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Show World News Today Egypt Fires on Piano " Of U.N.Truce Group Compiled From AP, UP,. INS and Chicago Dally News Service Reports United Nation spokesman at Tel Aviv. Israel, aald Friday th Egyptian had fired upon a clearly marked white U. N. truce plana piloted by an American. The" spokesman saUf also that the Egyptians had refused to permit a U. N.-approved Jewish supply convoy to pass to settlements settle-ments In the Negeb, and both Incidents were regarded by the U. N. commission here as violations of the truce. The case was not regarded, however, as Invalidating the general cease fire which has held generally for two of Its four weeks. Cot Count Thord Bonde, head of the truce mission, has informed Cairo of the violations, the spokesman added. The Israel government also accused the Egyptians of violating the truce. A communique said the Egyptians not only refused passage pas-sage to the Jewish convoy, but bombed the settlements of Beer Tuvya and Kefar Warbug, midway between Tel Aviv and Gaza. Russ Perform New Turnabout Russia made another of her bewildering turnabouts In cold war strategy Friday. Allied officials in Helmstedt, on the border between the British and Soviet zones of Germany, announced that the Soviet commander at Marienbom, Russian boundary control point, had said that freight shipments to Berlin from the west could be resumed Monday. The Russian action reopening the allied route to Berlin came after a series of Soviet blows apparently designed to force the western west-ern powers to clear out of the German capital. The Russian decision to permit resumption of rail and road traffic from the western tones of Berlin would lift the threat of starvation from some 2,000,000 Germans in sectors of the capital which are under American, British and French control. Europe Pays Little Attention to GOP Troubled Europe demonstrated far more interest in Its - own problems than In the Republican party's choice of Thomas E. Dewey as its nominee for the United States presidency. The Russia-versus-the-west struggle hi Berlin, the results of the- Warsaw conference of Communist-dominated eastern European nations, and even a cricket match between England and Australia captured greater attention than the Philadelphia convention In the British press. In London there was no editorial reaction to Dewey's nomination. London' evening papers concentrated chiefly upon descriptions of the Convention scenes, .personality sketches of Dewey, with sidelights side-lights which included Mrs. Dewey's recipe for Mexican macaroni and her views on the new look. Red Takes Seat in Philippines Congress Luis Taruc, the Communist who was leading an armed rebellion niMt the Philinninea government onlv a few short weeks sgo, was seated in congress to the applause of its members. Winding up a special session called to ratify the amnesty granted Taruc and his .Hukbalahaps, house and senate voted to grant Taruc the seat he won in the house In the 1948 elections. Taruc was escorted to the chamber and made his maiden speech In his native Tagalog language. "I did not come to surrender," he said, "but to cooperate with the administration for the welfare of the people. The word surrender Is poison to our crystal cup of better relation." U. S. Protests Slav Arrest of Soldiers The United States has protested to Yugoslavia against detention of five American soldiers and demanded their "early release," the state department disclosed. A state department spokesman said American Ambassador Cavendish Cannon had been instructed to protest "the arrest and prolonged detention? of the five soldiers, They were taken into custody by Xugoslav military authorities while thy were swimming, on 'June 15 at a beach in the Yugoslav-controlled sone of Trieste. "' v . "." '.'.-'.' ' -a v Chiang Maps Drive Against Reds . ; . Chiang Kai-shek was holding an important military conference in Sian to map a counteroffensive against victorious Communists In central and northwestern Chins, Chiang, who is reported to be "fiercely angry" at the fall of Kalfeng, is said to have ordered the recapture of the city within three days. . : Reports said Chiang is likely to stay in Sian to direct operations in a supreme Nationalist effort to turn the tables against the reds. Flood Waters Cover Wide Area in China Flood waters spilled over minions of acres of China farm land from Lanchow in the northwest to Canton in the south. Torrential rainfall sent many rivers over their banks. The overflowing Yellow river virtually isolated far west China. The Lanchow airport was under water. Commercial flights were suspended. The Upper Yangtze also was rising dangerously. Russians Seize Two AP Employes The Russians acknowledged to American authorities they are holding two German employes of the Associated Press, seized Thursday Thurs-day night while driving through the Soviet sector of Berlin. The Russians said they are holding the pair on "suspicion of . disseminating propaganda against the Soviet occupying power." They said they did not know when they could be released. The detainees are AP photographer Frit! Remus and an assistant, Kurt Platen. |