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AMENDED CHARGE AGAINST BRITON
When Ronald Charles Thomas Hockridge, 29, mar- chant, appeared before Mr Latimer this morning on a remand charge of possession of a .45 automatic pistol, the prosecution put forward an amended charge of unlawful possession of a 45 Reming- ton Rand automatic pistol, 27 rounds of .45 Rimless ammunition and a 6.35 m.m. Deutsche Werke automatic pistol without B licence issued for the purpose under the Arms and Ammunition Ordinance.
His Worship read and ex- plained the charge to the ae- cused,
for the defence,
Appearing
Mr B. N. Cooper, of Wilkinson and Grist, said he did not know If his Worship was inalsting on a plea being taken this morning. His Worship: I am not doing anything at all.
Mr Cooper: 1 om not in possession of full instructions this morning. but if the prosecu- tion ask for a remand I do not object. to a further remand.
Mr R. H. Woodhead, ADCI (Hongkong) said that enquiries were made during the week- end but they were not yet complete and he would ask for a further remand of 72 hours in Police custody.
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London, Apr. 8. Throughout Britain today millions of Britons are filling in their forms for the 1951 census.
REPUBLICANS WANT A COMMITTEE SENT ΤΟ ΤΟΚΥΟ
Mr
Dean Acheson Brought Into The Controversy
Washington, Apr. 8.
The question of whether President Truman should disci- States pline General MacArthur for interference in United foreign policy flared on a wide front today, with Republicans demanding that a Congressional committee be sent to Tokyo to give the general a hearing.
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The Republicans' move, sponsored by Senator Homer Ferguson (Republican, Michigan) ran into immediate opposition Saboteurs
from the Senate Democratic leader, Ernest McFarland (Arizona) who said Gen. MacArthur himself should resent the idea.
Senator McFarland, in a statement to the United Press, immediately In The US branded the proposal as a move likely to produce "great mischief." Be-
fore taking action on Senator Ferguson's resolution, Senator McFarland said the Congress should ask the Joint Chiefs of Staff "what effect such a conference with a subordinate commander in the field would have on the actual military conduct of the Korean fighting.”
He said the Congress should weigh also the "psychological effect on our Allies" and the fact that Communist propagandists would "un- will be doubtedly hail this as a sign of dissension,"
Forms have to be completed by midnight tonight and collected early tomorrow by
almed Senator McFarland said he apparently Wis
at about 50,000 enumerators. Cooper remarked
Numerous questions have to would "And it hard to believe Senator Robert Kerr (Democrat; On the question of Police
There are ques-that General MacArthur him- Oklahoma) who suggested on custody, he had been instructed be answered.
Saturday that President Truman consider removing Arthur from the command of the Korean war for "open dis- regard of superior authority"
United Nations diplomalle policies.
10 can-
to apply for bail. He said histons asking whether cooking is self "would condone Senator by stove or range, whether there Ferguson's proposal that a Con- Worship would have sider the real point and that a piped water supply withingressional committee come half- of the the house, whether there is a way around the world to seek
water closet, whether there is his advice on foreign policy."
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The purpose of the census is
REVELATIONS BY FBI CHIEF
Iranian Oil Dispute
British Note Rejected
Reds Strike South
ONE BATTALION ANNIHILATED
Tokyo, Apr. 9. Thirty thousand Chinese troops struck southward from their north Korean do...” fensive triangle on Sunday, Teheran, Apr. 8. but.Allied forces racing to- The Iranian Government ward a head-on collisions: told Britain today that the reached Hwachon reservode Anglo-Iranian Oll Company and annihilated an entire had not "duty heeded. Iran's Communist battalion. legitimate demands" and re- Front dispatches -sald the fused to answer the formal movement of Red China's 30th British protest against oll Army Corps may signal the nationalisation until a Par- liamentary Committee has historic made a full study.
stort of their counter -
cocosive
long expected down the
Korean in vasion route to Wonju, ia. an The Prime Minister, Hussein attempt split the United Ala, handed a note to the British Nations forces. Ambassador, pointing out that Lieut. Gen. Matthew Ridg- there had been changes in the way commander, warned that United Nations ground: world situation
and Iranian troops public opinion 'sinco the the Communists were engaged.
or death an all-out to
and that they are pre- struggle
oil concession agreement was in
signed.
The British Government ear-paring a mighty counter-blow ller had protested that Iran perhaps with the greatly rein- could not nationalise
to back up. the forced air power
their |British-controlled Anglo-Iranian
drive. Gen. Oil Company by unilateral
Ridgway predicted that action" and reminded Iran that any Communist penetration the agreement was valid until could be checked and destroyed,
bui ho warned that only a poli-^- 1903.
end the Washington, Apr. 8. "The of is ours. The matter ical settlement can
Korean war, Mr J. Edgar Hoover, is an internal affair and has
Ten United Nations divisions nothing to do with foreigners. United States security chief, We wish to keep the friendship were rolling forward in North has told Senators that the of all nations, but they should Korea on a 90-mile front with Communista had a "hard not interfere in our internal the tempo quickening across a 40-mile central front that guards core today dedicated to affairs," sources sik.
has one of the three invasion routes he mate said: sabotage and to militant re- volt" if war came.
the greatest desire
for friendly to the south. relations and confidence of ail
CONVOY DESTROYED The Director of the Federal matters between the Iranian
was Nation and the British Govern Bureau of Investigation
Que American unit, in a fou testifying before a Senate connooted with all,
matters ment In regand to
your mille forced march, reached the propriations Sub-Committee in conno
the southwest comer of Hwachon. a series of closed door meetings Excellency is cognizant
dealings, reservoir and with other Allied the Anglo-Iranian on with
a North Korean motor Company have not stated nor to be have any statements been made convoy. American artillery blow on this matter. Nevertheless, the convoy of perhaps 1,000 men since...
to you have considered it bits at the Communista broke necessary to enter this matter, I into small units and tried to fle consider it necessary that your through rugged
ote does not remain unanswer-north.
Artillery spotter planes kept tham under observation umili one of the most concentrated wiped them out. Tue
Allied thrust Communists Their convoy
He said the general has been in criticising United States and opportunity to use the Congress | last month. His testimony was ranian Government's troops trapped a battalion said,
Senator Knowland said, "Now is the time for the President to remove Mr Acheson and not Gen. MacArthur."
Senator Gen. Mac-
Ferguson's proposal was a new step in the long- standing Republican strategy of giving Gen. MacArthur every as a sounding board for views made available today.
received by Intensification which are coldly
of subversive his official superiors in the Ad-activity in
States the United Leninistration. White House spokesmen still.
had accompanied the deteriora- several Republican
relations between mum, but remained officially did nothing to discourage the Senators have urged that Gen. America and the Soviet Union, widespread_bellef here that MacArthur be called home to he said. At the
Senator same time,
President Truman wilt
"Every seasoned member of take testify before the Congress. William Knowland called on
drastic steps to silence the Senator
sald be the party is a potential saboteur Ferguson President Truman to fire the
steeled to organised Secretary of State, Mr
Dean Sererat.
recognised the impracticabliity" and apy, Acheson, instead of
General
of asking the general to leave violence through party direction The President's strategy may
time, and training," Mr Hoover added. "1. Changes in the world bombardments of war MacArthur. He said one of the have been
the fighting zone at this devised on Satur- and therefore is proposing that
"Interruption of the flow of situation generally and in them two must go to resolve the day when he held another
life and public rooted. bitter dispute over Far East lengthy private conference with a committee go to the general, military supplies to our armed Irandas social
cervices and He said the bi-partisan special
the undermining opinion, and especially my policy, and charged that Ad-Defence Secretary General ministration "haichet men" are George Marshall already going after-Gen, Ma- Omar Bradley, chairman of the Arthur's scalp. That charge United States Joint Chiefs
Staff
was the likelihood accused surrendering, added, could be
that in this case understood
"steeled in the military tradi- also the Police had possession not only to number the population" and must be "conscious of
the passpart of the accused. tlon and provide information Me Cooper submitted
that about its distribution by sex, our constitutional history that there was no likelihood of Hock area and age, but to find out the the civilian arm and not military ridge surrendering boil. Admit- number of houses, the number makes polley." tedly this was a serious charge, of living rooms in each house in fact, all charges were of a and the jobs people are doing.
nature with very Berlous
Some are expected to refuse Icw exceptions, said Mr Cooper, but to fill in the forms on political his Worship would have to con- grounds or because they object sider whether the accused would to giving personal information. appear at the next hearing and Anyone refusing to give infor- In his submission the accused mation is liable to a £10 fine. would.
The cost of the census is Mr Cooper asked for ball to estimated at £1,250,000, or six be fixed at a fair amount as pente a head of the population,
(Continued on Page 10, Col. 1) -Reuter,
COMMENT OF THE DAY
THE
MacArthur Raises A Storm
HE storm flaying about the head of General Douglas MacArthur, precipitated by his latest and most sharply controversial venture into political danger zones, can occasion no surprise. Warning enough to MacArthur against going outside his province, was swiftly given when he supplemented a truce offer to the Com- munist field commander with an implied threat to strike at military targets across the Manchurian frontier when he thought fit. His subsequent letter to a leader of the Republican Party, openly advocating an extension of hostilities by throwing Chineso Nationalist troops into mainland opera- tions, is fairly described by The Times as the most dangerous of his apparently unending series of indiscretions. Strenuous efforts are still being made to ensure that the war is kept within, the confines of the Korean peninsula, and ultimately to bring the Peking regime to a conference table. The repeated interventions of the UN": Commander throw more than suspicion on United Nations motives and sincerity, and give the appearance, doubtless quite inaccurately, of calculation. But the damage is done and Mr Kenneth Younger's blunt language in protest, clearly defining the views of the British Government, reflects broadly sentiments of all participants in the. UN challenge to aggression. For them, for the moment, decisions about to recross or not to recross in force the 38th Parallel offer problems enough. MacArthur (or Ridgway) is already back to this "imaginary lino” and MacArthur oppears to be "raring to go" over again. He gains encouragement, perhaps from the fact that while both Washington and London have their
· “line” on the Parallel, if they meet at nny point, no one has yet discovered It. It is high time, indeed, that Washing- ton, London" or Lake Success gavo authoritativo, direction--an which could conceivably tempe
the
Arthur's tendency to play dubious politics, and bring to an end the demands for his recall. No valid excuse can be made for the indiscretions of the commander. But he has not been notably well supported in the political and diplomatie spheres. In the face of conflicting attitudes impinging from all points of the com- pass, the temptation to use his own judgment, even against the Stop signal, must be strong. That, of course, he should be old enough and stable enough to resist and the flood of criticism following plain indications of failure is soundly based, if in some cases a trifle exaggerated. The Martin letter requires action or explanation, but the controversy should not be par- mitted to obscure the basic fact that the war in Korea is still going on, and is posing questions demanding answer without delay. Any idea that the United Nations could, in the absence of other grave developments, authorise Ameri- can co-operation in a Chiang Kai-shek invasion of the mainland at this junc- ture in world affairs, can' be dismissed as a mental aberration, and needs not to be taken into account seriously. There are queations, however, which domand an answer. Are the Chinese Communists in Korea to be driven back to the "walat”—a much more sensible place to hold them? Are we to pause along the Parallel zone and wait patiently hoping to induce Peking to parley? Or are we to bo committed to an interminable to and fro seo-saW battle with the Chinese Reds in Korea? Answers are not easy because of the dual nature of the problem. In a mili- tary scrise the Parallol does not exist but in the political field it looms very large, indeed. Unfortunately, neither political nor military leaders today ap pear able to docido where one begins and the other andai. Earnest self-searching all round. is called for. That alone tan and the confusion, and recrimination.
ed and will polat out the follow- ing
WORLD CHANGES
the
hills to
and General committee also should inter-01 civilian will to resist a cam-timation to Your BREDD & moving bumper to
of
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had
not fully heeded
the
fat- Was bumper along the road from Hwachon. view members of the fighting paign of sabotage could be as when I was Minister of
action Affairs (in 1950) that the Com- Nations columna a into it and
when the fast-moving United. forces" in Korea, representatives successful as military
pany of the Korean government and against our fighting forces".
hour "other person" at Gen. Mac- Mr Hoover said that the Iran's legitimate demands and pened fire. Within an SENATE RESOLUTION Arthur's Headquarters to obtain number of members of the had stated that the supplement the convoy no longer existed
Hwachon, seven miles above Senator Ferguson announced Far Eastern situation."
their "qualified Judgment on the Communist Party, had dropped al agreement was the maximum the 38th paralled at the westers from 54,174 1950 to 43,217 | possible allowance to be made
end of the hydro-eleotrie that he will introduce a re-
because of attempts to Iran. He listell a number of specife this year
servoir, is one solution on Monday to send a questions which the committee pected of baing agents of the aware, the present situation is Korea and anchor of the trian
of the "to screen out persons
the major 11% As your Excellency is Chinwe bastions in 12-man Senate-House commit should ask. These included: 1. FBI."
North
tee to Tokyo at once to meet
Statee and
such that both Houses of Par-gular Hwachon-Kumbwa-Chor General MacArthur to "solicit Are the United
SECURITY CONSCIOUS liament have unanimously at- United Nations policies "consis his views on strategy in
won build-up area. Other UN the
The Communists had been cepted the principle of oil in-forces to the west were moving worldwide struggle against
tent with the objectives" of more and more "security con- dustry and at present a special north toward the heart of the Communism,"
forming & "tree
and united sclous." They had set up all Ol Committee is
is studying the Korea"?
Red
triangle, kinds of procedures to screen method of its nationalisation in A front report said that UN 2. Should the United Nations their personnel through so- order to give its recommenda- columns tut the main highway strive for a truce in Korea or for called "loyalty bourds," he said. tion on a final decision to both mining cast from Hwachon to a "defeat of the North Korean
Mr Hoover said that the fifth Houses. At present, the govern Cheyang and that other forces and Chinese forces there?"
column menace today from mant has no other duty except pushed forward up the enst known Communtats was greater to await the result of the Com-end, of the reservoir-Unitex]. than that of Nazi and other submission's study."United Press, Pres versive elements in the last war.
) met
Commumlis 1s victory 18
Senatos Ferguson said the Commktes should give particular attention to Gen. MacArthur's recent statement in a letter to the House Republican leader,
Martin Jr., (Massa 3. It a clear-cut military the goal "whot fur- its main bid for global ther means are desirable to that conquest in Arda. It was that
end?"
The Communists were em- MacArthur statement, coupled
SILENCE POLICY with his broad hint that the
phasising the need to infiltrate Under the Last question, heavy Industries such as coal, Administration is too Senator Ferguson listed, such steel, rubber, machinery, trans- proocouplet with the defence of issues as the using of Nationalist portation, mines and factories Western Europe, that brought troops, bombing of Chinese bases engaged in vital defence efforts. about the current crisis in В in Manchuria, the status ΟΙ The concentration smouldering feud between Formosa and the arming
was strong- of cat in industrial centres "where Washington policy makers and South Korean Army reserved. Gen. MacArthur's Tokyo head-
In the event of war they can Senator Kerr told a reporter render the greatest harm to quarters.
mezzawhile, that be belloves
country's productive Gen. MacArthur" might," Mr Hoover said. Nearly all specific differences is "up to between Gen. MacArthur and Mr whether he stays in command. The Commu
The Communists Acheson stem from that funda- in the Far East. He implied carried out considerable agita- already had mential Issue -Whether the that the general could and tion designext to bring about United States should make its should stay. I he would adopt slow-downs and work stoppages main stond against the Red sincere policy of keeping and to inspire strikes in mix- expansion in Asin or in Europe. slient on non-military policy tary production industries, ho
Holding Asla to be the main matters.
added. theatre, Gen, MacArthur wante
Senator Karrasid, "Gen. to go all out. En fighting the MacArthur is not an indepen the necessity of infiltration into Their leaders had stressed bombing the Wor
i dent operator; he is a member the armed services. Chinese bases in Manchuria and of a gresit military, team, I unleashing Generalissimo Chiang never saw a single individual versive activities the Commu
In the intensification of sub- Kal-ahck's Nationalist Army who was 80
Korean
#
our
now bottled up on the laland of he did not have to work with nists had gone into "real under- Formosa off the Chinese main the team or get off it."
land.
The Administration's oficiat policy is to localiso" the Korona war and engl it as soon as possible to leave America's main strength free to meet the danger of a Russian attack on Western
ENDZEND'S VIEW ANY
Senator Knowland told the United Press that this policy has led to "continual Inter- ference. by diplomata in Gen. MacArthur's military strategy and has placed him under "Intolerable conditions o
Our
armed forces in Korca are entitled to allout support, Vacellation and ap Densoracak can only lead to dis aster in both A and Europe. The nation, la now confronted wilke the choice of the Far senstora polities of the Secretary Eratheon, and that
IG
ground operation
Hon with nothing
but sham above ground," Mr Senator Kerr denounced Gen. "our problem is all the more his earlier statement, Hoover said that meant that MacArthur's one-man act and difficult because said the time may be at hand to, be in on these movements we have had when the overall cost of keep-and must know exactly what ing the geners will be greater they are doing."-Reuter, than the value of his 'position'."
United Press.
[Brush Press reaction to MacArthur dispute-Page. 21.
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