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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1950,

British

Officers Halt South Korean Execution Of

Red

Prisoners

With the British troops in Korea, Dec. 20.

Two British officers today halted the execution of about 40 prisoners by South Korean military police.

The officers, who were acting under the order

of the Commander of the British 29th Brigade, DEFENCE

saved 17 from shooting. The execution was being carried out a few hundred yards from the Brigade Headquarters.

"I am

Brigadier Thomas Brodie said tonight: not going to have people executed on my doorstep.

OF THE

My officers will stop executions in my area within AMERICAS

view of my troops."

The two officers, who did not wish their names to be disclosed at this stage, said tonight that they saw two open motor lor- ries being driven through their area at about 5.30 p.m.

The lorries were crowded with prisoners squatting with their heads bent. About five Korean

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Washington, Dec. 20. The Air Force said Wednesday the "blackout" precautions in Alaska were ordered by the local theatre commander and do not apply to other theatres.

Alaska is an Air Force com- mand.

A spokesman added, however, that military training in Alaska /was "prelty realistic."--United

Press.

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The Belgian House of Representatives on Wed- nesday approved an in- crease in ground troops from some 80,000 to 150,- 000 by the end of 1951.

The vote was 105 for, 67 against, and 14 abstentions. The dissenting votes were cast by the Socialists and Communists. The Liberals abstained. Most of the Socialists voted against the increase оп grounds that they had not been sufficiently informed on the Government's military policy-United Press.

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Tokyo, Dec. 20, The Public Prosecutor in Yoko- hama today indicted two men on charges of selling. 55 young girls to entertainment houses in the course of the past two years, according to the news- paper, Tokyo Shimbun, today.

The men, both past 50 years old, were alleged to have re- ceived between 1,000 to 5,000. yen (£1 to £5) for each gir they introduced. Reuter.

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Washington, Dec, 20, The Organisation of the police were in each

American States Council, today The officers hurried to their agreed to convoke a meeting American Washington of Brigade Headquarters and re-in turned with an interpreter, Foreign Ministers to consult on One of the officers tonight hemispheric defence against the said: “We saw nine of the threat of Communist aggression. The Council acted at the re- prisoners being marched towards

It a long wide trench. We halted quest of the United States. them and told the interpreter to agreed to appoint a committee tell the Korean officer in charge to fix the exact date of the to stop the killing.

meeting, but Ambassadors on the Council in their discussions generally agreed it should be held during the last half of February.

WOMAN SURVIVOR "In the trench were about 23 dead and dying.

"Through the interpreter I

The committee will also de- told the Korean officer to ensure termine in consultations with that all were dead before filling American Governments the in the grave and to get to hell agenda, and will draft the re-

out of here.

"The Korean

officer was ឌ

seem

gulations of the meeting.

The agenda is expected to second lieutenant of the mili-include political, military and London, Dec. 20. Egypt's request for repay-tary police. He did not

economic matters relating tam ment of her Sterling balances at all pleased but did as he was in arms and goods rather than told and took the survivors back the internal security of Ameri- can countries and their pro- in money can hardly help to Seoul Prison. greatly to bridge the gap on

tection against any attacks from abroad.-United Press, this question. City experts considered here today.

much

Britain herself is shorter of arms and strategic raw materials than of dollars She would much rather pay out dollars than ship out such ma- terials.

de-

to

"One of the survivors was a woman. We guessed her age to be about 14 but the Korean in-. terpreter said that she was 21. "It was a brutal, cold-blood- ed execution."

ACRIMONIOUS

The other officer went to Seoul

He said tonight: "I got to the

Colour Bar.

Ruling By

the prison Court In US

Britain can probably meet Prison. any reasonable Egyptian. mands for petroleum products prison just before the prisoners arrived. I talked to several though by supplying oil Dgypt for Sterling, Britain Korean officers in would be foregoing the dollars office. They seemed quite upset considered our or needed goods that she could at what they obtain for it elsewhere.

interference and the conversa- tion was pretty acrimonious.

Over most of the rest of the field if Egypt would rather have materials than money, so would Britain.

Britain has been stockpiling gold and dollars at the expense of her stockpiles of strategic materials so far from having any surpluses that she can readily send to Egypt in re- payment of war debts she has

acute shortages for herself and for her overseas responsibilities.

At present such things as zinc. and sulphur are more precious than gold or dollars.--Reuter,

Accusation By Soviet

"While we were talking, the survivors were marched into the office and made to squat on the floor.

They were very thin. Their cheeks were sunken,

"I think it was quite some time since they had last heen fed. A senior military officera Major -asked me whether it would

New Orleans, Dec. 201 The Fifth United States Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that Birmingham, Ala- bama, may not restrict its re- sidential sections on the basis of race or colour.

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The Court of Appeals upheld decision by Federal District Judge Clarence Mullins, who enjoined Birmingham from maintaining colour and race res- be in order to take them back. trictions in housing.

‘A MASSACRE'

A group of negroes had at- "I told him that my orders tacked Birmingham housing were that there would be no laws as unconstitutional, shooting of prisoners near the Judge Wayne Borah said that British troops or in sight of in the Court's opinion, the 14th the British troops. or within Amendment prevents States in- earshot of the British troops. terference with property rights "He looked a bit glum after except by due process of the that."

law. He said that property "is Corporal John Newton, of 14 more than the thing which a Gerrard Avenue,

It includes the: Warrington, person owns." Lancashire, said tonight that right to live in property for

lawful he saw the execution. Mill-

purposes without tary police made the prisonerscriminatory regulations, he add-

ed.-United Press. kneel in the trench in rows of three, then shot: them indis- thecriminately.

Moscow, Dec. 20. The newspaper Trud, trade union organ, today "It was a massacre," he said. charged that the French This afternoon's incident is authorities were holding 28,000 the third time in the past few displaced Soviet citizens in weeks that British troops have. camps in France, Austria and intervened in the shooting of West Germany and preventing prisoners.-Reuter. their repatriation."

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Damascus, Dec. 20 The former Syrlan Defence Minister. Ahmad Sharabati, and 13 others went on trial be-

SYRIAN CABINET fore a Military Court here fo

WINS VOTE

was an-

Damascus, Dec 20. The Syrian Cabinet won ari the German Army. Trud as overwhelming vote of confidence serted that the USSR had re-tonight for its economie policy patriated all Frenchimen

towards the Lebanon. altogether 315,000 citizens, in- Earlier today it cluding 20,000 German ex-nounced that the two countries soldiers. It said the Soviet dis-had agreed to the free exchange placed persons in French camps of agricultural products and that were being maltreated, per- negotiations to extend the agres secuted, incited against their ment would start next month, homeland and threatened, and representatives of the Soviet authorities had been barred as- cess to the camps. United Press.

day on charges of supporting an "Arab. suicide Falange which was accused of plotting assassinations and throwing bombs.into the British and American Legations.

Last month the Syrian Mill- tary Prosecutor demanded – the death penalty for two Egyptians among the accused. They are Dr Ameen Rouayha, charged with instigating, the attempted assassination last This was the first such agree October of Colonel Abid ment between the two countries Shishekli, the Syrian Army since Syria. denounced her Chief of Staff, who a year ago Customs Union with the led the nation's third army Lebanon last April-Reuter. coup in nine months Reu

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