ACHESON CALLS IN FAR EAST EXPERTS Talks concentrating on
U.S.
support of Bao Dai
Washington, March 23.
The US Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, and his leading advisers on Far East affairs today began an intensive now study today of Unit- od States gid measures for South East Asia...
Mr. Acheson called on the Ambassador-of-lorge, Dr. Philip C. Jessup, and the Assistant Secretary of State, Mr. W. Walton Butterworth, to report their findings on their recent survey trips.
· Officials said that means of bolstering the now French-supported State of Viotnom against Communist pressure is now the most urgent.
matter.
EUROPE VITAL TO WORLD
י
Canberra, March 23. The Opposition leader, Mr. Joseph B. Chificy, told the Australian House of Represen- fatives today that the chances of getting any rent Pacific pact
on concrete terms are very re- mote.
Down for a
decision
I
are a At least until recently, Church series of recommendations officials have avoided taking wired last week from Indo-clear-cut political stand,' Chiha by a special technical mission headed by Mr. Robert 'Allen Griffin. These call for immediate incasures to help the new Bao Dai regime, with French backing. to restore economic and military stability.
To provide Immediate military support for Indo-China and other neighbours of Communist China, President Truman has a $75,000,- 000 special arms fund which Congress voted last year.
The paper said that the Catho- le opposition to Bao Dal has been stated through various sources, including the Pope's representa- tive in Washington to President Harry Truman, the Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, and mem-
bers of Congress, - -
Destroyers' tour to continue
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More atomic arrests
espionageTM
Des Moines, Iowa,
March 23.
Mr. Bourke Hickenlooper. Republican Senator forecast here today several more rather startling Tarresla "ot. people suspected of violating atomie security."
"Some of the arrests are in progress at this time," ha said, 'adding that the arrests would be closer to home thin
BURMA MUST BE HELPED
London, March 23. An article in the "Financial Times" today declared it is clear that outside help to Burma is essential.
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Australia carries fight to the Reds
رادید
Canberra, March 23. Australia today invoked far-reaching emergency powers including the right of immediate orrest, the banning of meetings, and tho death penalty for trepson—to fight labour dis- orders and Communism. The Prime Minister, Mr. Robert Menzies, invoking
the Emergency Crimes Act, said that its powers. would be used against Communists. pending the passing of special legislation to be intro- duced soon to outlow the Communist Party in Australia.
Faced with n steel and ship- ping strike crisis, the country
proclaimet a state of serious industrial disturbance.
-The proclamatibo, *Issued by the Governor General, aall that the situation was prejudicing or threatening trade and commerce with other countries nid' among the States of Australia.
tense "We
Mr. Menzies "fold” Flouse of
of Representatives, will deal with Communists here fence and for all. We will carry
It added that three problems are paramount in Burma's ture.
Witho
of
"Firstly, the actual ability the Government to establish law and order before a worse tragedy overtakes thó' country."
Government's to admit non-Burmese capital" "and personnel só as work resources at a high pitch of efficiency.
Finally, the possibilities of co-
from other countries.
ta
the fight to the Communists.”
The proclamation arose direct- ly from a series of "rolling strikes on the Brisbane water- front but the Government's new powers, which would be
exer- Cised with vigour, and complete determination, would apply to other current strikes.
SENATOR RETURNS TO FRAY
Washington, March 23. The State Department told Senate investigators today that it had been five years since it employed the alleged top Russian spy identified by Senator Joseph McCarthy. Senator McCarthy promptly branded the statement a lie.
Mr. Chifley, speaking in the Foreign Affairs Committee yester. South East Asintle ports despite operatión and financial assistance | Handing over a long period and been publicly-identified added
The House of Representatives day approved an Administration which earmarked non-milltary Foreign Ald Bill Galgon.
on estimated | 99. $104,000,000 in unused Economic Administration Co-operation (ECA) funds for Nationalist China and South East Asia,
Two American desroyers will continue their goodwill visit to
Occurred when they the Communist-led riots which touched at
Meunwhile, the American economic mission now in
Asia has urged that American medical supplies and form tools be rushed to Vietnam to back up the naval gesture to Indo-Chind with-con- crete aid. recom-
foreign affairs debate, said that the problems of the Pacife are important, but the problem of Europe is vital to civilisation.
It might be 20 years before dlungers would threaten Australia from the Pacifle, but he had no doubt Russia could walk across
A State Department spokesman Europe to day and be in Calals
said the Griffin mission In a very short time.
"That would be only the be-mended four kinds of immediate
ghing of a great world war," he continued.
more
"Russia could no
stand the war that could arise than could the Western democracies.
"There is only one country that could stand a war-the United Sintes-and war might complete ly demoralise even her equntry," Mr. Chifley did not fear war In Europe, but he did fear the creeping insilious Communism, the fifth column which has crept over Europж---Neuter.
Italian pact with Turkey
aid for Indo-China. These aro public health assistance; supplying of agricultural tools; rehabilitation of rice alla and bringing form and health technicians to the U.S. tor training.
"With the prospects of declin- ing rice exporis, Burma's foreign currency reserves would doubtless feel the strain if Indian Interesta (chiefly in land) as well as the British, were compensated in Sterling or convertible bonds," the
The destroyers, Richard Ander-agn, the
son and Slickell, left Saigon on Monday after a week-end of riots, to stop next at They are due Pnom Penh, capital of Cambodia, State of Indo-China, there is also trouble with Ho Chi-minh's revolutionaries,
A despatch from Bangkok sald today that a Bangkok newspaper had urged the United States Navy to cancel an air show planned for that city to avoid trouble with Communists. The Navy sald, how ever, that its ships do not plan to visit any other Far Eastern
except country
Vietnam and Cambodia-Reuter, United Press and Associated Press.
Meanwhile, in Saigon the Com- munist strike order fizzled lindly today despite rebel threats that any open shops would be bombed.
The rebels, led by Moscow-R trained Ho Chi-minh, called the strike to back up demands for the release of 10 persons guole after Sunday's anti-American rioting, in which three were kill- ed and about 60 inured,
But at least four-fifths of Saf- gon's shops remained open, and the police, instead of roleasing the alleged lot leaders, look_aix more men into custody. Two were seized while trying to get native workmen to walk off their Jobs in French military supply warehouses. Four others Wera charged in connection with the demonstration on Sunday against
Times" rticle cau-
essential factor ta the peaceful and competent working of natural resources to put Burma in funds."
Dealing with the Communist threat, the article said that dea- pite the Lettist politics of the Burmese, there are few in the country, apart from the Com munists, who would relish the Ibss of national independence to the fact of this any bloc. In threat a more developed sense of discipline and responsibility may emerge.
He gave the House details of accumulated losses in cargo
cited cases of 10,000 boxes of butter and thousands of tons of general cargo intended for Bri- taln wlarves.
Ieft unloaded on the
Death penalty
Sharply conflicting statements about the Government record of. the alleged spy, who has never new fuel to the controversy over Senator McCarthy's' charge that the State Department is infested with Communists.
The Department's side of the story was given to a 'nows' coh- ference by Senator Millard Tydings, chairman of the Senate to Foreign Relations sub-committee
investigating from r
Senator McCarthy's sald employment who
by the Depart that the man sent on an
The Crimes Act gives the Fe deral Government powers meet almost everything
reason, sabotage, attempted charges, volution down to forgery and of- fences against police officers.
Perialties range" from death
to various freason
for
records
ment showed
question was
in
romelal
Imprisonment; a term of Forela mission of four monthl
duration about five years B20. It covers offences of a Federal Since that time, the Department level over and above laws al-added, that individual had hod ready applied by individual no connection whatever with off- States.
cial work except to deliver two Mr. Menzies decribed the per-speeches without pay at Depart- alties under the proclamation ment forums, and said that it stated plainly Senator McCarthy Immediately what could happen to people who called a news conference of his own to churge that the Depart- "But this has still to reveal it-inspired this lawless policy.
was understood, Shere. that ment's report was untrue and self to the British investor, who the Government would await deliberato
A
mis-statement of has, on a modest assessment, week-end events before enfor-facts-United Press. £100,000,000 in the country."cing the powers proclaimed. Reuter.
Liberal cabinet formed in Greece
Athens, March 23.
the presence of the American des- A new Greek Government under the Greek' Liboral
troyera Stickell and Anderson. The naval vessels salled on Mun- day after a four-day "goodwill
Vietminh attacks
Rome, March 23. The Turkish Foreign Minis- ter, Mr. Neemeddin Sadak, arrived in Rome tonight to sign a new treaty of friendship with Italy. Adding a fresh link to the chain of understanding invisi the Eastern Mediterranean," the treaty will be signed tomorrow at the Italian Foreign Office.
Because today is a national The Foreign Minister, Count
holiday. It is difficult to ast! - Carlo Sforza, who met Mr. Sådak
mate how effective the ·arika at the airport, will sign for Italy.
was. But all military and clvi- The treaty of friendship and
Han plants operated normally, conciliation-is in the same terms
and only one shop in five was as those signed between Greece
closed. Italy and Greece and Turkey. French Indo-China celebrated This completes Italy's treaty in ineniory of three sisters who links with the Eastern Mediter- fought the Chinese many years ranean outposts of the Truman ego. Saigon itselt was quiet, and Doctrine.
1 police
took no special precautions The treaty also covers commer-against possible elal exchanges and complement-ne sable bomb throwers.
reports ary Judicial practice.
Catholic priests in the territory period covered by the held by the Viet Minh rebels have trenly to be signed tomorrow has been restricted to not been stated..
been restricted to their villages
Vietminh
und
The
Mr. Sadak will stay for three days in Rome before going on to Paris next Monday.----Reuter.
PROMOTION FOR CHINESE MINERS
San, Francisco, March 23... More than 5,000 minors in Stato Collieries in Manchuria
have became trade union func= tionaries or administrative wor- kers during the past three years, according to Peking Radio to night.
:
It added, "This, among other similar examples, indicates tha the Government's policy of 'rely ing on the working class is being fully implemented 2. p
Most of the promoted workers are said to' have had a period of training in technical schools. - Reuter.
POPE RECEIVES JAPANESE
(Nationalist insur-
gents) guerlitas launched violent
Staff
loader, M. Sophoclos Venizelos, was sworn in
by King Paul tonight,
M. Venĺzélos, leader of the| second largest party to emerge
from the March 5 elections
decided that he would present
FLOOD MENACE
an all-Liberal Ust of Ministers IN AUSTRALIA
to the King.
The list not yet completed- ns approved by the King con tained only che non-Liberal Party Minister, M. Panayotis Canele- poulds, Union Party leader, who was named Minister of Deferico and Vice-Premier.
Cabinet under 24 Venizelos as
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Melbourne, March 23.
Political strike
TRUCULENT AT
***SHEERNESS
Sheerness, March 23.
January with the loss of 64 lives after a collision with the Swedish stomer Diving, was berthed hero today.
Labour Members èxpressed the unofficial opinion chat tho Queensland shipping disputo-was not an economle strike'in 'a đèn The submarine Truculent, aunk pressed industry. Labour had in the Thames Estuary last given the watersiders all kinds of good' conditions,
these
ob- servers said, but they persisted in Industrial netion.
They felt that the strike was political and that there would not be any whole hearted ros sponse from the trade union movement to Communist appeals
for assistance.
The Brisbane shipping strike began in Sydney in January and has since spread to other Aus tralian ports.
Strikes la_the_rich coalfields of Northern New South Wales dur ing the past three weeks have threatened a crisis in the Aus- tralian steel Industry
Tramwaymen in Victoria haye Floods in large areas of Newbeen on strike since, February 22 South Wales have forced thou- in support of their demand for sands of people to evacuate higher wages.—Reuter, their homes and many more are preparing to do so as the post- POLICE STONED tion threatens to become worse
IN FRANCE during the next 48 hours.
Roanne, March 23. Fifteen policemen were injured, two of them seriously, and 23 about 1,500 people tried to 'pre- vent tanks and other war mater
als being taken from the arsenal
station to the railway
Roanne, Central France.
A crowd gathered in response. to Communist leaflets and threw stones at police and Republican Security Guards.Reuter.
The other members of the new
Prime Minister are: "Interior: M. Pausanius Natbotus. Finance: M. Continuous heavy rains have Phokian Zaimis. Press: M. Gre-
caused rivers to overflow gorlds Cassimatis. Education: M. burst their banks, isolating se-arrests were made today when George Athanassiado-Vas. Com-etal small
Towns munications: M. Evatethios Mala-
midaa. Hygiene and Welfare: M. Dimitrios Glavants. Supply: M. Dimitrios Continas.
the
attacks against French posts 15 miles North of Salgon yesterday
a French Army morning, communique
› announced today,
The new Cabinet's first state French control
ment came tonight from sent out reinforcements and forced
posts
Press Minister, M. Cassimatis, the Vietminh
who said: "In presenting itself troops, to retire after
to Parliament; if the new Cabinet the complete failure of their
receives a vote of confidence, it operations, the communique said.
will ossers its value and accord- The French forecs reported one dead and two injured, but the attackers carried away numerous. dead and wounded when they re- tired, the communique added, tako over the Government as a Observera 'believe that the party was a breach of an agree- generally increased Vietminhment among the four
major activity indicates that the long-parties that they would form promised Vietminh counter- Centre Coalition offensive is in the offing,
Mistrust of Bao
In Paris the authoritaive after- noon paper "Le Mondo" reperind that the Iniportant Catholic element. In Indo-China mistrusts the French-sponsorod· Bat":"
US
ingly will consider its future
etion."
The move of the Liberals
to
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In the still incomplete alea. tion, returns--delayed "1 píöstly by the Arniy · Votomina Li- borals have so far only 41 ́put of the 250 seata in Parliament, traling behind M. Constantin Teajdaria's Popullata by 10 spátu. Observers expect the new Pre- mier will soon add leiders from They drew this conclusion from other parfles tp.his: Cabinet. There are 3,000,000 Catholics the Premier's failure to enlist
***] his own party. In the new Gov- "Le
eriment.
Gent, recognlied
Britala and the
Volican City-March-23. Popa Plus recived in a special, Japanese audience
Kora and Augustine Kinayama, former Secretary of the Japanesć Embassy to the Holy See Jalted Proas."
Woman Senator Tomiko Wads among the 33.900
GOVERNMENT'S MAJORITY UP
the
Toome of the lending members of
- le japontrover- ---
**Mondo”: sald-kragently, theil Diplomatie quartors were as
tible
majority of the Cathblick have tobished by the solution of the
shawng
von Fought
Cabinet problem, anying that an favourable: amberroz, almost, all-Liberal Government 4998423 LNIy responds to the wishes of the electorate, which gave the Bab Dal, the four major parties only allabtly
Varying afport on March
London, March 23 me
The Labour Government won
in the House of Commons ton
Cathulle
Bas Dat is a Buddhist, but his politeness for polifon wice in a Culbolle,stimates Parfaitemängde mulörm "VCabin
There are: 400, Galhollo smile. I'vogret that the other-
#prieste
or
Three hundred men, women and children waded in darkness through surging flood waters section from their hordes when of the Browy River broke its Banks and Inundated flat farm lands in the Gippsland district.
at
| Police and volunteers in boats
Luebeck, March 23. The German authorities here! worked throughout the night to
Many refugees, carry, scores of people to safety. tonight discounted reports that trapped by the Russians have prepared for rising waters, lighted fires on V-weapons" manopuvres fo. the hids to attract the attention of Baltle next mouth. They had
heard nothing like this, Reuter. rescuers.-Reuter."-
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