AUSTRIAN ZONES

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 22682, 9 August 1945, Page 5

AUSTRIAN ZONES

TEMPORARY PARTITION SEPARATE FROM GERMANY FOUR AREAS DEFINED (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Aug. 9, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 8 Machinery has been established to separate Austria from Germany pending independence under a freely elected Government. Austria and Vienna will be divided into four zones, with military occupation of each zone under the supreme authority of a military commissioner. The Allied council representing the four Powers will control the whole country. Renner’s Provisional Government will be allowed to continue in power under Allied supervision. The zones will be as follows: British: Garinthia and Styria, excluding Burgenland. American : Salzburg Province, Upper Austria Province on the right bank of the Danube. Russian: Burgenland, Lower Austria Province, excluding Vienna, Upper Austria province on the left bank of the Danube. French.—The Tyrol and Vorarlberg. Vienna will be under joint control. SNEAK RAID ATTEMPTED ITALIAN ACT REVEALED (Received Aug. 9, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 8 The French Naval Ministry disclosed that Italian bombers attempted a sneak raid on the South of France three days before Mussolini declared war in 1940. Radar detected the approach of the raiders who evidently intended to attack the French fleet at Toulon, after which French anti-aircraft guns broke up and turned back the Italian formation, thus averting a disaster comparable with Pearl Harbour. BELGIAN CHAMBER VOTE OF CONFIDENCE (Received Aug. 9, 2.15 p.m.) BRUSSELS, Aug. 8 The Chamber of Deputies after two days’ debate passed a vote of confidence in M. Van Acker’s reconstituted Government. The Catholics, whose six Ministers resigned last month over the question of King Leopold’s return, voted solidly against the Government. DELEGATION TO MOSCOW POLES SEEKING ASSISTANCE (Received Aug. 9, 1 p.m.) MOSCOW, Aug. 8 M. Molotov met M. M. Morawski, Beirut and Mikolajczyk on their arrival in Moscow. The Polish delegation included the Minister of Industry. It is expected they will discuss the possibility of receiving aid for the reconstruction and restoration of Poland. RACE WITH GERMANY BOMBING OF FACTORY (Received Aug. 9, 1 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 Brigadier-General Thomas Farrell, aide to Major-General Leslie Groves, who was in charge of the atomic bomb development, said British and American scientists thought for a while that they were racing against time with the Germans, who were known to have begun work on a similar bomb. Allied bombs last March destroyed a laboratory at Oranienburg where German scientists were working on the atomic bomb. When they heard about the laboratory, General Marshall and General Arnold sent a courier from Washington with oral orders to General Spaatz to destroy the building.