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Parties With

Problems

present political Tituation in Britain is

Homewhat intriguing. Ax ono writer has observed. both the major national parties Conservatives and Labour-are groping about with considerable em* barrassment for something solid to cling to. In the case of the Conservatives, they are wondering about their future leadership; in the case of the Socialista, they are wondering about their

The programmo. Torien, for aoveral reasons, are keeping their worries

to themselves, For one thing, there is very little that any one of them can

do to influence the outcome

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SUPERMARINE THE BRITISH

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A NEW dis WORLD AIR SPEED RECORD OF 737.3 chills' right to bequeath MILES PER HOUR (1,183 KILOMETRES) the leadership to Mr Eden

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if he feels so disposed. But there is the

of Mr Eden's health. If it does not allow him to wear Sir Winston Churchill's

ing

it to

mantle after he has decided to surrender it, then Mr R. A. Butler is there wait patiently for descend on his shoulders. The struggle (if it can be put as high as that) is not,; therefore, a very vigorous

for one,

the elements involved are not the sort to make a public display of the Інние.

THE Labour Party 1s un- THE

deniably going through painful and public struggle for power which seems to: have less and loss real meaning because to some extent the outcome appears. to be obvious. The great sprawling contre of the party, together with the powerful right-wing leader ship of the big trade unions, is apparently in

This full control. próbably be proved con

Labour clusively

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15 "Fishermen Die In Gales

Paris, Sept. 25.

Fifteen men were today known to have died п Atlantic gales a battered French fishing boats return-

ed to part.

More than 2,500 acres of rich Normandy farm land

under water today, after the bea broke dykes and awept inland during last night's peak equinoctial uide.

No lives were lost, but

of farms

scores

isolated-enter.

were

McCarthy Sending Man

To Korea

Commander Michael Lithgow, 33-year-old test pilot who flew the Swift over the desert course here,

New York, Sept. 25. thus bettered by ten miles an hour the

Senator Joseph Mc- an hour Carthy said today

that 727.6 miles (1,171 kilometres) record claimed for the Hawker Hunter Senator Charles E. Potter jet flown by Squadron Leader Neville (Republican, Michigan) will Duke in Britain this month.

go to Korea to investigate war atrocities and the dis-

The builders of the plane, Vickers Arm-appearance of 3,000 missing

American prisoners. strong, said they would not claim the world record until they had seen the results of further attempts to be made on Saturday over the course of nearly two miles (three kilometres).

The international regulations provide that a claim must be lodged within 48 hours,

Vickers believe the Swift can greatly improve on today's speed, since the test was not flown in perfect conditions and fuel gauge, trouble forced the pilot to cut short his run into the course because he feared his tanks were low,

Mr McCarthy spoke on the steps of the sub-treasury build- ing where he received the "Bill of Rights" medal from the Wall American Street post of the Legion,

He told newsmen, that bo had talked over the Korean situation Senator Potter and had with

agreed to let him handle the trip and investigation as he Bees fit.

Mr Potter le member of the Senate Permanent Investigating Sub-Committee headed by Mr McCarthy.

New instruments are being flown out from London

Mr will and mechanics were working all-out tonight to fix up the

present one.-Reuter.

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Party annual which opens next Monday. The Margate meeting seoms Hikely to develop into unseemly and squalld row the. party's future programme. That the basic document scheduled for discussion. "Challenge to Britain." with its modest

over

Party

“Rebels” Make An Appeal To Malan

Capetown, Sept. 25.

Four United Party "rebels" tonight appealed to the and uncertain outline of a policy of moderation, will South African Prime Minister, Dr Daniel Malan, to be adopted seems fairly suspend the Nationalist Government's controversial new certain. But the Bevanites Bill for a court of constitutional appeal. will suffer defeat in this direction gladly if they

more

or

can

loss

The four "rebels," who

Potter was

wounded three times during the last war. The last time he was wounded he lost his legs In the battle for Colmar, France, in 1945.-United Press.

Temple Open To Untouchables

Opens Dutch Parliament

Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, seated in the Royal Throne, makes her speech to open the - new session of the Dutch parliament at The Hague, watched (right),—London by her husband Prince Bernhard

Express

Russians To Free Norwegian POWs

Moscow, Sept. 25.

"

The Soviet Government agreed today to re- lease five Norwegians captured by the Red Army while serving with the Germans during the war.

The Norwegians have been in-gaol in Russia since the war.

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FRENCH GUNS BLAST TRAPPED RED REBELS Heaviest Barrage Of The Indo-China War

Hanoi, Sept. 25.

French artillery loosed its heaviest barrage since World War II today against thousands of trapped rebels entrenched in four fortified vil lages tucked behind French lines in the Red River delta.

A French spokesman said a crack Vietminh reģi- ment and two encircled militia battalions had suffered losses of at least 260 men so far in the three days of Operation Pico at Hungyen, 30 miles southeast of Hanol.

General Henri. Navarro,, peak of 10 regular regiments in French commander-in-chief in the region in 1947 the rebels had Indo-China, salt,' the combined now sunk to a low of two regin drive by tanks, planes, river morts.

gunboats, infantry and the The January 1033 municipal hoavlest concentration of elections:

to the according srillery yet seen in Indo-China French, showed the rebels that was "more than simply a clean-they had little infuzuce left on the civilian, population. They up operation".

The aim was to wipe out the also had learned they stood no elite 42nd Communist regiment chance in subverting even the which for two years has | ultra-naßionalist Czo Dal and operated within the French Union Hoa religious sects.

celtu perimeter. Freeing of the The Vietminh regulars tried French

would allow overal times last night to full attention for the coming break

out of thoir Haugyti autumn. offensive.

The 3,000-odd Reds were deseveral hundred had succeeded; trap.. Unconfirmed roporia "suidh scribed as, deeply dug in ornid elaborate underground work-

leaving the militia, units to hold

Thops and storerooms: Flame-off the Vietnamese onslaughts. throwers, grenades and hand-

eeded to dig them out. The attackers muffered

Several times the rebels slip- 10-lind bayonet fighting were ped from their foxholes and camouflaged hideouts for "ap dreaming counter-attacks which prociable" bue undisclosed the French" said were quickly

Loyal Vietnamese foot | squishekl.

oldiers were, hampered by the French commo

commentators. rain-swollen rice flelds

if the

'operation werd and that, ayke-102 frulla-worn flooded by successful, the French would Tourential.

1-downpours

gain at least a month's respite in their build-up for the winter nighting

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HO'S APPEAL. The Viotinis leader, Ho ChiThe Hungyen Reds have beg Minh, manawhile latinched a constant threat to the Hanol-; radio appeal calling on his Haiphong highway, channel for forces to intensify their night the arrival of American goods,

1

#e French "imperi- United Press, The harder the fight gets, the more the tests pile up-thie: morg DRIZ resolute," he declared

Saying the enemy was

Its defeat," the war in Indo-China. coming "cruel in Red leader said the fight would M. Maurice Schumann, De still be long and difficult. He puty

puty French Foreign Minister, called for an intensideation of speaking in the United Nations Euerilla tactics He asked the General Assembly, said that if hard-core Communists to "ex- the

side proved plain the truth in all sincerity

hints were rily that their to those misled by the enemy" not mere

then and exhorted them to raise all "diplomatie:

might for the cause be opened either during or independence.

after

Korean political possible recruits

French circles interpreted the conference with a view to end appeal directed mainly to the mg the aggression in Indo- Southern Vietminh rebels cele- China-Router.

PEACE HINTS

New York, Sept. 25. France today called on tho people will be Communists to mako clone

whether

were genuinely they be-rendy to negotiate an end to the.

of

win recently left the United Party's] has introduzeed a Bill to set up the the priests beat of was known when they would be nounced that the first of a series } brating the eighth anniversary of victories for their candid. Parliamentary enucus over dis-la court of consillutional appealed by Acharya Vinoba Bhave, number of Norwegian, citizens had begun, in accordance with i wan sa showing concern for the

ates

the to

The Nationalist Government

week

who

tried to enter the temple

0 close associate of tie fate Mahatma Gandhi-China Mall Special.

Executive agreements with the leadership. as part of its long, bitter and

Malan asked Dr

to try

ntory unsuccessful campaign to restrict Parliamentary Council. This is where the more to resolve

the franchise the franchise of coloured voters, 'real

Labour differences over tussle for

protected Party power will take rights of coloured (mixed race) which is specifically

by the Constitution. place.

I voters "in a peaceful manner."

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Deoghar, India, Sept. 20. Perdas hereditary Hindu

The Norwegian soldiers, cap-touch with the Soviet Union priests have decided to Throw

war, were taken "afterwards to of Danes captured while serving open the gates of Baidyanath ured in the closing stages of the over the release of a number

with the Gérman · Army. temple here today to allow the Soviet camp. entry of Harljane untouchables.

The Norwegian Embassy (Earlier today the East It was at this temple last

spokesman aid it was not yet German Interior Ministry an flsts a a party of Horijans

of repatriations of East Germin the Battle of Nam Ho, which was dreed,

are released, the prisoners of war from Russia ch of the carliest fights of the

United Nations, Sept. 23. The General Assembly Dd- They claimed rebel strength in journed at 4.42 pm GMT to- the Soviet Union will be reduced Inst month). detained for various reasons by the Moscow agreement signed Communist cause

Southern Vietnam was steadily | day until 6.45 p.m. GMT.- here to three

The

Embassy spokesman

declining. They saith that from à United Press.**** Ho added that one of the re- said tonight the Soviet decision maining three was expected to was conveyed verbally today to be handed over, while the Hed the Ambassador, Cross was investigating the cases Schlove, by Mr Georgi M. Push- 6 others about whom Informa kima, a member of the Foreign tion, was' sought.

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Ministry Collegium

ANKARA PLANE The four members, Bloor CRASH LATEST Coetzee, Frank Waring, Bailey

Ankara, Sept...25.. Bekker and Abraham Jonker, in

Latest reports on the crash a statement issued tonight ap- of the Turkish passenger plane

Ambassador was told the pealed to the Government 10 here are that four were killed Observers here regarded the Soviet Union was "raising no withdraw the new Bill and and va ESTİTUDY Injured. Sovitį decision es similar to the objection to the repairiation" of the the next sesion, starting late in Two others were lightly hurt recent grant of visas to the five soldiers who joined January, to

re-introduce

in the disaster,

the Of the four wives of six Americans and one German Army during

· designed simply to transfer the dead, three were crew members British after a long walt.

Quisling regime in occupied It was also, they added, in Norwaybassy declined to dis- ron-African coloured voter of and one a passenger.

from the cominca"

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the current Soviet The reports said roll to a separate register for hostess, Mering Oczyadye Gelf. palley of "peaceful negotiations close the names, of the men,

to rollove disputed questions." the was, responsible for the rescue

| but said detalis would be group representation South

It is understood here that the leased by the Foreign Ministry Parliament of eight of those aboard the African Reuter.

plane-France-Presse.

Danish Govertiment, has been.in in Osto.-Reuter.

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