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Anxiety Over New Jet Planes
B
RITAIN now appears to
to bo thoroughly alarmed at the failure of her new jet fighters to come up to expectations. The Hawker
Hunter may yet make the grade next year after modi. flentions have been mado to its design. When it eventually enters aquadron service in sufficient num- bers the R.A.F. will have made considerable progreso in its modernisation pro- gramme for Fighting Com-
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TRIUMPH FOR MR FRANCE
Hostile Motion Overwhelmingly
Defeated
SUCCESS ASSURED
Paris, Dec. 24.
M. Mendes-France scored a notable triumph
Moscow Radio Reports Another Purge FORMER SOVIET SECURITY
CHIEF EXECUTED
mand. It is said that the in favour of the ratification of the Paris agree- Hunter will be at least up to ments shortly after midnight today, when a motion the standard of the Ameri- hostile to the Government asking for the adjourn- Carabo and the Ruiment of ratification was overwhelmingly rejected of National Security and three others described as accom- MIG; and following on ita heals will be the English by 430 votes against 181. Electric P 1 jet (exhibited for the first time at this year's Farnborough Air Display) which should put the fighter arm of the R.A.F. well into the forefront of the NATO air forces in
The motion sought to adjourn ratification until the French and German Governments had officially agreed on the interpretation they respec-rity had carried out inaks set by accused by Abakumov and his tively gave to the Saar agreements.
This is the first vote in the Parliament,
London, Dec, 23.. Moscow radio tonight reported that a former Minister
plices of Beria had been sentenced to death.
The former Minister was V. S. Abakumov. The Radio said that Abaku- | sentatives of the Soviet intelli- moy and other former employees" genisla
"At
prcsont of the Ministry of State Secu-
people falsely
executed associates have been completely Lavrenti Berto, the Soviet
secret police chief, rehabilitated." But i ulso came a and directed
against the Abakunov was one of several four-day debate which has given few hours after the Premier had Communist Party and the So well-known figures dropped from
of the attitude made his principal speech in vlet Government,
the Government list when 'Már Supermarine Swift Bghter the Assembly may adopt on the favour of the greennts which Abakumov and three others is still unknown but service main issue of rufying the Paris the negotiated in London
Georgi Malenkoy came to power, and had been sentenced to be shot on Stalin's death. test pilots have demanded agreements.
with Paris
France's allies lost Others accused had been sene extensive modifications and
vole come after four days September and October.
tenced to various prison terms. there is talk that if this u debato In which
Parliamentary observers were doubt
The three sentenced to death timidity about unanimous in considering that with Abakumov were named as swept-wing jet plane is not healtation anl
kha ready for operational endorsing
German reanimement the Prime Minister's clearcut Leonov, Konerov and pred:minated duties
French attitude in demanding that the chev.
No further Identification Asterbly avoid any ambiguity | was given. and say clearly "Yes" or "No" had influenced the Assembly,
NO MORE DOUBTS
Europo. The fate of the
8001,
it
will be
scrapped. Better progress is
reported with
next
the design
Are
ex.
The
and production of Britain's three V-class bombers, and; Vickers Vallants pected to begin squadron service
year. British Government has attempted to cut down de- lays which have kept the new fighters on the design boards and in the factorios, for so long by ordering number of prototypes for light testing instead of just one or two. But it is obvious that even this policy has not succeeded in
getting newly-designed air
A
craft into operation service
quick enough. Now R.A.F.
to
an ind'ent
Th
iri
the
The Season's Greetings
The Editor and staff of the China Mail wish readers a merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year.
No doubt the vote in favour of ratification itself will be less Impressive than this one. nobody in the French Assembly
But
oday had any more doubts that the Paris agreements would be
raulfed now.
SPEED WANTED
SUCCEEDED BERIA
'CARRIED OUT
The Soviet Government news- paper Izvestia, reporting the case, said: "The sentences have been carried out."
circulated in the Reports spring of 1958 that Abakumov Had been arrested and shot.
At that time he was thught
the chiot- have been
scape- goal for the "lack of vigilance" in the Ministry of State Security In October 1952 there were over the "illegal" arrest of 16
that he had been Soviet doctors, who were releas rumours arrested and shot. His old chief, od after three months in April
was executed exactly. 1959.-Router, •
December ego-on
23,
Viktor Abakužnov first rese to prominence in 1940 when he was appointed to succeed Berla as Minister of State Security.
Berla year 1953.
tio
The Premier was believed to Radki inidi Abakumng: 19SCALIVEZTON
Of
BE RETURNED
be determined-to-speed matters
the same crimei di up end to get all further aendments and the final vote Boria and "took the road dealt with at the present all-adventure and political pro-T
Vocation." night scesion.
Should he decide to put an official vote of confidence on the final vous
INVENTED CABES'
cosep
United Nations; (N.Y.,
Dec. 23, It declared!|"Abakurnov in- Egypt will release the : Iurnell against certain freighter "Hat Gallm" and her vole then this would have vented
As workers in the party and Gov- crew, the Beyptian delegation to to take place on Saturday. matters stood shortly after mid-ernment machinery and repre- the United Nations, said today
the Government was
'In a letter 'addressed· to the
Semurity Council.
BLIZZARD IN NORTH JAPAN night
Tokyo, Dec. 23.
A howling blizzard ripped across Japan's northern island of Hokkaida and Northern Honshu
Communications today. been cut lemporartly.
hoping to get the ratification vote settled by breakfast time.
Earlier Harold King
repo:text: correspondent, Mondes-France
M.
Emergency Reuter
In Trinidad
has superkd
In changing the atmosphere of have gloom
despondency and
in which the great debate on Ger- man rearmament had been taking place for the past four daye.
test pilots are visiting the makers' factories to confer with designers in the early stage of development. It means in effect that service test pilots will be able give advice on design and ask for modifications be- Japanese Press reports" said fore the first prototype Is that one ferry stopped running completed, not afterwards for 24 hours, leaving 700 pas-
sengers stranded at two ports, when the factories
Trains were delayed preparing
full-scale for
Hokkaido.----United Press. production. The Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill, has Indicated that the Government reconstitute the Ministry of
aro
to
Sydney, Dec. 23.
on
Port of Spain, Trinidad,
Dec. 28:
Saturday Mail Features
Page 6: "Thirteen Men, and a Miracle." C.D.T. Baker- Carr; In another article In the series. The World's telin Strangest Stories, how a group of miners wors entombed for nearly three weeks and lived. "Where Are the Billy Graham Converter" Walter Schwarz pearches for the 36,000 people who
came forward for malva-. tion at Harringay. Giles Cartoon
0: "Ghost Club." Marsory Allingham,
and Mary Fitt
Lord Dunsany tell their shiver tales to Nancy Spain. "Let the Children Be- lleve In Santa
ham. Tom Stacey, KA Elonian turned ex- plorer, sends another re- port of his discoveries In Africa. Page 1: Becrets of Inter- national Crime. Further sales from the archiven
of Interpol, the inter nations! police, organiza- tion. By 3. Forrest Page 8:
Body Batchers Unlimited.” Mary
Howat writes of the schleve ments of
* remarkable American
rescue squadron. A bride for the fifth time silil 'hopes, to
presenta
be happy. Evelyn Irons * Profile of Bylvia Hawken, - former wife of (among others) Douglas Fairbanks Ar and Clark Gabic. “Ton of the 23111. Christmasses." -"Britain's' favoleríte ‘enberi chooso their [25-"moni, mémorable.”
Page 18:00 hrti t'mzi a's. Thoughts in 'Clspring *** Discord,*-- Bli' Beverley Baxter, MP, remindă un ́of the eternal message of
Chiril birth
The crow will be released on President Bows
January 1 next, but the date for handing over of the freightor has not yet been announced. ***
The freighter was seized by. the Egyptian authorities while soiling through the Suez Canal. in September, and the Israeli made an immediate Government protest to the Security Council.
France-Presse,
To. Army Demand
Quito, Dec. 23.
HONGKONG TEERWR
9'D'Águliar, 'St'
Wild Winter Grips Europe
51 Deaths Reported DYKES COLLAPSE: 1,700 FLEE FROM RAGING FLOODS
Amsterdam, Dec. 28.
Three dykes collapsed tonight before the pounding sea at Ridderkerk, three miles southeast of Rotterdam, driving 1,700 persons Inland before the raging flood. waters of a savage' winter storm;
Water rose to a depth of two and a half feet as, perilously rising tides threatened other points in the lowlands of Holland and Belgium. At least 88 people have died or are missing, 84 of them, seamen, in the bitter storm.
Hundreds of persons were Holland had 4,000 soldiers and reported injured in Germany | civilians standing by to meet, the as the result of falling trees Inlight crisis, which threatened and shattered plate glass to match the duarter of January
windows. Power lines were 1953,
953, when many dykes cal
down in several parts of Ger- Ispeed and 1,800 persons, wero many, Damage to American killed: planed and Air Force Installh- The aca beat down a mile-long tions near Kaiserslautern was stretch of ́an outer' dyke estimated at more than $125,- Holland's Goerce Island. It swept 000.
inland against a second dýko, while hundreds of persons were evacuated.
At least 13 persons are ro ported dead in Germany.
BRITAIN SURVIVES
and
moot
The
The heaving watera smashed At Harlingen, on the North over seawalls and flooded Coast of Holland, the authorities streets in Hamburg, Antwerp and announced the dykes and canals the ports of Denmark, withstood the surge of water
British ship Iberian the danger had Coast radiood of
t: night a tarso passed.
story Britain apparently survived It said it had seen flames in the of another sed tragedy. the west of the flood danger North Sex, hurried to the scene when police at Yarmouth on the and Bound 18 to 20
in British East Coast reported that
"But it has new capsized," the Iberian Coast's radio crackled, Nieuwe aannot find any survivors, Vossemeer and Fijnaart in Hola We are now proceeding on our tend,, the, weakened dykes, held passage.
อ
high tide passed at 8 p.m. with- tossing lifeboat. -
out
A
any
flooding.
neár. points
but rescue workerg
evacuated
All ships in vicinity
500-persons as a safety measure. please keep sharp lookout
In downtown Rotterdam, the Muns River poured over. Its banks and rolled into the South ern part of the city,
TWO SHIPS.
SINES
DISTRESS CALL ***. The lifeboat position. zz. dven did not by the Iberian Coast correspond with the last known position of any of the currently
At least two Tipe have foun-missing vessels
•The Swedish · ·stoniner. Petra dered with a loss - of nearly 40|| ||
› men; abeard: radioed lives. The 19 crewmen of the with 20
from the North missing Belgian steamer Heart distress calls Deweert were given up as dead Sea off the coast of Denmark, and probably 15 to 20 sailors for the second straight day drowned when a Lifeboat of the The captain radioad Danish
Gerda Toft capsized.ship.1 ship
had lost her deck (târzia
As the storm battered Europe and foremost, that she was for the third straight day, dood leaking and an "engine alerts were: sounded, in parts of stoppedwedish freighter Britain and Holland,
Troope
freighter Hard- were ordered out on disaster ing ran aground on a reef in the Market patrol. American airmen in Bel- Baltic Sea near the tain stood by to help if needed. Lighthouse batwren Sweden, und The storm rods down from the Finland. The grew o1,012 was bitter North to the accompant reported to have abandoned ship ment of wind, rain, snow and and been pickedUD byl the sleet in a sweep killing an un- Swedish, determined number of persons, Wataberescue vessel K. A
It raged from the tip of Sout land in the North, down through. The Dutch freighter Laurens the Lowlands and into Austria: and Italy in the South.
ENGINES BREAK DOWN
skirk and the Norwegian tankers Hurvik collided in the Kiel Canal and the Dutchship, had to call for help.
President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra of Ecuador gave in to A state of emergency has
and dismissed HOUR-LONG SPEECH
boon proclaimed in the capital
Army pressure
Economy today his Minister of of the British colony of Trinidad Speaking for over an hour,
when troops seized the Minis he dealt with the various fears to combat the threat of a Christ-
try of Communications and cut BUILDINGS WRECKED blackout. feci Striking Board Of Inquiry of service between the capital expressed by the
numerous s
It beat the European e ostal of the Paris agreements. electricity workers, who declared Critice
city and the rest of the country. waters to a wild tuy, je
Winds hurled the French He made it clear that on in- "No back pay, no lights." For Rail Dispute President Velasco Ibarra flow On land, It wrecked buildings, stemmer Sainte into a lock gate Under The Influence! formation available may
to him as Sir Hubert Rance Governor
to the Port of Guayaquil this snarled. communications, cript the approaches to Antwerp, head
of the French
Lenica, Dez. 23, Govern-of Trinidad, issued the proclama- Aircraft Production
ment,
rearmament German
ment tian laat night after unsuccessful The Ministry of Labour an- morning as tension between the pled transport. At ren, it dok Belgium. Seven small coaft, were and the Executive a disastrous lot of ships and torn from their moorings and avert delays in the future. for having driven while under Assembly
A lorry driver was fined £20 would take place even if the attempts
cast adrift in Antwerp to help to selile the nounced here today that a Board Army
He announced from samen. But
rejected the Paris dispute the claims of 200 of Inquiry will be set up ta sindy mounted
The British coaster, t this may not be the influence of drink.
The British Governmrat har radioed that, its engines had agreements and in that case he employees for a year's back pay. the claims by British rail workers there that he would accept the necessary, for closer liaison
the He had had 75 glasses of beer, cald dangers arising
Economy ordered 2,000 troops on duty for broken down in the North Sea, Tobago for a 10-shilikig-a-week pay in resignation of between the designer and according
treist.
Minister, Jaime Nobot, charged emergency rescue service along but it was able to report ileter to the police in from German rearmament electricity functions will - now the test pilot may be
The railwaymen have threaten- all [Orange
court-China Mall would be "massively Intake over distribution of electric that is required.
coast which fronts on the North after emergency repairs. United creased.".
sulting them,
Sea.
Press. The Assembly, with the ex-111,000 inhabitants will not have their demands are not met,"
Leading Army officers flew to The Ministry's announceintint orption of the Communists and their supplies cut.
Guayaquil tonight to demand. ***** Power fallures interrupted followed an unsuccessful meeting that President Velasco Ibarra members of the Popular Re- publican Party, applauded his the life of the capital yesterday between the Minister of also dismiss the Interior Minis
Labour, Sir. Walter Monckten, and diesel bus crows and reliway trade union leaders ter Camilo Fonco Henriquez,
-France-Presse,
for the same reason,
Senor Velasco Ibarra flew to Guayaqufi, Equador's Jeading
Washington,, Dec. 23, demand by the Defence Mini- President Dwight Eisenhowerster, Reinaldo Carea Donoso,
Special.
·ROGER ‘# "GALAET
HANTAL SOAP ·
OGER GALLET
PARIC
final appeal.
to France
The Trinidad and
power so that Port of Spain's ed to strikka on January 9 by the armed forces with in- | the 135-mils-lag East Angken that it was "making headway
red, by the Electricity
am a patriot," he declared, "and I am addressing myself to fellow patriots. To sink our Board have, threatened to stop
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tifferences can today stave the work and refuse workers were Ike's Christmas Plans Gel, after drst selecting a national interest. Let us make also reported to be discussing the effort for once. It is only strike action."
by accident that It is myself In contrast the long-standing loft by air today for Augusts, that he, dismiss Senor Nebot.
who am making this appeal to sugar industry dispute ended Georgia; to spend. Christmas | His reversal on Nebot eased the you. Forget the personality of with 2,000 workers agreeing to thare.
political tension somewhat here,
fusedUnited Press,
the Premier and, think only of return to work next Tuesday.im He was accompanied by Mrs but the situation remained con the country."--Reuter,
Reuter.
| Elsinhower .--France-Presse."
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