PLAGUE of rats IN BELGIUM

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27631, 12 April 1955, Page 13

PLAGUE of rats IN BELGIUM

(Bee. 8.30 p.m.) TERMONDE (North Belgium).

April 10. Thousands of hungry musk rats which have invaded Termonde were yesterday reported to have attacked pedestrians.

The rats swarmed into cellars and attics in search of food. At Ninove, near Brussels, swarms of mosquitoes up to one inch long have invaded the town from nearby rivers.

Stewell Gift.— The £l2OO Stawell Gift 130 yards foot race today resulted: J. D. O’Donnell (8f yards) 1, S. W. Rath (81 yards) 2, L. W. Stock (91 yards) 3. The time was 12sec.—Melbourne, April 11.

Even if United States advocacy of the “two Chinas” theory was rejected by the Communists, Mr Dean said, the loss to the west in lowered morale of Marshal Chiang Kai-shek and South Korea would be outweighed by the effect on United States allies and on India, Burma and Indonesia. “We shall have made an offer to settle our differences peacefully,” Mr Dean said. “Red China’s refusal of it should clarify the matter of responsibility.”

Mr Dean said that Peking should not be admitted to the United Nations unless Japan, Spain, Italy, West Germany “and other long-excluded applicants” were allowed to join. In Washington, a State Department spokesman said Mr Dean was not speaking for the United States in the article.

“Mr Dean is speaking as a private citizen, as I understand it,” the spokesman said. Mr Dean is a partner in a New York law firm with which Mr John Foster Dulles, the Secretary of State, was formerly associated.