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RUSSIA ACCUSES U.S. OF [New Governor-General Successor
Task In WAGING GERM WARFARE
Malaya
is a little early yet to he
I'' a
even
Malik Makes
expect, any material change in the situation in Malay following the assumption of their duties by General Sir Gerald Templer and his civil adviser, Mr D. C. MacGillivray. The hope re- mains, however, that they will write happier chapter in the story of Malaya. The issue
Russia today accused the United States of there is not a minor one. "employing bacteriological warfare” in Korea and Under the conditions of China and asked the United Nations' Disarmament madern warfare, when armies of millions are ex- Commission to consider immediately this "vioia- tended over hundreds of tion of the prohibition" on germ warfare.
Accusation Before
UN Commission
a new
and
for vital positions, whose
New York, Mar. 14.
miles of front, it often The Soviet delegate, Mr Jacob Malik, told the happens that in struggles first meeting of the Disarmament Commission fale governs the whole, that germ warfare was "designed to produce the the actual combatants are mass extermination of the civilian population". only in A few battalions.
He urged it "immediately to consider" the Something like that happening in Malaya now. question of "a violation of the prohibition on The active terrorists num-bacteriological warfare."
ber only perhaps
tjou to
too,
in
3,000,
THE Campaign,
largely against a hidden hand. Only in as the
The United States delegate, Mr Benjamin Cohen, sharply retorted that the Russian delegate's state. ment was "an unwarranted and charge",
of the
uncorroborated
ment on disarmament night be reached.
"It is obvious that the pre-
sent slate of the world is not Exactly prapitious for work on disarmament..
"The minimum of confidence between all nations, which 15 essential if agreement is to be reached on disarmament, cer- not .does
exist at the present time," he said,
"We do not however conclude from this that our task is hope-
less from the start,
"For
instance, the
Manslaughter
5 Trades
Charge Sequel Unionists
To Accident
Manchester, Mar, 14.
A bus driver and a driver of as Army truck were charged in Manches- ter today with
12:36- slaughter as a result of an accident In Manchester Inst
week in which fire chlidren were kied
The accused were re- manded on ball, charged with manslaughter of one of the five chilidren,
A
pallee sergeant sald that there was a collision between the bus and the Army vehicle, Five chia- ren died rs a result of the collision and several othern were seriously Injured.--
Heuter.
Big Soviet
Military Spending
Harriman Utters Warning
he most when
was
Executed
In Spain
Madrid, Mar. 14.
Five trades unionists, members of a group of nine anarchists sentenced to death by a Barcelona court martial for murder and robbery, were ecuted by a firing squad in Barcelona early today.
Reports from Brresiona en March 10 said that pair of the nine sentenced to death 'on February 7 had had their seh- irneys commuted to 30 years' imprisonment.
cf
The nine were convlelid three murders, armed hold-up and several robberies in Barci- loma and its vicinity.
Or 21 others, including throu women, tried with them, four, including two of the weme", were acquitted. The rest were sentenced to prison terms rang- Ing from 30 years 10 six months.
Up to the-last-the-five-- con-- demned men refused to accept religious col.ce.
Inade
Barcelona,
execu-
and it is a good tiny's work if dozen of them are killed or captured. But the struggle must be seen,
Earlier today Mr Cohen had as the Archbishop of York
the opened the work of the newly recently reminded House of Lords, in rela- created Commision by
pro- posing a five-point disarinament * line stretching
plan starting with a world- from Koren to Hamburgid arms cansus ant a fool In the Allied front Malaya proof" system of checking data is a vital sector; its rub- | supplied by each nation. ber and tin are, crucial, The Ave points were:
„REFUSE MASS mmission saculd both as war potential and
-The
In the small hours of the study plans for the "progressive
Washington, Mar. 14. as balancers of exchange.
morning
a special Mass was and
tainly disclosure of continuing" is
Russia
the prison chapel and spending sald in all armed forces and armaments, It should set up a system 이
money in every country and the men were asked to attend. proportion international Inspection to check
giving vast amounts of mili- But they refused,
they were driven to La tary equipment to her satel- Bota camp, outside
Later, Chinese on of TOAH
the accuracy
data can be persuaded that it is supplied.
lites to fight for her and where they were shot. help established onfer to
2-11 should study methods
earlier thus strengthen the threat Britain's Parliamentary Li- authority in Malaya than of calculating and fixing overall enchision of an armistice in to the free world, declared Party and the non-Com- to help the terrorists will limits on all armed forces and Korea, which we most ardently r
munist "International Confedera- Averell armaments. This woud include destre, would be a major step
Harriman, on at Fres Trade Union with they find enough co effective international control towards the reduction of ten Mutual Security Director, headquarters in Brussels, Jost to join in putting their ap of atomic energy and the cll- sion and might have
addressed the night
urgent lasi-minute pressors down. But
Promination of all major weapons beneficial results on the work Senate Foreign Relations appeals to prevent the gress in this direction is adaptable to mass destruction. of this Commission."
tions. the
(Earlier. 3-All rendered difficult by
Committee today in connet- States should negotiate
month the Sir Gladwyn said Britain tion with President Tru- American Congress of Industrial the Chinese in among themselves fact that
of several Commission's approval to limit believed that the Commission man's new $7,900,000,000 Organisations asked the United Malaya are
should be content to start "from foreign aid programme, and arma-
States State Department to pro- different types. At one end the armed forces
small beginning," nents to certain levels.
test to Madrid "and the United 4-An international control Chinese a large class and organ should be established to they attached great importance mittee, immediately took issue Embassy in London denied that Another principle to which cratic Chairman of the Com- (On February 21 the Spanish of the loyal supporters
work out the necessary safe- regime. At
for the disarmament
was that any disarmament plan with Mr Harriman, declaring, the nine Cuards
must deal with all armaments "That is a lovted States was views)-Router, constitutional
oration." But demned
for their political the other extreme are, the programme.
should and all armed forces, 6. The Commission small but fanation! body:
"The essential thing is that
Its money away in "throwing" draw up a timetable of disarmu- of Chinese Communists.
ment,
elisarmament should apply to aid countries that is weakening Between them дте the
FEARS MULTIPLIED
the total armed
of us and making Russia stronger." strength who Chinese
have im-
Mr Harriman disagreed. He Introducing the proposals Mr each country and not merely to
that the North Atlantic migrated from China, who Cohen said, "Nations' tears have certain categories of weapons: said
or armaments," he said.
countries were spending larger tend to associate only with multiplied their arms and na-
sums for. defonce than all the their own community, and lens orins have multiplied
their fears,
mancy given to them under the who look outside, not to
Marshall Plan. Moscow, but to Peking. To
their loyalty and way to reverse this process; to securo confidence is the imposing achieve balance by reduction task confronting the Au- instead of by production of thoritica, for it Is through armed forces and armaments,"
Sir Gladwyn Jeju, Britain's the Commu- these people
representative to nists are able so effective-permanent
The United Nations, soid that ly to employ the terrors of
the United Kingdom had not intimidation and coercion.
abandoned hope that an agree-
are the
Malayan-born
with
the
"The people of the world look to las Commission to find a
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He added that there was no foundatio for suspicion
that
the Western Powers were some- how trying to revive the system of "balance of power"
What was needed was balanced reduction of arma ments.
this
ALT
new
Vincent Макссу the
Governor-General Canada, pictured at Rideau Hall, his Ottawa residence, under the portrait of one of predecessors, Viscount
Willingdon, who
Was Governor-General in 1920, Afr Massey ls wearing tite - full Windsor uniform belonged to
which
another former. Governor-General of Canads, Lord Tweedsmuir, and which was presented to, im by Lady Tweedsmuir.--London. Express.
KITTEN
IS Senator Tom Connally, Demo-Nations against the sentences.
while
the
AID TO SPAIN
inen had been
JAPAN TO
con-
FINALLY
RESCUED
Paris, Mar. 14. A telegram boy today saved the kitten Michou that perched at the top of a Montmartre tree for four
Bomb Thrown
At Police Station
To Churchill
Mr Butler Being Strongly Tipped
London, Mar. 14, Mr Richard Butler, Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, is being spotlighted by Farlin- mentary quarters as prob able future Conservativa: Prime Minister when and if Mr Winston Churchill re- tres.
Hts success DS
Capreolios. of the Exchequer in the new Government and his perform-
ance
In presenting its first. budget last Tuesday made a Great Impression upon the Con- servative Furty as a whole.
Mr Butler, 40, has Liberal tendencies that remetimes make him unpopular with the more Right-wing elements among the Tories,
But his realism, and his sharp, analytical approach to present day problems have been reflected more and more in his Party's recent maln polley statements on which he has be the principal architect.
It runs to be widely tetepi- ed that if Mr Churchill, naw 77. were to redhe,
there
Foreig Secretary, and
Butler.
As
have been unconfirmed rumours the he might dɔ sɔ soon, das choice of Conservative Prime Minister would probably lle between Mr Arrhony" Eden," Mr
"Rab,"
Mr Butler Is. known to friends and headline writers, hac litle of the pat form appeal of 54-year-old Mr Eden. His
cool, unemotional personality is in sharp conbast to that
of platform-wise Mr Eden
many Parliamentary élrcles consider him potentially the Strongest fighter in his
Mr Party
• after
Churchill, still the undisputed boss
belleve that he might reach the top-Reuter.
But
at and
Tunis; "Miu, 14, "Terrorists threw a bomb last night' at a Police station Monestir, 90 miles from Tuni causdrig considerable · damage but no casualties,
ด้
To Sail Ocean
The police station was deserted In A Barrel
at the time of the bomb throwing
as all its policemen were out on, patrol.
Kelowna, B.C., Mar. 14. Peter Olten, 68, said today that he planned to sail to Norway, in
The weekly paper "Fraternate",, a barrel.
Olsen, a veteran seaman who official organ of the Tunisian Socialist Party, said editorially, has not seen his native: Norway "It is deeply regrettable that the for 51 years, said he planned to leaders of the Tunisian parties sail from the East Coast of have not so far publicly dis- Canado for his old home at approved of the various terrorist Frederikstad, Norway, in June. outrages,"
He said he hoped to sell from Sydney, Nova Scotia, to Norway in 35 days in a ten-foot "ocean- going" barrel..
MAKE ARMS days and baffled the Pelice, Tunisian ministers
The paper further condemned
Tokyo, Mar. 14. Japanese Government sources Mr Harriman told the Com-claimed tonight that the Ameri- mittee, in answer to questions, can occupatice authorities had that negotiations with Spain for arranged for Japan to make the use of the $100,000,000 ap- certain types of arms, "subject proved by Congress last year to tho approval of SCAP were now progress.
Occupation) Head said he hoped that
would be committed They said that SCAP had before the end of the yar
Mr Harriman said that unless 1945
The
It was also essential that any disarmament system should money contain effective measures for control and enforcement,
A regards any alternative plan for the control of atomic energy the British delegate sald
that their minds were "open".
this
"I belleve we can avoid an- other world war it we go ahead vigorously and get ourselves in
(Allied quarters."
the Fire Brigade and the Animals Defence Society. Hearing about the plight Michou and of the residents
of
for keeping silent on these outrages instead ļof condemning them,
"I have been dreaming about it for 15 years," he added,
The wooden barrel was built The police reported that two by Merk Carlton, a machinist notorious terrorists were ur- from Windsor, Ontario. Carlton of No. 7 Rue Paul Feval being
white driving in a car originally had planned to sail unable to sleep because of the lent to them by a green-grocer. to Britain in it but tave it to es mewing-ha boy walked The names of the two arrested Olsen, who was then a whaler men were not disclosed.-United and cod phd halibut sherman." Press,
United Press.
to the curlyard, climbed the 00-foot high acacia and carried the kitten to the ground.
Just as he reached the ground from an expert tree climber the City Trees Department ar- rived with spiked boots and a rope to climb the tree..
The telegram boy walked of laughing and the kitten dashed down this the cellar to avoid the
issued an amendment to the directiva. banning arms America could strengthen the manufacture in Japan. free world to a degree where it The
sinted that amendment could deter Communist aggris Japan was banned from making sors, area ofter area would be arms without the approval cf The Commission's Canadian lost.. *
this Headquarters"
added. they Chairman, Mr David Johnson,
The
sources interpreted the warned against starting work in
the amendment As a mood of "cynical pessimism"
Japan
meaning that could now apply for per and building false hopes,
A position where it would be mission to make certain types crow:l. With the best will in the unprofitable for
the Soviet of armaments for its "self- world it would be misleading to Union to make the gamble," he delence"
ce forces. expect "rapid or spectacular nid.
Japan has been making some results", he the failure of the Lisbon the NATO countries had forces in Korea on direct orders record for tree sitting cats,
Mr Harriman said that at war materials for the Allied
from the Occupation authorities,
Government sources said that Japan might seek permission to make ammunition, small wea pons, light naval vessela and. non-military aircraft,
ha sold. Referring ta League of Nations and of carlit agreed to the principle that the United Nations efforts to achieve burden of
rearmament should disarmament, he added, “But I be shared by all sections of don't suggest that we should be their peoples. He would not unduly pessimistic over what has suggest. however. that the happened.
United States should attempt to The Commission has adjourned set any standards, although It The until March 10,
was true that the United States was trying to influence the peleles of some countries in this regard.-Reuter.
MALIK'S ATTACK Speaking after Sir Gladwyn, Mr Malik vigorously criticised the Scretary of Slate, Mr Dean Acheson's statement on the Dis armament Commission Wednesday.
Ho accused Mr Acheson of
Queen's Gesture To Honeymooners
Nairobi, Mar. 14. Inunching a "danderous attack" Queen Elizabeth II has loan- on the Soviet Uation in an at-ed her, Royal Ladge at Nyer tempt to justify the polley of Kenya's wedding gift to her in aggression and the armaments 1942 ve members of the race being carried out by the United States,
Government Kuf for their
Mr Malik said that the Secre-honeymoon after their marriage tary has given lip services to in Nairobi Cathedral tomorrow. the reduction of armaments -Reuter. while in reality attempting to increase them,
State Minister, Mr Takeo Ohashi, told the Budget Com- mittee of the Diet's Upper House today that the ban on Japanese brms production "would be re- moved after the ratification the peace treaty,
of
He said that the Government "had no plans to increase arms
production in the near future."
Reuter.
Was
The black and white kitten today had started her fifth day sitting at the top of the accelu tree. This was believed to be a
The Polles, Fire Brigade and; the Animals Defence Society, all failed to get her down..
The cat's predictment divided dwellers in the old hilltop house into two camps-those who were kept awake at nights by Michou's mewing and wanted to throw things at her and those who
called in the Animals Dofence Society who called in the Fire Brigade who called in the Police who called in the Cily Treet Department-Reuter.
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