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No. 34835

Established 1845

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1951.

Reassuring Reds Strike Back

Picture Of HK

(Our Own Correspondent)

London, Mar. 6.

A reassuring picture of life in Hongkong is con- tained in an article publish- ed in the Timca' review of the

Mollet Fails In Central

To Win Vote

Parts, Mar, 0.

Premier-designate Guy Mollet, Socialist Перпку who pleaded for Parila- mentary help in forming a

Cabinet to alow

is not confusion in France, Talled to obtain confirma tion by 25

In the votes in National Assembly tonight.

He w Was

"beaten by Ma

his

derate. and Rightist groups whilch oppose party's Bocialistic policies

new British Colonies to- day. In marked contrast to many recent articles coming out of Hongkong It shows how community life-par- ticularly business life-has atood up with surprising resilience to events in China.

The comependent who claims 40 years' knowledge of the Colony says he can think of two episodes in his ex- Only

this which "rocked tight little island to its founda- tions." One was the seamen's strike in 1923 and the other was the Japanese occupaljon.

perience

lo

Although he does much

wrong impres- correel many sions about present-day life in the Colon he does not uttempt to glass over the effects

of the embargo on American

Hongkong. trade with

Re

not least of the new "unjust und is the

hostility some ill-informed critics about

of the

55 a

The outcome means sident Vaicent Auriol must fnd Botcone else possible successor to Pre- mier Rene Pleven, who resigned last Wednesday because of a deadlock in Parliament over

proposed changes En the French election

lawn.-Associated

Press

US Stops

Tin Stockpile

Purchases

among

the nature

Colony's trode

One might think that Hongkong deals in nothing but

materials and

a nest of today that al} is merely Colony

of tin for the smugglers. This is plain non-

can discover pile

war

sense as anyone

that the

The

Washington, Mar. 4. government announced new purchases national stocic- suspended im-

will be

by a glance al the Infinite mediately. variety of raw materials

und

up

consumer goods the

that make

of com- its enormous volume mercu.

It is true that while exports of strategic materials of them is prohibited come do get out in spite of official vigilance.

know (Most people how hard it is to stop Chinese traders when they set out to beat the bans). But this is a mere tithe of the Colony's com- merce which is almost wholly concerned with commodities of peace, no of war. And finally, even an American would have to travel far la find shops more heavily stocked with American goods than the Chinese stores. in Hongkong's main streets." London Express Service,

Gasperi Succeeds

Rome, Mar. 8.

Prime Minister

Gasperi won a

Alcide De

325 to 16 vote

n

Korea

HOLDING ACTION

Tokyo, Mar. 7.

Communist forces struck back sharply at both ends of the central Korean front on Wednesday, driving the US 24th Division units from a hill near Yangpyong and knifing into South Korean lines cast of Amidong.

Sketchy first reports indicated that fighting was continuing in both areas, but the Eighth Army Headquarters doubted that either was the begin-: ning of an anticipated Red counter-offensive,

United Press correspondent Rutherford Poats at the Eighth Army Headquarters said it appeared still to be a Chinese and North Korean "holding action."

some

Gains of 1,000 to 2,000 yards were reported by United Nations forces southeast of Hoengsong in the centre of the line where North Koreans” and Chinese were pulling back into the trackloss moun. tains ahead of the U.S. Second Division and the ROK Third Division.

Suspension of the purenases for the stockpile had been re- commended by the Senate Sub-committee Preparedness

olher non until Britain and Communist countries agreed to stop what the Senators termed of American tax- "gouging" payers by lin mine owners } ***** and speculators.

24

Patrols of the US Third Divi- that it would be the start of a aion again struck out across the Red counter-offensive, but be- Han cast of Seoul, landing from Heved it more likely à stubborn small assault bosts on a rocky | enemy attempt to relieve pres- beach jutting into a loop of the sure on the road junction at Han. They look

where 50 Chinese Sokea,

the Kangnung- prisoners and reported only Hoengsong lateral road crosseri

lght resistance.

the north-south road from The crossing was 15 miles Fangalm to the 38th Parallel cast of Seoul. An Eighth Army and beyond. communique said

that Red company struck a 24th Division Hill 196, two platoon holding miles west-northwest of Yang- pyong at 10.40 pm, on Tuesday. The Americans fell back after Announcing the decision to a 40-minute

and called light stop new purchase, the general for artillery support.

The communique said that at services administration said:

The polley is expected to a.m. today the Yanks were forcing continue until the price of tin agato advancing and

reasonable level." the enemy to pull back from reaches a

'the hill. Assoclated Press.

The Reds hit other 24th Divi

(British Press reactions 10 the United States Senate Pre- sion units in the same area at and as of 3,30 a.m. paredness Sub Committee's 2.05 am. stricture on in mine owners the battle was continuing. An-

of enemy on other group and dealers will be found

Troops | Page 71

lilt Allied troops holding Hill

two miles 270,

northeast of Yangpyong at 3.50 a.m., but fell back after failing to take the hill.

South Pole Crossed

COMMENT OF THE DAY

now

At the castern end of the

The Accumulated Surplus

Allied warplanes were flying over the Korean front carly today in clear skies after snow and low clouds hampered alr activilles somewhat, during the past days.

Price 20 Cents

AIRLIFTING OUT THE WOUNDED

United Nations troops in the Wonju area of Korea slosh through mud and snow toward a walt- ing helicopter with 4 wounded comrade to be evacuated to a first ald station in the rear of the fighting zone. Helicopters are being used extensively for this type of operation. -AP Picture.

STOP PRESS

The Budget

Ground-based planes flew less than 150 sorties on Tuesday, the Far East Air Force Hondquarters announced. There was no report Its carrier from the Navy on activities for the day.

All-weather

B-209

from $13 Okinawa braved the foul weather to plaster Hamhung, Hungnam and Pyongyang with 160 tons of bombs. All but one attack on Hamhung was by rader-United Press,

ADVANCE

BLIZZARD Tokyo, Mar. 7. American Second Division troops slogged forward more than a mile in a blizzard

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Building Up The RAF

HUGE SPENDING PROGRAMME

London, Mar. 6.

The British government disclosed today plans to spend more than £1,400,- 000,000 on the Royal Air Force by the spring of 1954.

"Air strength has been given first priority in our defence syz** tem," Air Secretary Arthur Honderson told the House of Commons.

By the 1933-54 fiscal year, he said, the Royal Air Force.... which now

ranks behind the Army and Navy in spending "may be the largest angle` ele- ment in the defence budget."

He said present plans call for Increasing RAF strength to 800,- 000 men this year. It stood at 216,000 last spring.

Mr Henderson refrained "for

DISCORD AMONG BIG FOUR DEPUTIES security reasons from giving

Gromyko Strays

Far Afield

Paris, Mar. 6.

the number of planes now in service, but said the RAF world-wide fighter strength is 1 already greater than it was in. September, 1939, when World War II broke out.

£400,000,000 A YEAR

an

Mr Henderson was the first: speaker in a House debate on the Air Force budget for the fiscal year beginning April 1. A controversy that has bogged down so many The government is asking

£320,750,000 East-West meetings-how basic issues should be appropriation at

compared with £223,000,000 interpreted-caused sharp clashes between Rus-Inst year, Mr Henderson said, sia's Andrei Gromyko and Western power dele- gates at the Big Four Deputies' meeting today.

The Deputies are working on proposed agendas for a Foreign Ministers conference on world problems.

In Western eyes, Mr Gromyko far afield from what strayed this conference is all about. In her preliminary

notes, Russia

Million Surplus had stressed that this conference

Estimated

Estimated

on

is

that

•

K

revenue

on

"HERE WE GO AGAIN" One Western representative summed it up with the remark: "Here we go again.”

Linder the

present pro- between 1950-51 and.

оп expenditure

the Air Force will average over £400,000,000 a year.”

this: outline of air defence plans for

The Air Secretary gave

the immediate future:

Age Limit Forw

Malaya Service

age was not

alderation.

Mr Strachey replied: "I do not really think we ought to alter the age limit for going to Malaya. It is a tensely tragle thing when any soldier is killed in Malaya jor anywhere else.”

1. The

government has placed "substantial orders" for new fighter plane which have a rate of climb exceeding that of the best jet fighter in Bervice

today this or any other country."

and

defence."

In

4. The number of fighter-and- Germany will be substantially ground attack squadrons in increased this year."

5. The first squadrons

the high-speed? asked the equipped with

twin-jet Canberra bomber will

a tank-led force that entered $250,448 Panditure amounts toing to write this conference off advisers. But they are convinced connaissance

town.

be

Pepsodent

would talk about the subjects for an agenda, not the subjects themselves. The West agreed,

But a French official said Mr

2. A "powerful force" of night fighter squadrons is being The Hongkong Govern-Gromyko even brought in the

London, Mar. 4. Mc John Strachey, today built up. All will be equipped ment is budgetting for a question of Japan, a subject not

demands with Jet planes

1. the agenda proposed by parried Conservative surplus of $13,815,713 in the either side. He made one long that 18-year-olds be kept off

3. A chain of radar stations forthcoming financial year.

the Malaya draft by saying that is planned which speech and several short ones.

will encircle the biggest con- the United Kingdom. New A Western official who at

10- radar equipment is being tended said Mr Gromyko made revenue Buenos Aires, Mar. 6 central front, a regiment of the Tuesday on the trail of casualty $247,280,850 and estimated an hour and a-half-propaganda Air Commodore A.-V. Harvey rodu experience

on research of confidence tonight-in

An Argentine scientific mis- South Korean Seventh Division riddled Karcan Reds retreating

speech which violated Russia's said that "tens of thousands of since the war and designed to

during and * Lumuitous session of the Italian

sion conducting surveys in the reported itself under "heavy of Deputies, Chamber

The Argentine

deeper into the mountain wilder expenditure $288,465,187.

own stipulation that this con- parents ore under great stress meet the needs of modern air Antarctic region pressure" from four

enemy "nesa

ness of east central Korea. cession was boycotted by Com- crossed the South Pole, it was regiments

ference should not go into the in this matter.” two miles south of munist and

Field dispatches sald Lettiat Deputies arounced here today.United Soksa and six miles northeast while the snowstorm grounded the

the surplus materialines issues involved. Associated Press,

Press.

accumulated of Amidong. Officers conceded Alled planes it helped the balance will stand of $191,700,-

American troops to follow the 432 at the end of next March. tracks of the clusive Com- munists. Along the route iny the frozen, bodies of

"hundreds

It was disclosed at Legisla-

He was referring to the way of enemy dead" killed in recent tive Council this afternoon that

M: R. A. Butler the revised estimated surplus the previous East-West meetings Aghting.

in clashes Minister for assurance that men Farther east, the US Seventh for the current financial year have bogged down Division was reported by Lieu- will be $23,781,877, but that this over basic issues and repetition of only four months training be formed "shortly. These cused if he were

fore- tenant-General to inquire whether

Matthew B. would have been much larger statements of fundamental and should not be drafted abroad. squadrons will be he

runter Ridgway, US Eighth Army Com- but for the

wha large light bomber anything tangibly useful is being done

fact that during undhanging pollcle by each

Mr Strachey answered: "The force which mander, to be in possession of the year 300 million in respect side.

this type". Event number of weeks training is with with the money. Is it just "dead"

highway communication of loan advances were charged money, and if so, why should it remain centre of Changpyong.

But no one appeared yet will something I will consider with my there will be photographic Te off to expenditure, Thus the

squadrons also Associated so? Government justifies the creation of

A fed dispatch, however, sald revised

as finished. Another meeting is that the present regulations are using Canberras, It is also em-

Press. a mammoth reserve on the grounds Changpyong on Monday with phasised that expenditure during being held on Wednestiny, with correct"-Associated Press.

drew at night fall. An Eighth the current your includes $10 Mr Gromyko presiding. that it may be necessary in a time of

Army briefing officer reported a million towards the cost of the "It seems to be 'a lot of the emergency. It is a credible enough Seventh Division armoured present

emergency, which was rame old thing, but I suppose we argument, except, of 'course, our

patrol drew stiff Communist not provided for in the original should not be defeatists, said anti-tank and mortar fire substantial reserves in 1941 did not do

on estimate, and that considerable one official Tuesday, one mile south of the unforeseen expenditure 10:1 ́"Given goodwill and a desire the Colony a great deal of good when

socurity mid civil defence to bring about a meeting of the war descended on Hongkong. That is

measures has also been in- Foreign Ministers, there is no curted during the year. not to suggest that we do not agree

reason why the space between with the building-up of adequate

the two agendas (of Russia and the West) cannot be. bridged," financial reserves. They are essential:

a British spokesman, But the danger exists of the whole

The Russians were giving no thing becoming an obsession; where possession of a fabulous accumulated revenue balance becomes more im- portant in the mind of Government than the judicious use of some of the money. There are emergencies other than those associated with war or internal security. One emergency which confronts the Colony today (and han done for years past) is the menace of Tuberculosis; another is education; yet another open spaces and other social amenities. We may not be ablo to deal with these demands on the purse from current general revonuc, but they do seem to have a claim on an accumulated surplus which threatens very soon to exceed. Its minimum requirements by $60 million. As much us. anything else the public will be in- terested to know is whether Govern- ment proposes to relcaso some of these excess funds for improving · public, services, or whether Government "intends to build the surplus"up" to `an astronomical, figure for, the sheer sako of being able to boast of a balanco, greater than expenditure in anyone year is ever likely to be. There needs to be moderation in murplus-buildings.

.

[/HILE Hongkong's taxpayers have no reason to regard today with any trepidation, it does possess for them a certain degree of interest. This afternoon Sir, Geoffrey Follows presents the Budget for 1951-52 and while first estimates for expenditure have already been mode known, the Financial Secretary's proposals for raising suf- ficient revenue remain a secret until after he has made his speech to Legislative Council.' Sir Geoffrey, is

familiar

Colony's with the proclivity for producing many millions of dollars more than envisaged in the Estimates, which has the effect of giving the Budget an air of unreality. Yet it is probable that, with the substantially increased expenditure which the Financial Secretary fore- casts, and the dangerous possibility that revenue will not be so readily forthcoming as in the year ending, next year's Estimates will come nearer the actual figures than in the past. Government could rely on this year's income being repeated, revenue be tween 279 and 280 million dollars could be expected which would still allow the Financial Secretary to budget for a useful surplus. Even conservatively Government can hope for a credit balance of five to ton million dollars. The presumption is that this, or any other surplus on the year's working „will be added to the general revenue

balance. That accumulated balance' should, by the end of this month, amount to between $230 million and $240 million, competely independent of any credit balance outstanding from the operations of the old Supplies, Trade and Industry Department. It; is a rosy picture, although the taxpayer.. "might" be" forgiven if he wondered whether the Colony is deriving any practical valus from possessing such a vast reserve. He might also be ex-ins with all other thin mi vitaestimanete sa|

If

In the centre

of the United Nations line of attack Chinese Communists battled stubbornly at two road approaches to | Hongchon-headquarters of the

Chinese 66th Army Corps,

of

REGISTRATION TAX

The Financial Secretary ex- longchon, 22 air miles south pects: to obtain the bulk of his

inside. Gromyko,

The

the 30th Parallel. forms the revenue from duties, rates, in-being to the Western press on apex of a defence

triangle fernal revenue and the various formed three vital roads. It other normal heads.

to be the

be the focal point

to

by

reputed

of a

Hom000-man Red build-up.

with IRIUM removes

to

FILM

what occurred Deputies Me

US Ambassador-at-Largo

Philip Jessup, British Chief Delegate by mud and slush introduce a Business Registra-dre Parod!, the French Perma- Nevertheless it is proposed to Ernest Davies, and Mr Alexan- following a six-inch snowfall, tion Tax with an annual fee of nent Under-Socretary of Foreign Greek infantry attached to the $200. Originally the Sgure was Affairs met in the UB First Cavalry.

Pink Palace Division

fixed at $300, but it has been on

Monday. They nevertheless captured

are trying the left reduced to prevent, any possibl-agree on what subjects to talk base of the triangle at Yongdu, ilty of hardship on small busi about at a new Foreign Minis- 15 miles southwest of Hongchon. nesses. The tax is expected to tere conference. Russia drigio They were pounded by heavy

yield $4,000,000.

ally demanded a council of Communist 4re from the klifs

Foreign Ministers last November. to the north-Associated Press.

to take up the question of Ger-

Triplets Finally Arrive

..

The

There is to be no increase in many aspecially the plans of the' milarics and profits taxes.

Western powers to bring Gemmary into their defence setup.

#

From duties the Government

Mr Gromyko proposed a three- to collect expecta

$50,400,000

point agenda heavy with items compared with the estimated about German disarmamenta $39,800,000 for the current year.

German peace treaty, with- London, Mar. 0.

Hates were climated to yield drawal of occupation troops and The 38-year-old wife of

$27,040,000 compared

with

reduction of the 1850-81 cotimate of $31,518,000; lorry driver Anished giving Internal Revenue to produce birth to: triplets, today-two

The woman, Mrs Amy Elizas

the four, powers.

armed forces of 1

offered an agenda

The West buer

beth Oakes, bada 4 15. 12- count of *** us the satellites—an` Austriar days after the first one arri MIYA

ogrinet. $70,000,000:1

Fines and Forfeitures that would take up Arst the "chuses of international tensión (49,640,450); Tocs of in Europe the armed forces $10,993,300 of Russia, East Germany and

crince

daughter

In an East End hospital on

on Sunday. The other ($10,877,880);

this morning. One weighed five Homela

Kowloon pounds three pinees, his other five pounds two ounces, ple

The babiest and Mrs Cakes, who: skronity, ban 18-your-oid Hop, were said to be doing well. Efissociated Prem.

$($10,095,000)

Poat dependence treaty and, last, the

queaflops

of German unlly and

Today, the

five hours to ape if they oquld Hedorpie put the two lists together

workable","whole,

makes

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