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Western Proposals To Russia

The joint

Paris, Feb. 19.

Western note to Russia, presented to- a Big day, has proposed Four deputies' conference in Paris and asked Russia to review all questions in- volving world tension, par- ticularly in Eastern Europe,

French Foreign Office spokesman sald today.

The note, in Ave paints, was three pages long, he said.

The reply covers some of the kame ground as the British note to Itussin

alleged violation

on

of the Anglo-Soviet treaty.

Two Alleged Robbers On Trial-Back Page

Today's Weather: Moderate or tresh Ezakkity winds, Fair.

CHINA MAIL

--No.-- 34822

Policeman Slays Two

Bus Passengers

Manila, February 20,

A 70-year-old man and nine-year-old boy were.. killed at Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija Province, when Philippine Army soldier opened fire with a sub-machinegun on pas. sengers on board a bus.

The soldier, arrested and

told gaoled,

police the 70-year-old man was act- the Ing suspiciously In market so be followed him to the bus and shot him. The boy was sitting on the mari.---- seat next to the --Associated Prem

Canada's

Generosity

Colombo, Ceylon, Feb, 10. Canada announced at a con- ference here today she is con- tributing US$25,000,000 ns her share in the first year of the Colombo plan to develop South

Asia and

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Russia Preparing The Best Fed N. Koreans Thrown Back:

To Attack Yugoslavia Report

Paris, Feb. 19.

Czechoslovak exiles here reported that the Soviet bloe is preparing a military attack on Yugoslavia for April 15.

A spokesman for the National Committee of Froe Czechoslovakia said Valdo Clementis, former Communist Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia, had been to Yugosla- via with documents warning Marshal Tito of the plans. Underground resistance sources in Prague were said to missing have reported that Clementis, who has been several weeks, had been sent on the secret mission by Czechoslovak Titoists.

The Western notes to Rusala on the proposed Big Four talks obviously were almed at Bul- garla, Hungary and Romania. Western spokesmen lately have been expressing concern at the of the armed forces of size these satellites,

in all fields to defend Yugoslavia against an attack.

The unity of Yugoslavia, s were and socialism freedom

assets gained such tremendous in the war of liberation that it was not enough for the Army alone to defend them. The whole must take part in de- people Marshal Tito publicly fence, he said.

has

This will be the guaranteo

because estimated the size of these forces at 600,000 men, for in excess of of our invincibility the limits written into their people defending its assets can- peace treaties,

not be defented."Reuter.

The lant Soviet note on the iniks contained a volume of accusation against the Western which they have felt Powers obliged to reject before passing, to the constructive side of their reply. In particular, the charge of re-arming Western Germany in believed to be disposed of in the tripartite reply along the same lines but more briefly than in the British note,

The immediate issue involved in the present exchange is the tion, build dams, launch irrigo-ponent part of the armed chain

offer by the Western Powers of, a hard date--March 5-for 1 preliminary meeting of experts

in Park to discuss an agenda for subsequent conference

IK

Foreign Ministers,

mman

of

a carries

Thic contribution

Yugoslav The authoritative condition that other countries made adequate contributions to periodical, Review of Interna- Affairs. declared in the broad objectives of the plan, tional

today that "these are 1 cam-

n joint 5.6 million, six-year Belgrade programme to increase cultiva-Soviet satellites

ton projects, produce

inore of pearhoods of Soviet cx- in Europe of which food and help Asian countries paneion

Eastern Germany is one of the to help themselves,

sate

mest important links."

The journal

The

announcement

CO PAK

CASE

said discussion |SEQUEL

of the armed forces was an "inevitable subject" of any Big-Four meeting.

TITO SEEKS UNITY

Deportation Board Member Removed

Manila, Feb. 20. The Foreign Office

re-

Canada fully appreciates the dificulties which constitutional dine make it impossible for the US representative here to make a REASON FOR OFFER

How bidding statement now. on the ever, the Canadian government Rússia originally propored on This offer is based

November 3 a Blg-Four meet- has felt that its own contribu- assumption that Moscow will be

discuss,

at least tion of dotlar ald could not be ing to discuss the disarmament prepared to

knowledge

cf Western Germany alone. among experts in Paris. other considered without

come from She said Western plane to raise causes of tension besides Ger- of what ald might

in Western Germany moved its representative on the US. problems, including the

an army The

the rearmament of Eastern Europe

of representative

were most disturbing to world the Government Deporta under Soviet direction.

French sponsored state of Viet-peace-Associated Presa.

tion Board for Tailing to Indo-China said he nam in

consult with his superiors supported the Colombo plan oз

before voting against the Belgrade, Feb. 19. great human enterprise" and that Vietnam has prepared a

Marshal Tito declared here deportation of Co Pak, plan to cost US$557,000,000.

The Colombo plan conference today that the preparedness at wealthy businessman forn

the whole Yugoslav peoria, finita Formosa, yesterday. tomorrow. - Associated ends

estorantee that the country | Press.

would not be split.

Co, pccused of affiliating with and Filipino Com- "This will be contrary to all Chinese

departed at statements by the Cominform, President Elpidio Quirino's per- which says that: Yugoslavia is

sonal order after the Deporta- preparing for an aggreselve war

tion Board had failed to order and

the deportation, against her neighbours

Russia-the Soviet

Acting Foreign Secretary against country with the world's largest

Neri maid the Foreign army." he told delegates of the Felino

on tha representative Fighters Office Congress of Serblan

Board, Gauttler Bisaar, was also re-

for Freedom (Partisans), stronghold He said that in the present being replaced by legal adviser at Pauktan a district eight situation the Fighters for Free-Emauardo Quintara miles north of Rangoon-Reu-dom must

Opinion is divided in London on the chances of Moscow agree ing to the Paris meeting without further exchange of notes, par- ticularly in the light of.Marshal Stalin's recent violent attack on policies of the Western the Powers.

Bul observers who attended earlier four-Power meetings re- ⚫ call

д that vigorous Soviet can propaganda barrage before im portant conferences has been th Tule rather than the exception. and has not always influenced the attitude of Soviet delegates at the conference table.

i

Consequently, there is one school in London which sees"

"in" Premier Stalin's nutburst prelude to acceptance of a four Power meeting rather than a rejection of the Western Powers' proposal-Reuter,

REBELS KILLED

Rangoon, Feb, 18. Burmese Government troops killed nine rebels and captured three in the Upper Chindwin, communique said

an official today.

Government forces occupied a Karen

ter.

COMMENT OF THE DAY

I

munists

Wils

Soldiers

Tokyo, Feb. 19. ****Quartermasters here to. day claimed that the men of the 17 nations serving under the United Nations cctumand in Korea are the "best fed in. military History",

Troops In frontline fox-holes-receive-an-aver-- are of 3,800 calories per day in ration packages but tastes vary with nation. ality.

To supplement tinned rations a monthly averagh of 7,000 tons of fresh eggu, beef, pork, lamb, fowls, vegetables, fruit and flour

being

shipped

Are

Co

Korca.

Brillah and · Australian troops oal their Own rations plus 20 percent of United States field rations. --Beuter..

New Red Concentrations Near Wonju G Hoengsong

Eighth Army, Feb. 20.

American troops today threw back attacks from the spear- heads of an estimated 40,000 Chinese and North Koreans re- ported to be massing on the central front for an expected new drive to the south:

1

North Koreans attacked newly won American positions seven miles north of Chechon early on Tuesday but were beaten back after gaining only 50 yards.

gained

300

The North Koreans attacked at 6.50 am, and one company gain 50 yards between two American companies.

Another American force from rear positions, tossed dirt After only one hour's Aghting

the snow sprinkled the Americans broke up the battled from 5 pmund mid-high onto attack and took arm command night last night against a strong over bare hills like icing sugar of the high ground captured Communist patrol eight miles on a cake,

One officer said, "After the north-west of Chechon, yesterday.

The Red patrol

was estimated lads have cleaned this up they to 600. The outcome of will watch the river like hawks at

in case any of the enemy tries the fight was not reported.

The Allied divisions fought off to get away from them",

PATROL TESTS ICE strong Rod attack starting at 0.20

the p.m. yesterday in

A patrol crossed the paddies The

on division to test the fee Chechon area.

the Han buttoned up for the night at from a village which was on a 9 p.m'

road adjacent to the river bank. It was in this area that a UN Forlorn children wandered the of the village. division gained a few miles littered streets yesterday in day-long fighting. The stench of decay of burning houses and the indefinable gir of a village that had ceased to The Red Army concentrated live polluted the warm Spring- troops ke day.

Shah Of Persia's Wedding

Shell

Live Taken Man's Body

an

NEW BUILD-UP

British troops

watching the village said that Puerto Rican

estimated 30,000 around Hoongsong and another 10,000 Chinese cast of Wonju late on Monday in an apparent soldiers earlier had met them build-up for major attack down along the road but had returned

to their own the Wonju-Chechon axis.

positions nearer. North Koreans spearheading Seoul as the British brought up the attack five to 10 miles north their strength. and northeast of Chechon ran Guns will thumped occa-

when into stonewall Allied resistance alonely and a seesaw battle of attack Machinegun and counter-attack ragod

too, but four. the rugged mountain through

crouched around tiny fires in late on Monday the still of the village by the Passes until night.

River.

dusk came. bursts erupted.

British soldiers

The first hurdle had been

Reports of the new Com- munist build-up on the cen-cleared-Reuter.

trol front were matched by In- dications of strong Red offensive activity on the north bank of the Han river opposite, the new solid American line south bank.

Enemy

the

troop concentrations

Lepores by dr and ground.

Bround

Hoengsong

and cast of Wonju were the

about

From ding in Teheran last week without meeting bay..atif. 10-

on Amazing Operation

Paris, Feb. 19,

Sabotage Was

The Cause

Merthyr

largest since the Reds launched Tydal, South Wales, Feb, 19.

here disclosed today Police their so for abortive central

that sabotage was the cause of Brilliant uniforms, dresses front offensive-United Press,

BRITISH ADVANCE -

on expicaton which rocked

of South Wales 12-mile aren and jewels and palace can-

With the British Forces On delabra

Han lights glittering The

River, Feb. 19. --

early yesterday morning,

A steel and concrete building through a, snowstorm gave British troops have reached the

a quarry banks of the Han River housing explosives in a a fairy-tale touch to the wed. south

out 17 miles cast of Seoul near Treharris, Glamorganshire, was blown up and completely ared Nearby trees disappeared. of the Shah of Persia and sistance, his beautiful bride, 19 year boldly

Today, British tanks drove were shattered, and telephone

along the road leading lines blown down old Soraya Esfandaylari.

to the banks of the frozen river "Investigations have shown

eat, the

explosion Picture. shows the Shah

they had probed "deeply that after standing back to admire his towards the river yesterday,liberately caused. We are now which followed the searching for the person respon- bride's Lovely gown which

Patrols

The remains", was made by Dior, the resistance but mountainous ter- or his

tanks today swept aside sporadic

Baid today.. The thick steel door of, the French designer. rain through which they troop-

Was

develop their move-

"We are convinced that Bistar further and prepare acted Iment still

good faith. But he erred in falling to consult the Department before voting the case," Mr Neri said.

Newspapers

reported Board was lined up 4-1 against Co's deportation when PresidentA French soldier in Indo-famous Quirino ordered it to hall dell- China who had an unex-The Shah's sisters can also ed was virtually bare of the magazine was found twisted berations and submit all records ploded 60-millimetre mortar be

Marshall Plan And Defence-

its latest report to the President, tration supports General Eisenhower's view that Europeans today increasingly recognise the urgent need of rearm- ament and are ready to proceed with it as quickly as possible. They are able to embark on such an enterprise only because their economies have been strengthened through the Marshall Plan. Thanks to that Plan, Western Europe has recovered economically far more rapidly than after the First World War. Its industrial production was 23 per cent higher by the end of last September than the pre-war average, and is presumably higher now. Even Western Germany, which five years after the First World War was floundering in a bottomless inflation, has been able, to raise output 15, and according to later figures even 25, per cent above pro-war levels. This does not mean that Western Europe lives better than before the war: The European nations have had to devote much of their labour to reconstruction of war damage. But, barring a now war, Western Europe begins to see daylight again. Now, however, superimposed on

come

the remaining tasks of reconstruction, the burdens of rearmament, which require both further American military assistance and a redirection of the remaining economic aid to military channels. For that reason the various American overseas nid bodies are to be simplified, consolidated and co-ordinated to serve. that main purpose. But, as both President Truman and General Eisenhower have warned, Europe must do its share in the common effort, and the Economic Co-operation Adminis- tration points out two ways of doing 80. The present crisis, it says, bas emphasised the need for prompt adjust- ment of national economies so as to distribute the burdens of rearmament fairly among all income groups and thus assure popular support for it. And the same danger' has made it more impera- tive than ever before to avoid excessive economic nationalism and tó morge all West European resources, which would include those of Western Germany, into a single pool. Both steps are neces sary, not only to assure economic health but even more to enable Western Europe 'to become the bulwark of ita own defence:

Two Impossible Restrictions

T'Lake Success a special Committee consisting of delegates of fifteen nations has been at work for some time convention on on a new draft of a "Freedom of Information." Two recom- particularly mendations are not appealing. One would bar "false or distorted, reports which undermine friendly relations between peoples and. "states," and the other would ban in- formation "likely to infure the feelings of nationals of a state.” These, surely, care impossible restrictions for nations with the traditions of a free press. It new likely to infure the feelings of nationals of state" had been stablished as a criterion, “not a true

Cpublished, inat

the democratic press regarding the whole record of the Hitler government in Germany. Not a word could now be published about the Stalin government in Moscow and the Mao government in China. As for the question of false or distorted reporta", who is to decido what is false and what is distorted? Is an estimate of ten million prisonera in Soviet slave camps a "false or distorted" cntimate? Who knows, when the Soviots Invoke their from 'censorship?" If power to decide what news lo "false" and what news in "distorted" were put into the hands of the government of any nation; the free & press on that. nation, woolki, desde to:

of the Co case to him.

the

shell, 10 inches long, buried

seen

in the picture.

Mr Neri satki public confidence in his side was successfully Corporation

In the Board was shaken by its ope unpopular decision.

Bisnar has been recalled to his job in the Foreign Office Legal Department.

operated on by an Army. Burgeon.

The soldier, 23-year-old Rene Parles, was wounded during 4 midnight attack and taken to The surgeon who hospital.

Indicted For

Malacanan Palace made public examined him found the fins of Manslaughter

a memorandum from the Justice the unexploded mortar shell

Co's Secretary recommending deportation as "a menace to the under His skin. He sought the peace and security of the State" ivice of a mortar expert. He was told the slightest movement Associated Press,

ef the Ane would cause the shell to explode.

Considering Sanctions

Lake Success, Feb. 19, The United Nations Korean Good Offices Committee today

shell

The expert said "the must

be removed only by the point!!

Now Brunswick,

New Jersey, Feb. 19. Eighty-four manslaughter in- dictments-one for each of the lives lost in the Woodbridge

train commuter

wreck on February 8-were returned today ogainst the Pennsylvania Rail- rond.

He called for volunteers to assist in the operation and when

It was the Pennsylvania's the entire staff volunteerett late were drawn to decide who Jersey shore train The Broker which crashed down an embank- would help the surgeon,

fment at Woodbridge on Feb. 6, The- hospital was evacuated killing 84 persons and Injuring and the surgeon - and, his twợ 500 others. met officers of the General assistants went to work, para The indictments charged the Assembly Committes named to Fio withdrew from the left Pennsylvania Railrendirdid consider sanctions against Com-side the mortar shell, which had feloniously kill and slays the 84 munist China,

miraculously missed the bone victime, each of whom was the train 'crow named. None of

State legal authorities wald ploded was indicted.

any person convicted of man- slaughter may be fined

Entezama

...

The Good Offices Committee, and the sciatic nerve. The shell was Inter comprising the General As sembly President, Mr Nasrollah ia an adjoining force

Rene Is now able to walk of Iran, Mr Sven and will soon Tondo hospital Graftstrom of Sweden and

London Express Beryico.. Lula Padilla Nerve of Mexico; was named to attempt further Peking. peace negotiations with

The sanctions" "group wak

was en visaged with the same member- ship as the Assembly's standing Collective Measures Committee,

the refusal

Ship Damaged In- Collision.

maximum

of US$1,000 or sent to guol for a maximum of 10 years or both.

Corporations are considered persons under the law, but the prosecutor has_mid, "Na» turally, you can't gaola cor Rio de Janeiro, Feb. 19. The 7,000-ton Swedish shipporation."

the legal authori- Therefore, bers to servo cut its member-Naboland was today seriously ship to 12 countries. Lis officers damaged in a collision with the ties said, the maximum penalty are Mr Selim Samper of Tur- 8,000-ion Greck steander Michaell let the Railroad if it were key, chairman, Mr

but

of two mem

Joseph off Rio Fachour- Nisot of Belgium, · Vico-chaic* No casualties wine reported. man, and Mr Kolth Shang of The Naboland's No. 1 hold was badly damaged and the ship was Australia, rapporteur.

towed to a shipyard for repairs. mot for 30 Reuter. The six minutes at UN New York, head- quarters, after which Unfit To Be Taxed communique afinounced that the Banctions

me

Itres had requested the committed on Good Coffeest to maintain close unnt contact with Ia in its extorta to

convicted on each of the 04 counts would be a fine US$04,000A8sociated Press.

Powers Extended

New Delhi Toh319. The Indian Parliament today kidsport, Feb. 19. extended for one year powers of physically the goverinent to hold without view will trial persons suspected of being Cometuniaty poking (EY POWER, through violence or black mar Iin the ket dealers threatening the na

tion's food

enemy.

like paper more than 150 yards Pie. Bill Bailey, "Just a Lon-away up the mountainside and doner", told a Reuter corres- pleces of the interior casing pondent when he returned how have been picked up over 300 Communist snipers had pinned yards away. down the 10 men.

hole over four yards wide Balley, with one leg of his was found where the magazine wind-proof trousers torn off, had been,

Over said, "I had to dive into a ditch

14 kilogrammes of to dodge them",

gellngülte, used for blasting The patrol later combed the rock, had been detonated.— village while mortars booming Reuter.

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