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No. 34868

MacArthur Given

Hero's Farewell

Tokyo, Apr. 16.

General MacArthur left here early this morn- ing for the United States. He took a hero's leave of the nation he first conquered and then ruled for five and a half years.

There was no outward sign that the six-foot, 71-year-old former Supreme Commander had been summarily dismissed as his giant Constellation aircraft rose into the grey, early morning sky over Tokyo a few minutes after 7 a.m. local time.

three Escorting the plane were 18 fighters and Superfort bombers. And still ringing in General MacArthur's ears were the cheers of 500,000 Japanese who had bowed him along a rain sodden 10-mile windy route to the airport where diplomats and Service officers of 15 nations and. the Japanese Cabinet had waited on the tarmac dawn to bid him farewell.

political

entire

since

With General MacArthur | heat and fever of a great na- were attractive Mrs Jean Mac- tiotsal

debate, Mrs Arthur and their 13-year-old | MacArtliur received a bouquet

Will Address Congress On

Thursday

Washington, ́Apr. 15. Gen. MacArthur plans to fly directly to Washington from San Francisco early on Thursday morning and probably will address a Joint meeting of the Con- Cress on Thursday after- Republican Ke-

Motive Josephi Mar-

In announced today.

Rep. Martin said Gen. MacArthur's exact arrival time in Washington was Dot sel an yet. But he added that a "report will be made in the Congress" on Monday to arrange a Joint meeting of the House

Senate at 5,30 p.m. GMT on Thursday (1.30 a.m. UK Summer Time Friday)-United Press,

Arthur, who has never - son,

visited the United States.

-Before--they-headed-for America's west coast and the

ní lowers from Lieutenant Mavis Lay of the Women's Australian Army Corps,

It was presented on behalf of the British Commander, Lieutenant-General Sir Horace Robertson,

General MacArthur stayed in Australio during the early days of the Pacifle war when, na Mrs MacArthur told General Robertson, she ran her first home. They had previously Hyed in Government staffed house in the Philippines.

Many hundreds of American and other United Nations Ser- vlccmen on leave from Korea' turned out to see their former Supreme Commander leave Tokyo

Wille o salute of 19 guns boomed

the field over

and guards of honour stood rigidly

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he defeated than his own."

General MacArthur's depar-

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MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1951.

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The Admiral

Goes Aboard

Vice Admiral Sir Guy, Russell, KCB, CBE, DSO, new Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Navy's Far East Station, is pictured here as he swings from HMS Cockade by jackstay transfer to the light fleet carrier, HMS Theseus, during a recent visit to his ships in the front line of the Korean naval war.AP Picture.

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N. Koreans Make Singapore

Peace Proposal

WARSAW MANIFESTO AS SUGGESTED BASIS.

Seen As Propaganda Move

Lake Success, Apr. 15.

Most United Nations diplomats today received with reserve the news that North Korea had dispatched a peace offer to the world organisation. Many Western diplomats agreed, on the basis of available information, that the Pyongyang offer was not acceptable and was intended mainly as a propaganda move,

The telegrams which, according to a Communist broadcast, the North Korean Foreign Minister, Pak Hon-yong, sent to the UN Secretary General, Mr Trygve Lie, and the Security Council President, Mr Daniel van Balluseck of the Netherlands, have not yet been received here. United Nations officials said it might take another 24 hours.

Members of the Arab-Asian combination, which held an extraordinary two-hour meeting here this morning, were just as unwilling to comment on the alleged peace offer as were delegates of countries with troops in Korea. But the spokesman for the group announced that the Asian delegations were "hour by hour contact" with their governments.

The Asiatic group was meeting in a previously- scheduled conference and did not receive word of the Pyongyang offer until the last minutes of the gathering. The United States delegation refused to comment official- ly on the matter until the State Department in Washing- ton had had time to study the strangely-couched North Korean offer.

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New Empire

Div. In. Korea Soon

(From Edward Howat)

weeks.

It will include Englishmen,

Police Alerted

Bertha Hertogh Case Again

Singapore, Apr. 15, The police were alerted for possible riots when 13- year-old "jungle girl" Bertha Hertogh's mother, ex-husband and Burie renew their fight for her custody in the Supreme Court here on Monday.

All police leave was cancelled British Tommies were added to every police division, disturbances over the case, to be ready to deal with azy

Last December a Singapore judge

annulled

Mooden

marriage of the

18-year-old Bertha and a

a 22-year-old Malay school teacher, Mansoor Adabl, and awarded her mother custody in-

Wan

a suit brought by Che Aminah, Malay nurse to whom Bertha given when her mother was interned by the Japancas

the during war. The Moslem population rioted and 19 Persona were killed and 200 injured,

Fire

Both the teacher Adablend the nurse Aminah appealed to the highest court. At the opening tomorrow, their lawyers expected to ask for postpone- ment because their chief coun- sel. Sir Roland Braddell, still in the United Kingdom and is not expected to retur for six weeks-United Press.

From Wedding

To Prison

Pontesbury, England, Apr. 15.

George Edward Gill 26, got married

between yesterday

scurthouse and gool.

the

married Elleen

footsteps He

when

to the

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newlyweds went

after the

for photographs mony to pose and cut the wedding cake.

Then the law took the bride-

Bes

a. valid

The North Korean broadcast, aggression, the Pelting People's as monitored in Tokyo this Daily writes today that for this morning, called for settlement reason the Chinese people can- In Korea on the basis of pro- not relax in their efforts la posals adopted by the Prague the slightest way but must un- pence conference last year, swervingly strengthen the But observers here believed movoment to res

resis

aggression. Pyongyang was referring to and to ald the Korean people, Teheran, Apr. 15. the November 28, 1930, mani- "They

At-Gif's side but not best- must resolutely Бир-

Korea, Apr. 15,"

man--when he The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company's vast re- the Warsaw peace conference, and the Chinese people's volun- Division will be formed and dogged Gill's

festo issued at the end of port the Korean People's Army

The long-awaited Empire Jones, 21, was a to attention, on

one unshaven Gfinery at Abadan, the world's largest, was closed This

manifesto

for.teers in resisting called

the attacks

fighting in Korca in a few bride's heme invaders Just back from the front turned down today after renewed activity by pickets sur-among other things, settlement of the American the Biblical proverb and com-

by the as to bring about their com- the Korean minted, "Looks as though he's rounding the strike-bound plant.

Security Counell

theplete defeat. The Oil Company announced tonight that a me people

presence

Com- of a Chinese

The paper said that "on April delegation. Diplomats few American families living at Abadan had asked noted, however, that the war 12 the day following the dis-et, Australians, Canadians, groom away to start serving a missal of General MacArthur New Zealanders and Indians one-month sentence for riding a ture from Japan had really be-

to be evacuated. In view of the tense situation, saw manifesto also called gun the earlier when he and

for the American aggressors again and will probably be commanded motorcycle without of hostilities

and his family stepped out of the the Company had agreed to the requests.

Bcence and pilfering two bot to kill by a British General. that one of the sent over 70 planes pointed out white walled American

peaceful Chinese people by North Korean

The division will tie together"}

of mo oil.

motor The evening hassy into a gleaming black

and newspaper forced the refinery to close. But proposals be clarification bombing Antung

The Lis all Empire troops in Korea In-

magistrate who sentenced Cadillac. Other cars were laed Keihan tonight reported that there was Do confirmation of prostiming of ban

cation suburbs."

cluding the Conadian Brigade Gil gave him one hour's grace. -steps-

|– sug=- (Continued on Page 8 Column 5) general strike in Abidan had this from the Oil Company.

logo, through with gested

If by Pyongyang.

his pre The newspaper added that a ceasefire ware to be the first can gangsters have not the least replace

This proves that the Ameri- and British troops coming to

the Middlesex and viously-arranged wedding. The Perslan Government spokesman step, then the proposal could intention of

withdrawing and Argyll and Sutherland High-policeman went along to make

lander Battalions. had said that the Government become the basis of discussions that they

are stretching out was considering whether to

The Korean offer also was the demonine hand of aggres- declare the strike legal or not". full of such obviously

British unac-sion each day in order to ex- been long planning for the

Officers who About 30,000 people were ceptable proposals as contem tend the area of the killing.. said to have stopped work. nation of the United States

switch to the unified commander It clear therefore, that the Two people were killed and and

the Republic

BOY

that two things nearly replacement of MacArthur by wrecked the scheme: 1, the several injured in yesterday's South Korea for their aggres- Ridgway is nothing but en al- Canadians wanted to keep their disturbances at Isfanhan, Per-sion against North Korea. The tempt by Truman to shift the Brigade; and 2, some senior sia's third largest city, 220 miles whole philosophy of the United responsibility of the failure of American officers' oppoced the recorded a violent earthquake

All seismographs in Nations in intervening in Koren the war of aggression in Korea welding of Empire The Minister of the Interior, was based on the premise that and to cover up his plot for a

about 1,88. p.m. GMT on Satur troops into General Falullah Kahedi, told it was North Korea, and later continuation

such big and powerful unit

day. and expansion of as

The Central Meteorological the Majlis (Lower House) that China, who committed aggres the war." Reuter.

A Division. But these Observatory here reported the the police had opened fire dur-Block

problems have now been solved, epicentre about 1,000 miles British troops, both offers north-northwest of Tokyo and men, are thrilled with the probably in

the neighbourhood plan. Said a Cockney private of Irkutsk. today, "Instead of being a lot of The Observatory said that it lost little brigades, we will be was unlikely that an atomic best damn division in explosion had occurred. They Korca."-London Express: Ser-believed that it was an ordin

ary earthquake-Reuter.

COMMENT OF THE DAY

Britain's Grievous Loss

THE sudden death of

Tevin, ad not after relinquishing

the office that placed heavy strains on his constitution over six historic years, will be deeply grieved not only in universally he was England where esteemed, by high and low, but all over the world where his natural charm and creative imagination made a host of intimate friends and admirers, Had Mr Bevin retired at the end of the last war, his name would have been remembered as one of the greatest in the formative period of trade unions in Britain. With that position he would have been well satisfied for improve- ment of the lot of the under-privileged was till then the aim to which all his enormous energies were directed.. But he was destined for an even more im- portant place in history. It is in his work at the Foreign Office, in the con- duct of Britain's foreign policy during most critical years, that history, will measure the stature of this great

Englishman. Of all the Labour leaders,. Mr Bevin signified commonsense and keen imagination. Those wholesome qualities endeared him to friends and reconciled him to political foes, and they gained him respectful hearing in all the vital diplomatic encounters which engaged him so intensively. Mr Bevin's most brilliant show of insight was, perhaps, his immediate comprehension Marshall of the significance of the speech at Harvard. It is not too much to say that the Marshall Plan sprang almost as much from Mr Bevin's practically-minded seizure of Mr Mar- shall's somewhat vague proposal as from the proposal itself. As much as any single man, too, Mr Bevin was the great responsible for initiating Organisation for European Economic Co-operation, one of the turning-points of post-war years. Britain's working- man John Bull, as he was once described by Mr Churchill, has gone. It will be long before he is forgotten.

That Radio Controversy

REV

EVIVAL” in Parliament of the controversy over the miserably limited range of Hongkong's radio transmitting station, perhaps not exactly to our surprise failed to achieve anything resembling an advance in out- look, much less a promise or a guarantee of an intelligent investigation of the pros and cons When the Secretary of. State for the Colonies resorts to fencing with questions, by Mr. Walter Fletcher by insisting-naively that Hongkong's transmitters are powerful enough to -|-- sarvo the Colony if they could be otherloo unless they were not merely limited in range, but were stupidly, con- coived an 'impresalon is given stressing the futility of knocking heads against

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Violent 'Quake Recorded

Tokyo, Apr. 18,

Japan

The Sun Greater power to start with

demonstration

STARTING POINTI sympathy' with the oilfield

Some delegates felt, however, workers.

that the Korean offen may be- Martial law has been pro- come a starting point for serious claimed throughout the whole of negotiations leading to possible South Persia, Armoured cars settlement of the Korean war: have been sent to the oilfelds.

WOB receded the UN Telephoned reporta from Secretary-Generat Mr-Trygve Abadan today said that the de

Antaking bees Company was accepting no moro some time ago ai a pence orders from incoming tankers formula directed

North But loading of outbound tankers Korea Instead of China that was still going on.

would permit a settlement for In a counter-move ngainst all concerned, One important continued demonstrations the factor United Nations diplomats police were reported to have wished to see clarified in the

London, Apr. 15. overs a hostel Laken

used by North Korean peace bid Wis striking apprentice

Prayers for sunny wen- no their whether withdrawal of headquarters,

allther to did' the nation's foreign troops referred as well farmers sounded through Other reports from Abadan to the so-called "Chinese volun- saki agitators, believed to be tears who are now massing for churches in this rain-drench Communista, had incited a spring offensive against the ed island today. They were demonstration of about 15,000 United Nations forecs. It was suggested by the Arch people there yesterday,

recalled that earlier China had bishops of Canterbury and Indicated its volunteers would York the two Primates of The newly appointed Gov.be included in such a with the Church of England. estor-General of Khuziston diawal. Clarification on this Province, "Strong Man" Shah-point, observers salti, would put The heaviest rainfal; in recent, bachii, arrived in Abadan today the Pyongyang offer in a new history has brought a near- and discussed the situation with light,

crisis in British- agriculture. orable' the Oil Company, executive, Mr

Thousands of acres of It was not immediately clear land, lie water-logged and un what action would be taken on Meanwhile,

plugtrad 4 Government the North, Kovan propomla. The spaltesman in Tehemen said that Secretnay-General or the Presi- Many of the eropa, usually an agreement had been reached dent of the Security Council or planted in the spring would not at last night's talks hotween one of the delegations could mature now..unico the fleldo representatives of the workers place the North Korean com- could be prepared and sown and the Company. But it was

Immediately. munication on the hoped that with General Shah agenda. It could be referred to

three-man The Asian group *

"NO"AGREEMENT

Council's gir James Scoft-Watson-chief bachiti'a arrival at Abulan, no- the Good Offencevher on the Ministry of Agri^|

nevertheless, comes from MPs closely associated with the Far East and fully, conversant with the Chinn political situation. It is strongly supported by those in this part-of-the globe whoxic Drake. believe that if Hongkong took its proper part in keeping up a steady flow of reliable information for China's benefit and effective counter-propaganda, the gain would be immeasurable, Official explanations that a service for China... will shortly be relayed by 'a'riew high- power broadcasting station in Singapore » serves but to rile the best informed observers. Hongkong's position,en, China's doorstep, cars close to the ground, offers an immense, ridvantagú,G brick walls? The statement was anThe basic need was further emphasised. Improvement on an earlier assurance Byck Conservative: PMPs † placing the e that the Hunghom, transmitter “ was",

potentialitics of an expanded medium- quite "capable of catering to Kowloon wave. service from Hongkong high- «residents,” but it remained" clearly against any remote-control, abort Waves

system-Mr Grifiths- indicativo ADA ölther blank, minds, or.

the clored minds' In official quarters. The fresh demand forza, substantial power Ul Hongkong A77-cutouti

new of buch a prol been morn-intare

scientifle, and 'agricultural ad-

companied by a Govarmex would

delegation, the continuett to study the pom culture was quoted today, as Company

favourablybility of a new peace plan

Britain's total crop consider the labour démanda;

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official

and that the Shah of doctors had recommended that he should go abroget,

expertiisation which cide whether him continuing

United Press, La PA PRENOTA LA Would fall, about 20

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