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Family Wiped

Out In Fire

Manila, Dec, 17.

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A family of five burned to death in a fir In the Santa Mesa district Mania, early this morning.

The fire started at 3 0.01. gutting two houses. damaging three others and causing a lons of

50,000

pesos.

The entire family of five

were wiped out

house

where the

The fire

originated, including a 64- year-old

woman

three-year-old child.

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The cause of the fire w so far unknown but it is presumed that tomobile parked under the bour caught five ICAN cu using the conflagration, -France-Presse.

OIL DISPUTE

Latest

Move Persia

By

Teheran, Dec. 16.

Today's Weather:

Moderate or fresh Easterly Winds.

CHINA MAIL

No. 35078

LATEST CANAL ZONE INCIDENT

BRITISH PATROL CLASHES WITH TERRORISTS

Cairo, Dec. 16.

Hitting back today with two-inch mortars after Egyptians had fired on their armoured car, a British patrol was believed to have killed two of their attackers, a British military spokesman said here.

No Britons were wounded in the clash, which started when the patrol--men of the 4th 7th Dragoons-stopped to investigate damage to a cable which had been cut near the junction of the Cairo-Ismailia Road.

Грузи

morars d.spersed the the latest British note to Egypt Egypang who had fred from in connection with the incidents beland an embankment.

which occurred at Isma.lia November 17 and 18

This was the only unriden; in quant day in the Suez Canul Zone. But in Caro the leader

..

The powerful Moslem Brotherhood Its property and funds restored by Government order last night called on his 500.000 Egyptian followers to step up the campaig against The British

on

The same .rcles stresset That the British note insisted on the premedita,ed character of the inci tents which cost the lives of futur British officers and two British soldiers.

The wor! "murder" It was added, Was mentioned several times 20 The note. France-

The Brotherhood was banned Presse. in Egypt in January, 1949, as " serious threat public Persia moved today to security end order." An in- stop temporarily the In- with military branches and

ternational politica: organisation ternational Court's hearing strong nationalist policy, it had of the oil dispute with Bri-bren accused of terrorism tain.

Egypt and other Middle Eastern countries,

The T'ersian Government cabledde Muster at The Hague,j Hossein Navan, to ask the Inter- national Cand of Justice to

REPORT DENIED

"

In

The British military authori- ics in Cyprus ought issued a

postpone for 30 days the hearing that denial of Egyptian report of the Bush complamt neunst! hut two Cypriot workers who Persia in the ut taste.

had volun.eered for work

Britam insutei proceesings against the Persian Government on May 20.

On July 5 the Court upheld British request for Interim measures ordering a "Trecze" to the Court reached decision on its Persian cll nationalisation until

competence to cleal with the dispute.

Four daya ater Perda with- drew its recognition of the Curt's right to unpose obliga- tory judgments.

On November

die Persing

רד זין

27, however, Minister,

Dr. Mohammed Mossadeq. sond that he was prepared to go to The Hugur for the heerms of the cust.

Persi IN te To send he. reply to the Court to Brilah's memorandum on the case by January 10-Router.

the Suez Canal Zone had been shot by British trops there.

The Egyptian report claimed thet an incident had occurred when a group of 27 Cypriot workers were fired on by Bri tish troops when trying to he Canal Zone. escape from Acabaya camp in

PARIS MEETING

Farag Pasha, the Acting Egyptian Foreign Minister. told reporters after a Cabinet meet- ing here today that the British Foreign Secretory. Mr Anthony Edia would meet the Foreign

Established 1845

MONDAY,

DECEMBER 17, 1951.

UT'S

The Earl of Perth, formerly Sir Eric Drummond, first of the Secretary-General League of Nations and a lead- ing Belush Liberal, died at Regate. hampshire on Satur- day night at the

age of 73, Lord Perth entered the British Foreign Offer In 1900 and Held a number of Government posts before

appointed

10 Secretary-General

the League of Nations in 1919.

was

56 Die

In Plane

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Minister of Egyp, Salah el Din CHILDREN AMONG

Pasha, Paris tomorrow or on Tuesday.

A British Embassy spokesman said that he had no knowledge of any such move.

ji

The Egyptian Cabinet today reviewed developments

the Anglo-Egyptian crisis since 11 decided last Tuesday to recall the Ambassador in London,

Amr Pasha.

THE VICTIMS

Elizabeth,

New Jersey, Dec. 16.

A burning non-scheduled airliner crashed into two vacant buildings in Eliza beth's residential district today, killing 56 persons in the nation's worst accident this year.

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Lyttelton Would Like HK's Police Chief In Malaya

Impressed By Efficiency

Of

Colony's Force

From KENNETH MACAULEY

Singapore, Dec, 16.

If it were possible Mr Oliver Lyttelton would like to import Hong- kong's Police Commissioner, Mr Duncan MacIntosh, to Malaya to lead the fight against the bandits. But Mr MacIntosh has already postponed his retirement once and it may not be possible to transfer this police officer- "one of the crown jewels of the Colony" Mr Lyttelton calls him----to under- take what may be a difficult job of reorganisation.

It is certain, however, that some of his senior officers will be sent to Malaya for training operations. One of their most urgent tasks will be to restore a greater feeling of confidence in the Police among the front line planters and tin miners up-country.

My Lyttelton was most impressed by the smooth but taut efficiency of the Hongkong Police and by Mr MacIntosh's success in training Chinese officers, NCOs and men.

Exchange Of War

Prisoners

air UN Concession May

Be Final

The pane zoomed over the rooftops of the heavily-populat-

ed residential area, sheared off the top of a three-storey house, then rammed into a brick and stone warehouse. 6 way out

Ministers heard a report by the Acting Foreign Minister, Ibrahim Farag Pasha, on his numerous talks with the Ameri- can Ambassador, Mr Jefferson A statement by the British Caffery, during the last 10 days. military authorities here de- Mr Caffery, reported be scribed the entire story as being "actively exploring" absolu.ely without foundation of the Anglo-Egyptian impasse. The Aery wieckage skidder and sail no Cypriot workers

last suw Furag Pasha

yesterday.

down a slope to the Elizabeḥ, Fud been involved In Any

The Egyptian Cabinet today River, trapping those not killed neiden the Canal Zone.

approved a draft decree amend- by the impact inside the flaming The number "I Cypriet

ing the official Seal of State to fuselage I the twin-engine workers in he Zone is estimated read "Egypt and The Sulan" | Man Air Lines craft at about 1,000.

instead of "Egyptian State"

BABES IN ARMIS

in

16

passengers a

Gurney, with two deputies deal- Ing with civil and inilitary administration.

Mr Lyttelton said he had come to Kuala Lumpur to tie up a few loose ends-France-Presse

Poisoning Scare

Montepellice, Dec. 16. The Jittle Southern French town of Pont St Esprit, where five people died and about 200 were sericasty I after cating "pekoned

Angust, was anxiety

bread"

Jast

tense with

tonight

after

that

perzistent rumours brad was again poisoning Its population,

Ten people were report- ed to be sick with minor stomach allments

with

some symptoms resembling the dease which struck the town last August.

The pollee and health today took

authorities

amples

of bread and flour to the university laboratory

here.

They refused to make a eta- ment. Oficials said that none of the 10 sick was seriously it and thot only one per on had been com- fined to bed. Reuter.

What Eden & Churchill

Will

Discuss

Paris, Dec. 16. The British Prime Minis- ter, Mr Winston Churchill, and his Foreign Secretary, Mr Anthony Eden, are ex- pected to give priority con- QUESTIONS DISCUSSED sideration to the explosive

Kuala Lumpur, Dec, 18.

Middle Eastern situation The British Colonial Secret-

their Mr Oliver, Lyttelton,

discussions and rulers or representatives of with

French officials on nine Melay States in the Monday and Tuesday, it was Federation discussed here today learned today,

ary,

Op-

daring

In Mr Lyttelton's report which he is now preparing at Kuala Lumpur he will firmly refuse to increase repressive measures to force the Chinese to take & more active part in beating the terror- ists. is known that when he met the rulers of the three States they urged the only solution was to multiply the troops in the danger areas and to deport, if necessary, up to half a million disaffected Chinese.

Mr Lyttelton refused. He questions relating to the believes that it Hongkong can be pointment of an overall com Informed Sources indicated welded into happy and striking-mander for the campaign that the British statesmen would ly prosperous community, In spite against Communist terrorists. of a materiale embargo, by

It was learned that the con-

And strong support from the Munsan, Dec. 17.

good government and efficient policing ference agreed in principle to French governmen; for a firm, The United Nations High the same can be done in Malaya, the proposals which Mr Lyttel- Imaginative Middle Eastern Command has made what situation in Malaya has decided!

The urgency

of the terrorist ton will make to the British policy. Mr Churchill is expected

Cabinet when appears to be its final con- M: Churchill to lose no time in

to to review Middle Eastern policy cession to the Reds on ex-announcing the appointment of fr now working on the body of during his

London this week.

The Colonial Secretary, who, in the light of these discussions change of war prisoners. Supremo after Mr Lyttelton's the report of his lightning tour President Truman in Washington conferences with return to England at the end of this week.

of South-East Asin, experts to early next month. The name is being kept secret fly to Kelantan on Malaya's while the Minister is here. The east coast before returning to 1 There is a sense of urgency for

This compromise was drop- ping a previous demand that it W65 NECESSARY to Inspect prisoner camos behind the Communist lines before dis cussion ci prisoner exchange

Circles close to the Foreign line with its claim to sovereignty The dead the uded four chil Office in London toxay put over The Sudan following

dren, two of them babes emphasis on the seriousness of Egypt's abrogation of the agree-arms, 48 adu accusations raised by the British ment

could begin. for Joint Anglo-Egyptian four crewinen, according to ab Government against

Elizabeth certain government there.-Reuter and

delcctive. elements of Egyptian Police in AFP.

August Winkiemann,

Most of the passengers were believed to have been Puerto Ricans going home for Christ-

COMMENT OF THE DAY

Co-Operation The Answer

ENERAL Eisenhower, in his address last Saturday to the 12 North Atlantic nations rearmament planners struck 2 more definitely optimistic note concerning the future ability of the Western Powers to with- stand armed aggression. When he talked to the NATO military chiefs m Rome a fortnight ago he was only prepared to say that the Atlantic forces in Europe could, already, if attacked, give a gallant account of themselves. In Paris, last week, he went much further and declared that "we shall soon reach a point (in military preparedness) where it would be senseless to attack the West." What he did not make clear in Paris was whether he was still insisting on the immediate creation of a European Army, to include German units. This ambitious scheme has met with considerable opposition. There is not, and really never has been, any possibility of Britain's joining. Army is quite ready to

serve under General. Eisenhower, as it served under him in the last war. It will serve devotedly, but always without merging its identity, with its own recruiting, its own training, its own organisation, all controlled by its own General Staff and its own Parliament. The idea of the European Army, as planned by M. Pleven, the French Premier, negates ail that; its soldiers are not to be French or German or Britleh, but "European"; it is of the plan's essence that the nation from which a soldier is drawn should not have him in any way at its disposal. The project originated in an attempt to reconelle opposite claims. Amerten claimed that Germans, should take part in defending the country. The Germans calmed that, if they served, it must be on equal footing with the troops of other nations. The French

Her

to

claimed they could not consent reconstituting a German Army. Then the Pleven Plan was put forward as a compromise: there should be German soldiers, but no German Army; and to satisfy their claim to an equal status the French would join the European Army too. But the obvious flaw in the arrangement was that since there was

mias.

Captain

unt:) the Reds hand complete list of the troops they now hold.

choice was made by Mr Chur- chill and the subility of the one chosen hos been confirmed by Mr Lyttelton on the spot.

stand action

over

Allied

| yet."

Mr

he returns

Singapore to catch a plane for London.Reuter.

MALAYA'S TAX COLLECTIONS

The

Diplomats

pacification of the Middle East and early settlement of the con- les there. The Wes.ern coun- There is no doubt at all that

tries are well aware of the highly However, Rear-Admiral R. E,

the Minister Is determined to

explosive situation and its poten- Litoy

the told

Communists make drastle and sweeping

Kaules in the areas involved. the United Nations

wasn't changes to get swift, effective

The situation, in the view of backing down on its

Kuala Lumpur, Dec. 15. against the terrorists.

the sources, has reached a stage to talk New men and new methods will income tax that it would refuse

total collections from where negotia sons or mediation about release of any prisoners be used and in Mr Lyttelton's for

in the Federation zene cannot provide an adequate 1051 will reach words in this jungle war the S$100,000,000

nearly solution. (£11,765,000), terrorists haven't seen anything Mr M. V. Del Tuto, Officer Ad-

ministering Lyttelton believes

that told the Federal the need for constant consulta Council. tions between the civi and militery authorities

prevents would be swift and urgent action. Liaison, soldiers Mr Lyttelton has been heard to

the say, leads

to lack of respon sibility and decision.

The job of Sir Rob Lockhart, Approximately 2,000

more who co-ordinates operations, is United Nations soldiers

are likely therefore to be abolished listed as missing in action. The and the Supremo is expected

By 11.15 pm GMT 38 bodies counted Identifica- had been tion was difficult because they The police were badly burned. said it might take all night to

A United all

Nations recover them

report as some were

released at Lake Success sated buried under tons of debris from

I was believed 8,000 American the wrecked waterworks.

soldiers had been murdered. If Eric Smith, public relations director for

LAIS the Air Coach

is true there the 4,000 United States Transport Associa ion, said crash was the first fatal accident still held as prisoners of of a non-scheduled plane in 26 Reds, months-United Press.

to be equality of status, the European COLD SNAP Republic of Korea Department to take

Army, if it prevented the existence of a German Army, must prevent that of French Army. Vice versa, if the French Army existed in spite of it, a German one would also exist in spite of it, and the pretended safeguard would be worthless. Observers also feel there is considerable ambiguity about General Eisenhower's demand for "intensive effort towards European unity." If by unity is meant the closest possible military and diplomatic co-operation, most thoughtful Britons will warmly agree with the proposal. But if General Eisenhower formerly entertained the common American fallacy, that some useful parallel can be drawn between the nations of Europe and the States of North America in 1788, then it can only be hoped that by this time his European experience has taught him more realism. The need of the West European nations is for very close co-operation with each other and with the United States. They need it primarily for defence, but they also need it no less In the economic aphere. Machinery for co-operation is being steadily and skil fully developed, and it would be foolish to allow attention from this task to be distracted by the visionary pursuit of will-o'-the-wiaps like federation. History presents no example of the federation of nation-States, but a hundred examples of their salvation by alliance.

CLAIMS

117 LIVES

Chicago, Dec. 16. Some of the worst early in history winter cold numbed the country east of the Rocky Mountains today but showed signs of abating.

Week-end snowstorms and bone-chilling air from the Aratic claimed 117 lives, includ ing 37 in traffic mishaps and 60 heart attacks trom over- exertion.

The mercury sank to record sub-zero lows throughout much of the northern part of the cold aren while Dixie shivered in frca y weather as far south New Orleans and Jacksonville,

Florida.

the

of Defence has said about 89,900 High Commissioner and ROK soldiers are missing.

nct be

any further

discus-

over the dual role of

Commander-in-Chief. London Express Service.

ca

NOT ULTIMATUM

CHINESE FORCE?

Singapore, Dec. 18. Making it clear that sion of prisoners exchange The question of raising a could not begin until the Com- Chinese force in Malaya to join murus.s handed over their list the anti-bandit war is expected wasn't an "ultimatum" the offi-to be raised with the British clal United Nations spokesman Government by Officer Adminis

the said, "No, it was not an ultima ering the Governmen: of tum," but he added there would Federation of Malaya, Mr M. V. backing Delture, when time is consider. down.

opportune for such a move and according to a report in the local The Joint Communists

newspaper, the Singapore Stan- United Nations Sub-Committee dard. trying to And a solution to the

exchange Hope of such a move became problem of prisoner

stronger today following a con- adjourned yesterday (Sunday) ference between the British untti 11 a.m. today (Monday). Secretary for State for Colonies, Also meeting at the same hour Mr Oliver Lyttelton, and the will be the Joint Sub-Com- Malayan rulers this morning millee attempting to solve the immediately after Mr Lyttelton's arrival at the Kuala Lumpur armistice enforcement issue,

State airport.

M. Howard Major-General

The specific question of raising Turner, who heads the United a Chinese regiment in Malaya to Nations group on this Con-help other forces in the Bght, In the cold, suffering was mittee said after yesterday's against Communists was hot mi-brought up at the conference, but, widespread, but Des Moines and meeting that not even other Central Iowa towns took crometer could measure the pro- is likely that formation of

Chinese force will result

from worst beating when an elec-gress made,

recent talks between Mt Lyttel- trical flash knocked out the The Communists continued to ten gud the Malayan Chinese Town Power and Light Company pursue blanket acceptance of Association rapresentatives and plant at, Des Moines for over their last proposal which limited Malny rulers, the report added. Three hours. Hundreds of house- | rotation of United Nations troopa It was agreed at these talks holders in Des Moines and to

mare local forces should be angler towns woke up to chilly 3,000 per month and agreed

by joint armistice supervision by

employed to % fight"Ngainst "Com- homes

"thelt furnace control. blowers

at the proposal was rejected in munists.

report in a United States weather fore» } toto by the United Nations Malay

language newspaper, Mr. busters gave a nos quite so because it did not hat alrheld Lyttelton agreed with Mainy cold" forecast for Inte today construction, peripit reconpals- Putera demand that a successar khd, tomorrow in much of the Kance or dedne ports of aniry. cold area. United Press

should be appointed to the slain High Commlogsar, Ble, Hary

suggest, instead. the Government, that a firm policy, fully backed Legislative by the United States, should be formed and be combined with Singapore's income tax bold scheme for economic revenue for this year is developmeu. to make it attrac- estimated to be S$50,000,000.- tive

effective-United Reuter.

¡Press.

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