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INSPECTION DEADLOCK
by the neon
ference statements on the Arctic region inspection by President Eisenhower and Mr Andrei Gromyke, the Soviet Foreign Minister, over the last two days, the position now appears to be one of deadlock between the Soviet Unlen and the United States on inspec- tion policy for the area. British sources indicate that
they expect that the inter- National spotlight will shift back again to the "summit" prospect of a conference with the pend-
delivery Ing
of fresh Western notes to the Soviet Union.
The diversion of world
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SIEGE OF BRITISH FORT LIFTED Cousins
Aden Levies Reach Lonely Garrison
Aden, Apr. 30.
A company of turbaned Aden levies tonight re lieved the Fort of Assairir, which has been besieged by rebel tribesmen since last Tues- day.
The garrison was relieved after a two-mile ad- vance under rebel fire from the Aden levies positions on a plateau reached earlier today to Jebel Jihaff.
The Aden levies established themelves in a new position
interest from summit ex- dominating Fort Assairir before changes which took place
FLA when
|
raising the siege.
criticised The Aden levy soldiers, com- by Major William lights of United States monded H-bombers over the Aretie Boucher-Myers, had to seale.a and the United States 1,500
foot escarpment, lacxi serial with rebel-held caves, to reacts counter - proposed
where they could a position Inspection for the region
dominate the ruined has now come to an end, Fort and
Anal the nearby house where the 30 strong garrison of Underlined
Arab guards was trapped.
In
effect President Eisen-
for
an ending of the 11-boraber flights has underlined the dendłock resulting from the two recent Security Council señalona,
Lone Briton
The lone Briton in the relieved garrison, Mr Filzrny Somerset, 34-year-old Political Adviser in the Dhala Emirate, will return to his Dhala Head- quarters on Thursday, The battle, in which have Council aircraft
the rebel session called by Russin, strated
In the Security
Britishi bombed and
tribesmen
at least six wounded on has brought a casualty tolt of
Government side.
the
the United States contest with machine-guna and rockets, cd the Soviet chargs that the H-bomber flights were a danger to world peace. On Tuesday Mr Gromyko and
the Soviet Security Coun vil delegate, Mr Aarknd Sobolev, cinimod that existing. tension could not be reduced by the aerialarea, inspection plan.
But the United States, whose position on aerial inpec- tlon is backed by Britain and the great majority of the Security Council, and the Soviet Union have con- firmed
their
evafleting
One uniformed soldier from the neighbouring Yemen is ro- ported killed, and two wounded. Yemeni supply column was seen Intelligence.. reports sold a
crossing the border from Qutava towards the Jebel Jihaff the Government
перг
Aden levies positions.-Reuter.
Europeans Injured In
Bomb Blast
оло
Adon, Apr. 30. Three British servicemen and four European civilians,
of them
woman, were injurod by a bomb thrown into the Victory Bar and Restaurant horo tonight.
The injured were taken to the Royal Air Force hospital here. First examination abowed Robe was seriously hurt,
The injured woman is be lieved to be Maliese. The bomb
in understood to have exploded under her chair.
The attack appears to be linked with local feeling against the employment ck non-Arab inbour in the Aden colony-- inst Friday--Reuter. which was the cause of-a etike
FILIPINO
DOCTOR
GIVES
SELF UP
New York, Apr. 30,
Dr Rodrigo L. Sarmiento, Filipino surgeon wanted In connection with the staying of G Brooklyn nurse gave himself up to day at the Philippine Consulate-General.
ITALIAN SHIP
SUNK IN. INDONESIA
Oakland, Cal., Apr. 30.
The 5,330-ton Italian vessel, Aquila, was bombed
and sunk on Monday as it waited in harbour at Amboina, Indonesian Borneo, its owners reported here today.
A spokesman for the Consulate- General reported that Bar-
The Cocotos Steamship com- | Foreign Offles sourets said, ---- miento hnd surrendered pany, which has its head Reuter,and, France-Presse, voluntarily and was talking quarters here, said the Aquila's behind closed doors with master, Caplain Guiseppe Cop- Consul-General Raul
pola af Genon, reported the ves- Leuterio.
sel was sunk white walling to fond
ก cargo of copra for Copenhagen,
Was
The spokesman said an attorney with them and that Strmiento probably
would be taken to the District Attorney's office. He is want- ed on suspicion that he killed Margaret
Kabak, 33,
Brooklyn nurse.
NO DETAILS
13
21 PICKED UP
Twenty-one of the crew were picked up by the Greek steamer Armonia (2,740 tons), the com- pany old. The fate of the
No details of Sarmiento's inten-ther 12 was not known,
tlon to surrender were given' immediately.
The Consul-General's office is on the 70th Boor of the Em- pire State Building. Miss Kabak was found dead in Brooklyn home last rinis
Jer
15
The Aquita was sailing out of under the Italian flag. Genes with an Italian crew and
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NEW TROUBLE FLARES UP
IN S. SUMATRA
A
Djakarta, Apr. 30.
Rebuffed By Union Members
London, Apr. 30.
1
The leader of a Londen bus strike timed to begin at midnight on Sunday was rebuffed today by the Government and by most of his own rank and file as well.
The Union chief, Me Frank Cousins, had appealed to | the Minister of Labour to intervene and try to settle the deputo with a new wage formula,,
Today, however, Mr Iain Macleod, the Minister, rejected the proposal, saying it. would depart from the principle of adherence to, arbitration awards. UNDER FIRE
Shortly
afterwards
Cousin pay plan
fire ala
| leaders
the
same under meeting of Union represenúng
Central London busmen.
14,000
They rejected the plan and reaffirmed their decision to strike
for a
of ten pay rise shillings and six pence a week,
The Transport and General- Workers' Unión originally sougin this increase for 50,000 busmen
countries.
The industrial court awarded
new trouble spot flared up in the restless Indo-In the London oren and the home
nesian archipelago today with surprise de- velopments in the hitherto "neutral" oil rich province of South Sumatra,
an crease of eight shilings and
sixpence a week to the 34,000 Central London men -- but nothing to those working oulalde the capital.
ALL-ROUND
* In London, Britain has de- cided to appanch Indonesia, on Briligh the bombing of two Saturday
tankers by an unidentified plane with
In tho port wounds on her body.
of
Flights by the Ballkapan.
state-owned | issued a statement in Djakarta, Borneo, She and Sarmiento had been on
Garuda Indonesian Airways and accusing Barlian of having foiled two
days ago, tho
all company planes to and from to take “firm measures" "against staff of the
the Jewish Foreign Office disclosed today.
Palembang, the South Sumatran | his deputy chief-of-staff who is Hospital for Chronic Diseases
The strike was called by Mr The British Ambassador in capital, were
in-charged suspended
with involvement in Cousing, Secretary of the TGWU in Brooklyn. Police report-Djakuria will ask the Indonesian definitely on army orders.
anti-Central Government nefie" ed they had been good
in support of a demand for an Government for Information
vilies. OIL FIELDS friends until a few weeks about the attack during which
Ball-round eight silings and chief-of-staff, sixpence rise. ngo.
the 12,270-ton tanker Son
·
tion to be booked, and ques-The guilty of the plane bad not yet been Established.
tionti-United Press.
The
deputy
Later Mr Cousins suggested
to Mr Macleod that he use his
Increase to the London Trans- port executive.
A spokesman Lor the Major Nawawi who had been Police ધર્મ that Sarmiento Flaviano caught fire and had to Standard-Vacuum Oil Company ordered to report to Nasution in
would be talcen to the be abandoned.
said he had received reports Djakarta, and fled from Palem"good offices to win peace by Brooklyn Avenue polles éta
that troops had entered his bang, with 15 armed guardo auggesting a analler all-round company held at Sungal was, Heading south in the dire Gerong,
Lon of the oil centre of Fraba Meanwhile, Palembang radio mulih, the statement said.
The Cousins' plan was for six announced that the South
Meanwhile, reports reaching shillings and six pence a week Sumairan inilitary commander, Djaltarta from Bandformasin, mure for all 50,000 busmen -- Colonel Barllan, had gone on capital of South Borneo, cald with a further wage review in leave" since yesterday,
Biegal leaflets had been spread the autumn. The radio said that during through the province, at- But this idea did not please Barlian's "love". Colonel Harun nounding "a new force would today's meeting of 70 delegates Schar, his Chief-of-Staff, would emerge in South Borneo soon" speaking for the Centrul be in command of all troops in Ir the authorities failed to take don busmCTI. South Sumatra.
measures ngairst COT- Simultaneously,
Indonesian rupiion. Army chief, General Nasution,
RENEWED WAVE OF TERROR IN
Queen And KASHMIR. PAKISTAN CHARGES
Duke To
stands in the subsequent Visit Ghana The Pakistani Government said tonight the re-arrest of Sheikh
ргеня conference state- ments.
Isolated
THE exercise in isolated
Tnegotiation on the Arctic
question through the auspices of the United Nations must consequently be expected to peter out,
London, Apr. 30.
„Queon_Elizabeth - and the
Duke of Edinburgh are to visit Ghana late in 1959, it was announced from Buckingham Palace night.
to-
The Buckingham PULACE statement said:
Karachi, Apr. 30.
Abdullah, former Kashmir Prime Minister, "comes in the -wake-of-a-renewed-wave-of-terror" and "proclaims-once-
callous injustice of the Indian position in
more the Kashmir."
The UK MISSILE
has received from Dr Nkrumah. Prime Minister of Ghana, an visit Ghana late
And the apparent prospects invitation te
on future agreement on In 1950 with the Duke of Edin- some of the issues now burgh.
dividing East and West "Her Majesty has informed have been transferred back Dr Nkrumah on behalf of to the realm of summit cx-e.self and of IIts Royal changes,
Highness of the pleasure which An It gives her to accept this in- vitation."
If no further hitches develop, these might start seriously in Moscow next week in the forn of separate exchanges be tween Mr Gromyko and the Ambassadors of the United States, Britain and France.
Ghana, formerly the Gold Coast, became a fully Indepen- dent state within the British Commonwealth Just year.
first all-African
In the absenca of Soviet Reuter.
agreement to meet them
on
March 3
EXPLODES
IN FIELD
Newquay, Apr. 30. experimental British rocket missile exploded in midflight and plunged into a field near this sca- sido resort today.
zocmed
ECIA
in The Foreign Office, offlelal statement, said:
"The re-arrest of Sheikh Abdullah has come as no sur- prise,
Less than four months ngo the Indian authorities, dis- turbed by world opinion and in view of the impending visits of the United Nations mediátor Dr Frank Graham and the British Harold Prime Minister, Mr Macmillan, deckled to release Sheikh Abdullah.
POPULAR UNREST
Britain To Return To Expansionist Policy?
London, Apr. 30.
Mr Harold Macmillan, Bri- thsh Prime Minister, cheered his political sup- porters tonight by hinting that the Government
would be making an early return to an expansionist policy.
*India hoped In this way she could #tem" the rising Tide of popular unrest In Kashmir and The test device", as the Bri-perhape persuade the Shelich Dr Kwame Nkrumah became tish Ministry of Supply termed himself to acquiesce in Indian the first Prime Minister of the it,
Its teaward military occupation of his state. "India once again proved to dominion. course from the Aberporth test
range 10 miles away.
be entirely wrong. The Sheikh In its explosive plunge the refused to be cajoled, bought rocket blasted a large craler in or brow-beaten, a hayneld burely 300 yards
"It reveals the frustration, fom the nearest houses. But Londen, Apr. 30.
desperation and panic in which take turns in handling made a reord
British European
there were no casualties and no Always
the Indian authorities now And Joint brief in the talks at mill the
profit of £1 domage to the village.
from
which past financial The Ministry of Supply said themselves and the Soviet Foreign Ministry. year, it was announced tonight, in London that a full investiga- they cannot save themselves by peels for the ruling Conserva- It re- clumsy acts of tyranny. The Uve Party in more optimistic The lotel of passengers carried to had been ordered.
1erna thon the rank-and-nte had risen to 2,700,000-an infused furllier comment as to the people of Kashmir will continue
of misslic Involved.
their march to freedom."—Reu- | had expected: crease of 300,00 on the previous type
ter. United Press.
RELAXATION year China Mail Special.
jointly the three envoys aru
expected to operate
ES A
team whose members would
RECESSION IN US
BEA Profit
WHILE unemployment in FRENCH GOVERNMENTAL CRISIS
the United States has) declined by 78,000 in April}
It is much less than tho usual drop of over 200,000
at this time of the year so that the picture is far from a happy one.
Mollet Holds Key To Solution?
from Apart
He spoke to Conservative back-benth members of Parlia- nient at a private function in a London holei.
According to reports, Mr Macmillan "described the pros-
The Price
Of Fame!
London, May 1 Three hundred screaming rock 'n' roll fans stormed a Dundee theatre staga on Wednesday night and loft their idol, teenago singer Tommy Btoris lying inert on the stage, tufts of hair torn from ha hoad, hin olothes in tatters and ble guitar smushed.
Steals was giving his first concert In. Britain since his successful visit to Stock- holm where he also had to withstand the onslaught of hysterical fans.
was
The young singer carried to his dressing room and not until two hour later could he leave the theatre, stli groday and escorted
two polico-
mark.
by
Several members of the theatre staff were injured in the scramble, France-
Presse.
ENGAGEMENTS
CANCELLED
BY QUEEN
He hinted at coming relaxa-' tions in the administration's "credit squeeze and the car- ing of other austerities impos- ed in the aghi against indation. Conservative MPa lott the -function feeling that the
change in Government policy Queen foreshadowed by the Prime Minister would ultimately mi store their popularity in the country.
Mr Macmillan, according to rellable sources, went to great lengths to stress that the Party had no need to be downcast about its recent by-election reverses-Reuter,
London, Apr. 30. Elizabeth who has had a bad cold has been advised to romain indoors at Windsor Castle for the rest, of this week, it was announced today. Her condition continues to improve but she has Kancolled until all outdoor engagements after. next weekend, a.Bucklag- ham Palace spokesritari sulik.
The Queen was first reported
last Thursday,
Paris, Apr. 30, After the mooling, Mollet, Duchet, in the effort to obtain PREMIER-DESIGNATE, Rene refused to give any indication Independent participation in the Pleven, today resumed his of his party's position on the Cubinet he hopes to present to President Eisenhower shows efforts to form a new French question, or of his personal at the National Assembly next
less optimism now than ho Government by a series of titude towards Pieven's candi-week.
Ploven's CONTM i has done in the past about meetings with political loadors, dacy.
with quick storting
Guy Moliet, the prospects of a pick-up from the current former Premier and leader of
the Socialist Party. United States recession.
Pleven talked for more than In fact, the President's state- an hour and a half with Mollet, ments tend to support the whose parly may be decisive for Pievon's chances to solve the arguments of thoso eco- nomfats who interpret the vernmental eriala, which en-
Tered its third week today, latest unsployment and
The Socialists will decido os Mollet, Pleven consulted two her "great national task" and when pollen with balong charged. It was conilevned later, how- employment figures as no Saturday whether or not to kaders of the right-wing Inkte at the same time raise the stad- a group of reliking public sex oven that the Duke of Edin advance at all and possibly participate in a Cabinet beaded pandent and Peasants Party, dard of living of the French | vanta, outside the Generai Port|tringh yould attend the
(AIR), Bogu | people,-France-Presse,
Often here today--Reuter, [77] Final-Reuter. - by Playen. a retrogressivo-step.
Some political observers said sultations, the principal political that Mollet himself has little event today was a speech by desire to head a government, Pierre Piimtin, Finance Minister and that he is trying to over in the retiring caretaker" Go?- come the strong reluctanes of ernment of Falls Gaillard, in many Socialists to have their which he stressed the import- party take part in a' coalition |ance of a "cease-fire" in Algeria,
Polimiin said that it is government.
Following his meeting with possible for France to accomplish
Antolpe
1m-
Baton Charge
She will not now be ablo to attend the professional football Colombo, Apr. 30. Cup Final on Saturday at Wom-
•Four persons were injured bley Stadium, London,
Cup
flum
Lon-
Their attitude and that of the Minister of Labour made the strike
appear night-Reuter,
a certainty to-
unidentified UK-Czech Group
FANATICS
Reports from Bandura, West Java. cialmed vessels had been sighted off the south coast bringing arms for the fanatic Darul Islam gangs operating in the mountainous regions south of Bandung.
In Surabaya,, air rald drills have been held for the first time since World War Two in the wake of air attacks by rebel planes on oastern Indonesian ports-France-Presse.
London, Apr. 30. An all-party British-Czecp- slovak parliamentary group, Was formed tonight at the House of Commons, the first of its kind to be associated with Communal country.
Twenty members
of. Par- Hament have already Joined.-- China Mall Special.
THE U-BOAT
THAT FOUGHT
FOR. BRITAIN
war.
A German submarine surrenders to a lone British aeroplane-the only U-bant ̧ to fall into our hands intact during the .... Its priceless secrets revealed, Churchill orders it to 'sen aguin~a ghost U-Boat returning to the heart of the German wolf-pack-manned by British sallors.
Only now, after long and careful investi gation, have the full facts of this almost incredible story come to light.
starts on Sunday in `tho
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