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CORRECT on all occasions
VULCAIN
SWISS MADE
Foreign Aid Measure
US COMMITTEES APPROVE FUNDS
Washington, Aug. 24.
The Senate Foreign Rela- tions and Armed Services Committees today voted $500,000,000 in military aid to European nations not in- cluded in the Atlantic Pact. This apparently would bene- fit Spain. The United States is negotiating for the use of Spanish bases.
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The yo committees, meeting Jointly or the $7,535,150,000 foreign ald bill, adopted provision which would carmark for North Atlantic Pact countries building their forces under Gen. Dwight Eisenhower 90 percent of the $5,043,350,000 for European military aid.
The remaining 10 percent could be used "for any country of Europe... which the Presi- dent determines to be of direct importance to the defence of the North Atlantic area."
FINISHING TOUCHES
The committees approved the 10 per cent provision as they put finishing touches on the Lil.
Timit
aleo sel
a funds on
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The committees $40,000,000 which may be contributed United Nations or federal Palcsline for aid to agencies refugees and provided that the President could spend cdditional $10,000,000 at his
Wightman Cup and Other Sports Results On The Back Page
CHINA MAIL
No. 34981
Established 1845
SATURDAY, AUGUST, 25, 1951.
A Scene Which May Not Again Be Repeated
Missing
Chinese Communist drivers wait with Russian- made jeeps for a helicop ter, bearing the United Nations delegates to one
Diplomat's Wife of their truce meetings,
Vanishes
1
Ste. Maximé, Aug, 24. Mrs Malinda MacLean, wife of the missing British diplomat, Donald MacLean, has not beer. ren at the Villa la Sauvaconno,
to land on
an airstrip near Kaesong. The UN negotiators had to be ferried across the flooded Injin River to attend the meetings. AP. Picture.
ciscretion to assist the refugees on here, for more than 48 EXPELLED BY
sting in Jsrael.
haurs.
She came to the Villp lust
Friday.
CZECHS
Frankfurt Aug. 24.
It was also decided that it Korea's $70,750,000 in coontmir ald cannot be used in full because of the war, up to half of thaty total may be used for scenomio and technical assistance in other pants of Asia and the Far East.
The bill still must be approved by the Sanale and then must go it to be delivered. They hand-slovaide on Wednesday, United to ccnference with the House o iron out differences between the about a mile away, to be called States oficials reported here to House and Senate versions of the foreign aid programme-United Press.
A letter from Chiengo ad- Miss Mildred' Thomas kead- dressed to her was brought to mistress of an English-language the villu yesterday but police school for children in Prague, watching the villa did not allow was
expelled from Czecho-
Warehouse Blaze
Buenos Aires, Aug 24.
ed it in at the Hotel dù Golfe,
}
today.
4.
day.
She was sald
to have been
The letter was still unclaimed expelled on the grounds that her présence "endangered State La Sauvaconne is a three-security."
villa at Deauvallon, on storey
Miss Thomas, a British sub outskirts of Ste. Maxine ject, has operated a smull pri- Its French owner and his wife
vate school in Prague for several
the
A fire in a huge warehouseve in the east storing
still raging tonight, 15 hours
It broke after
today. out Damage so far was esilmated at four million pesos (about £100,000)-Reuter.
The west
MacLean's eister, Mrs Terrell.
Last Friday Mrs Terrell and her child. with Mrs MacLean, her mother and Mrs MacLean's children, arrived at the Villa- Reuter
SHOCKING FRENCH TRAIN DISASTER
Metz, Eastern France, Aug. 24.
An express train ploughed into the rear of another at 54 miles an hour here today killing 12 people and injuring 40.
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Oil Dispute: Britain
Decides On A Wait And See Policy
MR STOKES MAKES A REPORT TO
HIS CABINET COLLEAGUES
London, Aug. 24.
The Prime Minister, Mr Clement Attlce, and his chief Ministers in the Persian oil dispute decided tonight to take no further action pending a definite move by the Persian Government.
This decision was reached in a 90-minute meeting called to hear the Lord Privy Seal, Mr Richard Stokes, give his personal report on the suspension of negotiations at Teheran."
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Mr. Stokes, who returned to London by air today after the talks onded in a deadlock on Wednesday, believes that Britain has gone to the limit of concession, usually well-informed quarters here understood tonight.
His views that it is "up to the, Persians now" was supported by the Bri tish Prime Minister and a selected group of his Ministers and experts whom he has been consulting in the crisis, it was understood.
This
and the Finance All Varaster, who the headed the Persian oli talks Bagher delegations.-Reuter.
group includes the 1 Mr Harriman also saw the Mazemi, Minister of State, Mr Kenneth Iranian Prime Minister, Dr Minister, Younger, the Minister of Tran- Mohammed Mossadegh, sport, Mr Alfred Barnes, the Foreign Minister, Economic Secretary of the Trea-
áury, Mr W. J. Edwards, and Tepresentatives of the Ministry of Fuel and Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.
In private conversation and in his statement to the Press Vils morning at London Airport, Mr Stokes emphasised his wish
to
resume negotiations with Persin
a proposal is forthcoming which safeguards the position of the British staff.
Members
et the Ministerial mission who returned to London today regard the desirability of the
eli British technical
statt fol-remaining In Abadan
as being
American troops, was held up by a signal.
A Frankfurt-Paris train, loaded with French and
vän
50 LOSE LIVES IN
Railway workers exploded fireworks and flashed light signals in a bid to stop a Basle-Calais train lowing close behind but they were too late.
The luggage
and Iwo teaches of the Frankfurt-Paris train were wrecked.
Bodies were found well over 20 feet from the scene.
Several of the Injured were scalded by oscaping steam.
The casualties included two American soldiers killed and The remainder Feveral Injured. were French soldiers,
French Tallways headquarters in Paris said that the cause of the accident was being Inves ligated.
...
common
ing
Women
!
Shake Fists
Murderer
Alleged
At
Bath, Somerset, Aug. 24.
Hundreds of women clamoured around the police
station here this morning shaking their fists and booing as a 21-year-old gardener's labourer, John Thomas Straffen, was driven back to nearby Bristol Prison after being charged with the murder of two little girls. aid Peground between Brish
attress p Terror-gripped thousands of near a man she met while work Consequently, as far as Britain parents concerns are
a child-killing ↑⠀rrianine. At Burton-on-Trent today, κακατά
likely in the was at large early this month 20-year-old soldier, John Wil- bext few days, but nor is any when nine-year-old Cicely Bat-liam Fenton, appeared in Court
stone was found dead in a field on other decisive action beyond tbe
here. recall of the British staft from The
AIR CRASH discussions
Oakland, Calif., Aug. 24.
United Air Lines announ-
***feared
no fresh overtures
in Southern England ing as a ́nurse.
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charge of murdering, Miss Winifred Mulley, 62-year-old headmistress of the girls high school here. had
outlying ollfields to Abadan. Only three weeks before six The Brish aliude is now year-old Brenda Goddard che of "walt and sre", coupled been found killed in a copse 200 At today's funeral of Mrs with a readiness to take up the yards from Cicely's homo. Beatrice Alice Rimmer, 54-year-
again where They were Interrupted. Reuter,
The young labourer was first old widow who was found WARSHIPS READY
charged with
battered Cicely's murder
to death at the her Teheran, Aug. 24. on the night of the discovery of
home cn Monday, dotectives. British, Indian and Pakistan her body. Today a police in mingled with the onlookers in were today spector said that when charged the hope of getting a lead on withdrawing from the Khouzis with Brenda Goddard's-1
mer-her-killer.- down of Teheran oil talks.
as well, Straffen had re-
Detectives all plied:
over-Britain: "I plead not guilty."
are still making enquiries Into The cruiser Euryalus and the Other news of Britain's sum-three ether unsolved mysterious destroyer Chevron were standing' mer crime wave today was that deaths. by close inshore,
the mystery of 88-year-old Hilda Edward's death may never be solved.
mw cotton here was was B. MIS" years under the auspices of the They corrected_carlier reports | ced tonight that.50. had died ollfield technicans
British, United States and other that the firs: train had been in the crash of a C-6 air-tan ollfields fallowing the break- ‡ der.
deratied and said it had stopped craft 20 miles south of here. foreign Missions.
Those killed were 44 passen- The school provided English-In obedience to a signal.
The signals behind this train lor 'about language instruction
ought to have stopped the Basie gers and the crew of six. train. There was morning
Five of the passengers were fog and an inquiry was taking. place to find whether these listed as "milltary" and their said in Basta today that the signals were at fault or if the names were withheld. driver of the second train had failed to see them.
COMMENT OF THE DAY
N
pose
40 children, American ofBetals
said.Reuter.
No Honesty Of Purpose
TOTHING could moro blatantly ex- the insincerity of the Communists in the quest for peace in Korea than their behaviour of the Inst few days; culminating in their break- ing off the sub-committee meetings at Kucsong. And the reason for taking this extreme action was an alleged hombing raid by a UN plane directed against the Communist delegation's headquarters a raid so transparently a it figment of the Imagination that suggests the Reds deliberately designed an excuse for ending the truce talks. From the start doubts have been felt about the Communists' honesty of pur- pose, even though It was they who made the first overtures for truco discussions. Their conduct at the conference table has served only to confirm original fears. They have made no attempt to compromise on any point; they have persistently endeavoured to introduce political issues into talks which, it was mutually agreed, should be confined strictly to military points. Thoir approach to the vexed subject of, a truce zone has been political, not military, as witness their insistence that the 88th Parallel should represent the line of demarcation between the The United Nations opposing forces. have made a number of concessions to the Communists for the express purpose of trying to find common ground for an armistice: the Reds have stubbornly refused to yleld one fota from their predetermined conditions. They have, In short, rendered the drawn-out negotiations farcical, When: Admiral Turner Joy suggested the creation of a sub-committee to tacklothe question of a truca zone: informally, the Com
ardly gave the impression munists outi
this as the most likely
The
mothod of achieving some positive pro- gress towards an armistice, but it has now been disclosed that because of the intransigence of the Communist de- legates, virtually nothing has been accomplished by the sub-committee. Blume for the breakdown of the talks lics firmly with the Communists, for, let it be remembered, the UN delegates were prepared to advance a compromise proposal for a demarcation line. Communiats have simply refused to discuss the question. It is this sullen insistence on a single issue which lends conviction to the belief that the Com munists have never seriously intended to reach a truce agreement with the United Nations. Their attitude through- out has been negative, and therefore futile. And since it is they, the initia- tors of the parleys, who have called. them off, it is difficult to believe that they will make a new attempt to reopen thom. Their conditions for resuming the talks are wholly impossible. They demand firstly that the United Nations ..Command should admit violations of the.
neutrality zone which have never been perpetrated by General Ridgway's forces; and secondly to give guaranteea there shall be no repetition of incidenta for which the UN Command, "is in' no way responsible. In truth, the only possibility of talks being resumed, de pends on the expressed" willingness of the Communists to discuss rationally and in a spirit of give and take the question of where to establish a truce zone. Only if this isquo" is mutually settled can there be an armistice; but while the Communists continue to adopt, their present attitude to this question, the only conclusion to bo reached in that they have no genuina destro, ta end the hostilities in Koren
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POWERLESS
The amended figure included iwo infunts who were under two years and carried as not-
A Royal Navy spokesman
eight warships now lying off or close to Abadon are "ready to meet any and all demands that may be made on them."
He added that units of the The First Destroyer Flotilla, which was recently exercising in the head waters of the Persian Gulf, were now concentrating in the Shatt
el Arab
River, the lows Sh reaches of which divide Iraq from Persia,
42 pas-
The guard of the Frankfurt fare paying passengers, train ran back along the line to original figures were place fog signals to warn thesengers and five crew, on-coming express but he was too late to stop'.
A railway emeinl who saw the accident gold, "I shall never forgo the nightmare.
The
Festeral
Bureau
of
inves igation announced tonight that they were investigating the We had posibility that sabotage caused tried everything in cur power the craili. lights
fireworks but it was enly three minutes behind we were powerless stop wha!,
we knew was coming."
About 40 miles upstream 4: Basra 'were the destroy cra
The alrerats crashed' in flames | Chequers, Chieftain and Chival- vhad on a range of low hills near hererous, the frigate Widgoose and
todos.....
the tank landing, ship Dieppe.
The frigate Wren was at Mine, the Kuwait port near the 'motili of the River.
Mr Senton Romey, who TAIKS)
The terse announcement sold, the caly hol In the village "The FBI is making an inquiry where the crash took place, to determine whether sabotage helped firemen and geadarmes, o has been committed.” - clear the wreckage.
"What was
The statement was issued over really moving® the were
name of Mr Harry Kim- the appeals for help coming from Inside the wreck-ball, FBI Agent in charge in once. He "There was the San Francisco age," he said.
was not available for additional metal and broken glass every- where, and the engine was sull comment." hissing like a wounded animal, with steam obscuring every- thing
Two United States Air Force ying boxcars have lett Frank- furt for. Verdunt to evacuato Amerions hurt in the crash.
Specially equipped for medi- cal rescue work, they have space for 32 patients, with their attendants. An American mill-
A spokesman in the Bureau Bald that he could not comment when asked if such an inquiry
was "procedure,”
"We cannot go beyond the statement," he said-Reuter,
tary detachment also left Ger- COMMUNAL
many for the rescue woTIL —– Reuter.
AIR
BATTLE
Fifth Air Force HQ,, Tokyo,
Aug. 24.
DISTURBANCE
V Secunderabad,
The British naval force is the. biggest seen in these waters since the end of the war.-Reu- ter.
HARRIMAN 'COMMENT-
Teheran, Aug. 24. . Mr Averell
Harriman, Pre- sident Truman's oll envoy, to- day, refused to say whether he had supported the proposals for a settlement of the oll put forward by Mr. Richard Stokes, head of the British negotiating minion to Persin,
But Mr Harriman added he were thought these proposals well within *the so-called Harriman formula, under which the Stokes mission came hora from London,
He said that the proposals had to be the subject,óf negotia- tions before any progress could have been mada
"I do not carry proposats from Persian Government to Lon-
the
herald.
Hyderabad States Aug. 24. Nine persons were injured don, cash here this afternoon; Iranians before Mr Stoke today in a minor communal
it was
was very frank with the
Twenty-four. United Nallons under DD a girl at it was perfectly possible to..
the report of the arrived. I also told them tha
Sabre jet fighters attacked 40 Russian made MIG-15, Jols to-
day
30 miles from here,
employ foreign agencies with
chot two in names and re- volunteers of one community out these agencies, playing 'an turged to shoir base unscathed, want round the market and internal political role," he
On July 10 the strangled and ravished body of seven-year-old She was the cook at the ferry Christine Butcher was found boat inn near Normanton, Not-in u. Berkshire meadow, Her tingham, and her decomposed killer is still at large. body was found-In a ̈wheat fleld 21 days after she was missing from the inn.
The other two are both in the Notingham eren.- Mra Florence After four days of tests, Weatherall, aged 25, was found forensic scientists have not dead in a ditch at Westwood been able to find out the cause the body, of Mrs: Mabel of her death.
Tettershaw, aged 48, was diɛm The police believe that she covered in a lonely vale in Sher- may have gone to the Inn to be wood Forest-Reuter,
TRADE MARK
STOP!
IN TOWN TONIGHT
-And Every Night
For the first dim gines August shopping centre of the city, added emphasised he took no Drink ALLSOPP'S Lager
19. Communti pladen vever down their establishments exception to Mr Stokes pro- into the northwes
Tvils led to a clash between "poralsig
businessmen to
IN MICH
all 20,000 feet, Quinumbered some volunteers and the shop- $11s paid farewell calla* today I nearly 2-1% UNDUKE went
keepers but the polles arrived to the Shan prese
ented him with en Koy attack The planes braks on the spot, and restored enter,
stalian ataspati, for ination and wild battle Podlodia pick ta Chaves beca President Truman and KaVE
wed für bely individual ported we kecaterlo, pointe En M Herriman an
Agents: CALDBECK'S