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No. 34855

Preparing For A. Massive Counter-Blow

Tokyo, Mar. 30,

Fierce air battles over the bridges of the Yalu River, the boundary between Korea and Man- churia, today confirmed that a massive Communist counter-blow was imminent as United Nations forces probed cautiously across the 38th Parallel. The bridges are the key link between the Chinese frontline forces in Korea and their hundreds of thousands of reserves.

Reliable intelligence sources said tonight that the Communists had between six and nine in fresh Army corps 150,000 to 225,000 men - or moving to the build-up area in the centre and west of the Korean peninsula.

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A Canacin flyer attached 40 They have been gradually re- placing the sixth Army corps the American F-88 Sabre jet which have been in the front-Wing was credited with the lone line for the last three months. kil! today in the mass air duel botwan 32 Sabre jets and 30 the Communist MIG-15 jet aircraft

over Sinuiju, North Korea.

over

The nir battles Korean-Manchurian border was significant for these reasons:

(1) Because it came in the middle of the

heaviest

Flight Lieutenant Q. J. Leves-

B-20 que,

of Montreal, became the first Corradion to shoot down a Superforirees raids of the war Communist plans in the Korean on the vital bridges, an indica-War. tion of the American High Com- mand's concer

strength.

about

the

Two additional MIGS

were

basile, but they fed into Man churia before the American Jet pilots could close lo for the kill.

*COFFIN CORNER"

No planes on either side were reported damaged in the Inter cncounter which raged briefly 01.20,000 feet.

Newspapers

Close Down

Bydney, Australia,

Mar. 30.

The Sydney Mirror ro- ported that three newy- papers in Australia, Den- mark and South Africs of were closing because riting newsprint costs, The story said that Adelaide Express and Chronicle (a weekly publication)-estab Hshed In 1863, #133 suspend publication after Friday' issue.

It quoted a cable from Copenhagen. maying that Morzar Venhtreblad, pro. vincial paper, annonnoed that it was suspending and "It is expected that more Danish newspapers will close because they cannot with the 78 percent oope Increase in newsprint costs

the

six past during months."

The Mirror also quoted a message from Capetown saying that Die Volksten was publishing for the last time today for the same reason-United Prem

Insulted Pope

of the

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SATURDAY, MARCH 31,-1951.

Price +30

MR GROMYKO OFFERS ANOTHER

CONCESSION

Willing To Have Balkans

Treaties Discussed

Peace Treaties

Paris, Mar, 30, -

Russia informed the "Big Four" deputies here today that she was willing to include the question of the Balkan peace treaties in the agenda for a "Big Four" Foreign Ministers' meeting if the Italian peace treaty and the four-Power agreement on Germany and Austria were also dis- cussed,

A Soviet delegation statement, issued after the meeting, said that the Russian delegate, Mr Andrei Gromyko, has submitted a new item for the agenda. It read:

"Peace treaties with Italy, Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary, including the clauses of these treaties concerning the rights of man, the military clauses the agree. and the final clauses concerning the settlement of differences:

the including ments of the four Powers concerning Germany and Austria, questions of de-Nazification and democratisation and war criminals”,

The Soviet submitted the Item:

following

delegation also the Great Powers. Could Mr new. Gromyko not accept something nearer the Western wording of the point covering demilitari- sation?

on

(2) Would it not be

more

logical to consider the level of

tion of armaments? armaments before the

reduc-

UNKNOWN QUANTITY Mr Davies felt that it was im- possible to discuss the reduc- tion of an unknown quantity."

Jap Peace Treaty Text Handed

To Soviets

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New York, Mar. 30, The Danish freighter Astra And the United Stales freighter Steel In. ventor colded In dense fog on Friday 20 miles northeast of Atlantlo 'Çİ, the New Jersey 001st. guard reported,

the

The report said no one was injured. Xi sald ----ɑrow-of-the-2,709-ton-As-

tra was taken aboard the Inventor 5,689-ton Steel after the Astra began, to settle antern.

The coastguard raid the outter Tamaros, from Now, Fork,

and two 86-foot ilfeboats were converging on the scene. The 'col. lision occurred ni 12.30 p.m., GMT—United Press.

Strikers

Agree To Mediation

Latest Situation In Paris

under

Paris, Mar. 30.

bus and Paris ground railway workers agreed today to mediation

the

New Burden For British Taxpayers

£525 Million Bill For Armaments

• London, Mar. 80.- The British Government: presented the taxpayer with a huge new bill for guns, aeroplanes and other arm- amenta in a £525 million supply Estimates issued to- day.

1 This overall estimate for 1951-52 is a gross increase of almost £200 million on this yoor's figure. It doubles the nation's spending on guns and pushes up aircraft cosis

alone £40 million,

by

It was the Government's first

big demand

to the

taxpayer under the new £4,700 million rearvaament programme.

The Food Ministry Estimates, published simultaneously, dia- closed that the Government

will

spend £72,692,000 stockpiling food for use in

An

Getting the gross cutimated expenditure of the Supply Ministry there will be produc tion and other receipts, Service and

similar depart-

frody

totalling £865 million These will leave the Supply Ministry in need of £100 mil- lion, a net increase of £52,388,- 000

over the

for the Agure

nancial year now ending.

But the real

the

magnitude of rearmament Works

French Prime gramme is shown by the ргон

gross

by Minister, M. Henri Agures. The biggest single fem [Queuille, in their wage in the bill is £120,300,000 for demands and the end of mentan increase of £40,025,-.

aircraft and aircraft equip- their 15-day walkout was 000. forecast.

Embassy today an Ameri. Committee, which earlier be held in camera ring to

of

"The Alantic Pact and the creation of American military bases in Britain, Norway, Iceland Chinese Communist reinforce claimed damaged in the aerint Red "Glamour Girl" and in other European countries

East and in the Near Edeputies told ments pouring into Korea from

Sentenced Manchuria.

The Western today's meeting that the new (2)

It is the first Because

submitted Soviet proposal time the Communists have

Chieti (Italy), Mar. 30.

Wednesday, agreeing to link the risked a big force of planes to

Signorita Laura Diaz, 30- demilliarisation of Germany try to defend the bridges in the A few minutes after the main year-old Communist deputy with the general question of

The Soviet wording appeared face of equa! American Aghler | jet-versus-jet bale;

eight and "glamour girl"

casing international tension, had

*o be "topey turvy" and "put the American 7-80 Shooting Stars Italian Parliament, was tonight brought the views of East and cart before the horse" encountered 12 to 10 additional found guilty of Insulting the

West closer.

(3) Why did the Soviet re- CONVOYS ATTACKED

MIGS in the

"Coffin Pope and given a same

suspended

Washington, Mar. 30. They asked, however, for terence to armaments limit it-

Expenditure on imament of North-Western sentence Comer"

of eight months' im-

clarifications. Last

further

self

the

Ambassador John Foster four Powers? to light bumbers nigh!

and vehicles will rise by M. Alexandre Parodi (France) biggest convoys Koren, which has been the scene prisonment and costs. attacked the

(4) What exactly was the Dulles sent to the Soviet

While the All-Union Strike £80,600,000 to £113,700,000 and

and costs on research and develop ever assembled by the Com of the majority of the air battles

Signorita Diaz announced that suggested that today's meeting meaning of the passage refer

insisted on a 25 per cent in ment will go up by £13,282,000 munists in the nine months of cf the Korean war conflict.

"the question of the she would appeal against the

can draft of a Japanese crense, were moeting of international no statements to the press establishment (with

the Preto £70,590,000. A the war-2,000 vehicles moving

Toan sentence.

later). south to bolster the mountain

control over the implementation peace treaty with a note in-mler and the Transport Minis- £1,000,000 will be made to help But Mr

ter, on or just north of defences

M. Antione Pinay, Pariz Gromyko declined of the

armed viting Soviet reaction.

in the production of úrandum la the 38th Faralic),

newspapers, predicted thete, no- this proposal.

Lorce reduction

This step complated, distri-

South Africa, The Western deputies put aThe Western Powers felt that

M. Qucullla's The total eklimatta. for now Communist screening forces

Inition Levesque is a World War II

number

of the US treaty pro ceptance of to Mr control must apply first to the posal to 18 nations which were of questiona

arbitration:

works for a year'e research and two or three kilometres south of

In which he W58

Gromyko on his proposal made level of armaments and then to at war with Japan or have a the former frontler between veteran,

Underground trains running development, to be started have credited with the destruction of But a small smile played on on Wednesday, making it plain their reduction.* North and South Korea

interest direct

is £34,465,000, of which neither com- the four enemy aircraft, including her lips when the President that they were stubbornly resisting boen

(5) Did the Soviet referenes peace settlement,

fewer than a quarter of the German Fockewulfe went on to state that the tri-mitting themselves to accepting to treaty obligations of the four Oficials estimate that it may normal total. There were Allied advance in the last 48 the first

downed, be

and withbunal had found her guilty of or rejecting it in its

present Powers mean the fulfilment of take as long as a month before bures.

The cost of the. Ministry of hours, presumably to gain time to

Food's strategic reserves (food damaging a fifth enemy plane,

"The hands of form. publicly saying: for the build-up.

other obligations under treaties and the

governments, in- He has

been flying with the the Pope are dripping with the MEANS WHAT IT SAYS

will leap from all four Tying in with the expectation United States Fifth Air Force blood of the children of Greece Mr Gromyko contented him-greements to which

£72,592,000-ə Powers were collective parties, of a Communist counter-stroke under the pilot exchange pro-and Palestine, because he did not self

with saying that tho was Peking's out-of-hand rejes- tion of General MacArthur's of gramme with the Royal Cana-lift a Bnger to stop the war in Soviet text meant what it said, or to treaties to which any one

of them was a party? eece and Palestine, just as he Greece

Then he changed the sub-

If the former was meant then fer of a truce talk.

Describing his kill in today's did not Hft a finger f to stop or ject abruptly, asking whether

the definition was too narrow, Observers here thought that notion, Levesque said: "I caught ilmit the world

the Western deputies insisted

while in the second case the de- though the 38th Parallel has the MIG at about 17,000 feet The Ste

•Atorney, Signor

inclusion of their proposed

Anition was too wide. Hittle military meaning to the and hit him with a good, long Arnaldo de Francesco, had asked Balkan peace treaties Item as Chinese Communists it is of the burst. He went into a series of for a suspended sentence of one

a-separate.point on the agen- after 14 greatest importance to their pro-violent rolls and kept rolling year's imprisonment paganda to keep North Korea in- until he hit the ground and ex-sensational collapse of the main violable.-Reuter.

ploded.”—Reuter.

prosecution witness.-Reuter,

dian Air Force.

COMMENT OF THE DAY

LWO

As the tribunal's President finished reading the verdict in the hushed courtroom, Signorita Diaz startled slightly and turned pale.

Russia's Latest Challenge

same

phobia that is spreading all over the East and the Near East. It may be partly accounted for by memories of exploitation in the past-fancied or real-but chiefly it stems from Com- munist agitation in the present, which makes the most of these festering grievances and 138e8 the aroused nationalism of under-developed nations to extend the imperialism of Moscow. It can also be seen as a phase of the "cold war." About six per cent of the world's output of oil comes from Iran. At present this production constitutes the most valuable non-American sup- ply that is available to the Western Powers. For a long time these Powers have been haunted by the fear that Russia might overrun undefended Iran to gain possession of the oil fields. But developments have shown that Russia realises there are much more subtle means of achieving the desired end." Why overrun Iran and risk war if the objective can be realised otherwise? It is not surprising that the Soviet- controlled Tudel party has been in the forefront of the campaign to nationalise oil. And obviously the Russlank themselves

convinced that should ownership of the industry pass into the control of a Parliament as casily swayed as the Majlis, it would not be long before another treaty would be signed with Moscow on the lines of the trade agreement recently concluded with the Soviet,, and that Russia would' thereby gain access to the wells and refinaries on the Per sian Gulf without the bother of taking over the government. It is this possible development that gives cause for con- siderablo anxiety and demands that every effort should be made to deny Moscow auchi'an casy victory. On such a vital issue tho Western Towary daro not be politically out-manoeuvred · and Jdefonted by Soviet Rusala.

THE recent decision of the Iranian lower house to nationalise the Oil Company is a .Anglo-Iranian manifestation of the upsurge of violent nationalism which obsessed the fana-. tie who assassinated Prime Minister Ali Razmara and which led to plots to the murder his successor as well as military governor of Teheran. Leas than

months ago the Deputies voted approval of the policy of the late Prime Minister, when he agreed that Iran possesses neither the capital nor the technical skill to run the oil industry, and that Iran needs the, revenue from the concessions to finance a programme of industrial This development and social reform. about-face shows how volatile are the forces churning up in Iran; nationalist. feeling has been worked up to fever pitch overnight. And it is conceivable It has been aggravated, rather than allayed by the British Government's note, reminding Teheran that the oli company is operating under a conces- alon that does not expire until 1998, and warning that Britain must take all possible steps to protect legitimate British investments abroad. The British Government acted correctly in giving this reminder, though it is diffi cult to view the reaction of the Majlis to the note without alarm. Britain's concern over the latest developments in perfectly understandable: 68 per cent of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company is owned by the British Government itself, and all that stands between the sudden and sweeping decision of the Majlis and the expropriation of the property, once Iran's Senate and the. Shah approve, is a two-month study of methods to put the law into effect. Much more, of course, is involved in this move than the desire of Iranian pationalists to rid the country of foram interests and Investments. This is one phase of the wave of xend-

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Dr Philip Jessup (United States) replied that the Wes- tem Powers did not insist upon this. They had put for ward to balance the Soviet item on the Italian peace treaty clauses dealing with Trieste.

Mr Gromyko then said that owing to the attitude of the Western Powers he was forced

Earlier, Mr Davies had re- marked that he was glad to see that the field of agreement be-

had tween them

greatly in- creased-Reuter,

VIETMINH THREAT

to introduce two new agenda LOOMS

items,

He said that the West had only put forward the item on the Balkan treaties to complicate the work of the

conference,

in a Pacific today varied from 97 to 105, 1000n will be needed dur»

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To be sure that your clocks are the correct time tomorrow, you should ADVANCE them ONE HOUR before going to bed tonight.

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ing the

to

Meanwhile, the Government stockpiling) decided to rise

coal, gas and 29,000,000 electricity prices, partly to pay 24-fold increase-Reuter.. for the wage increases already granted and partly to meet de- felts in the nationalised in- dustries.

Electricity will go up 10 per cent, gas about five per cent and domestic con ave per cent.

BUDGET ADDITION The Cabinet also decided to add 48,000 million francs to the budgeted expenditure for the next 12 months to meet elvä servants increases.

America's Oil Consumption

Washington, Mar. 80. The United States uses seven million barrels of petroleum a day, but has enough on hand to last 18 years, It was dis closed today.

Mr Bruce K. Brown, the Heputy head of the Petroleum Administration for Defenço, told a Congress Commitice that Employees of the Ministries the reserve production capacity. of Finance and Labour staged a was not as high as it was at the one-day strike today.

start of the second world war, and France, Klosks selling tobacco,

could have cally and matches (State when we the American draft in detail and submit proposed changes. factory and shop inspectors known developed reserves."

Britain BIG cluding

have an opportunity to study mopolles) were closed. Some produced a million barrels per

Saigon, Mar. 30. Signs of a coming Vietminh It understood the State stayed at home, counter-offensive

were "be Department is leaving open for A strike in the Brest Amenal It was untenable to speak of coming clearer along the whole the present the question of entered its 10th day and that these three countries without front in North Indo-China, a imposing reparations on Japan in the Lorient Arsenal entered referring to Austria and Ger-French Army communique an- as demanded by

the Phil

Philippines its second day-Reuter. nounced torzy.

and some other sufferers from many, he said,

Western actions in Austria The communique said that the Japanese wartime attacks

General Carlos Romulo has and Germany were designed to Vietminh threat, apparent since

back to power Fascists March 27 near Uought, about 12 boon pressing Mr Dulles recently bring and Nazi elements and to free miles north-east of Tonkin's port to leave the issue open until the war criminals.

Haiphong, has now passod

enakes specific re- Philippines to the west.

perations proposals. The Islands are pinning to make these pro- posals shortly, was learned The nature of the proposals have la not been disclosed,

TED LOSS ESTRATED

estimates loss Philippines

of

Mr Gromyko then referred to the Atlantic Pact and said that

Uonghi controls the water one could not deny that the supplies of Haiphong and the question of

of the

North Atlantic

towns atic neighbouring

on the Treaty Organisation had "coastal sector bearing" on relations between Russia and the other Powers,

Mr Gromyke said that the could be

be "na convincing argu ment" against the latest Soviet proposals, and he hoped that the Western Powers would respond favourably,

The

it

The

French military outposts five miles east of Dongtrien, about 15 miles north-west of Hal- from Japanese attack and occu- phong, were violently attacked pation at $8,000,000,000. Mr last night and this morning, the Dulles previously ruled, out the communique said,

idea of trying to collect" "repara- ground French troops repelled the tions from Japan on would be attacks with

of the result the support

a crippling ELUCIDATION SOUGHT

American-built Aghters and blow to Japanese

However, on A Western conference obser bombers.

his

Pacific The nssailants TC- commenting on ver,

today's treated late this morning,

tour Me Dulles is reported to ecesion, said, "We started out by

The

communique emphasised have fold the Filipinos the saying that tufter a lot of changes that the threat

United States is Interested in of a big-scale the two drafts now had a great offensive had become more seeing "oy workable plan the deal in common. Why not have acute in the last two days. Taland Government might

a private session, so that we.can down to business without any propagander?

get

Brench Union forces Inten pose.

Gea, Romulo conferred twice sified patrol and reconnaissance

all In

sectors of this week with Mr Dulles on The Rusalans, however, ro-activities fused to have a secret section," North Vietnam and French Air the treaty. He is planning to

Force this observer

Then we saft. we ukad some ršej manes bombed and dia- return to, Magia in a’few days:

rebel Vietminh

con- for treaty meetings and cou ferences on further U.S. scono of the new Russian suggestions centrations south of the Dong-ferer

trieu mountain group, north of mic and military aid to the but wanted elucidation.

Tonkin's rich cool district.

Tanda The communique

understood, General Save the following details of actions in Cantendda who has been used)- other areas.

Keppel Ing in the military aid discus-

"Mr Gromyko. sold that he had given us time and that he Wented, our views.

"But in reply to questions fr

In Leow, French Union forcessions will return to Mania Gromyko merely insisteli that killed 12 Vietminh trooper, and shortly-Associated Fress, they had received his text and took three prisoners of Luan what the lext meant what it Prabang, the historic capital of | said, "the observer added.

the kingdom.entral Vietnam It was also learned that: Mr In south and contral Emoet Davies (Britain) baked and the neighbouring 'ssociated for five main

Clarificáténs, on stage KOLA

Chubočís. A "Tresch Wednesday's

proposal.

Bowlet

ASPHHALT MINE

EXPLOSION F

Buenos Aires, Mar, 30. These

forces killed Bo Vietminh An explosion in an Andes troops, took 11-prisoners and siphalt mine near: Nhos Mallal, draft still destroyed myeral? Vietminh Westem Argentina, killed four nadvecked the cordention that cantonments and stocks of sin workers, according to reporta German, demfiftiteation andă amunitions, hooroutine, operations reaching here today, Western rearmanent were the during, the leat 24 hours-Rani- Bix other workers were re- main causes of tinalois, between [ser”

ported to be missing-Beuter.:

1864

day more crude

Current estimates

oil from the

were that

the reserve capacity was from 250,000 to 600,000 barrels dally, -Reuter,

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