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COMMENT OF
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FANGADI
W. NEW GUINEA
RESIDENT Soekarno
Ps to be bending in
the wrong direction with over increasing speed, men while ignoring world opinion 328191
throwing
the
cam-
economic enution 16 winds. The Intest paign directed against Dutch interests is sufficient evidence that there is lack of control and stability in the country. Thu-outcome Can only be disastrous for Indonesia if the current course is pursued,
The economic retuliation campaign is the direct re- sult of the United Nations refusal
pass
nn Indonealan resolution call- ing for renewed discussions over Dutch New Guinea, although in actual fact the Indonesians had already started to foment public emotions prior to the intro- duction of the resolution,
THE AIM
T
WOB
TUE aim of the Brat com-
paikn
obviously influence the planned to United Nations, particu- larly the members of the Afro-Asian bloc and the Communist countries as it WAB claimed that the movement was a national This was hardly in one. conformity with the facts an it was apparent that agitation was sponsored by the Government,
The Indonesian
Foreign
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DISASTROUS TRIPLE TRAIN CRASH
At Least 50 Dead And
144 Injured In
London Fog Tragedy
London, Dec. 4.
Three commuter trains carrying 2,000 persons piled up to- night in a deadly chain disaster set off by London's worst fog of the winter.
The authorities said a minimum of 50 persons were dead and 144 injured, of whom 110 were serious cases, but they said it probably would be 12 hours before a final toll was known. A British Railways spokesman said at midnight, six hours after the disaster, that 30 bodies had been recovered.
Allegations
Of £50
Bribe To
Detective
Brighton, Dec. 4.
n
was
Unofficial estimates by rescue workers, sold the anal death toll might approach 100.
1 מזם
At 0.10 p.m. a etenm-driven train crashed into the rear of an electric train balted unable to move in the smog between St John's Station and the Parksbridge Junction in Industrial horough of Lewisham. The impact brought down an and Overhead railroad bride another electric commuter tral plunged atop the wreckage of the first two trains.
In
Workers
downtown London into
Indonesia May Sever Relations With Dutch
The Hague, Dec. 4. The Indonesian Foreign Minister, Dr Subandrio, fold a special согтов- pondent of the Nether- lands News Agency in an exclusive interview in Paris tonight it might become a necessity" to sever diplomatic relations with the Netherlands.
Dr Subandrio was in Paris
bly.
Dr
FRANCE MAY AMERICAN BE WITHOUT A SATELLITE
GOVT AGAIN
Paris, Dec. 4.
LAUNCHING
Socialist ministers of France's shaky coalition POSTPONED
Government submitted their. resignations to- night in protest against new price increases and budget cuts, informed sources said. Socialist withdrawal would almost certainly mean collapse for Prenler Gaillard's month- old government.
GRIM-FACED
Gaillard's downfall would Lave France without a Govern- ment on the eve of the Nato
10
on his way to Djakarta' from mimmit meeting of chiefs Now York after aftending the of government, scheduled to morphia Injections to three of United Nations General Assem-take place here on December 16- the injured:
Tho largest number of casualties were in two car- riages of the express teain crushed under the rear part of the falling viaduct. Strong lights turned on to this part
of
told Subandrio
the Netherlands News Agency's correspondent: "As far as the Indencalona arc concerned there has never been any pre- meditated desire to rever cüp- formatie Lies with the Nether
showed lands. Une wreckage rescue workers the macabro sight of Negro passenger marionetta dangling like caught up by girders.
two gleel
By 2200 GMT all canales had bean diamgaged from the electric train but only at 2130 GMT was the first survivor
rescued from the steam train where the greatest number of casualties decurted,
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A NECESSITY
"It is not our wish to do so at this momcat, but it might become a necessity.
another
It is always with reluctance that relations with country are broken "off" because there is no alternative.
This is certainly true of our relatious with the Netherlands."
The Indonesian Charge D'Affaires in the Hague, Mr Max Maramis, left for Paris by train yesterday for a meeting with Dr Subandrio.
Mr Maramis, it was learned here, will be forming Dr Subandrio of Butch reaction
Chelatos-indonesian measurem against the Dutch Reuter.
·
The grim-faced ministers re- staltments fused to make any when they emerged from to- night's Cabinet meeting.
But the Socialists scheduled meeting with their policy committed tomorrow morning, and were seeing Gaillard during the afternoon
debate
Gaillard's new tax bill
Without the
on
of
support Socialist deputies the con idence vote on the tax bil, scheduled for tomorrow, Guli- lord would almost certainly fall. INFLATION
Price Increants crecuncod yesterday slashed the average Frenchman's lying standard by 2.7 per cent. Finnce Pilimlin
Minister Pierre
of the
Christian anhourced
that the increases were design ed to combat indation, but be Socialists do not sco is that
The bridge crashed down on A house-breaker and his the last car of the front train,
planing
the passengers. wife, who admitted
The collapsed bridge carries a having 30 convictions for branch be over the main track. soliciting, alleged today that detective asked
The survivor was an elderly man who only Ived because he them for £50 oy a hribe,
All three trains were jammed was jammed amongst several The wife, auburn-haired Mrs Minister, Dr Subandrio, Sheila
As he was placed on
Democrats (MRP) elving with workers, Christmas shop bodies. Swaby,
stretcher, be murmured prior to leaving New York evidence against Detective Ser pery and school children bound
recbly, "Thank God", for Djakarta stated that geant Trevor Heath, 33, one of from the latest demonstrations ve men, including Brighton's the Kent County suburbs.
Bowler Hat ⠀ A Bitish railways spokesman Dutch residents are charged with bribery and said all train service against
suspended police chief, who were the spontaneous recorruption.
four-track, mid-Kent in lue A quarter of ois hour Inter, flection of the disappoint-
blocked. Commurier and Bremen, mariaged to bring out sitting Heath, ment of the people.
in the dock
30-year-old man who the police chief, Charles an Une service in and out a Ridge, 35, who held the title of of two principal downtown Lon. Jammed against a steal girder, was still wearing his bowler chief constable, heard Mrs Swaby on alations Charnig Cross and Street-was cimos:
hat and clutching his briel recall her husband's
Arrest for Cannon
case. "I'm lucky," he said. hause-breaking last May.
paralyzed.
The spor
so thick Was polico cari became lost try-;).
10 reach the scene. Ambulances had to crawl at walking. Pued.
APPARENT
Sabundrio's
observa-
Dtions are not borne out
by reports from Indonesiu, despite army declarations 10 the
contrary
place. It is very apparent that
with
WHAT CHANCES
She alleged
band's
Dutch property and trial.
"He said he would
w
&
un 'tho
gathering up scat- tered Christmas parcels wrap- ped in rally coloured paper and innumerable personal be- longings.
Amongst a sea of broken risse stretching over a lun- dred yards on either side of the tracks. the pollon were nt. the eight-
carefully Resene work, that day-old hearing that she asked
on the track Itself went at her "eizures" and not taken the detective what
hus-
snail's pace because VI. were chances
at his
billy was only a few yards. At Lewisham, fleet of do his ambulances shuttled back and interests have been placed best for me," Mrs Swaby told forth
borough bolween the in jeopardy, the outcome of the magistrates,
the Parksbridge hospital uni which can only lead to
"He asked me how I was fixed junction. undermining Indonesia still for £30. I sald I would have further and staring away to speak to my husband." investors, investors whom the President deavouring 10 earlier this year.
Lack
en
But she was unable to raise the money. Wns
After her husband was sen. attract
of confidence must necessarily follow Indonesia's actions as it is
Shut Off
A railway spokesmen said the tenced to Rve years' imprison-hospital was asked to send sur- ment, she alleged that Heath gical gear and morphine to dec. feld her: "You see now what tors working at the wreck has happened. You did not look scene.
after me so I did not look after you."
"I told him he was no good," Mrs Swaby added. China Mail
highly unlikely that any bank or company will in vest while there is in- Special. security from mob violence or the threat of nationall- sation by a government of political colour or
another.
The Indonesian economy is in a precarious position as the result of internal strife and political uncertainty and it might be assumed that the current measures taken against the Netherlands aru only n amokescreen covering unrest and econo mic weakness.
DOUBTFUL
If Indonesia
Nationalists Seek To Recover Money
Boston. Dec. 4. Equity action was brought in the Boston Superior Court, today
recover
by the Chinese Government on Formosa, seeking to
almost two million dollars from
The track is electrified for local service. CMel: Is Elut off the power so rescuers, working with flashlights, could search the wreckage.
"WD' were stopped nçar Lewisham," one passenger on the front train said, "I could not tell exactly where because of the
A.
"1'e were stopped for long time. Then there was A went sudden crash and I right down through the floor. "Doors flew open
an the train and women screamed.
coaches ahead of us reared up into the air.
The
Young Doctor
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This is the, most serious train crash to happen in Britain since 1952, when an accident at Har- row killed 112 people. Shortly before Christmas, 1958, a series of five accidents kilod nome 40 people.--All Agencies,
DARTMOOR PRISONERS
STAGE RIOTS
---
'Phantom Ships'
WAS THE STATE DEPARTMENT
Washington, Dec. 4. The Defence Department announced tonight - that the Vanguard satellite
firing at Cape Canaveral
has been postponed.
After
of
day-long series delays in the scheduled fring at Capo Canaveral, Florida, the Pentagon issúcu the following statement of 0340 GMT:
"A series of minor technical
MISINFORMED? adjustments has resulted in
once
Washington, Dec. 4. The State Department spokesman, Lincoln White, was called upon today to explain more why the United States sent Tunisia three weeks ago despite objections from France.
arma
to
The question was revived by a published report casting doubt on one of the reasons put for- ward by American officials ut the time that the US wanted to forestall an Egyptian arms shipment to Tunisin.
The report, published in New York today, said no Egyptian arms had reached Tunisia, and the Egyptian vecsel in the case might have been a "phantom |ship" and an invention.
"Socinists" alohave DAN INFLUENCED been annoyed over Gaillard's attempt to cut the Government FLOWING
'Awful Things'
Evacuation
Ship Arrives
In Singapore
A veil of secrecy hung over the Dutch Uner Oranje on her arrival today from Djakarta because officers would not reveal the number of Dutch passen- gers and they refused to talk to the press.
Singapore, Dec. 4.
The Oranje is one of the ships,
sold the State
have may
been about it at the
to
The report budget by 200 billion trangs Department (HK$2,920 million). Galliard has "misinformed" been pressing them to scale time. down their social welfare pro- He acknowledged that the jects.
Education
Rene Billeres, a Radical, threatened to resign on Monday because Gaillard wanted him to cut the national education budget by 50 billion francs.United Press,
Minister
Next Year
timing of the US decisica ship the arms was influenced by reports the Egyptian. weapons weer en route to Tunis,
The
spokesraan added that the State Department had "no preciso information" on whether Egyptian
arms had actually been delivered. And he em- phaslaed that, while the pos- sibilty of an Egyptian ship- the ment may have influenced
A Balanced ming of the American move,
Budget; Ike
Washington, Dec. 4. President Elsonhower told Republican congressional loaders today he WOR aiming for á balanced budget next your. But he warned it would mean
An
evacuating Dutch nationals from strict ectomies and even Djakarta. Their entry was end to chrizin Government banned by the Indonesian programmes, Government yesterday because The President's aims were re- of her claim to West New layed to newsmen by Preis in Gunca,
Secretary James C. Hagerty who eat in on a good part of a day- In
long conference between the Chief Executive ind his top alons and
Republican
ARRESTED?
the
London, Doc. 4. Rioting has occurrod Dartmoor prison, Devon, where prisoners attacked some of their One passenger said that a follow convicts, and Dutchman was
nerested by Legislative leaders.
no throw iron bars at the Indonesian police before board- Hagerty said there was warders.
ing and that his wife and child-doubt in the Chier Executive's mind that the budget, could be Forty-three prisoners have ren had to leave without him.
However, a hip's officer gold balanced if there was a will to been put in close confinement
that no one had been taken off do it. He said there
was ho as a result of the clashes.
the ship.
talk of a tax cut but rather an Taking advantage of the
A Dutch woman passenger emphasis of the necessity for absence of a number of warders,
were ill, some of the sold that "awful things" were continuing present excise and
on the walls
corporation tax rates. United Djakarta and that Indonesians Press.
threatened to cut the d throats of Dutch nationals.
However,
a Dutch sos cap- that the tain on board sald majority of Indonesiana wern of anti-Dutch and that a few agitators had stirred up anti- Dutch sentiments,
a purchasing agent, Ve-shuen was cut off we were conducted prisoners since last Friday have Hsiang and his wife, and a down through the back gar- Borton securities company, the dens of some of the houses and A. C. Allyn Co., Inc.
advised to go lo Lewisham According to the bill Hstang hospital
Bere to get title to West Es un Air Force executive was
"Thero WCTO serious caspa
"When the electric current who.
been creating disturbances at the midday meal, which all of the prisoners have refased for three days, They complained 20 many that the prison rules were too at the hospital strict.
I lost my After the prisoners were back glasses and my legs hurt:" In their cells, a search revealed A young doctor, climbing all the equipment for an escape Reinforcements for painfully over the wreckage of attempt. a third class carriage, crushed the Dartmoor warders were under stones from the collaps rushed from Exeter-France- ing viaduct, managed to give | Presso,
New Guinea, and that ap- Government on Formosa which that I did not wait. pears very doubtful at the recognised by present time, she would still States. nced a substantial amount
the United
He was entrusted with millions of capital for the future of dollars in semities for pur
chases of supplies, These securl- development of the disputed ties were deposited with the rogion,
Allyn company.--France-Presse.
DO
It might be pointed out, too, that under the circumstancos acquisition of West New Guinea would in effect be come an increasingly heavy burden the country's already strained economy.
Indonesia is in ne position to
develop Weat New Guinea- a fact which has been ignored by the Indonesians. It is far better that the Dutch remain in posacasion, giving a lend to the natives until such timo: as they can decide their own destiny.
Britain
BRITAIN'S NEW RN RESERVE
London, Deo.
is to `have a single
Royal Naval Reservo, 'itewat
announced today - unified. simplified, costing less and
written
ANNOYED
MYSTERIOUS BLASTS
Bath, Dec. 4. Three people were killed and four Injured early today when two mystery ・ explosions rocked the village of Box, five miles from Bath
explosion
He said that what annoyed him most was that the ship-
A tavern blew up scattering ping office of the Koonnigljke debris over the main road, Packet Maatschappij Line was alight surrounding
followed by a fire which set taken over by workers instead telephone poles and woodland.
bulidings, of by troops.
Two sisters.
A second smaller the 15-and 16- year-old daughters of a Dutch blew at the back of a nearby Polico belloved banker, who lived in Indonesia glow.
may have been The new reserve will exist pri for 11 year; aid that their escaping ras
responsible. (: China” Mall martly to meet the sea-going | Indonesian", wehnoumates "gave.
Special requirements of the Royer-them a rousing farowell,
They said they were, and to Navy. These include bringing ships of the native Acels to leave but that they had bee war' complaient and 1oren- unable to get brend during their mlandaning ships from rezarys, |ašt two days in Diakaria bo-
New York, Dec. 4. the reorgszimulion, ・a`, prenu ConferÈNOS: Wan tud, will - 10
cause there had bèm no food ||~ A. De main exploded" in the that all the "mary's voluntott" | ""The traluler of the professional service.
"busy" "Moles · Square area of reservisks will be at von omiini watable will contÉRNO NENAS Meanwhile, RPM constal vos-New York today, injuring, two panr, whatever lively backe - primunt". 11 was endot "kina | Biz - Doetponed their scheduled pedestrians and shooting flames' ground or employment,
Mais 'Mundial.:
ru United Press,
40 rest into the Brentialer.
He wireless and postal bean- chen. Misscly associated with them will be the Wanta's Royal Naval Volunteer He- DITTO..
more adapted is the changed | One, of the main advantages of 'content of modern war.
The new reserve will smalga
mate the oral Naval Köşürya | (EX-RNEGARES BEvy and fisho ing feet man)," (he Moral Naval Voluntoor Reserve und}
Main Explodes
It did not influence the besid decision. United Press.
Confidence Vote
Istanbul, Dec. 4. The Turkish National As sembly tonight gave vote of cabinet confidence to the new
of Mr Adnan Menderes by 403 votes to 133 Reuter.
the extension of preparations
for firing to the point where test crews are very tired,
SPUTNIK CARRIER FALLS
Moscow, Deo. 4. Moscow radioła molantifjs commentator, Boria. Ballt. aky, indicated · today - that the first Bovist artifioipi satellite carrier rocket was no longer revolving around the earth,
Belltaky said: "The first man-made heavenly body has terminated Its course?" He added: "But it is best to loave the subject of the fret Sputnik's, rooket: untli all available " ́Information [has been verifiad,”
The Bovist Tuay news agency made no mention of the carrier, rocket - for the third straight day. Incito dally schedule of the twó ́artificial satellites-France-
Presso.
order to overcome present it is techntent difficulties, necessary to unload the liquid exygen (used as a rocket fuel), To unload and zenu will require several hours. This would push test crews to m fatique point considered dan- gerous to the success of the test.
"Also, upper tie winds are be
coming unfavourable. It will be known by tomorrow when the test will be resumed." Mr John Hagen said he "guessed"
that LOMOTTOWE 11-hour.
would be started count-down later than it was today. "so we can go through the night" if necessary. That indicated the actual launching might not come until early Friday United Press.
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