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TORY-SOCIALIST FEARS

ANY Conservatives and

M Socialiais fear that the

Liberal Party's contribution to the Government's crush- ing defeat in the Rochdale parliamentary contest lant week foreshadows a stale- mato verdict for the two main parties at the next general election.

At Rochdale, the

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Govern- ment defending 1,530 majority slumped to the bottom of the poll with 9,827 votes ugainst 17,000 for Liberal and 22,133 for the winning Labour candi date. It was by far the heaviest blow dealt to the Conservatives in a long line of by-election reverses. Liberals, who now have only Aive of the 680 House of Commons souts, are elated by their big polls in re cont contests.

Their National Council have

resolution de passed a

manding that the largest possible number of candi- dates should be put in the field at the next general election-due by 1960 at the latest.

Repetition

MÖNSERVATIVES and

Socialists

forcate

the

possibility of a repetition when Liberals

of 1960,

suddenly threw 475 candi-

dates into a general elec- tlon.

PHILE'S

CHINA MAIL

No. 36978

Established 1845

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1958.

Price 20 Cents

RELAX IN

DAKS

- THE HANGES KOREKTORET IN ACTIUM TROUSERS

Whiteaways

HUNAKAN U &

KOWLOON

CHURCHILL DOWN WITH PNEUMONIA

WINSTON CHURCHILL

Grand Old Man

China To Withdraw Army From

North Korea

By JACK GEE

Poking, Feb. 19, The Chinoso and North Korean Governments on- nounced here today that tho Chincso

People's "voluntoor" force would be completely withdrawn from North Korea by the end of 1959.

Has Good Night MACMILLAN Soekarno Expected SHIP CRIPPLED

Comfortable ON SUMMIT

&

Day

In Bed

By ROBERT MUSEL

Monte Carlo, Feb. 19.

Sir Winston Churchill's physicians an- nounced tonight that the 83-year-old statesman was suffering from pneumonia and pleurisy.

The physicians had withheld the news for four hours so members of Churchill's family could be told first.

The medical bulletin issued hore sald Churchill neverthe- lens was resting comfortably at hiz Riviera retreat астоса Monaco Boy,

was signed by The bulletin Lord Moran, long-time physician to Sir Winston who low here from London today, and a local physician, Dr David M. Roberts,

Seriousness

The bulletin did not comment on the seriousness of Chur- chill's condition.

of

"Sir Winston Churchlit suffering from pneumonia- the bat of the lung and pleurley," it said, "He had a good night and has passed a comfortable day.”

Dr Roberts was called yes- terday to Churchill's bodside in the plush Rivlers matsion at pearby Roquebrune-Cap Martin owned by publisher

They only got nine seats, but the outcome of the election -due partly to their inter- vention, though also affect-

In a joint statement issued ed by Communist candi- datures was the "stale during the visit to North Korea mate Labour government of the Chinese Prime Minister, with

of only Mr Chou En-int, said: "Now is Ruoves. a majority eight state compared with a time when the United Stater n previous 190,

Emory

The former British Prime and others participating in the Minister had complained or ba;- United Naticns forces are faced ing. "very fired."

have

any

Lord

Moran

Apologised

from

The fall in the Govern-

with a serious test, if they Dr Robertsprechpily m mentr prestigo to its

for the moried sincerity lowest point since the 1955 praceful Bettlement of the London

should the Korean qucation they general election was

withdraw all their subject of an inquest lastikewiss wankend by Mr Harold forces from Korea," Macmillan and his minis-

Tonight Anthony Montaguo The joint statement added:

Churchill's private the United "Should

States Brown, the groups at

cecretary, brought the medical Government and the Syngman official

Bhee clique in South Korea gobulictia to a Monte Cario hotel

whero

nowamen were waiting they

so far as to interpret this and initiative of the Kerean end

ters.

Meeting in

Prime Minister's

country residence,

sought reasona

remedles for the present Chinese sice as a elen of weak-

alump.

All Blame

7ISCOUNT Hailsham, Con-

Cie

ita

ness and think it is a chance to take advantage of they will certainly meet with unthinkable consequences."

REACTION AWAITED

Tho Chinese Government awaiting world was weight reaction to 機 spectacular promso today to withdraw its army and to its accompanying challenge to the United States to follow sult

at

who

directs man, election fighting machine, has already said he takes all the blame for the Hoch- dale result. But in a speech he attacked the Liberals as real cause of the Conserva- tive defcat, and alleged they were a party without policy, nim, philosophy, outlook or ideas; Some Conservatives have ex- pressed alarm lost Rochdale should tempt their party to Mr Chou chora his first visit make local electoral pacts to the territory of China's with Liberals to keep out neighbour and ally for the most Socialista at the next dramatic Chinese diplomatic general election..

con- since the Geneva But it is believed the Conser-. ference on the Far East in 1954,

The offer was announced the end of a Ave-day visit to North Korca by Premier Chou

by prearrangement.

the

Brown apologised for delay in tauing it, explaining he first bad to communicate 802, the news to Churchill's

United in the Randolph,

his and to two of daughters, Mrs Duncan Bandys and Mrs Christopher Bomes, in Britain. Lady

Blates

Churchill and thels actress-daughter Sarah fre

the

THEATRE ROBBED OF $15,000

"Thras armed men carried out a daring robbery at tho Prince's Theatre at the Junction of Prince Edward Read and Nethan

12.30 Road about yesterday.

p.m.

three large

In a matter of minutes, while gathering waiting In the tobby for admission, the gang enter ed the theatre. office and took away. Just under $16,000.

of patrona was

One man

carried a travelling bag Into which he put the banknotes which „had been deposited. In the

office-gifer

According to.a report, the men cecapod in a car parked in the side-struct adjoining the theatre,

None of the large, crowd were aware that the cob. bery had taken place until the arrival of the police.

Manslaughter Summons

Against Driver

06

01,

To Dismiss IN ATLANTIC

Cabinet CONFERENCE Djuanda

London, Feb. 19.

Mr Harold Macmillan, the Prime Minister, told the House of Commons today: "I want a summit con- ference, but I do want it to be successful.”

Opening a two-day House

Padang, Feb. 20.

The Prime Minister of the Revolutionary Govern-į

ment, Sjafruddin Prawiranegara, last night personally advised President Soekarno that his decision on dismissing the Djuanda Cabinet and abandoning "guided democracy" was ex- pected "within a few days”.

of Commons debate on foreign

"We would like to hear the affairs, the Prime Minister decision of the President before showed himself still cautious we take the last step," said about holding talks with Russia Sjafruddin said in a statement STOUT.. read over Radio Padang by a without preliminary work being int and Arm Cabinet Minister.

agenda chosen.

to

"If President Soekamo wishes "Positive disillusionment

the unity of the preserve more dangerous than the pre-nation and the well-being of servation of even the

the State, there is only one way Lemous

mast

expectation, and really do not want to have that for him to do it," he said. again," he said.

MOST LIKELY

He saw dlaarmoment-"In the widest sensc"-18 the subject

to most likely

lead to some tolka with success: in

the Russians,

Mr Hugh Galtskell, leader of the Labour Opposition said Russin wanted to invite other as Poland and countries such Czechoslovakia. to join in the talks if the West was repre- sented by Britain, the United States and Franco,

Mr Galtsiell said the mast important subject of all for summit conférence Was dis engagement in Europe-a plan for European security, involving the reunification of Germany.

* OPPOSITION'S VIEW...

a

The cded for clachgigement in Europe, he said, WLE "over

the whelmingly strong" ani opposition would like to see:

of

Gradual withdrawal foreign forces from East and West Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary,

An agreement to it and control conventional

faroes.

No nuclear weapons per mited to nations covered by the agreement.

German reunilleation. A security pict under written by the great the powers guaranteeing frontier of this noutral sone, for Ger- An agreement many to withdraw from Nato, and for Poland, Czecho. slovakia and Hungary to [ withdraw from the WarSAW

Pack

Reiterated

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The statement. also painted out that there has been statement from Soekarno since his return from abroad.

The demand was relterated

the Soekarno rumove that

In

In

form

SOEKARNO TO SEE DR HATTA

Djakarta, Fob. 19. President Sockurno and his former Vico - President,

Mohammad Dr

Hatta, moot wore expected to tomorrow to try and solvo Indonesia's internal crisis following the proclama- tion of a now Independent Djuanda Cabinet and appoint!

government by robelllous Dr Mohammed Hatta and the

Contral Sumotra last Sultan of Jogjakarta to and lead a new Cabinet.

PIA Saturday,

Nowe Governmental comand

Agancy reported today. Revolutionary

Tho Indonesian Agency, que No. 4, the Government

Wednesday от

quoting authoritative · sources, who that any notified banks

selt the meeting would probably falled to comply with this Gov- take

Dr Hatta's place in orders .to block residence in Djakarin, ernment's

funds Djakarla government

Members of the Cabinet this would be, blacklisted in

President morning briefed Revolutionary Sockarng future by the

on their activities Government and its legal sue during his 40-day holiday shroud and the latest developments in This apparently was directed Central Sumatra, the agency to the Bingapore banker who said,

ald he would continue to directives honour drafts "not from the Djakarta Government according to reports received here; The communique-rel- terated such banks also would be held responsible for such a nation's internal situation

Last night, according to PIA, tiens..

President Bockarno received at

Dessor's

Representatives

the

The radio sald that it was sending three special represen tatives abroad to explain its aims to foreign governments,

It said the representatives would visit countries in Europe st Asia, and would go to the United States.

1

AMBASSADORS DE

Since his return to DJakarta last Sunday, the President had summoned divil, political and military leaders for talks on the.

21 BODIES

PICKED UP

Norfolk, Feb. 19.. Search vessels fighting high

winds and 30-foot waves today retrieved 21 bodies and found two survivors In a lifeboat in the stormy Atlantic where 24 Italian seamen were dumped lat night when their lifeboat capsized.

It left only one member of the 27-man crew of the stricken 2- Italiani" ore ship sa BonÍÍAS unsooounted for. Three other survivors were hauled aboard a rescue ship last night after abandoning their ship.

The ore vessel. Bonitas, aban- doned by fis crew on Tue day when it was crippled to a severo Atlantic storin, "WAS last reported sill about but "dow

by the head,”; the Coast Guari mid. The search

VORCľa famed out from tho Bonitas to continue the hunt,.

The

13 Foot Seas

cutter

Cons! Guard Chilula, from Morehead City, N.C.. WILS directing the

search

three. conducted by Navy, destroyer, esporta, two merchant ships and the Pre- dent. Adams, Two Navy planes and a Coust Guard airgraft were expoofed.. to join the hunt which was hampered by 18 foot more, “strong, wiside and intermittent

now.

lils palace ią Djakarta the Indo-The President Adams radioed

lo West Ambassadora nesian

about 1 am, `EST"" {t ́had'

Hfeboat lowered is

and Germany and the Philippines

picked up three of the sea- Zairin Zain and Nazir Datuk

tho Pamontjak, shortly after the two

men bus

others bad diplomats had a meeting with

begun "drifting away"; after their Rebost exprized as the Dr Hatta.

lizer pulled alongside to taką them aboard,' ̧

This morning the ambassadors called on Dr Hatta again and The rebel Central Sumatran conveyed to him the President's Government issued decree Views on the internal situation, "rovolding a Djakaria Govern the agency said.-Reuter. ment order blocking Central Sumatran air and sea ways yesterday.

over

The decroc, broadcast Radio Bukit Tiner, sald Cen- traj Sumatran skies and waters were open to all but aircraft and ships belonging to the In- donesian Air Force and Navy.

Support

London, Feb. 19. A summons alleging man- slaughter has been issued against driver Willian Trew, driver of Brown was wearing a dinner the express train which crashed into a local train at Lewisham, jacket and did not appear un. +duly anxious although he de-

south London, in December clined to answer medical ques- causing deaths and 175 tions.

In his opening speech Mr casualties.

Macmillan referred to his re- " Sir Winston en the danger

Radio Bukit Tinggi ad Trew,

of Com- list?" o reporter asked.

will appear at cent six-week tour

He said yesterday a meeting of heads of southeast monwealth countries. Court, that but it Greenwich "I cannot answer whose return to Peking is ex-

departments government pected within a few hours.

does not mean yes," Brows said. London. The mummons alleges that at home and in the coun-Minahasa in the Central Celeber Then after some thought, be that he caused the death of the tries he had just visited he felt added, "Sir Winston is in good guard on the Charing Cross-to-Towing anxiety and readiness had pledged support for th

Hayes electric train, Robert to grasp

at almost any plan Central Sumatran Government, Licut.-Col. D. J. Somba, Com. spirits.

that, would solve the conflict mandant of the North and "He passed the day reading Willam Reynolds.

between Communism and the rapers, talking to his family and

Central Celebes announced yes West-Reuter dealing with correspondence."

terday that he supported the rebels

sald Radio

Tingal

move

Yative leadership has no-Reuter.

intention of proposing such

[See also Faro 21

# bargain. There Is

equally no aign that the

Labour Party is wooing HUNDREDS

Liberals.

The "middle" party is in any

dase

cartain to approach MAROONED

the election cautiously. had a bitter lesson in 1950, when nearly 400 of its can- didates polled so few votes that they lost their deposits.

Opportunity

that election, Liberals

Sydney, Feb. 19. Fifty-one inches of rains in Ave days sent a 35-foot wall of the crashing through water

Queensland North

Cily of MacKay Carly Tuesday.

Police said only one was kill- but hundreds of others were A lako Ave miles marooned, wide covered half the city and the swirling waters made rescue work hazardous,"

got 2,021,648 voles, Labour received 13,250,592 and Conservatives 12,602,507. The Liberal leaders say the next general election will be "their finest opportunity The Pioneer River was for thirty years, but they fest above normal and in the

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Gratitude

Brown'said Lady Churchill and the rest of the family wanted to express gratitude to friends, to well-wishers here and overacos and to fournalists for not gathering in the narrow private road leading to the villa and for not blocking the phone line.

This train had stopped at signals when Trew's train hit it in the rear. China. Mail Speciali

Pilot Killed

By Props

Cairo, Feb. '10.

A Dutch Airliner crash-

Earlier in the day. Drlanded, at Cairo Airport today. Boberia told nowmen that hit a sand dune, and hurled]

Built

at

MERCHANT ficers end NCOs of the Army

SHIP EXPLODES

Manamah, Bahreini

Feb. 19.

Churchill was suffering from the Dutch co-pilot out of the The 7,440-ton, British mor a "chronie bronchial condi-plane into the propellers, which Won" and had smoked two killed him'instantly.

None of the other seven cred

had

in the Northern Celebes

to get in touch been ordered with the Djakarta Government, but felt themselves unable to do United Press and Reuter,

Plane Crashes Into Vesuvius

chant ship, Selatan, ex-

Naples, Feb. 10. ploded here tonight

Searchers found the wreckago cigars--no atter breakfast

following a fire on board. today of a US Air Force piane and the other after lunch. "He is not going to die," the jured,

or the 18 passengers was in-

An official spokesman said on Blount Vesuvius and report- doctors teld

reccus ships were pleking up ed all 16 persons aboard it were nowsmen then.

killed. he only reason for concern

Housos An Air Force spokesman said is his age"

Royal Dutch Airlines, had b The

a party of US almen radioed Thus the mediest bulletin flown here from..Amsterdam Ave miles away. camo os tomewhat of a check its undercarriage was geriously The Selstad, built last year at back to headquarters that they Churchill has a blatory of chest damaged and omeinls said it South Shields, is owned by the found no life in the plane, which dülnesses dating back to child- would mot make the return Strick Lino Limited. of London, vanished hood but each time his age is,

trip-Houter,

are certain to be highly contro of the city the water was selective in attacking seats 100 fost doop and still rising more of a factor. TOW held by opponents, United Frem.

Fow politicians seo any likelihood of a Liberal mass

army on the lines of 1960..

But a skilfully waged

CAM-

paign against the weak

Monkey Attack not guarantee

Не

Brown cald be hoped another bulletin would be issued some uma tomorrow, but ho, could

what time. thought it might be in the after noph. Sydney, Feb. 10.:

A French riot policeman points in Conservative and More than 100 sutches were

an' 11-year-old armed with a .45 calibre pistol Labour defences might give Inscried la

For!

boy's logs and arms after he guarded the gate to the villa's them after the ad babit savaged by three private rond. He said he bott scate. This, could have

South American spider monkey's orders to remt no effect not only of pro- al Sydney's Taronga Park 200. belonging to the fils to enter or ducing a stalemate result! The boy: Milton Kines, of stroll about..

and not

for the two main parties Peakhurst, Sydney, had dropped Churchill has been holiday but also of giving Liberals into the monkey pit to retrieve ingat Roquebrune je pospe China England's - penetrating" "Winter ajbalancing position in a threepenny. the House of Commons. "Mali Special

Bayon Temary 16,

The plane, osnel by, KLM survivorsion shook

-Reuter

lost Saturday,

United Press.

FUCHS PLOWS THROUGH BLIZZARD

Wellington, Feb. 19.

[tich¦¦) zileztin

Vivian Fuchs party of Bri-

brushing through a "wh tersed

margue tha“ sky: and

(Bad wonther has slowed thein Plateau - Depal -

répbit from the Trani from their earlier 40 tilien (a expedition mild, that]-: dar kvotage, but they are now. ・the_last_dar's'kun" """only' about' 464 - mlios";from Clas-magna - took it Bolt Base on the Row Sea, -having, ouyoród - more than 1:059 \r audiowalnoolonying Shackleton Hare, on the other alls of the white puntinent,

Hongkong Gloves

London, Feb. 10. Exports of gloves, excepting rubber gloves, from Hongkong to countries other than Britain from January to November last totalled 1,695,000 dozen paire, the Colonial Secretary, Mr Alan Lennox-Boyd, said in a Parlia- mentary reply today.Reuter.

All of the men were believed før

be wearing life jackets,

The Haer was the first veksel to reach the scene last night, less than Ave hours after the Italian ship's Skipper flashed the 808 that his 447-1009 vessel had sprung a leak and was sinking rapidly. That waR at 2.45 p.m. EST. About twa the hours later he ordered

to abandon ship.-

crew

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