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CHURCHILL OPENS BUDGET DEBATE One hundred feared to be

Government tells

troops to unload tied-up vessels

London, April 24.

The Labour Government today ordered troops to unload ships tied up in London port by a wildcat dock- ers' strike denounced by cabinet ministers as Commun- ist-inspired,

The government decision to use soldiers and sailors to keep food and 'other goods moving was made after the walkout threatened to halt all operations in the sprawling dockyards,

Almost 1,000 soldiers and sailors, stationed in the dockyards since yesterday, were ordered to go to work on 09 ships immobilised by the strike over an intru- sion dispute.

More than 4,500 dockers joined the strikers over the week-end. bringing the number idle to 12,489. The total working fores in the London docks is 27,000, but only between 15,000 to 20,000 are employed on any given dny.

There was no indication that the mushrooming strike would end soon.Associated Press.

U.S. Govt may help to get food to famine regions

Washington, April 24.

United States officials said today the government may help private relief agencies to get Amori- con food for famine areas of Communist China where · 2,000,000 to 4,000,000 face death by starvation.

Government assistance, they said, would hinge on the ability of the agencies to show two things:

1. If they can get Communist

permission for relief activities.

2.

If they can raise enough money in the United States

finance purcliases.

to

Six agencies currently are mak- ing a joint study to see what can be done. They are Care, Church World Service. Foster Parents Plan for war Children, the Men- sonites, Central Committee of United Service to China and the Catholic War Relief Services. The Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, said on April 5 United States. was considering suggestions that it send relief to

Mr. the

Comet flies

to Cairo in record time

'Cairo, April 24. Britain's record breaking De Havilland Comet, the world's Arst four-jet airliner, today made the fastest London- Cairo flight in history.

the starving in Communist-held I landed at Cairo's Furɔuk air- China

No decision had been Beld five hours, eight minutes and announced but members of Con-48.57 seconds after leaving Hat- dress understood there was prac field, Hertfordshire, according to tically no chance of any United the official timing. Suntes government relief opera-

With Group Captain John Cun- ningisa

at the controls, the

tion.

Sharp attack on Govt spending of resources

CHALLENGE

TORY

London, April 24. Mr. Winston Churchill charged today that Britain's Socialist Government had engag- ed in the last five years in "the most amazing dissipation of national resources in the record of any civilised community of our size.”

He told Parliament, as the budget debate opened, "Not only have we used every available re- source and asset on which the government. could lay its hands,-not only has the future been mortgaged in every way-but we have enjoyed during this period of extravagance upwords of £1,700,000,000 of financial aid from the United States."

Mr. Churchill said the Labour Government spont а "colossal" £19,000,000,000 in the past five years, and would spend another £4,000,000,- 000 this year.

He added, "But the £4,000, 000,000 we are to and this year. owing to the depreciation of aur money, are not worth much more

than £3,000,000,000 in compuri- son with the goods and services |they would have represented

three years ago."

He said that although 42 per cent of the government's tax ro- venue was provided by income tax and surtax, the fall in the purchasing power of the pound sterling is tax on the wage corners of the utmost severity.

Mr. Churchill continued. "If we take the wages earned and the pensions drawn in the last finan- cial year, and deduct four slill-

ngs in the pound from them, we shall see how much in these Ave years of Socialist government has bren taken from the wege

earners.

Gigantic scale

drow up the 1950-51 budget, will answer the Tory leader's charges on Monday night.

The debate is taking place in the Ways and Means Committee.

Mr. Churchill said the budget must be examined against the unchallengeable background that expenditures will increase irr Fisrably, and Marshall aid will stop ir the near future. German, Japanese, and other competition will rapidly and steadily increase. Taxation, direct and Indirect, has reached its limit. ...

The voles will be taken on Wednesday, when the tax re solutions of the budget are re- ported back to the full House of Commons.

Mr. Churchill declared: "I sub- mit that it is intolerable, any taxation should be imposed now

at a time like this. We shall feel

it our duty to vote against both these now taxes.

continue

dead in Brazil train crash

Here le an aerial view of the wreckage of a passenger train, bound from Rio de Janoleo to Campus; which plunged Into the river near Tangus, Brazil, recently, A low-sided bridge, weakened · by raing and a rising river, collapsed at one

and, causing the train to run off the track. Bome 100 persons are sald to have lost their lives and a further 200 were in- Jured. The locomotive can be be seen lying on the river bank at lower right (AP Photo).

Hainan evacuation order denied by Taipeh

Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has ordered the total evacuation of rich Hainan Island, re- pository of 3,500,000 tans of iron ore and “invaluable coal and petroleum, deposits, ac

cording to an Associated Press dispatch from Yulin on Hainan,

One Navy landing croft from Taiwan and three commercial vessels are standing by to carry out the top civil and military officials.

Five Nationalist

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Fisticuffs at

peace rally

Communist rioting in Antwerp

Antwerp, April 23. Twelve dockers were slight- ly injured here, today when police Baton charges dispersed 'n' Communist-sponsored ““do- monstration against the unload- Facc-slopping and naticuffsing of American armis ships, marked a "Peace" rally this after due to arrive soon, under the noon at which Dr. Howlett John Atlantic Pact progranime. son, the Dean of Canterbury, ·ad-. dressed a crowd, of 7,000 people, here.

Sydney, April 23.

war.

A Communist deputy, M. Franz Van Den Branden, leader of the - armies | thought the "Manchurian Ham-

A young man who shouted to Lin Pine, had the Dean "Go Back to Russia" had was among, the injured. Ho was to Communist Action Committee," Mr. Churchill was interrupted totalling 125,000 men will be mer," General by angry Socialists and unable to left to the hands of the ap-800,000 men missed at the Lul- his face slapped by

woman."The hit on the head with a rubber "What right have the Social-

woman's tall companion the speech for several 'proaching Communists unless chaw Peninsula and the Nation-

then truncheon as he was storming at Ist orators to talk of expielta- minutes, when he quoted Lord some way can he devised at alists had only two armies (50,000 punched him heavily in the face. the head of 30 demonstrators & tion of the tolling masses when Keynes ns claiming that the So- this late hour to

troops) on Hainan. That evacua- Dr. Johnson was greeted with hell which the police wore guard- evacuate tion was called off when it was the Communist clenched fist salute ing. the Boclafist Government itself sialist Government placed a 95 them, too.

Heds: bad when he arrived at the rally. The clash with the police last- has deprived the wage earnera per cent surtax on the largest in-

to be- discovered that on a gigantic scale by this do- comes because of hate.

It is estimated only one-tenth that number.

which was organised by the.Aus- valuation of the depreciation He declared: "Class hatred and gin yesterday.

could still drive the Com-tra

tralian Peace Council Heed for about 10 minutes. The de- -of-the-money they work class warfare are like national that the Chinese Communists will

have-

reiterated that.

It is alle-to-say-monstrators streamed. Into-the- complete control of Hatnabmunists back into the straits if reiter hard to carn

revenges, They are most costly in from four days to one week. only we had one more

Russia wants army," that

Her hall but were eventually driven Mr. Churchill said, British luxuries in which no one can in-

the General said. "But once we standard of living has risen so away by the police. workers have to work 12 hours to dulge." He said Sir Stafford once

This was revealed by a general lose all control of Holhow, it will high, he said, that she wants only in the services of the Chinese

Police mingling with the Earlier, a crowd of some 300 six hours and 35 minutes set up they could buy working only tona with net incomes over

£5,900 has been reduced

officers in charge of Hainan's de-way

For obvious reasons his plete control of the 10-miles or signatures to a petition protesting offices; to. then back non-Com- and picket other employment fence.

water between the land and the against the possibility name cannot be used.

of Aus-munist fongshoremen. Lulchow Peninsula.

tralian troops belog sent .to Political motives

Malaya.—Reuter,

The Belgian authorities said. tonight that a considerable num-t. The Royal Navy cruiser, HMS ber of demonstrators were Belfast, lett Hong Kong last dockers. They believe some of not night. for exercises in the Mirs them were agitators brought for: Bay area.

the purpose from Industrial con- The ship is due to return to tres in Southern Belgium's so- Hong Kong on Friday afternoon, called "Red belt."-Reuter.

The Department is co-operating | Comet beat the previous record of buy the same amount of goods boasted that the number of Bri-Nationalist Army-one of the top bo too late. Hoihow is the gate-Pod steppeti wamen collecting demonstrators tried to close down

closely with the six private relief agencies and turned over to them Information obtained in its own study of China's famine condi tions.

Govt. may help

by Squadron-Leader Neville Duke nine hours in 1945.

present.-United Press,

last February. Squadron-Leader The Chancellor of the Exche-11,000 before the war, to 250 Duke flew a single engined Haw- quer, Sir Stafford Cripps, who ker Fury

The distance is approximately 2,200 mile

miles. The Comet hag

An official closely connected with the project said: "If these ready made 500 miles an hour test

Copenhagen, setting up records

flights to Tripolitania, Rome and

private organisations Cork up with a humanitarian work- ablo programme but find that each time.

they are encountering botilo. It is on the way to Khartoum

necks then the government and might help them."

and Nairobi for tests under tropi- cal conditions before it is put into He indicated the assistance service on the Britain-Australin might take the form of helping them obtain surplus food held by the Agriculture Department and cheap shipping to carry it abroad, -United Press,

YESTERDAY'S RAINFALL

The Cotoriy had 1.28 inches of rainfall in the 24 hours which endel at one o'clock this morning, according to the Royal Observa-

tory.

the

The total rainfall from beginning of the year-10.08 Inches

is just below the average figure for that period, 10.18 inches,

THE WEATHER

Bervice. The Comet is carrying 17 people, including a crew of six, officials of the De Havilland com- pany and technicians. It took off with a load of more than. 3,000 pounds, equal to a normal com- piement of 34 passengers with | baggage.—Reuter,

JORDAN TO ANNEX ARAB PALESTINE

Amman, April 24. King Abdullah of Jordan an- nounced today that his Govern- ment had decided to annex Arab Palestine..

He told the new Parliament.

Australia and

from

at

Malaya campaign

Singapore, April 24.

The general said that Chiang ordered the evacuation because rof, Bolitical, not military mo- tives. Ha' said Chlang refused to sand reinforcementa because he feared the growing strangih and popularity of two of Hal- nan'a · defenders-Commander- in-Chief General Hauch Yeh and Governor Marshal Chen Chi-tang-

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Hainan-it means com-

Taipeh denial

A United Press dispatch from Talpeh

Generalissime Chiang Kai-shek has authorised the officlal government spokes mat to dany on his bakalf the reports that he ordered the total evacuation of Mainan leaving behind 125,000. Nationallat troops to the Communiste, The spokesman said he asked the President's office to comment and

received per- more army at their disposal. A mission to announce that the Taiwan last Friday, when the thorised a complete

He said

said Hainan could still be

request for the 50th Army from Generalissimo

Responsible British military heads are believed held if the Nationalists had one en the reports

generally to favour the dispatch of Austra- lian troops to aid the anti-terrorist campaign in Malaya, according to high diplomatic cir- cles in Singapore at the week-end. They feel the projected long-term economic aid to South East Asia, including Malaya, though laudable, is not the answer to the immediate problem of suppressing the activities of an estimated 5,000 Communist terrorists through- out the Malayan mainland.

which met for the first time here The military heads are be- Rossiblilty of Australia, sending this morning that the annexation leved to favour at least a bat- measure would be presented to talion of Australian troops them for approval in a constitu- coming to Malaya as soon as

AL D600 UMT (8 W. HESTtional manner.

possible.

phially

Au-

of the Red threat to Hohow suddenly reports. developed, was refused, he added. the contrary, sald, the The evacuation order reached spokesman, Generalíssimo Chiang Yulin on Sunday morning.

issued an order to the army com The entito Beet of Admiral manders through the civil ac- Kwel Ying-chin. Nationalist Navy ministrators at Hainan to renew Commander-in-Chief, is still out their efforts to throw back the side Hollow Harbour. The ad Reds from Hainan's North coast. iniral radioed Yulin at 10a.m.

The spokesman Bald concerted yesterday that he was ready to help in the coming evacuation. His steps were being taken, to organise fleet consists of nine gunboats and Yulln to drive the Reds from Hol- land, air and fea services from one or two destroyers. Soma 3.- how back to the beaches it pos-. troops from the British Com-000. Navy personnel already in sible. monwealth Occupation" Force. In Tulin are packed, and ready to Јарап.

aboard loave

a landing craft whileli was sent from Taiwan for They feel that these Australians the occasion, developed trough atretche Nwards fem King Abdullah said that Jordaned to have been advanced are: pose in Malaya.

In his speech from the Throne. Some of the reasons beliov-might serve a more useful pur- Once the Nationalists leave, central Indo-China across the China Bea

the Reds will have complete con- and the Ryukus to a shallow deprelun afood "with its wings spread over

1. On the purely military They aro balloved. to have trol of Hainan. The Reds have off the B cost of Kyushu and then the East and West banks of the side, the anti-terrorist opera stated that such a move will give aveguerilla divisions climated "It Hes within its natural rights the new Director of Co-opera--| troops to gain experience in the Most of these, in the "Five Finger

tions, with more troops under good opportunity for Australian at 60,000 Walling to take over. page 2

in the Mountains some. 25 mlies North tor, Lieutenant-General Sir type of warfare which,

event of a third world- war All of Yulin, are already poised to Harold Rawdon Briggs, can be trallans might be participating in gwoop on rain of drissie as Art, improving during HAINAN ISLAND,

stepped up considerably, A

the town and solza

•There is also a suggestion that Sanya Airdek, some 15 miles to Tito arrival of i Australian not only Australians troops but the Western am The British ship, the ss. Edith troops will have a great paycho- the Royal Australian Air Force Moller, was reported to be stand-logical effort in appearing te might advantageously take part

Chiang

blamed strengthen the Commonwealth

The general blamed Chiang in the Malayan?" operations, as ing by off Yulin on Hainan Island statud against Communiam in much ne anything, as a training

for "wacrificing" Hainan ta his yesterday, according to an un-South East Asia y Mainfalle 31,5 mm.tel.18, los, Total aines confirmed report,

own political - ambition&C. He operation, 3-Australian participation in Following the Malayan, Federa It was not

brought" un numerous "paralisis - Big Three Talks Due in London against, an average of 20 min. the ship was to take part in the ally will be welcorsed by Thai solution of April 19, urging Bri-

confirmed wheth

mad whether South East Asian affair gener-ton Legislative Counell Nationalis

and Indonesian leaders, who faltain to rain Malayan forces, ||| A Molley's, Lad, shipping.

that Indian

leadership in Asia, diplomalla, circles in Singapore.

Eastweeds in a seces of Ampermaluna morose River Jordan

the Pacifle. To the N of the trough a

beit of high proaura extends from to reunite its people"-Reuter. - China' to Hokkaido.

Today's Foremusti-Light, or moderate

·NE winds, overcast with meczulonal. Tikhi,

morning with cloud briaking, ́ durlar. aharagon.

Yesterday's Weather

Meximami - 71,8. dex, Faḥ,

Mum 47.5 deg. Yah

Banekines NI.

Jan. 1-255.8 mm. 19.00"--trim. ; [ma

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