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DAKS
"ER ACIDON TRONKERS
Whiteaways
In Budapest MP Wants
IS IT THE END FOR EDEN? Testions
WESTMINSTER AGOG
Mass
Demonstrations Still Go On
HUNGARIANS RESCUED
OVER HIS FUTURE Arrests BY BRITISH Macmillan's Position In SA
London, Dec. 5.
lethal and cheap substitute Sir Anthony Eden's pros.
for ethyl
nleohol, and
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tackle carelessness among dealers who allow their shops to be stocked with it.! Recent tragedies-the result
of people drinking this evil, and pestilent concoction-- underline the nul for prompt And therough action. It may be regretted that Government is driven to the extreme of shifting ' QUEEN of
tie proof ta acensed; ( 29 also a pity! that
conscientious Many and reputable deaders will HRVC
incon- suffer venience, but stern action appears necessary to safe. guard the public, and to this respect it is justified. MR Clarke announced that
1
it was proposed to bring methyl aleonal under the ambrella of the Datiable! Commodities ordinance sol that it distribution and: sale will be subject to the strictest control." The ques. tion that immediately; arises is: does this mean that methyl alcohol will be subject to duty? No decision has apparently been made (31 this yet. Obviously industrini Users will be interested to know. So far they have been asked only to "put up with a certain amount of inconvenience". The question apparentis
bound up with dehaturing. but just what is involved has Fut been revealed. Public health is admittedly 11 most important coo- sideration and it is right that industrial users of the product should be naked to submit to a little more form filing if that is all that li involved---to enable Govern-i ment to keep track of its use and to ensure that it is not
in-
a
From Derek Marks
pects as Prime Minister
return to the Commons with continue to be the main
hin old authority. talking point at West-How far han this process gono? minster. It i. certain
So far that senior members of there will be sub-
believe Mr the government stantial Tory majority in
Harold Macnlitan may seek a private Interview with Pre- Thursday night's crucial
sident Ebenhower on his own vote on the government's
account Middle East policy —— yel Tory MP: them- selves
foremost in discussing who will take over from Sir Anthony. I Prychologically he has already,
aro
ceaned to be Prime Minister.
Whatever happens in the wert few weeks he can never
EDEN
TORY
The Chancellor of the Exchequer
these
dik-
Crisis. During cussions, Macmillan's col- leagues expect him to sugg“El that a meeting with Eisen-
Treason Charges
Capetown, Dec. 5. One hundred and forty hower might be a good ido. persons including a Mem- Will Eden himself try to see ber of Parliament, a Univer. the President before returning sity head and a Methodist 11 is believed Mrminister-were, arrested on
anger
LEGATION
Budapest, Dec. 5.
Talks On Future Of NT
Our Own Correspondent
London, Doc. 5. Socialist MP John Rankle thinks the time has arrived for consultations between
The British Legation in Budapest opened the Hongkong authorities its doors today to a group of Hungarians and the Chinese People's staging an anti-Russian demonstration be-Repubhe concerning the neath the guns of Soviet tanks.
future of the leased terri- tories.
A crowd of about 2,000 people cheered Mr In'an interview with me ho L. A. C. Fry, the British Minister, when he drove pointed out that in about 40 years time the leased territories
10 Britain? Eisenhower
let be known charges ranging up to high up to the Legation shortly after about 25 of their due to be returned to Chin in the Art flush over Egypt that he wished treason today in a nation comrades had been given sanctuary inside. NOVET to ste Sir Anthony wide round-up by security Eden again.
police.
an old friend of the Pre- | A spot check
They worked together sident.
wor
ไก North Africa during the Ife is the only British minister ever to be en personal with United States How deca Macmillan propost to
Secretary of State Dulles.
Ax up the White House con- toel?
UNPRECEDENTED
of Eden. the Cabinet members fre
In
the absenco other
planning
major assault on
the Americans. during week's meeting of the NATO Connell in Parts.
Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd
Why
always expected to at- leigh Now he is to be accom- ponled by
Mec- both Mr millon and Mr Antony Head, the Defence Minister. It is unprecedented
thres Cabluti ministers, as well as The Prime Minister, to be out of the country nt a ume Be this.
.for
Mr "Macmillan intends to hold talks with United States Spcretary of the Treasury George Humphrey op the "oll'
con-
and 40 years, he said, was not Jong where housing develop- The Ille group had stepped gun fire rang
were out, but there mert programmes
cerned. in front of one of the Soviet were no reports of casualties. tards-its gun barrel pointing at ❘ It was thought that the shota (South
Africen cmeinis
In the Legation--and stood hud- had been fred into the air. London sald most of the pri- died in the doorway of the build- Boters were charged with viola- | ing until
to enter permission tions of the government ban on was given. Communist activity).
tonight of the maximum abstention forLEON for Thursday night's division was sulf betwech 16 and 20 right-wing Tories. The right- wing problem
one of leadership.
They are still Those charged with high searchlag desperately for a treason face the death penalty man of fire and vision to lead if cor.victod. them.-London Express Ser- vice.
la
MACMILLAN
MPS CRITICAL OF
GOVERNMENT
POLICY
London, Dec. 5.
Mr Charles Waterhouse, leader of a group of Conservatives which has always opposed British withdrawal from the Suez Canal, said tonight that he still regretted to find himself out of sympathy with the govern- ment's Middle East policy.
attacks
on
This
vote of confidence
The Inen and
The Russian tanks later left to the jeers of the crowd, which had kept up a constant chant of anti-Rurslair slogans.
van
re-
To elicit further information he will ask the Colonial Secre- tary in the House of Commons shortly to what extent the famed lands on the maland of Hong- long have been filsed for house-building for resettlement and how many houses have been
Personal View
Tension was high as night fell on the city with groups of people, talking animatedly in the streets as Soviet tanks and troop carriers roared past.
During the demonstration out-in fiel built, side the American embassy g But a Soviet armoured poller not recopel tip
deputation of three Hungarians asked the wtni inside and white alike, including a Mem- mained outside the Leg forward a request from them to
women, black and mamed by Infantrymen
Minister, Mr Joseph Wails, to Cope, the First ber of Parliament; Leonant ze- Then Mr Kit
asking that Warden, who represents natives obretary, came out and told the in the Western Cape division. Soviet major to command: "We United Nations observers should Also taken pricoter was the don't need any protection." The be sent to Hungary.Reuter, Rev D.C. Thompson, the super persed
car left and
$4- the crowd tatendeat minister of Springs Methodist Church.
About 1,000 men, women ana Charged with them in the children later gathered in Free- down round-up was a collection dom Square in front of the
of lawyers, architects,, surveyors United States Legation, singin
yelling slogans. and Union oficials. Brigadier and
Soviet
H. J. Duploy, Assistant Police tanks and armoured cars stood Commissioner in Pretorio, said by, but did not interfere. the arrests followed Investiga |tions made laat 'year Into the activities of a number of people.
-United Press.
Horrifying Conditions
- INDIAN WATCHES
government
Hungary's "No" To
and Hongkong lost September
Mr Rankin-who visited China emphasised he was expressing a purely personal view and that he had
not discussed the matter with anyone in the Colony.
Any robuilding in the leased territories would, ho mild, in the main be for the benent of rem Dugees
eventually re- who might turn to their homes in' Therefore Не
more he thought:
expect the Honakoda administration to provide houso for people who may not be per manent resident
Visit Date b
the
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All the time the Indian Charge: d'Astaires here, Mr I, Rohman, drove round the square in a car ...flying the Indiannaz? - Later
left, to join two indian dipios mats, Mr. K. PS Mesory Art- bassador to Moscow and Dr
Keel."It would be:stigo to" invite Javen Nath Khosio, personal radio disclosed tonfudapestle did not for one moment representative of the Prime Te nillo said however that die Chinese help in finan
Hungarian Government house building in the area. TYLI Minisiči, Me, Nehru who are maintained. Na offer to rewould inevitably give chu here situation.
Paris, Déu, 5.
E cost of resoLLEDE E he thought the, Coloi The Hungarian Government has turned down a serpent brak from the Colonial
receive, help from Britá should General, Dag Hammat mid fo the infte bearfione Cesar For its weinis D permission to visit, Bio, an December 16, issi? Budapest
example, categor
In Hokkaido
The radio said the Hungarian
territorica.
If China we
were to be.
e study the Hungarian celyo Hammerjold in Budapest counter in future negotiations
at later date suitable to the for the handing over of these. During the day, thousands of two parties.”
However, if defiant women spat and feered Tokyo, Dec. 5, at Soviet tanks in a renewed MTT news agency had received consulted now on development Hokkaido Government authori- | round of the anti-Russian the following Informations from of an area in which they had a ties today
future reported more than demonstrations
interest, Mr. Rankini began authoritative Hungarian circles: thought that when the time came 27,000 familles destitute, yesterday. surving and freezing in Japan's
to hand back the lands, China northernmost island.
would not be "adamant" on the question of compensation.
and crop
came
New Hospital
they
NOT CONVENIENT used improperly. But n
TENSE MOMENT clear statement of Intentions
Hard hit by a bad summer
"The Hungarian Government Une failures, Hokkaido's
of the is needed partlcularly if in-
day's tensest fully maintains the terms of its farmera pioneer
when #TC now moments dustry is to be asked to pay
two letter of December 1: The UN suffering blizzard conditions with Russian tanks half-mounted the Secretary-General will be wel- duties on this commodity.
Speaking in the House of Commons two-day debate on the Anglo-French
empty larders.
pavement and charged into some come in Budapest at a later dato Mr Rankin -also- wants to In the meantime the efforts of
intervention in Egypt, Mr Waterhouse said he intended to abstain from to- The Hokkaido authorities to- Į 200 women marching to las suitable to the two partles. know why the Hongkong 2017 the Preventivo Service to
day discussed relief measures at Wreaths at a statue of Bandoi morrow night's voting, which will reveal how many of the government's Conserva-
the date indicated is not ernment proposes", to bulky) a track dow any further
meetings in Tokyo with the Petoed, poet-hero of the 1945 convenient for the Hungarian hospital in Kowloon with, 1,300 supplies of polson liquor tive supporters are in revolt against its handling of the Middle East situation.
révolution, central government,
Government, there is na beds when it 1
an accepted will be watched with
He said the United States had, that these of us who have looked Mr Angus Maude, one of the
The demonstrators scattered in possibility of December 18 as principle that oven a teaching WITHOUT FUEL terest. Miscreants must be
a side strect only to join the date of the visit." "rebels," said ho
hospital should not exceed two- made to realise that at least lost face and prestige, through to them as our brothers in arma Conservative
other women continuing else. Hardest hit are the Japanese where the protest movement his request to the
Hammarskjold had forwarded th of have died and put the world by their vicious rather lardily in arms on cer did not feel one could give an
that number,·· six people
This question too and loin occasions are deeply dis- unqualified
will be Hungarian settled country
on the largely un- they began yesterday under the Government through its Foreign answered by the Colonial Secre four have been blinded by France and by their alignments appointed and hurt by the fact to the Government on what had developed island since the war. loaded liquor the grim with our Communist enemies. that they appear to have wilfully | happened in the last two years In fimsy shocks
Minister, Imre Horvath, who is aty in the next day or two. In the Middle East.
day electricity or
Ecores on: "It should be misunderstood our position on
water thousands
of He went sequal of substituting ethyl
Soviet in New York for the United Constrning this question, Mr understood in the United States this particular
armoured cars and Nations of "turning are for methyl.
"close to extinc- tanks and It was a story cular question.
sessions. France-:| Rankin said ha.'wng concerned Dalton, a former from one fallure to another line tion,rted
lorries loaded with infantryman Presse. Hugh
(Conld on back' page, Col. 5). Labour Chancellor of the Ex-of
policy,
to catch up Officials said many
rumbled through the city trying to
children chequer, said the Government with the consequences."
brook without clothing or footwear
up processions of women by Its
had
of Bowers, action
allowed "It is not government by were unable to travel to school carrying wreaths Colonet Nasser to win a great planning and forethought but and 150,000 school chlidren black mourning flags and the
York.
colours of political victory in New
government by afterthought, were too poor to pay the few red-white-green This would obscure his great There is nothing
disas- pennies needed more
daily for hot Hungary. Scores of arrests were
made. trous," he said. military defeat in Sinat."
lunches
At the Malnutrition
Arst demonstration was common and willo slave traffic in
the yesterday beside the tomb of daughters of the families, sold the Unknown Soldier, one of the to brokers on the mainland, was wornen said;. “A woman's only increasing rapidly.---Reuter. weapon is her tongue and we
must use it."
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It might have been better to have lett Colonel Nasser to the Israelis, he added. At the pace they were going they would have been occupying the whole of the Eastern bank of canal in 24 hours,
If the United States did not nil the power vacuum, Russia would, Mr Maude added.
Winding up the first day's de- bate for the Labour opposition, theMr Kenneth Younger said the
"deliberate
failure", to consult
without fuel of Soviet guns.
Slightly Degrading me with the spirit of the PETROVS NOW
the United States was so out of
American alliance that
awed both the
Mr. Joseph Crimond, leader of Government
the Liberals, said he deplored, a Commons and the United States recent attack on the
United a much better explanation. States by Lord Hailsham, First Lord
We are entitled to have the
of
country of the Admiralty, deputation
him as a "crazy, mixed-westered," he said.
scribed Hallsham is half
American).
Left Alone
NATURALISED
-
Canberra, Dec. 6.
The Australian Government
gazette today announced the no- turalisation of former Soviet Emm-
cart
YELL DEFIANCE
More than 1,000 women tools in today's demonstration at the Petoen statue. Eight tanks and two armoured cars were rushed to the scene and all the attempts by the women to reach Russians....
statue were.
the were stopped by
the
At nearby Freddam
Bridge.
Mr Grimond' said for him to Replying for the Government, bassy secretary, Vladimir Petrov over the Danube a milling attack.
America and then, four Me Antony Head, Minister of and his wife, Evodkyja Petrova, crowd of about 1,500-mostly days later, for the Chancellor Defence, said the passione The announcement was made in women-yelled defiance at sk of the
Exchequer to ask the aroused
in these debates had a list of regular Immigrants Soviet tanks, three armoured United
extent to which granted Australian ellizenship cars and squads of blue-uni- Blates to let Britain off obscured the interest on a loan was "not only we have been left alone to look through naturalisation... pet | formed aimed: Hungarian, police
East which.
The Petrovs asked for asylum moving among them and trying ludicrous but slightly deunding." after the. Middle
Middle East on the fence of the West as a whole. full .... Australian.....nationality at In the, come, alga.
(Conid, on back pago, Col. 6) | that Umo,—France-Presse,
It was
thing in th9o.blaming every..." forms so vital ́a part of the de-in 1034, and had been promised † to disperse" then., nr this
Americans."
"We have made a complete hath of Jordan all on our own without any American assistance whatever," he added.
A new start on foreign policy was needed, be added.
"Wounded Vanity”
Mr
Pannelli Labour, In a reference to: Bir Anthony Edon, wald: “In effpot" we were Jaken into war, by a man three Wocks off a nervous breakdown. The Prime Mirilater, Was) "king" Haden by, wou
mity about
afternpon two, bursts of machine.
PEKING SACKS PLANNING CHIEFS
London, Deo, 5, p from, the state planning.com. China has removed, four or illi,mittee. But châleman Li Fu- top officials from "the perma« | chuch, is neho is also a Vico- nent body responsible for "premier, weaninadat hià post, organising :)," the "country's The agency gave no resson for gigantle, dyowyser plans, the i. the dismissals odicial Now, Chiri
"Agency" (announcet, According! /a: Stafa"Coumelii
According to these reports, the
Communist regime might
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