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No. 31895

Established 1845

THURSDAY-MAY-17, 1951.

HARD-HITTING REDS

Iraqi Troops Sent To Syria

Baghdad, May 10, The Iraqi Premier, Nuri Es Said Pasha, told Parlia- ment today that "Iraqi Army Royal Bodyguard and anti-aircraft units arrived in Syria today to defend Syrian territory against attacks."

any air

He said in his statement to Parliament: The Iraqi Army Royal Bodyguard, anti-aircraft inila and a number of Iraqi Royal Air Force squadrons are taking military positions

now

in Syria.

"The

move was taken after full accord with the Syrian Gov- ernment and is designed to meet any Israell aggression against Syrian territory. Iraqi Army units will not return to Iraq until Syria them."

does not require

Lloyds Quote

STRIKE

The Odds NEW BLOWS

Beatle, Washington,

May 18.

Lloyds of London rave odds, of nearly 20 to 1 on Wednesday that the United Slates would not become Involved in a world war before June 25,

Dr Frank Wood, Sestüle President of the Paciflo Coast Dentists Association, sald he took out an in- Aurance polley with the firm that would pay off $10,000 if war was declared by the United States before that date. The policy cost 5530.

June 25 is the opening date of the Association's convention.-United Press.

Force ROKS To

Withdraw

Tokyo, May 17.

Chinese and North Korean Communists hurled the first blows of the new Red offensive at South Korean and American troops in east Central Korea on Wednesday and by midnight had forced the ROK troops to fall back.

The Reds opened the second round of their spring offensive in rare daylight attacks aimed at cracking the ROK lines along the 38th Parallel in

At the same

time, the Chinese who had massed under the cover of week- long rains launched probing attacks across a mile front astride Korea's battle worn central in-

Truman Gags the eastern mountains.

Bradley

Washington, May 10.

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Singapore, May 16. The Panamanian freighter Norbay will wnload at Hongkong her carro

of 750 tona of ·Malayan rubber worth M$3,000,000 (£250,000) #old to the People's Republic of China, the ship's agenta saló here

today

The agenta alad that the rubber Would then be trans-shipped to China.

Chinese shippers claimed that the rubber was bought for Communist agents in Hongkong more than month ago.

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When the Norbay reach- ed Penang during the week- end after loading rubber in Singapore she was refused sport clearance to mail to China. But she was given cleararice to return to Singapore,

She will call there before miling on to Hongkong, the agenta said.—Renter.

vasion corridor. The battle spread like a prairie In

The White House sald today fire from the east to west during the night. that President Truman did not (A Damascus report yesterday wish General Omar Bradley, the sald i was understood that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Syrian Premier, Khalem Azim, Staff, to testify about their con- had told the Arab League Poll-fidential talks on the dismissal tical Committee, meeting there, of General Douglas MacArthur. that representatives of a num- ber of Arab states had express-

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The President's Press Secre ed readiness to give immediate-tary, Mr Joseph Short, told a

as Syria news ly such military help

conference that the may ask.

President was "against it." and (The League Counell was CX-

added: "The President made the pected to decide today the kind decision. The conversations of military help that member which jed

It are his stales would give Syria in its business.” dispute with Israd over the frontier, where there have been outbreaks of fighting in recent weeks.)

Nuri Es Said Pasha -assured Parliament that "Iraq will ron- der the utmost military aid to Syria, More troops and Iraqi Air Force planes will Royal leave to defend Syrian teri tories."

Fighting flared up on the Syrian-Israeli border late in April, On May 6 the Syrians. claimed that Israel planes had bombed the village of Shamsia. The Israelis denied that a bomb. ing rald had been made.

A

up

01

and

day of the hearings by the At the opening of the 12th

Senkle Armed Services Foreign Relations Committees of testimony on the dismissal of General MacArthur, Republicans appeared to be in disagreement whether

renew they would efforts to And out what was said in the conversations.

Questioning of General Brad- ley was delayed while Scnators debated whether they should insist on his telling them about hla private talks with the President,

there

40 HK Figures In Secret S'pore Talks

At 1 am, on Thursday the at South Korean lines across southwest of Changgong above Central Korea. Chinese opened probing attacks | rain-soaked mountains of east

the junction of the Han and Pukhon rivers 20 miles north- cast of Scout. Lighter corsiect was reported between Chang- gong and Chunchon, key city

innin astride the

highway down Korea's central mountain spine. An Eighth Army communique reported "heavy pressure" and "strong attacks" by Commu- nist forces as large as two re- gimants at a half dozen points along the 25-mile east central

Inje. front between

Chunchor and

Singapore, May 16. Recommendations of the three-Power secret military conference now being held here will

A delayedi dispatch from the Eighth Army Headquarters ол Thursday

morning sald were no reports of im- mediate enemy penetration,

Allied fighter planes, almost grounded for the past three days by bad weather, roared back into action as the. Com-British, United States and munist

French Governments offensive mounted

for fury-United Press.

consideration, it was learned here tonight,

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be sent to the

To Supply Red China

With Vital War Materials

(OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)

Calcutta, May 16.

The Burma Road to China-by which Britain and the United State armed Chiang Kai-shek in World War II against the Japanese--may reopened now to supply the Chinese Reds with war materials.

This scheme is believed to have been put up to the Burmese Government E Red China's Ambassador, suave General Yao Tehung-ming.

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To strengthen his hand the Chinese are reported to be massing fresh troops near the border.

And harassed by this threat as well as the dangers of a new rebellion and bankruptcy the Burmese Government may not feel strong enough to turi the Ambassador down,``

Then China would order the Red rebels who virtually rule Upper Burma to cease their anti- government campaign.

General Yao is reported to steamer to Mandalay and thence blocks were strongly guarde have told the Burriese they can by truck over 800 miles of twist | by Burmese troops. Beyond maintain neutrality amid the ing mountain road to China, caw Chinese troops and gang increasing dangers by agreeing to his scheme.

Under It Chinese agents throughout the Far East would buy rubber and steel-hardening I motored up the Road. A manganese and woram and British-owned petrol lorry lay despatch them to Burmese burn out. But all was quiet. Arms.

The border town of Maymyo The goods would go by river was armed

camp. Road

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Acheson Turns Down

Appeal To Resign

Washington, May 16.

The Secretary of State, Mr Dean Acheson, tar- get of hot fire from critics of the Truman adminis tration, declared today that he "enlisted for the duration" and intends to remain as Secretary of State as long as-the President wants him.

The statement could be taken¡ moderation in their dispute as an answer to Representative over the nationalisation” of erat, who disclosed tonight that Omar Burleson, Texas Demo Persian oil,

to Mr Acheson to resign in view that an approach had been made Mr Acheson, asked about he had made a personal, appeal widespread

uno Belal

reports

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Military chiefs of the three sixPowers, have been conferring on means of fighting Communism day. The talks were due to in South-East Asia since yester

finish today, but it was decided of the great sentiment oppos- from the Chinese Communists to continue them for anothering you."

for peace talks on the Korean two days.

Mr Burleson said he wrote a

war,

said he had heard of letter to the Secretary on May nothing to substantiate those re- 7, urging him to take the initia-ports President Harry Truman, tlive in o resignation because

being

NIGHT ATTACKS

Tokyo, May 17. Communis; troops supported by heavy artillery hurled ROK Infantrymen made at jotting night attacks at suspect- cast two "limited withdrawals“ along the 38th parallel south-fence line in Central and Eastern ed soft spots in the Allied de- west of Inje, drove

and the Reds Korea yesterday (Wednesday); "three slight peneira. It looks like the opening round tions" into the Allied lines in of"

the fourth and mightiest sector, the cornmunique' Chinese and North Korean offensive in the 11-month attacks Were reported Korean war. immediately

from the western front, but Allied

commanders believed that it was a matter of hours until the Chinese massed noriti of Seoul rolled like a human sea Ιλίο the barbed wire and guns of the United Nations defence line.

said.

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Then the Committees valed 19 to lo excuse General Bradley Calro report earlier this until next Monday as a witness. week sald that Syrla had asked He had commitments to attend Egypt and Iraq for military help the Armed Forces Day celebra- -and-that-Iraq had decided to send--tions-In-California later this muzzles ́of American

18 Spitfire lighters-Reuter. week.-Reuter,

COMMENT OF THE DAY

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A cansored dispatch from Associated Press correspondent George MacArthur said 1,000 Reds hit South Korean troop positions southeast of Chunchon at dusk yesterday.

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This was the area where Red forces have been holding Two Chinese armies threw bridgehead on the south bank wave after wave of howling of the Choyang River for near- Red infantrymen into thely a week.

"The attacks quickly spread guns east of Chunchon and smashed to American units to the West,"

MacArthur said.

His dispatch, field

at 10.30 p.m. yesterday said the attacks were still in progress.

Govt & Transport Services

PEAKERS at yesterday's special meeting of the Star Ferry Com- pany to consider Government's pro- posed

new franchise made some challenging points and advanced some easily refutable arguments. Government, we feel, will be hard pressed to justify some of the franchise features, more particularly on the question of equity. The Company'a eriticism centres around two vital issues: whether royalties should be payable on gross receipts (which Government proposes) or on net profits, and whether purchase of the Com- pany's assets should be based on Cost, less depreciation (Government's pro- position) or on market valuation.

An additional aspect of the dispute over royalties is Government's pro- posal to apply royalty deductions from pler-advertising revenue. It la not

easy to find acceptable precedents for Government's plan to impose royalties on gross receipts, and the travelling public will have little sympathy for the proposition If, as it has been broadly hinted, this entails an increase in fares. If the official argument is that Government is merely recovering money spent by the public to be used for the benefit of the public it will require something more than special pleading to be convincing. The com munity is only too well aware of the system of adding special. Income to the general revenue fund, where it can easily be absorbed to meet administra- tiye costs. There is general agreement that royalties should be paid for. public utility concessiohs, but it is false economy to apply these royalties, In such a manner as to make necessary increases in fares. The question of equity is strongly pointed up in

to

Government's compulsory purchase proposal which provides for disposal of the Company's assets at Cost, less depreciation. Significantly it is em- phasised by the critics that in no case where industries have been nationalised in Britain has this procedure been adopted. The correct alternatives are for purchase at current market valua- tion or by valuation set by arbitrators, and there appears to be no obvious reason why Government should not willingly make a 'concession on this point. It is, in fact, a matter for cogi- tation as to what exactly are Govern- ment's ultimate intentions in the mat- ter of the Colony's public transport services. Is the eventual aim amalgamate ferry, bus and tram services? This is vaguely suggested by the officially inspired dis- peraal scheme which provides for co-ordinated bus and ferry schedules which will connect various parts of Kowloon with the island. The dis- persal scheme has much to commend. itself because it enables workers who live long distances from their factories and workshops to commute quickly and cheaply. But if this is to be the first step toward the amalgamation of all transport services under a con- trolling body, the public would view the development with some misgivings. The public look for efficient and reason- ably cheap travelling facilities, and both may well be denied them if any- thing like the telescoping of transport services under the control of a Trans- port Commission should be the eventual alm of the Authorities. 'On... this, and the points raised by the sharoholders of the Star Forry Com- pany, the public await official clarifica- tion.

The assaulted US positions were a series of strong dug-in fortifications.

The Chinese attacks thus far have apparently not forced back any Allied units," Mac- Arthur said,

Other

reports reaching US Eighth Army said Reds also struck southwest of Inje, on the Eastern front, Infe is four miles north of the 38th parallel and 75 miles northeast of Seoul,

Later reports from the front indleated the Allies were hold- ing their ground.-Associated Press.

LATER REPORT US Eighth Army Headquarieru,

Korea, May 17, Mossed Communists pressed their second spring offensive in Korea today (Thursday) against the mountainous centre. They forced a general United Notions withdrawal,

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today

The conference decided to issue a communique at the end of Friday's meeting.

The problems discussed believed to include:

Military steps to be taken in the area if the United Nations blockaded China, Hongkong's strategic position, new armed forces dispositions-if-China Intervened in Indo-China, the possibility of a small British and

Australian air task force for Indo-China, and more ald General Do Lattre Do Tassigny in France's war against Communist-led Vietminh surgents in the Tongking delta.

for

were

In

Speaking to the French com- munity In Singapore at a cock tail party, tonight, general Do Lattre stressed that French Union......forces in Indo-China fighting solely for full Independence for the Vietnamese.

Young French soldiers wero being killed and the war was costing France 300,000 million francs a year, but the French forces were not fighting to keep Vietnam for France, General De Lattre said.

Reuter:

The pullback was southwest Iran Oil Dispute

of Inje, a town 75 miles north- east of Seoul,

Eastward of the Inje with- drawal action,

massed Reda ripped big holes in the United Nations lines/Associated Preta,

Sir Stafford's Rare Disease

Zurich, May 16. Lady Cripps, wife of the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps In a statement issued today said that in addition to the tubercular infection that Sir Stafford is suffering from "he has been |known-for- -some-time-to-be suffering from a rare and dan- Ferous 'disonse."

Lady Crippa' statement added, The X-ray treatment given at Lausanne helped considerably to arrest ils development locally and to reduce pain.

"It is hoped that the patient will respond to now general treatment which has now cons manceð, þirt owing to his stale of › exhaustion his condition is bound to bauso great and con- tinuing, anxiety."--Reuter.

Compromise Plan Hint

Washington, May 16. The Iranin Ambassador, Mr Nasrallah Entezam, said today that he believed his country would at least "discurs" a com- promise plen for settling the Anglo-Iranian oil dispute it one were offered by Britain.

He made no comment as to the possible acceptability of any. compromise. Mr Entezam spoke to reporters after a call at the State Department.

The question of a possible compromise plan arose becausa of reports of a note which the British government is said to bo preparing to send to Iran. My Entezam said he was unaward of what the British intended to muggest in their

their note, but were a compromise plan" as reports had predicted he was certain "his government... would feel it should at least bo die cussed.--United Press.

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of coolies ropairing the lar stage of the road to Kunmin

NO HABEAS CORPUS I wos warned that any af tempt to go further might Imprisonment. There મમ habeas corpus behind Burma "bamboo curtain" .and. secret police said that the Bri tish Government would be un able to help me.

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Burmese army men said the iroop concentrations were train ing at Maymyo. Brish instruc

ogs were trying, with success, to instill discipline inf the raw unito.

But there are also severa well armed regular regiment on the burder. No one dente they are there in connection with the arrival of reinforce ments for the Chinese 11th and 17th Route Army poised on th other side.

The shadow of these Re troops les dark across Burma It gives hope and strength to the reviving. rebel opposition.

The shaky administration · វ Rangcon can do nothing abou

Beyond the mata towns atid's few poorly-held communication cs--and that means- three- Burma-gunmen quarters of are in control and bullets are the law.

GERMAN BUPPLIES. :

in further reference to the

Washington, May 10. A special investigator testi- Persian oll dispute, Mr Acheson disposed "to concede" said that the United States had fled today that strategic goods probably will never ask for it. neither approved nor disapprove worth millions of dollars have Everything possible must be ed of the attitude of Britain or been sent to' Communist Chiza done to unify the nation for the Persia, and was simply giving plants since the start of the tremendous tasks ahead, Mr advice to both parties. Burleson said.

from West German industrial

He advised correspondents not Korean

The

After stating his position at to let their judgment be affected The witness was Kenneth R. a nows conference, Mr Acheson by rumours. He said that Britain Hansen, just back from three thened to reprove re-hid not discussed with his weeks of Investigation porters in his words, Department the recall of her 15 Western Germany-for-a-Senate fiddled around with technical Parachute Brigade. The State Export Controls Sub-Committed and secondary questions. He Department had not asked about before which he testified, advised them not to louse up, the Brigade's possible ure, he

Mr Hansen sald

"an entire as he put it, the question of said.

power plant" was among itome American policy by getting it Mr Acheson emphasised again shipped from West. Germany to confused with the veto issue.

that the dispute over oll was a point for the Reds fighting in Manchuria, a staging and supply matter which must be worked point out between Britain and Persia Korea,

sured themselves. by

Recorded legal trade between

Germany He told a questioner that he West

and China was not aware that the United spurted to $7,000,000 in the last States

contemplated

THE ARGUMENT

While he jumped the reporters he seemed actually to be talking over their heads to members of Congress and particularly some technicians to

sending three months of 1950, he said, the Persian oil compared with $413,000 in oli Republican Senators who have fields If, as a correspondent put of, 1940 and a little over $4 explored the veto matter recentit, "the British were not there." 000,000 in the first nine months ly in the MacArthur hearings, -Reuter.

of 1950.-Associated Press. In essence what My Acheson is that the im- argued today is portant thing is to persunde a majority of the United Nations members that Red China, defy- ing the UN in Korea, must not be permitted to shoot its way into

tho penca league. He pointed out that only in the Security Council can member- ship be controlled by veto, the other UN agencies operating on majority rule.

Defence Secretary General George Marshall festified in the MacArthur hearing that the

United States must op- a seat for Red China In the UN, and intimated that he thought veto In the Security Council could be used for this purpose,

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nato

Mr. Acheson was asked to clarify America's attitude. do ward the British-Iranian dis

over Iran's move to na- tionalise the British owned oll industry. Mr Acheson said the United States was urging British and Iranians to work the prob- Iom out together

using moderation and excluding exi treme measures. This govern- ment is continually consulting with and giving advice to both ades, he added.

job, Mr

big

Regernid: "I have no in-

Acheson tention of resigning. I enlisted “for the duration-and ̈am-pro=" pared to stay, as “long as the

aidont wants me to stay,"

Associated Press..

NO PEACE FEELERS ·

· Washington, May 16, The UB Secretary of Stato, Mr Dean Achoron al today

of no

Декст fecies from the Chinese Com munists to end the Korean war.

Speaking. at a press forence, Air Acheson also urged Britain and Fenda to exercise.

that he know

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