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THE CHINĄ MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1053.
HARRY ODELL presents
Germ War Accusations Unpopularity Chancellor Of Exchequer A
Against America Trumped Up & False
SPENDER ON "INFAMOUS CALUMNIES"
New York, Oct. 28,
Sir Percy Spender of Australia told the General Assembly's 'Poli-' tical Committee today that history would record the germ warfare charges
· made by the Communists as "one of the most infamous calumnies ever concocted by one civilised State against another.”
Stepped Backwards In Time
London, Ort, 28. Mr Lerle Cook, of Croydon, South London.pped 2,000 years backwards in Ume when he fell into hole which ap reared suddenly in his garden during a rainstorm,
Speaking in the resumed debate in the Com- mittee on the United States proposal for an im- partial investigation of the Communist charges, was in a Sir Percy said the present discussion sense a phantom debate,
"Everyone here, even Mr Malik (the Soviet de- legate), knows that the charges made by the Soviet Union were trumped up and wholly false."
The repudiation of the confessions by the American statements ittesting fliers, the that they were obtained through and the Communists' torture refusal to permit any impartijaj
the ulter investigation proved Insity of the charges, Sir Percy
sold.
He covered the hole with
Earlier In the debate, Mr dustbin, but notleed 15 mimics Selwyn Lloyd, British Minister later that the bin had disappear= |ot State, hud called for the
ed.
Mr Cook had stumbled
"decent buri" of the "most Soviet allegations over indecent"
the entrance to an underground that cave in which people had lived Korea
United Nations forces in had sised germ warfare, Dr H.R. We of China de- during the Raman occupation of
the time of theclared that it would
be a Bituin abuot
mis- birth of Christ,
take to drop the matter now.
He sold the General Assembly
Mr Alon Reid, a school-depcher should "take all necessary
archnenixgist,muusures smalcu:
to bring the Com- inspected the hole and recognised munist regimes to account kt, is part of an underground this mistreatment of the housing element,
soners of war."
pri
Colombo Plan Statistics
Colombo, Oct. 28. India continued to be the only Asian country which had supplied experts under the Colombo Plan technical assistance scheme, accord- ing to figures given_today by Dr P. W. Curtin, Director of the Bureau for Technical Co-operation in
He urged that the General | South-East Asia.
adopt the following Assembly lines of juction:
PAINFÜL' IMPRESSION
He gathered a volunteer teur of schoolboys to dig for Remun ege lies and they moved 50 tons af squal to uncover the floor nf the cave at a depth of 15 feet below ground level. Their ex- cavations have revealed an oval munat germ werdure rocan, measuring 11 feet by 10
were false in order to tell the fect six inches, in which the in-truth to the world and to clear hablunts had left incer of their the United Nations forces of the civilisatio
Infamous, fulse-accusations,
1 To declare that the Com- charges
nt
fndin hudl provided five ex- perts who were Assisting the Ceylon Governmight. She had trainces-60 tuken 132 also from Ceylon, 21 from Pakistan. 18 from the Philippines, eight from Thailand, Ave each from Burma, Indonesia
and Nepal
Of U.N. In United States
Claveland, Ohla, Ost. 28.
Protestant Church leaders today described the "and- United Nations attitude"" in the United States, where, ohn speaker salt world organization "threatened by a Jungle of dathing nationalism.”
A New York Congrega- ilonalist, Dr Richard M. Farley, spoke out against what be called the "social systems and power bloca" salive in the United States, Similar sentiments were expressed by many
the of 400 clergymen and laymen, representing 30 Protestant and Eastern Orthodox groups, at a four-day inter- denominational conference, -Reuter,
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Call For Reduction
Of U.S. Tariffs
Washington, Oct. 28.
AFL President George Meany said today it Was sheer nonsense to say that 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 Americans would lose their jobs if United States tariffs were abolished,
The extent to which Ameri- can industry was, in fact, sub- Ject to jeopardy from imports. whether because of lower labour standards or other reasons, tad been greatly over-stated, he added.
Mr Meany salt that the pre- diction of millions of iny-offs was made in testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee.
United
to
he
Statca Imports
increase
To Preside At Conference
Of European
Ministers
Paris, Oct, 28,
The Ministerial Council of the. Organisation for European Econo- mic Co-operation (OEEC) meets here tomorrow to discuss a plan aimed at freeing all trade between its 18 member countries.
The two-day conference of Foreign and Finance Ministers from the 18 countries as well as Mr Harold Stassen, United States Foreign Aid Administrator, and a Canadian representative, will be under the Chairmanship of Britain's Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, Mr R. A, Butler. · ́
QBF1-
The call for a 100 per cent | Randall Committee has liberalisation of European trade eluded its studles of the prpb- comes from OEEC's ecónoraie lem and issued its report, thero experts, who fear that Die whole will be no indication as to how structure of the West's economic much American help can be unity might collapsa and the expected. hopes of eventual currency convertibility set back, unl Immediate progress is mode.
|
But meanwhite the report says Europe can improve her payments position by:
STARTLING PROPOSAL
I. 10
Greater liberalization of trade, and
Britain and France, the two principal loggards in the free trade field, are expected announce the lifting of further ripart restrictions to demon- strate their faith in the policy of liberalisation.
2. A reduction of restrictions at imports from the dollar area. This second proposal is An almost revolutionary approach from an area long plagued with
Device To
Reduce Highway Accidents
Paris, Oct. 28.
A gadget to cut down high- The Council will face a three-
way socidents by permitting point agenda, based on reports a huge delle gap. But the forth with bunlding lights wher motorists to signal back and from three different groups of has now not only been closed experts who have all reached but Western Europe had
they want to pass trucks or the suma conclusion
the $1,000,000,000 surplus in the past French market.
on the was launched
urgent necessity of free trade.
They are: 1. A report from the Skering Committee for Trade.
2. A report from the Managing Board of the Eurapon Payments Union on the question convertibility.
sente reversal from deficit to
The
of
rw
of
area.
3. A report by a group economists
the general Europeah economic situation.
THE DANGER.
The Arst document points to the danger of a retreat from their liberal policies by some European countries, such as Italy and Germany, unless Britain and France catch up with the last OEEC torget of 75 per cent liberalisation.
the
defence
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receiving unit mounted on the HONGKONG ESCAPE can
expenditure
back of the heavy vehicle and Europe. But the report says that
control lights on the dashboard. much of European prosperity and
When the anxious driver be- industrial expansion depends on hind a heavy
truck wants to materials and michinery
his lights, which must come from the dollar pass, he blinks
him his amber tall-light tells บริ algnal has been received. When The third report
fiem thu economic exper's declares that the truck driver has pulled over The rond production must be expanded to the sido and sees immediately to malce ErODE" crar ahead, he signals the car green light exports
compellitve on behind him with world markets and thus earn the that it is OK to pass.
The whole
operation is done foreign currency need to make
without horn blowing. convertibility possible.
Henri Guerin, Director of the Derml Company, which makes the gadget, said he was nogętia- Morelli Ung with the Italian
British Lucas Company, the and the German Bosch to sell | SOUTH CHINA MORNING the licence.
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The Ministers will examine directly linked two questions with industrni and agricultural expansion-the operations of the The present European average newly-established European pro- To come true. bes 70 per cent, but Italy for the ductivity agency and the move would have
has threatended by
to tuum bock jment of manpower.
Tho from her advanced
Council le expected to 525.
position of
up a manpower. code to l0,000 a year after the
of duties.
This he 00 per cent unless some attempt draw
now
of foreign called inconceivable,
is made to close the gap between regulate the
workers frem
one country to and the rear, front The labour chief called for a and four from Malnya.
The experis say that the wide another and the conditions under
which they should be employed, } Under the scheme for tech-reduction of tariffs in a state-
threaten the dis-
-Rovic:. ment before the Commission on disparilles nical assistance, countries bod
Foreign Economic Policy which integration of OEEC and calls first on the laggards to remove applied for 375 experts and had
two days of hearings to- while training been allotted
opened
more of their barriers and then day. facilities had been provided for
Mr Allan E. Kline, President for a general move forward to 1,302 against 1,019 requests.
of the American Farm Bureau the complete abolition of quanti- 30 r in- Total expenditure
the scheme
Federation, urged relaxation of tative restrictions. 15 curred
under
trade barriers as a solution to They propose that 100 per cent about $1,000,000,000.
falling United States furm ex-
be tried "for ຄ possible earth collapse, After
India received the services
perjod next week-end Mr Reid and his 3. To condemn the Soviet ot 40 experts-33 from the vulunteers will begin fling in bloc and the Soviet Union in United Kingdom, three
deliberate Australia, three from the envity and the eave will particular for "their elsupper-China Mail Special.melicious fabrications" in viola-Zealand and one from Canada.
tien of the principles of the
2. To instruct representatives Today, Mr Reid said the cave
of the United Nations sule WES War, thy and very co- Jertable. Pottery of the land the Korean political conference led in Roman days had been to cul te enemy regimes to de- Count and to have their offers found In It,
punished for the torture of the But now
the Croydon Cor-prisoners of war in extracting poration has decided that the false germ warfare accusations, digging must stop to prevent a and to rescue those prisoners of
war who were still alive.
Churter.
Senhor Henrique de Souza
IN BRITAIN
from
New
porla,
REVISION ASKED
Bix
Mr Meuny called for a seven-
or 3 year and suggest the Council' sol a date point programme that would in- that clude measures to eliminate ex- when the period should start. chango dificulties, lucre:se After that time the whole foreign investments, stabilise | situation should be reviewed world prices of raw materials, | again. eliminate No expert has been taken by
oppressive labour Burma
standards Indionesla,
Dnd elimination of Investigation of the Brunel, Pmunist
arifficial trade restrictions. Nepal, the Philippines and but they have all
EXPERT OPINION Blindfolded with a woollen charges was the "only sensible Thulland,
nationals abroad for sent scarf during a game of blind position in this matter." man's ball, seven-year-old Alien The refusal of the Soviet rakaing, Brunet luz sent two Scontes fell over a 14-foot, high Unic
Communist to the United Kingdom; Burma Unior primenade Into the sea
Game's Tragic End Gomes, of Brazil, rald an im-
Edinburgh, Oct. 28.
Kerm
warfare
to
that show
and the ut countries to permit an impartial four to Australia, Ave to India elimination of present tariffs for those pleading shortages of Cramon village, Edinburgh, lust investigatio "cannot but give and four to the United King
night and was drowned. had been
world He the
the painful im playing with two pression that the charges are village boys. China Mali false and clanderous," he said.
Reuter,
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dom; Indonesia 30 to the United Kingdom, five to India, one to Ceylon and 57 to Australia; Nepal two to the United King- dom, five to India, two to Cey- Jon and three to Australia; the Philippines four to the Unlied Kingdom, 18 to India and 15 to Australia; Thailand 8 to India
and nine to Australia.
Of the uninces under instrus- on abroad 387 are from India, 317 from Ceylon, 315 ercin Pakic,
60 tern Makyn, 10 Ism Singapote, 12 f.cm Samwak and 12 free Nerth Borneo.
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te piogether 1,302 trainers broad now, of whom 450 s'e in the United Kingdom, 417 in Australia, 150 45 Canada, | 144 in New Zṛaland, 132 Da India, five la Pakistan and four in | Ceylon.--Reulez.
Collapsed
At Palace
Ceremony
The
the experts, realising difficulties certain countries would face with cheaper goods MrMeanycted expir flooding-across-their-frontier- the say exceptions should be made
foreign currency.
want the escape But they clause in the present liberalsa- Bion code to be revised to avoid ite over-frequent use as has happened in the past.
opinion would affect less than 300,000 jobs. Other studies, he report- ed, 'indicate limited tarli revision would only eliminate 45,000 jobs at the most.
have not
On the other hand, he said, continued high tariffs would The EPU managing board re- help curtail United States ex- ports that little progress had affecting some 3,000,000 been made towards conver- ports, American
can industrial
trade and ability since the Ministers last farm workers.
mot here in. March es the Mr Kilus sold that United necessary conditions States farmers faced a prisis be- yet been established.
One of those
conditions is cause of sharply dropping ex-
con- ports and trade policies must be United Sates backing of
direct geared
vertibility with
or In- to encourage foreign countries to buy more Upiled direct carb. old but, upto the States goods..
The Lass in cur expost markets is a páliťul fact,” he said in prepared testimony,
During the 12 months t-cen July, 1953, to June, 1953, fre said, form exports had dropped 31 per eint compreed with the sime perlod a year: carlier.
"Falling exports have stared a spiral of developmerits-large - pluses, falling farm pileer, re- duced farm Incomes and drastic production controls.""
British Women Shocked
London, Oct. 28,
Mr Kline proposed amplifica- tion of Customs procedures, the British farmers and house- reduction of any tariffs over 25 wives got together on the sub- per cont and more flexibility feet of girls in bathing suits, and for the President 10 make both groups thought something changes in US tariffs in negella- ought to be done about them. tions for conccasions from other
Women's Institute of New- The condition of Mr Eric countries.
port in
In Shropshire wants to ban Whitelaw, who collapsed yester- Не
called for trade the Bikini suit girls from the day at a Buckingham Palace policies pegged on "national In- papers as harmful to "younger investiture, was sold at the terests instead of particular members' of Middlesex Hospital today to be Industries--United Press. unchanged, and atlil satisfactory.
London, Oct. 28.
Д retired
Mr Whitelaw, rubber planter, who now lives in Scotland, was to be invested with the Order of the Briush Empire in the Ceylon Corona- tion honours but was rushed to hospital by ambulance when he rollapsed
Queen Elizabeth, on learning
also
of the family.
The farmers have not got anything against the Bikinis, but think it
Ink it somewhat misleading to to lure volunteers to agricul ural holiday camps this way.
for organiser
the and Durham Workers' Union
'Flu Vaccine Claim try to lun
An London, Oct. 20.
Northumberland Soviet scientists have de veloped an anti-Influenza vac- Agricultural
luscious lovelice in swim-
cine which has "positive results said that adverlistinents pictur- by reducing the severity of Ill-Ing ness and preventing complica- suits led people to expect" a
of the Incident, esired to be kept, tions, Tass, the eficiel Soviet holiday rather thon hard work
Informed of his progress.
**
Mr Whitelaw. who was member of the Rubber Com mission appointed a few years ggo by the Ceylon Government to study the development of the plantation industry, in the la- Iand, collapsed before receiving
news agency, reported. Chian at the camps. Mall Special.
Liner Sets Record
have never soen Bikinis among the holiday workers.* a Farmers Union regional officer said.
The leader of Newport's Women's Instituto said that the Southampton: Oct, 20.1 [group' was;rging * "complete The 81,000-ton Cunard linerban en all. these rovelling
Faylographs.
Sunday popers afternoon after only 24 hours are easily the worst offenders,
his honour and not, na earlier Queen Mary sailed for Now
eported, just afterwards,
| York-from Southanipton- this
of the
He will return to the Palace In porte quiletibaturn with giris in bikinis" who have to receive his honour at another round in her 17 yours Atlantic no cities. of awlipping." Investiaire-Router."
"Some 29 per cent of ail accidents in France como while passing trucks and buses," M. Guerin said, “so wo believe this should cut down accidents,"
It will cost around 30,000 francs-United Press.
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