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Matsu & Quemoy
NWO events have occurred Within the last 48 hours to oring the Formosa problem into sharp focus. Sir John Kotelawala, Ceylon's Prime Minister, has suggested Formosa should be pur under a five-year trusteeship of the Colombo powers, followed by A plebiscite confined to the Formosans for them to decide what type of permanent govern- ment they desire; and Washington has announced an impending visit to Taipei of Aamural Radford and Assistant Secretary
of State Walter Robertson for talks
Nationalist with leaders.
The Radford-Robertson mis- sion is cloaked with secrecy. and therefore some mystery,
but it appears to be general ly accepted that these top American representatives from Washington are going to concern themselves with
the question of Nationalist evacuation of the offshore
islands,
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FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1955.
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RADFORD VISIT SPECULATION
Pressure On Chiang?
COAST ISLANDS WITHDRAWAL
Washington, Apr. 21.
The sudden departure for Formosa of Admiral Arthur Radford and Mr. Walter Robert- son has set off an intensive round of speculation here over possible American pressure on General Chiang Kai-shek to permit the Communists to take over Quemoy and Matsu.
Defence and State Department officials are refusing to make any precise statements about this mission of the President's chief military adviser Admiral and chief specialist on Asian affairs.
If this is the purpose of the visit, manifestly it is prompted by the perceptible change in American public opinion regarding the defence of Matsu and Quemoy. And this public opinion in turn, has been adroitly guided by Presi- dent Eisenhower who, through the mouth of his Secretary of State, has The chief reasoning behind And the Radford-Robertson introduced ä noticeably this speculation derives from mission provides an opportunity
emphasis when the fact that Admiral Radford for discussing a similar renuncia changed discussing the Formosa prob- and Mr Roberston are known to ton of force by General Chiang
good friends be very Jem in general and the
General Chiang Kai-shek. immediate future of the off-
The theory is that they shore islands in particular, would therefore be the best THE defence of Quemoy and people to break the news to him
that the United States Matsu is not only a ques willing to aid in the defence of is un- tion of politics and morale. W The military implications emoy and Matsu and does defence of Formosa pending an
not wish Nationalist China
Radford is the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Mr Robertson, Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs.
Under the Sino-American treaty referred to in the official announcement of the mission the United States is committed to defend Formosa and the Pescadores from Communist attack but has no commitment to defend Quemoy and Matsu as such,
a
of Kai-shek.
But there is no indication here that the British government is as yet prepared even after a Nationalist evacuation: aferational guarantee of the Quemoy and Matsu to join in an
to agreed settlement of the dispute are equally, possibly more
general Asian | over its ownership. precipitate important. Two disastrous conflict by insisting on fighting. The United States govern- possibilities are apparent: for them."
ment has been seeking, support if the United States decided
the, from other countries azo
the Only two days to engage her own forces Chinese Nationalist Ambassador defence of Formos. But it is alongside the Nationalists here, Dr Wellington Koo, de not expected that the British to resist a Chinese Com- clared that
Nationalist government will be in a position munist Assault on the Chinese would fight for these to offer any such guarantees were before the general election on whether they offshore islands, this could islands lead to a full international aided by the United States or May 26, conflict; if the Nationalists not were left
the
The Eisenhower administra-
ûre
NOT INVOLVED
for
Admiral Radford and Mr
Robertson are not yet therefore
in a position to offer General Chiang Kai-shek a substantial Formosa in return for the early
Quemoy
international
evacuation Maisu-Reuter.
guarantee
and
Four-Power Meeting In Sight
Hydrogen Explosive Factory
London, Apr. 21.
A big factory for mass- producing a new type of hydrogen bomb explosive devised by Sir William Fenucy is to be built by The Atomic Energy At- thority as quickly as possi» blc.
Scientists and engineers are being recruited to de- sign the plant. The explo- sive is a powder which has never been made on a large scale before.
A pilot plant for making small, quantfilty of the ex- plosive is to be built first at the atomic weapons re- search station at Aldermag- ton, Berkshire.
.
BIG THREE WORKING OUT
DETAILS
Washington, Apr. 21.
Britain, France and the United States are ready to agree on preliminary steps for a four-power meeting with the Soviet Union and will probably set up working groups next week, informed Washington officials reported today..
They said the British and French foreign ministers, Mr Harold Macmillan, and M. Antoine Pinay who were meeting in London today were already acquainted with the United States views on the timing of the working meetings.
The two foreign ministers were expected to reach
a quick decision on arrangements and put them before the United States for approval. No difficulty was anti- cipated in reaching "three-power agreement, these officials said.
The full-scale factory be sited in a more remote area for security
reasons.
Another team of
France had earlier suggested scientists is being recruited to devise means of mould- that the four-power conference
of
which foreign ministers" into Ing
powder
talks "at specially
would precede any shaped picots
with the Soviet the summit which are fitted into a bamb
Union on ending world tensions casing.. --- Landon Express Service.
should be held by next July. But officials here said
impossible would be virtually
Queen Sends
it
for the three powers to work but all the necessary - arrange- ments including detalis of an agenda in time for session.
July
Message To own that the
Singapore Assembly
S'hai Protest KCMG.
Meeting
new
Wrench government had re-
cently
many
sources
were
Pleasure
Cruise Ends
In Tragedy
ao:
12 Known Dead Admiral
In New Earth Tremor:
Volos, Greece, Apr. 21.
A fresh earth tremor low day killed at least 12 people and all but comm→ pleted destruction of this Greek part where 3,500 people were already hoine- less from Tuesday's severe earthquake.
Panis - stricken, crowds fled to the hills while others rushed to The quay le Ships in the harbour re- ported women and childrens crying and begging to be allowed to leave the "curwed `land."
A police official said to- day's tremor was stronger than that on Tuesday. Reuter.
Fear Of Industrial
Unrest
way
.was
Brownfield Promoted
Ex-Commod
Hongkong
Of
London, Apr. 22,
Three new top-ranking appointments were an nounced by the Admiralty here today-72 hours after Admiral. Earl Momitbatten took over as First Sea Lord.
Admiral Sir Gebege Creasy, 53, at present Commander-in- Chiet, Portsmouth, is to be an Admiral of the Fleet;
Vice Admiral SI Ralph Edwards, 54; at present Third Lord, becomes an Admiral; Rear-Admiral Leslie Brown- is made a Vicom
Sea
field,
Admirat
D-DAY PLANNER Acentral
Chenay, probably more than any
other man, ma responsible
thedetudied
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He
Flow
planning leading up
command of the Home September Commander-in-
Fleet in 1948 and in beaco
ASSAM
London, Apr. 21. 1954 British Industrial circles Chiet, Pootsmouth,
Vice-Admiral Edwards became today feared that the Lon- The Sea Lord in March 1953. don newspaper strike, which He has seen service in the Fur has just ended, may be only East and was for time ou an. the start of more serious to the Royal New Zealand Navy- Rear Admiral Brownfeld has industrial, unrest,
served Commodore, Hong Today, 2,500 Glasgow.dockers mg commanded the aircraft New York, Apr. 21....
story work following a con carter implacable and ficted her Five men op pleasure act
working conditions. President of the "Admiralty Re approached, the United cruise from Los Angeles to This is the second time within view Board, at Dartmouth Naval States to agree to an early San Francisco were pre-a month that Britain has been College-Reuter meeting of the working groups sumed drowned today when threatened by a dock strike.
The last dockers strike took REBELLION IN State Department
place suggestions the their 50-foot yawl collided acetan etions that war with the 418-foot Swedish pefied after three days. "dragging its feet on policy motorship Parramatta, Meanwhile, 67,000 British grounds in taking the pre-south of Point Arguello, allway workers have been fa London, Apr, 22.
Calcutta, Apr. 21. liminary steps for
vited by their union, the Asso- a foreign
Indian troops were rushed to Calif., near the "graveyard ciated Society of Locomotive On the occasion of the minister session.
of ships". first meeting of the
THER QUESTIONS
Engineers and Firemen to strike the hilly jungles of Northeast. contended that fast
Assam today to quell a rebellion May 1. The US Coast Guard picked up
of bead-hunting Nega The newspaper strike
tribesmen, to defend the ton has recently been subjected
Singapore Legislative As decisions could not be reached
great
other one body, as yet unidentified.calculated to have cost the news.
Reports reaching Indian ad- islands on their own, they to strong pressure from varying
sembly today messages have because of been sent from Her Majesty problems had to be discussed Wreckage of the pleasure craft paper owners and business administration headquarters at might well find the
ers had tasksections of public opinion not to
Western
Shillong said the tribesmen Suomi was spotted floating near vertisers powers
about £9,000,000,- beyond them, and to arisk bringing the United States
the Queen and the Secre between the
ambushed in isolated
pockets tary of State for the such as arrangements for meet the scene, only four miles from France-Fresse Communist
and lifeboat-
members forced evacuation would be into
of the Assam Rifles, a a war with
* |
ings with the Soviet Union on this lighthouse added the ignominy of China and possibly into World
Colonies, Mr Alan Lennox- the Austrian Treaty, the North station,
3-HOUR MEETINGy police force policing military defeat.
the Tuensong area. War 111 on behalf of a group of
Boyd, to the Governor of Atlantic treaty council meeting
The Coast Guard was in- which
A not even
Washington, Apr. 21..
of area inside These are contingencies which islands
Singapore, Sir John Nicoll, of foreign ministers next month vestigating reports that a sixth US President Dwight sisen- the Northeaster the an order States Admiral Radford and Mr regarded by United
and the final steps for West
into the man may have been aboard. Germany's admission
hower today presided over the is still defying Indian adminis... Robertson can hardly fail to milliary chiefs as essential for
The Swedish ship, en route to meeting of the National Security tration and fanning revolt for a the defence of Formosa,
Her Majesty's message is as North Atlantic Alliance, put before the Chinese
follows: "I am glad at the open- It was conceded that France San Francisco yesterday with a three hours.
nce Los Angeles and Australia, lef: Council today for more than separate Naga State independent Nationalists next week and
ing of the first session of the and the United States had some crew of 40. No passengers were
of India. Last year a large num they
Indian well be
Legislative Assembly under the differences of opinion on timing the
Although the session was as ber of may
troops were In response to this, adminis-
aboard: to in dominant factors
but it was new constitution of Singapore
said these
usual-secret, it was believed massacred when they ventured tration spokesmen have been
London Apt. 21. express to my people in Singa-
The two influencing a decision to emphasising again and
vessels appartially that Formosa was one of the Into the area on a goodwill The Communist New call off the occupation of that the
mission, distributing salt And China pore my great satisfaction at the merely procedural questions and
blankets-United Press. United Status is News Agency said today officials significant advance in their cone there were no serious disagree crashed together in the pre-dawn chief subjects of discussion
darkness near the "graveyard of France-Presse Matsu and Quemoy.
involved in any commitments to
isments. on the staff of the British stitutional progress which
The British and French minis-ships," co-called because of a 1923 Withdrawal from the offshore defend Quemoy and Matsu as
d'Affaires Charge
Shanghai marked by this pecasion.
The
var flers, in their London meeting naval disaster in which seven US islands does not involve such.
were present at a mass meeting | Assembly and Ministers will now prejudicing the future of There is increasing sympathy in Shanghai yesterday for the have to deal with the many were expected to cover such destroyers ran agrbund with a
here for the position of the victims of the
uport them will fall the chief Soviet invitation for a foreign The meeting was also attended burden of responsibility for the ministers meeting on the Aus
continized advancement and triat peace treaty, next month's by representatives from the com sulates of Poland, the Soviet prosperity of Singapore and for NATO Council session in Paris, Suomi were identified as the
Hae conditions under India, the welfare and safety of ite
which owner, Henry Meiggs, bead" of Switzerland and Denmark. citizens.
Germany becomes a partner in the State Moritage Company of Took forward with every Western defence and the critical San Francisou, his brother W. L. Mr Wang Yu-hsien, President
Shanghai Branch of the confidence to the faithful dis- situation in Indo-China:
Meiggs of Los Angeles; «Sandy *London press reports publish Wilson; 33, a former newspaper- rendered any easier by ference at Bandung provides the Red Cross Society of China, told charge of this trust for. I am
the meeting the 11 Communists sure that those on whom this ed here today quoted "diploma man of Auckland, New Zealand; Nationalist evacuation of Chinese Communist
mur-responsibility falls will carry the souve Premier, aboard the planie "were
as saying that Mr Ralph Cooper of Burlinghame, Matau and Quemoy, then it cheu En-lai, with a favourable dered by United States Chiang out with foresight, courage and Macmiling and M. Pinay had California; and a Colonel Conrow is in general interests that opportunity of announcing stich a Kai-shet agents. He demanded honesty of purpose. It is my agreed to the terres of a prompt of New Zealand. this should be done.
renunciation of force there,
that the British Government earnest hope that the work of acceptance of the Soviet proposal
Larry Harris of San Francisco hly investigate the "con- the Legislative Assembly under to conclude so Austrian treaty
and arrest and punish the new constitution will be and would suggest an early was the sixth person listed but the murderers, the agency re- blessed with every success," meeting of the Big Four amit was not known whether he ported.
FROM CS MESSAGE
bassadors and an Austriap re- joined the crew when it left Similar meetings were held in The
from the presentative to discuss the final Los Angeles. message all Communist China's major Secretary of
One report sald State for the treaty form.
he turned down an invitation cities.
Colonies is as follows: "It gives This meeting would precede to take the cruise North. Is there to be another big purge in Russia soon? John
Hongkong was the last port
The Parramatta was due in Atkinson, writing from London, in tomorrow's China Mail, of call of the Air India Constel-e great pleasure to send a the foreign ministers conference
message of greetings and good- en Austria proposed by
Los Angeles harbour late to- Assembly Soviet Union Reuter. Legislative says the Kremlin is building up a case against Stalin'slation which was carrying Com- to the
day and was reported proceed. on the historio protege, Georgi Malenkov recently removed from the must ocis and journalists of Shigapore
to the Afro-Asian conference,
south on its own power occasion. of fis Arst meeting Britain has denied responsibility. under the new constitution, My
from Santa Barbara Soviet Premiership.
near the only regret is that neither I nor
scene of the accident. any of my ministerial colleagues
cently purchased his vessel to in can be
person to de- present
enter
the A
forthcoming liver t
01 mart Arst of all con-
Honolulu yacht races, United Press
again
Formosa. On the contrary British government which Is of Saraway April 11 air crash { problems of government and subjects as an agreed reply to a loss of 23. lives,
the
it would help to simplify that there should be a renuncia- the whole problem of the ton of the use of force by both Formosa Straits. In the the Chinese Nationalists and
that Bad final analysis it is the future Communists of Formosa which is all Nationalists should accordingly important, and if a solution withdraw their armed forces to this complex problem is from the coastal Islands,
The current Afro-Asian ecp-
A New Purge In Russia?
the
This is just one of the highlights in tomorrow's big-Reuter. feature-packed week-end edition of the China Mail.
Here are some others:
William Smyly concludes his series Back-room boys of Queen Mother To
Make Copter Flight
the Hongkong CID with an article on the work of the
Police Ballistics Officer;
gute all those who have
the
THOSE ABOARD
Those believed, aboard the
ing
It Would Need Friends said Meiggs had re- Only 6 Bombs
Paris, Apr. 22. French and Tunisian delegates early today signed a pericol of
taken part in the working Six
Ottawa, Apr. 21. In our new series Did It Happen? the famous. British
London, Apr. 22. of this new constitutiethe
enemy hydrogen bombs | author, Eric ("The Wooden Horse") Williams" writer
The Queen Mother wit to committee under the chairmat the Brika civil defence chief Home Rule For about The Oldest Truth in the World": Wilson Ferber tells how negroes in New York's Harlem marrow make her first trip by ship of Sir George Rendell, who the British civil defence chief
now see the fulfilment of their Sir Sidney Kirkman, said here.
today, one
Tunisia Agreement run "house-rent parties" a very novel kind of party helicopter. She is 54. Indeed;
A whirlwind helicopter of the labours, and His Excellency the
Britain we
was widlnerable to Is the moustache on the rise or wane?J. W. Taylor Royal Navy will "hop her from Governor and his office who atomic attack, but this did not
Windag
where she has remain have devoted much time to writes on this very manly fashion trend; How a pigeon saved the lives of four British aimesed with members of her family framing and bringing the coo rule out the chance of some another story from the annals of the Goldfish Club, since Easter to the Royal Air stitution to operator Britons surviving, be told me
Force station et Blain fill, 30 SINCERE WISHES press confer addition there are all your regular favourite featus miles in the southeaster including cartoons by Low and Cummings, three pages of local: The Queen Mother and overseas pictures, Jane Roberts reviews of the current aims aversess sports reviews and selections for tomorrow's races at Happy Valley
all in the China Mail.
A of Her test
partement our the main points : Siro Side
the conventions to give effect "Neveda domic to Tunisian Home Rule, 4 - MALE recommended six feet deep
Shonnced by a Majesty's Government in the aft treaches topped with, gale in Hongkong, Beachcomber, the latest women's news, Incak u77)en auxiliary Air Foros Pumpress the
of which she is Honary Com United Kingdom at the succom modore and will return to Winde ful completion of an important soc by: hellmopter,--China" Mall task which is signised by the bes Special.
(Coastd, an back page, Col. 1)
fron and curit as pro- Frecich dion against nucleared blast French
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