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Girl dies DEAN ACHESON OUTLINES AMERICAN

in city accident

A 10-year-old schoolgiri was killed when she was knocked down by a No. 5 bus on Queen's Road, Central, op- poslie Lee Yuen Street, short- ly after 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon.

1 another trafle accident, the Iteverend 1. R. Wells, well known and long-ikne resident of Hong Kong, received scriou in- Juries when he was knocked

tromear by D

Des Voeux Road, Central, yesterday morning.

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The girl. All Yeung-ching, whose address was given us 4, Muih Street, First Floor,Ghay- kiwan died instantaneously.

Mr. Wells was standing be tween the two tram trucka In Des Voeux Road Central, opposite the American Express Offlce, walling for

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by to go when he was knocked down by the back of the same train.

Immediately after the accident, Mr. Wells Was rushed to the Queen Mary Hospital in an om bulance. Up to Inte Just night

Ir. Wells was sill unconscious, el his condition is reported to be serious.

New protests against KMT bombing

Leku Sucress, March 15 fa Secretary General of the UN. Dr. Trygve Lie, received new protests yesterday. from groups in Canton and Shanging against bombing by the Chinese Nationalist air forces.

Viscountess Mountbatten POLICY TOWARDS ASIA

arrives for brief visit

D!

Rear Admirat

Lord

Viscountess Mounthatten, wife Loule Mountbatten, arrived in Hong Kong yesterday on a six-day visit. Viscountess Mountbatten is shown here inspect ing a guard of honour provided by St. John Ambulance Queen's Pier. ("China Mall" photo).

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26 Field Dressing:

Viscountess Mountbatten ar- Today Viscountess Mountbatten rived from Singapore by Bri-wi't visit the tish Overseas Airways yester day, on á-six-day visit in the Colony.

Emphasis on desire to halt spread of Communism

AID ISSUE

MILITARY

San Francisco, March 15.

The U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Achoson, today said the United States in some situations would give military aid to frce peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or outside prossuros.

In his first important policy speech dealing with Asia since January, the head of the American State Department told the San Francisco Com- monwealth Club he thought the Australian Minister of External Affairs, Mr. Percy Spender, was sound in the six major premises ha made in a speech on March 9..

Mr. Spender advocated a Pacific military alliance and in Acheson's words. "acceptance of the fact that appeasements completely ineffective and oven dangerous.“

The Secretary then said he wanted to make the point that the American desire to hatl Communism is not actuated by any desire to dictate to Aslan peoples.

The boste objective of Ameri÷ Station and the 33 General Hos- can foreign policy is to make world in which all sital of the Services.

She will possible a have lunch, at Flagstaff House and Peoples, incluiting the peoples of then visit the Bowen Rond Mili-la, can work. In their own way. tury Hospital. Later she will be toward a better life, Mr. Acheson

declared today. present at a cocktail party at the Commodore's Residence.

She was met at Kal Tak by Welfare Officer, St. Johri's Ain- The protests were

forwarded bulance Brigade and British Red to Dr. Lie by Mr. Henri Fast, Cross, Commnodure L. N. Erown director of the UN Information field. N.. Colonel G. Anderton, Office at Shanghai. In a radio OE. DOMS, of Land Forces re During her stay here, Viscountess message to the Secretory Gen-presenting the GOC-in-C ADC Headquarters of St. John's Am Mr. Mountbatten wit so visit the eral Me. Fast sold:

J. R. Dawson.- "Christian orgnulations In and Wise M: W: Simpson, Senior, balance Brigade in Tal liang Road Canion ask me to cable you

As the aircraft whtelt.carried and will accompany the “Aimbul- their protests against bombing Viscountess Mountbatten touchedance's Penetration Squad on which cause many civilion down at Kai Tak one of the tyres viait to Katto Island on Sunday" casualties and urgently request on the port side of the plane blew you on humanitarian grounds to out.

Tomorrow, she will attend St. consider

whys

mirane of

fortunniely, except for a slight | Patrick's Society's annual ball preventing further Docurrences, skid on the runway, the aircraft She will also visit a number of The International community in was well under control.

welfare centres in the Colony. Shanghal noting further heavy

and

bombings of cltles, renew their appeal of you, and respectfully ask that effective action be taken, and that they be informed about such action. World Health Panisation representatives China wish to, support protesis and plens to you subject to-their-headquarters!~~~~~ngree-

ntent."

Two protests received from groups in Shanghai

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in

these

carller were

Survey of Jap expansion

Tokyo, March 15.

A survey of food availabili

Tit on Ale here.Associated ty and the possibilities of ex-

Press,

London tugmen to end strike

London. March 16.

trade

Engine parts

leave HK for North

panded trade between Japan and South East Asian coun- tries has been completed by

A representative of the members of the South East.

new People's Central Gov- Asia Food and Trade Mission. ernment shipped 5,777 cases

United States of

That is why we are opposed to the spread of Communiom not only in Aula but elsewhere. It is because 15

this tool of Soviet desceratic revolution that -- inspecially perverts the real Seeff geln, on all over the world sace, long before Communilam na viorel conspiracy had been thought of." Mr. Acheron Gald.

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Help offered

Declaring that we are interest

ed in the peoples of Asia,að: people," Mr. Acheson emphasis

Mr. DEAN ACHESON

"Their seizure of power has re- ed. that the United States did not versed the true purposes of the want to use them for any purpose revolution For while neighbour- of her own, but on the contrary, peoples, some of them for the wants to help them in any senslust time in centuries, dre af last ble way she can to achieve their achieving true national indepen

dence, China, with its lang proud www.gopls and ambitions in their dence,

history, is being forced into the Soviet orbit as a dependency of Soviet economy."

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B-29's leaving for

Britain

next

week

Washington, March 15. Great Britain will, get B-29 Superfortresses under ilis army aid programme, the Defence Department said "yesterdayyo

It said the Best flight of four of the bowthers will take off next Monday for England from Andrews Field, Maryland, near Washington. They will bear Royal Air Force markings but will be flown by Amerien crews, The total number of Superforts to be sent to Bri- tain was kept secret.

The Department, said the four leavling on Monday will be the first American planes to reach. Europe 'under the military. assistance programme,

The French aircraft carrier Dixmude is loading 48 The carrier is Novy-type planes in Norfolk, Virginia. expected to start for Bizerte, French North Africa, about March 17. In the meantime, French naval airmen and ground 'crews are being trained in the handling of the American craft,

The U.S...Strategić Air Command has kept, some Superfortresses in Great Britain since last year.The American crews who will fly the four B-20s nerons the Atlantic this week will remain in Britain temporarily to train the RAF In the operation and maintenance of the planes. Associated Press

Nationalists step

up war against Hainan guerillas

Taipeh, March 15. Fighting on Hainan Island Intensified today as Nationalist troops attempted to clean out on- trenched guerillas in order to prevent contact with possible Red Invaders. No further landing attempts were reported.

ple's present unhappy status with- in the orbit of the Soviet Union was not the result of any choice: on their own part, an cave as- surance that "the American ped- ple will remain in the future, as we have been in the past. the] frients of the Chinese people.”

On trade with China, Mr. Acheson said: "We as Americans Reports from the mairiland Jing cablet: members wera pre- should be willing to trade with said that all Chinese Commun, sent besides the ministers to be

installed. as our forefathers did, ist troopa left Canton for "an. Marshal Yen and General. Chen whenever and so far as it is made unknown destination, and the both spoke briefly in a simply possible in China.

China,"

China,

to wis back the mainland will succeed, United Press.

He emphasised, however, that Red authorities warned, real courtesy of exchange, express "we have no desire to thrust this dents that a daylight curfew ing. their convictions the future rade upón China, nor is China in might be imposed. We will be brighter and that efforts

Fosilien to exploit it from ussee Cantonese were ciderada lng Passing Onto the problems of 14 days supply of food pre 10 East Atía,

Acheson sun abi drainst the posuibilíly raid: "They flow, drat, from the that daytime civilian activilles fact that, except in Thailand, the may be curbed: The Red authorl governments

are

governmenta which are now.

Iles gave no reason for their or

Economic problems previously to leave

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• They are: 6xperiencing the

difficulties of creatiising, and ad ministering the now found in- dependence of these countride:] Problema come, secondly, frami aarlove sephomie dielocations!

• Some of

of these flow directly.fram the ravaged of war: 'others from the disruption of trade routes

and trade connections.

Thirdly, another group of dim-

der but Contoh has been under heavy attack by Nationalist war- planes. Residents were Warned and city the provincial Communist govern-

ba ment was reported to evacuat ing

for Kukong, 120 miles to the In Talpah, meanwhile,

RAF crashes kill nine in Britain

London, March 15,

Two Royal Air Force four-

al Chen Cheng's cabinet was engined. bombers crashed formally installed in a simple within an hour early today, ceremony today but with one killing bt least nine men. key member, not present--Mrs

The pluies were Lincoln Yu. Tah-wal, nominates Minis, bombers, modernized version of

Refused to accept? ter of National Defende

Although official sources in

the wartime: Lancasters hud now the standard RAF bombing ships. The first crash, occurred about.

that what the peoples of Asia the Soviet onnical syciem ang foulties throughout this whole ared dated that Mr. Yu had; accepted 1.30 am. local time when a plane,

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runway at Hemswell

Five crewmen wera

carnestly desire will make for the

Mr. Acheson then dealt with the stews directly from years of his nomination there were persia- kind of a tree productive world.

which

we and they can live out Sino-Soviet treaty of friendship, Japanese occupation which broke ont reports that he had not returning from-a-training fight

alliance and mutual assistance of down many long-standing habits accepted or had refused.

RAM our lives

ilves in peace." Mr. Acheron said that the whole February 14, 1950.

Industry, of

and the sixth was injured, He said: "First. Soviet Russia life of

with resulting Internal United States where he went in

internal

December last for health reaan hour later, as another Lincola. great region of Asia, containing more than half the population of has promised to return the world, is changing profound- Maachurian

but not the Saving that Soviet propagande 2008.

General Chen Cheng reportedly bomber struck a Weich mountain

The plans evolutionary movement of the the Red Army in 1945. Is this aid? the world concerning the polley of

certain

M

Mr. Yu, ia at present in the second crash came: almost

Government and SCAP officials, of aircraft engine parts out of ly brought about, by a deep and lustrial Prop robbed by has been to doceive and confuse will be serving as National De-side in the darkness.

Composed

the Mission earlier this

Bonth Hong Kong to Tsingtao peoples of Asia. That movement, is it even, a belated admission of the U.S. Government.toward the lance Minister concurrently, with crashed about 3.000 feet up on the made an exploratory tour of Thai- | terday by the 1.668-ton (net) he said, is made up of two domin- a theft, which deprived not only newly established nations of South his Premier post until a definite slopes of Carnedd Llewelyn, near

land, Singapore, Malaya, Burma, British ship, ss. Empire Dirk.at ideas. India, Polisian, Ceylon and ther The equipment, belonging to i persuaded London tugmen Philippines.

The last phase of the tour in the present Chinese Communist-eghist misery and poverty, as the States, dollars worth of produc

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new

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fuse Jm the positiva Soviet credit

ex-

( and national Indepen0vernment}

"The people of Asia," he said, "must face the fact that today the major threat to their free- dom and to their social and economie progrras: ls the at-

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Wales decision from Mr. Yu,

At this morning's ceremony Rescue squads,

China, but, all of Asia, of some East Asia, Mir. Acheson, reiterated:

recovered four Trade union leaders today

The first of these is revulsion two

United The United States thousand million

consistently only the former premier, Mar- bodies from the wreckage in has supported and will continue chal Yen Holschar and his oulge- Wates by noon. Associated Press. end their wildcat walkout

condition of life. The the capacity?

fe support the moventent of these which had brought nearly allcluded visits to Okinawa and the controlled CNAC and CATC, con- normal

perpirs towerd Thames river shipping to

farming areas of Southern Japan, isted of the major portion of the second is revision against for

domination. There dead The Mission was headed by Mr.uirera!! equipment which the chan standstill.

Stanley Andrews, Director Nationalist Government lost to meet and The tugmen, who quit work Foreign Agricultural Relations for the.

regime in

recent conception of national indepen

ience." yesterday in protest against their the United States Department of Supreme Court action.

Stating that the desire for na- Geemidly, Soviet Russia poor working conditions and longi

A spokesman for Major-General Agriculture.

tional independence is the most tended to China: a US$300,000,000 how & promised to report for Following the final meeting of Claire Chennault President of duty tomorrow morning after the eight-man group, Mr. An- CAT Incorporated, which had wert spontaneous force in Ove-year credit at an interest rate union bosses had promised to drew's asserted that the Mission's hought the entire assets of CNAC day. Mr. Acheson declar- of one per cent yearly. This work

work was generally most avecess- and CATC. estimated yesterdayį ment and shall continue in the This -1120000,000 each year. and by the cofontailsm, which i

rd: "We welcome this develop-| out at nezolate with tug owners,

Nearly all Thames river ship-l ful... ping was halted by a strike of Londen tugmen protesting their working conditions, especially the long hours.

Favourable indications:

Summarising the activities of

that the entire engine parts are

sufficient for the servicing of the

70 CNAC and CATC aircraft for [ht

that there were favourable, In- Filorg hailour early sesterday overtiment--in the Philippines, flo

Tung China situation

-rouble row.

tempted penetration of Asin by soviet Communist inperialien was - made it contains"

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