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Observatory Records Saved From Flames

Melbourne, Feb. 6. Australian scientiats, de- fying an order to quit to- day, saved valuable astrono- mical records from raging hushi-fires which did an es timated £A100,000 damage at Mount Stromlo ObservA- tory, Canberra.

Roaring Ares from grazing country had sipped ocrora îluder- dry gross into the pine forest of Mount Stromlo, where Princess Elizabeth Ant the Duke of Edinburgh

were

to have gone

ding during their coming lour,

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BRITAIN'S KOREAN POLICY Hero Arrives

Lyttelton &

HK Visit

London, Feb. 5.

Mr Oliver Lyttelton, the Colonial Secretary, wil be asked In the Honse of Commons on Thursday when he will make, a statement on his recent valt to Hongkong.

The question has been pus down' by Mr Mont- gomery Hyde, who villed Hongkong. Japan and Kores during the parlia- mentary recess.-Our Own Correspondent,

UNCHANGED

Attlee Pledges Opposition Support

For Government

and in two hours is reached the Damages For CENSURE MOTION AGAINST

Observatory buildings.

Tonight, Dr R. Woolley, the

Commonwealth Astronomer, sald

that damage to equipment was likely

be about £A50,000, for

to

another £A50,000 buildings

the

Dr Woolley described workshops lost as some of the thest of their kind in the world, Optical instruments destroyed were likely to take at least two years to replace.

Mental Disturbance

London, Feb. 5 Ronald Austin, aged 25,

Park, of Wembley

was

awarded £100 damages and

GOVT HOUSE ESCAPES

costs against the London Canberra police said that the

Transport in the King's blaze had burnt out the Obser Bench Division today be- vatory but other reporta sald cause. he saw his bride-to-be that the part of the Observatory injured in a road crash. housing telescopes and other The accident occurred at

instrumenta

was Ewell, Surrey, In July. 1050, when a car driven by Austin The fires also reached to was in collision with a bus, within a few hundred yards of Miss Lena Bennett, a passenger. House grounds, fr the car, was injured. When but the wind the recovered she and Austint

married..

astronomical. apparently unharmed.

Government

Yarralumia, changed and a thunderstorm of rain and hoil smothered the flames.

A late report tonight said that 11

been injured. people had tome seriously burned, and 20 homes, a church and a post office destroyed in Victoria.

in

South New

Wales, thousanda of sheep and cattle were killed and malmeḍ by the fires.

Late tonight the wind which was driving the Are towards Gilsborn changed and the hamlet is now out of danger,

were

|

were

The Judge said today: “Austin suffered no physical injury but he explained to me in evidence the mental disturbance ant shock which he had suffered

primarily from seeing his

Aukse being seriously injured,"

Reuler,

Avalanche Falls On Village

Geneva, Feb. 5. An avalanche crashed down today on the little vinge of A man and his wife

Riemenstalden, six miles south killed In

# collision while of Schwyz, damaging the driving through a fire burning church, the school and the inn. across a country' rond. —

No casualties were reported. Router.

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COMMENT OF THE DAY

B

PRIME MINISTER

London, Feb. 5.

The Labour Opposition today renewed its support for the country's 12-year-old bi-partisan foreign policy, after Mr Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary, had reassured them that Britain's Korean policy remained unchanged.

Earlier, in the House of Commons, the Labour leader, Mr Clement Attlee, had declared that Britain should not lend support to the suggestion of a blockade of the Chinese mainland—“a perfectly futile operation", as Mr Attlee put it.

Though renewing its support of Britain s bi-partisan foreign policy, the Opposition unconvinced by explanations of the recent talks which Mr Winston Churchill had in Washington tabled a motion cen- suring the Prime Minister for failure to interpret Britain's policy adequately to the Americans.

The

to

Russian

Home

Private Bill Speakman, VC hero of Korea, recent- ly arrived in England to be invested with, his de-

Tel. 21469

Canal Zone Situation

Relaxing Of Security Restrictions

Iamailla, Feb. 5..

The British authoritica today began the first stage, of what they hope will be a progressive plan to relax the stringent security restrictions on the move- ment. of civilians in the Suez Canal Zone

But a military spoltesman said that any largo-scalo Hitting of the restrictions which in the past four months have transformed the Zone Info an armed camp will not be put into effect, until the Egyptian authorities show "by deeds rather than words" that they really mean to main- täin law and order.

Under, today's "Stage 1" re- Jaxation, British road blocks and chuck-points will no longer search individuals passing, to and from the. Zone and the dally "ration" of all tanxerit. hitherto restricted to 20 a day. out of Bucz--will be ralard to 100.

Meanwhile the main problem confronting the British Head- quarters is, the morale of thou sands of British troops forced to live in uncomfortable and over- crowded conditions.

From coration by the King... All British Service personnel

Escapes

Embassy Kidnapping Attempt

Stockholm, Feb. 6.

fought his way out of the A burly Russian refugee Russian Embassy today and

Picture shows Speakman, who is 6 ft 6 in tall, being escorted by two officers across the aerodrome at Luncham, Wiltshire after his arrival from Korea,,

UP

HIS

CAR

Challenged by Labour members to clarify Mr Churchill's' assurance Congress of "prompt, resolute and effective" action if a Korean truce were brokeng Mr Eden insisted that the only commitment which Mr Churchill had made was for consultation among the interested powers, including Britain." ran wildly through the MANBLOWN Labour's surprise move came')

Conservative Govern- Attlee replied, “I do, and I have streets pursued by two men after a meeting of the Party's ment, with an overall majority said it:before,. But the obvious in a Soviet Embassy Car Parliamentary Committee while of 15 in the House, is not con- interiretation and the whole until he was taken into two-day foreign affairs de-sidered to be in any real danger alant of your words was support custody by the Swedish bate, opened by Mr Eden, went of defeat on the motion.

for the Chiang Kai-shek regime on in the House.

But Mr Churchill, who is cer- jatoying in Formosa.”.

police for questloging. The Labour motion, which | tain to regard it as a personal Mr Attlee added that his' own The refugee, a huge wood- IN does not amount to a cenare vane early in tomorrow's debate be neutralised for a period of late today by the espionage may decide to interview was that Formosa should cutter, was being interrogated of the Government as a whole, vene will be voted an tomorrow after instead of winding it up, as he years,

section..

San Mateo, Calif., Feb. 5. Mr Churchill has replied to the had planned,

Undoubtedly, he added, here

A wealthy promoter of The Police refused to give hi debate.

The Labour mation rend

were forces today in America name or to release any details dog racing tracks across the "That this House takes note of who would like to have what about the alleged kidnapping nation started his Cadillac the Foreign Secretary's state-

they called 1

show-down with attempt. ment, welcomes his observance the

today and was blown to bits to polley

Communit

The refugee, however, told by a thunderous explosion, followed by His

It is most im his story to a Swedish civilini Majesty's previous Administra- tion with regard to the asportant to do everything to sup- before the Police came for him apparently from a dynamite conflict and relations between an armistice and who believe in Americans, who want port those

Just before this, the refugee bomb under, the floorboards Great Britain and Chins, but limiting the war and to take no knocked over the civilian, Nils

was running oo fast that he of his car. regrets the Prime Minister's action whatever to failure to give.adequate expres who take the other

those Wiidlund, a technician emplo

employed sion to this policy in the course

by a company. Then there of his recent visit

Attlee welcomed

fugee turned back to Wiklund to the United "more hopeful situation" in and shouted, "They are States."

Egypt and said, "I hope that me.-Can you save THE SPONSORS.

we shall some time, see some The motion was inbled after thing more reasonable. coming The man was chown to a private meeting, lasting nearly out of Persin."

telephone and he called the 20 minutes, of the Labour On the building up of the do- Falice. While waiting for them Party's Parliamentary Com.. fences of Western Europe, Mr he told Wiklund that a man mittee which consists of Mr Attlee sold, "We have held that whom he had never seen before The terrific explosion scat Attlee and about a dozen other there should not be anything had asked him to go along and tered flesh, meiat, and wood leading Party, memberi,

which would be building up a have a look at his "apartment" over a wide area and was heard new German army. We hold,

As soon as 100,

/suspicious. that the forces of the building he bece entered the for, blocks-Associated Press. Western and Mr armed and strengthened and when he noticed the word first "Soviet in big letters written

toon

the wall he decided to leave Immediately. He was. in the Soviet

Embassy.. United Press,

100 Million Slaves

ETWEEN Western Europe and ́Russia lie nine nationa which are completely enslaved to Moscow. Taking them from northwest to southeast, they are Esthonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, Albania and Bulgaria. They represent a white European population of about 100 millions. The weak in- dulgence shown to Russia by the, West (and not least by America), during the later war years and on the war's con- clusion, allowed the Soviet, in addition to its large direct' annexations

else where, to deprive of freedom the whole, of these inine nations, every one of which enjoyed sovereignty and genuine independence between the two world wars. The techniques employed have varied. In the case of the three small Baltic States Esthonia, Latvia and Lithuania-their territories have been incorporated in Russia and their native Inhabitants have in great numbers been transported to Central Asia. For the larger of the victim-peoples-the Poles, Rumanians, Hungarians and Czechoslovaks -- such treatment was scarcely practicable. The plan there, as also in Bulgaria and Albania, has been to get up Governments of native Com- munists, ruling on Soviet lines, Imposed and supported by the presence or the threat of Russian military force, and obedient to Moscow at every point. In form they remain independent coun- tries, and as such some of them alt in the Assembly of United Nations; whero, together with the bogue States of the Ukraine, and Byelo-Russia they constitute Russia's "satellites." These regimes are tyrannies of the grossest sort. They are intensely unpopular and, if Russian support were removed, would disappear overnight. The Rus- síans are not unaware of this, ✨ and their first anxiety is to prevent any of the six sovletised" countries from following "the example of Yugoalayla jand repudiating Moscow's domination. Yugoslavia has been able to do what sho has for two reasons frit that her

Communist head, Marshal Tito, had ac quired such a strong personal footing, and secondly that she had a powerful army entirely under Yugoslav control. The Soviet Government watches both these poipta. It is constantly changing the governing personnel of the satellite countries. Communist leaders in the highest posts are after brief tenures dismissed (often with a sequel of prosecution for alleged treachery), and others are promoted in their places. This Russian nervousness is not un- justified. In any future war the satellites might prove a decisive fac tor. Thrown heavily on the Soviet's side, they would represent a vast man. power as well as a broad defensiva belt. Transferred to the Western side, they might hamstring the communica- tions of the Russian armien attacking Western Europe. In these circumstances the Russians are atraining every nerve to keep them on their side. What, if anything, is being done in the opposite sense? Obviously the question admits of no complete answer. Any secret action, in which Britain might be en- gnged, would have to be left secret. But many of the most Important forms of action must by their very nature be 'open-such as the broadcasts of the BBC. With others again the difficulty is not to avert publicity from them but to give them enough of it. “British people, while very familiar with the value of advertinement for commercial", purposes, are seldom sufficiently' alive. to the importance of propaganda for politien

foreign policy: The Russians make no such mistake, and the cleverness with which they propagandise in "countries" like France and Italy, fa matched only by their zeal to prevent counter propaganda“behind the Iron Curtain:- În face of such a phenomenon nothing "Is" "more" foolish than the attitude, of folding our hands and baying disdain. fully that we cannot compete. One sphere in which we cannot afford, re- trenchment is this..

In addition to Me Attlee two others sponsoring the motion are

Powers Mr Herbert Morrison, the fast Foreign Minister, Kenneth Younger, who was before there is an attempt Deputy Foreign Minister in the bring in German units."

Speaking of Anglo-American Labour government which Mr Churchill and his Party ousted relations, Mr Attice said, "Any

the general

body, who in any way seeks to elections last |

stir up bad blood between the When he spoke in the House Brit

British people and the Ameri- of Cammons debate. today Mr cans or, indeed, between us Attice said that everyone had and any of the other democra been struck by the different tic forces is doing a bad ser-

of the "no

cause of world

In year.

sanement Mrmitment Vice to the

the

meet

Mr

wid

peace.

NOISY SCENE,

There

the

and civilian schoolteachers have been contined to heavily guard-" ed camps during the hours of darkness--as long as 12 hours

A

day

Even in daylight all Service men and women have armed escorto move out of TM their -garrisons.

TRACKED DOWN

Egypt's Minister of the ne terior Mortada: El Maragay Bey, mid tonight that the authorities had tracked down "nearly ell those responsible for the conspiracy of January 25," Cairo's day of rioting.

The Minister mid that the and "several hundred had been Inquiry was being speeded up arrested. They will be charged under martial law with murder, arson and footing.

The best known figure among those arrested is Ahmed Hus sein, leader of the Egyptian Socialist Party and one of the Commanders of the "liberation. battalions, now taken over by

the Government.

The victim Thomas A. Keen, 50, had wide interesie in dog and horse race tracks.

The after

shattering explosion wrecked the car and the garage Maragby Rey, the youngest you phone the Police, and blew a car engine mount Minister in Dr. Aly Manor

ing 25 feet through a window Pasha's A

of Keen's 18-room San Mateo conference: mansion. The mounting lodged in a

celling

5 KILLED IN PLANE CRASH

Five injured men w

March Air Base, hod

California, Feb. 0. made to the House Lost week

Five flera were reported and the

speech he had made to

A WAS noisy scene killed today and six were înjur- American Congress when he earlier when Mr. Eden, in the ed when a B-29 medium bomber had gone to the United States to course of his speech; affirmed hit a house near here and ex-

President Trumar While

ho was In America as faith that "the American ploded.

Government and people are a

were takén Mr Churchill said that action deeply anxious for peace In the to hospital. would be "prompt, resolute and

Whether anyone was in the Far East a Korean truce

as we are ourselves!! breached)

A questioner referred Mr Eden house at the time was not im- Attice and

said, "It may be to statements made by mediately known. The crash good salesmanship but I do not American Secretary of the Navy took place as the plane came in. thinks it is good statesmanship."",

and

the American

a landing after a Admiral for n

routine "In America the speech, mado Fenhteler: that "in the event dhe Alf Rec Service Te

fight. an armistice, not being achieved the Prime Minister war will be taken to the Chinese ported that it carried a full crew interpreted as "being a sharp change of policy!"

coast.”****

of 11. The scene was on the out- Mr Eden firmly replied, "The skirts of the town of Perris, v Americans Want an armistico farming community of aboir and it will be signed if it can 2,000 persons a few miles south

SERVISEUR of here Reuter, be got.

Later, he declared (though without explaining), "I hope that “UNFORTUNATE" history will bear me out in a

by th

"When he comes back here hë makes a speech in an entire

ly different key and toils that there has been no changs whatever, Mr Atties paid.

week de a fortnight, or whatever

}}". Me ́Attlee said, he thought; it'

„Was' unfortunato that the Prime | It that they want an armia Minister went out of his way tice if it can be got

WIFE MURDERER SENTENCED

London, Feb. 3 Herbert Roy Harris, a 23-year-

wife,

in his speech to Congress to In the general debate which old brickworker of Queen's deal with the meat difcuit followed the speeches of Mr Avenue, Flint, was at the Flint point of the rulment in order supporter, Mr John Freeman, death for murdering his w

of Eden and Mr. Atties, a Bevanshire Assizos today, sentenced to Far East, to my what we would all agree said that the British people were Elleen, aged that the Chinese Nationalists in not Formes should not be left to a prepared to support an The body of Mrs Harris,

irresponsthis war with China,

three children, wai mother of - þo... · snassacred by the "Com-

"After "three months of a found, on a raliway bridge-near murist wang postal Code Churchill's government he be- runt on December The Jury When Mr Churchill asked, Ilaved that they were nearer war made strong recommandation “You agree with that?; Mr

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