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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1952.

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India's Compromise Korean

For Peace Plan Unacceptable To US

EVELATION that Ameri

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FAILS TO DEAL WITH FORCED REPATRIATION

Spokesman's Comment

United Nations, Nov. 17:

scientists have carried out successful hydrogen bomb tests evokes mixed feelings. Sobor satisfaction is derived from the knowledge that the secret is held by the lending member of the free world, yot even this reaction is tempered by the fact that the harnessing of power hitherto unknown can yet be used only in a destructive form. None will wish to deprive the Ameri- enn scientists of the credit which is rightfully theirs for the brilliant research endeavours leading to the successful fusion of hydrogen nuclei, Neverthe leas, it la recognised that the experiments recently Eniwetok carried out at represent a terrifying step forward in the construction of weapon

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obviously capable of completely eliminating large areas in amatier of minutes. Exclu sive possession of such a

tho detailed weapon could be calculated

Amma that release and ond Pyongyang to deter a country or group stemmed from the fact that this repatriation of prisoners of war proposals.

The second part is the list of of nations from embarking provision means that a prisoner shall be effected in accordance

the Geneva Convention proposals. had the choice either of going with an aggressive under- home or perhaps rotting

in-relative to treatment ot The Red Cross teams from taking aimed at threatening definitely in a prisoner com-prisoners-of-war dated August both sides would be authorised the pence of the world. This pound.

12, 1940.

to assist the Repatriation Com- was the confidence felt by

2. Affirms that force shall not mission In its work and have be used against prisoners at war access to all prisoners of war the democracies when the United States was the sole

1. The United States will to prevent or effect their return while they are under temporary to hand over to their homelanda and they administration of the repatria- possessor of the atom.bomb not use force

all times be treated tion group-United Press. prisoners to any international shall at But secret.

the

fcoling machinery that provides only humanely in accordance with vanished when Russia one exit," meaning returning specific provisions of the Geneva succeeded in making her home.

Convention and with the general own atom bomb, and it is 2. The United States wants, spirit of the Convention. not unnatural for the world in any armistice agreement, to to wonder how long it will minimise the possibility of be before the Soviets catch leaving open any issue likely

India formally put before the United Nations today a compromise Korean proposal banning the use of force to repatriate war prisoners or prevent their return home, but an American spokesman said the Indian blueprint is unacceptable as it stands.

The Indian plan was the result of long weeks of negotiations, dur- ing which consultations were held here with the West and Russians and in Peking with the Chinese Communists.

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The American spokesman said the United States objected to the Indian plan because it did not give a definite answer to the future of pri- soners refusing to be repatriated.

"This is putting us back to where we started," the high-level US spokes- man said.

The American

objection 1.

Two points Avere emphasised by the American spokesman:

up with the United States.to lead to a breakdown of the

truce.

in the latest development in thermonuclear research,

The Indian

proposal leaves unsettled those prisoners who

WHAT remains certain is have said that they will not re-

that Russia,

she turn home. now

knows that the United Staten possesses the most

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resources are

3. Provides that at the end

of 30 days, the disposition of any prisoners of war, whose their homeland has return to not been effected in accordance set out with the procedure above, stall be referred by the repatriation commission to A

conference to bel called under Article 60 of the draft armistice agreement.".

political

The Indian plan calls on the President of the General As-

the

In

Commutation

Their Only Hope Left

12 Fishermen Rescued

Tokyo, Nov. 17. Crewmen of the navy disauli cargo ship Bella- trix rescued 12 typhoon- tossed Okinawa' flahermen craft from their sinking Fast Friday.

The 12. survivors of the crew of 27, were clinging of to the splintered bow their ship when Bellatrix Lookouts spotted them 60 miles southeast of Formosa,

Fifteen of the original crew were awept over the side of their 150-foot wooden craft during the typhoon. Tho

survivors

had been drifting for two days.Associated Press.

Mau Mau Law Court' Discovered

In Session

Nairobi, Nov. 17.

A King's African Rifles patrol on Monday surprised a Mau Mau "court of law” in session in the Nyeri dis. trict and arrested all 13 members.

The "judge was Wearing a white cap resembling a wig, and robes of office. He carried a rhinoceros whip.

The court-first

of its kind discovered-recently sentenced at least one man to a flogging

how to make, and explode an-belief appeared to be would include "four-nations-al- | execution-- date-be- set-for-lhe a surprise raid on an

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of information

of

form a

The

2.

Two

to the Assembly,

long heralded Indian The ring prisoners of both sides to Blg

a commutation of

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Her Majesty Queen EU- beth, with her. bussnd the Duke of Edinburgh, stand allently at the Cenotaph in Whitehall during this year's Remembrance Day service. -London Express photo- graph.

Eight Killed In Plane Disaster

Billings, Montana, Nov. 17.

in

A C-119 "flying boxcar" lost an engine flight and crashed and burned near here today, killing eight of the 16 men aboard.

The eight men who survived-at least two of them from England--were in hospital. One of the survivors, "I counted 16 aboard Major Joseph Severance, 33, said: when we took off from Great Falls, Montana, at about noon. I counted seven dead."

chair in among local Province the names of the survivors.

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to handing over the future of asked the court to reconalder but tomorrow

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Churchill Demeaning His Office

-MORRISON

London, Nov. 17.

Mr Herbert Morrison, Deputy leader of the Oppo- sition, accused Prime Minis- ter Winston Churchill to- night of "demeaning" his high office by "playing about with the nation's transport. for purely partisan political purposes."

He was speaking on a govern- ment B to restore the nation- alised road haulage system to private enterprise and decen- trollse the railways.

"We tell him that with great some degree of

less

and

he said. "Neverthe- he ought to be highly

ashamed of himself?

sald that on

Mr Churchill beamed and thanked Mr Morrison for his "courteous réferences."

Mr Morrison Tuesday the Opposition would move an amendment to the Government's motion asking for a second reading agreement in principle-to a bill containing its proposals.

CENSURE MOTION

This amendment will censure the proposals and Mr Churchill will regarti it as a vote of con- fidence.

Mr Morrison said the Govern=" ment was "the tool of the road haulage interests.”

He wanted to know whether these Interests contributed to the Conservative Party funds.

It was a "bad, mischievous and destructive bill," ho saki. "Labour would fight it with all the vigour at its command through all its stages".

Mr Alan Lennox-Boyd, contended Transport Minister, that the Nationalisation Act of 1947 had not led to a solution of the problems of integration of the nation's transport

He said that road, haulage would be more efficient, under free enterprise. The scheme for the railways was that such 1/ things as charges, wages and standardisation of locomotives would be the responsibility of

a central authority, but many matters would be dealt with locally by the various rallway regions Reuter.

CENSORSHIP ON TYPHOON TOLL

1,000

CAN'T COMPROMISE

Washington, Nov. 17. The American spokesman said destructive military weapon that an armistice commission is

The supreme court on for offences against the Mau

Mau. for the in the history of mankind, not an executive agency. In the sembly, Canada's Lester Pearson, Monday refused

Mau Mau Police raided D will make frantic offorts to Indian resolution, the whole to send a dualled ret di

and second time to grant a hear-meeting on a European farm st to the Chinese learn its secret, What her weight is on the umpire, But proporean Reds and to re-ing for Julius and Ethel Timu on Monday and arrested 50

only decide for the umpire can

the Rosenberg, the New York men-the farmer's entire labour successful scientific between the East and West and port on their response to

oma present Assembly session and couple condemned to death force he is not one who can com-

Police said the farmer's head- research cannot be assessed,

He as soon as appropriate. promise with either side.

for passing A-bomb secrets man, with 20 years' service, was She had to rely on informa can only iny down a

THE COMMISSION hard and

the cell's ringleader. tion obtained by spies from fast decision and co nullify the The five-member repatriation to Russia.

A check disclosed there were who reached the wreckage first The refusal clears the way for; A patrol of the King's African traitors in order to learn value of the commission." commission would be constituted

Taipei, Nov. 17... the

опе Arab-Asian sald

of two ways: 1. it the government to ask that an Rifles rounded up 35 Kikuyus in five bodies at one morgue and apparently snuffed out the air- Oath-three at another. Four of the men's flaming clothes--United

bodles were burned-beyond-Press-

...Government officials today. atomic bomb, and while general

taking meeling near Embu. recognition.

TO DE GROUNDED

clamped a tight censorship on officials in Car Tanganyika this knowledge may provide that the whole thing could be ready picked at Pan Mun Jom husband-wife spy team.

the death toll resulting from Thus, only

Washington, Nov. 17. ceasefire 1

and to for a neutral tetiCE SUPER-

A pllot among the survivors Rome useful direction settled get

vision commission Sweden, their death sentence by the El Salaam believe that the au

The Air Force today said its the Typhoon Bess, but unofficial C-110

boxcars would reports indicated over towards the construction of everything will be all right."

"Bying The spokesman said, "Such Switzerland, Poland and Czecha president could save them from Mad movement is losing ground refused to identify any of the And in dead men and refused to give hydrogen weapon, it is

be grounded until Investigations persons may have been killed procedure would be extremely slovakia, These four would try going to the electric

The

of in the disaster. conceivable that Rusalan disadvantageous for the us, cast as "umpire" and if no agree- The couple

"pattern fifth member to serve New York's Sing Sing prison. Tanganyika's pick a

However, three of the eight disclosed asking has been in the growing numbers

It is definitely known that scientists can make no quick - would stop our bombings,

who lived for

were identified as mechanical tallure" among four officers for 19 administrative

WHE umpire can be Sing Sing death house

John Air Force, Navy and ment on the

Downs, progress in developing a off our

"cleansing" ceremonies,

21, of Mount the weeks months. three

and an estimated 10,000 are left Women hydrogen bomb

and their Army, have no observation and reached within

recently children from Pleasant Road, Lewisham, Lant of the huge planes which crash at least 200 persons are killed Asked about Air Force action | homeles in 60 years which the worst Forntosan The supreme court last Oct.

estates who came to

Dudley Mills, 21, of 18A own accord. The belief may still not have a real truce. This after the group's first meeting. reasonably be held that, so sort of proposition makes for a the problem will be handed over 13 refused to review the Rosen-outlyi salaam for refuge after Rockford Road. Prittleweave. in view of the Billings crash, typhoon

berg's trial. Their lawyers then Dar

and England;

the Air Force said it was trying battered the Island last Friday. had received long as there is no leakage really dangerous situation,"

-Unlied Press. to reconsider their husbands

(Contd. on back page, col." 4) members would be asked the court

Dallas, Texas. United station from the proposal provides for transfer- picked up by each side with the and grant thers a hearing. This threatening letters are now re. Sergeant Houstori Dillon, 35, of

Powers Five

home. Police hava Ineligible. request was rejected in a short turning

The plane was en route from found that some of the letters, Russia a long time to learn neutral zones under the super-Those four would follow the court order. the secret of hydrogenic vision of a special five-member same routine in picking the The order noted that Justice were hoaxes. Associated Press. Edmonton, Alberta, to Denver, Colorado, when it apparently Black adhered to the view that umpire.

developed engine trouble. fusion, and that through repatriation commission.

TO BE TRIED the

Rosenbergs and Radar ex- Informed diplomats here said

crash-landed in a pasture America, the free world will The status of any prisoners

Indian peri Mortoa Sobell should have

and Twelve Mile Creek who have not been returned the Russians assured

Nairobi, Nov. 17.. continue do hold such an

Jomo Kenyatta and Ave other Into flames. advantage in the field of home within 90 days after the delegate Krishna Menon, main a high court hearing. Thus, the

African leaders will be charged It was the fourth Air Force atomic weapons as to deter ceasefire would be settled at a author of the Indian scheme, vole on Monday and last Octo

high level political conference that they would not vote against ber 13 was 8-1.

Sobell was convicted with the before a magistrate's court in "flying tocar" to go down in Rússin from attempting provided for in a draft armistice it. It appeared possible, too,

of nine days. Wreckage was strewn tho

Province

with "mana-over a 100-yard square area. further to carry out her agreement drown up at Pan- that the United States would Rosenbergs who got a 30-year abstain in view of its objections sentence in prison. He, too,

in "Assisting

the Several farmers rushed to the and programme of aggression. If munjom. possession of the hydrogen

was denied on management" of the Mau Mau scene and apparently alded in

pulling the living from the fuse bomb can achieve this, and

Indian blueprint was recalcitrant prisoners to a Far that request

terrorist organisation. Monday-Associated Press..

Kenyatta will appear before lago, the airport official reported. even more persuade those designed to bridge the gap East political conference.

The resolution provides that

"HORRIBLE MESS" the magistrate at Kapenguria, who seek to destroy the between the West's 21-nation

inside Just

the Northern He said, "I caw four or five Provinco peace of the world that proposal calling for voluntary once the two sides in the Korean

bortler with Fred youths on the ground and two their designs are doomed to return of all POWs and Russia's war agreed on the repatriation

Kubai, former Chairman of the others in, pretty good shape Nairobi branch of the Kenya standing on the road. It was a catastrophic fallure, and proposal to create a commission scheme, the repatriation com-

that would tend "nestar mission would have power

decide on any problems of inter-

Some of the horrible mesa African Union thus convince them of the to the return of all prisoners.

pretation. A majority decision

All six to appear the most boys could talk coherently, al- necessity of reaching The key to the plan appeared would prevail and in the care of

For

original

revered among many Kikuyu though all were bruised. solution to current inter- to be a providon that a

tribesmen-are to be brought or two appeared to be suffer- members, the umpire would have national problems through East political conference would tie vole among the

future of

from their prison compounds Ing serious burns and their the decking vote. negotiation and concord; if settle

Mr Menon plans to address the narrow entrance to Rotter to Kapenguria early tomorrow cibthing told the airport offi- |

was still smouldering. prisoners who, 90 days after

rate in it can do this, the new and the ceasefire, still refused to be the Main Political Committee dem harbour for several days and will face the magistrate

will be blown

estab cial explain in last week,

or 17" terrible weapon will have repatriated.

on Wednesday to

they believed 14 temporary court house In key clauses on the dis- greater detail the compromise on Tuesday..

lished

In an African school. realised its potentialities

were aboard, but the Great Dutch naval authorities said Inter-position of prisoners, the Indian scheine.

A spokesmon cald tonight Falls Air Force information that depth charges will be that Kenyatta will be charged cer said be pos

a manifest URGENT CONFERENCE

posacssell a Terolution:

through the with managing an

an unlawful which showed

wed seven crowmen Twenty-one sponsors of the plodet to break Western. resolution held an clay bed on which the Faustus society-the Mau Mau.”

and seven passengers" aboard. urgent conference on Monday is now resting.

He will also be charged with "I believe most of them were Tho 6,370-ton ship

the nibded. morning to discuss the Indian

tried to middle-road effort, and named aground when she

Mau, described in the indict-

Wilnessen told airport tho NITOW waterway

engine was ment as being a danger to good it appeared the left elght-nation sub-committed enter

out and the second beginning to meet with the Indians in the wildout a pilot nine days ago,

The steamer was en route to government in the Colony."

All six, are accused of exciting to fall, since the piano was with a cargo of coal.

very rapidly. afternoon.

The aim of this Haison ap-Rotterdam abandoned the vessel disaffection against the govera- losing allude parently was to find how far the sinking Associated ment and formally fomenting The accident apparently occurred

hostility between different about 2,80. p.m. Western sponsors can go

classes of the population is the The plane, taj stopped and whether it can be given

Kolony

Great Falls around noon to re- ward accepting the Indian plan

The spokennan sald Kenyatta, fuel. The scene of the crash priority in voling, which prob-

faced a maximum penalty of was "rough ground", split by ably will not come until late

the wide creek. When the air- this week or early next.

At least four huge US Air 23 years' imprisonment.

The police would ask for a craft strict, both wings were The Indian propotal.ly uctually Force bases will shortly be built composed of two parts. The in Greenland in addition to three formal remand tomorrow until torn off and two engines knock- first part is the main body of already in operation in that November 24. The accused of loose. Witnesses who helped: the resolution which winds up aren, the Danish government would got every facility for murvivors into, ambulances said

·logal assistance. It appeared several 'of " them Pre-reported on Monday-Associated obtaining

Reuter.. calling can the Assembly

suffered broken limbs,' Farmers sident to transalt to. Peking Prens.

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London, Nov. 17.

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Snow and below freezing temperatures which have hit Europe unexpectedly about a month earlier than usual tightened their grip on Europe today. :

found dead in The hardest hit were the Swiss tramps were Alps where snow fel steadily Milan, frozen while sleeping, in for 24 hours, and the Pyrenees, the open.. with more than two feet of snow

Temperatures in Lower Saxony and tamperatures down to 10lell as low as 112 degrees Faren degrees Forenhet,

Fog over the English Channel het, with most roads classed as combines to make Aying and "dangerous" with snow and ice. Most of France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland had below freezing temperature, and either rain or snow-Rister.

shipping hazardous, but plane schedules were normal.

Northern Italy reported heavy enowfalls in all areas; two old

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