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200 Drowned In River Disaster
Rangoon, Dec. 31. Over 200 were feared drowned when H bout expsized in
Salween
River near Moulmeln, 150 mle easi of Rangoon according th
reaching here
disaster was not reported.
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Tokyo. Dec. 31.
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The Fair was opened by M. Gunnar Hagglot, London Express Swedish Ambassador to London.
Photo.
Supreme Pontiff
Looks Back
On A Busy Year
Vatican City, Dec. 31.
Pope Pius XII, after receiving a few relatives and friends in his apartments in the Vatican to receive their New Year greetings, is tonight at- tending a Te Deum in his private chapel.
Tomorrow he will implore Divine Blessing for the New Year at Mass, when the sacred hymn, Veni Creator Spiritus, will be sung.
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Grant More Economic Aid To Great Britain
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Washington, Dec. 31.
The United States is expected to announce this week that Britain will receive at least $300,000,000 in economic ald next year.
Informed officials in close touch with the Anglo-American aid nego- tiations told Reuter today that it was planned to announce the aid in Washington before the Prithe Minister, Mr Winston Churchill arrives at the week-end.
This economic aid would be in addition to British troops fighting in Karen military ald Britain is receiving under the mutual with the United Nations. security programme,
Authoritative sources here did Britain how has three div) hot rule but the possibility that! sidhs in Western Germany and the figure would be here than has placed them under the com- $800,000,000.
find 6 Gen. Dwight D. Eisen- htwin Supreme Commander Altied Powers
in Europe (SHAPE).
Its rearmament plens call far sending another division to Ger- many early next year.
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My Churchill's statement that he 4 not me k for finan ibl help dung Washing in talks with Predicht Truman was taken here as sup porting the expectation that the would Le agremini puis et before has arrival.
Aid to Britain would come out of the Mutual Security Bili funds approved last Autumn by Con- gress and would not require any new legislation, officials said.
The biggest and most recent ! drain upon the nation's military fisantres
has been the Suez
tore up its! Cossal zone. Egypt
Britain
for de- febre at the strategte aren. Br.- 1.cies with 18h now finds its garrison be- traguered by the attacks
TREMENDOUS COST
of
It is expected that aid to Bri-hegyptiens, organised into
bera ibn squats. Lath would be divided between direct Abancial assistance and aid through placement of mil- tary contrucls.
fo
But there was no indication so of the possible proportions Meanwal 81,000-ton Queen Mary. fastest liner in the world. headrd
to the Atlantar 16- night, carrying Mr Churchill to momentous balks in Washington | with President Truman
Because she was two days be bind schedule. th: captain Cordered full speed ahead. But warnings of Atlanke gales in-
divated that the giant liner had not yet shrugged herself free of
it week of Goubles.
Mr Churchill will be taken off by a fast cutter before the liner reaches New York and rushed tu
Washington by plane and car to make up for the time bad luck has cost the Queen Mary.-- Reuter
BRITAIN'S RECORD
As 1951 drew to a close, the of Caramels, whose normal com
of plement is 70, has at present 21 | 'upe looked back on a ye
In the wake of Com
London, Dec 31 onderkrade work. He mu se 20
trials
Mr Winston Churchill will tell of Bishops and other members of the clergy the President Harry Truman that with such ve.s road ast and 51 the spreches
is theatre. Vution's Cen-istorial Congrega- Britain braving economic its a banking.
excum muniated those res- collapse to help hold the front Mi Frau continueit
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Czechoslovakia, against Red aggression. feat at this juncture when
problems. migration. eebisible
Runang mauringe, sports, journalism and, Hungary resente nepatiation.
With the expulsion Tast of Mans.gpo. An- September The published three Beatifea-
tonda Riberi, the Internuncio. that of Pipe Pius X ani personally celebret om Commurest China, all roan- in St. Peter's tries within the Russian sphere 4 Max Laure Bastion
"Among the thousands of peoph,
gencial. the Pope receivi? Minister's special" any a vite ou urme
were the King and Quren uf Den-. mark, Pincess Jusephine Char-
The are in pluress for an armistice 1 Kowa that un mastaden - Tense! 22 incorrect information hoida te promptly c: led
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RECORD OF 1951
The Vatican newspaper. Osser -
He can point out that Britain already is fighting Communism with troops sprawled across the world.
The new Conservative Prime
Minister can also show that this island's contribution
to
the
and
North Atlantic Treaty Organd sa- biggest is the tion (NATO) outside the United States.
For the three-year, £4,700 000,000 rearmament drive the upkeep of its military force, Britain is spending sume 12 per Thic Polish Communists vent of its national income.
And this drive ix abolished religious holidays.
going for- Churchill The Czechoslovak Communists ward--although Mr
it is abolished Sundays in A new admits
lagging behind schedule while the nation dia econumie calendar. died of heart failure at a meet- not announce the long-awaite The Pope bad a series of carning less than it is spending ng of the Senate this afternoon. Consistory for the appointment | visions al the time he Pin the world's markets. There
Dies In Senate
kutte of Belgium, the Belgian vatore Romano, announced that Pre Minute M. Joseph; dusing the year: Photon so the West German Chanzella, 15e Konrad Adenauer
The Pope named 182 new unit treated a numbe:
Hut he new Diocese:
Cairo, Dec. 31. Egyptian Senator Mohammed Bishops Salem
collapsed and of Chorry
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The Pope proclaimed the Arch- angel Gabriel patron saint of teircommunications.
fore it gets better.
WOULD LIKE AID
:
The latest figule given put 14,000 British troops in Korea Britain has about 8,000 sailors on warship assigned to UN duty waters. A small In Korean number of R.AF. squadrons, mostly based in Japan.
signed to the Korean UN Command -Associated Press.
Rescuers
Found Goings-On
Bagneres De Luteon, Dec. 31.
Two hundred guests In the Grand Hotel at the Pyrenean Tas gani British base sprawls
water sports resort of Super- cut off since Satur- long the canal, and employed Bagneres thousands of Egyptian civilians day, were holding a fog party as workmen to keep it running by candle light when exhausted rescuers Bo through to thern Mos, of the Egyptians quit und Britain has moved in thousands today of extra
The track of British
mally Jes; itreales
terka Army, Royal Air Force and Naval Grand Hotel
in the ares now run action by a Strength
There were from 40,000 upwards. The cost has been tremendous, but Bri-
guests were tist officials decline to give any figures.
food, water o
Rescuers toil
tain to their
iy
- nor-
the
In the Mediterranean, Britain maintains military establish- arrived cold mens at Gibraller, and on the found the guests without elec- Islereds of Malta and Cyprus. | tric light, but
well supplied Mala is the headquarters of the with Mediterranean Naval Command. and R.A.F. Cyprus has Army
units.
Britain also has troops and air basca in the new State of Libya, which becaine independent on Dec. 24. 1 is expected that Britain and Libya will conclude a mittery alliance after Libya elects a new parliament.
food and drink, in the midst of candle light Jestivilles. A snow-plough got through to the hotel today. It is three and a half miles up the moun- Lainside froin Bagneres de Lucon in the Central Pyrenees.
Reuter.
Drought In
Basutoland
This country has close milt- tary ties with two Arab King- doms in the
deste small State of Jordan, Britain main- ta by a grant-in-ald of about
£ 2 000,000
the famed yearly Jordon Arab Legion. This
Johannesburg, Dec. 31. crack Arb) Army is sprinkled Two tons of food are being with British officers, and led by daily flown to Basutoland, which an Engishman, General Glubbs today in the grip of a severe Pasha.
drought--one of the worst in its history
to two al
unseasonable
MALAYA DRAIN
Combined with In Iraq, Britain has treaty rights
bases, the frosts, many acres of crop and timerpal one near Baghdad.
gruzing lands have been reduce To protect the rich Malayan to stretches of parched veldt.
Fred Zunckel, a pilot Federation, Britain is fighting a anising the airlift of food an
ganising bitter battle with Communist-medical supplies, seid
led erroris s
Earlier this month, Mr Churchill tuld the flouse of Commons that it is costing Bri- tain £50,000,000 a year to fight the Malayan Communists.
The Prime Minister said Bri- tain now keeps in Malaya more than 25,000 British troops, 10,000 Gurkhas and 7,000 other soldiers.
"Added to this," Mr Churchill aid, "there are 60,000 local police in different stages of armament and many part time auxillaries."'
or
today
"Conditions in Basutoland are absolutely terrible."
Severe drought conditions also prevailed in many other parts of South Africa-Reuter
WON'T HANDLE POLISH CARGO
New York, Dec. 31. New York duck workers
by the angered
Hungarlen Government's action in fining four American airmen, refuses to unload 2 cargo of Polish hams valued at between $350,- 000 and $400,000.
While Whitehall officials shy The Pope permitted a Ger-
uway from
further talk of man Lutheran clergyman to con-
American dollar loans, they tinue living with his wife efter admit they would like some having been ordained a Catholic | steet and other raw materials.
Stamping out Communism in priest.
They would also like as much
Malaya is a high priority target The Pape ordered the publica- economic aid as they can
get
of Mr Churchill's new Govern-
They can rot in the ship tion of a two-volume report by under
American Mutual
ment. Colonial Secretary Oliver before we will take them out," archaeologists establish- Security Programme.
said. "Why give On
Mr Lyttelton has ju returned from the dockers ing, "with scientific certainty,"
military that the Tomb of the Apostle Churchill Peter had been lund jmme- Truman of Britain's commit-lea diately beneath the High Altar ments in Germany, North Africa of the Basilica of St. Peter and the Mediterranean, the Suez after excavations lasting 10 Canal zone and the Middle East,
Malaya and Korea,
years-Reuter.
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Hongkong also is used as
a States freighter on Saturday.--
transit centre and rest camp for Reuter.
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