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Security Job For Ex-GOC

SAFEGUARDING of OFFICIAL PAPERS

(Our Own Correspondent)

London, Oc 15. Safeguarding of the colonies cficial secrets is to be the respon- bilky for he fist time of a specially appointed secu'y officer, The man selected for this impor tent Jcb at the Colonial Ofer Major-General Dermot Dunlap the man who was praised recently In the report of the Singapore Riots Inquiry Cammission fe: his "coci leadership

He

foresigh

at Fil was

and

GOC,

Singapore from 1948 t early

This year when he returned to civilian life.

CHINA

No. 35025

Typhoon Brings Shocking Loss

Of Life And Property

Tokyo, Oct. 35.

The typhoon, which yesterday devastated the southern tip of Kyushu, Japan's South Island, killed 358, gravely in- Jured 997 and 267 are missing, according to the latest figures Issued here tonight.

Several hundred American soldiers aboard the stranded 7,000-ton Japanese ship, Kongo Maru, together with the crew. wern transferred safely the transport George C. Clymer. the United Nations Command announced tonight.

Earlier reports said that mountainons seas were break- Ing over the bridge of the Kongo Maru but that the men were in no immediate danger. The Kongo Maru, on charter to the United States Navy.

was driven ashore on a reef of Nagasak! in the typhoon.

Stratocruiser Missing

Westover Air Force Base, Oct. 15. A huge

Strato- Air Furce cruiser was reported overdue al Westover air force base to-

In he next week or two he w leave his country home to, day

discuss at the Colomal Ofer details of his new work This will involve vising all colonial territories. Details have yet to

The decided about when and where he will go first. It is expected he will make a start By the end of the year

Earlier today the ty phoon was blowing harm- lessly out to sea at 70 miles an hour, Bet it split into two al sea this afternoon and threatened to lash back on to the west coast of Japan's main island of Honshu

With details of the de- struction slit coming in, it was known that the great winds and torrential raine had destroyed or 'he

ftooded

and it was fired that double decker transpert crashed into the Atlantic Ocean with a 13-man crew aboard.

The C-97, raveling without passengers. took off from Lages Field In the Azores at 3.43 am. EST and radioed an hour later thel was on its course.

Practically no details are

craft whirli The four-engine being released at the intment of the nature of work

the

had enough fuel to remain in General Dunlop will undertake. the air until 6 p.m. EST was AR thal

al Westover at WES sald

at the due to arrive

the Calonial Office today was he! 2.22 p.m. A 256 p.m.

would,

review colonial ments for

11 consultation

among other things. radio station at Bermuda picked

with an uniden.ified distress signal. "arrango- governors

the safeguarding of all offlci douments."

The

creation

Thirteen Air Force planes took of trum

Westover 10 'he ocean Five Coast of 1 special search

also were sent security offer for the Colonial Guard planes

from Elizabeth City, Office is

British out, two

The N.J. and three from Salem, Rovernment departments. Foreign Office for example, Massachus its, base. has its regional security officers

not

new

in

All hips at sea between the and the Azəres were

The new appointment for the const

Colonial Office is regarded as alerted by Marine radio to be

necessity A

2

world situation.

the existing on the watch and three Coast

EXPLOSION IN

COAL MINE

Morgantown, Wes! Virginia.

Or. 15. One man was known killed and nine others were believed "hope lesly trapped" as the result of a gas explosion in a coal mine here today

Guard cutters were diverted

from weather stations to aid in the hunt.

Officials

sald the

46,000 houses, damared 78 roads, destroyed 21 bridges und started $1x landsides.

At dakuni Commonwealth great landslide

major

A

British

base,

露

burled 14

people, of whom four were reported kBled.

More than 24,000 people were homeless in the naval part of Ouaita, according to Japanese report.

Reller campaigns were being opened throughout the uffected areak. Heuter,

£ 5,000 LIBEL ACTION WON

action

London, Oct. 15. General Wladyslaw

Anders, missing wartime commander of the Free cralt which weighs 130,000 Polish forces in Britain, today pounds and can carry 137 fully- equipped troops was following a "cruise control' course de- signed for maximum tailwinds minimum headwinds.- and United Press.

won खं £5,000 libel against the publishers of the Communist newspaper Daily Worker and its editor, Mr J. R. Campbell.

The blast came as miners pc "The Voice" Sued December, 1949, meant that he pared to leave work after th

'ght shift

The mine employs about 250, but he President of the m.ning company, said that only 10 were werking in the section where the explosion tok piace-Reuter.

Hollywood, Oct. 15.

Mrs Frank Sinatra Med a suit day o divorce the crooner | paving the way for his marriage to actress Ava Gardner-United Pr.95.

COMMENT OF THE DAY

The Key To

NGYPT'S ill-considered rejection of

E the Four-Power offer proposing a

Middle East defence pact to which United States, Egypt, Britain, the

France and Turkey would pledge them- selves in equal partnership, makes un- pleasant reading alongside President Truman's inspiring exposition of the free world's aims and objectives. It is perhaps typical, in an age which calls

Way

for greatness both in peoples and their leaders, that the weakest, those have most to gain by a spirit of co-operation, fail miserably under the test, but it is none the less exasperating. Egypt has nothing to lose by recognition of commonsense. She wins most points in her dispute with Britain and her guarantees of security gain immeasur- ably. It can only be hoped that second thoughts will operate and a more sen- sible attitude will ultimately prevail. Meanwhile, the incident in no diminishes the importance of President Truman's clear warning-and invita- tion-to Soviet Russia. In one of those rare moments of blunt frankness permitted themselves by national leaders, Mr Truman makes a plain accusation of Russian aggressive plans and dismisses the Kremlin's phoney peace propaganda, but again makes clear that the sole purpose of heavy rearmament in the West is the peace preservation. In an uneasy, armed world weapons are today the only true guarantee, regret it as we may. Bri- tain has, particularly, suffered ex- perience onough in recent times to emphasise that it seldom serves the cause of harmony to offer concessions to those who intend to be obstroperous in the hope that as a result a better atmosphere will prevail. The fact is that there has been far too much push- ing, and the effect is bad for Britain and bad for the free world in general. CBfrwngrih® in the answer, As Mr. Anthony Eden potentially our next

The General complained that e article in the newspaper in

had betrayed the cause for which he fought and was a traitor and renegade.

Judge Lynskey awarded £5,000 and costs--Reuter.

World Peace

b.m

Foreign Secretary, pointed out a few days ago, if the United Nations is to become the agency of an enduring and worldwide peace, much depends upon the strength of the British Common- wealth and the United States. It is to them that the free nations look for joint leadership in their new adventure of partnership. The United States has

shown the fervour and depths of her UN ideals by her military leadership and heavy sacrifices on the Korean battle- front. And the close association of the Commonwealth and the United States has become by far the most important political factor in the world today. Standing together and working together and building up a powerful defence system with vigour and deter- mination we may be able to surmount the dangers of the ideological struggle and open up a new vista of hope. But if it has become necessary for British and American policy, and that of the free nations generally, to provide re quisite deterrents to aggression, the policy has not been our choice. Events have compelled the conviction that negotiation from strength offers the only sound basis for practical arrange- ments with the Soviet. Long before the Atlantic Pact was thought of, Mos- cow had been busily riveting Com- munist control on to Europe with inter- locking pacts-political, economic and military. By the time the Brussels Treaty was concluded, fifteen "defence" treatles had been signed by the satellites binding each to each and all to Moscow. Rearning in the West has been the effect, not the cause, of mischief in the Hast. President Truman thinks with Mr Eden that if the deterrent policy is wisely guided it has an excellent chance to succeed. And when Egypt's leaders also reveal some sign of wisdom, the chances will parceptibly brighten.

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Turney Case Opens At Denounces

Kowloon Magistracy

POLICE OFFICER

ON 2

CHARGES

Godfrey Denis Turney, aged 25, probationary Assistant Superintendent of the Hongkong Police, stood trial before Mr R. W. S. Winter at the Kow- loon Magistracy this morning on charges of mali- ciously wounding a Chinese woman and a 12-year- old boy in the Hunghom district on the night of September 20.

He is alleged to have

from fired a shot.

his re- volver and the bullet went through the left shoulder of the woman and lodged in the left chest of the youth.

The case is being taken sum- marily and Turney, who is on ball, pleaded not guilty to the two charges through his Coun- sel, Mr D. A. L. Wright, in- structed by Mr F. X. d'Almeda. Mr M. Morley-John, Crown Counsel,

conducting the prosecution assisted by Mr E. K. 1. O'Reilly, Assistant Direc tor of Criminal Investigation, Kowloon,

s

Opening the Crown case, Mc at the Morley-John said that time material to the incident, the defendant was officer-in- of Hunghom Police charge Station and was on 24 hours leave. About 8 p.m. on Sep- tember 20, the day of the inct- dent, Turney returned to the Police Station in civilian clothes and ordered two Chinese con- stables to accompany him in a taxi for the purpose of conduct- ing a hawkers' raid.

drew

Mossadegh Denies UN Authority

To Intervene In Oil

Dispute

Flushing, Oct. 15.

The Iranian premier, Dr Mohammed Mossadegh, today rejected the United Nations' authority to intervene in the Anglo-Iranian oil dispute. The wan and ailing 72-year-old Prime Minister, coming from his sickbed to make a dramatic appearance before the Security Council, told the 11- nation body that Iran would resume negotiations with the British only on the problems of compensation for the nationalised Anglo-Iranian Oil Company and distribution of Iranian oil.

He declared that his country had rejected a Russian proposal to form a mixed "Irano-Russian Oil Company" to replace the $500,000,000 Anglo-Iranian concern, whose nationalisation gave rise to a dispute which Britain has charac- terised as a "possible threat to peace”.

*

Treaty

The Egyptian Prime Minister, Nahas Pasha, reads his speech in Parlia- ment, denouncing the 1936 Anglo-Egyptian Treaty. Yesterday Egypt rejected alternative British pro posals and also refused to become associated with a proposed Middle East de- fence scheme. AP Pic- ture.

Sudanese And British Cpl. Attacked

Cairo, Oct. 15.

Dr Mossadegh, fresh from a He told the Council: "I hope authorlty over

national The British military authori- week-long hospital check-up and believe our revised resolu- resources. It had made ominous ties here said tonight that a in which physicians found no lion will now be acceptable to gestures such as the dispatch British military truck driven serious ailment, did not feel the Council. I hope

"BY

Thames."

A COMPARISCEN

for

In the

and of paratroops to nearby places by a Sudanese civilian and ar- strong enough to read his pre- believe, moreover, that, in spite end of vessels of war to the companied by a British Army On arriva; at Cook Street, pared statement in full to the of indications to the contrary, vicinity

of our coastal waters. corporal was involved in an Turney left the 1axi,

After delivering the Council.

the it will not on consideration be Irresponsible threats 10 land incident with Egyptians near constables remaining in the first five pages of it, he sur rejected by the government of forces in Iran might have had Kassassin in the Canal zone on

Turney approached a rendered the

task to an aide, Iran. vehicle.

the most disastrous consequences October 11, him Allahayar Saleh. But before hawker, So Kang, seized

their actions His Ma-

The Sudanese was wounded by the neck and demanded to he made his exit, Dr Mossadeghjesty's Government have shown by lighting, the flames of an-

other world MDT. For those and one Egyptian was arrested. underlined the warning sounded that, in spite Bee his licence.

of the great

consequences the United King- It ia

the understood that his re- by his deputy, Mr Hossein damage inflicted not only Turney then

dom government would alone ¦ truck was being driven along volver,

a press conference them but on the free world as and pointing it over Faterol, to

be responsible. Iran government whole by the actions of the

has a road when it was stopper by the man's shoulder fired a shot. that the Iranian

five Egyptians, one of whom The bullet passed through the faced "disintegration because Iranian government, they do not stationed no gunbua's

of the poverty and unemploy- wish

carried an old shot gun. beft shoulder of a woman,

wish to do anything

can which brought about

The British military statement by the Cheng

and Siu-keng,

then ment

by any stretch of Imagination entered the chest of a boy, shut-down of the giant AIOC

Dr Mossadegh also expressed said that in a scuffle which re- be considered contrary to their refinery in Abadan, Wong

12, Man-fung,

friendship sulted from the stopping of the aged

duties as a good and loyal mem- Iran's desire

Rusala, He "In the course of negotiations ber of the United Nations. They with where it became lodged.

reminded truck, the Sudanese driver was

wounded by a shot. The Bri countries

that the Communista Both the injured were taken between the two

need hardly say, only too listeners are, to the Kowloon Hospital from preceding the United Kingdom's anxious that negotiations should taking over from the Czar atash corporal received a blow,

to the Security be the woman was dis- complaint where

but they feel that the end of World War I sur- be resumed,

quarters of a Mauritius they charged the following day but Council," said Dr Mossadegh,

it rendered all concessions, but the are resumed manifested should be government

of Britain "was not equally gen-Guard Company which managed the boy was in a more serious "my

the light

to put an end to the scuffle, the utmost goodwill and sub-

by

crous," condition and he had not leng

Towards the end of the ses- indicating.

No damage was done to the Security Council been discharged from the hos-mitted sound and constructive pronouncement

Arst sion, Dr Mossadegh began truck and nothing was stolen methods broadly pital.

speaking, in the

(Contd. on back page, col. 4) from it-Reuter. The bullet had been removed of Axing compensation and sale place that this matter is not the from the boy's body and thereof oil to Britain would be evidence to show that the bullet was the one fired from the defendant's gun,

HAD BEEN DRINKING

Crown That

evening, said Counsel, Turney appeared to have been drinking and seemed to be to some extent under the Influence of alcohol,

proposals

regarding

FUTURE SERIOUS

come

the

exclusive concern of the Iranian government, and in the second

in ac

"This concillatory attitude that it must be solved not by bas, however, proved fruitless means of ultimate but through and resulted only in a waste of free negotiations and

the accepted time and inferruption of the cordance with flow of Iranian oil to its pe principles of International Law, vious markets as well as in "I therefore appeal to our dis- economie tinguished colleague from Iran not to take up an aggressively

aggravating difficulties.

Iran's

"I think it is only fair to state "I wish once again to declare nationalistic, and indeed isola- not to brood at this early stage of the pro-emphatically that my goven- tionist, agitude,

Crown willment is quite willing to reopen [unduly on old imagined wrongs, ceedings that the

the two but to concentrate on broader and in fact cannot prove direct negotiations of Dot that defendant

was,

to use a points just mentioned as soon as aspects and to show by his common phrase, rolling drunk," the United Kingdom shows a attitude that he too welcomes a concluded Mr Morley-John. desire and intention to reach a constructive solution."

First

witness called by the settlement. But if we delay prosecution was Dr K.K. Tsang, Assistant Medical Officer at the Kowloon Hospital, who treated the injured

He de persons. scribed the woman's wound end said that no bone was affected. This was revealed' in an X-ray examination.

in

SPEAKS IN FRENCH resumption of all exploitation,

Dr our economic situation will go

Mossadegh spoke from bad to worse and our French while seated in a chair.

aud administrative

Anancial | After five pages, his deputy read the remaining 36 pages in machinery will be paralysed.

For there reasons you will, English. Dr Mossadegh decried I hope, agree that there is no the British contention that the Justification for the Council's dispute represented a threat to The boy, cald the doctor, Intervention. We expect the International peace and security. "It seems hardly necessary to suffering Council to abstain from making conscious but

recommendations which refute the United Kingdom's from shool when he examined | any

that International him at the hospital, His pulse might delay accomplishment of contention

Was

was rapid and very weak. All our task abordany sath delay peace and security require that measures for shock and internal haemorrhage were applied. The hoy was given a blood trans

"If the implication of that. fusion. An X-ray disclosed that the bullet was lodged in the left

statement is that it is nationali- sation of our oll industry which side of the chest between the

"The Council has no jurisdte has endangered pence, it is not and ninth ribs. bullet was removed on thon to hear this complaint." clear who the United Kingdom September 27 and witnem gave Before Dr. Mossadegh took government, which has nationa the missile

to Mr O'Reilly in the floor, Sir Gladwyn Jobb of allsed so many industries itself, whose

presence he marked the Britain presented a new British should not be held before the Council for having resolution simply calling on Security The youth was discharged both sides to resumé negotia sapped are four se- hospital on October 12, tiche, Sir Gladwyn said the The assertion is strikingly e- added examined DE

Pastustion had

changed

ince miniscent of the fable of the introduced original wolf and the bamb resolution." o September 29. Whatever danger to peace height of the woman was about Heal the voluntary depar- there may be lles in the actions ave feat or five feet one unchure of the Abadan technicians of the United Kingdom govern and that of the boy about four made the operative part of the ment, ng an overt display of feety: Hec #twaburn marks on fires British evolution out of fores it has sought to keep us

(Cebid. ati back page, col, 8)

from","esenting our govereign

of the oil Industry in fran should would naturally deprive ug the freedom of action which is continue to function under Brl- necessary to enable us to con- tinh management.

nue wilsturbed in our efforts to bring our present deplorable stuntion to an end.

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