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Britain trying out new weapon
London, March 22.
Britain is experimenting with new types of tor- pedoos which will nose out enemy submarinos, sot their own course and finally strike; Giving details in a Parliamentary debate on the Navy Estimates today, Mr. James Callaghan, Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, said the new weapons are called homing torpedoes.
Pianist disappears in Prague
Prague, March 22.
They will "home" on enemy submarines in due course.
They can be launched from an
or fired aircraft
from under- water, he said.
The policy of the Admiralty is directed on all fronts to counter- ing the submarine menace.
* per-
"The possession of a large force of submarines in any country A Greek Legation spokesman must always constitute said here today that a 55-year-petual menace to our linea of old Russian-born pianist of communications," he said, Greek nationality had dis- appeared in Prague after a visit to the police.
The Czechoslovak Ministry for Foreign Affairs has given ino satisfactory reply to the Greek enquiries concerning the man,
The spokesman said that the planist, Giorgos Alavromatis, who had lived in Czechoslovakia for
Mr. 09-
contested Mr. Callaghan Winston Churchill's recent sumption that British, escort vessels are now obsolete.
against the "That is not true major number of submarines In the world afloat today," he said.
"Our existing escorl ships, which beat the submarine mendeo
20 years, was on March 10 order-the last time, will still be able to
ed to leave Czechoslovakia with- beal the conventional submarine
in 24 hours for endangering the existing today," he added.
safety of the Republic,
A Greek diplomat called on
the police the same day and asked
for
a fortnight's
Mavromatis
enable May
extension to to
uke ar
rangements to leave. Mavromath the same evening was promised
a fortnight's extension and sum- moned to the police station.
He had not been heard of
since. The police claimed that he had signed a document acknow- ledging permission to remain u fortnight longer in Czechoslovakia and said that they had no further knowledge about him.
The Greek spokesman added that 10 50 Greek workers had been expelled from Czechoslovaklu over the past four or five months and that the Greek Legation had protested in each individual case. There are between 90 and 100 still there.-Reuter.
SOVIET ENVOY TO PAKISTAN
Karachi, March_22. The first Soviet Ambassador to Pakistan, Alexander Georgevitch Stetsento, who is accompanied by a staff of 22, presented his cre- dentials to the Governor-General today. Associated Press,
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Bevin rajects approach to Stalin
London, March 22.
Britain, does not favour a direct approach to Stalin on atomic energy because she doce not think it would be a Euccess, the Foreign Becro. tary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, told Parliament today.
in
"We think it would land'ús
difficulties and we prefer
to adhere to the proper ma
chinery fald down in the
United Nations," he said.
Amid shears, Mr. Bevin de- clared, a country will not open its borders for inspection what is the use of entering Into an agreement when you
do not know whether it is be- Ing kept or not?"
Mr. Bevin added, "I can. not accept the view that the mere solution of the atomic energy problem means ab. solute pence in this world. There is conventional arma- ment and a whole range - of- problems that must be dealt with in this connection.”~- Reuter,
Moscow's attack on Acheson
Moscow, March 22, The "New Times" magazine, denouncing the speech of the United States Secretary
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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1950.
The second of six articles on :
The Chinese Revolution
This was a
This is the story of the from *years
of disappoint-| government, Sun Yat-sen turned Chinese revolution which led ment, took A number of steps to the, Bolsheviks. to the Communist victories in which were to influence, the gamble. In the past Russla had Ching. It is, these which, in future very deeply party had
been the external power which In the 19th
turn, have led up to the crtala in Anglo-Chinese affairs, and to the dispatch of the British Defence Force in Hong Kong. The great hero, of the curly years of the Chinese revolution was Dr. Sun Yat-sen. born in 1867 in a village Maeno, His father
SVDS poor, farmer, who had become a con- vert to Christianity through tho work of the London Society, Some of his were however better off.
and they had were tailors,
with 24uctions
old became student at the Hong Kong Medical School, and was in fact its first graduate In 1904.
Thereafter he devoted himself
He was
in deeply the by political life of the West. He based all his politi- cal thought on what he called
They
At this time ́ his established itself in the great
By Windrush
pari
their old Sun Great
Britain or America. It was
or-
China most feared.
century its pressure on China had been severe. But aster the revolu tton Russia mude the gesture of abrogating all its so-called un- equal treaties .with city of the South, Canton, and
China and. Its special privileges renounced was organising its future govern in Manchuria. Wis
ment. The first step' which Sun
The Russian revolution began took was the reorganisation of
to appear a model which Chinu bis party, the Kuomintang. This could follow for modernising it- took place in January 1924. Until self and building up A new 30- then, the party had been a loose cial order. Moreover Russia ap- association of
rather peared to
be a power which ilke a
in would champion. Ching in reas party
itself scrting
against the other because It was
so- loosely great powers
ex- which had ganised that it had been unable ploited its weaknesses and forced to exercise real political authority, it to give them extra-territorial
Sun Yat-sen
was deeply im-
treaty and ports. privileges pressed by the very different
In consequence,
in 1924, tory of the Communist Party in Yat-sen held his series of con- Russia. He therefore decided to versations with the Russian re reor reorganise the Kuomintang on the presentative in Chion, Mr. Juffe. the same lines as the Russian Russia agreed to give. China the party. It was to become a disci- aid which it sought. Sun Yat-sen the
Threo Principles Nation-plined, centralised party. It was did ulism, De
not, however,
become a Democracy, Socialism. bogan a long career in or- ganising revolution against government of the Manchu em- perors, Sometimes he was abroad, sometimes in China, but he never He was
to
the
his
Sun
to be a real instrument of rov-munist. Even though the Kuom earning China-and not simply a tang
tang was organised on similar parliamentary group.
line to the Russian Communist its own. Party, it was to pursue non-Communist, aims. This was made quite clear when the Chino-
Military force
The second great decision made about the same time, was to build
wavered in his purpuraight-out | up an army, The Kuomintang was; Russian understanding was an-
wor
had
, nomad people from Man- churia, akin to the Mongols had conquered Chino in the middle of the 17th century, and though they governed by means of the Chinese Civil Service they of Manchu used large numbers troops to maintain their position,
tunc.
The statement included the
that
abic to
to appeal to Chinese nationalism because the to have its own military force, nounced. Manchus were not Chinese but and would no longer be dependent
en generals and soldiers of fortune wine, Passage, Dr. Sun holds the Communist order, or even the Soviet system, cannot To build this army Sun selected petually be introduced into China a dour and strangely idealistle because there do not exist here young soldier named Chiang Kai-
the conditions for the successful shek. He regarded him as his
establishment
Com- political heir. What Sun, the
of either munism or Sovietlem.” elvilion, had not been able to do
Sun
Yat-sen died aword and accomplish. The the gun were to be used instead by before Russo-Chinese, colle- boration became really intimate. of the speech and the vote.
In the interval Sun Yat-sen's The other decisive act of Sun Yat-sen's last years was to make party had swung for away from on agreement with Russia, After Sun's attitude and had led a vio- he had in vain appealed to the lent anti-Communist crusade, West for technical assistance building up a Chinese national) (To be continued)
In 1925.
to hunt the new type of oub-State, Mr. Dean Acheson, took/ Kidnapped in London the called on Chlang, the soldier, Twenty-five years were to pass
marince with a fast battery a line similar to Sunday's drive-one of the major sub- marine developments since the
war,
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On one occasion during his ilfe. "Pravda", namely that Mr. of plotting Sun Yat-sen Was Acheson's total diplomacy actually kidnapped in London by the Chinese Ambassador, who in- sounds like total war.
LL. Rovinsky, analysing Mr. tended to ship him back to China The battery drive enables or-
Acheson's "seven commandments ecuted. He
he would have been oxX- where dinary, comparatively slow, of total diplomacy." Indignantly
was kept prisoner in speeds to be boosted for a limited categorically rejected each, say an upper room of the Embassy in perlod so that the submarine caning it is the "twin sister of atomic Portland Place, but managed to kel under the thil of a convoy, diplomacy or the policy of force, smuggle out in coal-skuttle lire its torpedoes and get away,
letter addressed to his friend, Dr. expansion, and military economic aggression."
Cantlic, a
a medical missionary, whe he explained.
was then in London. The letter was delivered to Dr. Cantlic by an an English footman at the Em- bassy. The doctor informed the British Prima Minister, Lord Salisbury, of the outrage by the Chinese Ambassador. Lord Salls- bury at once intervened and the Ambassador ordered
Was lease his prisoner. To this day the in Portland Place where Sun bilic in Yat-sen was detained is kept as
kind of shrinic,
This is a substantial nenace and Britain is building new fri- Entes and converting existing vessels to deal with it.
Other points Mr. made:
Callaghan
He branded Mr. Acheson's denial that America seeks satel tes, us the "pearl of Phark accism, stating that Italy. Grecen and other countries are run wy an American gauleiter. Like
ike pre- vious Soviet utterances, the "New Times" accused the United States of practicing a policy of black- mail and threats, "pursuing For restal's
spiritual heritage of brandishing existing atom bombs or imaginary hydrogen bombs."
But, declared the
magazine, nothing can frighten the Soviet Unlon, and Acheson displayed his own intellectual poverty in try them away for the £82,000 aling to defend the bankrupted year which cach costs to main-American foreign policy. tain.
All British battleships are now in reserve, except the 42,000-ton Vanguard,
There are mixed views whether It is worthwhile keeping these Blants at all, but the Admiralty thinks it would be folly to cast
Three eight-Inch gun County class cruisers Norfolk, Sussex and London-are being scrapped.
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Sub's great opportunity came in 1011 when an outbreak of revolt Manchus to abdicate. The Dynasty all over the country. caused the had been crumbling for a long The "Literary Gazette devoted time, and the revolutionary move- a full page today to the peacement had been growing. It had struggle, leading with the de- been only a matter of time be- claration of the recently con- fore the Emperor fell. cluded Stockholm conference of Peace Partisans,
This was the period when all the world seemed to be adopting parliamentary democracy standard form of government. Chine, too, was to have its parila- ment, Sun Yat-sen headed the Nationalist Party called the Kuo- nihtang. But he quickly found
LEADER GAOLED blowing a bubble balloon marked a
Accra, March 22. Kwame Nkrumah, extremist Gold Coast nationalist leader, received 12 months' imprison- ment in one court here today and was then taken to another where his appeal against sen- tence of 12 months on a sep. arate charge was dismissed.
"We shall consider criminal that government which first uses the atomic weapon against any country,” it said. The article included a cartoon captioned "scarecrow,"
showing President Truman astride a horse
the parliament at Peking was a stooge one under the control of "hydrogen bomb,"
an ambitions general, Yuan Shin- The Academician, A. Trainin, kal, who after betraying the expert on international law, men- Manchus was plotting to become tioned Bir force Secretary
So Sun emperor himself. Symington and "other United
went into opposition and was States oficials who repeatedly in public declarations tried to threa- ten the Soviet poople with planes and bomba,"
He salt: "The warmongers will not be able to repeat history and draw mankind into the catas- trophe of a new war. But if the incendiaries of atomic war will disregard the warning voices of peoples desiring peace the will share the fate of the Nazi leaders of the Third Reich."-United
In the first court, Mr. Justice Chalmers Smith sentenced Nkrumah on charges of sedition. With Nkrumah was John Mark- ham editor of the "Accra Even- ing News," who received three Press, months' imprisonment.
and
Nkrumah is owner publisher of the "Accra Evening Newa". Markham is its editor.
They
charged with publishing statements likely inclie public feeling against the Government.
Word
to
In another court in the same building, Judge Coussey di- missed Nkrumar' appeal against 12-month sentence for inelting illegal strikes.
Nkrumah will tace similar charges at the Cape Coast- As- alzes next month. Kon Banko, editor of the "Cape Coast Dally Mall, also owned by Nkrumah, will be tried with him---880- ciated Press.
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EGYPT STAYING IN THE STERLING AREA
Cairo, March 22,
Egypt's recent purchase of gold and U.S. Treasury bonds in New York does not mean that the Nile kingdom is deserting the sterling area for the dollar bloc,
This is according to a consensus of Cairo financial
circles.
This opinion is given despite | valued when the sterling pound the statement by one Wardist went down. (Government) Party leader
that Egypt would make further investments in gold and U.S. bonds with the intention of loosening ties with the sterling
area.
Trade and industry sources say such a shift is unlikely and would be to Egypt's disadvantage,
Egypt bought $25,000,000 worth of gold and $22,000,000 in US. Treasury bonds.
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would be disastrous to thele economic position. He gald they would not be able to buy their main export, Item-cotton. He added:
"Britain, which now buys the Believing the bonds easily con--bulk-of-Egyptian-cotton, would vertible
keep on gold, economists have little reason to estimate that the deal increased buying the Egyptian fibre, if we to 30,000,000 Egyptian pounds the
are out of the sterling area. gold
· "On the other hand, we would backing of Egypt's currency. Currency notes in circulation total depend entirely upon the United 174,000,000 Egyptian pounds. The States for our essential imports. Egyptian pound ir
Worth US12.871.
Eighty per cent of the backing of Egypt's currency consists of blish a holdings of British Treasury real government dent on one or
of his own. He bonds. was always,
other of the generals or war lords who had divided power between then after the collapse of the im- perial government. But towards the end of his life Sun, acting on the experience he had gained
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