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THE CHINA MAIL,
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1959. T
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Britain May Agree To New Laos Talks To
NOT IN LINE WITH U.S.
By JOHN EARLE
London, Sept. 15.
may eventually
Britain
agree to a new inter- national conference on Laon being called by the 1954 Geneva conference participants ns proposed in the latest Soviet note, usually reliable sources said here today.
But Orst the United Nations fact-fixing group would have 10 report back to the Security Coltell on Laotian charges of Jongresulen from North Vietnam,
In the light of that report, I was stoled, any reasonable pro- posals won Def be considered, including the Soviet suggestion that the countries which attend- ed the 1894 tieneva conference Indo-China should without
delay call a Konference to muumaise the Lana muation),
The
Under Cover Soviet
proposal WTS Janted over under cover of
!
n
1 L the British Embassy in Mc row.
It was also publish-
Soviet Government statement last night.
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Diplomatic observer, said the U.S. State Department's rejec-
on today appeared to indicate. that Britain and the United States had differing approaches i to the Sovie! propwal,
Official:
declined comment on the State Depuri-"; ment's sinteinent, I was cx- pected the two governments' attitudes would be discussed during contacts in Up United States in the immediate future.
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14,000 Homeless
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As Floods Sweep India
Bombay, Sept. 15.
Eleven people are reported dead and 14,000 home- less in floods throughout India. Rivers swollen by two days of heavy rain were today menac- ing many towns.
No Visa
For Red
Editor
London, Sept. 15. A United States Embassy
spokesman tonight con- firmed that a visa has not been granted for Frank Gullett, news editor of the
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The river Godavari threatening to submiтze most of Rajahmundry, a town in Andhra Pradesh. "It is expected to reach prak flood level during the day and the State government has proquisitioned three Indian Air Furce plones and prepared bonda for rescue and relief work.
Ton prople
feared WETE drowned when their boat cap- Hand JD The Godivarl It Mankapalle.
At Indore in Madhya Prudesh an old man was killed when u here collapurd after heavy alms had inted the city for eight hours.
In Safety
At Akola, Bombay State, pomą
Communist Doily Worker; 10.800 were rendered
Dry Dock Going To Greece
A new dry dock is towed down the English Channel on its way to the Niarchos shipyard in Grebce. It was profabricated in Dusseldorf and assembled in Bremor- hoven. The dry dock has a loading capacity of 26,000 tons and will tako vessels of up to 50,000 tons deadweight.-The Timos Photo.
MASTERPIECES STOLEN FROM TORONTO ART GALLERY Nationwide Search
POLICE people
to travel to the United husneless, wirt of the town Sfates to cover the tour of cing Hooded by the
Mr Nikita Khrushchev.
Morula.
river
A further 4,000 are reported elegs at neurby Chanda,
The spokesman refusext comment on the matter,
Earlier Mr George Matthews, i submerged by the rivers Iral editor of The Daily Worker, had and Zamet All victims brued a statement abonat their been taken to safety, however.
fforts to obtain a visa.
Heavy rains have also dis-
laye
tra
He said. "In spite of appeals rupted trame in Surat and be to the American Ambassador inween Bhuj and Bun, all Frank Gullett, our news editor, Bombay Stale.-AFP.
77 Chinese Government ! London, and to Mr Elsenhower, istand a stalement fully tap porting Russia ping for en international conference,
The statement called for solution of the tension in Laos to be sought on the basis and within the cope of the 1044 Genera agreement,
Without Delay
h not yet revived his visu to j
tuvel to the United States,
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"We are still hoping that t will gone in time for hust cover the major part 切 Me Khrushchev's American Lour
"In the meantime we inve The statement demanded the made emergency arrangements the best resumption of the international to give our readers commission and said the sug- pumible news and comment on Restions of the commission ; the Khrushchev visit."-Reuter. shoull be heard t Be inter- national
conference
which
should be called without delay.
The Queen Approves Cousin's
Asked For It Marriage
The Chinese Chaverment Is Asked For It
the
te-
deeply convinced Ceneva conference, which stored peace in Indo-China, will surely be able to play once aguin Its dur role in normalis- Ing the situation In Laos," the statement said.-Remler.
London, Sept. 15. Fishermen
flat; c the 404 best friends In the drought- saken community of Lynford.
They are extracting fish from like that is going dry and re- Leasing their catch in nearby rivers.-U1'1.
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The Jay
London. Sept. 15. Daily Express to- reported an alleged question-and-answer with an unidentified official of the U.S. State Department which ran like this;
-How long will it take in cet a man to the moon? A.--Five days. One day to get him there, four days to get him through Russian Customs.-UPI.
A British Crossword Puzzle
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ACROSS
02
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1 Priggs they may be, but rude a postscript (6),
4 Joint needing grease"; (5).
Blooming formal name for a girl (8).
• The principal place in Yorkshire? (5).
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Possibly scarlet athlete (4).
11 Surely no Ita could be so
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15
mulve? (7).
It may get both canned and ofted! (7),
If it is to be learnt as homework the TV should bel (0),
18 Do brown? (5).
18
Displayed
(0).
London, Sept. 15, The Quoon has given her comment to the marriage of her second cousin, Captain Richard Abel Smith, son of the Governor of Queens- Miss Morica land, to Kendrew.
This was anounced tonight by the official London Gazette.
Captain Abel Smith, 25, who Is in the Royal Horse Guards, did not accompany his parents to Australia when his father, Sir Henry Abel Smith was appoint ed teensland's Governor last yrar.
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late Earl of Athlone,
is re- Captain Abel Smith inded to the Queen through his mother, the former Lady May Cambridge, whose father, the was the
Queen's great-uncle,
DOWN
Pan, perhaps, but not pot
(5).
2 Devil of a word (6).
3 Pooch (but no dog!). (7).
4 A hole in one's shoc (0),
5
Without foundation (0).
6 Or concern, maybe, to those
pulling on weight (6).
10 ilo tells the tale (8).
12 Akin, It has been said (7).
13 Sylvan dellies (8).
14 Design when under canvas?
(0).
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17
Intense interest
rooves in
20 Mackerel bail? (5). 21 Makes pudden
Mora? (0).
All these spirits have their
day (5). They have nothing though not necessarily free from engagements (6),
on,
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD. — Act: 1 Form, Taarinn, # Abet, 9 Pall, 10 Noodles, 11 Lock, 12 Else, 14 Tea- ruse, 17 Petty, 10 Racer 22 Combine, 20 Col, 27 Glut, 20 Camelle, 29 Iden, 30 Echo, 31 Nearest, 32 Nost. Down: 2 Oracle,,3 M-all-el, Tenot, 5 Sigher, 6 Rider, 7 Necps, 12 Eple, 13 Stem, 15 Once, 10 Eart, 10 Angles, 20 Action, 21 Eldcre, 25 Orate, 24 Brio-r, 23 Elect.
George III Decreed
for Royal permission
hla marriage was necessary because of on net passed in 1772 in the reign of King George whöne two brothers had secretly married "beneath them."
The act provided that all descendants of King George II must have the sovereign's per- mission to marry.
If over 25, they could marry without the royal content provided they gave 12 months notice and parlia- ment did not object.
Toronto, Sept. 15.
across Canada today were furnished telephoto prints of five of six masterpieces stolen from the Toronto Art Gallery in what was described as Canada's biggest art theft.
England Still Sweltering
London, Sept. 15. Light rain fell in purts of the London area today for the first time for more than three weeks.
But it brought no relief to the parched country and further emergency measures were taken to deal with drought conditions threatening industry and farming,
In
the northwest, 16 Manchester, with days
left, supplies began pumping water
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empty réservoirs further north in Lan- cashire, where none was available for industrial purposes,
Press and poyler appeals asked the public to avoid waste.
Conditions int the northeast were de scribed as the "worst ever."
The shortage faced farmers in rural areas with serious losses. - Reuter.
Bid To Beat London's
Underground
Police alo olmied insurance companies in case the thloves tried to make a deal with them. Police said they doubted there would be any value for the paintings in Canada and zug- ested that the thieves might try to smuggle them to Europe ur South America or else seek a cut from
ize com-
many lu exchange for returning them to the gallery.
The gallery curator, Marlin Baldwin, valued the master- pieces at $700,000.
International Gong?
that
Art experts pointed out flu old mastery would be virtually Impossible to re-sell because no dealer would buy them without documents show- mg their history and certifying their value.
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Police said they regarded the theft as the work of on Inter- national gang of art thieves.
The slx palttings, regarded as the most valuable In the Toronto collection, were from bindles.
sut
their frames by razor
Those stolen, with their ap- proximate values, were:
FATHER WEEPS FOR JOY
Perth, WA, Sept. 15. Mr Frank McKonxio, pale and shaking, put down the telephone in his Porth home today, loant on the shoulder of a friend and wept with joy.
Onassis Pressmen: 'I AM YOUR
PRISONER
Athens, Sept. 15. Newspaper reporters and
Cameramen were allowed on board millionaire Mr Aristotle Onassis' yacht Christina here today --- and saw the 35-year-old
opera Ainger Maria Callas sitting quietly on the main deck.
Earlier. Me Onasla had lean- ed over the mils of his luxury His wife bad told film "everything is well: In a tele-yacht and angrily insisted to-be- sicking reporters that Madame phone call from Houston, Texas, Calins was not on board. where their son Alan, had been operated
for anomalous But, he was later in o good venous
from mood, and jokingly complained drainage-blood the kh lungs entering
heart of the press sieger "I em a pri from the right side Instead soner," he said, the left.
сп
The raven-haired soprano re-
People throughout Australia fused to join ip the conversation
or answer questions.
had subscribed funds to rend Alan to Dr Denton Cooley, DI Houston, who has specialised in
"I am here on business," Mr this type of operation,
Onaæla said—“and Maria came Doetóra in Australia had said for a good rest because she fell Alan would die unless the open-exhausted." Neither of them 1lon was performed.
had been ashore, he said.
After he had recovered some-
Mr Onassis loft Venico on what today, Mr McKenzie said:
Madame Callas "Alan has always been my boy Friday with
Is it because he's amid speculation over her mar always needed so much attention, ringe breakup and a possible I've never prayed so hard in all romaner with the Creek million- my life. dtile Alan means to aire shipowner-Revier, world
know to me. I don't what I would have done if any thing had happened to him."-- Chinh Atall Spchat.
Red Tape Blamed
For U.S. Lag
In Space Race
Alabama, Sept. 15.
First Prostitute Gaoled
In Britain
Birmingham, Sept. 15.
The first woman to be gaoted under Britain's, new anti-vice laws, Margaret Formosa, aged 23, was sent to prison for three months here today for sollelting for prostitution.
Formoen, who pleaded guilty, was slated to have had three previous convictions this year.
Three months is the maximum
penalty under the Street Offences Act, one of the last to bie passed by the present Govonument, which came into
Dr Wernher von Braun, German-born space opemtion on August 15. If in-
pioneer, said today Russia is so ahead of the creases fines for prostitutes and for the first time allows magis- United States in space projects "and there is trates to send them to prison. no amount of money which can buy back lost Vice organisers are liable time."
"I
that if um convinced Russia stops Immediately we could catch them in one, two
→ Lemak Abrahams Massy | or three years," Von Braun told
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by Frans Hals, $120,000.
Vincent Laurens Var der Vinne by Hals, $80,000.
• Portrait of a Lady with
br Lap Des Rembrandt, $150,000,
Portrait of a lady with a Handkerchief by Rembrandt, $250,000.
Portrait Do Claude by Auguste Renoir, $20,000,
The Elevation of the Cross by Peter Paul Rubens, $20,000.
Other Paintings
Damaged
Two other paintings were damaged when the thieves fulled to hack them from their frames. Опе жая Thomas Gainsborough's C
The
Harvest
"We have
a news conference. the brains, the resources, the capability, but we are hampered by continuous evaluations, justi- fleations, rejustifications, instead of progressing in our develop ment in space projectn."
Dr von Braun, Director of for the Army Development Ballistic Missile Centre at Red- stone Arsenal here, sold the United States needs to spend twice as much money as it now Is spending on space projects, He blamed red tape, lack of funds, and complacency for the US. lag.
ALARMED
A
Wagon, found with a 10-inch Dr von Braun said he bel alit in the canvas.
other Revert the US. may be on was Deadatus and Icarus by par with Tussia in development Sir Anthony
van Dyck. Their of military missiles, particularly Intercontinental ballistic combined value was $100,000. miselle. But he said he has been Art gallery ofcals safet they
"alarmed at long" about Rus- could be repaired. A doorman
stan progress in space projects discovered the robbery when and was not surprised when
the
| he arrived for work this morn-the Soviets hit the moon, with
London, Sept. 15. An Australian journalist, Mr Ing. Patrick Tennison, falled by nine trinutes to travel right round the London underground rail-
their lunar rocket.
The thieves were believed to have hidden in the gallery be- He said the Saturn rocket, fore it was closed laat, night and with eight times the thrust of
a the lowered the paintings from way system in 24 hours.
the Jupiter or Thor, could de The descendaids of English transport authorities announced
window to an accomplice during liver a 25-ton payload to the darkness,
ol. The works princesses married to foreigners į today,
artmoon but the first Saturn shat
may be three
years away. are exempt from the act,
In his race against the clock may have been damaged by
A UPI Router.
Mr Tennison went through all heavy rainstorm-UPI. 270 stations on the network.
He made one error, catching a wrong train 01 Mill Hill East, which cost him ̧ 20 minutes— China Mall Special.
Water Music
Erie, Sept. 15. Rock 'n' roll went to a watery grave here yesterday, complete | with an elaborate funeral pro-
cession.
A procession of a hearse and several black limousfoes wend. e its way from the studios of Station WLEU to Erle Harbour where 7,000 rusic 'n' roll records were dumped into the water.
R. IL Elliott, general manager of the station, said the funeral marked the end et rock n' roll 0:1 WLEU.---UPI,
Heirloom For Sale
London, Sept. 13.
Cotton Should
Not Be Dearer
Manchester, Sept. 15.
Sir David Ecclos, President of Le Board of Trade, asserted An ostrich egg-cup worth an here tonight that the Govern- to cotimeter £5,000 will go on the ment's £30 million acheme
Reorganiza Lancashire uitla in block on October 7 to help an English garl pay off his should not menn' dearer cotton
goods for British shoppers. uncle's "double death duties."
He said that it was "nontonan” The docsin to sell the silyer gilt Elizabethan ese cup, along to suggest that the price of cot- with biber join of outstand on goode would go up because ing silver places was forced on the mills had to pay a levy to the Government's the 8th Earl of Duce because his supplemen Bonacht ice creain has been unclo the Bih Earl dies before | contribution towardo the made avullable Lo Nikita the Australian double duty scheme, Khrushchev during his Washina- | cinupe” was abolished. lon virit if he wants it.
Washington, Sept. 15.
Sir David, now making a four
As a result is nephew has to of the milla, added that the would be spread over neveral years.
A restaurant chain delivered pay death duties boli in Ajlovy 60 pounds of the new-favoured i frilla and. Brgynd
ice cream to the Soviet Embassy The org-cup is believed to be yesterday for voo by Khrush the earlieri uno otili ka pletence, chey and his party,—UPI, 1) deica kocic to 1581-UPI.
It would be "xo mpaij a mum that you could pot add it to atr the prices if you tried,”-kéûfèr.
to
sentences of up to seven years.— China Mall Special.
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