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The Only Hope
NY move, which possesses
A reasonable prospecta af
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.
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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
ין
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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