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VOL. IV NO. 282

H.K. Will Be Held, Says Slim

STATEMENT MADE IN WASHINGTON

Washington, Nov. 29, Field Marshal Sir William Slim, Chief of the British Army Imperial General Staff, told a press conference today, "We have every in- tention of holding Bong. kong. If the Chinese Com munists are foolish enough to attack it we shall hold it. But I do not think they will do so."

Asked if the Chinese Na. tionalists could hold for. moen, he replied, "Purely as a military problem, as long as the Nationalists are in command of the sen and air the taking of Formosn would be a difficult problem."

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Aaked about Bratun'a under the Allante It be replied, "We already have our troops on the continent set they will certainly temn there, but we do not intend lu expan th,tr numbers. It would be very different, of course. it was

camo,"

MALAYA SITUATION

Discussing

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Recognition Issue

London, Nov. 29.-The British Cabines has de olded to give diplomatic recognition to the Chinese Communist regime, 20- cording to Norman Harry- maine, writing in tonight's

Evening Standard.

Ile reports that although this decision has been made, an announcement is not likely until after the United Nations General

· Assembly meeting in New York where the China situation is being debated.

The Dominion will re- cognise the Communista simultaneously with Bri. kain, but similar action by the United States in Ukely to be delayed, nådı Barry- maine -- Our Own Corten- pondent

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1949.

Thirty-Five Die In Two

Air Disasters

PLANE HITS

HITS AIRPORT BUILDING

Dramatic Rescues Carried Out By French Farmers

Vyshinsky Repeats Russia's Desire

For Peace

Flushing Meadow, Nov. 29.-The United Nations was going the way of the "late lamented League of Nations," the Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr Andrei Vyshinsky, said today.

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He told the General Assembly here that the Soviet Union had made four attempts to achieve pence but had Field Marshal Slim would not each time been rebuffed by the "Anglo-American bloc." comment on the possibility that Britain is receiving B-29 bom. lie doctored,

Unitext Mr Vyshinsky bern und.r military nut,

repented his Be Nations has been unable to re-demand for the prohibition of said,

"We have

Hot # pretty strain the fomentors of a new alone weapons and strict In good medium fet bomber coining war,"

ternational control of atomic up called Canberra.“

Mr Vyshinsky

three energy for peaceful purposes "mendacious

slanderous" only, and accusations hod been Made Waving his arms dramatically, against the Soviet Union:

herted; "No delay, gentlemen! 1-That she supperts a world All delay must be ended.“ Malayo, Marsha! Slim said, "Communist revolution. did not withdraw any troops

Warren Austin, for the

Slates,

emphaileally from

in the Atlantic

Pact and the Bruseris Pact

wete dir.eted against the Soviet Union,

"All these pacts are directed against na aggressor," he ne- clared.

"I repeat an aggressor, That is plain enough, is it not?” he asked, looking at Me Vyshin-

hy.

Mr

That she in unwilling to tited

Malaya

to reinfoter accept the penceful co-existence denied Mr Vyshinsky's charges Hongkong. We have Gurkha

If Communist Abd capitalist Alvision there of eight balin- 10:18

rather unpleasant

to be a bandit in Malaya now and the bands would give us if the Communists did not have such a succeKA in China."

Asked his opinion on allow ing Western Germany to have an army, he replied, "It is no good for a soldier to have an opinion on that subject when: Rovernments have made up their minds and at least one has done 40 already,"

Countries

That he is preparing a

3 tew war.

Mr Vyshinsky denied there and reviewed the Soviet "pence policy" since 1917

BURSTING AT SEAMS Referring to the Western in Germany. wers' arlivities Mr Vyshinsky declared:"" The poppet anti-People's Govern- ment at Bonn is already burst- the

SIMPLE ANSWER

"Why the Atlantic Pact and Brussels agreement and

continued. •The a-

Yesterday was marked by two air

disasters which took toll of at least 35 lives.

The worst crash occurred at Dallas airport where thirty persons were known to be killed. The aircraft involved was an Ameri- can Airlines passenger plane which was carrying 40 passengers and a crew of fivo.

The other disaster was at Lyons, where dramatic rescues saved the lives of 30 people. However five persons were killed, including three crewmen. The aircraft involved in this crash was an Air France Skymaster which was carrying 32 machine crashed and burst into flames about 10 passengers and a crew of five at the time. The

miles from Lyons.

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Agency reports of the two tragedies follow: Dallas,

Texas, Nov. Thirty or more persons killed today when an American Airlines passenger plane crashed

and burned before dawn of Love Field, Dallas.

Hospital attendants Baid' 14 persons of the 40 passengers and crew of five were being tented.

The plane. t four engined NC-6, was ca route from New York and Washington to Mexico City.

American Airlines said that the pilot feathered one engine, indicating that something wai

wrong with it. But the plane

the

war approaching the field in a rouline manner beforc crash,

Fire engines and ambulances

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New Atomic Weapons Test At Eniwetok

By Cominform

RALLYING REDS IN WEST

London, Nov. 29-The Cominform took open action today to rally Communists in the countries of the West.

In a carefully co-ordinated move Communist 'sources throughout the world die closed that a secret meeting of the eight-member policy- making body-whose full name in the Communist In- formation Bureau-was held in Hungary carlier this month.

Under the slogan "Peace And Working Class Unity" the mcoting, it WIS urged special efforts recruits for Communist parties outside the Cominform from

munounced, win

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among workers organisations, sporta bodies and cultural and educational and other mover ments.

Right-wing Socialist leaders wero bitterly denounced for having dividid the workers in Western countrib.

France and Italy are the only Western nationa

munist

whose. Com-

„parties, brong___to_the Cominform. The other members aro the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Hungary, Humanis, Poland and Czechoslovakia,"

The

at the decisions, taken meeting were published at length, by. the Soviet party. newspaper Pravda and « party papers in all member nations."

Moscow also broadcast thein several times on the All-Unin Radio,

The main resolution, spon- Gored by the Soviet Union, of all called for a rallying "supporters of peace into a mass world movement".

APPEAL TO PARTIES

It demanded the rallying of Rome. Nov. 29, Two Washington, Nov. 29. The United States all honest supporters of peace, Communist workers were plans to make a new series of atomic weapons political views and party mem

irrespective of religious falihs. killed and 12 Carabinieri tests at Eniwetok in the Pacific. This was an-bership, in the broadest platform wounded during a two-hour nounced tonight in a joint announcement by the against the threat of a new war gun battle between Com Atomic Energy Commission and the Defence which harigs over mankind." munists and the police in Department. The announcement gave no indica-

the small town of Torre

them to Maggiore, 50 miles north- tion when the tests will be conducted.

cast of Rome.

Ing at the seams.' He suld not the five power part pre- Spain was being

screamed across the airfield to ing "transformed posed by the Soviet Union, Mr Asked if he would like to see into a large-scale milltary basa Austin

the blazing wreckage. Rescue Trew alded an Astatic pact against Cominu for a

injured survivors. a future

war,"

Ja smple. The rest of Ambulances ewer "Why have Turkey and Persia the

rushed nism, he replied he would.

felt an insecurity hospitals. world Referring to his stay here, he been dragged into the North due

the inability to

of the said, "I have been very

An hour after the crash, In Atlantic Pact when they are not Security well

Council to performer received. If I stay much onger North or even

smoke growing daylight, Atlantic?" heits function. This was due to stili rising from the blackened, my belt might not RE with asked. "Why has the Shea of the misuse by the Soviet Union

wel wreckage and firemen were like mine." United Persia come tu Ibe United of the veto.

States to seek military ald?"

pulling bodies from the ruins. (Continued on Page 5)

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EDITORIAL

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Senator Knowland & China

Senator Knowland's declaration,

I to

maintain their positions on the mainland” produces incredulous smiles in Hongkong, and doubts as to whether he has been correctly appraised of the existing military altuation in China, it is because here it is impossible to belleve anything else but that the Nationalists as a milltary and political Power-are on the way out. There is no reason to gloat over the fact, but there it is, and it is presenting a false view of the situation to suggest otherwise. The worthy Senator is probably actuated by the best of motives in trying to convince American, and other public opinion, that the Nationalists (as they exist today) are capable of Big Things tomorrow: but his judgment appears to be based on sentiment, rather than realities. For example: Shanghai, that city that would be "defended to the last man", fell with hardly a shot being fired in its defence; Canton, the southern bastion that would "finally repel the Com munist - advance, went likewise-only more ko; now Chungking, the "impregna«. ble centre of West China" is surren dered. Where else on the mainland are: the Nationalists to "maintain “ their positiona?” Chengtu? Hardly; Kunming? Most unlikely. And thereafter it is Impossible to suggest a stronghold from where the Nationalists might fullt Me Knowland's confident, prediction. It Is

· possible that Senator Knowland is think- Ing in terms of underground" "moves. ements the Fifth Column and guerlila anife; but here again, the Senator may overlooked the established fact that

have

there no longer exists any popular con. fidence in the Nationalist regime-and without that as a foundation, recret warfare is condemned to defeat before It even begins to operate. Senator Know- land le not on his own in deploring the ever-tightening grip which Communism is gaining on Chian: we, as much as he, cannot stomach the cynical, materialistic and wholly undemocratic ideas of Com munism. But to look to a political party and government, which has shown itself to be decadent, as the saviour hardly. commends itself, There is

до solid foundation left with the Nationalists upon which can be built a house of durability. Resistance to Communism-and resistanco- la imperative-must come from those who are prepared to give practical, not lip service, to democracy; who will struggle- for ita existence and its eventual triumph: not those who scek power for power's sake under the cover of suave phrases end platitudes which are supposed to represent Democracy, China needs another renais sance the genuine will of the people asserting itself through established democratic methods. Unfortunately this cannot

come. through the present Nationalistic regime, which is wilful, self-secking and demagogic. Nor can it come through American military aid. It could be assisted and encouraged by sound precept and example, and this, perhaps, Is the best message Senator Knowland cari take back to Washington. Für, me It was fruthfully said this week, bollets cannot destroy ideas, but ideas can overcome bullets.

was

The Communists had staged an unauthorised political rally In the central square of Torre Magglore and opened fire with automatic

weapons on the Carabinieri whu attempted to disperse them. Five Carabinieri were wounded during the first skirmish.

Labour

con-

The atomic tests are to de- Holmes

and Narver, Los An- termine the emelency of Im- geles

and engineering proved weapons developed struction Brm, for maintenance since the Inst experiments nt and Improvement of facilities the Entwetok proving grounds at the Entwetok proving ground. In the spring of 1948,

Military and Naval units parti- They will be the first A-blastseipating in the current work ket off by the United States at the proving grounds will be since the world was told last part of Joint Task Force III." September that Russia had pro- duced an atornic explosion in her frantic race to catch up with this country.

The Joint announcement

COURIER ABOARD Lieutenant-Colonel A. F. S. | Fane, aged about 30, a Brida ourier, was Dated as a passen ser who boarded the planu in The Communists then with- washington for Mexico Cny. drew and barriendod them- the prish kilay sum t-selves in their headquarters in Li-Col. Fanc Was A King's the

chamber. Police | wk; messenger un route to Mexico reinforcements, rushed trom "The Department of Defence Chy and Guatemal

nearby San Severo, ordered the and the Atomic Energy Com- Man wakala who saw Communists to surrender.

mission have advised the Presl- the crash said the plane hit a When they refused and con- dent that a new series of tests Juilding

"one

engine tinue shooting, the Carubinier of atomic weapons is planned dropped off".

also opened are, killing two at the Commission's proving New

en into another woriters, and seriously wound- ground at Eniw.tok Atoli in the building when big flames bursting a third United Press. Marshall Islands Jut, 10Lowed by the noise of an

xplosion.

men

and.

CNAC

(15

JOINT OPERATION "Full security restrictions required by the Atomic Energy Act apply to all aspects of test preluding the time of

MEN WANT PAYthe

up

The

Emergency

-

com-

Force III.

"I ran over to what was left of the plane. I figured that no- body would get out of that one, The fire was everywhere.

"The plane was broken Into just chunks."

"As in post atomic weapons "When I

the plane. got to two

operations Unit projects, the field out. staggered

from the went to the Miramar Hotel. Task Force, composed of per- will be carried out by a joint helped them' away Bre then I ran around the other in Austin Road, Kowloon,sonnel of Army, Navy and Air side and five other people were this morning when about Force, and the Atomic. Energy getting cut. Two of them were 200 employees of the China R. Quesada, USAF, will

Commission. Lieut-Gon Alwood women. They were hurt and

Joint Thak crying. I never heard anyone National Aviation Corpora mand

cry. There weren't any- tion assembled in the which has been formed to carry screams when the plans hit I grounds to await being paid Gen Quezada will have as de- out the new test programme. helped the women, away from by Mr E. L'Allison, CNAC putles Brig-Gen. Herbert Loper, Vice-President in charge of Army; Rear Adm. Tom B. Hi, CO-PILOT BADLY HURT operations,

Navy, and Dr Alvin C. Graves "They didn't laow what they

of the Los Alamos Scientif They were there for a long Laboratory. The Chief of Staff were doing. They were crying time as Mr Allison was unable is Brig-Gen. John K. Gerhart and I got them away. A couple to pay them because the recent USAF of minutes later the first Injunction order granted by the "The Commission resently ambulance came up and carried Supreme Court prevented the announced contract with the people away,” t the watch funds of the Corporation from man added.

being

touched,

the flames.

A seriously injured co-pilot Mr Allison tried to p

to get in

statement.!!...

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Death Of Simon, The Cat

The secrecy about the time of the tests obviously is to make it more difficult for Russia to (Continued on Page 5)

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Workers and Communist portis were called on to expose The Right-wing Socialist leaders os the "bitterest enemies of

form pence" and advised to peace defence committees in towns and villages and organise boycotting of films, newspapers and books propagating the Idea

of a new wor.

The Bureau warned the Cóm- inunist pariles of France, Italy, Britain, West Germany and sther countries that they must light for peaco as tho Imperialists wanted to use them tor cannon fodder to carry out uggressive plans, Reuter,

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London, Nov, 29.-Simon, the A. S. WATSON

staggered to the front porch of touch with the Corporation's a home 100 feet from the scene lawyers to make application to and, while' blood oozed from the court for the unfreezing of his mouth, sald, "I think I am part of the funds to pay the men. dying and I want to m

moke a "Ther was no question of a Amethyst's cat, which war

demonstration," Mr. Allison told

VC for the Telegraph. The men were awarded the Dickens regular employees who and bees catching rats on board the shir prom sa their pay. shelling while the frigate was en although Injured by Communis The men dispersed later in the held prisoner in the Yangtse morning but some polica died in quarantine this evening

afriedi:béhlad; at the Hotel** -Our Own Correspondent, 4;

Mer K. C. Gulleit quoted him as saying, "Please be sure and get the number of the plane,

Another woman from nearby took notes of his statement of

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