1951-08-11 — Page 1

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VULCAIN

SWISS

MADE

New Red Protest Expected

Stand-By Call By

2

Peking Radio

Tokyo, August 11.

Peking radio said in a

CHINA MAIL

No. 34969

26 Bodies Recovered From Flood Waters

Rome, Aug. 10

Twenty-six bodies were recovered today as torrent waters receded in the Lake Como district of North Italy and rescue workers dug in the wreckage of flood-flattened homes.

The 48-hour deluge seemed to be over in the North, leaving hospitais filled with scores of injured, though Saturday morning broad-sudden cloudbursats were still reported from scattered

cast that a special an points.

nouncement would be made

at 11 a.m. today (Tokyo Water news from the north

time). The broadcast said the

was paradoxically matched by

announcement would fire news from the south.. Scar

be made in English and Chinese.

A Peking radio alert to Ilsteners sald the announcement would be an "important second protest" from the North Korean General Nam I, head of the Communist cease-fire tion.

fanned blazes in the wild moun- ing heat and strong, hot winds STOP PRESS tains of Calabria and the dry Adriatic coast lowlands,

+

Spontaneous combustion caused millions of fire worth of Are damage 10 vines, olives," delega- almonds,

which

forca's And

farms sweltered in tempera- The "protest" was expected to tures up to 42 degrees centi- be another Communist charge grade in the shade. An explo-

the that

UN

have sive factory near Bari and a troops violated

the Kacsong neutral village near Reggio, Calabria, zone, The Reds' first protest were spared almost miraculously of this nature was given to the by last-minute changes of wind. UN Chlef delegation, Vice-Ad- miral C. Turner Joy on August

-9.

TROOPS ASSIST

Gen. Nam

The

Protests

11

announcement

special

by promised

Peking Radio this morning was broadcast in English

at 10 and Chinese o'clock, Hongkong time.

4

In effect it was a repetition of the complaint lodged earlier this People in the "earthquake-week that UN plane had United Notions negotiators belt of East-Central Italy were chased one of the Communist nay put an "agree or gh!" ructully surveying time limit on

cracked truce delegation's vehicles while

Wos

to

any

tremors which shook the fact that the vehicle slew a wide area in the last 36 hours. white dag and had a white

covering over ils roof, Swlizerland, today called up

1,000 troops to aid the flooded regions of Grisons and the Tessin.

the

From Monday

they will be employed in reopentog blocked roads, restoring broken bridges and clearing debris, the on- nouncement Bald.

The message, which WAS signed by General Nam I, went to allege frequent violations of the neutrality игро by UN planes and demanded guaran- fees from the UN Command that these would cease,

the urmistice walls and testing foundations on its way to Kacsong, despite negotiations as a result of the after new crisis in the cense-fre tatis, it was reported today,

The Communist

negotiators Berne, refused flatly at the resumed cease-fire talks yesterday consider anything but the 38in Parallel as the demarcation line triween the United Nations and Communist armies. They refused likewise to pass on to

other programme item. There was growing (celing

મ here that the chance agreement

Himinishing There

was Increasing beller that the only way to get the Communists to talk business, if they intend to, is to put an ultimate time limit on the Three *buses were carried talks. Officials would say only away near Bressly and several that no

limit has bridges collapsed. Buch time been set yet-United Press. Bus Falls Off Road

Tokyo, Aug. 10. Twenty-two passengers were Injured when a bus fell off e highway in Ichloseli City, Iwate Prefecture, today.

The driver of the bus was reported to have tried to avoid another bus.-Beuter.

Swiss rainfall In the past two days has been the heaviest ever recorded. Swiss Radio re- ported today.

the

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Established 1845

SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1951.

The Subject Was

Rifles

Suicide Letter.

Leads To

Hidden Treasure

Brussels, Aug. 10.

A suicide letter written 15 years ago today led to the discovery of a hidden treasure near here,

A few days before Jacques Meunier, an engineer, gassed himself on May 18, 1036, bo kave his friend, Joseph Her man, a local, notary, 'a' sealed letter addressed to his son,

Pillsburgh, Mass., Aug. 10. Marlon

Francols. Cook, 18-month-old daughter of Mr and Mrs Albert

A child was saved from being Cook, narrowly, escaped injury last night when lightning struck swept away.

her bedroom, ripped up the In

Volcantone valley, floor boards and piled debris

housca were eva-into her crib. where many cunted, floods swept away and

Marion,

Later unhurt, was drowned a man.

where shown

the "naughty Water mains burst at Lugano lightning" drove ☐ piece of and supplies were rationed. Gas | flooring five inches into the supplies were also affected.— [celling" of her room-United Router,

Press,

COMMENT OF THE DAY

MR

Standardising Rifles

R Emanuel Shinwell, Britain's De- fence Minister, has just com- the pleted talks in Washington on subject of standardising the type of rifle to be used by the North Atlantic Treaty Powers. Mr Shinwell went to the United States with the aim of try- ing to persuade American officials into accepting the new British .28 rifle, which would involve abandonment of the US .30 calibre weapon. No hint has yet been given of what, if any, decision was reached at these

Washington talks. It is unlikely that any firm agreement materialised. Both British and American experts are convinced that their respective rilles are superior to anything else and no ready concession on this point can be expected from either side. What must be remembered is, that even if the British rifle is the best in the world, it will be useless without ammunition, and the question of ammunition brings the whole subject into new perspec- tive. The first question which arises is, what ammunition are Britain's allies going to use? That is important because when British troops. have to fight they will often be in forces of mixed nations, as they were in the last war, and now are in Korea. And in such circumstances there can be no absolute guarantee that, if they were using different calibre rifles, they would always be fully supplied with ammunition. It may be claimed the argument is far fetched. But it is not, because the fewer the troops using a particular type of ammunition the bigger the risk that, their supplies will go wrong. And in the matter of calfbres everything points to Britain being alone. She is alone because no other nation has yet agreed to change its rifle calibro (unless, of course, Mr. Shinwall anjoyed a completely success ful mission to Washington, which wo very much doubt) and, unlike Mr Bhinwell, other Defence Ministers do

on

aup-

not regard the matter as being pure- ly technical. Fairly naturally they want to know not only what their allies are doing, since it affects sup- plies to soldiers in action, but also what production is possible. No coun- try can afford to alter frequently the calibre of its basic Infantry weapon- it is 50 years since Britain last changed hers-because of the waste in factory plant and existing stocks. Most nations within the North Atlan tic Alliance want to use the same calibre as the United States, since bombing and shipping shortages make them dependent American plies. Wherefore, unless the United States changes its calibre, Britain is in real danger of being.. left almost alone. Also to be considered is the position of the Commonwealth nations. Hitherto they have tried to use Bri- tish equipment, but in an atomic war they could not rely, on supplies from the United Kingdom. This factor may well persunde countries like Australia and New Zealand to adopt the Ameri- can rifle. Standardisation of weapons is manifestly beset with genuine problema, and it would be nice to think that the meetings last week In Washington between the American, British and Canadian Defence Minis- ters achieved anything decisive in this direction. And from the British point of view, if Mr Shinwell has been able to persuade the United States to adopt the 28 calibre rifle, he will have dono very well indeed. From Britain's point of view that would be the ideal Bolution, but if the Americans decline to change, then it may become ad- visable for the British Government to:- rovise Its policy. The main thing is for Britain to avoid isolating herself, how- ever good, the 28 weapon may be.. There could be no unhappier altuation than British soldiers using one kind of bullet and all of their allies another,

On the envelope he wrote, "I trust you not to deliver this letter until Francois is 21."

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What about the new ride? They were just going to discuss it when this picture was, taken in Washington-a week ago. The debaters? From left to right, US Army Secretary Frank Page, French Defence Minister Jules Moch, Brush

Defenco Minister Emanuel Shinwell and Cana- dian Defence Minister Brooke Claxton. They met to try and iran out an agreement on the standardisation of a rifle for the North Atlantio Treaty Organisation forces. No sue- cess has been. reported.—AP Picture.

Britain

To Stick

To

.28 Rifle

Britain's

British Ministers

To Visit U.S.

Some Plain

Talking Is Promised

TENSION EASES IN PERSIA

Teheran, Aug. 10. Tension in Teheran and Abadan, the centres of the Anglo-Persian oil dispute, eased consider- ably today as the first tangible results of the Bri tish-Persian negotiations were made known by Persian sources.

The only activity on the Moslem day of rest was that Mr Richard Stokes, Britain's oil envoy, saw the Shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, for more than an hour at the summer palace of Saadabad, north of Teheran, and the Persian Cabinet called an extraordinary session for tonight to brief their delegates for a resumption of the talks tomorrow.

Persian sources summed up the achievements of the three sessions so far held between the British and Persian negotiators over the future of the off industry as:

1.-A general exchange of Abodas, Persian sources said that views,

2-A _Joint effort to im-cut, a method of payment, prove relations between the British staff and the Per stan authorities in Abadan and the oilfields,

I was now a matter of working It was the disputs over the form of receipia given by tanker masters which stopped all Persian

exports last June.,.. Mr Matin Daftary, one of the Persian 3. A move for a tem- the difficulty which arose over negotiators, said that porary agreement for aa formula for tanker receipts

resumption of olf loading at when the Persians insisted that Abadan as soon as possible, the old belonged to the "Iranian National Ой Company no pending an overall final longer exista "because settlement.

Britain the principle of advantage of the lull, Averell Harriman Pre-

bas'

The Persians are known tipa.

have asked the British delcgn-

tion

London, Aug. 10. Three top British Cabinet Ministers, who will visit the United States - early next month for man-to-man talks point of view, Hussein Makki, province of Azerbaijan, for

the General Secretary of the vialt.^ with American officials on Persian

Oil Commission, and He was accompanied by Mrs foreign policy, finance and two members of his

Harriman and Mr Walter Levy, defence, will do "some returned to Teheran from one of his advisers, and they

to make suggestions for Mr compensating the Anglo-Iranian sident Truman's special Cil-Company-

presentative, flew to Tabriz, Significantly, from the British capital. of Perala's "power keg

src

Abadan.

staff,

plain talking," authoritative

were expected back in Teheran It was Hussein Makkel whose tonight Reuter. sources said tonight.

recall was asked for during the The Ministers. Foreign week by the British on the Secretary Herbert Morrison, ground that his presence in the Chancellor of the Exchequer tilfelds added to the strained Hugh Gaitskeli and Minister of rituation,

A FIREBRAND Defence Emanuel Shinwell All the three want to take the op- He has been described as "the portunity of international meet-Arebrand of the oifnalds."

Lost Professor Reported Safe

Last Monday Second Lieuten- ant Francois Meunier left his

Warminster, Wiltshire, Belgian Army unit in Germany

Aug. 10, to celebrate his 21st birthday

Defence Minister, at home. At the party the notary handed over the letter Mr Emanuel Shinweil, sald to which said, "I have provided for day that Britain would go ahead to the cellar with "preproduction" plans for your future. Go

her new 280-Inch rifle. look under the fourth! and

Pretoria, Aug, 10. flagstone on the right coming a statement read here atings in Washington for privato Mr Makkl drove through Professor William MacMillan,

of the a demonstration from the stairs."

ride. talks with United States policy Teheran in an open be-flagged British observer reported mias Francois moved almost a quar-which was attended by military makers with a view to easing car, preceded by cyclists and ing on a safori In Bechuana- ter of a ton of coal from the observers from the Atlantic the tension in the Anglo-Ameri- followed by dozens of buses land, is safe. He has been held

Under the flagstone he Pact nations, he affirmed that cellar

with can relations.

enthusiastic and found

a box half alled with British Government had not

No changed its views that the .380

official invitation has cheering supporters, most of by a nodded

them belonging to gold coins.

roligious "is the most

for British been sent from Washington, but In: Brussels today they were requirements"

suitable

organisations. to none of the. Ministers wants valued at a million Belgian

Mr Shirvell flow to Washing- make this francs.

"They must

Alled

disclosed today.

river, it wo

Mr Roland Turnbull, the Acting High Commissioner for fessor was expected at Francis the territory, said that the Pro-

Professor MacMillian, 68, is

Another factor lessening tension town, Bechuanaland, today.

He was not lost as reported has been the halting of Persian Radio's special series of broad- from London. casts attacking the ell company. and a general toning down of the one of the three observers in Radic's comments and reports

Bechuanaland to study the On a provisional agreement for problem of Thekedi Khama's the resumption of ell leadings et return-Reuter.

format visit anyway. Makki said that he had come to Teheran for rest and ton last week to discuss the The British Ministers will wei- constitute my United States objection to the come direct contact between top medical treatment." husband's life savings," Madame rifle with leading American, men of Britain and the United Meunier sald. ↑ "We have often | Canadian and French officials. | States. The

absence of such definite wondered how it was that my No

beca decision was dirent contact . has lately husband died penniless as we reached.

blamed here, believed he did."-Reuter.

The United States prefers its cular by the Conserva 300-Inch rifle for standardised | lives. for the growing friction

In the Anglo use by the Atlantic Pact nations. and difference -Router.

American policy.

THE MIDDLE EAST Mr. Morrison's Secretary

Turkish Official Arrested

Boy's Eyes Donated

-

talks with of State Mr Dean, Istanbul, Aug. 10.

Acheson are expected in diplo- The police today announced

New York. Aug. 10. matic quarters here. to clear up the arrest of an official of the

The eyef of a little boy some recent friction on foreiga National Defence Ministry en killed while playing. have been policy and produce a

more bar- charges of espionage for Russia. donated by his parents to an monious alignment of policies He was ideallfed by the polite eye bank. The boy was burned between the two nations. as Hayati Karasahin, former to death last Monday when his Mr Morrison, above all, Heutenant in the Turkish Navy friend struci a match while

$1

who has been working as civi- they were playing with pural: expected to sound the United Han secretary in the Ministry, fin. But his eyes were unhurt, Sintes view on future policy In -United Press,

Reuter:

Cost Of Living In HK

Is Rising Steadily

now con the Middle East,

dan- siicred to be the most gerous spot in the West's over all strategy.y

Britain, while anxious to re- tain leidership in the Middle East. Is Increasingly conscious of the need for the fullest American backing to preserve` oriler in the area.

The future approach to Russia

the The cost of living in Hongkong has been rising and

Kremlin's growing steadily. The official general retail price index issued by Irisistance on a big power meet- the Department of Statistics showed an increase of 35 per ing are also expected to, rank cent between December 1947 and June this year.

high on the tentative agenda of Mr Morrison's forthcoming in-

The price index has been (Orst colume being for Decem- formal talks, 1 whose

Gaitskell,

calculated on the basis of an in- ber 1947, second for December

visit

dex figure of 100 assigned to 1949 and last column for June coincides with the approach of

a serious now financial erid's, In

114 Britain, will sound the United 73111 States opinion on the scope and

130 the nature of futuro nasistence.

and discuss financial and econo

tis mie problems, sources indicated.

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100

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104

108

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showed

'Education Prices generally downward trend during the Tobacco.

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the-figures have swung upward, From 100 in March. Household - Equip- 1947, the general indox

Hairdressing alimped to 88% in December of the Repairs

108 payments on the United Statem that year, but since then it has Newspaper

Stallonery... 100 130 213 $3,700,000,000 loan of 1943.

bir Shinwall, who last week Bent has shown an increase, failed to agree with United

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