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VOL. IV NO. 275
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1949.
New Trade U.S. ASKS HELP OF
Agreement
With Japan 30 NATIONS TO FREE
London, Nov. 21.-The Board of Trude announced today the completion of a new trade agreement be- tween the British Common- wealth and Japan, calling for exchange of goods valued nt nearly US$300,000,000.
The actual signing is to take place in Tokyo at 7.00 a.m. GMT, The agreement, which covETS the year ending next June 30, was reached between reprosen- Latives of both the sterling area and General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allted Commander in Japan,
The new trade agreement re- placea one which covered the year ending Inst July 1. In ad- dition 10 Britain anci NET colonies (excluding Hongkong), Australin, India, New Zealand, and South Africa will partic- pate.
JAPAN'S PURCHASES The Board of Trade estimated that new purchases by Japan from the participating countrica In the 12 months ending nort July would total approximately
£65,000,000,
The British Commonwealth
in an countries will take
си
Limated £45,400,000 worth of now purchases from Japan.
The sterling area countries will buy A wide range of Japanese manufactured goods, Including textiles, machinery, tinned fish, lumber, metals, electrical products and chemi- cols.
Japan will take cereals, cot- ton, wool, Iron ore, rubber, salt, petroleum, hides and skins and tanning materials-Associated
PICES.
CHANGES
..
MR ANGUS WARD
12-YEAR-OLD
ACQUITTED
OF MURDER
London, Nov. 21.-A 12. year-old Middlesex school
CONSCRIPTION boy, George Edward Crick, was today acquitted after trial at the Central Criminal Court, London, on a charge London, Nov. 21. Cabinet of murdering a four-year- Ministers today conferred oni changes in the structure of the old boy. -
may
of com-
defence system which involve on extension pulsory service from 18 months to two years.
An
A section of the Government Is beleved to favour such extension coupled with a reduc- tion in the annual Intake of 300,000 men to enable industry to incrense its manpower. The Cabinet Defence mittee in working on report prepared by the Services' Chiefs of Staff, and at achieving econo- mles without reducing the effl- ciency of the armed forces. Reuter.
Com-
Auriol To Pay State Visit
The Jury, who did not retire to
verdiet, had consider their been told by the, judge: "Not for historic In this many years court has it been the task of a jury in try, as you are trying. a boy of 12 and half years of ag for the crime of murder."
Earlier, Crick, who sat by his father at a table instead of in the usual dock pleaded "Not Guilty."
for prisoners,
ANGUS WARD Unprecedented Step Taken By Acheson
WASHINGTON, NOV. 21.—THE UNITED STATES TO. DAY ASKED 30 NATIONS—INCLUDING SOVIET RUSSIA- TO JOIN IN BRINGING PRESSURE on the chinese cOM. MUNISTS TO FREE THE AMERICAN CONSUL-GENERAL, Mr ANGUS WARD, AND HIS STAFF FROM A MUKDEN GAOL.
An unprecedented personal appeal for urgent concerted action was sent out by the Secretary of State, Mr Dean Acheson, over the week-end to the Foreign Minister of every country with representatives in China.
The new step, announced by the State Department, was taken amid a mounting outcry for the use of force
their governments and to grant ball fa the event of their being charged with criminal ofences, Consuls are charged largely with looking after trade, ship.
if necessary to free the Con-ping and Immigration matters.
sular officials, who were
Charges which the United Acticson
Friday
HOUSE ARREST
AIRCRAFT
DEFECTION QUESTION IN
COMMONS
gnoled four weeks ago on Me Ward and his aides, Mir
said, have actually boon States has denounced as deprived of their freedom for an entire year. They were put "trumped up."
under house arrest last Novem Officials said Mr Acheson's personal appeal WES
withouter when the Communists cap- diplomatic precedent It went tured the Manchurian capital, out on
night, a few and have not been permitted to
London, Nov. 21. --- Mr Truman leave although the Consulate
Christopher Mayhew, hours after President called the treatment of Mr Ward was formally, declared closed
Under-Secretary for Foreign an outrage.
List May 10. Mr Acheson's
Mr Acheson turned to the in- Affairs, explained today move posed a
after tle appeal attitude of t direct test of the
that there were no negotin- authorities Soviet Russia and of four other Sovici bloc countries to which Pelping
tions prior to the departure Ignored direct his message was dispatched,
of the Chinese aircraft from protests and requests Some Uplomatic officials formation.
Hongkong for Communist volted the suspicion previously The State Department sald' to- territory recently.
still been Russia, as
no that
the principal day there has new Chinese Red acknowledgment to
note He was answering a backer of the
a ques- Consul - General 0. tion from Air Commondore regime, may have instigated the which Ward incident as A blow
to Edmund Clubb at Pelping sent Harvey in the House of Coni- to General Chou En-lai, Commons whether negotiations had American prestigo.
munist Foreign Minister, taken place with the Chinese November 3.
Nationalist authorities.
nt
U.S.
for In-
on
MATTER OF URGENCY "As a matter of urgency," Mr
The The State Department's sole Acheson asked each Foreign
information about the charges, to "express to Minister
the which have come via the Com- Chinese in highest
Peiping munist press and radio, is that through such channels
ns may Mr Ward and the four others be available to you the concern
accused of beating n which your government undoub-
Chinese employee who asked for bock pay for his services. DEMANDS FOR FORCE
that tedly feels" over the treatment
The prosecutor said Crick had given different ver of Mr Ward. sions of the death of the four- year-old boy, Stanley Victor Graves.
the
Mr
declared Acheson Communists' action is "in direet violation of the basic concepts of international relations which
wem
When pressed to say how the managed to Icave
Mr Mayhew
Reservations
Price 20. Cents
“Old Crocks” Run
One hundred and thirty-six “old crocks,” cars built before 1905, recently had their annual London to Brigh. ton run to celebrate the abolition of the law which compelled all motor vehicles to be preceeded by a man with a red flag. Mr Arthur Prince is seen driving à 1903 Panhard-Levassor 7-hp. French car past the Houses of Parliament.
Oil Patches In
Fjord May Mark
|
Teli 27880
Poland Forces U.N. Action On China
New York, Nov. 21-Po- land announced today that nho will formally support. the Chinese Communist efforts to unseat the Chinese Nationalist delegation to the United Nations.
The Polish
delegation de- manded that the U.N, Secre- tarlat circulate a letter received Just week from the Mao The- tung regime at Pelping declaring that the Nationalist delegation no longer had a right to speak for Chine.
The U.N. Secretariat had re- fused to act on the communica-. tion on the ground that the Chinese Reds had not been re-. cognised by the UN. as government.
The Polish move opened the way for UN. action, since the Polish Government took on the sponsorship of the communica-
fon as its own document.
Lle,
The Jetter from the Polish delegation, handed .to U.N. Secretary-General, Mr Trygve was signed by Sician Wierblowski, chief of the de- legation.
The Poles called attention in their letter to their declarations In the U.N..on the Chinese situation. They have recognised the Communist regime along with other members of the Slay bloc.-Associated Press.
Strike As
Dismantling
Scene Of Crash Protest
life In
Brunswick, Nov. 21.
Federation
The
in
20,000 German workers at the
to
Oslo, Nov. 21.-Experts think that oil patches Trade Union found in Oslo Fjord today may mark the wreck of Brunswick has ordered nearly the missing Dutch Dakota with 29 Jewish children former Hermann Goering iron and six adults on board. A search plane saw the and steel works at Watenatedt
Sulzgitter, near Brunswick, oil on the water and directed boats to the spot strike tomorrow afternoon
protest against the dismantling where oil was found bubbling to the surface.
of plant. Divers will be sent down fore starting n now
Israel.
The They were among 200 to investigate.
being sent there under a con- Few people live in the valescent scheme, of which wild area around this part arst party of 30 reached Oslo of the Fjord, and the plane yesterday afternoon. may have crashed straight. to the bottom without being the séén.
ex-
airerafi Hongkong, plained that the local authort- iles had no knowledge of their intended destination,
"I cannot say what we would have done had we known the destination," he said.
of four nations
The planes continued their search today in mist and bad weather.
With them were two Swedish attendants and the plane's Dutch crew of four,
An Aero Holland Dakota Wis
strike will last until Wednesday morning. The Her mann Goering works have been omitted from the dismantling list now being reviewed by the three Allied High Gommissioner and the West German Chancel- lor, Dr Konrad Adenauer, at Bonn.
Dr Adenauer has told the
Other staff members have
Mr Mayhew assured been permitted to send food House that other aircraft at pre- "If the version Crick gave have been developed through-and clothing to those in gaol, sent in Hongkong belonging to to his father be the true one, out the centuries.
Although Consuls do not en- but have been denied inter the same concerns cannot leave
standing by this afternoon at works management that he is Paris, Nov. 21. It was off- and he pushed the boy into the
and views,
their oficial dis- in the same manner, as plots
Typenburg Airfield ready to doing his utmost to save the cially announced here tonight water quite deliberniely and toy diplomatie immunity liko
American lleences, aircraft log books and
take Dutch Government officials, | plant, ་་་ that the French President. M. with full knowledge of the Ambassadors and Ministers, Mr patches giving the
other essentials had been re- A Swedish fighter squadron members of the management of It is expected that other Vincent Auriol, will pay a probable consequences, it is my Acheson noted it has been version of the episode have been
moved by the
Norwegian, Danish Nationalist au- and state visit to the King and duty to say this is
intercepted. true in "universal practice" to accord
Demands that the U.S. use thorities. Thew documents are Dutch aircraft Queen of England in March dletment," the prosecutor said. them freedom of movement to
to free Mr necessary prior to take-off per- the wild uninhabited with force if necessary -Reuter.
Word have been voiced by the mission being given by Kal Tak areas of Southern Scandinavia, American Legion's National airport Our Own Correspon Bylag in visual contact with the Commander, George N. Cralg.dent.
next year-Reuter,
EDITORIAL
let
them
The Postwar Navy
I considering the size of Britain's
postwar Navy, many people are apt to think of it only in terms of the actual seagoing fleets. This is making a serious mistake. Although the number of Britain's active warships is admittedly smaller than at the start of World War Two, behind them, however, are the great resources of the reserve fleet, in which are large numbers of ships standing, by for duty when required. The reduction In the number of ships on active duty has been; due to two main reasons: first, the temporary shortage of trained man- power and, second, the need, common to almost every country in the world today, of stringent economy. Nowadays a war- ship costs many times more to operate ihan ten years ago. When their immense
commitment arc considered-commit. ments which include such "mercy. trips” as that recently undertaken by the crulser, Belfast, to rescuо over two hundred men, women and children from à Chineso ship stranded on a coral reef near Pratas Island-the operational flects may be thought to ba apiall. But it must be remembered that there are behind them the many ships in the reserve. This "feet behind the feet" does not court. publicity. From time to time, there is n report that such and such a warship la *going into reserve after being redited.”
communicate
Then it drops out of the news, later to reappear unexpectedly at some home or overseas station. In actual fact, there are in reserve, or in the process of reducing to reserve, some four hundred ships of all categories, more than ninety percent of which having been built since the outbreak of the last war. Among them are four battleships of 35,000 tons- Duke of York, King George V, Anson and Howe, There are eight. cruisers, four aircraft carriers, about sixty deştroyern and over thirty felgates, whose primary duties are escorting convoys and hunting enemy submarines. There are eighty minesweepers of various types and n host of other fighting ships. Large numbera of these units are in a high state of readiness, and, given crews, could be at sea again in a matter of weeks. This applies particularly to the smaller ships, Bo important for countless duties. More than” two hundred of thego: ships have Been thoroughly refitted since the end of the war. Thus it will be seen that people are badly misinken when they think that, Britain's reserve fleet consists of old ships which have had their day and are now Jying forgotten in rivers and backwaters. Actually, the reserve flect is the Royal Navy's number two priority, second only. to the provision of trained men.
and by Senator William Know-
land.
California Republican.
There has been no hint, how-
ever, that these proposals have German Camp
received
at the State Department.
Although the U.S. has a task Deet. In the Western Pacific which could enforce a blockade of Communist-held ports, both
Commanders
Mukden and Pelping art Sent To Gaol ·
Inland.
ground.
and
Aero Holland Airline and rela-workers in the city, Including were scouring lives of the crew to the scene municipal employees, will also coastal of the disaster as soon as the strike tomorrow in sympathy miasing plane is found-Reuter with the steelworkers.--Reuter.
SIGNAL PARACHUTE
Two Mitchell bombers of the Dutch Naval Air Service, which followed the southern leg of the route tüken by the missing Dakota this afternoon, returned without finding any trace of IL
Bad weather grounded two more Mitchell bombers which wire to have joined the search later.
Apart from other possibl effects, the new American move
Paris, Nov. 21.--Two Ger- might serve to rally sentiment
Troops, police, multin and against the admission of Commans who ran the French munist China into the United Jews' concentration camp on hundreds of Red Cross men and
This is expected, to the Channel Island of Alder-women-some
Nations.
with "walkie- Infkie" radios-were- out in
come up as an urgent issue, pos- ney during the war were Southeastern Norway, in Oslo sibly in January. By then proa-gaoled for 10 and seven message stated,
number of pecta are that a Western nations may have join-years today,
་་
Ships, including
lifeboats,
Italy Made Trustee
For Somaliland
Flushing Meadow, Nov. 21.—The United Nations General Assembly voted today to put Somaliland undor Italian trusteeship for 19 years. The Assembly also voted to set up a special Commission to study the future of the former Italian colony of Eritros,
Soviet Russia today ac- time limilt "unrealistic" and said that France would abstain from sused Italy of preparing a
voling but would neerpt the fully armed division, inveniet of the Unf'ed Nations. cluding 900 airmen, for The Ethiopian Foreign Minis ed. the Soviet bloc in exteriding They were Heinrich Adier were afro taking part...
shipment to her formerter Abte Wold Aklilu warned. that the return of Italian super- diplomatic recognition to the(10 years), described by ono Manwhile Oslo Radio Enve colony in Somaliland.
'vision would "pivo Pelplug Communist regime and witness as a "drunken sadist reguler bulletins on the pro-
rise to Attacking the proposal to give thus create strong support for incapable of any human feeling, ceedings on the search gradually Italy a 10-year rusteeship over numbered East Africa, for un-
Nationalists Quating, the
in and A
Adam Evers
Intensified..
he territory, the Soviet de-numbered years." favour of the Communists an They were chargod with
Hopes had bren raised several legate, M. Amazasp Artfunian,.
Mr Aklllou declared it was the U.N. member for China. "blows, ill-treatment, wounding, times and then faded. An ex- said that these troops were
"strange. food
that Italy should be serving infected
and
the only power to persist in plane, sent cearcliers into hilly were police why did they need following the old and dis- Glealing 2,700 parcels sont to plosion, possibly from a crashing called gendarmes, but if they
districts outside Oslo early an tir force,
credited policies of imperialism" prisoners by their familles."
A leading French plahist, today:
He said that the "parcelling
since her peace treaty enlied. Loon Kartun, who WOR
out" of Italy's former colonies.
upon her to
renouace recommended by the Political FROM MOROCCO of the United Nations, Oficiais prisoner in the camp, said that
colonicu, Evera once burned a sack of
Committee, WOR in the In- sald the direct appeal ART
before tho Others were still trying to terests of the, colonial powers, Ethiopia, three times a victim chosen
because it promised letters from home
reach, a wooded ridgo 20 milen eyes of the Jewa
Most people in Italian So of Italian aggrossigh, had vainly faster action.
Another prisoner said Evers from the city after seeing a mallinne were violently oppus-awaited, a change of attitude
ed to Italian trusteeship, light in the area.
heby the so-called "new Italy was a "furious epileptic."
One witness fold the court
The Political Commit- "Aircraft · experts were also added..
The United Nations that Evere gave him 50 lashes examining a signal light para-tze proposals include lu- following the same path as the
stepting Talbottle of chute found in that vicinity this dependence for Italian Somali- League of Nations, which do The Secretary of state then told for
trusteeship layed and so postponed the The other governments de se lemonade, but saved him from horning. It was confirmed that land after the
The International practice court martial for a 10-mark the Dakota had much a signal on period and independence for a question in 1930, ha declared.
unlied board. of civilised countries for many bribo.
Libya not later than Ethiopia "retains with dimeully I's confidence in' the principle The children, who came from January 1, 1952.
The French delegate, M.|'of" collective socurity," Mr. Morocco, were flying to Norway en an eight-month holiday bus Cova de Murelle. called the Akillou added-Reuter -
ACHESON'S NOTE
Mr Acheson had the choice of a direct appeal to the foreign governments, or of asking help
In his communication to other governments, Mr. Acheson re- elted the circumstances londing up to the orkest of Mr Warð.
0
years has recognised that Con-Another witness sold that sule should be accorded all the Evers broke his jaw with kick sen??? (Continued:on' Page-5):49% Reuter
her