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CHINA MAIL
No. 35079
RUSSIA TO BUILD
THOUSAND U-BOATS
London, Dec. 17.
Jane's Fighting Ships reported today that Russia's huge undersea fleet - scheduled even- tually to number 1,000 U-boats would include the fastest submarines the world has ever known.
The 53rd and largest edition of this authori- : tative "naval bible" said that German technicians were showing the Russians how to build mine- laying submarines capable of speeds up to 29 miles per hour under water.
The fastest submarines Most known to be in service ships of the United States Navy's Tang Class-travel 20 miles
trz under water Few surface shops of any size
can attain greater than 35 miles per hour
ds
be treated with reserve that reliable uddest that apparently reports said that Russia now hac 370 submarines 10 SCTVIC and were rushing 120 to com- pletion with the eventual aim of
1,000-submarine navy
Jane's sald also That Russi Naval
authorities promptly
01
was budding four new battle-pointed Out. however, that ships mounting guided missile these figures were the same as lau hers as well on 18 inch guns and at least Jour super cruisers armed with 10-inch guns and guided sussie geur
The naval book next reported that Russia also give Communist China 25 to 50 small---1,500 to 3,500-ton-warships of an un-
lentile type and armament last year as the nucleus of "South China Fleet "
GROWING POWER
10
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Jane's review of world naval developments devoted Krave attention Russia's growing power, but the main theme was the tremendovs naval superiority of the Wet and the particularly unprecedenter strength of the Amerkam 5,000-ship fleet.
be
"International
Referring to the manoeuvres recently staged by the navies of the West in various areas, Jane's said that these had proved that the Western forces could welded into one sleet" to meet any threat.
Jane's said. "A striking and little realised feature of the navies of today is the degree of uniformity which has bee achieved
can
Beet operations
be attained
Jane's warns that reports on Russian naval developments must
Jane's estimates last year nr Red undersea strength--an indication either that the Russians had tightened security prreaullens or that they making less progress than they cared to admit
were
US BUILDING By contrast the book noted
United States that the
was bullding two experimentul rub- marines of high speed and long range which would use hydro
the gen peroxide for fuel und world's first atom driven under- six new Tang sea craft and
service Class subs for feet
Jane's listed the four battle- ships being built in Russia 45 the Ovyetsk. Soyuz. Soveytov, Sovyetsaka Byelorus
aka Ukrainla. and Sovyetsaka All four will displace 42,000 to 45,000 tons and will be armed
with six to nine
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Egyptian Terrorists Ambush British Jeeps
Rebels Given Eisenhower & Strachey's
Bad Time
Hanoi, Dec, 18.
Communist-led Disorganised rebels remaining east of the Black River were being cut to ribbons carly today by Trana
mobile French and Vietnamese forces 40 miles west of here.
guns
16-inch in addition to missile gear.
As a sidelight the reference work noted that the former British frigate Lark, once re- ported to have been "damaged beyond repair" while convoying aid to
World Russia during War I, had been reconditioned by
incor- the Russians and porated into the Soviet flect... United Press.
COMMENT OF THE DAY
MR
French Headquarters declared that 50 per cent of the 312 which in- Vietminh
division filtrated the French lines had been killed. captured wounded.
or
An Army spokesman on Sun- day had placed the number of Communists killed in the Hoah- binh sector in the past five days He between 2,000 and 2,500. said French losses were about one to every 20 Communists.-- United Press.
Mr Lyttelton's Compliment
[R Oliver Lyttelton, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, could not have paid the Hongkong Police Force a more graceful compliment than that implied in his expressed desire to have our Police Commis- Pioner, Mr D. W. Macintosh, in Malaya to reorganise and revitalise the Police Force there for the purpose of waging more successful campaign against the bandits and terrorists. The Secretary of State is quoted as having been tremendously impressed by the "smooth but taut efficiency" of our Police, and to have expressed the conviction that if it has been possible to build up a "happy and prosperous Hongkong" by means of good govern- ment and efficient policing, he can see no reason why the same should not be accomplished in Malaya.. Given everything else equal there could be no contesting Mr Oliver's proposition. It cannot, however, be seriously' sug- gested that the post-war problems of Hongkong and Malya have been any- thing like parallel. Malaya has been plagued with a deliberate, well- directed organised political vendetta against the established government and the forces of law
and order.
Hongkong, happily, has been spared any such experience. There have been few crimes, or incidents motivated by politics and what banditry has occur red has been sporadic and almost without exception for purely personal gain. This being said it can still be
that the acknowledged
Hongkong Police Force has been magnificently developed since the war and is blessed today not only with fine leadership, which but with an esprit de corps permeates all ranks through to the Chinese cadets. In many respects our Police Force could be taken as a model in Malaya and Singapore, and while it may not be possible for Hongkong to the work spare Mr MacIntosh for which Mr Lyttelton has in mind, it is conceivable that one or two of our senior Police officers could be made available to give their colleagues in Malaya the benefit of their sound knowledge of how to train and weld Chinese officers into a loyal, efficient and effective force. Hongkong would consider it a privilege if it could in any way contribute to the successful ending of the costly and aggravating war in Malaya.
Anglo-Egyptian Relations_
or
WHILE it is probably expecting too W
much for any immediate spectacular results from today's meeting in Paris between Mr Anthony Eden und the Egyptian Foreign Minister, the fact that the Anglo- Egyptian dispute can be discussed on this high level and in a more or less informal atmosphere offers some hope of a medus vivendi being renched which
war for con pave the
a rational of differences. Main composing obstacle at present to a settlement through diplomatic channels is the continued operations of terrorists in the Canal Zone. Latil, their activities cense. It is impossible to pursuò dis- cussions that have any prospects of yielding a mutually agreeable solution to this problem of Anglo-Egyptian relations, The Cairo Government has acknowledged its responsibility in this
direction and yesterday reiterated its earlier announcement that it was taking over control of the so-called Liberation Army for the purpose of purging it of terrorist elements, Tangible results are awaited. Mr Eden will certainly seek, positive assurances from his opposite number that the Egyptian Government intends to restore normal conditions in the Canal Zone. Failure on the part of Salah Pasha to give those assurancés and to satisfy Mr Eden they can, and will be fulfilled will make it virtually impossible for the Paris discussions to achieve anything remotely progressive. The British Foreign Secretary has given notice that he is going to ap proach his meeting with Salah Pasha În a spirit of goodwill and honourable intentions. If the Egyptian represen- tative is similarly minded there may be some gratifying results."
2.
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Presidency
To Run Says Journal Washington, Dec. 17. General Dwight D. Elsen- hower, the Supreme Atlantic Commander in Europe, has agreed nomination
10
Solution
For Malaya Problem
MILITARY OFFICER
OFFICER DIES FROM WOUND:
THREE POLICEMEN SHOT
Ismailia, Dec. 17.
Egyptian terrorists ambushed two British Army jeeps tonight in Ismailia. They shot a lieutenant in the head a wound from which he died in hospital later.
Three military policemen were also wounded in the same ambush. A corporal, who was shot in the neck, is dangerously ill.
The ambush took place about 200 yards from the Egyptian police headquarters. A bomb was thrown from the roadside and the terrorists opened up small-arms fire.
It is sup-
The road is used legally by British Army transports.
posed to be guarded by Egyptian police.
The first jeep escaped damage, but the second jeep was repeatedly hit. The leading jeep stopped, turned round and picked up the wounded.
Are but casunities.
that
that treaty and ment, tendered his resignation
Government has į foright,
reporters that his resignation was duc to "differences between myself and other Cabinet colleagues over domestic and foreign policy."
to
Zaky, Pasha recently returned Calro from an extensive
tour of European capitals, where he conducted trade talks.- Reuter.
After the ambush, two other military rolice jeeps tried to reach the scene from the direction of the Moascar garri 1, but were stopped at a bridge. A Royal Air Force police car, abrogated went over the bridge and down the British the road. It encountered heavy not recognised the validity of He told
came back without that action.
"PERIOD OF SILENCE” Fire was returned from a "Political arrangements for British Army gun post at the defence of the Middle East are bridge but it is not known if no concern of mine. But as a any casualties were inflicted on soldier I will say that if the the terrorists.
Middle East is to organise its defence at all I cannot see how it can be done without Egypt." Recommending "a period of ellence in which neither of us elanged each other but when each of us teled to understand Mr John Strachey, See- infiltrated
each other's point of view," tretary of State for War in which worked
General Erskine said that the It added that he has weak
alternative would mean that the Labour Government sen the Jected nomination as
Minister, Fuad Serag el "we shall be committed to a today declared that the Din Pasha, announced that the period where we move further Democratic Party nomina - tion.
political leaders Dato Onn Covernment has opened & pre- and further apart, tempers will and Dato Tan Cheng Lock liminary credit of E£100,000 for be raised and blood willl be
shed." could win the co-operation training youths in their spare
time.
The Egyptian correspondent of the people of Malayn in
He was replying to questions had gone from Cairo to inter the development of country.
the Republican candidate for the Presidency of the United States, the United World States News and Report said today.
The independent weekly magazine did not quote its Sources but said that the facts were established in a carryass of people with "first-hand knowledge."
have elxJmed
to "established the fact that the General
not being object to his name entered as a Republican h
would
Hampshire prt. the New mary on March 15.--Reu- ter.
BORDER
SHOOTING
Syrian Sentry Kills Two Fishermen
*
London, Dec. 17.
The Egyptian Minister of the Interior told the Senate tonight the Government had decided to take over control of the alberation battalions" be cbuse "certain elements have
into
their ranks for their own
that
In an article In the Labour paper Daily Herald, Mr Strachey stressed that Britain
mus: ba prepared to give up power uni Malaya
as competent as soon
authorities were
The
Indigenous
available.
In
the
the
Bank Draft Racket
Karachi, Dec. 17.
The newspaper Evening Star reported tonight that the police had discovered a bank draft forging racket involving 400,000 rupees (£40,000) and with ramifi. cations at Rangoon and Hongkong.
by Independent Senators Galat view General Erskine at 'his' Hussein and Abdel Wahab Fayid headquarters Yalaat Pasha on the Govern- Canal Zone. ment's policy affecting the batta- General Erskine told the lions.
correspondent that whenever he 122 INCIDENTS
had received help from Minister listed
122 police authorities
the situation incidents which, he said, ware had shown Improvement.
It was said that the racketeers caused by the infftrating "I am most anxious that it sold forged drafts to "Arabs elements against Egyptians and leest in public security matters and foreigners" who sold them He described as "so particu- non-British foreigners between we should come to a sound to foreign banks, The news- larly unfortunate" the political October 16 and December 6. working arrangement,” he said. paper alleged that the fraud statements of the Colonial Secre-
These included robberies. General Erskine said that was Lary, Mr Oliver Lyttelton, and threats to obtain money, incite-Egypt was so geographically goc in particular, his statement or ment to murder and urging placed that she could not re- pol impied statement on arrival at Government labour to leave main neutral unless she had her on Singapore that the extension of work, democracy and self-government must be postponed Ull after the
emergency.
Mr Strachey added, "When Mr Lyttelton got to Malaya itself, Are was made to realise the mis-
Mr Strachey said that when he visited Malaya in June, 1950, he came to the concllision that the British alone could never put down the insurrection in
Tel-Aviv, Dec. '17. An Israeli official spokes- lake ne had made and was in- duced to say, or imply, the man said here on Monday opposite-namely that the intra- night that shots from
Bduction of democracy and self- Syrian sentry killed two government (which has begun) Israelis in a fishing boat on must go on." the Sea of Galilee on Sun- day night,
This was the Arst incident on the Syrian-Israel border since the clashes last May over Malaya. Israel's draining of the Hulch "Only rapid political develop- marshes in the frontier area.
mer with Malays, Chinese A third man
was wounded and Indians, aided by us, them but managed to escape by celyes taking over the main job hiding on the bottom of the could bring suCCESS, boat until dark, the spokesman said.
NO ORGANISATION
ment
discovered that
covered when the Ran-
lice asked the Karachi o Investigate two drafts angoon bank which dla The Karachi police com working in operation with the Hongkong police, the paper sald.
also
own armed forces comparable not exist. in scale to what were required were last time when the threat came af from the west-Reuter.
(In a note last night Britain accused the Egyptian police of the deliberate murder British soldiers in Ismailia in an incident on November 18).
The Intertfor
Minister said that when the Egyptian Govero- these elements were working for the "real struggle to expel the Bri- tigh from the country," it decided to take over control of realise the battalions to the eims of really faithful youths under the training them by supervision of a technical and military committee headed by Abdel Meguid Abdel Hakk,
The Minister's statement was received with cheers from all sides of the Upper House,
ERSKINE'S STATEMENT
"But at that time there was no wilted organisation of the Offeer
troops
In tho military sense the British position "in much Lieutenant-General 5 tonger, In a strong protest to the
George Erskine, General Sir United Nations Syrian-Israeli
Commanding British Mixed Armistice Commission,
in Egypt told an Israel demanded that it meet at Malay, Chinese and Indian in-
habitants of Malaya which Egyptian correspondent.
troops, once to discuss the incident,
and organise
"I have many more The Commission has not met could represent
and to
no Service families in Egyptian since the border fighting last
the Malayan people, which we could progressively towns and a steady Bow of May.
Mr Strachey labour is arriving from outside," Major Arleh Friedlander, transfer power,"
General Erskine said. continued. head of Israel's delegation to
This
does not solve the "By good fortune, such an the Commission, in a note today
DI Anglo-Egyptian organisation has now emerged... problem its American
Chairman,
Exactly such a party has relations It only sets British more securely in the Colonel Samuel Taxis, demanded "immediate action to apprehend been founded by two remarkable forces
men. both of whom I mot in Canal Zone," the criminals and bring home Malnya,
General Erskine's statement to the Syrian Government the "Dato Onn le the outstanding was made to the correspondent full gravity and implications of
Wednesday and was released modern-minded Malay, reason- this brutal net."
The killing of the shermen mined that the remaining elo Canal Zone was drifting in a
able, frichdly, but firmly deter- today,
The situation in the Suez has caused Dr "Intolerable
asserted.--Reuter,
to
ments of colonial status for his
Inst
of
situation," the Major's messago | Pint
| country pl should be quickly most dangerous manner, General
Krakine said.
·Empire State Bldg To Be Sold
eliminated.
"Date Tan Chong Lock, a
It had "Sended to go from bad
leading Chinese business man to worse in the sense that there
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and on Intellectual, has joined are more incidents between the British and the local population- with Dato Don and with the representatives of the Half the Zone he added.
by agitators from incited
outside
New York, Dec. 17.
million Indiane in Malaya to General Erskine began The Empire State Building create a new inter-raclat party statement by a will be sold this week for $51 which is evidently intended to instructions are to stay as the 000,080, according to the New do for Malaya what the Indian canal Zone and look acters York Sun today
Confinu Perly did for Indii British military ablishments The newspaper sold the 102. achieve independence and which at present exit here. WO storey building will be purchased democratic sall-government, un Would maudy: prefer ledo Hote by a syndicate headed by For from
from fearing and pescefully as an ally of Kayps Stevens and A Glancy-United opposing rithis new party, we under the Treaty of 1930, But? } Press:
the Egyptian Govertenent
MINISTER RESIGNS
Cairo, Dec. 17. Hamed Zaky Pasha, Minister of National Economy in the Nahas Pasha Wafdist Govern
The newspaper reported that Ave arrests had been made and that among those arrested were three representatives of/local business firm.-France-Presse.
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