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No. 35142

Established 1845

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1952.

MENO Bitter Winter Weather

Budget

Day

FILATEVER

Budget

secrets the Hon. Finan- eial Secretary has in store for this afternoon, 11 15 hardly likely they will! turn out to be sensational; neither is the Caluny ex- pecting to be. confronted with any Buvei

mancing

measures for the your

ahead. Already assured is! a 1951-52 surplus well in

excess of that

by Sir Geoffrey

estimated

Follows

last March. We shall, in-

deed, be very surprised if

The Hou, A. G.

Clarke

cannot offer a revised

Adds To Quake Horrors

TIDAL WAVES STILL BATTERING HOKKAIDO'S EASTERN COAST

Tokyo, Mar. 5.

The horrors of a bitter winter night closed in on the

fiate of revenue squivelpless victims of Japan's violent northern earthquake as wall after a wall of water from the quake's submarine centre pounded the stricken seacoasts of Hokkaido.

$274

lent to last year's million. The Colony has, un-

doubtedly, enjoyed another good financial year, despite carly fearA to the

con-

trary. Moreover, there is every prospect that by the

Lis end of

monti Sir target Geoffrey Follows'

of seeumalating a generat revenue balance equal to one year's revenue will

realised, have been

and

even

All of which means the Colony's

exceeded.

splendidly

finances healthy.

are

Fmure immedinte moment,

The almost complete collapse of communications in the hardest hit area of southeastern Hokkaido delayed a final count of the loss of life in one of the greatest earth shocks ever re- corded by scientists.'

But it was apparent, hours after the shock, that the death roll would be amazingly light considering the violence of the quake and tidal waves.

The latest official US Army estimate of deaths still stood at 31-last evening's figure-while Japanese police could total only 20.

The fact that the quake's centre was 43 miles at sea and that Hok- kaido is Japan's sparsely settled "Northwoods" apparently kept the human toll down. In 1948, at thickly settled Fukui, a quake only half as strong killed more than 5,000.

however, are the Finan- elal-Secretary's designs for budgeting in the year ahead. Fairly certain it is there will be relief

HO from existing taxation,

But for the thousands whose it reared up and struck the shore either direct or indirect.

homes were shaken apart, burn with the roar of artillery, whether Less certain is

ed down, or snatched into the Associated Press correspon- Government considers ad-sea

by the greedy waters, the dent Jehn Fujii at

Sapporo, be zero ditional impositions to

driving Hokkaido's temperatures and

capital, reported nereasury. The Business snow were misery enough.

last night heavy snow was falling. The East coast port city and Registration Tax has not

on the West coast of Hokkaido yet been implemented, but coul mining centre of Kushiro, and comparatively lightly. hit,

without proposal it has not town of 68,000, was to date been officially re-power, lights or wire communi- padinted. And while Government was prepared to compromise two years aga on the raising of the standard rate, a feeling is abroad that further effort might be made to bring the rate

up to 15 Government, cent, per however, should be

Well

cutions,

At an early hour this morning Wednesday) tidal waves nearly 10 feet high were battering parts the East coast of the big island every 15 minutes, compounding The wreckage they wrought in their first sweep yesterday.

At Kiritappa, a Ashing village

40 miles west of Kushire, the better part of the whole village aware that any attempt of 400 houses was snatched into to make additional imposi- the sea. tiona on incomes

ces,

will be

"re

tidol

were still

in

hundreds of citizens nunar preparing make

makeshift shelters. At the Chitose air base, the Northern part of Honshu, the main Japanese Island Just

Hokkaido,

Associated below Press correspondent Sam Sum- merlin said US je! pilots flying snow falls to inspect through Kushiro from the air could see

had

ittle or no damagedded later, a

But, the pilots speeding jet in a snowstorm hoy only Imited visibility.

According to the latest Japan- ese figures, 20 bodies actually been recovered and 170 Injured counted on Hokkaido in by the were saved

the are

areas that still had com- earthquake branch of

Bureau,munication with Sapporo and in Japanese Weather

A few visited by special police which flashed a warning of

teams. These included the cen- popalarbres metre" (16 feet)

Ares Kushiro, Sapporo, Obihiro, that waves

after making lightning Mutoran, Otaru, Hakodate an calculations from the Arst Asahigawa, Houses destroyed or selanograph recordings.

badly damaged totalled 1,300 Fisher-folk and dock workers } there, fled to higher streets and hills.

LANDSLIDE In some pinces, depending on The Army reported the quake the shape of the coastline or the started a landslide that killed when a house collapsed, shelving of the approaches, the nine

At others while Press reports reported at wave was harmless.

leastoric coal mine caved in near

the same area,

main shock, which After the came

at 10,24 a.m. yesterday,

hotly resented. especially Hundreds, possibly thousands in light of the Colony's for lives remarkably buoyant finan-

The taxpayers not expecting a budget in the sense they are to he relieved of existing burdens, but they certainly trust the budget will not contain new re- venue-raising features that will render it thoroughly unpalatable and uponu lar.

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Bus Kills 4

Children

Manchester, Mar. 4.

A double-decker motor bus ploughed into a group of schoolebfldren tonight, killing four and injuring aix. First reports sald the bus collided with another vehicle, mounted a KELAS plot, struck a lamb post and wrecked a telephone booth before crashing into the children. United Press.

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Disclosed Secrets Of New Hush-Hush Plane

Here are the 28-year-old. Dutch draughtsmen twins, Robert and Rudolf Das, who recently revealed In The Hague how they were able to have published in a Swiss air journal technical details and sketches of Britain's secret jet fighter, Supermarine Swift.- London Express.

Birthday To Be Early June

M. Pinay Queen's Official Delays Decision

Paris, Mar. 4. Sixty-year-old Antoine Pinay tonight asked Presi- dent Auriol for another 14 hours before finally making up fils mind whether to try to form

a French govern- ment capable of staving off

· national bankruptcy. ·

The request for postponement of his final reply until 9 pm GMT Wednesday came US # surprise to his supporters, who had heard him say he was ready to accept the President's invita-

j. M.

said

London, Mar. 4. Iler Majesty Queen Elizabeth I, followihr the example of her father, has -desided, to celebrate her birthday officially, in Juno although she was born on April 21, it was disclared tonight.

It has become customary to hold official "birthdays. of British sovereigns in the middle of the year because there are two amma!

Royal Honours Liste in which titles and other awards are given at Now Year and on the sovereign's birthday.

The official Gazcite

London

today announced that the

Queen would observe her birthday off- Thursday на on

June," United

cially

early Preas.

14

A Nearly Perfect Husband

Anti-Pianist Demonstration

In Melbourne

Melbourne, Mar. àì.

King Farouk Cast In Role Of

Strong Man

London, Mar: 4. British authorities on Middle Eastern affairs sald today they believed that King Farouk is finally tak- ing a stand as Egypt's strong man. out to smash political factions upsetting Egypt's internal affairs.

It was clear, they said, that . Anglo-Egyption talks could not be started until the Egyptian house had been put in order and there was enough evidence to show that King Farouk was going to make this his jcb now that he had a son and heir,

They predicted that it tho new Premier, Nagulb Haly Pasha, falled to work towards this end he would soon follow. his predecessor, Aly Maher Pasha, who balked at putting his finger the powertil Wafdist Party as the main disruptive eloment in Egypt.

In

on

King Farouk was no longer expected to have such qualma discrediting the Wafd, re- cognised as being Republican at heart and which under the Nah Push Government went the so for as to

appeal to people against the King.

NO DELUSIONS British authorities said that King Farouk wha under no delusions regarding the power of the Wald which he knew to be---strongly entrenched --- and wealthy and the

party

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in Egypt. But Fleecell was counting on the backing of a loyal army plus discreditation of the Wald by Dublientiert

of reports that it was responsible for the blood spilled during, the About 20 members of a

of Jamary in Core and Jewish body and several the Canal Zone. non-Jewish university stud- I is predicted that there no hesitation'' in ents demonstrated in Mel- would be bourne Town Hall tonight publishing these reports

that King Ferouk and his against the German pianist, courtiers were moving to bring Walter Geiseking.

about poliisal - stability restore strict administration. The demonstration occurred

The British

tish authorities cutside the hall as Geiseking that a bliter struggle was in was about to start a recital, -

that the King prospeat now Fifteen uniformed polics and had decided to try to reach many plain clothes men, includ- decisive conclusions with ing security officers, mingled Watd.-United Press. with the crowd. Police prevent-

el a fight between a Jew and a man claiming to be of German origin.

shouted

re

Skirmishes

поже

and

the

On

Frontier

Teheran, Mar, 4.

werd

Pinay's supporters

The Jews and university they believed it was M. Auriol

students were distributing lent- himself, during a half-hour

Icts

Nazi describing alleged interview at Elysee Palace, who

activities when a German advised M. Pinay to be ab-

to the demonstrators, Eight Traki tribesmen solutely sure of himself before

will wipe you out, you killed in aldirmishes which took making a decision, They said

place yesterday en Iranian bor- filthy Jews." the President probably had told

Detectives dragged the Ger- ¦ der with Irak 'at Ghasse him to await the outcome of

man and Jew apart when, the Chirine. the de Guullist and Popular

Jew replied, "Nazi fascist,' get| I was framed : herė tonight Republican Party conferences,

back to Germany," Thei was that the firenthes » occurred which

were

scheduled Wednesday.

for

the only incident

when 10 Kurdish horsemen trom Earlier at Sydney Mr. Charles Irak made an Incursion into M. Plany had to be sure of de

Moses, General Manager of the Iranian territory and were en- Gaullist and MRP support. Ho

Australian Broadcasting Commis-gaged by Kurdish tribesmen intended to choose a Cabinet of had announced earlier that he

London, Mar. 4.

ston charged that the Melbourne from Iran. "technical experts" capable of

The latter were said to havo, As the "Nearly Perfect" Jowish Organisation is protesting

the suffered 10 wounded against Gelseking because solving the problems of raising husband, Sergeant Teers, German pianist "is one of the ensuing battle which the revenue to meet the record of Forest Hill, London, be very few great pianists who is time involved 600 fighters from 1952 rearmament budget.

both sides-France-Presse. LIKE A BUSINESS

STU

ary derailed coaches of an- "I want to push political other train in front of it insues into the background and lesser shakes, the record showed. the Rio suburb of Anchietta, run the government like a bust At noon, another slight tremor Ambulances rushed to the corporation until we was felt in Holckaldo, and there scene from Ria hospitals but crisis," he said,

out of the present economic barely perceptible there were not enough to carry were dher

M. Pinay was a leading hone tremors later.

away the dead and Injured

Valley

industrialist before he Selamclogists located the from the splintered and buckled entered the National Assembly. epicentre of the quake about 60 carriages and the Pubile Secu Ho still runs a leather-tanning miles below the surface of the rity Department was called in business. North Pacific Ocean deep in to help.

During two-day consultations, the earth's crust, 43 miles cast of Hokkaido's Capo, Elmo,

longing to the Catford Ter- not Jewish.

ritorials, haa won a 10.

guinen weekly prize for his wife, Mrs Joan Teers,

The prize is given in a com- petition run by the London "Evening News" оп "a hus- band,"

of

Mr Teers wrote telling the tough sergeant who bathes a sevga-pounds baby, helps to loolc after five other young children- as well as coolis and

Rescue-workers, hampered, by M. Pinay won de Gaullist, Недуз rain, hacked and cut Radical Socialist and MRP sup-washes up with the patience Japan, a volcanic land thrust their way through the twisted port for proposals for forming of a saint." high above some of the deepect wreckage to bring out the in- a government of technicians to waters of the Pacific, is trad-

tide tho nation over the The Socialists,

tionally a land of earthquaken and troops mainlained | economic crisis.

was

at the scene of une who earlier were reported to be disaster.

favourably inclined toward M.

with The crowded electric train hit Pinay, were now expected to derailed couches of a train from oppose a coalition. Juiz de Fora, on th Central Do Brazil Railway.

COLLIDE ON BRIDGE

Tears served with the Royal West Kents from 1928 to 1933 and then, falned the Merchant Navy until 1935, when he re enlisted

tho Royal Artillery and served with them As M. Pinay held conferences, until the end of the war,

that France it was revealed

He was wounded in Sicily in faced Anancial

dimculties, 1949. His first wife was killed was notlded that it

must

In the blitz of 1943 and he, mar

France was

--more than any other spot on earth, Most are caused by the shifts and adjustments in violently distorted earth crust under the island or below the floor of the sea next to them,

Demage in Holdtaldo largely reported from towns that had buildings heavy enough to collapte with great force and Hospitals reporting detalls of pay an estimated $60,000,000 in ried his present wife, Jonn, in from const villages hit by the the casualties said that, many gold to meet the defcit July, 1945....

in people were

trado rising water.

still unaccounted "Western European

February.

The money is due to Railways also suffered with tor.

The electric train from Nova the European Fayments Unlon trains dérailed and one completely overturned. All were Suasu, a suburban station, was organisation to facilitate trade freights. Six rall bridges and running into Rio. The derailed among West European countries. three road.bridges were wrecked. conches belonged to an outward United Press. Hall lines, either by slides or bound train. The crash DC carth subsite, were cu incurred on a bridge over the

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eight places, end at other spots river Pavura.

In

hugo fissure opened in the earth Many passengers were thrown Soviets Cut Off due to secondary earth alldes, into the water, where most of

Restoring of electric power, them drowned Local people cat Power To W. Berlin telephone, and rail communica-the bodies out Juter

tions was not expected on any largo apalo 12 to 24 hours..

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for

One coach was suspended on the parapet of the bridge. Wood

DUA (Berlin, Mar, 4.

The Soviet today begin to cut and metal splinters caused many We Berlin off from East Gur-

They met on a Clapham Com- mon gunsite where she was scr- ving with the ATS as a radar. operator. They have six children three by his previous wife, one by her previous marringe and the other two by this mar riageReuter,

BANK ROBBERY

Toronto, Mar. 4. Three men held up a branch

Army

at Tho

of nine con electric coach of

of the 1018-19 blockade of said. Camp Crawford..

and the police estimated the The

Berla, reports from US Army Counter coaches was badly damaged.

Communists cut off power amount stolen, at between $10,- Intelligence agents (CIC) and Juiz de Fora train apparently h from the Japanese government had several of its coaches from burts of two of Berlin's 12 000 and $15,000."

boroughs and arbinced, thaż ul) The bandits ignored screaming wed, as chica 2,000 houses dorated before the collision. boroughs would be deprived of women employees as they lean- dretived beern Kushire and Some toppled, over afterwards, Denver on Wednesday Unded ea the counter to get the mangy (Contd on back: pare... col. 2) teutar

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