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De Valera Honoured By

Leads In Election

IRISH COALITION CHALLENGED

Dublin, May 31.

Ennon de Valera's Fianna Fail Party gained a slender lend tonight in its race with the governing coalition for control of the Irish Re- public's Dail (Parliament).

Bolh de Valero, New York- born former Prime Minister, and the conftion's head, Prime Minister John A Costello, wore re-elected,

County Cinre voters returned do Valera, and Costello was one of three ruccessful candidates in Dublin South-east.

Returns

from yesterday's general election were still to senttered to denote a trend.

29,

Results tabulated this far: Fim Fall Party seats won,

Fine Coalition! won, 13.

University

Honorary Degree For Dr Ride

Gael seats Dr L. T. Ride, Vice-:

Chancellor of the Hongkong Farmers Clann na Talmhau) University, is to be honoured!

Labour sente won, 2.

seats won, 3.

Republican (Clonn #21 fachta), O.

by the Pub-Toronto.

Independents seals won, 2. Another independent plected

Was

In a Dublin constituency, but he cannot be classed as pro coalition. This successful con- didate. Dr

University

of

When he arrives in Toronto: on June 8 he will be awaried. an honorary LLD degree.

Dr Ride leaves inday for London, via Canada, to attend | meetings of the

Inter-Univer-

Established 1845.

FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1951.

Today's Weather: Light or moderate" East winds, cast with rain, with some improvement this

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ENDING

Big Operation By Police ROMANCE

And Military In New Territories

100 PEOPLE DETAINED FOR QUESTIONING

In what is officially known as “Operation Ferret," large contingents of Police, later assisted by about 100 troops from the 20th Division, this morning started to comb the hills and valleys in the New Territories. By 12.30 p.m., 100 people had been arrest- ed, questioned on the spot, and subsequently sent to Tsun Wan police station for further interrogation.

A Police official this morning said that "Operation Ferret" was a routine combined manoeuvre by Police and Army, but it is also believed to be associated with the search for gangsters who assassinated two police constables at Tsun Wan last Monday night.

In any event the operation is one of the most spectacular ever car- ried out in the Colony. All Police officers alerted to take part were in uni- form, including detectives. And everybody was well armed.

One hundred soldiers were They operated in groups of the roadsides ten and searched all houses in deployed along ready to move into action when the vicinity. required.

N. C. Browne, fority Council for Higher Educa- merly way Health Minister tion in the Colonies, Costello's Cabinet.

He is one of the two repre-

Police in Kowloon were alert- sentatives of Colonial unlver-

at mid- sities

on this Counell which ed for the operation advises

They the Colonial Ofee on night.

stood by until

education in the Colonies, all matters concerning higher hair past four and then moved

HEALTH PLAN DISPUTE Dr Browne resigned from the Cabinet and from the Republican wake of a controversy over his Party several weeks ago in the "mother and child“ health plan. This dispute was one of the fac tors leading to the election.

Dr Browne won in the con- Dublin South-east, stituency. which returned Costello to the Dall. The third successful can- didate there was a Fianna Fail

mon.

There are 146 seats at stake Costello's chance of staying in Prime Minister rests Irgely un the showing of his Fine Gael Party, the strongest pollical

organisation in the coalition.

It will be a couple of days before

the nation {nows

of

Police

With them were four or five radio patrol cars, and radio started moving into communications were establish- the New Territories hills in ed by means of walkie-talkies

the Talmoshan and Fuyung-between Police wore Gullet-proof vests the

off into the New Tercitaries.

They ambulances.

were accompanied by

50 and were armed with light guns shan distrists at 8 o'clock this the rudo curs, foot patrols and

While in the United Kingdom he will represent the University.

Hongkong ot the Anniversary celebrations of the University of Glasgow. These celebrations will b be honoured by a visit from the King and Queen on Thursday, June 21.

Dr Ride expects to be away from Ilongkong for about two

months.

STEAMER IN TROUBLE

whether Flanna Fall has won a The 1,374-ton clear

majority

or

and revolvers,

morning.

Rebels' Assault Beaten Back

Hanoi, May 31.

London, May 31.

French and loyal Vietnamese forces threw back Bombay the three-day assault on the southern edge of the whether registered

stenmer, Jayhind, Costello's coalition will remain was reported by Lloyds today vital Red River delta made by some 40,000 crack

to-be-drifting-and-listing badly-Communist-led-Vietminh-troops, a French-com-... in the Indian Ocean west of munique announced tonight.

-in-offles.-

De Valera has sald he wants

no part of a coalition.

Fils Fianna Fail candidates aro running against the field. -Associated Press,

Culombo.

13. French parachutists and other reinforcements inter- The British 8,463-ton tanker, vened to help force back the Vietminh attack on the British Harmony, was along- side-Reuter,

line of key French posts southeast of Hanoi.

COMMENT OF THE DAY

A Reassuring Atmosphere.

As it had to be, with goodwill and A good sense prevailing, Britain and the United States are today close to complete agreement on final plans for a A few peace settlement with Japan. minor differences probably remain, particularly in reference to the position of China in the broad scheme of things, but no doubt is entertained that next week's discussions at the Foreign Office will bring opposing views into line, on the basis almost certainly that the political upheaval in the Far East justi- fies leaving Chinese participation for the time being in abeyance. Much more important fundamentally than the exact method of achieving under- standing, of course, is the basic intent to agree. Quite obvious today is a reassuringly improved atmosphere guaranteeing general harmony, a deep trend towards agreement in all areas of policy, and notably in respect to the Far East. At the present time, the United States and Britain are, in fact, actually nearer to full accord on Asiatic policy than they have been at any previous time in the last year. There have been gradual shifts of ground on both sides of the Atlantic, apt to be overlooked in the clamour about cleavage. The realistic approach to the problem of Formosa's future and to the rights of China while Chinese troops are involved in the Korea' war is indica- tive. In any case, the clamour comes chiefly from extremista on both sides. In Britain, the extreme Left has sought to suggest that the United States was trying to precipitate a general war in East Asia, to the detriment of the defence of Europe. In America, the professional Anglophobes have alleged formal British policy to give aid to the aggressors. Neither suggestion was. trus and events have proved their falalty. The United States recalled General MacArthur in what was, in

an

effect, an official declaration of policy in favour of strict limitation on Korean hostilities. The commitment against enlargement of the struggle could hardly have been plainer. On the British side, the United Kingdom has readily joined in

embargo on all strategic materials to Communist China. It has clamped down on rubber shipments from Singapore and through Hongkong. It has declared that the Formoun issue is not germane to the discussions on Koren. If a major difference obtrudes, it is only that to readiness concerning Britain's recognise the Peking regime, and the blunt refusal of the United States to This suit. contemplate following divergence, however, is becoming moro Britain's academic as time goes on. gesture seventeen months ago, months before the Korea affair, has not led to anything remotely resembling normal diplomatic relations. In point of fact, six additional British consulates have recently been closed. The real crux of the recognition issue is whether Bri- tain would be prepared to sponsor Peking's entry into the United Nations, and.It has been quité apparent in official utterances from London that Britain has

the no intention of espousing cause of an aggressor. Force of circumstances, in short, has combined with good sense to bring Britons and Americans closer together. That happy state of affairs is not likely to be impeached by a few wild words in elther country. Neither will be expected to standardise idens, as they have standardised so many weapons of war. Similarly, there can be no strictures { upon the right of any Briton or American to speak his mind, What is suggested is tint the enormous, area of mutual agreement can serve to keep differences of opinion in something like a healthy perspective..

Clark Cable and his wife.

Clark Gable's Wife Files Divorce Suit

Santa Monica, Calif., May 31.

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Mrs Clark Gable, the former Lady Sylvia Stanley, filed suit for divorce here today against with the the film star Clark Gable on charges of mental Simultaneously

cruelty. house-to-house search and the Police combing, of the hills, started a thorough search of

The complaint was made at the deputy county clerk's Pedestrians on the highways.

By 8 o'clock about 20 people office, in this beach town 10 miles from Hollywood, by the had been arrested, taken to the noted criminal attorney Jerry Giesler. The brief peti- tion merely asked that a decree be granted on charges of roadside HQ and questioned.

After statements had been mental cruelty, which were not specified. She also asked Laken

from them they were sent to Tsum Wan police station for an equitable property settlement, but did not state her for further

demands. questioning. At 10 o'clock the military

time she The complaint said they were] member one picture and came into the moved

into the hills armed married on December 20, 1949, nibbling at his ear-right with sten guns, rifles, gas guns, and separated last Saturday front of other guests," said one acquaintance. "Cable was dying and equipped with walkle-

after a marriage of one year five And Sylvia was always whip- ping out her comb and Axing months and six days,

She did it about 201 her hair.

talkie sets.

An hour later-Police-on-the Hongkong

side of the harbour were alerted and told to stand- by to join the operations.

"Operation Ferret' was still being carried out at midday, despite the heavy rain.

According to some of the de- fenders, orders were heard be- ing given to Communist forces in French, German and English during the fighting and there was speculation that elements of least

ARRESTS MOUNT

at

By 12.30 this morning

100 people had been no arms had

Those arrested have

an International brigade" took rounded up, but part in the action. There was been discovered. no offeliil confirmation,

are Palice.

now

kept

1

times one night that I know of. It made Gable very unTM

Gable was working on the set of "Long Star" at M-O-M when his wife filed the suit. Asked comfortable." if he had anything to say about the action, he issued a curt "no comment" and went back to Ava love making movie Gardner,

to

Sentimentalists. said they could have predicted this mar riage wouk smash, as for back as December 20, 1949, when Sylvia off to Gable whisked

ranch and made her a dude Mrs Gable's brother-in-law, wife No 4. "He just plala never over Carole Lombard's Basil Breck, issued a statement got

lonely and He was

her

death.

Press.

UN Troops Capture Russian Equipment

From Cyril Aynsløy--

8th Army HQ, May 31. More Russian equipment is being discovered in Korea as the United Nations' forces continue to hammer out the delaying tactics of the Com- munists.

In addition to two Russian machine-guNS found in tho Hwachon area, yesterday it was reported tonight that 13 Rusion trucks loaded with lyres and ammunition had been discovered near Yongong-ni.

D

A further haul pulled in by United Nations troops was

dump containing 6,000 Army

fatigue uniforms.

The battered Chinese army is puting up a stuff show of re- distance but on Army spokes- man here today described it' at

delaying

ing tactics." points as

all

United Nations artillery is continuing to blast groups of

Chinese who have been ordered

stand and fight and

ຜ

casually

mount,

foll continues

the to

Between breakfast and sup

659 Communists per yesterday were killed and 79 captured in the Yongong-ni' area.

But generally, as June begins and the Arst anniversary of the war's outbreak approaches, an- other characteristic lull be-

arrived. tween battles has London Express Service.

NO PEACE MOVES

New York, May 31. Neither the United Nations nor Good Offices Committee the 14-nation Committee which meets In Washington appear to be contemplating, any new moves

for peace In Korea, apokesmen for these two groups sald today.

Rumours that pence moves were being made in Koren were strong last week.

it is thought During June that the Security Council will be prevented from taking any action in Korca,

Mr Jacob Malik, the Soviet delegate, becomes President to- morrow (Friday). In August last year

he successfully used delaying tactics-Reuter,

PETAIN SINKING

SLOWLY

He DrYeu. May 31. Ex-Marshal Philippe Fetaln 95-year-old former head of tho Vichy

is Government, sinking slowly, his two doctors announced today.

ho

doctors made their on- after their bl- consultation st the fortress where the ex- In fact she

Marshal Is serving a life sen- opposite."-Unitedtence for collaboration with the

Germans-Reuter,

Wus

Bomment

Observers speculated that the teen take in trucks to the de- on her behalf in which he said: thought he could be happy with weekly portation camp in Chatham Mrs Clark Gable today fled Sylvia but she wasn't anything island

in object of the big assnuit was to Road where they will be ques- | suit for divorce

Santa ke Carole,

the Monica, Mrs Cable has taken just lake Ninh Bình, which controls the only road to the industrial oned

It is estimated that upwords this step with the deepest re- centre of Nam Dinh and also Phat Dlem, 80 miles southeast of of 500 men are taking part in luctance and under severe pres- Hanol and

sure and only after it become a strongly Catholic the operation of which some 300 area,

where the rice harvest is

Police and milltary have es-evident to her that all in progress.

Rebels descending from their fablished communication centres efforts for reconciliation mountain strongholds threw and their crack units against 3,000 defenders in the line of key posts. The main attaches were in cho Ninh Binh and Phát Diem sector and began on the night Korea War Latest of May 28, Ninh protected by three posts and a

Binh was

unit of Navy commandos. TRIC B into

were

mobile headquarters in fruitless. She has been advised strategic parts of the New Ter- by her doctor to have absolute ritories.

quiet and rest and salled today George with her, friend, Mrs Vanderbill, on a fishing expedi tion for scientific purposes."

commandos retreated Allies Advance

a

local church and in bloody Inst fought to their combat

the bullet. Three-fourths unit were believed killed or

missingment

Reinforcements,

of

arrived ол

the 29th, including Lieutenant

In The Mud

Eighth Army HQ, June 1. Allied doughboys attacking de Tassigny's unit, but Viet-through Helds of mud during a minh received reinforcements heavy rainstorm pushed further also and launched another as into North Korea on Thursday sault that night. Posts on the against Increasingly stiff Com rocky high ground held against munist resistance. wave on wave of fanatical, as- The United Nations Eighth saults. Young de Tassigny Army was 30 miles above the was killed by a mortar shell 38th Parallel on the castern while aiding in the defence of front.

ما

Was

WIFE'S "ANTICS"

ex-

Breck refused to say; where she left, the name of her ship or where the "elentific pedition" was

heading. When pressed for details of her de- parture, he said firmly, "That Is the statement she authorised and that is all there is to day"

Veteran party-goers who asked to romain nameless sald Sylvia's anties, at movie, slitn digs eribarrassed her actor hus-

considerably.. band

I re

Thieves Make Haul Of Furs

a post.

Yanggu on the castern Up of The rebels used mortar sup-the Iwachon reservoir port, automatic weapons and entered by a tank infantry, heavy bazookas in their attacks. Only on Wednesday did more team, but the Allied unit was

fareed

swithdraw under reinforcements succeed in cu

Walton, Surrey, May 31, ting their way through to the powerful

Thloves broke into the Eng- the beleaguered Strong

battled bad weather and do-lish home of Sir Pratap Singh, posts.

Wednesday night was termined enemy defence lines deposed Maharajah of Baroda, relatively enlm-United Press.

to puth north of Chipo-r1, here today and stole three fur Hwachon and Inje.

тевена of.

MR BEN GURION LEAVES US

Now York, May 31. The Israeli Prine Minister, Davla

#alled Ben Gurion, aboard the Queen Maly today for Cherbourg uncompanied by his wife and a large party,

counter assaulte. Allied task

forces

rains virtually

"Heavy coats worth £20,000, allminated air

Furs worth several thousand

support for a brief period in pounds sterling were stolen on the afternoon," an Eighth Army Tuesday, from the home of the the lato Maharajah vof:Hajpipla at

spokesman said, doml

air drops continued wonther handicap

the

Windsor, 10 miles further up the ||River-Thames. ́.

Reports from the front today salih.. the rain was continuing The Maharanee-who-was | but was not as heavy a maloop in the house at the time, downpour as yesterday-United; la mourning her husband.

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