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DAKS
THE FAMOUS COMERAT IN ACTION TRESHERS
Whiteaways
KD WAS ON
BANK RATE LEAKAGE' INQUIRY OVER
MOUNT SCOPUS Girl Denies Knew
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B Dag Hammarskjold, the United Nations Secretary-General, faces another difficult task in the Middle East in his attempta to settle the critical Jordan- Israel dispute,
The talks in Amman which follow a series of border clashes over the past week,
wore precipitated, by Jor dan's announcement that she
Govt Decision
In
Advance
London, Dec. 2.
was withdrawing recogni- A girl, who works in Conservative (government)
tion of Colonel
Hyron
Leary, acting truce super- visor, on the grounds of hig alleged "partiality."
One of the first tasks to he tackled by Mr Hammarskjold and Mr Rifn, the Jordanian Foreign Minister, is the question of the demilitarised
Party headquarters, was alleged today to have said during a train journey that she knew in advance of the Government's decision to increase the Bank Rate by two per cent last September.
faraeli enclave of Mount CYPRUS GETS
Scopus, in Jordan territory outside.Jerusalem, which Jordan alleges s
being
fortiñed thus contravening the armistice terms.
CONVOY STOPPED
πε
READY FOR
But the gri, Miss Susan Chataway, sister of Christopher "Chatoway, Olympic runner, has since stated, that she had no recollection of saying this-and If she did it must have been a joke.
This was n highlight of the opening day here of an officiai
SIR HUGH FOOT iribunal of Inquiry to investi-
to
nt the
Special precautions have been taken af Nicosia Airport, where uxis bave Cypriot-driven
the RAF been banned front perimeter. This follows the suspected sabotage at Akrotiri Air Baso last week where fire destroyed four Canberras and a Venom to a total cost of £1 million.
gate whether there was A "leakage" of information about the Bank Re and if so, whether anyone profited by t on the Stock Exchange.
Tribunal
Nicosia, Dec. 2. came to a E dispute Thead
when Jordan Extra security measures, in-
roodblocks cluding fortnightly stopped the Israeli supply convoy to the entries to the main towns, were enclave and announced that imposed in Cyprus today in rrudiness for tomorrow's arrivel longer considered of ure new governor, Sir Hugh
The tribunal was set up by the she
after repeated Colonel
decisions Foot, successor Leary's
John Government Sir
Labour oppositon charges in was Hurdung. binding because he
Parlament" "that such a leakage biased in favour of farael.
dld occur, causing heavy selling At the moment the talks are
of Government stacks on the deadlocked and both sides
evening before the official an- nuunccinent, show no signs of retreating
The Chancellor of from their stated positions.
iho Tension is growing and Mr
Exchequer, Mr Peter Thornsy- Chale- be Hammarskjold will
croft, and the Deputy ..man of the Conkervative hard put to achieve even
Party, Mr Oliver Poole,' asked. an Interim agreement before
for the inquiry because their there is another flare-up
names had beeri mentioned in which could well be to-
House of Commons questions." the when
next morrow
The tribunal at thres eminent to in duo Israeli convoy
have been intensified, and seringal men hended by Lord, Justice. through Jordanian vicamen off duty have been Parkor (Sir Hubert: Parker) gat ран
ordered to CHITY territory.
arms and rợ in publle, Several guancial about in fours.
Journalists testified that on the Identity checks and searches day Before the Book Rate an
nouncement Mr Thorndycraft BSERVERS on the spot are being carried out at the hud told them in interviews of roadblocks around the towns measures he was taking to Obres dangerous possi
-Ileuter.
Istrengthen the pound sterling.
DANGER
bilities if the dispute is not settled in time and this is understandable as it is un-:
will likely
that Israel cancel her convoy in face of Jordanian thrents.
Within the towns, patrols
Perak Reds Surrounded
Why Mr Hammarskjold has not visited the danger area of Mount Scopus to find out for himself whether the
Ipoh, Dec, 2. Israelis are in fact forti- Terrorist gangs are withdraw- is not clear ning into the jungle fastnesses of fying it
troops and police Perak such a course would appear to be elementary and it systematically destroy their sup
ply network. would strengthen the
Security
believe 150 теп Secretary-General's position
Communists are surrounded, and as mediator. However, if Mr Hanmarsk- are surviving only on wild fruit
jold can restore the armis- and berries.
J
tice machinery to proper in the past five months 270 working order he will have Perak terrorist camps have been achieved a great deal, but found and destroyed. there is little that he can do
But all witnesses stressed that he gave no fadication of a change in the Bunk Rate.
Persuaded
Sir William Haley, Editor of the Times, was asked about a much-quoted
article in his newspaper which had said that inspired selling" at Govern- ment stocks on the night before the Bank Rate' rise had per- suaded dealers that an increase In the rate was possible.
Baid
Lord Justice Parker the publio would naturally think this menut selling by somebody who Was t tho know, Bir, William Haley re- plied that that interpretation was not meant..
no cop-
Mr Franels Whitmore, Finan- clat Editor of the Dully Tele- The camps ranged from crude uph, said that an article by him on the morning of the rate to find a permanent seitle-shelters to elaborate hideouts change referring to the Bank as long as Arab with cook-houses, stores, lecture Rate had been "an intelligent ment Iraeli bitterness and halls and barracks. Some had
He had had guess," resentment exists.
alarm systems-Reuter:
tidential information.
Opening the inquiry, the 1. Sir Reginald Attorney-General, Manningham-Butler sald Miss Chataway's alleged remarks on the train had been made to her second cousin, Mr John Lawrence Pumfrey, 24 Civil Servant.
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Not Surprised
that
She had said, It was alleged, that she had just got a job in the Press Department at the Conservative Party and "would not be a bit surprised if they did not have the polleo round In a day or two because of this
Bank Rate business,"
Mr Pumfrey said: "Good God, you did not know of it
in advance!" And she replied "Yes, we know."
But Miss Chalaway, the Attorney-General
continued. has said she did not know in advance of the rise in the Bank Rate,
The Attorney-General, said the Chancellor had told Mir Poole no more and no less in advanco nbout his economic measures then he had told the press, trade union lenders and employers.
Both the Chairman of tho Council of the London Stock [Exchange and the Governor of the Bank of England had said that in their view there was no evidónes to suggest a’lenkage.mm. Reuter
Port Madison, Dec, 2ị Authorities today investigated reports that two "heavy sdt and muscular" women were operas "strong-arma" tinga"
holdup operation in this area.
Authorities mid, two. men have reported that they were vietime of the women bandita... United Press.
War Veterans Demonstrate
i
About 2,000 Italian war veterans accompanied by other Italian residents and their ohlidren, assembled last work in a mass meeting in Piazza. Della Viltoria, to hold anti- South Tyrolese demonstrations. ' Fhoto shows the clash be- tween Italian Folles and the demonstratorn-Keystone.
They Can Paralyse. Nation's Life
REDS GET IRON
GRIP ON A KEY LABOUR UNION
By JOSEPH GRIGG
London, Dec. 2.
Militant Communists closed an iron grip on one of Britain's key Inbour unions today, enabling them to bring near-paralysis to the nation's life in any fature labour front conflict.
IT WAS JUST
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Their power grab "rang strident aliem bells throughout the country. Many Britons feared the Reds now might move in to seize control of other big labour unions,
A HOAX 230,000-strong Electrical Trades
Winnipeg, Dec. 2.
A newspaper report pub- Ished here today.saying - a place of metal bearing Russian lottering -- sup posedly a place of the Sputnik 1 rocket--fell an
farm Gear Fleming, Bankatchewan, on Sunday night, was apparently a hoax...
The raport was published in the Winnipeg Free Press ** a special dispatch from.
correspondent
A Fleming.
+
at
The name of the owner at
the farm was given s "G. R. Puzzaforte," said to be an Italian Imm)- grant. In Italfan, “Puzza - Tarte" mesne "Strong Stinkfeuter,
Hunger Strike
In
The union, now under fron Communist control .15 the
Union. Its members operate and control the electric power twitches that keep' Britain's ey industries humming, including her nuclear power plants.
Communists have held the top pols in the. Unlon for 10 years. Its President, Frank Foulkes, General Secretary, Frank Haxell and Assistant General. Secretary Robert G. McLennan all are Communists.
WEAK SPOT
The 'Queen's Bounty' Is No More
CENTURY-OLD
CUSTOM ENDED BY QUEEN
London, Dec, 2.
EISENHOWER PRESIDES
OVER CABINET
MEETING
7-
Washington, Dec. 2.1 President Eisenhower, work. ing back easily into his regular routine, presided over a Cabinet meeting for an hour and 40 minutes today and decided meet with congressional leaders to.
morrow.
to
Queen Elizabeth tonight ended a century-old The President, making an "ex-
custom Initiated by her great-great-grand- mother by halting the payment of "Queen's Bounty" to parents of triplets and quadruplets.
Blue Men
Close In On Spanish Troops
By SYDNEY SMITH'
Goulimine, Dec. 2. The Blue Man who rode to battle on white camels are closing in tonight on 1,000 of General Franco's Spanish troops-cut off and fighting desperately In Morocco's secret desert
wat.
Queen Victoria started the scheme in 1849 cul a visit to Ireland to enable the parents! to meet, the sudden experisca thrown upon them."
The parents received £1 per head for the ́ newbotu-23 for triplets and £4 for quadruplets. CONDITIONAL
the
Until recently the grant was conditional upon
parents clrcum- being necessitous stances" but this condition wus abolished in 1933.
Then it was recognised that the bounty, with the changes hi the value of the pound over the years, had become not much a payment of money to help but an honour needy parents they were privileged to receive, The money comes from the Privy, Purse the Monarch's own income and Queen Eliza- and ker father King beth George the Sixth have paid out on 1,651 sots of triplets and 19 sets of quadruplets: £4,429.
TELEGRAMS
For Franco's men this is as food as lost. Now it remains
Proud parents of triplets and be rewarded to be seen whether they escapo qunds will, atin with th
their lives. The Spanish a message from the queen.. troops equipped with artillery but from now on she will send spotter planes and bombers, are out congratulatory, telegrama,
brief announcement from pinned down at Ave points
Palace tonight around the territory of Ifai. Buckingham And today there are only two sald the bounty, was being dis
view of the chances that Franco's 1,000 continued "In besieged, soldiers will return to changes which occurred" since the main town also named Ifni. Its inception,
PROTECTIVE
If the
can troops Spanish break through the blue-velled Herber Arabs by day, then Spanish bombers could try to
give protective cover..
no
Those "changes" are under- stood to be mainly the pay- ments made to parents by the post-war welfare state-Reuter.
TALKS END IN JORDAN
If the breakout is impossible, then the five garrisons must try to fight on in the hope that peace talks between Spain and end tho wor.
Amman, Dec. 2. Morocco will
A joint Meanwhile to surrender to the
communique issued Arabs could be dangerous, or tonight at the conclusion of United Nations Secretary Gen- at least unpleasant,
Spanish cral Dag Hammarskjold's tw Though I saw planes on my journey to the day talks with Jordanian on- front, 1 Enw a dozen
bomb cials said that Jordan's posillon and that eraters along the road and was "fully clarified" three, bombs which had not ir Hammarskjold would now gone off. In fact these bombs "undertake further steps in- had missed Goulimine, town by tended to resolve the problem." 30 yards a few days'ngo,
The communique sald that the discussions covered Israeli- Jordanian
triction Israeli convoy
Mount Scopus and other problems.-- United Press.
DESERTED
There, wasn't a soul to be seen
and the mud villages were deserted But the mountains echoed with gunfire. Spanish artillery was blasting against the rocky postions of the Arab tribesmen encircling the biggest Spanish strongpoint.
The one weak spot in the Communist armour was the 80
This point was, reinforced by dropped Jast paratroops
Ove-man- controlling committee Sunday. It hos a airstrip from in the Electrical Trades Union which # reconnaissance plane
whooo decision must be un-spots the Arab movements. animoust
A secret, three-day
confer-
nee this weekend changed the No Army Guards
rult in such a way us to secure Red control of the committee,
The Red leaders refused Nicosia, Dec. 2. afterward to disclose their do
But an open letter to Sircisions reliable reports Hugh Foot, scheduled to arrive aid the meeting empowered here tomorrow as now governor the three Communist members
Little Rock, Dec, 2. Nine Negro students went to school here today without Army guards, for the first time since September.
The students entered
token.
the
force of
of Cyprus, 800 Cypriot-Creek for the executive committee to Central High School without detainees announced that they humilhate the other two, thus incident. A would start a 24-hour hunger, ensuring full Communist con- Federalised National Guardsmen
on duty. body-United (Territorials) dawn tomorrow trol of the key
strike at
Franco-Pressc
Press,
Reuter.
WILE
COMMONWEALTH TRADE GAP
Lendan, Dec. 3.
REDUCED
7
against: £8,058 alllion fa The British Commonwealth 'ge-,- 1055.
Auced", the', rap. between The Ingresso in importa won importa and exports last year.›-mainly in mineral fuels, baub
*£33,000,000 - to? £1,383]: maciaja and machinery, million, the Board of Trade A large part of this was lakm
2 by a Canada whose importa announced bere. today.
totalled: £2,074 million', com- pared with £1,711 million in
by
Commonwealth imperis totalled £10,043 million against 214H million white Exports totalled PRESS "mfiliam,
Her Imports of machinery, ether
than eicolio, romo by - £87,
809,000 and of fron and stoel by £67,000,000. India's imporja rose by 21 per
bent, from £305,000,000. In
1955 to 2610,000,000. Australia's fell by 11 per cent from: £688,900,000 to £$19,- 020,000.0
The total trade of the Common- ??% Wesith' that your rose by serta - prr, tank) the Board' of “TYsdo
report aěžoženkariera
for
Here's
over
an
cellent" recovery from the mild stroke suffered a week ago, returned to the White House today following a long weekend of rest at his Gettys- burg, Pennsylvania farm.
At the President's request, the Cabinet meeting opened with
A few moments of silent prayer.
The meeting, attended by ali Cabinet officers and other top enciais, began at 2.31 pm (1931 GMT) with the Prési- dent presiding. Eisenhower remained until about 4.10 pm, and then conferred in his own offices with Scere- tary of Stale, John Foster. Dulles,
A
CONDITION
IS EXCELLENT
Washington, Dec. 2.- ¿ medical report .on Prealdant Elsenhower Issued at 2315 GMT: Kuld!). "The Presidenťa, condi- tion is excelfont and',ho shows no sign of fatigas.” Me...., James... Hagerty, the Prealdont's Press Bezret- ary, said that, Major- General Howard Bnyder, the White House physlą. lan, recommanded that the President should havO .Attaon, minutos' golf peso- tica after consulting by telephone with some of the specialists on the case. Me Hagerty said the Preuld. ent's pulso, blood pressure and other factors were found to be normalen
Router.
The Cabinet meeting continund after the President left, Presi Secretary James C. Hagerty. said, however, that Eisen- hower stayed through "the main" Important discussions relating to next year's budget and specific legislative pro- grammes,
Hagerty said the session also included a "preliminary, diš= cussion" of the State of the Union
will deliver
January.
address Eisenhower
to Congress is' In another recuperative "Arst," is spent minutes on tho back Inwa of the White House practis-
tho Freeddent
Ing golf shots.-United Press.
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