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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1958.
SHAH AND Guards Visit European
PREMIER TO MEET
Effort To Settlo Personal Dispute
Teheran, Feb. 23.
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi and Premier Mohammed Mossadegh will confer tomorrow in 1411 effort to settle the personal dispute between Chem- selves, informed
said today.
Hources
The dispute has complicated Anglo- the already confused Iranian oll problem. Predictions of a settlement came shortly after the Court Minister, Husein Ala, called on Dr Mossadegh and as Parliament met in a special neralon to study the differences between the Shah and the Prime Minister.
The American Ambassador, Mr Loy Henderson, who has been negotiating for weeks with Dr Mossadegh on the ait problem. also conferred with Mr Ala ond the Premier.
The serious dispiste between the Shah and Dr Mossadegh complicated Iran's political situation tonight. werileal moment in the negotiation on the Anglo-truniau dispute.
The Tailor
Army Dispute: Queen At The Academy
Immaculate new uniforms which Guardsmen will wear ni the Coronation are being made to Government order in a clothing factory in London. And there is the usual link between the Pleture atows taller and the well-dressed. mais—the future Guardsman G. Marshall, Grenadier Guards, being fitted with his scarici tunle-Reuterphoto.
The disagreement arose over Point Four Aid]
the alling printer's refusal to approve The X1S$180,000,000 Iloyal Ladget.
Usually well-informed souree, i
Erratened soid Dr Musabeth
to resign unless members of the Shab's Cour: stupued "lutrigues " and Opposition Deputics stopped making trouble for bin.
Dr Mossadegh said he would appeal for popular support In radio broadcast.-United Press.
Not To Get
A Hearing
Ollawa, Feb. 23. The External Affairs Com- mittee of the House of Comm- mond voted
toxlay
graming a hearing to the Com- munist-inspired Committee for a Cease Fire In Korea.
The chairman of the External Affairs Committee, Mr J. A. Bradette, said that the group was identifled with the Cana- dian Peace Congress headed by Dr James Elicott, recent win- ner of the Stalin Peace Prize,
asked permission The group to present a resolution demand- Ing an immediate cease-fire in Koma patterned on the demands of the Russian delegation at the United Nationa
A motion by Mr Tom Goode opposed granting the group a
For Egypt Announced
Cairo, Feb. 23.
Egypt and the United States are to set up a Joint eatinell for the industri- alisation of Egypt under an arrangement announced to- day.
The arrangement, signed under the Amerleza Point Four Plan to help under- developed areas, will bring experis from both countries together
to study the potentiallies of Egypt and to study her raw materials, markels communicatluna and power surplus.
The United States has authorised a large sum of maney for a preliminary survey by Egyptian and American experts and they will make a report to the Egyptian Ministry of Com. merce and Industry.
American engineers have been in Egypt for several munlls at the request of plan
Afinister
the
Government to
the surves.
The Finance and the Minister of Com- merce and Industry signed the arrangement for Egypt and Ambassador Jefferson Caffery and the Polat Four Director
Untied for the States.-Reuter,
hearing and was carried by 18 Moscow's Latest
votes_io_two.-United Press
Red Office Closed
Frankfurt, Feb. 23.
Police today closed down the central office of the Communist-
in
wearers attend for fiftinngs,
Effect Of Atom
Bombs On Homes
To Be
Be Shown
Washington, Feb. 23.
State civil defence officials will see for them- selves what an atom bomb can do to ordinary homes when the Atomic Energy Commission and Defence Department fire a test weapon at the Nevada proving grounds next month.
A joint announcement by the agencies says that an atomic "shot" tentatively arranged for March 17 would be made over a larget which will include two frame dwellings and several bomb shelters.
Talks
In Rome
ITALY
TRIES
TO MEDIATE
The
Rome, Feb. 23.
Italian Premier, Signor Alcide de Gasperi, met the French Foreign Minister, M. Georges Bidault, tonight and ar ranged n
private meeting with the West German Chancellor, Dr Konrad Adenauer, in an effort to conciliate the Franco- German dispute blocking the European Army pro- ject.
Signor de Gasperi held a 90- minute session with M, Bidault, trying to learn the minimum French terms for ratification of the European defence past,
Dr Adenauer
accepted 11 invilation to confer
with the Italian Premier tomorrow, 45 minutes before the opening of the conference of Foreign Minis- ters of the six West European States.
The Ministers assembled here tonight for series of talks ulmed at clearing up the Franco- German dispute and other unification
The Minis
of France, West Germany, Italy, Belgun, the Netherlands und Luxembourg will meet formally tomorrow for the first time since September. MAY CLEAR AIR The conference
not expected
to produce any sensational results but many felt it might clear the atmosphere.
Whispering
Campaign Against Ridgway
Paris, Feb. 23,
An apparent deliberate whispering campaign against General Matthew B. Ridgway and his SHAPE headquarters is worrying senior officers con- cerred with maintaining Allied
The United States Secretary of State, Mr John Foster Dulles, has asked for prompt and fuli reports on the talks, whose out-
may go far toward ixing unity, United States foreign polley In coming years,
Three official U.S. observers came from Parls for the con- terrace, which is due to last two days but can be extended.
The conference provides the first opportunity for the Minis- The new test will not be theters to talk over what Mr Dulles and other observers, newsmen first tune atomic tests have been had to say on his tour of their
In addition to civil defence
will be permitted to witness the | made against buildings, but will ostensible purpose of the
test.
This
during the was dene Spring series of tests in Nevasin Just year.
Will Use Force If
Necessary
Tokyo, Feb. 24. Japanese coastal-safety force frigates will return fire and use force if necessary to protect
fishing craft, it Japanese revealed by the Parliamentary Vice-Minister of the National Safety Board, the Nippon Times
Was
be the first time a representa- tive group of civilian defence meeting experts have been brought to ser exactly what would happen if an enemy bomb burst over an average Auverican city,
The 1051 series of experf» !
with full-scale ments
atomic weapons al Eniwetok atoll in- civiled 1850 *of structures | simulating, sictions of freterics, office buildings und other structures,
Technical movies of thuse tests, laken in slow motion, showed un atomic blast stripping #way portions of structures In
what looked like a fiery gale ut proportions, then early hammering bulkings dat setting then aftre.
und
1
Wi15 to consider Dutch proposal that the Euro- pean Coal and Steel Union- the Schuman Plan-be expanded to a full European Customs Union-United Press.
The Queen, accompanied by
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the Duke of Edinburgh, altend- Coming Saturday (2B Fob.),
ed a private dinner party given by Sir Gerald Kelly, President of the Royal Academy, 'at Burlington House. Above is a charming study of Her Majesty taken at the dinner. — Central Press Photo.
10th
On
Hearing
Hawaii
Washington, Feb. 23.
The Secretary of the Interior Mr Douglas McKay, lodny urged Congressional action to speed the admission of Hawaii as the 49th slate of the United States. To neutral observers the cam-
He told the Territories Sub- paign seemed largely inspired by French and British. new Committee
of the House of papers. At least four stories Representatives Interior Com.. have intensified the campaign mlitee that Hawaii
was fully within the past week. They qualified for Statehood. claimed particularly that many
"The people of Hawail have British
are tired of
their duties dB serving as "office boys" in the performed 14-nation Command, allegedly over-weighted with Americans, and have sent in their resign
tions.
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Oficial SHAPE Agures
to the
citizens in war and peace, have proven their devotion principles of our said.
nation," he
oh Mr McKay was the first wit-
Bul. The shearing 10th Congressional
the
tained today appeared to dis-ness at hearing on the Hawai
Of 16 Statehood prove these allegations. top Jobs at SHAPE seven are was held by Americans, four
by study British. four by Frenchmen qualifications
Reuter. officer,
UNITY MOVE and one by an Italian
IN SOUTH
AMERICA
Santiago, Feb. 23. The Presidents of Chile and Argentina pushed for eventual South American unity today following the signing of a treaty to wipe out trade barriers be- thetween their two countries.
-London, Fch..23. Ilya Ehrenburg, Sovlet nove- list and propagandist today pictured Mr Winston Churchill waking up one morning sur-
VARYING EFFECTS prised to and Britain at war,
Ehrenburg said in an article
The reference to two frame by . Pravdu, broadcast Moreow Radio, that the only said.
dwellings being used in
Chile's Carlos Cbanez and controlled West German Union explanation he would get from
test next anonth sitggested that The English-language - paper of Victims of Nazism.
one might be spotted close in Argentina's Juan D. Peran, the The America would
be "That's said the statement was made
the "ground zero",, read about it before pollee confiscated all documents | OK—you can
Diet committee
point above which the bombs visit, announced their agree in the papers",--Reuter.
answer to a question raised by
burst, with the other farther men on Saturday to eliminate taxes and Socialist Rightwing
Sellelif out in the radius of damage to gradually import
(other hindrances to trade. They Matsuura.
demonstrate the varying effects signed the pact during a con- Presidential offices
they found there.-Reuter,
A British Crossword Puzzle
5
19
20
ACROSS
1 Negligent (0).
7 In the centre of (4),
D Infeet (5).
10 Reigned (5),
11 London statute (4).
18 Smashing (10).
15 Rip (4).
10 Prex (4).
10 Frighten (10),
22 Frolle (4).
24 Skina (3).
25 Hard stone (5).
26 Remainder (4),
27 Constraint (8).
DOWN
2 Radiates (5),
3 Bury (5),
4 Sprinkles (0).
& Gifted (8).
6 Bathing ploco (4).
12 Walt on (3),
toward
with distance. the Mr Matsuura,
paper added demanded to know what
The same procedure seemed action CSF frigates would take likely for the bomb shelters, when they are ordered to the with the additional feature that high sens to protect Japanese they also might be located at fishing vessels.
various depths and utilise dif-
Mr Okada, the Parliamentary ferent types of construction. Vice-Minister of the National
Usually in the detonation of Safety Board, explained that in
A-bombs. the event of any foreign vasici so-called "nominal" atented to' seize a Japanese the area extending from a huli fishing boat in defiance of a CSF mile beyond ground zero is one frigate's warning the frigate will of complete destruction. take any steps necessary to pro- test the ashing craft,
chancy.
and
Jatter here on a one-week Stalc
Ierence
In the
"Foreign Minister Arturo Ola- Vartia said the treaty was open to other nations. Ife called it the first step In realising the economic unity of the two coun-
tries and said it would provide the groundwork for eventual Junication with all their neigh-
bouring states.
Laun
now-
The pro-Government paper Los Tiempos heralded the Even masonry and reinforced "historic date of the agreement buildings are destruyed
as marking a new beginning in structures cland no the life and relations of the wooden
American countries." For another mile beyond this Senor Peren in whatever force use
a speech on necessary to protect the Ashing are there is severe damage, in Sunday to exiled Peruvian poli- ships under the Japanese flag, which the average wood dwell-zal Jeadors also preisid, the the Vice-Minister sald-Asso-ing might be entirely destroyed. "new policy of unity."---Asso- cloted Press.
clated Press, -Assocluted Press.
If the foreign vessel fired the Japanese frigates would return Are and
Pacific Ocean Winning Battle With
with
Д
Volcano Over Phantom Island
Of the 81 officers who have left SHAPE since General Ridgway
of Hawall's Statehood
since 1935.
at tho
LIBERTY
of BALIn
arrived last
arri
rolated
normat
June 08 WCZ
at the end of their LAND REFORM
be- appointment, 12
cause they were not considered IN TAIWAN
suitable and only one left at his own request. He was not British.
Talpei, Feb. 23. Tho-Nationalist-Provincial
Other stories have claimed Land Bureau hes ordered pre- repeatedly that General Ridg- 'parations for carrying out the way would soon leave SHAPE "land to the tiller" programme to be completed before March in disgust-o repeatedly that
15. the Supreme Commander took the unusual step recently of hoving
all correspondents telephoned at home on a Sun- day to issue a personal dental.
The latest rumour along these lines, given front page pro- minence by the afternoon news- paper Ce Solr, was that General Ridgway would be re- placed by Marshal Alphonse Juin who is France's No. 1 Foldier but whose diplomatie pronouncements seem to keep him in hot water.-United Press.
DIAMOND ‘KING'
RESIGNS
The "land to the tiller" pro grammo is the nat phase of "land reform" which is to be- gin operating on June 20, 1953, Under the land reform prou gramune, the Nationalist gov
ernment would finance farmers to buy land so that, in a year's time, all farmers would the land they ll-Reuter,
own
Death Of A Former Colonial Governor
London, Feb 23. Sir Cecil Hunter-Radwell, former Governor of Fiji. British Gulana and Southerri Rhodesia, Johannesburg, Feb, 23.
died at his home in Holbrook, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer,
Suffolk, aged 78. South African mining "king,"
He was High Commissioner has resigned As permanent
for the Western Pacific from director of the Anglo-American 1918-1924 cd Controller of Dia Corporation of South Africa, itmonds for the Ministry of Sup- was announced tonight.
ply from 1042-1945.-Reuter. He has been elected an or- ond chairman dinery director
of the
company. His resignation, which
be- came effective on Feb. 10, does not involve any change in the administration of the company and he will not relinquish is active direction of its affairs and activities.-Reuter.
island rose 50, feel above the sea | below the surface and that Stanley Kramer's
Tho
volcanic
further "HIGH NOON“
La Jolla, Calif., Feb. 23. Scientists
that report
the and was three miles long and hoavy discolouration of the Pacific Occan la
croded water from apparently.1 miles wide. winning a battle with a volcano
Indicated It was, reduced, by pounding particles over the existence of a phantom of the waves and currents, to
disinieration. South Sen island.
shoal by 1898. In 1928, when it They estinated that several returning here was elnimed a second time in million yards of Falcon was being The ersity of California | the name of Queen Sawohe of ton nway each year and thai. expedition from tho Scripps Tongo, wae 600 foot high and unless the volcano revives, it will Institution of Oceanography. In volcanic
disappear for good. eruption. By 1038,
four of diving to examine the after other ups and downs, it
diving explorers had shrink to 30 feet elevation: returned from the South Pacific now submerged bit of land.
***** | expedition-the fourth major It is part of the Island king- Now it is gone from sight.
exploration into the Pacific from dom of Tonga, about 2,000 miles The Scripps scientists, Dr Scripps in three-years-aboard southwest of Hawait It is Waltor Munk, Philip Jackson the research ships Horizon and called Falcon Island, or in and Willard Bercom, and Dr Spencer F. Blairs. Tanga language, Fonun Fo'ou- Robert Livingston
The expedition measured the "The New Land.”
University of California at Los greatest depths yet found in the Since 1885, when I was Angeles School of Medicine, Pacific south of the Equator sighted is a sea-lashed reef reported they had to go down between 33,000 and 34,000 in th from the British worship Falcon, | 80 to feet to find Falcon great deep known as the Tonga It has had fla'úpá nid downs. Island.
Trench. Thìn ip in the same
8 Blend (5).
fold
13 Speak slowly (5).
14 Gewgawn (0).·
17 Wearies (5).
38 Washed out (6).
20 Deduce (8).
21 Wrong (5).
23 Highest point (4).
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD—Across: 3 Stumbled, 8 Ruin, Revolver, 11. Prepared, 13 Elec, 15 Radiator, 18 Humorous, 10 Type, 21 Dissects, 25 Particle, 20 Dear, 27 Displays. Downs 1 Grip, 2 Pile, 4 Tier, 0 Mool, ( Level, 7 Dirge, Rajah, 10 Vanom, 12 Ready, 14 Spurt, 18 Tunie, 17 Rouse, 10 Tepid, 20 Porco, 21 Dial, 22 Slay, 23 Chef, 24 Spry..
·
of
the
In 1804, with the volcano The report said that part of general vicinity as the phantom [spouting" laya, and rocks, thetho Island was now 300 feet Inland --Associated Press.
starring
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