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BRITAIN & ARAB STATES BEGIN IMPORTANT TALKS

London, Nov. 18.

Britain and the Arab states today engaged in preliminary negotiations, on the eve of the first big foreign policy debate in Parliament since Mr Winston Churchill returned to power.

The Prime Minister of Iraq, Nuri Said Pasha, dew here from Paris and conferred with the Foreign Secre- tary, Mr Anthony Eden, last night. No official comment was forthcoming.

pro-

Some quarters believed Nuri Pasha put forward new posals for solving the dispute between Egypt and Britain over the Suez Canal and the Sudan.

4 A plebiscite in the Sudan

choose between Britu n

Rad Egypt.-United Press.

COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW

London. Nov 18. Thie Foreign Secretary, Mr Anthony Eden, will spotlight world trouble centres when he expected to review the entire pens the new Government's range of British Loreign policy fist foreign affairs debate in from the Middle East to the the House of Commons to-

and the cold

Mr Eden will open the Foreign policy debate in the Commons, on Monday afternoon,

Western alliance

war with Russia.

He

is

PRESTIGE ENHANCED Mr Churchill is expected to leave the talks with Arab lead- Eden and not speak 10 Mr himself. Mr Eden's high pre- alige in the Commons was en- hanced by his plea for reason-

Borrow

He will discusS: East-West tension, the disarmament pro- posals, the Korea armistice of negotiations progress ween West Germany and the Western Occupation Powers to West Germany on a put

the Conservative footing, and Government's first appraisal of able behaviour at the United Britain's troubles with Egypti

and Persia.

Nations Assembly last week.

The Middle East is certain to get @ thorough review from both Mr Eden and his predeces-

morrow.

The

new

two-day debate will

range widely.

Eden will take the

op-

Mr

Мг sor, Mr Herbert Morrison, who portunity to state Government is leading off the debate for policy towards Peking. After the Labour Opposition to decussions in Farte with Mr Dean Acheson, the United States Nuri Pasha is one of Britain's Secretary of staunchest friends in the

the French Arabicbert Schuma and Some quarters though! Pronid. he was acting as go-between in

Anglo-Egyption dispute The Amir Abdul Illah. Regent of Iraq, is akko

Foreign Minister, it was agreed that Britain should make no change in her attitude to China. The key Labour speaker will London, be Mr Herbert Morrison, former ostensibly for reasons of health. Foreign Secretary-Reuter

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ZONE INCIDENTS Eight Egyptians & Two British Officers Killed

Families of Service personnel in the Suez Canal Zone, who were previously supplied by the NAAFI which was looted and destroved by the Egyptians in Ismailia, now draw their rations from mobile NAAFI vans. Picture shows section of women and children queuing for their rations at Arashia under the

protection of armed guards.

| Top-Level S'pore Talks

Singapore, Nov. 18. It

announced was officially tives in East Asia will meet in today that British representa-

23-27 Singapore on November to exchange views on Southeast Asian matters.

The conference, at which Mr Malcolm MacDonald will pre-

ed that Nuri Pasha had made ADD STRYCHNINE side, will be attended by 18

proposals along tie following lines:

1. A strong military alliance between members of the Arb alates for a Middle Eastern de- fence group, with

and BNS equipment to be supplied by the West..

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2. Evacuation of the Suez Canal Zone by

British the forces.

3. Co-operation between the proposed alliance and the West in war.

A

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diplomats and military

officers

and two observers, including the Governors of Singapore, Hongkong, North Borneo, Sara- wak, the C-in-Cs of the three services in the Far East, the High Commissioner in New Delhi, the envoys to Thailand, Burma, the Philippines and

TO TASTE

Wugga Wagga, Australia, Nov. 18. A man ordered fish and chips in Wagga cafe, sprinkled strychnine over and attempled to eat the meal, Police allege.

The cafe proprietor called the Indo-China. Police and an ambulance took the man 10 hospital where he The observers are from the recovered to face a charge of Imperial Defence College.

United Press,

attempted suicide-Reuter.

COMMENT OF THE DAY

Pan Mun Jom Impasse

THE persistent stalling tactics of the

Thrusters at the pan Mun Jom

discussions taxes patience to its limits and creates deep suspicion of the Reds' desire or willingness to conclude armistice in Korea. The UN Command has made an intelligent and what should be an easily acceptable offer to break the current impasse. The suggestion is that a 30-day truce in ground fighting be arranged to enable the senior delegates to discuss and reach an agree- ment on the rest of the armistice agenda, among which items is that of exchanging prisoners of war. Ground forces of both sides would remain on the existing battle line. This is, undoubtedly, a much more practical proposition than the Communists' idea of a de facto armistice which recognises no clear demarcation of the battle front line. The first requirement is an armistice based on the military factors governing the situation in Korea. The Commanists give the appearance that they wish to ignore the realities of this situation and all along have advanced proposals which, if adopted, would *. entail the withdrawal of United Nations forces from important strategical and

tactical positions gained only after hard fighting and heavy losses. To surrender these military advantages without any guarantee that the Communists would be prepared to conclude an armistice of an enduring nature cannot seriously be considered by the United Nations

Plane

Thousands

Destroys 30 Flee Before

Houses

Tokyo, Nov. 18. Blast and fire from a crashed American Super- fort destroyed 30 houses and damaged 100 west of Tokyo tonight.

The plane orached near Yokota airbase, 25 miles from Tokyo.

First reports said thal about 10 people were, in- jured, among them some of the crow.

Earlier reports said that the 12 aboard the plane but that escaped death

The were injured. United States Air Force confirmed the crash but was still checking on de- talla.

Japanese polise reported that the blast of the ex- plosion which followed the Superfort crash

carried away the roofs of crushed houses, Burning gasolene set fire to three houses, burned to the which ground..

Flying sparks sel alight Fire neighbouring houses. brigades from at least five townships in the vicinity rushed to the scene. Router.

Command. Clearly the Reds appreciate US & The

man-

the relatively strong position which the Allied forces have won for themselves and are aware that if cease-fire negotia- tions are allowed to fail completely the United Nations could launch a powerful and effective offensive capable of depriving the Reds of their existing muitary bases and of causing them further tremendous losses in

The Communists are not in a power. position to bargain and they have much to gain by accepting the UN proposal for a trial truce. Further vacillation on their part in reaching agreement on fundamental armistice points can only weaken their own position. Responsi bility for the cessation or continuation of hostilities rests aquarely

on the shoulders of the Communists. It is they who must make the decision,

Achievements Of The Embargo

THE US Assistant Secretary of State, THE

Mr Willard Thorp, has promised that the economic embargo applied by 48 countries against the Chinese and Korean Communists, will be discussed at the General Assembly in Paris this week. He asserts that the embargo has helped to limit the strength of the Communist forces, for they were dependent on the outside world. for certain things they needed. But he „admith" "that" China's own production, supplemented by supplies from thé Soviet Union, made the Communist forces in Korea fairly self-suficient in meeting their military requirements. Life wan nevertheless being mado much ¿ more difficult for them, and; the pinch was being especially felt in such items as petroleum, cotton and transportation

equipment. He acknowledges that the Hongkong Government began applying real controls in August, 1950, and had "progressively extended their scope and severity."

hud Japan, too, tightened her trade controls. Japanese and Hongkong controls, he confesses, are very important, since historically Japan had traded actively with China, and because Hongkong is normally the main transhipment point in the area. Mr Thorp argues that the embargo has had a double value. It has helped to limit the military strength of the onemy in Koren und it has demonstrated that the free nations are willing to stand together to fight aggression both on the battlefield and in the market-

place.

Iranian Oil Crisis

Radical Shift In Policy Possible

London, Nov. 18.

Floods

Ismailia, Nov. 18.

Five Egyptian policemen and three Egyptian civilians were killed today in a gun battle with British troops which rocked the trouble spot of the Suez Canal Zone, the Egyptian police authorities said.

Eighteen policemen and eight civilians were wounded.

British casualties were reported to be two officers definitely killed

and one officer and one soldier reportedly wounded.

Although the British military authorities declared the town "quiet" shortly after & p.m., local time, the Egyptian governor of Ismailia, Ali Helmy Rey, said later that shooting was still going on.

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town,

Rovigo Becomes A Ghost Town

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The afternoon outbreak was believed to have been started when military police patrol car was fired on as it passed through a main street of the

A volley of rifle and automatic weapon fire then swept the streets, All British military and their initial refusal to waive the civilian traffle have been pro-customs fees. hibited from entering the town. However, the British Consulate Li-Gen. Sir George Erskine, at Alexandria later paid the fees commander of the British troops and the plane was permitted to Egypt, said the Egyptian take off tonight for Fayid in the police lost their heads In open- Suez Canal zone.—United Press ing fire last night on a patrol, and Associated Press. resulting in the death of a Bri- ish officer. Peter Buckle. of the British Forces Broadcasting

Cadro, Nov. 18. Service, was wounded in the

The British Army today groin

during the Ave-hour announced that one of its

Honolulu, Nov. 18. Bring.

uffleers waa killed in an ex- The Japanese freighter The Lancashire Fusiliers were change of gunfire between a Kinugasa Maru, which has recalled from Sunday afternoon British patrol and the Egyptian been reported alternately

ARMY STATEMENT

tea dances to stand by in bar-pollce in the Suez Canal Zone. racks.

FREIGHTER ABANDONED

Becomes Drifting Derelict

The incident occurred last inking or "out of danger" Continued clashes between night in Ismailla along the since November 9, apparent Egyptian police...and British middle

of the Suez Jy had been fandoned and oorredom Bundy in Cana?.

the

Was

when porte added

reaches

is adrift 1,000 miles East

of Japan, the Hawaiian Sea Frontier reported today.

Rome, Nov. 18. Raging long in the

wake of a gunight last North and ominous volcanic

night in whigh a British officer A British military spokes rumblings in the South to was killed Additional casual- man said a patrol of the First

worst ties were reported by both Royal Lincolnshires iday created

was fired threat of natural disaster sides at Ismallia, in the Suez on by Egyption police. He said

The Sea Frontier quoted a Canal Zone south of Port Said, the patrol returned fire in self-kawa Maru, which has been ac

message from the ship Kami- in Italian history.

The latest clash

defence

withdrew. And Radio stations early today this afternoon

He companying the Kinugasa Maru warned the few thousand persons police fired on a British army British officer was found later Vancouver, British Columbia,

that the body of

on her weird voyage from remaining in Reyigo to leave as patrol. Within a few minutes, near the scene. fast as possible and sesk shelter all moving British vehicles were

It said the Kinugasa from the new roaring onrush of brought under fire, British fa-

was "nearly nwash wi

with flood waters. The radio simul- formants said.

lights, drifting laneously announced that a 7 pm. curfew would be enforced imine- diately over

ver the entire stretching exstry and from Rovigo to the Adriatic

bovigo, a

CIVILIANS RESCUED

women

A group of British area

and children, who were besieged in a British store, were reported

The officer had been beaten, robbed and shot through the chest at close range, according to the spokesman.

The Interior Minister, Fuad Sirag Din, reporting the same Incident earlier, said British

crew and no

Maru

по

aimlessly to the Northeast, dere- Lict danger to navigation."

and

器

was

Apparently the si-man crew abandoned ship, but just what happened not clear.

The Kinugasa Maru, laden with iron ore, Arst called for help on November 9, reporting

a bad leak, Two days later,

a town of 40,000 inha~ rescued. was a ghost city by 6 a.m. British sources said an Egyptian troops started firing directly in The last 2,400 persone, who had palice constable in full uniform front of police headquarters and chosen to remain in their homes had shot at all British vehicles continued shooting around both

when yesterday

be authorities including an ambulance senn for the foreign and native sections ordered the evacuation of the the officer victim of last nights of Ismailia for an hour. town, were reported to have safely shooting. Most of the shooting The new flare-up came as reached on foot the concentration was reported done by police, but Egypt moved on the diplomatic Japan continued. point of Boara Pisand, from where wo Royal Air Force servicemen trout to gain recognition for they will be transferred to the said they were fired on by Egypt King Farouk es King of the ailing craft again called for cities of Padua and Verons. TOWN INUNDATED

after the Kamikawa Maru had arrived, the leak was reported patched up and the voyage to

Then

Wednesday the

last

lens in civilian clothes. One of disputed Anglo-Egyptian. Sudau help, reporting that heavy the RAF men, a comporal, brought as well as of Egypt. Informed weather had reopened the leak. The town

of Adria, which in as a prisoner an Egyptian sources said the government re- A US Navy transport and the was inundated last night by police officer whose rifle he said Jected the credentials of the Coast Guard cutter Escanaba over five feet of water, also had been half emptied.

new Greek and Dutch envoys went to the rescue, but when

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wan almost totally evacuated Sporadic Bring continued: dur- for not addressing Farouk as they drew near they were told; this morning. The last inhabiting the afternoon from the Post King of the Sudan and of that everything was under con- unts

trol again. -- Associated Press, were being terried to Office and other buildings, but Egypt United Press. Chioggia and Venice aboard downtown Ismailla was quies. amphibious crafi. Italian British sources said the troops in. landing plicer stain last night WAS ampered the fooded areas badly beaten and shot at close craft

and of rescuing stranded range

that hopes

# British survivors while other soldiers nivilian and three Egyptian were mobiilsed

Mused and a curfew polles had been wounded In imposed to prevent looting the same clash,

On the South

In

Italian Island

Other

casualties to

date

of Sicily, Mount Ela threw up include an RAF officer shot in hot ashes and lava in en omin- the tang, a non-commissioned The United States is con-ous reminder of the volcano's officer reported wounded, and

last disastrous eruption.

R. Chapiert, correspondent on sidering a joint declaration The Italian President and the London Sunday Pictorial, with Britain on the Iranian Premier de Gasperi are both in who was wounded in the foot. oil crisis in what would be a

flood. karen inspecting OFFICIAL FIGURES

rescue.

In-. "radical shift" in American damage and directing

In Caine, the Egyptian policy in the Middle East, efforts. Pope Plus broadcast anterior Minister's office announced appeal for flood aid over the that nine Egyptians and four diplomatic sources said to Vatican redio and directed the British soldiers had been killed day.

Pontifical relief organisation to

battle at de everything it could to case today Led by

the Prime Minister, the plight of refugees from the

Interior Minister Fued Sireg Mr Winston Churchill Brein inundated towns of Rovigo,

do

Ismailia.

El Din told a news conferenco

has been pressing the United | Cavalzere and Adria.--United that six Egyptian police and

States to abandon its "third | Press, par.y" attiudo and form a solid Anglo-American front on Middle Eastern policy questions. the United States did so, it would require some compro-

Police Clash

mises by Britain, the sources With Students

said.

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had

three Egyptian civilians been killed and 15 Egyptian

and eight police

elvilians wounded. He added that the British dead included two off- cers, a sergeant, a private and possibly some civilians.

British military plane.

manded the Frew pay £85

The United States and Britain

Teheran, Nov, 18. forced gown by lack of fuel are currently split on one vital One police colonel and one last night, near Alexandria waa question in the Iranian dispute subaltern wore tojured last released by the Egyptian Air Is there any danger of Iran night in a clash between Univer- Foros today but was held up going Commuist?

safty students and police before by customs officials. They des The United States Amber-the University gates. zador, Mr Lay Henderson, and around you, forced their way before it could take of

Wgyptian ($188.35) in duties the British Counsellor, Bir through a police cordon around George Middleton, have been the University and broke one of from Malia to the Canal xone nuing Joint reports from Ter the alde gates which show the conflict, sourced

wald.

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