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VOL. VI. NO. 57

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1951.

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FRESH APPROACHES TO PEKING

COMMENT.

Indications that the Chinese Communists are prepar- ing to make a determin- ed stand along, roughly, the imaginary straight line called the 38th Par- allel, may render purely academic the controversy

over

MacArthur's offer

to talk truce terms, his implied threat. unless Peking comes to heel, and his go-ahead signal for a. crossing of the Parallel where tactical require- ments dictate. Murmurings among

May Depend On Communist Military Activities Western Governments Still Considering Terms

London, Mar. 27.

The prospects of a fresh United Nations approach to Peking, now being planned in the Western capitals, depend mainly on whether the Chinese Communist forces launch a new offensive near the 38th Parallel, observers here consider- ed: today.

General Douglas MacArthur's semi-political offer of truce negotiations with the Chinese Communist field commander has not affected the intentions of Governments with forces vernments with troops in in Korea to make an approach, it was understood.

go-

-Korea arise from the fear that MacArthur's unauthorised delving in-

to the political arena may

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Famine Tales

have sabotaged attempts From Bulgaria

The Governments were said to be still con-

sidering the terms of an agreed approach.

The fact that this was in a sense scooped by

General MacArthur has caused a certain amount

of irritation in the Western diplomatic field.

In London, criticism has tend- ed to fix on the fact that he spoke out of turn rather than he expressed an intention to make a tactical crossing of the Parallel.

through the proper chan- nels to bring Peking into

Belgrade, Mar. 27. settlement negotiation. Bulgarian refugees. who have Whether any such hope just fled to Yugoslavia reported was encouraged by known with famine and

that their country is threatened that trenches facts cannot be answered were being dug along the doğmatically, Such a Bulgarian-Yugoslav frontier by question, moreover, may troops under the direction of

Though British opinion is de- find itself

superseded an official communique tonight, strategic crossing of the Parallel Russian officers, according to finitely opposed to any further by another: Can the The communique reported

or to a major campaign in North Parallel be crossed?. the statements of 55 Bulgarians Korea if this can possibly be The fact is that the Chin- who escaped to Yugoslavia avoided,

the British Govern- within the past

week. The ment has always conceded the ese did not retreat in

Bulgarians said famine

was right of the field commander to panic. Their withdrawal threatening all parts of the indulge in tactical manoeuvring. in general has been or-country and farmers were But for the moment attention derly and planned. Large cause they could not feed them. not

slaughtering their cattle be- here has shifted to whether or

a major battle previously

on the Parallel is now imminent.

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forces

over-United Press.

the Yalu River now. ap- pear to be moving, south

in substantial strength. They have been prepared

to accept casualties on a shocking scale..

not à

It

British Navy's Big Claim Against Isbrandtsen

New York, Mar. 27.

The British Government is claiming a salvage award from the Isbrandtsen Shipping Company of New York for aid given by the British destroyer, Black Swan, to a freighter shelled off China last

this is so, observers here felt it might prove necessary to hold: up a new diplomatic approach until the outcome of the new clash was known.

U.N. TALKS

Five Trapped In Mendip Cave

-Bristol, Mar. ~ 27;

A search party today rescued three men and two girls trapped for 22 hours

in 3 vast subterranean –– chamber of a cave in the Mendip Hills near hero.

The five trapped people went exploring the cave yesterday morning equip ped with a torch, a candie

and some matches, Probing their

way through, they lost their torch and found. their matches wet.

In pitch darkness they could do nothing but bunch together and walt to be rescued.

Early today they were reported missing and they were found after a search lasting six hours. -Reuter.

NEW BID

TO

UNIFY

Representatives of the United IRELAND Nations were expected to dis- cuss informally in Washington

London, Mar. 27.

today proposals for a declaration On Government Level of the United Nations peace aing in the Korean war.

The occasion for 'the dis- Tuesday meeting at the State cussion was to be the regular Department.

Representatives of the United Nations with troops in Korea would then be brought up to ciate on their military situation there and have an opportunity of commenting on it.

Officials today acknowledged that a consideration of the peace aims statement, which had been going on for some time, had been complicated by the personal and unauthorised ap- peal made by. General Douglas MacArthur to the Chinese Com- munists last week and the terms of that appeal

A plan to abolish division Ireland" to join the Atlantic of Ireland and invite "United

Pact is being considered at British Government level, reliable sources said today.

considered by

They said the plan was being "several mem→ bers of the British Govern- ment who were not yet willing to give it any official flavour."

Details were outlined as:

1. To vest in the Northern Ireland Parliament powers at present exercised by Westmins-

ter,

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2 To call' an "all Ireland”. Parliament.

3. King George to be linked They expressed the opinion with the new "United Ireland" that it was unlikely that any

in the same way as he is, ular formal protest would be lodged head of the Republic of India. sentatives against the politica nected with the Irish by the United Nations repre-

Reliable sources, not con- aspects of General MacArthur's Partition League, emphasised unauthorised comment on the that the plan for a

Chinese Communis.s' position (Continued on Page 8, Col, 1.)

Joint

Civil

anti-

united Ireland was not official but had been considered at official level. They said an "unchie emis- sary", possibly a member of the Labour Party Executive, would go-to Dublin shortly to sound out opinion there at govern- ment level.

to

Mr Eamon de Valera, former - Prime Minister of Ireland, is said have expressed the opinion that the Irish govern- a last resort"--United Press ment would accept the plan "as

The military guess is that they now intend to hold 'fortified positions, a little either to the north or south of the Parallel, until a propitious mo- ment arrives for another big offensive. Should that fail, the prediction is that they are prepared to settle down to stalemate. That, of course, could fall

readily into line with the year. scheming of the Kremlin í The Government is claiming a "liberal" share and Mao Tse-tung. It is of the US$1,000,000 which it says was the salvaged

very expensive value of the ship, the 6,214-ton Flying Arrow. form of war. It would It is making the claim on its It said that the Flying Arrow hold down important in-own behalf ànd on behalf of was still trading to British ports, Defence Plans ternational forces to the

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officers and men of the where the action could have destroyer.

been taken. But alleged that far from really zone

Washington, Mar. 27. action was taken in the United strategic areas, a tedious The Flying-Arrow received 15

Canada and the United States because the British States, in an exchange of notes, and profitless state of direct hits when attacked by a

Government was Chinese Nationalist, gunboat be-

"improperly agreed today on joint planning affairs.

tween Hongkong and Shanghai from the fact that the United der existed."

trying to gain an advantage" for civil defence "as if no bor- It is melancholy to think on January 9, 1950. The hits

of U. N. forces possibly caused fires on the after-deck cognised the Chinese Nationalist Mr Hume Wrong, in a note to Government still re- The Canadian Ambassador, crouched along the Par- and in cango-filled hold.

Government and the British did rallel for months. It is Britain

the US Secretary of State, Mr In pleas entered here today, claimed the Flying

Dean Acheson, proposed that there

A PIRATE any Arrow would have become

civil defence activities should A British

A 20-year-old Liverpool- warrant for belief that total loss but for the fire-fight-

Court, the

be co-ordinated by an ex- University student with a change of information between grudge against women was the symbolic value of the g efforts of a boarding party pany contended, would

to, regard the Chinese Na- their respective civil defence committed for trial today on a Parallel could have been

The claim is expected to reach tionalist gunboat as a pirate. authorities. exploited as a means of the Court here soon.

In any event, because the Fly- Canada also proposed an ex-girl student."

change of grievously hurting a switching to other The company pleaded that fouring Arrow was insured with change of personnel at a work-. Thea prosecutor, Charles Mc-

of the 12 passengers aboard the British companies, the methods the solving of Flying Arrow and four of the real parties to the action were facilities should be offered to that John Hughes made this sole, ing. level and that training Allister, told the magistrate the Korean problem. 38 crew were British and most the British Government and students from the United States statement about alleged injuries MacArthur's

British, and its own nationals. gestures of the cargo was

in Canada and Canadian to Miss Rachel Rhodes, 20: "T British insured, that the Black Another defence was may not, if truth

that students in the United States. Swan was only

hit her.. because I hate all carrying out the salvage claim was

Mr Acheson notified known, have hindered. part of the duty of the British hibited by an Anglo-American United

the women and she happened to States' acceptance But they have not helped. Navy to protect British interests, treaty-Router.

in be the most accessible victim." his reply.-Reuter,

-United Press.

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Grudge Against All Women ́

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