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CHINA'S formal_rojection of the Indian truce plan for Korea which has been cubled to the President of the United Nations General Assembly is the_final_aigu that the Peking Government hus bowed to the dictates of Soviet Russin, at the same time selling outright her title to Independence of thought and action, But Peking's decision is some- thing more than turfing down proposal conceived by India; the Chinese Commu- nists are also disregarding the combined views of members
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Conditions In East Africa
Kenya's New Emergency Regulations
Nairobi, Dec. 16,
New emergency powers
The official Gazette said the
to seize land or buildings in the interest of public safety wore today put into the of the United hands of
the provincial Nations Organisation, who, commissioners of Kenya. after long and careful study of the Indian plan, and Kenya has live provinces and applying to It revisions one extra provincial district which it was believed would covering the territory of the meet certain Chinese objec- Masal tribes. tions expressed' the convic tion that the proposals could regulations were also designed should be accepted to ensure the maintenance of honourably by both sides. supplies and services essential The votes of those 45 mem- to the life of the community. bers of the United Nations A state of emergency IV#3 the colony on represent
world declared in
A party of Kikuyu armed desires an end to hostilities
swords attacked in Korea, In ignoring this with short
police who surprised them in a fact, the Chinese Commu- dawn raid in the Thomsons nists are. denying realities,Falls aren today.
and
п
Маля
opinion, which sincerely October 20.
At Fort Hall, three Kikuyu
MR LYTTELTON Europe Has A Govt. Pays
ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENTS
London, Dec. 16. ...
The British Colonial Secretary, Mr Oliver Lyttelton, tonight named a young Tanganyika Chief among five men, who will study how to im prove the East Africans lot,
He announced appointments to the Royal- Commission which was to visit East Africa in a House of Commons speech defending his handling. of the Mau Mau terror in Kenya against Labour attacks.
The African member of the Commission will be Chief Kidaha Makwir, former Oxford student, who last year became the first African ever to serve on the Tanganyika Executive Council, the territory's highest constitutional authority under the British Governor.
The four other Commission members named to- night were: Sir Frank Sykes, agricultural expert, Mr Arthur Gaitskell, brother, of the former Labour Chan-“ cellor of the Exchequer and an expert on plantation in-
Mr Lyttelton suld he
វររ secking other members."
and also giving the He direct One Kikuyu was shot in the dustry, Mr Rowland Skeffington Hudson, former to their oft-repeated claim leg and four others were ar-Secretary for Native Affairs in Northern Rhodesia, and that they are solely concerned rested.
of Professor G. T. Jack of Durham University, a specialist In a rald 30 miles north with peace. The rejection
arrested 76 in industrial relations. of the United Nations Nakuru, Police"
Africans after surprising i Mau Assembly resolution on the Mau
oath-taking ceremony. Indian truce plan is the yesterday afternoon police sur gravest step, the Peking rounded in African pention at Government has taken since Nanyuki and detained 20 people it entered, without cause or on minor charges. justification, the Korean war. It flaunts world
expedicney, and so long as the attitude is maintained, It slams tightly shut the door to any further negotia tions aimed at ending the Korea conflict. Russia's before UN arguments against the Indian proposals have been thoroughly dis- credited, and the Poking
Spell Of Bad Weather
London, Dec. 16. Buowstorms and', rain, which have swept Europe for two days, have taken toll of life and property in many countries.
Mr A Guy, aged 89. slipped in the courtyard of his home during the height of a storm at St. Germain. No one heard his cries bes cause of the high winds, Ito died in hospital today.
In Bordeaux, floods fareed two families from their homes...
In Corsica all telephones were out of action. In southern and central Italy aled. three people have several have been injured in collapsing houses and many have been forced to fice from their homes after a day of heavy rainstorms.
Beater.
Progress In Oil Talks
Tribute
To Duchess
Of Kent
(Our Own Correspondent)
London, Dec. 16.
The Duchen of Kent was guest of honour at' a Juncheon given at Mansion House today by the Secre- tary of State for Colonial Affairs, Mr Oliver Lyttel- ton, to welcome her back from her tour of Southeast Asia.
Hundreds of City workers lined the roads leading to Man- sion House to cheer the Duchess and the other guests , as they arrived, and a dotachment from the Royal West Kent Regiment formed a guard of honour out- side
Mansion House.
Among the many distinguish- ed
guests who attended, the luncheon wero Mr and Mrs Winston Churchill, members of tho Government, the Lord Mayor of London, Sir Rupert de
the la Berc,
Archbishop of Canterbury, the Commonwealth High Commissioners, the Sultan and Sultanah of Johore and Mr Clement Attlee Loader of the Opposition.
10
Speeches by the Duchess' and Mr Lyttelton were broadcast by
reel cameramen.
New Approach To the BBC and filmed by news-
Mossadegh Likely
*** Paris, Dec, 10:
NATION'S GRATITUDE Mr Lyyttelton said he spoke flon every.... man.4.woman, and chila in-the country In welcom- Duchess home - and ex-
A Royal Navy helicopter rescued four men of the crew of a Danish torpedo, boat, the Iavorment, which wont agrand on Scroby Sandbanks, three miles off Great Yarmouth, ré- cently, The men were taken off two at a time by the helicopter. Nine more of tho orew. had been taken off by the Caister Ilfeboat, This picture shows how air/sea resona is affected with the use of helicopters, London Express..
Man Given Driver's Test To Operate Lawnmower
London, Dec, 16,
opinion merely for political hard labour and 24 cuts with Improve East Africans' ` Uving affected and hoped to gain the Anglo-American. discusing the the nation's gratitude Commons today that a conscientious Briton was given &
six
Reuter.
Mast
money and on
Its
oll deadlock have made pro- for the way in carried her
had
thought our utic
she showed in
A government spokesman admitted in the House of
&
A
After
The Chairman of the Com-, non-Africans by violent means, mission is Sir Hugh Dow, who with no thought for the result
of the African has a long experience of the ing anarchy.
people of Kenya." Indian Civil Service.
Mary Kikuyus had, with great bravery and determination and The Commission's Jask will persistence, resisted this move- were sentenced to ten-years be 10
To investigato measures 10. ment but many othung" were
the cane for assault and come standard in view of the con- ends by a campaign of organised
sions here...on the Persian pressing pelling the taking of the Mau gestion of population. In some tourorian,
MUCH ALREADY DONE Mau oath. Seven others were
Mr James Griffiths, former The Government of Kenya gress and may lead to a new
When
But, Bald Conservative Joseph Braithwaite of the sentenced to seven years hard places. labour for compelling Mau Mau
Colonial Secretary, moved the bad already done much in try approach to the Persian saw the programme which she Transport Ministry, the whole incident was, the result of oath taking,
motion whiching to improve the social and The arrest
"Socialist bureaucracy" created by the former Labour was reported to Labour Party day of
of another Kikuyu in con-affirmed support for lawful ac-economic conditions of Africans, Prime Minister, Dr Moham-underlook and fulfilled that we med Mossadegh, an authori-and the territories were making Mau Mau, he said... of lan to suppress the
call the murder
upon her government. Expressed nection with
oncern about Those attempts would con- tative British source said to great a
strength
health," he and her
"L" plate H. Meiklejohnout
Labourite Norman Dodds had llcence- big red. Commander I.
tinue but if, through the emerhore tonight. collective punishment methods.
said. a month ago.
Mr Lyttelton contluued, amid asked why a Mr Frank Wass of which has to be laplayed until Mombasa's first
The talks have centred on Every step must be taken to geney's calls on Mau Mau
was given the driver's test is finally passed. Government, by aligning it- trial ended today when prison prevent the struggle becoming time, there was any decrease in
framework of the Churchill proved to be wrong is matched motorist's driving test for a
After a burst of loud laughter self with the Soviets, in the sentences ranging from one to or even appearing to become them, it would be entirely in finding a solution within the applause: "Our relief that this Gainsborough
and voluntarily.
to Intention Truman appeal last August to the only by our gratitude for the hand-operated lawnmower and
free both sides of the House, Mr. face of majority opinion,
had years were passed on 10 struggle between white
The government's
and energy
display and why black, he said.
Braithwaite salf it wasn't becomes discredited. Kikuyu, two of them women. also
"L" plate on the mower Bir Griffiths urged that leaders was the opposite. It should notersian Prime Minister, possibly enthusiasm
possible to calculate the cost of The lenders of Communist This was the first Mau Mauir. races in Kenya come be thought that there was a by marketing Persian oil through serenity which China have forfelted the case in the coast area of Kenya, of all
Iranian Oll Company,
forgive me if I say that when I Mr Braithwaite explained that 300 miles from together in a roundtable con- divergence of opinion between / Companies other than the Anglo- } carrying it out-1-hope she wiuntli-he-passed-the-test Wass' tosh, but he "was, Fura”it-
Kenya's government and ference. respect of the free world by which is over
The talks here, opened by the had the honour of meeting her Mr Wass apparently thought he wasn't very much. main trouble spots.
Mr
more loud laughter, Lyttelton
an Europeans.in moved their rejection of honourable tho
feel confident that when United States Secretary of State, laf the airport she had more the nexxied the licence to operate
Me" Dean Acheson, and the appearance of one who has had his lawnmower along the grass Dodds asked Braithwaite what amendment to delete the critica truce proposals.
Life British Foreign Secretary, Mr a rest than of someone who had roadside in front of his house action he proposed to take "o passages from the Labour motion the violence is overcome,
perfiaps the most
so appiled for a examines antica." "The Govern can be made safe both, in the Anthony Eden, who are in Paris undertaken
and so
test. and substitute:
see that solely is rid of such On October 31 ment of Kenya should continue Kikuyu reserves and on the for the North Atlantic Council exhausting tour that could be
Frederick Ainsworth drove overM: Braithwaite admitted that to promote the social, political farms. People of all races la meeting, have been continued by devised in so short a time.
"We Bro
are glad
dad that the Duke to Wass' place from Lincoln, 20 and economic progress of the Kenya will resume their march American and British Govern
towards a better relationship," ment officials.
done.the test forthwith when territory."
Kent has had an opportunity miles away, and gave the test. the examiner should have aban- ir Evelyn
said.
A
Foreign British
Offer** Sir
nearly in life to visit these Wass first answered questions on he discovered that Wess had only "Remember that Kenya is a
fascinating, bonu STEP
spokesman in London
beautiful
and im- the Highway Code and then cut a mali dawnmower. country collective new
settled reports that creation of an Interportant British torritories with
in two, patches of grass,
ch. 18 punishment but it was ofteri aadministration for little more national corporation to ship and Southeast Asia, and we are feet by two feet.
oll hild been grateful for his keen interest in Ainsworth thought Wass' per- Operations to clear a Booded merciful step because it sayed than 50 years. She has now to market Persian
all he saw and did there. Innocent people 55 many
from contend with what amounts to envisaged in the current talks,
formance earned him a learner's ald: "The felt outside the area covered gold mine shaft where
an industrial revolution. These The spokesman
The people of all British by the commission. The miners perished when a river terrorist attack.
through Its walls were Sie Evelyn Baring, Governor facts must be recognised if you recent exchanges between, the Colonies were united in their
to see the altuation es American and British essential ones are these; In
Crown. ments have not contemplated loyalty and devotion to the In Malaya and Singa- conference after his consultation day).
In all the Jour pore,
West 1938 and 1951 the popula-
Sir Evelyn, answering ques- any such measure. It would be w Roscoe Cannon, super-with M: Olive: Lyttelton over
from the African territories, In Uganda tion of Asia increased by 10 Intendent of the United the Mau Mau unrest in Kenya, tions, said it would not be fair radical departure
Paracale Mine in Southeast said: "Let me make it clear that to place the blame for Kenya's joint Anglo-American proposals and in Kenya, Mr Lyttelton sald,
sottiers. to
he Frime Minister Mossadeghin the humblest dwellings
had seen pictures of the Royal Luzon, wired the agents here: the trouble area is far from being trouble on the white
the talks "It's impossible to recover any the whole of Kenya."
"On the contrary, He added: "It is in fact three Before the emergency race ro-last August..
lations had been improving, at the whole
with Family and have
concerned boca and the "an increasing speed." rererves Kikuyu bedies. You have
occasion from
chicts. claborating details of arrange- DYNAMIC SOCIETY
from
and Legislative European farming areas where | river and the sea in there."
victims The
were working
the basis of
these men, It was ony fair to the whitements on
Executive-councils, from rulers 400 feet below the earth's surKikuyus provide most of the
agricultural labour.
settlers to say that before the proposals."--Router.
and ministers, expressions of face on Monday when a 'wall "Mau Mau has affected one
Keny
their warm loyalty in terms and ствепсу, from the adjoining tribe and one tribe only. But
society, not a static
in tones which left no doubt of Paracale River smashed through thet tribe is the most numEPAULS the shatt walls. It collapsed of all in Kenya-about one-h
Hunger In Asia
STRANGELY little notice
has been given to the economic survey of 1951 by the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East.
It contains alarming facts whose consequences muy be
Operations Suspended
Manila, Dec. 17.
He
MERCIFUL
abhorred
aro
the thirteen years between / nnst night (Tues- of Kenya, addressing a Pics hole."
of water
Wis
A
A
Govern
of
heard on every and head-
the shaft and buried the of the total African population Asked why the Government Car Sprayed By their whole-hearted sincerity.
commission warns that it: cannot be expected that ed, by one following the ap- Sir Evelyn said his
Bullets
Tunis, Dec. 10.
A civilian car was hit today
per cent. In the same period the average food output of farmers in Asia has fallen. How serious this may be is shown by the fact that already before the war the average farmer in Asia pro- duced only about half the food which was produced elsewhere. In the last two
SPONTANEOUS years there has been a the
"When slight improvement, but the workers under a mass of rocks, and the Kikuyu ve in the of Kenya had impeded the de-
Duchess vialted mud and silme.
African lenders by excluding
Singapore and the Federation, The casually toll was reduc-centre of the country close to the fenco in the present trial of
city of Nairobi."
and Hongkong and Borneo, there counsels from the dis- tour of defence cau the
"Sir Evelyn
was a spontaneous manifestation primarily a re- said: The advance was brought ported missing. Ho had fall-"Mau Mau is-
with a cheering trial are being defended by about by better use
sent of ed to report for work.As-volutionary movement with the
population
ing to the Duchess visit political tim of dispostessing lawyers from Great Britain, highway 30 miles from Gabes, it were
Referring to existing
and soclated Fresa. resources,
from West Africa, and from East was reported here today.
The passengers, however, what is nocded is new
Africa. The Kenya Government resources. The commission
have thought that adequate pro- escaped injury after four bullets to the Royal West Kent Regi- Mr Lyttelton Bald: has almost no comfort to
vision was made for this de had pierced the bacle of the carment, of which she is Colonel.
It was also reported here that in-Chief, fence."
British soldier in Malaya, at The offer, and a more fessimis-
They have been anxious to severak ahots were fires .tic that.... some
Have of the
them, make sure that trial was another car driven by a French and the national servicoman individual experts who have
rodent in Cap: Don region last not least among * trial and did not become
fight. The car was not hit shown what I think, to be the Atudied the area. "Millions
political demonstration. Where France Prest,
undying qualities of our ruce- of people in the countries
bravery in the face of danger, of Aala and the Far East
Cleveland, Dec. 16. They were put in incubators they have refused to allow em
humour in the face of dis-
at comfort and
pil times stand dangerously near the Slamere gif twins have been because they arrived a month try, it has usually been that the
Хомусти have not been pro Protest Repeated humanity
the population border-line between hunger separated by surgery at Mount ahead of schedule..
Sinát lospital here, it was dis- "Sure they will be able to live perly-briefed.""
feld he had hedy Washington, Dez 16. Evelyn
mong whom their lot is cast.
· and famine."' About-hair thesed on Tuesday. They are in separate normal lives,” said the
said!
"In her visit to her regiment talke with General Sir Gerald population of the world fine condition in ca
The United States sent a the Duchess va thoap: men "British High Com Ilves in the area, but it con- IntubatorE
A spokesman for the Ameri- Templer, tains only one-third of the
can Medical Amodation said in missioner in Malaya. whe kary get the cofing down who are carrying out their grim
umarmed Aroerican Air world's cultivated land. If Doctors cald no vital organs Chicago that a number of surgi- also been in London for corey got to shooting di task another reason to be proud
teir country and to bo this part of the world con- were involved in the band which cal separations of Siamese twins sultation with the British Force plane by Soviet fighters on of their
ernment is the Jopants car ch October in serving twitppy tinues Indefinitely to have joined them, that
Coorg Mbou tribute Bo much loss to eat than the The twins arived on Sunday formed previously,WANG
you might call the Bavier fahteractiof the plane the Duchero None of these involved an on
understanding other Hall, it may not be and surgery was performed three inmate connection of vital in curative ide of a very dimnculs down only be miles from the and charm and
hows later. very hard to guess how The mother is doing well and ternal organs, he said, though a situation in a counity where cost, the American moté said, which she displayed throughout some political boundaries one doctor said the twins are low Involved the body so there hedd campsign of Eght crew members were pro- ler tour. These qualities, ho
(Contd. en knok-past, col. Burged dende Reuter, may ultimately be drawn, "eating and pertiming normally "cipled Press,
Improvement will continue. | pearance of a miner carlier re-Kenya confirmed his view that | irles IVAR ENCURR: In the Pby a'volley of gun fire on, of these feelings and the streets
Siamese Twins Separated
By Surgical Operation
pair of doctor.
Gove
have boon successfully,per weapont, moat time, Akraday screen ⋅ showed that Mr Lýttelton pat
an011
to
(Contd on back page, col. 3)
"The whole' Incident,” he said, "is the result of six years of Socialist bureaucracy." dated Press,
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