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Premiers
President Naguib of Egypt (centre) meets BIr Nehru (left), the Indian Prime Minister, and Mr Mohammed Alf (right), the Pakistani Premier, when they visited Cairo on their way home from the Commonwealth Prime Ministers conference in London. Express Photo.
Attempt On South Korea Could
The
"K.2"
Skardu, Kaslımir,
July 7
American expedi tlont attempting K-2 (Mount Godwin-Ausieu) In the western Himalayas, the highest unclimbed mountain in the world, reached its base camp at 16.700 feet on Juno 19, was learned today,
the
A message which arrived by runner today salt party had taken
24
tlays to reach the camp, on Ralfore Glacier.
The messige said the expedition had reached the They camp on schedule, hoped to reach the 28,250- highest foot summit-the
in the world after Mount Everest-after 50 days of climbing,
They planned to set up at least alx more camps on the way-Reuter.
Atomic Weapons Revelation
Washington, July 7. The atomic cannon is only the first of a wliole family of atomic weapons for use on the battlefield, -it-is re- vealed by Army Chief of Staff General J. Lawton Collins.
Try Fight Alone
(By ERNEST HOBERECHT)
Seoul, July 8. The South Koreans could not successfully fight on alone but they certainly might try it.
That sums up the information I received from numerous conversations with top American and Korean, officials plus my personal observations and experience in this part of the world.
Rhee's
Nationalised Steel Companies
FIRST STAGE TAKES
PLACE NEXT WEEK
London, July 7. On July 13 the 80 British steel companies which have belonged to the British Government since November 24, 1949, will pass into the hands of the Holding and Realisation Agency which has instructions to sell them back to private investors at the best possible price.
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The Government has paid for them the sum of £246,000,000 (of which £180,000,000 was paid to the owners of the ordinary shares), and the Agency must try to get back, if it can, that original! investment of £246,000,000.
Those origant owners received until the halldays are over and Government Buck-3 perthe Agency and the Stock Market rent British Irm and Steel have the full attention of inves- Stock at the rate of £100 of lors-United Press. stock for each £100 of the purchase price. That
now
slock is selling on the Stock Ex- change at around £91, making the total market value of the Issue about £224,000,000.
However, that gure tells us nothing about the probable Dggregate value of theso sicel companies, once they wore in private hands. Some of the Individual companies have been modernised anal expanded and are worth much more than the Government paid for them,, others are quite possibly worth bul
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MOSCOW'S
LATEST
BOAST
Paris, July 7. Moscow Radio sald today that] the Soviet Union was the only
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country in which women had all rights and opportunities. Another factor causing earn- est study is 'that
In an
article from Pravda the Labour broadcast by the Moscow Radio, Party has announced
and re- iterated on several occasions
IVOS tieclared that. Sevlet that it will re-nationalise the women were free to exercise all industry when it is returned to cultural and economie life of the
their abilities
in the political, Trial· power and will do so without country. furnishing any proats
to the current buyers. This was rather frightening at
A split between the United are accustomed. But as one Nations and South Korea would American officer sald oven the
Some 900,000 Soviet women take quite a bit of sting out of best spirit in the world is not
first but seems are specialists who have com- each army's punch. Beyond a
a substitute for an ample supLabour's relum to power is felt
less 55 now, partly because pleted higher educational studies.
However, doubt, such a break would hurt ply of ammunition.
Pravda doplored President Syngman
naw to be comfortably remote.
the fact that in eerlain Soviet forces the most.
LOT OF WORK
republics and in certain areas American
Some, groups of buyers will not take sufficient part in party of the Soviet Union, women did non-Korean and military persoifnel here
have to
money on the activities, and were barred from Armly convinced that South
Stock Exchange for A
the pur- Когод could not
successfully
chase, and a a lot of work has the higher administrative posts already been done on prospect- drive north alone. Most persons
in the party.
Parucutarly in certain Central doubt that the gallant ROK
was.
Conferences in the City Asian republies, Pravda sald,
аге
raise
South Korea has practically no air force. This part of the war left almost entirely in the hands of the United Nations, Me Rhee's air power consists of
clatively mall number of F-51 Mustangs. South Korea has very w transport planes and none troops could even hold the line of the latest giant aircraft being have been going on for well over | come customs still existed which against the overwhelming num The South Korean Navy, Ameri already started negotiations with inequality of women.
used here by the United States. a year, and several groups have!
permilled the humiliation and bers of the Chinese and North Korean Communists.
can officials said, is hardly more the Agency. than a number of patrol craf.. Vickers, and Guest, Keen and party committees to
Pravda called on the local But at the same time, almost The tough, Korean marines Netticoids have already
out the number over a regiment, but they dicated their intention of buying cal and political conscience
in-standards of women's ideologi sibility of the OKs trying to make up a small fighting force in back their raw-steel producing France-Presse. go on alone if Mr Rhee and the comparison to the American subsidiaries. Vickers can hand US assistant Secretary of State, marines here. The Korcan over to the Agency, in full and Mr
Walter Robertson fail to marines could hold only a very fair payment, the original block
a compromise truco
small sector along the front in of agree on
steel stock an all-Korean show. plon.
received but few Koreans say they will go it alone" and many people onthe UN side of the fence are afraid that the ROKS aren't bluffing.
nobody
The
will rule
Government
which the
they I asked in American offer today if he thought the South Companies have been able to tie Koreans could drive to the north the money for four years in
that fashion. by themselves.
All monies paid over to the "They would have a tourth Agency by buyers of these 80 Many Koreann agree that a "go it alone" policy would be "I doubt if they could punch to the Treasury which will use time," the battle veteran replied, companies will be handed over
It to
PLANS MADE
extinguish Government
suicidal, but they insist it 15 And he is delighted with the better to go down fighting than through the line." cannon. In its recent test fir- to hand the country
It was understood here that debts, thus reducing the volume over to ing over seven miles (its range, the Communists. They say the the UN commanders have plans of Government stocks outstand- is 20 miles) it landed its atomic present armistice terms would for handling the situation in the ing
The whole business may easily chell right on the target anti do just that. enused "terrifle destruction.".
last over a year. In any case
DO VERY WELL
event of a break with. President Rhee.
Naturally, these plans are too the sales are unlikely to start Some questions have been The ROK Army raised about the gun's moblilty, consists of
today secret. However, the Eighth 10 divisions. Two Army Commander, Lt. Gen. but Can
Collins declares it can
of that number were activated Maxwell Taylor says he thinks cross any bridge o medium only recently and still are
he could work out a deal with tank can cross, it has
the ROKS that would permit
UN fred from a ploughed field, and the process of formation.
There are four divisions troops to pull out of the line
divisions which
and Koreans take their place. veteran Americans
However, the best.
Gen. Taylor that he
does not emphasises think this will over come about.
been
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can be taken on and off landing craft equally us well as
a three-ton truck.
A new shell is being develop-
ed for the cannon that will in- crease its range to 30 miles.
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ALLEGED
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Canberra, July 7.
The Federal Parliamentary Accounts Committee today called for a report on alleged losses of stores on the Woomera rocket range.
A Labour member, Mr Frank Crean, told the Committéo he
In recent fighting, the South Collins' dizelosures were Korean Army has done very
before in evidence
well. They have been hit hard House, military appropriations on several occasions and have sub-committee which has just slammed right back into the heen released after careful vet-Communists,
They lou
look much
London, July 7. better than: But security experts
Actress Vivien Leigh, con- the
ragged, scared troops I saw calessing from a nervous break- raising their eyebrows at some speeding south during the open-down in her Duckinghamshire understood there were discre of the information about newing days of the war. They are home, is expected to bo well paneles in the records of stores | weapons that has slipped much better but they still lean enough by August 31 to begin
issue at the range. through the toothcomb,
The Chief Stores Superinten- rohearsals of new For example; the army will heavily on the Americans.
play with not all ROK her
of the Commonwealth spend -18,000,000 dollars unior example,
husband, Sir
Laurence dent own artillery. Olivier. units have their
Works Department, Mr 3, guided ground to ground missiles When they need artillery sup- "The Sleeping Prince," by and atomic warheads in the year port, it is
McMahon, said the Woom ra provided beginning July 1.
by the Terence Rattigan, is due to open project. came into being with A whole new artillery family tanks. If almost all of their ber. Rehearsals have been post-
few about the beginning of Septem to be bought all over Australia such urgency that materials had has been developed, including
in a great hurry. supplies were cut off, some poned several months to allow new 105 and 155 mm howitzers Americans say they might last Miss Leigh time to recuperate.
Discrepaneles did not neces with greater range and accu- three days to a week.
Some Miss
Leigh's collapso racy; there is a new tank küler Koreans say that Americans put te
came sarily mean the stores were returning to California missing, he said. They might with the nippiness and speed of too much emphasis on material from a 72-hour flight from Ceylon have been used properly with- a small cor that mounta
I things. They say they could fight where "Elephant Walk," in which out a record being kept.
on much longer "because of their the was playing the star role,
Mr McMahon sild there was was being filmed, spirit."
"extreme difficulty" in getting Certainly, the Koreans could
staff to go 100 miles into the desert to supervise the stores.--- Reuter.
105 mm. recolfless (bazookas); a new alr
foren
machine gun spits 5,000 rounds
They Americans.
have
She
a minute (four times the pre- get along on less supplies than tren "emotional exhaustion."~ was reported suffering sent rate) and makes air duels the amount to which Americans Reuter. deadly πέ jet speed; and lastly.
2
πειν
the army has gone back to steam-for
outboard 'motor for night river crossing that has not got the tell-tale "putt" of a petrol engine. London Express Service.
Garden Party Given
In London
London, July 7, The Royal Institute of Inter- national Affairs gave, a Corona- tion garden party this evening.
The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, uncle and aunt or the Queen, were the guests of honour.---Reuter,
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