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Show ' Word News Tocay British Dock Hands Vote to End Strike British dock workers voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to return to work Wednesday morning-, ending the strike which threatened to paralyze Great Britain'! vital food Import, The government announced that It will not Invoke the extraordinary extraor-dinary powers granted it by Monday's state of emergency procla-ttfMon procla-ttfMon unless such action la ."necessary." . Prime Minister Clement Attlee said, however, that emergency regulations have been drawn up and will be placed In effect if the walkout does not end as scheduled. Be added that there Is a "good prospect for a general resumption of work Wednesday." Chiang Troops Send Reds Reeling ... Chinese government troops were surging across Honan province In a power thrust that sent Communists fleeing and brought about the recapture of two cities about 40 miles from Kaifeng, the provin-' provin-' ci&l capital. Nationalists were again securely Intrenched In Kaifeng and Communists were retreating under attacks from freak government reinforcements. However, before the Reds evacuated Kaifeng, they stripped all valuables from the city's homes, and stores from government warehouses. ware-houses. Driving south from Kaifeng, Nationalists also recaptured Paimiao, Changkang and Panfowein. Greek Guerilla Attack Fails ine vreeK general siarx announcea a vuueni dui unsuccessful attack by guerillas a mile from the Bulgarian border. Mounting rebel losses during the last 24 hours were reported by army units conducting their major offensive to oust the guerillas from their stronghold around Mount Grammos In ' northwestern Greece. . ' The general staff said a strong guerilla, band "coming from Bulgaria" had attacked Exoni, a small village northeast of Drama In eastern Macedonia. After bitter fighting the army repelled the attack and pursued the guerillas toward the Bulgarian frontier, the communique said. U. S. Denies Shelling Charges American authorities in Cairo categorically denied a Syrian charge that a United States warship fired on Arabs In Palestine, and the Arab league accepted the denial The secretary-general of the Arab league, Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha, said American officials had given him Information "proving that the ship involved was not American." Azzam's statement came after U. & Charge d Affaires Jefferson Patterson and Naval Attache William R. Headden called on him. Azzam said Headden informed him that he had been in the area at the time of the alleged U. S. attack and could flatly deny accuracy of the charge. ' Peru President Says Crisis Grips Nation President Jose Luis Bustamante Rivera declared that Peru Is In a state of "acute national crisis." He said he will assume extraordinary extraor-dinary powers to rule by decree. Speaking in a nation-wide broadcast he said political tension In Vm hum become "daneerous." The D resident said he would not con- voke congress for its customary annual session July 28 because of a decision by 21 independent senators to boycott the session, as they did in 1947, thu causing an automatic parliamentary recess. He blamed the crisis on the completely opposite views of two major political factions the Apristas and the anU-Apristss. He said he did not feel new elections would solve the crisis and that ordering such a step was repugnant to him because It amounted to dissolving the congress, which he said he had no desire to da Vesuvius Shows Signs of Erupting Vesuvius is apparently astir again after a four-year sleep. Natives of villages at the foot of the famous volcano in Italy are hearing underground rumblings indicating to them an imminent awakening. The mountain huffed and puffed up tons of volcanic ash In 1944, five months after American army forces fought their way into southern Italy. Then suddenly it went dead. And the persistent funnel of smoke and sparks from the burbling crater, visible for miles, trailed out Ever since Vesuvius has looked like any other cold chunk of granite. |