Red Drive Seizes Wuhing Amid Hangchow Push
Communist troops seized Wuhing a key point near Hangchow as the main Shanghai Hangchow railroad axis. The move aimed to seal off Shanghai and delay an attack on Shanghai while forces pressed south from Soochow toward Hangchow. Britain seeks friendly relations with the Chinese Communist government, saying it will not affect ties with the Nationalists.
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Still Negotiating Canada Land Project
Melville Sask April 29 The federal government expects to begin building the South Saskatchewan River irrigation and hydro electric project next year Agriculture Minister Gardiner said after his nomination as Liberal candidate He noted the government would not spend 2 000 000 on surveys unless it planned to spend 70 000 000 on the project once feasibility is proven Negotiations with Alberta to take over the Canada Land and Irrigation Company irrigation development in Southern Alberta were under way The plan would provide 215 000 acres of irrigable land for settlers from sub marginal lands in Alberta Saskatchewan and Manitoba The Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration would help farmers relocate buildings and re establish themselves on irrigated land in Alberta
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Westminster Hall’s Echoes Through Bombed London Restoration
London correspondent notes Westminster Hall’s austere beauty and lingering aura of history amid wartime scars. Battle banners of kings and judges seem to roam the paving as oak beams suffer beetle damage, soon to be repaired before a rebuilt House of Commons rises from ashes.
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Princess Margaret Seeks Privacy In Capri Vacation
In Capri Italy April 29 Princess Margaret requested to be left alone as she enjoyed a seaside bath during her month long Italian trip escorted by Maj T C Harvey queen’s private secretary. Reporters were told she did not want to be followed for once and hoped for privacy.
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King Receives Pearson in Audience at London
London April 29 Reuters L B Pearson Canada's external affairs minister who attended the Commonwealth Conference was received in audience today by the King.
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Battle of Barges Ends as Soviet Apology Emerges
ERLIN April 29 The Russians apologized today and the brief battle of the barges appeared over. Soviet headquarters notified British authorities that Russian soldiers who halted traffic in British sector canal locks acted without authority. Atmosphere clears and a conference of British and Soviet transportation chiefs is planned on barge traffic. Two Soviet officers said they had orders not to interfere. Five Russians with side arms left the canal area. British forces remain in command. The Russian claim is two barges may run on Berlin canals if registered by the Russian controlled directorate. British authorities accept Soviet administration rights but reject interference with traffic specific to western Berlin. Some observers speculate the move tests Allied reactions. BERLIN April 29 Several hundred Communist and anti-Communist youths clashed in bloody street fighting in the American sector near the Soviet border. Hospitals took in wounded. police dispersed the crowd. The Communist press blamed American military police. American authorities denied any Allied involvement.
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Fire damages downtown Sherbrooke Street area
A dawn blaze in Montreal caused $50,000 damage to an apartment building a meat market and a restaurant on Sherbrooke Street West near Jeanne Manee Street with no injuries reported and undetermined cause. In Victoria British Columbia on April 29 the Canadian Seamen's Union picketed the Esquimalt drydocks despite an injunction. about 12 seamen gathered outside but carried no placards or arms, while two eastern owned freighters, the S S Riverside and the Seaside, remained in drydock.
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St Laurent to Seek Gov General Dissolution of Parliament
Prime Minister St Laurent plans to recommend dissolving parliament to the governor general at 6:30 p.m. EDT tonight. The plan is to prorogue rather than dissolve, with proclamations in tomorrow's Canada Gazette announcing the election date set for Monday, June 27. Parliament may sit again to grant a $541 million money bill before dissolution. A cabinet reshuffle and senate appointments are expected next week.
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Russian Delegate Asks Jessup For Further Blockade Talks
Jessup accepts a Russian request to meet Malik for talks on lifting the Berlin blockade. Acheson said any German settlement must protect safeguards for Western Germany and Europe. Separate reports: a landlord shot dead in Mineola, NY, with two tenants questioned. three trainmen killed in a Manchester, GA wreck after heavy rain.
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Cheques For Oats and Barley Issued to Producers
The Canadian Wheat Board announced cheques covering oats and barley deliveries from Oct 22 1947 to Jul 31 1948 will be released to producers via handling companies starting May 2. Oats payment totals 2 451 539 dollars and barley 2 195 592 dollars. Surpluses in the equalization funds after expenses were reported, with per bushel payments of 5.881 cents for oats and 6.780 cents for barley.
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Grass Fire Sweeps 40000 Acres on Blood Indian Reserve
Fire raged across about 40,000 acres of the Blood Indian reserve for roughly 12 hours starting along the western edge near a stubble fire. Eyewitnesses say the blaze spread as fast as a horse could trot, aided by a chinook wind. Dozens of laborers from the St Mary dam project, Hutterites, Mounted Police, and Indian agency staff joined hundreds who fought the flames. Officials say damage was confined to dry grass and hay stacks with no confirmed loss of life or homes in the path of the fire.
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Last Day For Parliament in Ottawa Expected Today
Ottawa reports opposition leaders pressed for quick ratification of the Atlantic treaty and the International wheat agreement as Parliament risks dissolution tonight. Prime Minister St Laurent may announce the election date around 10:90 p.m. adjournment. In New York, Fred Schilplin editor of the St Cloud Daily Times died of a heart attack at the scatter.
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Ex-publisher Griffith dies after long newspaper career
Evan Cadwallader Griffith, 77, veteran newspaper man who briefly published the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in 1924, died last night in Los Angeles. He began in journalism about 50 years ago in Minneapolis and later held advertising executive posts at the Washington Times, Chicago Daily News and San Francisco Chronicle.
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Violence flares in West Saint John pier clash
The Canadian Press reports violent clashes at West Saint John piers between striking Canadian Seamen's Union members and RCMP and city police. Twenty to thirty C.S.U. members were arrested and two officers were seriously injured as a rival SIU crew boarded the freighter Cottrell. additional arrests and unrest reported in Montreal over the strike.
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Newfoundland Liberal rally backs Smallwood for provincial election
In St John’s on April 29 2 Newfoundlanders gathered ahead of the May 1 nomination and mid May 27 provincial vote. Premier Smallwood leading a 10 member cabinet declared the Liberal party stretched from St John’s to Corner Brook. The island prepares for its first political decision since the 1932 dissolution and Islanders brace for a contest between two parties with the Progressive Conservatives already mobilized for all 25 districts. The CCFL is expected to play a role in the federal race likely starting in June.
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