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GASOLINE SUPPLIES
In an endeavour to assure as much as in possible that motor vehicle ownors accustomed to using "Shell" gasolina can continue to obtain their normal requirements of this product we are ra- customers to luctantly compelled to ask our
obtainable at all our complete a form, now stations, stating from which "Shell" Filling Station they wish in futura to obtain their sup- plies of Gasoline, Having solocted a particular Filling Station they will be registered at that station and thereafter will be able to obtain their requirements only from that Station.
Plosse mail or hand in completed registration forms to our Sales Department on the Ground It is requested that formi Floor of Sholl House. be handed in before the 15th February.
For obvious reasons telephoned applications
for registration cannot be accepted.
The introductory date of this new schomo will be announced later in the Press and it is not until that date that vehicle owners registration becomes offective.
The Asiatic Petroleum Co., (S.C.) Ltd.
Notice
Sholl House.
Standard Vacuum
IN order to facilitate the distribution of Motor Gasoline in the Colony, the Standard-Vacuum Oil Company invites its customers to register with this Company for the purpose of securing their normal gasoline supplies from a specific service station. Each owner or operator is asked to nominate one service station from which he will draw all his supplies thereafter. Registration forms are available at all this Company's Service Stations in the Colony. These forms when com- ploted should be mailed or sent directly to this A subsequent Company before February 15.
notice will inform the public the date on which this distribution method will go into effect.
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Censure
Motion Defeated
London, Feb. 1.
The Labour, Government defeated today a Conserva- tive motion of censure over the coal crisis.
The vote in the Parliament Way 300 for the government and 209 against, Nine Liberal party members abstained.
British domesite conl is to go up in price this month.
The Fuel Minister, Mr Phillip Noel Baker, made the announce ment as the Labour Government was fighting a challenge from the Conservatives on is coal policy and the fuel crisis.
The Increase of four shillings and two pence a ton will take effect from, Munday for all pur- posen except household con). The price for that will be raised a week later.
The price of coke is being in- creased six shillings and three pence a 101.
Mr Noel Baker also announced that because of the coal crisis industrial Arms would only get 85 percent of their coal altoca- Lion.
This would help to check the "dangerously rapid" fall in the coal stocks of the electricity power stations.
Some
low factories with stocks might be forced to close down until fresh supplies be- came available, he said.
ARMY RELEASES
The Minister added that the Government had decided to re- rom the Forces miners lease from
who wished in volunteer to re- turn to coal mines.
Another measure to increase to con- is
supplies a decision
tinue pen-cast mining (digging roal just under the surface) for five years. It is hoped that this would bring in 50,000,000 tons.
-Reuter.
Stikker Fails
Vletlims Of Avalanche NO ALTERNATIVE
Soldiers of the wiss Frontier Guard with their standard stand guard over the coffins of victims of the avalanche disaster at Andermatt, Switzerland, before they were conveyed to their last resting place.
AP Picture.
FIRST BRITISH
CENSUS FOR
23 YEARS
Overcrowded
London, Feb. 1. The Hague, Feb. 1. The former Foreign Minister,
Britain recently termed Stikker, Mr Dirk
Informed
that he "probably the most vulnerable target in the world" Queen Juliana
today had failed to form a Cabinet to
in an atom war — will have its noses counted for end Holland's eight-day govern- mental crisis. Informed sources the first time in 23 years on April 8.
Mr Stikker, a member of Defence, housing, and emigration men will have
the Freedom
igte
and
Democracy
9
TO TO U.S. AID, SAYS GEN. EISENHOWER
Washington, Feb. 1.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the North Atlantic Army's Supreme Commander, told Congress members today that there was "no acceptable alternative to American help in rearming Europe.
་
Speaking at an informal joint meeting of the Senate and the House of Representatives, he said: "We must give Europe assistance, not only because there is no acceptable alternative but because, if we were left standing alone, isolated in a world of Communism, our system would wither away.”
aggression remained.
He did not intend reporting on his talks in vcars so long as the threat of Germany. "I personally think that there has to be One of the greatest deficien- a political platform, achieved, an understanding, cles
In Euroge was that equipment and material. before we start to talk about German units," he European nations had little in said.
of
The
the way of munitions and pro- |ductivity_but it was growing.
General Elsenhower believed the transfer of some United
"I want no unwilling contin- ! It was impossible to imagine gents. Until political leaders, the fall of Western Europe to diplomats and statesmen find a Communism without the simul- their ratio, was essential as the
States units,
units, carefully gauged in great crying soldier to delve too deeply." closely associated with Western today was that of equipment.
proper answer it is not for a tancous fall of other areas
"We would be cut off from
from which afarens
We draw
ant
need in Europe
Into
General Elsenhower sald that | Europe.
We must do it quickly,"
" he there พอด no question of Western Europe's desire to re-
said. "We must now go "There is sist aggression.
production of equipment exactly spirit to resist," he said. "There materials absolutely essential to as if we are preparing for the
emergence of war." determination to is
do their our existence," he said.
General Elsenhower said part to take the risit."
"No matter how strong we what was sought now was to He said, too, that Europe's would be in keeping open the start a chain of reciprocal action greatest need now was not
routes of communications, clear- | across the Atlantic by which American soldiers but equip-ly we must keep open the areas the United States could inspire, ment which, he said, must be and keep them friendly to us." Its Alfies to greater confidence delivered in quantity and quickly.
As to the transfer of Ameri- can troops to Europe. General Eisenhower sold that these should be sent
create
which, In turn, would HIGHER UNITY NEEDED
greater United States confidence General Elsenhower asked in Western Europe. how the United Sistes could "The true defence of a nation possibly think of existing with must be within Its own soul, what the Europeans themselves abroad as magnesium, copper must march together and ensure in a ratio to out such vital supplies from We must be sure the heart and
soul of Europe is right.
provided,
General Eisenhower sketched briefly the conditions in the in- dividual countries of Europe as he had found them.
Throughout his tour of the North Atlantic countries, he found a rejuvenated spirit of re- sistance and
and uranium,
We
that the United States is not
We
Such supplies were tied up being made an Allan to carry with the United States concern the world on its shoulders. with the Western European
"But at the same Ume complex and the United States 15
must not fall to get out in determination to defend it.
front and provide the leader-
General be!
Eisenhower sald
to
The reason for the assistance ship." determination to
Europe was not only live us free men and to do their cause the United States would that Americans must have atrophy and patience with their European part and take the risk.
One of the examples of this suffer economie
eventual collapse but because Allies. spirit, he said, he found
General in the United States could do the
Eisenhower con- France, where their conscription job.
cluded: "The cast of peace law had been tightened to the
would be a Encrifice, nationally Europe and North Africa be- and individually. But total war no exemptions.
tween them hod 350 million is a tragedy and the suicide of people, representing the highest our civilisation." Bouter. cullure upon earth. Western
a esti-point when it permitted almost
WOULD RESIST
Party,
failed because the Social- special interest in the new total, which unofficial opposed his plan for form-mates indicate may top 51,000,000. ing a Cabinet of "strong men"
Also watching will be probably need a couple of days and the Catholics opposed his plan as too liberal. United Empire authoritiescope tiny islands in Scotland's Far General Eisenhower sald, "that
to reach isolated lighthouses and "There is No question," Europe and the United States cially in Australia and north. Canada-who have long The project will cost the Bri- they have determined to free
fem both had a "welcome" mat out tish taxpayer about £1,125.000 themselves of the threat of Com- internally and but ofaluls think it is worth munism, bo for British skilled labour
externally." and technical men.
Press.
Appeal For India
.
Because of its chronic over-
Minister
it.
They want some light on
topics like these:
Grand Rapids, Michigan, Feb. 1. The President of the Americen Board of Foreign Missions of
How many Britons still speak the Congregational Christian population problem, Australia's no English? The 1931 enume- rators found that 6,700 spoke Churches sald today that he had former Immigration"
Tra- Arthur A. Calwell gave Britain only Gaelic. telegraphed to President Men appealing for the imme- the "most vulnerable target" tag. How many have piped water,
"Same added
50,000,000 пxed bathtubs, and other ar- dinte shipment of large quanti-He
of rangements"? This ties of grain to avert the Indian people living in
question for Britain although it famine threat-United Press,
has been asked in the United States, France, Australia And New Zealand.
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89,000 square miles are poten- tially the weakest link in the Commonwealth chain."
Sixty thousand enumerato:s will take the new census, Arst official count since 1931.
By
13 u
new
General Eisenhower said that he found the same spirit in the other North Atlantic nations.
They had decided that they would never again be occupied. They would resist to the pont of destruction, he added.
In Rom
there that resolve
wag
make to possible, he said."
together possessed great reser- voirs of leadership that had not yet been touched and they had the greatest productive capacity and access to the raw materials which they needed.
4
had a
1
SHOCK FOR
MALAYA
QUITTERS
Singapore, Feb. 1. Chinese who leave Malaya
The Tenson why the free world found itself fighting totalitarian government was be- cause the Communists unity of purpose even though it wag achieved by force-by it was quite cleargun in the kidneys.
stiffening a
The only thing we have to the limited do is to meet that unity with o
to avoid the manpower call- 03 effelent as higher type-a unity of free men
was announced that will not be defeated," he up which "There is no question about sald.
last month may not be Norway's determination to re- General Eisenhower disclosed allowed to return to the FAMILY STATISTICS sist to the point of destruction," that France had promised 25
The went on.
batteworthy
divisions by the country, it was officially How many Britons have mar- chance, the Republic of Ireland ried for a second-or
He told the Congressmen end of 1952.
He added: "We learned here today. third that they will take its own the game day
lay time? The Labour Government from time to time to make de-
forced Cannol
concentrate all
Thousands of Chinese in' the Bo Bgures for the entire British
forces in any dne sector even
18 to 24 age group affected by Isles Including the Channel
as important as
the call have stormed immigra- remote Scottish islets-will be
"We must have a great mobile.days seeking certificates to re- tion ofces during the past few
on hand simultaneously,
In addition, there will be all free government was going to port our policies, our rights, our visited China.
whether powerful reserve ready to sup-admit them to Malaya if tern civilisation and
they The figure for England, Wales, the normal census queries: sex, exist. Scotland and Northern Ireland age, marriage status, place of General Eisenhower drew in an unofficial estimate two birth, home and business applause when he asserted
addresses eit.
would
bc
is keen on family statistics that cistons that were going to be when it is
Islands and tiny lighthouses on might bear on its housing prob- | far-reaching and which might | Western Europe.
Iem and general social service determine the course of Wes- programimes.
years ago was 50,519,000 desplic the tide of migration to the Do- minions and colonies.
United States only 48.
STEADY EXPANSION
foot forms,
ΟΣ
BUILDING A WALL
our
interests, wherever they may be endangered in the world."
the
TIME IMPORTANT
The Government is expected lo warn these "quitters," as one official called them, that if the China continued
that the United States cannot Britons have been 06sured
world that it is all strictly confidential pick up the
General Eisenhower said that stampede to economic shoulders and Carry and the census folks
havolit. "We must have direet co-in the defence preparations of/them coming back,
time was an important element steps would be taken to stop Those figures showed that promised that returns will not operation if we are to work England and Walesmanufac- be used to track down deserters with other nations," he said.
the free world. "We must accept An official statement today turing and mining heart of from
Forces the Armed
disadvantages, militarlly, said that severe penalles had British industrial Utc-aver-income tax dodgers. But every-
nationally and internationally, been provided for false repre- aged 750 porsons to the square body has to answer the ques-
that go with peaceful intent and sentation under the Manpower mile. France hod 184, and the long on the enumerators' two- "We are not attempting to defensive purposes only," he Regulations and failure to com-
build a force that has any ng- | said.
rly with direction notices. General Eisenhower said that. to supply gressive or any belligerent in-
tent," General Eisenhower the United States had been It said that though the 18 to said. "We are concerned only spared much of the discourage-24 age group was being register- with one thing. In a world in ment, defcatism and destruction ed it was not the intention which the power
of military that had been visited on Europe. the Government to call might is much respected we "We
We are youths of 17. There were 280,- are younger,
we are going to build for ourselves fresher and are further 000 in Malaya between ages & secure wall of force and removed from, the immediate named and only 20,000 or one security.
threat," he said.
in fifteen would be required. "What we
are trying to do cannot honestly be considered und by any other nation as a threat its security. If any such
is for charge is
made, It nefarious purpose.
Those who refuse the facts are able to a 210 Britain's population has been fine. expanding steadily since the Arst Analysis of the returns will official census in 1881. That probably take several years,~~. count, which took in all of Associated Press.
The Ireland, was 16,345,040. Jast official
in 1931, listed 14.790,485 inhabitants in Great
Britain. The Republic of Ire- PORTUGUESE
called the Irish Free then State, was not Included.
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The financial, moral, material
The 200.000, included 135,000 .of.the military strength United States should inspire to Malaya, 120,000 Chinese, 92,000
Indians allies abroad to proportionate
and 3,000 others, the statement said. a efforts.
""The
Europe An official said that only General Eisenhower said that complex is so important to our very small number of those
Western
a
A Portuguese military Sky- the greatest pool of skilled nature, to them our future conscripted would be put into inaster plane from the Lagens | inbour existed in Westem so definitely tied, that we can police jungle squads to hunt Base in the Azores crashed into Europe and its industrini fabric not the sea, last night, killing all was second only to that,
United States,
if they
regular
coll-
afford to do less than terrorists. The remainder would Tho our best in making sure that
that be required for the the 14 people aboard.
It does not, go down the drain."
the special police and The crash, belleved to have
from were driven been caused by an explosion,
service General Eisenhower said that stabulary for America's side, he said, to the any aggressor could pick a day Malaya only. milos cast eccurred four
Victoria Beach, Terceira Island, in the Azores, according to reports received here tonight Reuter.
other side. the military balance on which he intended to strike: Some conscripts would
of power would be shifted to But the United States and its drastically that America's safety Allies had to devise schemes to used in would be imperilicd.
peace over, many Reuter.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
WHAT KINO --GAS?
I DON'T--KNOW.
IT'S WORKING ---FAST-
secure the
THAT SLEEPING GAS WORKS FAST. MR. JAY.
be
resettlement, work-
By Leo Falk and Phil Davis
NEVER FAILS. WITHOUT DOUBT, THEY CAME TO
TAKE NARDA AWAY.
WHAT WILL
YOU DO WITH THEM?
THEY CAME TO STEAL
ONE OF MY PRIZED TREASURES.
EL
DESTROY THEM? WHAT ELSE CAN I DOT