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TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1955.

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The Elections Eden Wants

THE apathy of the British

voters to the general election campaign obviously 1a disappointing and dis- concerting to the candi- dates; but to party organi- sers it is alarming, for if the same attitude is adopted by the electorate on Thurs- day, there could be un innumerable number upset results, particularly constituencies where there is a split vote. But public indifference to the election campaign can "in

in

of

'Ample Time'

At Big Four

Conference

"Birmingham, May 23.

Sir Anthony Eden said here tonight the British government had. "no rigid ideas" about the place and duration of the projected four-power top-level meeting. with Russia.

part be attributed to the contestants who appear to have shied clear of contro- versy at the hustings. The

The Prime Minister said it campaign has been dull and uninteresting largely be was "not unreasonable" for the cause the candidates have Russian government to express their views on these questions made it so. A further

as they had done in Pravda, the deterrent to large atten- Soviet newspaper. dances ut public meetings He added: *For our part, we has been TV. The two main have no rigid ideas on these parties have mude full use points, but I want us to "have of this medium for sub-ample time at the meeting. mitting their programmes

"No one, however, has the and arguments, and when to question our motives in

the invitation."

an election meeting |- these can be heard in thei

resing an comfort of one's home, why here, Sir Anthony Eden sald should the voter bother to our purpose is to set in motion altend meetings merely to a process of negotiation which hear a repetitive exposition will open the way towards better relatiors between East ard of the sume causes?

West. THIRD popular, explana It was quite natural, he said, for the public's that the Russian government apathetic attitude is that the should require time to decide "Hoating" voters that upon their answer to the formal invitation to the important segment of the Western electorate owing no fixed allegiance to any political party have already made up their minds how they are going to poll this week

require

tiun.

and

meeting at the highest level sene 10 days ago.

WILL BE FAVOURABLE

な

an

Sir Anthony Eden photo- graphed as he addressed election campaign meeting last week. →→→ London Express Photo,

Wind Shift

Saves Town

No Signs Of ATTLEE Smaller Union

Backing Down

DISLOCATION OF RAIL TRANSPORT

London, May 23.

IS ANGRY

"Dirty Stunt" By Tories

the

London, May 23. Mr Clement Attlee, Labour Party leader, bran-| dished an imitation food rationing card at an election stormed that it was "one of meeting here today and the dirtiest things ever put out as a Conservative stunt."

The 12-year-old Labour chief

Leaders of Britain's 378,000-strong National Union of Railwaymen decided today not to take part in a strike, threatened for midnight on Saturday, by 70,000 key injected the Arst real heat into footplate men belonging to another rail union. still mean that four out of five trains on by some Conservatives that

the campaign, which has now

But the strike, if it materialises, will sible for issuing the cards

only three days to run, by bitterly attacking those respon-

The cards point up the allega-

Labour. If returned to power in

Introduce food rationing, finally the Conservative abolished by government last July

back to rationing" charge

been

simmering the electioneering

scheduled to run over the country's nation-Thursday's election would re- alised railway system will not be manned.

Party--has

Montague, Mich., May 23.

A gas line break at the

It wil also threaten supplies of food and raw Hooker Chemical Co. plant threatened for a time today materials, wreck the plans of hundreds of thou-hotly refuted by the Labour to send this Muskegon sands of intending Whitsun weekend holiday throughout

have become so angry about it County town's 1,500 resi- makers, and present a major industrial headache period, but few of its adherents dents in a mass evacuation to whichever political party is returned to power to escape deadly chlorine at next Thursday's general election.

But he had every reason to suppose that

would be it favourable. further The Prime Minister noted persuasion: This is a bold with pleasure that Mr. Molo- assumption, and probably tov. the Soviet Foreign Minis- ter had accepted the United

fumes.

The striking union, the Associated Society of But a wind shift sont the Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, are coming fumes out over Lake Michigan and plans to evacuate the city out in support of a wage claim for their members. were called off.

A strike threatened by the society for May 1 was Montague schools sent more called off following appeals by ministers and Labour

1,000 pupils home whea

as Mr Attlee today.

CALCULATED LIE?

his

Adressing a large audience in own constituency of Walthamstow, on London's

"This is just a cold, calculated

not third."

northeastern frings he declared

lie designed to catch people who

do

As a wave of industrial dis-.

erroneous. The unattached Nations invitation to San Frail thank was first discovered leaders. On that occasion, too, the NUR had instructed putes hit Britain today, with

A

the

out.

Yesterday's Meetings

voters seldom make them-cisco for the end of June. M selves visible at election Antoine Pinay, French Foreign and the gas began stiting over its members to continue at work if the footplatemen came

Foster

the city. hustings. The floating vote Minister and Mr John

Secretary of

There's still quite a bit of hidden, remains

un-¡ Dulles, American

the air near gas hanging in accountable factor, and how State, would also be there.

Conservatives the

were the Hooker plant, but every-. it is likely to wield its

power in the gen- thing appears to be under con- returned to decisive power on polling eral election on Thursday. Mr trol

"said a Fire Department; day is not to be assessed Macmillan's (the Foreign Secre spokesman, radio station with an announce- by the size of the audience tary) acceptance would be de-came out

ment Immediately.

telling the people of at the election hustings.

will be a convenient Montague to evacuate the city, But if apathy has dominated

the campaign in Britain, occasion to continue the con- but I don't believe anyone did. there will be no absence of "ersalons begun in Vienna," Sir United Press.

Anthony Eden said-Reuter.

interest here in the outcome

of the election.. Hongkong can be affected by the re. sult in more than one im- portant direction.

THE return of the Socialists

£17,000 In

Damages

London, May 23,

*

BEVAN ON WHAT BRITONS WANT

no

Brecon, Wales, May 23.

Aneurin Mr

Bevan, the to power might involve

Labour left-winger, declared drastic new policies in the

here tonight: "the British people Board of Trade which could

longer want to tag along have a heavy and unhappy

A 20-year-old Londoner, Miss behind Washington." impact on Hongkong. The Pauliner Pitcher, who lost all "The British people want to Socialists have been power of movement after a road be independent," he said. “We insistent that the Conserva-accident three years ago, was don't want a government in Bri- tive; government has not today in the London High Court tain that is entirely sympathetic

£17,000 agreed to Washington."-Router. help awarded enough .to the Lancashire textile damages. industry, and although the

done

Counsel said that she had, re- tained only the one sensory

Labour Party has not gone power of hearing and that the so far as to declare they are only thing she could now appre- in favour of a revision of ciate was listening to the radio the Imperial Preference or to someone reading to her. regulations or to apply

Her expectation of life

This afternoor, a delegation from the general pur poses committee of the Trades Union Congress met the Minister of Labour, Sir Walter Monckton,

KOWLOON

Kidnapped In Tension

Daylight In South

Vietnam

Coming out of a shop in Brighton one day last week, Mrs Spencer Chan saw 2

man

with a wrinkled face making off down the road with

ты her 18-month-old son Spencer, She rave chase and when she caughi up with the man he said: "I will give

Jou £200 for him." Police are now searching for the kidnapper. Picture shows Mrs Chan and Spencer after the incident.-London Express Photo.

3 Priests Charged

po

Fear Of Renewed Fighting

Paris, May 23. Tension is growing be tween government. forces and Hoa Hao politico. forces: in religious

sect

the west of South Vietnam, the French Press Agency reported from Saigon to day.

Some

observers

expected

fighting to break out between the National Army and Hoa Hao forces shortly.

The Hoa Hao together with LWO

Binh other sects the Xuyen and Cao Dai-organised private armies in South Vietnam and challenged the authority of successive governments.

The Binh Xuyen have re-

the cently been quelled by National Army and uneasy" quiet has been hanging over South Vietnam

PLANES REQUISITIONED. Usually reliable sources said several planes belonging to local" companies were requisitioned over the weekend to fly three National Army battalions, to Soctrang military end air base, 99 miles southwest of Saigon, the French Press Agency Te ported

Other units were being sent by road.

The same sources said: Army - units had been ordered to seize every opportunity to eliminate Hoa Hao police and gendarmerie posts in towns controlled by the Army

Throughout the Western pro- vinces the National Anny was reinforcing town garrisons and generally reorganising its furces, the agency said,

At the same time Hoa Hoo forces were reported tightening their hold on roads through the region.

MOVING RICE STOCKS

Buenos Aires, May 23. Three Roman Catholic priests and 15 civilians were accused today of engaging in seditious activities, which included the

and printing

distribution

The French Press Agency said pamphlets defaming President Hoa Hao"General Tran Van Soal- Juan Peron,

was reported moving rice stocks out of his headquarters · at All the accused were under Caivon, near "Cantho as a pre- arrest. A nineteenth person was

down by a strike of stevestures work at the main sorts slowed and dockers, the Labour leader ustered a strong warning on "unofficial" strikes.

He told

Walthamstow. his audience that if these continued they might bring attempts to curb trade unionists and prevent trade is functioning for the

caution against possible attacks. protection of the workers.

sought.

against his headquarters, Trade unionists should think

care. "The police charged the sedi- in Paris, sources, close to the They discussed with him the results" of talks which this matter over very

government reported tious pamphlets were typed and French. fully," he said.

the parish that. France had accepted the they held this morning with leaders of the ASLEF.

One of the main fears of mimeographed in

of Our Lady of the principle of a meeting of France, The executive committee of the ASLEF also met at

many Labour Party supporters church

campaign is Miraculous Medal The mimeo-Britain, the United States and their headquarters this afternoon to hear a report from in the present their officers on this morning's discussions with TUC that Conservatives... if return-graphing machine used by the South Vietnam to discuss the introduce group was found hidden behind Indo-China situation as proposed ed to power, will leaders.

curb unofficial an altar of the church, the police by the Vietnam' Premier, Mr Ngo Dinh Diem, Me Diest had been A union official said: "Our meeting this morning legislation to

informed of the French attitude. strikes which may also affect col- trade union

Two of the arrested priests Reuter. "legitimate" with the TUC was merely to explain our position."

were attached to that particular': Earlier today, Sir Walter Monckton had talks with lective action. Reuter,

church. The third was said by Sir Brian Robertson, chairman of the British Transport

the police to have made several Commission, which is responsible for running the national Fails To Form secret trips to inland cities where the anti-Peron organisa- tion had "branches."

railway system.

I

Another round of talks is scheduled for tomorrow when ASLEF leaders are due to present their case to the.

Minister of Labour.-Reuter.

was

US

To

Repeats Offer Chou En-Lai

quotas on imported pro put at 12 years.

Miss Pitcher was a passenger cessed textiles, one of these two actions would seem to in apriate car involved in a be the only effective way of road collision with a commercial still further

vehicle. She was unconscious

Washington, May 23.

The State Department today again invited Mr Chou En-lai, the Chinese Premier, to negotiate with the United States for a ceasefire in the Formosan area.

protecting with skull, spine and pelvis in- Lancashire from overseas juries for four months after- competition in the Home wards.

The latest appeal was made to renounce war and accept Her father, Mr William

by Mr Herbert Hooves, the peaceful processes in relation to . The Conservatives have Pitcher, was also today awarded

several times declared that £2,000 agreed expenses in addi-Under-Secretary of State, who, the Formoss area."

in a speech before the Los

markets,

US Awaits Report By Menon

Washington, May 24.

Government

The Hague, May 23. The former Netherlands Premier Dr Willem Drees whose government fel last May 17 declared today that he has given up the attempt to form a new government.

He said following a meet- the steering com- ing with mittee of his party that any government formed by him would not have a suffi- ciently broad base".

печу

It

will

Mr V. K. Krishna Menon is Queen Jullana expected to fly to Washington another early next month with informa government-France-Presse. tion

which will determine whether the United States and

to do more than they have tion to the costs of the action. Angeles World Affairs Council, «nid certain. friendly nations on a basis for direct negotiations

to assist Lancashire must China Mail Special.

involve complicated changes

of policy of far-reaching

consequences. The entire More Outrages

Commonwealth and the

colonies would be impli

At the same time, Mr Hoover Communist Chira can agree to noted it was almost exactly a

Mr Chou told their own initiative had apo Formosa. month ago that

the government in the African-Asian conference proached

to

T

be now

up

to to designate deputy to form.

Alpinist Breaks

7

I

His Leg Kathmandu, May 23. One member of the six-man United States officials today Kenya expedition to Himalchull at Bandung that he was willing Peking to find out whether or privately expressed the closest has fractured a leg and is being to negotiate with the United not there was a possibility States to ease Far East ten- any peaceful settlement under interest in the Indian envoy's evacuated to Pokhara, 80 miles

Peking, west to Casablanca, May 24.

which the Chinese Communists ten-day mission

of the Japa- sions cated, and the net result to Two Moroccans were attacked

Mr Hoover said it was signif- I would give up their announced where he sought detalls from Naruse, Senandu, Mr Iwao 1

and the Chinese Premier on his twice nese Alpine Club, said today. British Industries

Mr Naruse, who returned to cant that Mr Chou made his intention to take Formosa as a on Monday evening by unidenti

stated offer to negotiate directly the Pescadores. Bat the end of

with the United States. the

Kathmandu proposal whole might be disastrous Red assailants in Casablanca.

Bundung

when the "Such conference.

zgu, proposals have been Acknow. One was killed outright, and the in the long run.

rejected

the by ledging this, the Tories other is in hospital where his Chinese Premier may well have indignantly

condition WHE said' to be felt that to profess a peaceful Communists," he said.--Reuter. refuse to introduce fun-

and conciliatory attitude was his damental trading policy

One Moroccan was killed and only alternative to a highly un- changes.

another seriously wounded favourable reaction being shown On this count alone, Hong-when they refused to respond to by other delegations.

kong will feel relieved if a policeman's challenge in the the Conservatives are re- central district of Casablanca on turned to power. We shall, Monday, and a Moroccan work- man employed by the Shell at least, have fears concern Petroleum Company, was killed ing interference with our in the same district in the even-

industries allayed.

own

serious.

Moreover, with Tory

a

to

AMERICA'S HOPE "Nevertheless, we would like

i hope that this proposal is genuine and that the Chinese Communists are now in a mood which will permit a lessening of tensions in the Far East," Mr

added.

降机

Tensing Going To Warsaw

from Pokhara three quoted Nepalese According to unofficial reports officials and a British missionary

Washington, hospital for the report. in circulating

"Menon plan" for bringing The British Embassy in New about a meeting of American Delhi said they had no informa

and Chinese leaders had been tion of the accident--China

put forward at Peking.

This three-point plan would call for:

1. Withdrawal of Nationalist London, May 23. troops from the offshore islands Sherpa Tensing, the Nepalese and renunciation of Nationalist conqueror of Mount Everest, plans to invade the mainland. has said he would go to the

Mail Special.

In another part of Casablanca, Hoover does the United Fifth International Festival of 2. Renunciation of force on Communists, have demanded a

REDS DEMAND MEETING

Munsan, May 24. The United Nations Command announced on Monday that the government we shall have a home-made bamb exploded,

meeting at Panmunjom ON the benefit of continuity of wounding a 12-year-old Morne- States welcome the possibility of youth and Students in Warsaw the Communist side with a Wednesday to discuss alleged

peaceful settlements that has this summer, according to a "demonstration" of peaceful la- policy at the Colonial Office can giri. France-Presse,

always

been our traditional ap- Warsaw Hadio report heard in tent such as the release of the violations of the armistice

agreement by the ministry which, if it has

American airmen imprisoned as

UNC, USA The UNC Milliary Armistice, done nothing spectacular RETURNS HOME ch to world problems but London today.

we treat all times to

Commission saiden that the London, May 23.

the roads explore

mayTensing battled up the last Princess

3. A five-mation meeting of meeting is scheduled at-2 p.m. Margaret arrived lead to an honourable.

peace.

stretches to the peak of Mount "We welcome the further re- Everest In 1953 ith Sir two nations nominated by China, here by air tonight after a one-

The Communist charges were in cent statement of Chou Enlai | Edmund

New two nominated by the United not revealed in advance day visit to British fores

States and India, Reuter.

United Press, that his regime may be willing Zealander-Reuter West Germany-Heuter.

on

behalf of Hongkong during the last three and a half years, has at least been sympathetic towards our problems,

Hillary,

said.

The Reverend Rafael For- tanelia and the Rev. Juan Arens were identified as two of the priests, held. Among the arrested divilians are a womans, a printer, a student, three clerks and s chauffeur-United Press.

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ran

BUS KILLS MAN

Wolverhampton, May 23.- A double decker bus over and killed the engineer working on it"at a depot here today, ran down a street across a main road and smashed in- to an unoccupied wooden store. -China Mail Special"

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