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Labour's Choice THER
WHERE is an element of
good senno in the com- promine resolution of the Labour Party National Executive un German re armament. For the reason that the Executive has moved away from outright support to a policy more in keeping with the present uncertainty over the German problem, it is likely to have much more appeal than the ald resolution. There is no baalc
in change
the Executive's attitude; it still believes in rearmament. But when the Trade Union Con- stress at Brighton earlier this month demonstrated! how nuch feeling had changed on the question, the
Executive National
bul
to rephrase its altitude in away that would ensure the continued support of the conservativo.right wing and
the
AL
ME
Ume
not
allenate those who fear that
An
armed create new tensions in Europe. Now the defeat of the EDC and the forth. coming nine-nation talks in London Germany and European defence gave the
Germany will
ห
on
National Executive its cue:
the
Governments of
Europe and Great Britain | have to meet to formulate new plans for West Ger- many's future, why shouldn't the Socialist par- ties of these countries meet to determine their attitude on the same questions?
CHINA
No. 35932
'THE WEATHER: Moderato N.E. winds, Cloudy, with long fair intervals, Warm and
-like, "Eatablished 1845
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1954.
FERRY DISASTER
1,000 Feared Dead
SHIP OVERTURNS
IN TYPHOON
155 Survivors Rescued:
Four Other Ships Sink
Tokyo, Sept. 27.
in More than 1,000 persons were feared drowned
off Hakodate, typhoon-tossed seas
northern Japan, this morning.
A train-carrying ferry, with about 1,200 passengers aboard, over-
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the front to-day
EXCHANGE
IN JAPAN
DR EDITH SUMMERSKILL ANNOUNCES:
Statue Found Malenkov, Chou En-lai
In London
Londen, Sept, 20. A Boman statute. ro- presenting the busi of a young man, was discovered in the ruins of the Temple of Mithra, which was un- covered recently in the Olly of London during excava tions on a building alte.
Part of the statue, In arty marble., was badly stained, but the rest wAS na olean B if it had just been carved.
to-
The ruined temple, which has become a major sight- neeing attraction, was day vikiloc. by 35,000 people-France-Presse,
Invited To Britain
Scarborough, Yorkshire, Sept. 26.
Dr. Edith Summerskill, Vice-Chairman of the Labour Party and a. member of the recent Labour delegation which toured Russia and ́China, said tonight she had invited Mr. Georgi Malenkov and Mr Chou En-lai to Britain next year.
Dr Summerskill
said they had a civil war and they, and "could bo-the spark that neither Mr Malenkov nor Mrwon it. They drove General | lighted_a "Third World War." Chou declined the Invitation. Chiang Kai-shek and the other Mr Phillips was' giving” im- "Mr Malenkov sakd with D gang-a pretty corrupt gang-pressions in a B.B.C, broadcast twinkle in his eye, if I agree of the Chinese mainland Into (of his recent visit to Communist could you promise me a visa. Formosa where they are protect China with the British Labour
sald to him
that un-ed by another power." fortunately we are not yet the Government but we probably sholl be next year,"
sald Dr Summerskill,
Dr Summerskill told Д 2,000 people she asked the Bil- Ush
Ambassador to Moscow, Sir Willian Hayter, if he would issue a visa for Mr Malenkov and ho solemnly The would".
Suez Canal 'Hitch Labour Party rally of
turned fast night. By mid-morning the authorities had reports of only UK Official
155 persons rescued and 422 bodies had been recovered.
The 4,335-ton ferry Doya Maru dragged her moorings at or off Hako- date, the ferry terminal port in Hokkaido, across Tsugaru Straits. She struck rocks and capsized.
The National Railways reported that four Honshu-Hokkaido ferriés were sunk and six made unnavigable as a result of the storm which over- turned the Doya Maru.
were
Orly four of the fleet safe.
Most of the National Railway Corporation's Hokka executives were lost on the Doya Maru.
Passengers
шуга the Doya Included 52 of Maru
Americans.
►UT will the new resolution BUT
appoal to
the majority? The Bevanites are,
course, opposed to it. They
ashore one body after another. ferries connecting Honshu with Comparatively fJW su: Hokkaido, was Japan's worst
able to vlters were
swim to transportation disaster. safety through the
First reperts said the Doys surf after being washed from the Doya Maru had started from Hakodate Maru's decks.
at 1900 hours yesterday evening. Outside Hakodate harbour she The ship's second mate sur- Details were awaited at United vived and said the Doya. Maru's found the storm too heavy and States military headquarters. anchor chain had broken. The anchored. say there can be no com mid-morning ning soldiers ship first pitched to port, then promise on the question of bodies had been, recovered plus swung over to starboard before rearmament. They explained that of one malo civilion cm-overturning. their attitude fully in uployee of the United States pamphlet entitled "It Need Army plus two female. Not Happen" published
Crim Parties three months
Grim parties of officials, doc- offered as the alternative to tors and ambulance attendants German rearmament a dis- this morning waited on Hako- armed but united Germany, date beach
waves, still while assuming that the Russfatis mountainous, slowly brought would agree to the dia-
ngo.
It
regime by free
mantling of the Fast
2
Germau
elections. The left-wingers
rejected the view that there
Worst Disaster Already the captain had ordered all passengers on deck, but in the wind and high send few had a chance.
National Railway Corporation officials said the sinking of the Doya Maru, one of their train
The storm's death toll was growing this morning as authorities reported crewmen missing from freight ferries.
Omcials said today only eight out of 75 crowmen of the 2,011- Tokach! to freighter fery, Maru, had been saved.
The Hitaka Maru, 2,932 tons, also sank off Hakodate. Detalls about two other freight ferries were awaited.
WEATHER FORECASTER'S ERROR
A miscalculation by weather could be rearmament and forecasters was blamed for the negotiation-it must be disaster which came late last either one or the other. The night
after the vessel battled inference was that if Ger- against mountainous sea whip- many was rearmed, peaceful ped by typhoon Marie's 118-mile would be per hour gusts.
co-existence impossible.
THE National
has
Reports reaching Tokyo and that according to original pm Executive dictions the winds would not strong enough to hamper been bo
|
Bodies
Some old couples had
wert
Flying To Cairo
delegation Mr Altice said he did not be Mr Phillips sold feeling about love the Chinese govemment Formoen, was being whipped up was a Russian puppet and that in China in very available in- more clfort should be made to strument of propaganda, Mr
Phillips
Esfand believed the arrive at a peaceful solution of world problems.
should be neutralised for a (period and that its own people should then be free to decide whether they wished to“ rejoin the mainland,
IMMENSE TASK He said there was an immense task before.. Britain, in, this re gard because "I think 'in tils
assured us country we are comparatively Conference News:
free from some of the emotion- "This visit can only become a al/sms which aflict other reality with the co-operation of countries."
Let us hope the government, the government will recognise the great contribution to mutual understanding that a visit of this nature would effect. I regard it us auch: atu important meeting," she said.
and
London, Sept. 26. Mr Anthony
Dr Summerskill was speaking Nutting, Parliamentary Under- Secre. on the eve of the Labour Party's tary at the Foreign Office, is annual conference.
"I was immodest enough to to fly to Cairo on Tuesday believe that I might be chair- to join in the Anglo-man of the Party next year and Egyptian negotiations for in that capacity, I extended an
invitation to Malenkov Britain's evacuation of the Chou Enlai to a return vielt, Brez Canal Vase.
the Foreign Office announced ca
she "added. this today only, 24 hours after stating that Mr Nutting would to be in the British délégation the nine-nation conference on The leader of the Labour German rearmament this week. Opposition, Mr Clement Altee, sudden de-said today it was now time to The Government's
Mr Nutting to bring People's China Into the Cairo
diplomatic United Nations. It is believed
quarters
Attlee's Speech
that the last phase of the Government should occupy that "We think the present Chinese.
gotiations has produced some seat
assigned to her in the unexpected though minor diffl-United Nations," he mid culties.
Ometal sources indicated that
Wor.
with
"We stend somewhere bolween the extreme of Communism on the one hand and the extreme. of capitalism on the other. We
Anti-Nazi
Severe Reverse
For Attlee
Mr Attlee's hopes of getting his. Opposition Party to ap prove GermYEARS. rearmament suffered a severe, neveras today on: the eve off the - Party's an
from
Protest March nual conference
"
Scarborough, Sept. 26. ∙Mon dressed as Nazi Storm troopers wearing steel helmets and jackbogla marched at the bead-pl'ar processions of abouts: 288 tromer and Kildren. through the
tonight
rived
delegates Far. from the British Labour Party conference
which opens
Monday.
here on
At the rear of the pro- cession, women carried a banner saying “Don't, arm; the
Nazis." Others carried crosses... with the names "Auschwitz." "Belsen" and "Buchenwald" attached to them.Reitter.
Conference * delegales
{ tweak of.
big, unions the National Hallwaymen with 302,000 conferetive votes Candl the Union mor tive und Allied 300,000 3050
Fran
Shop Distribu- workers withi
Foto/krms,för Giers
third big: Uniors which Forms on record in the past rear against German, arma-- 027,000-Vote Amalgamated En
Union postponed
tomorrow, but I too was ex pected to hold, the anti- merk Line,
Meanwhile, M Aneurin Tower of the Left Wing Bevan Labour,faction opposed to German rearmament, met his followers to draw up battle lines for
only be dna hAN ANDywith-Socialist chiciat.
Conference enment
Addressing the rally after Dr Mr Nutting was going to Cairo Summerziell Mr Attlee said to meet the need for a British there was a case for postpane- Pulling its anchor in the gale, lí
Before many could scramble Minister to be en the spot to ment while the Korean war was
Tuesday's debate on the Now was the time to drifted out into the strait where out from below, the ship heeled tako final decisions.
They said going on.
are something different in itself that has divided Britain's howling winds and high scas over on its starboard side there were 190 serious last bring her in.
because we have our own creed Oppooltion Party down the overturned it,
which hit the
He also said: "Either you are water with a minute complications and that
of British social democracy, an The ship sank near the shore. mighty splash.
co-existence or it was hoped the full agreement fong to have
"I believe there is still that The Labour Party'a 53rd an
STRIVING DESPERATELY BITVİVDIS
would be signed within a week you will have war." All those caught below deck of Mr Nutting's arrival.
great hope of saving what le washed onto the bosch.
"The opposite of co-existence, best ich our civilisation, but it pral delegate conference opens were drowned. Thass who reached shore alive
Cairo, Sept. 20. I suppose, would be co-death,
will
by wandered about looking and
Miss Aca Sato, 37, who barely Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, World
A spokesman for Lieutenant he said. "If you have another and tolerance is a way loaders striving desperately to calling fee relatives.
hydrogen traffic. It is not only for us to avert defeat on their policy at resolution
succeeded in swimming to shore, the Egyptian Prime Minister, bombs, you are going to break tied described the scene. "There was phrased in such a way that Maru's alze and the vessel put of
seriously and the vessel put on solves together with strings terrible sound and the torrs said tonight we hope a quick down civilisation. What we saw say we are folerent of those
Jackcls.
ry signing of the Suez Canal agree-in Moscow convinced us of there must also be the responer election of this Their turned
polley, which it should appeal to the out to sea, only to be trapped bodies
over," she paid. were washid ashare broke open a majority of the six million by the pounding waves.
from the totalitarians on the has caused the biggest. Labour window in the ment will follow Mr Anthony possibility of co-existence," together,
third-class
Nutting's arrival here on Tues- CO-EXISTENCE POSSIBLE other side."
clach of quarters and jumped party members who will be
of many years, is likely to day."—Router.
Mr Morgan Phillips, general hinge on a relative handful of represented at. Scarborough, disaster told a terrifying story
Survivors of the ferry bont Panic Below Decks into the sea. I swam frantically
and reached
Mr Attlee sald: "I do not sup-secretary of the British Labour votes out of a total poll of more sticere, The third for these reasona: it is non-of confus.on and hysteria in a
Survivors told how panic-class quarters
pose for a moment we were able Party, said today Formosa" was than six milliona were practically committal, it recognises the dark night of giard waves and stricken passengers, trapped in Alled with water when I escaped generally agreed principle howling winds that washed old cabins and saloons below decks, and I think those who stayed
fought to get out through nar-behind were all drowned." (even if it is trißo women and children overboard. platitudinoust
They said the ferry's engine row companionways leading to Ger-
apparenti failed and it could the deck. should
# not hold to its anchored position Rovereignty and therefore in the shelter of the breakwater. the rights of a Bovereign nation, but that rearmament
many
B that
have
should be effected in such No World War III
a way that there would be
No possibility of 4 resurgence of militariam at some later stage. It even agrees with the Eevanitos that there must bo free elections for a united Gor- many,
If We
thekr
A Private Escaped From
Third Typhoon
Mr Yoshida In Canada
to convines the rulers of Russia the danger spot in the Far East; (Contd. on back pare, Col. 1) that our free social democracy better than their · totali- tarianism any
more than they would convince us. The most we could do there is to try and Persuade people that although there are these differences, there is the possibility of ca
Vancouver, Sept. 26, The raging typhoon, third to
Japanese Frime Minister hit Japan this month, inflicted Shigeru Yoshida arrived at the heavy casualties and damage international airport in Van existence.!!! ashore. Powerful winds fanned couver, B.C., at 1032 a.m. (1832
Keep THE Bomb The Tower! and 673 were injured ne
The
a small fire into a giant holo GMT) today to begin a 50-day was autocratic rule but by com- Mr Attice said in China there caust last night, destroying or goodwill tour of six nations, damaging 2,000 houses in the
70-year-old
mon consent it was a very honest Japanese
the Communist town of Iwaai in Hokkaido. leader was met at the airport by rule. He said
Fisheries Minister, Mr James A.
Govamment Was *performing Press reports sold 05 were Sinclair, retiring Canadian Am- things for the people that had
bassador to Japan Mr R. W. never been done before, Sydney, Sept. 20.
typhoon Marie slammed into the Mayhew and the Ambassador-
"There
have been changes Marshal of the Royal Air But there is an Force, Sir John Slessor, sald to-
Japanese islands. London, Sept. 26.
designate to Japan Mr Thomas that give hope
the poorer to
ho in China,"
Bald. important,
people in difference day that if Britain and the The British authorities In Iwauchi County in Hok-C. Davis. between the views of the United States kept their hands said today an Army private names of a village fire which was Japanese Ambassador to with which we ought to try.
Also welcoming Mr Yoshida "There is a government there kaido, the typhoon fanned the
to two wings of the party. The on atomic and hydrogen bombs, escaped from the Tower of almost completely wiped out Canada, Dr Koto Matsudaira and understand it is understanding National Executive want a third world war would not London yesterday, thus suc- the 4,500 houses of the village the British Ambassador to Japan that is needed." sovereignty and rearmament оссит,
-Sir Eiler Dening who is en and ***
"China has suffered very before German unity. Like believe that some day we or our famous prisoners, from Sir
He said that "I hope and ceeding where a line of Router, United Press
France-Presse.
route to Tokyo to assume his many years of warfare. The most Western statesmen,
post.
people are pretty tired of it. children will see
Prime the end of Walter Raleigh to Rudolf
Minister Yoshida's the Executive bolíeve that
They have prace now, but they cold war and the beginning of
Canadian three-day
tour unity and also peaceful co-controlled universal
Hess, failed,
pro apprehensive of war. The disarma-
launches a goodwill trip to the Chinese extstenes are only possiblement. This present crazy atte
are afraid of being. United States, Britain, France, attacked by the Americans. The when the armed might of of international affairs can't, last
West Germany and Italy.
Americans are afraid of being the Communist countries is indefinitely," he said,--Router.
United Press. '-
attacked by the Chinese, counter-balanced by a similar strength on
Baby-sitter
Murdered A London bobby.
the The Pope Better less than a mile from the Tower.
The man's momontor' glory wna brief. seized him in a street loss than two hours after he escaped and
Springfield, Massachusetts, Western side. The Bovanites
Spokesman Τος Scotland Yard
Sept. 26. An unknown assallent stabbed ridicule this argument, Only ( Castelgandolfo, Sept. 20. and the War Office" confirmed
Pope Pius XII appeared well that the, soldier, a member of altter and one of the two babies while Western Germany
a 14-year-old baby remains unarmed, they say, along the rond to recovery the Royal Fusillers unit at the
watching today, without
to death
she
Is there any hope of unity from his latest series of hle Tower, was being held on-a vibe the police bamed for
coughs and general fatigue 'to- charge of being absen
but move in the crime,
· RUSSIANS AFRAID
Volcano Becomes The Russians are afraid.
Violent
And there you have a picture of a world full of danger with great nations whom minds are Auckland, Sept. 20. turned to
fear. Surely It. i» and co-existence. Germany day when he bestowed an leave when he gave his guards This
Mount Ngaurahov, entering worthwhile to try, and make therofőre must not
ke apostolic: benediction on $10,000 the all It was enough, to put This Western Massachusetts anger spectacular stage, in its an effort to break down that rearmed. Much is at stake.
biggest eruption, is now hurling feart" city was stinelend"; by: the third cony of his summier
and fourth murders of, the year great showers of ath and rock orators ALLabort England's priceless Crown as the bodies of Lynn Ann Inte of the Jewpis era kent
Smith
"four-year-old at the Tower,
of Stephen Coldberg/were found nort
the boy's parenta i satibay), natabimy ! and the 1,000-year" returned home early this moe
authold, on the bank of ing.
In the Scarborough vote this ring pilgrims panema (tering band Mthorities on
week. A vote against re
'armament is also a rejection
from 1 the bale.
rlier, the "Byear-old color Y
tiff received in
hall of the
of the policies of Mr Attles from all over Europe, guardsmen with the help of t
Rolfer a whaker group of DIY and the present leaderalup. Repeating
pilgrims
Informat bla brier.
It is also a vote agaitist, a remarka in English, Italian, old: principle which has been derman, orreňon and Spanish, the Thames in the heart of Lon*||
the keystone of: British and the Pope, tall his listeners that don le one of the most-harvily, American polley for Europe be winded he couldygreat thêm gimited v places. for the last Ibur-years, all IndividuallypUnited; PrORDE
Mr. Atties said, "I don Bat överything the Chinese done admirable, “but
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