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the report admits, but lodiny Press statement appears to be aimed over the heads of Landlords, at Government
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#zd the exploited sub- tenant.
Doubtless the latter will agit! with its proposada. Govorn ment may be interested but it is to be hoped that when The time comes to make its own inquiries, It will proceeJ on lines calculated to win the widest support posible and not to antagonise or addistinte those with whom large part of the success of such a scheme must rest. Line of the first needs is to define the word slum before any attempt at clearantee ja
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HUNGARY: NEW REPRESSIVE DECREES
Free Peoples' Horror And Revulsion
Augusta, Dec. 9. I'resident Elsenhower sald today that "the recent outbreak of brutality in Hungary has moved free propies everywhere 10 reactions of horror and revulsion**
In a statement issued hers ол The occasion of the Human Rights Day cele- brations on Monday, the President said, referring to Hungary: "Our hearts are filled with sorrow, Our derpest nympathy KOCH
out
oul
Hie GQ liberty-loving Hungary.
CourageoLUM people
of
The terror imposed upon Hungary repudiates and negates Almost
every
article in the declaration of human rights. It denies that men are born free and equal in dignity and rights, "The courage and sacrifices of the brave Hungarian have consecrated People
Wo
that spirit anew. We shall continue to offer shelter to the homeless as shal! xo
on feeding the hungry. and
providing medicine and care for the sick." Human Rights Day com- memorates the 8th anni- versary of the ratification of
United the
Nations Human Rights Charter.— France-Presse,
MARTIAL LAW: WORKERS
MUST SURRENDER ARMS
Govt Reports New Clashes
Vienna, Dec. 9. Hungary's Communist Govarnmant tonight declared mar- tial law and outlawed regional workers' councils in a drastic attempt to cut short a new armed revolt.
The martial law was to take effect at 6 p.m. on Tues- day. The announcement said it was necessary because armed "provocations" were again erupting all over Hungary.
were
It said the Central Budapest and other regional workers declared "ex lege" (outside the law) because they were attempting to take over the Central Government.
***
Hoverhunent charged "counter-revolutionaries" had taken over control of the re Rtonal workers' councils.
Workers' councils carrying out strictly administrative functions in lodiykiuni factortes were to be allowed to remain, But factory managers were ordered to carry but a drastic purge of "counter- volutionaries" inside them.
The Presidential Council com- minique also snic criminal court would get special powers 10 help military courts judge uch crimes as "armed action," Tomtride and looting.
robbery,
The morijal law" affects the following crimes; murder, arson, putlugtrue, ciestroying inst thing of public property, The attempt of these crimes and --the possession of arms without |
permision1.
could apply to very large Seeks Treasure
arens of this Colony. There- fore an even more detailed definition must be sought
and plans worked uut for a
Penang, Dec. 9. Captain W. J. Havers, a phased clearance, related to retired British mining en- financial and materiai regineer, arrived from Eng. Iand today in a motor fish- sources available.
Here the most commendable|ing boat on the way to look
suggestion made by
the for three million pounds
All persons who are in the possession of arms and am- munition must hand them over to the police by p.. Dec, 11. All who deliver their arms will not be punished, the announcement sald,
Court Martial
All persons who know of trese
Reform Cluke recommends sterling worth of sunkenerines" and fail to inform the itself-un investigation of gold near Auckland, New police will be also tried by court the Average deity of Zealand.
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various clear fot
investigati
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Captain Huver sud the gold by many fathoms dess ti in a Boston clipper, Genen) Grant, which rank in 1886 of Auckland,
inartial, it said.
The
declaration of martin) low will be published by radio, the press and by posters. Milt- nry martials will be formed,
"I know where the old clipper but the government has the
I atas confident 1ean right to delegate other courts.
In replacement, locale it,” he said.—Reuter,
structures but a report on
this aspect would be valu- able in view of the lack of basic farts and figures.
SHIP AGROUND
Los Vitos, Chlle, Dec. 0. The Reform Club's initiative The US passenger-freighter
and its constant attention · Seafarer who aground off this to living conditions de-, central Chileon port today after serve high marks. But I an weelden, which flooded IWO thoroughly impartial
ar its holds but caused no Ap- proach to this question is casualties among passengers
con-
needed taking into sideration
interests Involve d. Government should receive representa- tions from all concerned bul its own vlews will earn most attention in the final consideration,
crew,
The goverment communique, broadcast by Budapest radio at pan., climaxed a day in which communications between Buda- est and the outside world were severed.
Western correspondents man- aged only to get out the news that the Central Workers' Coun- cit
has been isolating the counter- into the crowd. There wero revolution to reinstate peace zeveral persona kliked and order and obtain a re-injured, sumption of work, the tough attitute of the police has caused anger in the ranks of the counter-revolutionarica
and they have not given up their dirty explotte,
"They have made new al-
Death-Trap Roads WEDDING GUESTS POISONED
14 KILLED IN CAR SKIDS
A
Chicago, Dec. 9. treacherous coating of ice and snow accounted for numerous highway
accidents from the Texas panhandle to New England today.
At least 14 persons died when
Tokyo, Dec. 10. A happy wedding celebration ceréniony was broken up here late tonight when 35 guests were removed to a Fukushiires, northerTA Japan, hospital shortly after eating polsoned celebration rico cakes.
A police spokesman said a couple had' just been united in holy matrimony by a Bhuddist priest when 35 guests at the wedding veremony who had eaten traditional wedding rice cakes fell writhing to the floor.
The ceremony broke up la confusion and a doctor had to be called.
The diagnosis was "poisoning,”
Amimlaneta were called and the 35 guests, including the bride's
parents, were sent to hospital.
The police spokesmen sald tonight three of the guests had been
placed on the danger list,—Reuter.
NOT ALL THE PARTY
cars in which they were trave NOT
Hag skeldded on glazed roads.
Near Moose, Wyoming. family of alx drowned when their car slipped off a snow- packed highway. crashed through a bridge railing and plunged into The icc-covered Snake River.
BOYS ARE FOOLED
Rome, Dec. 9.
Mra Ekaterina Furtseva, leader of the Soviet de
the congress
of the Italian Communist The bodies of Albert Oakley, legation to und 40, of Casper Wyoming, his wife Party, won applause from the congress today for her and four children were found defence of the Soviet Union's actions in Hungary. inside the
when it was "Bimilar provocations wêre
enleed from the water by grap-
Wax But applauso engineered at
more shaken by the news that has Tatabanya pling hooks,
hesitant for two Italian (coal-mining
clc- reached arts
1 AB West
Recent of
months Meanwhile, weathermen wain legates who Budapest).
defled the firmly chout the social Bekosoa ba
organisation that ed
temperatures would pro-Soviet attitude taken by the and the methods of government (southern Hungary) and at Tumble during the night as an- Battonya (southern Hungary). other blast of cold Arctic air Party leader, Signor Palmiro in the Socialist countries."
moves across Northern borders Togilatii in his key-note speech
Just and spread more mow through
two
clearly delegates indicated that they did not be-
templs to start an arned up-Have Many Weapons
rising and have been spreading rumours and distributing appeals for a new strike.
were
the Great Lakes region as far South as Ohio.
madu
Thought
other
He added that the workers in le plant condemned "the un- critical and sycophantic at- Utude" of the Italian Com-
A dozen
speakers scrupulously followed the Party Jine, most
of them admitting that
and Hungarian
Polish the ranks of the Party but a events had created confusion In
ding that this had now been swept away.--Reuter.
These netions
Init accompanied the leading lieve that the Hungarian up-munist press. casy because thero
were still edge of today's cold air acrossing was due to "Fascist re- "On December 4 women's many weapons and arma in the Alabama and Georgia, leaving actionaries and couator-revolu- demonstration
tionarles," WILN organised, hands of the population which only Florida clinging to sum- Some 100 persons broke through are being used for criminal acts. mery
Mrs Furtseva, the only woman 80-degree weather to Kossuth Square. The exceu- This was the reason why mar-United Press.
member of the Soviet Presidium tive intervened and discovered tal low had to be proclaimed.
and reputedly a close friend of that a machine gun had been
the Soviet Communist Party st
the roof of the on up
counter-revolutionaries
Secretary, Me Khrushchev, told Supreme Court building with are trying to worm
their way
the the object of staging a bloodbath Into the worker's councils and Among The women and then other workers' organisations in blaming it on the government ork to dominate them.
the
C
hode
Rescue Of Oil-Trapped Swans Goes On
"Such an attempt at provoca- After the October 23, up- tlon by the counter-revolution-rising-workers' cinahells were arice was partly succesful at ejected, in all factories, They Salgotarians
for
Ézerbe, kvero: -sapporfor--by the Hun- Hungarian border northeast of garlan
London, Dec. 9. Government which Budapest) on December Bi thought that
councils
The great aivan roundup *There
provocation
would help
in developing the continues on the Thames was self-government of workers organised to free two persona
in River today with some 300 who were arrested earlier.
the The
factories. In Busapest and in the coun-of the big birds still help provocateurs managed to forge the workers to leave the fac-try, however, regional workers lessly afloat with oil-clogged tories and take part in the de-council organisations were wings.
formed against the advice and A barge sand off the British will of the government,
railways wharf yesterday morn *The
government carmol Ing. releasing more than "200
'regional | tons of thick"oll.
Swans gluck in the film were blinded, choked or paralysed by the mummy stuff.
monstration,
The provocateurs opened Bre on the demonstrators with approve 对 these machine Kuna and machine workers' councils and has never pistols and inrew hand grenades recognized them."-Uniwi Press.
UN Move To Condemn
Soviet Intervention
United Nations, Dec. 9.
The United States and a group of 14 other coun- tries today submitted to the United Nations General Assembly a resolution, condemning the Soviet Govern. ment for using its armed forces against the Hungarian people and having deprived Hungary of its freedom and independence,
Extra river police launches and dozene of workers from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals were on the river today.
100 DESTROYED
So far more than 300 birds have been captured and taken
The Cas
•
Treaty Ratified
Soviet Union, profound- ly devoted to peace and national independence, responded to the appeal of the Hungarian govern ment in order to help bar the way to Fascism, to the restora- ---- tion of Horthyism.”
RULERS' ERKORS
London, Dec. 9... The Soviet - Présidium.. has ratifled the Soviet- One of the speakers, who Japanese agreement on defed, the Party, line was Pietro trade and relations--signed Ingrao, a member of the Party's in Moscow on October 19 Politbureau and editor of the Moscow radio reported to main edition of the Party news-night.
paper,
The
repatriation Ho attributed the Hungarian
of revolt soicly to the errors of the Japanese held in Russin country's Communst rulers. since the end of the war Is The other was Valerio Ber-expected to be the first tin, who spoke for the work tangible result of the rati- of an engineering plant near Florence.
said: "Our flcation of the agreement, workers have been profoundly '--Reuter,
Не
FREIGHT CHARGES HIKE FORECAST
London, Dec. 9. The Financial Times reported British shipping circles were today. expecting before the end of the
The first hike in roles was to extra cost of ship over the travel around the Cape of Good
10 two RSPCA clinics to bo
year an amouncement that the cleaned. Another 100 had to be destroyed.
shipping lines Uniting Britain Hope. The new rise would cover "It will be at least three weeks with the Far East would raise the general increase in opera- the past before the swans we have treated freight rates from 10 to 15 per tional costo during
the cent, added to the 15 per cent month, the newspaper on water," an RSPCA official said, rise announced a month "for not only do we take off the thielt oli but olso the birds' na-
be allowed back
of Greater Budapest had culled a new 48-hour general strike before the silence came.
The strike was called to start The captain of the Pope and either at midnight tonight or
midnight tomorrows", Talbot ship ran it nground after
according It hit a rock near the entrance to varying reports. to Las Vilos harbour. The Sea-
In making
king its nanounce- fuper wis on the
ment the government reveal- way from Hurnos Aires le San Francisco
ed that "several persons were The resolution will be con- profound concern on the sub-tural oil, and that means that at the ne of the accident.--
killed and injured" in a clash sidered in the General Assembly Ject of the "tragic events in they were put straight back into yesterday at Salgotartan, on session, which United Press,
is meetin on | Hungary.
the water they would sink.” — Monday morning to debate the
United Press. Hungarian question.
It recalls the earlier resolu- The resolution reiterates its tions passed by the Assembly on
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the Czech-Hungarian border northeast of Budapest,
Govt's Claim
appeal to the Soviet Governs the Hungarian situation, relating Divorced From
rient to stop at once any form of intervention In Hungary's
ima-
It requests the Soviet Gov- ernment to take steps mediately for the withdrawal of ita armed forces from Hungary, under United Na-
allow diens control, and to
The government claimed pro-internal affairs. vocateurs "forced" loyal work- ཐཱསྐྱུ to demonstrate and then -twowed them down with
machine
and guns
hand grenades. The government im- plied
the provocateurs were Trying to put the binme for the massacre on the government.
Similar provocations engineered at Tatabanya-(con)- mining centre west of Budapest) erd at Bekercsaba and Battonya In southern Hungary," the com- munique said.
Provocateurs planned a similar massacro of the women
who demonstrated on Tuesday in Budapest, the government
claimed.
the 're-establishment of Hun- gary's political independence, The resolution, proposed by 13 countries, Including the United Slates, expresses the Assembly's.
to the withdrawal of Soviet troops and the admission to Hungarian territory of United Nations observera,
Moscow
New York, Dcc. D. US Communist Party
new con-
It notes that thess resolu- tions, especially the one on
The the entry of United Nations
10 Politburo
drafted observers, had not been fot-
petitution
today, declaring the and
Party's independence from Mo3- cow and ordering new inajtra tiona
of labour unions ond negro organisations,
Lowred
the
opinion that recent events clearly demonstrated the Hungarian people's will to recover their Überty and in- 'dependence,
Resolution's 4 Clauses
The draft, to be submitted to the Party's 16th national conven- tion here in February,· said it was the "duty" of Party mem- bers to join labour unions and against
The resolution was presented obeyed,
The resolution contained four withdrawal, under the observa- wage all-out batlic clauses;
tion of the United Nations, of racial and religious discrimina- 1. The General Assembly do its armed forces from Hungary, tion. clares that in using its armed and to allow the re-establish- TheCxecutivo Intervened forces against the Hungarian mont
It gave Party members the of Hungary's political.} "right" to disagree with any. an:l discovered that a machine people, the government of the Independence.
Parly polley-after the polley Is gun had been act up on the roof Soviet Union is violating the
adopted and as long as IL Ja of the Supreme Court buliding political Independence of with the object of, staging a Hungary.. bloodbath among the women and then blaming it the govern ment," the communique said,
The women's demonstration the communique referred to was not the main one at known soldier's tomb,
on
Lun-
The communique referred to "some: 100, persons" who broke through 10 Konrath Square in front of the Parliament building,
The
The
viving
“Reasons”
by the following 15 countries; The Politburo dccrcci!": "that
1 The United States, Argentina, tho, Parly should be reorganised.
-2.-The General Assembly Australia, Belgium, Denmark, on a club" basis, Instead of the condemns the violation of the Ireland, Italy, Norway, Pakis United Nations charter by the tan, the Netherlands, Salvador, Bovlet Government through Sweden, Thailand, Chile and ita action in depriving ||Petu, Hungary of its frendam and
Independation the of these countrics also support
Execpt for Chule, and Peru, all Hungarian exercise of their fundamentales the General Assembly's re- rights,
solution last week. requesting the admission of Unlied Nations observers, to Hungary. A
3. The
General Assembly reltorates its appeal to the Soviet Government immediately to stop any form of intervention the Hungary's internal affairs";
amment declaration
for
in
14, The, General Assembly TO- Eation quests the Soviet Clayrzeczenk
old top-secret cells, with appli- cants 18 years of age or older elected to membership. Ex- pulsion was ordered, for any siriko breaker, spy or terrorist. subwist, undermine, wealan any, persons conspiring to
or overthrow any or all institut« tions of American democracy."}
United Prem, UTAMA
or
London, Dec. 8, which signed the earlier re woman in the United Kingdom; Cuban delegation Mes Caroline Beale, the oldest solutions; did not support the died tonight, these works be- -prosaní zasoluiidu, :;; because Tore her 108th Birthday.
this resolution did hos com, FMry Boale, died at her home
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