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THE FAMOUS CONFURT 100 AKTIBO TROUSERS
NG KONG
DISASTER
External politics 1,000 Feared Dead BRITAIN'S MIRACLE MILER, SPRINTS TO THE TAPE
Sover the pet few mitica
bavo overshadowed' RusBÍAN intentions in tho Middle East and their next move, following the Big Three Western Powers' rejection of the Sovie, appeal for a joint declaration of force in the area, will be watched with interest.
Since the summer of 1956 the Soviel Government has been actively participating in Middle Eastern politics and the essence of its, role ly n attempt to win over the Arab world in opposition to Britain's traditional sphere of influence.
LOST GROUND
meeting with a measure of ;
In Japan
400 IN
TRAIN
MISSING
Tokyo, July 25. The Japanese police
LAST year this Russian said tonight an estimated policy appeared to be 1,000 people were dead success with the deeling of and missing in Kyushu, Britain's influence in Jordan southern Japan, follow- of the pro-Soviet ing torrential rains and floods.
sund the ultimate rise to
power Suleiman Nabulai.
Since then eventa have moved rupidly, if erratically, in consequence of which the
A train carrying 400 pas- sengers was cut off by flood-
Russians and the Egyptians waters in an isolated aren. have lost ground. It in
The Police raid they "feare-1"
thene events that pose two the train and its pusingere hod questions. Did Presidenteen lost. Nasser over-play his hand
In Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq and did the Russians over-estimate their popular
ity in the Middle East? PARAMOUNT
C
Thousands of police and de- once force men were being rushed to the rescue.
An amateur radio operator's
report received in Tokyo sald Inhayn City, in Nagasaki pre- fecture.
on the southernmost six ERTAINLY the Arabp of Japan, was flooded
feet deep.
nations were well aware
of Egypt'a innbility to lend the IIamle world, The experience of the Palestine war was sufficient evidenet of that and this may have been the paramount thought during the Suez
invasion
as none of the Arab states on that occasion showed any. desire to align themselves actively with Nusser. And
now
in the Lebanon pro-
Western forces have bees consolidated following the recent elections to provide another bastion against Communian,
CREDULOUS TVARIOUS "aid" baits,
dangled before credulo Arab eyes by the Kremlia
It
In Darkness
The elty was without light or power.
and washed away.
The police station was flooded
The National Police heve mid they were unable to make any accurate estimates ar to the ex-
tent of the disaster as all com- munications with the stricken areas had been cut off,
Clues with thousands pr in-
habitants are repend several feet deep in swirling torrents.
Transport busts have dis appeared. Ballway coaches have Боле erumbling embankments.
MYSTERY BRITAIN MOVES
BLAST IN
AIRLINER Passenger Missing
ON INFLATION
THE
London, July 25.
THE British Government announced today it was setting up an independent council in its efforts to tackle inflation in Britain,
Mr Peter Thorneycroft, the The award was made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, | Adustrial disputes tribungl said it would keep under review whichrecommended that the changes in prices, productivity | strikers be given on extra 11/- and the level of incomes, In- a week, The. employes Had
and offered three shillings more cluding wages, calories" profis.
week.-All Agencies.
It would report to the ralion from time to time,
Mr Thorneyeroll made .the announecment in a House of Commons debate in which Mr Harolt Wilson, of the Labour Opposition. had attacked the
New York, July 25. ripped a hole in the fuselage A mysterious explosion of an airliner carrying 16
high vars and people
over the with California desert today.
A heavily-insured passenger went out of the gaping hole to His death and the FOI Investi- galey! the possibility of suicide, Kovernment for its "failure to
The Western Air Lines Con- check inflation." vair plane with 12 other pas- and a crew of three sengers
successful emergency made landing at George air force bass
Swept Away
have been realsted, fore- Patients were swept away stalling the insidious zeti- with a hospital, according to vities of the #D-called eyewitness reports. There were missions which itivariably landslides everywhere,
n
NO ARBITRATION
Mr Thorneycroft sald
to
the
follow in the wicke of A Japanese pressman breast-without difficulty" after the government hoped the council
ings the flood in Ommura City saw blast.
a
HER PLUNGING NECKLINE
London, July 25, The Daily Express suggested Princess Margaret. today
A
that she watch her weight or raise the neckline of her dresses. Proot of the plunging neck-
Russian donora.
would create a full appreciation lae in Lord Beaverbrook's Con- Thus one
bodies of children washed away,
The FBI stepped in at once of the facts among the puolle otservative daily was a picture of Margaret at a Buckingham of Communist's most potent
and begun an He heard van cries for ald
Investigation to large and among those more Palace garden party. weapons was destroyed beim the darkness.
determine whether the explo-immediately concerned in costs Columnist William sion was s off as part of a
Hickey fore it could be forged.
Lightning and thunder flashed suicide plot by
commented: and price matters.
Well,
dress the nilasing and rolled as the flood wave passenger, S.F. Binatock, 62, a It would not arbitrate. It was should be where it was meant
the day not a
court concerned Park, swept over Omure.
California. Conom
it was made. WRFCS with The cltles of
wage claims or Could one or two extra pounds specific and Jeweller.
a few extra dishes of straw- Omura are described as "citles, H: body was believed to have disputes.
berries and cream, a few extra I's fallen somewhere in the rugged
purpose was to serve on of death."
Ice creamLY at parties havo Mojave desert.
past experiene and deduce from
given it a look that wasn't in- it some guidance for the future.
tended?"-United Presy. It would be free to comment on general problems inside the acope of its terms of reference.
therefore нестя thu Egyptian and Russian in- fluence has been thwarted and no small measure ol this succes can be attribu- ted to the late Middle East reappraisal by the United
Isahaya
The police said the деса covered the greater part of the Western coastal districts of States and the proclama-Kyushu isired, the southem- tion of the Eisenhower moss of Japan's four home doctrine early this year and Istonds. with It a defaite warning against subversion and aggression in the area.
A WEDGE
NOTHER move which
Adrew vituperation from
die was
to
un-
The fooding torrential rains falling ccasingly since yesterday even- Ingg--Reuter.
FOUR HOLES
the Kremlin was the United ROCKNROLL wall of the plane extending
States decision to join the
"We do not pat this forward as a panacea," he said. "Tiose who wish to tackle inflation will co-operate with it und heed to its reports."
pay
to be
Streaking to the fape at the end of the International milo event in London last Friday, Derek' Ibbotson of Britain finishes in the world record time of three minutes 57.2 seconds. And below, Ibbotson with his wife, Madeleine, and daughter Christine, about to board the train at King's Cross for New- castle and home, Koystone Photos.
BRITAIN DECIDES TO KEEP
H-BOMB ISLAND
By CHAPMAN PINCHER
Military Committee of the PEER WEDS all the 200-mile-per- tive member, Colonet Martin cially stated today.
Bagdad Pact. This not
Four holes were found in the plane's fuselage in the lavatory where the blast took pince. At first the FBI believed they might be bullet holes, but subsequent investigation Indicated they were the holes for bolts which had held the wash basin in place.
The explosion ripped a four-
VOTE AGAINST GOVT by-seven foot hole through the
The House later approved the from the lavatory partly into the
Government's economic polley
London, July 25, main compartment,
by 304 votes to 241.
Britain has decided to retain Christmas Island in the The near-disaster occurred 47
Before the vote, a Conserva-Pacific as a permanent H-Bomb testing base it was offi.
only consolidated the anti-
hour airliner lelt Las Vegas. Lindsay, announced Communist alliance; it also
Holsterstone July 25, Novada, where I had stopped two siler colored the und
inembers [“A”, RAF group of more than restored good relations, The Earl of Wharncliffe, on a Bght from Minneapolis to
would not vote for the governs 100 men is to remain there to badly strained by the Suez known to tricods and colleagues Los Angeles. It was flying at ment on the grounds that it had keep the hirstrips, buildings and misadventure, among thes "Lord Rocknroll," married 10,000 feet-Unitoj Press, not clearly stated that it could other installations in a state of Pact nations.
not permit un increase in wages, reudinces for further tents, But there is no need for com.
equivalent increase in produc placency. The hammer will
Lord Wharneliste, 22, Is a
tion, be used in an attempt to professional jazz drummer and Sir Alexander Grantham, leti Provincial bus firms tonight drive a wedge between the recently became the only peer by air tonight to return to accepted wage award by a Western Powers and their in the Musicies Union.
Hongkong after four dayn of Government tribunal which gave The Earl's pretty bride, who high-level colonial office talks, hope of a settlement this week- Middle Eastern friends. I
trauca her ancestry to will still be necessary there- Scottish hero
the He made no statement--Reuter, ́ end of a strike by 100,000 men. fore to keep at least one shares his teste in music and his Robert Bruce, jump ahead of the swinging enthusiasm for fast cars-China sickde.
Mies Aline Bruce, 18-year-ol short-hand typist, in the parish church hero today.
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London, July 25.
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London, July 25,
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CUTS
Look what's in your feature-packed China Mail The number of men in the Tomorrow!
BRAND NEW is the serial written by Sir Arthur Grimble on the South Sea Islands.
E is a book based on Intimate noquaintance and rare under- standing - don't miss his topnotok feature.
Then Chapman Pincher sete out new facts on smoking. And Robert Edwards writes on Khrushchev,
There sre (cartoons by Cummings, Giles, Friell, Osbert Lancaster and all your regular favourites including JAD Roberta fim, reviews, three pages of local and overseas pictures, book reviews, record, talk and many more features - all in the Saturday Mall.
Royal Navy will be cut from 120.000 to bolween 00,000 and 10,000 by 1002, it was official- ly announced today. This stems from the Govern ement's now streamlined do Lenco programme for the nuclear age and the decision to aboilsh national service by
1002.
An Admiralty announcemini cald today it was hoped the major part of the Navy re- duction would be in 1958- 1959, but the process would ·
continue through the five- year period,
It was estimated not more than 1,74p of the 14,000 offlcera now in the service would be prematurely relired in the next five years,
The Royal Air Force separately announced that the number of its officers and non- cominiesioned officers who
would become redundani în - the next five years under the new plans was unlikely to be more than 700 and 1,000
respectively.Router
The Atomic Energy Authority is to send out scientists period)- cally to service the laboratories and equipment used during the H-bomb explosions last month, Policy Reversed
These decisions mean the Bri- 1tsh Goverrunenia polley On H-bomb tests has been reversed, Preparations were being made to abortion Christmas Island when I was there last month Installations werd to be dis mantled and sold off in Honolulu or brought back to Britain.
was believed no further H-bomb explosions were likely
It
for three reasons,
further weapons for testing; Britain's first series of H- bomb tests was so success- ful that no further ex- plosions were likely to be nooded.
Hopes of agreement on limit- ing H-bomb tests have receded during the last two weeks cod Sir William Penney bas told Defence Chiefs that further ex- plosions in the near future are "desirable" ca technical grounds
Sir William Penney has point- ed out that though the bombs tested at Christmas Island were small they nevertheless used sub- stertial amounts of costly atomic explosive.
So Limited
Britain's output of this CX- plosive is so limited that only a
The Foreign Office had told few bombs can be made without
h further
big expansion of the Defence Chiefs that atomic explosive faclories which testing after the coming will take several years. autumn would probably be
A simpler and cheaper way impossible becatan of the out of the difficulty will be to mounting International out-produce weapons which will be cry against radiosotipe fall- as powerful as thoso tested on Christmes 1slend but will uSC It sormed some tuierna- leas of the precious explosivo. tional agreement to limit or Sir Williẩm, fa.condḍent ho ban, the II-bomb. tesla was 'can devieo stich" weapons if he incyllable before gir willinux} in allowed to stage further Penney ovuld be rowdy willa | texta,
oui;
LUNG CANCER
SCARE HAS LITTLE EFFECT IN COLONY
By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER
Recent warnings by research clinics abroad that lung cancer was closely associated with excessive cigarette smoking has had little effect on the smoking public of Hongkong, It was reported today.
of
Wholesalers and smalt vendors in the Coral district, Hong- | kong, told the China Mall this
morning that their sales elgarettes had not been fluenced by any cancer-scATO warnings appearing in the focal newspapers,
A dealer said he could advance any reason for this.
THE WEATHER
not
No doubt a few had succeeded in cultug out smoking and a larger number managed to re- duce their daily consumption, he said, but there was no oppreci- able effect on his sales, becauso of the wornings,
Both wholesalers and retailera did say however that their saica of cigarettes at present Blightly below normal
were
because of
summer.
Hongkeng's hald
People mucked, more in tho cooler weather than in summer "when" the overage' sales were lower.
"Naturally you don't want to inhale more hot air than you can help when the temperature 13.30-plus,”; a elgarette vador sald.
NEW REVOLT
FEARED
Vienna, July 25. The Hungarian Communist regime admilled tonight that "several hundred counter-re- volutionaries" have been arrest- to avold
ed in recent weeks another rebellion.
*the
The Hungarian Minister of Stale, Gyoergy Marusan tald a parly rally at the Csepel steel plant that
government ordered the arrest of several hundred counter-revolutionaries in the past weeks in order to avold a new spreading of xc- volts."--United Presa
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