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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1957.
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RUSSIA BLAMED FOR MID-EAST TENSION
Security Forces
U.K. TO SHARE
Mobilised ATOMIC
(Continued from Page 1)
Drachments of troops were
deployed
putnis In the
Colony, et puelally in those areas
where the troubles were most
ARMS?
Paris, Sept. 24,
severe during the last October | Britain may be asked by the
riots
Police, fully armed with tol guns, tear gaan guns and grenades and their normal weapons, were sent speeding along the streels in force to mock riots where the riot drills were put into, prae- tice to disperse the "crowd.
It was learned that more than 2,000 men took part in the exercise, representing only n small fraction of the force that the authorities will muster in sand-by exercise during the first half of October.
COMMUNIQUE
The following communique was neurd thy morning:
The
combined announced Poiled-Military exercise Fot under way at 4.55 am today with miner ineftens on Hong kong Island and in Kowloon,
incidents
in
1
at
the
These incidents quickly gw late riots of very serious pro- porijos, particularly in West Puiu, un the island, and Shanshuipo, Kowloon,
Other serious rioting were simulated in reglu of the Western Market," Southon Playground, and Yec Woo Street, on the Island, and in the aren between Jordan Road and Austin load and also neur Και Tok roundabout,
Kowloom.
Military and Police forma tions were despatched to vorden off the areas and take action against the rioters. As they were completing their tasks, other complicatiore in the form of further Incidents were in-
Washington Says Soviet Note 'Offensive'
Washington, Sept. 24.
The United States said in a note to Moscow today that the Soviet Union bore primary responsibility for tension in the Middle East.
It also fold the Soviet Union that there should be no doubt
the Middle East -Communist
six other members of the West European Union to share her atomic weapons with them in exchange for reducing the number of that it intended to carry out troops sho keeps on the the Eisenhower Doctrine for continent of Europo indefending future. The Council of the against an armed
attack. Western European Union meats in London next month.
This
br indicated Was usually reliable source after Lord Mancroft, British Minis. ter without portfolio, who assirts
British Defence Midster, Mr Duncan Sandy, hind seen M. Paul Henri Spank, Secretary General of the North Atlantic Trealy Organisation today.
OBLIGATIONS
The note replied to a Soviet communication of September 31 calling for a four-power de- claration renouncing the use of force in the arta,
A 'Conspiracy' The Soviet note bccused United Britain, France, and Stales of a "conspiracy" in the Middle East and charged Washington with conducting
alleged subversive nelivities in Syria.
Japanese Toys Are Potential Killers
New York, Sept. 24. Toy trucks stamped "Made In Japan" and "capable of killing or making life-long idiots of American child- ren are presently on sale at toy counters across the United States, it was re- ported today.
A warning of polental dan-
The United States note today described the Soviet CITI-
"offensive as
in Lord Mancroft is on a three- munientlon
tone." day visit.
Soviet the
note It said In the
British spring the
cynically distorted United Government greed to will- draw only 13.500 instend of States objectives and actions in
the Middle East and was clearlyger in the high lead content of the proposci 27,000 from her the continent
to 30 designed to serve only pro- paint on the Imported toys was
sun over the weekend contingent on
there under
paganda purposes rather than to Stale and 25 City Health De Stationed
promote peace und stability. Western European Union treaty
Similar notes were deliveredartments, New York City 2nd
began inde obligations.
to Moscow today by Britalopendent investigations
day to determine the extent of the danger and take remedial steps if necessary,
her
She abo undertook to with-
draw no more this year. Now the question arises of getting Agreement of the other six part- Bera In the Uning to withdraw
nether 13,500 next year,
has
and France.
Declaration
The United States note made no mention of the proposed declaration. But
State authorities
WARNING
yester❤
as
The Western European Union | four-power Council, consisting of the foreign
The warning report was sent State Department officials sald out by the Toy Guidance Coun- of Britain, ministers
France, that the Soviet Union's call ell
said the possibly which jected into the exercise. As one West Germany, Italy, Belgium, could be considered as rejected. deadly paint was disclosed in incident was brought under
"The United States Govern- routine táboratory tests on toys control, others prune up else. Holland and Luxembourg,
asked Genurut Lauris Norstad,ment holds that the Soviet Union was considering where unli finally one
listing Very Allied Supremne Commander in bears primary responsibility for recommended
playthings large incident committed the Europe, for his opintor, on fur- the present aggregation of ten- Melvin Freud, president of the Military and Police in another withdrawni of British sion in the Middle East," the note
Counell, said the tests
wero battle.
toys not yet conclusive, Six tested by four independent 103 laboratories showed lead co- tent of paint ranging as high
but 0:10 laboratory's reports as 22 per cent in one instance,
the New Territories
troops
PRESS DEMAND
Sources close to Shape said that General Norstad is opposed
to further British withdrawals.
But if the British Govern-
When it become apparent that the Pallee and Military were being committed in strength, a Colony-wide curfew was in- posed.
When Polico and the Military tried to impose the curfew in Taun ment pressed her demand Wan, they were met with strong urgently, then the other govern- resistance, which entailed a muts represented in WEU moving battle that was finally would, it was learned, put for brought to a successful con
word the proposal that the clusion on
the reclamation should in exchange strengthen Tean War.
the defensive power
of the LAUNCH SENT troops of the other WEU con- Ungents, and particular, that of West Germany and of France, by sharing her atomic weapons with then-China Mall Spe-
In the meantime, the Royal Navy and the Marine Police wowe co-operating to impose the curfew in harbour waters, As they wore doing 50, $! erious incidit was reported
cini.
from one of the outlying islands, ARM PURCHASE
which necessliated the Royal launch to despatching
Navy
support a Palice lunch there,
Later another launch with
Tunis, Sept. 21. The Italian Government has Marine Police on board was authorised
purchase of
the
sent to help and restore oper. Italian arms and munitions by The exercise was concluded Tunisia, authoritative Tunisian at about
The 41.977)
bad sources said tonight.
weather prevented alr recon→ The Italian authorisation was naissance but RAF ground reported to the Tunisian Gov- security forces were engaged ernment by the Tunisian Em- with other security forces in bassy in Rome, these sources
sald.--France-Presse, the area of Kat Tak.
THE SKELETON
TN the Skeleton Croward the black squares and clac 'num. hers have to be filled in as well as the wards. Pour black squares and four clue numbers have been inserted to give you start, The blars squares forin ACROSS
1. EHS &
stimulant
of
snitling
the briny "
1. Spark or
this y
Lea sp.
Elitify.
moru. g with the French Fathers.
12. Every
tlog's in
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ling slute
14. Noi n very
good shal
at conne
ging the
route.
15. Entry seems to ve permitted
to the null bay,
16. Castle accommodation
the unhonoured guest.
10:
17. Brick to tying up the tapes.
18. That litla fellow Al has the
lot.
10. Not this, you observe.
21. The Service Corps
these orooks an opening,
giros
29. Helps to do away with that
barn look in the kitchen.
25. In whica the customers fight
back at the shopkeeper? DOWN
1. Not very much disipation
involved in this i
1. Mere dealing can be quite
deceptive.
3. Thought of bringing the aide
round?
4. Object of ■ lot of kicking.
5. Date of getting a job 2
a, Bho's caught in a tisztje Di
lles.
7. 110% čut to get the goods or
tell the police.
symmetrical pattern: the top hair matches the bottom half issid the two sides correspond. So you can fill in 18 mare squares at ance to correspond with those given,
3. It's car you find being
colourful character.
10. Tells how one thing la.OOD
nected to another.
11. Ploneer in the paying of
bula 7
13. It's only regionable.
10. Carl leaves town for some-
where over tin water,
29. Jasclude her among the dia.
tinguished Games
21. Jonsdoction of the fansiliar
olrcia.
26. Bic of Jerk li tho RAF.
TUESDAY'S SOLUTION
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LOOKDACĪKI I INA
RAMPAGE N HEN M G V ZERG
said.
"By shipping large quantities of arms and ammunition into the area during a period of tension there. the Soviet Union set in motion a chain of events leading
to the present dangerous situn- tion."-Reuter,
ALGIERS REBEL
LEADER
CAUGHT
Algiers, Sept. 24. |Foreign Legion parachutists Yacif Loday cuptured Saadi, alleged leader of the Algiers rebel network, during a short, sharp gunfight in the maze of the Casbah native quar- ter.
But his bodyguard, "All La Pointe-All the Knife Point- who the French claim Is the rebels' chief executioner In Algiers, gave them the slip once
more.
SURROUNDED
#
were consistently lower than the others-United Press.
OFFICIAL ACCUSED OF FALSE RETURNS
Peking, Sept. 24, The newspaper Peking
People's Daily today ac cused officials of Ministry
RUSSIA EXPLODES ANOTHER H-BOMB
Washington, Sept. 24.
The United States Atomic Energy Commission tonight announced that Russia had exploded another, H-bomb in its present series of weapon tests.
A Commission spokesman said the blast was that of a hydrogen bomb with an explosive force equivalent to a million tons of TNT.-
The Commission's Chairman, Mr Lewis Strauss, Issued a statement that the blast was in the "megaton range.
The "usual supposition" was that this range of power means a hydrogen bomb, the spokesman said. The announcement said the latest detonation occurred today at a site north of the Arctic Circle.
The last explosion noted by the United States was on September 8.
It was the third nuclear explosion in Russia an- nounced by the United States since August 22. - Reuter.
Now
A Mill Hand!
Wataked by his parents, Prince Charles tries his hand at the saw mill during a visit to the Forestry Plantations while on a tour of the Royal Eststo Al Balmoral Castle. Princess Anne can be seen with
over her her hands ears to keep out the sound of the screeching saw-Keystone
Photo.
Soviet Jet Claims
of the Timber Industry of New Record
In
making false returns order to obtain extra rations of grain and vege- table oil for the Ministry canteen
The Minister of the Timber industry is Lo Lung-chi, one of the main targets of the cam- paign against "rightists" now in progress in Communist China,
According to the newspaper, the Ministry since last autumn
London, Sept. 24. Moscow Radio claimed today that a now world air sperd re- cord for a jet passenger airliner had been set up by a Russian TU 104 A.
RENAULT WORKERS TO STRIKE
The
Paris, Sept. 24. French Government that was notified today 60,000 workers in the nationalised Renault Au- tomobile Works will stage a 24-hour strike on Fri. day if claims for pay in- creases are not met,
The Government Employees Union, 1,200,000 strong, also told the Government they would strike in the near future falling payment of cost of living com- pensation.
A THREAT
These threats to the Govern- ment' austerity programme foreshadowed the vote of co- Adence which it hopes to take The plane, a more advanced
on Saturday on its controver version of the airliner in which sial Algerian Reform Bill the Russian leaders usually If it wins travel, covered a 1,000-kilometre Government stul faces donger
of defeat
its agriculturat course in one (021.870 miles)
vole of censure on minute
43 policy. A and
this policy-duc оп Septem- hour, one seconds, the broadcast said.
reveal I recent ber 30-will
to farmers have concessions
the vote, the
Working on tip. Gen, had received 30 hundredweights Jacques Massus green-bereted
of grain and 130, gallons of oil alded troops
by red-capped Zouaves, who are in charge of in excess of their correct quola. Office workers took their patrolling the Casbah, and by families and
their .cven dismounted motor-cyclo police, children's nurses to eat in the Average speed for the flight Julted hostility caused by the murrounded a building in the
was given us 072.8 kilometres lowering of wheat prices and tiny Rue Caton, at dawTL
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Sandi gave the soldiers burst of tommy-gun fre and tossed a grenade which wound- ed two parachutists, one of them a Colonel.
The parachutists poured It on, Saadi came out with his hands up, saying, "I surrender." He was followed by a hand- soc, unveiled Moslem, gini and by a henchman called Selim.
SKIPPED OFF
of
But there seemed to be no sign of All La Pointe, who
bad kipped apparently over the rooftops.
Saadi and his companions off to ManSUS were whisked Headquarters for questioning.
French authorities say Sand! НАЯ been master-minding terrorism in Algiers since last year.
A
A baker by trade and soccor player by avocation, Baadi was arrested in 1036 for rebel activity but released for Lack of evidence.-United Presi
London, Sept. 24. Chairman Mao Tse-tung to- night received Dr Mohardmed Hatta, the Indonesiaal stafeoman now visiting China, the New China New Agusity repotted- from Peking-Koilue,
newspaper
kid,
the canteen, The meals were paid for, but the necessary ration coupons were never surrendered, it said, Ieuter.
an hour (604 miles an hour) with a maximum speed of 1,025 kilometres an hour (035.9 mph). -Che Mail: Speciaă.
China Muil Entertainment Guide
WHAT'S ON TONIGHT
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA; "Attila": Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn recreate the exploits of the all-conquering Hun.
STAR & METROPOLE: "Holiday Week" a British film starring Leslie Dwyer, Lisa Daniely and Brian Worth.
KING'S & PRINCESS:
"The Paradine Case" an Alfred Hitchcock thriller with Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Charles Laughton, Louis Jourdan and Valli.
HOOVER & LIBERTY: "The Man In The Sky": A drama filmed at Wolverhampton Aerodrome. Juck Hawkimax and Elizabeth Sellars. And the
Galu Premiere of "The Little Hut
ROXY & BROADWAY: “An Affair To Remember": A sentimental story of two sophisticates who met and fell in love. Deborah Kerr and Cary Grant.
he culting of farm subsidies. Reuter,
FREE ARMS
FOR TUNISIA
Tunis, Sept. 24.
Tunisia has accepted an Egyptian offer of a from shipmont of orms,
Government Tunisian
·
spokesman said tonight. Confirming Cairo Press te~ ports that Tunisia bad neœpied an Egyptian offer of arms, a top official of the Tunisian Information Ministry declared today: "Tunisia has accepted this loffer and thanks Egypt.'
APPEALED
Д
The official recalled that Hittle over a month ago Pre- oldent-Habib Bourguiba had appealed to "sister countries and friendly nations to ad Tunisia in this domain" The domain of armament,
Where Are Last War's POW's?
MOSCOW REMAINS SILENT
Geneva, Sept. 24.
The three-member United Nations Ad Hoc Com- mission on Prisoners-of-War, in a report on its 7th session published today, has stressed' that the Soviet Union's refusal to co-operate is the major obstacle to a settlement of the repatriation problém,
The Commission, which met alive in the Soviet Union' and 2 to 11, about 0,000 in the People's RC- here from September stated that the Soviet Union's public of China attitude had made it impossible The Commission stressed that to open negotiations on pri-in, the absence of Soviet Union soners in that country,
co-operation it had no menna The Soviet Unkn was the of verifying theso figures. only country which did not re ply to the invitation to send re- presentatives to the Commis- ston's 7th session.
'The
FATE UNKNOWN
representative
of
The report said that since the Commission was created in 1950, a total of 28,480 German prisoners-of-war had been re- patriated, most of them from the Soviet Union,
A total of 33,770 Japanese he had been repatriated since that Federal Republic of Germanytime, mostly from Chine, and a had told the session that in email number of Italiana, Aus→ August this year 78 German trians, and Spanlords.--Reuter. prisoners-of-war were still do
names
tained in Soviet hands, and that the German authorities had the German pr 87,353
And 16,430 prisonera-of-war civilians whose presence in at captivity in the Soviet Union one time or another had been
whose established, but
sub.. sequent frte was unknown.
The Italian Government sub-
And mitted to the 6th Eessions
names of
the
7th 933
FISHERMEN ACCUSED
OF SPYING
Cairo, Sept. 24. The Egyption Coast Guard Italian prisoners-of-war who | seized on faradil fishing boot had been reported to be in and six erew members yester- on charges of spying off Boviet custody, but whose fata was unknown, the report con- Unued.
THOSE ALIVE
Union
day
the Stual Peninsula's Mediter Coast, omelal
rancun
said today.
The rew men
Sources
were spies operating under the guise of fishermen,
officials Egyptian charged.
wns
The Japanese Government said that up to August 15 this year there were 8,069 Japanese nationals believed to be in the They said the Boal Soviet
Ouler arrested in Egypilan territorial and Mongolia whose fate was un- waters near El Arist
on the 1,302 in the Kurlles Port known,
Suld-Goza coastal and Saghallen, 2,029 in North and taken to Port Said. Korea and 34,581 in the People's A military investigation Republic of China. Of these, proceeding, the officials sald- some 1.300 were known to be United Press.
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