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Bevanites Refuse To Support Pinay's Avalanche
Plan For
Budget Opposition Amendment THE WIDOW France
TE Financial Secretary
has spared the Colony any Budget shocks and the community is accordingly grateful. All, In fact, congratulate Mr Clarke on his lucid review of the year now ending and his workmanlike estimating for the coming twelve months. His Budget appeals, not merely .because
has he found it possible to avoid new and immediate
any
impositions OR the tax payors, but beenuse of his realistic estimating
revenue.
of
It is pleasure
to be presented with idgetting that bears some real relation to the Colony's proven capacity to raise revenue, The Financial Secretary can be reasonably
certain that his estimuted income of $285 million will be forthcoming, and both
he and the community will
be thankful if this is exceeded by a few million dollars. The deficit for which he has budgetted can be regarded as nominal and will quite probably be covered irrespective of the million and a half dollars which are to be raised by increasing the betting tax.
more
million
62 LABOUR MPs
ABSTAIN FROM VOTING
London, Mar. 5.
The Bevanites, through their spokesman Mr Richard Crossman, indicated in the House of Commons tonight that they could not support the Socialist Opposition amendment to the Govern ment's defence policy.
The amendment, while agreeing with the policy, expressed no confidence in the Government's competence to carry it out.
Later, when the vote was taken, the amend- ment was defeated by 314 to 219. No less than 62 Labour members abstained from voting on their own party's motion.
Subsequently the Government motion ap proving Mr Churchill's defence plans was carried by 313 votes to 55.
de-
In indicating that the Bevanites could lend no sup. port to the Opposition amendment, Mr Crossman clared, "Of-all-the-things-1-would most hesitate to challenge Churchill, it would be on his competence to carry out a defence programme,"
He would rather challenge Mr, be a mistake to "prolong the Churchill on his competence to agony" but he was not sure that decide the priority of the military the Government was able to weapon as against the economic spend £1,400 million on it this Mr Crossman added,
CHURCHILL WARNS
und social defence of democracy, year.
Britain had to work out a The Prime Minister, Mr defence plan within her general Winston Churchill, warped that economic framework, he claimed. Britain's Ingoing rearmament Mr Crossman said, "We must re-delays even though he is urgent- Addressing the Labour benches, programme ingyi suffer Turther
not in terms think our armament programme ly preparing the country's de- of Imminent war fences against possible airborne as the main danger but of im-invasion, minent bankruptcy of the free. Не world."
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of
THE actual surplus for the year ending is at first sight somewhat dis. appointing $10 million dollars leas than the original estimate but as
than $50 were utilised in eliminating the Rehabilitation
Loun account and meeting other urgent demands not
said the shortage of provided
tools and.. Jack for in the
It was an entirely new situa-American dollars with which to original estimates, the tion created by overall result is completely crisis so severe that the French in delaying completion of the economic buy materials may play a part satisfactory, None will dis- economy and political system US$13,100,000,000 by one year agree, with the policy of democracy was threatened which would
with open collapse" Mr Crossin four years instead of three.
moan completion restoring the Colony's
Mr reserves by reducing lonn man maintained."
Churchill implies that. liabilities. That it has been
SHINWELL'S QUERY delay in the receipt of $300,000,- possible to do so in solid Asked by another Labour 000 which the United States had proof
In rearmament aid Mr healthy member, Emanuel Shin-promised
slow the financial condition, and a
well, former Defence Minister,might help to
pro what cut he would make in the name. reason
arms programme, Mr Crosman said that if Britain switched rearmament programme in
The Premier was defending the £250,000,000 from armaments Commons against a Labour Party. to exports she might get motion of censure. He said that through the crisis by
a very big as it was,
the rearmament narrow margin.
was not in He suggested that the United Programme States should make the equiva-uficient to guarantee Britain's entitled to regard the lent amount of Anancial stability of the Britain.
arms extra for safety.
"I rely on the rapidly growing Colony with
and already A degree of
overwhelming The present programme con- satisfaction. We are still stituted a threat to Britain's power of the United States and 10 provide than
Mr the atomic bomb Independence, our national
It could deterrents against Crossman continued. only be
curled out through: forming during the period of American
assistance. The o-
Europe,
very
of
our
good
for renewed confidence in the future of Hongkong. The Financial Secretary insists that we cannot consider ourselver "extremely well- off" nevertheless we are
more way.
paying
IN the general satisfaction sistance was taking the farm Western
be
with
1
acta
the
itself
of
violent speed and with almost all our regular army overseas, we must rely to an unusual extent on the Horne Guard.
defence front. In
that is certain to be felt of dollars given on the condi- "If war should come, it will by the absence of proposals tion that Britain switched her suddenness and here at home,
taxation export industries to armaments, to impose new
was strangling Britain's (apart from the modest That
economy. Increase in the betting tax
Me Crosiman thought that over which none will feel aggrieved) it is us well to American help should be in the take heed of the Financial form of "lend-lease" of finished must decide to build Secretary's pointed hint
"Enough resolute men must be armed and ready to aid all other forms of protection against raids, descents and sabotage."
that it may become neces-nothing in Britain which our Reuter and United Press, aary to find means of resources cannot afford," he raising additional revenue sold.
if and when Government is
very
}
his
USAF Transit
and
Camp Blaze
wide
IN BLACK
The 21⁄2 year old charge against the Widow in Black, Marie Besnard, that she poisoned 11 relatives with arsenic for £20,000 in legacies, was recently post- poned for a further three months. She stood stolid, and white-faced amid con- gratulations. Her smiling lawyers slapped each other on the back. And then 56-year-old Marie vanished down the 11th-century stone steps of the Poitiers
courthouse, back to her cell. London Express.
More Earth
Tremors
"More earthquake, tremore have been recorded.
Associated Press reporis that an earthquake, strong enough to wreck buildings, occurred. 575 miles from Tucson.
Arizona, at 3.15 p.m. GMT yesterday (11.15 p.m. Hongkong Time), ac- Coast cording to the US and Geodetic Survey Mag- netlo Observatory,
In
Newy
new
Mr J. Campbell, Director of the Observatory, said the direction of the tremor was not determined, but it was assumed to have occurred
an uninhabited Reutered place. Reuter reports from York the
that the
the Fordham University gelap
selamography recorded yesterday earthquake shocks In the Paciflo region. One of fairly, sev
severe Intensity was recorded at 9.38 a.m.. GMT. It was estimated to be about 180 miles south of the submarine quake off the coast of Japan. Til would place it in the area of the Philippines.
Repair Work To 'Quake Damage Starts In Hokkaido
Tokyo, Mar. 6.
Rescue teams working through the frost bound mountains of Hokkaido, Japan's norther most island, reported that some communities have already begun repairing the destruction caused by the earthquake on Tuesday.
But reports from constal communities received early today said that other stricken areas were still paralysed from the double blows of the earthquake and tidal waves of 48 hours ago,
8-Point Programme Forecast
Parls, Mar. 6.
The -French Premler- designate, M. Antoine Pinay, still lacking an *LS* sured parliamentary major- ity, worked here today on a speech, aimed at swinging the Socialist or Gaullist voter he needs to head France's seventeenth post- war Cabinet.
M. Pinay, third candidate for the Premiership in France's six- day political and financial crisis, has Arm promises of support from
Moderate Conservatives, Radicals and some Leftist- Radicals.
Popular Republicans have also given tacit approval 10 Investiture.
Even with the full support of all these groups-excluding any abstentions or negative votes--M, Pinay would still find himself 30
40 votes short of the 313 needed for his election.
That is why 60-year-old M. Pinay, who was Transport Minis- ter in the out-going Faure Government, needs the backing of Socialists or Gaulists.
MAIN POINTS
Main points in M. Pinay's programme were reported in lobby circles tonight to be as follows.
1-Endorsement of present French foreign policy, including": full support of the North At- lantic Treaty Organisation and European integration. M. Pinay may press for closer co-ordina- tion in milliary and economie planning.
Hurls Man Into Gorge
Balaburg, Mar.
An Ausietan was swept into 罪 150-metres. deep gorge and another was almost hurled into it by an avalanche which crash ed down on the Steiner road, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) south of Salz- burg, today.
Jano Valentin, a butcher from Vigaun, was swept ນາ the road and les buried in the narrow gorzą In deep snow. Ho can be reached only by ropes, but rescue work cannot stari beesuse new avalanches are threatening,
A Toad swort
niso
worker, nway by. the avalanche, was rescued after some time half way over the våre of the gorge, -Reuter.
Prophesied His Own Death
Como, Italy; Mar. 5.
An Italian society woman told a Court here today that a wealthy man-about-town. whispered into her ear while - they ---- danced-ons -night- three-and-a-half years ago: "Mark my words — before this night is over I shall be dead. A woman will mur der me."
Within an hour ho died with bullet through his heart, Franca Tremoloda Torricelli was testifying at the trial of Italian Countess Pla Bellentani, who is charged with the murder of Carlo Sacchi, a man 2. Greater and
who, Predier
at American military aid to the according to the testimony
Countess's French expeditionary force in his wife, was the Indo-Chin.
lover. 3.--Cuts and' drasile reforms Countess Bollentani, øyed 30,
of Soon after the death in somu Sacchi, she was taken to an
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słow-down
UN
were proposed
5. Fewer n5w taxes than and Sacchi and his wife at a
in an
:
in the nationalised industries | is being trieti in her absence. and social inerrance system. sectors at the industrial asylum suffering from a nervous. modernisation plan with excep- breakdown: tions in such key industries as
Torricell told the Court that and oil re- she was at the same table coal, electrialty Angries.
the Countess and her husband
by M. Edgar, fashionable dress show Faure when his government fell. hotel on Lake Como la Septem- M. Pinay, it is believed, willber, 1948, ask for only two-thirds or half FEARS CONFIRMED ing's wails with logs. Residents of the 184,000 million franes were busy replacing chimneys.
Sacchi whispered his fears to requested by the Faure Cabinet her during A dance. Shortly A Japanese reporter said in a through increased taxation. afterwards he died and the brief radio despatch-one of the 0. Relaxation on social in- Countess was charged with his A United States plans dropped few eyewimess reports so far surances (social security, fami- murder. 900 blankets and medient sup received that the people of ly allowance and piles. Other aircraft dropped one city had scrambled wildly ta
other inxes) The trial had became one of supplies for the population of up the icy slopes of nearby hills can
accordance with the total the most publicised in Italy Kushiro City, 50 miles south after the warnings.
workers Irrespec- since the war. Sacchi's widow, a comings of tive of the number of hours tall, strikingly handsome Vien along the coast, from Kiritoppu.
Thousands of persons in both That was at Kushiro with a worked.
nese woman, had already told the Court how the once communities spent their second population of 00,000-thought to
Bur- bitter night without beat, power be the worst hit area.
prised her husband and CounterS Beltentant In an hotel bedroom. or water. Many were home-
A statement alleged to have
Aircraft brought the first os sistance to the stricken village of Kiritappu, on the southeast Up of Hokkaido,
మ
A Government official, survey
the damage, said that crews working sound the clocks hoped
A 0,000-foot volcano overlook- ng Kushirq belched grey smoke today as rescue teams worked through smoking ruins to tend the injured and count the dead.
10 repair all major railway All food and railway lines be- links within 24 hours,
1,000 Queue Up To
Blood annged for quick repair.
Offer
Rio de Janeiro, Mar, 5. A quere of 1,000 people walt- ed today to give their blood for the 300 Injured In yesterday's train disaster in a suburb of Rio.
,
.
tween Kushiro and the rest of
Great
A later report said that the Hokkaido are broken, constal railway link with Kushiro cracks in the earth isolate many and Kiritappu was too badly her communities, according to
ANXIETY AND HOPE
torn
a
a
A
Plots
reports,
The Premier announced that General Ridgway had promised spare no effor" to alleviate the suffering-Reuter,
DEMONSTRATIONS
General Matthew B. Ridgway, the United Nations Supreme Commander In Japan, offered Japanese mainland residents
his personal plane today to the with families and friends
On Japanese Premier, Mr Shigeru Hokkaido were
between Yoshida, for a flight over the anxiety. and hope 10day as wrecked areas, meagro casunity reports con- in the future. Any such For anything beyond that Bri-
tinued to be unexpectedly low. action during the financial tain should provide the men and
Supplies of blood plasma be- The Japanese rural police said year about to begin would the United States the equip-
came exhausted and the medient that they had recovered 20 bolles justifiable only be
fment,
the in coastal communities. They authorities appealed to
ald- Mr Crossinan sat down amid
population for. more economic conditions pro- the cheers of Conservatives who
donors. that one person was killed by duced a decided decline in had enjoyed his attack on
Today they reported a magni- failing chimney during the earth- fcent response from all sections quake, but the United States revenue. And in any event, own leaders,
Shaftesbury, Mar. 5. Fire brigades from a
of the community, including Army Headquarters stood by its SHINWELL'S VIEW
IN VALETTA satisfied that more income Mr Emanuel Shirwell told the area fought a blaze which early police and all the officers, crew casualty report which sold that 31 is necessary, it is to be House of Commons during its de- today extensively damaged the and cadets on the German sail- persons had died.
port The United States Army al
Valetto, Mar, 5. sincerely hoped that fence debate tonight that unless base chapel, the NCO's quarters ng ship. Pamir, now in
Workers on strike' from the issued, but did not confirm, the messing hall at the here. additional taxation will be the United States could provide
more equipment
United Sta quickly,
Air Force transit
The death roll was today put repost which said that 120 per- British Armed Services Depart- levied through
ment here. today stoned the eans had died at Urakawa, Indirect there was no hope of building camp at Guy's Maroh, near at 119. The spot where the coastal
on the Malta Prime Minister's official community channels. .: There
are up anything like 50 divisions in in the‚NCO's i
Dorso: Are started
electric train hita decailed southern tip of Hokkaido.
residence and booed. Lady relatively painless methoda Western Europe this year or the
section, of wooden suburban Army communiques listed 23 Creasy, wife of the Governor, of' extracting."money from next year--or maybe the year quarters on an outside block and
drove she In spite of the efforts of 14 fire express was identical with the persons missing from the village Sir Gerald Creasy, as the community, which are after.
of a previous accident. of Kirituppu. The earthquake through the city. There also capable of producing
had been controversy brigades three
of Some weeks ago a train of tank and successive tidal waves had
dvil police kept the seek buildings became ablazed, · Air- substantial revenue,It is whether Britain should such methods which should military ald from the United men who were in bed when the wagons ran off the rails there destroyed or seriously damaged situation under control and by and some of these waggons have more than 350 houses. In Kiri- this afternoon the city was alarm sounded hurriedly ro
not yet been removed from the tappu,
quiet. be exploited before any
spat.
Reports on the number of in- attempt is made to increase "My view is that we ought to moved personal belongings to
About 15,000 workers have verges. dron grass
beon сатр,
on strikke for 12 days for, a direct taxation on Incomes
formerly a wiringa
military hospital is Of a family of alx on the Jured totalled close to 200, The hope, if not the expec,attached,"
made up of large number of electric train, only one young Property damage on Hokkaido wage increase of 14 shilinge
was extensive. Most reports a week.-Reuter, tation, however, is that the Mr Shinwell asserted that buts connected by corridors. The child survived and she is said that at least 2,000 buildings Colony will be able to get. Britain's real aircraft bottle-re was put out after two hours,
'werq" "destroyed through the 1952-3 financial neck was the dimculty of per-
oyed or seriously Pilfering of goods and some
estimated that year without being saddled sunding, British aircraft manu-
Ofelel looting of dead bodies added to
pourcca with now taxation burdens: facturers to play their full part
the macabre, horror of the the total coat would be upwards We shall be surprised if Better organisation was wanted,
I million yen (£1,000,000). of 1,000 tragedy. - Mr Clarke's estimates do ment would have to take them
Maybe some day the Govern
Several interior towns along,
J.
London, Mar. 5. not prove themselves to be over, he said,
The Director of Rio Medico the main railway itne eastwards Agnes Edge, 19, of Thanker A further 100,000 television Legal Institute, Dr. Jesse Palva, from Sapporo were planning to toh Lanarkshire, unconscious the most accurate in the
Mr Bhinwell wanted the arms licence were taken out in Janu- said he believed that: this was reopen schools tomorrow. Rescue for 11 days with a fractured, history of local Govern programmes pushed ahead as aty, bringing the total to 91,285,- South America's worst railway teams said that one small town akull has regained partial ment budgetting med vak quickly as possible. It would | 900--deuten=
Dog Berdale-Router,
had shored up its school buildscoprelomness-Reuter
he said,
States,
military ald Amorim without any
-Reuter
blocks
The
Television Grows In Popularity
Gp London, Mar. 6.)
hospital.
Unconscious For Eleven Days
No Immediate salary in creases and if necessary a price freezing of some commodities.
8. Constitutional reforms
to strengthen the executive. -į been written by the Countess in Reuter.
(Contd. on back page, Col. 1).
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