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EUROPEAN SECURITY PROPOSAL
Govt Coal Policy
Tory MPs
In
"Revolt"
London, July 12,
floating around the minds A "revolt" among Con- of some of the Whitehallservative members of parlia- There is a wide distinction ment against Sir Anthony the constitutional Eden's government over its of coal policy grew tonight claims and problems
of one
the Prime Malta, and the non-self-with governing colonies, and the Minister's supporters bitter- most the round table conly assailing the administra- ference in London can be tion. expected to produce, so far as Hongkong and its kindred colonies are concerned, is a generalised policy which might be useful as a guide fur future constitutional reform. The suggested new strius for
island colonies such Hongkong and Cyprus not wholly unattractive, but
it posca issues and
us
is
plications which are not to be resolved overnight. FIRST and foremost it is a
requirement
Fu
The
the
member, Mr Gerald Nobarro, made his attack in a
from letter resigning secretaryship of the Conserva- tive Fuel and Power Committee of Government - group supporters who study fuel pulley.
MP The 41-year-old clared
impossible for it was him to continue in his post
in conflict with ' when he was his own Party's Fuel and Power
among
de-
Organisation Which A Divided Germany Could Join
SOVIET ANNOUNCEMENT
London, July 12.
Russia, in an eve of Geneva statement, tonight proposed a collective security organisation for Europe which both halves of Germany could join and declared that this would, hasten German unity.
The organisation should be open to all European states, Moscow Radio said quoting an "authorised" Tass news agency statement.
All states willing to take part should be able to join the proposed organisation, Moscow Radio said.
Agreed To Landlady's
MURDERESS DUE TO DIE TODAY ·
Still She
Must Pay Seeks No
Murder Request Awarded Reprieve
Berith, July 12.
An East German refugee who testified that he had lured his landlord Inte park and killed him with an axe when his landlady had given hùm the signal -- a nudge In the ribe was sentenced to hard la bour for life by a West Berlin court.
WO Kacmmerer, 40, fold the court: "I could not Bay DA" when hig landlady, Frau Erna Gorke, at Jena, East Germany arked him to rll her of her husband.
Kaemmerer Herr Corke Gardens In
murdered
In Jena's March last
year. Frau Gorke then helped him tle stones to the body
and drop it in the Saale river. She was sentenced to life imprison- ment by an East German
Last February. China Mall Special,
The statement denied British and American suggestions that she had
the accusation
court against the lost interest in reuniting Germany. Russia, turned
of German West who, by the Paris agreement, "have sacrificed the, cause reunfication for the sake of German militarism."
If it was not possible under present conditions to reach immediate agreement foundations" the problem on reuniting Germany on "peace-loving and democratic com- Minister, Mr Geoffrey Lloyd,
must be solved step by step by means of relaxing international tension. about fuel policy.
Russia proved in the last war Russia denied that she was, supports a policy leading to a INCREASED PRICES
afraid of the potential threat united Germany.
that on her own she could de- The
"volt
Conserva-
The argument of some people feat a Germany which had at
West that before Lives has flared over the recent represented by a reunited Ger-
in the
that the Soviet her disposal the resources of by the National many and said the danger of announcement
Coal Board
the new world war would be worst Union was opposed to a united Europe. Today when the Soviet which runs
because she was
Union was much more powerful state-owned industry that coal for Germany herself, who would Germany
military afraid of the potent threat re- by be in the centre of of self prices are to be increased
reason to much less such presented by
united she had It operations. 12% 6d a ton.
Germany was unjustified, the fear the military and economic potential of a united Germany. The statement said Russia still statement said.
Hongkung can become dominion I must have fenst શ measure
L
LOSS OF INTEREST DENIED
government-a· proposition which at the moment does
They are also critical of the NGL enjoy the approval Board's failure to get increased
coal
output which has meant either of the United King-
has had to import large Britain doni government, the
of coal to maintin Hongkong authorities, or quantities
her expand- even a substantial section exports and keep her ing industries running.
Tase sald that in connection agreements rearming West Ger- of the local community. Bir Nabarro, in his letter to Division of public opinion on Colonel C. G. Lancaster, Chair with the forthcoming Big Four mary) have sacrificed the cause this aspect of constitution-man of the Conservative Fuel meeting the opinion was being of German reunification for the
and Power Committee, sald pre-expressed in the United States sake of German militarism?
ond Britain that the Soviet "These actions prove that the Union had allegedly lost her realisation of these plans is matters were a measure of the
of opposed to the plans for German Interest in the unification fallure of ministerial policy."
rcumlication." Germany.
sent trends in fuel and power
i
He pointed particularly to the heavy increase in coal prices
The statement said any new war would cause enormous and unprecedented human sacrifices and material destruction,
ui reform is emphasised by the fact that the two most organisa- articulate tions claiming to speak for the community-the HK
"Such an opinion does not kong-Reform Club and the
and the dire necessity of km-express the true situation in so Civic Association - hold porting 12 million tons of coal far as it is meant to represent a cost of £80 the attituds of the Soviet gov- this year at opposite views. Nevertheless, if the time million which is likely to rise to
-conyes-when-Hongkong-dues, 25 milion tons of coat imports ernment to the German prob-formerly non-existent types of
uttain a full enough men next atire of self-government to million at a cost of £170
Justify its status raised to that of an
being.
old- time dominion, the rest of
envisaged the scheme
not unfensible.
ADVICE DISREGARDED
lem." Tass said,
German
war
·
7 Boys Killed In Avalanche
Damages
Privy Council's Judgment
London, July 12. The Judicial Committee
London, July 12.
Ruth Ellis, beautiful 28- year-old ash blonde mur- dercss, waited calmly in the condemned cell of a woman's prison here tonight for the hangman to claim her in a few hours.
who
She was surrounded by bou- of the Privy Council today quets of flowers sent to her by affirmed an order for $17,000 friends and wellwishers who damages against Lim Joo- were frantically organising 11th chiang of Singapore, with hour attempts to save her
But neither Bowers nor ap the deletion of $350 awarded penis seemed to break down her will to die on the gallows. Rela- as costs of administration.
visited friends wh tions and The damages were awarded by the Singapore High Court the cell today "found her still In October, 1952, to the widow smiling and unafraid.
Outside the prison hundreds and three
children dependent 40-year-old trishaw driver of people read an official notice killed after being in collision fixed to the gates. It said: "The with a car driven by Lim, Lim sentence of the law passed upon appealed against the award Ruth Ellis found guilty of mur- der will be curried into execu- as being excessive,
tlon at 9 a.m. tomorrow." trishaw driver, The
Since she emptied a revolver Boon-poh, was killed after the into a fit of jealous passion into David faithless lover, Blakely, 25-year-old racing in his defence admitted liability motorist, Mrs Ellis has not lifted but appealed to the Singapore a finger to help herself.
of
had
Chia
collision in Geyland Road near Singapore in June, 1951.
Lim her
Appeal Court over the amount
Appeal The
of the damages. was dismissed in January, 1053. of the Giving the judgment Council In the Privy
case, Lord Somervell of Horrow said the evidence of the widow, Lim Slew-choo, was that the ceived from her husband $8 per day to run the home,
TC-
were
WRITES TO FRIEND
from the Yesterday
grim Halloway Prison she wrote to a man friend saying "No doubt you have heard I do not want to live. You may find this hard to belleve but that is what I
want."
who
Banff, July 12. The Roynl Canadian
Several members of Parlia- announced | Maunted police
The appellant submitted that; on Tuesday that seven there fell to be dedueled fromment were tonight arranging a this à sum of $100 per month, depulation to plead for her life American boys attempting
-prolits
stall with the Home Secretary, Mr the
of a coffee lions with all the ensuring disto scale one of the Canadian which had been run by the wife, Gwilym Lloyd George. asters for the Gaman people, Rockies were killed in an
It was
suggested that these yesterday announced there would be no reprieve for the former "The solution of the German
profits were handed over by the night club girl. question is indissolubly linked avalanche.
wife to her husband and
Petitions containing thousands with ensuring the security of
Six of the boys were from therefore part of the $0 handed of signatures and hundreds of Europe as a whole. That is now
to her. As she could continue telegrams have flooded into the the European Philadelphia and the seventh the view of all
The avalanche
to run the coffee stall' as her Home Omer asking mercy, for to frum : Louis. countries who are striving
own, the $8, it was sald, should Mrs Ellis, safeguard their peaceful deve caught them on Monday within
2,000 test of the top of 11,856-be reduced to about $5.
On her last day of life the lopment.
foot Mt Temple.
to "If it is not possible under
But there was no suggestion in condemned woman-mother They were in a group of 11 prosent
to reach members of an conditions
expedition of the notes of evidence that this two children-was allowed.
the coffee stall was see relatives and friends.. Club immediate agreement on the re-
of sum from
Her mother and father, Mr unification
handed over to the husband and of Germany
The mother, 35 minutes. democratle
handed, back, remarked Lord and Mrs Neilson, were with her peace-loving und
Somervel.
weeping, covered her face with a handkerchief as she left the prison.
DEPENDS ON WESTERN POWERS
110
Wilderness
Philadelphia.
Lord-
for
strain."
under
60
"In a modern war when new
destruction of mass weapons
& BODIES RECOVERED It added Russia had always have appeared-atomic, hydro-Soundations, it will be necessary
priority tiven
to
gen. guided and others it is to obtain the solution of this
A Banff Park official sald
POINT FAILS. the unification while Western obvious that not a single coun- problem step by step by means
Mrs Ellis' best friend, a young Mr Nabarro declared that the
Lim was asking their powers had "brought to the
Mrs woman ials knew the climb was being
named Conservative Fuel
Power
French Con- "This would forefront the creation of a Westry taking part in the war could of relaxing international tension. none of the National Park off- Committee
be entirely in had "constantly German army and
mude. Five bodies have been ships to interfere with the incor-escape enormous destruction an
accordance with the establish-
current findings of fact in the Jacqueline Dyer, also visited the human sacrifice,
recovered. is urged" on Mr Geoffrey Lloyd the poration of West Germany
"However, hardly anyone can
The dead ment of at all-Europcap system
as announced by Singapore courts which were cell. She said afterwards "Ruth
But she was dengers of the developing coal the military blog of the Western
doubt that the greatest danger of collective security with the police were:
plainly in accordance with the looked well.
terrible It is that Hongkong would shortage zoti measures for coping powers."
would be for participation of ali European
Richard and James Bell, 13- motca of evidence. The point obviously become attached to 11 With L
"Is it not clear that by doing of a new "Adviso in these connections so the states who are signatories Germany. Germany would be states irrespective of their social year-old twins; William Wise, falled.
Their Lordships were satisfied Mrs Dyer gesturing despair- geographically suitable part
15, William Walls, 10, Miles of the British Common has largely been disregarded and to these agreements (the Paris in the centre of military opera-and political differences,
Marble, 12 and David Chapin, that there was evidence as to ingly cried: "She will hang to- Whatever I say there ulready 3 what is
of morrow, dangerous
expectation wealth, would have an fuel position fraught with dif
15, all o Philadelphia and the husband's pointed Commissioner, und ficulties to our balance of pay-
Luther Seddon, 13, of St Louls, working life which justified the is nothing we can do. Nothing
"NOT TOLD ALL" accordingly would possess
On Monday afternoon the boys sum awarded. The order made can save her now." may become calamitous ments
DAY to Whitehall next year," Mr Naburio said. direct access
will
Questioned about rumours of be made camp. 3,000 feet up on Mt in Singapore would be affirmed Germany
the deletion of $350 except for
have Through its accredited
Sir Anthony Eder called Mr
peoples united by a system of Western
Temple. "The German people are no
"new evidence" sald to been awarded changed into a militarist state, collective security." Cabinet meeting less interested than others presentative.
Lloyd to a
Eleven of the boys decided which had
of administration. costs
been forthcoming the French "Only the fuel the establishment of a collective Tost said it now depended on included in a military grouping,
This minor
error will not woman said cryptically: E nation that Hongkong earlier today
the Western powers whether or whether steps will be taken they would like to go higher.
Somervell one not talked."
could save her-and should have an influential "revolt" was discussed-Reuter, security system in Europe. This
torn in system could be joined by both Germany "will remain
to prevent such a development The boys climbed up to between the German of Western Germany.
9,500 and 10,000 feet and found affect dats," Lora
saki "This appellant will pay she has the German Democratic Repub- two or whether un-the-spot "voice" in Lon-
tho costa of
for the appeal
She added: "Ruth has not told one nation will be united in (East Germany)
this it would be impossible to go and the
It la inadmissable that
had just which in their Lordships opinion all she knows which could have Federal German
state."
all-important question for the any higher. They Republic
n." saved her." Kiero Was no justification." (West Germany) whose rap
cause of German reunification started the return trip when
Router. to and
the Is oroential prochement
safeguarding
4 p.m. of free elections.
ceme subordinate to the ques-
It was estimated the boys man unity.
"However, in the new cirtion of the manner in which the tumbled down 300 feet in acumstances which have arisen elections should be carried out.
avalanche,--Associated Press, in Germany in connection with "The Soviet Union has been the coming Into force of the and continues to be a supporter Paris agreement, of decalve im- of the re-establishment of the pertance is the question whether unity of Germany."
re.
don, either sitting in Par- liament
when
NO BAIL FOR
or accorded
21
special Whitehall status, is
not a new one, And these days it is assuming a quer-
BELFRAGE
New York. July 12.
tion of added importance The United States Court of because so much that goes Appeala, in a unanimous deci
sion on Tuesday, denied a motion
Press
an
in
to
The statement referred
of
hasten the restoration of Ger- the "Eden Plan" on the question European security should be the avalanche occurred, about
"Obviously DS soon
Ready To
Elections
the
GERMANY & MILITARY BLOCS Discuss Vietnam
On
these aims."--Reuior.
London, July 12.
·United victrams States-backed Governmout to
South
day was reported to be ready to agree to meet with the Com munist leaders of North Vietnam all- 10 arrange Vjetnam elections for 1956..
The move would eliminate one
on in and around the by Cedric H. Belfroge, British-single, democratic, peace-loving Colony involves the Foreign born editor of The National Germany is restored the will Onlee 11 well AN the Guardian, a
leftist publication occupy her worthy place in the family of peace-loving European Colonial Ofee,
here, for his release on bail. The Court also upheld The fact is that today Hong-
kong kas, through force of order calling for deportation of circumstances and not of its Belfrage to England.-Associated own suking, assumed a new status in international
Germany's futuro, Tass claim that the solution of the scon to meet in Geneva to find POLICE SLAY 3 affairs. It is a colony, but
snid: "There is no longer any problems concerning the reunif-ways, of solving the unsettled Algiers, July 12.
nf Germany were to problems in the interests of re- carrying almost the respon- |
attempt to conceal that recording cation aibilities of a small domin.: Three Algerians were killed to the plane of the sponsors of depend on the participation of a laxing international tension and lon. We are situated in an and four wounded at Blida, near setting up milltary blocs that, a united Germany for example in securing peace, As for the USSR.
Algiers, in a brush between unlied Germany
must join the the Warsaw agreement? There it is clear from all its foreign area of vital political Im-police and Algerians yesterday, military ailgament of the can be no doubt that this would policy that it will co-operate by portance and in con- One of the men killed, named Western powers.
next week not meet with the approval on all means to the achievement of sequence subjectod to the Houari, had already been ren- "The USSR, like other peace- the part of the Western powers. atralus and streasus which enced to death in absentia by loving countries,cannot but The four powers are, bearing political events of an inter-the Bildn Assizes couri. Three reckon with this. In this connec-
before PLANE CRASH in stumbing block to heavy responsibility national nature automatic-Algerians were also arrested, and tion li is permissible to ask how the peoples for the fate of the ally impose.
one policeman received slight the Western powers would react world. This obliges the sales- If the Soviet Union were to men of these powers who are But whether We could, at injurios.-France-Presse.
this time, afford the luxury of a new con- stitutional status such as that envisaged by some of the London polley-makers, Is extremely doubtful. It
tween the West and the Soviet would involve n' political up- Premier Edgar Faure will The French plan would have Unión. heaval in the Colony which submit to President Elsenhower an economic advantage because Control and channelling of the at this time would more and Britain's_Prime Minister any slow-down in war produc-roods might also be entrusted to CAN NOW LEAVE ders
United Nations, koly than not adversely Sir Anthony Eden on Sunday on would have to be offer by the
London, July 12, trouble for the Wert affect un. But the iden med disarmament plan which, if it a corresponding rise in peace enabling countries which do not Mrs Phyll, Sisperd, British- Cenova confermeo a
approved
will be discussed production, to forestall an in-take part in the Genova talks to not he shelved for all time, the Big-Fout, talks which dustrial and social crisis.
born bride; has received her,
United
Preme staff correspon» join the agency,
travel and it will certainly be in open la Geneva on Monday. Such a crisis would be pro-
documents to return
dent
Kermelh Brodngy reporind; Main chatucha before the plan
Prague by telephone, from Moscow, that teresting to seo. If anything
The French plan calls for a vented by reconverting tank is that financial cuta in arms to Britain from
WILL
her, three children the MeHo Chi minh, in a brief materiallack from the Malta proportional: out in arms spend-factorios brake specially-set-production are not ample to cope Foreign Office announced to resek ge on reaching Moscow, round" --table,' conference by the Big-Four powers and up: Iniemalional agoncy for with the situation and mint, be night.
Pete med pecite mention of the which Hongkong can accept for the money thus saved to be pencenil Jos producion which accompanied by par la tanpur 1992 by hopes to Prague by Van Juctions Viride the as being practicable and paid into a joint fund to be would represent a first practical to solve the security problem, the (unoful..
United Pres. falafrunder-developed
Faure To Submit Disarmament Plan
* Paris,_ July 12. eguntries
thus
of the
“suminit" the success Tokyo, July 12. Japanese police reported four conference of Big Four leaders of six crewmen were killed to at Geneva, beginning next week. Pross correspondent day when a Japanese navy twin-
Tilor cabled from. engined PB-2 sumbarine attack-B. K
New plane crushed near Kagoshima Delhi the news that the election
In Kyushu, Japan's arrangements would be made. westernmost island.
The disclosure came shortly Communist Indo- The police said two surviving after the crowmembers were badly In-Chinese: leader, Mr Ho Chi- minh,, arrived in Moscow for jured-floater..
Soylet on the other issues which threatened
consultationstions and
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