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RISK OF WAR WITH RED CHINA
Eisenhower NOT MUCH GREATER
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Policies
SIDE from the controvers sial decision to withdraw the US Seventh Fleet from. the Straits of Formosa, President Eisenhower's State of the Union messaga contained recommendations of as much interest and im- port to the autaldo world as to the American nation. The British Commonwealth, to- gether with the rest of the Sterling aren, have reason to feel encouraged by the President's proposal to re- vise the American customs regulations for the purpose of "removing procedural obstacles to profitable trading". His recommenda- tion that the Government should do its best to en-i courage the flow of private American investment abroad may also be regarded as a gesture to help Sterling bloc countries in their big tank of regaining economic and financial solvency. So far as international trade and economie policies are con- cerned, hower gives heartening signs that he is not only alive to the pressing prob- lems of Amerien's Western Allies, but is willing to go
considerable
way helping them iron out their difficultios. Certainly Mr Eden and Mr Butler need not approach their forth- coming mission to Washing- ton with any feeling of despondency.
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President Eisen-
in
VIETMINH REBELS ENCIRCLED.
The scene during the taking of the village of Trung-Thon about twenty kilometres from Nam Dinh, when combined French and Vietnam troops recently landed on the coast of Delta near Ván Ly region to encircle Vietminh rebela who defended the section during the Indo-China battles. - London - Expresă,
Floods Death Toll: 605 In Holland: 285 In England
SCORES OF PEOPLE STILL MISSING
London, Feb. 3.
The death toll of the North Sea floods climbed towards the one- thousand mark today as weary men, women and children worked to brace: the weakened sea defences against the early morning tide.
Holland alone had an estimated 605 deaths and the count in England was 285. Belgium suffeted relatively lightly with 11 reported dead, but everywhere the count was expected to rise,
Hundreds of Dutch people motorboats were patrolling the were still
missing and great floodlands picking up stranded tracts of hard-won land tended people from isolated farms. for generations were snatched Holland has 10,000 of her back by the ley waters.
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BRADLEY Large-Scale Nationalist Raids Unlikely Yet
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W. Indies
To
London, Feb. 2.
Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh- will fly to Bermuda and Jamaica in November at the start of a Commonwealth tour, which will take them round the world, it was announced from- Buckingham Palace tonight.
The Queen and the Duke will join the liner Gothic at Jamaica, and will eail through the Panama Canal across the Pacific to Auckland, New Zealand, visiting Fiji and Tonga on the way.
3,000 miles.
The flight
It is not yet known what type, Mombasa
on the of aircraft the Queen and the Australia.
wan to: Duke will use for their sight to The news of the King's death General Omar N. Bradley, chairman of the distance of about reached them while they were in Kenya and the tour was post- United States Joint Chiefs of Staff, said tonight he does not think that President Eisenhower's de- cision to unfetter the Chinese Nationalist forces will involve" “much greater” risk of war with Com munist China.
include a plan will probably ponech. Reuter, present the nonstop fight to Bermuda takes about in hours.
Prime Minister, has
Mr Holland, the New Zealand
"
already Eden Has A
Question For Dulles
announced that the Queen will Gen. Bradley said there was danger of "shoot-deliver her 1953 Christmas Day rodlo message to her peoples ing between American Naval ships and Chinese from Government House, Auck- Communist vessels if the Nationalists attack the
land. mainland, but added that this danger "always has been present" since the US Seventh Fleet was as- signed to neutralise Formosa.
Get Bradley added that Chinese Nationalist raids on the mainland "hould have the effect of diverting some Red Chinese troops from the Korean war to pro tect the coast opposite Formosa, island bastion of President Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists.
Mr John
London, Feb. 3,
Foster Dulles,
THE ITINERARY.":
The announcement from the Palaco stabed; the following itinerary for tho Common- | wealth tour (1933-64)' by the
Queen and the Dukes, of any anal, and How American Par has been approved by Treaty For Her Majesty: November 28 eign Secretary, flies Into London depart London. Nov 24 and possibly diplomalle trouble arrivo Bermuda. November 24-from Paris today (Tuesday).
depart Bermuda, November Ar
As President Eisenhower's (Montego
Dulles Bay). November 27 depart Constellation wit
lands in London, Mr Anthony Jamalen (Kingston).
Eden, British Foreign Secretary, November 20-arrive Cristobel. will according to present plans November 30-depart Balboabe telling. Parliament what Panama Canal, December 17
|Britain thinks about the Ameri- arrive Fiji (Suva). December 19
can depart Fiji (Suva). December 20 zation of Formosa.
decision to end the neutralis visit Touga. December 23
23 arrivo
30 Eden, will want to know Krom. Mr Dullòs why Britain.was ratrely informed of the Američan
25
He agreed with Adm. Arthur twin-engined jet light bombers arrive Jamaica Radford, Commander of the US United Press, Pacific Fleet, that immediate Large-scale Nationalist raids or China” are unlikely in the:lon=" mediato future
Appearing on the radio pro- grammé "Reporters Round Up den. Bradley called it "question. ablong
whether the Nationalists still bumble to attack the main- Touch Hộ this: Imimediato tutte."-
Ask whether such raids,
when made, would divert "certain number of Red
Chinese troops from action In Korea, bis answer was yes.
He said the new polley does not "necessarily” mean that this country must change the present
15 KILLED
IN
PLANE
Another Aircraft. Missing
Tripoli, Feb, 2. A United States Air Ceneralismo Calang but added Force four-engined aircraft
...
that Chling would not be able crashed on the eastern Gothic. to stage large-scale ralds with-edge of Wheelus Field Base out increased American nid,
POLITICAL QUESTION at 5.20 this morning. ⠀⠀⠀
All 15 persons on board were killed-Instantly.
The plane was taking off on routing training mission. The cause of the accident is un- known but a board of qualided officers la to investigate,
Names of casualties will be have been notif
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5 arrive Coods Talande declan and not consulted, April 5 depart Cocos Inlands, though she is intimately involved Apell 10 to 25 visit Ceylon the Far Eastern situation.
The journeys to Bermuda and .. Mr Eden wil also discuss with Jamaica will be made by air, Mr Dukes the details and timing after which Her Majesty and of the projected Anglo-American is Royal Highness will con- economic talics is Washington tinuo their journey in the These discussions will be on the Commonwealth plan, which" was Details of the return Journey drafted by the Commonwealth to the United Kingdom from Prime Ministers Economie Cons Colombo will be made known Prime Ministers' Economic Con- later.
ference here in November and December. ----BIRTHDAY-IN CEYLON
In Paris last night the Frenchì The Queen will spend her 29th Defence
M. Minister,
Rena birthdayApril 21 in Ceylon. Ploven, had a separate talk with
-IL WED just over 12 months Mr Shastor about Indo-China.
81, 1952-that ugom January 31,
French sources thought the and the Duke of Edinburgh set Eisenhower Administration would off from London airport on the give France greater backing in Ehis part of the world, than she, first stago. of their one has received so far. Commonwealth tour, which ed so ungically a work inter During the afternoon Mr with the death of the King, Dulles commented on Mr Elken- They had reached Nairobi the [hower's reference to Formoen, day after their departure from saying it was an antenaly for the London and were spending a American Navy to be protecting few days in Kenya before going Communist China fa one pince to join the liner Gothie dt while fighting in Koren--Reuter,
NOTHER proposal which America's friends will welcome is that Congress should amend the McGarron-Walters Immigra=" tion Act. This measure, adopted over tho veto of enused Mr Truman, has considerable and not un- justified resentment outsido of the United States. In its application it is fult to Impede unfairly on the rights and freedom of non-
Asked whether the United American subjects, parti-
States would bail out" Prest- cularly ships crews whose
housewives to examine their dent Chiang's forces if they duty, and not personal
wardrobes for clothes; to spare launch a beachhead in China takes choice,
them to
for the refugees.
and get in trouble, General American ports. Nor does
Engibbers were yesterday re- Bradley replied, "This a it seem right and proper
the main lock up the political decision and not a It was estimated that one and 20,000 more standing by that American immigration
entrance official and other investiga million Dutch people were
Rubber dinghies flown out out of action by Sunday's stommy distress, should assume
to tho
the Island of Schoueren seas which emashed through the "would hate to see us get too In England,
the were
to *According the wall in two places and inundated | much for our milltary strength carried away of screening disaster had extended to
by
reliable in privilege
160 current and lost.
low-lying areas of the town tied up. in: China and that formants the plane had an alif- passengera and crows
TRAFFIC DIVERTED: mics along the coast from the A British military, authority
would certainly be getting a lot tude of perhaps 50 feet when aboard foreign ships while number to the Thames, up to at Dusseldorf said
a dieet of
It is expected that the part of it tied up in China and on an engine burst into flame. The they aro outside
pilot fought for nititude to mix of 900 people were reported miss-
motor not be open to traffic, the mainland of China." Landing
and Croft American territorial waters. Under the glare
launches, manned by the Royal including cross channel steam- This reflected Gen. Bradley's The Mussolini Stadium, which Manifestly there are certain
of search- Navy and Belgian troops, was ers, until Wednesday. Passenger testimony during hearings on has not yet been cleared from featureA about the lights
soldiers now under way to aid the Dutch frame has been diverted to the removal of General Douglas the end of the runway area.
Calais.
MacArthur as US Far Eastern The plane skimmed over- tha, McGarren - Walters Act worked feverishly, waist deep in floodsiricken areas.
Commander. Dunkirk was still·lashed by
that war with sindlum but! settled across the sald which are inimical to the in water, to plug gaps torn In The army spokesman
heavy-
but no flooding Communist China would be a Wheelus Field rand and ex- tho the 27th interests of America and seawalls by the fury of
Canadian Infantry
"wrong, was at a wrong place ploded Associated Press. Rough her allies, and they should' gales and so
Brigade at Hanover had offered as expected
scas delayed the and at a wrong time with, a PLANE DISAPPEARS SWIFT ACTION
the Dutch. three troops of arrival of ships at Marseilles wrong onomy.” be removed.
Prestwick, Feb. 2. Asked whether Nationalist. Thirty-nine Britons are feared field IN the
of purely The Primo Minister, Mr engineers.
and other Mediterranean port wide might involve. UB Naval dead in a four-engined charter The Royal Air Force have
In the Vosges mountaine of domestic policies, President Winston Churchill, took swift
Britain's offered through the Brition Air Eastern France snow storms vessels in a "hooting operation" plane missing over the Atlantis Eisenhower is rather more action to cope with
Bight from Britain, to tentative.
His objective, worst-ever flood disaster and Attache at The Hague ve bave blocked ronds. A sudden with Chinese Commuash ships, on a
House of Com-hundred men, with engineers, sleet storm hit, Paris this after-Gen. Emdicy sald, Y of Gander, Newfoundlandi however, can be expected to promised the
They include 10 soldiers and course. That danger was always yesterday that
that equipment and stores and one noon. enjoy a popular appeal. He
Brilish trawler owners an present since we frat dodged their wives and 13 children, aima to reduce what catastrophe would be treated an
The scene was not all one of xiously awaited news today of the Seventh Flect the task of ) and a crew of
The plane, York, belonging hitherto have been regarded Eleven ministers met to dis- gloom. First scattered reports more than 230 fishing boats, protecting Formom We always
the 200-ton mark, had a chance that it might ro- to Skyways Limited, was on as inevitablo deficits and to
cuss the floods and a committee began coming in yesterday of around
caught out at sen during the walt in a booting war between charter to the War Office. It balance the budget; to check of four was set up
to handle receding waters.
PRACTICALLY DRY
neighbour for
forces of Communist took off from Bishop Stortford, inflation; reduco taxation; the attempt to push back tho.
in the English Midlande, on Flushing was today reported. Many were anishing in the Chics and ourselves." 'cut expenditure. These are
He added that was always a Sunday and was bound for "audiisted risk" of such a wor Jamaica. time-honoured national By far the hardest hit of practically dry again, after its waters round Northern Beotland
Zec old town had been flooded. at the height of the galos,
Two put Into Aberdeen today but I do not see much greater Some 300 miles off Gander dargots, highly desirable, but Holland's provinces was
have been achieve. land, comprising low-lying re Emergency, repaira
with
Injured crow and ten, rist with this change the Preathe pilot reported bad weather, nover.. easy
claimed land in the Rhine-made to its battered sea pro- which reached North Shields, on dont hus Just made over what then at 6.30 am GMT today Moreover, tho President
Scheldt delta area,
menado and the situation there the north-east coast, were
allde
been in effect for the Inst
(1.30 p.m. Monday HKT) pit tacitly acknowledges the Sicet and biting winds swept generally was described as damaged.
of Gen. call. It has not been dilemma which such a pro- the wuste of wafers last night, "well in hand.
About 60 ships from Lowestoft, torments to Uid Rotterdam
"Alr. gramme imposes, Loader bringing new
Stx Royal Canadian was described on the cast coast, were reported Hosed, dovést that. Tuesía / hoard of sinst:
wants war now. Ho said the
Lancaster us to be all fate, but to have been does not think that they "would Force
"bombers ship of the free world own number of survivors yesterday as "disastrous"
badly. battered by, the scox want to start a wor involves heavy additional waying treetops and ruined water continued to pour in..
until they searched the area;Azzociateti buildings.
The villages of Oudenhoorn, Reuter.
are sure that they could win, Press. burdens which drain on the
were A whole island disappeared, Abdebroek and Bildland
wski (I do not belleva nation's resources. Those leaving only treetops, and roofs evacuated, but large numbers of
that feeling now they cannot bo to break the obligations
and surface of the people
Hvestock wone
own troops doing rescue work pairing Dunkirk harbour, put / ma that porsonally.. he reloased as soon as next-of-kin } the Queen, as Princess Elizabeth
to
repudiated without leaving
thrown
national barels.
out,
the free world-forsaken and in wholesale claughter. mad | water,
team
weekend.
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bave
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Explosion
Arsenal
-London, Feb, 2.
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angry sea. Livestock perished stranded in farms already under Request Recall
bombe in Korea is being com At Woolwich King Baudouin of the Bel- From the nearby Island people at the mercy of Imperialistic
Of Official fouréd the watched the North Beveland aggressora.: And President glans yesterday
West Flanders flood area for dykke begin to crumble. The
London, Feb. 2 la nothing to be gained Eisenhower has no latention two hours and visited one of sen, roared through, sweeping
• bomb t
pocal of letting down America's the worst menaced, spots whole houses away in its path. Estypt has asked for the with-thms by ushik the
drawal of an official of the ||V At another apol nearby the British Embassy in Cairo, South Korean forces could ever allies and friends. Thus he Nieuport,
He expressed doubt that the the French near
water torn 15 big holes in the Arthur Kellas, must continue to commit frontier.
Information Belgians were anxious to see yke in his country to heavy inter
Secretary, the Foreign Office be increased enough to allow the Ke Netherlands News Agency anricumced tho Coxydo dykt,
of all American - fotoka tonight.. national responsibilities in whether
The
from Koren while they war was -volving substantial expendi hammered by the gals all day reported between 50 and 35 dead
will atand up to high tide,
Foreign Office spokesmán
number it in just one-village-Gravendeck hald: "As the Egyptian govern on though he said: the tures over and above those breaks, then Coxyde, near south of Dordrecht.
Us divisioon needed for the domestic Nieuport, will became the Offloor and men of the ment did not state any reasons of fronts All will wish him country greatest danger area.
Hold The King later drove to the Jolation on an eight-day visit to fore unable to accept its validity": well in his endeavours to balance the budget, but he Antwerp area where the stud-Amsterdon, had their ahore leave We have requested further show will deserve no recriminal was reported-tense cancello and were ordered to information and this has not Chinese air-power in Manchuria. stand by for an energenty.. yot been received. But we He ecka?"ere bellovo" dut, the yesterday evening: tions if he falls
Before toll, the themployed In that
she lens yesterday gather that the recall related to Rethe have somes: 2,300 planes, accomplish this at the first district have been called on to morbing to win the food arents, Miry Kelisa activity an Informa Boma 1,500 1,500 of them aro
sea sod about 109.or siden aroj attempt.
Join the resque toamna, Tigs and Queso Juliana appested 16 Dateir tón Omer-Renek
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„Korean troops.
Treports
a big bullam à Red
- fix, Dersons were believed, to : De.... dead, nad – styeral others were injured when a lorry loaded with explosives "blow up - tonight at ; the Woolwich Arsenal, accord- ing to reports reaching here, Ami Bupply. Ministry.
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