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Canadian Exports Ban Modified

Non-Strategic Articles

For Hongkong

Ottawa, Dec. 20.

Canada has ended a temporary suspension of non-strategic exports to the British colony of Hongkong, a Government spokesman disclosed today.

was an-

The suspension of all export permits to Hong- kong, Communist China and Korea nounced on December 9 after United States action to ban the shipment of civilian as well as strategic goods to Communist China and adjacent areas including Hongkong,

The spokesman said that Canada recently held Agreement was discussions with the United States. reached to honour Canadian export permits covering non-strategic commodities earmarked for Hongkong at American ports.

Suspension of export permits } to the Chinese mainland is still In effect,

(The United States announced a similar relaxation of the ban to meet "essential requirements" yesterday).-Router.

"LET THEM TELL”

Washington, Dec. 20.

The Secretary of Commerce,

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The Department

said American ship or plane could proceed to "restricted" ports but penalties would be applied to the owner and his agents if banned goods were there.-Reuter.

unloaded

RUSSIA'S EXPORTS

Washington, Dec. 20. Soviet Russia has increased Mr Charles Sawyer, said today her exports to the United States that the Department is always of manganese and chrome orC- consulted before export licences vital strategle materials since are issued for shipments to the the start of the Korean war, an Communist countries.

"We have not licensed the official said today.

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Spring The CEASE FIRE IN KOREA RESTS ON

Trap

Demand By

POW Organisation

London, Dec. 20. The 38,000-strong Far Eastern Prisoners of War Organisation demanded to- day that the Japanese peace treaty should contain

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The 1st Cavalry Division the Commonwealth and Brigade screened the north- castern Blank during the last minute extrication of the Turkish Brigade from almost complete encirclement by the Chinese Communists in Korea. The scene as troops, wounded Gla, Koreans and Turks form at the fret assembly point after escaping from the trap. -London Express Service.

Fighting

clause guaranteeing Flares Up

quantity which the military said said they could not explain the pensation for the maltreat- would be of strategic value," he Soviet motive, but some thoughtment of war prisoners. told the Senate House Watchdog Russia's need for dollars over It said in Committee on trols.

memorandum

that the United States and Aus- tralian Government had both recognised the rights of 4x- prisoners or their dependants to compensation.

NW Korea

Hanoi

Will Be

Defended

Gen. De Lattre's

Promise

CHINESE CHANGE OF HEART

Committee

Pessimistic

Lake, Success, Dec. 20. Unless the Chinese Communists have an un- expected change of heart, the UN cease-fire com- mittee is expected to report after the New Year' holiday that it cannot arrange to stop the fighting in Korea.

This forecast on the Committee's final report! was made in the UN Assembly circles as the three- man Committee sat back to wait for Peking to show some reaction to its efforts. Mr Lester B. Pearson, Canadian Foreign Minister and a mem- ber of the Committee, went home to Ottawa for the holidays but arranged to come back quickly if developments require.

The committee was set up by. the General Assembly with.k- structions to see if there is any basis on which a cease-fire in It Korea can be worked out. talked with Mr Ernest A, Gross, Deputy United States delegate to the UN and Lieutenant-General US Willis D. Crittenberger,

Military member of the UN Staff Committee and Com- manding General of the

The Americans First Army. represented the Unified Com- matid under General Douging MacArthur and are reported to

US

Plane

Wreckage

Found

Manila, Dec, 21.

aboard,

S'pore Hit

By Polio Epidemic

Singapore, Dec. 20.

An infantile paralysis epidemic has struck Singa- pore, with 81 cases and 18 deaths reported so far this year, it was announced to- day.

Public Health authorities saið tho disease reached epidemic proportions in October, During December, 23 cases have boca reported,

Most of the victims Have been three Chinese children under years of age. One of the five Europeans

stricken

has died.

reported

The government has issued an All the

here.---Associated Press.

All Quiet In Singapore

Search planes found the appeal for nurces to have given the Committee an wreckage of a military te serious shortage in hospitals Halphong, Dec, 20.

Indication of the Unified Com-

transport C-54 near the peak General Jean de Lattre de mand's cease-fire terms;

of a 9,000 foot mountain in! Tassigny, the new French

***** NO REPLY YET

Sir Benegal N. Rau, India, Central Luzon, a Clarke Air High Commissioner In Indo-

talked Committee member, then

Base spokesman said. China, assured officers of with General Wu Haiu-chuan, his Command today that Chinese Communist representa-

The plane, with 37 Tokyo, Dec. 20.

Communist - endanger- live here, but received no word has been missing since Tuesday

from General Wu which could morning. Fighting flared up along ed Hanol, will be defended. be called progress in any form,

the Committee dent ปี The Air Force spokesman sald cival, National Chairman of the a 80-mile front in North-

Hanoi' is the major city of Then to formerly West Korea today, breaking north Indo-China and the Weit-

Red

Chinese che

Smouldering wreckage Organisation General Oficer Commanding the three-week lull since the era bastion af French defences, a talk on to Russian Malaya, said, "I want to Chinese Communist counter-around the Red River delta aren were so sipall that they were not emphasise that our claim does offensive pushed the United embracing the China Sea port of reply, khs been

not come on the British tox- Nations forces below the Halphong.

Economic Con-rode all other considerations. Mr Sawyer alsclosed that the Department is tightening up on hipments to Hongkong to avoid ssible trans-shipment of goods to Communist China,

They off in eyelling their heads Mongkong,"

he added.

The total value of the imports from Russia in October dropped to $2,100,000, according figures issued by the Depart ment today. But the value of manganese and chrome ore was hem yell," said Senator Burnet only gund of $1,300,000. Som

ber figure

American exports officially listed-Reuter/

Maybank-United Press.

ANOTHER U.S. STEP

"Let

Washington. Dec. 20.

The United States took an

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ther step today to keep Russia and her associated countries from obtaining

goods.

war potential ROMULO SIGNS Department CONVENTION

any

at a

The Commerce ruled

that American ships and planes must not unload

New York, Dec, 20. Soviet-bloc

port

gooda Brigadier General Carlos P. which were declared to be war Romulo, Philippine Secretary

the material while. potential

for Foreign Affairs, today signed

United

Anti- ship or plane was on her way the

Nations to the port

Prostitution Convention оп

The order applies also to un-behalf of his country. loading of such cargoes at the ritish colony of Hongkong and

Portuguese

Macuo.

in

Dru

The Philippine Republic colony of the seventh country to sign the

Convention, The others The United States has - Ecuador, India, Liberia, Luxem ready banned the shipment of bourg, Pakistan and the Union

long list

war of South Africa. of goods as potential.

The signing took place in the Today's action Indicated that office of the Assistant Secretary the lat would, be broadened General, Dr Ivan Kerno, Asie

sociated Press.

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still further.

COMMENT OF THE DAY

Lieutenant-General A. Per-

And

payer. It is for contribution out

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and

It was in Hamol that fighting first broke out four years between French bebel Vietminhottesthe Moscow-educated Ho Chi-min.

request

the

•ccase-dre: ~C\\PU/HOD. Pulog been datafely"

Troops

Singapore, Dec, 20.

with and police,

Singapore during the hours of darkness on Tuesday night and t ehrly today in the first curfew treb night Mince the bloody three-day-riots of a week ago,

identifled an the missing trans. toured the Matema General Wu and his delegation | portatge began the trip home on Tuesday with a final blast at the cease- are move as trick and a plot. the score.

The political committee is in

There was 'né sigh‘of Híe near

Mount Pulog. Is a 9,000 foot

of reparations to be paid by the 39th Parallel. Japanese under the peace treaty At one point North and with that country out of frozen South Koreans fought for two Japanese assets held over here."hours along the ingin Ever 10

recess until the cease-fire com- mountain 22 miles Northeast of mittee reports. It was expected the mountain resort of Bagulo. -Reuter.

mites from Seoul, the Southern

here that the cease-fire group -Associated Press - capital.

would give the Chinese Com-. General Lattre de Tassigny munists a chance to reply over Only units of a strong, re-

of France's top generals, the holidays and then. If nothing constituted North Korean "buf- one

Stalin Is

Tomorrow

to

Chinese

great forces

the north,

clashes these

And Korean ments. The

with South American cle-

fer torce" between the Eighth promised officers, during a one- 71

Army, covering Seoul, and the day visit here, that there would is heard, the Committee would LINERS TO BE

Communist be reinforcements in stronger go to the 00-meinber group still deployed 70 miles armaments, planes and ships. It representing the UN and admi: OVERHAULED

had the Immediate effect of failure, took part in bolstering morale, which sagged Sir. Benegal, and the third

Southampton, Dec. 20. Mr two weeks member of the Committee, following an order

The giant liners, Queen Mary," ago to evacuafe French women Nasrollah Entezam, the Assem-

Mauretania are to be overhauled and children from North Indo-bly President, are in New York, queen Elizabeth, Caronia and the and repainted before they carry and could act quickly China.

event of a reply. None, is in United States passengers to the `sight, however, Associated Festival of Britain next year.

Work has already begun the Queen Mary, now in dry dock here. Fifteen hundred men have to overhaul and clean the arship in five weeks.

London, Dec. 20. Josef Stalin will be 71 years old tomorrow.

There was one particularly intriguing question

posed on the eve of his birthday: Who will be awarded the first Inter-nain national Stalin Peace Prizes?

be

The awards are expected to

by announced tomorrow

Moscow Radio-United Press.

New European Defence Plan

THE

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THE decision of the Big Three to form an international army for Western Europe, inviting West Ger- many to contribute a specified quota of men, has to be viewed in the larger canvas of the present world situation. The rearming of Germany, even in the. most limited form, is not a particularly palatable proposition five years after the country had agreed to uncondition- al surrender following her unprovoked aggression against the Allies, but it has been forced upon the members of the North Atlantic Pact, firstly by Russia's covert renrming of Germans in the East and her general attitude of belligerency towards the democracies; secondly by events in Korea and other. Far East areas. The Atlantic Council propositions which have received the approval of the Big Three Foreign Ministers include the appointment, of General Eisenhower as Supreme Com- mander of the West Europe interna- tional army and the integration into that army of Weat German troops. But there are also qualifying factora attached to the creation of Gor- man military forces, Firstly thoy will be restricted in number; secondly they will be equipped and trained by the Allies; thirdly they will possess no chlofs of staff. These are conditions which have already raised, the ire of the West German socialist party and which even Dr Adenauer, the most ho derate and amenable among the present West German leaders, feels are unfair. Nevertheless it is well to recognize that the latest Atlantic Council plan is a Khamgaoth law between the American, ides

of establishing full German divisions and the French suggestion for putting

· even smaller units into a European army. The new plan has the ad-. vantage of meeting French apprehen- sions regarding German rearmament and this in itself represents progress to be welcomed. Nevertheless many will regard the proposed programme as too modest and it still has two obstacles to overcome-one German, the other Russian. The Germans ask not only full equality in European defence but also adequate defensive forces on their eastern border, their fear being that an inadequate defence during the period of rearmament might tempt the Rus- sians into an attack to provent it. On the other hand, the Russians, having rearmed East Germany, have served notice on the Western Powers that they will not "tolerato" measures, in- cluding German participation in "joint armed forces" which are aimed at "re- viving the German regular army." Since the new plan specifically excludes the creation of a German national army or a German armament industry, this Soviet allegation has no basis. But the Soviets have never been at a loss for pretexts for whatever they wish to do, and the Western Powers cannot for! ever permit Soviet threats to keep them from doing what Soviet aggres sion compels them to do. Just how far

·Russia is prepared to carry her "in dignation" at the proposals of the Allied Council will better be known when the Big Four meetthat fa, it' the Soviets eventually do agree to hold conference on the terms advanced by the allied

American beleaguered

in the North-East, were garrison, surrounded at Kung- still holding their own against persistent Communist pressure. FULLY PREPARED Carrier-based planes and the big guns of the Allied warships offshore again and again gave them full support.

NEW. METHOD NEEDED

The Commissioner added, a closed however, following meeting with area commanders, that a new method of fighting is necessary.

Press,

In

Eight tons of anti-fouling and

The armed patrols we.b No disturbances were reported. Instructed to disperse all·uð- authorised assemblies or pro cessions and quell any violent outburst

Despite an easing, of the ten- sion, the city's night life" still suffered. Movie theatres, dance halls and restaurants - were almost deserted na most of the populice remained indoor/ Associated Press.

SLAUGHTER OF A COW CAUSES RIOT

Bombay, Dec. 20. Police imposed a dusk-to- dawn curfew tonight in Astiraotí,. a town in the central provinces, following rioting against ・the

WU IN PRAGUE

Prague, Dec 20, Special Envoy General Wu Halu-chuan and his party rived from London by plane Sorna 2,000 gallons of paint He arrived by plane on Tues- tonight on route back to Peking will be needed to renew the With Ave days to go before day in Hanol, where he reviewed from New York, where they had liner's exterior and another 2,000 slaughter of a cow in which one

Com-gallons will be used on the

was killed and 20 Christmas, the United Nations the biggest display of French presented the Chinese forces in Korea were reported military forces seen there in munist case to the United No-interior.

parade of tentions,

Hindua, were to be making special prepara-months. The

were offended whep o The eight-man delegation was anti-corrosive composition will butcher slaughtered a cow, and tons for any Christmas Day battalions included many soldiers

nists, from abandoned Northern fron- greeted at the airport by Deputy be put on to the underwater part they burnt many houses and oxensive by the Communists,

and of the hull-Reuter.

looled shops-Associated Prels......... who, It was thought, might tier outposts, now welded into Prime Minister Fierlinger imitate the Japanese tactics et mobile units for the defence of Chinese and Russian diplomatic attacking when they thought the delta.

representatives. The delegation the enemy might be off guard.

Militarily, the chief actions expected to remain hero

few days before Lying to Mos- A North Korean communique claimed "the liberation of all centred today in rice-growing cow on the next hop of their long journey home.Associated vital cities and towns north of South Vietnam, where the French

forces concentrated on impeding Pres the 38th Parallel," but that the

Red-led forces.]

.:

Communists were still "dercely Saigon French

the

Vichokesman.

A

attacking enemy personnel and attack

camps. French equipment on the east coast-

bold military Hungnam three weeks of operations in the presumably bridgehead.

area "deprived the Vietminh of The North Koreans, "Ughting one of the most-important con- shoulder to shoulder with the tres of war industry-Associated Chinese Communist volunteers," Press. had reached the 38th Parallel, a Peking Radio according to Eroadcast, Reuter.

Princess To Go

Police

Officer

On Royal Tour Badly Injured

London, Dec, 20.

I want Cadburys!

Russian In N

Disgrace

Berne, Dec. 20. The news that the Soviet -Minister

id, Switzerland, Mr Anatoly Kalashenkay, has been "released from his duties" by his Foreign Ministry, announced by Tass last night, was regarded here today as meaning that he was "in disgrace”. Aga m Sub-Inspector K. Bodie, of the Mr Kolashenkov. is believed Princess Margaret will accom- Hongkong Police and attached to to have been in Berne in Sep- pany the King and Queen on the CID in the New Territories, tember. He made no farewell their visit to Australia and New in Kowloon Hospital suffering visits and took no official leave Zealand during 1952. This was from a fracturód skull as a result of the Swiss Government.

A spokesman of the Swiss of a traffic accident on Sunday! the Royal by

In which two peasant women Political Department said Tour sterday i

General Berry were killed.

might that he had been absent man, speaking in Sydney on his

from his duties "for some time" return by air from Britain. It may be recalled that Ins, and it was believed that his While in London he discussed Bodie was driving his Vauxhall reappearance last September wan with Buckingham Palace officials car from Au Tau-crossroads only a brics visit Router. the draft programme for this towards Un Long In the royal visit! ; oversens-London neon when, near the 20-mild Press Bervice!

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