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COMMENT OF

THE DAY.

A Proposition

ISCUSSING the functions

DISC

of the Commissioner- General for Southeast Asin, the Times Singapore corre- spondent thi week nd. vanced some interesting apeculation on the future status

of British possess. ions in Southeast Aula vis-a-vis the Colonial Office and the Foreign Office, The correspondent expressed the opinion that the Colonial Office's sphero in Southeast Asin in shrink- ing: that in four or five years, Sarawak, Brunel and British North Borneo may be the only territories left of any size controlled by the Colonial Office: that the remainder may have become part of foreign affairs or Commonwealth Relations.

Noticeably, Hongkong is not Hongkong

mentioned and the reason is very simple.

Is nu., geo-politically,

IN-

Imperial part AS

garded by the

Government

Southeast Asia;

we

are

rated as a territory apart,

except, of course, Hong-

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Forecast Of Chancellor's

Autumn Budget

RESTRICTING PEOPLE'S SPENDING POWER

London, Oct. 19.

The supplementary budget announced by the British government tonight will be the first emergency autumn budget since 1947, when one was introduced by Mr Hugh Dalton, the Labour Chancellor.

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It will be presented in the House of Commons Wednesday and is expected to introduce new taxes aimed at slashing the people's spending power and controlling inflation. It comes after oft-expressed but now apparently vain hopes by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr R. A. Butler, that curbs on hire-purchase, increases in the interest rates on loans, cuts on overdrafts and other measures taken this year would be

kong is included in te enough to halt the inflationary trend.

Southeast Asia defence

from tho

British

to

Be heme viewpoint. But the fact that the Colony is not included politicaly or geographically In South- east Asia serves only emphasise its unique posi- tion Ax the Immediate neighbour of China. This in turn la capable of involv- Ing Hongkong in complic- ated political problems, tho handling of which

comes

not within the jurisdiction of the Colonial Offico-the. Colony's guardian-but the Foreign Office,

THIS is not a new

pheno-

menon for Hongkong, but It does assume greater im- portance today than it d.d. sny 25 to 30 years ago. The Colony's relations with the Chinese mainland are now

In a speech earlier today Mr Butler said he was determined "to es- tablish the foundations of sterling so that it cannot be moved."

Bomb Blasts Rock Oran

Alplers, Oct. 19. Three bomb blasts rocked the clip of Oran tonight, the police reported. The ex- within plosions sounded moments of each other,

One ripped through the front of the building which "outes the newspaper Echo

D'ofath

A second bomb went of in front of Oran City Hall,

The third bomb went of a depot used for storing military material.

ncar

There was no indication how persons might have miany been killed or injured by the explosions.

This

There are several reasons for

NARCOTIC PEDDLERS ROUNDED-UP

Philadelphia, Oct. 19.

underworld for months to obtain evidence.

More than 200 detectives,

Narcotics Bureau ogenis, carry-

NASSER'S SECRET UN Voting

Deadlock CONSPIRACY

WITH TERRORISTS Continues

From Sefton Delmer

Tunis, Oct. 19.

New York, Oct. 19. The United Nations Gen- eral Assembly failed today

Nine votes have failed to pro-. duce tho required two-thirds

Turkey.

In three ballots today, the

which

Egypt's ambitious young dictator, Gamal Abdel to break the deadlock on the Local police and Federal

Council and for a second agents staged the year's Nasser, intoxicated by a Soviet promise of tanks. vacant scat on the Security second mass round-up of guns and jets, has drawn up a splendid plan for time postponed further vot narcotic peddlers today after creating and equipping a national army of North ing. roolde policemen and police African Moslems. womon had lived in the This army is to be capable of facing the majority to elect a successor to

French forces and driving them into the sea.

Nasser discussed the project recently at his Puppies held a narrow mat- uniformed police and Federal private residence in Cairo with Algerian agitator in over Yugoslavia,

Britain regards us the "best candidate, but ing 237 warrants, launched the Ben Bellah, No. 1 terrorist of the big three who bri well-planned drive simultaneous-direct Algeria's "National Liberation Movement" could not obtain the 39 vous

necded to secure the seat, ly in the carly morning darkness.

The assembly then voyed in Forty squad cars sped to as- from secret headquarters in Tripoli.

favour of an American proposal signed areas to search tap rooms

Algerian and Moroccan that the Scourity Council cicc- rooming houses

The plans are to be developed of und all night

In Lho The present | comminandos

special restaurants in the big swoop. phase by phase.

tion be postponed to a forth- commando school in Algeria and Egyptian 60 guerilla war Within two hours about

coming meeting and that the with

commandos where the Cairo guerillas wer Asembly proceed today to elect PATSONS were brought to the Morocco,

supplied by trained before being sent City Hall to be booked and held equipped and

members to the Economic and and Spanish against the British in the

Social Council and the Trusée«. for hearings. Police sald some Etypt, Tripoll were addiets taken into custody Morocco is merely the first phase Suez zone.

Two male worries preoccupy with persons named on warrants. In the plan.

and

..to Ben Bellah UNDERCOVER AGENTS The war is to be progressive-Nasser

agents to supply to

arents,

the are

compromist”

smp Courell. Council.

Four countries--tho United

Rain Causes London Floods

London, Oct 18.

Yugoslavia were elooved to Reuter's Sydney Gampell,

Last April an early morning ly intensified as was Ho Chi-judge from the latter's brief to States, Canada, Indonesia and ruid by Local and Federal minh's war against the French is

serve on the Economic, and. Sow arancial editor, writes:

First 19 the increasing cial Counci), but after a fourth agents netted

than 130 in Indo-China. more Measures to check home de

That also pedalers and a score of addicts.

started off as a difficulty of sending arms and ballot, which falled to provide mand in the budget announced

but ended as A couriera

Algeria through any mason with tho, required Most of the raids were in the guerilla wur for October 20 seem bound to

Central and South full-scale affair with regular Tripoli and Tunis,

majority for the other two seqia, North, go beyond Increases in purchase

supplied armies

from Philadelphia areas.

Com-

French military the Assembly Owing to

adjourned until In housing and farm tax, cuts

Jahun Kelly, munist China,

operations along

border, tomorrow afternoon-fleuterativ Chief Inspector technical adjust- subsidies, and

pushing How do I know all this? Ben arms couriers who supervised The

the operation, ments of the tax laws.

further southwards has been incautious down said the rookie police served as budget might include all those

undercover

send a copy of in-moving neuror `and wearer to the things, but, as all of thêm could The pollee said damage to the

the information on which the structions for his top comman Sahara be done without a budget, there Echo D'orant building was

SECOND WORRY ders agreed at the meeting with warrants were issued. "particularly severe."

is a presumption of something

Inspector

sald the Nasser to his representatives in Кену more. of instances la:cat

The second Tunis.

is the wary cookies, both men and women, terrorist activity in Algeria

supposing that the re-taxliver months that of Tunis quring the last war, that "office"

As anyone knows who was in thanger that compromisers and will weakeni the came barely-more than 24

world to gain the confidence burdens, if any, will not be very hours after the National

sweeping. Assembly in

narcotics eliers. One woman taking a terrible risk if you strength and resolution of the

London was partly nooded Paris odve

today by a pounding rain that 1. As the Premier Edgar Faure a 54-

Chancellor has was threatened with death and really want to keep something movement.

Bocret.

Naaser, and Ben Bellah are

continued frequently

another fled an apertment

relentlessly through saldi, and

by repeated voto confidence test majori

particularly frightened of the the day. this werd

"BIG BROTHER" tu ko

way of a window while gather- weck, that there is no cm- push ahead with re-

effect Tunisian Nationalist tv

Automobile Association, pas ergency or crisis, he will hardying evidence-United Press.

Nasser known to top mem leader Bourguiba may have with trou reported that the Hooung form plans for the terri-

take measures of emergency or tory-United Press.

bers of the terrorist organisation his rocently concluded inter-

on Western crisis scale. The overstrain on

za Big Brother-has lost, no dependence" self-government gested traffle

Avinuo near the White CIN ilme in implementing phase one agreement with France.

Stadium. At London airport ut the plan,

Ben Bellah. orders--with

the road tunnel was under siX that approval Ho has detailed a section of Nasser's

to nine inches of water... Army speciai Algerians and other the Egyptian

North The patrols said"; Northern Western part of the jelly scvicts under Brigadier Souman Africans who look like leting and

bo, used by the were the most Ezat Din and more particularly themselves

seriously French Tunisian-born Major unaer

Instruments of affected. Traffic was almost Mohamed

"be qui-halted entirely at one time DDL Dib, to compromise Sagh nursemaid the Algerian

and dated"

the North circular road when He insists the Big Three of the Brent River overdowed at moroccan terrorists in their in-

the resistance - himselfl and Stoneeridge Park, surrection against the French,

Roads in the Norwich For the present phase he is partners Mazzouz, and Teblb

are Dib a budget of alone

"repositories off and at Wimborne allowing ei

(Dorset) were also ollected by, flood £280,000, but this is not ex- Algerica sovereignty."

They alone have the right to waters-United Press. period to pay for arms supple speak for the Algerian people

the revels or the training and lead them. Anyone challen

governed very largely bTEENAGERS MAY HAVE

world political conditions:

we are, for example,

the behest of the

at

United

of

JK

Nations in the matter

applying the embargo

and new

strategic materials; we are

MURDERED 3 BOYS

Chicago, Oct. 19.

susceptible to

Sheriff Joseph Lohman reported today that the novel political pressures authorities had "narrowed down" their investigation within our own burders; of the mutilation murders of three young boys whose we have to pay regard to nude bodies were dumped in a forest preserve. outside political reactions He declined to elaborate but indicated that there

to a variety of domestic was hope for a quick solution, policy decisions which pre- viously never cau ed arty

concern.

of

Sheriff Lohman: spoke as the authorities concentrated

on a theory that a gang of teen-age toughs was respon. The completely new set sible for one of the most shocking crimes in the city's

circumstances. and con-history. siderations which affect Hongkong daily prompte

The butch and the question whether Imbales of Julin Schuessler, 13 pity.

and Anten, 11, is brother

the economy has been described KE PAINTS

us marginal and minor.

Mone

try and other measures already

taken to correct it are beginning to work, and will grip in- creasingly hard almost right up to the normal budget next April. All this should leave relatively uide creamg to be dang

budgetary means.

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2 Australas and New Zea- land's recent import cuts put soin disinflationary pressure on Bruch industry.

MAIN DESIRE

Denver, Oct. 19. President. Eisenhower painted this alternoon for tau si me since his art attack.

He sat up or 45 minutes in cur in his room and an casy worked with oil paints on

Mountain land- small Rocky scapo which he copied from a a magazine, picture in

The Bnat muu.cal bulletin of the day, at 5.15 p.m. MST, said tho Iresident's improvement without was sausiae.oly atu compiteauon-United Press.

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Margaret Dines With Church Dignitaries

3. The Chanechor's m:in de. se is to sup the wage a flation, by lower prices. particularly H.gher taxes tend to cause prices, sasin Mige akķina.o the anila-

demands. northwest of the Uonary wage mu ilates son's 'Woods

In an intlation, workers often was a demand to be "compensated" for Peterson said his son

boy and he we higher taxes and mugner prices perial Government juris Robert Peterson. 13, were found home

wage inflation. diction should not

pass in a ditch in the forest preserve away on Sunday and we weren't by still further

able to find him."

On this front monetary measures from the Colonial Oflee to yesterday.

work boetier than taxes. if the the Foreign Offer.

Mr Lohman emerged from a He told of the frantic search employer simply has not got the

on mons.

he cannot meet the wage their cons THE Colonial Office and all very confcicnce with other he and Schuessler Investigators report, "We Sunday night after

Chancellor hus put his its appointees are intend-have no ceveloped special lines had left home to go to a mave

and had failed to return.

mala reitance on tigh; money ed to function purely ad- of investigation."

They searched the main roule policy, a lus ministratively. Hong-

measures next the district, inquiring at

Weunesaay might be confined to kong, not less than in Lohman replied: "All we can hamburger stands, bus stops and

tupplementing the

credit Singapore, administration say 13 (int

now theatres. these days has to dovetail narrowed it down from a wider Then, after midnight. Peter-squeeze, His policy has been for has tel

business and people to cu, down son said, they began checking the their use of borrowed money, with political relations basis to a narrower basis,” and policies, and it is

Instead of forcing him to take Sherif Lohman said: "Speci- bowling alleys. United Press.

moncy away their own precisely these

fically, we have sent out four

higher taxes. with which the Colonial teams of detectives." He sald

In

questions

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Asked what this meant, Mr

ww

have

to

mede

Ofee cannot deal. They these totaled 37 plainclothes African Fights

must be passed on to and menk handled by the Foreign Omco,

Although Mr Lohman did not nowsmen gained the say 50, Thore is a good case to be

made out for the proposi-impression that he referred to

case.

a geographical narrowing of the tion that Hongkong should

He cald the "feld of become answerable to the search" had been narrowed by Foreign Office instead of some "very important" Andings in the police crima the Colonial Office. It nood made not Involve wholesale re-laboratory. placement

of Colonial All clues turned up in the big Office-appointed personnel. search were being sont to the Some obvious advantages in laboratory for investigation

the change of system, sug-

gested are that the Colony's administrators would

with

en-

FATHTERS' SEARCH.

Meanwhile, two fathers, their questions voices strained with emotion, told today of searching elty

joy greater prestige whon danling which involve neighbouring streets for their three missing. countries; the Governor sons, The two men, Malcolm himself would have more Peterson, 36, a direct access to the high-Anton Schuster, 42, a fallor, dat levels dealing with appeared at the limit of their Britlah foreign affairs, -in-i podurance. stead of, na now, having to

1

cnrpinter, and

Peterson broke down edd wept go through the Colonial on the wither stand at an in Omce post office," and the quert into the shocking crime.. Schuessler had to be helped. Foreign Office would have both to and from the winces on the spot another direct chair.

con act for advice and in the bodies of their three boys formation, additional to had been - found stacked its Ministry in Pahing, sordwood, in a diteks is "Robin

Lion With

A Knife

Ballsbury, Oct. 20.. Ав

of mural cory

from the bravery comts construction `gangs of the link rafi howly-opened between Southern Rhodesia Marques, and Lourenco one of the two main por of Mocambique.

An' African, Binruman!, fought and 'killed' with a pocket knife wounded by rifle Ore.

Lion

While the Europeans were fetching a shotgun to finish off the lion, the animal turned on BiniS- muzi

who was severely matiled before he man to ill-ths, beast 'by re-”. peated stabbing.

The Dght was wildeswed by several Africans' peraha- et up, high inh" the war- tounding. trees == "Frános».

So ne

ONE DANGER

by

If he overdid his disinflationary budgeting next Wednesday, he night have to back-track in his normal budget next April. Some observers soo the bility of

uny heed

spontaneous disinge

of consumer credit or

and one oOT two other sectors In

both the United States and Britain next year. If the Chancellor pays to this view, he may be wary of

putting on new taxes for the sake of taking an October, them off a low months later.

that the who thought off the income tax last

London, Oct. 19. Princess Margaret, composed and smiling, to- night sat down to dinner with the Archbishop of would Canterbury and 50 bishops, most of whom

between her and Group strongly resent a marriage Captain Peter Townsend.

The dirner followed the The 25-year-old Princess, who

of the Palace's the world gossiping rededication

with about her romance

the chapel, restored after wartime uivorced air altache, was a damage.

As Margaret faced the ranks dazzling figure in ivory stin

.rumoured aniong the black-clad, gaitered of churchmen, her,

sultor, Peter Townsend, had night of the Church,

cocktails at the home of The dinner was at Lambeth friend of the Royal family, Palace, centuries-old Lordon Major Eric Pean, in Chelsea, home of the Archbishops of London's artistic quarter.

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Canterbury. With Margaret was It was the first day in a full

her sister, Queen Elizabeth, the week that Margaret and the Duke of Edinburgh, and the pilot had failed to spend some Queen Mother,

time together-Reuter.

A SPECIAL PRAYER

Wakefield, Oct. 19. Premier and all'. their skivisora.

A clergyman today prayed for wisdom and deep understand-

a blessing on Princess Margaret ini...

at her time of festing" and for Divine guidance to the Royal

"Guide our beloved Princess wisdom. Grant "In this time of personal with Divine family and domestic.crisis.

toleranco, wisdom and under- The parson, the Rev. S. Leon standing to all who watch and bank rate this autumn turned tonal Church,

loading

April

could mean a six per cup Cook, Minister of a Congrega, wait for news, either out of

WEB

cut wring. Even though B:Jiainaayers at a mosling hero of the Vmpathy anil'lóve or out of. an

had some bad luck in the sum-West Riding (Yorkshire) County mer and carly autumn, the bank Council.

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rate has not been raised since

bo

unkindly critical spirit.

is all to remember our

His prayer was "Especially being truly huroan the last budget. This might would we pecic for our beloved with human passions, emotions Royal family wisdom and grace and affections but whore Roynt birth dentos *her the privacy in this time „of personal" and

and: domestic criada,

a caution against expecting the sixpence to be put on the in- come tax agin next Wednes

day:

The government has very

wido powers to change purchase tax without a budget. Neither is any budget needed to cut sub aldies, A cut in subsidies come -¿Conid, on bank pigs, Col. 3).

guide them in the gerent de- I defreedom;

and

Jom of thought an

prelidary folk which bedary

charge wulger) and "cheap

on which will affort inturnata and personal her own SAVE our Royal family from ships and also the church, and soup sich erikiem. Blom ostr Greg Princess and land her to a happy "Give to the Primate" (the fetue out of her tinse of testing.. Archbishop of GAISMKDUTY) ANGL |--China 2680 SPOCÍNI

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must

all

ging their authority must be eliminated.

UTDA

NEW. MINISTER

London, Oct. 20.

announced The government

has up-

is a most illuminating docu- inent, this brief of murder and that Queen Elizabeth hate which Ben Bellah has sent proved the appointment of Mr Derek Walker-Smith, QC, and his agents and guerilla com- manders with the approval of Conservative Member of Parlia Big Brother Nasser London ment, as Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade-Router. Express Service.

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