1951-07-02 — Page 2

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JULY 2, 1951.

Typhus Epidemics Øll. Delegates Back

Still Raging In North Korea

Washington, July 1.

Brigadier-General Crawford F. Sams, who slipped behind the Red Lines in Korea on a daring mission to check reports of bubonic plague, said. hundreds of thousands of Communist troops and North Korean civilians have been killed by typhus, smallpox, and typhoid fever.

General Sams.

GA army were still having three or four physician, would not comment sick soldiers to every wounded. on a report that smallpox cases

have ·öccurred ameng

Nations, froops,

Valted

DARING VENTURE

Entire North Korean villages

berm wiped out its He said only that vaccine im-have munisation is relative and neplacenics; General Sams cald.

vaccinated person might catch

The 49-year-old physician.

the disease from an extremely accompanied by a junior Ameri- large dose of germs.

can naval officer and two South

epidemics arc still

raging whether

He told newsmen at a Pen-Kortars, went ashona. in tagon briefing that hermorrha-rubber boat in the Wonenn area March Lo determine

•gic smallpox and lyphoid last

bubonic plague had among Red troops and North broken out among Red troops. Koreans and the Communists They stayed ashore only a few Jack both

and hours. equipment knowledge to cope with them.

Hermorrhagle smallpox is particularly

type polent

Korean Nine groups of South agents had been lost in an effort

In to get the information earlier, which the face turns black in General Sams said. More than 20 the final stages as bubonic North

prob-General plague. Typhoid would'

who

helped Koreans

Sains in the mission in reprisal the ably become worse this sum-were ex:cuted

day after his successful inission. mer, General Soms said.

public health and General Sams said the Busch General Sams, who had been sians have

sent medical welfare section of General Dou- the Chinese and glas MocAthur's headquarters. supplies to North Korean Communist forces. has asked for retirement. He The Communist military leaders declined to comment on whether have requisitioned all civilian there was any connection with medical equipment and supplies MacArthur's

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World

Surplus Of Cotton Expected

Washington, July 1.

Mr.

Attlee Will Set Shah Fears He

A British Political Record This Month

London, July 1.

When Clement Richard Attlee stirs from his bed on July 26, he Will have been British Prime Minister longer than any man since the horseless carriage began gaining popularity.

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He will then be starting his seventh year as the calm and self- effaced flag-bearer of a Socialist revolution by law.

But sometimes associates

or

No other man has held the Downing Streeting. He is not a social being. official residence a full six consecutive years since members of his staff are asked Herbert Asquith, Liberal, led the nation through in for lunch, six years of domestic reform and the first year of war against Kaiser Wilhelm.

He likes, then, to recall old times and tell anecdotes.

. But ask him about some cur-

For Mr Attlee to achieve one charted course from several ent prcblem and he shuts up ·

such a record sets poiltleinus a not the explorer of new, cunundrum.

answer.

One

"What

of the lesser pastimes of the kind of people who like word games is to find a phrase to describe Mr Attlee,

Winston Churchill had a try. He called Mr Attice "a sheep In 'sheep's clothing." It hardly its. Mr Attlee

meek sheep.

ground.

nation.

was born

wild

in

and art

in off-the-

Has Cancer

The

London, July 1.

ZanddomeDYTUDE Shah of Iran has been told by doctors he must undergo an opera ́tion shortly; British oila cisia who returned this month from Teheran sald today.

The best Information to that the Shah has been told by two

specialists that he will have to have appendix removed.

kis

But

old anelent

the 31 -' year monarch of the Persian

empire

they

added, is afraid that he is suffering from an allment far more serious than ap- pendiclils, Ho was paid to believe that he has cancer, -United Press.

Indian Minister Warns

Pakistan

He is the same a elam. like way with King George. At his with the audiences regular Mr makes

Attlee If you ask

fells the King. Mr Alice

what is netos- Alljee Lick?"

his Putney, a suburb of London.still Monarch only none of Associates can give ឆ quick so Tory that it resisted the 1845 gary and has no time for small Labour landslide which sent is ok. The King is reported to They must first run through a long list of negatives, native on to the head of the be prome to call him "elam"

Its birth was staidly Instead of "Clem" of things he is not.

record conversations. announced in the columns

For relaxation, Mr. Alo the London Times. in a law firm, a devout believer

His father was senior partner wheezes through the tough

New Delhi, July 1. An Indian Cabinet Minis- crossword puzzles in the Times in

a few minutes. He likes ter today warned that con- in the mile of law, the Church of England, and Queen Victoria,

detective stories, blography and Mr Attlee absorbed religion, travel books., As a student and tinued Pakistani "breaches". from lils mother and a chain of young social worker he had a of the cease-fire agreement In classic litera- in Kashmir might lead to an deep interest nine.

now it is generally Indo-Pakistani war. tare, but Then he went to Haileybury, shoved unlde.

Copalaswami Schools,

Iyenger, Mr Attlee is a great cricket Minister of State and former head of the Indian delegation fans and goes as frequently

to good games. possible

United Nations, said: likes tennis and plays it rather to the well. He likes golf und plays "Deliberate breaches, if not put it rather atrociously, which is to an end at once, are calculated

be furnish at any moment not surprising inasmuch as

recently excuse for a major outbreak of 60 and only is past

hostilities between the two began playing golf.

He loves to travel. but plane countries."

dees't excite him

driving across the street to Parliament. In

is

no

Others have tried, too. He has been called "the dormouse at the tea party," and "the man who is almost anonymous," They tlon't fit him much better.

J

A SHY MAN

Perhaps the best thumbnail description is just to say that his friends call him Cem-and he's the kind of quiet home- body who is well-fitted to be known as Clem, Just plain Clem. No. great personal ambi- tion ever marked him as a self- secker after power.

literature, langunges,

Kovernesses until he was

one of the good Public and to Oxford. At the Univer sity, one professor passed this Judgment: "Solid worker, al- ways capable of covering the necessary quota."

CHURCHILL'S DEPUTY

The "necessary quota" now Includes almost daily decisions

of this travel that shape the course nation and may often turn the more than does channels of world history,

11

He

any

Mr

Speaking over Srinagar Radio

in Kashmir on the even of the Indion delegation talks with Mr Attlee now has been in plane--even an official one inid United Nations representatives than 11 on for a State Journey he is here, Mr Iyengar said: "There

and has been a series of violation to go up of the high office for more

the kind possesses none personal magnetism or spell- years. Mr Churchill chose him watch the crew and hold the of the cease-fire line during the "Itlast two or three weeks, These binding flair with words that

as Deputy Prime Minister in the wheel like Mr Churchill. the

wartime coalition. They com-

He

The world will produce more cotton than it consumes in the new crop year beginning on August 1, the International Cotton Advisory Com-secting political pyramid. He mittee predicted today.

Increased production would "nake possible a moderate in erense in the world stocks from their present reduced size," the Committee said.

I noted that on August 1 the world stocks would be at their lowest level in many years.

The Committee made forecast in its periodic

its review

of the world coiton situation,

"The world cotton produc- tion in the 1951-52 season be ginning August 1 is expected to be somewhat larger than the prospective world sumption," the. Committee said.

con-

present outlook is still for a world cotton crop on the million neighbourhood of 35

nies during 1851-52, although It may be necessary to revise this figure

upwards, it. the crop in the United States substantially in excess million bales,"

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plemented each other beautiful would just never occur to him has no ability to dramatise him-ly. Mr Churchill had the soaring to do anything like that," says self, none of the

actor's flair imagination and great voice of an associate. or on Arcuri:: a prima donna; Mr Attlee was pointed out of a Churchill The Committee

the man who quietly assembled that the world cotton consump-Bevan.

relatively higli, His public personality lacks facts on production, strategy.

raw materials and tion was still

from warmth, and he is an indrawn

little though it had declined the record level attained early shy man. in the spring.

The

prospects for the next be strongly in- season would fluenced by international poli- tical developments, the report said.

"But, considering all factors, in 1051-52 need consumption

total of about not drop substantially from this

season's record 33 million bales."

The world stocks on August 1 were expected to total between

2

year

According to political polls, the administration he heads would now be thrown out of office it the voters could get their hands on ballots.

Yet, despite this dim view taken of his Government, a solid as Prime Minister, The people trust him and are loyal to him. majority approves of Clem Attlee

Integrity clothes his character with all the dullness and all the honesty of a plain, grey blanket, As fits his character, ho despises men who can't or won't keep their word.

HATES

be no

DICTATORS

the many

they are 70. For

breaches of the cease-fire agree many of them were deliberat ment by troops and armed or=" ganisations from the Pakistani side,

for which the Pakistani

cannot recope resi

occurred in quick succession an

RETIREMENT AHEAD Mr Attlee thinks most public men should get out of office

Indinn sources in New Delh by the time him, that age is only a year-ald border. Incidents mentione Pakistani sokters near Jamm and-a-half away.

Some associates say that if by Mr Iyengar involved raids by his Government had a strong and Srinagar, the Kashandri capti Mr Atlee likes Mr Churchill majority which could last then). They said in one rald,

miles from the capital, severa Indian soldiers and Kashanl civilians were killed,

details that Cabinet Ministers had to deal with. He wrote and rehearsed the score from which the prima donna sang so beautifully,

cften

of four years remaining maximum

would term, he retire bofore its end. As it

election is expected this

als Pakistani forces were charged with looting property 1 hardly the Gorder area. United Press.

an

autumn.

The Labour Party

and admires his great qualities,' even though they are poles apart engage each other in acrimonious deunte in the House of Commons. in political thought ankes

Mr Attize frequently comes cut expects him to win it." Mr Attlee verbal will hang on until the election is with a loucheuenily co sword play.

example. Mr Churchilter. Then, win or lose, he is

likely soon to retire to books,r. ence cried that the "vultures of tennis, reading, watching erickri nationalisations

hovering"

and gordening.

For

are

10-1/2 million and 11 million bales as compared to 10,000,000 bales on August 1, 1950, the Committee said.

Hiller's repeatedly broken over industry. Instantly, Mr He can then be the real home- Stocks in the Uniest Stils pledges to the West led Mr Allies ripped is it the opinion body that he likes to be of show the greatest decline to describe him as of the honourable gentlemen that plagued by the demands woul ani

may total less than two man whose word is utterly our basic industries are so rotten politics-Associated Press. million bales compared to 6,800,- worthless." For pltin Clem, they attract vultures?"

bales

carlier. thero could 000

calm reflects a Mr Attlee's stronger Reuter.

damnation,

too. For personal discipline, instance, he recently had 10 lay aside his pipes to aid the cure of a duodenal ulcer, Ho He hates dictators of all

was a chain smoker of good kinds monopolistic business

his associates pipes and well tycoons BS

political pected the deprivation to make gangsters.

him short-tempered. It did not. Once he summed it up like He has quit his pipe as calmly this: "I object to dictatorships as if he had never smoked, whether in blue shirts, green shirts, red shirts, or any other kind

object of shirts, but I equally when they are in boiled shirts."

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Looks At

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London, July 1.

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Even A Bishop Was Held By

General tic Pact hast

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Paris, July 1, Eisenhower, Atlan Commander-in-Chie ordered

immediat tightening of security at hi Paris headquarters.

an

A former Walt Disney car toon artist has designed a new series of "Keep Your -Mout Shut" posters, which are bein displayed at headquarters.

New identity cards bearing large-size photograph have be ordered.

Even Bishop Fulton She narrowly escaped interrogati when he looked in to, vll. the midget weighs General Ein wer He was 600lb., compared to tha

rescued by el Contiolly) dieselit chief security oicer, who wai

TYPICAL DAY

works Hc

quietly steadily. His day goes some- A midget engine with

huge appetite for fuel will The driving force behind his, thing like this: London, July 1.

He rises at 7.30 am, dresses drive a naval harbour launch political life seems to be just

with quiet care in a dark, single-to be seen in London, off the Television 1951 is to look at

simple humanity, month 1990. Next Television

"Most of us became Socialists breasted suit, reads three papers South Bank Exhibition. 2,500,000 post-war viewers wil?

of what through our hearts first and our the London Times, the Mon- and the Guardian glimpse

Although be given a

like when heads afterwards," Mr Attice chester programmes were

has explained. "It was

Labourite Daily Herald-with ordy cer- the BBC publie service open-tainly so with me. I felt there the same quiet care, and takes two-and-a-half-ton

was nothing in the world, so a walk in nearby St Jame's Park has replaced, it uses four times passing by while the newly worth the doing as to try and after breakfast.

By 9.30, he is at his desk. alter conditions....

It is a 100-hp, gas turbine Now he and his colleagues are Mornings are usally devoted to

the second engine of embogged in the difficult prob- Cabinet meetings, or conferences engine,

Ministers and officials, this type to go into a naval lem of soothing out the workings with of the many alterations they Sometimes, since he contracted vessel. have made in the structure of

going to his doctor. British life during the past six hour or

ed 15 years ago.

The flash-back into TV's own past will be part of the fourth chapter of The Passing Show chronicle of show business. The programme deals with 1930-40, the decade which saw the ad- vent of television.

Producer Michael Mills plans years, to show viewers:

Films taken from the BBC archives which were made in the studios in the early days.

as much fuel,

created American prelate, in/ his episcopal dress, was being challenged by the guards. London Express Service,

his ulcer, he spends a morning The first naval gas turbine is Record Budget

also coming to London-1 He goes to the House of Com-motor-torpedo bont No, 5359.

mons shortly after afternoon.

2.30 och

-1

Damascus, July 1. NOT EXPLORER

A couple of hourn There wil

Syria's budget for 1051-8) not be a big Inter he returns home for after- difference in the size of the two amounting to £197,000,000 New thinking and bold new

naval craft. But the torpedo the highest the country has eve approaches now seem badly noon tea with his wife,

Mr Attlee attends the House boat's engine will be 20 times proposed, and exceeds last year A reconstruction of the first needed in the Labour Party.

Assiduously, kar a branch office as powerful as that of the figure by 200,000,000, Francis Williams, Mr Attlee's TV studio;

The new budget includes often works until launch. Press there, and and

his once

special. sum of £45,000,000 for Excerpts from the first show friend

K for the public Secretary, puts it this way: "The midnight.or.so. Evening en- ever produced

consumption the purchase of new arms and service.

Party needs a great deal of Eagements, at important dinners

can be overcome, gas equipment for the Syrian army, or State occasions, are frequent. problèm of Viewors will also hear the fundamental examination

On free evenings he is usually turbines may be the standard as part of the three-year £135 Arst words

uttered on both ends and means,"

power unit of the Navy in years 000,000 programme. television, and Miss Television. Mr Attice is not the man for at home.

There are not often guests at to come. -London Express The budget, awaits ratification tho

by the House ---Associated Press. map-reading the theme song of TV's infancy. that. "He's -London Express Service. type, a navigator who chooses 10, Downing Street in the even-Service.

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