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No. 35053

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1951.

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Price 30 Cents

Hundreds Marooned For Two Days

Bandits By Flood Waters

Have Plenty Of Funds

Kuala Lumpar. Nov. 16.

Malayan Communists are accumulating more funds than they can spend on waging their guerilla fare, according to evidence captured by the British

Estimates

Commun

stolen

scriptions

war-1

Llac put the sam have used dans

hnd

purly h exn

1

lan

many millions of Strals

Officials here have no doubt that a big amount of the Com- munisis inconr 12 exortan from Chinee Toney of rubber calabra mines

OWNERS

and

Omlade sport hat some rubber dealers are being mo- tained exclusively by the Malayan Communist Party for trading purposes.

A recently captured working plan of the Communist Party

in Perak

should

said that t innes

500 S 5

dothers a nonth to the party's finds and transkrt op alors should spodarer le

164 Surs dollars for every bus they own.

The Communals are knowi le be buying up Hold Prd! jewellery now lo alt

Wow!

in jungle hide as a reserve

for future BOLİNKTEN.

Gurnas rik rea Dents Malayan

anei towns

village

But d

and

have begun paying plers for food, medicine clothing because Brit sh 12-measures have eut cll CY of their regul; supply souzens

Despite this increase in their M.Ng Posts," the Comm rits are till able to condita"

tir building up

"gold serves-Reuter

Muslim League's New President

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Police Guard Hanging Body

Marlborough, England,

Nov. 16.

Police kept guard in a Pewsey, Wiltshire, garden throughout the night over the body of a man hanging from a tree.

The body was later

Identified us to be that of William Ward, a 30-year- old farm worker they had Pen seeking in connection

the murder of Soman of 70 in her cottage

with

there.

The body was fontid

A villager sald a copse. that it appeared possible thai

had been there since the day of the crime, October 23-Revies.

Ming Sung

Given Tax

Exemptions

Ottawa, Nov, 16.

HEART-RENDING

SCENES

Ferraro (Po Valley), Nov. 16. Weeping women and men with haggard faces lined the Po dyke near here today staring over a vast wilderness of water.

Hundreds of people were still out there after two days marooned by flood waters surging through wide gashes in the River's bank.

A fleet of motor-boats, barges and rafts to- day began rescue operations in earnest now that the fog has lifted.

As each rescue boat touched dry land with its shivering cargo it was immediately surrounded Ly anxious crowds.

"Haven't you found Ive my son?”, wailed an old Canal Zone Latest

woman to the boat's crew.

But she was one of so many who had no news of

friends and relations.

a

No one dr.ven

Restu jople, cluiching Blow pens belongings, were

bundled sucks and way to nearby Ferrara

Here they wire dged in every avalable building, hosp wit, con- vents, private homes.

tertain

passengers on board? No one knows.

knows anything for Mest except that the user disaster imaginable has overwhelmed

Valley the Po from Ferrara to Rovigo and the sea-Reuter,

Two people, including four A Chinese company 50

La ideen WIC :scued by bak reday after a long 36 hours operating ships under!

"land" which the Po Canadian flags in trade be- threatened crumble at any

ta tween Hmpkong and Commmute.

50 The munist

riand consisted been ports has granted special tax exemp-ously remained

metres of dyke which miracul- intact between tions by Canada, it was re-the

The huge breaches which vealed in the House of River forced in its banks al Commony on Thursday.

Occhiobello.

A

01

from

Attempt

To Ambush

British

Officer

conference with

The

Guards reach Fayid in the Canal Zonu, after an gir trip from Tripoli in the cramped space of RAP Hastings planes. The men, all from the 3rd Battalion, Cold- stream Guards, were part of an airlift which trans- ferred 6,000 troops "with- out accident."

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The Guards

Arrive

Alleged Atrocities

Britain Seeks Confirmation

Reds Still Stalling At Truce Talks

Unable To Make Up

Their Minds

United

Mansan, Nov. 17.

Nations cease- fire delegates move into Panmunjom today in a bewildering conflict of posi- tions with United Nations expressing cautious opti miam through its spokes- man and the Communists apparently unable to make op their minds.

ne-

Major-General Henry Holes, the United Nations truce Butlator, warned the Com- inurists at yesterday's meeting that the fighting in Korea will continue until an armistice actually signed whether it be in days, weeks or months,

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In a confused and quarrelsome meeting In the Panmunjon, ULCE tent, Communist General Lee Sang-cho asked Majer- General Hodes to re-define the Allied objective in insisting that fighting be continued during negotiations.

FIRM REPLY

"You know what that objec- live is," Major-General Hodes replied firmly. "We are after and not gain on If the delay lasts

An armistice the ground.

four or five months fighting will continue until the armistice Ja signed.

Or if the negotiations London, Nov, 10.

continue for two days, three Britain has asked the United days or three weeks or longer." States if it can back up an aghting will continue until an

is achieved. American Eighth Army officer's armistice

You

Something Of charge that the Korean Reds might as well know this now if

A Chinese

Puzzle

have killed 5,790 Allied war prisoners, including about 10 Britons.

A Foreign Office spokesman told reporters today this country had no official information about the alleged atrocities, nor has

TOWN THREATENED

Rome, Nov. 18. of Flood waters

Italy's swollen Po River, on

£ devastat ing rampage along its casterti half, today invaded the outskirts

Cairo, Nov. 16. of Rovigo, centre of refuge for

Egyptians attempted to thousands of villagers driven

ambush the captain of a from their submerged farmlands.

A report said that Air Force British cruiser today, stated a United Press report from planes bombed the dykes of the who 70-year-old woman

White

the south in Fayid. The Ming Sung Industrial was carried ashore from a'respue

Ming

last minute

bid to divert the

En route to Fayid from Port Company of Canada Limited, boat and overwhelmed with relief food

the beautiful Said the Canadig branch of the quivered, "Put me down. Put Renaissance town, Chinese Arm, was given special me down. Oh God, the solid

A group of 160 fully equipped senior military officers, Captain exemptions by a letter dated earth. Give me my, shoes and

engineers of the British Forces L. F. Durnford Satters ran into May 11, 1950, from the deputy let me stand."

in Trieste were on their way to a volley fired from sand dunes Finance Minister, W. C. Clurk

help

Italian troops and firemen near the road on which his car

in in the was travelling. Two bullets at in strengthening dykes

drove through the car which disaster zone.

while 0 Thousands of Rovigo's Inhabi- the attack

the fire tands were fireing northward with police escort returned

with Sten guns. their belongings.

All the British escaped Jury.

The attack occurred Kuntala area,

to the Company's counsel in Montreal, R. W. Mackay,

its

CHILDREN LUST

Each returning boat brings tale of hope or despaired tales such as these:

Jelter The

said that fhe exemptions were made in view

the purposes for which the of a tree.

The Company is incorporated."

No one answered when

circled

farmi a

Three children seen clinging like squirrels to the branches

Kararii, Nov. 16. The

Minister, Mr Kuwan Nazmuldin, today was grammar by e de tel president of ¦ purpose elted by the letter was cuers the Musta Lentue Parts. His maintain registered mort calling the family. election Clif Dhe vacancy left gages on certain ships held by

banks," by the argussination of Liaquat Canadian

Al Khan -Unite: Pre-s.

Press.

COMMENT OF THE DAY

KING

res-

howse

No

The biggest natural catastrophe to befal Italy in generaitons kept growing from hour to hour exact figure of victims was yet A rescue boat failed to return available but i was feared to be United last night, It had a

crew of

over 50. four. But were there any Estimates of the number of

homeless

ranged as high as

Proper Perspective

Farouk's address to the Egyptian Parliament was couched

as

in what has now become the familiar language employed by extreme nationalists in the Middle East Arub It paid scant attention to countries. the realities of the Anglo-Egyptian dispute or the impossible situation into have which King Farouk's advisers

and the country. plunged themselves Egyptian politicians, like Dr Mossadegh and his colleagues, are endeavouring to hide their OWD incompetence administrators by flogging that very dead horse, British "imperialism," and blaming the presence of British troops and advisers in the Canal Zone as the cause of Egypt's troubles and.problems. But, as one observer has pointed out, the Egyptian politicians are prisoners of nationalistic fanaticism which they helped to unleash, and "even their tenuous influence, upon the people's volatile emotions may be usurped by Communist agitators who are playing upon the aspirations of the Arabs for ulterior ends." One important danger created by the vociferous verbosity of the Egyptian propagandists is that it may influence world opinion to lose correct perspective of the insucs involvet. It is particularly necessary that American public opinion should be properly guided in this respect, 'It is casy to advance facile criticisms about British imperialism" and "colonialism" and in regarding them ULS anti- démocratic, to convict a nation of Violating accepted principles in inter- national relations, but the attitude ignores a variety of special cir cumstances and established facts.

It

is thus refreshing to note a recent commentary on the Anglo-Egyptian dispute by Mr Hanson Baldwin, the prominent New York Times corres- Bondent. He makes four points which

put the whole of the Middle East situation into perspective. Firstly he declares that many of the Governments of the Middle East, including the Egyptian Government, are politically unstable and venal. Assassination and corruption are commonplace in those countries. Militarily, he observes, the Arab countries are weak, and be sug- the gests that the Egyptian army, largest and best-equipped in the area, was one of the least effective during the war with Israel. He is of the

most of opinion that

the Árab politicians with some exceptions-are opportunists who primarily respect power and lend lip-service to principles, and that these politicians use the simple uneducated classes to forward their own in- their own careers and terests. Moreover, he emphasises, most American crities of so-called British "colonialism" forget that democracy is much more than licence.

100,000.

and eight firemen were missing today after

A doctor

had set out in

DYKES SMASHED

of

they

a

for

д

Bizarre -Case-Takestens word reached the British

A New Turn

Washington, Nov. 16.

government through its intelli- gence sources, according to Defence Minis ry officials.

have not known it before. Despite all the bickering and confusion, Lieut. Colonel Howard Levic, acting as briefing offteer, expressed cautious opti- mism over the eventual out. come of the talk.

He said, "We are closer to agreement today than we were one usunth ago and closer than we were one week ago, if the situation were hopeless should not be going back to Panmunjom. It is my personal opinion that the talks have cer-

we

military Force officers and perhaps / Washington has asked the State not be found to solve i em 2

in-

in the between Port Said and Ismailia, and was the seene of several other attempted ambushes by Egyptian terrorists last week.

the

STREET FIGHT

A bizarre case involving The Foreign Office spokesman tainly cleared the air. I see no two suspended Chinese Air said the British Embassy

reason why some means should

for Departurent

information $49,000,000 in Chinese Na about the reported atrocities. A

of the agenda."

with the This item deals tionalist funds, developed similar request has been sent to

cease-fire line-United Press. Command in into a real Chinese puzzle the

Korea. today.

Attorneys for the Nationalist that Government complained the United States Marshal has been unable to serve papers an

officers forbidding

two

them

Unified

The Foreign Office reserved official comment on the reports

pending chapter - and - verse. evidence from Washington.

mass executions.

were

Twelve Sentenced To Death

Athens, Nov. 16,

An Athens military court to- to death 12

R

to use the money in any way.

Some officials privately ex- The attorneys said that the

pressed the view that the Reds day sentenced Marshal was told that General

Bre capable of carrying out people, including leading P. T. Mow and Colonel V. S.

But they member of the cutlawed Greek the city for

word Communist sire

Party for "trying Hsiang "had left an indefinite stay."

pretty

before to overthrow would have leaked out

the established Previquely, the two officers this time if any sustained pro-regime by force." had said that they welcomed n

Five of those sentenced to gramme of execution was under them to return Lo force

way. The Allies have many death were women. Three others $7,000,000 of special agents in North Korea, it got life imprisonment, 12 had was noted. Other officials were prison terms ranging from three inclined to doub; the reports.io 20 years, while 66 were ac-

Associated Press.

funds

Two British soldiers and four boat for an Egyptian civilians were wound- isolated house to attend to

ed in a street fight in Port Said woman in childbirth,

tonight.

One of the Egyptians was reported to have died later.

An official British report on suit

released incident

at Fayld more than the Canal Zone said that the given them to buy military sup- clash occurred when two Bri-lies in the United States, They tish non-commissioned officers Faid it would give them

public their wandered into the Arab quarter chance of Port Said and were attacked charges of waste and corruption

against by a crowd of Egyptians

The s'atement said that two officials. British soldiers were

wounded

The avalanche

water smashed dykes at dozens of points on the northern bank of the River Po where millions of tons of water have spread over rich farmland in the past hours.

4

to make

Chinese

SUSPENDED

A

Nationalist

Small Italian helicopters tried to drop food and medical stores to stranded groups of and four Egyptian men believed people, but fog hampered their have been wounded after an General

Colonel Mow and operations.

exchange of shots between the Hsiang were suspended by the Government Some 3.500 refugees were crowd and a military patrol of Chiang Kai-shek reported

on the First Cheshire Regiment be camping dykes for a length of over four called to the rescue of the pair and a half miles surrounded by of soldiers under attack-United water.

Press.

to

SUDANESE DESIRES

01

Another 3,000 were marooned on the roots of their houses and walling to be taken off by

Khartoum, Nov. 16. Deets of motor-boats, amphi- Tribal leaders and Legislative bious "ducks and other craft.

Assembly representatives Chances of quick relief were South Sudan announced today losened by an exceptional high that they wan'cd self-govern- nde of the Adriatic which

a the ment

earliest possible slowed the flow of the muddy

moment, flood toward the sea.

Prime The

last August and crdered to re- turn to Formora to stand trial on charges of failing to account for $24,000,000 in Nationalist funds. The officers, however, denied the charges, ignored the order and continued with their work. A successor was sent here to relieve them but the Chinese

fused to quit. Embassy said that they still re-

Two days ago the Chinese government flied a suit against

ал

Minister, · Mr In the meantime, they would the officers in the Federal Dis- trict equrt in an effort to re- unspent balance of Alcido de Gaspert, and the welcome British trus'eeship. Most of the

"We repudiate entirely Egyp-cover the Agriculture Minister, Mr Van- fani, today inspected the disastian efforts to bring the Sudan same $7,000,000 and force

under the Egyptian crown," account of $24,000,000 mere.

R. Kirkland they added in a statement.

Judge James Claiming to represent 70 per issued à temporary restraining their using cent of the Sudan population, order to prevent

peoples seeking independence are not capable of democratic government and that in some countries, where inde- pendence has been achieved, life for the average person is less stable, less secure, less hopeful and probably less free than in the days of "colonialism." And it is not unfair to suggest that the vacillating

the American policies in Middle East have contributed to the present deplorable state of affairs. Britain's position in the Middle East is legally and morally correct and calls for sympathetic understanding and support and not recriminations from the Western democracios A fair measure of this support has been given by the United States and Franco over the Egyptian affair which may well have the effect of preventing a poli- tical crisis from becoming a shooting

WRE

ter arca-Reuter.

NAAFI Girls On Strike

desmoments "

the group raid, "We dieagree any more of the funds. with the proposal to appoint a The iwo officers claimed United Nations Commission to that they had been given only self-determination $10,196,817.28 rather than $49,- 000,000 49 the Government They said they have The group thought that poli- claimed, Fayld, Nov. 16,

tical parties speaking only for vouchers which show precisely Girls of the W.R.A.C. (Wo-

to the Inst of the towns how it was spent. the populations men's Royal Army Corps) were Today serving in Army canteens were moving too fast for the cent."United Press.

here in place of 20 NAAFI, Kirls | 600d of the Sudan, the first!

who walked

day.

atit

The statement gave

on strike yester-indication that the tribal chiefs

than

Estimated Losses

By Reds

The NAAFI· girls had been are entering the political Neid,⠀⠀

At Press

conference Inst in the WRAC camp since the destruction of their night representatives of Northern own quarters a few days ago in Sudan said that the date of self-

Washington, Nov 1. determination should be atter a fire.

andree years of

The Dolence Deperiment esti They sold yesterday that they no more:

The South, mated today that the Commun- self-government; did not like Armyration and doming-ists stiffered 1,457,468, casualties

which: "the general conditions" et favoure a period of de- in Korda through November

A NAAFT oilcil was meeting velopment in which traditional an increase of, 14,032 over the them today Injefforts to rottle suspicions of the Armb North number reported through Octo- the strike.Reuter.

bes 32 United Press. could be overcome, Neuter,

Anny camp

PLAIN

quitted-Reuter.

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