THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1950.
Killed In This
What will be history's
verdict on
Wavell?
Six
year ·old TIE GENERAL WHO TOOK THE
buried alive
for 52 hours
Cuzco, Peru, May 24.- Six-year-old Clara Aurella
Cano
died
LEADING ROLE TOO EARLY
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
London, May 24.--What will be history's verdict on Wavell? Lindell Hart, famed military writer, in a biographical feature in carly today, the London Evening Standard answers slightly over four hours much depends on whether Wavell's critics quake-shattered ruins of her for admirers have the greater influence in the
in Central Cuzco, shaping of history."
after she was taken from the
home where
entombed she was alive for 52 hours following
Sunday's disastrous earth
quake,
During the brief period when the regained consciousness, the child murmured. "Mamacita,
meaning! "Littl mamacita," mother, little mother."
for
The bodies of her mother and father wenn removed from die Fins two days ago. Chura alto cried
coffre and milic. that the Physicians marvelled could remain alive with practi- bone of her small cally every
A fractured body Imaken. cheekhone hampered her elleri to talk.
TOTAL NOW 83
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"There are," says Hart, "too many factors still unclarified to reach conclusive judgment. In general, the admiring view is nearer the mark in my view."
Hart declares it is easy to understand how the adverse view Bourished. Wavell was inarticulate exceptionally for a man with such an was rare active mind. It
ist all for him to converse easily. In contrast, his let- ters were fluently expressed,
This tributed failure
inna thelatines
I al
Sir Leslie
Has Had Too
Much Nuts
- Sir
the rear for the London, May 21. of Wavell to become Leslie Plummer is resigning heve af the Army s Chief of
from his £5,000 # the imperin]
year General Staff in
of Bri- pust as Chairman tain's Overseas Food Car- poration, it was officially an- the tatnounced here today.
She was found in the ruth of an arcane freusing on the enya | 1937.
Pinza et quare, e Dat
214 tame hitl heen 11 AuBJG the apartmeng on this top Honra)
estable-h-
this conreveal
Her death brought the total to An ocal auronneemena injured sart more than 200 pertunt were bag treated.
د؟
Bert
CORT CHOSEN
for reveals time that it was only at the land muner! that Gort was chase 36834 Say estrud of Warr "Wavell articulateners and the popular appeal of Gort's VC factors in turning the Puble weTA
deleales of the Cabinet's derision." Dirunding Wavell's Intere is outside the military
The Minister Workf
Lieut-Gol Ja
saint material Carmani Fabreke dainags to italy "win at least That excred 250,0an.000 soles. des not chade The Betogiealbere, Hart
lots suffered in thours, and
churebe. Mailed Press,
EGYPT
ASKS
U.S. FOR
This is the eighth resignation in clight months of a high official of the £20,000,000 Corporation. responsible for running Britain'? much - criticised
groundnuts [scheme in East Africa and other uverens food-growing projects. Loud Cogervative Opposition tell a story as cheers Freeted the news of Sir resignation told to him by Wavell hun.elf. Le Plummer's When a Winchester scholar, the When it was given in the Heter Headameter reproached Waveltof Commons by Mr *པནཱ༼ཏྠ wasthig Arch mental Webb, the Ford Minister. Lettorts
education 21231 chancing to become a pest ther"
SLOW-MOVING
Maurice
Sit Furty-right
year old, Lelie, who previously spent his Ulitin newspap roflees and be
eme a Director of Lord Brayer- Lrook's newspapers.
WIN After commenting on Chur-punted by Mr Webb's predices- chille herram di trust of Sor, Mr Joh Stracdey (now Wowell" and the deckingn in Mineter for War) who defended
BOMBERS 1941 to gave hun by Aurbin-him when both the Clairman
Jeek, Hart now it is probably and the Corporation came under Cairo, May 21-Egypt, that Wave would have proved the strong fire of enticisan in has asked the United States, In greater camtander it hig Parliament, from the pra, and in a written memorandum.choner had come when he was by the public. to help to equip her army feather younger.
quarters
who 1
91
Crash
Ninety-one people were killed in the crash of the Punjab Mail train at Jasidih, 216 miles from Calcutta, recently. It was one of the worst disasters in the history of the Indian Railways. Photo shows: View of the wreckage after the disaster.
From heaven
by plane
San Francisco, May 25- Shelk Daoud Ahmed Faisal. spiritual teader of the Islamic Altasionary America, sald Institute of Farouk could not prevent Fathla from marrying anyane, provided the man became a 210
Mostem. Glull the bridegroom-to-
that he announced would embrace the Moalem faith we they married in the eyes of the Church J11 San Francisco next Sunday.
In San Francisco
The
Queen
Mulher
recently remarked that ke "cume from heaven."
will
It
be flown to
Is belleved she meant the priest would
San Francisco from another part of the United States. -United Press,
Point four
vital for
world peace
Washington, May 24.- The Acting Secretary of State, James Webb, said in reply to Republican critics TOUGHER AND DEARER today that the Administra- with American arms, well- ! A fevral in service of a
Princess Margaret shakes hands with some of the demnerary, informed
here slow-movin
Sir he said in a statement ion's Point Four program-
drivers before the start of the Grand Prix, which was secure tenure hope to
was vital for world stated today.
fame, should be careful to detonight, "When I accepted the me
won by the Italian Alfa-Romeo team. The King and The Egyptian Government i understand to have asked for fer his appearances on the stage invitation of the Government to peace, but Senator Robert.
Queen, with Princess Margaret were among the crowd berome Chairman of the Over- Taft said it might. mean war when re-
Prix of and until late in a tank: flatters, bombers.
Keas Food Corperation and had
of over 100,000 who watched the first Grand American dollars for Com- transferred to me the respons; Artillery, similar to thore Prnet sources are becoming abundant.
Europe to be held in Britain. African munist countries, is reported to be reverving Hom
the East Too early an arrival in the sibility of the United States.
leading role was Wavell's chief groundbuis scheme I knew that The menanamkan. which mustat --but
his, the task would be complex and
Republican Senatora delivered drew a comparison between the life had more fts for high | difficult,
a second altacle on President populations and strategie pod commandi thum nost of these
Truman's programme to develop "The trek has proved far tions of Egypt and lathel, who exerched it when the going |
unfruitful parts of the world strusted that Egyptian mubtary was good and forces plentiful" tougher and dearer than all the
with technical help and capital. original Lunate suggested. preparations did sel represent
fart deals:
with Yet at length
great and any agressive intention,
Me Wells told a reporter the Wavell's fortunes and mi: for- schemes
production for food They were necesary for "infames early in the var ned hus within ur Commonwealth Programme was an extremely important part of our entire for- terial revurity and
defence minsference from military to and be presad home in the polley" and raid it had against apgression."
as Viceroy of interest of both the
"great signifience Jur Our The
American Ambarrador, pulfival sphere
and Colonial peoples."--Renter whole effort to achieve a peace-
ful world",
Mr Jefferson Gallery has toli the Foreign Minister, Mohamed Salch
that
in
Hey,
Washington was ready to sup-
ply light weapons nuly, arcord- |
to leport, hese.
The Archosaur
under-
stoud to have all that Egypt could obtain
nt
ter requirement
light
India.
these
The W
British
MORE GOLD HAULS
IN CHINA
weapons! San Francisco, May 24.-Peking Radio re-
American from British depols in the Suez Caust Zone.
|
Republicans Taft and George Malore demantled in the Senate hat the foreign aid bill carrying jinitat authority for Point Four at he sent back to the Senate- House Committee for further compromise45.
It looked
today as though
ported tonight that the Communist authorities in that night happen, although Well-informed typtian cirvarious parts of China are continuing to discover Peint Faur supporters deuled ter will press further for heavy valuable goods stored by the Nationalists.
eles helleve the Foreign Minis-
nemaments
United from the Studes. Reuter.
10 years for
Red spy
Tel-Aviv, May 24-An Isragh Sergeant-Majo, named Reicher was sentenced to 10 years' im- prisonment here today for banding military documents to members of the Conumunist
- Party.
Latest
hansla included materials valued at appro ximately 300,000,000 · Commun- Int dollars In Tientsin and Keveral thousand tons of air- craft
and bullion parts
ip South-West China.
The Tientsin discoveries were made in two railway do- pris under the administration of the Tientsin Railway Bureau.
Reicher fainted when the President of the Military Court
The Aircraft parla Were began reading the sentence,
The rest of the sentence was recovered in Kutuning. It was here. too, that Communis! postponed until tomorrow.
Relcher was accused of pass- searchers found 100,000 pieces ing military
secrets, including of silver dollar coins and 170 diagrams and documents, to two
kilogrammes of gold belonging
member of the Israel Cum-to the Yunnan Mint.
who have been
anunist Party
charged before # civil court with possession of military documents.-Reuter,
Finnish
Strike
Averted
ת!
Stocktaking
teains, Peking
Radio said, often found valuable | material and equipment bidder little known places, par- Licularly in Southern Sze chuan,
In one county In this tea along arms and aminuni- recovered in one month
to equip were sumelent whole regiment.
Helsinki, Muy 24.-Finland' tion trade unions today accepted a new pegged wages agreement to avert a general strike. The the was made in agreement union name by their federa- Hon earlier this month on con- dition that
ratified they
LC
It grants all trade unionisty 15 percent increase before their wages are pegged to the cost of living today. Most of the opponents of the agree ment in today's voting wero Communist-led unions.-Reuter.
A
The biggest Bnd In Chun- king, China'n wartime capital, consisted of several thousand tons of radio sets, transformers, vacuum tubes and other equip. ment. These parts were zum- ient to meet the present tele- communication
the needs of
the next cliungking. area for live years-Reuter,
SIDE GLANCES
it.-United Press,
By Galbraith
COPA, 1980 WY MEA SERVICE, INC. V. M. 300. IL A PAT. OFF
"I didn't need a wave but I had to come! All the radio news was the same old thing-no secrets that everybody lan't supposed to know!"
Korea Reds are under
the General's thumb
Seoul, Korea-South Korean defence officials are taking precautions against Communist dis- orders in the May 30 elections, but do not expect any trouble.
His force Major General Chat General Chine sald.
HOW Concentrating on ls, Pyong-duk, Army Chief of gre
have been they Land
pretty successful. After border cross- Staff, says he believes there will be some attempts byings by large bonds failed, small Moat Communist - inspired parti-soups began to appear.
recently, a group of 30 crossed sans to disrupt the elections, Parallel near Chunchun, In the 10- the centre of the country. They especially in tainous areas in the southern lasted less than a week.-United part of the peninsula and Press, along the eastern coast.
These are
areas
which
the have been hardest hit by the winter's guerilla activity. All comununication in these areas is is the primitive,
population small, and the rugged forested Guerilla terrain is such that operations are easy and counter operations dimcult.
the
Owen Gives Up Daily Mail
London, May 24-Mr Frank Owen, who served under Earl Mountbatten in Southeast Asin during the war as editor of the Force journals, SEAC and Phoenix, has resigned the editorship of the Daily Mail.
200 GUERILLAS
The winter's anti-guerilla
Mr Owen, who is 45, hos campaign has been extremely
been editor of the Daily Mail successful, however, and Gen-since 1947.--Reuter, eral Choc estimates that "there are not more than 200 guerillan 10050 Loose in all of South Korea."
They are co scattered, and co harried by defence
ence forces, that unable to pull they have been ung
off
a single successful operation during recent weeks. Koren now has less guerilla activity then at any time since the re- public was formed, and is one of the quietest of the group of new and Communist-threaten- ed nations in Asia,
"The Communists seem to understand now that it is hard. to make more Communists in South Korea," General Chao said recently. "Now they are trying to send more of them down from the North,"
REDS SCATTERED.
One attempled Infiltration of two large bands totalling nearly 700 partisans failed in March Within three weeks they were teiled. captured, or scattered and disorganised.
"It is now most important to eleek further reinforcemonia,”.
Radio Hongkong
1.K.T.
$, "longkong Calling"-Program- me Summary; 6.02, "Shoca for a Queen"-A Fairy Tale by Grimen (Children's Story): 0.22, Drchestre Raymonde: 0,30, Light Variety with Paul Weston and His Orchestra: 7, "Tuno for Muse"-BBC Brottiah Variety Orch (BACTS); 7.30. Demi-heure Female (Studio); 8. and News Analys World NowT (London Relay); 0.15, "Band Call" The Band of King's Shropshire Light Infantry Introduced by Cap tafts David Jones (Relay from the 9 Dragon Club; 8.45, Sports Review by Phillip (Studio): 0, "From the Editorials London itelay); D.10, Weather Report: 9,11, MAL Opern"-"Don (Danizer) Act 2. with the
Members
the
of the Chorus and Oreliestra of La Scala Man, conducted by Carlo Rabajo: 9.45, London Studio Melo- dies The London Light Orchestra JUNCTS); 10.18, "We an have to Talk No. 2: "Words and Your World'
Twoorded); (Londan Relay 10.2), "Thursday Serenade"----A Pro- Cramme of Continuous Music Ar- ranged by Betty Drown: 11, Redio Newsreel (London Relay); 11.18, Weather Report: 11.10, Gooing Music: God Save the King: 11:30, Close down,
BRITAIN SLAMS MOSCOW'S EAST GERMAN ARMY
London, May 24.-Many British newspapers today gave front-page prominence to the Western Governments' protest to Moscow against the building up of an "army" in Eastern Germany.
The Times said in an editorial, “In protesting to Moscow against the existence of strongly armed police units in Eastern Germany the Western Governments have really put a question to them- selves.
be
"What is their own policy to'↑ vision suggests that we have
in face of this dangerous [anty seen the beginning." brench of the numerous four- The diplomatic correspondent Power agreementa on the fis- of the Communist Daily armament of Germany?"
Worker saw in the British note The paper said, “Perhaps us | tó Russia "a propaganda drivo an interim measure the Western by the
ant British, French Powers could agree to let Wes- American Governments to pre- tern Germany have tis ownpare their propies for the federal polley with small arius,formation of on undisguised bat this development would not West German army."--Reuter, affect the two main alternativer
an armed force for Germany or continued garrisoning."
Dismissing the first alternative, arma, for Germany-as "Rot practical politics at present," The Times sald that the Allies are left to carry out their often expressed determination to keep forces in Germany as long as they are necessary,
"
The Daily Telegraph wrote, "What has so far been done In
Flogging
in colonies to stop?
London, May
24. -- Mr
East Germany is to experiment John Dugdale, the Minister the Colonies, upon the Same par-military of State for lines that itler pursued with said in the House of Com- the double object of adding
fresh weight to the heavy arm mons tonight that he pro- of the Police State upon its posed to emphasise to all subjects and of exploiting the Colonial Governors "the long established German text- of dency to see the solution internal discontents in the pos-
need for bringing to an end time within a measurable
sible use abroad of a well the use of whipping and trained army,”
flogging."
ONLY A BEGINNING
The paper added, "At th prosent singe, it would he di
He was replying to a request by a Labour Member, Mr Re-
Sorensen,
moro for glinid information in the findings of cult to maintain that the aler!
Jan equiry into the prevalence of sounds
themselves a are in
the corporal punishment serious military threat to any colonies. one
bul a disarmed Western zone of Berlin, supposing Allied Occupation
drawn.
Air
Dugalo satel that he forces were with- | would recommend
the that power to award corporal punish- "But the fact that Russia has ment be restricted to the High to rapidly raised an armed Count and that the offences for
the High force of 30,000 In her zone and which
Court could found German ex-officers who inward corporal punishment to previously zorved the Nazis aduils be reduced to that of as- brutality was train out in which willing to command and
nvolved. Reuter. the troops under Soviet super-
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