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EGYPT CELEBRATES SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith LEGAL BATTLE
BIRTH OF SON AND HEIR TO FAROUK
Cairo, Jan, 16.
Egypt celebrated with artillery salutes and popular demonstrations all day the birth of a son and heir to King Farouk and his young Queen, Narriman.
The 31-year-old monarch proudly instructed his government to announce to "both parts of the Nile Valley, North and South, and to the rest of the world, the birth of Crown Prince Ahmed Fuad."
General Percival
Looks Back
On Malaya
London, Jan. 16. Li-Gen. A. E. Percival sald Sir Gerald today that General Tampler's
appointment Supreme Commander In Malaya confirmed
as
the views the ex-
He named his first son afier
his own father, the late King Fuad, and gave him his
Litle when he was
own
Crown Prince, Amir el Said (Prince of Sald). Said is that part of Egypt south of Calro.
The baby
prince has three
half-sisters. Princesses Peria: 13. Fawzio, 11 and Fadia. B, born to the King and former Queen Farida whom Farouk divorced
in November 1948 after she failed to give him an heir. By Constitution,
only succeeds to the Throne.
A
malc
This was the King's Mini child by the beauteous 18-year- old Narriman, daughter of an Egyptian civil
servant, whom Farouk married last May 6.
Artillery batteries
fired 101-
pressed ten years ago when Bri-gun salutes upon receiving word
lain was fighting a losing battle against the Japanese.
The 66-year-old General, who surrendered Singapore to the Japanese General Yamashita on February 15, 1942, was slightly quizzica) when asked to give an opinion on the appointment. the Malaya campaign of 1942, difficulties Brose from the compileated machinery of gov ernment, comprising as it did large number of separate ad- ministrations. Now, afler ten years, this is a matter which is at least receiving the attention of the British government.
"fre bound to record that. as a result of my experiences in Malaya, that the fighting ser- vices suffered from this lack of and centralised ud- ministration able and ready to take prompt decisions and vigorous action," said General Percival-United Press.
Bickerings Postpone Crucial Talks
Paris, Jan. 16.
European bickerings which have frustrated agreement on rearmament and the formation of a united six- nation continental defence force resulted today in a
of the birth of the Prince both
sunset. In the morning and
A national holiday was pro- claimed. Schools throughout the country were ordered closed for two days.
The Cabinet, In a series of decrees, ordered the distribution of free meat, cotton cloth. cigarettes and candy to thou- sands of poor, and a gift of £10 (US$28.70) to each child born in Egypt on Wednesday and free clothes to their mothers.
To further honour occasion, the Cabinet created three scholarships at Egyptian universities and ordered two
the
special centres, to be named after the new Prince, 10 be established in Cairo and Khartoum, capital of the Sudad
It also allocated $86,000 for relief of families of "martyrs who fell in the Canal riots." The Egyptian press proclaimed the tidings as a happy sugury the increasingly bloody dispute with Britain over continued British occupation of the Canal Zone and joint rule of the Sudan
A British-born nurse, Sister Anne Chermside, formerly of Bristol, helped to deliver the baby, which weighed 7lbs 7 ozs. She has worked at the Palace for more than eight Associated Press and Reuter.
years.
GIN. THẬT BY WEA HEROE, PHE. T.MFEE U. B PAT. OFF
"Cut the griping!
gulhartt
0-15
Do you want your mother to follow you around to do your cooking?"
US Planning New Disarmament
Proposals To UN
Paris, Jan. 16.
The United States announced today it will have important new proposals to make to the
CicaCola
ON DEATH
PENALTY IN HONGKONG
Crown Argues That Authority Cannot
Be Enquired Into
Arguments by the Crown were continued be. fore the Full Court this morning on the legal issue of whether or not Section 116 A (1) of the Emer- gency Regulations, which carries the death penalty for unlawful possession of hand grenades, bombs or mines, is ultra vires, null and void.
The hearing is before the Chief Justice (Sir Gerard Howe), Mr Justice Gould and Mr Justice Scholes.
non-disallowance
Mr Brook A. Bernacchi, In- towance and structed by Wilkinson and of an Ordinance. Grist, is appearing for To Lam- sin, 25, indicted for possession Counsel proceeded to elte au- of four hand grenades in con- nection with the robbery at the Sin Hue Bank in Marina House last September.
Living Language
Why
we
curry favour.
say To
This phrase has 4 long and tangled his- tory. "Curry" comes from two words, the Latin "cum" meaning with, and the old French "roi" meaning array. The French word
“fauve" means fawn
chestnut- coloured, and the name "Favell" was often given to a horse. “To curry favour" was therefore to dress
rub references
thorities one of his being the Chinese Extradition Ordinance contained in a case reported in 3 Hongkong Law Reports.
The Hon G. E. Strickland, KC (Aeling Attorney General), who Mr
that Mi Reynolds said addressed the Court for several Bernacchi had quoted a case hours yesterday in reply to points which he said was binding on raised by Mr Bernacchi,
con- the Court to say that it could cluded his submissions this draw an analogy between it and morning Immediately after the present case with regard to which Mr J. Reynolds (Acting the power of non-disallowance. Solicitor-General} continued He submitted that no analogy with another aspect ΟΣ the could be drawn because the Crown's case.
power of disallowance in that
was not given
legis
ог
New Battle
Jacket To
Stop Bullets
A new
Washington, Jan. 16.
cloth battle jacket which has stopped 45 calibre bullets at point blank ratige will be tested by combat troops in Korea, the Army said today. The new jacket is made of laminated nylon. It contains no
motal
Toughness results from many layers of durable nylon, one atop the other
The sleeveless
garment reaches only to the waist and weighs eight pounds.
In Army tests, the jacket zo- sisted a .45 calibre bullet at point blank range, stopped prae- tically all fragments from grenade bursting three feet away and stopped 75 per cent of the fragments from a mortar burst at a distance of 10 feet.
The Army said the new jacket may reduce the battle casualties considerably the
and protect body areas shown by Korean battle studles to be most susceptible to serious wounds.
down a horse, However, the phrase also began to mean “to flatter" because of a confusion with Latin "fabula,” a tall story, and "to curry fabulo" was to dress up a lot of flattery in favour of the person you wanted to please,
Mr Strickland said that in the fative body it all and certainly BID TO
not given to a sovereign legis- It was quite obvious, he
FORM NEW
absence of any allegation of bad faith and there could be none lature. and no ground tor such satd, that a local council could allegation the Court could not not make by-laws contrary to possibly enquire into the ques- the laws of the land and be ton of any grounda for
submitted that the case quoted remade by the Governor by Mr Bernacch! had ne applica- CABINET in-Council and would
have to
United Nations Disarmament Commission when it come to the conclusion that a
state of begins its work.
emergency existed. The authorities cited, said M: Strokland, proved that the na- ture of the discretion to vested could not be enquired into by the Courts.
The US delegate, Mr Ernest A. Gross made this announce ment 11 a speech urging the UN Political Committee to send the new Russian atomic proposals to the Disarmament Commission. He did not specify what the new U.S. proposals would be.
Czechs Recall
Last Jew In A Top Post
A spokesman
said the pro- be contained in posals would the first of
series of papers on alumic control and conven- Czechoslovakia tional arms which the U.S. will present to the commission. The new group must start its work before February 10, probably
Vienna, Jan. 16.
today Anw nounced the recall of Its Am- bassador to Rustla, the last re- maining Jew in a top Czech government
post, Party
The official Czech Communist In his speech, Mr Gross also newspaper Rude Pravo said that the Soviet Foreign Karel Kreibich, 68, left Moscow ealled
in New York.
On
or
on to the present case.
COUNSEL'S REPLY
Parta, Jan, 16.
The Army sald 1,400 of the Jackets will be sent to Korea within the next few weeks for issue to a regiment of combat infantry troops. The jacket is still in the development stage and is not available for issue to troops except for test purposes. -United Press.
Salvation Army Leader “Distressed"
London, Jan. 16.
The Radical Socialist leader, Mr Bernacchi said that with- Edgar Faure, tonight accepted out meaning any derogation from President Vincent Auriol's in- the careful analysis and argu-vitation to go before the Na- Mrs Mary Bramwell Booth, ment of the Attorney General, lonal Assembly and ask its sup-daughter of the famous General he submitted that the words in port in forming
Booth and leader of the Salva- government. The Attorney General sub-
the dissenting Judginent of mitted that it was clear in the Lord Atitin, in
decision, which tion Army, is “distressed" about case which Mr followed four days of exhaus- the methods of teaching sex Ordnance that the Court could Strickland quoted, applied very
talks with the leaders of all matters to children, advocated
Faure's
Live
not possibly hold that a pre-much when one started talking parties except the Communists, by some modern educationists in clamation was a necessary pre-about things that were subjec-game despite his failure to get Britain,
cedent to the Order.
LEGAL ADVICE
Mr Reynolds said submission which he would
tive and
positive assurance of support When from
of
objective.
by In an article published the powerful Attorney Mr Strickland, in conclusion, the
Socialist the General first
journal of the British Party said that the recital
what
Association, be Con-
Magistrates' contained propounded
she It meant that the 43-year-old says that children of 10 are too was the the words "In exercise of powers sidered
general law "Traditionalist" is now officially young for this instruction. conferred on, etc" and that in-applicable to this question charged with the task of forming dicated that the
She felt most strongly that sex Governor did recital in a regulation of this a government the first of six teaching should never be given consider all the circumstances nature, be found himself large- men invited by President Auriol to children in groups and added: before making the Order. Communist
As he under to reach that point, in agreement. ly in stood
"This must inevitably result him to say, it was that It is the closest any one has in where the
destroying modesty, one of matter was wholly
Day jyet come to solving the crisis the most powerful safeguards of subjective the doctrine of reason which has left France without a youth, that the able intentment
which is rarely was generally govemment at a time when top developed at ten in the
fully majority in-on Western European of the Emergency Regulations
defence To speak of sex in a school Ordinance was ultra vires the ferred but must be shown on the are only a month away.
Faure
class, with the playground walt- will go before the ing for the crowd to powers of the local legislature face of a document to exist. It
seemned as such,
they that
were consider Assembly at His Majesty
at 3 pm. tomorrow and talk together is, I am sure,, The King had assented to it and had not
ing rather different subjective in an attempt to get the neces-
most hurtful." exercised his power of disallow and objective things. Mr Bersary constitutiorial
nacchi
majority
This well-known when which would give him the go Army leader, herself the mother went on, because
Salvation ance. The enabling Ordinance
in 1922 and it hadne listened further to the argu- ahead to form a cabinet-United of seven children continued; was ended twice since and tive matter that was referred to
meats the subjective and objec Press.
itter
222 Snowbound Minister, Mr Vyabinsky, 10 knee by train for Progue on January make was that even if section 2 was objective it could not be the bevel International conferences of children.
Passengers
two weeks' postponement of Rescued
the crucial Lisbon meeting of the North Atlantic Council.
San Francisco, Jan. 16. Rescuers today broke through people aboard the
France requested the delay in to the 222 an attempt to rally its partners train "City of San Francisco" behind a draft treaty agreement! snow-bound
in tibe Sierra on a European Army for Gen-mountains since Sunday. eral Dwight Eisenhower.
The evacuation of the pas- France had hoped to present sengers began immediately and
the Lisbon was a concrete plan to
completed some hours meeting.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and President of NATO Council.
train.
A
hands off the Korean Aruce He was seen off talks now going on at the front station by the Russian chief of Mr Gross declared the talks protocol and other senior off- have slowed since Vyshinsky cials, indicating that his recall first referred to them here, and was permanent. added:
la recent months, most Jews in top Czech government and "If there is relationship Party jobs have disappeared ur between these two facts, then been arrested.
been silence by the Soviet delegate Mr Kreibich's recall had been both occasions
notified in were might constitute a positive con- anticipated by observers since the Government Gazette, the self and not of the subject matter was that of the consideration it- tribution to the end of the the arrest
of Rudolf Siansky, last being dated August 8,
8, 1050. fighting in Korea,"
Jewish ex-secretary-general of The legal advisers to the King of the consideration, the Czech Communist Party. Ap-had therefore considered this pointed to the Moscow post in Ordinance on no less than three
occasions and on
the last two 1950, Mr Kreibich was known że
in an intimate of the former Party occasions they considered it chief.
respect of amendments made to The Ambassador's
return section 2 which Mr Bernacchi Gustav now sald was ultra vires, Mr
Reynolds added
The American delegate also probed to find whether Mr Vyshinsky's new proposals were
step backward
or a step forward.
"a
after
Ister. The postponement was made State highway crews broke He said the Political Com-came shortly known in a brief announcement through with a snow ploughmittee was hardly the place for Bares, former deputy secretary- by Mr Lester Pearson, Canadian to a pout within several hun- a full discussion of the plan general and
also Jew, was dred yards of the marooned and it should be thoroughly relieved of all Party duties, studied by the Disarmament Bares is believed slated for He said that the Lisbon con-
Test ference had been held over frem pick-up trucks are standing by
private cars and two Commission.
arrest shortly if he 15 not February 2 to February 16,
But, he added, it would be already in gaol-United Press. waiting for the snow plough to The French and
Belgian make its four-mile return trip Soviet
useful to know just what the Government crises are contri- ; from
Union visualised the train to widen the "simultaneous" outlawing buting factors in the delay. But road which
now only permits
the larger lasue was the quarrel one-way traffic-United Press, which has developed between
the larger and smaller NATO
member nations over the pay- Teeth Extraction
mant for the proposed European army
and the surrender of Sovereignty to 40 authority-United Press.
overall
By Mistake!
UN And Sudan has been asred to withhold £11
Plebiscite
"Paris, Jan, 16.
A
by
of
Taft Claims
Strong Support
the atomic bomb and placing into effect international atomic control.-Associated Press.
| Franco-Churchill Taft of Ohio claimed strong Re-
Meeting Urged
Madrid, Jan. 16.
Committee
| support today in their bid for a
CRUX OF MATTER
The crux of the matter, he said, was that where a particular person was given the power to decide a particular matter, his decision was not open to review by the Courts except in the case of fraud.
assemble
"Teaching of sex to young children in the United States. has been tried with most evil results, and the policy there is
changed"
Junk Caught With being
Petrol
Pleading
"From
my experience wit my own chlidren, and with thousands of young women when I initiated and controlled guilty to four the women's social work of the charges of failing to take out a Salvation Army, I am more than licence for his motor junk, being ever positive that the family is underway without a certificated the place for the teaching and engineer, carrying dangerous training of young children." goods and leaving port without Reuter.. considered
the clearance papers, Li Yip, 40, was necessity for a Aned a total of $487 by Mr T. B. question of & recital or no recital, one had to Low at the Marine Court this New different types of matters, which consider that trere were two
could be the subject matter of of the known exercise of a decision, Mr Bernacchi said. route to Chinese territory, was
The decision might
intercepted in Sai Kung Her be the Crown's power of dis-jective one, that was to say, a left Aberdeen the same day and
a sub-
bour on Tuesday afternoon. Ke allowance of an Ordinance which decision that it was necessary
There was no doubt that the power of the local legislature to legislate was to some extent limited as was indicated by the Attorney General but what he Reynolds) wished their dships to consider was the
(Mr
When
one
morning.
Defendant, who said he was en
is ultra vires the powers of the to intern a plaintiff, a deci on board his boat were found 70 local legislature as such. Thesion Crown's right of disallowanco
Wwg death particular gallons of petrol.
war.
San Francisco, Jan. 18. Backers of Senator Robert A.
was not an executive act; it was regulation was desirable for the
due
prosecution of publican National
a legislative act,
Equally well, a decision might In some respects the power be an objective one, that was to
say, of dlaallowance was the same a decision, as here, that a as that of repeal of an Ordinance. state of emergency existed, submission that it was clearly quoted that the employment In a legislative Bet, CROWN MAY
Radio Hongkong
HIST.
The belief that Britain would | Paignt manager, told a news con. Even then, he said, It was hir/decision as in the ease of a case Programme Summary: 6.02, IVE |
London, Jan. 16. Britain's Ministry
quick presidential nomination of Health
victory in Chicago next July,
Mr David Ingalls, Taft cam- from Birmingham denilst who "by mistake extracted 28
eventually understand the pre-National Committee's meeting ference on the eve of the of a woman's teath Instead of 18,"
bent rapprochement between A report by the Birmingham the United States and Spain was that he believes Tort has enough
to up win the member of the Sudanese Council of the National Health expressed today by the Duke votes lined
on the first or delegation, now in Paris, today Service sild that, the denilai Primo de Rivers, Spanish nomination
showed groom, negligence in his Ambassador to the Court of St. second ballot Associated Press record keeping, th
Jamor. contends that On the eve of his return the patient for Mrs N. spending
INTELLIGENCE TEST SOLUTION entered his post in London after when
Christmas holidays Want Teaching is wron Manca parker megleithrom other and that she made no bary, the Ambassador had warmers of Shree, Doluran, le comment when the addressed words of praise for the courage
Estion, ons CMA SVI B ber by the other woman's name, and deep political knowledza.or Real) equally likety One
the British people. He supported the hops that an interview
WK-hich againya are between Général : Evaried and direALUM IN GASTROM * Churchill raight be arranged
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sold the press he had asked Home "friendly delegations to loke up in the United Nationa
the question of Holding
plablacite in Sudin."
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