London financier
found not guilty
of fraud charges
London, July 4,
A London jury today found wealthy financier Harry Jasper not guilty of fraud charges. He was acquitted at the Old Bailey.
10 killed
in Congo clash
Leopoldville, July 4.
against him or
LAOTIAN
TROOPS CAPTURE REBELS
Bangkok, July 4. Laotian government troops have quelled a rebellion by hill tribes fighting on the side of the Communist - led Pathet Lao, reports reaching Thai police said today,
The reports, which could not be confirmed immediately, sald 30 to 40 Cheung tribe warriors were captured and the rest, in- cluding the leaders, have scat-
tered.
Troops have been
Jasper who had been under arrest on buil since last January was at the judge's direction found not guilty of all three charges
battling recklessly making statements with the tribesmeni since June which were misleading, false, 24 following reports that the or deceptive in order to induce Cheung warriors were won over shareholders to dispose of their by Pathet Lao propagandists. shares.
a
Jasper, 54-year-old head of Some 300 refugees have cross- group of investment and led the border into Thailand to property companies, was escape the fighling-AP. brought to trial three weeks
ago with Herbert Murray, 84, former Managing Director of
Police fired on spear-wield-the State Building society, and
ing tribesmen in a fierco clash today at Coquilhat- ville, northwest Congo.
Friedrich Grunwald, 34-year- old solicitor and company director.
TRIAL PROCEEDS
Early reports said 10 persons The judge also directed the were killed and another 18, jury to acquit Murray on one three of them soldiers, were count alleging that he knowing- wounded
in the clash whichly made a false statement to broke out during a strike for higher pay.
Two houses and a car were Xooted and burned.
Hundreds of strikers threw up log barricades and used bows and arrows, spears and hatchets to fight off police,
Police used tear gas and then fired when the demonstrators refused to disperse.
Officials clumped down a cur- dew and order was restored
DEMAND
The demonstrators gathered in front of the provincial Premier's residence to demand a wage boost to 5,000 Congolese francs (about £35) a month.
the Registrar
cielles.
of Friendly So-
proceeded
Troops press
THE CHINA MAI, TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1960.
Portable
nuclear weapon
Bonn, July 4.
A nuclear weapon that can be carried around and shot by "a couple of men” was described here today by U.S. Secretary of the Army Wilber M. Brucker, He Identified the weapon as the Davy Crockett and said it is a bazooka type weapon. The Davy Crockett, he said, is part to develop of the U.S. effort miniature nuclear weapons,
"A couple of men can carry
it in the field and shoot it," Brucker told
con: 筛 news ference.
"It won't have in carth- rocking nuclear content," he
Valiant
3 years' litigation ends attempt
Melbourne, July 4.
Three years' litigation in a second case involving the 1957 Australian tour of prima ballerina Margot Fonteyn ended in the high court today with a £A10,000 (£8,000 sterling) payment to the Education In Music And Dramatic Arts Society here.
Mr Justice Fullagar ordered the taxation commissioner to the money to the hand over
Dame Society, which staged Margot's performances here, by consent of her London agent, Mr James Laurie, The money had been held as tax security
for Mr Laurle/
ORDER
When the taxation commis- sold, "but it would have a heel-sioner had refused to hand it rocking effect on the people on over the Society sought a court
order, the other side.”—AP.
Litigation started during Dame Margot's Melbourne season when Mr Garnet H. Carroll, Melbourne theatrical entrepreneur, claimed he was entitled by an agreement with Laurie to half the profite from the tour. A
During these proceedings, pro- fts from the tour were frozen by order of the Supreme Court.
Delegation
fails
Landon, July 4.
A Royal Air Force Valiant jet
bomber turned back with an bil leak today shortly after set- ting off on a drit ever, non- stop flight from Bagland to the tvest coast of Canada..
4
The 6,000-mile Aight from the RAB base at Matham, Norfolk, to Sea Island, Vancouver, was expected to take, 15 hours with the Vallast refuelling in the air Ever Goose Bay, Labrador.
Cairo, July 4. An Algerian provisional governmentTM spokesman said to- The Vallant piloted by Air duy an Algerian delegation will Vice Marshal M. H. Dwyer, Air go to Peking shortly to set up bicer Commanding No. 3 permanent diplomatic repre- | Bomber Group at Marham, land- sentation in Communist China. þd again after about 90 minutes Mr Caroll's clatin was settled The spokesman said the mem- In the air. out of court last year for £A12.- bers and head of the delegation
The attempt is now expected 000 (£9.600 sterling)-China will be announced before its to be made tomorrow, China
departure.-AP.
Mall Special. Mail Special.
QANTAS
search for ALL-CARGO
five men
The trial then against Grunwald and Murray on remaining charges in con-Authorities neetion with the alleged frau- of 'over dulent conversion £3,250,000 of the State Build- Ing Society's money.
All accused had pleaded not !guilty.
Grunwald was arrested on his return from Israel.-UPI and Reuter.
Getty's
sugar
sifter found
▸
Some reports said the strikers
London, July 4. claimed they had been promised An antique silver-gilt sugar the raise in recent Congo elec-sifter, worth about £4,000, tions.
which has been missing from the
In Leopoldville. police arrest-English home of the American ed 213 in a stepped-up drive to oil multi-millionaire Paul Getty, prevent another outbreak-of was found in London today. violence between Bayaka and A policeman found the sifter Bacongo tribesmen in which 12 in a felephone box in the West were wounded two of them End. seriously, yesterday.
Kingston, July 4,
pressed their search today for three Americans and two Jomai- cans sought in connection with activities of a fang- tical back-to-Africa move- ment.
The five are sought in con- acetion with the strangling and burying of three fellow members at the Rastafari cuit, The three were found in a common grave near a Rastafari Camp where two British soldiers were killed by cultists on June 21.
Polier and troops conducted an island-wide search. New. troops were dispatched from Nassau to aid them.
Four Americans are under
arrest charged with the shoot- ing of the two British soldiers raid on the It had been missed since Mr during an Bemy Getty's £10,000 house-warming Rastafari camp The Rustatari of having links party at Sutton Place, Surrey, are suspected
Fidel Castro's Cuben weapons which was attended by 1,200 with
guests.-China Mail Special, regime--AP.
Most of those arrested today Avere charged with breaking curlew or carrying illegally--AFP.
Soviet dog completes fifth space flight
Moscow, July 4.
The Soviet dog Courageous has returned safely to earth after its fifth space
flight in a Soviet rocket, Tass reported today.
A British Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
1 Light blue degree? (6)
4 Racecourse for one north of
the Border, (5)
7 What to do with it having
written it. (8)
8 Sticks
things out at the
cobbler's. (5)
8 Old battle of lances. (8),
11. Retreat. (7)
13 Rumbles In Staffs (7)
15 Used for a pounding, (6)
18 Clerics from Sedan, (5)
19 Material insect with stripes.
.(8)
turns round
20 L she
looks no different. (6)
4
15
DOWN
1 Deals successfully with
menis. (b)
2 That's the lot, (5)
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The one-stage ballistic rocket, Carrying Courageous and another dog and a rabbit, was success- fully launched fast month and reached a height of 130 miles.
All the animals were reported in good condition.
The total weight of the scientiac apparatus, including power sources and the animals, was approximately 2,000 pounds Tass said.
Purpose of the launching was research into the upper layers of the atmosphere and cosmic space.
INFORMATION
The agency, which said the research programme had been completed, stated that valuable information has been obtained on ionised clouds, which form at high altitudes, the lon com- position of the atmosphere and its electrical properties, radia- tion on the earth and the sun,
bd
dala also new
EX the effects on animals in conditiona of weightlessness.
The most fampus space animal of them all, the space- tog Laika, died in an earth satellite while it was still circling the earth but the Russlans have recovered Eeveral fired in rocketa, as vest-distinct from satellites.
3 Miss White in France? (7)
4 Putridi (6)
I
5 Bob or interupt? (8, 5)
6 Possibly estate, crockery. (8)
10 Told the sale, (8)
12 To put into" donger is almost
imperial, (7)
The dog Courageous-which has been sent up to a height of 280 miles in past experiments -- made two trips into space in July 1959. In one firing Courageous had another dog for companion,
in the other, a dog and a rabbit. DOCUMENTARY.
In May this year it was
-an-
18 Blamed for creating a one-nounced that a documentary lim
time madhouse. (6)
14 Svelte and so alim, maybe,
(8)
she 16 It may have to be raised be-
for the ship can mail. (6)
21 In this rare the animal 17 Mon for menne in films,
backs the layer (8).
perhaps, (5)
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD—Across: 1 Amps, Phim ber, 8 Tile, 9 Anna, 10 Aspirin(g), 12 Muns, 13 Sled, 14 Toasted, 17 Terpe, 19 Fing, 22 Preveld, 26 Ales, 27 Mean, 28. BR-la-tol,
29, Cave, 80 Nave (rev), 81 Playboy, 32 Rask, Down: 3 Mandie,
3. Stands, € Plant, & Leas-on, 8 Mails, 7 Elite, 11 Step (rev), 13 Erse, 15 To-IL, 18 Digs, 18 Kimono, 20 Lancer, 21 Nerves, 25 Rural, 24 Party, 25 Delay,
showing the behaviour of two Russian dogs--one of there Courageous-in a rocket flight was to be shown shortly
Tass later quoted Professor Alcxander Mikisailov, Direct of the Pulkomo Observatory, near Leningrad, as ingre
was "amared" at & single stage rocket being ble to lift a pay load of over two tons. He hail-
ed the flight as another step on
the road to launching a másléd. apaceship. Reuter,
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