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NATO Expecting
Headlights "Ike's" Resignation Danger Any Time Now
ONE of the most interest-
ing replion given to questions raised in Che Budget debate was that f the Hon. Colonial Secretary to the anggestion made by Dr S. N. Chau that the use of headlights in built-
should be U PAN
pro-
hibited. The official attitude
WILS
that,
until
LIKELY TO RETURN HOME
DURING MAY
Washington, Mar. 28.
General Eisenhower's early departure from street Europe is regarded as inevitable by the 14 North lighting has been improved, Atlantic Treaty nations, informed sources re- sider legislative netion reported today.
it in undesirable to cap-
too
one
stricting the use of head- "It now appears to everyone that the General's lights. Many, however, resignation as Supreme Commander is only a ques may consider the original question
tion of when and it probably won't be long," somewhat' limited. What does appeur informant said. to call for official investiga-1 tion and consideration is the indiscriminate
use of blinding headlights
motor roads around the
Peak and in oder Kowloon, Only recently
す car ac-
cident on a Peak road was attributed by the Police to the fact that a driver was
The authorities said that formal Atlantic Paci talks on choosing a successor to General Eisenhower would not begin until he had officially notified Pre- sident Truman that he was leaving. But they said that the treaty powers were already "thinking about the problem on an informal basis.
President Truman on his re-, man to appoint
Established 1845
SATURDAY, MARCH 29," 1952.
BIG SEIZURE OF
Damages For Stenographer
Manchester, Mar. 28.
MISK Jeanne Marion Clayton 20. of Shaving- ton, нед Crew, former shorthand-typist
Was to-
day awarded damages of - £13,267
Avainst Rollu Royds Limited of Crewe,, her former employers,
Min Clayton fell into a
well дн the 11г deseraded upon kêr, caus- ing severe injuries, She pressed the button doors of the lift opener bul on stepping in the lift WAS not there.
The firm were given complete indemnity against Evens Lifts Limited of
had Leicester, who
In- stalled the lift.
16
for
The
case lasted days де Liverpoot and Manchester Awizes and reserved Judgment was given today.-Reuter.
Soldier Sentenced To Death
1 Supreme turn last night from Key West, Commander. II 1ecommended Florida,
that
General General Eisenhower, The Pre- blinded by the headlights to him when he wanted to re-rusly-United Press.
Eisenhower had nat indicated sident agreed dimost simultane- of an oncoming car, and sign. But Administration "in- "In- records would assuredly re-siders" anticipate that the Gen- veal that glaring headlights eral would give his word next have contributed to a num-month
and return home be- Lur of rond accidents in tween May 15 and June 1. This other areas beyond city limits. schedule would give him time victory today when Republicans SHOT AND KILLED They can be particularly to wind up his work and allow dangerous-and-obnoxious-on is successer to be chosen besofthe State of Maine chose a
roads where, given the best possible visual conditions, enreful driving is required if vehicles are to pass in safety.
has
fore he left Europe,
WINS AGAIN
Washington, Mar. 28. General Eisenhower won an- presidential primary
dele- were
delegation. to the Party's. national convention, favouring All signs paint to the selec-him by nine tu five over lica of General
Alfred M. Senator Robert. Taft. Gruenther, General Eisenhower's Deputy, to be the next Supreme Two of the State's 18
gates, Commander.
some of whom said that nominated and others Informed sources
elected E question of whether it
Pentagon
"strongly at Purly conventions in various is more (ir Tess dan- the
faveurs"
the appointment of districts, calmed that they were gerous for cars to show or
But political observers another American General to neutral. extinguish headlights on the post.
predicted that they would other than city roads
SUPPORT ASSURED
swing to Eisenhower before been debuted, for years in Several members of the nightfall.
Affairs Com- the House Foreign many other parts of world. In general, committee have already expressed monsense and courtesy has their
Gruenther. become the guiding rule. In Hongkong, unfortunate- ly, there is na appalling lack of either quality, and It is this which prompts
that the suggestion Authorities should serious-
support
General
A general state convention of the Farly must approve the nominations but this Was expected to be almost auto-
appears matic. The Administration to be jeady to stress the idea that the North Atlantic Treaty About 3,000 Republican sup- Organisation has made enough porters and politicians took progress to permit a change part in the district conventions. the cometind.
This campaign
T
in
is scen in
ly give attention to the plans for the holding of an un-
need for imposing regul- motorists tions by which
President Truman, Queen must abide. Whatever the overhead lighting condi- Juliana of the Netherlands, the of State, Mr Dean tious, n blinded car driver Secretary Acheson,
the Defence and is automatically placed in Secretary, Mr Robert Lovett, jeopardy, and if his vision will speak,
precedented ceremony of Con stitution Hall next Friday, the
RUD anniversary of the treaty,
is being impaired by the Advance word was that the unnecessary se of head-President and his Cabinet mem-
-Reuter.
Police Raid On Reds
Tokyo, Mar. 28. The Police arrested 162
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Maraghi Bey made the statement at a press conference after having told the United Press earlier that martial law would be continued until after the coming elections.
He said at the press conference, in reply to a de- mand by the Wafdists that martial law be lifted, that it was the Wafdists themselves who decreed' military rule on January 26 at the time of the Cairo riots.
He said the Wafdist action was to checkt under- ground elements which sought to disturb order and .security.
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Japanese Token Of
"These reasons still stand," he said. "Martial Jaw is an ceptional and undesirable measure but under the circum- stances it is a necessity, I can- Fayld, Mar. 28.
not nasume responsibility for Corporal Tom Houghton, uting martial law before I am 23-year-old British soldier certain all factors of insecurity who shot and killed an officer have been eliminated." ho had seen dancing with a young Greek typist he knew,mands for the release of politi
cal prisoners and said most of was found guilty of murder those held had been interned by here today.
the-Wafdists. He said there were 433-persons held at present, of-To
He was sexmenced to death by
hanging.
The verdict is subject to con-
3
He turned down Wafdist de-
whom 208
had been interned
by the Waldists on January 20 and 65 by the present govern- ment.
"Any relaxation secing
firmation.
Witnesses had given evidence that Houghton, after Captain Herbert Walter Mason dancing with the girl at birthday party in a cauteen, had stormed through his comp, fring a Sten gun,
Goodwill
Deposit £20 Mill
In London
London, Mar. 29. of security
The British Treasury an- forces under existing conditions
nounced
the today that would expose the state and re- gime to danger," he said. Japanese Government will He also said that the house deposit £20,000,000 with the
leaders, arrest of the Wafdist
Bauk of England for two. Captain Mason, who was said Fund el Din, Pasha and Audei to have ordered Houghton noi Fatish Hassan Pasha, was years as a token of goodwill to see the girl, had seven bullets carried out for security pur-towards the holder of pumped into him after he had pores and he pointed out that Japanese Sterling bonds. Eune to investigate the firing.
of the the wartime Cabinet Dafence
Mustafa counsel, who had Wafdist leader,
el During the two years the asked for verdict of guilty but Nahos
Pasha, had Interned Sterling will be available for insone, had submitted that
theany payments by Japan to many political leaders for
her Houghton, a regular soldier in frame reasons.
creditors, in connection with a the Royal Army Service Corp Maraghi Bey said the holding settlement of her Sterling bond- who comes from Hull, Yorkshire,
of elections under martial law | ed indebtedness, the announce- was a man who had done good would be in accordance with ment added. work and then suddenly
of 1945 and 1950,~~- United Press.
a
lights, it is feeble to suges will emphasise the achieve | Communists today in what into some sort of wild nel the laws
havez's of the Organisation
future plans for strengthening
The
The Bank of England and the Japanese Foreign Exchange Control Leard, will consult to- gether it necessary on the terms
prosecutor, Lieutenant- gest that all would
and is described as Japan's big- Colonel G. McCulloch, said that been well if there had been the alliance against aggression. gest post-war raid on some any delusion
held by Houghton adequate street lighting. The pprn Jent ci a new 2,000 Red hideouts and about his relationship with the Malik Voted which the deposit is held. Compulsory dipping of Supreme Commander is exp:cled clandestine printing plants. "girl in blue or that Captain headlights on the Colony'so follow the same procedure
Mason had taken away the girl Gentral Eisen- well whica Id to subsidiary roads may
The raids were directed chlef- from him could not excuse produce safer conditions for how's solcellen In Desember, drivers. It is at least worth 1950. At that time the Organicy against the Japanese Com-justify the killing.
the experiment.
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The Communist Party is a legal political group in Japan but, subversive publications are not legal-United Press,
GRIEVANCE
0:
Down
New York, Mor, 20. Houghton had nursed EX The UN Disarmament Com "very strong sense of grievance" mission shut off detailed charges against Captain Mason for feday by Russia that the United ordering him to stop steing the States is waging germ warfare giri and Houghton had declared in Korea,
hat settles
mission
territory.
that
birds,
US delegate Benjamin. Cohen protested that such statements were out of order and should be stopped. He was upheld by the
not a clear *" but the Commission as a whole.]
later stage
A Treasury
The proposal to
deposit £20,000,000 came recently from Japan's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister,
Mr Shigeru Yoshida.
spokesman sald that the proposal had been wel- comed by the British Govern- ment, who are expressing their appreciation of the motives
prompted it.
that
munist Party's extensive under- tion's top civilian Council
network of printing animously esked President Tu-ground
and pressca
propaganda dla tribution centres.
Tho main target was the Communist publication "Peace And Independence" which was
after seeing Soviet delegate Jacob A. which n
But he said that today's an- officially suspended today. It Mason dancing with the girl Malik launched into an account was the latest in a series of through the window of the charging in the 12-nation Com-nouncement should not be taken
canteen. newspapers which had suc-
goose as meaning that any negotiation eeeded the original Communists' An Army psychiatrist, feathers, and contaminated food for the settlement of Japanese official organ, the Akahita or Lieutenant-Colonel E. D. Flack, had been dropped to spread prowar debts, had yet taken "Red
Flag
The Akahita was who gave evidence yesterday, epidemiles in Asian Communist place, bunned
NOT IN FORCE by the Occupation was recalled today by the Judge Authorities a week after the Advocate, Mr F. H. Dean. outbreak of the war in Korea.
The peace treaty, which sets. Questioned by Mr Dear, the
out Japan's obligation regarding Houghton wiinces Similar
mid might have only
patchy
her prewar indebtedness, had Into force yet and been turning out a steady stream memory" of the Incident, cer- Commission Chairman, David M. not come of unli-Occupation and subver- tainly
learnt a Johnson of Canada.
Japan was not yet bound by itu sive terature.
Malik challenged the ruling. contents. if he had
Nar-chould it be assumed a crime "In a manine, state."!
rejected his challenge by a vote that the two-year period Houghton
of the psychiatrist
the deposit meant said, might well know that he of 11 to 1 (Russia).
na Malik protested bitterly that settlement was expected within was Bring a Sten gun at various
the action was unprecedented that time. people during a "manino state" Yet he might well not know the had been shut
in UN history. He charged he
was that the The Intention up by, an quality of what he was doing.
£20,000,000 zhould be available. ganised "aggressive bloc.
for use
a settlement Wes "After the episode was finish-
Earller UN General Secretary reached before the end of the ed
I doubted whether. Houghton would have a clear recollection Trygve Lier said he had sent period, the spokesman said.
new messages to Communist of what he was doing in China and North Korca offeringe Sterling will be deposit
as. the necessary maniac period
If he were UN aid in fighting the reported formalities
as soon
have been Com-
com manise.
epidemics.—Associated Press;
pleted. Eres, London's best known "During a maniac period'
Sir Arthur Salter, British person would have no ability to
Minister of State for Economic 'and
Communist Affairs, and in the House of Commons recently that Britain Heavily Fined had told Japon she was interest-
Paris, Mar. 20. ed in as early a start as practle
able to The French National Assembly able negotiations with pre-
creditors, today fined a. Communist woman war Deputy, Mathlido Perl, 70,000
Japan last met her payments francs after she had said that on her Sterling bands lote French soldiers in Korca wers 1041, botore Pearl Harbour and
* dishonour", to the nation, her war with the Allies
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Former Nazi Officials
Due For Dismissal
Bonn, Mar, 28.
Two former Nazi senior officials in the West German Foreign Ministry were today reliably reported to be earmarked for dismissal.
A Perkamentary courte saif | Bangen was Nazi Minister in that the West German Federal Bruscl3 during the war. Chancellor, Dr Kenrad Adtnauer, had and the leaders of
his
Christian Democratic Union that
Dittmann cod Ven Bergen have
both been heard by the Palla-
he would remove D: Herbert tary Special Committee in- Dittmann freat his peet as head vergating press charges that the of the Ministry's Parsennel DeForeign Ministry is a "bastion of partment and Dr Werner Von Bargen from the Legal Depart- meal.
a
D. Dittmann, appointed Per-
13 sonnel chief a year ago,
former caroor diplomat, and a member of the Nazi Party, Ven
Nazidom."
Another
Foreign Service cfcal, Dr Warner Van Grund- Minisice to her, who is now
Athens, is to letify before the Commitee next week, a Parlia- imentary source sald-Reuter.
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