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Japan & The
China Trade [UDGING from
Peports, the recent nign- ing of a banter trade agred- ment between Communist China and Japanese Interests has been givon exaggerated Importance both In Europe and Japan.) Although the amoun! montioned, 260 millions on each side, la large, it is also illusory. The Japanese Government has giver warning that it will not relax its enforcement of the United Nations resolution
exports on strategic
China, and it appears that 38 per cent of the commadl tles mentioned in the agree ment are on the embargo Hist. Previous experience of this kind of agreement has not been good. For example, a similar agreement made in June of 1952 led to almost nothing. Instead of the pro- mised 230 millions' worth of
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Compromise Dies, Aged
Dies, Aged NATO Has One
Compromise
Zone Issue
CHURCHILL'S REPORTED Gouzenko
STATEMENT TO
MR
DULLES
Washington, Dec. 10.
The British Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill, told President Eisenhower and other American officials in Bermuda that his Conserva- tive government would fall if it attempted a further compromise with Egypt over the evacua- tion of British troops from the Suez Canal Zone,
This was disclosed today by informants who said the information was given to the Egyptian trade each way the actual Ambassador, Ahmed Hussein, here by the Secre- results for the year ended Inst June were no more than tary of State, Mr John Foster Dulles, during a £900,000 worth of exports half-hour meeting between the two at the State from Japan and £780,000 Department this afternoon. worth of imports. When the
After talking with Mr Dulles, Mr Hussein had a new pact was signed in half-hour meeting with the Assistant Secretary of State Peking the Chinese Deputy for Middle East affairs, Mr Henry Byroade, who also Prime Minister said Chinn
attended the Bermuda meeting and discussed the Sucz was willing to conclude a non-aggression pact with matter with the British Foreign Secretary, Mr Anthony Japan if she would break Eden.. with
pro-
the Chinese Me Dulles, according to diplo- tion in the event of an attack Nationalists
would ind
matic authorities, told Mr on Turkey, Iran or Greece. free herself from "sub- Hussein that the British had The American formula ordination to the United thus rejected compromise.vides merely that the Brish States," clear pointer to American plan for settling the and their ailles can go back by the fact that the talk of Suez dispute by middle of the a fostering trade between the 1940 action.
two countries is principally influenced by pulitical motives.
The Egyptian Ambassador sold, however, that his divern- Tent was "suspicious" of Bir Winston's reasong for not is of course natural that accepting the American Japan should look hopefully promise.
Britain Puts
In Protest
London, Dec. 10. Britain announced today ihat the has lodged a strong protest with Egypt over the "considerable in- ercase" in incidents against British troops in the dis- puted Suez Canal Zone,
The
protest came to light in the House of Com mons in a written reply by the Foreitn Under- Becretary, Me Arthur Dodds-Parker,
A Foreign Office spokes man said later he believed that the protest was made in Calro about 10 days ago. -United Press.
START THE
RETURN TRIP
Willing To Talk
Conditions Revealed
Oltawa, Dec. 10. Justico Minister Stuart Garson said today that Igor Gouzenko had notified him by letter that he would be willing to talk with. United States Senate spy investi- gators In a Canadian controlled meeting.
Mr Garson announced Gouzenko's decision in a short statement to the House of Com- mans,. He told the. House that Senator William E. Jenner, Chairman of the Senate Sub- Committee on Internal Security.
Sub-Committee's r And the counsel; Mr Robert T. Morris, had named United States been ropresentatives to meet with Mr Gouzenko,
125
Mombasa, Dec. 10.
Bamoil Haj Hamdan, an Arab trader who claimed to have lived for 125 years, aled here today.
tita
Hamdan still had
hla
full set of teeth and all menial faculties up to fils ---- death, His only physical defect, was his faliing eyesight...
He had been married four,times and is survived by his 50-year-old, wife, and by eight ohlidren, the eldert.65 and the youngest à 10-year-old daughter. :-
Hamdan was. botu
Oman, in Arabia, and at
the age of 27 he joined the Arablan
Army
越
Somalla. Later he became
a trader
and came to Momba In 1947. Be pado his first return trip to the land of his birth in 1943-United Press.
Wage Increase
Rejected
A
UNPRECEDENTED
ACTION
Three
additional four shillings a week wage increase for all workers as Britain's current
ened.
London, Dec. 10. He outlined for the House of
British railway Commons the terms of the meet-unions today rejected an Churchill & Lanieling set. by Canada in a note to the United States Government Leave Bermuda
flast month.
will be held The meeting
prasided over by 'n Canadian official who will 'rule procedures,,
SECRET MEETING
Of It's Best Years Says Gruenther
Paris, Dec. 10.
General Alfred Gruenther, Commander Allied Forces in Europe, told the Atlantic Pact Chiefk of Staff here today that 1953 had been one of the Alliance's "best years" and that NATO now has 40 army divisions and 5,000 front line aircraft standing ready to resist any Russian attack.
General Gruenther, who had been reviewing the Pact's annual progress report on, the 14-nation Alliance's Military Committee, then turned out of the conference everyone under the rank of Lieutenant-General while he talked about the use of atomic weapons in the field.
warfare
land operation traditional i
Atomic guns of which there are already some in Germany... are now in the "conventional" class as war weapons in Atlan- tle Past military planning.
from
of
air
has been markedly re- ment not
The 40 land divisions include Turkish and Greak forces which do not come under the Western European Command.
the
Pact's
Hamilton, Bermuda, under Canadianausplece and Industrial pay crisis height- \ offirmed today the most serious about the Bermuda conference
**
on
The leaders of the threa unions, which represent 430,000 workers, took this unprecedented
About 50 military and civil, Belglan 300-inch calibre as advisers paced the lobbles of standard small arms weapon. NATO's prefabricated head- Tests on the Belgian and other quarters hero while the top men prototypes were suli going on secretly discussed what military and it would be several months
ources described as the poten-before agreement could
be tially
revolutionary effect of reached, he said.
Tho atomic
Military Committee, under the chairmanship of Den
Admiral
J mark'd Quistagnard, goes
BOL into, joint session here tomorrow with the Pact's permanent political body to prepare for next week's.. This year's buildup again three-day meeting of the Altan- tie Council comprising the shows a small_defelt in
foreign, defence and financo strength goals. But officials say
of the 14 nations. great progress has been made in ministers the turnover
Lord
Ismay, obsolete alteraft to modern jet planes, Sueretary Ganemi, due to re- The number
tonight from the Big squadrond operating piston-engined
in Bermuda air Three conference craft
which he attended as a NATO is expected in be at duced.
the
But he
to report, on the Bermuda conference.
Officials said tonight it was doubtful whether Lord Ismay simple Anglo- Egyptian
WORST WEAKNESS
would
be able to follitho agreement if there is an attack
The Military Committee ro- permanent delegates here in the Middle East. anywhere
Dec. 10.
weakness In Western Europe is before the ministerial | meeting The formula presented by Mr Dulles in Bermuda
the absence of the 12 divisions on Monday---Heuter, Also con- Prime Minister Winston tained a preamble under which Churchill and Premier
West Germany has been sche com- Egypt would recognise her
duled to contribute through the responsibilities as a member of Joseph Lanlel of France left
afternoon. They turned down the to a revival of trade with
Mr Hussein, has been recalled the United Nations to help keep by plane tonight for London. The meeting will be conducted; step at a meeting in London this European Army Plan: for the
NATO devoted most of its i the pence. The Americans, re- China. Japan's Western to Calro for consultations and
No part pus which brought Sir information supplied
by the it was not
diture this
year to fequirements, Aides care of the reoccupation problem hopefully on this as a means December 15 and 20,
They made the decision strengthening reserves and lay- be made public without the ap
ing down new production lines of relieving Japan's pres- said he expected to present his in the event of a general war. Winston here for the Big former Russian cipher clerk will
Three conference,
for modern weapons. Egyptian officials here are sure to export to their information to the government of
The award was made last President Mohammed
The result has been a "strong markets. The opening of the and then return to Washington, dent Eisenhower; Mr Dulies and plane first after cheerily waving the terms in an exchange of notes bunal and was accepted by the than a dremote increase
Naguib reported to believe that Preal-M. Laniel, apparently recovered Proval of the Canadian Govern- unanimously.
from his heavy cold, boarded the
Following the zettlement of week by the 'Railway Staff Tri- and healthy consolidation rather China market to Japan early in January.
American officials have
do his hat to a crowd of 2,000 which would be a healthy thing for
about all
they
the United States, Mr with toward had gathered despite wina rain Garson told the House, "I com-
British Transport Commission. operational strength, the sources The Egyption Ambassador to bringing about the world. But Japanese
a compromise
The unions had asked for
15 and municated by letter with Mr
The increase in what the per cent wage increate all round. hopes have to be tempered London likewise has been sum- in the Suez dispute, However, and the late hour.
A number of Bermula digni- Gouzenko, who has now replied The Tribunal they contend, necording to
made its four military chiefs called "okce- in the light of current moned home for consultations,
diplomatic sources, that the arles were prerent but there.
that he is prepared to meet the
The Royal couple are due here. political and economic con-
Because it Americans are unduly influenced were no ceramentes.
on December 17 and the ditions. Japanese opinion
But Russian effectiveness is immediate weather, outlook in it is true is strongly for
by a desire to see Churchill re-as efter retreat, when no Billsh representatives of the United extins award which means antiveness" is something more than
roops are allowed on the streets States Government on the terms main in office.
between the between the
already agreed of Bermuda, the only military United States-and-Canadian
also increased by about the same favourable but it could alter very more trade with China, but British and Egyptians is so slight
quickly This is the hurricane- POSITION WEAKENED
amount in Europe, the military representative" was the mascot of even if the embargo list is that it can easily be resolved.
Governments." the Welch Fusiliers Billy the
Intelligence experts
told the season and meteorologists at Committee. Military much relaxed (and there The British want to have the
Nandi and Fist, are anxiously American officials are said to goat-which cambled up to the have been a small number right to go back into the Suez, believe that the British position mp.
Next year's NATO programme watching the weather trends in of concessions recently) the along with their allies, if there is in the Middle East is so weak
approved by the Military Com the dorm-making areas south of possible relief to Japan in any attack on the Arab States as a result of the elections in
mittce today envisages slightly the Equnior. more spending and another year revision of the Fill programme The unspoken fear is that hor serious economic situa- or Turkey, Iran or Greece,
the | of_consolidation, tion does not appear. to.be
By the end of 1954 It is hoped for the Royal tour, may, big great. Sapan's gap between
to have completed all the 126 necessary. If a hurricane should imports and exports may
new airfields in Europe.
develop and the storm, centro” this
reach
About 100 have now year
been moves towards the Fiji Isinnas. millions; it is not likely to be much reduced by her The British went so far as China trade-a fact of to agree that they would con- much conscquenco to thosult with "Egypt and the other West.
IT:
last 18-montha..
competitors look equally will leave some time between portedly felt this would taken in the Stratocruiser Cano-secretly of the evidence or Pay award on the grounds flint. 360,000,000,000. military: expin-
SLIGHT DIFFERENCE American authorities believe
the_difference..
The Egyptians want to grant this right only in the event of a direct attack on the Arab $1,100 States-excluding Turkey, Iran
and Greece.
overdrawn..
ment.
"In view of the confidential nature of the meeting, I am sure House will agree that it the
extra £5
tumcient
the Common annually for 130 per cent above last year.
Today's meeting of rail union chiefs took no netion on strike colle
in from pouring cel parts of tho
the country, The leaders evidently wanted
many
stew
Ja
Keeping Eye
On Weather
Suva, Fill, De, 10, Weather reports are
belag
signalled to the Gothic every few hours as the Royal yacht, bring- ing Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh to Fiji, ups. proaches the hurricane zone of the Pacific.
Sir Winston! ameking a cigar would be undesirable to say to give the Transport Commis and accompanied by the Gov anything further on this matter slon the chance to offer a higher the Sudan-where the voters ernor, told the Bermudians: elected to join with Egypt that
"Thank you all very much for at this time," Mr Garson added. award before riding n
which- would: Omcial
zources Bald
that
*Paralyso Sir Winston's prophecy of a fall your kindness. We have on-
transport of food and raw on the Suez question is not foved our visit to your bonut-there probably would be no
of the meeting materials all over Britain. ful islands. We trust our work announcement
If the Commission refuses to will not,
in the, end, go un-made until "a sumcient period
grant a bigger award the unions The prediction In diplomatis '¦rewarded. Good luck to of time to allow for safety," had
will all certainly move towards finished and are available for Statistics give ap
approximately a quatiers here was that Egypt Bermuda. Keep a cheer for lapsed.United Press,
a protest move of some. kind,
two to one chance of rain, during might adopt a polley of non- the British garrison when it res
24-hour national perhajo
A senior official here tonight the Royal visit but rain or shine Co-operation with the Brush in tuins.
'strike on the pattern of last i denied reports that the Pact had the oudoor programme will be | Suez, as a resull of Sir Winston's
work's stoppage by two millon now agreed to adopt a new carried through Reuter, FAMILIAK BIGN Arab nations" about reoccupa- | refusal to consider the American
shipbuilding and engineering
It's a gift!
Here conce Christine ! How right that you should give cigarettes in the gay scarlet pack! ;
du MAURIER
THE EXCLUSIVE: FILTER TIPCIOARETTE
plan, and withdraw the thou- As he entered the alreraft, the sunds of labourers and techni-Prime Minister turned around. clans of Egyptian nationality waved his hat in the air and who are in the Zone..
made his familiar V for Victory sign. The plane, took off
at
WILLING TO DEBATE
Washington, Dec. 10.
McCarthy Senator Joseph
The fear was expresse) in 0,10 p.m. for the flight to Eng сту well-informed quarters land, which takes approximately said today lie would be willing here that Egypt and the other. 114 hours.
to debate the subject of Com- Arab Stoles may decide to adopt This afternoon, Sir Winston munism in the United States policy of "neutralism" in the and a party of four men visited with the former President, Mr cold war as d result of the in-one of Bermuda's benches. The Harry S. Trumvited to engage ability to reach agreement on
on Primo Minister, apparently They wore
Suez.
The Arab League meats feeling extremely agile, serum- In the debate by the Harvard in Cairo on January 15 and 11 bied down a fairly steep, sandy University Law School forum,
is expected the Premiers of all slope to the water's edge, where a student organisation at Cam those countries will be present he sat a few minutes in a dock bridge,
Massachusetts,
to adopt a general "policy on chair. When he clambered back Mr Horschel Shanks, a 23- relations with the West.-United
up the slope, he turned to a year-old law student, who is Press.
kaid about 20 American chairman of the forum, group lourists and said, "Well, there he had sent the invitations to you are," apparently as if to Senator. McCarthy and Mr show them his age was no Truman on December. 2-but deterrent to his enjoyment of had not yet heard from either,
feUnited Press.
Router.
IN 15 YEARS' TIME -
Cairo, Dep. 10. Egypt is making preparations to take complete charge of the Suez Canal in 10 years from now when the Canal Company's con- cession expires, · ́ according to a statement by Egyptian official, Moheddin Abdin, in an article published today in the Cairo newspaper, Al Aspam.
و.
The writer, a Deputy Under-
Lady Churchill Stole Show
Stockholm, Dec. 10.
Lady Churchill, wife of the 79-year-old British Prime
· Sécretary of the Ministry of Minister, Sir Winston Churchill, who was awarded the
workers.
The unions
to be appear standing firm in the fight fo higher wages. All three unions the National Union of Rail- the Society of waymen Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, and the Transport
Salaried Staffs Association- have condemned the meagre news of the Tribunal awarde Reuter
Executions Postponed
Wellington, Dec. 10.
The execution of three South Soa Islanders'%'"echdeanned to death for murdering their Re- sident Commissioner last August
been
authoritatively calant
The New
st
Executive
Council will now coxalder allowing the threo natives to appeal to the Privy Counell.
Commerce and Government. Nobel Prize for Literature, today read out her husband's Late three Jalanders. Folltolu,
Commitsconce with tho, Sucz
Canal Company, is due to love
for Paris at the end of the woek.
In the Franch 1 capital, he will take up peveral important ques
and Tamaeli, escaped from prison 2 ong”
*** Niue Island, 1,400 miles north of New Zea- Larsen death and wounded
speech and, for clarity of diction and emphasis on the main points, bid fair to rival ber famous, speaker-spouse land, hacked Mr C. H. W far away in Bermuda. «
long with the director of the She was loudly applauded by Later, it the ball which fol Canal Company, which has its the distinguished gathering lowed the banquet, Lady Chur-executed before December 10.** hoadquarters In Farley which attended the Nobel Prize hill was greeted by studenta p
of
weng to have been
The 'declafort to consider: the
falowed strong protesta from Churches and other organisations at the cecutive Council's re fuel to reprieve the lalardona
The company is Egyptian, but banquet at the City Hall hore singles My Darling Clemen- application for an ippail Britain holds half of ang capilial tonight Heading the distincclaimed as the " shares and the goverment gulshed list of guests were the the evening Lady Churchill, in board is composed of -French, | King and Queen of Sweden and the company of - the King and |:10 Briinh,” Tour Ban ansione members of the royal family, Queen, was visibly moved by
American and one Netherlands all of whom distened carefully her reception and, as the slud katha thard trial the islanders the brilllent oratory of Sirenis finished their fongosha admitted the killing, but said, kir The concession is due to end Winston was delivered in a waved in grateful: sokaowledge Linck (filtrombad khen)
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