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NHE curious part of the Khrushchev denunclation of Stalin is that it WAY delayed for Iwo yeur, then mude 110) Bull- denly and carried out no thoroughly. According to
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No. 36387
Hour-Long US
Riot Follows Singapore Meeting
Singapore, Mar. 18.
cable reports, apculation Forty persons, including į Is that the new regime first six policemen, were hurt wished to consolidate itself į tonight in an hour-dong riot |
using, of course, the on the disused Kallang air- dictatorial structure 2421l
mass "Mer- the aura of fear inherited at here as a
breaking rally was
deka"
ANCAS
from its own despised pre- decessor before debunking
British parliamentary the "eull of personality".
delegation visiting Singapore to If this is so, the ueilon ay
its claims for Indepen- peurs impetuous. The sateli deve had left the former air- Ites have apparently been port terminal about two hours taken by surprise at the before if crowil. largely come fencity of Me Khrushchev'a
If posed
students, shattered attack. Slahn's natively 1wtory window in th
with
bnikling The bottles and slones.
Georgia has reacted with horror and anger, speech is said to be the sulgeol street Curner
the
If ? ! 6 ༥ ! 【1 throughout
untry. It is fair to ** sume that
ONE
Les per
Falkeng paint in every part of the Communist bine. NE wonders to whom the people will haten? Their own lenders, who are being kently and cautiously eit
Idol
fell 14
VI Stabe
*j*x*t }a
one
barrage of
Poller battled the riolets, which political leaders described 113 靄 "gangster element." for nearly an hour poller officers, poll- before Helans and pressmen trappest in the building could excape. blamed an organised Commulst attempt to cause trouble for the riots.
Volley
A poflee spokesman zaid
al, or Mr Khrushehey who tonight that 20 polteomes the lav uiterly pulverised the juri bay flying stones were eirented in hospital and several Preplexity others rrectved minor treatinent, certain result,
Five Detained but will be surprising if at ups there. One wonders. what the reaction will be in East Gremany and China - particularly the latter -- where individual dietator- ships have been both prom- Police said five of the injured inent and potent in recent | Chinese
Getained.
Police suld nearly all the vast attended the crowd which
years.
To the satellites the speech
of
Fifteen civilinnas, iling two women, were treated,
O
Chinese young cailtech to hospital with head WOKUKİN.
10 an
youths
hac
was
been
may suggest a weakening"Merdeka raily had dispersed
atose ow domination
friendly orderly and though, in fact, there is no fashion when speakers coding reason to believe that cul-banned songs and dancers began lective dictatorship need be to whip up young Chinese.
Lenders then urged them on any sweeter or more palat- able than Individual despot-in atone-throwing attacks.
Another thought that necar In Russia is
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MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1956.
DISARMAMENT
Price 20
Brand New "Specific Proposals"
MR GROMYKO
DISASTROUS
EARTHQUAKE
A
were
Beirut, Mar, 18. total of 132 persons kiled and sone 30,000 others were homeless as a result of an earthquake which rocked south Lebanon this week, it was announced today.
U.S. TO URGE
DO-IT-NOW PROPOSITION
London, Mar. 18.
The United States will launch a do-it-now dis- armament plan separate from the new Anglo- French proposal for long-range arms cuts at the United Nations disarmament conference opening tomorrow, authoritative sources said today.
Cents
RELAX IN
DAKS
THE FAZURA COMFORT IN ACTION TRANSIEN
Whiteaways
T KOWLOON
PLAN Get-Tough
NEGRO MINISTERS
ON TRIAL TODAY
Measures
By France
200 Offer To In Algeria
Fill Vacant Pulpits
New York, Mur. 18. The "Fellowship of Re conciliation" reported today that more than 200 white
Algiers, Mar. 18. France's Minister - Resi dent in Algiers, M. Robert Lacoste, made clear today the French Government was preparing to wage a show- down battle against Algerian rebels in the framework of which it special powers received from the National Assembly last week. and negro clergymen had
Lacoste, speaking at a news offered to go to Montgomery, conference, sald-France will give Alabama, to take the pulpits priority to military needs in to of 26 negro ministers who Algeria and will continue face trial on charges of lead-Pour manpower and equipment
Into the revolt-torn area. ing a boycott of the bus line. Lacoste sald all available They said the programme will include specific
Altogether D3 negivi
in menna of transport have been American proposals aimed at making an immediate
Montgoinery, in the heart of the requisitioned to dispatch start on President Eisenhower's open-sky inspec-
"Decisions have been made by South whore proposed desture-inforcements here at top speed.
Eisenhower,"
He said
additional helicopters Mrgation of the races has recently tion plan and an alarm system against aggression. Stassen said "We will moite a led to many
and zume 100 tight piener will incidents, trial These measures, the
icmorrow on sources said, can be taken number of specille proposals.
"But
charges of arrive shortly. we will not be in organising an
Lacoste said on airlift had under present world conditions right now
"Illegal boycott" pending
rigid
position," he said.
by negroes secking by end dis-been set up to bring troop re- final agreement on overall disarmament.
will continue to be can policy
and mutorised Harold E. Stassen, Mr from Moscow today. Ambas based on maintaining "an atonic
|armoured units from West Ger- Buseniowe”'s apteket eaVOY at endor to London Jacob Malik shield against ogression (which)
many. Four,
Canada, het been expected to speak for an importart μέτια
safeguard for the Big talks here, confried that he tussla,
peace."
proposals."
He declined Lo reveal them before the confer
er opens
brought brand-new "speritle
But officials made it plain that important differences dis tinguished it from the new pro posals prepared by France and were | Britain.
—
Assignment of La top-level Minister raised hopes that Russia might now be ready to allow
on disarma- *greement ment after 10 years of fruitless bargaining.
talks storting tomorrow may turn out to be one of the held Sevenly-five
most important sessions rsons
plan internationally since World War to hospital with injuries
Anglo-French The sent
the quake. suffered In
which looks further ahead to a long-II," Mr Stassen told newsmen.
Or it may be another talk- recurred as Friday.
disarmament ¿greement Casualty
out final fest," he said. "There's no way figures
Would set which (argeis preted to mount further us re-
for trimming overalt of being certain right now." forces und
these enforcing ports came in from out-of-the-
BRIGHTER PROSPECTS targets.
werd
term
ex-
way places near the Syrian border which lack teleps one and
rond communications
head-
The US is concentrating on how to get things going.
MR STASSEN
re-
In any case, he said, Ameri-crimination in sering on buses. Inforcements from French West
15,000 MEMBERSHIP
The
Fellowship feiliation describita
Africa
Latestc
of Recon-
self as a laken under
SECURITY VALUE
"So a part of the US policy Is a want to be very certain of ent of laternational and up opecial the security value of any other arrangement before we agree to weaken this atomk shield."
invas
said
and
these measures,
the special powers
Commando Units
| voluntary, n-derminational law, would become effective to- le raid the measures Protest. organisation formed murow In 1015 by elergymen
the called for the Air Force to set eking the
battalions of foot. conflicta by peaceful troops for Algeria, it claims a membership 15,000
In the United Sta
States with affiliates in other countries.
The Navy has bens asked to The Fellowship also called on
iorm Cemmendo units and the President Eisenhower to exercise "special responsibility" in the feet will be assigned to cruise segregation Issue, and for along the Algerian evast, Lacoste churches in the North
said and raid. He
the army had In the morning he said. Bri-South to repent of the sinful bean Instructed to start calling tain,
France, Canada and the
segregation" jup reserve
Mr Stassen said he will pre- sent President Elsenhower's latest letter to Marshal Bulganin on disarmament At the
tarian tomorrow.
opening
practice
US will hold a final strategy Router. meeting.
"We have not yet reconciled the positions of the
Western
of
officers and, non- commissioned officers.
Lacoste said that military courts would be given added authority, including jurisdiction over *a
But Western officials agreed source said. "We are willing that prospects for agreement
and. Nurther rightened considerably, Outer Power," uvedeta arge Can't Entertain certain number of
to move faster-
than others at this stage”
STILL A SECRET
He said in this respect parts
one diplomat
gress in Moscow last month and measure of dgr disagreement B. & Mr K.
The
Eisenhower subsequent Bulganin letters.
and the presidential of the new US plan are closer Nommunist
can
London, Mar. 18.
would be punished severely.
Lacoste added that some
arcas would be wholly Or
The quake levelled 100 of 500 houses in the herd-hit village of Chehim and cracked the walls of others, making. them
the He said uscless. IL split walls in
should not be over-emphasised, several public buildings here,
Party leader however, since the foundation Singapore A
Movernment government including
S. Khrushchev scrapped of any disarmament agreement
hly closed to traffic and that special permission would apokesman blamed the dia- quarters
The Foreign Office has snub- be required before entering to Russlan proposals outlined in carly party, doctrine and said must be accord between Russia- turbances on
Chinese officer
and the United States, the two bed become A
a bld by Russian Algeria. Sovíct Premier Nikolai Bul- Communiem American "cultural Association" which An
emergency
Bystem by peaceful most heavily armed powers, --- sympathisers in Britain to play Lacoste said this requirement correspondence held anti-police meeting
with "world shipment of food and medical gunin's
United Press.
frost next month to Marshal shortly before the rally. suppiles was expected to arrive President Elsenhower. Specifie
Mr Stassen said the American
Mr Khrushchev, from Bulganin and of both the American Matry [ the 5,000 young by air tonight
another details and to be governed by a
proposals for getting an imme- and Anglo-French plans
diate start on disarmament were who was not just a fear-Chinese at this meeting marched tomorrow.
dimained secret,
readied by top experts during a year of study following Presi- Ident Elsenhower's order for a reappraisal of polley on March
ism. will that for almost 20 years dating from the assassing- tion of Kirov in 1934) their present rulers allowed them
mun
sume tyrant but in the inst years of his life deranged and at times very near to being a dangerous madman. At least he is presented that way now,
And in doing so Mr Khrush
chev immediately
makex
AD
IC-
means,
across to the raily in organised Egypt and Jordan win columns and were later in-
Dutch fryl-Did missions and Russia unexpectedly sent volved in trouble, the spoke Jrzq will cent blood plasma | Deputy Foreign Minister Andrel
for man sold.
the Injured. -France- Gromyko to represent it at the Presse.
London conference. He arrived 19, 1955.
Reds Blamed
Later in a rodio broadcast the Chief
Minister, Mr David blued the Com-
himself an enemy for life Marshall,
mtt6lsly for the disturbances
of the tieorgian people who
in
wounded
pride are
are
und said an inquiry would be held.
bound to recall in future He said: "We know there
are carmies in our midai."
He added: "It is most d tressing and unfortunate the wonderful friendly spirit of the meeling should have been mar- red by vicious, organised ruptive elements."Reuter
with some pain that while all the people of the Soviet Union are equnt some less equal then others, And it appears that the "more equal" at the moment are the Ukrainians whom Stalin unkindly slighted when he called out to an embar. rassed Mr Khrushchev at a parly: "Hey, Kho khul, dance LA the gopalkt".
dis-
Fall Into Trap
Paris, Mar. 18.
SAAR'S FUTURE
BEN-GURION'S STERN WARNING OF EGYPT'S WAR DESIGNS
Jerusalem, Mar. 18.
Mr David Ben-Gurion, Israeli Prime Minister, declared tonight that Egypt was certain to attack Israel within the next few months unless Israel received defensive arms in the "most immediate future."
Mr Ben-Gurion-who is also Defence Minister, was speaking at a con- vention of the Israeli Federation of Labour.
deal
and
sald
tended to improve the condi- tlons of labour of Egyptian workers or raise the standards of living of the peasant massce.
"They
were undoubtedly aware
dictators the Egyptian were preparing for a war of extermination against Israel,"
"SURPRISING"
to
Is ro
Sydney's Biggest
Fire Since War
it was disclosed here fonight,
The British-Soviet Friendship
Planes Break Society has been refused time
Danube Ice
and
Jam
Vienna, Mar. 18.
to entertain the Soviet Prime Minister and Communist Party Chief, who will be visiting Bri- tain os guests of the British government,
Hewlett
Anthony
Dear
of
would halt the mass exodus France of Algerian workers who have been swelling the ranles of the terrorists in Aigeria
Meetings Ban
Lacoste suld the Government.
would ban any public meeting OT. demonstration which threatened to heighten tension between French and Moslems. He said officials would halt the Axma traffic which has turned
a 50-mile- an afternoon and evening, of Algeria into a "virtual powder-
the ke
The Society's President, Dr
Johnson, Canterbury (popularly known Joint efforts by Yugoslav as the "Red Dean") had asked
Hungarian military Sir
Eden to allocate planes to break long ice jam on the Danube just an evening, in which
Lacoste sald the government were finally successful to Russian leaders could be their
guests.
would be authorised to use ita day, Radio Budapest said." But, the Society sold tonight, right of search on a round-the-
The
Ice jam, covering the the Foreign Office replied that clock bazis. He said the 1929- Danube in Southern Hungary, the Soviet leaders' visit was a cru
would "excrelse effec- ernment caused the worst floods
and it was there very full, one"
Live
control over newspapers, since 1838..
"impossible to include in. It prore despatchos, and telecom Nearly 100,000 persons were the many offers of hospitality munications but did not plan to
the
and hundreds
had of which evacuated thousands
fertile Reuter, of cores of lands were flooded by waters of the stream.
Hungarian aeroplanes vainly attened earlier to break the ice jam by dropping heavy bomba.
Twelve Yugoslav military. plants and a number of Hungarian planes today finally succeeded in getting the Ice jom moving after they bombarded a huge co barrier
the Hungation Yugoslav border, Radio Budapest wald;
.FLOODS RECEDE
A few hours after the bomb- mig the water javel dropped up
been
received. censor mail for the time being.
(Contd. on back bare, Col. 3)
SUNDAY ÉXPRESS
Baby Book
Mr Ben-Gurion sald the Stalin tanks and a number of Egypt's present rulers, he Egypilan Czechoslovak amus submarines.
sald, were headed for "external had
bordened Egypt's
"the adventures and first of all for Mr Ben-Gurion stutude end brought war nezrer. Soviets were undoubtedly war with Israe}."--Router.
"The supply by the Soviets of aware these arms were not in- One does nut have to speak Police id a trap for half a aggressive arms in large quantity Russian to realise that the dozen Algerian nationalist "Lax
superior quality 15 the is the gravest request has a vulgar and collectors" early today and sub- Egyptians most unflattering undertone. machinegunned one of them te event," he said.
death when he pulled a knife,
Israel did not have ene tank Two were arrested and three
which equalled in quality those POSSIBLY vindictive Army
marsbala, now a powerful others escaped United Press.
of the Arab armies. He added influence
"We have not ope tank which in the regime,
equals in
British demanded the
power the censure of
Centurion supplied to Egypt or
Sydney, Mar. 18. Stalin's generalship and his
the Soviet Stalin. (tank). What
Mr Ben-Gurion then went on Escaping ammonia fumes liquidation of the high
worse, we have not one fighter Saarbrucken, Mar. 10.
deal with command in 1939 to atnile
the Western exploded today, selling off a in speed to the cititude to Tratt'e cequest for raging fire in one of Sydney's Herr Erich Schwerdiner, plane equal for their near defent by the
Russian MIG or one bomber
major waterfront cold storage State Commissioner
firms. Soviet
to three feet in the Danube and German Army in 1941. But Saarland
for Reconstruction, snid here equal in quallly to the
"Both the attitude of Britain plants..
wolcas receded from many there ia more to Mr tonight that the Saar could be Ilyushin." Khrushchev's speech than "expected to return to Germ
Mr
Offcials said it was Sydney's flooded areas, the broadcast said, Ben-Gurion sald Egypt and the United States
less surprising. These cour biggest fire since the war.
Meanwhile, Radio Budapest, that. And the way it was by the end
Jet of this year," had received 200 MIG
tries still refuse Iwel the de- All 150 fremen, who fought 'gave va
inary report on "lenked" to the Western Reuter.
fighters, Ge Ilyushins, duzens of
fensive arms she requires the blaze under control were casualules damage done by for only such anns are
capable
nycrcome by the cscaping the flood. It sald” that only Egyptian
himes. Fifty were sent to four persons were reported hezpital and the others treated drowned but damago. Mr Ben-Gurion Aid Lt-Col at the scene of the fire...
Here it is the book that perly was "considerable," Gimel Abdel Nasser, tho A
Thousands of cattle. and gives complete Information Egyptian Prime Minister, would company origineer who en-
In on Gulfered the building
at other animals drowned and
on the care of the baby and not "dare enst in the balance'
nce" tempt to cut off the ammonia crops. In various districts were his whole regime if he knew
small child from the prenatal to hospital last Monday. His Israel was able to repel is leak before the explosion also ruined. Moreover, thousands of
was overcome. He was
In houses were completely destroy parlod through, to the sixth parents were on hand for the: nesault with arms no worse than serious condition when polico
year detailed advico Wan Der his own, and with operation, which
finally brought him out of the it said.-United Fress,
on Routines, Monus, Recipes, formed by a team of Colorado capacity fat surperior to that of building. University. Medical Centre the Egyptian or any other Arab
The
fro caused extensive surgeons
army.
Complete Record Section from freeze operation, In the deep
Referring to the. Israel-Arab
Arab six-storey building,
Birth to the twolfth Year. Richard's body was encased border situation, Mr Ben-Gurion Offclubs, estimated the damage in ice to lower his body tem-ait? Inci had suffered over 100 at the equivalent of US$5,000,-
Mustrated by over 200 "how-to" photographs and drawings, some
in two colours.
world would auggest that
it was no accident that such
detailed reports have filled of Western columns
tho
newspapers.
Neutral sympathies may well
be kindled by the disclosures
and this may succeed in
to some extent in orcas
Fails
To Survive Complicated
Heart Operation
Denver, Mor, 18. disrupting Western designs The 13-year-old son of the Canadian Minister of Public Works died last night in a Donver Hospital despite a complicated heart operation to save his Ute.
whore Rusala intends: furthering
its
interests.
The West, however, con hardly be enamoured by Mr
Khrushchev'a vituperative Young Richard Winters, son of
and cowardly attack on a man who has been dead for two
years, and whosa patronage he was privileged to survive! There certainly nothing brave or
Mr
Robert R. and Mrs Winters of Ottawa, Canada, six-hour had undergono, a
frecie heart operation. deep on Thursday at General Itose Hospital', in Denver.
ΟΣ
of
aggressionenting
damago to three floors of the
roduces the Damont B Arab, merilla war in the pust
for oxygen and right year, allows the surgeon/ to open Jordan, he said, led this
this war-
had the chest and operate on the fare for a time, but Egypt
taken over the fosdership in the heart under direct vision.
- The method,
doctors casualties no a result of the 999-Unlied Press;
inspiring in hie action; The comparatively rare operac
Indeed, thoro' is much in the
clono
holo
fibn wan
Richard a two lower between former minion's “agnaseina-heart chambers condition the boy suffered from since birth. The boy was flown to Denyed from Canada and sent
tion of his master that suggests hypocrisy and sheer
humbur.Ma
the operation, the boy past two years, and the attacks to be holding hað 'Intensified from
WIN Buff this, condition | rannth.
his own!!
muddenly worsened yowlerday, morning. He died at 8 pm ---- mi United Fresn..
STRIKE ENDS
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