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COMMENT OF
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THE DAY
Ticklish Situation
THE declaton of the Indian
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cuatodial team to hand buck tomorrow 22,000 prisoners of war in Kören to their original captors creuten a situation for which no provision was made in the terms of the armistice. It could alno have tin- fortunato repercussions. General Thimayya may feel fully justified in wanting to wash his hands of further responsibility of looking after prisoners who con. tinue to refuse to obey the procedure laid down in the armistice of listening to "explanations" from Com- munist and United Nations Command representatives, but for him to insist that these men must remain prisoners of war until a Korean political conference is convened is to give to the truce conditions 2011 un- necoptable interpretation, The United Nations Com- mand hns firmly, and properly, indicated that as from January 23, unrepatriated prisoners in
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FOR
COMET PLANE [The
ADMIRAL MOUNTBATTEN IN CHARGE
Seeking Evidence
Of
Sabotage
London, Jan. 18.
Ships from Britain's Mediterranean Fleet steamed into what may become the deepest sca salvage operation in Royal Naval history today, in a detective-thriller bid to raise the wreckage of
a jet airliner from the jagged sea floor of Italy to see if a saboteur had placed a time bomb aboard. hands will revert to
Simultaneously, security agents opened in- civillan status and will bevestigations on British airline routes nearly half- way around the world, hunting for evidence of sabotage that might have downed the Comet on January 10, killing 36 persons.
given their freedom. What not known is how the
JA
with
The British frigate Wrangler and the destroyer Sursay hoisted anchor at Malta and ploughed through the choppy Mediterranean to send down "pings" with their submarine location devices and listen for tell- tale echoes from the sea floor that might mark the metal hulk believed to lie 10 miles south of Calamita Point, near the Isle of Elba.
Communists intend to deal the situation. They may, for example, refuse outright to take back any prisoners, in which case the custodial forces are pre- sented with
a nice little problem. The Communists may even go further and declare that the handing back of prisoners before
The Minister of Transport and they have gone through the Civil Aviation, Mr Alan Lerawx-- process of "explanations" Boyt, arrived in Baly to check In such a violation of the fo: Wanselt on the progress of of passengers we had broaded truce that It rendern the attempts to locate the sunken the ill-fated plane, to see if any Korean armistice nutt andreckage that is believed to hold ever had boon freshecodi
Admiral the onowe: to the mystery of the
vold. I may be taken for granded that the Com- munists will raise a loud howl of protest over the procedure, for the release of The POWs represents ut least a propaganda blow to the Reds, and vindication of
crarh
explosive aboard the pride of Britain's evil air feet.
They checked the Wie stories:
Earl
Mountbatteri
took command of what may
Segurky offolaks have flown to
develop into the deepest salvage operation
ordered ever
by line stops all the way East to
Britain. Estimates of the plane's Sapore to check the post-depth range down to 460 feet. bility that a saboteur placed an
the United Nations which Ultimatum
from the first adopted the key position during the truce negotiations that no prisoner #hould be repairinted against his will.
THE bigger question is
be
Rejected By Semi-Starved
Sailors
Genoa, Jan. 18.
The Admiralty ordered hend- quarters at Malta to send the 1,700-ton salvage
Vessel Sea
Salvor and the Borhill to follow the Wrangler and Sursay into the
search as soon as they could get up steam.
who
Admiral Mountblaten, received an honorary Univer- sily degree in Scotland today,
fying was
Malla head- quarters from which he directs British and NATO warships in the Mediterranean.
FLYING OUT CAMERA The Admiralty ordered private company, developing
to
first camera far of schedule
November 17 ignored can be flown to Italy tomorrow
an
The crewmen declare that nothing short of force will make them leave the Nudine,
wald
exact
Restricted Passport.
Orders Issued By
Washington
Washington, Jan, 18.
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Will Be
Be First
Of The Problems
London, Jan. 18..
The first East-West tussle at the Berlin con- ference opening next Monday, will be the con- ference topics and the order in which they are to be discussed, diplomatic circles here said today.
Communist eve of the conference statements make it unmistakably clear that the Soviet and Western Foreign Ministers will meet at the table with contradictory views on what they are to talk about.
The Russians have already given notice that they will raise, as a priority question, the convening of a later conference with Communist China to negotiate an easing of world tension.
The Western powers have said that for them the main tople will be the reunification of Germany on the basis of free elections throughout all four zones.
cliques"
But Herr Ollo Grotewohl, the it declared, brought the Hitler East German Prime Minister, and other "dictatorial paved the way for Soviet re- in history to power. jection of this last weekend by Since the
holding of free declaring that the key problems German election, on the Western
at the Berlin conference would model is a cardinal principle of be "world peace" and recogni- the West, the Lion of
Communist
prospects. for Chinn as agreement on German unity are one of the great powers.
no rosler than they aro for Germany, he told his German reaching some sort of accom. audience, was not the key modation with the Russians problem.
which would guaranteo PROO in Europe, officials here fear.—— China Mall Special.
the
It was incitly agreed in the aplomatie exchanges betwren Moscow and the Western copliais which led to the conference, that
Foreign Ministers themselves would fix the agenda when they arrived in Berlin.
Last week's negotiations about conference site suggest that this will be a lengthy procedure Western diplomats here aro convinced that Mr Vyacheslav Molotov, the Soviet Foreign
the
Reds Plan
New Strikes
London, Jan. 19. Communist union 1onders
Minister, will attempt from the were planning bigger blows for next week in their wages battle start to get his Western op as about 30,000 British clectri posite numbers to talk about
general world tension and relay clone staged a nationwide one the debate to disarmament, his hy birike yesterday in, the face demand for the outlawing of of throats from craployers that atomic weapons and abandon they would be locked out. ment of
military bases today for striking...
Oncials of the Electrical by the w
Trades Union told 7,000 strikers mass meetinga... In yesterday that they
COUNTER-MOVE The Western
Ministers will at three counter any such move by de- London manding proof of Soviet sin- would be called on to stage a cerity in the form of Mr Molo-seven-day token stoppage next tov's agreement to free clec-week.
tions in Germany and the grant The meetings pledged urani- of freedom to Austria.
mous support to any further
will
The only item which both action the Union might order sides have Picture shows
already agreed to including a token alrike which discuss is "European security"..
begin on Monday. Reports indicated last night But the identity of view - İn strkdily limited to the subject's that nearly 80,000 monobayed yesterday's 24-hour strike call
D
the lifting into position of a 40-ton centre section of crude distillation tower. When completed this unit will have a capacity of 2,500,000 lons per year.
A State Department spokesman said today BOY AND
that orders were given the American Consul in
Hongkong to provide Arnold M, Kiehn a United MOTHER
States passport good only for return to this country because his further travel or residence abroad would be "inimical to the interests of the REUNITED
United States,”
London, Jan. 18. The spokesman refused to elaborate, but in the past
British police today re- this reason has been given for issuing such pasuports united a six-year-old Brook- when the Department believed the individual concerned lyn boy with his German might damage American prestige by his remarks or mother who flew here to actions abroad.
protest his "kidnapping" by Kiehn,
released his American father. who was
Police said they had taken six- from a gool In Red China on January 3, said in Hongkongyear-old Jimmy Ellers to En earlier today that he did not tamed hotel for a reunion want the one-way passport with his mother although the home but a regular passport father, Honry Hillars, vowed that permitting him to go anywhere my kid's gonna be raised in he could.
Brooklyn as an Amerism."
Hillers, 30, flew here last night
Reds Claim
Sinking A Gunboat
the
whether the Communists will seize the situation as an excuse for rosuming hostili- ties. The probabilitios ure that they will not take such
special deep water television Eight hungry sailors who instruments for the Navy. an extreme step. They have nothing to gain from such have staged a stay-aboard deliver the an action, elther militarlly strike on their ship since ahead
so that it or politically. Moreover,
to help the warships in their Russia probably feels that
ultimatum to get off today difficult undersea search. it is essential the proper and worried diplomats de ctmosphere should
This is like looking for a created for the forthcoming hated whether to have the
needle In + haystack when Four Power tails in Berlin, Italian police throw them you're not sure is what part of and this could not possibly off.
the haystack the neodic is result If the Chinese Com-
sold burled,"
an Admiralty Captain Fernand Wycke issued spokesman. munists and North Koreans
the 24-hour ultimatum at Britain's top naval experts, repudiated the Korean
11 o.m.. yesterday to the eight | after consulting detailed armistice and resuméd Belglan, Portuguese and Spanish Mediterranean sea charts de military operations. Whether crewmen, who refuse to leave or not the Russians are the Belgian freighter Nadine su to combat Italian midget submarines in the aren in the sincere in their expressed unti
owners of last war, the bankrupt
said the plane may desire to negotiate with the the ship pay them some US$9,000 have settled 450 feet below the Western Powers for a settle-back wares.
Earlier reports esti- surface. mated the sea depth where the ment of the Austrian peace
plane plunged eight days ago
The Department said ordcra treaty, agreement on the
at about 240 feet.
to Hongkong to Issue only, the om Stuttgart with his
Scotland Yard delceives removed future of Germany, and the
"Our study of the
Amailed passport were sent to him from a place at London air- advancement of President Under an Italo-Belgian mari- charts, however, indicates that
Consul there long ago, port shortly before ha W23 Elsenhower's plan for anime accort it is possible to call the water is considerably deeper
even before Kiehn had been scheduled to fly to America. London, Jan. 18. we thought,"
gooled by, the Red Chinese on Mrg atomic energy "pool," they in the Italian police In such a than
blonde Hillers, 27, must, at least for the time lawyer who is honorary Belgian
case but Emilio Reggiardi, local Admiralty spokesman.
possessing German of illegally A French gunboat was.
war
bride, arrived The deepest
from "operational" sunk in the Red River delin
Stuttgart tonight entry- being. sustnin the Consul in Genoa, is reluctant to dive ever undertaken by the when It rushed reinforce
The authority for the De- ing a German court order appearance of good faith take such a drastic step.
Royal Navy sent a diver somo
partment to take arch action giving ber custody of the an exercise which would be
240 feet under the Engandments to Dongxulen, the as it has done in the CASC child. She was met at the air- immediately ruined if the
Channel to locate the sub-stronghold south of Hal Kiehn is used in general on port by officials of Scotland Communists initiated now
the New China an executive order of the The stay-aboard strike has marine Affray in 1951, an Ad phong,
dated March 31, fighting in Korea. The been going on since November miralty official said.
News Agency said today President,
1938. Peking Government also has 17. during which tline the
DIVING SUIT
quoting Vietnam News to keep an eye on the not crew has
endured Remi❤ A special deepwater diving Agency reports.
Under this the Secretary of Young Jimmy, who had ex-
to spend the night at restricted hotel They fear that suit, similar to one used by a distant future. Under no starvation.
with the war veteran circumstances could a Five they leave the ship their back naval diver who plunged 600 Two companies of European passport good only for octiain
father, was taken away by pay will never be paid the
pice an, hour before Mar Power conference (with Commerce des Fruits by feet into Scotland's Loch New and Afriowa forces were wiped purposant spokeaneti de Filtrs' plone érrived. Ho
clined to Price-to the alege of Dong of Klean might have prompted would have to spend the night Communist China taking | Company of ANNCED. BOgam. for a British record, wis dis- car the poporis added.
to say what past actions sobbed "wildly when told part) be arranged if Poking The crew's refusal to respond be
patched to a naval airfield to
held the sun Vietminh forces staged the restriction of his passport, with a police matron-United
mimprise clieck the provincini military aggressor in Koren at 11 this morning, meant they Comet search. It looks like a aptal of Thaibinh and destroy-but other sources Incated
the Press. in deflanco of the armistice; were struck off the seamen's ult of mediaeval armour.
roll in Belgium. 'furthermore, whatever sup-
But this was A heavy diving chamber wood two onopy bases in the dis-government had no evidence of unything Be which he could be shipped ordered
from Ankar port there might exist today serious only for the, Belgien was
There aucemen," the agency Prosccuted. United Proes, Britain
Admiralty cinerent, "leriity to the grow -"apart. member of the
by for Red China's admission from Captain
officials said the nation's latest strength; of Vietramh, foreca Wyckt--who 16- to the UN, would auto mains aboard.
all-submarine devices would be in the beds 2
'area of the’Red
Panmunjom, Jan. 19. matically disappear. It is,
Slynor Rivelard claimed he thrown into the searchi River
The United Nations Command ""A"emisiderable Frendt forsi
A ten-year-old boy was killed therefore, not unreasonable was walling instructions from Mediterranean warships compile to expect that the handing the Company Equidators before a proale chart of the sea bottom is pinned down on the left beint today announced that had and a woman wounded when a back of POWs will be and electronie "echo" of the Rad River, & time when protested to the neutral nations security force patrol attucked accompanied by violent pro-assice the matter with che
the men off. He was diso | @qulimran Hə manped
any are faced with operation Prisoner sipervisors that the two terrorist camps in the Grikk the mustiory in Leichna Provines, Communielewer still holding area of Perale last Sunday, tests from the Communists, smith Cetails, search like a wartime campaign, corth-east of Herof, and are sumbars of: Bouth. Kocean. The boy and womun but without any drástlohning thank to try to purando dividinis lie into four
Water Earth-peémoch fin??, Bavani-:|priąć (who should have "conforting with terrorista,” change in the situation in their coklonels to © lower the. Location, Identification
lendkabakbet in Central | been pairialad Koro
Using them" wall soldiers," Hauler, Chin Mali Specia
onco again bacanta
SEMI-STARVED
to the ultimatum, which expirod
Natkine
crew
flown to Italy
State
may fue
Protest" Lodged
and
the German
Con-
Consorted With Terrorists
Singapore, Jan. 19.
A
tille.
Recent articles in Pravda, the at new atom plants, all re- Soviet Communist party suws-
paper, attacking the European
power stations, epat
airfields · and housing
army plan, through
which West A
thousand men alone
Gameny is scheduled to neann,
showed that Soviet heaty to turned up at mags meetings in the schemo
such that nothing 25 major industrial towns and shoot of the West's shanfortest | cities, Mr W. C. Stevens, am-
4 wk
viik be Mr. Molator's price eral Secretary of the Union, said
for pericals in
dick of The last night.
future peace of
of Europe.
The
Employers last night dis- Western Ministers are agreed with the Union's
claim
united, refusing even to consider of "100 per cent success." such a demand.
Mr LC. Penwill, leader of
The Pravda also confirmed over 3,000 employers involved, the West's fears about Russia's | counter-claimed that men were atlitude to a German settlement, at work as usual in “hundreds
"The so-called 'free election"" of cases.”—Reuter,
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