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Textile Crisis
JESTERDAY'S debate in
Y
the House of Commons brought into sharp focus -the-serious—crisis—now threatening Britain's tex- tile industry. Little was said to relieve the gloom. The Bard incts are, that Lancashire IN faced with ever-increasing competi- tion, much of it from coun- tries which previously looked to Britain for their textiles; that exports markets are being closed: and that even home market demands have fallen away. Australia's decision to cut imports naturally #ggra- vates a problem already '' mude grave by other
cirejimstances,
only requires South Africa, New "Zealand und other parts of
the 'Commonwealth follow the Australian lead for Lanenshire and other industrial arens to be intolerable placed in an position. The crisis comes at the worst possible time, with Britai already
11
to
struggling to recover her balance 1 trade and Achievo international solvency. Development of _export_trade_is__the_key_to the solution; without it
Juses half Austerity
itu value.
THE President of the Board THE
of Trade's first proposal for relieving the situation is to stop importing a cer- tain line of grey cloth and encourage the Lancashire milfs to produce the same article for home consump- tion. The measure can only be regarded as short-term and alleviative. In the same category
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Govt. Announces Action For DELIGHTS Burmese
Relieving
2 US Bombers Crash
Albuquerque, Mar. 20.
A B-47 Jet bomber assigned to an atomle test group crashed and burned at Kirtland air base here today and an official spokesman said the accident probably killed the crew of three. The bomber was badly burned.
?
The four-engined plane, rated by the air force as medium bamber, was assigned to the 4925th atamle test group of the Special Weapons Command. It was on a routine training flight.
Eyewitnesses sald the bomber was making its take-off when the crash occurred.--United Press,
Tucso Mar, 20.
The Davis Monthan air force base public Information office sold that a B-29 bomber crashed "and burned on a Cesert near the base today when all men aboard were believed to be dead.
The plane, on a routine mission, was from the 43rd air refuelling squadron.—United Press,
Textile Crisis
IMPORTATION
OF UNPROCESSED CLOTH
TO BE STOPPED
London, Mar. 26.
Britain is to stop importing grey (unprocessed) cloth for the time being as a means to help the Lancashire cotton industry, Mr Peter Thorneycroft, President of the Board of Trade, announced in the House of Commons tonight.
India was the biggest exporter of this cloth to Britain last year with 106,408,000 square yards. Next came Japan with 84,982,000 square yards followed by Germany with 32,-
TUNISIAN MINISTERS 706,000.
MISSING IN PARIS
'Britain. also imported smaller amounts from other Com- monwealth countries besides India and also from Spain, Italy' and Belgium. Š
Mr Thorneycroft made the announcement in a debate called by the Labour Opposition to discuss the
Martial Law Declared In growing unemployment in the textile industry-one
French Protectorate
Paris, Mar. 26.
Two Tunisian Ministers, ordered to put the Protectorate's case for independence before the United Nations Security Council in New York, were missing from their hotel today.
A secretary, who asked that his name be withheld, sald the Tunisian Minister of Justice, Mohammed Asailh ben Youssef, and the Minister for Social Affairs, Moham- med Badra, left the hotel earlier than usual this morni without leaving instructions.
came
1
possibilities
the
member said that there were' 70,000 cotton workers wholly or partially unemployed.
No vote was expected, but Members of Parliament ̄from ̄the ̄textile areas were ́so disturbed by the position that they were prepared to keep the House debating the industry all night to draw attention to the facts.
he
now
to
Tragic, But Heroic Death
Sir Raymond Streat, Chair-Boy Pinned Beneath
Britain has been importing in home buying have added to
cloth because Lancashire its troubles. Bey has not produced enough
man of the Cotton Board, sald satisfy the demand,
that Manchester today, “It understood considerable stocks, the cloth reasonable to turn to the Gov- were
Mr ernment at this moment, when available, the present he did not intend to ments have been made, and de- that for many of the internal adjust- Tharneycroft declared issue any further licences.
mond of them that they attend Opening the debate In
the to their business with the same House
of Commons tonight, Mr realism which the circumstances
are forcing Anthony Greenwood, turning the long-term causes
the business of
the world. British recension in the textile
to
on
industry by the action taken in
Australia, or with our intensely difficult problem of Japanese competition." in-
Blazing Tractor
ITALIANS
Italy victory
Trieste, Mar. 26.
won
major here today when the, Allied military govern.
ment announced that Italian electoral law would. be used for the May 25 cleations In The Anglo- American Zane of Trieste.
The announcement was made by British General Sir John Winterton, Allied- Millary Governor, who last Year described the Italian electoral systent as "not re- presentative"
Italian political parties Jubilant over the parent switch in military Cover nient polley. Thes Interpreted It as the result of the strong protests which the Italian government sent
to
tho Anglo-American powers last week following nationalist riots and de- monstrations here-United Press,
Election Primaries
Eisenhower Wins New Support
Attack Chinese
Troops
Rangoon, Mar, 26. Major military operations have been launched against Chinese Nationalist troops in Burma's eastern frontier, the Prime Minister, U'Nu, said at a Press conference here today.
He said that the operations were the fourth against the Chinese since their entry into Burma in January, 1050,
The Nationalists were led by General Ll MI and Lleut.-
Cheng, he added.
Generalime Minister.
The
DA
grounds of security, would not malto a detailed statement on the
operations At present
In progress but said that he would make a statement later.
The Bumere army had been Issued
standing instructions to fight the Nationalis wherever they were contented, he added.
TA Government statement recently said that the strength of the infiltrating Nalimalis's no dime exceeded 0,000,
at
though unofficial estimates
When
had put the fleure i over 10,000). Washington, Mar. 20.
A ROVING BAND General Dwight Elsen- The Prime Minister said the hower today continued to the Nationalists were not such a dominate the campaigns for mighty mintee as to be beyond the Wisconsin and Nebraska the capacity of Burmese troops.
they Arst entered primary elections next week Burma early in 1950 the though he is not an off-Government could not mount cial candidate in either.
major operations against them because they were pre-occupied with internal rebellions, he surge
said. But since the end of the for the
continued operations had the Nationalists a roving band been going on which had made
Instead of a localites army
Bach me Govemmta, troeps escaped to
The popular General
remarkable
sentiment voters as already evidenced by
arnong
year Republican
his run-away successes
in the
Dustin, Oklahoma, Mar. 26..
Minnesota and New Hampshire A 14-year-old farm boy primaries has created unpro
Richard
Chias and. np,
Indo-
but
re-
who kissed his younger cedented confusion in the ranks operated against them they brother goodbye, ordered of his opponents. him to "get away from me" The Ministers had not return-quire into
Government when And today the General was appeared ed by 3 p.m. GMT, although forming a new Government to
and then "burned to death given a good chance of a pay-vigilance was relaxed, he said. They normally
bock a succeed that of M. Chenik, suggestion uch a pan.
New The Prime Minister sald that without a whimper" be-chological victory in the GMT.
Prince Chadley, who at first industry, said that the principal "We cannot afford to deal in neath a blazing tractor will Jersey prinary on April 15, the Burmese Alr
Force D that Government ́expedites "There are two possibilities," thought he was going to be cause was the development of problems thrust upon the cotton get a hero's funeral today.
any casual manner with the
over the rival Republican can- previous occasion bad bombed military contracts for Bri- said the secretary. They have arrested, said he preferred to the textile industries in other
didate, Senator Robert Taft the Nationalist landing around tish textile manufacturers.
been
arrested or they may have wait for the reaction of the Countries.
at Mong Heat, 50 miles south of These ara aids which Token The necessary pre- French Government to
The voleran presidential cam-Kentung on tho
Every textile producing coun-
the Burma-Thai value, but their cautions."
in latest events
proter- Possess
paigner and isolationist sought in try
bander where they had set up Europe, except Austria effects
be This might mean the Minis- | torate.
to remove his name only can
from the their headquarters. But recon- and Czechoslovakia, had ters have gone into hiding, after "Perhaps Antoine Pinay (the fur-i transito
More
bailot in this clection in order naissance showed that they re- French Premier) the arrest by the French
does not al-creased its total production of reaching m perspective is thorities in Tunis of
all kinds of textiles more than
to avoid what many think will bulit it again within three days. agrec Premier together
on the <X-
be a sure défeat.
The
refuted the decision of the Colton Mohammed
Prime Minister Britain had done. Chenik and three pedincy of the measures waich
But the New Jeracy Supreme statements that it was an air- It was the Bourd
Same outside to mvite experts other top-ranking Ministers. have greatly surprised my
Court Europe.
ruled that this was seip and said that it was a enere from the United States, It would be hard for ben father," he declared,
landing ground-Keuter. India and Japan to join | Youssef and Badru to leave the
Governor Harold Stasson sald Britain in discussions con- country except to return
last night that half his 30 dele-
candidates in the Wiscon gate cerning the problems of Tunisia, the secretary pointed the textile trade in general.out.
Cut-throat competition will,
in the Jong run. benefit
It
emerge
apparent-more fre- quent consultations between
Bi-
General and do not represent
- CRISIS`FLARES UP
spokesman
JAPAN'S SUCCESS
In spite of the tempomry ro-
The story of how Dale Foreman died in an se
the family's form cident on near here was told by his heart- broken 11-year-old brother, "We have from the Government' action
a right to expect | Glendell,
The two brothers were riding a kind do accord with the gravity
on a rotor on Monday when of our difeulles," Sir Raymond the front wheel of the vehicle added.
of
swerved. The vehicle over- He said he believed that they Glendell was thrown cleur but durned and buret inio flames. cession at home, Japan had had were daoing a "cyclical rests-i a fair amount of success in reston" and it was
Richard's
were Icgs
pinned entering the African market,
under the tractor. Mr Greenwood said.
to the French Resident- "That is an indication
passible that
there would ·be a constlerable shortage of goods whon buyers wanted them.-Reuter.
Stalin Was
Absent
and G.
Survivors Of
fire
The long smouldering Tunisian crisis, with its background of NO PASSPORTS
nationalistic demands for more
BOY'S WARNING fo: the autoromy Last month
territory,
said that he was "In Pakistan she has taken
Glendell the French gov-flared up last night when police none of the manufacturing ernment cancelled
our place as the chief producer
beating on the tractor with his their diplo swooped on M. Chenik and the of textile goods," he continued,
coat trying to put out the countries. The whole ques-matic prespurts after they had three other Ministers and flew "We should not forget the
when Richard made him stop. tion of meeting the world's applied to the United States them
out of Tunis to Kebili, Yoshida - Dulles agreement,
"He said to kiss him
good- textiles Embassy for US visas. demanda for
east of the port of Gabes.
which was not only a grave
bye and I did." Glendell said. requires to be rationalised. Meanwhile, Mohammed Mas- Arrested with M. Chenik, who diplomatic rebuff to this coun
"Then he told me to get away. is conceivable that|moudi, president in Paris of the a leader of the Nationalist try but which may in the long
He kept telling me to get away extremely helpful resulta Tunisian Nas-Desour Pary, Neu-Destour Party, were the run have a disastrous effect on
from him and that the gasoline could
the ¦ Issued a statement in which he Minister
tanks from
of State, Materi, the this country's economie strue-
would blow up. conference which the Cotton said France's drastic measures Health Minister. Ben Salem, and ture,"
A motorist stopped at the "must have been taken on the the Commerce Minister, Manli.
Moscow, Mar, 26.,
accident scene and frantically "India has expanded her textile Board Board proposes,
Initiative of the Resident- A French Foreign Office output enormously," Mr Green-
Marshal Stalin was not present
tried to
to lift
the burning tractor said in Paris to- nigh! that France wou'd submit wood added. "New mills are be-with other members of the Poll:- from Richard's legs with a car
ing set up. She is establishing her of the Russian Federated Re-It off
bureau when the Supreme Soviet Jack. Neighbours finally prized YET another requirement deliberate polley". "As the French
far-reaching and detailed pro- own textile machine industry government an
off with fence posts. has not yet stated the final | Porals
for reforms in Tunisia with the advice of British firms public opened its session in the
But Richard,
a sixth grade the Commonwealth nations will maintain cur present stand. he willing to collaborate with India can do to
word,
student and the son of Mr and as soon as the Bey had appoint- and I don't think any one of us Grand Kremlin Palace tonight. "said the statement, "we ed a new Premler who would
Mrs
fichard Foreman, was al- The degree of self-
would begrudge
Among the Politbureau mem-ready dead. the tre sufficiency within the All one can say is that the pre-
bers present were the Deputy "He died without a whimper", Imendous Commonwealth has still to risks a certain huge gulf be-:
sen; state of affairs In, Tunisia France,
problem of poverty Promiers Vyacheslav Molotov, Glendell said. There proposals go as far as which she has to face. India is it is possible be explored and exploited.tween Tunlan and France."
M. to meet
Funeral services will be held the making progress and the amount venly Berla The
Matenicov. future of British
sure Tunisian demands for internal of raw cotton India is going to Masmoudi sald he was
e: Durlin's Mahodist Church-- textile industries is not the hs: statement faithfully repre- self-government," he said.
consume this year is twice As Stalin, who was 72 years old United Press. only interest at stake. The sented he thoughts of Youssef The French Goverment de- much as the average consung-last December, attended the last needs of the day call for Ind Badra, "of whom we heard cided at a Cabinet meeting on tion of raw cotton in this country session of the Supreme Soviet of
no news since this morning," the state of siege measures but over the last three years of the' in April, 1951,
the Russian Federated Republic development in Many United Press. directions. One commenta-
General the details, such as enormous extent to which India tor has observed that the
His last public appearance was Collision Rescued the timing of the operation, the has entered into the cotton et a mecding of Soviet leaders, in aim should be to expand,
spokesman declared,
markets of the world."
Moscow's Bolshoi Theatro In not contract: to develop,
Bombay, Mar. 20. Mr Greenwood hoped that the January 21 last to mark are no longer prepared
the Thirteen Persians who sur. not reduce. And it la sug- descended on the French pro- on our
An Iron-eled military regime to let Tunisian extremiste tread Government would be able to 28th anniversary of Lenin's vived the sinking of their sall- gested that this might very tectorate of Tunisia today as the France
toes. The fact that to tell the House what were the death
Ing craft off Karachi last Satur- remained inactive well bo accomplished if the Army
In prospects of selling textiles bo- Commander, General Tunisia for about three months, hud the Iron Curtain, Commonwealth and
the Pierre Garbay, proclaimed mar- partly owing to the French Empire were to mast it tial law throughout the territory political · crisis,
led the
ex other considerable outlet for of the USSR Reuter. conference to weigh up and ordered the death penalty tremists to the belief that France British exports the backward anacts and consider how to for breaches of security.
was too weak to act."
areas which would beneåt · from make full use of them; }
FRANCE DETERMINED
application" of A news blackout, which was
"an enthusiastic the Colombo Plan. Development of Common-clamped down after the arrest of
"We hope that the Tuntalan
Bey, who Prime Minister, has been. wealth resources for mutual} the Tun
A BENIOUS CILISIS exposed to Great deal
Cotton Mohamed
Meanwhile, Britain's exchange may prove to be his Ministers last night, was lift-now realise that France
Chenik, and three of of
nationalist pressure, will Board said in Manchester today the most beneficial long-ed late today.
15 that
It had invited United determined term solution to tho Tunis was calm and no dis- will, therefore, make the sight on experts to Britain to discuss piracy in the Far East had in-
to act strimly and states, Indian and Japanese cot- manifold economic, Indus- turbanceB have been reported
moves to reopen Franco- 'trial and financial__ prob- from other parts of the country,
nco-collon textile trade problems,
the lems now besetting. Britain The dusk to dawn' curfew still ok
The Board, a Government-reased and the British Navy was doing everything possible
Tokyo, Mar, 23. and her sister States.
spokesman “added, remained in force,
appointed co-ordinating
Forty-four workers suffered group to protect shipping. that for the cotton Industry, sald Commander S. H. P. Noble
injucles when A staircase asicsd the foreign told a questioner in the Com- Nakagoshi spinning factory in to than it had
collapsed in a dormitory of A ing from nationalists to Com- members of the Neo-Destour textile Industries to send
mons-today that British ships Cheese Ration Cut unista, have been detained by belonging to a new Tunisian delegates to a conference in had been instructed to protect
Pefecture yesterday the authoritles, in Tunisia)... Cabinet but they should not be September
afternoon.. M. dePeyuter, Principal.
at the Chonik Cabinet..
Some interested European merchant shipping.
"There has
The wooden staircase, it was boen zome In Chonik Cabinet showed countries Secretary of tha.
may also be repre- eren in piracy" he said, "but reported, "gave way under the Raten-General Count Jean ill-will. I was unable to main-cented.
although the war in Korea has weight of some 300.workers who de Haut cloque, today called on tain order. It did nothing to
The British cotton industry is strained our naval forces to the had rushed downstairs im- Prince Chadley Boy, con of the lessen the
tension
and eine facing a serious crisis. Cancella limit, we are doing everything mediately following a union.
ordors, we can to protect shipping." meeting to se amavis per- 70-year-old Bey of Tunis, Sidi remained administratively total- tion of Australian Mohammed Al-Amin, to In-ly immotive," he added. Res. Japanese competition and a fall United Prem.
Loridon, Mar. 28. Britons were told on Wednes. day night that their, cheese ration will go down from one and a half ounces a week to one ounce from April 20, Reutor.
MILITARYTM KEGIME
Tunis, Mar. 28.
"We
Tunisian negotiations,"
(According to informed cunt-NEA DIPAmanzald
would not object
fera in Paris, 600 people, rung-
French
The Russian Federated Republic day after a collision with the
He said that there was an- the biggest of the 18 Repubiles S
by
Italian
freighter were brought here to
freighter. The
the
survivors, who are being looked after by the Persian Con- Jost cash and personal belong→ ings.-Reuter.
Navy Protection sulate here, said that they had
For Shipping
Londen. Mar. 26.
It was announce today that
STAIRS COLLAPSE
Toyama
wimble.
sin primary on Tuesday would support General Eisenhower an the first ballot at the Chicago nominating convention on July
University Blaze
Tokyo, Mar. 28. Eight persons were injured In a fire which razed a dormitory and three other buildings at
Ar Observers saw the unprece. Chiba University
Imba dented move as an open bid for County, Chiba Prefecture, to- votes from Gersonal Bluzchower | day, "fans". It implied an acknow-
pollee attributed the ledgement of álmost certain de- } cause of the fire to cooking care- feat for Mr Stassen's candidacy lesmess and the damage was in the Republican nominating estimated at seven million yes. convention.--Reuter,
-Reuter,
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