BASHIR AND
Washington, June 11. Questions of the hour around US Vice President
Lyndon B. Johnson's office:
Is Bashir, the poor camel-cart driver from Pakistan. really going to take Johnson up on an invitation to visit the United States.
If Hashir does come, will he want to bring his camel
along?
Johnson himself doesn't know the, answers to these
questions. But he would like to, When the Vice President was in Pakistan on his South East Asia tour, he took off in Texas style on a shirt- sleeved, handshaking tour through the crowd of na- tives who turned out to greet him.
He came first to the camel-drawn cart of Bashir and halted for a moment of conversation through an interpreter. Photographers anapped the tall Vice
THE EARL'S EXPERIMENT WITH A BOTTLE
London, June 11.
A 62-year-old Irish peer, the Earl of Arran, went to Scotland Yard and drank a quarter of a bottle of whisky at the State's ex- penso in undergoing festi
for drunkenness.
He had accepted a chai. lenge from Lord Hailsham, Lord President of the Coun- Bil, te have serien of official toeta after he had proteated that bill provid- ing for blood and breath
for car delveraа яс- cused of dangerous driving was unfair.
Lard Arran told the House of Lords Inst April that private experimenta showed ho had alcohol
his blood even though he had not had a drink for 12 hours.
RESULTS
Lord Arran later disclosed the result of the Scotland Yard toate, which wefe
attended by a doctor from
the Government's
Research Council.
Medical
Three observers, he said, Ware
that he satisfied showed evidence of being under the Influence of alcohol, but that, narmally: be was not in danger of being charged with being under the influence to such An extent as to be Incap- able of. having proper charge of car,
Lord Arren would not say if it would be safe for someone less accustomed to alcohol to drive after half the quantity of whisky he had taken-China Mall Special.
ELEPHANTS
Marlon, June 11.
A trailer truck carrying Ave circus clephants smashed into a roadside restaurant near Ohio
today.
Three men were injured, the restaurant was wrecked, but the
elephants were unscathed.
No one was in the restaurant, which was closed for the day. —AP.
In
THE CHINA MAIL,
MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1961.
THE HAND-SHAKING TEXAN
President and the ill-clad Bashir, who for the first time in his life was having his plcture mudo. his free-handed way Johnson invited Bashir to visit
him in the United States.
Perhaps the Vice President, in his busy rounds, later
may have let the matter ally his mind.
The
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VISITOR
the Vice President for making Immediate contact So in Pakistan they havo no doubt that Bashir soon will with the common people. "Even before going to call on Fresident Mohammad Ayub Khan," Jalla wrote, "he took the hand of a poor camel-cart driver, Bashir, made his way into the middle of a crowd of people to talk to them.
simple approach poses a problem
But back in Pakistan they have not forgotten. On Johnson's desk the other day, aides placed a transla- tion of a column written in the Urdu language by Ibenkim Jalia for Jung, the largest daily newspaper in Pakistan.
Jalis, who describes himself as n "special friend of the American people and a thoughtful enemy of the American Government," was lavish in his praise of
During his visit to Glasgow, Scolland, as part of Britain's Commonwealth Technical Training Week, Prince Philip meets Quan Blew-Jhin, a physiotherapy student from Petal- Ing, Jaya, Selangor, nalaya, at a reception in the City Chambers. She was one of the many students from Britain and Commonwealth countries presented to Prince Philip during his sout of different cities in the UK in connection with the Week.
Laotian delegates
hold a 'summit'
may
Geneva, Juno 11.
A "summit" meeting of the three main Laotian parties is ex- pected to be held in Zurich shortly, authoritative sources said here tonight.
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BATURDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 3 Stagner, 7 Re- , clie, & Rapiers, D Opal, 11 Stop, 11 Addle, 18 Seen, 18 lead, 17 Party. 18 Deny, 19 Boas, 21 Octopus, 32 Rector, 13 Seasons, Dawn: 1 Armx, 2 Scooter, 3 Strap, 4 Tent, 5 Griddles, Rusted 10 Pontoons, 11 Sea, 13 Denally, 14 Jay, 18 Spoons, 18 Posts, 19 Burn, 20 Hafd.
The principal participants at Souphanouvong
"summit" would be Boun Oum, such Prince Bou Oum, right-wing
The sources and that the date Royal Prime Minister of the
Prines the start of the summit and
Laotian
government;
Souvanna
Today all the city people, and housewives are talking
about the simple approach of Lyndon Johnson. "Everywhere there are comments like, listen to this 'the American Vice President invited Bashir, u camol-cart driver, to come to America. My, Bashir is certainly lucky. Now Bashir will go by jot Cornet and stay in the world's biggest hotels. He'll stay in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York.'"
be whisked to the United States to live for at least a little while a life of luxury he has never known. The trouble is, Johnson doesn't know whether Bashir is coming or when he is coming or whether the curt driver can be induced to take leave of his camel oven temporarily. Nor is the Vice President aure about how Bashir expects to have his transportation paid- if he does.
"If he comes," Johnson said smilingly, "he will get the best welcome we can give him. Wa'll show him Washington and I'll do my best to get him a room at the Waldorf-Astoria."
Suppose a message came through from Bashir saying: "Have eamol, will travel."
"Well," the Vice President frowned, "that just might pre-
sent a few problems.
"ÁP.
THE STATE COMES FIRST
Russian women's fashions: clean, but rather dowdy'
London, June 11.
Russian women are expected to say "no" to British fashions, said a direc-
tor of a London fashion house on her return
from Moscow.
not shabby, but "They are ifley wear the kind of utility
New phase in struggle for Germany clothes we had in the war," the
USSR proposal solution, is no
says Brandt
Berlin, June 11.
[said.
"1 do not think they will buy
our clothes just yet."
Speaking худа Mirs Anne
END OF THE SUNDAY DISPATCH
London, Juno 11.
Bruh, co-director Frank The Sunday Dispatch,
Usher, one of the fashion houses which exhibited in the recent British trade fair in Moscow.
She said: "Russian girls went clean, but rather dowdy frocka or blouses and skirts run up by themselves from patterns, never saw one smart woman.
"Obviously they are putting the building Arst things Arst
British
O
national Sunday nowspaper is "vory short- ly"
to bo morged with Lord Beaverbrook's Sun- day Express, Mr R. A. Rodhood, Managing Dir- ector of Associated News- papers Ltd, announced
The 169-year-old Sunday adornments Dispatch, whose circulation is about 1,520,000 will be tho
of flats and the major develop- tonight. ments of the seven years plan -und
personal
must come at the end.
"I think the first step in buy-fourth British national news- Mr Willy Brandt, the governing mayor of West
Berlin, said here tonight a German peaceing fashion goods will come in paper to close within the Jast
treaty without prior reunification was "no solution" to the German problem.
"The Soviet Unien wants a Western signature for the divi- sion of Germany," he added.
quanillies even there."
materials and in very
Imited year.
'GREAT INTEREST'
Tonight's announcement ends in week of speculation over its
future.
The Sunday Express has
STATEMENT
He was commenting in a, dent Kennedy and Mr Nikita
Mrs Bruh sald Russian circulation of about 3,600,000. radio broadcast on the memuran-į Khrushchev would result in
women showed great interest dum
on Germany handed to further talles. President Kennedy in Vienna Mr Brandt
Soviet in British fushians. rejected
Mr Redhead's statement sald "They liked the pretty-pretty in parts: last weekend and published by proposals for negotiations be-
not understand be- things but Ald Tas last night,
tween the two Germanics
of Associated "The Directors cause the East German govern high fashion," she added.
Newspapers Ltd have, for some "They never commented but time, regarded with concern the ment was "g regime supported
grabbed any literature that was rising losses by foreign bayonets,"
of the Sunday going."
Dispatch which reached, in the "Some of them quite openly last 12 months, almost £600,000. sketched our fashions."
"In spite of the loyal and abla British visitors were puzzled efforts of the present editor, by the outrageously high price executives and staff of all de-
clothes in would be of adults
Moscow partments, the Sunday Dispatch with the low has become a shops, compared On the question of Soviet clothes, Mrs Bruh said.
prices quality children's highly competitive Sunday na-
Mr Brandt said it was obvious that a "now and very imper- tant" phase in the struggle for Germany had begun,
PRE-WAR LEVEL Dr Konrad Adenauer, the West Germani Chancellor, said
wor.
To stabilise the position in Europe the four powers should agree on the principles of a peace treaty for all Germany "the technicalities of which the Gennan uuthorities
able to carry out.
and
of
victim in the
"In the vlow of the Directors it
at Bamberg, Bavaria, that threats to sign a separate, peace Hussla wanted to put the Ger-treaty with East Germany
She guessed at the answer. "It tional newspaper field.
the government man people back to the level turns West Berlin into a free elty, thinks clothes
may be that
for grown-ups would need over the next three they were on at the end of the Mr Brandt said the West should
or four yearʊ an expenditure are not essential, "never yield to Soviet threatz."
each year of more than £1,000,- But West
""The
able to Germany wanted "In
people scem this the Soviet Union
000 in order to try to put the negotiations, not war, he added. should itself take into
afford them and that might be Sunday Dispatch in a competi account and Prince And he said he hoped the the risk of
of fats are very unilateral Illegal because renta
tive position with its rivals, and Vienna meeting between Prest~ { acis,"
low."
even then the chamoes of ste- But Mrs Bruh said she saw ceeding would be very slender. "The Soviet Union has itself
Russia ns a great potential recognised the legal basis on customer-in time. China Mall
"Accordingly, they have re- which the
gretfully deelded that it would Special
be wrong for the company 100 continue do sustain such a heavy loss which, of course, has had to be borne by its other news- papers. Therefore the Sunday Dispatch can no longer exist as a arparate entity."-Reuter.
Phouma, neutralist its agenda had yet to be de- MAU-MAU OATHS leader; and Prince Soup-cided. hanouyong, half-brother of
But one Laotian source sald
Prince Souvanna Phouma and that the "suramit" meeting could
leader of the pro-Communist Pathet Lao,
The main
open even tomorrow
•
or on Tuesday,
the purpose of projected summit" would be to
afternoon
Before Mr Menon flew to Nice try and form a coalition govern-this morning he had held con- ment of national unily for the sultations with Prince Souvanna Indochina Kingdom.
arc
for
allies are
in Ber-
REPETITION
Pan Am claims record flight
Nairobi, Juns 11. Boventeen people have been
falled in Meru, Kenýan,
"Any unilateral breach of this terms ranging frota three to law which the West might nc- 10 years in the past few days cept would be a repotition of fur offences connected with the unfortunate Munich Treaty recent 111688 oath-taking of 1938 with all is appalling ceremony on Mount Kenya, consequences, I am convinced pollo here said today.
this will not happen," he do-
Chicago, Jung 11. Security
Airways A Pan American still clared, forces
Mr Brandt rejected Soviet and DC-8 jet has set a new record searching the forests for former
flight between Mau Mau terrorists believed to East German protests against for a non-stop Prince Boun Oum will hold have been responsible for the committee meetings of the West Chicago and London. Both East and West at the | talks with Prince Sihanouk in ceremony---Reuter. 14-power Laos conference have Nice tomorrow following the dis- sald
formation of a that the
cussion here tonight between Mr united Laotian government was an Laotian peoples themselves decide.
Formation
to
Phouma and Prince Souphanol- dinner were his vong, who guests here last night.
German Houses of Parliament in West Berlin.
The plane, piloted by Capt. John S. Rowe and carrying 103
covered the 4,000 miles in
Tulpel, June 11. There will be no provocations Menon and Prince Souvanna The mother of General Chen from West Berlin," he said, "but Passengers and a crew of 10, internal question for the Phouma-Reuter.
Chio-shang, Commander-in-we would be forgetting the Chlef
of the Chinese lessons of the past and be act-hours and 40 minutes.
took Nationalisi Air Force, dled on lag
This was 7 minutes under the as weaklings If we Sunday,
fright at unjustified protests mark set last September by Pin Sho WBA 77. Diabetes was and brought about a position American. The scheduled flight Union itself time is 7. hours and 50 minutes. given an the cause of destiɩ.~ | which AP,
-JUPI,
Prince Boun Oum is at pre- sen in Nice, southern France, while Prince Souvanna Phoumni and Prince Souphanouvong are in Geneva.
For weeks Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodian Head of State, has been trying to bring about A three-party Tootlan "summit" meeting.
Prince Sihanouk had Orst suggested that the "summit" Be held at Nice, where he is at present staying.
The neutralist and Pathet Lan princes had proposed Prom Penli, capital of Cambodia, or Geneva.
Mr V. K. Krishna Menoh, and Indian Defence Minister thief delegate to the 14-power held today Laos conference, day-long discussions with Prince Sihanouk in Nice. They were undenlood to have discussed
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Russians plan big blast
in the Uzbek
Moscow, June 11. More than 30,000 tone of explosive will BOGA bo dotonetad in ☐ single blast on o mountainside in the Uzbek Soviet So- cialist Republic, the Soviet nows agency Toss report ed today. Solzmographic stations around the world will be able to record the blast. The Tax
said that
agency
compromiso vere the possibility of the "gummit" be-thin "peaceful explosion" would Ing held in Zurich, which is in url 30,000 tons of mineral rich neutral country and yet away rock Into the air. The explosion rom the site of the 14-power will be ret off in the Tain Chan
Mountains of Uzbekistan. tonference.
Mr Munoh few back tu
Taso cold the explosion wouki Geneva tonigh
drove and
it possible to straight from the airport to call make
on Prince Souvanna, Phoumia, 4,000,000 roubles
The #Kлurces sald that the operations, heutralist Prince had given his approval to Zurich being the
SAVO
in mbing
It said it war the first time
ite of the muggested nummit, in history that 30,000 tons of This, cocording to the sources, explosive would be detonated 'at was his acceptable
to Princo onCU,-AFT,
the Soviet wants.”—Reuter,
Mikimoto
Pearl's
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110 'RIDERS' ARRESTED
Jackson, June 21.
Six "Freedora Riders," bu white, were arrested when they walked into a bus station wait- Ing room reserved for Negroes in Mississippi today.
ONLY AT
Lake, Crawford's
This brought the total number of riders" arrested in Jackson in the past few weeks to 110. Reuter.
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