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MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1951.

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Heavy Voting In French Paratroops BURIED ALIVE SIX

Elections

GAULLISTS OFFER CHALLENGE

Paris, June 17. Polling was heavy in today's French general election, according to reports here this evening.

In several rural areas half the electors had voted by midday and in the northern mining areas about 65 per cent, had voted by early afternoon.

Voting was calm and orderly in, The Communists were next with this first general election since 28.7 per cent. 1940.

Early voters today included the French President, M. Vincent Auriol.

hours The first resulny nhead owing to the difference of time-came feet French India. The only sea; there was won by

Socialists and Radical Socialists followed in nt for third position almost with about 10.6 per cent ench and the Catholle Pepuinr Republicans were fifth with 6.83 per cent.

The Socialists, Itadical Social- Ists and MRP make up a third- forer coalition that has been

M. Edouard Goubert (Socialist)Roverning France since 1947. from

alt Parls and Report from parts of the country showed that

Saravane M. Lambert (Independent).

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It will probably be 10 to 12 French voters hud swarmed to the the pulls in unexpectedly large hours before the trend of

numbers in answer to appeals

traders for

s clear Te-by Party

deckton on the primary issue of Communism in tala key country of Western Europe's defences.

results is known.

The

Parliament assembles on July 6.

now

The present Coalition Govern- ment headed by M. Henri Qurille, the will remain in office until

now Assembly has appointed a new Premier and he has formed his Cabinet.

In the smallest community in France, the village of Tatre Gaudran, 40 miles west of Paris, Bine of the eleven electors polted. Seven voted the Radical Parly and we for the Gaullists.

-Router.

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LAST-MINUTE APPEAL

The tabulation at 22.30 GMT, the from Including returns Centrist Catholic Popular Re- publican stronghold of Stras- the Communists bourg, guve

Parties middle-line 227,000, 411,000, de Gaulle's MPF 218.000 and with other Rightists 364,500.

For Cyprus

are dis. Wild rumours of heavy British troop concentrations at Basra credited by official spokesmen, but there is no attempt to conceal the reinforce- ment of troops in the Middle East ready for emergencies. This picture shows men of the 16th Parachule Brigade embarking at Portsmouth for Cyprus, 2,000 miles away from Persia. (Central Press).

NO ARRESTS IN

CAR

CRIME

No arrests have yet been made in conneellan with the inciden! Chinese girl who was involving attacked by two foreigners in a Heavy voting followed

private car in Pokfulam Road frantic last-minute "turn out late last night, although intensive urder and vote" appeals from leaders Police investigations are .o!

Posters all Parties.

and way. in anli-Communist The girl was reported to have editorials

"To been later dumped in the road- newspapers had warned

way by the two men, who drove abstain is to vote Communist"; the general apathy shown dur the car away. Ing the three-week campaign caused alarm to the aanti-Communists,

GAULLIST EARLY LEAD

Paris, June 17, General Charles de Gaulle's Tightist movement grabbed an early lead tonight in Paris.. one of his strongholds, us the first fragmentary returns were counted in France's crucial generni elec- tlons.

For the country as however, the popular vole ndings of Left, Centre and Rightist Parties seesawed during the night as rapidly as Party strongholds were able to report large blocs of votes to counting 11eadquarters.

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Warsaw, June 17.

A German soldier who came back from six years' entombment in a stranger-than-fiction grave was given a "good chance" by hospital authorities tonight to regain his health and eyesight,

In one of the most fantastic experiences of modern times, the six-foot German outlived five companions buried with him in early 1945 during the German Army's retreat from Poland. men were imprisoned in an underground Army supply depot when retreating soldiers dynamited the entrance.

The lone survivor's face was covered with a bushlike beard reaching his knees when he was taken to hospital in Gdynia. The hospital authorities refused

The

SYNTHETIC

to Identify him, Rellable infor- WOOL

mants said the doctors conceded him a good chance to live,

Witnesses who talked to the blubbering, wild-looking

was

man

excavated

soon after he from his subterranean prison at Babic Doly, near Gdynia, said

eyes.

MOOTED

Washington, Juno 17.

The Dolence Mobiliser, Mr

extend

Act Production

High Tribute To Gloucesters

Gloucester, June 17. Gloucestershire today paid high tribute to

the First Battalion of its coun-

ty

regiment which lost

nearly two-thirds of its men En Chinese

the

ad.

vance on the

the Imjin, River in Korea last April.

The

beautiful Norman Cathedral here was packed with relatives

1401- of men xull- cd, wounded and missing.

The Ro

Rev. J. E. Geth-Jones sald the service commemo- rated "duty gloriously done and which should win the admiration of all kind"--Reuter,

Sillitoe's Secret Mission

New York, June 17. ho claimed he was trapped with Charles Wilson, said today that,

Sir Percy Sillitos, chief of the he was confident Congress British

security is comrades by an

service, who accident.

the Defence came to the United States, it is One of the five reportedly lived would

before 'the

talks with the reported, for to be rescued but died of a heart attack when daylight struck his present wage and price control Federal Bureau of Investigation the two missing British programme expired on June 30, on

diplomals, left for London by air He warned that it would be a this afternoon, still silent as to

his mission.

Sir Percy, who arrived on reveni Monday, declined whether he had discussed with the FBI chief, Mr Edgar Hoover, the case of Guy Burgess and Donald MacLean, who, vanished on May 25.

and the men' had plenty of food to live on.

T

if controls

were allowed

to

television

10

The men bad lived in dark-very grave and serious thing" Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland, June 17.

ness for two years after their burned out. An air The Labour leader, Mr Aneurin Bevan, who candles

explosions recently resigned from the Government, said here vent into the supply depot was explre.

Appearing ол A today that there was not so much e. fundamental undamaged by the

which closed the entrance. show, Mr Wilson also:

1. Disclosed he was looking

I came here to discuss certain The weather was warm and Sanseba Yacht Race disunity in the Labour movement as a disagree-water tricked through cracks

ment about contemporary politics.

into the possibility of producing matters of the British Embassy,

natural con. synthetic wool because of the he said. "As a "exprbitant prices"

I called on Mr Moover." being sequence, charged

However, he declined to reveal Australian wool producers. Ho zaid it would the nature of his talks with the be a "couple of weeks" before FBI. He said Arthur Martin, remained in of MI-5, he had the facts to determine agent

Sir Percy Icft whether a synthetic wool pro- Washington. gramme would be feasible. Idlewild Airport at 2030 GMIT aboard a British Overseas Alr- 2. Sald the government wasways plane scheduled to arrive in London on Monday morning- crease in overil production | United Press,

muggy throughout of the coun- try. In Faris it was fine with overcast skies from the partly opening of the polls at 8 a.m. until voting ended at 6 pan. In and some parts of the Lyon

however, heavy country, thunderstorms cut down voting earlier in the afternoon.-United

The first 11,000 popular votes tabulated in the capital gave General de Gaulle's four-year- old Bally of the French People a-clear-lead-with-30.37-per-cent, Press..

COMMENT OF THE DAY

French

Four yachts participating in The recent Ministerial resignations did re- the Havana Sansaba yacht race departed today at noon, local present grave divisions of opinion between mem- time. President Prio Socarras bers of the Government, but they did not indicate gave the departure signal from his

Ten yacht. thousand people any lack of respect, he added. watched the departure while over 100 ships sounded farewell to the competitors.-United Press.

General Election

IRST results of France's first general

FIRSTtion for nearly five years give

little promise of the emergence of a solidly supported government to tackle the country's heavy load of troubles. The De Gaulle party has made a rapid advance and. "the middle-of-the-rond group has poiled well, but the prospects of clear-cut victory on either side are slim indeed. Meanwhile, twin troubles threaten to paralyse our French friends, financial and political. The country today faces a Budget deficit of around

the £800,000,000-and

outgoing deputies, unwilling, to take unpopular measures on the eve of an election, have done virtually nothing about it. For rearmament alone they have gaily voted credits of about £740,000,000-much of which money is simply not there. Simultaneously, the small man is being hit by the rocketing rise of prices. The all-round cost of living is up by about 50 per cent since January. The rising constant new prices, bring, in turn, wage demanda from the workers, the probability of a wave of strikes next autumn, and the haunting fear of every Frenchman that any small savings he may make will be wiped out once again by inflation. These are but some of the headaches which the new Assembly will be called upon to cure-and present indications are that France will be lucky If she finds a Government able to do it. For French politics have just become more complicated than ever, because of a new political movement with the strange name of the "Fourth Force." Until now there have been three major On groupings in French political life. the Left have been the Communists (who, with their sympathisers, had 183 deputies in the last Assembly and are expected to have around 100 in the new one). On the extreme Right have been tho De Gaullista (82 before, about 150 expected); and in between has been the so-called "Third Forco" of moderato parties, such as the Socialists, Radicals, and M.R.P. (Popular Republicans), who expect to have about 280 seats in tho

new Assembly. Up to a few weeks ago everybody hud supposed that the elections would be a conventional battle between these three groups. Cannily the "Third Force" politicians, who con- trolled the last Assembly, had passed the law "reforming" the system of voting in such a way as, they thought, to favour themselves at the expense of the Communists and De Gaullists. But now this careful calculation has been upset. Edouard Duladier suddenly inter- posed with the creation of what he called the "Fourth Force" to take its between the in the elections place

the Third Force" and moderate extreme De Gaullists. The new element consists of an alliance of smaller parties, including Daladier's own Left-Wing Republicans, Peasant Party Deputies, and the Conservative "P.R.L." Party. With this new grouping of forces Daladier hopes to have attracted many French voters discontented with the "way the "Third. Force" men have run the country for the past five years. He believes his "Fourth Force" may win about 140 seats out of the total of 680 in the Assembly and achieve for itself that kind of "balance of power" position which the British Liberal Party has dreamed about for years. Critics of Daladier think that all he will be proved to have done is to split fatally the forces Communists and opposing the now create a Parliament in which it will be virtually impossible for any party to build the stable Government which One man France so urgently needs. delighted by the new turn is General de Gaulle himself. His entourage confidently predict that the new Assembly, faced with the need to take to save French unpopular measures finance, will be unable to govern, that' now elections will have to be held in the autumn. They were openly calling yesterday's elections "the bridge for the General's return." Will the final figures

Д give France genuine opportunity-or only plunge her, Into now crines 7...

by

TWO SUICIDES The only survivor was quoted by boy aying two of his companions committed suicide few months and in 1945 after set out to do," he two others died of unknown causes. The man who is now The Labour movement has in hospital and a sixth soldier never suffered from a lack of were reported to have emerged uining at a 15-per cent brain, but has suffered from a into daylight a month ago when

the next two years. Не pro- lack of guts on more than one Polish workers clearing wreck-old at the end of thut time the

The House of Com- occasion. mons is not fundamentally

"believe that my colleagues i originally who remain are as sincere as said. those who left," he said...

He was addressing the annual rally commemorating minent Socialist,

1

Mr Bevan said that unity must not come from one side of the movement

alone. He claimed that those who wanted to get something done werd always regarded as a source of trouble.

"We

are always the ones who are disturbing things, of course, because If we do not Labour the disturb things movement will decompose and rot," he said.

Mc

Bevan warned against further sharp rises in the cest

of living during the next two

CRISIS NEAR

A

would

11-

have

to produce 50,000

Both their tomb. age opened

United States first men staggered into their

with capacity test of ability but a test of daylight in six years,

planca down

6 year and 18,000 jet character.-Reuter-

dled engines a month.

Another Police Swoop.

great beards hanging Ono was said to have immediately from the shock of

3. Said that at the end of escape and the

now in two year it would be possible

to "substantially hospital was blinded by the

controls.

light.

man

Naafi To Build

Its

Castle

eliminate" quarters

Singapore, June 17,

A £2 millions NAAFI head- to centralise NAAFI activities throughout Southeast

Their store of candies was 4. Said the United States had Asia and the Far East in Singa-

pore is expected to be com- pleted next May..

The

building will have six storeys, housing administrative and departmental offices and a hostel dor British employees of the service agencyAssociated

roported to have lasted four industrial capacity to "give a years of their vigil. The last good account of ourselves" if World should sturt two years were spent in com-Russin plexo darkness, The soldier War III now and by the end of steel, this year production was quoted as saying the sur-aluminium and come other im vivors were unable to bury their companions who died and portant materials should In another round-the-clock encased them in huge sacks of doubled.-United Press.

the Wehrmacht

workers have found almost perfectly

or three months. as a conse-raid in the Rennie's Mill area, flour from

huge Junk Bay, a police party head stores.. The Polish nuonce of Britain's

ADCI Kow- rearmament programme.

ed by Mr O'Reilly,

bodies the loon, during the night recovered were reported to

mummified. "The basis of Britain's na-two revolvera stolen from police tional fe

was in danger of officers in the Tsun Wan dis-

The men were unable to dig being undermined by the soar-trict.

they because their The two revolvers were found

way out ing cost of living," he said.

buried in the hillside wrapped had to wools to tackle the walls bunker. They in

and of the concrete grease-proof paper,

of fountcen rounds of ammunition washod in the vast supplica Mr Bevan said that there was were also found.

Rhine wine and hard liquor.

has up- a tendency

Labour for the

In the course of the raid, in

Nething thus far Government to take its leaders which 40 police participated, peared in the Polish press, but from the "Lop drawer of

five men wore taken into

the story is being widely dis- cussed here.-United Press, "He made a plea for tody for enquiries. society." leaders from those

who had

One of the revolvers was taken Socialisi spent their lives in the Soci

when on May 28

two constables and trade union movement were murdered. The other was "who have come up from be- stolen on May 2 when constables low and who understand So were attacked with iron bars. cialism not only with their

All four revolvers stolen heads but with their hearts."

Cus

on

been

ROUND THE

these two opensions, in the Taun WORLD BY CAR Wan area," have DOW "We are reaching a crisis in recovered by the police.. our movement when we seem!

our to persuade ourselves that main job is to find some now. clever way of doing what we

Boyd Orr's Panacea For Peace

London, June 17. The National Pence Council demanded today that Britain withdraw its troops from Korea If the United Nations continues to refuse membership to Cem- munist China,,,

New York, June 17. Alan Hess, famed British outo driver, entered the Holland

More Victims Of Tunnel en route into New York

Fire Disaster

The victims fire

Montreal, June 17. bodies of three more

of Friday's disastrous

today to complete the trans- American leg of the round the world record seiling the run as an official goodwill ambassador from the Festival of Britain to the United States,

A 40 Austin sports con- driven by Hess and at the Hospice of Ste. vertible

renowned British Cunegonde, were located today three other

the known with

depth

toll drivers loft England on June 1 The three and crossed Europe, Asia and established at 37. bodies were found pinned the United States with a KLM under heavy steel beams and Skymaster plane chartered for may not be extricated for 24 ocean croming.

1. 140 hours.

The drivers friends were American press and the racing the

quartet of drivers at Mr A. B. | greeting coroner. Boyd Orr, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1949, said that im- Clement, sald 37 had died but a reception at Waldorf Astoria mediate admission of Red China Mr H. M. Suckling, manager of Hotel later today. Hess plans Montreal branch or the to leave on Monday for Canadn to the United Nations was "antho essential condition" to negotiat Canadian Red Cross said the where the KLM plane wil

pick up for the flight home ing peacoin Korea,United fire toll may yet rise to 40

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