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Labour Candidate Rebuffed REFUSED SUPPORT
BY MR ATTLEE
London, Feb. 9.
The Prime Minister, Mr Clement Attlee, has decided not to send a letter of sup- port to the Labour Party candidate in a by-election at West Bristol, the Party Headquarters announced to-
day.
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The candidate, 41-year-old railway Arnold Lawrence, clerk, has publicly stated during his campaign that he is a pacifist, cannot support the Government's ant rearmament programme
policy in favour its does not Korca.
It is customary for the Prime
always Minister
to send message of support to omcially- sponsored Party candidates and political observers here remem- ber no precedent for the Prime Minister's decision.
The Party Headquarters an- nounced that Mr Altice had the support of the Election Sub- Committee of the Party's Na- tional Executive Committee "in view of the attitude adopted by Mr Lawrence."
Voting in
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1951.
UN Forces Reach
10,000 People Cut Off From
Seoul
Rest Of World TANKS 12 MILES
Deep Avalanches
Vienna, Feb, 0.
Kow ami cut off
have the Lesach Valley in West
Carinthia with Its 10,000 Inhabitants from the outer world for 14 days.
Other villages and val- Icy fave also been cam- Dietely cut off for many daye..
People
who bave kuc- cecded In fighting a way through state that in many of these communities food .supplies are getting short and they appeal for sub- pilts to be dropped from the atr
In many places in West. Carinthia the snow
Sno
reaches to the first store of
houses. One storey peasant houses are covered right
up to the roof in $10W. In many cakCH roofs have collapsed under the great weight of
From all parts of West Carinthia fresh avalanches constantly re- aro being ported. In many places houses have been evacuat. ed and the population has fled to safely-Reuter.
Bristol SERIOUS
by-election, caused by the death
of Mr Oliver Stanley,
a Con-
servative leader, takes place on FLOODS IN
February 15. At, the last elec- tion
the Conservatives had a 12,243 vote majority over
Labour.
Lawrence did.
to
When he expressed his paci- fist views it was too late for the
ITALY
to
tinued to rise.
FROM HEART
OF CITY
Tokyo, Feb. 9.
United Nations forces today closed in on the "ghost city" of Seoul-which has changed hands three times already-and reached the Han River, which runs through the South Korean capital's suburbs.
Tanks drove to within a mile of the industrial suburb of Yongdongpo, a mile and a half from the heart of Seoul-and hurled shells into the city for the second day running.
Bus & Train Collide: Nine Killed Sudbury, Ontario, Feb. 9.
A bus full of passengers was hurled 10 yards in a collision with a Canadian Pacific train at a lovel crossing near here today. Nine of the bus passen- gers were killed and 22 injured,
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New Attempt To Unseat Nationalist China Rejected
Soviet Manoeuvre Fails
Lake Success, Feb. 9.
A fresh Soviet attempt to unseat Nationalist China in the United Nations in favour of the Peking representative was defeated today by a vote of 18 to five with two abstentions.
Fog had reduced vist-
The newly-appointed Executive Board of the Inter- bility to under 100 yards.
The bus was carrying national Children's Emergency Fund upheld the United States proposal to defer consideration of the question of workers to and from the international nickel plantChinese representation indefinitely. India, Israel, Yugo- in Coniston,
slavia and Byelo-Russia joined Russia in voting against
The train
the United States proposal. Switzerland and Indonesia was from
abstained. MontrealRenter.
London
The Han River was reached by units of the Dockers
Eighth Army's 3rd Division near Karangni, a southeast suburb. They were maintaining their positions.
In at least some sectors south of Seoul- which was taken by the North Koreans on January 4the Communists seemed to have aban- doned their defence network.
The tanks, a task force from the American 25th Division, had made a five-mile advance from of Seoul, Anyong, southwest brushing aside light resistanco and only delayed by minefields.
Strike
How Nazis Executed
A General
London, Feb. 9.
EVIDENCE GIVEN Nearly 7,000 London dockers stopped work to-
AT TRIAL day after the police had
Munich, Feb. 9. unofficial morrow morning after winning
General Hans Lunding, the high ground from which the arrested
the strike leaders, Communists had held up
The Natinoal Dock La- of the Danish Army Gen- attack for 24 hours.
Staff, told a court Reports by Intelligence from
announced eral the contral front said that there bour Board
seven
procedural forced an
The Russian proposal for Im- mediately scating the Peking delegate, was not voted on.
Later, In manoeuvre, Russia other vote by proposing that the Board lrt the credentials of the Chinese Nationalist de- legate. The Chair ruled the So- vidt motion out of order and was upheld 17 to three with
our abstentions
four
Je, the United Nations
Children's Emer-
gency Fund issued a
report on its aid to
S'ha! Reds” Big Task
Hongkong, Feb. 10. The Communist tax authorities in Shanghal are auditing the books of every Industrial and com- mercial enterprise in the city, the Shanghai News reported.
The newspaper said that more than 3,000 Com- munist. workers and ac- counting students ага carrying out the tremend- ous task, which started January 30.
Under an earlier ruling. all foreign firms which previously kept their books in English or some other language must do their bccounting in Chinese.~~ United Press.
US
In Grip
Of Intense
Cold Wave
detalled ed Children
in
Chicago, Feb. 9. Bitter cold weather cover- Friday the nation on
Asla, Europe, Latin America, the from the Rocky Mountainė and Middle East and North Africa. to the Atlantic coast, It sald a total of more than
'.
30,000,000 children would benefit forecasters said no rent-re- from the discase control projects lief was in sight. being conducted by UNICEF and Frigid temperatures ranged over the northern plains, the the World Health Organisation.
The projects include preven-Great Lakes area and New Eng- tative measures against tuber-land, with the mercury taking to 38 below zero at Wisconsi The Grantsburg United Press.
temperature hit 40 below zero New York, at Mountain View, near Malone, for what residents: believed an all-time cold low.
There was no direct indication were between 20,000 and 30,000 that 6,710 London docker here today he saw Admiral culosis, diphtheria and malaria. dives
that the Chinese
area.
heavy
In the Port of London, 70
Wilhelm Canaris, former
military German
intel-
ligence chief, driven naked Gruesome Fire
in Engine Tragedy
to his execution in a Nazi
camp concentration 1945.
or seven
North Koreans in the Hongchon had joined 11,000 men on Communists wors
strike on Merseyside, Today's advances had any big forces between the
through Labour Party officials in
over North-West England. American tanks and the city.
snow-banks and Bristol and at the London Head-
Rome, Feb. 9.
Another tank force reached slippery ridges were made with-
New York City recorded its Lawrence's quarters approved
The police imposed an all point within six miles of In-out artillery support, which ships las idle and on Merseyside
low for the new year with 11.4. candidature knowing that he was
more than 82 ships were idle. Many others
dogroes above zero curly on is an active night curfew throughout hon, the port for Scout, where yesterday claimed
were only partially manned. a paciflat. There
MacArthur 600 casualties. Douglas
Rotterdam, Feb. 9. General Landing was giving
Friday morning. New Yorkers. On the western sector of the
When the seven accused men pacifist minority in the Parly. Ferafar Province, Central General
to rain, sleet, Five Dutch Bremen met grue were subjected
high winds before including several Members of Italy, today as the flood made his big landing last Sep-
Huppen- some death this morning when mow and Parliament, but it is not usual
which is 12 miles north of Yoju, found that their arrest had SS. colonel, Waiter phuise waters. of the Reno River, amber and broke up the North central front north of Chipyong, were freed on ball today they evidence in the trial of a former
in to moved Korean resistance.
that
complicity in their engine plunged into flam-the cold wave for they kothen, for candidates
ing oll fleating in the Wilhel-glaze the streets and highways, made
bom-Allied guns struck at a long line achieved something have
The port was heavily
mina Dock their differences with the om- estimated
warships, of vehicles moving north but themselves had failed to do by Canaris' murder.
at Vlaardingen, making travel dangerous, homeless,
by Allled con-barded cial Party policy
Mr thousands 15
have which
been standing fog prevented air photographs of a week of agitation-spread the
Docks,
"I have no doubt that he about six miles West of Rot- Nearly all schools in New strike to the Thames Doc offshore for over a week, shell- the territory today,
rewas hanged," General Lund- terdam,
York State were closed A French patrol met flerce
London
Magistrato re-
The oil-wasto from ships Four persons were reported the
until i ing said. Many people are believed to Ing Communist positions and
automatic manded small-arms and concentrations. which
and Industries had been set dead in New England, as fore Six
other's. were fire from a hill two February, 20 after only formal Party to consider withdrawing have died in the floods
} half miles east of evidence of arrest had been taken to be executed the same alight by sparks from a welding casters said the cold would last until Sunday and predicted 20 given at a seven-minute hearing. day, he said.
apparatus.
The fire engine, manned by a degrees below zero temperatures On the opposite side of the They were freed on £100 bail.
for
some sections en Friday the During front 000 Communists
brief hearing, Huppenkothen prosecuted at crew of eight volunteers from night. the central mountainous Tange central
corridor launched three separate counter-several hundred strikers gather- the S.S. trials of Canaris and Vlaardingen, was on its way to On Friday morning the sub- -the spike of the
German officers reinforce ed round the Courthouse singing other leading
other Arc-4ghting
2010 Hongchon, attacks, which were all repulsed he nationallst song "Land of who took part in the attempt crews already on the scene. from Wonfu to
south by
Hope and Glory,"
Hitler's life on July 20, The driver of the engine was blinded by heavy smoke clouds, rising from the burning surface of the water and his vehicle hurtled over the dockside,
Three of the crew of eight
one seriously General Lunding sald that were injured, the Gestapo arrested him in Associated Press, 1043 and sent him to the Flossenburg concentration camp, Bavaria.
his candidature, as nominations tonight covered an area of 125 had closed.-Router.
square kilometres,
the "lake" At some points thus formed has a depth of
European Slain early eight metres.
In Ambush
Kuala Lumpur, Feb, 9. One European police Lieu- tenant was murdered and an-
More police
were
brought into the area to help evacuate hundreds of families from their flooded homes,
Late tonight
hundreds
of
other European police officer, people still huddled in top floors
a European estate manager and and attics or on roofs two Malay constables wounded
when 60 terrorists ambushed dirty, muddy
them in Kuantan, Pahang State, under. today.
United Nations elements weapons went forward right across the and 100-mile waist of Korea. Com-Chipyong. munist opposition was stiff in
which is only 20 miles of the 38th Parallel.
BATTLES IN SNOW
30-mile sector.
with:
water swirling
af
During the day boats took
food
to supplies emergency isolated villages and sailed to
windows upper
to hand the
driven at rood to villagers
up- stairs by the water-Reuter,
A party of two European offt- cers, two planters, and 10 police was on its way to investigate a burning bus when it was tacked-Associated PresSS.
COMMENT OF THE DAY
South Korean troops.--
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Nations
counter-at-
N. KOREAN: REPORT
London, Feb. 9. A
spokesman 10th Corps
resistance Today's North Korean Army sald tonight that
Mos- had suddenly stiffened on the communique quoted by
the claimed that central front and almost no cow Radio
the Communist forces "in the In- chon direction" hod inflicted gains were reported in
while repulsing Fighting raged in five inches heavy losses
snow among the mountain United
where well ridges,
held up North Koreans
the United five-pronged
Nations advance in most sectors.
But опе column,
pushing through the mountains due north af Hoengsong, was reported in a position to sweep forward 40-
German Labour's New Plan:
DEVELOPMENT
great
A significance and still unforeseeabl
is
consequences has just taken place in Germany. There, leaders of the Ger- man trade unions have compelled the Bunn Government to agree to a drastic industrial reorganisation which
of economic advanced in the name democracy as an antidote to socialism and communism, but which is certainly in the direction of "cold socialisation." By the now agreement, reached under the threat of a strike, the German trade union leaders are guaranteed a 50 per cent share in the management of Ger man industry, beginning with coal, iron and steel, without any financial risks to themselves or to their unions. They have exacted a law, to be passed im- mediately, which provides that labour, as represented by the trade unions, shall have equal representation with the old management in both the board of directors and an executive committeo managing cach company, as well as in a top organisation, called a "senate," representing each industry as a whole.. As members of these bodies the trado union directors and senators will have an equal voice with the old manage- ment, not only in matters of wages, hours and working conditions but also in all day-to-day operations, including. business policy, production quantity and methods, purchasing, selling, amount of employment, calo or shut- down of plants, and, most important of all, in appointments to management positions. The owners and share-
dug-in ples were
holders are relegated to back seats with little voice in their companies' affairs, and the only check on complete union domination is to be the presence in these "bodies of either an "independent," a of the "technical," or, in the case "senate," a Government representative, holding the balance of power. This system, which leaves ownership of the means of production in private hands but deprives the owners of control, passes under the name of workers' "co- It is not exactly determination." new, having been
pro- on Socialist. grammes in many European countries since the war, and in some countries It has already been introduced in an ad- visory form. But nowhere has it been expanded to the point now contemplated in Germany, and once introduced there it may well attain impetus in other Western countries as well. It is a distorted version of the ideal where- ander labour and management work together in close co-operation for mutual and equal benefit and could, quite obviously, lead to complete dic- tatorship by the workers. At ita best It might increase production and labour penco-by giving workers a sonso of participation. But it could also be used by trade union officials to centralise- Industrial control in their own bureau- cracy, and thus not only impair produc- tive officiency but also become the vehicle of political domination by a minority unable to win a majority at the polle.
captured," said the communique, without The communi- glving details. que also claimed the destruc- tion of 12 enemy aircraft by units of the anti-aircraft People's Army In the Scoul area during the past week. Reuter
Bevin Will
When the accused men came out they were carried away omid cheers-Reuter,
Plans For
Treaty Denounced
or
1944.
The prosecution in the pre- sent trim claimed that the 3.5. courts were illegal,
*ME HAD COME"
line
the stretched on. weather map from southern lows across northern Ullaols and Wisconsin to New York and Now England.
Los Angbles, where the mer- cury rose to a comparative balmy 74 degrees on Thursday, and its worst fog in four years. Visibility was down to one- eighth of a mile, and a virtual epidemic of snimes and inflamed eyes was touched off-United Press.
Police v. Riotors
CANNIBALISM
Stanleyville, Belgian Congo,
Fcb. t. The polloe here have opened
Tokyo, Feb. 9, an enquiry into an alleged case of cannibalism reported from
The police in Matsumoto City, a nearby village.
Nagano Prefecture, clashed with A. number of natives who 250 day labourers and arrested Mo-jo, denounced General Lunding told the disappears from the village 13 of the leaders on Thursday.
on April 8, 1945, recently are alleged to have The labourers started the.
London, Feb. 9.
In 1945, Canaris was brought to the next cell and they "con- versed"
by tapping on the
China's Deputy Premier, walls. Mr Kuo
that any Japanese treaty court that
Canaris พบ taken from his been killed and their Besh codd rioting after foreing their way
drawn up without Chinese coll
and Soviet participation as When he returned an hour "nothing but a new form of later he signalled that "his time
had come". American aggression" in
He told General Landing that Feking newspaper article his nose was broken, and asked
Continue Job quoted by the New China him to
News Agency today. London, Feb. 9.
also
wife.
give a message to his
Such a peace treaty, he de duty as a German", he signalled. "I way no trailer, but did my. The Foreign Secretary, Mr
would be resolutely
Early next day, Canaris was Ernest Bevin, will continue in clared,
not only by the taken to the wash-room, Gen- ofce despite his present - <pposed Chineso
tho cral by Dess, it was learned from an Japanese people. authoritative source today.
China
fought longest tion, The source Bald that the
Minister,
Mr Clement and suffered most if her fight
against Japanese Impertallet 800
huk
has
saw him
then
Landing said. He
taken to his execu-
While he was in Flossenburg
Prime Attlee, fold the 70-year-old aggression," Mr Kue sald, add-aksoners were taken, off
ied him to continue in office ing that the Soviet Union had added.
a "decisive role" played visited. Mr Bevin at when he
defeating Japan. his home in London today.
to the. Japanese people, Mr Bevin is making a good we have no hatred." he wrote, recovery from pneumoniu, but
Imperialists" The Japanese
"AS
owe
Canaris said nothing about having been tried by a court martial, General Lunding saldi.
Huppenkothen claimed carlier that Canaris was tried on April for there are no definite
9 and executed on April 10. plans for his convalescence were the deadly enemies.
The blood debt the Japanese Reuter. He was understood to have had
Imperialista
to the no intention of offering his ro Chinese people during the past signation unless he knew that 50 years is beyond measure," Mr Attlee desired it..
be said. Mr Atulee was Mr Devin'a
"According to the Yalta Arst vidike, apart from mem- Agreement and Potsdam Declar bers of his family, since his atlon, Japan must be disarmed, juness,
her militarists must be booted Foreign Office officials today out для Japan thoroughly continued to deny reports that democratised.
Naples, Feb, 0. Mr Bevin will resign да д But after Japan's surrender, The voice of. Benfumino Glall, result of hie Miness-Reuter. American Imperialism took the the famous tenor, fallered to
place of Japanese Imperialism night.
}.
Gigli's Voice Falters
and General MacArthur's 'mce- The great San Carlo Opera sures in Japan during the past Hauss here was hushed as the ́$4 · MILLION FIRE Ave years have been completely audience held its breath.
modelled. after those of the Then the voice rose again in a Japanese rulers. and
even duet of the opera "Amico Fritz" worse."teuter.
by Mascagni
When the algning ended the;
thunderbus
Lansing, Michigan, Feb. 0. Fireman fought a devastating blaze-here-Michigan's capital
oity-today. It caused an cati "Point Four" Aidience applauded
damage and
mated $4 million crippled the machinery of the State Government,
Karachi, Feb. 9,
But when Gigil, now 01, went Pakistan and
the United to his dressing room at the end
The 20-year-old State Omeo Statos signed an agreement of the first act he was feeling
building was aflamo and after under President Truman's Point foverish. 20 hours the fire was still burn Four programme for aid to Ing early today, Four firemen and Apolloman wore over- come by the anoke and heat Reutor
He returned to the stago in under-developed countries today, the recond act. ·which › started Pakistan will receive tocistical slightly late, Hile voice seemed ald worth 3000,000 under the tired, but he sang right, through agreement,teuter, che q shv-opera-Router.
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