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TONY CURTIS-JANET LEIGH DAVID FARRAR · BARBARA RUSH
HERBERT MARSHALL Tom Trakter,
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Jeanne MOREAU
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La Reine Margot
"QUEEN MARGOT"
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ARMANDO PRANCIOLI ROBERT PORTE HENRI GENES PLANCOISE ROSAY
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* THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1955.
CARIBBEAN HURRICANE
First Off-Season
Storm
Since Columbus
WEATHER MEN CAUGHT
OFF BALANCE
Miami, Jan. 3.
A small off-season hurricane, the first ever recorded in the West Indies during January, swung its 75-mile-an-hour winds into the Caribbean today to threaten tropic shipping:
The howler, with winds barely reaching hur-! ricane strength, caught weathermen by surprise as it rumbled along on a southwesterly course at 10 miles per hour into Caribbean waters.
officially although
in
Never before had a hurricane been noted in the Caribbean in January, Christopher Columbus logged à violent storm February 462 years ago.
The new storm was located Mimi Weather Bureau sald, in at noon by an Air Forec re-commenting in his log on what commissa 2 plane about 100 may have been a February bur- miles south-southeast of the ricane-United Press. Island of St Croix or
about 1,400 miles southeast of Miami.
"ALICE" NAMED "eye"
of the storm, Thie
Alice for the first named horricane of 1955, was only 12 miles in diameter and the blow packed hurricane force winds Over
small area.
A
very
A Navy hurricane hunter Guantanamo Bay. on waz sheduled to scout the storm.
the
Shipping
northeast Curibbean was advised to pro- zwei with caution and small craft
the Virgin Ist inde
and!
Iri
Northern Leeward Islands were
port.
advised to reinalu in
But weather forecasters ex- pected the hurricane, apparently born In al low
pressure area which drifted down from the! north and settled in the West
Western Powers Contemplate Replies To Russia
London, Jan. 3.
The Western Big Three powers have opened consultations on whether and what to reply to Moscow's avalanche of diplomatic notes in recent weeks, Foreign Office officials disclosed today.
The Kremlin warned the Big Three Western Indies, tu dissipale when it col- powers in notes of December 9 of the consequences
ildes with colder uir before of ratification of the Paris accords. Harentening the U.S. mainland.
It warned
The dog isn't so sure that ho likes this other animal that has been brought into the house, but 13-year-old Jen- rifer Goldring knits on with-
སམ out concern as her 10-year-old brother Robert plays with the four-foot-long royal python
that
his favourite pet. The snake la just one of the rep- tiles Robert
his 24 keeps Downend, Bristol, homa. So fond is he of snakes that be spends all his school holidays doing voluntary work in the repille house of the Bristol Zoo-Renterphoto,
French Defence
Secretariat Reorganisation
Paris, Jan. 3.
The months of
of January to France and Britain shortly afterwards that rati-
A reorganisation of the May had long been considered tofication would "cancel" its treaties of friendship French National Defence Stere
free of hurricanes in thewith the two Western, democracies.
be
Caribbean and the huge hurri- vane
warning net centred al Miami was dismantled as usuul at the end of the regular June November season,
OFF ALERT
The Navy also had taken its famous kurricane hunter squadron at Jacksonville. Flerdia, off the 24-hour alert maintained during the five months when the howlers are most prevalent, Christopher Columbus op- prrently knew "which way the winkt
was blowing," however,
DALAI LAMA ON TOUR
tariat whose chief M. Jean Mons was relievezi of his functions
fenco recrets last year, was an- nounced today.
Moscow, in notes to Britain | Menawhile, officials said, the following the disclosure of de- and the U.S., moreover asked West stands by its decision to for an "explanation" of reports | delay four-power talics that American air bases in Bri- after the ratification of the Paris lain harboured aircraft designed treaties, for atomic attack on Russie,
Tho
ALIGN POLICY
U.S., Britain and France are seeking through diplomatto channels
mels to align their polfoy on these Soviet approaches. the sources
could Top Western officials feel that the Soviet note of December merks
no reply because it re- peats the old charges against the West's defence effort and advances no new proposals,
Nevertheless "diplomatte cour- tesy" might call for a brief reply which, informed sources said. would amount to le more than an acknowledgment of the Soviet note.
London, Jan. 3. The spiritual leader of Tibet, the Dalai Lama, left Peking to day to jour China, the Cpin- Britala la, however, expected muald New China News Agency to rejco thmiy the Soviet sald. He was nocompanied by charges of the note of Decem ha sister and Tibetan officials. ber 20 which threatened to The Dalai Lama has been infabrogate The Anglo-Russian the summer-friendship treaty in the event of ratification of the Paris treation.
China
Router.
since
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Britain will express her regret at the Kremlin's attitude and the hope that the Soviet will refrain from carrying out its threatened move.
Consultations are in progres
US.
FULL AGREEMENT ❤
The U.S. and Britain are in full agreement that any four-power talks now would prejudice the ratification of the accords.
In a draft bill on the Stere tariat's 1955 budget, the Govern- ment announced that its terms of refereno: were to be revised to avoid
of its the confusion work with other ministries, and that a permanent joint commit- France was believed here to tee utiliding representatives of
Defence be again holding out informally the
Secretariat for a May meeting with Russia. the ministries conezmed was to Britain and the US, would, ne- cording to informed sources, not be created. oppose it if the Paris agreements are sci in motion by that dulo, But they decline to commit in the recruitment of the Scere- themselves to a Arm date now,tarlaf's staff, the amouncement
cald.-France-Presse. United Press.
and
There would also be changes
FRANCO-TUNISIAN DEADLOCK
Paris, Jan. 3.
The Franco-Tunisian negotiations have reach-
ed a deadlock on three main issues, education,
with Washington on the reply to police and justice.
the Kremlin's notes on atomic bases in Britain,
U.S. Road Toll
Mounts
+
These negotiations, which have been hara for some months, aro to be raised ministerial level sometime this week.
going on to the
As far as the police question Only Franco-Tunisian disputes is concerned, the Tunisian res would be handled by the presentatives have stood out for Franco-Tunisian courts, accord- an immediate transfer of all ing to the Tunisian point of police commands excepting view, while the French position frontier-guards and national Is thot native courts should New York, Jan. 3. security forces from the French Judge cases in which only Tuni- At least 301 persons were to the Tunisians.
sions are involved. Franco-Tuni- killed during the Now Year As far as educational and holiday week-end in the United cultural questions are concerned, a courts should judge Franco-
toll included 293 tho
Tunisian caser States. The
French Tunisians claim that
bo- road deaths.
courts should judge coses Tunisians should be given com- tween Frenchmen and 10%- Fire Totalities totalled 37 plote control of all national eigners. compared with the 63 reported education establishments while during the Christmas holiday......... French mission should be
and
The traffle toll was substan-allowed to act within specifically differences of opialen en legal, tially lower than that of Christ-mited fields. Imas"wook-end, when 392 per- killed by motor
sona gore vehicles.
Mr Ned Dearborn, President of the National Safety Council, which had prodicted 240 deaths, called the figure "a disaster".--- Chics Mall Special.
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LEGAL SYSTEM
The Tunisian delegation has also pressod, for a legal system based on, an casÒZI- Tunisian ・ Juridical
والملك
framework.
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Despite the Franco-Tunisian educational and pollee questions it was believed that the delegation bo the Tunisian talks would not press for the setting up of a Tunisian army without French control nor for Tunisian diplomatic re- presentation abroad on ab in- dependent basis, France-Presso.
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