N.Z. Delegate Says Forces Should be Made Known

Grey River Argus, 14 October 1948, Page 5

N.Z. Delegate Says Forces Should be Made Known

PARIS, Oct. 12 Mr James Thorn (New Zealand) stated that the idea which had been generally between the last two wars and which some now alleged was out of date, that security must come before disarmament, as in fact the basis on the whole United Nations’ structure. A system of security was the primary aim of the Charter. Mr Thorn argued that the best way to disarmament lay in the words of the Charter, in particular the article which provided.for forces to be made available to the Security Council by member nations. The committee adjourned to give the delegates time to study the six proposals already put forward.

RUSSIAN AIR MANOEUVRES LONDON, Oct. 12 The Russians have informed the air safety centre in Berlin that their planes would be carrying out cloud flying and blind flying exercises in the area of Greater Berlin at heights between 3500 ft and 10,000 ft. The regulations, to which Russia is a signatory, forbid such operations at less than 10,000 ft. Four hundred German prisoners of war, mainly from the Middle East, are due to arrive in Berlin by train through the “blockade” on October 16. This train is the second since the railways were closed. The Russians have supplied the British with details of the Soviet’s British with details of the train’s schedule and route across the Soviet zone. The British will supply an escort, food and medical supplies for the journey.

Russian Preparations (Rec. 1.0). LONDON, October 13. The Berlin correspondent of the British United Press, in reports from the Soviet Zone, said the Russians were preparing the Falkenberg airfield, near Togau, as a jet-lighter base, and had already stationed a squadron of night-lighters at Brandis airfield in the same area. The newspaper, Neue Zeitung, reported that the Russians intended augmenting the German police forces with 37,000 former German war prisoners, who had been training secretly in Russia.