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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1855.
Three More Members Wanted For
Middle East Pact
Faure Victory POSSIBLE LINK
Paris, Mar. 31
A bill aimed at giving the Premier. M. Edgar Faure, special
WITH LEBANON
London, Mar, 31.
Britain hopes that Pakistan, Persia and the United States may be the next countries to join the Turco-Iraqi pact, diplomatic sources said here today.
Britain's entry into the alliance-to- gether with special military arrangements replacing the 1932 Anglo-Iraqi treaty was initialled in Bagdad yesterday and would take place on April 5.
Announcing this to the House of Commons, Sir Anthony Edey Britain's Foreign Secretary, maid the pact was purely defensive economic, social and tax powers and he hoped other countries was approved by the Scoate
would come
in later. The defen-
the Finance Committee today by sive character of alliance vote of 7 to 5.-France-Presse. was believed to have been em- phasised today by Mr Evelyn Shuckburgh, British Foreign Office expert on the Middle East. OPPOSITION
SOLOMON'S
COUNSEL
NEEDED
TWO
Paris, Mar 31 bables were born on a warm summer night in te maternity hospital in Roubax, northern France, in 1950. Madame Durand was told has was a boy whom she name Guy. In another roon Sorrier gave his
Madame
to a girl named Louise. Bu before leaving the hospital Madame Durarid was hander
girl,
Egypt's opposition to the alliance, which links Irag defence with the Western
system, has made it difficult for other members of the Arab League to join li even If they wished to, in the view of diplomatic quarters here, For this reason even The best disposed of the Arab pounTM tries towards the pack the Lebanon, is not expected here to jot just yet. But the long terni› Lebanese attitude may be clearer after the visit to Turkey beginning tomorrow of Prest dent Camille Chamoun and his Premier and Foreign Minister.
Pakistan already linked to Turkey hy a bilateral pact may be the first country to associate itself with Britain, Turkey and Madame Sorrier, for her part Iraq, it is thought here.
Reports realised that her child was
from Istanbul to- boy.
The nurse's stalement day have forecast April or May dates for Pakistan's discounted the possibility tha as likely
there had been a substitution entry into the alliance-Reuter.
It seemed on the other hant
unlikely that the midwife has
made a double mistake. }
telling sexes .of the two babies.
NOT SOLVED
TATTOOS UNCOUTH
After four years, the myster has not yet been, cleare Analysis of the father's bion --did not give the result ex th pected since both had same type of blood. Madame Durand had no al culture."
Moscow, Mar, 31. The Soviet newspaper Trud, organ of the trade unions, said today that people who tattooed themselves showed lack of
bothered about the change i The newspaper asked why the sex of her baby. She ha
people who wore tattoos did not had the name altered to giv just go one step, further and hur 1 girl's rame.
were rings in their noses and Madame Sorrier is convince that Louisa is not hers anj has refused to re-christen th
light
Radioactivity. Monitoring Service
London, Mar. 31.
THE British Medical Journal
In
said today that it would be sensible and easy to set 20 a monitoring service which would keep a watch on the
the radioactivity bf
atmo sphere.
leading article about the genetic effects of nuclear radiation, the Journal suggested that such monitoring service could be made first on a national scale and perhaps eventually on an international baris,
are
The Jouraal said: "At present we have no precise knowledge of the rate of mutation-the sudden change of a gene into a new form produced by low intensities of 'radiation in any"" mammal, let alone man. qud
to arque forced
by extrapolation from results obtained with flies or moulds.
FEW RESULTS "Even. with these simpler organisms, experiments with low intensities have been few and their results-not-alto- gether consistent.
"The best estimate to which
they lead, according to Pro- jessor A. H. Sturtevant, of the United States, is that the excess ionisation produced by atomic explosions so far would cause about "one" extra vETŲ harmful mutation - per 50,000 conceptions and perhaps about the same number of slighter ones in addition,"
The Journal points out that
although the figures give a Tough idea of the order of magnitude, they are largely
work. It Quess
said that should be energetic
steps taken to measure actrial rates of mammals exposed to lows intensity radiation.-China Mail Special.
The paper said, "We child.
actively against drunkenness befor religious prejudices, uncouthness The case was brought
muutation We shall fight the Roubaix tribunal but the and swearing. judges will have to be wise also against that other vestige Solomon himself tiof the past, tattooing, a sign of solve the problem-France-savagery and lack of culture."-
· France-Presse.
than
Presse.
A British Crósword Puzzle
15
17
20
ACROSS
1 Specimen (6).
4 Fit (5)
7 Come back (6)
8 Bunk (6)..
10 Fate
(4):
12 Bragged (7).
15 Drive back (R),
18 Extent (4)
17 Tale herrism (d)
19 Solitary (5)
20
Noble lady (7).
21 Sharp (4),
23 Backbone (5),
24 Younger
25 Copper
(B).
20 Margins (4)
5
21
DOWN
But into strips (8).
2ry swift (8).
3tice (4). 5me bird (8), Blat (6).
ppets (5).
11 rage hand (8).
12 ute (5).
13 gotiating (8),
14 Tards (8).
18 Cour (6).
22 tate (4).'
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Off to Paris on their wedding fight goes actress
Olivia
de Havilland and French journalist Pierre Galante. Miss de Havilland, who had a fanch date in Landơn, nearly, missed the plane for Paris. She and Ga lante, marry tomorrow, April 2, in a small village 100 miles from the French expital Miss de Havilland's new film "That Lady" had its London premiere this week-Express Photo.
Peeping Toms
To Watch
Fish Habits
THE
Montreal, Mar. 31.
Government
Queboc
planned today to use frog- me to spy on love-struck fish
Dr Gustave Prevcet, Driector of the Biology Bureau of the province's Fish and Game Department," said that the study of piscatorasi love life ui Quebec lakes was designed to and out why romancing trout go round and round.
Frogmen will be posted in the
lakes near Mont Tremblant,. In the Laurentian Mamtains. They will spend hours near the grey trout spawning beds gathering data on the fish which spawn it water 15 to 30 feet deep and grow to 30. lbs in weight,
Dr Prevost got the underwater peeping tam idea at a sports- men's show here, where he is directing the * provincial exhibit, and where a frogmen spent 25 hours in a plastic tanic earlier this week.
abou:
know more "We now
underwater equipment and the ability of men to stay under he water for long periods," said, "We are satisfied that with proper equipment it is possible to send frogmen down to observe spawning. methods for hours,"United Press.
Nature Finds King Herod's Ancient
A Way
Brisbane, Mar. 31.
budgerigar A
mother which hatched Siamese twins from a double-yolked err, separated the fledr- lings with her bill. naturalist reported here.
3
Tho naturalist, David Flesy, told how a pair of .... the birds in a Brisbane aviary incubated four eggs.
Two were infertile, an other hatched but the and the fedzling died, fourth cgr. somewhat larger than the others, pro- duced Siamese twins.
They were joined neck- to-neck by a fold of skin.
SEAS
Owner John Spiro, of Sherwood, Brisbane, watch- ed the mother bird care- fully and noted she nibbling at the CO2 skin that joined the fedy- lings.
After three days she separated them. China
Mall Special.
IKE CONGRATULATED
Crackdown On
Loose WarTalk
New York, Mar. 31.
President Eisenhower was congratulated editorially by the Philadelphia Inquirer today for his timely crackdown on loose war talk" over the Chinese offshore islands problem.
Palace Found
Jerusalem, Mar. 31.
An Israeli archaeological expedition reported today it has discovered the ruins of the 2,000-year- old Palace of King Herod The Great at Masada, near the Dead Sea.
Mr Michael Avi Yona, of the Israeli Govern- ment's Department of Antiquities, said that the ancient Palace was unearthed during a 12-day survey by the expedition which returned to Jeru salem last night.""
He said that the palate. fortress was on the edge of a $25-yard high plateau. It has mosaic flooring and is fronted by a large columned terrace on a 35-yard slope facing north- ward to the sea.
SPLENDOUR CONFIRMED
Herod reigned in Judea Ex- from 37 BC to 4 BC. pedition members reported that nearly all the descrip tions of historian Josephus Flavius detailing, the splen- dour of the palace grounds were confirmed by the archaeolorists.
and
י,
The archaeologists reported they uncovered the steps leading to the palace from the terrace under heaps of ruins. They also found paths connecting the palace with various structures of Herod's old Masad fortress.
The greatest wonder, they said, was a group of four cisterns, with an estimated total
capacity of 40,000 cubic metres the reservoirs were filled in an area where the annual rainfall is now only a small fraction of a inch.
of water. It was unknown how
The archaeologists cald they
The newspaper said that the President's action should have an assuring effect, abroad and found remains of pottery, pil- would inform allies and friendly powers alike that the President did not endorse the opinion that war
bars, inscriptions, food and trees in abundance throughout the grounds. They said they re- buried parts of the discoveries
over the islands of Matsu and Quemoy "is approach- to prevent damage by tourists, ing inexorably and all we can do about it is to be ready to fight.”.
SMALL HOUSE
The expedition also reported "The job of the Chiefs of "Even if the threat is not as finding a small house on the Staff.", the newspaper declared, immediate as some military palace grotards, consisting of "is to advise the President on sources had wanted to make it nine rooms and containing what be the earliest military matters. It is not to appear, a decision in regard to were said to scare the public with predictions the offshore islands in all cell mosaics yet found in Israel.
other
of questionable accuracy nor to bood cannot be indefinitely In the house they reported determine national policy, That postponed "
Anding date kernels and is up to the President and the civilian arms of the ment.
Govern
The New York Herald Tribune wrote that America was fortunate that at this Juncture in its affairs it had In the White House “A leader so calm, universally trusted
able
Dwight Eisenhower.
The Washington Post adopted remains of what were believed the view that the President had to be dried morsels of food as "doused some of the firebrand well as some leather soles and talk about war over the Matsus thongs.....
and Quemoys."
IS
was reassuring to have his It was established, Mr Yona statement that talk about the said, that the eplumns on the prospect of war in Asia did not palace terrace were definitely serve the cause of peace and Ionian and Carinthia On one of that he had no information in the columns Roman soldier dicating an imminent Commu-named Galus Askhas had in- nist attack...
scribed his 'came in Greek, United Press, Je
WE NA Paris, Mar 31. b7 -1ew days is indicative of strain- M Edgar Faure, France's diged to which he is being subjected" Premier, today received field
The President had shown, the
that he w paper continued. -Unwhling-to-be
Larmist news.
AESTRAINT
"Butz the furore of the past.
the Washington Post, stated, Marshal Lond Montgomery, De-
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD Als: à Tortured, à Boused, As things now stand,... Mr. “This atvein is likely to Increase puty Commander-in-Chier... of
9 Despeurs Consigts, 12 Liar, 13 H, 18 Sales, 19 Cham, 12| Eisenhower bears by Himself the as long as policy is allowed to SHAPE Possible, 24 Allini, 25 Angers, 28 Stork Dowa: 1 Krect 2 responsibility for determining in dirt and the change Is that The interview fook place at Ruins, 3 Tectious, Odes, 5 Tips, 6 in 7 Desert, 10 Seal, the lift of events what moves drift may eventually lead the M Faure's offidei residence. It 14 Baron 11 Leanna te Beran 2, 11. Slín, 20 Ebbed, 21 Vera-Vars ecessary to safeguard counter with no alternative to lasted about half an hour. 24 Past, a Sodr
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