1951-05-04 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1951..

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Air Liner Held

French Rubber

Up For Drug Growers Winning

-Louden, May -3.

A British air liner for the Far East with 30 par- sengers aboard walled for four hours at London Air- port today for 250 tablets of the American wonder drux Cortisone.

ere being flown

They were

Ins, with 10 tablets of Aureomycin, by a Strato. cruiser from New York und were destined for an oil

company seriously ill In Sienita Settlements.

official Malacca,

The two-pounds weight package was marked "To Have human life." It wa addressed to the medical offleer of the Malacca

General Hospital-Reuter,

Chinese Reds

May

Pay Compensation

FOR SEIZURE OF APC STOCKS

Tokyo, May 3. The British labour dele- gation at present visiting, Red China said the Peking Government intends to pay compensation for the seized properties of the Asiatic Petroleum Com- pany, according to Peking broadcast,

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Premier Chou En-lai Monday ordered the seizure of all oll stocks and installations of The British-owned pany,

com-

The broadenst today reported a statement allegedly Issued by the group of 11 British labour union delegates at present in Peking.

The statement confirmed that the seizure of the all properties was in retaliation for the re- quisitioning of the Chinese tan- ker Yunghao by the Hongkong Government,

The statement said: "The delegation notes that while the Hongkong authorities confis cated the oil tunker without

pay

Desperate Fight

Saigon, May 3.

French planters, armed with pistols and sub- machineguns to protect them against daily attacks from Communist-led Vietminh guerillas, are work- ing to produce 49,000 tons of rubber for export this

year.

As they tap the milky viscid sap of the heves trees, they know that death from a sniper's bullet lurks behind each thick, shady row.

At night, their homes become fortified barricades against the marauding bands of guerillas.

On the reads, open only in daylight, lorry drivers fight off querilk ambushes or Inake their way through hidden mine. Gelds in closely-guarded con- voys to gel the Beat rubber bales down to the port.

In some places, road com munications have bren So horassed by the guerilias that

managers estate

have sent hundreds of tons of rubber to Salgon by freight plane from their own plantation airfields,

been, enormous, and cently appeared gamble.

re-

until economic

IMMEDIATE NEED

Now, a boom is in sight for those able to work their estates, What planters call "interesting offers" are stir coming in from the United States and the mar- ket price has already reached 32 ustres a kilogramme,

Only nagligible quantity of | Indo-China's rubber is retained

for local consumption.

Planters say that their t But the French are winning mediate need is for 10,000 ult, The prospects this year more labourers to enable them are about 6,000 tons higher than 10 exploit more fully their in 1948 (43,870 tons) and 1849 plantations. Insecurity for the (43,020 tons). Rubber is second tappers has made it difficult for only to rice in the important estales to retain labourers who The third, it only other im- export industries of Indo-China.fear guerilla reprisals, purtant Indo-China export, is

coal

All three industries are being constantly hurassed by the rebels,

Until the Japanese occupation of Indo-China entled in 1945, French planters bad hewn the Jungle from 138,000 hectares (one hectare in about 214 acres) and planted it with budded, high-producing rubber trees.

Pre-war exports averaged 60,- 000 tons, yielding about one plastro 10 centsa kilogramme (2.2 lbs.), or a total export re Venue oľ about 60 million plastres (£1,250,000. sterling at current exchange rales).

GAMBLE SUCCEEDS

On one estate alone there were 250 desertions lale last yeast.

Apart from the dally risk of sniper's bulleis, munugers also of to face the possibility have Junks carrying ports being sunk by the rebels.

Today exon plantation has its self-defence unit commanded by French Army non-commissioned officers,

their latex to

help.

Numerous fortified posts have been built at strategic points between the rubber trees. Lor- ries travel on estate roads arm- ed with machine-guns and often nobile intervention units are kept close at hand to answer sudden calls

for RADIO NETWORK A radio network between the the estates and the headquarters of the rubber planters union Salgon enables plantation managers to keep in close touch with the outside world should anything serious happen

compensation, the Chinese today French-occupied. People's Government has de clared its Intention to compensation for the petroleum stocks of the Shell Company."

(The Asiatic Petroleum Coin- is a British Shell subsi- dlary.)

delegation of Britons, headed by miner Juck Kane, arrived in Peking a few days ago.--United Press.

Of the total 138,000 hectares owned by well-known French in companies, 90,000 hectares are enty 53,000 hectares are said to But

be under cultivation

About 48,000 hectures are in Vietminh hands.

pany

The

Red. Skelton's Big Contract

A special air evacuation ser- vice has been organised to take estate casualties to hospital for Indo-China expects that is immediate medical attention.

Indo-China might have pro- your's exports, at market res Bow boosted by strategle stock-duced 70,000 tons of rubber this piling, will yield, 151,900,000year if conditions had been nor piastresor bout 2.3 times as mal much as pre-war.

Now planters feel that even It security

were completely done to rebuild the industry and

Indo-China's rubber planters*

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PRINCE CHARLES MEETS MOTHER

Members of the King's Flight salute as Princess Elizabeth and her son, Prince Charles, leave the plane at London Airport. The young Prince went into the aircraft to greet the Princess on her arrival from Malta. -AP Photo.

Recruiting Gets

A Boost

London, May 3. Better pay and condi- tions for British Service- men boosted recruiting for the fighting forces in the first three months of this `year to the highest rate

since 1947.

A total of 24,018 men joined up over double the

for wumber

the same months of last year. Reuter.

Asia

ATLANTIC

COUNCIL

MERGER

London, May 3. The North Atlantic Treaty powers announced today they had decided to merge the now separato councils of Foreign, Finance and Defence Ministers to

ing of the organ

their

TO-DAY

VOLUNTEERS SHOWING

GUARDING NZ STRIKERS

Emergency Corps Goes On Duty

Wellington, May 9. New Zealand's new volun-, teer emergency force to- night guarded the homes of dockers who had gone back

to work after striking for ton weeks.

They were on the look-out for strikers who might attack the returned watersider.

·AudiSand--innin troublé centre 200 doc- of the strikes-over kers returned to duty today. The

police patrolled the wharves they worked,

Tonight a Government pro- clamation again extended the alate of emergency, In Wel- lington, stamen dickled not to work with men replacing the strikers.

Thirteen

ports were fully manned and working normally |today for the first time since the start of the strike. But in Auckland and other three main ports-Dunedin, Wellington, and Christchurch--servicement con- tinued to load and unload vital cargoes.

As dusk (eli in Auckland, the леш

wearing "civil guards," special arms bands, went on duty for the first tline, patrol- ling near the dockers' homes.

More than 11000 people have joined the emergency organisa- tion, following the load of the entire Dutch Legation staff. The organisation was formed after the Prime Minister, Mr Holland, had called on Monday for a force to combat the "attempts to overthrow orderly government by force." There had been an altempt to blow up a rallway bridge near Ateland and three men had beaten up the leader of a new “back to work" union.

Reuter,

the work: FREAK HITCH

KILLS

The new structuro includes the formation

of an Economic

and Financial Board which will work in Puris parallel with the Council

of Deputies and the

Unions Defence Production Board, both

Approach

of which will continue to meet in London.

The

reorganised Council, still the principal

body in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisa-

300

Tokyo, May 3. A freak, mechanical hlich in the bomb-release gear of 门 American Shooting-Star caused 300 casualties to the Com- munists today.

To Americation, will in future incorporate Dembs, attacked

of

Singapore, May 3. The Asian representative the International Confederation of Free Trade Union, Mr Dayan

stated here today that

the Defence Committee and the Defence, Finance and Economic Committees of the

organisa- member countries, Washington on April 4, 1949, originally established at Council was made up of

tion's 12

As

Four Shooting-Star Jets, each 250-pound with two armed

o bridge near Pyongyang. One of the plones its bombs. to release was unable to

On their homeward flight, the plants strated Communist fak positions and a village housing troops, and then discovered that approximately 1,000 Communist troops were bivouacing there. It will continue to be

The Jets swept down on a posed of Ministers though in

run strating and the pilot who bombs, tried his silli had hig an emergency, the governments release on the off chance, The

the

union has about 200 members, restored, the work stlil to be Mung steps had been taken Foreign Ministers

Reuter.

But only 30 of the country's 50 big plantations are working re-to get smaller plantations pro- cueing again would not be pos- jularly today.

The large capital resources of sible unless they were properly Hollywood, Muy 3.. companies like Terres Rouges compensated-for war damage. U.S. lm actor Red Skelton have saved the rubber Industry has signed a seven-year COXY- In Indo-China. Capital in- tract with Proctor and Gamble, vesiment on one Terres Rouges the soap company, under which estate complex alone is more he will earn "between $9,000,000 than £2 million sterling Its and $10,000,000." his manager plant is one of the most modern announced today.

In the world.

The contract calls for radiu and television shows.

Mr Skelton is due to appear at the London Paladium this summer for $40,000 a week.-

Associated Press.

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Dulles At The White House

Re-lavestiment to rehabilitate plant and restore cultivation of the trees after the Japanse oc-

during eupation,

which the trees were bled white or neglected, has in many cases Japan

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Washington, May 3. Mr John Foster Dulies told President Truman today,, that General now realised Douglas MacArthur's dismissal involved no change in basic United States policies toward Japan and Communism in Asia. Mr Dulles, the President's special envoy in negotiations for

Japanese.

forceful by the ICFTU to promote the granting of help to India, In the form of shipment

of food grains, to meet the.

com-

shortage in that count food may nominate other members.

As early as September, 1950, Mr Mungat said, the General Secretary of the ICFTU wrote to the Presidents of the

Amerl- can Federation of Labour and Congress of Industrial Organisa- tions in America, to urge

them to take necessary action,

and that both organisations replied such steps were being taken,

An emergency committee of the ICFTU passed a resolution in February this year, request- ing affiliated organisations in the countries concerned to prosch their governments with a view to expedite the decisions. that the Mr Mungal slated

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The Council of Deputies, per-defect-had-remedied itcalf and. manent working organisation the bombs exploded dead on the of the North Atlantic Counell, centre of the will carry out the Council's Spotter planes

that at least 300 policios-Reuter.

were killed Rciter.

Space Ship Possible

In

10 Years

Philadelphia, May 3. The Navy's new Viking rocket of a crew- Congress of Industrial Organisa-is the forerunner peace treaty, re- turned from Japan last week.

tions brought the full weight carrying space ship which will a reality in 10 to 15 A statement from the White of ila 8,000,000 members to bear become House said that another sub-on campaign for approval of years, according to a prominent

aircraft engineer. Joct raised during their con- legislation pending before the versation was the negotiations Congress. for a Pacific defence pact be- The American Federation of

MP's ACCUSED BY PREMIER

the

Willian Brigen, vice-presi. dent and chief engineer of the

tween the United States,

Labour has strongly urged Pre- Glen. Martin Aus-

Aircraft Firm tralia and New Zealand-Resident Truman to supply grains which built the rocket, sal the to India to meet the famine Viking has registered speeds up ter.

situation there, Mr Mangat said.to 4,000 miles an hour and an eltitude of more than 105 miles. In addition, the ICFTU

He added that if engineers ́enn sent a special representative to Washington Ary and expedite slightly more

to

than quadruple the passing of legislation for

the rocket's speed they will be the early despatch of food grains well

on their way to build to India, Reuter. Amman, May 3.

successfully a space ship. King Abdullah today dissolved

He predicted that rockets with the Jordan Parliament at the

speeds up to 17,000 miles a request of the Prime Minister,

hour, fast enough to pull them away from the gravitational pull of the earth, will become a reality in 10 to 15 years under -concentrated-plan-of-develop

Samir Pasha, who accused members of unconstitutional" activities.

Hig-0 office stated that the House had failed to carry out its duties and was preventing the Government from fulfilling

its duty.

Gesture By Newspaper

Gilbraltar, May 3. The management of the 100

Gibraltar Chronicle It accused members of trying year-old to force the Government's hand newspaper today cancelled on by attempting to prolong the anniversary sherry party and

Arrangements fortnight's scasian, called to luncheon

and deal with the budget,

gave the cost to the appeal-for As they were not

of last Friday's prepared the victima spend pubile funds under an harbour explosion. unsound financial procedure, the

to

ment.

Mr Brigen maid the rockets would be able to cruise in atmosphere 400 miles from the earth. The rockets could be used in warfare to carry atomic boraba over an enemy target within a matter of minutes. – United Prest

The party and luncheon were Admiral With A

Government had to ask for dis- to have taken place tomorrow! solution, New elections will be

to mark the paper's 150 birth-

held within three months day. The Chronicle "scooped". Reuter,

the work with news of the victory of Nelson at Trafalgar

Razor Blade

Sinkiang Executions and the Admiral's death in the blade was guardian of Arcotican

battle,

C.

Washington, May 3. An Admiral with a razor. security today during the infer Now: Dolhi, Moy' 3. The appeal for funds for the rogation of General Douglas fuint session MacArthur by'a victims has been According to a message from explosion

Fod

Caminitiees. the Senate Strinager quoting, the

Arthur Thwa Jaunched by the Governor of

Vice Admiral (Urumchl) Itadib, Uaman Batur, Glarnitar to aid the dependents Davies, Staff Director, of the on unll-Communist guerilla in of the 10 killed and 22, injured. United States Joint Chiefs of Sinkiang province, plus 20 of. The explosion was caused with stad, wow wielding bledo to

the His followers were executed by the British naval armament ship out, military secreta clean out of the Red Government aner a Bedenham blow up mis many transoripts of the Chenieral's pubile trial at Tihwa, the capital, buildings and Installaildina were. of Biniding United Freak, [severaly" damaged --Ratstar,

Fordmane « before, they wero Thanded to the transmitentera

of

bivouse area. later estimated Communists

wounded.

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