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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1950.

IMPRESSIVE CHURCHILLIAN SPEECH ON DEFENCE

A-Bomb As Deterrent

To Aggression

CHERISHING

A HOPE

London, July 27.

Mr Winston Churchill said today that American superiority in atomic bombs was

to his feeling that so far uscin hnd produced very few atonne) | bombs.

The extraordinary efforta

were making 10 obtai

simall quantities of uranlum sormed to justify his [hopeful view,

even

Mr Churchlil criticised "the cheerful view" on atomic wai fere taken by a recent Govern- ment manual on civil defence It was a mistake in propaganda to weaken the force of this de-

ferrent

Itusinns on the seeming to suggest that it was not so dreadful RE had been Mouth. Heuter.

NO CHANCES

by

Mr Shinwell, in his reply to the debate, sald that Mr Chur-

chit bat said that he did nu:

believe that war was imminent.

not prepared to

of take any chance," Mr Shinwell

still an effective and even perhaps a "But I am decisive deterrent to any major act Russian aggression.

commented.

"I proceed on the assumption and

"It is for this reason that I have ventured to anything can happen express the opinion that a third world is not im-anywhere

that trouble con Break out even of a major So far as the West

minent and I cherish the hope that it will be character.

is concerned we know exactly

averted," he told the House of Commons.

But, he said, the atomic bomb was the only

what we require."

"I am bound to tell the

rouse that our present position

weapon on land, sea or air in which the Ameri-fall far short of our require

cans could possibly have overwhelming superiority

during the next two or three years.

¡ments." Mr Shinwell said.

Rating

the

Smoke Got In Her Eyes

Smoke pouring out of the premises of the Com-

Mr Churchill recalled that have 12 divisions against more | pinlng to Aght along the Debridge Co., Ltd., China Bullding, yesterday morning

in 1940 he had felt that the than 80." development of vast

same

expected

"We

"an assumption underlying many of specches" that 13ritain Was

fence 31inister declared, Or these 12 divisions less re 7101 nir than

AWO

artured alone. were power would bring Britain against anything from 25 to 30

her troubles. Hearmoured Soviet divisions out of

Mr Churchill said he had could not feel the

spoken only of Soviet forces, sense of concrete ansurance but there was also Poland,

sinder Strict

Russian control, defenceles with a powerful "We

party army. than we have ever been, and And Cachoslovaita had anothe, than Reuble thought, y no fern tru, twenethy

He added, "The arsunds of never de pskoda, pesibly the reet arms

Kive in."

ylant ww N Europe, are Comhguarit t Roan prand Athly paning out their wea strength with Band of the Ales | 14.

HOW.

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declared.

are

it

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In the event of a war now. Meɛ

Churchill add that even if hal! I

让中 tr tamantend 175 Suvies

divisions w.. and simt uniona 2.

....

CLOOMY FICTURE

.: SE By day, the nem semprid me at Calvis reset, the Changed or the Eefore any substantial Jauni J aver in divisions upon it reetment, then the Unite w without any further melati. a- Itoo."

in Western Europe, they ruild

He described the sending of jet aircraft engines by Britain to Ruin, By and the AL- Kentine as " act of itpro vidence beyrand description" and called upon the Defence Mats fer to say whether the authe Jets to neutrals had ceased.

ONE VOTE

could eve

131

tien

ourelve, al though

from in- protected ve trade incursion by the ant

Channel

tank be tacle of the

with its waves, tides and slovný, would be Well mibject to a bombard- ofment by rocks propelled and

to

nght

Me Shinwell said it was not exclusively a question of what "we have, or what France or Belgium or Holland can pul into the pool. It is a question off what the whole of the North Treaty powers Cal Atlantic

to the

defence o~ contribute ganization, nut only in the West but elsewhere."

ALL ROUND

Mr Shinwell said that the West was vital, but one hard ti nok all round,

"We have the Far Ea.k, the SEdefie Bm C and other parts where the daruter mitra- tion is very ressorts inlevel” he said.

He and they were unblinus up 201 only ground forces Bul forces in the air, and material, on the basis of a plan provided by the Atlantic Treaty Organi

solion word the Contribution the Brussels Treaty powers,

of

Turning to the Kurea situm- tion, the Defence Minister said that no solder under 19 would hided fable-I am not re

be sent there! in the British in of atom hondan-incumparı

contingent.

Tais meant that jably more severe than any Nationa

Servicemen icon- Earler, M

we have endureit or imagined.“ Churchill fulled

seripts) world not be seni ex- "All this is true and may be by only one vate to force the

In very eugit

exceptional cir- Churchill continued. cumstances. Government

Mr hold toetay's wear," session of the debate in secret, "How near no one knows for

He added that in midition to dictator calling

up reserver for the same gasps of surprize as the oligarchy in the Kremlin, who Navy, announced yesterday, it stalt martin was annonces have no moral principies as might be necessary to take for the Government known to us, who are able to similar measures for the regular 200 votes and 205 ainsi.

pursue year after year calculated reserves of the Army.

There were loud cheers and certain

excep:

The

Mr Churchill formally de plans for world conquest with- Ar Shinweil défended the ruanded the vote on secfecy in out being concerned with public | Government's detton in allow- Parliament's traditum man-opinion, free election, or any of ing pero-engines

to 10 th ner. Smiling broadly as he th

the scruples that rule the Russia. scrutinised the public matterley, Western and the Christinn

he announced, "I spy stranggenal" || world."

The Speaker (Chairman)---- Colonel Clifton Brown-there upon ordered the vote to be

taken.

"Is there anyone in his senses who imagines that if we had Churchill asked how declined to present Russia with any fihter and bomber air these engines, she would not craft the Russians had in full have built up the strength to rommission 011 the western which, Mr Churchill and I have: front. Would four, Ave or six referred?" he asked, thousand be too large an esti- HONEYMOON PERIOD mate?, he queried.

Mr Shinwell said that the en- to make his major Mr Churchill sald nagines were sent at a time when the Guvern Britain was on good terms with chill raid that since the session ment had agreed that the Russian honeymoon period". was to be public he would con- Americans should establish a

Mr Shinwell id that Mr

The Liberals voted with the Conservatives nguinat the Government.

Rising speech in the debate, Mr Chur- | two years

which

the himself to stating facts bombing base in Fast Anglia Churchill had asked if there was

certainly were

well from which bey could use one fully armoured division in known to Russin und to the the ators bonzl On Russian

the British Army of the Rhine. General Stants of Europe and cities and key points.

a vital The answer, he said, was "Yes, America.

That, he said, was

with the proper proportion of atomic bomb de- The veteran slaterinan com- part of the

armour". mented on the statement made terrent "on which we are living yesterday by The Defence now." Minister, Mr Emanuel Shinwell, that Russia had 175 active divi slons.

TREMENDOUS

JET DISPERSAL

But one fact made in on- xio. Je could not understand a policy which could take this He said, "Even If only halflextraordinary an on the the 175 was used against us in and and, on th Westrem Europe, they could pena and distribute sa kige s lunch uver 10 divisions upon proportion of jet aircraft Shamwell acerted. us without any further mobill-where sellon."

production

Inenms held the lead.

British!

to

Wan that

when a short circuit caused a fire. A large quantity of damaged by flames, smoke and water. goods WILS Below: She got her swimsuit really wel. Police had to break down the show window in order to get into the

(Staff Photographer), shop.

U.S. Warns Readiness

To Defend Germany

Washington, July 27.

GROWING

BRUSSELS

TENSION

(Continued from Page 1)

sirike which will only end when King Leopold nudienfes."

Socialist Members of Parli

meul Today fully approved the stoppages and pald 250,000

Moscow Paper Calls Lowell Thomas

Hardened Spy

A

Moscow, July 27.

The geographic magazine, “Round the World,”

Belgian francs Into the strikce said today that “hundreds of thousands of Tibetan democrats residing in China and Tibet itself are

fund.

Cual mines and other large

industries in Wailonia were tale rising to defend democratic Tibet."

Just before

magazine

today. Postmen, telephone and telegraph worlters jolied in the The monthly sloppage.

noon published by the Central Com-

"All strata

power, gas and water supplies milter the Communist Youth Defence

were cut off though emergency Organisation sak; measures ensured supplies 10 of Tibetan people. including masses of lama, are rising in a Imperialist

hospitals.

Department stores and a small shops have been since yesterday.

LIECE STRIKES

Union nations,

few struggle analnat

closed conquerors and internal renc→

llon,"

The article named Beltons and

#0

forcim im-

Submission

In Silva Casc

The union! slipulate that Americans, particularly the newspapers in Liege tomorrow Americana,

A submission that the case must be only two pages.

perialists who are trying to pre-should proceed no further wou The strike In Llege closed vent the boration of Tibet.made by Mr II. G. Sheldon, down h factory manufacturing sold that for that purpose KC. Teading Comsel for the small arms for tie Western the Americans are flooding the defence. 116 the crowded

country with spies and agents, Criminal Sessions, this morning Police broke up fights be "who study the innd's breadth when the trial was resumed of tween strikers and jorry and and length and I strategicM. A. da Silva, 43, solicitor, private car drivers th_i_read with economic possibilities,pud Shao-kwai Tam, 38, allan

Naia plotting conspiracies

and T.

II. Lo, alins 1. K., Lo, charged with conspiracy to pro- care false evidence.

tending

out of Mons.

were strewn on the main roads separation of Tibet from China. from the city.

The article specified the ex- Police were searching for

pedition in August, 1947, by three armed men in a car W Lowell Thomas. American radio Me Sheldon said that he cut signal, telephone and tele commentator. I said the ex- would charneterise le tabmla- Graph wires on the Brusselspedition consisted exclusively of stone as of some Importance. Lege railway line and gagned

and splen

declared, "Lowell"Part of the evidence this a number of signal-box men.

Thomas, this hardened spy, matter is to wholly appast the In Charleroi, deputy station carried specially

practices of 'responsible' principles and poiled took aanstructions from

the White feriminal law that it is Inadinis- algaal boxes and M. Hera House." It elled as evidence the sible in in and if a conviction Maldoux, the local secretary of

fact that Thomas was carried should by chance occur there the Transport

Union, to and from the Tibetan border would be clearly a miscarriage was arrested as he picketed by an American military air of justice," he said. Charlerot rallway station.

masters and

Workers

Three armed inen who tried craft, la block bridge nearby with

a private car were als

also arrested

The

A crucial point in the malter, ather xl this was his ret sabinio

magazine listed American activities in Tibet: ion, was that if what was com Ps were three others carrying Kermit Roosevelt's mission

mmitted by Silva was wrongful revolvers in the Mons area,

April, 1950; the arrival of an it was not a erminal act. Strikers 311 Charleroi lai

Mir Sheldon said it was won American military mission in Tricolour Bag over The hug

Calcutta to supervise the de- and wleket for a person to ask portrait of the late King Albert livery of light and heavy armone cke if he was prepared to give fake evidence but it was to Tibet.

not a cristinal net "and in our nu charge can criminal law possibly be brought In concem

on with it."

-King Leopold's father—at *hu fout of a Fira World War

lemorial.

The magazine charged at the In Mons strikers stormed rasame time that the Britong and way tracks and chared away Americans ane doing their men who continued working.utmost to prevent negotiations Reuter.

between Lhasa and the authori ties in Peking.

BLOOD FLOWS

It said the Lisa miten hod Blood flowed in front of the been detained in India by the Royal Palace at Lanken tonight British refusal to grant them a

The case is proceeding.

PRESS

via Hongkong. PHOTOGRAPHS

es gendarmes broke up a "re-visit to le

thou- The

of

volutionary" march of

that all sands of anti-Leopold demons- these British and American in- trators led by a Socialist and trigues provoked the greatest former Premier, M. Paul Henri-Indignation in the masses of the Spank

Chinese people and thousands One

man was killed in the of democrata living in China. overturning of a bus-load

The liberation of Tibel from Leopold

supporters arriving imperialist and feucial chains, from Ghent. About 70 people plus the struggle for the rebirth were gashed by stones and democratic Tibet, is part of shattered glass, including eight the struggle for freedom and Rendarmes, and 18 people were prosperity of that great family taken

nations

Chinere to hospital. Thousands of demonstrating People's Socialists began the march led by M. Scaak who, facing the

Licke crowd, shouted, "To We shall meet Leopold en his own doorstep if he dares to appear."

Many of the marchers car- rled pictures of King Leopold shaking hands with Hitler. Their way barred, they shouted "Gestapo,

and "Abdicate."

A hundred Jarda from Laeken Palace gates the mar chers came face to face with terried ranks of black-helmeted gendarmes, white helmeted municipal police and mounted The United States today reiterated its deter-guards, all strongly armed.

The leading marchers, head- mination to defend Western Gerniany "against ea by M. Spank, and other

Socialist Members of Parlia ment possible attack from the east."

and oficials, allowed themselves to be turned down a side street.

LIT

the State response

10

iuntio

pro-

intention The United States Deprecating a sceret session, was expressed by Mr Shinwell said that the Gov- Department

about The erament was taking no chances. question

The atmosphere of the session East. Gertman and Soviet

the Well odds and and

end of what paranda imploring

with Busefu occurred were very often conerang to fight veyed outside. If Ir Churchill remain neutral in the event ather, diss Minister

ww of war. of Defence he would de precisely the same, Mr Mr Michael McDermott said. statement: "The West Me Richard Crot man, leader Gennayable in ree, to think, Mr Chuchil recalled that Labour Party, said that the can complete

of the "Keep feft" troup in the to sprak and to act for himself Mr Shinwell had stated that: 1040

freedom- leas 1 but felt that they ane-third of there 175 divisions | development of out or power Eart totiny

encouraging fact in the Farikely than perhaps wine fear in swallow hook, line and are mechanised or armoured.

would bring Britain out of her Pakistan and Ceylon were ready sinker the Lorelei songs of the That," said Mr Churchill. "Troubles. He could not feel the

ht for a tremendous statement."

their pational East German puppets. Mr Churchill compared Brame sense of concrete asurance

existence.

lave few illusions tal's 6,000 tank strength with

British polley in the last Bye Soviet Utopia, in which fortunate brothers the Commonwealth, years had built up a genuine less bulwark against Communism-and they should have no doubls of our repeatedly expressed determination He added that if we allow and continuing

to be isolata: 4x

the to defend

of the

Ile declared that even

that hope must never be aban-vileged

whelming superiority of numible attack from the cast." more dom that peaceful settlement hers would "in the end wear important than reserves general stocks of tanks was the be reached with Russia down."

Ainerlein qfamile | The debale then ended and the Consolidated Fant Bill, on That is the pulley which which it was held nives us the best chance of

Pored without ព vote... voiding a fearful atomic war," Heuter.

Conservative leader sald. While it was painful in every

the

Agure of 40,000 Russian

now.

than

are more defenceless we have ever been, and

We Innks which had been estimated, and this a terrible thought. But by the Chairman of the War

we must never dicspain We Services Committee

must never give in." he stated. American House of Representă- fives.

the

aren

They

the

their Hve,

Continuing. My Churchill said ves white" the over-Feleral Republic against pos-

"tant upon number organised in formation,trength." and asked, "Can we be tall the number of Soviet tanks now as- sembled on or near the western

t?"

Mr Churchill went on, "n Korea we have seen how formid-

the

bo

able even a few score of tanksrespect to be told officially that

might be, and How tough the Russia had been able to ruin the heavy Russian tanks are.

| secret of the atomle bomb, "be-

WAN

Crossing Tragedy

St. Quentin, July 27,

~

Radio Hongkong

1.K.T.

Bingkend Calling." Programme

FLYS Summary: 403. Children's Framine: "Man and Hia Animals." Reindeer." "The apps and Their (BBCTS): 6.20, Three Senga hy William frownlow. (Haritone); 5.36, Five people were killed today Cantonese by Radio. Given by Miss "Any development and in-ween having the secret and when the lorry on which they Lee Wai-lan & S. 1. 14. de

any large number of provement in the bazookas and having

60, Monla Liter and I Serenade:; were riding was hit by the 7. Music LAvers Hour." Classical ether antl-tank weapons would bombs there is undoubtedly an Paris-Brussels-Amsterdami Ex- and Light Classical Requests, Pre- be greatly welcomed."

press at a level crossing near sented by Yvonne Charter, Studio);

interval".

ARMOURED AVALANCHES Russian Britain's former war leader utomie

He ciici not think that tho rate of production of bomba was at present

SUBMARINE PERIL

odded gravely, "I cannot think rapid, he odded,

this threat of the enormous mass

of Soviet armour is in any way

Ar Churchill said he would

wastered. Nor, for that matter, not be exaggerating if he said Is there anything in use and ser- vice at the present the which it a Soviet attack by moder- could cope with this array of nised German U-boats on Bri- armoured avalanches we must tain's ocean lifeline might, per- expect on the outbreak of war hops, be for should war come,"

St. Quentin, Northern, France,

The lorry was carried for over

a hundred yards along the track-Reuter.

Swede To Teach

Ethiopians

& World News and News Analysis London Relay); 5.15, Studio Concert. vle Yuen (Soprano) wilb Plana

8:30. Accomp by Betty Brown: Andre Kostelanetz and His Orches- tra; 8.40. "Services Quiz." Introduerd by Kenneth Mackenzie. (Studio); D. "From Ute Editorials." (London Re- lay): 0.10. Weather Report: 9.11. "Kapellmeister Bach." Written for the Occasion of the centenary of Black's Death by Jack Shepherd. Stockholm, July 27, Produced by Belly Drown and Emat Ethiopia has engaged a Swede Liddell! Munle Arranged by Betty Drown (Studin): 10.10, *W He to 10 bead her Imperial Police Differ." A Combat of the Sexes. Staff College at Addis Ababa, It With Joyce Crentell, Chairman Iones There was

was announced here today. Kay Hammond Yvonne Amand; Veisur: Pergy Cudlipp and John of defence In He is Mr Hugo Hortão, Clemens. (ÚNCTя): 10.40. "Soft the Western which the United States had local enforcement offer. Four Lighia and Sweet Musle"; 11, Radio alles had a total of 12 divisions, gained a measureless superiority Swedish polico Inspectora have News Reel. Lendon Relay): 11.10, Mr Churchill said, "On his as the stock of atom tombs. bren appointed as his assistants. Male: Gril Seve the King: 1130,

Mr Churchill said he adhered (---Neuter. sumption Western Union would

was Hitler's.

Fortunately,

Referring to the French platesman, M. Paul Reynaud's fourth sphero statement that

more severe than

Weather Report; 11.20, "Goodnight

Clows down.

Asked about the signicance of the new and reportedly in dependent East German Com- munist Party. McDermott said: "On several occasions in the Past Germah Communists who have come into disfavour with Moscow, have cought to form Parties Independent of Krem- En contro it is not possible, of this time, to foreren esnelly when t

sucres this new setup may have."-United Press.

SIDE GLANCES

and

But most of the crowd tried lo cutBank the police by run- ning

trees armong the making; for the eight-foot rall Ings round the Palace park.

Gendarmes with drawn robres advanced to incet the marchers.

The anti-Leopoldist leaders faltered at the Palace gates and then broke.—Reuler.

W

By Galbraith

of

Press.

The

Repubile.

United

Copier

of photographs taken by the South China Morning Post and Hong Kong Telegraph Staff Photographora

aro on vlow in the Morning Post "Building.

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