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THE CHINA ̈ MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1953.

Greek Queen Attends Christening

Queen Frederika of the Hellenes flow to Hanover, Germany, to valt her father, the Duke of Brunswick, and to attend the christening of her niece, the daughter of her brother. Prince Erust August of Brunswick-Luneberg and Princess Ostrud. Left to right: Constantin baby (Princess Afario of Greece; Qucan Frederika; the mother Princess Ostrud with the Frederika of Ifanover), and the father Frince Ernst August of Hanover after the christening.

--Express Photo...

Tragic Story At Inquest

Durban, Jan. 14. After

her saturating clothes with paraffin and benzine 37-year-old Mrs Jacobs Gezina Wuken thrust her hand into the flames of a cooking stove and was fatally burnt.

Ler husband, Petrus Frederick Wilken, a rali- wayman of Newark on the Natal north coast, told the Durban inquest that he had been married 10 years and he and his wife had four children:

Ile sald his wife had wrongly suspected him of meeting Another woman

and at first tried to net herself alight with a box of matches. When he stopped her she ran to the kitchen and thrust her hands Into the fames of the stove. Although he tore her clothes off her, she died from her burts.— Reuter.

PAKISTAN TO JOIN DEFENCE

SCHEME?

CIVIL DEFENCE

SCHEME FOR UNITED STATES

Washington, Jan. 14.

The National Security Resources Board has recommended a seven-point programme to help prepare the U.S. to withstand 政 nation-wide atomic attack.

"We must have in being sufficient retaliatory and defence capabilities to meet an aggressor suc- cessfully at any time he might choose to strike," said the report, made public by President Harry Truman.

Leaving setual military mea- labour and government groups sures mainly to the armed ser- on those aspects of organisation vices, the NSRB concentrated planning affecting local commu- on plans to keep essential pro- | niitles.

duction and government services "Should full-scale war occur, going to back up the muitary it would be unlike anything ex- effort. It called preparedness | perienced before," the Board the "boste deterrent to war" said.-Associated Press, and added:

We must be

alive to the fact that the ready strength of the United States for years to come may be the decisive block between the Kremlin and world conquest."

JAPANESE

DIPLOMATS

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Comment By Pross

In Britain

London, Jan, 14. The need for upholding just law and avoiding re pressive measures in deat ing with the Kenya situa- tion was stressed by several Brilish newspapers yester. day.

could

The Liberal News Chroniclo said one of the worst mistakes the British Government make now would be to fight terror with tyranny.

"The Imperative need is for Vizzous measures to protect lives and to uphold the law," the paper said.

Another Liberal paper, the Manchester Guardian, BJid "There is a good deal to be said for bringing moro non-official TRs a special measure to last for the period of the

the emergency into the 'De- fence Council' proposed by Blundell (leader of the Euro- pean elected members of the Kenya Legislative Council).

emergency may

measures for

exceptional

short period,

Mr

Justify

a

"It is not n'good otcesion to introduce permanent irreversible changes, if that is what the elected members had in mind."

circulation Dally The mass Miror called the policies of M; Lyttelton "a tragedy",

"Only a few months ago the problem of Mau Mau terrorism could have been tackled by d police action plus intelligent effort to enlist the aid of those

Kikuyus prepared to co-operate.

"But Mr Lyttelton butted in with "ough' measures like collective punishment,

"The policies have not worked. Repression has bred terrorlim

and terrorism has bred repres

sion until the point is reached where white settlers want to out the Colonial Office and rule

Kenya Jike super Malans."- Reuter

Menzies' Plan For Australia

The

Melbourne, Jan. 14. Prime Minister, Mr Robert G. Menzies, sald today that he was more than ever convinced that unless Australla produced more and sold more to other countries it would not. have what was needed for the

TO CONFER malvation of the Sterling Area.

The NSRB originally was set up as the top planning agency | for long range measures for the

nation's security

outside the military purely

feld. Unde: of the Korean war pressures much of the

Paris, Jon, 14. current job has been taken

over by emergency Japanese diplomatie represen- "Kurachi, Jan, 14 agencies-under-the-Office-of-tatives In-Europa and the Near.

are belleved Defence Mobilisation.

East will meet here tomorrow Top-level talks here to be in

The report, submilled by retir-tor progress on the possibility of the inclusion of ing NSRB Chaimman Jack Gor- Pakistan in the proposed. Middle rie, recommended: East defence organisation.

Pakistani Forcign

Office sources will say nothing on the subject, but there has been no outright denial.

HIGH PRIORITY

He said that the recent London

conference economle produced schemes that might bring about a free world move- ment of trade_and_currency,

"At the conference we decided to solve our crisis by positive means.

J

a three-day conference under the chairmanship of the Japanese Ambassador to "We decided to

get more London, Mr. Sunichi Matsumoto,

dollars, carn more gold, obtain The conference the first of the convertibility dr currency 1. Full use on a high priority its kind since the Japanese

and the tres movement of trade basis of "scientific develop- Peace Treaty was signed 18 about the world. ments" to make continental de-months ago will enable diplo-

"We can improve our balanse fence more effective.

matic representatives to

of ex-

payments by earning more dollars 2. Vigorou continuance of

cbroad Information

Baving change programmes developed by countries of residence, discuss

| dollars at the expense of imporis. NSRB aimed to make cities less Japanese trade with Europe and

“We must spend our capital been in London for some vulnerable to disaster in the the Middle East and the

with care and spend it on public weeks.

works earning capital or saving event of attack, protection of general political situation. essential facilities, maintenance

Expenses. of production after attack, and

necessary fun continuity of tions of government,

Mr Mriza Osman All Balg, Pakistan's Secretary to the Foreign Affairs

Ministry, has

years

facilities and manpower.

Increased government

on their

He is due to go soon to the

Some of the Japanese diplo- United States where the Pakis

mats may be delayed by fog. tanl Foreign Minister, Sir

but the meeting will start on Mohammed Zafrullah Khan, is

schedule tomorrow

nt the at present.

3. Increased emphasis on im- [Japanese Embassy”. sources in Highly placed

proving melhoda for deter- Those taking part will be: point

out that the mining more rapidly the im- the Ambassador in London, Mr strategic position of Pakistan in

weapons on Sunichi Matsumoto, the Am- any Middle Eastern defence pact of new

strategic plans and on mobiilsa-bassador at the Hague, Mr plan has occupied milltary minds in the West for several tion requirements for materials, Okamoto, the Ambassador in Madrid, Mr. Shibusawa, and the in Rome, Mr

д valuable base in an

The Japanese Ministers in where a base has been lacking tions, "to develop and maintain Stockholm, Egypt,

dustry and educational institu-

and Berne, since the granting of indepen- dence to India and Pakistan in an adequate supply of selentine the Consul-General in Geneva, and other skilled manpower" the Charge d'Affaires in Bel- 1947.

and aggressive efforts to Im- The source

Consul-General in grade, the attitude must, however, be in time of war the limited sup-in

prove methods for allocating Helsinki, the Charge d'Affaires Bonn and the Charge fluenced by the contumiation of ply of euch manpower between d'Affaires at the Vatican will the Kashmir dispute with India, the military and civilian also which has been a drain o Pakistan's ISOLITICOS.

They said Pakistan would be

area efforts, in co-operation with in-

said. Pakistan's

Pakistan also had to consider the effect on other, Moslem nations of her joining any de- lence past-Router,

Korea Casualties.

economy.

ly

NO PRECEDENTS

5. The carrying out as prompt-

ter.

attend the meeting-Reu-

us possible of proposals The First Occasion submitted by the NSRB for im- proving the materials situation.

-0.

Re-examination of stockpile

,

Washington, Jani 14., Soprano Dorothy Maynor policies in the light of the will be the first Negro to sing changing strategle situation and at a Presidential oath-taking Washington, Jan. 14. the development` of new ceremony when she sings the Announced U. 8. battio weapons and tho current Star Spangled casualties In Korea reached | strengthening of the Industrial inaugural 120,321 today, an increase of mobilisation base.

of

Banner at the eeremonies 'Prezident-elect Dwight

191 since last week-Associated 7 Expansion of the practice | Eisenhower next Tuesday.

of working with local business, Associated Press. Pross

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Huxley On Coelacanth Finding

London, Jan. 14.

Dr Julian Huxley, eminent British biologist, aafd last night. there was hope that the seas' held yet a third species of the Coelacanth (sh).

Finding of the Coelacanth, he said In

a B.B.C. tolovision broadcast, "representa a stage la the great story of evolution, which we had only known from fossils and never expected to see An the flesh.

Dr Huxley, who was Secretary

of the Zoological Society of Lon- don from 1935 to 1042, sald the fish found off Madagascar að

Christmas was different in many

wmill ways from the Coelacanth found

In 1936.

Professor J. B. L. Smith of

Durban, who flew to Madagascar

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