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KOREA'S NEED FOR UNITED STATES AID

Those who are deeply con

over what has been cerned called America's lack of de. cisive policy in the Far East should welcome the forth. rightness: with which the

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 1949.

REDS PLAN A BIG ROLE

FOR LITTLE ALBANIA

Several times recently I have.

watched Greek

Army com-

manders in the field with dim- culty restraining their infuriat-

banian frontier.

Albania and Bulgaria who aro

till

the blind instruments of

By KEITH BUTLER Cominform.

ed troops from crossing the Al-slip across the border under their Just as the Grook very notes Army was about to close the ring around them.

The Greek troops had watched the Greek Communist guerllins

Summon The Magicians

Unsure of Yugoslavia, the Looks Cominform has had tako firmly between

to

Greece. It has

Morning

as if these marriages

ex-King Carol

regular annual event.

and

itself has many times confirmed in its hands the whole operations Lupescu are going to become a Albanian, Balgarlan, and Jugo-

against slay frontier violations in their plan

thrown into bire guerilla wat aid to the guerillas.

Yet last November the United material of every type in quan- weapons mon, supplies, and war Weeks of hard and bitter moun tain fighting brought no reward Nations General Assembly called

anything exceeding to the tired Greek soldiers because on these three countries to cease

over attempted until now to carry gave forthwith giving any kind of aid on the undeclared war of which the Albanians brazenly

treatment, to the Greek guerliias. sanctuary, hospitaj

Greece is the victim.

20

Gavern-

concludo

far tities

It seems that Russia is still

So Lord Leverhulme left more than £2,000,000 sterling,

This should bring sunlight in- to a few homes.

A Soviet scientist anys amoking is a capitalist vice and should

be banned. Albania's Role

and fresh arms and equipment to It recommended the the hard-pressed, guerillus,

ments of Albania, Jugoslavia anii Rested and re-equipped, the Bulgarik on

the one hand and determined to achieve her outlet on to the Mediterranean through guerillas would be launched back Greece on the other to restore Grecco.

relations, good-neighbourly

lo into Greek territory at strategie points along the frontier. Often establish normal diplomatie re- Greek Army formations found Intions, renew

Iations, tu their flank or rear attacked by frontier conventions, and to settle guerillas moving at will back their rafugen problems, and forth across the frontier.

It is no unusual thing for Greek troops" near the frontler to be fired on by guerillas and Albanien frontler troops laented inside Al- The 1020

Labour Govern-banian territory. ment was gravely discredited by the nativertent-admission of one of its Ministers that it Could not prodce

By GEORGE SCHWARTZ

of a hat

clon.

the

<

rabbits out

Regrouping

Progress

As the Tito-Cominform rift de

Because of its strategic position Albania has been called upon to undertake the principal role in the new Comumorm enort.

up.

the

this step it seems to me that lamper, to say nothing of official enemy and his supporters do not veloped during the last few pletely has been cleared, and

it is a public declaration that we are not going to do any thing in the Far East." Actu-

the

rabbits will come out of the hat. have to fly

No one is to work harder or life of the border and observe bocamo

ally, most of the opposition [creased productivity. Where from?ers and transport inside Al-

Out

re forcos there aro

K

People living in glass houses ....are lucky to have them.

19 sending a big of rubber totho

Reading about the strikes ali correspondent over the globe, a wonders whether wo abould call

Report from nationalised Brl- Everything is under control.

fain:

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Man of the Lour. The average ferry passenger,

Trade Slogans

UNO Assembly President, Dr. Herbert V. Evatt, headed special' concillation group to try to adjust the differences.

The Greek taison delegate to

Singapore was made, but no settlement UNSCOB asks that measures be renched. Dr. Evatt reported that taken to eliminate the effects of consignment Greece had agrestance to Albanian intervention in Greek Chinese Reis. Might make rela- Ho stresses that those tions a bit more elastic from now a settlement formula.flò said] affairs. To Rules Keeping

Bulgaria and Yugoslavia would mycasures must bo capable not only on.

to conform Striving strictly to observe in- probably have accepted if Altanin or compelling Albanis

had, but that Albania had never to the rules governing the rela ternational law and abide by ted responded to the conciliation pro- tions between States; they must

of the United

that there will be This mistake, which undoubt the resolutions

also guarantee edly derived from butworn Nations

Assembly, the Poeal. General

Albania all the time fally re- no new attack against Greeco's American Secretary of State. nitalistic methods of thought! Greek • Army is unable to follow fused, to recognise or co-operatoj integrity in the of this year it the Golden stop-Age.

future. and destroy them and outmoded rules of arithmetic, the guerillas

with UNSCOB. In this attitude At the beginning Mr. Dean Acheson, has made will not be made on this occare back when shot at from across Bulgaria. All of them went on looked at its blackest stuce

their bases; unable oven to

Whe was joined by Yugoslavia nad the military situation in Groeco his appeal for aid to Korea.

Mr. Acheson was

Sinco fully With the solid approval of the the frontier.

uninterruptedly helping the

war bogen. guerilla buik

It's tough on a general when he of the population, there is

Com General Papagos, became querlins. this

of aware of

aspect

a determination that rabbits shall is prevented from following p

mander-in-Ching the Greek Army the case when he told the

out of the hat, Perhaps the

And enemy an

destroying him

has achieved wonders against the Chine House Foreign Affairs Com-determination is too strong a word and his bases simply beenure of which the

guerilla army. conventions prevailing mood and paper mittee: "If you do not take for

The Peloponnese has been com-

cleared Most of Cen-1 polley. Let us say rather that bother to observe.

months, however, and Cominform | tral Grevce Even Greek Air Force planca there is a calm assumption that

Greek preparations for dealing with Tito the remnants ol the Ruerilin along

口 more apparent,

no longer longer, but there is to be in- helplessly the guerilla concentra- Krouping of forces in the Balkans serious threat to security.

supply and training bases, has been taking place.

The mopping up of the guerillas This affects both the expected in the North Western Province of hat Even without of the to the Koreon aid bill stem.

Cominform attack against Tito

Katisfac- Epirus is progressing increased productivity, money banian territory.

development med from Congressional ob.

of the torily. In Central and Eastern incomes are to be maintained, but, Greek gunners have to watch and

guerilla war

Thrace the Greece. The Macedonin and while Albanian lorry Eastern prices are to fall, thus providing jection to to a Far

impotently

liaison Greek

delegate

to guerillas have been driven into a policy that has been freun mprovement in the standard convoys move guerilla troops and

living. Out of what?

The latom, road UNSCOD has described how his few border pockets, and the re- Out of supplies along quently attacked because it the hat. There is a gap

this change. in the just over the frontier

Government sees in Albania.

fugers from guerilla terrorism of deve- It will be

being repatriated at their seemed to be one of doing balance of payments.

Sometimes a stray shot does filled out of the hat. There island on the Albanian side of

lopments the

the farms after two years' refuge in nothing.

Cominform han They will border. Then there are screams forces in order to maintain abao

to regroup it the towns, of dollars.

had Korea's need, however, is so shortage

and protests and representations lute control in its further Abracadabra urgent that the case should merge out of the hat.

to UN through the other Balkan

for

the aubjugation of not be decided on this issue.

Unfortunately the Socialist at-satellite States of Russia.

through the guerilla bad

The total guerilla force now is has been obliged to It would have been

tempt to work the disappearing policy if Korea's plight had Judy trick on the economic pro-

against Grecce reckoned by the Greek Army In- operational bases towards the two wings of the belligence to be about 17,800 first- been turned into a club with blem got mixed up with Lawing the women in halves-one hard,'

And always on the frontier the guerilla war. It has been obliged line, fighting men and women. which to beat the State De-

Stewart o' the Brnes' About 12,400 of these are locat- the result that observer teams of the one soft-with

United to move the operational bases

washerwoman, Marjorlo partment for what are regard-the wench pops up intact and Nations Special Committee on the against Greece towards the two ed in the Vitsi and Grammos retired ed as its past sins of omission.rather more unprepossessing after Balkans are watching. UNSCOB wings of the guerills front i... to mountain strongholds, where only Glass, heard that the good lady 0.050 woro concentrated last was staying with some friends in Certainly the best way to at- very performance. Hence a host

Aberdeen, and wrote her a letter of professional and omnicur

which finished, I'll be hopping tack a bad record is to rectify

economic

conjurers have curae

Friday. Yours all

their ow!! with it, and that is the course of torward,

respectively." action that has been taken. particular parlour tricks designed pour quarts out of pint jugs, turn two handkerchiefs into the flags of all nations, and convert the nine of diamonds into the ace.

There must be

some way of altoring

the calendar,

changing the table of weights and measures, regulating the

which

The Important thing is not to prove the Department of Mr. Acheson wrong, but to keep the Republic of Korea alive. America has under- taken an obligation in respect

to the young nation and it switching the waymometer, or

with

UN Watchers

the

in

He says that boslavia

in

are

move

T war.

the

The Bandit

Bandit Season

Starts In Eritrea

By J.L. HAYS

back into Eritren

January.

Total Force

The guerilla artillery has also been reinforced. During the last six months the guerillas lost 10

Counterfeiters-Forging ahend. Baker-We kneed the dough. Accountant-We gure it out. Financier-We take an interest in fe.

Painter-We brush everything aside.

Banker-We are always taking the count.

hunt in Cardaharper - We

Tramguard-Everyone a

packs.

go.

fare

Tvill And 1s Dentists You down In the mouth.

Mrs.

to 800

on

could

guns, 100 mortare, 90 machine "The verra idea", exclaimed guns, 700 light machine guns, 530

Mrs. Stewart, "as if sho automatle weapons, and. 6,500 | hop a' that way, and her woel

rifles.

Loyalist Losses

ower 80."

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1

Pimpernel Fox.

because it has failed at someįtions have to be promulgated by victory of 1941-British officers season hiding place on the Eth-Albanian and border had been

of September, and if wall of a closely-guarded office gang run a cattle guard racket.

halosed the guerillas in Grammos

ond

the

Interior,

He was attending a meeting of the Henpocked Club. Suddenly the door opened. His wife sailed

•

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Swimsuits for women Aren't made to swomen.

This radical change of scene

"They dared invade forbidden within six months has cost the will make us all better

As the grey

rain clouds for the murders of seven Italians Greek Army 1,100 killed, 3,410 zones....in search of the man of has not yet been discharged out anyone noticing anything ex- deepen over the former Italian in the last six months.

wounded, and 452 missing, during mystery...kidnapped by fanatle It does not rid itself of that capt the improvement. There colony of Eritrea-ruled by

underground killers! Released by be, because

The rains will bring Awatt! this period. short-term, Britain since our East African obligation by suggesting that must

solu

from his dry American and British military 20th Century-Fox." medium-term, and long-term

observers bellove that if the

other points, it must, a priori, the

are studying a huge map on the opian frontier. He and there is any notion that some dle in the six storey-high head- concede failure at this one.

could have and Vital

been be entalled, There is abundant evidence comfort may

quarters of the Eritrean Police If frightened villagers refuse eliminated in a few weeks,

If the guerilla war is to bo that the withdrawal of Ameri- secret has been well kept.

to employ Awatti's men as guards, brought to an end before the Greek in, grabbed him by tho collar, A favourite specific involves in the tree-lined Viale Roma

they are likely to be shot-up and can troops from Korea was to juggling with gold, either with Behind

The annual heavy rains have have their best beasts cut off Army and people are exhausted, shook him until his teeth rattled, be the signal for renewed its price or distribution.

during

the frontiers especially the Al and exclaimed: "What do you the night banian frontier must be closed, mean by joining this club? You're pressure on the republic. any such proposal is the notion begun, and, under them, following their herds

that this way a continuing and the rich grazing, the herds are

Awatti will not

be easy to

leaving the guerillas no longer an not hempecked." Some of that pressure actual- even larger supply of dollars will moving deep into the ly jumped the gun and the be available to the rest of the bringing with them the territory's catch. At Arat kint of danger in escape and supply route north-

the flat, scrab-covered cattle wards. adjustments notorious tribal bandits. Koreans in the South are al-world without any

country, he is liable to break for or additional effort in the rest ready defending themselves of the world.

Most of the year the bandits the frontier. If trapped, he will against increasingly serious

"ahiftas" as they

are known shoot it out. border forays. At the same

from hiding- locally operate places alongside, or oven avar, time they are attempting to is a demand for more dollar goods, the Sudanese and Ethiopian fron. meet the threat of infiltration. These goods do not emerge from there. Under those conditions, and but from the fields, factories and Fort Knux or the U.S. Treasury

But now they must move with without military assistance, workshops of the United States their tribes deep into British- prompt aid is essential,

as a result of applied effort.

controlled territory.... And the There has been some ex- New York has ship to the

Professor Alvin Johnson of 1949 "shifts sonson" has begun.

sted that his pression of doubt that the Government should

Although few in number--the amount and character of the British Government anything up police actimate about 206-neither been killed in fights

to $7,000

out of what he assistance to be given are suf-wall the time gold stock. He man, beast, nor property is safe police during the last six months, fcient. Korean requests have

in areas in which the shiftas been mudest in a situation info that this transfor of barren operate. Most of them are killers. became an outlaw in 1946 after

is apparently under the impres

Once an ordinary shifts-he which danger is great. There gold will cost his compatriots

mostly lone cara- and trucks, killing a tribal chief Uoldegs- is some reassurance on this nothing. All he asks is that at isolated farms and

briol and his 95-year-old brother, tho end of 10 years we should го point to be derived in a back-turn gold of the same weight and factories on the outskirts of the Berke, swore to kill 12 Italians to avenge the shoosing of their two Jyounger brothers by Italian police.

Golden Legend

Now a demand for more dollars

Their hit-and-min

big towns.

targets are

houses

RAF Sweeps

ana

Tito has closed the Yugoslav border. Albania is becoming a Comlaform base for operations against him as well as against Monanghi is already on the run Greece. Grocks are asking why Strong police patrols are patient the Western, Powers do not selze ly following his tracks through this opportunity to blockade the wild, virtually unmapped Albania and scal this breach in Zinzalo Valloy, bloop inside the Western ramparts. Eritren.

Brothers Killed

Mosanghi's brothers bavo all with the

-They had got seven by the time Berho also fell to police guns--- [when the gang raided a „Red Sea village for supplies.

handed way from the Soviet £neness. Union's objection to the pro-

I can assure him that he would posal. The very fact that Iz eat it back sooner than that. If vestia deems it proper to back forthwith obtain a cor- we really tried he would get it, in 12 months. For We launch an assault on Ameri- should

From the operations room in ca's "Imperialist" Intentions responding amount of dollar and the. Viale Roma, 74 British am-

The Monaghi for the other foods in exchango

gang also has in Korea as revealed by this gold, and it would

the cers, 200 Italian police, and mors modest measure indicates that Fort Knox with our 1.0.Us. We constables all wearing the leap

be back in than 2,000 slouch-hatted native two police killings against them. Surrounded by a handful of the Russians are afraid that don't want gold, we don't want ing gazelle badge of the Eritrean picked men, Uoldegabriel is now

dollars for their own sweet sake, Police have been alerted.

trying to wriggle through But there, again, the im-hase

out for the goods they will pure-

police net which in daily tighton- portant thing is not that this

KAF. Tempests are "sweeping" ing. He, too, will stand to fight Still, one must not be superior the desolate scrub-land. In re when trapped. about these conjuring tricks.

It may do some good,

but.

19 an anti-Communist pro- mink of daylight saving. Order- serve are British troops,

posal. What matters is that ad by decree to get up an hour

The average shifta is bare-leg-

On the wall map, alongsidé ged, bare-headed differing only

it is a pro-Korean proposal. sarlier in the morning, the sturdy photographs of shiftas dead or from hundreds of thousands of The United States doesn't human race would tell its gover. captured, coloured flags mark the fuzzy-haired, coal-black tribesmen

nors to

to go to the devil. How

have to prove a point, but it donet. By faking the clock suspected movements of others in the bandoller the grenades i

does have to exert what ́ef-

In the Chinase had done thứ for the past 2,000 years the Oste

| still alive and free.

No romantia Robin Hoods are

forts it can to save a. goodian would gleefully quote "this | theas' shiftas: Study the records

people.

DUKE DIES

Waagow, August 20

́an an example of heathens supers of two" the police particularly atition, on a par with frightening" | want som off an eclipse with fireworks::

scross ble solled cotton robes, at his belt, the rifle on his 'shoulder,

The Tempests are searching for him, too. And men of the Royal Berkshires and Bouth Wales Bor derers are watching the

ronds

in case the shifta lander makes

"It may,

be that our representa Hamid Idriss Awatti, a middle- The Duke of Argyll difed today lives will pull, something out of aged Arab, who has already killed at his home in Inverar Castle, the hat at Washington in. Skotams, 10 nativa poliowman and four a break for the cover of a lows. Argyllshire, aged 77,

chibson | tron Fof the 4 Sudan), 'Dafassen

Nebenan holder of the ducal da azonid

Hule and holder of 12 other title

the Duke was a Bachelor underli

be succeeded by his 40 yours old

cousin, Captain Dougian

*k muscle and nerve. A MEZ@ io. Jika, Mossanghi, a 40, wild thing," a British Omort, told

Marvivor me, "He runs like "gamalka and

ke seems to be able to [police::a: mulle,

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