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Korea Reds Confronted "BATTLE FOR PEACE" FORMOSA EARTHQUAKE OPENS IN PARIS TODAY

With Tough Decision

FUTURE OF TRUCE

TALKS AT STAKE

-Munsan, Korea, Nov. 5. The Communists must come up with the toughest decision of the truce talks when they give their reaction to the new four-point United Na- tions proposal to speed up the truce talks by going on to other problems while Staff officers attempt to work out a buffer zone on the actual fighting line.

The first reaction was an "intimation of rejection" but a United Nations spokesman, Brigadier-General William Nuckols, said that they qualified the stand by asking for time to study the new proposal overnight.

It the Communists come up the full armistice agreement is with an outright rejection it is signed with appropriate ad- believed that the talks would justments. be thrown into a deadlock hard to break. If the Communists accept it is felt that the Korean armistice could be speeded to a conclusion.

the

AN vi'al

proposal Le new United Nations is seen virtually writing

off Kaesong as an issue although it is left an open possibility for the Allies to seize by force of arms "Pine Tree Peale" which dominates the gateway city

CAUSES DEVASTATION

Under this proposal the final Joan Crawford

truce he could be any where in Korea.

Secondly, the buffer ZONE would be about four kilometre in width.

Thirdly, three officers from each side would determine the !

Hine of contact, the battle-sine.

other ques

to be used when tions had been resolved.

THE NEXT PROBLEM

Fourthly, that the truce talks go on to other items and leave "Amalisation" on the truce ne and buffer zone until these other questions had been settled.

There is also the possibility that the United Nations will again press for Knesong under appropriate adjustments and specifications in a new proposal. Brigadier General Nuckols said previously that the "Aniba atond ать Kaesong would be If the Communists agree it is "Arm" but not adamant.

expected that the delegates would plunge immediately into REJECTS INTERPRETATION the next problem arrange- He was asked if the new pro- ment for supervising u cease- posal could not be interpreted as fire, including inspection of the an invitation to renewed full line and administration of the scalc fighting with each side buffer zone A new item would trying to grab vital territory right up to the end of the talks when a final buffer zone would be drawn.

be an exchange of prisoners. As an indication of the immediate urgency of this problem, Gen. ral Nuckols revealed that

"I see nothing in the United 110 names of prisoners of war Nations proposal that would a the International touch off major offensiveK,”

said.

Poisoned

NUTS

Hollywood, Nov. 5. The Alm star Joan Crawford, three

four adopted of her children, the children's and a maid were recovering today from the effects of food poisoning, suffered after sharing a meal on Sunday.

in Miss

Ail were treated Crawford's home by Dr J. Mac- Donald, who said his patients danger. United were out of Press.

*

Many Deaths Due To Cold Snap

Chicago, Nov. 5.

At least 88 people have died a result of severe cold

weather over the castern and mid-wester sections of the

United States. It was estimated today.

Residents of Hualien, Formosa, search through the wreckage of their homes, demolished when an earthquake struck the island just over a week The 'quake killed ago.

in 26

Hualien and left scores homeless. AP Picture.

Shigemitsu Wins His Freedom

snow to the northert plains one-legged

Christians

Threatened In Cairo

Doors Marked With Crosses

Big 3 Agreed On Student's

Proposals

WRESTING INITIATIVE

FROM

SOVIET

Paris, Nov. 5. The United States prepared today to lead the Western democracies in a double-barrelled “battle for peace" at the sixth United Nations General Assembly which opens here tomorrow.

The Westen "Big Three" Ministers were "in complete agreement" on an American drafted "peace proposal" which may suggest that the United Nations' collective security machinery be strengthened and, at the same time, steps be taken toward world disarmament.

Such proposals have been studied by the United Nations before and now it is speculated that the United States Secretary of State, Mr Dean Acheson, intends to take the initiative away from the Soviet Union by proposing that the Russians take an active part in United Nations collective security.

Mr Acheson, pinpointing the which woukt permit United Western attack in the "peace Nations inspection teams to push i battle," will lay the key ques-through the Iron Curtain ૫૦ tion on the line of "Is the Inspect és armIS. Soviet Union ready to consider Thus, in the opinion of diplo- real peace or does it want to male, there seems to be no hope! continue the cold war?"

that an afttempt to start the Western strategy

world ward disarmament can line up as follows:

be materially advanced at this London, Nov. 5.

1. President Truman, in

General Assembly, the sixth in Christians in Old Cairo major foreign policy address on the United Nations' brief his and Shubba fear persecution Wednesday night, will outline tory. In Egypt after crosses were include final peace in Korea,

Western, proposals which may marked on their doors, the new offer for world control of

seems

to

2

Death Leap

Manila, Nov. 6.

A 19-year-old pre-law student, apparently haunted by the fear that he was going insane, leaped to his death on Menday from the sixth floor of the Far Eastern University build- ing in Manila as fellow- students watched in har-

гог.

The police found D suicide note in the wallet of Alain Janeza, bidding farewell to his parents and saying nobody but himself Was to blame. Eyewit- resses sald Janeza

stcod

precariously on A ledge. tock off his shoes, made the sign of the cross and with a stified cry plunged to the ground.

His sister and classmates said he had been morose And unusually quiet. United Press.

PLANE IN

CRASH LANDING

Tucumcari, New Mexico,

Nov. 5. A Trans-Ocean airliner, carrying 26 servicemen re- turning from Korea and Japan, crashed on the Mun)- cipal Airport runway here today, injuring eight per sons.

YUGOSLAV CHARGES When the Assembly opene, British War Office reported atomic and conventional arma- the Yugoslav Foreign Minister, The plane had been chartered Mr Edward Kardelj, may upset by the Army to transport ser- ments as a step toward disarma- the strategy of both West and vicemen from Camp Stoneman, tonight.

by charging the Soviet California, to Indiantown Gap, aggres- Pennsylvania, and Fort Devans,

Massachusetts.

Earlier,

to

ment and United Nations East

sion."

addressing

his

Tokyo, Nov. 6. The diplomat who signed Japan's surrender in 1945 has completed his war The War Office statement did supervised elections in East at Union with "political crimes sentence and parole not elaborate, It said only: "It West Germany.

2.--Mr

Acheson, and will be entirely free on is reported that crosses have

been marked on the doors of the

General Assembly on In his opening speech he in- The plane crashed at the end Wednesday, the Occupation Christians living in Old Cairo Thursday, the day

before the lends to present a carefully of a Tucumcari Airpon; run- Legal Section reported 10-and Shubba."

Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr documented case of Soviet way in heavy sleet. It had been Foreign 2

Andrei Vyshinsky, Office

is to speak, pressure in the past three years scheduled to refuel here. said that

will lay the American Egypt's

Plan agains

Witnesses said the Martin-202 country and "very the

before the United Nations "in probably" will demand a United craft made four passes at the International

that the form of concrete proposals. Nations study of the means of field before attempting a land- Organisation,

safeguarding Yugoslavia's 3. The United Nations will mistreated Egyptian

ing. It overshot the field and) the

called upon

bolster ritorial and political integrity, to

the left wing smacked the according to informed sources. forces in Korea and

ces. ground, tearing the left engile Meantime, the British Foreign from its moorings and cracking stiffer economic Minister, possibly apply

Mr Anthony Edeo, Red China,

the plane in half. sanctions against

and the French Foreign Minis of

All the men aboard · had re- according to the predictions

Mr Robert lop United

ate ter, States State

Schuman, in turned to the United States on egreement with the United Friday aboard the USS Walker officials Department

States plan to grab the offen- from Korea and Japan. United Washington.

4.The United States will do sive in the "peace battle," are Press. everything it can to get Italy trying to win American support

for a firm "Big Three policy OM For Mr Attlee Assistant in the troubled Middle East,

He is Mamoru Shigemitsu, spokesman

former Foreign charges Minister and former Ambassa- | Labour dor to Washington,

who drew Britain

the workers seven-year sentence,

The cold spell, which moved day. the Communists had sent only fr from Canada, brought heavy

Red Cross and parts of the Great Lakes beat Geneva since the War

Farther south, and east coast. started. The United Nations is sleet and

Taim made roads that the Communists slippery.

At least were victims of traffic accidents on icy pavements-Reuter.

The new proposal would pro- certain vide, firstly, that the final trucehoid

as prisoners many of the line and buffer zone be based on U.N troops listed Bs missing the actual firing line at the time in action.- United Press.

COMMENT OF THE DAY

THE

Mr Lyttelton's Visit

THE decision of the new Secretary of State for the Colonies to make him- self personally acquainted with Malaya, Singapore and Hongkong within month of taking office suggests that Mr Oliver Lyttelton places due importance on the possession of first-hand knowledge of the areas and peoples which come within his official orbit. One politician in Singapore has cynically die- missed Mr Lyttelton's projected visit as This is "just another parade.' manifestly unfair to the motives and intentions behind the Colonial He has every Secretary's decision. reason to fee preoccupied and some- what disturbed by the situation in Malaya. Despite Mr Malcolm Macdonald's rissurances that the anti- bandit campain continues to make pro- gress, the activities of the insurgents do not diminish. Mr Lyttelton has a right, as well as a duty, to satisfy himself that the most effective measures are being pursued in dealing with the milltant Communists in Malaya, and he can gain the best appreciation by aceing thigs for himself. In this respect, of course, much will depend on Mr Lyttelton himself. If he allows him- aelf to be persuaded into a round of formalised functions, social receptions and the life, his visit will not be worth the expenso involved. But the new Secretary of State for the Colonies is a practil man as well as a skilled politician and it can be safely, assumed that in Misiting British areas in South- cast "And he means business. In the light of the Royal Commission's report on the Hertogh riots he will probably also to devote some attention to the efficiency of the Singapore adminis trationz Hongkong will welcome Mr

elsen af prefance. It is not yet known how 1-chu-proposes to stay, but It

1

killed lightest of any 64 of those

would be appreciated if he could give us his attention for four or five days. It would then be possible, not only for him to meet representatives of the community, but to see for himself the new and important features of the Colony. Visits to our post-war factories would quickly satisfy him that Hong- kong is, in consequence of embargoes and trade restrictions, faced with a very real industrial problem. Every effort should also be made to arouse his interest in our agricultural and fisheries research and experimental activities which could rapidly be expanded with beneficial results if some financial support were forthcoming from the Colonial Welfare and Development Corporation. Mr Lyttelton can expect representations from certain sections

of

the community regarding reparations, the disposal of Japanese assets and constitutional reform, but he will not be expected to make any hard and fast promises on these subjects. What the Colony would like to hear from the Secretary of State is a definite state- ment of policy so far as Hongkong and its future is concerned: whether we are regarded in London as expendable, or whether we are considered something more than a "shop window." Mr. Lyttelton will find that Hongkong la sensitively conscious of its geographical situation; that it is one of China's nearest neighbours; and that whatever relations exist between Whitehall and the recognised government of China' they have their effect on this Colony. Reassurances on how Hongkong figures in the Imperial Government's inter- national policies, particularly those directed to the Far East, will be heartily welcomed if Mr Lyttelton feels he is in a position to give voice to them.

war criminals.

21

in

Canal be Suez of the major Zone, were "completely without Allied

foundations.”

two

Released from Sugamo Prison "There has been no intimida- on parole last Nov. 21, he got tion of workers on our part." a reduction of 10 months and said the spokesman,

in his sentence for good days

A Royal Air Force spokes- the parole man behaviour, so that

in Fayid said today that and sentence expire on Nov. 7. the air evacuation of British He will remain on the "purge" families from the Canal zone

Into the United list, however, forbidden 10 would begin on November 15. participate in politics.

Meantime, all Egyptian labour according

any

Brilish

cf

to the of State,

Nations,

Mr John

Strogentsu's parole, first granted at the British military port Secretary

of the major war crimes of Adableh, near Suez, walked Hickerson, figures, caused sharp protests by out in a body today after what

OTHER SUBJECTS Russia and Red China, but they the

British called Egyptian He said in Washington that were ignored by the US. At the

police "intimidation squads" while the subjects of the Anglo- me he was sentenced, the inter- old them to quit,

Iranian oil dispute and the Suez national Tribunal received deposi-

the Canat paratroopers

zone dispute between tions on his behalf from a number Sixeenth Independent Parachute Egypt and Britain are not on the of Allied diplomats, including Brigade dug a cordon around the agenda they undoubtedly will be Jesoph C. Grew, wartime US

village of Kass near Tel el discussed in an open session. Ambassador to

to Japao.

Kebir, on Sunday nigh 26 a 5. The United States may Now 64, Shigemi.su has been warning gezure" after shota give stronger backing to its living quietly in the seaside vil were reported to have been fired iage of Kamaltura since his parole.at British convoys and lengths of French and British allies in their He told

problems a Kyodo News Agency Army electric cable were dug up. North Africa.

in Iran, Egypt and reporter he had no plans for the The paratroopers, who dug future but hopes to live "at least light machine-gun pits around the

Informed sources in London to 90."--Associated Press. village, were withdrawn in a few Joseph Stalin, may try to steal said that the Soviet Premier,

Explosion Kills

Four Men

AMERICAN SUPPORT

hours.

the thunder by speaking to- "The purpose of the exercise morrow at the 34th anniversary was to warn any agitatorS the

celebrations of the Bolshevik area that we are prepared to take Revolution and making a bid for steps against them," a British mary spokesman said---United an overalt settlement of world Los Angeles, Nov. 5. Press.

problems with the West, Four men were reported

The United States will rejeci killed and a dozen others in-

any world disarmament pro- jured today in an explosion

unless posals made

Russia that tore the roof from а

Paris, Nov. 5. agrees to lift is Iron Curtain Douglas Aircraft Co. branch Britain's Foreign Secretary, and

Nations permit United plant in Southeast Los Angeles. Mr Anthony Eden, tonight

Inspection of its territory, well- Sherift Fred England said obtained America's support for informed sources said in Paris preliminary check showed two the British Government's stand today. dead, The others died en route over the Sudan and the Sucz

On the other hand, diplomats to hospital,

Canal zone. Four

regard it as certain that Russia During their talks here yester-will reject any such proposal.

Hence, they see almost company spokesman sald day and today, the United States

Secretary of State, Mr Dean charice for 1 disarmamont the blast was in an oven used Acheron, told Mr Eden that his

on the basis of agreement for baking insulating panels for Government now gava un proposals which will be made ridar installations. A similar qualified backing to the British at the Assembly meeting. explosion occurred in the plant

relayed ambulances. those hurt to the hospital.

A

on October 20 and one mon policy of staying in the Canal zone and of refusing to hand was injured.-Associated Press.

over the Sudan to Egypt with out the express agreement of the Sudanese people.

Bus Collision

ter

London, Nov. 5.

Britain and Prance are re- ported to have warned the Britain's former | Socialist United States that any sign of Prime Minister, Mr Clement wavering on Middle East_policy | Attlee, has been made a mem- would weaken the Western ber of the Order of Merit, cefence effort and aid the according too Buckingham Russians-United Press,

Palace announcement tonight.

You start with something

12 MONTHS

no

AMERICAN PLAN Britain and France are under- stood to have approved, fully an American plan which would in- clude: The French Government an- 1 census, based on answers Manila, Nov, 0.

full nounced its

support, of a questionsaire, of armaments Press reports said today that Britain last month.

posscared by all, United' Nations 40 persons

Up to last week-end the members were injured Ave seriously, on Monday in a colli-United States. attitude had

United Nations inspection sion between an armoured car been limited to a pubile slato-

to

the truth of the answers and B fully-loaded bus in ment deploring Egypt's Lantin- Legaspi City, some 200 miles toral denunciation of 1936

the 19 southeast of Marlin.

Anglo-Egyptian treaty

existing and future Reports sald the armoured car the three Foreign Ministers empenta by adöntle "weapons." with soldiers ⠀⠀ aboard® was were meeting tondorrow morning feinsin, ie de creported, may come rushing to try to intercept Com- and it was expected that they with of plan of its own. But munict Huks reported. In one would finally draw their policies the Boeken Cloverchent de not elty, district-United Press, A into full all menent, welbau Dr. expected, to "agree to anything:

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