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significant events
Tarked the weekend ---- Mr Malenkov's Keneral umnesty to political and criminal prisoners in Russia, and the declared willingness of the North Korean and Chinese Com- munists to accept the UN proposal for an exchange of wounded prisoners of war. While they have no apparent connection. the simultaneous timing of the two announcements is intriguing, and may, per- | himps, be reasonably taken an indication that the
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new Soviet Government is prepared support its decired desire for peace') with parallel actions. It may be taken for granted
Important Principle Accepted By The
Communists
Moscow, Mar. 29.
A sign of readiness to accept the principles of voluntary repatriation in the proposed exchange of the sick and wounded prisoners in Korea was published by the Soviet press today.
A footnote under a Peking dispatch on the exchange said the Geneva Convention on war prisoners provides that "consent must be received from the sick and wounded prisoners ance of the POW exchange of war to repatriation while military hostilities are going on.'
that the Communist accent-
proposal was dictated by Moscow, and the action is probably part of a campaign to persuade the world that Russia is ready to modify her policies in order to bring about some improvement in her international relations. The important aspect about the Communists' offer to exchange sick and wounded prisoners of war is that the) note sent to General Mark Clark acknowledges the Geneva Convention. Thus, at the moment, the origial UN proposal is being accepted without qualifien-
tion.
"
The reports contained no indication whether the choice by prisoners on being sent back to their own side might be extended to the proposed resumption of the Korean truce negotiations.
When the negotiations ad-paramount role in clearing the journed indefeltely last Octo-atmosphere for any far-reaching ber, the main issue between the top-level discussions Mr Bohlen whether un-might be Instrumental in prrang- negotiators was willing prisoners should be ing when preliminary obstacles forced to return to the side from were removed. United Press. which they were captured.
IN CONSTANT TOUCH
Washington, March 29. The Soviet press published American officials said today Colling. prominently the texts of letters that Genera, Lawton exchanged between the com- Army Chief of Staff, murkien in North Korea and constant touch with the United General
Clark, Allied Nations Supreme Commander in Supreme Commander.
Tokyo, General Mark Clark, on the proposals for exchanging sick and wounded prisonera of
Burk
The usual Soviet sources had not yet commented on the new war in Korca... moves in the Korean war. But General Collins is acting on have the following
fooincte appear-
United States behalf of the suggested that talks shoulded below a Tass agency dispatch Joiny: Chiefs of Staff.
giving the texts be resumed at Panmunjom from Peking,
WHILE the
Reds
of the letters, "It should on the question of a Korean of armistice, it is to bo noted noted that
no
Postpones Holiday
London, Mar. 29.
Sir Alvary Gascoigne,
Ambassador British
in Moscow, has again post- it was poned his leave, authoritatively stated here sonight.
*Bir Alvary Gascoigne was due to come to Bel- tain on leave earlier this month, but postponed it
Office tonight could definite reason British Ambas-
Officials sold it Was
when Stalin died, be necessary for new instructions Article 109 of the to be sent do General Clark,
Ite then planned to take Geneva Convention ou prisonerg He has full authority to deal
his leave around Easter.
The that this is not made a con- of war obliged belligerents to
Foreign the Communists" accept- with dition for dealing with the repatriate
spokesman 11 and ance of his proposal for an in- severely
zive. wounded heavily
exchange of
no exchange
wounded prisoners re-mediate
why the POWA, The latest Com- gardless their ranks or numbers prisoners. munist
be after they have been nursed to a must
sinte regarded as the first sign of This articic also stipulates that does not appear to arise in con- caabling transportation repatriation of prisoners of war the Reds' willingness to break the Korean War dead-consent must be received from nection with wounded prisoners.
of
muve
the sick and wounded prisoners lock. It does not, of course, of
war to repatriation while that complete military hestalties are going settlement_will_
be on."
MURN
แ
resume
immediately reached. But
PROPOSAL WELCOMED if the negotintora cun! speedily and satisfactorily:
Diplomatic observers welcomed deal with the POW exchange the proposal to
the negotiations. proposal, the prospecta of semistice
They agreement on a cease-fire said they believed that chances would considerably improve, of agreement probably are better The Indian proposal is still now than in previous attempts. available for acceptance by Western observers, welcomed the Communists. It might the proposal as a token of ap- problem which even be slightly modified, proach to
its could lead eventually to an over- without sacrificing
sick
The questions of the forcible
ra-
The Geneva Convention ferred to In the Communists' specifically message yesterday states that sick and wounded prisoners-must-not--be-repat- riated against their will during awar-euter,
DEFINITE TEST
United Nations, Mar. 20. The first defalte test of whether the Soviet United Nations delegate, Mr Andrei Vyshinsky, has brought con- cillatory new instructions from the Malenkov regime will begin tomorrow morning.
The Big Five veto-wielding all settlement at the Korean powers have scheduled 1 Anal secret meeting on the deadlocked problem of picking a successer
basic principles, to meet situation. the wishes of the Reds. It
noteworthy that the The tendency was noted among Indian plan is based on the foreign diplomats to place the Geneva Convention which proposal in
iN
to the
the category of Trygve Liccreary-General,
Mr
on Wednesday the Russians take
the belief that an entirely possible reduction of tensioni new attitude may be taken eventually. by the Communista in any A Korean settlement, observers | 100, future negotiations.
sgreed, naturally would play a
Italian Senate In Uproar
Rome, Mar. 29.
giving
The Full Security Council meets on Tuesday. If nn agrees ment comes at the
Big Five session, the Western Allica arc ready to write "Anis" on Tues-, day to the current efforts to re- solve the issue.
OPTIMISM UNABATED
sador had again pul on from Mos- his departure cow. "But observers here that recent pointed out indications of a more co- operative Soviet attitude towards the West might make it useful for him to - remain ...____ in the Soviet
the present capital for Reuter.
Escapade With A Tram
Vienna, Mar. 29.
Coach On
View
The first pre-view of the Coronation Coach; in which Queen Elizabeth II 'will ride to Westminster Abbey, drawn by the famous light Windsor Greys, in the Royal Mews at Buckingham Palace ---London
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Made With Mau Mau Terrorists
Nairobi, Mar. 30.
A composite force of the Lancashire Fusiliers, the Kenya Regiment, the King's African Rifles, police and tribesmen with bows, arrows and spears last night con- tacted more members of the Mau Mau gang which raided Naivasha police station, but reports of the outcome were fragmentary.
The gang is believed to have split into small groups and to be making its way north.
Larryloads of Kikuyus round-
Tel. 21433.
Rhine Crossed By Tightrope Walker
A
Birzebourg, Mar. 20.
French tightrope walker. Charles Elleano, crossed the Rhine near here today on a cable stretched over the river.
A crowd of 15,000 people on both banks watched him make the 300 yard orOBS- Ing to the German sido in 25 minutes, then return la the same time.—steutor.
Gunner's
Brave Act
Seoul, Mar. 29.
A US Air Force gunner- up in the police and army saved the crew of a B-26 sweep on Bahati location early yesterday
were being ferried Invader bomber from aud- north to reserves, while screen-den death on Friday night Ing teams continued Interrogat-by disarming a 500-lb bomb ing about 1,500 detainees in a dangling from the plane's barbed wire surrounded police bomb bay.
camp here.
Police headquarters reported
that a Mau Mau "Intelligence Myron Youthey of Van Wert, team" last night Iddnapped an Ohio, volunteered to disarm the bomb which hung by its rear African woman and a Kikuyu shackle while the plane attacked home guard in south Nyeri
a position near Old Bally on the reserve and questioned them on western front, the strength and organisation of local home guard resistance groups,
FEIGNED DEATH
Shedding hle parachute and Mae West life jacket, - Youthey worked 40 minutes to secure the When the woman and her loose bomb and rewind its arn- companion refused to answering device. Then the plane a questions, a Mau Mau mandropped the lethal missile into killed her with a shotgun, police the set.
said.
The home guard escaped by
The pilot. First Lt. Vincent
felgning death when the gun Laferta of Szeramento, Cali
was turned on him,
Q
A Kikuyu boodman on European farm shot an African armed with a machete and cap tured two others when a gang of six tried to break into a store- house for food.
fornia, said the arming propeller was unwound so far that the crew was afraid to try to open the bomb bay doors and let the bomb drop.
Lt. Laferia said, "We were afraid that it might scrape against A gùng killed a headman in the doors and give the propeller Kikuyu location on the border just the few extra turus it needed of Fort Hall and Nyert districts to set the bank off. That was
Throughout
weekend: the first time in 40 missions I was
the
European volunteers and re- really shaken."-United Press. servists worked nonstop to erect barbed wire
barricades around and posts in
all police stations Nairobi.
All Europeans have been urged
to arm themselves if they are
not already
in possession
of
Queen Mary Lies In State pistols, revolvers and shotguns.--
LONDONERS PAY HOMAGE
London, Mar. 30,
The great pilgrimage to pay homage to Queen Mary, the Royal grandmother, who lies in state in historic West- minster Hall, went on through the night.
Yesterday 322,791 mournera Aled past the purple
cutafalque, lit by flickering candle light, in the vast stone flagged hall. But by midnight the queue, once a mile long, had dwindled to almost nothing.
Londoners were still, ever, braving the chill March wind to pay their last respects to the dead Queen.
In the small hours came bus
CHILDREN'S POSIEB
the foot of the coffin,
prosecutor Earlier, television
Accusation
Against US Embassy
Bagulo, Mar, 29. President Epidio Quiring of the Philippines today told the US Embassy to keep out of the country's Internnă politics,
At a press conference, he de nounced
Embassy for allegedly supporting the Op- position Nationalista Party in she current.bliter election campaign. #
A Viennese reveller who conductors on their way home Various gestures of goodwill, The West insists on a show-borrowed a tramcar for a from work, nurses just off duty calls for the non-forcible giving evidence of an improved down before Tuesday because four-hour tour of the city from hospitals, and laxi repatriation of prisoners,į international atmosphere. and it is this convention
over the presidency of the may escape punishment be- drivers. In that connection, dipicmals Security Council for April and cause of a loophole in the Many paused for а briet which the Communists now sympathetic to the United States with it the chance to hamstring law, his lawyer said today.
moment at the Cafafulque to declare they wish to seo welcomed the confirmation of Mr the
bow or..curtsey. enforced in the exchange of Charles Bohlen as Ambassador to
majority,
Service officera slow marched Observers, greatly encouraged Franz Ponweiser, once a tram wounded POWs, it is a con- Moscow. His arrival is expected by the notification that the Reds driver, now a night watchman, through the hall
and gave cession of considerable to mark the initial stages ul
"eyes lezi" at the bringing the
are ready to exchange sick and had a few drinks on the even-sharp Amerlenn-Soviel importance, and encourages relations back to normal with a wounded prisoners in Korea, ing of March 7. They gave him Standard-draped coffin.
Around it stood the stock, an irresistible urge to drive saw the issue of Mr Lic's FLIC-
still figures of breast-plated again. ceanor as another
dier area in which tram
the So he took one from the de- gentlemen at-arms and Yeomen the Russians could carry for
being detected. of the Guard, their heads in- ward their "peace" offensive pot, without
clined over old-time pikestaffs. with caught up without
away too much. When police
him four hours later he had a smiling Viennese citizens he lind picked full load of cheerful
Around the Catafalque were up at inns along his route. strewn wreaths and flowers. Quirino said that at a recent
Polica
the time Children who had entered the Embassy admitted at
dinner conference for that he had carefully observed hall earlier hat laid pories at given
Adlai Stevenson, all the traffle regulations.
several Nationalistes
were in- Now, the Vicuna In a first-swinging session, the Italian Senate today West plans to follow up
cameras vited but only one Govern- finds there is no law in Austria jook the splendour of the ment representative. passed the government's bitterly-fought electoral reform with a General Assembly re- against borrowing a tram or a combre_scche to the screens of
Eugenio, Perez, speaker of the despite frenzied Communist attempts to paralyse the solution asking Mr. Lle to with- railway engine. If an engine thousands of viewers. They Senate with the worst outbreak of violence in Pariia-draw the resignation which he gine, he can only be made to coffin from Queen Elizabeth and
driver borrows a rallway en saw the simple wreath on the House of Representatives, sald the US Ambassador should tendered on November 10 and mentary history.
the Duke of Edinburgh, which
deny
he has rumours that serve the rest of his term, until pay for the fuel.
reached some agreement with Ponweiser cannot be charged bare a card-"In loving memory Final opproval of the bill-nounced the "illegal" passage of next February,
officiala on the with endangering the Meanwhile, and a simultaneous vote of con- the electoral bill.
public from her devoted Lilibet and Opposition optimism over safety
candidacy of being wrongly In Philip."
Ramon Magsay.. Adence for Premier Alcido de
chances of truce The strike was called despite a
"Liliber" was the pet name by ay, Nationalista leader, Gasperi-brought an end to a warning by the Interior wins was unabated today. News en charge of the vehicle because he
is a fully trained driver and which the Queen, was known in Perez said Mr Spruance, the session that had set a new non-ter, Signor Mario Scelbe, that Moscow that the Russian news there is no evidence that he was her childhood by the Royal US Ambassador, must
"deny stop record of 97 hours and 35 | Hoovere measures would be papers and published the Geneva drunk to the point where the Family
the reporta or "It will be minutes.
law considers it dangerous.
Thousands of mourning: followed by important events”. Screaming. shouting Com- orders,
Laken to prevent publie distipulation on the
"voluntary" exchange of He could not be charged with Londoners :wniched Queen He did not explain the "im- munials and their Left Wing
the sick and wounded Increased driving without orders, because Mary's comin bome on a gun portant events" but It Socialist allies rofused
Shortly before the strike order, belief t
that the Red move was] he was no longer employed by | carriage from her Marlborough | belleved he was threatening to respond to the final roll call Signor do Casperi told, the genuine.
the city tram company. Theft House home in the Bill to ask for Mr Spruance's recall, and the vote was announced as Christian Democrats the govern-
Observers
ervers believed that this did not apply, as Ponwalser ob- the lying-in-state in a- proces- Opposition leaders dismissed 174 for the government, three ment - Was ready for any break in the persistent Rod viously h no intention of aton of guards, Royal Marines, | the. Government charges ал abstentions and none against. eventuality: "We have faith in opposition to giving prisoners stealing the tram.
a silly canard" and as an at- The Communists immediately the destiny of our nation which any chalco about returning home His lawyer mid that he had Behind the coffin walked the tempt to drag the Embassy retaliated against the vote by will never become a satellite, might provide an opening that naked the tram company for an four Royal Dukes-Edin!urgh | into political issues. calling nationwide general We are ready to battle ail those could lead to settlement of the climate of how much electric and Windsor, both in naval Ambhisador Spruance and strike for tomorrow.
who endanger the independence overalt prisoner disputo and current Ponweiser wod on his uniform, Gloucester In nillitary Embassy Comejala ... were The Communist « led General of our nation and the destiny of bring about armistice. - excursion, because he wanted to garb, and the young Kent in available for comment. Confederation of Labour des its people."--Unlied Press. | United Press.
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Naguib
No Trace Of
Missing Plane
Nairobi, Mar, 29.
Search planes tonight reported finding no trace of a Central African Airways Viking airliner
Replies missing with 13 people on board To Lloyd
today on a light from here to Blantyre, Nyasaland.
A United States courler, Mr W.-M.--Fisher, was among the eight passengers.
Cairo, Mar. 20. General Mohammed Naguib, the Egyptian Prime Minister,
The plane left here at 7.30 am, said here tonight that if the local time and was in radio con- Sudan chose unity with EgyPa tact with Nairobi airport until it the two countries would decide
Mt Kilimanjaro after passed their foreign polley together. which there was silence.
Eo was commenting
! statement by Mr Selwyn Lloyd, Search planes were sent out British Minister of State, at a from Dar-Es-Salam and Nairobi Khartoum Press conference that to search the wild area of the Egypt Would conduct the Pare Mountains about 150 miles Sudan's foreign affairs if the southeast of here where it is have Sudan decidect
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