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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1957.
MOLLET'S AUSTERITY" PROGRAMME
ROEHM PUTSCH TRIAL IN GERMANY
The trial has opened in Osnabruch of Ernst Muller Alienau, left, former Gestapo chler, and former 88 Group Loader Udo Woyrisch, also pictured, who are accused of having given orders to Hiquidate
supposed lenders
"Silesian trouble omnire" during the Roehm putsch of 1934 in which many persons were murdered by the Nazlя.-- Express Photo,
of
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"TAXPAYER NEED NOT
REGRET
New York, May 14. South Vietnam Pre- sident, Nga Dinh Diem, said today that American aid had enabled South Vietnam to become
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AIR-TO-AIR ATOMIC
ROCKETS TO BE
TESTED AT NEVADA
Nevada, May 14,
Government To Seek Vote Of Confidence
Paris, May 14.
A major political battle opened in the National Assembly today when the Mollot Government demanded swift action on its "austerity" programme designed to save the franc and press ahead with the Algerian campaign.
The deputies meeting after a month's recess, discussed Government proposals for 250,000 mil. lion francs (£250 million) economies in the 1967 budget and 150,000 million francs in new taxes, about 44,000 million of which will be imposed by
decree.
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Opposition Senate Committee
To Atomic
Agency.
Slashes Funds
For USIA
Washington, May 14. Failure of the United States Senate to mntify the projoctai International Atomie Евству
Washington, May 14. Agency would be a serious blow
The Senate Appropriations Committee today to the world leadership of the
United States in the field of voted to slash funds for the United States In- humanitarian effort, Mr John formation Agency to $90,200,000, recommended Foster Dulles, the Becretary of
that USIA be put back under the State Depart-
Committee last week began con- commercial news media abroad.
The Senate Foreign Reinlosment, and ordered it not to compete with private
State, sald today.
sideration of the Treaty which
would give effect to the Agency. The action left in doubt the, conceded that it might be sub- There has been oppozlilors in future of Arthur Larson, the Ject to a point of order. Congress to the Agency whieh Information Agency's "modern If It is ruled legislation on Is a direct outgrowth of the Republionn" director. Larsen, an appropriations "bili — and plon Arst United Nations by Preddent speech writer, was named held
Eisenhower's the formerly
ch.ef thus out of order the Senate Relations Committee Biconhower in 1953.
of the independent Agency will be asked to draft a similar enriler this year.
restriction as separate legala- tion, Johnson mid.
to prod
The Soviet Union has already
ratified the Agency.
POINT OF ORDER
soviet Union was now trying to funds 37 per
Mr Dulles sald that the The Committee slashed USIA
mendations. Mr Dalles declared that
recom
Foreign
The provision reads: "No part of the appropriation made by.
information activity unless the this (USA) Utle shall be used for any government overseas
director of the United States Information Agency Enda thật such ОУСТЕСАЯ information
give a kind of leadership to the below the amount voted by the cent-$15,000,000 The remainder need express with a long communique calling block it for several years.
project after having tried to House and $20,200,000 under
Eisenhower's budget Parliamentary approval — and | for a negotiated retilement in M. Guy Mollet has been tm- | Algeria, an immediate halt to powered by the Cabinet to atomle tests and the bonning of would be a great m sfortune if The commitico wrote into activity will not prevent private stake the life of his 15-month nuclear weapons, and strong this project which was launched the bill a provision that USTA United States concerne from
opposition to French ratification under United States
with uuspices cannot compete of the Euratom and Common were to fal! by the wayside.- agendes
private selling corresponding informa- distributing news to loo services Market Treaties.-Reuter,
foreign countries. But Johnson overzna,”—United Pres.
old government on the result.
Approval
M. Mollet's alm is to push tho "austerity" proposals through the powerful Assembly Finance Commission in time to stort the
on Thursday, confidence motion
with their
debate
on Friday night, Under this procedure the vote would take | place carly next week. The
Prime Minister hopes for full
Reuter,
NEW BRITISH ARMY EQUIPMENT INCLUDES
London, May 14.
Parliamentary approval for his British Army equipment being
President Reno
plans before Coty leaves on May 27 for an official Visit to the United States.
The atmosphere in the asseM-
The Atomic Energy Commission disclosed to- day that the United States would fire its first air-bly lobbles as Parliament re- to-air atomic rocket during the nuclear test series which begins this week,
The rocket will be fired from a piloted plane high above the sprawling Nevada proving grounds. It will be armed with a nuclear warhead.
assembled was restless, and ob-
serveră predicted hard fight for M. Mollet, Socialist leader the longest-lived administra-
tion since World War Two.
A French cabinet meeting to- day decided on an immediate Increase of five and a half per cent in the taxes on certain
These increases, to be imposed drone by decree, are expected to bring in about 44,000 million traucs (244 million) of the 150,000 million franes in now taxation with which the government plans to supplement is 250,000 million francs economies.
developed includes an anti- tank guided weapon, a new modium tank, and a now nuttcar-guided weapon, which will be complementary to the; "Corporal," the long-range tactical nuclear guided woa- por
The Secretary for War, Mr John Horo, told the House of Com- mong this today in asking for £401,400,000 to cover the cost of the Army until March 21, 1958.
million less than last year.
Mr Haro said that by the end of the Governmenta new five-year defence plan, the field army world bo com- pletely re-armed. The weapons of the 1930-45 war would have almost com-
A prototype of the warhond | given an actual field test. to be used was detonated during The AEC declined to disclose "non-essential" goods and an This, ho said was nearly 2100 the 1955 nucleus tests and first immediately what type of tar-crease in postal and telephone reported by the United Press. get the rocket would be aimed charges, Three days later the gove- toward, but it was assumed t ment ofeially confirmed at a would be It pliotless of the most stable coun-prototype atomic warhead had plane of some type. tries in all Asia".
been dropped from a high-flying Neither would the AEC dis- Speaking during
luncheon bomber and touched off appra-close Immediately what precau- given by the Trade and In-ximately a mile above the desert tions were planned to prevent a dustry Committee for the Furiest grounds,
wild firing or to detonate the East, Diem sáid that "no 11 WEB disclosed that the rocket should it miss its target American taxpayer need over prototype had a force capable of
Meanwhile, final preparations regret American aid to his sending L entre armada ut were being completed for the Invading planes down in flames, firing, scheduled for Thursday, wakier permitting, of the first nuclear test of the 1937 pose these measures: serics, the only atomle test the US will hold this year.
country.
This ald, he said, had enabled ; South Vietnam to form an army of 15 divisions.
"We ate aware that our poll- tical consolidation would not have been possible without the generous and timely aid of the United States, which enrried us through our great crisis after Geneva," Diem sad.
"Since Geneva," he continu- ed. "United States ald to Vietnam has averaged some $250 millio # year, We m Vietnam believe that on Ameri- can taxpayer need regret these expenditures and that this in- vestment has been wisely made."-France-Presse,
Cataclysmic
In the past, atomic weapon and devices have been dropped from bombers, exploded on top of towers, fired from Cannon and even set off underground and under the sea's surface in the Pacific.
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This device will be detonatçıl on top of a 500-foot tower in nearby
Yucca Flat. It will pack
a wallop equivalent to 10,000 1ons of TNT, about one-half the violence of the A-bombs which
No Troops
New Taxes
The cabinet decided to pro-
A surtax of 30 per
which exceed those of the pre- sent on company alvidenas
vious year. This is expected to yield 1,000 million francs,
2. A new Increase of Iour frutes a litre In the of petrol, bringing in nother 30,000 million tranes.
3. Suspension of tax relief on money set aside fur the renewal of company This stocks and re-equipment, will bring in between 70,000 and 80,000 million francs,
I also has been perviously shattered Hiroshima and Naga- announced that American in- saki to end the war with price terceptor plunes have been Japan. urned with al-to-ats rockets and that ground-to-air misslie rings protecting American There will be no troop par- cities were being armed with teipation or other extraordinary the cataclysmic fission heads,
activity
with in connection But none has [Ver been Thursday's blast, which will be wlintsseri by newsmen and photographers from Nowa Nob,
The resumption of Parliament today was also marked by Con- approximately 10 miles distant
servative demands for an early from the tower. Nine atomic
debate bursts will
on their proposals for be witnessed by
dissolving the Communist bewemen and photographer, Party. but the entire peries, the The Communist Group, longest in US history, is ex-largest in Pardament, motorted
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CRITY! (4).
pected 10 include come 20 separate detonations,
Seven "public" shots will be fired from towers, one of them 700 feet high. The remaining two "open" "blasts, will be fired on a platform held aloft by captive balloons 忠 altitudes varying between 500 and 2,000 | feet.
There will be-eluoti to other than official witnesses the rocket shot, several otiver balloon bursts and one explosion of a low-yield device to be set of in a tunnel burrowed 1,000 feet into the side of a mountain on the fringe of the lest sile.-- United Press.
Quarantine For Flu Liner
The
Prospects Of Nuclear War
London, May 14. Lord Immuy, retiring Soen- tary-General at the North At-. lantic Treaty Organisation, flow home to London tonight" after nearly five years in office,
On the prospects of nuclear war breaking out he told re- porter: "The most likely way of a war starting is not, as i see it, with
attack an all-out with nuclear weapon,
"Nobody would be so slupki es to do that, but you would get encroachments, and these would be with conventional foreca until you recognise it as a big atikėk."
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view, Russia never embark
on un
would all-oul
Mudras, May 14. passenger liter Rajula, arriving here tomorrow night from Penang with 1,800 pas- Pgirression unless she wanted to sengers will be quarantined for bring down the whole world, Ave days under the instructions they did not "acam to be
of the Indian Government in that com" to hên.
view of
number
A report of a
influenza of
aboard the stulp.
large M. Paut-Hear! Spank, ex- cases Belgian Prime Minister, is re- placing Lord Jamay sa Noto's
As soon as the ship anchors Secretory-Genched-Reuter,
outside Madras a medical team will board it to provide treat-
ment to passengers. No passo).....
Looka, May 14. to ver or member of the crew
The United Kingdom-iden would be permitted to land until Culwards Shipping Conforge the ship is
certified by the announces the prescot surcharge medical authorities as free from of 38 per cent on gm freight infection.
The Rajula is the will be refund to 19 per met Art ship to arrive here from as from May 16, 1907. WA Penang after the recent out reduction applies to all carpo break in Malaya, arai Bingapore, shipped to Adon by vocatis Last week the authorities here loading in, United Kingdom or quarantined
prasongan who north continental berth porki arrived by plane from Singson May. 16 vand thereyČI para-Router
TUESDAY'S CROSSWORD.-Across: 9 Agod, 7 Avert, 8 Apex, 9 Seam, 10 Adulate, 12 Pale, 15 Unita, 18 Oder, 19 Irons, 21 Ripen, 22 Brew, 29 Tired, 20 Gull, 20 Doserts, 20 Apod, 31 Menu, 82 8mort, 99 Dash, Down: 1 Evado, 2 Prelude, 4 Greet, ↑ Damp, 0 Meal, p Sür, 11 Anent, 13 Avow, 14 Base, 10 Bires, 17 Brag. 18 0-pal, 10 Redeems, 22 Brod, 34 Idots, 25 Story, a Used, 28 LauĀ,
Hester
·ANTI-TANK GUIDED WEAPON-
pletely disappeared,
GO
units,
The Conqueror tank, now
its field trials with was "capable of defeating the heavlest known tank,” but it might well be the last heavy tank which Britain would produce.
other weapons ready to re-i place the present "medium, heavy and super-heavy gune.
"For this purpose we are bo- ginning the development of a nuclear guided weapon which will be complementary to the Corporal," he said. "It will be a highly mobile equipment expable of quick employment.
"Wo are giving further con
sideration to the need for additional types of nucleur weapons for the artillery in the fteld."
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producta
be folly to assume that con- ventional forces did not re- main of paramount portunces.
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In nuclear war, dispersion
the battlefield would be es- sential to avoid overwhelming casuallice.
There was therefore a need for a smaller basie fighting forma- dion espable of fighting on ile own under a looser overall direction from higher head- quarters than had been usual in the last two world wars.
"We havo under development an anti-tank guided weapon which should, if all gues well, remove the heavy tank from the battlefield," he said.
But medium tanks would be
required for some time yet to provide close support
Daxy which the guided | Mr. Hore said a limited produc-|With this aim, the army was weapon could not give
tion order had been placed continuing thorough exALITY— for a surface-to-air guided weapon known as "Thunder- bird"
to give anti-aircraft protection to armies in the feld.
for
A new medium tank was by an advanced state of develop- ment.
Mr Haro said that beiweco a
new field gun which would: replace the 25-pounder and the "Corporal” there must be
Mr Hare said the Army needed Its complement of tactical nuclear weapons, but it would
No
ination, of the question of forming infantry and armoured brigade groups.
had
decision
yet been reached. Further practical ex- perience would be gained in the British army of the Rhino 'this year-China Mail Special.
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