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KEVOLT IN THE RANKS
THE splinter "Victory for
Socialism" movement: within the Labour Party ial apparently cause for some alarm among the leaders as It pinpoints Labour's cur- rent gravo split over the H-bomb and guided missile bases policy,
What the leaders fear is the ponalbility that this new left-wing group will wreck party unity before the next general elections and they are already worried about
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EXPLORER II SATELLITE LOST
'Moon's' Signals Picked Up Twice And Then Silence
MAY HAVE FALLEN
INTO THE SEA
By ROBERT S. MCNEILL
Cape Canaveral, Mar. 5.
the coming series of by The Army fired its second Explorer satellite
eloctions.
The altuation is confused, but
the group seems determined to continuo its activities despite, opposition from the Executive.
It is believed that the party leadership has not raised any objection to the group's meeting today at Caxton) Hall to launch their campaign or to the projected! protest march on the Atomic Energy Authority's estab- lishment.
But the opposition of the group to the H-bomb goes far beyond Labour Party polley and while there is apparently 10 thrent expulsion for the rebels the formation of a "party within a party" can have a bad effect.
Victory Expected
of
with high hopes today but something went wrong at the split-second it should have orbited and its signal was heard
no more.
There is a "great probability" the satellite is not
in orbit, said Dr William F. Pickering of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, where the satellite was developed.
He theorised that the 80-inch, silent "moon" may have fallen into the sen thousands of miles from its launching point here since its planned course was mostly over occan. But sources here belleved I more likely the too high to Explorer had shot move into orbil paralleling the Earth's surface.
Plummeted
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In that case, they sald, the Satellite would have plummeted stal with the Earth's gravita- tion: pull and burned to cinder when it hit dense air. TE Labour Party leaders To be successful, a satellite Le steered Inlo orbit believe that an election must victory is already within within a degree or two parallel their grasp and are there to the Earth.
foro anxious to preserve unity in the ranks.
Some still consider that the
Beranite Internal
Louds
Fourth Stage
Of Rocket Didn't Function Properly?
The
Washington, Mar. 6.
United States "does not know for sure" whe ther the Army's second has Explorer satellite gone into orbit, the top scientist on the satellito programme said tonight. "There is every indication Dr Richard W. Porter of the that the satellite did not National Academy of Sciences function
normally," Dr made the statement to nowsmen Pickering said in a joint state. | geven hours "after the Armo mont with Maj-Gra John B. launched Jupiter-C rockat Medaris, Head of the Army with the Explorer II in its nose. Ballade Miselle Agency, who "We simply do not know for was on hand at Cape Cana-sare," Dr Porter said, "(bu!) it
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similar to the
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rocket
that sent the second Explorer- into the type satellite
skies yesterday.
REBEL GROUP
is possible that it is in an orb PRESS OFFICER
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In
a few years age were partly the cause of Labour losing
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The Explorer's signal was justification for their ap- heard at two of the early track-
Dr Porter agreed with ing stations "down range from prehension.
Cape Canaveral as it reached earlier statement by Dr William for a pluce in the stars with Pickering, Director of the Jet Laboratory nt the Russians Propulsion Explorer I and
of Pasadena, California, that Sputnik II. The afcend these was
several days British Antigua, in would take the Caribbean 3,000 miles from analyse the complicated data the Aring
point. The rest involved, were silent.
A London politicni observer has gained the impression that soine of the party leaders would privately like to take a tough line with the group instead of the
present use of kid glove On The Verge
methods.
How far the group will go Įs
The Army confirmed that all
a matter for conjecture, but four stages of Its proven unless its leaders take a Jupiter-C
satellite
to
Dr Porber cited two possible explanations for the failure so for to lear whether Explorer II had orbited.
COMING TO HK
Manila, Mar. 6.
it A spokesman for the in- donesian rebel group to- day declared that if the rebel government in Pa dang could hold out for another three months, it would eventually triumph over all Indonesia. He said there was a "rather
Des Alwi, discharged Cultural launcher definite indication" from track-
of the
Indonesian truculent line with the functioned as they were sup ing stations at Cape Canavera Attacho
Grand Turk in Embassy here, told the Manila Executive the prosent split posed to." When the Explorer's Florida, and
beep is likely to be short-lived parently was on the verge of carrying fourth stage of the over the
reached Antiquait ap- the Atlantic that the satellite Delly Bulletin he was skeptical success of the talks although it will leave UÐ-
between President Soekarno orbit with the rocket "did not function." swinging into
former resolved the bigger party anat push of its single fourth-
Vice President However, he said, there was and
Holla cleavage on nuclear policy.
other data Mohammad confusion becauso stage rocket.
regardlryz retum Indicated that the fourth stage the latter's did function, but that there was Government.
Des Alwi's interview with the difficulty in the radio transinit-
Bulletin confirmed earlier re- ters carried by the
ports that he had returned to cylindrical vehicle.
Manila from a mysterious trip to Singapore.
Des Alwi is the rebels' pross relations officer.
ENGINES AT REAR NOT
TOT all of those who may have been arrested by the models of the two new and rival British air
EVERY EFFORT
60-inch
the
"We will make every effort to find out whether there is
He left here today by Pan Indeed a satelite in orbit," Dr
American FOT Hongkong. Porter sald.
Explorer II differed from Ex-France-Presse and Reuter. plorer I chiefly in that it was heavier 315 pounds versus,
tiny 30.8 and it carried a
Sources at Air Force Missile Test Centre here, which con- ducts and evaluates miselle tests of all the services, said It would be at least two days before data could be reduced to give an Indication
what happened. There was one faint clue in liners by the Bristol and the count-down before launching. the De Havilland companies There was a brief "hold" in the fivo minutes before realise that It was
the count
launching because the tiny tape- French airliner the Caravelle which set the new recorder in the satellite for measuring cosmic rays did not fashion of installing the engines near the tail of the in inal test. fuselage. The engines are, however, British Roll-Royce Avon
The transmitter for the re- fourteen - and
British corder was checked out again
said that manufacturers are supply during the
the satellite should be in orbit of Montreal. First reports the responded three times before the equipment for
at least six men were dead. Caravelle.
with dead radios, the count was resumed. But even if
The victims were reported watch teams would have the One prototype has nearly that instrument falled again in
sources said, best chance of spotting tapped at the bottom of the completed cold weather fight, official
square wooden shaft, which was United Press. triala in Sweden and another second transmitter should have signalled the satelite's pro- will soon undergo some
gress.
ing
answer up when "interrogated" pe cecorder to gather coomlo Dam Collapses
Responded
"hold"
and
ray data and transmit it back to Earth:
Dr Porter sald moonwatch
Montreal, Mar 5. The police tonight reported and minitrack stations would heavy casualties in the collapse maintain a 24-hour watch for of a temporary wooden darn in the Riviere Des Prairies north bald
Et
the salellite.
He
moon-
three months' metal fatigue Dr Flokering, who smiled Churchill's Health
testing in a water tank. simulating ten years' air line operations.
The
Aeronautical
pondent of Tho
corrca-
Times
fixedly to reporters, said the JPL, and the Army already had authority to fire a third satellite. declined to say when it would be, His word for newsmen who
Monte Carlo, Mar. 5. Dr David Roberts, Sir Winston Churchill's local doctor, Bald hero tonight that Sir Winston was in very good health.
sunk to the bottom of the river to allow workmen to prepare construction the river bed for
of a bridge pier.United Press.
Massacre
Constantine, Mar. §.
SYRIAN REDS
GET
ASYLUM
Vienna, Mar. 5. Diplomatie sources said to-
day Russia and Czecho-
оп
slovakia have granted political baylum to the leaders of Syria's Com- munist Party, who fled the Middle East country when the United Arab Republic was formed February 1. Khalid Bakhdash, Secretary General of the Syrian Com- mumlet Party, is among a group of leading Eyrlan Communists who arrived in Prague recently, these sources said, Bokhdash disappeared in January and has not been heard from since,
It was reported, however, that he took his family to Moscow the day the UAR was proclaimed.
SIX OTHERS
The source said there have been reports that six other Syrian Communists and their families
at
resort in Russia on the
Sca
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British Govt Hits Back At Anti-H-Bomb Campaign
LORD MANCROFT ISSUES STERN WARNING By JOSEPH W. GRIGG
London, Mar. 5. BRITAIN'S Conservative Government hit back hard at a fast-growing "Ban-the-H-bomb” campaign today and warned that it is "seriously delaying" hopes of a disarmament agreement with the Soviets.
It declared that the threat of nuclear retaliation is "the only means of defence ngainst any full scale attempt by Russia to dominate our world."
The warning was delivered without
by Lord Mancroft, Minister Portfolla in Prune Minister Harold Macmillan's Government, when he opened defence debate in the House
of Lords.
Mushroomed
The campaign to ban the H-bomb has mushroomed swift-
ly, it already has split the Labour Opposition and shown signs of exploding Into a major Issue in the nation's politics.
Gaillard Warned
And Given
An 'Ultimatum'
Paris, Mar. 5. The powerful Independents warned Premier Felix Gaillard tonight they would quit bis coalition if he failed to decree an iron-fisted policy in North Africa.
Wor" basis.-United
Blaying are
Mancroft recalled that Russia Strbak! Pleso, IL resort in has 200 divisions, 590 modern Czechoslovakia and another submarines and 20,000 aircraft, The Right-wing group took essential Air Force, Navy and Is at Sochi, the Crimean "We should be quite incapable, the denant position at a three- Army programmes so as to put Black oven with the help of American hour strategy meeting. One of milltary spending on a strictly
termed the "Algerian conventional forces," Mancroft the participants Although Syria has been cautioned, "of withstanding with decision "a virtual ultimatum" Press.
mot The National Assembly the friendly with Russia, it has conventional forces alone taken strong action against uny attack which the Russians could at 9 pm to begin a scheduled Communists within the country mount. The blunt and inescap debate of M. Gaillard's military nd- able fact in that the only means budget but immediately
after The Anal
unexpectedly crackdown came of defence against any fuil seale Journed
of the with the formation of the UAR. attempt by Russia to dominate putting off discussion Under Egyptian law, the Com-cur
the threat world is
of question until 3 pan. tomorrow.
A Reprieve munist Party was banned. The nuclear retaliation." known Communists, including
to the anti-H-bomb Replying to the Party leaders, fed the country. | campaign, Moneroft
United Press,
Strait
IMJIN RIVER HEROES GIVEN FREEDOM
OF BRISTOL
Bristol, Mar. 6. The "Glorious Glouces- ters," whose Imjin River stand in Korea seven years ago made modern military history, will be given the freedom of Bristol it was announced today.
This will give the Glou- cester Regiment the privi lege of marching through the City on all ceremonial occasions with colours flying, drums beating and bayoneta fixed.
A formal resolution re- gistering members of the Regiment as honorary freemen will be moved in the Council Chamber next Tuesday-Reuter.
Flash Fire Destroys City Block
Karachi, Mar. 6.
A flash fire, started by ex-
The Assembly's "action gave pridod hose in Britain who are now M. Gaillard another day's re- Premier had u prieve, since the vociferously agitating for
are
the
LEFT-WING PAPERS SEIZED
Paris, Mar. 6. editions of thred Today'a left-wing weeklies, L'Express,
and tho Nouvelle,
to ban the both are not, I been ready to ask for a con- France-Observateur
his 1,320,000 Communist Franco of Adence vote on think, hastening the day world disarmament they are million francs (US$3,150 mil were seized last night by order
of the Ministry of the Interior. seriously delaying it, since they llon) military budget.
Shortly before midnight continuously feeding the
It was understood that they Commlitee Defence Soviet hopes of betraying the National Western nations into fatal announced it had approvel M. contained articles on Algeria, the one in L'Express being by Gaillard's military budget by u weakness by propaganda."
11 vote of 20 to and six the Existentialist writer Jean- abstentions. The 11 opposition Paul Sartre.
Catholic came from the Com-
Left-wing votes munists, The Committee's con- weekly, Temoignage Chretien, clusions will be presented to the sald that it was ceasing sales in Algeria following the seizure of Assembly tomorrow.
The measure approved by the successive issues there. Tho Defence Committee shows how paper would be sent only to
would effect less subscribers in Algeria-Better. economies
Rejected
The Government spokesman rejected Labour's assertica that Britain's own contribution to the nuclear deterrent is use- less and that she is "sheltering" under the American H-bomb.
"It is quite true," Mancroft declared, "that
the Russians could attack us with far more nuclear weapons than we could deploy against them. But the destructive power of horrible things la so imunense
these
The
RADAR TRAPS IN LONDON
London, Mar. 5. been tried out successfully in that even a few could produce Three. London motorists were the provinces but the police ro- such appalling consequences as nabbed for speeding today when cognise it is not infallible when to be wholly unacceptable to a radar was used for the first iraffle is heavy.
realistic government -- and no time by the Looden police to The radar detectors made body has ever accused the catch offenders against the speed their London debut early this Russians of not being realistic-lmit.
morning, on the Thames Em even if they know that their The radar system has already bankment,France-Pretse. own attack would be 10 times heavier."
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Lord Alexander, Labour wigwRUJESTAJE Opposition leader in the Upper House, moved a motion that the House should declino to approve a defence polley which "relled predominantly upon the threat of thermo-nuclear warfare; insiM- ed on the installation of strate- gie rocket bases in Britain before the projected summit talks; and falled to provide effectively for the defence requirement of Bri- tain and the rest of Commonwealth."
the
Wog
Tho BUTO motion roundly defeated by the House of Commons last Thursday in a similar defenco debate.
United Press,,
ploding fire crackers, BULLDOZER
destroyed a city block in the heart of Karachi to- night, burning to death at least seven persons, in- cluding two children. Twenty others were taken to
A band of Algerian terrorists | hospital with severe burns,
who recently flew in " walled out the count-down at Asked about a report that Caravelle over Denmark and the JPL nerve centre, far from Sir Winston was suffering from last night killed eight people in Seven bodies were recovered Sweden says the fight Cape Canaveral, was: "At least a slightly готе throat, Dr the village of Mechia Chaber- from the charred wreckage of substantiated the claims the Explorer I is sull coming in Roberts sald he had not beard say, near Constantine, it was that the alting of the cn-loud and clear."--United Press, of anything of the kind---Reuter, disclosed today-France-Presse gines aft of the cabin
Other
reduces noise and
An
advantages aro aerodynamically cleaner, stronger and simpler wing. enhanced safety in the event
of a wheels-up" landing,
HUNGARIAN STUDENTS OPPOSE
Vienna, Mar. 5.
and ease of maintenance Hungarian univerally students
and overhaul.
The air Intakes are high enough from the ground grently to reduce the danger of "foreign bodies", such as atonas, being sucked into the engines.
Hongarian
still..... opposing
the Commanist IC- gime and boycotting, the Dom- munia Youth Organisation, The Hungerlan Comminist Youth weekly Magyar HjuDIGIT complained today, time fo©Siti» elements ter - revolutionary
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CAUSES EXPLOSION
Bournemouth, Mar. 6.
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The bulldozer, being used by workmon ropairing a road, ripped up agar service pipo aná caused the end of the pipe in a shop to break away. The blaze was brought under Ta explosion resulted. Tho control nearly two hours after fronts of two shops were blown it broke out, Cily polico posted out.
aro tearing down __posters_of, Magyar, Ufuang bald that *gome by smoke and heat.
students in tho law faculty'a student hostel openly incite their fellow students "againat ile Commisk regime.”
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