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COMMENT OF

THE DAY..

Labour's Choice THER

WHERE is an element of

good senno in the com- promine resolution of the Labour Party National Executive un German re armament. For the reason that the Executive has moved away from outright support to a policy more in keeping with the present uncertainty over the German problem, it is likely to have much more appeal than the ald resolution. There is no baalc

in change

the Executive's attitude; it still believes in rearmament. But when the Trade Union Con- stress at Brighton earlier this month demonstrated! how nuch feeling had changed on the question, the

Executive National

bul

to rephrase its altitude in away that would ensure the continued support of the conservativo.right wing and

the

AL

ME

Ume

not

allenate those who fear that

An

armed create new tensions in Europe. Now the defeat of the EDC and the forth. coming nine-nation talks in London Germany and European defence gave the

Germany will

ห

on

National Executive its cue:

the

Governments of

Europe and Great Britain | have to meet to formulate new plans for West Ger- many's future, why shouldn't the Socialist par- ties of these countries meet to determine their attitude on the same questions?

CHINA

No. 35932

'THE WEATHER: Moderato N.E. winds, Cloudy, with long fair intervals, Warm and

-like, "Eatablished 1845

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1954.

MAIL

FERRY DISASTER

1,000 Feared Dead

SHIP OVERTURNS

IN TYPHOON

155 Survivors Rescued:

Four Other Ships Sink

Tokyo, Sept. 27.

in More than 1,000 persons were feared drowned

off Hakodate, typhoon-tossed seas

northern Japan, this morning.

A train-carrying ferry, with about 1,200 passengers aboard, over-

Roman

Price 20 Cents

HONGKO

the front to-day

EXCHANGE

IN JAPAN

DR EDITH SUMMERSKILL ANNOUNCES:

Statue Found Malenkov, Chou En-lai

In London

Londen, Sept, 20. A Boman statute. ro- presenting the busi of a young man, was discovered in the ruins of the Temple of Mithra, which was un- covered recently in the Olly of London during excava tions on a building alte.

Part of the statue, In arty marble., was badly stained, but the rest wAS na olean B if it had just been carved.

to-

The ruined temple, which has become a major sight- neeing attraction, was day vikiloc. by 35,000 people-France-Presse,

Invited To Britain

Scarborough, Yorkshire, Sept. 26.

Dr. Edith Summerskill, Vice-Chairman of the Labour Party and a. member of the recent Labour delegation which toured Russia and ́China, said tonight she had invited Mr. Georgi Malenkov and Mr Chou En-lai to Britain next year.

Dr Summerskill

said they had a civil war and they, and "could bo-the spark that neither Mr Malenkov nor Mrwon it. They drove General | lighted_a "Third World War." Chou declined the Invitation. Chiang Kai-shek and the other Mr Phillips was' giving” im- "Mr Malenkov sakd with D gang-a pretty corrupt gang-pressions in a B.B.C, broadcast twinkle in his eye, if I agree of the Chinese mainland Into (of his recent visit to Communist could you promise me a visa. Formosa where they are protect China with the British Labour

sald to him

that un-ed by another power." fortunately we are not yet the Government but we probably sholl be next year,"

sald Dr Summerskill,

Dr Summerskill told Д 2,000 people she asked the Bil- Ush

Ambassador to Moscow, Sir Willian Hayter, if he would issue a visa for Mr Malenkov and ho solemnly The would".

Suez Canal 'Hitch Labour Party rally of

turned fast night. By mid-morning the authorities had reports of only UK Official

155 persons rescued and 422 bodies had been recovered.

The 4,335-ton ferry Doya Maru dragged her moorings at or off Hako- date, the ferry terminal port in Hokkaido, across Tsugaru Straits. She struck rocks and capsized.

The National Railways reported that four Honshu-Hokkaido ferriés were sunk and six made unnavigable as a result of the storm which over- turned the Doya Maru.

were

Orly four of the fleet safe.

Most of the National Railway Corporation's Hokka executives were lost on the Doya Maru.

Passengers

шуга the Doya Included 52 of Maru

Americans.

►UT will the new resolution BUT

appoal to

the majority? The Bevanites are,

course, opposed to it. They

ashore one body after another. ferries connecting Honshu with Comparatively fJW su: Hokkaido, was Japan's worst

able to vlters were

swim to transportation disaster. safety through the

First reperts said the Doys surf after being washed from the Doya Maru had started from Hakodate Maru's decks.

at 1900 hours yesterday evening. Outside Hakodate harbour she The ship's second mate sur- Details were awaited at United vived and said the Doya. Maru's found the storm too heavy and States military headquarters. anchor chain had broken. The anchored. say there can be no com mid-morning ning soldiers ship first pitched to port, then promise on the question of bodies had been, recovered plus swung over to starboard before rearmament. They explained that of one malo civilion cm-overturning. their attitude fully in uployee of the United States pamphlet entitled "It Need Army plus two female. Not Happen" published

Crim Parties three months

Grim parties of officials, doc- offered as the alternative to tors and ambulance attendants German rearmament a dis- this morning waited on Hako- armed but united Germany, date beach

waves, still while assuming that the Russfatis mountainous, slowly brought would agree to the dia-

ngo.

It

regime by free

mantling of the Fast

2

Germau

elections. The left-wingers

rejected the view that there

Worst Disaster Already the captain had ordered all passengers on deck, but in the wind and high send few had a chance.

National Railway Corporation officials said the sinking of the Doya Maru, one of their train

The storm's death toll was growing this morning as authorities reported crewmen missing from freight ferries.

Omcials said today only eight out of 75 crowmen of the 2,011- Tokach! to freighter fery, Maru, had been saved.

The Hitaka Maru, 2,932 tons, also sank off Hakodate. Detalls about two other freight ferries were awaited.

WEATHER FORECASTER'S ERROR

A miscalculation by weather could be rearmament and forecasters was blamed for the negotiation-it must be disaster which came late last either one or the other. The night

after the vessel battled inference was that if Ger- against mountainous sea whip- many was rearmed, peaceful ped by typhoon Marie's 118-mile would be per hour gusts.

co-existence impossible.

THE National

has

Reports reaching Tokyo and that according to original pm Executive dictions the winds would not strong enough to hamper been bo

|

Bodies

Some old couples had

wert

Flying To Cairo

delegation Mr Altice said he did not be Mr Phillips sold feeling about love the Chinese govemment Formoen, was being whipped up was a Russian puppet and that in China in very available in- more clfort should be made to strument of propaganda, Mr

Phillips

Esfand believed the arrive at a peaceful solution of world problems.

should be neutralised for a (period and that its own people should then be free to decide whether they wished to“ rejoin the mainland,

IMMENSE TASK He said there was an immense task before.. Britain, in, this re gard because "I think 'in tils

assured us country we are comparatively Conference News:

free from some of the emotion- "This visit can only become a al/sms which aflict other reality with the co-operation of countries."

Let us hope the government, the government will recognise the great contribution to mutual understanding that a visit of this nature would effect. I regard it us auch: atu important meeting," she said.

and

London, Sept. 26. Mr Anthony

Dr Summerskill was speaking Nutting, Parliamentary Under- Secre. on the eve of the Labour Party's tary at the Foreign Office, is annual conference.

"I was immodest enough to to fly to Cairo on Tuesday believe that I might be chair- to join in the Anglo-man of the Party next year and Egyptian negotiations for in that capacity, I extended an

invitation to Malenkov Britain's evacuation of the Chou Enlai to a return vielt, Brez Canal Vase.

the Foreign Office announced ca

she "added. this today only, 24 hours after stating that Mr Nutting would to be in the British délégation the nine-nation conference on The leader of the Labour German rearmament this week. Opposition, Mr Clement Altee, sudden de-said today it was now time to The Government's

Mr Nutting to bring People's China Into the Cairo

diplomatic United Nations. It is believed

quarters

Attlee's Speech

that the last phase of the Government should occupy that "We think the present Chinese.

gotiations has produced some seat

assigned to her in the unexpected though minor diffl-United Nations," he mid culties.

Ometal sources indicated that

Wor.

with

"We stend somewhere bolween the extreme of Communism on the one hand and the extreme. of capitalism on the other. We

Anti-Nazi

Severe Reverse

For Attlee

Mr Attlee's hopes of getting his. Opposition Party to ap prove GermYEARS. rearmament suffered a severe, neveras today on: the eve off the - Party's an

from

Protest March nual conference

"

Scarborough, Sept. 26. ∙Mon dressed as Nazi Storm troopers wearing steel helmets and jackbogla marched at the bead-pl'ar processions of abouts: 288 tromer and Kildren. through the

tonight

rived

delegates Far. from the British Labour Party conference

which opens

Monday.

here on

At the rear of the pro- cession, women carried a banner saying “Don't, arm; the

Nazis." Others carried crosses... with the names "Auschwitz." "Belsen" and "Buchenwald" attached to them.Reitter.

Conference * delegales

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big, unions the National Hallwaymen with 302,000 conferetive votes Candl the Union mor tive und Allied 300,000 3050

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tomorrow, but I too was ex pected to hold, the anti- merk Line,

Meanwhile, M Aneurin Tower of the Left Wing Bevan Labour,faction opposed to German rearmament, met his followers to draw up battle lines for

only be dna hAN ANDywith-Socialist chiciat.

Conference enment

Addressing the rally after Dr Mr Nutting was going to Cairo Summerziell Mr Attlee said to meet the need for a British there was a case for postpane- Pulling its anchor in the gale, lí

Before many could scramble Minister to be en the spot to ment while the Korean war was

Tuesday's debate on the Now was the time to drifted out into the strait where out from below, the ship heeled tako final decisions.

They said going on.

are something different in itself that has divided Britain's howling winds and high scas over on its starboard side there were 190 serious last bring her in.

because we have our own creed Oppooltion Party down the overturned it,

which hit the

He also said: "Either you are water with a minute complications and that

of British social democracy, an The ship sank near the shore. mighty splash.

co-existence or it was hoped the full agreement fong to have

"I believe there is still that The Labour Party'a 53rd an

STRIVING DESPERATELY BITVİVDIS

would be signed within a week you will have war." All those caught below deck of Mr Nutting's arrival.

great hope of saving what le washed onto the bosch.

"The opposite of co-existence, best ich our civilisation, but it pral delegate conference opens were drowned. Thass who reached shore alive

Cairo, Sept. 20. I suppose, would be co-death,

will

by wandered about looking and

Miss Aca Sato, 37, who barely Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, World

A spokesman for Lieutenant he said. "If you have another and tolerance is a way loaders striving desperately to calling fee relatives.

hydrogen traffic. It is not only for us to avert defeat on their policy at resolution

succeeded in swimming to shore, the Egyptian Prime Minister, bombs, you are going to break tied described the scene. "There was phrased in such a way that Maru's alze and the vessel put of

seriously and the vessel put on solves together with strings terrible sound and the torrs said tonight we hope a quick down civilisation. What we saw say we are folerent of those

Jackcls.

ry signing of the Suez Canal agree-in Moscow convinced us of there must also be the responer election of this Their turned

polley, which it should appeal to the out to sea, only to be trapped bodies

over," she paid. were washid ashare broke open a majority of the six million by the pounding waves.

from the totalitarians on the has caused the biggest. Labour window in the ment will follow Mr Anthony possibility of co-existence," together,

third-class

Nutting's arrival here on Tues- CO-EXISTENCE POSSIBLE other side."

clach of quarters and jumped party members who will be

of many years, is likely to day."—Router.

Mr Morgan Phillips, general hinge on a relative handful of represented at. Scarborough, disaster told a terrifying story

Survivors of the ferry bont Panic Below Decks into the sea. I swam frantically

and reached

Mr Attlee sald: "I do not sup-secretary of the British Labour votes out of a total poll of more sticere, The third for these reasona: it is non-of confus.on and hysteria in a

Survivors told how panic-class quarters

pose for a moment we were able Party, said today Formosa" was than six milliona were practically committal, it recognises the dark night of giard waves and stricken passengers, trapped in Alled with water when I escaped generally agreed principle howling winds that washed old cabins and saloons below decks, and I think those who stayed

fought to get out through nar-behind were all drowned." (even if it is trißo women and children overboard. platitudinoust

They said the ferry's engine row companionways leading to Ger-

apparenti failed and it could the deck. should

# not hold to its anchored position Rovereignty and therefore in the shelter of the breakwater. the rights of a Bovereign nation, but that rearmament

many

B that

have

should be effected in such No World War III

a way that there would be

No possibility of 4 resurgence of militariam at some later stage. It even agrees with the Eevanitos that there must bo free elections for a united Gor- many,

If We

thekr

A Private Escaped From

Third Typhoon

Mr Yoshida In Canada

to convines the rulers of Russia the danger spot in the Far East; (Contd. on back pare, Col. 1) that our free social democracy better than their · totali- tarianism any

more than they would convince us. The most we could do there is to try and Persuade people that although there are these differences, there is the possibility of ca

Vancouver, Sept. 26, The raging typhoon, third to

Japanese Frime Minister hit Japan this month, inflicted Shigeru Yoshida arrived at the heavy casualties and damage international airport in Van existence.!!! ashore. Powerful winds fanned couver, B.C., at 1032 a.m. (1832

Keep THE Bomb The Tower! and 673 were injured ne

The

a small fire into a giant holo GMT) today to begin a 50-day was autocratic rule but by com- Mr Attice said in China there caust last night, destroying or goodwill tour of six nations, damaging 2,000 houses in the

70-year-old

mon consent it was a very honest Japanese

the Communist town of Iwaai in Hokkaido. leader was met at the airport by rule. He said

Fisheries Minister, Mr James A.

Govamment Was *performing Press reports sold 05 were Sinclair, retiring Canadian Am- things for the people that had

bassador to Japan Mr R. W. never been done before, Sydney, Sept. 20.

typhoon Marie slammed into the Mayhew and the Ambassador-

"There

have been changes Marshal of the Royal Air But there is an Force, Sir John Slessor, sald to-

Japanese islands. London, Sept. 26.

designate to Japan Mr Thomas that give hope

the poorer to

ho in China,"

Bald. important,

people in difference day that if Britain and the The British authorities In Iwauchi County in Hok-C. Davis. between the views of the United States kept their hands said today an Army private names of a village fire which was Japanese Ambassador to with which we ought to try.

Also welcoming Mr Yoshida "There is a government there kaido, the typhoon fanned the

to two wings of the party. The on atomic and hydrogen bombs, escaped from the Tower of almost completely wiped out Canada, Dr Koto Matsudaira and understand it is understanding National Executive want a third world war would not London yesterday, thus suc- the 4,500 houses of the village the British Ambassador to Japan that is needed." sovereignty and rearmament оссит,

-Sir Eiler Dening who is en and ***

"China has suffered very before German unity. Like believe that some day we or our famous prisoners, from Sir

He said that "I hope and ceeding where a line of Router, United Press

France-Presse.

route to Tokyo to assume his many years of warfare. The most Western statesmen,

post.

people are pretty tired of it. children will see

Prime the end of Walter Raleigh to Rudolf

Minister Yoshida's the Executive bolíeve that

They have prace now, but they cold war and the beginning of

Canadian three-day

tour unity and also peaceful co-controlled universal

Hess, failed,

pro apprehensive of war. The disarma-

launches a goodwill trip to the Chinese extstenes are only possiblement. This present crazy atte

are afraid of being. United States, Britain, France, attacked by the Americans. The when the armed might of of international affairs can't, last

West Germany and Italy.

Americans are afraid of being the Communist countries is indefinitely," he said,--Router.

United Press. '-

attacked by the Chinese, counter-balanced by a similar strength on

Baby-sitter

Murdered A London bobby.

the The Pope Better less than a mile from the Tower.

The man's momontor' glory wna brief. seized him in a street loss than two hours after he escaped and

Springfield, Massachusetts, Western side. The Bovanites

Spokesman Τος Scotland Yard

Sept. 26. An unknown assallent stabbed ridicule this argument, Only ( Castelgandolfo, Sept. 20. and the War Office" confirmed

Pope Pius XII appeared well that the, soldier, a member of altter and one of the two babies while Western Germany

a 14-year-old baby remains unarmed, they say, along the rond to recovery the Royal Fusillers unit at the

watching today, without

to death

she

Is there any hope of unity from his latest series of hle Tower, was being held on-a vibe the police bamed for

coughs and general fatigue 'to- charge of being absen

but move in the crime,

· RUSSIANS AFRAID

Volcano Becomes The Russians are afraid.

Violent

And there you have a picture of a world full of danger with great nations whom minds are Auckland, Sept. 20. turned to

fear. Surely It. i» and co-existence. Germany day when he bestowed an leave when he gave his guards This

Mount Ngaurahov, entering worthwhile to try, and make therofőre must not

ke apostolic: benediction on $10,000 the all It was enough, to put This Western Massachusetts anger spectacular stage, in its an effort to break down that rearmed. Much is at stake.

biggest eruption, is now hurling feart" city was stinelend"; by: the third cony of his summier

and fourth murders of, the year great showers of ath and rock orators ALLabort England's priceless Crown as the bodies of Lynn Ann Inte of the Jewpis era kent

Smith

"four-year-old at the Tower,

of Stephen Coldberg/were found nort

the boy's parenta i satibay), natabimy ! and the 1,000-year" returned home early this moe

authold, on the bank of ing.

In the Scarborough vote this ring pilgrims panema (tering band Mthorities on

week. A vote against re

'armament is also a rejection

from 1 the bale.

rlier, the "Byear-old color Y

tiff received in

hall of the

of the policies of Mr Attles from all over Europe, guardsmen with the help of t

Rolfer a whaker group of DIY and the present leaderalup. Repeating

pilgrims

Informat bla brier.

It is also a vote agaitist, a remarka in English, Italian, old: principle which has been derman, orreňon and Spanish, the Thames in the heart of Lon*||

the keystone of: British and the Pope, tall his listeners that don le one of the most-harvily, American polley for Europe be winded he couldygreat thêm gimited v places. for the last Ibur-years, all IndividuallypUnited; PrORDE

Mr. Atties said, "I don Bat överything the Chinese done admirable, “but

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