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Break Strike Invited

Wellington,

New Zealand, Mar. 13.

The New Zealand του ernment has put 18-year- draftees at work on old

to wharves the nation's move cargo tied up by a 24-day old dock strike,

Two ships of the New Zealand Navy, en training manoeuvres with Aus- tralian ships, recalled

manpower

#iso were increase the avadable to

work the docks.

The strike for bigher pay han paralysed nine New Zealand ports. Some 1,100 servicemen are already at work on the docks. Today's moves are expealed to add another 1.000 men to the pool.

are

The dockworkers striking for higher pay, — Associated Press.

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CHINA MAIL

No. 34841

To Talks

Berlin, Mar. 13.

The Western Allied authorities tonight invited the Russians to round-table talks to end the **little blockade" of West German barges in the Soviet zone and East German barges in West Berlin.

The East German authorities closed West Berlin's water link with West Germany on January 12 for "repairs" to locks.

On March 6 British and Ger- man pollee uccupied canni locki in the British sector of Berlin as part of a new effort to "prevent illegal East-West trade,"

Major-General' G. K. Bourke. British Commandant in Berlin, In a letter to M. Sergel A. Den- in, Berlin representative of the Soviet Control Commission, said,

erlain CEIT!

view of

culties which have arisen from the appllention of administrative mcastures under Soviet and British control to traffic by water to suc from Berlin, I should be glad to know if you would be willing to join in un carly dis- The Indies, bless them, as-cussion of these problems which sumer ofleial control of muni- affect our mutual interests. elpal affairs in Mendon today

Menton, Michigan, Mar. 13.

as the

result of a Landslide "My American and French election victory over their hus-colleagues asociate themselves bands. An all-woman slate of with this enquiry". candidate was formed las:

Dianth

Keren!

Hittle -

Dal-

let-

Major-General Bourke's

A protest ter was in reply to from M. Dengin against the holding up of East German barges at West Berlin locks by British military police and West Berlin police.

to "excite

election. in Monday's But no

ane thought that he women would oust the men.

However. Mrs Helen Hick- mott led the ticket when the

On March & British and Ger- beat Incumbent Marvin man for village president. The man police occupied all three whopping 77-43 West Berlin locks (in the Bri- tish sector) to check East Ger- Although The population Mendon is around 000, only man barges as part of a new 105 persons bothered to register effort to prevent illegal Eas

West trade". for election. Same men candi dates were not even able to vote for themselves.

vote

was a

of

followed The British action the devision of the East German authorities in January to close For years, men got together the Magdeburg-Rothense locks, on a non-partizan progressive in Ban Soviet zone for repairs, ticket and few voters went to thus blocking the vitni Mittel- Berlin's Canol, West the polls to make their choices land

some This year

waterway link with West Ger- legal. But Mendonites decided to make many.-Router. things more interesting. held a caucus and candidates for an

citizens Ucket.

They nominated all-women

Mra Hickmolt helps her hus- band run a store here. Dalman i had not only lost the election but watched race for

his wife win the

Priests Executed In Albania

Radio

The fate of only one bishop, Monsignor Ignore Slaha, was known. He was detained in his home.-Reuter,

Established 1845

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1951.

Big Four Deputies Get

Get Together

Strong Public Reaction To Sentencing Of Two British Sentries

(OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)

London, Mar. 13.

The Big Four Foreign Ministers* deputies are meeting in Paris and this general view of the con- ference table was taken when the talks opened. On right are members of the Soviet delegation, headed by Mr Gromyko. Centre, facing camera, is the British delegation, led by Sir William Strang. On extreme left

Twice in less than a year British public is the French delegation opinion has been shocked by cases of British ser- vicemen who were convicted by courts martial for shooting civilians while they were on sentry duty.

Driver Robert Forgle, sentenced to ten years' impri- | sonment for killing a South Korean civilian at Taegu while he was guarding a military dump, has been freed and the Daily Express this morning reveals the results of a nation-wide public opinion poll carried out in respect of this case last January.

These

the

bitter

...

0 sentry

and with backs to the camera the American re- presentatives.

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REDS FALL ALL ALONG THE LINE

UN Forces Nearing

38th

Parallel

Tokyo, Mar. 14.

The Red Army abandoned a mile-wide belt across Kores yesterday, retreating into the un- defended no-man's-land, and patrols ranged akend in search of the enemy's next defence line.

The Reds faded back out of the reach of the Allies practically everywhere on the 140-mile

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BACK

Petition In Blood

Catro, Mar. 11.

A petition written, in the blood of four woment univeraity graduates de- · manding equal rights for women was sent to King Farouk today.

hear the

Four Cairo buses stopped King's palsco and 800 determined women

members of

the Women's National Partyhustled off and made for the palace with

petition.

the

The ban on demonstra=

Cons stopped them mar- ching through the streets. - Reuter.

Korean front, save for scattered rear guards fight Ex-Diplomat

ing small-scale delaying actions.

Censorship concealed the positions of the advancing United Nations forces as always when contact is broken, and the information might ald the enemy. The Eighth Army, at the last report, was probing into the defences of flanked Seoul, closing in on the mountain citadel of the east central Hongchon and fanning out through wilderness from captured Changpyong and strategic Mount Taemi.

Accused Of Smuggling

Bombay. Indía, Mar. 18. A former Chilean dip- lomat accused of smuggling US$350,000 in gold into

American troops on the cen- the destruction of or damage to tral front were making feeler 43 of them. jabs at the Hongchon River The heaviest enemy road India todny named a Swiss Just west of the town of the traffle was observed in the citizen as the brains of western sector of North Korea an international smuggling. same name.

and along the

cast coast road

attacked and Manuel Garreton is a former

Some front reports indicating from Hamchung 10 Wonsan. ring which pulled off the that the reeling Reds would try The movement

was generally | job, to seize a foothold along the southward. Hongehon barely 20 miles be One train was low the 38th Parallel. The Reds were rushing reinforce-amaged by a single H-20 night Chilean Ambassador to Turkey northwest of Sinanju and representative on the United ments aixi supplies southward. on the main rall une from An-Nations Korean Commission, He Allied authorities had no doubt ung in Manchuria.

has since been discharged. that the enemy had only pulled Fighters and light bombers back, not out, and was getting concentrated

Court officials sald he confess- Communist on ready to fight again.

supply dumps and

ed today that he brought the forward transport lines. Pilots claimed sold into India in a diplomatic The Eighth Army, striking

pouch, northward along a broad front to have destroyed 77 supply

In addition, pursued the retreating Com carts, 11 railroad cars and 24

he admitted pack animals. munists.inward the 38th Parallel ] P

bringing in six suitcases of gold.

on Tuesday and rent, patrols |- HUNT- CONTINUED deap into enemy territóry with-

"

out contacting major, Chinese or More than 600 enemy troup

casualties were North Korean forces.

Division tront southwest

on

claimed

and

on another occasion. Police unid the Swiss citizen named in the confession is being sought in Europe.

the

The Express asked on two death sentence last year on Linsell who successive days whether readers Private Gordon

the newspaper has over four killed a German policeman ut million of them-thought the Bielefeld while on guard duly.

Garretón entered his confes-'. Only on the First Cavalry ground and carrier-bated planes

-Were. offcarly-bodad sent.nce was justified. On the Ho was subsequently released,

to sion before Chief Presidency of hunt down elusive Communist Magistrate Oscar Brown. first day over 27,000 people remarried his 18 year-old sweet- plied "No" and only 31 answer- heart, but died three weeks The United States, Bri-Hongchon did the Chinese stand troops withdrawing ahead of

and fight. They hurled D

The ex-diplomat, faces ed "Yes" to the question. Next

NEXT Jater of a spinal disrase,

tish and French delegates battalion-sized

the "advancing United Nations counter-attack Army.

charges along with a French- day the vote against the sen-

announced tonight

man, Guy de la Passardiere, tence was over 14,000 and

that against the Cavalrymen at 1.15 These two cases taken

The Navy said its carrier and C. Gonzalo Mera, former supported London, Mar. 13. number of people who thought gether now provide a subject of their talks with Russia on p.m., but the Yanks

fires in support chief officer of the Chilean Lan- Public controversy.

air and artillery bombard planes started by Vatican Radio said today that it was justified fell to only 13.

Ja programme for a Big Mem threw the Reds back by of ground eperations in the don Embassy. The Frenchman treasures, while Mrs 40 Roman Catholle priests had published at the time because on the rights of

resulta were never opinion is demanding a ruling Four Foreign Ministers' 6.30 p.m.

a.ong the centrals out on bail. Police said Mera The counter-attack Seoul arca Mary Malc defrated her husbeen executed in Albania with-the. Allamey-General, Sir Hart-who shoots and kills somebody conference were "complete- | came after the Chinese, falling front and on the east coast on escaped from India

by plane batid.

Tuesday Gondon, -for-village-out-trial.

before Garreton's arrest. he is on armed guard ly dead-locked."

back toward the Hongchon river, Most of the priests still alive key Shawcross, ruled that the while

The Rus-

email trusice. The ody woman who

Allied Naval forces carried threw heavy

arms and

the

Garreton confessed that the lost

was beator by another were in prison and all Albanian Case was sub judice,

over a military establishment. sian delegate, Mr Andrei automate weapons fire into the siege of Wonsan through its 25th Swiss offered him a large re to But postcards continued bishops had been suspended or pour into the Daily Express day, "They give a sentry a gun. woman,

The Daily Express says to Gromyko, scornfully rejected advancing cavalrymen through edge

Tuesday, pounding ward for bringing in the gold. had disappeared, the "This is just dandy." said one

office. By the end of February But if he uses it a ten years a compromise programme out the day and lobbed more bridges and rall and highway He said he picked up the suit- over 58,000 people had protested sentence may

the than 100 rounds of mortar fire tersections, 38 other United cases containing the defeated candidate who prefer-added.

gold be the

submitted by con- draft against the sentence and 49

into their positions during the States ships continued the sea- Bangkok from Mera. red to remain anonymous. "Now

sequence despite the Fargie de- three Western delegates. afternoon.

horne

attack on Chongiin and we enn just sit back and see if

had given it their approval.

cision..... A similar public

Mr Gromyko insisted that the outery

Songjin. these gas can do the job any

Hallowed better.United Press,

Also on the Korean east coast, the passing of the

programme contain a separate THE QUESTION REMAINS

item on forbidding milliarien- "General Sir Horace Robert- tion of Germany--an

item which would be so worded alling to explain the reasons to for his refusal to confirm the ment of the sentence.....

for

"The War Ofce explains that "There is a the Judge Advocate-General | jock," said a Western spokes- Lack of contact with the re- erred in his summing up thus man after today's meeting. "No treating Rods was reflected in invalidating the proceedings, 50 new proposals were made by the Eighth Army's claim of only the questions still remain: either side. Thero was no 1,340 casualiics and the capture

"Is a soldier on a murder agreement on the old proposed of 47 prisoners on Tuesday.

justified after charge

all in Hems.

has been

on the east North Korruns by either

central front and the Chinese to delegates were the west were abandoning well- positions doubt rifle, trigger when somebody beginning to

whether prepared defensive ignores his challenge to halt? Russia, which first proposed hundreds of lives to overcome. that could have cost the Allies Nobody knows,"

Foreign Ministers conference, really wanted one now.

COMMENT OF THE DAY

THE

Hongkong's Radio Stations.

were

divorce of Hongkong's radio stations from the controlling influence of the Postmaster-General, long advocated, has at last been effected. But not quite in the way urged by the reformists. The argument Was that Radio Hongkong with its Chinese counterpart, ZEK, sufficiently important and specialised departments to justify independent operation by properly qualified adminis trative officers. Another point constantly being hammered home was that the PMG had an important, full-time job of work to tackle without being saddled with the extra

worry of trying to administer radio stations, While Government, apparently, has been willing to concede the last-named pro- position, it is not ready to acknow- -ledge the first. Instead, under the new arrangement, first made public last week by the Financial Socretary in his

the Budget speech,

administrative control passes from the PMG to the PRO. Superficially this may possess advantages. There is natural liaison between the PRO and Raillo Hongkong; furthermore both the radio stations-and- the PRO share responsibilities for , keeping the public informed and of giving to the outalde world the Hong- kong point of view. An important similarity of interests and functions. clearly exists. Still open to question, however, is whether the PRO is not being asked to shoulder too heavy a burden. His department has consider- ably expanded ainco It was first catablished late in 1945 with corrès- ,pondingly heavier duties. More than over Is it a full-time job. The obvious danger is that a PRO, (or anybody *elso), called upon to administer two. weighty departments, might find the dual responsibility too severe a strain..

The listening public, it has been frequently shown, are fairly sensitive to changes in the quality of radio enter- tainment and a vast number of factors have to be taken into consideration when putting daily programmes on the air; and this involves much time. It is no sinecure to run radio stations and usually requires undivided interest. Which is why the conviction remaina that Radio Hongkong should have its separate administrative officer with necessary assistants. If it is pleaded that Radio Hongkong cannot afford any

such administrative set-up, the argument will cut very little ice with the publle. The department is substantial revenue-producer and could, with justification, claim that it is already held down to a beggarly budget. The suspicion remains that Govern- ment still underestimates the impor- tance of its radio stations, not only as a source of public entertainment, but as a counter-irritant to the propaganda which pours out over the air daily from Canton and other China mainland sta- tions. Telescoping the functions of Gov- erament radio into another department may be economical but whether it can bo effective is open to serious doubt. Government's

does latest action nothing to rationalise the problem of ita radio stations; it merely perpetuates a system of remote control. It may, this time, bear better, results. The proposals for enlarging the Public Relations Office should; in due courée,

· provide...a clue. But we suggest Government might fruitfully, review; its decision to amalgamato broadcasting with the Public Relations Office In | order to allow both departmenta thé .......

~fullest possible freedom for effective

operation.;

son

LACK OF CONTACT Patrols probing northward the United States destroyer, For- only in the day reported strong rest Royal, again provided artil Communist groups in positiens lery support for United Nations

The previous shipment came from Europe on November 20 when be flew to India duroute

the Far East as a member of

he

the UN Commission. He said

was accompanied

was the Swiss tory.

added to the confusion by constimule in itself an indict-west and southwest of Hong-round forces presumably in the flzht by de la Passardiere, who

Western powers

Germany g to rearm Western chon, but Inter there was evid- Į vicinity of Calmetinul,

pleading that he acted on a change

complete dead-

·Thero In position

superior's orders? Is or is not sidestern

sentry entitled to pull the

a

The Express calls

On the

no

How-

ence that these groups were withdrawing also.

Secretary of State for War, Mr Western delegates during

ever, Mr Gromyko told the cane banker and foxhole

the

Ridges honeycombed with in-

Strachey, to tell Parliament the wrangling today at the longest along the front. No responsible systems were found deserted alt full story of Forgie's trial, con meeting viction and release.

officials would the conference Eighth Army It adds "What are the sen-ed on March 6: "It":

of the Big Four deputies start-speculate on the depth of the try's rights? When there is a

since

Communist road traffic drop-

case of shooting who should to talk about fallure, carly Communist withdrawal,

This was the first time that stand trial-the-entry, the the possibility

of fallure even ped off to approximately 650 Sergeant of the Guard, or the to agree on a programme

for vehicles observed by Fifth Air. offeer?

discussion by a Foreign Minis Force night intruders on Tues- "A private soldier must noters conference had been men- day night, after three days of longer be expected to risk tentioned in the meetings-United record-breaking enemy years in goal for giving the Press. wrong answer to a question which seems to have baffled officers

Who court martialled

him."

Anti-Segregation

Bomb Planted

In Embassy

ment

move-

averaging about 1,500 vehicles nightly.........

·NIGHT SORTIES

The weather was clear over, all of North Korea during the hours of darkness, and the Fifik Air Force put up more than 30 night attack sorties.to observe and strike Communist Transport

Fifth Air Force mounted The F la a bomb In your

on garden," a mystery voice over greatest effort of the war

wore 707 Tuesday. There telephone Informed Nairobi, Mar. 13. Yugoslav Embasry here today. ffective sortles reported by midnight, topping the previous high mark of 774 sortles down

Motion Defeated

The Kenya Legislative Coun-

- 16 VICTO

100

Rome, Mar. 13.

The Embassy called police,

Its

cil today rejected by' 23 votes to | who found a half-pound a Monday,

elghi a motion condemning made dynamite bomb. cial segregation in Kenya.

diamantled It without explosion.

Enemy vehicles have ·been The motion, put by Mr A B. Just after midnight last night taking ́a "heavy pounding as Patel, leader of the ave-Indian-two similar bomba exploded, Fifth Air Force, fighters and elocted

members, asked that #tone beside the Italian Forelan "ight, bombers, concentrated on Select Committee, be appointed Office and the other in the gar- the campaign

to halt 1219

*****" 'an Ale Force: shakes

to investigate the question and den of the United States Em- enemy's stopped" " up re-pupply suggest hears of rendering by.

and vold radial segregation' Pamphlets found, nearby

said, "On.. "Tuesday, 128 they were "Black vehioles were reported; destroge

[covenante :, în › land, tiltos; and (dision protest · agaifist ́any jed・・ or damaged, bringing th6|

agreements

The 11 eleciad Europath action at the London confer-total for the past three days members Joined Glovertiment race of Prime Minister Alcide mendar în opposing a thò de Galpert and Foreign Minis”. On Tuesday night alone more The Indiang African War Curio Sforza, that might than 100 enemy vehicles wope and Arab members supported it. yield-Italy's claim for resuan attackert by B-26 pilots of the of Trieste.--Associated Press. - Third Bomb Wing who gakued

A Naval announcement said the purpose of the continuing bombardments was to prevent the construction of bypasses and underwater log bridges such as the North Koreans have used in the past to keep troops and sup plies moving United Press, ›

on the

citizen's secre-

TC-

Large amounts of gold have been smuggled into India cently because of the high price it brings. The government con- trols the value of the Rupee and trading in go'd is illegel.—Asso- clated Press,

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