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THE CHINA MAJI, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, ·· 1959.
Pago, B
Tito Becomes President
Austerity
In
nditions Britain
Marshal Tito applauds after taking the oath of office before the Yugoslav Parliament to become the first President of his country. The post WAH created ZA $1 result constitutional changes and Tho was elected by 568 votes 10 one, — Express
Photo.
of
Cairo Changes
Its Tune
Cairo, Jan. 29.
TROUBLE
PURELY
TECHNICAL
London, Jan. 20.
The British Overseas Airway Corporation today began placing back in service its fleet of 10 American-bullt Stratocruisers grounded a week agʊ because of engine trouble.
The planes aro used on The Egyptian Government, services between London and faced with serious difficulties due New York, Montreal and the to unsold cotton stocks, tonight | Caribbean. aantunted conditions for the export of this commodity and American Brid British en- other products.
gineers, who checkert on the
un trouble, found there was
of the
It ruthorised the export of satisfactory lubrication cotton, and other Egyptian pro-engine bearings due to excessive ducts which may be freely dilution of the lubricant with exportes, to the Sterling Area petrol and air under certain against payment of half the price conditions of temperature and In Sterling, and the other half
engine revolutions. either in Egyptian currency on an export account or in barter goods.
Disappearing
London, Jan, 29.
Little by little, the things that go to make living a bit more pleasant are coming back to this island.
Bananas, new cars, white bread, nylons, sweets-something every week or so, but so gradually that it is hardly noticed, and the people are almost unaware that the maze of restrictions and the austerities that have endured since war, time are slowly disappearing,
The Conservativo Government Churchill
the credit.
of Mr Winston
can take part, though certainly not all, of
So Inured are come to the home market changing fo busterity that the Socialists buyer's one. actually raised a bowl when it was announced that eggs would go off the ration this Spring. But they
found little public | response to the arguments that CRES would cost more, for the unanswerable reply was that at least there would be eggs.
Coronation Year 1: partly responsible for the improve ment for the British naturally want to put their best foot for- ward for the hundreds of thou- sands of foreigners who will be here for the crowning of Queen Elizabeth II.
All of these relaxations are not altogether a healthy sign, however,
For example, Australla
50 stashed her import of British- made cars that motorists who thought last Summer that they would have to wait three years or so for a new car now and
"Pompey" Preparing
For Review
Portsmouth, Jan. 20.
In the sailor's town of Ports mouth, base of the Home Flect, preparations are well under way for the Coronation Naval re- view, showpiece of the town's Coronation celebrations.
an ex-
The tip-oft came with the removal of the covenant forbidding the re-sale of ʼn new car for two years, It had been impegod to counter the shary operators who knew the used car price of Саг driven 10 miles was higher than the show. room quotation. Now that safe- gund in no longer necessary.
From February I motorists, for the first time since the Ayar years, will be able to All their] tanks with the brand of petrol they prefer. Hitherto, all petrol has been pooled and every filling station sold the same mixture no matter what the signpost said.
It has alco been announced that the loaf of white Bread, years, will shortly be back on Arst war unavaliable since the
shelves, For 10 years, Britons have had only a dark flour bread. It was nourishing, but it was not dMicious.
Tea went off the ration short- ly before Christmas, bananas about the same time, Sweets are expected to be made ration- free before June, Scotch whisky production for the home market Is up slightly,
NOT ALL SWEETNESS But no one should get the Idea that all is now sweetness
and light for the British family
The meat ration for a week is 1/0d, per person with not much sign Cigarettes cost 3/86, a pack.
of any radical change.
can
The Briton
on holiday take only £25 out of the coun- ships and representatives of the spots of Paris or the ski resorts try. That does, not make for The Flect, with visiting war-
very gay times in the night- Merchant Navy, will be in the of Switzerland and, of course, channel between the Isle of
makes an mainland, and posible. Wight and the
American trip im- naval authorities Bay that spectators should have cellent view from both shores.
Atrangements for the review have not been finalised as yet but it is expected that the Queen, will He said: "There has been all through the ranks of ships some_talk of sabotage, This Is
in the frigate "Surprise", which nonsense. The trouble 40s 3 purely technical one, which curas been in use as the personal engineers and technicians, with yacht of other experts, have now solved" Chief, Mediterranean, and is now
being refitted at Portsmouth on an export account."-Reuter. | --Associated Press.
A Finance Ministry announce». ment said: "This is a departure from the decision ni:endy taken by the Ministry, namely, to allow the export of cotton, and other. Egyptian products which may be free exported, against payment of half the price in dollars and
the other half in Egyptian pounds
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Ir. Miles Themas, B.O.A.C. Chairman, announced the de- cision to put the Stratocruisers back in service.
A British Crossword Puzzle
1 Error.
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4 Layer,
8 Opulent.
ACROSS
.9 Emblem of saintliness,
10 Indemnifles.
11 Prejudice.
12 Mensure out.
14 Portray...
17 Eat away.
18 Shelf.
22
23 Torture..
20 Aggrieved.
27 Lairs.
28 Chirch
29 Bhivering fit.
30 Discover.
31. Torust oneself in. 34 Simmer.
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4 Fight..
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School or collego exercise.
6 On high.
7 Superior.
12 Fitting
13. Journey.
10 Locson,
16 Sword.
10 Really.
20 Attempts,
21 Bird
23 Constellation.
24 Niggard
28 Conclat,
YESTERDAY'S OKOSSWORD. Acrões: 1 Ghosts, 1 Doubt, u Refer, D Ordalh, 10 Final, 11 Mavis, 12 Loop, 13 Codes, 10 Domino, 18 Carrot, 20 Glebe, 22 Visa, 23 Rais, 25 Broad, 20 Depend. 17 Defer, 28 Shied, 20 Degree. Down: 1 Growling, Ordnance, 8 Trim, 4 Senator, 5. Deficit, 6 Orisch, 7 Braco 14 Domineer, 18 Straddle, 16 Dronded, 17 Moulded, 10 Abrade, 21 Laurila, 24.Borg, KONING
the Commander-in-
Naval aircraft, from carriers attached to the Fleck, will also have a greater part in the review than hitherto, according to in- formed sources.
The largest ship. in the review will be the battleship Vanguard, flagship of the Commander-in- Chief of the Home Fleet, in which the Royal Family sailed to South Africa for their tour In 1047,
Consideration also being given to a. suggestion that a review of the yachting fleet be included in the United Press.
ceremonies.--
RED TURNS TO THE CHURCH
Rome, Jan. 20,
The coal ration is so small that many Americans hero-who do not agree that chilly houses bre healthy ran out of fuel be- tween Thanksgiving and Christ- mas and are now taxing Yankee ingenuity to the utmost to keep warm until Spring-United Press.
GANDHI
MEMORIAL
PILLARS
New Delhi, Jan. 30. More than 100 Inscribed memorial pillars are to
be erected throughout India in Gandhi, who was places associated with Mahatma assassinated meeting five years ago today. by a Hindu famalle of a prayer
But the pillars wi
will be only
a small part of the tributes planned by the Gandhi Memorial Fund, built up by the rupees of the rich. and the annas of the poor to more than ten or
crores of rupees (£7,500 OCO):
"Five years after being shot, Rome's Independent news-Mahatma Gandhi is already paper Messaggero reported to legendary Agure, whose
moral day that Aldo Togliatti, son of
political and
influence runs the Italian Communist leader, derp not only in India but also Palmiro Togliatt), has made
throughout the world. complete break with his father's political ideology and is approaching the Catholic
Church.
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Anglo-Egyptian Talks
to
Sir Ralph Stevenson, Britain's Ambassador Egypt, calls on Egypt's Foreign Minister, Mahmoud Fawzi, and hands to him g-new draft agreement for a settlement of the Sudan problem-Express Photo,
Coronation Hotel. Charges Queried
London, Jan. 29.
The Government today replied to suggestions that the record number of tourists expected here for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth might get fleeced by hotels.
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Brigadier Mackeson, Secretary for Overseas Trade, refused, under Labourite questioning, to make public what rates will be asked during Coronation Week
A Look Into The Future
Washington, Jan. 29. Licut, - Generai James Doolittle quoted military sources today so saying that America eventually would produce rocket
engines with a 500,000-pound thrust developing speeds approach- ing 20,000 miles an hour.
General Doolittle, who led the first air raid on Tokyo in the last wat, made this statement
article In an written for "Planes" magazine of the Aircraft Industries Association.
He also sald future Jet fighter planes would dy faster than 1,000 miles an hour and that Jet passen- zer planes to ink New York and Los Angeles (kn air distanco of 2,458 miles) in four hours were being designed
the by United States aircraft in- dustry-Reuter.
But he admitted he Was wrong when he said last month that no hotel would increase its prices more than 50 per cent.
The Juno 2 Coronation
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BALKAN PACT NEGOTIATIONS MAKE PROGRESS
Athens, Jan. 29. Speaking at a Press conference today the Turkish Foreign Minister, Fuad Koprúlu, under- lined the importance of his talks with the Yugo- slavs in Belgrade.
The Yugoslavs, he said, see present and future events and necessities with remarkable clarity and realism.
said
Like Greece and Turkey, the tween the three countries will Yugoslavs see in friendy car be signed or anything about its tacts between there countries a contents. "happy event which in our! FIRM CONVICTION interest and the Interest of Asked whether
cne of the three oppore signature of the phet Italy might peace, every. countries must
develop," he when it is submitted to the NATO Counell for raufication, Referring to his talks with M. Koprulu sald,
"You are the Greeks in Athens, M. Kop- putting me in an embarrassing rulu said, "We have decided to position," continue our conversations' with He however, expressed Yugoslavia with П view to hope that no puct alming reaching more concrete results.
collective security would and This is work of peace and any opposition 'on the part of reinforcement of security in anyone. the interesis of all free coun- Asked whether Italy would tries open to the same danger." join the pact, M. Koprulu said M. Koprulu declined to the past, atened at security, will answer questions such as how be joined by as many countries zoon ho expected the tripartite as possible, pact now being negotiated be
Amnesty For War Criminals?
Tokyo, Jan. 30..
A senior official of the Japanese Suptéme Pro- secutor's Office said today. that he belleted France would grant a general am- nesty to Japanese criminals still in their cus- tody in the near future.
The official, Deputy Chief Procurator Yoshihiro Kishimoto, who has just returned from the Internationaf Criminal Law and Prison Europe, said that he had talked in Corderance
to low officials of Britain, France and the Netherlands re- carding early release of Jppariese war criminals held by their. “
Mr. Kishimoto said he 'find learned from Frčiti officits
that France, Stop
an amnesty to
criminals. Two othnestles have already been granted on
the at
had invited the Greek Foreign M. Kopruhu diretored that ho Minister, Stephen Stephanopoulos, to visit Ankara but no date hai been set yet..
He concluded by expressing the firm conviction that the pact will eventually figned but could not say how soutAociated Prest.
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TO-DAY ONLY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30
9.30 P.M.N
Mr Klchimoto dhat to Johnny Belindar
had discovered through
negolla-
the young Queen and the round ton with the Japanese section CHARLES BICKFORD:
Britain's
the Netherlands possessed coples of. the
court sentences-the only material on which releases can
be based.
of formalitiea that go with it
of the Netherlands Foreign are expected to be the biggest once that neither Japan nor tourist draw in history.
Álexander Bir
Maxwell, Chairman of the British Travel and Holidays Association, to- day forecast a record influx of 800,000 Overscan Visitors in 1953, bringing £125,000,000 to the nation's hard-pressed coffers.. Sir Alexander sald that as he saw it the Government had no responsibility for hotel clinrges.
He had no power to make
And
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Beethoven
Both Japan and the Nether- lands had taken steps to get Feb. 1. B. The Tolfe & Loves of coples from the
Government.
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Indonesian.
Mr Kishimoto said the chair
of the British Wor Criminais Release Committee had told him: "I fully under- stand the feeling of the Japanese
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hotels publish their charges, People, but I would like the COMING.
Japanese people to understand to publish percentage in the sentiments of the maiy treases would bo misleading people here in
in Britain who bécause many hotels were offer- suffered at the hands of the Ing extra services for the Japanese_army."
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Coronation period, he said.
Mr Kishimoto said the Dutch But he added: "I
bo would seemed to
of the Game strongly deprecate any attempt opinion-Reuter.
hotels to
to exploit the shortage accrunodation but I have no reason to suppose that they are abusing their
position. "Statutory control of charges woula bo impracticable and unenforceable. If vialtors make
B.O.A.C. PLANS their own bookings in London
FOR AFRICA
London, Jan. 29.
Sir Miles Theanas, Chairman of British Oversens Airways, to- day forecast a more Intensive use of afr services for the whole of the African continent,..
Comet Jela airliner services are to be increased and speeded up, he said on his return from a visit, to Johannesburg.
Tourist services, about 25 per
Garlanded portraits of the Mahatma decorate every publie hall in the country and president cheaper than prezent rates, over every Congress medling,
are to be operiled in conjunction Four muscunts are to
with South African Airways-later bo The Rome
this year. newspaper, said built by. The Memorial Fund to the youth was reported to have contain the rolics of the Sir Miles flew into London Air contacted Maurillo Cardinal Mahalma, who revolutionised port in a Comet from a 12,000 Fossati, Archbishop of Turin. and led this to freedom through mile business wip to Central and -Associated Press.
non-violence-Reuter,
South Africa--Reuter.
Talks On European Transport Pool
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and
pay what they are charged, that is not a matter with which we can deal.
Labourite Jennie Lee, wife of Aneurin Bevan, had asked for a tribunal to which visitors could take any complaints of Beccing. ----Associated Press.
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Promise Made
To Israel
"Wanted" Man
In Bonn?
Bonn, Jan. 20.
• Frinz Rademacher, German war criminal belleved to have escaped abroad after being con- victed of responsibility in the wartimo kuling of 1,800 Serbian Jews in Yugoslavia, lo now sus pected of being in Bonn, the West German capital
A woman friend of Radema
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CLAUDETTE COLBERT
JACK HAWKINS
The PLANTERS WIFE
ANTHONY STEEL
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cher was detained recently for H. K. S. P. C.
time on suspicion that she aided his flight. He was thoughst to have gone either to South. America or East Germany,
Rademacher, former official in the Nazi Foreign Ministry, 'was sentenced to three years, and five months imprisonment by a German court in Nuremberg last March.
Bonn, Jan. 20. The West German Chancellor, De Konrad Adenauer, 'hòa pro- mised that his Government would pay the first $47,000,000 reparations within the next two lease Instalment of German-Israel
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He appealed against the sen tence and was released from arrest in August. The
was later rescinded at the request of the prosecution, At the same time, the 77-year-| but Rademacher had by thến old Christian Democrat an-disappeared Reuter. nounced-Wat the pact would bo
months.
of
Goering Land
Forfeit
FLAG
DAY
submitted to Parliament for ratification later this wock despite Arab threats Paris, Jan. 29. Those represented today are An International organisation concinie Boycott against Get- Transport Ministers drom France, Italy West Germany, to co-ordinate West Europe's marly 12 the $822,000,000 «ärco-
Hunt eight European countries met in Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, road, rail and water traffic woj becomes effective.
Vienne, Jan. 20. Paris today to fake
A German the first the Netherlands and Luxembourg. recommended by the European
Government The property in Austria Lof tentative steps toward unifying| Among the measures the three Consultative Assembly mestite pokesman disclosed that Dr late Field-Martial Hermann Utek transport systems.
Strasbourg, day conference' is the French | in
France, los Adenauer máão" these promises Goering, tofmer Nazi leader, | Foreign Ministry will stikly azer September. A envisioned, the to Dr Nahum Goldman, Prest has been declared fortalt to the The French Transport_Minis- 1 plan to extend the pee organisation would not have dent of the Jewish World Con-State under the War! Criminals ter. Andre Morice, last Decem-sent arrangements for pooling supranational powers,
forened да Matotal Claims .by. D LINZ bør invitéel 11 countries to meet | freight cars at all member wine ligger bag
adalhist derinny when the
property,
at All nations participating in latter met with the Chancellor
about in ah offert do set up a Europeat tric
(about transport pool something like Standardisation of railroad the present
f. conference are two days ago.ri
000) schillings members of the Organisation of Dr Adenauer fold corfeyond- Casila in Salzbura province, consists of: Maülendori the already-operating Schuman equipment,
Unification, where possible, European Economie Co-opera-ents youferddy that he had which was left to Goering dur TOMORROW bol-sical pool....
of railroad tariffs. Mga tion. (OEEC), which called it assured: Dr Goliman that the ing the war under the will of 4—Co-ordination of trunk own conference to study trans- Imael Government need not its owner, Elizabeth Eppenstein, highways and tepala- used for pork co-ordination next March worry about Germally tulnung Her, hales, atq international trudilo.
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