FOR RUSSIA

New Zealand Herald, Volume 82, Issue 25344, 27 October 1945, Page 7

FOR RUSSIA

GERMAN INDUSTRY 14 BIG PLANTS KRUITS INCLUDED I!EPARATIONS DECISION afoul. 11.10 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 20 The Western Allies have agreed on M big German industrial plants, including Krupps, which will be made available for reparations. It is expected that all 14 will be available for despatch to Russia. Nine of the plants are in the British zone and three in the American. Equipment from those three is said to be already being packed up by Gerinau workers for removal. One is the largest ball-bearing plant at Schweinfurt and another is one of the biggest shipbuilding concerns. The third is a Bavarian motor works, and while it is believed that tho Russians are asking for only the motor-cycle manufacturing sections, the Americans have declared the whole works to be available. Essen and Hamburg Plants The nine in the British zone include the Krupp armament works nt Essen, the Blolun and Voss shipyards at Hamburg, which are tho largest in Germany, and one of the biggest machine tool plants, at Dusseldorf. The only plant named in the French zone is the I. G. Farben Industrie chemical works at Ludwigshafen. hi an earlier message Renter's Stuttgart correspondent sayfj that a secret list of 40 German industrial plants in Western Germany which the Russian Government is seeking to remove to Russia as reparations includes a high percentage of the most vital factories.

It is learned that the list includes both the Knipp and the Hermann Goering works, and it is thought that two big I. G, Farben chemical plants and three shipyards are among them, Blohm and Voss included. Over half the list is located in the British zone. Effect on German Economy The correspondent is of the opinion that a debate on the demands is inevitable. The Potsdam agreement gives Russia 25 per cent of surplus plants from the western zones, but the removal of those sought would strip Germany of industries considered so essential for her subsistence. They have been repaired and reopened for operation. A spokesman for the French Foreign Ministry said the French Government was much concerned at having received no reply to its request for a portion of the German Fleet in part compensation for French naval losses during the war. The spokesman added that the demand was a very modest one. Franco had asked for six torpedo-boat-destroyers, six torpedo-boats and six submarines, also three cargo vessels and three submarine supply sliips, making a total of 30,000 tons and leaving a total to the German Fleet of 141,000 tons, including 111 submarines. The spokesman again raised the contention which France has been consistently putting forward, both at Berlin and recently at the London Conference. that the Rhineland and Westphalia should bo separated from the rest of Germany. PALESTINE POLICY AGREEMENT REPORTED ANGLO-AMERICAN PLAN (Reed. 11 20 p.m.) NEW YORK. Oct. 26 President Truman and Mr Attlee have reached an agreement on Palestine very pleasing to the British, reports the New York Times correspondent in London. Mr Truman has pledged the United States to co-operate in a joint Palestine policy, thus meeting the British objection that Americans are very generous with advice but reluctant to assume responsibility. The British Government has been waiting for such an agreement _ for several weeks, and is now in a position to proceed with details of the settlement. An official statement on Palestine policy is expected within a week. The liner Transylvania, carrying 1054 Jewish refugees permitted to "enter Palestine under the British White Paper quota, has arrived off Haifa, says the Associated Press correspondent. The Transylvania is the first ship of the newly established Russian-Rumanian Line'to call at the Palestine port. Police launches patrolled the harbour to guard against the possibility of illegal migrants jumping overboard and swimming ashore. It is believed that the health officials will enforce the quarantine regulations because a case of suspected typhus is on board. NOBEL PRIZE AWARDS

DISCOVERY OF PENICILLIN (Rccd-. 6.30 p.m.) STOCKHOLM, Oct. 26 The Nobel Prize for Medicine has been awarded Sir Alexander Fleming, of the University of London, also Dr Ernest Boris Chain and Sir Howard Florey, of Oxford University, in recognition of the discovery of penicillin.

The Karolinslca Institute in awarding tho prize recognised Sir Alexander Fleming as the real discoverer of the drug, but praised Dr Chain and Sir Howard Florey for exploiting the discovery by experimenting with its effects on mice. SHIPPING HELD UP LONDON DOCK STRIKE (Reed. 5.30 p.m.) LONDON. Oct. 25 More than half the 65 vessels at present awaiting unloading at the London docks are ocoan-gohig ships with valuable cargoes. Troops totalling over 5000 are unloading 35 other vessels and loading 14 more. Tho dockers' wives are now applying for public assistance. NEW BRITISH CRUISER (Read. 5.35 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 25 Tho Admiralty announces that the cruiser Tiger is to bo launched on the Clyde today. She displaces 8885 tons, carries nine 6in. guns in three mountings, ten 4in. guns in five mountings and a considerable number of antiaircraft pompoms and other guns. The Tiger has two sets of triple 21in. torpedo tubes.