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Kingdom Of Jordan Intrigue-Ridden,

DANGER But Outwardly Calm

DAYS

HIS is the party season

Tin London, and not only

for the young. For while debutantes and their mothers worry their pretty and (apparently) contem porary heads about who goes where and with whom In their circle, their fathers and brothers and husbands are deeply committed to re- gimental reunions, office dinners, and sherry partles given by their old house- masters on the ove dreary cricket matches.

This is a tough time of year for men; and every morning is to turn out to likely morning after.

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Amman, July 16,

Although all the ingredients are here for a first-class political explosion, the intrigue-ridden Kingdom of Jordan remains outwardly calm.

On the surface, the country, appears made to order for agitators. King Talal is mentally fl His Illness has produced a tug-of-war for control of the throne in- volving Jordan's relations with Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Britain.

Top-level intrigues are paralleled by widespread misery among Jordan's lower classes. Refugees living in camps and caves form a majority of the country's popula tion. Without their meagre United Nations rations, half Jordan's population would starve,

of Red China

A

the other

Two young men, well, rela-

came into tively young, dock at Bow Street the morning after. One had been a bomb aimer with Bomber Com- mand in his day. He was now quantity surveyor. The other had been a captain in the Army and was now a clerk is same firm as his friend.

•

the

(0 SUMMET

THEY had been together

one of these

parties.

Recognises

Two Geneva

Conventions

Opportunists would seize on such conditions quickly for poli- ileal advantage in most Arab states.

Jordan, But in

life moves along quietly. A bit of tension can be noted in the re- strained whispers in coffee shopa and the exaggerated cau- tion shown when politics is men- tianed. But forces working for stability here far outweigh those making for trouble.

The strong-fisted policy of

Minister

Tewtile Padha Prime Aboul Huda mininaises the possibility of political disorder. Although Jordan theoretically in constitutional monarchy, Aboul

Pasha has. Huda

taken almost totalitarian powere the current ericin. The

a

govern- iron

Established 1845

WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1952.

India's President Plants Trees

as he performs the traditional President Rajendra Prasad of India, scen

when he planted a Mango sapling in the Presidential Tree Planting Ceremony --

-London Express, Estate Nursery in New Delhi, recently,

JAPANESE

DIPLOMATS

SELECTED

London, July 15. A Peking broadcast said tonight that the Chinese Communist Government has

two

interna-coposition la intimidated, Press and had somehow recognised

of censorship allows the conventions end tional found themselves, at the

Geneva on war prisoners ment to work behind on

curtain of secrecy.

Tokyo, July 15. and germ warfare.

Legitimate opposition in Jor-

The Japanese. Govern- The broadcast monitored dan gravitates around ex-Prime here quoted two statements by Minister Samir Pasha Hifas. ment today named Red Premier

Foreign This group is friendly to Iraq | officially three diplomatic It was one of those things Minister, Chou En-lal, on July and devoted to the late King envoys and a Consul-General

's/Abdulloh

of it, in possession of a red lamp such as the railways use

to hitch to the rear of a train show that it is not

to

front.

the

that in July may happen 10 anyone, part of the peel of the season

At Victoria Station, on the underground platform, a rail way policeman saw these two ex-heroes with their lamp. Не went to the ex-captain, who was carrying the lamp, and sald to him: "Er....what you doing with that lamp?"

"It was given to me," ex-captain said, with a smile.

"You want to go and get some medal ribbons, old boy," the ex-bomb almer said to the policeman.

•

•

the

your police-

"TM not satisfied with

explanation," the man sold to tho ex-captain, "you'd better come along with me"

the

Take hun, take me," ex-bomb aimer said herolcally. The policeman obligingly took them both to the police sta- tion.

On the way the ex-bomb dimer tried a little rough stuff on the policeman, but the only result of that was that a second

charge, of assault, was lald

against him when they got there. "How did you come by the lamp?" the couple were asked. "Actually." the RAF man said, "sort of student type 'gave it us." His friend agreed.

they were brought to Bow Street,

NEXT moming

13:

"The

and

central

Government of the

Republic of China has examin-

ed the protocol for prohibition

LYING • LOW The opposition bloc is lying low and biding its time during of the use of asphyxiating, Aboul Huda Pushe's regime.

and

for

90

121-

in the second major, ap. pointment of Foreign ser- vice officials since Japan re- gained her sovereignty.

poisonous or other gases

Its leaders upcak against the

Foreign Minister Katsue Oka~! of bacteriological warfare con-

zakl presented a list to Prime cluded on June 17, 1925, and Everment, but they do

the name

with qualifica- Minister Shigeru Yoshida and of guardedly and acceded to in

tions, Already, Samir Rifa's

to have obtained. was reported Chion on August 7, 1929,

approval "The Central People's Gov-brother Munir is in the Amman

spreading rumours An official announcement of ernment considers that the said

Farhan the to the against Aboul Huda. protocol is conducive

the appointments will be made provocn

another opposition when diplomatic "agreements" of international Shubaliat strengthening

leader, is confined his village have been received from the

to and is in peace and security

Tee-foreign governments with humanitarian on the same charge. conformity

of potential

the unofficial list was Lesser forms principles, and therefore has

Crushed before Tautomu Nishiyama, adviser to decided to recognisy the ac opposition are

begin. Labour unions Kobe Steel Works who has been cession of the protocol,

have been eliminated from the named for the New Delhi post. head. The others were Shunichi Kase, Trade union

to Talpel, Shin Nablus have been former "The Central People's Gov-quarters in

Kimizuka, locked ernment shall undertake to im- closed, the doors

nailed up. In Business Enterprise for Brazil plement strictly provisions of the windows

camps of the Southern and Ken Ninomiya, former Yoku- the protocol provided all other prison

Bank branch Specie desert contracting and acceded

50 to 100 suspected hamna

manager at Peking, as Consul- General in Singapore. The The second statement

of the

SLOW PROGRESS thing about same other conventions cortvention iccal papers is

UNDERTAKING.

they

scene.

band

observe them reciprocally Communists.

a series of No Press is tightly censored.

said the

throne crisis in restricted al-

Slow

for the amelioration of condi- moet entirely to scanty govern- | arvoys

communiques, Llons of the wounded and dick ment

Former Red

Official Sentenced

Johannesburg, July 15. Moses Kotane, an exocu- tive member of the African National Congress, WAS found guilty today on charge of contravening the Suppression of Communism Act and was sentenced to four months' hard labour,

He was released on ball £15 pending an appeal, Kolane, a former Gen. ral-Secretary of the Com- in South monist

Party Africa, was slated to have attended a meeting in de- the Act. llance of the

In a statement which he read to the Court, Kotane said that he was not a∙com- but his mon law-breaker sets were inspired by a do- sire to help his own people who were landless, huDĖTY and victus of discrimin- *atory lawa-Beater.

of Toyama World Argosy

progress in appolating to such major Asian and Pakistan Outside nations as India

and abroad.

in the armed forces in the field, newspapers and periodicals are has aroused criticism both here convention for the amelioration carefully screened.

of conditions of the wounded wounded

China.

at

con-

British

1

Lai the

༣

Tourists

Here

Twenty-six Amerlern students,

the 1932

Youth

to

Whiteson Inquiry Continues

·(Continued from Page 1)

with the Court that ballast meant that she was carrying no cargo.

Witness said he could not say whether Capt. Blaikie was present when the agent signed the receipt for the loadline certificate in his office.

Whiteson

Questioned on his statement that he had told Copt. Blaikie "the condition of the ship thot he was taking away", Mr Col- lings said that the had leaked on a voyage from Swatow and Canton and as t the result of that information, loadline certificate was taken away from heri

FAST FAULT

that there was a possibility of its recurring.

Asked whether he had actual- Ly told Capt: Blaikie

that It was a calculated risk and so that the |forth; Collings sald

same words were, mentioned at |a"later"périod to a representa=" ive of the Tak Kee Shipping Co.

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The Sudan: British Attitude Is Unchanged

London, July 16. Britain has emphatically reaffirmed in Washington her standpoint on the status of the Sudan.

It was re-stated yesterday by the British Ambassador, Sic Oliver Franks, in his talk with the United States Secretary of State, Mr Dean Acheson, it was learned from a usually well anformed source,

A Foreign Office spokesman, discounting today reports that the United States had pressed Britain to recognise King Farouk's title to the Sudan, said yesterday's meeting with Mr Acheson was on British Initiative.

"The United States Godern- ment," he said, "Is well aware of the British view that there can be no change in the status of the Sudan without consultation with the Sudanese,”

The spokesman said Britain

of considered that recognition King Farouk's claim to be King of the Surian could be

in

the held to imply a change status of the Sudan and many Sudanese would so interpret it "The United States GovETI-

the ment,"

spokesman

con- tinued, "is natumlly concerned about Que effect which the failure to get over this obstacle has had on Anglo-Egyptian re- do- Jallons and Middle East fence.

Living Language

Why we say Go to the wall.

.The wenkest are sald to "go to the wall," which reminds us of the city streets in the Middle Ages which were high in the middle and filled with refuse: The vigorous would walk down the middle and thrust, the weaker and infrm to take the muddy path under the walls.

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 15 By Alr

Malaya, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, 4.30 p.m., c.P.A.

"We share its concern," he Formosa, 4.30 pm. HK. Airways, Blam, E. India, W. Pakistan, said.

Middle East, Africa, Great Britain, "The British Government have | Europe, 4.30 pin, 8.0.A.C.

Japan, Korea, 4.30 pmn., B.O.A.C. welcomed attempts by Egypt to

By Burfica and a way of removing

this

Macao, 1 ping、0 p.m., m - Lou obstacle through direct consulta Hong/Tak Bhing, tions with certain

New Zealand. 2 pmn. Australia, sections of

manking. Sudanese opinian. But the

Miaute Mainyn, Ceylon, Aden. British Government have put no past, Great Britalo, Europe, a pam.. pressure and will put nd pres- City of Karachi.

Philippines, 2 p.m., se Trafalgar. sure on the Sudanese to decide

HudSDAY, JULY "£7 one

By Alr

way or the other," the spokesman added.Reuter,

Radio Hongkong

Philippines, Guam, Hawall, San. Francisco, Noon, via P.A.A.

Indo-China, France, French North & West Afriën. 4.30 Dan.... Air Vist- nam.

Philippines, N. Borneo, 4.30 p.m. C.P.A.

Síam, E. & W. Pakistan, Middle East, Afrter, Great Britain, Europe, 4.30 p.m., B.O.A.C..

By BurfacD Macao. 1 pm: & p., za Hong/Tak Shing.

Chine, Prople's Repúblic, 930 am, train via Canton.

Lke

Formosa, @ a.m. sa Wing Bang. Malaya. 2 D... Helipa.

FRIDAY, JULY 1

By Air Japan, Canada, U.B.A..

a.m..

Thai

H.K.T. 5. Programims Summary: 4.02 Questioned further, Mr Col-

"Caribbean Journey"-Portrait of

(BBCTS)-presented linga agreed that his statement | Trinidad

by referred to a past

Wril- fault and Wynford Vaughan' Th¬mSE and

Leo. ten

produced by murd Cottrell; 0.30. Forens Band- stand-A

the Band Concert by of 1st Batt. Royal Ulster Rufies. by Kind Permission of Lt. Colonel J. Drummond, D90 cond. by Mrvia C.P.A.L A. W. Soars (Concert Hall); 7, "Lucky Burma, E. India, A., Dip"-Variety Requests presented by Always. Margherita (Studio): 7.89. Weather Formona, Japan, 2 p.m.,.CAT. Report; &, Time Signal, World News Formosa, Okinawa, Japan, Seattle, Canada, -4:30p.m. 1.KA/NWAL and News Talk (London Remy): 6.15.

Blam, Musle from Holland-Folksongs and

Burina, E.

W. India, Country Dances (RNTS)Orchestra, Pakistan, Middle East, Africa, Great

Britain, Europe, 4.30 p.m.. B.O.A.C./ Mixed Choir and Boloists of Radio

N. Borneo, Australia, New Zea Nederland cond, by Felix De Nobel; 9.30, Orchestra of the Week-City ofland, 4.30 p.m., Q.E.A. Birmingham Orchestra: 9. Mario Malaya, Indonesia, Ceylon, W. Lanza sings: 915, Pamela Brown, India, 4.30 p.m., B.O.A.C. Alea Clunes in "The Lady's not for

ily Surface burning (BDCT8)-A Comedy by Macao. 1 pm 0 pm., 19. Lee Christopher Fry: 11. Radio Newsreel | Hong/Tak Buing. (London Relay): 11.10, Goodnight

China, People's Republic, ·.B.30- Music; 11.29, Weather Report: God a.m., śrain via Canton, Bave The Queen; 11,30, Close down. Indo-China, 2 p.m.,

it

Asked whether in his opinion was probable that the leak of the ship would occur again, witness replied that he thought it probably would if the ship ran into heavy weather.

Witness 'sald the loadline certi- ficate issued to the Whiteson laid down certain conditions, one, of which was that the ship should

colour or

be

ballast.

In reply to another question, Collings said that if he personally had thought the weather condi tions were not favourable, he would have rung up the officer in charge of the Clearance Office

Aboul Huda's power stems The New Dash assignment members of

Jordan's unique presented the greatest difficulty. World Argosy Touran editch and sick and shipwrecked of in part from

nonprofit appointment was tional Al-Nishiyama's sca, colle

Parliamentary cituation. the armed forces

tho

government

three other can- organisation designed to the fourth, vention relative

to the treat-though

to Parliament, of war and responsible

didates having refused to accept travel opportunities for young

means of limited ment of prisoners

to civilian two-thirds vole is necessary to the post for various reasons.

people convention relative

The All force a Prime Minister's re-

Ambassadership to study reconstruction work in persons in time of war,

It other lands and foster goodwill remained open, on signation, virtually an impossi-Pakistan were

Geneva signed in August 12, 1949. In the name of bility.

was unofficially reported that irrespective of race, Perhaps more Important is the Foreign Minkter is negotin croed arrived by Pan Ameri- with Tomohiko Ushiba, can Airway at Kal Tak from and there before Sir Laurence The Secretary of State, Mr the power of the Arab Legion g

by Headed

aficers official of the Japan Export Im- Tokyo this morning. Dunne, they both

pleaded Dean Acheson, set forth the

under

legendary Glubb port Bank,

but his acceptance Members of the teaching American position on germ

Pasha, this crack force every- is seen unlikely because of

these fession, warfare at a Vienna press con- where is in evidence to usure poor health, ference on June 30, when a law and order. The slightest Most of the delay stertoned! making the worldwide trip do to request him not to issue the'

educational purposes Communist reporter asked why crime rarely goes unpunished from Premier Yochida's policy the United States had not signed and any organised

public do-

in seeking men for diplomatie guin college credits. They have loadline cortineate until the heard the Geneva convention on genn

already visited Honolulu and monstration спо bo quelled posts

who are experienced in warfare. Mr Acheson replied

fed quickly.Associated Press,

businces rather than political Japan. that the United States wanted

affairs-United Press. all weapons of destruction to be banned in an International Dis

Commission with armament

of enforce- adequate powers ment-United Presa.

guilty to being in possession of n red lamp reasonably suspect- ed of having been clolen

or

to

otherwise unlawfully obtained. No

one secreed to know whom the Lamp, which was brought into court, rightfully belonged. The bomb aimer pleaded guilty also to the na- sault.

the The story was told to chief'magistrate. The bomb aimer said, "This sort student feller gave it us, he was pretty drunk.

of

"What on earth made you assault, the officer?" Sir Lau- renco - asked:

"Very sorry about that, I'm afraid it was drink,"

Now it was

Was

Princess

Marriage

And

London, July 15

the

Disturbance In Calcutta

Calcutta, July 15.

More than 60 persons

were

Benefit Of Doubt

students

and

to

further from him (witness).

Asked whether he had seen a news item in the South China They will remain, until next Morning Post on July 3 about a Monday:

typhoon originating in the Philip- The party was met at the pines, witness replied that-he had no idea and had not seen Airport by Mrs Elaine N. Davies: It. He added that the Thura- Assistant Public Relations Officer And Mins Dorothy Lee, Principal day was a that after he had

sunny day,

Youth Welfare Ofoer of the Government Social Welfare come on board the Whiteson on Office. Their programme whilst in July 9 to make a final review of the Colony is being arranged and the ship, he was satisfied with carried out by the Government the condition of the ship.

-Hearing is continuing. Public Relations Office,

"

injured in Calcutta today as the A man alleged to have plek police arrested 25 marchers ined the pocket of a delective on the more for

food" rally which a tramacar in Johnston Read The group is led by Professor the captain's

developed into a near riot, was released at Central this J. Harold Tarbell, Professor of turn, and his story

The Labour (Opposition) The demonstration of an morning by Mir Hin-thing Lo, Economics, Lafayette College,

him the benent of Easton, Pa. more complicated. "I took the member of Parliament, Mr R. estimated 3,000 person was whe lamp out of the hand; of the Stokes, fold the House of Com-organised by Left Wing political the doubt.

The tour, which will extend chop," te said, : "because Imons today that Princess Mer- parties and started with the

Wong Sun. 18. unemployed, thought he might shove it out garet, 21, the Queen's sister, purpose of defying the palice, in pleaded not guilty to picking Into August, Includes visits to of the train and start us off should be free to marry whom an attempt to bring Eastern fountain pen from the pocket Bangkok, Calcutta, New Delhi, before time. Public safety."* she pleased but hoped she would India's near famine to the of DPC 1853, Kwong Pui- Karachi, Beirut, Coiro, Rome,

Paris and then to New York. sounded I

a philanthropie not choose a foreigner. vetion, until you pused consider since when a do Asked why, Mr Stoices replied: qre lots of eligible bachelors here."

started before or after time at

of red lamp.

A

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TRUCE TALKS

RECESSED

Munsan, July 16. The Communists today (Wed- nesday) asked for a second two- day recess in the truce talks und the United Nations immediately When the Communists asked for the first recess, there was speculation that the Communist truce, negotiators in Panmunjom might have to refer certain prob. Jems to high levels, for Anal de- Perform

the showing

Minister, chu notice of the Prime

on Sunday fast.

gave. évi complainant Nehru, Club-swinging police forced dence that while he was rland- the demonstrators back as they ing on the crowded third clar He was speaking in the second attempted to enter the residen- compartment of a tramcar, he INTELLIGENCE TEST SOLUTION agreed. reading of the Civil List Billtial quarter, but some succeeded felt Homcono from behind

his

from his breast barrier

pen don's attach', ang im- providing finances, for the Royal In penetrating the police "I portance to the term, Household Reuter

and swept into the wide residen- pocket.

being

The pea was tial arct

hallway out of streets before

mounted the pocket, when complainant forced back by the

around. Seeing defen- bombs,

turned A second demonstration start dant standing directly behind

Lad

Sir Lourenco „said, “I don't think you moant to steal

it.

That charge is diamissed." He after them to await claim by police and by tear gas turned to the ex-bomb aimer its lawful owners. The two

In discharging Wong who

and aid: "If the policeman man left the court. Who knewed as the first was broken up. him, be arrested him. had been hurt by your assault what hazanda lay ahead of them The shouting crowds proclaimed. you would have gone to priam, that night, or the night after, their intention of sitting in the denied the offence, the Magis

or the morning after the night road outside the Siale Legislatrate pointed out the absence As it is, you will pay. 20.” **

The two wore shown out,atter?

are dangerous ture until their grievances were of corroborative evidence by the and the lamp was conded out days for men.

recognised,United Preat

Thoica

Prosecution.

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believed that the Com- munists asked for a second recess in order, to give them ample time to study Aliled proposals and tap out their replyUnited Press.

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