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ANGLO-EGYPTIAN TALKS Great Snakes New Deputy High

New Premier's

Statement

QUIET IN CANAL ZONE

Cairo, Feb. 3.

The Prime Minister, Aly Maher Pasha, said today that negotiations with Britain to settle the Anglo-Egyptian dispute were a “long time off.”

Maher Pasha disclosed the Egyptian govern- ment's view on resumption of negotiations for peaceful settlement of differences when asked to comment on a newspaper report that they would start "within a matter of days,"

Pasha

Meanwhile, all observers, said he assured Moher agreed that the Egyptian Army the Moslem Brethren were had raved Cairo, frem anarchy ready to undertake any souri- by the

prompt restoration of leg in defence of nanunul order on January 20. It was rights. after A wave of arson and violence that King Farouk dismissed the Wafdist preinter, Mustafa el Nahas Pasha, and asked Maher Pasha to form national front government,

In the Suez Canal Zone there were no incidents of a serious nature during the 24 hours ended 3 a.m., GMT on Sunday. A British milltary spokesman In Cairo said that it was the first time since the middle of October 1051 that everything had been gulet in the Zone for 24 hours.

the

A delegation of the Sudanuse Ashing Party ulso called on Maher Pasha to express sup-

port. Afterwards, Ismail cl Azhari Bey, leader of the Party, which demands unity of the Sudan wilk Egypt under Egyptian Crown, said the dele- gation requested the govern- ment to implement the resolu- tion of October 10 concerning self-rule for the Sudan within the framework of such unity,

Young Woman England, goes into

Abducted

By Gunman

:

When Mts, Millie Kayes, elicus performer of Feltham, bar for a drink it is rather disconcertlat

for drinkers, for the other

she sometimes takes with her two Det pythons, ene 12 ft, and the. other 14 L

each of long, which could easily to death.

She concertedly while they twine themselves round her body, try to drink her beer, and put their heads in her month- London Express.

crush

stepdaughter of a US Army ANTI-RED

- sergeant--near --Hanau --to-· night while she was riding

Frankfurt, Feb. 3. Maher Pasha agreed to the A chunky gunman in US proposals submitted by airline Army uniform kidnapped representatives to facilitate the the red-haired 18-year-old The government issued or operation of Alghts through ders for the formation of Calro. The airlines requested -military-courte to try cases the protection of passengers and arising under the present mar-safeguarding of installations, and tinl low,

BISON, destruction of property, looting passengers and personnel in the and murder of government off-capital during the nightly cials. Newspapers gave pro- | curfew. minence to the arrest of Ahmed Hussein, loader of the extreme Socialists, who is now under interrogation.

including facilities for free circulation of

MOSLEMS' VIEWS

Hussein Hodeibl Bey, head of, the Mostem Brotherhood, called on the new premier to 'express the views of his group. He told NEWSINES afterwards Maher Pasha had not invited the Brotherhood to join the national front.

Mustafa Morst Bey, chief of Civil Aviation, who accompanied the representatives, said airlines already had resumed operations, except for British Overseas Air- ways Corporation, which expected to do so within two or three days.

is

her un

in a car with two American OFFENSIVE

soldiers,

Military Police have begun the biggest manhunt in postwar

German history for Mamic IN BURMA

Ruth Shelton,pen freckle faced American girl who is eni

ployed at the Frankfurt Ordnance Depot, anki hier abductor, who said he had just

fled from prison.

Her

father is Moster foater

B. Burns, Hot The Minister .for Social

Virginia, who came to Affairs, Mahmoud Hassan Pasha, Germany with his family for announced that the government duty 19 months ago. had decided in principle to ex- The girl was taken hostogu tend urgent aid to needy em by the gunman when her two ployees who lost their jobs i escorts stopped their sedan to Hodelbi Bey said he told during the disorders. Mahmoud pick up a hitchhiker. The man Maher Pasha the Brotherhood Pasha, former Ambassador to pulled out a 45 calibre pistol, wns pleased to know that the the United States, sold his forced the two soldiers out of new government planned

Ministry to

was compiling n de the car, then sped off with the carry on the struggle to attain tailed tabulation of damage and terrorised Miss Shelton-Aso- Egypt's national aspirations, He (Contd. on back page, Col. 3) ciated Press,

COMMENT OF THE DAY

A New Atmosphere'

SHE determination with which suspected Cairo rioters hay been unded up, the cessation of terrorism in the Canal Zone and the studiously moderate attitude of Aly Maher Pasha to the Anglo-Egyptian dispute all fend to confirm first hopes that the new

Egyptian Government appointed by King Farouk would make genuine efforts to restore peace and order and be permit the Egyptian crisis to resolved through negotiations. Aly Maher Pasha has made an encouraging response to Mr Eden's conciliatory offer to reopen talks designed to lead to results satisfactory to Egypt as well as Britain and her Western friends; the danger of Egypt breaking off diplomatic relations with Britain appears to have passed; the Egyptian Ambassador to London le likely to return to his dutles; and, as important as any of these developments, Egypt has apparently given a strong hint, through diplomatic channels, that she is prepared to discuss. the three-Power proposals for a Middle East defence alliance. Quite clearly a new, atmosphere has been created; mobi passions, at least for the moment, have been quelled. And, while nothing has been enld or done by the new Egyptian political rulers to suggest that national. aspirations, either in relation to the Canal Zone or the Sudan, have been abandoned, signs are visible that the Egyptians are now giving consideration to a policy of caution and conciliation in place, of extrémism and intimidation. All of this is encouraging, but, as the Times has pointed out, many want to Imow what is the ultimate aim of British policy vis-a-via Egypt and the Canal Zone," "The British Government. is rightly determined to stay in the Canal Zono until some new arrange-. "monta"" can be made for ita" defenco, Nevertheless, it can be no part of British policy to antagonise reasonably-

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minded Egyptians or to unite the Egyptian nation still more firmly in' hatred of British "Imperialism." The quick reaction of the British Govern- ment to the deposing of the Wafdist clique and the manner in which the British Ambassador has given expres- sion to these reactions by prompt conversations with King. Farouk and his new principal advisers is a welcome manifestation that Mr Churchill recognises a

important new and opportunity has arisen for restoration of better Anglo-Egyptian under- standing. It has to be appreciated, as we have previously pointed out, that... the final aim of British policy is not to- control Egypt, which belongs to the Egyptians, or even the

Suez Canal, which, as an international waterway, should become an international responsibility. And it is here that the importance of a Middle East defence Achema asserts itself. One necessity, It has been emphasised by aˆ commentator, is certainly a firm base in the Canal Zone, while another is the co-operation of Egypt and other Arab nations. The three-Power proposals guarantee the first and seek the second. So far, Egypt is the only major Middle. East country that has stood out against the scheme. Yet it undoubtedly offere Egypt the best opportunity for eventually realising her aspirations, In the first place she would assume a substantial role in the defence alliance, and under the tutelage of her Western partners, could in due course qualifyi As the principal protector of the Canal Zone. It is essential for the full achievement of the Middle East defence scheme that Egypt should be n participant, but it is also necessary she be assured that a favourable decision will entitle her to gradual realisation: of legitimate national aims, da

Communist Chief Flees To. Hill's

Rangoon, Feb. 3.. Burmese Government forces launched large-scale offensive operations against

Communist insurgents and first reports from official quarters today said at least

130 Reds had been slain.

Alive!

Political

Storm Faces Churchill

Bi-Partisan Unity Threatened

Commissioner For Malaya

JAMAICA'S CS

•

APPOINTED

Singapore, Feb. 3.

Britain took a bold gamble today in a 'new broom" policy for beating. Rød ter- rorism in Malaya. She appointed a new British administrator with no previous Malayan experience in hopes he will bring a "fresh mind to bear on the many com- plexities" in this strategic tin and rubber producing country.

London announced the appointment of Donald Charles MacGillivray, now Colonial Secretary to Jamaica, as the new Deputy High Commissioner for the Malayan Federation. His job will be to direct civil affairs under the newly appointed High Commissioner, General Sir Gerald Templer, strong-arm military man who was named "last month to lead the war against the Red guerillas. -London,-Feb, S.-leaders, who are seeking even- Malayan and Chinese political, A political storm may, tual independence Minister, blow up against the Prime British-controlled Federation,

Mr Winston

doubtless will view the

The appoint- Churchill, which threatens ment MacC Alivray

with to end Britain's 12 years of They had been expecting come-

ani suspicion

disappointment. the broad one party unity on

familiar with Malaya's Issues of foreign policy.

complex political

of

for

the

Deputy High ciems 15

Government supporters Inst: week voted down

proposal in

Iranian Port

In A State

A

Death Of Harold L. lokes

Washington, Feb. 3. Harold L. Ickes, one of

Of Siege the most colourful.figures

of the Roosevelt. New Deal, dled tonight,

Time

1

The Labour Party will decido on Wednesday whether to seek to consure his Government for the Federal Legislative Council its handling of foreign affairs.

Teheran, Fes. 1 at Kuala Lumpur that an Aslan be named Deputy High Com-proclaimed in the

state of siege has been Labour Members will move a

Ickes, 77 years Ald, died. censure motion if Mr Churchill the debate on the lasue and even Abadan and a surfew has been (7.25 am. HK Standard

missioner, Feeling ran bigh in Khorramehahr three mites from 11.25

port of

p.m. GMT February fails to satisfy them by his many of those who voted to give clamped down in the area from Monday) in emergency hospital, count on to say-London a free hand in choosing mid-night to six o'clock the shere he had been under freut- of his talks in Washington.

its administrator voiced the hope folowing morning, it was offi- ment for complications of

would be an he

expert clally announced here today. former arthrille conditon. Malayan affairs. had commited Britain to

The Colonial Office in London No explanation was

Tekes was Secretary of the given speciñe action if the

object of his addi-here on reasons which led to Interior Chinese tald, "The

In 1032-40 and head Communists broke

the inclusion of truce in anal post is to provide

Khorramchahr in man of the Public Works 'Ad- Korca.

maximum support

1le-up and assist the

with the seven ministration of the turbulent ance to the High Commissioner Southern Iranian oll alties depression years... so that his hands can be as free where a state of slage was pro- as possible for dealing with ma- claimed last summer to combat jor matters of polley and per- British intrigues!". sonal direction of measures to defeat the Communist bandlis."

They were not satisfied with his assurance last week that be

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Communist chieftain Thaki Than Tun was reported to have taken refugo with his Politburo A censure motion backed by in the hills West of Pyinmant. the whole Labaur Opposition would be claimed as a triumph In one action, in the Kyauks for the burly Welsh "rebel' District south of Mandalay, 70 leeder, Mr Aneurin Bevan, who Communists were killed and in has urged in the past that no a Red-held village in the sang seltlement of Far East problems area the government troops can be mado without Com seized more than 100 rifles, two munist China, anti-tank guns and a bren guu carrier.

Party Icaders such as Mr Clement Attlee and Mr Herbert In a three-hour fight in the Morrison, Britain's former La- adjoining Myinyan district, stbour

Premier

and

Foreign least 20 Communists were killed Secretary respectively, who have when government troops cleared aways wished to avoid a major three Red positions.

wor with China while resisting Chinese altacks in Korea, argue Forty Red guards were re- parted killed in a four-point that it is Mr Churchill and not they who have switched policy Ticuter.

attack on a Communist

30 miles in the Pyinmana region 230

of Rangoon, on the north

railling to Mandalay. The government forces

reported they levelled

led a Communist millinty academy."

An estimated 700 Communists, half of them women, were routed m this area. In other regions, several Communist-held villages were razed, with supply dumps and arms and munitions stoelt- piles destroyed. Power plants serving the Communists, food and gasoline dumps also were reported smashed.

has been

switched.

SOCIALISTS WORRIED

1

added that Mr. Mac- Gillivray's appointment "will be for the period of the emergency only," MacGillivray,

45, has been in the Jamalea post since 1047,

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A sharp-tongued phrasemaker, Icke, called himself "the old curmudegon" and in his time The Imninn press has, how was just as rough on others. ever, for some time reported agulation in the port of

Its last years were spant in Khorramchahr, owing to activi- comparative quiet, but there tles of extremo loftist elements, were few men of his day, who could look back on such a Meanwhile, the Iranian vigorous and often stormy-- Prime Minister, Dr. Mohamed career. His running dght with Mosadegh, today sent the the late Harry Hopkins, Prest Governor

Khermanchahdent, Franklin Rongevelt's clos study the situation con- province, Kazem Chalbani, to friend and head of the Works in the oil Progrera Administration, made province of Khuziston.-France-"New Deal" history--Associatva Presse,

The statement explained that the Colonial Secretary Mr Oliver Lyttelton, had personally sidered the "wish expressed by responsible leaders of opinion in Malaya

that an officer with local experience should be appointed" puty High Commissioner ma but "he considers the new De-

be a man who will bring a fresh mind to bear on the many complexities of the present ad- ministrative machine."

of the comment

London, Feb. 3. The former. Labour Chan-

THE SHAKE-UP cellor of Exchequer, Mr Hugh

Britain

shake-up Gaitskell, stared to-night that last month. Gen. Templer was

began its his party was worried at an appointed to succeed High Com American report that the a-missioner Sir Henry Gurney, titude of the new British Con- who was assassinated servative Government towards terrorists

by Red The Chima and the Far East- was

last October, The Alien shifted 119 much nearer to that American Government than

of Malaya's big police The Burmese government has attitude of the Labour do the force, naming Colonel Arthur buen battling Communist in-munt had been.

Young to succeed Colonel W. surgents, and many other kinds,

As Commissioner. H. Gray ever since it achieved indepen

Mr Gaitskell, who was speak-

Speculation here is that there dence from Britain fivo

at Bradford, declared he

be other drastic changes in ing Do-Associated Press.

hoped there would be an ex- the Malayan civil service. planation of this report during after

The new polley was cutlined the next foreign affairs debate

Mr Churchill's

now in the House of Commons.

years

Tunisian Shops Still Closed

Arab

Tunfa, Feb. 9, shops here remained

Colonial

Mr

Secretary Oliver Lyttel- ton returned from an on-the-

He added that the polley of spot

the British Latour

ment

Govern

in Der be the situation

During that visit.

towards China and the Lylteltan said the suppression of Far East had been to stay by terrorism

must have priority

the side of Britain's · United. Over political reform. · ·He Nations

allies and to adopt a Britain was firm lu her deter- closed today for the third succes-/ Arm, attitude towarda Kors Malaya Independence, but could mination eventually to Bive while being determined to predo Ho-until the daily Paive day lo protest against

French security measures butent any extension of hostiftles, do

.Cum- Mr Gafiskell said he thought | out.

munist harassment was wiped. the Police said that some were operating a lucrative back door this policy met the withca trade

the majority of British.

The battle against ghost-ilko In the jungles, the tin mines and at

a

of t men Red forces Around

'orc

Food prices have soared in the end women and added that the last fortnight. Eggs are now bu Labour Party was sping to see the rubber plantations has francs each

(against 40 tweto is that there should be no dragged. on since World War 11, weeks

ago), carrots are 25 trance deviation from

this line of Hit-and-run dactica stül burch

(compared with five) polly, a and green vegetable prices have

being carried out by an Mr. Galtskell said though Mred force of 3,000 to 5.000.ormed

estimat doubled...

Winston Churchill could not be Communists aften

backed by Tunials generally continued to

to called & warmonger, certain the be calm today and

independence

Becking fewer Police reports on Mr. Churchill's visji population-Associated Press, were on duty at cross-roads, and to the United States and the city's gatey.

· SYMPATHETION: Male Ale speech to the Congress had A Police spokesman aald, created a great anxiety not

Washington, Feb. 3.) "Tunisia is practically back to only in Britain but also in Aslan expert of

Kenneth Landon, Southeast normal."-Router.

Europe France-Presse.

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State (Contd. on back pare, Col. 1);

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