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Inner Conflicts
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OOKING, at the turn of the year, at Russia and her satellites in Eastern Europe, one has a growing sense of uneasiness and un- certainty. Although much evidence is hidden, there are many visible signs that all is for from well and that
the new internal policion. from which so much was hoped and promised in 1953, have failed to produce the anticipated results. One sure sign of anxieties and
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1955.
GRAND FIGHT BY
Peter May Fails To Reach 100
WARDLE HAS A EDENS MEET HAMMARSKJOLD
MERRY KNOCK
Melbourne, Ján, 4.
England is fighting desperately for a com- manding position in the crucial third Test match inner conflicta inside the in Melbourne now in its fourth day. topmost circles uf The regime has always been Peter May 83 last night missed his century purging. "unmasking" plots by nine runs this morning, and then Compton and conspiracies. The Evans went in quick succession leaving England familiar pattern is being re- produced. In the Soviet six wickets down for 211. Union Viktor Abakumov. Minister of State
for
Security from 1946 to 1962
has been tried and with
three others
Then in came Johnny Wardle, Yorkshire spin bowler, and in a short stay at the wicket hit the Australian bowling all over the field.
Тали been The crowd of 50,000
roared added only 14 runs to the over-
executed. Abakumov had their approval at his merrynight total of 159 for three, been dismissed from his knock. In one over, he hit 14 May, requiring office 18 months before the runs off lan Johnson including reach death of Stalin and now neurly four years later he
tried Ruddenly
sentenced for having been associated with Berin
in
1948
three fours.
Bill Johnston started fourth day of the third Test match by taking the wicket of
only nine to his century. was clean bowled by Johnston-and Eng- But Johnson got his revenge and was four down for 173, or
in the next bowled And when he
133 ahead of Australia with six over for 38 runs.
wickets atanding "Barndoor" Bulley
batied Australia struck again 12 tarautiously and very, very slow-runs inter when Maddocks made malpractices
orly to score 14 runs not out up a low catch as Comptón tried to 1949. In Poland Stanislaw to the time the China Mail went (cover drive Archer, Radkiewicz,
The retiring batsman's con-
was the tribution
G carefully- compiled 23.
FIVE LEFT
185 for England, England had
five, was now 145 ahead with five more wickets loft.
A crowd estimated at over 50,000 watched the play in ter rife heat.
Commentators said the pitch
"still playing well." WPS
Evona
out to a good catch by Maddocks off Miller in the second over after lunch for 22-Router.
Peter May after
Minister of to Pro
Press. Public Security and head of the political police since the end of the war, has been removed from that key post. In Hungary the release of Mr Noel Field accompanied by announce. menta that secret police
M
Groundsman
have been guilty of false Denies Watering
Is
convictions and that "grave mistakes" Are to be "liquidated." The security system both in the Soviet Union and in the satellites is being overhuujed. That, in Communist states, always [L symptom uf internal trouble. And it seems reasonable enough to suppose that one of the causes of the trouble is the failure of the new course to produce the promised plenty of food and consumer goods and at the same time main tain output of capital goods
Test Pitch
Melbourne, Jan. 3,
Me Jack House, the
was
England 1st Innings: 191
head sroundsman whAustralia 1st Innings: 281
to- that
England-2nd Innings
Denaud
7
pared the Melbodine wicket for the third Tost between, England and Australia, night dented reports the pitch had been illegally
Len Hutton, lbw b. Archer 42 watered during "Sunday.
Bill Edrich, bowled Johnston 13 The reports urose from the Pater May, bowled Johnston 91 mysterious Improvement in
the Colin Cowdrey, bowled charecter of the wicket on the third day of the
today. Dennis Compton, c. Maddocka Saturday's play had seen the b. Archer pitch baked hard and taking Bailey, not put spin, but today it did not take Evius, c. Maddocks b. Miller Spin' until late in the day.
Wardle, b. Johnson Mr House said the dampness
Extras THERE has certainly been in of the pitch when play started considerable in today resulted from the ground
of sweating the quantity
under the covers consumer goods available, but during the hot night. The covers prices are high and quality
were taken off from 7 a.m. to and the poor.
nt a high level,
Russia a crease try
6.15 p.m., on Sunday The Government has been eusling around for some- pitch was never left unattended, bady to blame Ministries he added.
have
NO STATEMENT
been accused of Lil- Omcials discussed, the reports efficiency and now it has been found that one cause of the of the alleged watering but made no complaint and no staiement was issued.
trouble is serious shortcomings
in organisational structure and exccas
Prior to Mr House's statement
that the
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Mr Hammarskjold, Secretary-General of the United Nations is welcomed at Darneywood, Bucks, by Sir Anthony Eden,, the Foreign Secretary, and Lady Eden, when he went there straight from London Airport inst week-Reuterphoto.
ARCTIC WINDS BRING
FREEZING
WEATHER TO EUROPE
London, Jan, 3.
Price 20 Cents
RELAX
DAKS
Whiteaways
ENGLAND Rail Strike
SWEDISH DIPLOMAT FOUND DEAD
RAILWAY LINE
ON
Dijon, France, Jan. 3.
Threat: Cabinet To
Meet
London, Jan. 3, Sir Winston Churchill-to-
night called a Cabinet meet-
ing for tomorrow morning to discuss chiefly, the threat of a nation-wide rail strike including underground rail-
The Swedish Minister to Mexico, Mr Sven Grafstroom, who recently headed the Swedish delegation to the Truce Commission In Koren, fell to his death today from the way services.
The Prime Minister Sum- Cote D'Azur-Paris overnight express train.
moned this Cabinet mealing-the. Early Police investigations His broken body was found first of the new year-as leaders Indicated that he had fallen near Joigny beside the Dijon-of 400,000 British railworkers accidentally from the speeding Paris the Sevtual bones were completed plans for a pay "claim train.
broken
strike beginning at midnight next Sunday.
He was last sech entering his sleeping compartment' on the Arin taking him to Paris from a Riviera vacation.
Dutch, Chinese Sign Contracts For £650,000
businessmen
ond
The
་
PASSPORT FOUND
Swedish Embassy in
The union chiefs-members of
Paris rushed a representative to the Executive of the National Union of Railwayman-made it
the scene.
Idenilication was first based plain today that with six days to "zero hour". their attitude was on passports and other papers
hardening. found on the body
The Swedish Foreign Office
They reiterated:
thels
deler.
strike.
through
if their claims for wage
in Stockholm later confirmed mination to carry the that he was the Major-General Increases
12. not met by the recently in
In Korea, and now Transport Commission, operators envoy to Mexico.
The Swedish diploma was of the state-owned rail system.
COURT'S. HEPORT Contracts valued at about understood to have taken the
As the union leaders planned €950,000 were signed by Dutch Cote D'Az-Paris express last their ration-wide
de stoppage, Chinese night on the first stage of his which would speedily hamstring officials in Peking last month, trip back to Mexico after a two- the country's
economy three during the first trade contact month vacation the Riviera
on
members of a Government Court between the two countries since with his family.
working жете
roup the Communists came to power
the clock in China.
pifers the hope
the strike, \ere. expected to rush an emergency interim
This
of no Pazure o Govern- -
AN ACCIDENT The Embassy in Paris sald ment report. an accident,
was disclosed by Mr that the death was "certainly on the disputo fo Sir
C. J. Schaap, Chairman of the visiting group of Dutch business men to China, this morning. He arrived in Hongkong yester day with two' members of the group, Messrs A. A. Kappers and C.
E.
't Hoen. He added that this figure was the last
to which was brought
his notice!
Soma prior to his departure. aditional transactions were
Mr Grafstroom has been
Minister to Mexico for the past repor Monckton, Minister of
three years,
Walter
He was aged 50 and was Labour, on, Wednesday,
The Minister will have 16 Major-General when he served published by Thursday when specially granted the rank of
on the four-nation Korean Con- trol Commission United Press.
waking telegraphic confirma Famous
Hon by Holland, while one member of the
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in
sroup
SUAL
still Peking conducting this
Stanghal.
"The restiør the group.
spend some time” în
Woman
Pilot's Body Is Found
| the" Executive of the N.UIR.
will meet to decide their atti- tuds to the raport.
The stoppage would be Br- tain's first nationalised rail strike“
since alf a millon men, took
part in a nine-day stoppage in 1919 although' railwaymen did Join Britain's national strike int
1920
nations
9% < UNDERGROUND, SERVICES - NUR Is secking wige San Diego, Jan. 3 therenses, of between 8 and 10- Mr Schang. revealed that
The body of Mrs Diana Bixby, shillings a week for all rail members of his group
sold 821
famous round-the-world workers except, drivers, fremen pliarmaceuticals, etherial olis pilos, was recovered today from and clerical workers. The chemicals and rayon yarn to the the wreckage of her plane off Transport Commission said It Chinese, who balanced the ex- the cost of lower California, cannot afford them. P Icy winds sweeping down from the Arctic Circle to change to a fair extent with Coast Guard officials reported. The NLR. Executive today.
native day brought Europe its coldest weather this winter.
produce, animal by-
Mrs Bixby had been missing considered strike arrangements products and tea.
since yesterday on a fight from and appointed committees to or- Snow covered Western Europe Trans-Atlantic airliners leay-
Mexico to Long Beach, Califor-ganise the stoppage. They also The Chinese were accessible to from Northern Italy to the Balticing London
completed plans for the issue of nia, airport were re the group's requests for discus- Sea coast,
“A Navy' diver brought up the strike, pay of roughly £700,000 routed around Shannon Airport.sions on modification of terms of body of Mrs Bixby, mother of a week 'Britain experienced the lowest,
contract and matl sds of pay-two children, from the depths Hopes that Lendon under. ment, Mr Schaap sald, and he of the Gulf of California.
ground railway services would considered the outcome of the She and her husband, Robert, not be affected by a rail, strike visit. "sallafactory."
40, who operate a cargo, airline fell tonight when separate wago
freight | talka separate
under Planes above an painted part of ground workers, ochodyled for southern California when she | mid-week
were postponed in- -Reuter.
-United Press.
Total: Seven wids. for 280 temperature of the Winter when Hongkong Shivers
Berlin To Be International City?
the thermometer recorded' 30' degrees in London, Forecasters said the night would bring freezing point temperatures.
But Scandinavia was colder. In Southern Lapland it was. 22 degrees below Zero. In Norway It was just above Zero,
DANGER REDUCED
Temperatures wavered around staff in the adminis Melbourne newspapers had been
Berlin, Jan. 9. trative system. Thousands of investigating reports
the Zero mark in Austrio, but The West Berli anti-shivering workers are being combed out Test wickel had been Illegally Communist Information Bureau because it reduced the danger of citizens were glad for manual labour, But the
watered.
West claimed today that Russia avalanches. whole plan is plainly dictated
Cricket rules Iny down that planned to propose that Berilo by the feeling that something the wicket must not be artificial- should become an international However, alight snow falls urgent and drastic has to be ly watered while the Test is in clly when the Paris agreements | werg - reported. In tha upper done to Increase production. | progress.—Reuter and China on Germani rearmament word reaches cử the Alps.
put into effect,
Post-Stalli economic pro- Mall Special. grammes have not solved the problems of under-production which
keep Soviet standards
of living low and which embarrassingly conflict with
German Diplomat Suspended
of
The
Northern Italy reported heavy The Soviet Union would sug
snow fell ge the whole city should be snowfalls,, and light
near Romo for a few hours ruled by a Governor responsible to an international body which last night. Mt Vesuvius, 180 miles to the south, sported a guy would include delegates from Marxist theory. So too, in the
white cap for the first time in West and East Germany, many yeurs, antelllies. Premier Nagy
Bonn, Jan. 3.
Britain, the United Stalcs, Hungary complains that the
Charge France. German
the
Soviet
Union, PLANE NOT DAMAGED programmes for 1953 have d'Affaires
was Poland London
and Czechoslovaida, been
carried suspended from his post today the Bureau sald. Incompetently
At Shannon,” Ireland, high out and threatens severe, men-after his former Beauty Queen It quoted East
German winds blow the Royal aircraft labelling surés against the culprits. The wife made a speech
the airport Foreign Ministry
as Canopus officials Party secretary states that Britain an "enemy", country,
The offending
saying that, Moscow intended to runway and is long wings are remark
was invite the three western powers expected to block the runway for made in a Christmas speech to to attend talks on the future several hours until it can be
"things are for from being all
In order." That seems a fair
members
West
Επ
Rummary of the position, not busty of the German status of Berlin, now divided, towed away
unto
only in his own country but in of the Charge d'Affaires
in London by the indo East and West zones. The Canopus, a BOAC Sirato- all Communist Europe. What
Allied and West German eruiror, is to fly Princess Mar effert will this have on the Oscar Schlitter
After a preliminary meeting the report geld it has been It flow Queen Elizabeth and the officials declined to comment on garet to Bermuda next month at foreign policy of the Soviet
the start of her Caribbean tour. Government? Now that Mr between Herr Schitter and the The Bureau Foreign Office personnel chief, discussed of Molotov's efforts to prevent
A recent steret | Duke of Edinburgh on the first the integration of Western Foreign Offieo announced
Joseph Loens, at noon, Dr
the meeting
of the East German (leg of their round-the-world that Communist Europo
have apparently. failed
Party's Central tour last year, The plane was Herr Schlitter had offered (with what effect one wonderssz
Committee-Reuter,
not damaged.: on his personal
resignation from the diplomatic there lies to service and had been suspended
reappraisal in Moscow, Carrying-out his from his job pending an invest!- his gallon
ordered by the State Secretory, Walter Hallstein-
threat to step up Soviet arm
aments seus hardly possible United Press. without a drastic lowering of the standard of living. On the
other hand any move to step clown the cold war Doems
hardly likely. For it is at times of stress that dictatorships
of need of external
have most tension both as an and.
his
Dog Gets False
Teeth For Xmas
Sydney, Jan. 6;' "Locky"`a mongrel dog, of a distraction. What is | Newton, New South Walcs, has sure in this new samient of a set of falso tooth, roplacing the International
situation and ava knocked out by a Irate in any reconsideration of motor cyclist in 1981 Soviet polleyla i that. Mir / Locke's owner, Mi
Mfr: Arthur. Malenkoy will necessarily, be Døvef, had he dental plata targely Influenced by economic|| mado "specially ma a Christmas social conditioris now gift, but gave it to his pet early obtainin in Humala. Gand that no thất bì detalii pet tuned to the
me
McCarthy Hands Over
To A Democrat
Washington, Jin. 3' Senator. Joseph McCarthy. today ended two years acti- villes, against Communist subversion" "ne chint of the Senate Investigations Bub- committee with "both valid
apd
He handed over his office
Senator McCarthy, who will remain on the commit- too as an ordinatý, member, told reporters he hoped hils Budemort would" "dig out
wa have in the
de Chairman to Senator Header
"John Meclellan, a Democrat.
us m-remult of the Démocrà».
tid Patty's victory in mid- tenn cloptional)lam Novem
Hongkong has been shivering in. a cold spell that began on Sunday, and shows no sign of warming up yet: ***
corded at the Royal Observatory The minimum temperature re- 12.30 this afternoon, was 54.5
Jimmy Swaine To Join RN After All
told him by radio she was run- definitely at the union's request.
ning out of duel.
Her last words were that she
thought she had found a place
to land.
Later Coast Guards reported
seeing Mrs Bixby's plans In the Gulf of California about 50. yards from the shore with boxes Jimmy and
degrees F. The lowest tempera (But As A Writer) ture, however, was on Monday, when the mercury dropped to a minimum of 52.2 degrees F. minimum was 62.3 degrees F.
Last year at this time, the Swade from Hongkong will join Reuter.
Hammarskjold
At Canton
Liverpool, Jan. 4.
Nineteen-year-old
the British Navy today as a writer, although he travelled
| 12,000 milos to sign on as elec-
trician.
told him his
His life-long ambition was shattered when Navy doctora eyesight was not good enough and å private spec" list has now told him he
1
in
Tokyo, Jan. 4. United Nations Secre- fary-General Dag Ham- marskjold Arrived, si Canton, at 8.30 am. · Iocal· time, radio Peking nounced today,
2
brief
three- "sentence broadcast Peking radio said: "United Nailonis Secretary-General Deg Hammarskjold arrived at Cariton at 8.30. this morn
by a
a special plane. He Was accompanied by W party of six zmeistarīta."* :
"The party was met by TESO Jo-ming head
the Foreign Affairs. De- *partment of the Kwang- jung People's Provincial Government."
United
Press.
Wall Street
tour blind. Six months ago
In Hongkong a Navy doctor told him he was completely ft. Mrs Bessie Braddock,
MP who took up
Labour
Jimmy's case,
is to ask in Parliament that people in his position should, in future, be able to get expert modical advice, betore leaving home to join up-Reuter. A
Revolutionary Jet Engine Developed
Philadelphia, Jan. 3.
A lighter and more powerful jet engine than any now in Lisa has bõen invented" - bý, Frivate | Simon Waltzman, aged 25, the Army authoritier Kated
stated - höre today!
Private Penharivanta Waltzman,
former University
*
Boomdent has bear granted a
Government patent on the en
At Record Level gine wald, to be, in, directi
New York Jln. 37 A turnover of over: 4,500,000 shares"bi Wall Street today: mot
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position to the current trend In -which 1 has made them Jotu much more involved in an effort to Increase thuir spendi
k) new: penk - for they current anabis boom and was the biggest in jetz over four years);
The Dow Jones Index faurer
the
“barometer of the market |itimiped-pearly, tour and a ball]| 3*
Attlee: 72 Today
London, Jan. 3. Mr Clement Attlee, ↑ British. Labour Party leader, celebrated cargo floating about his 72nd birthday today.
United Press.
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