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INDONESIA'S PAPER WAR

THE "elvil war" in Sumatra must be expected to re- main for some time to come within those curious limits with which the "Tuchun wars" in Chinn made the world, and especially closer spectators, familiar after the First World War. There was then a minimum of bloodshed, a plethora of "war" communiques, and a maximum of mendacity. The wars were then fought and won by industrious young scribes with much Imagination and no respect whatever for the truth.

A

more Berious aspect may conto later, far from decisions of limited range often spring events of for

moment. greater The refusal of Pre- aident Soekarno and hi

accept

the

The effect may be little for

the moment,

jungle or have thrown up

the sponge.

Propaganda Line

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FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1958,

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RELAX IN

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TEEN PANTINA KOSTARY IN ACTION ÉRBETSKURS

Whiteaways

CHEATING KONG-GROWLOON.

WEST SUFFERS SEVERE REVERSES

Hongkong Bank Chairman

Presents Review

At Annual Meeting

The text of the review follows:

During the past year was very little improvement Incosts in Une with those of her international relations through-competitors has been solved. out the world. The outstanding

East

Recurring

fort

been

EL

"There is no disguising the fact that the West, and the United States in particular, have suffered a severe political reverse due to the strategic consequancas of the Russian advances in technology," said Mr C. Blaker, Chairman of the Hong- kong and Shanghai Banking, Corporation, in his review of the year at the Annual General Meeting this morning. Mr Blaker added: "It would seem doubtful whether the present policies will meet this changed situation and the demand for a more positive approach to break the deadlock seems likely to gain in intensity." Dealing with Asia, Mr Blaker said that it would be unwise to be complacent friends Lo

at a state of affairs with so many explosive possibilities. position taken. by Dr Hatta

sul Mr Blaker also

that rate w83 raised to 7%, the terms of trade, which has re- and his supporters-which

en-Hongkong had been fortunate in highest since 1921, with restric-sulted in a general fall in the they were perfectly

both bank udvances foreign exchange reserves of tiled to do and to send recent years in the inflow of tons on

of which had and expenditure by local Bu- most countries in the urca, is troops into action, take this capital, much

built up new industries, but he 'horitles.

These mensures the most disturbing economic rank.

feature. Admittedly those dif- added that it would be "unwise halted the drain on the sterling to rely on this continuing arco reserves and as a

result ficulties were aggravated by the before indefully." and

the short-term position

has increasing pace of development but judg- but edministrative greatly Improved long the rebel troops may

weaknesses bo

Chairman's ment must be from the operating

deferred as to in several cases have

quickened or not the overriding the trend and have delayed the whether there problem of keeping British

reverse it. I would be unfair to taking of appropriate action to

criticise the various

countries concerned unduly, as very few other countries have been free These recurring currency from balance of payment d Atream of propaganda from seemed no nearer solution and in spite of discussions on disarına- the Indonesian

for high crises have evoked serious con- feuilles at one time or another Govern.

ment and proposals

sideration as to whether it is in recent years. Nevertheless it ment spokesmen covering level talks, the main issues be-

advantageous to the United is unfortunate that this site of up their resurt to armed tween the two sides still re-

to maintain sterling affairs should have occurred at Kingdom the force with daily assertionsmained unresolved. In

international currency. a time when most of the various of foreign intervention. scientifle field, on the other hand, an

remarkable Those who argue against have development programmes be

were two will Arma

reported there

the de- took quire outside capital, that the drain last year descending daily from the developments which seem likely drawn support from the

mand for which throughout the a major influence on Bkies

Central to have

the future progress of the human place at a time when the coun- world is so active. Actually en Sumatra. There will be no

and siderable amounts ofcoultat estimates have been have been granted to the urea detalls as to where these mee--the launching of the Rustry, was paying is way,

slan carth satellites and the first various

through mysterious aircraft

steps in the control of theme-made to show that the foreign during the past year from, whether they took off nuclear reactions. Although the exchange carnings of the City such media as the International

Calcutta, Rangoon, latter may prove, in the

are much less than has from

long Singapore, Manlia, or any run, to be the more important, Enerally supposed. While this Bank, various United States not the place to enter into gencles and the Colombo Flan, other field.

the immediato impact of the

but there are signe that these this interesting discussion, greater,

It There is always the possi- former was very much

would therefore seem who thowing as it did the lead that should like to say this, that from supplies are not unlimited.

to be bility

that people make these statements may tussin has now gained in inter- the point of view of a bank such

There is no s ours, mainly concerned with necessary to attract to

a greater be called to Recount for it continental misslies. through the creation of and the United States in

disguising the fect that the West, the financing of international extent the flow of private capi- suggestion that to but Asian countries should trade, any UN investigation Commis ticular, have suffered a sever role it hrs held for so long, call other areas

sterling should abrogate the not forget that there is already

considerable

competition from sion, so it is best not to go political reverse duc to the

for what too far in making nasertions strategie

the only be viewed with apprehen consequences of

In their annual re- that can be controverted, Russian advances in technology,sion. Notwithstanding periods of available.

port the Consultative Committee! It is suffelent to make them it would seem doubtful whether distrust from time to time.

meet recent years, no currency has in order that they may be the present policies will broadcast and embroidered this changed situation and the yet been found able to take the

this competition is that it offers of sterling and it is place all over the air by Moscow demand for a more positive ap-

to sce

the potentially large and growing how proach to break the deadlock dimeult and Peking.

markets" but go on to warn that make up The settlement of the attractions of the region, Picture pect also askirances not so

trade in our particular area however, much of foreign interven-

The economic pleture has been along could be cleared without balanced by such factors as ap- tion and ald, but of re- inforcement and sympathy somewhat nixed and it is not the facilites sterling and the

clear whether in 1950 the danger City of London provide. from

a variety of other most to be guardest against is applies also to other parts of the

and world

return to geographical rising costs or falling produc racini

bilateralism, with all the groups in the archipelago,

tion:

frustrations this would involve, The name and fome of the nationary tendencies that have would seem to be the available Achinese are things to con- been so much a feature of the result of ony serious limitation jura with. They will come postwar era are still growing in the use of these facilities. in-so the rebel lenders whether a period of deflation is

The common market, com- already say with 200,000 about to set in. Whatever the

of France.

Western hold the ferce and furious fighters future may

present posed

countries, officially came of the sort who kept the situation, with the increasing Germany, Italy and the Benelux Dutch at bay for decades cost of manufactured goods and and whose little indepen- considerable drop in commod-being on 1st Janurry 1053 but free trade area, which is to bo established dent State actually entered ity prices, has pressed heavily the wider

on the balance of payments of c

around these countries and Into Treaty relations with the Eastern countries in which

which is intended to comprise ably slow up their progress.

Progress The heavy cost of modern in- many bridges to crons, dustrial development has in-seems likely to be slow, as, although there is a growing tensifted the world capital

agreement on the general shortage and this, coupled with

advantages, of such

negotiation turns to facilities member countries en-of the difficulties is revealed,

with the International Joy

During the Monetary Fund, year many currencies suffered at period of considerable strain and in

par-

19

In

of the Colombo Plan point of "the advantage of the region in

From the rebels we may ex-seems likely to gain in intensity. multitude of transactions which

or

whether in

foet the in-

This

into

can be counter-

(Contd. on page 8, col 1)

BY-ELECTION DEFEAT FOR TORIES

Glasgow, Mar. 13. MH2 Labour Party don't

the Conservative Gov- crament's prestige a blow here today, capturing ite parliamentary seat at Kel- vingrove with A small majority.

The result, declared to. night, was:

Mra Mary McAlister, Labour—10,210 votes.

Katharine Elilot, Conservative, 8,850 votes.

Mr David Murray, Liberal -Homo Rular-1,022 votes. Me William Park, Independent Labour Party

587 votes.

Labour majority-1,300 votes.

Figures at the 1955 Gen- eral Election were Colonet Walter Elilot, Conservative, 14,884; Mr J. L. Wildlamu, Labour, 11,900.

Conservativo majority,

Govern

2,000,

This was the mant's second loss of a sent within five wacke. At Rach. dalt, Lancashire, last

It month, humillating

MACMILLAN & Cuban Minister

EISENHOWER

TO CONFER

Washington, Mar. 13.

Mr Harold Macmillan, the British Prime Minister, will go to Washington for talks with President Eisenhower on June 9 and 10, it was an- nounced here tonight.

Mr Macralian will have a general discussion on world problems with the President and Mr Jolm Foster Dulles, the American Secretary of State.

The British and American leaders are also expected to discuss the question of summit talks with the Russians it a decision has not been reached already on this, according to Me James Hagerty, the President's Press Secretary

First Meeting

It will be

the first meciing

PLANES CARRYING

N-BOMBS

NO ADDITIONAL

RESTRICTIONS NECESSARY

aince last October when Mr The Macmillan and President Elsen-

hower produced

claration of

ол

Anglo-American

a joint "de- common purpose" relations

suffered defeat, Ibaing

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and world peace.

In

to Labour and coming bot- tom of the poll with about half the votes given to intervening Liberal.

PRIME ISSUE

now

RA

Prime Issue of the Kel. the vingrove contest was Government's

Rent Act, which raises rents and Beds,ourity for hundreds of thousands of people. It threatens some of the --alkötőre, here with eviction

from their homes.

Conservativos' shero of the total votes polled at Kelvingrove tumbled from 65.38 per bent at the 1965 general election to 41.61 per cent.

Mr Hugh

Galtskell, Labour Party leader, halfed the result as "a fine vic. tory for Labour, won under conditions that were

moot some respecta favourable. It le a clear call to the government to amend the Rent Act with- out delay," he added.

In

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Stato of parties in the House of Commons now be

and comer. Conservatives Allies 334; · Labour 260; Liberale five; Independente nine; vacant eats two- Router.

LABOUR LEADERS

TELL IKE

TAX CUT NEEDED

Washington, Mar, 13.

Britain long before Hong- we operate and this must inevit-most of Europe as well, ans still AFL-CIO leaders told President Eisenhower today

kong was ever heard of. And when they come in so will the Christian and other groups in Sumatral So runs the tale already.

Techniquo

an overall fall in the dollar when serves, has resulted in a grow-

area,

THE Indonesians have their ing use being made of drawing/Particular problems the extent president, said the Federation's economic conference which 1,000

of

by

The

Asia political

Previously they mel Dermuda in March, 1957, when agreement in

principle was

reached on the establishment of US missile bases in Britain,

During his June visit, the Prime Minister will also deliver the commencement address at

Mr James Hagerty said that Mr Macmillan was making the trip to Do Pauw because

Prime the British

Minister's grandfather had been the first medical

graduate University.

Washington, Mar. 13.

Escapes Assassination

Havana, Mar. 13.

A top Government official narrowly escaped assas- sination in Havana this morning.

Roul Menocal, Commerce

Minister of

untli last week's WAL urburt

Cabinet shuffle,

when shot at in his car by an unidentified man, but his secre- Lary Perez Saldivar was Wound- cd.

Menocal was just leaving his residence at the time. Follco Bald his ossallant hired a taxi at the comer of two streets in Vedado and sat in it until Menocal's car halted for a light. The man then ordered the taxi to start and Ared several shots at Menocal's car. He ordered it' to stop but the driver refused and the gunman then jumped out of the laxi and raced away. Police throw a cordon around the block and began a house-

TERRORISM

who

US Air Force said to-to-house search.

no additional day that restrictions were neces-

Menocal is a politician sary on planes carrying has been closely identaled with nuclear bombs since they President Batista. He had been already had standing in an unsuccessful structions not to fly over cities and other inhabited areas.

The accidental dropping of

the

1946.

Ad

candidate for mayorally of Havana in

In another instance of terror- ism Castro sympathisers broke Havana-Hilton into the new

which will be opened

on unarmed nuclear bomb on Hotel

a South Carolina village on March 19 and scattered gaso

on

Bl

A

Dc

Pauw Uniersity, Green- Tuesday had provoked questions line over the night club, set it the carrying of bomba by afire and escaped, guards put castle, Indiana.

Air Command's out the flames but damage was Strategie planes.

estimated at $23,0 sald that spokesman

Havana was outwardly quiet nucicar

were weapons

nover today on the first anniversary carried aboard planes making of last year's attack on the runs over Presidential Palice in which stimulated bombing that of

over American cities.

forty

mostly persona The Air Force said the re-

However, students were killed. taliatory bomber forces are in

one person WIL injured in an continuous combat readiness attempted demonstration at a training. It points out that in requiem masa for the dead at this training US cities are used the Sacred Heart Church.-

targets. China Mail United Presa,

His Decision

It was understood that the Prime Minister's decision come to Washington had been arrived at in the last two of

three days.

Usually well-informed sources

| said that the decision followed direct correspondence between the President and the Prime Minister.

that

One ofcial source said the fuct that the Prime Minis-

Special,

Government Reshuffle

CHANCES FOR RATINGS

London, Mar. 13,

of a new scheme for promotion

ter was returning to Washing-

Promotion New Delhi, Mar. 13.

for lower deck ton so soon after his talls with the

Nehru men in the Royal Navy is to be President last

Premier Jawaharlal October

Robert Allan, should not occasion any

sur-tonight announced a Government increased, Mr

the reshuffle involving a substantial Parliamentary Secretary prise.

This Source said that Mr number of Cabinet posts but Admiralty, said tonight. At pre- "of the officers no profound political sent a quarter Macmillan would probably be carrying

come from the lower deck. crossing the Atlantic to confer significance.

The reshuffle, which resulted Mr Allan said details would President with the

at fairly

month or two in the fourth Nehru government be announced in regular intervals,

since India received its in- Officials said. that the idea of Mr Macmillan going to De Pauw dependence, was required by the of ratings picked out as suitable and advancement University originated as long resignation of Finance Minister, for training

T. T. Krishnamachari and the direct to officer rank. Ho ago as September, 1056,

death of Educatica

hoped it would start in 1959. Once Me Macmillan had de-

The intention was to make it elded that he could attend the Maulana Azad.

All ministers in the reshumed almost parallel with cadet entry University ceremony this June

are members of through the Dartmouth Naval he immediately informed the Rovernment

Nehru's Congress Party College, he sald.--China Mail President of his intention,

Special, that the They then agreed visit would present a good up. portunity for them to review world problems once more. - Reuter.

Unemployment

In Britain

London, -Mar, 13. Unemployment in Britain in-

that the administration decisión tó defer anti- recession tax cut action was “unnecessary and unwise" and would cause more unemployment.

George Meany, AFL-CIO the AFL-CIO at an emergency Executive Committee told Mr union leaders have been hold creased by 30,000 in the first Elsenhower there would be "no] Ing here.

month and a half of 1938, the said here sense" in waiting until next

Ministry of Labour siluation month before deciding the tax

The programme

would cut today. tho Far East shows cut issue.

taxes by raising individual ex- Unemployment figures in Europe the problem was ag- little outward change.

penditure from $800 to $700. tensed by the Ministry 'showed gravated by the strength of the Many outstanding problems s11

It also calls for improved un- that the Bgure had gone from The Treasury Secretary, re Deutsche Mark, the weakness of remain unsolved but while it Robert Anderson, said after a employment benefits and the 205,000 at the end of 1957 to

extension to

Jobless F the French Frane and the would be unwise to be compla conference with President

425,000 by mid-February, workers; increased defence rise in wages and prices in cent at a state of affairs with so Elaenhower yesterday that no In Cairo the industrious clerks, the United Kingdom. Sterling many explosive possibilities, the tax reduction decision would be spending; a broad public works apployed and 32,000 were at-

again had to bear the fact that local disturbances have made until the future course of granume; and increases of the Oman Pretender once walte a plece every day brunt of the speculative pressure not spread her in the the exonomy has been clarited" out of whole cloth. Cairo and, in September the bank satisfaction. Deterioration Radio sends it round the

own singular way doing things-always halves and never with out- right fanatiolem except perhaps in the case of the Dar Islam movement, which had

never had the motest claims to national alfair.

be

world and somehow or other

one or two of them always

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manage to get into printy In Your Saturday Mail

The same sort of thing may

be expected for some time

In Indonesia. But there ne In tomorrow's Weekend China Mall:

political and economic prob- lems that simply have to be Bolved. And if they are not there will be real civil war and perhapa real inter- vention, for in that ares of the world whore Sumatra is only a stone's throw from Malaya thero must be a caro. But the time has not And como for modlation even by such a clono friend and neighbour, let along a move by the UN.

LAST DAYS OF SHANGHAI—by John Luffi

HITLER'S MASTER SPY-by Chapman Pincher; THE DUSINESS OF WAR-by Major-General Sir John Kennedy; COMMENTARY-by Frank Owen; ́- RAGS TO RICHIES-by John Cottrell;

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But Mr Meany and the other AFL-CIO leaders said tax cuts and other anti-recession men- sure should be put in effect now. He told newsmen every economic indiestør miggestod that March would show further declino in the economy. SHOW CONCERN

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more

In

To-

Of the total of 425,000 un-

lay-offs.

thetributed to temporis, an esti- |

social security benefits: minimum wage and aid to dis- treased areas.--United Press.

Royal Visit

Brussels, Mar. 13. Dowager Queen Elizabeth, is

Tho figuresA mated 10 per cent of the tolat working population unemployed in February against 1.8 per cent in January. The figure for February 1857 was 1.8 per cent also-United Press.

planning to go to Russia, where Bubonic Plague

no Royal European foot has trod since the Bolshevika mur- Mr Meaty described the con- dered the Czar and his family

Salgon, Mar. 13. ference as "very friendly and in 1910, it was reported today. South Vietnam health authori-

President "certainly

tics

emergency

·were taking said the did! show concern over riding Charles Pignult de Beaupré, measures today, in the village unemployment, Ho said Mr secretary lo the 82-year-old of Dion Long, where one child Elsenhower did not offer any grandmother of King Baudouin, has died and another is critical- muggestions but, said he would refused to confirm or deny the by ill with bubonic plague, take the AFL-CIO recommenda- report, but the report was pub- It was the arst time tha

one under condideration. lished in the Belgian premi, | bubonie plague has broken out Today, Mr Menny gave the umally ultra-careful Ing. Its in the region, some, 40 miles President a loiter urging a five- handling of the Itoyal family.----| southeast of Balgon.—France- point programibia · adopted by United Pro

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