THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1961.
UN move would provoke exodus of workers Tshombe warns against disarming DEFENCE RESERVED
Katanga
United Nations, Feb. 9. President Moise Tshombe of Katanga has warned that any forced disarming of police and gendarmerie in his province would "provoke an exodus of the fully. employed workers,” and cripple indus trial production.
In a letter to Mr Dag Hammarskjold, U.N. secre- tary-general he also declared that the United Nations would find it very difficult to disarm "the rebels, outlaws and Lumumhist youth organisations."
lic added that it would also be
locate in diffeolt lo
the i jungles the stocks of ur held by the rebels and outlaws,"
The letter, dated February 7, was published here today.
A RISK
Mr Thombe said:
"There is a risk of digutuing! only those units which are main= |
order
white taining Lubile
leaving full freedom of action to to the Table and outlaw, who *** constantly Threatening puble order.
"We have inaintained here state of recurity which profits everybully. why then em
those who obviously serve the cause of rener and security?"
The Katanga president's let-
ter continued:
"I know that the forced disaiming of the police and Pendarmerie units of Kalanga wauki provoke an exodus of the fully employed workers and a total stoppage of the inch trial production of Kalanga. The right 10 determination has
por
self-i
21. Airwar It it,
recognised countries which maked and quite recently in Senegal.
"Kalanga remains the only country in which independence la determinedly refused with out the slightest reason being given. for this attitude."Revier.
Strike called
Rome, Feb. 9.
Italy's railwaymen will go o a 24-hour strike on Thursday next in support of eluiros higher wages and other In- provements.-Hrater.
New U.S. envoy
Marilyn
Monroe
better
MARILYN MONROE
New York, Feb. 9. American film star Marilyn Monroe was in very satis factory condition, it was announced today at the psychiatric clinic of the New York Hospital where she has been under treatment during an on and off stay of roughly two months.
She entered the clinic in } December, it was believed, anxi: Washington, Feb. 9.
has left it on a number uti President Kennedy
today occasions for professional and tuned Douglas Macarthur 11 | personal cogements, including the TICW U.S. Ambassador her trip to Juarez, Mexico, to Belgium. Mr Mucarthur is now cbtain a divorce last month, ambassador to Japan.-UPI. AFP.
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IN
SPY TRIAL
London, Feb. 9. Three men and two women were sent for trial in custody here today after a sensational three- day preliminary hearing of charges alleging they had supplied British Naval secrets to Russia.
One of the accused-37-year- | pompuan old company director Gordon
prosecution to be a Russian.
Two others Harry Houghton were civil ser- 10 be married vants engaged
Lonsdale was suggested by the
and Ethel Gee
who had worked together at a highly-seere Admiralty under- water weapons base of Portland,
Dorset,
All pleaded not. gulily through their counsel and re served their defence.
The preliminary hearing with Bonjous witnesses from the hidden world of espionage held all the ingredients of a secrei
pice thriler,
The story centred on all ordin- [ary middle-class bungalow
the London outskirts.
On
The bungalow, alleged the prosecution, had been hired inta a radio station for tending in- formation to Moscow.
This afternoon testimony was heard from
counter.
espionage
Four operatory
British
ngents.
"0",
The names
of these men are kept secre! end they are identified by inillals, while testifying.
service secret
radio "Q", "R", and "S" told how they d picked
signala from Moscow by following: coded in- dications found in the Krogers? residence,
The Krogers are accused of beaming to Mosco coded in- formation gothered by Hough- ton and Gee, and transmitted through Lonsdale.
Throughou the case the mambers of the alleged ag preserved a calm, almost non- Jehalant manner-smiling, blow, Ling kisses, chewing sweets and malding affectionate gestures to one another.-Reuter & AFF.
PRE-CARNIVAL WARNING
town
2 DEFENDANTS AMERICANS
Washington, Feb, 0. The FBI Kald today Mr and Mrs Peter J. Kroger,
trial in London on spy charges, are in fact Morris Cohen and his wife. Lola, American eltlzrna And formerly residents of New York Clly.
The
# Fil ad
kad supplied British authorl- tirs with the Cohens Ningerprints and they matched up with those of the Krogers.
other
The Krogers and, three persons are now tried
charges
being
that
оп
they had conspired naval secrels for
to steal
Russia.
لا أحد
-
FRI The
the Cohens
under had been Investigation in America several mes in connec- tion with alleged plonage activities, but be- of insuficient cause evidence had never been taken into custody,—AP,
S. Africa:
No second
asking
Capetown, Feb. 9. Dr Hendrik Verwoerd, South African Prime Minister, sald today that if South Africa was refused con- tinued membership of the Commonwealth at the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' conference (in London in March) and told to apply again, she would refuse. Winding
Mannheim, Germany, Feb. 9. Citizens of Mannheim today
found stark. big-lettered signs all over
telling
up a debate in them hou shalt not commit Parliament on the second read- adultery,"
ing of the Constitutional Hill to The signs, posted at the height ke South Africa republic,
pre-Leuten he said: KAY,
of the
tion.
carnival season, contained no "If South Africa is not allowed other words nor identifies to follow the procedure adopted by ather countries and is told to Questioners soon learned that| apply ogam, I say South Africa
the Evangeliest (protestant) will not apply again. Church bud put them up in
*South Africa cannot kopes ol curblug carnival herself to be belittle in that laxity.-AP.
way."-Router,
IN SAIDÚ SHARIF
allow
THE DUKE 'BAGS"
GOATS AND THE QUEEN RESTS
Rawalpindi, Feb. 9.
The Queen spent this morning resting while the Duke of Edinburgh took part in a mountain goat shoot in the red mountain area of North-
west Pakistan.
The Duke's parly "boggod" about six mountain goats (gooral) during the four-hour lunt, which took place about six miles from 55ldu Sharif, the Swat capital.
10
Yesterday it had been re- ported that the Queen might Join in gooral shoot, but she apparently decided today against it and rested at the palace of the Wall of Swat, the Itoyal host,
This
GREETED
afternoon the Royal Couple were greeted by largo crowds lining the mounininotia
12 He will poke his nose in road when they went for
(7)
13 Pussy-willow growth? (0)
14 Power unit. (0)
10 With which you may
your Angers! (5)
17 Thin fabric. (B)
along the picturesque Iliver valley. Several burn triumphat orches spinned the
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD—Acrose: 1 Crab, 4 Cripple,
8 Aloe, 0 Emir, 10 Mac-Adam, 11 Toes, 12 Sole, 14 Top-must, 17 Adare, 19 Scull, 23 Dredgor, 26 Lead, 27 Bein, 28 Bananas, 20 Ride, 30 Tile, 31 Steepen, 32 Tire. Down: 2 Ramrod, 3 Barter, 4 Cornet, Reason, 0. Psalm, 7 Loads, 13 Said, 13 Lox, 18 Ague, 10 Told, 18 Rebate, 20 Clarel, 21 Ladder, 23 React, 24 Drake 25 Nasin,
dive
Swat
road.
After the two-hour drive the Queims and the Duke returned to The palace of the Walk of Swat. The Royal Couple, who are due to leave Swał lomośrow for Tawalpindi endi Lahore, tlined privately" tonight with thele fost-Router
SEE CURSED' PEAK
Sajda Sharif, Swai,
Feb. 9. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh Thursday visited emerald itnes
owned by the Buler of Swat and leaned out by him for two and a half million rupees anpoally.
The Royal Couple exriler drove about 30 mlica north af Saids Sharif to bavo a clear view of the Gunobgar (Curved) Peak In (ho Hinduktab Mountains,
The local people eatì this 18,710-foot peak "Cursod” because it is under anOW all the year round.
The Queen'le scheduled to Icayn Bwai Blate Frídky morning for Labora via Bawalpindi.AP.·
Kennedy on religion and Communism
Washington, Feb. 9. President Kennody said to- day be did not regard roligion as a weapon in the
war, but as "the essence
of the difforoncos - which separate those of the other - side of the Iron curtain
and ourselves.
The first Roman Catholic
ver elected to the Presidency.
Mr Kennedy, spoke briefly at o
JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES
'Rebel' RAF bandsmen will be sent home
Singapore, Feb. 9.
Two Royal Air Force bandsmen, convicted as Jehovah's Witnesses last October of refusing to wear uniform, are to be shipped back to England convicted again of the same
offence.
•
prayar breakfast hore sponsored Gerard Rainford, and 23-year-martial, by International Christian old
Leadership Incorporated,
He and he saw no reason why
only the servants of the Com-
munist system should be marked by a discipline and strong con- viction in the ultimate success of their casc.
"We believe that our cause is
Just, that ultimately, it will be successful," he said. "But it can only be successful if demonstrate our strong con- vletion in it."--Neuter.
wd
London, Feb. 9. The P and C-Orient Line said today it had ordered three ships of over 13,000 tons for its
cargo fleet.
to be
The ships will be built on the river Clyde, and are delivered in 1002 and China Mail Special.
1003.-
They are 24-year-old Michael wear uniform and a full court before which they James Michael Cotterill, pleaded guilty to refusing A both from Lancashire and both lawful order, sentenced them to pentor alreraftmen In the band 112 days detention. at Changi air base, handquarters of Britain's Far East Air Force. Their fall brought them la collision with the Royal Air Force un September 26 loat Roman Catholic, and Cotterrill, year, the day after Rainford, a a Anglieen, had been baptised beneath the ecconut palms of Johore Bahru 09 Jehovah's
Witnesses forsworn from fighting.
On September 25 they sp- for duty in civilian peared clothes, refused to don uniform of a fighting force, and wera summarily renter:ced to 28 days detention.
At the osci they persisted
WORLD'S FIRST
of the 28 days in refusing
Double-decker
roundabout
for London
London, Feb. 9.
to
The world's first "double-decker" traffic round- about. costing £3 million is planned for London's Vauxhall-road junction in 1965, it was announced here today.
The project will speed heavy triangular roundabout above a traffic through
larger surface roundabout. present bottleneck on the west alde of At present 8,500 vehicles an central London.
hour from six main road use the The plan cators for a three-intersection during peak periods. way Byover,
ferming a small-China Mail Special,
THE
They served their sentence, carne out in time for Christmas and then on December 28 they turned up
for duty again in clvillan chollies.
had ordered them
Arrested after their ofcer to put en uniform they appeared before yet another court martia) on January 30.
This time they both pleaded not guilty anying they had of no sense of guilt becauiss their religious convictions,
SIX MONTHS The court found them guilty
sentenced
મક them to and months detention.
"Now they øre being sent back to England on a troopship leaving Singapore on February 23," a Royal Air Force spokes- man aid today.
He had no comment to make
on why they were
back,
being sent
the
They will be kept in close
throughout солдистел Journey being kept under guard In the detention quarters on board," he said.
According
spokesman,
to the RAF Cotter is due to
end his period of service in October this year and Rainford in January next
year China Mail Special,
Queen's aunt dies
London, Feb, 0. Lady Mary Frances Elphin-
stone, an aunt and godmother of
the Queen, died at her home, Carberry Tower, Musselburgh,
It Scotland, yesterday, announced today,
wag
An elder sister of the Queen
Mother, she avas the widow of the 16th Lord Elphinstone, who died in 1933-Reuter.
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