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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1959.
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TRANSFER OF POWER IN CYPRUS BEGINNING IN THREE MONTHS
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THE LEADER TO ? COUNTRIES -
Japan
Of The A NEW REPUBLIC IN 1960 Wants HK
Day
CYPRUS
THE bells ring out in
THE
Cyprus. There are big smiles in London. The wretched · Cyprus affuir įs and. Makarios IN reinstatert is leader of the. Greek Cyprints. Convicted criminals are
And the hunt for Eoki's thugs in to end. Cause for congratulations OF Com miserations
Cottons
Makarios Leaving||100-year-old Dyeworks Goes Up In Smoke To America
For Island
In A Few Days
London, Feb. 19.-
Turkish
to be freed. Britain, Greece and Turkey and leaders
of the Cypriot Greek and communities today contracted to es- tablish an independent Cyprus republic under international guarantee within about one year.
Apologists are saying: Britain
was not the only one to make concessions. Anot see, the settlement denied us so long has been achieved. The Kovereignty of our bases is assured. Pence, returns to Cyprus. Greek and Turk have buried their differences Enosis has been frustrated. There is much to commend
the agreement undoubtedly, And on a quid pro quo basis Hritain gels out of it rather well
with, apparently, nothing worse than wounded pride to mupe about. But what sticks in our throat is the fact that the man whom Britain publicly accused of conniving in bloodshed and terior, whom Britain exiled because of the threat he a churchman-constituted to good order on the island, is welcomed in Britain the representative of the Cypriot people.
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Windependence comes there
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is nothing to stop Cypriots themselves making Makarius a politicn! lender. But why the right-about- by Britain? face apologists will tell us we! are sowing the seeds of future friendship. Are we? With a man we could not trust out of our sight 2 Remember what Sir John Harding: one-time Governor of Cyprus, had to say about him: "Makarios is at the bottom of everything. He in the implicable advocate of Enosis. He will no mare aim then κάνε
up that Khrushchev will give Cominunism, or Nasser bis dreams of an Arab Empire. This man may change tactics
This
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up
is
Authoritative
Fources said that the transfer of power by the British Government In
Cyprus would start in about three months,
Publication of the heads nf akreement for the new Cyprus constitution signed here today by the five pariles concerned is withheld until Monday when details will be announced to the Bilish, Greek and porliaments.
Sovereignty
Turkish
Prime Maister, The
Mr Harold Macmillan, told the House of Commons today that
Mr Macmillan sald Britain af the state wofil bring entergeney in the island to an early end. This would mean the release of detainees, the an amnesty Drrangement of and the return of exiles,
The lending Cypriot exile, Archbishop Makarios who sign- ed the London agreements today for the Greek Cypriot com- munity, sald here that he would return direct to Cyprus in a few days.
He declined comment tonight when asked to confirm reports that he would become the first
Britain would retain sovereignty Greek-Cypriot President of the over two bases In Cypri Republic of Cyprus..
whose
bel
Integrity would tinteed by Gretee, Turkey and the future republic of
Cyprus.
WOMEN
PREFER
POISON
Geneva, Feb. 19.
Security
The constitutional agreement
Is authorkatively stated here provide for Д Greek Cypriot President and Turkish Cypriot Vice-President each with veto powers in foreign affairs and do fence matters:
The island's security is to be ensured by Greek-Turkish; garrisons 1otaliing some 900 Greek and some 600 Turkish troops under a joint command
The constitution provides- for separate Greek and Turkish Nicosia, in municipalities Famagusta, Larnaca, Limassoj Of all women who commit and Paphos, the sources sald.
do so by suicide more
Representation in the tshn's taking poison than by overall parliament ministerial other means, according to council, and civil service will be World Health Organisa- 70 per cent. Greek and 30 per
ceni Turkish.
tion report issued today. The report, covering 15 coun Irles, showed that only-in-dupan. is the rate of suicide-by-poison. ing tlgher among men than women.
HEADS LIST Denmark heads the list, for all sulcides by polsoning per his-million fohabitants, with Japan second and England third. "the" "ump to 1UIDS - O
144.2 men. the Denmark
but never
3x
100
Assuréd
Mr Macmillian promised syn- pathelle consideration by Britslu and
other Cominonwealth Governments for any move. by the future government of an in- dependent Cyprus to,
Join the Commonwealth.
of
einstatius in C350-montabiltention had been in the
of as the future President | 83.4 women; England 30.1 men, of the Island; Kementer the agreements we made 1 Englund 77.2 per cent of with Nasser on Suez. They all women suicides take poison compared to 34.5 per cent of were torn up when it suit men in Japan the percentage him. And remember that is 44.5 per cent for women and the agreement being hailed 44.9 per cent for men.-Reuter, 80 triumphantly today is
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one that has remoted Bri-
tain as a political power from Cyprus and left Greece the dominant force.
08
Churchill Cruise
Allegation Of Joy Rides'
At Government Expense
London, Feb. 20.
Commander Harry Pursey, Labour M.P. for Hull East, will ask questions in the House of Commons next Monday about "joy rides at govern- ment expense" for RAF officers, and. their families from Tengah, Singapore, to the hill station 300 miles away.
Dave Beck
Guilty
Of Tax
Evasion
4
He said both officers and other ranks at Tengah are sent to the hi station for about three weeks..
"One reason given is to pro- vide a change of als from the treat and humidity of Tengah to
climate more resembling that. of England," he said.
"To justify the trip, from a ALEVICE point of view, 'a' peneral training courag is run, but ob viously this course could just ny
ASHYTE TUIFat Tengair re
What happens, in fact: is a joy ride at government expense for officers and their wives and familles. But this joy ride "I
wlves ond
~~~~Me Mazmillas-2mured-the Ilouse of Commons that al-
nationality problem Cypriots Jying outside Cyprus. There was general agreement tonight among the signatories of that a now the agreement chapter had been opened in the history of Cyprus capable of Dave Beck, former Presidended to the endlag bloodshed and bitterness
dent of the Teamsters familles of other ranks, as their and based genuine conces
Union, today, was found husbands are posted 300 miles
away alone."-U.P.I. guilty of evading more than $240.000. in Federal income taxes.
all parties,
The Greek Prime Minister, Mr Constantine Karamanils, San, Morocco, Feb. 19,
told a press conference tonight Sir Winston and Lady Chur- chill Jeft here today for a 10-day that he would next month raise cruise to the Cundry Islands in with President Tito of Yugo- the yacht Christina, owned by slavia in Athens the possiblity shipping magnate. China Mail | of Greece, Turkey Special.
Britain's Terms Mr Aristotle Onassis, the Greek of reactivating the Balkani Pact
THERE has never been any
Trent opposition to the
Idea of ultimate Indepon-
Yugoslavkin-Reuter.
and
dence for Cyprus. One day In Your Saturday Mail]
and
island
it would come on torms which Britain as guardian power deemed best for the people. There can be no grumbling
Greek that
Turk and have patched up, their differences. Indeed all will be pleased that they have But the raw wound of 'com- raunal..
bitterness violenco
the On cannot suddenly be healed, Macmillan should have in sisted that his plan for an "experiment in partner- ship" be implemented, and demanded punishment for those responsible for terror and violence. The criticism that stands Is that Britain has yielded too easily and fristed on too few safeguards. The Turks may yet rue the day they did not demand British presence for another va years to make sure of the Island's future,
THE
THE spectacular saga of the century's greatest sea drama moves into its' second chapter tomorrow with author Richard Hough vividly describing the incredible hardships and blunders dogging THE FLEET THAT HAD TO DIE on its long voyage to annihilation.
Ts is the blazing record of the only batilo in history when two modern nayal powers commlited their entire fleets ́in ofte ́decisive action... baille for which Rusaha není au armads 18,000 miles around the world-only to meet disaster at the hands of the Japanese Navy.
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Are:
She Cheated Napoleon....another in Rez Lopez's series on famous women who influenced, the world's history;
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Death of a Prejudice...,CHINA 'MAIL writer John Luff continues his fascinating articles on old Hong- kong,
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Tacoma, Feb. 19.-
A Federal court jury of Baht TO THE POLLS IN
men and four women returned
the, verdit on the second day of MAY OR OCTOBER
deliberations after a trial that lasted 60 court days.
Vacuum Cleaner Saved His Life
Honolulu, Tex. 19,"
A abung doctor, alded by
destroyer crewmen, used"
--a-pump - made from a vacuum cleaner to save the life of a seaman who WOS near death from pneumonia and a heart condition.
The story of medical and
the arrival of the today after USS Cowell at Pearl Harbour Pago, American
mechanical ingenulty was told
from Pago
Somoa.
Lt A K. Fix (29) of Long Buck was found guilty on all
New York, Feb. 19. Beach, California, the Cowell's He faces a possible
on Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen, doctor, sald apprentice six counts. sentence of Ave years in prison sald in the New York Jounal seaman, Ignacion Martin Sena and $10,000 Ane on each count. American, today that Mr Harald (21), was "theoretically dead" Beck (64) was charged with Macmillan had informed the three times while the 'destroyer evading taxes in the years White House "conadentially" raced at top speed toward pāri, 1950-1953.
hq
planned to hold seal quid from Setta's lungs through The pump was used to pull Ho became International elections In May. President of the Teamsters in
an incision in his necic. Lt Fix Miss Kilgallen, whose column said the hardest job was 1953. Horrelimed after appear-
vacuum cleaner ing before the Senate Racket is chiefly concerned with show making the
gossip, added: "If nozzle at the incision but that when ht business Committee in 1957, was questioned about what he there's any sorlous opposition this was solved by ship-atters had dona
with more than to that date, the next choice is and medical corpsmen from $100,000 in union funds.-U.P.I. | October."—Reuter.
the 240-man crow-UP.I,
RAF Officer-in-Charge Of Snakes!
A
are on their States
London, Feb. 10. |_ | three ccad ones. THE Royal Air Force's 80 way.
Squadron, stationed In Acklington, hos appointed an One of the live snakes is be- officer-in-charge of snakes to ing flown from the United handle five rattlesnakes which |States by UB. alemon stationed are being sont as mascots from as the RAF base at Bentwaters the United Slater,
In 'Suffolk, and the other is com- Ing from a man in Texas.
The squadron, whose insigins
is a colled rattlesnake, recently advertised for a rationako,
Air Force policemen clubbed together to pay Rs in airmail stamps to send one from Florida,
The squadron adjutant, fly. ing officer Ken Hayr, a New officer. Zealander, is the new in-charge of sizikos,
The meri of 80 Squadron hy- Two studied rattlers have also Hunter jet fighters and their been promised From Oklahoma ingito L, "Bekare, I have given dead or alive. Now two live and and Texas, and four United, waming."--China Mail Sprcial.
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One man died which ha was trapped in a fire that burned out 100-year-old dyeworks in Nottingham re- ochtly Eye-witnem - Mrs Susan Allen saldı "HO WALE 'standing at a window on the
third
ho Jooked terrified ho wouldn't Jump ... everybody. clac jumped or slid down ladders."
The fire bezañ in a base- ment when a plastic materials finishing machina · exploded. The flames which reached 100 feet were visible" far several mifes-Express Photo,
Cut Down
Washington, Feb. 20: Japar favours curbs оп cotton textile exports from Hongkong to the United States, Japanese sources said today.
They reported that this view had been expressed in Wush- Ington talls in which they have been seeking increases in volun-. tary quoins which Japan has placed on its own texile, ex- ports to this country..
Disappointed
In a new memorandum pro- sented to the Japanese Embassy on Tuesday, the State Depart- ment refused to budge from a cumplex formula which pro- posed to increase Japan's tex- itle shipments by 10 million square yarda this year but which contained other features tunacceptable to the Japanese textile industry,
... Japanese
bers Bourges veleed disappointment that M Henry Kearns, Assistanı) Becretary of Commerce for International Trade, appear» ed to have dropped his plans to persuade Hongkong manu facturers Lo
the accept Japaness system cf voluntary quotas.
Mr Keams ended a visit ta
and was- Hongkong this week reported to have met flerce re- sliance from manufacturers, determined 20
opposé
any
Imitations on their exports to the United States.
Japanese diplomrts have in- formed the State Department of that: Hongkong 19 their belief.
of the quota taking advantago system by stepping up sales in the market in which Japan is exorcising restrulat-Reuter,
Flu Outbreak
London, Feb. 19, Britain's influenza outbreak
Increase fe on the
and more BTC deaths
expected, the Ministry of Health stated today. Inlluenza is now widespread 'In comme
pacia of the country, notably London, the Midlands
and the northwest.-Reuter.
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