THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1950.
Claudette At The Royal Film Performance
Miss Claudette Colbert arriving at the Empire Theatre, Leicester Square, for the Royal Film Perform- ance which the King and Queen attended.
Ethiopian Motion Defeated In UN
to
Lake Success, Nov. 13. A move which in effect would have revoked Italy's right -administorSomaliland. under United Nations trusteeship was overwhelmingly defeated today in the General Assembly's Trusteeship Committee.
The Committee rejected 34 to six with seven abstentions an
Ethiopian motion that would
"have” declared the Committee incompetent to approve Italy's draft trusteeship arrangement. United Press.
A
GREETINGS
ATTACK ON
CHINESE
BY
SLASHING BRITAIN
DELEGATION
Tokyo, Nov. 13.
The head of the Chinese Communist delega- tion to the Second World Peace Congress, Kuo Mo-jo, today attacked the British Government.
He referred to its "shameless, contemptible and foul" refusal to grant visas to the majority of the delegates to the Congress.
US Relief
Plans For
Yugoslavia
Washington, Nov. 13.
The United States is working
out plans for sending 100,000 tons of American flour to meet
The Congress was originally to have convened in Sheffield. Mr Kuo's attack was broadcast by Peking Radio.
Mr Kuo, who is now in Prague prior to proceeding to Warsaw,, where the Congress will manded that General Douglas MacArthur be declared a wär- monger
for his part in the Korean war.
Mr Kuo Government's
said: "The British
obstruction and sai.otage of the World Peace
emergency needs of drought-Congress is shameless, curtemp- stricken Yugoslavia.
ble and foul. . . (Now,) the thick fog of London can never the sunshine which illuminates the whole earth,
"The British
Diplomats said today that negotiations should be complet-reveal ed this weck.
The flour was consigned by the Economic Co-Operation Administration to Italy and
West Germany.
"The plan is for the ECA to re- place by later shipments the flour diverted to Yugoslavia,
This arrangement was worked out as part of a stop-gap effort to start food flowing to Yugosla- via without waiting for Congress to act on a proposed over-all programme.
Several ship-loads of beans and dried meats, bought from United States Government sur- a $2,000,000 advance plus with
The are already on the way. flour diversion deal still needs approval by Italy and the West German Government.-Reuter.
from the Export-Import Bank,
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Government is a lackey of the American in- perialists. It is now carrying OD with a savage war in
French Rivers
In Flood
Paris, Nov. 13. After 48 hours of con- tinuous rain a large area of Eastern France is threaten- ed by flooding of the rivers Rhone, Saone and Ainc.
Near Grenoble, an elec- tric power plant and 3 factory were damaged by a landslide. Isolated houses and small hamlets wero cut off by floods in the suburbs of the town of Bourg today, when the Ainé burst its banks.
Three families were evacuated from a Lyons suburb. At Lyons prepara- tions for evacuating 1,000 riverside inhabitants were today completed but the Rhone was still below dan- ger point-Reuter.
CHINESE
ISSUE UP
Malaya. At present, it is also THIS WEEK
the chief accomplice in the
Korean war.
Lake Success, Nov. 13. The question of Chinese representation in the United Nations is likely to be raised at a plenary session of the General Assembly this week.
"BRITISH IMPERIALISM"
"British imperialism is an enemy of peace. As a matter of course it is afraid of peace and is obstructing the campaign of the peace-loving peoples of the whole world."
Kuo Mo-jo said he had been The President of the As- "mandated by the Chinese sembly, Dr Nasrullah Entezam, people to bring forth the fol- of Persia, is expected to act lowing demands:" "
under-the-Assembly's resolu—– (1) The Korean war should tion which provided for a be stopped, all foreign troops special committee of seven should be withdrawn, and a consider the question and make peace settlement discussed on the basis of the "pressing strug-sembly. gle to defend world peace."
MacARTHUR ATTACKED
(2) "The
should stop
against the
United States
recommendations
to the As-
The resolution required the Committee to be nominated by the President and confirmed by the Assembly.
The composition of the Com- al intervention mittee was today being discuss- Chinese people's ed among delegations.
liberation of Taiwan (For- A tentative list comprised
Iraq, Belg.um, Thailand, Po-
should beland, India and Mexico.
mosa)."
(3) "MacArthur
declared a warmonger. He is
Only India and Poland of
one of the chief manufacturers these recognise thePeking --
of war of aggression in the Far Government.
East, and is the principal in- stigator of an expansion of the
Russia is understood to hold
the that
committee should which Korean war into a world war." include more countries
Kuo Mo-jo also demanded recognise it.
that atomic weapons be banned A Chinese Communist dele- and that there be simultaneous gation is expected here soon to disarmament by the
major powers.
Mr Kuo's statement
evidence before the Security Council on Peking's allegations of American “aggres-
world's give
was
broadcast in full by the Peking sion" against Formosa.-Reuter:
Radio-United Press.
48 Red Planes.
Destroyed
Washington, Nov. 13.
Aussie Mustangs
Move To Korea
Tokyo, Nov. 14. Australia's famous 77th Mus-
American planes destroyed tang Fighter Squadron was 48 Russian-type aircraft in moving lock, stock and barrel. North Korea between Novem-to Korca today to carry on the ber 1 and 11, the Air Force fight against the Communists. reported today.
The squadron, so far based.:: Spokesman at the Defence on Japan, was thrown into the Department said that 18 planes, campaign within a few days of including twó MIG-15 Jet its beginning in June, and has fighters, were brought down in fought alongside American air combat. The remaining 30 squadrons ever since. were hit on the ground.
The squadron will now be In air action an additional based on Hambung, on the east 15 jet planes were described as coast, only about 50 miles from "probably destroyed."-Reuter.
Peking Accuses
10,
U.S. Air Force
San Francisco, Nov. 13.
the nearest Communist forcesAM
It is understood that the
squadron will
move all its
ground equipment and staff.tờY JUV the new airstrip.-Reuter. OTTIMA
Hunger Strike Ends
Brussels, Nov. 13.
A Peking broadcast heard here today alleged that Ameri- can planes had violated Chinese Marcel Lorrjal and Jean, territory 68 times during the Ghendy, two Belgian "Lrade fortnight ending on November union officials, today ended-a-
five-day hunger strike. Both The Radio said. that incom-are in custody awaiting trial plete reports showed that 218 on charges of sabotaging rail. American, aircraft crossed the way lines at the time of King Manchurian border from Korea. Leopold's - return (carliér" -this
"During that period raids year.
occurred every day except on They were protesting against October 30," the Radio alleged. their detention while Dawaiting
Reuter,
trial-Reuter.