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This Must Stop THE Nationalists pursue Their was against China
in an extraordinary manner. In recent weeks desultory shells have passed each other in brief encounters batween the mainland and Quemoy; each exchange is punctuated by a long period of silence. It would be a phoney war if it were not the fact that at reguler Intervals trigger happy pilots sitting smugly in the cockpits of American- donnted jetplanes make murderous attacks un freighters flying the flags of
neutral nations.
These needling
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER ·· 30, 1955..
If General Assembly Debates Algeria
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FRANCE MAY LEAVE UN Security Of Preserve
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Premier's
To Pinay
Message SOHO SCANDAL DEVELOPMENT
US INFORMED
United Nations, Sept. 29.
France has threatened' to withdraw
DECISION IS POSTPONED
United Nations, Sept. 29.
The debate
the..
United
on placing
the Algerian question on
Nations Assembly agenda was to. day postponed until morrow morning.
Because atticks from the United Nations if the problem of
no real ceasefire in the
emphasise that there will be Algeria is put on the General Assembly's Formosa straits until the agenda, unimpeachable and authoritative Nationalists are persuaded
to retire to Formosa, until Sources said today.
100 miles of sen suparate
Nationalist forces are used
These sources said French Premier
the combatants, and until Edgar Faure had sent a message to Foreign purely for defence of the Minister Antoine Pinay that he would ask Island and not for belll parliamentary approval for France's with- escapades around the main drawal from the UN in the event the It is hard to see a de jure Assembly votes to debate the Algerian issue.
gerent
land.
and
reckless
cénsefire emerging in the near future, but obviously something must be done to end these unenk raids by Nationalist jetplanes against neutral shipping. It is quite pointless sending
polite diplomatic notes of protest to Taipel. All British notes have been ignored, ', THE main objective should be
action
M. Faure said he had informed the French National Council of his contemplated action, the in- formanta said, but assured M. Pinay that no would be taken until the Assembly makes its decision. One source, usually reliable on had informed the United States high French policy, said:
The informants said M. Pinay.:
"I cannot fall but to emphasise delegation among others, of the gravity with which it views the that this is considered the gravest Assembly's decision Algerian debate.
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the issue concerning France ever to come up in the UN. France, I
The 15-nation Assembly Steer-fear, has had enough of small to get Nationalist pilots ing Committee voted last week countries telling her what to do
the Algerian issue in, her own territory." from the Assembly's 'agenda.
to respect foreign fag10 exclude
and if Taipei will not listen The US and Britain voted with
Σει reason, then strong France to keep it off. representations should be
However, the Arab countries mude to Washington to curb have gaged a concentrated its unruly ward
from campaign on the Assembly Boor interfering in legstimate and co-upset the Steering Com
decision. approved trade. The State mitice's
A final WA3 Department can hardly con- decision by the Assembly done attacks like last Tues-expected late today.
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day's in which two people Leads To Chaos
were killed aboard a small
Norwegian freighter lying off Swatow.
M. Pinay fold the General All nations trading with China Assembly today that the effort
should make similar repre- to
en airing of
to
force
the
sentations to the State Algerian issue led only to chaos Department for the threat and warned that France would "permit unyone 10 posed by the Nationalist 'no- attacks applies
copiadise the destiny of Western countries sending country which she has succeed- ed In pacifying, unifying and and ships to cargoes
the ifting forever above its original now condition." China coust. Up to most of the attacks have
In a sentence, France's posi- taken place near Swatow ortion is that she will not perznit Amoy but it would not be UN members
criticise ther surprising if in the future activities in a part of the world
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Algerian Viewpoint
to
Mohammed Hazid and Hussein
representing
tho
UN
to-
of the length
of today's meeting of the General Assembly's Steer-
on
the W28
ing Committee, the plenary session of the General Assembly devoted to a debate
Alecrian postponed question until tomorrow morning.
The General Assembly will then
decide whetli the Algerian question be placed on the on the should
of the
present Agenla tasion.
The Steering Committee recently voted against discussion of the Algerian question, but the Afro-Asian bloc in the United Nations has carried
question before plerary session of General Assembly attempt to earlier Prcise.
the
London, Sept. 29.
Scotland Yard today arrested Christopher Glinski, one of the key witnesses who brought about the release of the notorious British gangster and bookmaker, Jack Comer, alias Jack Spot, last Friday.
Spot was charged with stabbing a gang rival in broad daylight on a Soho street. The acquittal of the gangster provoked such a scandal in Britain that the Home Office has ordered an investiga- tion,
Glinski, known in the London underworld circles as an Casy witness, however, has not been arrested by Scotland Yard for his connection with the Jack Spot trial, but for fraudulent business practices,
to
The newspaper has engaged a famous lawyer
protcel Andrews from
charges any This evening he will be ques- tioned by Scolland Yard.
Jack Comer, allas Jack Spot, the central figure in the case, An 88-year-old minister, has shut himself in his luxuri Reverend Basil Claude Andrews, ous London
apartment since another witness in the Jack his nequittal. Friends guarding Sput
has disappeared. his door declare
Jack For 48
elderly hours, the
Spot is ill-France-Presse minister's sole contact with the world was through the London morning newspaper The Dally
case,
Sketch. In exclusive articles GAIETY
the
in the Daily Sketch, the retired his meagre minister told how in an overrule the pension led him to placing
amali bets in the hope decision. Franco-
proving his finances.
of im-
Algerian Rebels Are Finally Subdued
Algiers, Sept. 29.
that
IN
PEKING
Peking, Sept. 29.
For the first time since the Communist regime gained con. trol in China, an official recep- tion in Peking tonight left the usual formal pattern to end in a most unofficial abandon.
The casion was n 2,500- guest dinner given by Premier Chou En-lal. for Chinese and foreign diplomat guests to com- mcmorate the National holidny.
of China.
Weary French troops today. conquered the remaining rebel pockets in the remote Nementchas Up till now, official occasions. mountains and planted the tricolour again on the of this nature have alwayB
been
in
com-
Europe
From DEREK MARKS
London, Sept. 29. Russia is to be offered aspanking new plan for European security in TC- turn" for agreement on the reunification of East and West Germany.
Details of the plan have been settled by the three Western. foreign ministers.
The
plan consists three main points;
Most
of East
of
and West Germany would be declared a
"zone.
of re- The
duced tension Western powers and the Communists, would agree on the number of troops to be stationed by both ridca in the zone,
2. There would be a general reduction of foreca in Europe.
3. German frontiera and maintenance of the new zone would be guaranteed at-first
by Britain, France, United States, Russla Thereafter, Germany, other European powers would be able to un
under write the agreement.
the
Rid
@
It is emphasised the plan till only operate if the Russians agree to Germany
reunited under ceted
government. The plan is regarded as the best offer the West can- make to Russians
If Mr_Molotou rejects it the Geneva mecting of foreign
ministers Text month, London diplomats believe. It will be a clear
the sign
Russians determined to perpetuate the division of Germany,--- London Express Service.
·are
Tear-Gas Used In Nicosia
Ancient Tomb
Government has decided ¡to.... preserve the -- ancient Chinese tomb, uncovered during site clearing opera- tions at Li Cheng Uk, and to arrange for a suitable around it, it open 'spaco was officially announced this morning -
To effect this it has been decided to cancel construction of two multi-storey resettlement flat blocks in the Li Cheng Uk cstate.
The ground freed by decision not to build these twe blocks will yield a considerablo
the
area of open space in the im- mediate vicinity of the tomb which is being earmarked for school to serve the district..
It is proposed that the tomb itself shall
stand -in a small
garden
and shall be accessible
to visitors.
Plans for the overall scheme
are now in preparation, includ- Inur suitable measures for the ΟΙ protection and preservation the tomb itself
For the time being the tomb will remain open for inspection by the public.
Fish Causes Short-Circuit
Verona, Italy, Sept. 29. The Innbbruck-Rome express was delayed near here for 40 minutes yesterday. when the electric track was short-circuftod by a fish.
An angles trying to land the fish caught in a flooded nice field near the railway line jerfood tris rod drom, the water. Line, hook and fish salled through the air to lodge on the overhead electric wires.-Reuter, dan lagerkot
Angry Housewives
Angry housewives, attacked
"buy
no
Algerian representatives totlay charged that French Foreign Minister Antoine Pinoy sought
"mislead
World publie opinion about North Africa k his statement to the UN General Assembly.
Alt-Ahmed,
extremely formul
But the guests this Front of National Liberation rugged peaks where for months only the rebels' Peking.
recognised by
were very gay and
Nicosia, Sept. 29. which
green colours flew..
after giving, a thunderous ap- Police fired tear-gus After seven days and nights of forced marches and plause to Chou En-lai's speech,grenades this evening in Asian-African nations as a voice
Berlin, Sept. 29. for Algerians, said in a state-
seats and sur-
second strike-breakers here today at ment that M. Pinay tried to steady fighting, two military columns linked up at the hey left their
Chinese Premier, Micosia for the. mislead world public opinion in heart of the lofty rebel bastion. Officers reported to head-rounded the his statement this morning on quarters tonight that a total of 229 insurgents was slain, asking to toast him or shake time today against do the beginning of a three-der
sirike Him by the hand. problems of North Africa.
monstrators, near Regena lower prices, police said. The Chinese security police "He vainly attempted to ple wounded and captured in the sweep that dealt a big blow
Street, the city's main
Polico reported that most at the
were reception ture the French colonial polley to the clandestine "National Liberation Army".
butcher shops, in, working class districts were closed due to in North Africa as one leading
But battle-weary though Some 40 rebels survived and pletely overwhelmed and were street.
unable to protect his person. The area is under heavy mil-, that part of the world to free-
their that during the
lack of business night, under
or because. Independence.
jubilant officers admited dom and
For the first time in years tary patrol.
Brush troops an official speech in Peking was
imposed they were blocked by crowds "But the facts this since the main task still les ahead of.ommander, Sir Bachir, tried to
out. They tell
gathered outside the policy followed
soon is the bugles break In North them. As
after incidents which developed them--Router." as English and Russian. Africa is based
into a riot late in the afternoon. officially proclaimed safe again, the Hallall Valley. Fifteen rebels
The atmosphere was cordial of officers, cach died in the night melee but the
More than a thousand people have just received in-small groups
throughout and Mr Chou E-gathered in the town's main formation that the Mamsha area heading a native cavalry unit, res! crashed through.
lai appeared to be extremely streets jeered at troops and the take over (south of Constantine) is encir- rode out to
At daybreak the following happy, France-Presse,
began stoning them. clean-up cled by the French army and second phase of the
day the two columns tightened.
Barrages their grip on the scattered submitted to heavy bombing by operation, artillery and air forces. There
at the khaki-clad The hand-picked officers, remnants are heavy casualties among the disarined population."--United members of the ellto Native rebels. A systematic boulder-to- Press.
Affairs Corps who have spent boulder search unearthed many concealed dumps long years among the tribesmen carefully
stocked with food and aminund- and sequired a profound know- ledge of their language and tion supplies. habils, were assigned the task of instilling conadence and countering the violent anti- French campalga of the nationalist rebels.
on
outcast Nationalists direct considered to be an integral part | pression and biopre, re-blow ceasefire and the area was Moroccan infantry unit blocking/translated into French, as well (Curfew in Famagusta tonight of
ants sald.
ed their bombers farther of metropolitan France, inform- north in search of prey,
"The position of France vis- America should foresee a-vis Algeria,"
one informant this possibility and write said, "can be compared with return into its mutual aid agree- Mexico demanding ⚫ment now that supplies of the states of Texas and Now will be curtailed and aid Mexico from the United States," M. Faure is said to consider a eut if its gifts continue to decision to debale be misused. Tafpel needs to Algerian problem as fantamount be told this in the strongest to seeking a change in possible terms.
character of the French Republic.
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Wrong Fingers Amputated
London, Sept. 20.
Only a few rebels escaped. Of the 229 total 110 were killed, seven wounded and the rest; made prisoners.
women'
Deputy Governor
London, Sept. 30.'
Mr George Sinclair Regional for the Togoland Re- of stones crashed Officer Into British-frequented restau- gion, Gold Coast, has been dp-
'of. pointed Deputy-Governor rants and bars, a school and
Cyprus, the Colonial Office nh- The curfew is to remain in nounced today. He will take up force indefinitely, depending on his duties early next week.-- the situation-Reuter.
Peron Denial military police post,
Buenos Aires, Sept. 29. Argentina's Foreign Minister today denied that ex-Proldent Juan Peron had left by air for Spain.
news
Ho said Feron was still on board the Paraguayan gunboat The man responsible for final in the roads off Buenos Aires pacification of the TOUGH CAMPAIGN ·
desolate and that negotiations were pro- mountains 19 58-year-old ceeding for his exile abroad. The officer-administrator is a General Gaston Parlange, one of Earlier Surgeons have amputated the familiar figure in
today local all remote the best French Colonial war agencies reported that the wrong fingers of patients be-
parts of the French North experts. In the part wocks, he deposed President had Jeft cause of misunderstandings African empire. But because of subdued by force of arms and secretly during the night in a over the number of angers, budget cuts there was not by persuasion the rebel-infested flying boat bound for Rio Britain's Modical Defence enough of them in the Nemerit Auros Mountains, north of the Janeiro on the first stage ok Ualon disclosed today.
chas and the nearby Aurea Nementchan-United Press. the trip to Spala-Reuter, The union called on hospital
Some tribes had never medical officers not to number met a Roumi (Christian) even
rangea Angers in their noles for though all of Algeria is techni- operations but the use of the cally French soil. terms "thumb, index Anger,"
"middle finger."
and
The appeal was made in a letter to medical journals signed by the Secretary of the Medical Defence Union, Mr Robert Forbes.
mon.
ring Anger" The campaign In the Nement- thas was tough. The fiery rebel bands
have forlifed some of the deepest gorges and canyons
to the last and fought The French, then decided to take a leaf out of the memoirs of Marshals Lyauley, Gallent ell of the Medical Defence a Bugeaud and other builders Urlon
of has considered a problem
empire. that arises from time to time In Two converging columns of threatened or actual
medicbl some of France's best troops- Kitigation.
Legionnaires This problem, has Foreign
oni infantrymen---marched been, created by the current Colonial nomenclature. employed by out on September 22 to conquer
Mr. Forbes said: "The Coun-
onatomists
and surgeons for the
allegedly fimpenetrable
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Rene MacColl analyses the changes in the political atmosphere in the United States as a result of President Eisenhower's illness,
Evelyn Irons tells the story of Robert Stroud, the man who has been in solitary confinement in Alcatraz for 39 years
the destination of the fingers, mountain fortecas, cut by deep, To do as many do namely twisting valleys where heavy to number the fingers 1, 2, 3-equipment is, of no avail,
The vobola met the. French on and to record in the clinical notes, e.g., that Onger. No. 3 the following day the Northern requires amputation is to set the column at El, Maxrou and tho Southern one near Regbet mal stage for a berious surgical aga. They were defended with mishap..
Now and again the surgeon the loss of 21 mens cher reading the notes of the French troops flashed deep into at Pressing their advancy, the a later date before proceeding to the hills encircling the main part
Those are only some of ∙ the many" top-line featured" Id. operate has counted wrongly by choosing to regard the thumph of the rebel unit at nightfall on tomorrow's family favourite wock-wider. Watch out also for fanc as No. 1 instead of the index September 35,From peak to Roberts, aim.reviews, liures pague of local and overseas pictures, fingers in this way the wrong peak desperate struggle now for women and children, panties, crosswords, cartoon, emble gera berumputation or started, the wrench blasting rebel series and, aller coke me he trieimsinni rolars after his choson for some other opera-hideout with light mourain recent Illness, mil las ine: Claims MATE KRONANa" Mall-Special. guna fring, point:
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