jy

North Korea restores its industry

Between the armistice in July 1953 and Septembe
and other enterprises were established in the Korean
large industrial and mining enterprises were
the restored Hwanghae Iron Smelting plant.

restored to full or partial operation.
(BOTTOM) Korean geological surveyors in Kaepung.

r 1954, thirty new machine-building, textile
Democratic People’s Republic and 110 other

(TOP) A shop in

‘it happened to us before’

German rearmament decisive
issue for peoples of East Europe

Nazis

Reporting one of

People who spoke.”
hey see it as a life and death
™atter—and no wonder. In two
World wars, German aggression
rent Rumania alone. 1,300,000
‘Ves—one-eighth of the popula-
©n.. Material losses in 1939-45
®qualled 12 years of the national
budget.
a These figures were quoted at a
Scent meeting of railwaymen.
cant € meeting condemned the pre-
Proceedings against the Ger-

“28 Communist party, branding|
mas “a fascist method by the;

Sonn clique to stifle all patriotic
ices lifted against the deadly
anger, See

Many factory meetings have

i Sreetings to factories in West
Many, France, Italy and other
Countries, ‘

By STANLEY HARRISON

A great surge of anger is sweeping Eastern Europe,
Tecalls personal experiences

*“verywhere shown the most comp
the thousan

of hell-on-earth in countless homes.
lete unity on this question.
ds of mass protest meetings, a Rumanian paper says
SPeeches were “remarkable for the highly personal it-has-happenedsto-me-before feelings of

PRAGUE
where the plan to rearm the
The people have

The miners of the Georgi Dimi-
trov colliery in Bulgaria have writ-
ten to the miners of Borinages,
Belgium:

“Only ten years ago unemploy-
ment, poverty and hunger were
our life companions .. . it is neces-
sary not to allow the remilitariza-
tion of Western Germany, which
would take the bread from the
mouths of our children and lead
to a still more terrible catas-
trophe.”

Another Bulgarian factory, the
new Karl Marx Soda Works, has
sent this message to the Monte-
catini works’ in Italy:

“We have so much in common,
not only “because our work is to
produce soda ibut because you and
we have the same dream. . .

Revaluation of currency

Proves China’s stability

PEKING

A China has revalued its currency

a tate of one new yuan (dol-
to 10,000 old yuan.

at es country’s gold reserve last

as m i hat

of 19s ore than 11 times tha

gen official of the People’s Bank.

cine ima said the stability of the
- “tad was “guaranteed not only
gold 1s huge and ever-increasing
sat Teserve, but also by ample

“.etial resources.”
Re Chi

the Most stable in the world.”

1€ Tevaluation is a sign of this
Stabi; g
pity and of confidence that it

inese currency is one of.

ean be maintained.

The new currency was introduc-
ed on March 1.

Prices have not been changd—
they have simply been adjusted
to: the equjvalent in the new cur-
rency. : ie

Purpose of the reform is to 1m-
prove the currency and make ac-
countaney’ simpler. :

Under Chiang Kai-shek, China
experienced 12 years of mount-
ing inflation. When the People’s
government took over in 1949 its
first concern was to stop inflation
and stabilize the yuan at its then
low value.

“Instead of rearmament, disarm-
ament; instead of destruction, con-
struction; instead of unemploy-
ment for you, extension of inter-
national trade and full employ-
ment for all.

“In two words—instead of war,
peace.”

H-bomb

for all time the ethical question
whether anyone had the right to
drop the H-bomb.

“The genetic effects would cer-
. tainly strike farther into the
future than the distance between
William the Conqueror and the
present day,” declared ‘Arnott.

“But the numbers of people af-
fected would be substantially less
than the numbers immediately af-
fected by all causes from the ex-
plosion of the bomb.”

He estimated that a bomb that
killed 50,000 people would cause
2,000 genetic deaths spread over
sevral hundred years.

“Have we the right to inflict this
on remote posterity” he asked.

Arnott also claimed that it was
not an old wives’ tale to say that
the explosion of H-bombs had
affected the weather.

He disagreed with Sir Graham
Sutton, director of the British
Meteorological Office—‘“author of
an astounding number of wrong
weather predictions.”

Sir Graham, in the February
issue of the British monthly jour-
nal Nature, contended that there
was No connection between H-
bomb tests and freak weather ex-
perienced throughout the world
for more than a year past.

But, countered Arnott, “we have
50 to 70 years" evidence to show
that the projection of dust into
the stratosphere as a result of vol-
canic eruptions definitely affects
the weather.”

“H-bomb explosions are more
violent and many times hotter than
volcanic eruptions.

“T don’t see, therefore, how it
is possible to exclude the probabil-
ity of H-bomb tests affecting the
weather in the same way as vol-
canic eruptions have been known
LOPdps

“We had no option but to treat
the matter as a serious one,” he
added, pointing out that a one
percent centigrade fall in annual
mean temperature would bring
the snow-line down 1,000 feet.

Condemning the Churchill gov-
ernment’s White Paper on atomic
policy, Arnott said that the H-

bomb should not be called a weap-
on’ at: all’ —<it is
catastrophe.”

“a man-made

Britain builds A-power plants

ed to keep pace with British

This is a view of Calder Hall where Britain is building one
of a chain of atomic power plants.
heat exchangers or boilers, of which there are four to each plant,
producing steam for the generating plant.
has been held back by concentration on nuclear weapons, is need-

Picture shows one of the 80-ft.
The program, which

requirements — consumption of

electricity is doubling every ten years.

1,000 years of

deaths

LONDON

Some hydrogen*bomb radiation effects may not be known
for 40 or 50 generations, delegates to a ‘‘Coexistence or Arms
Race?’ conference in London were informed last week.

D. G. Arnott, secretary of the Association of Scientific
Workers’ Atomic Sciences Committee, said that this answered

‘Nothing left
alive on
Tachens’

By ALAN WINNINGTON

PEKING

Not one single living person or

animal was left when Chiang Kai-

shek and U.S. forces evacuated
the Tachen Islands.

Company Commander Wang, one
of the first officers of the People’s
Army to land immédiately after
Chiang’s retreat, told me: “They
carried out their threat that they
would only leave dead men on the
island.”

Wang -was referring to a state-
ment made by Commander Liu,
Chiang’s commander on the Tach-
ens, when American correspon-
dents asked what would be done
with 50 civilians who had been
weeded out from those kidnapped
to Formosa and locked in a build-
ing.

Liu replied: “I do not know
what their fate will be, but when
we leave there will only be dead
men on this island.”

Now soldiers of the Chinese Peo-
ple’s Army thave found corpses on
Lower Tachen Island. They are
apparently those of islanders kill-
ed because they refused to leave.

Bloodstained clothes left un-~-
buried in the hasty flight of Chiang
Kai-shek’s soldiers drew attention
to a spot near the naval dockyard
= ig northeast corner of the is-
and.

The victims were found. in
ditches covered by a thin layer
of soil.

“When I got there with the first
People’s troops, everything was
smouldering and you had to fight
your way through stinking smoke.”
Wang told me. :

ne went up the road to Ta Ou
Li on Upper Tachen. It was lined
with empty oil. drums, the con-
tents of which had been used to
fire civilian homes, barracks, am-

munition dumps, food stores and
vehicles.

“What wasn’t taken was wreck-
ed—cooking pots and furniture.

“Booby traps were everywhere,”
Wang went on, “looking like trip
flares, empty American. ration
cans and half-filled bottles of Am-
erican whisky.

“In a matter of hours our sap-
pers had cleared or’ detonated
hundreds of them and taken up
countless mines. But although the
destruction had been so thorough-
ly prepared there was also plenty
of evidence of hasty flight.

“It looked to me as though no-
body wanted to be the last on this
desert they had made or run the
risk of meeting the People’s Army
if they stayed too long.

“There were undamaged gener-
ators, electrical equipment and
dockyard gear, ammunition in
boxes and maps—even sacks of
flour abandoned.

“The power of our artillery was
visible, too, in smashed bunkers
and wrecked and riddled ears and
lorries.”

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