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MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1951.

Eire And Memorial To Wingate

Sailor Slaps A

Military

Alliance

General Condition Statod

Honolulu, Mar. 18.

Washington, Mar. 18. The Irish External Affairs A 25-year-old sailor, who Minister, Mr Sean MacBride, landed an Air Force gen-suid today that Ireland will craf instead of a Com- turn down A military munist agent, was forgiven alliance with tho United today by the general for States or any other Western slapping him and hustling power As long as Britain him off to police head- continues to rule northern quarters."

Ireland,

Major-Gen. David Schlatter

Mr M+cBride spoke in a said he holds no brief again!" nationwide radio broadcast that storekeeper third class Edward Ireland is more concerned about Burt Jr., "except for possible British "aggression" than the embarrassment to the two ser me

menace of Russia. He said, vices. It was just one of those "There difference between absolutely fabulous things that

Russia and Britain. So far as can't happen but did."

democracy is concerned they

no

Gen. Schiatter stopped over both are occupying powere," in Honolulu СТ route to The gaunt 47-year-old states- Washington from Koren. He man stoutly defended Ireland's

position

regarding

the defence

said, "i am not going to press charre against the sailor

lorf Europe during a furry of because obviously he had a bit of crusning spirit" The question from

"Meet the Pressermen on programme, He declared that it would be impossible for Iroland to mount

of defence any kind

so long, as people remain ununited.

"INCONCEIVABLE”

suitor's "crusading spirit" came to light when he marched the general into the police head- Saturday quarters early_ on saying, "I got a No, I Communist. in the Islande here. I want an Investigation.”

It would be "inconceivable", he said, for Ireland to join a Burt was turned over to the military alliance with a country Hawall armed services police a commiting "aggression" in Its moment Inter when

Gen. territory. Schiatter produced identification The Minister WGS asked if papers showing he was the com-Ireland would grant the United manding general of research and Sintes buses to help defend development in the Air Force. Eu He said the "base_ques-

Europe. Bath Burt and Schlatter were tion has not come up. So far attired in mufti and Burt told the United States has not asked

the armed services police he had for aleated that it is not a

mistaken the general's motive. Не

when the general asked him, more important fight for Ireland "Are you happy in your job? I not why don't you join my outta Communism than agains!

braid,"

"aggression." British

Gen:

vod

and ' get you some gold The Minister conceded that braid." Burt said he figured Ireland continues to trade with anyone side wa

sidewalk recruiting that Britain and said it would trade early in the morning belonged to

25 "little as possible" with some "subversive organisation.

Russia. But he said this invol: Burt said he stopped

no Inconsistency.—United Schlatter "15 or 20 times" and Press. took him to the police station.

SPAIN WILLING The General said, "I tried to

Washington, Mar, 18. protest mysciź as much as I could but he was n' hell of sight bigger than I am, and I was looking around for a police

man."

the

The general declined to dis- cuss the incident in detail, and said,

"I personally am not making anything against salior. He obviously had a drink or two and was being cbstre perous. I've dropped the whole matter. As far as I am con-

cerned it's through."-United

Press.

Cocke Arriving Here Today

Manila, Mar, 19.

Spain is reported. to have told the United States it would dispatch troops to

Grims sounded Mr Franco government, shortly after arriving in Madrid earlier this month to end a five

diplomatic усп

snubbing of Spain-Associated Press.

A plaque was recently unveiled in th› Charterhouse war memorial chapel in memory of the late Major- General Orde Charles Wingate, the Chindit leader, Photo shows Capt. Blackburne, a Chindit, with the Chindit colours beside the plaque after the unvelling, which was performed by Vice-Admiral Lord Mountbatten

UN

38th Where Necessary

Forces Will Cross

Washington, Mar. 18.

Responsible authorities said today United Nations forces in Korea will cross the 38th Parallel when and where necessary to exact a heavy toll of the retreating Chinese Communists and keep them off balance.

which

Parallel.

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Full-Scale Retreat By

Communists

CHUNCHON ABANDONMENT NOW INDICATED

Tokyo, Mar. 19.

Chinese and North Korean Communists were in fast, full-scale retreat towards the 38th Parallel yesterday, apparently abandoning their májór base at Chunchon.

United Nations patrols on the Eastern end of the Central Korean front operated less than 10 miles from that critical parallel without find- ing their elusive foc.

Allied Commanders last night said they believed the Chinese

Westerling On The Move

· Casablanca, Mar. 18. Turco Westerling left suddenly the town of Ifrane, French Morocco, where he had been for two days under An assumed

name,

ohlef

rebel

was reliably learned the former Dutch of да Indonesian

band was angry at having been discovered by reporters.

Turco left with a com- . panion

unknown for an

destination - Associated ITCKS,

deserted Chunchon; last important Red stronghold South of the old divid-New Soviet

ing line between Communist and Republican Korea.

the

target. They

Korean Communist opposition Latest estimates. of Red The aerial war continued at on the Eastern front suddenly strength place four Chinese peak level, as it has for vanished as American and South Armies (Corps) ranging from last week. Korean forces seized control of 120,000 to 100,000 on the front

B-20 bombers from Okinawa vital pass, ave miles north of line and four more Corps of

East This Hooks Im the old boundary.

hamlet is 18 air equal strength in

coast Immediate hit miles

delivered a saturation type, 200- "It is all

there "

attack on The Eighth Army communique ton

a Communist Associated Press correspondent last right said there had been military Brea at Hungnam.

reported excellent to little contact Sunday with the Pilots Tom Stone said in referring to as an alther the Western front suits and no interference from the Eastern drive, Returning

Red fighters or ground fire.

over up

rezerve.

to Eighth Army Headquarters, near Scout, or in the wilderness than token resistance left and Stone said, "There is no more of deep East Central Koren,

intelligence reports Indicate the North Korean Reds in the east fare withdrawing,"

Slope cautioned, however, that whde, the Rods were on the run ¡now, it did not mean they could not stop, regroup and fight from even better positionis,*

North of Soksa the road lails off into mountain trails which modern tre impassable

armour.

SUPPLY LINES CUT

Eneiny supply lines on the were cut by 01010- East coast,

muing naval bombardment, with the bottleship Missouri leading the attacks. The Mis- Burt sammed 225 tons of-high

C.

Associated Press.

re-

Iran Reported On Verge

Of

Revolution

Teheran, Mar. 18.

Threat To Yugoslavia

Frankfurt, Mar. 18. Hungarian refugee sources reported today that the Russians had packed nearly 10 Red Army Divi- slons into their strategic province of Carpatho- Ukraine. These could par- ticipate in a Cominform Invasion of Yugoslavia if | Stalin orders it.

called

Carpatho- Ukraine, Ruthenia before Czechoslovakia the Soviet Union The country was on the verge of a revolution ceded it to

shortly after the war, borders within 24 hours of the Persian Senate's expected on Hungary, Romania, Czecho- decision to nationalise the oil industry; a deputylovakia and Poland. told Reuter.

The Majlis (Lower House) could not meet the critical financial situation, in which Government ́departments could not pay their employees. At

tempts to form a new Government following the as- broken sassination of General Ali Razmara had down and the late Prime Minister's Bill to increase the note issue had still not been adopted by Parlia-

ment.

received-Router.

Strong Russian forces based there need only roll south across the Easier Hungarian plains over new and Improved, Ipads-to reach the Yugoslav borders.

According to the Hungárlun refugees" smuggled information;* It is the strategic tie-up - with Hungary which the Russians have most intensively dove-j loped

thrusts, how-Yalu River border of Man-explosive into a major Com- to the defence Such tactical

mainist troop encampment cer of Western Europe if desired ever, will not necessarily mean churlu.

the main commitment of and provided American weapons

These orders have not been tre nt Chaho, 50 miles south of body of the Korean armies to curtailed in recent weeks forces. her

as Songjin. are sent to

UN troops on the East coast Gen. MacArthur's forces, now Responsible officials said to-fighting in North Kores. day this

under command of Lieutenant-were in position to reach the assurance has been

If that appears to be required

General Metthew B. Ridgway. perallel anytime they wanted given by the Spanish Foreign by future deep withdrawals of Omce to American Ambassador the Communists, there will be,

once more approach the 38th to under protecting Navy guns.

The deputy told Reuter that paper report that the Foreign The major development on Stanton Griffis:

the central front, however, was this month's wages, including Secretary, Mr Herbert Morrison, out the Locording to present arrungs- monis, Foll consultation be-

These sources say that, in nd- But it was disclosed there is the reported Chinese abandon those of the Army and the Gen-had received an appeal from oli they said,

tween General MacArthur and

Interests in Britain to fly troops dition to Soviet units stationed darmerie, were still unpaid. of Chunchon, Washington, and between Wash an understanding between policy ment

Dark forces

to Iraq as a warning to the Fer-inside Hungary, the Russians were at work, makers here and Gen. Mac- ington and the

William Correspondent other United

obstructionist | alan authorities against the ns- have jammed the Carpatho Arthur's headquarters that con- Barnard, in a dispatch passeded by the Nations governments

Nationalist Front sultations will be held before through censorship, said, "It ap- und directed by the fanatical

Opposition tionalisation proposal.

Ukraine's Western district have forces in Korea,

The spokesman said that no full of troops. that they overflow the 38h Farallel La again peared that Chunchon had been Fadaylam Idam sect, he added. appeal of this kind had been barracks and are billeted in SAME BROAD, ORDERS erossed for major, strategie pur-deserted by both military and

The man who shot Razmara

many private houses tra civilian inhabitants." poses.

last week belonged to this sect, "BRITISH THREATS” Meanwhile, representatives of

numerous towns near the Hun- Chunchan, only eight miles whic

which had whic The 38th Parallel situation is south of the 38th parallel, has plan to ratify a supplementary I opposed the general's some of those governments said

Baghdad, Mar, 18. garion frontier. they expected in the immediate badly complicated by the fact been used as a staring point for oil agreement with the British-

Alyaqdah, the Istiqlal Party

The Hungarian refugees" rows a writion statement that political and military con-

forces Chinese

moving

organ, into controlled Anglo-Iranian Ou (Nationalist)

today from the State Department on siderations do not agree in im-

lines battle

along the central Company which would have in- spoke of the "British threats" port that the bulk of Hungary's road building programme. last the Korean sluation Including portant respects. For example, Korean front. And it has been creased Persia's royalties. over the nationalisation of the

year was doyoted to this` region 38th there is no strategically sound present thinking on the

sound leadquarters

the main

and for strategic purposes. New defence line on the 38th Parallel Chinese high

It was believed here today oil industry in Persia. Parallel.

command since that the company had agreed to said Gen dividing

It said: "British propaganda zorde were built and old ones American officials

North and South

January 1.

demand arbitration If the Per- threats to Iran to make her rep is operating under Korea. Yet the British govern- MacArthur

reopened which would permit the same broad orders he had ment has for many

Censors did not permit front slats Government carry through

International contracts the Russians to move troops on weeks in line correspondents to

keep locate the nationalisation measure. autumn when his

but and to present the question of a forcessisted as a political matter that Allled positions. There was no

pattern from Reds back

industry Carpatho-Ukraine drove the

Is about as far as UN forces indication

Western

diplomatic sources nationalising the oil how close patrols auld

would to the International Court

of gary that the decision

to should pursue the Reds.

were operating to the parallel. cause violent political and Justice, will "be of no avail Austrian borders, Special at- The only Communist action economic storms. It was pos- and we are sure that Britain tention has been paid to claw yesterday was a single mortar sible that the Shah might take will in the end accept a fait cumventing river crossings. shell drod at advancing allied over absolute powers into his accompli."--Reuter,

No Concentration Camps Here!

Duesseldorf,

Ente, Coeke, Jr., national com~ mander of the American Legion, left early today by plane for Hongkong to continue his world ternational Commission against the Concentration Camps has been tour in connection with

to visit invited Legion's Tide of Toys"

Yugoslavia, that Greece and Spain fo satisfy gramme. It is understood from Hongkong the World War themselves camps do not exist Thailand, in those countries, it was on- II Hero will go to Indonesia, Pakistan and thence nounced here tonight.-Asso- last

ciated Press. to Europe-United Press.

future Germany, Mar. 18. A delegation from the In-

pro-

COMMENT OF THE DAY

Soviet Logic In Paris

many non-sequiturs and red

Sherrings are tossed by the Soviet

on

delegate into the discussions that the meetings of the deputies in Paris begin to look like an effort not to find an agenda for a Foreign Ministers con- ference. Typical of these diversions :was the statement of Mr Gromyko that Moscow, is willing to discuss a treaty for Austria on condition that "violations of the Italian treaty," especially with reference to Trieste, are put on the calendar. In this statement, offered as if it were a great concession, the Soviet representative returned to a point made by his Government last May, when the long-spun-out, negotiations

the Austrian treaty, were so near conclusion that something new had to be thought up to block agreement. In at least four years of discussion the status of Trieste had never come up before, and the sudden introduction of this irrelevant issue, after practically every other obstacle had been cleared away, meant then, as it means now, merely that the Russians do not wish an Austrian peace and the consequent withdrawal of Soviet forces from that country and the neighbouring lands. There is no con- nection, of course, between the question of Trieste and the Austrian treaty: Trieste was dragged into the Paris meeting mainly to counter Western proposals to bring up the violations of the treaties with the Soviet-antollita states. So far Mr. Gromyko 'bna" run true to form. His questions, as Dr Philip Josepp wryly remarked, all boil down to the same old poser: Have you

་

to the

wife? The stopped beating your sessions in Paris do not present much evidence that the Russians are secking to ease the to negotiate seriously tensions that torment the world. One thing has been made clear, however. The arguments over the agenda ga far to vindicate the correctness of the Western vis-a-vis the Soviet position that the German problem cannot be considered, much less solved, without reference to the other questions that threaten the pence. To refuse a treaty to Austria because a treaty with another country has been violated is the height of absurdity. Nevertheless there is a relation between Trieste and Vienna, and between a German treaty and the armaments question, in the sense that they are all parts of one problem. Time and events have justi fled those who contended when the so- called secondary treaties were drafted that a piecemeal settlement for Europe would prove to be no settlement at all. The Western Powers are right in Insisting on the condition that dis- cussions.are not limited to Germany but must cover all the sources of discord that stand in the way of a general -- European settlement. As for Trieste, while it has nothing to do with the || Austrian treaty we are there by the terms of a treaty that, has not been violated, and we havo overything to gain by comparing our legitimate rolo, and the manner in which; it has been carried out, with the way the treaties have been abrogated in the countries under Soviet control

HOW FAR NORTH Present official thinking on the problem in Washington puts the question this way: If the United Nations succeed in smashing the next expected Communist offen- sive and the Reds then continue retreating, how far North should Lite UN forces 207.

troops.

for

HASTY RETREAT

At one

own hands, they added.

This week Britain told Persin Barnard said thero was that she could not legally ter- evidence everywhere of a hasty minate the present agreement Communist retreat from the due to run until 1998-by an Hongchan area.

act such as nationalisation." point, Allied forces Router. found an abariced ammuni-

CABINET ISSUE At least one body of military tion dump containing enough opinion holds that they should

London, Mar. 18. not stop before reaching the so- supplies to fill four trucks.

Eighth Army

Persia's proposal to nationalise headquarters waist of the called narrow Korean Peninsula, roughly 80 reported Communist troops all the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company miles north of the 38th Paradel along the 70-mile central front interests in the country will be were making a fast, well or-considered by the Cabinet this Advocates believe the best ganised withdrawal.

week, informed quarters said the defensible, position with

In Lieutenant-General Mat- here today. Imited number of troops avail-| thew B. Ridgway's war of In the meantime, the British able to Gen. Ridgway "can be attrition, the Eighth Army Government will discuss the found there,

ertimates the Reds have suffered situation with Persia through more than 177,000 casualties diplomate channels. They also contend this opera- fret udlary 25 through to Inst No action has been taken since flor would put the United Na tions in a stronger negotiating alone was put at about live shursday, although a diplomatie Persian Parliament (Majlis), The Baturday figure the Pers

lasi approved the proposal position than if the UN troops

The

Chinese nevertheless have established their major line

forces intact. Correspon- uote was sent to Teheran on the some place south of the Parallel.deat Leff Erickson aid Army eve of the Mallis vote, saying A holding position on the 88th men believed they were capable that the British Government Parallel is considered to be out of making, a firm stand or, a would regard such a move as of the question because it is not | major' counter-attack any time illegal.. unturally defensible. Asso- they chose to commit. them- A Foreign Offen, spokesman ciated Press,

selves.

today, denied a London .newz-.

DRIVER

THE

large

FARGIE GETS A LOOK LIGHTS OF HONGKONG

AT

Driver Robert Farglo, · Driver Faridie volunteered for to confirm the finding and RASC looked at the lights Korea last September. He was sentence, and Fargle was freed of Hongkong last night and court-martialled in January this after over three months delen- said it was good to be a free cher shooting a South Korean tion:

while guarding a mili man and to be going home.

Wearing bla roing home" battledress with iya, compe ribbons obtained in World. heim in an RAT.

Kilm", kom) Jaru *Loh`the United

1 Fangio la lucky in that he will | fery dump In Ties during not have to wait to go home the UN retreat Lask November. Tried of Kure, Japán, he was found long way by troopship. RAF notukoy na murder Gastrofaport Command had arrang- manalatighter and was minimacco ed to fly him home all the way,

He was leave here tomorrow fo to 10

Singapore, and there will" board

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