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Katmandu MP demands military action
Of The CHOU'S PROMISE TO NEPAL
Day
COAL AND
Will release
THE ATOM Prisoners in
HE British Government's decision to cut back the atomie power programme is economically justified. It will nevertheless disappoint all who imagined & Britain
advancing into the Atomic Age with giant strides. Instead of 19 stations with t capacity of 6,000 megawatts by 1960 she is to have only seven stations generating 3,000 megawatts. Thus the advance towards the atomic future has been slowed down to half-speed. It is a tame sequel to the glowing prospects held out & few
Of years ago. course there are excellent reasons for the decision. Indeed, it seems that some- one has taken a good, hard look at what Britain can afford as opposed to what she would like, and for that we should be grateful,
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ET it be said
at once,
however, that if atomic power had been sacrificed in order to underpin a falling coal industry, the decision would have met with serious misgivings. Coal has still much to offer Britain. None the less
outdated
is becoming an
Bource of light, heat and power. To curb the new in
order to breathe artificia
border incident
Tokyo, July 1.
Communist China's Premier, Mr Chou En- lai has promised to investigate and make any necessary amends for a reported shooting incident on the Nepal border.
Nepal has charged the occurred, and any Nepalese be speedily Chinese killed a Nepall officer detained would
released. and took 17 prisonera.
Peking radio said Mr Chou Nepal on Wednesday accused regret Communist troops of fring would express extreme
the incident actually across the Nepali border with-
out provocation.
Big_riots
break
out in
Genoa
Genoa, June 30.
life into the old would be Thousands of rioting Com-
a sad mistake.
stations
left-wing munist and workers burned police trucks and set up barricades before police using tear-gas and fire hoses were able to bring them under control to- day.
prolest
was
The Nepal delivered to the Chinese Em-
bassy in Katmandu.
Five planes
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Meanwhile in Katmandu opposition leader Bharat Shamshere told a prems CORE- ference today that troops
from people's Chine had penetrated Nepal in flye places
the government.
RUSSIA ACCUSES BONN OF MILITARY PREPARATIONS
Note handed to Big Three
Moscow, June 30,
Russia today called on the Big Three Western powers to stop West Germany using West Berlin for "its military pre- parations," Tais reported,
The notes were honded to the Bri-
the Federal Government had taken upon itself, the right to give West Berlin enterprises military contracts.
"These attempts by the Fedoral Government to bring West Berlin into the sphere of its militaristic undertak» tish, French and American Ambassadors.ings are governed by the desire to aggra- The note said that at present the vate the situation in Berlin and in Ger- many and to bring matters to dangerous Federal authorities were carrying out active recruitment of West Berlin citi- conflicts," the note said, according to zens into the West German army, and Tois-Reuter.
SHELL STOPS
OF OIL TO
SUPPLY
CUBA
London, June 30,
and not just one as stated by The Shell International Petroleum Company announced today a ban on the supply of oil to Cuba because, it said, the Cuban government has failed to pay a £6 million debt.
Extreme nervousness was ap- parent in the Nepalese capital today as the news spread furt the Chinese had penetrated Nepali territory.
Mr Shamshere called for the
resist army to be sent to "Chinese arrogance, and aggrES- -on- the Nepel-Tibet
Kon,"
border.
Mr Shamshere said the killing of one Nepall and the alleged kidnapping of others in the clash was a calculated Chinese move.
No accident
"I do not think it was an accident," he told a press con- ference here,
Mr Shamshere said he had met the Prime Minister, Mr B. P. Koirala, today, but added: "I completely disagreed with him on his mild inter- pretation,"
Mr Koirala considered the incident a violation of Nepal's sovereignty, he said, but "I say it is aggression."
Madeodon
baffling
Commonwealth
Me
The Shell group at the same time reaffirmed its decision rejecting Premier Fidel Castro's demand that it process Soviet crude oil in its Cuban refinery,
"This action, which may lead to the suspension of Shell's ac
Uvities in Cuba where it has worked harmoniously for 85 years, has been taken on purely commercial grounds," the state- ment said.
NEAR COLLAPSE
A Havana report, sald Cuba's oli industry neared collapse wake of the today in the government's sekure of the Texaco refinery at Santiago de Cuba.
London, June 30,- lain Macleod,
the Colonial Secretary," said here that the Common- wealth was "a baffling organisation" without a constitution and held to- gether by "the golden thread of the crown.“ Mr. Macleod was speaking at
The Texaco takeover yester the British Commonwealth Ex- Services League Conference at day was seen as the beginning Saint James's Palace, London.. of the end for all major
The Commonwealth in one ; American-owned property sense is a baffling organisation," Cuba, with the Cuban Electric he said. "It has no constitution. Company and the Cuban, Tele- It has no rules.
phone Company apparently in line for seizure,
But the situation is not quite like that. The atomic pro- gramme was started when coal was scarce and the production of electricity by building new coal- burning power was extremely expensive.
The toll of injured is ex- What was not foreseen pected to run close to 50. There was that coal would soon have been no reported deaths, become plentiful, that new Rioting went on for several methods of using it would hours most of it in one of the considerably reduce costs, city's mala squares. and that by 1960 there
Communist and left-wing
Mr Shamshere called on the unions called a six-hour general Nepal government to repudiate stride today, to protect a Neo-Immediately Sino-border Faselst Parly Congress schedu- agreement, declare a national
and emergency
build up led for July 2. Tension bullt up during the afternoon and milltary strength and to defend
the northern frontier. finally erupted in riots.
"If you ask what holds it to He also suggested that all
countries gether it would be difficult Asian be united to fight really to give an exact answer--- communist "expan- the golden thread of the crown which is, even though expressed in very different ways in very different countries an essential part of the Commonwealth."
would also be a world glut
of oil.
IT
.
was also thought that Britain would enjoy a lucrative export trade in power stations and acces- sories. This hope has not been realised. Because all this has happened it has be-
Folice tried to move in with jeeps as 10,000 people gathered Southeast
square. Police resorted should to tear gas and fire hoses under Chinese
flurry of stones from the sionism."
in the
come more economical, at Strikers-UPI. the moment, to increase power production by older methods and put a brake on the new. The consequent saving of £90 million is welcome.
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But while it is true that the programme was because of
atomic begun shortage
the
of other fuels,
there were other reasons, They were stated in the White Paper of 1955: "The coming of nuclear power marks the beginning of a new era. As a leading in- dustrial nation our duty is to establish this new in- dustry on a firm foundation and to develop it with all speed."
TOMIC energy is not now
Stevenson has
no objection
to nomination
Washington, June 30,
Mr Adlai Stevenson said to
night that he had no real obe Jeollons to his name being placed among nominations at the forthcoming Democratie
the
More troops
IMPORTANT
AIR FRANCE
Hongkong firms
denied U.S. export privileges
A Hongkong firm and its owner has been denied American export privileges for as long as ex- port controls continue in force.
Another firm and its sites
Manager
have been denied privileges for two years
The firm bamed for the duration of the controls is Commercial Appliance Com- pany and its owner, Mr W. W. Sung
The two-year ban has been imposed on the Office (Ap- pliance_Co. (1955) Ltd. and Mr P. S. Chow,
The measures were taken by the American authorities be. cause of transactions resulting in illegal trans-shipment of U.S. goods to Communist China, The Bureau of Foreign Com merce, U.S. Department
Commerce, announced this today.
RESOLD
The Bureau's investigation disclosed Office Appliance order. ed 16 calculating machines from the United States in the summer
TYPHOON
OLIVE HITS
KWANGTUNG
A
PROVINCE
Tokyo, June 30. Peking radio said today "a Berce battle is being waged against typhoon Olive" in the Chanklang area, in southern Kwang- Dung.
In stricken areas, Peking said, of 1958 and Indicated in its the people are "fighting on the
Putement of transaction, that
HOSTESSES CALL STRIKE
The hostesses and stewards of Air France in Paris called a five-day strike starting from today. This added to the airline's beadache of its cuarent strike of Boeing jet plots.
The walkout was, reported to affect not only the big tracts- Atlantic jets, already halted by the ploty action but all of the company's airgrait and routes except the Paris-Algiers in reported AFP from Paris.
the machines were for resale dykes and dame against the the torrents resulting from und use in Honglong only,
The machines were sold to storm. In the Aelds thousands more are gathering the ripened Commercial Appliance, who re- early rice." sold them for delivery to Com-
munist China.
Typhoon Olive, which left more than 100 dead in the All parties knew the machines Philippines, "struck the Kwang- had been Heensed for use po area in Fachow country Hongkong.
the as
ultimate
this morning," Peking sald. It destination and
any
re then "wept westward Over exportation, trans-shipment, Chankiang city and Sulka county and returned to the ses near Hoppo."
diversion, without prior specific authorisation by BFC, was pre- hibited,
Peking failed to mention any Office Appliance and Mr P. S. casualties or damage but added Chow have admitted their parts that the typhoon had "caused the transactions and have serious water logging.”—AP.
in
consented to the order denying them privileges for two years.
the
By the terms of the order, such privileges will be con- ditionally restored to Office The hostesses and stewards
the end of six Appliance at said that their working hours
months, provided it has com- were too tiring.
A spokesman for the airline in plied with the order and abidet Hongkong told the China Mall by U.S. export controls for the
remainder of
two-year this morning that they have not yet received
any information period.
Mr Chow's export privileges! from their head office.
The jet pilots' strike had not are to be restored at the end of affected the airline's flights in 12 months under the same con-
ditions-AFP. and and cut of Hongkong "because Telegraph Co, owns 85 per cent the airline's jets do not come of Cuban Telephone,
to Hongkong.”
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The American and foreign power company owns 60 per cent of Cuban Electric, and the US
International
Telephone
A 'report' from "Gangtok, Sikkim, says Indian travellers
The Esso refinery here was returning from Tibet today The Ex-Services League was reported to have. only about reported heavy Chinese troops "one of the important silver two days' supply of crude left, centrations in a tented knots in the golden thread of with no more in prospect. The camp near the Thanksla pass the crown which does so much Shell refinery here was reported into Sikkim.
to keep the Commonwealth to-in similarly short supply. The travellers, who had gether," he added.
afterwards traversed the Nathula Pass from Mr Macleod Yalung said the Chinese were chatted informally with dele-nounced
busy stockpiling heavy gates about their local problems here will not handle crude oil guns, mortars and other and told reporters they had imported from the Soviet Union big guns in the Yatung valley given him information which as ordered by the government. within a few miles of the was very valuable and useful Sikkim border. ****
indeed."
also fleld
Soviet-built tanks of World
He said his attention had
Both Shell and. Esso have an- refineries that their
SHUT DOWN
Actress breaks her arm
Journalists stop work
Glasgow, June 30, Between 30 and 40 members Rome, June 30. of the editorial staffs of the Actress Anna Magnani brcke Glasgow Herald and the Bulletin an arm yesterday night when a stopped work for four hours to- wooden stairway collapsed dur-night in support of a claim for ing filming of a movie,
bigger compensation payments A scene for the film, 'Taugh-for-redundant journalists.
A management statement late War II vintage had been seen been drawn to many problems.
Thus, if no more oll is avafl. ter and Joy," was being taken in in the area, the travellers said.
trom non-Communist an old church in Rama Work on tonight said differences have He would not disclose details able Party's convention in Lo-All Agencies.
but the rehabilitation of British sources, the two refineries must the Alm was suspended for 20 been resolved and normal work-
days-AP
ing resumed-Router. Angeles.
ex-servicemen in the Common-shut-down. For technical rea- wealth countries Agured pro- sons, the refineries could not be operated on a short-week basis, minently.
"I have been told a lot I did but must operate continuously. not already know" the Minister said-China Mail Special.
A being developed with Hubert Humphrey.
all speed" even though in a few years the costs of nuclear energy will be lower than
of
by
those electricity generated conventional means. The Government is satisfied that the reduced rate of development will maintain the progress of Britain's and nuclear technology ability to compete for ex- port orders. We hope they are right--though Britain faces formidable petition from Euratom.
...com-
He made this statement to reporters when he left a cock- tall party here held to raise funds for the senatorial re- election campaign of Senator Reporters asked Mr Stevenson twice defeated Democratic Presidential candidate it he would have any objection to seeing his name placed before the convention which opens in. the West Coast City on July 11. He replied "No, I don't really."--Reuter,
Illnesses affect
Thailand schools
Bangkok, June 30. Schools in the northern pro One thing must never be Lovince of Petchahoon have been
gotten: Whatever the tem porary setbacks, and how ordered to close because of a high incidence of influenzr, hay ever wise the present decis fever, measles and materia sion may be, atomic energy among fidente alia
is the power of the future. Police source weld that as The power of this century least five students have died and the next.
so far in the provinct-Reuter
Rally driver killed
St. Jean De Maurienne, Jomo 20.
A British driver was killed and another was seriously injured when the car in which they were competing in the Interna tional Alpine Mally erashed, into a tree rear bere 10- day,
The driver, Mr Charles Kick died shortly after he
The
Robert
STOP PRESS
Premier Fidel Castro's revo- tutionary government "Inter- vened" or toolé, over-fbel. Texaco 'refinery, when prejala refused to regne- Russian oll..
Officials of Shell and wo said frankly they expected the same thing to happen to their refineries in Havana, since they
Sex fraud: the
reach
London, June 30.
will continue to refuse to pro- Two girls and a man, in the cess Russleri all. Tiere la ro- ported only enough. Russian oil available to keep the Texaco planit going,
"The ultimate outcome seems to be that the Esso and Shell refineries will have to be shut down, leading the grave. com- plications for the Cuban econo-"
my
today the the
Техасо
In Sendero de Cubs, and semi
spaper "Revolu Thaled it is a sign that the $23
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first case of its kind' to reach the English courts, were fined a total of £100 for a sex fraud...
They pleaded rullis yesterday
English
The prosecution fold sa
"male" jury this the fris Golden operated at the Carter Club in London's Bobo Alstrict, "near-beer est- ablishment, consisting of "ons „poorly furnished, dimly lit
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be a charge, at courpiracy to] A" girl wit (hormally At the cheat and defraud such per- ́sons: sa' might, be induced, te part with money for the pur-4 | One pose of having sexual inter
The typhoon, adds a Hong- kong Royal Observatory state. ment, has now weakened to a tropical storm and has passed inland,
PRISONS OFFICER
IN CRASH
Mr C. S. Cardell, officer of the Prisons. Department, was bad- ly shaken up when the car he was driving crashed into lamp post near the Sun Co., early this morning.
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The accident happened at 12.18 am, in Connaught Road Central and the impact was so great that it snapped the lamp post in two. Mr Cardell was taken to Queen Mary Hospital.
Apart from a severe shaking, Mr Cardell was not otherwisó injured.
His condition was said to be fair this morning.
The bonnet of his car was smashed in
first to courts
to be fulfilled,” the proscott- tious stated.
Three men-one coloured, an Americas visitor and sai Eng. Helman--had been defrauded," One man was naked to PAY £ "deposit ons, girl, re- 1 payable if she returned, her to the club within 30 minutes. 'Another, was asked for a £2 10%. "deposit" repayable if the girl was returned within two
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was the
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