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THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1958.
RUSSIANS CLAIM RECORD ROCKET Protest
POCKET CARTOON
by OSDERT LANCASTER
(America-bound)
"Please forgive me, Mr. Clambacker-l'd honestly completely forgotten that S.L•U»M•P was a dirty word,"
Zeta Facts To
Be Shared
New York, Mar. 26. British scierifists will share:
with their colleagues from all over the world facts about the design and per- when formance of Zeta
the second international conference on the peaceful of atomic energy Geneva in meels al
USCH
September,
A list of 1,550 files of scien life papers to be submitted to the comference, which With published here today, ineluded one on Zeta smong some 198 documents Britain will present secund only in number to the United States (638).
Japan is presenting 48 papers.
SUBMIT PAPERS
Britain will also rubmit "chemical changes papers Induced in organie systems by Sensing radiation. "PEGATOMIE aspects of the United Kingdom nuclear power programme," and "foundation of the Bagdad Paet nuclear centre."
France the third biggest contributer of scientife for the conference-102.
Other papers, titles of walch will be announced talet, ero ex- pected to bring the first total to about 2.500, of which about 800 will be presented orally.
The rest will be circulated and printed.-China Mall Specizi,
of
New Stamp
FLIGHT
Part Of IGY Programme
London, Mar. 27.
The Soviet Union today announced a new record rocket flight of 473 kilometres (293.7 miles), Moscow Radio reported. The announcement of the new rocket height quoted a dispatch from Tass.
Minelayer's
Crew Arrested
Plymouth, Mar. 26. Eight naval ratings were In detention and 34 under here tonight Open Arrest following Incidents abcard the minelayer Apollo (2,650 tone).
Ди
the
naval spokesman said charges against the eight men Included drun. kenness, creating a distur bance, Impeding an officer, behaving with contempt towards a peity officer, In- citing Beaman to resist arrest and wilful disobedi ence.
The
3
34 rating under open arrest were charged Bolely with absence from place of duty.
The Apollo-reputed to be the fastest veasel in the Royal Navy should have Balled from nearby Devon-
port today on trials.
Bho will not all until the end of an inquiry which began here today.
The inquiry was ton- vened on the orders of Vice-Admiral R. G. On. slow, Commander-in-Chiot, Plymouth.
The Incidente occurred rboard the minelayer on Sunday night and Monday morning, Chine Special.
Mall
I said the announcement was made by the Soviet Committee Organisator of The for the International Geophysica! Year. The announcement said that the launching of the "geophysi cal
look, plac rockel"
February 21 Moscow me,
11.42
on a.m.
It said the launching of the "one-stage geophysieni rockel" took place "from the territory of the European part of the USSR in the medium latitudes,"
The 10tal welight of the Apparatus was 1,520 kilograms (3,344 pounds).
Systematically
The broadenst quoted the announcement Its saying inat the launching of #cophysical rockets is carried "Bystemati
cally to heights anging from several dozen to 200-210 kliometres (124.2 to 130.4 miles)."
of the
It added: "AS part ICY programme on February 21 1959 at 11.42 Moscow time, the
of launchuy
one-stage #eophysical rocket trom the territory of the European part of the USSR in medium Jutitudes. This attained the reerd height of 473 kilometres. The rocket was equipped with
keophysical instruments for the A
upper
SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith
3+4
давл
T.M. UPON
"Look at it this way, Horace you wore very busy teaching me how to bowl! So your 96 to my 128
wasn't so bad!"
Contractor Alleged Have Misused
To
Foreign Aid Funds
M
Washington, Mar. 26. House sub-committee today released testimony that a Chicago contractor used foreign aid funds to buy road-building equipment from himself at prices higher than he paid for it originally.
complex study of the layers of the atmosphere, The total weight of the geophysical evientific apparatus, radiotele- inetrical Installations, sources of energy. ancillary systems, together with the structure the instrument contained amounted to 1,520 ilograms," hove resulted in payment of
The broadest quoted the sp2,011
of
The transcelion
to
wns sald
in commissions to five
Grenade Victims statement as saying the rocke: other firms or persons who did
Constantine, Mar. 26.
was stabilised for the whole of little or nothing to earn them. Its flight by special devices
The contractor was identised which prevented JL from
ns
Leonard Dougherty of A.
Twenty-two people, including / revolving around is horizontul | Chicago, who has been awarded
were
London, Mar. 20.
ten soldiers and 12 civilians. |
when injured today hand grenade, tossed by a
and verticpt axes.
* ter-
Precision
A 40-kopek lamp his honour rorist, exploded in the Constan-
Rear Admiral Trevodune shopping district.
Cudnew, Russian cruiser Varyan during
commander of the
It added, "this fact consider The les soldiers were standing ably increases the precision and the Russian - Japans£ War, In # group before a shop win-value of the scientific research
said Special.
-Ching
Mail by
Presse.
carried out. has been issued in the USSR. | dow. "The windows of several "The flight of the rocket took the Reial news allency Tass nearby stores were also broken place at a alight angle from the
tonight.
explosion.-France- vertient the
in The
appointed direction, after which the rocket landed precisely on the
pre- determined spot" United Press,
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SNIPERS FIRE ON WORKERS
a contract to build a 350-mile road in Cambodia with foreign nio funds.
An account of the transaction was set forth in a summary of behind closed testimony taken
a House doors yesterday by government operations sub-com- mittee, hended by Rep. Porter Hardy (Democrat, Virginia).
'Net Profit'
The summary quoted Martin Cain, an audilor with the US Genemi Accounting Office in Chicago, an reporting that one of several corporations owned by Dougherty ended up with a "net profit" of $432,587 from the sale of the road-building equipment.
The summary did not make clear whether Dougherty himself actually wound up with that much profit from the transic- tion, which cost the taxpayers $926,112235.
The published summary dis+ Tel Aviv, Mar. 26:
closed that Dougherty was pres- An Israeli Army spokesmanent at the closed hearing yester- said tonight that Syrlans day and was asteed if he found had sniped at Israeli work anything incorrect in the testi- mony, "He replied that he did the Lake Hulehnot," the sub-committee said.
project this
House Rules
era
on
drainage morning,
No casualties
were reported
At the outset of the hearing on the Israeli side. Fire was Hardy explained that it was
returned by Israeli police patrols, the spokesman stated.
being held behind closed doors because House rules provide He claimed that the Huleh that testimony which may tend or in- drainage project workers had to defame, degrade Feen alped at for the last two criminate any person should not affected days. They
aired unul the continued
their bo
a chance to work today after this morning's porson is given
testify-United Press, shooting opisode.
DANGEROUS
Later reports stated here that Syrian firing was reopened in
the afternoon and was only re- turned when it became danger
Outs.
New Post
London, Mar, 20. Licul-General Sir Horatius Murray of the British Army ja to succeed Lieut-General Sir United Nations
obscrvena Cecil Sugden, also of the British operating on the Israeli alde Army, ns Commander-in-Chiet were also fired on and a United of the Allied forces in Northern Nitions motor car was hit by a Europe, it was conounced here bullet.
today.
An Israeli military spokesmaa General Murray, 84, has been announced that life Israeli | GOC-in-C Scottish Command soldiers
this since 1955, During World War were wounded afternoon when their vehiclo Two he commanded the Blath- struck a mine near the Gam] Armoured Division and anw strip_border.
service North Africa, Sleily, Reliable soUECOS stated that Italy and Franco. two Egyptian-made mines were From 1953-54 he commanded last | the British Commonwealth Divi- found in the mama area Weči-Irance-Premo.
sion in Korea-Reuter.
KOREAN
CONCERT
SHEAFFERS
Skrip
4 MEN CHARGED Against WITH ROBBERY A-Arms For Bonn
London, Mar. 26.
Det. Police Constable Tsoi Kam, of Hung Hom Police Station, testifled on his meetings with three of the four accused on trial for alleged robbery when the case continued before Mr Justice A. D. Scholes at the Criminal Sessions this morning.
A number of Labour opposi- tion members today pro- tested strongly in the Μουτο of Commons Sin-yue, 31, Hau
against the decision to
On trial are Lau Sav, 30, Ko.
Shlu-chil. 22.
equip the Wost Gorman employed.
and Lee Ifa-su, 20, all [111-
accused are
Army with tactical atomic The Arst three
1
wrist watch, cigarette lighter and a pair of spectacles on December 20 last.
weapons.
alleged of having taken port in David Ormsby-Gore, Minister | n robbery at 1, Perelval of State at the Foreign Office, Street, third floor, where In reply to questions, sold that Mrs Wong Shek-chun
was Britain had made no proposals robbed of to Nato on the issue,
He explained that it had been decided ut the Nato heads of government conference last December that the military authorities of Nato countries would submit a report to the Council
tactical atomic This report had not Weapons. yet been presented to the Nato Council, he said.
on
Labour member Dennis Hea- ley, asked the Government to oppose the German request for the revision of the Paris agroc- ments.
PERMISSION
The fourth accused is alleged to have received stolen property,
Mr D. E. Greenfeld, Counsel, la prosecuting,
ALLEGATIONS
►
AGAINST
S. AFRICAN
GOVERNMENT
Crown The
Det. Tsoi Kam, of Hung Hom Police Station, testined that on the night of December 30 1st, he and another delective to the living quarte:s of a churchy In Hung Hom, where they found the fourth accused.
To Church
went
London, Mar. 26. Labour Party's Na tional Executive Com. mittee, in an official state- ment today on freedom in South Africa, said it was "appalled by the continu- ing evidence
the South African Govern- ment is determined to destroy every democratic liberty of the majority of the South African
people."
that
He said the Folice party went Ormsby-Gore replied that the to the church with the Intention West German Government had of arresting the first and fourth
with not communicated
the areused. When they did not British Government
had find the first accused, they lett. bul Pusked the Western European On the following afternoon, The statement, issued after the Union for permission to manu- witness said, he saw the second Executive Committee's regular facture telegulded anti-aircraft accused, who was in the Police meeting, referred to the "farel- missiles and that the requested Station on a matter not related cal preliminary hearings of the revision was the result of the to the present robbery, The treason trials" involving 100 original permission granted. second accused then took him to people und the banning of the
where they met a woman.
The weapons in question had a hut in Kau Pui Leong Road African National Congress. a range of 1,500 und 2,000 metres, Healey against the
protested Government view and declared that armaments in central Europe. where the altuation we8 unstable, should rather than
be reduced increased.
A BLOW
Herr Waller
East Ulbricht, German Communist Party chief sold tonight the West German Bundestag decision rearmament "is a blow cgainst German people."
on atomle
the national conscience of the
The statement continued: is abundantly obvious that the whole policy of the
"It
Southe
When they left the hul, witness me the first accused outside the hut and requested African Government is directed of the latter to accompany him to destroying all treedom to the Hung Hom Polize thought, expression or associa-
also Station. le
ar- tion amongst the non-European rangements with second peoples, which number four- accused to meet him in theths of South African inhabl-
fanis. Police Station at 8.30 pm, that day.
made the
When first necused arrived ti
DETERMINED
he Hung Hom Police Station, "This determined effort to ret he was taken. to see Del. Sg up a permanent white dietator- Tal Lok, Second pccused slip denies the basic principles He said the West German
wont to the Police Station that of personal liberty, democratic Government was bringing the night and was likewise taken organisation and the rule of law
to SM Wes! German state into a more
Det, Set Lati LOK, on which the Commonwealth is and
Isolated
witness said. more
position.
founded. "while the whole world increases
On the same evening, witness "WO of the British Labour the movement against nuclear tests and demands a ban of went with another detective to Party vifer our warmest atomic weapons, the Bonn Gov- the living quarters of the church sympathy and moral support to ernment stands aside and builds in Hung Hom again where they all those in South Africa fight- requested the fourth accused to ing against this tyranny and up en aggressive position,
"Who can doubt that this de- go to the Police Station. Witness promise
use every Influence elsion must be regarded
said he had had instructions that in our power to asilst them in torpedo against 'summit' confer should the fourth accused not go establishing a society based on ence and against German reuni-to the Police Station voluntarily, freedom, democracy and
equal rights for South Africans. of all fication," he said in an interview he would have to be arrested.
racca."-China Mall Special. with the Director of the ADN
Arriving at the Police Station. omein), East German
witness look the fourth accused agency.
to sea Dat. Sgi Lui Lok. Asked to comment on state- menis
that In the Bundestag
Hillside West Germany would be drawn Into a future war whether it Ulbrichi Herr rearms or not, the
Featured in Rediffusion "Music Time," tonight at D.15, will be a Tecorded performance,
by Davist Oistrakh and the Stock- holm Festival Orchestra, of the first movement of the Beethoven Violla Con- certo in D Major, Op. 61, which will be performed on
evening, in Sunday Loke Yew Hall of University, by the visiting Korean Broadcasting Sym- phony Orchestra of performers.
the
This "preview" perform- ance will enable Ilsteners- and especially muzic students to familiarise themselves with the "live" performance of March 30, The first of the two con- certs to be given by the Korean orchestra, chartis of 30, and the Kim Back Bong group of classical dancers, taken place Lamwarow even- ing, also at the University, Proceeds of both these performances will benefit the Boys and Girls Clubs Association and the Music Society Country Concerts.
STOP PRESS
FOUND GUILTY
OF RAPE
Two Chinese, Lau Chan- kwong and Chow Sha-yun. were found guilty of raping
■ 18-year-old European ziri on January 5 by jury st the Criminal Bessions this morning. They were both senioverd to BOYCA YCATE strokes and 12
by Jurilov. C. W. Recor.
Mr
as 媳
пеша
Later that evening. witness said: "It la not the same continued, a Police party went whether West Germany rearms
to the hillside of Kau Pul Loong or not. If West Germany does Road where the fourth accused not rearm and is not made into pointed to
some undergrowth.
a base of Nato in Europe for Sgt Lul Lok then conducted s atomic warfare, then there will scach and found a pair of un- ! not be a war in Europe,
serviceable spectacles with There is not a single state spectacles cana.
and people in Europe that wants to start a war. The only hotbed of danger is the rule of milliarists in West Germany."-- France-Presse & Reuter.
Austrian Himalayas Expedition
Vienna, Mar. 26.
A seven-man Austrian ex-
Hearing is continuing.
1
Diplomat Says Resigned For
His Health
Mexico City, Mar. 26, The Nationalist Chinese
Ambassador, Llu
Shi- today that he had submitted his resignation to the Talpel Government, but denied that any reason except his health was involved.
Cool Weather shun, confirmed
For Α Few Days
The weatherman sums
up:
He dismissed as untrue reports
For the next two or three days that he had criticised General- the weather will be cool, dry Issime Chiang Kai-shek's new book, asserting "On the con- trary, I belleve it is an excellent
or strong wind with Russia."
War
and probably cloudy,
For the 12 hours ending noon pedition will leave Genon recorded 0.83 inch of rain.
today, the Royal Observatory book which faithfully records Chiong's grentest experience on Sunday for Karachi en
The monsoon route to the Himalayas signal (the black ball)
Liu, who is 37, said he had where they will attempt hölsted at 10.15 .m
jost welght recently and re- The Royal Observatory says signed "because I need a rest to climb three peaks, the
unul that
midnight strong after 23 years In the foreign ser- 7,400 metres Haramesh,
easterly winds will be blowing, vice. the 7,450 metres Malubit gradually moderating. The sky reasons of health, and not for My resignation, was for ing and the 6,980 metres will be overcast with occasional
any other reason," Hohellala.
showers at first, but fair perioda later,
NOTIFICATION
A statement on the weather
The expedition, headed by 31-year-old Heinrich Ross, will condition in several says that, He said that so for be had go from Karachi by train and from a dopresalce to the cast of received no notification of ac- plane to Gilgit where they will Japan, a trough extends WSW ceptaneo of his resignation, or An intense of the appointment of a new centred over ambassador,
set up a base camp.
to
South China. four anti-cyclone is The party comprises scientists, and three mountain North China, climbers including Ross, tow conquerer of the Gashebrum II peak in 1950. The Austrians pim to explore the unknown Ecuth and
Bido east
of Haramosh, a particularly dim- cult peak, which local residents regard as being protected by the gods.
DANCE AT
MISSION
Denying a report that he may, refuse to return to Formoso, the Ambassador said; "I bave to obey my Government's orders. -If they ask me to return to Tulpel, I shall do so,”
There is a dance a1.8.30 this The Ambassador's wife and evening in the Missions to Sca- his 21-year-old daughter aro mer, 40 Gloucester Road, Hong-here with Him. He came hero kong. All seafarers and Bervice- less than two years ago, after last men are welcome, Ladies by serving in Canada and pt the
United Nationa---United Press,
A British expedition suffered a tragic accident them
year. France-Prosso.
invitation only.