Elaborate British-Australian paratrooper operations design- ed to destroy jungle centres and food-growing areas have failed to break the resistance of Malayan independence forces. Now, ‘according to the Singapore Straits 'Times, chemical warfare is to be used against men fighting for the independence of their country. MP’s score collective punishment ‘ imposed on Malayan village LONDON Defying British public opinion and a protest by 124 Labor MP’s against the treatment of the village of Tanjong Malim; General Templer, British commander in Malaya, has threatened another Malayan district with collective punishment. He has given a “betray or else” order to 2,000 people, telling them he will impose on them all the penalties inflicted on the .peo- ple of Tanjong Malim unless they betray the pairiot leaders in their area, The people affected, according to a Singapore dispatch, are Chinese and ‘Malays in a resettle- ment area near Kuala Lumpur, accused of not disclosing what they know about guerilla activi- ties.” : Last month at Tanjong Malim, Templer imposed collective pun- ishment on all the 6,000 men, women and children of the town and some 17,000 people in the surrounding district. Mostly workers on rubber est- ates or small storekeepers, they were placed under a 22-hour a day curfew. their rice rations cut by half, their schools closed and all transport banned. Since they could only leave their houses for two hours a day they could not go to work and thus had no wages or any source of income. Many fami- lies were soon reduced to star- vation and existed merely on the charity of their neighbors. At the time it was stated that the reason for the action was be- eause a British official and police had been killed near the area. But Templer himself admitted that one reason was to hit at the rubber estate workers because they had struck for higher wages to meet the racing inflation in Malaya. “T believe that one of the worst things in this area is the diffi- culty with labor,’ he said. Only last month, on March 30, Sir Eric Miller, chairman ot the Bikam Rubber Estate, announcing a 25 percent in- erease in his company’s profits, had suggested that the action taken at Tanjong Malim should become “the rule’? in Malaya. HA. 6570 Stylized Permanents and Hairshaping by Paul's Beauty Salon 2511 E. Hastings St opp. Forst’s (Upstairs) Terror measures, defended by Tories as ‘appropriate : LONDON Headed by Tom Driberg, a total of 124. Labor MP’s, in- cluding several members of the Labor party executive, ‘have signed a motion protesting the punitive action taken by Gen- eral Templer against the vil- lagers at Tangjong Malim. The motion, published in the House of Commons Order Paper supports ‘all reasonable meas- ures for the maintenance of law and order in Malaya and the protection of British troops and Maalyan police and_ people against terrorist outbreaks.” With the support of 100 Con- servative MP’s, Major Tufton Beamish tabled an amendment Stating that the House: “Wel- comes the inflexible determin- ation of Her Majesty’s govern- ment to restore law and order in Malaya and considers that the action recently taken against the inhabitants of Tangjong Malim was appropri- ate, just and firm.” SSUES ENE SURE EEE EES UEN EU RUE NEUE eee Kuomintang troops in Burma supported by group in Frisco LONDON S) First detailed information of the location and strength of Kuo- mintang (KMT) troops on the Sino-Burmese border has now reached London, It shows that the KMT troops, commanded from’ Formosa by Chiang Kai-shek and the U.S. military mission, have a base area of 140 square miles, including an airfield. Their immediate commander is General Li Mi. They number near- ly 15,000. In recent weeks they have extended their area of oper- ations to Myitkyina, capital of the Cachin State. _ Full details of their disposition and methods of supply, together with a map, are given in an im- portant article in the April issue of Labor Monthly, The body organising the sup- plies and largely sponsoring the whole adventure calls itself the “Committee for Free Asia.”’ It has headquarters in San Fran- cisco and is believed to be back- ed by powerful U.S. political figures. It is well known that the U.S. State Department plays the di- recting role. The Labor Monthly article suggests that the aims of this en- terprise are to establish a west- ern front against Peoples China and to-build up a military force capable of intervening in Burma’s internal affairs. But a united movement against imperialism is rapidly developing in Burma, It has forced the gov- ernment in Rangoon to take up an increasingly hostile attitude to the KMT forces and the Ameri- cans who are supplying them, The United Front has formed a volunteer corps to fight Li Mi’s forces, who are terrorising the countryside and engaging in wide- spread banditry. British gov't snubs African delegation LONDON Britain’s Tory government pointedly snubbed six members of the Bamangwato tribe, represent- ing 100,000 people of Bechuana- land, when they arrived here to plead for return of their chief, Seretse Khama, No government official was at the airport to greet the six, whose fares alone cost $8,656, collected among the | tribes. Lord Salisbury, secretary of state for commonwealth relations, agreed to see the delegation but held out no hope that the gov- ernment would alter its decision banning Seretse Khama from his chieftainship because he married a white woman. STULL ERR ES LE Officiac boasts of West German aim : Conquerup to Urals Communist deputies in the Bonn parliament have demand- ed immediate dismissal of Pro- fessor Hallstein, secretary in the Bonn Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Hallstein declared re- cently in the United States that the final aim of the European policy’ of ‘the West German gov- ' ernment is to conquer Eastern Europe up to the Urals. GI slaying of striker | stirs France PARIS Leaders of the French General Confederation of Labor (CGT) have sent appeals to AFL presi dent William Green, CIO presk dent Philip Murray, president John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers and other Americal labor leaders to protest the slay- ing of a French striker by a American soldier. The cable was. signed by CGT secretary-general Benoit Frachon and _ secretary; general Alain LeLeap. ‘ Victim of the killing was 29- year old Alfred Gadois, treasure? of his union local at the Ideal Standard metal plant in nearby Melun. He was killed when 4 U.S. army truck, driven by CorP. Zarafoss, rode into a crowd of strikers standing on a sidewalk. Gadois was crushed against the wall of a building and died a2 hour later. The CGT leaders charged that the truck driven by Zarafoss and another army truck deliberately crashed into. the strikers... <= The army trucks fled from’t scene, but witnessses to the kill ing were later able to establisP Zarafoss’ identity. ——— OU A A UN blocks appeal The UN Security Council this week refused to consider an As- ian-African against French action in Tunisia, typified by this picture of a machine-gun covering a street. Of the big four, USSR voted for, Britain and France against, the U.S, abstain- ‘complaint ing, on a Chilean compromise mo- tion to put the issue on the council agenda but to postpone discussion indefinitely. Arrested secretly, held incommunicado : Filipino labor leader jailed ‘MANILA After being held incommunic- ado for 15 months, Amado V. Hernandez, Philippine labor lead- er and Manila city councilor, has been sentenced to life imprison- ment here on a cahrge of ‘“‘rebel- lion.’”’” Hernandez was chairman of the Philippine Gongress of La- bor Organizations €«CLO) which was Outlawed after his arrest. He was arrested on Jan. 26, 1951, by arrested on January 26, 1951, by military intelligence agents who staged a series of night raids on homes and offices throughout the city, arresting scores of oppon- ents of the Quirino government. Mass arrests of an estimated 5,000 people were carried out the following month, News of Hernandez’ arrest did not leak out until several months later. No formal charges were Placed against him and he was not allowed to communicate with his lawyer. or family. He was finally. brought to trial toward the end of 1951. The guilty ver- dict was announced March 31 by Judge Augustus Montesa. who also sentenced 10 co-defendants to 10 years and one day impris- onment. Seven were members of the CLO. The court. claimed that the CLO served as a “propaganda arm” of the Communist party and said its leaders ‘“‘conspired’’ with the Huk- balahap liberation movement. Hernandez was a leader in the Hukbalahap movement which, conducted partisan ‘warfare against the Japanese during the war. In a visit to the U.S, in 1948, the CLO leader charged that the U.S. granting of indepen- dence to the Philippine islands two years earlier had become a: “mockery.” PACIFIC TRIBUNE | cialist Unity party. of which | Great Iceland socialist MP, orator, dead REYKJAVIE One of the most influentiél leaders of the Icelandic workiné class and nation in-its new fis?! for -independence, Sigfus Sig¥* hjartarson, died sudenly on Marc? 15 at the age of 50 yeal® Sigurhjartarson was the out standing leader of the left-wi® Social Democratic party which in. 1938, combined with Iseland® Communist party to found the a was vice chairman until his death: For a decade Sigurhjartars>> had been leader of the stro? Socialist Unity party oppositio? in Reykjavik City Council and highly respected member of par liament. ‘For many year he ca been chairman of Iceland’s pie gest cooperative society. of Ice Sigurhjartarson was one if land’s greatest orators and S° » " loved that when he spoke Ve" recently here on his impressioy of the Soviet Union, where ; had received treatment in the P@ year for a serious heart conditio’ the largest public halls in Rey javik were sold out days i? vance, — APRIL 18, 1952 — PAGP a ww '