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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1953.
No
Naguib Says: Bargaining
Traditional
celebrations
Bamang-
were held by the walo tribe in Bechuanaland following the recent birth in England of a baby son to Ruth Khama, wife of Rercise Khama, the exiled chief of tho
tribe, The Khamas already have
daughter al hamed Jacqueline, born Serowe in May 1950, who is pletured here holding her baby brother-Express Photo.
Murder
To Be Re-Enacted
Tunis, Mar. 17. Examining magistrates who pre Investigating the murder tast December of Tunisian labour leader Ferhat Hached will re- the crime tomorrow CIRCL morning.
an
outspoken
PRODUCTION
OF GRAIN
LAGGING
London, Mar. 18. World production of grain has not kept pace with the in- crease In population since be- fore World War II, the Com- monwealth Economic Committce reported today:
Exportable surpluses of grain other than rice are becoming concentrated in fewer countries,. mainly dollar countries, It said In the latest issue of its publien- tion Grain Crops."
ar
Figures covering the post-war years up to 1952 show that the production of wheat and matze, the two largest grain crops, increased, but that of rice, the next largest, remained station-
1051 The level of grain in The Press and public will be barred from the reconstruction | exceded pre-war average, but of the murder but Huched's car, this increase came largely from and the witnesses nlready heard the expansion of wheat and in the ease, will take part. four s export level continued i
Hached,
The rice cpponent of the French and-an-low-and-rice-Importing nations advocate of Tunisian national-had to supplement supplier by ports of flour, barley, imports ism, was brutally murdered on Larger
around 8 a.m. as maize and cats,
In the 1051-52 season, grain production outside the Soviet Union and Chine reached its second highest total in the post- war period, but the increase over the
only pre-war averago was three per cent compared with an increase of population in the came period of about 10 per cent. --Reuter,
December
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The reconstruction will take place at about the same time in the morning.
Police,
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will machineguns,
play the role
of the murderers. They will use Ilve ammunition.
Maitre Izarl of Parls, r presenting the Hached family, ld that all will be done in an attempt to throw some light on "a murder which was at once odious and mysterious"
Murder of the Tunisian labour
off touched leader
demon- strations
in the and striken French North African pro- Tectorate of Morocco
a short time later. In
disorders which followed, five Europeans and an estimated hundred or more Tunisians were killed.- Aociated Press.
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"War In Each
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Talks On Canal Base
Cairo, Mar. 17.
Egypt, in her current talks with Britain, will accept no bargaining on her basic demand for un- conditional evacuation of the British Suez base. This was made clear today by senior Egyptian officials.
The Premier, General Mohammed Naguib, reiterated to newsmen that Egypt's stand is un- conditional evacuation. The Foreign Minister, Mahmoud Fawzi, also addressing reporters, denied Press reports that talks on a mid-East defence organisation were under way.
Negotiations toward evacual-viewpoint was publithed da the fion of the big British base in Press more than a year ago." the Suez Canal virtually started He did not elaborate. last Saturday when General Russia in the past has re- Noguib
British and Fawzi went into peatedly stated the conferenco with the British Am- should evacuate Suez,---Ass- bassador, Sir Ralph Stevenson,ciated Press. and America's envoy, Jelterson
Caffery.
Later Egyptian official cireles described the meeting as a pre-, liminary contact, adding that the actual talks still were to stari. But the presence-for the first time in Anglo-Egyptian discus sions of the U.S. envoy started speculation that negotiations Egypt and the Western powers toward setting up a Mid- East Defence Organisation wore being entered simultaneously with the evacuation talks.
between
Westem observers here stres ed that it was only natural that both America and Britain wanted to bring about as soon as pos- sible a defence organisation to British fill the gup Teft by evacuation of Suez if and whe British troops are withdrawn.
Last night, however, Fereign Minister Fawzi told newsmen that America was not "a third party" in the Anglo-Egyptian
Third Russian
Warning To Egypt
Cairo, Mar, 17. Russia has again warntð Egypt that rho would con- sider any Egyptian parti- cipation In Western sponsored Middle East de- fence organisation "an un- friendly,
If not hostile, act," according to diploma- to' quarters tonight.
AT. Semen Kozyrev, Soviet Minister to Cairo, was
have reported to reiterated his Government's point of view today when he called on the Foreign
Dr Unister,
Mahmoud Fawzi, to
to thank him for the
sympathy-shown-by-the Egyptian Government and people on the occasion of the death of
Stalia. Russia gave two similar warnings last year.
Russia's
de- unofficial marche today followed renewed Anglo-American effort this week-end to in- duce Middle East defence na part of the impending talks for the evacuation of Brillah troops from the Suez Canal
zone. Reuter.
Egypt to disctiss
.
Alleged Violation
Of U.N. Resolution
France Accused By Arab-Asian Bloc
United Nations, Mar. 17.
Fourteen Arab and Asian accused tonight nations
the Franco of violating United Nations resolutions on Tunisia and Morocco and charged the French with intensifying "repres sive measures" against the
North African nationalists.
In letter to the Generni Assembly President, Mr Lester Perren af Canada, the Arab- Aslan bloc threatched to bring the North African situation be- fore the appropriate United No- tions organ, presumably the Security Council, if speedy ac- 112 to
remedy the situation were not taken.
lo
13
In an accompanying memor-
the nations said Bndum, persons had been summarily executed in Tunisia by the French military authorities since resolutions the Assembly passed last December urging negotia- tlons and calling on both sides to refrain from acts likely to The aggravate existing tensions. group said in a letter to Mr. Pearson that 13 other Tunisian nationalists were awalling execution and appealed to him to intercede on their behalf.
A spokesman for Mr Pearson stld the communications would
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"DANGEROUS"
The letter on Tunisia-almost Identient with the letter dealing with the
Moroccan situation-- sald a "dangerous situation" still existed in the Mediterranean protectorate. It charged that the French authorities continued to take
repressive measures "in an intensified
manner." evacuation talks, but that
Referring to the Assembly "America, F a friend of both
resolution on Tunisia, the parties, wants to sec
Anglo- letter
"We regret the sold, differences settled Government of France Egyptian amicably,"
GOOD OFFICES
In other words, he said, the
this
tho
so für has given no indication It In tenda to implement the provi- sions of this resolution abide by its spirit."
or
ment had "taken no effective measures to curb the campaign of terrorism directed by under- organisations against ground nationalist leaders","
The accompanying memoran- dum listed instances where members of the families of Tunisian leaders were subject~ ed to bomb attacks by mem bers of an alleged "Red Hand"
United States was lenting its It said the French Govern- good offices in the current talks Berlin, Mar. 17. British and American envoys The former
French Prime meet Premier Naguib separate Minister, Edouard Daindler, who ly on Sunday but no date for is leader of the Radical-Socialist the next meeting.
with either Ralph Stevenson or Mr Party, m ja
interview Sir ani
hos been announced published here today that any Caffery one carefully reading the Bonn yet.
visit the treaties "enn and war in cach Meanwhile
morning of the Russian Minia- "I am proud that the Radical- jer, Semen Kozyrev, to Socialist Congress at Bordeaux Egyptian Foreign Minister stir- dananstrated the real nature of red up reporters' curiosity. the Bunn and Paris treaties," he Mahinoud Fawzi, answering added.
a question, said the Soviet en- M. Daladier declared: "The voy had come to thank him for majority of the French people condolences extended by Egypt Stalin's occasion of opposed to the treaties and on especially to German rearma- death, adding they discussed ment."
"other affairs".
clause
the
organisation. United Press.
Treaty Ratified
Baghdad, Mar. 17. The Senate today, ratified the Iraqi Indian treaty of friend- November 10 Chamber
The
The Interview was published Fawzi, asked whether Russia ship signed on here by the Berlin periodical had expressed a viewpoint on last year. "Shoos," licensed in the British the question of the evacuation Deputies has already approved sector-Franco-Prixen.
of Sucz, said, "The Russian the treaty-Reuter.
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