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MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1960.
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Only feasible way of maintaining a deterrent 24-HOUR PATROLS FOR RAF British-U.S. Hagerty's Tokyo reception Mary's damage
TROUBLE IN agreement on
JAPAN skyborne force
RESIDENT Eisenhower Pada legitimate excuse
to call off his Far Eastern tour following the Paris summit
conference de
bacle. That he failed to do so at the time was a tac- tical error.
London, June 13..
Plans for Britain to join the United States
in world-wide, round-the-clock patrols of nuclear strike bombers were today reported under consideration in London and Washington.
Slace the Paris meeting there has been a constant clamour for and against the decision to press од
U.S. Strategic Air Command In spite of the degenerating and the Royal Air Force would political climate in Japan. co-operate in keeping a pro- H-bombers portion of their Even in the friendly Philip-
sloft and thereby permanently pines there have been out-Immune to missile attack on
it bursts, but Is not their bases, according to de- anticipated that there will fence sources herc.
be any
real trouble Britain's Vulcan and Victor
although danger
of force he would have to deal with
a
The British planes would eventually carry the American Skybolt, 1,200-mile range missile which was the omcial object of Mr Watkinson's U.S. visit,
Mr Watkinson negotiated an exists strategie bombers, now based agreement for Anglo-American.
which must be guarded only in this country, were be- co-operation in development of
against.
Army control
HE President is assured
lieved to have been offered faclli-Skybolt. This will become ties at U.S. bases throughout Britain's principal deterrent the world.
weapon now that the British Nuclear weapons carried on | Blue Streak rocket has been such patrols would not be abandoned. primed, sources said. War-
of a warm welcome in bombers
Formosa and it is unlikely that there will be serious demonstrations in Okinawa which is an American base where control is vested in
the. United States Army.
There has been umple warning of what can occur in Japan and Friday's the "welcome" accorded Presidential Press Secretary, Mr Hagerty, does not bode, well for the President when he lands in Tokyo next Sunday. Feeling is running high against the America- Japan security treaty and the two Heads of State.
The left-wing has already shown that it means busi- ness and that intends destroy the treaty and the Government as well.
SOME
Warning
to
A
for HK?
Force Royal Air spokesman---- said --- Hals moruing that there was no Information whether Hang- kong would be a base for British V-bombers which are to be deployed in a globe-girdling defence system.
The spokesman said he could make no comment on that the press report V-bombers with nuclear be striking power will. stationed not only in the Mediterranean, Middle East and Central Africa but also in certain Asisa terri- tories like Singapore.
heads would only be fused if orders were ever giyen for an attack.
The idea was said to have stemmed from the British De- {ence Minister Mr Harold Watkinson's recent Lalks Washington.
possible
in
NOME leading American On his return home last week journals have question Mr Watkinson foreshadowed the dispersal of British ed the advisability of strategic bombers to foreign continuing with the trip in bases. Defence officials here 'con- view of the unfortunatefirmed this over the weekend.
Japanese fact that the
police are apparently in- capable of controlling the mobs.
Vulnerable
Blue Streak was discarded in the belief that its fixed site
And would be too vulnerable. the
argument ran Skybolt would be just ás vulnerable unless kept up in the air and out of harm's way.
Sources said the idea for patrols was given impetus- by the Increase in International tension following the collapse of the summit talks.
The flights would be regard- ed as #training missions" though each plane would be Hable to diversion to a real target if the call came. Britain now has around nuclear bombers America's 1,500 and probably would need more if the plan gets adopted.
200
against
Besides the pooling of bases facilities such as flight refuelling would be shared between both air forces-AP.
Lady Attlee
chalks up
her seventh
Leftist demonstrators carrying anti-American placards surround the radia car that preceded the limousine corrying White House Press Secretary James Hagerty at Tokyo's Hanedu airport last Friday. The man at lower left is actually standing on the hood of Mr Hogerty's car. The President's press chief was forced to enter the city by helicopter after the mob had besieged his cor demanding that Mr Eisenhower cancel his forthcoming visit to Japan-AP Photo.
Ike visits the land
Russia once owned
Anchorage, June 12.
to Colony's pleasure craft
Typhoon Mary sunk or badly damaged several plea- sure boats in the harbour and the Deepwater Bay anchorage last week.
More than 20 pleasure funks
Reporting on the damage to
were reported smashed "beyond members' craft in the Royal and losses of Hongkong Yacht. Club, the Vice
all recognition"
all types of smalt craft in the Deepwater Bay are are re- ported to exceed 90.
owners have In other cases. reported that their boats. have disappeared "without trace."
were Many others
badly repairers damaged and ship have their hands full
The American-owned brigan- fine Wan Fu which ran aground In Kowloon Bay was salved yes- terday by Pacific Island Ship- building Co Ltd.
CONVERTED
Another owner of small plea- sure cruiser reported that his craft underwent a conversion during the typhoon.
"It originally had an inboard engine. Now it's an outboard." Last weekend owners sut
and hardly veyed the damage
a single boat in the booming Reet of pleasure launches. cruisers, speed: boats..and motorised junks escaped some
www damage.
But the foresight of a group of boat boys employed by the Hongkong Motor Boat and Ski Clubs served more than 50 from serious damage.
As the storm approached the Colony they pulled the boats to safety in the boat house or up the hill beyond the reach of the battering waves,
Visitors to Deepwater Bay small boats had been washed up there by the typhoon.
Commodore, Mr A. T. Trenerty
told 'the China Mail this morn-
ing that:
class *'. six small. “L” yachts were sunk st their moorings;
'sunk:
one lost la pamat:
. motor launch was
⚫ two or three cruisers suffered damage;
the rest of the craft moored in the typhoon shel.
ter off Kellet Island suffered minor damage such as paint. work rubbed and rigging strained.
"Worst of all was 'when the wind went around to the west and the causeway wall started to disintegrate.
"Tals WES the wall behind which a lot of people, were sheltering,
"An Australian pilot, Mr Don Brown, who was down there
mid that if it had lasted another two hours, the winie lot would have been drownedanken at
"It is difficult to estimate the damage. The six yachts that were sunk have since been raised and I doubt if $190 damage has been done to the 1. But in other cases It is more serious,
"The causeway will have' to be completely rebuilt.
Mr Trenery: sald a lot of boat people sheltered in the.
during the typhoon,
President Eisenhower today visited Alaska, the land America bought from over the weekend thought the ground floor of the Yacht Club
the Czar of Russia almost 100 years ago-now the 49th state.
He
at landed:
nearby Elmendorf Air Force base today on the Arst leg of his 22,975- mile Far Eastern tour.
It was the President's first visit to the northern territory since it became the 48th state last year.
Two litle Eskimo girls pre- sented Mr Eisenhower with flowers as he stepped from his silver and orange 707 jetliner.
Mr Eisenhower told the air- port crowds that the Hussar London, June 12. flag flew over Alaska in his and said he Earl Attice, the former Labour father's boyhood
Prime Minister and Countess never thought in his own child- Attlee escaped unhurt when hood that he would one day, President, welcome the their car was involved in as colliston today with two territory to statehood, approaching tark од the The United States purchased Amersham Road at Chalfont | Alaska from Czarist Russia 'in
1807. St. Peter, Buckinghamshire, away from the cost of main- permament
A secret
Up to now Britain has shied
H-bomb
An
They certainly had plenty of taining
Lady Attlee was driving at Mr. Eisenhower said: "My the time. No one in the Arst visit since Alaska became warning yet it took about patrols. 90 minutes to disperse the But, with its air bases open oncoming cars was hurt,
the 49th state means much to Lady Attice, who is 63, has me as an individual and demonstrators against Mr to rocket attack at only four
minutes radar warning, a been driving for 35 years. She American. I find myself going Hagerty and it might be skyborne force is now consider regularly acts as chauffeur for back to my boyhood when we naked what kind of protec- the only feasible method of her husband,
felt that Alaska was a place of tion can the President maintaining a British deterrent, The Daily Telegraph
gold
and glamour and the expect.,
Just how many planes would Lady Attlee had now had seves Yukon and the Klondike we felt be In the air at a given mishaps since 1955 end on every Sourdoughs, and moment is likely to remain occasion but one her husband, Jack London and Robert Service a secret An enemy would who is 77, had been a passen-knew the country and told us
ger--Reuter. be kept guessing what sort
about it."-Reuter.
The President's determina- tion to carry on at this late stage is a correct decision, To have done otherwise would not only have been a victory for the left-wingers but also to concede that policies can be shaped by the mob.
Consequences
NUCH
a victory would be a tremendous fillip to the Communista in the Far East and the rest of the Red world.
The consequences of cancel- lation would have been enormous, even to the ex- tent of forcing the United States out of its position in the East to the detriment of her allies.
;
If the demonstrations against- Mr Hagerty have aroused- the feelinge of responsible Japanese it might spur them to action resulting in aleas stormy welcome for the President.
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'White slave' on a future
Leopoldville, June 12.
The most flourishing racket promoted by Congo elty lickers these days In the "white" slave" bulness on a future-delivery basis.
No white women have actually been sold into bondare, and 5,609 tongh Bélgian para- troopers and 20,000 colonial troops are deter- mined nose will be, but tribesmen coming in from the plantations and minew to look at the white man's towns don't know that,
A brisk business in the "male" of wives and daughters of Europeans is going on with the country dwellers with the promise the buyer will get his woman after the, Congo becomes independent on June 30.
The price for a Belgian woman is about U.8.$20 a month's salary for the average
The swindle works like this. A elly native sees one of his country cousing eyeing a white woman in the street, he sidies up and asks:
"Would my friend like to acquire that white woman after--ladépendence?" -
The dent is unmaily clinched over 'a béer, --a "bill of sale”, is handed, oret,
<
trade basis
and that
Binoe few Jungle Africans can read, they are often stuck with an election pamphlet which they are told gives them the right to possess the white woman after independence day.
Some of the local con men" don't just well the woman of the house --- they sell the house along with her.
One Belgian rushed into a police station recently to report that an African had knocked at the door of his home and asked if he could have a look around.
The African explained he had just bought the house, would be moving in on July....1, and wanted to have a look at his property, The Belgian bought á gum and' is appre- hensively awaiting July 1,
Many Europeans have ment their wives Ked" children home to Europe or into the border- ing British possessions until things straighten". opt after independence, me zë e pan
Airlines and #Mipping offices, repari áher are booked solid. for the next, two months; by Europeans; houding for: nately,
I AM NOT A
CANDIDATE'
'MR STEVENSON
Chicago, June 12, Mr Adlai Stevenson, who was the unsuccessful 1952 and 1956 Democratic Pre- sidential nominee, declared today that he was not a candidate for his party's 1960 nomination...
He said this in a state- ment today to amplify a message he had sent to Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt, which she had interpreted as mean- ing that Mr Stevenson was a candidate.
I will not seek the therefore, nomination
I am not a candidate,” Mr Stevenson said today... Renter.
*Moscow, June 12. Soykt wel Milhall Holokhov author of "And Quiet Flows the Don" has given the Lenin Prize for literature Won this year for the building of a school in tile home villege on the Do
be
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