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VOL. IV NO, 256
Rees-Williams Off For Talks In Singapore
Mr
David Rees-Williams, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, left for Singapore by plane this morning with His Excel- lency the Governor of Hongkong, Sir Alexander Grantham, and Sir Alvary Gascoigne, head of the United Kingdom Mission in Japan.
They travelled by special Dakota aircraft, which left Kai Tak airport at 8 a.m. Other pas- sengers were Mr Rees-Williams' secretaries.
American
Protest
To Peking
All three will attend the | conference of British ad- ministrators, governors and envoys in the Far East aren called by Mr Malcolm Mac- donaki. Special Commis sioner for Southeast Asia. The talks open on Wednes day
MALAYAN PROBLEM
Singapore, Ocl 30.-Top- Washington, Oct 30-The Level British political and Service State Department has pro- chlefs in Asia and the Far East, texted to the Chinese Com-meeting here this week, ore ex- munist Government against pected to draw up plans to deal
the
with any adverse reaction in
of
the arrest in Mukden of Mr Hongkong ma Malaya to British Augus Ward American recognition of the Communist Consul-Genera there, al-regime in China. legedly for assaulting a for- Political observers belief that
tho 17-month-old state mer Chinese employee.
emergency in Malaya has suc- ceected only in "checking" the revolt of local Communists. The terrorists are dominated by a "hard core" of Communists, and there is evidence to support the fact
that the guerilla leuders are holding out for promised A. Piking Communist Radio | "material "and moral nid" from broadest last night Faid that the Calne Communists.
The Department told Peking Consulate to protest and to remind the Communist authorities of their earlier 85- surances that Mr Ward would be allowed to leave for the United States
Few pherom
800 an end to
Mr. Ward and four other Con- sulate star members, who this emergency until the fana. allegedly also look part in the Ucal Communist lenders in the
brought jungle are silenced,
assault, would
be before a Prople's Court.
'VIRTUAL PRISONER Department officials sad that in charge against Ward was of
"Aimsiest tho
ROT!" and the second planned attack against the American diplomatic mission in the Manchurian city. The first consisted of charges last spring that the Consulate WAS
oporating a
a spy ring. Omciala sald that Mr Ward
murusta vanisties.
MONDAY, OCTOBER · 31, 1949.
Cordial East-West Handshake
The Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr Andrei Y. Vyahinsky (right), who is a Vice- President of the United Nations General Assembly, shakes hands with President Truman as the U.S. Chief Executive arrived at the site of the permanent head- quarters of the United Nations In New York for the cornerstone laying ceremony. At left is Brig-Gen. Carlos P. Romulos, current President of the Assembly. (AP
Picture).
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Busy On Marshall Plan For Asia
FOCUS OF AID BEING SHIFTED FROM
FROM EUROPE
PARIS, OCT. 30.—UNITED STATES EXPERTS ARE WORKING ON PRELIMINARY BLUEPRINTS FOR A MAR- SHALL PLAN FOR ASIA, AN AMERICAN OFFICIAL DISCLOS- ED TODAY.
Early planning contemplates requests to the U.5. Congress next summer for between $1,000,000,000 and $1,250,000,000 for the first year of the programme to help halt Communism in Asia. Smaller allotments would be requested for the next two or three years.
U. S. Navy
Planning To Withdraw
77 Ships
Communists
Coup In Finland
4
·
Under present planning Marshali plan, it calls for self-- most of the funds would go help, too.
The Marshall plan also puts to South-east Asia.
emphasis on co-operation of the The disclosure comes on the participating countries" put- heels of an announcement by ting their economies on a tree. President Elpidio Quirino of the and stable basis. Philippines that a preliminary Already China and South conference to organise a non-Korea have been Fetting some Communist union of South-east aid from funda voted in Mar- Asian countries will be called shall plan appropriation bills. carly next year.
Many of the dollars Washington, Oct. 30. State Department le faced with also help to
comes, also, as the US Asia, the official
official said, would The United States Navy an- the task of drawing n policy shortage, keen part of the
given
to
set Europe's dollar
London, Oct. 30.-Russia is marshalling strong political forces in Finland to lead a Communist coup and try to bolster its crumbling newtorknounced tonight that 77 line on how far would throughout Scandinavia, authoritative sources said today.
British und Finnish Soviet spy ring was broken in
British Foreign and the government officials said the Canada,"
| Office Fource sutdi. hope of aid from outside Com-Russians had stepped up
On October 10, Ferenc Muen- their offensives in Scandina- nich took up duties as Hungariaz Only two The talks open on November vix since the crushing de Minister to Helsinki. 2 et Bukit Serene, Mr Malcolm feat of the Communists in MacDonald's residence Ju
ross the causeway from Singa- the recent general strike in Finland and the general port, in Johore.
The Malayan question is ex-elections in Norway and pected to be one of the main
Denmark. topics.
had been virtually a prisoner The most optimistic view in top
Minister to
eva,
the
Helsinki.
Miak
"BIG STEEL" BLAMED FOR
U.S. STRIKE
ships, including five aircraft be allowed to spread in Asia. carriers, were being with- | drawn from active service as an economy move because of decreased funds.
restore
United States, others would go to Europe for goods to Asiatic Industries and agricul tural production.
mind
PRESENT THINKING The informant, who preferred not to be identified, said present It was such aid, the informant thinking of the experts is along said, that the ECA Administra- the lines of aiding chiefly South- tor, Mr Paul G The announcement followed
Hoffman, had cast Asia, where Chinese Com-in
when he said on the disclosure that Navy
and
munists are on the doorstep and Wednesday that the United Marine Corps strength would be
where native Communist move- States would reduced by 54,891 men by next.
have to spend ments are taking on new cour about two billion dollars a year. July 1 to
with the correspond
ape. However, the experts reduction in ships,
would also include some coun- foreign assistance after the Thirty-five warships, including tries of the South Pacine.
end of the Marshall Plan in the carriers and six cruisers, They think these countries. 1933. will be laid up.
Included India, should A comparison of the announce Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma. Aus- ment with other formation showed that the larger pincs and perhaps Indonesia and available in-tralia, New Zealand, the Philip- number of ships will come out Vietnam, the French-sponsored Europe
1
be
we ka before he was police chief Budapest, He lived in Russia from 1020 to 1045 and served in the Soviet secret poller.
The
Stella following day, Blagoeva, former Ambassador
Washington, Oct. 30. Bulgarian In the past 20 days, Sovietto Moscow, became
The Secretary of Labour, Mr Daughter YOUNG RECRUITS
FOCUS ON ASIA sa cillie countries have named
Communist
of the founder of the Bulgarian Maurice Tobin, asserted to officials กร
Many Europe na bellived he. Communist Party, Peter Blogo-day that the responsibility
meani that Marshall aid to that airly Ministers to Helsinki, Hungary of the Chinese Communists un-offcial circles is
60-year-old recalled her Minister to
would be continued. has pro- B amounted der what
to house sterdy but unspectaculae
and Blagoeva spent half her life to for the crippling steel strike the Czech has been made in the Stockholm,
under another name. American the Soviet Union and today is lay squarely
bag of the Atlantic Fleet. Three of Indo-Chinese state. arceat skice last May, in the gre
Untish
Embassies have purged ctrcumstances
By next summer, the effec-oficials here are worried over. drive against the terrorists. would Kuarda
Nearly
Fleet and two
looking the Pacife tiveness of Vietnam in weanling this reaction, and 1,500 guerillas have their saffs in the Scandinavian member of the Central Com-steel corporations because the carriers are in the Atlantic have been able to prevent the
and the Norwegian mitsee of the Communist Party they refused to accept the Ficet. Four of the cruisers are
SECRET POLICE
away nationalist support from for some way to correct what alleged
beating of the former been killed or captured since the countries
| pension recommendations of in the Atlantle and two in the
Moscow-educated Ho Chi-minh they call a false impression. employee, who was said to have emergency began, but the year- Communist
On October 14, the Hungarian President Truman's official estimate
fact. Pacific,
The in North Indo-China should be
informant said the demanded pay due to him, they old
LAST SUMMER
clear. The status of the pro- groundwork is now being
laid ganised groups are from 3,000 to secretary-general and two chief Minister to Stockholm, Gregory'nding board. added.
Schoeflin, was recalled tu propagandists.
United States jected new
of to shift the focus of American 5,000 strong still stands.
Last Budapest after reportedly failing
summer there
created were Indonestu,
from the aid from Europa to Asia, to get the Swedish Government
about 174 combatant ships in islunds of the Netherlands East to repatriate hundreds of Hun- garlane who fled to Sweden
The Chinese Communists took Mukden a year ago. Last May the State Department instructed Mr Ward to close his office. Since then his departure from Mukden has been prevented by his inability to obtain transport officials sold.--Reuter.
EDITORIAL
Parly has ousled that or about 30 leaders, including its
High onteinis admit that the gangs are still giling recrulla, mostly young men and women, The terrortats sill have lens of thousands of helpers, voluntary and otherwise, and the security
(Continued on Page 5)
SIGNIFICANT CHANGES "These changes are especially significant in view of the fet that
the Russians have been working more and more through the satellite Embassies since the
Mr Rees-Williams' Visit
THE Visit of Mr David Rees. Williams, the l'arliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies,
was well worth while to Hongkong for the informa- tion which he was able to disclose on a number of subjects connected with the welfare and progress of the Colony. It Is to be hoped that, despite his short stay, Mr Rees-Williams was, on his part, able to gather whatever first-hand knowledge he desired about Hongkong, thus making the long journey worth while for him as well. Very curly during the re-occupation, the Inadequacy of Kai Tok to handle, the' fast-growing International qir traffic had been pointed out, and the delay in golting on with the work of building a new and modern airport has been generally re gretted. If the work had started even two years ago, the new airport would probably be functioning today. As mat- tors stand, we will have to walt at least two years 'more before it becomes an accomplished fact-and that is only if the work is not further postponed. The visit of Mr Rees-Williams has not brought the project much nearer to realisation, but an interesting disclosure made was that an Air Ministry representative was now in Hongkong and that discussions were now in progress between him and the Hongkong Government. A further in- teresting revelation was that the Alt Ministry was ready to go ahend as soon as the Hongkong, authorities came to a decision as to how they wanted the
scheme to be carried out. That places the onus squarely on the Hongkong Govern- The Government would be falling ment.
in its responsibilities if it did not come to a decision quickly so ns to enable on early start to be made on the scheme. Hongkong handles today probably as much air traffic as any international nirport, and both for safely considerations as well as pro. vision of up-to-date facilities, it is Impera- tive to have the new airport working as soon as possible. Another point brought up in the course of Mr Rees-Williams" press conference which deserves Hong- kong's attention was his reference to the socialisation of public services in the Colonies. Mr Rees-Williams did not commit himself specifically, but from the nnswers he gave to questions on this subject it appears that the extension of socialisation to the Colònies is a future alm of the Labour Government. It would, however. be done by degrees-Mr Recs. Williams was ready to acknowledge that there would have to be different paces for different places. In a place the size of Hongkong, the use of the term "socialis- ation" may cause a misleading.impression. Without vost
basic industries for "nationalisation, socialisation, can only boll down to municipal, ownership and operation of public services. That may be revolutionary for a paradise of private. Interests like, Hongkong, but it is nothing extraordinary—in fact, quito a normal thing-In many progressive cities.
'The British Foreign Omer cource predicted that Muennich eventually would be named to All Schoeflin's post, "but only after he has taught the Finalsh Communists about secret police work and Blagoeva has 10. organised the Party, and pecially the women's organisa. tions"
on the
Mr
bluntly blamed Tobin
shut-down big steel for the na belak radio debate with
He
in Congress. support Mr Herman Steinkraus, prest- the Atlante Fleet and 97 in the Indies, also may be established predicted the mov: would win
Pacific.
AWKWARD QUESTION "A lot ot Congressmen do not. In addition to the warships, į By the time conerete planning like Europeans," he said. "They 42 other craft, including tan-is necessary, the awkard ques- want to do something for some- kers and seaplane tenders, will tion of Nationalist China may body else."
Nearly
to
I
dent of the Chamber of Com- merce of the United States.
replied Mr Steinkraus
that the real cause of the strike was
that the CIO president, Philip be put into reserve or used for be cleared. The yardstick will
$10,000,000,000 ̋ hom Murray, was "too impatient" to reserve training. "take a litle time" to
Alitary and political been appropriated so far, under: work The reduc.ion will be offset success or failure of the Com-the system inspired by the for out details of a fair pension to some extent by returning to munists in swallowing up the mer Secretary of State, Mr
George programme in conferences with service the light carrier, Bataan,
Marshall. C.
This Ame- the management.
and the submarine Guavina, ond hure nation and controing **id frican aid consists mostly of
The basis for large-scale FIFTH WEEK
commissioning of two new sub-
Asia was laid by the now dollar
19 grants to
West He said the Soylets apparently
០៨ mersibles, the Grenadier
tions, and areas. famous Point Four in President European nations. Intended
The steel strike enters its nith to work through
Granpt. "because week
Harry Truman's inaugural ad- enables war impoverished couns tomorrow Helsinki temporarily
with the in-
be Two of the carriers to
to rebuild shattered Steelworkers' the Swedish intelligence service dustry and the
withdrawn are of the 27,000-ton dress. It called for technical and tries
financial aid to countries whose economics, with Amèrican ma-" суть the Essex class. The would make things too dimeult Union still deadlocked
others
material development: Is not up rif they could not otherwise. question of In Stockholm".
smaller.
to Western standards. Like the afford.-Associated Press. ac- "The Finns struggling under pensione
The Navy will keep on heavy reparations to Russin. Mr Steinkraus asserted in the tive service three big 45.000-ton have to be careful to avoid fric-radio debate that the two big carriers the Midway. the with Eastern Europe," strikes were "closely linkod" Franklin D. Roosevelt and the and suggested that "political Coral Sea-and the 55.000-ton rivalry"
between top unlan battleship, the Missouri, on Lenders might be behind the which the Japanese surrender walk-outs. He did not elaborate, was signed.Reuter.
tion
United Press.
Plague Claims
49 Lives'
and
company-financed
Mr Tobin said steel industry
executives had "no sound moral ground" when they proclimed
arc
themselves opposed on princi Margaret May
ple" to pensions financed wholly San Francisco, Oct. 30The by the company. He said they plague which is gripping Nor-themselves benefited from com- thern Chahar Province has pany pensions running as high claim the lives of 49 people as US$50,000 a year.
so far, Peking Radio reported lonight.
Late last week the Radio said.
TEN CENTS AN HOUR
יי
BELFAST REACHES
STRANDED LST
HMS Belfast carly this morning reported by radio that she had found the Chinese LST Chung Hsin, ograund on a coral reef at Pratas Shoals, 200 miles southeast of
Go On Trip Hongkong, and attempts to get har passengers off had
responso
Another
Chinese two-
aground on the southeast corner
London, Oct. 30-A Bucking-| begun. ham Palace source said today! The Secretary said the fact there was a "strong possibility. The British cruiser. left repor's 200 men on the island that the plague was affecting an nding board's recommendation that Princess Margar might Hongkong harbour late yes and 450 en the wreck. The LST His visiblo apparently aground the Untied terday evening at high speed (on the north perimeter of the area north of Kalgan, the pro- of ten conta an hour company visit Canada and vincial capital of Chinhar,
financed pensions and Insurance States next summer.
to distrass reef to the cast of the north- Princess Margaret Medical teams
may 'Gratin were working was "fair and reasonable" and
go to Canada in July to attend aimmals from the Chinese west horn, amate 20 hours a day to eradicate the "should be accepted by the in-
It had been by the the official celebrations of the ship. She reached the pres scourge, the Radio sald-Reuter.ustry as
union Agreeing that It was Highland Light Infantry of "unfortunate the nailon's econo Canada of which she is Colonel-1 of the grounding at day- funnelled vessel is apparently my is running downhill" because in-Chief, and then to the United break today. of the steel strike, Mr Tobia States for a private visit,, the The Chung Hsin was reported of Prains. This ship resembles shouted: "The responsibility source sald.
rammed the Docteur Yersin, but. big steel's United Press.
Early this year, an invitation yesterday to have on board 600 the photograph of the sloop, that
Chinese Nationalist soldiers, was sent to the Princess, oaking
Capt. E. K. Le Mesurier, can get no answer from her." her to attend the ceremony of MVO., Belfast's Pakistan's Envoy
commandor the Regiment. It was under reported to the Naval authorl- To Russia
stood that, at the Commonwealth lies
Here
by wireless Karich!, Oct. 30 Shorib Prime Ministers' conference in at 7.45 a.m. today that the reported to be the Klang Yuani Quereshi, former Foreign Minis London this summer, it was pro cruiser is anchored close southe ter of Bhopal State, has been apposed that King George should west of Pratas Jaland, where that efforts were being made to vointed Pakistan's, Grst: Am- | be ofclnlly requested to them is a good lee.
get the Nationalist soldiers on hasador to Moscow, it was an-
sanction
visit United The weather statiori on the the foland'sent out to the British
* Mistid," "his" message^ continued, 'crufsery?"
Reds Take Islands Off Chekiang
San Francisco, Oct. 30.- Chinese Communist forces mop- ping up along the China const have taken four, small islands off Cheklang Province, the Peking Radio announced tonight. Tho feiands; "are" in Sanmen and Blangshan bays, the Radio raid.-Reuter.
nounced here today--Reuter, Press
The ship that rammed the Docteur Yersin was previously
Belfast's commander added