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COMMENT OF
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The New RAF
T last Britain is begin.
A
the future that it has been getting brief and intriguing glimpses of since 1948. Delta wing all-weather Javelin fighters and Vulcan heavy bombers are coming into service in the United King- dom. They are joining Hunters and Vallants which began squadron duties last year.
It has been a long and anxious eight years' wait for them and the miracle in that while they may be by draw- ing board standards obsole- scent, they are not by flying standard obsolete, despite the tremendous pace of air- craft development. At any rate, they are a good deal more modern and efficient than the Meteors, Vampires
the and
piston-engined
relics that pass as bombers and are still in squadron
service.
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Railway Disaster: 5
Killed, Many Injured
Bern, Maryland. Feb. 23.
The Pennsylvania Railroad's, Washington to New York passenger train, the Embaney, was derasted here today.
The police raid there were at least five known dead and ponsibly 50 or more injured.
Maryland State police sald Rve persons had been pro- nounced dead. They said workmen with acetylene torches were searching the wreckage for additional bodies but did not expect the toll to go much higher.
But South Bal- Police put the injury figure at 25 to 30. timore General Hospital said it had received about 20 injured from the wreck, soine "very badly" hurt.
The Fort Meade Army Hospital, situated near here, said 20 to 30 additional injured were being cared for there. A Maryland police trooper described the scene as "bellish". — United Press.
Unfortunately modernisation Stormy Time Ahead
la coming only in trickles. Aircraft deliveries, accord- ing to the Ministry of Supply, will be slower than was originally planned, This follows cancellation orders for the Swift fighler,
of
the reorganising of the pro- gramme for production of Javelins and unexpectedly long "last minute adjust ments" to aircraft almost ready for delivery to the service.
THE Government points out that production has risen
two and a half times since 1951. It also says that Bri
For Dulles
Washington, Feb. 23.
Critical senators will closely question Mr John Foster Dulles, the Secretary of State, tomorrow about the "on-again, off-again" shipment of tanks to Saudi Arabia, and other recent foreign policy developments.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is expected to ask Mr Dulles how the State Department and the White House came to release the 18 tanks, to cancel the release, and then cancel the cancellation two days later.
Mr Dulles, on returning from after his appearance before the an ocean fishing vacation yes- Senate committee tomorrow. omeinis by stating that he had heard nothing of the furore over he landed at tanks until the Miami.
Senators are also expected to question the Secretary of State
say he
tain can "develop" an air-terday, astonished craft na quickly as America, If this is go, people may Justifiably nak why
Home new British aireraft are as much as three years behind
ot
Washington Reuter,
comparable American types. about other International con And if the bottleneck is introvcid which they the production line then has recently aroused, frequently quite obviously the pleasing in carefully prepared statements,
of almost one the rate increase
hus that
taken place in output in not
month
The senators were expected to enough.
take the opportunity-their first Ultimately, because British to question Mr Dulles about
In the aircraft his
controversial interview in possibly Life magazine last January In those of which he expounded the "art" of America's
or Russia's, a, manoeuvring on the verge of way will have to be found war
resources
industry
MONBUTE 117
Cannot
to
ment in
Seeking HK
Teachers
Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 23. The
Federation of Mulaya's assistant Minister for Educa- tion, Mr Toon Loo-hing suid here today that his government was looking into the possibility of recruiting highly
qualified teachers
from Hongkong for the country's Chinese middle schools.
The
con-
who will be Minister, around the existing system They will also recall his state- December which whereby 10 or 15 makers referred to disputed Goa
the UNESCO as a attending cling tenaciously to their pet province" of Portugal, and ferente In Tokyo, said that on projects, each claiming to aroused a
storm of protest in his way he would stop at Hong- kang "to assess the availability have the answer to
of suitably qualified teachers RAF's special problems.
and pave the way for their re- cruitment by the Federation education service."
the india,,
IN all fairness they should
HOOVER TO ATTEND
probably
of
admit that very few of the apate of postwar designs criticise have made the grade. It is the State Department during Mr
at
or
He would then and out how Immediate difficulties could be overcome, he said.
We
They will ulso
the administration
Dulles' frequent absences also a pity that some com-
international conferences panies have produced some inaceable vacation spots,
"There is an acute shortage of really good aircraft and are
They have invited to 10- Chinese middle school teachers stymied by their inability to
Herbert in morrow's hearing Mr
the country,
want produce in the quantities Hoover, junior, the Under- teachers with the necessary ex- desired.
Secretary of State, who acted perience."-Reuter. Probably the best answer is as Secretary of State during Mr as the economists would say Dulles absence at the time of shipment and other "to rationalise resources" the tank
controversies.
Meanwhile, three other con- committees have gressional
call Mr
or to put it in a non-techni- cal way, for various groups.
of companies to merge their shown signs they may
productive capacities and Dulles or officials of his depart-
their design rooms as the motor car industry has done.
to face criücisms.
Senate
Government.
of
HAIR-RAISING ESCAPE
Strong Support Certain
Was
New York, Feb. 23. Intenso interest shown in United Nations circles tonight in the hint in Rome that the Vatican would like to become A full member of the world organisation.
s
The United Nations charter provides that membership open all "peace-loving states which accept the obligations contained in the present charter and, in the Judment of the organisation, are able and will- ing to carry out these obliga- tions."
19 the
Any move to pave, the way to admit the Vatican could count on wide support among the pre- Gent membership, observers believed They noted that the Roman Catholic Church predominant religious group in about 30 of the 76 countries now the United represented Nations, and in several others, Catholics are a politically im- portant minority,
VETO UNLIKELY Any bid to seat the Vatican could expect opposition from the Communist countries, obser- vers said, but they speculated whether the Soviet Union would Ho so far as using its veto in the Security Council because of the world-wide would produce.
Radford Says..
US Civil Defences Inadequate
To Run Or Not
To Run
IKE KEEPS MUM
New York, Feb. 23. President Eisenhower's press secretary,. James Hagerty, today assured re porters that the President had told no one in Washing- ton whether he would run for second term.
Mr Hagerty, who is with Mr Eisenhower Ori holiday m Georgia. was reminded at a press conference of a report yesterday which cald the President had told associates in Washington he would next week announce his decision to stand again.
The press secretary today declared that he knew for a fact the President had not passed on his answer to any associate in the capital
Washington, Feb. 23. But Mr Hagerly did not rule Adm. Arthur W. Radford out the possibility that he him- self, and Mr George Humphrey, told Congress today that the Secretary of the Treasury, who
nation's civil defences are is Mr Elsenhower's hollday host, inadequate to deal with Reuter.
atomic attack.
EX
Admiral Radford, chairman or the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said
might know the answer, on
"probably none" of the 50 major Tass Workers
En
US population centres have effective civil defence ayrtem "at this time."
Are Spies
officer
AGAINST CHILEAN GOVT REVEALED
Santiago, Chile, Fob. 23. - Discovery of a nationwide seditious plot led by the powerful United Labour Central against the government's anti-inflationary policy was an- nounced officially today..
Details of the plot were found on Manuel Collao, second in command of the Labour Central, when he was arrested on charges of inciting a political general strike last month, the political police announced.
Clotario Blest, head of the Labour Central, and about 50 other union leaders have been arrested and banished to isolated places where they are allowed imited freedom.
Man Frozen To Tree Trunk
.
Lille. Feb. 23.
The Labour Central had dt- manded for a long time that the government of President Carlos Ibanez tako effective steps to combat the high cost of living Yot, according to polico announcement, It Was A 35-year-old Algerian about to launch a nationwide
vide worker, Mohammed Madjine, campaign of labour
stoppages, public demonstrations and social today was in a critical con- agliation against President dition following an amputa- Ibanez anti-Inflationary pro-tion of his four limbs, after gramme. approved by Congress a harrowing 48 hours during
carly this month,
A
Discovery of the plot was be which he was frozen to lieved to dash any hopes for the tree by the icy weather.
Madjine avas found by friends carly lifting of the state of siege or modifled martial law pro- claimed by the government on with his arms about a tree trunk,
and his feet congealed in a block general strike.
the eve of the abortive January his clothes frozen to the barle
Policy Of Hunger of and snow.
The state of slege empowers It was believed that he had the government to arrest and beɛn juddenly taken ill during banish any person deemed dan- ja storm in 20 below ¿tro Centl- gerous, without benefit of trial, grade weather,
The Labour Central has described the Ibanez anti- Inflationary
ля programme of hunger"
reaction this mirat Radford made the Tass is a cover for espionage during the previous year. Prior
Madjine himself was still de- Ilrious and could not explain his He and there appears to be
amisfortune. He was taken to It objects Maubeuge Hospital, where his confusion about just what was
to its provision limiting arms and legs had to be am- Washington, Feb. 23. mandatory pay raises of govern- puthted.-France-Preste. to be done in such an emergency. He warned that it is unlikely a
A former Red Army intelli- ment employees, including the
testified master plan can be developed
foday armed forces, to 50 per cent of Cold Kills Cats without streng Federal leader-gence
that the Soviet news agency the increase in the cost of living
Berlin, Feb, 29. of cant its to adoption of the Ibanez pro-
Beverni
thousand eats tatements in testimony before and that 80 per
have gramme, pay increases equal to died from cold and hunger as a The Security Counch Ina House Military Operations workers are spies.
Maj. Jamall Ege, who de- the rise in the cost
of living result of the big freeze" dat which all five big powers have Sub-committee which is studying
fécted from Communism in were mandatory.
Berlin, where thermometers fell the veto right, must recommend legislation to create a civilian
The Labour Central sterotary- last night to 20 degrees below a candidate before the general defence agency in the Defence 1942, also told the Senate In- ternal Security Sub-committee
(minus · 4 de- general, Baudillo Casanova, who zero assembly can vote its admission Department,
Six applications
The Admiral now
Bee to the West if the U.S.
organisation after the arrest of They includo Japan the responsibility to the Defence pending.
helped them. bolter, main freated
Blest and Collao, has gone into Department and Outer Mongolia.-Reuter.
function is to defeat the enemy them get jobs and quick citizen hiding. The police are actively, in case of war. Civil defence ship sald he was head of the
searching for him and 13 others. now is handled by the independ-
Rome As
For
Venue Assembly?
United Nations, Feb. 23. Tho possiblity
of holding next autumn's General Asstmbly session in Rome to avoid the pressLres of the American als. presidential election was
two
the of cussed today by United Nations' most powerful groups.
Sixteen of the 18 Western European countries met privately in an informal session to discuss problems of mutual interest." A spokesman said the possibility of switching the 1958 Assembly to the Italian capital ECESION
decl- was debated, but no firm sion was taken pending consul- tations with the home govern- ment.
was
The Italian Ambassador, Alberico Casardi, attended the
but European
caucus, understood not to have offered invitation to hold the a firm Assembly session, in Rome.
The Arab-Asian-African group: whose 24 members constituto the strongest bloc in the UN,
at the same i time the Europeans were meet- ing. Like the Europeans, they reached no decision on a Rome meeting pending Instructions from their capitals.
Ogden, Utah, Feb. 23. A young olman narrowly Demand will then dictate Operations Committee has escaped death when he was
the reluctance which designs or models are criticised
sucked into the air intake of a dis roaring jet engine here today at most useful for the job in the State Department to
details of agreements Hill Air Foren base, He lost hand. This seems to be clos
the relaxation of only his hat, his gloves and the discussed the issue made after about the only fair way of made cutting the seven-year time restrictions on free world trade tip of his ring finger. with Communist China.
Airman Second Class Ronald lag between the drawing
The House Foreign Affairs Smith, 20, stepped down from board plan and the finished Commitice, who say they were the cockpit of a twin jet B-57 article which has bedevilled not consulted about the
tank light bomber and walked in the RAF's modernisation shipment, are demanding that front of the jet engine
Mr Dulles appear before them programme up to now.
SPORTSMEN TELL....
George Whiting returns to the feature pages of the Saturday Mail with a new series for sportsmen about sportsmen "The greatest day of their lives”.
In tomorrow's Mail, he interviews England Soccer captain, Billy Wright who tells about the day he nearly got the sack.
Don't miss this super series beginning in tomorrow's feature packed edition of the China Mall. And this is only one highlight. Watch out also for these:
A match-making correspondent gives lonely spinsters some good leap year advice-She consoles them with the thought that every bachelor has an Achilice heel, Les Armour writes on the fiery rebel of the Socialist Party Nye Bevan,
Gites, Cummings and how lust back from a tiger hunt in India) provide, three brilliant cartoons.
ground crewmen were testing it at full power. He stumbled forward and was tucked up- ward seven feet, head first, into the jet engine, air intake.
The plane's engine was turn- ed off immediately and Smith dropped to the ground.-United
Press,
OPPOSE MOVE
opposed giving that more Soviet officials would | wes next in line to head the greentigrad
because its
he
ent Civil Defence Administra- technical espionage for the Red-United Press. tion.
Army General Staff when But he urged strong Federat was sent to Germany in 1041.
He said he leadership.
was given and sent identity
of the
ач
false He said the present Federal
vice- organisation is not adequate, president
Tuss Berlin primarily because it has had to bureau. He said oli the Thas
cu-staff there were sples, depend on the voluntary
Ege Said Intelligence officers operation of State agencies.
In arguing
the told him the Tass staff in the Defence
15 States taking United
useit Department over the job, Admiral Radford espionage even more extensively
countries, emphasised its primary military than mission.-United Press.
against
other in United Press.
1
for
At the request of the "Society of Friends of Cats", 250 Berlin alley cats were painlessly put to death today.
They had their heads
frozen while and paws Jeleles were hanging from their
jowa *
On the frozen Baltic, off the coast
Galilee Shooting sands of herons, wild geese and
Tel-Aviv, Feb. 23. Israel today claimed that at Israell Syrians have shol
hermen on the sea of Galilee twice in the last 12 hours.
An Israeli army
spokesman
of East Germany, thou-
swans have missed on the ice,- where they are being gradually declinated by the cold-France- Presse.
said the fishermen had to bring Reaches Montevideo
in their boats-France-Presse."
BOY CONFESSES TO MURDER
one
New York, Feb. 23.
of Thomas Williams,
the 14-year-old twin brothers accused of blud- geoning a cub scout to death has confessed to the crime, his attorney:an- nounced today. Defence
Attorney Wiliam
Collahan said Thomas gave Elm a "full statement" last night and completely exon- rated his Identical twin brother, Joseph. Callahan declared Tommy "Ju
up and told us" and "sald he didn't know why ho did it." Mental examinations and ap
pointment. of two examinera by Ohlo were approved County Court. this afternoon at the request of the county
proctcutor.
The boys were arrested on Feb. 11 on charges of slaying nino-
3
possible year-old David Powell, whose
death battered body was found the United Press. - previous day under a porch of the Williams Wheeling Island home. Indleted last, Friday on murder charges, the boys were arraigned this morning and an April 2 trial date was set.
The twins were linked to the Blaying by a pearl-handled pocket knife found under the body and a pair of blood- stained dungarees and a cap found in their home. Polico said all three articles belonged to Tommy..
The boys are seventh gradera
in the Adilson School here
and lived about one block
from the victim's home.
The cub scout was beaten with a two-by-four board and he died of a split skull. His bore
The proposed shifting of the 1006 Assembly to Home has been discussed informally in the UN since even before Italy Was Wanted Something elected to, membership.
For Nothing The Secretary-General-Mr Dag Hammarskjold, opposed any
Washington, Feb. 23. the move from New York on
Capital merchanis were al basis of economy and time re- most giving things away yester- quired for the transfer of UN day during their annual Wash- been no poll of the world or parently she bargain prices atill Canigation's 70 members by his were not low enough for some office.
shoppers. Police rounded up If 72 zhoplifters,United Press.
Fire tivities. However, there hos ingten's Birthday sales, but ap-
Exchange Fire
Gaza, Feb. 23. An Egyptian army position today exchanged.fire for nearly
on hour with an Israeil. patrol
whilet entered Egyptian-hold
(Conld, on back page, Col. 2)
chest and throat stab wounds.
also
the
The brothers had maintained Innocence since their arrest. When confronted with stained overalls, Tommy told pollco he had spilled catsup Later he from a sandwich.
were sold the stains
from .pigeon blood, and Anally changed his story to claim he had suffered a nose bleed.
convicted of.". first-degres murder, tite boy faces · a-
territory on the Gaza coastal BESIEGED TROOPS RESCUED AFTER SIX DAYS
strip, an Egyptian army spokes-
man said tonight.
The spokesman said thera There are all your regular favourlies as well including Jane were no casualties on the Egyp-| A Roberts reviews of the latest films showing in Hongkong, three tian zide. pages of local and overseas pictures, as well as nown for women,
He said Egypt had immediate- children and sportaimen. „There are also comle stripe and parales, ly lodged a complaint with the crosswords and the lips for tomorrow's meeting at the Valley ---" Mixed Armistice Commission all in the China' Mail.
abait this latest Iracil, og gression."--Reuters
Bousto, Algeria, Feb. 23.
besieged village. by helicopter and saved its defenders..
reports reaching here - to- night, t group of 50 Algerian troops, The village which Hes on the The rebels succeeded in.00- fighting for their lives, bald outskirts of Bougie, was.com-kupring part of the village pistely cut off by the rebels, out forex days and six
when marimunition ren, low nights in the encircled village | The reports said that, ho alert among the Algerian troops,
was given of the 50. Goumiées" | "Biz" rebels” and one - Algerisu plight ybatorday, Troops Folder -wars-killed in' the pEx- were down quickly to the
day siège.—Senter,
of Souk el (-Djoinza". Brainst more repentèă, attacks by than 200 rebels, scouting ta
LONG DIA.
Montevideo, Feb. 23. The British scaler Theron lenders which is bringing the
of the Commonwealth transan- tarctic expedition's rdvance penalty party back to Britain arrived in
Montevideo today.-Reuter,
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