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Eighteen People Die After Drinking Bootleg Liquor

Atlanta, Georgia, Oct. 23.

Detectives seized four negroes in a series of flying raids on suspected liquor dives and gaoled them on suspicion of manslaughter following the death of 18 people after drinking bootleg liquor composed of methyl alcohol and water.

Two other persons are in critical condition from drink- ing the same liquor.

All but one of the fatalities,pital said that he patients ap- parently drank "almost pure were negroes.

methyl alcohol."

first i

The Police thought at that most of the drinking went The negroes said that they on in a negro housing develop bought he liquor from bootleg. ment known 05 "People's Rers h the negro district, Town." But as more victims i

An officer said that one boot-

came in, th: poisoning appeared legger had been admitted to to be widespread.

Dr J. Talley Jnr.. on duty a

of Grady Hos- the negro werd

The Punters Plunge On

Conservatives

London, Oct. 23.

On

hospital after drinking his own concoc.ion.

A negro orderly at the hospital

I said that he had personally taker jout six dead since yesterday.

The hospita 's emergency faci- ities were taxed to the limit by what was termed the city's worst case of mass poisoning on the institution's records.

NAUSEA & BLINDNESS

The hospital had 12 victims in bed for treatment of after- effects from consuming lethal highbal's.

Seventeen

Declare Support For Tories

London, Oct. 23, Two of Britain's most respected newspapers, The Times and the Manchester Guardian. swang their support to the Conservative Party today In last minute decisions before Thurs- day's general election.

Neither is affiliated with one of the two major par- Hes. The Times was neutral last election, The Guardian backed Labour,

In leading editorials, they advanced the same reason for their decision, namely the Labour Party and its socialist policies no longer will serve the best interests of the country-Associated Press.

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1951.

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Police Fire On Mobs

Evacuation

Plans

Blackpool, Oct. 23.

Thousands of Service families living in Egypt may be brought to Blackpool if the Commander- in-Chief, Middle East, decides

their

from evacuation Coiro and the Canal Zone, it was revealed here today.

Hotels in the north-west coastal resort have been wait)- ed to stand by

of in case evacuation. It is estimated that the number to be evacuated might be 12,000.

Of these, about 6,000 might require accommodation.

f the order is given, the first 300 will arrive by air on Friday afternoon.--Router.

Churchill 'Master Plan' For Peace Reported

London, Oct. 28.

If Mr Winston Churchill becomes Britain's Prime Minister on Friday he is likely to make early moves for new talks with President Truman and Marshal Stalin on world problems, it was learned here today.

Mr Churchilt has

Several Chiefs of Staff

In Alexandria

CAIRO ALSO SCENE OF

DEMONSTRATIONS

Cairo, Egypt, Oct. 23.

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Cease-Fire Message

Munsan, Oct. 24. The Communist truce de legation today summoned Allied linison officers to pick ∙up a

message possibly agreeing to immediate re- sumption of Korean cease. fire talks.

The nature of the message disclosed in a radio-

Police fired into unruly mobs in Alexandria and used tear gas to disperse other crowds which roamed the streets of Cairo today in anti-telephone call from Kaesong to

British demonstrations.

One demonstrator was reported killed in Alexandria, where police charged with clubs and then used their guns when several thousand per- sons refused to break up.

Interior Minister Fuad Serag Ed-din Pasha told reporters traitors and criminals had infiltrated into demonstrations planned as a day of mourning for Egyptian "martyrs." They were killed in a week of riots and clashes with the British over the Suez Canal zone and the Sudan,

He said he had given orders to police to fire into demonstrators if necessary to break them up.

border &nu

the United Nations Command

advanced camp at Munkan.

The Communists asked that

the message be picked up at Pan Mun Jom, Red outpost, at 10.00 a.m.

It was considered likely the message may be the formal rity rules worked out by liaison

Communist ratification of secu

officers of both sides,

If the Communists decided to ratify the agreement, the full-scale talks

war by

could resume this afternoon. The UN delego- Cairo mobs shouting "Give us British tanks are manoeuvring, at work, the British admitted. tion ratified the preliminary arms" smashed bottles, burned near Capuzzo and Salum on Port Said, at the Mediterranean grcement last Monday, three

signboard advertising # the British

signed Western movie and broke a few

Libya end of the 104-mile Canal, was hours after it was

by occupked Egyptians have operating almost normally with Red and Allied liaison teams. windows Two crowds, de- arrested 40 Libyans

co-operation carrying the

of the The Red message Was com- monstrating before the British arms and explosives. The news-Egyptians. Telephone and pleted and ready for delivery Consulate and a movie house, paper sald the Libyans con- telegraph services throughout shortly after Chinese Com- were scattered by tear gus.

fessed they had orders to blow the Zone were virtually normal, munist leader Mao Tse-tung called on the United States to would plan

Another erowd broke over up some World War II installa- also.

"the Korean But Suez was at a complete Eettle the times in the past advocated the global defence with correspond the Boulae bridge from one of tions in the Western desert.

idea that fresh discussions be- ing organisations for political

Brigh miltary spokesmen sald standsti so far 09 British Peaceful means Associated tween the wartime world "Big and economic co-ordination, he the toughest districts of Cairo all railway traffic across the Suez! shipping operations were con- |

into Zamalek, a foreign residen- Zcre was stopped a 6 am, except learned.--Associated Press. Evening News said.

scheme Nile. They were finally chased would strengthen the inner core out after shouting pro-Soviet of the Atlantic Council by Alling slogans in front of the Russlan in the gaps in defence against Communist aggression.

Legation. For more than four Official Conservative quarters hours another crowd of about said that they could not com- 1000 milled about the ment on the reporb--either to their way barred by

truckloads of police. confirm or deny it. Reuter.

A tremendous betting surge

Mr Winston

persons were ad- mitted for treatment on Tues-Three" might lead to an easing Churchill and his Conserva-day

All but two were released of the international tension. tives to win Thursday's after

The Conservative leader stomachs were election was reported today | pumped out. Two victims were believed still to have the idea

by London bookmakers.

Douglas Stuart, Ltd., one of the nation's biggest betting commissioners, marked up the odds against a Labour govern- ment victory trom 3-1 to 9-2 betweer mid-morning and early evening.

Meanwhile his odds against the Conservatives were slashed from 2-0 to 1-6.

This means 1 Rambler who wants to bet on Labour can put up two dollars to win ning, while n Conservative backer must risk six dollars to w.n

one.

their

dend on arrival.

Others were brought in yes- terday and last night as they were seized by nausea and blindness that accompanies methyl poisoning.

in his mind.

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The Conservative Evening News today said that Mr Churchill has "a master plan" for the preservation

of peace through strength, which he will the immediately propose

It added that the

Police

Survivors of the poison drink United States and France if his pree sad that they made the party is returned to power i Police

negra. boot-the general election on Thure-

day.

purchases. leggers.

from

Clash

tial district on an island in the

bridge, several

Serag El-din said those who disobeyed the anti-demonstra- tjön edict were "obstructing the government's plan to maintain order."

Allorneys for those held in According to the newspapers With Strikers Egypt's enemy

Custody said that Innocence diplomatic

correspondent,

pleas would be entered on the plan is for the early establish- grounds that the whisky was ment an Anglo-American- bought from a wholesale cu French Council of the Western let and that te retailers did world.

cot knew tenis.

of the lethul

Hamburg, Oct. 23. Several persons were injured

600 as an estimated

policemen The correspondent said that if fought 400 striking dockers in Mr Churchill won at the polls front of the Bremen City Hall The whisky had cost 50 cents he might fly to Washington to today in the first serious i "It's the biggest betling a pint, one of those treated, put his iden personally to President in the spreading wildcat election rver." said Stual aid.

sident Truman or alternatively seak amin. "More money fs The four persons booked on send Mr Anthony Eden over to strike of Hamburg and Bremen coming in than we have handed suspicion include one < the do it.

on any horse race every year victims who s aggered into the The Churchill plan would except the Derby. A lot of the hospital with abdominal cramps streamline the defences of the bets Bre bg ones-up Juand Sollen eyes. United free world.

The Anglo £1,000." Associated Press.

Press,

American French

combined

COMMENT OF THE DAY

JUST

The Poll That Matters

now there appears to be a contagious enthusiasm for forecast- ing the result of the General Election. The takers of Gallup Polls and straw ballots have, very naturally, been busy about the British Isles; and, equally naturally, party headquarters have been keenly interested in their findings. Observers have learned, too, of something new in the sphere of mathematics--that is, the Cube Law. To most people it is as bewildering as Professor Einstein's theory of relativi- ty, without challenging its accuracies in terms of mathematics for a moment. Nor is it wise to cast any aspersions on the integrity and skill with which polls and tests of public opinion are taken. Then there are political experts and students of form and the grapplers with "what happened last time" in the scattered divisions of the land, particu- Their larly in the marginal zones. judgment too is soundly based on the facts as they appear on the surface. Confidence is strong in many quarters that the Tories are going to have a majority of 150; others put the prob able majority ns 80. One shrewd observer in a Yorkshire village has computed the Tory majority as pre- cisely 87-and who is to say that he is. wrong? None of this, for the moment, appears to disturb the Labour Party. Their leaders have been quiot-watch- ing a slow but undeniable closing of the gap between Labour and the Con- servativen in the straw ballots - and have come out for the first time with

An

official forecast predicting a Socialist victory with a slight improve- ment on the slender margin of 1950, Opinions differ, of course, about the practical inferences to be drawn from the tests already made, and it would probably be wise to proclaim the ob vious: that the human mind, all mixed up with motion and personal ex-

cesses

can

perience ie unaccountable. If Mr Smith, who voted Socialist last time, wakes up with a liver on Thursday morning through over-indulgence at a happy non-political party, he may be disposed to attribute all his mis- fortunes to the wretched men who got his vote eighteen months ago and resolve that never again will he sup- port them. But if, on the other hand, the butcher on Wednesday has managed to provide him with a kidney for breakfast, he may take the view that never was the world so charming a place and never again will he have those confounded Torles interfering with the pleasures of life. The pro-

of digestion

make mincemeat of the Cube Law or any other law when applied to human affairs. So while watching with in- terested eyes all that astute inquiry can reveal about how voters are think ing, it is better to keep some reserva- tions. The result might easily depend on sudden developments in Egypt, some incident enabling Attlee to do his Truman act. More likely, it will, de- pend on the energy each of the parties puts into producing the biggest pos- sible poll for the cause they believe in. Curiously enough, it has not been easy to believe that a momentous election is in progress. A Great Calm has per

sisted despite the Bevans. Within it, It must be supposed that there is a great deal of thinking going on and that all the cross currents which affect people'a judgments are at work in the United Kingdom. There can be no let- up by the campaignere until the poll which is the only one that mat- ters --

takes place tomorrow.ZAS far as can be judged, the tide has run 100 sharply against the Socialists to permit recovery-but the fight is close unough to prevent the taking of any thing for granted.

to

"These people," he said, "offer

a chance burt Egypt. Therefore, the government shall not hesitate to take the strongest measures against those trouble makers."

STUDENTS MARCH

More than 1,000 students, shouting anti-British

slogans, me in Suez.

dockworkers.

Business shut up tight in the chief cities to observe

# brief Bremen police, using clubs period of mourning for 16 freely, reported seven demon-Egyptians said by the Press 10 strutors arrested following an have been killed in clashes and | hour-long riot before the City riots since last Tuesday.

Hall. They said two policemen Fighting to keep their rights were injured in the fracas.in the Suez Canal area and the Earlier, the Bremen police had Sudan under treaties Egypt has broken up a meeting of 1,000 scrapped, the British slapped striking dockers but there were down drastic embargoes on rail - brawls. The police said 100 and road traffic at the

Canal.

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Press.

Press.

Paratroopers Embark For Suez

known Communists instigated They were trying to enforce an the strike affecting all harbour ultimatum for Egyptians to traffic in the two largest Nonih retum to work unloading British German

ports. In Hamburg supply ships.

for trains supplying food to the| ships were idle including

Egyptians scrawled signs on Zone's civilian population and foreign vessels. -- United sidewalks and buildings saying 'wo trains a day taking supplieg "Down with Britain" and to Egyptian troops east of the "Get out, dogs." They covered Canal, the European lettering on taxi All road traffic between Sucz

The.1. Stowaways Aboard licence plates, leaving only the and Cairo was stopped at

Arabic numerals, and removed same time. The British wer! British Liner | signboards In English trom moving their supplies by truck.

their shops.

Egyptian officials reported 250 printed of trucks and 50 rat way oil

Southampton, Oct. 23. Detectives met the 8,398-ton British liner Charlton Star here today after the captain had re- ported that two stowaways had

bein found.

Cairo newspapers these reports:

Egypt's

set up at

strong

All

switch

cars were blocked at Suez and "Thousands of fighters" from said the embargo would have a

Pakistan and other "sharp effect" Iran, Moslem countries have volun-economie ilte, tecred to help Egypt.

The British picket

points points and stations from Port Said to Suez to enforce the ban until the Egyptians agree to supply plots to bring British supply ships into port and put their dockside workers back co the job.

Training camps have been The liner was returning from established to prepare yours a trocping run for the French Egyptians to fight against le Government between Marseilles British, and Saigon. The captain said Mustapha El Sebal, leader of that the men were thought to the Moslem Brotherhood be deserters from a British sub- Syrin, has come. to Egypt and marine in the Mediterranean and has reached a "complete under

discovered oft Genoa, standing" with the Brother- Italy, recently.---Reuter,

hood in Egypt

were

in

Formosa · Earthquake_Toll

Mounts To 123

Hwalleń, Oct. 28.

This pest city cast coast 15 way

out of

through wreckage. in desertol of Formosa's streets. today digging its Stores were abandoned and ruins left by a electric power was cut off. The series of violent. earthquakes water supply was only a trickie which killed at least 123, per- in come areas. sons in this aren,

Large areas of the city were Many residente ded into the leva led by the tremors, that open countryside during the started on Monday and con- quakes, Unued yesterday.

Half of the city's :: 4,000,

Only about 75 per cent of the thousands of Egyptians employed by the British were

STOP PRESS

TALKS TRUCE

TO RESUME

Tokyo Oct. 24.. The

Korean

·long, delayed armistice talks will resume, on- Landslides blocked highways Thursday morning at 11 a.m. houses were demolished, city to the north and south.

The Communist ...dologation oMetals

Just as plave, flow in in early this morning signed and de- sald. Oncials

that 83 mulst to aid 'victims of Monday's |livered to the United Nations reported bodles had been removed from severe quakes another tremor the ground rules agreement for the debris and at least another was felt. I did not appear to a fullyscale' resumption of the 40 persons" wale "dead in" múr, bo↑ severe and there was no talks which were broken off on rounding small villages,

further apparent damage. August 28, Hwallen's" stigle, hospital › ja The observatory, said that a The United Nations Command Jammed" with injured. Hundreds | total of 13 tremors was regis- announced that the delegates of others lay on the rein-soaked |terad in Talpek, since laun. would höjd'thoir first meeting at Tawi last night" awaiting treat- Tuesday. On Monday thero wore blau, on Thursday in the fad- alamajorábócki, cautinedyellow tent erected by: the The only algna of, 115s in the landslides, fools and heavy Communlata at Pan Mun Jom, city were rescue grows pleking property, škrnegeUnited Prets, United Press,

Paratroopers of the 16th Independent Parachute Brigade board an RAF transport plane at Nicosia, Cyprus, en route to Fayid, Suez Canal Zone head- quarters. They flew to the Zone to reinforce. British troops there.--AP Picture,

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