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rp - PRI SNES Ne gel a NO art le re an a a TN oe --,, - i a a ama a . industrial production center, its ENEMY OF FRANCE? Gen. Maxime Weygand, above, 70- year-old former commander-in- chief of the French army, is on trial in Paris, chargéd with joining Mar- shal Petain in a conspiracy to over- throw the French Republic. Ill since his imprisonment in 1944, Weygand declared in answer to the charges that he had never acted "against the interests of France." FILES FOR SENATE Dcuglas (Wrong Way) Corrigan, who electrified the world in July, 1938, when he made a forbidden flight--"by mistake"--from New York to Dublin, Eire, in a dilapi- dated and obsolete_plane, has filed his name for the U. S. Senate. He announced at his Los Angeles home that he would run on the Prohi- bition ticket. in this fall's election. FIREARMS SEIZED IN MAILS Lt-Col. H, E, Chater, O.B.E, Assistant Director of Ordnance Stores (Warlike) looks over the latest accumulation of lethal hard- ware seized in the mails by the Post Office authorities in the United Kingdom. This array numbering well over 100 pieces represents only the last two months' haul from parcels addressed to Canada by souvenir collectors in the army. SPACE FOR RENT -- NO CEILING An enterprising property owner hopefully displays a "for rent" sign on what is left of a Manila store building, reduced by bombings to only a shell. Manila, once proud "Pearl of the Orient" with modern, glistening buildings and spacious boulevards, is beginning to rebuild with temporary wooden structures. These will be replaced later by concrete and steel buildings when materials are available. MANCHURIA IS KEY TO CHINA'S POSTWAR STRENGTH There's nothing Oriental-looking about Mukden's Japanese-built New Town, shown in aerial view above. mameaens vores In prewar days, it was the property of the South Manchurian Railway, which built it. '" Mukden's modern railroad. station, fronted by @® broad plaza, has often been likened to 'Washing- The plaza is a hub from which radiate broad streets. ton's Union Station, When Japan aurrendezed," Man- ¢huria was scarcely tquched by war. China, bled whitd after 14 years of conflict, looked hopefully to this treasure house of natural re- sources, more than twice as large as Texas, A lush larder, arsenal and products would permit China to maintain its place as a great world power, But six months of Russian occupation left the giant industrial machine, built up by the Japs, re- duced to bare bones Now, with the Russian exodus, Chinese civil war thregtens to add its destructiveness as Nationalist 'and: Communist armies battle for the key city-- Mukden, A battleground since the Tartars swept out down from the north in the 12th Century, Mukden has remained a ri¢h peize, Modernly it is so because it is a communica- tions hub--nerve cénter at the core of the Japanese industrialization zone. There are really two Muk- dens--the ramshackle, walled-in old Manchu capital of narrow, squalid Wat streets, and the fine modern city, called the New Town, built by the Japanese-owned South Manchurian Railway. It is designed along American lines on a grand scale, with attractive squares and parks, 'broad streets and urban buildings. Photos above are views. of the New Town, while maps at right show the Mukden coastal and industrial area of southern 'Manchuria close-up and in relation to the rest of the country, Highlights of the News Will Take Oath Field Marshal Vjsccun. Alex- ander "nd children are expected to arpive in Halifax othe Aquitania April 10, The formal swearing in of the new governor-general will take place in the Scnate chamber either on Friday, April 12, or on the fol- lewing lay. ' * Orders for Russian Spi Soviet Russia's spies ordered their Canadian agents 0 get infor- mation on atomic rescarch, on ra- lar application for - battleship des- tined to serve in the Pacific, on a new explosive in which the United States was interested, and on Can- adian military strength at Valcar- tier, it was revealed in court in Montreal last week. Trusts UNO Will Succeed Trygve Lie, United Nations Secretary - General, said the UNO's first purpose was to pre- vent differences among great pow- ers "from resulting in armed con- flict." Dr. Lie declared. "We know that this will be difficult; some people may feel that it is hopeless. But I want to say this: "First: We firmly intend to maintain the peace. ' 'Second: I am convirced that we shail «« so." ©. tario's Expenditures Whian Provincial Treasurer Frost in his Ontario budge: speech forecast a gress ordinary expendi- ture of $149.430.605 in the fiscal year endi g March 31, 1947, he was providing for the heaviest current spending in the province's history. To Visit Occupation Forces Vincent M .ssey, retiring Cana- dian High Commi:siotci in Bri- tain. now on a farewell holidav tour of Europe before he retires will visit Maj.-Gen. Christopher Vokes, Commander-in-Chief Can- adian occupation forces in Ger- many, and tour the "unadian zone. Home Fleet at Lisbon The British Home Fleet, making its first "spring cruise" in seven years, arrived last -veek at Gibral- tar under the command of Ad- miral Sir Edward Neville-Syfret. , Maple "_ up Ration Stays Maple syrup will remain on the ration list, R. W, Mayhew, parlia- mentary assistant to the minister of finance. told the Commons. _ As in previous years, the cou- pon, value of maple syrup has been doubled for the duration of the- producing season, until May 31, It can be procured at the rate of ane gallon for two sugar-preserve coupons... There is no indication the * ration regulations will curtail production, Rental Curbs Remain A report from Ottav.a states that while price-controls will -be lifted from a wide range of arti- cles, in addition to those from which they have alrcady been re- moved within the nex couple of months, the ceilings will be re- tained for a longer period on clothing. rents. most food products and certain other essentials, Hungry Germans Looting Stores Looting of food stores by hun- gry Germans has increas: in Hamburg and a British medical Cropping of Fallow Land an Emergency Canada has at last achieved a reasonable balance between crop land and fallow land and it cannot be lightly distributed in the inter- ests of agriculture, says the Win- nipeg Free Press. While such a programg® essential as a long- term plan, it can -~nd should be modified to meet a sudden and special emergency this year, the most serious famine and hunger ot recent times. If fallow land is cropped th" year it should _e done with a. full understanding that this is an. emergency measnre only, when the emergency passes the basic fallow progran should be re- reestablished. Also. when world danger has eased, Canada can re- turn immediately to the expansion of its livestock ou »ut. officer declares that the first de- finite signs of starvation were ap- parent among many residents of Germany's second li.gest city, The police ordered food dealers to board up their shop windows as an emergency mea re against Lands of men, women and children who have stormed nearly 60 bread stores recently. Guards were placed at the larger shops. . Thirty-three workmen in a Ger- man state railway machine tool factory collapsed from hunge- The f:ctory employs 1,000 men and, according to an, official, other workers are declaring they can not carry on much longer. U.S. Rationing If Needed President Truman said he would not object to a return to wartime food rationing if it became abso- lutely necessary. Mr. Truman added that ration- ing was not yet absolutely neces- sary and said he hoped it would not become so. Jott By You can get quick alist from painful distress with «2 few d 0 Vicks Va oud VICKS f 1 k ht I yolks yay VATRO-NOL A1 Quality FINE CUT KIDNEY ACIDS Rob yourRest.. Many Y/ never seem to get a good night's rest. They tum and toss--blame it on 'nerves'--when it ir: their kidneys. Healthy kidneys filter poisons and excess acids from 'the 'blood. If they fail and impurities stay in the. system--listurbed vest hon follows. If you don't rest well ge ul use Dodd's Kidney Pills. Dodd's Ip the kidneys so at you can rest better--and feel better 136 READY TO GO Trygve Lie, Secretary-General of the United Nations Organizations, tries out microphone at council table in Hunter College, New York City, where UNO Security Council opened its sessions March 25 ANTI-RUSSIAN DEMONSTRATION "3 This exclusive NEA Telephoto shows Chinese "psig" doors of the Soviet Consulate in Shanghai, China, with posters oviet' Hogans protesting the slow withdrawal of Russian troops anchuria. These same type of stickers were used to seal rom earing anti- enemy-owned factories and warehouses after the Japanese surrender last August, FAREWELL TO BIKINI Three native children pay their last respects to a member of their family burjed in the cemetery on Bikini Island.and look out to sea toward Rongerik Island, to which they'll be moved by the Navy. On Rongerik, over 100 miles from Bikini, they'll be safe from the atomb bomb which will blast their homeland in the Army-Navy test next May. GOERING IN PRISONER'S DOCK Herman Wilhelm Goering, wearing a faded gray iiniform and ne medals, takes the stand at Nurenberg war crimes trials to testify in his own defense, Former Chief Marshal of 'the 'Nazi 'Reich, | Gasr- ing praised himself as the one man who could fulfil Hitler's "ideals." Ly