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COMMENT OF

THE DAY

Signs Of Revolt

NIGNS are growing that the

rulers of the Communist puppet stute of East Germany uro becoming frightened and angry met. They have many reasons for anxiety, among them the grave economic difficulties .which beset the country ami the increasing discontent with the existing regime being manifested by workers and Intellectunia.

Herr Bruno Leuschner, chair- man of the State Planning -Committee, has admitted

that the economic plan for 1957 in trouble, partly due

delays to placuting throughout the Soviet bloc. Conl and steel are short because Poland has cut supplies, while Russia has not increased them sufficient- iy. Yet while the govern- ment insists that production Laska must be fulfilled, it simultaneously announces reductions In consumer goods, including food and fuel. Thus the workers are made aware of lowering living standards.

Among students and young people disillusionment and discontent with the Com- munist regime is spreading. Significantly three students have recently been expelled from their universities · fur decrying the East German youth organisation, refusing to learn Russian, and public- ly approving the Hungarian uprising. But the degree to East German which tho

rulers have come to fear the simmering revolt among the intellectuals is best exempli- fied by the

arrest and .pending trial of Professor

Wolfgang Harich, n

one-

time leading member of the ju“ German Communist Party.

IT has been made clear by

In

Deputy Ulbricht,

Premier Walter whose support from Moscow makes him the real ruler of East Germany, that

Harich

Licen deprived of his liberty bo- cause be stands for a range of ideas and appeal which werd winning adherents far and wide. To the Com- munist

rulers this swift spread of Harich's reputa-

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TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1957.

CANAL: TWO

And Here's One Of Them

The Edgar Bonnet

ARABS SAY IT MAY BE

OPEN NEXT MONTH

Cairo, Mar. 4.

Only two big wrecks remain to be cleared before the main channel of the Suez Canal can be opened to the world's shipping.

The Egyptians are holding up this work clearance of the tug, Edgar Bonnet and the frigate Abukir but belief in Cairo today follow- ing Israel's confirmation of its plans to withdraw from Gaza and Sharm El Sheikh is that

EGYPT WILL GIVE

ARAB BLOC

SUSPEND SANCTIONS

MOVE

United Nations, Mar. 4.

tion and influence wan The Arab nations today dangerous, more especially suspended a move to impose when it inspired another economic sanctions on Israel Communist Party writer to declare "Our youth is begin- pending a report from the ning to realise that truth UN Secretary General, Mr itself has been slandered by Dag

doctrinaires."

consequence

of

Hammarskjold,

on

Israel's "full agreement" on these withdrawal of troops from manifestations of open Egyptian territory. criticism of the Communist

ideology it is hardly sur- prising the East German

Warns

The Arch bloe was reported have agreed not to speak to the General Assembly until Mi

the ol

Imminent

THE GO-AHEAD TO COMPLETE THIS WORK SOON.

When it does, Germ Ray-Rilometer 101," sald, General mond Wheeler's United Nations Wheeler. salvage team

is expected to work round the clock.

General Wheeler has said he may use Uie powerful German team on the Edgar Bonnet to ket quicker results.

Working overtime he

could have the Bonnet out

of the way in ten days, Without overtime it would

take three weeks.

With the

Louis Perrier and Dredger number three disposed of General Wheeler ordered all salvage vessels atill in the Canal to proceed al once to Port Said.

There they will work on less essential wrecks outside the main charmol.

Foreign diplomatic quarters xid they thought tomorrow's meeting Between President

.and

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SINGAPORE PLAN FOR SELF-GOVERNMENT

White Paper Tabled In Assembly

Singapore, Mar, 5. Mr Lim Yew Hock, the Chief Minister, tabled in the Legislative Assembly today a White Paper lasting Singapore's demands for the con- stitutional talks in London on the Colony's future status.

Mr Lim is leader of an all-clsion would be binding on both; transfer of certain portfolios to party five-mart mission which parties. is to have talks, beginning on March 11, with the Office.

The Singapore delegation will scek full internal self-govern- ment.

elected ministern, and provision for the creation of a Singapore citizenship.

The Security Council would Colondul consist of three representatives

from Singaporo (Prime Minster Singapore civilian workers in and two ministers), three from the armed services would be the United Kingdom (High Com- placed under Labour and Social missioner and two others) and legislations, given government one from Malays (a minister to rates of pay and conditions of

government).

Mr Lim also sought a man date for the all-party

secure from Her Man by the Malayan | service, and be allowed to con- |

tement for the people of

test elections.

The council would be under The paper sold the conferences the status of a self- the chairmanship of the high held the view that there was no governing state, with all the commissioner who would have immediate question of the rights, powers

and privileges only one vole, the White Paper present expatriate judges of the thereto appurtenant in all in proposed,

Supreme Court being removed. ternal affairs and the control of

But the paper said it was trade, commerce and cultural

necessary that the government relations in external ammirs,

have power to remove these Judges and to appoint Singapore men to the judiciary when sult- able, local men were available,

SIX PROPOSALS

Whe

drawn

An agenda for the forthcom ing London taller up when Mr Lim visited Loo don last December,

The White Paper listed

de talls of six important proposals recommended by a series of all party onferences which

for new constitution.

have

On another agenda heading- designation of Her Majesty's re- presentative in Singapore - which is also a vital question for the London talks, the Whlie Paper sald:

arer.

-Majesty's

MINORITIES

two-third Legislative

(2,5)

BUTCHER SHOP

Becomes A MONKEY HOUSE

(Vijon), Bag, 4 A careful of monkeys ca

caped from a travelling eirons

nearby Clel yesterday, took over butcher shop and forced customers' to duck under counters as they? huziód mer and catta from alicivos,

monke

raced around

the "shop" brandishing

tlant olub.

The ou

seunge šikeja war

owner of i tie monkeys arrived an his troupe was reading frenzied climax leaping.ACTERM- Ing and

throwing

He captured them one by one and, then spent the rest of the day helping the shopkeeper clean up. No customer were in- Jured United Free....

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represent- alivo shall be a Malayan and be designated Governor General

It proposed that there be a who, shall be separate and dis- clause in the Constitution that a tinct from the United Kingdom judge could only be removed Government's representative to be called

from office by the High Commis-

of majority sioner," thrashed out

out Singapore's case

Assembly. LEE GOING

Provisions of the Constitution The White Paper included a

should be reviewed at any time The White Paper "uid that proposal to overcome the dead-

responsibilities of

ty agreement, said the What External

"Bi Louis, Mar. 6. fock at last year's unsuccessful defence and External affairs are

Paper. constitutional

Dr Evarts Graham, 73, mwidely- talks when the to remain with the United King that

The White Paper mentioned, British Government Insisted

bo

known, megban, whose studies of it shall

the duty on dom Government with the ex-of the Singapore Government, the

relationalfu between having a final say in the control ception that the control of trade

and hang of this island's internal security

'under a new constitution to cigarette smoking when it affects external defence, and cultural relations. stall be protect the interests of Malaya saber created Emat, controversy It was proposed that matters vested in the Singapore Govern and other minorities. Reuter. - the medios]) world, died late in dispute be, referred to ADA Whlife Para Lixinde : 230 |

Courity counel whose voted def

'Childless Couple Took Baby'

London, Mar. 4.

members of the all-party miisitmi three from the government and two from the opposition in- cluding Me Lee Kuan Yow (People's Action Party)..

Phon

The paper raid the all-party conferences decided the Mission would not accux anything less what had already been offered by the Brush Govern. ment.

The all-party conferences had agrood with proposals which had been discussed before last year's talks broke down.

JUDGE'S POSITION

Ike's Cough

Washington, Mar. 4.

1949.

President Elmhower is coIn 1953 Dr Graham and two sidering going to a sunny and associates reported in Carrer dry region to rd himself of the Research, a medical publicati cough which has been bothering on two...... years' of] him since January, the White House spokesman today.

zono,

announced on the

They

be

He may go to Tucson, Ari- prodhont, CANSET, COUNTY

a resort: kaown for its cigarette tar contained in

smakel0 QMAND healthful climate, but he will | Dr Graham smoked tobacco probably not leave Washington moderately for many yeareasmtil before the end of the week, he be gave it up, Ax years - edded-France-Pressc,

United Press,

These included propocate that Taxi Driver's Reply To

Menon, Indian Minister without Nassor and Mr V. K. Krishna

A lorry driver and his portfolio, would be mainly con- wife, John and Doreen cerned with the curly clearance Harris, were today accused

reopening of the Sucz in court of kidnapping of Singapore, ex-official and Singapore be known as the state two-week old baby, sought nominated membership of the They stressed that Mr by Police since she dis-Assembly be abolished, the Menon, who is due to re-appeared from her pram

Authoritative Arab poli- | Canal. tical quarters were also

Canal optimistic. "The could be ro-opened for navigation inside flye weeks from now," they

forecast.

turn to India as soon as

possible because of the

élections, is coming out of his way to meet President Nasser to discuss

this

issue, which is a vital one

for India.

outside a Halifax shop last Saturday.

They were detained. The little baby, Jane Hardcastle, was found last night hidden in the Halifax hotne of John and Doreen Horris.

rulers are indulging moreHammarskjuld made his official and more In threats in statement order to

the evacuation of Ismell troops and suppress incipient revolt, Thus the their replacement by UN ́emer,

Today the UN salvage fleet Anished clearance of the Canal's Minister of State Security gency force troops,

airs channel except for the last Humboldt the

Mr Arthur Lall, of India, sard wo obstacies. University that in no cir;

Dutch and Yugoslav vessels cumstances will the im-the General Assembly should

mest again not later than Thurs refloated the 1,800-ton dredger, Mr Menon is scheduled to portation of alien ideol- dey

report that all Louis Perrier, in the Canal by drive straight from Cairo to hear

air ogies be allowed under the israeli troops had withdraw pass neer El Kamara and port to meet President Nasser cloak of academic freedom from Egypilan territory:

Gehman Vessels removed the and to leave Cairo. after and the workers and intel-

Later, the Assembly adjourned helly-raised dredger "number seven-hour stay. He is expec.ed bus.

to the great Bitter Lake.to brief the Egyptian president

CONGRESS ELECTED

Bombay, Mar. 4. The ruling Congress party The couple desperately wanted had won 328 out of 416 stato a child and finally made up their Assembly stals, and three of minds to find one, it was alleged., the contested seats in the oën- They went out on Saturday tra parliament's House of afternoon, determined to find a People by midnight tonight, little girl.

It lost one-ecat in the House They found Jane in her pram of the People to an independent in front of

shop her parents candidate, standing for "Con- were inside-wrapped her in agresa reforms committee," who blanket and hurried home on the had been refused a Congress

party Ucket. The couple, aged 30 and 23, By of the baby. They were said to have confessed to kidnapping the baby after being questioned by the Police France-Presse.

Carving Knife Threat

--London, Mar. 4. 3. Two thugs threatened a taxi driver with a carving knife today and tried to rob him.

But the violim, Haifred Macefield, who picked up the two { men in Paddington, a tough north-west London district, jerked his cab backwards and forwards and switched on his radio transmitter and shouted into the microphone:

"Get the police, quick! I have been threatened. I am in Talbot Road, Paddington.”

The attackers, panicked, jumped out of the cab and ran off--- China Mall Special.

lectuals have been bluntlys Middle East debate until With the completion of these on current preliminary canal had reportedly taken good care midnight tonight result AVEVO

A

told that East German Come dale to be announced-United munist armed forces must Press & Reuter.

JOB FOR SPORTSMEN

always be in a position to

restore peace and order,

S yet the situation in the

two operations the entire chan-titlement negotiations

at the nel south of Port Said is clear U.N., and his

in London except for the Edgar Bonnes at on the subject-United Press & Kilter 73 and the Abukir 'at | China Mali Special,

BRITAIN BACKS FREE ENTRY TO

GULF OF AQABA

of

WCTC: Congress 328, Praja Socialsts 21, Communists 10, Jan Sangh seven, Socialists (splinter

group

Praja Socialists), five, Hindu Maha- xnohe theoc, Hum Hajya Parlshad one, Gantanträ Parishad -- four, and Independents 37.-Reuter,

STOP

PRESS

13 MEN GUILTY

Jerusalem, Mar. 4. country does not threaten Reliable sources said tonight the existence of the puppet bloodshed was feared when the

leftist Herut Party regime.

staged a Nevertheleas larger anti-withdrawal rally tremors, rumblings, and tomorrow afternoon. discontent aro plainly dis-

New York, Mar. 4. cernible.

The Herut leaders summoned BRITAIN today said the After more than a decade In their supporters to assemble !n

Straits of Tiran (en the centre of Israeli new power the Secretary of the Jerusalem at about

"Although I admired the in- the time trance to the Gulf of Aqaba)

"Now we all, of course, asspine that when Israeli forces Socialist Unity Party com- Premier David Ben-Gurion was "must be regarded as

cre genulty of his reasoning and plains about the "ponétra- expected to give his withdrawal international waterway, Sheikh arca (on the Gulf of that I could not follow him In an withdrawn from the Sharm el his wealth of examples, I fear tion of bourgeois ideology statement the Knesset.

conclusions", through which the vessels Aqaba), units of the United his

Commander into the working class and Reliable sources said the pro- of all nations have a right Natless, Emergency Force will be Noble sald. its. Party," and Herr government listradrut Labour

staticoed, "there, and there is no "For he overlooked one fact Ulbricht himself exposed Federation organised its sports of passage." At t reason to think that any attempt simple enough in itself, but, as tho core of the regime's organisation to stand by 10 Commander Allan Noble, will be made to interfere with I see it, essential to considera-

of State. made, the free.. fears when he objected to break up the Herut meeting if Minister

tion of this problem. and innocent, passage

Thirteen of the 10 | men That is that unlike the fjords charged" with reling at Tun suggestions for casing the anti-Government sentiment gets statement in the United Nations through the straits."

of Norway or the Hudson Bay Wan on October 11 or 12 last Communist burden on the out of hand-United Press,

General Assembly, thus taking Commander Noblo also in Canada, or the Hudson River

year were found guilty by a 3 similar line to that of the ISRAELI VIOLATION people by declaring that

that who fald **United States and France who

Criminal un-(in New York), or any of the Spedal Jury cat" the "to experiment in theory and practice with the with-

Amman, Mar, 4, made statements on the issuerstood them "the assump other instances that Mr Menon Seations this morning? tips

and expectations" of quoted, the Gulf of Aqaba it not Mr Justice 'C, W, Recoe de- drawal of state control is

the Israell Government in inter-only bounded at lis arrow point ferred statences until An Israell patrol of 14 soldiers last Friday after Israel pledged ions tantamount to inviting the crossed the truce line into the "full and prompty troop with unilonal administration and con- of entry, the Straits of Tiran), Monday for enquities to be

drawals from Egypt. of Jordan last

trol of the Gaza strip, were imperialists to sharpen the Jenin District .cold war

a military communique Commander Noble told the "reasonable, and should pet by two different countries, Egypt made about the ages of the ne

and Saudi Arabia, but contains: The remaining -six were 20-

cused, and organise night,

said today.

Assembly; resuming a Middle no dimculties." counter - revolutionary

Earl. debate, that the British 37

at, ita head the ports of two anilica in his statement,

fuither countries: Jordan and

To the reportine putschos."

1999) charges, sɛthats each, or them In plain language, this means are and the Israeli troops were

the Israeli troops exchanged right on behalf of all British the sections made last week

and discharged. They were the by Mr VK Krish Menon, is in itself enough to put it in and 1816 novomechan are prepared to join Indian Minister without port- fours that if the scrow is mundua said. There were no with oiliers to secure general follo, that the Strait of fran different category from ait of The all-male, Jury, deliberat loosened, he and his Arab casualties, the communique recognition of this right,”; hu were not?) and International the inland, walers mentioned by ed for famous and hour and 15 puppets will be thrown out. mld. Unites Press.

added.

Britain na

next

The Arab Legion patrol and Government would "amort this Com Noble questioned his imple, undeniable fact i seywatha, :,: 13th, 14th, 16th,- 18th | the East German lender obliged to withdraw," the com- Ping-

waterway.

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