British Pact With Burma

Loudon, Jan. 8.

A new Anglo-Burmese delence agreement is to be negotiated to take the place" of the present pact which was signed in August, 1947, and which is, now regarded as being in some respecta out of date, it was learned tonight,

The

The Burmese Govern- ment

ед today rayo $310 necessary 12 months' notice to terminate the current agreement. One of its main provisions arranges for the presence

British of Military Mission in Burma to help train the Burmese Smilitary forces.

It is expected that a new treaty will be completed before the expiry of the 12 months notice to end

present agreement, France-Presse,

the

ROCKET TO MOON

BY 1963

Expert's Forecast

Berkeley, Calif., Jan. 5. It is highly probable that a

into

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY; JANUARY 6, 1953.

Ridgway Gives Warning On

NATO Forces

"NOT SATISFACTORY"

Paris, Jan. 5.

General Matthew B. Ridgway, Allied Supreme Commander in Europe, said today that his forces would suffer "grievous blows" if the Russians at- tacked within one year to 18 months.

"I do not mean that they would be defeated,"

he added.

General Ridgway,_discussing the state of his North Atlantic Treaty Organisation forces at a Press conference, said that progress in building up the Allied bulwark against, Communist aggression couraging.

enemy

"But I do not regard, the pro- gress as satifactory in the light of the mission assigned to me

the light of and In capabilities," the General said.

"I have never used the word satisfactory. And if bad

I

used wouldn't have meant it." During a major summary of

situation of

of the forces he the commands throughout democra tie Western Europe, the Allied Commander-in-Chief was asked

fo

defeat.

was

ch-

course, includes numerical strength."

He explained that the fewer soldiers

the

outnumbered

to Western forers would hirve tem n Soviet thrust the higher the Allied casualties would be.

Also, he said, his best trained become men would probably the first casualties.

rocket will travel to the most whether his armies in the direct Juin, bis French. commander on path of the Communist sweep would be doomed

"I believe that in a hypothell- cal case the stated land forces blows," would suffer grievous General Ridgway replied.

"I do not mean

|

that

they

within 10 years, says a Univer- sity of Califomia researcher problems of supersonic fight through the atmosphere.

The first one probably won't carry passengers, but space ex- ploration by humans may follow soon afterward, Dr Richard G. would be defeated. Casualties Folsom, told interviewers. He will reflect the degree of com- Js, bead of the University's bat effectiveness and that, of Mechanical Engineering DIVI- sion here.

Also meen rockels will need a space platform 1,100 miles above the earth, Dr Folsom said, but a rapid forward development in rocketry might bring this about In the same

way that aviation spurted ahead suddenly a few after the era of the Wright

year

Dr Folsom and associates are working with the world's first aupersonic wind tunnel designed to test models under conditions which

would be found near the

Disabled

Last To Be

Laid Off

London, Jan. 5.

a

General Ridgway refused to on the statement at- comment tributed to Marshal Alphonse the vital central front, that in

of the event

a war the Russlang could be in Paris within 24 tanks had West-East the lunged borderline in Germany.

He

to Boy also declined

Marshal Juin Was whether representing an official opinion or a personal one,

But he commented;

days after their

across

"I have the utmost confidence in this soldier."

MAIN PROBLEM

The main problem facing him in 1953 was to increase the number of troops on the ground in Europe and to improve the already here, quality of those General Ridgway sold.

Discussing economy cuts in defence programmes by the Allied countries on this side

of

the Atlantic, he said that the in Britain today the "weakest clyli authorities had a right to no longer go to the wall"',, ac-

cut whatever recommendations top of the earth's atmosphere. cording to researches by the he and other military authori

Some of his projects aro spon- Manchester

Guardian, which it.

to their may present local es sored by the Office of Naval Re-reveal that in time of

governments respective search and the Omeo of Scientific trade recession,

when

unern- He and his staff were quite Research-Associated Press. ployment rises, the disabled aware of the economic dificul- and women employees are les which the civil authorities

the last to be laid off.

give as the reason for cutting This Is a purely voluntary military goals-United Press.

Mon

umong

RECORD NUMBER affair companies

OF BIRTHS

New York, Jan. 5.

MAL

Perfectly free to y

which are obliged to dismiss redundant em-

PRESS COMMENT ployees because business has

Leeds, Jan. 5. declined are

The West had to face the off their employ

the Russian on the usual probability that The stork wore himself to a nattern of "last hired, Arst fired", forces were being expanded or frizzle again in 1952, delivering but examination of unemploy that preparations were being on estimated 3,870,000 bables to

them, to expand establish on all-time high in the Cheshire and the Peak District Yorkshire Post said today.

ment statistics in Lancashire, made history of the United States.

"It will be necessary to press Statisticions for the

shows, states the Guardian, that Metro-

in practice they tend to retainen with rearmament however polisen kue Insurance Company disabled men and women to the long it may take and regardless

last,

aald that this was the Blxth "successive" year that there has

the

of the possible unpopularity of DI In the cotton textile industry the process until it is certain that

been a baby crop in excess the tendency, us revealed in the the Western powers hayo reach.

3 500,000, but they added that

the pace may be slower during this and following years because of the downward trend in the

number Press.

129

position of sinn bloc," this Conservative

aper suggested. paper

local unemployment figures, is cd the desired

to keep the role of dis-employ- strength in relation to the Rus ment lower for the disabled than of marriages.-United for the able-bodied. United

Press.

A British Crossword Puzzle

2

ACROSS

3 Went down (8).

7 Irish kako (5),

8 Works (8).

18

25

10 Eloquent speaker (8).

13 Expunged (7).

16 Exclamation (4).

17 Stir up (7).

18 Contrives (7),

20 Parched (4).

21

Meat Bail (7).

20 Jacket (0),

27 Purloined (8).

28 Watch over (8).

29 Way in (8),

14

4

5

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24

26

DOWN

1° Deluge (0).

2 Rustic (B).

Young branch (5).

Agile (4).

5 Plug

of unsmoked

(0). Refrain (0).

tobacco

9 Esteem above others (6).

11 Alludo (5).

12 Lukewarm (5).

14 Firm wish (0).

15 Divert (5).

10 Fish (5),

10 Mark with spots (0),

22 Marsh plant (5),

19 Colour (4).

23 Waste meat (5).

24 Wear away (6).

25 Greek letter. (4),

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Christmas 1952, was a memorable occasion for six-year- old Valerie Glass, from the world's loneliest twland, Tristan da Cunha. Valerie, who is now IPring with her grandparents. In Yorkshire, gazes with wonder at the first Christmas tree she has ever seen. She also took part in the B.R.C.'s Christ- mas Day broadcast, linking the British Commonwealth.

Express Photo,

Partition The Most

Realistic Solution

Of Trieste Issue

London, Jan. 5. Britain still believes that the simplest and most realistic solution to the

of seven-year-old problem Trieste is the partition of the territory between Italy and Yugoslavia, authoritative sources said today.

The line of demarcation would approximately follow the present frontier between zone "A", controlled by the United States and Britain, and the Yugoslavia dominated] zone "B",

STATEHOOD

FOR HAWAII

PREDICTED

New York, Jan. 5. "On the other hand Do Four powerful Western Sena genuine opportunity should be tors. after visiting the missed of coming to a settle-President-elect, Mr Dwight D. ment with the Russiaus."—Neu-

Elsenhower, today, announced that n bill to make Hawali a new State would be introduced in Congress next week, They predicted its passage.

ter.

Airline's Bookings

'On Record

London, Jan. 5. An "Indicator," 22ft. by 18ft., capable of recording the book- ings for 32,000 nights in a month, is soon to be installed by British European Airways.

A

Sixty keyboards in London- and, later, throughout the coun- with a try-will be in touch central control board. As booking is made it will be flashed

the board. to When a flight is full agents will be notified und booking avoided.

over-

The control board is not a "magic mind." It will be, in part, hand-operated.

million wires will connect the stations with reservation head- quarters.

the

The cost of the machine is jabout £20,000,

A similar one In the United States, at ten times

worked on "totalisator"

principle,

where- the total bookings were Bashed electrically, on to board from stations throughout the country. But it was found Impractical.

Interest is being shown in the

Zone "A" included the port of Trieste itself and is largely Italian in character.-

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BUT GIVES A WORD OF ADVICE TO "IKE"

New York, Jan.

The visit to New York of the British Prime Minister, Mr Winston Churchill; is the subject of an editorial in today's Daily News.

It said, "We doubt that many Americans will object in any way to Mr Churchill's visit....He is the greatest Englishman of his time and quite possibly the greatest of all time up to how.

We do hope, though, that agreeable awards of Mr Elsen- MrElsenhower. will keep hower's new role that this groat American Interests first and man should be th offée at the foremost in his mind. He can time he becomes President, Any be sure that Me Churchill will pleasure ho will have ir bo thinking and working for welcoming the Prime Minister Britlah interests first and last,” is one in which every American

The clitorial pointed to citizen can join,"

Mr Churchil speculation that WUI

Eisenhower warn against an intensification of the

Me

"A LITTLE ODD"

The New York Thies bld "a Korean war and will likely hearty

welcome"

to

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seek devaluation of the dollar Churchill, adding, "A measure of 12, M. The Wicked city. "Or some other method

of this man's hold on our affectioni 1), strengthening the British Pound lies in the completo national

at our regering Korea, "Mgreeting he will receive.

Eisenhower was elected largely man

There was never an English-

moro English Churchill but if

hyono.. over English-

than

on his promise to do his damnest to see the Korean war

could claim wound up honourably and as American nationality it is he soon as possible. We hope that Terming Mr Churchill's visit nothing and nobody will be"a little odd" at this time when able to swerve him from thot "Washington is all in a dither purpose."

with the new Congress starting The Herald-Tribune said, "It

and a

In administration of the

a change must Eurely be one

its process, the editorial continued,

"CLEAN-UP” FOR BIG LINERS

London, Jan. b

The world's largest liner, Britain's 83,000 ton Queen Elizabeth, is being prepared for the big part she will play in Coronation year.

For the next six weeks, hundreds of men will be at

work in and around the ship

huge dry dock.

in the Southampton.

at

They will put more than seven tons of paint of the ship: all her 13,000 carpets, curtains and bedspreads will be cleaned stio and overhauled before sails again.

The laundry list will include 120,000 pieces of lineb and 8,000 blankets.

Before the Queen Elizabeth on the Atlantic in Zone "B", the larger sector. other ships, of contains most of the Slovene the Cunard flest will be in dock populated hinterland and the for their "Coronation polisa" coastal region of Capodistria.

The Mauretania, Britannic, -The-Foreign Ofce-denied, Media,--Parthia and Franconia however, that there is any formal are all on the spring-clean"

the end of March,

British plan for solving the dis- 1st and work will go on until

pute between Italy and Yugo- slavia or that British and United States troops would shortly be withdrawn from zone "A",

Under the Italian peace treaty Trieste was to become an inter- national free territory with its own administration.

Senator William Knowland of California and Chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Com- mittes in the new Senate, said, spckesman for the group, that he could not speak for Mr Elsenhower but he believed that Kawall will gat statehood at a Italy. reasonably early date.

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Aussies Want Mr Attlee

"Winnie's old friend Ike is. hardly ready to talk decisively on the great fasues of Korea, defence of the West or the dollar gep....but the present visit is

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Anglo-American and Yugo- slav occupation troops. were to govern it only until the in-

Melbourne, Jan, 3. stallation of a civilian goverrior.

The Australian Labour Party In March 1048, when Yugo today invited the .. British slavia

the Soviet Labour was within

Party leader, Mc orbit, Britain, France and The Clement Attlee, to open its United States issued a joint biennial conference at Adelaide declaration expressing their bo- on January 10. lief that the whole of the ter The invitation was cabled to ritory should be returned to the Party President, Mr E. Reece, and the General Secre- Marshal Tito's tary, Mr P

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very warm welcome if he ca three powers claims of Italy and Yugoslavia come to Australia," Mr. Connelly for the territory should be said. He added that Mr Attice would be the first British selled directly between them.

Labour Party The Foreign Secretary, Mr leader to attend a Authony Edm, is expected to conference in Australia. discuss the matter with Marthal Mr Attico is now in New first Delhi. He leaves for Rangoon Tito when he pays his visit to London next March tomorrow to attend the Asian

Socialist conference.-Reuter. Reuter.

Mr Knowland sald that the browing

group did not discuss statehood for Alaska,

be

He hoped that there would no Allbuster against the new bill to grant statehood to Hawall,

Fillbuster killed statehood for Alaska in the last session of Congress.--United Prese.

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Children Join KAI TAK DRAMATIC SOCIETY

Air Police

London, Jan. 5. The U.S. air force in Britain have enrolled 15 children in their Air Police. The children, all under 18, have been formed Into an Air Police Squadron.

The 10 girls wear, white

new British machine by Ameri-berts, and the five boy white can airlines,

Student Conference

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helmets. When on duty, they all have an "A.P." armlet.,

The squadron is stationed at Burtonwood, the American "alt- bare in Lancashire... All the boys and girls are children of A Philippine Japanese študent | Us, servicemen. conference will be held In Manlin by the middle of this AUS. air force officer sald, month to discuss the future ro.The children's duties, include lations of the two countries, it keeping discipline among their was reported today, as fellow pupils, giving first bid to Four Japanese student dels children wend enforcing däd gates will attend the conference, safely, They attend ; ars(-ald

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