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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1959, *
Pago. &
THE "FUCHS AFFAIR" COMES Top Priced "Strad"
TO
A CLOSE
London, June 23.
The release today of atomic scientist Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs after nine years in gaol marks the end of one of the most extraordinary postwar espionage affairs.
The handing to the Soviet Union of British atomic secrets by Fuchs long prevented Britain from obtaining American atomic data,
The Duke Takes Command
Arvida, June 23. The Duke of Edinburgh took command of the royni yacht Britannia yesterday to berth hor at Port Alfred on the Saguenay River for a brief | visit to the area with the Queen, officials later dis- closed.
Captain George Swairs. thr Manchester-born port inanager, Faid the Duke did a “beautiful job" in bringing the yocht along- hide precisely where the gangt way Klood ready for the royal party to diseinbark-despite in- correct markings on the pler.
Because of the markings, the Duke was asked to bring the royal yacht 12 feet ahead, but he shook his head and used his own 'Judgment.
Banner-Waving
British scientists had to retrace by their own means mosí M the long experimental process which finally enabled them to set off atomic and hydrogen bomb *test explosions.
Not until last year was an agreement signed for the exchange of atomic in- formation between the two countries,
Pressmen
Could Not
Meet Him
Berlin, June 23. Klaus Fuchs arrived in East
Germany
the tonight,
East German ADN agency reported.
|
The Fuels affair broke out in
tine when Mc- 1550 al Carthyism was rising in the United States,
February morning that year, the world earned with stanzement that Dr Fuchs, hend of the inrwell Atomic Centre's theoretical physics laboratory, had been arrested for trans- mitting scientific secrels foreign power-the USSR.
The scientist left Germany after the advent of Nazism and had taken refuge In Britain in agenty 1835.
He has returned to his father's home in Leipzig. the said.
In 1942, the British Govern- The ADN agency annoußre- ment desperately sought ment said: "The well-known physicists copable of contribut- atumie scientist, Dr Klaus Fuchs, ing to the development ut who was imprisoned for some Allled research and found Fuchs years in England for politeni | ju an internment reasons, arrived in Fant Gry-enemy aliens. many on June 23, 1959.
Dr Fuchs returned 10
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Sent To US
for
Fuchs was simply asked la sign the "Secrets Act," an oath asked of any official whose work
touches in any way whatever
Earlier farmers and residents | home uf his father, Doctor; of snutt communities along the ¦ Fuckty, Professor of Theology at 20-mile-long island of Orleans ¦ Leipzig. had watched and woved as the
the Britannia stenment slowly pasi. | Seltenefeld airport in the suburbs of Berlin which lies in
the security of the country. East German territory.
Fuchs was rapidly granted Western Journalists were British citizenship and was cent banned from, meeting him.tr the US to participate in East Berlin Journalists report-experiments at the famous Los ed that Fuchs refused to Alamos Atomic Centre where make statement but allowed the Hiroshima and Nagasaki himself to be photographed. bombs were born. Immediately afterwards Fuchs got into a cur and was driven rapidly away.
Mayor Leon Nocl 1.[ St Petronville on the extremu western tip of the island stood surrounded by about 30 bonger- waving school children as the yacht went by.
mostly
A few private craft, motorboats, WIT! on to river to get a closer view,
the
The island, a few miles east of Quebec City, has about 6,000 residents, mostly farmers, and nnny fine old French churches and homes--HCUICT,
"QUEEN" CAME TO STAY
He Tries A
For His Heart
New York, June 23.
Eight months ago 18-year-old Rosemary Whit- look was voted
ot Springs. Bouth Africa
The prize wRI
a 12-day air trip
to Rome. She asked
the or
ganisers to 10t ber work in a visit to Londen and complacemi-
Is they agreed.
A- fortnight later they tarn-
ed up at Johan nesburg Airport. completo with band and berob- ed mayor, Lo welcome hor home-bat Rose- mary wasn't on the plane, and today she is still
in London, be
cause she felt in love twice-nuoc with the olty. and ence with Rhodesian Brian Dickenson.
In July allo -plans to go home with Brian, stili at the contest organisers' Ex- Dense for Boso replică "no" to their in- farlated request 10 Hava her ticket cancelled.
Picture shown Rosemary
wing herself in London.
Holster
BULLDOZER,
Sometime after the end of A 65-year-old man today waited to try on a holster GAS SUBDUE
the war the America Co ter-intelligence agency fave Scotland Yard some disturb-
for his heart.
ing information about Fuchs. Herman
It was established that Fuchs
Even East German Journalists were prevented by the potter from talking with Fuchs, so It was not known whether Pro-had given information to Soviet fesser Emil Fuchs had come to agents over four periods; in 1943 meet his son at the airport. from Birmingham, 1943 10 1944 Fuchs also got special treat from New York, in 1945 tron ment when he left the airport, Boston and in 1947 in Britain. since the car which met him
the East Berlin airport-AFP.
Airman Insane did not use the usual road from
London, June 23.
John Berridge, a 21-year-old airman un leave from Germany who shot his parents cead us they lay in bed, was Found guilty but insane of the murder yesterday.
that
Invasion Halted
Port A Prince, June 23.
The Dominican Radio sald at The Judge directed
noon today that the government Berridge should be delaine at of President Heeler Trujillo had Invasion of the Broadmoor or a similar institu- liquidated an
Majesty's Dominican Republic and killed tion "during Her pleasure."-China Mall Special, all the invaders.-Reuter.
A British Crossword Puzzle
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13
14
18
ACROSS
1 Conkery uid (8).
5 Face it (5),
8 The A of A.D. (4).
Pass dn (8).
11 Hard linesi (5).
12 Scanty (8)."
14 Lot of money
(4).
16 Shell (8).
13
on the carpet
18 Excle to action (5).
19 Merry old monarch (4),
20-Commission, news, estate or
enemy? (8);
24 Two In and only one dot?
Fool! (5).
25 Shoe part (8).
20 Egress (4),
27 Moves to the side? (5).
28 Cuddle up (0);
DOWN
1 Engineers in control (4).
2 Loving Trophies? Might be
(4).
3 Some separated rubber (4).
4 light of admission to the
main couras (6).
5 More to start a cherry (7).
GW's crime (7).
7 He takes money to terminato
the commission (7)..
10 Garden pest (5).
18 Bide view (7).
14 Sweet (7)
15 Representatives (7).
17. The best in ne teraturo
(3).
19 Mental defectivo (0),
21 Not hard
·(4). .....
cash, we obseryo
22 Aberdonian, perhaps, upset
by the cost! (0).
29 Used for tencing” (4).'
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 1 Nahum, 4 Retort,
B Zodiac, 10 Bairn, 12 Mowers, 14 Messina, 17 Moke, 19 Staines, 20. Arsenic, 22 Claw, 23 Ghastly. 27 Penned, 29 Copra, 30 Rigour, 31 Andrew, 92 Maits. Down: 1 Nizam, 2 Hides, 3 Miami, 5 Elbe, 6 Orison, 7 Torisor, D Consigo, 11 Armlos, 13 Walcher, 16 Earl, 10 Stewar, 18 Keel (rav.). 20 Açpcio, 27 Sapped, 24 Odiumi, es Trois, 20 Yards, 23 Naino.
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His trial showed the world the unexpected and shocking picture of a selentist who was both an honest man and a spy with moilves outndə every criterion of common sense, of a selentist torn between his duty as a British subject and what he conceived as his duty to humanity.
New Doubts
Nisonoff was dis-i radio and "not too much of a charged from a hospital problem.” yesterday carrying a small blue-and-gray box that was connected by wires to his heart.
The two-pound electronie de- vice was his insurance against a signal blockage that otherwise would cause his heart to fatter. The electronle "pacemaker" is designed to take over when that blockade occurs.
Connected to Nisonuff's hel enlers a by a long wire that vein in his neck, It pulses two or three volts of electricity to the_heart every minute.
The pulses are too weak to have
any effect
when
the
"He can put it in a sports Jacket pocket and nobody would know the difference." she added.
Nisanoff's illness started 14 months ago. Mrs Nisonoff said it was a "nightmare."
He was often bedridden and could never tell when he might blakk out because of the falter- ing heartbeat.
"Thank God he's fine now," she sold today.
Nisonoff said he hopes to go back to his work silverware salesman.
编
Fuchs und feared that the
Dr Furman said it may be a heart is functioning normally little while before Nisonoff can United States and Britain would
but they shock the heart back become completely aclive again, let the USSR absorb the Ger-
into action when it fallers. man-Army blows alone and
but he said he believed Nisonoff would collapse, taking with It
"The heart pacer delivers will be able to do 90 per cent barely enough power to light a the last hope of socialism.
He had feared that being in flushlight bulb," explained Dr of what any other man his age sole possession
Furman, of the terrible Seymour atomic weapons the US would surgcon of Montchore Hospital. be tempted to use them 1 "But it's enough to keep a man crush its rival
alive."
No Rush
resident
could undertake.-UPI.
Jewels Found
Nisonoff left the hospital yes-tonging to King Ibn Saud of
Arsi returned
to his
However the first Dostwar years and the bloody Soviet oppression in Central Europe led to new doubts in Fuchs'
mind. He decided
to breakerday with his contacts and refused home in the Bronx planning to to deliver further Informa- get a leather shoulder holster tion.
for the life-saving device, Mrs today that her who kept Nisonolf said
been offered
Several historians
a close eye on the affair have husband has
since maintained
agents denounced
US Secret Service
Nat Soviet Fuchs to the once they became convinced That they
holster that might t
I It doesn't, sho sald, he will order onc.
But there's no rush, She could get nothing more from Fuld the heart pacer is only him.-AFP.
Sir
about the size of a transistor
Geneva, June 23. Jowels from a collection bew
Saudi Arabia reported as lost, were found today in the woods where the jeweller, transport-
stones ing the precious automobile, had stopped during his trip from Basle to Geneva.
RIOTERS
Springfield, Miss., June 23. Police and prison guards using a bulldozer, steel- culting torches and tear gas today hacked. their way into a prison hospital wing here in which rioting convicts had held five guards hostage for 14 hours.
The hostages were released as the assault began. The bulldozer erumpled
A
corner wall of the 100-foot long building used to house 106 prisonerss; guards battered down a steel door on the other side and then two other groups also rushed in.
An hour after the assault began the authorities sald that all the rebels were suce more in custody.
by The riot in the hospital bo- gan when inmates round- ed up the five guards at knife-point and retreated into the wing, using cell- bars for barricades, Reuter.
The case which had contain- ed the jewels was found about Iterus 50 yards away. Both were discovered by different people-AFP.
London, June 23.
A Stradivarius violla known as the "Dancla” was sold in Lon- don today for what is bolloved to be the record price of £8,190.
It had been sent for sale by | £3,300 in 1957. Mr Siegfried Kohl, 78-year-old The Dartela, named after German diamond merchant liv | Charles Dangla, French violinist, ing in Genova, and was bought who owned it for over 20 years by Mr Jim Reno, a Manchester, in the last century, was made England, deator.
by Antonio Stradivari at
The previous record price for Cremona in 1703-China Mail a Stradivarius in London was1Special.
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