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・THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER – 1, 1950. .

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JEBB APPEALS TO CHINESE REDS Passion Is A Bad Counsellor: Listen To Reason"

Russia Casts Three Vetoes "FLYING

To Block Six-Power Resolution

Lake Success, Nov. 30.

SAUCER"

IN GREEN

Rio de Janeiro, Nov. 30. Captain Edwin D. Avary and his Stratocruiser crow today reported "bright, flaming green ball or flame" dived on

just west of Georgetown, British Guiana,

ACHESON

SPEECH

ATTACKED

Sir Gladwyn Jebb, Britain's representative on the Security Council, today appealed to the Chinese Government in Peking their plane on Tuesday morning paid answer

to listen to reason.

He said that if the representatives of the Cen- tral People's Government were capable of listen- Helsinki ing to reason, "I would beg them to listen.”

"Passion is a bad counsellor," Sir Gladwyn War Alarm

said. “Advice from interested sources may be a worse counsellor still."

·Sir

Gladwyn said that the l future of Formosa could not be settled peacefully as long as Chinese Communist forces were engaged in military operations against the United Nations and in defiance of the expressed will of the United Nations.

The proposal was embodied in a resolution by the

Soviet Union.

Helsinki, Nov, 30.

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New York, Nov. 30. An editorial in the inde- pendent Scripps-Howard news- papers today called Mr Dean Acheson's speech a "weak and to the snarling attack on the United States by Wu Hsiu-chuan, spokesman for Communist China before the Security Council.”

According to the American Airways captain, "The strange sight fitted exactly descriptions

It said: "The body of the and several reports of similar speech was so unrelated to the incidents gathered by the United fearful crisis confronting the States Air Force in their saucernation that most of it must investigation last year."

from

He said the Stratocruiser was flying along the north-eastern Hoarders began a run on the coast of South America formally

shops in Helsinki today to lay Port of Spain to Rio de Janeiro at 3,500 feet when the incident occurred at about 0115 Rio time.

India did not participate in the vote.-United Press,

THREE VETOES

Lake Success, Nov. 30. Russia cost three vetoes t- day 10 block the six-power, American - backed resolution China to ordering Communist

its troops

out of Korea immediately.

fet

The resolution was voted

or

in stocks against anw future war. Some shipowners have in structed their vessels not to re- turn to Finland until the crisis is over, but there were no signs of panic anywhere here.

Union by a mutual military as

Finland is linked to the Soviet

sisling pact, which, it is generally believed here, would force her on

to Russia side in any Third World War.

He hoped that Peking would heed the proposed six-Power 'draft resolution calling for the withdrawal of Chinese troops from Korea and indicate that, in principle, they were prepared to in three separate ballotings- The influential "Hufvud- agree that the whole problem of on the preamble, the operative | stadsbladet," the organ of Korea should at least be solved part and the measure as Q Swedish People's Party, said in "in accordance with the prin- whole. Each time Russia cast a leader today that the danger ciples of the international the lone negative vote, run-of war was “imminent.'-Reuter. ganisation".

ning its string of United Na- tions vetoes to 49.

or

Sir Gladwyn said that the

speech of Mr Wu Hsiu-chuan, head of the Chinese delegation to the United Nations, was "a most interesting but depress- ing" revelation of the state of mind of the Central People's Government,

RED MASQUERADE It was depressing because it

was fairly clear evidence that this Government had complete- ly swallowed the propaganda line of Moscow. This line was designed to serve the needs of the Soviet Union and not neces- sarily those of the Communist states on the periphery.

"Communism likes to mas- querade in Asia as a liberating force, but this is a mere disguise adopted simply because national liberation is the aim of the vast majority of the people of those countries, whereas Communism is not," he added.

WASTED TIME

The Security Council earlier heard approximately two and a half hours of translations of A spdech made last night by Mr Jacob Malik, of the Soviet Union.

The Chinese Communist re- presentative, Mr. Wu Hsui- chuan, was present,

Mr Malik had declined a suggestion yesterday that the Council forego the usual trans- lations of his speech into English and French.

sible

taken

The Council was meeting again

later when it was pos- that a vote would be on 8 six-power re. solution calling for the with drawal of Chinese Communist troops from Korea and seeking to assure Peking that legiti mate Chinese interests on the Korean Manchurian

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border

would be respected-Reuter.

REDS DEFEATED

Lake Success, Nov. 30. The United Nations Security Council tonight defeated nine to one the Chinese Communist pro- posal for severe sanctions" against the United States for its "aggression against Formosa and calling for the withdrawal of American, troops from that island and from Korea.

Mr

Jacob

that

the

the

Nine Council members, in- Communist intervention, which cluding Communist Yugoslavia, has touched off an entirely voted for the order. The Soviet new war" in Korea. However, delegate,

Malik, the announcement vetoed the resolution. India did British Prime Minister, Mr not participate because in- Clement Attlee, is flying to structions had not come from Washington

to confer with President Truman on the grave New Delhi.

Far Eastern crisis temporarily held up the move for Assembly cetion.-United Press.

The West now plan to seek action in the veto-free General Assembly to deal with Chinese

POLISH FOLK-ART—Weaving the traditional peasant costume, a woman of the Kurpie area, northeast of Warsaw, winds up yarn before her ancient spinning wheel. The Kurpie section boasts many skilled home manufacturers of the colourful, richly embroidered peasant dress,

a.m.,

have been written weeks ago." Referring to Mr Acheson's remark that the United States initiated the measures to in- crease the effectiveness of United Nations

action against aggression, the editorial said: "Forces representing 53 nations supporting the United Nations on the Korean front are. out- He said the phenomenon ap-matched by troops of one Red

of the aircraft peared ahead and about 6,000 feet above the satellite by more than two to Ten fresh divisions would

the flight path. The intensity of do more to promote order in light was so great that the world than all the pompous it illuminated the forward see manoeuvring (Warren) Austin tion of the cockpit,

has been doing at Lake Success. of the Held in the tight rein State Deparlament, he does not even dare to ask the United Nations to denounce Red Chinese aggression....

The Captain added: "It did not have the characteristics of the average meteor or shooting star."United Press.

Administrator For US Civil Defence

one.

"Saving our troops in Korea from annihilation must be given (first consideration-Chiang Käl- shek has 500,000 trained troops in Formosa which he is ready

If to throw to our support. the Truman Administration is still not willing to accept assis- tance from this quarter it had better come up with an answer Ad-that offers the same measure of

to relief."--United Press.

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Washington, Nov. 30, The United States ministration today sent Congress a bill to establish civilian defence administrator at top level with unparalleled powers in the event of an enemy air attack.

It would assign all civil defence to a civil administrator responsible only to the Pre- sident.

The administrator would have power, in advance of any enemy attack, to grant Federal money for the States to co- ordinate the common defence activities of such government départments and agencies as the Department of Defence and Atomic Energy Commission and establish a United States civil defence corps.-Reuter.

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