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No. 35053
Established 1845
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1951.
Price 30 Cents
Hundreds Marooned For Two Days
Bandits By Flood Waters
Have Plenty Of Funds
Kuala Lumpar. Nov. 16.
Malayan Communists are accumulating more funds than they can spend on waging their guerilla fare, according to evidence captured by the British
Estimates
Commun
stolen
scriptions
war-1
Llac put the sam have used dans
hnd
purly h exn
1
lan
many millions of Strals
Officials here have no doubt that a big amount of the Com- munisis inconr 12 exortan from Chinee Toney of rubber calabra mines
OWNERS
and
Omlade sport hat some rubber dealers are being mo- tained exclusively by the Malayan Communist Party for trading purposes.
A recently captured working plan of the Communist Party
in Perak
should
said that t innes
500 S 5
dothers a nonth to the party's finds and transkrt op alors should spodarer le
164 Surs dollars for every bus they own.
The Communals are knowi le be buying up Hold Prd! jewellery now lo alt
Wow!
in jungle hide as a reserve
for future BOLİNKTEN.
Gurnas rik rea Dents Malayan
anei towns
village
But d
and
have begun paying plers for food, medicine clothing because Brit sh 12-measures have eut cll CY of their regul; supply souzens
Despite this increase in their M.Ng Posts," the Comm rits are till able to condita"
tir building up
"gold serves-Reuter
Muslim League's New President
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Police Guard Hanging Body
Marlborough, England,
Nov. 16.
Police kept guard in a Pewsey, Wiltshire, garden throughout the night over the body of a man hanging from a tree.
The body was later
Identified us to be that of William Ward, a 30-year- old farm worker they had Pen seeking in connection
the murder of Soman of 70 in her cottage
with
there.
The body was fontid
A villager sald a copse. that it appeared possible thai
had been there since the day of the crime, October 23-Revies.
Ming Sung
Given Tax
Exemptions
Ottawa, Nov, 16.
HEART-RENDING
SCENES
Ferraro (Po Valley), Nov. 16. Weeping women and men with haggard faces lined the Po dyke near here today staring over a vast wilderness of water.
Hundreds of people were still out there after two days marooned by flood waters surging through wide gashes in the River's bank.
A fleet of motor-boats, barges and rafts to- day began rescue operations in earnest now that the fog has lifted.
As each rescue boat touched dry land with its shivering cargo it was immediately surrounded Ly anxious crowds.
"Haven't you found Ive my son?”, wailed an old Canal Zone Latest
woman to the boat's crew.
But she was one of so many who had no news of
friends and relations.
a
No one dr.ven
Restu jople, cluiching Blow pens belongings, were
bundled sucks and way to nearby Ferrara
Here they wire dged in every avalable building, hosp wit, con- vents, private homes.
tertain
passengers on board? No one knows.
knows anything for Mest except that the user disaster imaginable has overwhelmed
Valley the Po from Ferrara to Rovigo and the sea-Reuter,
Two people, including four A Chinese company 50
La ideen WIC :scued by bak reday after a long 36 hours operating ships under!
"land" which the Po Canadian flags in trade be- threatened crumble at any
ta tween Hmpkong and Commmute.
50 The munist
riand consisted been ports has granted special tax exemp-ously remained
metres of dyke which miracul- intact between tions by Canada, it was re-the
The huge breaches which vealed in the House of River forced in its banks al Commony on Thursday.
Occhiobello.
A
01
from
Attempt
To Ambush
British
Officer
conference with
The
Guards reach Fayid in the Canal Zonu, after an gir trip from Tripoli in the cramped space of RAP Hastings planes. The men, all from the 3rd Battalion, Cold- stream Guards, were part of an airlift which trans- ferred 6,000 troops "with- out accident."
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The Guards
Arrive
Alleged Atrocities
Britain Seeks Confirmation
Reds Still Stalling At Truce Talks
Unable To Make Up
Their Minds
United
Mansan, Nov. 17.
Nations cease- fire delegates move into Panmunjom today in a bewildering conflict of posi- tions with United Nations expressing cautious opti miam through its spokes- man and the Communists apparently unable to make op their minds.
ne-
Major-General Henry Holes, the United Nations truce Butlator, warned the Com- inurists at yesterday's meeting that the fighting in Korea will continue until an armistice actually signed whether it be in days, weeks or months,
13
In a confused and quarrelsome meeting In the Panmunjon, ULCE tent, Communist General Lee Sang-cho asked Majer- General Hodes to re-define the Allied objective in insisting that fighting be continued during negotiations.
FIRM REPLY
"You know what that objec- live is," Major-General Hodes replied firmly. "We are after and not gain on If the delay lasts
An armistice the ground.
four or five months fighting will continue until the armistice Ja signed.
Or if the negotiations London, Nov, 10.
continue for two days, three Britain has asked the United days or three weeks or longer." States if it can back up an aghting will continue until an
is achieved. American Eighth Army officer's armistice
You
Something Of charge that the Korean Reds might as well know this now if
A Chinese
Puzzle
have killed 5,790 Allied war prisoners, including about 10 Britons.
A Foreign Office spokesman told reporters today this country had no official information about the alleged atrocities, nor has
TOWN THREATENED
Rome, Nov. 18. of Flood waters
Italy's swollen Po River, on
£ devastat ing rampage along its casterti half, today invaded the outskirts
Cairo, Nov. 16. of Rovigo, centre of refuge for
Egyptians attempted to thousands of villagers driven
ambush the captain of a from their submerged farmlands.
A report said that Air Force British cruiser today, stated a United Press report from planes bombed the dykes of the who 70-year-old woman
White
the south in Fayid. The Ming Sung Industrial was carried ashore from a'respue
Ming
last minute
bid to divert the
En route to Fayid from Port Company of Canada Limited, boat and overwhelmed with relief food
the beautiful Said the Canadig branch of the quivered, "Put me down. Put Renaissance town, Chinese Arm, was given special me down. Oh God, the solid
A group of 160 fully equipped senior military officers, Captain exemptions by a letter dated earth. Give me my, shoes and
engineers of the British Forces L. F. Durnford Satters ran into May 11, 1950, from the deputy let me stand."
in Trieste were on their way to a volley fired from sand dunes Finance Minister, W. C. Clurk
help
Italian troops and firemen near the road on which his car
in in the was travelling. Two bullets at in strengthening dykes
drove through the car which disaster zone.
while 0 Thousands of Rovigo's Inhabi- the attack
the fire tands were fireing northward with police escort returned
with Sten guns. their belongings.
All the British escaped Jury.
The attack occurred Kuntala area,
to the Company's counsel in Montreal, R. W. Mackay,
its
CHILDREN LUST
Each returning boat brings tale of hope or despaired tales such as these:
Jelter The
said that fhe exemptions were made in view
the purposes for which the of a tree.
The Company is incorporated."
No one answered when
circled
farmi a
Three children seen clinging like squirrels to the branches
Kararii, Nov. 16. The
Minister, Mr Kuwan Nazmuldin, today was grammar by e de tel president of ¦ purpose elted by the letter was cuers the Musta Lentue Parts. His maintain registered mort calling the family. election Clif Dhe vacancy left gages on certain ships held by
banks," by the argussination of Liaquat Canadian
Al Khan -Unite: Pre-s.
Press.
COMMENT OF THE DAY
KING
res-
howse
No
The biggest natural catastrophe to befal Italy in generaitons kept growing from hour to hour exact figure of victims was yet A rescue boat failed to return available but i was feared to be United last night, It had a
crew of
over 50. four. But were there any Estimates of the number of
homeless
ranged as high as
Proper Perspective
Farouk's address to the Egyptian Parliament was couched
as
in what has now become the familiar language employed by extreme nationalists in the Middle East Arub It paid scant attention to countries. the realities of the Anglo-Egyptian dispute or the impossible situation into have which King Farouk's advisers
and the country. plunged themselves Egyptian politicians, like Dr Mossadegh and his colleagues, are endeavouring to hide their OWD incompetence administrators by flogging that very dead horse, British "imperialism," and blaming the presence of British troops and advisers in the Canal Zone as the cause of Egypt's troubles and.problems. But, as one observer has pointed out, the Egyptian politicians are prisoners of nationalistic fanaticism which they helped to unleash, and "even their tenuous influence, upon the people's volatile emotions may be usurped by Communist agitators who are playing upon the aspirations of the Arabs for ulterior ends." One important danger created by the vociferous verbosity of the Egyptian propagandists is that it may influence world opinion to lose correct perspective of the insucs involvet. It is particularly necessary that American public opinion should be properly guided in this respect, 'It is casy to advance facile criticisms about British imperialism" and "colonialism" and in regarding them ULS anti- démocratic, to convict a nation of Violating accepted principles in inter- national relations, but the attitude ignores a variety of special cir cumstances and established facts.
It
is thus refreshing to note a recent commentary on the Anglo-Egyptian dispute by Mr Hanson Baldwin, the prominent New York Times corres- Bondent. He makes four points which
put the whole of the Middle East situation into perspective. Firstly he declares that many of the Governments of the Middle East, including the Egyptian Government, are politically unstable and venal. Assassination and corruption are commonplace in those countries. Militarily, he observes, the Arab countries are weak, and be sug- the gests that the Egyptian army, largest and best-equipped in the area, was one of the least effective during the war with Israel. He is of the
most of opinion that
the Árab politicians with some exceptions-are opportunists who primarily respect power and lend lip-service to principles, and that these politicians use the simple uneducated classes to forward their own in- their own careers and terests. Moreover, he emphasises, most American crities of so-called British "colonialism" forget that democracy is much more than licence.
100,000.
and eight firemen were missing today after
A doctor
had set out in
DYKES SMASHED
of
they
a
for
д
Bizarre -Case-Takestens word reached the British
A New Turn
Washington, Nov. 16.
government through its intelli- gence sources, according to Defence Minis ry officials.
have not known it before. Despite all the bickering and confusion, Lieut. Colonel Howard Levic, acting as briefing offteer, expressed cautious opti- mism over the eventual out. come of the talk.
He said, "We are closer to agreement today than we were one usunth ago and closer than we were one week ago, if the situation were hopeless should not be going back to Panmunjom. It is my personal opinion that the talks have cer-
we
military Force officers and perhaps / Washington has asked the State not be found to solve i em 2
in-
in the between Port Said and Ismailia, and was the seene of several other attempted ambushes by Egyptian terrorists last week.
the
STREET FIGHT
A bizarre case involving The Foreign Office spokesman tainly cleared the air. I see no two suspended Chinese Air said the British Embassy
reason why some means should
for Departurent
information $49,000,000 in Chinese Na about the reported atrocities. A
of the agenda."
with the This item deals tionalist funds, developed similar request has been sent to
cease-fire line-United Press. Command in into a real Chinese puzzle the
Korea. today.
Attorneys for the Nationalist that Government complained the United States Marshal has been unable to serve papers an
officers forbidding
two
them
Unified
The Foreign Office reserved official comment on the reports
pending chapter - and - verse. evidence from Washington.
mass executions.
were
Twelve Sentenced To Death
Athens, Nov. 16,
An Athens military court to- to death 12
R
to use the money in any way.
Some officials privately ex- The attorneys said that the
pressed the view that the Reds day sentenced Marshal was told that General
Bre capable of carrying out people, including leading P. T. Mow and Colonel V. S.
But they member of the cutlawed Greek the city for
word Communist sire
Party for "trying Hsiang "had left an indefinite stay."
pretty
before to overthrow would have leaked out
the established Previquely, the two officers this time if any sustained pro-regime by force." had said that they welcomed n
Five of those sentenced to gramme of execution was under them to return Lo force
way. The Allies have many death were women. Three others $7,000,000 of special agents in North Korea, it got life imprisonment, 12 had was noted. Other officials were prison terms ranging from three inclined to doub; the reports.io 20 years, while 66 were ac-
Associated Press.
funds
Two British soldiers and four boat for an Egyptian civilians were wound- isolated house to attend to
ed in a street fight in Port Said woman in childbirth,
tonight.
One of the Egyptians was reported to have died later.
An official British report on suit
released incident
at Fayld more than the Canal Zone said that the given them to buy military sup- clash occurred when two Bri-lies in the United States, They tish non-commissioned officers Faid it would give them
public their wandered into the Arab quarter chance of Port Said and were attacked charges of waste and corruption
against by a crowd of Egyptians
The s'atement said that two officials. British soldiers were
wounded
The avalanche
water smashed dykes at dozens of points on the northern bank of the River Po where millions of tons of water have spread over rich farmland in the past hours.
4
to make
Chinese
SUSPENDED
A
Nationalist
Small Italian helicopters tried to drop food and medical stores to stranded groups of and four Egyptian men believed people, but fog hampered their have been wounded after an General
Colonel Mow and operations.
exchange of shots between the Hsiang were suspended by the Government Some 3.500 refugees were crowd and a military patrol of Chiang Kai-shek reported
on the First Cheshire Regiment be camping dykes for a length of over four called to the rescue of the pair and a half miles surrounded by of soldiers under attack-United water.
Press.
to
SUDANESE DESIRES
01
Another 3,000 were marooned on the roots of their houses and walling to be taken off by
Khartoum, Nov. 16. Deets of motor-boats, amphi- Tribal leaders and Legislative bious "ducks and other craft.
Assembly representatives Chances of quick relief were South Sudan announced today losened by an exceptional high that they wan'cd self-govern- nde of the Adriatic which
a the ment
earliest possible slowed the flow of the muddy
moment, flood toward the sea.
Prime The
last August and crdered to re- turn to Formora to stand trial on charges of failing to account for $24,000,000 in Nationalist funds. The officers, however, denied the charges, ignored the order and continued with their work. A successor was sent here to relieve them but the Chinese
fused to quit. Embassy said that they still re-
Two days ago the Chinese government flied a suit against
ал
Minister, · Mr In the meantime, they would the officers in the Federal Dis- trict equrt in an effort to re- unspent balance of Alcido de Gaspert, and the welcome British trus'eeship. Most of the
"We repudiate entirely Egyp-cover the Agriculture Minister, Mr Van- fani, today inspected the disastian efforts to bring the Sudan same $7,000,000 and force
under the Egyptian crown," account of $24,000,000 mere.
R. Kirkland they added in a statement.
Judge James Claiming to represent 70 per issued à temporary restraining their using cent of the Sudan population, order to prevent
peoples seeking independence are not capable of democratic government and that in some countries, where inde- pendence has been achieved, life for the average person is less stable, less secure, less hopeful and probably less free than in the days of "colonialism." And it is not unfair to suggest that the vacillating
the American policies in Middle East have contributed to the present deplorable state of affairs. Britain's position in the Middle East is legally and morally correct and calls for sympathetic understanding and support and not recriminations from the Western democracios A fair measure of this support has been given by the United States and Franco over the Egyptian affair which may well have the effect of preventing a poli- tical crisis from becoming a shooting
WRE
ter arca-Reuter.
NAAFI Girls On Strike
desmoments "
the group raid, "We dieagree any more of the funds. with the proposal to appoint a The iwo officers claimed United Nations Commission to that they had been given only self-determination $10,196,817.28 rather than $49,- 000,000 49 the Government They said they have The group thought that poli- claimed, Fayld, Nov. 16,
tical parties speaking only for vouchers which show precisely Girls of the W.R.A.C. (Wo-
to the Inst of the towns how it was spent. the populations men's Royal Army Corps) were Today serving in Army canteens were moving too fast for the cent."United Press.
here in place of 20 NAAFI, Kirls | 600d of the Sudan, the first!
who walked
day.
atit
The statement gave
on strike yester-indication that the tribal chiefs
than
Estimated Losses
By Reds
The NAAFI· girls had been are entering the political Neid,⠀⠀
At Press
conference Inst in the WRAC camp since the destruction of their night representatives of Northern own quarters a few days ago in Sudan said that the date of self-
Washington, Nov 1. determination should be atter a fire.
andree years of
The Dolence Deperiment esti They sold yesterday that they no more:
The South, mated today that the Commun- self-government; did not like Armyration and doming-ists stiffered 1,457,468, casualties
which: "the general conditions" et favoure a period of de- in Korda through November
A NAAFT oilcil was meeting velopment in which traditional an increase of, 14,032 over the them today Injefforts to rottle suspicions of the Armb North number reported through Octo- the strike.Reuter.
bes 32 United Press. could be overcome, Neuter,
Anny camp
PLAIN
quitted-Reuter.
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