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Southeast Asia Security
ATERT reports from
London suggest that Mr
Dulles and Mr Eden have agreed that whatever form "united action in Southeast Asin" may eventually take, nothing is to be done that might prejudice the forth- coming Geneva conference. This is good news and to be heartily welcomed. The Geneva discussions My produce nothing tangible, but it right and proper} thint nothing should be essayed at this moment by the Western powers which could be interpreted nity- where as being responsible for undermining the con- | ference. It is the duty of the representatives of the free world to go to Geneva
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Britain Willing To Sponsor SE Asia Security Pact Troopship
AGREEMENT IN
PRINCIPLE WITH DULLES
No
Action Before Geneva Talks
London, Apr. 12.
Britain and the United States agreed
determined to ATO every in principle here today to sponsor a South- thing possible to bring
east Asia security pact to deter Communist about a negotinted agree- ment on Korea and other Far expansion should the Geneva conference East problems which come up fail to restore peace in Indo-China, accord- for discussion, any agreeing to diplomatic sources. ment, of course, being based
onl
accepted principles and providing necessary anfe- guards. In the light of the recent Big Four Berlin talks may be expecting too
thin
much, yet the effort must bo made, and in stich A
manner that failure cannot
bo
laid at the door of the
United Nations delegatus. There can be no "head in the clouds" about
the
Geneva conference; the prob
The pact would probably have Britain,
France, the United States, Australia and Comet Test
New Zealand as its founder members and would be open to Southeast Asian states and the Philippines to join.
Mr John Foster Dulles and Mr Anthony Eden, American and British Foreign Secre- taries, agreed the move at their talks on Mr Dulles' call for "united action" to prevent Communist domination of the rich and strategically important area.
lems to be tackled do not Mr. Dulles will discuss the proposal with the
permit. The future OK Korea ostensibly
is
the principal item on the agenda, yet it seems more when the than likely that delegates finally meet, emphasis will be shifted to Indo-Ching. IL E very elear that Mr Dulles is more preoccupied with Indo-China he is with Korea at than thin moment, and he dues not hide his conviction that, whatever the outcome of the Geneva discussions, some positive sign must be given to the Communists that the free world intends to save Indo-China from falling into the hands of the Reds.
THAT sign, it would appear
French Government when he flies to Paris tomorrow (Tuesday).
But no Western move will be made before the Geneva conference to give formal warning to the Peking Government against further aiding Communist rebels in the area, as Mr Dulles originally proposed.
Mr Dulles in understood to, writes Derek Marks, the Dally have accepted British and Express political correspondent. French arguments that nothing This is the opinion of London should be done to jeopardise diplomats close to the talks he the Geneva meeting opening on tween Mr Eden and Mr Dulles
which opened
Foreign at the April 20.
will once today.
Mr Dulles outlined his plans for "united action" to cope with the crisis in Indo-China.
The Geneva
meeting bring Communist China to the international conference Lable for the first time to discuss the Indo-China and Korean prob-
Jems.
Mr Eden WIS understood to have told Mr Dulles that in the British view,
Western the could afford powers
to wait until after the Geneva meeting la to take the form of a because the onset, of the mon-
con would Southeast Ania security soon
in any case soon pact is an interesting bring the Indo-China war to a proposition, but one which virtual standstill for about Ave
months. requires
careful explora-
the existing ANZUS pact- an alliance which by many
tion. if it materialises it Opinion in Britain would re- to any move will, presumably, supersede act unfavourably
which might prejudice tho chances of testing Communist intentions at Geneva, he sald.
One of the proposals Mr Dulles
made in pressing for "united action" security
Ja considered Inadequate.
In essence, the proposed Southeast Asia
Was
the issue
The latest assessment of this campaign in which Red China is helping the rebels against the (Contd. on back page, Col. 2)
6 Months
Hard Labour For Jagan
was
Through The "Death Barrier"
London. Apr. 12. One of Britain's best known pilots will ram· a Comet jet airliner through the mysterious "death bar- rier" six miles up in hopes of solving the mystery of three fatal crashes, it was announced today.
The
RAF pilot is
Group Captain John Cunningham who won the name of "Cat's Eyes" through his ability to spot Hitler's night bombers during of Britain. Ho is the Battle
chief test pilot for the de now Havilland
Aircraft Company which manufactures the jinxed craft.
Cunningham wiii Captain clutch a microphone in his hand and broadcast play-by-play account as he rams the Comet through the "death barrier at full speed.
Disaster
Vital Hillock Regained
From Vietminh Rebels
•
Hanoi, Apr. 12.
The French High Command announced tonight that their forces regained control of the vital hillock east of Dien Bien Phu last night, but the Vietminh did not completely evacuate it until this morning.
Sir Miles Thomas, Director of Airways the British Overseas Corporation, has blamed such a
The Vietminh withdrew well for a short time, but the French Comet "death barrier for tha
beyond artillery range after dislodged them im on carly crashes.
for
in his
losses. death- very heavy
Frenchmoring Preparing
counter-attack darkness. The Vietmin folled defying
climb, Captain Cunning-casualties were "severe."
to reach the crest again despite ham said, The Comets have
The French scized the hillock repeated charges.-Reuter, climbed this way for four and
without anything Do Saturday night. jhalf years
going wrong. I've done it scores of times,"
be
French patrols probing west-
ward last night contacted enemy REUNITED
troops less than a mile from the. heart of the stronghold.
In the Tonking Delts, the WITH SONS
have for some time pasting Com concerned, war-tenced today to six months' Come, headquarters on Satur- and the other about the same
of Interested countries by the nations
China of
the
possible consequences of
resist aggression. Britain,
a
Southenat
Asia
Phy
cal.
reaction
сеп-
In
It was the preliminary British and
and French
unfavour- ablo
to it that caused Mr Dulles to fly on his hostly arranged four-day mission to London and Paris.
imprisonment with hard
the Governor,
Do Havilland planned
Dellcate instruments
A
tminhi
by the "With the arrival of (British) with elector seats and special hold troops and the emergency orders emergency equipment 10 pro- guard in the the country is a vast prison and tect volunteer RAF fiers dar last night and
fatal whether I am in gaol or out Iting to
- re-enact
raids on the railway and main makes по difference." Jagan fights. sald from the dock,
A spokesman said that such road Unking Hanoi Jagan facis
a new
to the
the
Munich, Apr. 12.
The date for Captain Curning ham's flight was not announced. Georgetown, Apr. 12. Deposed Prime Minister.De Havilland said that It would made as soon as the Company agreement is what a number of a declaration before Geneva Cheddi Jagan
sen-elves new ground checks to the French yesterday lost two posts, flown to its suburban one about ten miles from Hanoi distance northwest of Haiphong.
Mr Valeriu Georgescu, natur- advocated, It would, continuing aid to Communist rebels, labour for violating restric-day
The Vietminh - ambushed F alise? American, who claimed his ceivably, become a sort of American alarm at the great-tions imposed on his move-make-or-break series of test motur convoy 30 miles eouth- | two sons had been held in Pacific NATO-n fully ly Increased and given by Feicing ments by the government. nights designed to jar loose any wast of Salgon yesterday. Rumania to force him to spy for united front pledged to to the Indo-China Vietminh
Armoured Cars, which rushed the. Communisis, met them at Jagan, head of the extreme possible Information, their all-out DBsQult on the
were to rescue the convoy, Inflicted the airport here today when they French it is reported, agrees in
fortress of Dien Bien ct-wing Progressive People's
on the Viet- arrived by air from Vienna. placed aboard the craft to severe casualtios Party, said he did not recognize the
orders issued by record stresses and strains. emergency principle to the creation of Phu prompted Mr Dulles
The boys, Constantin, 29, and Later a Comet will be fitted
seized two forts such
Peter, 14, loft Bucharest on Vietnam home Saturday after their release by alliance in the event of the
Red River Delta the Rumanian authorities, Geneva conference failing
continued their
Mr Georgescu said he found it to produce desired results, and thut
is she does BO
and Hal-very very difficult to recognise the boys who had changed "a logical not only because of Reports from Parls have sug-
In trial en equipment was necessary only phong. contrast to their half-great deal" during the seven and her wide and important Rested that the French Govern- which is principally con-
Illegal when pilots planned to "ght hearted attack on Saturday, a half years since he last saw. interests in the Far East,
them. the plane"
breaking cerned because of her seven-charges of holding an
the Vietminh-last night charged but also because of the pro- vear-war in Indo-China, would g
"But I was very happy that Men and women crowding palut.United Press.
yelling into battle on the hillock
immediately recognised minent position she accupies agree to measures to bolster the yards adjacent to the ma
fought savagely at close me," he added. in the North Atlantic Treaty anti-Coinmunist resistance
London, Apr. 12. gistrate's court wept as Jagon,
bayonots, Mr Georgescu arrived in Organisation. Britain fully the Geneva meeting falled
their leader, was taken under Two Royal Air Force Jets quarters end the war there Router. appreciates that Com-
heavy police escort to the city crashed on the Yorkshire coast grenades and tommyguns,
Their attack was preceded by Munich last night. He said he first heard that his sons would near Bridlington this morning
a blanket
and of artillery prison. CRITICAL PHASE
be released about a fortnight Chicago-horn Jogün's
wife and the two pilots were report- mortar
Union fire on French
aga while on a business trip in Janot London. Apr. 13.
unperturbed.ed missing. The pilots
Turkey Britain is prepared to back a She was sitting at the pross believed to have parachuted out trenches.
The Vietminh hold the hill
won's who went He said his sons, to tablo in the court room when over the sea. A search was defence organisation now
train from Bucharest to by train the area-France- Southeast
WRB from Jagan
sentenced.-United started
Vienna on the first leg of their trip to the United States, Had no passports but only a one Trom the way document" Madrás, Apr. 12. !
Government valld Two Indians were reported Rumanlan severely injured, tonight by for the trip to the United Washington, Apr 12. mental suffering after the Sloux aplie a paragraph in the con- French police, in a village near States,
He was very disappointed" Memorial Supreme Court today. City, Iowa,
Park tract that restricted burial the border of the French Indian
to find that thobbys had not and by the same token, Bri agreed to exting a Nebraska Cemetery refused to lower the privileges to white persons. She settlement of Pondicherry. tain can
be expected to widow's damage claims against husband's body into a grave fol- claimed she was denied her Reports reaching Hare alleged the slightest conception of what
Ike Identity herself with any a cemetery that refused burial to lowing a graveside service constitutional rights by State that the French pollee violated life in the United States is
allowed the Indian territory for the second practical and reasonablo her soldier hero husband,, an President Truman, laterar Courts, which
American Indian killed in Korea. ranged to have the soldier Cortetory to defend itself or time in two weeks and feed He would not talk about their project that will safeguard the widow, Mrs, veiga, Rice Bat John Rice a burled in the basis of the restrictive even rounded in the village of life in Rimini, except to Lay the Far East from the of Winnebago, Nebraska, sued Arlington National Cemetery. Claus The Town Supreme Parisichavadi, seven miles they had been incomerades of depredations of militant for $00,000 on each of a three, 3 Mira Filce, a white woman, Court ruled in favour of the north of Pondicherry, United trade "school" Communim.
couma claiming humiliation and had parcharsa a. jurial lot, de- Cemetary United Present ( PARAAN BAHASA
munist aggression in Asia must be stopped, and the best, proof of her detor- mination to play her part to this end ls seen in the shield
it
10
Asla unrelenting war she is further Communist aggression, Press.
waging in Malaya. This, in
fact, is the answer to those
critics who would brand Bri-
tain as an appeaser of Com-
munlam. The Malayan war
in to be fought to a finish, Tho
F
appeared
•
Promo.
in
were
SUPREME COURT TO HEAR WIDOW'S CLAIM
and
with
Indians Injured
me,
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and alsofina
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Counsel's Claims In Winding-Up Petition
Alleges Falconer's Used As Cover
"We are going to say that Mr M. W. H. Seymour is a mere employee of Mr J. B. Ipekdjian and Messrs Ipekdjian Bros. Ltd., and we are going to say, both on the evidence already before your Lordship and generally in cross-examination of these gentlemen, Mr Seymour and Mr Ipekdjian, that Ipekdjian Bros. are a firm engaged in busi- ness of an international nature, that they deal in exchange, and I say frankly that it is my case that these dealings are of a distinctly shady character and George Falconer and Co., (H.K.) Ltd., have. been used by these people to afford a respectable cover for transactions which when analysed are distinctly suspect.”
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Above are the first pie- tures to reach Hongkong of the Empire Windrush disaster in the Mediter ranean a fortnight ago. Top photo shows the while troopship ablaze passengers. and crew crawl
to down ropes waiting lifeboats. Above, survivors being picked up while in the background the Empire Windrush billowa clouds of smoke,
London Express,
These allegations were made by Mr Brook A. Bernacchi, leading Counsel for the petl- tioner in the course of his open- Ing of a petition to wind up Masara George Falconer and Co., (H.K.)
Lid.
before the Acting Chief Justice, Mr Justice T. J. Gould In the Supremo Court this morning.
Mr Bernacchi went on "To take this example alono of Swan, Culbertson” and Fritz, I say with conndence that Mr Seymour, and Mr Ipekdjian, they attempt to, will have the greatest difficulty in convincing your Lordship or any of us that that transaction could be said to be a legal transaction and yet they are involving the name of Falconer's, and having made” a proût out of this transaction are keeping it themselves."
The petitioner, Mr James Joseph Osborne King, goldsmith and allversmith, of 201^Brag Cireult, and p former Director of Falconer's, is petitioning for the winding up of the Company under the provisión óf the Com- | panies. Ordinance, Cap. 32.
Petitioner is represented by Mr Brook A Bernacchi, Mr DAL. Wright and, Mr Patrick | Yu,' all instructed by Mr M. A.
da
Silvs
The petition Is opposed by Mr J. B. Ipokdjian and Mr M. W. H. Seymour, holders, on behalf of
Falconer George
(H.K.) Lid..
Hon.
and
Aharo Mesara Co.
for whom the Leo d'Almada, QC, Mr John McNeill, QC, and Mr. A. J. Clifford, all instructed by Mr G. Hampton, of Messrs Hastings and Company are appearing.
Mr R. W. S. Winter, instruct- ed by Mr F. D. Hammond of Stokes and Mesars Johnson,
Master, is appearing for Mr J.B. Mr. M. WH. Ipakdjian and
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