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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1959.
Crackdown On Reds In UK
Factory Explosion
Macro, Nov, 27. Two
men suffered serious burns when an ex- plosion followed by a fire destroyed a house believed to be A clandestine
narcotics factory on Taipa Island at noon today.
They were the only oc- cupants when the blast occurred.
When Police arrived at the scene they found the door locked.
The men were arrested at the pier when they tried to board a boat for Maczo.
Cause of the has not yet been mined—UPL
explosion
deter-
Electrical
Energy
From
Noise
Tampa, Nov. 27.
The head of an electronics
Labour Unions
TUC Denunciation Of Communist-Run Union
Praised By Press
London, Nov, 27.
Britain's labour unions today were pressing a belated crackdown on Communist influence in their ranks. The lead was taken this week by the General Council of the massive Trades! Union Congress, The TUC claims to represent 8 million trade unionists in Britain.
The TUC General Council delivered a stinging denuncia
of the
Communist-run Elec- trical Trades Union and secumd it of evasion and delay in fall- ing to reply to public charges of mismanagement, corruption and rigged unlon elections.
But the General Councill held back from the final sanc- tion of expelling the ETU from TUC membership.
GAIN CONTROL
The British Press almost un-
Limottsly cheered the TUC
and called on trade #w yo unionists to disvalesita. from the unions.
follow 1 up by Communist leaders
The public denunciation of the Communist-run ETU under- lined a problem that has been company has developed a bling the British trade
firm here sald today his
"revolutionary"
method, electrical
of producing energy from noite. Eugene A. Russell, president and head of research of Elec- Tronies Development Inc., said, the new method S "révolui- tionary" and will be valuable
many neks from guided!
union mayament for years.
The British Communit parly, which polled less than 350,000 votes in the last gen- eral electio.t has been work- ing energetically to infrate and, where possible, gain con- trol of the labour unions ever since World War I.
Ts biggest success has been
missiles to stereophonic sound the ETU, in which Communists plunagraphs.
;
ETU
since 1982. and
SHIP'S
ENGINEER
CLEARED
London, Nov. 27,
The Chief Engineer of the British cargo ship Seistan (7,440 tons), which blow up in the Persian gulf killing 57, had his name cleared here today after a four-day legal battle in on Admiralty Court.
Two judges and two assessors decided there was no justifica- Lion"
of for a vensure
the engineer, Mr George Robertson, 56, contained in a rider to the inquiry published last March.
flodings of the formal MISSING
TANKER
HAD
CREW
OF 14
Tokyo, Nov. 27. The Standard Jurong, an oif tanker which had been
The Scistan blew up in Febru- aty 1958 after a three-day Bre on board.
REPREHENSIBLE
One of the crossore added a rider to the findings of the in-
The conduct of quiry saying:
mism-
Giving Judgment today, the President of the Court, Lond Merriman raid: "Our conclusion
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Scheme To Improve
Setting For
Tower Of London
London, Nov. 27,
of
A £25 million scheme to provide a more stately setting for the Tower of London, one London's most spectacular attractions, was announced on Friday.
4
would be
Actually the historica! land private Investment, mark overlooking the Thames in the neighbourhood of £25 River is a cluster of about a million, he said.
cne of the
dozen towers—and, proposals is to build still an other tower 16 storeys high.
B. G. Arthur, Chairman of“ a city planning committee, said by construction could start in two The plan was announced designers of two nunicipal or three years.-AP.
the bodles, the Corporation of
London, Old City
in which the the tower is eatuated, and Lojdon County Council.
The idea is to make the tower, where the crown jewels Arc housed and scarlet-robed Best- ealers perform their ceremonial cuties. tourists,
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Johannesburg, Nov. 27. Its grounds every year, but the A Johannesburg Star colum- planners believe it could become nist sald today it had been un — au even greater tourist attrac-officialy suggested that Field- tion,
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Auto- and barring
The columnist, "Man of the Sca since November 21,
mobiles from them.
Reef," said Lord Montgomery Wide ramps would prove an had received many letlers and was carrying a crow of 14,
Tewer hill telegrams suggesting this during play 4th no David House To ADVERTISERS etsy approach to Maritime the Japanese
and gardens would on the matter je that there was Terraces Safety Board said today.
The home of the letters is for censuring give new backgrounds for the no justification
theb since he arrived a week the Chief Tower itself as well as for the Rebertron, George The Bourd sald the 690-ton
a remark- bull! by Hitachi Engineer, in connection with the monuments of Trinity Square, ngo, he has shown tanker was
the and Allable understanding Chief the Customs House to the SNp-Buliding
answer he gave Company
problem of both sections of the Japan for the Standard Vacuum Officer or otherwise in connee-Hallows Church. There is Ex-
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the Lordon County Council,Hendrik Vertoerd, South African as being "i19)= estimated the cast for acquiring Prime Minister,
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of
due at Singapore on December
1.
On the following day
have held the key jobs for more (November 19), the tanker call- Russell and one
of his than 17 years. engineers, Andrew Duncan, de- Frank Foulkes, 60, Presidented at Kagoshima, in Southern Japan, to seek shelter from monstrated the "power ampli of the
Press confer Frank Haxel, 41. General Secretyphoon Freda, #er" at a called The unit
about fury since 1954, are Communista, weighs five pounds and Russell hit Mr Raxell is a member of the Communist Party's National produced 250 watts of current.
Executive.
ence.
SUICIDE
The system, Rusell sirf "could be used to light up
said-UPI. You could put a whole city. noise-naker in a sound proof room and bank these elements around it, and you could wo duce enough power to light up an entire city."-UPI,
Wins Vote
Colombo, Nov. 27
58.
New York, Nov. 27,
Martin, George Victor widely known playwright and She sailed again for Singa-author of the play "Bells of St. pore and was last heard of on Mary". committed suicide Inst November 20.
night in his room at the Wi The Standard Jurong was re- Rogers Memorial hospital al the Reis a-gistered in a Another unit
the United States, Socanae Lake, Hospital officiuls tempted unsucessfully to cap according to the Board-Reuter.
is tha 950,000-strong ture Amaiganated Engineers Union.
tried again Last April they but fulled to unscat ani.. Communist William Carron. 56. from an AEU President's chair.
In recent years the Com- munists
other have used Lactics-Intraiing Party men into key shop steward jobs in unions they could not capture by other means.
This has resulted in a series The Government of Prime
in the automotive, Minister Wijayanda Dahanayake of strikes
and similar tonight defeated by one critical aircraft) electrical vote
motion key industries that have serious- ก это confidence
damaged the nation's against Justice Minister Valen y
economyUPI.
the Jayawickreme.--AFP.
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Caused Heavy Damage
Metaponto, Italy, Nov. 27.
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The sun came out today over a sea of mud which MAGNIFICENT SHOWS NIGHTLY Hongkong, 26th Nov., 1959.
"until four days ago was the finest reclaimed
farmland in Italy's poorest area.
At least 10 persons were farmland known dead and thousands the plain
were still flooded in
of Metaponto
and
were left homeless by floods other lands were covered with and landslides in three days of a thick layer of mud left behind cloudbursts in the step and too by the receding water. of the Italian boot.
Dozens of stranded cars were Damage ran into the hundreds stuck in the mud.
of millions of dollars-an
es mated 200,000,000,000 lire £110,000,000) in the Catanzaro Province alone.
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