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No. 35584
COMMENT: OF
THE DAY
France's Weakness
A
CONSTITUTIONAL re-
form, based on the recommendations resulting from two and a half years study by a Parliamentary commission, was passed by the French Assembly last week. It has still to go before the Upper House and will not do so before the autumn. The reform is a minor one and amounts to tinkering with whất was from the beginning a bad job. It will be just as easy as before to bring about the. downfall of a Government, though it may be slightly more difficult to prevent a new.one being formed. A Prime Minister designate will in future need only a simple majority-which several of the candidates in the recent crisis achieved. He will no longer need to submit himself twice for investiture, first alone and later with his Cabinet, but only after forming his Cabinot. Though this may reduce the length of the period during which Franco la loft without a Govern- ment, Governments when formed, may havo rather less support than they do nt present. When a Prime Minister designate had to win an absolute majority it was possible to defeat him by abstention. Now it will be necessary to vote against
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MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1953.
Today's Weather: Moderate ocesalonally fresh, gusty Est winds. Cloudy with oooasional 'showers.
Kashmir Crisis: Police
Soviet Ship On Crowds
Seized
Tokyo, Aur. 10.
A Japanese boat early this morning captured a 35-ton Soviet boat off the northeastern tip of Hokkaido Island, # was reported today.
The Maritime Safely Board's 270-ton "Iahileri” caught the Bovlet boat "Ulegally entering" Japan. ese waters and immediate- ly ordered it to a Japanesa port, the report said.
- The Soviet ship had four crewmen aboard Many Japanese fahing boats had been captured by the Baviats since the war but this was the first time thai a Japanese ship seized Soviet vessel. - United Press,
Stalling Tactics By Russia
DEMONSTRATORS
THROW STONES
One Man Killed: 31 Arrested
Srinagar, Aug. 10.
Steel-helmeted armed police patrolled the streets of Srinagar last night after police and militia opened fire to disperse stone-throwing demonstrators, who shouted slogans against the new Government of Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed.
One man was reported killed in the distur- bances, which followed the arrest of Sheikh Abdullah, Premier of Kashmir.
Arrested with Abdullah were Mir Afzal Beg, Revenue Minister; Jankinath Zutshi, Director- General of Information; Ghulam Mohammed Ashai, Registrar of Kashmir University, and. Shamlal Saraf, Director of the Visitors Bureau.
In all 31 people were rounded up.
Children were among people who formed pro cessions after the arrest of Sheikh Abdullah, which took place at the mountain resort of Gulmarg, south- west of Srinagar, ・・
London, Aug. 9. Informed diplomatic London said sources in today that the Soviet Union appeared to be stalling on him. This
a top level Big Four con- difference, since deputies ference because it was un-had have shown 21 notable willing to commit itself on tendency to prefer more or a firm policy toward the less
covert obstruction- West. typified in abstention-to taking
THE
Prime Minister,
The definite stand. a 1946 Constitution Winston Churchill, also
this impression, the said.
democratic country produce
a
An official spokesman sald hefpondent Kashmir during his visit
been waken into custody to Srinagar in the sprizzz. under the Public Security Act SPECIAL STATUB
Bakshi is known to favour. prevent him acting 'in a pre- Judicial manner and pursuing a Kashmir
special having policy of disruption.
status with accession only. In Abdullah was charged with three subjects defence, foreign disruptionism", nepotism, mal-affairs and communications has administration and establishing and accepting Indian aid in sources foreign controls of kind dan-rice to feed the capital city of
gerous to the peuce and pros Srinagar and relleve perity of the state.
Sit
systern."
the
Sir Winston was reliably He is to be imprisoned in a peasants from the procurement reported to be disappointed by palace in the Udhampur district
He niso A police super- the
favours abolition of Russia's lack of response to a of Jammu.
customs barrier which four-power Invitation. But the intendent climbert up to the penalises goods imported from sources said he had not dropped mountain resort of Gulmarg tu India, though the idea of top-level laiks, al- jarrest him.
Bakabi has been Kashmir's his advisers believed The new Premier, Bakshi "strong man" behind the scenes he now preferred to wait be- Ghulam Mohammed, the since 1047,
fore making another move.
pleased nobody greatly, but it succeeded in giving the Assembly as a whole power over any Government and any party. The possi- bility should be recognised that the alternative might have to bo a strong-arm regime. Constitutional re- form, like electoral reform.
Sheikh's successor, told the Like his predecessor, Sheikh Ja in a senso a confession
Kashmir people in a broadcast Abdullah, he started his working. The Premier is aware of the last night that Sheikh Abdullah life as a school_teacher. of failure and is very apt to be an illusion. The social ng American opposition to had been aiming at an indepen-
talk with Soviet leaders and the dent Kashmir
But whereps Abdulloh is an structure and the various United States' position is unlikely
with the conni-idealist, theoretician and elo- economic interests-in-a to change before the Communists Vance of "foreign. Powers.quent orator, the.... 46-year-old Не said: The democratie Bakshi is a man of action, a has been tough, able consistently fighting for autono- organiser, silent, astute and But if the Korean talks go my within the Indian Union. capable. and bring about similar well, the diplomatic sources said, But efforts are now
Though Abdullah was always a foot to results under any of the the idea of a Bermuda confer- bring about conditions in which openly the figurehead and leader, feasible, Constitutions. The enco with Fresident Eizenhower, this objective will perish,
It was Bakshi who wielded range of Constitutional the French Pranier, Joseph
There are elements at work power behind the scenes. Laniel, and Sir Winston may be
In the former Cabinot, he variety is essentially re- revived. The meeting was post-today for a merger of the state held the key portfolio of police, stricted and no Constitu- poned last month because of Sir with Pakistan or India-in the militia, public works, transport tional reform is possible Winston's illness.
midst of the ensuing confusion
and supplies portfolios that some opportunist elements are enabled him to gain a virtual which prevents the under-
dangling the alluring pleture of stranglehold on. Kashmir's eco- lying forces from finding
an independen! state* oxpression. Only a revolu-
the people."
before nomy and law and order situa- tion, resulting from Intoler
Hon he wished. able deadlock, may produce
WIDE INFLUENCE He seldom makes speeches a very different situation.
but the influence of his stocky,
show some signs of sincerity in n party system which will the Korean political talks, operate in a similar way
FRANCE has not nearly
...THREE REASONS
element in the Stale
The United States, Britain and France will send represent- atives to Paris to begin drafting Bakshi satd disruptive force's a reply to the Kremlin's virtual were making desperate attempts rejection of a proposed Big to disintegrate the State,
state.'
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36 Aboard, Crashes Into Sea
By Yawl To New Zealand
Lieutenant Benjamin Pester, aged 28, of the Royal New Zealand Navy has been on a course in England and 'is going to sail to his home in New Zealand in a 50-year-old 89 ft. yawl Torn 11. Special leave has been granted to him and the journey is expected to take about nine months. He is taking one asalatant with him-London Express,
GOVT HAULS DOWN
ITS
COLOURS
Paris, Aug.
9.
The French Government today virtually and abandoned its attempt to force civil servants to
accept a later age for their pension rights.
school
If they so
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The Unions meet again tomorrow to decide their course
of nation.
Today the postal system re- mained paralysed. The Postal
that Ministry claimed
only 80,000 of its 220,000 workers were out but a Force Ouvriero
waiting Bld the figure was
false The union said
number
Among the 19 economy decrees announced tonight the one referring to civil service pensione which provoked the strike of 2,000,000 Government employees last week indicated only that in future so caled, active employees would have the option of continuing to work for two more years beyond the official pension age. In all other respects the conditions for pensions remain unchanged.
For so-called sedentary c The Force Ouvriere Trade ployees the present pension ago Union (non-Communist) group.
00 after 30 years'
service who issued the first strike call, with the option of continuing tonight called on lis members in to work until 65.
the provinces to put pressure Four Foreign Ministers' meeting, "The activities and utterances thick-set fugre is felt overy.
For, the so-called, active - on their deputies to support the reached that stage, but the sources said. They said the of our erstwhite colleagues make where throughout the state.
ployees
retiring age is 55 recall of the National Assem- British she is in a condition auch
believed there were clear that they have been His is not an intellectual ap- after 25 years survice, with the bly. that fundamental problems viet's recent stalling, tactles on a portion
three reasons behind the So thinking in terms of carving out peal but rather that of one option to continue working unil of the 'state from worker to another, the appeal 60. This latter category which cannot be tacked and the the matter of a high-level Big the wreckage da an independent of ano who was formerly the includes postmen and country stagnates. Her Four meating. They were:
leader of the Tongawallas Unlon teachers may now natural wealth produces the
1. The new Soviet government "These moves have naturally union of horse and earringe wish, go on working until the illusion that this does not
age of 62. drivers). Re the connivance and support of really matter,
theas not settled down yet. but
The news of the Government's ports reaching here today said interested fortiga PowerS
He has clear grasp of the who illusion is wearing thin. the Soviet Communist govern have all along been resting the smallest organisational detalls decision brought cries of aston- Her weakness and division
excroise of the sight of the and koopa a firm hand on Ishment from a room full of ment was handicapped because Kashmir people to freedom and traders and boatmen on whom French Journalists at home lead to a disastrous its kaders distrusted one an- self-determination.
eagerly to Imow," whether the weakness abroad. To intro- |other.
only a very the Kashmir He once horse-whipped In Government would face
of duce decisiveness and the
telephone slow at protesta mall ability to make hard 2. Moscow has not reached a under the influence of an public a trader who had sold threatened
final decision of its German perialist Power will be a grave worthless carpets to foreign against, at proposal to force state operator had returned to work décisions Into French poli-policy and therefore sought to threat
urgent calls. The employees to accept a later retir- K the freedom and visitors tical life cannot be done by delay and confuse the German Independence of the Indian or
present. The assumplión that telephone workers to return Constitutional reform. But issue as long as possible. Pakistan people."
ngitation with Abdullah, in the this was the Government's intensware flegal and would be He joined the anti-Maharajah / 12 ago, than that provided fon at ] Gou orders to other
"It is possible to foresee ono
Bricshi did not name any 302 and was moled four times.sion was the main cause of last Ignored,, the spokesman said. 3. The uneasiness in East "foreign-Power" with whom
when the When way in which party group Germany and continued trouble Sheikh Abdullah had "connived," movement,
"Quit Kashmir"
Tho fr" week's strike movement and of
strike would continue ings might be consolidated in East Berlin is compelling but it has been widely rumoured
demanding the thee of the Post Office workers until the Unions · obtained fill of the Maharajali, who were still on svike today, sathdoction-the withdrawal of and stabilised. If inter-Moscow to concentrate on this here and in New Delhi recently reached a new
Bakshi It was named that the strike the controversial decrees and national events made pisal. Immediato problem and to set that Me. Adlai Stevenson, the
working as movement has now been warded the opening of negotiations one of the chief organisers.
off:
between the Government and possibility of There were no signs of any 'DECREES APPROVED,
Workers' representatives on American dollar bid to an inde major rift between the two
alternative plans. leaders until early this you
The full Frencs Cabinet mot when Abdullah began making
Be|toilght to give fabl upproval 10 Link up
inner cabinet In -extensive Bakshi, whose family lost sesions over the past few days. many members charing – volder allacies in 1947, Kelt Kashmir the withdrawal of the contro- Trado. Unións had demanded having thrown" her lot in with
Aversial
decrees mising The Inhìn; mush có ahead, and
Cabinet meeting Relat sacking 4.000 veered more and more toward raising rents. cept economie help. retiring
Abdullah, on the other hand, temporary civil servants, and 1. A new, magar production
plan which inny reduce by. 300, the idea of independence for The Posts and Communications 000 tona per • annum the suISTIÚN Kashmir.
Ministry sold in a communique Walking with, his wife in a in the crowd, it was believed Bakshi rallied around him a tonight that all portal workers purchased for dollars by French
Overcas territories busy Asian residential district that some of the shots were in majority in Cablast and party who today failed to report for 2: The Intresse in, zortziotei
Indian aid to prevent duty after receiving orders to rents sta
started five years ago and
ble. a re-entry of the Com- tackling bronder issues-Unlied suggested the
tie the future course before American Democratic leader, had
muniste into the normal prees. Parliamentary Interplay of parties, there "would be a tendency towards two large
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removal
was
sroups. Till now the normal Unidentified Gunman Kills with India. admiss the decrees on worked out by the
working of French political
institutions has been thrown
out of year by the Kremlin and the natural reaction to Its French agents, for whom
25 por cent of the electorate:
vote. But this might not Inst H-the Cold War unfroze. This is, of course, a remote prospect, but it is certain that nothing would so suc coasfully revive French political life and end, the public apathy which is the worst enemy of Govern ments today.
Indian· Customs Official
Nairobi, Aug. 9.
killed Tajpal Sharma, an Indian Customs Department An unknown African gunman yesterday shot and officer, and an African sitting
sitting in a nearby car.
to del
NEW MEASURĖS - The chief monsures adopted
by the Government under the speclat powers granted by the National Assembly nounced tonight by Information Minister Emile Hugues
Word
hero, Sharan semonstrated with tended for "another: Indian na÷}-PORADICALA collapso, in the return to 'works would be dit due to Verk this Jear", will beil
an African a bityple who tional who went to help his
ran táto him,” *They were im- compatriot, but a bullet struck valley mediatelx
Abdullah, outrambered, tried
sitrrounded by■ (aní African nearby. Otuted call to postpone ita elections to the mailį destinda' for abroad, would
crowd of threatening Atricia.
The African ', WES. During the fucleo shots were once, Tajpal Bisarena diod loter fred" by an unidentified person In Hosnital –France Prekte:
continued, the. exact period The communique addod that not being specified.
3. Employers of more than be accepted tomorrow at the ten people will pay ono per cunt eight vmain : Paris post offices.(Contd on back, page, col.
FIVE REPORTED RESCUED
Rome, Aug. 9.
An American "flying boxcar" with 36 persons aboard crashed today in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the island of Ustica, 40 miles north-northwest of Palerme, Sicily, the United States air attache in Rome reported.
In Wiesbaden, Germany, a US Air Force spokesman said one survivor had been picked up by an American rescue plane from Bordeaux, France..
In London, an Air Force spokesman said five sur vivors had been rescued but he had no further details.
Colonel Emmett Cassady, air attacho in the Embassy here, sald an Hollän
HK TUG ON
air lines plane HK
had spotted the C-119 down in the sea near Usten. He said the plane was believed to have been flying from Udine, North Italy, to Tripoll, Libya, on the North African coast when it crashed.
The
plane was still afloat when spotted.
The Al Force sald the plane was believed to have been
stationed in Germany, Wiesbaden
THE
JOB AGAIN
Adelaide, Aug. 9.
headquarters sald the plane had The 4,212-ton hulk of last been reported over Rome the British freighter last night and "everything seem- | Arkaba, which unmanned ed to be all right then.
and without lights, has Wiesbaden listed 24 crew drifted more than 600, .. members and passengers aboard
the plane but could not explain miles across the Great the discrepancy between this Australian Bight, WAS Agure and the 38 reported from taken in tow again today. Roma
The Hongkong tug Allegiance Wiesbaden said the first sur-2, which was taking the Arkaba vivor picked up was rescued by to Hongkong for a reft, aban- one of ten Crumman amphiblandoned Her on July 18 after planes of the 12th US Air Rescue four-day battle in mountainous Squadron:
sear off Cape Leeuwin. The The report from the amphibian towline broke in the storm. was
brief
merely saying: The Allegiance 2 later joined "Sighted survivors. Made water n Fremantle tug, Yuna, in_n fanding, Picked up survivor."
search There was no explanation why yesterday. only one person, was picked up,
Q
which
located the Arkaba
The Vi
Yung
today put a work
unill
mean said the party abroad derelict and
any have been garbled. ---United Press“
Egypt Deports Briton
Cairo, Aug. D.
An 18-year-old British sub- ject, George Benedetti, alleged
by Egypilan authorities to have been
a foreign
•the..
the
stand Allegianco brings the Arkaba to Port Lincoln, South Australia where the tow began.
The Arkaba ran aground near. Port Lincain last year-Reuter.
GROUNDED SHIP REFLOATED
Glasgow, Aug: §. The Royal Mail steamer St
. Napy" for power, was deported to Britain Columba (851 tons), which ran from Egypt during the weekend aground In thick fog yesterday
at pro- the entrance to the River ferred charge had been
Clyde with 400 against him.
passengers. Oth Benedetti, who is of Maltese board, refloated under her own origin, was abducted in front of steam late last night and con- the his house in Bucz in March by tinued her voyage up four men wearing handkerchief Clyde-Reuter, masks over the lower part of their faces.
Heat Wave Kills
After it was discovered early in March that he was in gaol in Cairo, a number of British protests including a personal one Ambassador, Sir Stevenson, were made to
by
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Ten Peoplo
Teheran, Aug. 9.
Ten people have died in a new heat wave on Persia's southern coast, the evening paper. Etelaat sald here today.". Benedetti was released two The heat wave is the second weeks ago for deportation on a to hlt the Persian Gulf in a guarantee of good conduct being month. In the last spell tem- given by the British consular peratures went up to 120 degrees: authorities.--Reuter,
in the shade. Reuter,
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