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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1950.

SPEEDY TREATY FRENCH_______

OF PEACE WITH JAPAN URGED.

New York, Oct. 31.

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Saigon, Oct. 31. French military forces have recaptured two out- posts

and are becom ing increasingly aggressive against Vietminh insurgents In Northern Indo-China, a- French

spokesman an- nounced here today.

The time has come to restore Japan to a full place in the world family of nations and to end the Occupation, Mr William Draper, Jr., Vice-Presi- dent of the Dillon Read Company, asserted today. Addressing the second day session of the 37th National Foreign Trade Convention here, Mr Phonic, isolated north-west- Draper told nearly 2,000 American businessmen, en citadel at the end of their "The time has come indeed it is long past -

• to defence line on the Tongking recognise formally that we are at peace with Japan and to turn back sovereignty to her government.

"Japan has faithfully carried? -out every obligation of the surrender document and she is now legally and morally entitled to re-enter the community of nations.

"The time has come not only to end the Occupation but to recognise close commercial in- terests and to establish true partnership between the United States and Japan.

"Nations of the British Commonwealth agreed months ago that a peace treaty with Japan was overdue. If any other country is not yet pre- pared to make peace on fair or reasonable terms, We should wait no longer. After Korea: we cannot continue to let Russia! call the tune."

Mr Draper said, "The feeling of hopelessness has gone and today the Japanese people are working happily and indus triously to complete material and spiritual recovery of their .country' from the physical and

moral-destruction of war

MIRACULOUS CHANGE.

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"The programme could never have been successful without the continuous

co-operation of Japanese government."

barder and Conom, a village near Monet in the north-east, have both been reoccupied in counter-attacks.

One French ambush cut up a Vietminh convoy in a moun- falnous, Sector 24 miles north-

while anothe west of Hanoi,

mashed at an insurgent force in the Duchoa sector, north- west of Saigon, further south. Mr Draper paid tribute to

! Meanwille, no special meu- Premier Shigeru Yoshida and sures have been taken for the Minister of Finance Hayato evacuation of British citizens Ikeda for making the Allied pro- from Indo-China, according to a success.--United the British Consul here.-Reu- gramme Press.

ter.

Smiling Murderer

Tells Court He Obeys His Conscience

Brunswick, Germany, Oct. 31.

Rudolf Pleil, aged 26, a former German police- man who is charged here with 10 murders, claimed today: “I am allowed to kill because my con- science dictates it.”

"Four men are primarily re sponsible for the miraculous change that has energised and stabled the Japanese economy so quickly. Two are Americans and two are Japanese.

"General MacArthur per-

Hc .sonally issued the stablisation

left the dock without both sides of the Soviet-British

to make any zonal border, direction and has supported, and being required

so that

they He were unable to collect evi-

He was answering questions by medical ex- perts at the second day of his hearing here,

enforced its objectives without plea, under German law. F in dence in all cases.

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compromise. Mr Joseph Dodge's admitted "great pleasure" financial

and techniques slopped killing

maiming animals Pleil admitted yesterday that He offered to ex-ús a boy he had relations with inflation in the tracks despite all as a child.

tort a confession of complicity а man and a waitress,

but opposition.

from his co-defendant. Karl found. "satisfaction for the first Franco's Daughter Hoffman who, he said, was time" when he accidentally shot

not similarly privileged to a Polish civilian during kill." The Court declined the offer.

the war. He also claimed he had been an

epileptic sufferer for

In Gibraltar

Gibraltar, Oct. 31. General Franco's daughter, Stocky, smiling Pleil, who years. the Marquesa de Villaverde, yesterday admitted a hitherto He has been in prison for paid a short visit to Gibraltar undiscovered murder, is al-manslaughter since 1947. to-day. She was the first leged to have confessed 10 Hoffman, aged 30, is charged member of the France family killing 20 people in an ill-with complicity in five murders the Rock since written diary containing "obs- and a third German, Konrad the outbreak of the Spanish cene passages." Most of the Schuessler, aged 22, a former Civil War in 1936.

alleged victims were women. Frech Foreign Legionnaire, With her husband, the Mar- ques de Villaverde, she drove The police said that Plell with complicity in two.

his in from Cadiz this afternoon. dismembered

The Court adjourned victims' ---Reuter.

bodies and scattered parts on Thursday, Reuter,

to set foot on

until

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