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HOUSE OF COMMONS TO DEBATE DEFENCE

London, July 18.' ·

The Government intends to hold a defence debate in the House of Com- mons on Wodnesday next wook-but it will resist a demand from Mr. Winston Churchill, loader of the Opposition, for a socret session, informed political quartors said tonight, Both the Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, and Mr. Churchill will toke part in the debate, in which attention will concentrate on Korea.

REVERSE FOR REDS`

Sydney, July 10, Labour moderates tonight accused the Communist-con- trolled executive of the Seamen's Union of fraud in a sensational rank and file vote on a resolution against the Korean war.

Union Right Wingers charged that the seamen's Red executive had attempted to deceive rank and file members into believing that their vote today in oli major Australian ports on the wordy anti-Korcan war resolution

ratifed the ban on arms ship- ments to Korça, But J. Connor, non-Communist secretary of the Brisbane branch, said the exeru- live met here over the week-end and secretly lifted the ban.

The Federal Secretary, E. V. Elliott, refused to confrm deny Mr. Connor's statement. Earlier, Mr. Elliott had claimed the resolution was adopted by a majority of several hundred but tonight Sydney offelals question- ed his clairn.

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Unofficial but reliable figures Indicated nationwide vale #galust the resolution. The Aus- tralian Press been led to be-

lieve the resolution contained an embargo on handling shipments of arms to Korea, Veteran labour sald the tricky pro- reporters paganda manoeuvre, which rocked Australian union circles, had resulted in one of the worst rebuffs Communist unionists had suffered in Australia since Government smashed the paraly- sing coal strike last year. By secretly lifting the embargo, the three Communists

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arms

on the four-man Union executive

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Britain's reply to the quest of Mr. Trygve Llc, Unit- ed Nations' Secretary-General, to contribute ground forces for Korea will be decided soon and an announcement made in Parliament. -

The War Minister, Mr. John Strachey, was bombarbed by Conservatives in the House about the state of Britain's defences.

He declined, however, to give any information on preparations to deal with guided missiles and discuss any "short declined to term measures

When it wils suggested that the Home Guard volunteer force should be re-formed he did not reply.

Plans ready

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The Minister of Labour, George for Isaacs, said Britain's plans calling up its armed forces in an international emergency rendy to operate at any time, He declined to give the House any details, however, because he con- in the sitlered it would not be public interest at this juncture,

Mr. Isuacy made his statement in response to a question from J. M. Boyd-Carpenter (Cons.).

tho. Air Force. ners

Military plan- have considered Western Europe the principal defence a against any Russian thrust,

Bir Guy charged that the long- ranging RAF Coastal Command, which helped defeat Hitler's suc- cessful submarine blockade of the island, had been permitted to become a shadow of ita once powerful force and many of the plants are antiquated.

"Не blasted announcements which Indicated that Britain was developing one of

the world's lending oir forces, well supplied with the latest jet eralt, He charged that plans to strengthen RAF squadrons with

the latest jet fighters would not bo com- pleted for more than a year,

Development of four-engined jet bombers was lagging and Bri- tish engineers, who had built some of the best planes of World War 11, were drifting into other industries.

"Alarming" was an inadequate word to describe the

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condition

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1930.

Infantry @division for

the Far East

Tacoma, Washington,

July 18,

Troops of the crack Becond Infantry Division boarded troop transports this wesk for transfer to the For Exxt Command, The troops were mostly fuzzy-cheeked young. sters." The fodian-hand patches on their shoulders and all other identifying Insignia

stripped

off, smited and there was littla

grumbling.

Faw

But ona staff sergeant summad the spirit of his

up man "They don't complain." Although warlime security shrouded the time of depar ture and the destination of the troopships, the men were pretty certain of where they were going,—United Press.

ALLEGED PLOT IN PRAGUE

were

Prague, July 18. Twenty-two people reported on trial today for an alleged plot to seize the President and overthrow the Communist-led Government with

of

Czechoslovakia Western help.

of the Royal Air Force and he told newsmen the RAF had ser- lous deficiencies and that a sub- marine menace "could bring us matter of our knces Fin weeks."

"In a grave and deteriorating | Youth Union International situation, our air defences are scriously deficient. undor

full Three

months ago, with

des- adjusted sense of responsibility, we circumscribed the state.

our defence as alarming. Today even that Mr. Boyd-Carpenter suggested wjective is inadequate."-Reuter that Mr. Isaacs should give the Associated Press and United public seme idea of the arrange- Press, ments, broad terms, in order number of that the very large people affected may have idea of where their duties would lie in an emergency.

He said "The call-up ar-

kept rangements aro constant review and from time to time as tances change."

some

Mr. Isaacs replied that he did not agree.

Torritorial army

The War Minister, John

NEW TYPE OF HUMAN BEINGS?

Liverpool, July 18.

COLONY MAY SEND TROOPS TO KOREA WAR

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Singapore, July 18,

Military sources here. suggest that if a British Army contingent wore urgently requested by General Douglas MacArthur for use in Korea, troops would be sent from Hong Kong. According to rumours here, o British contingent might comprise a Scots battalion from Hong Kong (probably the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders), the First Battalion, Scots Guards (now chasing guerillas in the Johore jungles) and a Canadian Army battalion, reported to be mobilising at Vancouver. Battalions from Hong Kong, they included several members of itself potentially menaced by

the British Commonwealth and the Chinese Communist Army,

Latin American countries. - could be replaced by battalions

Reuter. from Singapore and Malaya.

Eight Brillah Infantry batta- loss in Singapore could be ready to embark for Korea within 48 hours if so ordered, high military sources sald.

It is obvious that British contingent, probably a brigade group, should be sent to Kores, The a sonlor Staff Officer sald. question where from?"

He added that an American nows aßeney roport that a quali- fied London informant had hinted that Britain was likely to send ground troops to help the hard- Pressed G.1's had touched off a wave of rumours among British troops.

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Most would be glad to get out of the Jungle "bashing" to do some real fighting against a real chemy on the side of their war- time comrades, he said.

The Prague "Mlada Fronta," paper sald the group was being tried by a State Court in Moravska-Ostrava, Northern Moravia. It reported the accused included "reactionary Some milliary observers here Army officers, civilians and at considered more likely that least four security policemen, British troops would be sent aid "Minda frora the Middle East, where, The indictment, sald Fronta," charged all with

plot. they sald, the present commit ting to destroy the People's De-ments were less actively onerous. mocratic regime" and to prevent Communist President Klement Gottwald from corrying out his dutics.

It accused some also, the paper sald, of spying for State secrets "with the aim of betraying them to a foreign ́power."

"Bilada Franta" sold the group President planned to arrest the and Cabinet members and cut with the telephone connections

side-stepped an open challenge | Strachey, Was cross-examined

A Church of England Bis-Soviet Union. to the Government to prosecute by several apposition M.P.s. on under the terms of the Australian

the readiness of Britain's anti-hop speculated today that crimes act. Today's resolution aircraft defences. Others wanted future medical research will criticised the Government's des- to know whether be is worried try to produce new types of

about the role of voluntary FC human beings. patch of arms to Koren.

cruitment for the Territorial

Labour leaders wald rejection of the resolution by scamen in Sydney, Adelaide and Newcastla enhanced the drive by moderates to expel Communist officials. No vote was taken in Melbourne, where the mecting ended in an uproar.- United Press.

TIN, WOLFRAM FOR RUSSIA

Soviet Russia apparently is getting supplies of strategic tin and wolfram ore which China formerly shipped to the United States and other world buyers. The official New China News Agency claimed that tin and wolfram production in South Chian-has-Increased sharply in recent months. The U.S. Depart ment of Commerce, however, said wolfram supplies from Com- munist-occupied China have now ceased. Stocks in Hong Kong are very low.

Since China is not equipped to smelt tin wolfram, it seems evident the ore is being shipped to Russia, which under a bilateral trade pact is to get supplies of non-ferrous minerals from China. Wolfram is the ore from which tungsten, essential in the manu- facture of armour plate and ar- maments, is made-United Press.

Indonesians capture Buru

Jakarta, July 18. The Indonesian Defence Ministry announced the cap- ture of Buru Island from the rebellious "Republic of South Moluccas" today.

It said Federal troops covered by Navy corvettes went ashore on July 14 and two days later the chief town, Namlea. entered the and completed the occupation of the Island,

Buru is a jumping off place for. Ambolna, key island of the 11 week old revolt. Buru is 60 miles East of Amboina.

A brief official statement said part of the rebel army on Buru Was captured and the occupation force was "joyously" welcomed.

-Associated Press.

LABOUR SCRAPES

THROUGH

London, July 18. The Labour Government had a majority of only nine in the House of Commons tonight when the Conservatives challenged its running of the £30,000,000 East African groundnuts scheme.

An Opposition motion to "out money supplies to the Ministry of Food by 25a traditional way

Army

L. D. Gummons (Cons) asked Mr. Strachdy if, in view of the deteriorating International situa tion, he planned any special efforts to hasten recruiting in the Territorials,

Military units and B factory multin were to be used in the military commanders were to uprising, the newspaper sald, and

political

put over "some towns where the Dr. E. W. Barnes, the Bishop arrest and liquidation of

Bome of Birmingham, said in a sermon milltary loaders and before the British Medical As-figures was intended.". sociation in Liverpool Cathedral;

It is already clear that possi- bly the most important medical research of the future will be the elimination genetic any

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ECA AID TO SOUTH KOREA

Washington, July 18. Purchases of food, fuel and other

supplies totalling $6,000,000 have been furnish- ed to South Korea since the start of the Red Invasion from the North, the Economic Co-operation Administration reported today.

The U.S. foreign aid agency disclosed that it has merged its operations in Koren with those of the Armed Forces and is pre- pared to finance purchases of up to $38,000,000 in maintaining the civilian economy of the embat- The Malayan Government is tied Republle. known to oppose any reduction

Dr.

J. Edgar A. Johnson, of the military strength here on

Director of ECA's Korean pro- the grounds that this would in- Creese Chinese Communist gue-number of ECA technical experts gramme, said that a Aiznable rilla activity in the country.

London damper

A War Office spokesman in London today rofused to sup

by port the suggestion meds high military quartors Singapore that British troops would be sunt to Korea from Singapore and Hong Kong. Field-Marshal

Sir Slim, Chief of

are now in Korea to help main- tain vital civilan activities, and others will bo assigned needed.

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Dr. Johnson reported that the specialists are helping such prob- lems as transportation, power, communications, food

and finances, They #re directed Arthur C.

William

General Staff, said in Singapore Burice, Chief of the ECA Mission

from Tokyo by Dr. the Imperial оп July 3 that British

troops to Korea, would not be sent to Korea from

Supplies are being purchased Malaye, the War Office spokes-in Japan in co-ordination with man stated.

General Douglas headquarters,

MacArthur's

Dr. Johnson reported that 18 vessels with Korea-bound car- goes were diverted to safo des- tinations on the outbreak of hos- tilities, and all supplies en route have

rerouted to ports where they will not fall into Communist hands. Associated Press.

The newspaper wald the

But political observers pelnied cused planned to seize the Os- trava radio station and broad-out that at Karachi, on his return cast instructions for an uprising journey to Britain, Sir William was asked about suggestion throughout Czechoslovakia. "It is the polley of my Depart-concerned with

They also intended, it said, to

that American troops might take ment to do everything possible from human stocks of to encourage voluntary recruiting defects and with the production broadcast an appeal for foreign the place of some of the British

intervention to military Mr.of human types finor ifian

been the troops in Asia to enable the latter for the Territorial Army,"

United States, British and French that have hitherto appeared,

to go to Korea. Strachey replied,

Embassies in Prague. "I foresee a time coming when of men with World War II ex- the great geneticist will be sc- the leading perience to help continue the cepted as one of training of these reserve forces. agents of

of Christian progress. Mr. Strachey

the contested

"Such a changed outlook be- view that National Servicemen longs, very likely, to the far dis (conscripts) were unsuitable in tant future but sa rapid has been the campaign against the Com-the growth of knowledge the munist guerillas in Malaya, making of new world

may be

He wanted to stress the need

A Labour member, Mr. Ruy-more speedy than we expect." mond ---Blackburn, had- urged Dr. Barnica-created-a-stir-in special volunteer forco for the religions world last year by Malaya of people experienced in urging sterilisation of the unfit Commando and similar opera- and mercy death for defective tions in the last war.

babies, Associated Press.

Properly trained, they would be much more effective, he said. Korea had shown that young conscripts were not the best to use at that stage of wor,

Not unsuitable

PISHAN TAKEN

London, July 18. The Chinese "People's Libera- Hon Army" has taken Pishon Island, off the Cheklang coast and Mr. Strachey said he did not cleared it of Kuomintang troops, take the view that National according to a New China News Servicemen had proved unsuit-Agency despatch received in Lon able for the war in Maluya. From don tonight.

Malays in May, he took a very different view,

"Mlada Fronta" said the group of plotters was organised by Jan Buchal, former member of the Security Force executed on June 27 for high treason and espion- age,

convicted on such charges.-As- Buchal was one of 13 people

sociated Press.

ETHIOPIA AND ERITREA

Washington, July 18.

A diplomatic official cald today that the Italian delegation at the United Nations understood that the idea of federation between Eritrea and Ethiopia was still in its very early stages

The delegation had been pre- pared to consider special political and economic ties between Eri- trea and Ethiopia,

He answered that there would be administrative difficulties, but he did not regard the suggestion as an impossible one.

A number of Governments aro now engaged in active conversa- tions with American officials lo Washington about the possibili- ties of making greater contribu- tions to the United Nations war effort in Korea, a United Nations 'spokesman" at Lake" Success"sald today.

He declined to name the coun- tries, but it was undertood that

McCARTHY CIRCUS

AT AN END

Washington, July 18. The Senato Foreign Relations Committee. voted unanimously today to end the investigation of the charges made by the Re

Mr. Any suges publican Senator,

Joseph tion for federation should bo McCarthy, about Communists In considered most carefully by the the American Government. delegation, especially if it should

The Democrat majority of a bo the lines of the present sub-committee, in д repart, relationship between the Nether branded the accusations a fraud lands and Indonesia or France and a hoax. and Indo-China, The delegation The full committee, at what could not give its views until a was described ALS DAO of its concrete federation plan was stormiest, sessions, also, voted by to the Committee aine to two to send the report the following morning, the dearienling with this matter.Taited of the sub-committee majority patch added-Reutor."

Press.

to the Senate-Reuter."

such personal observations as ho Four hundred Kuomintang could make when he visited and 50 killed.en were captured

A unit of the "People's Libera

Army" launched an am- Earlier, Mr. Strachey, replying tien to a question, said that some phibious attack on Pishan Island 4,500 National Servicemen called which lies about 50 miles North up under the 1948 National Ser-Eust of Wenchow port during vice Act had been sent to Malaya the evening of July 15 and landed submitted between Junuary 1, 1940, and May 31, 1950,

Slace May, 1940, it had boon the rule that National Service- men must serve four and a half months before being sent to Malaya. The average period was slightly higher. National Servicemen must continue to be sent abroad to the extent that Britain's commitments made it. necessary, he said.

Mr. Ella Smith, Labour, who had raised the matter, said that some boys of 10, just finished training for three months, were now on draft leave before going to Malaya and Hong Kong.

An undertaking WAR given during the passing of the 1948

Act through Parliament that no boy under 18 would be sent ab- read. During the war na boy under 10 was sent abroad, ha de- claredi

Mr. Strachey did not know they were being sent to Malaya after three months' training. The rulo was four and half months. II Mr. Eilf Smith knew of any case where this rule had not been' followed ho would like to bear about it,

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of forcing, a vote in some types of Air Marshal's warning! debate was defeated by 200 votes to 200.

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Air Chief Marshat Sir duy The Opposition were not satis-Carrod, air ace in World War II, fled with an announcement, by warned that the present Royal the Food Minister, Mr. Maurice Air Force probably would; bo Webb, that the scheme was to be blasted from the sclés pinda realistically modified.

how "Battle of

......... Plans for this were being pre- pared, he told the "House" and were expected to be ready by Late October-Beuter,

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Air Marshal Gary USA bed

up criticisms of tha: HAF" that have been browing here since the Korean War and ferolled. thain at

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