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VOL. V NO. 94
SALUTE FOR PRINCESS
Valetta, Malta, Apr. 21.-British warships in harbour and the artillery at Fort Selmo boombed
21-gun
Royal salute to Princess Elizabeth on her 24th birthday today.
Government and pri vate offices closed and jubilant throngs jam- med hunting-decorated streets to celebrate the birthday of the Heiress Presumptive, who came here to be with her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh. naval Lieutenant on service here. United Press.
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Hongkong Telegraph.
MARTIAL LAW FOR MALAYA IS ADVOCATED
London, Apr. 21.-It is certain that Britain cannot hold strategic positions and fight little wars all over the world and at the same time make the military contribution to Western Europe which: her Allies expect, the Conservative Daily Mail said in an editorial today.
The newspaper, commenting on the statement made by the Australian Prime Minister, Mr R. G. Menzies, that if Britain asked for military aid in Malaya he would not refuse, said: "This initiative is startling in its scope and importance.
whole
"From it may well spring are incited, organized, and sup- a scheme under which our plied by the Communists with
the backing of Moscow. outposts are largely garri- "It is vital to our soned by Dominion and position in Southeast Asia, and in the world, that Colonlal troops while Bri-Indeed
murderers should jungle
TRYGVE LIE Lish units are brought back the wiped out, the Mail said.
LEAVES
FOR
EUROPE
to help defend the heart,and Reuter. centre of Western cialisa-
tion."
The Daily Mall declared: "Here is vision of brother- hood and
Lake Success, Apr. 21.-of peace.
The Secretary-General
A
service to a common
cause unprecedented in times of Proud of
inherited and
the United Nations, Mr who people it.”
Trygve Lic, leaving to- གས་ Minister, Mr E. J. Har-
morrow on a European tour fence
of power
must
the
not be
DOCK STRIKE:
TROOPS MAY BE
DRAFTED
It should make us the Empire we havo of our kinsmen
Quoting the Austrailan De- rison-The Commonwealth to help break the East-West deadlock, said here today allowed to inpse because of the impotence of my
London, Apr. 21. - The that the situation in the lethargy ur
If the United Kingdom United
Nations was now section,
is not willing to give the Do- Prime Minister, Mr Clement worse than ever.
lead, minions a
then the Do- minions must lake the lead Attice, tonight called
meeting of Cabinet Minis- "He is
ters to consider the strike the Daily Mail said: referring particularly to Malaya, The inability of 50,000 to 70,000 of 7,800 London dockers British troops to take control which has half paralysed of Malaya from a few thousand the port. appears 'completely guerillas fantastic to him.
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Moscow Accuses Americans Of Air Photography
REPLY TO WASHINGTON OVER PLANE INCIDENT
its
London, Apr. 21.-Moscow alleged today that fightors caught an American B-29 Superfortress photograph- ing "Baltic defences" before a machino-gun duel over Russian territory a fortnight ago.
Reinforcing its first protest of 10 days ago, Russia called Washing- ton's answer "an attempt to avoid responsibility.
It said that Soviet fighters answered the 29's fire in a step "any air force would have taken if a foreign armed plane made an incursion on its territory."
Russian Note On Trieste Seen As Propaganda
He is first visiting Mr Ernest Bevin and M. Robert Schuman, the British and French Foreign Ministers, and will then decide whether to attempt a meeting
The Labour Minister, Mr with the Soviet Minister, Mr
SITUATION WORSE
George Isuace, reported that Andrei Vyshinsky, in Moscow.
quarter of the "So it does to many others. more than a Asked whether the Kremlin The war in Malaya has been port's 27,000 men were on strike for two years, and nearly half the 105 stips had chown any interest in his dragging on
of the were altecled. no fault visit, Mr Lie said nothing had Yet through
the situation
The Cabinet will consider the troups engaged, oficially from come
Moscow, today is much worse than it was situation again on Monday, II Soviet contacts had when the fighting began. but local
the strike is not settled, troops San Francisco, Apr. 21.-The Peking Radio to- Mir "This is because the authorl- been favourably inclined.
may be drafted into the docks day acoused the British Government of "increasingly have
been not
tough early next week. Lie
"en- ties sald he had been
Mr Isaacs told the House of obstructing Chinese students from returning to their couraged by his talk yesterday en
law should be at Commons earlier today that the homeland." with President Truman and the
in Mainya. Gevemment would take care to In a dispatch from Prague, the Radio charged that Mr Dean once imposed Secretary of State,
Washington officials stated every man found with a gun or see that there was no loss of students, scientists, and other Chinese abroad, who "are Acheson.
that the United States and Brl- known to be contact of the perishable
to be shot the cargoes held up.
tain enthusiastically preparing" to return to China "to take
were within their legal "I do not expect any inme-bandits were diate results from my journey," trouble would soon be stamped |
keeping troops In the great dock strike which part in the work of building up their country," are being crippled the port last summer the out." he said. "It Is Iinc of groundwork which
ruld "no comment," but omelais I "This is not a social war but troops were put in to save vita: refused Hongkong visas by British consulates in America Trieste. The State Department
a political war. The guerillas foodstuffs-Reuter,
and France. love to do."--Reuter.
regarded the note as a "propa-
anda trick."
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EDITORIAL
foodstuffs In the
Dominion Aid Essential
THE admonitions of the
Defence
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sce
on
the
in
some of
Australian Minister, branding 418 fantastic Britain's fallure to stamp out the Communist terrorism campaign in Malaya, lent added flavour to the sharp Commons, House of exchanges in the
with the seriously concerned morc weight of the burden at present plaeed solely on the shoulders of the United Attempting to Kingdom, problem whole, there is much to be said on both sides. Mr Harrison's verdict gets the a diminished respect because,
formed without face of things, it was currect understanding of the difculties involved in Jungle warfare, and Malayan jungles particularly. Mistakes have been made, politically and militarily, no doubt, chiefly as a result of a false assessment of the gravity of the outbreak in the early stages, causing to
niggardly employment extent
Excuses Britain's military resources.
are. If the trouble has been ..there
aggravated by a policy of too little and demanded would have too late, it abnormal brilliance of perspective and Judgment to foresee the complications introduced by the manner and speed of the Communist sweep throughout China. Before the successful plunge of Chinese Reds into a clean-up offensive, rapidly the Malayan guerillas were losing their morale. Their elimination appeared to be a matter of time, and n short time. Breakdown of the Nationalist resistance changed all that: it gave the in spirit tremendous boost guerillas a and was swiftly followed up by replenish- ment of their supplies through devious channels. For Britain, it meant only doubling her burden in the Far East, by the provision of another division of troops for the protection of Hongkong against possible Communist adventures.
the
Im-
the
The Radio claimed that, as a result, many Chinese students who have already completed their studies are
ANOTHER TEST FOR stranded abroad.
PARTIES
Unfortunately, other commitments poyo a bevere strain. In the Commons, House members on both sides of the asserted that British concentrations in Malaya and Hongkong prevent Britain from fulfilling its obligations to Western Union. In Europe, a minimum of four divisions is required and they nce, at present, unobtainable. Hints that drastic cuts in Asia are contemplated, to the extent of two-thirds of the present and that the strength,
Both sides are preparing for garrison
will United States
an all-out flight for supremacy Dominions and the
iza these contests, in which outside the gaps bo requested to fill
26,000,000 people will vote for 7,500 County, municipal Europe, lack official sanction. Neverthe-
urban Councillors. Cabinet is ready for less, whether the immediate action or not, the pressures are Hkely to intensify. And stern facts are not to be blinked at. Not that uced be alarmed. Welcome
We
statements by both Australia and New Zealand, the of inspiration behind the persistence attacking Britain's M.P.8
inck of Initiative, provide a gratifying promise that an early solution will be found. Even Mr Harrison, in his capacity of critic of the handling of the Malayan affair, called for the marshalling of all the power of the Commonwealth "to save civilisation." Australia's direct' Inferest in the fate of this part of the world does not, indeed, call for any argument. It offers additional reason why she should act promptly and generously, and no-one doubts for a moment that that assistance will be forthcoming. If the new Director of Operations in Malaya deems it to be essential. Britain would make no claim but for the responsibilities developing effective rapidly in the cause of пп Western Union. We сап take it for granted that Australia will fulfil any role assigned to her with good will and good heart,
*
ARONE
overseas
As
been
Moscow Radio broadcast | Dut it has
established the plane the Soviet Union's reply to with certainty that
which flow over. Soviet terri- Washington note on the fory south of Libru was n B-29 loss of an American Pri-Flying Fortress, bearing Ameri vateer plane.
Mr
unarmed
can marka.
to
The
ormed.
not
of the
of the Government The Soviet reply, handed
affirms that the the United States Ambassador, United States
Allan Kirk, recalled the plane mentioned above allegedly tho Soviet previous Soviet protest of April, did not violate 11 declaring that the American frontier and was not armed,
"But, according to verified plane which was shot down was a four-engined B-29 bomber of data in the possession the type known as the Flying Soviet Government the Ameri- Fortress.
con plane B-20 (the Flying.For "The "American State Depart-tress) violated the Soviet fron- ment, in tho note to which tier over the area of Libru on London, Apr. 21.-West Russin was replying, had alleged April 0. flying Inland over a ern spokesmen today refused that Soviet lighter planes shot distance of 21 kilometres and to comment officially on down an
American fired on Soviet fighters. Privateer type
NOT ACCEPTED Moscow's
call for the im-atreraft of the
in the Baltic and clalined in- mediate appointment of ademnity.
"These facis entirely refute the Governor for Trieste and
The Soviet note, as quoted by the affirmations made by
of the United the withdrawal of Allied Moscow Radio, today reiterated Government
violate the Soviet troops from the Free Terri that verified data established States that the American plane it was not Soviet tory, but observers saw it that the B-20 opened fire on the did
Aghter and then turned frontier and that a propaganda demand and flew off
contained in "In the light of these facts, The statement with little prospect of fulfil
the American note must be the above-mentioned statement treated as an attempt to avoid of the United States Govern- responsibility for the lucident, ment can only be regarded as
an attempt to evade the Ilussian nole sald.
sibility for a gross violation of international law
"In their note, the United States Government also declared that the that demands Soviet Air Force be given in- structions with a view to pre- venting such Incidents in the future and that the Soviet sido
allegedly bear must alle
responsi➡ bility for the incident which he is addressing the Chamber Thus, the American Role had occurred and, finally, that Amerlenn the latter should pay compen- of Deputies on Trieste.
raid that the only
joss
the of which
sation for the new over the Unofficial Rome
American plane." buservers plane
Balle area on April I was a
The Soviet Government could thought the Soviet note was on
to upset any direct place of the American naval air
(Conid, on Page 14, Col. 4) the attempt negotiations between Italy and Yugoslavia over the 205-square mile strip of Adriatle coastline around Trieste.
ment.
rights in
in
FLEW INLAND Moscow Radlo said that the Mr Andrel the Soviet Vyabinsky, handed Foreign Minister, reply today to Mr Kirk.
The nole said: "The Amerl ean note of April 18 contained a The Italian Foreign Minister, number of ammotions contra Count Carlo Sforza, reported to dieting the precisely established
is Cabinet for an hour. Tonight facts.
The broadcast failed to men- tion whether any students ap- plied for Soviet viens to enable them to travel to Chinn by London, Apr. 21. The railway via Siberia. Labour and Conservative
It said: "These unreasonable Parties will fight for power measures of the British authori
A French Foreign Omee again next month when over ties are now arousing great ins
spokesman said that the note three quarters of the coun- diguation
Chinese students ( was being examined "but it is electorate Chinese and try's 3,000,000
too early to comment yet." qualify, to vote in the local abroad."
The
In the main demand Quoti
Peking from n
note government "general elec-
WBG
that the the Russian People's Daily editorial, tions."
Radio Inurche a violent attack Trieste provisions of the Italian peace treaty be put into effect against the Australian Govern-
that British, the immediately and ΟΙ ment's proposed bun
Party: American and Yugoslav troops Australian Communist "An outrageous
occupying the two International measure
zones be withdrawn. being carried out under actually the direction of American mas-
Diplomatie quarters in Lon- would ters and closely connected with Conservatives in the past two the ugly plot of the American don believed Britain
Australia uncompromisingly reject Rus- years have recovered a large imperialists to turn
sia's demand for the with- proportion of the 3,000 local government seats
It recalled the "brutal" three-drawal of troops year sentence,
passed last Octo- ber, Bill Sharkey, General
on Secretary of the Australian Communist Party.
and
into an American war base" which they
lost to Labour in contests after the 1945 General Election,
Over 14,000 candidates will stand in the forthcoming elec tions, which will be spread out, over the week from May 8 to May 13-euler.
PORTUGUESE AMNESTY
the
the
It was stated fnt with the over the Big Power deadlock appointment of a Governor, the troops was presence of Ailled "Like the Australian people,
consistent with entirely the Chinese people are resolutely Italian peace treaty.-Reuter, opposed to these measures," broadcast said. "The Communist parties and militant peoples connot be suppressed · with mere outlawing order on paper. The American Imperiallats view the Australian Communist Party Important obstacle in their Australian way to enslaving the Aus
The people.
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Tel-Aviv, Apr. 21-Rescue shameless perquads, which ended operations Lisbon, Apr. 21.-The Portu- guese National Assembly tonight secution of the Communist Party today after 110-hours of non- unanimously approved a bill by the Australian Government stop work, have found 18 bodies providing an amnesty for poll-shows that the American im- in the wreckage of a four-storey Uical prisoners and those guilty perialists are intensifying their Jaffa bullding which collapsed
Sunday. of "disciplinary" offences of the aggression on Australia."Unit "like a pack same category.
Crime which will not bo covered by the amnesty include treason, founding or jolning organisations of a Communist
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