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The Maze Below
THE
THE ralia have come and, though the Water
Board and their customers will hope that they favo not gone, yet we can say Butely now that the roads which last your cascaded down hillaldes cutting off the New Territories from Kowloon with Reverni hunderd land falls have this your behaved better. Behind their behaviour lies $3,700,000 in plementary
typhoon penditure in addition to a and repair maintenance
Bup.
Ex*
bill in the order of $20 million a year.
This is not to say that ronde
are perfect. Nathan Road reminds every vehlele that bumps down it that all le not well under wheel. And there arc
many
places whore ditehing and patching remind ene of the song of the London band lower Joseph Cotten
"There's another bule in the road." There were about 8,000 road openings in the city area of Hong- kong last
year, and figure compares favourably with the number per mile In many towns in Britain. - His Problem
state the
problem brieity
the
engineer's
.. the
thicker the top, the more costly an opening but the better the mend will be. For this reason a utility company that opens a road han to inform a long list of other utilities and invite them to
use the trench if they can. The system
Bounds well
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Formal Requests Made By Britain And America UN CHIEF PREPARES FOR SUMMIT
KHRUSHCHEV'S ANSWER U.S. Bid To
Bid To Photograph
NOW AWAITED
United Nations, Aug. 1.
The United States and Britain today both requested a special high-level Security Council meeting on the Middle East on August 12 and Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold immediately began consultations on arrangements for it. Canada quickly associated itself with the request and said
Mr John Diefenbaker would attend.
'K WILL ACCEPT"
Moscow, Aug. 1.
Western diplomats tonight conndently forecast acceptance by the Soviet Government of the essentials of the fatesi Anglo-U.S. summit proposals although they were prepared for further procedural negotiations.
Although Mr Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet Prime Minister, has pre- viously urged a more inimedate sumadt meeting than August 12 th is the first firm date mentioned by the West and Soviet leadership is not expected to make a major issue of the point.
The Soviet reply may be hindered by Moscow's need to study the erence in approaches between General de Gaulle on one hand and President Eisenhower and Mr Macmillan on the other.
A meeting ut Geneva meets the wishes of the Western telo as
well as the Soviet Union-China Mail Special.
U.S. Offer
To Resume
enough, but in fact level Talks With
ment goes on at such a rute
that no sooner is a new road
Jald
than it is
up ugain.
and no sooner patched by one utility than anpatched by another,
China
talks with China on the re- lease of four United States eltizens silll detained on the Chinese mainland, authoritative source said to-
The reason for Nathan Road'a
Washington, Aug. 1. Roads The United States has offered surface in that the
Ambassadorial Department have had to wait while water mains wore fald befure they spread a new top. But the chances are that however long they wait all the utilities will never be done, and no sooner the new top be down than --it too will come up again.
day.
an
The Unlied The source said will
it was States had told Chisa warsaw, where Mr Jacob Beam, ready to hold the meeting in Unless a single authority the U.S. Ambassador to can be appointed to plan Poland, would represent This both the road top and the country.
policy below it, with the
No reply has been received
power If necessary both to as yet from China. investigate and to prosecute The talks were Buspended avoidable road openings, Abuat seven months ago when Alexis Johnson, ine US. Hongkong might as well not Mr bother to have first class Ambassador to Czechoslovakla surfaces in town. Roads, who had been representing the United States at the talks, was after all, are costly. A new moved to the Far East and no top on the length of Nathan other ambassador was named to Road will cost $5 million.
take his place.-Reuter.
THE NEW........ GEC
“SUPER SIX REFRIGERATOR
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Margaret Stumbled
Niagara Falls, Aug. 1. Princess
She throw-her-hands up. before her face, pried "oh" and turned aside so quick- ly that she almost lost her balance.
The
3lle was left open in both the British and American notes submitted today, but Mr Hammarskjold has expressed n preference for New York on meet- grounds that a lentille
ing on peaceful uses of atomie energy due to open in Geneva on Sept. 1 would complicate arrangements for a mid-August summit-council acssion in that elty.
The Soviet ambasador Mr Arkady Sobolev, summoned to Mr Hammarskjold's office Inte this afternoon, told the new- men he had no Instructions" from Moscow on arrangements for the session,
Formosa's View
Other Side Of The Moon
Washington, Aug. 1,
Mr
radio Juhnson said in a interview recent reports that would the first moon rucket
be fired this month "might prove to be optimisile." But he said the lunar experi-
ments "eertainly" will be car ried out this year.
The first U.S. rocket shot to the moon will be designed to get photographs of the far side. Mr Boy W. Johnson, who heads
the
Department's Defence Advanced Research Projects Agary (ARPA), said that a Inter Instrument carrying Mr rocket will be designed to achieve a soft landing" on the moon 236,000 miles away.
Johnson's comments · con«. firmed that Navy scientists have succeeded in developing TV-type "scanning device"
for photographing and trans- mitting to earth a picture the side of the moon which never has been sora by matt.
rotates slowly--once The moon
every 27.3 days and always presents the same face to the earth. Mr Johnson said the Arst lunar rocket will seek to measure the moon's gravity and its magnetle Add.-U.P.İ.
COMMUNIST LEADER Turkish PM
FAILS TO
Appeals To
FORM GOVERNMENT End Cyprus
Elsinki, Aug. 1.
Flanish Communist leader Elna Hilpi today falled in his at- tempt to form * "Popular Front" government In Fin- land
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LEBANON RECOGNISES __İRAQ___
Most diplomats awaited the
The Social Democratic Party Kretiln's official reaction in a
(48, cats)
Belrut, Aug. 1, the Orthodox reply, expected speedily, fram Socialists (3-seats)- refused to The Lebanese Government los the Sovlet Premier Nikita participate in n Kilpt govern- day recognised the new iraql Khrushchev to notes sent to ment
Government. Moscow yesterday and today
Communists had gained
Broad Base
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by Mr Harold Macallan and unexpected lead by whing 50 President Elseniower, - Margaret
beats in the new Parliament but The Nationalist alúmbled and almost- fell
Foreign needed the support of the two when she walked into an
Minister Huang Shao-ku, in A socialist parties to hold a major- unexposied explosion
statement issued, todný, of
gavey of 101 ceata agoúnat 19 of Talper's Arst udelal view on the the opposition, fiqahbulbs in a dark, tunnel during
projected summit-council session. the visit to
President Urho Kikkonen had He said that aside from council called on Kilp to try to form Niagara Falls today.
members, participation should the new goveniment yesterday. be "sfriatly limited" " ́ In the session ̈to those countries "directly affected by the Mld. cr East situation"
and their
In a statement published after participation should be drter-a meeting, the parliamentary mined by the council.
With the five permanent niombers consulted today, Mr Hamunarskjold planned 10-
na morrow
the six lo se
of the permanent mumbers Council: Canada, Colombla, Iraq. Japan, Parum cud Swedat.
Mr Frank.Carpenter, spokes- man for
the U.S. delegation, said these formal discussions,
The princess had descended by lift to the foot of the horseshoe falls and meva 'crowd of photo- Fraphers and reporters in
tunnel leading to the edge of the falls.-Reuter,
Kai Tak Explosion:
Two Hurt
group of the Social Democratic Party declared: "The present situation requires a government which disposes of a broad base capable of solving current prob- lens. The government proposed by Kilpi di not full these requirements,"
The Orthodox Socialists un- Hounced that they "refuse to requested both by the Unitedment presided over by Kilpi and participate in majority govern- States and Britain, were expect- ed to continue "some few days," Procedural
dominated by the extreme left."
Kilpi was expected to visit President Kekkonen tonight to inform him officially of his tallure to form the government. "The discussions are concerned-France-Presse. with the who, what, when, where and wity of the meeting," Two Senior Chinese inspec- Mr Carpenter sald "They are tors of the Hangkong Air-procedural rather than sub-
stantative." craft Engineering Com-) pany were badly burned, held to see what people's views yesterday morning when a are on the place..P.I. picco of test equipment De Gaulle Not Sure exploded, spraying them
The conmultations are being
Gaulle
lo
state
Paris, Aug. 1. with hot glycorino.
A spokesman of the Foreign
declined They were taken to Kowloon Ministry Hospitat where they are report specifically whether General De
altend would ed to be "quite well."
the The accident occurred in the Security Council meeting. Engine Overhaul Workshops. He stressed the French Gov- The hot glycerine at a tempera- ment's view that a public meet- ture of 150 degrees Centigrade ing such as that of the Security In addition to burning the en- | Coundì could not contribute gingers, started n sinoll Ace anything positive to the chances which was quickly brought under of an East-West agreement over control.
the Middle East,
The two Inspector west, George Yung and Kwan Yick
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Pole Vaulted
To Safety
Graz, Aug. 1. A 42-year-old Hungarian athlete Today pole-vaulted over barbed wire entangle- ments and a mine Beld guarding the Kungary- Austria frontler to ask for political asylum in Aus-
Fereus Nagy, of Budapest,
a former non-commissioned officer and athlete told the Austrian police be practised similar jumps for many months while planning hils escape.-Beuber.
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BRITISH TROOPS TO MOVE TO
AQABA?
Amman, Aug. 1. British paratroops on crisis
duty for the past two weaks may be shifted to the key port of south Jordan, Aqaba shortly, roŝable sources reported. Agaba's importance to Jordan has increased immeasurably pa a result of the Iraqi coup. Now, with both the Iraq and Syrian borders closed 10 Jordan, Aqaba site at the head of the supply line to the outside world.
US ships have been operating regularly to Aqaba in the past few weeks. The only other major supply route to Jordan had been the Anglo-American aerial roule from Cyprus and the American "sky-train" from Belrut,
The sources said that behind the prospective Brilish troops move to Aqaba would be o firm determination on the part of the "The Turkish Prime Minister, Mr British Government to prevent Adnan Menderes, tonight ap-strongulation of Jorden by the -pealed-to-all-Turkish Cypriots, means of a coup or other viol-
ëncó in Aghin making their help in stopping Lettorial activities on The island.
|
Port Plans
· Decision Iraqi Government was fakea
A. British reconnaissance during a cabinet meeting this
The appeal followed a similar group went to Aqaba recently. afternoon.
ne on Wednesday from the Plans have been under way for The-Lebanese ambassador a Greek Prime Minister, Mr Con- some time to improve the port corialderably, including installa- Bagdad was naked to handstantine Karamontis,
tion of a large cen pipeline to Trogi recognition note Foreign Ministry and to express Mr Menderes returned here. pump oil ashore from tankers. Lebanon's best
According 10 wishes for the yesterday from the Bagdad Pact
the Bources. prosperity and progress of meeting in London.
paratroops plying the Amman Iraq, the brother country."
vicinity will be replaced by France-Presse,
He had had talks on Wednes- ground troops presently · on day evening with the Prime Cyprus, Minister, Mr Harold Macmillan, British army spokesmen re- who had asked the Turkish and fused to confirm or deny the Greek Prime Ministers to sup-reports, which were 'accorded port on appeal for an end to wide acceptance hero.-U.P.I. bloodshed in Cyprus-Reuter.
Switzerland. Too
Berne, Aug. 1. The Swiss Government to- day recognised the new Irogi Government-France-Presse.
Angeline Locks Up Persian Gulf
The White House
Washington, Aug. 1. Angeline Cliott, a pretty 19-year-old Toxas blonde who
Name Changed
Bagdad, Apr. 1.
The Iraqi Government today decided to drop the expres. on "Penlan Gulf" from the oficini vocabularly and re- place R by "Arab Gulf” sbo term in general use in Irsa. Government departments have been told of the decision and the White House daily for the Iraqi diplomatie representatives past 10 days wearing the 10-abroad will also be informed. pound chain padlocked around her neck.
has been picketing the White House for 10 days, locked the heavy iron gatos of the main entrance with a chain and padlock today and made off with the key. She was protesting against wi Angeline has been coming to Federal Court deciska that her family does not own 350 arres It claims ka Texas
Guoris called after her ing her to return the key put Angeline ignored them,
The government decision is interpreted as having been in- White House officials have spired by the Arab Liberation given Angelines key to guarda Movement which. according to with: Instructions to tell her Egypt's President Later, however, she sent the
Nasser, will. key to President Eisenhower.
she can pick it up at any time. spread "from the Atlantic to the But before It arrived
¦ Arab Gulf."—Fronen-Pres50, guards-Heuter, had reopened the gate, breaking the chain
and with hammers pliers.
Chamoun For U.S.
Beirut, Aug. 1. President Eisenhower has in- vited the outgoing Lebanese President Camille Chamoun visit the US, a well informed Source stated, here today. France-Presse.
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