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THE DAY

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OF

The Long-Term

Challenge

"IHE political' Atness of the

Tdecision

by Malaya's Federation Government to offer an amnesty to Com- munist terrorists need not be questioned. The big doubt which ariees ไป whether the move hus any real chance of success. Examine the torma of the pro

posed offer. They Are: proved loyalty to Malaya:

respect for legal and con- stitutional authority; accep- of life: readiness to conform with Malayan political movements which are

tance of the Malayan why

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REVENGE CAMPAIGN FEARED

Danger Of Bloodbath

In South Morocco

Casablanca, Aug. 24.

The French authorities feared today that mounting anger among European residents in North Africa might unleash a campaign of revenge equal in ferocity to the bloody weekend uprising which cost over 1,700 lives.

The toll of dead in Algeria, and Morocco rose 200 more to- recognised by the govern day when the authorities announced that 1,000 rebels had died ment; agreement to the in Algeria alone. abolition of the Malayan

Communist Party.

That uprising was still far from stamped out. Reports of Surely nothing could be fairer new bombings and armed attacks poured in from Eastern

or lean oxucting? And to

Ik

Algeria.

In Morocco, the tribesmen of the high Atlas Mountains were re- ported catching the fever of warfare from the Berbers, who poured down into the plains of Central Morocco for an orgy of massacre.

Marrakesh,

of fate Central

anybody but a Communist terrorist they would have a powerful appeal. But Communist, who is at the same time a terrorist, is the sworn enemy of constitu- tional rule and authority as South Morocco and domain of five days ago.

Morocco suffered capital the

the Pusha not- understood in the democra- the Pasha of Marrakesh, was withstanding. cies. He owes loynity, only elf under threat of danger,

In Casablanca, an organisation to his party's cause, and to military sunces said.

called The French Union of offer him immunity from Pasha el Ghoul has been North Africans" circulated tracts reprisula or punishment if one of France's strongest sup-calling Morocco's 700 000 Europeans to "estabilah order" he disowns his party prob-porters in the protectorate.

If the high Atlas tribes ben Morocco "since France is not ably would be regarded as the biggest insult imagin come agitated enough to come

At the funeral today of General French phrase. Raymond Duval, commander- of French troops in

uble.

1

on

capable of doing so." down from the mountains, or

"move" in the

If the reaction in Kenya to South Morocco might suffer the

the amnesty offered to the Mau Mau is any criterion,

it is extremely unlikely that Actor Bela

there will be any substan-

tial acceptances of

the

amnesty which the Malaya Federal Government. tends to offer.

in-

THERE is another considera-

tion. Mass acceptance of the

the umnesty by terrorists would achieve the aim of bringing them out of the jungle and terminating the. military emergency. But would it atop their sub- versive activities? True, they could be pincal under strict surveillance, but it would extremely naive to imagine that because the terrorists are out of the jungle and buck into civilisation, and have repudiated Communism) as n political movement, Com- munlam and all its influences directed against constitutional authority would evaporate into thin air.

It has still to be demonstrated that between a legally recognised Communist Communist Party and movement driven under-

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To

in-chief

Lugosi, Aged 73, Marry Again

Hollywood, Aug, 24,

Actor Bela Lugosi, 73, today obtained a marriage, licence to wed a 39-year-old motion picture studio cutting room

clerk who wrote him daily letters `during his recent con- . Anement at a state hospital where he was treated foh nar- coties addiction.

The actor, famed for his horror portrayals on the screen, said he and Hope Lininger had not set a definite time for the wedding but it would be on a Simi ranch, near Ven- tura, about 60 miles from here,

"We are not sure about the time," he said. “It may be today, tomorrow or Friday,"

Mr Lugosi, who twice has been widowed and twice divorced, earlier was reported to have decided definitely to be married tonight at the home of writer-publisher

Manley P. Hall in a small,private' ceremony,

Miss Lininger sold the hid been a fan of the actor for many years-United Press.

IMPORTANT SINGAPORE DECISION

Emergency Regulations To Lapse In October

Singapore, Aug. 24. ground, the latter is the The emergency in Singapore will end

officially lesser of two evils. And the towards the end of October, although the danger of banning of the Communist Communist activities still exists in the colony, Party in Malaya inevitably

That is the effect of a far-reaching and important means that the movement will continue to function announcement made by the Chief Secretary, Mr W. A. C. surreptitiously, and In Goode, in the Singapore Legislative Assembly today. consequence, sidiously.

an

more

in-

Mr Goode, speaking on motion seeking approval of a proclamation already made by Poisoned Milk HOLDING out much greater the Governor-in-Council extend- Ho

hope for effective ing the regulations for three campaign against the Com-

following points; munists is the Chief Minis- ter's proposal to mobiling The Singapore emergency re- moral and physical support gulations, in their present form, of everybody in Federal are to be allowed to lapse. Malaya not only to with- Powers under the existing re- stand present pressure from gulations which are considered the Communists, but to docessary for good government make it impossible for Com- of Singapore will be embodied

exist in munism to

the in the laws of the Colony. country.

months from July 22, made the Kills 5 Babies

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MR SHIGEMITSU

Heat Wave In Britain led Continues

who Morocco,

100% peropline accident, demonstrators from the "French

tried Presence" organisation

to drown out a speech by the Re- sictont-General, Gilbert Grand- val, with boos and whistles. The French Presence supports strong French rule in Morocco and has accused M. Grandval of "ap- peasing" nationalism.

Town's Warning

In Algeria, the Mayor of Philippeville formally warned the French administration that the city would hold it respon».

ble for

dis "future failure, order and useless deaths which the continuation of present polloy can only fostar."

At the funeral yesterday of 80 victims of the rebel uprising of sent by the Alguria, wreaths

daneral, Governor

Jacques Souselle, and the Prefect of

the Constantine Department were torn from the coffins, and tram- pled underfoot. The Prefect, who was present was hooted from

the cemetery.

Through the Phillppeville

and Constantine areas, the pro- mise by M. Soustelle to orm isolated farmers has stimulated

militia among the Europeana.

London, Aug. 24. Britain's heattoave spell continued today with the temperature hitting 80 de grees Fahrenheit in London in the early afternoon. Similar conditions were the reported throughout

country:

Weather experts predict a continuation of the pre- sent spell which threatens with feeding difficulties livestock. Pasture land on high ground is drying up -Reuter.

Mr Shigemitsu

Has Lots To Discuss In Washington

San Francisco, Aug. 24.

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Harwell Is Thrown Open To Foreign Scientists

Harwell, Aug. 24.

Today for the first time since its inception in 1947 the British atomic centre of Harwell opened Ita doors to inspection by a group of 120 international Į atomic scientists, ·· 15 · of

whom were Russians.

'Fifteen newsmen were allow-

The scientists

splitting up

Mr Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japanese Foreign Minister, said at a press conference today that he od to accompany the lentists. would discuss with Mr John Foster Dulles, the into small parties accompanied United States Secretary of State, the possible re-by guides and Interpedjers lease of Japanese war criminals.

Mr Shigemitsu 'said the retention of the war cri- quently minals in custody was contrary to the current United guarded by polleemen. States-Japanese policy of working together and co-voto to Isotopes nuclear

operation, especially in the Pacific.

Mr Shigemitsu, who arrived bere earlier today by air ón his way to Washington for con- ferences, said the subject of war criminals would be one of the most important on the agenda.

Mr Shigemitsu sold during his press

conference:

1. Provisions of the United States -

Japanere -mutanl security pact, signed here to 1951, following the drafting of the Japanese peace treaty, would be discussed.

would 2. Japan

not ask for the withdrawal of United States troops in Japan usėlį Japan had

150

completed buildup of lis military defence,

forces with especial emphasis on land:

army.

3. Another subject of the Washington ( agenda'would be

the relaxation of restrictions on trade with Communist

*

Prosecution's Allegation

HAMMERED WIFE

BABY TO DEATH

The son of

Bromley, Kent, Aug. 24. a former chief of Scotland

Yard's

the formation of improved murder squad went off to see a burlesque show in Lon- don after hammering, his wife and infant daughter to There is hardly # village death, a court was told here today. where these vigilantes do not Frederick Chapman, 32, is charged with battering participate in rebel "hunts"

his wife and daughter to death in the bathroom of their sometimes

frenzied witty enthusiasm.

neat suburban home here.

Reporter Georges Penchenler

The prosecution charged at a knowing what I had done to of the Paris Le Monde, report preliminary hearing today that her mummy." ed from Philippeville that he Chapman spent the rest of the Chapman was committed for witnessed a French Army night driving around London trial at today's hearing. "punitive" expedition against and down to the south const China Mall Special.

an Arab village where some of resort city of Brighton.

the rebels were thought to have Chapman come from.

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passed from one section of the atomic elty to another, fre- through iron barriers

They visited departments de

physles, chemical engineering and general physics. - China. Whether this subject

In a huge buliding devoted to would be accorded serious radio-chemical research the discussion would bo up visitors saw teams of scientists

United to the

States, the working in white smocks and Foreign Minister Indicaled,

their shoes also wrapped in ssylog: "I may touch on that white containers. On emerging subject,"

everybody from this building was tested by a Geiger counter for personal radioactivity.

The Impression

by made Harwell on the foreign visitors

s_considerable,

tax

4. He had no intention of raising the subject of Japan Grewing foreign nationals at the Japanese national rate was when the new Income.

In eight short years Harwell law was applied next year, research centre has become one No special conocesions would of the greatest and most com- be given to

In the States plote

world, Many scientific instruments needed in - ollieens, he said.

the work

manufactured

United

are

5. The numerical number within the centro itself. Harwell

of Communists in Japan was in a sense is an entire town

atom. The visitors were also im-

with the strength in devoted to the

But the Diet "rezlizitie."

י.

the Communist Influence was pressed by the relatively small

of number

people who, work at *not negligible at all but Harwall, rather influential, wnd "is the.

Not only is the number of root of all pollice trombiss scientists at Hanwell small but wo are having in Japan,” ke they have given to Great Brl- wald.

bain a leading position in A

promises a new

In reply to a question conscience which cerving the possibility of the golden era for humanity. revision of the -terms of the Fretice-Press. mutual security pact, he said that the agreement needed some revlalon so the two nations would be able to advance "even more in the direction of mukmi co-operation,"

Boys Raided Armoury

Liverpool, Aug, 24.

He did not reply directly to a question asking whether Japan

Four', boys were acctised in would seek atomic weapons as

court here today of aZY KTINA He

to theft which sparked a nation intended said Japan part of its defensive arsenal. build up ite forces and until it wide hunt for Irish Republican was able to do so, Japon would Army gunmen thought to be

The boys, whose ages range - United States. depend on the strength of the involved..

"were" "charged from 14 to 18

ith ransacking the armoury of a local cadet college and malding off with a minor arsenal of stor gune, rifles and am- munition.

The theft followed close on

"REALISTICALLY, NO"

to ask for

Asked whether, Japan, desired the withdrawal of United States troops,

the Foreign Minister suid:

"Theoretically yes, because the hoels of renewed TRA we should like to complete our activity in Britain, and police independence, but we are not clamped a 24-hour watch on just yet prepared

But they finally found the cally, no

arms in an air-raid ahelter 300 Ho added that the Com-yards from the armoury. munists were responsible for The four boys, whose names the agitation for withdrawal of were not revealed in accordance United States' troops at the pre- with English law governing sent time

Juveniles, were remanded for (Conid, on-back page, Col. 1) eight days.-Reuter D

"Invasion" Of that, so the answer is, realisti- ports and airline exits."

at surrendered The young men Brighton the next day, telling had deserted the pince, leaving police: "I have murdered my 66 old men, women and children wife and child," the prosecution behind, Fifty of them were said. killed.

European Rebels

Chapman, a slim, fair-haired Kashmir,Plan

schoolteacher was described as the sensitive eon of a dominant policeman. the and successful

Cirlef Superintendent Europeans, mostly non-French, William Chapman, whose bland ad taken part in the uprising appearance won him the nick- The name the Cherub" In London's side, uuthorities refused to give any underworld. Interpretation to these reports,

Other reports indicated that late

On

the rebel

""SPLIT PERSONALITY

In Morocco, French troops Chapman's lawyer, said the began in earnest an offensive accused thought he was a failure opainst the tribesmen

of the in anything he had undertaken Middle

the The defence, would baso its ease Tadla

on showing Chapman had a

he said. on split personality,

Atlas above

were

Karachi, Aug. 24. Ten thousand volunteers are

being organised for a "peaceful

Invasión" on September 15 of Indian-held Kashmir, it was announced today.

The announcement, from the Zamindará Labour Christian League In Lahore, said 10,000 warmed Christian "Satyagrahis" will march across the Pakistan Plain, These

border into Kashmir as the Tokyo, Aug. 24. the men who descended on Arsenic in powdered milk has Qued Zen, Khenifra Ord The prosecution said Chap. first batch of 200,000 the League

believes will eventually? do caused the death of five babies other communities with such man told police he was laying monstrate in a similar manner.. among other infants in Southern

fury last Sturday, But the a path in the garden with a Japan, it was reported today, job

The League's president, Zafar of finding them and deter round-headed hammer, when his Four babies died in Okayama; mining. Individual gulit appear wife, Irene, called him into the iqbal, in planning to lend the one in Hiroatilma: 22 in

teak.

bathroom where she was bathing march, and leaders of the League "Normal" terrorism continued: their year-old daughter. Okayama and even in Hiro ed a long and frustrating shima were suffering from

the bathroom contend that India should inter "I went into A bomb

pase no objections sirico, tha exploded in the centre arsenic poisoning.

this bohind Algeria,

wife, without say- indians used similar tactics in of Constantine, The Okay ma University aft

afternoon. No one wES hurt. dog an

anything at

at all I hit my wife pressuring the Portuguese for. discovered that the powdered Near

two Morocco,

hit her again Meknes,

four or five the merger of Goa with India'. tion of the people, rather, Seven amending bills relating mile of the Morinaga company arms were set anre and a 16- times, the glatement, sold, than political laws, which to the emergency which con

contained small amounts of year-old Moroccan schoolboy hit my daughter over the head A spokesman for the Paki outlay Communism. Amnes-lain most of the powers the

was shot through the head in four or five times and she too toni Foreign Office refused ties' can full a limited pur-government feel are necesÍKY

Casablanca. His pockets were foll forward into the bath ha today to comment on the Gov- ernment's attitude toward “the pose, tentatively ending an the prosent situation will

full of threats from the "Black said,

terrorist organic- "I killed the baber because I proposed "Satyagraha,"United state of emergency. But it have their second reading on

Crescent"

Press, tion-United Press.

did not want it to grow up is necessary to remember September. 21.

It is the will and determina-

AMENDING BILLS

for

arsenic.

Health officials sold that fy paper coated with the poison might have fallen into a vat. United. Proes.

that if the Malayan govern- Another Important bill to be mont's amnesty achieves its introduced will provide objective, It does not mean aboiul security, registration and that Communism will be when this is law the regulations ALLEGED BRUTAL TREATMENT OF A KIKUYU Armed Forces To

automatically banished from compelling Identity card the country,

gistration will lapec,

Elimination of Communism as

re-

Nyeri, Kenya, Aur. M. Á, Kikuyu · prisoner, was beaten and manseled in - "an in- describable: posliion with hie hands between fala «Jegni BIG then placed behind his neck a Crown Counsel alleged að a e-magiateste’a prišiminary'- hour.

Ingere fedagshan two

*The seven billa mentioned by a potent fatcor in the life Mr Goode were formally rend of Malaya will be a lengthy for the firm. Ume at the process. It will best be | Amwombly - meeting last work achieved through the although they have not been medium of good and published -- effelent government, win- The Chief Minister, Mr David ning"for" itself the

seconded com Marwhall, Adence and respect of the Goode's motion, toid the Hous masses. This is the long that if printing of the tally was

completed in the expected time; The iwa

who

Mr

term challenge to them wouki, havaju BOOLE government of Maikys now. Y begiming a new: constituile thong

Waters, 23, born at Cork,

Ireland, and later of 45 Sea- days in onstody.ERREREKSZIVAT

• polná Avenue, Monknown Two other, afbourn, Chief Ins County, Dublin,

They as charged with the

mirder Lot- sit African nameli Kamau on May 10 at Gal- thingu・・ pelioù. mation In Nyeri district, 200 The Crown Conseil, pr

Obatros, told the court' thal

Be Rescued

„Praguey, Aug. 24. The Czechoslovak, Government Geaffrey Coppen, 28 decided today to cut down Ita och Worthing.kud. Dagles armed: forpes by, 34,000; món by OfBoer Willkin Robers {'Des Bouch. – Béalli African ele Appüsked sharged & Win

bor 281-

An' oficial" communtosian frem

fig grievous bodily harm, ta lægand bice today by the Czechos

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