1951-03-22 — Page 2

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1951,

This group of children in an elementary school on Long Island, New York, heard of the desperate plight of children in Korea and decided to collect clothing for the war orphans. Their gifts have been distributed in South Korea.

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Master Lock Film Star Admits He

Of Museumí

Stolen

London, Mar. 21.

Someone has stolen a master lock of the British Museum in

Central London, possession of which would give access to priceless national treasures,. it

was revealed here today,

Officials, fearing a planned raid on the Museum, immediate ly ordered all exterior locks in the building to be changed,

impression, to open the other

£500.

Anyone possessing the master lock could make a key from its outer doons. A new set of out side locks and keys will cost It would be almost impossible to work out: the total value of the contents of the Museum for most of the items are priceless and irreplaceable.

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Washington, Mar. 219

BRITAIN STUDIES WAY TO PROTECT OIL INTERESTS

Mr Morrison Taking Serious View Of Persian Threat

London, Mar. 21.

Britain is considering various ways of protecting the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, which the Persian Parliament is threatening to nationalise, the Foreign Secretary, Mr Herbert Morrison, told the House of Com- mons today.

He was asked for an assurance that he would not allow "a valuable undertaking of such great international importance to go up in smoke because of an emotional landslide in Teheran."

Mr Morrison replied: "My own feelings about the matter are much the same. I am taking the matter very seriously indeed.”

Mr Morrison said also that the Government had received no representation from the Persian Government about the nation alisation of the company's well's and refinerics.

Persia had not yet replied to the British note of March 14 (contending that the nationalisa-

tion of the company would be

illegal).

Replying to a suggestion that,

The movie star Larry Parks admitted to Con- gressional investigators today that he was a mem- ber of the Communist Party from 1941 to 1945 and he said he expected the admission to end his Holly-supplies, Britain should offer a wood career.

Parks was the first witness in the reopening of the Hollywood investigation by the House Un- American Activities Committee. The star of "The Jolson Story" and one of Hollywood's leading young actors traced for the Committee his mem- bership in the Communist Party from 1941 to part of 1945.

He told the Committee he altended. "very few" Commun-

"I feel I have done nothing wrong."

with a voice

Then

Only one robbery has recorded ist meetings and drifted out of scarcely audible a few feet away,

same

at the Museum in its 200-year the Party "the history,

way I Two 1,600-year-old drifted in". He added that. coffins and some burial relics there was a "great difference": were stolen from

the Roman between belonging to the Party Collection last November. Reu- when he did and belonging to

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military alliance to Persia as at

deement to any potential as- the British policy was

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"On May 19.last my prede- cessor (Mr Ernest Bevin)

issued a statement saying that

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Britain's Korea Casualties

London, Mar. 21.

It was announced today that Britain has suffered 980 casualties in the Korean war.

The Defence Minister Mr Shiwell told the Com- mons that 20 persons were

and killed, 65 wounded three missing since Febru- ary 20. The total then was. 892. United Press.

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Weapons

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the British Government. was vitally concerned in the inde- pendence, integrity and securi- ty of Persia and. were mined to continue their policy he said: "I you, think it is to Persia and to other countries

Korea, Mar. 21. casy for a man who has clinib- striving through military and

measures to safe- Chinese Communist muni- ed up the ladder a bit, if you economic

andtions factories are producing al- think it is easy to appear -be-guard their independence

most exact pies of some of fore this Committee and testify, territorial integrity. you're mistaken....As an actor "I welcome this opportunity the world's most efficient auto- my activity is dependent a to reaffirm that that statement matic weapons, including Bren great deal on the public It still represents the policy of guns, Thompson sub-machine- is doubtful whether my career the British Government and no guns and American Mark-III can continue, extremely doubt-further assurance is necessary, 45-calibre sub machineguns-

unfortunately ful, because I came here and but

at present commonly known ដន "grease told you the truth."

the Persians' are not giving is guns.". Parks thus became the first very much encouragement

South Korean troops who re- Hollywood figure to admit

U.N. APPROACH? cently surprised. and wiped out been ne had openly that

Lord Henderson, Joint Under-

a Chinese Communist battalion member of the Communist Secretary for Foreign Affairs;

near Hongchon captured a haul' Party. Ten Hollywood figures replying to questions in the of replicas. who refused to answer the House of Lords rejected a An American ordnance officer questions of the Committee in

suggestion that the dispute who inspected the arms today 1947 were convicted of con-

should be submitted to the said that they were almost per- tempt of Congress and sent to United Nations.

fect rapies and would be nearly / gaol.

He said that this would not as efficient as their originals.

He said: be appropriate as things stood. VERY CO-OPERATIVE

have been "They "We must await developments turned out in the last year or Parks admitted there were-

before deciding our course of so and would say that the Chi- Communists in the actors'

nese have chosen just about. laboratory--school and "show-action," he said.

The Government, he said, the most lethal set of weapons case" for actors--and he was a

was confident that the Persian] to copy." member of the group with the

Government did

not contem- With the machineguns the duty of signing cheques. He

South Communist plate using force.

Koreans said he left the

also found Lord Simon, Liberal, said several boxes of Chinese-made Party in 1944 or 1945 and had

now Up until

the had no connections with it since that when the Persian Govern- bullets.

ment proposed in 1932 to can- Chinese troops have used for- 1946.

almost cel a concession to the Anglo- eign ammunition Company without clusively. Reuter. Persian

the matter was agreement, brought before the Council of the League of Nations.

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At 2.30,

Parks, who at first pleaded with investigators not to force 5.30, 7.30 him to "crawl through the mud and to be an informer" on other 9.30 p.m. film.figures, later went behind

closed, doors to give the names of Lord Henderson replied that four or five" Communists he this parallel was being studied, had known. Members said Reuter, afterwards that he was "very

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co-operative" and they were not

considering contempt action British

against him.-United Press.

UNDER

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Washington Mar. 21. The US Secretary of State, Mr Dean Acheson, said today that the possibility of including Turkey and Greece in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation was under constant study.

He told a questioner at his weekly press conference that there had been no new develop- ment to report on the subject. Reuter.

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Stewards and

Arrested

Cairo, Mar. 21.

TONKIN

Saigon, Mar. 21. French planes dive-bombed strated concentrations of Vietminh forces 45 miles north of Hanoi today, a French Army communique announced.

Targets were cantonments Two British stewards on a near Thai Nguyen the Vietminh plane were arrested at Cairo's military capital. Farouk Airport early today on Reporting on operations in a gold smuggling. charge, the Cochin-China, the communiqué Egyptian police stated tonight. said that French troops The police said that the stewards occupied the whole of Oih were found hiding about 25 Island, 60. miles south of Saigon. pounds weight of gold in blocks, In operations throughout Indo- The gold was confiscated by China in the past 24 hours, Customs officers. The stewards French Union troops killed 74 were on a plane bound for Rom-Vietminhs and captured 62, the bay from London.-Reuter communique added.-Reuter.

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