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MPs Give Blessing To POW Claim
(Our Own Correspondent)
London, Mar. 8.
The claim for compensa- tion against the Japaneso put forward by 38,000 Bri- tish ex-prisoners-of-war in the Far East now has tho blessing of 120 MP's of all parties.
At a special meeting last night the MP's appointed a three-man commitice to urge the elaim on the Government and, If possible, to have written Into the terms of the pesce trenty with Japas,
The three MP chosen to carry out this task represent all the principal political parties.
The claim for compensation will probably be in line with that put forward by Australia, which is claiming 37-per man for each day of copiivity. On this inst the British claira would amount to £7,000,000,
Falling a satisfactory response from the Government, the MP's 'will demand a select committee 10 investigate dic ex-POW' claim,
United Press adds that the committee of three formed to approach the Government on the question of Japanese com- peneution to former prisoners
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Experiment In
Honesty
61 Loule, Mar. 8. Officials of the State Bank and Trust Company were pleased today with rezulta of an experiment in customer honesty, even though they lost $2.08.
The Bank set up a fish- bowl containing $25 for the convenience of patrona needling small change for bus
farem, newspapers, parking meters and other itemu Customers were trukded to make their own change.
After a month, officials checked and found the bowl contained only: $22,92 However, Bank officers wald they would be glad to
the shortage be. cause of the amount of time the bowl saves. They added, "We believe that the present shortage is due to inadvertence of poor arithmello on the part of our customers, These rume factors may give a surplus next month." United Prear,
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FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1951.
Eden Wants
Wants Six
British Divisions
In Germany
London, Mar. 8.
Britain should have at least six divisions in Germany this year-instead of four--Mr Anthony Eden, deputy Opposition leader, told the House of Commons tonight.
"We should, over and above that. start to build at once a strategic reserve available as re- inforcement whether for Europe or any other part of the world," he said.
Men available from the call-up of National Servicemen (conscripts) would be sufficient to meet these commitments, he added.
He was speaking in a debate on the Army estimates for the year 1951-52 which, at £420,000,- 000, were an increase of £120,000,000 on the pre- vious year.
These figures do not take into account the latest speed up in
armaments ordered by the Prime Deputies' Meeting
Minister, Mr Clement Attlee.
The War Minister, Mr John Strachey,
the presen Ung sall that British rearmament was necessary to
estimates,
CONFIDENT "help our opponents in making
Paris, Mar. 8. Henri Queuille, veteran of wur, is composed of Briga- Radical-Socialist leader, to dier G. Smyth (Cons.), Mr dny predicted he can solve
George Thomas (Lab.) and France's Cabinet crisis.
Mr A. Grimmond (Liberal).
Lieutenant Generul Λ. E. M. Queuille told President Percival win was a prisoner in Vincent Auriol that he has Japanese hands for three years, brought the French middle-road asked that the British Govern- ¦ parties together behind a new ment be pressed
to adopt
a coalition government to succeed system similar to that already the Rene Pleven cabinet, which proposed in America and Aus-resigned on February 28. tralia
Parliament won called to meet tomorrow at 3 pm, when M. Queuille will present himself for confirmation
He as Premier. will need at least 311 votes.- Associated Press.
Opposition To Malan's Plan
Capetown, Mar. 8. Opposition
parties today opened their campaign to block Premier
Matan's government introducing new "apar-
separation
from theld"
measures
taking direct representation in the Parliament from coloured residents in the Cape colony.
Rubber Tappers
Go On Strike
Kuala Lumpur, Mar. 8. Twelve hundred rubber top-
pers went on strike today in 20
up their hands to keep the con- test on a plane of relatively pencetul struggle.”
He criticised the "defeatist
heresy that the West might be beaten in such a peaceful con- test. In Europe the West was winning "hands down."
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What The Fire General Advance
Revealed
Sydney, Mar. 8. Thousands of pounds in notes and coins were re- covered by polloo and fire- men from the burnt ruinas of a block of seven flate at Harbord, near Manly,
The money was found in tink, jam jars, packels and other
One receptacles,
trank was so heavy it took eight firemen to lift it into a police car,- Asociated Press,
Murder of Briton
3 PERSONS
to
TO BE CHARGED
Manila, Mar. 0. The police today prepared Ale murder charges
against three persona be lieved to have plotted and carried out the killing last week of a shipping lines| executive, Francis Gispert.
after
By UN Forces
MAJOR OFFENSIVE NOW IN PROGRESS
Tokyo, Mar. 9. Allied troops surged forward yesterday (Thursday) 'in ́major offensive designed to forestall a powerful · Communist
counter punch.
Fighting in nippy weather but under clear, sunny skies, American troops paced the general advance with strong artillery and air support. The Chinese retreated hastily, leaving burning campfires and hot food behind.
In the West, 25th Division troops drove through a thick barrage of Chinese Communist mortar and machinegun fire to gain.a bitterly contested 11⁄2 miles in their offensive five miles east of Seoul. This expanded the Division's front four miles north of the thawing Han River.
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In the East US Seventh Division troops blocked a major Worth Korean attack by capturing hills more
mountainous than a half mile high in the
country northwest of Pangnim. northeast and
The
Lieutenant General Matthew
that irdged
SUBSTANTIAL. GAINS. Eighth Army HQ., Mar, 3. United Nations forces gained;
Murderers Await Execution
New York, Mar. 8. Martha Beck, 31, and her
45 calibre pistol E. Ridgway's command acknow- 500 to 4,000 yards along a 70-saturnine lover, Raymond
the US Eighth mile attack front yesterday.
last
the crime even after ha was dents to call it even a general miles northwest of Hoengsong their march tonight to Sing
Gonzalvo
GUN RECOVERED
con- attack
until
more than
IMPORTANT HILL WON
the
Han
to
Detectives arrested Jonn Montgomery, president of the Manila Ship Watchmen's Union, and Cesar Gonzalve, 28, watchmen's foreman. The
Reds had punched at ning T. Jannet of South Wey- arrest came shortly Arturo
salient through mouth, Massachusetts, and his de Paris, Mar. 8.
los Santos, 34 Ave-mlie-deep driver
faltering South Korean radar operator, Warrant Officer and
self-confessed
the US Ambassador - at - large gunman,
Division holding
eastern 1, Norris of Akron, Ohic.-Unt- pointed 10 Mont
anchor of the UN as the alleged master-
detence ted Press, Dr Philip Jessup told Russia gomery,
mind in the murder plat Mr Strachey said that Britain tonight that Western dis-
and unes. was producing a new tank better armament in the face of supplied the
Gonzalvo as the person who han the Centurion which itself
Soviet aggressiveness would used in the killing.. had won a bigh reputation,
alarm the free peoples of
Under police grilling, Mont-Army was engaged in a major Marines advanced 1,500 to Fernandez, 36, today coolly The expansion of the Army
Censors the world.
had not 3,000 yards in steep
substantial mountain ordered allow would
gomery, 35-year-old Fillping offensive. many regular
American, denied
frontline correspon-terrain reaching
a point any part in allowed
five meals before preparing_for state- Dr Jessup made this fleers and other ranks to stay
the fourth session of In the Service undì 55 instead (ment to
hown Santos' written
and 24 on the road to Hongchon of leaving in their 40′s.~Reuter, the Big Four Deputy Foreign
hours after the jump-off-Ag-other positions four miles duo Sing's electric chair. fession. Ministers here, according
sociated Press.
north of Hoongsong. CS COMMITTEE VOTE
The "Lonely Hearts" killers, officials at the meeting.
broke down and admitted .he supplied
US First Cavalry troopers in-so called because of their cus Washington, Mar. 8.
The four, deputies, in discuss-readily
ching forward on the Yongduri- tom of swindling and killing The Senate Foreign Rela- Ing a proposed agenda for their Suntes with the murder weapon,
On the East Central Hongchan road were 121⁄2 miles widows they met through corres- Lons and Armed Services Foreign Ministers; had brought but claimed the gun was given
Front, Korea, Mar. 1. from the Important Communist pandence clubs, are left with Committees today
centre while the only a faint hope of escaping approved up the question of great power to him by Montgomery for de-
Desperate North Korean Reda supply road Uvery to Santos, endorsing the disarmament. two resolutions
banzaled an American company Marines were nine miles south the chair as their lawyers went sending of United States troops An official who was prescal
with hand grenades and burpaivanced to positions about two manoeuvres which included an
The cavalrymen through eleventh of Hongchon.
hour legal to
the North said that Dr Jessup turned to Europe under
the Soviet representative and
guns before dawn on Friday but The Atlantic Treaty.
police apparently
Governor Thomas Appeal sold:
10st the key quarter-mile peak miles north of Vongduri
On the western flank of the Dewey. with the re when clinched the case The
American goldlers resolution requiring The great majority of the
Eighth Army front, US 25th covery of a gun, buried in the stormed at first light.
were The lovers world and Senate approval
convicted only was un-1 people of the free
Division troops expanded the specifically of slaying Mrs Janet residence
The hill-which tops a 45-bridgehead nonth of the Santos Tondo district, the animously adopted by the Coro- those seeking escape from bond-ground at Santos'
Fay, 66, of Albany, New York, age are alarmed by the great
told the police he degree alope-gives the Ameri along both sides of the Pukhan but they were also accused of and overwhelming
of earlier,, had mase
seven-mile
wide The other, a concurrent reso-arm
into the waters cans a clear look into one of the river. The threw the gun
killing Mrs Dellphene Downing, armaments of the Soviet Union of Manila Bay but later pointed North Korean mountain hide bridgehead is not yet linked up 20, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, lution requiring both Senate and Its and House action was approved
to the place where the gun was aways in the mountain plateau with the 24th Division
The
northward on its right, This
pressing buried. 36-8.
anxiety will
aua was sent to the village of Taeml-dong. Increase,
The North Koreans hit the however. #separate election roll from labour Is recruited, warning
at hill 3.13
The Eighth Army claimed the whites and allowing them workers against tapping rubber
The resolutions were identical not diminish, Dr Jessup said, if police laboratory for a ballis- to determine whether
am, ripping all the US, Britain and France halt tics test
Communist troop representation In
the Parlia unless they receive Straits $7 In their basic language.
their efforts to reach military it was the same gun used in the sharp bursts of machine-gun that 6,933
also re-enacted slugs and slinging. grenades into casualties were inflicted yester ment by whites only.
daily. Their present
is pay
The Committees
The chief doctor at Sing Sing nction, in parity with the Soviet Union, killing. Santos
Us they day, and 48 Communist prison-examined the murderers today. the killing in Mr STS$3.50,
sending two resolutions to the
unless
the presence of American positions
came. The company pulled ers were taken.-United Press.
and said that neither showed Jacobus Strauss, successor
officers. to The strikers, mainly Chinese Senate was a setback for the
the Russians that they police the late Jan Smuts, on a point women, are transported daily administration and a victory for have abandoned their policy of The police said they were not back off the peak and sat tight
until
Then, moving in
signs of mental dawn.
or physical of order, said the bill
Republicans could from the villages to the estates, the
breakdown. what the exact molive Eure aggression,
A deafening artillery
Fernandez, after a bath and only be introduced at a joint So far, no resident labour has sought to get both Houses to act
During today's meeting, Savlet was in the murder Santos had behind
shave, dressed in the "denth session of the Assembly and been
crashing affected. Associated on the troops to Europe issue.-Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei told them he shot Gispert be- barrage which sent 1,500 shells Fatal Accident
the hill, onto Briton fitted. Press. Senate.-United Press,
suit"
light shirt and black" Gromyko sald daily that the cause
Americans backed by a fall bat- fulfl promise Western agenda was not satis-
of a job, talion took back the hill. Taemi-
Washington, Mar. 8. trousers, and moved to the pre- Gonzalvo said, however, that
Schaper factory,
dong
Virgil is four and a half miles
Chapman, execution cell countered
the killing was the result of Dr, Jessup
in bouse, north of the Wonju-Pangnim Kentucky Democrat, was raying he thought the delegates Montgomery
tes charge filed by Gispert against lateral road and 10 miles north jured fatally today in a collision The case of the two lustful.
and Bald the might try another approach.
of his automoblie and a trailer lovers overshadowed that of charge
was scheduled for a
ROK truck. Seventh He said
two youths, also condemned to that after several hearing before the Manila City Divialon elements
He northeast of
was a
member of the die tonight for what is known days there seems to be general Fiscal on the day of the mur-Amidong south of Soksari were Senate Armed Services and as the "Senseless Murder”, agreement on some subject and der-United Press.
reported to be fighting against Public Works Committees.
John no agreement on others.
units of the newly committed His death curts the Democra- Power, both 22, stole a car and The American delegate out-
North Korean Second Corps.tic majority in the Senate to then without reason shot and lined the subjects on whích hợ
One regiment
at one, leaving a 48-47 margin.- killed the owner.--Associated thought foerc was
4.30 a.m., on Friday it was un-Associated Press. agreement es:
der an attack by an unknown number of Reds five miles south of Salesari. The fight was still going on a 8.30, but there were no detalls-United Press.
AIR ASSAULT
The Interior Minister, Mr estates in Selangor State because
T. E. Donges, asked the House of Communist
of Assembly for permission
midation. , t introduce the bill, placing! coloured voters in the Cape
The opposition leader,
terrorist inti-
•
Terrorists posted notices in on several villages where contract
COMMENT OF THE DAY
Associated Press.
The Development Fund
WE have given approval to the
1951-52 Budget in general very largely on the grounds that the Es- timates are realistic and because Government has avoided further demands on the community by addi- tional direct or indirect taxation,
It is of moment, however, to examine a subsidiary proposal contained in the Financial Secretary's speech the creation of a Development Fund capitalised by profits accruing from the Supplies and Distribution Depart- ment. Accumulated profits to date total $67 million, of which. it is proposed to set aside $30 million for an Essential Commodities Equalisation Fund for the purpose of offsetting any losses which Government may suffer through having to sell these stockpiles cheaply. It is a sound and sensible proposition and will evoke no complaints, especially as the Financial Secretary himself is reasonably confident that the money will not be required for any such purpose, and that it can, eventually, find its way into the Development Fund. The Development Fund, it la expected, will start off with a capital of about $55 million to which will be added each year whatever profits have been made by the Supplies and Dis- tribution Department. The Fund, explains Sir Geoffrey Follows, is
finance to be used to producing projects, and such other development and welfare projects as will not commit Government to increased recurrent (expenditure to be financed from gonoral rovchuo. It is foreseen that this will rellove pressure on the ordinary budget and will › facilitate the financing of capital works. In the first place it can be said that -the catablishment of a Development |
revenue
who
bave
care, in
re-
Fund is an admirable and acceptable idea. It will mean that at long last the Colony can look forward with confidence to a progressive programme of projects aimed at expanding public amenities
Much and welfare services.
be required nevertheless, will selecting priority undertakings. We trust that Government will not place too great an emphasis on projects that are revenue producing. Public parks and open spaces hardly come within this category yet the need for them is imperative.
Ünalienated public creation grounds, and open spaces should be given first consideration when the Development Fund comes into operation. We do not feel that any of this money should be devoted to construction work that would normally fall within general expenditure until all other needs, particularly those that affect the general social welfare of the community have been satisfied. Thus neither the building of bridges nor the carrying out of reclamation schemes should be financed from the Develop- ment Fund unicos it can bo demonstrated that such projects will be of practical advantage to the population generally.. In due course a special committee should be invited to draw up a programme. This could then bo reviewed, and where considered fit, amended to afford the most proper priorities. Because the Development Fund has been created to make possible · further amenities for the Colony, the. general public has a prime interest in any proposals for the use of this money, and the public, in consequence, should have a chance of indicating what they consider are the most immediate and Important projects affecting their own” interests.
INCNG ANXIETY
anxi
some assurance comes
the
general SPIES ON
A proposed discussion on level of arms; this could in- clude the question of German armaments. German unity, u German peace treaty and, per- hops, Austria.-Associated Press.
Marriage Plans Abandoned
WAR 21.
that
TRIAL
24, told him
Referring to Singapore reports death penalty.
his eister was to apply to London court for permission
Russia
They face a
Elichter on talked about
to
of
United
radioed that
the
Tokyo, Mar. 9. Nations Aghters and
thundered back into
Korean skies today
targets
In
*
the
and VILT
Red
New York, Mar. 8. Max Elichter, a former Navy ordnance employee, testified to- day in the United States Arst atom spy trial that one of the bombers defendants asked him to supply the rainy government secrets to Russia. after hurting more than Elichter snid that Julius thousand strikes against Rosenberg,
and supply lines electrical Red troops engineer,
"many on Thursday. London, Mar. 8.
Riding Wero
the The Air Force said that UN Tunku
(Prince)
Ahmad Russians by providing secret in pilots flew 1,000 sorties yester Yahaya, nephew of the Sultan
day, a record-breaking 750 of of Kedah, said tonight that his formation. 10-year-old
sider.
Rosenberg, tils wife, Ethel, which were flown by Fifth Air Princess 54 Zabariah, had, now abandoned
and radar expert Morton Force and attached planes.
based Okinawa Sobell, 33, me accused of war-
Superforts all idea of marrying until she time espionage on behalf of and Marine and Navy Panther
Jets possible
and Corsairs joined the Air Force jets and Mustangs to
front line Rosenberg hit
Reds at the Soviet military as a rainor to marry a 21-year- Union is doing in the war effort h
Chuchon and blast the old British printer's apprentice, and that some interests in the capital at Pyongyang. All the Prince Ahmad said that the foll
areas were one sollda United
States are denying them target
mags of smoke and flame," Wocks
ago by his sister without effort. his knowledge.
United States Attorney Irving Bo
of Oklahoma City,
who The
magistrate refused to Saypol, in his opening address, Sew a Superfort against Chun- hear the case because the girl's declared: The significance of chon. father, Tunku Yahaya, was not
The big bombers hit their conspiracy to commit espionage represented,
takes on added meaning here, targets in clear weather with no Prince Ahmad Yahaya cald where the defendants are nighter opposition although high American that his sister had now decided charged with having participated over North Korea, not to think about getting in this conspiracy against our Sabre jets chased 14 Russian married for two years,
country at the most critical built MIG jets back into Man- Her father had forbidden the hours in its history in time of churia. marriage on pain of disinforI- war,
Air Force pilots claimed that ***The evidence will show their 500 enemy troops were killed Tunku Yahaya has not seen loyalty and worship of the Suvies or wounded and 500 buildings Itta son and daughter since 1937: Union and by their rank dis were destroyed or damaged Their mother was an English loyalty to this country these de- by strikes. woman whom he met and fondants joined with their co- Marines said their "dying married when student In conspirators
deliberato,
nightmares" attacked hundreds London la 1927 and when she carefully-glanned conspiracy to of enemy troops" and that two died ho decided to have this deliver to the Soviet Union in- fighth reported 50 each killed. children educated in England formation, and they weapona A. Marine night intruder squí. according to Kedah custom, Hla which the Boylet... Union could dron reported that 26 trucks. illness and, the war cautod (tho upo, to destroy the " United were destroyed, 18 of them
· long|reparation --Router. 'Blatcs,”---Aarociated Press. knocked out by Caplain Man-
application Was made BOMO information and impeding their aid Captain Darrell G. William-
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and her two-year-old daughter. Mrs Beck was alleged to have drowned the child in a washtub
water.
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