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VULCAIN

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COMMENT OF

THE DAY

CHINA MAIL

No. 35163

NATO Expecting

Headlights "Ike's" Resignation Danger Any Time Now

ONE of the most interest-

ing replion given to questions raised in Che Budget debate was that f the Hon. Colonial Secretary to the anggestion made by Dr S. N. Chau that the use of headlights in built-

should be U PAN

pro-

hibited. The official attitude

WILS

that,

until

LIKELY TO RETURN HOME

DURING MAY

Washington, Mar. 28.

General Eisenhower's early departure from street Europe is regarded as inevitable by the 14 North lighting has been improved, Atlantic Treaty nations, informed sources re- sider legislative netion reported today.

it in undesirable to cap-

too

one

stricting the use of head- "It now appears to everyone that the General's lights. Many, however, resignation as Supreme Commander is only a ques may consider the original question

tion of when and it probably won't be long," somewhat' limited. What does appeur informant said. to call for official investiga-1 tion and consideration is the indiscriminate

use of blinding headlights

motor roads around the

Peak and in oder Kowloon, Only recently

す car ac-

cident on a Peak road was attributed by the Police to the fact that a driver was

The authorities said that formal Atlantic Paci talks on choosing a successor to General Eisenhower would not begin until he had officially notified Pre- sident Truman that he was leaving. But they said that the treaty powers were already "thinking about the problem on an informal basis.

President Truman on his re-, man to appoint

Established 1845

SATURDAY, MARCH 29," 1952.

BIG SEIZURE OF

Damages For Stenographer

Manchester, Mar. 28.

MISK Jeanne Marion Clayton 20. of Shaving- ton, нед Crew, former shorthand-typist

Was to-

day awarded damages of - £13,267

Avainst Rollu Royds Limited of Crewe,, her former employers,

Min Clayton fell into a

well дн the 11г deseraded upon kêr, caus- ing severe injuries, She pressed the button doors of the lift opener bul on stepping in the lift WAS not there.

The firm were given complete indemnity against Evens Lifts Limited of

had Leicester, who

In- stalled the lift.

16

for

The

case lasted days де Liverpoot and Manchester Awizes and reserved Judgment was given today.-Reuter.

Soldier Sentenced To Death

1 Supreme turn last night from Key West, Commander. II 1ecommended Florida,

that

General General Eisenhower, The Pre- blinded by the headlights to him when he wanted to re-rusly-United Press.

Eisenhower had nat indicated sident agreed dimost simultane- of an oncoming car, and sign. But Administration "in- "In- records would assuredly re-siders" anticipate that the Gen- veal that glaring headlights eral would give his word next have contributed to a num-month

and return home be- Lur of rond accidents in tween May 15 and June 1. This other areas beyond city limits. schedule would give him time victory today when Republicans SHOT AND KILLED They can be particularly to wind up his work and allow dangerous-and-obnoxious-on is successer to be chosen besofthe State of Maine chose a

roads where, given the best possible visual conditions, enreful driving is required if vehicles are to pass in safety.

has

fore he left Europe,

WINS AGAIN

Washington, Mar. 28. General Eisenhower won an- presidential primary

dele- were

delegation. to the Party's. national convention, favouring All signs paint to the selec-him by nine tu five over lica of General

Alfred M. Senator Robert. Taft. Gruenther, General Eisenhower's Deputy, to be the next Supreme Two of the State's 18

gates, Commander.

some of whom said that nominated and others Informed sources

elected E question of whether it

Pentagon

"strongly at Purly conventions in various is more (ir Tess dan- the

faveurs"

the appointment of districts, calmed that they were gerous for cars to show or

But political observers another American General to neutral. extinguish headlights on the post.

predicted that they would other than city roads

SUPPORT ASSURED

swing to Eisenhower before been debuted, for years in Several members of the nightfall.

Affairs Com- the House Foreign many other parts of world. In general, committee have already expressed monsense and courtesy has their

Gruenther. become the guiding rule. In Hongkong, unfortunate- ly, there is na appalling lack of either quality, and It is this which prompts

that the suggestion Authorities should serious-

support

General

A general state convention of the Farly must approve the nominations but this Was expected to be almost auto-

appears matic. The Administration to be jeady to stress the idea that the North Atlantic Treaty About 3,000 Republican sup- Organisation has made enough porters and politicians took progress to permit a change part in the district conventions. the cometind.

This campaign

T

in

is scen in

ly give attention to the plans for the holding of an un-

need for imposing regul- motorists tions by which

President Truman, Queen must abide. Whatever the overhead lighting condi- Juliana of the Netherlands, the of State, Mr Dean tious, n blinded car driver Secretary Acheson,

the Defence and is automatically placed in Secretary, Mr Robert Lovett, jeopardy, and if his vision will speak,

precedented ceremony of Con stitution Hall next Friday, the

RUD anniversary of the treaty,

is being impaired by the Advance word was that the unnecessary se of head-President and his Cabinet mem-

-Reuter.

Police Raid On Reds

Tokyo, Mar. 28. The Police arrested 162

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Ielizn poppin The Minister of the Interior, Mortada el Kentucky Lady

Prestwood Maraghi Bey, announced today that the Govern-

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Maraghi Bey made the statement at a press conference after having told the United Press earlier that martial law would be continued until after the coming elections.

He said at the press conference, in reply to a de- mand by the Wafdists that martial law be lifted, that it was the Wafdists themselves who decreed' military rule on January 26 at the time of the Cairo riots.

He said the Wafdist action was to checkt under- ground elements which sought to disturb order and .security.

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Japanese Token Of

"These reasons still stand," he said. "Martial Jaw is an ceptional and undesirable measure but under the circum- stances it is a necessity, I can- Fayld, Mar. 28.

not nasume responsibility for Corporal Tom Houghton, uting martial law before I am 23-year-old British soldier certain all factors of insecurity who shot and killed an officer have been eliminated." ho had seen dancing with a young Greek typist he knew,mands for the release of politi

cal prisoners and said most of was found guilty of murder those held had been interned by here today.

the-Wafdists. He said there were 433-persons held at present, of-To

He was sexmenced to death by

hanging.

The verdict is subject to con-

3

He turned down Wafdist de-

whom 208

had been interned

by the Waldists on January 20 and 65 by the present govern- ment.

"Any relaxation secing

firmation.

Witnesses had given evidence that Houghton, after Captain Herbert Walter Mason dancing with the girl at birthday party in a cauteen, had stormed through his comp, fring a Sten gun,

Goodwill

Deposit £20 Mill

In London

London, Mar. 29. of security

The British Treasury an- forces under existing conditions

nounced

the today that would expose the state and re- gime to danger," he said. Japanese Government will He also said that the house deposit £20,000,000 with the

leaders, arrest of the Wafdist

Bauk of England for two. Captain Mason, who was said Fund el Din, Pasha and Audei to have ordered Houghton noi Fatish Hassan Pasha, was years as a token of goodwill to see the girl, had seven bullets carried out for security pur-towards the holder of pumped into him after he had pores and he pointed out that Japanese Sterling bonds. Eune to investigate the firing.

of the the wartime Cabinet Dafence

Mustafa counsel, who had Wafdist leader,

el During the two years the asked for verdict of guilty but Nahos

Pasha, had Interned Sterling will be available for insone, had submitted that

theany payments by Japan to many political leaders for

her Houghton, a regular soldier in frame reasons.

creditors, in connection with a the Royal Army Service Corp Maraghi Bey said the holding settlement of her Sterling bond- who comes from Hull, Yorkshire,

of elections under martial law | ed indebtedness, the announce- was a man who had done good would be in accordance with ment added. work and then suddenly

of 1945 and 1950,~~- United Press.

a

lights, it is feeble to suges will emphasise the achieve | Communists today in what into some sort of wild nel the laws

havez's of the Organisation

future plans for strengthening

The

The Bank of England and the Japanese Foreign Exchange Control Leard, will consult to- gether it necessary on the terms

prosecutor, Lieutenant- gest that all would

and is described as Japan's big- Colonel G. McCulloch, said that been well if there had been the alliance against aggression. gest post-war raid on some any delusion

held by Houghton adequate street lighting. The pprn Jent ci a new 2,000 Red hideouts and about his relationship with the Malik Voted which the deposit is held. Compulsory dipping of Supreme Commander is exp:cled clandestine printing plants. "girl in blue or that Captain headlights on the Colony'so follow the same procedure

Mason had taken away the girl Gentral Eisen- well whica Id to subsidiary roads may

The raids were directed chlef- from him could not excuse produce safer conditions for how's solcellen In Desember, drivers. It is at least worth 1950. At that time the Organicy against the Japanese Com-justify the killing.

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GRIEVANCE

0:

Down

New York, Mor, 20. Houghton had nursed EX The UN Disarmament Com "very strong sense of grievance" mission shut off detailed charges against Captain Mason for feday by Russia that the United ordering him to stop steing the States is waging germ warfare giri and Houghton had declared in Korea,

hat settles

mission

territory.

that

birds,

US delegate Benjamin. Cohen protested that such statements were out of order and should be stopped. He was upheld by the

not a clear *" but the Commission as a whole.]

later stage

A Treasury

The proposal to

deposit £20,000,000 came recently from Japan's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister,

Mr Shigeru Yoshida.

spokesman sald that the proposal had been wel- comed by the British Govern- ment, who are expressing their appreciation of the motives

prompted it.

that

munist Party's extensive under- tion's top civilian Council

network of printing animously esked President Tu-ground

and pressca

propaganda dla tribution centres.

Tho main target was the Communist publication "Peace And Independence" which was

after seeing Soviet delegate Jacob A. which n

But he said that today's an- officially suspended today. It Mason dancing with the girl Malik launched into an account was the latest in a series of through the window of the charging in the 12-nation Com-nouncement should not be taken

canteen. newspapers which had suc-

goose as meaning that any negotiation eeeded the original Communists' An Army psychiatrist, feathers, and contaminated food for the settlement of Japanese official organ, the Akahita or Lieutenant-Colonel E. D. Flack, had been dropped to spread prowar debts, had yet taken "Red

Flag

The Akahita was who gave evidence yesterday, epidemiles in Asian Communist place, bunned

NOT IN FORCE by the Occupation was recalled today by the Judge Authorities a week after the Advocate, Mr F. H. Dean. outbreak of the war in Korea.

The peace treaty, which sets. Questioned by Mr Dear, the

out Japan's obligation regarding Houghton wiinces Similar

mid might have only

patchy

her prewar indebtedness, had Into force yet and been turning out a steady stream memory" of the Incident, cer- Commission Chairman, David M. not come of unli-Occupation and subver- tainly

learnt a Johnson of Canada.

Japan was not yet bound by itu sive terature.

Malik challenged the ruling. contents. if he had

Nar-chould it be assumed a crime "In a manine, state."!

rejected his challenge by a vote that the two-year period Houghton

of the psychiatrist

the deposit meant said, might well know that he of 11 to 1 (Russia).

na Malik protested bitterly that settlement was expected within was Bring a Sten gun at various

the action was unprecedented that time. people during a "manino state" Yet he might well not know the had been shut

in UN history. He charged he

was that the The Intention up by, an quality of what he was doing.

£20,000,000 zhould be available. ganised "aggressive bloc.

for use

a settlement Wes "After the episode was finish-

Earller UN General Secretary reached before the end of the ed

I doubted whether. Houghton would have a clear recollection Trygve Lier said he had sent period, the spokesman said.

new messages to Communist of what he was doing in China and North Korca offeringe Sterling will be deposit

as. the necessary maniac period

If he were UN aid in fighting the reported formalities

as soon

have been Com-

com manise.

epidemics.—Associated Press;

pleted. Eres, London's best known "During a maniac period'

Sir Arthur Salter, British person would have no ability to

Minister of State for Economic 'and

Communist Affairs, and in the House of Commons recently that Britain Heavily Fined had told Japon she was interest-

Paris, Mar. 20. ed in as early a start as practle

able to The French National Assembly able negotiations with pre-

creditors, today fined a. Communist woman war Deputy, Mathlido Perl, 70,000

Japan last met her payments francs after she had said that on her Sterling bands lote French soldiers in Korca wers 1041, botore Pearl Harbour and

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Due For Dismissal

Bonn, Mar, 28.

Two former Nazi senior officials in the West German Foreign Ministry were today reliably reported to be earmarked for dismissal.

A Perkamentary courte saif | Bangen was Nazi Minister in that the West German Federal Bruscl3 during the war. Chancellor, Dr Kenrad Adtnauer, had and the leaders of

his

Christian Democratic Union that

Dittmann cod Ven Bergen have

both been heard by the Palla-

he would remove D: Herbert tary Special Committee in- Dittmann freat his peet as head vergating press charges that the of the Ministry's Parsennel DeForeign Ministry is a "bastion of partment and Dr Werner Von Bargen from the Legal Depart- meal.

a

D. Dittmann, appointed Per-

13 sonnel chief a year ago,

former caroor diplomat, and a member of the Nazi Party, Ven

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Another

Foreign Service cfcal, Dr Warner Van Grund- Minisice to her, who is now

Athens, is to letify before the Commitee next week, a Parlia- imentary source sald-Reuter.

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