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VULCAIN

SWISS

MADE

COMMENT OF

THE DAY

Freeing Sterling

Id

courac

the

of their economie discussiona during the weekend the British Commonwealth Prime Ministers have linked to the question of Sterling convertibility the

pro- position of obtaining American sanction to an increase in the world price of gold. This manoeuvre is seen as a powerful safeguard

for the future of Sterling in the event of a serious recession. But there are a number of other vital factors

upon which can

vertibility is dependent if it is to realise the aspira

tions of those who are

aponsoring such a move, They are underlined by. The Economist in a recent aur- vey of the subject. One is

the willingness of the States to offer

United

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CHINA MAIL

No. 35373

Established: 1845

MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1952.

CYCLONE DISASTER

Hundreds Injured "Strong Man" And Brother

In S.

BIG

༣

S. African Township

AREA FLATTENED NEAR JOHANNESBURG

Johannesburg, Nov. 30.

More than 400 non-Europeans were injured when a cyclone struck the Albertynesville location| on the outskirts of Johannesburg tonight.

Hospitals reported at 10 p.m. (local time) that there were 10 deaths but that many more were ex- pected.

"We are too busy caring for the injured- they're coming in hundreds-to worry about further aid to the Sterling! bodies now," said the hospital director at the big another the desira- non-European Baragwanath Hospital a few miles bility of a programme for from the location.

area;

deliberate disinflation in thei

Commonwealth. The secondi

Within a few minutes of the tragedy more

proposition would be based than 200 volunteer nursing personnel were rushed

mainly on a sharp cut in the to the scene.

uneconomic industrialisation!

The fire brigade used searchlights to light the

programmes of the Sterling scene for rescue workers.

dominions and on tho Special radio appeals were broadcast for blood and within a few moments of the appeal there was a mile-long traffic jam at the transfusion centre.

switching of resources in Britain from the consumer goods industries into capital goods industries. In fact, It is suggested, a programme of, this sort will be needed

whother дл advance to Sterling convertibility is 'attempted or not.

ANOTHER proposal is that

not

The cyclone flattened about two square miles in tho centre of the township.

Early reports said 400 natives had been admitted to hospital, and that urgent appeals had been broadcast for blood donors, doctors and nurses,

An official at a "non-European" hospital near here sald' casualties were being brought in by the hundreds by

Fifteen people were killed by lightning during thunder- storms on the Witwatersrand and in Pretoria during the weekend.-Associated Press and Reuter,

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"Polish Tito" Expected To Be Put On Trial COMMUNISTS' NEXT SHOW

London, Dec. 1. The next big Communist show trial may be staged in Poland, with Wladislaw Gomulka, one time Vice Premier and Communist Party boss, in the role of a "Polish Tito," according to indications from the Polish press and radio...

Gomulke, 47, once described by his aides as "The Little Stalin", has been under arrest for 12 months. His case bears a striking resemblance to that of Rudolf Slansky, sentenced to be hanged by a Prague Court last week,

.*

....

Slansky WA9 formerly Gomulka was- un obvious Eccretary-General of the choice for Cabinet office when Czechoslovak Communist Parly, Poland's and he too had held the office government of Vice Premier.

ed to

pro-Soviet postwar Boy Found

SHAU

formod Ho became Vice Premier and con tinued as party boss. The name at Gomulko fea-

He in reported to have had a tured during the Slansky trial. considerable personal following Mosho Pijade, Speaker of the in

This may

explain Yugoslav Assembly, was aller-the arit

process of Badun have

told Israeli this demotion and disgrace. journalist Mordecal Tren that Warsaw Radio reported on Slansky agreed to the Yugo- October 31 last year that both slay plan for the Czechs, and Gomulka zet Spychalski will be that Gomulka supported ajbrought to trial for "ontl

Government” activities." Their similar plan for the Polcs.

mmunity from arrest as Parlia- mentary deputies was removed the same day-Reuter.

Slansky himself told the court that Gomulka "played the same role in Poland" 'as he did in Czechoslovakia,

Trybuna Ladu, the Pollsh Communist

paper, promptly sald issue. It

took

the up

Gomulka's assignment In Po

not only resembled

land

Stansky's

but

in

Czechoslovakia STOP PRESS

that of Laszlo Hajk in Hungary and Traicho Kostov

in Bulgaria.

Rajk,

EXECUTED

former Hungarian Foreign Minister and Minister of the Interiør, was executed 13 October 1949.

Hostov, former Deputy Pro mier of Bulgaria, was executed la December 1940,

Both were arraigned at show'

Cyclone

trials on the familiar charges-m Death Toll

ecaplonage, treasons, conspiracy: against the state, and trying to turn their

(anti-Colo another

YUZOLAVIA.

In Trance With Head Shaved

WID

Nairobi, Nov. 30. A 18-year-old, Aslan boy, with his ayah ...... (African nursemaid),

found wandering in a trance and with his head shaved today. The child, was found by special police la an African quarter of the city.

A search was immediately bo- gun for the nyah, who was engaged by the boy's parents only a few hours before the ab- duction,

d by:

WAS

Police and City Council en ployees today completed ! an Investigation of Nairobi'a gutted Burma market, '', which

fre Last week. reported they Hack found ong rifle barrel, one 45- calibre revolver and a number of pangus (African immives). They also found. seven blcycles and seven sacks of brass on the Kochambers of the Kikuru Johannesburg, NÓV. More than 30 persons were tribe in Kenya bave been The campaign against killed at 500 injured when arrested ...on suspicion Gomulks now is being stepped tomado struck the native town-

to shoot th attempting

Father P WATERW Radio reported ship of Albertynesville, about 18 that at a meeting in the Polish miles from Johannesburg, 10- McGut, a Romah Catholic priest, inthe, Klamby reserve inst capital on November 27 he was night.

week, police today

announced accused of having attempted to About 1,000 poopic -the over In the Gotundarva - of the

subordinate the workers of whelming majority

Kiambu resorve, police today. Foland to the leadership of the white queued up at the blood seized 15 head of cattic, 25 sheep transfusion theadquarters in London, Nov. 30. reactionary bourgeoisie."

and-goats and three bicycles Premier Boleslaw Bierut and Johannesburg In response to an under the new Special DLirieka Winston Churchill, 78 today, leaders

British Prime Minister

other high party and state appeal for blood donors.

attended this meeting, cut his 40-lb. birthday cake, Indicating official approval of decorated with an olive this line.

Celebrates

Semiramis Hotel in Calro Winston are General Aly Naguib" (left) and his brother, Egyptian Prime Minister. General. Mohammed. Naguib. The party was, given in General Aly's honour prior to his depar- ture from Egypt to become Egyptian ambassador in Syria, London Express.

Birthday

a

Catholic Party Win Gaol Break branch and in verso, at his

Saar

Election

Saarbruccken, Nov, 80.

The clear victory of the Catholic Party In the Saar elections was no longer in any serious doubt when four-

By 9 Convicts

family birthday party here tonight.

'Every year the design and decorations of Mr Churchill'. birthday are kept secret to libe last moment,

up.

Minister of Reconstructián. -

TREASON TRIAL

of

them

The tomado covered a limited Ordinance following the dis arca, striking several small covery of a Mau Mau meeting.

Reuter. tawas west of Johannesburg, but although there was some damage Another prominent Pole loc- to houses is these towns Chere THE DIEHARDS”

trial is General were no serious casualties outside ng probable Marian Spychalski, former Albertynesville police.

BACK HOME: Throughout the night-

Southampton, Nova 30,- doctors and volunteer helpers The First Battalion of the worked by the light of ambulance Middlesex Regiment, first At a Warsaw treeson trial of searchlights, motorcar headlights English unit to serve in Korea under the U.N. flag, returned high army officers in July last and hand torches,

Hall and olecrie storms were home today after three and a year, it

Wis alleged that

had planned to breaking over scatterer pain half years overseas duty. Spychalski overthrow the Government with the Transvaal province when The batailor, whose niet-

| Albertynesville was struck.- the old of armed forces,

name is has been gradual since he was

Reuter The disgrace

Gomutica of relieved of his post Secretary-General of the Polish Communist Party in less than 12 months after he

SU

ambulance and private care. cushion for an experl- Police, doctors and volunteer helpers, working by the ment in convertibility should Hght of ambulance searchlights, motorcar headlights and

take the form (of) American grants-in-aid, but hand torchen, were unable to estimate the number of dead, for the American central which was believed considerable. They feared many bodies banking system to accept would be found in the debris,

Hail and electric storms were breaking over acattered payment for part of any American surplus in a new parts of the Transvaal province when Albertynesville was sort of

claim

other struck. on countries' resources, on the analogy of the credit lines now granted to one another by European countries under the European Payments Union. It would also be necessary to take steps to ensure that the Americans were not asked to take up more of these claims than they were willing to hold. One method of doing this! the would be to enable Americans to restrict, at

Last year the calce wa's shoped like, his well-known black bat their own volition, the

and surmounted with a plaque. volume of American goods

Pittsburgh, Nov. 30. This year it was oval-shaped which foreigners could" buy, but in addition any coun- fifths of the votes had been counted at 11 GMT tonight.escaped today from Western cake was packed with Nine dangerous convicts with representations in coloured

ling of the four seasons. tries that kept on running

Even Out of 453,902 votes cast,]

if all spolled voting Pennsylvania penitentiary cherries Mr. Churchill's favour- debt would have to Into yield to the international spoiled ballots totalled between papers and all abstentions were after locking five guards in He truth.

to be counted as voted for re-

The family party included his authorities managing the 25 and 20 per cent.

valid the

votes the union with Germany, it would a cell.

Оле men Wps recaptured 90 daughters and son-in-laws. new payments system Catholles had 60 per cent, the mean that only 28 out of every powers that have hitherto Socialists 32 per cent, the Com-100

half hour after the They ate the calce to the accom Snarlanders bad within a adult

ΟΙ the Cominform (grouping escape was discovered. He was caniment of family boasts and attended the foundation meeting been regarded as the in- munists nine per cent and the voted for Germany,

seized just outside the wall of glasses of champagne,

Mr Churchill spent most of held in Warsaw.

of European Communist parties) violable. prerogative of Reople's Democratie Parly three To this, the German opposition the prison and did not offer re the day inspecting hundreds of national economic sovereign- per cent.

leaders point out that they have stance." These are proposals

Six of the men made their greetings messages he had re- The charge against him was

Tito nationallam," "pro Those who stayed away from not been given a fair chance to

ceived from all over the world. from which, conceivably, the Con- the polls totalled seven per cent state their case to the popula getaway in

In January, 1949, he lost his posts Vice-Premier and monwealth Prime Ministers of 480,120 registered voters in Lion. They have been prohibited Plymouth sedan stolen from a These included wishes are taking into consideration the districts where

from holding meetings, organis prison guard. No trace of the heads of foreign states and pinister of Recovered Teril

unknown admirers other two could be found. during their current discus-was completed,

ing parties and from printing son officials Jisted the eight from expensive and presents varies. In November of that

gifts to humble

year he was removed from the bunches of flowers. sions. They may be felt to As counted voles neared the and openly circulating papers in

Central Committee of what had men at large as. Andrew White,

THE VERSE be insufficient for the aims 100,000 figure the trend manifest Saarland.

The verse

then become the Polish United on the cake, com- in view, but they can hardly from the beginning of the count

There is no German comment; and Biyil Toney, James Milk, Robert Melvin Lombard, ba left out of deliberations remained consistently the same. on the result le date. Observers Nicholas Derembiz, Carmine Mc- posed by one of five bakers who workers Party (a fusion of the Socialist par- Communist and After on the subject of Sterling After 98,314 votes had been who watched the counting of the Neills, Leo Sules and Ralph made it this year, read:

"While the earth in dressed foj). counted, was estimated that votes, noticed that some of the Mastermonico.

the same time Spychalski convertibility. Ан Tho there were only five per cent spoiled papers had such remarks The name of the recaptured A distant bird may start to sing, was removed from the Centrol Economist emphasises, the abstantions, and 23 per cent scribbled on them as:*

as: "I should man was not announced imme-

You, courmel b peace ur, Atrength Committee..

in the fight, Commonwealth and Western spoiled voting papers,

not vote for traitors."

Shall guide us to a newer spring“ The Communist Party expelled Europe cannot expect to ge Whatever the Interpretation Several had a rubber stamp Western pintenary is locat- Mr Churchill was up early for the two as Russia sent her on living off American aid given to the election figures, it imprinted on them, bearing the ed in Pittsburgh's populous his birthday “today. He spent famous wartime commander, while discriminating against seemed clear at this stage of words: "Peatcake Nation" (Ger- North Side section, along the some time looking through state Marshal Konstantin Rokossov

that two-thirds man netion)-the name of a big banks of the. Chlo: River.-As- papers in his bedroom before sky, to Poland to become De- American goods. But one the counting thing is certain: converti- of the voting population of this German irredent movement, or sociated Press.

coming downstairs.

fence Minister and Commander- Internationally contested conganised by Prince. Hubertus of

Despite a

a bitter wind blowing in Chief of the armed forces. billty and lasting

non- and steel region has expressed Loewenstein-Reuter.

along Downing Street, many Since then the process of discrimination. cannot baits decision, for the time being.

sightseers in

lingered outside the "Rusfanising" Poland bus con- attained cheaply.

house to

iinued catch a glimpse of him,

opace. They gave

him and his, wite a Gomulla's history suggests Two Czechoslovakian citizens cheer when they left by car to that, ho in a "national" Com-

ty,

Or

counting

at least, to remain autonomous.

Wartime Rest Centre

Destroyed By Fire

Aboyne Scotland, Nov. 30.

Signor Orlando Dying

diately.

a 1031 light blus

Frontier Dash

Vienna, Nov. 30.

solemn white

, די

1948

munist leader of a type not

Í making a dish across the border lunch privately with prima favoured in Moscow...

to Austria were seriously in-. Several Commonwealth fured when they stepped on a Ministers, including Khwaja mine between barbed wire Nazimuddin (Fakistan) and Mr

Vittorio Austrian berder...

·BED AGITATOR

Rome, Nov. 30,

on the - Czech-Robert Menzies ~~~ (Australia), An underground Communist Doctors attending

managed sent telegrams of birthday con- Agitator durin the Emanuele Orlando, 92, last of to ren

prewar to reach Austrian

aatulations to Mr Churchill --- | Pikadaki

regime, Gomulka They were both taken to an Among the family treasures the big four who wrote the

Reuler.

imgulshod in gol for many was the gold-World War I petco settlement, Austrian hospital, but the Bo Alastre House, Royal Air❘ lost in the fire

years up to the outbreak of Force rest centre

near here, mounted baton of Reichmahal mi today, the family added: viet military author arrested Fire Sweeps Through world war two. After the Ger-

Wayana

their where thousands of airmen spent Milch; head of Germany's Luft member of the their leaves during the war, war waffe. He received it from "The

Hitler when taking.command:02. may como at any France-Presse.

4-Storey Building destroyed by fire carly today.

was

Ho

A 30-year-old herald, Ms the Nazis air onslaught in the

bufferedn Ha

Thursday hemorrhage ca

night. Baird, leapt nourly 33 feet from "Battle of Britain." a bedroom,

His physicians' mid they fear whero sho "was trapped by flames, an

surrendered, the baton to bronchial pneumonia now is killed.

tho Allled forces later in the setting in. He has been in a From hor nurby home Lady war, and, it was presented to cama, partially paralysed, since Macobert watched the finest Lady Meerobert.

the cerebral attack.

"It is feared, the doctors, told was a reporters, that the end is roar,"

Ambociated Pres

leap from the roof of the man-

kkus efto gave to the Air Force in Tonight the house memory of her three flying sons, smouldering ruin,

Lightning Kills

15 Parsons”

man occupation of his country bb: organised underground) war- fare against the invader, in Havana, Nov. 80. cliding bomb attempts on a club Flames believed caused by a occupied by Gorman officers and short cincit swept through a on the Central Warsaw railroad Johannesburg, Nov. 30. four-storey building occupied by station,

member Fifteen people were killed by the mala: FW. Woolworth Coentral Commitico of the illegal

Hebedamen #Ha

of the ghining during thunderstorms store here last night, on the Witwatersrand and in Preliminary:limates placed Communist Party and Pretoria during the week-card the damage at more than $300,-appointed party socretary in

touter

| 000,-- Associated

he Diehards", fought

The

in Korea from August, 1950, until May, 1951, when. It was transferred da. Hongkong; 141

The battalion, was part of the British 27th Brigade in carly days of tho Korean war, -Associated Press.

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