HEIN CHINA. MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1949.
EARLY JAPAN PEACE US. WARPLANES
TALKS DISCOUNTED Sydney Thinks U.S. Is Trying To Delay Pact QUESTION OF BASES
Sydney, November 8. The Australian Government discounts, prospects of an early Jop- anese peace treaty conference, the United Press learned au- thoritatively today, because it believes that the United States wants at present to delay the treaty.
The informant said the United States had made it clear unofficially that....
it does not wish to withdraw its troops from Japan.
No concrete proposals have yet been presented to Canberra for general peace talks although it was learned that Australia is being kept fully informed of the discussions in Washington and London.
OFFENSIVE IN TONKIN
before the irrevocable plunge of separate peace is taken
A well-placed informant made by the United States, Brie said Mr Clement Attlee,tish and Australian Governments British Prime Minister, and Premier Joseph Chifley of Australia within recent weeks canvassed the situation in a lengthy telephone conversa. tion.
Australia favours an carly | treaty." A reliable · source said
"No one-the. United States or Britain, or Russia, or Japan has vital interests to gain from a peace that leaves Japan at war with its two big Com munist neightours in Asia,” z prominent American said.
Before Japan is placed in that Australia probably will favour position, top level policy decisions post-treaty American military by the Western allies will have bases in Japan but there are into be made and any joint agree Saigon, November 8,
dications that opinion would be ment referred to Russia and With Chinese Communist divided in Government circles possibly to a recognised new troops driving relentlessly and the Australian Labour towards the Vietnam fron-official told
Recently 2
key G Party, goverment of China.”
AUGMENTED
Here is a timetable for ending the United Press the occupation that emerges from tier, the French military that he desired early withdrawal talks with officials and private authorities are intensifying of American troops and opposed observers: their offensive against the the maintenance of bases on the 1. Completion of treaty drafts Communist-controlled Viet-Japanese homeland. He said, by the Westera Allies around:
how gyer, he would approve bases January 1. minh forces.
in Okinawa from which Japan 2. Governmental exchange of views during the Text three could be "screened." i He believed the United States months on the wisdom of forging is making Japan over vulnerable a separate peace, assuming that to the left by encouraging reac- Russia and China will continue to tionary elements. Japan needed demand Teto privileges in the a more liberal government against conference. Communism, he said.
3. A preliminary conference The Australian. Government, of the nine Pacific "Western" is learned authoritatively, Allies for co-ordination of treaty will approve the two-thirds views in the early spring. majority under democratic procedure but desires Russian Formal Conference participation. it' also bellever 4. A final proposal to Russia that ratification of the treaty (and to Communist China by all the countries concerned as received diplomatic recogni- would give Russia in effect
They want to strengthen con- trol of the Chinese frontier and clear the rich Tonkin delta.
After last month's combined operation in the Phat Diem area, 60 miles South East of Hanoi, the French are now understood to be planning another further Nom between the Annamese moun- tains and the mouth of the Red River.
According to military stratez- itc, they hope to force back Viet- minh bands towards the Annam-
mountains ese
and Tonkinese }· heights which are poor in rice and where they could be easily contained.
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Potsdam. Basis
FOR CHINESE
NATIONALISTS
Washington, November 8
The U.S. State Department said today it has given
the Chinese Nationals. Government permis-, sion to buy 11 surplus American B-25 bombers for use against the Chinese, Communists. The Press officer, Mr. Michael McDermott, told a news conference that export licences were issued last February.
Clash On Persian Frontier
Teheran, November 8. Two Persian soidièrs were killed and several Injured when Russian (äöldiers at- tacked a Persian`frontier post last Saturday,, an official source disclosed today.
Unconfirmed reports sald
'that three Russian soldiersi
were killed...
Shots were exchanged for seven "hours" - xt" - Bagchēm - Sara North. of the Caspian Ses port of Astera.
Both sides brought up, re- inforcements, the official source said:
The
Soviet soldiers sud- denly withdrew, the source added-Reater.
CANBERRA TALKS LOGICAL
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The planes presumably are those being mentioned in news despatches at present.
A Chinese Embassy spokesman on Monday, sald his GovernuDent purchased a few B-25 bombers which are being prepared for {delivery..
Funds came from the Nation- alist Government, not from |American aid. · The money ·ap- propriated by the US, Congress for Chinese Nationalist use has already been expended.
Mr. McDermott also said that the Chinese Governicht has bought a number of surplus {light American army tanks-dur-
ing the "part three years."
He made this remark in: com- menting on reports that a Hon- duran freighter at Philadelphi- was loading 75 tanks for ship- ment to the Chinese Nationalist Government. The tanks are... 15- tonners.
Policy Changing?
American policy toward Chine was discussed at the White House today by Fresi- dent Harry Truman and Re- presentative George Smathers. Mr. Smathers said; afterwari's that he thought the policy is "changing toward, the affirma- } tive.". He did not elaborate,
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In Philadelphia, the freighter, Washington, November 8. SS. Aristokratis, on whose yard- three Greek seamen were A State Department spokes arm
perched to escape immigration man said today that the call-officials at Baltimore, was being ing of the Canberra confer- loaded today with 15 former ence on the Japanese peace United States Army tanks des treaty was a "logical develop tined for Nasionalist China. ment" at this stage when the
The 15-ton tanks purchased by United States was also work-Commerce International, ing on its position regarding of New York are being shipped Japan.
from the United States Ordinance depot st, Chambersburg, Permsyl- The Australian External Affairs vania, to Keelung, Taiwan -- Minkster, Dr. H. V Evaît, announë
but
Chica
were
ced today that he had invited They originally wat to be Britain and New Zealand to con- loaded at Baltimore fer in Canberra this week to diverted to Philadelphia for "push on with a peace treaty for unexplained. rasius. Customs Japan".
officials said the shipment had to
be licensed for export as war
on by then) to join a retosfree The spokesman said that there material by the Federal Muni-
conference.
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rejected, all sources agree, if for had been no exchange of informations. Control Board. The official Australian view is no other reason than that Russiation on, the subject with other
under the 11-nation Far Held aboard the ship that the Potsdam and Cairo pacts is determined not to be a party members
surveillance are, three, Greck sea. should provide the basis of to a treaty that authorises Ameri-Eastern Commission,
men, accused of being members It was stated at the headquar Japanese treaty negotiations. Al can retention of military bases in ters of General Marcel Carpent-though Australia was not a party, Japan.
The United States had been of a Communist organisation in Baltimore they ier, commanding the French
to those conferences it would not 5. Convening of formal anxious to conclude a treaty for Greece At * forces in the Far East, that pene countenance their repudiation in peace conference, probably
climbed to the yard-arm of the the past two years. tration continues according to the peace treaty.
'side of Japan in the summer of The delay was generally attri-ship to escape US immigration plan.
Patrick Shaw, British Com-1950 to write the peace terms. buted to Russia's insistence that agehts and refused to come down According to the latest Frenchmenwealth representative to the These terms will fix the transfer the treaty should be negotiated until assured that they would communiques the evacuation of Allied, Council, was not available of internal and external powers between the "Big Five" Powers remain on the ship. posts in the mountainous regim but would not comment anyway. from SCAP to the Japanese Gov-Russia, Britain, the United States, The Labour' Governments emment over a period of about France and Chind a stand which New Zealand
the Western Fowers have strong Australia are six months, it is believed. and
of North Toskin, planned in
August to enable French troops to concentrate in the delta and on the frontier, is now almost completed and reinforcements have arrived.
The Vietminh consider this strategic move a great victory for
out-
at present pre-occupied by the Accompanying this transferly resisted.
elections on November 30 and December 10, respectively.
The Australian Press interprets the recent replacement of M Shaw by Lieutenant-Colonel W. to France, as a move to give more Roy Hodgson, former Ambassador forthright expression of Austra The French military au- lia's views on the occupation. He thorities are aware that it will is considered one of Australia's make possible infiltrations most outspoken diplomats..
themselves.
will be the reduction, elimina tion and withdrawal of Occu pation Headquarters, functions. and pertonnel; and the shifting. of US military and naval units permitted, by the treaty or a separate, agreement to leased bases in Japan.
The fact that the United States is now working, on the stand it will take on the peace treaty has led to speculation as to whether a treaty conference: will be called, if need be; with- out- Russia.
Tals belief gains further sup- Many occupation job holdersport from the calling of the Can- will have sailed for home by this berra conference of British Com time next year but the consensus monwealth countries-Reuter.
ef Communist arms and men In Tokyo," high American) in. Tokyo seems to be that General: from China, but they are con- sources believe General Douglas MacArthur or his successor still fident that these can only be MacArthur's occupation regiine will be sauttling from the Ameri- on a very small scale. Meanwhile, Vietminh guerillas are concentrating their efforts on the frontier in the North East
still will be the supreme authori-can Embassy to. the Dai Ichi MANSTEIN TRIAL
ty in Japan one year from now Building 13 to 19 months from
Hamburg, November 8. despite the active preparation of now. peace treaty drafts in the Western Many factors could delay this Counsel defending Field- Mar- timetable even further. Strong shat Erich Von Manstein in his
Frequent attacks on French posts. Allied Ovanced-- timetable of Japanese opposition to a separate war crimes. trial here erideda
have been reported and they have succeeded in cutting the road be- tween Langson and Tien Yer, on the coast.
Some military, observers be- lieve that the Vietminh are wait
Chinese ing for the arrival of Communists at the frontier to launch an attack on Huc Torane in Annam-Reuter...
or
Most
events foreseen by officials in Tokyo places the end of American Occupation authority in the winter of 1950-51, the United Press learned today.
Russia And China
It is held in Tokyo that exten- sive and time-consuming efforts to bring Russia and China, into. the peace, conference will be
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