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COMMENT OF THE DAY

Radio Fare

THE recent "Down Memory Lane contretemps, now happily settled, has re- emphasised that not a fow Hateners to Radio Hong- kong have A very definite interest in, and personal viewpoint about, the quality and type of programmes which the station broadcasts. Two points of importance have been raised by newa- paper correspondents: the Arst relates to a Broadenal- ing Advisory Committee; the second to listener re- search. Both subjects, we Imagine, ure commanding the attention of the appro- priate authorities, but they! bear examination. While the value of an advisory com- mittee is entitled to full appreciation, it must not be overestimated, for its func- tions, of necessity, limited. Such a committee, for example, cannot expect. to interfere with or in- fluence administrative policy, but it in intended to be in effective liaison between the listening public and radio station executives; to be able with fair accuracy to interpret popular desires re- garding programmes. We suggest that the most ad- vantageous service would bo obtained from a committee whose members have wide and generous tastes in radio entertainment.

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US FLEET MAY BE WITHDRAWN Sabbath

FROM FORMOSA Superfortress Bomber 2 Kremlin

Would Permit

Raids

On The Mainland

EISENHOWER

SAID TO BE

CONSIDERING MOVE

Washington, Jan. 30.

President Dwight Eisenhower is considering the with- drawal of the United States Seventh Fleet from Formosa in move that would free the Chinese Nationalist troops for hit and run raids on the Chinese Communist coast, informed sources said today.

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The President may discuss the action in his State of Union message to Congress on Monday or simply announce that the fleet has already been withdrawn.

Such a step has long been urged by some members of Congress, in- cluding the Senate Republican leader. Sen. Robert Taft. This might be the first move by President Eisenhower to carry out his "deeds not words” plan for waging the Korean war and the worldwide fight against Commu- nism.

Former

.

President Truman The announced on June 27, 1950, just ignored ly presents its own pecu- two days after the culbreak of liar problems. Masa opinion the Korean war, that he was

The

Island Wiped Out By

administration Truman

General MacArthur's proporst and was strongly, rupe ported by most of the United is not easy to obtain, parti- ordering the Seventh Fleet in the States alles, including Britain,

British feared that cularly when it is constant-Formosan

to prevent

Chiang might on Generaliadmo Communist attack ly being canvassed. More any

Kai-shek's touch off a World War III if Chiang over there is always the list "forces there. He also left to himself. danger of listeners over-10

Indication was no emphasising their tastes for Generalissime Chlang ceased all whether members of the United a particular type of pro-air and san" operations against Nations have jet been consulted

about the proposal. gramme, noticeably instru- the China mainland. montal, Listener research

Nationalist ordered

the fleet to see that

The Secretary of State, Mr

kind.

the

com-

There

י

Test Tube

Philadelphia, · Jan. 30.

Senator "Jurcy

Republican

Crashes: Four Killed

Savannah, Jan. 80.

A B-50 Superfortress bomber crashed and caught fire at Hunter Air Force base here today killing four of the crew and injuring the other three.,

The bomber crashed from a few hundred feet after starting off.

It was the third serious accident in a few weeks' at the base.

One of the injured airmen was stated to be in a critical condition-Reuter. ·

T-Bone Hill Attack

Was Tactical

Disciples Criticised

E. Germany Purge Foreshadowed

Berlin, Jan. 30. The Communist purge in East Germany rumbled close to two top disciples of Moscow today.

1.K

Reform Bill Defeated In Commons

London, Jan, 30, ·

A bid to abolish an anciant.. law which restricts theatres and sports on Sundays failed in the House of Commons

today.

Parliamentarians defeated a private member's bill-on which there was a free, non-party vite

by 281 votes to 57.

door

Then they bangod the more tightly still on prospects

of Sunday freedom by throwing The Red Politburo published out a proposal that a comunist sharp crilleism of Grete Kuck- alori should "recommență hoff, President of the Soviet changes in the law. Zone's Banking system, and This they rejected by 172 to Mischa Wolf, young and ardent 164 votes Communist who has been acting Many of the laws have been

"trouble

shooter" for the davoked in modern times to pre- East Zone's distressed strel vent a brighter Sunday, Industry,

Labour, Mr John Parker, The attack in the party news-sought to legnilse on Sundays Nueues Deutschland was the playing of all gomes and the paper based

of all pors per- an admittedly shoddy carrying on performance in the Bergmann-mited on weekdays. Borsig works, which producea Presenting his bill, M: Parker generators, bollers and other said it was aimed at curbing the machines for the zone's net activities at the Lord's Obser- work.

vance Society, which tried to get Wolf was

nasalled for not

eld laws enfortes.

on

Says Gen. Van Fleet

Washington, Jań, 30, General James Van Fleet, retiring Commander of the Eighth Army, advised Congress today that Sunday's ill-fated United Nations attack on T-Bone Hill in Korea was ordered for tactical reasons and not as "a demonstration for spectator benefit."

General Van Fleet said that the objective of the abortive assault was to capture prisoners but that it failed in its purpose.

1

OF

"COMPLETE MESS” acting on a demand for an in-

"We, who support this bill. quiry into the plant's failure to

Dro against

kind reach more than half its output dictatorship by a minority of

any quota in 1852.

said: the majority" Mrs Kuckhoff was ordered to

The Society, Mr Parker add- explain why the bank gave thee. had gone to great, expense plant ari unusual · amount credit.

PUNISHMENT

Of

and had takon legal advice to And some way of preventing television on Sundays.

Speaking of the "complete mess" of the present laws, Mr he Parker said If Shakespeare was

It

Wolf was "reprimanded" and "an administrative fine" was im- The General's report on the forth

in the

Other details of communication posed. incident which had been (from General Van Fleet) but punishment, were not given, criticised in the House as are not discussed in detail in The Central Committee's open recited in publie on Sunday, possibly staged: show for in- this joint statement other than denunciation was touched in was all right. But if a gesture was used it was acting and vited guests-was relayed to to say that the failure of the such a way as to pertain to Wolf illegal. Washington and shown to attack was brought, about and Mrs Kuckhoff as members Chairmen Leverett Saltonstall through operational and Dewey Short of the Senate which

House

And

.

are not unusual

fallures

Armed Services which are

slood

and

tie

Party

The bill came

in for some

by math of Noel

fest :step://segrative, who yesterday brought

sued or joint statement close combat" watch quoted General Van Fleet's report in part.

General Van Fleet said: "This action was in no way designed 1

use of

A prepared stofcaient lesvest in some one out of space in stresses of modern day for

regard

cilitate the task of the inconceived and carefully Army. His father, Friedrich, I said the welfare state demanded

rod by

to

rather than as criticism. Mr Cyril Black, Con is usually

protest to the petition at when the Party 1 House from half a million way for throwing people, sald the strains and paving the

life reinforced said that although the the government in centrols from the ne

the need to set aside one "failed of perfection top to bottomed both rost, meditation and worship,

Western There was also nothing to

Viscountess Davidson, Con- Indicate that President Elsen- Duff said tonight that the ex- na a demonstration for spectator Communist positions and left 13 Mrs Kuckhoff and Welf as top can be extremely helpful to John Foster Dulles, and eight hower intends to carry out Gen. plesion of a "single tubo wiped tenens but was intended to be Communists md; another. 25 rung followers of the Kremlin, servetive, ald Jr the bill were a radio station, but we are members of Congress were said MacArthur's proposal to bomb out a little island in the Pacino a sound tactical operation for estimated killed and three

Both spent years in the Soviet passed the "spiritual life and convinced that if Radio to have discussed the possibility Chinese Communist bases in inst November 1..

the capture of prisoners. It was counted wounded,

Union. Wolf holds Soviet citiBoul of the nation would be

defeated." felt that a co-ordinated

Red Seventh

zenship and rank, in the this of withdrawing

statement added: "It was tensh Hongkong resurts to

Manchuria

Mr George Thomas, Labour, und blockade tha "This now explosive medium for discovering Fleet at a meeting at the State China coast.

1,000 times stronger than the air, artillery and armour would TRUMAN'S WARNING pro- Department on Thursday. The

Latom bombs which destroyed popular reactions to

combat operation differ was Esot German, Ambassador that the man in the street should

psk Truman two of the great cities of Former Presiden!

All the plans were aping from many similar actions in to Warsaw in 1949 and 1950,

not "How can I inve?" grammes, it should studious- Department declined to

the Commanding

Mrs Kuckhoff studied anence "How can I bo amused?" said in Independence, Missouri, Japan," Mr Duit told a testi-

got his ly avoid seeking views of ment on Friday.

To create this spirit in the nIR- The Press Secretary, whether more people prefer

Mr today that the United States monial dinner, the strength General of the First Corps. The the bitter Korean confilet only

The dion they must preserve and sald there should not

consider bombing of this explosion is tantamount execution of the operation was by its lack of compitte success. in Moscow and Wolf jazz to the classics, or light James Hagerty,

has been crucised in detail by is grossly unfair to every man Russians personally selected him cherish our Sunday rather than

bring opera to musical comedies, would be no comment of any Manchurian bases unless it is to 20,000,000 tons of ordinary not considered satisfactory and To describe as anything else engineering degree there.

soma, order wantonly throw it overboard."- rendy to commit 5,000,000

the Corps Commander with divi- who has fought, suffered or died last year or talks to plays. Opiniona

ground troops to the Far Eastern explosives such as TNT

Mr Duff did not name the ex- Admiral war,

in many tables, large and small, out of the chaos that accom-Reuter. alon commander," The Navy what should be sought on

plosive specifically As the

REPOST DEMANDED which have stopped Communist panied the East, Zone's effort to While oficials

the Clare hydrogen bomb but he said that

Representative

Hoft-aggression in Korea." the station itself regards as Arthur Radford, Pacific Fleet

"United etablish steel plants on Commander, will arrive here to comment, diplomatic sources

expanded

Oder River and at Calbe, near its high-spot programmes, discuss “Navy malters" with said the Elsenhower administraits power could be

man, Republicans, Michigan, had Press.

the Elbe-Associated Press. Independent of their type: Admiral William Fechleler ton might

report on the in- have two possible terrifically if made into larger demanded

cident, and where any one

of Operations,

making, among other and ends in view in withdrawing the bomba,

The date of the explosion things, whether the ill-fated as- It could move in a gramme la found to have no "other Navy Department of geet: 1.

that of the sault was ordered for military IL refused further

The corresponded to paychological popular following, it should

detalls.

reasons or as a show for news- Fleet would be removed recent bydrogen bomb tests in Seventh

the Pacific. be scrapped and replaced by

One of the major Kozo:n war but President Chiang would be

and high officers De permen "If this explosive were put in who, he said, were something that

invited to A recommendatioar

General told secretly to be extremely by

cobalt shell and exploded it be present. Moreover, Douglas MacArthur, deposed Far careful in any military

opera-a general appeal.

was that tions against the coast. His would kill every living thing Infantry soldiers altacked the closest attention should Eastern Commander,

"take the troops will be an over present: within thousands of miles," Mr after heavy air and artillery be paid to listener reaction the Unked States

Com-Duff said, "No nation has ever barrago Chinezo to any new programme, In wraps off the Nationalist troopy threat to

respon had the privilege or munists. this way Radio Hongkongarrisoned on Formose.

be realbility we have in America."~ | 2. The fleet would moved that President Chiang United Press. was left strictly on his own. Не would be told that no United States planer or ships would be given him and that any action agalost the coast

has

pro- Chiel

sald

Con. MacArthur also favoured can satisfactorily weed out giving the Nationalists American

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the

war.

refused to

Great Fog

2,484

would not involve the United

no matter Killed

States in any way

how they came out.

The

In any case, plan would force the Chinese Communists

from

to divert manpower Korea

..

More

dos

Britain And.

European Army

London, Jan, 30.

to

against entrenched enemy troops on Liule. Spud Hill, part of the T-Bone area. Enemy troops rose unscathed Britain has completed pro- from their trenches, however, posals for closer, military as and drove off the attack withsociation with the projected a heavy cross-fire.

| European Army

and is Mr. Short and Mr Saltonstall submit them next week to the sidd that they had seen a secret Governments of France, West dispatch" on the incident from | Germany, Italy and the Benelux General Van Fleet to General countries, It

was learned, from Mark Clark, the Far Eastern official sources today. Commander, which had been

The proposals are for cluser relayed in full to General John co-operation of Britisn forces London, Jan. 30. The London County Counell Hud, Vice-Chief of the Staff of with those of the European

announced that 2,484 the Ar

Army here,"

planning, Army in

training, since they could not today

They said that the so-called equipment and leave their defences unmanned people died during the great

on operational with President Chiang free to fog which blanketed the city "Operation Smack" was carried levels.

for a week before Christmas out by a relatively small force strike from Formosa

Betish proposals for political authorities consisting of two companies oftion with the European been increasing and

local There have

the Eisenhower said they had delays of up to Infantry supported by a Indications that

will bo Defence Cerriunity istration

to 10 days in burying people. tachment of medium tanks and is moving Far Eastern policies. The rise in the sormal week with artillery and close alterately later next

the fog support They said that the said on his ly death rate during

Batain refuse to föln either trip to Korea was as great as that of a great attack was planned and scho-political or military organisations that he intended to train more cholera epidemic in 1860.

com» (of Europorn unity, - "as one which was ·The proposals ure to awali tho South Korean troops and iron

at Its atmosphere out supply problems. In this struments

station, registered

said that United Nations : whether the-European Defence connection, chairman Alexander observation

(Republican, Wisconsin) the highest smoke and sulphur losses comprised three dead, Community Treaty is to be mati- af the Senate Foreign Relations dioride polition in the records, wounded, 2 of whom, required Aed in its present, form, or with ald stations major amendments. The fozin ot Committee told the Senate to which date back to 1932,

the political association, will be Deaths registered in London day he "wouldn't be surprised

Ajoint

oint statement said: "It. have in our laps, an equivalent ending December 8 to 2,484. for to be deeply regretted that our lors, officials said, United

during of the NATO for the Far East" the following week, when the forces suffered loses

Bahis operation. We are deeply Ho indicated that there may be fog was at its height.

The general death rate during

mmtifedh

however, broad security

to discover plane for a

alightly the fog week was alliance beyond the scope of the present agreements between greater than that associated that original reports the United States and iis: Allies with a severe fog In 1873, I lisade nem to be very

President

dafed- · by the Division -

Mamonth.

The Counell reported that for tactical reasons." French and Gertnar decisions on

ovacuation to

It before many months we may TORO from 945 for the weekret klona`was missing it achou tel deterynipod- by :much

in the For East-United Press, compared with the dark periods | MEREK

Now Trial Refused

New York, Jan. 80,"

CLARIFICATION

Prem.

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modifica-

Hospital Break

Attempted

ABBingtoore, Jan 307 hehad One thouindi potten handlend

gof, the worso, opidemics; which Marko Gale Lazici Vifty-guchi Inmates: of: G# ]

Have roped in Britain during and Central

the lust century, cras

The fog madly killed babies los, Army Chief of Staff who sirupore Womtydge Mavat and elderly people sanering turn from Kore on fatur Hospita tried to break out of from branchial linesare the day to appear before the House their locked cells: wis morning Tres Comm Hico in an open rosalosi at a striking Betendenta played London County Council art on Tuesday to give pa pong andyrored to ex ported.--Reuter.

Martins Polaritying details of their petty club house, H

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interpont - also when the cooka Called to pro

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The New York Court of Ap peal today refileed to try the former State Department official, Alger Hiss, now, serving a five-]” (The < Fint, División. year sentence for handing becret match fixed for this afternoon The documents to Boviet aples, Him at Bookpdo betweed the hind einirsed that later evidence Indian Recreation, Clubs, and: the would clear: bim of the charges, Club de Recreio has been porte. sad poned on account of the weather.

Strike Avoided.

Ottawa, Jan. 30; Railway and. Union leaders have agreed to a 12 per cent wog

for 10,000 Canadian

increase

trainemen and the Union called a railway strike call which would have paralysed the nation's transportation system in the dead of winter.

The walkout had been called for Monday-Associated Preser

ing

SPY VERDICTS POSTPONED

Bonn, Jan. 30. A court trying Anna Maria Knuth, ex-actress, who is suffer- 'from cancer, and throa Hamburg police officers on spy- ing charges, today postponed the verdict and sentences until tomorrow.

Tha four aro charged with

for the Polish In espionage telligence service, in Germany's Arst post-war trial-Reuter.

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