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Comment Conciliatory moves in Parliament may end violence of the TENSION LESSENS IN BELGIUM
day
CAN LABOUR CLOSE RANKS?
THE British Labour Party
this year with a campaign aimed at reuniting the two opposing factions before the municipal elections in April and May.
The chances of reconciling the to be opponents appear slim and it is a challenge providing Mr Galtskell with the opportunity to reassert his leadership.
party
Premier agrees Playboy does it again West alerted
to discuss austerity bill
Brussels, Jan. 10.
4th ward of court
London, Jan, 10. Chelsea playboy Edward Lang- ley is probably setting a new kind of record if he has not already done so. Today yet another girl-he fourth-wan made a ward of the court and forbidden to associate with kum.
other, giris have been ordered to have nothing to do with Langley.
Hopes of an end to Belgium's month old in the last two years three
strike violence against the Govern- ment's post-Congo austerity bill rose tonight after conciliatory moves in Parliament.
The main point that ins The Cathelle Prime Minister, emerged from Socialist Mr Gaston Eyskens, agreed to feuding over the past 12 direuss a Socialist amendment in months is that the
the bill. Some Socialists at once has no politician of sui-dropped their insistence on the cient stature to replace vill's withdrawal, though ofeini opposition polley so far tonight Mr Gaitskoll-even if there
remained unchanged.
Prime The
Minister were a majority to do so, which clearly there is not. everybody must hope
peasement.
Main hope
THE main Socialist hope
T
lias in the sibility that Mr Gaitskell, who is openly defying the party conference to renounce the H-bombs, will be vindicated
this ina
uni
ut next autumn's annual Labour Assembly,
of
If the assembly reverses the decision and restares ity backing to his policy of collective Recurity the party will be ta calmer waters. All it requires is for one the "big four" trade unions to fall into line with the leader's views which are those of the big majority of the Parliamentary Labour Party. Thousands of individuals in! the unions are against the ! big four stand and it would be well for Mr Cousins, Secretary of tho giant Transport and General Workers Union, and his compatriots to take this into consideration.
No leader
TR Cousins cannot emerge
Musa contender for the
job of party chief, but the danger to the leader is that many deplore the Bouting of the will of the detegate conference.
fur
safd ap
'Detective's'
make-believe
life ends
behind bars
An unemployed man who
used to make believe that he was a detective sub-inspector began aj new life today-behind bars.
His downfall wis rated when Chan Dettelive Sub-ins, fur
nan the av- Sul-shun, the cused often pretended to be told Mr Derek Cons at Central Ceart today cll about his make- believe existenze.
Siu-
The man was Cheung wah, 34 and untinployed living at it Fa Yuen-street, Brst floor. He was charged with Imper- senating a police officer, inde-
and assruly
cblaining money by false pretences, plended guilty to 1 three charges, and he was sentenced to a year in jail and two years supervision
cent
Detective Sub-Inspector Chan Siu-shun. prosecuting, told the court that Cheung went fre-
Japanese Res taurant on the ground floor of Mr Cousins is an ambitious the Broadway Hotel at Chl Wo-
But this will not settle the
power struggle between Mrquently to the Gaitskell and Mr Cousins.
man. He
Was
primarily the rift
1-
responsible for
therefore it is and likely that he will capitu. late. He can be expected to fight all along the line to and principle Justify A while this attitude is com- mendable it is not helping the Labour movement which is wide, open at the
Beamy.
End muddle
ARLY talks between the National Executive, the Parliamentary leaders and the trades union leaders
street, Kowloon last year.
There be used the tcio- and dialled to various phone
and charge ntations police
rooms.
SPOKE LOUDLY
He spoke loudly into the re- ceiver pretending to be Delez Live Sub-Inspector Chon Slu shut the man who prosecuted him in court today,
On December 22 last, the de- fendant went into the Japanese restaurant, and after taking a meal, asiced an employee there to sign the bill for him as DSI Chan.
On December 30 last, he Invited a female employee of the Japanese Restaurant out: to a boarding house in Water- loo-road where he Indecently assaulted her.
will be aimed at ending the On January 5, pretending to If they be DSI Chan, he took $128 from défence muddle, succeed the defence policy Chan Yung-klu, a female em-
on
of the ployee
Japanese Restaurant, saying
he that cooked It
food could obtain stall Beence for her.
The defendant had no power to do So, Detective Sub- Inspector Chan Stu-shun added. to was arrested yesterday Information. He a evening on
won't be seen around his old haunts for a year.
crisia may be ended. With the defence row out of the way Mr Galtakell could successfully handle attacks on lessor issues and in a short time regain his grip
the movement is whole in spite of Mr Cousins. Short of this, the split-will-
continue to widen and thero Vote for China will be further disinte
Ottawa, Jin, lo. gration of the party. The
The Congress of the Canadian lesson of the Liberals should
Liberal Perly's provide ulicient warning (opposition)
Foreign Affairs Comenities by a that disunity within the 62, to 9 vote today recommended runks can destruy Labour that Communist Cisina be ad- as, an effectiya, and noces-" milled as a morber of the sary political entity.
United Nations.
When he previously said "take it or leave " noout the austerity bill, he had meant to underline his "inflexible deter- minatic." to achieve economic rehabilitation.
"t did not mean that I would and reject retus discussion technical amendments," he told Parliament.
moves
Man injured
The sudden drop in tension caused
conciliatory by the In Parliament come at the end of a day of renewed trouble, particularly in Antwerp where one man was injured In eloshed
and between police strikers.
Mr Jean Luyten, Socialist Secretary General, explaining the reversal of earlier loftwing Insistence 011 unconditional withdrawal, said this was "just the beginning of the thaw", but the Socialists hoped the bill would be ***put Into cold storage."
Some strikers in Chent and Bruges have already agreed to go back to work tomorrow.
TUC aid move
Meanwhile, in London the
Trades Union Congress formal-
asked its bankers today to
transfer £50,000 to the acczunt
of the Confederation du Travail Belgique.
The money is to be used far the relief of distresa among the families of those involved in the Belgian strikes.-Reuter.
Record building boom in 1960
The year 1960 was a re- cord for the bullding in- dustry. The cost of new Bulidings reached $400 milion,
over
Although the officiat Brure for December is yet to be published, the total cost of new constructions 11 months of 1960 Blood at $376,773,08€ and the Anal month's firure was expected to bring over the $400 million mark.
The annual totals of the cost of new bulldings in previous years are: $300 million in 1950, $250 ml)- lion in 1938, $175 million In 1957, $103 million in 1050, $149 million In 1955,
1954.
· and $35 million
In other words, the total cost of new buildings com- pleted last year was more than four times the figure for 1954.
10-
The total also included money speak on site för- mation, Excavation, clamation, and demolition' of old structures.
The new buildings' are spread over the whole of the Colony with the major- My sited in Kowloon,
Most of them are housca and lists förTM realdentini purposes costing upwards ** ut $100,000.
alte
The cost of``one formation alone last year win more than $11,200,000 -- probably the most expensive is the building - klstory of the Oolemy. *.
The fourth is Patricia Dunn, 19-year-old daughter of a fancler, Mr Hugh Charles Dunn.
Said Langley: "I
know many me, people will not belleve but Pat is the first giri in my life who has been able to con- vince me it was time I settled down and raised a family." And Pat: "I love Edward, despile
his past."
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Her father is at present in Ghana. He made his subLESS. ful application to the Chancery Division of the High Court. Tonight, Langley waved his copy of the order ond'said: "It's too much-the fourth I've had." The three oiker giris ordered to keep away from Langley ore heiresses Katherine Dowse!), Mary-June Moore and Lady Caragh Seymour 1 Рост Trench.-UPI.
Wrecked van lies snarled up under train after last night's crash,
T
MAN DIES Russian troops AS TRAIN
HITS VAN in Laos claim
London, Jan. 10.
A six-coach steam
train
crashed into a van on a
level-crossing and pushed
it 300 yards along the track
discounted
Vientiane, Jan. 10.
before stopping. The Laotian Government of Prince Boun Oum
(See picture above).
The driver was taken from
ribs
the van with six broken and a broken thigh. His passen- ger, who had got out to open the gates, was killed.
But for two hours after the
71-year-old widow,
con Dennis was dead.
against Red spies
London, Jan. II. The Daily Mail declared today that "the whole British Commonwealth is now fighting a vast international spy ring based on Warsaw.”
Beneath ✡ seven-column ports, it accepted as bona fide hewline "World Spy Alert" by British immigratien authori- across on its front page it said: ilea, provide their holders with "British Intelligence chiefs have white freedom of action and warned the Goverments of movement. Austrail, New Zealand, and In addition, it was reported other countries against agents that full reports on Britain's from Warsaw posing, as imini- counter-espionage actions were grants.
being forwarded to the Admiral Joint "They have been altering into in Charge of the British
on forged Services Mission in Washington.
the Commonwealth
passports to spy on navy, army, -Roiner & UPI.
and air force bases."
In every Commonwealth coun- !
try the agents and their *- sociates were closely watched,
Watch still on
The Daily Mali concluded: ""The Governmenta of the
Commonwealth Are antilled! that "the.apy. ring gained few | real secreta. But the watch is still on.”
The Mall report came a a few
days after Scotland "“Yard" Special
Branch arrested five
Lord Louis coming to Colony
London, Jan. 11.
prople including two civilian Earl. Mountbatten of Burma,
employees of the Admiralty.
But the Yard had no comment to make an the Dally Mai
40-
report of A vast international *py ring. Govertiment thorities were also silent.
A
Chlof of the Defence Staff, Is to tour Middle and For Eastern Commands, in- cluding Hongkong next month, the Ministry of Defence announced today. Minister Ilarold Mar- He will visit Aden, Kuala milan had ordered he be kept Lumpur, Singapore, Hongkong up to the minute with all and North Borneo, in that order. counter-espionage develop
Prime
published report that
The
of his tour is to dis
object ments, for the purpos of iss local problems and condi- consultation with Washington, tions with commanders on the was neither denied nor con- spot, the announcement suld. firmed by the Foreign Omice. On February 21 Lord Mount- All Indleations were that Bri-batten will be in Canberra for tain's top spy-catchers
were consultations with the Australian acting under orders to plug any Chiefs-of-Staff. From Australia existing military security leaks he will go to New Zealand for in the wake of the new spy talks with
the New Zealand Chiefs-of-Staff.
score,
Klaus Fuchs
He then will have discussions
Focus of the biggest spy with the United States C-in-C case in Britain since atomie Pacific in Hawall and with the scientist
Klaus Fuchs was Canadian Chiefs of Staff in convioled
10 years ago
of Ottawa before returning home passing bydrogen
bemb on March 10-Reater. secreia to the Russians was the Navy's Portland base and research cent
Dorset. Two of those arrested in the me belloved to be. Cons-
claimed today that Russian troops were fight-dians and the RCMP is investi- ing in Laos, but the claim was discounted by gaung their Western observers in Vientiane.
ul
backgrounds Scotland Yard's request.
British newspapers speculated the possibility of further arrests and said that in addition
Un
In London a British Foreign Washington, Mr Mikhail Men- said Britainshikov, called on Mr Christian Once spokesman
to a new thorough security check crash-at Strand Castle cross-had no evidence to confirm the Herter, the United States Scores Involving the Portland base and ing, Cookham, Berkshire-there
and tory of State, and spent 40 was a anuddle over the name of reports of Russian troops,
that Britain minutes discussing the situation limitar establishments a num ho also repeated
ber of homes were being search. Menshikov the dead man.
But Mr In Laos. had received: no evidence that
.ed. And
units were would not tell reporters aller- Nerth Vietnam
According to unofficial rc- Mrs Daisy Harvey, of Cookham, operating in Laos, as has been wards what alútude his govern-
poris, the Goverment hus was told that her 32-year-old alleged by Prince Boun Oum's ment was adopting towards pro sought the advice and co-opera-
posals for revival of the three Government,
Control ion of both American and International in Ambassador
power The Soviet
Canadian
security forces in Commission for Laos or whether he had presented any proposals checking any leads to espionage Govern- operations in those countries to the United States
that may have ties in Britain. ment
Members of a French military mission returned to Vientiane from the Plain of Jars, which they zald war in the hands of "troops led by the rebel para- They troop Captain Kong Le,
tho
reports of contoodictod Rusalan troops and said that although they had seen North Viet amor civilians in the arcu. none was armed.
More than two hours passed Harvey before a weeping Mrs was lold that Deamis, the driver, had lived, and that his passen- Rume 42-year- ger, Douglas old father of two daughters --- had died.
marz
од
The crash is the third in three years. at the crossing --- described by a rallway spokes- othe accommodation Lype,
That means it is for the motorist to open the gates and is no train satisfy himself coming."-Express Service. --
Earth tremor
Moscow, Jan. 19. The official Soviet news ngeney Tuss reported an earthqurke to- day in the Kamohatian Peain- |-zulo,~4,800-miles esel-of-Moscow. Tess mald: it had no details on Intensity or whether dosili`and
damage resulted.
,
The bearings given by Tas would place to earthquake's Teplomira at the tip of the peninsula, near the Kurile Islands." The tremor was recort- ed horn at 0.34 pm (1424 GMT), **AP.
POCKET CARTOON - by OSBERT LANCASTER
Sure, they had unosa on
their' boots **
Mr. Nehru, the Indian Prime Minister, has received a per- conal mesta go from President Elronhower on Laos, It Was understood in Delhi, where "a Utile progress" was reported in international, exchanges on the altuation, India is chairman of the three-nation International
Commission-Reuter, -
Communist
Jammu, Jan..10.
may
Probing
One phase of this co-opera- Lion, Ú was said, was in probing the possibillig thai caplanage agents in Britain with have comO here forged passports showing them lo be US or Canadian citizens. Commonwealth and American citizens are only lightly super- vitod in Britain and such pare-
Djakarta fire
Djakarta, Jan. 10. Firs broke..out yesterday... In
Indonesia's largest paint factory
when a number of oil-drums exploded.
fectory
The Patna
paint
troops Chinese have killed more than 4,000 sumained a 10 of 40 million Tibetabs rying to escape to ruplabs, tit there were no re- India, according to reports reports og camaltion, enived today from Leh, near the Tibetan border.-Kleuter..
Cause of fire was still under investigationUPI.
10 DEGREE DROP
IN
TEMPERATURE
A sharp fall in tempera- ture at 10 degrees occurred early this morning when is cold warge swept through Hongkong,
At 7 am, the reading was 54 degrees as 'against the Gf at the same time yester- day morning.
·
"We are in the thick of
sald the cold surge,” spokesman. for the Rosal Observatory this morning.
"The temperature in ex- pected to contione falling today and tomorrow.”
He pointed out, however, that there were no signs of = `pariicularly nevere cold #poll.
The air is much drier .this morning than yester-
relative day when humidlly of 100 per cent 'was recorded,
A
The spokesman 'afirību!» of the 100 percent safura-, flan yesterday to the fox and the spearhead of the cold current,
"Nevertheless, it is not a Tare occurrence," he In- ---diontud. -----
ho relative humiálly this morning was -'03 per
Forecast
for today: Cloudy' ¦ with bright £A- tervals in the afternook. Continuing cool.
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