PARADOX
IN
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1950.
SOVIET
POLICY IN MALAYA
Buying Huge Supplies Of Rubber From Enemies Of Communism
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
London, Aug. 31.
Although Russia is dependent on the Storling Aroa for sovoral vital raw materials, the only commodity which sho might have been acquiring for stockpiling is rubber. This is the conclusion of a correspondent who analyses the trade between the United Kingdom and countries behind the Iron Curtain in today's Financial Times.
Russian purchases of Malayan tin and rubber and Australian wool the principal Empire commodities of which she is a large buyer - are financed with considerable amounts of Sterling which form a surplus of trade between Britain and Eastern Europe. This surplus amounted in the first six months of this year to £15.8 million on exports of £254 million.
Russian exports to Britain) are available consist largely of timber anl grain. She gets in return certain heavy industrial equipment. This trade. though small in comparison with Britain's
total over- seas trade, is important - perhaps too important to risk the politien! conse- quences of cutting it off.
A far more complicated ques- tion is that of Russian purchares
materials of Empire raw
Various free markets. 1: been
Empire
2
in
She
large buyer cf
woul nnel In View
the world abort- me of raw wool supplies, there has been a temptation to adopt the antitute that what supplies
N. KOREAN
OFFENSIVE
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1,300 yards. The exact point of crossing was not specified.
Second Division. Billcers be- Heved that one and possibly two picces
Communist ormour were across the Nak-i
Western Powers.
hould go to the
No Bures of Rusan in ASSAM'S
These VALLEY
of tin fromza Emple sources are
vellable, though it in thought likely that the obtains some in- directly from Malayo. quantiling are probably not very large, but Rusia has a domestic supply and is also known to be Retur applies frans China, through Hongkong,
OF DEATH
Rubber is a different matter. Elevent cruel rubber Imports by
Calcutta, Aug. 31. Hutin and her satellites are, as
Thousands of
square nwhile, appreciably up on pre-miles of the North Indian
the war. This
together with
of Assam fact that Harsian production of province
have nynthetle rubber is by all ac- been turned into a vast counts rapidly expanding, leads "valley of death" by flood In the conclusion that at least same of her natural rubber be- Waters unleashed by the her earthquake on August 16 surplus to u importeri Immediate requirements at which changed the face of that the efore, ti strategie
the earth and the Brahma-) stockpile is being built up.
jutra River threatened to flod Gaubali, largest city! in Assam.
MALAYAN ECONOMY
Reports from Gauhati said! that if the five-mile-wide river tove another 18 inches it might
In leading article accom- · panying the
alysi
the Financial Times points out that Islan Tintmen of ruler are
factor an important
spill over its bank at lay There is Malayan eentomy.
waste to the town. Reports pastential urplus of production added that there was widespread
ver consumption and Rus-
apprehension in the city. sin withdrew-or was forced to withdraw-from te market this sophis might assume dan gerous proportions.
The
also peints
Gauhati is a commercial town of more than 20,000 population. Quakes and flouds huve dama
70 of Assam's Of
red nearly KCWSJBBAT tong. The spokesman said the out are of the paradoxes in the tea estates. However, the losses
were estimated ni only one per
25th Division on the Second Division left flank, which also
attack, had fotried was under back slightly. leaving an inten gular line.
The Air Force was out at i dawn in force in an altempt to halt the new Cramunist drive.
Offers ill had no explana tion for the torchlight process sion which preceded the Com- munist attack.
20
Russian policy,
undermine
While Communi Bandits
seelting to Balay an economy Res hau bren indirectly supporting it by establishirzft herself an one of the Colony, best customers for
ubber.
cent of the total tea Invest. !ment.—United Press.
Whether producing, countrans à Seventh Fleet
be will: 10 me to any would compulory restriction of their trade with Russia is a questions able point. to any case should
prevented
from supplies from
Russia
Prawing
1
other
To Withdraw
“Freedom Bell” For Berlin Malik
Weighing ten tons and standing eight feet in height, a new bell is being made in London. It is to be known as the "Freedom Bell" and it is to be set up in Berlin. On the bell is the inscription "That this world, under God, shall have a new birth of Freedom". Before the bell is set up in Berlin it will be taken to the United States for exhibition, (London Express Service).
Peking Accuses U.S. Of Trying
To Extend War
Lake Success, Aug. 31.
The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr Trygve Lie, today received a cable from the Chinese Communist, Foreign Minister, Mr Chou En-lai, charging the United States with making a second air attack on Chinese territory.
Mr Chou En-li accused the United States of seeking to extend the Korean war and violate world
Of
Ending "Month Obstruction" In.
U.N. Security Council
Lake Success, Aug. 31.
Mr Jacob Malik of Russia convened the MARSHALL Security Council meeting the last in his presi-
dential tenure at 7.18 p.m. today. Mr Malik
opened the meeting by reading the full agenda, AID QUOTA
comprising Korea; Formosa; United States Air
Force attacks on North Korea and Greece. FOR BRITAIN
Mr Malik asked the Council to give all four
When items inmediate consideration,
asked
earlier if he would attend Friday's session under the chairmanship of Sir Gladwyn Jebb of the United Kingdom, Mr Malik had told newsmen: "We shall see."
Was
item
the
the
London, Aug. 31. Britain got $2,539,500,000
Marshall All from April. 1918, to June, 1950,
Thi
was disclosed f the British Government's report to the Economic Co-operation Ad- miraistration for the rerend +
report, y of the
The first speaker today Communist Elia by reliquarter of 1050, published to.
Mahmoud Fawzi Be Manchuria, Mr Malik said: "In of Egypt, who spoke against the true light of the state or
affairs today, the Council faces details of which have already Mr Malik's effort to add toe war which is taking place been announced, showed tins the Council's worksheet ante Koren and which was started Marshall
Ald grants totaling ruling circles of concerning. Chinese
$1.201,000 were made to 12 United States. Now a new fireColuial development projects, Communist allegations that flare up in China. Slaced
and others were uncter, con- American planes had raided the United States armed forcesderation,
nets the Manchurian-Korean borje carrying out aggressive
American experts had been Chipa made
available der and another dealing with against the territory of
Colonial? they are destroying goods and te
The reports and that the t received a Freona ielegram dollar value of Bitain's exports of the to North Ameren in the second from the Government
the exccution of war pri-kling people, Only today have Fritories.
soners in Greece.
to
"Is this the agenda for a day People's Republic of China quarter exceeded the
taks
er the agenda for a centursting that the United States figures reched at the eud of asked Fawzi Bey. "Does this Air Force is contually attack: 19.
1948 and the beginning of 1949 look like serious business? In the territory of China and for the first time since devalun-
tion.
we continue to
conduct mar
bust as in this way, we shall Filling people,
soon be slaging
Home
raneous
the swan song|
MISGIVINGS
Exports to Canada .equivalent to US$88,000,000, were two fer-
of the Security Council, and 11|
in the mal "What will not be sung
kind of Fire Depart-cent above the last quarter of dtions voice of the swan, but Inj
inent is it that with look at 1948, the previous highest dollar voice which obstructs the serious business of my me fire and not look at Bature,
Exports to the United States the fire which is flaring up he the Council."
The Council were equivalent to $81,000,000, htt its back? cannot overlook
of eight any fact Infara Increase
percent Fawzi Bey, whose country hasj
part of the world that compared with the first quarter bren regarded as more or less any
the uf the prave threatens
or this year but still four independent in the propaganda
That is why question:percent below the level of the balls of the past month between work.
West in the have not erept into the agenda.first quarter of 1940. Russia and the Council, chiled Mr Malik for at have invaded it." his month of obstruction which had prevented action on the Koren war.
"We
Britain's total exports In the second quarter were valued at £ 508,000,000, a decrease of one and a half percent compared with the record first quarter, but 14 percent more than the quar Heterly average for 1040. alterna- The volume of exports was
157 percent in
De Ting-fu Tong of China was the next speaker. He said be viewed with misgivings the decision of the Council on Turn DID NOTHING
day to include the For
in the agenda. Questio: have before us many added that he had no polats to deal with in connection tive. with the question of Koren ande, but to accept it but no 153 percent of the 1947 uvernge,
would oppose discussion of compared with aggression upon the Republic of Greece and of the Chinese Com- the first quarter, but 10 percent There are several draft munist complaint against alleged above the average for last year. resolutions regarding . But United States bombings of
DEVALUATION Nothing. We Manchuria,
M: He charged what did we do?
The report said that of the talked und talked and talked, stalk with adding new iteras factors contributing to the con- We have not made one angle i to the agenda to divert the muted Improvement in Britain's real step toward solution of
dollar portion, the maintenance the question of Korea and every We nave become thejor a high level of demand day we are coming down to a laughing stock of the world," in the United States, particular- the manner la De Triang declared. “No matter for Sterling Area products, new
low in
Couneli's agenda from Korea.
peace, and called for "effective measures to stop which we conduct our busets how many discussions are held here by bringing new subjects the subject, those who have the action on the part of the United States' aggres-without dealing with the first chosen to call us warmongers will contime to do so."-United sive forces in Korea to extend the scope of their subject before us." aggression."
At End Of War forces is withdrawn immediate wilt he ignored by the United
YOU
As come 12:20
Mr Malik then took the floorPress.
to take exception to Fawzi Bey's
statement that the last two Rems
erupt into the agenda.
bad
and it is the sacred duty of the Narriman In
Intense fighting along the 25th Division sector got dawn to hand-to-hasel level in mony places, as the Communists braka exploding American through
The kind of dresion necer- grenades and small arms int
imary to prevent les building automatic weapons are in effort to drive the grmly resist up her wrer potential by restrict
------ Warburton, Aus 31. in market could only be maile fen their fox- inj: doughboys
President Truman today gave with
wistert international holes.
11:41 the United should be taken without delay-pain agenda by Mr Malik Communist gains in this area agreement, says the new paper, asurans
States Seventh Fleet would he stated. & was only one of the spheres.
Chimer allegation were limited up to 7 nm, with i
The West'
wither way policy
Formosa Crony th greatest gains in the 21th 1 m
thealed by piedily co-ordinated. waters on the termination of the concerns four American fighter
planes which were said to have! Divison oficials Riment sector.
Kouenn war,
Hilown over Anony Korea int.
territory on the right
! that the Amerleau - e fairs of a member nation
"They burst into the agenda Fonts," he nikded. ly from Korea so that the Issue will not
The allegato against Greece Council to consider them," Mr propostatt. 1 grader it mo!), ngas tius dan lan of a proposed Malik sald. argent that
Accusing the United States today's Security Council | Air Force at "carrying out tin- estion-Reulet.
Lrovoked astgressive
attacks"
were hopeful of antiulu, the attack Today as Allied Ahter bombers appeared over the lines i in meat stivngth shortly
BAND.
roar
POHANG CLASH
after;
Twenty- 43-tin American tanks, Bounting 60 millimetre gung spearheaded the Pohang counter offensive, Corsairs, overhead. Jettisoned fire tombs
Communist strongposats and "general pur- pose high explosives on trenchems along the ridge tops,
בליזו!!
TRUMAN'S CALL
Wachineton, An 31. Pividerit Truman delay called (17 The intrin of Western Europe to tighten controls on a the expert
sad materials to Soviet Buriju.
Quentioraed at his pren YON- fue if American controls on this type of
exports were lax, Pre ident Trumin par, th they were not box.
The United States had be persuzsinat other enghten their own export cu
Lols, Mr Fruman said -Reuter,
The overwhelming air and armour astuit herded Heeing Communuts down from the hills into a deep valley which fighter. afrcraft and light bombers raked with cammon Are and blated with bombs.
American and South Korean troops put withering small-arms fire down into the valley and mortera and artillery, quickly- moved, continued the fierce hammering.
int
One Corsair, apparently by sek-nek fire during a dive bombing attack, crashed into a hill and bur: 1 into flames betore Es pilot could ball out.
Remnput.
G the defeated
Communists fed over the hills and as dusk teil tonight their
own mortars wer. crashing in to
cover the rout.
SALIENT GONE
D
The advance eliminated deep salient held by Ihrer crack Communist regiments and straightened the South Korean ne running from the const to
a point about four miles south of Kigye.
Further west the line crum-
bled under heavy Communist) nssaults in the Chidong arco, the
Korenna South
Eighth Division falling back for more than mile into new positions.
Between there and the deepi Fash made by the Communists south of Utung. the whole front was ablaze with artillery fire throughout the night, and today General MacArthur's air- craft swept over and pocked] the area with bomb oursi
for of
The out-numbered and weary South Koreans tried vainly hours to stem the on-rush Communist men and armour- Reuter and United Press,
!
The
W
MEISHIOS
At the outbreak of the Korean Chines war President Truman ordered bank of the Yalt River. the United State. Seventh Fleet
The lanes were sa! 1 to have prevent any attack on Foot hit civilian boats, killin
Jatt Chinese shermen and wohng several others.
1:03.
The President was asked at
Ar
State
Secre-
hut pe conference whether his ALBANIAN CHARGE recent letter on Formosan policy The United Nations
Warren Astin,
United takist has rereived a letter Tere entafive To ine from M. Micul Prifti, the Al- United Nation menat that baran Thetty Foreign Minis- when panier and security were ter, complaining of nine alleged
-vocations 0311
the
re tored in Kotea the Seventh | armed countries to
Fleet would be withdrawn.frentier by Greece between Heur
Jane D and 35.
The letter, dated July 7,
"provoca claimer that there
were committed iter tionally by the Greek Govern
"against the territorial.
SIDE GLANCES
By Galbraith in
COPR. 1950 BY NEA BERVICE, INC. T. M. NEC, V. I. FAT. DIP.
6-30
"What do you mean, you can't go back to him now? Your father and I vowed we were soparating nine times, and finally, got tired of running in and out!"
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intensity and natonal sovereign
ty of Albania.
M. Prifti protested against
for
British Paper In Moscow Ceasing Publication
London, Aug. 31.
Geneva
Geneva, Aug. 31.
hr.d been of firal importance.
The tempory influence of evaluation were still operating,
diminished reale. through on a
Other important factors were the improvement in invisible exports and the continund economy in dollar expenditure by the United Kingdom and of her Sterling Area members- I'euler.
PRESS
Narriman Salek, th 16-year- PHOTOGRAPHS
I ridet
beauty Itt
whom King
Farouk of Erypt Is said to be
here today from Berne.
omantically interested, arrived
She is staying incogalto nt
Copics
of photographs
ine of Geneva's leading hotels taken by the South China with her uncle, Mustapha Morning Post and Hong Kong Sadek, and the Egyptian Am-
bado to Italy, Ladri Bey.Telegraph Staff Photographern Land his wife.
I not known how long they wait stay. Martin Sadek has been vint in driet seclusion various parts of Switzerland during the past few weeks-
The British Ally, the Russian-language official | Renter. British weekly newspaper published by the British Embassy in Moscow, will cease publication next Sunday, the Foreign Office announced today.
An official statement issued here said that "the Soviet authorities have compelled the decision hy restricting the circulation of the newspaper."
what he called these new pro-
The fall in sales this year to fact, been rent to the usual of the net
Athens vocativ
13.500 emples weekly means selling points Throughout the Government." le declared that they "eantime to be convincing that "the newspaper can only Soviet Union for distribution," proof that the Athens Govern produced at a havy loss." the Foreign Office said.
The only possible conclusion ment
provoked was explained. deliberately
The Briksh Ally Was first that ng a deliberate net of to incidents
disturb serious
the war In produced during and peac. in the Balcons
August, 1942, is a counterpart | have Europe."
that eight The letter stated
due to penetra- incidents wer tions of Albanian territory by Greek soldiers, It claimed that the Greeks opened up machin:-
in policy the Soviet authorities
decided to strangle the
the publication by th: Soviet British Ally by denying the Embassy in London of the So- Soviel readers the chance of
weekly, now buying it."-Router. Viet war news known as the Soviet Weldy.
Today's Foreign Office state-
gun and mortar fire and threw ent says that its original pur-
innd-grenades
al
Frontier
guards.
The ninth incident was alleged to have occurred when a Greek plan. flew over Albanian lerti- tory.
Radio Hongkong
IKT
JD, "Hong Kong Calling"--Pro- gramme Summary: 1.07. Children's
ת!
Pese was in "inform the Sovit public about Great Britain's achievement in the war against the common en: my!"
After the war. its purpose Stery: "The River-Bandit" By was described as being to "Rive Etesian Trevor; Episode 1: "Trouble the Wood" (BBCTS): 6.13, accurate information orchestra tascotte: 6.33. Cantonese The Albanian jetter, which full and
Britain's recovery and by Radio-Given by Mias Lee Wat did not list any casualties, was about
domestic Nations about British
and Lan & ‘BK. Lee: 0.50, The Lyrim United
Bingers. With Organ and Harp Special Committee on the Bal-foreign polley."
The statement added that im Classtrai & Light Classical Requess.
(Studio); 7.00, Music Lovers Hour kans-Renter.
portant Drilish foreign policy presented by Yvonne Charter statements were always printed (Studio); 8.00, World News and
sent
the to
"FALSE INTENTIONS"
Athens, Aug. 31.
Hammy
M. Jean Pollus, Permaneat in full and that the British Ally News Analysis (London Relay); 3.15.
Bledlo Concert Mary was "the only accurate print (Soprano) & John Small (Baritons) Greek Under Secretary for ed source of such information with Plane Accompaniment by Helly Foreign Affairs, today accused in the Soviet Union.”
Mr Jacob Malik, Soviet repre- sentativ at Lake Success, of "Inise intentions" in his charge of terrorism against the Greek Government.
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elino Orch (BBCTS): 30.43, "Soft are understood, M. Politis de- was reason to believe that they Lights and Sweat Music: 11.00, clared.
had not been distributed,,
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