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A New Premier

NE of the last yowa mada in the short political life of Mr Hatoyama, the former Japanese Prime Minister,

i-

пя that he would be succeeded by a young man. Jia statement, in May, promptly drew attention to WG middle-aged, but by Japanese standards, and-coming politicians. Mr Jehiro Kono and Mr Nobusuke Kishi. That the mantle of Premiership has now fallen on Mr Tanzan Ishibashi, nged 72, will come na no surprise to those famillar with Japanese politics. Besides, he is a year younger than predecessor.

his

Mr Ishibashi is less the most

eligible candidate than the

multifarious factions and

pressure

within

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||And Now A Triumph For Hungary's Freedom Fighters? MALAYA

JUNGLE

RED TROOPS VANISHING AMBUSH:

BUDAPEST MOVES

SPARK RUMOURS

GOVT MAY BE

BROADENED

By RONALD FARQUHAR

Budapest, Dec. 27.

More Russian troops vanished from

least objectionable. The strategic points throughout Budapest today and reports persisted of "behind the The parliamentary lebbles scenes", political manoeuvres aimed at broadening the Soviet-backed Hungarian Government.

iu desiré

one

10

groups

possibly agree respect: they radical change. Another Mr Hatoyama, but one in better henith, another "caretaker" seems to fit the bill nicely. The attitude may appear decadent to Western eyes but with the Socialist minority on the increase and recalcitrant groups within the governing party against entrusting lender. ship to inexperienced hands, Mr Ishibashi's election iM not surprising.

No major changes in policy

are foreshadowed, except that where no very effective economie policy exfated before the country expect 10 receive

may ono

from Mr Ishibashi, He has had a long and fairly distinguished career

poiltical

economist

ал

A and

recently vacated the Minis-

try of International Trade in the Hatayama Cabinét. One mattor calling attention though it

for cloen

not appear to be a particu-¿ Jarly controversial subject; now is trade with Com- munist China.

His only promise so far on this question is that "Japan will continue to strengthen economic ties" with Peking. Inevitably pofities - domestic and foreign---4999 | 14° into this question and these may restrict Mr Ishibashi's | scope. He is said to be in-

Peasants Asked To Work

In Coal Mines

Paris, Dec. 27.

soulbern Peasants Ilungary have betu asked to work in the coal mines at Pecs during the winter months to keep production going, Budapest radio re- ported

The radio sald that work

In the mines could not be carried out because of the shortage of labour.

The

mines,

the maid radio, have appealed to In the southern peasants

of the country to re- areas pork for work na miners during the winter months. ---France-Presse,

'MILLION MEN IN SIBERIAN HELL'

Tokyo, Dec. 27.

the Soviet

dependent and though he The inst Japanese re-

from patriates

denies being anti-American

withi

camps,

Observers said they saw no armoured CLAS patrolling the slippery, snow-cisd streets today, but occasionally infantrymen in radio trucks drove

All past. main Army barracks in the capital appeared to be occupied by Soviet troops.

The Russians uppeared to be gradually withdrawing mure vehicles and troops daily from guard-points throughout the city.

Deliberately Timed

was

In

One theory circulating

etrcles was Western diplomatic that the Russians' coparent withdrawal

deliberately timed to coincide with the publication of a "policy pro- the government, gramme" by officially stated to be due in the next few days.

withdrawal

Ince

on

The programune is expected to sinto government** policy

of Soviet troops, elections and position of other political parties and is designed, according to govern÷ ment sources, to provide a basis for broadening the present all Communist Government headed by Mr Jane Kadar to include non-Communista

Usually well-informed sources said there were signs of in- creased activity among members of the smallholders party and It was rumoured that the party's Secretary-General, Mr Bela Kovacs, was expected to return to Budapest from his home in Pecs, South Hungary.

the

Along Polish Lines it would be idle to pretend Union, who returned yester- that

United ProES, Budapest, said that his government's re.

according to unspecifled lations

day aboard the Japanese Western observers the Soviet with Washington

let the Hungarian will be free of friction, Vessel Koan Maru, today Union may

described conditions of im- government adopt a "new look" MR Ishibashi certainly dis-prisonment in the Kolyma policy along Polish lines.

agreed sharply

Tacro were sketchy reports northern that these measures prison United

States

were ap- occupation Siberia as "bellish."

proved by Soviet Com- policy on a number of occa-

munist Party Central

Com- Alonu. His opinion [ The repatriates from Kolyma mittee meeting in Moscow. Genoral MacArthur as an suid the prisoners £51 the Most of the Soviet tanks administrator bordered on Siberian camps included Japan-which broke up the revolution contempt. It does not seems. Germans, Poles, Hun-have already withdrawn from to help matters that a garland, and Ukranians.

Budapest streets, Tanks no relation of the Genernl'a,

longer guard the bridge and the They

total estimated the

stationed about number

by Parlia- building and the ruined radio building has been reduced Armoured Car patrols also have been cut.

Reliable reports_from_poll- tieni circles sich the Soviet puppet Janos Kadar was try ing to speed up a "broadening" of the government in discus- sions with non-Communist pofilcians,

ment

Mr Douglas MacArthur II, number of prisoners at has been appointed ambassa- | 1,300,000, dor in Japan. Admittedly this appointment was

The repatriates said the 50-dirically. nounced before Mr Ishi- viot authorities treated the pri- poners in Siberia na "vicious

an-

bashi's election was settled criminals." but would seem that there

In a case for the appoint- ment of one less likely to excite unnecessary specula- tion of "apilts" between the two governments. Tho

Prisoners were forced to com- plete ten hours hard labour every

day.

Most of the inmates of the Kolyma camps were engaged in mining uranium, gold, chrome, manganese and other metals in tho Siberian highlands.

new Premier has nd. nounced that although "we will not be overly pro Temperatures in the Brea American, we will tie up frequently dropped to 50 de with the United States." Itrees below Centigrade, the re-

patriates sald--Reuter.

was not good, he added, for Japan to say "yes" to every- thing the United States pro-

posed. This statement Fair Exchange?

characterises

his hard.

an

headed realism, Though

Tel Aviv, Dec, 27, independent, he ja wall Dr Louis Gallland, Red Cross awaro of Japan's need to representative in Israel, preserve economic and poli- nounced tonight that the Israel ticnl ties with America. Government had offered to ex- change 3,580 Egyptian prisoners Policy will therefore be of war against four Israeli pris governed by these factors..

soners held by the Egyptians.—

A general view thon is China Mail Special.

that Japan will pursue in | the main the course followed by Mr Hatoyama. Relations

with Russin have now been

normalised and the country

is represented in the United

He appealed to leading eccromisis, regardless of their portical beliefs, to work out a pian to forestall m economic castrophe 'resulung from the

evlution.

1

NASSER SAYS

BRITAIN MAY HAVE

Israel Plans To Pipe

EDEN TRIED

Jordan Water

TO FORCE

To Negev

to

Jerusalem, Dec. 27. Work on a pipeline carry Jordan River waters to the Negev wastòtands will proceed at full speed, Was announced last

night.

The first task for early 1957 will be cxcavation of

tunnel from A main

the Lake Galileo

and erection of hydro-electrio power station on the shores of the lake.

Arta

A budget of £4,000,000 for the project has been Rasured for 1957 and 1958. The power plant is to be obtained from Germany,

Concrete Pipes

A factory near Ashkelon ls producing 108-inch con- crete pipe for the main ilne and seven-inch pipa for a supplementary line,

The main pipeline in- volves blasting a Seven- kilometre tunnel through Merasse Hill, near Merid- do. This is expected to take five yeats. When completed, the project in expected to provide enough water

Nerey for the wastelanda to permit

of settlement

Several hundred thousand farmers. -United Presk,

Jordan To

Take

Red Arms?

Parts, Dec. 27.

The Jordan Premier, Soleitnan

Nabulal, sald today his country was now ready to accept arm from the "Eastern bloc", Cairo radio reported.

EGYPT INTO ALLIANCE

London, Dec. 27. President Nasser today alleged that Britain had tried to force Egypt to join the Bagdad Pact.

He said that in 1954 he told Sir Anthony Eden that he opposed the Bagdad Pact and proferred an alliance of Amb countries only, and that if any aggression happened "we would cak for help."

"Eden naturally thought of Russian aggression, I replied that if the Russians committed aggression we would ask you for help and if you should attack

ask the Russians."

we should A REFUSAL

By 1955 Britain rel

refused to deliver armamento unless. Egypt agreed to the Bagdad Poet and an alliance with her. Then "in- cidents between Egypt and Iracl became more frequent," Egypt "felt the threat" and turned

to the Soviet Union who "put st our disposal artaments with no conditions attached"

President Nasser said Egypt agrees to international operation over the Suez Canal but is "against anybody's do- mization, even under the prise flaternational management"

him quoted Moscow Radio asring at an interview he gave Soviet journalists in Chino

Kint yesterday

ho wanted Soviet-Egypilan friendship to "dovalop and strengthen and that the relations further

diminish the possibility great war breaking out."

of a

The Suez Canal, he stressed, form part of Egypt and "If they irled to take it away from us, that will be interference in our Internal affairs which we shall decisively resist."

WORLD OPPOSED

mill-

On the Anglo-French tary action, he said "It has bo- come clear that the threat of colonialism as a military force is diminishing: the world will not permit it to have recourse

The radio, quoting the Arab Mena (Middle East) news to military force."

reported Soleiman President Nasser described ency

"Jordan as "hliting us in the face" the stating in Amman: ls disposed, ns from today, to decision by the United States, accept arms from the Eastern Britain and the International Bank not to provide a loan and blog

We call on the United State, old towards the building of the for their help in finding a solu- proposed Aswan Damn because tion to the Middle East prob- | the lems."

said the Premier. Stil quoting the Mena agency, the radio reported the Premier

unstaption economy

"waa

The main result of the Anglo- the French "aggression" was

H-Power From A Russian Failure

London, Deo, 27.

A machine which may pot Britain shead of Bumis In the race to harness the power of the H bomb

for industry

being built at Harwell, Britain's atomio research station.

Known as a "Gilani Torna” it sterns from disclosures about Rundan H-power restarch, made by Dr Ivan Karetalov, the Bo- vlet stom chief, when he villed Harwell eight months ago. Kurchatoy made these dis- closures because he was confident that the periments he described would come to a dead end,

HARWELL HOPES

Ex-

Dow

Harwell scientista

think they will be able to complete the Russian. experiments and release HI-power on a small scale with the new machine.

to The Russians falled

control

Intense the cecilka flows reperated

which they in their machines, to produce the →→EGORIOUS *** temperatures --

needed to make H-bomb fuel release its energy fin

amount

told Harwell selenilala he considered this difficulty could never be solved. The “Giant Torus” is ex- pected to prove Kurcha- toy was mistaken---Lon- don Express Service,

NEW FAR EAST NAVAL CHIEF

London, Dec. 28,

INDONESIAN

CONFLICT

8 DEAD

Kuala Lumpur, Deci 27.

The heroism of two Mala- yan private soldiers saved the lives of a comrade when Communist guerillas am- bushed 11 men of the Sixth Battalion of the Malay

INTENSIFIES Regiment deep in the jungles

yesterday, an official an- nouncement said today.

'After: Communist.bullets had

South Sumatra Not died eight of their comrades

To Pay Taxes

and wounded another, Privates Noton By Honda. drd Almod Bin Udin, though badly woundat themselves, fought off 20 to 30 Paris, Dec. 27.

guerillas until Gurkha troops The conflict of authority came to their relief, - said the between Djakarta and the announcemont,

It said Bin Hassan and Bin Indonesian island of Sumadin were siding in the acont tra intensifled today with of two army vehicles, when s the announcement of south-hall of bullets from guerillas in ern Sumatra's "fiscal seces- | two hideouts, mowed down all

iso sion".

Brat

The Governor of the Southern Province, M. Winarno, today that taxes in the anzumeed ares under his administration would no longer be rent to the

eenwal trúSKY,

At

the porno. time, people leaving southem Sumatra from

not allowed to

now on are take out with them more than 3,000 rupees cacti,

Gortsmor Wirene Justined discontent his decision by the of the population with the slowtons of reconstruction work by the central: mithorities.

ANARCHY POSSIBLE

occupants of the

Stripped Victims

The guerilian stripped the dead soldiers in the first vehicle of their weapons but Bla Hastan and Bin Udin kept them away from their vehicle with sten gun and ride fire. When their am- mainition gave out they

took over weapons from dead and wounded corrades in the car,

the aneouncement sald. When the Gurkhas came to lief, Bia Hassan was their relief, Bin helping a mortally wounded

Udia comrade, while ́ Blo

his shattered left

hanging use lessly at his side, was guarding 150 vehicle: with a rife he was with one hand, the operating

cement adklod

In a voiled allusion to the ituation in the rest of the

* eight dead men, six Island, the Governor said this discontent could have led to were killed immediately in the first burst of Fuerilla fire. Two

Bin Has The funds kept back by the am and Bin provincb would, he cald, brazed is Abo

The construction of and the other ured for

demonstrations and anarcose others wero 'dary din butona,

roads, bridges and military Installations, a

tb.

hima

died in Hospilki, said the

the a nouncement Indonesia draws two-thirds of It added that and other man ità foreign money from southern besides Bin Hasaan and Bin Sumatra, where the Shell and 18hwast wottled, -- Upiled Standard Vacuum Companies Press.

+ have oil wells,

INOW

Air. Crash

Indonesian political circles are predicting two outcomes from the crisis; either a “pre- New Castle, Penny Dec.27. #idential government” led by

A two-engined plane owned by Prezident Sukarno himself, or a Youngstown Sheet & Tube Com "caretaker government" under pan, crashed in flames just out- former Vice President side the city limits today killing Hatta-France- the pilot and co-pilot/United

Mohammed Proc.

PICKA,

Gerald Glad Moscow Students Criticised

Vico-Admiral stone, Commander Allied Navol Forces, Northern Europe, been

ותי

London, Dec. 27.

party leadership in the Some appointed Commander-in

Soviet University. Komorumal (youth) organisa Chief, Far East station, the Ad-students are being influenced tons of universities (had, re- miralty arounced today.

by ideas alien to their mother,,] vealed. "parious defects... ku the land," it was stated at Admiral Gledione, who was rice

a con training of students." of the Moscow City The conference, blamed "the appointed seccod in evenmand, Communist Party Committee, unsatisfactory state of party, For Eat station, In 1953 before Morcow Radio said today.

political and ideological work" North his present post in the

certain universities The radio, quoting Prayda, | In Atlantic

the Soviet Communist Party "weak party leadership to the Treaty Organisation,

Alco Scott- newspaper, sald the conferenco Komosinol organisations."-

called to discuss improvement China Mail Special.

Sle as saying: "Peace will not reign "demonstralen of the strength | succuais in this part of the world until of Arab nationalism” and

Moncrieff, Tho appointment will after the disappearance of the "many more results will become

be effective from next October. state of Israel-France-Presse. evident next year."-Reuter, -Reuter.

STATE DEPARTMENT VISITS FRUITLESS SO......

BAGDAD PACT ENVOYS MAY

CALL ON EISENHOWER

Washington, Dec. 27.

The Ambassadors of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Pakistan are expected to request an appointment with President Eisenhower at the White House in January to urge more United States support for the Bagdad Pact policies in the Middle East, it was: learned today.

These Ambassadors or their

Paper's Prediction Budapest'a only afternoon newspaper, Esti Hirlag; pre dicted the revival of private counsellors **have visited en/rprise. It sald Reences separately or together, at the would be issued according to State Department nearly every neods of the populatlan." week in the last two months to Informed sources sald

that' United States policy: Russians could regains some of emphasise strengthening their prestige in Hungary by Bagdad Part and show moro in the recognition of the friends of the ranting concessions matter of government

United States In the Middle and ocps now. They said Kedar, wanted to make a New Year's Day policy sto:cment outlining the plans

for the future-Uplied Press,

The

the

These Ambassadors have all urged the United States to join (Canta, on back page, CoL 2)

OLYMPIC WALKER'S WIFE WINS

Darwin, Dec, 27 FREEDOM MARATHON”

Nåtinis: Ils alignment with | Mrs Theresa Somogyi,“:: wite

the two world blocs may be of Hungarian Olympics Ewalker

expected, to be fluid--possibly | Janos Somogy), - arrived with havoc in Hungary.' He wrote to meedom by night.

It will side in principle their two children in Austrailah family: "Get out) if you Waiting... impellently lin "Mel- with the West of most after a marathon walk can." issues without vallenating

Into, Austria,

Itself from the Communista Jaños Formory! bloc, but pouitively support- way by air to Melb Bing neither Sam

moothwhen he

ond of

teem

bourne for his family today WAI Mra comorild when the June Somogyi, Send arrived in Darwin, today, in ʼn 156 : Himmerlan) (Olympics plane-load (of) Hundnela

who chow to way in Audrain

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