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COMMENT OF CRITICAL

THE DAY

TEST FOR

No Easy M. FAURE

Path 20 Confidence

TONE will envy Mr R. A. his

Nutler

Current Votes Involved

formidable task of pre- paring Britain's next budget. He is beset by

*bewildering problems, para- mount among them being

Paris, Feb. 28. Premier Edgar Faure's Government faces its most The critical test tonight.

to find ways and means unprecedented number of of nehloving economic 20 confidence votes will be solvency and at the same taken on the 1952 Budget time fulfilling rearmament Bill. obligations. Many of the Government's proposals fur dealing with the nation's disordered affairs are bound to be controversial; where- Radicals, altogether about 250 fore,

any appeal from Deputies, will line up against the Government spokesmen for Government, And probably "a lull in party politics" Popular Republicans and Social- would be nothing but wish-lats ful thinking and would Conservatives

Reliable Parliamentary quar- ters believe that Gaullista and Communists

about 30 and Moderate

Conservatives and

na

11

andi

about 50 Moderate onet Radicals,

assuredly be regarded by together about 270, will support the Opposition

This the Government's life crude attempt to dodge might depend on the vots of unpleasant Purliamentary about 100 Moderate Conservatives consequences. -Mr Chur-

Radicals in this and

crucial chill, himself, ius said endeavour to balance a record plainly enough that the Budget of 3,020,000 Government will take all francs to full the French con-

deems tribution to Western defence.

Con- Appealing to Moderate

the

necessary,

measures it

however

milion

010- servatives and Radicals, who themselves at the

popular they may be. Some pledged

of these measures, already General Elections last summer announced or put in train, to

oppose any tax increases, expecially those directed M. Faure has said that France at the Bealth Service, have "nd to foot the bill" proved unpopular, evenit obligations among Government back Western defence effort-and-be-.

to meet towards the

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Today's weather; Moderate Easterly winde, fresh in ex- posed, places, Cloudy with local · Hghi detaste this evening,

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1952.

MAIL

Attlee Explains Secret

Disastrous Snow Storm

Boston, Feb. 28.

At least five people have died and 150 highways are blocked as a result of the worst snowstorm in the sugals

England of New which has been sweeping the Southern part of that ares since yesterday.

Drifts piling up before a Alerce

wind

Are

metres thick In

three

вото

More than

1,000

been

more

places, motor me

CATH have abandoned by their owners on the roads while than 10,000 houses are without healing, owing to breakdown of high tension wires under the weight of snow. France-Presse,

Korea War Agreement

"NO DEPARTURE FROM

GENERAL POLICY"

London, Feb. 28.

The former Prime Minister, Mr Clement Attlee, tonight told the story of Britain's secret agreement to sanction attacks on Chinese airfields if they were used for heavy air attacks on United Nations forces in Koren.

Peking Radio the bomb which the Prime Minister, Mr Winston

Promises

'Liberation'

Of Formosa

Tokyo, Feb. 20. Red China today threat- oned...anew_to_"liberate"

Mr Attlee hoped with his story to smother Churchill, tossed into the Labour Party ranks two days ago when Mr Churchill revealed that the Labour government agreed to allow attacks out- side the Korean theatre.

The announcement already had

been a blow to the former Foreign Secretary, Mr Herbert Morrison, within the Party and a boost for the Party's Left Wing leader, Mr Aneurin Bevan. Mr Attlee's revelation threatened to blow Labour Party unity skyhigh.

benchers who have harf cause Parliament had already Formosa, Chiang Kai-shek's CURFEW

committed

itself on

expendi

M. Faure has also tried hard

unhappy contact with their ure for this year. constituencies. In almost

HUMAN nature being what

Four of the votes are on py-

Fosals for economies in operating the state railways to limit their

come

island stronghold now

the screened by

United States Seventh Fleet,

A Peking Radio broadenst, monitored in Tokyo, said: "The Chinese people under Commun- ist rule are not only adamantly delermined to liberate Formosa

nble of actually liberating For by any means but are fully cpp-

mosu."

Meanwhile, Allied and Com-

to two votes

deficit. Then (ve and six) to reduce the de- of the Social Security ce- fleit of It is, and politicians what canisation, of which

the ey they cannot help being, it vote is to increase employers' is too much to suppose that contributions by one per cent, the

Ten votes will follow (7-16) Opposition,

while giving voice to the need on increase of taxation, tightens sup- for saving the country,ing up tax control and will ofciously strive to prossing fraud,

up

THREE

IN

PI TOWNS

severe

Mr Attlee issued a statement in which he said he was "set": ting out the facts' because of some

misapprehension about -the Labour Government's at- titude toward the Korean war In the light of Mr Churchill's disclosure

of one of a series of secret communications between Britain and the United States,

Mr Atulee said: "There has been pressure in certain Ameri- can quarters for extension of

Sequel To Murders the war in the Far East by

various operations, including a naval blockade of the mainland, military China and bombing of Man- operations against churian cities. These two gov- cramenty, were opposed to such policy,

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London Express,

State Dept Happy About US-Japan Security Treaty

Washington, Feb. 28.

The State Department today declared that agree- ment implementing the Japanese-American security treaty, just signed in Tokyo, was an important step in the defence of peace and security in the Pacific area and in the steady progress of the democratic nations toward the system of collective security for peace and freedom which has been developing within the frame- work of the United Nations Charter."

statement the United States called for by

the

Tel. 21483

Japanese Refuse To Surrender

Soldier Stragglers Stay On Island

Manila, Feb. 29. Nobuhiko Jimbo. former colonel. In the Japanese army, emplaned for Tokyo at 9.30: a.m.

today after making a fruitless attempt to persuade Japanese army. holdouts on Lubang Island to surrender.

Jimbo, who 'served here during the occupation and saved the ilfe of President Roxas, flow low over Lubang Island, some 10 miles southwest of Manila Bay, last week-end and appealed 10 the holdouts through a loud-

HOLF speaker. He also dropped leatlets urging then to surrender and be repatriated.

There was no response from the estimated 15-20 stragglers on the

island.

Jimbo came here in an unoff- clal capacity.

Two

Japanese newspaper men will soon make an attempt to persuade..the men to surren- der

The Defence spokesman

Bald

Department Hitosh) Yamamoto of the Mainichi and, Yutaka Tsuji of the Asahl would go to Southern Luzon 10- day to receive instructions be- fore proceeding to Lubang. They will take over where Nobuhiko left off-United Press.

US

POLICY

SHARPLY

CRITICISED

Washington, Feb. 28,

In response to question- ing on Far Eastern policy, Mr Owen Lattimore today characterised Chiang Kai- shek's Chinese Nationalist Government as a “driftwood government on the beaches

charged,

Mr Lattimore

in

using "in-

every decision arrived at to obtain Socialist support by for easing the financial dropping a Eudget which would struin on the national have slowed down, capitul Ex- economy a good or plausible penditure and reconstruction in caso could be made, and France und saved the Govern has indeed already been ment 54,000 million franes.

ISSUES AT STAKE marle, for

It. opposing M Paure agreed this question. Novethule the Govern would be considered later, ment cannot afford to Jose

Manila; Feb. 29. The fist of the confidence sight for one moment of votes are unlikely to

be taken

The velled invasion threat Armed forces will impose the hard realitica of the before 2. a.m., GMT (10 am. was interpreted as an attempt a curfew on three towns in country's economic chaos, Friday, Hongkong time) or to stampede the United Nations Hak-ridden Pampanga pro- nor would it be fulfilling 3 3 a.m., GMT (11a.m. Friday.

into a quick truce in Keren in vince but the final order to "clear the decks" to re-i

in Central Luzon, its duty to the nation to Hongkong time),

at 8 p.m..pel aggression elsewhere.

beginning tonight, in an adopt a so-called "popular" debate will start

effort to stop Idlings and grose as to the conduct of opera→ "From time to time, questions GMT. policy that would eventually prove itself harmful 08

munist sub-delegates met for kidnappings in that area, a tibns in the Korean theatre of well as unpractical.

the first me in 23 days today Defence Department spokes war and these were the subject of correspondence. Among them wrestle with the prisoner man said today.

The Department exchange deadlock. At 11 um.

was the question of what action reflected the belief of the Amerithe security treaty. This agree of Fermosa." The curfew order, issued by should be taken in the event of can Libby the R. E.

that

thement is within the framework Rear-Admiral

government Defence Secretary, Mr heavy air attacks being launch- where the Allied pleked

American Japanese

security and purposes of the security Ramon Magsaysay, affects the ed against the forces of colonels had left off in the word towns of Angeles, Magalang and United Nations by aircraft from States other defence arrange-use of facilities and areas, juris--which he called an "open the pact, together with the United treaty and deals only with the testimony, that the China Lobby war over the United Nations fexico, where Huks were be- bazes on the far side of the

thements with principle favouring voluntary lieved to be mingling with the Yalu River. It was represented New Zealand and Australia con-vileges and

Pallippines, diction over persons, certain pri conspiracy" was

to get the exemptions and Umidation tactics" repatriation one of the three major obstacles to an armis:lee wat u population. The curfew that where attacks of this kind stituted the nucleus for an methods of continuous mutual United States government to

be from 6 p.m. to 5 a.m. agreement.

took place it was unreasonable eventual overall Pacific security consultation which are necessary give "all-out aid to Chiang. Angeles, which is near the that the general

officer com- alliance

comTM

and appropriate for the US alliance against Communism.

Mr Lattimore called support United States Air Force base, manding should be precluded Clark, Field, was recently sub- from attacking these

agreement signed

inarmed forces to carry out effee- of the Chiang government a mis- airfields. Tolcyo

gives

ions tively their security mission, the conditions The "pick and shovel" techni-jected by the Army to a mass

take in policy and asserted that The

Labour Goverment

"The agreement does not deal the State Department had be- under which American land, sen clans of both sides yesterday screening and 41 alleged Huics agreed with this point of view and air forces will remain "in with the problem of possible come the "captive of its critics complated д three-language were caught,

and the Government of the and about

The drift of palley, in the Japan" to defend future increases of Japan's own draft embodying seven and a The curfew order apparently United States were informed in the unarmed nations after the defensive caparily nor does it last couple of years shows that half points already agreed upon was prompted by the murder of these circumstances, after cou-Japanese peace treaty becomes the United States or Japan with protesting it

Include any commitments by the State Department, while in 91 days of bargaining, but eight persons in Pampanga in sultation of His

Es they parted on bitter terms.

Majesty's effective.

following its Two of the victims Government or, 'time did not

The actual bilateral security respect to action to be taken in own polley, is in fact following wealthy Colonel James Murray of the Serafin Lazalin

landowner, allow, with British liaison of-arrangement between the United emergency except that the two the policy of its most intem- governments Wil consult." perate critics," he said- United Air Force told the Reds

of Mexicu. officer commanding should be San Francisco on September 8,

Ртеба. SUFFICIENT TROOPS

permitted over a "detalled accounting

to attacks those air- the same day Japan and 48 other Defence

Department fields from which attacin were nations signed the peace treaty. spokesman said it was not con being launched.

The Department ald the treaty prisoners

sidered necessary to impose a "It is obvious there was here, was designed to "provide un- curfew on San Fernando, the

no departure from the general armed and defenseless provincial capital, "because we policy of confining operations with the necessary protection Japan buve enough troops there."

to the Korean theatre of war," against the menace of Communist |—United Press.

aggression by maintaining United Stairs armed forces in and about Japan."

Per

apve the Government from Of these ten, the two key votes provide for a 15 per cent in- unpopularity, or fail to crease in most taxes and a six express vehemently the dis-

cent increase in the Com- contents and the sense of panies Profits tax. hardship or injustice that

Then

there will be two fur- ther votes on taxation, one (17) proposal to reduce taxes on company stocks which left-wing Deputies oppose.

DRAFT COMPLETED

the

recent

were

Allies were prepared to hani and Toribio Baut Fernando, cers on the spot, that the general | States and Japan was signed innlled Press,

really stringent action over a wide field must make inevitable. There will be no cooing of the doves on

The other (18) is highly con-- the Opposition benches treversial because

It proposes when the Chancellor of the quicker payment of taxes, Exchequer presents his Finally, two more votes: ohe super-austerity Budget, On (10) to approve

of the total the contrary, and notwith- military credits

to amounting standing memories of the 1,270,000 harsh budgetary policies of ether (20) to approve the whole notice if

their own Chancellor, Sir

million francs;

the

Gre

of the present Bill.

The Istal · military expendi- Stafford Cripps and Mr ture is 1,400.000 million franca, : Gaitskell, the Socialists of which 130,000 million

will do their utmost to dia- covered by civil expenditure.— credit -whatever new Reuter. Quatarity

measures

Butler has in mind,

Mr

of

44,000 names" of reclassified

Red

the

12 on

hours' Communists

came through with Information admitted to on 52,000 "they have captured but thus far have not accounted for."

The

Mr Magsaysay, meanwhile, his residence at Comp

SPLIT DENIEI) The Reds merely replied with Murphy carly today to meet an

London, Fr. 28. another attack on the United unidentified top-

top-ranking Huk

A spokesman of the Labour ALONG BAME LINES Nations for the Koje Do prison leader from Laguna province at Party

Bald today that the The Department pointed qui camp riot. Col. Murray told an undisclosed rendezvous, National Executive Committee that the security treaty "volun- them the Allies held themselver The

Huk leader, who is re- of the Party which met yestarily agreed to by Japan in the world for puted to have influence responsible to the what went on in its prison com- some 8,000 dissidents, came to of the foreign affairs debate in right of die Individual

over terday did not discuss the trend exercise of its inherent sovereign safe-conduct from pounds but that it was none of Manila on A

the House of Commons

on collective self-defence is recog- obtained by

by Con- tho Communtats' business,

Tuesday.

nised in the treaty of peace with Femandez Item 3 staff officer's mud in the gressman Estanislao Fem

Some newspapers had today the Huk leader are scheduled to by the Party Executive on the

of the United Nations,

The Department statement

The TREATY RATIFIED Prime Minister and his,

Canberra, Feb. 28, colleagues will need all The bill ratifying the Japan- their powers of persuasion ese Peace Treaty" passed" all and all tho courage and stages in the House of Repre

early today resolution they con com-sentatives

amid nand if they are to drive scenes of wlid disorder. their proposals through to

fought the bill up to the end, round of discussion" on acceptance and achleve-

but Labour moves to have the ment. The alternative would bill postponed for six months to be the fall of the Adminis- allow a public referendum on it tration but no solution. falled.-Reuter.

trico

the Secretary

and

The Opposition Labour Party | adjoining lent to resume another of Laguna, The Secretary and stated, that a staterners, prepared Japan as well as in the Charler

supervision. There was no pro-/discuss the amnesty for Huks, Socialist.foreign policy had been sald the administrative agree

··gress Yets:day en what "neutral" | proposed by Mr Fernandez in withheld, because of a sudden ment signed in Tokyo was alang nations quækilled for the Korean resolution filed recently in the sit Dorween Labour's leadership | the samo lines as those conclud-i amistico inspection committee. House of Representatives.

Mr Femandez told the United and the Bovanite Left-wingers as ed in other countries where The Reds 14 insisted the Allies

ermath of Tuesday" The The security pact itself has should zeropt Russia and the UN Fress 05 per cent of the Huks in rafused, They also held out for Laguna province were willing current storica of a split in the been approved by the Senate

the Ales to accept an amnesty United five parts, while demanded six. Alrfield con- struction was not discussed.- United Press,,

Angry Family Protest GI's Prison Sentence

Alloway, New Jerścy, Feb. 28.' The angry family and friends of a 19-year-old soldier today accused the Army of sentencing him to 10 years in prison for falling asleep on guard duty in Korea. after he had gone without sleep for three days,

VIRUS-CARRYING SUSPECT FOUND

PICES.

Insurgents Loot Treasury

an

The apoltesman

roid,

Labour Party as a result of Tuerday's debate in the Commons are entirely without foundation."

It is understood

that the Excoulive Committee yesterday disoused the issue of German ecarmament and the participation of British darees in the European Army-Reuter,

there were. Amerleen basis

Foreign Relations Committe and will be acted on soon by. the Senate,

With respect to the adminis trative agreement, the Depart inent statement said in part: "The agreement conforms in general to the

have bear

BRETT which

maintained Copeline

Rangoon, Burma, Feb. 28.

with A strong força of insurgents

sovercig countries throughout overran the Central Burma-

Fire Aboard: Ship

the world where US

Bre Vancouver, BC, Feb. 28. town of Myingyan today and

on a Will Bruntjen, German im- loofed the Treasury before bolog

South Portland, Feb. 28.

basis of sovereim

ADG government a possible driven out by

The British collier Lodestone trust by direct negotiatios be- Corsey McConnell father of given a fair trial and convicted migrant sought as Warren

They took the District reported a fire aboard 50 miles tween the two countries, the cald, the by court martial, on December 10 carrier of foot and mouth McCornell

forces. way: his son explained the in- of skeping as fils post in the diacres, was found today in the Superintendent of Police and his south of Sea Island, Nova agreement satisfactory to Scotia, today but, the Coast both the United States and cident in #letter after the front tines on November 14, Vancouver Immigration Ofee. family as hostages.. „court: martial convinced

need him

Bruntien was recognised by a The town's garrison, returns Guard said it was. In no im-Japanese governments, and will

darzzer. the Army was being too

•hares soldier, who is serving his placement officer in the Iming from an operation outside mediate

strengthen the close bonds ef killed. 20 of the re-

The Chost Guard Neighbours of the McConnells sentence in Lompoc, California, migration Bureau after the

mutual interest, find regard be met MD rally › in othe & local (æny appeal to the US. Military young immigrant had walked in Myingy, they were In the Yakutat left for the stricken | iween their two peoples, CA

In cotton vessel, which radioed for aid. "The towing district southwest of The 18-foot Lodestone salled agreemen present administrative Mandalay, the rebels free rebel yesterday from St Jahn, New agreement, makes practical-ed- for England ministrative agreements for the prisoners from the town gaol, Brunswick

Associated Press. Praha United Press,

disposition of armed forces

The

forth und demanded the lift heng sentences as shield lays

to the headquarters of the backed father Court of Apperis within 30 for work. He was

Mounted Police, who asked Oltawa for further instruction

United Press.

plants from the Army, Army Judge Advocate General In Washington, an Army Board of Review on February 6, applerœcman said "the private was peUnited Press.

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