Guatemala Palace Holds Out
Guatemala City, 19.--- *Troops were summoned from! outside the city today by the government to help loyal detachments holding the national palace against re- bels.
"Normalcy will reign усту Boon thoughout the country." Fald A government bulletin issued after a right of shooting which followed the assassinn- tion of Colonel Francisco Javier Arana, chief of the armed Ser- vices.
"The government the altuation," the sakl.
dorninates
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Military Supplies For East
London, July 10-Troops who are working in the London docks Ca keep strike-bound ships on the move today began loading the 0.800-ton Denbighshire with military supplies.
When loading is com- . pleted, the Denbighshire will nil for. an unstated destination In the Far Enst,
This is the second ship to be loaded by troops with military supplies for the Far East. The first, the 7,800 Lors Benalbanachi, salled for Hongkong with armoured fighting vehicles and oller stores after troops
worked overtime loading her. Our Own Correspondent.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1949.
ACID BATH MURDERER TO HANG
!
Lewes, Sussex, July 10.--One-time choir boy John George Haigh, 39-year-old self-confessed "acid bath" murderer of nine men and women, smiled as an Assize Court jury here today decided to send him to the gallows. His plea of paranoid insanity had failed.
In 15 minutes, nt the end of a trial which began yes- terday, the jury of 11 men and one middle-aged woman, foun Haigh guilty of the murder of 69-year-old Mrs Olive Durand-Denton last
bullein AGREEMENT February 18,
The Defence Minister, Lleut- Colonel Jacobo Arlenez, and h supporters have held the palace Against attacking forces, which observers ald were led by Fernandez Colonel
Ilivares, commander of the Fort Guardia De Ionar.
OVER
KASHMIR
The elderly, white-haired foreman of the Jury said firmly "We and him güllly of murder,
The clerk of the court asked Haigh if he had anything to
recurring dreams of the "bleed ing Cliriz" and "bleeding truc:" in which hu sow Π forest of erucifixes" and was offered blood to drink.
'In. his sunming up. Justice Humphreys told the jury that any rout they entertained doubt that at the time of the murder of Mrs Durand-Deacon: Halgh knew that what he was. doing was wrong, they should should find that he knew what find a verdict of guilty. If they
that it was tromp to hiiit 2 he was doing, but did not know
should find him
way Halgh smiled and drawled: "Nothing
at all." Tho Judge pronounced sen-woman, they tence of death and as he added guilty but insane. Karachi, July 19.-Miliüe words, "May the Lord have MUSICIAN TO END The President is reported to be barrleaded in his own home. tary representatives of India mercy on your soul," Haigh's Armoured troops spearheaded and Pakistan here today alle broadened into a grin.
of
In 30 years John George Haigh
history that Halgh murders of this century,
The quiet,
of
the assault on the palace-A4-reached general agreement street outside the court and ap dock in the Assize Court at Over 1,000 people jammed the moved from a place in a pro- vincial Cathedral choir to the sociated Press.
on the major part of a'censo-pluded as the judge left.
Lewes where he .pleaded In finding the accused guilty REBELS STRAFED
fire line in the disputed the jury rejected one of the paranoid insanity and confessed Guatemala City, July 19-state of Kashmir, it was must sensational pleas in Britianto nine of the Heavy fighting raged today be authoritatively learned to-criminal tween Government and re-night. volutionary troops In the
points Outstanding necond day of the attempt to difference, however, remain to oust President
Juan Arevalo.
Meetings are being held here Government fighting planes under the auspices of the olrafed rebel armoured
United Nations Kashmir Com-
The Attomey-General, Sit which attacked the Presidential mission to try to renoli an Hartley Shawcross, for the pro- palace where the entire agreement on the exact de pecution, called it "a nauseating assembled.marcation of n cease-fire line-story of premeditated murder an essential prerequisite of a for gain He maintained that truce agreement.
Haigh was sane at the time the
government United Prese
fa
Jose be settled.
Cars
KING AND QUEEN
The
insanely killed nine persons.
MURDER FOR GAIN He believed he was guided by n dream spirit to act along u divinely appointed course, the defence contended.
most macabre
dapper, littlo Yorkshiremun-the boy Anger Cathedral-re- Wakefield mained a musician to the end.
With one of his Inst women friends he went to muşteal con- certs and bailet. performances, and gave her gramophone fe
cords of classical music,
When he was 21 he went into business, and his methods of business eamed him 15 months' imprisonment for fraud by the
two Dominions are also crime Was committed and cap-time ho was 25. trying to reach agreement on a able of distinguishing right from plebleite to decide the future wrong.
of Kashmir, DANCE
The points in dispute-which result from the fuld state of 19. Ringe front at London, July
the time of the George and Queen Elizabeth
cense-fire on New York's Day- "Com- danced tonight at the
are two ing Out" ball of the
Queen's are poilt ons near Patrana, 18 miles southeast of Nowshern, two nieces, Mary and
Province, Northwest Frontier Bowes-Lyon.
and a le In the sector from ing Princess Elizabeth and ho Duke of Edinburgh were also
Keran 10 Tithwal, in Kashmir. Haigh had told him during ---Reuter.
prison interviews of constantly amops the guests-Reuter.
EDITORIAL
Patricia
Were They Surprised!
It was with open-mouthed wonder that Sandra Jean Jones, one year old and Douglas Welsher, two years old, received the news in Des Moines, Iowa, that they had been named “Miss Des Moines” and “Master Des Moines" In a baby contest. Their mouths sagged to this limit during applause from a packed house after presentation of the trophies. (AP Photo).
Inter-Indonesian Conference Faces
Difficult Problem
After serving his sentence he became assistant manager of a But the defence, led by Sir dyeing and cleaning business and David Maxwell Fyfe, famous an underwriter on his own ac- Nuremberg
pro- count. Then he set up as a soll- prosecutor, duced psychistele evidence cilor and offered for sale at bat- that Haigh was a paranolac, gain prices shares that he did
who not have at his disposal. clever, Insane and vain.
Police concentrated their in- lived two lives at once.
Dr Henry Yellowlees, a lead- quiries for a time on a base- saldment in West London, to which British psychiatrist.
ac- Haigh said he had taken
dispoved of quaintances and their bodies in acid.
They took away samples of
One problem facing the conference, is the continued the floor "in the belief-- that analysis might show human re- guerilla warfare raging throughout parts of Java and mains. But though they car-Sumatra. Considerable difficulties are foreseen in trying ried their inquiries far, it was to persuade scattered Republican units to cease fire. only with the murder of Mrs Dutand-Deacon that Haigh was
Yangtse Flood Problems
THE Information reaching Hongkong
about the flooding of the Yellow and Yangtse rivers is both vague and scanty, and it is impossible yet to determine either the extent of the floods or the damage they have caused. Some com• mentators, seeking to draw comparisons, have recalled the Yangtse floods of 1931; others, less reserved, have gone back as for us 400 years. The estimates of those drowned are being given in tens of thousands, and the homeless are reported
number millions. From the reports to available it seeme that the provinces chiefly affected in the Yellow River area are Hopch, Shontung and Honan. Further south in tho Yangtse valley,
moxl damage appears to have been done in the provinces of Hunan, Hupeh, Kinngsl, Antiwel and, latterly, Kiangsu, where the Communists have admitted that the floods are spreading. For weeks past there have been reports of floods in the West River area, in territory still held by the Nationalists, but these are now receding, and. In any case their extent has probably been exaggerated by the local authorities in an effort to obtain flood relief funds from the Central Government. The explanations given for the flooding vary. One is that there has been earlier thawing of snow in the mountains of West China; another, and more popular one, is that there have been unusually heavy and widespread rains. An aggravating factor is probably the damage caused to dykes ‘In the recent fighting. Theso dykes, on which so much depends, have always been in poor condition, and their upkeep is an expen- sive business. In the past the local, authorities have been helped....... in the work of maintenance by UNRRA and the Central Government, but this year they have been without this, assistance. The Communists have not yet set up a central authority, and the local authorities have, apparently found the task too much for them. To make the position worse, the retroaling Nationalist troops, according to the Commigalsts, have been deliberately-
breaching the dykes. Armies of troops and civilians have been pressed hurriedly Into repair work, but once breaches have appeured little can be done. Whether or not the floods are as serious as the reports reaching here suggest, they must veriainly have presented the Communist authorities with a new and ticklish set of problems. First, and most dangerous, there arises the threat of a severe rice shortage. All reports agree that crops have suffered serious damage:. In Hunan, for instance, ninety percent of the first crop is reported to have been destroyed. With no ECA Hupplies to case the position, and with the Nationalist blockade effectively preventing all' Imports, the Communists may find il Impossible to sinve off a famine. Then there is the problem of preventing the epidemies by which, floods are often followed. When wells aro flooded, for instance, drinking water is polluted, and disastrous epidemics of typhoid and cholern may result; the rubbish left behind when the waters recede is a breeding ground for plague. Another problem is caring for those left homeless.. The Commúnista” brave promises of ‚a new life for the Chinese 'people will carry little weight if these new problems are not solved promptly and effectively. The milltary implications of the floods are not so apparent. It seemed that, with- their troops at work on the dykes and ronda under water in many places, the Communists would find their drive on the south held up. In the last few days, however, there have been reports that they are on the move again. Possibly they are making a lightning sweep Houth Into areas not yet afected by the floods, in an effort to secure the rice harvests of those areas to make up the deficiencies in the north. Whatever the explanation, and lexespective" of their: « success or failure in, the new advances, the problems set by the floods remain. The two big rivers he was unable to. defond may yet prove to be Chiang Kab shek's most powerful ally, y
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Batavia, July 19-Indonesian Federalist and Republican representatives will meet in the Re publican capital of Jogjakarta tomorrow for the first session of the inter-Indonesian conference to set up the future United States of Indonesia.
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Dock Men Told, Back To Work
LABOUR BOARD TAKES ACTION
London, July, 19. Britain's Dock Labour Board, representing employers and trade unions, today ordered London's 15,000 idle dock workers back to work by Thurs- day.
Failure to return to work, the Board said, would jeopardise the very existence of the dock labour scheme, "which former dock workers and many present dock workers have struggled to achieve."
The dock labour scheme guarantees the dockers a regular minimum wage even if only engaged on casual work.
The Board's statement came as the latest effort to settle the three-week-old strike ended in failure. At the same time soldiers and airmen continued unloading 70 vessels now idle in the Port.
today
giant
But no responsible obreTVOTA The Board declared that! the majority of men in all here felt tonight that there was
chance of such any
a reprù- ports were carrying out their sentative meeting, and Atla obligations under. the hopes were pinned to the pro
posal. scheme.
Leaders of two unions whose
MOVES REBUFFED members
Other are involved in the
peace moves dispute the
The Stevedores' and were rebuffed. Lightermen's unions--ended a Transport and General Workers' most Ave-and-a-half hour meeting Union-which organised today rio nearer to a solution of London's dockers-made its They had invited Mr Harry first public intervention for a Davis, president of the striking week. Oficials asked Canadian Seamen's Union, to "Lock-Out Committed break his flight home from nominate two
the
to
with
Marseiller to go to their meeting. I to board the Beaverbraves
the
"Lock-ethy, clairman
Commit
reported cable Seafartagonist
from International
of
the
bul he did not attend.
others. The Committee refused. The
Mr Albert union leaders said that they would meet again, to- of the
In the hope that Mr dismissed a morrow Davis would be there.
By tonight 15,441 dockers of Union-the the total labour force of about Canadian Seamen's Union in the 21,000 were not working. They Canadian dispute-inviting two £356,000-in-wages-in-the-dishings for themselvended
estimated to have lost dockers to fly to Canada "to aco pute
employers with Port
this Mr. Timothy about working two Canadian reported offer "a lot of hooey.” ships involved in a Canadian The Minister of Transport, Mr union dispute
Alfred Barnes, and Home Secre Complete deadlock seems to lary, Mr Chuler Ede, toured the The Republican Informutatives, all of whom left here charged at Lewes Assizes.
For that he was centenced to tion Minister, Mr Moham- today by plane. It was under- have been reached in the dis-London dock area this morning.
stood
POLITICAL ATTEMPT four years' penal servitude.mad Natsir, told the Dutch would have at least 21
Republicans
Independent The British Reuter..
·MEETING CALLED News Agency here recently presentatives at the talks.
Labour Party, a small extremo The "Lock-out Committee Socialist group critical of The conference will hold its that a cense-fire order cer
the idle dockers
ins Labour Government, second session in Batavia, start called a dockland muss meeting
today tainly would be issued, but ing on July 30. he doubted whether it would
Three members of the United for Friday and asked all parties urred the Government to cease "taunting", the dockers by put- Nations be effffective.
to the dispute, to attend. Such ung troops to work. ships the Commission to
a meeting, If it takes place, wil! dockers were willing to work doncsla, who have to extent gulded the peace talks British
come bring together officials of three If the two. Canadian vessels
trade with the Dutch,
unlons with were isolated, " are flying to rocker members, members of Jogjakarta tomorrow, but it was the Canadian Seamen's
Union said that their visit would be on trike here, members of the concerned solely with cease-fire crew arrangements.
Arms For China
COURT ORDERS CONFISCATION
Confiscation of a large supply of arms, which was meant for onward tranship-
Republican sources in Jog Jakarta forecast changes in the Republican Cabinet,
suggest ing that a
sub-Government might be set up for Java and Sumatra under
supremo Cabinet in Jogjakarla.
that the
SOVERIGNTY
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putc,
loading
the
A branch of the Transport and General Workers' Union of the Canadian ship covering three London docks
West India, Free Trade Beaverbran, who have returned the This first session of the con
Ito work and declared their ship Whart and London Dock-lo- ference, which is expected 10 The plan for the formation no longer "black," and repro- night recommended "an order-
relticn of the Ministry of ly and unanimous Cuntalives last three days, will be attend- of the United States of Indone-
work at once."-Reuter. Labour. to get Its ed by 65 Federalist represen-sla is expected
finishing touches in Batavia, and delegates wBl then leave for The Hague.
ment from here to the Chin- HUSH-HUSH
FLIGHT
A suggestion that only one Joint delegation should go to The Hague is regarded in Re- publican political circles as Im- practicable.
The aim at the conferences
esc Nationalist Government, was granted by Mr J. Wicks, Kowloon Court magistrate, this morning on an applica-
Valotta, Malta, July 19.-will be to reach the broadest tion of Mr R. S. Halg-Brown.
of agreement Divisional Superintendent. Four Hawker Sea Fury air- possible measure
principles for the craft, making a high speed on main
transfer of sovereignty for the non-stop flight from Britain, Republic and for the proposed arrived in Malta at 15.18 Union of a free United States GMT today.
the
In
today
of the
the
and
it was confiscated to the Po- lice, and a quantity of dan gerous goods was confiscated
of Indonesia with the Dutell, to the Chief Officer of the
For scurity reasons, the planes Working Fire Brigade.
Charged before the magistrate / were closely guarded at Haltor provisionat Parliament of the was Lee Fat Tuen, 40, native of aerodrome and the
-pilots: held
Indonesian Republic heard a incommunicade. Peiping, living at 225. Nathan
The Hawker Sea Furies, which vigorous two-hour speech by Road. third floor. He is the
Prime British Navy's latest e
Minister, Mr accredited representative of the are of Central Bank of Chind, and was operational fighter type, took off Mohammed Hatta, In defence of responsible for the custody and from England at 11.45 GMT and the negotiations which led to their naval pilots planned to the Van Royen-Hoem agres- disposal of the
goods. Preferring
in skirt Paris, follow the valley of ment to speak
Dr. Hatta told crilles that, English Lee, who was on bail, the Rhine and cross the Italian
before
despite
the sufferings striking sacrifices which the people were plended
sulity to possession of Riviers signal guns, 3,510 combat across the Mediterranean
1,200 still undergoing, the position of about 100 jungle knives. 178 total distance s macholtes, 25 bayonets (cas miles.
the Republie Internationally had becomo stabiilsed And No official speed record for the
even bine), two 22 mm Oerlikon magazin, nine greando laun- London-Malta hop exists-Acco strengthened. chors, 10 Sten flash prolectors clated Press. and 25 rifle launchers, Les also admitted posecasion, with; 'of Tout a permit, of 2,000 lbs
nitric acid, 1.000 lbs of calcium carbillo and 750 lbs of bleaching | powder. All the goods, were found at the KCR marshalling yards in-
Kowloon between June 13 and July 16 last.
"Defendant was cautioned.
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