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COMMENT OF

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CHINA MAIL

No. 35643

Established 1845

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1953.

U.S. CARRIER WRECKED

The Big Three i BY EXPLOSIONS & FIRE

Talks

THE weekend deliberations

T

of the Big Three Foreign

Ministers may not produce decisions of spectacular

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detailed tlley, but they should materially help remove much of the con- fusion which has existed between Britain, the United States and France concern- ing Bir Winston Churchill's proposal for top-level Big Four discussions. It 5 meeting which holds found possibilities, und fature developments internation affairs

pros?

in

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very largely depend on the Inestire f agreement

which can be reached. It

Is not without sigüiflennee

18 Known Dead

Aboard Leyte

SOME TRAPPED

BELOW

DECKS

Boston, Oct. 16.

The huge aircraft carrier, Leyte, was

that "authoritative sources" wrecked by a series of explosions and a

in London have, on the eve

of the talks. disclosed a fast spreading fire while being recom- Churchill Plan for dealing missioned today.

with the cold war. If the

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report Ineskk deinils, it At least 18 Navy men were killed nough and estimates of the burned and injured

ranged from 20 to 90.

given general picture for the

appreciate

world to

That

Sir Winston is determined, if it is humanly possible, to bring the four great Powers into conclave in a supreme hid world peace.

t

Nor

ensure

is this to be based on a policy of appeasement any more than

Aze

to be accompanied

by

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The 27,000-ton craft that carried a wartime complement of 2,000 officers and men was being taken out of mothballs at the Navy shipyard An- nex in South Boston, when the explosions and fire occurred.

Mossadegh Is Too Old To Be Hanged

Toheran, Oct. 16. Ex-Premier Mossadegh, who is under arrest here, will be sentenced to life Imprisonment

found

gullty of

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the charges against him, according to ometal military rouror

here today.

A

of the

military

spokesman

pointed out that Article 40 the Iranian Penal Code provided for the substitu- Hon of

life imprisonment

for the death penalty in the case of condemned per- sons of more than 60 year

of

Mowadegh age. more 1h: 11 72.- France- Preme.

POWs In

Angry Rebellion

Bloodshed Danger

every

..

North Korcars threatening

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American Families Begin Evacuation Of Trieste

Trieste, Oct. 16. American families drove out of here by car today, as the Allied 'evacuation continued against a background of uncertainty about future plans.

Wives wept as they bade farewell to husbands and fathers kissed goodbye to their children as a ten-car American convoy carrying the first American land

route evacuees left this crisis city,

The American troops here have a total of around 2,000 women and children to send home, while the British have about half that number,

The twenty American The compromise solution will

children who have so far gone.

as

hitherto

Losk

Withholding Atom Test Secrets

(From Chapman Pincher)

Melbourne, Oct. 16. Secret details of Britain's

families who left by car today emETKO

វា three-Power Munsan, Oct. 17. brought to about 300 the num-mediation plan if the United

ber of American Angry rebellion threaten

and States and Britain agree, women

The sources sald that at the ed to spread into

The British here are working | moment the three Countries compound of anti-Com- on a timetable which demands views were very close on this munist war prisoners today that all the women asd children point. But they admitted that (Saturday) amid growing leave in dve trainloads begin-It would be a far harder

to get the Rome and Belgrade fear that controversial ex-ning on Sunday afternoon.

The Americans have no such Governments to agree. can, continue table, but it was learned from planations

France

had

Food only at the risk of blood- a highly-phrod American source aside from the Anglo-Ame:jean shed..

today that the 709 American consultations following the two families have co be "packed and Powers' decision last week (0 A violent clash between ready to go" by the middle of hand over the zone in Trieste to atom-bomb test are being Iz diat guards and anti-Red November,

Italy. These are thece British batka- Ag late

M. withheld from the Austra Wedricsday, 03 mass break-out on Friday was ons here. The 2nd Battalion Boult told the French Cobinet lian Government, I learned because the of the Royal Lancashire Regi-that he intended to keep cutside here today. Nations

the Trieste issue since France had Repatriation mont will return to Britain,

The Australian Chiefs of Staff, "come was reliably lawned tonight, not been consulted before the some of whom back to Commum" lectures. Suffol's Rodment was believed did not want to share in respon-weapons power

The First Battalion of the Anglo-Amenienn decision and tests, will be told the bomb'a But the Commission will iry

#ad <stimated to be going to Germany.

sibility for the outcome. TIGHT-LIPPED ¡rgair today.

But France now feels that men apart from Sir

military value. But only five William American

tonight a world Power she cannot ignore Penney know the full interal sources On thousand Chinese POWs Saigon, Oct. 16.

scheduled to meet with were tight-lipped on future dis- the explosive atmosphere in an structure of the weapon the

of American Vietnam

political National Communist

officers positions

forces aren closely affecting the whole

ure ali British and their names here, but it was believed many Atlantic alliance.

are being kept secret. here starting this morning,

of them would join the occupa- Turkey, which supports Pre- Spuired by the North Korean tion forces in either Austria or sident Tito's plan for a con

ference on Trieste between the United officers said that the

Yugo building of the weapon but they States, Britain, the dawn stavio and Italy, has also told ton needed for the part con-

MAY

averted

only

VIETNAM

LEAVE Commission called off UNION

The

A score of ambulances and a small army of

resolved approach to Russia is Navy and civilian disaster workers converged on

the scene.

The dead and injured were placed in a nearby dispensary, the Carney, Boston City and QIR Winston Churchill wants Chelsea Naval Hospitals.

threats or polemies.

be

collective viewpoints,

On

contrary

yet: DO

The Bakon he chief, Johi "The fre

or below

are

the frontier here in

witnessed the

Hundreds of scientists were involved in the designing ond

| were given only that informa-

"battle of wills" vjetory, Allied Germany.

As today's convey drove Chinese) may push their resistance fur-mist, American Military Police France that she would welcome cerning ** assembly was carried

He said his men could only get | and the Boston Fire Department shoulged that the refusal the set day of expiaparus the American " said iterenco

yard

the Marines,

Koreans

throats

The

The remaining 4,000 North/Dulation was meanwhile calm.

Koreans in other compounds Three" Foreign Ministers

shouted and sang their defiance. GUARDS' MANOEUVRE

in London that might make their future Just a little less uncertain than in the past few days.

con-

24-Hour Strike Called

them.

out by the "secret slx" under Sir William Penney's personal guidance.

com-

Now that the atomic

Mark One bomb has ponent been successfully tested, the guided missile experts at Farm borough, Hampshire, are stepping. up the

the work on a streamlined contained to enable tho

weapon to be directed at its inrget.

Congress today that Vietnam, largest of the States of French Indo-China, should leave the French Union.

ther than they did two days the leaders of the Western

But when the debate on the or explosion ap Independence question was

ago and refuse to attend lectures manning the frontier post barred a French initiative towards a democracies to be able to Sampson, emerging from theparently started in the engthe operasi later tonight,

photographers from taking pic peaceful solution.. (or even attempt mass break. reach the minds of the make and Bame-filled area of room

several

tures of the departing families The three Foreign Ministers Unlike Chinese decks some-delegates urged the adoption

POWs who ol

continue 10 and prevented reporters from will leaders in the Kremlin, and the Leyte, said: "There are where."

sturdy the sit-down strike gavo up their aditional cũnuges to temper the

speaklug to them.

Trieste problem ita the it is quite clear that he number of bodies strewn around

"These All available ambulances were refusal to take part in the Union, after seven hours on Thursday.

that possibility of Western mediation bust where we are fighting the fire. believes this ear

are not things They but

we can't get then out now."hurried to

want to when they resume their the Navy shipyard those

North be changed

unruly necomplished by

true condi 4,000

sec and hear

here 011 Saturday Jeaders getting together nown "as for tw the' fourth deck asked for Red Cross uid.

their barbed Military Police Captain Hona

participation in the Union, warmed againal

morning-Reuter. and with Indian and exchanging Individual and there are two decks below Gas masks were sent to the the main condition being revision wire fences

guns pointed at thele

pre-dominantly Italian of the French constitution to give and

where we don't know how many scene.

a clco: definition of the French threatened a mass escape.

for any decision by the A decision

this im- ure tauppal."

It is officially A few newsmen and photo-

estimated that Union acceptable to all interested portant question may not

First atomic weapon to be from the Foreign &aphers who reached the repair the cost of building each of the parties. emerge

issued to the R.A.F, will be a before the guards

Some of the delegates stressed were carriers in the Leyle's class the Ministers' meetings; on the placed on duty were stopped as

cannot face her

guided bomb dropped from on Essex class-was nearly $70,- that Vietnam

without external difficulties

Terni, Italy Oct. 17. aircraft the reactions of they returned to the outer

000,000 (about £25,000,000).

and capable of being Kates,

Workers of all political parties directed Mr Foster Dulles and M.

support. Film and plates were

by the pilot after it taken

Six hundred Indian guards, Informed Italian opinion here here called Debate on the question wan Bidault

a 24-hour general leaves the plane. will probably be from the photographers and it

with rifles and sticks, was inclined to reject any Idea strike for today (Saturday) after armed likely to last through the night.

The final test involving a drop dependent on their private was reported that one newsman

Even Congress delegates with moved against the North Korean of taking over

zone "A"-the daylong riots, in which more from an aircraft will be carried talks with Sir Winston had been taken into custody by.

ex-compounds in

a psychological present British strong nationalist feelings

and American then 20 civilians were injured. out on Emu Field, near Woo- the manoeuvre aimed As

at striking zone--without the support of Churchill

pressed disappointment ai

"fear

The riots protested against the mera, in the hearts

probably next year. of the troops in order to avoid offend-dismissal refusal

to take part in the

POWs," an

of 2,000 hands London Express Service. Indian spokesmaning Marshal

Tito.

i.com the Socicla Acciaienia dl sold. Diplomatie

On the other hand, the people Terni (The Terni Steel Associn- observers

were becoming inclined

13 TERRORISTS phasised that the National Con-

They-closed-in-on-the-com- believe the British-and-Ameri-workers which is hall state and

otion) of Italy's biggest stoc cess decisions are not binding"

at a time, lo sug-can declaration that they would is the Congress can be con-

half privately owned. sidered an advisory group only, get their reinforcing strength in fact pull out their troops and The Italian Government

They called in special guards that the zone would be handed last night mediating between the The Congress has been called

over to the Italians. Vietnam's equipped with gas bombs,

the unions and to draft the claims

But the North Koreans, wear- There was increasing hope Reuter. representatly:s will put forward

ing gloves, 50 that they could here tonight that Marshal Títo at ຄ forthcoming conference with

French.

down the barbed might be persuaded to agree to the

Congress scale or tear

Italian wire fences, stood their ground. the

suggestion elected

that members

represent bodles,

professional

Yugoslav tops should leave political

Prisoners tagged. for inter- zone "B", thereby making it and reilgious groups.

their possible for the Italians to agree The resolution that Vietnam views, refused to leave

compound and others clung to should leave the French Union the fences.

Con

"A",~~Reuter, followed up last night's

Prisoners nearest the fence gress call for "complete inde stripped to the waist and others

COMPROMISE SOLUTION pendence" of the 127,000 loosened eight-foot fence posts

London, Oct. 18. Douthwaite's request was square mite Stató, with i15 that

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M. Georges Bidault, French they could push through passed to his sister, Mrs Phyllis population of 812,000.

Forrign Minister, today put for- Beal, 44, today.

The Congress however look the barbed wire.

POW ed forward to an alliance with collected stones and threatened end the

in a nearby hospital ward a compromise solution Mrs Beal said she was will-France-Reuter.

bitter Italo-Yugoslav if her ing to go to Hongkong

attack American soldiers dispute over Trieste at the meet- doctor decided she was suf}-|

working there while other pri- ing of the "Big Three Foreign

French elently recovered from her re-

soners scaled their tents against Ministers,

diplomatic sources Baid. cent illness.

possible.gis attack. Faced with the

Asked

to comment

utterly couvincing Argui The officer on the day, reseh-

against Sir Winston's pro-quarterdeck. said the explosion ject and the impression occurred below deck and that

the ensuing Bre was left is that both Mr Eisen-control an hour after the blast, out of hower and M. Laniel have

A Puble Information officer sufficiently open minds on at the First Naval District head- the subject to be persuaded quarters said the fire started that its advantages fur in the engine roum of the outweigh its disadvantages. multi-million dollar carrier. Quite apart from

Hibbon is Churchill proposal, how ever, it is imperative Ihnt the current

<lix- Landon

ment has been advanced ed by telephone on the Leyte's STOP PRESS Unio

the

L

Douthwaite's Request

Cmdr. Lawrence

Scarborough, Oct. 16, the commander of the carrier. United Press.

A Fister of Lance-Corporat Rouler addy that a doctor George Robert Douthwaite, con- who was among those called to donned to death in Hongkong for cussions produce a new the currier sak!

he saw at the murder of a Chinese girl, has been asked by her brother to fly

golidity of views between least a dozen men" he thought to see hum before he dies. the three Western powers were dead. for tackling the cold

problem.

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