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Hongkong Telegraph
VOL. V NO, 127
WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1950.
Day Of Russian Moves Batting The Winnipeg ACHESON:
Against West In Berlin
Sweden Lodging WILD EXCHANGE OF
Complaints
Stockholm, May
over
Sweden is to complalu ta Kuropean Economic Co-operation Organisation in Paris tomorrow sight countries tariffa alt her exports, the Forran Ministry sal here totlay.
These tariffs, the Foreign Ministry added, are "pre- venting Swedish exports from enjoying the relaxa- tlon which free listing Is The Intended to offer."
eight countries are France,' Ireland. West Germans.
Belgium,
Switzerland, Poringal, Greece and irl- talu.-Reuter,
Cold
War
Offensive Urged On U.S
GUNFIRE IN RED ZONE
Berlin, May 30. — A tommygun and pistol battle was fought late today in the Soviet Zone of Berlin near the famous Potsdamerplatz between German "People's Police" and four men dressed in Polish Army uniforms.
One of the Poles was killed and one German' policeman wounded in a brief but wild exchange of gunfire witnessed by hundreds of civilians. The incident occurred just across the Soviet border. The Platz also adjoins the British and American sectors.
barges
The outbreak elime as thou-withdraw from the internationni mands of Communist youths Berlin-West Germany nulobahn, left Berlin after the Whitam They also hijacked the cargoes werkend rally, which had not of four West German produced a single serious in-and placed a partial water Blockade on Westbound canal rident.
Three Poles surrent.nd. The trufe. battle began when the policej stopped four men near Crown Prince
Iridite. One of men, wearing an afterr's In- sheria, opened fire and the Com. unist police took cover behind piles of brick nearby turned fire,
the
and re-i
Flood Disaster
Over 100,000 people were compelled to evacuate their homes in Winnipeg as the result of the disastrous flooding of the Red River valley. Over a million sandbags were filled in an effort to prevent further inundation. Above is a scene at the edge of the flood. (London Express Service)
Wingless Mystery
PATROL ARREST
The Soviets pliced the American patral under technicnt arrest and exorted the men to Buzian headquarters at Radelabert, five miles south- the west of Berlin. Russian officers Three Poles dropped by
American Heufraant the save the ground, but the man with
aff to
I change of the patrol the 17 pistol suddenly a hrd
chole of returning to Berlin or wards a bombed-out building.
ita custody. mainlan Western Zone headquarters said
returned to Berl. Gremon children and civillana, ducked for cover When who
started, reported
Carbondale, Minola, May 30. -Mr Harold Stasen, a promin- eat Republican, today uipent the United State Government to embark on an affirmative pro- thr Asia, under gramme in leadership of an able admisin traler imilar to Paul Hoffman The shooting:
in the Marshall Plan in Europe" that the police chased the man shot him through the He niro called on America to and
Ike the offensive in the cold beach killing him.
war with Hutsin,
IN A CAR
"I is absolutely necessary
The East German police said that in the social and ideological
tonight that they had no infor- and economic struggle we begin
First matton on the incident. to attack, rather than sit back
Teparts were that the undight with a negative, defensive, wait- for-the-dust
Feltie
policy," he hu
took place in the Potalamer
the actual location said
platz, but speech here, in u
was about a mile away near the Mr Stassen ndvocated an ex-
railroad station alongside the tensive information programme directed to prople beyond the River Spree. Iron Curtain-fleuter.
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Trota
comman-
Washington, May 30-Au American Airlines pilot ins reported a new type of ily- ing saucer - a "sulimarine with lights."
Captain William Sperry ad- wired the National Airport here Blondlay night that he spotted something" in the sky,
נזוי
Leven
of
High Pressure
On Fuchs
London, May 30-OM- clals of the United States Embassy here said today that they could not com». rent on reports that a le delector apparatus - would be used on the atom spy. Dr Klaus Fuchs, who was now being questioned In prison by United States Federal Bureau of Inves- tigation men.
They confirmed that the two FBI men, who hati been expected to Icave Britain at the weekend, were still here,
According to usually re- Hable sources, the American luvestigators will see Fuchs again before they return to the United States.-Reuter.
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PRESERVATION
OF WORLD PEACE WITH STRENGTH
Failure Of Lie Mission Intensifies Drive
Washington, May 30.
The Secretary of
State, Mr Dean Acheson, is expected to appeal in his speech before a joint session of Congress to- morrow for greater unity of the world's non- Communist forces as a vital factor in the preserva- tion of peace through strength.
The accepted doctrine here now is that a third world war can be prevented only by strengthening the forces opposed to aggression--that the threat of the aggressor can be removed only by a threat to the aggressor.
an
For some me there has been endangered by the increased
increased realisation that activities
not of isolationists the preservation of peaco only in the United States but through strength WAS
In Europe.
being
American Financing
Of Cold
Cold War Collective Forces
For this renson Mr Acheson ls understood to have returned t Washington particularly pleased with the progress made Juring the North Atlantle. Pact conference in London in persuad- ing the European nations to build up their forces us part of compact regional defenco de- spite the opposition of the advocates of neutrality.
At the samno time the pro- gress towards European unity Schuman
Washington, May 30-President Truman is expected to ask Congress on Thursday for about represented by the
and $1,225,000,000 to finance American arm shipments Plan for merging French
the German heavy – industry, to 14 foreign countries.
Union and Eurupean Payments The State Department and Budget Bureaue agreement
North un the defence
have plan have recommended this amount as necessary to Atlantic
strengthened Mr Acheson's bolster American policy in the "cold war."
hand in dealing with isola- dunist crities In Congress.
MOBILISING OPINION
Both President Truman France will came in for the Mr Acheson are planning a biggest-chunk of the second | series of public "apleches"den year's mum, as during the cur-signed mobilise American rent 12 months,
uplion behind a drive to step up rearmament and to provide the money, arms and tools to aon-Communist world.
The barges, in route
bad been Berlin to Hamburg,
ti ths: border for blocked almost three weeks on the grounds that their travel, doru- ments were not in order. The
forced were four unload their
carters, hich
barges bout
inile: were confiscated. The were kept in eustody and the Mount Vernon of an ollitude of 7,500 feet. I said: "It cireksi owners told they would be re-
on payment of 3.000 eur DC- twice, and headed off turned marks ench
"unloading toward Washington." He said
The money would be for the collective fore" Breed upon charges."
object looked like a "sub- marine with
fiscal year lights." He said
beginning July 1. by the 12 Allantle Pact Foreign The United States
The aim is slightly less than the Ministers at their meeting in The Polen were travelling in
Maj-General Maxwell passed in front of the mom,
$1,238,600,000 appropriated by London curly this month, Automobile
Western dant, and
Congress last year for 11፤ነና sources said it was believed they Taylor, was expected to make and the silhouette disclosed that
shipments to 13 nailons. About Gen. Smuts Better had been attempting to Het-to a stiff petest over the patrolit had no wings.
1.000.000,000 At Sperry's request the air-
would
for Johannesburg, May 30.e British bector a few blocks | incident.
Colonel Boris Kalinin, Soviet
American military supplies to port tried to pick up the object The outbreak came as Jan Field-Marchak
Christian Away
Chief of Staff In Berlin, per-by radar, bat fafted.
nine Atlantic Pact countries-- Smuts, with sciatica at his thousands of Communist youths
andronally directed the removal of
Britain, France, aly, Belgium, farm near Pretoria, was report- swaned out of Berlin
reported.
the Netherlands. Luxembourg, A spokesman for the airline clay less followed
of Russian the patrol, witnesses ed sightly better and in
The
Por- patrel
ទេវ consisted
** maid Sperry's DC-G was travel-
Denmark and Norway pain, on Tuesday. His doctors moves against the West.
tirel
remainder would militaryfing at the time at between 250 olic
tugal. The The Soviets forced an Ameri-lieutenant he is in no Rid
Immedinte
and 300 miles an to policeman,-United Press.
hour. He
London, May 30--Mr Chuu
be earmarked for arms ald to can military police patrol
said the myterious object must En-lal, Foreign Minister of the Greece, Turkey. Persa, Korea
and the Philippines, have been going "mighty, fast" | Peking Governanent, today lete- to be able to circle the airliner | graphed to Mr Trygve Lie,
being included Portugal is twlce-United Press,
United Nations Secretary-Gen- for the first thne among the eral, announcing the appoint- Atlantic Pact relpients. Om- ment of a representative to the cinis sald that small amounts Trusteeship Council, according of aval and air force gulp- o a Chinese news agency messment would be sent to the are received in London 1- Portuguese to help protect night.
strategic coastilo Important AZOTON
danger.-United Press.
EDITORIAL
Radio
mensures
over.
Hongkong
TAS not the time come when the Hung- 1 kong Government, with or without the co-operation of the authorities in Lon don, should seriously consider swift lo remedy The hopeless inadequacies of Radio He kong? hind the question, there is not the slightest intention of raising a controversy over Un the whole, they are programmes.
and reasonably excellently prepared,
concern Is well
Our put with this period of international this part particularly in emergency of the world, and Radio Hongkong's absurd inability to penetrate the so-called Bamboo Curtain. The question arises because of the daily reception in the Colony of at least three Communist pro- grammes, cleverly arranged and regularly Interspersed with the usual propaganda repeated time and again in accordanco with the well-established technique, and because of the comparison-Hongkong's deplorable lack of range. Occasionally, we can be picked up in Canton, often the Bound-waves touch Swatow, but by and large, the output from Hunghom is 80 feeble that no guarantee of reception in either place can be offered, much less in points further atiei. Were times normal, were it unimportant whether or not we could reach the ears of the Chineso people, no issue would arise. The plain truth, however, is that Hongkong should today be representing the Voice of Britain in the Far East, Failure to do so is falling down on the job." It may bo argued that Singapore has been chosen as the medium, but we are unimpressed. Slogapore is too aloof from the scene, from the area of greatest importance. Hongkong, on the other hand, has its ear close to the ground and la far more likely to move quickly enough to counter pro. paganda when the occasion compels It. Criticism would be less sharp could it
Inadequacies
an
an
60
be shown that the weakness of output from the Hunghom fransmitter was no Fault of our own. When, however, it is tele. the Government's recalled that communications department shortly after The Liberation refused offer, al ridiculously low cost, of transmitting equipment rated AH wor surplus, and with
output of 100 kilowatts, the on emphasis it Iny's heavy
viston or fact that complete lack of
prevailed.
main ambition
The ground given to justify rejection of the offer was lack of an available space for a transmitting station of that type. But that might be characterised as an excuse, with nothing substantial in its support. could Only the utterly uninitiated Imingine, for instance, anything fanciful as that a 100 kilowatta station of modern design would require an area vastly greater than a 21⁄2 kilowatts trans- The mitter installed many years ago, reverse is probably much nearer the truth, so rapid has been the advance in the radio field as the result of war research, Although there may be sound argument in favour of a site away from Hunghem, from an efficiency point of view, So much opportunity has been wasted by the blunder of refusal. These days, a Political Adviser, well versed in Chinese affairs, should be closely associated with the Programme Secretary and a monitor- ing establishment. . A steady stream of material presenting faithfully the democratic standpoint should be going over the air in the Chinese programme, with swift rebuftals of Peking partisan- ship and dishonesty. Ideas along those
worthless lines
under
present circumstances, but modern and powerful equipment, once installed, would revive them immediately. To bellove that it is now too late, is defentism.
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Medical Aid
As First
Instalment
Saigon, Moy 30,-Robert Blum, bend of the United States economic mission here, mld to- day that the first instalment of American and to Indo-China will total $23,000,000.
Blum made the announcetnent after conferring with the Viet- nam Premler, Tran Von luu. and other Vietnam efliclals. The United States Charge d'Affaires, Edmund Quillon, attended the conference.
The
nission chief said the
would be
divided
the three Indo-Chinese states of Vietnam, Cambodia and
the
Chou Ealais Message To Lie
bases,
FRANCE'S SHARE
The amount cach country rela has
nevm been broken down, but some informed of- Bcials have estimated France's share at around $300,000,000-
mostly for artillery, tanks, ar-
mour and other supplies need- ed to sirengthen France's ground forces,
to
and
The feeling of urgency here has been intensified by the fullure of the United Nations' Secretary-General, Mr Trygve Lie, to obtain any constructive
th proposals from the Soviet leaders for a world peaco settle- Britain is in receive more American aircraft during the
ment on his recent mission to Moscow and the continuance of second year. About 73 1-20
the Superfortress
hove bombers
already vast Soviet reaimu- war been promised to Britain
inent and of Communist pre- and 20 of these have nearly
been cure in delivered.Reuter.
Portugal's The telegram to Mr Lle also d Inquires when other delegates appointed by thu Central Omelais who have Dzer People's Government can pora- | drawing
the up
progranin. cipate in the work of the said that the money will reflect United Nations-Reuter.
of the principle
"bulanced
Anglo-German Trade Negotiations
London, May 30.-A West German delegation |
is due in London in the first week of June to re- open negotiations for an Anglo-German tradej agreement, it was officially announced tonight.
Loas In accordance with
The British Board of Trade's allsm which would prejudice the needs of cach state.
It was reported here that the announcement said, "Arrange- European Poyments Union.
It has been known for several major part of the sum would be ments have been made for a
delegation representing the weeks that the Americans and spent on medical supplies for the Federal German Republic to others
regarded the Anglo- northern part of Vietnam, where
lo London
in the first German issue as only a facet of the French and Vietnamese
theek of June at the invitation
the
sua at stake in the forces are holding major mill-is Majesty's Government to Europea
to major lasura
Payments
Tho Undon tary operations to
the open negotiations for a new
countries having Communist-led rebel forces from trade agreement for the period conceded the special positiin of the Red River delta, the chic following the expiry of the pre-Sterling in the Union, Britain, rice producing area
sent agreement un Juzo 30 in turn, in the past few days, China-United Press,
clear
of Indo-
Further Operation
of
has made important concessions opportunity will be away from bilateralism and to- afforded by these meetings forward more convertability.
resumption of the more Unofficial financial quarters general discussions on questions took it for granted that an affecting trade and payments agro:ment, if reached, would be between On Mr Bevin
and their line with the latest proposals Germany Sterling Aren
European Payments Union, very different from Use London, May 30-Mr Ernest pended In Mo which were sus-for
arrangements This announcement implied payments
that Bevin, British Foreign Secre- tary, entered a London nursing that
American
German officials objections have British and home tonight for further been withdrawn, following the were discussing earlier in the
made progress
towards European Payments Union.
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operation.
bilateralism Mr Bevin had
Any for hemorrhoids on April 13 Twice in recent months the would probably be confined to and lott hospital on May 4. It Anglo-German talks have had to dealing with the old Sterling was announced a week ago that be suspended because of Amert-balance, If any, that Germany he would be entering a nursing can objections that on the lines might hold on July 1 when the hame for further surgical treat- proposed by Britain an ogreo- European Payments Union is ment and rest-Router.
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