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MADE

COMMENT OF

THE DAY

Budget Debate

THILE the general tenor

on the Budget was quiet Antisfaction over the Financini Secretary's achievement in estimating for a substantial surplus despite 031 anticipated expenditure exceeding $300 million, IL number of pertinent and constructive auggestions were put for- ward for Government's consideration. Mr J. H. Collar, in what

Wuo simultaneously his maiden and farewell budget speech, made a particularly valuable contribution to the debate. His proposal that Govern ment should endeavour to prepare forward estimates of recurrent expenditure on major development under- takings calls for careful uffelal attention. The idea is

commended in füll appreciation of the fact that the Financial Secretary has to conform to. Whitehall

regulations in the prepara:

tion of estimates. But, as

Mr Collar gently pointed out, there is no reason why Hongkong should not per- mit itself some additional unofficial estimating. Cer- tainly it would provide 蟲 helpful

jn guide

the compilation of a priority list for major development works, bearing in mind at the same time the Colony's anticipated ability to meet the financial burdens which

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FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1953.

500 KILLED IN

Fires Add To Horrors

DARDANELLES AREA HIT

Ankara, Mar. 19.

At least 500 people died in a violent earth- quake which shook the Dardanelles area of Turkey last night.

Fire added to the horror of the shocks, which lasted for most of the night. Charred bodies were recovered today from the ruins of the stricken | area where 600 houses were flattened and many more damaged.

The epicentre was southwest of Bandirma, a town on the Sea of Marmora — a rural area where bad roads and few telephone lines make a complete assessment of the damage difficult.

The total damage has been provisionally esti~| mated at 2,000,000 Turkish pounds (about £250,000) but the full extent of the disaster will probably not be known for 48 hours.

Experts said the earthquake was the worst since 1941. Had the epicentre been in a thickly populated area the result would have been even more disastrous, they said.

Plane-Shooting Incident

the projects impose on the SOVIETS

community. The Financial Secretary's proposal to Institute

SLA

Equalisation REJECT

Fund suggests that he is thinking along similar lines to Mr Collar, although it remains to be seen whether he is prepared to go as far 118 adopting what according to Whitehall methods of preparing Estimates, a revolutionary system.

PROTEST

Propose Conference

In Istanbul, across the Sea of Marmora Hitle damage was done, though there was wide- spread alarm, One girl was killed by fulling masonry.te

Two shocks during the night destroyed or ceverely damaged houses on the island of Lesbos in the Aegean Sea, 109 miles south-west of Bandirma. First reports 'said' «çãsualtiesi were ono killed Jured.

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and wo

In-

The tremor extended to the Island of Chlas, 00 miles to the south, and to the coast

Thrace (Greece), about 120

miles to the north.

of

So violent wa

was the shoct one stage that the needles selemographs in the Athens ob- servatory were broken,

Mr

The Turkish President, Celal Bayar, was driving to the

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hit areas

Several earthquakes have hit Turkey in recent years.

In January last year more than Injured by an earthquake in the killed and 200 people were Husankale region Turkish province of Erzurum

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Caused Flutter In Admiralty

Schoolboy Ian Buxton, 15, pletured here with models of various boats, has upset the Admiralty by producing a book that spilled the Navy's secrets. Ian revealed that be Look plotures to illustrate the book in two of Britain's main naval dockyards-Chatham and Portsmouth. Ian sent his book to the Admiralty. Two of his Egures were cut out of the book by the Admiralty and one of these was an accurate estimate of the shaft horse-power ́of Britain's newest and biggest carrier, HMB Eagle-one of the Navy's best kept secreta,

Mr

Selwyn Lloyd

Off To Khartoum

TRYING TO STRAIGHTEN OUT

SITUATION IN SUDAN

London, Mar. 19.

Mr Selwyn Lloyd, Britain's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, will fly to Khartoum tomorrow in a bid to straighten out the tangled constitutional situation in the Sudan.

News of Lloyd's surprise visit was given in a Foreign Omice announcement which gave no details beyond saying he would have conversations with the Governor-General, Sir Robert Howe,

Secretary Anthony Eden's top free

But the decision to fly Foreign, a Parliament which would be to decide tio Sudan's deputy to Khartoum indicates future for of government. the government takes a gravej The elections were to be held as view of the hold-up in carrying soon as possible.

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Govt. Ratifies EDC Treaty

Bonn, Mar. 19.

The West German Bundestag (Lower House) today passed in final reading the Bonn conven- tions ending the occupation and the Paris treaty setting up the European Defence Com- munity (EDC), 10 months after the treaties were signed.

Western Germany was the first of the six EDC countries to ratify the EDC treaty in either. house and the third of the four signatories of the Bonn Conventions to tackle the conventions.

London, Mar, 19. Marshal Tito, Yugo slavia's President, pored over military maps today with Mr Winston Churchill na they discussed Allied plans to defend the Balkans against possible attack from behind, the "Iron Curtain.”:

They conferred in the Prime Minister's private map room at the Defence Ministry, whero huge wall charts of the world's trouble spots-actual and poten-ar

than tial are marked up and flagged daily by senior staff offlcers.

Britain and the United States have already.com- pleted ratification of these conventions, which give West Germany almost complete sovereignty.

Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, ¡ signature. He would, however, who introduced the treatles to-risk a constitutional appeal by day with a speech tasting more the Bundesrat,

ventions

and 19 for the

an hour, received A party source said that the majorities of 02 for the con- Social Democratic opposition ask the Constitutional EDC would freaty. In each case two deputies Court immediately for an in- abstained.

Junction restraining Dr Adenauer This was

substantially the from signing the ratiocation same result as he obtained last December when the freatica were passed in the second read- ing.

documents the last stage before Passing them up to the President, This, if granted, would prevent Dr Adenauer from circumventing the Bundesrat.

Milliary agreements between Yugoslavia, Turkey and Greeco are shortly expected to buttress Allled plans for profeeling the vital Central European sector. But much would depent on Marshal Tito's ability to stand

When the chairman of the up to a possible Communist on-

LAST MOMENT PLEA slaught by orthodox campaign closed the debate at the end of before President Heuss senis Bundestag, Dr Herman Ehlers,

At the latest possible moment ing and resort to sporadic at nearly one hour of voting, mem-to the bills the Social Democra tacks from mountain hide outs-bers of his party crowded round the opposition, according

Dr Adenauer congratulate own statements, will bring up a him.

formal plea On his way out of the Parlia-stitutional Court

for the Con- ment Dr Adenauer cracked BDC treaty unconstitutional.

to declare the journalists and cold: jokes with deputies and This, if granted, would mean political event of the first rank." that Dr Adenauer would have "I believe it will give the his treaties passod. Today's to revise the constitution to get whole work of Euorpean in-voting showed that he does not tegration a strong impulse," Dr possess the required majority Adenauer said.

Britain and the United States are now doing all they can to give the Yugosiny armies the modern weapons and alrcraft. But the Atlantic Pact nations are first in priority, and supplies to Yugoslavia are little more than a tickle at present.

to

"It is a

In answer to questiona ho sald

would

Military experte here today believed-Marshal Tlto pressed his claims to greater priority in explaining his defence dificul- | he was sure the other countries ties to Mr Churchill -

pass the treaties. EXCITED RELIEF There was a general air

rellef

WOULD MEAN WAB

excited

in the Bundestag.

their

The Bundestag ratified thres other bills by show of hands. -

They were the agreement on the tax treatment of the forces of and their members, the protocol among the conferring upon the arbitration.

The Yugoslav-Greek-Turkish agreements signed recently will deputies of the coalition parties tribunal jurisdiction over us

as they crowded out of the putes arising from this agree- not affect the commitments of Bundeshaus (Parliament) bulldment, and the convention on the the 14 nations of the Atlantic ing. Many spectators gripped legal position of the EDC forces Pact, but most Western diplomats Dr Adenauer's hand as he left and their fiscal and tax treat- are convinced that an overt the building.

ment. Reuter, Russian attack against Yugoslavia would mean world war. The agreements are therefore bound to influence Atlantic Pact milf tary planning.

One of the weakest links In

solidarity Is

the

continuing

The next stage

is for tha treaties to 30 before tho Bundesrat (Upper House) whose behaviour is something of an enigma to political observers in Bonn.

rat chairman and Premier

tomorrow.

Drought Threat To Crops

the

Allied political and military

Dr Reinhold Maler, Bundies- of discard between Yugoslavia and

Baden-Wuertberg, who controla

Paris, Mar. 13. the crucial five votes of his The French Farmers Union Italy over Trieste.

state in the Bundesrat, will today warned that unless rain --The-Trickte -- talks are not make a declaration to the press Zell in the next 15 days, breaking- expected to yield immediate

seven-week-old drought, tangible results but diplomatic

Dr Maler la expected to spring crops would be seriously throw some light on quarters believe the Yugoslav the Bundesrat

whether endangered. will push its President has been urged to go

The drought was described as claim, contested by Dr the most serious for this time of to the limit in seeking agree-

Adenauer to have a power of the year since, 1878. ment with Italy.

vela over the treatles and

Reserves of cattle fodder are whether it will exercise this nearly exhausted. Usual grazing velo.

grounda virtually useless. If Dr Adenauer persisted in his London-Britain is in the grip claim that the Bundesrat had no of the worst drought since 1929. voto the could in theory send The River Thames is flowing at them up to President Heuss in half its normal rate for March. 15 days! time for Presidential Reuter.

Today's talks, at the Delenco Ministry were preceded by an hour's conference at the Foreign Office. Mr Churchill did not attend this, but Earl Alexander, with Mr Anthony Eden,, the Foreign Secretary.

Diplomatic sources said M./commission have been appointed the Defence Minister, was there

Berlin, Mar. 19. Soviet authorities in. Germany have proposed Dardanelles area from Ankara THE provision of adequate an Anglo-Soviet con today to inspect the damage.

social and welfare ament- ference on air safety prob- Three Army planes and a con- ties for merchant seamen lems, the East German voy of lorries left with clothing, Who pass in and out of the news agency ADN report-medleines and teats for the worst Colonywaonnother Fed tonight." interesting point raised during Wednesday's debate, The proposal was made in a and there will be genera Chulkov, head of the Soviet letter sent by General Vassily agreement with Mr Terry's Control Comension in Germany contention that both the to Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, British community and Government High Curulestoner In Germany. have moral obligations in In the letter the Russians ré- the matter. It is dis-Jected as incorrec!" British comforting to fool that such protest about the shooting down,

out the terms of the February British, Egyptian, Indian and an important place us Hong-of an RAF Lincoln bomber over

An earth tremar lasting ten Anglo-Egyptian agreement

on United States members of this the East-West German borde: kong is behind other world last week.

seconds tuntukd A sugar, Sudanese szif-determination, ports in affording 'much-

factory chimney, stores, and a

--but near-deadlock has been house General Chuikov sent coples of private needed relaxation facilities

Barbados Lloyd will spend several days in reached in choosing the remain-

Jng for the mercantile marine, the notes to the United Stater Island today.

There was no loss of life-meeting with Sir Robert Howe, represent the Sudanese political M. Koca Popovic, the Yugo- more especially as Govern and the French High Commis |

sioners,

also plans to have talks with parties.

slav Foreign Minister, bla ment is anything but He replied to a joint note of

Sudanese political leaders.

General Naguib accused Bri-deputy, M. Ales Bebler, and two niggardly in its financia!

advisers military the three Western Allied High WINS £6,000 asalstance for other good Commissioners

There are no plans of present tain of holding up the elections,

with Marshal Tito. for him to move on to Calro on and Lloyd counter-charged in

After the talks Marshal Tilto. causes. Mr Terry urges that protesting against the shooting COMPENSATION

Jeaving Khartoum but be the House of Commons recently

gave a formal luncheon party an amount equivalent to the down of the Lincoln bomber by

Edinburgh, Mar. 20.

likely will do so if he considers that the fault Bles with Egypt.

for the British Ministers at the fees derived under the Soviet fighters Inst Thursday and

Reginald Victor Foster, celiu-meeting with General Mohamed

Under the terms of the auree Yugoslav Embassy, who Nagulb or other Sunday Cargo Ordinance be other recent air incidents.

lose sprayer, of Sussex,

Egyptian ment Egypt has to Approve the advanced from subventions

stated that he had lost his sense leaders would help ofler he has names of the Sudanese members, of smell, and to help forward the welfare

suffered from completed his conversations in but the exact reason for the

the Sudaa.

hold-up never work

has been made devoted

dizziness and double vision as a "I cannot accept your protest

Britain hoped she had over- clear, result on assumptions

Wha as it is based

of a interests of merchant 808- which do not accord

road crash,

ot with the awarded damages of £6,000 at came one of the big causes men. Government CAR

Angio said. Edinburgh today., facts," General

Egyptian hardly resist the proposal "I regret that the crew members in light of the original of a British official declaration when lives."

to the

of March 24

UNACCEPTABLE

Chuikov

Reuter.

un

Khartoum and in addition to his

contention

the

three members who are to

were

STUDENTS' CHEQUE ·· Later at his Embassy Tito was presented with a cheque of 5 NOMINATIONS

£112 by three London students two boys and a girl, all aged At the end of last month the 17, to buy books and laboratory At the time of the accident when the agreement on

Sudan was reached early last Sudanese parties nominated five equipment for schools in Kragu bomber lost their he was on holiday driving o

Instead of three members, 8o ajovac, in Central Serbia, motorcycle with his wife on month.

Under this agreement an In-meeting then was called In the Sunday Cargo Ordinance "In view of the necessity to the pillon and with his daugh-

ternational

electoral commis- Khartoum, and the party leaders decribed the German massacre The Marshal thanking them was introduced that it was guarantee the safety of aircraft ter in the sidecar.

He sued Abraham Bernstein Bion was to be appointed to voted on the Ave, candidates, not intended to raise general in future and in order to avoid

and Sir Robert passed on to Cairo of 7,000 men res of Glasgow for £8,000 damages, supervise the first-ever general

boys in revenue from the fees misunderstanding in this

Kragujevac in 1941. elections in the Sudan to choose the

names of the threo candidates who got most votes. 14 armed motor-cyclists-now a The Marshal's police orcort of collected. One other sugges- pect. I express my desire that-Reuter,

a conference be held in Berlin

along with formal request

familiar part of the London scene Aat Egypt approve them.

Egypt declined to do this, and accompanied him on every protested the procedure adopted today. Their roaring engines Journey he made through London In eclecting the candidatse.

Since then, Sudanese poliu-attracted crowds wherever he cians have withdrawn the names went.

Tonight Marshal Tito was due of some candidates, replacing

dance. them with others, but no solu at Covent Gardens to fee ballet tion of the muddio has been found.

3. Popovic tonight addressed The long delay threatens to liament at an inter-parliamentary members of both Houses of Par-

so ocen to hear him that only 90 Sour Anglo-Egyptian relations

union meeting. The MPs were for crucial defence talks with members were left in the House Tart over the strategic Suez of Commons during the debate. Canal and Mid-East defence on defence estimates-Reules, Associated Press.

tion which came from two of competent military repre Unofficials and which is of sentatives of the prime interest to the public, Britain.

was that the Pulice Com- "Such a conference seems to missioner should establish me to be the more practical, concreto measures the policy of putting the since joint Trafic

could be discussed and, resolved Department in charge of a "specialist," to guarantee the adherence of The argumente advanced aircraft to the existing flying regulations and thus to avald were porsuasive and logical, regrettable air incidents." The traffic problem, both Reuter. pedestrian and vehicular,

In extraordinarily complex

In Hongkong, demanding Mines Found In specialised treatment. Under # permanently Sunken Submarine

Ostend, Mar. 10, Salvago work on a German -submarine off the colat herG

KIKUYUS BURN DOWN EUROPEAN SAWMILL

Nairobi, Mar. 19.

Mau Mau terrorists are believed to have been respon Bible for the burning down of a European sawmill on the slopes of Mount Egon, near Kitale, last night. Damage was estimated at £22,000,

The African night watchman and in the forests along at a time. Britain is preparing

large

said the fire was started by Aberdaro Mountain range in African employees at the saw the past three weeks, mill and that he was stripped terrorist gangs are still operat: and guarded by two unknown] ing." Kikuyus armed with pistols.

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Bus Hits Restaurant

New York, Mar, 19.

ostablished officer possess- |

Police today arrested "twe He said new police pasts, and

BLIM LEAVING Ing expert knowledge, the

African farm guards, recruled employees.

The Provincial Commissioner from tribes outside the Kikuyu

London, Mar. 30. - Traffic Department could be

of the Central Province the areas, werd being established Today's announcement from expected to accomplish an ceased immediately today when area. containing the biggest and brought in to provide ad- Canberra and 10 Downing Street even better job than it has divers found five tons of mines concentration of terrorists to- ditional mfely measures.... Čor that Sir William Slim will. Eleven people were injured. dono to date--and no one Inside the hulk.

day warned that, though Goy- Fauropean farms many of which anir for Australia on March 28 today when a New York bur The submaring, which a salernment security forces had are how ringed: with barbed follows laat weekend's hitch in hit a garbage lorry and crushed will deny the impressive work which stands to its vange frm is trying to raise,Robieved considerable success wire and resemble miniature Calro over the opening of the through the

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