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Budget Outlook
TTENTION
be
A on the financial
Secretary This Wednesday when he is due to present to Legislative Counc} his budget for 1956-57, Will the tid.ngs be glad or grim?
That in Mr Clarke's secret. but we venture to suggest that he will not find It necessary to be too depress- Ing.
A year
ago the Financial Secretary budgetted for a $32 million defeil-a Agure which no me was inclined to take ton seriously. Month- ly returns published in the Government Gazette have Mupported the acepticism then expressed, and unless there has been a consider. able excess of expenditure over revenue during the last quarter the public end ex- Anancial year to pect the
end with a small surplus. Should this prova to be no, it must be observed that L affords
for com-
10 room
placency. It will probably be found that elimination of the estimated deficit is due principally to a substantial reduction in expenditure and that revenue will be in the region originally fore- cast.
THE warning
WAN given twelve months ago that, on the present basis of taxation in all its forms, and in view of the trade recession noi
yet corrected, the Colony
had just about reached its ultimate in revenue raising The figure is Impressive enough, but It is confronted
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SPEEDBOAT Avalanches
TRAGEDY
New York, Feb. 26. Two LUOMEN drowned and hope was all but abandoned for three other persons today when an open speedboat hit a sand- bar and overturned in the rough waters of the lower Potomac River.
was
1C8-
girl in her middle tecus
dead when brought ashore. A woman in her early 20s died after
at artificial aftempla piration failed to revinC her. Some three hours after the accident, rescuers WITC Still dragging the river for two men and a woman. Two other WOMEN taken to hospital. sugering from shock and e.rporre.-Unted Press.
were
Teenagers
& Police
Do Battle
Troops Called Out
Daytona Beach, Feb. 26. Nearly 4,000 teenage "hot rod" car enthusiasts fought for live police and fremen hours today before reserve
Italy
In
CENTRAL EUROPE
STILL ICE-BOUND
London, Feb. 26.
Frigid Europe today took a first cautious step out of a new ice age which killed nearly 1,000 people in avalanches, floods, accidents and other disasters.
The thaw hit first and hardest in Italy, where at least 150 have died in the period of bitter cold and unheard of snows. Hundreds of avalanches blocked roads, isolated more villages and threat- ened to dash home into the sea on the Italian peninsula.
LORD HAILSHAM
Spain and Portugal also sounded landslide LEUKAEMIA
warnings.
The Berlin weather bureau watchdog of cold waves from Russia, the source of this one - reported that spring was in the air.
"The cold wave has ended," it said. "The hard winter has passed by. Only the snow on the ground keeps the air cold."
Everything
Laid On
troops carrying rifles finally Laid dispersed them. About. 100 youngsters were arrested.
The youngsters also stoned nim notors Borton Maclane and by formidably growing James Crady who were in the expenditure, much ofareae Melther was hurt.
15 INJURED
About 15 people, including a
By The Navy
Despite heartening thaw re- ports from Scandinavia and the south, central Europe was stil locked In 201 Arctic weather bell.
VICTIM DIES
Criticism Of Eden
Flares Up Again
MAY MEAN BIRTH OF NEW ERA
Washington, Feb. 27. United States officials are cautiously optimis-
'WE NEED A tie that the 12-nation group meeting in Washing-
CHURCHILL" CRIES PEER
ton today will reach agreement on a charter to create an international atomic energy agency,
Such an agency, proposed by President Eisen- hower in 1953, would speed efforts towards sharing the benefits of peaceful application of the atom on a world-wide scale.
Representatives of the United London, Feb. 28. States, the Soviet Union, Britain, Canada, France, Czechoslovakia, The cry of "we need a
Brazil, India, Australia, Belgium, Churchill" rose today out of Portugal, and South Africa moet the troublesome clamour in the State Department today bedevilling Prime Minister to consider a draft statute pro- posed for the creation of the Sir Anthony Eden.
ogency.
The possibility of a breakdown A Conservative peer declared the country needs "one man in in negotiations, expected to last in the the government
could about two weeks, Les who
Saviat contention that the agency malce a song."
should be tied closely to the
Viscount Hailsham, writing in the
Conservative Sunday Graphic, sald poetry appealing to the pople was "the great gift Sir Winston had st the crilical morTETIES,"
"But there is no one today in public life who can inspire us in the same way." Lord Hailsham said.
You only need one prophet an Isaiah, not a Jeremiah who can make the people under- stand the significance and poignancy of life.
Security Council of the United
Nations.
of velo over the of the agency.
Further, the
governare.
meon
on tho
pro-
A Shorter
Working Week For Soviets
The draft directives were first
Moscow, Feb. 26. The 20th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party urgea the need to improve the lot of POWER OF VETO the working men by Introduo. That would
that the ing shorter hours and revising Soviet would have the power pensions in revised dircoilves on
the xixth five year deliberations
plan, adopted by the Congress yes- Soviet Unionturday, 1 VETLE disclosed in wants the permanent Security Moscow tonight, Council members to have per- manent positions posed atomic agency's board of published in Moscow on January 16. They were modified follow- Some Western officials looking a report to the Congress by Grand Rapids, Mich, Fef. 26.
Premier Marshal Nikolai Bul- warily at this proposition 03 Mr. and Mrs John van Lopike's
it could sometime in the future ganin. Most changes concerned long, sleepless viall ended today "Find Him Quick" raise the question of the status como on workers' social whent sho first of thetr
conditions, of Communist China. teakaemia-stricken twin daugh
The main task of the con- "More important than
any-
Com- ters died.
Suggestions made by ferees thing else that faces them now,
today will be to consider munist
First Party
Secretary The
child, Eileen Sue,
or charter, pút Nikita Khrushchev Eden and his cabinet must find a draft statute,
to reduce peacefully in her sleep, still in this man, And find him quick forward by eight countries ap-working hours were given a A report from Prague said the oxygen tent in which
Quick,"
pointed by the United Nations, concrete form. The directives lived since rats had
Chiet opposition criticism of Those nations were
Britain, called for a gradual reduction of Her two-year-old
seven-hour-day, capital and a number of persona
Jo, rested the notion's economic crisis Canada,
*Australia and to a six-hou-day for miners, reporteri attacked were
by quietly in a nearby playroom, caused by. Inflation, and on the and the United States.
*And. Much from next year onwards. rodents.
of her sister's
death. Eden government's refusal to of the early discussion is ex-where possible a Ave-day weNE Doctors gave, Kathleen three or introduce anti-hanging legisla-pected to contre around comp of eight-hour work days. From four months at most to live. She Lion even though the House of position on the proposed 14 this year two hours a week are also suffers from the dread Commons voted for it.
nation board of governors discase which claimed her twin. The Labourite Reynolds News the agency.rage
parents of the children accuses the Eden Government had since Wednesday main of applying ones in the remedies! Lained a round-the-clock vigil amounting to at Eliden's bedside. They were
to check krilation. ordered home to rest and to
Members of Parliament "must wait
show Eden that he can't run amin" In Denmark, authorities
The child's death cam
came as no government like a schoolboy's timated that home owners paid
although it was not marbles team." The Pictorial nearly half again as much
for surprise
80 soon following her said, additional fuel
It sald Eden "èhose to embark to keep warm expe Improved condition during the cold spell
went to sleep on shabby shilly-shallying" on usual this time of the year. yesterday. She
today and never woke from her the Esue of the hanging bun. Public transport organisations
United Press. lost millions due to wrecked nap-United Press.
that
hunger-maddened
were rampaging in the Czechwin Kathleen.
In Portugal, livestock herds were reported dwindling fast London, Feb. 20. from starvallon and the attacks Writer Bernard of wolves. Food prices soured. Royal Navy, who The bitter cold also look a Singapore because heavy toll of forming. Spanish his mother is dangerously 11, agricultural losses were esti- found a special aircraft waiting ininted at $50,000,000. for him nt Loudon airport today.
As he stepped from a BOAC Constellation he was met by Royal Navy men who had been standing by with a Devon plane
flown up from Lee on Solent, Hampshire.
it dedicated to develop- Trouble began when police or-
Leading ment schemes, expansion of dered a group of youngsters to acceleration testu
Smith of the social services, education stop making
flew on a main street intersection.
from and health-all regarded as
The teenagers retaliated by essential.
Two slashing jyres of
police This is the poser which con- cars. As the group grew into
fronte the Treasury and
milling crowd. an aggressive must alna exercise the polis tossed in tear gas bombs. minds of the taxpayers. The prospect of increased taxa- tion In any direction policeman, were injured before
depressing,
but the nation guardsmen restored possibility cannot be ruled¦ order. An offler said he fired out. The alternatives are a one warning shot. Then his 30 slowing down of develop men encounterte no resistance. Three youths were injured in ment and expansion
One was "hot rod" accident. grammes, or dipping into
thought to have a
a broken, spine. reserves to finance capital A hot rod" is a light car with
a specially tuned engine,
About 100 youths were arrested Police toured the vices, social welfare, health city later today hoping to find and education is not likely the ring leaders. Reuter.
costa.
pro-
The clamour for continuity improvement in public ser-
to abate. In fact such a momentum Лин Already been attained that it
doubtful if there could be any considerable curtail- ment of activity in these directions without acriously dislocating the Colony's social equilibrium.
Twenty minutes after he ar- rived from the Far East he was on his way home to Anglesey, | north Wales.
communications facilities.
STILL SKATING
es-
IN WES
washed
Two days ago Smith
WDS. told of his mother's illnesá
in Paris,
the thaw. He
some of the
but was put on
first away
the cold, still skated in the London-bound flight. At Lon- Parisians don airport he
Boulogne. The cold was hurried Bois de through
wave seriously hurt the famed igh immigration and Cus-
the Devon plane, which Parisian entertainment industry. took off for Valley, five miles Theatres reported heavy slump in attendance, and many from Holyhead.
were cabarets and restaurants
toms
Later tonight Bernard Smith reached the bedside of his empty.
Boyd Arrives critically ill mother, Mrs Mary
In Nicosia
Smith, 45, at Anglesey,
The journey home had taken less then three days.
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SINGAPORE FACING A POPULATION PROBLEM
Singapore, Feb. 27,
Singapore faces a population problem because fertility rates are now extremely high and mortality is low according to a report of a population study group released today. •
The report is one of a number written to assist a government-appointed team which last month completed and made public a master plan for Singapore.
Τη The planners forecast that by 1972, Singapore would have a been a population of two-millions, co mortality, made their recommendations
sald attendance was cut one fifth by the cold wave, and this in a country used to winter cold
On
Ice-bound German the sea const, a British Royal Air Mrs Smith, mother of six, be- Force hedcopter airlifted a came ill with paralysis and a doctor to a British freighter- week ago was given two hours whose captain lay dying of accordingly.
But heart attack.
the doctor Authorities were arrived
10 The naval
help the told and 1,6.30 p.m. on Thurs- skipper.
Smith, who was ashore
to live.
Nicosia, Feb. 26, The British Colonial Secre- THE task of the Financial arrived in Nicosia tonight for Lary, Mr Alan Lennox-Boyd, THE
Secretary is no enviable on-the-spot talks with Governor one. His first duty is to Sir John Harding on the poli- maintain a balanced budget. | tical situation in Cyprus. but to this is aligned the
Mr Lennox-Boyd is scheduled day necessity of pressing
on to report to the House of Com- playing football In Singapore,
on
Tuesday next
on
· with essential schemes mom designed to bring benefits, recent exchanges between Sir to the community.
John Harding and the Cyprus It is a problem which under Enouts movement for union with
Sender. Archbishop
was told to get civilian clothes and an air ticket.
tes late
TRAIN DERAILED
The population study group reported that there was some evidence the fertility of the Chinese bad been increasing during the past few decades,
Despite a sharp decline in A landslide in Italy derailed
with before World War, the an express train, throwing its migration compared engine into the sea. A maroon- the Second od train in Portugal was finally Chinese population have risen from ·747,000 in 1947 to 880,000 into વ stolice, but
floods were in 1953. It is expected to be
about 1,011,000 in 1072.
He left at 11.30 pm, on Friday and arrived at London airport at 2.40 p.m. today. scores one fact. It is that Greece
Makarios.
With the help of the Royal towed Government must not em- bark
Mr Lennox-Boyd told jour Navy men who had been stand- thawing snow and costly on
projects nalists at the airport that it was ing by at London airport with reported washing out roadbeds,
Many villages Smith was
in Italy. which are otherwise than aj
Devon plane, Ukely he would meet Makarios Ahe "must" so far as the welfare during his visit although no home just after 1700 GMT, the northern Spain and Portugal and interests of the Colony talk was planned and a meeting last 20 miles being accomplished are still isolated by huge snow-
drifis are concerned. Additionally would depend upon his consul- by a RAF staff car. the public are entitled to tations with Sir John Harding. request that whatever The Colonial Secretary said he pruning
made in had come principally to see the departmental expenditure it situation in Cyprus for himself,
-France-Presse.
can be
should be made. New tax impositions should
be introduced only as a last
resort and in justification of expenditure that will bring a return to the taxpayer. In thin connection close interest will be devoted to the projects which Govern- mont has in mind for the
Finnish Cabinet
Minister Killed ·
.Helsinki, Feb. 20. Finland's Finance Minister,
coming fiscal year. They Fenna Tervo, was killed in д must not only be essential car accident near Helsinki to- 'from the long-term point of night: He was one of three
1
49 PER 1000
The dertility rate among the Malaysian and Indian commun- Hle sold tonight: "It was all The flood danger, extended itles was also high and the birth done very rapidly, and smooth-from Italy In the south to Fin-rate how stood at "the high ly, thanks in the first place to land in the north. An official of Agure" of 49 per 1,000 of popula-
the Finnish Hydrographical tion, the report sald. my divisional effiert.
At the same time, the death "Before I went up to see Institute said that southern
only
ten per 1,000, rate wh faces I shaved off my beard Finland mother
"exceptionally and the recognised me straight difficult" flood conditions be. This was due to a combination sway."
cause the snow cover is twice as of factors, of which the high proportion of young people in Leading Writer Smith expects deep za usual. to return to the Far East. He Britain had its warmest day the population as a whole, and Joined the Royal Navy in 1951 in the last ten, as the tempera-the comparatively high standard
engage ture soared and is on a 12-year
to 37 degrees (F) of health in Singapore, were the ment China Melt Special. at noon-United Press.
most important."
ACRIMONIOUS COMMONS DEBATE FORECAST
view, but also urgent, if occupants in an official car Mr Selwyn they are to win approval which bild on the icy road sur- And if the Financial Secretary face near Tusby, 40 kilometres Helsinki, and collided finds new taxation is in from
with another
Israel situation and Itai, firm backing of the five-nation Hardid defence pack, political Bourdes saldo P Todays debate will alsti vange
over the Far East and to pary. Loular
the Chinese Nation- At our Inked vocupa Llor Cutmay
London, Feb, 27.
Kloyd, British. |* ..Foreign Secretary, opene, a ong-tay House of CommOLIN debate on foreign anaisto ddy with the Labour.opperi»: tion bitterly hodila i tothe zovernment's -Middio
EAST polley, a comment
Anthony Eden's zovernment Labour MPs are likely to kossil
this and ́aloo likely to run into a barrage
eur. escapable, let it be seen Terve, born in 1001, was that the impoet is as widely member of the Social Democra aprond as possible, namely ito that he taps the stream of Party executive since 1940. He has had several ministerial Indirect taxation
posta and.
appointed Bir calling on the few, to Financo Minister in Prime Kokkonen's Arth shoulder now, burdens by Master
Cabinet in 1954, Router. ralding the salaries tnx.
before
WEE
of
of Labour · attacks" on its alittade to tie tunge Arab-
to loemen the VOSMETA DOWörn
cm-
trade siziet, sintegio barress towards - Commuapísi China, impband after. Peking ** was branded an aggressor · In the Kotcom, wae by the United Nationa
Novote lexplated
}
of
to be cut off work on the eve of thé ! weekly'"'hollday,"ht¦ special. -holidays.
}
their
10 and
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INDIA'S DESIRE,
· PENSION SCHEME The Indian representative i
Youths of between expected to oppose the composi- tion of a board. of governors 18 are to have which would not give adequate day cut do alx hours this year, voting power, to the lesser deve-None of these measures is to loped nations.
involve reductions in salaries, Somo 37 countries have com- The directives also call for a
on the pro- more equal pension system, with mented in detail
agency. charter and lower paid categories increase posed another task of the 12-nation and unnecessarily inflated pen- group will be to consider these stony refuced." written views,
In the economic sphere, the Despite preliminary directives call for the setting up differences with the Soviet of a big "cotton, zone" in the Union, United States officials Soviet Union.. by irrigaling and tend to be hopeful that the cultivating waste lands to the Russians will refrain from any Pet Pak Dala desert (the drastie
would hungry steppes of Kazakhstan) action which
atomic The directives also Increased, hindey creation of the
do from 30 to 32 the number of agency if Soviet proposals
new industrial tool factorica to not win through
The Washington view is that be built. Milk production is to the agency,
even it, born of be increased and the geogra- compromise, would be well phical distribution of higher
establishments worth the effort of creation education
vised.-France-Presse. Reuter.
recent years,
decline
"Singapore is developing
there had Infant in
"This
AS
a metropoly and in common with large elties in other parts the world it will almost of certainly tend to attract more Got more people," the report soid.--Reuter.
TRAIN DISASTER DEATH TOLL
Berlin, Feb. 20. The death toll had risen to 41' ia the train crash út Barmitz, East Germany, yesterday, the official news agency ADN said here today.
Ger- The casually total in many's worst rallway disaster announced since the war was yesterday us: 32 dead mi 40 More than seriously injured. 100 others are believed to have received lesser injuries.
The accident took place when.
a goods train overshot a cignal during fog and ploughed into the side of an expeces running late on its way from Dresdens
to Leipzig-Router.
Police Inspector Found Shot Dead
a
Singapora, Feb. 20.
A Coylonese police Inspector,
Renzie Dollkani,ared 28, was
Lire end | found deed with a bullet would
of the debate, which will be in the head today, while his wite wound up - by: Sir Anthony we having lunch about 15 feet Edes, in a spacchi expected to away ve Van - SerANSE
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