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THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, TUESDAY, JANUARY 1. 1952 PROSPECTS? MANY FESTIVAL WORKERS IN THE NEW YEAR HONOURS Five Peerages for Politicians SIR A. SINCLAIR AND MR BRACKEN AMONG THE VISCOUNTS From oar Political Correspondent SHIP HITS MINE IN NORTH SEA 22 Crew Feared Lost Twenty-two members of the crew are feared to have been drowned when the German cargo ship Irene Oldendorff (1,494 tons) hit a mine in heavy seas about five miles off Hubertgat, near Borkum Island, in, the North Sea, and sank immediately early yesterday. Thirteen bodies had been washed ashore on Borkum last night. The vessel, which entered service NO RETREAT FROM EGYPT Gen.

Robertson on British View: "Meeting Force with Force" NAHAS PASHA REJECTS MEDIATION FROM A DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT PREMIER ON HIS WAY The "Queen" Sails LEAVE PROTEST BY CREW MEMBERS The Queen Mary, with Mr Churchill and his. party on board, sailed from Southampton for New York just before noon yesterday after being delayed for 24 hours with a jammed anchor. Before she sailed, there was a last-minute demonstration by members of the crew against the scarcity of shore leave. At 11 a.m. seventy men, claiming to represent more than a thousand men of all grades, made a protest.

The trouble then seemed to be over until ten minutes before the ship sailed, when twenty men trooped down the crew gangway intending to hold a protest meeting. Mr A. A. Cassells. Southampton representative of the National Union of Seamen, telling the men that nothing would be gained by such action, placated them, and they went back on board.

Mr Cassells told a reporter that some of the men were "a bit upset by the bad weather the ship had encountered in the last few days and wanted a full day ashore. Their point of view will be put to the managers of the company," he added. CALM SEA A British United Press message sayt that the Queen Mary left Cherbourg last night on a calm sea. A member of the Premier's party said that Mr up to the recent election campaign. His words will be heard with respect by all parties in the House of Lords.

He was consulted by Mr Attlee's Government for a little while after 1945. Mr Brendan Bracken served Mr Churchill eagerly from 1940 to 1945, first as Minister of Information (throughout the period of the Coalition Government), then as First Lord of the Admiralty. Mr Bracken would have held Cabinet office in the present Government but for ill health. 14 YEARS IN OFFICE Mr Robert Hudson, who held office continuously from 1931 until 1945 and was Minister of Agriculture throughout Mr Churchill's war-time Government, is not a member of the present Government, but did a great deal of speaking for the Conservatives in opposition. Workers for the Festival of Britain have been generously recognised with the award of two knighthoods, one K.B.E., ten C.B.E.s, 35 O.B.E.s, and twelve B.E.M.s.

Mr Hugh Casson, who was the Director of Architecture for the Festival, and Major Joseph, Managing Director of Festival Gardens, are made knights, and Sir Wynn Powell Wheldon, who was chairman of the Welsh Committee of the Festival, is made a K.B.E. Good Revenue Flow EXPENDITURE- LESS THAN EXPECTED From our Financial Staff I London, Monday. The Treasury returns for the first nine months of the financial year show that a startling change has come over the Budget accounts. Government expenditure is running well below April's estimates and revenue is coming in much better than was expected. Mr Gaitskell, in his last Budget, seems to have overestimated what the Government would be able to spend on armaments and underestimated how much revenue would be gathered in by the Customs on the much higher volume of imports.

In the nine months which ran out this evening ordinary expenditure was 2,908 millions and ordinary revenue 2,682 millions, leaving a deficit above the line of the accounts of 226 millions. This does not include capital expenditure "below the line" on such items as loans to local authorities, war damage, and purchases which amounted to 321 millions, and left an overall deficit of 547 millions. Mr Gaitskell budgeted for an overall deficit of 457 millions in the full Budget year. The main tax-gathering season has still to come. Unless Government expenditure expands rapidly in the next three months, which is not impossible, but perhaps improbable, the Budget accounts could be much nearer balanced by the end of the fiscal year than was once expected.

In the final quarter of the last two financial years the Treasury has gathered in about 40 per cent of total revenue and spent about 30 per cent of total expenditure. If the same happens again this year ordinary revenue mav well be 300 millions greater than the estimate of 4.236 millions and ordinary expenditure mav fall about 100 millions short of the estimate of 4,197 millions. In that case the net capital expenditure below the line would be about covered and the inflationary influence of the Budget neutralised. London, Monday. The New Year's Honours List, the first for wnich Mr Churchill has made recommendations since 1945, contains three distinctive features the award of honours to Conservative politicians and party workers, the main award of honours to men and women who were prominent in the arrangement of the Festival of Britain (Sir Gerald Barry, who directed the Festival, was knighted some time ago), and tne restoration of the award of baronetcies for political services.

Mr Attiee never recommended any awards of this kind during his two administrations. Five peerages have been conferred on politicians. Sir John Anderson, Mr Brendan Bracken. Mr Robert Hudson, and Sir Archibald Sinclair are created viscounts, and Lord Winterton (whose peerage is Irish and does not qualify him for a seat in the House of Lords) is made a baron in the United Kingdom peerage. Mr Brendan Bracken had already decided to retire from his Bournemouth seat, because of ill health.

Mr Hudson's peerage will aause a by-election in Southport which he held in October with a maiority of 17.853. POLITICAL CURIOSITY The entry of Sir Archibald Sinclair and Sir John Anderson into the House of Lords will arouse considerable political curiosity. Sir Archibald's honour was not unexpected. He has, while retaining his independent Liberalism, given Mr Churchill strong political support for long periods since 1931 and is a personal friend of the Prime Minister. But the waywardness of politics treated him roughly for his services to the war-time Government, in which he served throughout as Secretary for Air.

He was unable to devote much time to his constituency of Caithness and Sutherland, and when the election came in 1945 he was beaten by a small majority after having held the seat since 1922. Sir Archibald failed to regain the seat in 1950 and did not contest the last election, though he did some campaigning for other Liberal candidates. His arrival in the House of Lords will give Lord Samuel, the leader of the Liberal peers, a welcome recruit, and Sir Archibald's standing in the party he succeeded Lord Samuel as leader of the Liberal Parliamentary party in 1935 gives him a strong claim to be second-in-command in the Lords and, ultimately, to succeed to the leadership. The viscounty conferred on Sir John Anderson brings him once more within range of office. He left Parliament in 1950 when the University seats were abolished, and was reluctant to contest an election which was not fought on the system of proportional representation, which, in his view, had enabled him to fight without damaging party interests.

But Mr Churchill has so great a regard for his loyalty and ability that he continued to rely on Sir John's advice right London, Monday. General Robertson, the British Jommander-in-Chief Middle East, jrrived back in the Canal Zone to-day after his visit to London. Immediately after his return he issued a forthright statement which had, he explained, the authority of the Prime Minister. In his statement hesaid that neither the passage of time nor murderous episodes would drive the British forces out of the Canal Zone. If necessary we snail go on munth nfier month for many months if need be.

We shall meet force with force usine it ourselves no more than necessary. We have sufficient forces at our and we have tne support of other countries. No one should be misled into thinking we shall be turned from our puhev bv the passage of time or murderous episckies." The British were determined to press forward the Four-Power proposals for a Middle East defence command. Genera! Robertson said, and sincerely hoped that Egypt would participate in a full and equal partnership." He went on Until such an arrangement Is made His Majesty's Government will uphold our position in the Canal Zone and maintain the international waterway of the iSuezt canal not for any reason of selfish interest but as our contribution to the defence of the free world. It would be a great mistake for anyone to imagine that pressure and terrorism, with their inevitable consequences, will in any way affect our resolve." EGYPTIAN REPLY TO MEDIATION About the same time in Cairo Nahas Pasha, the Egyptian Premier, was digging in his toes with equal firmness.

I wish to emphasise," he said, that we have not asked anybody to mediate. Egypt's viewpoint is very well known and has not changed. Egyptians ask nothing but immediate and total evacuation of British troops and unity of the Nile Valley under the Egyptian Crown." Nahas Pasha said that his statement should be regarded as an answer every time there was talk of mediation moves. In the last lew days there had been quite a lot of talk of such moves in Cairo. Nahas Pasha evidently means to put paid to them.

There had been fresh rumours of Italian interest there was curiosity to know what Salah ed-Din, the Foreign Minister, said to Signor De Gasperi in Rome. But the moves which Nahas Pasha chiefly dislikes are evidently these of Nuri Pasha, the Prime Minister of Iraq. Nuri Pasha is arriving in London either to-morrow or in the near future. His visit is entirely a private one but he has let it be widely known that he would like to be helpful in settling the Anglo-Egyptian dispute. His views about a possible settlement are being discussed in the whole of the press of the Middle East.

Nuri Pash5 will have visited Ankara on his way to London. Broadly speaking, Nuri Pasha's plan seems to be that the Arab States might reach a settlement with the West by linking the collective security pact of the Arab League with the Atlantic Pact. It is the first constructive proposal which has been put forward since the offer to Egypt by the four Powers. Many difficulties will naturally suggest themselves. The Arab League is not strong enough to defend itself in the first period of an attack.

Does Nuri Pasha envisage that Egypt would permit Atlantic Pact troops to be stationed in the Canal Zone The division between Cabinet and Palace in Cairo is becoming more evident. Since the King made the new appointments of his personal advisers last week some striking statements have been made by those in favour of moderation. From Nahas Pasha's remarks to-day it seems that he is striking back. PLAYING WITH FIRE There has always been the possibility that the revolutionary forces in Egypt, once unleashed, would turn against the monarchy. In this, the storms in Egypt and Persia have followed a very similar pattern.

In both countries the which have been playing with revolutionary fire, represent the rich and privileged. They try to ride out the storm by becoming the champions of anti-foreign policies. In seeking to purchase neutrality for their countries they come near a pro-Russian policy. As the storm grows the Cabinet in each tries to gratify popular excitement by turning against the monarchy, the institution from which moderating influences might have come. Monarchy in Islamic countries does not enjoy any very great reverence.

In the Canal Zone the Egyptian Cabinet has thrown fresh fuel on the fire by its law fixing penalties for Egyptians who collaborate with British troops. If the law is passed and enforced, the British Army may have to take counter-measures. It has obviously at its disposal a number of economic sanctions which would be inconvenient to the Egyptian Government. Up to the present the Egyptians have not interfered with the foreign labour imported into the Canal Zone. An Egyptian newspaper to-day offers a reward of to any assassin who kills General Erskine.

This shows that the reckless temper of the extremists has not abated. Stories of the censorship of surface mail between the Canal Zone and this country are incorrect. The Army Post Office operates its own mails letters to Britain or Commonwealth countries are not handled by Egyptians unless posted in Egyptian post boxes. Letters addressed to countries outside the Commonwealth have, until now, been pascd on to the Egyptian Post Office, but in future these also will be handled by the Army Post Office. FOUR BARONETCIES, 34 KNIGHTS REWARD FOR ASSASSINS: "A DIRECT INCITEMENT TO MURDER only last year, was bound from Emden to Sweden with a cargo of coke, Although the ship was equipped with a i radio transmitter, none of the coastal radio stations reported an S.O.S.

signal from her. It was reported from Corunna last I night (according to Reuters; that ai bparush seaplane nad located tne tor- ward half of the Norwegian tanker Osthav (8,525 tons) with eight men and one woman on board. The ship broke in two in heavy seas fifty miles north-west of Santanc'er, in the Bay of Biscay. The Swedish steamer Gunny arrived in Corunna late last night with 34 survivors from the iUern half of the Osthav. One of the survivors was reported to be injured.

Hope diminished yesterday for the crew of eight of the Dutch coaster Gemma (400 tons) which was wrecked after a storm on Sunday and flung on the rocks at Guethary, near Bayonne. Both the coaster's lifeboats drifted ashore empty yesterday. A body washed ashore south of Biarritz was identified i as that of one of the crew of the; Gemma. Two other bodies have been identified as members of the crew, and four more bodies are reported to have been sighted a few hundred yards offshore. LINER 48 HOURS LATE The Cunard liner Partnia (13,362 I tons) reached New York 48 hours late yesterday because of the abnormally i severe Atlantic gales.

The captain said the ship encountered gjles of hurricane torce on tne crossing. Only 7u per cent of the passengers took Christmas dinner, but three British racehorses and a foal on board stood the weather well, he said. The Grimsby trawler Cradock (418 i tons) ran aground near Loedingen, on the Lofoten Island, off the north-western coast of Norway, yesterday, but was tugged free by Norwegian salvage The ship, with its catch intact, was being escorted to Bergen alter emergencv repairs to her hull at Narvik. Reuter and British United Press. RIVER LEVELS FALL Snow in Scotland and Ireland Roads Icy Gale conditions round Britain's coast showed signs of moderating last In the evening the Thames was ebbing rapidly at Westminster and had fallen below roadway level.

After reaching lift. 7in. above its normal level, the river Severn also showed signs of falling. Snow fell in Northern Ireland and parts of Scotland during the day. The R.A.C.

reported that snow and ice on roads in Northumberland was thawing, but on the Kent coast the Folkestone-Rye road was blocked by sand and shingle and was expected to remain closed until to-morrow. The A. A. reported that ice made roads from Carlisle and Newcastle over the Scottish border dangerous in places. There were icy roads in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cheshire, and parts of North Wales.

The Norwegian cargo ship Kaprino (3.255 tons) was refloated from a mud-bank in the Mersey yesterday and later unloaded a cargo of 4,000 tons of phosphate at Marston Docks, Liverpool. Robert Marshall, aged sixteen, of Dysart, Fifeshire. who was seriously injured when a wall was blown over on Sunday, died yesterday in hospital. His companion. John Meiklem (14), also of Dysart, was killed in the accident.

After circling over Shannon Airport for three-quarters of an hour yesterday during a snowstorm a Transworld Airlines Constellation plane flying from Paris to New York was diverted to Dublin. Hundreds of feet of two run-Ways at Shannon are still under water. The breach in the banks dividing the estuary from the airport is more extensive than was at first thought and repairs are expected to take three months. HARDY REVELLERS SEE 1952 IN A Chilly Beginning Manchester entered 1952 at midnight with peals of bells, scattered bangs, handshakes and kisses, and other outbreaks of revelry of the rather determined kind. A chill breeze and a threat of drizzle persuaded most to give the new year a fireside welcome and there were also crowded dances at the Free Trade Hall and several hotels.

But the heartiest and heftiest weleomers bunched in Albert Square, as usual, to await the crucial stroke from the clock tower. Fancy dress seemed optional only a few comic hats were about but tropical sun hats, in faded khaki, were strangely numerous. A detachment of well-wishers from foreign shores perhaps But Manchester complexions seemed to make it unlikely. One bot-chestnut salesman had also stayed up late for the occasion, offering throaty good wishes with every sale. Traffic was at a standstill for nearly half an hour in Piccadilly, London, as the usual great crowds surged round Eros.

There were more crowds in Trafalgar Square with its illumirated Christmas tree, while between four thousand and five thousand people took part in the watch-night service in St Paul's. Several thousand more people gathered around the forecourt to the Cathedral, which was floodlit as midnight approached. About six thousand people were present at the Chelsea Arts ball, the theme of which was hunting, shootin'. fishin'." Costumes ranged from hunting pink to fishing jerseys and big-game hunters', outfits. On the Mersey ships' sirens and hooters gave 1952 the traditional i'lcome, but sleet driven by a cold wind kept the city centre almost deserted.

Similar weather also kept most people off the streets in Glasgow. NEW HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR PAKISTAN Washington, December 31. The Pakistan Embassy" here announced to-night that the Ambassador, Mr M. A. H.

Isoahani. has been appointed; High Commissioner for Pakistan in He has been Ambassador to the United States for four years. Associated Press. Mr Ispihani will succeed Mr Habib Rahimtqola. who has been High Commis-iloner since Pakistan won independence.

Cairo, December 31. An Egyptian newspaper's offer of 111.000 to any Egyptian who kills! General Erskine and 100 for the death of any British officer was said tii be ''direct incitement to by a British Embassy spokesman tii-nipht. Authoritative sources said that a formal protest would be lodged i c.i mediately by the Embassy, since an informal inquiry by the Embassy at the Foreign Office had brought an entirely unsatisfactory reply." 1 More incidents, said a British military spokesman, were reported in the Canal to-day. including the throwing of bomb at a lorry outside Nefisha. near Kmnilia.

The driver was slightly The spokesman denied an ('qyptian newspaper report that an Baronetcies are conferred for political services upon Mr Nigel Colman, member for Brixton from 1927 to IiM5, and a former chairman of the Conservative Central Council Mr R. V. Grimston, member for Westbury and a former Assistant Postmaster-General Mr G. Proby, another former chairman of the Conservative Central Council and Colonel Ropner. the member for Barkston Ash.

STAGE AND SCREEN Among recipients in the arts are Miss Anna Neagle and Miss Flora Robson, both of whom 'have been made C.B.E.s. Others include Mr William Primrose, the viola player (C.B.E.), and Mr E. B. Clarke, the screen writer of Ealing Studios (O.B.E.) whose films include "Passport to Pimlico." "The Blue Lamp." "Hue and Cry," and "The Lavender Hill Mob." There are two Dames in the list Miss Marjorie Maxse, vice-chairman of the Conservative party from 1944-50, and Commandant M. K.

Lloyd. Director of the W.R.N.S. Mr Robert Catterall, who is created a knight, is 72 and started work as a part-timer in a cotton mill at Bolton when only 10 years of age. He is now an auctioneer. He was chairman of the Conservative party conference in 1943 and 1945, and has been president of the North-west area of the Conservative Association since 1948.

Colonel J. B. Coates (C.B.E.) is secretary of the East Lancashire Territorial Association. He has been a Deputy-Lieutenant for Lancashire since January, 1950. Mr Edward Browne (C.B.E.) is the production director of the North-west Divisional Coal Board.

He graduated as a mining engineer at Birmingham and began work as a pit engineer. John Harold Corah. (For political and public services in Leicestershire.) Robert Furness Fryars, Chairman and Managing Director, Associated Commercial Vehicles Sales, Ltd. Ernest William Goodale, C.B.E., M.C, President, Silk and Rayon Users' Association. Reginald Playfair Hills, O.B.E..

M.C, Junior Common Law Counsel, Board of Inland Revenue. Geoffrey Clegg Hutchinson, M.C, K.C., M.P. for Uford from 1937-1945, and for Ilford N. since 1950. (For political and public services.) Herbert Leslie Joseph, Managing Director, Festival Gardens, Ltd.

Edward Herbert Keeling, M.C, M.P. for Twickenham since 1935. (For political and public services.) Colonel William John Kent, C.B.E., President, British Pottery Manufacturers' Federation. George Palmer Laidlaw, O.B.E. Chairman, Scottish Council of Social Service, Alien Lane Williams Lane, Founder and Managing Director.

Penguin Books, Ltd. Hans Eric Miller, Chairman, International Rubber Development Board. Rudolph Albert Peters, M.C, M.D., F.R.S., Whitley Professor of Biochemistry. University of Oxford. Arthur Hampden Ronald Was tell Poyser, C.B.E.

Master in Lunacy, Supreme Court of Judicature. Judge John Prichard, C.B.E., lately President of the Court of Cassation, Bagdad. David Randall Pye, C.B.. Sc.D.. F.R.S., M.I.Mech.E.

Lately Provost of University College, University of London. John Knewstub Maurice Rothenstein, C.B.E., Ph.D., Director and Keeper, Tate Gallery. Professor Douglas Lloyd Savory, M.P. for Queen's University, Belfast, from 1940-50, and for Antrim S. since 1950.

(For political and public services.) Alderman Alfred Ernest Shennan. F.R.LB.A. (For political and public services in Liverpool.) William Woodthorpe Tarn, Lltt.D., LL.D.. F.B.A.; Hellenistic historian. Reginald Sparshatt Thatcher, O.B.E., M.C, Mus.Doc, F.R.C.M., F.R.C.O., Principal.

Royai Academy of Music. Walford HoUier Twrner. (For political and public services in Birmingham.) Lieutenant-Colonel George James Cullum Welch, O.B.E., M.C, Alderman and recently Sheriff of the City of London. Alexander Williamson, C.B.E., M.Inst.C.E. Chairman and Managing Director, William Beardmore and Company, Glasgow.

Alderman Bertram Wilson. (For political and public services in the West Riding of Yorkshire.) Professor Ernest Llewellyn Woodward, F.B.A., Editor of Documents on British Foreign Policy. Other honours on pxg 6 NEW YEAR AMNESTY IN YUGOSLAVIA 3,000 Prisoners Belgrade, December 31. A new year amnesty has been given bv Yugoslavia to 3.048 Federal prisoners, the Ministry of the Interior announced in Belgrade to-night It is reported that commissions are also to be set up in six republics to consider further releases. Those whose release was announced to-day are believed to include many, minor war criminals, some of those convicted of having spied for the West, and some of the two hundred or more Roman Catholic and 65 Orthodox priests now estimated to be in Yugoslav prisons.

British United Press. t-hurchill was spending his time in dictating letters and preparing the main speech he will make in the United States. Mr Eden was said to be hard at work on the foreign policy address he will make at Columbia University. Last night the whole British party and other notable passengers were invited to a special New Year's Eve party in Mr Churchill's private dining-room. SENATOR CALLS FOR WARNING LIGHTS Washington, December 31.

Senator Langer (Republican), of North Dakota, telegraphed the authorities of the North Church at Boston to-day urging that a lantern be lit in the belfry to warn the nation that Mr Churchill was coming. It was from the spire of the old North Church (or Christ Church) that the signals were suspended which sent Paul Revere on his famous ride to warn the local inhabitants that the British were coming. I believe our fellow-countrymen should be equally warned and alerted to-day," said the senator. British United Press. TWO KILLED ON HELVELLYN Attempt to Save Friend From our Correspondent Keswick, Monday.

Miss Elizabeth Mary Park, aged 12, daughter of the Vicar of Holy Trinity, Southport, and Mr Frank E. Bailey, the organist at the church, were killed this afternoon when they slipped from the top of an icy crag about fifteen hundred up Helvellyn, above Thirlmere. and fell eighty feet on to rocks below. The party included the vicar, the Rev. John Raymond Pant, and Miss Roselind Bailey, aged 12, Mr Bailey's daughter.

When they were on top of what is locally know as Dibber Crag, directly above the Nag's Head at Wythburn, one of the girls slipped. The other tried to hold her and as they were both falling Mr Bailey tried to save them. All three went over the crag. Miss Bailey is in Keswick Hospital with severe head injuries, facial injuries, and a fractured right leg, and the vicar is in hospital suffering from shock. The injured girl and the vicar were brought down by a party of men from the Manchester Corporation Waterworks Forestry Section, the police, and the St John Ambulance Brigade.

FOURTH BODY FOUND ON BEN ALDER Lost Climbing Parry The body of the fourth man in the Ben Alder (Inverness-shire) climbing party, three members of which were found dead on Sunday. Was discovered by a search party yesterday. It is believed to be that of Mr Tom Shepherd, of Blenheim Street. Glasgow. The other three were Mr Sidney Tewnion.

of Roliand Street, Mr John Black, of Greengairs Avenue, and Mr John Bradburn, of Castle Street, all of Glasgow. Thj only survivor is Mrs Ann Tewnion. who returned to Corrour Lodge, from which the party had set out for Ben Alder lodge. Loch Ericht, on Saturday, and gave the alarm. All four bodies have been taken to Fort William, AIR FRANCE STRIKE ENDS Aircrews Return From our own Correspondent Paris, December 31.

The navigating personnel of Air France decided to-day to end their strike and return to work. The Air France services are being resumed as rapidly as possible, and several were already functioning to-night. The return to work is justified by the trade union of the navigating personnel on the ground that the Government has shown itself sympathetic to the problems of the strikers. That the Government is willing to consider reasonable grievances is certain, but the strike has more probably been ended because the trade union realised that it had entered upon a conflict which was strongly disapproved by the vast majority of French opinion of all kinds. It became evident when the grievances of tne strikers were discussed that there was considerable resistance to modernisation of methods of navigation in aircraft INCREASE IN O.

AC. TRAFFIC During 1951 the British Overseas Airways Corporation flew 45 per cent more passenger-miles and carried nearly 31 per cent more passengers and over 12 per cent more cargo than in 1950. Approximate figures for the year show that the corporation flew 762.357,400 passenger-miles (compared with 525.29fi,158 in 1950) and carried 237,400 passengers (against 181.478) and 8,780 snort tons of cargo (against VEXED QUESTION OF PRISONERS Communist "Welshing" Tokio, December 31. The truce negotiators in Korea adjourned without making any progress at their final meeting of the old year. In the prisoners subcommittee the Communists had proposed an immediate all for all exchange as a fine agreement for the new year." Rear Admiral Libby told them that their proposal has one fatal defect.

You did not mean all when you said all." After the meeting Admiral Libby said that the subcommittee had lost ground because the Communists watered down" their earlier agreement to report on 50.000 missing United Nations troops to agreement only to consider giving information. The Communists, he declared, "appeared to be welshing" on their commitments. Admiral Libby emphasised that the United Nations would supply the ranks and units of the entire 132,474 Communist prisoners in their hands on January 4, as well as other dita on Communists who escaped or dieii by January 8, Of the total, 44,250 prisoners had been reclassified and found to be loyal South Korean citizens. He added that the United "Nations negotiators would not enter into agreements until they had in return complete, convincing, and factual accounting of prisoners known to have been in Communist hands." In Tokio, United Nations headquarters said that medical care provided by their doctors and staffs had kept down the death rate among Communist prisoners to only about 5 Der cent in the bast eighteen months. While the two subcommittees were meeting at Panmunjom, United Nations troops, with air support, made a fighting advance through the snow only a few miles away against fierce resistance from reorganised Chinese forces.

They launched their attack ahead of a hill west of Korangpo, only a few miles from Panmunjom. The battle In this sector has raged for three days. Reuter. MORE U.S. AID FOR SPAIN Bilateral Agreement Madbid, December 31.

Mr Paul Porter, special representative of the new United States Mutual Assistance Agency in Europe, said in Madrid to-night that Spain will shortly receive United States aid on the same basis a Yugoslavia. Spain and Yugoslavia are the only countries outside the framework of the Marshall Plan which expires at midnight to receive United States aid. Mr Porter said that the United States had decided to establish a Mutual Assistance Agency mission in Spain soon to finance mining, electrical, farming, and transport schemes. He declined to disclose the sum that Spain would be granted, but added that the first scheme might receive aid within three months. A bilateral financial aid agreement, he said, would be negotiated on the basis of the economic report of Mr Sufrin, special representative of the Economic Co-operation Administration in Spain.

Mr Porter emphasised that dollars would be granted to Spain for specific projects rather than in a lump sum. He also stated that the United States would receive valuable strategic minerals and what he called an important contribution to United States security" in return. The strategic minerals he referred to are believed to be wolfram, lead, and pyrites. British United Press. RED FLAG GOES PARTLY GREEN Moscow, December 31.

The Praesidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian Republic has decreed that a new flag be produced for the republic one-third of which will be green and the rest red. The flag will consist of two horizontal stripes the broad one red, the narrower green, with a vertical stripe along the staff carrying the Byelorussian national design embroidered in white on red. A golden hammer and sickle and a five-pointed star will be embroidered on the upper left-hand corner of the red stripe. British United Press. LUDICROUS" PURCHASE TAX ON CARS Manufacturer's Protest Big Increases in Nuffield Range Prices From our Correspondent The principal honours are Viscounts The Rt.

Hon. Sir John Anderson, G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., F.R.S. (For political and public services.) The Rt. Hon. Brendan Bracken, Member of Parliament for Paddington 1929-1945, Bournemouth, 1945-1950, and Bournemouth E.

and Christchurch since 1950. (For political and public services. The Rt. Hon. Robert Spear Hudson, C.H., Member of Parliament for Whitehaven, 1924-1929, and for South-port since 1931.

(For political and I The Rt. Hon. Sir Archibald Henry Macdonald Sinclair. K.T.. C.M.G.

i LL.D. (For political and public services.) Baron The Rt. Hon. Edward, Lord Winterton, Member of Parliament for Horsham, 1904-1951. (For political and public services.) Privy Counsellors Sir Uiick Alexander, G.C.V.O., K.C.B., C.M.G..

O.B.E., Keeper of the Privy Purse and Treasurer to the King. Charles Williams. Member of Parliament for Tavistock, 1918-1922. and for Torquay since 1924. (For political and public services.) Baronets Nigel Claudian Dalziel Colman, Member of Parliament for Brixton, 1927-1945.

(For political and public services.) Robert Villiers Grimston, Member of Parliament for Westbury since 1931. i (ror political and public services.) Richard George Proby, M.C. (For nolitical and ruihlic sprvirps Colonel Leonard Ropner. M.C, Member of Parliament for Sedgefield, 1923-1929, and for Barkston Ash since 1931. (For political and public services.) Knights Professor Leonard Bairstow, C.B.E., D.Sc, D.Eng., F.RS..

Chairman, Aeronautical Research Council. George Percy Barnett, Chief Inspector of Factories, Ministry of Labour and National Service. John Lucian Blake, M.Sc, Comptroller-General, Patent Office. John Poland Bowes, C.B.E., M.I.C.E., lately Engineer-in-Chief, Corporation of Trinity House. Walter Russell Brain, DM, B.Ch., F.R.C.P., President, Royal College of Physicians.

Colin Campbell. O.B.E., Town Clerk of Plymouth. Hugh Maxwell Casson, F.R.I.B.A., lately Director of Architecture, Festival of Britain. Robert Catterall, M.B.E. (For political and public services in Lancashire.) Charles Gibson ConnelL (For political services in Scotland.) POLICE CHASE ENDS IN CUL-DE-SAC Stolen Lorry Crashes A lorry loaded with a safe and about 400,000 cigarettes, stolen from a wholesale tobacconist's warehouse in Bedford, was chased through Hertfordshire and later in London by seven police cars last night Finally, it crashed into the wall of a cul-de-sac.

Oaktree Dell. Kingsbury, near Edgware. and three men ran away. Later another man was detained for questioning. A resident said he noticed a lot of interference on his television screen, and looked out and "saw police cars tearing down this little road." Police dogs were taken to the scene of the crash, he added, but they did not seem to pick up anything.

attack was made on a British brigadier this morning while he was travelling in a car. British authorities have seized a quantity of high explosives from barges in Suez Bay. No details were given of the ownership of the explosives, but a British spokesman said the action was necessary in order to prevent the explosives falling into the hands of Egyptian terrorists as there had been reports of pilfering. Egyptian schools were given their mid-year holidays in advance to-day and the students will be on holiday until January 11. The decision follows strikes by students and demonstrations in protest against King Farouk's appointment of two pro-British advisers.

Notices were placed at the entrance to the Gezira Sporting Club here to-day saying that the club has been taken over by the Egyptian Government so that a stadium can be built on the site. Associated Press and British United Press. some cases at three times the rate it did in 1948. The constant call is for manufac- i turers to leep costs down to the public, and when ihis is attempted the good I achieved is rendered abortive by the effects of excessive taxation. Manufacturers are every forrr.

of ingenuity and technical skill to achieve keeping prices as low as possible, but in spite of this the ultimate price to the public is getting out of hand." The Morris Minor two door saloon which formerly cost 519, including .186 10s purchase tax. will from to-day cost 581 14s 6d, which includes 208 14s 6d tax. The Oxford Saloon rises from 698 tax 250) to 794 (284). Increases of 100 and over start with the Morris Six saloon whichjises from 875 (tax 313) to 9P7 (357). The biggest increase is in the Riley lj-litre class which goes up to 1.339 tax 479) from 1.168 418).

The 2i-litre model goes up from 1,491 to 1,642. There are other big in the Wolselev range, the 450 model rising from 903 (tax 323) to 1.028 (368) and the 680 model from 989 (tax 354) to 1.121 (401). The commercial vehicles are proportionately increased, as are the M.G. Midget range. 14 SURVIVORS IN AIR WRECK Missing Plane Found New York, December 31.

Fourteen of the forty people op board a transport air liner missing since Saturday night were found to-night to be alive. Police at Little Valley, New York State, said the plane which was on a flight between Pittsburgh and Buffalo-had been found in wild country just west of Salamanca, on the edge of the Allegany Indian reservation. Nineteen West Point cadets were among 28 people on another missing plane, an Air Force transport whlcn vanished in mist and rain in Arizona yesterday. The cadets were on their way back to West Point after spending Christmas at home. Reuter.

Oxford, Monday. The time has come for the Government seriously to consider a reduction in the high rate of purchase tax on cars." said Mr R. F. Hanks, vice-chairman of the Nuffield Organisation, which to-night announced substantial increases in the prices of cars and commercial vehicles. The Increases vary for different models from 60 to over 100.

Mr Hanks said that in October, 1948, the purchase tax on a Morris Minor was 78 to-day it was 208, an increase of 167 per cent, whereas the actual percentage increase in the list price of the car was only 33 per cent. For the Morris Oxford, over the corresponding period, the purchase tax had risen by 158 per cent and the list price by only 29 per cent, and for the Morris Six the purchase tax was 170 per cent higher as against a 35 per cent rise in the list price. The position is becoming Eidicrous," he commented, when higher wages and dearer raw materials cause an of about one-third, whereas revenue from purchase tax pours into the Treasury in GIFT PARCELS FOR BRITISH TROOPS Australian Appeal Tokio, December 31. Nine Australian editors visiting Japan to-day unanimously agreed to back a campaign for launching a service of gift parcels to "the magnificent British troops In Korea." They made this decision after listening to an appeal by the Australian Army Minister, Mr Francis, who asked for their help. Mr Francis, who recently visited the Korea battlefront, reminded the editors ihat the British could not send parcels to Korea as easily as Australians.

He asked them to consider how Australian newspapers might help in raising a public fund to bring comforts to the magnificent British soldiers in British brigades in Korea." Reuter..