1950-05-30 — Page 1

KEFYBIENT 1989, PHE COLA-TALA DANGAUT

VOL. V NO. 126

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The

Today's Weather: "Light" variable, mainly Southeast, winds; cloudy, with smo perióđe of rain.

Noon Observatiotte: Esrometrie pressure, 1007.4 mb.. 20.75 in.. Temperature, 79.5 dos. F. Dew point, 75 der. F. fo- lative humidity, 89. Wind direction, But, Wind force, 6 kuota.. Low water: 8 in. at 2.55 pm, Iligh water: 4 ft. 7 in at 0.25 p.m.

Hongkong Telegraph.

RUSSIAN COUNTERPART OF

ATLANTIC HIGH COMMAND LIKELY

CHINA ASKED TO RESTRAIN EXPANSIONISM

London, May 29.-Diplomatic advices reach- ing the Foreign Office indicated today that Russia may soon set up an Iron Curtain counterpart to the permanent "cold war. Cabinet" created by the Atlantic Paet powers.

Some diplomats here expect the Supreme Soviet, which convenes on June 12, to be confronted with a new programme aimed to co-ordinate re- armament and unify the diplomatic policies of Russia and her European and Asiatic partners.

The political side . expected!! Members of the Soviet mis- direcions to all satellite countries, us leadership of V. M. Molutov, well as from Japan and Slum, ere proveeding! to Moscow in deply president of The Soviet Council Ministers

This connection.

Connell is intend to nobilise economic resources

to Cont

the

G. M. Malenkov, who is also

Prezident

the of cleputy Supreme Soviet and a member of the organising commitee, is expected to take charge of eo-

dination of rearment.

Holiday Death Toll

In America

Chicago,

May

20.-Holiday traffle deaths mounted atarining

ty today toward what may be

The

new Soviet Belleve ter

all the

its members, including China, to Fasure maxintura. readiness for war. It is believed that China already has been asked to rem strain her polley of expansion- Ism in Asta until it is en whether

a long-term armistice: with

is possible, the West The proposal for ercation of an all-Communist United Na- Hom had met with proval of Stalin.

گرمی

the A-

There have been numerous with recently that the advent n Council has been such a necelerated. Recent diplomatic negotiations between areas, 43 Hungary widely separated as and Outer Mongolia, Albania that the and Korea, indicate

est of the heaviest Memorial | Communist area is being "tidled

Day highway

tion'n history.

toils in the nas

Since Inst Friday evening, 320 persons died of violent deaths

in the four-day holiday period.

up" to cope with a "long drawn out coki war"

GIVEN WEIGHT

The theory that ituscia plans

10 form its own uiliance is

The toll included 202 traffe given weight by the fact that and her calellites deaths, even is plane crashes, 55 Rusia drownings and 50 deaths in il-bave ceased to participate in the work of the United Nations ellaneous mistaps.

Truffle

experts feared thatng a result of the dispute ny

whether

Nationalist or Com- ways would be Jammed all highways

munist China chould be repre- over again in the "split" holiday a thousands who had to work conledd on Monday started out to enjoy Memorial

Day

Tuesday. Trips to the graves of the war dead and to country parades and sporting events would in- tensify the crash,

un

The my weather over much ut the country was expected to vale the number of family ears on most-United Press.

EDITORIAL

It is not believed that Morcow will be the seene of a Foreign Ministers' meeting such, na was em London by the West, of ligh- a contention Such level officials was held in Mon- late host year, Elut in- pow

experts on rations are that

meet in the lower levels will Soviet capital-United Fresn.

|

TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1950.

And

Ava Was Wearing

Large Ring

A

Frank Sinatry, whose name has been romantically linked with Ava Gardner,

and Mrs. Frank Grant.

is pictured above at Tossa in Spain with Ava (left) Laughing Ava was wearing a large ring on the third finger of her left hand.

Naval Clash Last Night

The

sald Royal Navy this morning that the sound of gunfire heard by Peak residents last night was probably due to a action between sporadio Chinese Nationalist Communist

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naval craft near the Manshian group of The Nationalists Islands, have not completely with- drawn thetr

at activi- ties from this area,

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Fresh Move In Cold War Against Communism

MISSION BEING SENT

TO FAR EAST

Still Riding

At 85

Shaftesbury Dornet, May 19,--An 83-year-old woma rlder won a prize mounted gymkhana

Es which

youngest competitor aged three.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)

today In approximately three] London, May 29, - weeks' time, a small mission leaves London for the Far East in one of the most important moves in the cold war against Communism,

The decision to send the Mission was one of the major outcomes of the meetings in Brussels of the Executive Board of the International Con- federation of Free Trade Unions, which concluded this week-end.

French Socialists Decide Policy

Union

The big aim of the Mision i will be the recovery of the de- mocratic lead in the labour d in which the Communists have long been the dominant factor.

The British Trades Congress hna 'ntrendy selected the British member of the gam --Fred Dalley, former officia! of the Railway Clerks Association, who has previously been with a mission to Malaya.

The

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hero

the

was

Woman Was Men Lilian Lewis, cf Compton Abbas, Dorselshire. She was plied third in a class for riding horse bent Bulted

rider.- Reuter.

lo

New Turkish Premier's

Programme

France, May 29. The Na- Other menbere will inchule Adnan

Britain And Debating Schuman

Merger

flonal Congress

of

to-

French Socialist Party day called for "an effort to include Britain in the Euro- pean coal and steel pool

scheme." Plan

of tite

American

Ankara, May 29.-The Turkish Prime Minister, Mr Adnan Monderes, told the | National Assembly today the member

Fideration of Labour and the that Turkey's foreign policy, rivat Ainerlenn organization, nimed at peace and security the CIO, and of the Belgian in the Eastern Mediter- Federation of labour.

ranean, required closer com Mission members are expect operation with Near East ed to meet in Brussels for pre-States. This request was included inminary talks during the next sha foreign policy motion, ten days. Flying first to He said

Govern- continue unent's foreign policy program- Thionville, Northern France, May 29.-Thecussed by the Congress in its Karachi, they will

third and last day.

Among their journey via India, Burname would be based on the tra French Foreign Minister, M. Robert Schuman, other points made by the Con- and Malaya to Japan and ex-ditional alliances with Britain

gress was a request that Com- pert to be In South-East Asia and France, and the

closest said here today that among the opponents of his

be admitted tu for a

period of about four enllaboration with the United European coal and steel pooling plan are "the munist Chin

the United Nations.

States, The motion said. "Our Party timid ones who seek salvation strictly within their

drems

On to admit

tho, domestic it necessary national frame”.

Prime into the United Nations Organi

Minister Inld ration the Government which

four-point programme. presides in effect

There were also, he said, "the anxious ones". But if they admitted that an idea was good it was

months.

LINK-IN CHAIN

This

is but

Washington, May 20. The their duty to help because the object was the put-destinies of Chimay over the the International Confederation

United States Attorney General's ice today granted 198 Jewish Train in the United States for displaced persons leave to re- 12 days pendiar! a decision to grant then permanent residence here.

They had come across country from San Francisco to New York in a sealed train en route from

ting over of peace for the world, he said.

M. Schuman said that come unions and treaties had met with nothing but failure.

"We want to replace them by this organisation of solidarity d co-operation and also we want to do away with this cold war which may break out some day like a bad disease.

For the first time the Sucialists issued a call for the eventual withdrawal of French

troops from Indo-China.

TRYGVE LIE the French Government:

AT WHITE

Ching to Germany and Austria. The negotiations are starting HOUSE

A new Displaced Persons Bill recently pasad by both Houses of Congress is at present before

Senate How Cummitue--teuter.

a

On Parallel Lines

Back On

MERICA'S response to the all cards.

and M. Schuman of the strife in Indu China has been gratifyingly swift. Military modern highest equipment of the standards is already on its way to Saigon. Within a few days of the decision to send π special economic mission to sponsar technient aid and development schemes, the appointed head, Mr Robert Blum, was

on

measures

his way and should by now have arrived. When the cruelul stage looms large on the horizon and France correctly declares her inability to carry longer the burden unaided, it is past time to recag- nise that peace is indivisible and that to block the march of Com- munism across Europe are futile while the door is left open in South-East Asia. In short, deeds not words, and happily both the United States and the Common- wealth have acted. That is heartening, Until recently, the palley of both hid Inclined to be negative in character. Not because the grim facts were not known and understood, except perhaps there was lock of appreciation of France's downward trend in Indo-Chinu, but because there was te disposition to march along parallel lines,' Britain, shouldering the cost of combatting 'guerilla terrorism in Malayn und malu- taining a largely expanded garrison in Hongkong, felt she had done her share, strategically, tactically, and financially. The United States experienced difficulty the in accepting the implications of collapse of the Nationalist Government in China, and, for that matter, nny Inclination to be realistic

some

was accom-

panied by reluctance to enter upon any southward commitments, military or financial, after pouring millions uselessly

in two or three weeks. There is no time to lose for a delay may impossible to nean making it in Conference 19

attain our objectives."

France and Beltain are likely jto exchange views on the French plan in à series of notes during the whole of this week, the French Foreign Office said

For

into the Nationalist coffers. Even today. South-East Asia the newly conceived polley cannot be regarded as more than a stop-gap resort. The urgent necessity for action is clearer than it was, but piece. meni assistance can achieve no more than while u a breathing-space gineer broader political and strategicul concept energes as the result of Big Three con- sultations and becomes operative. That reason, American approval of the results of the Commonwealth conference ut Sydney is of the highest importance and promise. Only fong-term policy designed to brenk poverty and gradually create conditions ensuring a raising of over-all living standards can offer the. slightest chance of success in combatting the Communist menace. For the time being, however, A prospective Improve nient for social well-being is no substitute for direct methods of challenging the Red onslaught, the use of arms. The con- fllet in this part of the globe, unfor- tunately, has yet to revert to the category of cold

Suppression of the Communist-inspired guerillas in Malaya and Indo-Chinu will compel exertion of military force on a scale exceeding any that has gone before, and then it is likely to prove a long and painful process. The vital thing, however, has been ac- complished. The United States hesitates Indo-China's uncomfortable no longer. situation na the key-alone to the entire Asin defence a fully ac- South-Enst knowledged and the earlier Altitude thrusting the task of control entirely on France has been dismissed. From now on, guardianship of this barrier to Soviet ambitions becomes a collective responsi- bility, Outside Moscow, the world will sleep a shade easier as a result.

war.

todas

They adopted a motion asking

(1) To Ing the Indo-China United before problem Nations Security Council.

the

slap on the part of

link in the chain of worldwide activities decided upon in an effort to secure an improvement in working condi- tous, particularly in areas of Communist infiltration.

It is reported by the Indus-

the new

side the

down a

1. The utmost Government economy;

2.--Fostering of foreign pri- vate capital investments;

3.-Lena State interference in Private affairs;

4.Encouragement of private

inftkilve.

He said that State-owned In-

Correspondent of the Daily dustries would gradually be | Telegraph that while the full

details of moves must be kept handed over to privato enter

the liquidation of State owner- secret, activities will extend to prise, the final objective being both sides of the fron Curtain, the

He called for the pro- will There

aggressive hip. strategy,

and tection of the rural population,

both

be

obvious

serritories declaring that agriculture was the State's is the foundation of pressure

economy.-Reuter.

In underground, where Communias strongest.

(2) To promise the United Nations that once penee returns

the real in It will recognise

within dependence of Vietnam the feely necepled framework Washington. May 29.- the French Union, and with

draw its troops at the request Truman, the President

A Vietnamese Mr chosen Secretary of State,

in tree Dean Acheson, and the Router. United Nations Secretary- General, Mr Trygve Li, Sir Owen Dixon mape of

去

Government elections-

TI long "confidential Meets Nehru

Cold War Dangers

Montreal, May 20. Str Cadogan, Britain's

that the Con- Alexander

be able to delegate to the United Nations,

The Manchester Guardian's labour correspondent writes that the report of the Union's Far East Mission will determine

the regional or ganisation which the Internn- held

tional Confederation proposes to A message from Rome says talk" on cold war problems

establish in the Far East. that Italy forluy annomeed today.

New Delhi, May 20,--Sir COLLEGES PLANNED that she would join the talks.

Nations United

It is hoped Onler Foreign

about Owen Dixon, An Italian

What they talked

for Kashmir, will federation will was not disclosed. medlator spokesman said that a delega-preetsety

formed to take That probably will depend on leave on Thursday for Karachi fance and equip at kast two predicted today that it might tion had bren

for colleges Acheson's report on Wednesday where he will discuss the Kash residential

the take "generations" to put an part in the Parks micelings on

Pakistani training of trade unionists in end to the problem with wir

cold war, but he the proposal for a European to Congress and the public.

before going on to Asia. These colleges would he could conceive of no other end by

Mr Acheron talked fing with officials French The marle Dool

White Srinagar, the the

capital. Kashmir

independent of Gov- but a victory for the free n ntirely Robert the President at Foreign Minister,

tioni. Sir Owen conterred with the crament support. nuse for about 45 minutes. Schuman.-Iteuler.

After the Far East mission, it

ст carly "Expect no Then were joined by Mr Lie Prime Minister, Mr Jawaharlal

Mr is expected that similar mis- and Mr Byron Price, assistant Nehru, and his deputy,

will be undertaken 25 Sardar Patel, for one hour this sions

Africa and the Near East, morning.-United Press,

Missing LinkSecretary-General

Clue Pursued

Loadon, May

minutes.

for

After the White House con- ference, Mr Lie said, "We had confidential talk and I was not bringing any mecastge from 29-Scotland Stalin to Truman, I think that Yard few a high olleer to Paris must be the tenth time I have this week-end to follow a newid that today."

Mr Acheson w25 equally elue in the five-week old myn- tery of an explosion In a Vik-guarded

airliner and today cloaked" made a full report on my all developments in security mission abroad."--United Press.

sitenes.

Superintendent William Rud-

kin, the detective who made ine

and said mcruly,

air dach, was working with the Convicts Commit French police on the "missing link" clue.

Suicide!

Michigan 20,--Two

some

Tide Of Refugees Flowing Back

to

Winnipeg, May 29.-The tide of the Manitoba flood refugees, mostly women and children, the old and sick,, was slowly beginning to flow back into the city today.

into the

The

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easy

solution," he said in ☐ speech

nt at graduation ceremoniee

"It may McGill University, take generations to reach tho even your goal and may be generation will not look upon

But in time, he said. "If you remain firm in your faith and true to the dictates

of your conscience and your heart, you

the last."

will gain in strength and know that the battle is to be won at

Sir Alexander, who received an honorary Doctorate of Laws at today's.. ceremonies, said that while the cold war was being waged, there were iwo dangers which threatened

degree

London, May

The return of 900 hospital this morning stood nearly four the frea“ peoples-n danger of The

Viking, 11 British

evacunted to Seskal-feet below the peak of 30.3 feet "fatofirlie despair and a dan- European Airways, airliner with

City, Indiana, May patients

the height of the ger of "too casy optimism," 27

convicts imped

dled and chewan started and the back reached nt passengers abouri,

of more than flood the week before last, The Reuter, back to Northolt Airport, Lon- four are seriously ill in the ward movement

Indiana State Prison after 400 cases evacuated to Alberta minimum flood level, however, don, on April 13. A bomb ex-

this is 18 feet and the to take place later

water stil was plosion had ripped out part of crinking

typewrнer week. Scores of other evacuees had eight feet more to drop to the tail fuselage over the cleaning fluid.

Some

city got back inside tus banks. The Britain's Return convlets will drink trickled back Chnusel.

alcohol in it," yesterday, bound for arcan now flood level is now dropping of Today, Scotland Yard would anything with

an average of six inches daily. To Good Old Days give no indication of the form commented the warden of the free of flood water.

Winnipeg residents like Three to four feet of water tho Paris inquiries were taking. prison.-Reuter.

David Mitchell, his wife and mill cloched through the streets Last month British police off-

Left His Pistol

two children were reunited in of Morris, a town 40 miles south cials abandoned the belief that

their home for the first time of hero with a normal populu holiday the sabotage attempt had a

At Home

d controlier, Brigadier | civilians on

of more than 1,000. Thirty homeward along Britain's high- tion of political motive-Reuter.

guard over Ways tonight after the biggest | week-end joyride they havo had sold the the town

по dry ground since before its wat GENERAL SMUTS

Chicago, May 20-Policeman R. E, A Morton,

from Army to within three miles.. San Zanniello, 20, was recover-change over

De-rationing of petrol on the Pretoria, May 20,--General Ing today from a knife slash civilian food control would be In Winnipeg, the authorities

evo of the first traditional publie blowly restoring Jon Smuts, who has been suffered when ho ran into agredual. Most units that made were

holiday of the British summer. serviced Blood-fighting from the chaos brought by brought out as many cars for ordered by his doctors can-ntoan to break up a riot among up the

his force of 6,000 men started to month of focus that sent nearly is three-day week-end, as eel all public engagements for 10 patrons,

of Winnipeg's 320,000 road patrols remembered in the somelime, rested quietly today pistol and discovered to had pull out for their own camps third at his farm at Irene, near here. left it home in his other unl-this morning.

from their "good old days." before the population fleeing Router.

The official flood level late idinen United Press,

war-Bettler.

reached for

form--United Press.

in weeks.

The

order

29.--Whitsun motorists stroomed