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No. 34985
Oatis Case Closed
Says Czech Diplomat
NO YIELDING TO US PRESSURE
Washington, Aug. 29.
The Czechoslovak Ambassador, Mr Vladimir Prochazka, said today that the case of the impri- soned American correspondent, William Oatis, was closed and his government would not submit to any trade pressure to free him.
Mr Prochazka, who had conferred with the Secretary of State, Mr Dean Acheson, said Mr Acheson explained to him the stand of the United States government.
"I stated that the case of the Czechoslovak Government is
at Oatis,was sentenced,
not for his work as a reporter, but for transgressions outride his role of reporter," said the Am- bassocior.
"Do you mean you are going to keep Oatis in nol?" asked a reporter.
"It is u closed incident,” replied Mr Prochazka, and gestured with an air -of Anality.
you mean to tell us there is no chance of getting Ontia free?" shouted the re- porter.
Mr Prochazka said he would not comment on this, but he udded: "In no instance w! Czechoslovničla submit to nny trade or propaganda pressures We will not yield to any pros-
sure."
William Oatis was convicted and gooled for ten years on charges of spying against the Communist regime in Czecho slovakio.
In his first tak with Mr Prochazka since fve envoy presented hia credentials to President Truman yesterday, Mr
Mr Acheson had told a news conference cartier that he planned to tell Mr Prochazka that Congress was seeking to end all American-Czech trade until the newsman is released by the Czech government,
The Secretary sald he would cite the Congress' view to us trate the very strong American feeling over the case.-United Pross.
BLAZING TRAIN IN COLLISION
Buenos Aires, Aug. 20.
*Two people were reported to
Into
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Geneva, Aug. 29. Seven children out of 33 dled of affected have infantile paralysis in the lower Austrian districts of Bruck and der, Laitha and Baden, it was announced today.
The figures were not above average, the unnouncement claimed.
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Makes A Hot Lancashire Opposition
Landing
Marine First Lieutenant Sheard. returned safely from a combat mission over North Korea only to get this hot reception be- cause the belly tank gas cap of his Corsair jarred loose and ignited when he
Pope's
Envoy
On
landed on the USS Sicily. A Secret
1
The
received pilot broken arm in the acci- dent.-AP Picture.
Jets Clash Near Border
Mission
Vatican City, Aug. 29. Monsignor Giovanni Bat- tista Montini, Pope Pius XII's substitute Secretary in New York on of State, is
well- secret mission, informed Vatican circles said today.
A
The American - ¿ponsored newspaper Wiener Kurler: earlier today said that the out- But Do No Damage
Though no official information be dead and 10 injured today break hod been raging for
was available on the reasons for when a blazing train came several weeks, without any om- Eighth Army HQ, Aug. 30. [his visit; observers thought it
collision with another cial train on the same line, about by the authorities.
warning having
Russian built. MIG Jets Heythat the secret à journey be issued 40 miles west of here.
fought a brief battle with might be connected with the Four fire fighting unlls left popular
Bruck and der Laling is a 20 US -Sabre jets over Japanese peope treaty.
holiday resort Buenos Aires for the scene
while Red ground of Viennese, and hundreds
North Korea on Wednesday So far as was publicly known troops here, Monsignor Montini's visit concentrated on the central to the United States was the front despite air and artil. first to be made by the head of the Vatican's political and lery attacks.
diplomatic department.
Mercedes.
for
of
the disaster, near the town of people, unaware of the epide mic, had taken their families to the area this week, according to the Wiener Kurier.
was believed
that the train came to a halt on the tracks after catching fire and that the other train run into it from behind.-Reuter."
Train Kills Boys
Tokyo, Aug. 29. Three young boys were run Acheson presumably bad warn-over and killed by • speeding
ture.--Reuter.
COMMENT OF THE DAY
42,000 to 13,000 feet,
.
on
To H.K. Cotton
Piece Goods
A SOLID WALL Heroic
OF SUSPICION" Action By
(OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)
London, Aug. 29. US Pilot
Importers of Hongkong cotton piece goods are confronted with a "solid wall of suspicion and con- servatism which must be broken down before Lan- cashire merchants can be prevailed upon to accept even sample shipments of Hongkong goods.”
This statement is made by a Manchester
Saves Village From Destruction
Beck Row, Suffolk, Aug. 29. An American fighter pilot, burtling to his
death,
Guardian correspondent today in a report on the struggled, to the last mo-
growth of resentment in Lancashire against im-
ports of foreign cotton goods.
ment today to save this peaceful village from dis- aster,
As his blazing plane careered fowards the village, he managed to steer it along a main street, between, the rows of houses,
The plane, an F-84 Thunder-
In the Spring, before speculation about the size of the American crop had slowed down trade, he writes, there were signs that the prejudice against Hongkong cotton goods was being successfully over come in a few places. One importer disposed of two million yards of piece goods from Hongkong during March and April, but orders have fallen off again in recent months.
1as It seems likely, Japanese Hongkong prices are claimed trade becomes freer of restric- to be highly compotave, with tiva
currency' and other re Lancashire's for goods of similar gulations after the San Fran specification, although they have cisco conference. risen lightly in recent weeks Footnote: A Japanese delega-informed. because of the growing demand tion was due in this for
today to set up an agency to formation of promote trade between Japan and Britain.
cotton, goods in Indonesia
and the East Indies generally
Hongkong cotton yarn porters, the correspondent adds, Are yet to experience: even: a limited degree of the success which their compatriots have had in the cloth trade.
witted goods
Country
Gun Battle
In Berlin
for Hongkong goods boundary today.
a
sector
.
'left a trail of smashed windows, and chatred doorways, but the lives of the 30 villagers who live in the street were saved.
United States Alt
Forca, Headquarters: 17ould not reveals the name of the dead pilot until been
bis
relatives The fighter was
have
six Jet
One of a planes low-dying their busa at
taking part in
Manstonom
Kent,
biketa serpedia cottage,
into flames, and wont skidding wi at 100 miles per
hour
George Coe, a local furniture dealer, said: "The pilot seemed to be trying to keep the plane 'on a straight course as it raced between the houses. Fortunately the street was deserted at the time."
Telegraph poles came Crash- ng down and
the gateposts of bungalows were uprooted before. the piano swerved at the end of
Reuter the street and crashed in a field.
Yves
The "suspicion and constr vatism" to which the correspon dont, refers are probably the from adverse hang-over
which publicity Hongkong textile
· Berlin, Aug, 29.*. The first notice of the danger
goods received in this country No damage was inflicted was given in warning notices either side
East and West Germans The Vatican has so far given inst
prejudice against in the air battle
year. This posted at bus stops, and other
10 official Indication of its
be ad fought a running gun battle but *Allied planes killed or approaches to Bruck, apparently
But at the same time in broad daylight' on Ber wounded
estimated 400 attitude to the projected treaty, mit an put up by the local municipal
the
it 18
18 difficult to reconcile the
thelin's East-West outhorities.
enemy troops in heavy strafing but it is known to attach
highest importance to the crea
rea- correspondent's statement that attacks. The reopening of schools in
of tion
anti-Communist orders 044 Clearing weather brought the bulwark ed that Czechoslovalda faced train en Tucadny while they were the ores has been postponed for Red Air Force out in numbers Catholic misionaries are remains, with the oficial figures away at an East Berliner when in Japan where have fallen off In recent Went Berlin Police blazed possible cutting off-of-all-United Aishing-on-a-railway bridge in eight days, although the epide- for the first time in days. The Stales trade unless Oatis was Fusagoshi town. Akits Prefecale is thought already to have Fifth Air Force said the clash siderable success since the war.
ported to have achieved con- for Hongkong exports to this he resisted arrest and produced |- ARIZONA TRAGEDY freed.
reached its peak Reuter.
country.
a revolver. He shot first at Williams Air Force Base, took place 30 miles northeast
Those figures show that members of special West
Arizona, of Sinulju on the northwestern Vatican circles said that Mon
duty Captain Jean Aug 29,
Courtis, border of Korea at alutudes of signor Montini the Vatican's Hongkong exported a total of Berlin Police squad on
Gate, French air hero of World most important politieat figure ve million yards of cotton near the Brandenburg
plece goods to the United entrance to East Berlin from War II, and Corporal The Commander of the after the Pope-loft secretly by
Kingdom in the first seven the West, a West Berlin Police Veller were identified today fighter
Colonel air last week for Washington months of this year. Intercepters,
Their spokesman said.
a victims of a plane crash Benjamin S. Preston, aald "t and went on to New York. He
value was £625,000.
The
Police said he, was, which occurred during mostly
battle ofis expected to be away
Exports dropped slightly in "wanted for kidnapping West landing manoeuvre in a colton manoeuvre with neither side about a month.
February andi April, but Berliners and taking them into feld. getting into position to do any
nearly two million
the Soviet sector.
des Courtis, whose Since becoming Supreme Pou reached damage before the MIGs broke
Mr. and
Mrs Robert off and headed home",
tif in 1939, Pope Plus has main-yards in each of the last two
retreating, figure.
reside in Saint tained his previous position of months of this period. 318 SORTIES
"We think he must have been Germain, France, was a French Fifth Air Force fighters and Vatican Secretary of State. But
wounded although he managed Halson officer here. He is survived bombers swept Red rail and he is expected shortly to raise
to reach the Eastern side of by his wife arid two children, highway lines over, Northwest Monsignor Montini to the rank
boundary," they sald who reside at the base-United
Press.. Korea and cut North Korean of Cardimal and o; the same time
the tracks in 43 places mostly to transfer this crucial Vatican
Reuter. north of Pyongyang. A total of post entirely to his charge, 318 sorties were flown by 6 pam. One US Shooting Star on these sweeps crashed and burned be hind Red lines after it was hit by ground fire.
Their Master's Voice
GENERAL Ridgway has rejected
the Communists' proposal that the United Nations commander should send his liaison officers to Kaesong to re-open investigations, into the alleged bombing of the Reds' armistice delegu- tion's headquarters. Both General Ridgway'a attitude and decision are correct. Further inquiry into what was palpably a manufactured incident could serve no useful purpose. Never- theless the world sees in the recent exchange of acid notes between the Communist und UN commanders un- fortunate indications that first efforts to reach an armistice are about to fail' completely. The opposing sides are today further from agreement than when Mr Malik first suggested armis- tice talks. It is natural to lay the blame for this on the Communist com. manders in Korea, for it has been amply demonstrated that the Reds are responsible for the present breakdown in the parleys. This, however, is not the full explanation. The remote but all-powerful influence of the Kremlin can be discerned. In the nature of things it would be reasonable to expect the Chinese Communists, who have become leading protagonista in the Korea campaign, to be happy to reach the an amicable arrangement for 'cossation of hostilities. In two suc- cessive major offensives they suffered serious reverses. In fact, apart from enabling thousands of their troops to receive a taste of modern warfare, the, Peking Government has achieved nothing by entering the confict. The Communiste. Inability to force decisive result to the campaign by military offensives has been proved to, everyone's satisfaction. Wherefore thoy could be expected to welcome an end to fruitless hostilition, with a view to taking a prominent place in the subsequent peace conferences. It is ?
see
on
one
becoming painfully obvious, however, that Generals Kim Il-sung and Peng Teh-huai are merely mouthpieces for the Kremlin policy-makers. To the Soviet hierarchy who do not wish to
peace established in any particular part of the world, and whose policy has been to keep the universe tenterhooks by stimulating and directing hot and cold wars, the prospect of a cessation of hostilities in Korea simultaneous with the signing of a peace treaty by forty-odd nations with Japan, la anathema and intoler- uble. Both events would represent a set-back to the Soviet campaign to create unrest and wherever possible; In
Was
Air observers caw Red troops in groups of 100 to 150 altering into the old Iron Triangle sec- for north of Kumhwa which is 19 miles north of the 38th Parallel. This is on the Central front. conséquence,
disturbances
it may reasonably be argued, the prospects of an armistice in Koren depend not on the North Korean and Chinese commanders, but on the mood and intentions of the Kremlin. Tho propaganda from Peking and Pyong- yang radio stations, is the voice of Moscow, and what now appears to be the decision of the Communists in 'Korea to make an armistice impossible, is dictated not by circumstances, but by the whim of the Kremlin. These. conclusions are inevitable when recalling the. manner in which the Communists have conducted themselves in the. cease-fire. negotiations. When they have not remained stonily silent they have persisted in polemics, and their outbursts have either been preceded or accompanied by feverish radio pro- paganda campaigns a technique hitherto exclusively associated with Russia. Possibly the only chance left of armistice discussions in Koren being resumed is for the Chinese and North, Korean Communists to refuse to take further orders from Moscow, but to date only, Tito has shown the courago to do that
по
for
The United States has had no melol diplomatic representa:ive
the Vatican since January, 1950, when Mr Myron C. Taylor designed as official Fresidential Ambassador.---Reuter
Insane Man
On Ship
INDIA AND JAPAN The largest exporters of cotton piece goods to this country are India and Japan, India supplied 84 million yards and Japan 50 million yards of this country's million total imports of 220 yards during the first seven months of this year.
Other countries which export
cotton plece goods to the United Kingdom include Germany, Austria, Spain, Belgium, Poland, Italy and Czechoslovakia.
The Manchester Guardian correspondent says complaints about the continued importation of foreign plece goods are UN patrol within sight of Pyongyang at
growing in Lancashire cotton the tip of the
trade circles. These Imports Triangle had a two-hour fight
were accepted when there was overlooking in gaining a hill
a large gap between weavers' city...A source the Red-held
New Orleans, Aug, 29, affairs high in UN Command
A Coast Guard cutter but now that this gap is closing,.
output and finishers' demands, Wednesday privately. expressed
Kaesong eped out into the Gulf of and Japanese competition is the
that the The opinion
Mexico today and removed a beginning to be felt, some bombing incident may prove and
blundered. "violently insane", scuman sections of the trade are arguing that the, Rode obvious, this from the 60-foot trawler i that to persist in this policy is
IL was quite
tantamount in the words of one Loures rald, that the evidence
Manchester merchant shown the Allied Investigators Southwestern.
It was not what
The trawler's skipper was the inviting intended to bo. The Allied llalson officers only other man on board. He home." who were conducted on a tour hati been alone in the small of the "bombing scene" before vessel for many hours, trying dawn on August 23, were shown to keep out of sight while the qiis of twisted metal the Com- deranged man raved, and rat munists said were the remains of about the decks, bombs and napalm, jellied gaso Tine tanks. UN report tator
WAS
The official UN report
From 200 miles southwest of
New Orleans, he had radioot for help, declaring that the seaman
:::
to
cf
the encing Into the
A RESENTMENT Resentment is fals particularly against "the "" importation Japanese goods. The correspon dent points out that the Japanese from product — manufactured American cotton on up-to-date machinery-Is of a high standard. Moreover, he goes on, it is believ
ald the pieces of metal could not wor ́attempting to take that Japan buys its raw cotier
have been part of either bombs The message was picked up
or napalm, The Allied contended relayed to the shore by the at prices many pence a pound
the pieces of metal wore parts trawler Duchess, and the Coast lower than those prevailing In of an American Jet that-
top beon - thot down or
the fornie.
facturers can afford even without speed to The radio montage did not the added assistance of chesp propaganda stii | mal
make clear whether the labour to accept prices much Tim was bent on lower than those current for
Lancaabira dloth dients on Wednesday night. It taking his own life/ or the cap-on manice, cotton manu sought to give the repuiliated fain's s
saching the REA IMEP/209rt cutter Cartigan set out at Lancashire, and 4hat its manu❤'
LOME/DIRA on the bombing | démented "n
story new life by
claiming the
residiomod of the Red delccasion headed for Galveston,
Find
facturway, to now advocating ban on import" from Japaz,, Tho Drobium;;the correspondent says, Le not yet brevissimperiance,
"They fired seven shots at his Baloja
des-Courtis,
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