Off To New Zealand
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1950.
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William (14), Patricia (10), Sheila (9) and Alma (7), four members of the Clark family of Southall, seen before they left St. Pancras for New Zealand. They were some of the many emigrants who left by sea.-Central Press.
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TO ALL
Plan To End
Arms Race
...
Lendon, Dec. 14.
A plan to end the cold. war and halt the world armament race published here today declared that any re-arming of Germany would only make inter- national difficulties harder to solve.
The plan, drawn up by the International Com- mittee for the Study of European Questions, has been submitted "to the Prime Ministers and Foreign Secretaries of the Western Governments.
Two proposals made, are: (1) General elections in the whole of Germany under international con- trol; (2) The formation of a Constituent Assembly to work out the constitution for the new Germany and the setting, up of a provi- sional German Govern- ment by the members of this Assembly-Reuter.
America Nails
Soviet Lie
Washington, Dec. 14. A State Department state. ment today described as "a naked He" the Russian claim that the United States and Japan had taken the first steps to rebuild a Japanese army.
The
In Malaya: Grave Warning
London, Dec. 14.
Air Commodore Arthur Harvey, Conserva- tive Member of a delegation of British Members of Parliament which visited Singapore and Malaya last September, said today that what he had seen there had alarmed him,
"We went out feeling that plans for dealing with the emergency were going fairly well," he told a meeting at the Royal Empire Society. "But we came back to England feeling very depressed about most things we saw and quite alarmed about the future."
Air Commodore Harvey said the report of the dele- gation was now being drafted. He doubted whether it would show unanimous findings.
Malaya, he said, was torn by Malaya as an equal peitner in strife and confusion. He felt trust. that the British Government did-
not tackle the problem of Malaya at an early enough stage. Wise advice was ignored.
"Now it is a big problem," he said. "How it is going to be dealt with one hardly knows."
Air Commodore Harvey' sug- gested that the main reason for the deterioration in the situation was the presence of 10,000 or 12,000 detainces in camps in the Federation.
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"While they are there Chinese will not give informa- tion to the Government to enable them to proceed,” he said. last
official Soviet news agency, Tass, alleged month that a secret American- Japanese draft agreement pro- vided for the trebling of Japan's present police force and its equipping with American arris.-Reuter.
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"All the military machine is quite ineffective unless its in- telligence
the is good, but Chinese people will not come forward with information.
CLEVER OPERATION
made responsible for seeing that A junior Minister should be equipment went out as quickly as possible, but he added: "I still think it will take a long time. before it is clear."
Replying to a question, Air. Commodore Harvey said: 'It anything happens. in Indo- China, I can see the Siamese putting up no resistance at all and then we shall have them right on top of us."-Reuter.
Dangers Of French View On Germany
"These detainees in the camps must be got out of Malaya at all dosts-even if it means Á
New York, Dec 14. military operation to ship them
The Herald-Tribune said somewhere on the South China editorially today that French coast."
intransigeace on German re- The ability of 4,500 Commu-armament could play into the nists to occupy the attention of hands of those elements in -90,000 men of the British forces Germany which are showing constituted one of the cleverest maiked sensitiveness to pro- operations that history had ever paganda from the East.
seen.
in
Indo-China was the key to The American setbacks Malaya, Air Commodore Har- Asia had encouraged currents vey suggested. "We should of pacifism and isolationism have done more with our Ame- in West Germany. rican friends to assist in Indo- China," he said.
all
I believe that would better than having troops in Malaya."
He .thought that
- The editorial added: "The wise be course for the Atlantic powers our and for France in particular is to deal seriously and generously Britain's with demands for equality which recognition of the Peking Go- the Bonn Government set forth. vernment had done a lot of They are not basically unreason- harm in Malaya.
able and within a specified time would, in my case, be granted. To the degree in which they are met Chancellor Adenauer will be strengthened, the defeatists
PROPAGANDA INADEQUATE
Air Commodore Harvey de- and pacifists rebuked." plored the inadequate effort The.. Herald-Tribune conclud- which he thought was made to ed: The stakes in this con- put across the British case. Radio Malaya, he said, was is in such a situation that France troversy are immense. And it
silent four or five hours every. has day. Now the papers were to lucidity that is superior to logic, traditionally shown a have their newsprint cut- though Malaya was earning and courage that is superior to
more
dollars than
anywhere
mere consistency. In this case else in the Commonwealth. it is expected that once again Paying tribute to the troops she will rise to the test."United
fighting the guerillas, Air Com-Press...
modore Harvey suggested that
20,000 more Gurkhas would
"clean it up" in Malaya. They German Rumours
could live in the jungle on the
same basis as those they were fighting.
They could beat the bandits at their own game.
The Gurkhas, hé thought, should get the same pay as the British troops.
Denied
Heidelberg, Dec. 14. The headquarters of the United States Army in Europe this afternoon denied that any “A LONG TIME" conference of major troop com He said the guerillas were manders was to discuss the now slashing rubber trees evacuation of American families three or four thousand in a from Germany. night--and that would have
most serious long-term effects. It further denied that there Air Commodore Harvey call had been any change in the ed for full support and proper current policy as regards depen- priorities for Major-General dants.
Sir Harold Briggs, who, he be
lieved, should be given execu. The statement said that tive authority
meeting In Stuttgart-
The Prime Minister, Mr Cle routine meetng of the comman- ment Attlee, should make a ders of the recently statement, "loud and clear," that establisher Seventh Army Britain intended to stay in Reuter
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