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unruly scene in, that do adays are realising how much cursome front benchers wmit the only Ilves in England are, governed active leadership of the Oppeal-corous discrizion, supported Mr. taken out of Mr. Wyatt's allegations of waste of by International conditions there tion to bo
intensified interest in this Church's hands though they manpower in the forces but an week's Contrond change-verstill want to retain his powers of amendment was withdrawn with- from foreign affairs which have massivo orstcry and political cut being forced to a division. dominated debates recently to phrase inventiveness. One of his The average soldier's chief in Concentration on home 'affaire. plums this week was to refer to terest in the debate will probably buttons that Primary cause if this nwitch the size of the Civil Service add-be in, those new
will not need polishing. Behind round to looking gfter our awa*ing.
the scenes, fairly worm argument
were
•
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CARNIVAL
By Dick Turner
CỐTH, 1986 BY KEA BERTICE, INC. 3. M REG. U. &. PAT: DEF
11-28
"Where is your professional spirit, O'Dowd?' You can't let a little cold get you down-the show must go on!"
Communist Leader's Grim Story Of Il Duce's Death
II
business was the Churchilljari Lighter Moments, vole of cunsure which he hitched "The Socialisi ideal is to reduce developing over the size of the Two things emerge clearly from up to the debate on the White us to one vast Wormwood Scrub-armed force and may come to ahend when Liberals propose the official announcement on In-Paper on Britain's economic polbery but," he went on. "I do not the rejection af the National Alon Once more we were wern. wish to exaggerate because at come Tax made last evening, ed beforehand that this would Wormwood Scrubbs there is only Service Bill on the ground that Government still intends to pro- be a major attack on the Labour one official to every fcur manpower is essential for maxi:
There ceed with the Inland Revenue Cabinet.
insinua prisoners. Whereas up to now we tlong that rebels within the Bill despite the critics and de-i
have the advantage of only one Labour Party were this time amelat to look after every eight All this of course will bring us spite the view of the augmented going to give Mr. Attien a first wage earners or producers." back again into the field of for. Taxation Committee that it class headache and solemn
Two or three other lighter cign affairs. Thus it is a case circuinted should be postponed for twelve stories were
about momenta illumined an otherwise of "This is where we came in months. Government has
three line Whips being issued.
The sambre debate. The best of these as we say at the cinema. com. General suggestion W49 tho was Mr. Clement Davies's com- Commons Is beginning to grasp promised to an important extent Labour Cabinet was
about tment what the song in the heart the fundamental fact that in and it is now a reasonable assump face its ghost gruelling test since of the Chanceller of the Exche;ereased comforts at home can tion that the standard rate will it took office. A three days' de- quer might turn out to be wind only come from increased har
and there 011 the national stomach. But mony abread so that the result not be in excess of ten per cent. bate was arranged
were whispers that "anying
· In addition, the Bill is to be submight happen." The actual pro" i though the level of most speeches of the discussions now going on
was high, the House gradually Imitted to detailed examination by cecdings hnd touch of anti-realised the
11
time was past I yet another committee with a climax about them.
mere word spinning and that view to the removal of any pro You wil have already have
not be cured even by the mont visions which might inflict special read vefuminous reports of the sick economic condition can- debale published in the Press
brilliant oratory. |hardship, on any section of the and though they made excellent
Nevertheless, the Commons as community-a term of reference reading matter the average citi;
83 whole refused to accept the which can be as wide or as narzen nished up echoing the words
foreboding of Oliver Lyttelten. one of Cripps' pre- row as the committee, in its judgf Mr. Clement Davies, Liberal gloomy
MP, "Where d›› we go from decessors at the Board of Trade, ment, chooses to decide-and there?"
that "national bankruptcy is not the removal of anomalies or con-i Realistic Gravity
far
away," They preferred flicts between various provisions
Cripps own summing up, "Any- of the draft Bill. These decis When Cripps opened amid anone who looks at a realistic pic- sions are such as may well justify atmosphere of realistic gravity ture of the things act forth in the we felt that this debate really Economite Survey, as portraying a re-assessment of the present
was going 10 get somewhere, disaster, or forecasting catos-
Floitera Rome, Mar, 30.
to Mussolini fre m the public attitude to the plan for Almost every MP had a copy of trophe must completely misun-
Audisiu, hundane, Duce's missing treasure hoard: direct taxation, especially in the the White Paper Economie Gur-derstand the temporament of the moustached 37-year-old, Com- 2. Colonėl Charles HONG KONG CANTON EXPORT CO., LTD.light of the submissiont of the vey for 1047 on his iuers und British people. It is a challenge
Poletti, munist partisan who executed former Lieutenant Governor of Bill to free examination by a to cheering New York, approved of Musso-
15,000 and lini's execution without trini. nine-man · committee which in-notes us le spoke that he was is not a record of their failure crowd of between
only-interrupied twice in tla or their impetence. That
today that the cludes but one Government offi- two hours' uration.
was said in the first few hours 20,000-Roman
Heavy Guard vial, oven though he may be the Everybody waited breathlessly of the debate and nothing said Fascist dictator "trembled before Potential taxgather-in-chief. The for him to reveal whatever plan afterwards during the three days death and died vilely."
Audinio кроке from a raised the Government had for pulling lessened the import of Cripps' Audisio, mystery partisan teeling that the time is inopporus through our admitted serious message.
known until recently
platform bearing iwa Communist only and four Italian flags and was tune will not, however, readily situation. Shern of such mluor
Diagnosis
Colenci Valerio, described the guarded by hundreds of unit:rm- slain." succumb either to the sharp cut ints as the likelihood of coali As the members fled through last moments of Mussolini ated Italian civil police as well us In an effort to counter-act the in the standard rate or to the in- rationing for domestic users, and the lobbies for the eventual divi- gigantic open air political rally a tow reploads of Anglo-Ameri- growing sentiment against
sions they seemed to imply that in Massenzio Basilien, the mas-can military police plus hund execution and desecration of the business and professional men to George Isanes' subsequent war debute as a National Inquest was sive arched ruins of a former reds of Communist plainclothes- bodies, Audisio said "There is now
temple which overl:oks men.
speculation on the so-called max improve upon the structure of ing that mid-week; sport was to forgetting that you cannot have pagan
Communists fear for his Ife at encre of Dongú and v the ugly the proposed Ordinance and ren- be abandoned and football pools an inquest without a dead body the Roman Forum.
and Britain is anything but a It was Audisio's first pubile der it more acceptable. Postpone skeletonised to release all pos corpse. Truly she is stele but appearance since the Communists the hands of political enemies or affair of Piazza Loreto, I want to residual Fascist fanatics and the tell you something quite new sible manpower, the only big
calmed the Nations) ment for a year, regarding that feature of the Cabinet plan ap plenty of doctors are in attend revealed his identity two weeks belief his life is not worth a which just ended as a year of struggle peared to be the strengthening of case fairly reliably diagnosed.
ance and they now have the,dis-ago.
soldo" has become the theme of Liberation Committee of Northern "His hour and 40 minutes and rehabilitation, an abnormal inter-Govt planning staffs who
Purpose of the new planning address was careful synthesis restaurant jikes and serious dis-
tlon) at the time, year not appropriately to be taxed' would be co-ordinated under arrangements now proposed will of the Communist Party line cn/cussion là every police station/als (which ordered the .exechs
and politient headquarters.
"At first the Commliteo ww the missing Finally coming to the actual afraid the execution would hur upon retrospectively, will still sert of super-planner in chic, be to decide the best remedial Mussolini's death,
Labour MP: "fad already been
Mussolini treasure, the dangers appear to a goodly majority "as told behind the scenes about this Points about the size of the of neo-Fascism and Anglo-Ameri-execution of Mussolini which the Allies. But Colonel Poletti, the civil commander for the he carried out în April 28, 1945;] the arrived in Milan on the discussion of the Army But it niso proved that
ap- torner bank clerk who turned which the crowd had come to morning of April 29. He went
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war
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treatment.
Walter
overcoat
Communists
the
་
ما
of
crimes of which you are gully. Ils mercy in infinito."
Audisio kald the bodies of Mus- solini, Petacei and the others were taken to Plazza Loreto
mauled Milan where they were,
and spat on by a crowd before being hanged by thoir wola.."They were hung by their hosla, because there was a moral significance in exposing them in Piazza Lore where 14 of our martyra had beg
the
the soundest and most practical planning idea and certain mem-British Army came up again on can Imperialism.
near the village of Dongo and of politics, Salaries already bers of the rupk and le pressed spent and business profits set off that this industrial, and economic Estimates when it became
hent, Audisio related: and who op- purent that a section of Labour Communist hero
Okay "On how Mussolini behaved directly to Plazza. Loreto and ex
thos pressed himself Mr.peared in a blue baret and yel- tell you without, fear
Any Italians are good Italians." members was still uneasy.
was an excellent deniul I had the impression of Callaghan (Labour MP), whose low remarks during the Economie de orator with a sense of humtur. shooting not men but beings in-
"Okay" It also disclosed:
ferlor to men. When a man is bale were generally believed to
"At that moment a group, been the cause of Mr. 1. The
brought have
Communista · believe facing death he must low how young unusuri loss Alexander'a
of Mr. Winston Churchill stole his
the minimum acquire
of around Achillo Staraco (former human dignity but instead Mus. Fascist Parly accretary). He with solini trembled before death. He shot right under the eyes of did not recall his dear ones,' Poletti who again sald Okey neither his wife nor his children, Italians, Justice is done. Th He did not utter anything of was also the impression Poletti spiritual value. And when pes passed on to the Liberation Com- plo today try to rehabilitate his mifttee." memory I say he died more vile- ly that the other Fascist chleft shot at Dongo."
high command should be vested against severe
Jusses and in the Cabinet itself. necessarily churned back into the
But Mr. Attlee would not have business, appeal to few as suitable this as he felt it might diminish sense of respon. and justifiable sources of surprise the Individual
siblity
of the various ministers. taxation. The lower level of the This uncusy feeling in the Labour standard rate; as now proposed, ranks that the new plan was not comes merely ELS a mitigating quite good enough was probably factor.
storm which Much will, of course, behind the small finally depend upon the findings broke out when it was realized that a only fraction of the and recommendations of the com- hundred and twently members of mittee headed by the Hon. Mr. all Parties who had Indicated a A. Morse. Mr. Morse's views desire to speak would possibly be within the Thaits of a en direct taxation were clearly heard expressed at the recent meeting their teeth in vain.
three-day debate, They gushed
Stolen Thunder
Big guns on the Treasury
d
thunder and dis-
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay',
"The Authority on Authorities"
BLOCKS YOUR OWN SIDE
Firearms Fail
Audisio, who was very specific
on this written orders from the Liberation Commitice to execute of shareholders of the Hong
Mussolini and the others, said, be had no orders on the treasure Kong and Shanghai Banking Cor-
column 9X+
which the last Fascist poration, but while he refused to Opposition benches stole must of
"What a terrible bid!"
On ine elual execution in reportedly was carrying. subscribe to the clamour against the orucular
claimed North as he saw ono-
and his mis- which Munnclini
The anti-Communist opposition cards of South's! Income Tax, he made one in- gruntled back benchers went off
tress, were mowed down before, now. charges Audinio's 52nd Com- at the end of it all depressed A high original sult bid by-one the
hand."We had laydown for
ja brick wall by his machinegun, munist Partisan Brigado seized portant reservation that persons with the feeling that the speeches blocks everybody from a good on the lower scales of salaries had been political rather than chance to show what he has often tricks at either No Trumps Audisio mentioned only he had the treasure including 20,000,000,- should not have their standard of constructive. Nobody the value in his hand. It obstructs or hearts. You should have bons cunction within the life in gold for the Commu-
although they mist Party. living reduced. Since Govern Treasury bench added anything
After repeating the Communlat was good for a sure eight tricks did not function at all."
Audisio told his listeners they explanation that mont of the ment is determined to push the very solid to Sir Stafford Cripps Your own partner just as much started with one, as your hand rms functioned
broad outline. Inland Revenue
Possibly they as it obstructs your opponents.
the newspapers local population where the Fascist therefore, Mr. Morse is perhaps with. But about the middle of
the Communist newspaper
on
that
Also failed
Bill through, I thought enough to be going caį Consequently, it is undesirable! at No Trumps if I could stop could read other detalls of the trensure was dispersed among the
to make such a bid except when the other suits before the de-execution in
fense had five tricks." the happiest choice of chairman the second day, deterioration set the impeding of the opposition
It was a terrible bid. Most Unita" has copyrighted his story column halted for six hours on the of the
"What I know is the so-called- new committer. The in. Mr. Alexander began it by can benefit you more than the Ane players will not make nin Italy and for sale abread--but i read before. Dongo, Audinio at:
provecational trulling of his cont
his references to the non-func- assurance is provided that while with allegations against Conser impeding of your partner can preemptive call of three or more toning of the firearms has been treasure included a leather bag
which Is M Mussolini's you, Ordinarily the main issue must be regarded vative inaction, when they held harm
and which nowadays: unicas their hand is told by others..
ontained letters between Hitler The Arst machinegun failed to end -Mussolini, documents on the de worthleas on the defense, with
no ace in the hand, not even in fire: The reveiver the long sult, and with nothing and the Duce was killed by dve Verona trial (before which Mun- solini's son-in-law and Foreigo DA good as a khig.on the vide. Į shots from the second muchinc Ministor, Galontzo
Clano, whe They have learned that any un which then turned on Petac-
Jc... Because remantle Italians condemned before his execution
by shooting). better high card holdings are criticised
bag also contained cor- too useful to their partners to Audisio did not once utter ber justify starting high. Some name. S. 10 6 6 Umes they will make such a N
bid in third hand position, op- ecmo a political football between wrote to Mussolini by beginning the Communists and the Right Pear Mussolini, United Press. parite a passing partner, when ists, Audisio, was mostly on, the pan di baw*** WEH. 92
D. A 768 holding the ace of their ault or defensive." S
C. 9.7
one alde king, but almost never with anything better:
| Come
MANILA FIRE
teeth into.
'S. K Q.8 H. A Q J 10 7 3
D. Q J 10 C.4
4 3
as settled, sight will not be lost power which set a tone of a "You situation exists only if your) of the possible consequences to segur
IT" bandying of words, hand is worthless on the the Little Man. If his interests which disgured severni subse-fense.
quent speeches ferm both sides are safeguarded, and we may of the House. Mr. Churchill accept Ten Per Cent as the continued this theme in a speech maximum, we may perhaps which was characteristicully bril
round eventually to the lant in, phrasing but offered point of congratulations to Gov-nothing else ond could get one's ernment upon a wise decision, And thus the most important Par. S. A 9 7 2 apon concessions, not only to liamentary discussion of modern H. 8 6 5 sound reason, but to the pressure times ground its way along with D. K 942
plenty of clever tackle but pre- C. 10 8 of public opinion.
claus little in the way of produc tive ideas. It was a grand de- bate rather than a council of
S. J national leaders :- and the Anal
F. K. 4. fact that Mr. Churchill's vote of
D. 8 5 A fire of unknown origin consure was heavily defeated in
CAKQJ'6 6 3 2 division lobbies, and Government's awept a Philippine Government own motion patting itself on the
(Dealer South. Neither side, salvaga depot at Grace. Fark back went through successfully vulnerable.) mear Manila and raged for more seemed afterwards to have no South West
North than five hours, while the Firo significance whatever. Partia
Pass Department was helpless due to ment has in effect said to the 15C FRES
1 H lack of water hydrante.
nation, there is no other road to 21 C. Pass..
3NT The fire paralleled another recovery from the cumulative C Pass dianatrous blaze which burned cffcets of two disastrous where The first sequence above-if thon, for, everyone to work harder large supplies at Makati on March 18 shortly after the than ever before. Among you want to callˇu ́single, bið a property changed hands.
side issues of the debate was a sequence is what actually oc hint of disagreontent within the curred on this, rubber, bridite CQ 100 Absociated Presindek
Labour Party on the question of hand. The second sequence is the size of the defenen forces. wilat might have occurred
Manija, April; 2.
CHIANG IN SHAF
East Page Pasal
Many MPs contend the Army hy South had been a sounder bid- particular should be drastically; der. Or North might have re- Bhanghal, Apr. 2reduced so as to feed manpower bid hearts, and a game would Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shok requirements in industry but Mr.
arrived the afternoon from Nan Alexander emphatically declined have resulted.
s Problem
Tomorrow's
D. J5 !.
HAQ G4 D. AK Q 104-3 C. K
Petacci's
executio CB with the man, witho ́
Because the execution has be- cigar, Mr. Winston Churchill, who
Another point has been rale
Gibraltar Garrison
ed against me, that I did not give evening Mussolini time to confers himself,
London, Apr;1.
"I must ask if at that mementi. Asked in the House of Com- I was to worry even for his soulmons; today whether steps, were If this great man, had asked for being taken to reduce the sizo a priest I would not have object of the xuvrison,” in. Gibraltar, ed. On our way to the place Mr. Bellonger, the War Minis execution we passed painall
church and I he wanted it would for replied to Mr Swingler. have been easy to ask a priest to (Labour, Stafford); No The come out or to have gone inside garrison has already been re- and rinde bila confession:Theduced to the minimuni which is SK Q2 truth it he was so scated he ald NAI, 10
think of that This question of considered necessary. confezione question of Swingler asked Alf Mr. WED 07.2
manostolavablar men
Bolehger was aware that ijt had been alleged that Giliraltar is so swamped with troops that there li to room. to train them
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Too Pressed
Audiato "explained, bo did tell Fr. Adolfo, the Dongo priesthe was too presset for me to allow he would he categorically dany the priest to administer the Lost the allegation."temp Sacraments to the 16. Tusciat bie M Ballenger: "No, sir. Do, shota xecuted separately from you think 1 should be held res Mussolit and Petardi at Dongo popeible for any statement al- (Dealer), North. Bath sides
- But: Helwald-ho, told the priest ; feged or nuthorised in the news- hat could, administap, to them all papera↑ "The garrison has bean fila way
bir native home at ready fixed up to, March 1948: South from getting met at his vulnerable.) EVER Chikow Chelling, where he will. But those who imagined rebel E-Clubs, as the defenders wah What grade of players would to there ever reduced to minimium and "If
dona in these words Which was
that conßlefs - with, the... news, visit his mother e grave,nuk Lábour members. Would' umbar.
Among those welcoming him at rain their own Government were the spade A diamond A and be helped most by the Black by Adolfo "In this engrams the airfield in ex-Premier TV doomed to diasppointment diamond before South could wood convention in bidding a moment I turn my mind to God paper Entstament I am sorry
deal like this?RSI
1, to ask ble mercy for the sins and, for the newspaper-Reuter i stend zumoury, were revived that untrack bimself.
king aboard private plane on to budge from establishments, alThere was no way to keep
to