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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1955.
GREEK PROTEST TO UN
Airmen Refused
Permission To
Leave Aerodrome
ATHENS RECEPTION
United Nations, New York, May 23. Grecce protested to the United Nations today against restrictions placed upon 40 Greck airmen who landed on Cyprus last Thursday on their way home from Korea.
Mr Christian X. Palamas, permanent Greek delegate, sent a letter to the Secretary-General, Mr Dag Hammarskjold, accusing the British au- thorities of showing "regrettable hostility" toward the fliers. They were not permitted to leave the Nicosia Airfield and were required to leave, the island "most urgently" Friday morning, according to the complaint,
Nations service during the Korean war and a minute's silence was observed in mentory of those killed.
The letter entended that the | United Greck air unit, being a part of the UN termed forces in Korea, had been denied the respect and rights due it under international practice.
It added that the action was * threat to the principle of security.
(The Greek Foreign Ministry has protested about the "- acceptable treatment" received by the Greek airmen when they UN collective landed at Nicasia last Thursday).
"HEROES"
In Athens a "heroes" wel- come was given to the Greek almen when their wing of five Dakotas landed at Helefsis Airport today.
(A British Foreign Office spokesman has replied that the Cyprus authorities were given less than an hour's notice of the arrival of the aircraft and the crews were not allowed to visit Nicesta as 2 Turkish youth celebration was in progress and Lincidents were feared) -United
The reception party, organisedPress & Reuter.
by the chuded
General Air Star, in- Scalor Greck officials
and the families of the airmen.
Four Of the origina! nine Greek planes crashed while on
man
Appeal Against Death Sentence
Auckland, May 22.
An appeal is to be made against the death sentence
Last passed
Friday on Frederick Foster, Young
·British Immigrant who was convicted of murder- ing a pretty 19-year-oki theatre usherette,
Dr A. M. Finlay, Foster's
Bald today counsel,
the appeal for clemency would be supported by psychiatric and other evidence.
Foster, 26, of Birken- head, Cheshire, pleaded that he had killed the girl, Shanon Dorothy Florence Skiffington, accident.
by
Ke took 2 shotgun wrapped in brown paper into a milk bar intending to fire it near the girl, attract & crowd
and get arrested when he would tell the court he **guilty only of love," -China Special.
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French President Visits Denmark
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SLAVE GIRLS RESCUED
New Delhi, May 23.
The Government of Bhopal a small Central India State, has rescued a number of "slave girls" from the harems of former landlords, it was dis closed today.
A large number of the "slave girls," lost in harems guarded by eunuchs and female guards, have had no touch with the outside world and are
unaware of the changed conditions in democratic India and their fundamental rights under the Con- stitution.
to
The French President, M. Rene Coty, accompanied by
· Mme Coty, arrived in Capen – haren last week on an official visit to Denmark. The couple were received. by King Frederik and Queen Ingrid at Copenhagen Harbour after arriving aboard the French battleship Jean Bart Escorted by the Royal Horseguards The cortege are pictured here driving through Copenhagen City's cheering crowds, This Is the third official Frenchi visit to Denmark. Last time
was about 50 years ago. Mme Coty is the first wife of a French President to go there on an official · visit.-Express Photo.
Don't Trade
With Red
Nations Appeal
"Mankas," 33 these young in dowry along with her widow- girls are called, served in the ad mother some 15 years ago, big households of feudal chief-
was later wed She tains and were purchased while Billedar in her master's for- Very young, Oddly enough, they tress. But she was never! have a male counterpart called allowed to live with her hus
"Billecars." These were bard. In sheer desperation she used as grooms. If the master made an attempt to escape and wills it the Mankas are married was recaptured and tortured. off to Billedars. But they rarely The incident was brought to
New York, May 23. get a chance to live together as the attention of Government husband and wife.
The Assembly of Captive; officials. The Police, after A "miniature battle"
the European Nations had sent with chieftain's men, freed the girl a cablegram to the Inter- along with her mother and national Chamber of Com- younger sister and gave them
merce now meeting in Tokyo protection.
Gitabai, dressed in a course advising against trade with red sari, bold the Court that the Communist-ruled countries, chieftains,- even after her it was announced today.
several marriage, had
DOWRY
The Mankas for all prac- "dical purposes are treated like chatted and given away in dowry to look after the comforts of the chieftain's daughter,
made
attempts to molest her.. On her The organisation, composed of refusal to surrender she was former government and political "bitterly thrashed and had 'her'
Eastern European
Berlin, May 23. More than 400,000 East Ger- This institution of slave workers will get cheap giris" was brought to light holidays this summer at former recently by social reformers hotels on the Baltic Sea which who are agitating to put an end have been turned into holiday to this practice. homes run by the Communist Here is a typical case;
bones broken." She also re-leaders of trade unions, the East German Gitabai, 23, bright-eyed and vealed that although she was nations now under Communist news agency reported.-China | fair-complexioned,
told given married to a Bledar she was rule,
the Chamber that Mail Special
away while she was only four never allowed to meet her hus-world trade could only develop
band.
was
TENSION HIGH IN SOUTH AFRICA Packing Parliament
Capetown, May 23,
20 YEARS chieftain,
The
Argun Singh, 32. was brought be- fore the Court. He admitted that the three women were with him for the last 20 years, but denied the other allegations.
He told the Court that he had no objection to "letting all these three women go if they so wish- ed."
In a world free from "fear of aggression.".
"
"Unfortunately, those condi- tions are and will be absent as long as the Soviet Union holds under its subjection, hundreds of millions of people in Europe and Asia," its message said,
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ORIENTAL Trade
The Assembly also sent a message to the International Earlier, the Police, told the Confederation of Free Court that the chieftain's "army" Uaions now meeting in Vienna resisted their attempts to enter congratulating it and declaring
that the were armed with rifles and other struggle of free trade unions Vienna, conference his fortress. The chieftain's men tha
represented "assurance that the modern weapons. But when they saw that the Police had for social justice and freedom" superior arms, they surrendered would continue until its vic-
The exact number of girls torious end."-Reuter. languishing in the households of various chieftaine is not known. But it is believed there are hundreds of them.'
Tension was high in South Africa today as the Lower House of Parliament began debate on the second reading of a Government bill dissolving the Senate and reconstituting along new lines.
The opposition Union Party coloured voters from the com- declared that the Government mon roll, At 2.20, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.40 P.M. bill was illegal" and warned
London, May 23. The Union Party has organised
Dutch and French warships that "chaos" would follow the a nation-wide resistance to the Voluntary organizations are and French air force units co- passage of the · BITL
Reorganisation Bill Presbyterian working with the Police in operated with British naval and Before a packed house, In-churches, students and university rescuing the girls. But it is a air units today in a 50-hour At- terior Minister Dr T. E. Denges teachers have come out publicly hard wjob looking for themantic
exercise, in .Dact today moved the second reading. against the bill-France-Presse. United Press,
English Channel-Reuter.
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He said the Government needed the adoption of the bill in order to carry out its electoral man- date to remove coloured (half- caste) voters from the commca roll and ro establish the sover- eignty of Parliament,
PARTING OF WAYS
•
Union Party leader, Mr G.. N. Strauss, opposing the bill declared that South Africa was at a "parting of the
Way of the Senate ways."
--The ---result -- reorganisation would be to give theCowerment a two-thirds majority in both Houses of Parliament. This majority is needid for a rovision of the South Africa". Act to remove
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