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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1057.
INCREASED RUSSIAN MILITARY
BUDGET EXPECTED
Moscow, Feb. 4.
Observers today predicted an increase in military expenditure in the 1957 budget to be submitted to the Supreme Soviet (parliament), which meets here tomorrow.
The 1956 budget allocated
more
than
102,000 million roubles (sone US$20,000 million nt the nominal rates of change.)
CK-
(The Soviet Union deen not include the cost of its nuclear and guided missile programmes in the budget),
Despite reports In Western newspapers that a sensational reshuffle of top echelon Soviet government juba might be in
the wind, tomorrow's session was expected 10 routine.
Industrial Plan
strielly
Premier Nikolai Bulgarin dia- closed recently that the Supreme jects of the 1057 budget and the
Soviet would take up the sub-
1937 udustrial plan,
is
Opposition To Anti-Red Legislation
recommendation
JAPAN TO
EXPAND
CHINA
TRADE
Tokyo, Feb. 4. Japan's top economite planner declared today that the country will "ra- tionally and steadily" stop up her trade with China.
Kolchi Uda, director of the economic planning agency, dla not elaborate on how Japon proposed to expandi her trade with the mainland.
Ho said, "with regard to Sino-Japanese trade, we would like to promote it rationally and steadily while trying to maintain a balance of exporis anel
imports," Uda touched on the contro-
F
the
Manila, Feb. 5. Two top
House leaders versial China trade in [last_night_`expressed op-economic polley
speech before position to some
National legislature. parts of
while the
State Minister, The the Lower Chamber's Com- foreign markets have expanded by adnitung Japanese exporta to mittee on Anti-Filipino Ac- considerably in the past Dew tivities to outlaw the Com- years, warned that Japan must Increase still further her com- munist Party in the Philip-petitive strength in world trade. pines.
Discussing of the budget the customary reason for call- ing the Supreme Soviet carly in the year. But Western exports
The Speaker, Mr Jose Laurei anid discussion of an industrial plan by the Partianept was unJr. and the majority lender, M.
Arturo Tolentino, snid precedented.
18% INCREASE
Udu said Japanese exports during 1938 totalled $2,480,000,- the Berense of more than 18 per cent aveT* the previous year. He estimated exports this
will
totul $2,800,000,000 the Giving
Government's economie outlook for flocal 1057, Udu sald Total national
Income
doubted the justification of the The Supreme Soviet usually CAFA recomúmen:tation to deal discussed the Five-Year Plan.out capital punishment to traitors skimming Over detalls of the
even in times of peace and the However, experts CAFA recommendation was in yearly plans. pointed Dut that the current the form of a bit which would Five-Your Plan is being revised on the Instructions of the Combe Bled in Congress,
munist Party Central Commitice, President Magsaysay certified The Committee decreed last year the urgency of the measure in that industrial goals be reduced his Stale of the Nation message to more realistič levels.
ut the opening of the 100-duy Mikhail Pervukhin, top plan-regular session of Congress (0) aling expert, was assigned the January 28, task of revising the plan only n month ngo. Sources said only part of
it would be ready to submit to the Supreme Soviet at its opening sezlon tomorrow.
The
Past Experience
DOW
lucksel, I past experience is any criterion, will show a slight increase over 1950,
STAND KNOWN
Ata
Mr Laurel and Mr Tolentino made known their ht Monday night's conference with the President at Malscaman Palace.
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Mr Laurel told the Presiden
the he had called a caucus of
Ja Nuclonaliata Party members the House to hear the side Mr Josquin Roces (Nacionalista), CAFA chairman and chief pro ponent of the measure.
The principal boosts may be in expenditure for bolstering the national economy and in social and cultural appropriatione,
The present Supreme Soviet cted in March 1854 for was elected
four-year term.
gressmen that It is made up
Mr Roces led a group of Con-
undertook
un
of two Chambers-the Council eight-month study on the extent of the Communist threat on of the Union, with 700 members, and the Chamber of Nationall- Philippine security. United lies, with 350 members-Unitet Press.
Press.
Singapore, Feb. 4.
Bombay, Feb. 4. A
of 30 out of 33 group Indilan prisoners released by the
The Singapore Governor, Sir Portuguese authorities in Goa Robert Black, and members of received rousing reception the Colony's Consular Corps 10-when they arrived at Poona City day attended a reception by the|today. Ceylonese community to mark
Ceylon Independence day,
Thousands of Indians gathered Earlier special thanks giving at the railway station to meet released "satyngraphis" players were offered in Singapore the Hindu and Buddhist temples.-| (passive resters). France- Reuter.
Presso.
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YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Amos: 1 Spread, 7 Pass. 9 Torn, 10 Plump, 11: Lush, 13 Entreaties, 15 Noat, 10 Bips, 19 Disappoars, 22 Rods, 24 Deter, 28 Iros, 20 More, 27 Dresde, Dearn: Plant, & Evade, 4 Deputy, B. Opulenes, Aspa,: 0 Amuco, 12 Hates, 18 Embor, 14 Bosiated, 17 Ador, 10 sacred, 20 Priso, 21 Avoką, 33 zásDNA.
your
is expected to go up to 8,200,- 000,000,000 yen (about US$22,- 800,000,000), or a rise" of seven and one-half per cent over fiscal
1950,--Uutled Press.
Reds Asked
To Release
Migrants
Canberra, Feb. 4. Communist countries have been
naked to faci-
litate the migration to
of nearly 800! Australia people who want to settle with relatives here.
The
Australian Government
has sent requesta to the Soviet Union, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Rumenis, it was announced today.
Hungary has been asked to grant exit permits to 204 per- Fons. The response has been better than from any other et of the migrants have already
the Communist countries. Some
arrived in Australia,
AMONG REFUGEES
Some of those whose names were submitted to Hungary are nong refugees who escaped Into Austria after the recent revolt.
Russia hos received the names of 153 persons but so far only one of these, has arrived.
Satisfactory results have been obtained from Poland. A first contingent is expected to arrive
soon.
Thames Mine Exploded- After 12 Years
A giant German land mine, which had lain for 12 years under the Thames River by London's West India Dock, was rendered safo last week by frogmen, and exploded, the following day. The mine, which contained about 1,6001b of explosive, was discovered embedded in the mud at low tide. Ploture top shows Lieutenant-Commander G. Gutteridge, who led the frommen team, seated astrido the mine as it is taken
the socio away to be exploded; plotare bottom shows
at West India Dock as a tug tows the Norwegian vessel Bendomo out of the danger sone while operations zo on to "deaden" the mine-Express Photo.
CONGRESSIONAL
DEMAND
Investigation Into 'Voluntary'
Quota Restrictions
Washington, Feb. 4.
A move developed in Congress today to inves- tigate negotiations which led up to the "voluntary"
Mr B Regrets
London, Feb. 4.
The Soviet Ambassador to Britain, Jacob Malik, today called on British Prime Minister Mr Harold
· Macmillan.
It was the first meeting between the two states.
since Mr Macmillan became Prime Minister,
An Informed source sald' that Malik axpressed tho regret of Boviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin (hat. Mr Biacmillan had decided to postpone indefinitely hie projected visli to Moscow.
Franco-Fresse,
NY Tugboat
Strike Serious
New York, Feb. 4. Mayor Robert Wagner met striking tugboat crew- men and tugboat
© Fage
EUROPEAN FREE4
TRADE TALKS EXPECTED SOON
:
Paris, Feb. 4.
M. Rene Sergent, French Secretary-General of the Organisation for European Economic Co- operation, predicted here today that the OEEC Council of Ministers meeting here next week would decide to start negotiations very shortly on establishing a free trade ares in Europe.
An QEEC expert'e report, declaring that such a free trade area is technically feasible, will be published: tomorrow.
Commenting on the report, M. Sergent told a press conference that he was sure a formula would be found to cover the problem of agriculture which is widely considered 0
major obstacle to British participation in the scheme because of Bri-
4ain's preferential tarif ogre ments with the food-producing Commonwealth countries.
Not Bi-lateral
POCKET ATOMIC PILE
מן.
arrived
Paris, Feb. 4. Mr Robert C. Miller, Research Director of watch-making firm Elgin, Illinois, here today by air from New York to confer with French technicians on his He said that the free trade revolutionary invention, m area must not be taken as a pocket atomic pilo called bi-Inicial
between agreement quarters of the city's fuel Britain, on one hand, and the the "micropile." supply.
owners
today in an effort to settle
A
walkout that already has cut off nearly three-
The chances for a quick set- ticament of the four-day-old Mr strike were gloomy tis Wagner began separato talks with the disputing parties. The Mayor said prospects of a set-
inter Liemen
today were "not likely and the Tugboat Unton president, Joseph O'Hare, des- an "bad," cribed the situation Mr O'Hare said:
"I don't no an early end to this,"
SEVERE SHORTAGE
The city 14 faced with 2 atvere fuel shortage in two or three days, according to indus- try and city experts. The City Administrator, Charles Preusse, was expected to make public plans for fuel rationing and other energency measures after Mr Wagner completes his talks with both sides. Federal me dlators already have entered the negotiations.
Three large passenger Liners docked this morning without beneft of tugs and" a fourth
arrive tals was expected to afternoon. A heavy fog made Saxonia, manoeuvring of the Kungsholm and Bergenstjord dimcult, but their captains brought them in on the slack tide-United Press,
GENERAL STRIKE
six European countries-France, West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg-on the other.
These latter are now engaged in negotiations for a common market.
common
It the six-nation market plan tolled, it was like
area pro- that the free trade posal would also fall, M, Ser- Rent sald
M. Sergent said the problem of inking oversens territories with the European free trade arca centred around the exact definition of overscas territory.
area
The inclusion of such terri- tories in the free trade would pose severe problem for OEEC members like Britain and Portugal. question was not one of including these territories in the common market or the free trade eres, but of associating them with the plans on a special basis China Mall Special.
He stressed that the
UNION STUDY
OF MALAYA
Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 5, Mr Victor Feather, Assistant- General Secretary of the eight-
'Miller, a physicist, headed a team of 10 engineers who deve- loped the pocket pile, which is the size of a shirt button and weighs only five grammes,
It produces atomic energy by fission with Fromethium 147. This material
$500 now.costs per curlo (a radiation unit), he sold, but within a year, its price
drop to 50 cents. Only 30 such micropiles are in existence as yet, he said. Ho that within five years, added they will be widely used for transitor radios, watches and hearing aids.
Miller will see Professor Y. Rocard, a French physicist and visit watch-making plants Besancon-France-Presse.
TAPLINE COMPANY TALKS
Damascus, Feb. 4. Representatives of the Syrian Government and the American owned, Tranoa-Arabian... pipelines company began negotiations, here the all today for an increase in the payments made to Syria. →
During preliminary discussiona
year
American company
مطا
million strong British Trade (known as the Tapline Com- Union Congress, has begun a pang) agreed in prindple, to
week's study of the Moleyan raise oil reciept
trade unlop'imizernent,
Under an
the company paya Byria 1.200.- Mr Feather, who is touring 000 dollars (£128,400 sterling) Southast Asia, arrived here at annually for the pipeline carry- the weekend from Singapore ing crude oil across Byria to the Joseph Reuter.
Lebanese const,--Reuter,
Port Au Prince, Fb. 4. A general strike broke out to. day at Port Au Prince, Haith, ciling for the resignation of the provisional President, Nemcare Pierre-Louis
Pierre-Louis is accused of pro-
the the fecting
interests of
quotas Japan has decided to impose on its textile former President Paul Magloire. exports to the United States.
Several persons who had been arrested for demonstrating against President Platre-Louis perform-Government have been released,
Outside Law
Mr Henderson Lanham, a thought of Congress Denverat from the textile- ing its responsibility." producing state of Gerogia, l- troduced a resolution demanding a congressional inquiry £149 to "whether and to what extent the authority of the Congress to re- gulate the foreign commerce of the United States bas been usurped, disregarded or misused by the executive branch of this government."
-France-Presse.
4
STRIKE OVER
Dagenham, Feb. 4.
Japanese textile Imports had been restricted by a "nameless arrangement outside the law." A strike which has kept But two questions remained-21,000 Ford car workers idle for what was the test and how good a week was called off here to was the arrangement in any day at a mass meeting of the
strikers. case?
They voted to return to work tomorrow.
The strike began at Boggs
Several Congressmen
Mr Lanham said he believed from such scattered states as Iowa, that Congress should set national Illinois, Michigan, and North policy on import quotas, not the Czechoslovakia and Rumania ¦ and South Carolina supported State Department." have been asked to allow the the move. There was no marked migration of 83 and 49 persons opposition.
Majl respectively. — China
Special.
Fewer French Films Banned
I aris, Feb. 4. Either French censors are becoming more tolerant or films less daring, official statistics released today in dicated.
Only two films were banned
In 1950 for being "contrary to
"In the Japanese case we wit- diary) fast Mondry over
-China Mall Special.
the
Motor Bodies (a Ford subet ness the exact opposite," he do- suspension of five shop stewards But political circles did not clared-Reuter.
the expect early action Lanham resolution. Even roem- bers of the Congressman's staff acknowledged that it might bu "month" before any decision was taken,
Undercurrent
от
Observers and that the de mand reflected an undercurrent of aissatisfaction in the textie industry-which has officially welcomed the Japanese quota system against some sub-quotas,
of tho
More important, whether the
good morality" or "apt to dis- move succeeded or not, it re-
turb public order." In previous flected feeling in some sec
| years, · between poven
ilms had been banned.
and 14 tions of Congress that the Ad- ministration had tied the hands of lawmakers and made it difficult
Other statistics showed that for them to demand special pro
despite the inroads of television, the French all like to attend the cinema. Lust year, the average Frenchman went to the filma 10 times. The number of spectators was 82 per cent higher than in 1938.
France produced 128 long Aims last year, 30 of them in co-production with uthor countries.
tection for textile, producers in their constituencies.
Introducing his
revolution, Mr Lanham maid that
The had Administration
opened "peral-secret negotiations" with aloor when it becRIMO Japan that Japanese imports would be restricted either by the Tarift Commission of Congress..
French films took in 40 per "It looks very much sa if the cem of the rostipts in 1956. Blato Department could not American films were second bear to wie Congress postalo the authority, Mr. most popular with 34 per cent, ponstitutiona) a drop of 10 per cent since 1940. Lambam wald, The Department Bridals Gims, with four per cont had become, so popusieron of the Trach market, remained soling in the place of can
Nuclear Weapon Tests CLOCK SAVES ANSWERS
London, Feb. 4. Labour Members of Parliament tried to ques tion the British Government in the House of Commons today about Japan's protest against the forthcoming British nuclear weapons tests in the Pacific. But question time was over before their questions were reached. They will now be answer. ed another day.
DINNER FOR HIGH COMMISSIONER
Australia's now United Kingdom High Commisioner, Bir Eric Harrison, was groet of honour on Wednesday at a dinár given in Lande by: Re: Australia Club, Presiding at the dianer were the Duke and Dushém óf tilónommér. Picture shows three of the gunsla. They
WOAIE. J
fellowing aires
mes
Mr W. W. Hamilton wishes to ask the nature of the weane ing given to Japan about the tests and the oficial Japanese reply.
Mr Stephen Davies wants to know what protests the Foreign Secretary, Mr Selwyn Lloyd, has received from various organiladi. tions in Japan.
· Mr Emrys Hughes stazgoats in
his question that Japane
Bahermen should be compen sated for any loss they sustain,
The MPs postponed the ques? tions themselves. They could have had a written reply, but this would have provanted them asiding further questions at the time.-Router,
·BENES' BROTHER
DIES
BUS SIN
De Milwaukite, Tob. 4. John Anton Bente, brother of the former President of the Czechoslovak Republic. Eduprá Beats, died yesterdays in Milwaukes clinic, $ was dis- closed today.
Benos, đê, a cabinet-mikor by profession, returned several. times to Czechoslovakia Miata
He was there 'when his krothéwé zhoalined. In Jude, "494B. Edward Benes dlog in Sóptem- ber of the EMG YURTASFERIS