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and Chinese the Afth anniverary of the Sino- Soviet Trenly of Friendship and Alliance followed the aceutomed pattern. Although it seemed that Mao Tse-lung and Chou En- Jai were sumewhat more than usually vehement in their "warnings" to
Imperialism."* Noticeable was the emphasis pharrel 1371 co-operat fort he,ween Russia and Com mumst China by Hulganini and the Peking lenders,
In the light of the
the
Current
Fonsa Straits situation this could! readily be inter- punted to mean promises of! Soviet and to Peking in Ita
intention dre lured "Uberate" Formosa
from
The Natioundiata. But the
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ŠAMIE KANGUS KOMFONT IN ACTION TROUBËRE
Whiteaways
KOWLOON
JAPAN TO RECOGNISE Legation Still In
TWO CHINAS Sequel To
HATOYAMA'S
POLICY STATEMENT
From SEFTON DELMER
Tokyo, Feb. 14.
Premier Ichiro Hatoyama said today
if he was returned to power in the elections on February 27 one of his first actions
more likely araning is that would be to recognise the Government of
Fussta is offering " "ensoperatis" with Chlag in
TAVO
directions emmie nesistance, and intensiften- tom of the "cold way" in
the Far East through the propaganda machines of the
fw countries,
[P the declarations at Mao not them are accepted at face value it would appear that the Peking government have
Communist China and establish official relations with it.
He also said that Japan's present recognition of Chiang Kai-shek
as the Chinese Government would be limited to In short, Japan would recognise Formosa.
two Chinas.
He told me this today in an exclusive esimly accepted the interview in Tokyo's No. 10 Downing Street.
recent changes in Soviet leadership; indeed welcomes them.
Neverthen for here te
whether the changes
rensons China wonder- TOK
will bring her any benefits,
He refused to commit himself in advance as
to what action his Government would take in the
event of Communist China trying to seize Formosa and thus provoking war with America.
All he would say was "I do not believe there The roshuffled Soviet will be war." hierarchy has now publicly
He continued: "The policy of the Japanese Govern- proclaimed that full con.
I envisage no centration is to be devoted ment remains unfalteringly pro-American. to the repid expansion of change in our fundamental friendship for the United Russia's heavy industries: States." And if this policy is imple-
Now I don't take his evasive-
mented. the opportunities ness as to what Japan would or for Communist China wouldn't do in the event of war receiving assistance in over Formosa too seriously. developing her industries must become limited,
Course
The United States forces are more tha recurely established In the task of reorganising her
In Japan for the time being forces, China military
It wur breaks out over FOT- might well request, und
1030 there will be only onc andoubtedly would readily realistic
open to Mr receive, Soviet nestalance. Hatoyama or any other Japanese may also be assumed that the Kremlin la prepared to include in ita "co-operation"
promised
the
inued provision of
con-
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Government.
But it is suinating evidence of
mood the resistant
which aways Japan's most important rulers today only ten years after came to them with
planes for Communist Chlin democracy
Soviet training of the Atom bemb.
3,221
Chinese pilots.
E development of Com-
THE
munist China's war poten tial is not, however, the only form of ald which China aryen ly needs today Ske requires modern arricultural machinery and
It is the mood which British and Anteripan Governments must not underrate in making up their minds on what to do about Formosa and all the other complicated issues facing thein here and in Southeast Asia.
Next
conference week's
in
Well it is going to be quite a shock, not only for the Ameri- cans when they get this news but for Hatayama's own Foreign Omee men as well.
I have the very best reasons for
that nother the saying Fogn Minister, Mr Shigramitou, nor the permanent staff of the Foreign Office agree with this ebullient and challenging ges- ture of the Premier,
But it is going to go over big With the Japanese electors for the mass of people will applaud any gesture which shows inde- pendence of their American mentors especially The onc which of "Asia for the Asiatica."
MR HATOYAMA
A REAL
STORM IN A
TEACUP
London, Feb. 15. Britain's long simmering teapot tempest was today near the boiling point.
After steadily rising prices for the Briton's favourite non alcoholic beverage precipitated a row in the House of Com- mons yealendoy, headlines en this domestic crisis today push- ed foreign affairs out of the leading positions in many newspapers.
Tea drinkitig business in strikes
Rubinstein Murder
Important Witness Held By Police
an
New York, Feb. 15, A chauffeur rated as "important witness" in the Serge Rubinstein murder case was picked up for ques- tioning today after the police, who had trailed him For many days, charged that he had been involved in a previous plot on the finan- cier's life.
The authorities said the chauffeur told them ho possessed Venetian blind cord, surgical lape and a number of weapons, including machineguns,
ot
Rubinstein was found bound with Venetian blind cord andTM gagged with adhesive tape the floor of his bedroom in his Fifth
Avenue mansion on January 27. Ho bud been strangled.
District At'oruty Al Herman identiled the driver as Herman Scholz, 50. He was describes as the driver, of a rental hack, hiring out his car for a fot rote.
"Today we picked him up and fook him into custody for ques-
Pools Blamed For Suicide
London, Feb. 15. Failure to win the foot- ball pools, Britain's big weekly gamble on the re- sulta of soccer matches, was blamed today for the suicide of a 55-year- old migrant in Coventry,
Karpo Waschlschnuk, a Ukrainian, was said to have spent £5 of his £8 wages every week on the pools.
decided
The coroner that he hanged himself while the balance of his mind was disturbed. China Mail Special.
Ceasefire Terms Very Stiff Says Yeh
Manila, Feb. 16. Nationalist Chino will accept a ceasefire in the
Honing" said Mr Herman, Pele conditions are fully met
Its
|
Hands Of Anti-Communists
POLICE PLEAD WITH MEN
Berne, Feb. 15.
Swiss police tonight pleaded with a band of anti-Communist Rumanians to act "like sensible human beings" and abandon their desperate occu- pation of the Rumanian Legation here.
The mon shot their way into the Legation early today and awore to it against all comers until five comrades imprisoned in Rumania were given their freedom. One Dmbassy employee died today of wounds received in the predawn battle,
Two high police officials were He cld the pečice that his
inside admitted so th: 20-room Legalion | friends
the Legation-- tonigh' and spent hours parley- | their names have not been ing with the occupant. When divulged--were "desperate" and they left they were accom-would glit to the death as they panied by a hunched-up figure | knew that if they capitulated, who wore his hat pulled down | they would be sent
to and his cout collar tuned up to Rumanla to "eerlain conceal his face.
They would yield only If
received they
unconditional Police official sald then guarantees that their friends in that he and his colleagues were Rumanla had been rejeased. anding it "by no means an cany tack" to perSUBCO the mers to come nut.
A
The man sold that he and his five compatriots had all entered Switzerland secretly and were
Nearly 100 well armed Swiss fully armed. polico besteged the 20-room Inside the Legation at the time Rumanian Legation waiting for of the attack were Mr Emeric a new move from five desperate Stoffel, Charge d'Affaires, Mr autt-Communists, who seized Victor Miron and Mr Virgil
the building curly today in a Balcu, attaches, and their wives. gun battle.
Each couple has two children. The villa has been deprived of water and electricity sup- piles.
NOT RISKING LIVES
Police chief, Robert Bauder,
People in neighbouring houses said the Legation staff fired at the attackers with revolvers. But Mr Stoffel denied that he or any of his staff had fired shots. "We were all far too SULT "Such a hap has told us he has in his pre-conditions are fully met, the said we are not going to risic Prised," he said. mises certain types of Venetian Nationalist Chinese Foreign the lives of any Swiss police pening is not very frequent in blind cord art certain types of Minister, Dr George Yeh men to get the men out. We diplomatic life."— Reuter, surgical tape."
have
bwice already parleyed Bald in an interview with with them and Me Herman, said Scholz was
they have de- Chronicle a suspect, but is an the Manll
last mitely said that if anyone witness."
night.
comes too neup, they will not hesitate to to have been trailing him in one poin ↑ for tinge in connection, with the Rubinstein homicide Investiga tion he said,
Scholz, has told the police he possessed numerous weapons including
Mr machineguns, Herinan sald. He would not disclose whether Scholz had a previous polico record and he refused to claborate upon police reports of n previous plot on Rubinstein's life. serious When asked whether other Britain, where persons have been questioned in have becn called in this phase of the investigation, factories whose management Mr Herman said, "I cannot com- interferes with the workers'
ment." mid-afternoon nid-morning or
cup of tea.
One
moves echoes the popular cry
Shooting On
Frontier
of the
is a
popular
most
Sir Winston ninde by Churchill's Conservative Gov- ernment was the abolition of tea ratloning in late 1952.
around
and
He expressed dotibts that such a ceasefire would materialise on Free Chili's. conditions since the latter were very stiff.
The conditions are:
the That
aggressor, namely Communist China, be
pinpointed. 2The
the punished accordingly.
3-That the rightful Govem- ment of China, namely the No-
Government, tionailst
Le restored.
aggressor
CONFERENCES
be
on
his way
a.m.
With
the
,
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to
3
Nye Bevan's New Move
1.
them
open fire The Legation staff fled after
exchange of fire
the members of a Rumanian anti- Communist organisation who shot their way in. A Legation
London, Feb. 15.) chauffeur, Aurel Setu, 43, sald
Mr Aneurin Bavan, the left ve been wounded four wing. Labour leader, tonight to have times while trying to rescue.bis made a major attempt to swing the Invaders, died the Parliamentary Labour Party wife from during the day.
behind him over his policy for The Rumanian government] big power talks now on CT- sent a strong prolest note and man unity. domanded the arrest and ex- Ho put forward motion tradition of the "gang of "deploring the present refusa!" Fascists."
of Sir Winston Churchill's The men in the Legation, who Government to enter such talks Dr Yeh arrived here yester- call their oct a reprisal for until the Paris Agreements for
Went Germany 2,000 QUESTIONED
day from the United States for arreste in Rumania, let Pro arming Investigators have questioned a three-day stay
fessor
Dottling of Berne Uhiver ratified.
And by late tonight almost 100 sity
door to approach to Taipei more than 3,000 persons about back to
of labour MPs had supported it. of one with President bandage the hands the slaying of Rubinstein, who
Ho conferred
wore Among afternoon their number. He is thought
"Bo mado more enemies than friends: Magsaysay yesterday
and have cut himself on the window West German rearmament and
vanlies", other Formosa situation
of International on the his
opponents shady
conference again with which the men smashed to But as thirsts were slaked, nancial dealings and romantic was in
the President at breakfast this climb in to the building at also Mr John Strachey, former consumption
War. Minister and quickly exceeded escapades.
often re- supply. Prices now 'stand at The police sald "Scholz, a morning.
"middle of the garded as a In his interview with the hin, nervous min, was Trail, shillings soven
ONE MAN ARRESTED
roader" eightpence a pound, double the not the taxi driver they had Chronicle yesterday. Dr Yeh in
The motion was seen by many that not even a level of two years ago, and I been seeking since the night of effect said
Six men forced their way into politicians as a strong challenge The driver still United States-backed ceasefire many homes the
the Legation at 3 am, bu one to the official Labour tea drinking the murder.
leaders habit is beginning to be looked being sought was the one who which the United Nations might of them afterwards emerged and who have declared against such
drove Estelle Gardner home on as a luxurious indulgence.
arrange would be observed by
accordo from her last date with Rubin-his country unless the conditions was promptly arrested by the talks until the Paris
Swiss pollee.
aro ratiaed-Reuter. he listed are met. stein. STILL GOING UP
Miss Gardner, the last known Regarding the Security Coun- Reports of a new price rise
person to sep the Dnanciar alive, cil's rejection on Monday of a On Tuesday afternoon from a estimate to nearly eightpence said she left the Rubinstein Soviet resolution branding, the At the Interview by telling me that Sir Syrian position against an a
own Winston Churchill's speech
pound, and some time fulfit her
a remark last mansion a short time before he US as aggressors in the Formaga ut Israeli patrol on the Ismel-Syris week by visiting Ceylonese Pre- was aloin and rode home in a 4.eâ," Le Yen
that the vast programmes in agricul. Blackpool on October 8 was the border of Upper Galilee, north mier, Str. John Kotelawala, taxi-United Press.
original inspiration for his de- of Kfar Szold. The patrol re- whose country supplies much of
Council's action ture and industry.
was "right."-- cision to seck the restoration of piled, the spokesman said.
France-Presse. Moreover,
Britain's tea, how
that the retail normal relations with Russia. nrden the leaders of Russi
1t midday, the spokesman ilghted
price here is "damn ridiculous," and China appear to be in Technically Japan and the sald, there was firing from the teapot controversy,
Ares under The EX-PRESIDENT thetr desire for
co. Soviet have no relations at pre- Syrian side against a flock of
"Auctions give a glimmer of
SENTENCED operation, the Kremlin is set because the Russians did animals grazing in the fields of certainly not prepared to not sign the San Francisco Peace the Gonen settlement in Upper
said the right-wing Dally hope," Treaty with Japan.
Express reporting that the soll- permit that relationship to
ing price of Indian ten in Issati complained about but fancial mart had dropped by the he one-sided in its practical manifestations.
expressed the hope that normal to the Israeli-Syrian
fivepence
in the last week. Armistice Commission.
The Times How China can fulfil the quid cultural and trading relations
of
General Emblang London year-old should be resumed between The United Nations pro quo is a matter
belaboured Sir John Kotelawala Chamorro former President and for Russia and the free world, That nounced, meanwhile, that the
to eight years forced speculation. History has is precisely what we are aiming Israel Jordan Mixed Armistice for introducing an international Senator,
residence・・ in the eastern shown that to become a to do by resuming reisions." Commission had condemned note into the controversy and
sold there was no evidence of a Nicaragua city of Bhas
Brunfeld for fully pledged partner of the "With regard to China, Japan's border upon an Isrdell
for firing across the
"fancy profit margin" between being implicated in an abortive оп the life of the from Khirbet Sikke village
Ceylonex sellers February 11, and likewise retaller stars and local Nicaraguan Freakient Inst April. alists on the Chines
civic rights were also suspended,
*Sentenced with him were two Congressmen, Fermando Gullard and Raul Montalvan-Router,
A wide range of Capital Bangkok will have to pay atten-
goods for the expansion of ton to absent Japan.
her economy. Russin may. | UT may not possess the abilly to satisfy requirements and
thorc
matter no
HIS INSPIRATION
Mr Hatoyama began the
Said Mr Hatoyama: "Churchill
Soviet Union involves sub-attitude is identical with that of mission to the dictates of Britain's," said Mr Hatoyama, the Kremlin. If that is the
price Peking is prepared to
RECOGNITION
Jerusalem, Feb. 15. An Israeli military spokesman announced today that rifle and automatic weapons fire opened
Galilee
Jordan
on
patrol
new
censured. Israel for "returning } that there is no "easy short cut
with automatic weapons to cheap tea"
No Life
Managua, Feb. 15. Left On The
The Nicaragua Suprenie Court yesterday sentenced 83-
His
Chose Same Death
As His WifeTM
7
Tachens
London, Feb, 15. Not a living thing was left behind by the Nation-.
islands, occupied by Communist
Liisuration
troops on Sun- day, 级 special correspondent of the Communiat New Ching Nows Agency reported today: All the inhabitants had been "forcibly carried away," he' sild,
pay for Russian "co- I asked: "Does that mean you and mortara, wounding A This was tho conclusior. operation",
China will are ready to recognise the villager seriously and killing offered by Dr Charlzs Hill, Par swiftly become A mere Peking Government as we in cow.
liamentary Secretary of the Britain have done?”
The American chairman of Ministry of Food, In yesterday's He replied: "Yes."
the Israel Jordan
House Commission, rowdy
of Commose "But what about Chiang's
Colonel Charles Brewster, ro- | Gession Japan recognised just before he viewed with "grave Goverment in Formosa which called two complaints. He said
"NO ANSWER" * con igning the San Francisco Feace cern" the replying with morters Treaty?" I asked.
De Hill admitted that the ten #to" small armer fire which, ho
price was higher than it ought to "We will
two | added, would only serve ́lo Ins
be but said: "To bring back con- [Chieng," he said.
Pelte both rider-United Press,"
trois is no answer: That will mean subsidies and rationing same trails which Ellied hi positions to the
satellite of Rusaja, Eaay though it is to give lip ser- vice to co-operation, it is n dangerous undertaking to engage in with the Soviet Union, and its repercussions can be disastrous for the other partner.
recogniac
FORCED LABOUR CAMPS CHARGES
United Nations, Feb. 10. | Ing revolutionaries and other
As the experts fined over the economic aspects of the con-
Black smoke and flames were still belching from piles of war materiale deliberately fired by the Buenos Aires, Feb. 15.
relenting Nationalist Francisco Pirif, 22, of Pon- toes, the corespondent sald. dab, Province of Misiones, chose
But he tributol the de to die under the whoots of the ton
ametem-you-old wife
· Disiriciód" by
,:
of Nationalisveħul - zim
freethi Cho
and riddled
Sentences can be prolonged as, troversy a letter willer to the mostie cu 322 Desistent do Līberalidade: Pooolis
quarrels
of
The American delegation to criminals" which · included, pro- | "long as the "criminat?· has not Herald came up with a' sugges= |Agapita, left home, went to live the Comansiralat alread
tion of
cors to the
The Nationalists had mined rock on the island Anaga cliffs that could provide a hand bodylished remove farbe quantities of
wife,
the United Nations yesterday visions for petting up labour reformed."
ten?? as a substitute | with her parente bub found life: handed to the UN Secretary-campe
The American documents for the national brew. He and unbearable. She threw herself almost every General a number of documents The law established that in- contain testimonies from 43 his wife”
the train on forced labour camps in Cord- malos should work on aine to formos political prisoners from ing age, ang pour boiling water to the husband went to the of soothold and sapport had to
10 hours a day, have eight hours the Soviet Union,
munist China mil Albania.
The documents clied a
'law
#roast""cook
"Czechó= | over the SAS"? | Buzera), - saw purgatothed barbed wirer and mine before
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