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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1982;
BLAZE GUTS HOMAGE PAID TO BONN WANTS NATO MEMBERSHIP
ARMY RADIO
STATION
DESTRUCTION OF EQUIPMENT
Nicosia, Jan. 27.
Fire early today com- pletely gutted the British forces' broadcasting station at Lakatamia, four miles south of here. The trans- miliers were saved,
The station commander opry to be able to jest in som kind of service in the near fulu if studio equipment. iurlu bing BBC relas equipersenst. placed
Cin be re-
The buildings and broadcast- ing on with the equipment in Them were completely destroyed.
Valogers neXA to the station radst the alarm early today by ringing thei Church bells and suprugning the B.e engines.
The poile
are investigating the cause of the fire which is still unknown1. The Station Steers the British garrison 113 Cypr, which is now providing reinforcients for the Suez Canal Zone.
The British staff of the station wee in the building when the alarm was used. They escaped
VILLAGERS HELF
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troops stationed in Cyprus. It with popular very Cypriots because of a 45-minute programme daily for the Cyprus publle generally. The station
KOREA DEAD -
The scene during the ceremonial parade along the Avenue Cinquantenaire, Brussels, when Belgium paid homage to her Korean war dead members of the The bodies of the heroes were 'accorded full mili- Belgian Corps of Volunteers.
lary honours. Express Service.
Fire Brigades Empire Tribunal
Busiest
Day
Tokyo, Jan. 27.
The Tokyo Fire Brigade reported 24 fres in Tokyo during the 24 hours ending 8.00
today--the a.). highest for a single day this year.
One
person was killed and evenmander sald
three critically Injured that the station was not broad-
and 37 houses at the time the fe destroyed. Reuter, Tasting
1 around 5.00 there
broke
kare
was T
power on anywhere.
electric
He pai tribute to Cypriot village, who rushed in to help ann salvage! anything possibile from
blaze. Including
- Reuter.
Death Of
Mongolian Premier
BUS FIRE HORROR
Puebla, Mexico. Jan. 28 Forty-four were
was
burne 10 death today when two petrol Tanks exploded inside a crowded bus. Only the
driver known to have escaped death in Atlixco on the the crash near Pan-American highway about 20 'miles southwest of here.
Advocated By British Minister
Birmingham, Jan. 27.
Bombshell At Paris Meeting
Demand Shocks Conference Discussing European Army
Paris, Jan. 27.
West Germany tonight asked for immediate membership of NATO at the European Army conference here.
Professor Walter Hallstein, West German Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, made the request when the Foreign Ministers of France, Italy and the three Benelux countries were distussing the European Army's future relations with NATO.
Professor Hallstein said he realised that there New Version would be considerable difficulties in obtaining im
| mediate membership, and therefore alternative
suggestions he had in mind included, firstly,
postponement of German admission and, secondly, the representation of European army countries as a united body in NATO.
Of Rubaiyat Promised
London, Jan. 28. Professor Hallstein financial questions and relation: A London publisher announced thought that very probably between the European defence today that on Wednesday he one more
community and NATO as far as will publish conference at a Germany was concerned.
a new translation still undetermined date
of Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat The town in which the Com- based on two newly discovered might be necessary.
missariat would have its head-manuscripts, which "will con- Professor Habstein's move quarters also remained to be biderably change all previous
delegates, already settled.-Reuter and Associated views of Omar and his works.
rocked the upset by new developments in Press. the long-standing
quarrel be- tween France and Germany over
the
Valley.
rich coal-mining Ssar
to
ANOTHER SHOCK
Bonn, Jan. 27.
The popular translation of the Rubaiyat, by Edward Fitzgerald,
the Victorian English writer,
you