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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1950.

CHIEFS OF STAFF AGREE ON GERMANY'S ROLE IN WEST EUROPEAN ARMY

London, Dec. 12.

The Chiefs of Staff of the 12 Atlantic Pact nations agreed tonight on German participation in an integrated force under an Allied supreme commander to defend Western Europe.

The military men conferred throughout the day, and it was dis- closed that the conference had gone so smoothly that the time-table had been stepped up.

Heavy Turkish Casualties

Istanbul, Dec. 12.

The Turkish General Staff will send reinforce- ments to Korea to replace the casualties suffered by the Turkish · Brigade in the recent fighting, it was learned in well-informed quarters tonight.

It was estimated here that the Brigade had lost 750 in killed, wounded and missing-Reuter.

UN PROBE

ON

CHINA'S

RIGHTS

GERMAN ATTITUDE

A communique issued after command of the Allied expedi the meeting said: "The Military tionary force preparing for, the Committee of the North Atlantic | liberation of Europe.-Reuter. Treaty Organisation held its fifth meeting. today in London. Definite agreement was reached in the discussions, and the Committee will meet in London, tomorrow in joint session with the North Atlantic Council of Deputies."

Out of the joint meeting on Wednesday is expected to come

an

Bonn, Dec. 12. Official German sources herè declared tonight that West Ger many could not acccept the pro- posal for limited use of German battle groups within the frame- work of the North Atlantic Army.

announcement that details

They said that the Federal have been worked out to the Chancellor, Dr Konrad Aden- satisfaction of the Atlantic auer, had, insisted on the prin- powers. It will mean naming ciple of equal rights for Ger- General Dwight Eisenhower many in any Western defence to command the alliance, scheme and his Government General Eisenhower's, appoint-would not accept any plan in- ment must await the meeting volving "discrimination" against of the Foreign and Defence Ministers in Brussels on Monday and: Tuesday.

BRUSSELS MEETING

Germany-Reuter.

ACHESON TO ATTEND

Washington, Dec. 12. The State Department an. nounced that Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Army Secre- tary Frank Pace Jr. will fly to Brussels late on Sunday to at- tend next week's North Atlantic treaty meetings.

The announcement said Pre- sident Truman suggested that the two attend the Monday and Tuesday meetings, after the encouraging progress made in London by the treaty powers.on establishing â unified Western European defence force.--United Press.

Prime Minister Clement Attlee, reporting on his

talks with President Truman, told the Commons. on Tuesday that naming a Supreme Commander New York, Dec. 12.

was a most important step that should be taken immediately in The United Nations Gen-

building up European defence. eral Assembly today ap--United Press. pointed а seven-nation committee to consider whe- ther Communist China is

Washington, Dec, 12. entitled to the United Na-

The Defence Secretary, tions seat at present occu- General George Marshall, an pied by Nationalist China. nounced today that the North

The Committee, nominated a

Atlantic Treaty Defence Com- mittee would meet in Brussels month ago by the Assembly President,

on December 18 at the invita- Nasrollah Entezam, comprises India, Canada, Ecua-tion of Belgium. · dor, Mexico, the Philippines, After holding a separate meeting, the Defence Ministers At the first plenary meeting will meet the Atlantic Pact of the present Assembly, a pro- Foreign Minister in Brussels posal was approved to establish with the aim of urging a settle- a special committee to consider ment on rearming Germany and the question of Chinese repre- setting up a unified army for the sentation, The Assembly agreed defence of Western Europe to shelve the appointment of under General Dwight Eisen- the committee until the Ashower as Supreme Commander. -the Acting Secretary of the

Holland and Iraq.

Visas Refused

Johannesburg, Dec. 12. Refusal to grant visas to delegates not of "pure European (white) descent" has stopped

Africa.

plans for holding a conference af the International Student Service Organisation in South

The ban was announced by

sembly's special Political Com-

Interior in a letter to the mittee dealt with the general

General Marshall is Chairman | National Union of South African question of recognition of any of the Atlantic Treaty Defence Students.--Reuter. member State's 'delegation.

Committee, but he will not at- On Nov. 28, after weeks of tend the Brussels meeting be- wrangling with the touchy cause of his urgent duties here. issue, the special committee resulting from the Korean adopted the following recom- situation. He will be repre- mendations:

sented in Brussels by the Army "Whenever more than one Secretary, Mr Frank Pace, who authority claims

the will be acting Chairman of the government

Committee entitled to repre- Defence

the sent a member 'state in the meetings there.-United Press. United Nations and this question

to

subject a

be

of

becomes

con- troversy in the United Nations, it will be considered in the

for

PLANE

MYSTERY

Mining Its Business?

The crew of this North Korean fishing boat stand by for inspection by a boarding party off the U.S.S. Maddox. The boat was suspected of laying mines in the waters off Korea. (Acme).

Indian Ambulance

To Join British Troops In Korea

With The 27th British Brigade, Dec. 12. The 27th British Commonwealth Brigade to- day received news that 300-strong Indian army ambulance unit India's contribution to the United Nations force is shortly to join them.

The unit, known as the “Airborne Ambulance” because all its members are fully trained para- `chutists entitled to wear the "Red Devils" belt, will be permanently attached to the brigade for all future operations.

am-

The first arrival was Rosario, Argentina, Dec. 12. bulance driver Maru Singh, a Eusebia Martinez, a 51-year-iurbaned Sikh from Amritsar old farmer in the neighbouring in the Punjab, suburb of Belgrano, found a

Another Ceima plane single-engined tethered to a plane tree near his house.

No one heard the plane land.

are investigating

The police IKE'S APPOINTMENT

London, Dec. 12.

light of purposes and principles General Dwight D. Eisen- of the Charter and circumstances hower will probably be ap- of each case."

pointed Supreme Commander Mr Entezam named seven of the Atlantic Treaty forces in members of the special com-Europe before the end of this /mittee on Nov. 16. His nomina-week, an authoritative

tions, with the exception of said here today.. Ecuador which replaced

Bel-

source

60.

ap-

Reuter.

Mrs. Pandit Calls At

new

arrival is a four-year-old dusky

Korean orphan, whom the brigade found sitting disconsolately by the roadside on their way south from Pyongyang. Dressed in a complete American uniform

north. We set up a guard : room in one of the local houses on Monday night but we are hiking them out on Tuesday. in. case they send us à bill for a furnished apartment."

Sandy smartly saluted as he was led away to bargain with à local Shylock. He said: "Good morning, sergeant major."

As cheering as the news of the decoration of the brigade's

specially tailored to size, Sandy, two officers, Colonels Andrew as he has been christened, is Man. of the Middlesex and

State Department already proving his worth as | Leslie Neilson of the Argylls,

Washington, Dec. 12. Mrs Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, the Indian Ambassador to the United States, met the Secretary of State, Mr Dean Acheson, for half an hour here today.

zium on the list, were approved General Eisenhower is today in a closed ballot re- This will be his second quested by Czechoslovakia. Bel-pointment as Western Com-

Mrs Fandit refused to dis- gium previously declined to mander-in-Chief.

close the reason for the visit, serve on the committee, It was in December, 1934, | which was made at her re- United Press.

that he was called upon to take quest.-Reuter.

ww

was

an interpreter in bargaining for

from a signal

the rear wood for the brigade fires,

echelon instructing the brigade Now that they had moved quartermaster to south the brigade

collect. 200 is being cases charged 2,000 won

of beer the first the (50 US. troops had had in more than cents) for bundles of wood from three months of almost con-

tinuous frontline duty.

local residents.

"He is a little charmer, is "Beer. Do you mean that Sandy,' said

Sergeant-Major stuff with froth on top?" said Ted

West. "But this wood

one soldier incredulously- racket is a lot different from up United Press.

NANCY

Six of One

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THEM

O.K.

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IT KEEPS ME FROM RUNNING

WITH

THEM

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