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BOMB THROWN AT CHURCHILL MAY
RAF BUILDING IN ISMAILIA
Ismailia, Nov. 25.
A terrorist hurled a bomb at an Air Force headquarters building here tonight. It exploded in a doorway, shattering windows and splitting the masonry.
Wing Commander Barker, local British Air Chief, was struck on the foot by a small piece of shrapnel.
His escort fired at the terrorist but he escaped on a bicycle.
Offer
The Royal A. Fine was being loet for the Just Tune where the bwarmly was thrown
Egyptian Pahen bok over fall enntiol of Emaili, tonight after
'The Woman
In Black'
Killed
W term Kozan front
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The last CPUs Service familiea and New belongings had left.
Wing Commander tarker was supervising the list stages of the An Forve evacuation of Ismaila
The 1,won 15 now cut of brutis to British troops
Val-
The Brunch Army had Caely untrolled the town since last week-end's street fighting Between British troops Egyption Police - Reuter.
LORRY AMBUSHED
Port Said. Nov 25.
Five young Egyptians
were
RESIGN HIS DEFENCE POST
London. Nov, 25.
Mr Winston Churchill, who is 77 next Friday, is expected to resign from his secondary job as Bri- tain's Defence Minister within the Dexi few months, authoritative
sources said tonlyht
The sources said that Mr Churchill, who started his second month in offer to- day, might step down from the defence post when he returns from his con ferences 1 January with President Truman and the Canadian Prime Minister. Mr Lonks St Laurent.
The name of Mr Char- chill's succO: NOT, If there la to be car at all. is still under speculation.—Uuited Press.
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COMPROMISE
POSSIBILITIES
JEOPARDISED
Paris, Nov. 25.
United Nations delegation leaders spent the Sunday recess trying to dredge some hope of a Russian compromise on Western big three dis-
Flood Damage armament proposals from Saturday's speech by
Poses New
Problem
in prison tonight on suspicion of having taken part in an andusli
British lorey here. One of them was wounded The
and Brush Military Author- Jury was
As Allied mazhine-guar on. She was front west of Yonchonj Lies sa
that ke
Just what t and k.led the ambushed by about 12 young
Woman in Bia.k
Sie
again ivuding
Egyptians, one whom
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seen to be carrying a Sten guo, And another a revolver Εν
Nobody 1.Bck agains Be Allend positions. The wounded.
WAY Savage Chanes.
Rovigo, Nov. 25. Disrupted sewage sys- tems, weakened buildings # lack of drinking water posed new threats to day in the flooded Po Valley Health, Army and Police officials opened an intensified
in the truck was campaign to save thousands from spreading disease and building collapses.
women's bagly this morning was When the Bre was returned iving in the snow on a da'kide ¦ the Egyptians Bed. it from f a taped Nations Five
position
British troops
1
160,000 More Ura?
persons were seen to enter
have been made homeless by nearby Coast Guard station.
the floods, which started 17 days quickly sur- Alkol infantrymen could not
Founded
the slation and
ugo, and the unofficial death toll out to recover, the body Egyptian Police were informed. EU:
has climbed past 150. Dainage bre-use of the heavy artillery.
Major Hishday, Chief of Part is counted in the hundred of! bursting nearby.
Sind's
milions of dollars, Police Special Branch, "Butch" Betbard, searched the premises and found
five
one of whom Egyplane. was wounded The Egyptians. was w however, carried to arms. They are now in custody
Corporal
of Jonouere. Quebec, Canada. eu! down the Communist woman commander with a burst of machine-gun bullets. He saw her pinialy cut in from:
Floor victims clinging to roof- tops and staying in the upper stories of flooded houses were being removed by authorities.
Typhoid and other diseases were reported spreading from
Chinese trops, exhorting rushed to the 8.189-ton tanker, broken sewage systems in the Po
lem on.
Bourchard heard the woman shrick in English: "Come on. Hubba Bubba" (slang for hurry Up).
Bourehurd then fired the bure1 with his nucline-gun and the woman fell
her
But the puler hat left when the sations Embed aboard.
Details of this incident, which curred on Saturday morning, were release. today.
A Royal Navy boarding party
British Commando. in a
fast delta, where the greatest damage motorboat when she reported; has resulled from the North that Egyptian police had boardet!
Italy floods.
W. Averell Harriman, US Director of Mutual Security, lived in Rome today for North Atlantic Treaty Organisation meetings with word that $1,000,- cou will be made available al once to help the Italian govern- ment buy medicines and other supplies for finot victims.
At Adria, where some 20,000 of the 35,000 population have been evacuated, sewage backed vp an made continued residence. impossible, Health authorities reported, but several. thousand at she sailed in a dawn con-, stubbornly resisted orders to voy. ---Reuter
leave Associated Press.
the
was
The tanker, belonging to The attack took place #1 Cre
British Tanker Company", same place where 10 days ago
carrying aviation fuel for the Allied troups Naw a woman t Royal Air Force in the Canal black rubes banishing a pistol Zone. She was refused clear and teaching Chinere troops 15
ince papers by the toral customs un aliack.
authorities.
At the time she was not harmed although she stood in the open under heavy morlar and artillery fire.--Heuler.
Aller the incident, a constant patrol was kept up round her
COMMENT OF THE DAY
THE
Mr Churchill's Opportunity
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any
THE projected visit of Mr Winston Churchill to Washington has a special significance viewed against the background of the existing tense inter- national situation, and his talks with President Truman
have may momentous effect on world peace. There is little doubt that Mr Churchill will raise the subject of trying to arrange a meeting between himself, Mr Truman and President Stalin for what may be the last endeavour to compose East and West differences
the On
highest possible level. Britain's Prime Minis- ter will probably have a hard task
Truman that convincing Mr such meeting would achieve desired results. It would be wrong to infer that the President will be just plain stubborn next January when Mr Churchill introduces this subject, but. in American parlance, he will have to be "shown." At present the signs are Mr Truman is opposed to the idea, and he is similarly mistrustful of a lone mission to Moscow by Mr Churchill. Nor is this merely the personal opinion of the President; it also reflects the considered views of top American policy-makers. The essential fact is that the American Government is frightened of what a Churchill-Stalin meeting might produce. They have expressed the fear that if it resulted in apparent Russian concessions, it would bring about a dangerous let-down in the Western rearmament drive boforo Russia's sincerity had been fully established. Moreover, they believe that if Mr Churchill drew a blank in. Moscow, it would militate against a Wore gradual bottlement of East-West differences, and would strengthen the hand of the "preventive war" advocates
in the United States. This attitude suggests that Mr Truman will be ready with a friendly "Show Me" when Mr Churchill starts talking about negotia- tions with Russia at the highest level, and about the Prime Minister's plans for turning profitless propaganda sniping into a serious and hopeful effort to arrange a settlement with the East. Another influencing factor is that the Churchill-Truman talks will take place during the opening of Congress and at the start of an election year. American Government policy is always limited by the wishes of Congress and in an election year the American Con- grees is a wayward thing. This must, to some extent, affect plans to ald Britain in her economic crisis, although it can be assumed that detailed dis- cussions on this matter will be left to Anglo-American negotiators at low level. But the importance of Congress should not be exaggerated, The offec- tive meeting of two minda can be equally vital to the fortunes of Britain and the United States. Mr Truman has made no secret of the fact that his main ambition is to bring true peace to the world during his Presidency. Thus, in the phrase coined by Mr Churchill during his election campaign, both men have their eyes on the same "last prize." Furthermore, there is evidence that aix years' experience in world affairs has taught Mr Truman the importance of Britain to America and the importance of Anglo-American amity to the world. There is a gaying about the mon 'from President Truman's home State. It is: "Once you show a Missourian, he stays shown." In it lies Mr Churchill's opportunity and the world's hope.
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vyshinsky.
The outlook was gloomy. The UN Assembly's Political Committee prepared to buckle down to many days of debate, trying to evaluate Russian amendments which hauled Soviet plans up to the top of the heap instead of letting them remain until last.
One-fourth of the UN's membership of 60 nations had lined up behind the Western plan in the Political Committee's lagging debate last week,
Many siother delegation insure wanted first to hear what sessions
two full committee
on Monday Some Vyshinsky had to say on Satur- de.egations had 10 forward day rught, UN Secretamat Vyshinsky's amendment to their officials were finding it difficult capitals for study and new in-
speakers list to structions.
to arrange
انے
Russians
Directing Gun-Fire
In Korea
Western Front, Korea.
Nov, 25.
India's leaders here and in New Delhi were watching care- fully fur any new
Russian proposals.
The fact that the andments were n.ixture
Russian
the samC Immediate
as before prohibition of atomic weapons. a big five disarmament Co- ference, an immediate one-third cut of arli
conventional armed foters and weapons held 110 praise that
compromise between the two
camps could
India
has compromises before in the UN and usually takes its
De
any
speeded up. Ettempted
time drafting careful proposals,
NEGLIGIBLE support Up until were con- !
now, support for the Russian position has been that Rus-
Czechoslovak
Allied officers vinced tonight sian artillerymen have taken negligible. There was Vyshin-
sky himself. over the direction of Com-woman delegation leader who
the
Plan View-From 200ft
Only the rim of a plat- form and a handrail separate two of London's loftiest citizens from ground level-200ft be- low. The men are com pleting the job of dis mantling the radar equip- ment on top of the Shot Tower at the South Bank Festival of Britain exhibition site.--Reuter-
photo.
munist big gun fire on the preceded him, and the Egyptian TRAINS IN
western front. opening "new war" here.
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delegation who went along with the Russian idea that prohibi-
of atomic tion
bombs ought to
for
a
process,
Freighter Plane Lost
Nicosia, Nov. 25.
A Bristol aircraft flying here from Athens has been missing for over 24 hours.
Britain's Economic
Problems
Butler Has Talks With Snyder
Rome, Nov. 25. Britain's Treasury chief, Mr R. A. Butler, arranged today to see Mr John W. Snyder, his American op- posite number, with the idea of seeking US help for the wobbly British economy.
Official sources refused 10 detail precisely what Mr Butler intends to discuss
Snyder.
They expressed
with Mr
the view,
however, that one question sure
or
to be touched on is whether Britain Intends
meeting, waiving, an interest payment of $75,000,000 due December 31 on
1946 American loan. the
A British government decision on the question may well hunge on the outcome of the Butler-
the Snyder talk.
informants Right now, they added, all the signs point to the British exercising their
right because they claim they cannot
sala.
waiver
afford to do otherwise.
Mr Butler
ig seeing Mr
En- bassy on Monday. Both are here for North Atlantic Treaty Organisation sessions.
Snyder at the American
`UTHER QUESTIONS
Other questions likely to
come up;
1. Britain's bid to get 11 share of an estimated $1,600,000,- 000 worth of economic help which W. Averell Harriman, air freighter was ou
BUS
mutual security agency normal flight to Karachi and head, has the was to have stopped here over- tribute to American allies in right, an Air Force spokesman Europe.
The
power to
dis-
claim of a big the United States' $9,000,000,000 military
said.
2. Britain's chunk of A search over a wide area of
nearly the East Mediterranean by all
aid 1ypes of Royal Air Force planes
programme for the current fiscal year. no result, the
*pokcsinan said.
The search,
the
all day yielded COLLISION
Mr Winston Churchill's gov ernment already has served
British
be
planes ranged to notice on the US that the three-
$13,100,000,000 south Turkish
coast and year west as far as Rhodes, as well fulfilled without American help.
arms programme carnot 转 south und south-east ** Cyprus,
Visibility was excellent dur ing the morning but storms developed this afternoon.
The British hope to get much
coal
are
They believed that Soviet ex- precede any other disarmament perts began master-inding move. bombardments about November · The Western idea is for an 1. just after the armistice talks orderly, stage-by-stage
Five Man Killed reopened
Mun at nearby Pan
starting with a census of all i Jom
Red and the
ure existing pressure
armaments, including Orchard, Idaho, Nov, 25. began building up in this sector. atomic, and of armed forces; a A Polish-born aide 10 the Disarmament commission to pre-
Two freight trains crashed
of their economic and military Commander of the British parece
head-on world disarmament
in the desola le
help in the form of scarce raw Eighth Hussars recently inter-confer
conference which would decide wasteland near here today,
materials needed urgently for cepted a message from a Com- on armaments limitations; real knocking 43 cars off the
the arms programme. Steel, munisi artilleryman. "Orders Insp
Inspection and
and verification of
gasoline, The search stopped at dusk. tracks and killing five crew
possibly were given in pure Russian," the any arros cuts; and ultimate
An ALT Force spokesman among these materials, Pale said. But British officers prohibition el utumir weapons.
members in the second said that it would be resumed Oher supplies needed include suspected Russian direction of it also calls for an international
machine tools, industrial com- the artillery Are long before the comralssion under the Security
ponents, military equipment of message was overheard.
He could give no details of various kinds end
· Council to control atomic energy
light and Colonel Sir Guy Lolher,
production for civillan, indus-
zircraft the number of people aboard-heavy
-Associated Commander of the Hussar tank trial purposes.
Reuter.
Press. battalion, said, "A new war be- Vyshinsky's harsh strictures Officials of the line said the gan about November 1.
That on the US-British-French arms
five men died in a thundering was
as when they began laying plan
left
cars from delegates crash whieh hurled down really proper arullery depressed.
the rails with such force that There is only one more
There was no change in the one carload of cattle were war to be fought her when initial US reaction that killed. they come in with their air Vyshinsky's answer was a blow craft."
new
BEST EVER SEEN" Last summer, a flood of dis- patches from the Korean front reported
01 the presence "Caucasians" in
considerable numbers in Korea,
They added that some of the "Caucasians" might be Russians and reported signs in particular that some Russian gunners might be the field.
A British officer of the 28th
have
ever seen."
to
some
major wreck within two weeks on the Union Pack- fic Railway.
7 a.m. It was Union PaciЯc's
On Novem→
hopes for some agreement. The crash occurred at about The British felt that their con ciliatory appeal had been turned second major accident in less down flat,
than two weeks. Only the French appeared to ber 12, the streamlined City of agree
with
one appraisal that San Francisco smashed into the Vyshinsky has closed the door rear of the City of Los Angeles but not slammed it shut." in blizzard near Evanston, Their feeling
that
Seventeen some Wyoming.
persons miracle might make him open were killed and more than 50 the door again.
injured then,
Wag
PREPARED TEXT
A
*
spokesman said today's
It was one of the rare occa-crash occurred near the station Brigade said on November 4, sions that Vyghinalty spoke from at Orchard, 20 miles cast of when the King's Own Scottish and followed closely a prepared Boise, on the main Une between Borderers were under fire on the text in a UN committee debate. Portland, Oregon, and Pocatello, western front, that the Red The tex WIS obviously straight Artillery fire was the "best we from the Kremlin's text-writers. Idaho.--United Press.
He had delayed his long- Th Reda threw three shells a awaited answer to Bir Acheson second on almost any position throughout the week, giving they chose. They kept it up for the Kremlin time to issue form- an hour and then dropped the al notes protesting the TTS US fire down to three shells for Security Act and the Middle every two seconds for another East defence plan, and to ask hour, the offer said.
UN to debate the US He said, "The
Chinese are Security Act as an aggressive
Havana, Nov. 25. always good with their mortars, move aimed at the Boviet Union. Four gangsters escaped from answer, revealing the Havana's main gaol today with time to be trained for such acute Russian fears of the the aft of members of their gang expert gunnery. Before Novern- strength the US has butt both armed with tommy
guns and ber 1; the
artillery militarily and politically grenades.
throughout the
but
I doubt the Chinese had
was ropey (1787."
Hla
wan world, waa
Prison Escape By Gangsters
He said the enemy suddenly given at the moment that a new The gangsters' friends, élad in developed new tactics somehow, aggravation was being revealed police and army efficer getting self-propelled guns up the US was reporting to the uniforms, arrived outside the to the highest ridgeline and Security Council that Russia prison in 'cars, poking them over just at last had shot down a US Navy plane night when
and were hardest they
iri neutral waters
With tommy erf Viadl
guna to see. He
Bald
they have vostok.
grenaden they forced priton plenty of ammunition and they Vyshinsky managed to place guards to get on to the ground, fire their shells with delayed his amendments so as to insure face down, while the four fuses so the shells bury them- debate on
down Russlat dis prisoners climbed seivos into the earth and blow arraament plan at the same knotted cople from the upper up the bunkers when they ex-time on the Western plan window of the prison's hospital, ploded-United Press.
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