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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER (14, 1950,

Britain Must Depend On AmericaFor Machine Tools

London, Sept. 13.

Mr Hugh Gaitskell, the Minister for Econo- mic Affairs, told the House of Commons tonight that Britain's rearmament programme depended on machine tools and other aid from the United States.

He felt that the Government would have to ask the United States for some priority in this matter, he declared.

As the new drive got under way, Britain would produce-considerably more than double the present defence equipment for the forces.

Defence and exports to dollar | Government,

markels would now rank to-jerives."

we And our-

gether at the top of the produc- Accusing the Government of tion list. Next priority would "shuffling and procrastinating" in be exports to the

wealth countries,

Common-its German policy, Mr MacMan

Mr The Defence Minister, Emanuel Shinwell, told the House, which was concluding its three-day special debate on de- British fence, that the extra

division for Germany promised yesterday by the Prime Minister. Mr Clement Attlee, would be ready within a year.

Mr Harold MacMillan, one of the Conservative "Shadow Cabinet," said that this พอล "very satisfactory,

zaid:

seems somewhat paradoxical that the armies of occupation should be trans- formed Info armies of prolection without any contribution by the ex-enemies."

There

those

was no security for! who lived between the! Ele and the Rhine, the Rhine and the Atlantic Conft and these in Britain.

The word "security" was a Follow mockery.

DARE NOT REFUSE

** International Balloon Race in Amsterdam

Favourable Reaction

Το

Appointment Of

Marshall

George

New York, Sept. 13.

in

Competitors from many countries took part the International Balloon Race which was held in Amsterdam-but weather was so stormy that only three balloons started— and in this picture the balloon from France pilot ́ed by G. Cormier can be

seen

(London leaving. Express Service).

The British and French delegates to the three- MARSHALL

power Foreign Ministers' talks here have reacted

About £850 million of the Asserting that Britain dare £1,200 million increase in de-not refuse ald wherever the fence expenditure over the right find it, in meeting this next three years WHIS for

Mr MacMillan sat: armaments, Mr Gaitakcell stated. In the interests of Germany favourably to the appointment of General George PLAN FOR There was no prospect of the and Europe. W must Marshall as the United States Defence Secretary.

a neethor by which a great. population and

final figure for this year's de- fence estimates being less than

great resources that next be put £850 millon or

into the common your's would fall below £1,000

pool without en langering the million. They might well be

berties of the German and subcinatially more. But there

curselves by a revival of Ger.: would be no autumn, budget.

man militarism."

REQUISITIONING

The Government would not besitate to requisition Kooda being expurled to Russia and other Eastern European coun tries, Mr Gaitskell declared, if they were needed for Britain's defence or for her Alles.

But the Government not aware that any such equip- ment had lately been sent,

were

He prested for a European Army. It was surely not be- yond the wit of man to devise

Brit

MARSHALL WILL GIVE NEW CONFIDENCE TO TRUMAN ADMINISTRATION

New York, Sept. 13.

A New York Times editorial, commenting on General George C. Marshall's appointment as Defence Secretary in succession to Mr Louis Johnson, said today:

"The confiderice of the American people in

the ability of the Truman Administration to give COMMONS this nation adequate national defence, will take an upward leap with the President's announcement

that Congress approving General Marshall TRIBUTE TO

will enter the Government as Secretary of Defence.

"The country, to be sure,

la accustomed to regard

this office

one property Battle Of

to be filled by a civilinD

rather

Agure.

shall's

than

↑ military

But General Mar- experience is 80

wide, his talents no diver- sified and his outlook so broad, that a military man who subsequently served as Secretary of State and as sponsor of the great civilians

endeavour that

bears his name will seerri thoroughly at home in the cabinet.

"This is good news and newy of that importance to the coun- try's plans for mobilising 113 etseurces in face of increasing Sanger

Tar Herald Tribune said the newr of General Mardoll's ap- pollment would be received with relief by most Amertrans. "From first 10 lat, General Marshall was one of the clef architects ef the victory เป

They consider he will not allow the immediate ASIA URGED 15. in now multary cries

necessity of redressing the military reverses in Korea to obscure his long-term appreciation of the importance of securing Western Europe as a vital bastion of the non-Communist world.

It is lived

systems by which a combined experience as Secretary of force may be effective to fight State to bear on all the defence

whole and so contrived decisions he will now be called:

fake in balancing the that even ill-will or treachery on tr supervened,

of American forces ingle part allocation rould be a menser to the other, between the crisis areas in the

world. be declared.

110

It was useless for Britain to follow polletes of this kind in Isolation. There was no point in cutting down her export pro- Government and would be put gramme, breaking contracls, im- Į in hand. posing economic blockade and risking vital supplies. it orders went elsewhere.

Jever the

elther Irisilered

the

the issues of precating

of junk- ment so closely uninst there he Washington, Sept. 13.

imte in pre-wer and war years, H.

Humphrey there will

be few who doubt

Senator

the

Fle

Stats

The Barges

Re-Engaged

Berlin, Sept. 13.

JAN SMUTS

London, Sept. 19. Political lenders in the four of Commons today paid tri- butes to the late General Smute before resuming the debate or national defence,

The Prime Minister, Mr Clo ment Attlee, raid that for over 50 years General Smuts had

parts played many

on the world's stage-scholar, fuldler, stateaman, philosophier

Soviet omcials in East Ger- writer one had done more than

many today reopened the two- year-old "battle of barges fween the East and West occupy ing powers,

Russian controllers on the Elbe at Wittenberge, inside the Soviet Zone, fony halted

20

No

Smarts towards the evolution of die Empire into the Commo wealth. The preamble of the arter of the United Nations Charter of

his work.

Wan

the

Mr Winston Churchill, the leader of harges from Berlin bound for Opposition, recalled that he was Comervativo

Hamburg with scrap metal,

Scrap metal is becoming in-

a prisoner of war in South creasingly valuable to the econo

Africa, just over 50 years 10, mies of both East and West when he fist met Smut, the Eumpe due to a threatened leader of the Biers in the war world shortage. Barges were against Britain. It was Smurfs being held at Wittenberge pend-who questioned him. ing seruny of their crew lists: Mr Churchill stressed the by Russian controllers, a. Berlin part tot Smuts had played in pokerinan for the British Mill-aiding Britain and the Allies in tary Government fald.

The British authorities Berlin have

CLOUDBURST

CUTS ROAD

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the recent war.

Mr Clernent

of the how

Davie, the Liberal Party, General Sinuta.

the Langua

war and worked to make il a

When success.

.

that falled

did

not lose Indomitable afresh-his

Athletes Feared Killed in Crash

Rio de Janeiro, Sept. 13, Unconfirmed reports here-to- day said that 13 leading Brazi

an athletes were feared death Algiers, Sept. 13. in the crash of a B-25 trans The main road from Algeria port plane near Fortaleza, la, to Tunisia

was cut in several | Ceura Siste, places today near Setif, Last of

is on the north Fortaleza

coast Algiers, as a result of a cloud-east

of Brazil. The burst,

athletes had participated in ron Cloudbursta izt much a. tests at Pernambuco-Reute Mage at Setif and in the Miliana and Afreville districts west of Algiers-Reuter.

not registered a cader protest with the Soviet represen- recalled iatives

In their quadripartite strove to create city, "If the halling of the of Nations after the first world (Democrat) today urged Presi ent Truman to go before the, but his are the but and ablest argca confir

continues hande to

which the military well founded caran, we General Smuts

without any United Nations General Aspalley of the country should be bly and explain United

then reconsider your attitude," a

"faith confided.**

bul, with he will bring rient of relations betweta e polley towards Asia in “clear.

British of declared today. A Scripps-Howard editorial,

The last

laboured This will Gimme the Russians Western Powers with Comm-nderstandable anguage.

The Senator also eilled, for critic of General Marhall's clamped down on borge traffic me to but the organization nist China,

President Truman formally

emphasised that through Berlin the British re-

of the United Nations. appointment. "Marshall it

Plan" for the Far Mr Johnson was a victim of elr. Con-

Though compelled to take a asked the United States

East, with the Brat instalment c

over which he had taliated by halting vessels into leading part in three wars, bo cumstances en- ress today to pass a law

of, "not less

$500,000,000

the Soviet rector. ittle control,

After two "Long before, he

was in truth a man of perce.--- next

weeks' delay, while barges piled Reuter. yearz abling General George C. Mar- shall to become Secretary of

took office, blunders in American Senator Humphrey, normally

up in the West and East sectors foreign policy - blunders for Defence.

a strong supporter of Mr Tru- which Mr Truman has the basic

of nera, both sides relaxed M2 ˆMæ¢Ãƒ]}än vald he uniber- General Marshall, whose mis-

Congress will now amend the man, assalled the Administra-csponsibility-ret the

their restrictions-Reuter, stage for stool that the raising of palice slon to China left him with National Security Act. which tion's "ague and vacillating" the abandonment of Nationalist

decided forces in Western Germany was verg

the on

prohibits the appointment as Far Easter policy at a news China and the eventual Commu- In agreedi

uf principle by the, cause?

Communist defence chief nnyone who has conference

and

later

in anist invasion of Korea. More- forces in Senate speech.

over it had been decided not to victory and the collapse of the served in the armed Nationalist regime

under the last 10 years.

told reporters that the defend Kores. When that de- The Senate Armed Services United States was letting India, esien was Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shick,

overnight. reversed Raymond Blackburn, will appreciate the political Committee Immediately wen!

Malaya, Mr Johnson the | who resigned from Qie Labour

and our military London and

Paris into closed session to consider urina, Indo-China.

to some extent planners naturally were not pre- Indonesia and Party because it is against for elings in

it ir President Truman's request. Formora bur,

the Philippines slip under Compared for the emergency sudden- Coalition Government,

in British and

munist control "by default." ly thrust upon them. tlant

NATIONAL INTEREST French circles.

Hir

the sald

defence of demonstrates

· CHINA POLICY to the Mr Millard Tydings (Denio-Korea Hi appointment, they anti-

the world that Amerien "does not Maryland), crat Senator, cipates in another sep

"Mr Acheson inherited those direction of the recent mer-porters that what

in the Committee's Chairman, told re-shrink from the task of stopping

Mr Truman military aggression, no matter policies, especially the disastroun- can policy to seek same selu- clearly wanted was that the ex-what the cost. We must assufe Chtan, policy, from his State tion to the eventual establish ception be made to apply to to art with equal courage and Marshall

the world that we are prepared | Department predecessor, General Yet President Truman other person than General Mar- shall, no other circumstance and sacrifice to check poverty, selected General Marshall to At other time.

Johnsen, General rickness, exploitation and injus-succeed Mr tier

Instead of worrying Marshall is 1

protezional Mr Truman wrote to Mr Tyd-about dead horses like Chiang | soldier—a great one-to whom und Mr Carl Vinson Kaishek we ought to do some this country owes grailture, (Democrat Representative, thinst about the sick ones.--, but the law which requires Georgia). Chairman of the cor- United Press.

11.K.T. the Department of Defence to responding House Committeer

0.00, Hong Kong Calling"--Pro- he headed by a civilian is

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gramine Summary; 0.03, Chitilren's asking fur the necessary

wise law supported by sound Half Hour "Sald the Cat to the amending legislation and en-

American traditions. Changing Dor"-A Play Marlin Armstrang, that law to make an exception Nancys for Breakfast" (IBCTS); 5.30, Landon Studio In the case of General Marshall

Melodies-Louis | Levy and 2013 Singapore, Sept. 13. would establish a dangerous Orch (CTS): 2.00, Take it from

Here"-With Joy One forest guard was killed precedent.

Nichols Bentley And Jimmy Edwards newspaper believes (BBCTS); 7.30. La Demi-Heure by11owever,

jured when guerillas attacked that Congress should not change Francaise (Studio); 8.00. World In view of thea party of nine persons in The Morever the General's legacy News and News Analysis (London present critical circumstances Perak jungle yesterday, it was of mistakes in Stale Depart-Relay: 0.15, "U.D.C. Bandstand

The Brighotze

and astrick Band ment and General Marshall's unreported here today.

policy

would handicap (BBCTS): 8.45. An Appreciation of qualification, 1 belleve Three other forest guards are him heavily Ds head the the Lato General Jan Smuts by

national interest will missing. Two querillas were | Department which now must

Viscount Samuel, the Well known to

Liberal Leader best by making an shot dead in Johore by a_pa- | try

overconic e

(Recorded Lendan Relay): 9.00, "From the Editorials" In this case."—Reu- | trol of security forces.-Reu-sequences of those mistakes."

(London Relay): 0.10, Weather Re- ier.

-United Press.

"We must march in step within a others. That we have done and aggerted

or Field Marshal that we intend to go on doing." Mountbatten

and con-Lord Alexander should be ap- The Government sidered

pointed Minister of Defence. stockpiling af materials. There was very He thought this port should thing to be said for taking any be held by a man outside party steps "which may be expedient pollies-Reuter.

with

in consultation friends," he went on.

raw

our

On controls, Mr. Gallkell said htt the situation in Britain was totally different from that

in the Unlied Slates. Britain still had a very large number of control.

AUSTERITY SCALE

"What the United States contemplate doing for the most part already

existy

thi In country." But if circumstances made it necessary the Govern ment would reimpose any of the controls i hud ilted in recent months, be added,

Total mobilisation and The

American Exercises

In Germany

Heidelberg, Sept. 13.

t

closing a draft,

The President said, "I am

believer in the general that our defence es-

Arm

Jungle Victims

An imaginary bomb exploded in headquarters principle by "enemy saboteurs" today put a brigade com-tablishment should be hunded and another was seriously in- mander and his senior staff "out of action" in the third day of American autumn manoeuvres.

a civilian.

Over 48,000 British, American and French usual Trimposing of the guestroops are taking.part, in this "Exercise Rainbow." that the

wartime austerity would only

be served be Jused by the strong prob- The mosk bomb attack chief intelligence and operations i exception ability of an imperiding major! "knuckevei out" Brigadier- officers. The saboteurs escaped. ter.

General Bruce Clack, Comme

It was not announced whether the General was "killed" or "wounded.”

war

"That is not the situation in der of this Second United States which, In the opinion of the Constabulary Brigade, and

SIDE GLANCES

githu

The observers cald that the attack showed up the absence

By Galbraith special security precautions

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"Whoever he was, he seemned very nice!." I told him I was. Mrs. Jones, and I came to the convention with you thin

af the headquarters apart from

| pass-words und sentries.

The Air Force of the "Eastern Aggressor" topy made a simulated bombing raki 01 Bremen and claimed to have crippled the great part.

This flattening offensive was said to be causing swarms of "pante stricken Germans" flee west across the Rhine,

Western Allied Millary Government nuthorities "order- ed" the West German Gover ment to make avaliable three refugee collecting centres west of the Rhine.

Western Allied

losses since the "Rainbow" operation began on Monday were placed at 085

Air Force casuallies

the

three nations and 219 combined ground casualties. The .diz- crepancy between

ground losses was

air today ex- plained by the fact that all three Western rador stations were completely destroyed with heavy

losses of personnel.

The morale of the "aggressors,” played by American troops, was Ceclared today's briefing to be falling

result of heavy losses and the appearance of new American weapons.

These new weapons were not specified, but it was indlated that they were simulated.

The aggressor" WAS, ALSO ported to be unrest*

con-

A strange vessel arrived at the harbour in Salcombe, Devon, England, re- cently. She was the Boleh with a great circular junk-type sail, the eyes of a Chinese boat painted on her bows, an open Arab-style high stern and a four-sided mast. "Boleh" is Malay for “Can Do," and the five men on board had proved her name. For in this boat, a mere 16 tons, and barely 40ft. long, they had. travelled 15,000 miles, half-way round the world, through storms and calms, with- out mishap. She was designed by Commander Boy Kiray while serving in Sloga- pore at the end of the war," The vessel was built by four Malay workmen, under the supervision of Mr George Jarvis, "“chatgiman" of shipwrights in Singapore dookyard. Commander. Kilray "thought that it would cost £1,200, to build and take. Lour monthe-instead of which he had to spend £8,000 and wait a year. (7) 2 board the “Cañ. Do” on 'àrtival Jig Saléombe. They (hair N«Rasker "Commandez R. A. Kimy, and

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