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MADE
COMMENT OF
THE DAY
Inauguration Day
TO the American nation,
Tthe pomp, and circum-
stance, the colour and gaiety will capture chief attrac tion at today's inauguration of President Eisenhower. But to the outside world principal interest will be concentrated on Mr Eisen- hower's first speech as the new President of the United Btates and recognised leader of the free world. The Importance of Mr Elaen- hower's speech need not be underrated; nevertheless, it In unlikely that he will do than present ព generalised outline of the policies-foreign and domestic-which hind administration intend to adopt during the next four years, Some of these can be safely forecast, Assuredly he will reaffirm the United States' faith in the United Nations, for this organisen- tion still stundu as the only corner stone upon which world security can established. Mr Eisenhower
more
can
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101 EGYPTIAN CIVILIANS In For An
Big Round-Up Of Mau ARRESTED
Mau Suspects
́Nairobi, Jan. 19.
Forly-five members of anti-white terrorist Mau Mata gangs were counted in the not today after a round-up sweep through 100 square miles of the Aberdare forests.
The operation, named "Longstop", was conducted by a mixed force of King's African Rifles, European members of. the Kenya Regiment, and Kikuyo resistance men, under') Assistant Commissioner of Police MoGoun.
They combed the mountaina and the forest edges where the Mau Mau gangs lay in walt to raid farmsteads at night in search of food.
The total bag in this operation and the two preceding ones, "Blita" and "Yellow Hackle", was 104 suspects, in- cluding three killed,
Authorities said there is evidence that further large groups of Mau Mau are still in the area and the search is to
the raiders.— continue with nightly ambushes to trap
Associated Press.
OFFER MADE TO MUTINOUS CONVICTS
Pittsburgh, Jan. 19,
Prison officials, backed up by scores of heavily- Le armed police, today promised 1,100 mutinous Western Penitentiary convicts an investigation of all their grievances if they would end their two- day riot and surrender four hostages.
o be expected to restate his confidence in the ability of the North Atlantle Treaty Organisation to build itself into an effec: Live instrument against Communist aggression in
A 12-man delegation representing the rioters agreed to present the terms to the mutineers for "their reaction."
Western Europe. But it is Parliament Reapons the prisoners' delegacions th
also likely that the now President will indicate his
preoccupation with the failure of
European Eden
members of NATO to live up fully to their rearm-
antent obligations during Face
Will Many
Questions
Communists Included
Cairo, Jan. 19.
The Cabinet Minister, Mr Fuad Galal, an- nounced tonight that 101 civilians, including 48 "known Communists," were arrested when the Government cracked down on a threatened plot last week.
Mr Galal, Minister of National Guidance, said they were held in addition to 25 army officers.
Of the arrested civilians, 39 were suspected of having connections with foreign elements in- terested in fomenting trouble in Egypt, Mr Galal said..
told pressmen on Saturday that some of the plot- The Premier, General Mohammed Naguib, ters had foreign connections but would not say with what country.
Mr Galal added that 14 of the arrested belonged to various political parties, all of which were disband. ed by government decree in the wake of the discovery of the plot.
District Attorney Jamca The 14 came chiefly from the Malone presented the terms to Waldisi Party-once the coun
effort to halt the rioting, in from the Saadists, who split off which the prisoners wrecked from the Nationalist Wată,
Mr Galal the cells, built Ares that cut off electricity and seized four or guards as hostages.
antry's most powerful group and Family Of 3
would not confirm Die From sty that the Waid's long
leador, Mustafa Nabas, Shot Wounds
had been AITCSt.
placed under house
returned to
The prisoners shivered in the heatless 65-year-old prison and Mustafa Nahas they had been given no food. Calro from a holiday at Aswan, since the rioting started on in Upper Egypt, Sunday,
BA
conditions for the
Before if banned the parties while it was still cam- The rioters had filed 13❘ and London, Jun. 20.
Including Improved the Nagullb Government demands,
for their "purification," food,
had Parliament, reassembling restoration of order. But officials objected to his being recognised today, will press the Foreign said they would agree only to as lender of the Ward. Secretary,
Anthony "complete an Impartial Investi- Eden, now acting as Prime gation of all your complaints." Minister, for news on many
United Press.
vital International
Mr
Issues
that have arisen during its month-long
recess.
Christmas
and
Mr Galal gove the first official
names of those arrested at the
week-end.
Among them
were: Prince YELL INSULTS
Abbas Holan, cousin of ex-king Farouk, who was implicated 'In Pittsburgh, Jan. 19,
the scandal over the purchase of Rebellious prisoners
today faulty arms for the Exptian yelled insults to more than Amy during the Palestine war, 400 police carrying rifles
He was held under arrest by machine-guns, who-ringed the General Naguib from September
State Western
penitentiary until December 1932, when be ready to stop a mass break-out, pledged support for the regime.
Fund Serng Er Din, millionaire, former Secretary-General of the Ward Party.
the past year, and he may also express some concern over the relative slowness of achieving political and economic unity in Western Europe. As Supreme Com- mander of the Allied Powers in Europe last year he gave expression to his disappoint- ment that progress in this direction had been tediously slow, and his recognition of the importance of West Europe as a bulwark against Coramuntat expansion may bring from him today an appeal for a more energetic tackling of common prob. lems by the Allied Powers in Europe. THE Far East will await with special interest for
roforence to American policies relative Some of the topics on which to this part of the world,members await information are: 1. The British Government's He may, for example, offer
recent disclosure of a new Nazi the first clue as to the plot in Western Germany high- conclusions he reached conlighted by the arrest of former sequent on his trip to Korea. Nazis: Mr Eisenhower has already
2. Developments in the critical night, acknowledged that -Bettle-
fred Anglo-Egyptian negotiations now ment of the Korean war is taking place in Cairo
on the escaped. aine qua non to the constitutional future of the stabilising of world peace,million-square mile Sudan.
The rioters set fire to parts of the building, but fremen, escarted but he has yet to disclose
towards by warders and police, doused
any"
3
new
~ Mr Winston Churchill,~~~now ending a holiday in Jamaica, will miss the first week's meet ings, which are likely to include a domestic row on proposals to
Increase read and rail transport fores.
made 3. Progress
The Reverend Vincent R. Hallstein, 鼗 Roman Catholic chaplain ELC Western State, made a valn bid to talk the 1,000 rioters into surrender.
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· Bexhill, Jan, 19. Police today found Nirw
··B. ́Alexander and her son, 'Anthany, - - 15, dead – from. -bullet wounde in their
home at Bexhilt, Sumter.
The wounds had been infleted apparently by service revolves.
In the same room Mr Alexander's husband, Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Alexander, MC, of Hart- Ings. He had severe head wounds and was taken to hospital where he died.-- Reuter,
Bid For
Continental Sunday
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New Pension Scheme For Services
London; Jan. 19.
A White Paper issued to- day gives further details of the new pensions scheme for widows and children of regular members of the forces which was announced in Parliament. before the Christmas recess.
The following are the new amounts per year for widows of permanent regular LITTLу officers:
Overhaul
Work fa now in progress at Southampton overhani of the
on the annual world's largest liner, the Queen Elien- beth, She will be. In
pork anti:February 11, and is at present in, dry dock. An army of over 2,000 workmen. engaged, on the work.. Some are seen here, working. on the mighty chaing" undér":" the glant bows of the vessel. -London Express
Fog Causes Disruption
London, Jan. 19. Fog. already blanketing large part of England and Wales will last a further 48 hours, weather experts said tonight.
It was, expected to become denser during the night.
Because of fog. Thames ship- to standstill today. General's £900; Brigadier's to leave London
airport took Colonel's £220:
off. All 48 Incoming Loutenant-Colonel's £180;| °
diverted,
sted, postponed or
Field Marshal's widow £300;
a
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SPIES CONFESS GUILT
Give Evidence
At Trial
•
T.
and
London, Jan. 19. Hristov,
Belf- confessed "American train ed spy" told the Bulgarian Court today that he had been armed for his masion with false identity papers, two pistols, three camoraa bottle of poison among other things,
He and some other Bulgarians, all accused of plotting to over= throw the Communist regime, pleaded guilty and made a full confession of their guilt in the Sofla High Court, according to Sofa Radio.
Hristov, described as a former. member of the Bulgarian Tsarist army, said he had been trained In his spy work in Turkey by an American agent.
In his evidence, Sofla Radto aald, he admitted crossing the Turkish frontier Into Bulgaria to organise a spy ring and open the way for an "imperialist aggression."
The Radio said the group worked for a centre organised in Turkey by the American Intelligence service,"
The
ALLEGED
AMI
organisation aimed "at restoring the former capitalist regime and overthrowing the existing legal order with thes help of foreign military inter-
from. vention
abroad," the
Radio said.
It did not give the number before tha of people on trial Sofia High Court. But the Bulgarian, Nows Agency mit
that yesterday
ten
people would stand trial
Representatives of the Bul- garian and foreign press and Down #gmales were present to- day according to the Radio.
The indictment said that "the Balkan satolle of the imperial- 1st countries have become centres attracting spies and plotters and have been turned into espionage centres for the policy pursued by | the imperialisis.
General'a £425: Lieutenant-ping came General's £350; Major Only one of the 7 air liners ducriminal elements" and were
£250:
Major's £140; Captain and Lieutenant £110.
Children of all officers of all ranks £32 oach: if motherless
250.
corres- The list applies to ponding ranks in the Navy and Air Force
New rates for families of Warrant Officers class one are: widow £60; each child £20,
WEEKLY RATES
INTERIOR MINISTER He was Minister of Interior during the Black Saturday riots In Cairo in January 1952 for "I tried to persuade them to
which he was held to be end everything peacefully but
"administratively they refused," he said,
responsible Fathy Ramly,
London Jan. 19. communist
Mr John Parker, ferocity of the editor of Al Moorda, one of the Despite the flot, which broke out
last six
communist
newspapers Labour member of Parlin not + shot has been which have been closed down.
ment, made a bid tonight to and not a prisoner, has Mr Galul said the banning of free England from the legal
all political parties, was the "logical end of a decayed and shackles that prevent the corrupted regime."
public here from having "o Everybody in Egypt is sick of contimental Sunday." whether or how a rapid end settlement of the Anglo-Persian the dares,
the political strife which is de- Parliament published the text trimental to the country. The of a private Bill be has intro- For widows of men of ranks to the conflict in Korea can oil dispute now being discussed Needy every window in the interests of the nation were dired to repeal part of Britain's below Warrant Officer class one be achieved. It is to be very in Teheran by Dr Mohammed cell blodes was mashed by the sacrificed to the Interests of par- centuries old Sunday Observance to a minimum period of reckon
ties and those of the parties Anis much doubted whether, In Mossadegh, Persha's Prime
Ime |noters during the night. They sacrificed to the benent of in-
able service to quality, the hia inauguration speech, be Minister, with Mr Loy Hender-niso maled furniture out of
Those Acts, dating back to following are the weekly rates; dividuals. windows.
1625, ban many kinds of enter Warrant Officer class two 12/01 will satisfy speculation con- son, United States Ambassador,
4. The new anti-Jewish and The convicts had seized four
political
parties failed to feainment and activity, including at 22 cerning the possibje future anti-Western campaign in the wardens as bossinges, but later purge themselves. Not only that sregular theatre performances, va in 24 years; 15/- at 27 years; |
at 32 employment of Chinese Tron Curtain countries.
years; 20/- at: 37 released one. They put forward but they continued to hinder the the Sabbath Nationalist forces based on
no Me Parker's Bill, backed by 13 demands for better food and new regime. now entering conditions, including
Staff sergeant --- Parliament
10/-; 12/04; Formosa, or whether he will
to get rid of nine other Labour and Conserva- alternative but
tive members either on a period that will lead up to be allowed to study law books them."Router. make reference,
of Parkmanent, 15/-; 17/64
Sergeant seeks to legalice on Sundays the direct or indirect, to the dnto a short political truco for the no that they run file count peti-
--- 10/- 0) 27 years; Coronation of Queen Elizabeth, 11 tone.
playing of all games and the 12/0d at 32 years; 15/ at 37 neutralisation of the June.
curving en of all sports which | years. Formosa Straits and the im-
Warden John Claudy, who
position of
But two major battles lle estimated damage to the prison all-out
ahead blockade of the China-coast
over Government plans more than $50,000, vowed that which many of his Party to de-nationalise the fron and there would be no compromise
to with the convicts, steel industry transferred aupporters have been ad-public ownership by the Labour Governor John Fine also tald vocating for some time past. administration in,1050, and the there would be no bargaining His messago to Asia is more road transport industry acquired with them-Router. likely to take the form of by the State in 1947. promising United States
an
Both acts of nationalisation
assistance, particularly eco wero part of the Socialists" "Arst nomic, to all those peoples five-year plan" Introduced when prepared to unite and active they won power in 1945.—Reu-
ly combat and withstand fer.
Communist threats to their
freedom and wolfare. Mr
Mountaineers
...Give. Up
the
Buenos Aires, Jan. 19.
"The
There
Was
Cost Of Living Quiz
London, Jan. 10. Twenty thousand British familles are to be quizzed on their spending habits to help the government find out what the cost of living really is in the nation today.”
Father will be asked to keep
a record over three weeks of Six Japanese mountaineers to how much he spends on drinks,
are permitted on wedddays.
years.
Corporal and Private 10/-
It bims to give theatres the at 32 years; 12/6d.at 37 years. sume Sunday opening rights us Amounts for children of all aro enjoyed by cinemas andrandes are 3/6d per week for 5/- musical entertainments under the Act of 1032-Reuter.
SEARCH IS
ABANDONED
Manila, Jan. 20. ; The search for 19 missing crow
scribe to the policy of pt Report Denied day wave up their attempt to smoking, train fares, having his members of two Navy and Cout
Elsenhower may not sub.
if motherless.
There, la a new benefit for widows of regular officers and other ranks dying while serving after August 31, 1950. A widow's gratuity" will be £900 where terminat grant would have been payable on Invaliding with 20 or | more years rockonable service, loas £45 for each year or part of a year short of 20 years.
The minimumn with reckonble service is £450.
Where no terminpble grant scale Mount Aconcagua (23,380 haircut in fact what happens Guard planes which crashed off would have been payable the teeth, the western hemisphere's to every half-penny in his the Communist China coast has amount is 200 toute
been discontinued, because there Paris, Jan. 19.
highest peak, according to report pocket.
Mother will record every way "Do
of further! possibility spokesman at General from their base at Plaza de fested a willingness to see Matthew Ridgway's
item in her budget from mutylvora," z Navy spokesman SHAPE MU,
Buld that those who are prepared Headquarters today Issued a A razilian expedition also toothpaste totoys son will at
disclose how much he spende
vale that 10 aurvivor to help themselves shall also "complete denial? that the gave up the attempi.
The Japanere expedition-five on his girl friend and daughter alteady picked up by the US be helped. The world anti-General had contemplatet er elpates Mr Eisenhower's was contemplating asking to be students and a motemor frem will tell what her lipstick and destroyer, Alton Powell, would be flown to Chinown and Sangley Inauguration with uncon- relieved of his prescht appoint Wanda University bod Imped to cinema going cost.
make the bilinh today but were Announcing the enquiry Point as soon as possibetined to it shop on the outskirts of cealed· Interest; but even
wrocked & owned chem- insufficiently today, the Ministry of Labour [repbebell 40 "be
The spokesman The spokesman was referring trained. Thets base is 13,800 feet sald it is to enable the Depart comment alther way on reports Tunis, slightly wounding sev kéonor attention will be paid
**ment to preparo a firm and up that the first plano was shot etul people in a nearby cate.) to the early months of his to a report in a British Sunday above the forehe
newspaper. lat. General Ridg“ Boven climbers from two to clate basla for o revised index down by Communist. Bak: or The bomb was placed at tha Prostdency when United way wanted to be replaced by Argentino expeitions reached of retail prices. It will be the whether the second Nawy rescue entry of the shop, which was, States foreign policies will a more politically minded mills] the leg treat; of Aconesjum on biggest quis of its kind since plane, was fired on by a Com- emply at, the time of the ex- begin to reveal themselves."* tory: Cortinander-i
Thurway ste
1985-Reuter."
munist fighter United Prom, plosion-Reuter.
ting Asians dgalmat Asians,
but he has clearly, mani- |..
ment.
Sangley Point today.
ANOTHER TUNIS. BOMB OUTRAGĖ
A bomb
Tunis, Jan. 19.
tonight
were
Nights
The indictment said that there Bizerts Fiona recruited from
then drained in Greece, Yugo- slavia and Turkey, "ngenta of foreign imperialists."
was paralysed on many. They were also provided with roads and some Tong-distance arm and equipment, the indict- coach drivers abandoned their ment said, adding the agents vehicles and found accommoda-aro then secretly transferred into tion for the night.
Bugatia with instructions for Five ships were involved in conduding propaganda subvor- collisions of Flushing tonight|sion and other revolutionary through fog.-Reuter.
Ediles."--Reuter,
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