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US Alliance With Australia Envoy Leaves For North

Govt. Survives Again

Defeats Censure

Motion

London, Feb. 20. Britain's Labour Govern- ment tonight defeated by seven voles the fourth Con servative attempt to unseat it in a fortnight.

It received 302 votes against 205 when the House of Com- mons approved a bill authorising the Government to write off a £30,000,000 loss on the East African groundnuts scheme and with a revised £6,000,-

carry un

000 projcel.

PRICE OF STEEL COES UP.

1.ondon, Feb. 20.

Prices to be increased for iron and Ateel

were

announced today-five days

after the Industry came under Slate control

The ne

The new prices apply from

tomorrow, the Minis-

try of Supply announced.

The

were expected, are mainly due to rises in the cost of coal and coke.

Examples of the in- crcases are basic pig iron up from 210, 11s. 6d. ton to £10. 10s, and cold rolled steel strip up from £33 a ton to £33, 125. Od._. ---Reuter,

Six Men

And N. Zealand A Possibility

PRELIMINARY PARLEYS

Washington, Feb. 20.

The United States is considering a formal defence alliance with Australia and New Zealand as a start toward a broad Pacific pect modelled after the North Atlantic Defence Treaty.

Britain, France and Portugal would be excluded, however, under present planning because of their "colonial" background.

A triangular defence arrangement with Australia and New Zealand is now being discussed, it was learned, by Mr John

foreign policy adviser.

Run Amok Foster Dulles, Secretary of State Dean Acheson's Republican

The bill also authorises the Government to cut the develop- ment of groundnuts drastically

Manila, Feb. 21.

Mr Dulles, who is now tour- and pass responsibility from the Six friends ran amok in ing the Pacle, already has talk- with Food Ministry to the Coloniai | Northern Mindanao yesterday.ed this possibility over Ofice.

Reports to Manila newspapers General Douglas MacArthur and The three previous confidence said their bolos and the aveng- Prime Minister Yoshida In votes won by the Governmenting bullets of police killed six Japan and with the Australian

persons and wounded 17. were on meat, steel and defence

and New Zealand Foreign Min- isters at policy.

Joint

meeting at Can-

The Liberals voter

in New Zealand to discuss yesterday the broad problems of security amendinent, moved by Mr Harrymorning, bolos in hand, in in the Pacific and the Japanese peace treaty with New Zealand Prime Minister Mr Sidney G. were Holland.

the Government tonight,

aim would be to welcome addi-area who are interested in a tional countries later, they defence pact.

Australia

Zealand want to join.

and New Britain, France and Portugal were reported to be falding the for. are allies of the United States in lead in discussions thus the 12-nation Atlantic Pact The American attitude, however, These nations also have island undoubtedly will be decisive in pessoasions in the Pacific which present talks since the Pacifie give then a direct interest in the nations have stressed they want Asiatic mainland such as French member-Associated Press, Indo-China and British Malaya.

uguinst | Cagayan City, Misamis Oriental berra, Australla. He la at pre-along with tles on the the United-States as a charter

Kont

News correspondents at S

Province, reported the men

early cult

Voting was on a Conservative started

Crookbank, refusing to agree

to carry on the scheme without

an impartial inquiry.

The Food Minister, M Maurice Webb, said that whet the venture was announced 1947 was welcomed every.

Anyone could be wise!

where.

after the event.

The enable

revised scheme

techniques

now

could and

economics of large-scale farming to be tested, he said.

nearby village.

Four brothers.

of the six

a

All pacts now being discussed arc patterned after the North Atlantic Treaty which pledges each member country to airf any other member which is at- tacled..

The idea of an Australian- They look three women with New Zealand-United States pact them by force,

is reported to have Mr Hol- land's warm support. He dis-

Japan's role In any Pacific cussed such a defensive artange- | defence arrangement is uncer- ment with Mr Acheson here tain at the moment along with early this month.

such countries

Indonesia. 35 Burma and Indo- Thailand. Officials emphasised all talks China. All these countries pre-

the preliminary so far are in stage and no clear-cut formula sumably would be interested in security guarantees against for action has emerged

Communist aggression,

They entered houses and sliced at the occupants some asleep.

Along a mile of national high- reported. way, correspondents they attacked everyone in sight was - Correspondents

their sald with growing butas

killed

man arse wounded 16 persons, including small children.

The Food Corporation experimenting

otton and tobacco,

Another Inquiry would be superfluous, he declared.-Reu- ter.

22 SHIPWRECKED SEAMEN RESCUED

up

The Hague, Feb. 20. Dutch alcamer Winterswijk has pleketi 22 men of the crew of the Norwegian steamer Marga (1,605 tons) reported to be sinking 60 miles south-west radio of Brest, according to D anessage received here tonight.

The Norwegian steamer Lionel, which also went to the, Marga's ald, has picked up one member of the sinking ship's Crew-Reuter.

onc

Police bullets killed three of the men and two of the women with them. They wounded an- the amoks |ther of

third woman,

and the

Mariano Ompoc, alleged by the leader of the police to be the gang surrendered after the battle.-Assoclated Press,

Miners Entombed

Charlerol, Feb. 20. Rescue workers are struggling tonight to reach Ave miners cut off by a cave-in at a pit near here earlier today. Reuter.

COMMENT OF THE DAY

THE

are

ALTERNATIVE MOVES.

Several other

Russia Expected

Agree To

To

Big Four Conference

London, Feb. 20. British and French Government quarters The State Department's view,

move slowly, were confident last night that Russia would accept alternative at least, is to

starting with a small member possibly with some reservations--the West's in- conditions permit. This go-slow vitation for a preliminary four-power meeting in policy stems from a belief that

nations હા the arca Paris on March 5. the have fewer common links than the North Atlantic countries.

moves toward a Pacifle defence setup are also being considered. At least one of these would add the Philippines as a founding member along with New Zea-

and, Australia and the US.

But at present the US is opposed to allowing Britain. France or Portugal to join. American officinis believe that because of their tradition of colonialism in the Far East, their membership might be unpopular among the newly independent peoples which might join the pact later.

ship and expanding later ns

JAPAN'S SAFETY

Although the membership Japanese-American

would be limited to start, the

Big Four Conference

HE French note to Russia on the subject of a Big Four conference, which incidentally represents also the views of Britain and the United States,

qualities of the

being possesses restrained and firm. It concedes that the future of Germany is the principal subject for consideration, but it is clear from the undertones that the Big Three deeply preoccupied with other causes for the present dangerous tension in the international situation. One contrilating factor mentioned in the French note is Russia's unwilling- ness to help draw up a peace treaty for Austria, but it can be taken for granted, though not specifically mentioned, that the Western Powers are just as much concerned about the military threats to Yugoslavia created very largely by the establishment of excessively big armies in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Rumania-all countries which have come under strong Soviet influence amounting almost to domination. Russian designs on Turkey are also highly suspect and there are growing signs that contral Europe may be used

by the Soviet for a trial of strength. Unquestionably the Western Powers are satisfied through their intelligence services that Russia intends, sooner or later, to try and bring off a coup de force in Yugoslavia, and the latest report emanating from a Czechoslokak underground movement that Stalin has set April 15 as D Day for this operation must not be entirely discounted. In fact, Russian machinations in central and southeastern Europe, which prob- ably envisage the Use of Soviet satellites in those areas, offer as much cause for tension in international relations as does the Kremlin's hostile and obstructive attitude to the questions of Germany's future and world armaments. Realisation of this explains the insistence by the Big Three that any four power talks must be based on a comprehensive agendà which will enable discussion of primary 'causes for, as well as solutions to, the existing tension in relations between Russia and the West, which carries the threat of another global conillet.

A Rich Opportunity Gdeclaration on whether or not he

ENERAL MacArthur's studied

would order another crossing of the 88th Parallel by United Nations forces is very much more welcome than his earlier statements on the subject... It is cause for some satisfaction that the General now recognises that there are strong political aspects to the issue which cannot be entirely overridden by military considerations." It is a matter for congratulation that Gèneral MacArthur and his fold commander, General Ridgoway, have succeeded. In restoring very considerably the military situation In Korea. Thero is not the lightest hesitation in giving unstinted

credit to the UN forces and their leaders for achieving an important tactical victory in the field. The question arises whether the United Nations can now politically exploit and consolidate the situation, thus created. It is conceiv- able that this Intest defeat suffered by the Chinese'and North Korean Com- munists is sufficient to satisfy Poking that the time has arrived for bringing hostilities to a close'and to "moet the UN for negotiations on the lines laid down at Lako.. Successi : Arich'· opportunity exists and one which the Peking Government would be wise to ⠀ BOIZO

As a

after the

re-

The newly-appointed Briljah Charge d'Affaires to Peking,. Mr Lionel H. Lamb left this morning for Tlantain by the Butterfield and Swire vessel 3s lihyun

Present At kis departure were Mr G. W. Aldington, Political United Kingdom

to Adviser

the Hongkong Government, Mr Jock Murray the PRO and the Governor's ADC.

The above picture shows Mr Aldington (left) mying good- bye to Mr Lamb,---Staff Photo- grapher.

Fuel Crisis Averted?

Korean War Front

British Troops Advance

Tokyo, Feb. 21. British forces advanced

to positions on a level with Seoul at two points from the South Korean capital yeater- day in what appears to be a United Nations effort to strangulate the ghost city. from two sides.

On the north-west side United Nations troops have pushed into Kimpo peninsula far above Seoul.

Along Seoul's Immediate perimeter, the Communista con- tinued, sporadic fire from every kind, of weapon including artillery, tanks, self-propelled mortars, automaties and small-

arms.

A half-hour-long Allied artillery bartago directed by fires shattered the quiot east- south-east from Secul where a WAB dis- Communist platoon covered shortly before

mid-

night. It was crawling toward the United

lines. Nations Further to the east, a United Nations patrol attempted to wade across the Han, but was forced to withdraw. Reuter.

BACK ON THE HAN RIVER

(From Cyril Aynsley)

:

On the Banks of the Han River, Feb. 20.

British troops to-day found. themselves where three weeks ago they never expected to be again at thb River Han.

The last fow days has been a swift move forward in this sector. Hill 327 was the chief stumbling block but after they dealt with It the enemy decld- ed on discretion, before valour. Today British troops found themselves in the Intle burnt- out village

Punwon-nl, having moved

up against meagre opposition. The platoon London, Feb, 20,

cautiously crossed paddy fields coal output and consumption figures have reach against the foot of the moun

to the Korean village huddling "a stake of bulance," the

and encountering only Ministry

announced to fain

isouneet for desultory-machine-gun-— fire.

from an occasiorral gully.

Britain's

ed For night.

If

does not

British and French diplomats believed that the Russians, having originated the idea of another four- power parley, are not likely to back out now despite the latest blast against the West by Marshal Stalin The fear of Japanese rearma- ment is Influencing decisions on in his week-end interview with Pravda.

handed to the Soviet whether to include that nation.

But Russia

was expeeled to note officials be- Some American

the Government. lieve Japan's safety in the im- raise objections against

He said that, as far as Bri- tain was concerned, the possi- teed by the US under a strictly meeting place for the Big Four inediate future can be guaran- selection of Washington

the weather to London worsen, and the efforts to save

This morning the Koreans agreement Foreign. Ministers

to deputies agreed on an agendability of agreeing permitting American troops

rather than Washington had not fuel are continued, and if gut-brought out their national flags remain on the Japanese main-in Paris.

The been contemplated.

put is maintained, there is now to greet the British troops land at select bases even after

to have expected port is understood Russians are a treaty is signed,

failure of fuel and insist in their reply to the arisen from a statement in a spread

that paper Western note that the London morning New

that power supplies can be avoided Mr Dulles, in a joint state choice of the site

It was understood. the London might be proposed in- mem with the Australian

Foreign Ministers' conference stead of Washington to spare Foreign Ministor, Mr Percy C.

to the Mr Ernest Bevin, the Foreign Spender, and the New Zealand deputies when they meet in Secretary, a long journey as he Foreign Minister, Mr Frederick Paris.

is recovering from pneumonia. W. Doldge, said on Sunday at Canberra:

Observers here believe that States opinion firmly favours Washington and would be unwilling to agree to any the change-Reuter.

The re-

The

to

be

left for decision

for

Д new

since For the first time

Western diplomats were look- ing forward to the now four- United "No proposals of any charac-power meeting with tor to rearm Japan were dis- feeling of confidence. cussed or considered, surgence of the old Japanese war, the West will be able to s militarism would be a disaster.'"

Officials stressed the US has across from Rumia with the full Its milltary put forward no concrete pro-knowledge that posal in writing yet. Moot of might is on the Increase and thRainfall Record

the Western nations are

the ideas being discussed, they in their determination to resist salt, come from nations in the

Britain And Jap Treaty

London, Feb. 20.

aggression.

discus- In their preliminary sions in Washington, the Western powers were understood clearly to have worked out a defined concept of Join: approach to the new talks with Moscow.n

THE REAL BOOTS

.."

They have agreed to make it clear before the world that the real roots of the current East- the unbased Wast tension are

The time is coming when the British view, on the terms of the Japanese peace treaty must be put forward, says The Times Soviet and Communist charges today.

of alleged unilateral. Western rearmament.

ow that Britain has her own particu- | "U

In One source said: "Now for difficultier especially

have agreed to talk with commercial matters which will we

free the Russians, we want to talk teed adjusting with D

frankly about all problema Japan, the bowspaper rays. It that. trouble the world and will strengthen ties between Japan and the Western Powers Rosin, if sincere, will be able if general outlines of the Amer to prove lier designs.” lean peace plan are accepted

by

It WAB

In Britain

this

London, Feb. 20. Rain over Britain today set a new record. River

their and streams burst- banks at more places.

Rainful. so month at the Observatory at Kew, near London, has totalled 9,63 centimetres, the most over recorded and compared with a not- mal of 2.10 centimetres.

Wat Str. James Healt con, chief scientifle vicer to the Ministry of Agriculture, said ~ today that farm cultivation work 1* * month behind the schedule because of 'downpoura-Beuter.

PI BUDGET

SLASHED

thd evident that ng many members of the For Democracles would insist va »

. Eastern Commission as possible review of the balance of especially as the Soviet Union strength with Russia aria of and Chlua

steps taken by are now denouncing the unilateral the American proposals as an Russia and her satellites to Iniquitous plot to

Walle make abulid up military power

Manila,, Feb, 21. realmed Japan # base for the West disarmed.

The House Appropalations "American aggression" in the What the Western diplomats

allcod President ore hoping against is that Russia Committee does not agree to a deputica Elpidio Quirina's record-1081-82 "Tor some time the United meeting only with the idea of budget from US$300,000,000 to States will discourage Japan turning the Paris session into US$241,000,000 but this did not

Far East,

from

entering into 'commercial

with Communist

relations

China," The Times continues.

"Japan must thus Book else

where marketa, upota which ́ her livelihood", WW11

will depend, Seviral

propaganda forum United change the amount of the

WASHINGTON, VENUE

government's

men's expenditures. The Committee decided to get the money for repayment of a London, Feb. 20. budgetary loan to the United of the Commonwealth countries A Foreign Office spokesman States and for matching

funds help

it Unijedi today denied, reports that thứ for proposed a United Stat

palley Wortem Powges were willina economio aid in "separate myprow chilet, their, sippock in a to comprotales on London. a3 seriation bill The amount that be 2017 being the sons of the projectent Bleeduced from the budget. hot Correa. Four conterence, although provided for in new bine la 4213) Washington: proposed in the 26900,000,000 escolatod Press.

a reasonable 'hope that a wide 'did the samo'when on urmand

was

The output last week 10,000 tons down, but consump- tion dropped 30,000 tons in the last week for which figures are available (ending Feb. 10).

column passed through but when the columa retired again for the night they were quick to take flage in again. This after- noon they showed, more con- fidence when they ripped Chi- nese notices from their front doors.

But the villagers of Punwon- Coal withdrawn from stocks al must be rather bewildered by between Feb. 3 and 10 was less all this coming and going. In in any week 'since. the the proocas they have not much beginning of November-Reu- of a village left to call their

own-London Express Service,

than

ler.

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