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SWISS

MADE

COMMENT OF

THE DAY Reds' New Proposals

We made Rome sort of

WHILE the Communists

The

move to break the deadlock In the armistice talks at Panmunjom, it is too early to expect quick fulfilment of the negotiations, Reds' Intest set of proposals introduce one or two new be have to angles which carefully considered. While they have withdrawn their demand that all prisoners

not, desiring repatriation be physically removed

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CHINA MAIL

No. 35504

Established 1845

FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1953.

Eisenhower

Calls Top-Level Conference

KOREA

TALKS

BELIEVED

TO BE

BE MAIN TOPIC

Washington, May 7.

President Eisenhower called high State and Defence Department officials to the White House late today, possibly to discuss the new Com munist proposals in the Korean truce talks.

The White House would not disclose the purpose of the conference. But speculation that it concerned Korea was heightened by the fact that Mr Walter S. Robertson, Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, was among those invited.

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-neutral country until what time their future can be satisfactorily settled, it is noticeable that they have, also substituted their sug- gestion that

Asian nation should be appointed AA neutral "gency for sppervising those prisoners, for a new proposition that Neutral Commission com- prising five nations be set up to carry out this task. The practicability of such a

of prisonces Mr commission. press secretary,

their disposition days, the care scheme has already been James C. Hagerty, simply told shall be submitted

to the for settle should be transferred

should queried, and it will

rest reporters that they were to talk meat through consultation to a United Nations, which with the Communists

accordance "strictly in to about "some things" which they political conference." explain how such a Com-wanted to take up.

In so far as the Communist with which

This mission Can be effective, State and Department ofelals negotiators now appear willing particularly from the paint had been making a searching to drop their demand for the strong American support,

indefinite Communists' new of view of expeditious opera-study of the

transportation of prisoners to designed to prevent

ditention of the prisoners if the a neutral parties to the conflict disagreed. tion. Nevertheless it can be eight-point plan on prisoner ex- the territory of said that the negotiators changes.

lic, their new proposal is re- General Hall is acting in the garded as resembling one sub- have something absence of the Chief of Staff of mitted to the United Nations tangible which can be dis- the Army.

General J. Lawton some months ago by the Indian cussed dispassionately. Collins. General Collins is now Government and then rejected

in Panama

mmunist China-Reuter.

Others called to the conference were the Secretary of State, Mr John Foster Dulles; Secretary of Defence, Mr Charles E. Wilson; General Omar Bradley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; General John E. Hall, Army Vice Chief of Staff, and Mr Alexis Johnson, Deputy to Mr Robertson.

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The

act

Jaw."

Omission of such

had

WAS

imit in case of disagreement at the political conference is the feature of the Communist offer

It's Good News From Panmunjom

Suspected

Of Treason

ACCEPTANCE by the Reds tion of the on Inspec- by the Soviet Union and Com- which is most likely to argue Well-Known German

of the United Nations principle of non-forciblo repatriation marks a signifi- cant stop forward. Also encouraging Is the com- promise now advanced con- cerning the time limit to be allowed for what the Com- munists describe

Canal zone.

The latest Communist Korea truce proposals are considered

in Washington to fail to meet

LONDON COMMENT

London, May 7. Tonny's Combainigt truce

opposition. Reuter.

at least one major requirement concession that pricaners retus- Assault On

of United States Government Ing repatriation may be put into

policy that no prisoner

shall

face indefinite, detention in

Arrested

· Munich, May 7. Manfred Von Brauchitsch, 47, pre-war. German motor racing idol, was arrested at

prison if unwilling to be re-neutral state-is considered by Mt Everest his home near here today on

patriated.

neutral hands on Korcan sell

of Instead

transported to ຕ

London observers to provide a Both White House and State hopeful basis for final 18

make any o0lelal, comment on Department officials declined to meut.

"explanations" to prisoners, though mitigating against this concession is the qualifying proposition that if necessary, the eventual repatriation of POW shall be dealt with through a political conference. The Communists have always _wanted to make the prisoner. of war issue a political one And this has rightly been

resisted by

the

It constitutes in

agrec-

Important Com-

the plan submitted by the Com- advance on the earlier munist negotiators to the United munist position, they consider. Nations Command at Panmun- A Foreign Oflee spokesman

Uhe careful examina-described jom,

pending

The

Departments.

Very

Today Week

suspicion of treason.

Four other persons, including a woman, were detained in the of them zame raid, but three were released soon after. Thek names were not disclosed.

Police declined to give details of the allegations agalnci Brauchitsch, but it was learned unofficially that the suspects in- the General Secretary cluded of a Communist sponsored Von of which organisation Brauchitsch is President

-the Committee for

Unity and Liberty in Sport" which has its headquarters in East Berlin and Is Bnanced from East Germany. Munich criminal police acted German on orders of the West Supreme

Court in Karlsruhe, An examining magistrate inter- rogated the suspects at Munich police headquarters tonight and Issued to give

Katmandu, May 7. rew proposals Advance parties of the tion of the text now in progress as "an important development British Everest expedition

Sinte and Defence which will be studied

closely."

are making their way up Britain will immediately con- the west Cum, a glacial REPATRIATION ISSUE

to the United States, hollow, 23,000 feet up, sult with But it was pointed out on the

and the Commonwealth Olse Glacier. France basis of a first reading of the

ed, the spokesman sald.

Their task is to prepare camp Communist proposals that they and other governments concern-

require that stil! appeared to United

A possible soured of difficulty— Ave below the shoulders leading prisoners of war who persist, in Nations Command. Thus it their unwillingness to be re-and the feature thought most up to the summit, before May

by remains obvious that many turned

the 10, when

assault on the final homelanda kely to be challenged to their

United Nations Command--is the 29,002 unconquered peak of details have to be ironed out should be detained until agree that the Communists propose no the world's highest mountain is before full agreement can be

ncemo limit after which prisoners reached and an armistice future by a political conference, refusing repatriation shail [due to begin,

The Amerienn view has been signed. It is unlikely the

Squalls and mowstorms have inken out of the hands in defaull Allies will reject the Com- that

of an agres future political conference on 4 bulfeled the mountainside in the such an arrangement munist proposals out of men!,

Far Bestern settlement. might

result in the indefinite The Communists suggest that past three weeks. But the sky hund, and by the same token imprisonment

has sometimes lccred of unwilling prisoners still refusing re-

any

the climbers a magnificent view they can hardly be expectod.) prisoners of war,

patriation after four months in to accept them in toto. But:

The United States does not neutral custody shall be placed from the west Cum of the in- violate peak of Mount Everest,

ment has been reached on their

be

of the

new opportunities appear want to impose, or threaten to at the disposal of the porking a sheer 8,000 feet above to have arisen for sensible impose, such a deprivation of conference, which is provided for and acceptable compromises freedom on practical details, and while it would be unwise to hold exaggerated hopes for an early nettlement, it is reasonable to believe that nomo definite progress will made now be

that 'direction.

Indefinitely after an in the draft Korean armistice them. armistice. In effect, the accept agreement. ance of such a proposal might amount to unfair pressure upor the prisoners to

to go home.

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Von Brauchitsch, an officer in the Nazi party's motorised corps during the war, signed a Com-

Miami, May 7, Through their binoculars, munist appeal against West

Police today arrested Russell INDIAN RESOLUTION

they have been able to see the German rearmament two years Tongay after an autopsy re- The Indian resolution adopted last formidable fow hundred

and wag President of a with Western support by the feet of Brown Rock near the Committee which organised the vealed his five-year-old daugh- In these circumstances, it is United Nations Assembly last sumumit, lightly powdered with "world youth festival" in East ter, Kathy, who once prepared possible that the new proposals December

recommended that while, and with a perpetual Berlin.

to swim the English Channel, Murdch may be rejected if the

detectives Comprisoners refusing repatriation snow curling upwards from the

detained had suffered a "brutal beating" armistice peak, like a after the

grpceful ostrich Von Brauch tech at his home before she died on Wednesday. munista insist upon clause six: 00 days

moming. This clause stated "if at the should be pinced at the disposal feather.

nor Stranberg this of this political conference.

Thay also took away large quan- Police Lieutenant Charles expiration of the time limit of four months... there are still But it provided that should During the past two weeks, titles papers.

Eldredge said Tongay would be are signs that the THERE

of the the conference fail to agree on teams of Sheppas wearing snow

sources sald prisoners in the custody

Von Police time element in the armis-neutral nations repatriation i thelr future in a further 30

questioned further and added: fico talks is agitating minds

"He probably, will be booked both in the United States

for investigation of murder." and Britain. Reports from Washington this week sug-

But no formal charges have geat the official view is

yet been filed against him, growing that a time limit should be placed on the

The Vietminh Communist invasion of Laos has present negotiations. This Thas caused apprehension halted or gone into reverse on every sector of the front,

among Labour MPs in a French High Command spokesman said tonight. Britain, although it is to be The spokesman said air res¡ tacked several Franco-Laotian i noted that Sir Winston connaissance showed the enemy posts far north of Luang Pra Churchill readily gave an drive for the Thal border, south bang, apparently in an attempt assurance that there was to of the main Pialties des Jarres to clear communication be no time limit so far as defences, had stalled 25 miles with the withdrawing

Laos Invasion Halted

Pak Sane,

Hanoi, May 7.

lines

spear-

ggles have ten transporting Bruchitsch at first resisted

supplies over the treacherous face

of the footail up from the base, but was eventually per-

suaded to "come along".

|camp to the camps on The Cum.: They added the material con

The last reports from the fiscated in the flat included in- expedition say all the climbers structions from the Central Comm- are in good heart and confident.mittee of the East German Con- -Rester.

munia party---Bouter.

STOP PRESS

ho is concerned. If there is from the Mekong River town of heads-United Press. Big Labour any conflict of opinion The Vietminh spearhead that Message Handed

between London and was poised nine miles from the Washington over. this ques-Royal capitat of Luang Prabang tion it is essential that it two days ago was now 60 miles bo composed without delay. north of the town. While there is'n reasonable Tha spokesman said chance of an agreement at days must elapse before it be

comes

clear whether

some

› To Naguib

ing a

Gains

All Hope Is Abandoned

London, May 7

Kathy Tongay, who learned lo swim before she could walk, died here two weeks before her sixth birthday.

Detective Charles Supp sold the flaxen-halved child went into convulsions soon after re-

The British Air Ministry turning from her dally swim- tonight abandoned hope for 10 ming exercises and died yester- men who disappeared aboard a day on her way to hospital, He "flying schoolroom" earlier today ordered an autopsy. over the English Channel.

It said they

were

"missing. Mr. Sapp said the autopsy WOR also requested by the presumed kiled" after wreckage had been sighted near the Sellly parents, Mr and Mrs Humoll Isics.

The plane a Royal Air Forco Valella transport was carry-

Tongay.

Kathy, with her older brother,

Cairo, May . British Ambassador Sir Ralph

London, May 8. The Labour Party ronde big the Stevenson handed a message to Panmunjom being, renched vaders Intend to withdraw Egyptian

*Prime

In the key phase of raing Minister it would be foolhardy to

Britain's nationwide local goT- ossi General Naguib, it was from Laos. There was a possi prejudice the position by bility that the spearhead that nounced here last night followernment elections, wresting con- ing a crew of four and six young Bubba, went to England in the advancing threats of im- was aimed at Pak Sano might a half-hour conference befrol of two biz industrial towns, officers being taught navigation, summer of 1951, when she was Manchorter 'and, Looda, from It left Hullavington, Wiltshire, four and he five. Their father posing a limitation of time push forward to the rice-rich tween the two statesmen, · the Conservative (Government) at

at 8:05 am, GMT and was last and the "water bables would heard of about 9.15 As a result of this conference, rivals, resulta' today showed, on future negotiations. It Mekong Valley rather than try

my GMT try to swim the English Chan- nel, but both the British and the hazardous retreat through the Egyptian delegation con-

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of 389 over the Bristol Chann talks with Britain on borongba (districts) participat- the mountains to the bases ducting north of Lacs from which the the

The Air Ministry stated earlier French authorities refused to

ollow the attempt.. Suez Canal problem was ing in yesterday's pull showed today that wreckage, and what vasion started a month ago. summoned for a meeting at a net Labour rain, of 200 Boats was possibly a'body, had been The French command spokes general, headquarters-France to the Domervallves" net loss of scen five miles from the plane's man, said the Communists at-/ Presse.

115 cat-outer,

last reported position-Reuter.

fs precisely at this moment when patience and stead fastness are most needed s-and- Záró likely to viold

"desired results):

["Tho" "children" had, previously. swum several miles down the Mississippi River;-Reuter.

Good news reached Mra Roberts of Peckham, Lon- don, from Panmunjom. She learned that her POW husband had been freed by the Reds. Top shows Mrs. Roberts reading the telegram to her daughter and

neighbours,

and

Proposal

Bonn, May 7.

The Western powers have accepted a Soviet proposal for a single air corridor in pince of the existing three between West Germany and West Berlin, a usually well- informed Western Allied source said here today.

The Western powers supuint- ed that this single corridor ba wide enough to permit direct Berlin-Hamburg Frankfurt flights.

and

Berlin-

The sources

sald the Allied acceptance, with its stipulation, was given to the Soviet authori ties at the last Four Power Alr Safety conference 11 Berlin, held at the French headquarters on Tuesday.

French Air Force Brigadier Edmond Jouhaud put the Western case.

The Soviet proposal for a single corridor, put forward at on earlier meeting, stipulated that it should be 75 miles wide und run dus west from Berlin. This would involve Allied planes on the much used Berlin-Ham- burg and Berlin-Frankfurt routes in substantial detours,

TURNED DOWN

The Allied source said the Western powers turned down Beveral Soviet proposals and put forward counter suggestions,

Ty rejected the Soviet sug- gations that flights should be Limited to civil aircraft, arguing. that military aircraft had made many Berlin flights by the past without causing accidents,

The Western Powers also re- jected the Soviet demand that Berlin-West German flights in a single air corridor should be limited to heights between 3,300 and 13,200 foot...

They told the Soviet delegates that modern aircraft often had to fly high for greater efficiency and lower if the weather was

poor.

The present three corridors, which link West Berlin with Hanover, Hamburg and Frank- furt, are 20 miles wide and have an upper ceiling of 10,000 feet,

The next conference is to be held at Soviet headquarters at a date to be fixed.-Reuter.

Jews Fire On Arab Houses

Amman, May 8. Jaws from the Jewish section of Jerusalem yesterdag opened fre on houses located in Árable Jerusalem near the Mandelbaum Gate, it was announced herd East night.

Jordanian authorities reported the incident to

United

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