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The Odd And The Unusual
Brisbane, Dee, 4.
An outback drover's mongrol, Stumpy, kas won pounds in bets for owner "Barlow" Jack- don since he learnt to catch pennies, tell beads and folla with his tongue and lay them down as ordered.-Neuter.
KNEW WAY HOME
Hertogenbosch (Holland) Dee, 4. A form horse hero disappeared and turned up eight miles away in Tila old stable, three and a half year after being sold to hla present owner-Router,
"BEGGAR'S" CAR TOUR
Flensburg (Germany), Dec. 4.
A 54-year-old "beggar." accom- panied by his wife and two children. toured the country Ciricts of Western Germany in his own car.
Stopping outside the village, the
into whole
changed
old family clothes and collected Money And goods as "poor refugees from the East.**
The man han bean arrested...
Reuter,
EXTRA PASSENGER
Manila, Dec. 4.
caused
Mr Luisa Alba Bautista
a heavy trame jam here by giving birth to a baby in a bux.
All traffic was mopped while policeman carried the mother and baby boy to a taxies and pent them to St. Luke's Hompital where bolli are doing well.-Reuter
LOCUST HOLD-UP
Ahamdabad, Dec 4. Swarming tacusis held up an ex- press train here for three hour.
The
crushed train
tinder 1 While thousanda of the busecla until the track became too slippery and the train crew had to clean the wheels and
before spread sand
they would grip again.--Reuter.
ANGRY PUNTERS
Cordoba (Argentina), Dec. 4. Racetrack punters here, angry at a bad start to a race, advanced on the totallantor but were prevented from breaking the place up by a strong force of police armed with tear gas.
Instead, they formed a pleket line
windows around the belting
and prevented people placing bets on the remaining races.Reuter.
VARIETY FARE
Copenhagen, Dee.
A new restaurant opening here has seven different roomo in which guests can eat. The seven romna are: Christian VIII (early 10th Century), "Cretomne," an artist'n studio, an English panelled room, a tasseled room. a tiled room, and a Regency room.
All the china, glass, cutlery and furniture in each room is designed to fit in with its style.-Reuter,
DRIVE ON 'FLU
London. Dec. 4 A campaign is being launched the throughout Britain to redues number of colds and influenza casca which are estimated to cost indus- ry 40,000,000 mars hours a year-- and untold money.
The trades unions are playing a big part in the "anti-fu" fight. The National Pharmaceutical Union has taken more than 11,000 copies of a poster for display in chemist phops.
It shows a television set with a very large handkerchief wrapped round the screen after the on- nouncer has sneezed.
Campaigners say that humourous posters have been found to du far more good than gloomy unea.
Managements of 15.000 factories in England and Wales are being naked to display the postern, which are being issued by the Ministry of Health.Reuter.
Transjordan Version Of Wadi Clash
London, Dec. 4. A spokesman of the Jordan Legation here said today that the roadblock which led to the Israel-Jordan clash in the Wadi Araba yesterday was erected by the Arab Legion on the Jordan side of the frontier in her own territory.
The old Palestinian road in Wadi Araba, new in Jewish hands, runs along the water- course," he said.
"The Jews recently made a diversion to higher ground 10 cast of the original road the running through an area which has been Jordan territory since 1920.
"The Jews were warned that the use of the portion of the new road in Jordan territory would
permitted them,"
not be
spokesman zald.
Ho added: "The original road in the Wadi to the west of the frontier has never
blocked."-Reuter.
been
Novelist's Death
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 21950. Freep
Attlee And Truman Hold First Conference
GRIM ATMOSPHERE IN WASHINGTON
Washington, Dec. 4.
The arrival in Washington today of Mr Clement Attlee, the British Prime Minister, for top-level discussions coincided with reports of continued retreats of General Douglas Mac- Arthur's forces in Korea and widespread talk here of General MacArthur being obliged to evacuate Korea and confine 'the United Nations mission there to air and naval action.
Some American quarters consider that the deteriorating military situation may stiffen rather than decrease United States resistance to any proposals which Mr Attlee may have brought with him for a settlement with the Chinese Communist regime.
If this American view is sustained after the historic conference opening today, it will be for President Truman and Mr Attlee to decide, as President Roosevelt and Mr Winston Churchill decided in 1941, on a global strategy for the struggle for survival of the free world in the next 12 months.
Mr Attlee is expected to make the murky sky the following points:
ΟΣ
(1) That despite the shock to
public opinion American grave milltary reverses in the Far
East the United States should act on the basic strategic conception that the main threat to the free world is still in Europe and that nothing should be allowed to stand in the way States United of increasing forces in Europe and of a speedy organisation of an Allied supreme command there.
(2) That under no circum- stances should the United States get itself in the position where the majority of its military forces and equipment are pinned down in a war against the vast hordes of China.
(3) That the closest possible laison should now be maintain- ed between those responsible for shaping the global strategy and for the defence of the free world against aggression.
(4) That the rearmament efforts of Europe and the United States should be co-ordinated to prevent competition between the United States and European countries for the raw materials required.-Reuter.
COMMON COURSE
Washington, Dec. 4. Britain's Prime Minister and the President of the United States sat down together today to chart a common course on whose outcome
depend may whether there will be war or peace.
The two government leaders, flanked by their diplomatic military and economic advisers, sat behind the closed doors
House of the White Room.
as the Prime Mimistor
his advisers and reached the White House, Mr Attlee was barcheaded. He wore a sprig of white heather- the British omen of good luck- in his heavy dark blue overcoat. -United Press.
Confidence
In
Malaya's Position
Singapore, Dec. 4. Mr Malcolm MacDonald, Com- missioner-General for South- East Asia, said here today that whatever happened in French Indo-China, Britain would be able to handle the situation in Malaya.
"Even on the worst interpreta- tion, there is no question what~ ever of us giving up resistance to the Communist terrorists in Malaya, elther voluntarily compulsorily," he added.
or
was
Mr MacDonald told a Press conference that Malaya
what hap- pretty sensitive to pened elsewhere in South-East AsThe terrorists became bolder
when they heard of the Com- munist successes in Korea and Indo-China. However, we have sufficient forces here to handle the situation.
Mr MacDonald, fresh from talks with French leaders in
A Wave For Londoners
A fine close-up of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and King George VI. The picture was taken as they drove through Trafalgar Square on the State drive
from Victoria Station to Buckingham Palace-AP Picture.
Indian Meet
Ambassador To With Mr
Grim Discovery In Suitcases
cases
New York, Dec. 4. The nudo, dismembered body of an attractive woman Waa found today cramined Into two sult. In the baggage store of a railway station In Brooklyn, New York.
clerk was making a of the routine inspection lockers In the baggage
room
he found when black Imitation leather
suitcase.
Inside were the head and torso of a chestnut-haired woman with the two arm15 severed at the elbows, all badly decomposed. A quick search of other lock- ers revealed the rest of the body in another suitcase. -Renter.
Reds Still
Call Them
Volunteers
San Francisco, Dec. 4. People throughout China were "greeting the great vic- tories of the Korean and Chinese people who smashed the
of the "total offensive Americans," Pricing Radio re- ported tonight.
The broadcast said that in Paris, said developments of im-Harbin students held a celebra tion procession, in Teitsihar (Hel mense significance were taking
workers lungklang Province) place in Indo-China,
were redoubling their "mula tion drive and la Chungking and celebrated people cheered throughout the city.
The Bao Dai Government was about to take over prac- authority in Cabinet fically complete
All internai national affairs in Vietnam, The armies of Viet-
It was an urgent meeting, nam, Laos and Cambodia were called n day ahead of being developed as a complete- schedule.
ly independent force to a size As they met, the United | at which they would be cap- Nations forces were in retreat able of defending the country ---
Reuter.
in Korea. It was believed the two men would take a general review of the world situation, particularly of the Korcan
crisis, at their irst meeting. The President and Mr Atlee
will meet again at tomorrow.
from
Anglo-Egyptian
luncheon Treaty Talks
a
London, Dec. 4.
It added that cigarettes, meat and other gifts were being sent to Chinese "volunteer forma- tions" and the North Koreans- Reuter,
Attlee
Washington, Dec. 4.
Authoritative sources said tonight that Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, the Indian Am- bassador to the United States, is expected to confer sometime on Tuesday with the British Prime Minister, Mr Clement Attlee.
They will discuss the question of finding some peaceful solution in Korea.
These sources said that if Madame Pandit found that the Anglo-American position on Korea, which is being worked out in talks between President Truman and Mr Attlee, offered an opportunity for effective diplomatie mediation. India might offer a mediation for- mula.
They emphasised, however, that neither Madame Pandit
nor Sir Benegal Rau, the Iri- United dion delegate to the Nations who is now conferring
Pathetic
Trek Of
Refugees
Seoul, Dec. 4.
with the Chinese Communist On the road to Seoul to-
representatives in New York,
had
Yet
to offer mediation,
any authority night were
of a great
the headlights convoy of
re
entored the North Korean capital.
It was agreed by British and treating United Nations Indian sources here that it would troops, who only 47 days be more useful if Madame Fan- dit and Mr Attlee delayed their go conference until after the British Premier had had an opportunity to explore the American position in a general way.
SEVERAL DAYS
For that reason, there was possibility that the Indian Am- bassador and the British Prime Minister might walt for days, if Mr Attlee needs much time to study the situa- tion.
fact that
Madame
Gom
that
of
Civilian refugees, some them barefooted, jammed both banks of the Taodong and some of them even waded the ice- encrusted river.
The tragedy of Pyongyang was written as thousands of North Koreans were fleeing approaching Chinese
from the Communists.
Women and children who had lived under Communist
The
domination New Delhi.
formed an almost considers
stream along southward Pandit's solid activity in Washington at this roudy.
Huge crowds piled up time of supreme importance is
#t the
approaches of the Taedong evidenced by the fact that the
because Minister,
they Indian Prime
River, bridges Mr Jawaharlal Nehru, ordered her were not permitted to fcross, to cancel a scheduled meeting the bridges being used for the In New York on Tuesday with military.
wu General
Bundled Haul-chuan,
in all available Chinese Communist representa clothing, the civilians travelled cart and jam-packed tive at the United Nations, in on foot, order to be availablo for n in rickety trucks. talk with Mr Atlee-United Pyongyang itself was filled iPress.
with milling crowds who seemed not to know what to do.
BLUNT QUESTION
POSED IN TOKYO
Tokyo, Dec. 4.
OFTY HALL DESERTED
The City Hall, where the pro- visional Government was set up shortly after the United Nations the city, was forces occupied deserted. There was no one
in charge.
Civil affairs officers left early
key officials of the govern
and
safety so they would not become
A tattered South Korean fog
Mr Attlee has strong support
his government to take all The first real business dis- possible measures to avoid a cussion on a revision of the 1930 large-scale war with Communist Anglo-Egyptian Treaty since the The Japanese-owned English language Nipment established by the United China Ho
may suggest a Egyptian Foreign Minister possible
Big Four meeting with arrived in Britain last work took pon Times, in an editorial this morning asks blunt- Nations forces were whisked to Russia, the
and also is expected to
to place at
the Foreign Officely if the free nations intend to sacrifice the Far victims to Communist revenge. government's view today. express his that the atomic bomb should not After lunching with Mr Emest East to the Communists in order to save Western still hovered in the square and be used in the Korean war. Ho
Ho Begin,
the Egyptian Foreign
there was no indication it would Europe. Is also
to seek expected
bo taken
the before down Arinister, Salah El Din Boy greater voice for the British In
started the talks with Mr Bovin The paper sald that all de- themselves as Mr Attlee meets Chinese Reds entered. conducting future battle strategy
In biltor DODT-ZETG weather, mocratic nations of Asia have with Mr Truman is whether or on the treaty revision. The two nind diplomatic
*VES 0 Leserbod negotiations Ministers will most later in pointed toward a
their eyes on the forthcoming not appeasement of aggression Pyongyang a settlement.
East will be the place, except for crowds of ro Mr Antico arrived
British in the Far amid an week to continue the discus-
meeting between the
moving to- altitude of gravity in offcial alons, sald communique Issued Prime Minister, Mr Attlee and price to be paid for the security fugees who were Waslington unparalleled since after the meeting.
President Truman, especially of Western Europe which would ward the river.
All river bridgen were to be the darkest days of World War It to understood
since
is reported be uncertain at the best." Mr Attice
blown up by American demoll- II. Public offelals, congress mooting lasted about two hours.
to favour "bo war with China The paper, which frequently tion teams as soon as the last reflects the opinion of the Jay man of the Allied battalion got at any cost" men, people in the street all In usually well-informed 'quar- were asking "Is World War III ters It was not thought that any
anese Foreign Office, recallød|| The question which the free that Japanese militarists got out about to begin?"
significant progres had been
It was estimated that 0,000 will be asking of hand because the free nations organised underground agents people of Asla Light sleet was falling out of i made so far:-Reuter,
did not draw a Ize against
012000 already La the city... gression in Manchuria. show
United Press. wedknows of this crucial mo- mont will bring on more aula-
Moscow, Dec. 4.
Bazhob, Petrovuch. Pavel 80-year-old writer and novelist who specialised in Ural folk- here today--Walted Lore, died Press,
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