THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1950.
ROADSIDE ORPHANS IN KOREA
British troops moving up to Pyongyang halted to pick up these two Korean orphans, discovered in a roadside ditch. They took them to hospital.-AP Picture.
Value Of Spain Chennault Has A
As An Ally
London, Nov. 14. The question of includ- ing Spain in the Atlantic Pact is being studied here.
Spain would be of value as a land, air and sea base and military authorities here have a high opinion of the fighting qualities of Spanish troops, but politi- cal antipathy to General Franco's regime is* Ukely to delay any invitation to Spain for a considerable time. Reuter..
ISRAELIS VOTE
Tel Aviv, Nov. 14.
Nearly half a million Israeli citizens were voting today to elect 43 municipal and local
councils in the first country- wide local elections since the creation of the State in May, 1948.
The election issues are na- tional economic and foreign poli- cies rather than local municipal problems. The results are ex- pected tomorrow evening, but the important Tel Aviv results may be known early tomorrow morning-Reuter.
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Formula To Halt Communist Threat
Washington, Nov. 14.
Major General Claire Chennault said today that Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist troops on For- mosa should be used to throw the Communists out of China, not Korea.
The former boss of the Flying Tigers and Commander of the 14th United States Air Force in World War II told reporters that a national guerilla force is organised in Formosa to "oust the Communists."
Maj. Gen. Chennault said that their native areas to President Chiang's regulars the Communists." should be kept in Formosa to He added that the defend the island citadel while movement "is
the
Korea:
help oust
guerilla only way mainland of American
this guerilla movement gets to start off on the underway. He opposed proposals without the use that they be sent to fight with troops." Gen. Chennault indi- the United Nations forces in cated that he believed that American forces in China would face an almost impossible task. Gen. Chennault said the Communists claim no more than in China. He 5,000,000 Reds added, "Give them a generation or two and they can't be thrown out. Now is the time to oust them."
Gen. Chennault said it would be a great mistake even to send United States forces into China. He said Generalissimo Chiang's Nationalists "can throw out the Communists. Let them do it."
He said that morale on For-
The retired commander talk- ed with newsmen at a Federal court where his pretty Chinese wife, Anna Chan Chennault, mosa is high-United Press. became an American citizen in naturalisation ceremonies.
"ONLY WAY TO DO IT" Five Million
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them
are 1,500,000 Chinese Nation- alists--you
call might displaced persons on Formosa. They
from. came
all over China. They could be used to buldup a guerilla force in
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Rome, Nov. 14, Some 5,000,000 factory wor- kers throughout Italy walked off their jobs at 2 p.m. today, beginning a strike intended to force nation-wide wage in-
creases.
The industrial walkout is the latest and most serious of the series of strikes backed by both Communist and non-Communist unions.
Early reports said the general walkout was about 80 percent effective in the strongly indus- trial North and up to 50 percent effective in the less indus trialised areas.-United Press.
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Thousand Million A
Dollars A Year Needed For Asia 4
New York, Nov. 14.
Asia will need about $1,000 million of foreign : capital a year over the next five to six years to meet essential requirements of economic develop-... ment.
Dr P. S. Lokanathan, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East said this to the New York Journal of Commerce today.
The $1,000 million a year
rate, Dr Lokanathan said, was FOREIGNER
of manageable size, well with- In the capacity of the United States and European countries to invest.
Dr Lokanathan believed the bulk of the investment should como from Government and international "lending agencies.
However, he emphasised that private capital should not be excluded in developing Asiatic countries, but present conditions imited the possibilities for private investment, making it necessary to place major
TC- liance on Government funds.
Dr Lokanathan said that Asialic countries feel that the nid they аге now receiving from abroad is inadequate,
LACK OF POLICY
They are also dissatisfied with the lack of any general policy in the United States
SENTENCED
IN JAPAN
Tokyo, Nov. 14. An Iranian. scaman, Abase B. Poor, became the Srst foreigner to be sentenced by n after Gen aral Japanese court MacArthur gave back criminal jurisdiction over United Nations to Japanese courts beginning on November 1, according to the Kyodo news agency.
Poor was arrested by the military authorities on Novem- ber 1 for being in Japan with- out a legal permit.
The military authorities turn- ed him over to the Japanese who indicted him for violation of the Foreigners' Registration; Ordinance.
Japan
and other foreign countries on the question of assistance. in gaol for illegal entry
The American Point Four programme of technical assis fance to undeveloped countries,
he said, touched only the fringe of the problem and must be ac companied by an overall invest-
ment programme.
Poor was given two months into
He failed to sail on the 5.3. Iran of which he was a
crew member when the vessel left
a Japanese port on October 27,
At the time of Poor's indict- ment, the Kyodo news agency reported that. he was ordered Dr Lokanathan cald that his to be deported by Japanese au- $1,000 million estimate also thorities.-Reuter, takes into account the recent improvement in the trade balances of many Asiatic coun- tries resulting from higher de- mand in the United States and Europe for Asia's raw material exports.
The maintenance of adequate buying prices by the major consuming countries, he recom- mended, should be a matter of long-term policy that could by
aid itself materially economic development.-Reuter,
Asiatic
PURGE IN
EGYPTIAN
ARMY
Cairo, Nov. 14. Scores of high Egyptian officers are to be placed on pen- sion and their posts filled by
men, according milllary quarters here.
younger
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Calculated
Brutality
By Bulgaria
Washington, Nov. 14. The Washington Post, in an that editorial today, declared the Bulgarian demands for the forced migration of Turkish nationals was a "deliberate and AT THE DE calculated brutality—to emme q barrass the Turkish Governe ment by thrusting upon it at ev mass of human beings withouts pozuofi--· affording it any opportunity - to- prepare for their maintenance.".
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It added that, moreover, the ** demand appears to be an in- direct violation of the treaty governing migration between." the two countries
which laidanan ykiske down
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that no obstacles should be raised inoyz: against mutual Bulgars and Turks,
migration of
The Post said also that the Turkish protest that it needs ); Boney)
mass
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This follows the appointment time to prepare for the
of General Hussein Faris Bey entry of persons "is unlikely to
as the acting Commander-in-make much impression oni altr
He neighbour which has shown chadna Chief and Chief of Staff. replaces Field Marshal Osman scant regard for the niceties of rus 2x33). El Mahdi Pasha, the Chief of treaty. obligations." Unijejunoo Staff placed on pension yester-Press. day a few hours after the resig- nation of Field Marshal Mohammed Haldar Pasha, the
Commander-in-Chief.
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YOMILAR To India 39 DE JUN
Lake success, Nov. 14,
debate in the United Nations on India's com- plaint against the treatment of Its nationals by the Unic Government,
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Field Marshal Osman EI London, Nov. 14. Madhi Pasha was retired on the The Peninsular and Orient's recommendation of the Public South Africa conceded now 9,000-ton cargo liner, Prosecutor, who had just re- India on Tuesday in the first 7) Singapore, is to be launched at ported on Egypt's arms scandal. round of the Clydebank on November 30. There has been only one other The "scanda!"" concerned the ship of this name in the com- purchase of useless arms and pany's 113 years of existence. ammunition. from Italy for the The first Singapore was built Egyptian Array during the
The South African Ministey exactly 100 years ago. She Palestine War. General Fuad
of the Interior, Theophilus- was an iron paddle steamer of Sadek Pasha, former Comman Donges, presented 1,190 tous. She spent the der of the Egyptian forces in withdrew a motion whole of her life in Far Palestine, has threatened
10 General Eastern water, and sunkin resign as a result of General Politicnt. Comittee 1867 after striking an wichur-Husein Faris Bey's "* appoints have declar tered rock: Everyone on board.ment, according to military incompetent however, was saved-Reuter
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