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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JANUARY
WAR IN SOUTH MOLUCCAS Rubber Smuggling Mrs. Morrison
Wine Industry Strikes Back
Nimes, 8. France, Jan, 6.
The wine industry of this area struck, back today' at the new free milk distribu- tion ration for invalids and for elderly persons in old folks homes.
Wine In France is often referred to as "grown-up's milk."
The Wine Producers
Associations announced that they would ask the Gov. emment ie take this "parallel measure" In a Klep
their
to safeguard interests.
In addition to doling out wine to the aged and the sick, the wine producers suggested increasing the French octdiern* wtuo ration, which is now about á pint a day.
There were some KugtCN+ tions here that if the Gor- ernment turned these mea- Kures down. cal schools should suspend antik dilsiri- button.France-Presse.
LAUGHTER
IN THE
KREMLIN
Moscow, Jan. 6.
The Kremlin 'echoed to- day to the laughter of six British children
Fighting For Existence,
Says Spokesman
The Hague, Jan, 6.
A "forgotten war" is raging on the Molucca islands where 10,000 troops are fighting against Indonesia for the independence of their country, Dr J. P. Nikijnluw, who calls himself plenipoten- tiary representative of the South Moluccan Republic in Holland, said today.
At a Press conference here today, he recalled that the "Republic" declared itself independent in 1950, but has not been recognised by any country. He added that it was waging a war against Indo- nesia without outside help and with arms taken from the enemy.
He expressed the regrets that the Molucca question had not been taken up by the United Nations and ap- pealed to the free world to take an interest in the battle which his country was fighting for its freedom.
The representative said that "reninunts" of the old Dutch the rebel leaders of the E. Indies Army. "Republi: “ controlled 4,000 well- The "Republic" representative trained mal Rim ve erans ofeld the conference that the the foster Dutch East Indies South Moluccas were CVETY- Arty
well es about 0,000 where "fame with res.stones volunteers.
against Indonesian aggression." He claimed that the declaration nf maral law was proof of this ead that it would bring "terror, prisons,
concentration cumps and Bring squads."
INDONESIAN DENIAL Bul an Indonesian High Commissariai spokesma denied that there was a re- vols among the people of the Moluccan islands
where
Indonesia
martial law.
has declared
He agreed that the rebels
on
e islands of Cerest end Am- they, where there have ben re- romped and chased each ports of heavy fighting.
other through ancient apartments in the
tional home of rulers.
were
tradi Tito Declines
Russian
Together with 22 other children of foreign diplomats, the British
girls
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dance round a 40-foot fir tree in the stately Georgеvski Hall when they joined o orly Russian children RI В New Ye.t'a party.
Further
Invitations
Belgrade, Jan. 6.
Prefident Tito has de- clined invitations to visit
The Declaration meant "low- lesmess, armoured cars, bombers
**** and artillery" which the people of South Moluccas would have to face
with only
"light urms.
sald courage and patriotism,"
The Commissarlat spokesman, nally denied that a
however,
"war" was going on In the
klands but admitted "there trouble m some, areas-there always trouble,"
MOPPING Ur
He said
that the
Indonesian administration controlled the intends claim- ed by the rebela except for the dense jungle interior of Oeram and rebel "ufiltra- tions" on Ambon,
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A report from the Indoné- sian news
agency
quaieu officials In the Indonesian
Standing around the lavishly decurater,
to gally-lit tree, they
all gized in awe at the silver clook and red cap of Grunt- father Frust the Soviet Piher Christmas) as he survde through
the vast hall wishing them a happy New Year,
Indonesia and Thailand, captai of Djakarta s saying the official newa agency, that une martial law order was Tanjug, said tonight in a designed
permit "more elitical mopping report from Rangoon.
up operations ugainst rebel gengs"-France- Presse & Reuter,
Since President Tito's current visit to trdia and Burma, was planned some time ago and since Bis programing had been exne ly moppers out till his return home, he was unable to
accept these Invitations
his destre to despite become more fully acquainted with political conditions in Asia, Tanjug added that for the home-same reason President Tito had been onable to accede to an Bgyp tan invitation to spend a certain lime la Cairo.
He was followed by the Snow Maiden, * silver clad girl.
The children-whose
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werd
lands circle the globe also entertained by a display of Ukrainian dancing, a puppet show and a mock footwall match.
Each was given a packet of sweets and frull-China Mall Special.
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He would, however, mert the Egyptian Premier, Colonel Abdul Nasser, probably while passing through the Suez Canal on his return to Yugoslavia Reuter.
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Repealing Nazi Law
Vladimir Dedijer, friend and biographer of President Tito, has been accused of betraying Yugoslavia and the Com- munist Party. He vanished a few hours after being ordered by Parliament to stand trial on criminal charges. He la the second high ranking official to fall from favour in Yugoslavia. Last January Milovan Djilas, former Vivo President, wza dismissed from his post for deviation from the Party' Line, Dedijer has been out of favour
since ever
ho supported Djilan.—Express Photo
Mr France Starts
Another
Assembly Storm
Paris, Jan. 6.
On Large Scale From Indonesia
Singapore, Jan. 6.
Large quantities of Indonesian rubber have reached Singapore in recent weeks despite the Indonesian Government's export restrictions, R reliable source sald today.
Did Not
Promise To Obey
Rochdale England,
· Jan. 6,
Mr Herbert Morrison, 67-year-old second in com- ntand of the British Labour Party, was married here He said that the steady rise in the price of today to a local business rubber since last month has increased smuggling woman, 47-year-old Miss
Edith Meadowcroft, between Indonesia and Singapore.
what British ́ ́newspapers have called "the wedding of the year."
Singapore Government officials refused to discuss the term "smuggling" but one official source said, "I the Indonesians are totally successful in enforcing their crport ban, the amount of rubber that is' flowing into Singapore is extraordinary.”
nesia's atultade Singapore).
(towards
The stendy flow of Indo nesian rubber into Bingapore his averted the possibility of
Government A Singapore serious unemployment in the policeman said, "Unless some rubber milling industry hero agreement is reached
undat Ono or two factories which shut which Singapore can compete down in October and Novem- freely for the purchase of fr
Inst year are planning to doncsian rubber the milling in- re-open. In November, about dustry here cannot fail to suffer 1,000 rubber workers were un-in the long run," employed, but only 15 are now registered with the employ-
ber
ment
exchange.
LONG-TERM THREAT The source said that the present recovery, however, does cot remove the long- term threat posed by Indo-
NICKEL
SMUGGLING
IN GERMANY
He confirmed the a request had
been received from the Singapore Rubber Milling and Manufacturing Workers' Union for the Singaporé Government to bepolisto an agreement on the highest level with the In- donesians,
-
Tho Director of Commerce and Industry, Mr J. B. Clegg, meanwhile,
Bald that trade
In
In the 35-minute toremony in the 13th century church of St Chad, Miss Meadowcroft did not
HERBERT MORRISON
prospects for Singapore are promise to "obay" her husband. brighter as the result of big The word was omitted from the changes in the price of rubber.part of the marriage service in He said he felt strongly that the which a bride promises to "love, average price of rubber would honour and obey”. my higher than last year.
There were so many newsreel The Director said that the in- and television are Ishte in the creased price of rubber would ttle church few yards from also help Indonesia and he boMiss Meadowcroft's home that lieved I likely that there would
be increased trade between the all lights fused because at the
two countries.
Berlin, Jan. 7. A chink has shown in East Germany's nickel. plated armour. The Ger- "Singapore and Indonesia man Reds need strategic must trade," Mr Clegg said, metals badly so badly, adding, "It is inevitable." they've had to resort to high-powered smuggling,
Which is exactly what Berlin police have caught them at- and so crushed a smuggling racket that has been netting them thousands of tons of valuable metals in past months. Police pounced on four men Nickel Top in
"Operation
combined police and Secret! Д customs probe which followed a tip-off that large loads
delivered nickel were being
CENTRAL DEPOT
ot
French Premier Pierre Mendes-France has across the border twice a week. again touched off a storm of controversy in the National Assembly this time by proposing to change the system of voting.
He favours what is called the "vote by dis- trict" as against the present system of proportional representation by Departments,
The Premier and those who think like him feel the change would bring the Assembly members and the electors close together, and would permit much better defined majorities in Parliament."
aixo cortali
It was going to a Kusainn- German operated contrat the depot called Meletex, name of the agency which handles metal allocations to East factorien
Berlin detectives, acting on the tip. went into action and traced deliveries of three million-maries of worth (about £250,000) nickel.
But they are sure the actim! Bonn, Jan. 6.
total
is much higher-and not The West German Govern-
Policie
litee Georges There is a definite current in confined to nickel. meat today submitted To the
for Bundesrat, the Upper House of Bidault,
Among these arrested tive former Foreign the National Assembly favour- ble to the electoral reform. Parliament, a Bill, repealing a Minister who oppose it, feel that
smuggling was a young girl who Nazi law of 1938, which con- the bigger area of the "Depart-
That much is certain, and it cuts lived in the British sector of ferred German citizenship
across Parly lines except in the Berlin, Twice a week she flew on men; vote" requires men and case of the Popular Republican to West Germany carrying all Austrians.
Communists.150,000 marks (£19,000) in the The Austrian Parliament has women to vote for programmes Party and the
false bottom of her suitcase. already repeated the law but and ideas as against the per- That muchis
France-Presse. ·
She was a link in an almost Austrians, living in Germany, ccrality of the candidate,
fool-proof underground set-up estimated at lew thousand,
between East and West. are to this day legally Germans
This is how it worked This was recently confirmed by
From a firm in Gelsenkirchen a court in Berlin,
adory
-nickel loaded with started out. It was supposed to deliver to fifteen factories in the Ruhr. On an autobahn nearby the load was transferred to sin East Berlin lorry and over the
The Bill, if passed by both German Houses, would allow Austrians in Germany to drop German citizenship within thres months after the Bill came into
force. Reuter.
M. Mendes-France is suspected by his opponents of hoping, through a change in the voting system, to exploit his personal popularly in ine country and in the case of general election to regroup a powerful and articu- late majority in support of his political goals.
SHE ESCAPED GAS CHAMBER TWICE
Paris, Jan. 6.
A young stray 'bitch which went through a
JAP ENVOY
TO BRITAIN
RETIRING
London, Jan. 6.
The heads of diplomatic mis- sions in London gathered her tonight to say farewell to Mr Shunichi Matsumoto, the re- |tiring. Japanese Ambassador,
of coal...!
At the customs Helmsted! On
top was put thoint at
to
West-East German border, papers were produced to show coal deliveries East Berlin. Ten miles from Berlin, the lorry was diverted, unloaded then reloaded this time with the sanje weight in
oficer
suspicious customs who flew to Gelsenkirchen was mainly responsible for uninesk The Marquis of Reading, ing the plot. The Gelsenkirchen
dramatic experience of being practically killed to Minister of State for Foreign arm's books somed in order be resuscitated later has, at last, found a home in Paris.
Madame Dubois, hearing her sad story, finally, adopted her. What she had born, through was. "hibernation" experiment. Having lost her master, she was picked up by dog-catchers and, as nobody claimed her, was facing a gas chamber when a call came from a hospital which needed a dog, BSN
werd She was to be submitted to tried to get up but her lega n test operation consising of too weak. opening the heart to cure the Three days later, she was cat. Jesions inside. Before the opera ing and running again normally, tion her temperature was Three weeks later, she was the artificially brought down from ster of a Alm shown to the medical academy, The hospital pinety to eighty,
EXAMINATION. Pat to sleep, har
the big blond
ing to the
had no more time for her; and ahe way teeing the gas chamber ogdink when Madame Dubai
blich which Joined, happy family aireddy of two dotik AWD.
and showed an exact record of, every ounce of nickel old to Afteen arms. There were ro- ceipts, delivery notes and weigh checks.
COVERING UP
-Bot be investignind -- tha “firmaff, and" decided, they
had real plot. The sing
NickelliS & £480 to market, but the Reds pay higher pricak
Germany
to joint countries/in-barini
WATCHING POSITION
He said that the Singapore Government' was watching the position, hoping for an opportunity to re-epen négo- tiations with Indonesia.
"But," he added, "there is point in opening talks unless we can be reasonably sure that they' will be fruitful.United Prose
OLD WOMAN STRANGLED
Bari, Italy, Jan. 6.
burden on the emble.
IN DARKNESS
"Is there an electriofan in. the house?" someone shouted as abans 1,000 people sat in the church ia complele darkness.
Ninety guests, among them several Labour Members of Parliament, drank champagne ndoaste to the bride and groom at
the reception in the Town Hall.
Thero the bride, in a navy blue suit, helped her husband cut the three-Hered wedding cake. One tler has been sel aside for Mr Morrison's Parite, mentary constituency in South east London.
A 65-year-old woman, Rosalba
A congratulatory message from Ottoline, was strangled in her the Conservative Party in the Mayall home hero tonight while her bet-consiltuency read: ridden husband iny helpless your troubles be little Conser istening to her erles from an vatives,” adjoining room.
The murderer, believed by Ure police to be a burglar, escaped.
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Mr Morrison's first wife, to whom he had been married for 34 years, died in July, 1953, - Reuter.
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