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COMMENT OF THE DAY

Lyttelton's Concession

Ik hurdly likely that the

I beth key but the

Colony's constitutional re- formers will be wholly satisfied with Mr Oliver": Lyttelton's House of Cam- made mons statement

yesterday. The measure of immediate reform which the Secretary of State for the Colonies hus approved amounts to an increase of

elected two

unofficial members

Urban of the

not Council. But he does

feel the present time oppor- tune for constitutional changes of a more major character.. Most will agree with Mr Lyttelton that at this time it would be more than ordinarily difficult and complicated a task to intro- duce reforms such as the creation of a Municipal Council or reconstituting the Legislature in such a manner as to furnish it with an Unofficial majority, and for the time being the Colony can well afford to reat content with the pro- posed enlargement of the Urban Council- which is already carrying out the basic functions of a Municipal Council, and whose duties are likely to be still further widened. In authorising an increase of two elected members the

Secretary of State is going way towards satis-

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STATE OF EMERGENCY IN KENYA 23 Dead

Troops Arrive Gold Coins

By Air

130 AFRICANS ARRESTED

London, Oct. 20.

British Fusiliers flew into Nairobi tonight and the entire Kenya colony was put under a state of emergency to aid the fight against the anti- European native. Mau Mau terrorists.

As the state of emergency was proclaimed, police swooped to arrest more than 130 Africans suspected of being members of the Mau Mau, the Colonial Office announced here.

The Fusiliers, first of a battalion to be airlifted to Kenya from the Suez Canal Zone, went straight into prepared barracks.

Sir Evelyn Baring, after less than a month in the Colony as Governor, said today: "We have reached an

Galore

London, Oct, 20. Sixty thousand "replica sovereigna" indistinguish- able from British sovereigns except in miner detalls — turned up in Saudi Arabia, li was learned hero today.

The news

lias unsettled

the

world market In sovereigns, it was reported. Two months ago a Swing Federal Court refused to extradite two men socused of producing sovereigna and other gold coins Italy, ruling

In that tho

not

be

sovereign could counterfeited because

was no longer legal tender in Britain.

The British Treasury raid the Sovereign wa

the still legal tender. in official Britlab view. bovereigns are made only at British Royal mints and all others are counter- felt. Renter.

OPIUM

extremely serious position and we must take steps to SMUGGLING

restore inw and order and protect the lives of innocent people."

situation in

£158-

will find them in

CHARGES DISMISSED

No US Jurisdiction

more

a British

tanker

of

and found 111

while

In Train

The Duke Fires An Owen Gun Accident

During his recent tour of 'Malaya with his mother, the Duke of Kent was given the opportunity of trying his hand on an Owen gun, · The Duke la seen here in Daily action on the range at Kusla Kuba” Bahru,

Express Photograph.

US Aid For Indo-China Likely

If Chinese Communists Commit Aggression

Washington, Oct. 20.

Authoritative sources said today that a firm commitment by the United States to rush air and naval aid to Indo-China in the event of Chinese aggression there may result from the top-secret five-power mili- tary conference on defence of Southeast Asia, held in the National Defence Department earlier this month.

Coaches Derailed

Johannesburg, Oct, 20. Twenty three persons were killed and about 40 injured when 10 coaches of the night mail train · from. Durban to Johannesburg were derailed on Monday.

Tho accident occurred at about Heaventree,

12 miles north of Estcourt, Natul,. early. Monday morning.

The trein was

moving at high speed when the leading couches jumped the rails on a wide curve. Three

wootien conches were telescoped and

ground to splinters: A fourth swung around, blocking another line and coming to rest on top of another

cooch.

The dead and injured were

Indians mainly

people.

and coloured

Passengers climbed

from the

train in the darkness amid the eries of the injured.

With flickering lanterns, the trains crew searched under the wreckage for people planed down by twisted metal and carriage-work and sought to tree them with crewbars and jacks,

The injured were Iald in rows near some African huts, but

no bandages or medical help Was available until a doctor arrived from Estcourt.

情

He was joined later by others. Ambulances man a

shuttle service, to a hospital at Lady- smith.

A specially chartered plane flew a supply of blood and Berum from Durban to the

hospital-Associated Press.

Drummond Murder

They said the recommendations of this conference had been re-New Arrest ferred to the governments of the United States, Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand for governmental approval..

Atomic War Prediction

London, Oct. 20.

An atomic World War

Made

to United States approval de- previously trained soldiers pends on the administration aid the French troops.

Digne, France, Oct. 20. that will come into power as a Deem Van Long, president of

The police today made a result of the November 4 elec- the Confederation of Thal, which ttons.

embraces about 500,000 mountain new arrest in the case of the The sources also understood

people

raiso murder of British food ex- is expected to that at this conference recom- around 10,000 regular and par- pert Sir Jack Drummond, mendations were #made

tisan soldiers to fight alongside that

Australia should rush what the French against Communist his wife and 11-year-old

ever

air and naval support led Vietminh. could be made available at

mended.

..

The state of emergency will was denied certain emotion

freedom outlets, "he give the police more body

Mau Mau, who claim they will societies." to rout out the ringleaders of other ways, including secret

drive the white nian out of The state ot emergency in Kenya,

Kenya does not mean Martial The newly-arrived troops will Law but it crables the authorl- not take part in arrests them-ties there to take action without selves,

legal formalities. Their actions

Philadelphia, Oct. 20. The rest of the Fusiliers bat are reviewed afterwards. Tuesday and Wednesday. At the empowered under an order fallon will reach Nairobi on The Kenya Government

Three Chinese seamen to- in day were dismissed on same time a battalion of the Counall of 1939, to make coer- fying the demand made by King's African Rifles has been gerey regulations, but the order charges that they conspired the existing Council whose

moved across the frontier from of a state of emergency had to to smuggle

than members feel that they are Tanganyika, and a further two be approved by Mr Lytteltoer. $1,000,000-worth.... 1of raw not sufficiently numerical companies of the Rines from There have been more than 40

murders, 13 of them within the opium into the United States tu deal most effectively with Uganda.

The timing of arrests

aboard and last five weeks in Kenya, and their incrensing functions.

murder attempts and when the United States been many movements Moreover, Mr Lyttelton's troopted by the Colonial Office woundings. Catile on European Commissioner ruled that the proposition will bring the

and the Middle East Command.

farms have been slaughtered, United States had no juris- number of elected represen-

Lyttelton, Mr Oliver

the and huts burned Router.

GOVERNOR'S tatives in fairer balance to

STATEMENT diction in the case and that Colonial Secretary, will make a the number of nominated

Nairobi, Oct. 20. statement in the House of Com-

It was a matter for British Sir Evelyn Baring, Governor Unofficials and will give the mons on Tuesday, in which he

courts. of Kenya, sald tonight-after public a feeling, of being will give reasons for the arrests.

SITUATION WORSENS

signing the proclamation declar- Nang Chong Jong, 35, of moro adequately repre-

Thia Foochow, China, a storekeeper sented. It is possible that

Strong action was decided on ing a state of emergency——

ing to the rapid grave step has been taken most on the tanker Silverdale, and recently Mr Lyttelton's brief

daughter.' willingly and with great re- two seamen, Ah Tal, 43, of Foo deterioratioing to

Van Long made the announce- Sir Jack and his family were ference to constitutional Kenya. Between September 13 luctance by the Government of chow, and Long Ah Woo, 60, reform of IL "major and September 30 there were 13 Kenya, but there is no alterna-Singapore, were arrested when

forces by the United Chau, · 200 miles

ofing alongside a road in Southern character" may leave the murders and three suicides at- tive in the face of mounting Federal agents swarmed over the will probably last only a few ground bore is not of ment at the That capital, Lai sinio last August 6 while camp-

In lawlessness

Hanoi, to. Gen, Raoul Salan, France. in_part_of_thu}***** impression-that-the-mattertributed to the. Mau Mau.

was re- weeks with an overwhelming States or Australia of narcotics as the-versel pounds Colony

French Commander - in - Chief, been "-TECOTIK="

Officials who have been- has been abandoned for all October there were another four

docked at the oil refinery pler. victory for one side or the ported to have

and

Jean Letourneau, French murders,

the including

He added there was no other time. It is inconceivable nesination of one of the most method of keeping the peace aboard ship

Other crewmen were detained other, according to a mill-

Minister to Indo-China. The two working on the case ever sinco took a 30-year-old metal KEY TO SE ASIA Customs tary expert's forecast in the

French officials made a

wide that he intends to convey

Senior and protecting the lives and

worker, who lives near revered African chiefs,

agents continued to search for Buch a meaning; neverthe-

aerial tour of the fighting zones, scene of the triple slaying into Chief Waruhlu.

property of the innocent of all

1952 edition of Brassey's additional

They recalled that when the which the Vietminh arc narcotics, less a reassuring statement There have been more than races.

British officers testified that Annual, the armed forces Australian Prime Minister, Mr tinuing to assault French out-custody at Avignon. There was from Government that a 40 known murders and many Sir Evelyn said all possible Nang and Ah Tal were caught year-book, published today. Robert Menzies, was here this

posts, of i measures more substantial measure instances of Intimidation

were being takon to

smoking oplum pipes while the

the National Lo. 100 miles prevent disorders and to main tanker was off the Azores and Nelson Barclay,

The writer, Brigadier Cyril summer constitutional reform witnesses.

sald It is Defence and State Departments Hanol. sinister factor has taln essential services.

that Long offered the captain probable one side will be found that Indo-China must not be The Vietminh overran another identity of the owner of the Seen that recent Mau Mau

He declared that the "mea- end the chief engineer of the

up by Communist French outpost, Gin Hol, eight | ident terrorists have been armed with sures taken by the Government ship $1,000 each to

preponderate in types of swallowed forget the

olomic weapon, technique of Chin

China in the event of aggres- miles northwest of Nghal Lo on rifle used in the

were both firearms, whereas earlier they are aimed at those, and at those charges.

employment and possibly defension by latter,

because Monday, as the French defenders Jack and his wife had only knives.

only, who in the opinion of the FOR BRITISH COURTS

Indo-China was the key to mado a fighting withdrawal and shot while 11-year-old Elizabeth Was clubbed to in London is that Government Opinion

are responsible,

The Commissioner ruled. thet) Brigadier Barclay dwelt on Southeast Asia and that aren succeeded in joining up with Drummond

with the rife' butt has directly

indirectly. Jor

"um-other French unitsAssociated death since the opium smoking and the

possibility of atomic constituted

Associated Press. present

shieldirir her from Pross Anding of narcotics occurred for weapons, being turned to the brella". Mr. Po Yi-po, Peking's there was no alternative in face state of disorder in part of the outside United States territorial destruction of enemy crops and

direct aggression. Minister of Finance, and of mounting

The sources understood that Government have

waters and aboard British bringing about sterility in the

Australian experts at this con- published in the Cominform violence and disorder in a part

matter for land.

ference intention of penalising anyone ship, it would be a

urged the This seemed feasible on a of the colony.

United States experts to The early Mau Mau crimes merely on pccount of his poll- the British courts.

recommenrį tical views. Moreover, the

The three seamen were then considerable scale, he wrote.

enough air. and naval support were perpetrated at night and

In his opinion the existence the custody of thei support released in

to halt a Chinese offensive by: stealth, but the terrorists Government intend

The have

Federal of atomic weapons reduced the against Indo-China. They also becume progressively and protect loyal and peace ship's officers. bolder.

able citizens of all

races." agents said they would continue chances of a third World War. understood that the United

to hold the seized opium.

Should it come, however, Lear States was ready to enforce a The Silverdale has on her af reprisals might confine the

Com- complete blockade maiden voyage with a crew fighting to conventional type munist China in the event of recruited in Singapore when weapons. the Incident occurred. The "Although we may surmise aggression by the latter against Indo-China and that Australia Port Collector, Michael Bradley, that the United States has and New Zealand were in com- explained that the altipper, substantial lead in (atomic) Captain D. B. Edgar, told the development, this is not certain, usual Customs incn who board-scerecy in stomie matters is not ed the ship about finding 50 dimcult to maintain, and it may Federal be that the Soviet Union is better of opium. pounds

we imagine," agents, then uncovered an ad-equipped then

Barclay. ditional 81 pounds.

Brigadier

wrote.- Captain Edgar discounted re- Router. ports that the crow becaman

of

will be considered in the future would be welcome.

The Right Phrase

N

unusual

article

A recently been written by

Journal. In it he offers an estimate of the number of opponents liquidated by the Chinase Communists on the mainland. Governments are usually reticent about the number of people they have killed even the Nazis did not like the statistics to be

Another

though emergency artiliebance, violence and for ne

lawlessness,

There was evidence that-Reuter.

terror had already resulted in a holdup of economic develop- ment, potential investors in known. But Fo coolly in- capital projects having been alarmed by the deterioration in

situation.

the

Responsibility for the terror campaign is believed to extend secret beyond the Mau Mau society itself, which may have

.1

Mad Sailor Climbs Into Palace Grounds

no

London, Oct. 20. An Irlah Beaman climbed wall around Buckingham Palace today and ran into the arms of policeman

Queen patrolling Elizabeth's garden.

He

E

to

sivo measures.

forms his readers that “In the past five years we have liquidated more than two million bandits, Bandits are non-existent in China now. and the social order has been only a tool. become stable an never NO IMMEDIATE TRIAL

arrested before." This extraordinary

Men who have been admission emanates from à will probably be moved to a city which is not only the detention area in the northern police stationed and taken to mutinous during the voyage Death Of Basil

province of Kenya. A judicial station, where doctora United Press. investigation will take later.

administrative capital of China, but, as one 'comment-

Tho

Radford

he told

the

Austraila's

pleto agreement.

of

They added, however, that the British seemed to think a block- ade would not hurt Communist China very much, but Britain in that event would probably along with the other countries in enforcing, a blockade-United

Pross

Gold Seized On Hongkong Ship

до

HEAVY FIGHTING

Hanol, Oct. 20. declared him of unsound mint, place

Vietminh troops clashed with and he was transferred to a

London, Oct 20.

French Union forces hospital. ator has observed, is, the

in' beavy Arrested persons will not im-

Four patrol cars rushed to BROWDERS

Basil Radford, famous for his 6ghting between the Red and New Jerusalem for many mediately be brought to trial, the Palace, the 'Queen's London

stage and screen role of Black rivers in northwestern 'The fanatics and nemo, idealists

on Monday, purposo of emergency home, after a woman who saw throughout Asia and it

loving Englishman, died in chief of Thai mountain tribes powers is to enable the ex- the sailor climbing telephoned DENY CHARGE public school cricket Indo-China

'ordered a "mobilisation ́of 'all' comes at the moment when tcutive to act without judicial an alarm Palace police were

hospital here today. a. Communist "pence" con- processes.

also alerted.

New York, Oct. 20. Eight days ago he collapsed any in the House of forence is being held in the Earlier today in

Later officials examined the

The former American Com- during a cabaret turn in esmo city. How will it Commons, Mr Lyttelton said he wall for possible defects in the munist Party secretary, Earl West End restaurant,

was not criticising missionaries wires and spikes on top. Barbed Browder, and his wife RalaRadford, 55, had been in ill bo received by the outside or the Kenya Government when wire was recently added to the Irene, pleaded not guilty today health for the past five years. world, and what will future he said last week that the sup helf-mile long wall There is to charges tint they had

His recent fans included: British visitors invited to pression of tribal dances by also a "Uve":

alarm wire.

to obtain her American sithen- "Dead of Night," "Passport to Peking say to their hosts the missionaries had given an Other security

Singapore, Oct. 21, devices include

chip.

"Quartet. Reu- Pimlico," and

Thirteen hundred Laels "The nocial order has impetus to secret societies.

secret system connected with

Their counsel,

John

for

gold and 183 taels of gold-colns, Tribal

controlled the Information become stable as nover

Hon Room of Scot Rogge, said he needed time to

valued at about 8$300,000, were ut missionary byo-lancing is

Land Yard, London Police Head prepare before," says To. "As never

their case, societies naturally and

and rightly

Axed November 17 for New York, Oct. 20.

TV To Distraction sized yesterday when Customs officers raided the 3,439-ton Ha! controlled by concealed argument on defence motions. The Nazis in their oxtinct taking part in certain dances

Hing when he arrived from wiring.

Browder ned hul wife, were ion of the Jews and the held to be incompatible with Extra precautions were taken allowed $2,500 ball.

Bir Frank Walsh put a bullet Japan and Hongkong en route through his television; not last to Hangoon), Russian Communists in the Christian faith," he said. after a man broke into the The American Communist night because “it was playing Two membera

of the crow their slaughter of their⠀ It was important to roallas, Palace two years ago and stola Party, dimmimed Browder In too loud,”

ware arrested, and will appear " opponents took for longer. however, that if the African a despatch boot-outer.

1940-Raubours,

The wet was ruined,Router." in court, today-United Press.

bofore" is the right phrase.dvise their followers against Lighting automatic flood judgu

· Mr

of

the

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after capturing Nghal no_im

immediate northwest of

an

Late charge filed. This

followed unconament officers had finally learned the

crime." Sir.

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