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COMMENT OF THE DAY
District Courts
THE District
Court
Ordinance, given its first Legislative
reading
in
uf
Council last week, is much-i needed legislation. Funda- mentally. It is designed to create new courts that will help to relieve the existing establishment Judges and mingistrate in their task of dealing with an ever-increasing volume of criminal and civil litigation.
• in offect the District Courts | will be invested with powers similar to those given to judges sitting in summary jurisdiction in the Supreme Cuurt. Isul the most interesting provision in the Ordinance is that which permits the transfer of
court tu n
District Court,
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MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1959.
Prico 20 Cents
RIOTING IN PERSIA Going Up,
Religious Factions Battle With
Communists
STORES BURNED
AND LOOTED
Teheran, Jan. 4. Religious leaders battled Communists in the indictable offences from a Iranian holy city of Qum today and police magistrate's
the heads of the emergency squads fired over thusi obviating the present rioters in a vain attempt to restore order. necessity for committal pro-| evedings and subsequent hearing ht Criminal In fact, the new Sessions, Ordinance gets rid of two anomalies. One is that to date there is no court in the Colony, other than the
Religious leaders and bands of their followers looted and burned stores and other business houses belonging to members of the Communist Tudeh Party, according to dispatches from Qum, 80 miles south of Teheran.
Rioting had flared sporadically yesterday and Supreme Court, with juris erupted with renewed vigour today. By evening the diction in civil proceedings situation was reported to be out of the authorities
where the subject matter of control. the dispute is not of great
up
By coincidence or
design,
no-
forces. They will patrol farious areas where widespread branches of rzcurity were FO ported lately.
Gun Fight
In Cafe
Houston, Texas,
Jan. 4.
Four North Texans fought a gun battle from: behind overturned cafe tables here last night, three men dying and a fourth being wounded.
When the scene cleared the police had difficulty deciding who shot, whom. They brought a ballistic expert to make tests of the bullets taken from the dead men.-Reuter.
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The police arrested large numbers of rioters, the dis value; the second, there is no patches said. There was no clue to the number of in- court with jurisdiction and jured. powera of punishment; greater than those conferred) upun magistrates and less violence flared in Teheran at the than those endowed in the same time.
Police, swinging clubs, broke Supreme Court. Correction
a demonstration by Com- of such a situation has been funist students, who met in long needed, and that it is defiance of a ban imposed after
stoned the cars one of the principal features they had of the new legislation is United States Point Four officials
last Tuesday. indeed welcome.
The poller IT is noted that suitable a few stud tharged and injured lands to farmers in all hold
students and hauled soineings. limitations are placed an to headquarters for questioning
cooling-off. The the penalties which District and Court judges may impose retallated by calling a strike of the frequent druggles between
all University students for the Premier, Dr Mohammed phone subscribers in the main Monday, to back demands for Mossadegh, and dissidents who towns lund, their example, the maximum term repeal of the new Charter and qult his party, the National disconnected on Friday after r of imprisonment is five
for criminal offences,
For
years, while any prison
sentence imposed in default
of payment of a fine must
the District Court shall be before judges-sitting with-
Nicosia, Cyprus, Jan. 4. A special meeting of re- presentative telephono sub- In another effort to stem the scribers here today urged a spread of Communism, the government has decided to discontinuation of the island's of tribute 100,000 hectares of land telephone boycott in protest to tenants. Earlier, the Shah against double charges for
distributed some Royal
calls and decided to call a rally of all subscribers for next Tuesday in Nicosia.
About 50 per cent at tele-
youths
a
out-juries is defended by population of 40,000, is the argument that to pro- stronghold of the Moslem faith. vide for trial by jury int has many tombs of saints and persons and these courts would place a other, religious
Viese is the Shrine of "grave additional burden
hnd
PREVENTIVE BILL Parliament is torn_by_otte of
towny.
instrumicuta
to
Today's meeting called by the Mayor of Nicosia and attended by delegates from the island's political parties, trades unions, chambers of commerce,. news- passed a unanimous resolution papers and other organisations,
rigorously opposing" charges.
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an
Settlement May Soon
Be Reached
And Up
Landowner
Ambushed, Murdered
TWO ASSASSINS ARRESTED
1
Asslut. Egypt, Jan. 4. Bishai Ghali, whose son, Riad Ghall, married King Farouk's sister, Princess Fathia, was assassinated in his home town
near here today.
have
ben
Two murderers arrested and--a third mon--is sought by the police,
Bishai Chall was killed after
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Kikuyu Chief Shot Dead In Hospital Bed
Nairobi, Jan. 4.
Three Kikuyu tribesmen walked into the government hospital at Kiambu, near Nairobi, to- night and shot dead a Kikuyu Chief in bed.
The Chief was Hinga Hinga, The three Kikuyus the tribe from which the Mau Mau terrorist society draws its support-then walked out of the hospital.. Chief was in hospital the form bathroom by recovering from an ambush by women was the houseboy hiding Kikuyus in his own location last from the shooting and not a month. In that ambush on member of the gang ashad December 27 near the main been earlier reported,~~Reuter,~ Nairobi-Naivasha road, one bullet poseed through his hat, another hit his wrist and a
The
the
third struck his check knocking Junk Given As
out two teeth.
his car,
The Chief stopped which was being driven by an African, reported to the pollee and helped them in their ia- vestigations before being_token to Kiambu hospital..
Xmas Gifts
Lontton, Jan. 4. The Kenya Government today
Canon L. J. Collins, Chan- seized 4,000 heads of livestock cellor of St Paul's Cathedral. belonging to African farm dangled a pair of ald socios workers - nor a farm where unwashed and so worn and two British settlers were mur- darned that they would hardly dered — after declaring the dis-| Voar another slitch" over the trict a prohibited area.
.
pulpit today and Baid some Two people have been ar- people had used the Cathedral rested in connection with the Christmas Tree Fund to turn murders of the two British out their fumber room as though farmers on New Year's night, at anything was good enough for a farm about 60 miles north the poor." west of Nairobi..
"I could show you
hundreds The prohibited Brea covers of other things lite that hand- part of the Aberdare Forested in by, people, who thought Aberdare at any old júnk would do be- , the National Park, several hundred cause It was for poor children, square miles of heavily wood- and poor old people, who can ed country in the centre of a not afford to buy the nice things ring of European farms.
of this world."
Reserve
and
INTO CAMPS
Nobody will be allowed- În the area without permission and all African families, will be
After the service, a reporter found a verger sorting through hundreds of articles, túcluding old brits and brushes, but do corations and the odd shoe of a
moved immediately into settle child Reuter. ment camps.
Mr Michael Blundell, leader
of the European members in
the Colony's" Legislature, diss
STOCKINGS
-cussed anti-Mau Mau measures DISINTEGRATE
with the Governor, Sir Evelyn
Baring, during the weekend, it
· Stockholm, Jan, 4. was understood tonight.
Two women walking down Other measures discussed, Stockholm's "Queen Street," a
were
for
sow
to
stockings
the ground, shreds.
Scientists sold a smoking chinney and the hard frost had bod "p chemically grating effect on the stockings."
rculer.
distric-
was understood, better control of the Kikuyu busy shopping centre, yesterday tribesmen-from which, the Mau shrivel up on their legs and fall
their. nylon Mau are sold to draw its cup-
in withered porters-throughout the
rural white highlands, area, of the site of many European farms.
Mr Blundell advised people either to dismiss their Kikuyu servants or lock them out of the house before nightfall.
They
must always their firearms moment in all circumstances they
ready to defend them- selves," he said.
the right to strike legally, Front. Fifteen dissidents have infusing to sign a new agreement Singapore Strike
with Cable and Wiraless bill to prevent Dmited, doubling troduced a
Dr
the former IRAN'S 'RED DEAN'
Mossadegis from involding e-
the call charges, which camo Qum when ergency powers
to dissolve the Rioting flared at
Ten force at the New Year, be without hard labour, and Ayatollah Borghe, Mesien re- Majlis or lower House.
called pro-government Deputies walk-
The boycott was called by the must not exceed one year. Uglous leader who is
Dean", returned cd out when the debate began municipalities of the main The provision that trials in Iran's "Act
"Peace" Inter in the day, preventing im- from the Communist
mediate action on the measure congress in Vienna,
which has 24 for lack of a quorum. The town,
Finance Minister, Mr Bacher Bagher Kazemi, presented to the Majlis the budget for the next fiscal year. It foreshadow ed a defeit estimated at 2,500
Singapore, Jan. 5. StatCT of the Imam 500
am | 000,000 rinis or US$833,000,-
Hopes rose today for a on an already over-worked
Rign.
Large
numbers 000. Mr Kazemi previously had jury list." Moreover, it is ****
settlement of the Singapore pilgrims flock to the town
that the budget
HIS son, Rind, conmoner WERCH Naval Base's eight-day old husband of Princess Fathia, is in cuntended that to afford the see the mausoleums of
at least announced
would be balanced despite right to elect to be tried by 10 king, cell 400 sints who are lack of all revenue. Last night,
strike, as representatives of San Francisco, Dr Mossadegh jury would be to introduce buried in and around Qum.
unexpectedly
Navy It also registered a protest 10,000 -striking Members of
The Egyptian Prime Minister, the Fidalynn and for reasons unknown add against the government's will-workers prepared to meet General Mohammed Naguib, to- something which is not at
anded to the available to an Islam, religious fanatics,
budget, under
the ingness to award д present
20-year with the Governor, Sir night
Ried His religious groups were heading "Development
telegraphed Pro- monopoly to the company" and accused person. There are other
2,500,000,000 rials to accept the higher rates a John Nicoll.
condolences and assured him no grounds for seriously said to have incited the riots. fects
demanded the ouster of United Press.
that "Justice will take its full logical. contesting the "no trial by the "Red Dean” and his clique.
course Jury" provision, particularly The first violence come when asthe interests of an religious groups accused person are
They
dars
to
Д attacked
Reject Offer
pro- convoy of bearing the Bus Drivers
and his cohorts to tected by his right to appeal "Dean"
conviction against
and Qum. The convoy Wae Bank- who coun- sentence to a higher court. ca by Communists,
stones and The Ordinance, in fact, is wered by hurling
the
wiln well conceived, and when naing
stubs. implemented will assuredly! Police
attackers
to
Defence
the new
PROTEST TO GOVT
n dispute over a small plot el land, the police said,
A four-man delegation of the An official statement pub-Naval Baso Labour Union was ished yesterday sald that the scheduled to meet al the Gov- existing telephone contract held arnment House this morning by Cable and Wireless would for the discussion of the Gov-he expire on March 31, 1953,
made crriment's proposal
1s
ption
· POSSESSION DISPUTE
Bishal Ghall was ambushed as returned home in his car at early today after his daily round the of his land,
Trado
landowner,
It added that in the new con- Saturday's meeting that tract now being negoilated the Union ask the British New York, Jan. 4.
Ghall, a Coptle Striking New York bus drivers Axing and variation of charges Union Congress in London to had been in dispute with an- unanimously voted today to reject would be subject to government squads struggled
ather local fariner" "over the pick an arbitrator. Vincent Impellitterl's approval.
two possession of serve its prime purpose of bring the rioters under control Mayor
acres of apoeding up the disposal of by firing over their heads and proposal for settling their strike "But ng telephone charges
Sir. John Nicoll's suggestion } land. civil and criminal litigation, arresting large numbers
ögainst private bus liner.
must essentially depend on the
was a compromise between the Police said the other farmer Teheran, the
Then the 8,200 divers heard costs of running the service it In and especially of giving)
of 15,000 Mr Michael Quill, President
for setting and two of his hands laid the transferred
not
that Boy Union's insistenco greatly needed relief to the Ministry
gendarmerie the Transport Workers Union,
of the materiai
up a local arbitration court and ambush, hiding at the road- the
side and opening fire from over-burdened magistracies soldiers
the company's now
on arbitrator from England to village. settle the strike, which has made
Rad Ghali was married to a virtual graveyard
Princess Fathia, now of. Singa-
21, pore's huge shipyard for the defiance of Prince Farouk, then King of Egypt, at 巍 civil past week.
ceremony in San Francisco in 1950.
Rebels To Confiscate
French Property
London, Jan. 4.
the
2. Protect the labour of French property is to be con- people. Honest people should fiscated in parts of Indo-China carry on their respective trades.
taken over by the Vietminh, People compelled to leave their according to a new Vietminh villiges by the French or who polley directive quoted tonight foined the Vietminh should re- by the New China News Agency, turn home and resume
1 the
their
3. Conducate the property
French
But foreignOTS
areas works. continue at will be asked to work and obey the laws of the of Vietminh authorities, the agency sald.
The New China News Agency sald the, directive had been
the
call for them to murch on
Hall on Tuesday in, a mass | possible," it decles will be the Admiralty's offer to send both sides of the road outside a
Citynstration.
Today, about 25 per cent of Mr Quill said underground the cubscribers were still dis- railway workers and other city connected-Heuter. transport employees were being. warned to resist efforts to speed up transport on Monday in order
to handle heavy loads because of the strike von privato lines.- Reuter.
Churchill To Be
Honoured
Ex-Nazi Gravely Injured
The former
Kiel, Jan, 4. admiral under Hitler's regime, Herman "Bochm and his wife were seriously in- jured in an accident today when ther car skidded on ico and collided with a bus, killing the
instan driver
RESPOND TO APPEAL
in
Farouk then signed a decree Meanwhile, 52 striking Naval annulling the marriage and hospital workers planned to re-depriving her of all her royal turn to their jobs today following tities and privileges.
an appeal from the base author- But a month later the couple Moalem lies that continuation of the were married at a
Francisco. strike would endanger the lives ceremony in San of more than a score of Asian Reuter, patients."
Whether the strike would be Kingston, Jan. 5.
CARGO VESSEL called off and the dispute re- "Colonialists Mr Winston Churchill will be ex-admimi's and traitors." This property made the first Freeman of the taneously. The ceciters occurred ferred to arbitration appeared to
IN' DISTRESS ***depend on the outcome of to- would be distributed to land- elly of Kingston, capital of near her.
day's meeting with the Governor, less of poor peasants-Reuter.
Algiers fan, .. Dochi, who was Jamalco, when he visits
the last in Island shortly.
commander
Although German navy
some government The Panamanian borty-type celebrated its 150 fasued by the "Government of Express Collides Within celebrat
November, and his wife, were officials had hopes for a settle- Į vesso), 'Rangof,! was today to a hospital where they ment, Union leader B. Sithials sending out distress signals the Democratte. Republle of
Goods Train when the Major and City Coun-were both considered to bo in remained firm that there would which were heard at Fort Do Viciminh".
cit created a symbolic "Key to a very grave condition.
ho no general return to work Leau radio station in. Algiers. Madrid, Jan. 4.
dis-
The :.7.200 ton Bochm sent an appeal in 1951 unless agreement on the indus-
cargo vessel, The directive, · dalming
The Coruuna-Barcelona ex- the City" to
visitors
built in 1944, was making for President of the United trial court issue was reached. -to- and residents policy towards orcas "newly press collided with a goods tinguished
Nations Assembly asking that
Gibraltar and at the time the liberated" from French- con-train cutside Montagut Station at an appropriate ceremony.
Tho Naval
workers are striking signals were received, she was about 100 miles The opportunity will be taken admirals Racder sand. Doenitz trol, lays down these other near Larida,
west of Barcelona early today. to honour Mr Churchill during sentenced for war erlines, should for parity in wages and working off the coast of Spain.
It was "understood that the pointa
1. Protect the lives and One person was killed and 33 his two weeks holiday visit to be released from theke patson at conditions with Singapore gov-
workers, United ship was in a dangerous condi six seriously, the Island, dua to begin on Spandau in Berlin, France, ernment
Pro
Press
tlon Franco-I property of the people, severely were injured,
Friday-Reuter. Rouler, punishing trailors and spies.
the
award to
|
arc
so that
CRITY at any
Motorboat Sinks:
Eighty-Drowned
.Manila, Jan. 5. Mr. Blundell paid tribute to More than 80 people were the courage of the two white drowned when a small motor- women who routed a gang boat carrying 170 passengers
attacked which
them with sank on Friday in rough weather swords on their farm on Friday off Cebu Island, central Philip- night,
three dead and ples, shooting
according to reports wounding another.
reaching here today.
STAC
The
vicilms were
teachers and
mostly their
police have arrested a complieity in the raid. It was families homeward bound from houseboy at the farm for alleged school
made clear today that the man end of the year holldays.. who was shot and wounded in Reuter.
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