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VITAL WESTERN TALKS OPEN Bandit area in Malaya attacked Taiwan

Two women killed in landslide

Two Chinese woman work-

ers were buried or or two tona of earth while working on a vacant lot near Kow loon City yesterday afternoon.

One of them was killed in- stantly

and the other died while being taken to the Kowloon Hospital.

The

coldent happened in Bai Tau village.

It is balleved that the aud

den landslide was due to the recent rainfall.

Red buyers

seek cargo in Colony

France asks

asks U.S. for aid in Indo-China

MEETING IN PARIS

Paris, May 8.

France opened a momentous series of Western Big Three talks to- day with a request for American aid in fighting the $500,000,- 000 a year war against Communist led rebels in French Indo- China.

The French Foreign Minister, M. Robert Schuman

Chinese Communist repreThe Bentatives, who recently arriv

ed in Hong Kong, were rell- ably reported yesterday to be prepared to buy HK$20,000,- 000 worth of petrol, steel plates and Denicillin and sulpha drugs.

asked the United States for financial and material help to wage the campaign in the Far Eastern hot spot. The request was under- stood to have failed at. the first meeting of the Western Foreign Ministers.

U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, called on M. Schuman at the Foreign Office to start talks aimed at checking the global surge of Communism,

union retaining only some diplo- matie Hinks like the British Cum- monwealth, or whether America is being asked to foot the bull for French colonial conquest.

So far President Truman has promised $18,000,000 for Indo- China from a $75,000,000 fund_ap- propriated by Congress to help stem Communism in the Fai East.

French statesmen complain bitterly that such aid is too little

more 'ald, and pro- mptly, may result in a Com-

In return for any American of the Foreign Office, and M. and too slow. They say fallurd help in Indo-China, France Herve Allphand, Economie Di-to provide promised

on

The Communist buyers were

independence for rector. The

Paris meetings will be munist victory in Indo-Chion-- Vietnam and other Indo-Chin- reported to have already pur-

followed by Big Three sessions in opening the way for 'Red domina- chased 100,000 vials of penicillin çae states. The move is cal-

London starting

Lion of Thailand, Burma and the and shipped the consignment to culated to counter Communist when the British Foreign Secre-

Thursday Malayan peninsula. Canton by rail late last week. appeals to Indo-Chinese

confer- Sources close to the tory Mr. Ernest Bevin, Joins Mr. According to. reliable sources, nationalism.

Acheson and M. Schuman in dis-nces expressed doubt that any the stockpiling of these products

to map out the fight Mr. Acheson's visit here..

Aral decision will be reached on Mr. Acheson's reaction was not cussions is for the coming invasion of the Nationalist-held Chusan Islands.

disclosed. But he was understood against Communism. A shipping official naid yes to believe the United States can- terdny that steel plutes could be not give France additional aid uned by the Communista by now even though American for. attaching the plates to wooden elgn polley

makers consider. It junks, thereby offering a measure necessary. to secure that of protection to troops from small against Communism. calibre Are.

arca

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A Dalmier armoured car of "A" Bquadron, 4th Hussars road 'patrol walid" for 25-pounder guns of 17th Field Battory, Royal Artillery, to finish, Bring concentration on a bandit,ārds near Broga, South Belangor. The attack, begun by Royal Air Force planes was also assisted by mortars of the 1st Battalion, Buffolk Regiment (AP Photo).

LIE URGES EFFORTS

TO END THE COLD WAR

Mr.

In the first place, any grants Mr. Acheson's meeting with เ M. Schuman today was reporter a free the already ap- propriated $70,000,000 would have ed, to deal primarily with Indo

The to get Congressional approval. Chine, adds Associated Press. Secondly, Big Three talks open in The French have been fighting London on Thursday and Britain stalomated Jungle war there undoubtedly would have to be #ince 1945 against the guerilla consulted because Mr. Acheson and M. Schuman

of her stakg The large shipments of pent-talked privately for half an hour foroes Moscow-tral Ho

Malaya, Singapore and Hong cillin and sulpha drugs are in M. Schuman's ofice, then chi minh

Kong. being consigned to the People's went into a round table session Army Medlent Corps.

their advisers. with

The mor-

F

The U.S. Secretary of State met M. Schuman armed with the ap-

The Peking buyers have been ning ww devoted to discussionsparently frm U.S. Government purchasing these products In on the Far East. small quantities. in the Colony,

huping to keep "the prices from Momentous

rising.

was reported that the buyers

hope to complete their purchases by the ent of May.

con

signments are due for immediate conferences

shipment by rail to Canton. From Canton, the goods are trans--

shipped to the

Yangtse Gren

The momentous Western con-

conviction that Bas Dal, the

Defence of

fretien sponsored ruler of the Western Europe

Into-China states, "of Vietnam,

niust be made a more valid sym- bol of opposition to Còminunism.

To ask for

presumably the jumping-off place ferences which may decide the assurances

for the Chusan Invasion,

future peace of the world started Following North China cities, at the French Foreign Office at Cantort was

reported yesterday 0900 GAT

(6 p.m.

HK time)

I have placed an import ban when Mr. Acheson, accompanied by Mr. K. E. Bruce, United States in ECA administrator for France,

on caustic sodn.

This chemical has fallen price by more. than 300 per called on M. Schuman,

wald

Diplomatie Informants Mr. Acheson will ask M. Schu. man for curaneae that stopn toward indeperdance, will be _taken_as_fast_a_sho_guerilla. war allows.

Geneva, May. 8.

Trygve. Lio, United Nations Secretary-General, now in Switzerland on his way to Moscow, ́declared here today that 1950 was the year. of decision for the world. ·

Mr. Lie time had come to end the cold wor. told the opening of the Third World Health Assembly: "We cannot meet this challenge successfully at the snail's pace of today. We cannot meet it by half-way measures. We connot postpone it until a more convenient time. "The Challenge is here and now. The time has coms för all who work for peace and believe in peace to join in new efforts to bring the cold war to an end,

The maln purpose of Mr. Acheson's visit to London to-

"It must be admitted that morrow is to press for the inte- the immediate prospects do gration, of British arms, money not seem encouraging. Never- and men in the defence of West-theless, we should not delay ern Europe, the "Dully. Express". declared today, states a Reuter report from London.

Tho

newspaper

In an

the search for a way out of tho

present impasse. "Undoubtedly, it will take time aditorial: The

do- project of ond patience and much explora- fence co-ordination would be tion to bring about a reduction of welcomed if it were likely to tensions and to set the world once result in greater security for, more on the United Nations road Britsin. But-it-is-not--)

|-to-peuce," "Closer communion with the

Lia

Mr.

want on:

"The supreme challenge la presentad by that great majority of the population of the world, numel bering more than 1,600,000,000, whose paverty, hunger and in- sscurity must be substantially remedied if they are not to ra-i sult in new and disastrous up- heavale.

KMT agents arrested

in Canton

More than 250 sazrat agents of the Nationalists during have been arrested the past four months in Canton, selda "New China News Agency" "massage" you

ones report added that in the same period more than 400 Nations agenta gave themselves up to the authorities and, promised to lead a new lifec

it was also "that"

the Canton authorities valzed. 19. wireless recòiving-traña: mitting radiɔ eats; 102 r. volvers and automatic pistols, 79,500 rounda ‘of ammunition and nearly 100 cattles of Ox- plosives in the same period.

John Sherman Cooper, and unien which links metropolitan [that, Mr. Acheson's pressure must mon possible way of achievments In the Hving conditions of commander of the

rice for Red China

Talpeh, May, 8. Five thousand 32-pound bags of rice were loaded aboard 10 Nationalist planes in Taipe:: today for the first airdrop of relief supplies to the farine- stricken Red China mainland.

The planes will take of during the night to minimise chances, of Inte

by the Communtet

Until they return from their the localities in which the Is to be dropped will be kebt secret.

Alt

Each bag of rice is contamed in, another bigger bag a

Ite contents would not disperse ove

the countryside If the Inner Envelope

bursts in landing.

bags aro made out of grey sheeting turned out by volunteert working in Madame Chiang Kai- rick's Anti-Communist and Anti- Sevlet Association.

Lendets attached to the baga safd other airdrops would follow. Thoy enjoined famine sufferers to be patient and quoted the sny... ing, "the darkest hour is befoxe the dawn.Associated Press.

Withdrawal of recognition suggested

London, May 8. Mr. Ernest Davies, Foreign Affairs Under-Secretary, re- fused a suggestion, in Parla-

today ment

that Britain, should consider withdrawing per recognition of the new Communist regime in China.

Mr. Leonard Gemmans (Con- servative) had urged this because of the lack of reciprocity" by China and the continued dificul- ties British commercial interests were meeting with in Shanghai,

Mr. Davies replied briefly, "No."

Mr. Gammans asked how long was going to ac-

themomen-meant instifta..

cept

to us, In view of the damage this "premature recognition" had dorio in. Malays.

Mr. Davies, did not answer. Router.

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