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No. 35070

Established 1845

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1951.

BIG FOUR TALKS REACH Calls For A

AN IMPASSE Little Agreement On Disarmament

Paris, Dec. 6.

The Big Four's secret disarmament talks reached an impasse today.

The delegates in effect gave up trying for agreement on the conflict in East-West plans and prepared to throw the problem back in the lap of the UN Assembly's Political Committee.

♫ Sub-

The end came ufter eight They have met closed door meetings among Committee under the chairman Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei skup of Assembly President Luis Y. Vyshinsky. US Ambassador Padilla Nervo of Mexico. Philip C. Jessup. British Minister

Padilla Nervo announced the

on

of State Selwyn Lloyd, and group will meet again on Friday French delegate Jules Mocht understood, however, that the session will consist mainly of a discussion

what kind of report to make to the Political Committee on Monday.

The

Disarmament Sub- Comunittee was created by the Political Committee last Friday after two weeks of dragging

All Quiet Again In Teheran

debate on disarmament.

It became apparent tonight the talks have shown this much to the respective deleuations.

A COMMISSION Both sides agree there should Quiet was reported to be a commission to talk about have been restored all over disarmament or arms imitation,

Teheran, Dec. 6.

General Eisenhower re-

cently called upon the European

members of NATO to make a greater effort to preserve the Western World's way of life. This picture shows the General delivering his speech to NATO in Rome.

bul they are not agreed 1 0 spectar orders for that

Shark Kills

con-

New Effort

Tension Around

Port Suez Slowly Subsides

British HQ, Suez Canal Zone, Dec. 6. Steel-helmeted British troops dug in behind sandbagged barricades today and were posted on

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Churchill Opens Defence Debate

"We Will Not Flinch From Our Commitment"

CONCERN CAUSED BY SLOW RAF PROGRESS

London, Dec. 6.

The establishment of a great American atom air base in East Anglia placed Britain in the frontline should there be another world war, but Britain would not “flinch" from her commitment should fighting come. Mr Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister, declared tonight.

Mr Churchill was speaking in the House of Commons in opening a defence debate and referred to the East Anglia bases when he talked about the "formidable step" the Labour Government had taken in 1948 by estab- lishing the bases.

Mr Clement Attlee, the Labour Prime Minister defeated by Mr Churchill in the general elections this year, intervened to say, "We certainly agreed to the stationing of American bombers in this country as part of the Atlantic Defence Pact. It was never put forward specifically as a base for using the atom bomb against Russia. That was never suggested."

Egypt, "BRUTAL”

Mr Churchill answered, “That would have to roll forward to the impression which, how future years. ever mistakenly, they seem to In his references to have derived."

| Mr Churchill said, "In Egypt Mr Attlee: The Prime Minis

violent clashes be- mission. They agree it should Ski Expert all roads leading into the city of Suez. Tension in we must conversations, an

Teheran on Thursday night after tween Communist-led debe made up of the "members monstrators

Security and

police, the

Canada, backed by Government sup-

The Soviet Union is insistir. porters.

the atomic bomb must

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Council plus!

be

The blackened ruins of several bauned at this session cu

Communist General Assembly by a decision buildings housing organisations were still of the Assembly. smouldering on Thursday night.

The Russians promise to help Government sources said they draw up & system of internu

are by an "anti-tional control after were cet on

the bomb Communist mob."

has been banned, but the West Deputy Prime Minister Hus- holds a promise would be .. sein Fetend said Premier Mos- sufficient protection in the in- sadegh had ordered that anti-terval or effective control. Communists who looted Com- The Russians maintain their munist centres should be severe opposition to the UN plan of ly punished

control, voted 12t the Paris Plares set

on fire were the Assembly in 1948 and site Saadi Theatre. alleged to be reaffirmed. This calls for centre of Communist activities systern of control by stages. und closed recently by the au- thorities. 11 Democral (1-h housing the Communist Youth organisation and the Partisans, 18 Peace as well as the offices f the "Suciety for the

Newcastle, Australia. Dec. 6. A shark killed Frank Okulich.

|

the Canal Zone's worst trouble spot subsided slowly while troops banned all but essential traffic.

21, Australian surf ski chempion, at Merewether Beach here today. His terribly mauled body was

water a washed into shallow hour after horrified onlookers saw him dragged under

The British note said that re- The police continued clearing Okulich, a guard at the beach, | an Arab village near the Suez porta received by the Embassy was swimming 100 yards shore with three

from water-filtering plant as a result showed that lawless elements of other guards.

of yesterday's stern protest note the population were out of the One witness to the tragedy said: by the British Provost Marshai, control of the Egyptian authori- Michael Flanagan. A British ties and they are receiving ac- Bren-gun carrier force fought a tive co-operation from certain three-hour running

gun battle with police and terrorists at the bers of guard companies of the

on Tues- auxillary police.

bunds of "Mixed

auxiliary intelligence

civilians armed with officers, police and were openly sceptical tonight of automatic

સામ weapons, rifles reports that the Egyptian Army grenades made deliberate and was "massing" near Suez.

unprovoked attacks on parties They said that they did not of British troops going

about expect "any trouble" from the their normal duties, who have Egyptian Army

thus been forced to retaliate."--

while high-level negotiations between the British and Two infantry battalions were deployed around Suez

One of the first results Egyptian authorities continued. of the negotiations was the arrival in Suez today of the new Egyptian police chief from Cairo, Brigadier Mahmoud Habr.

"I saw a shadow in the crest of a big wave. It tugged the poor kid under but he came up again waving his arms. I saw the shadow attack him again ani again. Then his head just bobbed in the waves like a cork

Once

the matter 13 back in the Political Committee. the United States hopes for a de esach setung & Disarmament Costitusszon

The Americans

"After about four minutes Strange expect the Ruslans to take part imperialist Ol Com in the Commission, but have no saw the shark have another panies" and the premises of a assurance so far the Russian, at him---then his body dis- Comumunist newspaper---Reuter. will do so-Associated Press. appeared."--Associated Press.

COMMENT OF THE DAY

Educational Facilities

Fannual reports

Fall the Government departmental recent which, in weeks, have been published none is more commendable, more informative thal of the or more readable than Director of Education which was placed before Legislative Council this week. It is a document deserving the widest possible circulation and it is a pity, therefore, that it is deemed necessary to limit the availability of copies. The Colony has become markedly education-conscious since the war; the subject of schools and schooling is readily and widely dis- cussed and a diversity of views is not difficult to obtain. The general public, understandably enough, are principally interested in the effective expansion of educational facilities

of capable fulfilling

the the requirements of present. It is well, however, that associated problems should be fully

One appreciated.

of the most formidable of these is a sufficient supply of well-trained teachers. The report pin-points this by observing that "an increased supply of trained teachers for the urban schools is a sine qua non of school expansion," and a suitable measure of satisfaction is to be obtained from Government's decision to regard the problem as urgent. The "Grantham

Training College, establishment of a Department of Education at the University and the institution of short but, Intensive courses for untrained teachers are the hources and means by which it is Intended to make good the present dearth of adequately trained masters and mistresses. The public, however, would be misloading themselves to expect 'spectacularly Immediate results. What is assured is a gradual but ~constant - essing of the problem. Manifestly teacher-training is not the "ghly requirement for the effective ox- pansion of educational facilition in the Colony Kindred problem

re-

accommodation, and Government, the report shows, has kept this very prominently in mind in formulating its schemes for meeting the needs of the future. The impression left is that the Authorities und their advisers have displayed appropriate vision in settling policy which is to govern expansion of educational facilities, and that under it sure and valuable. progress will be Still another aspect of education has received close attention during the past twelve months resulting in a number of new features being introduced since September of this year. The report refers to it as the "actual organisation and content of education," which has been modified to permit of a clearer separation between

and primary secondary education in Government Schools. The reorganisation beurs some relationship to the system now in force in England. Primary education in Hongkong will now cover a six-year period, whereafter pupils will sit an examination which will determine whether they advance to secondary English or Chinese Government schools, or whether they end their schooling on completion of the six-years' course. There are merits and disadvantages about this system, the biggest objection to it being that the prospects of a child enjoying advanced education rest very largely on ability to pass a single and all-decisive examination. Apparently it is not intended to talte into account the general standard of work performed by a student during his six years of tuition; his eligibility for entrance to a secondary school wili hinge wholly on passing a single examination. Parents may feel this in a somewhat arbitrary method of determining whether a child shall or shall not receive 'higher education, and experience may show the need for further modification of the new system,

A

water-filtering plant

day.

British

armed units believed to be mem-

Observers thought that the United Press and Reuter. Monday and Tuesday battles were "panic" incidents and not piemeditated assaults.

ADEQUATE FORCES

London, Dec. 6. The Prime Minister, Mr Winston Churchill, told the House of Commons today that cut off British forces now in the Suez

Life in Suez, meanwhile, re- sembled that of a town whose communities have been by a landslide. A British

Ismailia

it

any

Canal Zone or reaching spokesman in

were strong enough "fur announced that the British casualties since Egypt work they have to do".

"We welcome the fact that abrogated the Anglo-Egyptian treaty totalled 19 killed, includ- good relations prevail between ing eight Mauritians, and 22 them and the Egyptian Army," Mr Churchill. "Everyone wounded. He said that it was said impossible

would like to see speedy settle- estimate

ment of the problem. There are Egyptian casualties.

scre

problems in which time

to

TAKES COMMAND

the

is a porent tainly shall

facter and we cer- use it with patience

Mr

The Egyptian Minister of State, Abdel Meguid Abdel as well as firmness." Haky, has taken over command

Churchill reiterated his

of the "liberational battalions" desire to see the four-Power

by

order of the Counell of proposals Ministers, it was learned here Command, tonight.

accepted. He will set up a body to supervise military training and the Cabinet has allotted 100,000 Egyptian pounds as a first in stalment for this purpose,

for

tion.

On

use

MALAYA

| STATISTICS

we stand by the four-Power

for this, proposals

the organising We had conversations, and the defence of the Middle East and Americans have HO illusions: the safeguarding of the inter- whatever as regards our position national waterway." In this matter.

Mr Churchill said that

wel- Mr Churchi. It is no

come was the fact that good going on blinking the great and relationship prevailed between underlying realities of the post-the British and Egyptian Army.

London, Dec. 6. Mr Winston Churchill told the "Everyone would like to see House of Commons defence the subject of

today that a steady settlement of the prob- generally, Mr Churchill saidlem but there are some problems no decision could be taken. that Britain's greatest concern in which tune is a potent factor Malaya U after the return of the Colonial Secretary, Mr In her defences was the slow and we propose to use it with progress In the Air Force patience as well as firmness," Oliver Lyttelton. specially in the supply of the Mr Churchill said.--Reuter,

"We must not forget that the Soviet Air Force is formidable, no1

in numbers but in only quality.

letest machines.

Churchill To Visit Paris

PREPARATIONS Reviewing other preparations for defence, Mr Churchill salu The Forelan that the first steps had been officially taken

the in re-establishing coming visit

London. Dec. 6.

Office

of the

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He said it had become plainly evident that there must be one man with effective powers in all branches including military and should be placed in | police ¡Malaya.

He said: Some brutal stati- sties may be presented to the

We House.

have in Malaya tonight over 25,000 British troops, over confirmed the torth- 10,000 Gurkhas, and over 7,000

soldiers.

Added to this British other

different stages of stra police.

armarnent

Hume Guard. A naval mune sta esrren, Mr Winston Churchil, there are 4,000 local police in watching organisation would be and Mr Anthony Eden, to Paris. recruited next year. The country ¦ A Foreign Office statesman and many part-time auxiliary would continue next year calling said: "It is announced in Lon-

The whole amounts to over 100,000 men employed in a up men of the reserves for cen today that the Prime costly struggle. The total ex- days' training.

Min ster and the Foreign

penditure of the fighting forces Mr Churchill declared that the Secretary have arranged to pay

nearly £50,000,000 A year Government would not be able a brief visit to Paris on Decem-

quite apart from other emer spend the £1,250,000,000 set ter 17 for a general talk with

falling upon aside for rearmament this year, Mr Pleven

gency expenditures and Mr Schuman

the Malayan Goverrunent. We On Britain's controversial before they have for Washing are also suffering heavy losses new 280

calibre rifle, Mr ton at the end of the month." in the restriction through terror- Churchill said that he did not A.F.P.

to

propose to go forward with re- tooling the factories till there had been further talks with Allied nations.

Weizmann Better

ism on our tin mines and rubber plantations.

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"It is said the bandits or what, ever they should be called, nu bered between 3,000 and 5,000, He hoped that there would

Tel-Aviv, Dec. 6. and I

do not suppose their be agreement on a standard rifle

President Chain Wiezmann's maintenance cost is comparably between all the Powery con-condition is improving and he

It all heavy. cerned.

is now out of danger, it was seems some improvement should

here be made in officially announced

this theatre of tragedy and waste."--AFP.

Turning to the appointment of Supreme Naval Commander for the Atlantic.

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Mr Churchill tonight.-United Press.

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said that he was not at all con- vinced of the need of such Supreme Commander.

Middle East "The question of the nation- including Egypt,ality of the Commander is a

secondary matter," he said.

Referring to the conference in Paris on the plan for a European army, Mr Churchill said, "As soon as the conference reaches we shall it: final conclusions consider the way to establish the most effective form association with the resultant organisation,

"Meanwhile, we shall do our duty in accordance with our treaty rights in the Canal Zone Increasing and we hope for an measure of aid from the Egyp- The Egyptian Foreign Ministry Lian government in preventing tonight Issued a Green Bookmob violence and other forms of containing the minutes of poll- murderous attack," he added.

United Press. tical talks and notes exchanged be.ween the Egyptian und British Governments.

of

"In this way a European aring

ACTOR FOUND containing a German contingent

DEAD

London, Dec. 8.

of great size and strength will stand alongside the Briish and the United States in a common

and that defter.lve front,

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The first pages are devoted to a letter by Salah El Din Pasha, the Egyptian Foreign Minister, to the late Mr Ernest Bevin saying that Egyptian J. Edward Bromberg, Ameri- really, after all, what matters 10 Consensus of opinion was tha:

can actor famed for his char-the life and death of the free an evacuation of the British acter roles, was found dead to world. and unity of the Nile Valley day in his apartment here. He Woz imperative before any would have been 47 years old negotiations could start between on Christmas Day. the two countries.

PROTEST NOTE

NOT TO MERGE › "So far As Britain

Jp con-

A leading player on Broadway cerned we to not propose to and in

many, movies, Bromberg merge in the European army. Cairo, Dec. 6.

Was starring on the stage here te are already joined to it. in "The Biggest Thiet in Town." Our troops are on the spot and The British Embassy tonight Scotland Yard officers said

we shall do our utmost to mako presented to the Egyptinn Gov-death was due to natural causes, a great and effective contribu crnment against the "deliberate Bromberg came to England Blx tion to the deterrents against and unprovoked attack" British troops in the Suez area ing in the play for four weeks.

on weeks ago and had been appear as Chu on December 9 and 4

Associated Press. The note

protested against the "failure of the Egyptia police to control the lawless elementar

of the population and particularly the behaviour of

the

Christmas Recess

London, Dec, 0.

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Churchill

opened the dobate by paying a tribute to the former Labour Govern- ment which, he said, had taken stops placing Britain cond

He, thought that the danger wag today was less than

The House of Commote, by only to the Unked States in companies of the 284 votas 248, today decidedesourer on which hopeu of a polico

to adjourn tomorrow for the lasting peace wore based. "Urgent action le required to Christmas recess and disarm and control the civil næsembly on Jamary 29 population and to remove thos The Labour opposition had three years ago at the time, of unfle of the police force who protested that this was too long the Berlin airlifi crials. `-

It aid that some of the are Baiually taking part it and sterowed that the recess breacher of the peace,” the note should start a week ater and -, K1,200,000,000 . planned to be auded..

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