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COMMENT OF THE DAY
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No. 35121
"INVASION
Europe HIT REDS
NE of the most illuminat-
ONE
IT
ing aspects of Mr Foster Dulles televised broadcast to
American nation
the
this week was the emphasis he placed on the unification of Western Europe. The American Secretary of State made no attempt to disguise his fears that the quest for political unity among the European members of NATU was in danger of losing Impetus, and he added the warning that if it appeared there was no chance of unity "then certainly it would be necessary to give a little re-thinking to!
America's
foreign policy in relation to Western Europe." Mr Dulles, of course, is not ignorant of changes and developments In Western European affairs during the past three or four years, but ho Con liardly be expected to possess at the moment a full ap- preciation of the complexi- ties attached to the proposed European Defence Com-
OWN
Forecast UN
Offensive
In Korea
Tokyo, Jan. 29.
The Communists gave increasing signs today (Thursday) that they are developing a case of invasion jitters" as they hinted at the possibility of an Allied amphibious landing on the North Korean coast.
Ground fighting has almost ceased and Allied | officers said that the Chinese and North Koreans appeared to be saving their strength for an ex- pected United Nations offensive. Artillery fire
has been far lighter than usual..
Allied Sabre-jota
battled enemy
MIG-15s over
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munity. It is to be trusted north-west Keres for, the 10th straight day yesterday FALLS INTO
that he will not enter on his European tour with pre- judices, or reach hasty con- clusions when he has com- pleted his personal investi- gation.
and damaged one while the battleship Missouri carried the war 160 miles north of the 38th Parallel with a second attack in three days
on the coast city of Songjin.
COMMON
POLICY URGED
SEA
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Peking Radio paid increasing
New Orleans, Jan. 28. attention to the visit to Korcu
Three
of by General J. Lawton Collins,
crewmen United States Army Chief of tanker today saw a rather Staff, and his conferences with large" plane plunge into the General Mark Clark and the Gulf of Mexico at noon and out-going Eighth Army Com- mancier, General James Vau four hours later searchers Fleet. It said that the appoint-found oil ́traces but no ment of Lieut-General Maxwell wreckage.
D. Taylor to take over General
The
Coast Guard at New
Van Fleet's command "cbvious- ly" was connected with plans Oricans and crewmen of the
is not entirely in keeping with the facts to suggest that plans for the creation of 13 European Defence Community are hopelessly stalled. Decisions affecting the political unification, of Western Continental Europe and a real aupra-national authority to speak and decide foreign policy in the name of France, Western Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxem- bourg have still to be mado. But the issues have not been abandoned. And if France | bassador, Sir Percy Spen-its training facilities,
Just before taking over the Presidency of the United States. President-elect Eisen- hower posed with his Cabinet members and advisers. They are front row: Left;
Left to right: Attorney
General Herbert Brownell Jnr: Treasury tary George Humphrey:
Bichard
NIXOD:
President-elect Eisenhower: Sec. of State John Dalles: uclence
Secretary Charles Wilson. Rear: Left to right-
Mra
Joseph Dodge (dance); Ovels Calp Hobby (Federal
Security Chief): Sherman
Adams (White House Co- ordinator); Commerce Secre- tary Sinclair Weeks: Douglas McKay (Interior Secretary): Arthur Bummerfeld (Post- master General): Ezra Benson (Agricultural Secretary); Mar- Durkin (Labour Secre-
Nations Representative); and Mutual Becurity Administrator Harold flammen. London Express)
for a "future amphibious offen-tanker Avondale saw the reshtar); Henry Lodge (United
Need For Agreed":
Objectives
New York, Jan. 28. The Australian Am
today that
the
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at sea. The same ship stecmed
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Lyttelton
miles south of Mobile, Alabama. Gives An
In the meantime, General to the spot and found slick but other evidence of a crash. not Collins completed his visit to
The authorities aald they had the fighting division's head- quarters and moved south to not been able to determine the Inspect rear
the plane, but area headquarters type or size of
witnesses reported it had ap of the South Korean Army and
peared to be "rather large","
The scene
of the in at the moment the princi- der, urged in a speech
reported He will meet General Taylor
crash was some 200 miles south- pal factor against consolida-hero
Tokyo when the new com- tion of the aims behind the English-speaking nations States.
mander arrives from the United cast of New Orleans and 250
agree upon A common
weather ratified the European Army policy in
yesterday The airlines here reported nearly all aircraft, overdue planes and the military Southeast Asia grounded Community Treaty, it is not
but high dying B-29 Superforts authorities in the area said all because she is being wilfully and the Western Pacific.
dropped 110 tons of bombs on her planes were accounted for. obstructive, but because sheThe Ambassador's speech was a--100-acre barracks-area-st
Coast Guard
ordered out prepared for delivery before Kumison,
PBY patrol planca sincerely believes there are
and threo miles south 12
cutters and the PBgrims of the United
-20 army Pyongyang, on fundamental
Tuesday night weaknesses
States at a luncheon here.
lifeboats and and B-20 light bombers blew equipped with about the treaty. One of her
Sir Percy acknowledged that up 36 enemy trucks -in
other raid
rescue
equipment took most effective criticisms is
off substantial degree of basic into North Korea.
from Maxwell Base in Alabama.---United Press.
EDC since she has not yet
a
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of
an
no
Assurance
an
Cabinet
Why Troops Would Not Fight
Lack Of Food And Too Much Duty
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San Juan, Jan. 28. The Puerto Rican soldiers who were court-martialled for refusing to fight in
Elizabeth: Only Slight Damage
Southampton, Jan. '28. ·
Fire broke out aboard the giant liner Queen Elizabeth in the dry dock here last night, but the damage was confined mostly to a single cabin,
The fire started in a top deck stateroom and was brought under control in less than an hour by fire-fighting forces, alerted to provent: a disaster like that which destroyed the liner Empress of Canada in Liverpool on Sunday.
A Southampton Fire Brigade spokesman said "one cabin was severely damaged" in the blaze.
Several fire brigaties rushed
to combat the blaze aboard the
glant Cunard
liner, alert
enfor BIG
any such emergericy, Senior police officers from Southamp- ton boarded the Queen Eliza-
TEST
beth while the Are still raged, TASK FOR
searching for the cause of what
could have been
a major
disaster to British shipping.
the
The investigation recalled the S. AFRICA
search for signs of sabotage in connection with the burning of 20,325-ton Empress of Canada, whose wreckage was sull smoking in Liverpool har bour today.
Adelaide, Jan, 20, Australia declared their second innings closed at 233 for three wickets shortly after 1 There was no official statement pm. (Adelaide time) today - immediately as to the cause of the fifth and Inst day of the the fire aboard the Elizabeth. Fourth Test match to leave The fire broke out shortly the South Africans 358 minutes before te Elizabeth's sister in which to score 377 for vic- ship, the Queen
Mary, tory. arrived in Southampton, bring- ing the Prime Minister, Mr At the luncheon interval Winston Churchill, home frem South Afrien were 29 without his visit to the United States and loss, with McGlew 10 not out, holiday in Jamaica.
and Walte 10 not out.
The Elizabeth was launched in 1940 end made history as a troop transport that chutilext cross the Atlantic with an entire division of 20,000 men at a time. After the war she was restored as a luxury vesset for the North Atlantic route-United Press.
Koren were bitter over lack Mill Workers
of food and ammunition and Tong front-line duty, one of their colleagues said in a letter home.
The letter was written by a private First Class from Chor- won on October 30, shortly after tho assault of Puerto Rican troops on a Korean hill. The private is a member of the Puerto Rican: 60th Infantry Regiment.
men
Ninety-three enlisted and one officer of the regiment have been court-martialled for
A
Gassed
Tho highlight of this morn- ing's cricket was Neil Harvey's aggressive innings, which finally realised 110 runs. He was caught by Endean of Watkins in attempting big hit.
McGlew ant Waite took no chances during this morning's play, although the former was nearly run out in the pécond last over before' lunch,,""
South Africa still face the difficult task of getting 348 rung in about four and a quar Lewiston, Idaho, Jan. 28. ter hours to win--and even up
green wave of escaping the Series. chlorine gas engulfed workers
Score-board: at a Lewiston pulp and paper mili today and sent 31 of them Australia-ist innings to a hospital, some in criilea) | South Africa-Ist innings condition.
Australia-2nd innings
530 387
4110
18
A physician indicated that. some might not survive. They A. Morris, c. Endean-b
Melle suffered chest burns from the C. McDonald b. Mansel searing gas, wed in bleaching Nell Harvey, c. Endea pulp.
Watkins caustic plant of the mill I
The gas rolled through the escaped from the building in billowing
after employee torch accidentally cut through acetylene chlorine pipe.
Wavey with ар
nut
Charles Epiing, the company's safety director
sald men work- ing in the area were unaware of what had happened and went coughing
cowardice, desertion-and-dis- obedience on, the Western London, Jan. 28.
Korean front. The Colonial Secretary,
The private, who was not one Mr Oliver Lyttelton, gave of those court-martiailed, wrote assurance today that that during the battle for Kelly that a country's sovereign unity existed Among the The only ground action re-
there would be "no unrea Hill a total of 300 Korean control over its armed forces | English-speaking nations, but ported,
except for routine
sonable Interference” from soldiers laid down their arms. cannot be allenated except he added: In the Pacific we patrols, came at the eastern end
He said only three men of his to properly constituted have, in relation to a number of the line
London in dealing with the Company survived lu number of the Hores attack against Concessions For Mau Mau anti-white terror- result and only 12 men of Com through the
when 100-man common political authority of important Issues, with power to control the hive comparable solidarity. a small outpost was thrown presing need today back. Allied gunners killed an common armed forces. And
* common
75 Anglo-American estimated North Koreans such a body does mot yet polley in relation to Southeast who tried to capture a 25-yard exist,
the Western Pacific, wide Allied Asia and
sector under the cover of a heavy snow-fall. — THERE it, moreover, the Particularly Communist Chine.
United Press.
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that
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is
ost
Bomb Explodes in Post Office
Tunis, Jan. 28.
The bomb had been planted behind the cashier's counter, France-Presse,
Without such A policy, we vitally important questionare at constant disadvantage of West Germany's partici- | vis-a-vis the Kremlle, which pation in the European thinks globally, plans
globally Defence Community. It has and, what is more, acts globally,
"Nowhere Is this more sp been contended logically, Germany's return Parent today than in Asia tad the Pacife. This need for to full equality must come agreed objectives of Anglo- A bomb exploded in a local one day. Even in the American policy over China and post office here tonight, causing defence community Ger- agreed means of reaching those serious damage but no casual- mans would tuke an objectives emphasises how we tics. important part in the work are too prone to take for granted. of NATO and of General the unity of the English Ridgway's headquarters; speaking propies."-United Press. but they would be under restrictions also recepted by France, Italy and their smaller neighboura, Tho basic conception of EDC was that Dr Adenauer could give op hia country's Bovereignty in defence if Germany's neighbours would do the same.. The danger appears to be that this Idea of communi sacrifice is being forgotten. Undoubtedly the movement
|
Clergy Soughtism in Kenya,
Democratic
He was referring to criticism Washington, Jan. 28. by Europeans in Kenya of
Representative "Colonial "Offee control." Victor Wickersham of Oklahoma asicod the House Commerce Committee today to approve his bill to let airlines give "Ministers of religion" reduced rates or free
ridhere is no other group that contributes more to the good of the country," Mr Wickersham testifled.
He said that the average pay. of Ministers was only $2,000 a
yoor.
I would leave it up to airlines to grant reduced rates or free rides-United Press,
Malcolm MacDonald Affirms War
Is Being Won In Malaya
Singapore, Jan. 28.
Mr Malcolm MacDonald, British Commissioner-General in Southeast Asia, declared tonight that there was no doubt that the British were winning the anti-Communist war in Malaya.
He paid
pany ""
Holo,-not-out Benaud, not out
Extras
Total for 3 wkis. declared 233
3/200.
Fall of wickets-1/42, 2/199,
Mansell took one wicket for 40, Melle 1/50, Watkins 1/58,. and Tayfield 0 for 65.
South Africa 2nd Innings violently, their lungs burning. D. J. McGlew, not out
They stumbled into the H. B. Walte, not out..... VALLEY OF DEATH corridors in haggard, coughing Ho added that
groups, the stronger ones help- threeing only weeks later
the the regiment was Press. again sent to the front line to the Valley of Death, as we call there'',
Не
wrote that during the seven-day
Puerto fight, the ston
soldiers had almost nothing to eat for five days.
Mr Michael Blundell, leader of the elected European mem bers of the Kenya Legislature, sald in Kenya last week he did not believe that the Colonial offer system was suitable for Kenya's problems. He thought more local Britons should take part in the Kenya Government. "We ate when the Korean
Mr Lyttelton who was mak-managed to bring some ration Cana We received almost no ing a report to the House of ammunition There was no gas0» Commons said he knew there line for some of our vehicles. was
some criticism by Euro All the vehicles are old as they peans In Kenya of control by arrived with the the British Government in 1950, Many things are lacking." regiment in London,
The soldier also wrote that Lieutenant Juan Guzmen, 'inge ciflcer court - martialbed,
That was
understandable, he said, for the Europeans there were under a great strain.
NO ILLUSION
Wes
loved by the troops". He added that for Puerto Ricans there was no 'rotation.
Mr Lyttelton said that as the
"There are pomo men here with British Government and Parlia- 11 or 12 months of service and ment had the ultimate responst-they go on fighting. When ro bility; they must retain ultimate inforcements come from Puerto, control.
Rico,
they are assigned to other But be was under no illusion." He said the 65th that an emergency of this kind
was relieved because the could be handled in detail by troops no longer, roodised their He said: "I can assure the contact with the enemy--United House that there has been and Press will be no unreasonablo Inter forence from London and no avoidable delay in dealing with
consultation may prove to be Extending his savey to necessary t
someont 7,000 miles away. objectives and failed to make
Speaking at a meeting of in-ho said, "we must satisfy the Chinese ond other Malayan for integrating Western dependence of Malaya party in economic, political and other leaders alting together on the
tho cannot advance Kuala Lumpur, he sald, "There aspirations of Europe
Malayan Malayan Executive Council and is no doubt whatsoever that people". He went on to outline sold that "they are the fore until the problem of joint there is immense improvement the principal aims, including
of ministers drawn runners control over defence has | In the bitter shooting war racial unity and economie from all major communities been solved. It is a decision against the Communists.
Sevelopment of Malaya. If who will, one day, it as
INVITATION. TO not easily to bo reached,
a high tribute to Malaya attained self-government, colleagues in a cabinet of a those matters of polley on which but Mr Dulles is right in General Sir Gerald Templor, would choose to remain on the
Me MacDonald hoped that it self-governing Malaya."
VISIT CAIRO claiming that the United Commander-in-Chief of the
side of the British Common-Southeast Asda, Mr. MacDonald Law-abiding Europeans, States, as the main source Malayan Forces in the following wealth.
sodd that the restoration of law Africans and Asians were living
Cairo, Jan. 28, - of European aid, is entitled words, "His dynamic, resource
Premier Nagulb has invited Paying a further tribute to end ordt was "not just a prime in peril, The British Gove Italian Defence
Minister to know whether the fullest ful, and brilliant leadership is
"true
necessity... Inside.; Maisya: itment would support them "in' a most potent factor in making General Templer as a efforts are being made to victory in the shooting war statorman sincerely, devoted to could also make great contribu- all the measures needed to end landolfo Eraclard to pay a resolve this particular prob certainty.
the cause of promoting Malayan en toward peace and pro- terrorism the campaign of visit to Cairo, it was officially Jem. Without.
and mutliation to announced by the Exypilan theso
self-government, Bar MacDonald gross in the rest of Southeast murder So we can look forward to a
restore peace and to open, the Foreign Ministry, tonight assurances American falth progressive reduction of ter-sald," "General Templer stands Asia.
fair and
He declared, w square to meet the,
"What:
The announcement said that happened road to orderly progress, in West Europe's ability to roriam la Malaya."
Mr. MacDonald warned that | problema”.
In Malaya could influence for Mir: Lyttelton saidh ; that' in Egypt - was following, with assume proper responsibili
Brushing aside doubts about good or fit the events in Indio four major operations by the admiÍCON therocopatruction tiles in the North Atlantic militarily defeated, the Com-
munists would go underground, the progress of Malaya's poll- China, Burma, Slam ant Indo- polica and military last week and oceaomie recovery
task Treaty Organisation- Ia To eliminate, ́all chances of içal aims, Air MacDonald cited nosin, becazon Malay the 350 members of the Mou; Mau achieved
Italy ----Franço bound to be undermined, a Communium reasserting itself, the example: of, the Malay-huurt of Asia,"-Franco-Premò,
were detained---Reuter,
Presso.
wenker-Associated
America
Africas
10
10
Total for no wicket ....
20
-Reuter.
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