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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1949,
FORCED LABOUR CAMPS CONDEMNED
POCKET CARTOON
by OSDERT LANCASTER
"Now, by courtesy of the Matairy of Agriculture, Murici to the herself is coming microphone to conjeas to you that she is qulle unable to distingula between Govern- ment-controlled, prefabricatrit National cattic-cake and the finest grass."
Arctic Test Of Flying Buzz Bombs
It announced that tests at farid air Base will involve use of the 12,000 the 1,00-pound pounds "Turan," "Razon," and the American model of the buzz bomb used by the Germana gainst London in world war two.
British
Spokesman's Strong Criticism
AN "INHUMAN PRACTICE"
The “inhuman prac Lake Success, Feb. 15. — tice" of forced labour was spreading westwards "following the Hammer and Sickle,” Mr Christopher Mayhew, British Under-Secretary of State, declared in the Economic and Social Council today.
He asked why forced labour camps were "kept. so secret" if, as the Soviets claim there is no mass forced labour but merely a few correction labour camps.
He added: "The inhuman practice of forced jabour is now spreading beyond the boundaries of the Soviet Union. We see the evil growing in Czechoslovakia, in Bulgaria, and in the Soviet Zone of Germany. We see now that forced labour is not an exclusive Russian phenomenon. It belongs to the "practice of Communism in several countries
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"I Czichoglvakia no attempt is invite representatives of the United made in disguise the fact that forced Nations, or a group of newspaper- men, to visit the following areas: labour ramps now exist."*
the great penal area of Karaganda in the Kazarkh Desert; the concen- were tration camps at Dalstrol, in the Far
"I am not suggesting to the Counell that forced labour in Czechoslovakia has yel reached the full scale and the full horror of forced labour in Soviet Hussin, Mr Mayhew stated, "but the seed is there and all experience suggests that the evil will grow."
"IDLERS' CAMPS"
In Bulgaria, he sax, laws had growing evil
of
Before October 25, 1948, he said, some 170,000 Sudetenlanders who bad
in, Czechoslovakin Washington, Feb. 15-The remainrei
in Eastern on the Kalymn river (Siberia); the U.S. Air Force will begin Arctic own to have been sent to forecast, including the coamining camp
Inbour
mainly camps.
In the north tests of radio-controlled bombs czechoslovakia. Some were deported Pechota group
Europe: the Lake Baikal group in and V-1 flying buzz bombs into the Soviet Union.
Siberia: the Yagri group in the Alaska this month.
Archangel region; and the groups in Lapland. Novaya Zemlya, Sakhalin, Kamchatka, and the Novosibirsk, world the free repeat that Krasnoyarsk and Aretle regions, cannal Femalu indifferent to this It has now appeared In Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and the The "Tarzon" and the "Razon" are established labour educational com-Soviet Zotie of Germany.
Forcel dropped from planes in the conven- tional manner and are classed as munitles and idlers' camps." The inbour camps are spreading west- wards, following the Hammer and involving six However, through idlers' camps are the milder form of
the Sickle. "free falling." radio devices operating the fins their concentration camps. fall can be affected and the bomb months' sentences of heavy mnnas?
labour, he stated.
educational com- steered toward a target.
"the labour munities, which are chiefly for local prisoners, and in which the sentence is nominally restricted to one year conditions are extremely harsh and the heavy and unhealthy werk often slight results in death.
punishment offences is the rule, and there is tor ios little food, medical facilities and other amenities.
RADIO-CONTROLLED
The Air Force said that in the Alaska tests the ratio-controlled bombs will be dropped from B-29 bombers and the buzz bombs will be launched from the Superior- 1resses.
"Severe
for
world.
S. Korea's Application
For UN Membership
To Be Considered
Lake Success, Feb. 15.-The United Nations Security Council today referred the application of Southern Korea for membership to its Membership Committee over strenuous objections from the Soviet Union.
Mr Jacob Malik, the Russian delegate, opposed con- sideration of the Korean application, branding the South Korean Government as "mere'y a local branch of the United States occupation authorities" and describing its application for membership as "tantamount to an insult thrown in the face of the Korean people."
voted down
Hungry Cattle Rescued
Don Gardner, a buckaroo, leads
a group of cattle in from the snowbound rangé near Lund, Nevada, so that they can be fed with hay dropped by air force planes. The cattle were found hud. Cattle dling in the snow. won't move around under these conditions and would stand and freeze if the huc- karoo did not break trail and make them get going- AP Picture.
S'hai Migrants
For Australia
to
a
"Communist wage levels, Commu-
Canberra, Feb. 15-Australia is from nist labour discipline, Communist
going to pick immigrants threaten Jabour
The Council coinps,
Mr United States authorities wanted at
among 0,006 Europeans being re- forced
Malik's objections nine to two and any cost to erect an extreme rightist moved from Shanghai
the workers' rights and workers' stan-
sent the application to the Member-Japanese-collaborating regime in the Philippines. dards in the non-Communist
cvil
comprises (eauntry." of ship Committee, which They represent the
of all 11 nations
Immigrion Minister Arthur Cal- sending representatives
today he was The Soviet delegate also said only well said labour exploitation in a new and extreme form. They present a holding Security Council seats:
78 members of South Korea's "pup- Immigration afficers, doctors und unlon to trade
On the basis of Mr. Malik's out- special challenge
Assembly had dared vote military Intelligence officer to inter- movements which spoken attack on the establishment pet" and Socialist
of the American-backed South against ratiication of such agree view the refugees on Samar Island, strike for the betterment of workers'
Korean Government,
inments, but 28 left the Assembly in the Philippines. 1 is the view of the conditions.
It was The amouncement said:
dicated that Russin might exercise protest. "In the Soviet Zone of Germany, United Kingdom delegation that we "Information gained in the tests
and have a duty, at the Economic and its 30th veto when the Membership will be used to develop techniques
that Commitice returned its recommen- clate. for cold weather operation of the both the concentration camps
the the Nazi technique have been taken Social Council, to make sure
receives the problem
att some unspecified most dalion bombs,
Research this radlo-controlled
Indications were the recommenda- indicated serious attentions."-Reuter. JB-2 (the buzz bumb) and may in-over and improvect
tion would be favourable. diente modifications that would in- undertaken a year
the that the German concetration camp their effectiveness
population was denser in Germany
crepse Arctic."
and
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A few of the Razon bombs and up to 1939.. the buzz bombs were tested Alaska two years ago.
on. agn
SENT TO SIBERIA "There are, we have reason
to
Aid China Fund Sponsors Anxious
40-MINUTE TIRADE
"The Southern
in
"Consideration of such an applica-Western Union
Malicious Rumour
1s
-London, Feb. 15.-Western Union will cost defence arrangements Britain about £52,000 for 1040-50, Ministry of Defence estimates dis- closed today.
Those selected will be admitted to Korean Govern- Australia on the same conditions as ment has 10 reason to claim it European displaced persons. They represents the Korenn people. The must undertake employment allotted factual situation
the shows that
by the government for the first two Government is merely a local branch | years
Australia. Associated of the United States occupation au Press, thority. It dreads nothing more than to be left alone with the Korean Mir Warren Austin (United States) opposed the purported membership people. application made on behalf of the
Kovernment
of tion in the Security Council Suviet-supported The Air Force is known to have believe, two to three hundred thou- Winter experi- sand prisoners in six motor or seven THE
tantamount to an insult flung in the Defence Expenditure Austin con- conducted Alaskan
Corroborated prl-' London, Feb. 15.--The sponsors Northern Korea. Mr
the Korean people." ments in the past with "homing" smaller camps. guided missiles. One of these was a sonets' reports slate that many of of the Aid China Fund in Britain, fended-that-the-North-Korean-ap-face of
Buchen including Lady Cripps, the wife of plication had been made only by United Press. bomb designed to seek out a beat- the 17.000 prisoners
to the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
telegram and was Intended more as steetwald in April, 1947, were sent
Siberia. emitting torget, such
were reported today to be "very forced labour comips
statement of intention for the in- the Counell than a factory-Associated Press..
and that on January 31, 1048, 47.- deeply concerned" lest money transformation of
deported 400 prisoners were
from
The major part of the expenditure ferred to China might fall into Com- bona fide application for member-
ship.
for British staffing for £32,113 the MVD (Secret Soviel Follee), in munist hands.
Malik's 40-minute trade Ar
London, Feb. 15.--A British spokes-is Major Guy Lloyd, Opposition Con- terment camps at Feunfeichen for
as "malicious the new Secretariat of the Western Korea was a man today branded Kuzbas factories in servative Miember, reporting this to against Southern labour in the
Mr rumour" reports printed in New Union Chiefs of Staff Committee, the Siberin.
the House of Commons today, asked swered calmly, and briefly by "The reports comment on the in what new regulations for sending Austin, who advised the Council to York that Britain was prepared to Milltury Committee, the Military Alexandria. Supply Board and common services.
-Reuter. '. tense hunger, and cold, great over-money to China would be imposed refer to the decision of the General occupy in crowding and almost universal in in view of "the
declared that the South Korean Co- cidence of disease brought on by Nationalist Governmention of the Assembly in Paris last autumn, which United Press.
Insanitary living Mr Douglas Jay, Economic Secreverushed
had been legally and freely Nations under United malnutrition and
tary to the Treasury, replied that conditions.
The camps described are prison he did not think new regulations auspices.
This is the first time and should be imposed because trans- Jamwitz at Bautzen, camps Wolf packs have appeared near Buchenwald, and the AVD prisons mission of money to China already heard this ghastly story of tyranni- cal coercion," declared Mr Austin many villages. Shepherds and their at Pirna. Dresden and Muelburg-needed Treasury permission.
the latter with 30,000 Inmates.
No answer was given when Major sarcastically in reply to Mr Malik's flocks are marooned.
"How
was stated with the fluency million Communists?"-Reuter. figure of just under a from almost all ports of Turkey in the Is it possible to reconcile Lloyd, asked: "Win money go to the criticism of Southern "puppets". "It familiarity with such methods a winter described as the severest German prisoners of when the
allows."
Villages Cut Off
By Heavy Snow
Istanbul, Feb. 15.-Snow, places 15 feet deep, has cut off 54 villages in Turkey's eastern most pro- vince of Van, where the tempern ture, is about 30 degrees Centigrade below zero.
Snowstorms have been reported
of
for 30 years, The Influenza wave Soviet Union given by Mr Molotov Foreign Ministers appears to be receding but schools to the Counell
huge in A in Moscow in 1947, with the remain temporarily closed
Istanbul and other towns.-numbers listed in Soviet commu kara, Router.
niques during the war amounting
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MALIK'S ALLEGATIONS Soviet camps still leave large num-
Hudson
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"The destiny of one-half the coun- bers unaccounted for.
All available are apparatus "There must be in all nearly two York.
ta thetry was zeitled by four men," con- of them million Germans doing something in and policemen were sent
Unued Mr Malik. "Most
of the Soviet Union. Many
The first casually report sald two were acting against the principles toworkmen were Injured.--United the UN Charter and at the behest of the United States authorities. The
German scene.
prisoners of war released from the Western Zones have been sert
the USSR for forced labour, as well Press. as some 175,000 German
enticed by false contracts.
civilians
WHY THE SECRECY? "The defence of the Soviet delc- gate is that there is no massed forced inbour in the Soviet Union, but there are merely a few corrective tabour camps, conducted in a praiseworthy civilised way.
already
"Sumclent evidence is available to the free world regarding the size and extent of these camps and the conditions which exist in them to refute this argument,
"Moreover, we are bound to ask, if the argument is true, why are the camps kept so secret? It is open at any time to the Soviet Government to prove its ease by letting the world Sce true conditions which exist.
the
these, camps are relatively small. humanely conducted, corree- tive camps, why are they shrouded In such absolute secrecy?.
strictly They
aro aven-more
than were guarded and concealed Hitler's concentration camps. Froe- dom of movement for foreigners was greater in Nazi Germany than in the Soviet Union today.
GROWING EVIL.
"The anxieties of the free world can be stilled quickly and innily by Let them the Sovial Government.
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