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Wrapped in rubber cloake standard bearers struggle up the mountains at Naefels, Switzerland, during the annual cere. mony commemorating the 1388 Battle of Naefele in which 600 Swiss fightert defeated an army of 0,000 Austrian knighte and Infantry, killing 1,700, This year heavy rain and wind Ewept the procession. (AP Plots).

"Soak-the-rich" plan for Greece

Athons, April 24.

General Plastiras delivered a statement to Parlia- ment this evening calling for a soak-the-rich tox programme and administrative and econo- mic reforms.

Speaking to the 250-man Chamber, the leader of the Centre Coalition said reforms on a large scale ore necessary immediately.

RAIN MAY DECIDE ELECTION

Dumbarton, April 24. Rain over Loch Lomond tomorrow may determine the Socialist Covernment's sur vival in Britain.

Tax evaders will be sought out and unjustified exemp- tions will be eliminated as will subsidies 10 special groups.

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CRIPPS' REPLY TO CRITICS

Vague suggestion for coalition rejected

CLAIM BY CHANCELLOR

London, April 24.

Sir Stafford Cripps, Chancellor of the Exchequer, tonight rejected Mr. Winston Churchill's vague suggestion of a Coalition Government. Winding up a week-long debate on his Budget proposals.in. the House of Commons, the Chancellor, said that Mr. Churchill had made a sort

of vague suggestion of a coalition.

of pro

"How deep we shall have to Gescend the dark stairway that lies before us no one can tell."

"This could only work if everyone else abandoned their policy in favour of

the policy of Mr. Churchill," he declared. Mr. Churchill laughingly-, ly interjected, "That would be much the best." Sir Stafford added, amid economy and efficiency Government cheers, "What-duction and distribution. ever the Liberal Party may think about it we are not having any on that basis.**

At one time it Was thought that the Opposition would force a vote tonight on a "technical question about Purchase Tax. But

they did not.

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The outstanding Budget reso. lution, on which the debate took

was approved without place, division. The Opposition in re- serving its all-out attack on the Government for Wednesday when they will vote against two Bud- get proposals-increase in the petrol tax and the Imposition of a purchase tax on lorries,

Defeat on either would, it is assumed, mean the resignation the Government and General Election.

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Sir Stafford said that it would have been easy to have taken a decision to provide a spectacular and popular budget with an eye olt another election.

That was a line which was simple for those who curried nɔ 1sponsibility. But it was not one which the Government was prepared to take, he sald,

Not worse off

Bir Stafford decried the sug- gestion that the British people worse off now than in 1945 and 1946.

of the

He contended that the now taxes were directed towards forcing the travelling publie and industry to use the nationalised Im2 railways and to offset the pending rises in railway freights and passenger fores,

Criticising the way in which £800,000,000 a year was being spent on defence. Mr. Churchill said that this expenditure needed searching attention.

"I am sure there never was a time when we got less value in fighting power for the immense Parliament 1108

gums

which

voted," he said,

"Our foreign dangers, which seem to be sharpening, will not and thrown off by wasteful Ineffectual expenditure of money but rather by concentration

of modern forms of war power in the light of our knowledge."

Observing

-Britain could not axist permanently

that

in an Election atmosphere, Mr Churchill added, amid laugh

ter

"Here we are in the

-

preme criste of Our bistory watching each other, like cat and mouse and who can SAY who is the cat and who is the mouse7"

The question was how long could the country afford to be agitated by this ideological con-

lct?

Gulf of theme

5O

Earlier, in an analysis of the Rudget, Mr. Churchill had com- plained that Government' spend- |ing of £9,000,000,000 in five years had mortgaged Britain's future.

And during this "period of ex- travagance," Britain had enjoyed "upwards of £1,700,000,000 of francial ald from Suites and our Dominions.

the

French fear Chinese riot in Indo-China

Saigon, April 24, French authorities axpress fear that the Chinese In Indo- China may soon stir up trou- ble as one of the effects of the fall of Hainan.

Police were alerted yester. day for a demonstration by Chinese Communists in the Cholon sector of Balgon.

Chi-

Small groups of daman. strators were diapersed with. out Incident before they could tarry

out plan to tear down pictures of Chiang Kai-shek from store windows.

Moscow-backed Ho minh's nationalist movement Is sponsoring a propaganda campaign favouring operation with the Chinese and praising "the great Chi nese Communist leader, Muo Tas-tung."—Áruoclated Prom.

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"These colossal figures mark the most amazing dissipation of national resources on record

in

any civilised community of our size", he

he said.

Taxation, direct and indirect, had reached its limit.

"We have reached, in a certain. sense, finality.

''.

that

"So this is Utopla. This is no longer a dream

of the future. this is it," he exclaimed amid laughter.

Mr. Churchill contended the doubling of the petrol ration and the other concessions mote- by the Government had been due to Opposition pressure or the fear of losing votes. Reuter.

Reaction to

coup by Abdullah

Tel Aviv, April 24. Israel's official

spokesman sald tonight that Jordan's an- nexation of Arab Palestire was a unilateralet which is in no way binding on Israel.

He claimed that Mr. Churchill

"The gulf which separates the wanted to develop Britnia's eco-

sides of the House nomy so as to make it possible two for those who had money and equally balanced is not a gulf of The 10-point programme called wealth to choose how to use it as class nor does it make a breach IL in fundamental brotherhood, for moderate expansion of in- they wished without restraint,

doctrine, will dustry which

draw

is one of theme and It raw

was exactly that policy materials from the country's own which produced

Mr. Churchill added. the state

nd Liberat The resources and will be based on affairs experienced between

Conservative and Parties stood for a way. of life the US$200,000,000 electric power wars, Sir Stafford added. programme approved by the U.S. Mr. Hugh Galtskell, Minister which at every stage multiplied

ised of State for Economic

the choices opened to individauls. Affairs.

He added: "We have concluded General Plastiras also

so promised

BN armistice agreement with iring to light and punish pubil: sald that the petrol tax was not "Soclailst devotees stand for the

a tax to provide revenue but to multiplication of rules," the Con- Jordan and it is our firm inten. officials guilty of scandals, parti.

servative leader declared.

tion to abide by it. The agree- | Onance the relief for income tax. cularly dur

during the civil war

Anal He continued, "We If the Opposition voted ngainat

are split ment, however, entails noj Persons who paid off debts with

and half as I have never political settlement apri no such inflated Drachmal will be forced this they should vote against the half

known income tax relief.

this country split be- settlement us possible without the difference fù terms of wony's value.

How long have we got to negotiations and the conclusion go on with neither one side nor of a peace treaty between the A gradumi

amnesty will

the other having the power to do: two

parties." granted to repentant left wingers

effectively The spokesman said that but this will not include leaders

anything to grapple on its merlis with the national should therefore be clear that of the rebellion and the hard

needs?"

The status of the Arab arcas Wes Use of Cominunists. Conservatives say rain will cure

of the Jordan remains an open hold down _The_

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violence against persons detained

question 80_far_as_Israel_is_con= Loch and in the agricultural dis-by the police will not be allowed:

corned. tricts where their trength is greatest,

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Voters in the West district of Dundertonshire selecting a new Member of Par- Jiament there to replace Attain McKinley, Lalur, who died two weeks after he won the seat in the February 23 elections with a 813 majority.

• Conflent Socialists say they will win whether drains or not, Both parties, concedo that the election will be close. There are no other candidates.

A Conservative victory would cut the Socialist nyerall majority In the House of Commons to three with a critical vote on the Budget resolution coming up on Wednesday.

The successful curidictates be flown to. London in time for the Commun vote.

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from omitted speech the section willch was the approved by previously Cabinet and which referred to the

Ministers or exchange of Ambasanders with Belgrade. In the original speech, this exchange was reported as having been suggested by Belgrade and

would have been the first step the restoration of normal rola.

with Greece's flong

Northern may.neighbours.

This was

the first time, the announcement would have been

The Yugoslav made,

Charge d'Affaires, Sherif Sechovic, saw General Flastiras twice last wee

A relluble source said M. Sechovie jis leaving for Belgrado on Wednesday to report to Tito on his conversations with. Gen- cral Plasticas and to recely further instructions-Associated Press.

The Communists, who polled 1,198 votes th the February 23 election, altered the Labour cost- didate their support, but he re- Feeted it.

This will be the second by- election since the general elec- tion, Labour won the first in the independent division of Shefeld.

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He recalled,fore. amid Labour laughter, that the petrol tax was first introduced by Mr. Churchill many years Mr. Churchill had then said that he did it to help the rallways which he thought were suffering from unfair competition.

Earlier today Mr. Churchili announced that the Opposition in the House of Commons would vote against the Government on the increase in the petrol tax and the tax on lorries.

Speaking in the resumed de

bote on the Budget, Mr. Churchill Raid that the Govern- ment had raised "these provoca-

lve issues" themselves.

"We have no choice but to ex- press

our sincere conviction

that both of them are wrong in principle and will be harmful in practice," he said.

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A burden

The Increase in the petrol tox war a new burden on the travell- ing public. The tax on the pur- chase price of vans and lorries was a direct attack upon

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If we go on year after year absorbed in our Internal Party and class light there may never be another chance for the and glory of Britain to show it- self again.

"Somehow or other we must reach firm ground again and have a Government that is afraid or unable to do things if they are in the national inter- est.

The future

not

Mr. Churchill asserted that he were formed only as the result did not believe in coalitions that

of Party bargainings.

He concluded, "It is with) deep -anxiety, into which my personal feelings do not enter at all, that I try to read the

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The fire which destroyed an American Atomic Energy Commission building at Berkeley, California, last night, caused damage estimat- ed at $150,000 but no mac hinery was lost, a Commis- sion spokesman said here to- day.

The cause of the fre is still unknown tonight but the spokes- man belleves sabotage was re- sponsible.

Federal Bureau of Investigation agents (G-Men) and Commission officials are Investigating.

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April 24.

A tornado twister tore through Here today, damaging at least 12 homes and the Catholic Church

baseball and carrying a

park grandstand a block away from the stadium. The police chic!. Leo Mattingly, said no one was injured.

It was the second twister to hit the city in six weeks, The first one caused some US$35,000 today's damage is dumage. Mr. Mattingly said Iess. United

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In posters plustored through- out Tel Aviv, the newly-formed Freedom Party (formerly the ting up a kingdom on both banks Irgun Zval Leumi) today de-of our Jordan." nounced the Jordan Government's Syria expects to receive `an

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