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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1961.
ARMY WORKERS THREATEN TO JOIN STRIKERS
Singapore industrial unrest
Violence may WALKS INTO
break out
in city
Singapore, Nov. 12.
More trouble loomed on the Singapore in- ⠀dustrial front tonight where already
essential service workers are on strike and heavy police and military patrols gon are guarding replacement workers. The Army Civil Service Union, about 27,000
strong, tonight rejected an
increased pay offer and served two weeks strike notice on Britain's Far East Land Forces Head- quarters.
The union president said this 1 would be called off if "a reason- able offer" was forthcoming dur- ing the notice period.
Suddenly
The strike of the essential service workers, having
•pleted 13 days, is in a state deadlock with the government.
Portuguese
elections
Lisbon, Nov. 12.
of
is the There
of prospect violence tomorrow in the centre dispute of the city in another which hax Muddenly become acule.
Some months ago the Govern ment dismissed 17 members of the staff of its community cen- ires for atinged anti-government political activities.
strike of
This resulted Community centre stuff who have been picketing community centres and the Labour Ministry A few days ago there was brush between pickets and police when pickets were moved from outside the Ministry.
The Government has alleged strikers have caused consider- able damage in community centre premises and that
they
HER OWN
DEATH TRAP
WAS
McCaysville, Ga, Nov. 12 Mrs Carl Stepp killed today-the victim of a shotgun trap her husband said burglars.
Wüg Intended fur
Police said Stepp and his wife rigged a shotgun to fire into the doorway when the door was opened. The husband told officers Bur glars had broken into the house recently,
Upon returning home to- day after visiting friends, police said, BIre, Stepp goi cat of the car ahead of her husband and approached the door.
Stepp told officers He shouted a warning to his wife but that it came 100 late. Mrs Stepp opened the door and the shotgun blast hit her in the right side.--- AP.
Communists
lose ETU control
London, Nov. 12. Communisti today lost their control of the 233,000- member Electrical Trades Union.
They lost six of the eight arc using one besitle the seats they held on the 11 scat
8 strike executive council of the union.
Balloting officials said more
cent than 20 per
of union
the Labour Ministry as Portugal went through
motions of a general elec-headquarters. tion today with voters balloting for a single list
of Salaxar-bocked candid- ates for the National Legislature.
Opposition groups had urged a boycult of the elections by ail citizens as a gesture against what they called the Jack of peditical liberti's under 12- year-old Prime Minster Sala- ZET, who has run Portugal for 32 years.
But the Portuguese 14 L apathetic in the face
of with- drawal of all opposition
Salazar - supported Union candidates.
96 per cent
National
Interior Ministry oficials aid they expected to count between 900,000 and a million favour tble votes.
The Govertament has given members voted in today's eler- those in the strike headquarion--one of the largest votes in ters until midday tomorrow to the history of the major British vacate
evicted by Union. st, be
police.
If the army workers come nui on strike it will be the Arst time it has happened.
Biggest employer
There have also been reports of labour difficulties at the big naval base but none from the Air Force base.
Altogether about 25,000 are employed by the British armed forces in Singapore who tonn the biggest employer on the island.
Re-affiliation
After the results were an- nounced, the nine anti-Com- munist members of the now council said they would seek to have the ETU re-affliated with the Labour Party and the Trades Union Congress.
News in brief HUNDREDS HOMELESS IN NORWAY FLOODS
Oslo, Nov. 12.
Severe floods left hundreds homeless and washed out railroad lines and roads today if southern Norway.
The floods have built un from heavy rains over the past two weeks. The raglig waters- forced many tamilies to evacuate their homes last night. The railrosil between Bergen and Oslo was washed out at three points and five highways
ave been closed.
Worst hit areas were Tele- markh country 200 miles south of here and Opplarid country. Burth
casualties of here. No Hive been reported so far but damage was estimated to run info millions of dollars-UP).
NO DANGER
Do
Helsinki, Nov. 12. Scandinavian leaders see immediate danger to northern Europe from the Soviet Union, eccording to reports from the Nordic States Prime Ministers Conference that ended today.
Prime Ministers of the five states discussed the Nordic Soviet note on joint Russia-
Finnish Defence measures, but informed sources said that none of the ministers expressed any worry over Finland-UPI.
Air safety plan
Washington, Nov. 12. The Kennedy Administration unveiled a new air safety plan today but left unanswered the question of who will pick up the $500 million price tag.
Rommel memorial
Bonn, Nov: 12. Several thousand people in- cluding hundreds of ex-Afrika Korps men today attendee the dedication of a memorial in Heidenheim for Field Marshal Erwin Rommel; who would have been 70 years olð November 15.
on
The Nazis forced Rommel to commit suicide 17 years ago after he was accused of joining the anti-Hitler plot, his widow and son Manifred were also pre- sent at today's ceremony In his hometown here.--Reuter.
TUMULT
Pagé
A few hours earlier it was "Riverhorne"; an £8,000.4mber bungalow by the river Thames. Now it is a charred ruin after a show-business party.—Express photo.
INQUEST ON FIRE TRAGEDY
London, Nov. 12.
A coroner's jury in Slough, Buckinghamshire has returned a verdict of death by misadventure at an inquest into a fire on Guy Fawkes night which claimed the lives of three people.
The fire which broke out at the home of Mr John Kennedy, agent of British television and recording star Tommy Steele, was caused by a burning fire- Pails, Nov. 12. cracker which exploded in a box Tumult broke out in the Na- of fireworks near an open door, tional Assembly tonight when} Several leading British telovi- the right wing deputy for sion- and film stars, including Corsica, Mr Pascal Arrighi, Dlana Dors and Stoney James, claimed that gendarmes tortured were attending à party at Mir and arrested Europeans in Al-Kennedy's home when the fire geria.
occurred,
in
He slice claimed tha France the insurgent tender Mohammed Ben Bella was treat- ed better than officers serving senitetices for the Alglers putsch. Deputies on both sides of the House banged, their desk itds and shouted across the chamber There were cries of "Har" when the Justice Minister Mr Bernard Chenot Intervened to deny the deputys allegations-Reuter.
"Project beacon," special presidential task force composed. of leading aviation and: elec trontes experts, recommended a JE new automatic air traffic con- make trol system that would
and more efficient flying safer within the next Ove years-
Both the Labour Party and the TUC ousted the union UPI. earlier this year because of its Communist leadership.
Frank The new approach'
The president Mr Foulkes, Communist whose Industrial trouble has been union post was not at stake In said be will mounting over recent months in today's election,
is fight the anti-Communist plans. what the Government allege an attempt by the Communist--UPI.
Two hours after the close of | influenced left to stop the mer- Se polls in European Portugalger of Singapore with Malaya. a Ministry spokesman claimed a The Prime Minister, Mr Lex Vote of more than 80 per cent
of the electorale,
First results gave the Nation- al Union candidates 90 per cent of the registered pole in the Prime Minister's home town of Vimeiro-AP.
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Kuan Yew, is in Kuala Lumpur FOUR KILLED now having talks with Malayan Prime Minister, Tanku!
Rahman before the Abdul Tunku leaves on November for London to discuss merger. Reuter.
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Washington, Nov. 12.
The much publicised new "Soviet Plan" for settling the Berlin crisis appears to be mainly the ideas of a non-Soviet Mr K. Herr Hans Kroll, West Germany's Moscow Ainbasse- dor, a US official said today.
What really mattered was the ideas of the Soviet Government this official said, but on the basis of what information was available, the initiative for the a "new approach" appeared to have been Herr Kroll's.- Reuter.
Vitoria. Nov, 12. Four persons were killed and 18
six seriously injured when a coach of the Vitoria-Vergara passenger train rolled down a 1,000-foot embankment 15 miles froin Here on Sunday, officials said. Twenty-five passengers in the coach escaped injury--AP.
PRINCE CHARLES
WILL BE 13
London, Nov. 12.
Prince Charles, heir apparent to Britain's throne,
becomes a teenager next Tuesday.
Prince Charles
HERMES
On his 13th birthday. Charles will have an Icing-decorated cake which will be delivered to his school from the Buckingham
Palace baeternoon, probably
In the around ten time, he will share the cake with his chums. And he probably will get a telephoné call from his parents, the Queen and Prince Philip.
But there will be little change in the rest of his regular dally school routine, which includes making his own bed and shining blown shoes.
Own mind
As he cotex his teen years his Royal Hardest Trimes Charles Phlip Arthur George, Knight of the Garie, Prince of WK and Earl of Cheater Duke of Corn wall, Duke of Rothesay Earl of Carrick and Lord of Reifrew, Lord of the Affies ed Creat Steward of Scotlady is known to have a mind of a
Right now the standing, against mother who also
Hãybay mind ion
Heart attack
cracker which caused the blaze sew it thrown.--China Mall though several people said they Special.
Soviet superbomb was 'clean'
London, Nov. 12.
The Sunday Times said today fallout measurements so for indicate the Soviet 50 megaton plus superbomb exploded on October 30 was “clean."
The Times said the bomb substance produced only in dirty A male model, David Scott, appeared to be of a type which bombs, has been found in the and a woman, Mrs Hilda Par- gives off little fallout. The fallout measured, the Times sons, were burned to death and bomb may have produced, no sald...
fallout of radioactive a third man, Michael Hartway, more died of
after fodine or Strontium than other a heart attack escaping the blaze. In his case smaller bombs exploded in the the jury returned a verdict of recent Soviet test series, death by natural caUBES.
in-
At the inquest, a police spector told the court that no one at the party could Identify the person who threw the fire
Times said.
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A spokesman for the British Atomic Energy Authority sald today: "I don't believe, anyone could Indulge in generalisations on the data available so far." The principal evidence sug-| ...The spokesman said bomb gesting the bomb is clean is that could still produce heavy fallout
of Uranium 237, a of Strontium 90.-UPI. no traces
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