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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1951.
A Golden Carpet Of Daffodils
BIHAR FAMINE THREAT ACUTE
Patna, May 9.
The threat of a famine in the north Indian State of Bihar has become extremely acute, the State's food officials said today.
These officials said that nearly 20 million people were affected by the food crisis.
Pharaoh's Chicken?
A Vulture
It's
London, May 8.
Zagreb Zoo, Yugoslavia, o blue- rared pheasant in exchange for 6143 Egyptian vulture, Pharaoh's
chicken, Craven Hin.
London Zoo have sent to
ог
writes
"It is a small bird, for a vulture, with a-long beak sharply curved downward at the tip, and will be the first we have been able to get since before the war," a Zoo oficial sold.
"Most vultures are useful be- enuse or their scavenging habits, Pharaoh's chicken ex- cels in this respect. It is ac- cordingly protected in the Nile Valley, where it normally lives,
"It feeds on all kinds of offal, "At the Zoo we give these birds nominal rations, mainly rabbit or horsellest. But we have to keep close watch on the
apply.
The birds is so greedy that it anight eat enough to give it- self ali."-Loticon Express Service,
BBC'S
NEW FAR EAST CHIEF
London, May 9,
The State Government needed at least 250,000 tons of food grains
The main street of Newnham on Severn, Gloucestershire, famed for its myriad daffodils which are now making a golden carpet beside the road.
That More Meat For
Acheson Hints
Paris Negotiations May Fall Through
REDS ASKING TOO HIGH A PRICE
Washington, May 9.
Secretary of State Dean Acheson said today that the United States has about come to the end of its rope in negotiating with the Russians on terms for a Big Four Foreign Ministers meeting. His words implied the whole project may fall through.
The Russians in their talks with American, British and French re- presentatives at Paris are in effect demanding that the West suspend its defence programme, Mr Acheson said.
a
-
for a
Big
He declared emphatically that is too high price a price the West cannot pay Four meeting.
The aim of such a meeting | man, walked into the conference
and
would be to case world ten-wanted to speak.
asked [[ anyone
Nobody hadľ
sions and try to make some anything to say. M. Gromyko progress toward real peace, then said that he reserved his
right to speak tomorrow and adjourned the meeting until temorrow afternoon.-Reuter,
Mr Acheson said the United States has presented plans for a conference "which are the ulti- mate in reasonableness.
Bat the Foreign Ministers'
Hundreds Go deputies, meeting in Paris to
Vegetarian' Every Week
Britain's
Out-
מצוס
pave the way for the big parley, are deadlocked
over what Mr Acheson called Russia's regents insistence on its kind of urms reduction formuin. Mr Acheson said Mr Andrel Gromyko Soviet Deputy For cign Minister, has taken the attitude that there
..
Parliament Not Told Enough
was not information
ATOMIC
WEAPONS
TESTED
Britain
Montevideo, May 0
• Uruguay has offered to ship Britain in the
next
12 months a minimum of 20,000 tons of frozen and chilled' meat
minimum of 3,000 tens of canned meat, according to noles Britlah Ambassader and exchanged by the
flie
Uruguayan Govern- ment today. The British reserve the right to nollett more meat in. future talks ана exchange pilier pro-
ducts.
Both parties agreed on prices similar to the Ar genitne prloes, --- United Press,
Widening Defence Set-up
Turkey And Greece May Be Admitted
London, May 9. Washington, May .
Foreign Secretary Her- United States weapons ex-bert Morrison said today perts Inay know by now that the North Atlantic pact. whether they have ¤ practical powers were in the process
atomie artillery shell.
Congressional sources specu- of bringing Turkey and lated today that the peries Greece into their joint plan- of atomic tests being concluded ning for the defence of the this week at Eniwetok Included Aring of weapons designed for use against enemy annies and fortifications.
be-
can be no
In the absence of cfficial an- Big Four meeting unless his a month to stave
London, May 1.
these sources. noucements formulation of the arms reduc- off starvation.
This minimum
leved the first scries of spring meat shortage istons section of the proposed
London, May D. roller must be, urgently rushed giving strength to the cause of agenda is accepted by the other
Mr Anthony Eden, deputy
and summer tests, scheduled at to Bihar and at least three vegetarianism throughout the powers,
Conservative leader, complained the Pacific proving ground, months stock must be built up country.
in the House of Commons to have been completed or shortly to carry the State's population At the last "census" in the RUSSIAN MOVE EXPLAINED day that Parliament
will be. through the monsoon
season, London area it
There was revealed which is expected to start with that 117,000 people were official Acheson said, because he wants peace treaty.
getting
were indications that enough insists ол that,
at Mr about the proposat Japanese were tested: a "stockplatom
least
three different weapons In six weeks, the offlctals added. ly registered vegetarians-and this number is being added to
to commit the great powers to
bcmb of a new and improved According to Bihar's Food by hundreds each week.
The reduction of armaments prior
kind belleved to have twice the "I to Minister, Mr Anugraha Narain
in 1915 was 42,000.
to a Foreign Ministers' meeting
destructive range of the Na- gasakl-type bomb; a smaller for delivery bomb, fashioned by attack bombers; and an atomic worhead.
.
The Goverment, he said, now operated 3,658 "fair price" grain shops and planned to spend 50 million rupees on irrigation and
war.
Ite
power
not think
there his ever been a peace treaty when
Mediterranean.
Mr Morrison told a questioner in the House of Commons: "Slace the Near and Middle East are outside the North At- not the direct responsibility of Jantic arca, their defence is
the North Atlantic Treaty
Or Mediterrangon planning board. ganisation which has no Eastern
"It
"It has, however, been agreed In a decision at the North Ai- Greece shail be associated with
antic-Counell-that-Turkey-and- North Atlantic treaty planning for the Mediterranean, and an appropriate organisation for this
1s under consideration. pureliminary discussions have. already laken place
between
Military sources have speculat-military representatives of Tur- ed that the warhead is a sort of key and Greece and the North king-size mortar shell,United Atlantic group."United Press. Press,
ACHESON STATEMENT
Secretary
Washington, May 9, --
of State Dean Acheson sold at a Press con- ference today that the matter
Sinha, the entire food require-Titere is certainly strong without reference to either the less information has been given ments of over 20 million people general upsurge of interest, general level of armaments or
to the House of Commons," he landless labourers and petty said an offelal of the London the rearming of the Commu- said, agriculturists must be met by Vegetarian Society, whose mem-nist satellite States. fie Government for the next bership has doubled since the The Western nations have Parliament was very interested live months,
contended that what is initially in the treaty and many mem- important is the level of arma-
bers would like to know what was going on, he added. ments, by which they mean an | excess of Russian military
power over the mobilised
Mr Herbert Morrison, Foreign of the West; also that in any
ny Secretary, said he understood of of be
system the control
satellite Mr Eden's point of view, but nations must be covered he- it was a little unreasonable cause otherwise the Russians because we have not got very would have puppet armies to far."
unarmed a meatjes use against relatively
free nations.
In an effort to break the Conservative, that repayment Sir Moltammed Zafrullah speculate on what action would deadlock, Mr Acheson's agent of Japanese pre-war loans and Khan, Pakistan's Foreign Minis- eventually be taken, declaring
Paris,
Ambassador-at-large debts was among the subjectster, gald here today that there that nothing he could say on Philip Jessup, presented three being discursed.--Reuter. possible solutions,
public works
projects to pro- de drought-affected peasants with alternate employment.
Under the present conditions most people in the rural areas are too poor to buy food grains,
KATION REDUCED
The Food Minister said that while the State lost a minimum of 2,500,000 tons of food grains this year, assistance from the central food pool had averaged hardly 100,000 tons monthly. This had made necessary drastic reduction in the ration
Bihar's famine threat has aroused nationwide anxiety. The "food for Bihar" campaign has been gaining momentum in other States.
*
The trouble
Is to convince men and women that they can live and keep healthy without consuming, animal flesh.
"There is a tendency.
for children to course, natural vegetarians..
"Our desire is to assure the public that they will not suffer In any way from diet."
London Express Service.)
German Car
Recovery "Astonishing
Output of the German motor industry is approaching half Chal
today. sald
re-
ast
The first was that the four nations agree on an agenda including arms reductions In this, Mr Acheson said, Dr Jes- sup went, the limit in making concessions to the Russians on the wording of the aring see- tion.
cide how
THE RESULT
ourenlere is a basic 48. the arms problem,
German workers will
He told Mr William Teeling,
Slim Chance Of Success
The Hague, May 9.
of admitting Greece and Turkey to the North Atlantia Treaty Organisation' was under active study here,
Mr Acheson
declined
to
seemed a slim chance af Dr the subject row would be help- Frank Graham, United Nations ful, United Press. Mediator in the Kashmir dis- pute, succeeding.
King Haakon Speaking
For London
con-
Security
new
U.S. WARNING
Washington, May 9. al a Press
The U.S. State Department ference,
added that, if Dr warned today that
efforts to Graham's mission was a failure rebuild West-Europe's defencer to sirain its the results might be disastrous. were threatening
In Pakistan view there was reviving Industry beyond the no other method of producing breaking. to peaceful solution except that It
that n put forward by the
mutual security
programine would shortly be presented to Council.
laying down three Sir Zafrullah gave a list of Congress Vali
mary war
steps which he declared types of American assistance.- inter international and world opinion Router,
for suggested
a solution which Pakistan has accepted.
He did not expect the Kash- mir dispute to come before the International Court but if De Graham failed the of Justice, United Nations might ask the President of the International Court to appoint an arbitrator. To a question on what he thought about the Korean wor Sie Zafrullah said he looked on
London, May 9. Food grain contributions for
The second possible solution
King Haakon of Norway, the
32ln. Bihar come from all kinds of of the Brilish industry, accorting Dr Jessup put forth was that 78-year-old,, ort..
the four powers agree on an monarch, who spent five sympathisers-landlords, princes,
to engineer K. B. Hopinger, of Hampton-in-Arden, near Bir-genda except for those points years exiled in Britain, returns and poor peasants.
food
for on which they are stuck and here in June gifts from mingham.
a Festival foreign countries have also
and go ahead with a foreign visit. "Recently owned at the ry Ministers session. This would Mr J.F. Mudie has been an- | been diverted to
Dihar. But and I was astonished
He will sail here in his royal pointed head of the British, Fursuit the State's need is out of covery there since the war," he
leave it to Ministers to de- yacht, Norge, bringing with Eastern Broadcasting Service, all proportion to the voluntary
they
would
get at him his son Crown Prince Okaif, the British Broadcasting Cor-relief It Is getting-Router,
and members of his Govern- peration's station in Singapore,
As 1 basic possibility Drment, works
any
hours a intensive Jesup sugested that the big
From June 5-8 he will stay speeds
and the unions and empowers simply state in general
at Buckingham Palace with the work In harmony, terms the subjects they would King and Queen, Strikes are unheard
talk about co
so that the Ministers of "
At the end of his four-day German Mr Hopfinger, are organising bly.
Thus they would simply days longer in London at the sales schemes for their cars arlan questions," and the like.
rest "German
questions, Aus- Norwegian Embassy. Paris, May 1, home and abroad which are al- France's Cabinet
Mr Acheson said that the re- today ready bringing results, authorised the Prime Minister, Free enterprise and the desire Bult of all this was to put the M. Henri Queuille, to put
probably
Britain workers to better their living U.S.-and
France, since vole of confidence stoking standards were responsible for and
the three the existence
have the Govern- the recovery. London Express closely-In the position of say- of
powens
Co-operated ment as often as he thinks fit Service,
"Here is what we are pre- in the remaining debates in the Assembly
red to do what are you go-
to do now?"
it was announced here today. He sicceeds Mr W.R. Baker,
ended-Reuter,
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Vyshinsky's Illness
Moscow, May' 9. Mr N. Briem, newly-arrived feclundle Minister, has arranged to chil on President Mikhail
flols,
malacturers, says could go ahead with the incei-stay there he will remain a few it ng asymptom of widespread Shvernik to present his creden-
The Cabinet indicated that British
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Protest To Peron
•
The intention of the Cabinet is to strengthen the Premier's hand in preventing deputies,
London, May 9. with an evé on the coming Britain has formally protested elections, voting pay rises, sub- against the establishment of two sidies
and other measures of amore Argenting bases in British vole-catching nature in their Anturetle territory, a Foreign constkuencies.---Reuter.
Ofice spokesman disclosed today.
Zarubin Sees. Morrison
London, May 9. Informed sources said today that among the toples brought up at the meeting between Mr Herbert Morrison, Foreign Sec- rotary, and Mr Geogi Zartibin, Soviet Ambassador, was the question of dood shipments to India from Communist China and Russia.
They suit
some reference was also
also made to the Japanese peace treaty „but none, of the discusalons (was,--inc Cany way,
comprehensive,
To Foreign Omeo conlemed the meeting but sold it wasn purely social affair, India House.
"Madame, Butterfly" nid Koros was not disused
United Press.
The protest was delivered in Buenos Aires on April 30 by the British Ambassador, Sir William Henry Mach, the spokesman said Reuter,
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London, May 9. The Russian freighter, Vil-
sounded like diplomatic phrasmus, le to be allowed to col ing for the more familiar idiomlect 8,000 tons of Mainynn rub- "Put up or shut ed. Press,
disorder everywhere.
To another question on how Meanwhile, the Protocol De- Pakistan and Holland could co.partment of the Foreign Ministry has Informed Mr Briem due to operate, he said that Pakision was so much in need of techni- Mr Vyshinsky's illness the de- cal skill that room
Minister, Mr
V. could be puty Foreign found for all kinds of experts, Zorin, will receive the Minister especially In irrigation and oa Mr Zorin's return from agriculture, in which the Dutch
go, where he is making a have had great experience. →→
vight with Marshal Konev Reuter.
U.S. CASUALTIES
on the occasion of the anniver- sary of the liberation of Czecho- slovakio.
The Foreign Minister, Mr Andrei Vyshinsky, Is but of town. Convalescing. United
Press.
Freak Caff Born
ber at Singapore, Mr John up."-Associat-
Dugdale, Minister of Sante for IN KOREA,
Jor the Colonics, said today. GROMYKO'S ACT
This was being permitted be-
Washington, May 9, cause the rubber was sold be- The Defence Department te Paris, May 9.
fore the export control wan day reported total of 64,055 The start of today's meeting started, he told a questioner in American casualties in the Ko-
Tel-Aviv, May-9 of the Foreign Ministers de- the House of Commons. rean war, an increase of 1,256 born near Haifa. It
A two-headed call has been puties was delayed two hours Restrictive control on
is being over the previous
week. at the request of the Russian ports of rui
rubber was introduced· The new (otal included 11,001 The extra head weighs it down bottle-fed through either mouth. delegate, M. Andrei Gromyko, in agreement with the United (killed, 42,215
When the meeting did start it States early in April, he added, missing, 114 captured, and 1,103 its feet, but otherwise it is nor
wounded, 9,562 and it barely manages to rise to lasted three minutes.
A tothi embargo on comports had previously reported missing who mal. The animal will be offered A Western spokesman said at no time been contemplated. had been returned to military to that M. Gromyko, today's chair-Beuter.
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