THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1955.
COMMON ARMS AGENCY
31 KILLED IN
West European
TORNADOES Union Approve
Memphis, Feb. 2. Thirty-one people were
An
of
killed and 100 others in- jured
the result tornadoes which ravaged the Mlasinippl (owns of Commerce Landing and Olive Branch last night, 14 was reported hero today.
snowstorm
A
snarled New York City's already
iraflo
jammed emergency
streela and
anowplough
pul ob
crews
werd 24-hour duty to clear the lush before i could turn to lea.
Between three and five inches of snow fell on the city and the temperature Was cxpected to ful to between five And 10 degrees during the night, Driving conditions were Hazardous throughout the metropolitan area.
Trainin
wete
ruzining
nearly two hours late into the city and rush hour
commuters
Werr
delayed home,
lintsed
getting to their France-Presse and
Pres
FAILURE
OF BAGDAD
MISSION
London, Feb. 2. The Arab League mis- sion to Bagdad ported tonight
Was re-
1
Formation
Paris, Feb. 2.
The conference dealing with the standardisa- tion and supply of arms for the seven nations of the Western European Union Great Britain, France, West Germany, Italy and the Benelux countries. today agreed to set up a common arms agency on a functional rather than a supra- national basis.
It decided that this agency should be (1) maintained on a seven-nation basis and (2) based on co-operation between the governments and com- petition between the national armaments indus- tries.
At the suggestion of the German delegation, the conference appointed a sub-working group to ex- anine the technical details of how standardisation and co-ordination in the supply of arms can best be work
ita work subgroup starts ed out in practice. This tomorrow and will report to a full meeting in about a fortnight's time.
The British delegation also had only been put up as a work- submitted a working memoran- ing suggestion
the ako suid that in dam which conference courtes
the mod streses that the Western French Government view. European Union nations should question of ralifying the Paris Ågreement les for German 10- Edinating a stand-
inch was entirely arding the
prins production armament
of the kind of Dams perictont "Techntent and functional FEEL
production agency that would busty ruther than in terms of a
itrally emerge from the рге supra-nationally controlled or-
sent talks. ganisztion.
German Minister
FRENCH
REQUEST
conference The criginally called at the re- quest of France, which sub- plan on nitted a working January 17 in which stress laid on the proposed protuation
CUCY being riv en
supra-nativmal character.
was
A
(Wednes- day) to have failed in its immediate task of settling the dispute between Egypt and Iraq over the proposed
between pact
Iraq And Turkey.
But fl Joint COTRIBUTIQUe
Foreign Ofec But a French Issued in Baglad mold General Nur! <i Said the Iraqi Prime spokesman tonight pointed outl
that the a projeal
French nemorandum Minister, agreed to ling put to the Arah PremKTS"
tse thut
117143 confervice Lieutenant-Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasr,
the Egyplan Minister, shoult meet in Beirut.
Print Collins Returning
To Indo-China
Earlier today Colonel Nager threatened in Cairo to quit the Arab Lengue rollective security pact if rug signed the part with Turkey.
IL
ft proposed alliance for Arab states "who are not involved in any foreign pects,"
N'AU
Lebanese Furcipe Mustry sourers sad in Beirut that the Lebanese Prime Minister, Sam
el Soth, who headed the Bey Bagdad misson, had reported thal Iraq had not changed her mind on the paet and had decided to ralify it before February 20,
Heuter
Washington, Feb. 2 Gon. J. L.wton Collins will
Saigon, leave tomorrow for was announced here tonight
The
Princess Margaret
Preparing For Trinidad Carnival
Port of Spain, Feb. 2.
Princess Margaret enjoyed a quiet lazy day Exumommy, Prot. Ludwig Erhard, here today before embarking on the first engage- who leads the German delega- ments of her tour of the British West Indies. tion, told reporters tonight that Rested after her long flight across the Atlan- Loday's meeting marked sucessful completion of thetic. she took advantage of Trinidad's sunshine first stage of the work com and blue sky to go for a swim this afternoon in the
pool at Government House.
merced on January 17.
been
the
definitely
It meant that the danger of a six-nation group being built Into the West European Union to the exclusion of Great Bri- tain hed irinated,
In this way, the full value of
the to the of drums and garbage It promised to stay for Britain's entry into the West European Union as an equal first ftern on the Royal Pro-1 cans that go to make
up the partner with the Continental gramine, a garden party in the traditional steel bands which nations, had been preserved.
the Princess's make such fascinating music, outside Lawns
TOP OF KILL Prof. Erhard added that none window. It will be followed by calypsoes of the seven notre were think-
carnival with
Starred at the top of to- A RUY of nationaal self- and dancing und A firework
igit' bil of Bio per- ing in terms sufficiency for their armament | display.
formers was the "Mighty In consequence the
Panther," the Beau Bru~ production aring agency was necessary to
mel of calypsolans, in hin of ful the essential funktions
hat and morning suit, top co-ordination and co-operation [between the seven W EU. mem-
bers
The weather was kind. She awoke to grey over cast skies in the luxurious Prince of Wales suite of Government House, but the sun broke through later in the day.
The German Minister of Gen Collins yesterday Rave Economy repeated that Germany evidence to the House of Reprewas willing to put all her curds sentatives Foreign Affairs Com- on the table" and was anxious mittee.
that there should be "complete Transparency" about her arma-
all for menis
activities Western partners.--Router.
His report on South Vietnam was optimistic. He is expected in Saigon on February 8. but i has not yet been decided how long he will stay in Indo- China France-Presse.
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The Princess and Ladies - in - Walling their free state exploring
and
getting surroundings used to the change in the weather. Acclimatising was made canter by the mild spring-like weather they left behind In London Monday.
Princess
on
Margaret herself
Pr
spats.
In reality,
A
Vernon Roberts, special has composed calypso for the Princess and will sing it himself. --Reuter,
Russia Working
slept on a wooden carved bed On Inter-Planet
with drapes in torquoise satin with whito brocade, patterned
stars.
Adjoining the cream bedroom la a bouloir with a fine eut-glass chandeller and furniture up- holstered 121 chintz, decorated with a lower motif. There is
o bedroom
nile pale and pink and even dit tings.
Princess Margaret had truts juice, China tea
for breakfast
aiso
and toast
arx
Project
WILL INSPECT H.K. POLICE
** Page 3
PREMIERS REVIEW
MIDDLE EAST DEFENCE PLANS
London, Feb. 2.
Commonwealth Prime Ministers and their military advisers today reviewed the new Middle East defence situation following Britain's impend- ing withdrawal from Egypt.
All the Commonwealth statesmen attended except Mr Jawaharlal Nehru of India and Sir John Kotelawala of Ceylon.
Mr
Harold MacMillan,
British Defence
lined Britain's
the Minister, out
re plan for
deploying her 70,000 troops
im
the Middle East all of whom aro due to leave the Suez Canal by next year,
CYPRUS
HEADQUARTERS
The Mediterranean island
of Cyprus is rapidly becom- Ing the headquarters Britain' Diiddle Emsa mili-
tary organisation.
of
Sweeping
U.K. Road Construction Project
Conference sources said the review by the statesmen of Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand Pakistan, South Africa Government
terms."
After Sir Winston Churchill
London, Feb. 2. Sir Winston Churchill's
today
programme
out.
for
and the Foderation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was in "general lined a sweeping £200,-
000,000 improving Britain's Con and Mr MacMillan had spoken gested roads first stage in on the defence problems of the its new planı for modernis. area, each of the three Bushing the country's high- Service Chiots-of-Staff gave an *appreciation of the Navy, Army
and Air Force strategy.
Man From U.K. Colonial Office
COL. W. A. MULLER, Colonial Office Inspector - General of Police is in Singapore on routine inspection tour.
Ways.
Under it, modern high speed motor reds-barred to cyclists Mr R. Q. Menzies of Aus and pedestrians, ---with dyovery
He is expected to be in Singa- pore for 10 days, after which he will visit the Federation. tralla, Mr Sidney Holland of will be introduced here for th Then he will proceed to Hong-New Zealand, and Mr Charles first time.
Swart, Deputy Prime Minister kong.
tho that A platoon of Gurkhas formed a of South Africa, stressed
of their guard
respective concern he of honour when visited
Training the Police
countries in Middle East do- School, Thomson Road, Binga fence-Reuter.
pore
Muller was met by the Commissioner of Police, Mr N. G. Morris. The acting Deputy Commissioner Follo, Mr W. J. Parks, and Assistant
R.
Messrs.
of
Com.ngleslocMES
A E, G. Blides, W. Calderwood, A. B. Ander- son and G. W, Jackson were also present-giraltet Times, Photo,
German-Danish
+
Minorities Issue May
Be Solved
In
Divorce Ruling
And the Government warned talls might be charged "in suitable cases."
The bulk of the goathworks will be a bypasses atorstad towne, improvements to bridges and road widenings — all aimed at clearing traffe bottlenecks and unproving road safety,
Outlining the scheme to the House of Commons, Mr John Boyd - Carpenter, the Transport Minister, said the country's food system find bad few major im→ provements and very Litije new construction skice 1939 and the
Rhodesia blem now was immense.
Lusaka, N. Rhodesia, Feb. 2. Desertion, cruelty and
for
and
insanity Are Ho longer grounds
divorce Rhodesia, Northern even adultery by a bus band may not be, a High Court Judge ruled today.
TAKE TEARS The Ikaw programma would take “p good many years to complete, he stress-
...while constanctio
while land was
Mr Boyd-Carpened,
the new motor roads of great
termod #projects and also
magnitude" and
the cost would be If tolls were
enable the Government to get
It would
&
put
into these roads, he said. One
back some of the money
Mr Justice Somerhough, who
Crown Counsel in Kenya of the motor roads which it was
Mau
leader hoped to start between now and Mau prosecuted Jomo Kenyatta, ruled that the 1950 would be the 150-mile dual Bonn, Feb. 2.
Northern Rhodesia legislatura carriage highway from London to Doncaster in Yorkshire, Germany today Suhad failed to apply the divorce
1.
around likely to cost gested negotiations with Den-
laws of England in recent years.
245,000,000. mark In the near future" on
Work would begin first on a
West
the rights of minorities on both He asked Attorney-General
skdes of the German-Danish border--B burning
This
ziowth
of London with a spur road to be Mr Edgar Ensworth to appear 70-mile stretch starting Issue
heavy Birmingham to carry tween the two countries since in Court next Monday to argue whether the English 1923
traffle to that Midlands the end of the first world war.
dustrial centre. Matrimonial Causes Act, which German Charge for the first time allowed a wito & Affaires, Herr Carl von Holten, to
her husband divorce handed the
algae, proposal to
of the grounds
adultery
in Prime Minister work- Danish
and had ever been repealed Foreign Minister, Mr H.C. Han- Northern Rhodesin. sen, it was announced here.
The
West
Since 1920, a
on
New Delhi, Feb. 2. Soviet scitantista are ing hard on a project to go to the moon and other pianeta,
If the Act was repealed, the declared M. Massevitch, astro-
believed. Tho physics specialist in the Soviet resulted in 0, when Beebiscite English Act of 1857 is in force delegation to the Indian being incorporated in Denmark here, it was
earlier law required wite to and the southern part remain- Scientifle Congress here today.
The leader of the delegation, ¦ ing in Germany, the minorities prove both adultery and cruelly Academician
Ostrovityanov, have been an issue between the stated that atomic power
rock been used to blow up barriers in the way of irriga- tion works.
The USSR is always
had
two countries.
ready
husband in order
get a divorce.
to
of second marriages
In tic streets outside, gay with
of Mr Justice Somerhough would rocky while
blue
There are about 100,000 New York, Feb. 2.
Danish
not comment on whether past bunting and huge "welcome"
descent in the German
granted on other The New York Police signs, the 110,000 people of Port
province of Schleswig-Holstein doerces placed a 24-hour watch to- of Spain chatted exchedly about to share her knowledge for the The German minority in Den-grounde were valid or whether
peaceful use of atomic energy, mark numbers about 10,000 children day the headquarters their Royal visitor.
on
All day long in odd comers he affirmed.-Franco-Presse, here of the Egyptian Con-of Port of Spain calypso singers, sulate and the Egyptian de- dancers and musicians practiced for tonight's carnival tions following unidentified, show.
Most of the muste came from
E ERAS NG
Slegation to the United Na-hard BALES VENT
15
SES
WINE
but allegedly Zionist, threats the "lalaika" the name given to blow up the building.
The
threats
WACTO
Com-
municated by telephone yester- day following the Catro an- dwa Zionists nouncement that were executed by the Egyptian authorities on charges
ED 2920Uponge for Turne
SREDS
ECEDES
ACROSS
1 Applaud (4).
4 Holps (7).
8 Land measure (4).
9 Tropical tree (4).
10 Blope (7).
11 Foreign coin (4).
12 Lake (4).
14 Rubbing out (7),
17 Bedeck (5).
10 Bundles (6).
22 Gowns (7)..
20 Opening (4).
27 Cimbing plant (1).
28 Restricted (?).
20 Put to fight (4),
30 Communists (4),
81 Withdrawn (7).
32 Always (4).
R
EVER
DOWN
2 Burdened (8).
3 Coddle (6).
4 Get up (0),
5 Spanish lady (0),
Lasts (5).
7 Kind of sow (0),
12 Girl (4).
13 Actor's part (4).
10 Smelt island (4).
10 Blot of wind (4).
18 Venerate. (0).
20 Disinclined (0).
21 Make certain (0),
23 Elevato (B).
24 Backbotte (5).
20 Teams (3),
A girl who did not reveal her identity rang up the Consulate and told Egyptian officials that would explode a time bomb after 15 minutes. Other calls followed. The police were notá- fled.
POLICE CO-OPÉRATION
First French
Vertical Take-Off
Aircraft
said in
Reuter.
also plans The Government another £20,000,000 road for motor traffic only from Preston in industrial Lancashire down to Birmingham.
Mr Boyd-Carpenter said that and other road improvements
authorised excluding schemes the motor reads-in the coming Bnancial year would ultimately cost $27,000,000 and in the following three
£120,000,000. China
Special.
years
Matl
CARRIBEAN
were legitimate. United Press. FEDERATION
Serge Rubinstein Leaves
Money To
Women Two
The
New York, Feb. 2.
Serge Rubinstein, murdered millionaire, left
Gangsters Stand Over
Gamblers
Johannesburg, Feb. 2.
determined
Gangsters,
UNDER WAY
London, Feb. 2.
The House of Commons today, cheered the Govern~ ment's latest information on the plan for a British Carib bean federation, which has now been adopted by the legislatures of all the islands concerned.
Expressing their happiness ut the general agreemmat reacted
Barbados by
Jamaica, the Leoward Islands, Trinidad and the Windward Tobago, and Islands the Secretary of Blato Colorless
les, Mr Alan
to for tho
Plan
inst
friends were now informatlari found yester.klopers of gambling housem who the lalaki.. Governments
It
be asked to send pienis
FINALA PIAN
before would be laid $10,000 each to two women friends in addition to make money out of Johannes Lennox Boyd add the Paris, Feb. 2.
proditable gambling woul
Indian Condren.co to Tho firet vertical take-off providing for a secretary, his mother and two burg.
racket, have divided the city West The Egyptian Vice-Consul, Mr
those into "ilme areas sind Fund Arsan, told the United by a French jet plane took
secret spot Last children, his will disclosed today. Press that the police authorities place in G
March, Franco's nationalised
fifringe the time limits hero had shown every co- firm for the Study and Com
When a final plans had been operation,
struction of Aeroplane Motors listed as Miss Mary Payne, of day at Rubinstein's home.
by the Conference a com Paris, and Mia Betty Rosd, of formally valued the estate at threatened, and told that their Five police Care
(SNECMA) and on
Manhattan, m-freqtient com- | over $100,000 though a busts Houses will be smashed up
Newcomers who try to tike Parliament work, the bé, aske emergency squad were sent to munique today. the Egyptian Consulate and the The Arm, which reportedly panion of Rubinstein at Newness associate has estimated it
at $10,000,000,
part in the gambling house raced to pass the decomary United.
Kingdom legislation. has been secretly experimenting York's night clubs.
He left $5,000 to Miss Billie
uve et are also, threatened place was thoroughly scorched.
Rubinstein's children
Conservative Membere the A vertical take-off and with
Kane, hlumeerabaty,
with his divored wife, International financiar, former Laurette Kilbourne, who
The pollos are unable to take Socialist and Liberal sheared action against those gambling when the Minister referred to marion, ist Thursday provided'
Houred under the present law.lhead significantatape.” „And a plane which has 2500 a month each for this
The keepers avoid police action fact, that we may now look for a circulix wing placed 7a drugibati, Diena, and Alecicle
by apparatty panyacting pubile ward to the cable unap access to theke hodink. pulso-reactor. AUREN, KÍOL, 601 Tuceive the principal "The
SALLE BEFORE) OF: han estate until they camp, 30 demons railors of the revolu years old Egyptian tionary 'onloopter have, unde safor, Ine mother, Meu Biella
sroykied. nobody boona quiven, including one Last Rubinstein, 78, he
of the Chakr
owfore the than Blauračny $1,000 month mill bene tfalted ]at stato for: Air, M. Dlonge
Nothing, however, was found, Intrag Probe-off was made by strangled in his With Avenue
A police guard was posted in said the
front of the Consulate,
for two yearm,
of 1
Mr Aryan said that several pergite - raid-woostáon and is es 7, but: söigitalated. That they:}}
Though today passed quially, 4ons, ride up the Connilate yesterday"-"using · langungu.”
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD ~Across: 1 Peruse, 8 Court, 8 Altar, 9 Obliga, 10 Rally, 11 Emmet, 12 Oval, 18 Forco, 16.
A poolmanah of the Esture, 18 Lantil, 10 Spent, 23 Toll, 28 Seu, 25, Nadie, 26 Klated, 27 Cleone, 28 Bound, 89 Swarme Down: 1. Prolongs, delegation anid that Reliable, 3 Bagge," 4 Klament, 6 Careful, 0 Orator, 7 Hello, 14 bothers the members Reporter 15 plodes, 16. katerad, 17 Digrem, 19 Ensan, 34 Piano, 24 Sie, d
· strong i by" à hiquanamique
he has married agata
$10,000 FOR BUTLER'
He left: $10,000 › ta William Morier, the
- whoydlowyered his hour
and gagged:beds Berpa
He sino late $10,000 to or bee; not further identified makan want
dodanChina Mal Special.
A Johannesburg couple who de Com
wmt out Invitations to friends would tainty were tolephoned by members of said that Bertini, Hon the gang and told to stop pies. Briush Gulaba in the
other wise to the premifodaland torzlicaso do would be mashed house China could fold they