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CHURCHILL'S MISSION TO US. Rebuff
Wants Britain To Be
Consulted On Any
New F.E. Moves
Two Killed In Demonstration
New Delhi, Dec. 20. Two people were killed and one seriously injured when police opened fire yesterday
crowd
on
*
which tried to storm a government office -near Jammu. Itt Kashmir State, * zovernment press state- ment issued here, said 10- day.
Nine policemen were in- Jured by stones.
The Incident occurred at Sunderbant during a de- monstration by thousands of Hindus, armed with spears, axes and hatchets. against the Kashmir State ot Sheikh government
which Abdullah
is re- cognised by India-Reater.
Fish
With Arms Caught
FORTHCOMING TALKS
WITH EISENHOWER
London, Dec. 29.
Informed sources said tonight Prime Minister Churchill will urge President-elect Eisenhower to consult fully with Britain before the United States undertake any new Far Eastern moves,
There is little doubt that Churchill's talks with Eisenhower will reflect a strong undercurrent] of British fear - both official and unofficial lest possible US "adventures" in the Orient spread the Korean war.
Official sources at No. 10 Downing Street, Chur- chill's residence, were tight-lipped on even the general: drift of the coming discussions in New York. But other well-placed Whitehall informants said Churchill plans to play a strong British hand when he meets his old friend of second world war days,
How strong that hand will be is to be decided finally at a special Cabinet meeting at No. 10 Downing Street | on Tuesday morning.
The Prime Minister's
New
Mr Churchill is expected to outline for his Cabinet colleagues | York host will be Mr Bernard his proposed approaches on Baruch, America's "older states- Korea, general Far Eastern man."--Reuler. strategy, and British commit-
Charlie Chaplin Pays Visit To Rome
Screen .star. Charlie Chaplin was not after all received by President Einaudi during his recent 'three-day visit to Rome. The official explanation was that Chaplin was suf- fering from a sore throat. The famous screen actor is seen above facing a bat- tery of press cameras and reporters on his arrival Clampino Airport, Rome-London Express.
at
Ex-King May Be Tried For Abuse Of Power
Cairo, Dec. 29.
Ex-King Farouk may be one of the defendants in trials against former officials on charges of abuse of power. due to start soon, a government spokesman stated this evening.
For Bidault
Socialists Reject His Invitation
Paris Dec. 29. French Socialists tonight rebuffed would-be Premier, Georges Bidault, when he invited them to back him in a broad coalition to end France's week-old crisis.
M. Charles Lussy, Leader of the Socialist, Parliamentary group, said M. Bidault proposed methods of "exceptional severity," to moet the crisis.
The Socialist Party could not accept
them.
Political circles have said that M. Bidault, the Popular
Republican leader, who took on.. the job of Cabinet making at
DE Auriol's request this
hoped for wider powers
to deal with the financial situa- tion. He is understood to want the government
nment to have the power to impose certain laws by decree, without lengthy Parlia mentary debate.
He would like to include Gaullista in his Cabinet but the Radicals aro
stated to be opposed to this.
it was
the Popular ‚Rg- publicans whose refusal to sup- port the Pinay budget brought down the right-centre coalition last Tuesday.
M. Bidault cald his morning The had a programme and "I am
planning to work fast."
He hoped to tell the President. tomorrow morning whether "Ho will be prepared to face a vote in the Assembly.
M. Lussy told reporters M. Bidault had defended his
exceptionally severe" proposals
the Colony Ands itself in a position to make n New Year gift of $8 million to the United Kingdom Government is a ntaker for considerable satisfaction. The money is earmarked as a contribution towards the cost of main. taining the British garriso
Hongkong, in Colony can derive Heme pride from the knowledge that of its freewill it is easing the fuancial burden of the British Government In this direction. The gift is probably the most prae- tient expression of loyalty to lier Majesty the Queen which Hongkong could make n
this time. The action would also appear to foreshadow some heartening information from Govern- concerning the ment Colony's current financial condition. In presenting his Estimates last March the fore- Financial Secretary cust a deficit of six and a half inkhs, which, to most people at the time, appeared to be ultra-pessimistic, certainly very conservative. That we can now make such handsome gift as $8 million
that suggests revenue estimates have been greatly exceeded, or expen- diture drastically pruned, or both, since the 1952-53 Budget was introduced. It is possible, of course, that the eight millions are being taken from the accumulated zurplus, but the expectation is that the Financial Secre- Lary will be able to announce that revenue has been so much greater than anticipated, that the gift to Britain can be made from current income, still leaving the Colony with a surplus on the year's working. But whether the money is found
reports from eurrent revenue or is Laken from the accumulated
Farouk of his Egyptian na Geanan government is taking surplus, the Colony will not
this matter. tlonality or cominitting him for on hegrudge its gift to Bri-
problem, however, will be settled London, Dec. 29. trial on other charges. tain, till painfully
a new type tailored to haul-the son of Mr D. F. Temple Roberts,
Col. Sadat was asked about-ain a decisive mattor pretty soon Floods, fog, ice
and recent New York Tribune story by Egypt in an agreement with struggling to make herself
atom bomb.
In official quarters here, former lecturer in mathematics
earth tremors financially solvent.
were re quoting another high official as other Arab States.” Britain's much-publicised detonat Aberdeen University.
On service with the RAF ported across Europe to saying that if Britain refused to
question-There
18 match against, South Africa, ation of an A-weapon on the Widow's Pension
1043, Mr Roberts then day as 1952 heralds its pull out her troops from the nothing new on current Anglo- Australia's The fish with arms," he said, Mome-Belle islands in October until
score was then 207 study fisherman is taken as just the most specia- resumed
Suez Canal the present Egyptian Egyptian talks toward solving for 7, and they were still 165 nt Oxford caught by WILS
leaders would start
guerilla this question but it is, hoped an runs behind South Africa in the THE hends of the three numed Ahmed Hussein in about cular of a series of manifestations University and succeeded in 18
In the Far East, Japan, warfare against the British, agreement will be reached soon, last day of play. British Armed Services in 20 metres of water, off the that, Britain 19-no less a Orsi class months in taking a First Class
statement was made by New Egyptian constitution-A the power today than she ever was. Honours degree in History. Aujlunn
shivering record low
This morning Australia lost wartime have drawn public Island
Lieutenant-Colonel Gamal Abdd From 1945 to 1947 he
Egypt's new the wickets of Miller, Hole and body had Comoro group, 300 kilometres-Associated Press.
temperatures,
its Nasser (another of Naguib's ad- constitution will be set up by Benaud for the addition of 65 attention
deep to EL
west of Madagascar, It weighs SAILING WEDNESDAY Gallery and Diplomatic
anowfall An officer's
for visers) to Margaret Higgins of grievance.
of this week. respondent of the Birmingham heaviest 46 kilogrammes.
to the overnight score, of London, Dec. 20.
the Tribune last November,"
Egypt's new Ambasador to 132 for $ widow normally receives a
The British Prime Minister, Post. Later he joined the Dally thirteen years.
London-An Ambassador will rates
series of A Churchill, pension based
earth Sadat said. sharp has Express staff and was appointed
Tayfield has so far taken five QUOTES CHURCHILL
soon. to nil be appointed
the wickets for 60. He took 0 for 84 about 11
A century old.
The Professor, who considers called a Cabinet meeting for early in 1948 Editor of the tremors on Sweden's north-west
"In this respect I would like vacancy left by Mahmoud Fawzi in the first innings.-Reuter: News and Feature const sent farmers running from means test is applied RO
the fish to be one of the most tomorrow for last minute dis- Express
before he leaves Services.
their homes, driving their cattle to recall that once Mr Churchill after his recent nomination as thoroughly that cases have remarkable finds of recent times, cussions
Mr Roberts also acted as a into the surrounding country-stated he would
do business Foreign Minister, Associated occurred of widows being announced that he would im London, later in the day, on his
with the devil if this would re- Press. to meet President-elect London correspondent for the side. docked of about one-Afth of | mediately name it Malaria way
Eisenhower in New York for South China Morning Post and
Reports reaching Stockholm sult in the liberation of Britain. their mengre pension, Anjownac-after Prime Minis-
China Mail.
tremors, which This article does not go as far today said the who helped talks on world problems,
He is survived by his widow
that. It should be fully less than ter Daniel Malan amounting to
cracked M He is sailing in the liner
occurred yesterday,
want complete windows and made lighted understood we £100 a year, because they his bid to recover it by giving
independence for our country." в Defence Department Queen Mary, from Southampton and a small daughter. had trained themselves to hlm
stoves rock, threatening to set
did not elaborate.. earn an extremely modest
on Wednesday morning for a West Indies holiday and he will
Bro to wooden farm buildings. stay In America for several
Tremors occur regularly in this living. One regulation layo
part of Sweden, days on his way. it down that if an officer is
In addition to informant talks with Mr Eisenhower, cabled to Professor also see President Truman in
on
Specie Confirmed By Scientist
Durban, Dec. 29. Scientist J. B. L. Smith flew home here tonight in triumph with a one and a half metres specimen of a Coelacanth, a fish thought. to have
ments bolli military and econo- mic elsewhere In the tree world.
The informants indicated 11 Churchill's prime purpose of
bniet informal visit with Elstu – hower will be to determine what the American President-oiect learned on his recent flying trip lo Korea and whether the trip solution
supplied a possible new to the war the peninsula.
between Britain and the US on.
Lending weight to Churchill's desire for ever closer liaison Far Eastern matters will be the become extinct week-end report that a British super-bomber force is in the 50,000,000 years ago.
(making
The Professor made an air
LONDON
EDITORS
DEATH
From & Correspondent
London, Dec. 29.
The death occurred to- day after an illness of some months of Mr David
Nature On The Rampage
Earth Tremors ·
The Royal Air Force will, from Temple Roberts, Editor. of Floods, Fog, Ice And dash to a lonely isle in the three to five years be fully the London Express News Mozambique channel, off East equipped with an intercontinental and Feature Servicos. Africa, to get the "catch" striking force of jet bombers of which may prove to be the link. between man and his ancestors of the sen-before It decom- posed,
ot
FISH NAMED
Dakota to fly to the spot where it was caught.
The Coelacanth had been kept so rash as to marry a woman in formalin for ten days while twenty-five years his junior, Mr Erle Hunt, who lives on the she obtains no widow's pan-island, alon, however long the marriage lasts. The former
Smith.
Mr Winston
he, will
.Aged 32, Mr Roberta was the
was
cor-
London-Tokyo
Washington. He is due in New In 24 Hours
YOUR
on. the
5.
morning of
Chiefs of Staff urge in their the Ah, the Professor said: "Mr January will be no agenda for
The fish was not perfect, but its condition was more than satisfactory, he added.
--
There
Prediction
end.
in
The spokesman, Lieutenant-Colonel Anwar el Sadat, told a news conference special courts were being con- stituted to hold trials for abuse of power and graft and would start the trials at the end of this week
by the gravity of the present situation.
One of the dimculties facing M, Bidault, twice Premier, is the demand of many Radicals and Moderate Conservatives that M. Robert Schuman, another Popular Republican, should be removed
Sadat, who is one of Premier with sevent countries among from the Foreign Ministry. Many Naguib's inner circle, did not them Italy but not with spcally the number of accused. Britain or the United States. Popular Republicans are opposed Asked whether Farouk may be Sadat sald Egypt la ready to sell to such a move-Router.. among them, he said: "This le her cotton to whoever wants to possible." He said it was also buy it, but would not force H possible that ex-Ministers and down anybody's throat.
former high officials might be German-Arab rift ove: répara- STOP PRESS
tried.
tions to Israel-Gen. Naguib has
Colonel Sadat, however, dis-asked the West German Ambas- information on the authorities this mallor, Sadat sold, "WC
Counted as "premature" current sador for scame
that
were contemplating stripping regret the attitude the West Test Cricket
The whole Lunch Score
B3
He
The spokesman answered ques- long on these other subjects:
Reported forthcoming trips of Reuter correspondents cabled these messages from other cen-Premier Nagulb to the United
States, Syria and Saudi Arabia- these are premature, said Sadat,
Cotton-Egypt hopes to sell its current stocks by the end of January. Talks are underway
tres:
Lo
Police Supt
Paris: Floods threatened two small townS, Lagny and Ices, about 12 miles from here, RIVER OVERFLOWS At Le Lecs, the river Seine burst its banks after 48 hours steady rain, blocking the main road.
the coltages c banks of the river Marne were partly flooded,
Mons: Fog hindered
town today and ice was reported 5. The functioning of the new
around this south-west Belgian Atlantic Pact's ・ Mediterranean i He was commenting on on many roads.
Tokyo:
A series of cold dent
2. East-West relationships. 3. Atomic energy.
4. Strategy in the Far East, Southeast Asia and the Middle East,
Describing how he first saw Eric Hunt took me to the fish, letter that the "ordinary", which was covered in wool, and Me Churchill's Informal talks pension of a widow should I am ashamed to say that I wept, with Mr Eisenhower, but the
main questions will include: be raised to the present It was a Coelacanth."
Korea. "attributable" rate as is paid when death is attribut- able to service, and that it should be paid irrespective of other sources of income Pansions, it is emphasised are really "deferred pay," and many cases of gross Injustice are cited. Another injustice concerns officers' retired pay. It was decreed in 1919 that this should follow the rise or fall in
Islanders told him two or three similar fish were caught each year in the same region-Reuter.
Film Actress
Sued
New York, Dec, 29.
London, Dec. 20. Sir Miles Thomas, Chairman of the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC), predicted tenight that by 1055 Japan will be within a day's flying dis tance of Britain by giant Jet-
operating Polar Route via over the North
In Lagny,
and waves
many
traffic
Exonerated
Nairobi, Dec. 20. A Kenya court today exonerated Police Superinter- Peter Steenkamp from
Mau Mau leaders.
The Africana were thot
police party, including hunters, surprised
"white"
Command under the British Ad-] civil aviation agreement signed from Siberia have brought | blame in the shooting dead of
Britain miral, Earl Mountbatten.
between loday 9. Progress in building up the Tapon, which will help to create temperatures to a record level in eight Africa believed to be NATO alliance.
world air routes, one
of Japan. "boats are using--ice. 7. Discussion on financial mat-northern hemisphere and one
to southern now being planned by breakers to get out of harbours when a ters, so far as they relate
BOAC. defence and policy,
in Japan, but these may be of no two white Sir Mr Churchill returned
Miles told Reuter in an use in a few days with lee form- Lon- to
that. the interview
aircrafting at its present rate. don tonight after a Christmas
Heaviest mow in 13 years tell operating on the northern roule holiday.
the · Inland Sea aren The British Foreign Secretary, I would be the new propellor Jet in Mr Anthony Eden, has cancelled Bristol Britannias, which carry Southern Japan, holding up rall ether engagements for tomorrow one hundred passengers, have a and road trade-Reuter, In a breach of contract suit into prepare documents Mr range of more than 6,000 miles Churchill is taking with him for and a cruising speed of about. 385 miles an hour. The one the New
refuelling point would be in Canada.
A
the cost of living. The cost A producer claimed today that of living fell and the rates the film actress, Miss Gloria of retired.
wero Swanson, had failed to fuld a pay repeatedly reduced. Then, contract with him after he had on signs of a rise in the started to help her make a re- cost of living, an order of turn to the screen,
1936 fixed retired pay rates the State Supreme Court, the permanently at 9% below producer, Paul Thoma, asked for those of 1919. Since then half of Miss Swanson's carnings the cost of living has risen since her return to films, which monotonously. The pay of he estimated at half a million officers then retired has remained static. The retired pay of serving officers, on the other hand, has been raised substantially,
York talks.
In his last visit to America, exactly a year ago, ho. talked in Washington with President Tru- man and, in Ottawa
of
a meeting in a hub at a. village Thomson's Falls In neart Kenya's
highlands earlier this month.
They refused to obey an order to lay down their arms and rushed the police party with panges and simis (long double- edood knives).- New York, Dec. 20.. More than 2,000 New York bus The Magistrale returned n verälet of justifiable homleido at drivers will strike on New Year's the inquest on the shot Africans
by way of London, not met by. then
sald Steenkamp had: Masted
with boo torta saute would Day if thele, unión demands are at Themton's Falls today. He
dollars.
entered Mias Swanson
́a | Canada'sı Prime Minister, Mr New York, Chicago. Ban Tran- The union is asking for work-promptly and courageously in danial to Thoma's Louis St. Laurent. general
cleco, Honolulu, Auckland (now |ing to be reduced from 48 hour dimeull eircumstances and by charges.
The main part of his month-Zealand), Sydney and Perth a week to 40 hours and for a 20 | doing so probably saved the liver The eban is due to be heard long trip will be spent holiday-(Australia), Singapore, Calcutta, cent an hour wage increase of three European officers."
Reuter. |ing in Jamaica.
Reuter, on January 7--Routar
Karachi and Calro-Reuter,
Sudan
Lo
the end
draft
Melbourne, Dec. 30.
At lunch today Australia faced defeat in the second Test
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