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THE British Conservative
T
Party can hardly avoid feeling perturbed by the results of recent by. elections, for no matter how the voting is analysed, the fact
emerges that the government has lost a wide measure of public Adence, including that of many Party mupporters, Wednesday's by-elections ot Warwick and Bristol West uncomfortably illustrate this point. In Sir Anthony Eden's | old constituency, more voters) went to the poll than NE the general election of 1955 (47,739 compared with 46,482) and the Tories not only polled 5,000 less, but the Socialista increased their support by 6,000 votes, The
result
net
constituency
WOR to
reduce the Conservative majority from what Nor- mally would be an uninsanil- able 13,466 to a meagre 2,157. Overnight a "safe" hun become virtually a marginal seat. In Bristol Weat the reduction of the 1965 Tory majority of 22,000 by nearly 8,000 other Implications,
has
There 8,500 of the electorate who voted in
the
1965 stayed away from the polling booth and Labour candidate polled 300 votes Texa
previously.
than
Tory
other
Lotal,
hand, full
himself
The the
CHINA MAIL
No. 36686
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SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1957.
US OFFERED TO OCCUPY GAZA
TO PREVENT ISRAELI ATTACK
Cairo, Mar, 9. Mr Hughdi Shawn, Israell- appointed Mayor of Gaza, told reporters there today. that the United States
offered to occupy the Gaza strip two days be fore the Israeli Invasion, according to reports reaching here from Gaza. Mr Shawa was quoted N saying: "Two days before the Israeli invasion seven US warships cruising in Gaza
waters
Kent the
message **The United States government is will- Ing to occupy the Gaza to prevent an israeli attack."
Mr Shawa sald ng answer
was given as confact with the Egyptian government was impossible, but the message was conveyed to the Egyption member of the Armistice Commis- slon, Major Abbas Sidki. Mr Showa was reported to
have told
Q group of
journalists who arrived in Gaza from Calro that he had called today on the UNEF commander in Gaza, Lt.Col Carl Eng- holm, and offered his resignation,
"The commander asked me to remain for 24 hours more," he added. Gaza wax
patrolled today by UNEF troops with truncheons and guns with fixed bayonets as hun- dreds of Arab refugees
: paraded through the strecta shouting: "Long live Nasser," ""The UNEF are welcome guests, not occuptors," and "We will not allow internationalisa. tion of Gaza.”
Hundreds of refugees af- tending Friday prayers in the mosque bowed and 100k an oath
that "we will accept no one except Nasser as President," the reports said.---Reuter,
AMERICA HAS A CANAL
PAYMENTS PLAN
It Will
Hopeful
Be Acceptable
Washington, Mar. 8.
'Quake Razes 1,000 Buildings
A strong
The State Department said today that the United States had made an interim proposal for payments of Suez Canal tolls, and operation of the towns in the Thessaly region of canal, and was "hopeful of a solution" of the prob-crumbling more than a thousand lem.
Mr Lincoln White, the State Department 8.200 spokesman, was asked at his daily press conference if United States ships were to be instructed to pay tolls directly to Egypt.
below that of the general election which
suggests
East
'NO' TO RUSSIAN PROPOSALS
Price 80 Cents
"The Mad Bomber Of Paris" Hangs
Himself
Paris, Mar. 8. The "mad bomber of Paris," who blew up an house here apartinent wrecking 25 flats, was to- day found hanged under a bridge spanning the River Seine, police reported.
Police had been eccking Marcel Garanger, a 60-year-old Jocksmith, since the explosion rocked the block of fals Inst Wednesday, Nobody was hurt,
Explosives
experts, recon-
structing the "infernal machine" used by Garanger, said the main componenta were ព candle, pieces of string and a cobbler's last.
The
Ingenious
was
explosion itself caused by gos. According to the police reconstruction, Garanger placed a lighted candle with two pieces of string tied to it on the gos stove in his fat,
The
top pitee of string held Washington, Mar. 8.
the m
main gas
tap in the "off" A State Department spokes- position. When It burned said today that Britain, through a weight hung from the France and the United States tap would lum it on. would soon announce their re- Jection of A six-point Middie East plan proposed Inst month
SPITA
The "mad bomber's" idea, the police said, was that the lighted candle would touch off an ex- plosion as 2001 as the mixture of
air reached gua and right proportions
the
Athens, Mer. 8.
by the Soviet Union, carthquake rocked
plan, outlined by Mr Central Greece today,
Shoplov, then
Soviet Minister, called for the e of foreign military maker's fast was hung from a buildings and causing a number of casualties.
bases and withdrawal of foreign second piece of string led lower troops from the area, an arms down the candle.
At least one person was re-
puede and a number of while sent residents fleeing in
others Injured in the quake,
pante,
The strongest shocks were felt in a triangle formed by the towns of Larissa. Pharsala and Volos.. The stricken, area is a lttle more than 100 iniles northwest of Athens,
Later reports said one person was killed and a numbty in-
that thousands of tradi- tional Conservative electors registered n silent protest Mr While replied "The United against the government by State has indicated its views to abstaining from voting.
the United Nations Secretary- The current decline in the General on an interim proposal popularity of the governing for payment of tolla and opern- party can undoubtedly betion of the canal pending a final
setticant. We are waiting to 'ments of the 'interim « plan } jured, in the village of Vale.
The Suez Canal Users As soclution, formed at the time of Egypt's nationailsation of the Suez Canal Company to protect the interests at the Canal users, would not enter into the arrange
emburgo, and a programme of
In case it did not, a shoe-
Delayed Action
When the Candle burned through the second string, the shoe last would fall to the floor
landing on some naked wirts which had been attached to the electric meter.
economie ald for the Middle East. SEPARATE NOTES It was understood that the three
Western agreed on
powers had rejecting the Soviet proposals,
a new procedure in
notes to Moscow, cach dealing.
Instead of sending identical with the full substance of the and Soviet plan, the three Western ailies, would
This would touch off sparka-
I create an explosion. Police
Thought this wda what actually
attributed in some measure † hear Egyptian views concerning ! envisaged by the United States sinon, Beveral others were re. Point reply to separateamer, dellberately, created
Home
of usera
the
triangle.
would
to the failure of the Suez this proposal and are hopeful of
ported injured in factories in
United States · reply a a' delayed-action machine, police enterprise which, among a solution in accord with the Mr White sald later, ampli- the port or Volos.
emphasise the defensive said; so that he could make a other things, cost Britain rights aftd
(Mr lying his obligations
stateman, that th An official tally put the num-
of the Eisenhower getaway before the explosion 1 nature of her Inter- White stressed this word) of United States was referring to. ber of destroyed houses at 1,015 doctrine; Britain would defend took plago, ... national prestige, made Egypt and the
the joint Western
mild-mannered proposal for in 19 villages inside the Velos- the Baghdad pact; and France Garanger, s
Pharsala-Larissa an katerim arrangemani to-con- petrol rationing necessary canal."
A would examine Sevlet motives bachelor, had lives in his fiat trol the Suez Canal, some details Palace announcment and Induced public trans.
said, in the light of the Soviet Union's for ten years. Neighbours said Though heavily pressed, Mr of which were made available Queen Frederiko left tonight for armed Intervention in Hungary that ho seldom spoke to anyone portation fares to rise. White refused to answ to the public a few weeks ago.
the stricken region. United Reuter,
in the area-China Mall Special.. But it is iso clear that the further questions on the United
Press. British public is angry States proposal,
The use of the word "hope:ul' about the general increase
was stussed by omelal sources in living costs and resents
and defined as a reference the proposed legislu
solutku to the Suez Canal prob United Staice confluence that also
principles unanimously The proposal, official sources adopted by the Security Council To recover the lost ground | said, provided for no direct before the Anglo-French atlack
the government needs time, payments of canal toils to the, on the canal.
But it was learned in official made two or three weeks ago, sources that the proposal was
to
tion which will decontrol and Erypt so far has ignored item could be found based on the renta for domestic mlacs.
pre-formally.
which happily for the Conservatives, is at its dia- posal. Nevertheless it will have to make the fullest use of the next two years if it is to regain the con- dence of the electorate and it may, among other things, have to revise its domestic polleles where these have an impart on the cost of living.
Egyptian Canal Authority.
THE PROPOSAL
Hix
CAIRO ATTITUDE
Press reports from Cairo have Indicated that the Egyptian government no longer felt itself bound by those six principles. But Washington had received no official word to this effect and United States officials said they were hopeful that the judgment of the world community would was preval).
It was learned on good au- thority that the United States Interim proposal provided for tells to be split into half, one- half being paid to Egypt to cover conin of operating the Canal, and the other half into the World Bank until a per- manent settlement reached,
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Canberra, Mar. 8.
Military chiefs of eight Southeast Asia Treaty powers: today began con- verting into detailed military plans their broad concepts for defence against any sudden Communist attack, according to military sources.
Univer-revoln- | WALLY for
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the Australian chairman, .Air The eight Stato powers are after daylong subcommittes The East Berlin radio said the Marshal Sir John treated extremely well wherever
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Republic and detach it from the STRIKE ENDED At the beginning of 'the
As a result the military Soviet bloc Warsaw pact.--
meeting, Admiral Fellx Stump advisers were expected to wind of the United States, predleted | up ahead of schedule tomorrow the advisers meeting would instead of continuing into Sun-
Delegation Arrives
Regarding the current right of passage through the canal, and
London, Mar. 8. payment of tolls, offfelal sources
The Singapore delegation to pointed out that there were few the Anglo-Singapore constitu ship of United States registry tional conference beinning here
France-Presse.
Spots Wreckage voted by a large majority to ac- "set an example to our political day--Reuter.
New York, Mar 8. Striking tugboat crews today
a new work agreement, thus ending 36-day strike, the longest on record in New York
of 500 tons or less, and these ) on Monday arrived in London mass of wreckage today at the come 3,200 of the 1,000 union
were the only ships able so far by air tonight.—Router.
to negotiate the passage. There- fore, the United States did not have an immediate physical in- terest, but was studying the position closely.
LADY PATRICIA LEAVES
Lady Patricia Lennox-Boyd, wife of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, returned, to London by BOAC this morning. At the airport to see her off
Newcastle, Delaware, Mar. 8.
A diver spotted a twisted
scene of a collision that sent a Navy-owned gasoline tanker to River, carrying explosive death on the Delaware down 10 men
with her.
Norman Lynch, a civilian diver with the Army corps of engineers, reported Anding acetions of wreckage about five feet high, seven feet wide and 30 feet long below the surface dark, muddy water.-
United States officials were reluctant to say whethen the release of today's statement about an interim proposal, was intended to prod Egypt into Q were His Excellenty the of the
Governor and Lady Grantham.
reply-Reuter.
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Ghana Admitted
Now York. Mar. 8. The General Assembly tonight unanimously agreed to admit Ghana to the United Nations.- Reuter.
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