FRESH TROUBLE IN NORTH AFRICA EMPIRE
Lepers Escape From Hospital
New York, Mar. i. The U.8. Public Health authorities today Beyen lepers who
from the
U.S.
sought
escaped
Marine
Hospital here just 24 hours before they were to be re- turned
their to
nAlive Virgin Island.
Dr E. M. Gordon, medi- cal officer in charge of the leprosarium, warned that four of them "should be inotated" but he empha. sired that leprosy is only "feebly communicable."
He said that the discSKO was almost impossible for nay healthy adult to con- Track.
Jo ald four Of tho patients were "Active"
cases and the others were "arrested" earch-United Press
Kashmir
Settlement
Possible
Karachi, Mar. 1.
Mr Mohammed Ali, Paki- . stan Prime
Minister, noined fonight he
IL-
woukl
Jeuve for Delhi on March 25
to resume negotiations with
Five Killed.
Nine Wounded
In Casablanca
PRO-FRENCH LEADER
MURDERED
Tunis, Mar. 1.
1
France pressed tonight for a speedy resump- tion of Tunisian self-rule negotiations against background of fresh unrest throughout troubled French North Africa.
The Residency here announced that the French Resident-General, Pierre de la Tour, would fly to Paris tomorrow to prepare the way for re- newed self-rule negotiations. which were broken off by the fall of the Mendes-France Government.
The new French Premier, M. each other and France anruunced Edgar Faure, and The Tunishart thul she was sending supplies of › Premier, Taber ben Aminar. foexi to the drought-stricken
yesterday exchanges telegramis
"t Southern expressing their confidence 102
Balkan
Mr Nehru, the Indian Prime Consultative
Minister.
"for a just
and
honourable settlement of
the Kashmir dispute."
In his monthly broadcast
the nation, Mr All sald The
Ju very
Assembly
Ankara, Mar. 1. The constitution of A As-
most recent utterances in Parli Balkan Consultative ment of the Prime Minister of India on Kashmir have create sembly seems almost cer. favourable climate fortain as a result of the con- The caduct of negotiationis,** ference of the Foreign Mr All send he had returned Ministers of the signatories from the Comumonwealth Prim of the Balkan Pact -- Minsters conference convinced that our continued membership uf the Commonwealth necessary atrad in every way
lestrable from our point view.
Wat
of
SIDE OF PROGRESS
The nations of the world must throw their weight on the side of progress and of the preserva- tion of world peace, Mr All said, "Our own security and weifure are linked to the security ant well-being of countries in the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
Thes we can safeguard by collective action and by ar- rangements of the kind we have eastered into with the United
Tammurse TIMINJA
KINNIA
A solution of the Tunisian hone-rule problem could form the cornerstone of A new and more progressive French policy. in North Africa which could in Turn bring u huật to the rebel garising in the Aures Mountains of Algeria I to terrorism in Morocco.
In Casablanen, during the past [wo days, five persons were kill- fed and at least nine wounded
in gun and bomb attacks.
IMPORTANT VICTIM
An important vielim WAS Sherif Moulay Idriss, leader of a pro-french organisation which favoured establish-
inent of Morocco
Republic
Britain's Top Twelve, representing the Incorporated Soolety of London Fashion De- signers, staged a special fashion display for Queen Soraya during her visit to London. Ple- ture shows Queen Soraya admiring this beautiful ball dress of embroidered satin with stole,
from the hifchael Sherard collection.-Express Photo,
Patent Award
For Pontecorvo
BUT HE MUST COME AND GET IT
Washington, Mar. 1.
The Treasury Department announced today that turncoat British scientist Bruno Pontecorvo| can collect $15,000 if he wants to come out from behind the Iron Curtain to get it.
The money is Pontecorvo's share of a $300,000 patent claim settlement obtained by him and six other scientists in 1953 from the Atomic Energy Commission.
The others have been paid off, but Treasury re- ter-gulations bar payments to persons in Iron Curtain countries, on the grounds that there is no assurance a check would actually be received and the fundo collected.
Greece, Turkey and Yugo-
A French tocine, Guy flemiz, slavia, which is taking was
killed by unknown. place here, well-informed rorista, bringing the total num- sources stated here today, ber of deaths to five since lust
At the first meeting of the night United Pross Foreign Ministers Ins! night, sub-committer was set up
on
put the finishing wuches to the text of
agreement Balkan Assembly.
The sub-committer Anished its work this afternoon, and all that now remains is the up- › proval of the agreement by the Ministers, which
Ix expl tonight.
The atmosphere in which the conference is taking place said to be
cordal, extremely and agreement in reported
Is
10
States of America and Turkey have been reached on almost all
nts discussed. points
The Assembly, of about Asla
and by virtue of our member-
Klup od the Southeast Defence Organisation,
the
THE JUNGLE
BRIDE
GOES BACK
San Cristobal, Mar. 1. Back into the green hell 20 of the Mexican jungle where parliamentarians from each nine months ago she buried country, would meet periodically her husband has gone 26- "We can thus build up defen- to discuss Balkan affairs.
Lady sive strength of
Roberts, not only our- The Assembly will meet alter-year-old selves but other friendly natively in Istanbul, Athens und countries who share the same Belgrade, France - Presse ideals with us."--Reuter.
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Her friends, the Indian guides,
The patent covered a process | ask for interviews, their requests for production of substances.
HAS RUSSIA
GOT THE
H-BOMB?
Hearst Has His
Doubts
Washington, Mar. 1. Mr William Randolph Hearst, Editor-in-Chief of tho Hearst newspapers, aaid today that his recent interview with the now Soviet Premier, Marshal Nikolai Bulganin, had con vinced him that the Soviet Union was far behind the United States
stock- ira piling atomic weapons and might not have the
hydrogen bomb at all.
He also quoted British officials 好心 "doubting" whether the the
Soviet Unton possessed
hydrogen bomb.
on
Mr Hearst was reporting in a
speech to the National Press Club series of interviews re- cently with the new Soviet leaders, wæluding Marshal Bul- Khrushchev, Find Secretary of the Soviet Communtit Party, and Marshal Georgi Zhukov, new Minister of Defence.
120 Pilots Sacked Mr Nikita
Rio de Janeiro, Mar. 1. Pandir do Brasil. this country's diamlased
largest Kirile,
Bolganin 120 pilots today
after they had refused a final Company ofter for settlement of tho filegal strike that has crippled the Airline's operations for 46 dark.
The Company had offered to reinstate 14 of the 20 pilots whose dismissal for disciplinary reasons touched off the strikt,
The walkout WAN ost- lawed by the Labour Ministry.—United Press,
On
"We thought we smoked out Mr coe thing." Hearst said, "Molotov claimed in the Supreme Soviet that Russia had surpassed the United States in the production of hydrogen bombs.
"We called Belganin's atten- tion to the warnings of scient- ists that the continued explosion of muclear weapons would have; dangerous effects on human and animal life. We asked him whether Rusala would be will- ing to enter an agreement with the United States and Great Britain to limit the number of
these explosions for experi- mental purposes.
"The quick and sharply nego-
EDEN-NEHRU live reaction of the Soviet Pre-
TALKS ON
FORMOSA
New Delhi, Mar. 1.
radioactive to moet Pontecorvo were led Sir Anthony Eden, British with the Press Department of Foreign Secretary, will ar the Foreign Ministry,
A THICK
Meanwhile other American officials viewed as a Red propaganda trick Pontecor- vo's announcement of hla deficction almost five years after it took place.
They readily acknowledged that he must have played a vital pro-
of the hydrogen borib,
mier convinced me that the Rus- sians are far behind us in the stockpiling of these new weapons and may not have the H-bomb at all."-Router.
TO-MORROW
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at which it is understood, Formosa will be the main Lopic.
"LET YOU KNOW" "We will let you know as Boon as we havo Any in- formation" an official of the Departament said,
The talks are expected to nar-
down any
of points It was presumed that Ponte row
India's and corvo was not working in Mos- difference between
role in Russian atomic
rumme, Including development cow and that he was probably engaged at the Soviet Union's tion of which has not been dis- atomic energy station, the loca- closed-United Press & Router.
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Pontecorvo's ot
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was worlding for Russians
QUOT since he
the
kre vague about when she dis- dumppeared in October, 1950, appeared from this old Spanish settlement.
They merely Бау that La Bobble has gono maybe by plane, maybe by canoe, perhaps by horse. When shall she be back? They shrug and "Who can tell?"
-
The officials said Russia ap- parently hoped to achieve two things by the announcement: 1. Emphasise Muscow's
In the peaceful essed Interest development of tink
in energy 19 same line is being advanced at the London Disarmament Conference. Lend support
to recent that Russia boasts of or at least match a
ut
a time when this say:
Roberts was A mystery girl before Lord Edward Montagu, 48-year-old brother of the Duke of Manchester,
her married under Mexican law in 1953.
Soviet ahead
nuclear wOJPOTES.
AJI that was known about Meanwhile in Moscow Western this dark, pretty, Eton-cropped correspondents tried unsuccess girl then was that her name fully today to contact Ponte- was Joughin and that she came corvo.
from Los Angeles in California. As is customary in the Soviet Lord Edward, in his wite's Union when foreign journalists own words, had been a playboy
and scapegrace."
He was a godson of Kin; Edward VII, had been 10 Harrow and had worked as a taxi-driver, labourer, and decit- hand.
ма During
wanderings his
in America he acquired a passion- ate Interest in the ancient culture of the Mayans whose history goes back to 500 B.C.
In April last year he set but with his bride for the lost city of Taxchilan that lies in tho mountains between Mexico and Guatemala,
THEN--HEAT STROKE Within two months ho was dead of heat-stroke.
Dulles Due
In Formosa
Tomorrow
Talpel Fub. 28. Mr John Foster Dulles, United States Secretary of State, is due arrive in Formosa on Thurs-
day to witness the exchange of
American
your.
sources said
Britain's approach to the For-
mosan question and the states- 17(7) will try to agree on #1 common polley.
They are believed to agree that for the present secret dip- lomacy is the best approach and that the idea of an international conference is unlikely to make much headway until the
!m- mediate tension har slackened.
#1
The meeting takes place at a
the situation moment when considered here zs even graver than . was during the Common- wealth Prime Ministers com ference last month.
PURELY DEFENSIVE
In addition to discussing the United States in progress on documents ratifying the mutual Formosa, Sir Anthony is expect« ;
defence pact between the United, ed to explain to Mr Nehru some States and Nationalist China. of the implications of SEATO Mr and to stress that its character Dulles was also expected to see is purely defensive, General Chiang Kai-shek for
Sir Anthony will give an ine their second meeting within a
farmal talks to both houses of Mr Kor Rankin, United Parliament on Thursday and States Ambassador to Nation will attend a banquet given by alist China, left Formosa, today the Prime Minister at the Pre- for Baguio in the Philippines, eldent's house On Thursday where Mr Dulles is holding a evening. conference. of United States diplomatic representatives fn the Far East. He is expected to return here with. Mr Dulles. Reuter.
Notification
Of Own
Death
Paris, Mar. 1. Opening a black-edged cn- velope delivered by the postman, M. Pierre Langlois expected to Jave to mourn for the dis- this earthly appearance from world of some friend or relative.
He was at first dumbfounded, then infuriated when he mw
With her two Indlari guides, then
Roberta buried Lord Edward that the letter was notifying hum
near a ruined Mayan temple of his own death.
He and Lady Eden will leave
on Friday morning for Bagdad. They are due back in London on March -Reuter,
OUT AGAIN IN AGAIN
New York, Mar. 1
Six of the top Communists in the United like any woodcutter or alligator- According to the letter, the States today finished their five-year prison terms
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