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Police Informer's Story

Evidence Given At Kenyatta Trial

Kapenguria, Jan. 6.

A Kikuyu police informer today alleged he heard Jomo Kenyatta, hend of the Kenya African Union, tell- ing a crowd of about 500 that he wanted the African people to have self-govern- ment.

He was testifying al the trial of Kenyatta and Ave other Africans on charges of helping to organise the Mau Mau scerel society.

The Informer aald Kenyatta

made the speech bt Swoḥill al

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a meeting of the Kenya African

Bulon at Thika, about 25 miles

north of Nairobi, which he altended,

Kenyatta said he had heard propte Bay there was "some- thing called Mau Mau” but he did not know what it was.

The witness added that al- most immediately Kenyatta had said that he switched

into Kikuyu abel added "Let the people lake a little anu,"

tu

Witness understood that phrase mean that people at meetinga should go on taking the Mau Mau oath.

When Kenyatta used the ex- premion women in the crowd trilled" and men elapped their hands.

the opening of today's 10ssion Mr D. N. Pritt, Q. C chief defence counsel, said he would ask for perjury proceed- ings against one of the Crown witnesses, a 25-year-old Kükuyu woman.

Mr Pritt made his announce- ment while cross-examining the woman, who was in the witness box for the third time since the trial began carty in December- Reutor.

Film On Life Of Gandhi

THE CHINA, MAILĄ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY - .7, 1953.

Swedish Royalty Applaud Author

Francois Maurine, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature, is seen bowing to` King Gustay and Queen Louise and Prince Bertil, who are applauding after the presentation in

Stockholm-Express Photo.

Rosenbergs To Appeal

New York, Jan. 6.

Mr. Emmanuel, Bloch, Counsel for the Rosenberg couple, sentenced to death on a charge of atomic espionage, announced to- night that the Rosenbergs would appeal to Prezident Truman for Saturday. Federsi

clemency on

Unique Project By "Guardian

99

Manchester, Jan. 6.

The Manchester Guardian has for some time past had a team of scientists and engineers work- ing secretly on a new method of publishing in two cities which may revolutionise the newspaper had sen-

dustry.

Judge Irving Kaufmann, who

tenced the Rosenberga, said yesterday he would grant a stay of execution

if they appealed to Pre- sident Truman before the end of this week.

The execution date hed 1.cen set for January 14 at 11 p.in.

local time: France-Presse,

.

The 131-year-old newspaper, making a bold bid to win a bigger national circulation against the competition of the bigger London dailies, plans to publish an edition in London in the next three or four years.

CRACKDOWN once, complete with printing newspaper industry.

ON REDS

PLANNED

Hollywood, Jan. 6. A 70-minute nim about the life of Mahatma Gandhi has been assembled here from 100,000 feet of newsreels and other films covering a span of 34 years. It has been named "Mahulma Gandhi!" and Mr Quentin Reynolds has been narration signed to

apeak the

Rio De Janeiro," Jan, 16. de Janeiro The Rio produced The film,

by Mr Stanley S.

paper Jumal sold today the Neal for

Brazilian Government is plan- American Asiatic Foundation, ning a vast nationwide crack- may also be down in some commercial theatres. A private down on Communist activities.

The Journal story followed showing of the Alm wil be

persistent reports--me

off made in Washington on January cially denied that strong Red

Dwight Eisen-

forces

for the film.

news-

using

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New Zealand Expects Awarded Stalin Prize

Still Further Economic Progress

Wellington, N.Z., Jan. 6.

New Zealand enters 1958 confident that her worst balance of payments difficulties are over and that she is in a sound position to increase pro- duction and consolidate her alrendy enviable econo- mic position.

..

Her Prime Minister, Mr Sidney Holland, says that the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Con- ference from which he has returned took decisions aimed at establishing other Commonwealth coun- tries in a position already enjoyed by New Zea- land.

He suggests that for this expenditure on the Murupara renson the effects of the Con- | newsprint schemo, ference decisions may be felt Meanwhile New Zealand Forest less obviously here than in Producin Lld., the largest pri- other countrick,

vately-ownel forestry undertak- Although the Reserve Banking in the country is nearing the hus released, agures showing completion of iim £0,000,000 ex- that New Zealand had a deficit pansion programme. This will of £27,700,000 in overseas pay enable it to start, during 1953, ments, Mr Holland still affirms the first production here cenfidently

that New Zealand chemical pulp which will be be in balance" with the largely exported to Australia rest of the world and specifically for

manufacture

with the non-sterling arca, by newsprint,

June 1063.

that

of

there into

This company will also pro- Mr. Holland, since his return duce substantial quantities of from London, has not claimed

Zea- kraft papers which New that this means publicly New Zealand

will actually land has hitherto imported.

Altogether the products there balance her overscu tyments of two large undertakings for

her transactions and especially

ions exploiting forests wealth with the non-sterling area

far

br State and

the twelve months ending June Privately-owned and one to

hared between

here believe

next June.

half of this

оп

that that is what

CUT IN IMPORTS

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on

Talks Run

Into Snag

The Hague, Jan. 0.

The latest oil : painting' of Stalin, entitled "The Morning of our Country” and painted by F. Schurpin, has been awarded the Stalin Prize for palatlog la Moscow---Expres Photo.

Holland has postponed talks Amateur Claims

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Record

Wellington, Jan. 6.

Mr Bowen, who shears sheep as a hobby, first caught the sheep himself before a crowd of spooka- tora on a farm near Palmerston, 80 miles north of here,

30 next. But political observera private investors will he hopes to achieve not mere New Zealand and the Common- ty that defelts on a monthly wealth millions of dollars a year

a few years. within a barls will be eliminated by in-

Against his general nale of Mr Holland has optimism, This might appear optimistic

the light of the defielt founded one warning however- the past eleven months a de- that New Zealand must keep felt which has grown as fast her costs structure down if she alce June 1952 as in the first to maintain her present pros

perity.

the future status of the There *ore, year, however,

LACK OF CAPITAL

Netherlands

the Antilles in signs of a sharp im

in this

"New country's

Zealand's

Indics present West

and Surinam isalance of payments position hamry position is due to our

(Dutch Guiana) because of mis- having held production costs But it will not do so by the Manchester to the South of

now under way.

understandings about interpreta- orthodox, costly method of dupli-England are few and too slow

Small surpluses recorded in better than other countries," he

Mr Godfrey Bowen, 32, New tion of the right of self-

Zealand saw-mill owner and ne coting complete newspaper | fon the highly competitive October and November show claims.

determination. that the heavy drain of earlier "This should Enable New

countant, today sheared 466 sheep. plant BOL the

The Recently, the Guardian, at months New Zealand's Zealand to meet any downward capital.

On his return from New in a nine-hour working day, in Guardian, with a present dally considerable

used a foreign exchange has been ar- trend which may develop in York, the expense,

Dutch Minister for what is claimed to be a now circulation of only about 130, special train which saved, same rested. The export season for world prices."

Unlon and Realm Affairs, Pro- 008 cop

world record, London. But even wool,

One meat,

handicap to industrial dessor and dairy produco

Kernkamp, coples, admits that this is hours into

W. J. A beyond ils resources.

this

did not help much in dis- is now approaching ila peak expansion beginning to make said political friction between

lack of metro- and the coming four months itself felt, is Instead, the newspaper, which tributing outside the

ready Holland and the two territories last September started po'llan orea.

are ones in which New Zealand capital for scomo enterprises. on the territories' future status only publishing news Instead of ad- The planned photographle-normally substantially re-Money is noticeably scarcer had been substantially reduced.

than a year

Many vertisements on its front page, cum-lithographic method will plenishes her overseas funds,

ego and will harness modern inventions, put the Guardian three and

local bodies, for instance, ara

n' into a But he ran

Parli photographic transmission half hours in front of its present

now finding it difficult to ber-mentary storm here three weeks and lithograph printing.

London time-schedule, It will More significant, however, is row for development works. ago, when he revealed that

He broke the 1043 record of The paper will go to press instill, however, have to go to press the fact that the flood of im- However Mr Holland's as- secession clause had been In- Mr Perey De Malmanche, who Manchester each evening in the two hours earlier than the news-ports, which reached an all- surance that New Zealand will cluded in a policy statement sheared 400 sheep in nine hours ordinary way. A good proof papers actually printed in Lon-time record volume at the end call on the new Commonwealth agreed on in the talks.Reuter, in Tanamaki State-Reuter, will be pulled off each page and don to be able to compete with of 1951 and in the early months Finance Corporation for loans transmitted photographically to them in getting on to the streets. of last year, has been cut in for projects giving promise of London, 180 miles away.

The Guardian, so får 13 Is hall, partly through a lapering-

expanded

should production will be the first dally off in consumer There, the film of each page known. have

demand and mean that sound national de will be turned into a plate for paper in the world to publish in partly by the Government's velopment schemes will not be ed Interior in readiness for re-thographic printin copies of niets others steps in before is

By this telephoto-lithograph

distant centres by the combined exchange allocation policy. in hampered for lack of finance. volutionary activity.

means almost

process troduced Inst April

New Zealand therefore enters Nuremberg, Jan. 0.

newspaper Diario da the paper will be distributed in

1953 in mood of quiet The number of unemployed Noltre quoted prosecutor Orlan London

plans are ready. and Southern England

optimism-Reuter. in West Germany rose to 1,- do Ribeiro de Castro of the three and Д half hours earlier 087,720 by the mid of',1952, an Fubile Ministry as paymg yes- increase of 171,783 in

the tarday that armed Hed bands than the Guardian can at pre-

culation among Fritain's ble traders for 1053 allocations allocations already granted to second half of December, main-wore.concentrated in part of sent get copies there.

Investigations and experi- national dallies, newspapers ly due to seasonal causes in the Statca of Golas, Minas

ments to achieve this novel with farming and building, the lab-Gernins, Parena and Rio Grande method of two-city publishing have set up whole

headquarters in London 1953 imports to well below 1952

printing level. statistics office reported 1 do Sol..

have been in progress for three plants

and here today.

editorial depart Golas and Minns Gerains lic

ments In other cities. The It is thus fairly obvious that

Washington, Jan. 0. Unemployment in West Ger- to the North and inland from years.

Express, which STILL SECRET

hag

of the US. A joint scasion Mr Holland believes that, with and past three years Rio de Janeiro. Parana many for the

circulation of about 4,- wool prices holding well for Scnute and House of Repre had reached the two million Rio Grande do Sol Ue to the i

prints and publishes 1952/53 season, with the pro-sentatives today formally pro- mark towards the end of South where Brazil borders on and

London,

duction of meat and dairy Argentina

Manchester and

of Mr January or in curly February, Paraguay.

the necessary machinery, which Glasgow. The Daily Matt with

duce at a high level, and wit claimed the election

Dwight D. Eisenhower as Pre- Reuter,

Uruguay-Associated Press,

will take a considerable time to મ a circulation of 2,100,000, does the prices of these major ex- sident of the United States and deliver, so the project will not likewise in

Man- ports higher than for last sea of Senator Richard Nixon £1.5 rwing for three or four chester and Edinbu start

con, New Zealand has little to

Vice-President, fear if he maintains the curb on years

The Daily Herald with Its

According to the official count Apart from a bare outline or 1,800,000 circulation, the News Imports, us he intends to do. of the votes of the Electoral

This the scheme, circulated to the Chronicle

year will see substantial College, Mr 1,400,000 and with

Eisenhower and Guardian's staff, the newspaper the Daily Telegraph with 970,- progress

launching New Senator Nixon received 442 votes has not disclosed so far the 000 print in Manchester as

well

Zealand's new export Industries while the unsuccessful Democra technical procCESDS which will as ir London. But the

based on extensive softwood tie candidates, Governer Adial NOWE- with the sale of forests,

Stevenson and Senator John which

Mr Holland has confirmed that Sparkman, received 69-France- £10,000,000 will be borrowed, Presse. a day,

mainly in London, for capital

30 for General

Goverment ofeials.-Reuter.

underground

hower and other United States gathered in the sparsely inhabit

our

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red. The fort that scientists and engineers buve all, the

Dally.

been working so long on the cells 4,400,000 copies project suggests to

to experts that

have prints only in London.

the Guardian may plonecred improvements on the existing methods of trans miiting photographs by wire over long distances.

One sight clue is

1

Born in the smoke of Indus-

trial Manchester, the Guardian

quality has the

of

Lancashire plain hard-hitting in its

opinions. At the same time, it

that the has wit and

and stylish writing. time-lag between the ten-page Many of its day to day reports Guardian going to press In not only tell the news, but are Manchester and newspapers be. ing received in London will be also brillant essays. two and a quarter hours.

Up-to-date telephoto equip ment

"scanning" mechanically at.150 lines to the inch, takes about 30 minutes to transmit a picture.

If known processes are used,

ed

The Guardian has been call- "the voice of Britain's con- science? because it shrines a Liberal tradition which closely reflects the national character of the country, even though politically the Liberal Party has declined.

It is ilkely that each page of the The man behind this ́news-

Guardian would arst be re- paper's brave bid to extend its duced, transmitted, then boot-readership is Laurence P. Scott, ed back to the original page its 43-year-old chairman. size in London.

A grandson of the Guardian's

From the message sent round famous editor, C. P. Scott, he is

the

its staff, it is clear that the regarded by newspapermen as

in Manchester intends its London a new, dynamic forca edition

be tha newspaper industry. ተክለ .

the size

Established in 1821 as a week- page Manchester original, which is ty, the Guardian won its world- about 25 inches by 18% inches, wide reputation under

It is not yet known whether genlus of C. P. Scott who be there will be any variation in came editor when he was 25 the news content betwom the and did not retire until he was Manchester and Lonilon | 82-Iteuter, "editions.

A PARADOX

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London, Jan. 6.

deep air raid shelter. at It is one of the paradoxes of Clapham, London, is to be used the British newspaper industry to quarter troops during the that the Guardian should have Coronation, the Secretary for readers in many parts of the Overseas Trade has trifortrict world yet have difficulties in Lloutenant-Colonel M. -Lipton, YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD Across 3 Subsided, 2 circulating throughout, Britain Labour MP for Brixton.

Since the war Clapham Lough, Operates, 10 Orator, 13 Deleted, 15 Alas, 17 Ferment, itself. 18 Devixes, 20 Arld, 21 Rissole, 20, Reefer, 27 Püzered, 28 One of its big obstacles is the shelter which

can

provide Guard, 20 Entrance. Downs 1 Flood, a Rural, 3 Shoot, 4 Spry, English climate which, with sleeping room for 2,000 DROP ↑ Dolle, & Dooist,- Frefer, 11 Refer, 12 Tepld 14 Desire, 16 Logs and sudden gales, makes has been used to accommodate Amuse, 10 Angie, 18 Dapple, 19 Viblet, 22 Bedge, 23 Offal, 24 distribution by air an uncertain Servicen en lekto

business. Night rains from hostel für vigilina

Mr Holland, since he return ed from London, has confirmed that there will be no substantial casing of the couilous exchange

which will reduce

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