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COMMENT OF
THE DAY
The Aswan Dam THERE a little doubt that
the
American govern-
mont'a decision not 10 participate in the Aswan Dam project in the present circumstances WAS con-
siderably influenced by congressional sentiment. Congress last week made no bones about their feel- Ings--they
solidly were
against heavy dollar com- mitments for the project. Colonel Nasser, the Egyptina President has done most lo Jose popular American support for the ambitious dovalopment scheme. Не could have closed with the Joint Anglo-US financing
offer some time ago when American public opinion was fairly well diaposed
regime, But he preferred to
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SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1956.
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RELAX IN
DAKS
THE VAJEROS COMMERY ACTION TREH KERA
Whiteaways
PEKING BUYS BRITISH CARS IN HK
Convoy Of 28
Leaves
This Morning
BY A STAFF CORRESPONDENT
The United Kingdom'motor industry, which has been in the doldrums for the last few months, may now take heart-
A “new” field has been opened to it- China is purchasing,
towards him and his This morning 28 British Standard Vanguard 3s, ordered by the Peking Government left Kowloon for the border.
go fishing in the troubled politics, accepting Commun-
Waters of International
equip-
ist-made military ment, attempting to upset the balance of power in
the Middle East, and nibbl
ing at Soviet offers to help him build the dam. Ocially the reasons for the withdrawal of the Ameri- can aid offer are fallure of the states possessing to the proprietary rights Nilo reaching agreement on the division of the river's waters, and the uncertainty of Egypt's ability to devote adequate resources to B3+ sure the project's success. Both are tenable objections, yet behind the decision can be discorned a powerful political influence,
The question
whether
now posed
is
Egypt and the
other interested Nile states
have lost possessing a
This was the largest single order for cars placed with a Hongkong firm by the Communist regime.
Some months ago about 12¦'out of stock as they would have British and four German cari been to any ordinary buyer, were delivered, but not from though go doubt the purchase local stock.
price was reduced for quantity.
The 28-car convoy, made up into two sections, left Mickile Road, Kowloon,
at about 7,15 a.m, and was due to arrive al Man Кат То (the vehicular bridge crossing) at
about
A reliable Bourco said this morning that the Vanguards, valued at about $284,000 cash wore to be used as taxis,
(It has been reported that there is a shortage of taxis in the capital)
However it was also thought locally that some or all-might bo for the use of high govern- ment officials.
The order
was placed with Far
China Molors by Resouncom the official Peking Government buying agency in Hoogkonu.
Bost
No apare parts were involved all chanes of | in the desk the comp were which
redoubtable
dam, the existence of which would transform the hidden resources of a vast area. Or does the project now become a Russian under- taking?
The Soviet Union has made
tentative
assistance offera
Not
Kidnapped 's Body
Baby's
New York, July 20.
to Egypt, and assuredly The nude body of a baby, Foreign Minister Shepiloy who the police thought at discussed the scheme with
first might be kidnapped Nasser during his recent
Cairo. Neverthe-Peter Weinberger, was re. visit to lees it would appear that covered from the Hudson inasmuch as the Egyptian River today, but medical Ambassador to Washington examination disclosed it was was this week
to
instructed
the Western accept offer, Moscow was not able to give solid assurances of financing the undertaking. President Nasser may have thought he WBA being clover in playing Russin off against the United States, but from his point of view the nett result can hardly But be counted a success. then,
Colonel perhaps, Nasser really doesn't care
a newborn infant,
Peter was 32 days old when he was abducted 18 days ago.
The chief medical examiner, Milton
after Helpern, said, examining the body removed from the water, that it was prob- ably only a few hours old when it was down into the river,
The medical decision ended three hours
and of police
first medicul activity. In their announcements of the discovery of the body, the police had said
a rap about a dam. After it fitted the general description all, he's had an amusing of Peter as to size, weight and political flirtation.
eye colour.-United Press,
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Feature Highlights
Here are some of today's
fenfure, highlights..
world's strangest story, by Felix Baricer. Whet
is it like to live in soldish bowl? by Albert Stewart
P. 8: I feel the pulse of another Poman, by Sef- ton Delmer. Can you
do Paris on £25, by Roderick Mann.
P. 7: Beginning: The story Annigoni, portrait painter of the Queen, by David Wynne
Morgan, William Hickey.
P. 8: Brave new world re-
visited,
III, part
by Aldous Huxley. A million deal for Diana Dors, by Christopher Dobson.
Armour
P.
18:
examines
and
Los
the character policies of Solomon Bandaranalike.
P. 14: Cyril Stapleton's
record column. Nancy Spain on books.
P. 10 & 17: Local and over-
sean sports roviews.
This composite picture shows some of the 28 Standard Vanguards lined up
in Middle Road, and the head of the 28-car convoy in Sallsbury Road on its way to the borderStaff Photographer.
1
AMERICA LAGGING BEHIND IN
DEVELOPING ATOMIC POWER
Washington, July 20.
The United States govertiment was today urged to speed up the development of civilian atomic power in an effort to keep up with British and Soviet advanÇÜN, ALE Anatole you
Locally employed drivers were
The House appropriations committee, in a majority raport accom panying a bill financing the atomic energy commission, declared the United States was "bogged down in inexcusable stagnation" in the race to develop atomic power.
The United States was behind | mittee sald: "It follows that an Britain and the Soviet Union in international agreement to out- atomic power, _the_report said, law A-bombs and H-bombs as adding "the Russians and the weapons of warfare is a logical British are going to have atomic
prospect," shectric power sooner than this country.
It sharply criticised Mr Lewis Strauss, Chairman of the AEC and called for a reorganisation of the Commission.
"If we drog our feet and we are dragging our feet-the other nations of the world will inevit ably turn Britain and Russla as the suppliers of atomic electric power plants," it added.
AWESOME DANGERS
The committee said the in- herent dangers in the operation of an atomle power plant "are awesome to consider. No one could say that an atomic plant would not get out of control,
"The problem goes way be- used in the operation until theyond the possibility of explo- convoy reached the border,
It was understood that at Man Kam To the cars were to be examined by the Hongkong Cus-
toms.
Following the examination the cars were to bo handed over to Peking officials for chassis and engino number checks, etc.
was expected The handover to take about three-quarters of An hour
or
Although there was no official unofficial comment this morning the deal was thought to be the forerunner of other orders from the Pelding Govern ment.
W
Į
sion,
Industrial explosiona ure known to us. The problem the escape, of radioactive gasts or waters Into the Bur~" rounding terrain, This doter- rent alone is of such magnitude that only the Government it- seit is in a position to go ahead with the vital problem at hand.
"Envisage the
consequences area in the to a metropolitan
vent that an atomic electric power plant were to get out of control," it added.
Because "the outbreak of an atomic' war could render the entire earth, or a large portion of it, uninhabitable the com-
Revolutionary Aerodynamic
PLYMOUTH '56
IS HERE!
Many amazing NEW FEATURES.
Russia Willing To Buy
London, July 20.
If an agreement on prohibition was reached the report said, the The Soviet Union is prepared likely factor in
and 38 war fought to spend 4
between 27
on with conventional weapons will million pounds sterling be the nation or group of nations about 500 special machines possessing the greatest energy made in Britain,
E. Mr V.
so Skobrtov, an official of the So- potential."
viet Machine Construction Ministry,
said at
Shrewsbury today.
member of a Skobstov is a Soviet trade delegation visiting Britala under the leadership of Vice-Premier Vyacheslav Maly- shov
"In other words, the earliest possible development of atomie electric power
by the United
States is immediately required
the earliest achievemen! of
electric efficient atomic power is a true road to world peace.
'The Soviet official added that "The issue now confronting the amount of machinery to be this country is not the issue of purchased would be decided ut private powe Versus public talks
to be held soon between The Issue rather isMalyshey and the President of power. American versus Russian of the British Board of Trade, the report added Mr Peter Thorneycroft, France- power," Reuter
Pres93.
MISSING FOR TWO MONTHS
Washington. July 20,
Feter Whaant, 32, nephew of
the late Ambassador, John Winant, has been missing for the part two months 'In
arta of Northern rugged Afghanistan which borders Kumia, it was disclosed today.
Frederick Winant, father of the
toli NÓWAMEN. missing man, the Afghan · government had been very helpful and co-
but had operative"
LARGER SORE mesme increased power. SHORT STROKE maana lata filelo fanger engine life.
HIGHER COMPRESSION RATIO "Squeezer mom' power. from every drop of
feel, amusing Hvalies performance.
been
unable to find any trage of a bus in which Peter left Kabul on May 20 en route to Iran. Peter was accompanied by a
Swedish
Mins missionary, Gannel Gummeson. They had been working together India to improve lying con-
ditions in at impoverished village. Poter, a graduate of the Boston University:Theolo- gleak Bohool, · bad · boen India for about two years. United Press, 2
INCREASED TORQUE „produces foster' acceleration when starting or passing and: *- lavalas out the bills.
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A new era in Automatic driving is here. Seeing is believing, Call for a demonstration!
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NATHAN ROADE ARTEL.
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FEARS HER HUSBAND HAS BEEN ABDUCTED
Washington, July 20. The wife of a former Soviet Army captain who defected to the West said today she feared her husband had been kidnapped by Soviet agents and forced to return to Russia.
Mrs Baris Olsharky, German citizen employed as a restaurant- cashier höre, said she lost sow her husband on June 4 whera ho left here. to go to Bremerhaven, Germany. Six days inter she received a letter from him postmarked in Moscow.
П
Mry Olshansky sald her husbarnă let Washington Na- tional Airport on June 4 and was supposed to have boarded a ship, the as Seven Seas from Montreal, for Bremerhaven. He had a job there writing for Posaty, an Kn-Communist weekly newspaper.
NOT ON SHIP
EXPRESS RUNS OFF RAILS
Grenoble, July ‘20. The Grenoble-Veyneo- Marseilles passenger ör- prean train ran off the ruila at branch-off today three minutes after leaving here.
a
First reports said two persona were killed and Ave seriously injured.
The train had pulled out of Grenoble at 18.22 p.m. The derailment occurred at the Veynes- Chambery branch-off. on the southern outskirts of the town-United Press.
Nuclear Grain
Is The Latest
Possibility
London, July 20. Serds planted after sub- jection to nuclear bombard-'
She said her husband never boarded the chip but was not missed until he failed to arrive in Frankfurt. But she said the editor of Posserv had received a ment have produced crops telegram from him on June 8 which may revolutionise the that he was on his way.
future growth of wheat, "It he is in Russia he'll never oats and barley, it was dis get out" she said.
Olshansky testified before a Congressional Committee in 1932 that the Russians, not the Nazis, committed the Katya massacra in Poland.
closed here.
Detailed results of this experi- ment will not be known until the crops are harvested in September, but a preliminary examination by sted specialists had resulted in Batisfactory
8-PAGE LETTER Mra Olshenalty aid she wee sick and had not been able to reports go to work since she received conducted in the Lincolnshire The object of the experiment an eight-page letter from her hills by a seed firm la to
on June 10.
whether bonda-doxgicasend to ptorale, Moscow radiation will -produce" better It is already
huuband
to
aald that t
He known that ranilation
would low-rocking there.
and their three children to go and live with him.
The handwriting in the letter definitely was his, she said. The letter has been turned over to the FBI-United Press)
Can't Form Govt
man
a
changes in growth Ono new growth, discovered by the experts here is arousing keen interest, It is a type of cat with a thieker stalk" than previously known, and crops of this variety would be immensely northern England
valuable it
and Scotland where pats, are conunuously buffetted by high winds China Mall Special
CLEANING-UP
Saigon, July 20.
troops
South Vietnamese
The Hague, July 20. A Dutch governament spokes- sald today Dr Willem Drees, outgoing Socialist Prime Minister, had virtually conceded defeat in his attempt to form new goverment after the Catholle Parly yesterday rejest- ed his programme. "It is hard- begin a cleaning up/campaign rebel against Isolated ly possible that Dr Drees can today
believed government units and criminals
sald. hiding in an arca 25 miles north the spokesman
of here. Their action is expected to end all armed opposition to the government, officials. said, United Press.
now"
form a
new
Reuter,
PARIS MEETING
Acera, July: 20.
Paris, July 20. Youth leaders from the 15 nations of the Atlantic alliance One man was shot dead and ere to meet here for five days three injured by gunshots in from July 23 to confer on the the Astantl territories of the elms and accomplishments of Gold Coast, during incidenta
Tuesday's the organisation,, Nato's head-following
generál announced today. Clections, it was reported in quarters Reuter.
Acera tonight-France-Presse.
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