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COMMENT OF

THE DAY

Rent Increases

will be admitted by even

Ithe severent critics

Colonial Secretary yesterday presented the Bill which, among other things, will permit increases in standard rents, in a fairly convincing manner. He was not, how- ever, altogether fair to those who have taken um- brage over the recommend- utions contained In the McNeill report, for the tenor of criticism has been not that the proposala is themselves, are outrageous, but that rent increases al

the moment are ill-timed that the Colony na a whole

I going through a period of depression and that large

numbers of workers, parti.

cularly those known as the

white collar class, will have

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NEW APPEAL BY INDIA Protest Over RUBBER EMBARGO

FOR KOREA ARMISTICE

Suggestion

Made To Peking

Washington

THIRD ANNIVERSARY

OF WAR TODAY

New Delhi, June 24. India is understood to have urged both the American and Chinese Governments to make every effort to achieve an armistice speedily regardless of the South Korean release of North Korean

prisoners, observers said here today.

She is also believed to have suggested that the United Nations General Assembly should be con- their pockets hit by addi-vened at an early date to discuss the Korean situa-

charges.

tion, irrespective of the conclusion of an armistice.

The

Mr. V. K. Krishna Menon, former Indian High Commissioner in London, has been mentioned here as chairman of the neutral commission to supervise the sub-repatriation of prisoners of war in Korea.

tional rent Assurance of the Colonial Secretary that Government intends to offer every pos- sible protection to tenants is thoroughly wel- comed. The creation of special departments of the Secretariat for Chinese Alfairs on both sides of the Harbour to deal with in- dividual problems and to give advice means that

Hub-tenants' will be the fault if they are exploited under the new legislation. And

Coloniat while the Secretary made no direct

it

But the execution of India's UN diplomata believe It can plans for the despatch of her be found only in determined representative to the commission efforts to get a political settle- and troops to assist is dependentment. Many sympathise with entirely on the conclusion of an President Rhoe's realistic view armistice, according to official on the experience that negotia- sources.

Can with the Communists is not likely to unify Koren. But they still think it a better bet than prolonged bloodletting.

The plans are therefore pro- visional and have moreover to be considered by Mr Nehru, the Prime Minister, who returns to New Delhi this weekend from his tour of Europe and Egypt.

-Reuter,

They point out at Dr Rhee and his people could not possibly

It alone" against the Red might. They would suggest that ANNIVERSARY

rather tiian commit national Seoul, June 25.

suleide the South Ko

Koreázis should The fourth year of the bitter give political settlement a reference to the subject, it Korean war opens here today

Not all the good cards are in truce both closer is presumed that these new with

and Communist hands, it is pointed achieve than ever un departments will be placed harder to

Nations are out. The United counting heavily on at the disposal of the pub- He free

before,

of charge. The slmista point is important because hitherto victimised tenants seeking legal redress have found it advisable to

en-

gage professional services a course beyond the means of many people. As we have

the new legislation is well-aimed blow at unscru- pulous principal tenants and general as nucli commands approval.

observed before this part of

THE one

of

what is

trus-to quit

Kurt Carlsen Lifeboat

CARLSEN

KURT CARLSEN

Captain Kurt Carlsen of Flying Enterprise fame, gives his name to a new Netherlands lifeboat, when he launched it at Noerdwijk, near The Hague. — London

Express,

Pour rikers

Over Boiling Tar

Soviet Troops

Berlin, June 24.

HK Consular Appointment

Bonn, June 24.

Herr Olla I. Greve, Social Democratie leader of tho Bundestag (Lower House of the West. German Parliament) today protest- ed against the appointment of Herr Herbert Dittmann

க8 Consul General In Hongkong

He reminded the Govern ment that Dittmann WAS

declared undesirable by a special Bundestag Investi- rating committee because ben of his Nasi past and cause he "testified contrary to the truth" before the Committee.

Professor Walter Hall- stein, Permanent Head of the West German Foreira

Office, said be 52 W no reason to dismiss Herr Dittmann who at present worked with the West German Observer at UN headquarters in New York. -Neuter.

Troops Work Overtime Preparing Atomic Test

1

STATEMENT BY LYTTELTON

Cannot Be Lifted Without Consultation With UN

London, June 24.

Mr Oliver Lyttelton, British Colonial Secre- tary, told a questioner in the House of Commons today that the embargo on rubber exports from Malaya to China could not be lifted without con- travening Britain's obligations under the United Nations resolution of May 1951.

"Therefore any action taken must be conditional on obtaining the United Nations view on the matter," he said,

He had been asked by Methe conduct of democratic elec-. S. 5. Awbery (Labour) what tions. steps were to be taken to ift Mr Lyttekon replied that tho

an composition: and "terms the enibargo_immediately

at re- agreement in Korea was signed.ference of the Committee had Mr Awbery added: "Are you not yet been finally settled: "The aware that when the ban was Committee is to be as representa imposed nearly two and a half ive as possible of all substantial nered interests in Malinyn, and, have carried years ago Malaya

Malaya loyally aut the terms, but that other no doubt that it will seek any countries

continued to export/expert advice for which it finds rubber to China, with the result neod" he sait Reuten that they will find themselves

at the winning post when peace

comes while Malayu, who has French Premiership

honoured her obligation, will #tili

at the starting past?"

remain

Mr Awbery asked the Colonial Secretary it he would take steps Canberra, June 25.

to broaden the terms of Picked troops have beon reference of the Malayan rubber Industry fiquiry so that it would working up to 70 hours

Include

and working wages week for more than six conditions,

the effect of the months in the torrid South production of synthetic rubber Australian desert, getting a upon the industry and the need site ready for Britain's next for establishing unemployment

Insurance for the workers, atomic test, it was disclosed here.

on

The test is to take place in the 10,000 square mile pro- hibited - Careg controing Woomera rocket range,

Officials will not specify the exact spot nor the date, but information now according to available on the top-secret pro- feet, a staging base for supplies desert has been set up on Gib- and equipment pouring into the ber Plains at the head of The new forwart base already taking shape is far beyond Woomera.

Convoys of lorries

Spencer Gulf.

Freed prisoners from the Soviet zone were Three weeks ago only pes-belleved here to be a genuine quoted here tonight as saying more than 50,000 thought the fighting Red desire from a purely selfish East German strikers battered down prison doors would not be over by June 25, standpoint, it anniversary of the North Korean fighting in Korea.

and poured boiling tar over Soviet soldiers in drive across the 38th parallel.

Communist China But the South Korean release of has been hurt by the wur.

certainly Merseburg on June 17, the day of the East Berlin

She 20,000 prisoners over has been eager to get on has seemingly set back the truce

with

riots. au armistice. She

agreed to indefinitely.

tho The anti-Communist West Berlin Information Allied prisoner exchange In the past fortnight the war

for- has been fierce with both sides mula at great loss of face. Her Bureau, West, gave reports from the prisoners taking heavy casualties in antscoction to Dr Rhee's release of who were the first to arrive in West Berlin after a desert."

prisoners of war

was less

about

for pieces of ground they have

violent

battled over for 20 months and than it would have been earlier week of. night travel on foot through East Ger 80 per cent of the supplies.

Rhee 01

in the truce, talks.

To experts this adds up to the fact that Red China, for reasons

many.

They did not want to hava of her own-possibly to prevent their names published because

peace. Bureau said.

who

Med

PENALTIES

FOR ESPIONAGE

carrying their own petrol and stores are taking the equipment from Woomera apeross trackless

Aircrail pre carrying about

more.

Up to six heavily laden Toyal A special envoy from President

Australian Air Force Yorks Eisenhower, Mr Walter S.

from Woomers land daily on an Robertson, is due from Toky a nasty international situation they left relatives behind, the

Improvised air strip six days here today in an attempt to make from developing-wants

each week. serious bone

President Syngman

Th terrain contention rests in Govern- South Korea accept the United helps the United Nations

encountered They believe this presumed fact The prisoners said the strikers

varies from the flatness of bar-came from the Leuns and Buna ment's proposal to increase Nations truce policy.

Olbber Plains covered with grey gaining position.

rubber) Works, near President Rhre's Government standard rents for domestic

paltbush, blue bush and spiky The many diplomats premises 50 per cent with plans to make the war's anniver admire Dr Rhee's iron will be-

clay spinifex and scarred by 1 twelve months. It is sary another day of protest in Deve he can still be convinced prison gates with Tommy gun The strikers were met `at the

pans ilke the face of a dead

to planet

and rolling and truce that what the United Colonial its campaign against a truc,

tho 1LB

Nations fre from Soviet troops and East is seeking is better for his Berlin police, they said.

dunes. Secretary emphasised, which leaves Korea divided

In

rehearsal

To narrow the terrife supply yesterday people than his own short-term Government has modified

The strikers retreated tem- afternoon armed police guarded | solution.

problems every man at work on Washington, June 24. then returned porarily

trained the original recommendation

the main Seoul streets and thr They war, however, that too tree-lined of the McNeill committee,

The Senate today passed approach to

two or more jobs. But not the much pressure from Washing vats of boiling tar used for reads

a bill to con- and broken

oven relatives knew that they burnt-out

building ton, London, Paris, UN Hond- and hurled them at the soldiers. unanimously which will be the route of quarters OT clsewhere

Several soldiers were seriously tinue during the Korean were at work crecting scientific may 'hurt.

living quarters, make him more determined than ever to stick to his de- The guards retreatest into the war the penalties for espion-equipment,

water supplies and other facili- cellar of the building before the age under which atom spies ties needed for work and life strikers, who freed more than Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in the desert, 100 prisoners. The guards were were executed. then forced to surrender their arms and were beaten up.

*

Capitol the increase

down to two instalments of 26 per cent each. But the effect on the pockets of the middle class workers can still be Berious. We are in no position to anticipate the amendments to the Bill which the Unofficials have Indicated they intend to move in a fortnight's time,

protest march.

Mr Bhee will probably speak. During last year's observation of the Anniversary an elderly gunman fired several shots in

be an what was alleged to attempt on the President's life. -Router.

DIPLOMATS 'HOPES United Nations, June 24. Wisor heads among United

mands.-Unlied Press.

STOP PRESS

but we imagine that these Nations diplomats, believing Bishop Wilson's

it romains imperative

war...

Important Appointment

the same

with

•

The measure, which would ex- On

day several tend certain waetime lows on thousand workers freed 340 espionage

and sabotage, · stow, prisoners from the Magdeburg goes basic to the House of Re- Noustadt Prison, the Burtau presentatives.

The guards there offered no The House is expected to ap- resistance and actually handed prove in with minor Senate over to the strikers prison andamendments. _cell_keys__and_their__arms.

Demonstrators also freed0";

is to avert a third world | Cathedral, and when the Pacificed 10 people including an 11-/wat can be toasts or up to 30

President Rher, already

in-

War

that tenants, particularly volved in a war that has de- by the Queen as Bishop of stormed the bullding, disarmed/Penalty can be not more than 20

vastated his country, possibly THISTL

will chiefly bo concerned that name-calling is not likely with the actual rent in to move Dr Syngman Rhee, hoped

today. that

the President of crenses-proposed by Govern-South Korea could be persuaded

Urrier-the-basic law, the ment. An acceptable caso gently that a truce would be has been made out for land- best for his Republic,

prisoners from the police head-penalty for gathering or deliver- lords with pre-war property The first aim of the United

quarters in Magdeburg. There ng defence information to ald The Rt Rev J. L. Wilson, the guards opened fire and kill a foreign government in time of in seeking peace in former to receive a reasonable in- Nations

Dean of St John's crease in

Kopen rentals, but

year-old child, the Information years" imprisonment. broke out, Bishop of Bureau, West, sold,

In peacetime the maximum Singapore, has been nominated The infuriated crowd then

the police and shot four police years imprisonment. Wilson' at the present men with their own rifles, the The bill passed by both the is Dean and Assistant Bishop Bureau sald-Reuter

Scnate and Home would apply to suffer severe hardship, people. But the question being of Manchester.

ROSTOV TROUBLE REPORT Wartime penalties during the na- It might fairly be argued oaked in United Nations circles

Throughout the Japanese oc-

Belgrade, June 24. #onal emergency declared by that a 50 per cent increase on the eve of the third anniver

cupation of Singapore, Bishop A well-informed diplomatic the President on December 15, sory of the Korean war is this:

Wilson rent in

endured torture anch on standard

source said today that reports 1050, for the Korean war and six course of 12 months is too an another world war or even beatings because the Japanese had been receivet here of a months Inter-Reuter,

continuation of the present war

balloved he might expose spies. serious workers" demonstration heavy an imposition, and result in the reuniẞcation of When he was liberated one of on June 10 In the Russian city that a maximum of 30 per Korea?

his first publie nets was to nale of Rostov. cent, in two Instalmenta of

Tho

answer being given here everyone to "pray for

There was, no confirmailon of is 16 per cent, would bo that no war of any size or | enemies.” *

the reports-United Pross character is going to bring

those

un minimum or near-minimum monthly In-belloves World War III could comes, should not be made bring no greater terror for his

the

fairer. Obviously there is about the national unity Dr

room for constructive de-

Rhee prizes so highly. bato, on this point and the Three years of bloodshed on public will derivo aome the

peninsula have - brought satisfaction from the know- about a deadlock that could be -lodge that the Unofficial broken only by a much greater members of Legislative military effort it is rousoned that pyramiding warfare thero Council intend to put for will not bring peace. ward tholt vlows in a Where, then e the long- forcible manner.

rango solution?

our

Violent Quake

Shocks

Two

London, June 24, violent

US CASUALTIES

IN KOREA

:

Washington, Juni 24. American battle eastialties - In Когер

the project had to be

BOREHOLES DHILLED Boreholes were drilled to bring up water. It is so bracidsh that a distilling plant was needed. Even so water is restricted at the forward site.

By now the camp is lit by electricity.

Dingo (wild dog) trapping is one of the fow forms of ro creation. The men are looking forward to collecting "nest in dingo scalp rewards.

Early this year, the convoys rolled across the desert carry- ing the advance party.. Living In tents alongside the airstrip tho party

under worked primitive conditions enduring the hardships of water shortago, eternal red dust and tempera- tures which ranged from 11a degrees Fahrenheit during the day down to freezing point at right.

Most Australian newspapers agreed that Britain's of the

nw Arials suggested that док

phaso had been reached in the British atomic weapons pr gramme.

nouncement

All agreed that "the tests would probably begin next year, Reuter

early

SECRET TALKS

Washington, June 24. Sir John Cockcroft, British increase of 833 over last week' atomic energy chief, is in Wash-

now total · 186,800,

อก

earthquake report, the Defence Department ington for secrot talks with shocks were felt in Azerbaijan announced today. The increase, United Blates atomic scientists,

and

all other North Persian largest since April, reflected the it was learned today. provinces yesterday, Teheran hoavy fighting" touched off by.

His visit, officially.

described Rialto reported tonight-Rou- the recent Communist offepilved, as "routing", coincided with the

United Press.

(Contä, on back page, col ́4)

tor",

Thie

..

M. Laniel

To Seek

Investiture

Paris, Juns 25.

MY Lyttelton replied "No, sir. M. Joseph Laniel, said to Inquiry is being instituted be the wealthiest member of not by the Government of the the French Parliament, to- Federation of Malaya alone but day sets about piecing to. by agreement between

that

A FARCE?

put

Government and the Industry gether a National Assembly: to deal with certain specific majority to elect him Prime problems of common concern to Minister. both."

He is the fifth in the series of politicians to accept President Secretary award

Mr Awbery: "Is the Colonial Vincent Auriol's invitation to try

that any in- to form a government

ment replacing quiry which does not embrace the Mayes administration which every feature of the industry fell on May 21. The previous turn out to be a force? four failed to get the necessary will Will he not include the wages 314 National Assembly votes to of the planters,, conditions in ut them into office. Three others the industry, the control of refused the Fresident's request. prices and the production of M. Laniel, with record or synthetic rubber with its effect stubban realstance to the Ger on the production of natural mans in World War II, is popular rubber in Malaya?"

in all parties, Originally a Lyttelton: "I do not member of the extreme right.... I think it would be in-ho was first elected to Parila- agree. correct for this body to consider ment in 1932-M. Laniel, is now working conditions and wages a Moderate Conservative, which are a matter for con-

between employers textile factory, he le known as The owner of a Normandy sideration and the unions."

1 Winterbottom Mr Ian

"progressive" employer taking liberal attitude towards labour, (Labour) wked about the com-

As a member of the National position and terms of reference of the proposed committee on cler-Resistance Counell set up after Lions to the Federal Legislative the defeat of France in 1040,. Council. He wanted

officer to know he worked as a liaison whether it would have the ad- between France and London, —

Reuter, vice of perSOTIS experienced in ||

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