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THE DAY

NATO Unity

is generally accepted that

the current meeting of the

NATO Council in Paris Ja one of the most vital to be| hold since the creation of; the North Atlantic alliance. 11 provide the upper- tunity. Dol only for 11 thorough reappraisal political developments in Eastern Europe

the Middle East, but for patch.

ing

up

of;

And

differences

caused by the Suez Canal

crisis between America and

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THE FAMOUS CONFURY

Whiteaways

HUNGARY STRIKE-BOUND

ALL BUT TWO TOWNS OUT FROGS GO TO WAR ELECTION

PEOPLE IGNORE 'Britain

RADIO PLEAS

By RONALD FARQUHAR

Budapest, Dec. 11. Hungary went strike today in There has never been eaus defiance of their Russian-backed govern-

her

principal

allex.

Europens

to believe that the Canal

on

Ready To Meet Egypt'

affair would permanently ment and according to reports reaching here damage Anglo-french-US

work

prepared stoppage has been relations, and the way to tonight the their restoration was im effective in all but two of the principal

mediately opened when Bri

(ain

And

France

1:31-

directives and withdraw.

towns.

hesitatingly agreed to Blue uniformed Hungarian police fired shots hour the United Nations in the air near a strategic cross roads in Budapest their forces from Egypt. Hi as crowds of strikers pressed round Soviet tanks

anticipate and armoured cars poised ready for action.

is thus fair to That beince the NATO

Workers' Centrul Council meeting ends there |

bursts of lung were | Budapest Olur

in the capital | Counet) which ordered the two- will

substantial | brand elsewhere realigament of views bet there have been no reports day protest stoppage-came into tween all The members of of violetier,

ears are patrolling

force.

but have not attempted to dis-sand of perse the crowds often mumber

everal hundreis other at the intersecture

Frum may on by Government Erec©L« decree miyone caught in posses- arts Lad amaninition without javmission will be dealt Other which with by summary carts,

Jaffences to be lifed under mar- | Tud] taw include munter, iná kam Įsiuughter, atson, rubbery, looting

and damage to factorien.

the alliance, and that parti Soviet Tanks und amoured misunderstandings will be forgiven and forgotten. Mr Foster Dulles struck the required note when he re- ferred

for 10 the need common policies, though it is advisable to recognise that these may not readily materialise. It is noticeable,

J

POLICE PRESSURE

for example, that while Sulgatorjan (population

arc

benut

ます

Quly

and

The two to strike town

tramcars few buses were running in Budapest 40,000) mining centre today where the strike appeared Britain

France 20214!

Hungary northern

neur the to be almost complete, Gas and belleve first attention

ted electricity suppiles were normal Czech border, 60 were 20pur) should be given to the led in a

clash with Police and foodahops were open. Some potentially explosive situn- there ist Saturday and Zuide-

other shops and offlees

number of tion in

the Middle East. | gemzeg (population about 35,000) | open

the losed earlier than usual. Amerien is inclined to place | in the south-wes 371 more importance on events Yugoslav frontier,

TENSE BUT QUIET

In Eastern Europe, France Usually well-informed source

alen desiring NATO said intensified Police activity in hacking for her policy in bath towne was a major reason Algeria, and on this ques for persuading the workers tion Mr Dalles is displaying stay at their jobs. some hesitancy.

lo

But elsewhere the strike went

Council to apprais.

There are Indications, how, on derplie e'nowed Government

that

the

ever. generally recognises the urgem need for political co- operation anal that emphasis in

plared

113 at

BUDAPEST OUT

DUL

4

"

were Live

The rallways were reported to be operatlog at 80 per cent

normal service.

Several bursts of machinegun fire were boord today the which Ciellert 11111 ol urca lowers above the city on the West bank of the Dambe,

QUSCTVCT

115

more

As darkness fell the city was One Budapest radio bregelen, st likely to be

This than laim that the Chlon drug, quiet but lenst,

said it seemed flory Wan working es usand that reonomie CB-

CUM spiti "provocat us attempis certain the strike would

rlay reparatioft, originally

tinue

planned 1 bul sudurlim bid reporter: visaged when the organisa who drove to to the factory salt

but they were not Tomorrow" tion set up its committee of they saw no signs of any work sure whether the strikers would "Three Wise Men" earlier ipuing on koelde.

resume work tomorrow or May this year.

Meanwhile at six p.m. martial hour because of the dissolution The necessity

Sunday of Workers' Councils here trict in KEL -proclaimed for integrated political law pulicies has been under- ined by the Suez crisis which se unhapplly and severely strained the alliance.

The essentiality of NATO us a defensive alliance cannot seriously be disputed, but it needs to be strengthened politically, economically und militarily if it is to be effec- tive. This is the challenge which the Council of Minis.. ters must now meet and resolve.

Eter This dissolution Ex th the provinces.—Reuter.

STRIKE COSTS £10 MILLION

Vicana Dec. 11.

Radio Budapest said the strike in Hungary was costing about £10 million a day.

+

There were reports that the Hungarian regime was trying to enlist workers — especially railwaymen In other Katelliks countries to break the strike,

Unions

International Confederation

Free Trade The

of broadcast an appeal to the satellite workers to reject atizempla to use them against the Hungarian strikers—United Press.

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Paris, Dec. 11. Britain has told the United States it is to start direct talks with Egypt on a settle- of the Suez ment Canal conflict, off- cial sources said to day.

But Britain wants a US assurance of full backing of her in- sistence that the canal be cleared and opened without de- lay.

Wils

view The British

rommnunleated to the US Sovretary of State Mr John Foster Dulles by

Foreig the

Secretary

Mr Selwyn Lloyd And further talka

were ex-

pected to be held while both are in Paris,

Through UN

Direct talks with Egypt έχει would

urtanged through the United Na- ยกม Secretary-General Mr Dag Haranarskjutd the... proliminary Alice moves have been sails- factorily completed, the sources saldi,

All going well, the talks could be arranged later his month or carly In January

probably New York or alterna- tively in Geneva.

in

They would be at Foreign Minister level or per- hapa lower than that to

but not begin with,

at top level.

Six Principles

Basis of such talks would む the six principles

agreed on at the Anglo- French-Egyptian discus- sions in New York last October.

It is not known whether

France will also partl elpate in the talks, There

were Ingles Cors that the United States would exert lis Influence to bring about an early opening of the blocked Surx Canal. United Press.

PUPPET'S PROPHECY

Vienna, Dec, 11.

The Soviet puppet in Hungary, Janos Kadar, told a workers delegation in Budapest today that "the counter- revolution will be broken up probably by the end of next week." Budapest radio said tonight,

counter-

Over A Female

Penang, Dec. 11. Villagers at Langgar in Kedah state, today watched a "battle"

involving more than 1,000 frogs.

Hundreds were killed and the "battlefield” was littered with

dead and wounded.

The "battle" began when a bull of a land species invaded the

territory of a "water king" to seek a mate.

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The water frogs immediately rallied and a pitched battle began in and around the pond inhabited by the water frogn an the water "beauty" sought by the land bull swam off to her "king" for protection.

'Captives' Taken

Rivals leapt at each other's throats in a life and death struggle which leatest for over two hours. The deep death croaka of the frags boomed out over a wide area. Villagers said that the land frogs predually gained the upper hand, the water "kings" army retreating into the pond as the land "forces" swam away with protesting female water frogs as captives.-Reuter.

Lithuania

Reports

Anti-Red

Trouble

Moscow, Dec. 11. The top-ranking Com- munist in Lithuania has charged that "reactionary elements" have sought to "stir up the Lithuanians. It against the Russians", was disclosed in Moscow today.

In a speech to the Lithuanian Supreme Soviet, Mr Snetchkus, the First Secrotary of the Party in Lithuania, indicated that purge might bo necessary against students "who give

in

to the lies circulated by class enemies" and

against "inteilee- tuals who attack the ideological the principles and the role of

and in the party in selenco

arts"

"Under the Snelehkus suid- influence of the events in Hun- gary, reactionary elements in Lithuania have sought to use slander and to sow suspicion against

the

Communist Party and the Government, to idealise win the bourgeois period, to over the young people and stir up the Lithuanians against the Russians,"

to

ite said the "reactionaries" had been "stimulated" by the Hungarian events and that some of them agitated under the guise of criticism, others in the namu of a pseudo-democracy and artill others quite openly.

GREAT RUSSIA'

Snetchkus said: "Wo cannot remain passive observers while certain persons brutally distort the truth, idealise the bourgeois period and thus implant out- moded opinions, especially among young people who did not know the bourgeois re- gime."

friend-

Pratsing Lithuanian

great Russlan ship with the people", Snotchicus sald: "We ehall never allow anyone to vio- late that friendship or to stir up the Lithuanian people against the other fraternai peoples"

He was sold to have told the government had had no time workers delegation of several yet to work out a "positive gov- factories of the Budapest wnment programnume."

He said that at present "eer- As foot 03 the suburb, Posterz Sebet, that his

evolution was smashed, which taln representatives of science and culture profess opinions "will probably be by the end of

which have nothing in common next week," the Government

with Marxist conceptions, and, will announce lis "positive, pro-in the guise of criticism, sock to gramme", to the publle, the tack the ideologieat positions radio reported Him as saying.

of Socialist realism”,--France- Prosse. CHIEF AIMS

Austria's UN Move

New York, Dec. 11.

Among the chief aims of the government programme

Austria tabled a draft resolu.. new

of the charter."

The resolution would authorise said. Mr Hammarskjold to negotiate

be

Train Mined: 8 Die

tion in the UN Assembly tonight. would be the country's indepen to authorise Mr Dag Hammarik-dence and further democratisa

he said, according 10

Aiglers, Dec. 11. fold to undertake with all his tion, energy and all the means at his Budapest radio.

would Non-party men

The Mediterranean to Nigeria disposal is achieve a construc

the government Express was derailed by a rebel tive solutiione" the Hungarian admitted to

at the problem: based on the principles later, provided they accepted the mine on the fringes,

government

programme, he Sahara Desert today.

Eight passengers were killed and six injured, "> "Beyond this, the Govermenj

The train was heading south with member states, as it seemed will not permit any political appropriate and report to the activity." Assembly on the resulta: "It

1,

'of the possible before the end first part of its session". ;

(The Aembly is due to ad- Journ on December 21 or 22 for the Christmas, rocess resuming on January 2 or 3.1.15 Canno

personal representative, stid Austria-

In-falette revolution was

REFUGEES LOSS

when it ran on to a mino: 12 miles north of Colomb-Bechar, a mining centra¡ close to the Moroccan frontier, 30 miles Budapest radio later reported southwest of Algiers-United that the Hungarian Governmoni | Press, lied a décrocTM today con fiscating all the property and ints of citizens who had left, the

Independence

Baker London, Dec. 11,

EDEN'S

STOCK SLUMPS

London, Dec. 11. A sharp increase 11 per cent-in those with Sir dissatisfied Anthony Eden as Prime Minister was shown in the latest Daily Ex- press poll of public opinton carried out on December 5-9 amongst a representative cross- section

British of volers.

A previous poll car- ried out in the period November 17 to 21 showed only 30 per cent of those question- ed us dissatisfied with Sir Anthony. The cur- rent poll jumped to 42 per cent.

How They'd Vote

Only 51 per cent of those questioned in the current were satished with Poli Sir Anthony Prime with 00% per cent in previous poll.

Minister compared

the

Voters in the current poll were also asked:

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a

party

general election were held immediately, for which,

would you vote?" In the current poll 4511⁄2 per cent said they would voto Tors, compared with 48 per cent in a November poll when the same ques- plou was asked.

The Socialist share rosQ from 40 to 47% per cent

The current poll also cent showed that 48% per of those questioned were dissatisfied with the goy- erzumant's conduct of affalra as compared to 38 per cent In November. Those who said they were satisfied with the Government's,ccti- duct of affairs dropped

D3 from

cent per November to 45 per cent in the current poll.

US Relations

...

in

And wille 62 per cent' felt that the United States attitude to Britain, was'ul</ reasonable, ...75% per cent said they thought Anglo-. American: relations, would soon be restored.

was

Twenty-three per cent. Bald the United States at titude to Britain reasorabile, but only 8% pár. cént.folt. Angio-“ American relations hod

· been permanently damaged. -London Exprom Bervice.

Terrorist Killed In Malaya

'Deo/

A patrol from the 22nd Speciat Air Service regiment killed one of a tang kote.

+20%

X:Communist..

Suncokreturn - tö: Hun2 |--The House of Commons - tolm | terrorists they contacted versmál

more general in character dan kary by March

Their property returned, the bill to grant

Com

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UPSET

Damage To Soviet Consulate

Poland Will

UNLIKELY Pay Up

London, Dec. 11.

On the eve of his talks with the Colonial Secretary,

Warsaw, Dec. 11.

Poland will pay for Mr

Lennox-Boyd, Singa. damage caused to the Soviet Stettin' last Lim Yew Hock, said at a windows in a bid to pore's Chief Minister, Mr consulate in

night when rioters broke enter press conference that he

un. the premises, It was had precipitated a show.

nounced today. down with left-wing cle- ments in Singapore to deter mine how extensively they had infiltrated schools and trade unions,

"If I had not tried out their strength, I would have hesitated 10 come here and ask for con}-

plete internal self-government"

be said.

Now, Mr Lim said, there was no danger that if he got what he

there was wanted and

general election that the now Government would be dominat- ed by "Communist or back-scat drivers."

This was an allusion to the left-wing People's Action Party, whose extreme pro-Communist wing Lim Yew Hock hit by arresting Assemblyman, Lim Chin Slong, its leading member. Mr Lam said the Suez events have not had much impact yet on Singapore. The impact would be foll more when prices went

up.

Too Preoccupied

Asked his opinions of the events in Suez, he said: "I have not even given thought, to it."

with domestic politics.

The Polish Ministry of Foreign

Affairs announced that it had apologised for the incident ana has assured the Soviet Ambassa- dor, Mr O. Ponomarenko, that those responsible would be punlahoo. Oficial

sources

raid

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Tast

night's trouble began after a militiaman arrested drunk, Others released the prisoner and ntincked the mil tamen.

Reports reaching here from Stettin tonight said that some

of the big crowd which

fathered Consulate

near the

Tat night students and workers

Bavlel

were

trying

to carry out a planned pro- test Against Boviet

arined intervention in ifungary, But the students and workers the who helped to disperse crowds Inst night were members of the "Workers Milltin" whose duty it is to halt any "provoca- tive" demonstrations—especially anti-Russian ones-before they get out of hand, informed ob- servers gnid ----Router.

He had been too preoccupied Lawyers Strike

He

Calro, Dec. 11. that he would

The Arab Bar Association indicatele internal self- called today a strike of all Arab

ask for government, leaving defence and

lawyers on December 17 in pro- foreign affairs, but not foreign test minst "the Iraqi Govern- trade and cultural relations, lament's violation of the rights

British hands.

He intended to ask as well for and freedom of the Iraqi peopic." It said the strike would also new law

giving Bingpore protest, against the shedding of citizenship to long residents,. the blood of the Iraql

people and who are mostly of Chinese the arrest of the Secretary- drigin.

General of the Arab Bar Asso- these clation Hussein Gamil and other

Не

suggested, that

China-bom people of an older prominent Iraqi lawyers,"

were

often

generation

more Reuter. loyal to Singapore than locally born youngsters, who had been Indoctrinated with D critical admiration

for Peking

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in the Chinese language schools. Ito did not, however, think it uunatural for people of Chinese origin to take a "natural pride in China as a growing power," -France-Prés30.

Phones Cut Off

Rome, Dec. 11.

from was cut off

Italy telephonic and telegraphic com- munication with the outside world tonight by a strike of communications workers—Rou-

ter,

ALARM CAUSES PANIC

Brumets, Dec. 11. Punto hit north-west Bruncis today when an air-raid stren short cireulted and wounded the alert.

By coincidence an aircraft from

Elabrock airfield

BUA

that part of the city at >same time.

Dozens

their etllars Cars and trams stopped in

and mid-street Jittery drivers fan for cover. Radio stations and newspapers talo. were inundated with phone

'from anxious the

asking "have .

calla

citizens

Over

Ruslans comOT"

the

Police

were sent through

streets

of people rushed Into the streets, Oders dived into

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the

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