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THE by-election at Roch-
Tuzle fits into what is now
a general pattern of recent results. If it has been ruther more sharply out- ined there than in Bomu others, it is no doubt largely because of the personalities of the Liberal candidate and his famous wife Moira Shearer. A · British elec- torato remains as humun as
It has always been, and the
as decisive as the Party
CHINA
No. 36975
Established 1845
THE WEATHER;- Modernía · E. - - winds, fronts in exposed Pisces." FIDEL.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1958.
FRENCH BASE
Tunisian Police Strengthen
Camp Blockade'
BY JOHN BUSH
Tunis, Feb. 13.
personal element is often Tunisian police today suddenly strengthened the "blockade" of the headquarters of General Antoine Gambiez, 55-year-old Commander-in- Chief of French forces in Tunisia.
programmes, whether the
political mood
is act or
indistinct,
of
The electorate in general hra
been saying in lones en tirely audible above the hubbub of Party sloganu and contentions that it is rather tired of the Tories,; mistrustful
the Labourites and despairing of the Liberals sava as the Party of sabotage, useful only to keep the Tories out of ofllee after the next goneral election and to prevent the Labourites 1rom being anything better than a minority Govern- mont.
Settles Issue
THAT may not necessarily
mean a minority
House.
is much more likely to mean a minority. in the aggregate votes. The mood settles the issue in favour of Labour in all the many marginal souts which, in fairly close fights be- tween the heavyweights, finally decide which of them shall govern.
PINEAU SAYS:
Tunisia Is Breaking Agreements
Paris, Fob. 13.
Yesterday and this morning elvilians were allowed up to the gates of Salambo Camp, in a residential district is kilometres outside Tunis. This afternoon police abruptly blocked the road about 100 metres from the camp gates.
A police officer toll reporters no civilians would be allowed through to the camp or out of
without a special pass-
Fronch Foreign Minister restriction which already ap
Christian Pineau, said to-plied to troops. day that Tunisia breaking signed
Was agreb-
mont with France in taking measures against French forces stationed in Tunisia.
Making a Government state
French National ment in the
the situation in Assembly on Tunisia, Pineau said it would be "premature" to form an opinion on the development of events in the former French protectorate.
NEW PROPOSALS
In eluction after election it
Fronco would not renounce has been shown that the engaging
It talks with the the Liberuis can win votes in Tunisian Government on ever-mounting numbers but situation, Pineau said.
"We are drafting precise pro- cannot win seats. Runners-
theposals," he said, "which, if they up do not count in
the Tunisian House
are accepted by of Commons,
be likely to Government
Government, would which has a majority, like the relax the atmosphere."
The French Foreign Minister present adininistration, of said these proposals would den! sume 60 in the House, but with the security
But
of the borders and
in the aggregate vole of Tunisian-Algerian
electorale is, The
in the joint defence agreemen 15,-**
to
minority, not only pro- France-Presse. vides a ready-made and constant taunt to the MONG! SLIM SAYS: Opposition: it has operate with the brakes on and must seek the common denominatur instead of driving of full steam 'ahead.
FREE TO USE
LEGITIMATE
That may not prevent the SELF-DEFENCE
ro-
Labour leaders from pur- suing some of their nationalisation schemes, B in the case of steel, but it will certainly offer 110 Justification for the full- blooded policy of socialism or nationalisation which supposed to distinguish that Party from its rivals, Normal
THE
NHE rhythm is normal. The British live like lions
when they havo to, but in between the
United Nations, Feb. 13. Tunisia notified the Security
mate
Growing Tension
Reportera who arrived at the camp just before police blocked the road saw signs of growing tension. The doors in the white stone gatoway of the camp, where about 1,000 troops and elvlians work, were closed and guards had been strengthened. Officers' wives asked Tunisian friends to fetch their children from school in the town.
Most of the officers at the headquarters live outside the
comp:
French sources said there was plenty of food in the camp, but telephone communications have been cut off for several days, Both the Tundsian and the French Army" "authoritie OX pressed a desire to avoid trouble and in broadcast today President Habib Bourguiba
HK BANK DENIES REPORT
The Chief Accountant of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation de- nied this morning that the Hongkong Dank was endeavouring to plan a take-over bid for the Mercantile Bank of India Ltd.
in a written statement to the Prow, the Chlaf Ao- Bountant said: "We refer to Evening Standard ro- port and dany that wo sre proposing to maka take-over bid for the Mercantilo. Bank.
"We do not, divulge the
names of beneficial own- ors of shares registered In the names of our nominee companies.""
An official of the Mercantile Bank questioned on tha lave by the China Mall this
had 'no morning comment" to make. A nowe report from London yesterday quoted a state- ment from Mr Alexander Thomson, city editor of the. Evening Åtandard, as having rallod the ques tion over whether the HK and 8. Banking Gor- poration was planning the take-over bid.
Mr Thomson was quoted an having written: "I've been looking at the share re- plater. A nominee of the Hongkong and Bhanghal Banking Corporation hom been piling up sharoe worth 29 militon in the
Marcantile Bank an
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SEALED BASES IN
WOMEN PEERS BILL APPROVED IN COMMONS
London, Feb. 13.
The House of Commons, after a two-day debate, tonight endorsed the 'Government's plan to
Sumatran Council To Make Move Tomorrow
Padang, Feb. 13.
break with ancient tradition by allowing The Central Sumatran Ite-
women to sit and vote in the hitherto all-male 'House of Lords.
The Commons gave a second | decides present membership of reading agreement in principle the Upper Chamber.
by -to a bill, already passed
A life peer's Utle will end
death. That the Upper Chamber, to create with his
of an "Life-time" peerages for men hereditary peer passes on to his and women.
heir.
It rejected a critical Labour Opposition amendment by 303 to 251-a Government majorily of 54.
Amendment
volutionary Council will proclaim its next step at 8 p.m. local time on Saturday unless 'Monday night's ultimatum is ob served by President Soekarno, HE spokesman sald today.
а
Mr Aneurin Bevan, Labour's chiet speaker today, questioned
It was not clear whether whether a second chamber was needed at all. He said he could new government would be pro- suggest several ways by which claimed. However, it was clear factual revision would Lake that Colonel Hussein, with place without
of strong Sumutran support, cho fious0
al- ready is operating completely
.
the
Mr
Djakarta through
No vote was taken on the Lords. second reading because the
The bill left the Lords' feeling of the House had al-powers intact. That was offen-independently of the ready been shown in the dive to the Labour Party, he Government which, feat of the Labour
ameud-guid.
Djuanda Cabinet, dig- ment.
Bevan amused Labour honourably discharged him and The opposition objected to the members with an indirect re-ordered him arrested, Bill because it left the preference to the Government's de- dominantly-Conservative House test in the Rochdale by-elce-
Lords "overwhelmingly tion. He said he had noticed as hereditary In character,"
the election
returns come in "a Labour amendment sald.
growing enthusiasm by the Gov- crnment for the hereditary principle"
of
It also left the Upper Cham-
ber with "impaired powers to frustrate and obstruct the will of the elected representatives of the people"-the House of Com-
n:ons.
The Government hopes to get the bill through its remaining stages in the Commons so that
Second Chamber
Mr John Maclay, Secretary for Scotland, who replied to the debate, sald Mr Bevan had tried to make it a condition of all-
it may become law by the sum-party talks on House of Lords
mer.
raform the question whether Many people refuse perages there should be a second cham beruse they dislike the heredi-bor at all. ay Principle, which largely
called on the Tunisian people CONSPIRING TO ORGANISE MILITARY EXPEDITIONS to keep calm.
Security Council Ex-President Of
New York, Feb. 13.
Tunisia tonight made a formal request that "ag. gression by France against Tunisia" be
placed on the agenda of the
Nations United Security Council.-Reu- ter.
Mr Bourguiba said the French Council tonight that it troops were not prisoners. They will consider itself free to were merely in their camps and use the right of "logiti- could go to a port of embarks- But, he Hon if they wished. If self-dofenco" France tries to dofy the ordors blockading French | garrisons and denying the Fronch Navy the use of Tunisian ports.
Tunisian Ambassador Mongi
sold, Tunisiana would resist any French attempt to break the blockade by force,
10
Cuba Indicted
In United States
New York, Feb. 13.
A Federal grand jury here today indicted Carlos Prio Socorras, exiled former President of Cuba, and eight others for conspiring "to set on foot" military expeditions and enterprises against Cuba from the United States.
mea
of President
The former Cuban President, revolutionary movement against now in exile in Miami, and the the dictatorship other elght
were also Fulgonelo Batista. accused of conspiring to provide | the means and money for the military expeditions.
wero
Avoid Incidents
French Army sources sold
They
charged their troops
with were contined
of General conspiring to organise military ¡ units and and with recruling
establish people to
military training camps in the Domini can Republic, Mexico, Halti and the United States.
mander,
country looks like going in wished the Council to have The French Army authorities
when
African
of some
Uniforms
The nine accused were also charged with purchasing motor
from the United
States with arms, men, uniforms and im plements of war.
0
They were arrested. In raid in which Federal agents also seized a yacht and a large quanilly of aims-Reuter,
ALLEGED
US PLOT
Mr Bevan denied this.
Mr Maclay then referred to a speech by Mr Bevan's wife, Miss Jenale Lee, who had urged abolition of the Upper Chamber.
Arald general laughter, Mr Bevan intervened to protest.
"This is an ungallant at- tempt to mako matrimonial trouble for me," he said. "May I put Mr. Maclay at pence? We are prepared to have talks provided there are no condi- Hons." Reuber.
Conservatives Hold Post-Mortem
London, Feb. 13. Loaders of the Conservative the Party, shaken by dofcar in the Rochdale by-election, mot today to map strategy to stem the rising Liberal tido which could swoop them out of office in the next national general elections. The Conservatives not only lest the marginal seat in Roch- dale in the by-election yester day-they also suffered
their most stinging defeat in years by ending up poor last in the three-comerod
for face
the House of Commons seat.
PREPARATION
Minister,
periods of Silm, to a letter 10 Security barracks by order derring-do they prefer to Council President Arkady A Cambicz, a World Wer it com- lie down like lambs. The Sobolov, declared that Tunisia for one of those slack and notice that the North
here and now told journalists repeatedly that uninspiring periods between state "decllnes the two wars which followed all responsibility for the conse- they were anxious to avold In- but there were fears an cidents, result the decline and fall of Mr from such an attemp!"
quences which could
out thy Incident might break by def
moment. Anxiety Lloyd George: the period France.
irz- Was
Damascus, Feb. 13. creasing Prime A
Minister
among the French The letter gave the Council population tonight on the eve of
Syrian newspapers tonight could aubalat on slogans like formal notice of the steps pre- tomorrow's "Saklet Day," which ships and causing them to sall
charged a United States- Mr MacDonald's famrus viusly announced An Tunisia
Tunisian national organisations
Isracli-Turkish plot to the in-have called to mark the French "up and up and up"; when in un effort to force
averthrow the new Syrian-n. A.
The acting Prime
Butter, held Mr Baldwin could ban any mediate. withdrawal
a gloomy vilinge on
Egyptian Union.
post-mortem with the Cabinet rocking of the boat; and, as 20,000 French troops who have bombing of Saklet
there
the Algerian Ironller lost under Saturday.
In preparation for the return in the calm before the rumatral
Tho Assistant Attorney- ments negollated at the ume
The reports expanded on an tomorrow of Prime Minister external storm of the first
French sources said tonight General said that all nine de- carller official Tunisia gained Independenes
onnouncement Harold Macmillan from his tour world', 'war, Mr
that the situation Asquith
was "entis-
were in the
United that a group of alleged Imperial- of the Commonwealth. Frunce two years ago. fron could make "wait and ac0"
factory" et all military camps. States.
Ist agents had been arrested by Silm stressed
The Party Chairman, Lord "the Same were still supplied with words of historical signi- French troops are neither pri-food by elvilian merchants, but
Earlier this month, the De-Syrian military authorities.
Hailsham, locked himself in con- ficance. It is probable that soneta nor internees and they in other places merchants had
Tonight's news accounts sald ference with other party leaders Mr Macmillan,
his can at any time leave
their
nounced the indictment of 30 the agents arrested were in- Conservative headquarters.
The
exuberant usually triumphant return from his garrisons to go to a point of de- they suppiled the French Army, people in Miami on charges volved in 0 United States- tour, will regain enough parture
af conspiring to launch a mill-ananced plot against the United talkative Hailsham refused to The maka any comment on tary expedition against Cuba. Not Necessary
Arab Republic. popularity for the Tories their evacuation. In
case, the Tunisian Government
political setback, to frustrate in turn any disposed to accord them all
The men, mostly. Cubans-but The agents were said to be The Conservatives had antid- authentic Liberal revival in facilities to assure these opera-
The French sources said it including Bome who claimed under orders to co-ordiuatopated a Labour victory in the Parliament.
Hons."United Prom.
citizenship, were offorts against the Government | election. But, they never ex- any post by air, but they said | described 19 supportera of with simultaneous attacks from peeled to be outpolled by the supply difficultles might arise Fidel Castro, the outlawed Israel and Turkey. United candidate of the nearly-defunct
former lawyer who is leading a PressI.
Liberal Party-United Press, Pierc was no question evacuating any of the
that
been threatened with death if
or embarkation for
such
a
.
fendants
partment of Justice had Ar-
was not yet necessary to supply American
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LLOYD HAS NEW IDEAS
London, Febs=1227 Foreign Scorelary Belwyn Lloyd Albens returned today from with "oertain ideas" for a now. common approach to
عاليا غلط
comman we have found ground" in
at Ankars two weeks ago and in Athens, this week,
As wo Jeft Salambo Camp tonight, French soldiers wera. naliing matting across the gates to prevent peopia outside soe-" ing in."
In Tunis patrols of four or
tool-helmeted AVO
Tunisian Doldlers carrying tommyguns word out in 'Che streets. This was the only sign of anything
tho Cyprus dispute willi | "But I do bellowo that the dis- Greece and Turkey,
qzations have resulted in a abnormal and Europeans and thronged the
useful clarification of cafe forces in W February "I cannot elalım,” he told news- włows of esch of the | sunshine.--Revier,
governments men si Londan alspori, "iDel
and
Tumialans alike
the three that
schoo we have I think
tributed to a 'sointion.
and
-200
"I have certain ideas on what could that common ground bo,” Lloyd said, "I propose to iscuss these, bere la Lodon with mg colleagues
End: follow that matter op with ・ the two" "governmentä”,
--Enlled Frees,
MORE CHANCE
Hussein, going about his business in a colonel's uniform, Bald today: There is more chance of the Djuanida Cabinet'a being arreried it wo ordered it than there is of Hussein's arrested in Central
bring
Sumatra."
NEW STATE
* Manila, Fob. 14. Lieut-Gol Ventja Sumual, Indonesian revolutionary leader, sald today in procu confaranca a volutionary government would be proclaimed in Indonesia tomorrow.
PB+
He said the new govern- mont would ask for re- cognition from democratio nationsUnited Press.
Hussein today addressed a graduating group of more than 300 soldier-recruits. At the same ume, Sumatrans learning to be soldiers in the area joined in
cable to Djakarta supporting Hussain and local efforts to "better the country" and declared themselves. "free of duty to obey the Central Gov- ernment in Djakarta".
Although radio ments f:om
leaflets would
announce-
BRITISH
NORTH BORNEO
London, Feb. 13. The Colonial Secretary, Mr Alan Lennox-Boyd, today dented that military bases had been etablished in British North Hornoo. A Labour member, Mr Reginald Sorensen, had asked in the House of Commons why the Colonial Secretary had ap- proved the establishment of military
bases in Tawau, British North Borneo, near the border of Indonesian. He niso naked how many British and Dutch soldiers were stationed there And under what Dutch troops
free.
- arrangemast were in the
He further asked what repre- sentations tho Indonesian Government had made to the North Barnco Goyettimant or the British Government. Representations
The Colonial Secretary replied: "No military bases have been established at Tawau or any- where else in British North Bornco.
"There are no British or Dutch soldiers stationed in North -Borneo.
"No representations have been received by Her Majesty's Government nor, so far as I know, by the Government of North Borneo from the Indo- nesian Government."--Reuter.
Federation Of Borneo
London, Feb, 13. Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd, the British Colonial Secretary, made it clear today that any concrete proposals for the closer association of three stales of British Borneo which border Indonesian territory must be based on the wishes of the people. The three states are the Pro- Lectorala Sarawak, the
of colony of British North Borneo and the tiny cli-rich protected Sultanate of Brunel Mr Lennox-Boyd had beca questioned in the House of Commons about a broadcast by the Governor of Sarawak, Sir Anthony Aboll, proposing a federation of these states.- Reuter.
Six Months
London, Feb. 13. Two men were each pon.- tenced to six months im- prisonment here today on Djakarta sald churge of stealing jewellery, a be dropped
in bible, a
a prayer-book, a Russian this area today, natë have Ikon and other property be- showed yet. A spokesman for longleg to Princess Alexandra. the Bintang Council said, The men, Aubrey Robins, 27, "Should leaflet. planes fly too and Philip Joseph Moloney, low they will be fired at 29, both pleaded guilty-Reu- United Press
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