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Kuomintang piracy threat worries British shipowners

LONDON

The prospect of a new attempt by Chiang Kai-shek to blockade the Chinese mainland and carry Sut piracy against shipping is causing British owners deep concern.

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Franco plans

hew frame-up of Raimundo

LONDON

A new danger threatens Gregorio Lopez Raimundo, heroi¢ leader of the general strike and popular de-

Monstrations in Barcelona in March, 1951,

Sentenced to four years imprison- Ment last July by the Franco re- aime, Lopez Raimundo has been

: transferred from the Dueso prison to a prison in Madrid and handed

he to a military tribunal which is Taming a new trial against him.

A solidarity campaign with Lopez

aimundo and his comrades has developed in |France, Mexico and other Latin American countries.

The “France-Spain” Society, the Chilean Society for Help to Span- ish Democracy, the Confederation _ Chilean Working People and peice Working-class and democratic ®rganizations have called for pro- tests against the new crime being Planned by Franco.

For President Eisenhower’s go-ahead to Chiang means that where British ships are the main c

The presence of patrol vessels of the U.S. Seventh Fleet based on these waters means that,.should a U.S. vessel spot a merchantman in- formation could be passed’ on to Kuomintang warships.

Firms whose ships call at such ports as Ningpo, Wenchow, Foo- chow,, Amoy and Swatow, on the Chinese mainland, are watching Far Bastern developments closely.

Three years ago British ships were fired on by Kuomintang ves- sels seeking to prevent their carry- ing on trade with the Chinese Peo- ple’s Republic, and British lives were lost. '

There is now a strong possibility that Lloyd’s underwriters will soon impose a marked increase in freight insurance rates for vessels on the China run.

Freight rates for February load- ing in North China ports have al- ready risen in recent weeks from approximately $10.80 to $13.60. a ton.

Most British cargoes are dis- charged in Hongkong and loaded on smaller vessels which trade along

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A representative of the Moller Line, one of the principal trading firms along the China coast, said last week:

“If they get tough it may make things awfully awkward. But it is more or less a question of carrying on and seeing what happens. We shall try to carry on as usual.”

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Last week a deputation of dock- ers, representing some 50,000 men in London, Liverpool and Man- chester, went to the House of Com- mons to lobby MP’s. They pointed out that stopping of even the pre- ‘sent limited trade with People’s China, if Chiang’s vessels were al lowed to commit acts of piracy,

would mean loss of their jobs.

China wants peace— ‘Fight to victory if U.S. refuses it

—MAO TSE-TUNG PEKING

People’s China wants peace at once in Korea, but if the United States refuses this offer then she will fight on until complete vic- sory has been won by the Chinese and Korean people.

This declaration was made here last week by Mao Tse-tung, chairman of the Central People’s government of China.

Mao Tse-tung was addressing the fourth session of the na- tional committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Con- ference, which is China’s interim parliament.

“We want peace,” said Mao Tse-tung.

“However, so long

as United States imperialism does not give up its unreasonable demands and its scheme to extend aggression, the sole determina- tion of the Chinese people must be to go on fighting alongside

che Korean people.

“It is not that we like war. We want to stop the war at once and leave outstanding questions for

later settlement. But U.S. imperial- ism prefers not to stop.

“However many years U.S. im- perialism prefers to fight, we are ready to fight up to the moment when U.S. imperialism prefers to pack it up, right up to the moment of! complete victory for the Chinese and Korean peoples.”

He called for a strengthening of China’s “Resist the U.S. and Aid- Korea” campaign, and declared:

“Our struggle must be reinforc- ed because U.S. imperialism is in- sisting on keeping back Chinese and Korean prisoners of war, discontinu- ing the armistice negotiations and making wild attempts to extend

aggressive war in Korea.”

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This was the first of three “im- perative tasks” that Mao Tse-tung laid before the meeting.

The second task was from the Soviet Union.”

“to learn

“We are going to carry out great national construction. The work facing us is hard, and our experi-

ence is not enough. So we must

take pains to study the advanced.

experience of the Soviet Union.”

China must learn not only the theories of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin, but also the advanced sci- entific techniques of the Soviet Union.

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It must set going “a tidal wave of learning from the Soviet Union on a nation-wide scale in order to build up our country.”

"The third task was “to oppose bureaucracy in our leading ongans and leading cadres at all levels.”

Churchill gov't makes big concessions to South Rhodesia

White supremacists to dominate African

By PETER ZINKIN LONDON ee Churchill government has BAA big concessions to the white ora €ts of Southern Rhodesia in F €r to buy off their opposition; to “ntral African Federation, whichi Nill come into effect by August if

y 8°vernment plans go through. | “ Cuthern Rhodesian Europeans “te to dominate a proposed federal Parliament.

Details of the new federal plan 4 © Set out in the report of the ®nference recently concluded in °ndon and the draft federal

Africans completely boycotted ae Conference which worked out

“2 for the federation of the three "itories of Nyasaland, Northern

Southern Rhodesia.

aid Meet demands for white do-

aia of the proposed federal

lament, changes have been made

a Weaken the powers of the Af-

ies Affairs Board, which is sup-

ests, to safeguard African inter-

ne nder the federation plan a_ Set lament of 35 members will be

Up for three territories. Of

Te Only three will be Africans Scted by their organisations. the Rev Million Africans live in «i hodesias and Nyasaland.

Pung atch or April the 136,000 Hye Population of Southern: 0 a will vote in a referendum

nes ising

the a en they will accept take € two million Africans will not arenas Only 400 have a vote. dy que teferendum will be followed ot 4 ates in the legislatures of the tim two territories. The Africans 3 parere no vote.

bor opposition will be offered

dominion

when the enabling bill is presented to the British parliament if the Southern Rhodesian referendum goes in, favor.

An attempt to weaken the oppo- sition is being made by Lord Swin- ton, minister of commonwealth re- lations, and Oliver Lyttleton, colon- ial secretary.

They argue that unless a strong economic unit is formed from these territories the two Rhodesians will

join up with Malan’s South Africa.

The Crown will be, represented in the federation by a governor-gen- eral, who will appoint the prime minister and other ministers to form an executive. ‘

The ministers will be members of the federal parliament of 35 mem- bers—26 elected, six African and three Europeans.

With 14 members, “white su- Southern Rhodesia

premacist”

Europeans will have the majority of the elected members.

An electoral law is to be drawn up, but there is no suggestion that all Africans be given the right to vote for members for the new fed- eral parliament, which will be em- powered to make laws on defense, foreign relations and taxation.

There will also be a legislature for each with very limited powers.

alone.

people to death.

Famine is spreading in India.

The Indian government has a additional 100,000 tons of millet from and workers. But a blockade of China

Four million people are already affected in Bombay Province sked the government of_People’s China if it can purchase an China as an emergency measure to save the starving peasants would cut off this source of millet and condemn many of these

of the three territories,

Only three federal members, who will also be members of the African Affairs Board, will be elected by African organisations which will be selected by the governors of the three territories.

The board will have six mem- bers, three Europeans and three Af- ricans ‘but two Europeans will be appointed members.

When the board decides that a bill discriminates against African inter- ests it can request the Speaker to send the bill, after adoption, to Lon- don, for consideration before it be- comes law.

The Speaker will send their pro- test to the governor-general who will pass it to the colonial secretary but he need not do so if he decides that there is no discrimination.

If “upon representations made by the prime minister” the governor- general agrees it is “in the public interest to bring the bill into im- mediate operation,” he can do so.

‘Before the London conference this board ‘was to have had the right to directly appeal to the Brit- ish government over the head of the federal parliament. Now it is to be a mere standing committee of this parliament.

Africans condemned the original proposal as being inadequate to guard their rights but they are even more opposed ‘to the new plan.

Five Nyasaland chiefs who flew to London to protest the scheme left for home last week stating they were “sadly disappointed and dis- couraged.”

Their spokesman, Chief Somba, announced, “We shall resist fed- eration—at any cost.”

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — FEBRUARY 20, 1953 — PAGE 3

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