1952-08-14 — Page 1

CORRECT on all occasions

VULCAIN

SWISS

MADE

COMMENT OF

THE

Retail Fish

Prices

on

many

T is the duty of members of the Urban Council to devote careful attention to the question of the high prices of better gradea of fish rotalled in the markets. This is no new problem; It has called for editorial comment occasions, but official con- cern has not manifested itself to any great degros. Government's preoccupation has been with developing scheme and the encourage ment. of co-operatives among the producers. Both

the wholesale fish marketing

CHINA

No. 35280

Established: 1845 –

THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1952.

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MAIL

Twelve Reported Killed In Alexandria Rioting

Cotton Mills, Petrol

Egypt's

5 Seconds

Between Life

Station Set On Fire New Taxes And Death

Alexandria, Aug. 13.

Unofficial reports said ten workers and two policemen were killed and 200 people were injured in today's riots in the Alexandria area.

The workers set fire to a petrol station and cotton stores and smashed and set fire to most of projects have enjoyed the 40,000 spindles and automatic looms.

substantial measure of But, us we have SUCCERA,

several times insisted, the benefits from the

fish marketing operation have stopped short with the fishermen. Improved flehing facilities and methods, and the encouragement which the fishermen have received from the profitable market- ing of their catches have

They also blocked the road to Alexandria to prevent fire brigades reaching Kafr el Dawar.

The demonstrators were reported to have fired on army units rushed to the scene.

Explained

Budget Must Be Balanced

Amary,

Cairo, Aug. 13. Minister, Abdul Gelil el The Egyptian Finance

explained today that the леw "moderate soak the rich" taxation Premier Aly Maher's Gov- ernment, was a measure "to realise social justice."

Strong mechanised units of the Egyptian army to-policy, announced carller by night occupied the riot-torn fire-gutted industrial area of Kafr el Dawar after 24 hours of armed clashes between workers and police.

resulted in an abundance Eden's Wedding of fish being available for the local market. It only required such a situation,

argued Government, for retail prices to find

趄

reasonable level,

fortunately this has

happened. Those

not who

desire the better quality

tinue to be controlled by

Police Take

an

"The economic policy of the The former Prime Minister, Hussein Sirry, Chairman of the Government, in view of recent Misr Weaving

calty and Spinning developments,

for Company, vainly tried personally adequate increase in the re- to persuade the workers to ro- sources of the Budget to achieve a balance. Every care is taken tum to their jobs.

The company's General Man- so that moderate incomes will ager, Hussein el Gammal, was not be affected but only large stoned by

He was commenting on the

Precautions Engineers and technicians who

the angry strikers, incomes," he said.

planned

same civic

London, Aug. 13.

Army

office jam-packed effect on retail prices. A the whole busy Victorin district. Fald. freer and wider distribu- Mr Eden

were reinforcements and Mr Churchill tion system suggests itself both draw crowds like Holly- rushed to the mills at Katr el as one remedy, although it wood stars here and the Police Dawar "the is a matter for speculation are king

SYMPATHY STRIKE. whether the plan advocated epetition of the Taylor serum-

ble.

no chances

a. Egypt,"

on

Oxford, Aur. 13. Five seconda saved s boy's to when the wall of Els home in Union Street, Woodstock, near Oxford, trench ¡fell today. Into a

being der out for a new. Bower.

Arotzed from sleep the father, Robert Aver, went to his son's bedroom, hear

ing a noise "like an earth- quake"

The floor was sloping at asteep angle, and he saw Robert, sed seven, İying in bed with a big siogo around his head.

The father had just reached the foot of the stairs..when the rest of the wall fell in

on. the bed. "If I had been five seconds Iates, Robert would have. been killed"--Reuter,

Britain's First Atomic Plant

the

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120 Ft Fall Down

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Explorer's Back Feared Broken

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Japanese

The Crime Minister

Exeter, Auf. 13.

A boy scout who dropped ripe plums on two church dignitaries from a tower of Exeter Cathedral has beet punished by his fellow' Bouts by having potatoes dropped on him from a tali. trees

Mr E. Hart head verger of the Cathedral, sald today he had had a letter from the sout patrol leader thanking him for "much an enjoyable and interesting afternoon in the Cathedral

The patrol leader added: "We are sorry about the plums which

throw

tnt he has been punished by standing under a tall free while someone dropped potatoes on him "Reuter,

Bodies Of

while being hauled to the Mountaineers

surface today...

Fellow members of the expedi tion, exploring the 1,060 feet deep Pierre St Martin cave, found their companion, Marcel Loubens, lying unconscious with an injured back. They feared it was broken.

They expected raising the in- Jured-man by electric winch and cable to be a tricky and dan- gerous operation.

Loubens was the first person down the shaft of the immense pothole six days

ago.

Found

Death From. Cold And Exposure

Grenoble, Aug. 13. The bodies of two British climbers on the Melje Peak,

Before the accident, the party second highest in the Dau- found a second cavern joined by phine Alps, were found to e passage to the Elizabeth day by a guide over 3,300 Castores Grotio" they were ex-yards up on the Tabuchet

that the ploring They reported

twb caverns were roughly of the glacier.

same size.

Enormous rocks, some as big as six-storey buildings, Olled the underground chambers,

A

In denso snow they apparent- ly missed the Aigle (Eagle) re. fuge hut, where they planned to shelter for the night. Struggling down to the right hand edge of the glacier, below the refuge hut, go any were unable to they further and died of cold and ex- posture.

The guide, Talon, from, La Drave, at the foot. of the moun tain, round the men, when climb- ing today to the Aigle, He had not heard they were missing and did not know who they were.

returned to ----La-

He

-Drave,

Reverses A Custom

Tokyo, Aug. 13. *Japan's Foreign Minister,' Mr. Okazaki, reversed diplo matic custom and called on- the US Ambassador, Mr. Robert Murphy, - today - to discuss the sentencing of two Britlah sailors by a Japanese court in Kobe as well as the deadlocked négo- tiations for agreement on a definite status for United Nations forces in Japan.

Details of the conversation were not disclosed but the meet-. Ing caused a flood of evidently inspired stories In the popular Press claiming that Me Okazaki had found the Anglo-Americap attitude over the Kobe case "not as stir as previously bellaved.

Reports said this Was causing the Japanese Foreign Office to assume an i optimistic view for

carly solution of the dis pulc!"

un'

By custom, it is ambassadore

who visit a Foreign Minister. Mr Okazaki's - action is: Inters. prated as showing that the Japanese desire, to mollity the Americans and cause a split in Anglo-American the

present

* Meanwhile' the

as unacceptablo

joint front aver the question of peachnel. Juristiotion over United Nationa Japaneso Foreign Omer met another re

court ruled buff as the Kobe

"prominent British resident of Tokyo"

Persian Nazis Stage Raids

Teberan, Aug. 13. Twenty-one persons with clubs and wearing Persian Nazi uni- forms and armbands stormed Into the Russian and Hungarian reading

rooms Loaight-and wrecked their interiors.

to mediate were also rough- taxation polley approved by the ly handled.

Cabinet last night which in- The workers of the Misr cludes a new ten per cent tax fish havo still to pay dis- The 'Pollee, who earned a

crowds ran wild Weaving and Spinning Company on transfers abroad, designed proportionate prices in the lesson when

spending went on strike in protest against to prevent excessive markets.

at

The were Dr Alfred Schwelt- who had offered to oot dal the the wedding of screen star Elizabeth Taylor last winter.

the dismissal of a number of overseas; tax on movable assets

de raised by one fellow workers and were

per cent to 17

zer, 43, and Mr Philip Faricer, sailors: custodian. when they FROM the housewives point

were roused on baik. today to rovo off

cent; per

and higher income.

42.

The court to insisting that of view, Government's Caxton Hall when the Foreign manding better oxidilions and taxes on salaries and wages,

(From Chapman Pinchor) post-war system of offering Secretary, Mr Anthony Eden, higher wages.

The two men had been miss-elther a British or a Japanese Order was restored following with progressive rates.

Mine was sent to the

of War asking for aing for five days. They ap- official assumo custody... market Atali altos

London, Aug. 13. by marries Mr Winston Churchill's

The Finance Minister pointed a broadcast by Egypt's "strong Auction has not proved | nicco,

Churchill, on Clarissa

man

General Mohammed out that the ten per cent tax The British Government belopte ta be sent urgently parenity, reached, the summalt Loidon Express Service

area to

and were on the' beneficial. The stalls con- "Thursday".

Mias Taylor's

marriage to Naguib, that acters would be on money transferred abroad, has decided to begin bulld-to

affects only holidaymakersting Britain's first atomle mured man to hospital. He way down the north side, when

had SERUM DROPPED

rgised Inter,

caught in a sudden storm on monopoly with its customary Michael Wilding in the Punished as traitors.

is my last warning," he does not apply to exchange plant for generating clectri-

night! Saturday tractions such.

remit- JUB

A French Air tances

Force plane to- 10

missions city within the next four students,

'night dow over the entrance to abroad

and funds paid months. going

the Pierre St Martin abyss, and Lancashire of for

imports.

Is to

More than £1,000,000 have dropped a container with serum "Our policy

prevent

for an experi- and

supplies. other medical 1 Soon excessive spending by holiday been allotted

-afterwards 自门 ambulance Abdul Gelil mental uranium

power "pile" makers abroad,"

from Pau arrived at the foot of at Harwell atam station. Amary said.

mountain with rescue team The Harwell security "tence" the i The tax Increase on movable

a collapsible sledge extended to carrying and is to be greatly property and commercial industrial prodits, the Minister take i

land already and other rescue equipment. more

"A Paris surgeon specialising in stressed, is only one per cent, owned by Government.

fractures waa on his way to the from 16 to 17.

Mr Duncan Sandys,

spot at the request of Madame Supply Minister, is expected to Loubens.

details of the give further

The Prefect of the Basques Department sent a re- Pyrences scheme when Parliamen

special winch-and a mio car assembles in October

Government

maintain scientists have to

communications been ready to go ahead between the cave explorers

experiments for

camp at the cave entrance and alam power several months but construc- the nearest township.

Details of M., Loubens fall an-Hon has been delayed for two a new pay scale for reasons:

1, Mr R.. A, Butler, Chan- non-commissioned officers and cellor of the Exchequer, would men of the Egyptian Army.

there was a possibility that it soldier is raised from one Egypt might have to be shelved later fan pound and five shillings to two Egyptian pounds. Allow to save money;

for married personnel

in the atomic are involved ances have not yet been fixed.

M. Loubens fell sheer for Meanwhile, it was announced weapons test in Australia.

The power pile will be fuelled that General Mohammed Naguib

by a specially rich form of about 30 feet on to a heap of loose stones and then bounced leader of the recent milliary

uranium

The intense heat produced from rock to rock to the bottom coup d'etat, has set up`a poli- tical and military liaison com-

will drive a steam turbine which of the cave-Reuter, mittee to co-ordinate co-optation will generate, electricity through between Government and By strikincial and

swiftly in the a dynamo,

With With economie

this plant scientists hope to be able to decide Bebis particularly by rev whether it is practicable to use lutionary agrarian reforms General Nagulb has shocked the uranium Instead of coal na a source of power in Britain and politicians and big Landowners the Commonwealth 'but won immense popularity

Freeing coal for export would with, the massca.

strengthen Britain's greatly OWNERSHIP LAND

economic position London Ex- Command is press press Service. - The Army

for Imitations of Jard ownership to 200 acres and the class of small- creation of a

"the" rents of and house

Soon afterwards several by Mr Brook Bernacchi

hand- thousand workers at Moharrem of the The marriage would break

the laan

old Foreign|| Bey some 55 - year

the outskirts of monopoly. A consumers' co- Secretary

and Miss Churchill Alexandria struck in sympathy operative society, the will be performed at 10.48 am | with the Misr Mills' workers. members of which would GMT by the Registrar, Mr Street fighting broke out and purchase fish from market D. Holiday, who married the troops were drafted into the area.

INCOME TAX stalls under its control, Wildings it wil take place in Five workers and one policeman

Income tax ranges from two "Marriage Room" were reported killed. would probably be the most

which holds 20 people, The

per cent on the first 120 Egyptian Sicel-helmeted police patrolled effective method of bringing Prime Minister sent masses of Alexandria in Jeeps and lorries, pounds to 80 per cent on income

exceeding retail prices down to their tower

50,000 Egyptian up from his country Troops guarded · key buildings proper level. Government home today to bank around the and foreign consulates,

pounds per annum,

(Tho Egyptian pound is General Naguib addressed his is going out of its way bare little room.

our pound equivalent to and

rightly som-to The Prime Minister is taking broadcast appeal to all sections encourage Our fishermen a deep personal as well as of the population, the working sixpence sterling.)

also The Government class in particular.” the marriage and market gardeners to family interest in

Peace and

and order

must be 'form their own co- expected

of his "Crown Prince" and is no at may price, he said,

to sign the Register operatives: similar

the public to main- encouragement to con-will be Mr Eden's elder brother,

the idea Sir Timothy Eden, the holder of may attain the goal it has set valuable a 300-year-old title. United to make every citizen happy and

prosperous"

Individual or collective grie vances must be settled through the

channels, proper lawful General Norulb sud

sumers to adopt might produce results.

ns

nounced

and

Α

were disclosed here this evening.

pulley of the winch gave way when he hea and this halted the ascent,

After an hour the pulley was

At the Soviet Embassy, reading room on Stalin Avenue near the windows and doors, smashed Russian Embassy, they brofte of Stalin and Lenin, portraits where his description enabled tore down the Red dags and them to do identified as the ripped portraits of Soviet leaders

from the

also walls. They climbers, missing el

destroyed Communist literature. Because of the distance, tho

a triadicto They then rude in a Makkenow still on the fee the Hungarian Legation reading

nightfall, it was decided

room, several blocks away, and ⚫ party of guides

Party members, munist Tudeh morrow morning to bring down when they heard of the raids, the bodics.

rooms while they searched for sent men to guard the reading the marauders. Informed sources the Russiansand believed Husgarians are considering 'gro- tests-United Press.

and

a witness. The other witness He called that the country | The maŋthly salary of a private/ Dot sanction the scherne while been hauled up some 20 metres | police would leave Briancen repeated their vandalisin, j

Press.

ANDREX- Cleansing Tissues

Pure white absorbent strong and extra soft

fain calm

General Naguib sakt "any per- son or group of persons threaten ingle break the peace or at- tempting to disturb public order shall be considered traitors to the country and punished necording- ly."—Reuter,

£56,000 Offer

For Stamp

Vienna Aug. 13. An offer of 4,000,000 schill Inge (£60,000) has been made

Carinthia, for at Millstatt, stamped letter dated 1839, the (Vienna *** newspaper

:official, of the

political,

ing

lowering

ateral land.

Moscow,

1

2. Many key-men'at Harwell and the surface tram

De Schweizer, father of two childre Was a Professor of

During began hauling. this second stage of the excent Physiology at London Univer

sity, and Mir. Parker was the wire rope broke.

Professor of Physics.--Renter.

Korea War Losses

-Washington, Aug. 13: The Department of Defence announced today that during the past week American Inssea, în Korea had risen to 114,688.

Of these, 10,079 had been killed, 84,020 had been wounded,

12,630 wwero missing. and

France-Presse,

Children's Corner Article

Creates Disturbances

Kanpur, India, Aug. 18.

Invercasen in indirect 4axation Oesterreich reported todayques render and abolishing the recent

the overburdened

poorer conference of exports at which Millstatt stated that the stamp classes,

Kamet el

el Bindart, commonly was issued

"privileged by a

Royal and Im-known as "the Red Pusha" and

Kanpur police today charged with wooden staves to perial Government" and could formerly Egyptian Minister in

break up three "Black Flag" procesalons organised by be regarded

Paracolaimed today valid Government lauo... General Naguib's movement as Moslems in the second day of disturbances here in pro- revolt of the test against a "children's corner" article on the prophet This i claimed to bo the oldest used postage stamp In

Mohammed published in an Allahabad newspaper." the world, the newspaper sald. British experts consider the 1840 British "panny Black" as the first genuine postage stamp.

Reuter,

therefore be

Calls On Minister

Egyptian people.

With the reshuffle of the Egyptian diplomatie representa-

One policeman was injured, paper Amrita Patriko, tonight a statement from Cal- on abroad, the Aly Maher when demonstrators pelted the issued Government is studying tho problem of the terms of the police with bricks. He was the cutta asneumeing that he had and the dis- only casualty reported so far. ordered apologies to be inserted credentials of new

Heavy rainforcements of police in the newspaper responsible - Foreign Ministry

and provincial armed conata-missal of the rubeditor in charge surdo disclosed here today,ky bulary were

were tonight patrolling of the "ildren's corner

"May. I appeal to my Moslem This source fold Beuter, that the

the sincero the Government is at presently disturbances followed brethren to accept

apologies alrendy published, a sounding the attitude of coin Teheran, Aug. 15,-

tries which have not yet a day of demonstrations yester also this statement of mine, and The British Charge d'Affaires recognised the now Royal title as day in which 200 people were to treat the matter as closed, ho

arrested.

sald. "I have given, a stript in Teheran, Mr George Middle-

ms protested that warning to the editor of the The Moslems). ton, yesterday called on Iran's Ring of Egypt. and the Sudan."

The

source indicated that the article on tha prophet Hindi edition of Amrita Patrika now Foreign Minister, Husain Premier Aly. Staher is seeking

Mohammed. was mischievous to be very careful in future so Nawab, setting in train a now "some workable compromise on serica. of speculation about a this knotty problem of protoco" and aburive" and offended their that nothing is published which might hurt the religious muscept- posible resumption of folks pending an agreed settlement of religious husceptibilities,

Tushar Kanti Gjosh, Director bilkies of any community between the Anglo-Iranian Of Suden's political future

Reuter, Company and Persis. Heuter

in charge of the Allahabad-news-} Router, N

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