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Secret Treaty Proposal

Senator Wants Full Inquiry Mado

Washington, Feb. 8.

Republican Senator Homer Ferguson today pro-

THE CHINA MAIL MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1958.

UN Increases Korea Force: Peking Boast

Tokyo, Feb. 9.

United Nations and North Korean leaders posed a full-scale inquiry made almost simultaneous announcements of in-. into all outstanding agree-creases in fighting strength yesterday-but the ments with other nations Chinese Communists continued to carry the North of "secret understandings" | Koreans' share of battle duties.

before a formal repudiation

which went against Ameri- can interesta

Mr Ferguren rald he would osk that the investigation made by the Senate Foreig

The Allied Commander, Gen, Mark Clark, re- vealed that the Eighth Army head, General James A. Van Fleet, has been authorised to make a two- division increase in the Republic of Korea Army,

Relations Committee, of which bringing-the total ROK divisions to 14.

he is a member, when it took up the foreign polley recommenda- tions in President Elenhower's State of the Union message.

declared Senator Ferguson that before action was taken, the Committee should make a study of the agreements at Yalta, Teheran, Quebec, Potsdan und elsewhere.

Red

Sabre Jets swept MIG Alley near the Manchurian borist.

Four Sabres clashed with on equal number of MIGs but no

made June, claims were

by United States pilots,

Premier Klm Il-sung of ten north of the Communist

countered Gen. ↑ front, the Air Force said. North Korea Chark's announcement by bunst- ing in a Peking radio broadcast í that his army now three times stronger than when I in-

Korea in vaded South 1050,

Kim's boast of stronger

DUMP POUNDED North Korean army was hol

Air Force and Marine fighter- however, "We should know every secret verified,

in fighting bombers pounded a Red supply understanding that was inade at reports coming from the 155-1-up beyond the western all these places wit inake u mile front. Three Communist

end of the front and another that probes

several and

patrol forinal repudiation of all

group hit build-up area north made in fight endanger the security of this contacts were

of Kumwa on the central front. country and its ailles," he added, fighting on Sunday with the

Associated Press correspondent of the Wiley, majority Senator Akxander

effort John Randolph wrote that Red Chairman of the Foreign Relaundered by the Chinese.

observers must have seen the six tions Committee, told the New | While ROK troops currently light planes of Generals Van Vark Chapter of the American pold nearly two-thirds of the Fleat and Taylor's convey as they Institute of Banking last night Allied line, the North Korean inspected the Triangle Hill and Chat "our own Government was forces are defending only Sniper Ridge sector. Incredibly naive" on failing long shull portion of the Red line on * since to "repudiate the intimous) the estera front. The three sell-outs of Yalla and the other probing attacks were repulsed. secret agreements,"

The largest battle came west He Gald these "sell-outs" of the crest of Heartbreak Ridge, enabled the Communists to where 35 Reds tried for 30 tighten an fron vice "around the minutes to break through Allied

Other probes were repulsed neek of our friends in central defences on an advance position. southwest of Kumsong on Europe Uke the herole people of

Nations

fighter-central front and west of Yon Poland."Neuter.

front- France-Presse quotes Senator bombon, meanwhile, swarmed chon on the weston Ferguson us raying that the reover Red front positions and Associated Pres.

roar-are installations destroy- consideration of the treaties should wit

bu classifed and alment or damaging one bridge, 28 strictly within the framework buildings, 19 personnel shelters, 13 un positions and two rail tunnels.

In the ground war the Reds threw one probing force of 35 men of the crest of Heartbreak Ridge on the stern front but were driven back in a 30-minule skinah.

the

KIM PROMOTED.

London, Feb. 8. The North Korean People's Assembly has conferred the rank of Marshal or Kim Il Sung,

and Premier

Army Supreme Commander

Korea, of North according to a Communist New

News Agency received here today. The agency' caid commended for his distinguished service in

anti-Japanese struggle for liberation and his brilliant successes against "the armed aggression of American and British imperialists.”"

umiemotional law.

recalled He

tac repeated

Allied observers doubted that assertions by ex-President Tru-

the North

Korcan forces, hit man that the Soviet Union has hard by Arepower early in the always considered ir obliga- tions towards the United States War, have been increased three-

China fold. At the time of invasion, scraps of paper.

the Reds were believed to have the agreements numbered about 200,000 which that they had made publicly, would bring their current forces, according to Kim, to about 600,- the United

000.-United Press,

as so many

Ife added that if the Soviet did

not

stick to

States need

secret

hesitate in rejecting agreemanta which tite Soviet Union has used as a slob to koop the cold war on lce."

700 Couples In

AIR FORCE STRIKES

الة

Seoul. Feb, 0,

struck Allied war planey Communist front line positions; all across the Korean front lo- day while General James Van Fleet and

General Maxwell within artillery

Mass Marriage Taylor, flew

New Delhi, Feb. 8.

Seven hundred boys and girls were married in Bikancer Slate.

range of the Reds.

Successor,

Three small Red probes be- for

dawa were repulsed by

200 miles from New Delhi, in one Allied Infantrymen as the out-

of the biggest mass marriages in the State's history,

going and Incoming comman dets of the Eighth Army hedge-

Some 80 per cent of the coupleshopped along the front for the ranged in age from four to 14 scoond day in light planes. years. They were members of `n sect which traditionally conducts MMB29 #matrimonial ceremonies every four years.

Those who missed the ceremony will now have to wait until 1957. -United Press.

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27

Int

Quier Alle alt on a Red rail lighter-bombers scored direct il bridge and skipped bombs the mouths of two tail tunnels, cut rails, cratered road, and explosives dumped tons of high

the

message

Kim was

Chol Yong Kun, North Korean Minister of Defence, was made a Vice-Marshal.

The awards were made yes- Aerday, Eve of North Korea's Army Day.-Reuter.

Prohibition Suggested For Persia

Teheran, Feb. 8.

The Persian Majlis (Lower on troops and supply concentra-House) today unanimously passed

A British Crossword

3 Forcible:

0 Burden,

ACROSS

9 Suspend sentence,

11 Exalted.

13 Pilc

15 Dreadful.

18 Handing over,

19 Marshy tracts.

21 Giving

25 Servant.

20 Basin.

27 Forlorn

18

Puzzle

15

117

22

24

1 Adhesive.

2 Repule,

DOWN

4 Come together.

Dimcult.

The.

Fleet.

10 Canger.

12 Vazzal.

14 Protective garment.

10 Criminal.

17 Smoke.

10 Discharged.

20 Memoranda.

21 Fact

Tidy. 22 23 Figure. Clame. SATURDAY'S CROSSWORD—Acrom: 1 Critic, 4 Press, 7 Evidence, & Curet, 9 Swerve, 11 Resplie, 13 Talents, 10 Phlegm, 18, Forum, 19 Bouquets, 20 Ensue, 21 Ensign, Down! 1CHES, Tudor, 8 Convert, Proels, 6 Exercise, 6.Sludge 10 larges, 13 Espouse, 13 Toffee, 14 Nimble.. 10 Loute 17

the third reading of a bill seek-

In

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A Guest Of Berlin Reds'

The Press

Page

New Effort STAR

Me Ole Bjoin Kraft (right), the Danish Foreign Minister, who is also Chairman of

the N.AT.O. Council, is guest of honour at a Foreign Press Association luncheon in London.

--Express Photo.

B.M.H. IN SEOUL IS A JOINT

EMPIRE

EFFORT

Seoul, Feb. 9.

Doctors and nurses from Canada, Britain and Australia are working together in Seoul to care for wounded and sick British Commonwealth soldiers at the British Military Hospital here.

The hospital, at one time a school, is now run as a joint Commonwealth effort.

Alleged Scandal

At U.S.

Air Base

McChord Air Force Base,

Fob. 8.

Απ Air Force enlisted man hng been arrested and an in- vestigation is under way into charges that equipment WSB stolen from wounded Canadian veterans

lis patients

are troops who will probably be fit enough to return to duty within a month The hospital also handles more erious cuses, holding them in a speelal ward for evacuation by Royal Austrailan

To

Halt

Exodus

BARRICADES ERECTED

Berlin, Feb. 8. The East German Cóm- munist. purge, forcing EL mass flight of refugees to tho West, showed Rome signs of boomeranging to- day.

1. A new effort of the East German Communist regime to put a halt to the exodus, which West Berlin Mayor Ernst Reu-

ter calls a "colossal peacetime

troked $

2. Twenty-four border police

have been arrested for helping

Soviet zono residents escape.

3. Workmen have started

58135.

TO-DAY ONLY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30

9:30 P.M.

THE LIES ICE

WESTER.....

THE

RIZEIT TOUCHI

GRANGER-ANGELI

- SANDERS

魂角鸳篮

erecting new barricades on the 10. T. TERESA

frontier between the Sovieth W. Mourning Becomes Electra

zone and the Soviet sector of T. Nicht Bong

Berlin to plug the big leak.

1), F. Gul of the Year

The actions came at the end 14. Mid Summer Night's Romancy

of a week in which 8,500 East 18

Germans reported to West Ber-19, M. lin refugee centres. The pace

Vandalism In impelled Mayor Reuter to fore Vandalism In

St Paul's Cathedral

London, Feb. 8. Mysterious writings in and palick pencil, chalk have appeared recently on the venerable walls of St. Paul's Cathedral

Worse #11}), valuable brass figures have been prised. out of marble monuments adorning the cathedral. An inscription in stone built into the wall WRS 80 defaced with t- delible pencil that i had to be removed.

"We are taking special precautions

to avold this kind of vandalism fu future", said the Dean of St. Paul's, the verend W.R. W

*Lutricate Air Force

ambulance planes to the big

British Commonwealth hospital at Kure, in Japan.

Designed originally for 100 beds, the hospital now averages about 120 patients at any given class time. Wards are former rooms, large,

floors,

with concreta and the patients' beda aro arranged like cots in an old- fashioned barracks.

There is not much colour the hospital and place has a camped-in lock.

anywhere in

the

Nurses and

welfare workers are doing their best all the time, however, to keep the patients and more thun

brought here from busy and happy he greymess of

Korea for treatment.

denied, McChard officials however, that a theft ring is in operation that there has been wholesale pilfering of wounded veterans equipment

souvenirs. End

Dr

• stolen

on

compensate for the hospital.

They have done well with the only building they could get. Places big enough for a hospital are very few in a city which war has passed over four times.

WANT MORE

Artinti

and

Re-

"St. Paul's is a vast and building which contatris many objects of historical value. We have to casaro

it that Is

protected vandalism. Some fortunate incidents have happened in spite of precautionsReuter.

cast a February total of 30,000. There were more than 25,000 in January.

Un-

The Russian reaction is de- scribed as one of mixed barrassment and annoyance. In the first place the refugee flood has fastened sympathetic world opinion on the plight of Soviet zone Germans, including Jews.

Second, the siready wobbly Communist economy is being hit hard by the fight of experienced farmer, technicians and such.

BARRICADES

A check on the Soviet sectar- zune border showed defpite bar- ricado construction. Most of the refugees have come to East Berlin Brst and then crossed into the West sectors, the Inst big open- ing left to them.

Reporta

that the Red regime intended to seal this off too bo came factual with the start of work

by crews in the Kopenick area in the past 40 hours.

Residents of Gozen, East Zane, forced to take a long

have

been

detour to reach the East sector

of the Instead of

direct

20-minute

walk they once used,

Other detours

up in other

from

to have

were reported

been set

sections

owr

through.

RUSSIAN

AIR STRENGTH

States.

10 funnel all traffic

be more

a bottleneck

can

police controls

where

efflelent. Additional polico have been assigned to the trains from the East zone to the East sector.

The moves

Beem part of a clear campaign to choke off the refugee exodus. ------ Associated Press.

Д

Miami, Feb. 8. President Herbert Hoover was reported to be recovering rapidly today from mild attack of influenza,

one-time Lawrence Richey, White House secretary and

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Washington, Feb. 8. General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, friend of the former chief United States Air Force Chief of Executive, said Mr Hoover is Thirteen Canadian veterans

Staff, said today that the Soviet feeling well today and may be who arrived in Toronto

Three welfare workers, one Union had hundreds of Super-able to leave St Francis Hos

or Tuesday.... bombers capable of pital tomorrow [urlough charged that their cach from Canada, Britain and fort type equipment had been pilfered.

Australia, have the responsibili- carrying atomic bombs on one- Associated Press, One veteran, Aircraftsman ty for keeping the patients from way flights to targets anywhere George F. Burns of London, getting bored. They are using in the United

Red Writing lag to prevent the manufacture, Ontario, said 18 of 19 Canadians materials given by the

in a special defence Import, sale, or consumption of

issue who arrived at McChord Air Cross of Commonwealth coun- sue of "Flying" alcoholic drinks and

magazine, oplun

General Vandenberg sald that Base had part of their tries, but could do with more. Persia,

At the moment. the hospital peace, after it had

and possibly national The privately-sponsored bill, been checked

in at the field. would like to have a Alm pro-survival, depended upon: which exampts the manufacture They said some of it was re-

Jention. It has a place to show 1. The prompt expansion of and use of alcohol for covered after the U. S. airman aims, which are readily avail the United States air force to purposes, calls on the Govern-

was arrested.

able in Seoul, but no projector of 143 wings. ment to frame the necessary

2. Maintenance of that force regulations within six months. At McChord, the Press Infor- its own Some time ago one was

level winc

sald hrt promised "for a loan", but so far.

bi u

with its Representatives

consistent of

malion manufacturers have protested on January 31 a Canadian air-as not tamed up.

Not all the patients in

the tasks.

Genel Vandenberg said the to the Finance Minisity against craft landed, and that some of

the veterans aboard were taken hospital are wounded frontline Soviet Uniors was modernising the bill and it was learned that

troops. The hospital also takes they may approach the Prime Minister, Dr Mohammed Mossadegh.

Customs and other duties on alcoholic drinks each year in Persia

are estimated at 280 million reals.

Efforts to introduce prohibi- have been made several and last year the Govern- ment rejected such a move be- cause it way, uwwilling to forgo the revennes..

spon-

The present bill was sored mostly by Mullahs and supported by many religious | leaders from all over Iran-

Reuter.

Vladivostok

Spy Story

Officer

to Madigan General Hospital. Others proceeded on to Canada. The next day, they said, an 18-year-old airman was found In possession of $75 to $100 worth of souvenirs from the Far East,

Later, nine Canadiana at Madigan reported articles had been taken.

Name of the man arrested was withheld until he is arraigned. He has been charged, however, ond' a deposition has Lakch-Associated Press.

been

care of "civilian illnesses, such its air force rapidly so that vir as pneumonia and appendicitis; tually all the 20,000 planes in

propelled. and acts as a general hospital for its combat units would be Jet- Brflikh troops in Korea.

In the

same publication When visited, the hospital's isolation ward was also in uso General J. Lawton Collins, British private Army Chief of Staff, declared by a young

that even in the atomie ago man suffering from mumps

Winter has brought the hos- remained the "supreme cle-

ment" in combat. pital extra casualties, such as The most advanced selentine cases suffering caused by These

storied

frem burg exploding stoves, arrive in November and by the end of December there were more than a dozen in a special ward.

NOT "SISSIE"

American Looks Mony suffer from burns

At Africa

ta

the hands and welfare workers have found that one of the caslest ways to get the men to exercise their museles

let is for them to take up embroidery.

This has become very popular New York, Feb, 8, and nearly all the patients in Africa remains relatively the ward are busy stitching com- remote from Communist trouble-plicated regimental crea's. Moscow. Feb. 8. Soviet

sisalo "They think it would be men making, according to Mr C. security

tho Now York to embroider anything else," one "liquidated" in 1947 a "nest of Sulzberger, spies created

assistant by an

Times chief foreign correspon of the Red Cross workers said.

the hospital, as a DAYAL attache, Mr George dent.

Commonwealth effort has Houllard, of the United States Reporting today from Accra, joint

a. decided success. The Consulate General at Vindivos on the Gold Coast, he said: boen a

The most serious problem on commanding officer and metron, according to a new Russian,

the continent is that of race. reviewed here today.

however, are both Canadians... review, in Izvestia, Soviet "Down the east coast, white Major Roy Smillie comes from hold themselves

Vistoria, British Columbia, and Government newspaper, was the sellors Arst

In announcement

Captain. Elizabeth Pense, the the superior caste" Ruslan Press that such action But he thought the most en-mairon, comes from: Kingston,

couraging had been taken.

example was in Ontario-Reuter. United States Consulate Britain's Gold Coost Colquy, The

Eastern

where Vladivostok, For

a predominantly Negro Ruslan port, was closed almost

Government is

is now in office five years ago.

The book, entilled" "Secret Weapon of the Doomed," meh larger educational programmes fosint aboard a Malayai hies Lioned the liquidation of the bpy | wiro required," now philoso-" ways plano upon its arrival from soup among other custo of phital etdes and the camla Bangkok, Polkow has abyste Soviet action against foreign;; tipa ot, black and white wagoe made, age; arrosta-Mocialną agent."---Router wird bisa bel for comparable work-Beuter! Press Dychovala in feston o3 |

Penang, Fob. B... Customs officials here today impounded 350 pounds of opium

| iSpon, i'vyill bé, all-Negro-nau) valued at $100,000, which wa

BACK

wonders can never repince the individual soldier on the battle- field," General Collins said. Reuter.

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