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Dope Peddlers

And Addicts Rounded Up

New York, Jan. 4. Polleg And Federal APTER Loday arrested 500 suspecteń dope peddlers aiz? addicts—many of them fern-ager swift raids throughout the nation.

Men and women were raped into the net in every major city la 3 carefully pioned drive to smash the dupe rings.

The Narcolles Commis- sioner, Mr Ниггу

Amlinger, sul↑ thai many peddlers supplying dope to young boys and girls had been caught.

A law passed by Con- Kress last year made prison sentences compulsory for drug peddling.--Reuter

Formosa Hit By Quakes

Taipei, January 4. Fifty to sixty thousand residents of Formosa's east coast towns and villages huddled in the open air under overcast skies today as earthquakes which began on New Year's Day continu- ed for the fourth straight. day.

half

from Busdien, Reports TheLroved by October quakes, reported that tremors continued aliest without pause.

Although only of second Brees, the residents

vity

the shucks were and third de-

of Hualien; und villages all over the country remained outside their houses and huts still standing ailer nearly three months of almost daily tremors.

Hualien reports said there were no casualties or injuries. - - tinted Press

Paris, Jan. 4. French Premier Rene Pleven tonight asked the National As- sembly to hold a non-stop bate on the first 43 articles of the 1952 budget.

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Centurion Tanks BRITISH SEAMAN BOARDS

Go Into Action At Suez

SNIPERS CLEARED FROM

WATER PLANT AREA

Ismailia, Jan. 4.

Twenty-pounder guns boomed in Suez today as four giant British Centurion tanks went into action against Egyptians using the shelter of houses to fire at a water filtration plant feeding the British garrison.

Two Egyptians were killed with another believed killed in the affray.

In addition to using 20-pounders the Centurions opened up with 50-calibre machine-guns.

The action took place as the situation in Suez was described as tense, with roving parties of armed Egyptians sighted here and there and with the British sealing off its roads.

A m.l.tory spokesman sad that a British soldier was hit in the

hant by bullet during today's light

A senior British itary officer sald that there had been prout deal of fire directed al traffe using the road between the Karrison and filtration plane

Centunen lanky were brought

and! up to protect the plant had red at houses from which

nie heavy

WHA coming the spokesman said.

Intermittent abroding harl contumed throughout nest of the day but it died down ENT dusk, the officer sald.

attacks on

of the Canal Company Water-

WOTICS

make 1) British guards.

Butish troops raided near-by houses and arrested an Egyptian in a house from which sniping becan.

Another Egyptian was wound- the watered and one was captured.

A Buffs patrol found a home- made bomb in one house.

The Royal Sussex Company Egyptian Iwo reported that

terrorists were antong police attucking signal box from buliding shelters and claimed that one Egyptian was killed at a filtration plant.

He alleged that many Egyptian police were among the attackers and said the the police were apparently making little or effort in the city of Suez or to from organising prevent them

no

and lacking British install- de-

tions.

The Egyptians

A British guurd commander shot and killed one when he fund two Egyptians digging up a cable at the rifle range of the Suez garrison. They had ignored his warnings and start- ed to flee.

A British spokesman ún- nounced that 600 East African Pioneers in two companies were due to arrive at El Adabaya, Britis: military Red Seu port, tomorrow from Kenya.

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They are the first replacements a large scale for Egyptian labour which has deserted the British in the Suez Canal Zone, They will be employed in camps throughout

the

Zone. the spokesman said.

About 10,000 Africans ara due to arrive in the Zone within

Troops of the 38th Infantry had earlier today, cut Brigade Suez off from the rest of Egypt by manning blocks on all roads leading in and out of the sea-the next few weeks - Reut port town.

Two Egyptians were arrested ut Altration plants.

British

troops used Bren guns, rifles and anti-personnel holes 1F) to blow were alleged | projectors the to have used machine-guns and buildings sheltering guerillas. The Art 43 articles of

budget deal with rifles in attacks on water filtra- Two

also They were questions.

plarts.

killed France ton

shooting in other aleged to have used the are vidents reported today,

Government

revenue Presse.

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COMMENT OF THE DAY

MR

The King and Queen of Greece leave Athens Cathedral, followed by Prince Constantin, wearing his Boy Scout Uniform, and Princess Elizabeth, follow. ing celebrations to mark the King's 50th birthday.

London Express,

Salah Pasha Poses A Question To Sudden Death The United

more Egypilang were Of Mr W. M.

Mr Churchill's Mission

R Churchill's mission to the United States begins today when he arrives in New York and proceeds im- mediately to

to join Washington President Truman. There has been no shortage of speculation about the subjects the two statesmen intend to

the discuss, while

British national: Press has been at some pains to en- phasise that the Prime Minister has gone to Washington, not as a supplicant for free gifts, but to explain to American clearly and earnestly public opinion the problems and per- plexities which are Britain's lot to- day; to reveal how the nation hopes to resolve the difficulties, largely through its own efforts, and also to emphasise how essential it is that at this time there should display itself in the United States a friendly understanding of the situation. And it is the effect which Mr Churchill can exert on American public opinion that will: make his present visit one either of success or relative failure, for questionably there have been profound shifts in public opinion on domestic and external affairs during the past seven years. One writer has described post-war trends in the United States as a "counter-revolution." The pendu- lum that the late President Roosevelt vigorously pushed one way now ap- pears to be swinging back.

un-

Not easy to determine is what distance it will go. Certainly not back to the starting point, and perhaps, not very far. It is the key, however, to the developing Presidential election and it vitally affects Mr Churchill's mission and America's adjustments to world affairs. The Prime Minister will not only find that there has been some significant changes in American

but thought since 1945,

that Mr Truman is not the dominant political figure that he knew in Mr Roosevelt. Competent observera agres that Mr Truman's position is shaky. The counter-swing against twenty uninter rupted years of Democratic rule is now in progress. President Truman's personal prestige has been weakened by serious scandals in his Administra- tion, and while there is full, employ.

MASS

ment and apparent prosperity, rising prices and high taxes provide heavy ammunition for Mr Truman's political and economic critics. These, it may be suggested, are some of the factors which have some influence on Ameri- can public opinion today and cannot be ignored when making an appeal to that enlightened

thought. Moreover, Mr Churchill, or any other non-American, has to take into con- sideration

which influences

have helped to remould the attitude of the United States people to international politics. One commentator has gone as far as suggesting that the Korean conflict, which has cost So many American lives, has also stimulated two natural temptations-either to try and end the war quickly by the use of the atomic bomb or to forsake the war, ignore international obligations and drop the United Nations com- pletely. Neither temptation has pre- vailed, or

their will prevail, but existence may help to account for an American global policy which consider to be largely negative and too circumscribed. Against such a back- ground Mr Churchill has no easy mis- sion. But he is tremendously aided by the fact that in the United States he is, almost without exception, highly popular. The trade union Liberals recall him as a friend of Roosevelt; the Conser- vatives hail his election as a harbinger of triumph and a new era of Anglo- American American relations. The State Department has been accused of suffering from a species of Intellectual paralysis in evolving any new approach to Moscow. But nobody in the United States accuses Mr Churchill of pro- Communiam, and many In America are prepared to believe that if any- body can find a new formula to end the deadlock of the present global struggle it la Britain's Prime Minister. It la into an extremely delicate and suspicious, yet at the same time malleable situation which Mr. Churchill steps today when he lands once again on Américan soft,

many

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Thomson

Colony's Defence Secretary

Mr W. M. Thomson, Hong- kong's Defence Secretary, died this morning in Queen Mary Hospital after an ill- ness lasting less than a month.

Nations

Paris, Jan. 4.

The Egyptian Foreign Minister, Salah el Din Pasha, today asked the United Nations if the sta- tioning of British forces in Egypt against the will of the people was in accordance with the prin- ciples of the United Nations Charter.

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The Middle Eastern powers refused to be "mere pawns in any Imperialistic games," the Foreign Minister said in a debate on collective security.

The Middle East was facing international "shadow

الرفاع

some

THE FLYING ENTERPRISE

Joins

Brave Capt.

From Rescue Tug

London, Jan. 4.

A British seaman is today sharing peril and companionship with Captain Kurt Carlsen-the skipper who has for seven days and nights kept a lonely, dangerous vigil aboard a heavily listing ship in a storm-swept, angry Atlantic.

The seaman is 27-year-old Kenneth Roger from the British tug Turmoil which had raced to the help of Captain Carlsen's ship, the Flying Enterprise, lying in the Atlantic about 200 miles from Fastnet Rock off the extreme south-west tip of Ireland.

to leave.

gale

were

The news that Roger had the United States destroyer gained the sep-lashed decks of John W. Weeks which was the Flying Enterprise was flash-standing by the freighter.

But ed by the American destroyer

warnings John W Weeks which has been hoisted all along the South standing by the stricken English coast and the storm up- freighter frem whie's Captain peared to be moving steadily Carlson has persistently refused toward the Enterprise.

The stricken ship, with its Earlier the destroyer had deck cracked and the No. 3 radioed the failure of several hold watcr-logged,

Js listing attempts by the Turmoil to get even more sharply into the "messenger line" aboard the waler, the destroyer Weeks re- ported. It is also slightly down freighter. Błow

at the bead and its rudder and screw are clear of the water. However, the message from

A

connection however, with the vessel should be easier with an extra man aboard, ac- cording to the message from the Weeks.

the Weeks said that the vessel was "still buoyant and riding The message added that the satisfactorily."United Press. Turmoil was now awaiting bet

ter weather conditions before

meking further attempts at get-

ting a tow line aboard the En- Gibraltar's

terprise, When this is accom-

plished the Enterprise will be

towed to port stern New Governor

necessity-because she is down'

at the head and a forward tow would mean her talking in more water-Reuter.

London, Jan, 4. Lieutenant-General Sir Gor- don H. A. MacMillan of Mac- WEATHER ROUGHENS

Milian, hereditary chiet of London, Jan. 4.

the clan MacMillan and lost weather

with Commander Roughening

of British troops winds up to 36 miles an hour in Palestine

under the man- forced Captain Dan Parker of date, bas been appointed the rescue tug Turmoil to Governor and Commander- suspend efforts today to secure In-Chief of Gibraltar, it was

messenger line" aboard the announced tonight.

sea-swept and stormed-battered

freighter Flying Enterprise. He will succeed General Sir Clinging with one hand Cap- Kenneth Anderson, who is re- tain Kurt Carisen, the only man tring socn. then aboard the stricken freighter, tried

General

MacMan distin

white serving and Sutherland first World

five times to greb a itne shot over the bow guished himself of the Flying Enterprise and to in the Argyli army" secure it.

But each time he Highlanders in the

War. the "most ominous situation as ready for use against aggression;| failed.

result of the short-sighted the amendment seeks to insert Then Captain Carlsen crawled

In the second he commanded action

Imperialistic the phrase that nothing in the to the stern of the ship and al-

the Fifteenth (Scottish) Division particularly Britain, resolution "shall be construed to though the Turmoil managed powers,"

Normandy landing permit

during the that any measure be twice to snag a line on the stern he said.

and was wounded in Normandy. Acts of aggression committed taken in any slate without the chock gear it parted both times,

as commander of other Captain Parker said that be Later, in Egypt or attempts to impose free and express consent of that

was still confident that he could British troops, he took part in a Middle East command "with state."

get the tow rigged if a break the advance through France, out taking the Middle East Into

Another amendment.

and Holland jointly occurred in the weather, accord. Belgium

to the could hardly be consideration

sponsored by Columbia, Chile ing to a message received from Rhine.--Reuter. to peace called contributions

and Mexico, sought to make it and security he added.

clear that the proposed "chadow Salah et Din Pasha said it was

the United army" would not prejudice In- ternal security and that mea- Nations had not lived up to the

sures should be taken by states sacred duties entrusted to it.

according to the extent to which "in their judgment their capacity permits them to do so."

Mr Walter Morris Thomson, who was 46 years of age, first came to Hongkong as a Cadet lr: the Colonial Service J February, 1929.

lie served several Govern- mental departments, and then In 1935 was appointed Ass.stant Superintendent of Imports and Exports. The following year he became acting Superintendent, disappointing that Mr Thomson continued to serve In the Imports and Exports Department until he went on leave in 1941.

During the WAT he Was seconded to the British Colonies Supply Mission in Washington and served as liaison officer for the British West Indian Colonies.

PLANNING UNIT

The Great Powers were

the

mala source of responsibility for all the major dangers to peace, League, on the

The effect of the Latin- but the Arab

were doing their American amendment would be other hand,

approval of the utmost for peace, Satah el Din to withhold Pasha said.

collective measures ropurt as suggested by the 11 Powers, and The Egyptian Foreign Minis-merely to express appreciation ter said he hoped that United of the commitfee's work. Nations resolutions would no Earlier, the Soviet Foreign longer be paper resolutions.

PAPER RESOLUTIONS

Minister, Mr Andrel Vyshinsky,

In 1944 he was attached to the Hongkong Planning Unit, and seconded to the War Office, Colonial Department. With the rank of Colonel he was appoint- Earlier today Egypt and six called for the abolition of the ed Deputy Chief Civil Affairs other Middle East countries collective measures committee Officer and returned to Hong- moved AD amendment giving and proposed in its place kong with the British Military provisional support, to pester- special security council, Administration when the Japan-any's Soviet

resolution which The meeting has adjourned ese surrendered.

called for a special meeting of until tomorrow morning. - In this capacity the late Mr the Security Council to consider Reuter. Thomson helped to direct the

ways to end world tension and successful purchasing missions to end the Korean war; but the which secured for the Colony much needed materials and commodities.

tion

Arab amendment insisted that the 14-nation collective mea- pures committee, which Russia wants abolished, bo retained,

The five other nations beside: Egypt were Iraq. The Lebanon, Persin, Saudi Arabia, Syria and seconded as The Yemen.

and I in

In 1946 Mr Thomson, in addi- to other duties, became acting director of Supplies, Trade and Industry. In 1948 he was acting Director C Nigeria.

Faris el Khoury Bey (Syria) Returning in 1949, Mr Thom- said that the world could not for the son was attached to the Colonial "wat indefinitely"

to act in Secretariat for special duties Security Council and in 1950 was appointed De- collective measures, but never theless the veto rule could no fende Mr

keen be chargedy sportsman and wea

Seco Wea

Nothing Short

Of Disastrous

Washington, Jan. 4.

the Us Mr Dean Acheson, Secretary of State, sa'd

today that it would be “nothing short of disastrous" to pecept the Russian preposals for moving the Korean truce question to he United Nations Security Couneli

was particularly He said it was up to the Bigas

It was Four to get together and solve ted in football.

interested in

At his weekly press confer largely due to his enthusiasm their problems and lift the ence, the Secretary of State was

tion

the game was so quickly threat of violence from the world, asked to comment on the Soviet Temuclisted in Hongkong after He

the Soviet-resolu- Foreign Minister, Mr Andrel Vyshinsky a proposal, yester- Liber

the Security

rity Council service will be Before El Khoury Bey spoke day that the hela

at the Union Church, the Middle East countries and should consider measures" "to Kennedy Road tomorrow at 3 Afghanistan moved another bring to a successful conclusion. p.m and the interment after amenkment to the Western the negotiations taking place in wards will be at the Colonial backed 11-nation revolution call-Kored for the cessation of hosti

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