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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1053.
Bold Action Urged On European Steel Industry
Geneva, May 5,
A bold policy of modernisation in Europe's steel industry is urged in a report published here today by the United Nations Economic Commis- sion for Europe.
The report stresses the enormous progress made in the United States by the introduction of the continuous wide strip steel mills and stated that only by replacing present obsolete methods can Europe's industry hope to be in any position to compete in international trade.
The full benefits at modern are being rus uneconomically productive processes can be since they work well below full attained more rapidly if a well | capacity:
thought out obsolescènce policy,
These mills are planned to bolder than is al present con- | produce 9.6 million tons of slicet ceived, in put inte operation, steel by 1050, but their produc The report nays.
tion can
Pointing out that wide strip sheet , siecl production In America renthet total of 28 million tons in 1951, compared with two millions in Europe, the report says that
the strip milis now in operation or to be put into operation in Europe
SHOCK FOR
POOL PLAN
cun
capacity is estimated at 17.2 nillion tons, according to Amerl- standards, the ECE sys; in Despite the fact that wages the United States steel industry are at least four times higher than any other
sheet steel tution price country, the pro- is lower than in any nation with the exception of Britain, where three large wide strip mills are now in operation.
CAR INDUSTRY Western Europe's motor vehicle.
could industry-
create
and Bustin a big increase in demand
cur producers were
to con-
centrate primarily on
on certain
COUNTRIES res, the repert sinted
In a 100-page bulletin li says;
"First of all, there is
for a
a casu
a really cheap, small popular car with a minimum of refine- nient and economic to run.
"Secondly, there is scope for
run
Bonn, May 5. The West German Bundestag (Lower House of Parliament) today authorised the Govern
a large, mure rugged vehicle, ment to levy » moduction tax of up to 12 per cent on the iso simple and economical to and enpable of tackling value of all Iron and sleet pro-¦ JUL
primitive
roads, designed speel- ducts manufactured in other Schuman Plan countries.
fically for
the under-developed ecuntries. The motion was tabled Jointly
"Thirdly, there by all major parties and carried the mass produced cur against four Communist voles.
Herr Gerhard Kreyssig (Social Democrot) told the House the fax Was necessary because | "different taxation systeins in the Coal and Steel Pool coun- trics completely distort the so- called common market."
He said that at present a cer- Lain quality of German steel
could be sold in France at 473.32 anarky per ton. A ton of the same type of French steel would sell in West Germany for 385.50
marks.
"Between 30,000 and 50,000 sicel workers in the Ruhr are threatened with unemployment unless we change this situation," he said.
for
is scope, If such cars were produced on a really large scale, the bulletins continued, the outlook for the European motor industry would probably be transformed,
LAGGING BEHIND U.8. Although Western Europe's factor industry is far ahead of Unlon und Eastern the Soviet European countries, it has logged far behind the United States, the report says.
Or the 73 million niotor vehletes in the world last year 31 millions were in the United States which has enly Boven per cent of the world's "popula-
tion.
This means that last year there was a car to every three Ameri-
Curia.
Australians Mother Of 'Miss Universe' "Catastrophe"
Gesture
"Embassy Prisoner"
Tells Story Of Five-Year Ordeal
Berlin, May 5..
George Bundock, 30-year-old British paratrooper who has spent the last five years cooped up inside the British Embassy in Moscow, arrived here today on his way home to England.
"I am glad to be out of Moscow," he said. "I want to forget the past. For me it's home in London although I have no settled address and then a holiday in the wide open spaces, anywhere, before deciding on the future".
"A Soviet
.People's Court sentenced, Bundock in 1948 to 18 months' imprisonment, ne cusing him of an offence against
Russian girl.
Bundock said today: "I com- mitted no crime but I had no diplomatic immunity."
BULLION
STORY
DISPROVED
Members of the Australian
team vow
touring cricket England were among the many visitors to the Cenotaph bi Whitehall on Anzac Day. In this group are Mr R. Davies (manager, willy
wreath), Archer. MacDonald. Hoic, Craig and holding hat) Hi,
Central Press Photo,
BRIBERY CHARGES
LEVELLED
Ex-Police Chief Arrested
Disapproves Of Sudden Marriage
Helsinki, May 5.
Miss Armi "Universe" Kuusela's mother, said today that she had a dream that Armi fell into a raving the night before her daughter's sudden marriage to Filipino Virgilio Hilario,
"And I feel the dream has come true," she added mournfully.
Martha Elisabeth Kuusela, 49, said that she de- finitely disapproved both of the marriage and Armi's failure to contact her parents before she took the step.
She sniffed at her daughter's into a deep ravine. We rushed luconic wedding telegram there to help her. We found her which arrived at the parents' cave. She was lying unhurt Muhos, North Finland, home on a white bed. But I could several hours after sho had hardly recognise her. Her fore learned about the marriage was so narrow and small. She
almout resembled a doll. through the United Press.
When I woke up I was taken The telegram read: "Married. Hoppy. Husband best you can by a fear that Armi might have think of. Don't worry, I'm in had some neeldent," she added. good hands. Hoping impatientlyAnd it really was something. for your
blessing. With love. Whether accident or not time will shory. Nobody knows what is Armi."
"Father is not a man to talk. good to man in the long run." He has not sald many words about the whole thing," sald Mrs Kuusela.
"VERY BURDENSOME"
that sho Mra Kuusria suid But Armi's sister Kisi, 10, ❘ was becoming accustomed burst into tears. So did Mrs queer creams telling about her Kuusela.
daughters sudden marriages.
Mrs Kuusela said that they had not cabled congratulations to Armi for "we don't even know how to address it."
SERIOUS STEP
under-
Warning To
Strikers
·Taria, May 5.. Striking ship officers today Daralysed almost every French merchant vessel now in a home port and a spokesman for tho owners said the stoppago would be catastrophio. it .It continued,
The officers, demanding 40-hour week-which The employers economically Impossible. linyo promised a reply tomorrow to compromiso. proposals elliation
made at a con- called meeting Inst night on Government intervention.
would
Lower deck men, who have made common osuso with their officers without formally declaring a strike, left a similar meet-
they Baying reply on Thursday.
Tag men In some ports are supporting the strike and only forelæn shipping lu moving-Reuter.
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Make Haste Slowly, Says Minister
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"Some years ago I had a
London, May 5. similar dream about my eldest The Minister of State, Mr | daughter, Sirkka, then on' a
Selwyn Lloyd, sald today that visit to the United States. On patience had to be shown to the next day Sirkka phoned wards recent Soviet "prose"
me that she had me and told
an American naval She was busy writing a letter married
He was addressing the Inter- to her son-in-law and said, "You officer, Roy True, Inr."
national Arbitration League "at "I had hoped that Armi the House of Commons. can t'et I
am laying down the
would have more back-bone
Mr Lloyd sald the Russians Iow to him.”
than Sirkka and that
Lim- she dealt with facts and were She quoted her letter asking should not make such a hasty pressed by them.
really him, "Do you
decision," Mrs Kuusela said, stand what a serious step you adding, "This is very burden patient, hasten slowly and keep He continued: "We must be have taken? I sincerely hope
the momentum going. We must that you have not only been some to us bewitched by Armi's beauty but Ralli, also married
Another of her daughters, not try to force the other side
a foreigner. prematurely
to take is a sincere love on your part. Finnish ties are raised to be- She is now in Germany, the wife position on controversial issues.
have to Beauty of a German constructing on- "We come faithful wives, He spent the time brushing up
Berlin, May 5. his Russian, watching Moscow's chief, Ernst Klein, 64, is under when she is no longer attractive
opportunity to improve A former East Berlin police vanishes and if you leave her inter
"I cannot see why. Finnish and seek to solve the one or foalball, and ballet
men are not good enough for more issues which divide us.' television and collecting books charges, the police announced
Soviet arrest in West Berlin on bribery her heart will be broken,"
Mrs Kuusela also remarked them," Mrs Kuusela sald.
Mr
said the British Lloyd Anyway, the family is eagerly Covernment had practised, what today.
that she "cannot understand
Inter- He won suspected of bribing how Armi con feel comfortable waiting for Armi and her hus it preached regarding "The Embassy had a TV set West Berlin police oficers to in the hot climate of the Philip-Land to come home to Finland national arbitration and it was and I used to tune in on most obtain secret
always Britain's principle to sub- information from pines."
soon of course "It must be like staying in a
they will spend mit disputes to arbitrnilon, days. It was a one-station pro-them. Klein denied the charges.
their honeymoon in Finland," The International Arbitration (gramme, quite good, They showed The police would not say Finnish sau (steam bath) ballat once every week or two; whether he was charged with the time," adding, "twice week- she said. "Summer in Finland is League helped to bring into most wonderful in the being the permanent Court of International Justice at the Finnish Press devoted Hagus, the forerunner of the whole front pages to Armi present International Court of.. Kuusela's marriage. United|Justice.—Reuter.
Washington, May 5. After a week's search, the log and war
of diary the The Bundestag resolution
American destroyer Peary In Western Europe, the number failed to show she was carry- Jimited the production tax
of motor vehicles in existence until June
she sank in 30, provisionally
rase from eight millions in 1938 in bullion when
Northern 1952. Darwin Harbour,
Australia,
the Second during The bill, which went through to only 10 millions
a United States World War. Navy spokesman said today.
checked
1954.
In the United States the figures all three readings today, must jumped from 20 millions in 1938 go to the Bundesrat (Upper fo 51.5 millions last year. House) and be aigned by Pre- The totals in the Soviet Union sident Theodor Heuss to become were 678,000 in 1938 and 1,800,000
Jaw.-Reuter.
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YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 1 Stream, Rome,
on
ani gramophone records.
all
the
The
football-niso very
pass ng such information on toly is enough. good-and
Finns have a habit of taking a world." East German police or Soviet ther children's shows on Satur-authorities.
sau bath twice a week. day aftemoons. This helped me
wis chief of the
stand the other programes, plays from. 1945 te 1049, anti such like.
brush May Russian to uniter- /criminal police in East Berlin:
"I never
felt claustrophobia. The Embassy ground has a tennis court at the back and I used to play there. In winter it was filled with ice and we skated."
He
Press.
GIVING UP TITLE
Inle
Tvery
relations
Protest Holds Up Election
COULD HAVE WAITED Mrs Kuusela said she thought was pensioned off four that Armi could have found a a husband not that far away from years ago and tried to get job at West Beriin police head-Finland.
Tokyo, May 0. "At least she could have let
Miss Armi Kuusela will cancel quarters where his application was turned down because of his some time pass before marrying all public appearances as "Miss "more than dublous political even if she really loved him. Universe" after her engagement intentions," the police said. And she pught to have told us this week to become plain Mrs
* Genova, May 5. Dr Johannes Slumin, then beforehand," she said.
Virgilio Hilario, according to the The World Health Assembly West Berlin police chief, told Mrs Kuusela said that her Vice-President of the Chronicle refrained from electing a chair-
of Manila, him to keep away from police dreams often come true and that
Mr man and officers for its present Villanueva, who
way session after the Indian delegate, dream, she said, the night beforo best man in the Finnish beauty's Rajkuma Ri Amrit Kaur, Indian "become a nuisance.” —
Today's police announcement the news about her daughter's marriage to the wealthy Filipino Minister of Health, had protested did not say when he was or- marriage, therested. Reuter.
OVERLOOKED KREMLIN
Bundock, ̄ ̄ ̄who has known three Ambassadors and has seen more than 100 other Embassy staff pass through during records five years, sold he never when it was reported that sal- considered his decision not
lost ship stand trial. Australia
The Navy
rights to the vage were bel last month,
sold in
After the wor a story developed that she was carry ing a million dollars worth of bullion (about £357,000) when she went down.
The
Navy spokesman said some records concerning the Peary were still classified as secret, and some had been lost with the vessel, but "there is nothing to indicate any gold aboard" her."
re
to
"I never for оле moment thought I would be stuck inside for le and never considered going through the 13 months' prison term".
His room, high up at the back the Embassy, looked on to the Kremlin.
of
"I EDW
it every time I shaved," he said. "But I shall not miss it."
headquarters when he began to she really was warned by a Robons
"Izvestia" Says Its Little Piece
that the nominations committee Mr Villanueva quoted Armi as had failed to includo a repre
on Monday. She said, "In the dream I saw Aimi riding a horse on the top of
a mountain. There was a large saying last night that she is not sentative of the South-east Asian In the rolo of Miss region in its list of proposed crowd watching her below, in-happy
and prefers to keep appointments. cluding myself and Father, Sud- Universe
for her 25-year-old denly Aral fell from the here) house
Rangoon's Debt
To Britain
London, May 5.
London May.5. The Soviet Government news- paper "Izvestia" today-Soviet Press Day-called for "the He said he formed no opinion development of business celations whether Stalin's death and the with all countries," according to The Peary and other ships political reorganisation in Moga Tas message received in of Ue Exchequer, was asked in were sunk by Japanese bombers cow had anything to do with pan.
on Darwin in his release. in an Bir räld February 1942,
Mr R. A. Butler, Chancellor
the House of Commons today if It also stressed "the uncensing the Government of Burna had "The Embassy had been fight of the Eovlet press for the now arranged settlement of its Salvage ships had never working for years to get me maintenance and consolidation of located the sunken destroyer, out,” he sold,
peace and for international co-coot to Britain of about £27,-
000,000. The United States Navy had
operation"
When he replied that she Bundock was able to leave mude only a brief search at the
Reid, Mr Thomas Izvestia. riportal that there had not end of the war.
the Embassy to return home
Burmes after the Soviet Government are more than 8,000 daily and Labour, asked if the announced, list Thursday that weekly newspaper published Government had admitted the debt and if its reason for not he would beneft by the amnesty in the Soviet Union.
paying was a financial dificulty. declared on March 28. He will Izvestia said that the news- Mr Butler replied: "I would continue his journey to Britain papers had a total circulation of not like to comment on the by al tomorrow. Heuter."
particular dificulties of Burmese Government, "I would no
to say
The fast-running ude
ip
through Darwin Harbour en trance was believed to have buried the ship in silt-Router.
Green Peas Were Red
Bangkok, May 5.
The first step has been taken
Territorials Will Signal
London, May 5.
C
41,000,000,
"Press Day marks the 41st anniversary of the Communist newspaper Pravda whose first elḍtor was Stalin.
Pravda now has a circulation of more than 3,000,000,-Reuter and United Pre
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Jewish Settler Killed
Halia, May 6.
.
the
con
have taken place versations with the Burmese Government and we are aware of the im- portance of the question,
We are awaiting on answer from Burma."Reuter,
PROTECTING
THE PRESS
Washington, May 6. Representative Louls Heller,
to prevent the re-shipment of Territorials of Prince LouLo's green peas from Red China to Kensington Regiment, manning the United States,
Fadio Blations along the Corona- Green pea dealers Thal, on route, will signal the start Chinese and European met of the procesalon from West- at the Foreign Trade Depart-1 minster Abbey on June 2.
A Jewish settler was killed ment of the Ministry of Econo
The regiment's commanding mic Affairs and were told that
yesterday, and his wife Democrat from New York, has early the United States
seriously wounded when tabled a bill in the House under Was boy- omoer, cut-Colonel ».
The Petra' an armed band raided the new which newspapermen would not colting
China's Cocks, waiting in Communist
abind opposite the Abbey Immigrant sellement in Emek- have to reveal their sources of annexe, will receive a signal 05 heter hour the border of the information except in cases. In- Green peas have beery shipped) the ceremony ends.
Arab triangle, according to ro-volving national security or
crimes. to the United States along with
Under Mr Holler's bill fourn- That peas for the fulfilment of
He will pass the news to 18 aching herp. Export contracts,
points on the route, where The killing, which is similar alists would be entitled, if they scallons of the procession will to the murder of a Jewish so wished, to refuse to answer couple in Galileo last month, is questions on their sources of federal believed to have been com- information before a
courts (und Bill stocks They will more off simul: miling by Arabs who legally grand jury, federal
border-France-} congressional
Franco-Prosio,
SICER 'DEAS.
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The Assembly decided to refer husband.
the question of appointinenta Mrs Hilario was again quoted back to the nominationa com- by Mr Villanueva as saying, "Imittee, which will report to love 'Manila and I adore my a plenary session of the As- husband. I am sure I will be sembly tomorrow afternoons happy there."-Unlied Press. Reuter.
Father:/Thomas' finialan, "The Erida pilds who was one of? seven men relensed after two years and oight months of inter- ment lu North Korea, biji's citiful wave few onloskeri as he landa as ́Abingdon, Enguid, from "85" RAF, Malugs aan bulanco airerači which had down the rolested gien fruni. Mous