the
Foreseeable
Washington, May 28. Mr William Douglas, Supreme Court Justice, said yesterday that if the Soviet took over the Middle East and Asla the United States could not win a war against theen,
He said: "I personally do not think there will be war with Russia, now or in the foreseeable future. Russia will not move unless it gets the balance of the political power of the world, Which lles in Asia and the Middle East."
He said the United Slateя should prevent that by adopting toward those
arens an attitude of "liberty
and justice rather than guns and dollars."
He emphasised that the East WAS now emerging from a "feudal systern in which their entire wealth was dominated by a few
men."
The great problem is a poll- tical one and we should support the new leaders of the people,' be added.
Saying that these new leaders included the Prime Minister of India, Mr Jawaharlal Nehru, and the Prime Minister of Iran, Dr Mohammed Mossadegh. Mr Douglas declared: "Both Nahru au Mossadegh have the In- terest of the people at heart and will do a lot for India and Persia." United Press.
would
that
olggest "I admit the prudbury cun|monace in his area if war broke get their men out if they wanted out. However, he added 10," this officer said, but they enemy aircraft are "also very
ways of much in the picture," have so many better communications it is doubtful if they would risk having a man captured with important Infor- on him." Associated mation Press.
A Singapore
Innovation
Singapore, May 29. The Singapore Government has agreed to the formation of "Council for Negotiations" for employees in the junior grade at the Government subordinate staff and general clerical service. These include clerks, typists, telephone operators, messengers and others.
The Council is on the lines of the Whitley councils in Britain.
Its object will be to secure the greatest measure of co- operation between Government
servants and civil
to increase efficiency,
The Council will also consider the provision of machinery for dealing with grievances.-Rou→
ter.
UNION WARNS Air Force-To-
SHIPOWNERS
San Francisco, May 28. Harry Lundeberg, powerfu} chief of the AFL Sallors Union
Pacifle, warned West of the Const shipowners today that his men were prepared to stay on sirike Indefinitely.
The
Mr Lundeberg said, Union is in a strong position. It will have shipa chartered by the Military Sea Transport Service De a cushion to maintain em- ployment.
The shipowners cannot win" He added that his Union had $170,000 in its Treasury-United Press.
A
Literacy Talks In Manila
Manila, May 29.
serica of literacy con-
Be Reorganised
WO
As for the development of naval warfare techniques, Adm. McCormick said, "I think have made considerable ad- vances in anti-submarine war- fare which are keeping up with submarine advances.'
the quality of Asked about Soviet seamanship, the admiral said that "with the aid of Ger- man material and experience we discount the naval and
can by no means officiency of Soviet maritime forces."
He declined to comment on Alled naval organization in the Mediterranean, saying the com- mand structure there is up be- fore his NATO superiors- Associated Press.
Cocoanut
Industry Fails
Manila, Liny 29.
The virtual collapse of the Philippine cocoanut industry is attributable to the world situation, declared the Commerce Secretary, Cornello Balmaceda, last night.
The three cents per pound excise tax by the United States Congress on cocoanut all mert ly contributed to the downfall of the industry, Balmaceda ex- plained.
Future CDC Schemes To
Be Vetted
(Our Own Correspondent, London, May 28. The Government is to vel Colonial Development schemes in Corporation future it was announced, in the House of Lords tonight of Munster, the Under-Secretary by the Earl
Colonial Office.
"We can
to
Staff
Lom Bomb of the north- ndon Express.
Man Found
Hanged
A 54-year-old Chinese, Chan Man-wal, was found hanged in a water closet at 280 Prince Edward Rond early this morning.
Chan was a relative of the Inmates of the pre- mises and it is believed ho committed suicide because he was out of work and depressed,
have no repetition Stole
of the disastrous groundnut and Gambia egg schemes," he said.
Before
scheme is G new launched, the Colonial Secretary will require enough information from the Corporation to judge good case has been made
11
cut.
Votes
At Convention
Allegation
someone out- He will expect
Washington, May 28. side the Corporation to share the risk-It may be some free Senator
Cabot Henry enterprise body, in a colony or
Massachusetts, at home, or a colonial govern-Lodge of
Eisen-
ment.
Munster.
frther
Furt of Appeal Chief Justice, Sir howe, and the two Puise Judges, Mr Justice Gould and Mr Justice Reece,
The Hon. Leo d'Aknada. QC, Mr Percy Chen and Mr Brook Bernacchi are appearing for the appellants, and Mr A. Hooton, acting Solicitor-General is for the Crown.
успе
dlsorderly
de MacDonald told Chat it appeared the endant had been trying around with the second Pafendant's girl. The pair were arrested by a Police patrol in Statue Square. Second deter dant was taken to hospital and treated for superficial abrasions.
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Sik Governor,
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by Mr Bernacchi that there was Relay);
case to
to answer as regards Weather Report:
second defen-Queen: 11.30, Close Down. said
Mr Hooton
reading
lability of the dant,
from the typed script. Bernacchi had submitted that second defendent was
printer within the meaning of section 13 Control of Publications of the Ordinance. He also had sub- Imitted that there was no case to go to the Jury in respect of all three defendants in view of evidence
raised examination.
BELOW SURFACE EARTHQUAKE
Berkeley, Calif., May 28:
A moderate earthquake was recorded at 8.10 a.m., GMT to day, lasting one hour and prob- the region in cross-ably centred in
around Japan, the University ot. California seismographic station reported.
These submissions, Mr Hooton shid, were ruled against by the Trial Judge who also ruled that there was a case to go to the Jury.
At the end of the Prosecution's caso the position was, there evidence was
facic prima
He would against appellants, not refer to the second defen- dant because he was acquitted.
MAIN DEFENCE
General Dwight The Corporation must keep hower's campaign manager,
Then Mr Chen opened the speculative projects down to the
today charged that Texas
Defence,
the Solicitor-General sold the Earl of minimum,'
supporters of Senator
said and commenced to road it Robert Taft stole votes at great length. The main de "wholesale" at the State fence, he said, Avas quite clear-
that they
were preventing the news as a whole and that Republican convention.
was no sedicus inten-
Lord Ogmore (Socialist) said the Corporation's annual report shows that it has to carry a 195 of £45 million, but he was led
to believe that the figure s nearer, $0 million,
He said that the only cure fo Manila, May 28,
the industry would be immediate
He and other peers urged the Colonel Carmelo Z. Barbero, industrialisation. The abolition Government to let the Corpora- personnel
1lon write off the losses. chief of the Armed of the excise tax would merely Forces of the Philippines, an- put the industry
Lard Munster refuted. nounced today that a complete footing, with other sources of the reorganisation of the Philippine industrial oil in regions Air Force would be effected
the United States. next Monday.
on
*an
even
nearer
Urging the diversification of The new Alr stuff will be production, he said that leaning placed under Lieutenant-Colonel heavily on a few industries Uke Benito Ebuen, new Commanding copra and oil would result in the Officer of the Air Force, and a complete recession of industry In pro- the event the market collapsed recommendation for his
motion to the rank of full as happened-France-Presse. Colonel is at present pending in the Molacanan Palace, it was stated. Reuter.
Message To The OEEC
Strasbourg, May 26,
Illegal Use Of Bright Lights
Bank Workers Strike Threat
Senator Taft'a campaign there. manager, Mr Henry Zqeigel,
tion that the Texas Re
Mr Hooton next read the retorted publicans have a right to statements made by the two
infiltration prevent
into their appellants from the dock. Their ranke by New Deal Democrats". defence was, he said, that they
Lix other presidential race had no seditious intention. developments, Senator: Richard
The Solicitor-General remark- Russell of Georgia (Democrat)ed that in view of the criticisin
at Senator Estes Koduver of of the Trial Judge's summing Tennessee by a three 10 ono up it was fair to say, that his margin in eir contest for Lordship never commented upon Florida's 24 national conven- the defendants, not going into tken delegates...
the
witness: box. The evidence of subsequent Defence witnesses was next read.
HIS FIRST VOTES-
Manila, May 20. Employees of the National City Bank of New York Vice-President Alben Bark- Coming to the 17th witness, Mir threatened to strike today in ley, who has not, said whether Hoolon zald that she said that protest against the dismissal of he is a presidential candidate, he was knocked down by
with a WPS Ramon Reyes, President of the got his first national convention Police car. She
when' Democrats in his friend at the time and this friend National City Bank Employees voles
home State of Kentucky plodged Union.
gave corroborative evidènce.
Mr Chen then made his finci The Bank discharged Reyes their 20 votes to him.", dri on the grounds that his services The Texas conventions of address, in which he pressed the and Re-Defence that this was a repro- Democrats Advising defendants to as- were unsatisfactory and the both certain the arcas In
which
management had lost confidence publicans were split by internal, duction of a news item, and that
and wrangling
cach fishing is allowed, | in him.
Party the events of March 1 were bright light
the when
girl 123 an ulti-elected two delegations to the caused The Consultative Assembly of Mr T. D. Low at the Marine The Union served
national conventions.
knocked down by a Police car. ferences presided by Dr Frank the Council of Europe today Court this morning fined Lo
malum on the management, In Connecticut, General
Hearing is continuing. C. Laubach, the internationally accepted a draft mesange to the Wah-kon, 30, and Loung Hung, threatening.
to strike unless
Eisenhower known nuthority on literney Organisation for European Eco-18, fishermen, $10 each fur Reyes
reinstated
pocketed 30 of the lin-
Stott's 22 delegates, lifting him campaigns and teaching methods, nomie Co-Operation (GEEC) ex- violating the regulatlans,
mediately.
into a neck and neck raca will be held
Defendants were arrested off here beginning pressing concern over the "in-
huck Juan Tan, President of the from today, it was announced creasing obstacles placed in the the Standard Oil Installation lu Federation of Free Workers, to with Senator Taft for delegats INTELLIGENCE TEST SOLUTION Inst night by the National way of European exports to the Shamshuipo early this morning which the Bank Union 18 tuppor
y over Russell's Christian United States and the "per- while using bright lamps fur filliated, charged that the, die Federation
Senator Kefauver In Florida Churches.
missal of Reyes was in reprisal deve im vital Southern sup of the European dollar Ashing..... Dr. Laubach arrived here on
Appearing on remand, Chan for his having led a strice Wednesday by air from Malaya, Only 80 of the 132 members Kal. 31, was fined $50 for keeps ngainst the Bank about two bort to counter the Democratic "Fair Deal" platform at the where he delivered lectures at of the Assembly were presenting an unlicensed sampan for months ago. the invitation of the Malayan
national convention, United. Press. government.---Srance-Fresgo.·*
of
were
for the vote but all of them hire at Lalchikok Beach IustThat strike Jasted only a few approved the message-Router.
days-United Press.
Sunday,
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m and n are both positive
No the DOTE bursaries.
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· London Kapress-Bergles..
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U.S... Canada, 3 p.m., P.A.A. Japan. p.m., 1.0.A.C. Indo-China, France, French North & West-Africa. 6 p.m., Air Vietnam.
Blam. 5 p.m.. That Airways,
By Burface
Maeno. 1 p.m.; 5 p.m., as Lea Hang Tik Bunga
China, People's Republic, 0.30 am. 6 p.m., train via Canton, a
Formosa, 2 p.m.. sy-Bhengking. Slam, 2 p.m., ma Harmella; Malaya. Indonesia, 1.0). p.m.. lwengi.
Sunday, June 19
By Gurface Macno, 1 pim., via as Fatahan.
GENERAL HOLIDAY MONDAY, JUNE 2 By Alt A Philippines, Cuam, Hawaii, USA., Noon, via Peň.A.
Formosa, Japan, 1 p.m., ÇÁT. Malaya, Indonesia,, Australia, Now Zealand; 6 p.m., C.P.A.
Galbraith
"All this government graft! Hadn't you. better return those cigars the people on your mail route gave you inr
Christmas?"
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