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COMMENT OF NATO TO
THE DAY
Ideas From
Down Under
appears to be generally agreed that the Govern- mont's proposed amend-
tno
munts to the Medical Regis. tration ordinance has, in overstepped . one respect,
the bounds of what community considers per- missible. This is the pro- vision to bar unregistered doctors from practising in this Colony. Whatever may have been the chief motive that inspired this particular provision, it appears to be too inflexible in that it makes no distinc- tion between good and un- doubtedly well qualified doctors on the one hand and others who, in the interests
o keeping high standards in the profession, ought not to be allowed to pruc- Lise unless they agree to undergo a refresher course and pass the proper examinations,
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COUNTER
RUSSIAN
THREAT
Bonn, Germany, May 1.
Western lenders agreed tonight to forge a solid Nato front against Russia's all-out drive to split the Western Allianca with threats of atomic destruc- tion.
US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles flew here from Washington to attend ↑ CATAL North Atlantic Council session ever held on German soll,
In a rapid-fite series of con- ferences minediately after he landed, Dulles met with West Chancellor Konard
German
Adenauer, British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Llyod And tullan Foreign Minister Galano Martino, chairman of the Coun- cil session.
PERSONAL MESSAGE He brought a personal mes- age of greelings from President Elsenhower to Dr Adenauer, who will visit Washington & the end of this month, Bul a
that he also
But if the motive of this
particular section was eradiente the dendwood in the profession to high standards, it was und London report
US delegation spokesman denied still is a good ons; further-carried a letter from the Presi- more ductors and the public dent to the Chancellor
The moeiings were described allke should welcome it.
officiel For this reason it is hoped
spokesman AS "B changes may be made that preliminary exchange of views." But reiluble diplomatic sources this will
Intact keep principle and that fears of said their main subject was the
campaign mounting
of Soviet another influenza epidemic
ap- in the remote future will clear warning designed
parently to spilt the Western not be allowed to stampede Alliance. Government Into hasty action,
by
All four Western leaders were
said to have agreed on the need EVERAL auggestions have for Nato to present a solid front
to the Soviet threats to ensure been put forward to get that they will not split the Al- around the difficulty and all | llance.-United Press, seem to stress the need of
some kind of examination
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THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1957.
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SHOCKING HAMPSHIRE PLANE
Blackbusbe,
Hants, May 1.
A British twin-engine transport, carrying soldiers and their families overseas, crashed in flames to- night just two miles short of the airport its pilot was desperately trying to reach on one engine.
The Air Ministry said
32 persons were kill- ed, including a servico- man's wife and two children. Four soldiers made their way out of the blazing aircraft
DISASTER: 32 KILLED
Servicemen And Families Involved
and were taken to Aldershot Military Hospital bat
one has since died. The British-built Viking transport, on charter from Eagle Aviation, Ltd, had just taken off from this airbase, 40 miles outside London, when its pilot radioed for permission to re- turn.
CONFERENCE TO CONSOLIDATE ARAB FRONT PREDICTED
Beirut, May 1.
Political circles said today that King Hussein might be approached for a round table conference between Jordan, Egypt and Syria,
The purpose of such a conference would be "to consolidate the Arab front," the circles said.
Mr Fuad Kudamant, Syria'aj intends to propose a conference Ambassador to Amman who of the chiefs of state of Saudi Iroq. Jorda and returned to Damascus two days Arabla,
place within ago, sald in Damascus today he Lebanon, to take
weeks after King Saud's will return to the Jordanian two
visit to Bagdad. capital on Friday.
The paper
seld the purpose
a Beirut- would be to creat Bugdad-Amman-Ryadh- "Axis receive America which would aid and salty the fight against Communism.
A
He said he will carry special message to King Hussein from the President of Syria.
The Ambassador returned to Damascus from Amman this week with a full report on the Jordanian situation and King Hussein's
weekend talks with King Saud of Saudi Arabia.
Permission was granted. The old-model trans- port reversed its course over the airfield and headed in for a land- ing, but two miles short of the waiting runway it plunged into a wood. Some witnesses said an explosion occurred in midflight. Others re- ported that the plane
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QUAKER'S PROTEST QUEST
for unregistered, ductora. US ADOPTS King Saud's Quest Prayers at dawn, and to enjoy tempt to get
In our cartier remarks on,
this bill we urged Govern-
ment to examine procedures NEW RIFLE
being adopted in Australla
to
integrate migrant doctors into the profession These seem to offer food for thought in this Colony, where the problem is similar.
Washington, May 1. The US Army announced today that it has adopted a new standard rifle which will replace four present types of shoulder- fired weapons, it will-be-issued to the troops in 1960.
In announcing results
The
In Victoria for example, an
Allen Doctors Bill is to be six-year competition, the Army Iraq. introduced ut the next disclosed that it rejected the
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caught fire only after it had crashed. At the time of the crackup, crash crews, fire engines and am- bulances already were heading for the air- port. The control tower sounded a full alert when the pilot radioed that he had power in only one en- gine.
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THE FANUÉS KOMERNÝ EN ACTION TRBUKERS
Whiteaways
The driver of one am-
bulance
radioed, B
he was speeding down A nearby highway, that he had just seen the plane crash..
Emergency crową, given a head-start by the control tower, saved four persons from the blazing wreckage.
First reports said 31 bodies were being re- moved to an im- provised morgue at Aldershot. Two chil- dren were among the dead. United Press.
The Blackwood Family Mystery
CONSULAR OFFICER GOES TO
MACAO TO INVESTIGATE
Washington, May 1.
A US Consular officer was sent today from Hongkong to Macao to investigate the mysterious disappearance of an American businessman and his family, the State Department said.
Donald Jackson Blackwood, his Korean wife, and their child were last seen in Macno late Saturday.
they have not been seen
The 'Départment has received but
Mr
US Navy Ignored
A Nasser Demand
·Washington, May 2. Admiral Arleigh Burke, the United States Chief of Naval Operations, disclosed in testimony released today that the Navy ignored s | demand by President Nasser for ten days' advance notice of the passage of a United States transport through the Suez Canal.
The incident occurred last May, about two months before President Nasser nationalised Burke, told the canal, Admiral
an appropriations subcommittee of the House of Representatives In February,
TROOP CARRIER Admiral Burke said the ship Involved was taking Turkish troops to Korea, The Egyptians asked, for 10 days' notice "but they did not do anything about it," he said.
"We just did not give them ten days," he added.
to
United
Admiral Burke agreed with a that it was "absolutely correct" member of the subcommittee
say that "wo are not to understand States navy is complying with
that the
any demands or dad nt that ume of the Egyptian govern ment to detail the type and number of troops on American ships
by lease, or actually under our naval flag, passing through that ennal, in view of the
***] and Cairo”—Reuter.
a report on the Blackwood case since Saturday in Macao. from the US Consulate-General
White said the Macno at Hongkong. It shows that | authorities report. that Black- Blackwood was issued a visa by wood did not leave Macao on the British Legation at Seoul, the Hongkong ferry or through rapprochement between Moscow for a 30-day stay in Hongkong the Communist Chinese border and that he arrived with his check point. White said Hong- family in
Hongkong on April 12. kong Immigration authorities In mid-April Blackwood op also report that Blackwood has plied at the Korean Consulate- not returned General in Hongkong for a United Press, Korean entry visa but cancelled that application. On April 25
to the Colony NOT TELLING
be got a transit visa authorising Knife Tragedy
BAGGAGE LEFT
His aim is to expose himsett to danger as a protest against Last Friday Blackwood and the Pacific tesis.
his Korean wife left for Macão Mr Steele was recently offered on a two-day visit. Mr Lincoln un condition White, State Dept, spokesman, a visa to Japan that during his stay there he said they left some of their ef- did not participate in any action fects behind at a Hongkong human life hotel. They arrived at a Macao which may expose to danger. Determined to make hotel that same day. his own personal protest "what- ever the risk," he said he is that in India he will hopeful "ecure the help which I have not been able to get so far away in Britain."
VOLUNTEERS
Toulouse, May 1 A quiet dinner at home ended in tragedy for Madaran Madeleine Machefort, 48, of Toulouse, who lay dead to night with a knife thrust in the heart, by accident.
Madame Machefort, dining in ber home with her eight-year- old daughter and a friend, rose from the table to take a plate to the kitchen. With a kitchen knife in one hand, she stumbled Mr White sald the Black- on the rug and fell heavily. The woods had riserved a hotel room knife pierced her heart. She at Hongkong for last Sunday, died instantly-France-Presse,
Malvern, May 1. The curfew in Amman, was Mr Harold Steele, British lifted from dawn to dusk today. Quaker, said here tonight he to allow Moslems to perform will dy to New Delhi, early next El-Fitr Least, traditional wpck on the first leg of an at-
a 15-day stay, in Korea during.] ~ into the danger
the next six monta -- the day-long celebrations mark | zone during Britain's forth- Arab circles In Beirut calding the end of their 30 days fast coming nuclear tests at Christ- today they expret King Saud of Ramadan.
mas Island, of Saudi Arabia to go to Bagdad
King Hussein left his palace about May 11 on official ni 6 a. m., (local) and drove visit, which has been in pre- with a heavy armoured escort to paration for a long time.
the great mosque of El-Hussein the visit, purpose of
to take part in the prayers, these crefes seid, would be
Nabulsi Returns to bring about a reconciliation of a between Saudi Arabia
Before entering the mosque, King Saud has not visited the King reviewed his guard of session of Parliament which Belgian FM rifle used by. Bri-Bagdad slice he wont there as honour and replied with a broad
Crown Prince to attend lain in favour of a weapon de-
the smile and a wave will set up a special com-
of his hand 184 coronation of King Feisal. At to the cheems of his subject mittee to test the qualifica-veloped at the Springfield, Mas-
sachusetts, Armory, The new that tune, he received a very Emerging from the mosque, tions of foreign doctors rine is known as the T-44. cool receptioni due to the he was greeted with a 21-gun wishing to practise in that
will Teplace the M-1 traditional hostility between the salute. Returning to the palace, state. The committee would
Garand rine, which
has been Saudi and Hachemite dynasties, he received hundreds of visitors,
In Delhi, Mr Steele will meet have power to make its own
It will be quite different this among whom Was used since early 1930, the .30-
Suliman
two young Britons-Mr David tests of knowledge and ex-calibre carbine, the M-3 sub-time, especially since efforts are Nabuls, whom he had ousted as Graham, 29, and Mr Ian Dixon, periener, and to decide machine gun and the Browning under way to associate
dan, Premier. Jordan,
21-who as conscientious objec- whether he should, be regis- automatic rifle.
a second Hashemite kingdom, Morning papers printed large fors wish to join volunteers tered.
The T-44 is capable either of with the political talks 10 take pictures of Hussein and then going to the tests a caditor
automatic fully This seems to avoid the one
semi-place during the royal visit. or
of congratulations to him from
Mr Hugh Brock, Its rate of fre automatic fire.
Jordan King Hussein's uncle, many individuals and organisa- Peace News and a member of
ons.
the emergency committee for The papers
expressed their
direct action against nuclear own congratulations to the war, said in London tonight the King in large headlines.
committee was trying to raise The papers also reported the £3.00
£3,000 to
to charter a boat for all arrests of a number of Com-three, and possibly more, to go lu Beirut, the newspaper De munists accused of taking part from the Fiji Islands into the disturbances China neighbourhood of Christmas NOT GOING Jour said today that Lebanese in recent
President, Camille Chamoun, Malt Special and France-Presse. Island.
He said the committee has al- ready obtained £500.-Reuter,
weakness in the Hongkong about 700 rounds per minute. Cherif Nasser Ben Jemil, has bill of tying registration too The Army has said its new 7.02 just returned to Amman Irom rigidly to the right quall-millimetre cartridge will pene- Bagdad after fulling mission fications". The Victorian trate
a steel helmet at 1,200 for Hussein in talks with King bill makes the criterion yards.-United Press.
Feisal and Premier Nuri El knowledge and experience.
Said. This is one consideration.
On the other hand in NSW
10
there is A proposal chable the Minister of
London, May 1. The Prime Minister's office Health to issue a certificate today officially denied press of registration where no ap-| reports that Prime Minister plicants are suitable for Harold Macmillan would go to registration to practise in Moscow in the Autumn.
Authoritative sources pointed
certain areas. But the ap out that there could be no ques- plicant must have practised;
tion of such visit at the under supervision AB a moment when the Soviet Union medical officer in a state was Intensifying its diplomalle rental, public, or private offensive against Britain's allies,
-France-Presse. hospital.
General opinion appears to be
that New South Wales has been a little too lenient to
foreign doctors however.
Applicants
Decision Deferred
for regional British
London, May 1, doctors today de-
registration need not sub- cided to postpone a decision on mit to a test-and medical whether or not to go on strike authorition feel that this from
the
service.
country's national The medical particular provision would health lower the
df men, demanding a 24 percent standard medical practice In the pay rise, have plans ready for
withdrawal progressive stato.
Victorian general practitioners from the health service beginning on Government's proposals October 2—China Mail Special.
PERHAPS
the
would be worth examination.
of
Hitch in Plans For Queen's
that
Visit
To America?
London, May 1. Indications mounted today hitch may have developed in finai strange- ments for Queen Elizabeth's proposed siste visit to the United States this Autumn.
British and US officials re- fused all comment on the complicated planning that precedes any siale visit. Bat more than a month had passed
Daily
Lord Beaverbrook's
Express reported In Washington dispatch today that if the Queen's visit is abandoned "there may well be an invitation to Princess Margaret to come to the United States next Spring
The London News Chronicle, the other hand, wald that on "although no official-invita- tion has yet been received the Washington)
of. Queen and the Duke Edinburgh will visit the United States and Canada in the Autumn,”. --- United. Press,
(from since Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and President Elsenhower discussed the visit at Ber- muda and there was still no announcement.
In the meantime Govern- WEST GERMAN NAVY NOW
ment should allow clinica to
continue in oxlatonco until
a properly qualified or ex-
perienced doctor is avail able to take over the post. This is a problem that should
IN THE MAKING
In testimony in February before the House of Representatives appropriations subcommittee, he added that the West German navy would play a very important part in any future waE,
Singer's Third Heart Attack
Stamford, Corn., May 1.
of
Ezlo Pinza, 64-year-old star of stage, screen and opera, suffered another heart attack this morn- ing at his home here, his wife revealed tonight,
oxygen
Mrs. Plrizo Bald Wag rushed to their home at 5.00 am, and the family doc tor, Dr David Fogel, was call- ed in. She reported tonight that Pinza was "resting as comfort- ably as can be expected"
pinga de- Dr Fogel abd Mrs Pinza clined to say how serious the attack was, but the silver-haired singer is still at home. It was bla third attack in 11 months. Pinza scored his biggest suc- boys as a middle-aged lover in the Broadway musical," "South Pacifle", after he abandoned his Bourges, France, May. 1. career as an opera singer. His
famous Joseph Backer, a 36-year-old; most,
number was near "Some Enchanted Evening."— day labourer of Bingy, Bourges, cut, open his left aide United Press. last night to see how his heart worked.
Dangerous Curiosity
Washington, May 2. Admiral Arleigh Burke, United Biales Chief of Naval Opera«« declino gradually with the tions, sold a congressional group recently he believed West Germsay years since the Colony is would have a small but "uneful and effective” navy in about three not now receiving, nor is it years' time. likely to receive, many more doctor.holding foreign degrees. Some consideration
If It could base large numbers of ships in the Ballio, It could might also be given later to
scheme whereby private dips Boulet supply lines and thus would be performingpoon
service" for the silles, (!) welfare clinics in poor areas Admiral Burke, replying to a question; noted that West Ger. might be subsidised suli- many was forbidden, to build, salsmarines but added “they would; his left side, near the ciently to employ a qualified do well wiiki knedl submarines irj (he MALLIOJZEREN
The lowlimowy.www.ansad:puklia, today Bau
Backer was rushed to hospi tal where they hoped to save him from the results of his
eestino curiosity.
Mintoff Warns
Valetta, Malta, May 1. Premier Dominie Mintoft "warried today that the british government must agree to plans He had made a deep cut on Dog Integration of the faland lower with Brizalgi or he would perma was for. Leklopiradation on blu-oya
ribe but no
erever you
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Landon, May 1. The British government today refused to publish the proposals kad received from the United
government "about" Slates review of the embargo by, cerv non-Communist countries tain on trade with China in goods of potential wartime value.
The suggestion was made by
Labour
Mr Arthur Lewis, in the House of
member, Commons.
Mr Selwyn Lloyd, the Forelga Secretary, said: "Tho United States proposals are as yet con- fidential and the government, is not at liberty to publish them.” -Reuter,
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