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COMMENT OF

THE DAY

DISPUTE

TR Peter Thorneycroft'a Chan-

Mresignation

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cellor of the Exchequer over the budget dispute on the eve of the Prime Minis- ter's departure on his tour of the Commonwealth is most unfortunate.

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The dispute, which arose over

the

pending of Additional £60 million beyond last year's estimates on social services, brought into the open the conflict which started between the Chancellor nnd Mr Duneum Sandys, the Defence Mini- ter, last year.

Mr Sandya was determined to cut back Services spending and embarked on the task of reorganising both Home and oversens defence forces : and allied establishments. The Defence Minister's argu- },

ments prevailed and Kained the full support of hi Cabinet colleagues in the face of strong opposi

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tion from other members of the North Atlantic Alliance.

Mr Thorneycroft was just as determined that his hard money policies would be the te carried through bilter end and at the time there was no reason to would suppose that this not be done.

Determination

THIS

CHINA

No. 36943

Established 1845

THE WEATHER: Moderate ESE winds. Cloudy with soft, light rain Inter.

MAIL

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1958.

ALBANIA DOES

Forces Down

USAF Jet

SECOND INCIDENT

Munich, Jan. 7.

Communist Albanian planes forced a US Air Force jet plane down over Albanian territory.

Macmillan Stops Over In Cyprus

British

Nicosia, Jan. 7. Prime Minister,

Harold Macmillan, spent

A broadcast by the ofcial Radio Station at Tirana, capital of the Ling Balkan satellite, said the plane was a T-33 jet trainer.

One Week

The incident followed by just one week the forcing down by Albanian Jets of a British elvil freighter, en route from Duessel- dorf, Germany, to Rangoon,

The plane, an American- bullt Skymaster, was 'forced down at the air base of Valons after Soviet-bulli MIE fighters had fired at it, Albanin later charged plane had violated Albanian sir |

It was £pace,

released fast?

Saturday and flew, home

Britain with its six-man unharmed.

the

10 erew

an hour and 20 minutes here tonight as the Brl tannia aircraft in which he has embarked on his Commonwealth tour stop- ped off to refuel. Although the Premier did not

A spokesman at US Air Force the leave

airport compound

in Wiesbaden, Headquarters with Germany, sold tonight it was where he had drinks Cyprus officials, Turkish

"quite possible" a US jet had ganisations sent him lelegrams been forced down. declaring they would accept no the Cyprus problem solution 10

HIS determination mani-other than partition. fested itself at the recent

Cabinet meeting. finally i

leading to the Chancellor's

Was

AGREEMENT

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resignation and that of his In a strtement to the press for Bahrein, his two subordinates. But it is on leaving hard to understand why Mr next stopover, Macmillan sald: Thorneycroft

so "I can very dad to stay ev adamnait over 26 mere £50 for a short time in Cyprus In course of Ty Journey. million (less than one per the cent of the total budget), There are many problems fcc- particularly as the moneying the Cypriot people. I pray they may be solved by was to be spent on social that

hondurable agreement betwem services.

all concerned.'

The Conservatives

are not

a

The Britannia will fly over very popular at the moment southern Tuittey and Iraq, And any additional hard-detour planned to avold Bying ahip imposed on the nation over Syria-France-Presse. would have pushed the

cost of living up still higher.

Public opinion polls have

shown that support for the Government

flagging

and this is certainly not

US ADMIRAL HAS

He said, however, that he! could give no positive identis- cation of the plane pending a full check of US bases scattered ncross Europe.

Two-Seater

Ben-Gurion's

New Cabinet

Approved

Jerusalem, Jan. 7. The Knesset today ap- proved Premier David Ben-Gurion's new Cabinel by a vote of 77 to 33.

or

The Extreme Orthodox Agudat Yisrael and the Poalei Agudat Yisrael -- which have previously the Govern- supported

on ment

abstained Parliamentary voting →→ joined the Herut General Zionists and the Com- munists in the opposition vote today. United Press,

Price 20 Cents

HKLAX IN

DAKS

THE RAMENA KORPUNY IN ACTION TROUSERS

Whiteaways

G...KOWLOON

IT AGAIN IKE ASKS FOR

IT

Indonesia Destroyed Chances Of Compromise Says Dutch Premier

By THOMAS R. CURRAN

London, Jan. 7.

ADDITIONAL

BILLION

FOR DEFENCE

Washington, Jan. 7. President Eisenhower today asked Congress for an additional US$1,260,000,- 000 to develop space mis- Hiles and strengthen de- fence of the Strategic Air Command.

Dutch, Primo Minister Dr Willem Drees said today that In- donesia has destroyed all chances of a compromise solu- tion on Dutch New Guinea and the United Nations will The moty would be in adil- now have to act.

selzing

Indonesians were Dutch businesses "oltan at gun- point" and so far without com- pensation, De Drees sald.

The Dutch were in "general exodus that necessarily entalls great hardship," he said.

Labour To Bring Censure Motion

Against

Govt

London, Jan. 7.

The British Labour (opposition) Party will bring a motion of censure against the Government, following the resignation of Chancellor of the Exchequer, Peter Thorneycroft, the Labour Shadow Cabinet announced tonight, Thorneycroft's resignation

The T-33 is a two-seater jet demonstrated the plain fact" frame at present being used that the Government, are, no thuyughout the Air Force. Other longer able to give the country Western European Air Forces the cohérent and purposive

CALLAS TO

also use it. The Tirana radio lendership which is so urgently SUE ROME

broadcast said the jet had been needed," the Shadow Cabinet forced to land near Berat, about declared

a communique

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30 miles from the Adriaße issued after a meeting at the Coast,

House of Commons tonight.

The censure motion will be brought when Parlament re- assembles on January 21, ond will automatically take priority any other parliamentary

In Wiesbaden, Germany, US Air Force officials said a T-33 Jet was reported miss ing while

on a flight from Chateauroux. France, to Naples, Italy, on December 23, They said the plane, Miloted business.

over

by Maj. Howard Curran, Unprecedented

was never found.

A search for the missing pilot was suspended after five days, the officials said,

other

The Shadow Cabinet, or executivo body of the party, The Berat area of Albania. said the resignation of the where the plane was allegedly Chancellor and

down, necording to Treasury ministers was "a grave Radio Tirana, lles on a direct and unprecedented event.” line with Naples and

Chate- auroux.United Press,

the time to increase publie BUMPY TIME for

bitterness towards Tory policien.

If Mr Thorneycroft had had

London, Jan. 7.

his way the result would A US Navy plane carrying undoubtedly have led to Admiral Walter F. Boono,

fresh wage demands from

the unions which Hru already agitating for in-

creases.

a

Three Killed

Prima

OPERA

Rome, Jan. 7.

Donna Maria Meneghini-Callas told her Jawyer today to go ahead and sue the Rome Opera for damages.

The Bery soprano issued her instructions after the Opera that management announced she could not return to the

Rome stage in the immediate: future. The management ex- plained that the Prefecture the top administrative authority in the City of Home had ordered the ban.

The communique said: "Fol- lowing as it docs upon the resignation of other important ministers within the past 12 The reason was that both the

and Prefecture

the Opera Commander of US Eastern

months, it provides further un- and Meditor-

mistakable' evidence Atlantic

of the management feared there would ranean Fleets, today mada

Oran, Jan. 7.

progressive disintegration of the be riots in the famed theatre it: Madame Callas appeared before successful emergency French Foreign Legionaries Government "

after Romans again. 60 2001 The Shadow Cabinet com- in- landing of nearby Black-with air support killed 30

munique continued: "Parlia- Thursday's gala opera opening bushe airfield.

surgents and captured two in a battle

in which she walked off the tonight

ment near raging

will certainly expect a full account of the circum-stage-United Press, Charrier, south of Mascara, in

stances leading to this latest western Algeria.

The Legionaires lost three crisis, and of its bearing upon and four wounded.The Government's economic and

social policy."France-Pressc.

It therefore appears that the Prime Minister and the ather members of the Cabinet adopted A more

The plane, carrying 11 men, realistic attitude towards reported it had a locked right a burst tyre. It with and

public wheel

warned that it probably would crash upon landing.

spending

oplaton.

HEAT FOR POWER

(CIENTISTS in most of the

countries are

The DC-4 Skymuster elreled the Air Base until fire engines. ambulances and rescue parties were ready.

leading

Then the plane, pllofed by addressing themselves by Lieut-Cmdr D. Short, came in various approaches to the to Innd. It made a perfect, if problem of converting heat somewhat bumpy, landing-- directly into electricity. A Uniled Press.

new technique for converting heat directly into electricity without the use of moving parts was announced a few weeks ago by the GEC Laboratory at Schenectady, The method is not economical- ly feasible as yet, but it is suggested that with further reДnements it may achlove

an efficiency in which as

Freighter In

much as 30 per cent of the The

heat would be converted Into electricity. directly

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Open The Way

To the

Distress In Pacific

killed Reuter.

CATHOLIC PRIESTS

ARRESTED

IN CARACAS

Caracas, Jan. 7.

At least five prominent Roman Catholic priests were believed today to have been arrested as an aftermath of the abortive New Year's Day revolt at the Maracay Air Force base against the government of President Marcos Pere Jimenez.

arrested: included, other top

Indonesian Journalist Arrested

Djakarta, Jan. 7, Military police detained Mr Subanto Talf, acting Chief Editor of PIA (Porshibro Indonesia) News Agency, the Agency sold tonight. He was taken into military custody on a warrent charging violation of the military law.

banning publication of military news without official sources.

The military police earlier released Mr Mohammad Nahar, the Agency's Chief Editor a few hours after detaining him.

Mr Nahar, who has just re- visit to the turned from a

tional to appropriations for the current iscal year ending on June 30.

The President sent his request to speaker Sam Rayburn. The House said the extra money would send the total delence budget for Uhla fiscal year to US$38,000,000,000.

for good rela- "The Netherlands diplomalle (there remained representative in Indonesia han tious,"

White Dr Drees asserted today that officially been given to under- stand that all Netherlands sub- the Papuan or the native popu- No Guinea, the fallon of West to leave Jeets will have

"not the Indonesian Government country."

at Djakarta." should determine the political future of the ter- ritory.

"I sincerely hope," he added, "that there will be no cases of forced labour in Indonesia."

This was a reference to re- "And the population will have ports of an Indonesian plan to the opportunity to do so under conscript foreign nationals if our polley," he said.-United needed.

It is now the duty of the: United Nations to net," Dr Drees said.

Difficult

He said it was difficult to see how a solution of any kind could be reached with Sockarno on Indonesian claims to Dutch New Guinea.

Indonesia, he said, has re-

fused io consider any proposal "short of complete surrender of the territory" and wre carrying hostic attitude to the Dutch,

n out

"discriminatory

and

Fress.

INVITATION TO THORNEYCROFT

London, Jan. 7.

Peter Thorneycroft, who yes. terday resigned by his post as Chancellor of the Exchequer, was today invited to abondon

the Conservative Party for the

Liberal Party,'

Arthur Holt, Liberal member of Parliament for Bolton-West As regards future economie said: We shall be delighted to man in re- on cukural ties, Dr Drees caid) welcome the first that Holland wants them but cent years who has had the that Indonesia had step by step moral courage to resign from a tom down this framework for high office on malier co-operation and thus unilateral principin."-France-Pressc)

ly destroyed

whatever basis

ง

(Seo Back Pago).

of

The

ACCELERATE

President asked for the additional money to acceler- atę and expand missile de- velopment, bulld "dispersal and alert facilitica" for the Strategic Air Command, and bring a number of now scien- 1ste into the Government,

Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said that some of the new money will be earmarked for "the development and

of procurement long-range ballistic missiles, Including the construction of ballistic missile sites."

The request also included funds for establishment of a new ballistic minelle "detection system" and

funds for "SAGE," known in Defence Department parlance as the semi-automatic ground e- vironment system for air detection of enemy, weapUIR United Press,

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