– DEVASTATING
FLOODS
THE CHINA MAIL,
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1961.
GHANA POLICE HOLD 49
THE FUNERAL OF DAG HAMMARSKJOLD
SUSPECTED ASSASSINS
Accra, Oct. 4. Police were today holding 19 out of 50 people
eight of them women-named by President Kwame Nkrumah As endangering state security after discovery of an alleged plot to assassinate him and members of his Cabinet.
Observers suin those detain-. Oibers include free MP's, Mr el included most of the best : Vietor Owusu and Mr S.G opposition brain in the enun- Antor, of the opposition Ureted try.
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Mr
Party, and Mr F. K. Quaidso, uf the ruling Cenvention People's Joe Party, former Minister of Steinl Welfars: Dr J. B. Danquab,
Among them Appiah, 30-year-old lawyer. deputy leader
of the Parlia-leading barrister and member mentary apposition, whose wife of the United Party, one of the is the former Peggy Cripps, country's best-kav intellec-
daughter of the late Sirtuals; and Mr Kwow Richardson, Stafford Cripps.
United Party General Secretary,
British
bate Chancellor of the chequer.
ADVANCED
POLARIS
LAUNCHED
Cape Canaveral, Dci, 4. An advanced model
Ex-
vi
the Polari, missile was successfully launched on a 1.500-mile light today from the deck of a ship.
This
success,
coming of a
for
after Ihrer fadures shipboard launching the new Polaris A2, paved the way for experimental firings of the new missile from a submarine,
The missile was shot lato the air by compressed air from a vertical tabe on the deck af the experimental Aring ship Observation Island
mble Revier.
as the cruised 40 afshore here-
}
50th man
The sath man, not yet arrest- , is Mr Obelscht Lampley, a barrister.
Mr Solomon Odamtlen, United Party chairman, said he would vasült the executive members nol arrested to decide what beflon could be taken,
More than 200 people have In Ghana on been detained
four pulitical grounds in the
of yours
independence, bu! 100 more on olher grounds.
and
The latest group are by far highest-level detentions to dale.
That under arrest include the editor of the Ashunti Pioneer and its Acera city
The former Archbishop of Dr Erling Elden, Sweden, reads the burial service over the coffin of Dag Hamunarak- jold, in Uppsala Cathedral. Behind the coffin are relatives of the dead UN Secretary- General. London Express Service.
Renovation
of castle
Double agent
Bonn, Oct. 4.
A German court in Karlsruhe today sentenced a Hungarian double agent to two years in jail on charges of giving the Communists Ameri- can military secrets.
double
"
HIT BURMA
Rangoon, Oct. 4.
Floods, said to be the worst in 25 years, have devastated large areas of Burma, ruining more than 810,000 acres of rice crop and forcing starving peasants to offer their prized buffaloes in exchange for food.
Reds plotting disturbances, Lisbon says
07-
Lisbon, Oct. 4. The Portuguese Government claimed today that under-
Communist ground ganisations wore plotting general disturbances for tomorrow - tho anniver- sary of the 1910 Revolu- tion which installed the Republic in Portugal.
An official announcement sald a new rice corp could be sown on 490,000 acres, but more than 240.000 acres had been totally destroyed.
Nearly 500 villages had been flooded, and more than 293,000 people made destitute.
ACUTE
The shortage of rice is acute in some districts, according to press reports. The worst area is said to be Karen State, in south Burma, where the Salween River flooded villages and pad- dy felds and destroyed every- thing.
Te- Hungry people were ported to be trying to loot
shops
and government rice havs planed down In Боте
Page X
MALAY, THAI POLICE
Thai
TRAIL REDS
Kuala Lumpur, Odi. 4. A combined Malays- pollce patrol Is iralling a band of about 20 Communist terrorists who fled after a half hour battle in the border area, the Malayan Government naid today.
One Communist Wan killed and blood trails in- dicated oilers may be wounded, the Government Bafil.
There were по police on Bept. 30.
The Incident took place casualties.—AP,
World getting colder,
scientists say
Rome, Oct. 4.
rice from wealthy villagers. The world has been getting colder for the past 20 years, motoorological ox- ports have told a scienți. fic meeting here.
villages for fear of looiing.
Mr J. Murray Mitchell, of the United States Weather Bureau The yesterday said world tempera-
then
One Karen girl is reported to An official note issued by have died of storvallan and an- the Ministry of the Interior other hungry child died through slated that the secret organisa- eating poisonous roota. tion known as the Portuguese government has begun air drop-tures showed a steady rise from Communist Party has distriping supplies in Karen state and 1800 to 1040, but since buted propaganda Indicating the Stang River valley.-Reu-mean temperatures had dropped planned demonstration againstter. Government policy in Angola, that six men have been arrest- Opposition sources here sald
od for their opinions,
Court officials suld Miklos) After the first of 13 trips, Vasus, 31. who fled to West Vasas was
by apprehended Accra, Oct. 4. Germany after the 1956 anti- Communist security police and,
uprising in Renovation of the 300-year- Soviet
Hungary, under threats of harm to bis old Christiansborg Cas-was recruited by a U.S. Intelli- parents living in Hungary, be agent, oficials gence agency in 1958 to make came a tle in preparation for the information-gathering trips into sald,
He spent two visit of Queen Elizabeth his former homeland.
years in this role, collecting US$13,000 from his American employers for his (alleged spying
to Gbana next month is nearing completion, said
a spokesman for the con- tracting company. Work on
a huge "Are de
editor. 18 railwaymen from Triomphe" type structure Gene Takoradi and Sekondi-where the castle has also been com-
Tall and barbour pleted. an 18-day
Ghana's rail- strike paralysed ways market women from the
towns
women
recent
Reuter.
The Queen's visit is one of} Just month-t flve the subjects being discussed sume here at present by President where the market Nkrumah and
Duncan ugainst the Sandys, British Commonwealth agitated Busterity budget Retations Secretary, China
Taught by Buddhist
Mall Special.
Monks
EX-PARATROOPER MAKES 3 ACCURATE PROPHESIES
Paris, Oct. 4.
A French ex-paratrooper, who says he learned about the "unseen world" from Buddhist monks in the For East, was waiting patiently here today for the fourth scheduled take-off of the Paris-Bamoke airliner. Three previous take-off ran into delays - just as he had pradicted.
Jean-Claude Culssear, 40, with bis wife and stall son, were bound back to Bamulco, Mall, ¦ West Africa, where he is now.
employed as a physical train Ing Instructor. They arrived at Orly Airfeld oulalde Paris boarded the on Monday and
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נזן
YESTÉRDAY'S CROSSWORD—Aeroni 1. Lúbe, :4 Wood, 0 Moku, & Blær, 11 Auu, 13 Hereine, 14 Lip, 10 Balón, 18 Taper, 21 Dotty, 22 Nudes, 24 lts, 28 Mistake, 20 Halc, 30 Huon, at Item 02 Norm, 38 Blay. Downs 1 Lost, 2 Benz, 5 Moans, A Wel, 5. Dump, 7 Knomi, 9 Tenant, 10 Rowed, 12 Slot, 15 Intake, 17. Leuth, 18. Push, 20 Henit, 23 Siren, 24 Iron, 20 Aunt, 27 Espy, 29 Alm.
New Zealand
to debate Crimes Bill
Tho
Wollington, Oct. 4.
controversial Crimas Bill which would reimpose the death penalty for "aggravated murder", was given a second roading without a division tonight in the New Zealand House of Representativos.
However, the House will divide on the death penalty clause when the Government debated in committee, bill is
Polluca! observers say there is a strong possibilty tie clause will be defeated.
probably next weak.
Mr Ralph Hanan, Allorney- General and leader of a group of "rebel" Government mem- bere who oppose the death penalty, suld during today's de- Into Date there was no evidence over that hanging acted as a detor-
rent.
Super-Constellation Jetliner for Bamako without much conviction.
the airline told Cuisscau
hostess that the plane would not make Marsellies. It ald not. It rań mechanical difficulties the south of France and had to turn back to Orly. Tuesday night
was practically the same thing. Cuisseau and family went aboard the plane again but refused to fasten their seat-belts.
He said it would not even take
ufl.
OPPOSITION
"It is intolerable that the fate of murderers should depend on what party is in power, he said in reference to the fact that capital punishment was ubolish- ed in New Zealand in 1941, reintroduced in 1950, suspended
And it did not. I developed an electrical breakdown while taxi-ing down the runway. In 1957, and fully abolished This morning the Cuissenus did in 1950 after a referendum.
not
even leave the hotel.
All Opposition Labour Mem-
Jean Claude announced that bers of Parliament will vote the morning takeoff would be against the death penalty.
delayed until tonight. Scconds
later the phone rang in his hotel room to say that the de-
parture had been set back till ihla evening.
UNDECIDED
The National Government has a 12-seat majority in the
"I was wounded while serving House, including the speaker
in Indo-China", he told
who hng said he will not vote. reporter, and spent my con- Four Government mebers say valescence in India where I they will alto opyxse the learned about the unseen death penalty and several world from Buddhist priests," others are reported -AFP.
| decided--Neuter.
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anti-Government
ARRESTED
U.S. rocket pioneer dies
Reading, Penn., Oct. 4. Commander Frank C.
Brandenburg, a
by half a degree Fahrenheti.
Temperatures have fallen over 80 per cent of the world's tur- free, with cooling most pro- nounced in the tropics, but the U.S., Western Europe, and the Pacile Coast of Asli still show- ed a temperature rise.
ICE AGE
One is lawyor Dr Arlindo Vicente, of Lisbon, who stood as candidate for the Presidency
Mr R. G. Veryard, a British or the Republie in 1958, but withdrew in favour of Gea
meteorologist, told the meeting Humberto Delgado,
that the present drop in tem- He was arrested on Saturday.
retired peratures certainly did not in- The other live are Oporto
U.S. · Navy officer and dicate the e ent of another true Jawyers, Three of them were
pioneer in rocket develop-Ice Age, for the great Ice Ages Vusas was arrested here when
among
the 61 signatories to a
ment, died in n hospital of the past were accompanied for "ргонтаните
of the earth's by movements The fulled to answer satisfactorily,
making Por-
here yesterday after a
crust and even changes in its detector He
given ugal democratic" issued by ele-
heart attack,
orbil periodically to Western intel-ments of the Opposition in May.
Tuy are Dr Olivio Franca, Commander Brandenburg, 46, The meeting, on changes of ligence agents, the court said.
Dr Antonio Beloso Pinho and was cald to be one of the frst climate, 19 sponsored by tho The
A United Nations extent and kind of Dr Artur Santos Silva, Another U.S. Navy offers to enter
Educational, information Vasas LRVC the is Dr Amujo Correla, and there rocket and test the pressures Scientific для Cultural Or Communists was not revealed. 's said to be one other whose in order to determine
and the|ganisation
the World L.S. officials declined comment name has not been made publle ability of humans to travel in Meteorological Organisation---
-AP.
one.-AP. on the case.—AP.
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