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CAMPAIGN FOR H-BOMB GATHERING MOMENTUM "Suicidal for America to cease development"

Washington, January 29. Senator Tom Connally, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations

Committee, and the Atomic Energy Committeo, in a speech yes-, terday, said:

"The United States should arm_itself with the hydrogen bomb. The security of the nation and our people requiresthat we provide our armeð services with the best possible weapons.

"We must remain strong. We want to preserve the peace of the world and the hydrogen bomb will serve that cause just as the atomic bomb had done since it ended the war and gava us peace,”

U.S. MUST BUY MORE UK GOODS

n new

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1950.

MAQUIS BEHIND CURTAIN

New York, January 29.

The former United States Ambassador to Moscow, Lieutenant-General Walter Bedell Smith, said today that a fairly well organised un- derground in Russin" proved that the Communists have not swept away all the vesti- ges of opposition behind the Iron Curtain,

~~He was-speaking_at_an_anti- Communist conference sponsored by the American Legion, which began yesterday.

General Smith, who also stated that the Communist Party in the United States received direct or- ders from Moscow, said: "There is strong Maquis movement in Lithuania due to the collectivisa- tion of agriculture,"

Other anti-Soviet centres of opposition had developed in Lat- via and the Ukraine, though Soviet police action had largely eliminated the Ukrainion group.

War

supplies being shipped to Taiwan

Taipeh, January 29,

British ships are bringing war supplies to Taiwan, These Include large quantities of barbed wire and avia tion petrol, but, as far as can be ascertained, no arma or ammunition.

The barbed wire la being brought from Japan on the pro- cedde of Talwan's exports of sugar to that country.

Already barbed wire defences have been erected along kely invasion landing altos.

The Nationalists are also buying much-needed commodi- ties from the Communista in North China, but this trade In limited as the Russians are reported to be taking up kpproxt-. mately 60 per cent of the output.

Edible olim and soya bean cakes, which are used for cattle. fodder and fortifloor, are reaching this Island from Red China by way of Hong Kong-Reuter.

Consequences

Winston

Mr.

officials have Mr. Harold Russell, the Recently, British National Commander

of been talking of going into atomie "Amvets," an ex-Servicemen's bomb production on their own- a step which would require Bri- organisation, asked President tain to claim her full share. Truman to "approve without

Separate negotiations have been delay the construction of the under way for months between hydrogen bomb."

American, British and Canadian

General Smith added that the In a letter to the President, Mr. officials, looking toward Russell said: "Despite the grave three-nation atomic partnership. under und organisation made In

possible for anti-Communists to questions of morality involved weA tentative agreement is reported

under cross through Sovlet territory, reached have been believe that you recognise that 10

one group to an- any other decision however mer-which Britain would forgo bol moving from

other.

There is a constant and direct ciful and humanitarinn would be production In return for sharing

from the inconsistent with the brutal facts fully in U.S. weapons research. New York, January 29. of international life today.

President Truman may soon ask chain of command The Soviets The chief of British ex-

recognise no Congress to revise the US. atomic Kremlin to Communist parties in ports, Sir Cecil Weir, has higher law than their own evil control act of 1946 to enable the other countries, General Smith

take part in

Bald. ambitions, Americans with heavy United States to driven home to Americans hearts must realise that one of such a secret-sharing programme, but there is no indication as yet that, for their own good, they their principal hopes of survival must assist in closing Bri-lies in our technologal ability to whether Congress would approve. stay a jump ahead of the enemy The U.S. delegation to the talks Lain's dollar gap by buying in all the arts of war."

is composed of George Perkins, British goods.

The New York Times" wrote assistant Secretary of State for the Atomic today that it would be suicidal for European Affairs,

Commission member Before leaving for Canada. at the United States to

cease the Energy

the the close of his American to development of the atomic wea- Sumner Pike and general Party in the United States, Gen-

Atomic Sir Coell surveyed the properts pon while there was no interna-manager of the of speeding up Briam's dollar tional atomic agreement.

mission, Carroll Wilson.-Reuter

drive

"The fingering doubt or hope and United Press,. about the hydrogen bomb secins to have disappeared,” Bald the newspaper.

put their

provided necessary tools and they

probably CAN explosion 品

"I have been trying to get it inLa the is of our many powerful friends here that a two- way trade is vital to American farmers, cation-growers and lo- bacco-growers," he salci.

"These and others don't like the British lack of dollars. They realise that the more success wa have in our

The dollar drive, better chance they will have toj sell their products,"

was more

arc

"If the scientista minds to it and with the materials produce times produced Nagasaki,

many

A1 destructive as those

Hiroshima

PLE

-

DE GAULLE ON RED PLAGUE

"More than 200,000,000 Rus- sians are ruled by a single poli- tical party which has less than 6,000,000 members. This regimo is cemented by secret police and nailed in place by bayo. nets."

the Asked whether

Soviet Communist Union directed the Com eral Smith replied: "The evidence Is profound and conclusive that We also sea that is the case. examples of it in Czechoslovakia and Poland.

Dijon, January 20. General Charles de Gaulle told and regional group leaders of his French People's Rally here today that France must be healed of the "plague of Communism."

"It is only after that process that we could crush those who still persisted in taking orders from abroad," he said.

Then,

1

PLOT FOILED BY GREEK ARMY

"There is direct dictation and direct advice, and the ovidence on that is Indisputable."-Reuter.

.

Marooned scientists

near

rescue

Two choices "Assuming this possibility, man- Sir Cect said he had seen a kind is faced with just two large number of leading Amer-choices," the paper continued.

On Board the John Biscoe, "We want to rebuild France's Jenas in the Government, Mar- "The nations of the earth can

Port Lockroy, January 29. shall Aid, and finunciat and reach an agreement tiot to make presperity by far-reaching social.

Eleven British scientists reforms not for the benefit of a business circles.

and use the 11-bomb or they can

"The party regime is coming in the Antarctic, today saw the Everywhere, he had found re-enter into an H-bomb armament few people but for all Frenchmen. marooned on Stonington Island, lator the ice misses which held them -cognition that any success Britain Face which will wreck civilisation to an end. Sooner or

"It would not be pleasant to

will have might have would help not only live in a world in which our own French people

their captives for over two years Britain.

enlightened by also the United but

to way. country

compelled *States

slaughter millions of people in events and by the Rally, they will breaking up as rescuers were There was more than philanther countries by the use of the voice their viewpoint from one moving in by ship and plane

the other." to take them out. end of France to thropy and help to

Reuter. war alles H-bomb.

"It would, however, be just n behind Marshall Ald.

little pleasanter than having our There

than

slaughtered by the own

prople

from out- restore war-II-bombs thrown in to polilleal plan damaged West European econo-site.'

nd eliminate discontent and High mies

American, British poverty

would which

fertilise Belgian

sceret officials begin Communist

obtain talks here tomorrow on uranium

ore, the indispensable raw mate- Communist plan to reorganise a had discovered rial for atomic bombs. The United rebellion In urban areas, the the ice covering the seu while There was the hard-hended States has been getting nearly all newspaper, Nauvelles Militaires" huge icebergs were beginning to business plan to sell American of the rich uranium ores mined primary produce in world mar-in the Belgian Conge since 1944, said here. According to the re-move in the pack of ice about kets and eventually regain her Oficial secrecy surrounds the port, the Central Committee of 12 miles from the base.

News of this favourable deve- markets for secondary products. conferences, but at least three the Communist Party decided last

Novomber to instruct scattered lopment came as the John Biscoe. vital issues are likely to come Communist banda to "contact the the

Antarctle supply 1,200-ton up:

towns and Press on a reorganisa-ship, was leaving there for the British interest

tion of the rebellion."

off final jumping

in the The National Army crushed rescue bid the Argentine Islands security precautions at Shinkolobje mine, the failure of these plans through-off Central Graliamsland.

Members of the expedition on richest ore producer in the Congo. out the greater part of the coun-

to the try," the report added.

board A recent official report

the Biscoe believed it to the ice in the In the last quarter of 1949, 703 be likely that Belgian Government said there Whe a deplorable lock of pro guerillas were killed, 1,051 were Stonington area, judging by re- tection from sabotage, espionage captured and 1,240 surrendered parts from there, was breaking New York, January 20. Mrs. Maxine Sanson report-and possible Communist inditra- during "mopping up" aperations, up, but they were reluctant to Jump to any conclusions on con- tion. The American Embassy in the paper said-Reuter.

ditions elsewhere until a recon naissaned can be carried out from the air-Reuter.

power.

-Reuler.

efforts

to

Another jewel robbery in NY

1. U.S. concern over

Athens, January 29. The Greek Army has foiled a joyfully

ed to the police early today Brussels is reported to have asked that she had been robbed of the Belgian Government several MASSACRE DANGER jewels and other valuables times to tighten up security in the worth U.S.$500,000,

area near the border of Northern Rhodesia,

IN INDO-CHINA

She said she d her apart- 2. The question which Bel-

Paris, January 29... ment between Paka and Madison gium may raise is whether the M. Paul Costo-Floret, former Avenues early on Saturday oven-United States should pay more Minister of Colonies, said tonight ing to visit the Criterion Theatre for the ore. Present payment is that if France opened talks with and discovered the robbery when between US$200 and $300 per ton Ho Chi-minh, leader of the French Indo-China autonomists, she returned and discovered the depending on its quality, empty jewel box on a chair in 3. Britain's chief interest is and evacuated her troops, all the living room when she en- what portion of Belgian ores Frenchmen in Indo-China and the tered the apartment. She rushed should be diverted to the British Indo-Chinese supporting Bao Dai to the hall closet where she found atomic project. British interests would be massacred.

12 empty boxes that had contain-own a large bloc, but not tho Addressing the Executive of the ed articles of great value.

majority of the stock in the Shin-Popular Republican Movement, of kolobje diggings.

which he is a member, M. Coste- The first reports sald the stolen jewels were worth US$1,000,000 but the police said after prelimin- ary Investigation "you can cut that catimato in half,”

The robbery closely paralleled that of Billy Rose, Broadway_pro- ducer, whose Beekman Place

of

speech

worry Tories

London, January 29. Parliamentary quartors today there is much speculation about the possible consequences of the speech by the Conservative feador, Mr. Winston Churchill, in his own Woodford (Essex) constituency last night. Churchill, abandoning the caution and modera- tion which characterised his broadcast to the nation a week ago attacked "the sorry and wanton machinations" of the Liberals.

of

He fell upon the Socialists "1 would have supposed that with even greater force, pro: the only frustrated votor was one fessing to see a "hidden plot" who found himself deprived

the opportunity to support the in their election manifesto.

party of his cholce," he added. A section of British political Reuter. thought some of it favourable to Mr. Churchill and the Conserva- tives-considers that in 1945 the wartime leader allenated a see- tion of the electorate by his at- Socialists the start at tack on the Soch of the election campaigns.

again asking Today they are whether in this case Mr. Chur- chill, by his forthright assault on the two political adversaries of the Conservatives, might not tend to estrange the sympathy of the Middle class "enter"

BIDAULT ASKS FOR A VOTE

The

Paris, January 20. French Premier,

Georges Bidault, put threc The coveted political floating motions of confidence to the vate is believed to be largely Libero! in instinct, If it con- National Assembly tonight siders the Liberal Party's bid for at the second reading of the revival to be a lost cause.

even

The Liberals have refused to enter into an anti-Socialist pact

with the Conservatives.

Liberal's reply

tax increase. bill which had been earlier rejected by the Council of the Republic, the second House.

ол

But the Conservative Party is The confidence motions, which

to be voted are expected clearly hopeful that a consider able proportion of the Liberal Tuesday, will come up when the minded section of the electorate National Assembly will vote, on -proferring right-wing to left-a new production tax, a new road Government will vote transport tax and a new tax on Tory in the belief that their non-distributed company bene-

win. own "middle Party" cannot

The new taxes, as agreed upon

Dr. V. E. Fuchs, a Cambridge scientist and the leader of the

Mr. Churchill alleges that a The Government will consider trapped survey parly, reported

small group of left wing Liberals each vote on these three nrileles that an ice-free pool, estimated to measure about two square miles, are now planning to run 400 can- as a confidence motion.

didates in the hope that by The Council of tho Republic had formed not far from the

splitting the vote they may frus-rejected these three 'new taxes basc.

trate the will of the majority of although they had been passed Other members of the group

the nation."

earlier by the National Assembly announced that they

The effect of this stricture on during the Arst reading of the a big crack in

the main Liberal Party and its bill adherents has still to be seen. beral Minister in the wartime first reading, amount to 141,000,- Mr.-Dingle-Foot, former Li by the National Assembly at the Coalition Government, today an-000,000 francs. swered Mr. Churchill's recent The Finance Minister, Maurice charge that Liberal candidates Petsche, who had fainted at the were splitting the anti-Socialist morning session while urging the vote in the forthcoming General Assembly to maintain the tax- Elections.

increases, was back on the Gay- "Mr. Churchill stated that the ernment bench when the debate Liberal Party by splitting its voles was resumed this evening. He may frustrate the will of the took part in the exchanges and majority of the nation," Mr. Foot was reported to have recovered. zald.

SHIP ASHORE IN CHANNEL

Guernsey, January 29, The Guernsey lifeboat reported by radio that all of the 50 mem- bers of the crew of the Turkish ship Edrife, which went aground off the Island of Burhou today, have been rescued.

The vessel, registered at Istan- Associated

It is understood that a war-Floret added, "There would also bul, was bound for Denmark from time agreement gave Britain be serious difficulties in the inter-Tekirdag, Turkey, alandby rights to claim about national field."-Reuter, ane-fourth or possibly more of

the mine's annual output.

Tentative pact

So far, Britain has taken only apartment was robbed of US$ a small amount of ore for re- 25,000 in jewels last Thursday search purposes and has walved while be was attending a 'movie her rights on the remainder so it premiere-United Press.

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