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ARMS TALKS
MIE Western powers have
made a new offer to
Soviet Russia at the cur- fretit dianrmament' zalku. They have and, in effect, that if the Soviet Govern- ment will agree to cortnin CABily
practicable first measures in disarmament, nuclear testa can be banned for two years, and perhaps indefinitely. This offer was made when the Soviet delegate, Mr Zorin, had been taunting the Western powers with maintaining
this link between suspen-
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THE FAMOUS TOMFORT IN ALTERN TRAPESMUSEE
BONG KONG
KO W LG.ON
Britain Moves To Reduce
Reduce Russia's
Russia's ICBM Threat REDS' SMEAR
BID TO
Tests In Desert With A-Blasts
DEFENCE AIM
By CHAPMAN PINCHER
London, Sept. 1.
sion of tests and other die Vital experiments in the development of
armament measures, and
had pressed them to accept nban on testa in isolation, If he persists with this nititude in the face of the new Western offer, it will be clear that the Soviet Government either does not really want to stop tests of else does not want any real
measure of disarmament. The Western offer is im- portant and far-reaching.
In that it in a real attempt to meet Soviet Russin over the question of testa.
nuclear
a defence against Russian "intercon- tinental rockets will be included in atom bomb tests to be carried out in
BEAT THE ROCKET CAMPAIGN
MONA FONG HAD TO SING WITH PIANO ACCOMPANIMENT
UNION BAND PULLS OUT OF TV SHOW
Back To Normal After Merdeka Celebrations
Kuala Lumpur, Sept. 1
The population of Malaya seemed today to have atitled back to normal after yesterday's excked flush of fresh in- dependence.
Win an hour after the conclusion of a review early today, this city had calmed down to regular quiet Sunday activities, with only a few cars and people moving leisurely about in the bellliant equatorial sunshine while a welcome breeze rippled Naga, banners and bunting hanging from the front of scrubbed and polished buildings-United Press,
Three Die Morrison
Maralinga in the Australian desert A Hongkong band refused to play for In Landing Hill Bones
this month.
The scientists plan to explode at least one atom
bomb hanging from a tethered balloon so that precise measurements of blast effects in the air can be made,
This-bomb could be made
The pvaltim six small enough to be carried weeks ago
was that then a guided missile which Western
huid could be fired at an incoming powers offered to suspend tests, rocket. under International inspec tlun, for an initial trial period of ten months. They held that ten months would be quite long enough to reveal whether or not the powers concerned, in- eluding Soviet Russin. were showing good faith In Bolving the problems of inspection and control and upplying first measures of disarmament.
TOO SHORT
THE Soviet delegate, how-.
THE
.
If,
ever, strongly criticised
the ten-month period as too
short, and pressed his own
The tests are designed to show whether the bomb would be powerful enough to shatter an enemy rocket harmlessly high above the earth or at least blast it off its course.
Rediffusion Television at the last
moment last week because it claimed Accident Mystery:
not paying
that Rediffusion was Musicians' Union rates. The Musicians' Union, which claimed it deter- mined these rates "earlier this year" prescribed a
She Plans fixed rate for TV.
Motor Racing Comeback
Roberta
Hopes of an anti-rocket de- fence have soared with develon- ment of atomk and H-bomb
London, Sept. 1. warhead light enough to bo
Cowell, the carried by fairly small guided former Royal Air Force fighter pilot, who changed sex three years ago, hos announced her intention of weapons making a comeback as
missiles.
More Important
Work on
such
Government's proposal for now regarded as more import-|international Rutomobile
a period of two to three ant than development of a Bri-race-driver. усага, He ignored the fish or the United States con- obvious fact that the ten-tinental rocket.
month period proposed by the West would have in- evitably been extended un- less Soviet Russia had shown ill faith. Since the Soviet Government seemed to attach great importance to this point, the Western powers carefully consider. ed their original offer and have now
changed it to The
meet Soviet views.
initial trial period, they
say, will be twelve months,
during this time,
inspection system
A
El Fa
is
operating satisfactorily and, If, also, progress is made fn preparing inspection system to control nuclear production for war purposes, this first twelve- mouth period will be pro- longed to 24 months, Even at the end of this second year, uclear teats could only be restarted if the powers had failed to stop nuclear production for war ритровец, under inter- national control, ACT OF FAITH
SOVIET ICBM
WILL
ANTAGONISE
ASIANS
Cowel, a well-known race-
a
TV
The China Mall's critic, John Luff writes:
The Mona Fong Show was all ready fer Telecasting last Monday when the Musicians'
and stopped
Union
Hongkong
MUSSOLINI:
stepped in FROM A
the band, Ray Del Val's boys should have
been up in front of the camera,
Calcutta, Sept. 1. The undercarriage of a Bri- tish airliner landing with 61 passengers ripped open an Indian DC-3 transport waiting to take off at Dumdum airport here to day, killing three crewmen aboard the Indian plane. The British airliner` landed safely.
A fourth crewman aboard the All-India Airlines Corp. DC-3 was seriously injured. There
but at the last minute, he had BATTERED BOX wore no passengers aboard.
to tell the programme pro- ducer that the rates offered by Television were not acceptable.
His
Fixed. Rates
Union had fixed the -following: Agures:
$75 for aide men for a quarter of an hour's per- formance (Sido men means the ordinary bondsmen.)
For key men, (solo in- strumentalists), the figure
driver l the days when she is $75 plus 20% for a quarter of was amon, yesterday won an hour's music. weman's automobile race on the Shelsely Walsh circuit in
The leader wants $75 plus 50% England.
for the SLINE
A
A
performance.
TO-A
MARBLE TOMB
Tho
Pradappio, Sept. 1. rumsins of Bonito Mussolini, which the Government handed over to his widow in a battered packing caso on Friday, were buried tonight in a huge marblo sarcophagus.
Army Call?
By A CHINA MAIL REPORTER
AGAINST NATO CHIEF
London, Sept. 1. Gorman General Hans
Speidel, Nato Army Com mander in Europe, has accused the Communists of forging documents in an offort to got him dis- missed from his post in disgrace, a London nows- paper sald today, The
in Empire News, Paris dispatch, referred to a Communist East German news- paper charge accusing. Speidel of guilt in the assassinations of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and French. Foreign Minister Jean Louis Barthou at Mar- seilies in 1034.
The
East German paper "Neues Deutschland" quoted al-
leged documente on an "Opera~ tion Teutonie Sword," The jet- ters, alleged to be assassination plans, were supposedly dated in October
1934, when Speidel was personal assistant to the German military attacho in
Paris.
Forgories
"These documents are for-
year.
The Army's Special Investi-
gation Branch may be geries," Speldet was quoted as called in by the Police to telling an Empire News reporter. identify "half a dozen" | "The postscript is not in my acti of human bones bandwriting and I never would found during excavations have written that I har de-
strayed the orders received." at Morrison Hill last week.
Speidel sald the Communist The excavations were under-charge was part of a compaign The crew of the four-engine
in connection with the they began against him last Handley Page Hermes transport taken owned by Airworks Ltd. of building of a new school.
~~~THIS
"They would like to see not. London
afternoon, the Police only that I disappear from my detained was being
t Burgeon will exarning the pending a government inquiry. Down In Rain
skeletons to see if it is possible position with Nato, but would to determine how these people like a complete destruction of everything that Noto stands The big Hennes, en route It is not known whether the for" Speidel was quoted .from London, wia coming skeletons
"Through" this, à-break” bej are complete down in a raln which
But whether they are just a collet twee Nato, and, Germany is viiulilly. The twin-engine DC- tion of bones. At present they hoped for and consequently
was waiting on a runway for are in the
that Nato should tall apart." Western Public clearance to tako offi
United Press, Martuary,
Over the weekend one news- the paper sald 200 skeletons were
mot death.
or
Two of the 55 passengers aboard the Hermes hald wheels of the big plane sliced found. DC-3 ilke razor blades. All the said this moming that although through the fuselage of the
A Government spokentur passengers were believed to be only the bones of about six was people had been found, others
Britons. One woman treated for shock.
The plane was jolted
may be found later.
only
to
Burial Ground?
Seventy armed police at sun- set cleared the cemetery chapel where old and young Fascists had been doing homage to the slightly and continued on mains all day, and closed the
make a normal landing. cemetery entes,
Airpori officials sald they believed the Hermes pilot mis-
thelr understood instructions-Unlied Press.
Father of Two children, the former British air nee "Bob" Cowell changed sex after surgical operation and caused a world-wide sensation. Now aged 38. Roberta has found her way back to the motor race tracks.
She said she would make her debute as a woman driver in the famous Buenos Aires Grand Prix
next. January 01 wheel of a Maserati racer.
After that, Roberta hopes to form a women's Jaguar team to perform for Television's fee. intercon.
participate in the
They were rather indignant down at Television because, al- though the Union claims to have fixed these figures carlier in the year, they had not informed the Programme Authorities of Tele- Immediately afterwards
the vision
their rates, and dictator's widow, Donna Rachele, nothing was known of them drove Into the cemetery with until Ray Del Vat was engaged her children and stood at the at Televiator's ngure.
foot of the rarcophagus, her He accepted the the
figure, only face streaked with tears, to turn up and say that his Mussolini's body was lowered Unlon would not permit him to
Washington, Sept. 1. The Ceylonesë Ambassa- dor, Mr R. 8. B. Gune- wardene, sald today that
WAS
more
paulls
the Soviet claims to have deycloped 2011 tintytal Recond
Ballistio
likely 10 antagonise Ал!ния ihan draw them closer fo Moscow.
Appearing on "College News Conference", a na. tionally broadensi tele- vlaton programmic, Mr Gunewardene WAI asked whether the Soviet missile announcement could be used да effective
pro- pagands in Ceylon and
neighbouring countries.
very in-
"It would be effective propaganda, re- plied the
Ambassador.
The more you talk of force, the more the horror In Eastern countries." —t
Unlied Press,
classic. Le Mans 24 hours endurance race in France-France-Presse.
Has America
Fired
June.
'Atlas'?
Washington, Sept. 1.
35
Slightly Less
to
Union
into it.
Outwitted
15
Her daughter, Countess Edda Clano, whose husband Mussolini had shot toward the end of the war, supported her and her son Romano and daughter Anna Maria stood by
Donan Rachele har outwilled
landing
DOCTORS TRANSFER
KIDNEY
It is understood that during the war this section of Morri- son Hill was used as a public burial ground.
The Army's Special Investi- nation Brunch will be asked to investigate if it is suspected that the bones belong to Indien sol- diers allegedly massacred by the Japanese in December, 1941, after they surrendered.
Soviet Embassy Official Killed
In Car Accident
The
Boviet secretary.
second
Jerusalem, Sept. 1.
Embasży Vlotor Nikolajev Smyrnov, and his wife Lydia
were
killed tonight which their car crashed into a wall. on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, An Embassy employee ident!- fed as Constentin Kokovkin, 15, and his daughter Gila, B, were taken to Tel Aviv Muntelpat But a Government offeiri stid Hospital with serious injuries.
morning there WES no A Soviet embassy oMelol evidence to suggest that they immediately took all identifica- werd the bones of Indian tion from the bodies and soldiers.
fured
give police any information about the
this
"They might easily have been victims of sickness, ho zaid.
Ag. eoon as the remuirs have
been identified. they will be passed over to the Sanitary Divi-, alon of the Urban Services Department for burial elther in tcok a publle or military cemetery.
Bent
I am not allowed lo quote
Boston, Sept. 1. Television's ratcs, for they
Doctors today removed a claim the privilege of paying
good kidney from Doria on merit. flowever, their fee
Huskey, 14, and transferred Is alightly less than that re-
it to her twin sister, Dolores, quired by the Union.
AL the
there is
who is critically ill with moment
diseased kidney. stalemate. Television, feel, they have been handed a take it or
The unusual operation leave
other the authorities, who wanted the place in adjoining operating it decision, in The Miami Daily News reports words an arbitrary figure.
body buried as soon as possible rooms at
the Peter ed in a ocpyrighted story So they have decided
by-suddenly leaving after
aBrigham Hospital here. yesterday that the United leave it.
mass had been said over the re- N effect, therefore, the
Doctors said the results of the Stales successfully fired the
the Western powers gone
They did point out, however, mains yesterday, before intercontinental
operation would not be deter- missile that there was no difficulty in burial could take place.. almost the whole way to
"Atlas" about 2,400 miles laat obtaining bands
mined for at least 72 hours, and at their own
Since then, old-time Fascists everything had gone as smooth- meet Soviet Russia over the
the figure, and that
and young members of the Neo-ly as in four previous similar length of the trial period
The newspaper described the would suffer on account
the hospital, — wcupon
of Fascist movement had all day operations at "two-or-three-their high, handed attitude. for the suspension of tests.
stage rocket."
I asked the opinion of a local Ing cose and the large photo-
today been fling past the pack China Mall Special. Especially
for countries such
The report could not Britain and Fratice,
be authority on Trades Unions. graph Scientists have no hope of officially confirmed. A Defence Ho was not prepared to com- against it, giving the
of the duce propped thia move means П real intercepting every
Fascist rocket but Department spokesman said pre- mit himself until he had all the salute, or ancrince in terms of national the blunting of such an attack tent polley forbies identifying facts before him.
kissing the rough would give the United States or commenting
wood, security. For Britain, a
on the per. Hat I did gather from him. fresh series of tests might
there are faults on both sides.. At the end of the tunerol
Corsler, Sept. 1. provido
Charles Chaplin's ector son The first effort to launch the First of all the Band Leader as service, Signor Pino Romualdi, Sydney will marry movie star Тупропа which would considerably streng- ried out too
Experiments are being car-Attus was made in June, The
#Union member should not a leader of the Neo-Fascist Judy Holliday before the end of then the country's defensive radar designed to give earliest files in about 25 minutes, was
on new types of missile, intended to go 5,500 have accepted the engagement Italian Social Movement, Count the year, a irlord of the family
without first discusshg 11 with Vann) capacity. France may be possible warning that an enemy reported to have risen to an
Teodorani, Mussolini's Bald teday. his Union offelals.
nephew, and other members of almust ready to start test-rocket has been launched.
Sydney, 31. brought Mus altitude of 6,000 to 1,000 feet
the family lifted the packing Holliday home to meet the folks Electronic brains linked with where a malfuncilon triggered the radar would automatically its
cuse and placed it in the traver- yesterday at his father's lakeside self-destruction device.-
tire marble sarcophagus. Are the intercepting missile.
home to nearby Vevey. The United Press.
As the heavy l1d was lowered rumours that a marriage
equple's trip to Europe sparked into place, those present sang Imminent and the family friend.. "The prayer of the militiaman,' who declined to be identilled, A Fascist religious hymn.-confirmed them today-United China Mail Special.
Press.
pre-
chance of retaliation. strategic air force a better formance of missiles red.
Jumped Overboard
To Escape Flames
Understanding
Sceondly, Rediffusion Televi picn should not have engaged band without come understand ing with the Musicians' Union.
But Rediffusion camc
back with this point: If the Union axed this raic earlier in the year, as they claim to have dhe, why were not Television Informed, as this figure for TV only
concerned them? Cannes, Sept. 1. | Lady Crane, who is Sir Edmund's was made, and then concol it
Why wait until
a contract second wife, was treated for in such An arbitrary manner burn on her face, some 'dnd | over an arbitrary Aguro? legs and taken to a Cannes That's the position at the -clinic where doctors said the moment,
ing nuclear weapons. For both, a two-year ban on testais therefore a very serious matter. Nevertheless, as the British delegate, Mr. Ormsby-Gore,
Bald, Britain is hag pared to make this move, as an act of faith. It is true, in one souse, that the Western poivers aro imposing conditions on the baaning of nuclear tests. Yet they are clearly right to do no, and the conditions Lady Crane, wife of the British ara such as
blcycle magnate, Sir Edmund can easily be
Crane, 'sind Sir Edmund's 23- fulfilled by any Government
year-old daughter Corinne which sincerely wants dis-
were saved from the sşter in armament and worki pesce,
Cannes Harbour today when It is now for the Boviet
their lunch burst into flames Government to Foveal Ita
as the start of a water-skjing real desires.
trip, Thep, jumped overboard,
burns, though painful, were FOOTNOTE: not serious. Corinne oscoped with a singod ustling dres, com Chine Mall Special.
The Mona Fong. Show went on with a Chinese planist instead."
Chaplin's Son To Marry
Comets Are Back
Landon, Sept. 1.
WER
The Comet will be put back into servico, in a fort- night after having been, grounded for three years as a result of a series of accidents.
The planes will not carry pawongers but freight and mail between London. and, the Middle East.
The planes to be put back into service are known as Come! 2-E, an Intermediary experimental aircraft between the Comet 1. grounded after the accidents, and the Comet 4 und 4-3, which will be put into regular service next year, France-Presse.
Getting Better
to
TC-
victims
car
or the accident.
Witnesses who saw the zigzagging across the main Tel Aviv highway before it crashed into the wall sald apparently a tyre had blown out at high speed. The car was badly damaged United Press..
165 Dead
New York, Sept, 1 About 105 people have been idilled so far in road accidents over the long "Labour Day"" weekend in the United States, was announced today,*** Franco-Pressc.
Linz, Sept. 1. Doctors recorded # further improvement today in the con- Edition of Austrian Chancellor Herr Julius taab, who suffered ja minor stroke Just night-t
United Press.
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