THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1955.
WOMEN THREATEN PAKISTAN
MR MOHAMMED ALI
BBC INTRODUCES NEW SYSTEM
Eliminates
Most
Interference
PREMIER LUFTHANSA CREW ARRIVE IN BRITAIN
Restore First Wife's Status
Or Else
Karachi, May 2.
"The newly formed League for Women's Rights today threatened civil agitation if Pakistan's Prime Minister, Mr Mohammed Ali, who recently took his former secretary as a second wife, failed to restore his first wife to the position of the first lady of Pakistan within one week.
The threat was contained in a resolution handed in at the Prime Minister's house today. Another passage of the resolution said "all woman- hood is ashamed today that one woman has wan- tonly broken the happy home of another."
the Arst
"Under these tragic circum-women as its members, has as stances, we -London, May 2.
strongly demand its president the wife of Mr that Begum" Hamida Mohammed Mohammed All's Minister of The British Broadcasting Ali (the Prime Minister's Orst Finance in the Pakistani Corporation today began a wife) should retain her previous Cabinet, Mr Chaudri Meham- new broadcasting system states and should continue to be med Ali. Eight women's organi- with a high degree of fre- Under no circumstances are the tributed to its membership.
Lady of Pakistan.
sations in Karachi havė · con- quency modulation to im- women of Pakistan prepared to prove reception for radio see Mr All's second wife usurp
meeting of listeners all over the coun- this position."
resolution League" at the Hotel. Metro- sajd.
pole this morning. about · 300 women converged on the Prime Minister's house in their cars land demanded an audience
They were told he was away
try:
This system
virtually eliminates an interference and by foreigh jamming caused stations broadensling on waye- lengthy near those of the BBC.
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IN BEIRUT
Mr All married his recond wife. Miss Alla Saadi, barn Far Canada of Lebanese parents, in Beirut on April 2. The League for Women's
After
the
so they left a copy of the re- solution with Mr Mohamed
new Rights, with over 200 prominent Ali's secretary, Mr W. B. Qadri
technique, listeners must either install a special apparatus on their present sets or buy new radios which will henceforth be equipped with it.
The first of 10 new broadcasting stations, designed to handle the improved frequenes modulation, was inaugurated today at Wrotham, Kent. It has 120 kilowatts of power and will cover a large part of southeast England, including the London region,
The old system will continued for the time being France-Presse, ..
MINISTER REPORTS
ON FAROES
•
The resolution suld Mohanimed Ali's marriage to his former Saadi, "without justifiable rea son" had "misrepresented Islam to the world.".
social secretary. Miss
Pictured on arrival at London Airport are the crew of the new German Lufthansa Wodrich, Air Company, Capialns Marku, Ward, and Nannenberg, and air hostess Rosemary 24, from Bremen. It was the first training flight of the new Lufthaar Company who are now once again taking part in the world's airlines. -Express Photo,
US Fighter-Bomber EHRENBURG
Task Force Forming
NEW STRATEGY VISUALISED
Washington, May 2.
The United States is forming fighter-bomber task force units capable of flying to any trouble spot in the world on short notice to help squelch brush-fire wars, it was disclosed today.
The units, being developed by the Air Force's tactical command at Langley, Virginia, are being The marriage has been a sub-built on the theory that huge atomic and hydrogen ject of controversy ever since it stockpiles created by the United States and Russia Sultan, Who WIS Pakistan's may cancel out the threat of all-out war.
was announced, Princess Abida
delegate
to
the last United Nations General Assembly, re
Under the plan, the Tactical | moving unie that could get any- cently defended the right of Air Force, under General O. P. where in the world in Unile Moslem. men Copenhagen, May 2.
to practice poly- Weyland, would pat a "few more than a day. Polygamy was definitely fighters, a light bomber or two," The Danish Finance Minister, Samy. Mr Viggo Kampmann, arrived allowed in Islam, she told re-a tanker and perhaps a trans- port plane into a single fast- the Porters,
here today by air from Faroe Islands where he con- sulted with local officials on the crisis which has arisen over Danish Government attempts to London, May 2. The Earl of Home, the TIZW
Temove Dr Olay Halversen from Secretary of State for Common-Klaksvig, one of the islands, wealth Relations, whose visit to Australia ard New Zealand during the summer recess was announced on April 24 hopes, on his return journey, to visit India, Pairistan and Ceylon, the Com- monwealth Relations Office on- nounced tonight.
Mr Kampmann was scheduled to report his Bodings to a Cabinet meeting tomorrow morning, and to a meeting of various political parties later in
the afternoonE, -
Danish attempts to rèmove Dr Halvorsen whom the Govern- The Prime Ministers of these ment considers unqualifieri," countries have told the Earl of failed when Klaksvig islanders Home they would welcome * rose to the defence of the doctor. visit from him-France-Presse.
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But what had
been clearly stipulated she said is equal treatment among wives. The difference between banning polygamy through legislation by presupposing that equality will not be maintained and demand- ing equality of treatment after polygamy has been entered into is to be appreciated and not abused," she said.
MAKE STIPULATION "Women who cannot tolerate polygamy are free to make this stipulation or even later on if they can influence their husbands to agree
to it," the Princess added.
When Mr Mohammed All Left Singapore with his second wife On his way home from the Bandung conference, he carried with him
letter from
Pakistani Moslem missionary in Singapore congratulating kim on his second marriage and adding "I am sure you will set an example in dealing with your wives equitably as you have set ane in putting polygamy into practice."
'TAME' CROCS
Thought To
Have Been
Extinct
FINAL DECISION
The final decision on using the aerial task forces would be up to the chief executive,
General Thomas D. White, Air Vice-Chief of Staff, touched on the plan in a speech at St Louis on Saturday night when be said the United States'was ready to send fully operational tactical air forces equipped with either atomic or non-atomic weapons to a friendly nation to Right side by side with its ground forces."*
Development of these units offered one answer to the ques- tion of how the United States
would fight "tringe wars like those in Korea and Indo-China
Nairobi, May 2. Zoologists in East Africa are intrigued by the passi bility that they have dis Many officials, in and out of covered a species of "tame" brush-fire wars might become the Administration, feel that crocodile which was thought mere and more prevalent if the to have been long extinct. continued build-up of awesome Two of them have been found atomic weapons by the United
swamps In the Malagaṛrasi
of States and Russia cancels out the Lake Tanganyika. Africans who probability of full-scale war. live round the swamps had re- The new concept was made ported that this species would possible by the development of not harm humans and had been "Little atcenic bombs and caught and stroked without pro-weapons which can be carried test.
in a fighter plane as well as a
The heads of the crocodiles, bomber. which can be identified by their INCREASING long slender snouts, have been sent to the Croyndón Memorial | Museum In Nairobi
(It was reported from Cairo last week that Begur Hamida Mohammed All, the Pakistani Dr L.S.B. Leakey, curator of Prime Ministers first wife, will the Museum, said this species shortly visit Egypt as the guest of crocodile had been the dis of Dr Doria Shafik, the Egyptian covery feminist leader.) -Reulent –
of a 250,000-year-old fossil-France-Presse,
DETERRENT
General White said, “Our tactical air forces can pro- vide an increasingly effec- Кто
deterrent”! to lesser wars and could be "deel- sive” if such wars started, He said, "One relatively small fighter-bomber cari now carry
a bomb much more destructive than the atomic bombs dropped
WEST EUROPEAN UNION on Nagasaki or Hiroshima,"
Commission meets
to form organisation
London, May 2
The Interim commission of the Western European Union met here today to complete pre- parations for the official creation of the new organisation.
the London
The first World War II bombs were rated the equal of 20,000 tons of TNT.
President Eisenhower and the Secretary of State, Mr John Foster Dulles, both have said recently that the United States no longer regards atomic bombs. es weapons to be used only in
e of pil-out world war. Mr Dulles said that the United States
Dow
has pre cision
atomic weapons that
cade.
could be user chiefly against
targets. General White and that the of nuclear weapons development of and in-flight refuelling has diminished the former sharp distinction between strategic
forces,
PARATE IN SHORT TIME”
The Union, established by The Council w take Im-bombing forces and tactical
and Paris agree-portant decisions of a practical fighter ments, will comprise the five order: concerning the new signatories to: the Brussels organisation's functions, re- treaty, Britain, France, Belgium, lolicas with NATO and the the Netherlands and Lazer-Council of Europe, burg, and West Germans and Italy
· LONDON HEADQUARTERS
The seven Ministers will also designate the officials from whom the Secretary-General and
Its headquarters will be in Director-General for the armo London.
ments control agency will
He said many milltary and civilian leaders now be lleve's major war would he decided * in a very short time. ↑ Similarly," "de
sald, kay brush fire war in which the United States, becamer
Involved "might bo besk Co
At the bequest of the French Và vinden,
The first orating of the chosen Union's council, composed «of the Foreign Ministers of the and German Governments, they futility of trying to fight a long seven memberkation, will will desmante & the European war with traditional means be held in Paris during the equamissioner on the Buary who ngadush wardly superlog. numbers NATO - Cannell meeting ? next fa Kenerally thought will be a Commandatay, the fi saldame week
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IN FRANCE
Paris, May 2. Ilya Ehrenburg, the well-known Soviet writer, has come to France to see the country and to get to know it better, it WAS stated by a Soviet soarce in Paris today.
He had lived for many years in France before the Jast War, and
was very fond of the French people and... French culture, the source added, -- France= Presse.
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