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COMMENT
THE DAY
OF
Silver Lining
›ECENT statements
by
British ofcials and Archbishop
Makarios nug-
gost that there may be a happy ending to
the
Cyprus dispute later This your, London diplomatic correspondents have
ported
that Britain
concede
the principle
self-determination to
Cypriots the main
re-
may
uf
the
puint
at issue in the dispute,
An announcement
WAK 心
pected from the Foreign Secretary (then Mr Mac-
millan) towards the end of last year but when it did not materialise there were suggestions
from Nicusin
that while Makarios
prepared
to accept
plan, the extremist
terrorist
movement
WAN
the
Eoka
also
pledged to Enosis had de
murred.
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And only a few days later,
Makarios made nouncement to Cyprus Radie that "personally he dispute
the
considered "solved" and a formai solu
tion, he thought, "was only a question of time." Since discussions in Athens, Lon-
then there have been fresh
don and Cyprus and if no Useful progress Can
be
claimed by the participants, at least a better and more tolerant atmosphere prevails.
John Harding,
Governor,
has now gested a new formula
now
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CHINA MAIL
No. 36383
Established 1845
SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1956.
GOVT WORRIED: MORE
TROOPS FOR CYPRUS
Smouldering Situation
SCOTTISH BATTALION TO JOIN GARRISON
London, Jan. 13;
China Mail
Feature Highlights
Here are
some of the
feature highlights in to- day's Chlox Mail:
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Worried by persistent terrorism Cyprus and the still smouldering situation in ordered Jordan, the government today another 700 British troops to the troubled Middle East.
As the hurried airlift of nearly 2,000 parachute troops to Cyprus ended today, the War Office announced that the 1st Battalion of the Highland Light Infantry would also go to the island colony in the Mediterranean.
Reports from Nicosia, the island's capital, said the new reinforcements would bring up the] total of Britain's garrison there to about 17,000.
Diplomatic sources said the stration on the hostility of The despatch of the troops reflected 100,000 Turkish-Cypriota to the continued offietal axoly about demand of their 400,000 Greek- the the spate of anti-British dis- Cypriot compatriota for union
with Greece. orders in Cyprus and tears for the Brilish community in the Arab kingdom of Jordan,
Hug-
to
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be-
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The
"MONSTROUS"
Makarios which, he lieves, coull serve
killing of a Turkish- The Forutyn Oflee kay basis for agreement on | Cypriot police sergeant by eventual self-determination | Greek-Cypriot gang
and is this proposal on bus weck Ius pruvoked great which discussions are Bow concern in government quarters tering
Until this incident there
hero.
wald to be taking place. had been no forceful Renewed bliternues has un- fortunately. been injected
Into the dispute by the apparently deliberate shoot- ing of u Turkish Cypriot policeman by Eoka gunmen, Extremists of the Turkish po
pulation have threatened reprisals. And it is hard to Avoid the conclusion that the Greek Cypriot terror- Ists may have perpetrated this incident with the aim of arousing new hostility and bitterness, Cyprus must know where it stands on this lande. The
people cunnot be misled by a bunch of irresponsible hotheads. If Athens and Makarios opt for the Bri- tish plan, they should say in clear terms that they will brook no interference from the terrorists. British troops, with the help the vast majority of the population, can then get on with the job
of
A described as "manstrous" the at Paphos claim
made by Athens radio that British agents had killed the sergeant.
The crisis in Jordans, where further disorders were reported today, is also causing continued apprehension here,
demon-
The paratrooperH
flown to
Troops Raze Cyprus are standing by there in
Villages
Vienna, Jan. 13.
Triq
CREEKS KILLED
Czech soldiers have for some | Peršia.-Reuter. weeks been razing villages und houses along the Czech-Austrian border, the Austrian Socialist Party's official publication said
here Loday.
Nicosia, Jan. 13. Two Grecks were shot dead
gunmen uulaide Nicosia tonight.
The work was being done by [ by unknown bulldozers manned by soldiers so far as could be seen from the Austrian border,
had
Austrian border guards been given prior notification of
the destruction of a mill in the Guglwald district since it was very close to the border.
of Kainretschlaq The village in the Kaplice district had been completely destroyed about three weeks ago, the publication said.
of eliminat-Houses were blown up and the
remains stacked and burnt.- Reuter.
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The
who 13; revolutionised civil air- craft, A. E. Russel), the designer of the iristol Britannia tells what he thinks of the future.
Cat-Burglar Plaguing
The Riviera
It's Fine
For The Housewife
Food Prices Come Tumbling Down
London, Jan, 13. British housewives joiced today over another the drop in food prices second this week.
Price 80 Cents
TALKS ON MALAGA
First Meeting At Colonial Office
RELAX IN
DAKS
LIN ALITRON TRIERELE.
Whiteaways
KOWLOON
TODAY'S RACING SELECTIONS
By "Rapier"
RACE 1
London, Jan. 13. Strathwohr Tengku Abdul Rahman, Spinning Wheel Malaya's Chief Minister,
By "The Turf”
RACE 1
Strathyohr- Phoenix Hammer Mil
Outsider: Spinning Wheel.
Phoenix
today
the mvert government officials
British
with Perfectibility
Outsider:-Hammer Mill.
RACE 2
Fox Hunter Old Tyro
Outsider:-High Noon.
RACE 3
whom next Wednesday he Miracle will begin discussing his Fox Hunter proposal for Independence within the Commonwealth All Gay
by August, 1957.
With
the members
to
Outsider:--Chinese Mackerel,
RACE 4
Perfectibility
RÁCE 2
Outsider:-The Stranger.
RACE 3
How Do I Know
All Qay
Tonyber
Outsider: Chinese Mackerel.
The Champ
Knock-Again
Highlight
of
his Tonyber
delegation, he went
दे
re-
Colonial Office and spent about three quarters of an hour with
Raja for the Never Mind the Secretary of State Colonies,
Mr Alan Lennox- Half Moon Bay Sir
Martin Boyd,
John assistant Under-Secretary in the Far Eastern department at the Colonial Office, was among the top officials present.
RACE 4
Half Moon Bay
Outsider: Lare Triomphe. RACE 5 Precious Mine Silver Dahila Mincola
Outsider:--Char Ting,
RACE 6
Winsome
and
and
MAIN REQUESTS
Outsider: Supreme Command.
RACE T
Continuing yesterday's trend, when tea, bacon, poultry, fresh meat and eggs all took price
The four
of main requests cuts one large provision store
of with 200 branches in the South the triple alliance-control of England announced today internal defence and security, Violet Ray that from next Monday their fiscal control, Malayanisation of Quicksilver
the marmalade, cooked ham
the Civil Services and Edam cheese would be cheaper appointment of a commission
And still another drop in the to write
constitution
Sunstreak wero not gone into. it was Dragonfly cost of the family breakfast is expected in the next few days, purely an opportunity for the Hurry On
Some dealers have said that ministers of the Malayan
housewife's resistance
electea govemment, to people's high prices was responsible for the representatives of all-round cuts in buton prices. Sultan and the United Super-King Others maintain that the price Kingjom government to renow cuts are seasonal.
old acquaintances and make new ones.
the
CHEAPER EGGS
Lo
but
The Food Ministry's prices of linported bacon were reduce by from
shilings 10
14 shillings a hundredweight. First
Danish bacon was 10 grade shillings a hundredweight under the last controlled price.
Eggs showed A sixpence dozen drop in all ranges, aupplies of
of home-profuced eggs Nice, Jan. 13.
ure rapidly
increasing and a Police on the
is normal for this sunny price
of time Riviera were to-
year. French
Pork, too, has gone down and night on the look out for a
pork prices in all retail shops clever and
this
weekend. daring cat will be lower burglar, whom they believe Tho drop in the price of pork
be temporary, is responsible for five single Secretary of the London Ment
may ony
the Traders' Association said.
handed robberies of a total value of 49 million franes (almost $140,000).
had
he was
PRICE-CUTTING
no
a new
Outsider: Squadron Leader. RACE 8 the Rainbow
Cordon Hougo
Outsider:-Can Do.
**weaty
"It Wid A very friendly meeting, Tengku Rohman commented afterwards, cordial Indeed."
with Journ- In conversation alists, the Chief Minister losi
time in
putting right wrong impression which he said was created in some London newspapers this morning as to what he said last night at the airport. The report he had în hin the attributed to statement that ho would mobilise the masses of Mainya against the Communist ter rorists only after they had been given Independence,
"WHEN I GET BACK"
This was not correct, "The fighting goes on," he said, "but He warned the public that the general mobilisation has got should not be re- to be ordered when drop
get back as an indication of a All I said at the airport was that
EX-PERONISTS ARRESTED
Outalder: Never Mind.
RACE 5
Precious Mine
Tip Top
Outsider
Outsider: Beloved,
RACE 6
Winsome
Violet Ray
Chatterbox
Quvider:-Gladsie.
RACE 7
Dragonfly
Sunstreak
Winning Touch
Outsider: Glorious
RACE 8
Super-King
Ambition Cordon Rougo
Outsider:-Resurrection,
TODAY'S TEASER TIP
for the 5th race
He will have to be this if he is going to win
The teaser tip for the last meeting was Blondle, which ran second and paid $7.30.
Anti-Cruel Sports League Criticises Queen Mother
yesterday's
The Hurt Was
of the meet
West Nestöik Foxhounds at Harpley Dams Howe near the country home of the royal family at Sandring- ham, Norfolk
...
London, Jan. 13.
Randolph Churchill Has Lucky Escape
case further rioting threatens the lives and property of Bri- tons in Jordan,
The disorders follow moves to
The burglaries, always rom- "this bring Jordan into the five-nation Baghdad Alllance
when of Turkey, mitted
Use occupants ofgarded
The executive committee of the League against Britain Pakistan and luxurious villas were "AL | general towering of pork prices." | I want the full-hearted
Cruel Sports today · criticised the Queen Mother for Home," started four months The reductions in marmalade, operation of the people, which
Un September 11. cooked ham and Edam cheese I am sure they will give, when taking Prince Charles and Princess Anne to a for ago.
they are Mademoiselle Banquier saw a announced by one grocery chain they know
fighting | hunt. "man in shorts" leave an upper today were part of a general together for Malaya and not for window of her parents' house price-cutting competition among any other country."—Reuter.
milion multiple stores. in
Fifteen Cannes.
The firm sald that its mar- finies worth of jewellery were
malade would be reduced by found missing.
On October 3, erllat Jean halfpenny a pound, cooked ham Gabriel One of them, a school-master,
found that by eightpence а pound, and was ambushed at the village of 500,000 francs worth of jewellery
Bergue
Edam cheese by threepence A Kalo Koutrafa, 20 miles west
disappeared from his wife's pound. of Nicosta, and that by gun- bedroom while
Yesterday the same firm an- dining The other, men.
an employce downstairs.
Later that evening, nounced reductions in tea by of a local Coca Cola
factory, in a welghbouring ville, Madume fourpence a pound, lard by was shot at four times at Ayios Brenac surprised a
a pound and bacon man in ber | twopence Dhometios, a suburb of Nicosia, ¡ bedroom quietly ce
in by tourpence a pound, Router. occupied and died on his way to hospital.lling a sack with her jewellery. -France-Presse.
Before
she could
stop him he had Jeft by the window with 20,000,000 francs worth.
On Wednesday this week, ex- Queen Elizabeth of Greece, lost about seven millon francs worth of Jewellery from a first storey room, while she was receiving trlends on the ground floor of her villa
Yesterday, another seven mil- a lake in the Tower region of lien franes worth of vauabier Minnesota, it was reported here disappeared from the villa of today.
millionaire shipowner The two occupants of the for the Soviet Union since the Greek Calopodis-France-Presse.
plane flow low to get a closer view of a pair of wolves on the lake. One of the wolves leaped to attack the intruders, hit one
Ort
Train Disaster:
15 Killed
Kopparberg, Sweden,
Jan. 13. Fifteen people, many of them schoolchildren, were killed, and ten injured when a heavy iron on into a train ran head diesel rail bus near here today.
First reports said about half the victims were children, aged 14 to 17, on their way home from school.
ATHENS 'QUAKE
Athens, Jan, 13.
A strong earthquake shook The train falled to stop at a Athens tonight but station near Kopparberg to let | damage was immediately the rail bus pats.---Router.
ported.-Router,
по
re-
WOLF BRINGS
DOWN PLANE
New York, Jan. 13, A wolf brought down a low- flying aircraft yesterday over
год
Buenos Aires, Jan 13.
The committee declared that Victorrlo Radegila, private it "deeply deplores that the
Paria, Jan. 13. secretary of exlled ex-President Queen and the Queen Mother Juan Peron, was arrested with
A plane carrying Mr Randolph still
regard it desirable to
of Sir Winston the Churchill, be associate themselves and wito yesterday after | secretly entered Argentina
with barbarous Churchill, made a forced land- at royal children
fog here tonight with the Paraguay border, it was and cruel sport of fox hunting.ing in
fuel "Were it not for the fact that only enough announesd officially today.
the Queen continues to lend her minutes flying.
of patronage to this travesty British spont it would have been banished
the from Britain," committee said,Reuter.
The couple, who had crossed
the border in a small boat, by night, were transferred to Buenos
the Alres by plane, announcement sold. France.
Pressc.
Britain Builds Ship For Russia
London, Jan. 13. The first ship built in Britain
war was today handed over to a Soviet
crow at Lowestoft (Suffolk).
The ship,
a trawler named
the
of the plane's skis and Win the
the "Arctic Plonger," is balanced the aircraft.
first to be delivered of 20 trawlors ordered by the Soviet Government Inst year.
Each ship costs £800,000 to build.-- France-Presse,
The plane crashed into the lake. Tho two occupants crawled out unhurt to find the wolf dead-France-Presse.
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