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CORRECT on all occasions
VULCAIN
SWISS MADE
COMMENT OF
CHINA
No. 35511·
Established 1845
SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1958.
THDAY EGYPTIAN WORKERS AT
Canal Zone
STHERE is no denying that the current situation in
quff the Suez Canal Zone' is disturbing-almost ominous. The exchange of fire be tween Egyptian and British trobent the village of Kafr Abdou
appears to have been minor in charac-. ter; however the real dan ger is that it may be symp-: tomatic. Additional em- phasis to the belligerency of the Egyptian leaders in their recent public pro- nouncements is provided by Mr Belwyn Lloyd's revela-} tion that 43 attacks against) British personnel and
pro-
perty were mude from
GO ON STRIKE Three Planes Collide
Declare:
The
Are Promise Of
"We Mau Maus
Of The Canal”
Cairo, May 15.
Thousands of Egyptians working in petrol re- April 11 up to last week. Gineries and shipyards at Suez left work today. This suggests that
even They shouted:
while General Nagulb and his advisers were in
con-
"We are the Mau Maus of the Canal”, “Down ference with British nege with the British" to greet two members of General tintors, deliberate acts of Naguib's Revolutionary Command who arrived to provocation wero being establish a Liberation branch at Suez. carried out by the Egypt-
tions. General Naguib also
Britain.
Fair Weather For Assault On Everest
New Delhi, May 15. The British Everest ex- pedition due today to set out on the last phase of its as- Rault on the mountain was promised fair weather in a special broadcast by the All
India Radio this afternoon.
"There will be cloudy to over-
the broadest sald. "Otherwise
The radio forecast westerly
winds reaching 40 knots on the
mountain face at 27,000 feet.
luns, which can hardly be' A few minutes earlier about one mile rated as a manifestation of down the road a British soldier carrying a tommy-cast skies and one or two snow good faith or sincere inten- gun stood guard over an army vehicle as the driver showers during the evening," knew, before he presented checked his engine. The soldier promptly put his the weather will be fair." them, that his demands finger on the trigger as an Egyptian taxi passed could not be accepted by carrying press correspondents to Cairo after a tour
No attempt was of Suez town today. made, however, to modify them. On the
The two Egyptian officials, Wing Commander contrary their rejection was openly Hasson Ibrahim and Major Kamal El Din Huisein welcomed by the Egyptian started a two-day tour of Suez. They are bringing a Prime Minister who "Liberation message" to the population of this canal "thanked" Britain for terminus town and travelled from Cairo
on a Diesel enabling Egypt to "wash train. her hands of further nego-| tiations."
IFFICULT to understand DIE
Is what Egypt really ex- pects to achieve from such
a behaviour. Britain is cer- tainly not going to be forced out of the Canal Zona' by nela ́of violence or military intimidation. Nor 'could General Nugulb ́ pos- sibly hope to win the Canni Zone by force of arms. He could cause a lot of misery to his own people by giv- Ing the order for the
re-
newal of guerilla warfare; he might also, by so doing, inflame the Arabs in Middle East "holy war."
the
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Meanwhile troops rolled point which was the scene of cmply white painted barrels to shooting fornt a roadblock at Kilo 99 on in the autumn of 1951,
Incidents and rioting the Catro-Suez, desert road at
of A platoon
Lancashire fusiliers marched from a nearby 2 p.m. local time.
They checked traffic entering desert camp the Canal Zone explosives, at the same
for arms and of the road
check-
200 Pupils Arrested
Coligny, Western Transvaal,
May 15.
moment a
Temperatures at the game altl. tude would be between minus rende minus two degrees
Fahrenheit.
The expedition was due today to start the move to establish, three more camps the sinot attempt, on the summit is made. The last of these campe will be set up at a height or between 27,000 and 28,000 feet,
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Two United States Air Force C-110 "flying boxcars” and one United States jet crashed in flames near here today, US 12th Air Force Ficadquarters at Landstuhl announced.
It was not known how many-persons were killed, but Hermann Luber, Lord Mayor of this Hessian town, said three 121020 were killed in the crash and three or four seriously Injured.
An eyewitness, Wilhelm Schroeder, a Hemsbach resident, rave this account of the mishap::“I saw a group of American planes come flying in from the west when suddenly a Jet collided into two transppris.
"The planes seemed to be flying low-about 1,500 feet- at the time. Two men tried to hall eat, but they were so slow their parachutes did not open fully.
"One of the planes I don't know which one-exploded. Instantly in the air. The other two plunged to the ground and seemed to blow up Into a million flaming pleces."-- United Pre
Churchill's
To Adenauer
's Promise
sport,
Over 200 African pupils at a check, and then the driver was, the attack is camp in the There Russians are prepared to
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SUEZ Datis May
Important
New Danube Agreement
Vienna, May 15, Austria and Hungary have agreed to reopen ship-
Be Freed
London, May 151
·A·Tuss. Soviet · news agency message from Prague tonight...sald William Oatls Imprisoned American newspaperman had been "brought under” the recent amnesty of some Czech prisoners,
This message did not specify whether Mr Oatis, Imprisoned for espionage.
ping, communications be-had actually been released. tween the two countries on -Reuter."" the Danube which havu been suspended since 1945.
This agreement, which is ex- pected to be officially announced inter today, is regarded here as on important step towards re- storing the former international character of the Danube arça.
It is also thought to be con- nected with the new political
Ine adopted by the Kremlin,
Under the agreement Austrian ships may carry passengers or freight in transit through Hun- gary to Yugoslav parts. Hun- garlan ship may go through Austria to Germany.
BOARD
TO
PROBE BELFRAGE
CASE
Washington, May 15.
Mr Edward Shaugnessy the It is believed here that other District Commissioner of Im-
of the Danube
in
not
Allowing
Mr.
Now
It said "The arrest of Belfrage is part of a drive not only agalast
National Guardian -- but i against all the: Opposition prers. in the nation,”----
"it
Danubian states will follow migration who signed the war- Hungary's example and sign rant for the arrest of British shipping agreements with Aus-citizen Cedric Belfrage,
cdlbox tris.
of the "progressive National (In Belgrade exports Sir Winston Churchill today gave the West
of are Guardian today
charge on i Communist Party activity, told-·. meeting today to complete the German Chancellor, Dr Konrad Adenauer, a per- drafting of a statute for a joint a reporter in New York that o sonal assurance that his Western-backed Federal Yugoslav-Rumanian administru- special Board of enquiry would Republic would not be sacrificed at the altar of anon of the better section be convened to consider lils care
of the Danube--the first practi- --but he did not know when, Allied peace settlement with the Russians, diplò cal agreement between Yugo- If the Board ruled that Mr slavia and a Cominform country Belfrage was to be deported the since 1948, matic quarters said.
editor would have the oppor At their two-hour talks at No. 10 Downing Street, Joint administration of the tunity to appeal to the the Prime Minister's residence, Sir Winston Churchill is iron gates" the dangerous General Mr Herbert Brownell,
The Immigration official sald forms understood to have elaborate on his proposal that an rapeds section
the Yugoslay the usual procedure would be agreement with the Kremlin on Germany might take the whic
Ers followed frontier--was provided for
to interview form of a Big Power guarantee to Russia against a new
reporters the 1948 Danube Convention).
File reland in and took control
the biggest snag
It is believed that the Austro-† Belfráge on German invasion and to Germany against a Soviet attack.
Island Hungarian agreement, which for York's harbours We've orders to do 50,"
(to an zgree-, responsibilllies and, said he ap- the time being will be valid ini is a lull in the high winds and | 929
Actor air Belgrado's arrest sergant told an Egyptian snowstorms which normally ment of the kind on the lines of proolated the efforts. Britain was the tent of next year, provides statement was issued by Mr police constable on duty..
rage round the 20,002-2003 peak the locatio wreaty which give malting to give the European for shipping to be resurnet, in Aronson, and Mr. John Manus "We've orders to
at this time of Brook
the year,
Francer and Germany steal-coal merger and other pro- June or July
inanager of the National stop all traffe entering the Canal Zone
nem guarantees after world war doc Jocted communities ore the monsoon brooks in would be the definition
close sup- Lust July the Russians opened Guardian. Before and search for hidden arms and early June there are unmily Germany's frontiers.
the river in their zone of Aus explosives."
few tine days. It is in pre
the A brief communique Istured tria to shipping between Vienna At that
No West German politician after the conference said simply: and Linz.-Reutes. ~~| Cairo-paration for this break-which Suez passenger bus was ordered may come some time in the prepared to write of for all The Prime Minister met Dr to mop by the roadside and Д next thr
three weeks-that the final the territories cast of the Ozet.. British soldier with
followson altack by sub-assault party is getting into Neisse Une placed unser "pro- Adenauer this morning for a
Senator McCarthy on the editor mochinegun
visiemal" Polich armintstation a general discussion of recent in Drew Pearson сп his shoulder position.
of the New York Post James: ternational events," climbed Inside,
a quick The advance base camp for the end of world war two.
off two-day visit to. Brain To Pay Damages no at present
Wechsler and a proposed witch- hunt in the New York press as sheltered western Cwm Higher
a whole. still, below the Lhotse Face, is give up their control of Eastern called this afternoon on Mrs
Washington, May 15.
drive is halled "Unless this Escorted by kale-clad Egypt. comp 5, which acts as a reserve Germany, let alone urge Poland Anthony Eden, wife of the Bri-
Mr Drew. Pearson the Amerl- now no newspaper will be safe: stores to be moved to hand back the Oder-Nasra tish Foreign Secretary, to ex- inn...commandes". ..on motor camp for
pross his
can columnist was ordered today.und the first amendment to the sympathies.over..Mr. cycles the
later to the three high camps areas, Revolutionary yes to be establiskel.
Today's talks, attended on Eden's Illness.
to pay US$50,000 for Ubelling a Constitution (guaranteeing free- in an open car among 400 being officers drove
Earlier, today, he sent flowers lawyer he accused of acting as dom of speech and the preas) Camps 4 and 5 are now stock-both sides by senior advisers, the frenzied become evangelists through
touched on
who is still in an "propagendis" for the Dutch will be a mockery."-Reuter, ed with охудет equipment. also and teachers ut the Bethel Suez.
Europe's, military preparedness London recede even further. States Training Centre, said they ricted
Small They were halled as "Libera-ma partics. Arc already.
a Russian onslaught major operations. to, resist
The lawyer Mr Normar.
Submarine manship, founded
and the Dr Adenauer has promised to the beenuse one of them had been lors all along the route.
occupying these two
The German, Chancellor was Littell. B former dictaten of reason and suspended for drunkenness, they
half
million tonight the guest of honour at assistant attorney-general wo simlicrly opened
as "cam- was due to join them; today. Libera-
to Allied an. Anglo-German Association awarded this amount reality, is required to com-had been given had food and bever Revolutionary ofeers / remainder of the assault group contribute
The "T" class submatine, IMS tien bronchi headquarterS
The final assault on the sum-soldiers and airmen as accommodation was unsuitable.
European Army dinner-Reuter.
damages" by a Federal pose differences such
pensatory
Telemachus, arrived this morning. Court jury. Treaty is ratified. those which exist between Damage to the school run by aller Egyptian ellies in the mit, never before reached by defence if the
s routine man, will probably be led by G, C.
PROSPECTS POOR
He was also awarded a single from Singapore on Egypt and Britain. First the German Hermansburg Mis-Delta in recent weeks,
These two will also address a Band, the youngest member of The Immediate, prospects for olgas lent strength to the son was estimated at between
£7,000
at Sngapore Some £0,000.
of the Moslem brother the expedition. With him, it mooling
jury to agree on implementation of this Mau Mau Attack the damages". But extreise, she has been reflung
In 1943, Completed hope that General Naguib school buildings and the house hood tonight,
go the famous by which France, Italy, West thought, will
Telo accond bel suit by Mr Littell and that occupied by the principal, the Although tepsion was rising Sherpa guide, Tensing-Reuter. Germany
the Benelux appreciated this and
Driven Off based on a broadcast by Mr machus displaces 1,575 ions and his approach to the problem Rev. G. Mayer, were completely in
in Suez Koday foreign communi
states are to pool their armed
Pearson which referred to him measures 270 feet overall length. forces, are.not
and bright, mainly French and Greek be burnt out.
is officially Jatown as as the lawyer, for "the Com-She would. accordingly
Western diplomats The principal and most of the connected with the Suez Canal
see little
Nairobi, May 15, munist Polish Embassy", different, from those of his staff were away at the time-shipping here, did not appea
"patrol type" submarine for of Comet Disaster chance
More than 100 Mau Mau Reuter. obtaining French That hope Reuter.
General servico. predocessors.
unduly
a 20-man 1 perturbed about
German rearma-terrorists attacked agreement to the has been completely falsified.
situation.
ment by any other method.
platoon of the King's African Inquiry
Dr Adenauer, Everybody in Suez acemed.
a fervent Rifles on a ridge 40 miles advocate of European unity, northwest of Fort Hall and were emotionally betler controlled and somewhat more disciplined than
Calcutta, May. 15, reported to Sir Winston Chur-driven off with heavy casualties on his meeting In Paris ofler an houre fight, it was The wings of the British chil during the troubles year ago.
Overseas Airways Comet which this week with the Foreign disclosed here tonight...
of the European crashed killing 43 persons in a Ministers
The patrol of African troops storm near here on May 2 fell Army nations on their attempts were almost cut off by the Mau obout a mile away from the to unite their countries in an Man
an' gong. political ́pariner-. tomain wreckage, a Court of En- even closer
The riflames only. ercaped quiry was told today,
It is understood he told. Sir laying down a timely barrage of being completely surrounded by Winston Churchill that he fully mortar as the terrorists--anned appreciated Britain's inability with rides, pistols and
pangas-bore down on to join stich a partnership bucharp
of ber Commonwealth them from three sides.-Reuter.
to
German mission training centre allowed to proceed.. begin
near here were under arrest to- Nolther da-
day after burning down school velopment, however, could buildings and the principal's or would resolve the Canal house." Zone question. On the con- trary the possibility of The pupils. negotiated nettlement would trained to
on
North
America
n)
and
·
town of
in
One young commando sald: "We are awaiting orders trom the Revolutionary. Command in Chiro
Sucz is out of bounds British troops in camp on the outskirts of the town.. They went about their normal duties today but many carrying tub-machineguns
there.
Reuter,
wcro
is
Mr N. S. Lokur" who is con- ducting the enquiry assisted by a panel of three assessors spent nearly six hours at the scene or the Decident-Reuter.
ship.
chuzu
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