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COMMENT OF
THE DAY
Time For
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THE incredible situation at
The Koje Island Pow camp is fast becoming bo- yond comprehension.
now
Brigadier-General Boatner, the new commandant, hina to admit that "We (the UN command) have control of the prison camp outside the barbed wire, but wo do not have control inside." And if that were not pre- posterous enough, he has to suggest that "it is impos sible to control 6,000 if they don't want
men to be
at-
controlled and are under Communist subversive con- trol inside." This la complete nonsense. In the light of such a mental titudo as that possessed by General Boatner, (and re- calling the earlier fiascos standing in the names of Brigadier Dodd and Briga- dier Colson) Mr Attlee and his colleagues can hardly be blamed for sug- gesting in the House of Commons that if the Bri- tish authorities had been in control none of the recent events would have happen- ed. The Impressien gained la that the American camp commandants have confused humanenes,
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No. 35213
Established 1845
WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1952.
Today's weather: Light varkblo' winds thundery, showers and periods of light rain.
Cloudy
Price
E. German Forces Clearing
Frontier Sites
Launch Capsizes: 11 Drowned
Argentina, May 27, Eloven persona were drowned loday when A launch carrying 35 pan sengers capsized Parana River.
tho In
Twenty-four passengers were saved by a Maritimo Prefecture launch search. Ing the river in the early morning darkness,
launch, TR0
Carrying da passengers to Ciudad Correnas, foundered 勿 midriream due to water. It was apparently caught in a whirlpool,
low
Some of the passengers were Paraguayan political representatives bound for Buchos Atres. -
United Press,
Stranded Plane:
Safe
with supine All
CCORDING to the prin
ciples laid down at Convention
Geneva
the
of
place themselves above the
London, May 27. The 10 passengers and eight members of the crew of the Bri-
Hemis tish Overseas Airways plane which made a force land ing in French West Africa yes- terday, are all safe, it was stated here tonight,
A
that confirmation of their exfely Corporation official sald
had been received here.
CONSTRUCTING
TANK TRAPS
No-Man's-Land
Ban
To West Germans
Berlin, May 27.
The Government of Lower Saxony, West Germany, tonight announced that East German units all along the frontier facing their province were clearing a 30-foot wide lane of trees and other obstacles.
·
The official statement said that what appeared to be tank traps were being built in a three-mile belt..
Firing lanes which would give sentries or command posts command of every inch of the frontier were also being constructed, the announce- ment said.
Meanwhile, the East German Information Ministry announced today that a no-man's land three miles and one furlong wide will be created inside the East German border with West Ger-
many.
next
In
makes no
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Text Of Tripartite Declaration
Paris, May 27.
Text of the tripartite declaration issued in Paris today by the United States, Britain and France follows:
of
with that
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Ridgway Gets Down To His New Job
Paris, May 27.
General Matthew B. Ridgway arrived here today to take over from General Dwight Eisenhower as At- lantic Supreme Commander in Europe and went to work immediately with a surprise visit to SHAPE for a first briefing' with 'his, new staff.
Within a few hours of step- ping from a trans-Atlantic plaño. be was meeting his senior officers in the office of General Alfred Gruenther, his Chief of Staff.
He does not
ove
Friday morning.
his new command fake
until
Earlier, he had addressed a 40-minute Press conference in a crowded morning which began with ori impressive welcome sat Orly Airport.
The
first to greet General Ridgway as he stopped from the plane wearing a United States summer uniform and two rows General of decorations, was.. Eisenhower who is returning to America on Saturday to enter the presidential election cam- paign.
Others at the airport included. Lord Ismay, NATO Secretary- General, and Field-Marshal Lord Montgomery, General Ridgway's deputy in his new post.
**
A force of 400 Polleo einged the airport as part of elaborate, ogalost security: arrangementa possible Communist demonstra- tiona
the
THE ONLY INCIDENT ∙Police and mobile guarda also lined the 15-mile route from Orly, through the heart of Paris, 16 Versailles. But there was only one Incident as motorcycle-escorted. procession drove t
through, despite of
weeke Communist demands. the position of the three powers, there are regarded by the comunist Mayor of a suburb o powers as essential elements of the outskirts of the city rushed.
Berlin and the maintenance of in demonstrations; ' the _ Com»
International
1929, "Prisonera of
war muat at all times be humanely treated. Like wise protected, particularly against acts of violence or intimidation and against Insulta."
There
in nothing, however, in the Geneva Convention which Hays prisoners of war shall be given such freedom that they, are in a position to make for themselves lethal
Omella in Londen tonight still weapons, plot insurrection, kidnap officers, hold drum-did not know why, its landing was a considerable distance off head trials and condemn
the normal London-Lagos course, fellow prisoners to death: A relict plane from London in general to be able to flew over the scene today. Earlier, # doctor and two nurses were authority and jurisdiction | parachuted to the Hermes which East Germany to all West Gerhe interests of East and American soldiers and a Korean-i--They make possible the re- Foreign Ministers of France, the
had landed on soft sand. of their captors. The in- cidents at Koje Island camp BOAC's Deputy Operations expose the distressing in- Director, Captain J. Harrington, efficiency of the senior off- who flew in the rellef aircraft, radioed that the Hermes' port cers in charge who
repre- wing appeared to be damaged, sent the United Nations He said that there was consider- Command. Moreover, any able activity around the aircraft further display. of inepti-Crews and passengers were seen
waving and walicing around tude will automatically ro-
Reuter. flect on the Commonwealth troops which
havo been called in to assist in
Port Angeles, May 27.. storing order. Clearly this
A Const Guard PBM consideration was at the phibian plane crashed shortly back of Mr Lester Pear-after taking off from the Coast son's mind when he express- Guard station here today, kili- ed his concern to the State ing four crewmen but leaving Department over the Bend-eight survivors,
West
West
Berlin Lord Mayor Ernst Reuter told Professor reportera: "Two rivals are now putting their loaded revolvers on the table, West Berlin is in the unpleasant position of atending
for 100
over
car shouting,..
of
were
People who want to travel into this area must
The Governments of France, Treaty, their interest in the apply for a special permit from the People's Police.
the United Kingdom of Great Integrity of the European Defence
and their special1 Britain and Northern
Community, Ireland, 1. All telephone links bo- The Ministry said that there
responsibilities in Germany, East
and measures were made necessary tween
and West Berlin
the United States by West Germany's signing of were cut,
ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS America have signed coaven-. the
The security and defence of tions with the German Federal '"'peace" pact with the
communication Western Allies, yesterday..
between East
Republic which will establish
relationship and West Germany were cut to
a new German Interior
At the same time, an East one. channel each.
country, Ministry on- 3. Allied military police
These conventions, as well as nouncement gold that from patrols were
barred from the
the treaties for a European
the free world in the present Into the
Into the road in front of the Sunday all Germans 100
dtuation, Defence
and notres (about 100 miles)
Community The Hermes, bound from Lon-wishing to travel
Pusan, May 27. the highway linicing
West Berlin
European coal and steel com-
Accordingly, they will main- General's
"Ridgway, murderer." don for Lagos, Nigeria, came territory of the East German with West
Germany,
Communist guerillas raid-munity, of which France is a
tain armed forces within the
Ke and four
supporters 4. Activity began along the ed and burned an Ameri- signatory, provide a new basis territory of Berlin as long as down on the edge of the Sahura Republic must obtain a special
after arrested their responsibilities require it with the Police,
a short scuffle 48. miles Desert, about
from East German permit.
entire East-West border to in-
can engineering unit's camp for uniting Europe and for the Atar.
realisation The regulation applies only crease East German control qf 10 miles north of Pusan on ship in the European community: merlin from any quarter de 'an Ridgway placed a wreath
of Germany's partner. They therefore reaffirm that they
At the Arc de Triomphe in will treat aty, attack against tho crossing
centre points,
of Paris, General to
It Germana.
6. Harsh but legal measures Friday, killing Ave United They are designed to prevent
of reference to nationals of the
attuck
forces and sword lies on the Tomb of. upon their three Western Powers in Berlin. Border ine where previously houseboy.
were taken to impose a strict States soldiers and a Korean the resurgence of former tea-
sions and conflicts among the themselves.
the French Unimown Soldier, It gives the East German
These new security guarantees About 10,000 people thronged The Talders attacked with free nalioris of Europe and buy
futura revival of aggressive supersede the assurances con- the spacious Champ Elysets to authorities the power if they there had been incit agrements wish to exerelse it to bar for taxity to allow the smooth hand grenades,
tained in the declaration of the watch the ceremony. working of industry and labour
They wounded two other militarism.
Before setting off on a heavy mans and West Berlin travellers.in
Kingdom and the i programme. inbourer.
moval of the special restrictions United
engagements, West Germáns
States at New York General Ridgway told a Press They escaped to the hills hitherto imposed on the Federal United
10, September
1950. conference that he had come with two Allied machine-guts, Republic of Germany and per- on
the utmost сот fidence in General Elsenhower's seven rifles and 700 rounds of mit Its participation as an equal Associated Press, ammunition.
partner in Western defence.
Thess
conventions and Parcels For POWsteadership" The Army's disclosure of the
He said that he would to the desire to respond to the treaties raid
shortly after came
London, May 27: "happy, indeed, to add in any Republic
united efforts for of Korea clamped provide by
Wor Secretary, Mr way to what he has built up." WON'T LOSE NERVES
martial law on the Fusan area the prosperity and security of Antony Head, told the House of
General Ridgway sald that in" Professor Reuter said the in
govern- an effort to curb guerilla Western Europe. The latest Communist measures were activities and to check an- ments of the United Kingdom Commons today it was outside Koren the troops of 18-nations
that province
private of all races, colous and creeds the United States consider intimidation attempts and ticipated pre-election violence.
advertisements were appealing had co-operated in every way. the establishmenta unofficial cmpty threats"
There is which
specula- that
showa "completo of these institu- for parcels for prisoners of war and had of development week-end Berliners would not lose their tion that escaped prisoners
in Chinese hands. The Brush mutual confidence in battle," sution K the tions of nerves.
war might be
the European comer
Red Cross Society had a large What could be done in Korea the Government munity correspond at their own He appealed
who, to West Ger guerillas
"show basic interests and will there stock of parcels in Japan, but many not to be
frightened announcement belt of no- either. for it was part of the growing activities
foro lend them every possible could not get them to British
prisoners, he added. Reuter. Army sald stretch
The Army
that the co-operation and support. along East Germany's coast, the Communists game to destroy
West
COMMON ENTERPRISE guerling swept down from the Information Ministry's
future of West Berlls, in its hills at midnight to loot a small
Moreover, Western defence is Ing of Canadian troops. to Eight men were rescued from nouncement revealed, explaining fity to make and deliver the unit camped in a gravel pit a a common enterprise in which
few miles Bay, that East German workers going
away from the island
other the governments of the United without prior south of Port Angeles
ceene of the crash, and two of to resorts on the coast or in the goods.
United Press. consultation with or
Kingdom and the United States As he spoke, City officials Allied troops. seriously injured, border area for holidays would told reporters that road trans- them were
are already partners through proval of the Canadian Five had minor injuries and have to get special passes.
membership of the North Atlan- Government.
The Ministry said that these port firms had already reacted one was unhurt.
the reprismis. ' Out of 460 were designed to tho Ometals at
naval air measures
lorries which left the city west- harder for has station said the plane, on a make
"war-wards before PRIGADIER Boatner
midnight yester- felt it necessary to ad-flight to Prince Rupert la Bri-mongering agents and spies to day.
ΣΠΟΡΟ
than half
were work in East empty. nottish Columbia, climbed to 100 carry out their monigh British troops to be over-zealous in their feet on its take-off, then sud-
Drivers had orders to get back Measures taken by East Ger- to West Germany before, the duties at Koje Island bedenly fell into the Bay United
many today. Included:
curtain cemts right down," City cause if there is any chance
officials tall.
re-
ap-
of their actions being mis-
AMPHIBIAN CRASHES
Press.
Until now, could visit Germany with their identification papers, an inter- zonal pass issued by the West- ern Occupation Authorities and а permit from the East German city they wished to visit.
Thousands monthly poured across the borders on business or private trips.
There were no restrictions West Berliners going to East Germany for visits.
SPECIAL PASSES
The three-mile man's-Land will
on
Am-
Germany.
also
00-
understood. "Communist Burmese Troops Capture
propagandists will mis. understand them.' " .Tho Commandant is, to say the least, a trifle naivo. Com- munist propagandists
care
very little what actions are actually taken by anybody: the propagandists usually Invent them and carry from thero. Much more to
on
Nationalist General
Rangoon, May 27,
Burmese Government forces fighting Chinese Na tionalists in the Kentung area, on the Burma-Thai (Slam) border, have captured Major-General Li Su-fai, second in command to General LI MI, it was announced today.
and Karen rebels in
between them."
to
German
over
faith in
the
and
Narrow Escape He Treaty Organisation,
From Death
Seoul, May 27. Arthur Науа Sulzburger, publisher of the New York Times on tour of Koren, had ́a nurrow escape from death today when a The West German frontier Marine helicopter made a forced police reported greatly re-landing: in
paddy North of a rico inforced guards on the castem Seoul.
border.
-Reuter
German
י
and
of re
These bonds are now streng thened by the system ciprocal
guarantees agreed to. between the member states of
Com-. the European Defence munity, between these member states and the Unlied Kingdom and also between these
mem--
ber states and member states of the North Atlantic Treaty: Or- ganisation,
For these various reasons, ka- side
of the 60-mile East-West Sulzburger was accompanied
by his son Anthur Jnr., a Marine eluding the fact that, these new In some spots, notably in the Reserve Second Lieutenant on guarantees will apply to the Coburg district, Soviet Army duty in Korea, and Harold states concerned only as mem guards have taken over from Hinton of the Times Washing-bers of one of the other of these organisations, the govern- People's Polleemen. Near Duderton Bureau,
No end
one was hurt in the ments of the United Kingdom Police rainforcements landing. People's
and the United States have an stadt, in Lower Saxony, big
ng has Sulzburger, arrived,, the Weat
wearing
the army-abiding Interest, frontier police station, reported combat fatigue clothing and government of France, in the boots, hiked with the others ing the European Defence Com- effectiveness of the treaty creat- the point at this time is tho Chinese Nationalist troops, district headquarters of Com-
JUST A LABE
across the paddy to the Ujongbu munity and in the strength and task of rendering it impos- commanded by General Li Mi munkst
Frankfurt, May 27. road where a jeep met them ond sible for the Communist were earlier this month reported Margus, 300 miles south CA German border police sold on took them to the Firat Corps integrity of that Community
Unified
it POWA on Kojo Island to to have been ralding and looting Rangoon, it was officially learn-Monday that
Accordingly, States Headquarters.Associated Press
action from Any whatever quarter threatens the remain complete masters of towns and villages on
Burm choro.
Constabulary troopers patrolling
integrity or unity of the Com- the camp, to imposs their eastern frontier. They are part
were filed the frontier between Bavaria Non-Smoking Twenty Karena
munity, the governments will own will when and how of
a force of
30 wounded. Communist and East Germany fred a up to 10,mialties were not immediately of shqla that day...
a valley
regard this he a threat to their who withdrow
"for the fun Grocer's Fortuno own security, they like, and to create in Chinese troops tolerable situations such as into Durma from Yunnan in known,
London, May 27. Communist rebels ambushed The incident, in which po no
David Greig, Brixton grocer, those which started with, After interrogation General an army train 100 miles north casualties occurred, was scirod and have succeeded, the L Su-fal was ordered to be of Rangoon by dynamiting the, on by Communist propagandists who left: £813,201 gross in his * } will published, today, vowed at kidnapping of General detained in a central, Burma milway track. Ono army escort and magnified to a point where 12 when he opened his first small Dodd. What is called for camp, it was reported.
was killed in the h
in the night with Radio Leipzig in the Bovidi
Zone reported last night that 600 that he would not smoke Forty-four Chinese Nationalist rebois
till be had made £10,000, now is home realistic and
roops were reported today to Rebels paralysed the train person were killed in shooting
* When he made. it be extended effective action; and this have been killed in a border service between Shwedo, 20 affinys.
the vow to another £10,000, need not in any way vio-
States Army
When he diet in January, his lato either, the letter or the clash with Burmese Govern-alice north of Mandalay, and The United
Myitkyina, capital of the tribal authorities in Heidelberg'sald ́an company controlled. 200. shape spirit of the: Geneva Con-
Kochin State, by blowing up a initial investigation revealed and at he had not moited vention.
vital railway bridge, Reuter, (CentŒ on Back 'page, Col·8) 1,Reuter.
1950.
thent forces.
Burma Government forces, in a surprise awcop, captured the
of it".
Tiny will act in accordance with Article Four at the North
Atlantic Treaty,
yo Moreover, they have each ex- pressed their resolve to station such forces on the continent of | Europe, Including the Federal Republic of Germany, as they deom necessary and appropriate to contribute to the jotai défence of the North Atlantic Treaty area, have regard to their obliga tions under the North Atlantie
The
bo
in spite of all barriers could be
done on a larger scale elsewhere, -Houter.
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