·THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1950.
AUSTRIA FREIGHT
Railway Officials
At A Deadlock
PROJECT TO LOWER
WEST GERMAN RATES
Rome, Nov. 21.
High officials of five state railways were at a deadlock here today in negotia- tions to avert cut-throat competition for the transport of Austria's freight to and from the sea.
Meeting for the second day in strict privacy, the delegates argued the point of view of the rail- ways of Austria, West Germany, Italy, Yugoslavia and the free zone of Trieste.
The subject of the talks was a project of the West German railways to lower their freight rates between Austria and the North Sea ports, practi- cally to the level charged by railways linking Aus- tria with the Adriatic coast.
The ports of Venice (Italian), Fiume (Yugoslavia) and Trieste (free zone) thus stand to lose trame to the North Sea ports, which particularly Hamburg,
times more distant are three but provided with superior shipping facilities.
It is understood that the Aus- trian railways supported the West German project to charge the same rates plus 15 per cent differential as the lines to the Adriatic
Buffer Zone
Talks
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of Korea and Manchuria with a view to ending the Korean conflict.
The proposal, it was learned in French diplomatic circles, 15 boing studied "sympathetically" by the State Department but The railways of Italy, Yugo-has not yet been accepted.
United Nations troops' today slavla and Trieste were believed reached the Manchurian border to be united in a demand that at Hyesanjin on the Yalu River.
the differential should be 30
Diplomatic dispatches reach-
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Britain's Doctors Want More Pay
London, Nov. 21. Britain's 60,000 · dočtors took a ""atrike vote" today on demands for more pay for their services under the National Health Plan. The British Medical Asso- ciation is asking at least .80 percent of the nation's physicians to support its argument that 17/6 per year per patient is not enough.
First returns from nation-wide poll-from the manufacturing cities of Manchester. Leeds • and Sheffield Indicated that the required number of doctors would endorse the Association's position. The Association threatened to pull its members out of the health plan en masse unless the Labour govern- ment raised their pay by March-United Press.
Likely Cut In Aid To Britain
London, Nov. 21.
A top Marshall Plan official in Europe arrived today to join American and British repre- sentatives discussing possible sharp reductions in United States official aid to Britain.
Roving Marshall Plan am- bassador, Milton Katz, joined the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh
William Gaitskell, and
in Marshall Plan chief Batt, Britain, who have been' con- ferring for a week on possible cuts in United States aid be cause of Britain's recent econo-
Pamela. à six-weeks-old lion cub, left London by a mic gains,-United Press. BOAC Stratocruiser for Montreal earlier this month. He was one of two born in captivity in Wales who were
-flown to Calgary Zoo-in Canada.
percent as a minimum protec-ing Parts in the last few days Vietminh Forces In
tion for their interested ports. report:
to any buffer state on Korean territory.
The talks continued informally (1) South Korean opposition this afternoon and the delegates will meet once more tomorrow in a final attempt to reach an agreement, possibly including a compromise on the differential percentage.
(2) Massing of Chinese Communist troops on Korean border,
the
(3) Active anti-Communist
The Rome session is described as "the first contact" and fur-propaganda within China.
was con-
At the same time, diplomatic ther negotiations may follow if quarters here believed that the no conclusions are attained.—
Peking Government The proposed -15 percent
cerned about anti-Communist differential might be an offset forces inside its own territory. for Austrian commerce by Anti-Government propaganda
installa- more adequate port
from Shanghai and elsewhere tions on the North Sca coast
was reported to have reached and a possible more favourable
"disquieting proportions" from exchange rate for payments.
the Government viewpoint
The Austrian delegation was understood to share the West German view that the project would stimulate Austrian ex-
Reuter.
ponts. Adriatic coast railways Ample Winter Cloth- stressed the mutual danger of ing For British Troops
under-cutting what they regard
as "traditional" Austrian traffic to the ports they serve.
London, Nov, 21.
The War Minister, Mr John today rejetod The proposed West German Strachey,
Parliament 15 percent differential derives charges
wer.
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Action Fifteen Miles From Saigon
Saigon, Nov. 21.
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1. A
50 miles west-northwest of Hanoi, menaced” French do- fences along the edge of the delta.
The main Hanol defence line runs only 20 miles north and west of the city since the French abandoned the' fortress: of Hunghao and its satellite outposts, just south of Phutshe, earlier this month,
However, the spokesman said he did not believe there was any immediate danger to Hanoi itself. He said French war- planes bombed and strafed Phutho-on Monday, raking rebel positions only a few
defence lines.
Vietminh forces have been in action only 15 hundred yards from the French miles from Saigon, the capital of Vietnam, a French military spokesman disclosed today.
Rebel saboteurs blew up a
The attack took place yesterday at Thudau-bridge southwest of Bachninh, mot, north of Saigon, on a French outpost. It late Monday, while French failed, the spokesman said. Other outposts in the same sector were harassed.
Northwest of Boncat, 28 miles, supply junks on a rivef in the north of the capital, French | Thainguyen area north-of Hanoi а rebel camp centrations. In the north, French several, miles north of Phulan- forces were mounting theh thuong Reuter. offensive against Vietminh MASSED IN FOOTHILLS guerilla units infiltrating into the southern zone of their Tongkin "rice bowl" delta bridgehead.
Fifty-six guerillas were killed
no attacked Vietminh con- and bombai
Saigon, Nov. 21. Vietminh Communists nassed in the foothills at the
western edge of the Red River delta on Tuesday in what ap- peared to be the start of a ma- jor assault on Indo-China's rice Casin.
15 miles northeast of Hanoi,
forces killed 56 rebels and captured. 36 in skirmishes throughout the day in the delta area from 15 to 50 miles from Hanol.
The spokesman said French infantry units encountered "strong resistance" near Thai-
40 miles bình,
southeast of Hanól, but he did not elaborate.
He also said Communist forces
launched a night attack on an unnamed French fort and made
from railway agreement of British troops fighting in sub-
with 1920, dealing
temperatures Korea Austrian transport problem were not adequately supplied which fell into disuse after the with winter clothing. He said and 36 captured in operations heavy uniforms might have around the 375 mile periphery
a series of "harassing attacks" Opponents of the West Ger- been delayed because ammuni- of the bridgehead yesterday, man project argued that 15 per tion and other supplies took he
on French outposts in Southern said. French aircraft
Indo-China. He said rebels cent is no longer a "realistic" priority in reaching the front, bombed Vietminh columns near
sabotaged a railway near Phan- figure and should not prevent but "there is not the slightest Phutho, in the Red river, 50
A French military spokesman thiet on the China Sea Coast, discrimination against the doubt that ample stocks of miles north-west of Hanoi, the acknowledged the Communists, 100 miles east of Saigon, causing Adriatic ports in favour of the clothing are now available in delta capital.
who had been gathering during some losses among railway Planes attacked North Sea coast.-Reuter.
Vietminhthe past few days in Phutho, Į personnel"-United Press.
NANCY
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OFF
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