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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1952.
Middle East Defence
Blind Man Gives Himself Up
Paris, June 19. A former Vichy Govern
official and well- Joown pre-war politician, Georges Scapini, gave him- Holl up today to the French fudicial authorities after an eight-year slay in Switzer- fand where he had fled Follotothe the liberation of Tiranoo,
*
He was described as a French prishet-of-war n lie had been Germany. sentenced In absentia to five years' hard tabour by French Court in 1940. Scapini, a blind veteran of World War I, was left today in provisional liberty pending further examina- tion of a case-France-
·Preuse.
Jordan's Premier To See Talal
The
Amman, June 19. Jordan Prime Minister, Towfiq Abu el Hudi, plans to fly to Switzerland and visit the biling King Thiol within the next few days, Government spokesman said 1oday.
The spokesman wo
would not give any reason for the visit. Prime Minister's de cision to see the King personal- ly comes within four days of 40 Switzerland of the Minister, Anstag Reconstructions Bey Hananiya, who was ported
The
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Main Topic Of London Talks
London, Juno 19.
Middle East defence within the framework of Western global strategy will be the sole topic of talks here tomorrow between Britain's Middle East envoys and the Chiefs of Staff:
The diplomats began a series of conferences here today when the Foreign Secretary, Mr_An- thony Eden, gave them an assessment of the situa- tion in the Middle East as seen from London.
General Sir Brian Robertson, Commander-in-Chier, Midule East Laid Forces, who is now in Britain, is expected to attend tomorrow's session.
Admiral Sir
Blaff their assessment of the defence ability, in coso of an attack, of the nations to which they are accredited,
Discussion
will range
from the extent to which the Arab Rhodérick Mc-States are
weakened military Grigor, Chairman of the Chiefs by preoccupations with Arab- of Staff Committee, is expected Israel tension to the unsatisfied to tell the assembled diploinats demands of the Middle East that no definitive steps for put-States for modern arms and ting into effect Allied plans for equipment.
Middle East Command can taken unil the military 1. be
chiels know whether or not the Suez Canal base will be at their disposal
J
This depends on the oute-me negotiations with ut, Britain's Egypt for a revision of the 1936 Treaty.
The military aspect of the present talks was initiated today with an address on Western defence plans by Sir Pearson Dixon, Deputy Under-Secretary at the Foreign Ofee,
Sultan's Gift BRITAIN WARNS
ICELAND IN
To Queen
London, June 12.
The 18-year-old, Bulian ef Brunel, who is on a two- month visit to this country from his home in Borneo, had an audience with the
Quoo11
Buckingham yesterday. Ho brought a pair of silver rose-bowls as a present for her.
Palace
at
Prince Philip he brought a sliver ink-stand; for the queen mother, silver candlesticks; and for
·Princess Margaret
BLACK
Queen Mary, •"gold
Karongs" Woven
by title wire Loudon Expresa Service.
REPLY BY
RUSSIANS REJECTED
FISHERIES CASE
London, June 19.
Britain, in a new note, has warned Iceland that she retains the right to claim compensation for any interference with British fishing vessels resulting from the recent, extension in Iceland's territorial waters.
day.
The note was delivered in Reykjavik yester.
The dotò reiterates the Bri- tish view that the extension of Iceland's territorial waters is not, in accordance with inter- national law.
a three-
Reds Hold "Inquest"
On Party's
Failure
It rejects the arguments put forward by Iceland in a note to Britain of May 12 in justifica❤ tion of the new territorial limits anil points out that Hol land and Belgium have sup- ported the view that no State is under a general obligation to accept more than mile limit of territorial waters. Vienna, June 10. The United States authorities Last month Iceland announced here today rejceléd as "disap-|n geheral extension of her ter- polating a Soviet reply last Fitorial waters, from three French Communist Party, Tuesday to their protest against | four miles and the enclosure the buzzing" of an American of a number of bays, including in its most severo post-war aircraft.
the greht Bdy of Faxa, by the self-criticism, admillled to- Use of these line" method day to "opportunist. and of reckbling by limit is measured from
which the sectarian deviation." drawn from projecting head- lands.
The US. authorities protested PLANNER EXPLAINS
against the biting by Soviet Earller. Sir Edwin Plowden, jet fighters of an American plane cirict Government planner and carrying the US. High Commis- one of NATO's "Three Wissioner, Mr Walter Donnelly, Men", addressed the meeting on from Viennd to the Americun
the envoys on the Western plan Britain's economiche nation's zone Tulln dir base on June 4.
Lo give the
a line
The
Paris, June 19.. Politburo of the
We can't catch up
with it!
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A French Cominform mem- ber, M. Etienne Fajon, made Admirál McGrigor will brief
this bdmision during an "in-
to set up n regional planning He explained how
itcated by Britain in the interest] (ral Comithitice on the recent group for the area pending the neute balance of payments
of the Britif, East The Soviet reply of June 12trawformen, whose fishing op- strikes
Coast fallares to provoke nation-wide establishment of a Middle East problem, aggravated by the cut- admitted the possibility of So-portunities
in protest against the Command.
ting off of Persian oil supplies, viet jet fighters' presence in the tailed in consequence.
are seriously cur- | arrest of the Acting Party The British envoys are ex-made it impossible for her to air corrider linking Vienna with
leader, M. Chiefs of extend her ecmmitments in pected
financial aid to the Middle East the American zone but ascribed any possible incident to the States.
Attending the four-day coh-failure of the Americans to ference are the heads of Britain's notify the Russians of the fight diplomatic missions to Egypt, through the Russlah zóne. Turkey, Persia, Israel, Iraq, Saudi The Lebanon, Arabla, Syria, Jordan and the Persian Gulf.
The chief of Britain's Middle East Ofee, her delegate to the United Nations Works and Relist
The decision is strongly con-quest field by the Parly's Con- FITNESS for FLATTERY
3 have carried message from the Prime Minis- ter to urge King Talel to enter ☐ Swiss entatorium for treat- ment or return to
Jordan and undergo treatment here.
Minister
The
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failed persuade the King either way, and the Prime Minister has now decided to intervene personally and make one last attempt to get the 40-year-old Sovereign to place himself in the hands of
reliable sources.
This Ship Is Driven
Like A Car
Copenhagen, June 19.
voyage
to
A ship which can be driven doctors, according to usually like a motorcar by one man will return In a few weeks Mennwhile the Iraq Prins from her maiden Minister
Nuri al Said, has Greenland. arrived at Liuganne and booked She is the Kista Dan, a 1,200 into the
same hole! as King tons (gross) Vessel specially Talal. He refused to muke a built for the Polar. seas. statement about his visit, though
her In
engine power
size,
Agency and Sir Robert Howe, Governor-General of the Sudan. are also, attending-Reuter,
The Acting US High Com missioner, Mr Walter Dowling, in his note to the Soviet High Commissioner, today the
Russlans
reminded
that existing agreements provided the United
Gun Cotton appointment
Explosion
Windsor, June 19.
Poliilent ques Duclos, feels obliged to cald Britain Falon's statement, published in "feels obliged to place on record today's Issue of the Party or tho they reserve the right to
thegan, Humanite, indicated that claim compensation from
the unsuccessful "direct action" Icelandic Government for any campaign had been abandoned interference with British fishing and that the Party was return- vessels in waters which, in the ing to. its former tactics of gain- opinion of Her Majesty's ing the widest possible support Government, are high seas.
by means of "peace propagan- da."
UNILATERAL DECISION
The "direct action" campaign
between the Ice-Common told the
unimpeded access to Tulln air sion States authorities with free and
It repeated an earlier exprea- was launched last month by a of regret that the new Politburo member, M. Francols base but make no provision for fshing limits had been decided Billoux, who said that "peace prior announcements of traffe,
unilaterally by the Icelandic propaganda was no longer suf- * must express my dis- Government and not
through that General
Central Kraskevich
in his letter of Junegotiation. It also denied that
the contacts
that the Party 12 has seen it to impugn__the
land Minister of Industry, Mr wanted
the widest possible statement Ly Ambassador Don-
Olafur Thors, and British coalition "in the fight for peace" nelly and the American pilot that the markings of the Soviet officials in London last January and that M. Billoux's approach, for which the whole Politburo planes were visible," Mr Dow amounted to consultations.
had to take the blania, was "In- ling wrote-Reuter.
The British note said Mr sufficiently clear and. Incom- Thors gave no details as to the|plete.” contenta of the proposed re- gulations.
OPERATION ON
it is believed he hopes to see elaborate navigational aids and The soldier killed by an the King to try and convince special construction, the Kista explosion In Combermere Car Him that he should undergo Dan embodies revolutionaryvalry barracko in Windsor on treatment for his
inental features which, according to her Tuesday has been identified as condition-Reuter,
owners, a well-known Danish Trooper P. R. Taylor, 18, of the shipping line, are proving suc Household Cavalry, whose home CROWN PRINCE
was at Ditchling, Sussex. A remarkable Innovation 1s Trooper
·B-36 A Flying Hangar
that
the
per K. F. Ranée, one of 13 other members of the House-
The
his
were
LED ASTKAY Describing this as "sectarian The note repeated the view deviation," M. Falon said, "A that the points adopted for de- deep current is tending to lead limiting Faxadol are contrary the Party astray from its true to the principles approved
by road. The responsibility for the International Court of Jus- this falls in the first place on Lice." It also rejected the claim the Politburo."
M. Fajon also extended to a four-mile limit and stated that Britain "observe that the criticism to the Centrol Com-. Icelandle Government
are un-mittee whose members able to
quote any authority doing too little to eliminate such from the recent judgment of the weaknesses, as "the loss of International Court of Justice your n
certain elections, the in support of the claim to be
decline
in certain numbers in able unilaterally to extend the Party federations and the hard- limit of territorial waters.
ly satisfactory circulation The judgment referred to Communist newspapers." Norwegian
delivered in the Anglo- Some political observers be
Asheries dispute lieved that M. Fajon's stalernent case, when the court admitted indicated disagreement among Norway's claim to us the base French Communis: Party chiefs. line method of delimiting terri-Reuter. torial waters along her const line.-Reuter,
captain or oMeer on
Stockholm, June 19. watch can steer the ship with hold Cavalry who were injured, Sweden's six-year-old Crown his left hand while with his was stated at King Edward VII Prince, Carl Gustaf, was operated right he
he controls the main en- Hospital, Windsor, today, to be on today for acute appendicitis. Afterwards, he was reported to gines all by mcons of two seriously I. Washington, June 10.
the small handles America's big bombers,
occurred when be progressing favourably. explosion
He was taken ill while slaying B-96's, arc-now-carrying --- jel
The steering, which can bo avad of gun-colon ignit with His mother at his summer fighters in their bomb bays. The done with two fingers,
a training demonstration, estate on the Baltic Island bombers are really flying han-pected to give more
inquiry has preliminary gars, for they can launch the control. But the ship is not been conducted by Lieutenant- Deland, which was left to him by his great-grandfather. the late lighters In. 1
these novel-Colonel D. C. Smiley, Royal King Gustat the Fifth. upon mid-air and catch dependent them again in flight,
ties; it can be steered and con- Horse Guards, who was in
Was He was operated on at Borg- A number of sucecutul air-trolled in the normal manner-charge of training endres at the holm Hospital at Orland by Dr
Router. launchings have been made.
barracks, and a full court of Eric Norup. former Royal inquiry will be held later. Physician to Emperor Halle Reuter,
Selassie of Ethiopa.Reuter,
A British
sensitive
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Swedish Red MPs Want To Testify In Treason Case
Stockholm, June 19.
of
Ships Still Isolated
of
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Ottawa, June 10.
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The Canadian Manufacturers'. Association today protested to Liverpool, June 19. the Prime Minister, Mr Louis
Divers are groping today to St Laurent, against granting fasten slings round three lock Japan any #pochl tariff gates which are still blocking privileges Hornby Lock, a link with the The CMA said that its brief Mersey,
to the Government. ins Twenty ships are still isolated prompted by statements by the Two Swedish Communist members of Parliain four docks following Mon- Japanese Minister Plenipoten- day's collision between the cargotlary that his country would ment today asked to be heard by the Stockholm ship Overton and a pair of lock seek a most favoured nation
with Caroda. court trying seven other Communists for spying gates. One gate has been raised agreement for Russia.
Helmer Persson, a member of the Upper House, and Helmer Holmberg, a member of the Lower House, made the request by telegram after they had been mentioned in court by a 19-year-old student witness, Jan Lodin.
Lodn said that the lender of referred to them as "Commun- the revon Decused, Fritist En-ists." When asked to home bom, who hag confessed to 19 them he hesitated, and asked years spying for. Russia, first whether he had atly legal obliga- confested to him orally and tion to do so, then in an unsigned letter. Lodin The Judgo told him that ha took the letter to the Police,
could decide for himself.
Persson and Holmberg were two of three Communists that
· Loðin suggested had had “some" thing to do with Enbom's espionage according to Enbom confessed to ma”
what
Lødin hesitated again and then named the two men,"
"A KIND MAN”. Aaked later by, the Prosecu~ tion whether Login'a bvidence
he
The third Communist he was correct about Knut Olsson, mentioned way. Knut Olsson, a Enbóm replied, "It is not exactly Stockholm Town Councillor. right but his evidence: is right
Lodin said that Enbom told in all--its' essentials.'
sold that
Ladin's him that Olsson had tried to persuade him (Enbom) to evidence. about what: undertake illegal work for the (Enbom) had said about Helmer Russians,
Holmberg was not cofreci
“Itumust-have been: Enbom also told him that
!mis- Holmberg had helped him and understanding on Lodin's part that Persson had "been asked" of what I said about Helmer to help him.
Enbom Holmberg
sald, HE said Lodin later said that Enter that Holmberg was kitid ond told him that he lind tried to considerato,
and good to work
10 Represgate, 22: Spin, 24 Ledge, 20 Anvil, 20, Bale, 87-En- oblain a radio telegraphist for with gulf. Down 2 April, 8 Limit, Demute, Hostate, Nice, Persson..
The trial opened its socrat and
At first Lodia did not name was later continued behina
Rider, 12 Amaus, 13 Curls, 14 Intended, 17 Orial, 18 Grieve person and. Holmberg: but only closed doors, OFTE BOTEZ
20 Stung, 21 Novel, 29 Plan,
Reuter:
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