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ADENAUER TO DISCUSS UNITY
Bonn, Dec. 29.
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Informed sources said on Friday that West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer would accept the East German proposal to open talks designed to unify the split Germany.
Herr Adenauer's office announced the Bonn Government would submit a formal reply to Fast German Premier Otto Grotewohl's month-old proposal for talks between the two German governments.
The atmouncement did not say whether the proposal would be accepted or rejected, but one informed source said, "One can now expect all-German conversations to begin, although no one dares predict their outcome."
Reliable sources made it clear Democratic Party's official press Herr Adenauer, although service, sald: "The Federal Go- that
will omit nothing willing to discuss unity, would vernment
Soviel which could bring us nearer to not accept unity
the much-longed-for hour of terms.
Germon unity in freedom."
on
Allied officials believed Kerr Grotewohl's proposal was aimed! nt securing a United Germany oriented to the East,
Adenauer. In a Chancellor signed article in his Christian
Adenauer's Meanwhile, Herr
Govern- the
White ofce announced
issue a ment would Book" on conditions and chances The an- for East-West talks. nouncement sald: "Documents are now being collected which are related to Herr Grotewohl's
with it."
The New Year letter, and question, connected
Holidays
Monday,
being New Year's Day and a general bollday, there will be no publication of the China
Mall.
The Chipa Mall
publish again
Tuesday,
early
will
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will The Morning Post appear as usual on Mon- day morning, but will not again publish until Wed- nesday morning.
On Thursday, the Morn- inx Past, Hongkong Tele- graph and China Mail wil
their appent at. times.
1180al
Fire Tragedy
on
Adenauer on Friday appealed Op- to the anti-rearmamen
Bi- agree position to partisan foreign policy meet the "hard and serious decisions" facing West Germany.
BELONG TOGETHER
Britain's latest in light Canberra, bombers, the which is highly thought aviation of by American experts. It is reported that the from America U.S. Government shortly to begin large pur- chases of these aircraft. Ser- -London Express
vice.
ia
Mr Hutchison
Retiring
London, Dec, 30.
The Foreign Office announced on Saturday that Mr J. C. Hut- chison, British Charge d'Affaires In Communist China, would re- tum to Britain shortly to retire In a special New Year arti- and would be replaced by Mr is scheduled to cle published by the Christian H. Lamb who Democratic Party's press sar- leave for China early in Feb- vice, Herr Adenauer said: "Re-ruary. gardless of whether we fight each other vigorously in the
Diplomatic sources suggested
Deld of internal politics, when that the change meant that Bri- it comes to big foreign policy tain would make, a fresh at- establish diplomatic questions, the Government and tempt to
belong to relaitons with the Calnese Com- the entire nation gether, and tactical as well as munist government, party considerations should-10= main behind."
Mr Hutchison was appointed d'Affaires last will British Charge He said the now year
offered January when, Britain German confront the West Republic with "hard and serious the Communists de jure re- went to Peking decisions." It is the desire of the cognition. He
Government 10 know last February to negotiate the Federol
diplomatic of Five children from two to 12that the greatest possible part of establishment
people
stands behind it relations but without years old were burned to death our
in
# Are
which when it prepares these decisions. In the 10 months carly today
four-roomed their destroyed house here.
London, Ontario, Dec. 29.
success.
he has not
The parents and three children were pital.
other
At the same time the Chan-been able to see Foreign Minis- callar emphasised anew that the ler Chou En-jai, West German Government will
hos
Firemen were unable to hoses as water for their
get
the
regime from
February
do everything in its power 10 Mr Lamb, who was the Bri-
In taken to re-establish German unity. itish Minister with the Nation-
an official statement his governalist ment announced it was studying 1947 to September 1940, is ex- proposals by the East German Premier, Ollo Grotewohl, for the pected to leave for his new post unification of the split Relch early in February. -- United United Press.
only fire hydrant within reach was frozen,-Reuter,
COMMENT OF THE DAY
A Time For
Press,
For Moral Courage
NOTHER year ending, and what to for it? In the all-embracing canvas of international affairs, much disputation, recrimination, tragedy, but little, Oh! so little achievement. We cannot look back on 1950 with a great deal of satisfaction. Efforts to reach common understanding and co- operative action in relations between countries and continents have suffer- ed-continual frustration, culminating finally in open warfare in three Far Eastern areas. It has been a sad, sickening year for those whose hearts are in the right place, whose intentions desire for are honourable, whose universal peace is genuine. Normally we would release the remaining 24 hours of the present year with plea- sure, feeling with some confidence that the following. 12 months must of a certainty bring a greater measure of general happiness and contentment. But even that prospect is dim and the world starts 1951 with a heavy heart. The New Year, it is now realised by all thinking people," will make heavy demands on our reserves of courage-- more especially moral, and spiritual courage. "Causes and the determina- tion to fight for them, will probably be the dominating influence in 1951, and If this be so it is our duty to make sure that our Cause is the right one; a certainly based on a clear, unblased assessment of what constitutes right and wrong; of good and evil. Not all of Democracy, either as a philosophy or a way of living is wholly good, any more than Communism in either of these two aspects is wholly evil. Yot the urgency, of the moment seems to preclude any possibility of discovering how to blend the' good of both. There ford we must take our stand on general principles to decide which of the two **ways of life, so far as the peoples of
the world as a whole are concerned, is more humane, more dignified, more Christian. And because the Demo- cracies believe that their way of life measures very much more approxi- mately to these ideals, there can be no hesitation on their part to make sacri- fices, if necessary, for those principles, though the principles themselves must under no circumstances be sacrificed. This may involve heavy decisions, yet they will be decisions forced upon the peoples of the free countries by others who seek to impose tyranny, despotism and misery. The Democracies seek no aggrandisement-they dare not if they are to keep faith with their principles; they search for no material conquests, for these again conflict with accepted ideals. They do desire a universo living together in harmony, national political philosophies may exist, and they believe that such a state of affairs can be realised through the United Nations. The charter of the United Nations, when interpreted in terms of the world and its common interests, remains the only foundation on which universal peace and prosperi ty can be built.. Within imposed limita tions the Democracies, have, tried to give effect and meaning to that charter and its ideals and precepts have been denied only by those who do not honestly believe in the freedoms which it enumerates. Nineteen-fifty has seen attempts to destroy the meaning-and- Intention of the charter by wanton ag gression and a cynical flouting of United Nations authority. Against that background we enter 1951, sober- ly, but in the determination to show
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VIETMINH FANATICS
12.000 Launch New Assaults
Hanoi, Dec. 29.
At least 12,000 fanatical Vietminh against Communists hurled themselves seven French posts guarding Hanoi, on Friday and withdrew after fierce hand-to- hand battlos, leaving piles of dead on barbed wire barricades and in the forts themselves.
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French officers believed the attack- the third under cover of darkness in three New Guinea Problem days-was aimed at breaking through the French lines to Hanoi, rather than capturing Dutch
the posts..
The seven posts form a 45-mile arc Red River to a point directly north of Hanoi where the French forts had withstood
from the
Suggestion
# Communist on.
slaught earlior this week, Closer ones are within 30 Rejected
miles of Hanoi,
A French spokesman sald trations west of Moncay and in
of
the Tienyen region.
The Hague, Dec. 29. The Indonesian Foreign
Dr Mohammed. Minister,
baitalions of Com- several
In the seesaw battle for the munists, after bombarding the
and post of Binhlicu, which the posts with light artillery mortars, started a frontal attack French evacuated twice before
ask at 1.30 n.m., local time, and Grally losing, French casualties Roem, today rejected the.
suggestion to were 10 killed and 30 wounded. Dutch after wave
Com-: These were considered light in the United Nations French the soldiers Into
relation to the severe fighting machinegun fire until 6 s.m.
Coupled with monoeuvres to- and the heavy losses inflicted mission for Indonesia to
seek a solution of the New. ward the China Sea ports of on the Vietminh,
In South Vietnam, Vietminh Guines dispute. Moncay and Tenyen, both alert-
sent
wave
ed to expect an attack at any activity was today limited to moment, the Communist on-flated firing at "read"; control alaught appeared to be the stort posts-Reuter of mall-out campaign to oust the French from all Northern, Indo Chiud
At Yenphu, whose garrison was mainly tough Senegalese troops, the Communists
man-
aged to break into the fort bull- dings but were pushed back by bayonets and long knives. Hun- littered the dreds of bodies
compound
and barbed wire
When
around the fort. French reinforcements the post this morning,
the
neared
The
those Fire
Success
At Lake
Success
Lake Success, Dec. 29.
De Roem headed the Indone stan delegation to the Dutch- Indonesian.conference on the future political status of Westeris New Guinea, which broke down on December 27, the delinge. set by last year's round-table opaterence..
The Indonesian Foreign Minis. tor mid that interference by third parties was "not neces- not solve the sary" and could central diffealty of the whole dispute: "The transfer of so- New vereignty over Western
"Good offices by third parties are only acceptable to us if sup-"
United Nations Cease-Guinea to Indonesia_7 Committee met again to- not day, without results. wounded hoisted the French It will hold a final meetingplied on the basis of this transfer
Senegaleso
who were
flag and the Communists filed.
The battle for Hill 124 was report, due to be presented
garrison, the Political equally bitter. The comprising only two platoons January 3 of about 200 men, was isolated
hourg for nearly 12
Communist
out
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SEOUL EXODUS
SLOWS DOWN
Seoul, December 29.
▼
The police estimates that more than 900,000 per- sons had fled Seoul by Thursday, but added that the exodus began dropping off on Friday.
Newspapers said the "favour- a point on the cast able turn of the war" and state-North Korea.
They dropped ments by government officials that the city was secure had bombs, and pilots caused the evacuation slow-"excellent results," down.
176
on Tuesday to draw up its. final of sovereignty," he added.
to He rejected a Dutch suggCS- Committee
on tion, made during the conference, to delegate sovereignty to The
Union thred The
members of the Netherlands-Indonesia
would mean that In because Cease-Fire Committee are likely "This
would have to derive artillery to report that all their efforts to donesia
from the con- with Peking on the moral support the post's negotiate
tinuation of a colonial regime, Korean war had failed.
The Political Committee will in Western New Guinea," he
what it intends declared.
iteris still The transfer of sovereignty
over Western New Guinea to com- Indonesia would be “the best the com
Other forts pounded the re-
of also consider bela
rounds with 1,500 105 mm shells and the garrison to do about three
Its agendo. killed numerous attackers with on
These items are: submachine gun and rifle fire.
the Commun-plaints that American bombers solution" for Indonesia Itself, At Cho vang
co-operation between ists lost many men and aban- attacked Manchurian targets; a for
alleging og Holland and Indonesia and for doned
than more
50 new Soviet complaint
world the stabilisation of the. American bazookas, presumably gression against Formosa and a
motion calling on situation in so far as Indonesia taken by the Vietminh when six-Power
Chinese Communists to was involved in it, Dr Roem they captured French forts to the
withdraw from Korea-Reuter, said-Reuter. the North.
Several villages in the area were raided by Communists, but mobile French forces kept the rebels on the run and key polat was held by them by morning.-United Press.
no
HEAVY LOSSES coast of
Saigon, Dec, 29. Indo-Chinese Vietminh troops tons of reported last night attacked six French advanced posts about 30 miles north of Hanol, the French The centre bombed was Army reported here today. Somo refugees explained they Songju-which had one of the Heavy losses were reported were leaving the alty because most modern steel factories in on both sides. they remained and the Com- North Korea before it was were munists occupied the city, they damaged in earlier would be shot as collaboratora
The attacks launched after French raids. It mobile reserves had intercepted In some areas several Viet- when the Korean republican was attacked today to make it and folled an earlier attack.
and com- minh battalions useless as a supply
were thrown government reoccupied Seoul, whatever
In against single French posts, but the garrisons, supported by mobile troops, were bolding out Some were encircled for a short time but by this morning French mobile units had forced the rebels, to withdraw a short distance and freed at least three of the posts
all the moral courage. we possess to meet whatever, the year, has in store, confident that the real, freedom- loving nations have a cause that is right and worth defending
The Ministry of Transporta- munications point-Router, tlon announced that work an the Han river railway bridge, which was discontinued, would bo resumed on the request of the Eighth Army. This was the top story in Seoul's papers on Friday, and was apparently a manifestation of a desire by the population to grasp at some assurance that the city would be held by the United Nationa forces. The Seoul Shinmun, the
French Military
The
Budget
Today's communique sold Paris, Dec. 20. that the. Vietminh forces con- French National tinued to be aggressive in the
coastal zone a northt
tho
largest
daily which reflects the Assembly on Friday night Tiengen sector. This action, it government's attitude, reported voted to spend 740,000,000, we thought, might develop in.
widespread that the city's 10,000-man polico 000 francs-$2,114,000,000 to force had "decided" to act as on military preparedness in against the French key post- rearguard and leave on foot
1951.
in case of an emergency.
On of the
The Assembly fixed the nighis, there had been at least amunt to point, during an one large fire in Seoul-possibly article-by-article
voto
01
offensive
tions at Moncay or Tenyen
ROAD STILL OPEN The road between Monogy and Tienyen was rulle open for day, but Vietminh forces were
to, ¿t.
the work of a small body of France's military budget for reputed northwest and parallel highly
trained Communist the next year.,
United saboteurs in the city.
Press
WAR FRONT REFORT
Meatures had been taken to this of reinforce the defence of Article One--the first
Ariny sald, F more than a dozen up before sector, the French the Assembly was approved and naval units were patrolling by a vole of 416 to 180 The the coastal waters ready to help
their ground foTORS. Tokyo, Dec. 29.
after Premier volé came just'.
French alreraft were over Waves of Superforta today Bena Flever warned the Don
Cơm launched an stack on rjumalat rond, and tuft computes that France "can got Tonking Provines throughout tou 1 before possible day, covering troop movements
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