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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1957.

No Solution Of Suez Problem Us Oil Firms Attempted Lynchings

FICTION AWARD

New York, Feb. 10.

Novellat John Don PasBON Was today awarded the gold medal for Bction of the National Institute of Arta and Letters.

The award, made every five years, is given for the entire work of an author who. In

In the opinion

the insitute, has made " Justing contribution American letters.”

Mr Dos

Pacros

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known for his works por- traying American fe on all level-China Special

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Secret Plans!

To Unify Singapore And Malaya

Singapore, Feb. 1.

"gecik plans" to unite this colony and the Maluyan mainland eventually, ปลด Malayan Assistant Minister for Com merce and Industry, Inche

MALAYA Bad

Khir Johar, add Stugi- pore at the weekend, accord- ing to the Strane Thues 10- day.

A news

the Straits report in Times said tnche bir Foll 1,000 members of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) that a merger was not feasible at present. He warned there would be bloodshed if Singapore und Malaya were merged by force. "We want to avoid this," he said

Inche Khir, the Information

chlef of the UMNO, Was quoted as saying Milaya had plans to achieve a merger but theso "cannot yet be disclos- ed"

HINT

In Sight Payment Of Tolls

And Gulf Of

Aqaba Navigation

London, Feb. 10.

United Nations progress in clearing the Suez Canal brought Britain, Israel and Egypt and the UN itself close today to a major showdown over the whole shaky peace in the Middle East.

Parlia reopening ! the elogged waterway is expected within several weeks, bu there wan suli ng zolution in sight to The two biggest issues amenidering hrough the

ccascire:

Two Issues

UN

of

1. Iseli occupation the Gaze and the Egyptian shore of the Gulf of Aqaba,

2. Egyptian determina- all the to collect Loils for shipping Lllowed through the Suez Canal.

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Until resumpton of traille in the waterway became an in- mediate prospect, the Gaz Aqaba dispute was largely Jogabstle argument between the UN and Egy

there have been arm Bul Indications that Egypt inay re- fuse passage at leas. to French nad British

all slip until Israeli

ops have withdrawn. If carried

threa. out, this would transform the Egyptian- Israth dispute Into economic disaster [or most of Europe. Britaita ani the Continent are burning up oli reserves on the assumption British tankers wil Mon be speeding through the waterway.

Seized Assets

Port Said to awali removal of one of these, the concrete-illied Egyptian landing ship Akka.

Tomorrow Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd faces a barrage of questions in the worrled House of Commons

Conservative Roger Gresham Cooke will press for an indica- tion whether Britain will sup- port Isroel's 'demand for free- dom of navigation through the Gulf of Aqabe.

Other MPs will try to sound Eisenhower out Lloyd on the doctrine-which Prime Minis- Dlready ter Harold Macmillan has Corsed-and how Britain hopes to get compensation from Enypt

businessca for British "Egyptianis d" since the Suez conflict-United Press.

HUGE PRICE SUPPORT LOSSES

Washington, Feb. 10.

The form price support pro- grumme has cost the Eisenhower Aamctration $2,794,000,000 £ the last four years-nearly three times the icta governmen losses in the preceding 20 years Britain and France and sume of Federal farm pict pro- at least of its allies in the 14-grammes, nation Suez Canal Uiers' Asso- ciation are also determined to withhold part of the regular Canal tolls from Egypt.

The idea is to use the with press conference on his re-held funds to guarantee com- turn from London talks, the pentation for seized

The Straits Tunes report sald Incha Khir hinted Singapore still did not have a sufficient- ly strong and stable govern- mont.

(In Singapore last month at a

assels

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Car- Commodity Credit poration (Agriculture Depart- meat) report, which said today, stated that the total losser since the Roosevelt Administru- Inaugurated the

in

LICO

pro-

Minister of Malaya Egypt-including the Cano) - Krammes in 1930 were $4,005,- Tengku Abdul Rahman, said self-and to help pay for clear-000,000.

was opposed to having Singapore as unit in an inde-ance of the sabotaged waterway. pendent Malaya.

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(At that time the Singapore Chief Minister Mr Lim Yew Hock reiterated that his gove ernment was still working to wards a merger with Malaya.)

Reuter

Paris, Feb. 10. The former Hungarian poli-

barracks tical police

In Eger bave been transformed into

60-bed hospital, Radio Budapest

reported today.

Hungarian Government The had earlier announced that the political police organisation, the AVO had been omelilly dis- Solved:-France-Presse,

The Corporation owned sur- plus commodities costing $5.- 302,000,000 at the end of 1950, before they

Jake Josses

Egypt on the other hand has Indicated it intends to collect all tolls.

Informed

re-und it

expected to sources here

these stocks port

that preliminary up- un proaches through the UN has were disposed of, the resulted in on progress toward added solution of the double imparse.

Showdown

report

The figures did not take into

account

direct

"Mutiny In Palermo Gaol,

Dovez

of

Police stormod s gaol in Palermo under machine-gun fire to end a 24-hour mutiny by 200 inmates. They had climbed to the prison roof, and the police had to use tear gas before they could be removed. Pisture toy shows a police armoured vehlele on the road outside the geol. Bome of the mutineering prisoners can be seen on the roof top. Plature bottom shows some of the prisoners onR roof of the szol--Express Photo.

French Republicans Determined To Hold Algeria

Bordeaux, Feb. 10.

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The French right-of-centre Social Republican Party's Congress today called on its members to keep Algeria as part of France at all costs and to subordinate all their political action to that end.

Ending their meeting af | tion will then have to be dealt Bordeaux, the delegates voted a resolutions, opposing any

also with, though more briefly,

a piconry session of the Gen- movement which would limiteral Assembly, where it wili the

of possibilities

French

need a two-thirds majority some national defence, which would it is to be adopted.

irrevocably withdraw France's economie and social freedom, or which

would risk' dividing Metropolitan France and the overseas territories.

pay.

subsidy ments to farmers, cost of export subsidies under which The imminence of the prob commodities were sold abroad able showdown was brought at cut prices, or funds other than home this weekend when Egypt the Corporation's used to buy

tanker and two surpluses started one

for relief and other Canal distribution-Reuter minerweepers down the in hopes of detouring around the last two remaining obstacles.

The vessels were held up to- night only 49 miles south

A British Crossword Puzzle

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The resolution called for the estabilshment of "Federal insti-

Sway Opinion

If

It is difficult to foresee when the Algerian debate can como before tho Assembly, as the pressing mattor of Israel's re- a strong President. "s national and the Gulf of Aqeba will be arbiter abova parlics", by given absolut priority, largo electoral college represent- ing all local communities.

SEES tutions including the election of fusal to evacuate the Gazs strip

SAUD SEES FRANCO

Madrid, Feb. 10. King Saud of Saudi Arabia hed a 10-minute falk tonight

head of State.

AIN with General Franco, Spanish

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Main Tasks

The Afro-Asian group is pre- paring a new resolution calling for sanellona agɛinst Isrnc) for her refusal to obey UN resolu- Įtions.

of

But their resolution will only Lube put to the vote if it is judged likely to obtain a two- thirds majority, and particular-

Fould sway Assembly

Jacques Chaban-Delmas, who re-olected President the National Council, said the An official communique des party's main tasks were to keep cribed the meeting as a cordial and save Algeria, to ensure the Interview." General Franco met | Hoe

liberal evolution of overeens King Saud on his arrival here territories while keeping them American support, which

from the United States, within the French Union, and where the King had talks with to build a unified Europe, pro- institutions did not vided its place France in a position of insurmountable inferiority,

today

Mohammed

AVO

opinion in

the

the

As the Afro-Asian group is | President Elsenhower,

by no means sure yet of ob- King Saud tonight anner in honour of Sultan Sial

thining these conditions, ben Youssef of Tho Algerian situation will Asembly vote on the Middle East, originally expected. on Morocco. with whom he will be debated for the second week Tuesday, may be postponed,

Yet another debate on the discuss, during his five-day stay, running in the United Nations United States plans for an Arab Political Committee tomorrow Palestine situation is to come

the and, with 25 speakers still to be

to before the special Political heard, It is unlikely to wind up' Errived here before the middle of the week. Committee of the Assembly to- day. This will arine out of a The Brst resolution to be report by Henry Labouisse, voled on at the end of the Director of the UN Relief and debate will be the Afro-Asian Works Agency for Palestine resolution, which appears un refugees. ikely to obtain even simple majority stage.

anti-Communist bloc and Algerian question,

Sultan The yesterday.-Reuter.

Saudi Base

General Nominated

Washington, Feb. 10.

American Air Force General Dale Sinth has been note as head of the American mill- tary ald group in Saudi Arabia

and commander of the 2nd Air Force Division at Dhahran air haze, the Air Force Department announced today.

ot

the committee

If it is not carried, Thailand and the Philippines are expect

modifed

Caused Death

The report accuses the Israeli authorities of having caused the

Presse.

Stress Rights

Both

resolutions' stráca tho

Holiday Casualties

US Told To Drop

Prices

Washington, Feb. 10. Senator Joseph O'Mahoney called upon the big oil com- panies today to reduce the price of petrol immediately or face the threat of legisla- tive action by Congress.

Senator O'Mahoney, chairman

committes Investigating the oll for Europe programme, pre- dicted that eventually potrol prices would be reduced "at least I hope so."

of the joint Senate sub

Alleged In Hungarian Schools

By RONALD FARQUHAR

Budapest, Feb. 10,

The Hungarian Communist press today attacked the church for failing to condemn alleged attempted "lynchings" of school children who' refused to attend religious classes.

The censure came in en articlo į refusing in the Socialist Workers (Com-classes. munist) Parly newspaper Nepazabaeng and followed recent

to

attend religious

Last Wednesday Nepszabadsag

He said the longer the in-pres attacks on cortain Roman accused Cardinal Josef Mind. dustry waited before cutting the

Catholic and Protesian church Szanty, Roman Catholic primato _DAULTS for a.leged "counter-

of Hungary, of issuing orʊcts, price, the greater would be tho

from the United States logation revolutionary activities." demand for leglaiation,

In Budapest where he sought The Senator was asked on, a

asylum on November 4, dismiss-, television programma

tho

ing "Democratic minded' possible legislation would take

priests, the form of a system of price controls for the patroloum in-

dustry.

"It might be," he said. said later: "Price control by government is not as bad as price-xing by a monopoly."

NO JUSTIFICATION

the

The article, entitled "The crows is no gallows", recalled recent press reports that pupils in one schools tried to hang classmates by their scarves and locked others in a cupboard becaus they would not go to religious classes.

Guardian of Purity

Two dnys later Nepakarat, sald "some porsonalities" tha Kujozmed Church Protestant wonted to make their church' "one of the baseS of counter- revolution,"

Newspapers reported that 14 people alleged to have been In- volved in Isrching soven politie: officers in Miskolc, northcust Hungary, during the rising were duo to stand trial soon.

The writer of the article, Mr Senator Estes Kefauver (De-Imre Dobozy, said: "I cannot a member understand why the church, the mocrat, Tennessee), of Senator

O'Mahoney's joint guardian of the purity of rell- sub-commitice, Enid, mean-gion, is silent at the time of this while, that there was no ugly warfare in the schools

Nopakarat printed a photo- "Why does it not proclaim in graph of British Labour MP Mr a widely-hoard voice that Chris- Aneurin Bevan and quoted him' tianity has nothing to do with as saying, in a recent article in brutal violence. Is it possible a British newspaper, that he that silently i tolerates the did not belfove the Middle East crime of abuses committed in was really threatened by com- the пато of religion," the munian. article said.

tecnomie justißcation" for recent increase in oil and petrol prices,

Senator O'Mahoney criticised the Administration for allowing a 13-company privac oil group to handle the oil for Europe He said he would programme. have "had the Government supervise Le whole business,

"I do not believe," he said, "an industry

group shouldclared, світу out

güvernment func- tions."-United Press,

Free practice of religion was guaranteed in Hungary, de- but "Aggressive bar- barian violence" must be extir pated, and the authorities must be ruthless towards intigators.

The Hungarian Commissioner

Education, Mr

Mr Albert

Good Sign

Nepakarat said "It is a good sign that such a pollucion of great repute as Bevan declares These things without hesitation.

"But it is д 165 that

Western

Atlantic Pact Konya, was quoted by the trade expecially in

Not A Bargaining Counter

Bunn, Feb. 10.

Dr Heinrich von Brentano,

West German Foreign Minister, said at Oberabsteinach

He told

Food politiel

union newspaper Nepakarat as very great details of the fairy saying

that "lynching and tale about the Middle East terrorism" in schools were που being attacked by the Com- widespread.

munists."—China Mail Special

But, he told a press con- ference, strong measures were nooded even in the most In- significant cuses.

Cancelled

(When Hungarian schools re-

Coalminers Needed For Poles

today surned lessons early this year that Germany could not use theater the national rising of lost Atlantic Pact us a bargaining October and November, religi

Berlin, Feb. 10. counter when negotiating for us classes, previously restricted reunification.

to children who specifically ask- East German Communista ed to attend at the beginning of today met lagging Polish a Christian

Demo- the school year in September, coal shipments with a call cratie Party meeting that since were opened to all others who for transfer of workers to the recent foreign polley debate wanted to join. In the Bundestag (lower house) in which the

the the coalfields (But shortly afterwards

to increase Covernment re- authorities cancelled this and domestic production. affirmed its NATO policy, he reverted to the former arranges. had received many letters from ment because of alleged abuses The official Communist Party people in East Germany saying and "spiritual terror" to force newspaper, Neues Deutschland, that West German polley had children to attend there classes) said now coal miners were neod given them the courage to hold

Nepakarat reported on Jonu ed if production was to be - ary 31 that three boys were creased. The newspaper pro- Dr von Brentano said pro-hung by their scarves on pegs posed that factory workers in posals for an alternative to the at a school at Mosonmagyarovar, towns near the coalavids go into NATO and Warsaw pacts put West forward by Herr Erich Ollen-

they did not at- hauer, leader of the Social send religious classes. Democratte

100

"simply unrealisticon.

week bgary, the previous the mines.

There was no suggestion of a were All three were freed, but, the draft. newspaper said, one of them, a

The seriousness of the coal (Herr Ollenhauer said last 17-year-old boy, almost sutto-

shortage was disclosed last week Thursday that his party pro-cated before the teacher came by Brune Leuschner, head of

released

the State's coonomile plan com- multice. He said that, because

on

the room posed a mutual non-aggression to

and pact for Europe in which mem-them. bere would have limited and Nepszabadsag reported controlled armaments, and which February 5 that at another un- Poland had failed to meet copi

export agreements, East Ger would be guaranteed by the named school come pupils were Soviet Union and the United "half-strangled and shut in a many would have to cut its 1957 States-China Mail Special. cupboard by

for production goals and its capitai schoolmates

investment programme.

H-BOMB TESTS

REPLY TODAY

London, Feb. 10.

Poland has cut its delivery of coal to the Soviet bloc and is scling coal in Western Europe tor Western goods. This Бад bit the entire East European

cxonomy, already disrupted by the economic chaos in Hungary. -United Press.

Japan is expected to get an indirect reply to-Polish 5-Year

morrow to its demand for suspension of Britain's planned H-bomb tests in the Pacific this spring.

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Plan Modified

Paris, Feb. 10..

Foreign Secretary Solwyn of Christmas Island in the South Lloyd faces three Socialist Pacife and what reply he has questions in the House of Com-given to such protesta

A mona on Japanese reaction to

Third Socialist, Emrys the tests.

Hughes, has added

third

A modification of the The inclusion of the two molion for Lloyd to answer to questions high on the Hat

of morrow. Hughes will ask "if he Polish five-year plan to in

inform motions provides an opportunity will

the Japanca crenee the production of for brief debate of the H-bomb Government what area in the consumer goods in the years test plans. Many Socialists Pacifle it is proposed to declare have demanded that Britain dangerous for fishing in future 1957-1960 was recently support an Immediate ban on United Kingdom nuclear worked out by the Planning auclear text explosions..

weapon tests, and whether he Commission, attached to the, will Inform

Japanese Polish Cabinet, the Polish Government

Japoneso fishermen will be compensated PAP. agency reported today. for any loss they may bustain

The production of consumer. within that area."

goods, including farmors MA- materials, terials, construction machines, raw

Insufficient Time

tho

that

Major Problem

· materials · ́ ́ for tsors CANE, motorcycles, retrizera-

Twice in the last month the ed to introduce another reply

death of several refugees during two questions have come up tion, embodying in

the occupation of the Gaza strip; | before the House but both times form cartalm elements

but it also accusca Egypt of there was troufficient time for resolution. This holding up UN relief work in loyd to give an oral reply. The Afro-Asian would probably command con- the Gaza aren before the out- Socialists refused to pecept a The third question confronts bleycles, radios, and ciderably more support than the break of hostilities. Franco-written answer since this would the British Government with a tors, is to be increared by an Afro-Asian resolution.

deprive them of the opportunity problem that clouded previous average of ning per cent from

US toste in the Pacific when 1958 to 1980, the agency said. of debating the lesue.

Sociallet W. W. Homilion will fears of radioactivity caused a

The productions of goods for Bak "what was the pature of the major blow to the Japanese

industry will also be increased warning given to Japan about fishing Industry,

It is already known that the and possibly supplemented by General Smith is at prsent rights of peoples to salt-deter

nuclear due to and lider Japanese Government formally imports of raw materials and Singapore, Feb, 10. around Christense Island chief of the planning bureau mination and the necessity for

between France Rond beeldents killed 11, this year, and what official asked Britain to "aupend's the wei-dinished goods, while the at Air Force headquarters in negotiatione Washington. He took part in | ană

the people and seriously injured Japanese reply has been made tests. The British Government planned representatives of

doliverozi Socialist Stephen Davies will has not

cal the

*Indiat Gaze for, mechani».

production is to ba the technical phase of law Algerian people, The 18-bation more than 30, in the first nine

batwuon negotiations

covering ask what protests he has re- formal reply to Japan's request maintained, the agency said. Afro-Asian resolution call on days of this mont

questions before the The general investments for Saudi Arabia and the United the Secretary-General. Mr Dad part of the Chinese New Year esived from the thing industry. But the

Tomorrow 1957-1950 will be reduced to 17 Spar, 19 Stale, 20 Striates, 21 Boot, 23 Tunic, 24 Itell, 25 states, and was prosent at most sammanfold, to

to fødliste them Dortivities" li was announced to trade unions and petos organi-House of Commons

a chance sorpe, 87 milloæda Klotys. (about deya Polios saldi in this Holiday mations in Japan against the provide, Labouri Sewer, 20 Blagen. Down: 1 Princess, 2 Alder-man, 3 Bick, 5 of the official ceremonies in negodalom

millard dollars), Caplikis, & insane, 9 Ports, 11 Parazito, 12 Poses, 13 Erecting, honour of King Saud of Baudi

piitiosi, period more if this 60 audiente: propowed Briishing of argue in favour of the Japanese 164

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