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MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1951.

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SHOWDOWN WITH PEKING REDS

A

Reply To Latest Cease-Fire Plan Likely To Clarify Issues

Truce On Reasonable Terms Baghdad Bomb

COMMENT

The new peace plan for

Korea

has been ap-

proved, as expected, by a resounding majority in the United Nations Poli- tical Committee.

The

plan includes the

most hopeful points of the earlier Western at

tempts Korean

to solve the

impasse the

-

Believed

Possible

Lake Success, Jan. 14.

Diplomatic quarters believed today that Peking's reply to the most recent and probably final United Nations ceasefire plan for Korea would clarify four major questions facing the Western capitals.

Israeli plan and those of BRIGHTER

the

United Nations

three-man Peace Commit-

tee-and the proposals HOPES

FOR PEACE

They speculated that Communist China would accept a Korean truce on reasonable terms, and added that the attitude of Mao Tse-tung's govern- ment would clarify the following points:

1.

At Synagogue

Baghdad, Jan. 14.

One person

was killed and 24 were injured, some seriously, when 1 bomb was thrown in the Masouda Shemtob Syna- gogue here today.

were

All the victims rushed to hospital. The incident occurred when a number of Iraqi Jews were on their way to get ર plane to Israel, The police opened an inquiry immediately.-Reuter.

To what extent is Peking independent DIVISION from Moscow. This often raised question may

receive the most complete reply yet when China CHIEF reacts to the ceasefire proposal.

sponsored by the London meeting of Common- wealth Premiers. The new peace plan is simple and certainly not

Diplomatic observers feel that, Lake Success, Jan. 14. provocative. It suggests

the Soviet delegation is perform- Sir Benegal Rau took offing parliamentary manoeuvres that a cease-fire in Korea should be immediately by plane today for London aimed at the creation of a vicious agreement to confer with the Indian circle that made an followed by other mea-

with Peking difficult, if not Prime Minister, Mr Jawa-impossible. They have studied sures designed to secure

American

a settlement over a wide harlal Nehru, on the Far carefully Russia's Deputy Foreign Soldiers

as

Eastern crisis.

Sir Benegal told newsmen at Idlewild Airport, New York,

I'

the

to

He had no information confirm or deny a report from New Delhi that Peking would be willing to consider the new

is seeking to frustrate the peace Detained

The Police

‘RELIEVED’

Tokyo, Jan. 14. Major General Robert B. McClure, commander of the U.S. Second Division which took part in the brilliant de- fensive stand against Com- munist assaults at Wonju, has been relieved of his command, it was announced Berlin, Jan 14. East Berlin

People's today by Second Division today arrested three (HQ. unidentified American soldiers No reason was given for the who crossed into the Soviet action, in a dispatch cleared by sector by mistake, West Berlin Fighth Army censorship, police said tonight,

Gen. McClure, one of the top American experts

China, Chief of Staff to Generalissimo

the war during

was deputy

Chiang Kai-shek He was high- the Division were tonight negotiating for the regarded by release of the

officers and correspondents.

He Will be succeeded by They would not give names of Major Gen Clark L. Ruffner, the men,

formerly Chief of Staff of the 10th Corps. West Berlin police said thai

MacArthur's Head- the three men were hunting in

General

for the the American sector district of

quarters gave no reason Lichtenrade when they crossed

replacement of General Mc- into. East German territory by during the Korean campaign. Clure, who has won praisa mistake.

Police officials said that the

Minister's actions in the last few area of Far East affairs.

days and conclude that Mr Malik All foreign troops would withdraw from the penin-

plan. that he believed the chances for

The best argument Mr Malik sula, disarming their

could muster peace were ""better" as a

for opposing the Korean supporters

sult of the United Nations' ac-plan in the political Committee they went. A United tion yesterday in sending

was that "it constituted nothing. Nations commission new Korean ceasefire formula new" and that it was pushed through in the absence of would take over the in- to the Chinese Communists. terim administration of sonal reasons," he said.

"I say that for purely per- Chinese and North Korean re-

presentatives."

Canada's External and hold

Affairs the country

Pearson, Minister, Mr Lester At the same elections.

Ceasefire Commission soldiers were carrying hunting said the time talks would be

sought unsuccessfully to con- guns when they were seized. opened among Russia, five-point blueprint if the cease- tact Peking and that Saturday's The United States authorities Communist China, Bri-fire and other Far Eastern Peace plan

a far more than the one Peking tain and America to dis-issues were taken up simul-generous

Christmas Eve. rejected on cuss the Far East situa-

As approved by the Political Should, however, Peking ac- tion, including the fate Committee, the blueprint calls cept it, or even take an attitude

door open of Formosa and Peking's for

of leaving the a ceasefire first, then

further attempts, then there representation in

parley the peace

including the Chinese Communists, at which will be much reason to believe United Nations.

relationship between for United Nations membership Peking and Moscow is not as Formosa and Peking's demand that the

would be key topics.

close yet as was made to be- lieve..

taneously.

*

a

2.

was

to

three sildiers.

on

The only discordant note in the Political Commit-

It was not expected that tee-the Russian bloc's

He took command of the Divi- They believed that the threesion six weeks ago soon after vote against the propo- received for several days because

reply from Peking would be U.S. ATTITUDE

men were taken to the People's the Kunuri battle in North-West sals--is indeed ominous, of slow communications between will accept the Commonwealth East Germany,

Whether the United States Police Headquarters at Mahlow, Korea, in which it fought its. and in some quarters is here and Peking. There

for interroga-way out of a Communist trap.- hope, and

suggestion for big power question-Reuter, taken as foreshadowing

United Press and Reuter. on the top level. The among United Nations observers rejection of the plan by that Peking would not flatly United States delegation

State Department and the Peking.

reject the offer as it did the pre-have been pointedly uncom→ vious one.

really wishes as she for

ä

was

some expectation, tions

here

sources believe that

But if Communist China A number of optimists looked municative on the question. But

diplomatic reply from Peking that

in the event of Peking's re- has asserted to see the would touch off give-and-take

jection of the peace plan it Koreans united again and

would be impossible deal.-

for the free to choose their own

United States to accept the way of life as an inde-

London suggestion. pendent nation;

if she

negotiations that might lead

sort of ceasefire

some

United Press.

wishes to see peace in DAWN

.0

Should

a ceasefire be ac- cepted, however, there would

Washington Putting Pressure On Soviet

Washington, Jan. 14.

The United States will confront the Soviet

KOREA be chances that President Tru- Union tomorrow with a firm demand for settle-

AIR RAIDS

man may agree to a meeting

with Stalin and Mao Tse-tung. ment of its overdue lend-lease account, American The Soviet Union has been officials said today.

always willing to

engage in

the Far East; if she wishes fo eschew vio- lence and work in har- mony with the other

Tokyo, Jan. 15. such talks and it is believed American and Soviet negotiators will meet at peoples of the

The world

Far East Air Forces she still maintains such planes took off at dawn today to titude.

at the State Department tomorrow. through the United Na- continue attacks on the Chinese 3. Whether 0 Communist tions, then she has no and North Korean Communists. military invasion will be staged

American officials said that they would. make three de- reason for refusing to The American Eighth Army against Nationalist-held Formosa. diplomatic language and re-

they would abandon polite mands on the Russiano: accept the plan. It fur-Headquarters announced tonight Military and political indications sort to blunt talk to obtain pay-

These were that the town of Yongwol, 30 available seem to give currency ment of the Soviet debt. thers her interests and miles southeast

(1) Payment of a "resson- of the United to the belief that the Chinese

able value" for lend-lease items protects her honour. Nations defence positions

If the Russians continued to with at Reds may be planning an in-stall", the officials said, the were

a peacetime use which What is being offered by Wonju, in Central Korea, was vasion in the next two months. United States

included mong the these new

would consider | $11,000 million proposals is

in lend-lease that this three-fold action:

supplies provided by the the hope of peace. This The cryptic communique did Pravda recently published an

(1) Demand the return of the United States during the war; is more than

not say whether this was the re- article stating that be can

the Com- key industrial supplies shipped (2) Immediate return of 186 to liberate to the Soviet Union during the small American found in any other quar-ing, but an earlier announce-

sult of street fighting or bomb-j munists are ready

naval ships, wari

including two ice-breakers; ter at the moment. No ment had said a Communist re-

CREDENCE?

(2) Denounce the Soviet

(3) Compensation of six effort should be spared giment was moving south to- They recalled that an article Union publicly for bad faith; American

wards Yongwol, which lies about with similar

companies to turn this hope into 10 miles north of the 37th peared in Moscow's "Izvastia" tional Court to settle the case. connection

for the conclusion ap- (3) Appeal to the Interna- use of patented processes in reality.

Parallel-Reuter and U.P.

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a lend-lease American officials said that Loil refinery-Reuter.

bunning.

Official

the island.

said sources

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