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COMMENT OF - THE DAY

Crisis In Korea.

10 the problems of the

Tdeadlocked truce

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nt Panmunjom and the un- fortunato affairs at the Koja Island prison camp has been added the complica. tion of constitutional crisis within the South Korea administration. The situation created is delicate and dangerous. Dr Syngman Rhee, who has precipitated the upheaval in the South Korean Parliament, firstly by imposing martial law in

Pusan, then by arresting

and holding incommunicado a number of Assemblyman who have opposed his actions, and finally by insisting that changes be made immediately to the constitution, attempta to justify himself by claiming that he is destroying » deep-laid Communist plot

„Today's weather: Moderate BE winds. Fale apart from scattered thundery shaworu.

CHINA MAIL

No. 35223

Established 1845

MONDAY, JUNE. 9, 1952.

WEST BERLIN APPEALS

TO ALLIES

Protection Of Freedom

From Soviets

Berlin, June 8. Soviet-manacled Berlin appealed to the West today for greater help to save its freedom.

The city's press, speaking for 2,200,000 anti- Communist West Berliners, sombrely forecast that the worst is yet to come in the Red squeeze here.

Leading editors, all blockade veterans and listed by the Communist East German government as "national enemies," made these demands:

A precise definition of the Western powers' security guarantee of Berlin, so that Russian land grabs on the city's outskirts will stop.

A Buy-Berlin campaign in Western Germany

Guerillas REPORTERS Attack Rubber

Tappers

Singapore, June 8,

A party of Indian rubber tappers tolog to work by truck today was blown-up by Communist guerillas,

alx persons were serious- ly and

eight alightly In- Jured. One child bad one foot blown off 'and' the other partly severed.

The Communišis hid in the jungle in the Kaanian area of Pahang and do- tonated a land mine under the truck by remote con- irol.

The wires leading from the explosion to the hideout were found.

Other Communist terror- Esta raided Johore rubber estate. killing two Chinese women, two Chinese men and kidnapping #third

Other workers were forged to watch while one of the men

and was tied HD stabbed to death-United

Press.

to seize administrative con- and Allied countries to keep Berlin's industries Earl

trol in South Korea. As

yet, however, Dr Rhee has

move

to

made no substantiate his allegations and it is impossible to Avoid viewing his behaviour with suspicion.

alive even under the peril of East Germany strangling the city's exports.

Reinforcement's of

BLOCKADE JITTERS

Berlin

has

Alexander Due Today

Welcome Planned

FIND DR

RHEE'S 10- HOSTAGES

From Ralph Walling

Pusan, June 8. Twenty armed policemen

Members guard ten

of Parliament arrested under President Syngman Rhee's martial law and held in an unoccupied private house. within 1,000 yards of the President's own villa.

Their whereabouts were dis- covered today by an American reporter and myself aftor a week's search, They were 'ro-) moved tram the martial law headquarters and brought to the house on May 31.

Said the captain of the guard: "I am a Christian. Therefore everything I say will be the

truth. I have been a policeman five years. This is the most difficult job I have had to take

cook and run errands for them: We keep their wives and families informed about their health. They cannot leave the grounds of this house, have 'visitors or write letters. But they

are well troaled."

UNSHAVEN Five of the arrested Asscrably- men saw us talking at the gate from .the first floor of it verandah window. They were They rhaven and unkempt, miled and waved. whom a United Nations official

about to enter the Assembly

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Stolen Jewels Returned

To Catholic Priest

New York, June 8.

Two gem-encrusted gold crowns, stolen from a Roman Catholle shrine in Brooklyn, were returned by mail today, to a priest who had promised the thieves he would "forgive and ferget."

The jewels, insured for $100,000, wrapped in a cardboard box, were delivered to the home of the priest, Monsignor Angelo . Cloff, by a Post Office messenger.

ina

Their disappearance was discovered a week ago yesterday. six days after they were installed in the $2,000,000 Paci's votive shrine, built to fulfi a vow taken by the con-,

gregation of St. Rosalia's Church,

B Rosaila's congregation in May, 1942, voted to erect the shrine in honour of the Virgin na the Queen of Peace. Many of the church members contributed family Jewels for the crowns, which were personally blessed by the Fope.

The Crowns, when returned, were found to have 38 dia- monds missing--Beuter.

PESSIMISM OVER TRUCE TALKS

Tel: 21433

Starving Men Send Out SOS

For Food

A

Marsoilles, : June 8,

Two men who set out in small rubber dinghy from Monaco for South America

on May 25 to

| provo, man can live at sen without normal provisions have signalled a passing ship for food,

born

Ty "izon

after

The two enen, Dr Alain Bombard, 27-year-old French channel swimmer, and Mr Jacke Palmer

38-year-old Scottish

of Panama, wETO 14 at sea.

days scale to prove that man can find sustenance in a sOCTC- tion found insido fish and as a substitute for fresh water, by a drinkablo mixture of rain and sea water.

Seoul, June 9. Pessimism is the predominant feeling here as the Korean truce talks remain deadlocked and re-as

ports persist of a huge Communist Chinese buildup along the frontline.

The Korean wet season comes in July and August, and this period, like the spring, is regarded by Allied officers as the danger time.

But whatever the unanswered targets would be within good questions about the outcome of range. possible renewed fighting, there

I recognised. Kwak Sang-hoonniidup

Soviet of delivery. This was the prac troop patrols and People's tice until 1949, when the Federal Police cut down today the flood railway system was formed in of refugees attempting to escape

West Germany, after* which inth West Germany from Com- settlements were

made on munism's new frontier security twice monthly basis. Omolals bell along the Soviet zone. said the Eastern request for DR Rhee entered the Korean Thousands slipped trous

last political arent after the weeks, clading Red patrols. They had been agreed to and involved resumption of dally payments Pacific War as a recognised hud been ordered evicted fram no particular hardship.

Field Marshal Lord patriot and

ardent their homes as 2112

"political un-

Alexander, the British and deported further advocate of his country's reliables" Independence. He had long East.

The blockade jitters afficting Minister of Defence and fought for Koren's libera. The Thuringian frontier towa, the city are not concerned so members of the mission he tion from the yoke of Vacha, was reported completely much with Incoming supplies, is leading to Korea to study and I saw arrested as he was Japanese colonialism and stripped of its 4,000 inhabitants, however, as with the cutoff at first hand and report ten days ago. Halid back the

A train of 60 treght caca lead- oxports.

already he was the obvious. choice

ed with deportees left Vacha nearly 800.000 unemployed direct to the Cabinet mili-window londer of the now

inst night for Brandenburg and quarter of its employable eiti tary and political develop through. He nodded Korean nation which the

Mecklenburg,

deeper in the zens. The city's Industries have ments there, is expected to companion yelled up at him UN

"Are they treating you well?" intended ahould Soviet zone, Soviet soldiers bear trying for years to develop emerge after the military appeared today on tridges over export markets and cat this total arrive at Kai Tak airport and shook his head when asked,

this (Monday) evening. · defent

His the

the Werra, a of Japan.

Soviet zone The Was Thuringian-Hesse

Ban on The party will break their personal popularity

replaced police sentri

at Two Allied military cars on the 110- journey Hongkong well established and his

between Berlin resume their flight to Japan ta- respect for the constitution People's Policemen, armed with mile autobahn

machine-pistols, crossed 200 and West Germany continued morrow morning, augured well for his coun- yards into Hessian territory today. It was imposed on May 21

During his overnight stay in try. Clearly it has come as beyond the Werra and kidnap-without explanation. Britain's Hongkong, Lord Alexander will and talk together,

armed barricade of Russia's

q be the official guest of the Altogether they seemed re- TOO VAGUE

Radio

Berlin headquarters in Governor, Sir Alexander Gran-markably dree for men alleged Sharply analysing the the British sector also remained

GCMG. and 2 | tham.

Lady Implicated in a sinister Com- Western powers' repeated pledge in force. It was set up last Tues-Grantham at Government munist plot to overthrow the that they would regard an at day with barbed wire in reprisal

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n profound shock to the United States, and other nations who have helped to sponsor the establishment

FİYET ON the down.

and

d an unidentified man.

of a democratic regime in South Korea to find Rhee-tack on Berlin or West Germany for Communist seizure of four

now openly daunting the constitution and taking to himself dictatorial powers and indulging in political intimidation. Dr Rhee in perfectly entitled to his

Ds an attack on themselves, le West Berlin settlements,— Chlef Editor Erik Reger insisted Associated Press.

In Der Tagesspiegel "today that

it is too vague

"We and Moscow informed exactly

to usurp

should be

'TO CLOSE ROUTES

Berlin, June 8. how much The official German-language territory the Soviets can usurp newspaper of the United States today without bumping

the High Commission said Into ambitions to become Pre- guarantee, and how much they that an East German leader sident for a second term, would have

before had announced that the Soviet he Zone government would close but not to plunge his cour- being bumped themselves."

all but one

of the routes used try into a constitutional wrote,

will first be to supply Berlin. "The guarantee crisis to accomplish the

Charles Dix, American trans- mission. Now, more than respected if the Western powers

understood port chief in Berlin, said the isaltedly let it be

Allies

heard reports from many

at any other time, it

neecssury that the South what kind of attack they mean. Western It apparently has not had the "similar

wanted

deterring sources

Albert

Korean Administration

effect on should be functioning Moscow in serious caces like the effectively. After conclu present." aíon of an armistice In the Admitting that Berlin

the country will become the dominating

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hod

Neue Zeltung quoted Homann, Secretary- of the Communist-run

Korca war, unification of porta are suffering because of a Democratic Party, as

among West German saying that all routes used by scare buyers over the uncertainty of the West to consideration deliveries

supply Berlin would across the Soviet be closed except for the Berlin- of the United Nations zone, Chief Editor Arno Scholz Helmstedt route,

difficult declared in the Telegraf: und this task,

The newspaper sald, Homann *Trade enough under the best of

contracts

the arc

direlesed the Communist plan conditions will be made arms with which to hold Berat a meeting of. Party leaders. all the more hazardous If lin. Each plece, of work which Dix said unconfirmed reports

here makes the constitutional disunity comes

Berreaching the Western Allies said liner stronger economically for the Communists planned to shut exists in South Korea.

his struggle with Communiam. down during the night four "of RITAIN'S Defence Minis-

for example, the autho five highways still open to ter, Viscount Alexander,

tomobile companies in the USA Berlin. He said the Berlin- were to decide to order just a Helmstedt highway would be. Is now on his way to Korea

little wheel or some other spare open 24 hours and the other four at the invitation of the

part from Berlin, it would give roads open during the daylight United Nations Command. work for thousands of hands." hours, according to the reports, His interests in the situn- tion there have been. enlarged as result of events in Pusan from maintain purely military considera- tions to the political field. What may now liave to be determined is whether the United Nations, Auonsors

MAYOR'S. MISSIÓN

House.

arml

A recent picture of Lord Alexander. taken in Lon don after he had assumed his new cfice as Britain's Defence Minister.

"Do they tell you what's going on outside?"

Meanwhile Rhee's ten hostages, explained the captain of the guard, were free to exercite In the garden and free to eat, sleep

Government as tonight they settle down to the Korean chess game called "go." In this one player removes his opponent's plece by surrounding it..

A mass pro-Rhee demonstra- tion is timed for 10 o'clock Lomorrow (Monday) morning within 510 yards of the house where the den men are held.

Other members of the National the Assembly tonight feared demonstration may be the signa! for an attack on the house and its occupants-London Express Service.

Showdown In

Steel Talks

Washington, June 8, The White House steel talics moved Into the showdown as industry and stage today union leaders met in an ex- traordinary. Sunday session in ад effort to clear away co maining wags to settlement of the critical week-old strike,

Philp Murray, leader of 850,000 striking CTO United Stediworkers, led union negotia- tors

into the fourth round of Monferences with industry officials amid reports that at ny agreement could come Dix said the, reports received The party includes the Rt. Seeing urgent support from by the Western Allies mentioned Hon, Selwyn Lloyd, CBE, QC, time.

The stect only

companies were roules. The Neue MP, Minister of State, at the mad government to

10 be offering Berlin trade with

Zeitung said Homann spoke of Foreign Ofico, Mr R.H. Scots, Teported closing "all growing points" CMG,

CBE

dar "package agreement of shout Assistant Under West Germany, binyor Ernst

st except Henriedt. This would Secretary of Stato at the 20 cents an hour. Reuter is going to Eonn for

on Tues mean both rail, and road routes. Foreign Ofice, Lt-Col: J.K. While Murray has been in- day. The Socialist Party has de- The Communists already have Gardiner of the

that Chancellor Konrada closed down three of the nine Delake, Mr Mistry: atsisting publick on the dull 20: manded Adenauer commit himself to all routes United Press.

Private Secretary to: Lord to recommended

tho Federal

Parlamentary session

10

the дя

South of the

nese ersistance for the city. Korean Administration, Soviet zone Communists have should not bring more threatened

black "Twar SOVIET'S NEW pressure to bear for the materials" being shipped out resolving of the current of Berlin to West Germany.

ARSENAL political crisis nt Pusan.

definition is purposely Their

Belgrade, June 8. The military and politicalogue and might include almost

any kind of manufacture. This Czechoslovakia has become situations in Korea ennnot blockade might start as soon as the main Soviet arsenal outside he completely divorced. A West Germany starts contribu Rusde and its entire armaments truco In the fighting would ting to European defence. industry is now working be meaningless if internal West Berlin officials scotched clusively for Soviet orders, the Governor. dissension exists south of rumour last night that

sources

M

the

Various

trolled

Their expedition was planned à, serious scientific project prepared by Dr Bombard at the Oceanographic Muscuam

at Moriaeo.

OVERDUE

Bombard and Palmer refused

10 return to Marseilles aboard the ship and continued south towards Gibraltar.

Members of the Sidi Ferruch's crew said Dr. Bombard was in good shape but Palmer unwell

The dinghy, the Heretique, was already, overdue at Gibraltar because of unfavourable winds when it signalled to the French reasons, none of steamer, Sidi Ferruch, off the is no doubt about the state of which have been wholly ec- Balearic Islands yesterday that preparedness of both sides.

been advanced the two men were starving as copied, have The extent of the Communist why the Communist jets remain they had been unable to catch from:line buildup during the close to inviolate territory. In enough fish. talks went on for 11 months

full while comparative

armistice the event of an allout attack, The captain sent condensed

L

observers Bay however, the milk, tinned meat, biscuits and not known. But high Army and Communists would come out of bottles of water to the dinghy, Air Force officers have, admitted their sanctuary. thet the Unlied Nations Air

Communist bomber strength altempls to prevent Is not known, but it is believed

were mot

highly to be well below

that of the successful.

United Nations 8th Army Commander The

FIRE POWER ・・・・ General James A. Van Fleet, British

artillery officers con admitted at the Communists sider that the United Nations could launch an offensive which fire power is far better con could be sustained

The two men had estimated for nearly two weeks.

than that of the Comit would take them about 14 ar Usually reliable sources

erhero munista. They claim this factor 15 days to reach Gibraltar and a said ther were

nearly 300,000 would outweigh admitted Com further two or three months to

munist superio Chinese

In numbers cross the Atlantic to Cuba and North Koreans

Reuter of artillery readied in frontline positions who could strike at three days'

Commonwealth Division notice. Another 250,000. Com- artery officer summed up this munists could be thrown

"We wander around the la within four days, the sources sky in

thay, unaumed spotter Bald.

planes, but the trigger finger to PREDOMINANT

thousands of big guns is The predominance of Chinese further away than our micro- Over North Korean manning phones. That's something the

front at present, was ex- Communists

Stromboli, June 8. cannot hope to plained by one officer today. do," he said.

A spectacular eruption of the Some officers concede that the 3,000-foot volcano which forms "As far as I know, there are Communists have an advantage this tiny island forced hundreds only about three. North Korean Army Corps in frontline post-

in their more widely experienced of fishermen and their families tions

soldiers.

lers. They point out that to spend the night in beats off- Dt present," he said.

the There have been reports of the emphasis on

Communists do not place (shore.

rotation to Stromboli rumbled into UTI thousands of others undergoing

na do Chinese type mining in Man-the

the intense eruption at 5 a.m. churia.. They should be ready any day now,"

tho

One

claim.

same extent United Nations.

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Stromboli In Eruption

superioritysterday. It was still spewing

were

At sta, Afiled

lava from three goping craters today. All reports here confirm the prevalls. Coastal road and rail

networks are virtually denied. No casualties of material Agures given by British Prime the Communists because of damage

The reported. Minister Winston Churchill that Alled naval command of both 2,000 or so islanders a million-man Communist army

are ac- consts. Any suggestion of a customed to eruptions, which is readied to fight in Korea.

Communist Communist artillery strength tion can be ruled out, observers only about once in 20 years... amphibious opera- are as violent as the present one United believe.Restor. Nations Command as being twice

is accepted by the

that of the Allies, Dally barragas { ---- across the sprawling war front, excoeding. 3,000 rounds, ETC commonplace.

Other Agures given officially place the number of Communist tanks at about 500. Many of them, according to reports, are based on the western front. Thoy would form the vanguard of any drive on Seoul and would have comparatively open country to traverse..

DEFENCE

SYSTEM On some sectors of the front Communist digging has been 60 intense that a man can walk Lor more than nine miles vir-

rually underground. Their "shock absorber" system of de- fences in depth would permit a gradus falling back while stil retaining excellent cover. and positions. This has be- come a feature of the Korean War.

Military observers claim that any Allled or Chinese limited offensive, would scarcely breach tho real defences of either side. Each side has had time and

good weather taken nd allies. Each has vantage of the terrain available to prepare defences, that aro considered here as makeshift 1953 Maginot Lacs.

are

as their

the by Morrison,

Board, Stabilisation

that Indicated Alexander and Mr A.F. Duff, Union leader appeared to be in Private Secretary to Mr Sölwyl

a bargaining mood Lloyd.

·། The negotiatore apparently GUARDS OF HONOUR .. had not tackled the' controver-

But Alled oflcera claim that On arrival at Kai Tak, Lordial union shop losue, but there

United Nations detences Alexander will be met by HE the was hope that this too could be the

constructed on a lino which Commander British Forces, Lt Folved. Neither the union tror

Sir ener

Regolators would was fought for, won, and chosen Terence Alrey, company KCMG, CB, CBE, and by Mr B.F. comment on the status of their whereas the Communists had to "make the most of what wo Slovin, ADC to His Excellency talks when they filled into the

merting shortly after. 2 pm. let them have." ...Whilo at Kai Tak, Lord They had planned to meet With more than 1,000 aircraft -1,000 of which are jets-any had sources here.

The production of arm

arms in the

in the of Honour provided by the Royali salon by mutual conuent appiled severe payment regula

and the allout serial support, could be tions on German supplies mov- big works, such as Skoda, which Defence, accompanied by the Senate worekeeping close the

the greatest of the Korean war. prime importance and fts

Ing into the city from West is now called Lonin, and Commander British Forces, will watch on, proceedings. In the Most "ofile" jals" are based in consolidation must not be

Germany, They said the railway Zerojovka, was raised during then leave by Launch for Queen's White House Cabinet room, Manoburia, and the distance they management yesterday request the Brat quarter of 1052 by 20 ples where he will inspect a sinen the outcome would have would have to for would militate cd that coal shipments to city to 40 per cent compared to the Royal Naval Guard provided by a definid effect on new, moves against their effectivenes/But owned elcetrio and gas com. same period a year ago. IIMS Tamar Queen's Pier to curb the detoned-crippling If they used jet airfields, known panies be paid for on the date | Heuter.

(Conid, on back page, oo). (4) | strike,Unlied Brask, and to exist in North Koren, Abled

the 38th Parallel. The long-Soviet zane Tallway system according to usually reliable | Alexander' will inspect Gunea [At 21 a.m.” but delayed !! the Communist ofchalyo backed by

term future of Korea is of

prejudiced by the collah ambitions althor of Dr Theo or any other member of the Bouth Korea Togimo.

Air Force. The. Minister,

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