THE CHINA MAIL,
THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1959.
HUNDREDS DIE-YARDS FROM THE SHORE
The pleasure steamer Dandara was on an ordinary Nite excursion trip last Friday when suddenly tragedy struck; so wuddenly that though she sank in shallow water only yards from the share, only a few of the pawongers und erew were saved.
Number of those drowned is variously estimated at between 150 and 300; one who was saved"was the explain, who has been arrested on a charge of negligently allowing the boat to be greatly overloaded.
UAR's President Naszer has ordered £10,000 to be made Avalable to aid the familles of the victims.
Above: A few yards from the shore,, the funnel and a flag of the Dandara protrude, iragic memorists to her pamen- gers and crew.-Express Photo,
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A War Of Words
On The Sidelines
Geneva, May 13.
East and West Germans are having a hot war of words on the sidelines
of the Big Four conference.
Lunik No
Fraud, Experts Claim
Washington, May 13.
today
of
A University of Maryland
physicist testified that Soviet claims having successfully fired
Speed
Vital In UK
Cotton Scheme
London, May 13. Lord Rochdale, chair- man of the Cotton Board, said tonight that speed was a vital necessity in carrying out the programme of redundancy and equipment outlined in the government's pro- posals to reorganise the British cotton in- dustry.
re-
A bill to give effect to the proposals Was given a formal Art reading in the Commons tonight without discussion.
The semi-official East German News Agency noted
caustically yesterday that the West German Govern-conference that everyone con- ment "was not even in the position to All the six sfäßs assigned to it and left one vacant.”
A West German spokes- man retorted: "We do not go around counting chair Bents. The East Germans are like a man who is in- vited to have a glass of beer and shows up in a dinner jacket,"
Key declarations at today's session of the Big Four con- ference were:
over
Dur
Mr Herter: "I should say the United Slates la in deadly earnest about wanting to reach agreements shoulders, BS WC
sit at this table, peer the anxious fago of the peoples of all the nations of the world.".
a Lunik rocket past the moon and into the sun's Mr Lloyd; "The problem is to orbit is supported by find a German settlement of overwhelming evidence. He disputod
published assertion that tho Russian announcement was a hoax,
ם
- Dr Fred Singer told the House Space Committee that there was adequato evidence to of the prove the existence
Russian Lunik, and that the Soviet Union was telling the truth about the January 2 launching.
justlec
to the German people for the other and of equity peoples of Europe, in spite atmosphere In
Blightly worse than that of the mammit In 1955, nevertheless more can
achieved now. -
of
M. Couve de
Morviila:
Krupp Is Impressed
By Japan
Dusseldorf, May 13. Alfried Krupp von Boh-
Lord Rochdale told a Presa
nected with the scheme recognised la importance and there would be considerable nellvity in the different sections of the industry during the next couple of months formulating definite plans for incorporation under the act.
It was not possible to 50- nounce detalle at this stage. he said, because the Parila- mentary bill had to become an act before arrangements firmed.
the sectional could be con-
Each branch would put for- ward its own plans which would then receive the sanction of the Cotton Board and be passed on for the approval of the Board
meru
Subsequently. the time al- lowed for registration of redun-
dancy offering comprosation for
s would be short-probably
or Trade before being submit len, head of the fami-ted to both Houses of Parlin- ous Krupp industrial empire, said on his re turn here today that he had been greatly only a month. impressed by the re- construction of Japan-take ese industry.
Krupp said that Japanese
"There must be — and this | achilevements in this field could
is not impossible a Euro pean and A German wollte ment... it would be truglo to think that the only way out Is for one part of the world to Kolentific
swallow up olher."
Singer's testimony cub- tradicted published stories of True Angazine
who
writer Lloyd Mallan, claimed Lunik was nothing more than an international hoax, and never actually cxisted.
Air Force officials in charge of Project Spacetrack backed up Singer's conclusions. They, testí- fled that the Goldstone tracking mation In California and the Stanford Research Institute monitorei Lunik signals-UPI.
Viscount Broke Up
In The Air
Baltimore, Md., May 13.
Board Civil Aeronautics
investigators sald today that the Capital Airlines Viscount, which crashed in a thunderstorm near here yesterday, "came apart in the air."
CAB
the
Mr
"From the Gromyko: moment of its creation, the Soviet state is a principled and
co-existence consistent follower of peaceful atates with all irrespective of differences in social systems or political or- ganisation that may exist be- tween them."
Test Ban
be compared with the recon- struction effort in West Ger- many.
He said he had gone to Japan with the objective of getting to know the Japanese people and their country and of ob- taining on-the-spot information on the economic and industrial situation there.
1
He mid he had been given wonderful reception in Japan and had nowhere else been offered such cordial hospitallis.
Krupp sald he had examined with Japanese arms and indus- trial federations the possibilities of co-operation in countries now under development.
Mr Lloyd and Mr Herter meet tomaTOW morning with Mr Grunyko in an attempt to speed up the six-month old the Japanese had suggested co-
talks on a nuclear test ban.
The American Assistant Scerolary of State, Mr Androw Berding, said the subject to norrow will be the conference un the suspension of teating nuclear weapons,
The two Western leaders are understood to have worked out plans for accelerating the six- month old mucicar ban
ference.
L
M. Conve. de Murvilis alck with a digestivo com- plaint and not infiueDKA reported earlier,
taformed
French sources disclosed to- night.
He is not expected to bo t enough to take the chair at
A
spokesmian at the stene of the crash, which kill- ed 31 people, said there. was tomorrow's Big Four conference. evidence of "an explosive
The French Foreign Minister- force"
sudden de spent the day in bed at the possibly compression, but not necessarily Villa Barakat, which belonged
m explosion in the usually ac- to Ute inte Age Khan,UPI and
.cepted sense.
Reuter,
.could
"An explosive force have resulted from structural
Inilure of a
wing that could Canadians In
pierce the pressurised the CAD official said.
cabin,"
"But there is no longer any doubt, that the plane came part in the air, at an altitude
of between 7,000 and 9,000 feet
for reason Ax mined"—UPI.
yet
Up To Date
Indochina
Oltawa, May ·IK.
He sold he was earrvinced that these talks would bear fruit in the near future and added
operating in the second phase of the construction of, Egypta. Aswan Dam:
The German industrials. said o would receive build
19 contract to iron foundry in
Pakistan.-AFT
Pneumonia
Improves, But....
ro-
Washington, May 13. Mr John Foster Dulles has mide "some further im- provement” in his covery from mild pneu- monia but his general condition is unchanged, the State Department re- ported today.
In the meantime, mill owners would have been able to decide for themselves what nellon to
Voluntary
Lord Rochdale stressed that the scheme WHA entirely voluntary operation,
"There is no compulsion on any mill to close down," he declared.
Ite refused to estimate the number of operatives Bikely
to be displaced, pointing out that such a forecast was in- possible as until the schemo were drawn up no one could say what the responas from the industry would be. Reaction from the trade in Manchester tip evening Was some disappointment that the White Paper did not give more details of the amount of com- pensation and the various plans to be drawn up-UPI
Russian Warning
To Greece
London, May 13.
The Sovlet Government has warned 'Greece that if she
to agreed
have U.S. atomic and rocket basES" on her territory Russia would consider IL Д hostile action, Moscow Radio reported tonight.
The radlo suld an nide- memoire to this effect had been:
handed over today to the Greek Ambassador in Moscow.
The aide-memoire sald Greek agreement would "gravely im-
Soviet-Creek pair and went oth
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"The Soviet Government ex- presses the hope that the Greek Government will attentively The former Secretary of State study the opinions expressed in
will was said to be confined most of the aido-manoire, undeter=| A party of fifty-two soldiers the time to his bed in Walter for-sightedness and wisdom and will be down to Indochita Reed Army Hospital where he as long as there is time, will not this summer to the sifia mafor has been almost continuously cross the line beyond which rolaiton of Canadian
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(The Force officers will also be going. I been some further improvement
Orselt Ministry Franklin S. Sampson told a Touts of duty will be mainly in the primamoola. However, National Defence Inst month Florida Highway Patrol yesters | 10% 8. deur),
there is no significant change in confirmed that America day that his driving kence The soldiers and airmen will | Mr Dulle! general condition." supplying Greece with Honest not out of date, even though itBerve on the military compon- Asked wheiher tba 71-year-old John and Niko, guided missiles does show an expiration date of ent of the three-power Interna- Mr Philos was now confined | but Greece had so far assumed April, 1907. It's
Saudi tional Truce Supervisory Com- almost entirely to his bed, Mãe no obligation concerning the Arabian ; Hicence, dated by the|Missione in Cambodia and | Whitaanid, g_dikalik jwetty | setting up of missile-bases),—–—– Moslem calendar-UPI.
South Vietnam-Reuter.
much so, yes?—Earne..
Reuter
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