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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1957.
LONDON NEWSPAPER CENSURED UK Cabinet Rift
Press Council THE BLIND ENGINEER
Finds 'Breach Of Confidence
London, July 16.
The Press Council today condemned a "deli- berate breach of confidence” by the London Daily Telegraph in breaking the publication embargo on the United Nations' report on Hungary.
The condemnation of this national right-wing newspaper (circulation more than one million)
was contained in a resolution passed at the quar- terly meeting today of the Council.
In its later statement Council said:
the
The resolution raid: The the embargo by the Christian Press Comell coutenuns the Science Monitor, Dally Telegraph's deliberate Leach of confidence In publisk- ¦ Ing an enlarged document, the report of the United Nations the hour o Hungary, before fixed trær its publication through- out the world."
The Press Counell 1s វា voluntary organisation el pro prietors, editors nud journalists which examines complaints of unethical concert by news papers.
Destroyed
A statement from the Press Council sald the Dally Tele- #raph considered thol the
publication by two British no- Lional
newspapers and Christian Selfenec Monitor of "obviously inspfred summaries” hud destroyed The validity *k
the cibargu
The Press Council said in statement rued
aceting that it did
there had been my
after the t think
btwach of
QUAKE SHAKES HONSHU
Tokyo, July 17.
The complaint in this case arose out of the embargo system for public documents,
"It is customary to issue, im- portant ones with a statement giving the time at which they may be published.
Adequate
"The object of the system is to give newspaper staffs plenty suminaries and considered com- of me to prepare adequate
ment.
"So far the unbargo system has worked well for the press.
"If it is abandoned. the PTTSY
will be gravely handi- capped by having to handle long and Important documenta under conditions of un accessary rush, and both the
Harpid Dickinson, (left) teaching a blind schoolboy bow to use a micrometer screw gauge, which Mr M. Shaw (middle) developed for blind engineers in Brisbane, Brisbane Telegraph Service,
PAPUAN NATIVES
SAVE PLANE
SURVIVORS
The Hague, July 16.
DIAMONDS
Operates Woodcraft Shop
BELIEVED STOLEN IN LONDON
TTAROLD
Brisbane. DICKINSON, I of Goldiestin Road, In- dooroopilly, Brisbane, hus been blind since he was four, but that has not stopped him operating his own woodcraft shop by himself for the past 18 months,
Maintenance on his machinery, and repairs to his, and often his neighbours' curs, are just everyday jobs.
granot
Mr sce a thing," Dickinson admitted as he sat learning operate the latest #toy" of the University of Queensland Engineering De- pariment-a inferometer seŻOW gauge which measures accur→ alely up to 2/10,000 of an inch. He had always wanted to know if the pilons on his, and his neighbours' cars were exactly the size they ought to be, The gauge was developed by Mr F. Travis. technical assistant to the scling Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Pro- Jessor M. Shaw-with the sanction of the Dean.
Ing Instruments Mr Travis is planning and making to bring Blind
people into The engineering field.
FLEVEN people were saved by Papuan native is the first of many engineer
craft today when a Dutch airliner plunged in flames into the sea off Dutch New Guinea, carry- will not be alling 56 others, including 17 children, to their death,
newspaper and the pubilo
with
Information End
lightenment 26 they shoul
"
The statement added that the
The survivors, said to be in a "reasonable con- dition" tonight, were in the tail of the plane (a KLM super constellation) which broke off from
report on Hungary was the main part of the fuselage.
bargoed In Britain "not to be pubished before 3106 GMT on
Thursday, June 20."
The
Embargo
Daily Telegraph, eyer, in breach of the embargo,
how-
ex-
An earthquake rated as prinked scyéral columns of "rather strong" at its centre shook the cast central and northeastern coastal areas of the main Japanese island of Honshu early today.
The
tracts from the document in fls late editions of that morning.
On the following day the nialement went
paper
Central Meteorological Centre in Tokyo reported that the quake, with a top intensity of thretify strong"-hilf two areas at about 3.03 .m. today.
the
The picentre of the quake, according to the Tokyo Earth- quake recorders, wits in the southwest
of Jharoki corner
prefveture near the city of Kai-
itz_
The intensity In the Tokyo arca was "wo-week-on
sale of ven.
3
on, the
explained Ity action.
IL Bald: "an oleial warning was recofved that the embargo might be broken in the United States.
"Extracts were therefore pre- pared in case they should be neered suddenly.
"In the event it was found Unt two British national newspapers printed a summary in their first editions and thai the Christkan Belence Monitor at Boston had done the same thing a
athay previously.
"Accordingly, the Daily Tele goph decided that the enbargo was effectively broken and the casualties.—United | prepared extructs were released
at I am."-fleuter.
Thure were no reports of any xlamage or Press.
A British Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
1 Insect that hops it (4).
4 Search for loot (7).
B Root out of the
(4).
9 China's in it (4).
30
allotment?
10 Get a bit rusly (7).
11 Send to sleep! (4).
12 Bundle of goods (4),
14 Backs away (7).
17 Spring out of bed? (5).
19 Think the world of (5).
22 1t's erline (7).
20 Sign of the future (4)..
27 Put a lot on? (4).
20 Steps on it! (7).
29 Rectangular object? (4).
30 Only Water (4).
81 Muscle attachments (7).
:32 'Stopped running: (4),
DOWN
2 Native scamin (6).
3 Brings down (6).
4 Come again (5).
6 Gave satisfaction (0).
6 Jolly good time (5).
7 Skeleton formation (5).
12 A bit of a temptation (4),
13 Singular sort of wolf? (4).
15 This is the end! (4),
16 Automalle weapon (4).
18 Ceremonially serious (8).
20 Declined to stay for punch!
(0).
21 Tell the, tule (8).
23 Wake up there! (5).
24 Biting (6).
25 Organs often blown (5).
TUESDAY'S CROSSWORD-Acres: 1 Dodges, 5 Dunce, 8 Dozen, 9. Aktail, 10 Final, 11 Theit, 13 Ogre, 19 Celis, 10 Reside.
SENATOR WANTS 'CLEAN'
CIGARETTE
Washington, July 16. Sen. Wallace F. Bennett proposed today that each cigarette package be re. quired to carry this "warn- ing" label:
"Prolonged use of this product
result In may the lung, heart cancer in and circulatory aliments, and other diseases."
The Ulah Republican, a non-smoker, Introduced a bilt which would require such
label on each elgarette pack.
"Compared Lo the dangers of cigarette smok- Ing. the highly published hazards from atonte radia- on fallout are negligible," Bennett Bald in 0 allort Senate speech,
"Perhaps W
devate moto of our efforts to producing 1 clean elgarette raller (ban a clean bomb,' Re Bald.... United Press,
ASIAN FLU
HITS MILITARY
Seoul, July 16. The South Korean Second Army Headquarters today said about 1,900 soldiers with the ten reserve army
All are suffering from shock and four with severe burns.
A twelfth survivor, a child, died in hospital later.
The air hostess thoce In hospital.
A
LONELIEST
is among
British missionary and (wo others believed to be either Australian or British were
among those killed. The others were Dutch, mostly officials re- turning to Holland with their families.
The off from the
airliner had just falcon
Bjak Island
one of
He has been at the University
only eight years, and before that was a tool maker.
Deepens Over Inflation Issue
London, July 16,
The rift in the Cabinet over the measures to be taken to combat the new wave of inflation in Britain deepened today during the ministerial meetings in London.
The Government's failure to take action to check a rapidly deteriorating situation is due to the fact that any of the decisions the Government were reported might take is likely to lead the Conservative Party
con-
London, July 16. DOLICE
be tonight to vinced that a £2,750 con- signment of diamonds due to arrive at London Alr- port by BOAC airliner on Saturday, were stolen after the plane reached here.
to electoral defeat.
Thomeycroft,
party is virtually unanimous in are the purely economic ones of
While the Labour opposition chequer, Peter Its criticisms of the Govern en incarcaso in the bank rate, mente polley, or its lack of ons, loan restrictions OT induced Government, deeply divided. The Conservatives are, like the unemployment.
Three series of measures have been examined.
wago
CONTRADICTION
Flintly, that of The stones
The first meastire would be in from were flown
freezing
with But no trades direct contradiction
tho, Singapore and were due to be union will agree to wage free policy of development of prom put abcord an Amsterdam-zing if it is not accompanied by duction outlined by the Chan- bound airliner at the airport. a corresponding freezing of cellor when he presented his The loss was discovered when prices or at least of company budget last April,
freight from the aircraft was profits, which the Conservatives taken to the HOAC importunonimously oppose. shed and checked against the manifest.
Messages were
SUICIDE
Unemployment 18 coldly advocated by many Conserva- tivas, but is nylangat by the Governancnt with much TC- ticence,
immediately the dashiet along the route
the airliner had taken to London. ;
Secondly,
Cover- ment might make a mas- : The Government's inaction CONFIRMING
sive reduction of state expendi- has given rise to a discontent fure, either on the social ser- that is overflowing. From Singapore,
mong the Calcutta, vices, which would be electoral vast Labour following and bit- Karachi, Ilanbul and Zurich, suicide, or on railway and road ing deeply into the Conserv alzuals were received confirm building and atomic power pro- tive ranks. The crisis is the ing that the diamonds had been | duction programmes, walch most difficult that has confront- aboard the airliner when it would unhinge the country's od Premier Harold Macmillan's Iett,
economie future,
government. Thirdly, taxation might *
increased as a means of absorbing part of the surplus purchasing power. It is on this measure chiefly that the Cabinet has split.
They were last checked at
Zurich, Six airport loaders
on duly when the plane arrived have been questioned and a full des- cription of the stones is being circulated throughout Bred and Europe.
Heisation, has
has no engineering qualiffen- tions.
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It will take Mr Dickinson only 24 hours to master the micrometer, an instrument which Mr Travis says many engineers with full faculties are unable to do accurately. A meeting with Mr Dickinson two years ago, and a lifelong desire to hep the blind have been behind Mr Travis's work. Brisbane Telegraph Service.
the international police
been in formed.-Reuter,
Britannia Service Inaugurated
The
London, July 16.
British Overseas
Cow For Mr K Airways Corporation to
Prague, July 16. hollest and loneliest nir- Czechoslovak admirers felds in the world less than 50 today
embarrassed miles from the Equator,, when Nikita Khrushchev it crashed into the sea.
A spokesman at Biak airport offering him a cow. told Reuter tonight over the telephone:
"The survivors were all saved by the native population in prahus? (native craft),
prop
service
night inaugurated a turbo-
to Tokyo! when a Bristol Britannia 102
(the "Whispering
(for 1
An economie policy composed of measures that will almost all be unpopular must be put forward rapidly it Brital do to prevent a fall in the pound and a deterioration of living which would be inevitably accompanied by scrious social unrest,
The. Socialists call planned economy
including standarda control of profits and sharing of dividends. It is, however, unthinkable that the Coneerva- tives would adopt a policy so liamatrically opposed to their
"There," es a non-conformist Conservative member of Parlia ment, Gerald Nabarro, has de clared: "I the Conservative Government's last
hope." to the Chancellor of the Ex-France-Presse.
creed.
The only
measure left open
INFLATION ANXIETY
Gas Price Jumps In London Area
w
London, July 16. Rising prices hit Britops further today in Mr Giant") left London Air- the midst of a wave of anxiety about inflation by port.
dangers to the economy.
The cow, called "Elita Record", wan offered by co- cperative farmers at Buzovica,
Officials said the Soviet Com- "The plane took off normally,munist Party chiet at first did There was radio contact which not know what to do with it, suddenly fell off, then we hoord but arrangea just before his re- Co more, no distress messages turn to Moscow, to have it sent were received.
on by rail-China Mail Spertal,
NO INDICATIONS
"There are no indications of sabotage.
"The plane crashed two minutes after take-off.
"The weather was good, cloudy ! but clear.
"Natives, Hving on the coast, were the first to warn the air- port, which is near the coast, of the crash. They saw the plane falling, with flames coming from it and the se was ouvered with flaming petrol.
"The plane broke when it hið, the water, The people sitting near the tollend were washed out by the entering sea The Papuans went out in their little nalive craft ond succceded in saving 12 people (one was the child who died later In hospital).
"The crash took place at
0435 loent time,
RECOVERED
"As soon as the accident be-1 came known the navy began
divisions had been infected searching the arca, with planes
by Asian influenza.
and ships. So for 12 bodies
A Headquarters spokesman have been recovered.
said most of the soldiers suAVY-
ing from delverza
were 14-
"We have as yet no idea what caused the accident," he said
The Seclallet party newspaper
Volk, quoting Defenco Ministry. In Hot Velje Seoul said there was no ca Hollandia correspondent tonight,
cently recruited.
The
its
of infucuza among the nation's said that a few minutes after the 20-division regular army.
plano took off one of the engines
The Pubile Health Ministry of its left wing exploded, setting said on estimated 7,000 persons the poirol monks on fire. both civilian and milliary, had In view of the planes long been affected by the epidemic trip to Monile it carried about but there had been no reported 4,400 gallons of fuel, the paper deaths.
ON SHIP
said,
The pliot was reported to have tried to make an emergency Tho Azian induca has landing on the sea, which tolled, struck down 122 persong
-Bouler. on board! the American troop transport "General Pajch", which
is due, to reich Bremerhaven CYPRIOT YOUTH
tomorrow, It was disclosed do [day
GETS DEATH"““
General Alvin' Gorby, chief of the American military heallb
Nicosia, July 10.. servico, ordered the ship, carry- An 18-year-old Greek Cypriot, ing 942 pasangery and 314 row | Nicos", "Sotocicous was play members to bo placed in pentenort into grach," for ....... the quarantino Immediately. Only | ingand Airpo' withila six'monttin
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The Corporation has been serving Tokyo with Argonauts and Constellations.
The Scutientern Gag Board, wives. In some paris of London serving 1,500,000 consumers tomato prices were up by an By the end of this week, around
Lordon,
cnnounced much as 25 per cent, and green- these two types of aircraft will that its gas prices will go up grocers rationed potatoes. be entirely withdrawn, and the from August 12. costing the The National Association of Britannias which cut the average customer an extra ave-Master Bakers cald It journey to about 40 hours, will pence a week,
warned the Government that he carrying 54 passengers to A strike in London's Covent latest increases in the Tokyo three times a week. Garden market sent the prices coal and other hiels must force Reuter,
of vegetables searing to house- up the price of bread-Reuter,
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