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A fast airlift of sick and wounded from Korea, which enables soldiers to get smooth trip from the front- lincs to well-equipped hos pitals in Japan in the time it would take a jeep to drive them over bumpy roads to a field hospital, has "saved countless lives," the FEAF commanding general, Lieute nant-General George E Stratemeyer, pointed out to day,

medicine.

UNITED NATIONS

Lake Success, October 7,

India is travelling a lonely road in the United Na-

tions in a unique effort to promote peaco~~ 'and remain friendly with everybody. Her cautious, careful approach easily lays her open to charges of tightrope walking and fence straddling.

But her delegates deny India is trying to withdraw into sheltered noutrality. Indian policy, they maintain, is the difficult one of “independent judgment“ aimed at the hope of keeping one door open for mediation in, the East-West struggle.

India wants to be that open door. So far there have been no callers, but Indian delegates suggest the day may

medlator is needed when a with a record of independence.

come

Chief delegate Sir Benegal Rau summed up his country's position this way in a UN debate:

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Uneasy feeling in Darwin

Darwin, Australia,

October B. An uneasy feeling prevails in this vulnerable "backdoor" 'area of Australia.

Eight years ago the Japanese threatened the virtually unpro

expansion programme, they say, is aimed at the domestic market. Nevertheless, it is true that India tected wide open spaces of the is one of the strongest supporters Northern Territory and Queens- of Communist China's member-land. Darwin still bears scors ship in the United Nations.-As- of World War II inflicted by Ja-

panese bombers. sociated Press.

Agreement

on control of the Nile

But apart from much planning, Re- little has been done since. cently the Minister for Fuel and Shipping, Mr. George McCleuy, made a flying trip through New Guinea and the goping Northern territory of Australia.

McCleay said what impressed him most about the Northern Territory was the frightening ex- tent to which it had been neglect- ed. He called the railways) pre- historie. Darwin wharf facilities,

"During the last few months India has tried her best, at the cost of some inisunderstanding, to exercise, a a restraining influence An official force retense carry on all concerned and to prevent ing his statement added that the the Korean conflict from spread- hospital airlift as a morale boos-ing. In the interests of peace my ter is almost as good as a doctor's delegation must do nothing like-

ly to diminish our effectiveness.

This polley has led India to vote

Cairo, October 8. with the Soviet bloe one day and

Half a century of politicale added, had to be seen to be with the West another. It has led her to abstain frequently, But, squabbling Has ended here her delegates argue, it also has with an international agree- kept. her from being kentinedment for the control of the with either bloc and has built up her stature as virtually the lone "Independent" in the 40-nation organisation.

General Stratemeyer said 17,000 patients, were airlifted since the start of the Korean hostilities but only four died during the fight, and none in an alr accident. How- ever, one flight nurse and two medical technicians lost their lives on nerey flights.

The FEAF

coinmander paid tribute to the devotion of airlift personnel "through their efforts

medical surgeons, physicians, technicians, fight nurses, atten- dants and air plane crews-count- less of lives undoubtedly have been saved and all have been spared pain and discomfort through flights

of few hours length compared to days by rail or ship."

Mediation offensive

opened her mediation India offensive in the current General Assembly by proposing a new

Big Four Foreign Ministers conference, the first since the 1947 London session that split East and West.

Said Sir Benegal, in proposing the talks:

upper waters of the river Nile in North East Africa.

The project may change the lives of millions of people and bring thousands of square miles of dead land to life in the next 20 years:

The first word of the plan was given by the Egyptian Minister of Works, Mr. Osman Moharram Pasha, when he announced that Egypt, Britain and Ethiopia had agreed on the construction of a dam at Lake Tana, the source of the Blue Nile in Ethiopia.

believed.

Military establishments built under the whip and spur of the feared Japanese invasion once accommodated 120,000 troops on

the Atherton Tableland in North Queensland. Surplus disposal sales have practically wiped them out,

The Mareeba

fighter and bomber airstrips, 50 miles West of Cairas, used by American planes taking off for the Coral Sen battle, are losing a hopeless the encrouching fight against Jungle.

Indonesian Premier Sockarno's repeated demands for Dutch New Guinea have given Australians much further South the jitters. Occupation by Indonesian forces of the Aru Islands only 400 miles from Darwin, Increased nervous

The statement said the air force

"Perhaps such discussions have made a fine record in World War

not been very frutiful in the past. II in hospital evacuatons but the record and magnitude

the They may fall again. But the at- is worth making. Even if operation in this war is on a

nothing else came of them, the much larger scale and even more

Ministers could at least reaffirm commendable.

jointly what each of their coun- tries has already armed separ- alely in signing the charter, namely that they would settle all their international disputes by

this need

steps could follow. there might be an

tension. of

"jeeping" The release said wounded to fleld hospitals would take an hour but hellcopters and light planes do it in five minutes.

This project. with similar schemes on, the main Nile in the Sudan and the White Nile in Uganda, is expected to start with- in the next six months, bringing a promise of immense benefits to the life and economy of several

Countries.

He favours

McCleay said he is convinced it is impossible to run the Northern Territory, Queensland and West- ern Australia from Canberra- 2,000 miles away. more local authority.

Development of the meat in- dustry is the first important step gineers have claimed that tin de- posits in the far North compare

Maving them by ship from Pusan peaceful mea not be the only and the Sudan, hydro-electric to be expected. Also, mining en

to Southern Japan take 10 hours but a combat cargo plane does it.

Other example,

It will mean life-giving irriga- tion and flood protection in Egypt power for Ethiopia and Uganda, while in Uganda electricity would

In one hour. The trip to the Unitexchange of good will missions, replace wood fuel now used in favourably in size and richness ed States home for those requir-whether official or unofficial, be- cotton spinning, sugar, refining with the great alluvial deposits

ing long convalescence from 15 days to 27 hours.

is cut

It said almost as good as the prompt medical attention in re- covery is the lift of morale. When wounded men are told they are going to fly from Tokyo to near their home towns and will see their families in two or three days, their joy is almost as good as all of the doctor's medicine. United Press.

TYPHOON, FLOOD RELIEF

tween the countries concerned. And then, as the result, further stops might suggest themselves until the whole atmosphere was cleared."

The Indian proposal was un- successful. The French Foreign Minister Mr. Robert Schuman, summed up the Western view:

You cannot talk to Russia as long as she keeps building fifth columns behind your back while they are talking. The Soviets have not shown they were aware of the proposal.

The Indians made another

mediation attempt during the Korean debate in the Assembly's 60 nation Political Committee. They suggested West and East draft a compromise solution for peace in Korea. The separate pro-- posals of the Russians and the West had both good and bad points, Sir Benegal said, and India felt she could not vote for either.

His compromise suggestion was

voted down..

Manila, October 9. Red Cross relief workers are intensifying their efforts to aid victims of the flood, caused by the swollen Pam- panga River in the province

Ulterior motiya? of that name in the wake of the recent Luzon typhoon, as Some critics of Indian polley threats of epidemics develop-say the newly sovereign nation of 337,000,000 people has the long ed.

range alm of becoming the major economic power in Asia and is treading a cautious path so as not to alienate prospective custo- mers, Communist as well as non-

The Pampungn River, which swept out of its banks after the collapse of a dyke, claimed four more lives and has caused mil- lions of pesos' worth of damageCommunist. to crop lands, properties and com- mercial fish ponds in Pampanga province, according to inte re- borts reaching the Red Cross in Manila.

i.

The latest casualties boosted the toll in dead and missing as a result of the typhoon and floods in Central and Northern Luzon to 30. Of these, 14 were dead or missing in the Pampanga River's rampage alone,

The Pampanga authorities ap- pealed to National Health officials

Indians say no evidence backs this view. India's vast Industrial

here for precautionary medical measures against epidemies.

Up to the present, direct ald has been extended by the Philip- pine National Red Cross to 0,800 people, representing more than 1.200 families in Pampanga pro vince who have become victims of the flood. Total food victims in this area and in Bulacan, Province are estimated at more than 20,000.

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tin, of Malaya. In addition to iron, wolfram, zine, lead, bauxite, antimony, coal, copper, silver and other minerals exist In paying quantities in the undeveloped up- per half of Australia,

"Development of this area is Egypt and the Anglo-Egyptian task to appeal to the Imagination Sudan will be able to make use and practical sense of all Aus- of the stored waters all through tralians who are not prepared to the year. This will enable them admit defeat and yield their own to regulate agriculture and dis-country tribute an increasing population the to newly reclaimed and cultivated Press. areas,

Though the great Nile Rows mostly through Egypt and the Sudan, its source the Blue Nile- los in Ethiopia, surrounded by the colonial territories of Britain. France and Italy.

In the Anglo-Ethiopian treaty of 1902, the Emperor of Ethiopia pledged not to carry out or au- thorise any project on the Blue Nile Lake Tana without the

or prior agreement of Britain.

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L London, October 8. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr.

Fisher, Geoffrey

today appealed for a day of national prayer on United Nations Sunday, October 29, because the fear of war broods over the face of the

earth."

He was supported by the Arch- The principal fear of the Egyp-bishop of York, Dr. Cyril Garbett, tians has been that some scheme and the Moderator of the Free might divert or use up most of Church Federal Council, Dr. Wil- the Nile waters South of the liam Farndale. border before they flowed Into Dr. Fisher is on his way to New Egypt, where millions of lives Zealand, where, he is to attend the depend on them. That fear has centenary celebrations of the Pro-

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