*** THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1952,
Police Raid English Star Radar Listening Line
On Black Market HQ
BRUSSELS SWOOP
(From Bernard Wost!
Brussels, Apr. 13. Pelicanske waiters
have much in common. Both have starched fronts and carry themselves with an air of dignity.
But walters in-a cafe in the Rue du Pellean, centre OL Antwerp'o' white ant black dia- mond market, and clearing- house for thousands of pounds worth of stalen jewellery, soil- cd their shirt-ironis today fol- Jowing u swoop by Belgiau police on illegal traders.
Business was brisk when the called, Tables werd Police
carelessly littered with of dollar bills, pound German marks and 1loring.
pies notes, Dutch
And the black market dealers, magnifying glasses held to their eyes, were con- cluding black deals between sips of black coffee, when white-helmeted police burst In on them.
The raid was made follow- ing protesik from legitimate traders that black marketeers were operating on their front doorsteps and cutting prices. Moram dhan twenty persons. were detained.
The currency spilled over the floor, and the offenders WCTC marched to waiting police trucks.
When the police returned to been the cafe, the mess had tidied up and two walters with soiled shirt-fronts
were
requested to alep aboard the black maria for the short drive from the Rue du Pelican to the Palala de Justice.-London Express Service.
Red Purge
In Germany
Ber-
Berlin, Apr. 13. Sovjet headquarters in lin are sacking top Germans
In Germany
Lovely
stor English firm Dlana Dors in Hamburg for All troops
"Calling show
AAkB Forces".
German policeman for directions when on a shopping expedition. -*** Express Service.
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Newest Jets
For Korea
NATO HQ MOVES
TO PARIS-
Paris, Apr. 13. Planes and trucks streamed into Paris today, transporting
Atlantic
Pact the huge North Headquarters from London in biggest skyborne Europe's transport operation since the Bed airlift.
From Hamburg To The Med. NEW STAGE IN NATO DEFENCE
Paris, Apr. 13.
The North Atlantic Treaty air forces have now established a solid Radar listening line facing the Iron Curtain from the North Sea to the Mediterranean.
This first top-secret integration of Western defences went into effect with the announcement that Radar technicians and ground-air liaison officers of six European air forces put into opera- tion today a centralised ground control operations room of the Allied Air Forces, Central Europe,
This command, under General Eisenhower's'
In Middle East
commander-in-chief of Franco's Policy European Air Forces, American General Lauria Noratad, is based in Fon- tainebleau, and known +generally-m-AAPOD
The new Radar line, described as "The first unbroken peace time European listening post facing east," stretches from Hamburg at least to the borders of Yugoslavia and Italy.
It is under the control of a centralised operations room which is at a new top-secret North Atlantic Treaty Air Forces base in Eurоре.
Major-General F. L. Anken brandt, General--Norstad's-chief- of communications staff office!, said: "For the first time today our existing Radar reporting systems cover everything in the North Atlantic Treaty's tactical arca, including Germany and our rear areas, and have been 171- tegrated into a single organisa-
tion.
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Washington, Apr. 13. Faster and
powerful more jet fighters,
be expected to better than the Russian MIG 15, will soon be on their way to American pilots in Korea.
SIGNIFICANT STEP Under-Secretary of Air RL,
Easter wns Just another Cilpatrick said that the planes, working day for the movers as
"Until today our Radar watch FOO Improved models of the State from the Eastern Zone
trucks poured out of headquar in Europe has only been by in- ters were unloaded at the al dividual units on an Intermittent Security Service--successor to Sabres, would start rolling off the Gestapo-and are putting production lines next month.
pact head- They will have more power-port into the new trained Russians in their place.
qunitors at the Palais de Chail-basis. But from now Reason for the purge is ful jet engines to give them fet, across the Seine from the completely integrated on a daily
greater speed and higher cell- Ger- Soviet distrust of their
Eiffel Tower, man clooges following
wide-rings,
The present Sabre jets ATL sprend opposition to the Kremlin "Arms for Germany" technically about equal to the
and their policy.
пеш
Good Party men who have been backing the earlier "Peace and Anti-Rearmament" campaign are refusing to go in- to reverse.
Moscow They say the new line would put East Germany on a level with the "war- mangors of the West."
Sovlet headquarters holding the German Service
are
Security
Soviet officials in Germany.
of
only
MIG superiority is attributed to the better training given American plots.
The new Subres will also kave greater "kill" power than the present .50 calibre and 20
min. Kuris.
Reuter.
on it is
watch system to a central source. Shortly it will be a round-the- clock watch.
nations within
New York, Apr. 13.
New York Times said that Spain's demand for in- creased Influence in tho Tangler International Zone was interpreted as part of дл attempt la turn the current French British almculties in the Muslim world to Spanish profit.
The cable sald that General Franco hoped to demonstrate ttint Spain alone was capable of reach- Ing durable waderstandings with the Arab peoples.
This would Increase Spain's value to the West- ern defende arrangements and her bargaining power for re-entry into good In- ternational society after a docado and 1 half ostracism.--Reuter,
of
FILM OF GILBERT & SULLIVAN
iri
*Para
Ice Patrol Keeps Watch On Berg
Political Truce
In South Africa
Ends Tomorrow.
Clash Expected With Malan
Capetown, Apr. 13. South Africa's two main political parties are making final preparations for the re-assembly of Parliament on Tuesday when the political truce declared on March 28 for the Union's tercentenary 'celebrations ends;
ment.
Coast Guardsmen aboard the Acushnet on International Ice Patrol duty observa from look-out stations the move- ments of an Iceberg, Although small in size” above the súir- face of the water, the biggest part of the iceberg is hidden- below the, water. -- Express Service.
More Trade Contracts Concluded
Moscow, Apr. 13.
The spokesman for the British delegation to the Moscow International-Con--
commercial
contracts with Eastern Ger-
many and Rumania.
of
They are expected to clash on the constitu-ference today announced the tional issues arising from the recent decision of conclusion of the Appeal Court invalidating the Government's Separate Representation of Coloured Voters Act.
The Act, which became law He will be the first speaker last
coloured in the resumed budget debate removed your, People from the comman voters' and proposes then to launch a roll and gave them special re- attack on the Malan Govern presentation by white member:
a both Houses.
Tomorrow afternoo il Prime
Minister, Daniel
Dr Malan, will lay before hi Cabinet a bill, drafted since the Court's decision, which will seek to establish the supremacy will of Parliament. The bill lay down that South Afice courts do not have the right to test acts of Parliament-.
The Opposition leader, Mr Jacobus G. N. Strauss, is also completing his plans for Parlia- ment's re-assembly.
Briton Sets 3 Records
London, Apr.-13.
The bill, it is expected, will embody the points set out by De Malan before the Easter
s
PROTEST MEETINGS
It will define the supremacy of Parliament, making the new law retrospective to the coming into operation of the Statute of December 11, Westminster on 1931.
ensure
wing
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The contract with Eastern Germany called for the exchange of goods of a total value £2,000,000. Under the terms of the contract, British firms would export textiles and shoes and import glassware, toys, various instruments and typewriters.
The contact with Rumania provided for £2,500,000-arth of trade.
British exporters agreed to send texilles, woal, cotton goods and artificial silk to Rumania.
Brush flas would import from Rumamis grains and oil.
The spekcemon added that Lite British delegation also
The transfer, involving 700 staff members and the removal of 200 roomsful of furniture
"We are very proud to have and secret documents, is ex- achieved this centralised system
London, Apr. 13. pected to be finished by mid-with the staffs of six European An ambitious flim attempt week.
a year of the to recapture the musical suc- One plane which arrived to- creation of North Atlantic Treaty cess story of Gilbert and Sul- day carried nothing but blank headquarters. It is a very signt-livan goes into production"
that It will and sheets of carbon. ficant step in the unified capabili- London this month, London paper Another brought top secretes for Western defence."
Fums plans technicolour
sovereignty of Parliament documents on Western defence
representing the will of the sought to negotiate with the musical with a rich selection
contract for efforts under a heavy guard. Many aspects of the new all-from all the light
elcctorate will be placed beyond Soviet Union operas: of
£2,- the courts do British experts totalling Radio To Reopen
all doubt, that The moving operation, decid- European radar
must the famous team. screen
not have the testing right and 000,000,
including chemical ed at the recent NATO meet necessarily remain secret. It is Tokyo, Apr. 13.
that the courts are protected products, minerals and colonint Musical director will be Sir The Occhishi wireless station Ing in Lisbon, was planned probable, though there is no
against the danger of being in- products, and a £5,000,000 responsible for this in Hokkaido will be reopened carefully down to the last paper oficial confrmation, that its Malcolm Sargent, fulltime con "breakdown in
in discipline.
Symphony
volved in constitutional Issues bilateral contract for export to from May 1. The station, clip and wide-eyed baby northern, tip is closely linked ductor of the BBC British officials in Berlin say which
The London Sym-
of a political nature."
the Soviet Union of clothing and was closed followbig frightened by a strange land with Britain's own home air de- Orchestra.
arious cloths and imports from the purge is leading to a Japan's surrender, can transmit United Press.
fence system at least as far as phony Orchestra will play the
According to Government Russia of wool and grains. steady rise in the number
muslo. messages to ships in Antarctica.
the coast of Norfolk.
newspapers, the bill, apart from A British pilot, Tom Hayhow. establishing the unfettered
for already Sir
The apokesman
the selected many well-known
sot three new speed records for Lovereignty of Parlament, will Chisce delegation announced
a London- singers to bring the
light planes today Savoy
ay down the procedure to be that his delegation had conclud- Dublin-London non-stop flight.
ball again besed operas to cinema audiences.
witn adopted should.
impact agreements They include Webster Booth,
His average speed for the challenged in the courts. It will delegates from Britain, France, double journey was 125.78 miles pe Morjorie Thomas, Muriel Brun-
provide that all questions of Par- Switzerland, the Netherlands, famentary procedure will be Belglum and Ceylon. per hour. skill and Harold Williams.
The first lap from London to subject to review by Parlia Dublin was covered at an averagement with whom the final de- speed of 126.31 miles per hour ciston will rest. And the second one from Dublin
The to London at 125.20 miles per hour
Hayhow, who was piloting an Auster monoplane, is to attempt to break three more records to
flight morrow
non-stop on a from Denham airport to Schipo! airport near Amsterdam from Schipel back to Denham France-Presse.
A British Crossword
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ACROSS
3 Catches sight of (8).
7 Angler's booket (5).
8 Telephone employee (8).
• · 10 Delicious drink (0),
→ 13 Renegade (7).
15 Stitches (4).
17 Annoys (7).
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Kung in the air (7).
20 Waterless ·(4),
21 Reposing (7)
20 Come out (6).
27 Interim period. (8);
28 Vessel (5).:
29 Means of tance (8).
gaining evimit-
Puzzle
4
15
'Pianophon For Flat
>
Dwellers
22
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DOWN
1 Aroma (5).
2 Pince, of pilgrimage (6).
3 View with wicked joy (5).
4 Mud (4),
5 Long Seat (6).
6 Emphasis (6).
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9 Due (6).
11 Mistalco (5).
12
Weary (5)
14 Get back for payment (0).
15
Express (5).
10 Incorrect (0).
18 Injured (0).
10 Harridan (6).
22 Odour (5).
23 Fetters (6),
24 Car parts (6) 25 Counterfoil (4).
SATURDAY'S CROSSWORD.—Across: 1 Collar, & Purrë, B Learn, 9 Samuel,. 10 Olive, 11 Since, 12 Edna, 19 Usher, 16. Averse, 18 Dalete, 20 Crest, 22 Arch, 23 Tepld, 25 Clear, 20 "Cohere, 27 Texas, 20 Breed, 20 Leases. Down: 1 Cosmetic, 2 Lemonade, 3 Alos, 4 Relieve, 8, Procure, & Unies, 7 Revue, 14 Heartens, 15 Tuthless, 10 Altered, 17. Ethical, 10 stato, 21 Rulor, 26 Dospe
Its southern tip, on the Italian- Yugoslav borders, is believed to be linked with Admiral Carney's southern command, which takes it right down along more than 1,000 miles of the Iron Curtain from the North Sea to the Central Mediterranean,
BIGGEST EVER
The new integrated radar London, Apr. 13. listening and command posts are
Malcolm
hos
Robert Morley, one of Bri- lain's most forceful actors of stage and screen, will play the witty, irascible Gülbert, Arthur Sullivan will be played by A portable piano, construct-linked by a bigger network of Maurice
Evans,
Bellish- ed by a Berlin engineer, Karl air force communications than born actor manager who dur Baessler, is described as the was ever achieved during the lasting the past 18 years has built ideal instrument for the small war.
up a fine reputation in Ameri- modern flat.
Shavian roles. ca, mainly in Shakespearian and Called a "Pianophon, it is
20
Compared
seven.
the
the
Apart from incoming warnings under three feet long, weighs and reports of alr movements de-
the hind five octaves
Iron Curtain, the The Alm will be called "Mr and has
with tho normal new European central air control Gilbert and Mr Sullivan" and is point will re-distribute its in- to be directed by Sydney, Gil- Frank the formation instantly by teletype to list and produced by A great. advantage of
British Second Tactical Air Laudor, a partnership which new instrument say non-
is Force of Vampires and Meteors at has already become establish- musicians is that nobody
The Bad Eilsen in Germany, six wings ed in many first-class Bims since obliged to listen to it.
head- of the American
Force player himself can use phones but if the family want Wiesbaden, one French jet fighter to hear, the Pianophen has to air division of Vampires and be plugged in to the grammo-Thunderjets in Lahr, Germany, phone pick-up of the
the war.
ratio as well as to Dutch and Beiginn New Piccard
set. Tone can then be adjust, Thunderjet tactical squadrons. ed by the ordinary volume control knob.
Detached sections of these units
The Planophon is already in are already based in rear cover large-scale production anding areas in France which are aiquirire have been received still on the secret Ust, from Britain, the United States and Belgium.
But they, too, are linked with
Expedition
Export price, the great new Allied radar ear The Italian Navy today 03-
says Herr Baessler, will be about £25.--London Express Service.
ARTAJO VISIT TO JORDAN
Amman, Apr. 19. The Spanish Foreign Minis tor, Senor Alberta Martin Artajo, arrived here today for a three-day official visit as part
of his goodwill tour countries in the Middle On arrival he went
and
STRIKE CALL IN ITALY
Rome, Apr. 13.
will also Opposition launch a series of protest meet- Ings this week.
The egresmenis called for $50,000,000 worth of imports, the spokesman said..
Mr Strauss will addreES first which will be held in the Capetown City Hall on Wednes- day night. The "Torch", an or ganiston d ex-Servicemen, which is pledged to oppose the
New Delhi, Apr, 13. Government along constitutional. A 14-year-old Russian school- lines, will support this opposi-girl, Mariana Vosknnyinz, of tion compaign.--Reuter.
the RUSSIAN GIRL
WINS PRIZE
Rejection
Of Indian
Federation
Salisbury, Apr. 13.
Moscow, was today awarded a gold medal presented by the President, Rajendra Prasad, for the best entry in an interantional children's exhibition held here.
act
Mr Nehru, handed the medal
Italy's Communist-led Trade Union Federations today falled on 150,000 metallurgical work-
A conference of the Rhodesion to the Soviet Charge d'Affaires ers in reven northern provinces National Association, representing in Delhi to be sent to Mariana to down tools for two hours on people of mixed races, today for her painting of a children's Thursday as part of a "patch passed rezution rejecting
|comp-re.
work" campaign
to
Improve federation
of Northern and Southern Rhodesia and Nyasa- land.
More than 7,500 drawings More than 100,000 metallurgi- !
from children all over the world cal workers in other Industrial
The resolution sald that wero entered for the compell- province; have obeyed similar strike calls in the last fortnight. Lederation "will not be the on The second and third Meanwhile both Communist means of solving our prosent prizes went to two Indian
non-Communist Trade difficulties."
children-Reuter.........
Rome, Apr. 13.
Bel- which listens towards the East, | surod ils full support to
gian Professor -London Express Service!
Auguste Pic-. card, aged 68, who will
try and next Juno to lower himpelt Union Federations joined today It added that the opinion of 0,600 Tect below sea level in in clut all typographical Asian and African organisations
Krishna Menon
Returning
London, Apr. 12. The Indina High Commis- sloner in London, Mr Krisma
na now diving hell.
Plecard and his son are in Triesto supervising the build jing 'of, diving apparatus by a
local shipyard
Piccard will make his world attempt bf Ponza
record of Arab Menon, will leave Britain next Island, 50 miles west mot
· East. directly
week for India, where he will Naples, where the sea bottom js 12,000 feet, deep. The spot have a series of, Important talks
I workers to strike for 24 hours would be sounded,,
in 10 days' time unless news- Pape
and other. printing establishments, meet their pay demands-Reuter,
The conference expressed disapproval of legislation based on race or colour and decided to appoint an Action Committee "with power to fight discrimina-
Reuter.
US Bases In Spain in all walks of life."--
Madrid, Apr. 13.
advisers American military in Spain are expected to be gin talks this week to find out best. how $100,000,000. · could
Killed By Own Car
to the Royal Palace of Emir with Pandit Nehru and mem- was chosen because the sea is Talal, where he registered his pers of the Indian Government. Pegally calm and the water
Batavia, N. Y., Apr. 18.) name in the Royal ceremony
extremely clear.
Motorist Clayton, “Glick was book. With his party- are the
bo spent. The money was at * An Indin ... House spokesman. [- only....... daughter of General
said that the High Cotrania The new diving bell will not thorised by Congress for mill crushed to death when his car
by Franco, the Murquem Carmen aloner is expected to romain. In be linked to the surfaco
tary aid to Spain and for de roll off the jack while he was de Villaverde, and her husband. India for some time Frescos any cable' and wille go down 'velopment of air and naval, changing a fyre on a highway
new and up tinder 10-pwn power."" bases: United Prest;-
near here--United. Exeun Heytor
Presse,
Record Traffic Accidents
Tokyo, Apr. 132 There were 39 traffic ne cidents in Tokyo during tho 24, bours ending 8.00 s.m, this morning, killing Ove persons and injuring 15, according
police reporta.
This figure, constituted a`ro- cord mortality rate for trame accidents in a single day this. rear, according to the police