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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1955.
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Of Detained Britons
London, July 11.
A crusading newspaper won where diplomats failed in the struggle to free a British family trapped behind the Iron Curtain.
In one of the strangest sidelights of the cold war Czechoslovakia bowed to the demand. of the newspaper on Saturday. Today the crusading editors of Lord Beaverbrook's 4,000,000-circulation Daily Express set themselves a new target.
"95 Wives Still To Be Freed," they declared in the banner
headline announcing Round 2 of Court Competent
their unique struggle with Com- inunist Eastern Europe.
ROUND 1
Won on
Round Saturday when Czechoslova- kia announced would allow 32-year-old Mew Phylls Bispera and Her three English-born ohlidren to re- turn home.
Six times in five years the Foreign Office had formally de- manded her release only to be ignored. The Daily Express started its campaign on June 24. This week Mrs Sispera and her children are expected home,
But the outspoken newspaper was not content,
"the wives?" I "Where are
sked today.
"In Poland there are 246, of whom 72 want to come back to Britain In Czechoslovakia
total of 98), 12 want to come home; in Humania (12), four want to leave; and in Hungary ix out of 33 are held against their will.
"Now the aim is to demand us a right for all the 95 wives the freedom that has at last been given to....Mrs Sispera,” the Express sald.
the
Their plight is one of strange sufferings Britain alone has had to bear in the cold
war.
Paris, July 11,
A Parla Court ruled today that French justice is competent. to handle the divorce proceed- Ings brought by the Maharance of Baroda against her, husband. the Maharajāk.
The President of the
Seine Tribunal ordered a legal separa-
tlon and gave the Maharanee custody of 10-year-old Prince
Kumar.
The divorce ense will be hoard in several months. United Press,
The Legion Is Big
Happy Family
-Says A POSTER
Paris, July 11.
The Secretary General and the President of the Athens Municipal Council work with the aki of candle-light,
The local electric
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The French Army shrugged off desertions Policeman BROADWAY
from the Foreign Legion by Legionnaires return- married exiled Eastern Europ-ing home from Indo-China amid a new wave of
Hundreds
of British
cans who led, angie hemelands criticism of one of the world's most famous fight. Imprisoned
in
World War II to carry on
the fight against Hitler
ing corps. from
these homelands in the brief
Britain. Hundreds returned to Egyptian authorities announced that 141 period before Communism took Legionnaires have deserted from troopships in
over.
Mrs Sispera, a slim brunette the Suez Canal since the beginning of the month.
Surtolic, WIS typical. married a Czech Hero
She
of the
Wife
New York, July 11.
by her polleeman-husband for
from Thurston in the county of A spokesman for the French Ministry of National Mrs Peter O'Connor, imprisoned Defence said today that the figure was certainly loyal Air Force. Two sons and much too high, a daughter were born in Britain, All went
Czechoslovakia "In any cast these desertions quarters in particular
cause us no anxiety," he said. made a business of denying. ROGUE, LOVER! Immediately after the war,
When the democratic govern-{ "I very often happens like
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in the
munists, they tried 10 сзопре, and were caught. Mother and father were gaoled, and the father
still is in prison,
a divorce ani Sispera obtained the children's custody hope of getting back to England. But the Cruch Government claimed the children are Czech citizens and refused to lat them leave. Tho youngsters were taken from home and placed in an Insitution. Mrs would not go without them.
OFFERED BRIBE
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Last week, even with the glace of Western publicity turned fully on, the Czech authorities tried to bribe Mrs Slapera to remain. They offered to free her hus give him a good job and unite the couple with the children. She will refused,
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ROREDOM
The Legionnaires who Jumped ship were on their way back lo posts in the North African deseris 10
Anish
out their five-year engagements, he said. The prospect of inactivity and boredom under the Legion's crushing discipline Wis largely responsible for their decisions to Desert.
The desertions revived the chronic attacks against the Legion which the French Army In general and Legion head-
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"The Foreign Legion 16
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family which locks after "Bay a recruiting folder, und this idea of
closed society is what gives the Legion its esprit de corps as a fighting machine. Its motto is "Legio Patria NostraThe Legion is our country,"
The Legionnaires thus do noti fight directly for France but tur the Legion. Their battle flags, of heavy with the decorationg years of service, bear the legend "Honour and Fidelity." All other regimental flags in the French Army are inscribed "Honour and Fatherland,"
The Lezion rejects the con- ception that it is merely a band of international black sheep and
desport doer who Bed their homes. It refuses three-quarters of those who apply for enrolment.
night-time disturbance of the her herself in peace, hung prlton cell at Harrison, NJ., last Sunday night.
Mrs
Burned in an accident,
O'Connor had had two opera- tions to speed her recovery and was expecting big results from a third.
When her husband, suggested delaying the third treatment, Mrs O'Connor resented this and became increasingly bitter over the months,
When Licut Peter O'Connor,
caumo home last Sunday night, he found his wife in arage. She created a scena so violent, he said, that all their neighbours heard the fracas and turned on their lights to see what it was mil about.
Tirod
mabom
of fighting, ite polies lleutenant asked his ordinates to look up his wife,
To Be Deported "we may be an asylum," said One hour later, she was hang-
Washington, July 11. An Immigration officer today
the Daily E press said in an ordered William G. (Big Bill) "Let the Red Lias, operator of the Wheeling demonstrate Downs Race Track, at Wheeling, their goodwill by freeing all West Virginia,
now
detain Greece..
the other Britone they
If one, why not all?" United Press.
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