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CANAL DUES: BRITISH PLAN Egypt To Collect And Surrender Half
Legislative Council is as o TEMPORARY
rule commendable. Under-
out
standably. needless To- minders to Government to carry
its appointed duties can be tiring and even exasperating. But Mr
Arthur Clarke's "nomewhat
trenchant retort to Mr C.
FORMULA
London, Mar. 27. The British Government
com-
E. M. Terry's speech was ls belleved to be ready to
Ittle surprising, indeed accept a temporary unnecessary, since he ap- promise formula on the pay- pears to have exploited a ment of transit fees inck of precision rather than through the Suez Canal, an inherently wrong while maintaining that principle contained in the
settlement unutħejal mumber's remarks,
permanent Mr Terry's point is that Hong should be founded on the six
Kong's own funds should be principles adopted
by the available tu the Colony Security Council last Octo- rather than to other terri-ber, informed sources said torles and he points to the today. extent of our sterling and Malayan
investments, The Government has not yel
Further he drew attention | made a final decision on this to the statement of the subject, pending the outcome of Hongkong and Shanghai the talks between the UN Secre- tary-General, Mr Dag Hammar- fold and Egyptian President, Gamal Abdel Nasser, wh not yet been announced. The decision consultations with the co-authors will also depend on of the "Interim project-France, Norway and the United States.
Bank chairman that govern. ments in the territories in which the bank operated (unspecified) took advan- tage in 1966 of high interest rates in Britain to transfer some of their funds there. He does not suggest that Hongkong remitted ita surplus funds abroad for this reason, but asks for Government's views on local investment of these funds, IN TN his reply the Financial
Secretary
"Other suld:
which has
́USE OF FUNDS
British obscrvers sold the British Government was now ready to discuss a formule which would allow Egypt to collect all the transit fees providing she promised to tum over
a per.
things being equal we keep to a
centage (probably 50 per cent)
can
Lion
United Nations organisa
These funds would be used the for the payment of
of comper) 4-
our money where it earn good rates of interest." The
statement
the
50 FEARED DEAD IN DYNAMITE
EXPLOSION: HUNDREDS HURT
Mexico City, Mar. 27. Two tremendous “dynamite explosions levelled a city block of adobo houses to- day and killed at least 10 persons.
An estimated 235 others.
mostly Mpectators and firemen watching rescue operations in the rubble of flattened homes and wreckage, were injured in the second blast, which came unexpectedly 15 minutes after an explo sives warehouse blew up. Dr Roberto Gomez, comman- der of the Mexican Red Cross, sald 14 to 16 bodics had been recovered.
Plecen of bodies were strewn over an area of more than 500 yards in the slum section, hit by the explosions, near the boundorles of Mexico City's International Air- port,
Dr Gomez said he feared "at least 50 persons may have died".
Seven firemen, including Lt Rafael Garcia, head of the airport fire squad, were reported among the dend. Twenty tons of mixed
TNT, dynamite and percussion caps went up in the warehouse ex- plosion. The blast broke
די
windows in the airport
passenger terminal two miles away.
A hole 20 feet deep, slowly Bling with water, marked the site of the storehouse. Every building within 200 yards was shattered, Mont of the houses were one. storey adobe: shacks, Jammed together in a sandy wasteland
along the Mexico City-Pugbla highway.
Firemen said the explosives warehouse "just blew up". While rescuers and spec- tators crowded into the wrecked bloc, & second
blast 15 minutes Inter slashed pieces of wreck- age through the crowd, · cutting down more than 200 persone.
Officials said one dead man and 85 injured wero taken to Green Cross hospitals. The Red Cross recovered between 60 and 45 injured. **Social Security ambulances also recovered
in-.. "many" jured. Firemen reported they believed no one was in the warehouse at the time of the blast, the cause of which was not known-United Press.
Bulganin Fulminates Death In Blaze
BRITAIN IS WARNED ABOUT POLICY
London, Mar. 27.
Marshal Nikolai Bulganin, the Soviet Prime Minister, said today that the British and American Colony's assets and liabilition to the "International Suez governments had confirmed after the Bermuda ties does in fact show undor Canal Company" and for the hending surplas upkeep and development of the conference they were determined to “continue balances" that sterling in- Suez Canal.
their policy of military blocs and continue the It was stres vestments went up from.
that charms race. £14,6 million in 1954 to £24,6
would have to agreement million in March, 1966. In accompanied by formal guaran- terms of dollars this is an increase of $160 million. In addition in the same period $12 million was invested in Malayan loans, The point that Mr Terry made, furthermore, that public funds should be avaliable to Hongkong for our own development-it was here
tees and that the users of the canal should be consulted on the use of the funds.
SHIPOWNERS ADVISED
British shipowners are belog advised to avoid using the Suez Canal until the position is more clear, Mr David Ormsby-Gore, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, said
asked in the if he had
He had
booday
his point Ineked sufficient House of Contement to make
any further on the payment of dues for passage through the canal.
are under
but be-
clarity appears to be one that the Finanelal Secretary not only agrees with in one specific instance (the recall
He replied: "These matters of some $92 million in ater-
discussion not only ling funds to ease the tight between the Secretary-General credit eituation in the of the United Nations and the Colony) but is an essential Egypilan Government, part of a principle which tween Her Majesty'a govern- Government now recognises ment and other major users of may well become official the canal policy, Le. recognition of Government's need to have "a much greater say" in credit polley, The point that the chairman of the Hongkong and Shang- hal Bank makes-essential-
Meanwhile, British
shilp
owners are being advised to avoid using the canol until the position is more clear."-France- Presse and China Mall Special. CANAL TRAFFIC
"They refused to discontinue tests of atomic and hydrogen weapons and came to an agreement whereby Britain would be supplied with guided missiles from the United States," he told a Soviet- Hungarian friendship meeting in the Kremlin, according to Moscow Radio.
Diabolical
Endeavour To
Blow Up House
Rome, Mar. 27.
"We cannot help seeing British Govern- that the ment, in accepting these decisions, has taken upon itself a heavy responsibility for the consequences of such a policy for its own people,” he said.
"The recent increase in Inter- national tenton has been caused by the aclivisation of disruptive attempts of Western Imperialist circles against the countries of the Socialist
camp and the
Bulganin said,
the
Israel Warns
Jordan
Jeruzalem, Mar. 27. An Israeli official warned Jordan today that dispatch of Saudi-Arabian troops to Jordan would be regarded as a breach of the 1949 armistice agreement..
Reports from Egypt last night sald that Bandi Arabian troops were mov«... ing into the Jordanian port of Aqaba, opposite Israel's Southern port of Eflath.
Mr Joseph Tikos, direc tor of Armiation Affairs in the Israeli Foreign Minis- try, said: "If Saudi-Arabia or any other Arab country aende troops to
DOGUPT Aqaba port or any other part of Jordan which the British evacuate in that, country such action would consiltute a breach by Jor- dan of its armistice agrCO- ment with Israel.”—United PTERS.
was
Plane Disaster Disclosure
Climaxes Life Of Tragedy
Montreal, Mar. 27.
DAKS
THE PARANA KOMFORT IN ACTION TROUSERS
Whiteaways
HORGKUN1
HOWLOON
Minister Announces
NEW MOVE TO END STRIKES
Singapore Talks ONLY ONE QUESTION TO SETTLE
London, Mar. 27. Singapore today moved nearer the end of colonial status with further agree ments at her constitutional talks here with Britain.
London, Mar. 27
A now government peace move to prevent a strike of engineers from alowly paralysing British industry was made tonight a few hours after London was chosen as the next target of a "snowball" stoppage.
At noon next Saturday all 500,000 London members of the powerful Confederation of Ship building and Engineering Unions within a 25-mile radius of the will strike in hundreds of fema capital.
In the House of Commons this atternoon, Mr Iain Macleod, the The conference, framing the Minister of Labour, said that outline of internal self-govern after talks with the union he ment for the island'a 1,200,000 had put certain proposals" to
The poople, today agreed on
cragineering employer. A The minister did not specify rangements for subscquent what the proposals view of new constitution
were, but also on citizenship and
said that the employers would report back to him tomorrOW rights.
ofter discussing them,
old talks,
カー
and
voting
Conference sources thought it unlikely, however,
and
came p
million OVEISERN
The nature of the agreement
12 DAYS OUT was not disclosed in the com- munique which followed the
His announcement cleventh ression of the 17-day-the 12th day of a natiotial strike by 200,000 shipbuilders, who halted work on 2900 that there worth of home had boon any major departure contracts. from the previously expressed Singapore viewe that the con- stoppage stitution should be reviewed engineers in 10 main industrial within four years and that areas. Singapore citizenship could be granted after
It was also the fifth day, of
by one million
Both the ship workers and seven-year engineers are demanding 10 per
cent wage rises.
residential qualification.
Major Issue
These latest
agreements,
Lenders of 40 unions in the Confederation issued their strice together with that reached orders for London declaring that they were forced to con-
A lifetime of tragedy end-yesterday giving Singapore
our
ed today for a 74-year-old, focal man as Crown representa- tamud their stoppage they alma
of a Briton as at to
at to bring thrice-married Indian when i've instead
Three milion he, his third wife and their prent, mean that only one workery by Apr 8 because of major lanie still remains un- the engineering employers ro- four children dled in the resolved Conference sources fumal. to negotiate and "what blazing inferno of their speculated that this might be appears to be their utter in- terrement home!
settled at the next meeting on difference: to All six
Friskay were killed
when
resultere flames unnaiked by neighbours until too late, raced through the overlapping Ephe their dwelling in a slum arça when he started to light a stove sponsibility, before breakfast,
or
General agreement now seems.
ship
consequent
Border Outrage
Kampala, Uganda, Mar. 27. Five Sudancee were killed and ax wounded on the
The victims were Usted by to have been reached that an morgue officials as Osias Leboeuf, executive security council with 74, his wife, 45, and their British, Singaporean and children, aged 0, 4, 2 years, and Malayan Federation member- Uganda-Sudan border when a eight months. The youngest
would co-ordinato defence district commissioner'a · party and the eldest were girls and the and security
While
another returning
from
North Uganda other two boys.
body, described as being con- was ambushed, it was oficially It was a tragic climax to three sultative would deal with mat-reported today. marriages, each marked by mis-
ters affecting external relations, A
of, the King's company fortune.
Details of this machinery have African Rifles was sent to zot yet been settled and it is comb the border area for the expected by conference sources gang who are believed to bo that Friday's conference session former members of the Sudan Leborul's first wife was knock-will" _try to clear them up defence force who mutinied.
Reuter,
two years ago-United Press,
Twenty Children
ed down and killed by a car two weeks
after their marriage, some time before 1900.
He
-
had 20 children by his second wife. Eighteen of them perished in an epidemic of fluenza that swept Canada in 1918. His wife died later. orphan
His third wife was a Belgian who 'immigrated to several
years ngo, in Montreal,
ly the same as Mr Terry's 4.000 tens passed through the used a cuckoo clock to try Europe, the Near and Middle to Civil Aeronautics Administra- earned a meagre living by sell
is that [111 over-inveau
slowing down of the pace the other seven ships at be-
“HUSH HUSH” TRIP REP
REPORT
Singapore, Mar, 28.- The Straits Thines sald today that 20 of, Malaya's wealthiest tin miners were making a "hush hush" trig to Peking to try to sell ere to China.
eviction notice
An angry tenant under gross interference-not stopping
Munila, Mar, 27. tried
Cebu Governor Sergio Osmena, to at armed action in the affairs Jr., who conducted an investi- blow up a house in Rome of the countries of the Near gation of the plane crash which Canada
The newspaper, which did not disclose the source of the to- Middle East," by turning his apartment and
formation, said six of the delegation left Singapore by sta for Marshal killed late President Remon They had Eved
Canion at the weekend and the rest were expected to leave by into a gas-filled bomb, the
Magsaysay, sald on Wednesday within commuting distance of air on Saturday, Port Said, Mar. 27.
police disclosed today. Ho "The military measures
night that the President's plane the Caughnawaga Indian of
All were from the tin-mining centre of Ipoh,, in north Malaya, Four ships af from 3,000 to
Imperialists in
overloaded. Westerns
servation, since last December. and represent "the backbone of the mining industry in Malays," "It was overloaded according When he, worked, Lebeout the Straits Times sald Reuter. ment of government funds flags of Coste Rica, Panama and
Suez Canal today, flying the to set it off.
East, in the Pacific Ocean and
tion and Philippine Airlines abroad may result in Д Greece. All paid transit fees to The 60 other tenants were people's democracies have led to
their provocations against the standards," Osmena bluntly told junk. But he was often out
of work. Members Egyptian authorities.
saved when the police arrived a sharpening of tension and
newsmen
of a reli- gious order' had: contributed a (of development) "as this ] ⠀
sooner than expected with the show that the imperialists have
He added, however, that the few dollars a week to help the deprives the banking system tween four and eight thousand
order to evict him.
plane WELS They been trying to achieve their according to the standards of a few groomrics-United Press,
not overloaded family pay their rent and buy of what is almost its life-lons were waiting at Suez for entered the apartment just aims by practical means." binod."
pennission to mail. There were before the cuckoo clock bomb
the Philippine Air Force," was do have gone off; they
The NOTHER point made by three Italien, two Russian, one
NATO CRITICISED A
twin-engined "Mouni Rumanian and one
Pinatubo" the Bank
Was Turkish saved the day by switching off chairman
a Philippine's vessels.-France-Presse.
the electric current.
Marshal Buiganin referred to Air Force which incidentally provides
plane piloted by Soviet "attempts to caso ten-Philippine Air Force pilots, some Justification for Mr
Detectives Identified the sion," citing propocals on the which had been turned over to Clarke's views on Govern-
tenant as Attorio Natali, 67, Middle East, German disarma- the late President for his per- & former Artillery office and ment, the bonning of atom and scoal use. It crashed on March 17 an electronics expert. Natali Hydrogen bonb tests and a shortly after taking off from 10 miles north of the port of escaped and the police ordered European. collective security Cebu City for Manlia. a city-wide search for him. rystem.
ment requiring a "greater Ike Was Not
Amused
SHORT-CIRCUIT
milkarim and revenge," he said.
"In" these
circumstances the governments of the Soviet Union and Hungary, have ex- pressed their unanimous deci alon to give the fullest and most doanito
support to strengthen To make doubly sure, Natall the Warsaw
CAR AMBUSHED
London, Mar. 27. Israel radio sald today a elvi lian car was ambushed on the Elath road in the Negev, about
| Histh, yesterday, and one civi- The plane, which was carry.lian was wounded. The driver Ing 27 persons including the succeeded in withdrawing from President, WIN carrying 800 the danger, area, the radio said, callon of gasoline when it quoting a military spokesman--- crashedUnited Press,
Reuter
QUEEN TO BE INVITED TO VISIT CANADA
Ottawa, Mar. 27.
say in credit policy, is that its widespread banking activities in the Far East require greater liquidity
Natall had scaled all doors "But the Nato powers, led by "than may be considered
Washington, Mar, 27. and windows with plastic tape, the Untied States, do not want necessary by bankers whose
President Eisenhower angrily spread gasoline-soaked rags on this. Instead of trying to find a interests are mainly con- brushed aside at his press con- the floors,
and then opened solution to all these questions, fined to one single country."ference today a suggestion that number ot bottles containing the Nate powers are continuing If Anancial atresses and he had ordered two helicopters gas. Three electric wires run the arms race, the reorming of strains in this part of the to take him to the golf course.ning from the gas-filled room to West- Germany in a spirit of A reporter asked the presidenta motal plate provided the fuse, world are going to affect whether he felt that. in all the the availability of, credit talk that was going, on about here, and it is quito cer cutting the budget he tain that they are, it is in would be willing to do without The cuckoo clock was set so the public interest that the two ballcopters which the that its centre weight would
reporter saidh had been ordered Government should have its to transport, the president, In-short-circuit the wires at 3.40 "granter any" (though whyuding visits to the golf course... setting off the explosion. not use the unpleasant word The question raised a ripple also, connected the wires with Bulganin said, Poct," Marstal "control" and be done with of laughter in the packed press an electric switch in the corridor. it) to ensure that whatever conference roo
room but the preal- If the police had switched
Warsaw Pact is duty on bound to defend the Socialist measures are taken against dont dit, not join in. Flushet the corridor Light before witch countries of apeculation, investment for and grim-focod, he barked out ing of the electricity, the house allat, plots. The measures taken € Europe from Imperi- sound productive purposes rocured for film to go to the
that no hellcopters had been would have been blown up. by the members of the Warsaw Pact have been and still are is not in any way hampered golf course. When the reporter The plan failed only because based on the defence of Hus-
seems ludicrous. when
tried to follow up the question the police arrived with the evic-gary and the whole capital remittances to the the president fartly observed
Socialist the Imperialists Colony total something like that he did not think much of to notice a few minutes sooner camp whether $200 million in a year that the question and would not told them Natall had gone to a
much of the expected, a The, doorman llics it or not,” he said, : 2
TTIR someworthy Industrial discuse it any further seatby coffee shop and would or Boyet people proud He cold no definite decisions
Its undertaking should have to Valeron obsavers said that return shortly. He called to show army fufilled its sacred duly go begging. Why? Because they had never moon" the pre- up and they amehed, in the door towards the Hungarian people,
sident woʻ indígssætt China Mall | and discovered the plot, United of Insufficient credit!
Bulganin addocks Special
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Queen Elizabeth will be asked to visit Canada before going to the United States obe cones. to North America this year, Canada's Prime Ministes, Mr Louis St Laurens maldi today Interylowed
Majesty that if she comes across the Atlantic this year she should visit hero Brat,"
he added, "It could be just
· a short visit’and she could go + from here to the United
States.
Concerning a Commonwealth
Ministers
.
at Ollawa's Up- Itrads airport on his return "There probably will be
St Laurent aldrende, from the Bermuda conference with Britain's Prime Minister
prime ministers' di confracnico, Mr: Harold Macmillan, 'Mr St but the prime minister of the Laurent said there probably
United Kingdom wantit to
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