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DERHAPS no eʊuntry is quite su seriously affect- ed an Japan by the new attack on the freedom of the seas by the Soviet Union, Indonesia, and
other countries.
The Japanese delegate quite) properly took a strong line at the sea conference un
faternational Jaw
nt
Geneva on Monday. An he
rightly emphasised, the freedom of the, high seas
established
in the interests and welfare of
ontire
Was
the
Ren InwB.
his
International community; and Government, like the Bri-i tish, held the view that three miles was the proper width of the territorial under the existing It is no academic question for Japan. She is affected by the Indonesian preten sions, the recent Soviet declaration closing off the Peter the Great Bay 18 "Internal waters," South Korea's so-called Syngman Rhee Line and the claim of certain South American countries to -Д 200-mile maritime zone,
If Indonesia's claims were
allowed,
or even if R
12-mile limit were adepted,
THE WEATHERi ¦ Light ASW winds. Fale and warm during the afternoon with ses fog patches in the harbour approaches later this evening,
CHINA MAIL
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AMERICA
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THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1958.
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RELAX IN
DAKS
THE FAMBES' CONFURT IN ACTION TROUSERS
Whiteaways
HONGKONG EKOWLOON
Tories Face
RECESSION Severe Test
Showdown With Rebels
Senate Passes GOVERNMENT CUBAN CABINET
Emergency Housing Bill
Washington, Mar. 12. The Senate passed its first major anti-recession bill tonight - a $1,850,000,000 emergency housing bill designed to stimulate construction of 200,000 new homes and put a half-million men to work.
The action came after Vice- President Richard Nixon cast a rare tie-breaking vote to kill a Democratic drive lo block a re- vision in the bill auturising o boost in interest rates on louna.
on
As approved by the Senate, the measure would permit the administration to mise interest rates Government-insured Voltlåns"" hele ofis from 4% to 4% per cent to bring them more in line with FHA-insured mortgages.
Most Important
could
the whole of the Acgean The Senate Democratic leader, Sea would become a closed Lyndon Johnson (Texas), call- sea under exclusive Grecke the bill "one of the most
the Senate sovereignty, with all the Important" difficulties this would ent pass to combat the business tall for free navigation slump. He salt it could result in jobs for marc thun is per through this Island-strewn
cent of the 5,173,000 now listed as unemployed,
ACD.
In
Preal- another mov dent Elsenbower naked Con- gress today for an additional $85,643,000 to speed reclama tion projects as part of his programme to fight the reces- sion,
Fisheries Problem THE fisheries problem has and much to do with the legal claims and the Inter- national Law Commission has proposed certain articles, relating to the conservation of the living
money, resources of the high seas, authorised but not appropriated which represent a marked by Congress, was requested as departure from the rules of
the administration and Congress law hitherto prevailing. took these other steps to create The American delegato cited jobs and avoid a depression:
many cold, hard facts to
show how expensive and difficult any general broaden-
The
*
new
already
than
The Defence Department reported that it plans to
of military con- $2,000,000,000 struction and housing by
ing of the territorial se place contracts for more
would be beyond the three milea,
There would
bo possibly a serious reduction In the production of fish just when growing popula- tions need more food.
It would cost the United States alone some US$180m, more every year to provide for navigation safety and law enforcement in a twelve- mile zone off its continental coasts than it does now for three miles.
+
It would handleap small craft depending on visible land. marks or limited radar; would increase the cost to merchant shipping of longer, uneconomical runa; and cause a serious reduction in the freedom of lying. The American delegate demanded un unequivocal declaration in favour of the three-mile
Jino.
Constricting High Seas
is estimated that a general of the terri-
I extension
30.
Prediction
June
Speaker Sam Rayburn predicted that the House on increasing un- would net employment compensation bene- fits before it adjourned for its Easter Vacation carly next month
The Press Secretary, James Hagerty, said Mr Elsenhower would ask Congress next week for an additiono! $125 million to speed up work on harbour and food control projects.
of the $85,003,000 in waler funds sought today, project $14,700,000 would be earmarked Agriculture Department for watershed protection and Blood prevention Press.
projects. United
SUMATRA
torial Ben by mile DISOWNS
ono
ANTI-WHITE
FEELING
Singapore, Mar. 12. The former Chief Minister of Singapore, Mr David Marshall, said today, "We will be eitling
throats if we allow. capital to go out of the coun- try because of end-white feel- ings."
our own
lefilst
He sald his own Workers Party "stands for the encouragement of capital to ex- and trading and commerce".
Mr Marshall said Indonesia was facing economie disaster because of "anti-white activity"
So far as the welfare of Singapore is concerned, "We cannot afford to let it happen", he sald-Reuter,
DEFEATED
IN COMMONS RESIGNS IN But No Question SUDDEN CRISIS
Of Resigning
London, Mar. 12. British Government
defested
Tho
Whe House
the
of Commons to- night but there was no question of its resigna- tion.
it was defeated on a clause proposed by the Labour opposition to a Govern. mont bill about main- tonanas erdore. This bill ahanges tha procedure for the enforcement of these orders.
The voting was 168 to 163-
an opposition majority of three.
Tharo word tumultuoue cense when the yote was announced with Labour membara shouting "0. sign" to the Government But Governments realgr only if defeated on A major issue and the one which caused the com. motion tonight waa
A
vary minor one, The bill enables a court to order an employer to make deduction from
A
a man's salary or wages
to meet arrears of pay- mont under a mainten ance order-Reutor.
Accidental Dropping Of A-Bomb
World War III Could
Start Like This Says Moscow Radio
London, Mar. 12. Radio Moscow warned tonight that World War Three could start from the accidental drop- ping of a nuclear bomb such as took place over South Carolina yesterday.
By FRANCIS L. McCARTHY
Havana, Mar. 12. The Cuban Cabinet resigned in a sudden crisis to- day and President Fulgencio Batista imme- diately formed a new government to meet a rapidly approaching showdown with the rebel forces of Fidel Castro,
The Cabinot arisis coincided with reports of heavy aghtings In rebel-ridden Oriente Province and with a Government decree which suspended all constitu- tional
and guarantees establishing press censorship.
re-
Bausta named Gonzolo Guell as new Primo Minister. Quell also took over the Ministry, of State, the post he held in the Cold Cabinet.
CHIPS ARE DOWN
All but five members of the In the old Cabinet stayed on new-one.
An informed Source said "The chips are down" in the power struggle between Batistu and his enemies,
SHAH TO DIVORCE SORAYA
Teheran, Mar. 12. An official statomont on- nouncing the dissolution of the marriage of Queen Soraya and Shah Reza Pahlavi will be published | on Saturday or Sunday, it was learned in court circles here today.
Wos
SINATRA, BACALL
TO GET MARRIED?
Hollywood, Mar, 12. Film circles here today pre. dicted that Frank Sinatra and Lauren Bacall were "almost certain" to get marrled this month or early in April.
Of Prestige In Glasgow
By R. B. MACLURKIN
Glasgow, Mar. 13. The Conservative Govern- ment faces another severo test of its prestige when voters in the Kelvingrove area of this city go to the polls today to elect a new member of Parliament. Still shaken by a hetvy defcas recently at Bochdale, Lan- cashire. In a by-election, the Government is in danger losing Kelvingrove also. It was held at the last general election by a majority of only 2,888 votes. This margin `can eally be wiped out if the prevailing anti-Government
Both Sinotra and Miss Bacall,
widow of Humphrey
trend continues, who died of cancer 14 Bogart months ago, have been the rub
for of marriage rumours ject months,
awards
Sinatra and Miss Dreall have both withdrawn from participa- tlon in the Academy Llevision broadcast here March 20. He gave no explana- tion. Miss Bacall merely stated she would be out of town.
Miss Bacall and Sinatra will be
together in Chicago on March 25 for the Ray Robinson Carmen Basilio World Middle- weight title fight.
INDICATIONS
the
RENT ACT
The dominating lasue here is the Government rent act which han given many landlords power to raise rente and evlat tenants.
Many voters in the Kelvingrove district, a mixture of dockland tenements, middle-clam fer- races and students' hostels in
the heart of this great in- dustrial area, gre affected by the act, and it has been the main theme of all campaign meetings.
Forecasts hore pre that Indications were that
thousands of erstwhile .Com. might morringe
take place strvaliva members, ́ angered shortly after that, either in by their increased rents and
diminished Las Vegas,
hope security, will abstain from voling.
TWO WOMEN
been
ཐ
stated
aro
The necessity for a divorce California or
Anally decided at lost Nevada.
Since Humphrey Bogart's Monday's meeting of the Shah's Advisory Council, these circles death, Miss Bacall has
several times that she wanted Even so, the result is expected Numez Fortuando, the out- sold.
sultablo to be close, with only a naITOW going Prime Minister, turned in The announcement has been to remarry, after a
Sinatra has victory for either the Con- - his resignation at an extraor-delayed because of the Shah's mourning period.
constant
for escort
servative or Labour candidato. ditary session of the Council of desire to take a "modern" line
months
Has and she
never Thero iyo main parties Ministers (Cabinet) called to in the dissolution of his mar
both represented by women, suspend constitutional guaran-ringe, with "a divorce by mutual denied reports of their possible
Ho was
named to the agreement" taking the place of marriage. She has two children, Mrs Katherine Elliot, the Con
servativo candidate, is the Cabinet only eight days ago in the classical Moslem "divorce Stephen, 9, and Lesile, 5, by her
widow of Mr marriage to Bogart,
Walter Elliot, a move by Batista to placate by repudiation.".
*whost Sinatra. was divorced
resent death left the opposition politicians.
Divorce by agreement, which is now recognised by Iranian Mexico Cily last July from his A Government spokesman law, has the advantage of up- former wife, Ava Gardner. His Fidel Castro's July 26 holding the rights of women; first wife, Nancy, by whom he Novement and the "Authentic especially with regard to pro- had three children, divorced
him bere in 1951.-Reuter. Organisation," a group financed |perty-France-Presse. by exiles in Miami, are prepar- ing to call a crippling nation- wido general strike slurtly.
seld
He said Government intelli- gence agents have estimated that 2,000 to 3,000 men would be armed with weapons and ex- plosives to writek havoc at key He polnie during the strike, sald i was a "dnal effort" by the rebels
the Batista, depending on military, was reported to have established a headquarters at Columbia, the Cuban
The Moscow commentator zald Camp
Twisted The that such an accident could lead Army GHQ outside Havana.
Facts Says Washington
Washington, Mar. 12. The Defence Department to
day rejected as impossible Soviet charges that a US atomic bomb dropped by accident could trigger World War Three.
One Defence official sits the Burdan broadcast had "twisted" the facts of the case, Ho sald this had become a usual Soviet practice in these instances.
The Pentagon sald such ne-
impossible cidents were
for two reasons,
SOEKARNO ★The Air Force knows at
reduces the area of the high scao, where freedom of fishing and other freedoms exist, by 280,000 square miles. An extension by nine milca would reduce the aran The of the high seas by 2,500,000 square miles, an area rough- ly equal to the size of the U.S.
The Soviet closure of the Feter the Great Bay, by the drawing of an arbitrary lino 116 miles long, enclosed thousands of square miles of sea,
It may well bo argued, as In
fact it is now being argued,
that if the Indoncalana have
all time where planes that
nusicar have
weapons aboard are located or over what territory it is flying.
Singapore, Mar. 12. "rebel" Padang Radio
The bombs Bro not tonight quoted the rebol Minister of the Interior,
charged except, during
Energy
Commission Lieut. - Colonol Dachlan atomle
testa. That means nuclear Djambak as saying that explosion cannot Lake place. the Indonesian Govern-
Only the dynamite explodes as ment's paratroop attack was the case in South Carolina.
Pakan Bahru meant
On
Baie
the Department of Defence to The reports, so far not con- "counter-blow" against armed, said Batista plans to go
order
a suspected aggressor before fully there to personally direct his establishing Identity of the
bomb-dropping plane.
long-threatened extermination
This is the worst aspect of campaign" against the rebels. the question of atomic bombs-United Press. dropping from US planes," he declared.
The broadcast, in Greek but monitored here, presented the conclusion that "there must be an end of the flights of aircraft with nuclear werpens."
..
DESTRUCTION
that
broadcaster said The "nine similar incidents have 4aken place in the United States since 1954."
He asserted that some day one "accidental bombs" of these could exploda with the results widespread death and of
destruction.
More important, however, he went on, "before the identity of the plane is established, some irresponsible senior official in the Department at Defence.con orders for оп give
atomic counter-blow. This is the worst aspect of the question of atomic bombs falling from US planes."
United Press,
Disability
the
A board of inquiry was con
Washington, Mar. 12. automatically that Cen-vened today at Hunter Air A proposed constitutional tral Sumatra no: langer Force
where members amendment to remedy recognised President Soo- of the B-47 crew were ques-Presidential disability problem karno as head of state. tioned.
was approved by a five-member The Air Force, meanwhile, Senate sub-commlites today.
apologised officially
the to
It now goca to the full Senate
He called on South Sumatra,
Inquiry Into Torture Called For
Singaporo, Mar. 12.
A Singapore Logislative As- tomblyman, Mr Leo Choon-eng, today called on the government to soT a commission of in- up
to quiry
invastigata allogations that sho police had tortured samo political detainees.
These persons are held under the Singapore Preservation of Public Security Ordinance.
Allegations were made in January that two détalnices had been tortured with electrical wires
Mr
The Colonial Under-Secretary, John Profumo, sald in the House of Commons, that the allegations had not been sub-
-investigation. stantiated by:
Mr Lee and today that at the April meeting of the Assembly he would table a motion naising for the appointment of an in-
the allegations.*
no right to embody all the North Sumatra and West Java people of this area for the Judiciory Cominítico where dependent commission of In- normal een routes within to join In the rebellion and noeldent United Press and approval is virtually assured-quiry into their closed waters, the assured the people of Central Reuter. :. major atomic Powers like Sumatra that the situation at wise have no right to shut Pakan Bahru was "well in
off large areas of empty hand," ocean for nuclear tests.
:
Rebels had prevented aircraft
reinforco Actually they do not directly from bringing up
affect regular shipping lanes monts, he said, and paratroopers like the Stralis of Bunda were locked up in Pakas Bubru and Macassar, but they do sreld.
There they would be killed or affect Ashing, though when forced to surrender because the the Japanese fah In those Djakarta. Government would be
many unable to waters they are
reinforce them, bo thousands of miles from wald, according to the radio - home.
Reiter,
Heuter.
Router.
MOBILISED FOR ANTI-LOCUST ASSAULT
-focusia now swarming at Lako Tiberias in Northern Jordan). It lústráciod all citizens to watch for, tão sintzoa and not to do anything wision might pruvaka a sapersion. They were naked About to report the swatm's Landing!
Bebrul Mar, 12.- The Labanese Gavernment today wirded; that the country in threatened witham' tuan vaalen by locuate, The Misletty
Janod the
warning
atles to the Forestry - Depart
ment.
At the same time, 11 ordered forestons to go on, à ̈ 16-hour
nort and mollikle for aŭ anül.
in
FAILURE TO FIRE VANGUARD
aluminium
of several hours, and was cfcially sold to be due to "technical difficulties."
seal vacant
Fishing for Labour
Mrs Mary McAllister,.. middle-aged Glasgow bouse- wile and town `councilfor.-- China Mail Special,
Strikers Arrested -
Cape Canaveral, Mar, 12. ¡ THE latest attempt to launch
Buenos Aires, Mar. 12. the Navy's Vanguard rocket
11ny
Argentina Marines 1.4 inch In Washington Army Secretary carrying
today its satellite L
Wilber B. Brucker sald today arrested all employees con- the Army will make another ducting a sit-down strike in the nose was cancelled here to- day.
attempt to put a 30-pound Argentine National Bank. Explorer satellite in orbit in The strikers were immediate-
"very azar future."-ly conscripted into a Reuter and United Prem. unit.--France-Presse,
The cancellation came less than five minutes from the fring attempt after a countdown"
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