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significant feature about the Berlin conference is that there has been no genuine negotiation either on the question of Germany or the Austrian state treaty. Ilut there has been considerable amount genuine argument, parti- cularly in the early stages of the discussions. Then, the Ministers, while not really searching for common ground, were ut least taking up one another's peints, and maintaining n kind of dialectic contact. But during the last week their speeches have largely become monologues, with little relation to one another. It has sometimes appeared, rather ominously. As if each had begun to address his own public at
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Suicide Solves Double Murder Express In America's
Mystery
SENSATIONAL
END TO MAN'S LIFE OF CRIME
Scotland Yard's
Revelations
London, Feb. 16.
A pistol shot in a secluded wood near Cologne,
home, preparing alibls for Germany, today put an end to the violent life of
failure, and the case for a
Paper Offers
Helicopter For Sale
London, Feb 16, Lo'rd Beaverbrook's Evening
paper.
the Standard, today offered for sale ita hèlicopter which It bought last summer aud wed mostly altitude
for low
photography.
Five days ago the news- paper and the helloopter pilot were each fined £20 for low flying.
An advertisement on the front page today said reasonable offer would be refused.
It added "reason for cale: Indifference in high Minis- terial places. „mounting at times to hostility to the a of the helicopter in the London area."---China Mail
Special.
stomestic verdiet of "guilty" Ronald John Chesney, 45, big time international Calcutta
against the other side. Yet crook and smuggler even at this inte stage, there remain, under the surface
example,
-
and virtually closed the
case of the double murder in the Euling old folks Riots:
Chesney, bearded adventurer once tried for mu murdering his own mother, had been sought by police of Britain and the Continent since last week when his wife, Mrs Isobel Chesney, 43, and her eccentric mother, "Lady" Mary Menzies, 73, were found slain in the home for aged they ran in the middle class London suburb.
discord, certain factors home. which sustain the hope that the conference will not be without some Bort of ac complishment. There is, for the Chinese question. It has been only briefly discussed in public, of double-faced language, with one meaning for the public at large and another for the Ministers to whom it has been addressed, seems fairly clear that all four countries wanl
and then in a curious kind
nome kind of meeting with Chinn, although, of course, not all want the same kind of meeting and not all wint it for the same reason.
WHAT is really at issue is so much the
now not
question of whether such a five-power meeting is to be held, as its exact nature and United agenda. Both the
the
While the old men and women who had come to the Victorian mansion to spend their last years were asleep, the murderer drowned drink-befuddled Mra Cheaney in a bath tub. Creeping out of the house, he encountered self-styled "Lady" Mary and knocked her unconscious with a pewter jug, then strangled her.
An hour after receiving the report today, from Germany that Chesney had blown his face off with a .45 revolver, detectives in charge of the cave held, a con- ference.
were
0
on
and
Three Killed, Many Injured
Calcutta, Feb, 16.
at
The Glasgow to Euston express, Royal Scot, re cently collided with the Euston to Wolverhamp- ton train Watford. Two rear coaches of the Royal Scot were derailed. Picture shows one of the
coaches damaged
Been under the light of flares at Watford station.
Mobs cırtta today, plundering stores and demonstrating
run amok in Cal- MORE PAY
against America, as riots FOR MP's
over school teachers' wages snowbaled into a bloody
free-for-all stopped only by PROPOSED police bullets,
The police confirmed that át
London, Feb. 16,
Collision
Deep Sea Divers Planning New Adventure
Dakar, Feb. 16.
man
Two French naval divers who ate lunch at the lowest undersen depth ever reached by announced over breakfast today that they intended to explore the earth's deepest water in the Pacific.
Lieut.-Cmdr Nicholas Houot and engineer Henri Willm said that they hoped to follow up yesterday's record-setting 18,163-foot plunge off the West African: coast with an attempt to reach bottom in the vast. Philip
Two New Weapons
Palm Beach, Feb. 16. General Matthew Ridg way, the United States Army Chief of Staff, said today that a guided migaile with a range of more than 60 miles and a rocket capable of hitting targets about 17 miles behind. enemy front lines had been added to the United States Army ardenal.-",
General Ridgway, speaking at the Society of Four Arts here, Bald the "disparity of manpower between the Unlied, Slates, and the forces of the Communist bloc
makes American
tech-
nological superiority "two or
Later in
our
reference to
latest weapons", Ge Ridgway said: "one...is used in one.eral a manner similar to agkillery and han the range characteristics of our present heavy artillery,
(The range of ordinary heavy artillery about 117 miles)
great advantage is that Its launcher can be put into position much mare quickly than conventional artillery and
can deliver explosive on tho target equivalent to hundreds of rounds of
of artillery shells, To extend the way's
thics beyond the this weapon and of
power capabilthies range of this
fire-
the 280 milimetre cannon too, the Army has a guided missile which is being issued to Army units for tactical
£130.
"It attains supersonic speed and it is guided to the furget
throughout its flight. Having a range of more than 50 miles, surface to surface, it poses threat to the enemy's installa
ם*
tions far beyond the range of conventional, Army weanpona"
Reuter.
least three persons were killed. A Parliamentary Select pine Deep nearly three times the depth of yesterday's BIG TRADE
ovtran
no
Sir
In their submarine-shaped diving bethyscaphe yesterday the pair touched bottom 120 miles out in the Adantle in a Ave-and-
Professor Auguste Piccard's 1953 record.
decide -half-hour descent that broke CHEVALIER
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Licut.-Cmar Houot said return from the diving sceno that no definite this morning schedule had been made yet for attempt on the Philipploe Deep. Time would be required to build, another diving ap- paratus, he said.
An
NEED NEW CRAFT
REFUSED VISA
Washington, Feb. 16. The State Department has re- fused the French entertainer Maurice Chevalier a
Visa to
ment spokesman said today.
CONTRACTS
Moscow, Feb. 16. Russin announced
tonight that the Soviet Union's Foreign Trade Ministry had signed con-- tracts with Britishi firms for equipment worth £17,282,000.
The contracts, including or
for
textile
ders
trawlers.
machinery and electrical plants, were placed with members of the 33-man British business group
Moscow which visited this month and with business- men working Independently,
An official Soviet statement come to this country, a Depart- sad agreement had also been reached in principle for further He zid Chevaller applied re contracts worth 550,000,000
Roubles
more
(about £49,187,000) cently for
for permission to enter the United States to fill theatre and for
trawlers, diesel The generating stations, machine The 40-year-old officer saldieptement denied the visa on fools and food findustry equip that the bathyscaphe used yes | H
that Chovaller's ment. lerday "had thick enough sides the grounds
visit would be "contrary to the "These are the first results to withstand pressure of 3,520 best interests of the United and it is expected that even pounds or a theoretical depth Stator. The spokesman did greater business will follow," of 52,000 feet. But it was
the statement said-Reuter.
Tonight they indicated they
than 100 More satisfed the
were sent to Committee recommended dossier on the fantastic crime, which
conquest. hospital, including 20 woriously had linked
Members today that
of wounded by pollón, Ore. Scores seemingly respectable home for the aged with inter-
Parliament's salaries be But national smuggling and gun ruhning, was almost com-
they said that another, through the thick glass of a more were treated at first ́ald
raised stations set up by the police.
from £1,000 to bathyscophe would be needed to porthole.
During the descent nothing plete.
£1,500 a year and that re- attempt the Pacife depth. It has Screaming mobs
bren sounded at 35,000 feet. was seen in the fleld lit up by be
pen. In Chow- tired legislators Chesney,
the craft's lights except clouds. American bulldings war-time naval hospital, suspected of being a States and Russia seem, for officer, imagined himself
of thick plankton, Hougt stid. I suicide, her
ringhee Square smashing plate sioned. went 6011
United Press. different reasons, to favour modern pirate. He even wore frequenting local dance
glass windows and shattering halis,
The Prime Minister. daging golden earrings and in-champagne. Initially restricting
with women and drink-
furniture.
Winston Churchill's Conservative agenda of such a meeting duiged in swashbuckling talk using
United Government must now Rioters invaded the he to Kores, with the possums to coffee beans between a
snuggled everything from But he was arrested
States
Information Service whether to support and intro- bility of widening the variety of countries.
brought to triul in 1927 for the library, pulled pictures from the duce the recommendations. murder of his mother. The agenda if progress is made fic
walls, tare books from shelves was gacted in France Jury brought in a verdict of
They apply only to Members over that question. France several Umies for currency "not
and ripped magazines to shreds. provenwhich under
of the House of Commons. Poers, would, for obvious reasons, racketeering. Belgium deported Scottish law meant they were More than 1,000 rioters storm-who sit in the House of Lords, like to luclude Indo-China hlmn in 1949.
in doubt about his guilt, but
ed the In 1951 he was sent to prison left the way open for his retrial Metropolitan
got no pay unless they are American - operated om the agenda, but would
Life
Insurancebers of the Government, niso like to make the con-
in Britain for 12 months for If the police got more evidence. building, smashed plate glass The Committee's recommenda-
He went to prison for ference dependent on the trying to smuggle a car out of
Byear windows and wrecked every- tions were spurred by long com- the country packed with pound for forgery. prior cessation of Chinese
sterling notes and coffee beans, When he came out of gaol, on.
thing they could get their hands plaints that many Members of and to Ho Ch-minh, The
Parliamono
longer could A A
sentenced he magistrate who
adopted-his first allas by
make ends meet, present military develop Chesney described him us" calling himself "Mäner" - his The plundering and desiruc- ments in Indo-China did | man who has made a career as mother's maiden name.
tion were stopped only when Salaries were last raised front not, however, provide M. a professional smuggler."
Tall and hleble, he exuded police fired into the crowds and £600 to £1,000 in 1946. The Bidault with
Ha gan-running activities in- easyvolved hi
charm which made
that women exploded tear gas bombs,
Committee found
what with international Call for him. But beneath the
£1,000 bought then now costs negotiating position in this respect. However that may many and Egypt,
gange in France, Belgium, Ger- surface, he
remorseless was
£1,440. and scheming. be, it is a fact that con-
Chesney's real nome Wos
Street unchins prowlod in A few years
Pensions would be based on currently with the public Donald John Merret He changed prison, he married Isobel Bonar, pilfering
after leaving the wake of the angry mob, the number of years' service
from the
store Argument on Germany and it several times after prinon
Service and after the age of 40. beautiful blonde daughter taking His mother and father of a widow. Austria, a genuine attempt met on a ship taking them to
terms.
valuables from the before that would not count. By that time he ruins. At least 12 street cars Pensions would become payable
set on fire
only after 65, John and
were raided for any articles left by the passengers and not service would result in a pen- scent, Willm said that the pair 70 yesterday about BARONETCY CLAIM
destroyed by the fire.
The trouble started in
sion of £350 a year and over lunched
off the the 15 years' service £500.-United Lect
sandy bottom. The widow hurself was square
the Press. and spread across
They wore wall bayond Plecand's married again soon afterwaris city in all directions. Much of
10,238-foot record, and paused blanketed WAS
to rest. to Thomas Chalmers Menzies, a the elty salesman who insisted he was the burning buses and kitod little Scottish typewriter darkness as electric cables were cut. The only light came from the heir to defunct banenetcy.
street Wcare, He and his wife called them- selyes "Sir Thomas and Lady Many of the injured were Menzies," though the authorities trampled by fear-crazed horses laughed at their claim, and sickened by the tear ga Cheaney and his wife lived bombs. Others were hurt by like high society. They holi bricks and other debris tossed doved
on the Riviera, rented by fellow rioters. Unfold num- yachts and firew, lavish cocktali bers of injured evaded treat-night decided to send two extremely fine in texture and parties.
ment of their wounds to Avoid Ministers to Jubn, in the South with slight ridges and scattered
пл
this tima Chesney,
to Ronald
PILFERING
in secret session is being New Zealand and the family had changed his nume again and 20 buses were made in Berlin to negotinte inter lived in Russia. about China. In fact the From early youth, he loved impression is created that gay fe cod was unscrupulous the loud disagreements on about how he got the money for
12. Germany and the Austrian
At the age of 10, while A treaty are dinned into the public ear to deafen it offee-student at Edinburgh Univer- tively to the soft, business- mother's name. Then she was sity, he forged cheques in his like negotiations on China found shot in her Edinburgh that are still in progress. home. As she Jay dying in
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Khartoum, Feb. 10. The Sudan Government to
designed to dive to 13,000 feet, not elaborate-United Press. and it has done it. We hope now to construct another craft for a deeper dive in the Pac!- fc."
de-
Telling of the historic
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"We hadn't had a bite to eat. since six o'clock in the morning -too many instruments to check and last-minute preparations. So we opened Д bottle of Muscoder (white wine) and ate some sandwiches before reath- Ing the boltam," he said.
The two men described the sand on the ocean floor as being
It is probable Chaney was police questioning. They ren Sudan, following reports of
terraces. amuggling and racketeering
hihing
butankes anti-northern demonstrations
tribesmen. The only
living creature patrolled, the streets to pick up and threats amongst 1 even in those chys.
found at the deeper point ever Before the war, ho
und
hig the wounded.United Press.
Reports reaching the Sudan reached by man was a six-foot wife parted. When war broke
Government today said that shark which "stared at Willm out, he decided there was only
Bari tribesmen were gathering one service for such a buccaneer as he the Navy. He became. G Lieutenant Commander and, ne- cording to odizvidlow, WDB : B brave and daring, mallor, the Gormand
but he cscaped inked up
he wary":
organisations on a
After, the
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Dance Hostess Threatened
„Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 17.- Singapore's Lowspaper, queen,
beautiful. Chinese
villages
outalde Juba threatening to Invade the town,
Juba traders” WETO have closed-their shops.
Ancient
Tho Sudan Government Necklace Found
Ministers will teave for Juba by
ina
eir one day.
Budapest, Feb. 10. tonight, the Pieces of a golden necklace Hogmust have oston Mir Alice Cheng, who Sudanese Government said it were found in the village made and spent a great deal now working in a cabaret.
Anterest berei has been told by meros bad received cables from" ins: Rabakovacki (County Vas), zicar
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demonstrations In Jubail The
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