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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1950.

AUSSIES GET SOBERING SHAKE-UP Not Likely To Risk Experiments In Selecting Next Test Side Hutton's Masterly Blend Of Batting Genius And Ease

(By FRANK ROSTRON)

(Special to the "Telegraph")

Brisbane, Dec. 5.

Australia dare not risk any experiments in selecting their next Test team.

This surviving effect of the first Test extravaganza is in itself justification for the openly expressed pride Freddie Brown row has in his battling English Test team even though there were many self-recriminations and not a few individual and collective regrets qualifying last night's end of the Test jollifications and that Len Hutton's wonder innings was not given the modest support which was all that was needed to bring about Test history's most fabulous win.

Even though the first Test was almost univer-

sally regarded as a foregone conclusion through- Arming

and beyond, the Australian

out Australia selectors picked a cautious orthodox team-the strongest available which almost automatically selected itself-for the first Test.

They intended after the expected clear then to introduce a few speculative young comers in a team-building effort to face the Indies next year.

But after this

Home

Britain's Guard

London, Dec. 5. Britain has substantial stocks of rifles and small arms ammu-

winnition to arm the Home Guard an emergency, the War new-Minister, Mr John Strachey, told West the House of Commons today.

Mr Strachey announced last month that this wartime force of spare time helped to guard

volunteers who man anti-aircraft guns and do war factories, other defence jobs after a day's ordinary work, would be revived if war broke out.

soberington in the batting list he did shake-up by the England side, not in effect make any change which by no means had the which now in retrospect seems worst of the two and a half a fatal failure to exploit the day's fluctuations, that plan world's best hatting technician has to be shelved at least in a way that might well have

temporarily.

Though the Australian side

minimised Monday night's cri- tragic quarter of an hour that tical loss of three wickets in a

can now be pinpointed as de- cisive.

is not to be announced until after the MCC have met the powerful young Australian Xİ at Sydney in a match starting Second, I cannot see the un- on Friday, the only likely orthodox gamble of playing change is the possible dropping Macintyre instead of Sheppard of Jack Moroney as opening batsman.

or Parkhouse being repeated in the next Test at Christmas time Melbourne, especially as

It is one of the vagaries of in the odd cricket statistics pro- Sheppard's duced by this freak match that this

most impressive against

SO far was

portly Sydney school batting master, whom I last watched Iverson at Melbourne.

Park-

no fair

carlier this year scoring a He and the talented separate century in each

has had house, who irnings of the last Test match chance in Australia to demon-1 in Johannesburg, should in his strate Iris undoubted abilities, next two Test innings 7,000

ane both now fit. It is important

Portuguese

Red Defiant

Lisbon, Deo. 5. Antonio Dias Lourenco.

da Silva, aged 35, warned

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court here today that: sooner than many peoplo think Communists would be prosecutors in Portuguese courts instead of accused.

He was remanded until December 14 on a charge of being a member of the Central Committee of the Portuguese Communist

Party which is illegal.

He said in court that he was very proud to be a member of the Committee. -Reuter.

Dramatic

War Is Not Inevitable

Pleven

Paris, Dec. 5. There was "complète identity of vicws" between the French and British Governments on the present international situation, the French Prime Minister, M. Rene Pleven, said today.

Addressing a Latin-American Club luncheon he said: "Some quarters have asked whether France has not asked Britain to act on France's behalf in order to put a French point of view before the American Govern- ment.

"This idea is without founda-. tion,"

a common

M. Pleven said that the French Government believed that

discussion of the present questions would be only the beginning of a series of discussions

among the free decide what

French Move Governments to

In Ludo-China

Paris, Dec. 5. General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny's appointment

as the French High Commissioner and

ап-

Commander-in-Chief in Indo- China will be officially nounced tomorrow, It was learned in usually well-informed quarters here today.

steps could be taken against aggression.

"War is not inevitable," M. Pleven said He emphasised France's determination together with all the free nations to de- fend its territory against all aggression, and added: that for five years France had prevent- ed a part of South East Asia from falling into the hands of the terrorist regime.-Reuter,

River.

Tokyo, Dec. 5.

Two Russian-type jet fighters General de Lattre de dropped from the sun at a speed Tassigny, aged 60, is at present of 500 miles an hour today to Union Land Forces under Fielding Star Jets near the Yalu the Commander of the Western attack four United States Shoot-

Marshal Viscount Montgomery. The senior French authority in Indo-China today, is M. Leon

announce what size of

Mr Anthony Eden (Conserva-Pignon, the 42-year-old High tive) pressed the Minister to Commissioner since October, Home 1948, and the senior military Guard he wanted.

commander is 55-year-old Mr Strachey said this had not General Marcel Carpentier,— yet been decided.-Reuter. Reuter.

No India Mediation

Offer Yet Made

Washington, Dec. 5. Indian sources said today that the Ambas- miles away in Brisbane collect that room should be found for sador, Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, who had a contrasting pair of spectacles both in the next two against an England reputedly matches

minor been expected to confer with the Prime Minister, weak in bowling.

Canberra and, more important, Mr Attlee, today, probably would not see him that they should get the chance until "later this week." of a final trial against the Aus- ; tralian Colts at Sydney.

NEW ASSESSMENT

Obviously the Australian selectors are now compelled to repeat the compliment of play- ing the strongest available Aus-

tcam and take over the tralian general public's already completely reversed assessment of Brown's side.

at Toowoomba and

DASHING FIELDING

Most important of all, Brown must now keep his side to the high level of ground fielding and catching they reached in this match which was if anything

It was one of the most re- superior to that of the Aus- freshing facts of this match tralians. that it ended before a former- ly cynical public who almost to a man were cheering Hut- ton and England.

The sources said Mr Attlee's schedule had made it impossible to arrange a definite meeting today.

see him

at the

is

There is considerable interest that the Indian Prime Minister, here in such a meeting because Pandit Nohru, can decide of India's attempts to bridge whether it would be worth- the differences between the while offering India's Chinese Communists

good and the offices. Mr Nehru's decision Western powers. British sources also would be influenced by the sald no definite

appointment reports from Sir Benegal, who This sort of dashing fielding for Madame Pandit was in the is exploring peace possibilities and safe catching makes an schedule arranged, They said with General Wu Hsiu-chuan even moderate attack formid-Mr Attlee would meet all Com- and other Chinese able and will revolutionise the monwealth representatives here representatives

Communist But complacent as

attitude our whole public

to the carly

United on Friday but it was Nations. sighs may be that reversal of tour as well as the Tests if the probable Madame Pandit one or two small incidents in slapdash carelessness which would

alone before this match of a thousand "it's" marred matches preceding the then: might have won us a breath- Test consistently be eliminated.

Pandit has been less victory it is obvious that Brown and his selectors

As for Hutton I can only say

briefed from New on her government's have to make

amend-I never hope to sec a more

is that ments to their next Test plans thesterly

position, which blending of batting

every possible solid

avenue of In the light of this one's les genius and

personal

compro- mise in the Korean conflict qualities of character. His con- fidnt case made more poignant

should be explored. the sorrowful failure of Compton just when fortune's favourite The desperate gambling bid son was most needed to take that seemed to characterise one of the richest chances ever our approach to this match will offered him.

sons.

some

GAMBLING BID

will

not now be SO justifiable.

The sportig Brisbane crowd's Although I quoted Brown be- fore the match started as say moving final ovation for Hutton

as the personification not necessarily

dazzling revival

the

unusual

land's

Madame thoroughly

Delhi

she nor

neither However, Sir Benegal Rau, the perman- ent Indian delegate to the United Nations, has been authorised to make any media- tion offer at this time.

WORTHWHILE?

It was understood Madame of Eng-Pandit's instructions from New. em-Delhi were to get from Mr.

Ing he would be bound in weather conditions them prevail-phasised that this was a victory Attlee a complete explanation ing by the Selection Com-for Australia only in the record of his and President Truman's mittee's decision to lower Hut-books.

position regarding Koren,

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ivieanwhile, the feeling growing in some Washington quarters that the possibility of diation while the United Na- tions forces are

still

on the pelinsula are growing more re- mote.-United Press,

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The Americans jettisoned their bombloads and chased the Communist aircraft back across the river. No damage was re- ported on either side.-Reuter,

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