PLANS FOR ARMAMENTS INDUSTRY
THE OKINA ALAIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1960.
South Africa to make her own arms
Johannesburg, Oct. 18.
South Africa is to develop an armaments Industry which will eventually supply the bulk of the weapons and ammunition needed by its armed forces, Mr Jim Fouche, Defence Minister, announced here tonight.
Support
for Gaitskell sought
Addressing a dinner of the Steel and Engineering Indus. tries Federation, he said cli de- fence units would in future be anned with automalle rifles mstead 303 rilles.
Declaring the Government's policy of combating Communist infiltration In South Africa, Fouche suld the task force South Africa was building up fur internal defence would also be used in an emergency out- side the Union's borders."
Wherever
Barse possible wrapens and their atomunition would be of South African manufacture.
Large orders have been pl; evd for automatic weapons, and the Arst consignments had already A group of 25 "rank-and-been delivered.
London, Oct. 19.
File" members of
the
Labour Party today issued
present
a manifesto urging UP: port for Mr Hugh Gaitskel! in his Party's defence policy crisis. signatories
The
prominent workers tuscy parties parts of Britain,
The
In
con-
In various
Agreements had been reached with certain oversens manuftic- turers to produce arms and ammunition In South Africa. — Reuter,
present The Queen's
speech
manifesto sait the Party's rank-and-ille opinion must assert itself in support of Mr Gaitskell and three Labur MPs the great majority-whu Were
determined to reverse the "disastes trend towards polley of unilateral nuclear disarmament and neutralism.
PRESSURE GROUPS
The manifesto added: "We seek to reassert the views of the great mass of Labour sup- porters against those of doctrinaire pressure groups.”
All Labour MPs are to re- celve enpits of the manifesto.
But Mr Sydney Silverman, left wing Labour MP, today called on Mr Gaskell, lo give ay the leadership it he could not accept its defence polky loyally.
In a letter to Mr Galtskali, Mr Silverman said:
" beg of you to pause, to think again, Loyally
accept
the policy of the Party you wish to lead. Or if you caninol reconcile your Judgment and conselence with that obligation. then retire from, the leadership and campaign for your views, 4 so many of us have had
do for so long."
10
He added: "Please think, think, and think again before pursuing a course that not only brings disaster to the British
Labour Party, but leaves little socialism tope for democratic
in the world."-Reuter,
!
London, Oct, 18.
Mr Hurold Macmillan und his Cabinet at a meeting today are belleved to have considered toples to be included in the Queen's speech from the Throne
Parliament's opening session next month.
ཏྟཱརྔུ་འ*
The speechwritten for the Sovereign by the Cabinet and consisting partly of a previeve of government plans for the session is expected this time to foreshadow improvements in pension. and possibly some
In changes
National Health Service arrangements, - China Mull Special.
Rhodesian
premier
condemns
provision
Salisbury, Oct. 18.
Sir Edgar Whitehead, Pre- mier of Southern Rhodesio, today con- demned the provision in the Monckton report for territories to secede from the Rhodesian Federation in certain circumstances. Opening a debate on the TO- port the Southern Rhodosiu parlament, he said he could im- agine "hothing more appalling than to reach agreement at the forthcoming
ot review
the then federal constitution, and wait another ilve years for an- other review.
PERMANENT
op
We simply cannot go taking a plant up by its roots every" lve yours to see if it is still growing. What we bottle! this time must be permanent.
'Satchmo' tours Africa
Loula "Satchmo" Armstrong stopped in London last week before starting on a State Department-sponsored 10-week jasz tour of Africa. Ho arrived fully equipped, with trum- pets and 93lb vitamin pills, sntibiotics, medlolnes and, bandages, "I'm not it, boy, be lold a reporter. "I'm not a hypochondriac. I just need them pills to keep me healthy."" Picture shows; Louis "galah mo" Armstrong (right) out from London for ten weeka' jku
relebrations, ' playing in Africa, with one of the band-boys of the Nigerian independence (left)--Express Photo.
Gimmicks mark
motor
world
show, lack
of new models
noted
London, Oct. 18..
Sir Edgar repeated his pledge The world's motor makers, worried by dwindling sales, showed more in.
that if any agreement was reached at the constitutional
which review
departed
present
drastically from the constitutional arrangement, tho, electorate of Southern Rhodesia mwa be given the chance to accept or reject it.
standing absolutely firm on that," he added.-Reuter.
am
Primate condemns
sexual impurity among_youth
Sydney, Oct. 18.
Sexual impurity among young married and un- married people in Australia was "a cancer eating at the nation's heart", the Primate of Australia and Anglican Archbishop of Syd- ney, Dr H. R. Gough, said yesterday.
A British Crossword Puzzle
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25
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32
31
ACROSS
1 Not that old soft shoe (4).
4 Decorate dolly? (7)."
B The end of thei senoiltu (4).
Window glass (4).
10 Sit
through the von- uncruis? (7).
11.tsland group in Galway Nay
(4).
12 Excellent monarch? (4). )
10 Title holder (7).
17 Spirit of
seems (0),
broadcasting.
19 Great Tittle Addial (0)
it
21 Raised to the third power?
20 Blind-sley groovest (45)
27 A stope once different (4).
28 Teathered songster (1)..
Offensive heraldic
(4)
do Witherto away. (4),,
devices
21 A Frenchman's utilts (7).
32 Not fighting fll (4),
DOWN
The
genuity in publicity gimmicks than engineering when the 45th Inter national Motor Show was opened to the press here today.
Blale-owned
But the car
Renault
In fact last Company of France, for instance, year's model with body, design who dimissed 8,000 of their by the Italian stylist Michelloti, yesterday, had and the only ew feature is a 00,000 workers
ballet dancer's on
placo of their 6-cylinder engine in six stand performing to music.
the old 4-cylinder unit, And as the dancers moved So the doors, bonnets and boot lids of the cars opened and shut and the windreen wipers swayed in rhythmic union. "But the cars were the same as last year's models.
Although more than 60 manu facturers from 10 countries dis- played their latest models, new to tickle there was litle
the palate of the moloring en- thusiast.
new
to-
Motoring crites see the new Vanguard as an interim model unul a new car to go with the new engine is produced.
presented 05 Other models new include the Humber Super Snipe, which once again is last year's car with styling glm- micks like the American device of using four headlamps to de the work of two, and several sports models made in small numbers,
EMPHASIS
They include the Lea-Francis, a pioneer British motor maker out of production for eight years who show a puce-coloured car
There was, in fact, no truly car in the 10-day show
will be opened which
by the President of morrow Britain's Board of Trade, Mr Reginald Maudling.
With thousands of Britain's motor workers unemployed be- which hurts the eyes and has a
govermanent restric- six cylinder Ford Zephyr credit in the home gine. on tions mariget, atrikes, And falling overseas stades, the. mnkera nevertheless responded
cause of
cara
This offering from a one-time maker of race-winning with
caused sad head-shaking among enthusinsta who remembered the firm's former glory in the sporting field.
Dr Gough claimed too many. young people in Australia were pretty much the mixture as be-
fore.
amoral immorality 19 bed enough, but to be amoral is
definitely worse.
"To lose one's sense of right ond wrong, lo call black white, reveals a deadness of soul that Is disastrous,” he said.
an-
ONLY NEW MODEL
The only
new model
came from the nounced today Rootes group, who make Hill- mat, Humber, Singer, and San- beam cara.
Dr Gough was giving his!
And this was in fact a re- presidential address to the 32nd, vamped version of
last year's Synod of the "Anglican Diocese Sunbeam Alpine two-seater of Sydney, which
opened sports car with a slightly lar yesterday,
gur engine of 1800 cc. instead He said that a committee, of of 1,500 cc.
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which he was a membwe had been studying the problem and
2 Does he never followy (0).
3 Non-liquid lubricant (6).
4 Purta up! (5).
Such an expression is almost agonised (6).
0 Pride of the Lobanoso? (8).
7 Cymrle symbole (3).
12 It is designed to attract (4).
13 Never the top team (4).
1 The crudest colour, it ap
pers (4), ~
10 What the:
wanted, (4).
10 do out (B),
20 Stair patty (0),
21 Epithel for
(8),
washurwoman
energy
today
23 Where one holds away (8). 84 The standard work (B). 20 Day? (0).
Bunker
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had formulated plans,
PUBLIC OPINION
in this case is that it caters for the
The emphasis is certainly on selling in the new buyers' market which now holds good throughout the world for the first time since World War II.
Shots fired while Castro
visiting,
envoy says
Italian
Havana, Oct. 18.
Livio Ambassador Theodofi_confirmed today that unidentified persons fired shots into his resid. ence early on Sunday morning but said he could not say they were directed
Premier @gainet
Fidel Castro,
сп
trom
The ambassador was com-
reports menting
that Castro Bogota, Colombia escaped assassination last Bun- day while visiting a home rear residence the Italian embassy and that the shots fired by the
struck the would-be assassina diplomat's home.
TWO BULLETS
Theodoil said Castro
and a
Mr. Lester Sufeld, managing director of the North American Company of the British Motor group of high police officials Corporation, the biggest British arrived at his residence at B manufacturer, showed more opam on Sunday to inspect the mism than most car men when damage. He said the shalis of he boasted today that his firm two bullets which pierced, the would sell cars worth more than servant's quarters
taken $100 million a year in the North covered by police and American market in the next
away for ballistics examination. low year.
"The shots came from a long distance," Theodoli sald-UPI,
But the gimmick
would-be aparting family man whose middle-aged spread makes it hard for him to enter But when questioned he a
mitted that this would only be There
and leave a spori car. is one obvious and
with what they urgent thing we can do,"
keeping pace he
Routes get around the tubby were doing now. soid.
hubby's Trouble by using a Normally about half a million from overBORA, That is to arouse public smaller steering wheel and advizitors, many opinion in such a way that the justable pedals to allow for de- come to this annual shop win government must be compelled velopment in the board room. dow of the motor' makers, by the will of the people to stop
Another car offered as a new
But this year the makers the aprend of riotal disease model today was the well tried will be all out to woo the small Through unclean and obscene Standard Vanguard, the fat percentage of buyers among) literature."-Ching Mall Special. British post-war design.
thom-Reuter..
-Lower air fares
AGREEMENT BY 80 AIRLINES AT IATA TALKS
Connes, Oct, 18,
Representatives of 80 airlines agreed here tonight to reduce passangers fares in
saväral parts of the world.
A 14 per cent cul in lower Fares over the North Atlan- Australia, gensetni faru levels class fares between the West tie were left unchanged for the remain unchanged; as the result Coast of the United Stains and time being. But the airlines of reduction over, many of
Weed routes earlier this year. Tokyo, effective on December 1. will meet in the Spring to and reductions of up to 35 par nasers the result of the new 17-
However the pattern of tent in the cost of lower alata, day offseason
xcursiones,
were re-
Sentences altered
Capetown, Oct, 18. Sentences imposed on 140 Africans who went to police,
March 21, saying stations on they had no referetice books (passes) and demanding to be arrested were altered here to- day.
All were originally isntenceű to a £300 and or three years Imprisonment.
The appest
court confiringa the convictishs but truled that halk of the sentences wete suspended in all 'éanos for, treb years, China. Mall Spelal
Operation on
tickets between North and and to consider whether to ex-special group and inclusive tour Judy Holliday
South America, were the moat and them. substantial faré reductions at- Hounced,
The new passengre fates will
Is the first time that the Inter-
HOT MEALS
:
designed
10 promote greater offendion tourist traffic
New York, Dat.: 18, will be further expanded and Improved, Spiciál holiday A. tumor describedk (ds pov- fares which provett successful cancerulis was removed, fodky
Huliday, a spokestrain for in this dulkimn. If the governments concerned reportat in the sting will be offered from the threat of satiess Char
be valid for two yeden. Tisla The IATA wiro 'decided that htture be served hot meals national Air Transport Assos economy class passengers will in tion, whit troupe the world's instead of bold plate approve the proponate Liley Deior airlines, hoe mladicoaded in. raising sgtenment for so long
and between either on December# 17 de : Apell - orvated withiné Lucie berdid ruday the Miurope Africa and the Will gine come heatre peeled the world; pag suliy
Lurope, sta tud Far Kan what | Yatdeu
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Flagrant betrayal, cry__journalists of defunct paper
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London, Oct. 18. Journalists employed by the defunct Liberal morn- ing newspaper News Chronicle today Issued a statement alleging that the closing of the paper represented "the most flagant betrayal of principles in the history of British journ- alism."
The statement, issued jointly by News Chroniclé members of the National Union of Journ- alisis and the Institute Journalists, said:
of
"We wish to late publicly that we regard the closing of this newspaper ofter: 114 years as a complete and unjustifud scuttle."
TRUTH IN EXILE
"We are determthod: hot, 10 let the spirit and tradition of Liberal jourélism 'disappear --- we will maintain it however we con, as best we can. If the world recognises government in exile, we claim equal respect in our efforts to maintain the tradi tion of truth in exile,
To fight Red
threat in
British
Guiana
Georgetown, Oct. 18. Industrialist Peter D'Agular of Georgetown has formed a third political party to fight what he describes as the Communist threat in Britain's only colony in South America.
"We are certain that if we ton hold together long enough, the reading public, which has been so cynically misled, can be told the whole truth behind the death of the News Chronicle the most flagrant betrayal of principles in the history of Bri- iish journalism."
D'Agular, brewery baron of The News Chronicle Journ-British Gulona, announced the wiinta said in their statement formation of the party after a they
to-soon moeting that brought together were going meeting daily "and sarry on 100 peopio, including legislators, their normal liaison as a professional men, businessmen, editorial unit,”—China Mail trade union leaders and several
women. Special.
1 AIM Aim of the new party would be the overthrow of the leftist Party, Progressive headed by Dr Cheddi Jogan.. D'Agular will be leader of the new party, yet unnamed.
fot Formation of the party lowed unsuccessful attempts by merge the D'Aguiar group to
New violence
in Congo
Leopoldville, Oct. 18. Congolese army strongman
Col Joseph Mobutu tightened with the neople's National Con- by Forbes curfew regulations in Leopold-gress Party, led
new Burnham.-AP. ville today following
the violence which included
The Hague, Oct. 8, tribal manter of three women.
At the invitation of the Shah A statement issued by Col Mobutu who is army chiut of of Iran Prince Bernhard wil visit staff, said the strict ourfew was Tehran, Leaving on October 29, Government Information necessary because of the "in-the
murders, admits, credse
Service said today. The Prince rapes and thefts in the past few will participate in a shooting dags."--UPI.
party in Iran-AP.
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