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THE CHINA · ·MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11,- 1952.
WEST EUROPE'S DEFENCES Winner In UN I
Goal Not Expected To Be Achieved General Ridgway's Warning To Chiefs Of Staff
Défence Talks
Progressing
London, Deo. 10. Seven-nation Laika On
Middio
East defence *FC
2
rotnx on *satisfactorily. it was arounced In the House of Commons today. Mr Nigel Birch. Parlia- mentary Secretary to the Defence Ministry, disclos-
this in reply to written question, said he not in a position to further make any
slate- ments at this stage. ****The discussions were bring held on the basis of British proposals, which Include suggestions for the the establishment of planning board for 趄
·Middle East
anisation,
Theke
Defence Or-
proposals
were
scut to the governments of the United
States, France, Turkey, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa-Reuter,
GEN. SALAN
IN NASAN
Paris, Dec. 10.
The Atlantic Pact arīnies in Western Europe will number about 60 divisions at the end of next year, according to preliminary estimates consider- ed by the Pact's Military Committee, usually reliable sources said today.
This is 10 divisions short of the provisional aims for 1953 set by the Atlantic Council in Lisbon last February.
Roughly half of the 60 divisions will be în reserva. the same proportion as the reserva strength of the present 50 divisions allotted to General Matthew Ridgway, the European Supreme Commander.
оп
Bulld-up of the Allied air today reported to the Military
the forces will also fall a good way | Commlitér
progress short of the reported @gure of within their commands this $7,000 planes set at Lisbon as year,
the target for 1953.
They gave high praise, it is understood, to the performanco of Allled
tho servicemen in manoeuvres held within their commands,
These Agures are based
on
what NATO Rovernmente sal they could produce next year in their replies to the question- raire sent out last summer by he Permanent Council in Paris, the sources said.
The 13 Chief of Staff will tomperow alt in a joint Session with the Permanent Council of NATO under the Chairmanship of the Secretary-General, Lord
Culs In national rearmamentIsmay. programmes and the continued diversion of allied strength to The committee today approv....
ed a recommendation to ap the Middle East and Southeastpoint the British Admiral, Lord Asia are responsible for the Louis Mountbatten, fo n new cutg in the goals for Europe. naval sub-command in tho
The Netherlands hns
stated. said Mediterrancen, it was that she can countenance no in- Admiral Mountbatten to the crease in her defence spending. present Commander-in-Chief of
tho British The only hope of increasing
Mediterranean the effort in Europe will be a Flect. reduction of military commit- ment elsewhere, the sources
Paris, Dec. 10.
Commander-in-said. The French Chief in Indo-China, General Raoul Salon. today visited Nasan, fortified nirteld,
And
BRITAIN'S COURSE
For France and
.
the United
It was also stated that the committee approved o provi- sional programme for the con struction of new airfleldy and military installations in Europe next year. Unconfirmed reports
main French stronghold in the States there is little prospect of ut the cost of the proposed mountainous Thal country of this while the Indo-China and programme at more than £150
but
Korean wars continue.
million,
year,
northwest Indo. China, the
It was officially stated later French press agency reported
It might be casier for the tonight that General Ridgway from Hanol.
Fatrols pushing out of Nosan British, who still retain large told the Chiefs of Staff that
An he forces in the Middle East.
Was thoroughtly sailed Vietminh BER have met stronger
end to the Anglo-Egyptian dis- with the build-up of his forces resistance,
the expected large-scale Vietminh attack on pute now seems in sight and this this
will almost certainly the base is still -awaited.
French troops from the Red large River delta post of Lieu Dong troops frem
garrison. made four vain attempts to
sources Vietminh rebel But British break through
here a doubted whether Britain would forces they encountered in
transfer her
Middle Bortle towards a neighbouring fgree to
East servicemen to Europe. She village,
Lieu Dong, about nine-and-a- coutheast half miles
of Thai Binh in the south of the delta, was lost and recaptured by the French three weeks ago.
Further north; a French ro- connaissance company took 54 prisoners when it stumbled on 21 Vietminh political-military meeting, south of the Hanoi, Haiphong road.-Reuter.
mean a But he warned; "Neverthe- evacuation of Britain's less the forces available to më,
the Sucz Canal are still not sufficient to give the necessary security to the inember nations of the alliance."
Reuter.
known to be apprehensive
The Saar
Herr Hollman, the Saar Prime Minister, who retains hila post following the victory of his party tha Pro - French Christlan People's Parly in the elections for the Baar Parliament The winning party polied 55 per cent of the
voles.—Express Photo..
Gigantic Scheme To Go Ahead
On
Gold Coast
London, Dec. 10.
Agreement having been reached in principle among all the parties concerned, a White Paper will be published sogn, outlining the Government's proposals for proceeding with the Volta river pro heject to mine and smelt aluminium in the Gold Coast. It is estimated to cost more than £200 million, Foreiga, and is likely to prove the greatest single colonial Finance and Defence Ministers development project ever undertaken.
ACHESON STATEMENT
Washington, Dec. 10, The Secretary of State, Mr for additional expenditure will Dean Acheson, said today fall on her when West Ger- did not expect the December 15 many's contribution to the ex-meeting of the penses of Allied troops is next Pact duc.
In
The
North Atlantic
of Council.
about
for
DELEGATES CELEBRATE
AN ANNIVERSARY
United Nations, Dec. 10.
This is the fourth Human Rights Day for the United Nations and the delegates are celebrating,| it with words instead of music.
Usually the U.N. puts on a symphony concert
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can muster, to honour the anniversary of its adop tion of the Declaration of Human Rights.
But this year the economy- Mr Evatt is now on the Op- conscious UN, took a look at its position sido of Australia's pocketbook end at the protests Parliament and the U.N. is a. of taxpayers and decided not to long way from approving a spend the $40.000 necessary to covenant on human rights. convert the General Assembly
Some friends of the declarallon, room into a huge concert hall.
was which is not legally binding on Instead, the Assembly
member nailons, have about 'called into cession to hear abandoned hope that they
speeches praising the declara- will get the nations to agree n
A covenant,
ant Le suit holds the Mr Trygvo Lie
tion."
Times and men have changed
night
YVONNE Do CARLO SPHILIP FRIEND A
海上女霸王
since a debate-weary General post of Secretary-General but Assembly at a late session in Paris Palais Chaillot approved the claration, 40-0.
he has resigned and is waiting 12, F. INVITATION
do
the decision of the Big Five on 13, 8. Johnny Belinda
a successor. The betting here 14. B. Lure of the Wilderness
de is that nothing will be dose 15. M, On. Our Merry, WAY
about a new Secretary-General18, T. Lydia malley -ja unul
year.—Associated 17, W. Carayan Press.
It was not unanimous. The six members of the Soviet bine abstained after losing a bitter battle to postpone action until the 1949 Assembly. The Soviet Foreign Minister,
Andrely Vyshinsky, sald the declaration did not go for enough for the Soviet Union but he did not yote against it. There were slx in the Soviet camp, in those days but Yugoslavia broke away shortly afterward.
Saudi Arabia also abstained on that vote because the declara- tion acknowledged the rights of any one to change his religion and this violated Mostem pre- cept.
MRS. KOOSEVELT
South Africa, which has been in hot water almost since the founding of the U.N. on charges of discrimination against minori- ties or races, abstäined because the declaration "goes too far,"
Some of the veteran delegates who had a hand in shaping that document still are with the U.N. Others have
fields.
gone
on to other
next
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-aboard-ship-en-route home from
the present Assembly, full of
bitterness and anger at the U.N. for approving an Indian resolu
delegates said,
tlon which,
wor
to a metile- would show the way Vyshinsky denounced the reso- ment of the Korean war. M. |lution as too American for him. angry because the He is also Assembly abruptly rejected his own plan for ending the Korman
war.
of
throtica..
One authoritative source sald to reach very great conclusions
Mara Franklin D. Roosevelt, today Britain ig more likely to on plans for Atlantic defence
It will be tackled by a unique] from dollar sources will be
widow of one of the founders concentrate on rebuilding her in 1953.
partnership of public and pri- crested. The cost of dollar strategie reserve in Britain,
of the U. N. and a delegate at Questioned at his Press con- vate enterprise.
aluminium iş rapidly approach-
Assembly every regular sum, the
that ference
since picture
prospects
It is faces NATO next year is
to set up a | Ing $100 million a year, and is one NATO, Mr Acheson said it had Volla River Board, which will able
proposed
the organisation was formed in to rise substantially 1946, stands out in American Moscow, Dec. 10. of making good and improving been hoped the meeting could be composed of representatives further. The planned output of
minds as the foremost champion Faik Huseyin Horar, the new her present strength in Europe complete the annual review of of the British Government, the the new plant is 210,000 tons a
She sat the declaration. She Turkish Ambassador to the in order not
but Gold to prejudice the defence targets for 1953
Coust Government, year, well in excess of our pre- Soviet Union, presented his internal security of her mem- this was not proving possible.
three months of Social Aluminium. Ltd. of Canada, and sent unperts;. credentials today to Soviet Pre-bers by reorming at the expense
It t had taken longer than was the British Aluminium Co., Ltd.,.
meetings in Paris in For the Gold Coast, there will sident Shvemik in the Kremlin. of national solvency.
to get datu
1948 to help push the declara- expected
and
to manage the entire develop be the opportunity of integrated tion through and was in her *Five members of the Turkish
two Supreme analyses from member Pact's
coun- ment.
agricultural and industrial deve-
scat in the Assembly Hall when Embassy staff accompanied him. Commanders, General Ridgway tries required is complete the
A major share of the financing lopment over a large area on a | and*Admiral' Lynde McCormick, review.
it was approved.. will foll on the British Trea- | scale comparable with the She is still on the job and Therefore, be added, there
only yesterday could be only preliminary con-y, followed by Aluminium T.V.A. and similor American
repeated her Lid. of Canada, with both the projects; and
advice to Soviet delegates to sideration of the defence pro- Gold Coast Government and For the compoules, new pro- stop shedding crocodile tears jects at the meeting.-Reuter. British Aluminium Co. making duction will be developed at a
about Injustice in the United substantial contributions.
The point
where bauxite, the States. She told them that at project which will necessitate aluminium ore, is found cheek least in this country a man can the building of five new towns, by jowl with cheap hydro- criticise his, Government with- will mean that.
electric power in sufficient out being hanged for I. SAVING DOLLARS
volume to smell it. The bauxite For Britain, an alternative now mined in Jamaica has to *Sterling Arta supply of be carried to Canada for smelt-
aluminium now available only ing.
--Reuter.
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tput an
Occupation Land Deal
Appeal
Loudon, Doc.' 10.
a
The Privy Council in London reserved Judgment -on Malayan appeal against a land settlement payment in Japanese occupation dollars,
...
The whole approach to the project is therefore strictly
HATOYAMA Practical and economic.
FACTION'S
...
DEMAND
Tokyo, Dec. 10.
The appeal was brought by P.C.R.L. Letchumanan Chet- tar-to whom in 1941 lands at Machap, Malocco, were con- The newspaper Asahi sald veyed by the respondent, A.LS. representatives of the Hato- Sadayappa Chettfar, by way of yama faction of Japan's! mortgage to secure repayment dominant Liberal Party of $20,000.
tonight and decided to demand reinstatement of two expelled
In two amounts of $10,000 and $10,000
wero returned to him.
met
to
A FAR CRY
The acting chief of the United States delegation when the declaration was approved was John Foster Dulles. He had been disappointed that Autumn when All parties have been anxious, the defeat of Governor Thomas proceed with the scheme, but Truman kept from him appoint
Davey by President
Harry negotiations have been over-
at ment as Secretary of State. Mr shadowed by the debaclo Abadan, The Gold Coast Gov-Dulles is now aboard the 'cruiser ernment, moving rapidly (as Zelena la the Pacific contering they believe) towards Dominion with President-elect Dwight D.
Secretory Eisenhower 10 status, have been anxious avoid not only the fact but the State-designate.
Horbert V. Evalt, Australian appearance of any infringement
and President Foreign Minister of national Independence.
the 1948 Accmbly, hailed the adoption of the declaration and expressed hope that the UN. would soon make legally a covedant of binding through human rights.
LONG-TERM SECURITY · The participating companies have been mindful of the need long-term security for for
· Respondent repaid the sum in members.
capital investment on such a Japanese occupation currency The faction is headed by scale. But a solution has been
found which saizies all eldes, Tho two title deeds Ichiro Iatoyama. and the
The scale of the project is members, Ichiro Kawano and 24 Tanzan Ishibashi, were expelled enormous. The dam for the Appelant contended that the just
to the prior
General hydro-power plant will create a $10,000 should be revalued in Election in October for criticis lake 2,000 square miles in area.
will Itself
be asi
big the Debtor ing the policies of the Yoshida The plant accordance with
as the Ham Rond plant at Bir and Creditor Occupation Period Government. Ordinance of 1948.
Asahi said Hatoyama's In Europe. Also planned are an mingham, which is the biggest 100
are pressing their was demand at this stage to take electricity grid (25 million), a port at Tema (E10 advantage of the need for Party lew
Irrigation million), and an in the current diet session. million),,
scheme (£5 million).
aluminium companies,
超 It operating
A decision in his favour by followers the Malneca High Court Inter reversed by the Malayan Court of Appeal.-Reuter.
Alleged Murder By Poisoned Sweets!
Tokyo, Dec. 10. Takya palice today transferred
Calon parties are giving The.
the Yoshida Government a hard
ime.
understood
Mr Hetoyama bowed to through a jointly-owned sub- Premier Shigeru Yoshida for sidiary, will undertake the mla- of the bauxite, and, tho building and operation of the plant
Liberal Party leadership follow-
the October election. healection gave the Liberal
Party
of
U.S. Rejects Protests
of
Washington, Dec. 10, The United States has told representatives of Britain, Franco and other shipping powers that she can make no alterations in the elaborate now system far ahecking for "Becu- all rity" and "Communism," scamen entering American ports after. December 24.
The British, French, Swedish and Italian Embassies have for several weeks been protesting to the State Department against
a thin margin of 14 in the The Gold Coast Government the now regulations, They aro Toshio Tanaka and his wife to 406-member Lower House.
have already · decided to go
So being introduced to enforce the the Prosecutor's Office on charger Mr Hatoyama is reported to ahead with the construction of new McCarran Act designed, of murdering Toshio's mother have about: 40 followers, su- the new part at Tama and has am other
to pre objectives. among | with poisoned sweets,
cient to swing the balance in begun to recruit staff. Recent went Cymmunists and other In Toshio's wife confessed the favour of the combined opposi- forecasts Indicate that mub-secure posmen: from landing in helped him kat his mother be-Ton and potably overlow stantial diliput can be expected the United States, aveti for
the vine altansamlet but the Government Associated in considerably long time than brict abord leave periodam
tha tm-years eriginally planned, Razer,
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