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Growing Support For Ex-POWs' Claims Against Japan
(Our Own Correspondent)
London, Apr. 20.
Support is growing daily for the claim put for- ward by British ex-Prisoners-of-War in the Far East for compensation against the Japanese.
Nearly 280 MP's of all political parties are support- ing the motion in Parliament urging Government to press this claim, meetings are being held up and down the country to put the ex-POWs' case before the public and newspapers are being bombarded with letters on the sub. ject.
There is a strong body of public opinion which belleves the signing of the peace treaty with Japan by Britain should be made dependent on guaran- tees that claims for compensa- tion will be pold.
The London Evening News says today: "The Japanese made much of their so-called chival- rous code of conduct bushido- but in their savagery and arrogant callousness to their
that they revealed prisoners code as a loathreme sham.
BEASTLY SYSTEM
Aerial Search
For Sub
British
Continues
Portsmouth, Apr. 20. Royal Air Force
planes, equipped with special new magnetic devices, were today ordered into the English Chan-
"Their parade of sincerity no search for the missing Bri-
ta virtue of which they modetish submarine, Affray,
much) was in fact
shameless
adherence 10 thel:
system of manners.
beastly The
75 men Affray, with Laboard, vanished without trace
evening after
a
"In Singapore, in Java, insouthwest of the Isle of Wight Hongkong, in Stam-above ali on Monday on the imfamous 'rallway of training night dive. death' between Bangkok and Moulmein-they showed what they really were.
"So far as the returned pri- soners are concerned," the paper continues, "no doubt there is no money payment which can bring back the lost years or restore 10 life their murdered comrades those whose emaciated and disease-ridden bodies lined the embankment of that railway, for instance,
4
Ships and aircraft started frantic hunt for her on Tues- day morning.
By dusk last night they still hope had not found her and was abandoned for the crew.
Aircraft using magnetometers for locating metal (devices objects throwing out magnetie action waves) were flown into this morning. Divers stood by on the search vessels, ready to in- "Though they cannot forget, vestigate all underwater-objects
by many would doubtless forgive." located
the sound-echo But, the Evening News devices. points out, the British Govern-
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GULF OF MEXICO
DISASTER Tankers Collide: Heavy Loss Of Life Feared
portable doghouse at LaGuardia Airport in New York, While her two wobbly-legged little offspring were undecided about where to go. She stood it as long as she could, then one loud yelp three were in brought the result that when last seen, all the large box. The dogs belong
Hollywood director Robert Slodmak who was en route with them to the west
coast film expital.
Coco, a French poodle, sat patiently in her
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Frayed Tempers Follow
MacArthur's Speech
Washington, Apr. 20.
New Orleans, Apr. 20.
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Two Standard Oil tankers collided in the Gulf
of Mexico on Friday, and a message from a third ship said one of the tankers, the Esso Greensboro, was surrounded by fire and "no one on board was believed to be alive.”
Another report said however some survivors apparently were in the water.
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New York Gives MacArthur Rousing Welcome
New York, Apr. 20.
The first ranks of an unprecedented throng of 5,000,000 began wild cheers of acclamations as General Douglas. MacArthur stepped from the: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel here into a large and open car at six minutes past 11 o'clock this morning.
streets was massed with teeming crowds under a His parade route of 24 miles through the city a
canopy of flags and a cloudless blue sky.
The General's car was part of a 50 car pro- ċession which had an escort of 86 motorcycles. Torn paper showered from buildings along the usually staid residential district between the Hotel and the Park.
The pavements
deep.
The General, seating in the
The other Esso tanker involved was the 17,800-Anware packed seven and ton Esso Suez. The skipper of the Esso Suez radioed that his Chief Mate was killed and four seamen badly hurt.
along Park On the avenue of the
Americas, a contingent of sa Venezuelan cadets stood stimy at attention. The General gave them on informal salute snowed from windows in the. Ticker tope and torn paper financial district and turned the air into a white haze.
and rear seat, waved a gloved hand at the noisy acclaim. -
The police had difficulty hold- ing the crowds back at some points.
The Coast Guard's Eighth District headquarters a radioed in New Orleans subsequently picked up message from the Esso New York which said: "There is fire all around the Greensboro. No one is believednecticut, alive.".
The tankers usually carry a
arew of 48.
The Esso Suez was
on fire,
but her skipper radioed that Attempt To
the flames were under control
Lieutenant RS. McNeal, of the Navy air station at Corpus said a PBY Christi, Texas,
plane
which had flown over the
Esso Greensboro reported versei was "burning very badly and
apparenthere are
had Всед abatt-
apparently
doned. same survivors in the water."
As the apparent size of the disaster grew, the Coast Guard,
cutters to ordered five
scene.
the
The tankers collided at about 5 am in the
of New leans, Apparently both
south-silikawicet
Avoid
Salvage
Court Suit
New York, Apr. 20: Judge Irving Kaufman
Many of the spectators came from neighbouring states-Con
New Jersey Pennsylvania.
and
The General
arose from the car seat and perched himself on the back of the fourer. In the car behind him, his wife and con did the comic.
FREEDOM OF CITY touched the visor of his cap or
Intermittently, the
General
The route took the cavalcade from the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on fashionable Park Avenue to Central Park in the heart of the waved, na thunderous applause city, then south to Times Square and shouts rolled up from the and on to the Battery at the crushing throngs.
Southern Up of Manhattan Island.
Bands played martial refrains, es the procession moved north Hours before the parade, to the City Hall. swarms of blue-coated police-
to
Standing on the steps of the
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when
America
he arrived
men stretched from the hotel, City Hall Starting point away along the there, General MacArthur said route bordered by shop-windows "This blazoning
and with signs, "Welcome
God's help Home General MacArthur".
shall keep it American, At dawn, a huge speeinl He described flag,
the reception the Ave stars of given him as tremendous and the rank, was un-nid that he and his wife would furled on American flag flew testide It.
the Hotel's roof. An never forget it.
The Mayor, Mr Vincent Im- PEACE PAMPHLETS fog-bound Gulf today heard arguments in
pellitori welcomed A half dozen people is Times MacArthur in the City Hall General of Mexic about 200 miles which the Jebrandtsen Com.
Squery sought Orpany is seeking to avoid peace? pamphlets, but
distribute ceremony ds the last of tha
the war leaders to return home** the salvage suit filed in the police husted them out of the The Esso
United States District Court area.
New York "offered" General Five Senators took part in a two-minute scuffle in Esso Greensboro and
Suez were still burning.
The pamphlets urged Preity along with its intense grati- MacArthur the freedom of the the Senate office building today when frayed tempera
by the British Government. The PBY Tudloed a report
sident Trumbru to
our lude" Mr Impellitori snapped after the debate on MacArthur and Far Eastern
said, was "still that the Essa Suez
The British Government 18 boys home more policy. Only three of them actually tangled Senatora burning from the bow" after seeking salvage from the Ameri-
The Duke
He then and Duchess of and a meda to the General.
presented a scrol Homer Capehart, Hubert Humphrey and Herbert Lehman, a message had been received cao freighter Flying Arrow, Windsor were cheered by the After the City Hall
ceremony Two others -Senators Robert Taft and Herman Welker from the sidpper to the effect which chelled by the crowd when they emerged from the motor cavalcade proceeded
Nationalist that the fire was under control, This would account for the
gunboat Chinese
Waldorf-Asibria Hotel to to the got in only to pull the others apart.
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel which has been lack of wreckage and the fact
The Coast Guard said the Yung Feng in the Yangtse on
to for an official civic funcheon, in sub Watch the MacArthur parade, the General's honour-fleuter, in the House of that the now
and commander
No hard blows were struck, ment later saying Senator Cape-plane also reported the Ease Surez January 9, 1950, writes in a letter to submarine, a dast whe sub- although Mr Welker said the hart made
"ambled was aided "misleading state-was "charred from stem to stern sequently
by the They The-Times:-The-time-is-ripe marine hero, Lieutenant 220-pound Capchart might have rents about the incident. Te and moving toward port at a Royal Navy sloop Black Swan, they received the cheers, for reiterating in no uncertain Blackburn,
About 70,000 schoolchildren REPRESENTATIVE The Black Swan answered the nedther landed a "light"
speed of about three knots," ~14 Mr Capehart "Maisely
of the terma that all war is utterly marker buoys nor crew memn-Humphrey. But
Flying Arrow's call for aesis were excused classes to represent eye-witnesses
ses charged
us with being Com- also reported the rew
Esso Suez was on deck and the fance and some
the and to be outlawed bers,
schools. city's
FOR KASHMIR abhorrent
to what happened in the office munist sympathisers and sup feboats still in the davits.
of her men
More than 1,000 street cleaners with all our strength; but if
building's radio recording studio porters
New York, Apr.. 20, of Red China”
boarded the 'freighter and help
The Security sweep war does come upon us there
Council will reported there was considerable broadoast recording. The
had been stood by, assigned to The Esso Suez was in ballasted fight fires which tugging and pulling,
statement
route from Baltimore to started by the 15 shells from the probably over 1,800 tons of waste shortly appoint a United No-
Paper and ticker tape after it dona representative for Kat Senators Humphrey and afterwards told Mr Capehart: Corpus Christi. Usually enough gunboat.
fluttered down from skyscraper mir, with the former American Lehman Issued a joint state-
deeply resent this type of petrol fumes remain in the holds
windows. vilification, character assuming
A dull-throated roar rolled the most likely choice, usually Senator, Mr Frank Graham, na tion and malicious unfounded statements.I want no more of Press. It,"-United Press.
mont is involved-It has given Affray inclined today to support Speculation on the fate of the Its pledge to hold the Japanese the theory that the Affray had responsible for atrocitive com-turned turtle, spiling her bat mitted against prisoners.
terles and flooding the hull with Belgadier J. G. Smyth VC, deadly chlorine gas. one of the chief sponsors of
the motion put down Commons,
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It is likely that divers will are certain codes of humanity take at least two days to in- trul human decency which we vestigate all the underwater insist shall be observed." objects so far located.-Reuter,
COMMENT OF THE DAY
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General MacArthur's Speech
ENERAL
MacArthur's
eloquent
address to Congress cannot fail to have a profound effect, not only in the United States, but elsewhere. It points up, as much as anything could, the wide cleavage between Mr Tru- man's Administration and General MacArthur on the subject of how the Korea conflict should be politically and militaristically conducted. The General, not unnaturally, chose to avoid stress. ing the political aspects of the dispute and
the military concentrated on problems. In so doing be makes it pos- sible for the unwary to forget that these two facets of the Koren under- taking are inextricably interrelated and complementary. Thus MacArthur com mits some injustice when he complains about laymen severely criticising his proposals to take more punitive action- for the purpose of ending hostilities in Korea. The former Commander-in- Chief of the United Nations forces clearly thought in terms. only of military strategy. But the “laymen,” which, in fact include some of the world's leading statesmen and diplo- mats, have had to consider wider im- plications and dangers the most for- ̈bidding being the possibility, even the probability, of setting off World War III if the bombing of Manchurian bases, were.. approved. General, MacArthur suggests very brondly, that the US Joint Chiefs of Staff concurred with his military assessment of the new situation in Korpa created by the en try of Chinese Communist forcés Into - the arena. Moreover, he is probably... speaking the truth. But, onco again, - ho ignores the political aspect, and by · Inference,” “unfairly? hintä, that the Chiefs of Staff were guilty of the same thing. More likely is it that the Chiefs of-Star, shared (General); MacArthur's
one
Mr said on
and and
appreciation of the exclusively military problem, but also realised that decision could not rest on that consideration alone; knew that to adopt Mac- Arthur's proposed strategy would be to invite an immediate extension of warfare into global proportions, agreed with President Truman others that any policy or action which might bring about such a result would be disastrous and unforgivable. General MacArthur indulged in a chal- lenging address, and not only on the main
of issues. His analysis Colonialism, for example, is, open to considerable dispute, notably his in- ference that the only worthy demon- stration of enlightened tutelage is that of the United States in the Phillippines. Britain can afford to dismiss auch an
in a
said Mr Humphro
MIXED RECEPTION
Washington, Apr. 20.
***
President Truman received SENATOR'S
scattered today
boos and Applause
when
ho arrived
wps
the go to the fat of a friend
and wome
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of emply tankers however to In the Federal court house last cause substantial fires-United | week, Isbrandtsen Company, through Times Square as the well-informed sources said to
represented by James Ryan, General passed through New day. www asked that the British suit be York's theatrical district beneath The dismissed, asserting that the shower of ticker tape that March
Council decided Court lacked jurisdiction
20 by eight votes to since glistened like snow in the bright three abstentions to appolet the Black Swan was
was merely doing her duty in assisting the One wave of cheers after an- of Sir Owen Dixon, Mr Gru- such a representative in place Flying Arrow. Mr Ryan argued other marked the parade's pro- ham, famer President of North that it was "elementary and well grass, Some schoolgirls shoute Carolina. University, settled" Law that there was no
WOA the salvage if service for which Arthur'a young son,
greetings to General Mac- United States
representaikvia Arthur, on the United Nations Goold compensation is asked is part of
riding in the
second car with Offices Commities in Indonesia. the legal duty of the salvar.
his mother.
-Reuter.
Griffith Stadium to throw the PREDICTION
first ball in the delayed opening game between the New York Yankees and Washington Sena“ tors.
Taipeh, Formosa, Apr. 20. United States Senator Warren Magguson predicted at a Press conference here on Friday a mission United States military
for For- would be announced mosa "very soon".
The demonstration came as Mr❘
"PERNICIOUS METHOD" Truman made his first public
"No more effective or per appearance before a non-political gathering since he dismissed
nicious method could be "de- General MacArthur last week.
vised or suggested for making The Senator said: "I predict the seas The boos and applause were
during peace com- the we will have a full-fledged mit pletely unsafe for travel by un- quickly drowned out na Army band played "Hail to the tary mission here very soon. I armed merchant
vessels and Chief"
do not know exactly under what their passengers and crews than This was the fret time a nuspices it will work, but for the courts
ne asked Prezident had been booed at a believe I can safely prodlet by
by the British
government by baseball game since 1829, when there will be cae,'
suit, to invent and Herbert Hoover was heckled by
a new and revolu abouts of "wo want boer from fans at a-World Séries game in Philadelphia--United Press,
The Senator said in talks with lace
now,
Mr John Foster Dulles in Japan tionary rule that armed pubile or warships have до he was told the United States vessels intends to stand adamant duty under International Law including Nationalist Chino In to prevent or restrict loss of the treaty discussion. Ho ald
He and property resulting from believed the British
proposal
what it is obvious to them is Red in the criminal-orunlawful-ottock-
lic
anganerous statement with an indul Snuff Replaces tools one hand Formoon mine on the high areas for viola-
gent smile, but the discerning will note it as one of several unbalanced por- Hons of the General's speech. His references to present conditions in Formosa, for instance, were naive and propagandist. What can be conceded io that General MacArthur developed his theme carefully, and well. That at no stage did he give the Impression of being on the defensive. Moreover, his views and conclusions, no matter if it fa impossible to concur with thom, command" respect. It is, perhaps, the most unfortunate feature of contro- versles of this nature that only history can decide which is the right answer. It would be childish to deny that Mac- Arthur's speech has added fuel to an already dangerous political '• conflagra-, tion in the United States, but he was - entitled to be hoard, and it remains to his credit that he invested his ap pearance-Baforo Congress (and, for that matter before ; the world); with « dignity-and sincerity, ed
Tobacco
London, Apr. 20,
The high cost of tobacco smok- ing in Britain is driving more people to snuff. The paradox apparently is that you do not pay through the nose for tobacco it you take it via the nostrils.
over to the Reds would never tion of International Law and be acceptable to the United of a plainly murderous nature,” States United Press.
The British Government, re- presented by Edwin Longcope, cinimed thuxt the boarding
Enemy Losses party's assistance was "prompt
In Korea
officiant ...and ajocerful and constituted mlynge service of high merit". The Government said that after the fires wore | but the Flying Arrow had spined $1,000,000, and the Government and save awards and expenses incurred
The discovery by the public
Washington, Apr, 20.) has led to a big increase in
The estimated enemy casual- | $1,000 shopa business, leading snuff For One expert:ld today thes in Korea were 813,873 up that an ounce of good snuff will to last Wodooday, the United last even a heavy addict a week Stotos Amy anounced today. Swan. Me Longcope to the United Press he established in and cost him only five to six SA spokoamair mid that this shillings.
total war hade up of 504,535 court today that Amorleans wark ships were definitely! entitled With cigarettes at 3/04. for 20, North Korean (291,890 Chinowe to walvaged and pipe tobacco at about sa, an and 17,143 „not yet: köɑntifled.
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