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COMMENT OF
THE DAY
Communism
Exposed
Nautin,
high-
- or
matter how
honeyed specious their phrases may be, the Communist lenders can no longer hide from the rest of the world the serious discontent behind the Iron Curtain in Eastern and Central Europe; nor can
May Agree On Armistice Despite South Koreans
they deny the comparative PEKING
failure of the economic and political system which they have imposed on their people.. The "reforms" which they have promised 10 Enst Germons und Czechoslovakians are now to be extended tu
Hungarinns, and it is noticeable that they follow a similar design. A back ground to tho new measures
is the tucit admission that th satellite Communist governments have failed
completely to provide the workers. with anything approximating to a decent standard of living; that they have allowed the economy of their countries to be thrown out of gour by over-industrialisation, thus preventing the production of essential consumer goods; that their distribu- tion system has been Inadequate, and that only the bureaucrats havo derived any contentment or satisfaction under the regimes which they assisted in creating. INSOFAR
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RADIO. PLACES
ALL BLAME ON RHEE
Tokyo, July 6,
The Chinese Communists have indicated that they may sign a Korean war armistice despite South Korean opposition, giving US assistant Secretary of State Walter Robertson a new talk- ing point in his ninth meeting today with Korean President Syngman Rhee,
meet the
was to Although Mr Robertson- stubborn South Korean leader again today in Seoul, according to US Embassy sources, little hope was held in the Allied quarters of a change of heart on Mr Rhee's part.
But the indication by the Communists for the first time that they are aware of the United Nations dilemma and might sign an armistice, in the face of South Korean opposition raised the hopes of a truce.
Nevertheless, it was regarded by diplomatic abservers in Seoul and Tokyo as the first indication
The Communists, in a broadcast over 'Peking Radio,| placed all the blame for the deadlocked truce squarely on President Rhee, Formerly, they had accused the United Nations Command of "connivance" in freeing 27,313 Communist North Korean prisonera and blocking & truce.
The US Elghik Army Coin- that Mr Rice will observe the mander, Li-Gen. Maxwell armistice. Taylor, salt shortly after the Comununlst radio broadcast that he would be able to pull American and other Allied troops out of the front lines and replace them with South President Rhec decided to go it alone."
The Communist broadcast The Communist broadcast listed the "new steps being made
no mention
Gen. contemplated by President Rhee further undermine the he asked the Communists to armistico" and then added, "but sign a truce despite the freeing he has ever-reached himself...
that the Communists would agree to Gen. Clark's request, -
OVER-REACHED
British Troops Back In Bermuda
10,000 African
Natives Rounded Up And Screened
Nakuru, July 5.
Nearly 10,000 Africans were rounded up and screened by more than 1,100 troops, police and Kikuyu home guards, supported by a squadron of armoured cars today in the most intensive sweep of African and Asian locations ever mounted in the Rift Valley.” “
Hungary *H concerned, the first visible signs of the failure of the Communist-imposed system were given a year ago when the Government found it Koreans necessary to "expose some of the facts behind the failure of the second year of the country's five-year plan." It was admitted then that "targeta" had by no stretch of the imagination of the non-Communist prisoners The world opinion demands the for intensive interrogation by teams of inter-
and his inability to guarantee realisation of the Korean preters.
been fulfilled. Machines which were supposedly pro- ducing vast quantities of capital goods were in fact standing idle because stocks of
materials had become exhausted; that factories were turning out half-finished producta
raw
of
Clark's June 29, letter, in which to
Railwaymen Claim
which had to-be-rejected; More Wages
wore
that thousands of working hours
being Josl through employees arriving late to work, leaving early, and in other way deliberately slacking. The picture
in year ago Hungary
almost ТУДА sorry as the one today, and which has forced a newly uppointed Government to promise roforms.
21
I would
the
as
far-reaching
bo
crease.
If granted it would cost about £20,000,000 a year.
the
armistice and the peaceful settlement of the Korean ques- tion, but Syngman Rheo tries to
tell the American people to continue to shed their blood for his criminal regime."
"The American people will not fall into this trap." the Com-
More than 1,000' of the Africans were taken to a special transit camp on the edge of the town
About 300 Kikuyu were said to have confessed to taking the Mau Mau oath under threat of death.
The sweep
was deliberately cleansing ceremony and then if launched today after intelligence | suitable they would be recruited reports sald Maa Mau terrorists into local home guard units.
had been Kiritu, who has been fighting from the Aberdares Infiltrating into Nakuru-third | Mau Mau ever since the was declared nine Gen. Taylor made his state-largest town in Kenya--at week-Emergency
ends and hiding in the locations)" months agoTMTMTM has formed
munist radio said.
Was
known and hidden arms,'
Own
for the
Cia
More
[
Less than two months after the. permanent English garrison: was evacuated, a new con- tingent of British troops arrives in Bermuda. These men form the advanced detail of 250 Welch Fusiliers from Jamaica. The Welch. Fusiliers are a crack outfit, some hav-
Marshal
ing served under Field gomery in North Africa and Europe. The troops will occupy the barmicks vacated by previous Eng- lish troops on Prospect Hill near
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Polish Press Admits There Is Discontent In The Country
Stockholm, July 5.
The Polish press openly admits that there is popular discontent in the country, though sources in touch with Warsaw said here today Berlin press reports of major disturbances were exaggerated.
These sources said there had been a number of clashes between police and malcontents in Gdansk (Danzig) Gdynia, Szczecin (Stettin) Plaski on the Oder and other towns.
The main cause for discontent admitted in Polish news- papera 'reaching here is the shortage of consumer goods and the high prices of a large number of basic foods.
Three big causes of discontent i has 'cordoned
off stretches of
Iloilday makers must Icave the beaches at sunset and Н p.m. curfew is in force along the German border.
hinted at in the controlled press the Baille Coast with barbed and confirmed by sources here) wire, are the belief that Russia 18 making Foland send food to China
and North Korea, the unpopularity o of Russian inoltru- tion into the armed services, the police and key factory posts, and the fear that Russia may one day buy German favour by offering 10 return territories anncxod by Poland after the
war,
Sources Here said the Polish Goverment was ready to meet the situation with a number of **lbera" Russia ordered otherwise. They measures but that
added that speakers at Com- munist commitee meetings had stressed that the collectivisation
Warsaw Radio of land, the socialization of in- Makes Denial
London, July 3. Warsaw
Radio tonight denounced as "absurdiles" -and- "les" reports
disorders and a slate of siege in Polish towns.
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It said the reports werz invented by. "Neo-Nazi newspapers in the West.
The denial was contained in a statement by PAP, the official Polish news agency broadcast by the Polish
Radio.
According to the state- ment. "Neo Nazl nown- papers of West Berlin. *pecialising in the inven tion of false news aboul Poland" recently issued in A provoking series of absurdities on disorder and the pro- clamation of a slate of alege in Warsaw and in other. Polish cities.
manner
The statement said "such reports ridiculo not only their authors but also their realous pedları".
have
They had "no foundation in faci"-Reuter.
dustry and the struggle against "renciionary forces" in the Catholic Church must go on.
The newspaper Kurler Cozlen- ny recently reported on supplies, giving an insight into the clti- zen's difficulties. Among tho shortages it listed were zazor blades, neckties saucepans, tumblers,
soap. envelopes, needles, textiles and raincoats, except the smaller alzer
BLACK:MARKETS
Foodstuffs though plentiful in the first postwar years are now so short that there is a black maricet in meat, sugar and other commodities. The Follsh press regularly reports sentences on black market dealers.
The newspaper Życio Warszawy has published a list of vegetable and fruit prices. The price of potatoes was five złoty per pound (ten zloty per kilogramme)—which must be compared with an average wege of 500 to 1,000 zloty a month carned by a Polish manual worker.
Stockholm sources. sald· that discontent may fame into
ореп revolt if the eltizens come to believe that revolt will bring
liberat
action
The Polish Government has casier living. The Hungarian taken a number of security shake-up and the more measures. It
policy in East Germany are has reinforced miles.
The National health Scheme frontier and harbour police, cut likely to encourage. the Poles
number of permits contemplating came into operation five years down the
open to visit the against the Government, - - ago today on July 5, 1948 allowing people and the Ministry of Health to-cocistal and border districts and Reuter, day issued statistics on its operation in England and Wales.
Doctors have had about 42,-
The Dental Service has sup-
In one field nonr the town Mau Mau. Every one of them plied 10,600,000 dentures and gnol 5,000 Africon men, women has declared under interrogation has given 43,000,000 courses of and children were guarded by that he has never even heard of treatment. armed police and Kikuyu home Mau Mau".
ment to correspondents in Seoul. while they rested and recruited Commando type Kikuyu tesis- a
In five years of socialised He indicated that the US Com-OKAL mand actually is planning for a men for the hard pressed terror tance group known as Najamba medicine in Britain 1,062,- Torquay, July 6.
Kumurika, Cangs further cast. post-armistice military situation
(the iorch- 000,000 prescriptions About
A
flung bearers) in his own district of been dispensed, 28,000,000 British in G00,000
tight cordon which South Korean troops around four African locations at Naivasha,, 40 miles
south of railway workers have put in will replace other Allied soldiers a
dawn this morning
pairs of glasses and 305,000 by men of here. a claim for a 16% wage in- on the cease-fire Une,
been aids have than a He said that if it should be- the first battalion of the Devon-
score of his hearing shire Regiment supported by "orch-bearers". took part in handed out and ambulances come necessary for the United Nutions and the ROK Army to African troops, police Kikuyu today's sweep and interrogated have travelled 429,000,000
and Nakuru's guards split, he
that the leaders
some of the Africans. thought
force of European both sides would be able to security uf
Kiritu pointed out one middle- for volunteers. Mr James S. Campbell, sit down and work out plans for
aged Kikuyu squatting on the મા કામ Within this cordon thousands ground: That man has con- General Secretary of the Nation- replacing other Allied troops
of Africans were al Union Railwaymen, big-with ROK forces. This would
called by fessed to taking the Mau Mau grossly gest of three untona making the put the decision to carry on the loudspeaker vans to leave their path nine times" he said. exaggerated to suggest that claim, held a mass meeting to-war squarely up to President homes, white squads of troops and police combed every square
DENY KNOWLEDGE Communist economic day at Paignton near here. The Rhee without involving United yard of the locations
been submitted on Nations troops If he should corrY Į KUR social
has claim had and
system
Pointing to a group of about Ds the ter- "werk-end boys" Friday.
out his threat to "drive to the rorists in this area have become 100 in a corner of the field 000,000 patients on their lists. completely broken down iu
It went 10 the Railway north."-United Press.
Kiritu said: "Those are real countries such as Hungary: Executive which runs Britain's Czechoslovakia, Poland, and State-operated railway system. East Germany, yet the the London Transport cxccu- --significance of the workers' tive, the Docks
and Inland PHONE - BOOTH revolts in these countries Waterways* executive and
Mr Ian MacCleod, Minister of guards.
District Commissioner David
sent a fifth birthday must not be underestimated. Hotels' executive.
Christle Miller said he believed Health, For one thing they mean a Mr Campbell said the
There, in an atmosphere filled that among these hundred men message to regional and local with choking white soda dust several minor terrorist leaders authorities connected with severe blow to the prestige was based on
blown by the heavy wind from would eventually be found after theme. of Communism which, for
the dried up Nakuru Lake, further interrogation.
He said: "Of what has been so many years, has been
they were interrogated by teams Tonight the special camp on achieved we can all be proud: hold up by ita adherents and admirers as the only
of Europeans and Kikuyu who the edge of the town was illed for there can bo no doubt that with auspects while thousands of the service has already beca of pulitical and economic way
Kenya-born 20-year-old Dina other Africans questioned during the greatest benefit to many
millions of people and of life which can benefit the
ni days ago during Queen Eizn- Wiams and three other women the day were allowed to return ding on the sound founda- Mr Campbell referred to
members
of the Kenya Police to their Jiomes. masses. And these revolts
"remorseless advance" in the
in state visit beth's effcial state
Reserve spent the entire day District Commissioner Miller tlons already laid we can look must also have an effect on
The cement will near cost of living since then,
the sourching African worners for said that
ឆន ៥. result of the forward to further
health of the the cold war which
"Taking the cost of living, the booth was damaged by theams and subversive erature.
operation" one of the spines of promoting the Communists of Europe have railway' workers are 10.1 points force of the explosion which oc
tred Williams,
and Mau Mau which suli has its nation-Reuter. boen waging against the down and the average wage of curred some six miles from the dishevelled, told a Reuter
head in Nairobi has been well the Ulster-Eire border, according to respondent
"It's beer West under the guidance industry is 5 points below
nothing."ter. Job and and instructions
France-Presse.
at least some of these women have given us valuable Information about certain bad hats caught
in roundup." At one
and of the field 300 Kikuyu men sat surrounded by or who had obtained Interrogators who
of
the
elaim BLOWN UP
the increased living and wag intended to bring railway workers to the level of Industry generally.
seven-shilling
A
increase granted last year brought rail- waymen's average weekly earn Ings to £5-478,
London, July 5. A public telephone booth was blown up by a bomb this after noon at Millvale in Northern Ireland's County Armagh, near the site of the explosion on the Belfast-Dublin railway
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checked all documents.
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been, an:
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the
that
success in
of the index of retail prices" he said.-reports reaching here tonight-105ut 'vo foam and truly scraped today."-Reu-TATEST RAF
Kremlin. If now the satellite Reuter.
governments find it neces-
to superimpose
sary
on
their system of administra.
tion some of the principles Six
of the so-called capitalfatic countries, which
hitherto
have earned only the scorn of the Communists, they
hardly
can
W.
Killed By
Police In
the
Bengal Disturbances from them.
Mnu
Holiday Death Toll
APPOINTMENT
London, June G. The appointment of Vice- Marshal Claude Bernard Ray- mond Pelly as commander-in- chict of the British Middle New York, July 5. East Air Force was announced Each Kikuyu in the group The July 4
The Royal Air Force interviewed ad confessed to Incicperl-uce Day Jars couited trounced that Her Majesty Asansol, West Bengal, July 6.
king the oath under pentence in 217 deaths since Friday night, the Queen had approved
effective from Six people were killed and 11 injured when police to the
•Traffle mishaps killed 120, 67 appointment, of
Waiting to be marched to a prople were drowned, fireworks October. opened fire on a crowd mostly of striking workers of the
trandt
Marshal Pelly will have the India Iron and Steel Company here today.
for further screen- led to the death of one and · 20 comp ing they Ustened attentively and others were killed in various acting rank of Air Marshal. Ho Middle East served in the A charge with lathis (long sometimes clapped and cheered accidents, Twenty polico were injured by i
sticks) followed by tear gas as Kikuyu resistance leaders and Most of the nation had good during the war from 1940 to brickbats.
The incident followed a day-shells falled to disperse the headmen ridiculed the Mau Mau weather for the holiday and 1943. For the past year and a As they grow more and declared that it would coon millions of people streamed out half he has been RAF in-
bo smashed. long demonstration by striking crowd.
of the country.
structor
the at
Imperial workers demanding the release violent the police opened "fire,
Parmenas Kikuyu headman An order banring meetings,
The National Safety Council Defence College and for three of alx people taken into pre-
that there in force for some time in the Kiritu, 42, former president of estimated
were years before that was assistant ventive custody carlier today.
on the roads Chief of the Air Staff (Opera- About 3,000 strikers refused to Steel Company's factory area, an African tribunal, told me 40,000,000 cars disperse and throw stones and was extended to nearby areas they would all be given an during the two-day holiday, tional Requirements), Marshal
today--Reuter.
opportunity undergo i- a Neuter. brickbats at the polleo.
to expect convince the workers under their control that the democracies represent only everything that is evil. The MASBOS
Eastern and in Central Europe may be relatively ignorant, but they are not stupid, and recent developments. have at least exposed to them the limitations of thoir task- masters and the falsity of their doctrinos.
to
•
·
Pelly is 50-United Press.
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