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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1951.
Five Arab States Mr Hazzard
Back Egypt
ATTITUDE
ΤΟ
DEFENCE PACT
Paris, Nov. 14. Masmoud Azmi Bey, spokesman for the Egyptian delegation to the United Nations said today that five Arab states had now given full support to Egypt's attitude in the dispute with Britain. Saudi Arabia had already refused to study a four-Power project for the defence of the Middle East "before the demands of Egypt are accepted," he told a Press conference.
Azmi intimated that all the Arab States would reject the four-Power Middle East defence pact. The delay in arriving at a joint. Arul devision was due to the absence of a government in Syria, the spokesman stated.
oven harder and
also
to
Azml deniert reports that proposal for a four-Power de- Egypt was bucking down on the fence part in the Middle East and Arab-spentored motion to place!! sta ed that i carmot study any- The Merova question on the thing concerning defence of the agenda of the General Assembly aren before the demande Egypt was preparing to press Egypt are fully accepted," Azmi the ination
said. will go into the sustenance of
Azmi
revealed that the issue because the French Transjordan, too, had "staled Foreign Minister. M Rober! Its views on the projected de
fence pact but he declined Schuman opened the way for
disclose whether it rejseled such a course by his statement to the Assembly on this ques-
approved the project. tion last night, he added.
Informed conference qùu're claimed that Transjordan had cautioned against hasty rejec- tion.
"Unity
the Arab States and Egypt is absolutely I hope that talks sing and with Amb leaders here this week will bring confirmation of this fact, Azmi added. United
FOUR MOVES
Amzi listed the following re- cent Arab moves for the establishment of a united from: after 'denying emphatically the Existence of any split or rift among them:
1.--Syria plodged full support to Egypt and the recent resigna- Lion of the Prime Minister proved that Purliament and the
Press.
between
public opinion of the country. A Little More
was solidly behind Egypt.
2-The Lebanon Government had sent Egypt a note exprest-
ing full support of its attitude
passed 2
re-
Parliament also solution pledging support,
3.The Yemen had manifest- ed a support of Egypt in three consecutive notes.
Bacon For Britons
London, Nov. 14. Britons are to have a slightly
Woman Causes
Commons
Scene
London, Nov. 14. Miss Sarah Rabson, 51.
London year-old
school. teacher, was carried forcibly from the House of Com- two last night by mons policemen, after a teachers' protest meeting for equal pay for women.
Leaning against the railings outside, still holding a broken walking stick, she complained
juwarder Britain. The Lebutsrat mereased bacon ration from the that though she was a cripple beginning of next month, the she had been roughly handled Food Minister, Mr Gwilym Lloyd by Police officers in the lobby
of the House. George, announced today.
He told the House of Com- About 300 teachers, mainly women, who were waiting out- side the House chanting “Equal Pay Now," rushed forward pro- testing when Miss Rabson was
mons
that sufficient supplies 4-Iraq had presented a note were coming forward to enable to Egypt pledging its
support him to increase the ration from "This note clearly supported three to four cunces a week for Egypt's situation despite rumours each person. here that Iraq's Premter, Nurii But he also announced that es Said Pasha, in his talks with he could not give any Christmas the British Foreign Secretary, food bonuses this year, the first
Mr Anthony Eden, had ex-
time for several years, because pressed dissatisfaction with of the general food situation.. Egypt's actions in answer to the Reuter.
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Crucial Truce Talks Meeting Today
Mr Reg Hazzard, formerly Australian Trade Com- missioner in Hongkong, recently passed through Lon- don on his way to the United States. This picture was taken of him, with his wife and two daughters, (Valerie, left and Shirley, right) as they were admiring one of the sentries at Buckingham Palace-London Express.
Hundreds Of Villages Threatened By Floods
SERIOUS NEW BARRIER
*
TO NEGOTIATIONS
Munsan, Nov. 15. United Nations and Communist negotiators meet here today in a crucial cease-fire conference which could lead to eventual peace or to a full-scale renewal of the Korean war.
A serious new barrier in the way of successful truce negotiations emerged yesterday with the publication of an Army charge that North Korean and Chinese Communists have killed 5,790 UN prisoners of war. Arrangements for the exchange of war prisoners is one of the matters yet to be taken up in the armistice talks at Pan Mun Jom, but in the light of the atrocity report from Eighth Army Headquarters at Pusan, it is difficult to see how the Red Command can account satisfactorily for the number of UN soldiers it is supposed to have captured.
The kid gloves of diplomacy might have on the course of the have been taken off,
truce talks. Some visualised The Communists virtually in-that it might complicate the vited the United Nations to negotiations by gutting off a long break off the Korea truce talks Communist distriba which yesterday.
would consume time and make In bitter language the Com-it difficult to continue work on munists delivered # near ulti-the issue currently under dis matum to the United Nations, cussion That issue concertiS The Reds warned that there conditions for establishing a will be no armistice "unless the truce line or buffer zone. United Nations agrees to call
alr
Reds Lose Hundreds In Vain Assault
Seoul, Nov. 15. Alled observers reported Communist troops
110
Another analysts, however, is off fighting on land, on the sea that bringing the whole thing that and in the air."
Air Force Brigadier-General cut in the open might serve to dragged away "hundreds of William P. Nuckols, the official clear the somewhat by dead and wounded" spokesman,
said tha: the United demonstrating to the Reds that Wednesday night after un- Nations in no way
considered their treatment of prisoners is the Red warning an ultimatum, but it was clear that the renewed talks had reached the most cru- cial stage.
NOT IN SIGUT
known to the whole world and successful" tank-Infantry as that they have little to gain now saults on two Allied hill by avoiding the problem in the positions" on the Western truce meetings. It is said they Korean front. were referring the while matter
An Allied officer told As No mutually acceptable situa- of the Eighth Army report to
correspondent was in sight on the only General Matthew B. Ridgway, Bolated Press
Milo Fareti the fundamental UN Commander at Tokyo, dpped clothing off their
Chinese bul
own
100
remaining divergence between the Com- clarification. mumiste and the United Nations representatives, a United Na-
dead and Allled casualties. The report was given, out by "It looks like they are run- tions communique said last Col. James M. Hably, of Seattle, ning out of equipment · and night. Milan, Nov. 14.
Washington, who said that about clothing," the officer said. Despite the growing crisis, 'it 5,500
The of the prisoners killed
Western front turned Disaster threatened hundreds of villages in
was pointed out that the Com-were Americans. The other 290 quiet after UN troops best And attacks Northern Italy tonight as a mighty peak of flood munists held out just as strongly were from forces of other UN back the sudden
and vociferously last July for countries fighting in Korea. West of Chorwon by midnight water roared down the River Po towards a 200-
The One of the questions that has Tuesday.
Reds waited placing of the question of
matil darkness the withdrawal of foreign troops artsen here, and left without
came again yard gap which thousands of volunteers
on the
armistice agendo, Then answer for the time being, waz on Wednesday to retrieve their slaving to close.
at the blackest point in the how such relatively exact figures casualties apparently agenda, the Communists came could have been arrived at. Allied planes. through with mildly worded Another was whether it was wise Item 5 calling for "recommenda- to make figures public at this tion to the governments
con-time. cerned on both sides"
were
The mountain of muddy water was still 37 milea away, thundering relentlessly down stream at three miles an hour, when gaps appeared in the middle of the vital 155-mile stretch of the narrow river bank — been campaigning for equal buy already battered and bulging after seven days of the since 1946, when a Royal Com- mission appoinled to investigate | worst storms in memory. traches pay recommended against it.-Reuter.
Stark Realities
66XE in the Waterworks are faced with stark realities," declared Mr Jackson yesterday in announcing the new and drastic curtailment of domestic water supplies to the Colony. The same now can be said for the general public. Government has given the community a bitter pill to swallow, and without uny sugar coating. These are the realities which water consumers have to drum into their heads: unless consump- tion of water is reduced to 27 million gallons a day the Colony will be with- out supplies before the next rainy season arrives; unless, too, house. holders show the greatest care in the use of water, consumption will exceed the safety maximum. Mr Jackson's explanatory statement was comprehen- sive and enlightening. It should remove any doubts as to the necessity for the strict water rationing Government is now enforcing, and 'serve as a stimulus for willing co-operation on the part of the community in the conservation of water. Pointed reference was made to certain section of the Waterworks Ordinance which lays down that the misuse of water is a punishable offence.. Government might have drawn attention to this much earlier for there is little doubt that wilful waste has been going on. The selfish individual has no car for appeals, however fervent they are uttered, and he listens to reason only when made to. It is salutary, therefore, that reminder should be given of the legal powers invested in the Water Authority when dealing with householders who deliberately waste water or attempt to obtain more than the tationed supply. The present water crisis calls for sacrifices all round and. any, endőkyour, on the part of a consumer to avoid the Imitations of
water supply imposed by the new restrictions must be exposed. Some people are going to be hit harder than others by the restrictions: large families, for example, are going to find it much more difficult to satisfy their needs for water than couples without children, and the interests of those families must be fully protected. The Water Authority will be expected to pay particular attention to the manner
-in
which water is being used for gardens and sports grounds and to make sure, as far as possible, that there is no excess consumption of water in private residences. The situation is too critical to permit kid glove treatment of offenders. The daily needs of the entire Colony are at stake and it has to be impressed on all that they have duties to perform in the matter of conserving water. Government, too, owes a duty to the Colony. It must press on with the greatest possible speed the Tai Lum Chung Valley reservoir scheme, for Mr Jackson inferred yesterday, that until this new water supply becomes available, there is the prospect of continuing restric- tions, no matter how good the rainfall. Target date for bringing the Tai Lum Chung reservoir into operation` is given as 1955, but Government could win considerable public confidence if it were able to announce that owing to its energetic handling of the project, the new reservoir would become effective in 1954. The least. Government can do is to avoid any sort of unpecessary delay in putting the scheme in hand. Given such an. Esurance the public would be vantly encouraged to offer more willing co-operation in resolving the present water crisis.
In a matter of a few minutes the swirling torrents of the swollen river gushed through flooded 35,000 Local
the
gap and
acres and
civic leaders
33 villages.
organised emer-
gency squads, using every able bodied man, woman and child, in a desperate race to seal the backs before the flood reach- od it.
News thut 1t. bad been
Vietminh
Forces Cut
In Two
breached came after a series of Hoa Binh Captured
ropeful reports from areas further north, where the level of the water had begun to tall
in terms of money.
Hanoi, Nov. 14. French ground and para chute troops today captured
the
to escape
Action was Light on the Central and Eastern fronts.
The US Fifth Air Force, how Col Hanly said the figures ever, reported that Allied fighter It is also believed that perhaps were far from complete, but bombers killed or wounded the Communists may be running disclosed a record of killings more than 350 other Communist and barbarism unique even a There is also the possibility Communist China" United that the Communists have sud-Press and Associated Press.
out of arguments.
denly taken å tude
"get tough" al
the Russian because of
Minister, Mr Andrei chinsky's Paris speech calling
for an end to the Korean war on the 38th Parallel and a with- drawal of foreign troops from Korea within 30 days.
Troops For Suez
Nicosia, Nov. 14.
soldiers by 6 p.m. Most of these strikes were along the Central and Eastern fronts,
The Red Air Force made no interfere. Other attempt to Allied
planes swept North Korean supply lanes and cut rail lines la 100 places.
Allied
troops pleked up
The British aircraft carrier: quantities of equipment
United
Nations
The reasoning behind this Triumph left Famagusta this abandoned by North Korean to the Suez troops who were routed after theory is that the Communists evening carrying may actually want to break off Canal area 1,500 troops. They attacking the talks, throw the responsi-belong to the 39th Brigade of positions on Monday night South
3rd British Infantry of Kosang on the East coast-
bility onto the United Nations he
and then re-open negotiations Division-Reuter.
new; set demands based on Mr Vyshin-
a brand with
sky's proposal,
the
Reds
are
Thousands of acres have been the supply centre of Hoa It has become clearer and devastated; and it has been Binh, threatening to cut clearer that impossible to make even
strong Vietminh forces in demanding an immediate cease- rough estimate
of the damage Lwo.
fire which would give them an General Jean de Lattre de opportunity to forget "other armistice items including the At least 50 lives have been Tassigny, the French Comman-vital prisoner of war and truce
announced this
tion issues" Jost but no-one knows how der-in-Chief,
inspection bodies many
will be found here today. He said that the
North Korean Major-General when the water subsides.
French Union forces tad suffer Lee Seng-che said at yester ed only six wounded and reach- BIGGEST EVER
ed all their objectives in one day's five hour and five-minute Session "It is our consistent day's fighting.
viewpoint that once a military They had extended their Ton-demarcation line is fixed, and king Delta bridgehead 19 miles if your side is as sincere as our to the west on a 31-mile front side for peace, the military Hoa Binh, the capital of the demarcation line should not be Muong country, is 40 miles changed again."
Chinese General Hsich Fang west-southwest of Hanoi..
The General said that waves fave a near
ultimatum when "It requires that we paratroopers three battalks he said,
indication now
Along the upper reaches' of the Po, where the greatest donger had passed, first estimates of the havoc were being made,
It was the biggest flood over recarded, local authorities said. Massive landslides had added
to the damage and death tollhad dropped into the outskirts make a clear shattered
of the city as French afantry and reach, etter agreement as communications and men converged on it. blocked ronds and railway
| lines which might have brought | || LITTLE RESISTANCE
emergency supplies.' ....
Tonight
to where to stop fighting. -10 this is not solved
then Items 3 and 4 cannot te-proceeded with and no armistice will be achieved."
REPORT SURPRISES
The Vietminh forece, who had the Government held the city for a year, offered made Hs first report on the Uttle resistance. floods-provoked by a barrage
He declared that the capture At the moment, high officials, of 22 Parliamentary questions of Hoa Binh would have strate- here consider it entirely prob fired by alarmed members. gic and political benedite in the able that the Communists would six-year-old war, which was like to end the fighting, but they Some speakers suggested that now turning the corner. The re *150* convinced the Red, without massive international seizure of the city threatened the leadership le extremely
herself | Vietminh with strangulation.
to aid taly might and
the isstie.of Theluctant to face up' facing another great menace as Its loss would cut the Cont treatment of prisoners, as well the waters subsided-wide munist forces in half, General as the problem of trucs enforce spread famine.
de Lattre de Tauigny said., ment The Government diaclored French tanks
the Eighth
artillery and Publication For
that 20 railway lines had been planes opener dava asetult Army report caused a distinct
and 34
34 main roads closed, and their powerful barrage surprise to the Defence and
fut
No imate was yet bomblo blated trail for the ground State Departments; officials said of the number, of homes Mid advance Lots Has Binh theo were without any explana publie Bulidingstroyed
Two Vietminh divisions ption as to why it, was made pub- damaged rior could the loss in over 20,000 were believed: ""ip lle at this times drops, trult trees, tile, and have been cut off by the French
State Department nuthorities other goods yet be determined, move, the Dental Added appeared to be uncertain about
Reuter
what affect the publication
Associated Press,
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