SERIOUS CLASH IN FIUME

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24581, 1 June 1945, Page 5

SERIOUS CLASH IN FIUME

UNCONFIRMED REPORT ITALIAN PARTISANS AND JUGOSLAVS (N.Z, Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 10.30 p.m.) LONDON*. May 31. Serious fighting Is reported to have broken out in' Flume between Italian partisans and Marshal Broz’s Jugoslav forces, but the reports cannot be confirmed because Fiume is on the Jugoslav side of the line beyond which the Allied forces have agreed not to advance, 'The failure of the Jugoslavs to prevent looting and to provide adequate food complicates the situation in Trieste," says the Trieste correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph." "JugoSlav official policy is to respect private property, but it is not respected by the wilder elements in the Slovene peasantry or the more undisciplined elements of the Jugoslav Army. “Troops and peasants have stripped the Italian-owned houses on the hills above Trieste of all their goods and furnishings. Italian families are eager to let the British have their houses, to prevent them from being ‘requisitioned’ by Jugoslavs." PROCLAMATION TO GERMANS HARD WORK PROMISED BY MONTGOMERY ESTABLISHING “ SIMPLE, ORDERLY LIFE ” (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, May 30, "My immediate object i§ to establish a simple orderly life for the whole community." says Field-Marshal Montgomery in his first proclamation to the German people since his appointment as British representative on the Allied Control Commission. ,“The first step is to see that the population has food, housing, and freedom of ideas. All this will mean much hard work for everyone, ‘‘The German people will work under my orders to provide the necessaries of life and restore the economic life of the country." The proclamation says that all German servicemen are being sorted out by trades and occupations and will be quickly discharged from the forces ‘‘in order to, get on with the work.’ ,: The most urgent need is the harvest, for which reason agricultural workers will be discharged first., “The population will be told what to , do. I shall expect it to be done willingly* and efficiently,” Field-Marshal Montgomery adds. allied Control COMM|SSION REPORT BY MOSCOW RADIO (Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, May 30. “A control Commission consisting of representatives of the Supreme Commands of Russia, England, the United States and France, will be established in a few days," says the Moscow radio. "The Commission represents the supreme authority of the Allied Powers in Germany for the period of occupation. The Gommander-in-Chief of the Russian occupation forces, Marshal Zhukov, has been appointed representative of the Soviet High Command.? POLISH RULE IN BRESLAU INDICATION GIVEN IN RUSSIAN REPORT (Rec. 11 p.m.) LONDON, May 31. The Russian newspaper “Red Star," reporting the dedication of a Red Army cemetery outside Breslau, says that the president of Breslau spoke, representing the Polish Provisional Government, A Moscow correspondent says this was the first indication that a Polish administration has been established in Breslau. The- Lublin, radio reports that 500,000 Poles will settle down around the Masurian lakes in East Prussia. ARREST OF DOENITZ 44 GOVERNMENT ” RUSSIAN NEWSPAPER’S COMMENT LONDON. May 30. A commentator in the Red Army newspaper "Red Star” praised the British and American arrest of the members .of the Doenltz “government” as "hew proof of the unity of the Allied Powers in the moral and political smashing up of Fascism." The commentator added that other arrests remained to be made. He drew attention to the fact that Field-Marshal Busch’s military administration was still functioning in north-western Germany. PROVISIONAL REGIME IN AUSTRIA BRITISH GOVERNMENT’S ATTITUDE (8.0. W.) • RUGBY,-May 30. - British policy was that Austria should be severed from Germany as soon as possible, said the Foreign Secretary (Mr R. A. Eden), answering questions in the House of Commons. The provisional Austrian Government had not been recognised by Britain, as the British section of the Allied Control Commission, which should now be in Vienna, had not had an opportunity to study the position and report to the Government. CAMPAIGN AGAINST SOVIET ALLEGED SECTIONS OP U.S. AND BRITISH PRESS LONDON, May 30. The Moscow radio's political commentator, broadcasting in English, accused certain sections of the British and Amerian newspapers of poisoning the whole international atmosphere with a furious anti-Rpssian campaign. “The Hearst, McCormick, and Patterson newspapers could well take the place of the Goebbels newspapers," said the commentator. “The American authorities’ decision to allow all newspapers, .without exception, to enter occupied Germany is certainly a reason for uneasiness. We hope that the anti-Russian campaign will stop."