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Ridgway Is
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Washington, May 20. General Matthew Kidaway was today award- ed the Distinguishëjt Ber- vico Medal "Becond Oak Leat Cluster" by 'President Truman.
Es The
the SWAN equivalent of a third DSM. The citation paid tributa to General Ridgway's "extraordinary service** In directing United Nations strategy and guiding the Armistice neroilallons In Korea and supervising the final stages of the "re-birth of the Japanese people as an independent nation." Reuter,
sweeping gaina, that it will take something more than the recent minor Minis- terial shuffle to restore the country's confidence in the Conservative Administra tion. Nevertheless, at least ono of Mr Churchill's modest changes is likely to improve the standing of his Government in an impor- tant quarter. Mr Harry Crookshank's leadership of The Withdrawal
the Commons has hitherto
been rendered Romewhat From 'China
difficult by his additional duties 25 Minister of Health. His removal_from. that Ministry will now give him a chance to prove his talenta as a Parliamen- tarian, Mr Churchill, ap- pears to have become con- Belous that his original Cabinet-making has not realised highest expecta- Lions. One London mentator goes so far as to suggest that "few of the Prime Minister's appoint- ments have been men who knew their stuff, and that "ao many of his gift ed-amatours" have turned out to be merely amateurish lightweights." THE hastiness
com-
Eden S HK Not
Says
Affected
content were
(From Our Own Correspondent)
London, May 20. "Hongkong is in no way affected by the statement I have made," Bald the Foreign-Secretary, Mr-An- thony Eden, in the House of Commons this afternoon. of the He was concluding his an Cabinet in the field of nouncement of British intentions transport, demonstrated into maintain trade links with
China through a trade corpora the Fares muddle, is to à
tich after the withdrawal of the point re-emphasised in the
present businesses operating in White Paper on the subject the ecuntry.
tone of the state which does little or nothing The whole to clarify tho
and its present ment Government's responsibili- designed to disarm criticism in the House of Commons and ties vis-a-vis the Transport prevent the action of the firme Board or to show precisely being regarded by the Chinese how the Administration Government as provocative.
That, undoubtedly, is what proposes to reorganise the
Mr Eden ment by mying that road haulage system with- out causing serious disloca-Hogakers is not affected. tion of the servico. One danger seems to be that in trying to appease frustrated
back-benchers, Tory
• Cabinet may lend itself to ill-thought-out denationalisa- tion schemes which are certainly no fit substitute for ill-conceived nationalisa-
He was drawing a disinetion, which is not always understood in Britain, between trade with China-much of it through trade within the Hongkong-und
carried China which has been on by British firms.
pains to make Mr Eden was at clear that trade with China will not be discontinued.
tion projecte. It may, in China, heating at al
fact, being fairly argued that a far more serious and detalled review of the methods of maintaining and Improving the railway
have system should
been undertaken before any de- cisions were reached about road haulage. The present hotch-potch is neither good Toryiam nor good Socialism. And that would not greatly matter if it were part of a the rational approach to wider economic problems of reconciling national and consumer needs; but it is
not.
Of British businesses within of the hrms have been loss for considerable periods,"
He was principally questioned by Labour MPs who want the China trade maintained to the maximum,
Mr Harold Davies, Labour MP
the recent attended who economic conference staged
what had been Moscow, asked dine to implement the offers from China' made there.
Mr Eden
Britain
no answer.
emphasised
in
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U.S Growing Impatient
Over Delay In Cairo Talks
LITTLE SYMPATHY FOR BRITISH VIEWPOINT
(From R. M. McCOLL}
Washington, May 20.
When the US Secretary of State, Mr Dean Acheson, goes to Europe in a few days' time he will urge on the British Foreign Secretary, Mr Anthony Eden, the "necessity” for a quick_agreement between Britain and Egypt over the Suez
Canal and the Sudan.
There is growing impatience. in the United States over what
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appears to be the "incomprehensible" delay in reaching agreement over Adenauer Confronted
the Cairo talks.
In And there is very little sympathy for the British viewpoint. private conversation high officials of the State Department speak out frankly and critically about the British attempts to reach an agreement. They are particularly fault-finding over the Sudan aspect. Their view may be summed up as "If Farouk wants to be called King of the Sudan as badly as all that, why not let him? What harm would it do?"";
British objections to agreeing with that step are impatiently dismissed as #sophistry" and "hair-splitting."
attitude is The same.
now
COAL PIT
DISASTER:
12 KILLED
The United States Govern- the meeting" and that counter- orally forward worried and unhappy proposals put ment is by the trend of events in the by Egypt would receive careful Middle-East and North Africa, consideration.
Oficials said that thero-was- Recently the State Depart ment showed its present mood no doubt that further consul- would be held hero by adopting an almost hoctoring tations
from to France when it when Mr Eden returns approach 10 Cabinet to make his European tour which
Is urged the "immediate reforms in troubled scheduled to last about a week. It was not revealed what the Tunisia.
counter-proposals were, but off- clats said that they were wel Brans making itself felt about the Brl-
comed because they did not tich "delay" in hammering..out
with the slam the door to any further agreement
talks and made further negotia- Egyptians,
Britain is not inclined to be
associated Egyptians, closely rushed in the matter, even in
with recent talks in London be near to the increasingly response
nudgings
thelieved that the main points of urgent
Amr Pasha's communication to State Department.
Mr Eden were as follows; The general atmosphero is also clouded by the Mediter-
RECOGNITION rancan command dispute, Bri- tish considerations about which are bound up with plans for backing the hoped-for Middle East Defence Command with the British Fleet.
an
from
TUG-OF-WAR Yet another lug-of-war in
is strategic planning
taking place between the two Anglo- Saxon allies over the question
tion possible,
of Farouc's 1.-Recognition litle as King of Egypt and the Sudan.
With New Obstacles
Bonn, May 20.
The West German Chancellor, Dr Konrad Adenauer, is faced with several last minute diffi- culties over Germany's relations with the West and the date of the signature of the Allied-German peace contract is still unpredictable.
sirike,
organised against the Indian Govern- ment's proposal to trans. fer the Headquarters of the North Eastern Rail- way from Calcutta to Gorhakpur, brought, all transport and business to a standstill recently. De- monstrators stopped cars and placed barriers across the streets--London Ex- press.
The latest crisia blew up today when Professor Franz Rain-Making
With Mirrors
Boehm, leader of the West German delegation to The Hague conference on reparations to Jews resigned,
An
extraordinary Cabinet
America has so far not agreed meeting had been called for to-to this. morrow to consider the, situa- tion.
A Government spokesman con- firmed today that Jakob Kaiser,
Dr Adenauer had ona consola; tion this evening when the Gees- man Party, the most rebellious member of his Coalition, stated in its Press service that it faz.-
approved the treaties so
Clermont: Ferrand, May 20. The bodies of 12 miners who died today when, gas Minister for all-German Affairs,
bad written to Dr Adenauer Reutor. entered the working of a
that
West' Germany bring up coal mine. at Frugierea, the Ruhr question at the Coun-
Clermont Ferrand, cil of Europe on Thursday. central France, had all
The question has turned up been brought to the sur-many times in the last three
Skipper Faces
face tonight by rescuers years to Sour Franco-German Cruelty Charge
ot
| wearing gas maska,
All twelve were married men The widow of with children. Jean Knorst is expecting her Amr Pasha probably stressed ninth child, and the widow to Mr Eden that no Government Alain Graunet her sixth.
rre Chado, married with Pierre in Egypt could hope to continue-
was among
those were one child, this office unless In
who reached the lift cage but achieved.
gave up his place to a younger miner who was more exhausted than he was. Chago was later found gassed.
2-Britain must agree not to take any further action in the
of where Australian troops Sudan' under the new Constitu
that Omar
tion.
Agree
About 100
relations just as an important step towards European integra- tion was being taken.
New York, May 20. Charged with manslaughter in
the fatal shooting of the ship's
Darwin, May:20. A Sydney engineer, C. Miller, will attempt tomorrow to make rain over the drought' areas of the Northern Territory and it wil! be done with mirrors,
He Intends large mirrors along the Darwin "beaming" them waterfront
setting up three
Inland. The rays from
mirrors
will
the
exert influence
upon the upper atmosphere and
produce rain, according
Miller
who experiments
to
claims successful ja New South Wales earlier in the year,
Miller asserts that he dis-
Was
Dr Germann Ehlers, President of the Bundestag, today yielded cook aboard the Flying Trader, covered the method accidentally to a Social Democratie demand Captain Franklin Weaver faced two years ago when he for a full debate on the peace an additional charge of cruelty experimenting with mirrors in an attempt to harness electricity contracts and
in the Federal Court today. the European
Army Treaty and summoned a special session on Friday.
PEACE CONTRACTS
The Government Coalition cûn
Opposition proposal refuse an
sun
The new charge stems from out of the atmosphere.
that
He said that this experiment Weaver information allegedly beat
and Injured falled-because it always rained.
Miller lists 'continuous William Harvey, 24, negro cools, while the
as the only essential to Isbrandtsen Line shine freighter was en route to Kobe success.
There is little chance of his last October. wider
to put the treaties on the agenda The captain's first trial on the running out of that in Darwin the middle of ils for discussion but many Coali-manslaughter charge ended with which is in ion deputies are hesitant about the jury disagreeing. A trial for "dry""season. Rain never falls debate though this hearing both charges was set during the "dry" period-United refusing might embarrass
Press, for June 2-United Press. ment.
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the
Govern-
should be sent
miners were would 3.-Egypt When the Australian Prime
working in the gallery when the the Sudanese Mr Robert Menzies, giving
pocket seeped into it. There Minister,
was come panle. Several men goes to London at the end of this power of administration to be
self jumped into the lift complete
cago to week after talks with President followed by
ofter a longer Truman, Mr Acheson, General determination'
reach the surface, while others two than the Bradley
years
clambered and the US, period
to safety, on ladders had followed up Defence Secretary, Mr Robert envisaged by Britain.
the air shafts.. amelal offers "but we have had Lovett, he expects Mr Churchill 4.British forces must be
nxious women rushed to the
Tomorrow Dr Adenauer la to to urge that an Australian troop evacuated from the Canal Zone.
as the nows of the pithead It was not suggested by, any. | contingent should be sent to take
be prepared 5.-Egypt would
meet the Allied High Commis disaster spread through the sioners for what may be the last to its place in the Middle Eastern to enter into certain arrange one that the time is ripe
about 800 inhabi
conference on the peace coo- break off diplomatic relations Command.
ments for the joint defence of village of
toats, the with China. Indeed, the im-
But Australia, having
tracts. Middle
with East Just the
A The rescue squad reported pression is prevalent that dur signed the
organisation tripartite Pacific multilateral
pro-
usunily well-informed source said that they had to An Unhappy Premiering the next months diplomalle Defence Pact with New Zealand posed by Britain, France, Tur- that all miners had now come
settle four outstanding points THE Porsian Premier must representation Peking is and the United States, is under key and the United States being to the surface. THE
The disaster occurred at which otherwise had to be re- station broadened to include the signa- depth of 650 yards in a newly very heavy pressure to be a very unhappy man
Ministers her men in the Pacifác arca torles to the Arab League
ferred to the Foreign opened gallery where cool London Express Service.
at the these days, and one pointer-
end of the week, security pact. to his state of mind is
ORAL REPLY
6. Amr Pasha would seek extraction had not yet started.
The four points are: contained in the report that
London, May 20. to impress Mr Eden with the The miners were putting up 1.The rights and obligations after he has presented his
Egypt's oral reply to the Bri-dimculties of Egypt's internal props and other equipment. Government's case at. The
Newcastle, May 20. tish proposals for settling the situation and express the hope Reuter,
dispute Was he Intends Hague,
Alderman Mrs Violet Grant-Anglo-Egyptian
effort to meet Egypt's nation- resign. No matter. what
sador, Abdel Fattah
Amralist aspirations which could be store he puts by the out-ham, widow of the former Lord alven by the Egyptian Ambos that Britain would make every
Mayor of Newcastle, was elected d
Pasho, to the Foreign Secretary, most helpful to the Govern coma of the World Court Lord Mayor of that clly today.
Anthony Eden, loday, and ment of Premier Hilaly Pasha hearing of the Anglo- She is the first womani elvie Persian oil dispute, Dr chief of Newcastle, which has was said by officials to leave thein carrying them out, United Mossadegh knows that the had Mayors and latterly Lord way open for resuming full-Press.. actual position at Abadan, Mayors since 1210.
Alderman William Temple,
tn
more than ever needed.
WOMAN MAYOR FOR NEWCASTLE
the keypoint of his coun-barrister, was elected sherift- try's of industry, has gone Reuter, from bad to worse and is
likely to continue to do 80, The Jubricants plant. which
for a brief ran interval on parts im- provised
by Persian engineers, has broken down. The worklasa workora continue to draw their un- earned, pay week by week. Filtering is rife and one report asserts that 6,000 dynamos are missing from the stores. Meanwhile Dr Mossadegh, deeply agitated, calls for Investigations and reports, and com plains, bitterly of betrayal. Pride forbids admission of the failure, but oven Persian Premier himself most have realisedlong ago that he had over reached himself, and that he is his own betrayer,›
Beale treaty negotiations.
The Foreign Office said that Amr Pasha and Mr Eden had a
HOSTAGES RELEASED
of Germany it should be re- united,
Dr Adenauer brought this point up again at the wish of his supporters
DIFFERING VIEWS
2The position of French Rio de Janeiro, May 20, and Belgian troops in Germany An American civil aviation after the end of the Occupation, official and a Brazilian Air Force The Germans want them to than
"full exchange of views during "RED" DEAN IN meer held as hostages at the have no more privileges
German units in tho
Nine People Burned To
Death In Rail Crash
Madrid, May 20,
Nine people were burned to death when railway trucka containing petrol crashed into an express train near Santiago de Compostela in. Galicin tonight.
PEKING
were say
scene of a Pan-American Air-the
The French ways strato-cruiser wreck in European Army. the Brazilian Jungle
that the Anglo-American ofter Brazilian code as laid down in the
peace released today Any parachutists had sent an contracts should be applied to
French and Belgian troopa ultimatum to their captors.
'group
on "un-
wero The captors of parachutists.
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were
2.
TICANTY
'appearing in the
"The Night
20th Century Fus Marie'
New Loveliness
3. Are parts of the contracts for
to come into operation before
This point was expocted to loft over to the Foreign
part to the Allies in Germany after the end of the Occupation
A usually, reliable source said
Tokyo, May 21. Pelding Radio claimed today that Dr Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury, and his wife ‘ar- rived in Peking by air yesterday The captors agreed to release ratification by all cruntries? after an invitation from the their hostages; after the Army
rushed ba Communist Chinese Peace Comparachutists, who mittee to visit the Chinese main in three plones to the scene of Minsters
West Germany's cash sup- threatened to the crash, had land-Reuter.
them by force. free
The airliner crashed in the Jungle on April 20 almost. 1,000 The Latest Atomic miles north of Rio de Janeiro, that the latest Germm proposal passengers and put forward by the Finance killing the 41
Minister offered to split the Achievement: crew of nine.
available carh850,000,000 marica New York, May 20.
fortunis in diamonds was monthly almost equally between The other even dead and tho |
Brookhaven The
to have been aboard West Germany and the Allies but only if the United States zupplied: two injured were among 14 Laboratory's giant atom
today 'produced for the first It: was understood today that the West German divisions with Pangers in the coach.
time by man particles of energy arrangements were being made heavy weapons and if American by credits would be made available equal to that of high energy to evacuate, everybody cosmic rays more than 1,000,hücopter and light planes.to fmncy investments in West,
000,000 volts-United Press,
Germany' armaments industries, Reuter...
The express, travelling from The driver and fireman.of the Madrid to Sontlogo, caught fire. express were burned to death an
Two other people were the engine was reduced
shell.
seriously injured.
Eleven wagons, two contain- ing petrol and one nicotiel, brokto away from a goods train further up the line and crashed head on into the expres2, t
to a
One of the runaway wagons The engine and a first class was loaded with several tons of catch were immediately en- the explosive trillito, but this did veloped in a raging inferno. not Ignite-Reuter.
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