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SWISS MADE

COMMENT OF THE DAY

An Honour Well Won

I announcement that Her Majesty the Queen has awarded the George Medal to two longkong police officers is received by the whole Colony with a deep rense of satisfaction Pollee And pride. Our

Force since the war has, in a number of respects, become a model, and is the envy of other parts of the world. The courageous and steadfast bearing of runks jir timex

of

emergency and danger hus frequently been deman- strated during the past five or six years. The recogni- tion given the bravery of Sub-Inspector Detective Hidden and Detective

Constable Chow Fook, is not only for themselves well deserved, but CAN properly be regarded as a tribute to the entire polier. force. Their duties today call not only for efficiency, but for tact, imagination courage and integrity. All these qualities are being daily displayed, and because of It law and order is more strongly preserved in Hong- kong than ever before. In congratulating the three afficers whose gallantry and devotion to duty in the gun battle with gangsters in the

Today's weather: Moderats Boutheasterly winds; cloudy- with scattered showers.

CHINA MAIL

No. 85195

Established 1845

WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1952.

NATO Gives Germany. Security Guarantee

RECIPROCITY A CONDITION

Paris, May 6.

The North Atlantic Council agreed today to guarantee Germany's security as a member of the six-nation European Army but only if she promises to help the 14 NATO nations in case of an attack.

The Permanent Council has adopted techni- cally a treaty annex as a reciprocal agreement between NATO and the European Defence Com- munity. But since only Germany is not a NATO member among the EDC group the pact had the effect of applying uniquely to the Federal Republic.

A NATO spokesman disclosed that there was no “aulomatic" guarantee of aid as in other agreements, like the Brussels pact. Each nation would decido what aid measures were "deemed necessary".

Jersey

Threatened

New Territorica on Septem. By Cattle

ber 17, 1950 has received such distinguished recogni tion, We add too our

felicitations to the entien Disease

Police force whose esprit de curs so largely contributes to ita efficiency and effer- tiveness,

Naval Command BRITISH resentment at the

now

D

pressure

being applied by Washington for the appointment of aa American admiral as com- mander uf Allied naval forces in the Mediterranean is fully understandable. itrilain readily agreed to the proposition that American general should be supreme commander of the NATO Jund forces and she bowed with good grace to the appointment of an American admiral as over- Allied all chief of the navies. It is less easy, ho- ever, for her to surrender the position she has always held in the Mediterranean. મગ one London paper declares, "We know this sen." It was in the Mediter

ranean

that

Admiral Cunningham operated with such outstanding success in the last war, showing that, like his famous predeces- sors, he had the "natural touch." America's principal argument for the command of the Mediterrancan navies appears to be that she is contributing most of the

Under the agreement, which must be ratified by all members of the NATO and EDC. the governing bodies of both groups may meet together at the re- quest of either side.

Ali, if any individuel

mem-

bcr

feels that its security in Direatened it may request Joint meeting.

the European

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Girl Trapped Chou En-Lai

In Well

"

Caen, May 6. Rescue workers duk Cosperately tonight through carth and rocks to reachi an 18-year-old glil, Berza- Jello Delahaye, who is trapped at the bottom of a

six-foot deep well st Usquay, Notre Dame, near

here,

The ell, entombed since a.m. local, time today, was being lowered. down the well on a rope by her father to retrieve a bucket when earthwark at the rim of the well collapsed.

The father. a

tocal cafe care owner, lost his grip of the and Bernadette fell tope into the water with earth and rocks showering down. This morning, rescue workers could hear the eir praying but there was no sound from her after 2 p.m.

to

Firemen, were called help in the rescue-Reuter.

DRAMATIC ESCAPE

Six. Men Survive Plane Crash

Attacks Jap Peace Treaty

Tokyo, May 7.

de. Red Chinn today nounced the Japanese peaco treaty as "absolutely illegal" and called for the unity of Asian

to peoples

stop American "aggression" in the Far East.

Its

The sharp denouncement of the Japanese peace treaty and US-Japart accompanying security pact and treaty with Nationalist China was made by

China's Communist

Foreign Minister Chou En-lal, over Radio Peking.

Chou's statement underlined these three points:

That all occupation troops

be withdrawn from Japan,

2. The Japanese pesce not be recognised..

The effect of this provision į will be to help the passage of

-3-Opposition to the Japanese. Army agreement

treaty with Nationalist China.

The

de- through the hitherto heatlanti

Peking broadcast French Assembly.

clared that the San Francisco Observers noted that France

US treaty makes Japan "a can call a joint meeting if {

military beachhead in the Far London, May 6. feels that Germany threaten-

East" and that "Japan is drag- ged by the US into a position The epidemic of the cattle ing the integrity or continued

Oslo, May 6. of open antagonism to China, existence of the EDC by pulling disease spread today to

out as has been feared in French

Six men walked into the the Soviet Union and the other Jersey

Island quarters Channel

states." after West Germany

Drangedal railway station houshtement added that home of the famous pedi-revives

amounts to The "guarantee" to Germany west of Oslo this morning "his amo

isolation of greed cattle.

applies only so long as she is a and described their escape Japan in Asia.

The broadcast went on to say The island was

a member of the European Army. declared

from an aeroplane which The other members are France, restricted areo,

Belgium, Italy, Holland Luxem crashed, exploded and went that the "separate peace treaty the position Under the new emergency re-bourg.

up in flames in Telemark 10s two-hour Atrictions in Jersey, dogs are

meeting province, south Norway. chairmanship of only allowed out on a leash. Any under the found running loose are liable to Lord Ismay, NATO Secretary- Eleven of the 20 people aboard be shot on right and the owners General, the Council also set up the aircraft were killed.

lay

tho working group to prosecuted.

ground

an annual 'The aircraft, a Dakota, was on work for The 2,500 seasonal French | cconomie review of the progress light from Amsterdam to

begin

capabilities arriving and

of member Carlsberg airport on the Oslo workers who

nations agreed to at the recent Fjord. Lebon conference.

NATO officials

there this week-cord for difting the early potato crop will pass through a carpet of disinfectant as they come off the steamers from the mainland,

In Eire where the government has taken swift action to ward off an outbreak, visitors had at the their chous disinfected opening of the Royal Dublin Society's spring show today.

CLOTHES SPRAYED

Those in contact with cattle,

sheep exhibits

hed play and their clothes sprayed.

The British Government to-

a

In

said that the 1852 Faviaw would be finished by November at the latest, se ting the scale for a joint-1953 effort and looking ahead for two more years,

There was on

places Japan in not of independence but of

grave national crisis; not pence but war; not glory but humiliu- tion."

Red Chinn also charged that: 1. Countless Japanese war criminals whose hands stil Teek of blood have been releas ed or cleared from purge.

dragged

units

cenary

Japan." (Presumably

to the National Police Reserve enlistments).

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Salvage From Sunken Submarine

Capitala Otto Olsen (right), of the salvage vessel Kirsten Jensen, examines "zomb copper-plates with Diver II. Olsen. They are part of a salvaged German submarine which was sunk by RAF bombers off the coast of Jutland'en May 4, 1045, three days before the Germans surrendered. At least one woman was tu board the submarine at the Time of The torpedo room claking, and a skirt has been handed to the police by Captain Olsen, was found to be filed with canned goods, the discovery of which has revived theories that Nazi leaders were trybig to escape from Germany,

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Vietminh Rebels From Fortified

Driven Village

Saigon, May 6. French artillery and aerial bombs forced rebels from a strongly- fortified village 13 miles northeast of Hanoi' today as workers rushed to complete a 180-mile concrete defence line around the Tonkin bastion.

A headquarters communique said 22 rebels were killed and 24 taken prisoner. Erench casualties were described as "light."

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Elsewhere in the Hanoi rice bowl, only patrol skirmishes were re- ported. Official confirmation that the network of blockhouses was almost finished was disclosed by French headquarters here,

Churchill &

Amr Pasha

Have A Talk

40

The new 100-mile-long de | northwest. Then it curves

Cho Berk, 2 fence line of steel and, concreto miles souts to s'udded blockhouses around the miles southwest of Hanoi,

eily

The line is not a wall-like de- strategic port

of Hanci

fence arrangement, sources said. was built on the orders of the Late Morchal Jean de Lattre de It comprises a chain of about 200 Tassigny, who was High Com-

concreto and steel "edoubts", for missioner

Indo-China. each of which will be manned by said the new about 30 men with machineguns Official sources defence perimeter soon would and mortars. Marshal de Lattre decided to build it when he saw be put into service.

It will become the main the havoc caused by the sweep- French bulwark against the Ing Red hordes during their Vietminh Communist

forces January offensive. He considered

who have driven to wlihin 20 miles

of the city.

The new Tonkinese "Maginot

has been

under

con-

network of solid strong points would effectively break the force of any future offensive.

to

London, May 6, The British Prime Minis- ter, Mr Winston Churchill, and Abdul Fattah Amr.

Mitary sources hurried Pasha, the Egyptian Am-struction for 14 months. Four point out that the new line did bassador, had a private half-battalions of the French Foreign not mean there was danger that economy of hour talk today at the Legion assisted Army and civilian the French Union forces would combe thrown into a "static defence engineers in rushing it to Japan becomes an appendage House of Commons on

the piction.

mentality." to the economy of the USA and

STEEL REDOUBTS Anglo-Egyptian dispute,

They pointed out that most of The line of blockhouses and the highly successful "mopping is compelled to service the latter's war preparations.

Oficials here maintained strict pillboxes starts at Quong Yen on up" operations launched against Chou bonsled that' *Red China "dafented

secrecy on the details of the dis- the northeast corner of the Red the Reds in 'recent months were the Japanese

80 miles east River delta,

out. of ostried

by Franco cussion which was arranged by Aggressorgy and smashed the

Hanoi, It ouns Across the Vietnamese troops "Immobilised" Kai-shek

An- reactionary the Foreign Secretary, Mr

northern approaches to the capt-in the Hanoi defence perimeter. thony Eden.

1a to Vietri, 30 miles to the United Press.

AN "APPENDAGE" The stewardess, only membe

2.--"Many of the crew of four to survive,

Japanese youths of 'self-defence' said she was, in the pilot's cabin in the name just before the accident. As the

off to form mer- returned to her place at the back

for the US in of the plane, it lurched and she

this r The Council established-on fell to the floor. She told. the experts" party consisting of passengers to fasten their safety from the United belts, and the plane hit a bill members States, Belgium, Norway, France and fell into a thick wood. and Portugal to investigate a

explosion and vite for a permanent NATU henquarters here.

the plane burst into flames. the passengers were It is at present housed in the Some of

building of the United Na-; thrown clear and some managett

ta craw) to safety just 'in time.

The local police chief said Chiang

of the survivors was forces who were armed by the none

UB." seriously injured.

And that they also.now "are routing the US aggression against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.“

old

tions.

Lord Ismay and the delegates day tanned the movement of leo discussed a "now look". cattle throughout the whole of streamlined NATO organization England and Wales as the grave which would allow it to handle epidemic of foot and mouth the heavy burdens of European discusse spread still further defence.-United Press. afield.

tich

AUSTRALIA

It was so dark and the woods

so thick that the six men had to wait until dawn before starting out for help-Reuter.

He asserted, "Thus the Chinese people have full con- |fidence in their ability to crush

QUEEN VISITS any new aggressive plans of the

THE BIF

reactionaries and their

lackeys."

fighting strength in men Part of England and a large ROYAL VISIT TO and ships. Yet, when it area of Scotland were already comes to actual operations | under the rigid ban which pros it is the strategy, tacticshibits the movement of herds and personal knowledge of of cattle or other cloven hoofed

Sydney, May 0. Mediterranean Sea by the animals without written par-

The Sydney Morning Herald commander-in-chief which mission from the Ministry.

The Red Radio also claimed Tonight's drastic action was today quoted a high government becomes of paramount im-

that "the 'reactionary rulers of taken after reports had reached source as saying that the Bri- there is the Ministry of portance, and

and Australian

Japan...are now, determined in Govern-

London, May 0. nothing to show that the headquarters here

Agriculture

Queen Elizabeth and the Duke the wake of American imperi- that the ments agreed that Queen Eliza-

continue the futhe United States possesses epidemic had spread to two beth and the Duke of Edinburghof Edinburgh went visiting at the alism to admirals superior to those more areas in central England should visit Australia early in British Industrial Fair here today plans of the armed invasion of and bought their children some China and are preparing agein today, while a third new of the British navy in theso

out 1954,

to invade the mainland und This is attributes.

The newspaper said that the toys. break was suspected in Wales.

imperialist rulo The Minister NATO

which command

of Agriculture, agreement had been arranged In

"of China and Sir

Thomas Dugdale, today an exchange of cables and that rightfully belongs to

of Asin."—Associated described the nation-wideoul- an official announcement was Britain.

break as."o,growitig menace," expected to be made later this Router.

month.-Reuter.

THE

Water Crisis

onc

19

IE Colony has been given another official warning that dangerously neute

shortage - water

threatening. The recent rains, while welcome, have been insuficient to contri- The bute to the storage. reservoira are appallingly low for this time of the year. Rain wo must have if the altuation is to effectively alleviated, and

bo

It is of some comfort that

the Water Authority ex- preases some optimism in

Labour Claims In Municipal

+

Big Gains Elections

London, May 6.

The Labour Party claimed tonight to have gained 104 seats ch results so far announced in the second round of Britain's "little general election" for local councils.

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their Three-year-old Prince Charles revive got a trick rubber penell which over the people doesn't write and a bug which the rest

Press. Jumps several feet in the air,

Princess Twenty-months-old Anne, like most little girls, got same doils.

The Duke browsed about the Talks Nearing

sport

acction and bought some

shuttlesdeka, for, badminton and Breaking Point

a new set of golf balls

Like most British couples, the Queen and her consort spent most of their two-hour tour just_win-| dow. shopping-Associated Press.

Weather Station On Ice Float

Washington, May 6

Tokyo, May 7. There was a feeling at Truco

that the. Headquarters today mounting tension around the Korean nimistice talico WOO nearing breaking point,

Sources close to the United Nations negotiators said there Avere indications, that the ting out period" was almo an end.

Neither do has admitted

t

'ext

It was understood that Mr Churchill, who met the British Ambassador to Egypt, Sir Ralph Stevenson, and the Governor- General of the Sudan, Sir Robert Howe, when they were, in Lon- don last week, wanted to hear personally the Egyptian cose;

Sir Robert and Str Ralph flow back to Khartoum and Caire respectively last week after con- sultations with Mr Eden.

"NEW FORMULA.

Mr Eden and his two ad-i

a new visers then draw up formula

Sudan to solve the Issue of the dispute King Farouk'a claim, to be King óc the Sudan. This formula was: submitted to the Egyptian Gov- ernment by Sir Ralph an Saturday, in Colko.

The Sudan has so far proved- to be the most difficult of the two factors involved in the; dispute. The other, the fenco of the Sucz

understood to have be

do-

vir-

tually erified though this ap- pears to depend on agreembót. on the future of the Sudan.

! Preliminary Egyption reactions to the new British formula have not been favourable.

The Conservatives claimed Labour, defeated by the Conser

Parliamentary that Labour had gained only 02 vatives in the

cats-but they admitted the general election last year, a The United States air force that ཝ་ stalemate exists, but The now British formula wds. Mr this respects Nevertheless loss of 02

A statement by the Conser- announced today that it had ex-yesterday it was stated officially approved last week by Conservative seate

and no progress was being Churchill

'the Britch until that casential rain against only 14 Labour losses in vative Party claimed that the tablished a weather station that

Cabinet arrives, it is incumbent on the voting which started yes results so far were:

probably permanent on an made. Conservativer 200 seats-13 lee font about 230 kilometres Peking Radio sald last night that the whole community to terday.

3. Amr. This is expected to the talics appeared to be enter from the North Palo. water from the main

590-sents

Six men will man, the station ing the "most crucial deadlock" entor aondon nursing home carefully to a point of being

shof for medical treatment. tricia in. Drugland and Wales gains, 28 losses.

which will be supplied by para since they began. frugal. Any person who

will have elected their local | Liberals " 14 seats-3 gains, chute,

The truce negotiators are An Egyptian Embassy spoker- wastes water at this time Government representatives. 3 losses.

today after inj mon sald last Friday that he was The ice font is 10 kilomeʻréa) meeting again fa'Jeopardising the welfare

Labour 805 seats 82 guins, 14 long and shven kilometres wide. sesion testing only 16 minutes under medical, observation. of the Colony,

-France-Presso.

Router, yesterday-Heute

URO

Before the end of this week gains, 02 Iaries,

Independents voters in over 800 urban dis

In the first round: last month there was a big swing towards losses-Router.

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