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Yet More Austerity
THE British Government's
T Economie Survey for
1952 mukes an unpalatable supplement to Mr Butler's Budget speech, under- scoring the Chancellor's more drastic proposals for getting the nation back on its financial and economie feet. In truth the country hack become well nigh immune to any feeling of shock and disunny when told that it will have to wide range of forgo a consumer commodities and must expect to have less to eat. This has been the lot of the people of Britain, in varying degrees, for, the past 12 years, and while they may feel some reseni - ment over the fact that a new Government has pro duced no relief from the -sacrificus_they have had to.
make
that over
Jong period, they cannot, ELL fairness, accuse the Tories of making any false pro- misos in this respect. Mr Churchill hus several times made it clear, and he Jus been seconded in slightly less emphatic language by his Chancellor and others, that the Government means to take all the mensures it deems necessary, however W popular they may be, in order to restore Britain's solvency.
NOT
JOTWITHSTANDING, the Tories, 08 governing party, have lost a consider- #ble amount of popularity
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Sedition Trial: Court Hears
34 Africans Killed
In Cyclone
Lindl. S. Tanganyika. Apr. 22. Thirty-four Afelcanų úfed in the cyclone which de- vastated this port on April 15, and the damage is exti- mated at £2,500,000, was disclosed here today,
The provisional death roll last week listed three Afri- cans as dead and nine ofkers missing. In a wrecked boat.
It is now known that they and 14 missing from an- other wrecked boat are dead, and that eight more casual- iles have since come to light. Two escaped after drifiing on a spar for 12 miles.
The cyclone left 20,000 people homeless in this town
of 30,000 inhabitants, but they immediately startett rebuild- Ing and are now all housed again-Reuter.
"Impeach Truman Resolution Introduced Before Congress
Washington, Apr. 22. Representative Robert Hale, Republican. of Maine, introduced in the House today a resolution to start impeachment proceedings against President Tru- man for his seizure of the steel mills.
Should the resolution. be approved by the House the Judiciary Committee would investigate "whether the said Harry Truman has been guilty of any high crime or mis- demeanour......
The Committee would report
its findings to the House with Presidential Election "such a resolution of impeach-
ment or other recommendations
ns it deems proper."
Should the house then ap- prove the
impeachment, Pre-
during their first six rident Truman would be tried) months of office. Mr before the Senate with House Churchill's bitterest politi- | members serving us prosecutors, cal foes, such as Bevans and Poflitt, declare that his Administration has failed
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lamentably that
ho
of the
should resign forthwith and allow the country to change 'Ita government
appeared little chance election booths. too early yet to say whether that Representative ilule's re-
ut the But it is
a general election would be. good for the country us a whole. Until
hus mure been learnt about its inten- tions and the fruits of ita policies are revealed, the Government is entitled to
FIZE
opportunity to moko good. It must take time for its measures to fructify, and it is certainly no part of the Churchill programme to set going the procCHAUS of recovery and then, when ull is ready for fulfilment, to let Labour come in und reap the reward.
of
Should two-thirds Senate and the President guilty as charged by the House he would be . removed from offer.
There
solution would ba catter by the Judiciary Com- mitice or the House and there was little likelihood two-thirds of the Senate would vote impeach My Truman. ·
"HUMILIATED"
Harriman
Is A
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Candidate
Washington, Apr. 22. The Mutual
Security Director, Mr Averell Harri- man, today announced that he would be an "active can- didate" for the Democratic Presidential nomination.
Translation
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OBJECTION TO
A WITNESS
The reading of translations of articles alleged to have appeared in issues of the Ta Kung Pao occupied most of this morning's proceedings in the sedition case before Mr Justice Williams at the Supreme Court where the publisher, printer and editor of the Ta Kung Pao are on trial,
MrPerey Chen, leading-defence counsel, raised an objection to the calling of Chief Inspector Dowman to give evidence relating to 30 deporta- tion orders, and the Court permitted him to reserve his cross-examination of the witness.
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Tribesmen Request Restoration Of Seretse Khama As Chief
London, Apr. 22.
Six Bamangwato leaders from Bechuanaland
This picture just released by the US Department of De- fence shows a 75-mm recall- less riffe kloking up the now as it is fired against an enemy emplacement somewhere Korea. The rifle is designed for directing fire in close sup- part of Infantry riflemen against crew-served weapon9, groups of personnel, pillbox and cave positions, and lightly armoured vehicles. - Central Press Photo.
What sort of told the Marquis of Salisbury, the British Secretary Gaol For
When the trial resumed this tive told him that nane need be mering, the Foreman of the given. They were taken mey had no questions to put to it was not until midnight that Special Jury announced that
Kowloon City Police Statlon ond Chan Kwok-ying, senior official Cheung was released, but the translator of the Supreme Court whereabouts of Lau were un- who concluded his testi:
imony known. The are victims were yesterday,
seriously-perturbed at the Mr Chen then suggested to
10 Hongkong Government's his Lordship to ask the witness reasonable act. if he wished to amplify or ex- place is Hongkong coming to plain what he had said yester be?" it added. The victims ha day regarding Chinese custom stated that Lau had been arrest Mr Chen sald he would like to ed without reason and "we ask the witness whether it was shall forever remember this true that Chinese, when they incident." The fire victims cams wanted something, put it in a
committee hud decided in lodge roundabout way instead of go- ing
straight to the paint, Witnes Chinese make requests
in a
Toils bad way and not in
article
of State for Commonwealth Relations, yesterday, that they wanted their exiled chief, Seretse Khama, back.
His presence "Is the only factor which will stop dis- pute, dissensions and squabbles and restore peace and good government to the Reserve," they said:
They spent two hours with Lord Salisbury, and were' aa-
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Santa Monica, Cal.,
Apr. 22. Film producer Walter
Hunters Wanger was today gaoled
Acquitted
a strong protest, demanding the release of Lou Kan and they would continue the struggle in a the cause of personal and human way.
rights. His Lordship: There is just this
ALLEGATION companied by their two lega: Fox question,
Mr Chan, When The
published on advisers, Mr Pergy Fraenkel, of to February 7 was in similar vein Mafeking, and Chinese articles are brought your office from any Government and said that the people would
Lord Ratberec- office are they invariably accom-asis the Hongkong Government den, of London. pented by a rough English trans- to safeguard their scurtly. The
Lord Salisbury has promised iallane
Arte alleged that Lau Kan had Witness replied that that was been forced to leave Hongkong them another meeting on Thurs- the practice and it also applied but he had approved
received a great day or Friday do documents from solicitors welcome in Canton where the Mr Harriman, in a brief state-
in
In a memorandum "except ment, said he was responding to
very exceptional p:ople were most indignan: "at
presented cases." After checking up. said his frenzied case of persecu-to the Secretary of State, the the notion of the New York witness, he then certifies the tion." "What is the motive behind six leaders countered any sug- State Democratie leaders in re- translations.
all this? These high-handva commending him for nomina-
menrures, this sories of atrocious gestion that they might not be tion.
persccution" it csked, adding, representative of the Bamang- "Why must they persist in per- wato tribe. They said that they
(Conkd, on back page, col. 6) had been selected by
a kootin (tribal meeting) and were "fully representative."
to
The Senate has sat as a court nf impeachment in only 12 cuses and only one involving a Presi- dent Andrew Jackson, who was acquitted.
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Mr Hale told the House the President's action scizing the steel mills had created. greater indignation than any- Wing he had seen as a memhur of Congress. He said he had state- been "humilated" by
ments that Congress was supine while the President neted.
E. tackling the task IN
restoring Britain's financial and economic equilibrium, the Conservatives have embraced the fundamental The House Democratle leader, principles enunciated and Mr John McCormack, accused
the Republicans
of using adopted by their predeces-
sice! dispute to lunch Nors. The balance of pay "personal
*Pack"
un ments is the root problem, Truman, and the only way open for Britain to correct the pre- Hent adverse account is by
Mr McCormack argued
President, the
acting inherent
ecnstitution, "ald
NEW WITNESS Mr Hooton: During the cross- examination of Insp Lowe by Chen my learned friend, Mr
Mr Harriman said he was "humbly aware of the tremen- dous responsibilities involved in my decision. I have reached suggested to him that a number this decision because of my con- of persons, about thirty, had duc with the we are presented been deported
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Serotse Khama, the memoran- dum auid, "is"the only man who would have the approval of the whole tribe, because he is their born chief and
.ac.
for four months for assault with a deadly weapon on his wife's agent.
Wanger, who has been es- tranged from his actress wife, Joan Bennett, was accused of shooting her agent, Jennings Lang, in a Hollywood car park
Leeds, Apr, 22.1. Two Yorkshire huntsmen, father and his son, were quitted here today of a charge of Last December.. cruelty to two foxes.
Hunting people, crowding the court for today's hearing cheered
the verdict.
indictment
The court today deleted part of a grand which alleged assault "with in-
Jury tent to commit murder" and reduced the charge to assault Thomas Leopold Palsley, 52- with a deadly weapon.
Wanger had said Lang tried to year-old former Joint Master Wa and Secretary of the Bramham breake up his home, but Miss his son, Joe Bennett and Lang said their re- Moor Hunt, and Watkin Dalziel Paisley, pleaded lationship was strictly a business. not guilty to the charge of caus-one.
During
bls trial Wanger ing unnecessary suffering to two threw himself on the mercy of foxes on January 19,
the court."
The prosecution alleged that Mr Jerry Giesler, his defence Joe Paisley threw a live fox to lawyer, said Wanger had decided now fully re- the hounds after it had been on this course to avoid a "lurid his father trial" for the sake of the child- cognised and acclaimed by nut trapped and that members of the tribe, including allowed the hounds to attack an- en involved.
Long, 39,- was reported other fox after it had gone to Tshékedi (Seretse's uncle) and earth and had been dug out. April 13 to have recovered from his followers,"
a serious groin injury-Reuter.
viction that this year with Issues
process of law,
I proposo call Chief Insp. found importance for the future this stage to of our country and the world,
Dowman to produce the original "We must fight to preserve deportation
orders and continue the progress to- the Clerk of Councils. wards a butter America and a HIS Lordship acceded · and
had been
Chịch peaceful world that
Detective Inspector C. made under the Democratic Dowman then gave evidence. Administrations of Franklin
He said that the Crimlaul Roosevelt and Harry Truman."
Investigation Department. to HIS OPPONENTS
which he was attached,
had
Rahway, N.J., Apr. 22. Mr Harriman, who will be custody of all original deporta- Rioting convicts at the
orders red to Senator
made by Kefau- tion Estes
the New Jersey prison farm in Governor-in-Council.
The British Government "has Wimess (Tennessee) 09 Senator Kerr (Oklahoma)
thirty each of the Rahway surrendered today, been influenced by the views of produced (Georgia) in Senator Russell
purporting to be signed by the ending a
and 114-hour revolt persons
bodies outside Clerk of Councils and made by against. the State's prison the tribe that in effect the Gov- Bechuanaland, and it appears to Democra! that nomination is the first Demo- the Governor-in-Council.
system, Mr Chen asked his Lordship
crnment is exercising a colour undercratic aspirant from the North-
Leaders of the 231 rioters re-
bar, for they can see no reason to record his objection to this
leased eight hostages, held for not confirming Seretse as witness giving evidence the ment coincided with lodny's
on the ground that it was contrary
since Thursday night, and slow-chlet, except that he has mar- ly fled from the wrecked ried A the rules under the Indictment
white wife," where
· dormitory The Defence had harricaded themselves. Ordinanec.
they had memorandum added. received no notice of the ad- ditional witness to be called by the Crown, he said.
His Lordship:
You connot have been taken by surprise.
Mr Hooton: Mr Chen asked for this evidence,
the contest for the
exporting more, Importing the powers granted him jern States, and his announce- less, and controlling height thing in the best interests primary elections in New York inflationary spiral which of our people-United Press. jeopardises the country's
domestic economy. There DISAPPROVES ACTION
is nothing in the proposals contained in the Govern-
are
A
and Pennsylvania to choose delegates to the Democratic and Republican Conventions in Chicago in July.
Mr
The hungry, hoggard mutin- cers were locked up again by the prison authorities. United Press.
48' hours,
the
"The Government have accused blm of not consulting the tribe bafore the marriage took place. It has never been the custom for our chiefs to consult the tribe before marriage," the memoran- dum sald.
It asked for the real reason for the British Government's
Washington, Apr. 22: The United States Senate
In New York delegates from ment's Economic Survey
yesterday voted novel; nothing write into
44 10 31 to both parties chosen today will that
an Appropriations no to Chicago uninstructed but
GUARD RELEASED which hus not been
Bila ban on the ure of Gov- most of the 94 Democratic de-
Jackson, Mich, Apr. 22. bofore. attempted
The
ernment funds to operate the legates appear to support
Mulinous convicta In a b remedy, in fact, is self- country's steel industry-taken Harriman.
Mr Chen asked his Lordship sieged cell block at Southern evident. The only point over over by President Iniman
The 08 Republican delegates also to note that the Defence Michigan Prison today released which there can be any
earlier this month to avert from New York are expected should have been told yesterday one of the 11 prison guards they decision-why a man considered argument is how drastie
what the witness was going to held as hostages for more than to be capable of holding a re- nation-wide strike.
to be almost solid behind Gen- should
crat
soy. On the list of witnesses to that remedy
Eisenhower who is sup-
be called. Ingy Dowman's name The guard, Thomas Elliott, Jamaica should het be allowed sponsible administrative post in This amounted to the Senato ported by State Governor De- applied. The poser before
did going on record as disapprov- wey.
noi appear. Counse! walked out of the disciplinary to return to the tribe as their Mr Churchill
and
his ing the President's action. colleagues is to make
In Pennsylvania, 70 delegates applied
to reserve his cross-barracks where 176 Inmates had ruler.Iteuter. cach will be chosen today by studied the documents.
examination until he had barricaded themselves, N accurate assessment of But It Ju expected to have the Democrats and Republicans.
shook hands with the lenders how many more sacrifices little pepetient effect, because a
So far, with over 330 of the
His Lordship granted the the nation can be called money bill was not specifically 422 Republican delegates chosen quest remarking that it was
asked upon to make" in living
for or needed for the up standards without forcing seizure of the industry.
be
'an
of
to yesterday in various very reasonable one. State primaries ur conventions,
E
re-
д
of the mutiny as he loft,
Elliott was released "Ex- change for
"ate conduel" for PRIZE HERD
two renegade prisoners who left the cell block temporarily tu badcast demands for peaco over
the system, prison public address
A spokesman for the rioters
SLAUGHTERED
TRANSLATIONS the people to such a resent- The House of Representatives on the basis of those pledged,
Next witness called was Chan ful state of mind that they would have to agree with the instructed or otherwise indica will deny the right of the Senate to make Congressional leads, General
ing a preference,
Senator Taft Sing-cheung, official tramlator
Lyndhurst, Southern Government
Eisenhower by to domand action anal.
of the Supreme Court who gave
England, Apr. 22 about 90 delegates. But today's evidence of translations of ex- super-austerity. What the Shortly before
A prižo herd of 160 Frieslan the Senute primaries' results are expected tracts from the Te Kung Pao of said their price for the release of people of Britain probably debate, President Truman sent to cut this lead-Reuter, February 8, 7, 9 and 11.
The other ten guards would be as cattle together with 50
pigs, need most at this time is a letter to Vice-President Alben
articles dealt with the surances of an end to brutally today as the epillemie in foot wiz slaughtered near- hero a definite assurance that Barkley, presiding officer of the
victims of the Tung Tau Village better segregation of prisoners, PLANE CRASHES whatever
fire of November 21 last year, more discipline
discaso the and mouth. among sacrifices they Senate, saying that it use.
.spread may now be called upon to Government money to operate
Anchorage, Alaska, Apr. 22. The article of February 7 spoke guards and better lighting and Westward into Hampshire, make, they will not be made the industry were restricted it dort Air Force Base fliers
A C-47 transport with Elmen- of the arrest. of Lau Han, chief living conditions.
Since the discase first appeared. Earlier, two badly-beaten and in Britain six months ago about. in vain.
en representative, and another man It was the one might, "paralyse the operations board crashed yesterday in the Chueng. It alleged that they knifed men were tossed out 150 outbreaks have occurred, nasurance, which the of the Government in an
Merrill Pass area Northwest of "were nabbed by eight plain the cell block where the most mostly in the East and Bouth- Socialist Government was emergency."
here, the Air Force reported clothes detectives in a tenhouse dangerous prisoners were kept, East. unable to offer, and It was It would immediately reduce today!
In Mongkok at night." The They were expelled, the rioters. one of the reasons why the ability of our troops in Korea A spokesman said it was paticle *went
say said, for trying to inform on on to Labour was ousted from to defend themselves against believed all. ora board Were
that when Lau Kan asked for fellow conspiratory -- United power last year.
Attack," he said.—Reuter,
killed, Associated Press,
the reason for his arrest a detec- | Press,' IN O
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About 7,500 cattle, 4,500 sheep and 4,500ples have had to be destroyed-Reuter.
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