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lapan's Peace Navy May Trouble H-Bomb Tester-s

LONDON (AP)-Plans of Jap- anese Protest nouns to -5114 I '-peace navy" into Britains hy- drogen bomb testing zone in the Pacific could pose one of the most embarrassing questions of the nu- clear age.

in the long run it would affect every other nation seeking to test is hydrogen bomb at sea or in an island area-including the United States.

The question is:

what can the bomb testers do if demonstrators refuse to leave the danger area after being warned away?

From inquiries at the British foreign office and among West- ern naval circles. the answer ap- pi-ars to be: Nothing.

The testers could go ahead and

' be free of responsibility if the

demonstrators are killed. But. from a legal viewpoint. they could not compel the demonstrators to leave so long as they remained riear of the three-mile to 12-mile territorial limits.

1.000-MILE ZONE

The danger was declared for Britain's tests this spring extends for nearly 1.000 miles in each di- reciion from Christmas Island.

The Japanese Seamcn's Union has opposed the "peace navy" plan as not in the interests of peace. Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi called if inappropriate.

Nevertheless. the plan has been

approved at two rallies attended I:

by thousands of Japanese. In Eng- land. a retired poultry farmer and his wife are seeking to join the ex- pedition. saying they will "delib- erately risk mutilation" to make their H-bomb protest known. Asked what course Britain will take if the expedition material- iztm. a foreign office spokesman sa 2

cal question and not require an an- esty's government to act respons-

POLICI RAID RIM

MADRID (Reuters) - Madrid police Saturday raided what they described as a centre for prepar- ing clandestine Communist prop- aganda in a Madrid suburb. de- tained I4 alleged Communists and seized a quantity of "subversive

lilies-stun"dA polars statement sa some persists ar- rested had ,.In

Communist . 'I J

Nasser Offers

Deal To

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian

President Nasser said Saturday Israeli ships will be allowed to use the Suez Canal only if Arab refugees from Palestine 'are given back their property. rights and land." He told a grou of American editors that lsr,;l use of the canal and Gulf o zAqaba "is tied up with the Arab refugees pro- blem-we want-to solve it as a whole."-:

in the course of s three-hour talk. the Egyptian leader also de- nicd that he or Egypt was going Communist or that Egypt was "playing the East against the West."

Nasser told the newspaper men: "When we are facing starvation the United States refused us oil and wheat. whilc Russia was will- ing to feed us and supply med- icines and other things.

COMMERCE WITH EAST

"Our commerce with the East- srn bloc is now growing for the simple reason that we are unable to trade with the West. which Is exerting economic pressure for political reasons.

The piesident said Egypt "must build a strong army to face the Israeli threat." Egypt had bought arms from Russia after the West refused its . quests. because "otherwise what happened to the Arab refugees in Palestine would

have happened to us."

A nmnn reply” to an official Japanese protect against the tests con ' Jwhatappeasodtobea hint that force would be used to clear the danger none if neces- sary.

It said aircraft patrols have been set up to guard against any ship entering the area inadvertently and added:

"if any such vessel is sighted. warning leaflets in several lang- uages. including Japanese. will be dropped advising hte vessel to leave the danger area. If such a

warnlnli disregarded. a sun will . ' I c

be sent to the spot to II!!! that. in its own intenat.lhe Vellel leaves the danger area."

The foreign office spokesman de-

clined to say whether this meant re

intruders would be ousted by 10109-

In Tokyo Prime Minister Klshi said Sunday his government will not allow any protest fleets to sail for the danger zone. He told the Diet (Parliament) the fleet plans endangered human life and could not be permitted.

Commons Accloims Honsard Retirement

Editor On His

OTTAWA (CP) - Thomas S. Hubbard had his day in the Com- mons Saturday.

The 05-year-old editor of Hans- ard. a native of Georgetown. Brit- ish Guiana. joined the shorthand reporting staff to help record Com- mons debates in 1019. He served through 10 Parliaments and the regimes of five prime ministers. becoming edit: in 1952.

But Saturday he retired and all parties in the House set their busi- ness aside for a few minutes to pay him warm tribute. Mr. Hub- bard. mlsty-eyed and characteris- tically shy. looked on from his ac- customed seat in the Press Gal-

ry. . Stanley Knowles iCCF-Winni- peg North Centre) led off. saying he wanted to pay tribute to this "very modest. unassuming gentle man" who came here from the Prince Edward Island legislature and started covering Commons de- bates when the present parllamt building was still unbuilt.

The former building was da- stroyed by fire in Feburary. 1910. and while the new one was be- ing built. the Commons met at the national museum-

ALI. PARTIES JOIN

Prime Minister St. Laurent, So- C

cial Credit Leads: flow and How- ard Groen (PC - Vancouver Quads-a) added their warm words of praisd forklift. Hubbard's long

Israel . .

Nasser said the settlement of the Arab refugee problem is "more critical than- that of the Hungarian refugees." There now an close to 1.000.000 Arab rot- ugees, uprooted by the creation of Israel in 1947.

He said. "considering the Is- raeli rights and not considering the rights of the refugees is un- acceptable to us.

CASE IS "JUST"

"We feel our case is just and no cold war or directs will affect us. They say Nasser is a dictator but I believe in our rights and do not care."

Nasser said the offer to finance the Aswan Dam was withdrawn by the United states last June "as an insult to Egypt. as an act to undermine Egypt on the ground that we had an unsound econ- omy."

"That's why we nationalized the canal company." he added.

"We are now facing more trou- ble." Nasser continued. "We are unable to build the high dam to raise the living standards of our people. As a result of nationaliza- tion we are ced with Anglo-

French rest and cannot carry on the projects we need so badly.

"I hope the world iealixes Brit- aln and France are responsible for the whole thing by trying to

defeat our aims to improve our country."

MR. HUBBARD

"The manner in which he has performed his duties wiu out-last even the 30 years of service he has rendered to the Parliament 1

made."

Speaker Ilene Beaudoin, added his word.

"We have been particularly lucky in getting on the staff men of the calibre of Mr. Hubbard."

'3" ' CHARLOTTETOWN ansmsrrr

Ths editor moved to Charlotte- town from British Gui in 1013

town Guardian. For a time G... , Mr. Hubbard worked on the newspaper Argosy- Both he and his wife. the former Flor- enca Dewar. worked for the Guar- dian during their early years in Canada.

Mr. Eeaudoin also wished good luck to Mr. " ” d's W. W. Buskard. who moves up from a '. editor.

Later. the I-Ianaard staff pre- sented Mr. Hubbard with a matched set of luggage. It fitted wen into the retiring editor's fu- ture plans.

11) VISIT P.E.T.

He told a reporter he will re- main in Ottawa until this fall and then take a trip back to George- town. It was nearly 20 years since he'd been there. He ' d T visit P.E-I. on his return to Can ads.

When his travelling was over. he would return to Ottawa. "This is my home now." he said. He seemed a little surprised that so much interest should be shown in

To a suggestion that his favorite reading will still be Hansard. he just smiled. "You don't have to put that in. do you?"

Plan Talks On

Potato Rates

MONTREAL (CPI - A spokes- man for the Canadian Pacific Rail- way said Saturday a meeting will be held in Bangor. Me.. in mid- April to discuss freight rates on potatoes moving from New Eng- land to central Canada.

The meeting will bring together CPR officials and potato shippers, the spokesman said.

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Find Body Of US. Woman

lraa (AP)-lraalaa

Slain By Iranian Bandits

"Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew" WN. CANADA MONDAY. APRIL 1.

One Steamer

Halted, Other Gets Through

MONTREAL (CP) - The Man- I Mariner. IGIHIIJ the no;

to become the year's first steam

ship to arrive at Montreal. sun.

day reached the edge of the ice

field clogging the Gulf of St. Law- nee.

Capt. E. W. Raper. maste of the Manchester Mariner said in a telegram to the ship's agents here the ice field extended from Cape Rays in Newfoundland to St. Paul's Island in the Cabot Straits. blocking the steamers route.

Cape Raye is 692 miles front Montreal.

Steamship officials here expect the department of transport will make an aerial survey Monday to find a navigable passage through the ice.

Montreal annually awards a gold-headed cane to the master of the first steamship completing the transatlantic voyage to Mon- treal at the start of the shipping season. The master of the Man- cheste Mariner has been given the cane four of the last five years.

The American freighter Mor- macmall. which sailed from an east coast Canadian port headed for Quebec City, Sunday broke through the ice barrier and be- came the first vessel to reach the St. Lawrence River.

She found little difficulty in making the passage.

The Mormacmail was due Sun- day nlght at Father Point. Que.. about 150 miles northeast of One- bec City. Her arrival through the gtslf marks the earliest date that an American ship has managed the feat.

The frelghte is not eligible for the cane which Quebec City an- nually awards to the first ship making the transatlantic passage to the port.

Icebreaker Goes To Aid of Sealers

LOUISBOIIRG. N.S. (CF)-The department of transport ico- lsrsaker N; B. McLean sent to Gulf

of St. Lawrence waters Saturday um

tol aid two icebound sealing ves- sea. on her way. the McLean also was to break ice in the Bay of Islands 5 d -for five freighters due at Corner Brook. Nfld.

and

The sealers Terra Nova

gulf ice but were immediate danger. The Prowler. with 85 men aboard, was stuck. off Cape Ferrols near the Strait of Belle Isle with-a broken rudder. She was reported eduipped wllthka jury rudder made from a p an .

The Terra Nova was lcebound near Parson's Pond. Nfld.

TRIBUTE TO HERRIUT

LYON, France (AP) - France paid last tribute Saturday to Ed- ouard Herriot. More titan 150.000 lined the route of the funeral cortege of the former premier. who died last Tuesday. Herriot. M and thrice premier and called the "grand old man of French pol- itlcs." was honorary president of the National Assembly.

OTTAWA (CP) - A revision in military planning. with more em- phasis on general defence in Eur- one. has been advocated in the Commons by the 0pposition's de- fence critic.

Maj.-Gen. G. R. Pearkes. iPC- Esquimalt-Saanich) said that. be- cause of NATO weakness in Eur- ope. a Russian attack is ”far more likely" to come in the form of a ground attack than by nu- clear weapons.

If the NATO shield was unable to check the attack. he said, the United States and Britain would be left with the "awful decision" of whether to be the first to use nuclear weapons. in the knowledge that retaliation in kind would be certain.

"Only by having the most up- to-date weapons for use by ground forces, to be employed in Europe. could we ever have shops of checking the Russian numbers. un- less the nuclear bomb is use." Gen. Pearkes said.

REVIEW OF SPENDING

He called for a review of Cana- dian defence spending to ensure that the best available weapons he provided to the troops to give them "a fighting chance" in any future war.

But he said that because of changing world conditions and weapons developments. there could qbs no substantial cut in defence spending "for some considerable

a. That statement differed from the Progressive Conservative stand be- fore the last election in ION that

over - all vornmant spending could be c by saoo.oou.ooo, in lam out throat Nit! -

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PARLIAMENT SATURDAY

Saturday. March 80. 1951- Msj.-Gen. G. R. Pearkes, (PC- Esquimait-Saanlchi urged a re- vision in military lanning. with more ” ' on ground defence in Europe. J. C. Vgaln Horne (PC-Restl- L , . ) 4 J .

provision for lower down pay- ments on federal housing loans. The Commons agreed at its first Saturday sitting 'of the ses- sion to sit still longer hours in the drive towards dissolution. Monday. April l.lD57-

The Commons continues the

budget debate. The Senate sits.

1957

COLLISIONS ON ST. PETER'S ROAD

Seven Are Hosp Car Accidents Yesterday

Gen. Pearkes spoke during the budget debate as the Comlllullul met for its first Saturday of the session. Attendance in the 265-Seal house during the day ranged be- tween 30 and 50 members.

At the end of the sitting. the House agreed to a further exten- sion of its hours starting Wednes- day. The changes will leave the House with morning. afternoon and evening sittings six days a week except for Wednesday morn- ings and Friday and Saturday ev- enings. The sesslon is expected to end with a pre-election dissolution about April 12.

WIDE RANGE

The Saturday debate covered a wide range of political issues as members took part in what likely is the last general debate before the election campaign. The budget debate winds up Tuesday.

Hazen Argue iCCF-Assiniboial attacked the March 14 budget as one which forgot the Prairie prov- inces.

The b u d g el had promised greater rail transportation subsi- dies to the Maritimes. ignoring the fact that Western Canada had the highest freight rates in all Can-

a.

It had offered to build Maritime power plants and link the power ..ystems of Nova Scotia and New

Immediate Revision In Military Planning Urged

consistently refused to help the p r I) p o s e ti South Saskatchewan rm-i- power-irrigation prollbct. iii-. Argue said he welcomes the aid to the Maritlmes. It probably was becuase of the defeat of pro- gvuu-iai Liberal governments in INiil'a Scotia and New Brunswick. Saskatchewan could get the same benefits by defeating every Lib- eral candidate there in the com- ing federal election, including Ag- ricuiiure Minister Gardiner.

DEALT WITH PENSIONS

Several members dealt with gov- ernmcnt plans to increase to 546 from 540 a number of , sions payments. including the old age security paid to all over 70 and the federal-provincial old age as- sistance. to the needy between 65 and 69.

Joseph Fontaine IL - St. Hya- cinthe-Bagotl said that instead of the 36 monthly increase in the old age security pension. he would have preferred to see everyone re- ceivc a 840 payment at age 60.

C. W. Carter 41.-Burin-Burgeo) said the suggestion by Opposition Leader Diefenbaker to increase pensions to S60 would cost an extra 360,000,000 a year and Involve higher taxes. The Conservatives had criticized the government for not halting inflation and yet they made proposals for greater spend-

Brunswick. Yet the government

ing which would increase inflation.

Expect U. K. Prime Minister In

Moior Policy

LONDON (Reuters) Prime . .. his toners-

I'me'nt"s' 'p'r'eEstlge" Shaken among

some right - wing supporters by events in Bermuda and Cyprus. will plead his cause in a major policy speech in Parliament today.

A group of right-wing Conserva- tive: tirnated to number from 00 to ill members of Parliament Bermuda agreement with Presi- dent Eisenhcwer on British use of United States atomic-armed guided missiles.

They fear the prime minister in effect P ” s' over Britain's de- fences to the United States by agreeing that the atomic warheads of the rockets will remain under American "lock and key."

Macmillan's Conservative party still has not recovered from last Friday's resignation from the cab- inet of the Marquess of Salisbury. powerful behind-the-scene figure

Speech Today

credited with advocating Macmil- Ian's ap ant to tbs prime intinisfirs ip.

QUIT OVER CYPRUS

Lord Salisbury. 63-year-old head of the House of Cecil. quit because the government freed Cypriot Archbishop Markarios Thursday without getting in return a denun- ciation of violence on the Mediter- ranean island.

Other Conservatives support Lord Sallsbury's position and some party members , A the cler- ic's release was influenced by U.S. pressure at Bermuda.

But the dissidents are not ex- pected to pursue their criticism to the point of voting against the gov- ernment.

During parliamentary debate on the Bermuda conference. other major issues will include the fu- ture of nuclear tests. the Suez Canal question and the domestic problem of industrial unrest. Major industrial and shipyard strikes have pulled 1.700.000 British work- ers off their jobs.

STATEMENT ON H-BOMB

Japan has pressed for a halt to forthcoming British H-bomb tests on Christmas island in the Pa- cific. Macmillan said he will make an important statement concern- ing his governent's attitude on hydrogen and atomic bomb exper- iments. which he added will con- tinue. On this issue, the prime minister is assured of full party support-and Labor party criti- clam.

The cabint-t's stand on the Sucz quesrinn could bring a new flurry of criticism from right-wing mem- bers in the Suez group." They fully supported the intervention policy last fall of forer prime minister Eden and vigorously op- posed the decision to withdraw British troops before victory was Ichlevcd.

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Poor Visibility Caused By Drifting Snow is Blamed

Seven Island residents. six adults and one child. are in the Prin- - Edward Island Hospital with various injuries following two St'Darate accident: which occurred On the St. Peter's Highway in the vicinity of Marshfleld around noon yesterday.

injured and in hospital as a re- suit of one accident are Mr. Avalah Maccallum, Carleton Siding, pos- sible fractured ribs; his wife head lacerations and a fractured ankle; James Eric Ellis, Summer- side, fractured ribs; his wife. and one son Harold (9). face lacera- tluns; Ross Ellis (10), suffered slight face lacerations, but was not required to remain at the hospital a .-rnight.

The second serious accident of the day sent to hospital Dr. Ham- mond Kelly, Southport. two legs fractured; and his companion in the vehicle. Barry Rankin. Queen Charlotte High School student. Southport. one fractured leg. George Clow. Charlottetown, driv- er of the other car. suffered in- juries to his chest; his wife. knee lacerations and bruises; their son Robert, face and head lacerations:

Both accidents took place in nar- row cuttings during poor visibility due to heavy drifting. In the first t! MacCallum car. driven by Mr. MacCulluni. was travelling toward the city, when it met the Ellis car driven by the owner in 2-: nar- row section near Marshficld. Mac- Callum was accompaniul by his wife. son and daughter. The lilac- Cailum children were uninjured. In the Ellis vclitclc were ilr- Ellis his wife and four sons. Tvio of the Ellis boys escaped wiihuut injury. Both late model cars suffered con- siderable damage.

The second accident occurred on Godfreyls Hill. and involved four vehicles. Mr. George Clow who was driving East in his late model car collided head-on with'Dr. Kelly's half-ton truck. Mr. Clow was accompanied by his wife and son. Barry Rankin was the only passenger in the Kelly vehicle.

Two other motorists escaped in- jury when their vehicles plowed into the first two from opposite directions. A large oil truck driv- en by Lloyd Hillier. Charlottetown struck the rear of the Clow car. while Albert Cheveris of Souria. who was driving toward the city

none of the Clow family required hospitalizaticni

drove his car into the rear of the Kelly Truck.

LONDON (AP)-Spreading fac- tory strilses hit this manufactur- ing capital Saturday. paralyzing rnureandmorsoftheindustryon

An estimated 1,700,000 workers now have laid down their tools in factories and shipyards making ev- erything from hammers to sewing machines and electronic brain computors; from engines to bom- bers. sleek new tankers and lin- ers.

A half-million men in about 1.- 000 Greater London plants Satur- day joined l,000.000 "engineering" workers who walked out a week ago, mainly in Scotland and North- srn England. Two hundred thou- sand ship makers began the third week of their strike. which has suencod 70 shipyards around Brit-