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THE CHINA MAIII: FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1955.
CORRESPONDENTS CAPTURED
GENERAL RIDGWAY
RIDGWAY
TO BE RETAINED
B.
Washington, Jan. 20. General Matthew Ridgway is to be retained as United States Chief of Staff beyond March 31 nexi, his normal retire. ment date, it was an- nounced tonight.
In making the announcement the Secret y the May. Mr he was Stevens, sald Robert
a law author sing
Reting under
the retention in servier of tip Anet is beyond to Ave years the age of 40 who had 35 years of service.
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General Ridgway
Hp- pointed Chief of Staff on August 15, 1953, for a two-year tran
on
Ho would have been suo):e1
relhement 10 mandatory reaching the age of 60 at the end of March.
He
wag
formerly Supreme Commander in Korea Reuter.
Prime Ministers Will Be Guest Of The Queen
London, Jan. 20.
a Queen Elizabeth will give dinner at Buckingham Palace London, on February 2 for the Ministers Blending Commonwealth Prime Ministris cutiference, It was tudny.
the
The Commonwealth Relathons Offee here suit the laiks, open- Monday week, would Ingen probably as fine or tell mys.
fe time users meeung
is the rs. since June 1825, dir Winston Churchill will preside
aims wit be private.
The Commonwealth Relations Ole
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wealth Prime Minişiers will nterd the mecbd except Mr Johannes Strijdom, the South Aincan Premier, who will be represented by his Minister Jus.ice, Mr Caries Swart.- Reu er.
Fight With A Rebel Patrol In Costa Rica
# By John Abney
Managua, Nicaragua, Jan, 20.
You can taste fear when you are wait- ing for oncoming destruction. It is 'dry' and it makes your throat swell no matter
how often you swallow.
We felt that fear on Saturday after- noon while waiting with a poorly-trained Government patrol for a rebel tank to come in sight alon, the inter-American highway that bisects the Costa Rican jungles.
come in sight alon
armed Wilh
1 began at 2 p.m. when a sub-machineguns, the sounds of covernment valroj of 10 men mortars, the deep coughing of
แมน rifles
sub-ritics and the slower hammering machineguns set out froth Saula of 30 calibre machins guns. At
#1EL three
the end mortar shells were fall- It other curepondents. George
Ing with jolts as the rebels Skadding of Life, Phil Paym me hodically covered the whole
Tune and Paul Sanche of NBC-TV.
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with
DENSE JUNGLE a tei
afternoon I was with a alight breeze now and Hiep in the upen spacen where the STRES grows was high. The deuse jungle Was slicky with the heat.
were
russ.
scammered trees
WaYou
We moved about three miles rom the Government advance mbush uu past, then set up tin
bly clearing where there arut high The patrol leack r us aut we fell dat, walling. We heard what we thought was a tank coming toward us.
"behind a bushy dropped lump 20 yards from the road and watched them coming. Was a talf-track loaded with Krecutorined soldiers wear-
It
Uni.ed States helmets. They had a deadly look about them.
It was then I tell the fear. As the truck muved near us, three men of our badly trained putrol began
Bring into robels wild poured over the sides of the half-track and perambled into positions along
the road. The fight was on.
the
From the direction of the rebel Bring we knew they had efficiency and dispersed with were working on us from both sides.
HEAVY EXPLOSIONS
explosions from Heavy
the ground grenades shook while the chatter machineguns and rilica a fow yarus away acafened us. The rebel
of
Arca.
sullenly it stopped. "I looked at my watch and it was an hour ince it began. It was now 3.43. I began to feel movements in
the high grass, the quick run-
Communist Deputy Marcel Caobin, in his capacity of the oldest member of Parlis- ment (85) delivers the opening speech of the 'French Parlament's 1955 session. According to ot tho rational the established rule he then invites the M.P.'s to eicot the new president Assembly, equivalent to the Speaker or Chairman-Express Photo.
Kostelanetz Hears Rich Cursing
Singapore, Jan, 20.
When Andre Kostelanetz, one of America's
ning steps as the rebels came, top conductors, releases his symphony of "natural"
stopping now and then to listeri.
eursing.
I rolled on my back, held my sounds in two years' time, his recording will in- cameras and waito 1. A subclude a rich passage of Singapore's waterfront machinegun ала helmet with lufls of camouflage grass on it appeared all at once and then a rebel. He was a businesslike kid who waited hawk-like while told him I was a correspondent.
HANDS UP
He marched me hands up to the road where they searched and stripped me of all my papers and cameras and put me with the rest of the correspondents lying Ince up in a ditch, our hands over our head, While other
combed rebels the area for more prisoners our guards kept machineguns on pv. Across the road they col lected their own casunities. They had two dead and four wounded We pleaded for our cameras to get pictures but to no avail.
A 21-year-old leutenant named Pacheco was leading the rebels
His men were grim and mad at the ambush and thought we were members of the Caribbean Legion In
the forces of Costa Rican President Jose
They wanted to shoot 125 the spot. But their young fire boean culling | lleutenant told them to the our the top of the grass und knock-hands behind
and us
they
Ꭶ
on
ing twigs from my bush and marched us down the road to
20 feet snaked another
cur.
to the their lines.
me
15
A muzzle blast from a rifle few At 10 the side made
think our patrol would be dangerous to run into suddenly as the rebels and I stayed put
It kept up for a solid hour- the high-pitched chatter of the
A British Crossword Puzzle
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ACROSS
Parent (0).
4 Divido (8).
7 Female monster (6).
8 Stop (5).
10 Ven
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of coal (4).
Countryman (7)
15 Thin wax candle (8).
18 State positively (4).
17 Middle East port ((4)..
19.
Small Cake (5),
10 Phalchricht (?)
21 Neat
28 Part of a church (8).
24 Merry
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20 Drooped (0).
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Kostelanetz, who is here on one leg of his world tour to col- walked up un- lect sounds, observed to a group of Chinese boatmen playing a game called "svo sek" (four colours) along the Singapore river.
One man called the winning hand,
and laser brpke into cholce, violent, purple pro- fanity. It Was promptly recorded for posterity. But when Kostelanetz asked for a trans- tatico, none could-er would offes art exact translation, e
They explained that the words were a bit unusual. Kostelanetz laughed and said, "No one will know."
LONG-PLAYING
•
RECORD
Kostelanetz plans to uns the sounds he collecis on his world tour as background for long-playing record. the addition of music tell and narration he will the story of famous clues in all parts of the globe.
By
The sound of Singapore will include the babble of volces in
Actress Married
Chicago, Jan. 20.
Miller Actress Collien
famous Change Alley, the calls of street vendors, the click of the clatter of mahjong tiles, clog-shod girls on their way home from The rubber godowne-and of course the untranslatable remarks of the disappointed boatman-France- Presso.
Stick-On Moustaches
Pietermaritzburg,
Jan. 20. Hairdressstu are saying that the monstacho is on Way out. in South Africa,
Ita
Evon those persons who Like them are not growing them--they
using
stick-on moustaches manufactured overstas,
to
Tho non-commissioned officers' mess of the Royst Natal Carbincern in Pieter- marlisburg is determine⠀
back bring
the moustache fashion and has organised A moustache competition
com. memorate the regiment's centenary next
year. China Mall Special
to
MAXIMS ALBERT
RETIRING
Paris, Jan. 20.
For 50 years, the head-waiter at Maxims, world-famous Paris restaurant, has gravely and discreetly presented cocktails to Kings and poten- tates and the world's loveliest women.
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But tonight Maxims gave cocktail party at which Albert was the central figure, and all the elite of Paris society cam? to de honour to the man who for 50 years has been a trusted and rospected friend.
The President of the Paris City Council, M. Bernard Latay, Turned up to give Albert-(his other never used name is Blaser) the Silver Medal of the City of Paris,
Then came the President of the exclusive club Des Cant (the club with the 100 members, all cunnolaveurs on the art of good
Wo had walked
perhaps a mile when there was the suades
There was the director of the clatter of machineguna to the jeft and a DC-3 appeared over
Paul Derval, and Folles Bergere, and Red Briskin, former husband of the Baron Philippe de Rothchild, living) to present Albert with a gasoline vapour. It finally dis appeared a short distance ahead. Betty Hutton, were married to- the Later, a column of thick smoke day in the office of his attorney. Lawree rose toward the sky.
the road trailing smoke
HANDS NUMB
We and two other pri- soners takin As the fight wore
takou to a rebel platoon, My hands were and when I began bumb Openting and closing them to restore the circulation one reboj saw me and yelled.
Another grabbed my BITS while third come at me w.tEn his rifle raised, and yelled, "TA kill you." He slammed at my hend with a rifle butt and I ducked. A sergeant stopped him
"No mistreatment of
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2 Monaco (B).
3 Orlent (4)
5. Agrecable (8).
Mind
11 FL (H).
12 Nulantes (6).
18 Warding off (8).
14 Quaked (B).
18. With for (8)..
22 Couch (4);
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We waited until almost dark when
heard a voice say, "Hello, John,
I wondered if it was you. They told ME KOLDO were captured.”
newimen
The yooo was that of a friend of mine from Mexico, an exile from Costa Rica named Mantel Caballero. He talked to the officers and a few minutes later our hands were ordered to be. untied.
We were marched 13 miles to a battalion headquarters where wo lay on our backs by the roadside almost exhausted and looked nt the stars almost touching us in the clear night. Manuel brought us. water. and the robels began joking with us. WIPED OUT
In the morning, we met Captain Teodoro Picado, the 27-year-old West Pointer commanding the rebels, at his headquarters and Linut Claudio Fonsoon, the sound- In commmud. They fold u the whele patról we were wlid win. wined, pak,SA
We were driven later in truck to headquarters on a refre airstrip where we wa and Foto AT-de. W
Prasa
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