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No. 86753

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Established 1845

TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1957.

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RELAX IN

DAKS

THE MANGUS COMERRY EDE ACTING TROUSERS

Whiteaways

COMMENT OF BRITAIN REPORTED TO HAVE TOLD CHINCOM

THE DAY

French Crisis

WHILE crises aro for the

Wfrom unusual in

French political scene the present upheaval will be one of the inost difficult to resolve ns, even if M. Rone Pleven, who has been charged with forming a new government, can mannge to do so, it is high- ly Improbable that such an administration could last for very long in view of the existing problems which | plagued the former Mollet government and finally led to its downfall on a vote: of confidence.

The major parties ure sharply divided оп the present issues-that of the nation's financial difficul- ties, the Algerian question and the necessity to press | hond with the implemen- tation of the Euratom and Common Market treaties,

Hiero M. Pleven is finding the snags in the political river na the Socialists refuse to

commit

themselves until auch time as he produces. Bome

concrete proposals,

and so far it seems that he

has been unable to do so. The Socialists also wish to ace what the Conservatives, who led the revolt against M. Mollet, have in mind. The Intter for their part, although having assured M. Pleven of their goodwill, adamant that

are

any

government in power must continue with a firm line Algeria and also drop the]

מן

Socialists'

plans in the

Anancial

field

and

re- and

organise the health

educational services.

To cap it all the other key group, the Popular Re- publicans (Catholic) Party, refuse to join a

govern-

ment without the Socialista It is no wonder that

80.

M. Pleven ia

with such

confronted

A momentous

task of rallying a parlia mentary majority.

In spite of the financial crisis, however heavy foreign trade defeit and à huge budget defeit the French economy in basically healthier than at any time since the end of the war. Production has risen and nome sectors of industry are ready to compete on equal terms with

other countries, but unless over. consumption and inflation

are brought under control,

'WE'LL DECIDE OUR OWN CHINA TRADE POLICY

EMBARGO-NO COMPROMISE

Heavy US Pressure On Japan And France

ONE MORE MEETING

Paris, May 27.

The Chincom group discussing moves to ease. the embargo on trade with China ended today's meeting still deadlocked-and the London Financial Times reported that Britain had decided to "abandon Chincom”.

The Financial Times published a report from its Paris correspon- dent saying that Britain had told Chincom it intended to apply "unilateral- ly to trade with China the same regulations as those governing trade with the rest of the Soviet bloc".

Bus Strike Hits

Singapore

Singapore, May 27.

Gapas hurted stones at three busca in Slugapore tonight A few hours after 300 bus workers declared strike in Iwo

passenger transport companiek, 2 Non-striking

workers con- Linued to drive the com. pany buses on regular ser- vices,

Hoodlums in a predominant-

By Chinese

rca niunét!

passing

busty

breaking.

three

glass planes and injuring one passenger, Eyewitnesses said all

fcidents were separate, Police have made no urresis

so far.

The strike was called

be-

cause of the management's refusal to recognisa the union and to reinstate 82 dismissed members,B¢u- 1er,

MONTESI VERDICT:

PIERO PICCIONI FOUND NOT GUILTY

Venice, May 28.

The Venice Tribunal early today found Picro Piccioni, son of a former Italian Foreign Minister, this development will be not guilty of the manslaughter of Wilma Montesi, disastrously arrested.

21-year-old carpenter's daughter, whose name was given to Italy's biggest postwar scandal case.

Also acquitted were:

"No communique was publish-

GERMANS TELL BRITAIN: WE CAN'T BREAK KRUPPS? EMPIRE

Makarios Says

'No Talks

As Long

As I Am

Banned”

Hamburg, May 27. ed after the meeting of Chincom, Cyprus in an interview pub Archbishop Makarios of and the committee is to meet lished today said he would

on Wednesdný," Financial Times respondent refuse political negotiations with Britain as long as he is banned from Cyprus.

again

said.

the

"But, I understand, the UK

delegate will be 11e more than an observer, if he attends at all.

NOT AS STRONG

i

The archbishop alio said, "I have no political ambitions." As soon us Cyprus is liberated shall cease to be aviational leader."

In a question-and-amwer re- port published in the West Ger- "Other Governments have not | manI nows magazine "Der yot decided whether to follow the UK lead.

","!",,," "Few of them are reckoned to be in as strong a position as the UK to defy the Americans on this issue.

con-

| Spiegel" (The Mirror) today, Malarias answered the question what he would do it Britain would try to seek contact with him for negotiations about the fate of Cyprus:

"It this ref:z's to negotiations about the polleol future of "Chincom is likely to tinue in being. It will be at- Cyprus, I am not ready to enter or any negotiations as long as the tended by representatives the US and such other govern-ban provehiing me from enter menis as can be persuaded to ing Cyprus has not beers lifto," accept the American attitude, I Fight For Freedom

"The UK will continue to alt in Cocom (the Nato com-

mittee with the SAMO Dom- position as Chincom, which controls trade with the TESL of the Soviet bion) and will Apply Cocom ruits to British trade

China," with Financial Times said.

the

CRUCIAL STAGE

the China trode At prescot embargo list has 207 more items than the Cocom list.

London, May 27,

The German Government is having difficulty breaking up the Krupps' industrial empire which was ordered at the end of the last war.

Reporting this, the Secretary I Foreign Affairs, Mr Selwyn Lloyd, said the West German Government had told Britain, America and France it

W15

BRITONS LAUGH,

Mollet Asked CHAT WITH

having dmculties in carrying To Resume

these orders,

Britain, Mr Lloyd said, had asked for more information about these difficulties,

He said there was no question. ef exempting the Krupp's family combine from decarteliantion.

TALKS FIRST

to

Elwyn Jones, Labour, in the He had been asked by Mr House of Commons to comment en West German proposals waive the allied postwar de. concentration measures agreed upon in respect of Krupps.

(The Eplitting up of the huge Ruhr Industrial Krupps is due to be completed by March 31, 1958, under an agreement concluded in 1953 bolween the Krupp lawyers and the Allied High Commission).

concern

o!

Mr Lloyd said that once the information asked for har been supplied the matter would be discussed with the other signa- dories of the Bonnt convention (which led to sovereignty for West Germany),

VERY DANGEROUS

Premiership

Faris, May 27.

M. Rene Ploven, near Radical statemnan attempt- Ing to solve the French

•political crisis, today saw the outgoing Socialist Prime Minister, M, Guy Mollet, and is bolleved to have urged him to return will an enlarged version of the old coalition,

But all indications so far were that M. Mollet was standing firm on his re- signation,

The Conservallyes, whoot vote on his now: tax mea- sures overthrew him, were nino mineved.

six The crisis. is now 'days old, and M. Pleven la due to report back to Fr sident Caty on Wednesday on prospools of an astEC- meni · among the major non-Commnalet parilts on Abazio programine cover- ing Algeria, finance, and'

the the Euratoma and European Common Market tres lles-Renter.

| EGYPTIANS

Rome, May 27. Britain and Egypt met

| for the third time in their current trade and financint

talks today, but officials of both nations maintained tight-lipped silence on their progress.

One British delegato said he expected the talks to continue "another day or two after today's meeting.

As has been their custom 59 for, the two delegations did not schedule another meeting at 10- 'day's session.

to

their

İnstead, they each returned their Embassies in contact governments and will make ·ørrangements for their next session by telephone. ** Thơ talka ́ were reliably re 'porteil stalled on dead centra on 'Saturday, fòllowing the Erst two

Beeslona.

But today ́a Cortaka "nir of cordiality seemed to have tallen over them.

- LAUGHS

Mr Phillip Noel-Baker, Labour, urged Mr Lloyd to im- Seven Die In Fall us laughed and press on the West German Gov- Makarios stressed that he was ernment that the Krupp family elected

by the Greek people of and firm were "very dangerous j! Cyprus ng their religious and indurence in German affairs”· Seven mine workers plunged national leader.

"I fight for the

Johannesburg, May 27.

Mr John Hynd, Labour, sald¦ shaft today, freedom of my fatherland and the moment whatever the merits of the is free I shall agreement at the time it was my fatherland be happy to be able to return now outdated. to the role of only a religious leader" Makarios sald

agreement," he

Members of the two delega--

chatted to- gether in the marble lobby of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation houd- quarters, site of the talles,

On the agenda are Egyptian demands for compensation for the damage she suffered in the Suez Canal invasion last autuma and for the freeing of at least some of the sterling in ita blocked bank account in Lon-

don,

England in turn is asking for some immediate programme of compensation

Good Discussion action leading

for British subjects and private Arms whose goods have been Washington, May 27. Dr Konrad Adenouer, the sequestered, or seized by the West German Chancellor, to Egyptians.

to their deaths down a goldmine

A company spokesman at the Westem reets shaft said the seven men were working on a platform when It tipped over, There was nothing to prevent spilling them into the mine the Krupp family from rein: United Presa. Ho denied British claims vesting money from parets sold that orms had been found in in new industries, including ato- his palace after his arrest and mic energy, deportation last year,

That is a blunt llo,” Ma- Would It not be better to karlos sald "What they found cancel this Britain, backed by some other was an old unusable pistol in asked countries has sought to have the the

room of a blind 70-year- Chincom list scaled down to the Cocom list thus deleting all 207 Makarios did not cortment on ters you have raised

Mr Lloyd: "I think the mat-day had what he called a "good It is also reportedly stating

are cer- extra items.

a question of the "Spiegel" re-thinly those we will consider. Dulles, the Secretary of State,property, seized by Egypt and na ho began his formai talks for its shares in, the old Suez porters asking him about British China Mall Special.

*bere-Router", "..-"

Canal Company-United Press. allegations that Makarios had connections with Colonel Griyas, the leader of military resistance gainst the British on Cyprus 47 items at present on

island The story of the Montesi Chincom list.

"think that I cannot reveal scandal, which rocked Rome

Heads of delegations in details in an interview whether

The three judges (lhore wee no jury) took seven and a half of cbsoluto acquittal. "nur hours to decide on their verdict

and self-styled Sicilian

Ugo Montagna,, 54 landowner quis", accused of aiding and abetting Piceloni by trying to silence the crime.

The other issues which France faces aro of minor in- portance compared with the ticklish Algerian problem, and it is on this issue that the

previous government falled to show courage and responsibility. There is now ne half-way stage between Saverlo Polito, 78, former military administration and Independeuce. The firat alternative could not last for very long without Bevera

police chict of Rome, accused of the same crime as Montagna.. MODEL CONVICTED

The verdict meant that the

An American counter-proposal drowning of the Roman girl, in has agreed to some relaxation of Apr 1953, remained as big an

the Chincom list, but called for enigma as ever despite four the addition to the Cocom list of

years of police investigations.

The only person convicted society and caused a government

the

old priest."

self and there is strong of the longest and costliest in when the half clothed body of break the deadlock in talks on Colonel Grivas," Makarlos sald. repercussions in France it-ter the four-month trini, one ertsis, began on April 11, 1953. Chincom met today in a bid to or not I had connections with opposition to the Lacoste rattan criminal history, was 21-year-old Wilma Montest was regime in Algeria and the existentialist model, Adriann found on a lonely beach near moves are afoot to strangle Bisocelu, sentenced

It.

THE answers to the financial

ing

the China trade embargo,

The talks are now in a crucial slags. Today's meciing was decided on last Thursday in order to avoid a final break after, the delegation heads had failed in two meetings last werk to reach agreement on'a possible relaxation of the China trads embargo. -

AID NEEDED

-United Press.

REPUBLICANS TO RESTORE

CHOPPER

ATTACK:

MAN GETS

6 YEARS

Unanimously found guilty

PART OF CUT of wounding four men with

discussion"' with Mr John Foster its

to ten Rome. months in prison for "fabricat-

Three days later death was a crime."

pronounced due to drowning and Acquitted together with the on April 1, Signor Saves to three principat defendants were Polito, Rome Follce Chief, sald and Algerian problems eight minor defendants, accent death was accidental, are France's responsibility of false testimony ani of with- and must be trented as such, holding information,

DRUGS AND SEX but the Euratom and Coni- Adriana Bisaccia, a dark- On October # Signor Silvano mon Markot treaties direct-haired beauty, was

intent to do them grievous !!! accused of Muto, a magazino edittir, pub- ly affect other European fabricating a crime

Washington, May 27. bodily harm, Yan Woon-klu,.f by telling ishod allegations that Wilna countries who are apprehen- police she

President Eisenhower suf-47,, a cafe waiter, was gen- Was drugged and had 'äled after a drug and sex sive of French political chapped by a mysterious band party at the hunting lodge of

The sources said France and fered a setback in Congress tenced to six years. hard instability and as long as

which she hinted as led by the self-styled Marquis Ugo Japan, hitherto strong backers today when House Repub- labour by Mr Justice A. D. this instability exists there

Montagna

of a relaxation in the controls, lican leaders decided Picelom rushed

to Schioles in the Criminat Ses- He said Signor Floro. Piccioni, were under heavy pressure from restore only a fourth of the sions this morning... over to his brother and embraced 'him as whose father was Foreign the United States to modify the verdict was announced He Minister, Montagun and other their attitude. Both countries defence, budget cut. At least the former Premier han declared he wants to make prominent Italians had tried to are reported Interested in re-

The House Republican Policy the substantive charge of wound- -Year-was found not gulity on had a plan which is more a piano playing tour of the hush up the case. Reuter, ceiving financial help from Committee agreed that can be said for the United States,

is little likelihood of rati- fication:

A galaxy of ox-Premiers{

and party leaders so it is not surprising that M. Pleven has approached M. Mollet to find a solution to the week-old diaputs. Certainly M. Mollet is the logical contender for the task and abould he be finally prevailed upon he will have overcome the intran- algence of the parties and the. brondon

to

coalition.

Whatever the outcome. It would be unfortunato if

翻感

there were a return to "in- and-out" governments the consequences well-pruve disastrous.

night

·

Montagna.

United Press.

America-Reuter,

IS FATHER DIVINE DEAD?

Philadelphia, May 26.

77

Father Divine's service, has no .. Father Divine, Negro cult leader, first name.

Is dead, polletmen who patrol Pollee

assigned to 'live'district around his headquarters { - In- which Divine' fioadă bellevo.

quarters' is located, however, A spokesman at Divine's fieod-

said the "scuttlebutt is that quarters" hore,

the guy is dead”. denied it.

Patrolmen basod their opinion

sent himself at any of tile DUNCTONS "orchts" fold at

however,

"Father'

Is enjoying good on failure of Divine to "pre- health, the spokesman, Me Derling, said, "It's the same

thing, just a namour, Wo his VERĪČALEDON, "heaven"

haven't any commoni,”

throughout the-City,

Miss Darling, who was re- Osca by a while, you'd, so

·ziumod· ́ when she entered:" him,"

"and they would, spinsh 12- all over their paper whenever he showed up somewherɑ, But: there's been nothing happen- ing lately."

offer 10

amendments to the military with intent to murder. appropriations bill which would Be was alleged to have put back about $300,000,000 of attacked his victims while they the $1,200,000,000 the President were asleep in the Yan Chim Kee wants. They conceded they had Cafe in Caine Road no chance of restoring the rest. morning of February 2′′ ---United Press,

Six Knots

London," May 21.

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Australian appearancen," Mian Darilog

skipper Alan ligation, accused naked uld he had been "quite busy vullore added that the replice is ordealp forge A with his office dution When of the ship that carried the sentence, nying; that hô- had a nekood when he made his last pilgrims to Americh had sailed family of five, including an agent opportuno, sin andtha 122 miles in the previous 1-24 mother, P

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