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NY move, which possesses

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puccessfully breaking the bresent Korean armistice impasse is to be welcomed, find the disclosure that Indiù may make another ́attempt persuade Peking

to

accept a formula relating to the prisoner of war issue commands interest. It is true that when the Chinese Communists adhered to the dictates of Moscow and rejected the previous Indian compromise plan the world felt completely disillusioned about the sincerity of Peking's oft-expressed

desire for a solution to the armistice problem, and it in not easy to belleve that where Indin falled before she will succeed a second time. It is, in fact, difliculi to concelve a formula vary- ing from that finally adopted by the United Nations General Assembly Inst year, which would comply with the fundamental principles

enunciated by the UN for

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CHINA MAIL

No. 35-119

Established 1845

TUESDAY,' JANUARY 27, 1958.

Eisenhower To Present

Administrative

Blueprint

Foreign

-And Domestic

Policies

Washington, Jan. 26.

President Eisenhower will lay down a detailed blueprint of his Administration's plans and policies in a State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at 5.30 p.m. GMT next Monday,

The President discussed the message with nine Republican Congressional leaders at an early One Re- morning two-hour conference today. publican said that the discussion covered a broad field-the Korean war, amendments to the Taft- Hartley Labour Law, possible extension of price wage controls beyond their scheduled April 30 ex- piration date, foreign aid and tax and spending policy.

Mau Mau Trial

there

It is understood that are some differences of opinion on the course the new. Kr- publican administration should follow in some fields. But these "minor" described as

KENYATTA differences

GIVES

a settlement of the POW dispute, und at the Kame time satisfy the Communists' requirements.

Further doubts are raised by the suggestion thut Peking desires to treat the question of prisoners of war repatriation as part of the overall political considera- tions which are bound up with the future of Kurca. The United Nations attitude has already been clearly stated, namely, that political conference must follow conclusion of Bu armistice, and cannot be directly Asociated with truce negotiations. The United Nations are not likely to depart from this viewpoint; wherefore insistence on the part of the Chinese Communists to

Nairobi, Jan. 27. convert the POW issue into

Jomo Kenyatta. President a political bone of conten of the African Union, who, tion must doom any third

with other Africans Ís on party endeavours to bring trial on charges of organis an armistice to a success. ful conclusion. In the final ing Mau Mau activities, to- analysis, however, the pre-day went into the witness can box to conduct his own de- sent truce stalemate only ba resolved if and fence. when the Peking regime displays willingness mako its own decisions Independent of the Kremlin,

Army Desertions THE disclosure by the US

+

EVIDENCE

Was

Other Republican Xources said that the President sought and got the advice of the legislative leaders on subjects to be covered in the message.

House Speaker Joseph Martin Jnr., announced the plans for the President's appearance after he and eight other top-ranking Republican House and Senate leaders spent two hours with the President at the White House covering outstanding matters to be included in the

message.

Mr Martin meeting was He added

said that today's very interesting." Mat

Senate

the

Republican leaders "went over

the

all of the material which will be treated by the President in his State of the Urdon message."

Senator Robert Taft sold that message has not yet been written and that what he and conducted bis

from colleagues received on the President was an outline plans

A submission to

by Kenyatta's to answer had been ruled out lawyer that there was no case by the presiding magistrate.

Kenyatta throuh his evidence by Indian lawyer, Dewan Champlat, of what Mr Eisenhower He said he had been unable to prepare a proper defence si all his file and documents had

Also discuscini at today s been confiscated,

to say.

"Mighty Mites"

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MPs Seek To

Youth From Being Hanged

London, Jan, 27. Members of Parliament will stage a dramatic, eleventh-hour fight in the House of Commons today! (Tuesday) to save the life of a 19-year-old boy due to be hanged on Wednesday morning for his part in the murder of a policeman.

The Labour member, Mr Bydney Silverman, will ask for an immediate debate on the case of Derek Bentley, companion in crime to 10-year-old Christopher Craig, the gunman who fired the fatal shot.

NEW ATOMIC TESTS

Tel. 21433.

Troops And Tribesmen In Clash

to

of

Teheran, Jan. 26. Tanks and armoured cars were rushed the Shiraz · aren South Persia today after a clash between troops and Razmi tribesmen in which 10 were reported killed and 20 injured, the nowspaper Ittelat ro ported tonight.——Reü- ter.

Effort To Reach Oil!

Agreement

Craig was sentenced to in- dennite Imprisonment because he was under 18, minimum age for execution in Britain.

Bentley, ulterate child of a London wartime blitzer, tried to rob a warehouse with his own happy hero, 10-year-old Chris- topher Craig.

Though an all-male jury made A fresh Anglo-American recommendation, to mercy, effort to write an oil sotile- Bentley's appeal was later diament with Iranian Premier missed

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Washington, Jan. 26. The Atomic

Energy Commission

today an nounced that a new series of experiments will be started at the beginning of March at the Las Vegas testing grounds. The ob ist develop new and in ject of these experiments proved nuclear devices," Ing against the | the announcement said.

The

London, Jan. 26.-

Anglo-

plan was

Mr Silverman will have the Mohammed Mossadegh was support of an influential body reported nearly completed of former Labour Ministers, who tonight. last night signed a motion that US Ambassador in Teheran, the Home Secretary, Sir David Mr Loy Henderson is expected Maxwell Fyfe, should reconsider to meet Mossadegh within a no-reprieve decision an about a week. The Iranian nounced yesterday.

Premier is awaltlag answers to In the last few days thou-a long list of objections be Bled Kands have signed a petition after for Bentley's reprieve, ani last night many telegrams to mem-

American Gedetalled the House of Commons protest the low tide osadexpresod bers of Parliament arrived in submitted a

informants the decision

that

fusal to accapt thp plan- Rs Bentley must hang.

Walle Bentley. walted in the to raise the price of a settle stood signals now bld by Iran The Commission did not give condemned call

call or Wundaworth

ment in hope. that President any further detalls, but com- (South London) ga:1,

administra- be ready to pay it.

that argument is Mossadegh may 'figure Presi-

polent quarters, exprement, the Burnie at this away, Nede tion, wh

made

opinion that bury, a few devices referred to an atomie their last

attempt to "gun"They added that army, keep him from the gallows

settlement. BRO..

it

that

TIRE WA take part /Jear-old Queen Mary, grasude j; LABEL – Förmer President. Truman..

to do

in giving Iran ald-cash and materials-and in Britain to make con-

Mons

navy and air force units, total- They scat a telegram to 85. dent Elsenhower will do no less

In the

of Quora Jelzabeta! proposed The communique stated: "The "We plead with you to intervensald now series of tests is designed for our sons life."--Reutter. to advance the development of and improved nuclear „dovices and will provide data on weapons performance essen- tial to militäry · and civil #5- fenco.

Dew

Shortly after publishing its communique on the Nevada

of

a new atornic

Sharp Fighting

In Indo-China

It the new President and his advisers consider the threat of Communism In Iran to be in« creasing, Mossadegh may then belleve Amarica will be ready to

pitch in with

even more

In other words, Mossadegh

help.

he operation,

Floods Ravaging East Ceylon

the Atomic Energy Com- tests

Paris, Jan. 24. mission announced, that a new Two Vietminh rebel battallons stands to win better forms, and atomic factory, the first of its clashed viviently with French

to lose nothing but time, it he kind ever to be built in the and Vietnamese troops yesterday decides to raise the ante.

Despite their United States, was to be crocted at An Khe, in the hilly coas Mossadegh's apparent filibuster

suspicions of la filinois. Costing $29,000,000, country, als miles north the factory would cover 5,000 Saigon, the French Press Agency ing, the British now accept the American thesis that Mossaderi acres and would be made solely reported toaight from Balgon,

A spokesman of the French is the only for the assembly and installa-

man in Iran - with High Command in Saigon tala whom they have any chance of tion of atomic explosives.

that, after two hours fighting, in coming to terms-Associated FACTORY'S FUNCTIONS Statements made by members which French fighter planes gave Press, of the Atomic Energy Com-cover, the two rebel battalions!

following alaskar

the omcias withdrew, leaving 40 dead.

The Franco-Vietnamera troops United Nations, Jan. 26.,

the building announcement of

20 dead and about 30 Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge presented linols, have caused specula-wounded, be said.

factory in lost

Yesterday's his credentials to the Secretary-General, Mr tion here as to the exact nature added, was only a preliminary

Colombo, Jun. 20. - Army authorities that

of the factory's work.

Floods sweeping East. Ceylon 46,000 Boldiers have

meeting waa the hitch in the Trygve Lie, today and disclosed that he has re-

After the announcement that action. desertod since the start of

Parachute troops and artillery left hundreds hemales today. nomination of Me Charles quested a sweeping FBI investigation of all Ameri- the new factory would finish the Korean War, and that

had been moved down from the inundated 33,000 acres open- Wilson to be Defence Secretary cans at the United Nations.

and assemble nuclear explo Tongking area for the coming ed for rice cultivation some 11,000 of them are still at

sives.

a spokesman said the large, has caused under-

battle for An Khe. Rebel troops months ago in the Gal Oye. Val- **110 room In my heart for woula introduce today three.

Mr Lodge told his first news conference as 'the now factory would, in fact, neither have been massing. In the aros įley, where American engineers · standable concern in Con-violence." He said he abhorred four amendments to the Taft-permanent United States representative here that nis produce nor even contain radio for some time, Reuter.

built à dam--Associated Press, the use of force and that he was Hartley law but that they first official act was a letter to the chief of the FBI, Mr J. devoted to

active equipment. but would be just an ordinary man trying to would not cover the whole Edgar Hoover, requesting an investigation of "all Ameri-

the assembling of better the conditions of his field of proposed changes.

"more or less conventional ex- people. Twice. during two Mr Taft addex, that legisin- can employees of the United States mission to the United hours of questioning, he was tive lenders would meet with Nations and in the United Nations itself."

The spokesman refused to told that his answers to ques- the President at 8.30

elaborato on this statement, one were becoming speeches, each

Mr Lodge mos appointed by risk a breach In. the interna- merely adding that, if there was Kenyatta described himself as a

President Eisenhower to succeed, tional agreement covering the no connection between the con Christian "over 50" and self- |

Ambassador Warren Austin world organisation's headquar-ventional type of explosives, and educated, except for a period at

The appointment was confirmed ters.

atomic a mission school

mic weapons, the Atomic by the ty Senato late last week.

Energy Commission would not The Investigation" could, bebe bothering with the explosives. He also recalled, the fact that 10 carried on from outside the

the Commision was already United Press.

concerned with the preparation of exceptionally high-expioalvo products of the conventional lypo In its "Pantex" factory In Texas--France-Presse.

тела.

The desertion rate

is less than half that of the

middle years of the second world war, but the New York Herald-Tribune con- sidera it still "serious enough to require explana. tion." One explanation is that penalties for desertion are now so light many would prefer them to being

Speaking in English, Kenyatta emphasised the fact that he had

Kenyatta said he began his

Senator Taft said

that hig

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a.m.

Monday except Text week.-United Prom

PRESIDENT'S COLD

Washington, Jan. 20. President Eisenhower had to cancel all appointments schedul-

ed

for this afternoon at the

He plans to leave his post here oach Friday and

go

Bont into combat in Korea political activity in 1922 end White House because of a slight/ Washington to alt in on weekly | United Nations, Mr Lodge sald

some

the

government servico and

1

cold, a White House spokesman stated here today.

Cabinet meetings.

Mr Lodge's request for FDI

tion.

a

That was not the idea of the "realising my people required' now code of mallitary justice,

someone to help them." he left which was designed to end

Joined the Kamya Central The President was confined action was in line with one of of the intolerable Association In 1928. abuses of the old system.

to his room and was planning the former President Truman's which to prepare his message on the last executive orders Some wont "over the hill" He said he later founded the state of the Union, which ho vestigation of all Americans at requested elvil service in- to answer Bome real or Grst · African newspaper and will sand to Congress next the United Nations in con- Imagined call of distress his stay in England, between

later went to England. During Monday, the spokesman said. from the folks at home. To1933.and. 1940, he had sent

Earlier, Mrs Eisenhower had nection with Federat

Inquiries into alleged subversive activities many Americans, the memorandum

been forced to cancel some of by United States cltizens em- African On

her activities owing to a chillployed by the world organisa Korean war remains remote grievances to the government -Franco-Presse; and unreal compared to and had contacted Members of everyday problems. The Parliament. He said he had Army itself seems less con-

Joined the Africa Union an his cerned over the desertions satisfied himself on its aims.

retum to Kenya, having first than over the high rate' of absences" - without Joave. He said it was conducting a Thone involve soldiers who constitutional fight for African head for home when they rights. France-Presse, got their shipping orders and return just after their regimenta have sailed. Now- disciplinary procedures are being put into effect to stop this abuse. To a

non. American observer it might

THOUSANDS ILL WITH FLU

Caird, Jan. 20. Influenza has struck down

neom worth while exploring about 100,000 Cairo residents

another avenue, namely, the almost unique nature of this

war, which is in no setise an old-fashioned national"

war. The trouble would then seem to be much, 76sa remarkable than it la

Freighter Has Rough Trip

Pusan, Jan. 26.

At the same time ex-President Truman's order, Issued while he was in office, requested the United Nations to forgo fur ther hirings of Amerlouns pond- Ing the investigation.

Test Match Latest

Adelalde, Jan. 7.

Faced with Australia's..., huga rat innings score at 630, South Africa were on the defensive this morning when the fourth Test match was renamed here.

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plosives."

GANDHI'S SON CHARGED

Johannesburg, Jan. 20,

tho

Among the others

· Mahilal Gandhi, son of late Mahatma Gandhi, was charged with seven -- other prisoners. today in the der- malewy20 Court with "Inciting McGle, and Endean, defended natives to break the law at A battered freighter rested in

stubbornly. In face of accurate Germatoon location on Decem- Mr Lodge said that his bowling to keep thels wickets ber. B Pusan harbour today after the request for a full FBI investiga intact, and at the luncheon in- rougest voyage in the 35 years' tion: was entirely consistent" ferval Bouth Africa' were 60 fór

charged was Patrick Dhincan, experience of its skipper, Captain with the civil service Inquiry, no wickets; V

pon of a former L. B. Larsen of San Francico. He added that FBI anding McGlow, overnight not out

Gerior

South The S8 Private Joe Mana, a would be submitted to, the civil

were among Military Sen. Transport Service service authorities for evalua-4, had then carried his score to

the Face Women

accused. They were the Passol

Almped into port on tion.

24, an Endean not out 35.. "authorens den Winifred -- "-- Mary. Saturday after a 21-day lashing When the FBI makas

Troup, the social anthropologieť, by (Parlic storeria,

Hasselt used six bowlers this Selma: Stammelman and Trade Washington, two days after not reach conclusions..

The ship left Port Angeles, vestigation," he said, it does morning in an attempt to break Union leader, Belle Dutalt. ~mim

The up the partnership, but the France Proso. Civit Bervice

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one in every: 20 Egyptian | Chrismas and ran into heavy conclusion make the | batsmen never gavo a chance, AB Fans London, Jan. 20.

health authorities said today. «Bax only two daya mtaa tar

Dr Mohammed · Anwar, Direc Dwo armen, Chief Mate Alex The now Ambassador, v

Johnston. In particular, köpt

tho

· Átting Admiraleaf Mount ten overs he poncoded only nine Anne Forces in the

for of Diseases at the Ministry White and Bor'n John Bohu was defeated in November in a an impeccable length; and fin

Medite runs. His first Ave oves were ranean, tonight -- was promoted one run in the sixth. Faite

∙BAKOTA Commander: (of. of Public Health, said gorms macher were critically. Injured in bid for re-election as Smator

outbreak TKODO, A UN inöspital-here---Associated i tho | FBI would not have to ↑maidóns, und heitava away duly to the rublond fuck: Admirakelion

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