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Royal Triumph THE Queen
is back in London safe and woll after a six-month visit to her widely scattered realm. The 50,000-miles tour wan quite the longest ever made by any reigning Monarch. It
more
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in suid the tour was made to ahow the Crown or to be the newly correct, crowned Sovereign-to the the Common- peoples of wealth. This is the Queen's due to her people. The gen. ture was magnificent ja view of the physical strain it wen bound to impose un The Royal Party. The thorough - with which the tour was planned even down to the small but very important le1nl 10
the include Queen's Coronation dress and many of her splendid Coronation gifts of jewellery In her luggage, served to make this tour one of the outstanding RuccessPH
for century Commonwealth. For marked an historle point in the evolution of the British monarchy. The Queen wan greeted not as the visiting Queen of England but as the Queen of every dominion and colony she visited. More thun
Aho anything else, demonstrated-us anyone
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TRADE WITH CHINA: NEW U.S. Luis Taruc,
DECLARATION
MR HAROLD STASSEN
Riots Death Roll, 206
Ducen, East Pakistan,
May 17.
No Coercion Of Allies To Change Policies
SHIFTS IN EMPHASIS'
BY
AMERICA
Washington, May 16.
America will not attempt to coerce her allies into conforming with her policy of banning all trade with China, according to a report submitted
to Congress today by Mr Harold E. Stassen,
Director of the Foreign Operations Administra- tion.
The report, a half-yearly review of the work- tance Control Act which deals with exports of
ings of the Battle Act-the Mutual Defence Assis-
strategic goods--speaks of "shifts in emphasis” in United States economic policy towards the Soviet bloc in Europe.
TRAGIC MISTAKE
Natrobl, May 10.
A British officer leading an anti-Mau Mau opera- tion was shot
dead and
men injured
when an army patrol mla- them for terrorista,
took
It was officially announced today.
East
name
of
Africa Command Headquarters withheld the the officer, a subaltern attached to the 30th Corps Royal Engine- er, until his family are Informed.
forest in
The accident occurred on the fringe of a the Aberdare Mountains, 15 milea north-weal of Nyeri. An Enquiry
will bo beld-Router.
Goldsmith
French Column
Forced Back
By Rebels
DELTA THREATENED
Hanoi, May 16.
The French High Command announced to night that "strong Vietminh pressure" forced a 3,000-man French column back deep into Laos in a thrust officials fear may signal a Communist bid to seize control over the northern part of the kingdom.
Simultaneously, 15 Vietminh battalions have been deployed in what looked like the prelude to a Communist offensive on Phuly, 35 miles south of
Baby To Be Hanoi guarding the Red River delta. Brought Up
By Father
The official death roll rose
But American policy throughout the six Lo 206 last night in the
smith tribal Labour Day riots in East months under review was to continue its total em- aboriginal Bengal during the week-bargo on all exports, strategic and non-strategic,
to China and North Korea.
"Rumours heard
secrets of an tribe In the wilde af Australia, or even sitting cross-legged an mats at the Royal dinner table of Queen Salote enling yams, turtles and roast sucking pigs.
LE
increasingly
end.
Pollee staled 200 bodies had been recovered and they
were Bull searching ponds and river bunks for others feared killed.
the
from time to time
in various
cided to relax its embargo or was under irresistible pressure to do so, and that American Carı were reach-
ing the Chinese mainland by way of Japan, were com- she Patinos." troops la East pletely untrue," the report said.
"Other governments had agreed to maintain the ban on strategic goods to China, and "such relaxations as took place in controls ware changes that did not affect the multilateral embargo."
Mz
They have arrested 71 people An emergency session of the THERE is an affinity between
Pakistan Cabinet last night „de- British people all over the cided to post world in that they feel a Bengal industrial undertakings need for beauty, splendour | bernuse of the riots, it was and tradition in stan-authoritatively reported here. darilised and
East Bengal Industriallats are mechanical
The anderstood to have appealed to world,
Prine Minister. Queen is no longer a symbol Mohammed All for protection of luxury and privilege even though she maintains traditional splendour and this has brought her neurez the
man's heart. commun Wherever she is seen the Queen is expected always at her best. There
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after the lots at the world's abiggest jule mill here.
INVESTIGATION
As a result of today's Govern- ment decision two ministers are leaving Karachi for Dacra tos night to make an investigation,
They
are the Minister ot Labour, Dr Abdul Malik, the Minister of State fence, Sadar Amir Azam Khan,
and
The Ducea district magistrace has prohibited any assembly of more than live people and the holding
meetings without prior
Milliary permission. putrols on the streets.
curfew froin 10.30 at night until six in
th lt the morning been imposed 00
Area around the Adamjee Jute Mills, where the riots occurred, and ormed troops are patrolling the arch.
the
But the report said: "Though the policies of other major free governments regarding trade with Cominuutst China have Cur
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been identical with own, the United States has not attempted-and with nol uf- tempt-o bring about con- formity through courvlen."
as last year,
of
were
War
the
base
of ILS than it other-
opposed
Huk Leader, Surrenders
IN PROTECTIVE CUSTODY
The
Manila, May 17. Huk Communist leader, Luis Taruc, surren dered to the
government authorities today and im- mediately was drawn be hind a cloak of protective
at secrecy
Army Head quarters in Camp Murphy.
A source at Camp Murphy confirmed that Taruc, longtime figurehead of the dissident movement in the Philippines
entered government 8.30 thle morning.
at
hands al
was
Не was alone. None of han от followers elite bodyguard surrendered with him, learned. The
source sald Taruc mei the Government contact mán San Simon, Pompenge Province, about 25 miles south- cast of Clark Field and north of Manila. His surrender under government terms bad been expected for "three or four days"
the source said,
dash hopes that some Dien Bien number of vital artas, especially house was dressed in khaki
soon
at the
to French
braved mon
Laniel's
looking "surprisingly
trousers, a long-sleeved colour- ed shirt and rubber shoes.
The contact man was believed
to mine Programme is
intimating
mine, that he had been inclined to because President
government
was
Taruc had
om strong
adence vote, observers, sald,been fighting for.-Unlied Presa
garrison of and native troops
52
DIEN BIEN PHU WOUNDED
Hanol, May 10.
High Command
Politicians To Duel
The
WDS
appointed Armando Malet and Washington Fernandez.
Meanwhile, the withdrawal of centration of the expeditionary the French column appeared to Corps forces around a restricted
Phu survivors might straggio the Red River delta, and rein- Out, according
off-forcement of the French Union civís.
Army
by a small number of A French High
Command troops.
to be Beningno Aquino, young spokesman auld the De Additional
Korea War correspondent and shipments ol Crovocour forces was digging troops and equipment will in-
columnist for the Manila Times, Paris, May 16.
who earlier this year had two fortified village volve additional expenses which The wealthy Patino and
astride the Nam Bac River are not covered by the current
secret interviews in the moun- Goldsmith families bave valley through which the Viet budget, however,
with Taruc. tains agreed that Jimmy Gold-minh roiled last winter almost National Assembly approval.
and require
At one of the Interviewe Uto President's complaint and action It won will bring up the to the gates of Luang Prabang
expected to assail the chief. Manuel Manahan, offered Assault squads, repeating the government baby daughter delivered by siege tactics that finally swamp emergency legislation comes up.
again when the the Hak chieftain the govern a Caesarean operation on his ed the heroic garrison of Dien And fresh attacks against ment terms for surrender, which
Bien Phu, wheeled their heavy Premier Joseph Lar
Toruc turned down. wife's deathbed.
aruc Indo Jimmy's father, Mr Frank artillery, heavy mortars and China
Taruc said this morning, ne- by countries to the effect that the United States had do- Goldsmith, who is a director of recoilless guns into firing posliha polley were predleted
cording to the informant, that os experts for Tussday weekly "the government's tluns around the Savoy Hotel in London and
Phuly. as
Deputies approve the owns hotels in Paris and Cannes, French and Vietnamese military
adver similar Government ngendo. leaders met in a secret session partes will not fall to press for a said today that "all the neces
agreement has been reached to plan urgent defence of the full-fledged Indo-China debate, surrender
Delta rice bowl.
which has been postponed twice Magsaysay's French "After all my son 1- the
in the past 10 days in a con taking steps which child's father," he added.
Vietminh forces United Press, There had been speculation winds to that
Senor Antenor
Patino, around
while US-built millionaire Bolivian tin magnato B-26 bombers raked the sur who violently
the rounding limestone hills around men have behind them centuries
marriage of daughter Isabella Phuly and tank-tipped French The French of experience in bargaining, to Jimmy Goldsmith, would Union columns stabbed nut said today that it was suspend- merchandising and servicing. seck custody of the child. from the threatened town, but ing evacuation by helicopter of
"These factors creating for
wounded Relations between
French refused battle, the Gold the Vietminh ref
a seriously the free world 3
Union troops from fallen Dien currently smiths and Senor Patino, who Command spokesman said. strong trading position, the tree chased Jimmy and Isabella to
Bien Phu pending the outcome BEAT BACK ASSAULT
Montevideo, May 16. world nations should be able to Scotland when they eloped four
new talks with the Com. the garrison of of Meanwhile,
Former President Lula Borres, take advantage of the needs of months ago, were frigid until **Jittle
Dien Bien Phư the munist Vietminh. the
were Soviet bloc and by hard the familles
drawn
A two-man military mission | leader of à faction of the majori to-besieged outpost of Anxa in the
Colorado Party, NA since 1948 had there been East-West traie,"
bargaining gain' benefits from gelhor by Isabella's death from Thai
sector
to Dien Bien Binh
Phu today ty miler dew a brain haemorrhage this week-southeast such furry for De-
the Communist challenged to a duet today by beat back to confer with new trade
of Hanoi, agi cements" between Russin
The report said that in view end.
the eighth massive Vietminh rebels on measures to speed up the Nationalist leader, Dr Luis
Alberto de Herrera. ol
HAS GOOD CHANCE and nox-Communist countries Communist objectives and
attack in As many
the evacuation of the wounded doys, the methods,
challenge followed an Jimmy went to the American unrestricted trade
In the past several days, ol spokesman said.
article published The result
was that
"would permit
by. Senor The in the
the bloe to in-hospital here today to see hi
heavily
outnumbered evacuating wounded troops from
Berres' newspaper, 4lb daughter in her incubator
'Accion', early part
overrun fortress, only 11 of this
crease "the year
potential--and
about 100 French the
men have been flown from Dien under the title "Disloyalty and USSR had
trade agreements specifically
all-important Senor Patino had been to the
radioed Bien Phu to the Laotian capital earlier. with
Dr Herrera more free world countries economie
Pure Gangsterism *** war hospital an houred thance that anxiously last night that none of of Luang Prabang and then as Vina and Luis than at any other time in the potential-faster
the child will live," Jimmy sald
the Tunas of 500-lb. bombs Hanok
Page as his seconds, and Senor wise couki, post-war period,"
dropped around the bealeged received by the "It is not yet cortain but there post by a wing of 15 Navy Hell-
The French feel that evacua-
Berres This
"The goods facl and the hefty
free world
1 amounts of trade which
bring no commen-is a good chance. Of course
tion at this rate of the 1,000 divers had exploded. will look after her."
French and native troops, whom culled for in some of the agree-surate return.
The pilots calmly told the Baby Isabella, now two days On the
the Reds have agreed may be ments have given many people
In emphasis" "shifts
old, wha transferred
10 taken commander noi the garrison
out of the defeated the Impression that a historie In American policy, the report An East Bengal Government
increase in the alzo of East-said: "It was determined that hospital from the private clinic worry. They were delayed action bastion, will take too long. The regarding the appointment of where her mother died on Fri bombs which went off every 10 new talks are aimed at persuad-Justices for the Supreme Court West trade communique said the riots re-
was taking piacethe system of controls that had
day
(Contd. on back page, Col. 3) a desperate seconds when night fell. The night despite
of Uruguay.—United Press, hardly been developed during sulled from a quarrel between The impression seems
the last
save her life by Vietminh waves fied from the two workmen on Friday night
Justified."
four years substantially satisfied struggle to in which one was killed.-Reu- The agreements usually the objectives of retarding the Professor Jean Guillaume, one battle position after the eighth unsuccessful Essault, - United of France's leading specialists. merely authorised, but did not buildup of Soviet war-making
A hospital spokesman said Press. guarantee, the exchange of power and strengthening the
EMERGENCY PLANS And goods.
there was no tree world relative to the Soviet the baby's condition was "antis-
Paris, May 16. factory." reversal of "the bloc."
Top French generals took off of
her long slide"
Meanwhile the body of East-West It had bien decided to sim=
for Indo-China with mother, today trade of the
East European plify the control lists and not beautiful 18-year-old
whom the countries.
the plans to save press emergency to extend them, except. for
world's the innermost feelings of the
christened
The
runaway Red River delta from the Com- The report condemned us In- items which might be adderi Queen at the moment must be of profound relief that the Indlun Ambassador Lo thecomplete embargo on
United States, sald today that with the Soviet blog and un-
trade conditions or new information. to the Patino home.
The high-ranking military undertaking is at last over.
his country was willing to offer restricted commercial relations portant would be removed or uld not believe this indicated carried
no longer deemed im- Mr Frank Goldsmith said he mission which took off tonight In the future it will be
the neutral "The
#short-range plan to free world with its downgraded. "The Government that her father intended taking cope necessary for each member
policing power in the event that enormous production, can bene-belleved that
with the emergency in of the Royal Family to carry
much could be the body home to Bolivia for the delta where even now the at trade: the test is what goods done in the months to come, out his or her part Ly worked out at Geneva.
burial,
Vietminh is closing in on vital duo sharing the new obligations
done carefully and with Mr Mehta made the statement are traded and on what terms,"
He said a funeral service Phuly, regard for security, to adjust the would be held on Tuesday in Chief of Staff,
Gen Paul Ely, Armed Forces of the Queen to visit the in an interview over a televisionit said.
network. He reiterated the
controls to a long haul basis”. distant lands of the Common-desire of the Indian Prime "The free nations are stronger
setting the
the new directions, wealth, for each member of Minister, Mr Jawaharlal Nehru, economically than they have the Government recognized: in the west end of Paris. the Royal Family is for a truce in Indo-China.
been. Collectively they "1. That maintaining com- integral part of the monarKorea, Indian troops During the truce
far stronger than the mercial ties between the free world and the Soviet bloo-cam- patrolled Soviet bloc. chical system, each is a
They possess tremendous patible with the security require. prominent and much-loved a neutralised zone between the
two aldes and supervised the resources. On the whole, hegments of the free world-may representative of the Crown, exchange of prisoners of wat have sold and healthy compell have positive advantages during For the Queen, the "tours"; Reuter
tive systems. Their business-the present period of tension;
2. That there are, however,
Prezident Reno Coty, who la risks that trade may in somo
constitutional houd of the armed cases lead to undue reliance on Fakenham, Norfolk, May 10. forces, cancelled a weekend at the Soviet bloe as a trading A United States Air Force the
chateau ́at prezidential partner;
Corporal today rescued a boy Rambouillet to study the de "That it is important to horo who had locked himself fenco committee's plans, encourage trade within the fros | inside an airtight trunk.--
The committee is ́ drafting a The Brazilian Professional Newspaper Associa-world, including the entry of Corporal James Milbert, 22, series of long-range plans to be Australia.. Future visits to tion will hold a mass meeting tomorrow to consider commodities Into the United of the United States Air Base put into operation if the Geneva Commonwealth by, air could
States, by reducing trade bar-Sculthorpe,
smashed conference 2. failed to...? establish will take following alleged police riers, especially when the effect the think open with at txe to peace in Indo-China what action it take the place of some of
The plans things on the the longer holidays spent at brutality involving a veteran reporter.
of such action would be to de- release... crying ant - frightened crease the reliance of the free Michael Iredale, 9.
answers the United States gives Balmoral but with the ae! The meeting stems from
a delivered to hospital muffering world on the Soviet bloc.
The boy's "father is
is Wingto recent French questions cont on informality and with beating received by a police internal haemorrhage, broken only brief public ap reporter of the afternoon news-ribe and other, injuries. He The report sald economic re- Commander RW. Iredale, hold about eventual Allies interven
on the Soviet bloc could er of the Distinguished Flying tion in the candlet if Geneva pearances. In this way the paper A Noite in a police sull in a critical condition. Increase, the vulnerability of Cross and Bar, and the French fails. Queen will establish more station during the
Croix de Guerro. Formerly of The
and the US were In the six months under securely the fact that the hours last Wednesday..
no 40-hour or even 48-hour week for her. 11 the statisticians nulth ANSCHS the Queen's "working week" during the last six months they would probably discover that she submitted herself for at least 60 hours a week to the exacting and difficult task to which she
WAH AD prenticed for 25 years before Yet ascending the throne. from the day she landed on the
sunlit speck of gay Bermuda in November to the day she left the bastion rock of Gibraltar the tour complete triumph. was But it is a tour which probably never can be re- pented.
last six months the must have been intense and
u
ter.
The strain during INDIA
да
as such, should be confined
to far less formal visits to
her dominiona overseas.
la even suggested by
It
дл
Australian Cabinet Minister,
Sir Erle Harrison that the Queen may buy a house in
OFFERS evidence of a
HER SERVICES
Washington, May 10.
the
to
Mr Geganylhur L. Mehta, adequate two "extreme policies occasionally because of changed has been embalmed and taken Bien Phu.
keires:" after her elopement, munists after the fall of Dien
its services
an Indo-Chinese Truco was
talks
ever
In
FAR STRONGER
Reporter Beaten
Up
Rio de Janeiro, May 16,
pro-dawn"]
it
ΟΙ
church near the Bola do
headed
the
Houlogne, the parkland district mission. He was accompanied by Gen. Raoul Satan, former
All the detalls had not been Supreme Commander in Indo- completat yet, he said China Chime, accompanied Mali Special,
by Gen Pelissier, Pierre
deputy
Air Force's Chief of Staff. ]. They took off from Orly Field at 8:38 pm GMT Board an Air France plane
BOY RESCUED
FROM TRUNK
<
Norfolk,
certain area to Soviet Vihartrga taw Australian Air Forcs he re« pikuparatory. talks between ·
1
pollee chief, Armando The reporter, Nestor Moreira, Morals Ancorn, already ham vlow, Western trade with Chink turns shortly – to Melbourne, expected to start early this crown is a corporate entity who has been critical of police transferred the Second Precinct fell far below the first half of Australia. -
week. belonging to each and overy, handling of tho mysterious commander, and suspended one the year, and, shipments, fall i at present he is a hotel mão- The baslo! feature. member of the vast family of, strangiing of Copacabana policeman. «ponding further, In- "below ever the extremely low tzw at Fakenham, China Mail'energmcy menmuren carried by the British Commonwealitu : cabaret girl, Renee Abond, was vertigation---Unlied; Pass, (Conál, our bank, saby Col, 8)1.) Special.
Clem Kly-in-keparbadi to be cone
the
The article charged Dr Herrera with failing to observe an agree- mont between the two Parties
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