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COMMENT OF
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Kowloon. Riots
HERE is little reason
THE
doubt that last Saturday's Nathan Rond rlots were instigated by political
hooligans who hud no Intention of allowing an orderly dispersal of the large crowd at Tsimshatsui after it had been announced that the Tung Tau Comfort Mission from Canton would' not be arriving. In fuct the methods employed by these agenta provocateur suggest they would have started off
similar demonstration even if the Mission had Comfort
arrived at the border and had been allowed entry into the Colony, The Chinese Communists have persis- tently endeavoured to make a political issue out of the Tung Tau squatter fire. Their propaganda has been insidious and suggestive, and the whole Iden Hending a Comfort Mission was to give further expres-
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GRAVE FRENCH GOVT. CRISIS Sabotage,
Violence
M. Pleven Refuses To New Egyptian Premier In Tunisia Try To Form Cabinet Suspends Parliament
Three Quads
Die
Steynaberg, Mar. 2.
Three of the quadruplets horn here to Mrs ME, A Rossouw, wife of a South African railroad employen, died last night.
boy
The surviving child, A was the first to be born
iiitle and weighs more than three pounds,
The three children who died, two girls and a boy, two pounds each welched and two and a half ounces. The mother is reported to be doing well.
Rossouw had already had six children, only three of whom are still lying me Reuter. of
sion to an agitation cooked PURGE
up by the propagandists. The riots, significantly. were directed in the main against the Police; it was Jawful nathority which the
WHY THE SOCIALISTS REJECTED REYNAUD
Paris, Mar. 2.
Socialist distrust of Ġeneral Charles de Gaulle tonight killed M. Paul Reynaud's attempt to form a national union government of all French Parties except the Communists.
The Socialists turned down M. Reynaud's in- vitation to take part in a coalition because General de Gaulle's Rally of the French People had promis- ed to join if the Socialist Party did so.
The veteran Reynaud notified President Auriol of his failure and in a statement he warned that France faced an "economic catastrophe”. Already. the nation, without a government, tottered on the brink of bankruptcy.
For One Month
Cairo, Mar. 2.. Tackling problems which toppled two governments before his, Egypt's newly appointed Prime Minister Ahmed Naguib Hilaly Pasha to day announced that Parliament has been suspended for a month.
Hilaly and his independent Cabinet was sworn in earlier, after an audience with King Farouk, who appointed the 60-year-old jurist to fill the post left vacant by the unexpected resignation on Saturday of Prime Minister Aly Maher Pasha.
in
The Premier's office later released a statement made by King Farouk at the swearing-in ceremony. He told the Cabinet, "I hope you will succeed fulfilling your great programme which includes everything I might have asked you to do,"
In his policy-outline letter of acceptance, Hilaly emphasised his inten- tion of clearing Egyptian politics of corruption, M. Auriol immediately naked M. Rene Pleven, ori- ginator of the European Army Plan and Premier of the
Hilaly also takes office 25 Governor-General of Cabinet which fell in January, to try to form a govern-under martial law by a Royal the British Embassy in Coiro, ability to remain in power. IN
Egypt ment.
M. Pleven refused, saying any government he decree, could form would merely duplicate the one overthrown
He told reporters that begin ning on Monday he will tackle the job of spelling out Egypt's national aspirations but said he will need time before he .can commence new-talks with -Bri- tain en Anglo-Egyption: reta- tions.
BUCHAREST recently.
Bagitators set out principally PLANNED
to challenge. The attempt falled because of the resolute and prompt behaviour of the Police. Their attitude and actions were exemplary, proving once again their splendid discipline and steadiness when confronted by an emergency. As result, public confidence in the Police Force is greater at this moment than before.
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Vienna, Mar. 2. Two Austrian newspapers said on Sunday that Buchar est, capital of Communist Rumania, is preparing large scale deportations of middle class elements, similar to those which took place in Budapest-last year.
M. Reynaud, 78, who drew France back from the threshold of bankruptcy. In 1938, ... made.... a bilstering ctionic on the National Assembly after he had left the President. He said:
"We have seen the last two
governments attempt to rule without a majority. They were trapped. The Assembly had the humiliation of suspending is re- tion for days at a time while the Ministers deliberated. We know we are bleeding, the National Treasury, Wa Imów of our deficit of $800,000,000 with the doline Bu-trading zone. We know that
Quoting reliable informants recently arriving from charest, the papers-the So clalist Arbeiter Zeitung and the WHILE the political motive People's Party's Neue Wiener Tageszeitung said these bour- geois, or middle class, persons were to be sent to concentration camps and labour camps in the Black Sea region. Neue Wiener Tageszeltung sald between 10,000 and 20,000 persons would The population of be affected. Bucharest at last reports was Just over a million,
behind
Kowloon demonstration 13 fairly obvious, it is also impor- tant to appreciate to what extent the large crowd of unionists, Chinese trade who had assembled in good faith and cheerful temper to welcome the Comfort
Mianion, had been misled and misinformed by their
Both papers said the identi- scation cards of all residents of the Rumanian capital were col-
after having been a creditor to the European Payments Union only a month ago, we are now a debtor by $450,000,000.
"Only a majority of a national union will redress the French
situation."
M. Reynaud called for stream- lining of the Cabinet down to 12 members from the postwar
Cabinets of around 40 members and for revision of the Constitu- tion.
AIDS ENEMIES
"The instability of our govern-
Threatening
Floods
re-
Lisbon, Mar. 2 Raging Boods were norted today to have threatened thousands of in- habitants with death and starvation In the Portu- Curse East Afelesa, colony of Mozambique.
Many persons were said to have sought refuge in the tree-tops on -- small talands near the coast. The reports said 11 bodies were recovered by rescue boats.
Tea plantations and vill- stes along one of the colony's three flood-swollen rivers were destroyed, the reports said, and herds of stampeding buffalos, ele-
and phants
rhinoceroses trampled down crops and native huts. - Associated Press
own leaders. The Hongkong lected recently and marked. ments hurts our friends and pids TEMPLER
were notified to be ready to: immediate departure.
our enemies," he stated, "If the Assembly overthrows the govera- ment less than a year after it
is
Government statement of Members of the middle class facta makes it clear that the leaders of local trade unions and other organisa- tions were well aware on Saturday morning firstly, that Canton had decided not to send down a Comfort Mission, and secondly that if such a mission arrived ut
THE VICTIMS
Invested that government EFFECTS A Tageszeitung sald those should have the right to dissolve notified included
pensioners, the Assembly." former state officials and army officers, aristocrats, Jews Under the present Constitu- MERGER
and
monthe must clapse
former owners of industries now tion 18 nationalised. They were told between elections.
they were not doing any pro- "Only a national government ductive work and therefore must con
slave off an economic "compulsory transfer. catastrophe which will imposs
beer
their
that
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of
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MANY INCIDENTS
Turia, Mar. 2.
Reports of sabotage re- ceived today include news of a road south of Gabes being cut after a bridge had been blown up on Saturday night.
An army patrol sent to the spot from Gabes was fred and returned the fire.
A
In
оп
the
threw
Two young Tunisians today burning petrol bottle into a crowded tram Jewish quarter of
Tunis.. Four passengers were slightly burned, others panicked and the two young men were attacked
and beaten by the crowd. They were in hospital tonight..
Another
burning pet:ol bottle was thrown on a trolley-bus,
Later today dremen put out a small fire near the Tuals low courts; caused by pouring petrol through a letter box and selling Are to the door.
Were
TRAIN DERAILED Six railway
mon seriously injured when their train was derailed near Gafour, ubout 68 miles southwest of Tunis.
A Foreign Office spokesman | into negotiations carller with said cables were flowing from Maher Pasha. They doubted his
Investvalons showed "ha: 30 outlining the fall of Premier Aly There will be the same "walt feet of rail had been unbolted, Maher Pasha's government and and see" caution about the new Four Tumisiana, recently dis- The formation 'of Premier government. United Press.
missed by the railway com- TROOPS FOR CANAL Naguib el Hilaly Pasha's new
pany were detained fa ́à village regime.
Nicosia, Mar. 2.
to which Police, investigating The main forces of two the sabotage, had been led by a British officials wanted the battalions-of-the-British-32nd deg. dust to seille before making Brigade which have been bised
locomotive and four
any pronouncements on the in Cyprus since November last, wagons of a 36-wagon train sudden change Cabinets have been now moved to Suez bound
for
Tunis
from the
His ask-
tant had an arm.crushed.
BLACK OUT Tunis was blacked out for 20 minutes as a result of switch
station.
Along with this he will begin. They felt certain the time-table Canal Zone, it was learned today. Djarissa mine fell 24 feat into hin "purge Campaign", he said.
for the Anglo-Egyptian negotia-
The First Battalion of Scota a navine. One statesman in his letter lotions had been upset but they Guards and the First Battalion The driver of the train had. the King pledged he would
did not know for how long.
of the Hertfordshire and Bed- his skull fractured. eradicate disturbances, and crush Although no official would say fordshire regiments left for the politles which have become so, it was widely believed here Canal by sea and air while twe irade used for a source of in "cold", the ostensible reason for were shipped to Fort Said trouble at the electric power that the British Ambassador's battalions of the 19th. B-trade como"
15 The dati-Wafälst ́ ́ Pres In postponing the opening falks in addition 118, men of the
"diplomatic" terpreted Hilaly's statement as yesterday, was a
Guards Scots
sailed from spokesmen had been Famagusta this morning and a being alrected at the Wafdists, one. British
One of the first acts of the warning for weeks that the signal unit of the 3rd. Division new government was to shut Maher government was hanging stationed near Nicosin was get: down indefinitely Egypt's big-by a thread, with the huge ting ready to leave. gest school, Faud 1 University Waldist Party hovering in the The 3rd. Infantry Division will
That in Cairo.
| background.
was one thus be based in the Canal Zone. Interior
Ahmed reason the British did not rush-France-Presse, Minister Mortada. El Morugh Bey told reporters the University
had been "the rumour serpent". The students had begun a pro- test sitdown strike
against martial law and any agree- ments with the West,
Late this afternoon, police cleared out the students and sealed the grounds..
DOMINANT PARTY
Parliament is dominated by the strongly nationalis! Wafdist
Party, and its dissolution has
French Claim Victory
Against Vietminhese
Saigon, Mar. 2.
The French High Command announced on Sun- day night it had smashed an attempt by elements of two Communist-led Vietminh divisions to gain, a foot- hold in the Red River Delta, 30 miles southeast of
Reports said that the trouble was: caused by sabotage and an investigation was being made
cloared the, streets around the French Re
an incident in sidency after which demonstrators stoned tram.
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The driver was cut by broken
glasg ***
A
Tunis military court today sentenced 13 people to prison terms ranging from six months to five years and fines of 25,000 franes (about £25) for legpi posseculori of arms.
Five of the prison sentences were suspended. Four accused were exquit.d.--Retter.
Pilgrimage Ends
In Tragedy
enter. Reuter.
We are now showing the
been one of the hottest issues 'Hanoi.
Mexico City, Mar. 2. in Egyptian politles since King
Two baby girls, three women Farouk ousted Wardist Prime
The Command said hand-to-hand fighting and at- and four men were trampled to Minister Mustapha El Nahas tacks by mobile units of artillery and tanks and planes toasy when two groups
death and 25 people were injured Pasha on January 20 and the
of next day named Maher Pasha dropping napalm bombs had resulted in killing 500 Viet-pilgrims moving in opposite Kuala Lumpur, Mar. 3. take his place. Nahas Pasha minh soldiers and the wounding of 1,000 others.
fammed the gates directions the border it would not be expect
General Sir Gerald Tem-WAS ousted because of the
leading to the Shrine of Chalmu, feilure of his government to Fourteen thousand Vietminh j'amash French, communications, in the State of Mexico. permitted entry into Hong-They were told, Tageszeitung the most cruel. taxes on the pler; High Commissioner, avert
Hundreds of people were kong. The knowledge was said, to leave everything in their little people," said M. Reynaud, today merged the Federa- January 23, want lots of troops had tried to cut the delta These troops are now reported
which ook at least in attacks from the north, and
to be retreating to their original teaving the Shrine as a proces- withheld from the rank and apartments except what could be M. Reynaud's chances had tion of Malaya War Coun- 167 lives and caused millions of south of the Red River, concentration areos.----Associated;}sion_of_580 was attempting to" fle and this undoubtedly taken in Zeitung nald the main when supporters of General tive Council.
The Press considered good on Satur- cil with the Federal Execu- dollars' worth of fire domoge. was a contributing factor
Arbeiter
The Parliamentary issue was French said a clean-up of the to the unfortunate incidents reason for the deportations was Charles de Gaulle declared, for
reported to be the main reason delta is now underway in an An official announcement said for Maher Pasha's resignation operation which occurred later in the apartment shortage in Bucharest the first time since their Party
calieri "Operation and the urgent need for workers was
the decision "follows just as much-heralded now talks Leap Year," founded in 1947. afternoon. The affair serves to build the Danube-Black Sea willingness to participate in naturally upen the appointment
of the now High Commissione feud with Britain were about only to bring discredit on channel and other hydroelectric government
almed at settling Egypt's bitter coalition of all
The French aim is to con- the Chinese trade unions projects.
who Parties except the Communists. Operations (against the Com-
$150 Director
to commence.
solidate their own positions pre- and gives emphasis to tho Deportations of what the One of their main conditions
and based on tho Maher Pasha, an Independent paratory to launching an offen- government called was belief that many of them desirables" from. Budapest operate.
that the Socialists comunists)
principles that the emergency himself, had obtained pledges sive against the Vietminh which, Arm in the hands of Mundes
is a state of affairs which affects of Wafdist support so long as it is said, could be undertaken Irresponsible and dangerous began last May 21. The US
Socialists brought M. 152
oclivity of the Govern- he preased Egypt's demand that at any time. Chinese trade State Department radio elements.
cs-Reynaud's efforts to maught every
ment and that there can be but Britain withdraw her 50,000 unioniam in
timated that 30,000 had been when they andicunced that they Monster evicted from their homes up to would never in its because Federal level
ene Instrument of palley at the troops from the Suez Canal Zone. The Vietminh put up strong cannot expect to win either
and agrea August. Secretary
to place the Sudan resistance to the French drive, public aympathy and State Dean Acheson called it the that Party's
The Federal Executive War (under the full sovereignty of starting Feb. 20 and continuing chief had esteem, Or the official "grossest brutality."-Associated changed his
not Council was cet up in 1950 to King Farouk. anti-Republican co-ordinate measures to
until Sunday, but collapsed stutus it secks, while it is Press.
stand."United Press.
Other parties bng foes of the plane end-infan-ry
under heavy assaults by tanks, bat the activities of the ter Wardists-refused to participate rorists, It had official members; in a national front proposed by including the Director of
A High Command · spole:sman" Operations, and unofficial mem- Maher Pasha unless he dissolved insisted the French had quit bers representing the three Parliament and permitted new Hoa Binh so that they could re- Malayın communities,
elections. The intent was totain thefniledive of action The Federal Executive Coun- split the powerful' Wafdists and through regrouping of their cil was a similar body dealing cut do
down their Parliamentary forces in the Red River. Heltz, with the ordinary Government | force.
and building up for an offen of the Federation.
Maker Fasha was reluctant to sive.
being misled and mis-
represented by officials who
deaire to use the unions as
The
with the de
Gaullists
a political catapaw. In their Peasants Wait In Terror
own interests, the respon- sibly-minded trade unionists should rid themselves of such obnoxiousa' and' harm- ful influences.
ATOM SCIENTIST FOUND DEAD
Trondheim, Mar. 2.
For Destructive Quake
Catania, Sicily, Mar, 2,
Thousands of peasants huddled in village streets on the southern slopes of Mount Etna tonight as a series of earthquakes threatened to bring down their houses.
of
Com-
Dog Tracks Down
Murderery
The merging of the two order. the dissolution. IIC Coursity is in line with General decided to give up his idea of a of Hoa Binh had created alarm The spokesman sald' the loss Templer's position as High national front and go ahead with: Commissioner and Director of the Anglo-Egyptian talks: These over a "French defeat" in Wash- Operations-Reuter,
talics were to have started on Ington, London and Paris, but Saturday, between Mahor Pasha would prove the soundness of he- uddbd ́fulure- developmets The municipal engineer of damaged by the heaving of the
and British Ambassador-
Sir French strategy. The missing atom scientist, Per Santa Venerina reported that volcano's flank.
Ralph Stevenson. But just two Weronskiold, who mysteriously. another strong quake, following From its snow-capped cone,
hours before Maho:
Pasha The French :ʊpokesman eld disappeared from his Trondhelm four in the last two days, would Elni con inued to belch occa
·Mombasa; Mar. 2.
resigned, the British Embassy it was "impossible for the home in February, was found bring down almost all the 1,300 almal showers of voleen's ash,
Kenya's Supreme Court sen have to be postponed because scale attack in the Delta, add- announced that the talks would Vietminh to launch a large dead this afternoon,
houses in the village.
but showed no,
Bigns
tenced to death yesterday an Sir Ralph had been taken with a ing that the French held the Some boys, who played with
Five other villages on
on the erupting violently.
African convicted of killing a sudden chill'Associated Press. Initiative and intended to ex- a small model aircraft, lost their narrow strip of rich Inva soil Profesor Gustavo Cumin, Direc- other native. toy and found the body burled between the sea and the steep tor of the
Etna
Vulcanological It was believed to be the
IN CONTACT
ploit it. under "anow below a steep hill slopes of Europe's biggest active Institute declared tonight that first such sentence in this colony
the earthquake appeared to be of a person who had been track
The movement by London, Mir. 2. Lew yards
Vietminh of ten thousand troops Lown pouge bom a 'street in the fvofeino reported' similar perll,
Landslides: caused by the two caused by the settling into new ed down by 4-dog, med 4 ye The Prime Minister Mr. Win north of the Delta toward the quakes yesterday, and two more positions of millions of Lon
Sons of scientist's disappearance
The dor miffed an arrowston, Churchill, and the Foreign south, and of anther four "was in2 frst" linked within today cut ronds at roveral pointa lava spewed out by the volcano found in the thigh of the dying Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, thousand coming fromthe
Bwedish espionage case; but In the region.
when it erupted a year ago. native then led police through apeat the week-end cudde Lon- south represented the Arst big These rumours were promptly first estimate gave a total of There is no knowing how wo miles of jirale to the hors din bp, dorps in contact by telee enemy stemps to Joly, frenes ^denied" by the police and Ins 30 houses rendered sininhabitable, long this movement my go on," of a man where similar arrows phone with developments in and take control of Red River
bozenguins, neuter,
led with; chundreds more severely he added-Router
wero Teland --Assaciated Press. Eryptam
stentegic points and thereby
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