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MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1953.
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TRANS-ATLANTIC LINER ABLAZE
Revived Empress Of Canada At
announcement Inst
Tweek that a member of
Parliament has introduced in the House of Commona a private member's Bill to give to Britain A "Continental" Sunday
Mercy Of Flames
revives, after a long lapse Murder Sequel:
of time, an old controversy. The sponsor of the Bi believes that a new and simplifed legislative approach should be made to the question of Sunday games and amusements. As one commentator has observed, the Statute Book has been crowded over the centuries with laws affect- ing the Subbath, some of which remain in forze from the distant past and cannot be said to reflect present- day opinion on any side. The now measure would largely repeal them, legalise the playing on Sunday of all sports now legal week-daya and allow the thentres to
the open on same conditions
the cinemas. Safeguards would be introduced to give all employees, including actors and actresses,
ns
un
six-day
week. Clearly there is here a useful basis for national discussion and the exclusion from the Bill of Scotland and Northern Ireland, though not Wales, can be taken as a well-meant, if forlorn, attempt to reduce the strength of the opposition.
LOGIC and common sense may seem at first sight to favour the breaking down of the remnant of the dykes that protect compulsory Babbutarlanism. The rushing tide has swept so much away that restrictiona on theatre opening and so forth can be argued to have
on-
30 Natives Arrested
Nairobi, Jan. 25. Thirty native, including Women, were arrested to a forest today near the scene of the quadruple murder, as troops and police cordoned off the area in one of the biggest drives 'against Man Man terrorists.
A police reconnaissance spolled the natives hiding in a thickly wooded gorge five miles northeast of the farm, where Brilish
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couple, their child, and native servant were hacked to death on Saturday night In a new outbreak of terror in Kenya.-United Press,
Iraqi
LIVERPOOL
DOCKS DISASTER
Liverpool, Jan, 25,
Fire chiefs tonight began to abandon hope of
THE EMPRESS OF CANADA
Thousands Of East
saving the blazing Canadian liner, Empress of Germans Going To Gaol
Canada, a six-hour fight on fire-swept decks.
Flames gained ground on the 20,235-ton ship, while firemen worked in oxygen masks and acetylene welders cut holes in her side to get their hoses through to the red-hot engine room.
Chief Fire Officer Greenslade said: "We must regard it as definitely a losing battle at this stage." Later, firemen withdrew from the blazing liner giving up the fight to save her from the engulfing flames, Sparks flew over the dockside here while the ship burned from bridge to stern. There were no passengers aboard.
The fire, believed to have started mysteriously in the ship's dispensary, while she was in dock after into the engine room.
Government overhaul, destroyed three decks and penetrated deep
Resigns
Baghdad, Jan. 25. The caretaker government Nureddin Premier
Under New Purge
Rebels Seeking Peace
Pl Government's Conditions
Manila, Jan, 20.
The top echelon of the Huk rebels has sont out "pence. feclors", and the government has responded by outlining terms for their surrender and sending afield 10,000 troops to accept día- sidents under the law or up- hold the law by force of arms, the Army revealed
Pope Is Very Mucherday,
Better
WIE
The Army sad no emissary re- presenting the President waiting for Huk leaders to trotamit the
government's "conditions for peace" and an- other meeting had been ar- Vatican, Jan. 25.
ranged. The
oald the Huks Army* Pope Pius showed "con East Germany's Communist purge aimed at day from his attack of in-President Quirino became
siderable improvement" to-ent out peace feslers as early De September last year but smashing opponents of Stalinism is returning thou-fluenza and bronchitis and vinced of their sincerity sands of East Germans to the gaols they knew an official Vatican spokes- last November, under the Nazis.
Berlin, Jan. 25.
Old Socialists and Communists, who fought Hitler, are among those now hunted by East Germany's 20,000- strong secret Communist security police.
con- only
The top Huk leaders are now man said his condition gave believed to be studying carefully no cause for alarm.
in their jungle lairs the follow- ing terms; Manskenor Giovanni Entista
1.The Huks must submit Montini, Vatican co-Secretary
whunte of State, told newsmen that the themselves to Court for
OVET crimes they may have The police, following the pat- Zone, was unknown and he was 70 year old Pontiff was better tern of the Russians, collect believed to be under arrest. and there was no basis to re-committed against the govern-.
ment door tap He has not been mentioned in ports that he was gravely il
and private persona, : their victims after a
2. All firearms and ammuni« the Eastern. press and has not Ho sald, "As a matter of fact, Nazi Gestapo cells which appeared at a Communist rally His Holiness today, for the first tion must be turned in to the survived the bombing of East in weeks.-Unlied Prem..
government. Berlin
are used for interroga-
at down
ti od oficiais have collected
occupants of these cells and themselves in them again. This evidence also shows that though
Apurgo is so far the biggest
Maho I
arrested remains in
a tomping down operation." Есепе
"At len o'clock all men on half an hour of the start of the Germany has known, every
the
of Mahmoud has resigned, un- official sources said today, more and Nuri es Said, 11 times Prime Minister of Iraq, is expected to take over.
lost justification. The case
mentary election. strengthened by the
is
absurdity affecting make-up
vessel is listing to 19 degrees } lowards the quay,”
Firemen on
are
nine
ON HER SIDE
detention ad up to ten dayn
and lifeboats oa the top deck | **
Test
"
time since bis illness, asked and received permission from his physician to assist at a Holy Macs which was held in the
apartmentoring the Papal
3: The President will use his
constitutional right of demeney
Parole to
those who may be convicted.
4. Fifty thousand hectares, of land in Nueva Ecija, public Monsignor Montini said, Central Luzon, will be set aside "There
question of for subdivision as a community '". pneumonia. We are progressing project for the Huks, satisfactorily."
The Defence Secretary, Mr Fope's physician, Dr Ramon Magsaysay, personally
Match: hamb Australia 289 For 2
Tha
בות 19
Ronio Gullcozzi Ligi, said Idd 10,000 soldiers into the field
"His Holiness is not on Saturday to accept surrenders
It's suffering from pneumonia. for compel the Huks toʻgive up no their outlaw life-Unied Press. pricumonia."
of.
Adelaide, Jan. 20. bronchitis and there aro Australia consolidated their symptons position
In the fourth Test United Press. match here this morning against their South Africa, carrying Saturday's closing score of 193
for one to 289 for two at lunch. Hecklers At before being brilliantly stumped Jewish Meeting by Walte-off Tayfield.
Colin McDonald made 154
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BASE CAPTURED
Manila, Jan. 20. Philippine Government: troops on Sunday captured a big Huk production base in the moun~. tains beyond the Ipo dam east of Manila, as the major opera- tions in Luzon Island · surged into
the third day. The armed forces.
Chier
.of
Chief Fire Officer Greenslade good from outside. Inside, of tian said: "We have had to stop course,, she is severely damaged the frontal attack we were and a lot of the woodwork has evidence showing that often old making. We are now playing been burnt clean off on the dock, hoses on, the side of the
in side of the ship
A Reuter reporter on the said tonight;". "Within: ship were withdrawn
water-was-pumped
fire, the Empress of Conade
obscured by one The aboard,
superstructure was completely down to "B" deck is well thick clouds of smoke pouring alight and burning freely and "C" decks. By
from the blaze on the “A”,
bebe
bara, then are, released o'clock
a warning to say nothing Bremen wearing breathing ap- with a Mahmoud, Chief of Staff of
Allled officials say the purge the quayside paratus and working in relays to anyone about what happened.
Von each deck wero finding dif- the armel forces, cel up a continued to play their hoses to culty in keeping on their feet machinery employs secret de non-Party government after the stop the flames reaching docks because of the increasing list of
nunciation by letter. November riots to maintain or sheds. Fire chiefs ordered the ship to port.
This started soon after the order during the recent Parifa-the sistership Empren of
Central Committee of the So- France to move from her borth
cialist Unity Party-official title of the
of the East German Communist rules
Although Mahmoud dissolved behind the burning vessel,
"The liner is lying with her Party-appealed in December costumes and all political
Nuzi parties.
Smoke fumes hampered +5 and by other Said, who has been leader of squads while they used 40 jeta alde only inches from the quay to workers to report adminis
trative fallings directly by the Constitutional Union Party, to get the blaze under control. are only a few feet away from letter to them and not through tween-him-and-captain, The second wicket stand be-
London, Jan, 20. meaningless....survivals. Bul
Hecklers today, tried to break the Shipyard experts were called in the top of the quay warehouse. their chiefs, a social change of
has a such
large backing in
Lindsay Hassett produced 275 up a Jewish protest meeting in Stuff, new. Parlament.
Major-General Calixto vessel developed a 15 The ship has now listet about as the importance in a country so
runs a now record in matches Londer's East End against Duque, last night said that he degree Ust.
16 degrees and has amk conservatively-minded
Australia and South anti-Semitism In the Soviet would take direct hand, Nources Three hours after the blaze several feet in the water. England requires deliberate id, submitted the resignation started, Chief Fire Officer A. G.
Africa.
Union and its East European starting today, in the stepped- scrutiny before it can be of his Cabinet to the Regent Greenslade, reported: "The are
McDonald gave only one real Fatellites.
up operations against the "The upper part of the ship by New! sald with confidence to be after the opening of the
ឆាយ
Four thousand more troops on Several hecklers were thrown this time was affected and flames
chance in his innings of five desirable, Conscientious
Parliament yesterday.
Sunday were assigned to the Consultations
The glant 20,235-ton Empress had eaten through to the main
hours and 10 minutes. He was out of the meeting. between the
oût while playing to a
a ball out- About 20 them jeered and operations, bringing to 10,000 objection remains
deep Regent and the Deputies were of Canada, which sails regular-saloon, Firemen clambered over their families. scated and widespread and
side his of stump. He missed criticised speakers at the meet the number of troops engaged in expected to likt several days by from Liverpool to Canadian the hot decks.
which extends as for, snapped up the balling, which was organised by the drive, wh it has a right to be, heard.
with his Those who fear that any
right bail. on in a map
Britain. scoond.
The meeting passed A move towards a securalised
ro Cagayan Province. Govemment At the adjournment Hassott was not out 120-an addition solution Sunday will harm religion
the Union and its allied countries troops were concentrated on the may be in a minority, but
of. 53 runs to his Saturday's they cannot be dismissed as
closing figure-and Harvey not "to set Jewry free so that its Bulacan-Pampanga sector, where sons and daughters can take most of the top ranking dissident negligible or anachronistic.
More ques-
Fuller has so far taken one part in the building up of the leaders were reported to be in
hiding-France-Presse, wicket for 69 runs, and Tayfield state of Israel Reuter. tions apart, there is the
one for. 31. perennial doubt, voiced by. leading members of the theatrical profession, on the practical validity of guarantees,
Mahmoud, unoMelai 119
11B
and it was believed Nuri es Sold would turn up at the helm when the talk has died away United Press.
Gets Dead Wife- On Payroll
Moscow, Jan. 25.
is blazing furiously."
ports,
CHILDREN SPIES
Refugees from the purge between reach West Berlin at the rate of 100 an hour taring the day. It was confirmed this week that children are taught to apy on are told to report at "They
packing up," familly
refugees szid.
out 5.
as far north as Appari Town,
Most of
rts, was built in 1928 for the Canadian Pacifle Railway Com-
"Just below them three decks schools signs of any of their and Walted and had the the Zionist Federation of Great south as the Bicol, region and pany. She has been in dry lock were bunt through, and they here for her
annual overhaul were making an allout bid to
In its present escond phase
Soviet urging the prevent the flames from com- bronder non-Communist group for three weeks.
pletely involving the top deck. Only a few members of the
"After. four hours Aromen Ings from ministers to house crew
aro being investigated, were on board.
There decided to flood the lower hold wives were no passengers,
with jets of water to bring the refugees said. Ships
dock nearby verrel to an even keel" in the
The third stage is likely to be hunt for scapegoats were moved
among away to prevent
the Communist Party members This may be postponed for weeks or months, but come i must, according to West Berlin politicians who worked under the Russians during and after the war-Reuter.
the fire spreading and fremen A smoke-blackened fire officer clambered on the roof of a "The fire must have been dockside warehouse to direct | burning, a long time before 1 their hoses into the body of the was discovered. vessel.
Intense heat buckled some of the ship's plates sending steel rivets dying.
FALL OF SMOKE ence Sunday
opening was introduced, of at least one day of reat. It remains to be seen whether professional footballers and others will share this doubt.
A Russian weaver was given 20-year gaol sentence for placing his deceased wife on the payroll at the factory where he worked.
。
LATEST ARREST
Berlin, Jan. 28
1
154
Score-board at lunch: AUSTRALIA-1ST ENNINGS Morris, c. Endean b. Fuller C. McDonald, st., Waite, b.
Tayfield A.L. Hassett; not out Harvey, nal out
Extras/
Chief Fire Officer Greenalado said he believed the fire started
The Empress of Canada, a in the ship's dispensary.
troopship during the war,' arrive A pall of dense, black smoked at Liverpool on January 10 The East German security poured over the nearby town from St John's, New Bruns- police have arrested Bruno Jowish leader of the A fire offer said after four wick, and was due to sail back Wolf,
to St John's with passengers Communist Party Central
Committee's Education and Reuter.
According to the charges: Wenver G. Bogdanov urged the factory Director to hire a of Bootle. worker named Finagenova.
11.
He neglected to mention that hours that firemen were making on CMOS 12clic Railways Religious Affairs Department, ;
Finogenova was his first wife, progress but it was not possibie A
dead since 1040.
▸
Scientists To Explore The Upper Amazon
"The
war.
of
helping Jewish
lenders escape
to be
Total for 2 wkis,
Fall of wickets 1/2, 221/2—
289
the
doyen
EACH time this subject is put to the test of public opinion in Britain-and it
to say that the Bre was under official in London sald cost of informed sources said today. has been tested at intervala Finogenova was hired and control. In several places the the ship's construction was "io West Berlin Socialists unid
blase had the since before the first war her time card regularly appear intensity of the
one Wolf was arrested for allegedly Dulles Starts million objections have
Every payday Bogdanov lessened. proved ed.
While smoke poured from stronger than was bargained collected her salary.
had just been over to West Berlla from the Soviet Tour This Week Then he got another idea. He the liner in all directions, hauled In preparation for Zone. Wolf is expected for by the advocates of entered the name of his present colums of steam-glowing red at Coronation voyages. She
WAS a defendant at the East German
Washington, Jan 24, reform. They have met with wife, Uskova, en the payroll and its base -- rose noverat tiundred fully booked by American and show trist along with the for- The new American Secretary resistance in Parliament collected her salary too. At this feet from amidships.
Canadian tourists. --Reuter. mer Foreign Minister, Georg of State, Mr John Foster Dulles, and in the country and they | polat, factory officials decided to A fireman sald: "Strangely The Empress of Canada which Dertinger, deputy chairman of leaves next Friday for a ten- the Christian Democratic Party; day survey of Western Europe, have divided performers check-Associated Press, enough the ship silll looks quite is the victim of the fire is not
the same ship which was familiar the Trade and Supply Minister, including London and Paris,
Mr Dulles and to Hongkong residents before the Karl Hamsan, Liberal Democra
and some Mutual Security Administrator She was Bunk during e Party chairman,
eight other top officials arrested dedmaie, Mr Harold Stance hostilitics...
agents," ; saboteurs will talk to American and The present Empress of Canada Western
In European officials was originally the Duchess of and Zionist spies.
Western xures and Wolf capitals, gathering Information Richmond. She was built at
of complicity in the on which to bans Frosident Clydebank in 1820.
weh secused of
to the Wost- of,
German
Kitenisower's foreign aid bud- Jewish community leaders, Toget. Frother
400 other
They will visit-Rame, Paris, Fast
who fled London, Bonn, Jows
the Harte, from the Communists anti- Brussels and Luxembourg--- Semitic came
the leaders Router. of the pl Berlin,
Leipzig, Tokyo, Jan, 20,
Hale,
Magde General J. Lawton Collins, Co
and. Elachieht, Jewish city Bishop of London, for a
living along the US Army Chief of Staff, arrived gatimatione have eated for BEGIN HOLIDAY commission or committee of Natural History announcing Amazon.
here this morning to open taiks asylum in the West.
Informed sources also report- inquiry to go into the whole this here today, said the eight. They hope to matod collec at the UN Command head-
arrest of the wife of matter commends itself, month expedition would be the tion of their food, woopons, quarters and in Hores on the ed the Inasmuch that it is doubt arst of its kind since the 1920's, clothing and stone and wooden change of the Eighth Army Dertinger, Derlinger was arrest
tools,
War Commnantlers and possibio new ed two weeks ago as a Western ful whether parliamentary
Dr Tachopik sald Very little war strategy. SARKARTAN Epy. The werelds of an The scientlats, Dr Raul de los dobata In Itsolf can Rbs, & Peruvian anthropologist, is known about the
Military Alt oder top: Comments Wilhelm e Indians of His special satisfactorily explore and and Dr Harry Techop, salstant this arce-what kind of people Transport plane landed at Roenen, loader of the Na determine all the pros, and curator of ofhnology at as the they ans: or, even which tribes). Tokyo's International Airport local, Front, largest, Communist at 10.40 am faited Prod. ⠀ prose organisation in the Soviet
into two sharply and vocally antagonistic. camps. This is not a valid excuse for lotting. sleeping dogs lie. The present involved and anomalous state of law cortainly calls for examina- tion, But, before the Sunday Entertainments Act of 1032 and its predecessors are put into the melting pot, thera will have to be an exhaus tive and
New York, Jan. 25.
Two scientista plan to explore the little known upper Amazon river country of South America, sailing wide-ranging in a huge motor-driven dugout canoe and using the
national debate. One most modern research tochniques, suggestion, made by the The
American Museum of Indiana
General Collins In Tokyo
New York, Jan. 25, The former Becretary of inte, Mr Doua Acheson, Riid his wife left New York by plano today for a two-month holiday on the island of Antigua, its the Brillas West Indies,
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