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CHINA & MAIL
No. 35154
comment of Chinese Rearming Becomes A Of Japan MOST
JUST people will find it a
trifle diflicult to follow the Ine of rensoning advanced by Republican Senators Jenner and Chuse that the Japanese peace treaty, us written and endorsed at San Francisco
Peeress
First In British History
(Our Own Correspondent)
London, Mar. 18.
A Chinese woman hecame last year, jeopardises a British Peeress today. either the Bovereignty of Lord Lindsay of Birker, a the United States or former Master of Baliol and Japan. In fact, the treaty promises Japan eventual recovery of her full sovereignty, and, so far as
international
uny
Principal of the University College of North Stafford- shire since 1949, died today His elder son and aged 72, agree- ment call be expected to, heir, Michael Lindsay, has offers, Japan the
best a Chinese wife whom guarantee of her integrity married in 1941 in Peking. as an independent nation. I
Is The Arat Chinese There are more pressing woman to be a Peereas,
new Lady Lindsay's name is
She
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SITUATION IN INDO-CHINA
"VERY SERIOUS”
SAYS ACHESON Repeats Plea For
Foreign
Aid Programme
Washington, Mar. 18.
The situation in Indo-China was today described by Mr Dean Ache. son, the United States Secretary of State, as "very serious.”
It would remain so until the French could put a large, trained and
"locked in
indigenous force in the field, Mr Acheson said.
Mr Acheson also expressed confidence that France battle with Communist-led forces" in Indo-China would make sacrifices which were necessary to ensure the success. of the Western disarmament .drive.
Mr Acheson was speaking at a hearing held by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee into the new United States foreign aid programme a $7,000,000,- 000 fund requested by President Trumah,
Mr Acheson said he believed that the Korean truce. negotiations would be successful. But he warned against "either optimism or pessimism" in the present difficult phase.
problems and misgivings Hsiao Li, which metins Per- Connected with Japan. One suasive Dawn. She wan T and it is the latest is student at a Peking university the decision to allow the when she met her husband, who Зправене once ngain to was a lecturer there, manufacture arms, imple- He is 43, she' in the mid- ments of war. aircraft thirties. Six months ago they (civil and military) and went to live in Australla, warships. The right
Michael Lindsay was appointed to
Senior Research Fellow at the renrm and the nature of
Research the armaments remain still Studies at Canberra.
School of Pacific
at the discretion of SCAP, Hsiao Li is the daughter of
Earlier, Mr Acheson denied but the decision to lift the Chinese army officer, Colonci tuggestions that "India seems to existing ban is sufficient to Li Wen-chi, She and her lius-be getting closer to the Russian
until in Paking
orbli". Indiente the type of new band stayed
alter Pearl Harbour. After freedoms which Japan is that life became timcult. be granted.
WHILE A is undoubtedly:
WH
was bare ілд
FLEE JAPANESE Their first child, a daughter true that the Japanese generally have since 1945 armed Erica,
Chinese village. Next day they repudiated militarism as had to flee to the mountains to national policy, doubts re-escape the advancing Japanese. main In
minds They spent the rest of the war in many whether, given the oppor- China constantly moving from tunity, the nation will not village to village to escape the again embrace militarism! Japanese,
ILM
.
as a means for achieving Lindsay helped the Chinéte national aspirations. The army to build a radio station.
The new heir to the title-his fear of such a development! clings, in Australia and is son, James--was born in Yenan shared in varying degrees they returned to Britain,
early in 1945. Later that year in other countries. Japan Mrs Lindsay www he: hus- a nation able to stand! band's family for the first time. on her own feet and repel His mother's verdict was "Sho aggression against herself is a fine young woman." is an acceptable concept of her future renaissance, but her ability to represent herself potential once again as a threat to peace in Asia la not
'The
United palatable.
So
States owe it to those countries who joined in signing
peace treaty at San Francisco, to give the fullest assurances
concessions
thut
The
a
που
being offe
offered to Japan will country the not result in equipping itself to point where it can become a dan- gerous friend. Japan has still ao demonstrate her capacity for the democratic way of life, and this she will have to do by degress. Over-ropid restoration of full sovereignty could well have disastrous <ffects..
Nowadays Hsiao Li usually weary European dress by day but often wears Chinese gowns in the evening She is small, nent and graceful.
BOY SHOOTS HIS NIECE
Bayones, France, Mar. 18. An 11-year-old boy shot and killed his five-year-old niece be- cause she had told his parents that he had been naughty,
He shot her with her father's hunting rifle after telling her, "I am going to kill you","
Tho
young killer was taken in tears to the leent court today.
Magistrates committed him to a reform school-Reuter,
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Britain Lags In Air Defences
London, Mar. 18.
A Government. spokesman today said that Britain's air defences would be "woefully inadequate" if it were. not for American and Canadian support.
Persian oll production was more important Than the dis- pute over whether or not Bri- tish technicians should return In his references to Europe to Persia to work within the Mr. Acheson said that the 50-nationalised oil Industry. division North Atlantic Army Senator Tom Conmally (De approved at the recent Lisbon mocrat, Texas), the Committee's conference was "more than a Chainman, refused
allow paper army"-and would soon Senator Brewster to question be a "flesh and blood army".
Mr Acheson.
Senator Connally sold During today's hearing, Sena- lean, Iowa) said that despite nothing to do with the foreign mentary Secretary
Bourke Hickenlooper (Reput the Persian oll problem had Mr George Ward, new Parilo- almost four years of Marshall aid bill,
to the Air Ministry, made. the statement in "America's friends And
In a statement which con- asking the House of Commons to are drifting away and are eluded today's meeting, Senator approve Royal Air Force expen- showing
deal of with
Country
lican who has bitterly attacked American aid, for the coming As examples, he said that Mr foreign aid, sald of the ald to: Alacal year. Clement Attlee, Britam's form-
gramme for South Aala that en er Prime
Minister, was now increase In food production in "vitriolic" in criticisms of the India would, in turn, increase advantage to both America and United States. India was be-living standards slightly but then Russia but would regain it. coming "very aloof, Indeed, and would lead to an increase
added that Britain had no fighter seems to be getting closer to the millions of population.
service, to match the Russian Russian orbit," Guatemala was "Until that problem is settled MK-15 jet plane, but said, "We "confiscating American pro- i we
Mexico refused,
we shall be pouring money down are very glad to have with us in perly,
to an endless rat-hole....in India," American
· Com
this
country
and operate with the
Canadian States.
said.
fighter
squadrons And in other countries such as
equipped with
which Egypt and Persia there
has proved itself in many ways
fighter anti-American demonstrations.
superior to the MIG in combat. Mr. Acheson replied that he
Their presence will improve the could not accept Senator
Hicken-
power of the whole fighter force In this country." laoper's statement. The Marshall Plan was introduced to prevent econcile disintegration and the world was now facing new troubles caused by "threatening "actions" on the part of the Soviet Union.
he
of
in
The hearing has been ad-
were Journed until tomorrow.Reu-
ter.
The situation in Egypt and Persia was the result of friction
between therm and Britain.
"COLONIAL POWER"
Earlier,
Senator Theodore Green (Democrat, Rhode Island) asked him if the foreign aid legislations should not contain a statement Baying that the American people were sympathe- tic the aspirations of "colonial for freedom and indes peoples" pendence,
Senator Green added that he had found everywhere in under-developed areas a feeling that the American people were supporting the policies of what he called the "colonial power".
Mr Acheson replied that he would deprecats the Insertion of such an expression in legisla tion.
the
Booby-Trap Kills Man &
His Wife
said Britain had lost the alr
Ho
He sold the Government had given priority to the newest tyges of aircraft
in order to regain the advantage.
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DEMOLITION OF THE FESTIVAL PAVILIONS
It is "D" (for demolition) day, at the South Bank as the men with drills and sledge-hammers go into action on the Sea and Ships Pavillon, Also coming down are Homes and Gardens Pavilion, the, Lion and Unicorn Pavillon, the Pan- technicol, the Harbour Bar and some administrative offices. Hundreds of labourers turned up at the rates of the South Bank site in the hope of being given, casual work. The London County Council plan to have the promenade strip along the Thames open to the public by Easter, and the whale of the Interim scheme finished by the end of July-London Express Service.
Big 3 Agree On Reply
To
Soviet
Note
London, Mar. 18.
Britain, France and the United States have now proposing German unity, a usually reliable source said agreed on the text of their reply to the Soviet note
tonight,
M.
Robert
Refugees Win Safety
Bremerhaven, Mar. 18. Seventeen Russian peasants, [·à ̧· 40-year-old woman and her daughter; aged' 15, boarded the American troop transport, General Harry Taylor, here to day. for New York to end 13,000 mile trek in search of peace and freedom,
They were going to a new homeland after a fighting re- treat frem Communist. Central Asia, which had lasted eight harrowing dangers years and brought them through
Their homes since the Russian Revolution in 1917 had been the Altal Mountains In the western corner of Mongolia.
ship
The text will be finally op 1 as an absolute test of Soviet proved later this week, when good faith.-Reuter. the British Foreign Secretary,
US REPRESENTATIVE Mr Anthony Eden, the French
Washington, Mar, 18, When Chinese Communist Minister, Foreign
Slate Schuman, and the West German
Department The
an- troops reached the area in 1944 Chancellor,
about 200 of the Hussien settlers Dr Konrad ounced today that the new Adenauer, meet in Paris with United States Ambassador to fed. The 10 who boarded the "I do not wish to create undue the Committee of Ministers of
France, Mr Jaines C. Dunn,
today and their 00-year- anxiety," he continued, "but it the Council of Europe,
would
represent the United old leader reached the Indian would be quite
States in talks with the British, trontier, town of Gyangtse after wrong for me
German Foreign a not to make it plain that the
The essence of the, Westers French und
trek which brought them air defences of this island at the Governments reply to the Rus-Ministers on the West's answer through the Chinese province of Sinklang, the Gobi Desert, rent time would be woefully sian proposal to hold a four to a Russian note on Germany.
The State Department spokes- Tibet and the Himalayas. fut allies in the North Atlantie Germany Inadequate if we had not power Power conference to reunite
to stress the ab-man, Mr Michael. McDermott,
The leader of the group is Organisation."United solute importance of the Soviet said that the tollos would con
authorities permitting the Unit-tinue conversations now going alek in hospital in Hamburg and ed Nations investigating, Com-ion informally in London with will have to follow them later, mission to enter Eastern Ger- the British and French-Reuter. --Reuter. many, it is understood.
New Haven, Conn., Mar. 18. A Negro house painter and his wife were killed today when
small truck was booby-trap-Treaty ped with dynamite.
The Police Immediately sent out an alarm for a man who had previously been identified by the pointer as a hold-up suspect.
The Police said that Homer Ophelia, about 25, were blown Wright, 28, and hia wife, to bits by the charge which had been "purposely placed in the pick-up truck.
that the
Press.
Youths Admit
Sabotage
Seventeen
Tunis, Mar. 18. young Tunisiana,
The Western Governments do not reject the idea of work- ing for the reunion of Germany, But they are not prepared to accept an all-German govern- ment unless this comes to power through free elections In the whole of Germany.
to
Witnesses said Wrights. had just entered in the truck in front of their home and arrested at Sfax, Southeast Consequently, willingnes The sympathy of the United were driving away from the Tunisia, admitted sabotaging
admit into the Eastern Zone the States and the American people curb when Ii blew up.
rallways and electric trans- United Nationa Commission, towards the aspirations of An alarm was sent out for formera in the Sfax aren and which is investigating whether under-developed peoples Independence was often pressed and well known. ewn.
for Leroy Redlick, 20, who is tree made full statements explaining present conditions in Germany on ball for appearance in the the sabotage organisation, the would malco free elections city court on Saturday on a police said here today,
possible, is still regarded here charge of attempted robbery with violence.
Mr Acheson was asked if any new economic sld to Japan was contemplated
the penco treaty, now being considered by the Senate, was ratifled,
he
suro.
rescue.
money
and
MODERN DANCING
Cow & Farmer
·In › Wild Dash
Stocks of explosives wete hold The Police said that late last others who owned cars delivered by well-known Tunisians while month Wright: heard a neigh them to
the leaders of the ran to the "There is none in this bill, our scream and
*
The robber had taken subotage teams, who gave de replied, referring to the this neighbour's
tokea ̈ Instructions about the $7,000,000,000 foreign aid mea-ring. Wright spotted the rob played by each member of the objectives and the part to be ber and Mr Acheson Bicagreed with a bucket of turpentine which ho with a doused him
| teams.
Berlin, Mar, 18. Buazes.lcy at the size of the was carrying as he lost tho United States defcit next year man In the chase. But later he according to the alleged state-ed wildly into West Berlin today The sabotage organisation, An Fast-German farmer dash- would lead to inflation
Identified Reddick when he was ruents, Intended shortly to blow following a galloping cow and "The country can stand n
picked up-United, Press, defalt
without the results
up fye oil mills belonging to pursued by n hall of Commu- two members feared," he
of the. Southfist Eust German police bullets, said,
Tunisian Chamber of Com- the West Derlin polles, reported. cuts were to be made in the budget the field of foreign
standard oll petrol ald should not be the first to bal
store and a Diesel all store. They had the farmer's house Saffected because Western
belonging to a local company and cons are in the Bovict zone Europu would be in the front
of occupation outside the city, line war broke out,
Bizerta, the main naval base but he owned a meadow within Vatican City, Mar.18.and third city of Tunisia, was the Western sector eby limita Replying to other questions Dancing In its usual modern without a main Mr. Acheson declined to discuss form is without doubt "Illicit and today when the water pipeline on it,
water supply and he wanted to graze his cow the unsuccessful. which the World Bank held Catholics, the Vatican's weekly yard
negotiations easily constitutes a grave sin" for was cut In 10 places in a 500-. with the Perslan Government
The Eastern people's police refused to let him pass, how In an attempt to resume the WED, Oservators
Demeulen, said
A bomb today wrecked two ever, when he walked up to the operations of the Abadan oll
today. refinery, The paper gald tha dancing shops in the Coliseo Galleries, border with the cow, but the QUESTION DISALLOWED pisce people, completely with an arcade of fashionable shops farmer was stubborn, Ho slap- Benatar Owen Brewster (Re-usation, "in position here. Many shops, and crics in ped the cow Into gallop and propitious grade sin or, at the Arab quarter were closed raced after it across the Iron publkan, Maine) sald that it least, to sbandalag today following the throwing Curtain with the Was time for the State DeThe paper is published in the of a bomb on Friday in front shooting at him. He and the people's police periment to impreso, upon, Bri Vaucan City but is not regarded of the Prime Minister's O COW Wers, not "burt-United tain that the remumption of i zgan palelal organ, Reuters eldenpa, — Reuter
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