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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1957.
REVISION OSTATUS-OF-FORCE
Foreign Affairs Committee Votes For Cancellation
Washington, June 27.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee voted today to direct President Eisenhower to cancel the United States agreements giving its allies criminal jurisdiction over American servicemen within their borders.
The action came after a day-long secret session of the Committee where Republican members tried unsuccessfully to weaken the proposal,
BANNING OF
TESTS
A NUISANCE
Action by the Cunnitice - self has no binding tep! im- but its opinton portance
the should be supported 15 Pesage of a solution through the House, or the entire Con- gress, it could have an important politiet impact an Presletut other Eistniwwer Pershent in causing him to rock revision or termination of status- of-forers beulies,
any
The vote in the Commillee was 18 to 8. The Committer :
--Charles Wilson dominated by members of the
Washington, June 27. Mr Charles E. Wilson, United States Secretary for Defence, said today that the banning of tests of new atomic weapons would be a "nuisance, but it would not slop the business."
Mr Wilson mule the comm-· ment in answer lo a question at a press conference.
Re-
Democratie Parly, who are in opposition 10 the Party President Exsenhower, public. This is the signific:uce of the effort of the 1
publican members of the Comm mittee to weaken the action of the Committee today.
Involved
Deeply involved in the quare | rel among Comunitive menber was the case of Army Specialit 3rd Class William S. Girard, re- ently orderezi
Au
turned over
» Japanese Court for trial o
of killing a Japane charge woman.
He also said that the effect of a suspension on the United Stufta) weapons programme would be to "slow it down," adding that was not one of his problems,
Defence Department mansel He saici it was in the hands of Robert Deckert wailed outste President Eisenhower and Mr the Committee Mom all day John Foster Dulles, the Secre-expecting to be called to testify. tury of Sinte
But he was
as never called despite
Representatives by John M. Vorys, and James G. Fulica, both Republicat.
Fulton called Deckert into the Committee rooni after the ression was over and quʻshelle |
Me Wilson said the objective attempts of disarmament should be * reduction to amuaments "rather thon
uther same of there technical approaches to it."
*The banning of tests of new louie weapons will just be Sort of ገ nuisance, but would not stop the Dushless," The suid.Reuter.
st
RATIONING OFF BUT PRICE UP
Paris, Junic 27. Petrol rationing will be lifted In France tomorrow and al the same time the price will be in- creared to the equivalent ot about $1 Kalion, it was an nounced tonight,
21 about the Ghani cuSIN
But the vote on the legislation had alrentiy bees taken other Cominjttee members werd leaving-United Press.
Senate Committee Rendered Innocuous
Washington, June 27
mbo Was Playing When.
remen had to be called to the assistance of Rudi, a young elephant at Vha Schoenbrunn Zoo, when he tumbled into the safety gap around the Feture shows Rudi being rescued-with the ald of chains. Rud! had heplaying with an elephant companion when he received a heavier push than
usual, landed at the bottom of the gap. Express Photo,
ESABLISHMENT OF NUCLEAR CENTRE
Uited States Invites 16 Asian Nations
Washington, June 27.
The United States today invited 16 Asian nations to a meng here on July 8 to plan for the establishment of an Asic regional nuclear centre in Manila.
CAHOLIC
PIESTS GOLED
ng June 27, Eig Czechoslovak
catholicles were today
The centre was first proposed in October 155 by Mr John Hollister, Director of the US International Co-operation Ad- inistration (ICA).
It would help train Instructors and teachers in muclear selences for adversities and technical schools throughout Asia.
ATOMS FOR PEACE
The centre would fall under President Eisenhower's
atoms
for prace programme.
The United States is prepared in provide $20.000.000
toward
pro- sentences ol terms of construction of the centre
vided that "mutunily Batinine- Mc Donald L. Jackson up to found half years tory
arrangements* can be member of the House of Cu- | for sursiv activities round with other nations, a American Activities Commuter, against stac.
State Department announce» } als commitle said today that and the Senate Internal Sourty
The pr, members of the nicht sald." Soily Sairit Francis De Sub-Commitive "have been 14. The Secretary
for of State
w cost deli or ( Power, Edouard Ramonet, madodered as innocuous as two kitte Sain
Eeries of astufë, netivities in- Petrol in a cage full of rabid deps" the Announcement, rationing WDS imposed Just In a 4,600-word spreen to the thing obelagt of state cone November after the Suez erkals, House of Representaffers. Mr of chnes and religious
Treping The French Parliament hna Jackson attacked recem derisions jocieties 1
the approved
elimination of of the Supreme Cout any dying San Or Wetly in exis-State for Far
as "leading aid, te te here thest tive yours ratoning and the price boost as Communism part of the government's Anan» | comfort and assistance to the a spite of offic dissolution. cial programme.-France-Presse. enemy."-China Mail Special,
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the
EMIZLEMENT
forme Ostrav
priest, Vtech Prth, who was acti- tally chad with unliezzle- ment, recei theup senter:cs of fear and all years. Lowest
of
the centre The money for would come from the $100,000,- 090 Aslan economic developmen! approved fund which congress for the scal year 1800.
The Assistant Secretary
Enstern Alfairs, Mr Walter Robertson, first an nounced the US offer at a meet- inst of the Colombo pavers in Wellington, New Zealand, in December 1956.
BROOKHAVEN REPORT
Tile
three-day meeting next conalder a report month wil worked out by the Brookhaven sealence woer's Natiount Laboratory suggesting where the regional centre cigere i to have
should be located. been led path
Saleston The Brookhaven report said priest, VachFilip who was the Colat to Powers probably allegri to ve bu hidden won illegally by as, se 1052able the necessary scientific and would not intially have avall- event aspal Moravia,
administrative personnel und Court
today
therefore "special attention" be Filipee and 1 Band would!
would have to be given to meet tried in her region
Ing lap-level staff requirements, Czechoslovak-Nother,
the State
Department announce.
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Evacation
Of French From Tunis
Ta Jebe 27. Tunisian temle Habib Bourguiba, ofrmal today that Tunisiand reached an agreement Fence on the evacuath of French troops from inisla
from
ment said.
Invited to the meeting were: Australin Burma, Cambodia, Canuda, Ceylon, India, Indonesla Japan, Laos, Nepal, New Zea- land, Pakiston, the Philippines, Thailand, the United Kingdom and Vietnam--United Press,
ACQUITTED BRITONS
TO LEAVE
Cairo, June 27.
MILLIONS OF
SOVIET NOTE TO BONN
Atomic Rearmament And Reunification Irreconcilable
Moscow, June 27.
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ARTHUR MILLER APPEALS
Washington. June 27.
The Lawyers of American writer, Arthur Miller, husband of Hollywood firm star, Marilyn Monroe, today asked United Russia told West Germany today that claims Stnies Federal Judge, Charles F. McLaughlin, to quash the ver- for atomie rearmament of her forces and for diet of "Contempt of Congress" reunification of divided Germany were irreconcil-alven against Miller, and to me- able, according to brief extracts from a new Soviet qui hian completely. note available to diplomatic sources here.
The note was hunded by the Sovic! Foreign Minister, Mr Andrei Gromyko, to the Ger- man Ambassador, Dr Wilhelm Pacas. Russia also charged the West German Government with imposing political conditions for alsammninent agreement, the sources sald
DEMANDS
a
The noto was a reply to West German note of May 23 #ejecting Soviet demands that the renounce alonie weapons for her forces and refuse to allow atomic weapons to be stationed on her territory,
West Germany also called on Russia to help prevent an arms race by co-operating with the Westem powers at the current disarmament negotiations in Κοπάση,
The Soviet reply repeated the warning in Russia's original nole of April 27, that West Germany would become a "graveyard" in an atomic war.
GRAVE DIGGERS
In an eight-page outline of the Savict ylowpoint on
atomic weapon bases, it said those who favoured German atomic rearm tunehi woul be regarded history as the grave diggers of Dermin reunification,
مونة
To claim West German atomic fumament Wis irreconcilable with reunification, it said, and reminded West Germany that Russia was one of the four powers which pending a final
treaty had peace
special responsibility for seeing Gor-
to work peace. ---Router.
DEAD FISH IN many did not become a threat
ARABIAN SEA
Nome, June 27.
The United Nailons Food and Agriculture_Or- ganisation announced here tonight that many million tans of dead fish, perhaps equal to the entire world's catch in a year, are Boating in the
Arablan XCO,
cording to a report from a Russian ship.
The organisation Bald the report had been re- layod from Moscow by Professor P. Moiseev of the Soviet State Institute of Oceanology and Maring Fisheries,
The report claimed that over an area of 77,000 square miles west of the Laceadive Glands, off the west coast of southern India, "there was about ten dead Bah to the squate yard,"
The name of the Rus slan ship from which the report
WRS was received
not given.
A
Mr Talvo Larvastu, Food and Agriculture Or- ganisation accunographer, sald mass death of fish time to time occurs from In many parts of the world.
"The present catastrophe may have been caused by a layer of water known De the tropical subsurface oxygen mintum," he added, Special,
China Mail
Successful Flight For New Plane
Buffalo, June 27.
Boll Aircraft Corporation's X-14, Dowest jet-powered
INDIANS PROTEST BATON CHARGE
Johannesburg, Juno 27. Lenders of five organisa- tions sent a joint telegram today to the Justice Mini- ter, Mr Charles Swart, pro- testing "in the strongest. possible terms against police baton charge" on an Indian torchlight procession here last night.
NO LET-UP IN
MALAYA
Judge McLaughlinu passed sentence against Miller on May 31 for twice refusing to disclose to a congressional Investigating comitice the names of Corn-
munist writers who attended meatings of the American Comm- munist Party with him in 1947. Kuala Lumpur, June 27.
Miller's lawyers mid their Lavutenant-General Sir Roger ellent's case was Identical with Bower, Director of Military that of trades union agent, John Operations, said today there. Hatkins, whose conviction of
Jet-up ina
war Contempt of Congress was over- against Communist terrorists ruled by the US Supreme Court even after Malayan independence on June 17. bad been declared.
Judge McLaughlin sald ho would examine the request, and decision tomorrow
no
the
Addressing villagers Kullm, Bower emphasised that give his tho Chief Minister, Tengku evening.-France-Presse, Abdul Rahuman, had declared that ho would not meat Malayan Communist Party Secretary, Chin Peng again to
discusi penice terms.
Balbon, June 27. Panama Canal Authorities said Loday that the Canal's "If Communist terrorists toll water supply 19 near the critical you there will be another peace | singo na A Terult of an un.. talk after independence, don't precedented two-month drought, belleve it."---France-Presse.
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This telegram, and another sent by the Transvaal Indian Congress, called for the appoint- ment of a judicial commission. of Inquiry into what the Con- gress described as "an unpro- voked, attack by police on men, and children."
POLICE DENY
Top police spokesmen today denied, that there was any clash between police and the de- monstrators, who were marking the end of a "day of demonstra- tions" against racial separation Jaws, or that the polles carried oul baton charge.
But leading newspapers stuck by their version of events saying there was baton charge, that Indian demonstrators were struck and some were injured. The Johannesburg
two Slap said were in hospital and one youth was still semi-conscious this afternoon.--Reuter,
(Vertical Take-off and LandlinFRANCE WANTS
airplane, has successfully con
pleted indial fight testing, the Air Foreo said today.
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The X-14, powered by two jet Mr Stanley Pittuck, one ongines, is designed to take off The Premicin hi weekly
conventional broadcast, saithat under the of the Britons acquitted in vertically
white to agreement, Freh troops would the Cairo spy trial last horizontal position,
ompletois withdraw
"will leave forward fight and land yo
Homily, eliminating the need for Tunisia except babes at El Saturday, Acuine, Wabesatsa, Stax and Egypt within 48 hours" a spokesman of the Ministry of Interior said today.
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The big Fres mility base at Bizerte wybot Cocussed during the nation
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The X-14 Mierw from the so- called "tall-etter VTOL air Mr Piltuck, 45, of the Mar- planes because it can operate coni Radio Telegraph Company without the help of around gola of Egypt was Speaking of
acquitted on handling equipment to position and Saturday with John Thornton it for thice-off United Fres Word between France on Join and A Stanley, 40, of the Prudential ailer's Assurance Company
notations right thing for a quick and not be undika ireneh to leave Egypt in the immediato |
Mr Glenley is also expected sald that
New York, Jung 27. THURSDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 3 P-recepts, 7 Call Tunisian (story xsept
troops ind heen mcuat from futuro,
Colonel Cyril Banks, a 'Bri-
Steel Corporation lovo, & Armourer, 10 En-curo, 18 Bottled 15 Test, 17 Ferrots 18
atcel price i Lish Member of Parliament, nounced today Bizerta Becedes, 20 Alar, 21 R-over-es, 25 Roalde, 27 Accounts, 20 The me, 29 Enlarges Down 1 Aches, 2 Boost 3 Pearl, 4 Crop, S
He said, hover, the saw the two Britons in prison reason averaging so tot, hotched yesterday. He found them wall which could affect the price of Par-200, 6 Struts & Rockr, 11 Nowed, 12 Utter, 14 Desert, 15
of consumer items Tries, 16 Słomki, 18 Savage, 19 Cenoni în (DI)Vest 25 Rider,
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EGYPTIAN COTTON
Cairo, June 27,
Minis- An Egyptian Finance try opokouman said today "eer- lain banks' in France had ab- proached. Egypt for the purpose of buying four million Egyptian pounds worth (about £4,100,000 sterling) of Egyptian cotton.
It was the Arst núve for a limited resumption of Fratico- Egrption trade which was mus- pende after last Autumn's in- tervention in Egypt.
The cotton would be purchas- ed by France in exchange for goods obtainable from the dollar "The spokesman sold his Ministry was studying the pro-
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