THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1960.
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SEARCH FOR BODIES
Congo province emergency OF AIR DISASTER
KATANGA MAJORITY PARTY THREATENS
TO SECEDE
Elisabethville, June 14.
A State of Emergency was declared tonight in the rich mining province of the Katanga where -the majority party has threatened to secede
from the Congo and join Rhodesia.
18 children in
boat tragedy
Warsaw, June 14. Eighteen school children aged 13 to 18, a school teacher and two men died when- about capsized yCS- terday on the fast-flowing Dunajec mountain river in southern Poland
Only five children were saved from the disaster, a Warsaw newspaper report- ed today,
The tragedy occurred on an excursion of 23 pupils from school In Nowa Hula, Poland's modern aleci town where six weeks ago religious rioting took place.AP.
Jamaican
remanded
in custody
Birmingham, June 14. Aldrick Rockhead, a 26- year-old Jamaican, was remanded in custody here today charged with mur- dering a seven-year-old boy on Whit Monday. Rockhead, said by the pro-
to have bcen voluntary patient at mental hospital here, appeared
secution
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Announcement of the State did not specify of Emergency the nature of the crisis beyond saying it had been proclaimed following "precise Information concerning plans intended to create very shortly an illegal situation constituting a threat to public order."
OPTIMISTIC
34-year-old
Meanwhile in Leopoldville, M. Patrimsapviumba, leader of the Congolese National Movement, said tonight he was optimistic of being able to an- nounce within 24 hours he was in a position to form the coun- try's first national government.
He was entrusted last night with the task of forming a gov- ernment to take over when the Congo becomes independent Belgium on June 30.
of
He is due to report back to- morrow night ог Thursday morning to M. Ganshof Van Cer: Meersch, Belgian Minister in
BRIGITTE BARDOT
B.B. SWITCHES
FILM CAREER
ON AND OFF
Paris, June 14,
charge of Congolese affairs in Film star Brigitte Bardot- the transitional period-Reuter.
Death sentence for insurgent
who can change her mind as fast as she can change clothes was busy quit. ting and resuming a film career today.
As dawn broke over Paris, Bardol's shocked fans read the startling decision:
Havana, June 14.
"My decision is irrevocable, Insurgent ex-rubel
army B. B. is dead for the cinema.” Manuel captain
Beaton Was sentenced to death early today As the sun set on the city of by a revolutionary tribunal in light, reassured fans could read SunLiago De Cuba Oriente the latest bulletin: Province.
Berlun, Captured by a Saturday peasants' patrol on after hiding for several months in the mountains, was charged 1 with treason, sedition, conspiracy and the killing of in court handcuffed and be- four people, including two rebel tween two warders,
army majors, The prosekullon said the Jemalcan was being exercised with other patients In the grounds of the mental hospital where, a cricket being layed peared.
malch
was
when he disap-
Sevin-yiar-old Brian Cross street was walking along a
It was announced that the sentence had been appealed and the hearing of the appeal set for later today-Reuter,
"Poof. I will quit shooting movies when I am old."
Since only hours batore Bar- dot had classified old age as 35, this gave her 10 years to go, unless she changes her mind about old age too.
ALL A JOKE
Mrs Benedict refuses
Gamble's demand
for
monthly funds
New York, June 14, -
Mrs Katherine Geddes Benedict today called her granddaughter's new husband a fortune-hunter, and re fused the girl's demand for a $1,500 monthly allowance.
her
Brisbane, June 14, Three hundred soldiers, boy scouts, council work- ers and other volunteers today were searching a 90-mile strip of the north-east Australian coast for the remaining 21 bodies of a Fokker Friendship aircraft crash last Friday night.
The Trans-Australia Airlines | Fourteen navy divers are op aircraft crashed into the sea off the scene waiting for favourable Mackay, northern Queensland, conditions to make further with 20 people aboard.
Inspection of the wreckage. — China Mail Special.
Eight bodies have been
re-
covered floating in a wide area
around the crash scene,
The search was started after Threat to town
She said that all she would · The girl, heiress to the Ro-divorce from another woman,
In surrogate's court, agree to let 18-year-old Gamble mington typewriter fortune, last Benedict have was $150 a week, April 6 fled from her grand- lawyer said Gamble had no more money and wanted some of the plus educational or medical ex- mother's custody, and married
radio a Rumanian, Andre Porumbeanu, money she is due to inherit. penses not exceeding $5,000
who wooed ber before
year.
his
De Gaulle's new
policy
for Algeria
Paris, June 14.
President Charles de Gaulle tonight gave his per- sonal guarantee that rebelling Algeria will be completely free to choose its own future and said that everyone concerned will be able to help fix conditions for the vate.
In a new policy statement or myself, that they will take (the the 5-year-old insurrection, choice) of good sense to ac President De Gaulle also re-complish in union with Trance peated his appen to the rebel and in the co-operation of its leaders to come to France and various peoples, the transforme- discuss "an honorable end to the tion of an Algerian Algeris into a modern and fraternal coun- fighting."
De Gaulle, in a radio tele-try."--AP vision address, said he thought "we were never closer to find- ing a real solution" to the rebel- lion.
be De Gaulle appeared to going a long way to meet de- mands of the rebel leaders. They insist that they be in on discussions setting up guarantees and conditions for applying the principle of self-determination that De Gaulle announced last September 18.
Soviet envoy sees Lloyd
OPPORTUNITIES
Mrs Benedict, however, main- tained through her lawyer that the girl was a prey for oppor tunists." She added in an anti- davit: "From correspondence ang telephone conversations I have bad with her, I am satisfied In my own. mind that the persons with whom she is asso- clated, rather than providing' for her, are relying on portunities to acquire her pro- perty or portions of it for themselves."
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However, the girl's lawyer, Mr Louis J. Brecher, argued that since Gamble's marriage, Mrs Benedict had "cut her off completely and she is without funds."
He said the girl hasn't even been allowed to get her be- longings, Including "thousands of dollars of clothes bought in Paris," from her grand- mother's mansion,
He said the girl would be entitled to about a half million dollars of her mother's estate when she reaches the age of 21.
AP.
Malayan awards
Officers
London, June 14..
men of the
'and
British Army who served with
gallantry and
distinction in
Malaya from 1 July to 31. December 1959,"
are honoured by the. Queen in tonights London gazette.
London, June 14.
Brig John Theodoro Steven- The Soviet Ambassador to son Tutton, late corps of Royal Britain Mr Alexander Soldator Engineers, of Chatham (Kent) had a 45-minute meeting today and Col. (Temporary Brig.) De Gaulle said, that "every-with British Foreign Minister Heibert John Mogg DSO, late
able to take
What was certain was that she had quit for 15 days and repaired to her luxurious apert- ment with husband Jacques body" will be Charrier and infant son part in "discussions which will Selwyn Lloyd, at Mr Soldatov's infantry, become Commanders
request.
of the Order of the British Em- of the fix the conditions
A Foreign Office spokesman pire (CBE).-AFP. the electoral cam-
sald following their meeting that She wouldn't see anyone but ferendum,
uspaign and the control of the they had "a general talk about friends who related che claiming her initial statements were all a joke,
On tour of U.S. Nicholas.
when Ruckhead was seen to
London, June 14. catch hold of him and hit him
Chiet of several times
Earl Mountbatten, with a piece of scaffolding tube, the proste- the British Defence Staff, left by plane for the United States The boy was taken to hospital today to tour U.S; defence.in- but
dead on
return to arrival-stallations. He will China Mail Special.
Britain on Sunday--AP.
4ion said.
was
vote,"
ге
to
While awaiting for peace return so that the vote can be The 15 day rest is due to the held, De Gaulle said, the prob- Illness of producer Henri lerns of Algeria will be dis
with elected officials, Georges Clouzot who is making cussed Bardol's new flm with the two-thirds of which will be intriguing title, "The Truth" Moslems, (La Verite), He is undergoing An operation and expects to be
GOOD SENSE
A British Crossword Puzzle back on the job in two weeks. De Gaulle said last Septem-
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30
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ACROSS
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3 Big-headed bind? (4).
7 The Anal amount (5).
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8 He should have something 10
come (4).
◊ Small insect (4),
~10 Display of bad temper (7);
12 Work to 1:507 (4).
15 S. American heights (6).
18 Heap of money? (4).
30 Accommodeting place (5),
21 Nimble (5).
22 Girls from Beds (4).
23 Makey weary (5).
24 Sound ending for a naruk-
tive (4).
29 His discoveries were of signal
and far-reaching importance (7).
30 Side of meat! (4).
31 Rice upsets him (4).
32 Fish in a corner (5),
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22
DOWN
1 Even date (5).
b
2 Festive occasion fog a fool
to lament about (7).
4 Swiss-German bonder (5).
5 Sharpen (4).
6 She shows I'm doubly
ward (4).
9 That's the style (4).
the world situation."
the
Today's meeting was second to take place at Mr Soldatoy's request in the past 15 days-AFP.
Kenya Union
Union
Nairobi, June 6. The Kenya African National Its tonight dropped Everybody at the studio ex-ber that Algeria will be able to pects Bardot to be back sise, choose among three possibilities month-old call to African MP's and for a long time.--AP.
for the future--complete inde here to restan to back demands pendence, a loose association for its members to see the with France or complete in-union's former President Jomo tegration with France,
Tag on Japanese
fishermen off Australia
Canberra, June 14. The Australian Government was "keeping a tag" on Japanese fishing boats off the Australian coast, the Commonwealth Director of Fisheries, Mr. C. G. Setter, said today.'"
He was commenting on com- plaints by Australian Ashermen that the Japanese were poaching on their fishing grounds,
Japanese fishing boats of the Eastern Australian coast were making tremendous catches of luna, he said,
"Nothing can be done about them while they operate on the high stus."
Kenyatta.
The cancellation of the resign government
De Gaulle came out clearly tonight for what appeared to call followed a
be the second possibility,
statement promising African slutted ministers that they
He said "The choice will be would be allowed to visit Ken- theirs. But I am sure, as for yatta-Reuter.
GILBEY
LONDON DRY GIN.
ESTABLISHED 1857
nu-
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Australian Government back-thorities were "keeping a tag" on the position, he said.
11 No egress and perhaps full of
water (5),
13 Novebag
(4).
contente. maybe
14 How to behave in a lounge?
·(4).
16 Perpendicular (5).
17 Sall carrier (4).
18 Medicine ball? (4),
The Australian Government know the Japanese were making large catches off the Australian Pacific coast, much of it in the Coral Sea area.
"It our industry expands we might be joining them out there," Mr Setter mid.
"We might be able to learn
20 Disgusting old boys at the quite a lot from them."--China
outset (7).
22 Wee drapple) (4).
24 Likeness (5).
33 Hurred to conceal, by the 25 Nook in Dingley Dell (5).
sound of it (4).
27 Long in London (4). ~28 Engrave (4); ̄
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Aerom: 1 Physic, 7 Echo, A-MB-le, 10 Melee, 11 Elms, 13 Artificial, 15 80-Ur, 16 Snap, 19 Desc-ending, 22 Seer (Rees), 24 Spill, 26 Smith, 28 Ta-ta,
27 Dry-ads, Down: 2 Habit, 3 She-af, 4 Comies, & Released,
Mall Special.
Explosion
A
Buenos Aires, June 14.
A powerful bomb went off in 1 sifond story room of a small downtown hotel last night seri- and
#Shem, 8 Cell-0, 12-Serag, 18 Asses(a),14 Imperial, 17 Adept,ously injuring a woman 18 Sckled, 20 Na-St-y; 21-Ilad, 23 Kazu.
damaging the building-AP,
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wrecked Chilean town The Mackay City Counel! has Valdivia,
that its employees Preparations have been made decided
be paid while they to evacuate the 21,000 citizens, would
all that are left of the original participated in the starch,
Rising seas and 90-knot winds 80,000, within hours, it
necessary. Reuter, hampered the search today.
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