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BULLITT WANTS BULLETS LINKING THE PRINCIPAL CENTRES

Advises Military Aid For China Key To Whole Of The Far East

Washington, Mar. 2.

Mr. William C. Bullitt, fornier United States Am- bassador to Russla, advised Congress today to vote $100,000,000 for military supplies to China,

"China Is the key to the entire Far East." he said. "If our Government should permit the Com- munists to take over China, it would have failed to bar the way to an attack on 'our country by overwhelming masses of Stalin- driven slaves.

Army

"We cannot successfully, "Since the summer of 1946, oppose. the Communist con-except for some Ammunition quest of the world by opposing left in China by our Navy and Communism in Europe only." Marines, the Chinose

The Housе Committee is has not received a single car- holding hearings on the pro- tridge or a single shel! for its posal to give $570 million in American equipment. non-military aid to

the Non- king Government.

Bir. Bullitt accused the State Department, which drafted the loan to China programme, of "apathy".

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withheld munitions from friends. whlle the Soviet Government har been amply arming our enemies.-Reuter,

INVENTING

German

Council

RED MENACE? Chairman

Washington, Mar.,2... Dlosdado M. Yap. Filipino publisher, in a speech”” to tho Oakland Maryland Rotary Club today naked if It should become necessary for the Republio to invent some threat of Communism In order to gond the Unit- ed States to fulfil its stand- ing promises to tho new Ro- public--United Press.

Arab Army Orders

Frankfurt, Mar. 2. The German Bizonal Economic Council here today elected Dr. Her- mann Puender Mayor of

the Cologne and Christian Democratic Union candidate — as Chairman of the Execu tive Council.

The voting was 40 votes for Dr. Puender against eight for Dr. Hermann Dietrich, the Liberal candidate, who was hin only rivál,

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Jerusalem, Mar. 2.

The Social Democrat, Com- The Arab "Liberation Army" munist and Centre Partios e- lay lasted military orders te turned blank votes. Dr. Puch MANILA apply to the area of Nablus, "A small amount of ammuni- the Moslem stronghold soma der thus falled to obtain

of the 97** tion is now on its way to China, 50 miles north of Jerusalem, absolute majority thanks to Congress. We have the Ayal Higher Committee deputies present.

The Social Democrats. ex- reported.

The move is designed to curb plained their abstention the wild rush of armed Araba expression of their lack Mr. Bullitt recommended

Tribosmen and villagers iuto of confidence in the econo that the United Statós send to

the nearest battle and to estab- mic policy of both candidates. Hah discipline and coordination blank votes were meant to ex- The Communfets said "their Nanking t once a man of the highest intelligence and 'KARENS' FATE

among the Arab fighters, energy" who could help Chink

Ofilcera of the Liberation press "no". The small Left- Centro Party Wifig Catholic Rangoon, Mar. 2. on its military as well

Army have established military had previously made it clear Anita

The fate of Burma's Karen courts. No armi fre to political and economic pro. blems, and that the Unitedmunity which wants to set carried by the population with that they would abstain be States make sure that China an independent state out-out a licence from a security cause they buld have profer- side the Burma Union is being committee. Unauthorised. fr. red an agreed coalition candi- discussed in Rangoon bying in forbidden. Civilians date to a straight Party fight. Burmese Cabinet Ministers and are forbidden to Karch representatives

wear the from uniform of the "Liberation" various parts of the country. forces. All arms must be re-

A full meeting between the gistered with a military Burmese Ministers

the and and

all veinforcements

geta plenty of munitions to fight the Communists.

the

le unid the Soviet Govorn ment "han been arming Chinese Communists from both the enormous amount of equip-

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Divisional

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urme delegates is expected to to battle grens must move into Commander

ment it had captured from the Japanese and from new Japan-be held ese equipment which I ha imanufactured in Korea and Siberia."

He said that if the Commu- nists overran China, ther would move on to Indo-China, Siam, the Mainy Peninsula, and eventually to Japan.

Breach of Promise?

Mr. Bullitt attacked Mc. George Murahall, the Secretary of State, for "breaking the pro- mise of the United States Go

vernment” on arms deliveries to China.

Ho described the United State Government's record in China na "dishonourable and disgraceful".

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Thursday after action onlyby permission of arts

which the decision will be announced. the military committee.

Reuter.

Government's and under the supervision of Killed

Associated Press.

Red Attempt At

"Mob Rule

'Brisbane, Mar. 2.

Premier Edward Hanlon, armed with the most drastic strike-breaking powers even given an Australian Labour Government, today battled what he said was a Communist attempt to establish "mob rule" in Queensland's 'three- weeks-old railway strike.

Saigon, Mar. 2. A French divisional'comman- der was among" the "."many dead" in a Viet Namieso guerilla attack on a French convoy yesterday, the Army said Tuesday.

The commander was Colonel de Solrigne, aged 85, in charge of the 13th Armoured División. The French ́ News Agency Faid that 150 French and Indo- Chinese rebels were killed In the attack on the Saigon Dalat convoy. These included 00 French soldiers.

The French daily "Journal De Salgon" said that 100 were missing and that G2"vehicles were destroyed in the fighting.

"A Communist conquest of 'China would lead rapidly to a Communist victory In Indo

Mr. Hanlon charged that crowd of strikers past Queens--Associated Press. China, which would almost "budding Commissara” fram land's biggest railwayyarda Inevitably be followed by the Sydney and Melbourne had in a thinly-velled evasion of Communist subjugation

taken the leadership in the the Government's non-picketing Siam and the Malay Peninsula. strike attempt to smash com- order.

of

THE LAST

"London, Mar, 2.

"Moreover, if Stalin should pulsory arbitration, which has Many Queensland country. An authoritative British. drop an iron curtain between prevented any serious labour towns have received no food source-sald-Tuesday that the the continent of Asia and troubles in

Queensland since shipments for three weeks and last $100,000,000 of the United Japan, it would be Impossible 1927,

other towns along the coast States loan to Britain probably for Japan to maintain its beono. The whole question is whe-are now shut off from supplies will be drawn "in the next mic life except by crawling un-ther the law of the land, which by the sympathy strike of ace three or four days."-Associat- der the Iron curtain and becom is arbitration, shall prevail or men and dockers, which has

ed Press, a Soviet satellite" Mr. whether there will be mob closed all ports.. Bullitt said.

rule," said Mr. Hanlon. "II" However, Fremier Hanton the law is not uphold, then it has promised, "Nobody" will means the fruits of victory starve in this land of plenty." will go to those who swing the United Press, biggest axe."

ing

Arms Shipments

He contradicted the evidence given by Mr. Marshall on arms shipments.

Partial service on railways "Tho' American was begun yesterday under the Government has not delivered Government emergency decreo

Southampton

to China a single combat plane ordering all workers to return Ship Fire

or a single bomber since Gen-for lose their jobs and coutin- eral Marshall, in August, 1940, ued today. There was no vio-

London,, Mar. 2.

by unilateral action, broke the "lence, but tension was mount- The 870-tone steamship Bar- promise of the United States ing. Thirty detectives and carolle, formerly the luxury Government to the Chiness Go policemen stood by while Fred yacht Sayonara owned first by vernment, and suspended all Peterson, only Communitet Grand, Duke Ferdinand of Aus- deliveries of planes.

member of Parliament, led a frio and later by Mr. Anthony Drexel, the American milion- atro, was severely damudged by ftto at Southampton" tafly to day. TER

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