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COMMENT OF

THE DAY

SHOWDOWN AWAITED

RITAIN and Malta ure on

Bthe brink of a showdown

and when it comes as it must if the fiery Maltese Premier, Mr Dom Mintoff, runs true to form Bri- tain a likely to act Brat and talk afterwards.

For even the mildest of the

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1958.

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- WERE D'AMIKO WILO ON.

LABOUR CRITICISES MINTOFF Skaubryn

Move To Sever WEST CAN'T Moscow Expresses Regret

Ties

With UK Under Fire

London, Apr. 1.

Westminster tempers nre breaking-point near after Mr Mintoff's

per The Labour Opposition tonight criticised as "ex- siatent refusala to accept

tremely ill-advised" a resolution passed by the Britain's reasonable offers. Mr Mintoff's And evea

Maltese Parliament last December calling for Socialist supporters in Bri-

a severance of ties with Britain unless the up tain appear to be fed

British provide alternative work for dismissed with his attitude so at last the gloves are off.

dockyard workers, The Colonial Secretary's statement in the House of Commons announcing that bis latest talks with the Maltese Premier hnd ended in deadlock leaves matters where they were two years ngat

Rejected

Mr James Callaghan, Labour's chief colonial affairs spokes- man, made the criticism in a House of Commons debate on the British Mediterranean colony of Malta.

II

Financial

Scandal

In London

The Opposition called for debate after negotiations be tween the Colonial Secretary, Mr Alan Lennox-Boyd, and Mr Dum Mintor, the Maltese Prime Minister, on the proposed in- tegration of the United Kingdom | Five

id reached deadlock last week.

- Doubtful

Mr Herbert Morrison, a former Labour deputy leader, said after Minor's conduct in the Mr

negrelations he was towards nanti!

doubtful about supporting Malta's political Integration with Britsh.

Latio

He added that several other territories could claim represen

on astnitur becis to Malta and unce the principle conceded it would be was difficult to refuse it to others.

was in a Smilar Singapore position to Malla.

HE offers Mr Mintoll re- Tieto include shelving for five years the plan for the integration of Maita into the United Kingdom, with interim economic and constitutional arrangements In the meantime. Mr Lennox-Boyd also offered capital assistance of £25 million over five years, per- centage grants Malta's social services amounting to 1 million at first

}}}"

rising propor tlonally and help in finding new jubs if large-scale un- employment

follows the closure of Malta'a naval dockyard. On the other hand Britain s cut by £1 million. its yearly 20 million financial aid to Malta's budget,-saying that Malta can very well and that million herself. There is little doubt that this cut is the reason why Mir Mintoff, would not entertain Britain's offers. He would not accept that Britain was

"You would forced to make the reduc interesting body of Members of dis tion because of the credit Parliament if Singapore

He income in.

It is highly probable squeeze ut, home, sisted that if Malta needed some of them would be Chinese money at all now was it in origin and possibly with that curious 'Chaies: continuing most desperate hour.

toyalty which is not necessarily Communist at all but which is Levertheless a sentimenul feel-

"Supposing Singapore claims ed representation in the House of Commons and said that i we did not give the island would go independent?

Interesting.

London, Apr. 2. British businessmen and journalists will ap pear in Court today on sensational charges of cheating and defrauding The public with a view to floating shares for a gold und an oil company. The accused were arrested on

by Tuesday night

Scotland from the Fraud Yard men Squad. They include 65-year- old millionaire Arthair White- head, Director of the Whitehead Industrial Trust, Cecil Barnett, Gnancial editor of the large circulation London Evening News, and Erie Limpkin, direc tor of a small circulation financial review. A sixth mao, now in hospital as a result of an accident, is expected to be arrested shortly.

The arrests

COMPETE WITH THE EAST

Eastern

Johannesburg, Apr. 1.

manufacturers, with their cheap labour and their trading methods, were powerful) enough to break South Bald G.B.J. Africa, Kuschke, manager Industrial Development, Rotary speaking at function here today.

A

of

He said no Western nation could ever compete with the East.

While visiting faciarlos In Hongkong and Japan, he said, he had sean cotton Bock. sold to Bouth importers At African seven shiflings and alx.. pence a dozen pairs, free on board.

Thoro factories

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worked

two 12-hour shifts daily, πάνας days a week, and wal the averago pay #avan shillings and alx. pence a shift. Labour was

cheap In Hongkong that manufac. turers could und workers to cut Blemishes out of rejected British steel and thus employ this materiał profitably in their plants. -Reuter,

To Intensify

Action Against

American Refusal Over American

NEW ATOM WEAPONS TO BE TESTED

Washington, Apr. 1.

Moscow, Apr. 1. The Soviet Union said today it "deeply regretted" United States reaction to the Soviet decision to stop unilaterally further tests of nuclear weapons and American refusal to follow suit.

The Soviet News Agency Toss Josued an "authorised statement" which said Soviet Covernment

It circles

"most diy -found appointing that the US State not Department, reaction did testify to desire by the US Government to support Soviet and fellow suit in ending atomic and hydrogen

The Navy plan to use five initiative ships and eight barges to tests. teal newly developed

The Sovie: statement denied atomic

under weapons

the Amerkan contention - the simulated combat" con State Department statement - ditions cleared its first, that there was no rellable sys- congressional hurdle to-tem for checking whether tests

had really been abandoned. day.

The House Armed Services

NO GROUNDS Committee approved the phon afler Rear Admiral--AG-

There was no ground for such Muinma, Chief of the Navy's Bureau of Ships, testified, the an assertion "If only because it tests would involve underwater has been scientifically proved that any atomic and hydrogen atomic devices

If the new weapons prove bomb test is ensily delected and be recorded In whatever, part uf out, they presumably will

US the world it may be held and arsenal of adder to the

use this was recently adroited by for available weapons against Russia's powerful sub-Prezident Elsenhower." marine fleet in case of war.

The test will be conducter this Spring-apparently as part test of the 'new US nuclear serler at Eniwetok. Atoll in the Pacife:

DESTROYERS

Mumma

The resent International situation demanded not a bar. ren diplomatic duel but practi- cal works in the sphere of dis- the Soviet state- armament," ment said.

I was this that guided the and Commander Soviet Union when it decided to W. F. V. Bennett of the Navy's end unilaterally the testing of Atomie Energy Division explain-atomic and hydrogen weapons,"

--Reuter. ed the bill to permit use of the

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ip the Committee behind IRA dosed doors. Heavily-censored

London, Apr. 1. were made after The Queen's speech, opeaing nine-month investigation by the Northern Ireland Parila- Scotland Yard,

ment, today announced that the The companies for which the British Government will Inten- accused were trying to floalsify its action against Irish Re- shares were named as the Sage publican terrorism if this should

the Tarti

become decemary, Oil Company and

The speech, read by Lord Goldfields Company.-France-

Walcehurst, Governor of Ulster, Presse

expressed natisitetion nt the measures already laken "against those who over a year ago em-

campaign

Compensation

D

Anti-Recession

accounts of their testimony were given to reporters later.

Mumma, salg the tests would 2,120-ton des- Involve. three troyers, one 000-ton killer sub- marine, one Liberty cargo ship the data obtained und eight lighter-type barges,

He said would be used to determine how for US vessels must be from session- $1,850 million housing

avold largets to their destruction.

This could mean the weapons

Washington, Apr. 1. President Eisenhower toxlay signed into law the first major anti-recession measure approved the current congressional by

self-bill.

Still Burning At Sea

London, Apr. 1.

The Norwegian migrant

ship Skaubryn is flouting derelict with fire still burning amidships and forward, according to n Message received hero

tonight by Lloyds, We Should Share

Knowledge With Britain: Dulles

Washington, Apr. 1.

Mr John Foster Dulles, the Secretary of State, gald today it struck him as complete folly for the United States not to share its atomic knowledge with Britain.

Not to share this knowledge resulted only in a vast duplicu- expense, Mr Dulles tion of

at his preSA con- observed terence.

He said it was silly for Britain, which was co-operating with, the United States in this type of programme, to have to spend hundreds of millions of pounds

to learn something watch the Walted States could

out the

give it for nothing and then British concinically in onder might have to help to make up for the unnecessary financial burden which tho United States had imposed upon them for nuclear weapons,

OPPOSITION

The Secretary of State's com- ' ments were made in answer to

The British tanker Wheatfield (10,840 tons) reported that she had lowered a boot to in- spcct the Skaubryn, from which 1,287 survivors rescued when it caught fire in the Indian Ocean en route to Australia.

were

The Wheatfold said there was too much fire for her to con- burning sider towing the ship.

The Staubryn

was dangerous to navigation, it added,

Broke Out

First reports from the ship's captain indicated that the tire broke out in the engine run and spread so quickly and violently that efforts to mas- ter it were useless. It was not yet known whether it started with an explosion. • Passengers from the abandoned ship will probably not have to walt more than 48 hours in Aden before re-embarking for Australia by ship or by plane, the Intergovernmental Com- milice for European Migration (ICEM) reported tonight In Geneva-All Agencies,

HK Mental Hospital

a question about opposition in Elsenhower the Congress to Administration's proposals to

London, Apr. 1. the amend

present Atomic Kenneth Robinson, MP, today Energy Act to permit sharing asked

Secretary the Colontai of secrets with allled govern=| whether mcnts.

now

the hospital in Hongkong was

mental now

The questioner remarked that] ccmpleted and to what extent the chief point of opposition ap- the old mental hospital was still

the develop- In a

the written reply, would encourage peared to be a fear that thin in use, ment of a "fourth country" as a Under-Secretary, John Profumo, said a custodial home was open- Democratic sponsors of the nuclear power.

Mr

that the ed last year as the first stage of Dulles replied

programme was the new mental hospital, which would it be it was hoped to complete, carly are new versions of the "Betty", measure claimed that it would and otomic depth charge now in stimulate the housing industry Government's of use by the fleet. The "Betty" to build 200,000 new housing not designed, nor

and provide jobs for used primarily, to expand the in 1960.

There are 385 patients stil fr barked on -Cairo, Apr. 1.

nuclear weapons-Reuter. dropped from a plane which 508,000 workers in 12 months number of countries which have Egynt has rejected a French violence agalast Northern Ire-is so powerful that it fast be units

Router. then can scurry away from the THE xituation was extreme-ing for the great mother-coun-uffer of £8 million as her share land." Tly delicate even before try of China."

The speech added: "My Gov- towards compensation

take target area.-United Press, damage during the Suez crisis, crnment la determined to

all necessary mensures to fore- stall and prevent further violence assuine and will not hesitate to whatever additional powers the

France-Presse, situation

Delicate

Was

the

for

last month's talks in London "I would not welcome such a Treasury ministry spokesman began for the Colonial representation in the Briush said here, tonight. Secretary

still

aim-House of Commons, but mering after the angry Colonial Secretary has landed telegraphic exchanges with himself in such a position timt It he would be in difficulties if were made," ho

tho Malleso Premier that claim appears that Mr Lennox added-Reuter.

おこ Boyd had gone as far as could towards meeting Mr Mintoff and his patience was exhausted,

Mr Mintoff was also feeling |

deeply injured after this

angry exchange of telegrams

The French offer was insuff- cient, he said. Egypt demanded 72 million jointly from France and Britain. Reuter,

may

demand."

NO PLACE FOR PISTOLS IN

and so had left behind him. UAR DELAYS TALKS: PROFUMO

in the Legislative Assembly

n resolution threatening to

cut all ties with Britain-

"

resolutium

which,

ho

London, Apr. 1.

REQUEST FOR Mr John Profumo, the Colonial Under-Secretary, said to-

knows, and the Colonial UN MEETING

Office knows, is worthless,

but nevertheless, damages

confidence. Therefore the

Cairo, Apr. 2.

conference was doomed to The United Arab Republicį

fallure.

Stalked Out

A Mintoff

.

He

night there was "no place for pistols" in negotiations between Britain and Me Dom Mintoff, Prime Minister. of Malta, on the proposed integration of the-Mediter ranean colony with the United Kingdom.

10 to a re-

was referring la delayed its request for an House of Commons emergency meeting of the solution passed last December Legislative United Nations Security by the Maltese Council mooting following Assembly.

Mr Profume, replying to notico by the Security

the .sald Council President, Henry debate on Malta,

British Government had pointed Cabot Lodge, that Israel no pistols at Mr Mintott"only had stopped work in the sensible suggestions. disputed area of the de- militarised zone near Lake Hulch, it was reported here today.

once, Mr LMOST ut

and his en- tourage stalked out of thei Colonial Office in scarcely! contained rage, saying that Mr Lennox-Boyd was trying to split them and It re- for the Colodial mained Secretary to call them back. Now that the conference has

onded Mr Miniat is home) again, uttering more threats. News

The semil-official Middle East

sald:, Agency

to

Mr. Mintoff has refused recommend integration, on the British Government's terms.

BLAMED

Mr. Lennox-Boyd has blamed "The Mr Mintoff for the deadlock in he attached He has told his Parliament, United Arab Republic has re- the trika because

different!! "As the Malteso Government quested that the Security Coun-."new and extremely

integration and has not agreed to adopt the cil meet immediately in the conditors for Anancial measures adopted event of Israel's. resumption of had also demanded that Britain by the British Government, its aggression."

we will not accept respons bility for the administration and good government of this Island."

CEASE-FIRE

either agree to new and exten- siyo inancial aid, for the island or be ready to grant its Inde- pendence,

Time-Bomb Found

Crates

In

LIBERAL GETS SILENT

RECEPTION

Icy

London, Apr. 1.

silence greeted the entry into the House of Commons today of the new Liberal Member of Parliament, Mark Bonham-Carter, the first candidate of his party to! win a, by-election for 20 years.

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Neither Conservative, nor Ia- sign bour benches, made ony of the usual greeling, and two of the Liberal members were escorting in their new col- his oath, only. league to take three were left as a potential source of demonstration.

Bonham-Carter took the oath and went back to the Liberal benches with his two party sponsora.

Nicosia, Apr. 1.' Security forces making a

Ho brings the Liberal Party snap search of British

numbers back to, six, one scat servicemen's dependent

having been lost when Lody housing areas near Fama Megan Loyd George, daughter gusta today found a high-of the great Liberal leader of explosive lime-bomb hid- that name, switched to the La- den among empty whisky bour party and won one of the accepted Liberal strongholds crates near onc of the left vacant by the death of the Liberal member, France- -houses.

Pres50.

►

The authorities salt "scores" Mr Profumo said so long as of familles might have been Mena said Mr Love Informed

Meanwhile, the underground orgenisation Eoka And ho added that he would Zaki Kenaw!, acting head of the Maltese Government tried to killed if the bomb hat explodes. the UAR delegation, that the attach one-sided conditions of

leaflet signed

by dissolve Parliament

BUN ccose-are had become effee independence to the integration resistanco hold a general election if ve in the troubled Israeli-, plan, the British Government issued *

as the re- could not "Introduce legislation General Grivas, the organiza~ closetion's leader, marking the third Britain did not promieo to Syrian border area

anniversary of the outbrealt of association. meet the island's budgetary Bult "of United Nations efforts to carry out plans for

violence in Cyprus. The House accepted, without a dofcit for the coming finan to case the, situation."

vate,

Government a formal

"We are mare powerful than cial year.

nota ever before," said the leadet. All of which means that he clear that the UAR request was motion asking it to take

'Colonial Secretary's "Our ranka are strengthened still hopes that Britain will not definitely withdrawn and of the

about would be presented again if statement last Tuesday on the dully with new blood from the chango her mind

flared up once romult of his talks with Mr.Inchaumibia.restryes of youth

--United Press. Mintoff-Reuter cutting Malta's aid by 41 border tension

more-United “Pigsa, million.

The Mona report made

Churchill

Roquelburne, Apr. 1.

Sir Winston Churchill will y to England from. the French Riviera on Thursday, sources at [his vacation villa here said to-

night.

He will take a regular airline light from nearby Nice airport Thursday afternoon at 2.65 p.m. arriving in London at 1800

· GMT, they saki--United Prom.

French Halt

TODAY'S

the old hospital, he added.~

Government's Inflation In Serious

Paris, Apr. 1.

wide imas

nationwide trans-

port stoppage is considered here as a warning that the Freach Government's efforts

to halt inflation is in serious danger.

Trade union leaders said they did not want to give this strike or similar future action uny political character, but the feeling among the rank and fic workers that they

more money must have

to meet the steadily rising cost VITY strong of living WES and likely to get stronger. The Government appeared 1

take today's strike calmly and some of its spokesmen elalmed

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By HAROLD KING

i would not have any serious consequences. But this opi mism was not shared clic where..

Effort To

Danger

The cost of living Index for March has not yet been pub. llshed,

rellable But usually sources said it had gone up from 110.43 in February 10 113.3 in March, compared with 100 in July, 1957. This takes the index to a point

the at which

national minimum

auto- wage must matically be increased,

at the Midiatry Oficila

National Economy were fore- casting that the cost of living

of

THE POPULAR

would be up again in April, and said this would mean the minimum wage would have lo bo raised by two and half to three per cent in June 1. This would be the second rise this year and the fourth in ters months. The Mindster

of National Economy, M. Paul Ribeyre, is due to meet union leaders on April 10 to see if some kind of agreement can be reached,

Most observers here felt the

Government would have q siderable difficulty in solving this problem, and that the danger of a now spiral of indation was considerable- Reuter,

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