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KOWLOON
BRITAIN
PEACE TALKS: PART TWO SUPPORTS
MERICA'S newly awaken. IN CAIRO But Commando HE BECAME A HUMAN Cobra Kills
A cu concern over develop-
mouts in the Middle Ext reflects the seriousness of the situation; it may also have a moderating effect on the hotheads In Egypt, Israel, Syria, Jordan arch Saudi Arabia,
de-
Elsenhower a President
claration that the United tu States LA determined support any nation which might be subjected to agres- alon, though perhaps turdy in its timing, is a welesne assurance that the CR does not intend to stand on the
merely sidelines
detached observer
Israel-Arab dispute.
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Raids Cause
New Anxiety
On Border
London, Apr, 10.
were
Morc raids by Egyptian commandos reported by Israel today, as Mr Dag Ham-
of the marskjold, United Nations Secretary-General, flew
By the same token it is necessi lal . appreciate President Eisenhower MASĖ
careful
{ Taking be America's commitments. For the moment, at Frast, they would appear to go no further than Be obligations under the United Nations Nevertheless, the charter. President's statement did not preclude artion by Bri- lain, the United States and France under the tripartite dechuration of 1950
QETTLEMENT of the Israel
انه
Egypt quarrel through the United the agency Nationa is assuredly the most desirable of the after- natives, for this in
Enth could open the way for the composing of wider Middle East problems. Mr Hammarskjold assesses hin present mission ብ▌ነ thime lines.
At stake is the authority of
Unitert Nations. the
As
in for urgent peace consultations.
Mr Hammarskjold arrived in Cairo today for talks with Egyptian leaders.
two
He had curier conferred with said. Others attacked an Israeli General E 1. M. Burns,Police patrol in the suburbs ot United Nations Chief Pulestine Beersheba. Aquaducts and pipe- Truce Supervisor, in Jerusalem | lines were damaged in where he so heard the views settlements. of tsrael ofcals
Raiders opened fre
on two other Israelt soiements, while an Israeli vehicle was blown up a landmine neat Beerolaim. El Auja demilitarised
In
the
Luter he left for Cuiro with General Burns, to spend two or there days in discussions with by
Egyptlar: Premier. L. L'ut Gamal Abdel Nasser, butane, the spokesman added. 10
The latest attacks WCTC the Secretary-General sald mostly on
settlementa to mnke Beirut,
the Gaza
doep intended
strip, with Lebanon "the
the centre of
commando penetration to the wheel" during his Middle East
south-east-Beersheba aren, ho mission.
And The Fighting
La Reuter
Today's ports of the border aghting, as detailed cables, were.
and group
JERUSALEM tisravi vectory: An Israeli patroš Egypilan commando J111
rought tous morning 10 miles north of Beersheba, when one commando was killed and another wounded and euptured,
There were seven more com- mundo raids in the night, when water Installations east of the Gaza Strip
damaged were added.
he
members of that organisaan israell spokesman guld. tion the parties involved in the Israel-Arab dispute are pledged to respect its judg- ments. Unhappily there has been no cessation of border
Egyptian rolders also blew up Incidents since the arrival in the Middle East of Mr the Tel Aviv-Beersheba railway in two places, the spokesman dia. Hammarskjold — « torbing indication that the contestants are not partien. larly interested In his mission to restore peace and order.
It in this which aids signí- Alcance to President Eisen- hower's policy statement which, while not immediate- ly requesting Congress to give authority to commit | American troops to repel or prevent aggression inside or aulside of the machinery of the United Nations, cur- tuloly gave Congress notice that the President might seek such authority. Another important move with ita own special menting was yesterday's meeting between Mr Foster Dulles and Con-
lenders
both of Кесня parties. This has brought Congress "into the act", and in consequence if, at some future date, it should proye necessary to ask for mill- tary commitments, CongrCBK could not level the plaint they had been brought too late into the picture. HE possibility of eventual THE
action under the tripartite declaration cannot be ruled! out, inasmuch that the United Nations machinery for the settlement of dis- putes such as that which now threatens the whole of the Middle East could be sabotaged by Soviet use of the veto in the Security Council.
com-
Russla joined grudgingly in
approval of Mr Hammarsk Jold's mission on behalf of the United Nations, but clearly reserved the right to voto nccording to her own interests should a settle- ment plan be laid before the Security Council in conne- quence of the Hammarskjold negotiations. The possibility of the United Nations belrig provented from taking suit-
PEKING RECOGNITION
France May -Take- The Plunge
Paris, Apr. 10. France may extend de facto recognition 10 China.
Asked whether Hie recent announcement that the two
nations were negotiating on exchange of economic and cultural representatives meant that France was extending de fucto recognition to Chlua, Quay d'Orsay spokesman said: "Yes and no,
"It merely implies thas Communist China exista, a fact which
one can no deny," he said.
*OUR INTERESTS'
The spokesman Bald these negotiations were the result of M. Christian Pineap's statement shortly After taling office Foreign Minister February would Coonomio
Biat Franco likt to establish
and cultural
Fong with China.
have great Cconomic And cultural Interests In China," the spokesman said, "but our desire to have'an economia
cutioral representative will in no way affect the status of our diplomatio relations with China."
and
Negotiations for the ex- change of economio cultural representatives are under way in Switzerland. -United Press.
ould.
round
They supported Israel's bellet that Egypt had launched a new commando wave, while detach- ments of the first wave were now trying either to regain the Goza
strip
ACTOS or advanco Israel's northern Negev territory to Jordan,
the
Three Israel soldiers were wounded, one of thein seriously, when their car hit two mines
the Kissufim nepr
acttlement, on the Gaza strip border, spokesman announced.
An Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman said today a Cairo radio broadcast boosting of commande raids into Israel was an "open declaration of Egypt's aggressive designs."
Syrians Open Fire
The
the commando
Blincis
of
the
to
-COCKTAIL SHAKER
TO STOP HICCUPING
New York, Apr. 10, A 41-year-old man appears to have shaken off a five- vea bout of hiccups
with the help of a patent vibrating machine and
gallons of water. The man is Hervey Hamition. He has been hiccuping 28 times minute each day
for the last five years. He had tried every kind of
treatment:
Then he heard of a Lebanese
doctor in Connecticut who claimed he had helped 20 out of 30 people he treated on his vibrating machine.
JACK WARNER ROBBERY: TWO BRITONS SENTENCED
Paris, Apr. 19.
The last chapter in the 1953 theft of money from the Riviera home of Ameri- con film
Camby
theft.
Mr Hamilton went to him
while
Owi doctor supervised the treatment.
The machine looked like a IC giant pair of scales, vibrated from side to side The and up and down, patient
the
machine
stood and
on drank many plasser of water he could manage. Mr Hamilton stepped on. He was thoroughly vibrated jor acveral days and after a few weeks treatment, the hiccups stopped, - United
Press.
KOREAN BORDER CLASH
Red Attack Alleged
yesterday
Charmer, Starts Train Stampede
Marseilles, Apr. 10.
Absolute Majority In Ceylon Election
Colombo, Apr. 11. The People's United Front
A snake-charmer was killed by one of his own has gained hooded cobras today after majority
parliament. cage it escaped from its aboard an express train and caused a stampede among the passengers.
The snake-charmer, identi fed as Mohamed Ben Dmorbi, opened the cake to feed his two cobras their daily milk as the express rolled to the station at Marseilies.
A cobra suddenly darted Into the cisle.
Passengers directions.
stampeded in all
The fakir Arled to coax his pet back into the cage.
But it bit him on the hand and he died later in hospital.
The cobras, back in their cage. were waiting at police head- quarters while officials puzzled over their fate-France-Presse.
Morrison Plan
in
an
VIETNAM CLAIM
London, Apr. 10.
Britain has told Russia it does not consider South Vlotnam bound by the Indo- China armistice agreements to hold joint elections with the Communist North to re- unite the country.
·
A British note delivered in Moscow recently and published tonight sharply rejected a Soviet absolute allegation that a military bulld- the Ceylon up was taking place in South
Vietnam.
It said Forces in the South had
It had won 50 eltetive seats
use 101 member parliament been reduced by 100,000 French early this morning and it has troops and 20,000 Vietnamese the right to choose members for sthee the annístico,
alled through six cats to be
nominations.
The
The note counter-charged that that the Communist Vietnam People's United Front
army had been increased from Mr S.W.R.D. led by
Ban-seven to 20 divisions since the duranaike attained this position armistice when only 69 of the 95 elective reats had been declared.
The
party position in the Ceylon general election today was: People's United Front 50. Trotskylte 11. United National Party eight, Independents three Federal Party
Com- Resistance munists two, Tamli Front ona: Total 78.
three,
Huge Majority
Ex
vas negotiated Geneva in July 1954.
The armistice
See temporarily country seross partitioning the the 17th parallel-was signed ́ by France and North Vietnam
A separate Geneva conferenco declaration stipulated that elec- tions should be held to reunite the country in July this year."
IMPOSSIBLE
But
South Vietnam is re- fusing to hold the election, It Mr Bandaranaike retained his says that a free poll would not acat with a majority of 41,897 be possible In the Communist United National North and that since it dis- sented from the Geneva agres- Kotelawala is ex-ments it is not legally bound
Premier by them. resign as
His United Na- suffered a
Seoul, Apr. 11. The South Korean Govern)- Loday announced magnate, Jack ment
veles over his Warner, was written today | "more than five" Communist
Party rival. New Delhi Apr. 10. when two Britons were sen- soldiers early
Sir John Mr Herbert Morriз05 former tenced to prison terms in morning crossed the de- British Foreign Secretary pug-pected to
tomorrow, absentia.
marcation line and attacked gested today the holding of a a South Korean army post-round-table eccference of re- tional Party has Waterfield, beileved to be the principal party to the tion north of Seoul.
presentatives of Arab countries crushing defeat and has, so tale unable to add a single the Arab- been and Israel to solve was sentenced to four
announce
seat to the eight it won in the The Government
dispute. Israell Mackiew and Robert YCEUM.
through the released was given
Mr Morrison was speaking to first round of the polling three
Ament. years.
Office of Public Information,
here to April B. on arrival reporters third Briton, Leslie Ives, who
Lost party has soldiers one to
The ruling Communist
back from in said the was the onl
night on his way appear only one
South Korean defenders
Malaya where he went 23 mem- eight of its ministers and live court, was discharged,
The story began on August 81, changed fire for one hour and her of six-man. British Parlia parliamentary secretaries in the
election.Router. 1953. Then Warner's daughter ten minutes from 2am..yembutary delegation-Reuter.
terday. gave a surprise party in his villa overlooking Juin-Les-Pins. When Warner returned two days later, he found the key of his safe missing.
DANCER ARRESTED
and
The announcement said the Communist attackers withdrewW to North Korea at about 4 BIT.
The
Government said there
were no
side Eighth
A
either casualties on
not
on
SO THE PÁRROT PHONED UP
and
Mrs
Offelal sources and the noto set out the line the Marquès, of State of Reading, Minister at the Foreign Office, will take tomorrow when he meets Mr. Andrei Gromyko, deputy Soviet Minister, For talks. Foreign about the Indo-China situa- Britain, has for months been Hon. urging South Vietnam to agres to the election. It was the first time that it had formally stated Vietnam the view that South- was
agree.
1
not legally obliged to
to
spokesman said the
regretted that "no The note "Dublin, Apr. 10. the Johnathan Bailey family. baronderunt, made early this morning, wes an admission
the spokesman for U.S. A highly-talented parrot, who "Kecto" quickly identified him- special progress had been made
self to his Anders and gavo in fulfilling the political pro Egyptian responsibility for
Army He called in a specialist to
had said he
fcd from his cage last week,
them the telephone number visions of the armistice. It of the in ralds and quoted it as saying open the sate. Then it was found not been informed
camo back home today after
hoped that it would be possible of the Balley family. his owners by contacting
bo meant that 23 million francs, and 7,000 cident, but said the Army was
eventually for Vietnam to telephone. the war was not confined
dollars were missing.
checking.
through a free elec- claiming reunited after Bailey, "Ketto" border
Lion" attacks
deys Icter, bul "has Some
A spokesman for the United The parrot known as a young
Military Armistico
Keto, told reporters sho lind English dancer was arrested at Nations
It was of reached the heart of Israel."
In the meantime apparently became homesick
spent hours teaching him to suit ease in Commission said he had In Syrian patrols opened heavy Sun Remo
after several days freedom
flew into 2 strange repeat his name and phout "paremount Importance"
In Are on an Israell patrol which her possession was found more heard about the incident either.
number "Just case" preserve the peace between the Fired 40 Rounds house several miles from his Crossed the armistice line into then 30 million frones worth of
France-Presse,
North and South-Reuter, Sho currencies.
own which he shared with WELJ Syrian territory in the Zawiya various
alleged to be a friend of Ives. oren just night, a Syrian military spokesman said
She said she had received the He said the Israelis left be- packet containing the money hind a quantity of ammunition from Waterfeld Ind Macklew, and grenades when they IC Ivca was subsequently arrested treated. This was handed over and released on ball, but the today to United Nations truce other two had returned to Bri-
who went observers
the tain. France-Presse. scene, near the Sea of Galilee.
It was the second time within
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week that Syrian mi "Buy Lancashire'
spokesmen had reported Isracii attacks in the area, Two Syrian soldiers were wounded in the earlier clash but Israel casual- ties were not known.
Cairo's Warning
Campaign
Manchester, Apr, 10.
Tho announcement did not identify the Korean army unit whose position WED attacked nor the exact location where the incident took place.
the The announcement sald
attackers fired Communist about 40 rounds of rife sm- munition while South Korean defenders fired about 30 during the raid.
The Government said the at- tacking Communist Boldlers were believed to be Chinese,
The Government said it had testimony of one unidentified American Army officer and one also unidentified-——Australian Army officer who were near the Deene and bad observed tho night.-Reuter.
Arms Find
The Cotton Board is to pro- mote a £260,000 publicity cam- paign urging Britons to buy Lancashire-made cotton goods. ★ CAIRO: An Israeli patrol The campaign is the indus
crossed the armistice line (try's reply to the Government's in the Deir El Balsh area sauth disregard 'of repeated requests of Gaza during the night and for assistance against the ficavy exchanged automatic fire with Imports
of cheap duty-free Egyptian positions for half an cotton goods from India and
Nicosia, Apr. 10. hour,
Egyptian military Hongkong. an
British It will be spread over the
froops today found spokesman said today.
He said the Israeli patrol then next two or three years.
a quantity of gunpowder, tw There
Cotton Trade unions have bombs, an old pistol, some per- cartridge Egyptian side. promized to contribute 10,000 cussion, emp, Rad the Major-General Abdel Hakim towards the expense and the filling machine in a house-to-
Board will Amer, Egypt's War Minister Cotton
ask the house search
Engom!, a and Commander-in-Chief, zald employers
the various suburb of Nicosia. Eleven mon. today: "Egypt wants to live and sections of the industry for have been detained for further
financial assistance-Reuter.
questioning-France-Press,
on
in peace.
We want our people to enjoy
a securg and prosperous life. We shall not allow anybody to stand in the way on our road to happiness and prosperity."
He added: "Egypt's army will cach anyone who tries to
transgress our land an untor→
gettable lesson.".
- manned
Egyptian
Russlan MIG fet fighters whistled overhead as General Amer told the cadets:
HYOU
are the vanguard of our defence."---
Ask For Ban Ruber On HK Shoes
able action by a Soviet voto To cannot therefore be ignored. The Hammarskjold mission may end in failure. Every-
thing depends on the attl-
tude of the Egyptian and
Singapore, Apr. 10. Mr Leo Foan Sen, socretary Shoemakeri
Israeli governments, But of the Singapore
a
sold today that his if they spurn the United Union, Nations efforts to bring organization was preparing peace to the Israel-Arab memorandum to be sent to the 'government requérling - restric»
borders, they must face the tons on the importation of shoes prospect of intervention by from Hongkong. Britain, France and the
Mr Loo said local preference United States. They cannot for Hongkong, shone had en- be allowed to spark Acouraged marchants to buy general war in the Middle the This bad become a Enat merely to satisfy their mopace to local shoemakerwa
Reister, oya belligerent whimg.
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in
a
Mau Mau Chief Caught
Nairobi, Apr. 10.
"General" Tanganyika, leading active terrorist and number, three In the Mau. Max hiérarchy, has been captured, a Government spokesman said today!
The "General" was captured with five of his gang on the south- west slopes of Mount Kenya yesterday, the spokesman said. It is the second time he kas, been captured. The first was over a year ago when he was nood'ns a go-between to arrange the surrender of terrorist groups. He had been missing sixson, ho failed to return from ons of these misafonk-—Renter.
OPPOSITION FOR BEVAN
London, Apr. 10. Mr Aneurin Bevan, the leading
Labour left-wingur, now, faces | two challengern'dné », row-bid this autumn for the, horiɑrary tremsutorship of the party V-54 They are Mr. George Brown, former minister and chalZZTERIS or the powerful: Trade Union group of Labour Members of
Parliament, and Mr Charles. Parihall, Socretary of the group. Mr Brown is nominated by his local constituency, and Mr Pannell by the Amalgamated. Engineering Union, which pro „vides 635,000 (oz. the Labour,
"Party's "meinbera.) Premal Cadmirer of the party in
Mr. Hum, quitupally the bew-
Labour lender, but he is. "doubling" the iwo posts only until a muccémor, de Trensurar isappointed at Labour's next annual delegate “conference, po Before he became leader · Br Galjakell, a staunch "right- Towingartu twins" heavily de- festea ale Bevan, în fights, for
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