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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER

TRUMAN

1950.

PLOT

ASSASSINATION

Puerto Rican Fanatic Tells Story To Police

Charged With First Degree Murder

Washington, Nov. 2.

Oscar Collazo has told the police and Secret Service agents that he and his slain partner cooked up their fantastic plot to assassinate President Truman less than two weeks ago.

Collazo, recovering in hospital from a shoul- der wound suffered in the Blair House gun battle yesterday, told the authorities the weapons used in the attempted assassination were provided by his accomplice, Griselio Torresola, who was killed.

QUEST FOR

WORLD

PEACE

He said both he and Torresola were members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and they agreed after a few con- ferences that drastic action should be taken to win inde- pendence frorn the United Suntes.

"We decided to take the law into our own hands," he de- clared,

He then revealed that he and Torresola had arrived in Washington from New York on Tuesday evening, registered

near.

Flushing Meadow, Nov. 2.

Mr Kenneth Younger, separately at an hotel British Minister of State, Union Station under assumed reiterated support today names and did not get together for the proposal for pro-again until just before the assas- sination attempt on Wednesday viding the United Nations afternoon. General Assembly with a They met shortly before 2 force to combat aggression (p.m. he continued, and took a a block of Blair when the Security Council taxi to within is deadlocked by the veto.

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Mr. Churchill At The Fire

Mr Winston Churchill, en route to his home at Westerham, arrived at the Crystal Palace grounds last week when a big fire in the old School of Art building was at its height. The building was completely destroyed. Photo shows Mr Churchill smoking the inevitable cigar and watching the fire-fighters at work. (AP)

Photo)

House. They separated again, GRAFT

he walking up Pennsylvania Avenue on the north side of the Blair House and following Torresola

on the opposite side. As he neared

He told the General Assem-street toward bly today that the very intro- duction of the proposal had already increased- confidence Blair House, his accomplice throughout the world that

crossed the avenue and arrived peace could be preserved.

on the pavement behind him.

"If member Governments will only respond by their actions

by

war

A MISFIRE

SCANDAL

INQUIRY

a

Catholic Dignitaries Gathering

new

Shaw To Join The Immortals

Ayöt St, Lawrence,

other-Im- Westminster

The great playwright, who died at one minute to five this morning in his saddened Hertfordshire villago, will be cremated in London on Monday, A motor hearse took his body away. tonight to an unknown destination from the ivy-covered house where the 94-year-old dramatist had spent his last years-Reuter.

Nov. 2. The nahes of George Bernard Shaw, mingled with those of his wife, are

·Manila, Nov. 2.

Vatican City, Nov. 2. in the coming months as they box in front of the President's formerly of the United States bishops and When he reached the sentry Brigadier-General Ernest Bart, 25 Cardinals

Pope Pius XII today received likely to join: the remains have already responded

and 560

of Arch-

Britain's their votes, we

continued, he Army, now in America, in

Bishops in have home, Collazo shall

mortals in the taken a very

and fired point-

Vatican Palace in the biggest practicable step drew his gun

to the Philippine Am-meeting for letter

Abbey. the policeman forward in our effort to mobilise blank at

on bassador,

over 80 years of Joaquin Elizalde, in high prelates The gun misfired. Washington, the forces

of the Roman of peace and to lift, guard there.

said that the threat of aggressive

He ejected the faulty cartridge brother

the Catholic Church, of President Quirino The leaders from the peoples of the world," and emptied the clip, then put received

of the Church 500,000 pesos and had gathered from all over the Mr Younger said.

in a fresh clip of bullets and Ricardo Nepomuceno, former world to got off three more shots before Justice Secretary, received 250,- grandoise ceremonies at which attend yesterday's he was shot down.

000 pesos out of the sale of the the Pope proclaimed the He said they did not know Buenuvista-Tambobong estates, whether the President was in according

dogma of the bodily assumption to 3 statement of the Virgin Mary into Heaven. Blair House at the time, but | of

special committee that they "just took a chance". investigating

Today they met in the Hall of the

land deal Benediction, the largest hall of He denied that anyone else which has been the tople of an the Vatican Palace, to be re- was involved in the plot. He alleged graft scandal. said he and

ceived in audience by the Pope, Torresola had The letter said

who showed acted because they felt their from the sale were 1,500,000

little sign of the homeland was "enslaved" and pesos.

strain of yesterday's four-hour that the Puerto

ceremonies. Rican politi- The special committee wh cians were "tools" of the United meet tomorrow to discuss Burt, who recently wrote to Pre- Collazo

Quirino was charged with Isident

Complaining first degree murder and held that he had not received enough without bond. The

the land transaction United for States Commissioner, Mr Cyril hinting

The plan, already approved by the Assembly's Politica Committee by 50 votes to five with the countries of the So- viet group alone in opposition, calls for:

(1) The calling into session of the General Assembly at 24 hours' notice if the Security Council is prevented from act ing.

States.

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(2), The establishment of

Commis- Peace Observation sion to watch over threats' to the peace,

(3) The

earmarking of part..

the

he might

proceeds

take

and the

of national forces for use by Lawrence, said a formal hear- matter before the Philippine the United Nations.

ing would be held on Novem-Senate if he did not get satis- (4) The setting up of a Col-ber 21. Officials went to great faction.-United Press.

lective Measures Committee

study the whole collective

security system.-Reuter.

lengths to make a record of to- to

day's proceedings to show that it was an open hearing, although held in the detention room of the hospital before other pri- soners-United Press.

Puerto Ricans Approach UN

Oronsay Not Sabotaged

Dispute Over 'Ceylonisation'

a

priests, monks and friars, cur- Also present wore about 1,000 rently holding

congress in Church's devotion to the Virgin Rome for the study of the

Mary. The Pope addressed the assembly in Latin-Reuter.

Guerilla Action In Korea

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News into action in The Ceylon Minister of So- North Korea,

the Communist clal Services, Mr A. C.. Gcone- New China News Agency an- sinha, said here today that if nounced from Peking tonight in persuasion failed, the Governmessage received in London. ment might have to introduce masses of the people, they are "With the support of the legislation to enforce "Ceylon- inflicting heavy losses on the An official of the shipbuild-isation" in employment,

enemy and checking his ad- day declared that the situation, ing firm of Vickers Armstrong

(Ceylonisation is the replace-vance," it added.

Lake Success, Nov. 2. Puerto Rican nationalists to-

London, Nov. 2.

in Puerto Rica was not a do- told Reuter today that the ment of non-Ceylonese by "In the mountainous region of mestic matter but an issue in- possibility that sabotage had Ceylonese). The Minister dis- Munchun, north-west of Won- volving international peace and caused the recent fire in the closed that the Ceylon Chamber son, on the east coast, a guerilla security and requested the 28,000 toms passenger liner of Commerce had turned down unit has made repeated surprise United Nations Secretary-Oronsay had now been ruled his request that non-Celyonese attacks on the enemy's supply General, Mr Trygve Lie, to out.

should not be recruited except lines and military bases, sefting bring the matter before the Dr B. Firth, Home

Office when technically qualified fire to ammunition and inter- United Nations.

forensic science expert, Ceylonese were unavailable. A letter has been delivered to examined the liner at Barrow,

cepting enemy reinforcements." "If an Mr Lie urging him to use his Lancashire, yesterday,

approach to indi---Reuter. As a vidual firms powers under Article 99 of the result, sabotage was discounted, falls", the Minister added, "I of the Chamber Charter and bring the matter the Vicker's official said, before the United Nations,

shall have to take upon my- The fire, which did extensive self the painful duty of intro-

Borkeley, Cal. Nov. 2. (Article 99 states; "The damage last weekend, is now ducing legislation, implement-recorded a "large" earthquake The University of California Secretary-General may bring to believed to have begun whening the recommendations of the early on Thursday morning. the attention of the Security cork was Council any

accidentally ignited Government. matter which in during welding operations. The group, urging immediate Coy-Incated about 7,200 miles from ParliamentaryThe earthquake was said to be fits opinion may threaten the fire did not begin to spread Ionisation

of international until some time afterwards.the extent. of 75 percent-Reu-Burma-india

in employment. to here, "probably in the China- peace and security").-Reuter, Reuter.

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