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“Liberation_Army" Commons Approves Japanese Dye
Strikes Terror
In Ismailia
From ARTHUR COOK
Ismailia, Nov. 26.
A new terror has struck the town of Ismailia now that most of the British troops have been withdrawn. Tonight, hardly a shop is open, the streets are deserted and thousands of Greeks living in the town are behind locked doors,
Within hours of the British pull-out last night a new terror started. Egyptian "Liberation" army thugs made a systematic tour of the Greek area demanding £50 from each person under threats of death. The money is pro- tection money said the terrorists, and by paying it the Greeks would show allegiance to the liberation cause.
"Liberation Although there
centrated effori against the British by the "Liberation Army" so far, larger groups of them are now laking ambushes and sabotage.
Today, 30 of them quietly crept into position round a party! of Royal Signallers repairing a
Hundreds of Army" thugs have come to the Surface now there are only British patrols and fi small detachment or soldiers in the
Lown
Each terrorist is equipped i with a bicycle and a gun.
started
is no COC
part in
Then the three ran for cover among the tumbledown shacks of the village and the rest of the ambush party opened fire.
GUN BATTLE
Soccer XI In
Air Crash
A
Leconfield, Nov, 26.
bomber carrying a
Rossi Air Force
football
team
crashed near here today, killing two and in- Juring 13.
The four-motored plane stalled in landing and crushed onto railway tracks near a Deld, block- ing the train service,
Rescue workers said that the plane bad ali Its molors ripped from ja the crash. The left wing was thrown across the railroad tracks. -- United Press.
CREW BALE
OUT
A
Peace Treaty
REBEL LABOUR
REJECTED
MOTION 382 TO 33
London, Nov. 26.
The House of Commons approved the Japanese peace treaty to- night after overwhelmingly defeating a rebel Labour motion to reject it in fear of "unfair competition" from Japanese industry.
Dog's Vain Warning
Thornbury, Ontario,
Nov. 28.
Skippy, a little black collie, barked and kloked Its legs in vain on Sunday afternoon. No one under. stood what he wanted.
Two hours after Joan Elten wandered away with Skippy her parents won- dered why she was not on hand for supper. They re- membered Skippy's bark Ing.
Wilbert Ellies, the child's father, took the black dog out arel was led to a mill poad near hero. Ile found daughter, aged three, drowned in 10 feet of water-United Press.
The vote was 382 to 33, defeating the rebel motion. The Commons then read the Japanese peace treaty bill a second time and approved it by voice vote, paving the way to ratification of the treaty.
his only The third and final reading of the bill is expected to be little more than a formality without a vote. The second reading is the main test.
The bill provided for "carrying in to effect the treaty of peace with Japan and the protocol thereto". Conservative and most Labour Members, including the leaders, voted together to defeat the rebel Labour motion against the treaty.
It
મ scon
23
Mr
The treaty was signed In San Francisco
former by the Labour Government headed by Mr Clement Attlee.
All day today hundreds of police "replacements" have sabotaged telephone cable in been arriving In Ismailia by the village of Abu Gamus,
Fort Worth, Nov. 28.
was of the greatest im- from Ismailia.
baled train from Cairo and all of them mile
Sixteen crewmen Three
outportance to Britain that direct well are young reservists, the same: Egyptians,
dressed and from a crippled B-36) super- diplomatic and commercial re- pilot.lations with Japan be resumed with cultured English speaking bomber today, then the type of policemen who
voices, approached and asked co-pilot and engineer brought the gun balties nine days ago.
possible, them
the 10-engined air giant down to Anthony Nutting, the Under- Most of
to another are known to
the way
village.
shaky but safe landing on Secretary be "Liberation Army" members Then one of em poured
for Foreign Affairs, lve
told the House of Commons working under instructions from shots into one of th, signallers Carswell Air Force base.
the Government the Egyptian Government the from a Luger automatic.
today when The airmen baled out in
for Parliamentary men they are replacing
rainstorn were
called
ap- after mechanical feted and decorated when they
trouble
the Japanese peace prevented the lowering proval yesterday for
of the plane's left wheels.
treaty. arrived at Cairo their "glorious night against the British.
Carswell officials said all the 16 apparently landed safety For 15 minutes the gun bat-
with escaping
only miner the continued until Arary rein-
** | injuries. forcements rushed to the scene, surrounding the village. No terrorist was found but a saloon the car was seeu racing from
LOC village towards the desert road, The signaller, very severely wounded, was tushed to hospitol and
is now in a serious condi~ control the activities of the
tion. terrorists the Governor will be
Last night a old thui British troops will British lorry off take all-out action.
Suce Another ambush had as their parachutes collapsed two of the on the ground and bustled to Only by this can the constant been planned when
lorry
Hospital for snipings, ambushes and murders soldiers from the
were Carswell (Contd be stopped
on back page, Col. 7)examination.-United Press,
So hove Zone
AN ULTIMATUM
erroris incidents many cccurred
Canal in the during area
the last few hours thal tomorrow Generas Erskine
GOC the Canal Zone, is to give an matum to the Egyptian Gov-
crnor, Abdel Hady Ghazali Bey If the Egyptians cannot
COMMENT OF THE DAY
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car forced
蔚
Pilot Captain Clarence Horton brought the plane
to a safe landing assisted by his co-pilot and engineer.
The
bomber giant several passes at the field be-
landing. fore
officers aground gave the crew a radio jumping technique.
ture on
while
A group of 14 Labour back- benchers tabled a motion for
ejection.
Mr Nutting told the Commons that it would be not only un- but contrary to political commercial interest
Japan as an occupied
made just and leave Stale,
the road near 110 crewmen were picked up
Artesian Water Supplies
or
is natural that our latest water shortage crisis should once again stimulate the suggestion of boring for artesian supplies. A correspondent points to the successful operations that have been carried out in Indo-China which for years have provided Haiphong and Hanoi with the bulk of their water supplies. Boring also produced useful One results in the Shanghai area. retarding factor in Hongkong appears to be that the experts cannot agree not among themselves whether boring would yield sufficient and satis- factory artesian water supplies. One leading geologist is of the opinion that by far the greatest area of Hongkong
rocks which is composed of impermeable to water and that only in the northern part of the New Territories are there any large areas of sedimentary rocks, pervious to water and likely to hold underground supplies. Moreover, where there are flat' agricul- tural lowlands of recent sedimentaries, such as those bordering Deep Bay, the beds are seldom more than 60 feet in depth and the wella already sunk there are shallow, yielding very impure water
are
which at times is brackish, due to sen water infiltration. This expert considers that the sedimentary rocks of the Tolo Channel and Mira Bay formations might offer some possibilities for future underground water supplies, but he is doubtful of their value in making any considerable contribution to the solution of the Colony's water problem. Nevertheless it remains true that
has Government
made no serious attempt to explore the potentialities of artesian water supplies. Trial bores in areas regarded as suitable by local geologists might well produce very use- ful results. The water problem has reached such acute proportions (and is likely to remain so for at least another three years) that everything should be attempted to procure additional supplies within the Colony, even though there is no guarantee of complete success. There are certain areas on the main- land which the geological experts consider capable of containing artesian water supplies. No harm could be done, and possibly something spectacular might result, by making trial borings, if necessary to a depth of 4,000 feet.
An Inescapable Responsibility THE pace and the measure of the
European rearmament drive must, of necessity, be dictated by national economies, General Eisenhower does not appear to be satisfied with the overall effort made by the European members of NATO in advancing the Western Europe defence scheme, and he has called for an attempt to perform the impossible. The last British Govern- ment committed the country to a three- year rearmament programme which her financial and economic resources, as they stand at present, cannot permit of fulfilment. On top of this comes a call for an all-round increase of 25 per cent in rearmament targets by the Allied nations. Mr Butler, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer declares that it would force Britain to a state of total war fubitisation which the country cannot afford Military leaders have always been prone to display impatience with the economic and financial experts who Book to show that a nation cannot afford more than a certain percentage of Its
income in raising military forces and supplying them with the necessary armaments. It is, therefore, important that Mr Averell Harriman should be on hand to give authoritative and unbiased information on this subject. He has a vital task of discovering precisely what the European nations can individually and jointly afford to programmes spend on rearmament without
ruining their completely economies, and how much help they are entitled to from the United States int bringing to fruition the NATO defence scheme. General Eisenhower suggests that the problem can largely be resolved by a pooling of sovereignty, but the hard fact remains that none of the Wostern Europe countries are in a position to fulfil General Eisenhower's defence target without substantial assistance in materials and money from the United States, It is resources, not goodwill, that is lacking in Western Europe..
20
TANGLED MESS
to
"Until we have cleared up all the tangled mess of claims and contracts arising from the existence of the state of war between Britain and Japan, resumption of normal commer- cial relations between the two Dountries will inevitably be delayed," Mr Nutting said,
Mr Kenneth Younger, former Minister of State in the Labour government, said that restric- tions on productivity would be unenforceable after the occupa- tion ended and Japan become, sovereign even if they had been written into the treaty.
tinued Japan tial
MI
was
Britain And Formosa
"It is no exaggeration to say that the future of Lancashire is in the hands of America. There is considerable doubt in Lan- cashire about what is going to be the
of America policy future. The relationship that has existed between Lencashire | and America is a long one and | a strong one."
TEHERAN RIOTS
Students Clash With Police
Dynamite Used To Stall Floods
Rovigo, Nov. 26. Dynamite blasts ripped a half-mile breach in the Polesella dyke late today in an effort to save this stricken
area from new flood disasters.
The new flood crest was ex- pected to hit here tonight.
Foreign
help poured into Italy. France sent an engineer battalion with rescue gear in four trains; US Anny engineers have come from Trieste, and Swiss radio official from Lausame brought $24,000 for flood relief funds,
W Averell Harriman, US Director of Mutual Security, announced in Rome $1,000,000 would be provided for medicines and other supplies.
has
EPIDEMIO THREAT Fear of epidemic that been hounding authorities for days increased with the report of four cases of scarlet fever Dround Adria, unce a town of 35,000. Several thousand resi- dents there have stubbornly refused to leave their homes. Others have been evacuated.
In some
parts of Adria the water has reached second story windows, officials said. Danger of disease is heightened by the rupture of the sewage system.
The three weeks of floods ¡have made 200,000 Italians Unconfirmed reports said that homeless, covered crops and more than 100 people were in-homes on hundreds of thousands jured, 10 Police and 10 boys of acres in the fertile Po Valley and girls seriously,
Teheran. Nov. 28.
Police and students, both boys end girls, clashed in riots here
London, Nov. 26. The Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr Anthony Notting, today The Left Wing Labour mem- side-stepped
ber, Mr Sydney Silverman, as tonight. question about Britain's polley on
sailed the treaty. the fature of Formosa.
B
"The Formosan problem has now become an inter- national one and concerns & number of nations other ,than those which subscrib- ed to the Cairo and Pots dam declarations,
however, only one of the factors contri- bating to present tension t the Par East and, in the view of the govern- fret and most ment, the urgent step towards lessen- ing of
tension is achievement of ment in Korea.
"When this has been schloved, it would be DOG- sible to proceed with the discussion of other prob-
that of tems, including Form("United Press.
a settle-
This is economic aggression of the very
Mr worst type," Smith declared.
He said, "We fought twice la
The Liberal leader, Mr Cle- ment Davies, said it would be Leial in any way to restrict the powers of a nation of 85,000- 000 to trade. He praised the treaty as being free of vindle- It was not known how many tiveness and "over-punishment" arrests had been made. while at the same time recognls-
Immediately after the clash, ing that Japan had behaved in
Generel Mansouri Mozayemi, such a way that she would have
Chief of Police, re- to work her way back to
full Persian equality.
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and caused property damage reckoned in the hundreds millions of dollars.
The newly opened half-mile breach in the Polorella dyke was expected to divert a great part of the flood crest toward the Adriatic.
Amphibious caterpillar trac- pulling trains of rafts the evacuation t thousands of marooned people,
Associated Press,. '
signed.
A Cabinet appointed a Minis tørs MP APPREHENSIVE
tor of Labour, Amirteymoursheeded The former Foreign Secre- Kallali, to act as Chief of Police, tary, Mr Herbert Morrison, one
The riots began when High the British representatives School girls clashed with the who signed the treaty, said be Police. agreed many Members on both sides of the House were appre- bensive
of
about Japanese comm- and he was not un-
petition sympathetic.
"It is an over-simplification to assume that the United States took one view and everybody took another," he said. "That is
untrue.
I am
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GIRLS DOUSED
Fire engines which were call- ed up doured the girls with showers of icy cold water.
American Attacked
By Egyptians
Cairo, Nov. 26.
A United States Embassy spokesman said today that 25- The girls then began to dis-year-old Frank R. Boyd, the perse, but then boy students third Embassy courier, sustained from Teheran's Ai Borz College minor injuries when he was went to the rescue of the girls. attacked by a crowd of Egypt-- lans on Sunday while taking Armed with sticks, stones and
In the photographs
Amalek residential area of Cairo.
He was mistaken for 4 Britisher.United Press.
with
"If we had attempted to re- my lifetime to deal with mill-quire that the Japanese should knives they dashed up on foot observe a standard of employ and bicycles, shouting "Who ment and industrial conditions dares touch our sisters?"
then equal to our own, suure quite
we would
They clashed furiously broken in this matter not the Police. with the United States but with 8
The Police whipped back with many other countries with a lower standard of industrial trucheons and soon many boys and girls were nursing injuries conditions than our own, Other
Later the boys and girls went with Lower labour countries standards would have feared home to their anxious parents repercussions upon themselves, and the Police returned to their We ourselves might have been
10
Speaking for Labour, Mr Younger said, "No responsible tary aggression and the time has arrived when those who took a person" could accept à treaty
our support which left Japan military long time to come
a vacuum after the occupation and in both world wars ought to be added that Australia and New reminded that they should come
our aid immediately in Zealand would agree that con-
American interest in matter which will have such an
effect on our economy." "absolutely essen-
He charged that the Americans Younger Raid that #
had embarked upon s new form fapan had to be defended he of imperialism financial pene- failed to see how that could be more appropriately done than by
put in the same position in Shops which had been closed some form of Jolat United Seconding the motion, Dr relation to the United States or during the fray reopened.—Reu- States-Japanese arrangement. Barnett Stross (Labour) said other Commonwealth countries ter.
Mr Younger did not deny that that the Japanese had been who might wish to be protected
with a treaty
China and the "shielded" while building up from British competition. Soviet Union was something export industries and no one in "very much loss" than hoped the world could compete with "Honestly, I do not see for. But he said that Japan the combination of American you could effectively provide must be treated a nation of know how and Japanese cheap, importance.
"almost slave", labour.
SOVIET OBSTRUCTION
tration.
how
for that state of things in the actual treaty itself."
Mr Walter Fletcher (Conser- Mr Morrison said they had vative), a back-bencher, said he had to decide whether it was to Mr Younger charged that the hoped that Mr Winston Churchill, be a harsh or liberal treaty.
three Soviet Union had offered only the Prime Minister, would take "I believe there are obstruction during the work on up in Washington the idea of possible courses for Japan--Par- believe the
the treaty and appeared only getting a convention to prevent liamentary democracy, Fascism to want to get the Western unfair" dumping practices of or 'Communism. Powers out of the Far East the past. He asked that no best guess is she is most likely while increasing her
favoured nation treatment should to go with the free democracies hold there.
be banded out to Japan.
... the best chance of real Greenwood, peace and progress along the
own
"I believe that this treaty,
Mr Arthur
little as one can feel enthusiasm in from the Labour Front lines of the treaty."
for
it, was
necessary but it leaves most basic problems
of
said it would be useless He also said it was assured to attempt to include protective that the United States was not measures for British industry in going to decide which Ching
the Far East unsolved and in the treaty itself but Britain Japan should recognise.-United the coming months and years could concentrate on seeing that Press. great efforts
will be required protective measures were taken,
an our part to gulde Japanese He said that if the bill were efforts into appropriate chat rejected Britain could not
nels" Mr Younger concluded. ratify the treaty, and he asked Panama Canal
A Labour back-bencher. Mr Ellis Smith, moved the motion for rejection with the assertion that the pottery and cotton in dustries "are very concerned be- cause of their terrible experience between the two wars,"
that
what long-run benefit eculd be to British industry na
America Itself could bring the Zone
treaty into operation,
NOT GROUNDLESS
Trouble
Panama City, Nov. 20. Stone-throwing students clásb-
Trade union officials, spinners "The anxiety we are feeling ed along the borders of the and weavers throughout Lania by no means groundless. In Panama Canal Zone, today in a which street fight in cashire and North Staffordshire the last resort, It is really the flerce
which is | savéral persons were injured were Indignant because their attitude of America
zot interests had boon pro-going to count--America's at- and a number of automobiles
kitido
Politically and damaged. The street battle was the most serious of a daylong Government to consult trade unions, employers' and other lite to come, the United States is supporters and opponents of the of skirmishes between dustrial organisation on guaran going to have tremendous Loft-Wing student strike against tees Britain should demand be infuence in Japan, and Lan- Panama's police-dominated
Influence is going to
| sectoă, lio" said He asked the ecom for many years Burles
... of
гор
along the
fore allowing Japan to becouse)} TRshire is wondering to what und damn fight. P [a member of the United Nathane economic side, it is buy Fourth of July Avenue,
On
Pul
The
He quoted a later ying quite clear Japan will not really boundary between Panama pro that waniples, presumably of be dangerous unless she has per and the American governed Japarróna tuislikes, had been re- unlimited supplies of raw cotton Canal Zone, Zoną police, armee ceived which were namostan and she cannot get them unlin with tear gas and pune, helped wiket trening of British designs | she gets them from the United the Panamanian police to dia- "W7/one-third "the" pilon,
perse rioters-United Preci, i
barracks.
the
two
The 15th Victim
Woodstock, Ala., Nov. 26. The 15th body was removed today from wreckage of s'reamliners that collided here. Rescuers still are probing the twisted mass of metal for the body of one of the engineers.
Railway officials bald the cause of the accident has not been determined.--Associated Press.
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