Big Five for the purpose of discussing the veto controversy. It was presumed, therefore, that a reply from Moscow had been received by Mr. Gromyko in the issue. Xothinz was known of the nature of that reply. Reuter.

EAlistair Cooke' message on back page AMERICAN EDITORS ARRESTED Espionage Charges From our own Correspondent New York, June 6. Six persons have been arrested on espionage charges by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and on charges of taking highly confidential documents from the files of the State Department. They comprise two New York editors, a free-lance magazine writer, two members of the staff 1 of the State Department, and a lieu tenant or the United States formerly assigned to the Office of Naval Intelligence. Involved Mitchell, co-editors of Amerasia." which, it is charged, printed information i taKer. tne purloined documents.

ine vvr.ter is Mark Gayn, whose wont appears various magazines. The members of tne State Department are Emmanuel Larsen, in the China Division, and jDhn Service, who until recently was stationed in Ch.r.a. The naval lieutenant is Andrew Roth. DID NOT REACH ENEMY There is apparently no suggestion that any of the matprini r.f Vi. "5a rwnart- persons wonder why such a narsh measure as arrest on esnionaee charges IS invoked if the prime is diving material from tvio filps to the magazine ed.tors for publication.

It is a well-known fact that confidential information from the files of manv Govemmpnt rfenartments is given to journalists without specie I authority every day in the week. Hundreds of officials have condoned this practice, which is so common that it might almost be said to constitute a standard technique of government. I of those arrested are Leftist? 1 wno are kr.own to sympathise with Soviet Russ.a and the part of China con-i trolled by the Communists. A surmise neard Washington that inee arrests are another indication the State Department's markedly anti- Russian -ne since Mr. Roosevelfs death.

RELEASE OF TEACHERS FROM FORCES "Considerable Number" It has been decided by the Government that in v.e of the serious shortr age of teachers a considerable number of teachers now serving in the forces should be granted release under Class of the reallocation of man-pawei scheme. This announcement con-tamed in a Ministry lof Education circular being sent tcMJay to local education authorities and schools. Release will be offered in order of age service subject to the Services' requirements, md teachers be released so far as possible in their turn. No individual applications from employing bodiesor teachers wfll be necessary. London, Thursday.

The meeting of the four Allied commanders in Berlin has not led to the much hoped for discussions on a co-ordinated policy of control for Germany. It is understood that at this meeting Marshal Zhukov stated that, according to his instructions, further deliberations would have to be suspended until the American and British troops had withdrawn from the Russian zone of occupation. This view carried the day, not apparently because Marshal Zhukov was supported in it by his Allied colleagues but because he left the room. In the pursuit of military operations the British and American troops far overran the original demarcation r- The American penetration is particu- The Governments of the United States, Britain, Russia, and China have been invited to participate in a conference on the Middle East crisis, it in Paris yesterday, according to Associated Press. The French Embassies in the four capitals, it is understood, were instructed to present the invitations along with a short statement explaining France's reasons for calling the conference.

A responsible source said that no Note was delivered in connection with the invitations. Syria has agreed to the French proposal for a conference of the Big Five Powers, it is understood in Paris, says the British United Press. The Syrian Prime Minister has cabled the French Government to this effect, saying that he considers that this is the way to relieve the situation. In Cairo yesterday Sir Edward Grigg, British Minister Resident in the Middle East, indicated that the British Government is opposed to an all-in consideration of Middle East problems, says Reuter. "The British Government holds that the conference should be limited to the United States, Britain, France, arid the Levant States." FACTS DISPUTED "The difficulty at the moment," he added, is that the French and Levantine accounts cannot be reconciled.

The first duty of anv conference must be to find out the facts. The French suggestion that British aeents had in anv way fomented the trouble is utterly contrary to the facts. I have been there several times in the past month, and all the time the situation was deteriorating. When one considers what our officers have done there to bring about a peaceful settlement. I feel very strongly about imputations against them of being provocative.

It is untrue that a British division was sent to Syria before the trouble. There was no increase in our forces there." Sir Edward revealed that the French had demanded a diplomatic convention which would settle the precedence of French representatives in the two States. The reason why there are no French representatives on the new organisation for handling the grain harvest was explained by Sir Edward, who said GENERAL ROGET From our own Correspondent pARIS j-f-g 7 -c, General Ohva Roget. the French, commander in Damascus, to-day made a statement to the French and foreign press on the recent events there which will certainly make a very deep impression in France. General Ohva Roget is a quiet-mannered man, his bald head fringed with white hair.

Though obviously tired, he was always ready to explain or expand nis Statements, several of which he was able to confirm with documentary evidence. He explained that four-fifths "of the i c- iroops uuu rocn were the so-called special troops, local levies, numoenne an zi.uuo. i no- had remained remarkably loyal, only eleven out of two thousand under his direct command in Damascus having deserted during the recent troubles. In Syna mere had oeen increasing press agitation since January. It was accentuated after General Beynet had presented the proposed basis lor a Ois- cussion ror a tteaty nist to tne i-eoan- ese Government on May 15 and then to the Syrian Government on May 17.

These proposals were mendaciously represented as an ultimatum. On May 19 there were demonstrations in Damascus and military precautions were taken as undemonstrativeiy as possible. On May 20 a French sergeant major and a Senegalese soldier were murdered at Aleppo, but after additional precautions had been taken no further trouble occurred in that area. On May 28, in the morning, French outposts were surrounded at Deirez Zor, Jebel Druse and Deraa, where two out of three French prisoners taken were murdered. On May 29 troubles broke out in Damascus.

BRITISH TROOPS AND TANKS Paris, June 7. Categorically accusing local British agentof having contributed to stirring up trouble between the French and Syrians, and mentioning particularly two British officers Colonel David Stirling and Colonel Marsack. a New Zea-lander General Roget said: "The effervescence began in January. The next thing we saw was that military camps all round Damascus, which, had hrr deserted for over two. months, 1 I 1 i encea in getting tne oyrians ana Leoa nese to collaborate with anything French, and the harvest had to be got in quickly.

He added that the harvest would be enoueh to supply the two countries, whose towns require 200.000 tons of wheat a year, and emphasised that the new organisation was a temporary one. ARABS DEMAND FRENCH WITHDRAWAL "Responsible for Losses" Cairo, June 7. A statement issued by the Arab League Council to-night said that after hearing statements from representatives of Syria and Lebanon the council decided that France attacked Syria and Lebanon and must take responsibility for the assassination, destruction, and other losses which occurred in both countries. The league is to take the necessary measures in order to resist French aggression and is now. coordinating the necessary efforts in the light of probable international developments in order to reach by the help of the members of the league the aim of two Arab countries independence, sovereignty, and the evacuation of foreign troops.

The retention of French troons in Svria and Lebanon is. accordine to a statement, contradictory to the rights, soveretRntv and independence, and the runner presence of these French forces causes permanent tension in the relations between France and the two Arab republics. The Council supports the demand of Svria and Lebanon for the immediate evacuation of French troops from the two republics. While taking this decision the Council does not think it probable that other foreign troops in these countries will remain. Reuter.

U.S. PRESIDENT'S VIEW Washington, June 7. President Truman told his press conference to-night he would not favour a Big Five meeting on the Syrian question since he believed that the situation could be worked out without such a meeting. Reuter. ACCUSATIONS began filling up with British troops and British tanks at the beginning of May.

We thought they had come to help turned Qut we mistaken. From May 19 onwards there was an unceasing stream of British lorries entering the Citadel building in Damascus. The Citadel is a huge, walled building and the headquarters of the Syrian police. This coincided with .0 starting almost everywhere in Syria. On the night of May 26-27 sixty British lorries ing centre, in which so-called auxiliary police were being enrolled and armed, u'provoSiiMta AlS and elsewhere.

One French sergeant was dragged from a car and his throat tcut. Frencn outposts in the countryside were encircled. The trouble in Dinas- cus started on May 29. Groups of armed men started disorders at the behest of a foreign Power, in this case Britain. "The object was to force France to say she could on longer maintain order herself and to ask for British support.

Whether action by the local British officials had support from the Govem- rreTit tD London for the British them' selves to sav. CAME WITH WHITE FLAG Within 48 hours of the trouble starting in Damascus on the morning of May 31 from eight in the morning onwards notables of different parts of the town came to see me with a white flag, asking the terms of surrender. At 11 am. I told them all I asked was that the troubles shou'd cease and they should dissociate themselves from the trouble-makers. They said they would return at four o'clock in the afternoon.

But in the interval the Syrians were told bv certain people that they should wait, as something would happen later in the day." "It dia. At -9 15 p.m. a British colonel. Colonel F. R.

H. Morgan, an area commander, told me he was taking over the military situation. He confirmed this in writing the next day, June 1, in a letter, written in French, in which he said I have taken over the responsibility for assuring the security of French lives and buildings Damascus. 1 must also warn you that in the cate of any French troops whatsoever opening -fire, the barracks of these troops will be bombarded. I have personally communicated these orders to my Giving ski version of bow.

he shootin I larly deep. They will retire in due course gomery left Berlin hurriedly on Tues-though there is no report as yet of theday to confer with Mr. Churchill are necessary military arrangement having- tn stated to be without foundation. The ScSSrJS? oT aUeged 10 -ve been taken by King will preside over the open-air Persons reached Germany or Parliament on Tynwald Hill. Following Japan, a search of the files of the the sitting of Tynwald the King will Amerasia magazine fails to reveal hold an Investiture of Manxmen who any material which on the surface have won honours in the war.

In the seems of sensational imnortance. Many that their withdrawal should have been made a political issue or a condition ol conversations on a subject which technically and politically is not primarily a Russian but a mutual Allied concern. Russia's attitude does to a large extent govern the situation hut there are other factors. The assumption that there may yet be a chance of concerting Allied policy on Germany can still be justified, though everything that is actually happening in Germany makes it seem less likely. Russia is certainly showing reluctance to co-operate on some of the essential requirements of a united policy.

These include the inter-Allied occupation of Berlin as was originally visualised, a common policy in Austria, and economic co-ordination in Germany. Qne important point is the distribution of food. Will Russia deliver from Germany's eastern granary the food that WAVELL'S PROPOSALS TO INDIA Complaint of Leakages New Delhi, Jusc 7. High official quarters here were annoyed to-day at what appeared to be a leakage of information regarding the secret affairs of the Viceroy's Executive Council. Widely circulating unofficial reports have suggested that there bad been considerable difference of opinion among members of the Executive regarding Lord Wavell's proposals.

Those reports appear to have originated among people close to the Government, and it is possible that they have some foundation in fact. The policy of strict silence in official quarters on the whole subject makes it very hard to assess their significance. One unconfirmed report stated that the majority of Indian members were dissatisfied with the proposals because they ignored the long term aspect of the Indian problem. Another was that the dissatisfaction 'was due to the possibility that a future interim Government would -nCfafr representatives of interest that bad not helped the war effort Reuter. afternoon of the same day the royal Daily meci j.uuj scxuxji cxiiiaren of the island at the Villa Marina gardens.

On the Friday mornine the King will take the salute of naval establishments in the island and return by air in the afternoon from Ronaidsway. BIG THREE MEETING WITHIN FORTY DAYS" prhideht truman Washington. June 7. President Truman said to-nieht that he thought a meeting of the Biji Three" would be held within forty days. He was speaking at a press co nf erence.

Reuter. started in Damascus, General Eoget said; "The Parliameat building neighbouring buildings were all sandbagged. Fire was opened, by Syrian gendarmes, at approximately 5 run. on May 29 from the windows of the Parliament building and neighbouring buildings, one of which was" opposite ny official residence. Civ Hans took no part in this firing.

We "defended ourselves. "When the moon rose we fired 20 rounds of 85mm. cannon at the windows opposite us. in an effort to dislodge the centre of the revolt Later we fired rounds of cannon at the Citadel headquarters of On Syrian gendarmes, where so-called polio auxiliaries had been enrolled and. armed since Ma.

19. "We also dropped three bombs, of 50 to 100 kilogrammes (110 to from on 'plane on the Citadel. The only time 'planes entered into the picture was some days earlier, on May 25. when two French 'planes Sew over I Damascus for half an hour for observa- turn bphiwm as Bad Been tola to expect trouble here." Heuter..