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RESCUE DRAMA IN THE MED.
Cairo, Mar. 29.
Aircraft and ships searched the Eastern Mediterranean today for a Greek sea captain swept away alone in a ship's lifeboat when on the point of being rescued.'
His ship, the Panamanian Semiramis (622 tons), sank 60 miles off Mersa Matruh, Libya, early yesterday.
ROUND-UP
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IN ASSAM
here today.
In combing the wild jungle- clad hills, over a score of Com- munist hideouts were discover- ed.
large
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Today, his Chief Engineer, Ellas Farukian, also a Greci, told how Captain Demetre Calios, from the island of Chios, was lost. With 10 other survivora, in- cluding woman, he arrived at Alexandris today on boord the British steamer Carkon.
Farakins said: "About four o'clock yesterday morning, we noticed the Semiramis was taking water and by six o'clock
the master ordered the crew to abandon ship, which was taking a general cargo to Benghazt,
"The master and crew board- ed two lifeboats and tried to The two make for the shore. boats were tied together by a long rope.
the 12 hours
boats "Afler
but
who
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 80, 1951.
Skin-Deep Clarification
Friendship
New York, Mar, 29.
A man aged 43, whose
body had been so severely
burned. Ina.boller
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plosion that he lost per cent, of his skin, has been discharged from hos pital after
4,080 square centimetres of his skin-
rift frous 14. friends--bad been crafted on him,
The friends attended a party to celebrato iho KTC- cessful operation--Reuter.
Atomic
Of Gromyko's Offer Needed
BRIGHTER KING'S MAJESTIC
STRIKE
PICTURE
QUEUILLE TO ACT
AS ARBITER
Paria, Mar. 29. The Prime Minister, M. Paris, Mar. 29.--Henri Queuille, today agreed The "Big Four" Foreign Ministers' deputies to the All-Union Strike Com- today postponed their 20th session for 24 hours to mittee's request to act give the Western Powers more time to consider arbiter tonight in the dead- locked strike situation that Russia's new compromise offer.
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A new proposal put forward by Mr Andrei has crippled Paris public Gromyko, the Soviet delegate, represents a middle transport for 14 days.
Observers were more opti-
Spy Case way between what the Russian delegation, and the mistle about this than previous
Verdict
THREE AMERICANS FACE DEATH
New York, Mar. 29. Three Americans were
were
to
Western delegates respectively consider top meetings, because the strikers used the word "arbitration" priority subjects for discussion by the. Foreign for the first time. Ministers later.
This gave hope that they would accept M. Queulile's conclusiona.
The Strike Committee has so The Western Ministers, while recognising it as a concession, are seeking clarification on how far held out for a 25 per cent wage boost, whereas the Gov- far Mr Gromyko still wishes to treat German re ernment offered a 12% per cent armament as an isolated topic, and whether hero.
The Minister of Transport,
still wants to treat the four Powers' armaments as │M. Antoine Pinay, also agreed an item separate from the general question of the to receive tonight a delegation arms level in Europe.
The absence in
of Seine Department deputies accompanied by several mem- bers of the Strike Committee. with
The
of 300 requisitioning Washington asked to keep in touch of the French Foreign Minis- the two Foreign Ministera.
underground railway specialists comment made little difference to the French newspaper ier, M. Robert Schuman, adds
At noon, 91 to the time factor but may today tended to the view that situation today. make it simpler to reach high Mr Gromyko's latest proposals trains were running out of 450 level policy decisions since M.
are constructive enough, par as against 90 at the same time
when American ticularly
soen through yesterday. to Schuman and the Secretary of State, Mr Dean the eyes of public opinion, A.Paris transport official sald considered today that the underground call for a carefully cons Acheson, will both be in
and equally constructive reply railway strike was costing Bo capital.
İmillion franes n day. which from the Western Powers.
This is an additional reason meant that by tonight the total for taking 24 hours extra to bill would concert the triparille line be-francs.
the
It is assumed here that Sir Oliver Franke, British Ambas- will be sador in Washington,
roach 700 million
as well
The consultations between the train crews are on strike, there
Calcutta, Mar, 29. More than 1,000 alleged Communists and active sympathisers were round- ed up by the police and military in the course of a two-month anti-Red cam- paign in the Kamrup dis- trict in Assam, according sighted a ship, which turned out found guilty on Thursday of to official reports reaching to be the Carlton. She steamed stealing national atom bomb
for delivery Lowards us, and rescue opera-secreta tlons began just after night-fail.
Russia.
They face SWEPT AWAY
possible death penalty for espionage in war "When only the captain time, A number of guns and amained to be rescued, a strong Julius Rosenberg, 32, his wife
quantity of ammunition was seized. What was described current swept his lifeboat away, Ethel, 35, and Morton Sobell, 33, convicted by a Federal a "minlature gun factory" and it drifted out of sight. The Carlton's master ordered an Im-
of conspiring with court july and "terature dump" was
mediate search, and the
Mrs Rosenberg's brother, David also uncovered.
was circled for 10 hours, with
Greenglass, and
former authorities claim the
searchlights sweeping the sea.
Sure Russian consular official here to 1,000 arrested
in- persona
Farakias added: "I am
atom bomb plans to cluded most of the Communist
His deliver captain will be found. the loadera operating in that area. foboat carried water and Soviet Russia, Fifteen high-ranking leaders food."
The trial was the first in the were known
still at large,
Apart from two Egyptians, nation for atomic espionage,
Greenglass pleaded guilty. went to their homes when the police believe they are "in net" and it was only n the
the Carlton reached Alexan- The three native-born Ameri- matter ot time bafore adria, all the crew are Grecks; cans showed
Hitle emotion as the verdict. up leads
to their they are remaining in Alexan-the jury returned tightening
Rangoon, Mar. 29. arrest.
dria-Bouter,
Rosenberg and his small dark-
Rangoon's water supply was Peasants in
a 'certain
haired wife clasped hands under which Wos n notorious hotbed
the counsel table as, the verdlet completely cut off when Com-
the main Dr Philip Jessup, the Ameri-Among the latest workers re- under
destroyed of Red activity, have
was read. Sobell stared immunists Communist influence not been
The resurs of a strike ballot pipeline leading from the Gyobu can deputy, left the impression ported to be threatening to join passively at the
The Jury: Motions preparatory to paying land tax to the govern-
an reservolts, 50 miles from the in his recent interventions at the wage dispute.
the Roos Falice that Washing among workers on the national appeal are scheduled to be heard
ton is at extremely reluctant
air line, Air ment or the customary tribute
France, were await- anid authorities
that of the crops
at the time of the sentencing, of one fifth
Workers to accept any formula which
nationalised cd. set by the judge for April 8, though alternative the landlords for the past cou-
arrange would enable the Russian dele-
factories were planning demands were being gation at a Big Four conference for a 15 per cent rise. The of years.
The jury made no request forments for supply peasants
would last to isolate are now reported to have re- Die Volkstem, will suspend pubelenite told them they might for a fortnight. The population that of the
Judge Irving Kauf-made, the shortage
this question from
Arsenal workers in Brest, general level of Brittany, and at Toulon, in the liestion temporarily after io-
man had
armaments, oven inside
south, downed tools and inorrow's issue,
a single agenda minorilces continued to flare framework of Stem
Tomorrow morning, the three pins the provinces-Reuter, Westem deputies, presumably armed with the latest instruc- tions from their governments, London, Mar. 29.. will meet again and co-ordinate the final The Government today car-
plans for replying to marked £275,000 to help Bri-Mr. Gromyko.
up It is expected that in any tish landlords to smarlen
for tourists this case they their hotels
will ask for clarl- fleation of the Soviet text on several points.
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It was admitted however that there still exist a "few! pockets where people are in an apathetic or deflant mood." -United Press.
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do so but that he would not bé bound by their recommendation in parsing sentence.
United States Attorney Irving Saypol said: "Gremnglass will be sentenced at the same time as the others." He refused to dis close what recommendation, if any, the goverrunent will make as to death penalty or a lesser sentence. United Press.
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Washington, Mar. 29. Westinghouse research laboratories reported today the "super development of ↑ vacuum bottle" that can hold the world's coldest liquid 15 times longer than the best con- tainer now available.
Alamogorda, Mar. 20. The United States Air Force shot a 1,000-pound, test rocket 61 miles into the air above the New Mexico desert yesterday.
The rocket, the first fred in
TALKS CERTAIN the new tests, marked the be-
Paris, Mar. 20. ginning of experiments aimed
Western, diplomats believed
Dr Aaron Wexler, head of atanding out more about the
Marrakesh, Mar. 29- Tonight that a Big Four Foreign Westinghouse low temperature atinos- of the upper reaches
French polles hire handed | Ministers
almost studies, said the vacuum bottle phere,
over to the local Court of Jus- certainly would take place this will hold four gallons of liquid Officials said that the best, iftice today a Moroccan adminis- but they still saw little helium with of successful. may
eb. chance of its bringing about a only migh. . temperatur cold war settlement in Europe, solute zero for 100 days.
three-and-a-half-week- Before this development, the old log jam on the agenda for best container. was able to ver a Big Four meeting appeared tain д similar quat
quantity of liquidi | suddenly to have been cracked for about a week. open by the compromise pro- DT Woxler, who announced Losal tossed in by Mr Andre the new device at a symposium
10w Gramyke of Russia. That drop- on temperature phys.or Rumin's previous rigid in- hold at the United States Bureau sistence that the Blg Four of Standards, snid·· larger con➡ should discuss German demilitainer could be built Careful
by Larisation separately and as design which would "koop cold their most urgent problem.
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