How the Chinese climbed Mt Everest
London, June 1.
THE "CHINA MAIL THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1960.
The three Chinese who conquered Mount Everest last week climbed the last 2,500 feet without oxygen, the New China News Agency disclosed today.
The despatch datelined Base Camp, Chinese mountaineering expedition, Jolmo Lungma, de- scribed the climb as "among the most arduous and hazardous
mankind's his adventures ir tory,"
The agency said the three... Wang Fu-chou, Chu Yin-hua and Konbu-found their oxygen reserves ran out completely at about 2,500 feet from the sum- mkt.
They discarded their breath-] ing apparatus, Though now, it wook them over half an hour to tackle a three foot high rock and long halts were needed between each step.
But after creasing a rocky slope, they finally found them selves on the summit;
BUST OF MAQ Kenbu, the Tibetan soldier, out from his quickly took rucksack the five-star national
of China and a Hag
20- centimetre high plaster bust of Chairman Mao Tse-tung with which the expedition had en- Carefully he on a great rock
him. trusted
secured them with stones,
Wang Fu-chou produced his pencilled the notebook and
etc., words: "Wang Fu-chou, three men, conquered Mount Jolmo Lungma (the Chinese name for Everest) 4.20, May 25,
1960,"
They placed the message in side a woolen glove and put it with the flag and the bust.
They had taken a cine camera with then to the summit, but it was too dark to take any shots, the agency, shid.
On the way down it became lighter and at about 28,540 feet they turned round and took a few shots, it added. A fourth member of the final assault team-Liu Lien-man, a Areman had been left behind at this height, the agency sald THREE HOURS
A few hundred feet lower had down the mountain he been in the lead and had tried 10 clamber up the last 12 feet slab of rock but of a vertical
times fallen back, had four utterly exhausted,
He then crouched down and gave all his companions a "leg-
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safely up did they they were discover that the 12-foot climb a full three had taken them hours, the agency said. Lit Lien-man, was very weak After his extreme exertion, and found it very difficult to take a single step.
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Mrs Vanderbilt's
daughter missing
Cannes, June
The divorced fifth wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., today reported her blonde, blue-eyed daughter was missing and may have eloped.
Mrs Patricia Murphy Wallace Vanderbilt, 40, who divorced the New York socialite-author in 1953, after four years of year-old daughter by a previous marriage, told police her 18- marriage, Nanette Wallace, has been missing since Saturday. Nanette's father
Earl Wallace, a nephew of Hollywood star Jeanette McDonald,
After a brief consultation he was ordered, against his will, to stay where he was unif the others went to the Nanette was last seen with a summit, the Agency went sa,
fall, dark and handsome young When the other three re-man who called himself Wiley turned they found. Llu Lien-man Lochmey and said he was on still lying there. The first thing leave from the US. forces in he did was to offer them the Germany. oxygen he had saved for them
by switching off his breathing apparatus.-Reuter.
Nepal leader
urges protest
Katmandu, June 1.
Mr Bharat Shamsher, opposition leader in the Nepalese House of Repre- sentatives, today called on the Nepalese government to protest against the Chinese ascent of Mount Everest without Nepalese permission, or resign.
Speaking in the House during a debate on the supplementary Foreign Ministry budgel, MG Shamsher said the Chinese ascent of Everest was. Va violation of Nepal's sovereignty."
PARISIAN ACTOR
But Nanette also had formed
a previous attachment for an as- piring Parisian actor Damned Laurent Portier, aged 24. His ∙stage name is Daniel Laurent but he has seldom been on stage.
Mrs Vanderbilt told UPI, "Maybe she went to Paris to sec Laurent. But she seemed fonder of the handsome Ameri- can."
Today the Missing Persons Bureau of the Cannes Police sent the
Actors union
begin war
against producers
Pige
NATIONWIDE Ike surprised at
STRIKE IN
FRANCE
reports on
CALLED schism with Mac
Paris, June 1.
The four main French trade
union federations-Com- munist-led, independent. Socialist and Catholic... today ordered a nation- wide strike of civil ser- vants and public service workers from June 10 to press wage demands. The National Teachers Federation, said it would join
1.
The new strike move follows a 24-hour stoppage by railway workers yesterday, which dis- rupted traffic throughout France, as well as a series of rolling strikes" by Paris trans
port workers,
and
Washington, June 1.
President Eisenhower is reported to have express-
ed astonishment at reports he was disappointed at Prime Minister Macmillan's performance at the summit conference.
A British spokesman said Mr Elsenhower personally assured the Foreigo Secretary Mr Selwyn Lloyd yesterday at the White House that Macmillan most valued and remains trusted free world associate.
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Mr Eisenhower is reported personally to have brought up the matter with Mr Lloyd at a lunch he gave for the visiting delegates to the Southeast Asia Treaty Organisation,
Chess player's fatal move
New York, June 1. Two men battled to the death today in a fight over their äbilities as chess players.
Police said Clinton Curtis, 43, a free lanée editor, and Michaci L George, 34, a seaman, were playing chess in a Greenwich Village bar carly this morning when they began to criticise cach other's ability as a chess player. Ancordng to witnesses, the and argument became healed
but missed George, police said, Curtis threw a punch at George then struck Curtis on the head with a beer glass, Curtis was pronounced dead on arrival at St Vincent's hospital
New York, June 1. Actors Equity pulled out the cast of the comedy
The White House, through the Press Secretary Mr James hit, "The Tenth Man,
Hagerty un May 23 stoutly tonight in a contract war
Civil servants, postmen, state denied any change in Mr Eisen with producers which
electricity Eas,
water hower's attitude towards Mr threatened the first workers, dustmen, street Macmillan. Mr Hagerty was London dis- public health Broadway Theatre black-cleaners,
em-commenting on out in 41 years.
ployees and workers in the patch which claimed that Mr Macmillan's stock had fallen in tobacco orfired state
arki matches The powerful union
Mr Elsenhower's estimation for 17-member cast of "The monopoly-about 1,300,000 in
with Soviel Premier Khrushchev out an all-points description of Tenth Man" to attend a union all are affected by the June 10 secking to patch up differences Nanette: Blonde, blue-eyed, mooting", an hour before the strike call.
over the spy plane incident. sweet-faced, last seen wearing a curtain was to rise at the Booth light blue suit and blue topcoat. Theatre, forcing cancellation of
VERY IMPRESSED The British spokesman, in the performance.
to the Instead of going
Police said George, who is It expected to disrupt air disclosing Eisenhower's conver
altached to the ss Trimblasford, theatre, the performers showed services, as meteorological and sation with Mr Lloyd said:
He (the president) air control staff are included.
once naw docked at Elizabeth, New again expressed his astonish-- Jersey,
charged with Local goverment LAW SUITS
workers, ment at this story for which he homicide.-UPI. customs officials and municipal could find no Justification in Arthur Cantor, co-producer | undertakers cre also called on the light of what occurred in
to strike. of "The Tenth Man," announc-
close relationship both had with ed that breach of contract suits
C.vil service unions are totalling one million
the French" would be filed against Equity rise of at least three per cent spokesman said, Mr Eisenhower clabring tr immediate pay On the contrary, the British and the cast.
-UPI,
Cypriot leaders up at Equity headquarters. hold```discussion
dollars
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was
Paris and in view of the very New commander of
Very
Mr
salaries have told
the cost of past govern- not been
Mr Lloyd he Was deeply impressed with Macmillan's close under very trying circumstances
AP.
Nicoda, June 1. Archbishop Makarios and Dr He criticised the re- Fadil Kutchuk, Turkish Cypriot fusal by the Prime Minis- Leader, had their first meeting ter, Mr B. P. Koirala, to
here today for several weeks protest on the ground that
The league of New York They say their a few hours after Cypriol news. there was already a tradi-
theatres had said previously not kept up with "new papers had reported a tion of climbing Everest
British formula" on
that all of the 22 current Broad-ving and that fræin the north. ΜΕΤ
the bases way shows would be closed if ment pledges have disput. Shamsher likened this to
even a single performance of honoured, quoting condoning burglary
newspapers,
was halted. one's own house
Archbishopric sources, said the "The Tenth Man" because
formula designed to meet the tarned down an 11th hour plea Earlier, Equity and the league there had been previous
Archbishop's objections was due burglaries,
In
Mr Shamsher said the Chinese ascent of Everest without Nepal's permission was tantamount to foreing Joint ownership of the Everest summit on Nepal. --Reuter,
The
to be presented during the next from city Mayor Robert F. few days and had been ap-Wagner to settle their dispule.
-UPI. proved by the Turkish Cypriot side.---Reuter,
Letter telegrams
London, June 1,
Duke of Windsor nounced today that its overseas
Aden Governor
London, June 1. Sir Charles Hepburn John- ston, British Ambassador to Jor- The British Post Office an-dan since 1956, was named Gov- ernor and Commander-in-Chief letter telegram service. sus of Aden today. London, June 1.
pended on May 11 because of He will succeed Sir William alone in Londen by train today es
The Duke of Windsor arrived delays caused by staffing diffeul-Luce, whose term expires in
would be restored on August. from France on two-day June 6.
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The Foreign Office said Sir private visit.
Jordan successor in The service comprises Euro-Charles' The Duchess is understood topean letter telegrams (ELT). will be Mr Johri P. E. C. have an ankle injury which fetter telegrams (LT) and Com-Hennikar-Major, now head of prevented her travelling.-China monwealth mcial telegrams the Foreign Office Personnel De Mall Special,
partment in London-UPI.
(CLT)-Reuter
Dramatic cloak-and-dagger
story_behind_capture of Eichmann
Buenos Aires, June 1.
"He lived in constant terror of being killed. But he never dreamed of being
kidnapped." Reliable sources today gave that description of Adolf Eichmann, subject of one.
of the most dramatic cloak-and-dagger stories of the postwar world. Eichmann, the most wanted, The informants gave these Nazi war criminal still alive, is additional detalls;
with him documents altesting
that he was a displaced person. They were issued by the Italian Red Cross through a Vatican relief agency.
in northwest
In Israel. He will stand trial) The end of the trail came for there on charges of being the him three weeks ago in a man, most responsible under Buenos Aires suburb when he Adolf Hitler for the extermina stepped off a bus in the early The first elty he stopped in tion of six million Jews.
evening to walk thome
was Tucuman, where Officially Israel has admitted Eichmann was grabbed children waited for him.
never his German-born wife and four Argentina, and he took a job with a German-Argentine sure by secret commando-like agents here on May 12 or 13, and screeched to
A car darted out of traffic and vey firm under the name of
A halt. Israeli Ricardo Clement, whisked by plane to Israel
But it is the most generally secret agents dragged him inside,
accepted story of how the now 54-year-old former Nazi elite
He was living in a sprawling settlement near the International
guard colonel was arrested after Airport. He was riding home in on to Brazil, where he worked
eluding capture for 15 years the last eight in Latin America.
ON THE MOVE
Informante requested anony- mity in giving fiis picture of Eichmann's Une:
WORKED IN RANCH
Fearful of capture, he moved
on a ranch for a year. Under a colectivos, one of dilapidated small buses jammed in Faraguay for a few months the name of Rudiger, he worked
by commuters,
ISRAEL PLANE
the
in 1954,
But he came back to Argentina that year, apparently feeling Alarmed by his disappearance, for Juan D. Peron. When Peron safer under the regime of dicta- his family checked hospitals and "He was always on the more morgues, but they soon realised was ousted in 1955, Eichmann ....he travelled from country to that he had at last been seized,
slipped into Bollyla...
Again in 1956 he was in Ar- changed job, be changed underground.
Aires naires. But wherever he went
in a spare parts shop, They did not know that six then going into the interior to be fear of hours after his capture he was
a supervisor in a truck farm. In an Imael plane headed for "He probably saw assassins Tel Aviv.
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he Elchmann grew gaunt, nervous and bald.America for eight years.
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informed of his whereabouts
He tried to shroud his life in Just when "Israel was first modest obscurity.
"Eichmans had few quaintances.
ac was not disclosed by Premier Even with his David Ben-Gunton on May 23
Early in 1958 he moved back to Buenos Aires and found a job as an zdímiaisten- tive clerk in a large car fac- tory. That was 'his job when ki war sced. Details are more acizat, about
22 A tribe of evil make-up. (9) Nazi friends be used, a false when he apnirimded that his life before he came to Lalin
23 Doctor (Navy) am. (4)
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name. He pretended he was en was in Israel, under America, Richard Krumey, one of his ac-arest and awaiting trial as a Israeli officials claim he told complices during the war. war crimined under that coun- them he was captured twice by
"As the years rolled by hielby's leve,“
the US Army in 1945, but began to sling more and more But it appears that the hunt managed to escape first posting to the base he wasid be for- was on in earnest early in 1958. as a German Air Force prydle zolton. But his format never Richman came to Argentina and then, ag an army colonel,--- really subsided.
frota Spelia in 1963, carrying |'AP.
The Socialist Union said in a communique tonight, that it "did not envisage à limited strike, which means that the idea of only a 24-hour strike on June 10 has not been set."
It is understood that the other unions intend
their to limit strike to 24 hours.-Reuter.
co-operation
Managua, June 1. Mr Teodoro Picado Michalski, former President of Costa Rica, died unexpectedly here today. He suffered a heart attack.
Mr Pleado was driven inla exile in 1948 by revolutionary forces led by Jose Figueres, later President of Costa Rica. AP.
Pacific fleet
Washington, June 1, Vice Admiral John Sides was today appointed commander of the US, fleet in the Pacific to replace Admiral Herbert Hop- wood, who will retire.
At the same time, President
asked the Eisenhower
U.S. Senate to promote Vice Admiral Sides to the rank of admiral. He is to take command of the fleet on September 1. He is now the Director of the Evaluation of Armament Systems at the De- fence Department.-AFP.
Crabb case closed
London, June 1. The Foreign Offee today turfed, down a proposal for further enquiries into the disappear ance of Commander Lionel Crabb, British naval frogman hero, while diving near Russian cruiser in Portsmouth harbour four years ago,
The cruiser had brought Mr Nikita Khrushchev and Mr Nikolai Bulganin on
a visit to Britain. In June, 1957, the headless, handless body of a man in Crabb's skin-diving equipment and clothing was washed up
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on the British coasts. An in- quest decided it was Crabb's hody.
In the House of Commons today, Commander John Kerans, a Conservative, urged further enquiries. "In view of recent evidence."
Mr
of
Crabb, key figure of one Britain's biggest spy Thy B- teries, was now an officer-in in the Russian Nagy under the name of Lieutenant Ley Lvovich Korablev.
The book indicated that the Russians are convinced that Crabb was employed by United States naval intelll- gence when, in 1956, be spied as a frogman on one of their warships. questionThe book, "Frogman
Gore, David・・ Ormsby Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, replied: “I am aware of no fresh evidence which would justify further quiries,"
Commander
Keran's
eli-
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is believed to have been ordinary" is by J. Bernard prompted by a book published Hutton, born a Czech and now last week claiming that
a British citizen-Reuter,
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