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Signs
ASHINGTON oficials
be
are reported to optimistic about the latest Nituation in the Middle East. It will be the general hope that early de- velopments justify this confidence, The diplo- matic meetings which have
been taking place in Teheran this week are not menninglens. It would be vain, however, to expect an Immediate solution. Both sides are strongly commit- ted to lines of policy in- volving principles prestige. The big problem find a coin- promise formula which al- lows for a working agree- ment. A tantallsing figure.
Now
is to
which has just appeared on is that of Mr
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Pyongyang Laid US Navy S.A. Govt To Appeal
Waste By Mighty
Allied Air Raids
EFFECTS
OF. ATTACKS
VIVIDLY DESCRIBED.
By VICTOR KENDRICK
Tokyo, Aug. 30.
The North Korean capital of Pyongyang lay smoking and ruined this (Saturday) morning after Allied planes yesterday struck the mightiest blow William Alton Jones, ona of the Korean war in hitting the Communist nerve
America's mysterious
centre.
the scene
uf
cording to reports ho han
the
As Usual, Russia Says 'No'
United Nations, Aug. 29.
business magnates. Ac- Planes from land and carrier bases staged gone to Iran at the behest more than 1,400 sorties over the industrial city in of Mossadegh to explore three separate waves, lasting more than eight the possibilities of putting hours. They hammered 40 pre-selected targets in
Persian oil industry back into action
The the area which is a vital one for the Communist Russia's United Nations monumental difficulties of war effort.
delegate, Mr Jacch. Malik, achloving this are too ab- Communist MIGs tried desperately to halt the today rejected Western pro- battering attack but protecting Sabre-jets and. Aus-posals for a five power dis- tralian Meteor twin jets drove back the Russian-built armament conference if fighters, destroying one and damaging two more.
Russia and China would first agree to limit their
vious, and it seems more likely that Mossadegh is aiming to use his presence "lever in the country as a
in his negotiations.
Flaming napalm turned the Red capital into a blazing
to
hire million men each and
THE real situation in the torch us plumes of black smoke rolled into the sity
other Middla East key hamper planes in later waves and complicate attempts to country-Egypt-la equally assess the damage inflicted. obscure, General Naguib is
Civilian residents wrestling
domestic warned beforehand of the im- problema and is hardly in pending attack and urged a position to devoto deep flee for their lives. attention to foreign affairs,
with
were
10
Last night, hours after the Pyongyang Radio was
and in particular the Anglo-attack
Egyptian dispute. He may
at off the air.
Four second
It was the biggest effort of the Korean war for the Fifth Air almost Force which mounted 1.200 missions during the day,
Some 210 carrier planes from the USS Essex, Princeton and Boxer also contributed to the sloughton
LYNMOUTH
MEMORIAL
SERVICE
Lynmouth, Aug. 29. The roar of bulldozers was stilled and workmen slood bareheaded in this devastated seaside town to day as an open air memorial service was held for those who died in the flood disaster here nearly three weeks ago.
half men
Ship Sunk
By Mine
Washington, Aug. 30, The Navy announced today that the 1,580-Log United States fleet tas Sax) struck a mino and sank off. North Korea August 27:
נם
Two crew members were killed, four seriously in- fured and three missing.
Eighty-eight officers and men survived. They were retozed by the milies-
Zoal WOODER
and destroyer Boyd. Lieutenant William Howard, the Saral's Commanding Off- sur- cer, was among the vivors.
the
10
Tho Barat sank
the minutes after she hit
Com- mine. If wank off munist-held Nam Hung. North Korea, United Press.
Boulogne Mystery
Search For Man Named Lonsdale
Boulogne, Aug. 29. French police investigat ing the death of a girl, be- lieved to be British, whose body ware, old today they near said
He condemned as "of hypo-wished to get in touch with critical character” ́a working
a man whom they described submitted paper
by Britain,
as "Frederick Lonadale, & France and the United Sintes, which proposed ways to limit British dramatist," armed forces. And he declared the Western Three were simply prevent the United Nations Disarmament Com- mission from making concrete proposs
trying
to
The police said they thought Lonsdale, who they believed was on holiday here, might havo given her a lift from Boulogne to Wimereux on August 21.
Against
Court Ruling
BATTLE OVER APARTHEID
Capetown, Aug. 29.
Immediately after the Cape Supreme Court today had declared invalid the Government act establishing a High Court of Parliament, the Government decided to appeal.
Appeal To Scots Overseas
Edinburgh, Aug. 20.
Scots overseas are to be ¡asked for "subscriptions to make the 40 miles of roadt between Edinburgh Glasgow an
and
#venue lined with trees and flowering shrubs as a tribute to Queen "Eilzabośli” II on the occasion
of her Coronation,
This plan was annoticed at a meeting here today of the Scottish Tourist Board, It Was sinted that the Board is sending details to 5,000 Scottish societies
OVERBEAR,
Individuals will be asked to contribute a maximum of- £1 and #ocieties * maximum of £10—Henter.
D.S.O.
The Cape Supreme Court is one of four pro- vincial divisions of South Africa's Supreme Court. The Government's appeal will be taken to the next Supreme Court at Bloemfontein, judicial capital and highest body, the Appellate Division of the FOR KOREA of South Africa, commonly known as the Appeal Court.
This means
that Premier Daniel Malan will ho
Reprieve For Straffen
HERO
London, Aug. 29.
for
the his
asking the Appellate Division to acknowledge the Major Thomas John Jack- creation of his High Court of Parliament which in it- son, of the Welsh Regiment, self was created as a final arbiter over the Supreme has been awarded the Dis Court in important constitutional matters.
It is postinguished Service Order be the appeal will be held in the November sitting. "in recognition of gallant Public excitement flared up in Korea," the British War and distinguished services suddenly with today's decision of the Cape Supreme Court, but Office announced tonight.
Jacksonwon Major comment was immediately
roorganising award checked by the Government's company when all his officer's› notice of appeal. This tado had become casualties and the whole question "sub judice completing a successful with-, .. again.
'drawal drom Hill 227 on Juno
23. Polltiedi observers tonight The assumed that If the Appeal wommanders
platoona Court upholds today's decision, | cleaning outky Caring Unist the Government will then seek bunkers on the were
seriously wounded by grenade to have the High Court of UUD Parlament declare
mortar and sunalt arms fro the Appeal Major Jackson then for his Court's judgment again invalid. tactical headquarters and des As the Appeal Court would spite heavy enemy fire, visited
ised both platoons and reorganised tory, Sir David Maxwell already have ruled the High Receiving orders to withdraw Fyfe, today saved John Court of Parliament invalid the when he returned to his head- skilfully and who political and local results of such quarters, "bo Thomas Straffen,
. withdraw His two children, action must at present bo ex- coally"
platoons, bringing back the tremely obscure. strangled three
killed and wounded and all his from the gallows.
arms and equipment---Router.
From Gallows London, Aug. 29, The British Home Secre-
Mrs Eva Frederick, "if London The proposals he asserted in coloured woman was expected the Disarmament Commission, here today to see if the dead were designed to divert the girl is Sybil Johnson, who shared The attention of the world from the a London fat with her.
at body was found on Friday, the Saved question of the prohibition otomic and other weapons of day Miss Johnson disappeared. mass destruction.
It had water in the lungs but Britain, France and the not enough to make drowning
their the certain cause of death, United States presented
Earlier this week two British aver conferencement to tourists, Mr and Mrs Wood, told
n August 12,
supplement
on Thursday police that earlier proposal ល
that the the
United evening they saw a young wo armed forces of the States, Russia and China should man, whom they believed to be not exceed one million to one the drowned girl, with a tall and a half million, while those middle aged man with a "mal! of Britain and France should car on his face in a Wineux
limited to 700,000 to 800,- teashop.--
attack,
The huge berial armada which have composed his differen- rained bombs, bullets and ees of opinion with Premier napalm-on the elty started its Aly Maher over land re-deadly work at 10 am.
come the form, but the incident has hours later probably left him suspicious, wave and then at 8 pm. Aral Echolis of fighter banbers Expectations that Egypt
made their way through heavy will eventually join the clouds of black smoke to drop Western defence or their eggs.
be ganisation have to based largely on negativo signs, ie, Naguib has been moderate, almost friendly in his references to foreign relations; he has not tempted to force the issue of . -- giving.. the future
In the first wave the planes monarch the title of King dropped 100 tons of bombs and
000. of the Sudan; as a military in the second they used some 200 bulldozer drivers and fired 17,000 rounds of ammunt- The congregation consisted of better on. man he possesses a
240 tons of high explosives, and other solvage workers. developed appreciation of
12,000 rounds und
and in the third When it was over they re- the necessity for Egypt 257 tons of bombs and 23,000 turned immediately to their task
who can best help protect down on the Communists, Sorties rubble still making Lynmouth the country. from aggres flown by the Fifth Air Force look like a bombed town. sion. It may be some time included 283 Sobre and Aghter Up the hill in a church of before interceptors and close support nearby Lynton, there was held yet, however,
sorties, 282 Aghter-bombers on another memorial Egypt's new regime is pre- the first wave, 275 on the second which many thousands of people
at-
was conducted
The service by the Salvation Army on the remains of a bridge.
be
COLLISION
aligning herself with those rounds of machine-gunfire_swept of clearing the 50,000 tons of of atomic energy to ensure the to a man they saw in Boulogne year-old Linda Bowyer during tional dispute only
service to
the constitu-
of
He was to have been executed
The Governmen''s Ave-year next Thursday. An official a terra of office expires next year nouncement-here- tonight...... sald that the Home Secretary had and a general election will prob- Today two young Boulogne
recommended a STANDS BY PROPOSAL
reprieve for ably be held in May.
CLEMENCY FOR office workern told the police
who was so Straffen,
sentenced Under the Western plan, pre-
A general election could ap- WAR CRIMINALS that the description given by death at Winchester Arsizes on vision would be made for the
Bonn Aug. 29. effective internationai
control Mr and Mrs Wood could apply July 26 for the murder of Ave-parently resolve
the gov The British authorities today break from theernment għined a big enough released, as an act of clemency, on August 20 driving a car near a five-hour prohibition of atomic weapons
parliamentary majority to give four German war criminals and the use of atomic energy
the station he collided with a Broadmoor criminal asylum.
This recommendation has to them the two-thirds majority from Werl Prison in Westphalla. bus. A policeman made out, an for peaceful purposes only.
accident report and the
be-formally approved by the
which, according to the Supreme mon
They were Heinz Sleptmann, Malik But Mr
today said:
Queen
Court, is necessary to amend 20; Kärl Guenther, 20; Hans drove on, they said. The Soviet Union deems li
British entrenched
of The reprieve under
clauses
the Lenz, 35; and, Stefen Wolss, 31, to necessary
emphasise that
ment for a "life" term of 21 years Reuter. tence is commuted to imprison with the rights of voters. proposal to reduce by
duct, this can be reduced to 15 but by remiasions for good con- or 16 years.
*
pared to commit itself over wave, 278 on the third and 75 all over. Britain listened by/only the acceptance of the USSR./report files disclosed the drivert laws means that the deaths sen- constitution. These clauses deal all sentenced in connection with
an alliance with the Wes- reconnaissance and photo-radio. tern Powers.
graphing.-United Press.
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A check on police accident come to be Lonsdale of the Grand Hotel, Boulogne, hotel said a man who registered as Frederick Lonsdale, drama- list, left on August 28.
The
At this service, more than all armaments and armed forces 60 relatives of the 25 victims, of the big powers, a decision on whose bodies have been found, the prohibition of the atomic paid their last tribute to their bom
bomb and strict international
Alternatively the reprieved The hotel manager said that man. I insane, he may be sent to control оти a continuing basis
the manı told him he was Broadmoor criminal asylum, taken simultaneously would or leaving for London and would generally for the cent of his life.
of the serious return to Boulogne at the end
STATE · tasks which the of the summer.
No official statement about
They were Joined by
dead. friends
miles
and neighbours from around who packed the
mit the
church
of
and
ù lot of
and overfioned to the The Soviet Union insists on the Lonsdale's car was seen by the
Nations has to tackle. The police stated that what will now happen to Straf- road outside.
fen was available in London In hot August
Immediate acceptance by the two clerks on August 21 near sunshine,
tonight. contrasting with the nine inches Commission of these proposals."
Wimereax beach.
It is known that the Homo rain which fell in three "zoo" of the
Mr Malik zald after the
Frodorick
his Arst tripartite
Lonsdale is the Secretary before reaching hours nearly three weeks both Lynmouth
proposal the three powers new name of a 71-year-old British decision studied stopped work to remember the which would delay prohibition several musical comedies in-
offered a new alternative course playwright, who has written evidence about Straffen's men-
tal state. dead, Shops closed, all business of the bacterial weapon and the cluding "Maid of the Mountains"
Straffen was sent to Broad- and relief and rehabilita- control of the atomic weapon.
criminal and "Canaries Sometimes Bing.' | moor
asylum Jast Work was halted,
Reuter. The adoption of this type of Preaching in the church, the
October after being found unfit Bishop of Exeter, Dr R. C. discussion and thus the Disarma-
to plead to a charge of strangl proposal would lead to endless
ing two children in Western Mortimer, said the people of meat Commission would be de-
པ་ Devon were grateful for
theprived from taking any concrete generous trelp which had come decisions on the reduction of from all over the world, "bring-armaments and armed forces ing hope to those who have seen and the prohibition of the bac- the loss of their homes and their terlalogical weapon-Reuter.
Lion
possessions,”
"It Is this which is helping the people of Lynmouth and Lynton to plan with such bravery the reconstruction of their homes land," the Bishop sald.-Router.
TUNNEL DREAM EVAPORATING
i
84-Year-Old's 'Chute Leap
Flying
Match England but last month
Starts Fire
the
at Winchester decided that he was fit to answer the charge of the third child murder.
The Court of Criminal Appeal here rejected his appeal nine days ago.
Brighton, Aug. 20, -A 71-year-old man with bond- *ges on his head and arms told
It was announced on Wednes n Brighton.coroner today that day that he would be hanged on the head flew off the match and September 4 and his only hope started a fire which caused the then lay in a recommendation death of his wife.
for reprieve---Reuter, recorded the Paris Aug. 29.
The occidental death or Basmarr, MacFadden, 04-year the 70-year-old Mrs Ellen Nel-
verdint of fald United States - physlent cul-
turist, launched himself into the ion, of Cairo Avenue, Peaco Seine by parachute, above Paris Haven. Sussex. today and missed.
Ho landed unhurt
Bir Nelson said he was dress-
STIFLING HEAT.
WAVE
Aiglers, Aug 20, ing when he decided, to light A guiding heat wave la sweep-
London. Aug. 29, A 71-year-old dream of in crom-Channel funnel linking Britain with France bank to a narrow bank of the river, wheru and the head flow of Ho could tures recorded today included on the cigarette. Ho struck a matching Algeria. The sharp tempera- new low in interest here today, was picked up by a police not when it took exactly six minutes launch. for the company hacking the scheme to dispose of busine
find it, and curled on 111.1* dressing.d
་།༢
at Mouzalaville, 1004 at Mascare and 108.4" F He suddenly found the win-nd Sidibelabbes MacFadden jumped, from §
dow curtains ablaze. He pulled The hot Birocco wind from them down and they fell on the the desert has dried out large chair setting alight.
quantities of the fruit harvest
At St. Lucion, near Oran, 800 people are fighting a forest fire which har destroyed 10,000 acres of pine trees-Reuter.
At the 71st annual generol Bretagno" twin engined trans- meeting of the company hem, port plane from a height of Ave members of the company about 600 root. faced a row of empty chalry and
four prommen, none of the 300 Thousands of people linea the shareholders kumod up.-Neu- banks of the Saine to watch the
tor
Icop-Router
When: his wife came to his holy, the blasing chair set her tiress alight. She died nine days Later?-Router.
LAIN
the killing of three British prisoners of war. — Reuter.
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