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COMMENT OF
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CHINA MAIL
No. 35643
Established 1845
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1953.
U.S. CARRIER WRECKED
The Big Three i BY EXPLOSIONS & FIRE
Talks
THE weekend deliberations
T
of the Big Three Foreign
Ministers may not produce decisions of spectacular
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detailed tlley, but they should materially help remove much of the con- fusion which has existed between Britain, the United States and France concern- ing Bir Winston Churchill's proposal for top-level Big Four discussions. It 5 meeting which holds found possibilities, und fature developments internation affairs
pros?
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very largely depend on the Inestire f agreement
which can be reached. It
Is not without sigüiflennee
18 Known Dead
Aboard Leyte
SOME TRAPPED
BELOW
DECKS
Boston, Oct. 16.
The huge aircraft carrier, Leyte, was
that "authoritative sources" wrecked by a series of explosions and a
in London have, on the eve
of the talks. disclosed a fast spreading fire while being recom- Churchill Plan for dealing missioned today.
with the cold war. If the
vlear 21
report Ineskk deinils, it At least 18 Navy men were killed nough and estimates of the burned and injured
ranged from 20 to 90.
given general picture for the
appreciate
world to
That
Sir Winston is determined, if it is humanly possible, to bring the four great Powers into conclave in a supreme hid world peace.
t
Nor
ensure
is this to be based on a policy of appeasement any more than
Aze
to be accompanied
by
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The 27,000-ton craft that carried a wartime complement of 2,000 officers and men was being taken out of mothballs at the Navy shipyard An- nex in South Boston, when the explosions and fire occurred.
Mossadegh Is Too Old To Be Hanged
Toheran, Oct. 16. Ex-Premier Mossadegh, who is under arrest here, will be sentenced to life Imprisonment
found
gullty of
པ་
the charges against him, according to ometal military rouror
here today.
A
of the
military
spokesman
pointed out that Article 40 the Iranian Penal Code provided for the substitu- Hon of
life imprisonment
for the death penalty in the case of condemned per- sons of more than 60 year
of
Mowadegh age. more 1h: 11 72.- France- Preme.
POWs In
Angry Rebellion
Bloodshed Danger
every
..
North Korcars threatening
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American Families Begin Evacuation Of Trieste
Trieste, Oct. 16. American families drove out of here by car today, as the Allied 'evacuation continued against a background of uncertainty about future plans.
Wives wept as they bade farewell to husbands and fathers kissed goodbye to their children as a ten-car American convoy carrying the first American land
route evacuees left this crisis city,
The American troops here have a total of around 2,000 women and children to send home, while the British have about half that number,
The twenty American The compromise solution will
children who have so far gone.
as
hitherto
Losk
Withholding Atom Test Secrets
(From Chapman Pincher)
Melbourne, Oct. 16. Secret details of Britain's
families who left by car today emETKO
វា three-Power Munsan, Oct. 17. brought to about 300 the num-mediation plan if the United
ber of American Angry rebellion threaten
and States and Britain agree, women
The sources sald that at the ed to spread into
The British here are working | moment the three Countries compound of anti-Com- on a timetable which demands views were very close on this munist war prisoners today that all the women asd children point. But they admitted that (Saturday) amid growing leave in dve trainloads begin-It would be a far harder
to get the Rome and Belgrade fear that controversial ex-ning on Sunday afternoon.
The Americans have no such Governments to agree. can, continue table, but it was learned from planations
France
had
Food only at the risk of blood- a highly-phrod American source aside from the Anglo-Ame:jean shed..
today that the 709 American consultations following the two families have co be "packed and Powers' decision last week (0 A violent clash between ready to go" by the middle of hand over the zone in Trieste to atom-bomb test are being Iz diat guards and anti-Red November,
Italy. These are thece British batka- Ag late
M. withheld from the Austra Wedricsday, 03 mass break-out on Friday was ons here. The 2nd Battalion Boult told the French Cobinet lian Government, I learned because the of the Royal Lancashire Regi-that he intended to keep cutside here today. Nations
the Trieste issue since France had Repatriation mont will return to Britain,
The Australian Chiefs of Staff, "come was reliably lawned tonight, not been consulted before the some of whom back to Commum" lectures. Suffol's Rodment was believed did not want to share in respon-weapons power
The First Battalion of the Anglo-Amenienn decision and tests, will be told the bomb'a But the Commission will iry
#ad <stimated to be going to Germany.
sibility for the outcome. TIGHT-LIPPED ¡rgair today.
But France now feels that men apart from Sir
military value. But only five William American
tonight a world Power she cannot ignore Penney know the full interal sources On thousand Chinese POWs Saigon, Oct. 16.
scheduled to meet with were tight-lipped on future dis- the explosive atmosphere in an structure of the weapon the
of American Vietnam
political National Communist
officers positions
forces aren closely affecting the whole
ure ali British and their names here, but it was believed many Atlantic alliance.
are being kept secret. here starting this morning,
of them would join the occupa- Turkey, which supports Pre- Spuired by the North Korean tion forces in either Austria or sident Tito's plan for a con
ference on Trieste between the United officers said that the
Yugo building of the weapon but they States, Britain, the dawn stavio and Italy, has also told ton needed for the part con-
MAY
averted
only
VIETNAM
LEAVE Commission called off UNION
The
A score of ambulances and a small army of
resolved approach to Russia is Navy and civilian disaster workers converged on
the scene.
The dead and injured were placed in a nearby dispensary, the Carney, Boston City and QIR Winston Churchill wants Chelsea Naval Hospitals.
threats or polemies.
be
collective viewpoints,
On
contrary
yet: DO
The Bakon he chief, Johi "The fre
or below
are
the frontier here in
witnessed the
Hundreds of scientists were involved in the designing ond
| were given only that informa-
"battle of wills" vjetory, Allied Germany.
As today's convey drove Chinese) may push their resistance fur-mist, American Military Police France that she would welcome cerning ** assembly was carried
He said his men could only get | and the Boston Fire Department shoulged that the refusal the set day of expiaparus the American " said iterenco
yard
the Marines,
Koreans
throats
The
The remaining 4,000 North/Dulation was meanwhile calm.
Koreans in other compounds Three" Foreign Ministers
shouted and sang their defiance. GUARDS' MANOEUVRE
in London that might make their future Just a little less uncertain than in the past few days.
con-
24-Hour Strike Called
them.
out by the "secret slx" under Sir William Penney's personal guidance.
com-
Now that the atomic
Mark One bomb has ponent been successfully tested, the guided missile experts at Farm borough, Hampshire, are stepping. up the
the work on a streamlined contained to enable tho
weapon to be directed at its inrget.
Congress today that Vietnam, largest of the States of French Indo-China, should leave the French Union.
ther than they did two days the leaders of the Western
But when the debate on the or explosion ap Independence question was
ago and refuse to attend lectures manning the frontier post barred a French initiative towards a democracies to be able to Sampson, emerging from theparently started in the engthe operasi later tonight,
photographers from taking pic peaceful solution.. (or even attempt mass break. reach the minds of the make and Bame-filled area of room
several
tures of the departing families The three Foreign Ministers Unlike Chinese decks some-delegates urged the adoption
POWs who ol
continue 10 and prevented reporters from will leaders in the Kremlin, and the Leyte, said: "There are where."
sturdy the sit-down strike gavo up their aditional cũnuges to temper the
speaklug to them.
Trieste problem ita the it is quite clear that he number of bodies strewn around
"These All available ambulances were refusal to take part in the Union, after seven hours on Thursday.
that possibility of Western mediation bust where we are fighting the fire. believes this ear
are not things They but
we can't get then out now."hurried to
want to when they resume their the Navy shipyard those
North be changed
unruly necomplished by
true condi 4,000
sec and hear
here 011 Saturday Jeaders getting together nown "as for tw the' fourth deck asked for Red Cross uid.
their barbed Military Police Captain Hona
participation in the Union, warmed againal
morning-Reuter. and with Indian and exchanging Individual and there are two decks below Gas masks were sent to the the main condition being revision wire fences
guns pointed at thele
pre-dominantly Italian of the French constitution to give and
where we don't know how many scene.
a clco: definition of the French threatened a mass escape.
for any decision by the A decision
this im- ure tauppal."
It is officially A few newsmen and photo-
estimated that Union acceptable to all interested portant question may not
First atomic weapon to be from the Foreign &aphers who reached the repair the cost of building each of the parties. emerge
issued to the R.A.F, will be a before the guards
Some of the delegates stressed were carriers in the Leyle's class the Ministers' meetings; on the placed on duty were stopped as
cannot face her
guided bomb dropped from on Essex class-was nearly $70,- that Vietnam
without external difficulties
Terni, Italy Oct. 17. aircraft the reactions of they returned to the outer
000,000 (about £25,000,000).
and capable of being Kates,
Workers of all political parties directed Mr Foster Dulles and M.
support. Film and plates were
by the pilot after it taken
Six hundred Indian guards, Informed Italian opinion here here called Debate on the question wan Bidault
a 24-hour general leaves the plane. will probably be from the photographers and it
with rifles and sticks, was inclined to reject any Idea strike for today (Saturday) after armed likely to last through the night.
The final test involving a drop dependent on their private was reported that one newsman
Even Congress delegates with moved against the North Korean of taking over
zone "A"-the daylong riots, in which more from an aircraft will be carried talks with Sir Winston had been taken into custody by.
ex-compounds in
a psychological present British strong nationalist feelings
and American then 20 civilians were injured. out on Emu Field, near Woo- the manoeuvre aimed As
at striking zone--without the support of Churchill
pressed disappointment ai
"fear
The riots protested against the mera, in the hearts
probably next year. of the troops in order to avoid offend-dismissal refusal
to take part in the
POWs," an
of 2,000 hands London Express Service. Indian spokesmaning Marshal
Tito.
i.com the Socicla Acciaienia dl sold. Diplomatie
On the other hand, the people Terni (The Terni Steel Associn- observers
were becoming inclined
13 TERRORISTS phasised that the National Con-
They-closed-in-on-the-com- believe the British-and-Ameri-workers which is hall state and
otion) of Italy's biggest stoc cess decisions are not binding"
at a time, lo sug-can declaration that they would is the Congress can be con-
half privately owned. sidered an advisory group only, get their reinforcing strength in fact pull out their troops and The Italian Government
They called in special guards that the zone would be handed last night mediating between the The Congress has been called
over to the Italians. Vietnam's equipped with gas bombs,
the unions and to draft the claims
But the North Koreans, wear- There was increasing hope Reuter. representatly:s will put forward
ing gloves, 50 that they could here tonight that Marshal Títo at ຄ forthcoming conference with
French.
down the barbed might be persuaded to agree to the
Congress scale or tear
Italian wire fences, stood their ground. the
suggestion elected
that members
represent bodles,
professional
Yugoslav tops should leave political
Prisoners tagged. for inter- zone "B", thereby making it and reilgious groups.
their possible for the Italians to agree The resolution that Vietnam views, refused to leave
compound and others clung to should leave the French Union the fences.
Con
"A",~~Reuter, followed up last night's
Prisoners nearest the fence gress call for "complete inde stripped to the waist and others
COMPROMISE SOLUTION pendence" of the 127,000 loosened eight-foot fence posts
London, Oct. 18. Douthwaite's request was square mite Stató, with i15 that
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M. Georges Bidault, French they could push through passed to his sister, Mrs Phyllis population of 812,000.
Forrign Minister, today put for- Beal, 44, today.
The Congress however look the barbed wire.
POW ed forward to an alliance with collected stones and threatened end the
in a nearby hospital ward a compromise solution Mrs Beal said she was will-France-Reuter.
bitter Italo-Yugoslav if her ing to go to Hongkong
attack American soldiers dispute over Trieste at the meet- doctor decided she was suf}-|
working there while other pri- ing of the "Big Three Foreign
French elently recovered from her re-
soners scaled their tents against Ministers,
diplomatic sources Baid. cent illness.
possible.gis attack. Faced with the
Asked
to comment
utterly couvincing Argui The officer on the day, reseh-
against Sir Winston's pro-quarterdeck. said the explosion ject and the impression occurred below deck and that
the ensuing Bre was left is that both Mr Eisen-control an hour after the blast, out of hower and M. Laniel have
A Puble Information officer sufficiently open minds on at the First Naval District head- the subject to be persuaded quarters said the fire started that its advantages fur in the engine roum of the outweigh its disadvantages. multi-million dollar carrier. Quite apart from
Hibbon is Churchill proposal, how ever, it is imperative Ihnt the current
<lix- Landon
ment has been advanced ed by telephone on the Leyte's STOP PRESS Unio
the
L
Douthwaite's Request
Cmdr. Lawrence
Scarborough, Oct. 16, the commander of the carrier. United Press.
A Fister of Lance-Corporat Rouler addy that a doctor George Robert Douthwaite, con- who was among those called to donned to death in Hongkong for cussions produce a new the currier sak!
he saw at the murder of a Chinese girl, has been asked by her brother to fly
golidity of views between least a dozen men" he thought to see hum before he dies. the three Western powers were dead. for tackling the cold
problem.
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