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MOST BALLYHOOED PLAN Hoping For Warning Of Possible Churchill

WORLD HAS EVER

KNOWN

Foreign Affairs Expert

Sounds Grim Warning

New York, Apr. 17,--War can be averted-but only by an effort equal to that needed to win a great conflict, Mr John Foster Dulles, Republican Party Foreign Affairs expert, wrote in his book "War Ör Peace", to be published tomorrow.

He urged "free world" to mobilise against the "relatively small, fanatical Soviet Communist Party" the potentialities "which we usually reserve for war."

Mr Dulles book was reford-

"There is hope, provided our

ed as having added significance people see the danger clearly,

in view of his recent appoint as it is, no that we are not de-

to the coyed into false moves. inent as o consuflant Secretory Acheron.

of State

i'ro- Mr Deanvided we understand the many policies that arise are

present

"Future retterations will look good, so that we can get bebina unitedly and resolutely back with amazement if war, is them

provided we see the inadequacy averted," he wrote.

be an achievement of present policies, so that we "I will

out to A

Alobal without precedent. Yet that is round

them

our task. It is a task that re-whole; and provided we develop without powar efforts like the one the quires nn

which no polley can be more required to win a great war.

spiritual

ATTACK

ON

hahe

amalieshifi.

'great Soviet

LINTIN

EXPECTED

Chinese

Communist

marine

forces are massing this morning

expert-

is the most ballyhooed

for toflening-up cheme

the The world has ever known," said Mr Dulles,

opposition that

That saftening-up organisa

tion is, in turn, backed by the

A.Girl

Attempt To Bring Down

Europeans Killed In

Government

Malaya Blaze LABOUR PARTY WARY

Singapore, Apr. 17. - ON BUDGET DEBATE

Three

European seamen

and two Indonesiahoro workers were killed

when

London, Apr. 17.-Labour Ministers to- the British oil tanker Lin night warned their followers in Parliament gulas Pipeline blew up last night and fired million to be ready to beat a possible attempt by gallon tank of aviation Mr Winston Churchill, Conservative Party spirit at Pulau Samboe leader, to bring down the Government when

the budget is introduced tomorrow.

Island near here.

The fire spread both ways to the tanker and the shore.

The fire was tonight under A high Ministerial quarter said tonight that control, but the shore tank was the Conservative Opposition might spring this slili blazing firecely, ighting up the night sky for miles around dramatic surprise by forcing an immediate vote on the budget resolutions after Sir Stafford Cripps,

Singapore.

Ten men were believed to have been seriously hurt in

A Fishy Profit Gamble

Apr. 17.

London, Wholesale Ash merchants lost heavily today in a big price gamble which forced the price of fish sky-high taly a few days after the Government had lifted all trading controls in the In- dustry.

With the removal of price limits, the cast of cod, haddock and other fish rocketed when Billingsgate Ash market opened,

But the retail fish mer- clauis-the men who hayo to face the traie house- wife would have none of It. They resolutely refused to buy, saying they would rather close up their sŘOPS than pay such fantastic and Crazy charges. Large sup- plies were unsold-Reuter.

Princess

the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has completed his Elizabeth's

explosion, two were reported to be missing.

When the order

introductory speech.

are

all

The to abandon

resolutions,000,000, Less than half of the budget. which give instant effect to any increase, which Includes the ship was given, the seamen

professional salaries, tax changes had to jump into the sea.

propated,

wages, normally passed without dis-incomes, payments to the armed from farming, forces, income rents, and profits from private and public enterprises, are the result of higher prices.

A member of the crew sald, "It was impossible to jump on the wharf as flames barred our Princess Elizabeth and her husband, the Duke of

escape was on the seaward side." Edinburgh. It has now been disclosed by Buckingham path on ship and shore. Our only

Fourteen expecting their second

men swam to an Palace officials that they are

Island half a mile away.-Reuter. child in a few months.

mast - ruthless. unscrupulous, MACASSAR

highly

Irained,

umnipresent,

secret army that the world has CLASH LIKELY

ever known."

He defined the

Western de-

a true

17.-Colonel Djakaria, Apr. interacies' areds to meet Soviet to attack Lintin Island in a

Kawilatang, the newly-appont- attempt to clminate this Na-Communist inroads as

of the Indo- tionalist stronghohl,

and full hipartisan forci

No action has taken place up policy in the United States, toed Commander

to just before

"weight"

nesian Itepublie's Armed Forces

Sharp Brest Clash

of Police and Reds

in East Indonesia, who left TEAR GAS AND BATON CHARGES

headquarters in the area, will

make aid here. and to

Aa

Hongkong membership fure e

Ent.

Government opponents re

of the Cerve their criticisms new mensures until they have had kno to study them fully.

Second Baby

London, Apr. 17.-Prin cess Elizabeth is expecting An an- her necond baby. nouncement indicating this was issued tonight from Buckinghamı Falace. It If the Conservatives won such

Of the sharp increase in the read: "Her Royal High- a vote, the Government's rt- rignation would be inevitable personal consumption, 35 por Duchess of Edinburgh will figure, 30 percent went into ness, the Princess Elizabeth, and a new Election would fol-cent into public expenditure,

low at once,

WAGES BILL

and 20 percent into capital in-undertake no further public

Despite the wage vestment. The Cabinet today approved freeze,

the national wage bill engagements." the 1050 budget and announced increased

£230,000,000, in 1949 Twenty-seven percent all

of I wen over personal income was

taken by Royal birth

percent

that Britain's income increased eight the previous year.

The cabinet met at 10, Down-

proval to the budget, which Sir of the Exchequer, will deliver Staford Cripps, the Chancellor to Parliament. it will be

ing Street to give formal ap

top

مودا

for

In

This is the usual procedure announcing expected

Princess Elizabeth, who is 24 taxation, compared with 28 pir- years old next Friday. is now cent in 1948 and 19 percent in

Malta with her husband, the 1930.

who has serving with the Royal Sir Stafford Cripps is ex Navy in the Mediterranean,

The Princesa niso spent a pected to offer some small token rellefs in the budget, but the holiday with the Duke in Malta

{T}

ben of Edinburgh,

Security Guards were seriously injured here today secret until then. But few sensational cuts in government from November 20 until Decem-

and at home 11 a.m. hutamatud unity

abroad; adherence that attinet revealed reliable Fource unspecified number of armed changes in the United Nations Djakarta today to establish his

the vating in

Brest, Apr. 17.-One demonstrator was killed. Jaunches and Janks were mass-10 for distance away from this General Assembly according tone about 10,000 men at his

fo con- island in preparation to launch antioc's importaner,

Council veto disposal, an offelal spokesman 10 were taken to hospital and 20 Republican far the Security an uttack, Lintin

a small island about to substantive matters, to

Defence outside miles waters, lies due west of Black make working Point in Castle Peak district. time-consuming: strong AmeriMinistry spokesman said earlier It forms the apex of a triangle can pressure in bring early and at Federal troops were likely

reality to Western

Ho tand at the rebel.controlled genuine

"which could Kuropena unity,

East

Indonesian capital turn present weakness into the

Macassar at any moment." strength that the free societies need desperately at this critical Reuter. juncture in the world."-Reuter, {

Live

with its base points of Macao on the west and Hongkong on the east. The Island has been used as a Nationalist naval base In their blockade of the Pearl Ilver.

EDITORIAL

Indonesion

America And Recognition Of Peking

would be Communist

of course fuit

E opinion ventured by The Economist that the United States willing to recognise the regime in Peking and endorse their repre- sentation in the councils of the United Nations if the Mao Tse-tung administra- tion adopted certain minimum standard» of international behaviour is hardly a perfect example of profound thought. The argument, putting it as high as that, is Gilven The Mole purely hypothetical, decisive factor, normal behaviour, there would be no excuse, excluding prejudice, for refusing to extend the courtesy of recognition. That would come naturally, not by any means implying ideological

as a matter agreement, bui

Communist of the acceptance accompli. More to the point than the Economist's approach would be an objec- tive analysis of America's policy in the existing situation.. Has her long and ex- pensive efforts to bolster the Nationalist Government jeopardised sound judgment? Would it not have been more profitable with Britain, to work in harmony recognise Peking when the truth became undeniable, and endeavour to create sume degree of amity before Soviet influence True enough, began to exert itself? nothing has occurred to furnish encourage. ment. That may well be attributed to fallure by the free democracies to take Joint action quickly enough. Equally, the In China bo correct: may cynics responding to orders from Moscow whose principal aim is to create the maximum embarrassment for all countries outside the Iron Curtain, In a tangled pattern of crossed actions and obscure motives,

to discover in difficult

n rational Peking for most of the explanation

Such friction regime's performances,

it

as the breakdown of arrangements ́for a large exodus of foreigners from Shanghai are partly due, probably, to the

ns

uf

in a clash between police and demonstrators pro- testing against the arrest of a Communist woman deputy and two trade union leaders.

-

Edouard Mass, aged 26, died on his way to hospital from injuries believed caused by a stone. The police fired in the air, used tear gas and made baton charges to disperse the crowd, who tried to force their way to the Town Hall and the Sub- Prefecture.

were

Shots 0% explosions heard when hetween 3,000 and clashed 4,000 demonstrators

armed with the police and Republican Security Guards,

The clash followed a meeting called by the local Communist- in protest Leti trade unions

Com- against the arrest of munist woman deputy, Madame Marie Iambert, and two trade union leaders, M. Charles Cadjoi a M. Bouquet.

These three were on a hunger

Pencil Bomb

Caused Air

Explosion

French Official May Bo Questioned

ber

The

Coted' their

basic changes are expected, and expenditure, demanded during 20

year, during which Second the budget itself is expected to the last election campaign by they te as much a reflection of the the Tories, will not be there.

has hinted universary. Government critical political situation in the The

Princess Arst chlid, ns of country,

the economie that steps will be taken to cut)

was born at down the colossal cost of the Prince Charles

Buckingham Palace on Decem- National Health Programmeber 11, 1948, Princess Elizabeth

expenditures are: was drafted in But defence

married the Duke of Edinburgh on November 20, 1947. Sho was then 21,

picture.

The budget

election, when another budget will have to be drawn up.

anticipation of another general expected to be large,

Despite token relief in cer- Iain categories of indirect taxa- Whether the now baby is a The White Paper issued to- tion, such entertainment tax, boy or a girl, it will be third day disclosed that the 1913 for all practical purposes the line of Guccession to the gross national product, national budget will again be labelled Throne, following after Princess net "musterity", with little substan- Elizabeth herself and Princo Income depreciation and income from abroad-soared tial relict from high taxation-Charles, her firet baby, and

£.828,000,000 to £11,076,- United Press and Reuter.

by

taking precedence over Princess Elizabeth's cister, Margaret, Reuter.

America Declines Scot Faces

Official Aid In Jap Tax Protests

Murder Trial

deathbed that

strike Brest Gaol, charged with trespassing, illegal deten tion and assault after the kid- of M. on Saturday rapping

Washington, Apr. 17.—Indications here today Pierre Prevosto, a senior officiat

were that there is little, if any, possibility that the her on the breast in locul employers

United States government will intervene on behalf of foreign businessmen seeking lower taxes in Japan.

of the sociation.

London, Apr. 17. — A cyanide pencil, such as the as-Fron Maquis used to blow up Nazis, enused the exple- After today's protest meg sion which narrowly missed demonstrators-despite on order killing the 31 persoas in the by the Mayor forbidding met Viking nirliner

the on

Numerous interested officials and Far Eastern ings or parades in the streets- the

tried to force their way into the English Channel, informed Town Hall and the Sub-Prefec-sources revealed today.

Informants close to the in- Commission officers disclosed the virtually unani- ture,

been mous opinion that this was a matter for the through one

which vestigation They broke

but were going police

corden

on since late Thursday Japanese government to handle without any official stopped by another. A police night, said the Home Office ex-

have "definitely es pressure. van was overturned and set perts

Ineptitude of Communist officialdont not of the People's the direct eye under

Whether events chiefs. Government would have followed the same course hat! The United States sought understanding at the beginning of the year remains u debatable point. Britain's gesture has Hecured her not the slightest benefit, Owners of British capital enterprises in China, who inspired Mr Bevin to quick decision, are just as badly off-in fact The worse and worse as time clapses. British offer wns made more than three months ago, and the Charge d'Affaires has not yet been allowed to present his Noi to Mno credentials

Tse-tung, surprisingly, many observers have com- menced to think in terms of withdrawal of British recognition. That, Government feels, would be similar to cuiting of the nose to spite the faee. There is a chance still that Peking will shape its policy to be more amenable. Hupe would disappear were we to revoke our decision in a spirit of asperity. From of the same much

angle, advocates American recognition must be regarded It is too late as having missed their cue. to turn the tide now, An approach to bo almost

would Peking

certainly snubbed; the second stage would be sorrler than the first, Mr Acheson, in enthusing

over assistance in fostering foreign policy in Washington, spoke both of its enhancement of America's prestige and the necessity for close co-operation with the British Commonwealth in treating the problems of East Asia. Approval will be general and generous, but it is a pity that the policy did not exhibit self when the dangers in the region first became obvious. As things are, the best prospect les in close working harmony, determined to cultivate every favourable opportunity that offers.

Senator

ม

Las

such

Singapore, Apr. 17. A 22- year-old Malay girl, for whose murder Robert Kinloch, 40-year- oll Scottish rubber estate mana- cer, is on trial here, raid on her Kinloch kicked struggle for the possersion of a pistol.

state- The girl's deathbel

cassion Ko'n Eahru Assize of the trial in Ko'n ment was read at today's Court near the Thailand border. has alleged The prosecution the Kinloch chot the girl, Esah mistress, with a Webley revolver Rinit Ismail. described as his last December 12.

that smid Defener counsel Kinloch had never intended to kill or injure Esah. The shooting

had been "'an unfortunate

Dr R. E. Anderson,

chief

for Kelantan, the Court Coi

later told year,

hts utt Bre. Demonstrators pre-tablished" that the time bomb

This should not be construed last

that t

would be plade". Paris-bound planu vented firemen from putting aboard the

wan in the form

of a pencil. as indicating opposition to the colleagues

of incomo taxes on highly desirable to have conces- it out.

The

explosive charge reinforcements The

was at lowering

yesterday told Largo pollee

the penell, and foreign businessmen in Japan. slons for foreign business" but medical officer and arrived in Brest before the one end of

The On the contrary most officials that American officials could not when Kinloch brought Esnh to cyanide at the other.

the opinion make

recommendations. demonstration.

and Esah on Madame Lambert and Messrs cyanide slowly ate through the privately express

"playfully when he container holding the explosive, that Japan's self-interest will Shoup's position was sald to be hospital he sold that he was sit- Cndlou and Bouquet were ar-

to attract foreign sions to keep and attract foreli pointed a revolver at her and it rested yesterday. They headed and touched off the charge when dictate such a move because of that if fibre were to be conccs-ng on ons bed

necessity the British-European Airliner

investment the Japanese must hipyard strikers who cap- 1,200 Vanderberg's

appeared to make them on their own Initia However, there tered M. Prevosto, morched him was 36 minutes out of London, capital, bipartisan

through the town to their union enroute to Paris.

A French

official aboard the be strong opposition to the idea five. building and released him only

lane was "about to be, or al- that the United States govern-

This subject is being increa- with the after long parleys

la being ready

questioned" In ment should make any suggOS-

tions whnlever in the matter.singly discussed in Washington police. Reuter,

connection with the explosion.

would leave the because of the trip here by Mr The French Surele Nationale Such action Danish Mishap Is working closely with Scotland United States open to charges Bruce Aitchison, attorney repre-

Yard

the case.

of using is dominant occupa senting the "International Com- Gussie" Moran.

Mr. Pat with tonight The Ministry of Civil Aviation position in Japan to ex-inittee on Taxation," in Tokyo tennis star, arrived here by air

Cleco

Vice-Chairman of the Aalborg, Denmark, Apr. 17-

American Screen Artists Federn- The Danish Social Minister, Mr tion, in charge of the investiga tract from the Japanese govern- which seeks to lower taxes on Johan Stroem, and seven Danish tion here, refured to comment ment concessions for Americans foreign businessmen.

Aitchison hoped to secure ton, whom she has sold the will and ather foreigners which the Members of Parliament wero on the report.

tome sort of a directive from marry soon. The explosion. ripped two big Japanese do not enjoy.. among nine people injured when a bus ran into a ditch here holes in the plane's side near the

tall, Induring the stewardess, Mr Carl Shoup, Columble Washington expressing United today.

None was seriously injured, who was in the galley. United University tax authority, who States approval of lower taxes.

-studied tax structure in Japan-United Press. ~~Rouler. -- ·

Press.

on

went off."

The trial Reuler.

was adjourned.

"Gorgeous". In Rome Rome, Apr. 17-"Gorgeous the American

di

Miss Moran is to compete in ships here.Heuler, TANTRA the Italian Tennis Champion