UN facing bankruptcy,
Heath says
Landost, July 5. Edward Beall, Britain's Lord Privy Neal, naist to- night "there is no doubt thr United Nations is la rect facing bankruptcy,"
In the course of a writen Parilamentary reply. Ileath said it was impossible to say exactly what the pre- sent UN deficit is.
On the question of the international organisation facing bankruptcy, the Lord Privy Seal declared:
"This is a cause of great
concern
ta
ment."-AP.
the Govern-
Exchange
over
banker
Ottawa, July 5. Finance Minister Donald Fleming and Opposition Leader Lester B. Pearson today accused each other of inconsistency in their relationship with Bank of Canada Governor James E. Coyne.
Pearson sau Fleming support- id Cove at an earlier date and Low was having him Bred.
Fleming entered that Prat-
1 Feb. 20 that Coyne
uld reign it he didn't arres With Cloveranent poley, Nuw eid. Pearson was trying t lep Chyle in
Ar post even
vis he did
the Government.
his $50,000-a-
though it was t agree with
The exchange occurred in th House of Commons during the second reading of a bill to oust the Governor.
NATIONAL INTEREST
Fleming said the Government huch hope the Coyne situation could he lived with" until the end of the year, when his term expires. But he said Coyne's i firia heeze necessary in the nation interest.
Pearson followed this up by Comparing Fleming to a cuttie, hsh which squirts on an ay substance when in danger i Icles to escape in the murkiaras "We will have to deal with all of the Minister's manipulation of Facts and figures." Pearson said.
-UPL
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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1961.
SPECIAL MEASURES TO LESSEN RISK OF ESCAPE
PRISON SECURITY BEING IMPROVED
London, July 5. Mr R. A. Butler, the Home Secretary, is taking special measures to lessen the risk of har- dened prisoners escaping from British prisons.
He unnouneel these in the House of Commons in reply to a question prompted by one of the biggest juil break in Britain for many years-the escape of 10 men from Wandsworth Prison, London.
After saying the physical security of existing prisons was being "urgently improved," Mr Butler went
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"I am taking special measures to lessen the risk of escape by prisoners serving sentences of more than four yours, many of whom are hardoned und resourceful prisoners with a powerful incentive to escape.
A number of these prisoners were boing transferred almost immediately from Wandsworth and Penton- ville to a special wing at Parkhurst, on the Isle of Wight, of the South Coast of England. Others would be sent there later.
He said he also intended to set aside a wing in Durham Prison, where a special regime, with rigorous discipline, would be provided for escaped prisoners. As a general precaution he proposed to restrict work in
beat up Dennls Danish and Canadian military police of the United Nations forces Neeld, an Associated Press reporter. in Leopoldville, Congo. on Saturday. June 24, as he tried to interview arriving members of the Gizengist delegation from Stanleyville. Horst Faas, the AP photographer who took this picture, had his camera knocked from his hands. -AP.
COLONY REPLACES
CHINA AS
TEXTILE THREAT TO JAPAN
Tokyo, July 5.
The Nihon Keizai Shimbun, an influential Japanese financial daily, sald today that Hongkong was replacing Communist China as a major threat to Japan's export of cotton textiles to South-east Asia.
and Switzerland all Pakistan exported smaller quantities,
Collon yarn outgut, the review sold, cems to have reached and passed a peak sometime last year and for the first quarter of this year dvertased by about 3
The newspaper claimed the and italy, exported more cotton Hongkon); cotton textile in- cloth during the first quarter of dustry had been intensifying anthis year than the same period
last year. underselling drive in South-east Asian nations, particularly Indonesia.
in
Was
The newspaper Sources quoted Japanese trade
saying that Hongkong-minde 2.003 ein! cotton cloth selling for 13 or 14 US cents per yard-ten per cent cheaper than The Japanere product.
The same sources reportedly said Hongkong this month had heady concluded export deals for more than 10 million yards. hod while Japanese exports smounted to ahnost nil,
Meanwhile,
report near Manchester, said Japan
Hongkong, along with
Havana, July 5. Three persons were winded theum Lif just night.
When a boruž aeriously, pluded in a public park the Havana ducks, UPI.
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OVERALL
The Colton Board's latest
statistical review per cent, quarterly shows that in the overall world
the ¡ picture
of cloth amount iraded was much the same as during the Brs! quarter of last contrast to the sharp year in increase in 1959 and 1960.
There was little change in the United Stater expert figures, but the United Kingdom, India,
India plus the Japan and
yurn producing Cotton countries had higher output, it rld. But that yarn output was 12 per cent less in the United decreases also in States with Britain and "probably" Belgium,
Reuter & UPI.
'AFRICANS NOT AVERSE
TO PERSUADING VOTERS BY THREATS'
Lusaka, July 5. African political parties in Northern Rhodesia last year were again "not averse" from at- tempts to persuade voters by threats and in- timidation, according to the 1960 annual report of the Ministry of Native Affairs.
"The parties must accept the blame for having
raised the
political temperature consider- ably by inflammatory speeches,"
the report added.
NO EVIDENCE
But there
no evidence Was
The report said: "Some of these ineldents
Japanese jet planes crash
Southern Japan today.
were
East
local prisons on Saturday mornings, whon fewer officers were on duty,
A bill now going through Parliament would Increase the penalty for helping a prisoner to escape and in- troduce a now penalty for harbouring an escaped. prisoner.
One of the reasons given for the break at Wandsworth has been overcrowding and shortage of staff. Earlier the Home Office announced that more than 7,000 men were sleeping three in a coll in British prisona. Mr Butler said the present building programme would help meet this congestion. Eight prisons were being built for men and one for boys as well as nine remand contros.--China Mull Special.
R. A. BUTLER
Germany calls for
a 'free' West Berlin
U.S. holiday
deaths
reach record
of 892
Chicago, July 5.
It was a black day in the history of U.S. holiday Fatalitics 03 accidental and highway deaths shot up to an overall figure of 892 at the end of tho four-day July 4th week- end today for O Που record.
Party informed of
peace treaty plan
Berlin, July 5.
East Germany's leadership today issued a new call for making West Ber- lin a "free city" and ordered urgent reform of the Communist re- gime's shaky food supply system.
Water Ulbricht, Head of the Party and Chief of State, told the Party Centrul Committee the basis of his plans is a peace treaty and the conversion of
west Berlin into a "demill- thrised, neutral free city."
in the
MOUNTAIN DEMOLISHED
"Our people, said an official statement issued after a two- day session of the Party Central Committec, "havo an uncondi- A The Independence Day week-
ilonal right to a pesce treaty end traffic toll of 510 wus 28 and the removal of the powder
for a barrel of West Berlin the record more than summer holiday sel during the heart of our German Deme- July 4th holiday of 1950, cratic Republic."
The over-all accidental death toll of 892 eclipsed the figure of the notorious "Black Christmas" of 1950.
drowning's The 232
for a third highest holiday. IL was
083
NEW PROBLEMS.
The party ordered the
IN 'PEACEFUL' BLAST
London, July 6.
mountain in the Vacha Gorge in the Northern Caucácus has been demolished in "a power- ful, peaceful explosion," Moscow Radio re- ported today.
*
Quoting the Moscow news- It would take at least seven poper Sovetskaya Rossiya, the months to transfer the dolomite Go-radio sold
the explosion had from the Gorge.
"lens of thousands
were vernment to rot up a new State thrown out
of cubic metres" of dolomite, a Commission and summer Planning
to valuable raw material used for Economic Council surpassed People's
籍
leadership of
our
only by the July 4th holiday meet "new problems in plan- the glass industry. for 1955, when 251 persons losting and their lives, and the Fourth of people's economy, which have July of 1949, when 245 drown-ripened and require an urgent inga were reported.
United Press International also counted 141 other violent deaths over the holiday:
The breakdown: Truffle 510, drownings 232,
9. fireworks planes miscellaneous 120-UPI.
U.S. charge
in Laos
peace talks
3,
solution."
This was also a reference to the Communist drive to make East Germany independent of deliveries from West Germany.
Bruno Leuschner is to leave the State the Chairmanship Planning Commission and co ordinate economic affairs Deputy Premier. He will be head of a new Planning Com- only to mission subordinated the top leadership. Karl Mewis
the will head
old Planning ol Commission with the rank Minister and Alfred Neumann will head the new Economic Council, also as a Ministor.
STEEL WEEDS
On
тем
The Central Commitice of Genova, July 5. the East German Party met on
today Monday and The United States
Tuesday, charged that botweon Wednesday, Ulbricht will
to the Soviet-style 1,000 and 2,000 Com-port
"People's Chamber" on The munist North Vietnamese party decisions. As in all stationed in Communist countries, these troops are
are approved without question. rebel-held areas in Laos. U.S. delegation spokesman There was new insistence Ned Nordness said that poelive the ometal statement on the information had been received
need for economic "security on the North Vietnamese troops against the trouble-making
Foreign Minister Ung Van
the West German militarists." Khlem of North Vietnam had East Germany Is heavily de- earlier denied allegations before pendent on imports of steel and the Las Peste Conference other basic materials from West that his country's troops were Germany. In case of a conflict operating in Laos territory.
over Betin, these might well be Nordnes, speaking after to-
cat T. So the Communists want day's session, called the Van no replace them with their own
fagrant production.--AP.
Khlem
statement a
abuse of truth.
The US. spokesman sald that the Vietminh units known to
£2 thief breaks
woman's jaw
be operating in Laos Include in- Miyazaki, July 5.
training per- fantry, artillery, Two Japanese pilots
sonnel and military technicians. that party leaders had planned hurt and two others are missing any of the "unfortunate" cases | of ear-stonings,
after two Japanere jet trainere sald they move freely back and forth across the Laos-North arson or in-planes collided In Night over timidation.
Vietnam border and have fre- quently fought battles with the Mrs Venus Walters, 57-year-
forces of secund collision pro-Western
Gen. old housekeeper, was "critically It was the seemed unpre-
Japanese Jets this Phoumi Nosavan.
" in hospital after being ot meditated, and were only made involving
tneked
her car
hame in They were then withdrawn to Two FtOF Jet Aghters possible by the general exeite-week,
near (et Tuesday
Communist-backed ment which had been
palive Ainger-road. Chalk Farm, and on created collider
troops take over robbed of £2. Her injuries in- ever the months by a series of Hamamatsu, 130 miles south-Pathet Lac
of occupied etude a broken jaw and arm.-- inRanmatory speeches."--China wel of Tokyo, but both pilots administration villages.--UPL
London Express Service. Mall Specină.
escape unhurt.-AP,
Yangtze tributaries rise
RAIN MENACE IN CHINA
Tokyo, July 5. Hoovy rains in southwest |
China have caused throb
Now China News Agency reported today.
The report naid "some of the, safe areas,"
It said the rains stopped by local crops were inundated. Thu
of most parts heavy rains ning affected local June 29 In
Dut The agency anid 'an average of industrial production and com- western Szechwan basin,
ineal weather forecasts prediet- 12 Inches of rain were recorded unleation in some areas. Yangtzo tributarios to from June 23 to 28 in western Along to Min and To rivers, ed possible future raina
The basin kad suffored pro- The 60,000 people in low-lying rural to "menacing parts of Szechwan basin.
with the heaviest rainfall was in Klangyu ereas and towns were ance longed dry poll heights," but did not
County where 31 incheia fell marooned. Now the great ma- jenstern parts viltà affected by overflow their banks, the during the period, it said, 1offty of them have moved to shortage of rain, it paid -APH
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red,
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Although it said the explosion took nearly six months to pre- pare, no date was given for it.— Reuter
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