UGHTING-UP TIME Yesterday's Weather 7.34 p.iru Maximum temperature 73.9 Minimum temperature ..... 68.0 Rainfall *•'*>£•••; • •' •-**• • na 4 TM TABLE FOR MAY Sunshine 11.5 High l*""w5Sfe (No forecast of today's weather Date Water Water Sun- Sun- was available from the Bermuda a.m. pj__ ajn. ,.>jn. rise set Meteorological Office last night.) 7 2.52 3.31 9.16 5.40 5.27 7.04 8 3.57 4.36 10.14 19.50 5.27 9.04 ffilj-e VOL. 33 — NO. 106 HAMILTON. BERMUDA, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1953 6D PER COPY Fear Another Korea With Chine— Troops Assembly!Unanimously Adopt 11750,000 French Hesitant To Call For Proposal For Surplus U.K. Properties UeN* Action In Laos Invasion The House of Assembly agreed unanimously yesterday to offer the U.K. Government £750,000 for its surplus properties in the Colony, the sum to be payable over a period of not PARI.? May 6 (Reuter). —The more than 15 years (or a shorter period if economic factors allow) without interest on out­ French Foreign Ministry remains standing balances. U.S. Would Aid hesitant about any appeal to tbe Reds Shift Their , In thus accepting the recommendation of a joint select committee. the Assembly re­ United Nations for action against jected the British Government's proposal that the surplus properties should be disposed oi the Viet Minh forces in Laos, dip­ Siam If Country lomatic quarters said here to­ Attack Buck to the Bermuda Government for £650,000 plus 50 per cent of the difference between that night figure and the total valuation assessed by a three-man panel if the latter figure was higher. One of the main reasons for Every member who spoke felt Threatened French coolness on this question Tu Viet Nam that the Bermuda Government's The chairman of the joint select is tbe anxiety that "internation­ offer was generous and expressed committee, the Hon. Sir Eldon WASHINGTON, May 6 (#) — alisation" of the Indo China war SAIGON, Indo China, May 6 the hope that the British Govern­ Trimingham,. was present within Assembly Baulks The United States bas virtually might lead to intervention by '(Reuter). —. French tanks ment would give speedy and the Bar of the House for most of Chinese Communist "volunteers.'' pounded down a colonial highway the two-hour debate. The entire assured Siam of emergency assis­ favourable' consideration to the report of the committee was tance ia arms and supplies to Commenting on the statement in tbe Tonkin delta today to re­ offer. At Fast Decision strengthen that country against inforce French Union troops at­ Mr. H. J. Tucker said tbat if adopted without amendment by by tbe United States Secretary of tacked by Communist-led rebels the House and, indeed, without the threat crested by the Com- State, Mr. John Foster Dulles, the offer was refused the already- criticism. munist invasion of Laos. that America is consulting several in northern Viet Nam. weakened links between toe On Post Office "The flare-up of fighting in Viet Colony and the Mother Country Assemblymen congratulated J) The U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. other countries about a possible Nam briefly took tbe attention Captain Dill on his presentation of John Foster Dulles, told Siamese appeal to the United Nations, away from tbe Viet Minh rebel would be further weakened by toe the report and toe committee on Debate was deferred in the Ambassador that this country diplomats here recalled that-tbe invasion of the neighbouring bitterness which would arise in the report it had produced. House of Assembly yesterday on would give "most sympathetic French attitude on this question Bermuda. proposals concerning the future state of Laos. AWFULLY DIFFICULT consideration" to a Siamese re­ was reviewed at a Cabinet meet­ The Viet Minh, believed to be The entire debate was recorded location of the Hamilton Post J quest for prompt expansion of the ing last week, when the Foreign in battalion strength, struck be­ for posterity on a tape recorder Opening the debate Captain Dill Office. Two motions were, before armed aid programme, U.S. and Minister, M. Georges Bidault, op­ low Nam Dinh, 50 miles south of installed in the chamber by tbe told toe House it was awfully toe House. Siamese officials said today. The posed such an appeal while the Hanoi, the capital of the rice- Bermuda Broadcasting Company. difficult to present an issue of One, by the Hon. W. W. David­ Siamese Ambassador told news­ Premier, M. Rene Mayer, fav­ bowl Tonkin delta. The French Seven microphones were placed at such importance to the Assembly son; proposed that the Post Office men the Red invasion of Laos had oured it. admitted their men suffered strategic points around toe when one had been connected so should be moved to toe Hamilton endangered Asia and particularly The problem is expected to be chamber. The request for a per­ Hotel and existing Government casualties, but did not. give any intimately with it for a number office accommodation there re-. his country, which borders Laos surveyed again on Friday, when figures of their losses or the MISSING LAD FOUND—Back at home safely last night was manent record of the debate was of years: on the west. M. Bidault will be back from the 12-year-old Julian Lea-Jones, whose 24-hour disappearance from """de by Captain the Hon. N. B. shuffled at an estimated cost of enemy's exact strength. "One's mind goes back over tbe approximately £135,000. BANGKOK, Siam, May 6 (Reu­ Council of Europe meeting in Meanwhile, ' military sources the ken of his family caused an intensive search. Julian is shown Dill, a member of tbe joint select two years of negotiation that this Strasbourg. committee and responsible for The other, proposed by Mr. H- ter). — The United States will here said they believe the here with his brother Nigel on his right; en his left are his sisters matter has been in front ef T. Watlington, was that a new deliver five shipments of goods MAIN DISADVANTAGES French high command will soon presenting the report to toe various bodies of toe Bermuda launch Commando -raids on Viet Suky-Ann and Jeanette. House. Post Office building should be and military equipment to Siam French Foreign Office quarters Government. I do feel that in erected in the southeast corner in May, the U.S. Ambassador, Mr. Minh positions in Annam, Indo any "negotiations there * is always of the Sessions House grounds at Edwin F. Stanton, said here to­ today listed as main disadvan­ China subdivision en tbe east tages of an appeal to the U.N.: one salient point one can pick an estimated cost of approxi­ day. coast along tbe South China Sea. End Dredging This Year out as being toe node of toe mately £110,000. He reaffirmed the pledge that 1. France was uncertain about The aim would be to relieve pres­ Suez Evacuation argument between toe two parties Mr. Davidson, who was,' in Siam can rely on American help the reception of such a move and sure on tbe French in Laos, which concerned. I would say that in charge of tbe Governor's message to keep the mountain kingdom it was likely that the Arab-Asian tbe Viet Minh nave over-run al­ this particular negotiation the which .contained - both proposals, free and independent in the face bloc would use the occasion to re­ most at will. Talks Adjourned difficulty has been whether toe said it was imperative that steps of "the serious threat created by new their complaints about con­ The Reds still skulked .in tbe Recommend Town Cut Be Bermuda Government should pay be taken to provide new Post the Communist Viet Minh invas­ ditions in Morocco and Tunisia.. bills surrounding Luang Pra­ for the value of toe defence bang, the royal seat of Laos, but Office accommodation. ion of the peaceful kingdom of 2. The Viet Minh would be Indefinitely works which have been erected, APALLING CONDITIONS Laos" in Indo China. given an international standing of the defenders of the pagoda town on toe lands acquired by the virtually a sovereign state, while were beginning to think tbe Dredged To 30ft. Depth Conditions in toe present build­ He added that as a result of enemy attach might not come as CAIRO, Egypt, May 6 (Reu­ United Kingdom Government for ing were little short of appalling. U.S. military assistance during up to now they bave been con­ the rebels seemed to be swinging ter). — The Anglo-Egyptian talks defence purposes," Captain Dill The present location of tbe parcel the last two years, Siam's de­ sidered as internal rebels. their offensive southward. on British evacuation of tbe Suez In an interim report to the House of Assembly yesterday said. post department at No. 7 Shed fences are stronger than ever 3. It was unlikely tbat refer­ Four of toe six American "fly­ Canal Zone were adjourned in­ a select committee recommended that the existing Town At the beginning of toe was not suitable either. Every before. ence to the United Nations would ing boxcar** transports bringing definitely today, with the Egyp­ negotiations it was apparent that year toe amount of Customs duty UNITED NATIONS, New York, produce any substantial military supplies to Laos arrival today tians angry at the red tape and Cut Channel should be dredged to a uniform depth of 30 the War Department valuers had collected on parcels increased. May 6 (IP) — United Nations dele­ assistance to the French forces. and the others are expected committee work involved.