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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER (14, 1950,
Britain Must Depend On AmericaFor Machine Tools
London, Sept. 13.
Mr Hugh Gaitskell, the Minister for Econo- mic Affairs, told the House of Commons tonight that Britain's rearmament programme depended on machine tools and other aid from the United States.
He felt that the Government would have to ask the United States for some priority in this matter, he declared.
As the new drive got under way, Britain would produce-considerably more than double the present defence equipment for the forces.
Defence and exports to dollar | Government,
markels would now rank to-jerives."
we And our-
gether at the top of the produc- Accusing the Government of tion list. Next priority would "shuffling and procrastinating" in be exports to the
wealth countries,
Common-its German policy, Mr MacMan
Mr The Defence Minister, Emanuel Shinwell, told the House, which was concluding its three-day special debate on de- British fence, that the extra
division for Germany promised yesterday by the Prime Minister. Mr Clement Attlee, would be ready within a year.
Mr Harold MacMillan, one of the Conservative "Shadow Cabinet," said that this พอล "very satisfactory,
zaid:
seems somewhat paradoxical that the armies of occupation should be trans- formed Info armies of prolection without any contribution by the ex-enemies."
There
those
was no security for! who lived between the! Ele and the Rhine, the Rhine and the Atlantic Conft and these in Britain.
The word "security" was a Follow mockery.
DARE NOT REFUSE
** International Balloon Race in Amsterdam
Favourable Reaction
Το
Appointment Of
Marshall
George
New York, Sept. 13.
in
Competitors from many countries took part the International Balloon Race which was held in Amsterdam-but weather was so stormy that only three balloons started— and in this picture the balloon from France pilot ́ed by G. Cormier can be
seen
(London leaving. Express Service).
The British and French delegates to the three- MARSHALL
power Foreign Ministers' talks here have reacted
About £850 million of the Asserting that Britain dare £1,200 million increase in de-not refuse ald wherever the fence expenditure over the right find it, in meeting this next three years WHIS for
Mr MacMillan sat: armaments, Mr Gaitakcell stated. In the interests of Germany favourably to the appointment of General George PLAN FOR There was no prospect of the and Europe. W must Marshall as the United States Defence Secretary.
a neethor by which a great. population and
final figure for this year's de- fence estimates being less than
great resources that next be put £850 millon or
into the common your's would fall below £1,000
pool without en langering the million. They might well be
berties of the German and subcinatially more. But there
curselves by a revival of Ger.: would be no autumn, budget.
man militarism."
REQUISITIONING
The Government would not besitate to requisition Kooda being expurled to Russia and other Eastern European coun tries, Mr Gaitskell declared, if they were needed for Britain's defence or for her Alles.
But the Government not aware that any such equip- ment had lately been sent,
were
He prested for a European Army. It was surely not be- yond the wit of man to devise
Brit
MARSHALL WILL GIVE NEW CONFIDENCE TO TRUMAN ADMINISTRATION
New York, Sept. 13.
A New York Times editorial, commenting on General George C. Marshall's appointment as Defence Secretary in succession to Mr Louis Johnson, said today:
"The confiderice of the American people in
the ability of the Truman Administration to give COMMONS this nation adequate national defence, will take an upward leap with the President's announcement
that Congress approving General Marshall TRIBUTE TO
will enter the Government as Secretary of Defence.
"The country, to be sure,
la accustomed to regard
this office
one property Battle Of
to be filled by a civilinD
rather
Agure.
shall's
than
↑ military
But General Mar- experience is 80
wide, his talents no diver- sified and his outlook so broad, that a military man who subsequently served as Secretary of State and as sponsor of the great civilians
endeavour that
bears his name will seerri thoroughly at home in the cabinet.
"This is good news and newy of that importance to the coun- try's plans for mobilising 113 etseurces in face of increasing Sanger
Tar Herald Tribune said the newr of General Mardoll's ap- pollment would be received with relief by most Amertrans. "From first 10 lat, General Marshall was one of the clef architects ef the victory เป
They consider he will not allow the immediate ASIA URGED 15. in now multary cries
necessity of redressing the military reverses in Korea to obscure his long-term appreciation of the importance of securing Western Europe as a vital bastion of the non-Communist world.
It is lived
systems by which a combined experience as Secretary of force may be effective to fight State to bear on all the defence
whole and so contrived decisions he will now be called:
fake in balancing the that even ill-will or treachery on tr supervened,
of American forces ingle part allocation rould be a menser to the other, between the crisis areas in the
world. be declared.
110
It was useless for Britain to follow polletes of this kind in Isolation. There was no point in cutting down her export pro- Government and would be put gramme, breaking contracls, im- Į in hand. posing economic blockade and risking vital supplies. it orders went elsewhere.
Jever the
elther Irisilered
the
the issues of precating
of junk- ment so closely uninst there he Washington, Sept. 13.
imte in pre-wer and war years, H.
Humphrey there will
be few who doubt
Senator
the
Fle
Stats
The Barges
Re-Engaged
Berlin, Sept. 13.
JAN SMUTS
London, Sept. 19. Political lenders in the four of Commons today paid tri- butes to the late General Smute before resuming the debate or national defence,
The Prime Minister, Mr Clo ment Attlee, raid that for over 50 years General Smuts had
parts played many
on the world's stage-scholar, fuldler, stateaman, philosophier
Soviet omcials in East Ger- writer one had done more than
many today reopened the two- year-old "battle of barges fween the East and West occupy ing powers,
Russian controllers on the Elbe at Wittenberge, inside the Soviet Zone, fony halted
20
No
Smarts towards the evolution of die Empire into the Commo wealth. The preamble of the arter of the United Nations Charter of
his work.
Wan
the
Mr Winston Churchill, the leader of harges from Berlin bound for Opposition, recalled that he was Comervativo
Hamburg with scrap metal,
Scrap metal is becoming in-
a prisoner of war in South creasingly valuable to the econo
Africa, just over 50 years 10, mies of both East and West when he fist met Smut, the Eumpe due to a threatened leader of the Biers in the war world shortage. Barges were against Britain. It was Smurfs being held at Wittenberge pend-who questioned him. ing seruny of their crew lists: Mr Churchill stressed the by Russian controllers, a. Berlin part tot Smuts had played in pokerinan for the British Mill-aiding Britain and the Allies in tary Government fald.
The British authorities Berlin have
CLOUDBURST
CUTS ROAD
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the recent war.
Mr Clernent
of the how
Davie, the Liberal Party, General Sinuta.
the Langua
war and worked to make il a
When success.
.
that falled
did
not lose Indomitable afresh-his
Athletes Feared Killed in Crash
Rio de Janeiro, Sept. 13, Unconfirmed reports here-to- day said that 13 leading Brazi
an athletes were feared death Algiers, Sept. 13. in the crash of a B-25 trans The main road from Algeria port plane near Fortaleza, la, to Tunisia
was cut in several | Ceura Siste, places today near Setif, Last of
is on the north Fortaleza
coast Algiers, as a result of a cloud-east
of Brazil. The burst,
athletes had participated in ron Cloudbursta izt much a. tests at Pernambuco-Reute Mage at Setif and in the Miliana and Afreville districts west of Algiers-Reuter.
not registered a cader protest with the Soviet represen- recalled iatives
In their quadripartite strove to create city, "If the halling of the of Nations after the first world (Democrat) today urged Presi ent Truman to go before the, but his are the but and ablest argca confir
continues hande to
which the military well founded caran, we General Smuts
without any United Nations General Aspalley of the country should be bly and explain United
then reconsider your attitude," a
"faith confided.**
bul, with he will bring rient of relations betweta e polley towards Asia in “clear.
British of declared today. A Scripps-Howard editorial,
The last
laboured This will Gimme the Russians Western Powers with Comm-nderstandable anguage.
The Senator also eilled, for critic of General Marhall's clamped down on borge traffic me to but the organization nist China,
President Truman formally
emphasised that through Berlin the British re-
of the United Nations. appointment. "Marshall it
Plan" for the Far Mr Johnson was a victim of elr. Con-
Though compelled to take a asked the United States
East, with the Brat instalment c
over which he had taliated by halting vessels into leading part in three wars, bo cumstances en- ress today to pass a law
of, "not less
$500,000,000
the Soviet rector. ittle control,
After two "Long before, he
was in truth a man of perce.--- next
weeks' delay, while barges piled Reuter. yearz abling General George C. Mar- shall to become Secretary of
took office, blunders in American Senator Humphrey, normally
up in the West and East sectors foreign policy - blunders for Defence.
a strong supporter of Mr Tru- which Mr Truman has the basic
of nera, both sides relaxed M2 ˆMæ¢Ãƒ]}än vald he uniber- General Marshall, whose mis-
Congress will now amend the man, assalled the Administra-csponsibility-ret the
their restrictions-Reuter, stage for stool that the raising of palice slon to China left him with National Security Act. which tion's "ague and vacillating" the abandonment of Nationalist
decided forces in Western Germany was verg
the on
prohibits the appointment as Far Easter policy at a news China and the eventual Commu- In agreedi
uf principle by the, cause?
Communist defence chief nnyone who has conference
and
later
in anist invasion of Korea. More- forces in Senate speech.
over it had been decided not to victory and the collapse of the served in the armed Nationalist regime
under the last 10 years.
told reporters that the defend Kores. When that de- The Senate Armed Services United States was letting India, esien was Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shick,
overnight. reversed Raymond Blackburn, will appreciate the political Committee Immediately wen!
Malaya, Mr Johnson the | who resigned from Qie Labour
and our military London and
Paris into closed session to consider urina, Indo-China.
to some extent planners naturally were not pre- Indonesia and Party because it is against for elings in
it ir President Truman's request. Formora bur,
the Philippines slip under Compared for the emergency sudden- Coalition Government,
in British and
munist control "by default." ly thrust upon them. tlant
NATIONAL INTEREST French circles.
Hir
the sald
defence of demonstrates
· CHINA POLICY to the Mr Millard Tydings (Denio-Korea Hi appointment, they anti-
the world that Amerien "does not Maryland), crat Senator, cipates in another sep
"Mr Acheson inherited those direction of the recent mer-porters that what
in the Committee's Chairman, told re-shrink from the task of stopping
Mr Truman military aggression, no matter policies, especially the disastroun- can policy to seek same selu- clearly wanted was that the ex-what the cost. We must assufe Chtan, policy, from his State tion to the eventual establish ception be made to apply to to art with equal courage and Marshall
the world that we are prepared | Department predecessor, General Yet President Truman other person than General Mar- shall, no other circumstance and sacrifice to check poverty, selected General Marshall to At other time.
Johnsen, General rickness, exploitation and injus-succeed Mr tier
Instead of worrying Marshall is 1
protezional Mr Truman wrote to Mr Tyd-about dead horses like Chiang | soldier—a great one-to whom und Mr Carl Vinson Kaishek we ought to do some this country owes grailture, (Democrat Representative, thinst about the sick ones.--, but the law which requires Georgia). Chairman of the cor- United Press.
11.K.T. the Department of Defence to responding House Committeer
0.00, Hong Kong Calling"--Pro- he headed by a civilian is
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gramine Summary; 0.03, Chitilren's asking fur the necessary
wise law supported by sound Half Hour "Sald the Cat to the amending legislation and en-
American traditions. Changing Dor"-A Play Marlin Armstrang, that law to make an exception Nancys for Breakfast" (IBCTS); 5.30, Landon Studio In the case of General Marshall
Melodies-Louis | Levy and 2013 Singapore, Sept. 13. would establish a dangerous Orch (CTS): 2.00, Take it from
Here"-With Joy One forest guard was killed precedent.
Nichols Bentley And Jimmy Edwards newspaper believes (BBCTS); 7.30. La Demi-Heure by11owever,
jured when guerillas attacked that Congress should not change Francaise (Studio); 8.00. World In view of thea party of nine persons in The Morever the General's legacy News and News Analysis (London present critical circumstances Perak jungle yesterday, it was of mistakes in Stale Depart-Relay: 0.15, "U.D.C. Bandstand
The Brighotze
and astrick Band ment and General Marshall's unreported here today.
policy
would handicap (BBCTS): 8.45. An Appreciation of qualification, 1 belleve Three other forest guards are him heavily Ds head the the Lato General Jan Smuts by
national interest will missing. Two querillas were | Department which now must
Viscount Samuel, the Well known to
Liberal Leader best by making an shot dead in Johore by a_pa- | try
overconic e
(Recorded Lendan Relay): 9.00, "From the Editorials" In this case."—Reu- | trol of security forces.-Reu-sequences of those mistakes."
(London Relay): 0.10, Weather Re- ier.
-United Press.
"We must march in step within a others. That we have done and aggerted
or Field Marshal that we intend to go on doing." Mountbatten
and con-Lord Alexander should be ap- The Government sidered
pointed Minister of Defence. stockpiling af materials. There was very He thought this port should thing to be said for taking any be held by a man outside party steps "which may be expedient pollies-Reuter.
with
in consultation friends," he went on.
raw
our
On controls, Mr. Gallkell said htt the situation in Britain was totally different from that
in the Unlied Slates. Britain still had a very large number of control.
AUSTERITY SCALE
"What the United States contemplate doing for the most part already
existy
thi In country." But if circumstances made it necessary the Govern ment would reimpose any of the controls i hud ilted in recent months, be added,
Total mobilisation and The
American Exercises
In Germany
Heidelberg, Sept. 13.
t
closing a draft,
The President said, "I am
believer in the general that our defence es-
Arm
Jungle Victims
An imaginary bomb exploded in headquarters principle by "enemy saboteurs" today put a brigade com-tablishment should be hunded and another was seriously in- mander and his senior staff "out of action" in the third day of American autumn manoeuvres.
a civilian.
Over 48,000 British, American and French usual Trimposing of the guestroops are taking.part, in this "Exercise Rainbow." that the
wartime austerity would only
be served be Jused by the strong prob- The mosk bomb attack chief intelligence and operations i exception ability of an imperiding major! "knuckevei out" Brigadier- officers. The saboteurs escaped. ter.
General Bruce Clack, Comme
It was not announced whether the General was "killed" or "wounded.”
war
"That is not the situation in der of this Second United States which, In the opinion of the Constabulary Brigade, and
SIDE GLANCES
githu
The observers cald that the attack showed up the absence
By Galbraith special security precautions
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"Whoever he was, he seemned very nice!." I told him I was. Mrs. Jones, and I came to the convention with you thin
af the headquarters apart from
| pass-words und sentries.
The Air Force of the "Eastern Aggressor" topy made a simulated bombing raki 01 Bremen and claimed to have crippled the great part.
This flattening offensive was said to be causing swarms of "pante stricken Germans" flee west across the Rhine,
Western Allied Millary Government nuthorities "order- ed" the West German Gover ment to make avaliable three refugee collecting centres west of the Rhine.
Western Allied
losses since the "Rainbow" operation began on Monday were placed at 085
Air Force casuallies
the
three nations and 219 combined ground casualties. The .diz- crepancy between
ground losses was
air today ex- plained by the fact that all three Western rador stations were completely destroyed with heavy
losses of personnel.
The morale of the "aggressors,” played by American troops, was Ceclared today's briefing to be falling
result of heavy losses and the appearance of new American weapons.
These new weapons were not specified, but it was indlated that they were simulated.
The aggressor" WAS, ALSO ported to be unrest*
con-
A strange vessel arrived at the harbour in Salcombe, Devon, England, re- cently. She was the Boleh with a great circular junk-type sail, the eyes of a Chinese boat painted on her bows, an open Arab-style high stern and a four-sided mast. "Boleh" is Malay for “Can Do," and the five men on board had proved her name. For in this boat, a mere 16 tons, and barely 40ft. long, they had. travelled 15,000 miles, half-way round the world, through storms and calms, with- out mishap. She was designed by Commander Boy Kiray while serving in Sloga- pore at the end of the war," The vessel was built by four Malay workmen, under the supervision of Mr George Jarvis, "“chatgiman" of shipwrights in Singapore dookyard. Commander. Kilray "thought that it would cost £1,200, to build and take. Lour monthe-instead of which he had to spend £8,000 and wait a year. (7) 2 board the “Cañ. Do” on 'àrtival Jig Saléombe. They (hair N«Rasker "Commandez R. A. Kimy, and
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