T
Police Informer's Story
Evidence Given At Kenyatta Trial
Kapenguria, Jan. 6.
A Kikuyu police informer today alleged he heard Jomo Kenyatta, hend of the Kenya African Union, tell- ing a crowd of about 500 that he wanted the African people to have self-govern- ment.
He was testifying al the trial of Kenyatta and Ave other Africans on charges of helping to organise the Mau Mau scerel society.
The Informer aald Kenyatta
made the speech bt Swoḥill al
A
a meeting of the Kenya African
Bulon at Thika, about 25 miles
north of Nairobi, which he altended,
Kenyatta said he had heard propte Bay there was "some- thing called Mau Mau” but he did not know what it was.
The witness added that al- most immediately Kenyatta had said that he switched
into Kikuyu abel added "Let the people lake a little anu,"
tu
Witness understood that phrase mean that people at meetinga should go on taking the Mau Mau oath.
When Kenyatta used the ex- premion women in the crowd trilled" and men elapped their hands.
the opening of today's 10ssion Mr D. N. Pritt, Q. C chief defence counsel, said he would ask for perjury proceed- ings against one of the Crown witnesses, a 25-year-old Kükuyu woman.
Mr Pritt made his announce- ment while cross-examining the woman, who was in the witness box for the third time since the trial began carty in December- Reutor.
Film On Life Of Gandhi
THE CHINA, MAILĄ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY - .7, 1953.
Swedish Royalty Applaud Author
Francois Maurine, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature, is seen bowing to` King Gustay and Queen Louise and Prince Bertil, who are applauding after the presentation in
Stockholm-Express Photo.
Rosenbergs To Appeal
New York, Jan. 6.
Mr. Emmanuel, Bloch, Counsel for the Rosenberg couple, sentenced to death on a charge of atomic espionage, announced to- night that the Rosenbergs would appeal to Prezident Truman for Saturday. Federsi
clemency on
Unique Project By "Guardian
99
Manchester, Jan. 6.
The Manchester Guardian has for some time past had a team of scientists and engineers work- ing secretly on a new method of publishing in two cities which may revolutionise the newspaper had sen-
dustry.
Judge Irving Kaufmann, who
tenced the Rosenberga, said yesterday he would grant a stay of execution
if they appealed to Pre- sident Truman before the end of this week.
The execution date hed 1.cen set for January 14 at 11 p.in.
local time: France-Presse,
.
The 131-year-old newspaper, making a bold bid to win a bigger national circulation against the competition of the bigger London dailies, plans to publish an edition in London in the next three or four years.
CRACKDOWN once, complete with printing newspaper industry.
ON REDS
PLANNED
Hollywood, Jan. 6. A 70-minute nim about the life of Mahatma Gandhi has been assembled here from 100,000 feet of newsreels and other films covering a span of 34 years. It has been named "Mahulma Gandhi!" and Mr Quentin Reynolds has been narration signed to
apeak the
Rio De Janeiro," Jan, 16. de Janeiro The Rio produced The film,
by Mr Stanley S.
paper Jumal sold today the Neal for
Brazilian Government is plan- American Asiatic Foundation, ning a vast nationwide crack- may also be down in some commercial theatres. A private down on Communist activities.
The Journal story followed showing of the Alm wil be
persistent reports--me
off made in Washington on January cially denied that strong Red
Dwight Eisen-
forces
for the film.
news-
using
Page 3)
New Zealand Expects Awarded Stalin Prize
Still Further Economic Progress
Wellington, N.Z., Jan. 6.
New Zealand enters 1958 confident that her worst balance of payments difficulties are over and that she is in a sound position to increase pro- duction and consolidate her alrendy enviable econo- mic position.
..
Her Prime Minister, Mr Sidney Holland, says that the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Con- ference from which he has returned took decisions aimed at establishing other Commonwealth coun- tries in a position already enjoyed by New Zea- land.
He suggests that for this expenditure on the Murupara renson the effects of the Con- | newsprint schemo, ference decisions may be felt Meanwhile New Zealand Forest less obviously here than in Producin Lld., the largest pri- other countrick,
vately-ownel forestry undertak- Although the Reserve Banking in the country is nearing the hus released, agures showing completion of iim £0,000,000 ex- that New Zealand had a deficit pansion programme. This will of £27,700,000 in overseas pay enable it to start, during 1953, ments, Mr Holland still affirms the first production here cenfidently
that New Zealand chemical pulp which will be be in balance" with the largely exported to Australia rest of the world and specifically for
manufacture
with the non-sterling arca, by newsprint,
June 1063.
that
of
there into
This company will also pro- Mr. Holland, since his return duce substantial quantities of from London, has not claimed
Zea- kraft papers which New that this means publicly New Zealand
will actually land has hitherto imported.
Altogether the products there balance her overscu tyments of two large undertakings for
her transactions and especially
ions exploiting forests wealth with the non-sterling area
far
br State and
the twelve months ending June Privately-owned and one to
hared between
here believe
next June.
half of this
оп
that that is what
CUT IN IMPORTS
SQVC
on
Talks Run
Into Snag
The Hague, Jan. 0.
The latest oil : painting' of Stalin, entitled "The Morning of our Country” and painted by F. Schurpin, has been awarded the Stalin Prize for palatlog la Moscow---Expres Photo.
Holland has postponed talks Amateur Claims
+
D
Record
Wellington, Jan. 6.
Mr Bowen, who shears sheep as a hobby, first caught the sheep himself before a crowd of spooka- tora on a farm near Palmerston, 80 miles north of here,
30 next. But political observera private investors will he hopes to achieve not mere New Zealand and the Common- ty that defelts on a monthly wealth millions of dollars a year
a few years. within a barls will be eliminated by in-
Against his general nale of Mr Holland has optimism, This might appear optimistic
the light of the defielt founded one warning however- the past eleven months a de- that New Zealand must keep felt which has grown as fast her costs structure down if she alce June 1952 as in the first to maintain her present pros
perity.
the future status of the There *ore, year, however,
LACK OF CAPITAL
Netherlands
the Antilles in signs of a sharp im
in this
"New country's
Zealand's
Indics present West
and Surinam isalance of payments position hamry position is due to our
(Dutch Guiana) because of mis- having held production costs But it will not do so by the Manchester to the South of
now under way.
understandings about interpreta- orthodox, costly method of dupli-England are few and too slow
Small surpluses recorded in better than other countries," he
Mr Godfrey Bowen, 32, New tion of the right of self-
Zealand saw-mill owner and ne coting complete newspaper | fon the highly competitive October and November show claims.
determination. that the heavy drain of earlier "This should Enable New
countant, today sheared 466 sheep. plant BOL the
The Recently, the Guardian, at months New Zealand's Zealand to meet any downward capital.
On his return from New in a nine-hour working day, in Guardian, with a present dally considerable
used a foreign exchange has been ar- trend which may develop in York, the expense,
Dutch Minister for what is claimed to be a now circulation of only about 130, special train which saved, same rested. The export season for world prices."
Unlon and Realm Affairs, Pro- 008 cop
world record, London. But even wool,
One meat,
handicap to industrial dessor and dairy produco
Kernkamp, coples, admits that this is hours into
W. J. A beyond ils resources.
this
did not help much in dis- is now approaching ila peak expansion beginning to make said political friction between
lack of metro- and the coming four months itself felt, is Instead, the newspaper, which tributing outside the
ready Holland and the two territories last September started po'llan orea.
are ones in which New Zealand capital for scomo enterprises. on the territories' future status only publishing news Instead of ad- The planned photographle-normally substantially re-Money is noticeably scarcer had been substantially reduced.
than a year
Many vertisements on its front page, cum-lithographic method will plenishes her overseas funds,
ego and will harness modern inventions, put the Guardian three and
local bodies, for instance, ara
n' into a But he ran
Parli photographic transmission half hours in front of its present
now finding it difficult to ber-mentary storm here three weeks and lithograph printing.
London time-schedule, It will More significant, however, is row for development works. ago, when he revealed that
He broke the 1043 record of The paper will go to press instill, however, have to go to press the fact that the flood of im- However Mr Holland's as- secession clause had been In- Mr Perey De Malmanche, who Manchester each evening in the two hours earlier than the news-ports, which reached an all- surance that New Zealand will cluded in a policy statement sheared 400 sheep in nine hours ordinary way. A good proof papers actually printed in Lon-time record volume at the end call on the new Commonwealth agreed on in the talks.Reuter, in Tanamaki State-Reuter, will be pulled off each page and don to be able to compete with of 1951 and in the early months Finance Corporation for loans transmitted photographically to them in getting on to the streets. of last year, has been cut in for projects giving promise of London, 180 miles away.
The Guardian, so får 13 Is hall, partly through a lapering-
expanded
should production will be the first dally off in consumer There, the film of each page known. have
demand and mean that sound national de will be turned into a plate for paper in the world to publish in partly by the Government's velopment schemes will not be ed Interior in readiness for re-thographic printin copies of niets others steps in before is
By this telephoto-lithograph
distant centres by the combined exchange allocation policy. in hampered for lack of finance. volutionary activity.
means almost
process troduced Inst April
New Zealand therefore enters Nuremberg, Jan. 0.
newspaper Diario da the paper will be distributed in
1953 in mood of quiet The number of unemployed Noltre quoted prosecutor Orlan London
plans are ready. and Southern England
optimism-Reuter. in West Germany rose to 1,- do Ribeiro de Castro of the three and Д half hours earlier 087,720 by the mid of',1952, an Fubile Ministry as paymg yes- increase of 171,783 in
the tarday that armed Hed bands than the Guardian can at pre-
culation among Fritain's ble traders for 1053 allocations allocations already granted to second half of December, main-wore.concentrated in part of sent get copies there.
Investigations and experi- national dallies, newspapers ly due to seasonal causes in the Statca of Golas, Minas
ments to achieve this novel with farming and building, the lab-Gernins, Parena and Rio Grande method of two-city publishing have set up whole
headquarters in London 1953 imports to well below 1952
printing level. statistics office reported 1 do Sol..
have been in progress for three plants
and here today.
editorial depart Golas and Minns Gerains lic
ments In other cities. The It is thus fairly obvious that
Washington, Jan. 0. Unemployment in West Ger- to the North and inland from years.
Express, which STILL SECRET
hag
of the US. A joint scasion Mr Holland believes that, with and past three years Rio de Janeiro. Parana many for the
circulation of about 4,- wool prices holding well for Scnute and House of Repre had reached the two million Rio Grande do Sol Ue to the i
prints and publishes 1952/53 season, with the pro-sentatives today formally pro- mark towards the end of South where Brazil borders on and
London,
duction of meat and dairy Argentina
Manchester and
of Mr January or in curly February, Paraguay.
the necessary machinery, which Glasgow. The Daily Matt with
duce at a high level, and wit claimed the election
Dwight D. Eisenhower as Pre- Reuter,
Uruguay-Associated Press,
will take a considerable time to મ a circulation of 2,100,000, does the prices of these major ex- sident of the United States and deliver, so the project will not likewise in
Man- ports higher than for last sea of Senator Richard Nixon £1.5 rwing for three or four chester and Edinbu start
con, New Zealand has little to
Vice-President, fear if he maintains the curb on years
The Daily Herald with Its
According to the official count Apart from a bare outline or 1,800,000 circulation, the News Imports, us he intends to do. of the votes of the Electoral
This the scheme, circulated to the Chronicle
year will see substantial College, Mr 1,400,000 and with
Eisenhower and Guardian's staff, the newspaper the Daily Telegraph with 970,- progress
launching New Senator Nixon received 442 votes has not disclosed so far the 000 print in Manchester as
well
Zealand's new export Industries while the unsuccessful Democra technical procCESDS which will as ir London. But the
based on extensive softwood tie candidates, Governer Adial NOWE- with the sale of forests,
Stevenson and Senator John which
Mr Holland has confirmed that Sparkman, received 69-France- £10,000,000 will be borrowed, Presse. a day,
mainly in London, for capital
30 for General
Goverment ofeials.-Reuter.
underground
hower and other United States gathered in the sparsely inhabit
our
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to experts that
have prints only in London.
the Guardian may plonecred improvements on the existing methods of trans miiting photographs by wire over long distances.
One sight clue is
1
Born in the smoke of Indus-
trial Manchester, the Guardian
quality has the
of
Lancashire plain hard-hitting in its
opinions. At the same time, it
that the has wit and
and stylish writing. time-lag between the ten-page Many of its day to day reports Guardian going to press In not only tell the news, but are Manchester and newspapers be. ing received in London will be also brillant essays. two and a quarter hours.
Up-to-date telephoto equip ment
"scanning" mechanically at.150 lines to the inch, takes about 30 minutes to transmit a picture.
If known processes are used,
ed
The Guardian has been call- "the voice of Britain's con- science? because it shrines a Liberal tradition which closely reflects the national character of the country, even though politically the Liberal Party has declined.
It is ilkely that each page of the The man behind this ́news-
Guardian would arst be re- paper's brave bid to extend its duced, transmitted, then boot-readership is Laurence P. Scott, ed back to the original page its 43-year-old chairman. size in London.
A grandson of the Guardian's
From the message sent round famous editor, C. P. Scott, he is
the
its staff, it is clear that the regarded by newspapermen as
in Manchester intends its London a new, dynamic forca edition
be tha newspaper industry. ተክለ .
the size
Established in 1821 as a week- page Manchester original, which is ty, the Guardian won its world- about 25 inches by 18% inches, wide reputation under
It is not yet known whether genlus of C. P. Scott who be there will be any variation in came editor when he was 25 the news content betwom the and did not retire until he was Manchester and Lonilon | 82-Iteuter, "editions.
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London, Jan. 6.
deep air raid shelter. at It is one of the paradoxes of Clapham, London, is to be used the British newspaper industry to quarter troops during the that the Guardian should have Coronation, the Secretary for readers in many parts of the Overseas Trade has trifortrict world yet have difficulties in Lloutenant-Colonel M. -Lipton, YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD Across 3 Subsided, 2 circulating throughout, Britain Labour MP for Brixton.
Since the war Clapham Lough, Operates, 10 Orator, 13 Deleted, 15 Alas, 17 Ferment, itself. 18 Devixes, 20 Arld, 21 Rissole, 20, Reefer, 27 Püzered, 28 One of its big obstacles is the shelter which
can
provide Guard, 20 Entrance. Downs 1 Flood, a Rural, 3 Shoot, 4 Spry, English climate which, with sleeping room for 2,000 DROP ↑ Dolle, & Dooist,- Frefer, 11 Refer, 12 Tepld 14 Desire, 16 Logs and sudden gales, makes has been used to accommodate Amuse, 10 Angie, 18 Dapple, 19 Viblet, 22 Bedge, 23 Offal, 24 distribution by air an uncertain Servicen en lekto
business. Night rains from hostel für vigilina
Mr Holland, since he return ed from London, has confirmed that there will be no substantial casing of the couilous exchange
which will reduce
in
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