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THE SANDUS COMFORT IN ACTION TROUBKAN
Whiteaways
HONGKONG-
KOWLOON"
UK DROPS NUCLEAR BOMB Daring
Explosion High Over Pacific
which cannot continue A
Coluny expects to prosper in come.
the years
Training Needed
10
vacuum has been
Tfilled to some extent by
RELATIVELY CLEAN' WEAPON
London, Apr. 28.
British nuclear device-assumed to be a
Hydrogen bomb - was exploded suc-The cessfully high over the Central Pacific today.
A statement from the Ministry of Supply tonight, announcing this, said that early indications were that the fall-out would "again be negli- gible."
The Ministry would not con- that it was an explosion in the megaton range but observers the was no doubl thought that it was.
expatriates, who have had the required training, but they are becoming harder to recruit these days and cost companies more money. In such cases firms will have
The bellef was that Britain to fall hack on local per sonnel. Hut these, without had tested a reliable, fairly "elean" specinised training, will cheap and relatively be a misfit in any business Hydrogen weapon.
concern.
To alleviate
this state
of
The Fifth
Britain's A
If ro, it was affairs, a company can do a number of things. They can hydrogen bomb explosion with- in about 12 months in the either
send orally m
island Christmas
area of the ployed personnel abroad
Prelle. for further training; or let promising men understudy with departmental heads; or support such a scheme as envisaged by ProfessOT Kirby.
Drawbacks
A Ministry statement said: "The Minister of Supply, Mr Aubrey Jones, has received a report from Air Vice-Marshat Force John Grandy, Task Commander, Christmas Island, that a British nuclear device was successfully exploded at a high altitude over the Cen- tral Pacife today.
The retentille measurements
E first point would beare being collected for sccurate
"Early indications rus: the second may have
Timpractical is the longer being
are that
a few drawbacks; and the fall out will again be negligi- last may be of benefit to ble,"
the
local busineas com-
munity, from which long- kong draws its life-blood.
Foreshadowed
explosion The
Was
US TESTS
ON FRIDAY
Washington, Apr. 28.
O. Representative Charles
Porter said today he was
that advised
the first nuclear tost of his coun- try's Spring sories would take place on Friday near Eniwetok in the Pacific. Members of the joint Con- ! gressional Atomic Energy Com-1
meantime mitice in the they also understood widely-heralded shots few days.
Governor Of Malta Bans Meetings
By SIDNEY TAYLOR
Valletta, Apr. 28. Governor of Malta to- night banned all meetings of more than 20 people after a day of violence in which a lug and an army vehicle were set afire, police stations attacked, und
buses police and stoned.
The attacks came in the midst of a one-day general siriks in protest against British polley lowards the island. The ban announced tonight is for three months, but the Governor, Bir Robert Laynock, can end it al any time.
The Malia
General Workerz tindon wald tonight the attiko, which emptied the vast Navai Dockyard, was "truly nation- at," It distributed Icallets ordering ati workers to go back to their jobs tomorrow,
MUST OBEY
"You must suid The leaflets said:
obey that the
only the directives of series of lest the Union. Mr D. Stephens, legal recretary to the Malta would start in the next
Government, asked tonight ir this was considered seditious, Bald the Attorney-General was considering the matter,
One committee member said the tests were to have started about a wiek ago but that un- favourable weather the wrong wind and too many clouds". had caused the series to be ro scheduled.
Tests originally to have been conducted at the start of the series will be run off Instead al fore-the end, this member said. -
Unlied Press,
Professor Kirby has for years shadowed last week by a warti
advocated-the-setting-up of jing 10 hiring from the British
an independent Faculty of Admiralty.
This said that from April
Economies with an appro- 25, 37,000-square mile area priate commercial bina t the University of Hong kong, but would the end result justify it?
Complex
THE
up
work behind setting a separate facuity would, in Professor Kirby's words be a large and com- plex undertaking." It would need the support of the! lucal business firms both!
of the Pactile would be dan- gerous to shipping because of a Krish nuclear a test of weapon,
Last year, Britain set off four hydrogen bombs in the Chris- tmas Island area.
The aircraft which dropped the bomb was a white-painted Royal Air Force Vallent,
Full-out fests were lin- mediately made by high-flying Canberra alreraft, using special equipment.
Nuclear Silence
financially und morally, By exploding the weapon, similar to the support given Britain became the first country to the Hongkong Technical to break the "nuetear silence" College by local indus-since the Russian decision triallats.
terminate Hydrogen and Atomic Whether many business con-weapon tests. Today's explosion
tu
In the attacks on polles stations. At Tarxien and Conspleta, men broke the
climbed inside and tried to Bot the buildings affre, wil out success, Sallory mounted over a tug in Mara guard Harbour which was tem porarily are.-Reuter.
'Couldn't Give A Damn About Monacoʻ
Sir
At
Sir Bernard Docker Lodges Protest The Foreign Office
London, Apr. 28.
Bernard Docker, British industrialist, went to the British Foreign Office today to protest at the expulsion of himself and his wife from Monaco and the French Riviera.
VISCOUNT CRASHES
Tarbolton, Apr. 29. A Vickers Viscount airliner crashed and caught fire near here is Scotland lata last night but none of the occupants were killed. The airliner, owned by Bel.
tleb European, Alrways, carried a crew of five but no passengers.
The turbo-prop
ona
Viscount,
ol the fatest "800" saries, WRE on chartar from DEA to the British Overseas Airway Cor poration,
to
It was flying from London Prestwick Airport, Scotland to plck up passengers for London Reuter.
French Support
París, Apr. 28. France supports the American plan for acrind inspection of the Arctic regions, French official sources said tonight.---Reuler.
West Decide On Common Stand
On
Summit Exploratory
By EDWARD DEPURY
Talks
Washington, Apr. 28.
Usually authoritative diplomatic quarters said today that the British, French and United States Governments had agreed to continue their summit exploratory talks in Moscow separately, instead of meeting with the Poles, Czechs and Russians together, as proposed by Russia.
cerns recognise the fact toledopted a reso Nixon Gets
that there is a "vacuum" is Sovici adopted a resolution on
this unilateral termination of
questionable, and if they tests,
do, will they support such
a scheme as proposed by Professor Kirby?
May Be Satisfied
THEY
In
.
HEY may be well satisfied
with training up
The Rumian announcement expressed the hope that "thr parliaments
lates of other possessing atomle and hydro- Ken weapons will do every thing to terminate text ex- plesions of these weapons by their countries as well.” None of the Valiant's crew pro had flown on any of the previous mising men for executive Christmas Island tests, it was jobs themselves with appro- learned at the Air Ministry to priate remunerations to night,
these people with They were protected from the their companies.
glure by special steel window com- shields and their aircraft was cases these panies would not require painted white to deflect the heat, the use of the products of -Reuter. the Faculty of Economics
such
with the result that this
course would
Berve no
practical purpose to the local community.
Before auch scheine can be
Monty's Last
Parls, Apt. 20. Field Marshal Viscount Mon!- emery of Alomein, in his last military exercise. before relire-
launched, a careful study ment will direct 270 high-
Jeered
The Westem Governments do not like the system of meet- the ing separately with Russlans, but they prefer it wo aceting jointly with three Com- which the countries munist Kremlin insisted was the alter- native to meeting individually, Montevideo, Apr. 28.
Diplomats sold the Kremlin was ausing this Vice-President Richard Nixon apparently of the United States arrived proposals as a device to gain here today on a two-day visit greater prestige for its satellites and was greeted by students of Poland and Czechoslovakia, shouting: "Go away, Nixon," and "Out with Nixon.
The student demonstrators gathered outside the university
INDIVIDUAL
Late today, after British and visited the
by Mr Nixon's motorcade passed French diplomate
ali
by on its way from the airport State Department, it was said at the start of his goodwill tour in diplomatic circles that of South America, Leaflets three Havermanents agreed to thrown nearby said: "Students follow the present procedure, repudiate Nixon, the representa which means continuation of the tive of United States oppression individual meetings in Lolin
America, because he Russlans. supports and encourages dicta- Lorships."-Rouler.
Cardinal Well
|
Be und Lady Docker have been officially banned from their favourite playgrounds be-- cause Lady Docker is alleged to have torn up a tiny paper flag of Monaco in a Monte Carlo restaurant.
son,
She was angry becaue her Lance, was not invited to Prince Rainier's pray for the christening of his child.
Sir Bernard Docker had un at the Foreign appointment Office with Sir Anthony Rum- bold, Assistant Under-Secretary *1 State who
supervises Western European affairs. The Industrialist was there for 15 minutes.
He said later: "My protest was noted, but one does not expect an immediate reaction."
DON'T THINK
re-
Asked what he hoped to achieve, the Industrialist plied: "I could not give a damn about Monaco, But we do not want to be separated from our Friends in the south of France and I do not think they want to lose us elther"
Monaco has ar
agreement with France that those people red from the Principailty are also not allowed to visit the
French
depart- neighbouring Iments,
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UK RELIEF
COLUMN
ON MARCH TO FORT
Daylight Payroll Robbery
Marseilles, Apr. 28.
A hand of four gunmen 10- day carried out a daring daylight robbery of an armoured car in the centre of Marseilles, killing a the guard. spraying streets with sub-machine gundre and making a getaway with a 33,000,- 000 francs (US$78,000) payroll.
The minutely planned attuck began when one of the gun- men stepped out of the rear trunk
of compartment parked car where he had hidden all morning, and fred a burst at Jules Vanese, 57, an ex-policeman, who was guarding the payroll for the staff of the Hospital of La Timone.
Vanese crumbled to the ground, He was pronounced dead later at the hospital.
The bandita' with handkerchiefs over their faces, seized the payroll sacks and made a fust
in Kelaway another wolting
Aden, Apr. 28. A Brilish soldier .was wounded today when snipers fired on a reliefA force advancing towards a beleagured fort amid jagged mountain peaks on the Aden-Yemen frontier,
The serviceman was evacuated by helicopter to Aden where his condition was said to be "not scrlous.
car.
Gun Battle
alerted by
the police car shols gave chase, exchanging a running hall of gunfire with the robbers.
The robbers stopped short at a dead end with a blank wall, Jeft their car und jumped over the wall, as one of them covered the others by a burst of sub-machine gunfire. When police were able to reach
the wall. They saw the thieves. driving.nway in another wait- ing vehicle.
was found to
out
The relief foren was prepar- ing to attack at dawn tomorrow rebel
tribesmen besieging 4 British official and Aden Gov-The car in which the killer hik
guards in the "Benu crament
IN GOOD HEART Gesie" fort of Assarir.
The Briton, Me
Fitzroy Somerset, un assistant political agent, rediced, the relief force tonight-that-he-and-the-bom. cagured garrison were "in good
Earlier today. Sir Bernard endThe-Froth have her landed into applying a treaty which was presumably intended heart." for "thugs
of and Criminais various types. they wanted to
One of the Aden Government I don't think guards in the fort has been
to this any slightly wounded.
Venom jet fighters have kept more than we wanted thein' to."
be ingeniously nited
with ventintion openings on the bottom of the trunk, comfortable, pillows, and special observation window drilled through one. of the rear stop lights. France-Presse,
A
Mikoyan
Berlin, Apr. 28.
Mr Anastas Mikoyan, a Sovlet First Deputy Premier, arrived here night for on unscheduled 24-hour call on his way home
A Foreign Office spokesman up a constant patrol over the declined to comment on today's relief force while other Venoms from a three-day visit to West protest.
the fred rockets at the rebels hold- | Germany,
East German "We will leave the talking to ❘ing the high ground southwest news agency -- ADN-reported................ Sir Bernard," he said.-Reuter.
Reuter. of Fort Assarir.-Router.
SOLDIER GETS TEN YEARS
Berlin, Apr. 28. A
court-martial US Army today convicted a soldier who spent five years in East Germany and sentenced him to 10 years
YEMEN TO imprisonment and a dishonour-
GO TO UN
Calro, Apr. 28. The Red Sea kingdom of the
Yemen has decided to in- form the United Nations Security Council of the "Bituntion created British
of occupation Pahej," a Sultanate in the West Aden protectorate, It was announced here to- night..
able discharge.
Private Arthur Shearer, 28, of Washington, D.C., was found guilty of desertion, association with Soviel agents and member- ship in a group advocating the | violent overthrowing of the US government. Shearer pleaded guilty and did not fésülty.—
United Press,
by STOP PRESS
with the
Diplomats said that in using The announcement was made
not after the
Deputy the word "agreed," it did
Yement
Hassan Ben mean that they had agreed with Foreign Minister,
had arrived hose the Russians as yet to this pro- Ibrahim, cedure.
and discussed the situation on Vatican, City, Apr. 28.
They said it only meant that the Yemen Border with Marshal Hakim Amer, Vice- Samuci Cardinal. Stritch ap-among the three Western gov- Abdel
were of com- President of the United Arab of the views of local com ranking officers and civiliansparently withstood well the craments, they
opinion on mocedure. Republic. nations is a SHAPE | amputation of his right arm to- mercial interests musi be joi NATO
he There might be some further noted or the University Indoor mancouvres, "Command day and his doctors hope
Russians may end up with a white Post Exercise" from April 29 to would be able to get up in two discussions with the
or three days.-France-Presse.
about it before any further elephant on its hands. May 1-France-Presse.
stops were taken, and this dis- cussion might be conditional or provisional, it was indicated. United Presa
British
SOLDIERS & POLICE TO CARRY ARMS
Nicosia, Apr. 28. servicoman and police ware ordered to carry atma from today an a new terror wave threatened to break out In the leland.
mon
Mousenik
SOVIET ARMS
In Washington, Mr Allen W. Dulles Director of the United States Centrul Intelligence Agency, said today that the Yemen bod received Soviet arms.valued at $50 million.
Mr Dulles, brother at Mr John' Foster Dulles, the Secretary of day. The terrorist movement (It sald.damage caused on April 10
State, told a inecting of the UB threatened to rasuma attacks amounted to about £4,000,
Washington, Apr. 20. Chamber of Commerce, that the on Britons unless "Inhuman The statomont la generally be.
to loved
imply ware stopped in
that the
with a mesures"
The US Air Forco today ofl- Red Sea kingdo
reports troops would be leaving the clally conßrmed British detention camps.
that population of four million had oamp within the naxt faw there has been a live mouse in also been granted $30 million in days.
the combination Thor-Vanguard credits. Greek sources said they have rockot: fred last Wednesday in a
communication from nose-cone test, had no Kokkinotrimlihia today while } The Air Force said the mouse official reporte continued to presumably died when the
short of its goal-Reuter,
The Greek sectore of five of British
the island's main towns have been placed out of bounds to British troops.
The move •. follows.
Eokk. ult.
matum, the Governor, Sir Hugh #pet, which expired to-
troops will be with drawn from the Kokkinstrl- mithia detention camp as soon a dang caused there by detainees earlier this month is repaired, an official statement said here today.
· say the situation at the camp vehicle crashed into the Atlantic
was quiet-Router.
He said that Soviet ponetTU- {tion Into the Yomen was a "striking Instance of the use of trade and nid' as an izvestmené
in disorder in the Middle East.” --Router.
LAUNCHING FAILURE
Cape Canaveral,
Apr. 28. The US Navy launch-
ed its Vanguard rocket with a 20-inch satellite tonight,
Trut
few minutes later announced
that the third stage did not fire properly and did not attain enough speed to blast the sphere into orbit. --United Press.
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