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COMMENT OF
THE DAY
The First Step MR Dag
has
Hammarskjold Accomplished
Lite
first objective in his Middle East mission and has per- Huaded Egypt and lærnel to agree unconditionally to n censefire. For this the United Nations Secretary- General wins wholehearted approval and congratula- tfona, So alмo can the Egyptian and farucit fenders be commended for respond- ing no rendily to Mr Ham- marskjold's moderating in-
Th
Moscow ming
Established 1845
FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1956.
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MOSCOW STOPS JAMMING THE BBC
Moscow, Apr. 19.
stopped jam- the BBC's Russian- language broadcasts today, ac- cording to Reuter.
This
may mean
the Russians have given up Jamming during the Soviet leaders' visit to Britain,
to which is last 10 days.
Experts said, however, it was too early to dis- cover whether Moscow had completely aban- doned its "Jam the BBC" policy.
Though two BBC broad-
casts this afternoon were heard without interference, there
was jamming on other wavelengths.
WINSTON WINS THE
HE TALKS—THEY CHUCKLE Army Chief
have how her feed for And That Went On All Evening
ta
wider and more stable
Rettlement,
The cemefire, welcome as it is,
still represents only a be- j ginning, and composing of
the Palestinian situation
remains dependent on
K-
BIG PARTY AT NO. 10
At a glittering dinner party at
London, Apr. 19. 10 Downing Street tonight, Sir
ceptance of further measures Winston Churchill kept Marshal Bulganin and Mr Khrushchev chuckling
by both sides.
First and foremost it is essen-
fial that Egypt and Israel agree to withdraw their forces from the armistier ; demarcation line, It is also Imperative that full freedom of movement be afforded United Natious military observers along the lines and in the defence areas of the Arab and Isrueli states, i and that the disputants p
7: L arrangements for the prevention of incidents and prompt detection of vion- tions th the armistice] agreement.
All these are necessary if the
formal ceasefire {H
15 safeguarded. They are also prerequisites for a long-term stabilisation programme. They are conditions that will test the goodwill am integrity of both midest,
throughout the evening.
He did not hesitate to hark |
back to his wartime meel- ings with Joseph Stalin, debunked by Mr Khrush- chey at the recent Com munist Party Congress, And the Rusedan leadera
could not help but listen to him. For Sir Winston was sitting between them. That
Sir WON
Anthony Eden's arrangement. Reuter wald Sir Winston, glowing with enthusiasm, was the star of the even- ing. He was in one of his
AL
best moods of re- The menu Was: miniscences.
In fact, because of the fund of stories he revived, the
went
on
dinner
much longer than expected. He also had a long talk with Marshal Bulganin. Another guest who joined in the conversations Wüs
Sir
Earl Attlee. He was sitting next to Marshal Bulganin.
Anthony Eden inter described the dinner By "very pleasant".
then
were
oysters, soup, fish and steak, wines and champagne, brandy and cigars. The Soviet leaders
first to leave 10 Downing Street. They were smil ing broadly as they enter ed their car under a blaze from of floodlights
cameramen.
In Malaya Gets A New Command
are
Voice of America pro-
grammes
still being completely blotted out by Soviet jamming stations, the Reuter report added.
RELAX IN
INDAKS
THE FAMOUS KOMFORT
IN ACTION TROUBLES
Whiteaways
HONG KING 1 KD WILDON
RUSSIANS
'QUAKE
KILLS FOUR
Grenada, Apr. 19.
At least four people were killed and many injured in an earthquake which rocked Grenada today.
Aboul 10 of the injured were reported seriously hurt.
Kuala Lumpur, Apr. 19. Lieutenant-General
Sir Geoffrey Bourne, tough one- armed Director of Opera- tions against the Comman-
Several housus collapsed in the ists in Malaya's' jungle war, has been appointed Com- two villages and many others were badly damaged. In Grenada in the itself a wall collapsed and caused mander-in-Chief
serious injuries to two children Middle East.
and a women.
Two Hurt In Cyprus Ambush
TALKS
WITH ISRAEL!
END
Jerusalem, Apr. 19. The United Nations Secretary-General, Mr. Dag Hammarskjold, had his Inst meeting with Israeil leaders tonight to round off their lengthy and detailed study of the frontier problem and the best way to overcome
It.
The official communique issued after the meeting said the dle- cussion centred on the applica- tion of the armistioc convention In the long Goza strip and on some aspects of the convention with regard to Israeli-Jordan relations,
It was clear that Mr Ham-
of the
no
Nicosia, Apr. 19. Two British soldiers were injured, one of them serious marskjold had concentrated on
technical aspects ly, when Cypriot terrorists the ambushed a military truck situation, without touching the
political aspect, near Famagusta, tonight. The communique made
The terrorists threw two mention of Mr. Hammarsqjold's bombs at the truck and opened mission as a whole. Lip mutomatic fire. Reinforce-
later threw ments
a cordon around the area and began a widespread search for the at-
The main reactions in truco tackers. This
officially WAH
commission circles to Mr Ham- In
bomb AVDs Paphos, a
marskjold's mission was that it The La Cartuja observatory thrown at a British army Patrol has reinforced the commission's nounced today.
General Bourne told a Reuter said the earthquake occurred car but caused no damage or authority and brought the an- correspondent he welcomed his close to the surface, ---France- | casualties.
tagonists closer together. new appointment.
Presse..
At Stroumbi, a village north
A man in the small crowd
In a comment on the pro- waiting outside shouted:gress of the war in Malaya," he "Get out,
Khrushchev," said: "I think the Government will get the support of the and Was Immediately
people. marched away by Police. He was not detained,
'LET'S HAVE FRIENDSHIP'
iL
Soviet today
Wan
you
Embassy |
In his speech Mr Khrushchev The hope in that the centefice | jungle mi
Murthal Bul- | omurinted hinsælf with Marshal will itself con- gonio, squid the visit of the Sovet | Bilganin's remarks. agreement Tribute te reducing tensions leaders
a slep towards He sal "We canie to HrMalt Kat
coming faces. Rusia with honest hearts, gulded by in the area and to creating drawing?
on the road lo
the hope the
achieving an im- ope of an atinosphere in which Mr ogether
further mulaxation of interna provement in relations between Hammarskjold can achieve
tional tension.
our countries. the more smoothly the other, and potentially more diff cult, objectives of hip mission.
Put It Fairly!
HON
I
Marshal
Bulganin, according to a report of a speech released by Russian sources tonight, said: Hetween our countries long were established good, neighbourly relations and over the course, of many
years they were not bad.
au
'UNUSUAL' VISIT
(ONGKONG is not unmind- ful of the growing dieul. ties confronting the Lan-
"We think that cur present cashire textile industry, nor
vish is somewhat unusual.
The does it lack sympathy for
leudera of the Soviet state those workers who have arrived in Great Britain for the lost their jobs because mills first time. have clised down. But "We express our firm bellet Hongkong is puzzled and that our visit will facilitate the of butter under- hurt by the vicious tone of establishment
standing between our countries the
campaign and restoration of friendly rela- .against its impertation Intotions between us.
Britain of cotton yarn and we
"We hope that negotiations made-up textiles.
between our statesmen und poll- Another source of wonder-liclans of our countries will bring ment is the constant brue- the necessary results that are keting of Hongkong and Soviet Union and Great Britain expeeled by the people of the India in the Lancashire
as well as by people all over the allegations of excessive and | world."
current
unfair importa. It suggests Marshal Bulganin proposed a that this Colony and India toast to successful negotiorm are flooding
home between leaders of the Soviet
the
market with cheap textiles Union and Great Britain.
in
equa}
quantities-an
absurd proposition.
We also
WITH GLADNESS
Sir Anthony government arrival of the with sincere gladness.
Eden said his welcomed the Soviet Lenders
notice that those who so vociferously protest against Hongkong "dump ing" and competition con-
He and his colleagues would veniently ignore the fact respond to the constructive task that Lancashire is placing about which Marshal Bulganin substantial orders for our had spoken. cotton yarn-and doing 60
He added if they were success- without any prompting by ful In achieving positive Hongkong textile indus-results, such meetings
would trialists.
become more customary ini future.
Leaders of the two countries more
If disgruntled Lancastrians
deem it necessary to lobby would visit one another MPA at Westminster, let often. them at least prosent their Sir Anthony then proposed, a foast to the health of the Soylet icaders.
case as fairly for others ng for themselvea.
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A Better Chance
They have a better chance Ban the British had when we were in full control.
"But they are going to have "Yesterday and today, looking to work for it.
and passing "Experience has taught me around London,
we sawit 19 not worthwhile arguing through its streels, many Londoners and their wol-with the Communists.
"One simply has to present: "The inhabitants of London them with a new fact, and then
await their reaction. welcomed us good-naturedly.
Mr Khrushchev addext: "But "I am very sorry to be leaving.
glad to be we know that among English-Maloya and I am
are few people who going to another active Jobs," regard us without any particular Reuter. sympathy. However, even among then, you will not find many who would want to settle dis- puted questions by the strength of
and thut is the main thing.
"We understand that in con- nection with our visit
to Eng-men land, you have some difficulties because
country not In your everybody has the same atillude towards our visit,
"Both In
the Conservative Party and in the ranks of the there opposition Labour Party are expresalons for and again our visi
"We regard opposition as natural, and it does not trouble
We
are political figures and understand that there en- not be a uniform opinion with regard to Such complicated questions as mutual relations between our countries,
"Even on such a question as that
of peace
there can be different shades of opinion.
"We Sovial leaders think our visit to England will bring positive results.
COMMUNIQUE RELEASED
London, Apr. 10. Soviet Russia held out the hand of friendship to Britain in "Little Sumanit talks" today and
urred that conflicts between East and West be avoided. British and Soviet gov- ernment chiefs met for two and a half hours as 10 Downing Street, in the first formal conference of the 10-day Soviet visit.
Am official communique issued, afterwards sald It had been agreed to keep tho talks secret.
INFORMAL
It said in parti "It was gereed that both the substance and the pro- grem of these talks--which Dare in the nature of con- tinuing informal discusions rather than of a conference with a pre-arranged agesda for a pelilement of a speciile problem-should be secret and that nothing would be divulged except by means of agreed communiques,
"It In hoped to Isrue, a brief communique tomorrow might giving the heads of the principal toples dis CiscĂ PO
far Prete
United
there
Gunboat Sunk?
Three
Taipei, Apr. 19. Nationalist warships
fought minutes with a similar number
more than 20
of
for "Our negotiations will have success if we are guided by the striving of the people for peace, for the peaceful solution of all disputed or undecided questions, You, Gentlemen, do not like Communism. We know this and we do not hide the fact that we do not like capitalism, but we must live in peace,
Communist naval Craft early today, the Nationalist De- fence Ministry reported
WE WANT PEACE
"Of course we do not demand from you any particular love towards us. However, you can- not but recogniso the fact that such a great country as the Sn- viet Union exists.
"And this country wants peace and not war. As the saying goes, one must live not only with the neighbours one chooses, but with the ones God sends.
"If we approach the solution of international questions from Fuch a
one can position, then
always agree."
here.
It claimed that one Communist warship was sunk. The action took place near You Yu, an island in the Matsu group, France-Presse.
11 Die In Battle
Alglors, Apr. 18. Eleven French saldiers wer? killed when o rebel band of about 150 strong attacked a 24- man water carrying party near Sababra, in west Algeria.
French security troops sent into action shortly after the In- sident succeeded in contacting the rebois and killed a number among then, according to the Infest reports,-France-Presse.
Twenty Missing
"From this again comes the
Tokyo, Apr. 10. conclusion about the vital neces-
Twenty people are missing sity of peaceful co-existence.
after the 200-ton passenger boat "Some people say that we "Talhel Manu" capsized off want to sow discord between Shikoku island in the Inland you and the United States, o Improve relations of the Soviet Union with England at the include 11 members of the crow nino passengera--France- expense of worsening of relations and between England and the USA Presso,
NO QUARRELS
"Such arguments are funda- mentally untrue.
"We do not want to quarrel with anybody. More than that we would like the Soviet Union, with your help, to establish better relations with the United States and other countries
Sea today, Those missing
Police Get Ready
from
Capri, Apr. 19.. Police reinforcements the mainland orrived on Capri tonight to prepare for the x- protod arrival of Prince Rainier and Princess Grace on Saturday. Later they will travel to Rome,
Mr Khrushchev then proposed to be received in audience by toast for the friendship bet rengthening of
11
the peoples of the Soviet Union and Britain. The leader of the Labour
Mr Hugh Galtskell said
he hoped the frank statement of Mr. Khrushchev would contri
the Pope.--Reuter,
Leaving China
Singapor Apr. 10. Malayan Chinese are flocking
China, the Penang Immigration 'Often reported today.
bulo to the success of the most-to bring their wives hore from inga of the
of the Brush and Russian statesmen.
Labour. would criticiso both governments, if the meetings did not achieve positive results,
Router.
A spokesman said, the increase in applications could be due to conditions in China becoming word Router.
MALAYA PUZZLE: WHO LOST THIS GOLD? Kuala Lumpur, Apr. 20.. but i don't expect any trova, the Government must nock the owners of the propriety The Madayan Government
zona Zonand, - bus, omcials sand if it Foolchariston, the owner, of; wgold „The trioneira was found in s were not claimed, the money.
Jewellery" "which soldiers CommandBerrorise e ing 43rom the male of the loot would
Under the h
laws of truny 20 jo the Government. -- Batter
DEATH TOLL
UP TO 200
Lourenco Marques, Apr. 20. More than 200 were killed in the cyclone which hit the Num- puia and Niasso areas of Por- (tuguese East Africa recently,
was
IL
estimated yesterday, At least 10 were drowned от crushed to death by falling frees or buildings in the Taurio diárict alone. Lurio town itself was still isolated,--France-Presse,
JAPAN TO
Direct Line
Attempts have been made to of Paphos, gunmen opened fire arrange a direct telephone link mrny head- at a Cominando post. The Com- between Israeil mandos fired back, but there quarters in the Negev sector and were no casualties elther the Egyptian army headquarters side-France-Presse,
on
Two Killed
in the Gaza strip.
There is already a direct line between the Israeli and Jordan commanders in
in Jerusalem.
Mr Hammarskjold will return Jerusalem, Apr, 19.. to Beirut tomorrow afternoon as One Isrnell solüfer and n
he inexpreted to make another Jordin soldier were killed tour of the Arab countries for an examination yesterday when an Israeil patrol | up-to-the-minute was attacked in the north Negev of the situation and discussion of bu region, according to an forsell how further progress may spoken-France-PresI, } made.--France-Presse.
SEND AMMUNITION TO SYRIA?
Washington, Apr. 19. The State Department's spokes | man, Mr Lincoln White, today reversed an earlier statement and said Jopon had asked the United States if it could use ammunition manufactured under United States licence for a shipment to Syria. Mr White yesterday claimed the United States had received no such request.
In a statement today he said the Embassy in Tokyo had been asked by the Japanese Govern- ment United States speci- fications "could be used for the manufacture of munitions for defensive use by Syria.
Mr White also confirmed an carller Washington report that
United States, through the Tokyo Embassy, had in-
The
formed Japan that it had na objection in principle.
He said the conditions were related to the size of the order from Syria, which was expected to be small,
The
ammunition Syria quested was "understood to be for howitzers and possibly the trench mortars used by Syrian army-Reuter.
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