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BRITONS IN CYPRUS ACT
COMMENT OF
THE DAY
Middle Muddle
The unexpected Arub concord
in the General Assembly.
cause At the time for
so much mutual admiration,
'Cromwells' To Strike
Back At Eoka
Nicosia, Sept. 9.
has vanished now so com- Leaflets in English signed "Cromwell"
pletely that it in almost an oTort to think back and try to recall what we had
nt the time to congratulate ourselves upon. Tweedledum and Tweedledee have every Intention of continuing their
battle as soon as they get
their breath. buck, and there does not appear to be any- where on the horizon that "monstrous crow... who frightened both those heroes Bu they soon forgot their quarrel,"
It is true that the West is armed with sufficient atomic might to make the earth an uncomfortable place for 1 all but it is also true that we are considerably more scared of using this might than the Arabs Cor possibly the Russinus and Chinese for that matter) are that we will use it on theni.
In the case of the Arabs they
can be pretty certain that
In
circulated in Nicosia tonight
an-
nouncing the creation of an organisa. "strike tion of Britons pledging to back at Eoka."
the leaflet "Cromwell," purporting to represent
the head of the organisation, declared:
"If any mure
Britons
Aru will
THE BLACK KNIGHT
murdered, my iron men' strike back hard and merciless- ly."
Well-over-100-Britons ha 1,500 MILES
djed in the wave of violyneu sweeping Cypres since Eoka, the Greek Cypriot Terrorist organisation, started operations In 1953.
Cypriots Hundreds of Greek killed. and nay Turks have also been
A Turkish underground or- ganisation, TM.T.. pledged to
hit back at Eoku, has proscribed by the Cyprus au thorities.
The leaflet, on foolscap sheel, Was typewritten รา capital letters throughout.
At the top there was the In-
TU
the traditional instability print of a sword, underneath of their traditionally un- which was the heading: stable people and place is all Britons. Take heed -- we not going
An must remove this bauble." to spark utomie holocaust. And on our side, we can be equally certain that even if it did, atomic bombs would not make the aren Any more stable.
Nothing New
United. Nations,
in
Tathered
Murdering
(This was a quotation from oliver Cromwell who paid, dis- missing Parlament la
1653, what shall we do with this bauble? Take it away." He was referring to the mace, symbol of authority).
UP
|NEXT YEAR
London, Sept. 9. Mr Aubrey Jones. British Minister of Supply said today that Britain hoped to send two-stage rocket up to a height of 1,500 miles, and that this might be attained by the and of next year,
Mr Jones, who was acccm- panted by Mr D. J. Lyons, Hend of the Ballistic Missile Establishment was speaking at n Division of the Royal Aircraft
press conference on the launch- Black ing of Britain's 30-foot Kaight rocket.
The Black Koight was suc- cessfully tesled from The leaflet said: "Euka, who Woomera range in South Aus- for the pest few years have train on Sunday. been murdering your com~
WORST WEATHER CATASTROPHE
KEYSTONE Polo a marooned bus and car. in the centre of flooded Wickford, Essex, after the storm which was described as "one of the most spectacular electrical storms of the century."
-Total Damage Expected
Come To £3 m.
-To
London, Sept. 9. The price tag on Britain's week. and stormi la expected to total
at least £3,000,000, It WRE reported today.
Damage In Chelmsford, Essex, alone la estimated at £250,000 after the worst weather catas. trophe in 70 years.
QUEMOYS
the
SHELLED AGAIN
general pattiols by gangster-typ Mr Jones said present In- assembly, gratefully
left attacks, are not what they formation indicated that the the untidy pleces of the boast to be-freedom fighters. rocket had reached a height of Middle East. jigsaw to Mr
"They are lackeys of the very 300 mlles, but he hoped that Hammarskjold and their church which for generations future Black Koights would go delegations either hurrled | battened on to the Russian peo even higher. home to receive applause ple and eventually produced the
hideous revolution in built
LH 11 "shoestring", Mr and make speeches before must
history and an anti-god regime Jones gald, at a cost of four to the mirage of Arabian con:
which new threatens Chris- five million pounds.-Reuter and cord dissolved before the
tianity,
U.P.I. eyes of the world, or else busted their heads about other things.
The honest
To Retaliate
The leaflet continued: ones may have "Unless Ecka stop their sense- congratulated themselves tess, butchering of the Innocent aimply upon weathering and their timidation of the
• committee meeting Home- | people I intend to siriice what less exhausting than back at the men who guide the it might have been had assassins blade, tempers been warmer. for permanent effect the United Nations obviously then, and far more obvious-
hnd NOW,
nothing
Bul
new (perhaps nothing at all) to offer for the stability
of the Middle East.
A Proof
A
FFAIRS in the Middle
East are once more
筵
proof, If one is needed, that atomic armament is no Bub-
stitute for traditional arms. U.S. Marines and British Guards and paratroops in each case the best of their national forces ...are the men who must bear the burden in this and all other likely situations where
peace" must
the
Le
"To help bring these men to their senses you are to:
British railwaye are 1) assess | Ing the cost of feeding and accommodating 3,000 stranded continental train passengers, repairing damage from 21 Avalanches, and revenus Ipat when people followed offolal advice not to travel. Farmeri, Alreasy faced with an
extremely difficult
·
RELAX IN
DAKS
THE FAMOUS KONFORT ER ACTION TROUSERS
Whiteaways
NONG KONG
HOWLOON
GRANTHAM'S VIEWS ON FORMOSA STRAITS TROUBLE
London, Sept. 9.
Fishing Dispute Sir Alexander Grantham,
War With Cod And Potatoes!
Off Iceland, Sept. 9. Icelanders aboard the gun- boat Odin pelted British ishermen on the trawler Loch Fleet with dried cod this afternoon,
Dit
# former Governor of Hongkong, said in a BBC broadcast tonight that there was not necessarily any connection between the present tension in the offshore islands and For mosa Straits and the heat the Chinese Communists in Peking were putting on Hongkong.
Sir Alexander was answer- ing questions by Richard farria of the London Times, in the British Broadcasting Cor- poration fonture "At Home and The trawler, fhing
Abroad" on Hongkong'a posk- northwest Icelatud, radiced the tion in relation to the Fur East frigate Russell that she
erials, Was reillating the like manter."
Asked how many "Icelandic the wiciteta had been taken," Loch Fleel replied: "None as yet, but we are keeping it up."
THE BATTLE This "Battle of the Cod" followed yesterday's incident in which trawlermen in the Stella
*tl Conopus
potatoes antic! broom handles to repel
Jetlanders
who attempted
to
board theml
Radio operator Arthur Nettle- ship told me today that the gunboat Maria Julio closed on the Stella Canopus as she fished off the north coast,
Seven unarmed Icelanders. led by a petty officer and all wearing lifejackets, stoxxl DA the deck as the gunboat came alongside,
"We pushed the gunboat off harvest, with broom handles," Nettleship now fear that nothing will be said, "The catering staff were salvaged from crops hit by well supplied with rather mouldy the storm.
potatoes. The
Post. Office has so far re- The Marla Julia moved off. paired 1,000 of 30,000 tele- Later she returned, but was mel phones put out of order in by another broadside, London alone, China Mast Spoola),
A FAR EAST SUMMIT MEET WITH PEKING?
Taipol, Sept. 10. The 35-foot Blick Knight was Communist artillery bom.
barded Big and Little Mr Quemoy and the Tatan islands with 4,376 shella before dawn today, tho Dafonco Ministry nounced.
Stevenson Attacks
Ike's Policy
on-
This is the third consecutive
Washington, Sept. 9. John Foster Dulles' press conference remarks on Formosa today were interpreted as a hint that the United States might agree to top-
TWO HITS
"We let fly with potatoes and scored one or two hits, including
Would React
Com- He said the Chinese
react munists would
to any situation оп the slightest provocation. "They have done so many Umes in the past,
and will continuo to .do it "gain," he said.
Sir Alexander said: "I do
not think they are looking over their shoulder at Hongkong so far as any deelston on Quemoy is concerned."
In the event of hostilities it was impossible to be precise on what might happen so far as Hongkong was concerned,
Sir It would depend, said Alexander, on "what form the hostililles fook. "They might drag in
they Hongkong or might leave it aside" he added.
naked Sir Alexander Was what he thought the future Chinese intentions for the colony
were.
ife replied that, in 30 years' time, on the expiration of the lease of part of the colony, "China will get, Hongkong buck on a plate,"
Why Then?
Why then, he asked, should one on a camem held by a man they disturb this state of affairs aft who seemet to be a press- † by aflacking Hongkong now? man."
Sir Alexander Was
asked Britain today signed tour con-about Sir John Slessor's sugges yentions on International Section that Hongkong was in- Law in New York, including one | defensible and that it should stating the right of nations to be put under the trusteeship of exercise fiscal emigration, cus- the United Nations.
toms and sanitary controls He replied: "That Idea is within a 12-mile limit,
about as realistic as the idea of In Copenhagen the Foreign tw Chinas. It is complete Ministers of the three Scandina poppycock, because China would vinn countries and Finland, and | hot play!
a representative of leeland, sald He said he thought the Com- here today they, would unani-munist authorities"realised that mourly support effords within Hongkong wanted internal pence the United Nations to solve the but that they were not always
dlspute prepared to admit Reuter.
Reuter.
Icelandle
Ashing
level talks on the Far East if the Chinese Egyptian Subs
Communists renounced the use of force.
Algiers, Sept. 9.
submarines
the fact.-
UN Observer
:
London, Sept. D. Bagdad Radio reported tonight that President Nasser bad
in Nations obrerver into Syria to "watch over the alleged threat presentest by the United Arab Republie to Jordan as claimed
-Reuter.
Six Soviet-maže A conference at the summit, to discuss the entire range of of the Egyptain Navy ref day of bombardment since the cr at the foreign ministers' Far East problems at the foreign Cyprus, Admiral Charles agreed to admit a United Communists resumed their level, has been a long sought | ministers' level.
Award Lan.je, Shelling and the 17th day of goal of the Chinese Com-
Commander-in-Chief of Allied actifiery Donnding of the munists as one way of injecting
Authoritative State Depart-Forces in the Mediterranean Quemoys since August 23.
themselves
ment sources were discounting told a press as a major power
conference held Meanwhile, the newspaper in world affairs.
speculation that Mr Dulles was here today obeard the frigate by King Hussein's government," China Fost sald a state of
offering to Danke substantive Sunrise.--Reuter New York, Sept. 9. emergency was declared in the Three years ago, the United Mr Adial Stevenson, twice Pescadores Island which the States rejected a proposal for Democratic pre- U.S. is pledged by its treaty, a foreign minister conterence unsuccessful
Nationalist China ridential candidate, sald today with
toon the Formosa from friendly Crurfots,
problem and (C) Insist on the expui- he doubled whether Communist defend.
Jimited tulks with Communist China to the ambassadoriai sion of all Greek-Cypriol | China "will be foolish
level. brothel keepers from Bri
(A) Write to your MPs expressing your views.
British (B) Bay
only
fain (they cannot have il bolt ways, if they are
Ip
attempt an Formosa,"
enough
NINE KILLED
Invasion of
The official Information service
Mr Stevenson, who returned reported that nine civilians were today from a tour of Europe
and the Soviet Union, said the
the
Conditional
concessions at the expense of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek
if a "RO force” declaration was obtained from Peking.
that it was They said correct for anyone to believe that the United States would desert its responsibilities
to
the Chinese Nationalists in re- not Bellish then they are
killed and 31 wounded in Mon- The United States also in turn for a pledge that the aliens),
day's 33,000-shelt bombardment sisted on ilmiting the substance Chinese Communists would re-. (D) Be on the alert at all Chines: seemed to be willing to of Quemoy, which also killed of the ambassadorial discussions train from breaking the peace.
and wounded 01 soldiers.. ilmes-armed and ready. negotiate "his time."
He supported
to the questions of a declaration (E) Protect the innocent
United Nationalist retallatory shelling renouncing the use of force and
Meanwhile in Warsaw, the States' policy of
Communist defending yesterday destroyed two Red gun to
Embassy and destroy the guilty.
the release of American Chinese described the positions at Amoy Govern Formosa, but Your ★ (F) Ask
and Hochu citizens detained on the China here has still not contacted the administration's and started a fire-possibly in mainland. Elsenhower
American Embassy on the ques- ment to introduce milltary
"clumsy, an ammunition, dump which
tion of opening talks on the Far courts or remove the right foreign polley
erratic pad
self-righteous, lasted more than two hours, the Mr Dulles today was believedEost crisis. informed of admitted gunmen 10
--Reuter,
to have made a conditional offer i said today.—All Agencies,
*
appen against the death penally,
(G) Withdraw
Frants
from the UK, Govern- ment 10 the Island's COOLONY," even Men Of Iron
war The leaflet went on: "I can ttle longer but my no means certain that the first atomic holocaust would patience is running out. If any
maintained. And should a full scale engulf the world, it is by
wait
more Brilona are murdered my wipe man from the earth. men of Iran will strike back hard and merellessly not at
When long range missles first
Cyprio! Greek villages but and thon the smaller
there the leaflet named three tactical ones have all been well known Grest Cypriots) fired, it will still require an who by their greed for power organised remnant of man to have reduced this island to the mop up what remains of his level of postwar Greece. enemy and to rebuild what
There was no immediate in-
ho can from the havoc his dication of the origin of the Ingenuity has created. Como cadet,
what may
the well Greek Cypriots found coples in the streets of Nicosia and trained infantry soldier is
a British more necessary now than muttered, "This la
over. It would be a good
terrorist movement,"
A government spokesman, za'a
thing if the United Nations tonight that he had no com organisation was equipped ment at all to make ona Cromwell leaget-Router..
with them.
35
service sald-U.P.I.
,
sources
CHAPLIN: THEY'RE PIRATING MY PICTURES!
CHARLES CHAPLIN "Angry and frustrated..
C
London, Sept. 9.
"I have already taken
Mr Chaplin, grey-haired and HARLES Chaplin arrived action in France, Belgium, Jovial, wearing the tiny ribbon of an officer of the Legion here tonight from Holland and Italy, and I
Dilonneur in his lapel, went Switzerland to take action reckon the cost to me be on: "These Alms are mutilated. agalat certain people who, he fore I have finished will They are not in good condition, claims, are pirating pictures be $100,000 (£5,000) OT
and you can hardly see them. of his and showing them more.
illegally in Britain.
as
He named the films "The Kid," "The Pilgrim," and "Shoulder Arms."
At the Savoy, Hotel, where he is staying for two or three days, he said: “I am angry and frustrated by the fact that these films are chopped and hacked
About
"We have received several Iollers complaining about them. "I know these alms-gilant One was from a man who saw Mms, mode years' ago-have them yours ago and took his
chikken to been shown
200 them again. In this country recent months, I do not know Thero, films are my property where and I do not know who is and we intend to stập theo
misrepresentations." showing them.
He said the films were “dupod "But I am seeing my lawyera printa” and had been pequired tomorrow. If there is court in an illegot way. In Britain, on, I should, it tincemary, be the Rog Export Companyin ready
to give evidence xt a wit- - which he had shores. had all
the rights of his firm---Beuber.
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