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Big Test Of Labour Party's Israeli-Egypt

Hold On Britain Pending

Shanghai Tragedies

Shanghai, January 10. About 150 more corpses were picked up in the streets during the past two dayą An the cold wave continued un- abated, according to reports.

The total number of street deaths has thus been pushed up to over 1,000 during the first nine days of this year. --Router.

Easing Of Regulations For Japs

London, January 9.

Britain's Labour government started preparing plans today for the 'nation vide municipal alections to begin in April, which will provide a straw voto for the general elections next year, The battle for control of town and county councils

promises to be particularly fierce.

Realising that success or fal-stemmed and this was confirmed fure will largely influence the by our great victory in the 'mun- public vote when the Socialists cipal elections in November," he ask for a new Parliamentary wrote. mandate next spring, Mr. Attlee and members of his Cabinet, along with hundreds of Labour M.P. are planning to address mass meetings throughout the country.

ure

Swing Of Opinion

This result was the first clear Indication the Socialists were losing ground and gives us the opportunity to give them the knock down blow before general elections.

the

Armistice Talks

Halfa, January 0. Officials of the United Na· tione horo announced today that talks between and Egyptian representatives on an armistice to succeed the present truce in South. arn Palestine will open on Wednesday on the Mediter ranean island of Rhodes.

The acting Mediator; Dr. Ralph Buncho, has asked both Jawa and Egyptians to send delegations to the Island which was once the head. quartere

Count Bernadotte Reuter.

SHARP BLOW TO PEACE PROSPECTS

Kyrenia, Cyprus, January 10: Events of the past 48 hours have dealt a sharp blow to prospects of an early peace in Palestine. In one stroke the little Arab kingdom of Transjordan altered her role in the. Palestine war by invok- ing her treaty with Britain which calls for mill- tary help in case she is threatened with attack.

Until that happened, Trans- Whoever controls the Negov jordan was considered a strong also holds the Red Sea in his

And there factor for peace in the Holy hand.

Hes moro Land. Now her decision and potential wealth, The Red Sea. the shooting down of British sa proved reservoir of rich

potash, bromide, At

magnesium s...................... | planes have changed that.

deposits. Experts the recent military conference Phosphate

estimate the Red Spa at Amman, she and her Arab could

supply the world with ally, Iraq, actually, notified potash for centuries. Egypt they could not help her This makes more understand- in the Negev fighting. Reports able why little Akaba and the to the contrary are in error.

sandy Negev are so much in tho Thus, when Egypt agreed to a day's news. cense Bre and armistice talks, it seemed peace at Inst was near.

Folke

Slave Traffic In Japan

Tokyo, January 9. In an effort to strike at the heart of the slave traffle prob- tem, the Japanese Government yesterday announced that any contract to sell children into bondage is null and void.

A spokesman for the Attorney- General's Office said that much contracts will be prosecuted as violators of labour standard law. Juvenile welfare

law and other legislation.

brokers in the

Talks Seem Doomed

ренсе,

and

region

Elections for the counties be- Tens of thousands of candidates gin In April, to be followed by

fur themselves

those for the Boroughs of Lon- presenting election in the countles and don in May. In the same month municipalities of England, Scol- there will be voting for all the

Eager For Poaco janel and Wales,

other authorities-boroughs, urban The Labour Party is making a districts and parishes In England

Transjordan's King Abdullah tremendous fight to capture the and Wales and for the Scottish

fs understandably enger for Tokyo, January 10. town Louncils, becouse they are counties, counly boroughs ond

These talks now seem doomed

because he hopes soon to Japanese and

of aware the Tories are organising | districts-United Press. persons

unless the Jews agree to with expand his kingdom and cm- Japanese descent living abroad for battle as never before.

straw completely from the Negev brace Arab sections of Palestine. as well as relatives of foreign

EDITOR'S DEATH

The plain fact is that Britain He needs peace to make his ex- feels she cannot permit a nation nationals at present residing in Lord Woolton, chairman of the

the considers antagonistle to hold

pansionist plans work Bombay, January 9,

out. Nippon are to be permitted 60 Conservative Party, revealed the

Yet he cannot afford peace at Syed Abdulla Broivi, 57-year-old

this sandy protective barrier to the price day visits to this country in the importance the Tories attach editor of the Nationalist "Bom-

of losing Akaba, his authoritative the muntelpal vote. Is an article bay Chronicle and ex-President slave traffic have been arrested port of Akaba.

Meanwhile, 18

the Suez canal and Transjordan's only port. Without it, he would future, near

in the

rule a land-locked country. sources said today.

Conservative bulletin

(f the All-India Newspaper and Indleted, and the authorities

London's announcement that "Tory Challenge," he said, "Since

That is why he agreed to ka- died here are launching a drive on

Dritish Tommies have been sent voke the British treaty. And in- tonight after

to Akaba shows the

Empire' voking

the treaty makes his concern for the safety of that country a belligerent, in the eyes little Ted Sea town which of the Jews,

gures so largely in her defence

Obviously the next step la up plans.

Israel. She can defy Britain's Akaba straddles vital British might by pushing

into Trans- land routes in the Middle East. Jordan and committing Britain in fighting.-Or she her forces and her ambitions in the

Tavoles

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a heart attack. nationwide front against the sale and purchase of minors.-Reuter.

Entry permits will be restricted: 1045 there has been a constrier Conference, to those who can show bona fldeable swing. of opinion in our Reuter. relatives living in Japan.

a local election t

re Another proposal hy

the electors who their

increased Japanese government tins been materially. Of that merease

w We held up--át feast temporarily—by { "

can claim two vnites Duk ut objections of a headquarters sec- tion, smurers said,

three,"

votes

Lord Woolton, who WAS WHE- ume Food Minister in the Chur- chill Cabinet. said the Labina

BERTRAND RUSSELL

ON FUTURE OF SCIENCE

London, January 9.

Both proposals are raised pri- intertly on desire of Occupation authorities and the Japanese Varty always considered control The well-known British philosopher, Bertrand Rus jernment lo oblain more dollars

Fortise in purchasing raw mate- of local councils

recovery

casemmal

objective in their nailand cam

rins the industrial programe.

No estimate is available of the They have always this wa the number of relatives of Japanese full weight of their fety or and foreign nationals residing in

ganisation into the battle" he, Jap who are expected to takeld. "The coming fight will see advantage of the new system to indication that the Socialists are tothis intensified, There is every be inaugurated shortly. However,

earnest,"

it is known that inquiries have appronching next spring in dent been received from several thou- sand Jupaaese living abrand who want to return to the land

of their ancestors as soon as possible.

By-Election Successes Fic pointed

Itat nut

while

soll said in a British Broadcasting Corporation broadcast tonight that a powerful anti-scienti- fic movement might well arise as a result of the dangers to human life presented by the atom bomb and possible bacteriological war- fare.

He added: "But whatever people may feel about these horrors they dare not turn against the men of science so It is understood those permitted Labour had uninterruptesi entry will be required to purchase ceases Parliamentary by-long as war is at all probable. their food supplies from

one side were the elections, they had been using because if Japanese Board of Trades stores grupa in the municipal polls. equipped with scientists and the

at

Sue-

ur bring them with thems The "In Novermber 1946 and April restriction is necessary because of 1947 there were signs that the the limited food supply within Socialist

avalanche bod

been Japan-Associated Press,

Hail Damages

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Johannesburg, January 9,

A severe hailstorm caused much damage and killed or in- jured cattle, sheep and poultry last night at Harrismith, in South

Orange Free State.

Eastern

other not, the scientific side. would almost certainly win."

De said politicians are, In more powerful some ways, even

than scientists--far more influen til than at any farmer perind In human history,

Britain's Second 5-Year Plan

La

It is the terminal of the old the Palestine pilgrims road once used by plous can withdraw Muslems to cross the Sinai desert shelve

to reach Mecca, This now is a Negev.-Associated Press. militarily Important road for

Britain.

by

it is also the beginning of a road to Damascus, which passes Palestine. In wartime. If the Suez Canal should fall into enemy hands, it would become a life line for the overland trans- port of all needed by the United States and Britain.

Narrow View On Narrow Eyes

London, January

Rich Mineral Deposits

The Ministry of Health, says The Negev desert sands con-a rather narrow view of prople Dr. Edward Ederei, is taking lain rich mineral deposits-In-

who wear spectacles. Chrome,

cluding oil.

Copper,

Magnesium and Sulphur also Dr. Ederel says in the British Medical Journal that the Minis- underlie those Bonds.

free

spectacles

American drilling crews, work-iry is refusing ing for British interests, wero under the health plan to all per- sinking test wells South of Gazasons the pupils of whose eyes are before bostilities started Jast more than 2.8 Inches apart. The doctor terms this gross unfair- Μαν.

are not

対心-

The British pulled out, but theness. Jews have not forgotten that oil

"Wider set eyes London, January D.

Is there. They hope to exploit cepted by the Ministry as pro- this treasure with

the American bably not conforming with Nationalisation of the chem!-backing after the war. That ex-specifications of the human race cal industry, some branches of plains their Intense interest in as laid down by one of the com insurance and the distribution this barren, unfriendly

of agricultural produce may desert.

form part of the Labour Party's draft programme for the 1950 general election, which is ex-

looking mittees," he said.Associated

Press.

his orders," Russell continued. pected to be known shortly. THE OLD. BREW OF

"Their relation to the men of aclence is like that of magician In the Arabian Nights to a genil who obey "The Gentil .docs

Astounding

A section of the Labour Party the things which

magician

has been seeking the inclusion of without his help, could not do.

the "second But he does them only because these mensures in

Ave-your plan" and they aro

WASSAIL BACK AGAIN

London, January 9.

he is told to do them and not anong ideas which have been put Colonol Robert Gayre is pleased to announce that

because

himself,

of any Impulses in

forward to a special committee on nationalisation,

Public ownership of the

ship "So # is with the atomic building Industry is among other scientists in Our day, Some ideas which have been advanced. government captures

them in Whether these will find their way their homes or on the high seas, into the final policy statement is If and they are set to work, accord-problematical.

you too can have the same hangover that mada. Robin Hood hate the rustling of troos when he awake in Sherwood Forest,

you want to indulge in a night of wassail like. Henry VII or Chaucer, or William the Con- queror or the Black Prince, or a hip brew that keyed up the Duke of Wellington for his bout with Napoleon—this also can be arranged.

Rain fell on widespread areas of drought-stricken. country in South Africa this week, but more is needed. Fruit and vegetable prices are souring because of the worsening drought conditions in some parts, particularly the Or- ange Free State and the Eastern Cape.

Ing to the luck of their capture, The provisional policy stale- Nineteen Free State districts to slave for the one side or for ment will be considered by the and 33 in the Cupe were declared the other. The politician, when National Executive Committee of drought-stricken at the end of he is successful, is subject to no the Party next month and by the December-Rover.

such coercion." Reuter,.

Party's annual conference in May. If approved by the conference, possibly with modifications, it will In an old mill in a remote And hippocras and tyment, a form the foundation of the second section of Cornwall near Pen-burgundy type of beverage with Ave-year plan and of the 1050

mediaeval wallop in overy election campaign.—Reuer.

zance, Colonel Gayre is at work

as the polent with secret recipes, bottling swallow, as well potent draughts that made Bri-Welsh bards and other Welsh- spiced metheglin, the beloved of

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ITALIAN RIOTS

tain a nation of empire builders. men. Some of these drinks had not been made in quantity for over 500 years.

From Monasteries

Rome, January 9. Ten people were injured duringi These include the Druidic ver-

Colonel Gayro's recipes for a clash today after a protested sion of mead, a honey fermenta- these and the rest of a complete meeting in Modena, over the re tion which presumably gave an- range of drinka of olden time cent closing of two industrial clent Britons strength enough to have been obtained from monas- plants.

sat up huge stone temples like tarles where they were incorpor- Police used tear gas bombs to Stonehenge before the dawn ofated Into records centuries ago disperse the crowds-Reuter. history.

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when monks took up the making of beverage's from honey. honey was a surplus product after the beeswax was used in making candles,

When about 1529 the Reforma- tion swept the tall candles from altars and closed most of the monasteries, the demand for WRX atrnost ceased and honey became so rare and expensive that French wines made from grapes began to take over the British palato.

Colonel Gayre, an expert anti- quarian, went in search of the re- cipes then Improved them in the light of modern research. Hu biggest problem was to find

a. mill with five floors because the manufacture of old drinks calls for gravitation downward from process to process to the final bottom-United

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