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A Golden Carpet Of Daffodils

BIHAR FAMINE THREAT ACUTE

Patna, May 9.

The threat of a famine in the north Indian State of Bihar has become extremely acute, the State's food officials said today.

These officials said that nearly 20 million people were affected by the food crisis.

Pharaoh's Chicken?

A Vulture

It's

London, May 8.

Zagreb Zoo, Yugoslavia, o blue- rared pheasant in exchange for 6143 Egyptian vulture, Pharaoh's

chicken, Craven Hin.

London Zoo have sent to

ог

writes

"It is a small bird, for a vulture, with a-long beak sharply curved downward at the tip, and will be the first we have been able to get since before the war," a Zoo oficial sold.

"Most vultures are useful be- enuse or their scavenging habits, Pharaoh's chicken ex- cels in this respect. It is ac- cordingly protected in the Nile Valley, where it normally lives,

"It feeds on all kinds of offal, "At the Zoo we give these birds nominal rations, mainly rabbit or horsellest. But we have to keep close watch on the

apply.

The birds is so greedy that it anight eat enough to give it- self ali."-Loticon Express Service,

BBC'S

NEW FAR EAST CHIEF

London, May 9,

The State Government needed at least 250,000 tons of food grains

The main street of Newnham on Severn, Gloucestershire, famed for its myriad daffodils which are now making a golden carpet beside the road.

That More Meat For

Acheson Hints

Paris Negotiations May Fall Through

REDS ASKING TOO HIGH A PRICE

Washington, May 9.

Secretary of State Dean Acheson said today that the United States has about come to the end of its rope in negotiating with the Russians on terms for a Big Four Foreign Ministers meeting. His words implied the whole project may fall through.

The Russians in their talks with American, British and French re- presentatives at Paris are in effect demanding that the West suspend its defence programme, Mr Acheson said.

a

-

for a

Big

He declared emphatically that is too high price a price the West cannot pay Four meeting.

The aim of such a meeting | man, walked into the conference

and

would be to case world ten-wanted to speak.

asked [[ anyone

Nobody hadľ

sions and try to make some anything to say. M. Gromyko progress toward real peace, then said that he reserved his

right to speak tomorrow and adjourned the meeting until temorrow afternoon.-Reuter,

Mr Acheson said the United States has presented plans for a conference "which are the ulti- mate in reasonableness.

Bat the Foreign Ministers'

Hundreds Go deputies, meeting in Paris to

Vegetarian' Every Week

Britain's

Out-

מצוס

pave the way for the big parley, are deadlocked

over what Mr Acheson called Russia's regents insistence on its kind of urms reduction formuin. Mr Acheson said Mr Andrel Gromyko Soviet Deputy For cign Minister, has taken the attitude that there

..

Parliament Not Told Enough

was not information

ATOMIC

WEAPONS

TESTED

Britain

Montevideo, May 0

• Uruguay has offered to ship Britain in the

next

12 months a minimum of 20,000 tons of frozen and chilled' meat

minimum of 3,000 tens of canned meat, according to noles Britlah Ambassader and exchanged by the

flie

Uruguayan Govern- ment today. The British reserve the right to nollett more meat in. future talks ана exchange pilier pro-

ducts.

Both parties agreed on prices similar to the Ar genitne prloes, --- United Press,

Widening Defence Set-up

Turkey And Greece May Be Admitted

London, May 9. Washington, May .

Foreign Secretary Her- United States weapons ex-bert Morrison said today perts Inay know by now that the North Atlantic pact. whether they have ¤ practical powers were in the process

atomie artillery shell.

Congressional sources specu- of bringing Turkey and lated today that the peries Greece into their joint plan- of atomic tests being concluded ning for the defence of the this week at Eniwetok Included Aring of weapons designed for use against enemy annies and fortifications.

be-

can be no

In the absence of cfficial an- Big Four meeting unless his a month to stave

London, May 1.

these sources. noucements formulation of the arms reduc- off starvation.

This minimum

leved the first scries of spring meat shortage istons section of the proposed

London, May D. roller must be, urgently rushed giving strength to the cause of agenda is accepted by the other

Mr Anthony Eden, deputy

and summer tests, scheduled at to Bihar and at least three vegetarianism throughout the powers,

Conservative leader, complained the Pacific proving ground, months stock must be built up country.

in the House of Commons to have been completed or shortly to carry the State's population At the last "census" in the RUSSIAN MOVE EXPLAINED day that Parliament

will be. through the monsoon

season, London area it

There was revealed which is expected to start with that 117,000 people were official Acheson said, because he wants peace treaty.

getting

were indications that enough insists ол that,

at Mr about the proposat Japanese were tested: a "stockplatom

least

three different weapons In six weeks, the offlctals added. ly registered vegetarians-and this number is being added to

to commit the great powers to

bcmb of a new and improved According to Bihar's Food by hundreds each week.

The reduction of armaments prior

kind belleved to have twice the "I to Minister, Mr Anugraha Narain

in 1915 was 42,000.

to a Foreign Ministers' meeting

destructive range of the Na- gasakl-type bomb; a smaller for delivery bomb, fashioned by attack bombers; and an atomic worhead.

.

The Goverment, he said, now operated 3,658 "fair price" grain shops and planned to spend 50 million rupees on irrigation and

war.

Ite

power

not think

there his ever been a peace treaty when

Mediterranean.

Mr Morrison told a questioner in the House of Commons: "Slace the Near and Middle East are outside the North At- not the direct responsibility of Jantic arca, their defence is

the North Atlantic Treaty

Or Mediterrangon planning board. ganisation which has no Eastern

"It

"It has, however, been agreed In a decision at the North Ai- Greece shail be associated with

antic-Counell-that-Turkey-and- North Atlantic treaty planning for the Mediterranean, and an appropriate organisation for this

1s under consideration. pureliminary discussions have. already laken place

between

Military sources have speculat-military representatives of Tur- ed that the warhead is a sort of key and Greece and the North king-size mortar shell,United Atlantic group."United Press. Press,

ACHESON STATEMENT

Secretary

Washington, May 9, --

of State Dean Acheson sold at a Press con- ference today that the matter

Sinha, the entire food require-Titere is certainly strong without reference to either the less information has been given ments of over 20 million people general upsurge of interest, general level of armaments or

to the House of Commons," he landless labourers and petty said an offelal of the London the rearming of the Commu- said, agriculturists must be met by Vegetarian Society, whose mem-nist satellite States. fie Government for the next bership has doubled since the The Western nations have Parliament was very interested live months,

contended that what is initially in the treaty and many mem- important is the level of arma-

bers would like to know what was going on, he added. ments, by which they mean an | excess of Russian military

power over the mobilised

Mr Herbert Morrison, Foreign of the West; also that in any

ny Secretary, said he understood of of be

system the control

satellite Mr Eden's point of view, but nations must be covered he- it was a little unreasonable cause otherwise the Russians because we have not got very would have puppet armies to far."

unarmed a meatjes use against relatively

free nations.

In an effort to break the Conservative, that repayment Sir Moltammed Zafrullah speculate on what action would deadlock, Mr Acheson's agent of Japanese pre-war loans and Khan, Pakistan's Foreign Minis- eventually be taken, declaring

Paris,

Ambassador-at-large debts was among the subjectster, gald here today that there that nothing he could say on Philip Jessup, presented three being discursed.--Reuter. possible solutions,

public works

projects to pro- de drought-affected peasants with alternate employment.

Under the present conditions most people in the rural areas are too poor to buy food grains,

KATION REDUCED

The Food Minister said that while the State lost a minimum of 2,500,000 tons of food grains this year, assistance from the central food pool had averaged hardly 100,000 tons monthly. This had made necessary drastic reduction in the ration

Bihar's famine threat has aroused nationwide anxiety. The "food for Bihar" campaign has been gaining momentum in other States.

*

The trouble

Is to convince men and women that they can live and keep healthy without consuming, animal flesh.

"There is a tendency.

for children to course, natural vegetarians..

"Our desire is to assure the public that they will not suffer In any way from diet."

London Express Service.)

German Car

Recovery "Astonishing

Output of the German motor industry is approaching half Chal

today. sald

re-

ast

The first was that the four nations agree on an agenda including arms reductions In this, Mr Acheson said, Dr Jes- sup went, the limit in making concessions to the Russians on the wording of the aring see- tion.

cide how

THE RESULT

ourenlere is a basic 48. the arms problem,

German workers will

He told Mr William Teeling,

Slim Chance Of Success

The Hague, May 9.

of admitting Greece and Turkey to the North Atlantia Treaty Organisation' was under active study here,

Mr Acheson

declined

to

seemed a slim chance af Dr the subject row would be help- Frank Graham, United Nations ful, United Press. Mediator in the Kashmir dis- pute, succeeding.

King Haakon Speaking

For London

con-

Security

new

U.S. WARNING

Washington, May 9. al a Press

The U.S. State Department ference,

added that, if Dr warned today that

efforts to Graham's mission was a failure rebuild West-Europe's defencer to sirain its the results might be disastrous. were threatening

In Pakistan view there was reviving Industry beyond the no other method of producing breaking. to peaceful solution except that It

that n put forward by the

mutual security

programine would shortly be presented to Council.

laying down three Sir Zafrullah gave a list of Congress Vali

mary war

steps which he declared types of American assistance.- inter international and world opinion Router,

for suggested

a solution which Pakistan has accepted.

He did not expect the Kash- mir dispute to come before the International Court but if De Graham failed the of Justice, United Nations might ask the President of the International Court to appoint an arbitrator. To a question on what he thought about the Korean wor Sie Zafrullah said he looked on

London, May 9. Food grain contributions for

The second possible solution

King Haakon of Norway, the

32ln. Bihar come from all kinds of of the Brilish industry, accorting Dr Jessup put forth was that 78-year-old,, ort..

the four powers agree on an monarch, who spent five sympathisers-landlords, princes,

to engineer K. B. Hopinger, of Hampton-in-Arden, near Bir-genda except for those points years exiled in Britain, returns and poor peasants.

food

for on which they are stuck and here in June gifts from mingham.

a Festival foreign countries have also

and go ahead with a foreign visit. "Recently owned at the ry Ministers session. This would Mr J.F. Mudie has been an- | been diverted to

Dihar. But and I was astonished

He will sail here in his royal pointed head of the British, Fursuit the State's need is out of covery there since the war," he

leave it to Ministers to de- yacht, Norge, bringing with Eastern Broadcasting Service, all proportion to the voluntary

they

would

get at him his son Crown Prince Okaif, the British Broadcasting Cor-relief It Is getting-Router,

and members of his Govern- peration's station in Singapore,

As 1 basic possibility Drment, works

any

hours a intensive Jesup sugested that the big

From June 5-8 he will stay speeds

and the unions and empowers simply state in general

at Buckingham Palace with the work In harmony, terms the subjects they would King and Queen, Strikes are unheard

talk about co

so that the Ministers of "

At the end of his four-day German Mr Hopfinger, are organising bly.

Thus they would simply days longer in London at the sales schemes for their cars arlan questions," and the like.

rest "German

questions, Aus- Norwegian Embassy. Paris, May 1, home and abroad which are al- France's Cabinet

Mr Acheson said that the re- today ready bringing results, authorised the Prime Minister, Free enterprise and the desire Bult of all this was to put the M. Henri Queuille, to put

probably

Britain workers to better their living U.S.-and

France, since vole of confidence stoking standards were responsible for and

the three the existence

have the Govern- the recovery. London Express closely-In the position of say- of

powens

Co-operated ment as often as he thinks fit Service,

"Here is what we are pre- in the remaining debates in the Assembly

red to do what are you go-

to do now?"

it was announced here today. He sicceeds Mr W.R. Baker,

ended-Reuter,

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Vyshinsky's Illness

Moscow, May' 9. Mr N. Briem, newly-arrived feclundle Minister, has arranged to chil on President Mikhail

flols,

malacturers, says could go ahead with the incei-stay there he will remain a few it ng asymptom of widespread Shvernik to present his creden-

The Cabinet indicated that British

this applied particularly to de- bales on financial Bills,

Protest To Peron

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The intention of the Cabinet is to strengthen the Premier's hand in preventing deputies,

London, May 9. with an evé on the coming Britain has formally protested elections, voting pay rises, sub- against the establishment of two sidies

and other measures of amore Argenting bases in British vole-catching nature in their Anturetle territory, a Foreign constkuencies.---Reuter.

Ofice spokesman disclosed today.

Zarubin Sees. Morrison

London, May 9. Informed sources said today that among the toples brought up at the meeting between Mr Herbert Morrison, Foreign Sec- rotary, and Mr Geogi Zartibin, Soviet Ambassador, was the question of dood shipments to India from Communist China and Russia.

They suit

some reference was also

also made to the Japanese peace treaty „but none, of the discusalons (was,--inc Cany way,

comprehensive,

To Foreign Omeo conlemed the meeting but sold it wasn purely social affair, India House.

"Madame, Butterfly" nid Koros was not disused

United Press.

The protest was delivered in Buenos Aires on April 30 by the British Ambassador, Sir William Henry Mach, the spokesman said Reuter,

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Some reporters thought this

Red

To

Freighter

Collect

London, May 9. The Russian freighter, Vil-

sounded like diplomatic phrasmus, le to be allowed to col ing for the more familiar idiomlect 8,000 tons of Mainynn rub- "Put up or shut ed. Press,

disorder everywhere.

To another question on how Meanwhile, the Protocol De- Pakistan and Holland could co.partment of the Foreign Ministry has Informed Mr Briem due to operate, he said that Pakision was so much in need of techni- Mr Vyshinsky's illness the de- cal skill that room

Minister, Mr

V. could be puty Foreign found for all kinds of experts, Zorin, will receive the Minister especially In irrigation and oa Mr Zorin's return from agriculture, in which the Dutch

go, where he is making a have had great experience. →→

vight with Marshal Konev Reuter.

U.S. CASUALTIES

on the occasion of the anniver- sary of the liberation of Czecho- slovakio.

The Foreign Minister, Mr Andrei Vyshinsky, Is but of town. Convalescing. United

Press.

Freak Caff Born

ber at Singapore, Mr John up."-Associat-

Dugdale, Minister of Sante for IN KOREA,

Jor the Colonics, said today. GROMYKO'S ACT

This was being permitted be-

Washington, May 9, cause the rubber was sold be- The Defence Department te Paris, May 9.

fore the export control wan day reported total of 64,055 The start of today's meeting started, he told a questioner in American casualties in the Ko-

Tel-Aviv, May-9 of the Foreign Ministers de- the House of Commons. rean war, an increase of 1,256 born near Haifa. It

A two-headed call has been puties was delayed two hours Restrictive control on

is being over the previous

week. at the request of the Russian ports of rui

rubber was introduced· The new (otal included 11,001 The extra head weighs it down bottle-fed through either mouth. delegate, M. Andrei Gromyko, in agreement with the United (killed, 42,215

When the meeting did start it States early in April, he added, missing, 114 captured, and 1,103 its feet, but otherwise it is nor

wounded, 9,562 and it barely manages to rise to lasted three minutes.

A tothi embargo on comports had previously reported missing who mal. The animal will be offered A Western spokesman said at no time been contemplated. had been returned to military to that M. Gromyko, today's chair-Beuter.

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