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COMMENT OF
THE DAY:
WHICH WAY?
FORTHCOMING electionn
West Germany again focus attention on A cam- paign which allied diplo macy is conducting against the aprend of neutralit feeling in Europe, In Washington, London and Paris the prospect of defeat for the Chancellor, Dr Adenauer poses a fear that the cornerstone of Western policy will be removed by A incoming Socialist Government.
1 is a fear rather than a possibility. It is not that
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MORE TROUBLE IN POLAND
Strikers Clash With
Police & Troops
Lodz, Aug. 12.
|IVE thousand transport workers in Lodz,
Poland's second largest city, went on
the Secin) Denerate have strike today to back up demands for more
said, in Ro many words.
that West Germany's status pay. They almost immediately clashed with
in the allied scheme of
defence will be changed police and troops.
overnight or that they will
Anned militia patrolled the streets in trucks after a brief akirmish between arikery and
Ove
The Hunt For Boy's police that resulted in at least
be amenable to the regimej in the East. It in just that Western leaders 500 Socialists as the opposition not only to Dr Adenau6'1", but to their own policies which he has adopted in regard to East Germany,
DICTATION
E Western position has made clear: the
Teen
three ambassadors together with West Germany's foreign minister have said. again that
reunited
Germany must be born of free elections and must have the right to decide its military alliances and its foreign policy. This poltey statement
Wild apparently made in reply to a proposal of confederation of the two sectors of Germany--made recently by an East zonų spokesman.
But observers point out thuit the two statements make it clear that East and West nearer agreement
Aro
no
on reunification and there is
well-grounded suspicion that the
the declaration by Western umbassadors Was
Murderer
London, Aug. 12.
Bellish police were com- bing all the asylums and psychiatrie centres In the London arta Today in search for maniac with
Jingernails, broken
who may have been the mur- A seven-year-old Toy Alan Warren.
The boy was brutally murdered on Sunday night. His killer is believed to be
A patient of an asylum Iert out an conditional leave.— France-Presse,
Bridegroom Baulked
At Altar
injured.
women orikers being
Reportt frum Lodie saic tonight the situation was "ugly." The rikers sald mittamun aftacked them first.
The battle fasted only briefly, Minules after it started heavily- armed police and troops queled the mukings of a major upricing by lobbing tear gas bombs bith the milling strikers, many of whom were women,
TEAR GAS
Most of the injuries were from the effects of tear
gas. The Injured were token to
hospitals.
Minister of Local Govern- ment Stanislas Sroka tried per- onally to persuade the strikers to break up their demonstration and relum to work.
But he was unsuccessful.
One woman, waving o tear gas cartridge in his face and wiping tars from her eyes, de manded "Is this what you use agains! women?"
Sroka replied: "You will come
to a bad end,"
The Minister told the strikers the Government could not afford to give them pay A bride-to-be was in gaol increases.
Toronto, Aug. 12.
old them
the
really made to assist Dr tonight, charged with stab- But after about an hour of Adenauer in his campaign bing her prospective hus-heckling, by showing that his policies band when he refused to Government would make avail- have the support of the
ablu Weal.
Critics could be marry her at the altar of St 50 million zlolys to pro-
vide for the beasts, forgiven if they regarder Mary of All Angels Church.
The crowd booed. Strikers Poller sale bridegroom said it was cot enough, tu
and tantamount
to-be, an Itailan immigrant,hey would not work tomorrow. Augustin Forgione, 30, had told
Sroka countered with: "The Maria Coglieno, 23, that he had tramways belong to the State, decided to walt.
not to you, and they will run,"
MORE BOOS
this
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dictating to the Socialist that either they adopt similar polley an the question of reunificntion or
L
take the consequences.
Forgione also has a girl friend
in the Lake Como District of
The lutter is probably the Italy. When he learned that
for 21
more
hot,"
Ska then promised that if the trams
tomorrow. operated he would meet * workers' cicleration then.
course the Socialists will she planned to come to Candee was greeted with adopt though there is room he was undecided which girl he bows and the shout: "They will
and suddenly non-wanted to marry comfortably committal policy which, if it balked at the alter.
Forgione was rushed to the suggests flexibility, may Toronto Western Hospital where appeal to neutralist feeling. he was reported in fair condition This has grown algnificant-following an emergency opern- ly since the last elections tion. though it appears to have
was alleged to have lost momentum in recent whipped out a 12-inch butchers Perhaps the knife from her monthe.
purse and greatest obstacie faced by plunged it into Forgione's chest, missing bis heart, the Socialists in the elec- narrowly
argument at the tion is that the party still following an
altar rail when Forgione stead- cannot hope
It fastly refused 10 0 Through
with the ceremony.
to form government alone.
GOOD SENSE
JOLICY chunges
have
swung the party away from idens of socialism, In recent years it has bereme the champion of wide variety of middle class
a
opponents of the Adenauer
Maria
The attack took place in the church after the couple had
Kft the
rested church
"Yes, we know and the delegates will be arrested in their homes tonight," Dic strikers shouted back.
Tramway workers are among the lowest paid categories of workers in Poland.
With a few other sections of workers, they did not share in general wage increases made
lust year and this year.
MEAT WORKERS
Industrial unrest was rst! police Inside the reported from Lodz last week.
altar. Maria was ur-
by
United Press.
Ex-Envoy
The Lodz Communist Party newspaper, Glos Rabotniczy, of August 7 revealed that mout workers in the city went on a Ave-day strike, demanding a 100 per cent increase" in wages.
The demands of the meat in-
regime. Not only was there To Denmark dustry works were sol mel.
no word
the recent in domestic platform of
nationalisation party
but
the
"free proclaimed
Arrives
Glos Ribulniczy reported they were unrealistic and unaccept- able la view of the difficult economic situation of the coun- former Chinese try-Unlled Press and fleuter. free competition". In the Minister to Denmark, Dr gulse of exponents of T. Y. Lo, CBE, arrived this liberal cconomic
policies
morning from Shanghai on
economic development, and The
the Socialists hope to gain board the my Sunda with wider support. The general feeling is that Drhls
son,
daughter-in-law,
Adenauer will be returned and grandson,
OR September 15 but Dr Lo was also the Charge electioné follow un-d'Affaires of the Chinese Legs-
predictable course. It should tonin
London during the not be expediency but just end World War. He held his good political sense on the post as Chinese Minister to Den- part of the Big Three in 1820 to 1937.
Не
Mr Lorenzo Lo, who arrived Western powers to reckon with his father and family, was on the possibility that the the former Acting Director of unexpected might happen. Organisation in Shanghal.
Vie International Refugee As one adroit commentator gave up the position in 1951 and points. out:
"The Social became the mariager of the Democrats are not their Shanghal Race Club until his
is pity enemies; it
to departure for Hongkong. This, Burc- mako them no”,
When asked to comment on be done, without life anki ly can
varlous industrial compromising previously aspects in China, both father stated Western policy, by and son refused to say anything. refraining from political Hongkong and I am afraid we "We are going to stille in declaratioria during the can't tell you anything. You will course of an election cam have to excuse us." sell the paigu.
younger Már Lo,
STOP PRESS
EDWARDS APPEAL
The Full Court today dis- missed the appeal by Mr W. B. Edwards. former Inland
Astor Ilevenue a judgment of Mr aralant Justion A. D. Scholes or ciuln for damages by Mr Edwards against Mr K. M. Almao, assistant commis sioner of Inland Revenue.
The Trial Judge had ruled that the documents 001- nrated with the stan privileged.
Sha
The Fail Court held that judge was right in upholding the obicollon to the production of Laces
documents.
TOW FOR TWO PRINCES
Diamond Merchant
Robbed Of Gems
Memphis, Aug. 12.
A diamond merchant said that two armed bandits surprised him in a hotel room here on Sunday night, bound him with neckties and escaped with US$100,000 in gems.
TEMPLER MALAYA'S GUEST
Visiting Hongkong
London, Aug.. 12. Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer, Chief of the Im perial General Staff, has! been invited to Malaya as official guest of the Ma- layan Government during the independence cele. brations, the War Office announced today.
Sir Gerald, who was
High
Commissioner in Malaya and responsible for putting down Communist terrorism, will be going to the new dominion, at the end of August.
Afterwards ho will Singapore and Hongkong-Reu-
kr.
visit
Lightning Caused Air Disaster?
Jacob Davis, 49, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, said he had just awakened from a nap and was leaving the room for dinner when two mco wearing dark glasses forced him back into the room at gunpoint.
He said the two men thei tied him handy and feet with neckties and look more than $100,000 worth of cut diamonds from his sample
cast, They the placed
gems into two paper sucks and fled.
Bad Heart
'Britain's young heir to the thrope, Prince' Chartes, and his father, Princo-Phillip, were al Cowes Inst week for the annual yuching- regatta, On Wednesday Prince Philip, took his son out in a motorboat on the Modina River--and had lo shoul for a tow-rope after the boat broke down. The two places are pletured here an they are towed in the motor boat. Quipped Prince Philip to photographers tralling him: "I bet you are pleased about this." They were-Express and Keystone Photos
US ARMS BELIEVED USED IN OMAN
EXPERT EXAMINATION
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
London, Aug. 12. GRENADES and anti-tank mines cap- tured by British troops from Oman rebels are being flown to London for urgent identification by experts.
It is alleged they are of recent American manufacture.
The United States has supplied United Sates arms, of the type weapons of these types to Saudi, supplied to Saudi Arabla, were" Arabia and Iraq.
used by the rebtis. With American co-operation it
"We have no information as should be possible to identify to whether
American
Winns them. They are all marked with were
used and have no in- lot numbers and manufacturing formation about the source of detalls and should give a clear there arms," Mr White said. Indication of which country they came from.
It
Embarrassing
unlikely that Americans would ometelly say anything about these weapons. In London on Monday the Foreign Office was being very vague about the whole business,
The l'uniion could prove embarrassing to the American State Department more
and it is
than likely that both Iraqi and Saudi Arabian Gov- ernments would claim that the weapons had been stolen.
Quantities of British weapons and cammunition have also been found. Most of these had been pilfered from depots all over the Middle East,
Found Before
was
VIPER PET TURNS
Kitwe, Aug. 12.
A deadly gaboon viper, kept for weeks as an office pet, attacked his owner, Mr Ben Smith.
The enako was brought to Mr Smith, who collects animals for a zoo, by in African in the Nkana Mine" compound,
10 became very tame, allow- ils mouth,
In Washington, says Reuter, ing him to open the State Department spokesman Hekle it under the jaw and put
Oman agreed today
anh hang into its box to give it area where United States arms milk had been found in the past.
But people in Mr Smith's But, the spokesman, Mr Lin-office began to tease the snake coln White, added á: a press and fearing it would blie some- conferenze, Washington hud no one, he decided to get rid of it. Information to confirm reports He tried to put it into another that the rebel forces had used box but it was frightened and arms suppiled by the United curled round his arm. States to Saudi Arabia,
He made another altempt but American press reports said it would not go. Then it today that shell fragments sint squirmed round in his head and to London
examination | bit him, strengthened
belief that The next morning, the snake
was killed.-France-Presse,
for the
Queen Not Going Tax Settlement
To St
Leger
London, Aug. 12.
The
British
London, Aug 12.
Treasury has man- accepted en Elizabethan sion and park in settlement for about £1,200,000 estate duly which became due when the 10th Duke of Devonshire - dicd
The mansion is Hardwick:
The Queen, one of Britain's keenest racing. in 1950. Davis told police that he dla fans, will not attend the St Leger next month, the nail, rerbyshire, not try to resist the robbery be- last classic meeting of the flat racing season, it State receives eight major werks
le
was announced today.
As a
successful race-horse owner, who year after year is among the top winning owners, the Queen seldom misses any of the great races. Since she Escended the throne, in 1852, she has attended the last three
cause he has a bud heart. said he did not see where the men went after leaving his room.
Davis, who is a salesman for the Bar
Barnett Davis Jewellery Compary of Pittsburgh, said he had just arrived in Memphis this afternoon after flying from not Atlanta. Ho said he did check the diamonds Into the St Legers. hotel safe because he was feeling bod and anxious to get to his room for a rest. United
Press
LONDON DOCKERS
COME OUT
London, Aug. 12. Nearly 5,000 dockera hore stopped work today in sup- port of the four-week strike at London's vegetable and fruit markets.
Twenty-five vessels were idlo tonight, compared with 12 this morning.
The 1,000 striking market men at Covent Garden, Lon- don's main fruit and vegetable centre, did not return to work this morning the deadline fixed by their employers.
mono Work.
Lord Altrincham in his re- cent much publicised criticism of Royalty complained that the Queen spent too much of her time at race meetings.
A Buckingham Palace spokes man said today that this recent publicity had nothing to do with the Queen's decision not to at- terut this year's St Leger on September 11.
of fact, Her
"As a matter Majesty decided not to attend two or three weeks ago," the Palace spokesman said, adding case the Queen's that in any attendance was not aulomalle,
The Queen and her family are .noy holldaylog at Balmoral Case In Scolland-Reuter,
Station Name Changed
Moscow, Aug. 12. The name of the Moscow sub- station underground
Later, the stoppage which way embraces four other London “Kaganovilch" in the centre of marketo-spread to Covent the city, was changed today to Garden flower market, where | liɛ” old narse of "Okhotny Riak" Former Firat Vice-Premier than 200 porter stopped Quebec, Aug. 12.-
Lazar Kaganoviich was one of Lightning from а violent
The market men are on strike the four top Soviet Itadera dia- thunderstorm' tonight was re- ported to have caused the crash against a plan to unity the missed from the Central Com of a Maritimes Central Airways labour force and the dockers mitic of the Communist Party plano that plunged into a desolate are supporting them by refus- last July 3 for "fractional" and killing all 79 persons ing to handle cargo bound for "anti-party" activilles--Franco- abosrú----United Prem
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