1956-11-21 — Page 1

ILISHAVE ECTRIC RAZO

COMMENT OF

THE DAY

The Conspiracy

TO matter how vehemently

Neamt dentes any

con-

apfracy with Soviet Russ FA to injure Western Interests in the Middle East, zó much material evidence has now 'been gathered demonstra- Link Russia's eventual designs on the area, that thero can

be no further

doubt about the planned machinationa of Egypt. Syria and the Soviet Union. Deints of the supplies of

which arms

the Anglo- French forces have been able to reveni, quite apart from further discoveries mude by the Iarnelle, indicate that the equipment was essentially for aggres- Mive action. Yet at more rovealing in the fact that many of the most modern gans and truks had not even been Issued to Egyptian army; that number of Communist tech- nicians sent to Egypt was far greater than could be accounted for by the need for instructors, and that

Soviet the latest

jet

THE

the the

bombers were not used ni all in the clash with Israel. ! HE unmistakable implica- tion is that the hundreds of Soviet techniciana were intended as cadres for the "volunteers" which would have been rapidly flown in once the Soviet government had decided on the momen! for action. The men to or-

ganise and command the

"volunteers" were already

Kehary, Amprome

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GOVERNMENT GETS TOUGH WITH ROOF SQUATTERS

Comprehensive measures have been taken by Government to put a stopy to further rooftop squatting, it was an nounced by a Govern- menyspokesman today. The Resettlement Depart-

ment has been made responsible, and special rooftop squatter prevention section

1

is

being set up. According to a survey of

ntl

unlawful rooftop

structures yesterday

completed the total

number of

for New Huts To Be Demolished

squatters in the urban areas is about 63,600 and Government has decided to take drastic action to prevent the situation becoming worse.

"Government is confident that in this survey it has all the information it requires to detect any attempts to build new huts on the roofs, well as attempts either to enlarge exist- huts or to move ing

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then to different post- tions on the roofs," the spokesman adðéd.

As from today, any new unlawful structures erected on the roofs of tenement buildings will be

demo- summarily lished. In no case will people living in these huts be offered resettle- ment or any other form of alternative accom- modation,

No decision has yet been

taken on the date by which the existing un- lawful structures on the roofs will be de- molished, but people living in them urged to find other ac- commodation as

were

Boon

as possible, the spokes- man said.

To enable the Resettle- ment Department 10 put Д quick stop to

further rooftop squat.

ting, the Governor-in- Council has approved now regulations pub- lished this morning. One of these regulations

requires

the leszers and permittees of all Crown Land to report to the Commissioner

for Resettlement any new unlawful struc- the tures erected on roofs of their property after yesterday. Failure to comply may

mean a fine of $500.

The

RELAX

DAKS

THE BAMBUS COMFORT: IN'ALTREIN TRONKERS.

Whiteaways

for

Commissioner Resettlement has asked the public to assist the Resettlement Depart- ment to prevent further rooftop squalling.

If any landlord or other member of the public will report new struc- tures

the roofs at once,

on

either by letter or telephone to the De. partment of Resettle- ment, the Department will at once investigate the case.

YUGOSLAVIA HITS BACK US. Move

But It's Only A

Writers'

Wrangle

So Far

Belgrade, Nov. 20.

Yugoslavia tonight ac-

In position; so were quanticused Russia, in effect,

ties of arma far greater

EDEN ILLNESS SPARKS RUMOURS

London, Nov. 20. There was widespread spenta- tion in London political ctr- cies tonight ou tire fature of the Prima Minister, Bir Anthony Eden, after the A11 nouncement that he was hav ing to withdraw from publje Elfe temporarily because of "acveto overutrain,"

One rumour said his filness WAS a pretext to prepare the way for his complete retirement from the political scent. others, which appear oxatstr= ated, said he was placed in a minority at a Cablict meeting last night on the question of the maintenance or withdrawat

of British troope in Egypt. The long struggle which has gan?? on between Sir Anthony and Beal, Mr the Lord Privy Richard Butler, throughout the Sues crisis had endes to the Premier's disadvantage with even his closest friends skiing against him,

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these rumours

One disturbing

emerges

fact In the midst of all the rumours. Sir Anthony thought it necessary to tend the French Fremier, M. Guy Mollet, a personal

assuring message,

him that the teams which would replace him during his absence would not mean any change

In Franco-British re- jations. seemed hardly probable that the Prime Minister would send sach message if he were contemplating an abrene? of only a week or a fortnight. cularly during the latest de-It would thus seem at least that bates in the Commons, gave be expects to be absent for a

prolonged period.

It spemed certain that the Prime

Minister was physically a tired | It man. Since the Suez crials started last July, he has under- ! rone great strain,

However, his appearance, parli-

no Ludication of a threatened collapse,

than the Egyptian army of violating the Yugo Hammarskjold Talks With Nasser

needed or could use; so also slav Soviet

aircraft

Friendship

were to support Declaration by attacking LLOYD, PINEAU

them, Everything suggests

that the great Soviet con- President Tito's recent

br

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The first Yugoslav reply was deitvered by Joze Smole, Foreign Editor of the Socialist Alliance organ "Borba" He charged that the condemnation of a recont Tito speech in Pravda yesterday was groundless "polemicising".

"The mariner in which Tass

spiracy was at least tem comments on Soviet porarily set back

policy in Hungary. israel's sudden campaiga against Egypt. President Nasser deludes himself if he believes that the political support and military assistance ho is getting from Russia stems from Sovlet friendship for Egypt, Syria and other Arub countrice. Part of the Russian conspiracy la to absorb the Middle East into the Communist' empire, and to achieve that aim the Kremlin is making war in a variety of ways on the free world. Jo war,

whether "cold"

(the Soviet news agency) pale- micises with Tito's sperch is not In keeping with the standard of free, Fenest, frank and equal discussion between Communiste,' he declared.

'We Are Glad'

Joze Smole, whose comment-

released

orary in

"hot", economic blows can be as effective as military onslaughts. If the economy of the enemy can be broken the road is open to victory. Thus Soviet Russin is well aware of the vital impor- tance of Middle East oll to the economy of the free world, and in particular of Western Europe. She also appreciates the strategic Importance to the free world of the territory of the Middle East. Wherefore Soviet support of Egypt and the Arab countries is plainly intended as a first step in obtaining military

bo

tomorrow's Borba

was

DISSATISFIED

Washington, Nov, 20.

The British Foreign Secretary, Mr Selwyn Lloyd, and the French Foreign Minister, M. Christian Pincau, are reported to be dissatisfied so far with what Mr Dag Hammarskjold, Secretary General of the U.N., told them yesterday about his talks with the Egyptian President Colonel Nasser concerning Anglo-French evacuation from the Suez Canal.

the United States

Society, he eald: "Our promise to withdraw stands; when there is an effective International force charged with the duty of carrying out the United Nations resolution.

Mr Lloyd udrated at the culset of his speech that as far Anglo-American relationa

D'S

Usually reliable sources sald Mr Lloyd and M. Puwau would confer with Mr Hammarskjold again today in the hope of getting further clarification of his talks with Colonel Nasst, by the official Tan- They said the impressions of jung News Agency tonight, de- Mr Lloyd and M. Pincau so far nounced Pravda's attack on Tito. seemed to be that Mr Ham-

The Soviet Party organ had marskjold was inclined to lear were concerned, there had been accused the Yugoslav President to the Egyptian view that the an "acute" difference of oniniu of interfering in the affairs of main task of the United Nations on the Middle Easi problem. other Communist countries and police furce on the Canal should "It would be wrong to take succumbing to th cult of the be to get the Anglo-French that 100 traglently," he said, but Individual-Stalinizm.

forces out and then leave that ackled, "on the other hand

would b cqually

Wrong to area themselves,

minimise it and to pretend that there is not a job të bë done in the intimacy of our lance

Clearing Operations

Luken-

Arab Move

In 1958, the Premier underwent

ibrne

operations

successive after which doctors told him that he should lead a quici life.

In recent months, he has been riously overworked and for several weeks has bad only

three or four hours of sleep a night.

Lady Eden said tonight he was "very tired," bus apart from that, "there WAS nothing wrong with him." He was anxious to return from his enforced rest as quickly as possible, she said.

was speaking at Lady Eden

the new headquarters of the Galeshead Conservative Asp-

ciation.-France-Presse,

To Restart

Oil Flow

Russians Expel American Reporter

Moscow, Nov. 20. The Soviet Foreign Minis- try Press section today re- Hangen, quested Welles "New York Times" per- manent correspondent in Moscow, to leave Soviet territory by November 28 at the latest, Tass agency announced tonight.

action Tam said this

news

Was

the

taken because Hangen had dis- obeyed regulations imposed on foreign correspondents in So Union "noably by taking photographs of hydro-electriu plants,"

The Foreign Ministry's press scotion said i did not hold any- thing against articles written by

Mr Heygen,

Mr Hangen said in Moscow tonight the issue involved wan his photographing of the Date- prostro dam during a trip

October 1, the Ukraine

on

to

Damascus, Nov, 20. The United States has asked Syria to resume the

Got Permission flow of oil through 13 pipe- 11 West to prevent

He said he got permission lines European economic setback, | from duty guards and militis at said to the dam informed sources

before taking the

day.

photographs. He said that after The sources said Syria refused he had taken the photographs the a militia vehicle arrived on the Itself before 10 cornmit withdrawal of Anglo-French spot and he was asked by and Israel troops from Egypt. militiamen to make a written acknowledging, the The flow of oil through this statement country ecased last month when thet that he had photographed pumping stations of the Iraq the dam. Petroleum Company were blown up.

Informed sourets Fald the

Mr Hangen cald he had been taken to ace the dam a first thre In July, 1035, with a delegation of American farmers and had U.S Ambassador. Mr James of Monse, presented a note to the thien betu "requested" by the Syrian Ceverraneat appealing to Soviet authorities to take photo- of oil flow in order to prevent en Sovici Fusion Ministry authori

Despite his explanations, the economic crisis in Western ties maintained, their order for

Syria to permit the rerumption graphs. Students

Guard U-Mines

Belgrade, Nov. 20. Hungary's uranium mines in the Mecsek

mountains near the Yugoslav frontier are in the hands of about 6,000 Hungarian youths, mainly students, aided by more than 200 miners.

Hungarian refugees, who reached Yugoslavia today, re- ported this.

by

Although they were encircled the Russlans, the youths arms were well supplied with

Jone and could hold out for a time, the refugees said.

оп

Fighting was still going between insurgents and Soviet troops last weekend in the Baja region, they said, Thought It Was Suez

In

The refugees confirmed that Soviet

parli- reinforcements cularly of infantry, had been brought into Hungary In the Jast few days. Toty said that Soviet troops, which had been stationed for Game time south and cast Hungary had At the United Nations, delcgn= { been replaced by fresh Mongo- tions of 11 Arab nations in

lian troops. letter to the Setrtinty-General, The Mongolians had only the have asked for the immediate voguest idea of the country withdrawal of Israeli forces where they had come and

the Egyptian-Israel thought that

the Tisza river demarcation line, It was dis- was the Suez Canal, the closed today.

fugees said. The letter referred to

In Budapest, for the first time, buses

their began to mako sounds again today. Some trams have begun operating again in the outlying parts of the city, but not in the centre of the city,

"We are glad." Smole wrote, "that Tam has revealed directly and frankly, and not by implica tion, what the Soviet leadership They satd apparently M. thinks and says about comrade Pineau and Mr Lloyd had not Tito's speech and, in general, been told by Mr Hammarskjold Communist Party." about the policy of the Yugoslav | that Colonel Nasser would be willing for some United Nationa Canal renada In the Hie commentary was a point- force to

the UN. cleared y-point denial of the Tass dis-area while obstructions. which Pravda printed. "The gravest charge is,

Tho had been scine news-behind no control of the area.

doubt, that about Yugoslav a paper reports to this effect but NOVIET Russia knows that tempts to interfero in the internal apparently they were So

if the Suez Canal

affairs of others," Smole sold, firmed. and

adding: "Tito's speech, writes a The sources sold if Nasser, in

press Middle East oil can

that the Tass commentator, shows a fen- fact, would egroo to a United despatches saying denied to the free world it dency of interfering in the Nations force remaining in the Israeli authorities had committed Amounts to an important affairs of other Communist Canal crea during clearing sets of brutality" against the Communist victory. Nor in parties."

time operations, this

period inhabitants of the Gaza, region this quest does Russia care

An editorial which will ap- would allow negotiations to be and Palestine Arab refugees. It for the effect on the Arab pear in the same issue will undertaken under United Nations accused the Israeli authorities of *carrying out assassinations, countries whose prosperity pecuse Tass of "a tendentious auspices to reach a Suez cettle-

deportations, nota of terrorism depends on their all trade, distortion of the facts

Citing the passage in Marshal

Under

and intimidation." those conditions it Egypt's leaders can lend Tile's speeck in which he spoke would obviously be possible for The Arab delegations asked themselves to this Soviet of a "conflict between the old the Anglo-French forces the Secretary-General to bring design because the country Stalinist clements and the new leave.

this matter to the attention 01 In the southern suburbs of has no oil resources and has forces", within tho Soviet In Now Yeek Mr. Selwyn the United Nations members, Csepel, where the destruction horgolf little at stake. It is Politburo, "Borba" goes on: "The Lloyd promised that British Norway notified the United

was widespread, Soviet tankcs this which suggests that the question which now arises is forces would, bo withdrawn from Nations today It would increase remained posted at sircet elaborate stops taken by whether this new trend or the Egypt orice an effective" inter- its original contribution to the corners. The Rakosi metal- Nasser to block the Suez Stalinist trend will triumph, national force was ready to take Emergency Police Force criough works was not working but a

over.

to make possible a joint Danish- || large number of workers were Speaking at a dinner in his Norwegian battalion. - All there to get their daily food,---- honour given by the Pilgrims of Aquacles,

All Agencies.

Canal, dealing a novers blow to the economy of other

Tendentious

versallons.

ment.

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10

Moet shops except those sell- ing food supplies, remained closed.

Tanks Still There

Arab States a well is to Yugoslavia should not retire that of Britain and France, Into herself. Sho should taka were carried out at the action in all directions, not by instigation of Moscow. undermining other countries Inasmuch that most of from inside with the aim of

Somewhere in Israel, that the prisoners were given The camp sean by journalists Western Europe has been provoking negative excesser, "-

Nov. 20, extra mest in place of 'com was said to contain 107 officers forced into petrol rationing but on the ideological plane and the Russian Middle by means of contacts and con- Egyptiasi prisoners of war in which he admitted had not been und 1,850 other ranks,ho Istroll hands complained today supplied. The prtiondas said this officers were living in fonts conspiracy has/Uniroady

Likit "the good we got would not was also untrue and that they and sleeping on the ground but formu achlayed a measure of |

fated

claimed that huis twinst another.

avin-be enough, for a 10-year had only been given ment the Isnacils Can economia-DA BUCCÉNS Audi4 munketju perky tu anak, especially [bld child for bites von 25

three times in the ice, fort were being provided in the any doubts existed about when the accusations are very Onl

meer prisoner Naval officer

night,

near future. Soviet designs in the Middle serious?? ones. Choy, sennot be said Ws are hungry." A spokes:

and for the prisoners, rejected Buat these have now been done in an responiste mennurns that rations were eliminated, « und » the free world must now take when mode without connection with adequa

the facts and even in spite of He

Egyptian PoWs Say: We're Underfed

его

ever measures are cons for Amino Ichaser, my fact that althou aldered "appropriate to prebrze prach forceelwrun chien claimas). Ubeke ventual disastrous: Com

But \monist/expansion.

Izraeli officials who conducted Journalists around the prisoner» Instance the and living condilo tha. Iernalia tutily the same a

the quirement off

The prisoners also com plained that they were being

permission to buy, extr

Army

Including

Poland To Take Western Aid

Warsaw, Nov. 20

The Polish Government intends to seek economic aid from the West, well- informed

satdi tonight,

sources

These sources said such ald would only be decepted if completely free of any political conditions.

is expected that Poland will sound out the Western powers on the prospects of through diplomatic nels.-Franco-Presse.

But

such

ald chan-

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The Eources said the Syrian Government answeredslibatostn was unwilling to take any action before the withdrawal of foreign droops from Egyptian United Prosa, S

UN Police Held Up

Port Said, Nov. 20, United Nations polico force feld headquarters in the Suez Canal zone today called of the planned movement of one com- pany of Norweston troops into Port Sald tomorrow as official Allled clearance was not com- pleted in time.--Reuter,

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Cairo, Nov. 20. ·

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approved Foreign Affairs Committee that tho recommendation

Jordan Government abro- her treaty with Bri- .gute

entor: diplomatio tain and rciations with Rukia and

Communist China--United Press,

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