CORRECT on all occasions
VULCAIN
SWISS MADE
COMMENT OF
THE DAYZAS
Ambitious Plan
Nchru hus Just
M'presented India's Five-
A
Year Plan to the Parlia mont in Delhi. It is slightly wider In seope than the original outline and involves the spending of about billion and a half pounds. Two of the five years are already over, so that the bulk of the programme will have to be carried through in three years, As would be expected, the greatest effort -nearly half the expendi- ture--will be in agriculture, India's unrelenting und ever-present problem is food shortage and hunger. The Plan aims at an increase of 11 per cent in the national income, which would outstrip the prob-
thirteen million more acres
CHINA MAIL
No. 35397.
Established 1845
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1952,
Prico. 20 Cents
ATTEMPTED AIR
AIR PIRACY
Pilot Killed
By Chinese
Passenger
PLANE LANDS
AT TAIPEH
San Francisco, Dec. 30.
A desperate passenger believed to be
able increase in population. a Chinese Communist escaping from the Overa hundred river- harnessing projects, which Philippines, took control of a Philippines will irrigate something like Air Lines DC-3 today, reportedly killed the and provide greatly in-pilot and almost succeeded in an attempt creased electric power, are to get the plane to Communist China. work done in this field by The plane carried 10 persons.
a continuation of the solid
British engineers in the
past; and there is a pioneer
project for developing about
munity lines.
hus next priority. India is
The
An airline spokesman here said the
Na-
sighteen thousand villages passenger took control of the plane during na "special areas" on com- a local flight and nearly succeeded in THE improvement of trans forcing the pilot, Capt. Pero Perlas of port and communications Manila, to fly the transport into Communist still expanding her railway China. system, her main highways are not yet fit to carry heavy loads, and far more bridges are needed. Sixteen per cent of the money spent under the Plan will be for improving the social services, but only 8 per cent is to be put into industrial development (this field is to be left mainly to private enterprise, though the basic industries are tu get Government help). financing.of the Plan likely to prove uphill work. About 60 per cent of the money required is to come out of revenue and loans the in the states and at centre, which may be an optimistic expectation. Ald from the International Bank,____from the United States,
under the and Colombo Plan so far covers only about 7 per cent of the total outlay, and more help from abroad will clearly be needed. The authors of the Plan are right, too, to stress the need of "public co operation and enthusiasm." This means not only strenuous work by those
However, the spokesman said a Chinese tionalist Air Force fighter squadron picked up the transport as an unidentified plane and forced it to land on the island of Monman off the south tip of Formosa. In desperation, the gunman was reported to have shot First Officer Capt. Felix and killed Capt. Perlas. Gaston landed the plane safely,
Word on the fate of the plane flying from the town of Laoag to Aparri in the Philippines, when the gunman took control was received here from the PAL's Manila office, which was notified of the safe landing by the Chinese Nationalist government at Taipeh.
is
Fruitless Search
Six planes of the US Air Force and US Navy 28 well as planes from the Philippine Air Force and the Philippine Aviation Development Company made an ex- tensive but fruitless search for the missing DC-3 in northern Luzon when it was many hours overdue on the normal 38-minute flight.
Ken Macker, P&L spokesman here, said however, that officials of the airline suspected immediately after the plane was reported missing that it had not crashed. He said the airline ground crew at Laoag recognised one of the boarding passengers as a mon wanted by the Philippine Department of Defence.
New Year Circus Thrill Bidault
An entirely new varia- tlon of the circus aci in which a girl is fred from a canon is seen in Jack Hylton's Christmas and New Year Circus at Earl's Court. It consists of firing two people to- gether, the artistes being Miss Inka Antomin and
Mr her partner,
Leo Dinat. This remarkable picture shows them being. fired together from the canon at a dress rehearsal
week ago.
Reuler-
#
photo.
India's
New
Steel Plant Project
New Delhi, Dec. 80.
Fails To Form A Cabinet
Paris Dec. 30. Would be Premier Georges Bidault tonight abandoned his efforts to form France's 18th post- war government in the face of Centre and Right Wing, hostility to his pro- gramme.
The 53-year-old leafter of the Popular Republican Party hnd been struggling all day for the backing of the Radicals, Inde
Peasant Party pendents and after his failure yesterday to draw in the Socialists,
Bidault went into con- ference with other leading mem- bers of his party tonight, im- mediately after the Executive Committee of the Radical party voted to support him by a majority of only one-32 votes to 31,
COLLEAGUES ADVICE His colleagues were reported to have advised him to abandon his. efforts in the face of un "Impossible" situation.
M. Bidault bad won the sup port of the Gaullist Parliamen- tary group for a programme which, he claimed, would pull France out of her present crisis. -Reuter.
The Pranier-designate learned tonight that the Executive Com- mittee of the Radical Party had. Agreed to support him by only. 32 votes against 31.
This means that he cannot. expect more than half of the 74 Radical deputies to support him.
Radical objections centre 010 The Indian Government his deal with the Gaullists, which is said to be "Introducing the has decided to go ahead enemies of the Republie into its with an 800,000,000 Rupees cltasel" Reuter. (US$168,400,000) project
for a third steel plant which
will take the country's pro- duction to a minimum re-
LOYALTY
Mr. Churchill quirement of 2,000,000 tons CHECK FOR
Applauded By
Trade Unions
•
His "Courageous
Mission
irrespective of uid from foreign steel interests, it is learned.
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Siamese Twins May Have
Another Operation
J'
Chicago, Dec. 80.
Surgeons may begin work at any time now to cover the skulls of Rodney Dee and Roger Lee Brodie, Siamese twins who were separated in a dramatie operation, a spokesman said today...
A spokesman for the Univer-he is the stronger of the two. and Roger Lee is unconscious. He sily of Illinois Research
since the Educational Hospitais said that has been in a coma preliminary surgery could "be-separation operation on Decan- gin in the next five minutes, ber 17 in which the surgeons the next day or in 30 days." blood vessel to Rodney.
were forced to give an important
that
Definite provision for this project in Five-Year Plan a
Washington, Dec. 30. regarded as on carnest sign of the Government's determination fo The Truman Administra- proceed with the scheme. tion announced today that, As result of sid received in future, the Federal thus for from the World Bank Bureau of Investigation as well an expansion effected by would check the loyalty of local sources, steel productions
Tha doctors, he said, were is expected Increase to 1,000, all American applicants for
the brains anxious to enclosa London, Dec. 30.
The spokesman said 000 tons from the present level posts in the United Nations
of the tiny brothers to prevent Rodney is relishing soft foods. When the crewmen reported the suspicions, Macker said
The British Prime Minis of 1,000,000. To meet the gap Secretarial.
infections from entering through which is being spoon-fed to him. the Airlines immediately notified the Philippines and US
Mr Adrian ter, Mr Winston Churchill, which still remains an integrat-
Fisher, legal | bandages and aluminium foll ed Iron and steel project is neill implement the pro-intelligence agents that the passenger was believed to a left London tonight on his being considered.
adviser to the State Department, wrapped over the skull, open- Its output is
The doctors are heartened by e Loga
the fact that Roger clings to life gramme but also improved Chinese Communist, who escaped a Department of Defence
Rodney Dea probably will but warn that he still could "die elvic standards, particularly raid on the Communist headquarters in Manila on Christmas way to New York for talks estimated to be 450,000 tons of announced the decision to
with General Eisenhower. pig iron and 350,000 tons of use Judklary Sub-Committee
investigating allegations
of undergo the operation first since at any moment"United Press. in the Indian commercial Day-United Press.
He travelled by train to ricel.
Justice
Inter Department JOINT COMMISSION · Southampton, where he will community where there has
ference in result of prolonged Jury investig Bion of suspected New York Grand spend the night aboard the Liner Queen Mary.
negotiations held by the official ry
American
CANFITneni. a private Indian delegation to the United United Nations
for recently with American, Britain and Japanese steel Interests, it likely that a joint may be technical commission set up in February to draw up
been too much inclination
to avoid paying taxes in the
past.
Plan
THE
is
grandly No China Mail
conceived, yet when It is fulfilled it will only have cut Into the outer crust of India's immemorial prob- lem of poverty. Even the longer term list of river- harnessing schemes is still only one-sixth the size of America's programme of river projects-although India's population is two and a half times that of the United States. In the village development programme only about 2% per cent of India's village can at pre- sent be included. The living
standard is so low today in India's villages that the growth of a revolutionary movement under Com-
Tomorrow
The China Mail will
to
not be published
morrow
Day).
(New Year's
Publication will re- sume on Friday, Jan-
when Uary 2, edition will be on the late streets by, the morning.
PETITION FÖR
SELF GOVT
Close
Ranks
Call By
Attlee
London, Dec. 31,
The Labour Party leader, Mr Clement Attlee, told British Socialists
tomorrow.
In your
to the United
As
2
States and the United Kingdom
London reports
State, Mr Dean Acheson, refused bir Fisher said the Secretary of
security to name those who evaluate about. information American employees DA the United Nations, Bir Acheson was acting on "instructions from the President," he said.
Americans employed by the
Mr Churchill gave lunch earller today Anthony Eden, who is the Deputy Prime Minister as well as Foreign Secretary, and Mrs appears Eden. Afterwards, the two men had a long talk. British trade
unionists have a report.
A recent Tokyo report quoted sent Mr Churchill good witches
Mr IT. Takasaki, industrial in his "courageous mission." His office tonight published a magnate and former President United Nations, in future, will of the Manchurian Heavy In-be thoroughly screened and in- telegram from Mr Tom O'Brien, President of the eight million dustry Corporation, saying vestigated by the FBI to ensure that in talks with Indian and they are people of the highest member Trade Union Congree World Bank officials in Washing integrily the
and loyalty to the You carry with which reads: today you
the
goodwill of the workers ton he had reached agreement United States Me Fisher added.
"in principle" ont plans for a GRAND JUBY REPORT Common- that the party had been of Britain and the
Joint Indo-Japanese iron-steel The Grand Jury had reported hampered by disunity in wealth
courageous
that many disloyal Americans plant in India. States the ranks, "disunity which mission
also indicate hod
found ́their way into the Is quite unnecessary."
"We pray too that your visit a definite though still a cautious United Nations under present Year message to will reaffirm a strong faith in interest in participating in an and past In a New
an official Earlier
of United Indian steel projeck, party members, he said: "During the principles of the
The Indian delegation which the Justice Department said o as the we must resolve Nations Organization
has returned to New Delhi from number of Americans, known the coming years, remembering only solid basis for a true arid talks with the World Bank and to have engaged in Communist
lasting peace among the nations teel interests abroad is now activities, were that the cause for which
still employed wo 2031 stand is far greater than any of the world."
a report. by the United Malone. A crowd of 300 people gave engaged in preparing
Mr individual differences."
Cohn, Roy
Special Mr Churchill a rousing sendon United Press..
Assistant to the Attorney- great Improvement can be Party, led by the Prime Minis
Mr Attice did not merilon Shout of "Good Luck, Winnio" brought about. Yet the Plan, tex, is to petition Queen Eliza" the party's
General, Mr. James McGranery, Left-wing leader,
and "God Bless You" went up
was giving evidence before the when all contingencies beth for full self-government Mr. Anturin Bevan, by name, as the Prime Minister arrived
Gold Coast but his message
Sub-Committee.
the Ho sald continued
of Mr have been allowed for, Is for the British
PETERALCO colony in 1953...
ference to the quarrel which has at the station, hardly likely to do
Mr Churchill, looking well, brought the party
David Weintraub as Director of raised his black Homburg hat
Exonomie Stabilisation and than keep pace with the The petition, announced to- several times
Development for the
United present population increase, day in a resolution adopted by to crisis point since Mr Bevan
As the train began to move,
Nations was “absolutely d For the first time the 4pecial Party conference, will resigned from the fast Labour and smiled.
graceful. population problem is faced that an act granting in Government. The Bevanite wing Mr. Churchill gavo his famous
was spending claimed Britain passed
"V" sign-Reuter, 100 much on arins.
Only a strong united Labour Party could bring about.defeat of the present Conservative The Gold Coast would bo Government, Mr. Attles.. ent- is already much evidence in renamed "Ghana" and would he phasised in his message...
"Let us go forward remem- Swatwell-on-Tyno, set come an independent stats" with Queen Elizabeth us its head.bering that the Bridal Labour The resolution roughly coln Party Is the spearhead of the tides with dergands of the op- free social democracy which is position Ghana Congress Party, the hope of the world," he sħid.
---Associated Press.
munist leadership seems almost inevitable unless a
more
"Accra, Dec. 30,
People's Convention The
dependence be
simul
th
Const the Gold
up to in a recommendation taneously by Farliament for a rapid expansion of London and birth-control teaching with Assembly in Acerá. 'Government support. Thore
Asla that the masses aro
Prop the knowledge, to do given what they can themselves to check the increase in the I number of hungry months.
Router
a re-
HIS LAST ACT By Nowcastic,
30.
of
Robert Patterson,
all
TIBER RIVER
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here.
The river spilled over along a stretch of about 20 miles between Doruta and Todi, damaging fields severely and flooding dwellings. signal on his sections dat in No casualties were reported t ger" before he collapsed in the Perugia was cut off,
bok here. He source of drinking water when railway signal was' dead on achamientos to the landslides damaged acqueducts hospitalRo
north of the town-Routers
"He holds a
Large and power ful position, moxilding world opinion although ha hnd aft mitted hiring not one," but three, four, five or more pers as who have turned out to be thoroughly disloyal," Mr Colo declared,
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