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COMMENT OF
THE DAY
The Reds Show Their Hand
TN the early part of this
Iyear the wagning.
Was
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omicially issued that the Communists in Malaya, having lost their long and bitter struggle with British security forces, would turn their attention to Singapore, und through infiltration. propaganda and other sidious forms of influence. jeopardise the peace prosperity
of the Colony Events have only too truly proved that prophecy. The Communist elements,
which during the last
and
six
or more months have been growing in and around Singapore, are just as skil- fully led as they are well organised. In
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Dr. Adenauer Utters A Warning
To Moscow MAY
Washington, June 14.
President Dwight Eisenhower and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer | agreed; today that "Dr Adenauer should accept the Soviet in- vitation to visit Moscow to negotiate the "establishment.
the USSR.
of diplomatic relations with fomenting The Chancellor, will not go to the Soviet capital, however,
the current industrial trouble which has resulted in a succession of strikes, they have shown them-
until after the Big-Four meeting which is to open in Geneva on July 18.
EMPLOY RESOURCES
TO HELP ALLIES
Washington, June 14.
“Shadow Cabinet”
BEVAN TO SEEK ELECTION
NEW BID FOR 'INFLUENCE
London, June 14. Mr Aneurin Bevan, the British left-wing Labour leader, was tonight reported to be making a bid to
The West German Chancellor, Dr. Konrad Adenauer, today cautioned against the danger that the Soviet Union might employ its resources-especially its military strength cabinet" in the in the Pacific after a settlement with the West had been obtained in Europe.
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The Chancellor made this. statement at a press reception
re-
turn to Labour's "shadow House of
Commons from which he resigned more than a year ago.
He, was said
to be -- among
selves as adepte at timing. | This was disclosed by informed and press conference shortly after he had conferred with around 50 Labour MPs already
The result of the Singapore
elections which brought
into being a new constitu
tional form of governmen!! was the signal for action
Sources today, following
talks among Eisenhower, President Eisenhower.
Adenauer and American Secretary of State John Foster Dulles.
by the Communists. Clearly The Germans will probably suggest that initial contacts
they were aware that
the
new government, no matter. what its composition, would have to go through a dim- cult and delicate transi- tional period, making its administration vulnerable to crises ⚫ of political, economic and constitution- a nature.
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THE bus strike, which yes" THE
terday, through Commun- ist coercion. developed
into the paralysing of all forms of public road trans- port, was the first im
manifestation of purtant the Communists' determina tion to embarrass the new the Kovernment," and at same time to show their
for any contempt
con- stitutional administration. They have made the position of Mr David Alurshall, Singapore's Chief Minister, both unenviable and ironical. ironical because Mr Mar- Won shall and his party
elections largely on the their advocacy for quick repeal of the emer- "gency regulations which the old colonial govern- ment deemed necessary to invoke because uf the Malaya crisis. Now Mr Marshall finds those emer- gency
essential. powers Thus does political theory have to give way to reality.
the
confreres appeared to have their heads somewhat in the
were
between representatives of
the Bonn Republic and the
سواری
USSR take place in Paris Stockholm before the Moscow negotiations in formed sources said. Dr Adenauer it was believed here, would make two things clear before going to the Soviet capital.
4/
East
1. His trip will not constitute recognitim of the German Government.
2. It will not constitute re- cognition of the Oder-Neisse
·
Dr Adenauer said the forthcoming conference between the Big Four heads of government might "possibly be of decisive importance to the free world and also to the question of the reunification of Germany.
"It seems to me that sometimes a somewhat artificial distinction is made between the Atlantic area and the area of the Pacific.
"In my opinion it is important to recognise the fact that in the Atlantic and in the Pacific the adversary is the same," Dr Adenauer said.
Dr
Adenauer added: ""If we
omewhere in the Pacific.
always to
pacify this opponent in Europe and thus relieve him of certain burdens we will give him the opportunity to employ his re- sources thus set free and es- his military
strength
Dr Adenauer said: "I ballove. time as the eastern border of it is important in this connection
keep in mind that! a-unified Germany. Dr Adenauer was believed to when you face a single adver- there 242 no separate have asked the Americansary leaders what guarantees the fronts. In this context certainly US would demand of the the law of communicating vessels
is applicable."
Dr Adenauer said that Soviet Union in case there acas a general settlement in Europe the situation which had volving a reduction in the been frozen for so long had be- in a surprisingly armed forces of both the come « fuld East and West in Europe. rapid succession of events after the ratification of the Paris France Presse.,
treaties en European unity.
He added: "As you know in- deed, it has always been opinion that only the conclusion of these treaties would provide the prelimi mary conditions which would make possible negotiations with the East:
Test
Evacuation
Today
Washington, June 15. President Eisenhower and
WILL HONOUR HER
OBLIGATIONS
in
my
"Summit" Talks To Last
A Week, Proposal
From
DEREK MARKS
London, June 14.
·Beltain, the United States and Fratice are to agree to Eussia's request that the Big Four talks "at the summit" should last more than three days.
I understand the Western powers will suggest the four WECK heads of government should meet at Geneva for a starting July 18.
belleved
in London that the Russians want the talks to last at least three weeks The new approach by the West will represent a compromise.
Both London and Faria agree it is impossible for President Eisenhower, who is both head of state and head of govern- ment, to be away from the Untied States longer than a fort- night-the total time involved in a 10-day conference.
Bo the President im't expected to visit either Britain or France on his trip to Europe-London Express Service.
Calon is allowed
to withdraw the United States, one part from the Atlantic area may be the Atlantic, the other part made available to its Asiatic the Pactic” allies; and this is a point which | SECURITY SYSTEMS we must never lose sight of" AGRICULTURAL
"In recent weeks it has been said that we Germans might be prepared again to sacrifice our partnership with the Western CRISIS and the obligations nations
Germany
will honour
MODEL
in
in
nominated a record number for the 12 elected posts in the "shadow cabinet" which direc's the Labour Party's
in parliament.
polic
Labour politicians, expect Mir Bevan will regain his place
among the leaders which he
gave up in protest at Labour's official support for West Ger- the man rearmament and Southeast
Treaty Asian
sanisation
A CHALLENGE Labour left wingers who have only one of their re- presentatives on the body, Mr Harold Wilson are hoping to
their strength
a and boost
of Mr number
Bevan's chief election.
lieutenants are seen the shadow
Nominations
cabinet from
MPs close on
the 277
Thursday
labour and
they will vote next week.
The Dock Strike
Agreement
SETTLEMENT Conditions
INSIGHT
London June 15. Mr N. W. NEWIDÈN, Assistant-Secretary of the Amalgamated Union of Stevedores and Dockers
said today that “great pro- gress has been made 60 ward ending the 24-day- old walkout which has tied up some 200 ships in seven British porÈS.
Mr Newman statement
made the after meeting with officials at the Labour, Ministry
And after his Union bad examined letters received from
Trade
the Union Congress (TEC) and waterfront employers.
It is expected that a de- claton on the strike will be made of a strikers' meeting to be held later today.
The walkout which threw some 20.000 dockers cout of work stemmed from the unions demanding for national recognition and the right to bargain with -France. management. Presse,
STOP PRESS
MOTORIST MURDERED IN SINGAPORE
London, June 14.
The end of Britain's 17- day-old rail strike came after a day of dramatic negotiations among Some 30 union, government and railway officials in the the Labour of office.
Sir Minister,
Walter Monckton.
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Ig announcing the end of the strike, Sir Walter said: have never been more satisfied in all my life".
The strike which began on May 27, cost" the railways a total of near £45,000,000.
Wage increases accepted by the railways were expected to increase the deficit and lead to an increase in rall fares.
Business throughout Britain suffered and it was expected that it will require several weeks for several companies to dispose of the stocks ac cumulated during the period of the strike,
THREE. POINTS
Today's agreement between railway officials and the Unions included the following points:
1. The railway officials ac- cepted the principle of an in- .crease in salary for certain 02 categories of, workern
2. Nerollations will open within seven days, following the end of the strike, among rallway officials and the two unions involved the National Union of Railwaymen (NUE) and the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers, And Firemen (ASLEF).
Singapore, Jime, 15. Most of Singapore's taxi Apart from the 12 elected drivers were back on the road members, the group also in today as the leftwing attempt
3. The Transport Commis- strike moved cludes Mr Clement Attlee, Party to call a retral:-
sion has proposed a special leader, Mr Herbert Morrison, into its third day.
bonus for certain categories of bis deputy-both inanimously Early today, a driving instruc-
Fek Boon-yian, WAS engineering and an extension re-elected last week-the Chief tar.
of the mileage bonus system. Whip (Party manager). and stabbed to death by six Chinese
Sir Lord Justice
William three representatives of the who dragged him from his car
been Morris has
appointed Labour group in the House of in Cross Street.
Pek was talking to his wife arbitrator in the strike and will Lords,
ontside
the commercial sub-start private hearings tomorrow. THREE STEP DOWN
SINGLE ARBITRATOR Already three old guard" branch of the Criminal Inver-
when he tigation Branch Labour leaders have stepped
attacked.
Sir of The appointment down from the "shadow cabinet"
The police report said that no ❘ William suggested by the Trans- and declined renomination since
the motive
known for Was
Commission Chairman, port the
the Party's defeat at
murder.
General Sir Erian Robertson general election.
Late last night, two
yesterday, marks the first time & They are Mr Hugh Dalton, 68, owned by Europeans employed single arbitrator has been used former Chancellor of the Ex- by a a food selling business were chequer, Mr Emanuel Shinwell, set aflre but were only slightly 70, one-time Defence Minister, damared.
instead of an arbitration board.
Sir
Brian
Robertson
said and Mr Chuter Ede, 72, former Sixty-one women shortly after passenger traffic will begin on and Immediately Home Secretary. Another, Mr midnight. climbed into police the railways Glenvil
Hall
86, 19 also revans outside a factory owned by freight traffic will be within two ported unwilling to stand for Fraser and Neave. They were or three days. re-election.
A Afth vacancy
Swordfish Sinks Boat
NUR alike.
The Labour Party leader Mr Clement Attlee has asked for a House of Commons debate on the strike to be held next week. -France-Presse..
driven to a police station after It is expected that wage on the body refusing to leave the vans and boosts will be given to the Dr Adenauer said it was in has been caused because Sir later were released, the interesta of the Soviet Frank Soskire, former Solicitor-
There were no fresh reports locomotive engineers, switchmen and communications worktre He did not believe the Soviet Union that they should release General, failed to find a seat of any new workers joining the belonging to the ASLEF and the But if Mr Marshall and his his government will evacuate which we have just undertaken.
contest at the strikers-Bouter. "In answer to this I can Union's internal position would East Germany. It was. in their which he could
general election-Reuter. they had as an Washington today when 55 cities of the United States sure you most emphatically: permit action in the Far East, interests on the basis of the
her and he said the agricultural obligations
in power and they clouds when
can be take part in a nation-wide obligations," Dr Adenauer said crisis in particular was extreme- occupying
comformity with the wish of electioneering, it
Dr Adenauer again turnedly serious
Asked how urgent was the ninety per cent of East Zone readily conceded that faced civil defence test.
threat that the Soviet now with
Union Germans to be free. The whole Cabinet and 15,- aside the question of a neutral a grave threat
Questioned about his proposals as this in would transfer resources to the to their
"Such vacuum constitutional 000 civil servants will stay in West Germany, authority, they have planted secret hidecuts till the end of the heart of Europe would re- Pacific, the Chancellor replied for a Eurycan security system,
the week.
it was clear that the Soviet
he said that this system should their feet firmly on the
a constant danger for Unien had at its disposed only be based on the Western Euro Eight million New Yorkers present ground.
Marshall's Mr
will have to run to shelters on everyone," he said,
"I believe that the advocates a certain amount of force and pean Union. He pointed out
Rome, June 14. tenacious defence of the assumption that a hydrogen
that one of the vital features of The greater the power it had the Western European democracy and his refusal bomb has dropped in Brooklyn of this idea do not take into strength.
A jealous fighting swordfish that there are for use in the Atlantic area, the was its emphasis on the limita injured two fishermen and sank to succumb to the uncon- and killed nearly three million consideration
their boas off the coast of strong Communist parties in less it could use in the Pacifiction of armaments. cealed attempts at in- people.
Three communities in Alaska bath France and Italy and that or make available to its allies think this structure and Sicily yesterday. timidation by the Communist will be assumed to be hit by the
The Eshermen
the. Union seeks to in the Pacific, and vice versa.
said Soviet and
swordfish started circling their extreme
This question was not always inisation could be taken for } left-wing guided missiles from Soviet undermine us in a way that
for all security systems, small boat and giving them widespread bases. win
frankly cannot be imagined," seen in its proper perspective in groups
he added.
looks Submarines will launch PROBABLE EFFECT
the United States, approval."
Dr Adenauer was frequently "atomic attacks"' on
"I believe He added:
and enthusiastically interrupted wrong to say the United States several times by applause from probably his mate. mistakes and be willCanal zone.
it- will "Operation Alert" probably
"In my opinion, the neutmity is confronted with two fronts, I several hundred correspondents. but there is in the rough, volve the first mass exodus of or neutralisation of Germany think, there is only, one front for salty politics of the Chief the American government since would in a relatively short time
Hawall,
MR Marshall has made Puerto Rica and the Panama OF NEUTRALISATION
Minister
commit
an
others,
-
the British bumed the White perrait Soviet Russia to extend
-Reuter.
Union
Mr Menon Continues admirable House and the Capitol in the her power over all of Western
gusto and a commendable war of 1812-Reuter.
determination to sort out the Colony's problems. and
to apply their solution in a thoroughly constitutional
manner.
Many people, even from this
A
Postal Workers'
Strike Threat
Paris, June 14.
Europe. I do not think that the
United States would desire such
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we said.
free world -~ and
especially the United States-is
standing on th threshhold of
French postal workers what may be a long period of distance of Hongkong, look union warned tonight it would negotiations, with an opponent
To Be Cryptic
Washington, June 14,
Mr. Krishna Menon, India's special envoy, wound'
out on strike along with for whom the factor of time up daylong top level Washington talks on Far Eastern
He
tensions with an 80-minuta. conference this afternoon
barpooned
after they
bad
&
female swordish,
sald they finally har pooned the swordfish but be fore they could haul him in, he
knife-like rammed ha
bill through the bottom of the boat, sinking it and injuring both of them.
The hapless fishermen were picked up by nearby boats. France-Presse.
Girl Thief Swallows Ring
sald that representatives with the Secretary of State, Mr John Foster Dulles Irish girl who swallowed her
somewhat askance at the go
other civil servants, unless the does not exist," political complexion of the Government submits satisfactory new Singapore government, pay raise proposals.
of the Soviet Union did not A postal strike triggered off have to take into BCCOLT yet no right-wing party
Afterwards Mr Menon told leader, if in Mr Marshall's crippling walkouts. In the sum differences of opinion between
conferred on China, the situa- position, could show a more mer of 1953 throughout France; themselves and public opinion in reporters he and Mr. Dulles had
their countries. fearless attitude to the-France-Presse.
otation in the area of Formosa and that all the peoples think
"the difficulties which now exist. grave situation which the
of the free matous should keep between the United States and Communists have deliber-
ately created at the present
Proposal Vetoed
this in mind and especially those China,
London, June 14. Nora O'Donnel, a 20-year-old
diamond engagement "In the Orient everything that sister's
a day with the ring still Inside truth," he said...•
red is taken as gospel ring, was today sent to gaol for
Mr Menon said that at the She pleaded guilty in a court request of President Eisenhower here to stealing the ring worth
would be continuing his con- £15.95
he
versations with Mr Dulles but "A detective: told the court
him
Gaza, June 14,
who influence public opinion in When reporters pressed he added that he could say Nora said she swallowed, the Israel has rejected · Egypt's the countries, he time, not have shown more proposal of awe kilometres Replying to questious, Dr for detaily, the the 10 Mr nothing aborty want transpired or when he pileres behin
police
car. Just to make sure necessary counter-measures. wide demilitarised zone along Adenauer said, he did not think Mencu sald there was very little at today's conference.
offensive in he could say and addeck "You Asked when he would see he sent her for an x-ray exam- it-col Francois Xavier Europe Was a **** to find, they underestimated Ciaconaggi, United Nations action in the Far East, but he you? So let's just go eary. Mense wald that rested with the plate showed she told the truth. KOPAN BHCM asked the reporters to Fresident, but be hoped to meet Nora first appeared in court Mr Marshall when they Chairman of the Mixed added: decided to throw down Egyptian-Israeli Armistice Com "Still we must not forget treat the matter with a degres Mr Ebenezer again on his yesterday when the magistrate their challenge to this law-mission, informed the Egyptian that all the planet, gims and of restraint pointing out that it
Nations meeting Bester hours China Mall Special ammunition - side tonight.-E ful authority.
which the Soviet was still in the discussion so the San Francisco remanded her in custody for 24
The Communists can expect the troubled Gaza border line, the Soviet peace for want the prisoners back, don't President Eisenhower agam. Mr Ination and the photographie
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