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THE now

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Important White House Australia All Out

Statement Expected

affected the priority list of DEFENCE

subjects on the agenda of: the Commonwealth Prime Ministers conference. The relationship of SEATO 1J the defence of Southens! Aala would, in the normai course of eventh, JERVE Agured high (11 the agenda. Nevertheless the Immediate preoccupation of

OF MATSU

& QUEMOY

Washington, Feb. 1. the conference with latest President Eisenhower may For East developments clarify tomorrow United does not mean that other States intentions regarding subjects of lens urgency the use of its armed forces will be ignored.

for the defence of the Chin- Whatever questions are dealt ese Nationalist-held islands with by the Prime Mininof Quemoy and Matxu ters. no Hard and fast against Communist attack. decisions are likely to b The Administration is reported reached, Any such thing in well-informed quartzes he of keeping considering the need for clarinea- would be out with the motivating forest this point.

The President's weekly pres which bring the Common-

conference tomorrow will give wealth political chiefs into

ham an opportunity of removing regular sension.. 1 Is the

any poisille misunderstandings flexible interchange of ideas between the United States and which remains the essence da Chinese Nationalist ally about of these meetings. The use of Uni ed States air and dovstalling of policy

naval power to aid the Nation- lists in the defence of Chiese ceptions is the most im-

Inlunds they are attacked by portant achievement at the

Communists the Chirrc90 disposal of the Premiers.

preliminary to any attack upon Formosa itself.

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At the same time it is true to observe that there never has been such a period at which consultation between the governments of the Commonwealth countries has been so close and continual.

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For the last three days, there have been persistent reports frun Talpei that Generalissimo; Chiang Kai-shek was postponing orders for the evacuation of the Tachen islands pending a clari- fication of United States inten- Notions regarding the defence of

Quemoy and Matsu.

the

was

The continuing effort of That is a point of ne little United Nations Security Council importance in world affairs, to bring about speedy ceasefire It is hard Indication of in the Formosan area, could in the fact that the Common-iteeif provide a sufficient reason tho Tachen wealth, despite the louse- for holding up

uvacuation which President neas, und to many minds

Eisen Honder last wook puzzling illogicality of authorised by Congress to pro- structure, has a very real (text. existence.

CLARIFYING STATUS But there have been indica- tions that

Nationalist the Chinese would like a clarification of Quemoy and

NOT insignificant feature

of these Commonwealth, of the status conferences in the gradual Matsu and that the Administra- change in their design and ton is considering how such a which has taken clarißcation could be made with- meaning place since the original out either giving information of value to the Com- meeting of representatives múltary

of colonial

called in 1887.

governments munists or committing the

United States

irrevocably

Ten years

inter the Prime Ministers defend any particular island.

is known

to

that the early

of the United Kingdom and drafts of the President's message the self-governing colonies for the first time met confidential talks

OIL

Congress to

for than

were more specile the last

last regarding the #potenttailues of defending Que-

fouting of something lika

muy

and Matsu.

equality. Later still came One of these was shown to the conception, legalised certain members of Congress on

Zt and Statute of January 22 through the

may also have Westminster, of the Empire been shown to the Chinese Na-

tionalist

Mr Foreign Minister, becoming "galaxy

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who is currently George Yeh, free nations."

in Washington.

of

The President's message was,

however, altered to make it less specific on this point shortly before he sent

It to Congress

by

To the astonishment at first, and later the admiration of the rest of the free world, that conception proved on January 24 and this may thoroughly workable and lead to misunderstandings the new association has the Chincar Nationalists. lasted. It

Admials- has. in fact, On January 24,

high become more and more real. tration sources stated that it had at one time been planned

and issue Herein

to draw a line public statement to accompany the message but that this pro-

droppedis

lles the significance the and importance of Commonwealth and of the Commonwealth Conference. It is a grouping of free nations which

posal had bee

of

dif-

the

line,

These sources emphasised the Insuperable geographical lo neither drawing o racial, nor regional, nor

of giving notice to the religious. It has its differ. Communists of what islands once and its internal dis- they could possibly plek up on putes, as is inevitable in their side of the line without

a fight, risking

and the desire any association, whether ofnos to turn the offshore islands Individuals or of peoples. into little "Dien Bien Phus* Yet, perhaps illogically and which the United States would Irrationally, it has its own be committed to defend ir- unity of ideas and purpose; respective of any future situa its own conception of the top which might develop. partnership of "a galaxy of free nations."

AID TO MORALE

Arriving for the Commonwealth Prime Ministers* Conference in London last week was the New Zealand Prime Minister, Mr S. G. Holland (pictured above with the New Zealand High Commissioner in London, Mr Clifton Webb left and the Secretary of State for Com- monwealth Relations, Lord Swinton). In the picture below, Lord Swinton (with. his back to the camera), is seen greeting the Ceylon Prime Minister, Sir John Kotelawala at London airport last week.-Central Press photographs.

Grimwood's Eloquence Impresses Critics

Our Own Correspondent London, Feb, 1. Mr. E. G. A. Grimwood, Director of the Hongkong Government Ofice in London, questions αδομέ Hongkong industry fired at him today by 30 Brith indus- trialists, including some whose trade has been hard hit by

In view of these authoritative

answered statements, it is not expected The present meeting comes at that President Eisenhower will a dimcult, possibly dan-atterapt to draw any iron-clad Irrevocablo gerous moment in worldline or mako alaire. But its potential commitments.

But he may peak to clarify

any

influence on those affairs United States intentions in a is already recognised

byway which will romove mis- the rest of the world. The understandings with Generalis

British simo Chiang Kai-shek and aid diplomacy of the Commonwealth repro him in presaving the moral. of Bented through such diverse his troops in the delicate lank personalities as. Mr Nehru of evacuating the Tuchens. There in a strong reeting

bare of India, Mr St Laurent of that nothing should be done to Canada, Mr Hollands of

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undertrying

the morale of the New Zealand, Mr. Mo- Chean Nationalist troops which hammed All of Pakistan, constitute the second largest Mr Menzies of Australia and Communist army In Asia. and Bir Winston Churchill

that if anything rea Hack

is needed more today than happened, which”. Undwmkred any previous time. the morale or caused yholesale delection, the United Staber The ponce of Asia may well would confronted by the rest on the deliberations problem of whether, Forma and agreements of the Com- monwealth" Conference thin

competition from Hongkono į

And afterwards the National Union of Manufacturers who had convened the special meet- congratulated Hongkong on the eloquence of its repreien- talive,

ing

But they reserved their comments on. the subject under dlicussion: whether! competition from Hongkong

They was, fair or otherwise." will, meet again to clactate the situation in the light of My Grimwood's remarks publish their comments in a statement to the press,

I understand, However, her Grimwood was able to put the British manufacturerë i wore! fears to rest He pointed out that, rigorous, application of

British

were

Youths Break Into

Family Vault

For 111: Test Debacle At Adelaide

Adelaide, Feb. 2.

After a sensational collapse this morning, Australia were all out in the second innings for 111 soon after lunch on the This left fifth day of the Fourth Test at the Adelaide oval. England to get 94 runs to win in a day and half left for play. The Australian debacle began in the first over of the In the next day when MacDonald went with the third ball. forty minutes, Australia lost four more wickets for the loss of only 14 runs on a pitch which commentators said "did not help the bowlers one little bit."

103.

Australia resumed after lunch with the score at nine wickets for

Davidson took an easy single off Tyson to give the batting to Inn Johnson. With his painful however, Johnson inade no attempt to play any shots but simply kept the ball out of his wicket.

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bat but after scoring only two he, too, went lbw to Statham.

SENATE RATIFIES TREATY

Archer could add only three to the Australing total before he clipped a sharply-rising ball from Tyson into the safe hands Godfrey of England's keeper. Then Johnson took a single Evans, Australin, eight for 83. ficmu shot through third silp Then Davidson and Big BIN und

and two gully

balis later Johnston made

pat- "Can" Davidson touched л fast ballting on 17 for the eighth wicket, from Tyson which aped to the

his fellow Davidson, unlike fence for four.

batsmen, opened up and hit out Hution then took off Apple-vigorously although few of his yard who had bowled

two shots found the boundary with today ratified the now sight- malden overa and put on the English Akdemen con. Wardle. With the first ball from

o virtually centrated in

im-nation: Southeast Asian De- Wardle Davidson made

penetrable ring around the fence Treaty to' block Com- steady shol which was taken by wicket.

munist armed aggression, Evans.

took a single and subversion in that part between second slip and gully off of the world, Tyson to take the Australinti score to 94 for eight, Two balls later, Wardle

Scoreboard

AUSTRALIA-18T INNS 323 ENGLAND-15T INNS 341 AUSTRALIA~2ND INNINGS

Morris, & b Appleyard broke into MacDonald, b Statham

Durham, Feb. 1.

Two youths

the family vault of Sir Burke, b Appleyard Anthony Edeny British Harvey, b Appleyard

Miller, b Statham (..... Foreign Secretary, opened Maddocks, low Statham

Benaud, ibw Tyson Archer, e Evans b Tyson W. Johnston, c ́Appleyard b

Tyson Davidson, Ibw Wardle L. Johnson,`n.o.

Extras

an old coffin and fied in terror at the sight of a boy A Durham Court corpse, was told today.

two

The

that Herbert

prosecution tald young miners, Stephenson, 16, and Albert

Mandley, 21,

committed the

offence at Winglestone Hall, near Durham, "to have a look. as

they called it."

The lead ecffin

they forced

open

was that of a boy who

Total

died in 1856, the nine-year-old | Appleyard

Eden,

of the lale Sir WUllam Wardle

Bill Johnston

Washington, Feb. 1. The United States Senate

In an unusual burst of spood, stopped what the Seente gave its overwhelming looked like a certain four from support to the treaty after only Davidson with a brilliant run-100 minutes of debate, and with ning pick-up on the deep one only a lone isolations valon raised lez fence,

ericet it,

The vote for ratllig Davidson showed

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no inhibl 20 tons at this stage, however, and. continued to make lusty, though, somewhat ineffectual drives

14 He took an almighty swing at

23

ane, The ringto Senator William

that dobate - „Bónarbor

the last ball of Tyson's seventh Langer and declared that the over at a ball-going away to United States

should mind a

leg. But he missed it and ftw business and keep out was taken by Evans,

(Contd. on back page, Col. 8)

STOP PRESS

ENGLAND-2ND INN,

Bowling

Q. M. B. W.

Statham

12 1 38 3

Тукоп

12 7 13 3 Len Hutton o Davidson b

BIIller 4.2 1 8 15 3 47 3 W. Edrich b Miller Fall of wickets: 1-24, 2-40, F. May D..

Cowdrey с Arcter Miller D. Compton No.

Extras

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"To their horror, this small, almost perfectly preserved body 3-69, 469. 576, 6-17, 7-19, C. emerged,"

counsel sald. They 8-83. 8–101. fod at once.

Stephenson was so upset that his parents made him surrender to the police. Mandley was sald to have declared after his arrest: "I was so shocked I thought had been stabbed with a knife, The shock nearly killed me, will never forget it as long as

Ilve."

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Fall of wickets: 1-3, 2—10,

With the next ball, Davidson went forward to a good-length ball and missed....the hall up his struck hla pads, ran body, bounced over his shoulder 8-18. I and landed on the stumpa-to double sure, for the Umpire's hand was al- Davidson ready up signalling out leg before wicket.

He had since written to the Eden family, apologising for his

act.

The last known case of the kind in Britain, the unlawful removal of a corpse from a it a konsecrated grave mausoleum, WOJ Bald to have

occurred in 1780.

make

DISASTROUS START Australia began disastrously today when with the third bail of the first over Brian Statham bowled Victorian opener, Colin MacDonald with a full toss be fore any addition to the over-

score. night

And

that was the beginning

of the rot.

The judge sent Mandley, the ringleader, to prison "for this revolting and disgusting thing" until he decided what to do with him Stephenson Wis On a pitch, which commenta- placed on probation for three tore said, did not help the bowlers "one little bil-which years, China Mail Special.

in fact favoured the batsmen”, batsman after batsman crashed in a dismal display at the wickel and by lunch six Australians had

Lay Claim To

Fortune

fallen for the addition of only

34 runs:

At one stage. Australia bad lost five wickoots this morning for only. 14-runs/

Tyson

the Imperiat Preference regu- lations made it impossible for Hongkong traders to export.

Hutton opened with Japanese goods

from the

Rio de Janeiro, Feb. 1. Colony under the guise of A working class family living and Statham and in four overs, Empire products.

In a tumbledown house in a Rio three Australian : wickets - Hind While sympathising with suburb, today Inid claim to the fallen for the addition of only The two England of Scrige Rubinstein, eight runs. manufacturers who fortune

found hit in their liame market millionaire financler,

flated to bowl unchanged through- by competition from Hongkong strangled in his New York in pace bowlers therefore confiat-

out the morning.. umry 200

Commentators goods, he emphased the on

their attack ** problems involved were by no his sister Elva, who claim are Godario Rubinsteli,

cellenth means alt on one side,

their After Min

MacDonald's dismissal Hongking had lost a third that the millionaire was of its foreign trade as a result codario said his Russian his 29 runs had taken 157 born father; Adolph emigrated minutes a Maddocks 2 foined of its faithful adherence to the from Odesso to Brazil in 1902, Miller, but the partnership lasted United Nations strategie em The brothers, according to purely an over when › Miller, bargo on export to China, and this loss must be made up Gedario, corresponded for many trying to hit out on the leg

tact about

and misood the Colony was to support Lr years but lost contact huge population dedario and his sister sald

then five for 78; already had

fine from the contacted The Tyson bowling Mr. Grimwood invited any ther

Embassy here and claimed

Ovis england third interested British manufacturer Unded States)

of this morning' play

..

You

to ekle the Colony, and check were preparing their olsim.

clown

WRE

the facts for himself, Cedarto or other hair to togood ball ocening in from said: "I have never when Benaud, playing forward

Today's meeting was's also board, bay attended by Mrs Diane Ward Tam now prossing forward with the zhrwent jeg before wickat

claim to the fortune for Consrud, Australia ni fum auro (will one day Wickatel for 773-09 13

farizadaagliks begin by playin

of the Hongkong Government's my

London Oller, who retu

Vesterday, from as

inusion to the Colony,

foreign_entanglements."

The Republiean and Democra= tle leadership joined throwing their support behind the treaty. -Router.

Plane Disaster

An

crashed

Nagpur, India, Feb. 2. India Airlines Dakota

in flames early today. near Nagpur airport, killing all ten occupants,

The crash

atter

occurred shortly

the plane had taken off

for Delhi-Reiter.

Tornado Kill». 19

Memphis, Ten, Feb; 1. Nineteen persons were killed today by tornado which suddenly struck the States. of Mississippi and Arkansas, · it was reported, France-Presse,

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