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Londen, Alar. § The Internatlalia!! Wo- men's Bay Commities ali- nounced fast' night that

(cur ftusstan women dele rutes to a conference here on Sunday had been re- fused visas to enter. Bri falm.

Eight other delegates from Belgium, France, Italy, Germany, Canada, Australia'and' Crealo- slovakia-have also been refuced entry, the Cam- altice wall-Reuter,

"OILBOAT OLGA" TESTIFIES

US Inquiry Into Shipping Deals

Washington, Mar. 6. "Oilboat Olga," who iden tified herself as the thir! wife of Magnus Kenew, wealthy Norwedan ship ping executive to Senate tax investigating committee here yesterday that she had made more than $500,000 in surplus shipping deals.

Czech-burn Mas Konow. sold that he was aleknained "Oilbeat Olga", sold unplus United States tankers to a com- financed by

heavily pany Nationalist Chinese.

She was testifying before

Senate Committee which is in- vestigating the possibility of tax avoidance in the sale of surplus

ships.

Sars Konow said that she was

ICLAIRVOYANT SAYS:

No World War During 1952

Lisbon, Mar. 6.

Oil disputes will become a thing of the past before 1960, according to Madame Luce Vidi, a French clairvoyant, who claims to have foretold exactly the death of King George VI.

The scene is the tiny Buckinghamshire village of Olney and the event is the annual pancake race between local housewives over a course of 415 yards. The 500-year-old annual Shrove Tuesday race was won for the second year in succession by Mrs Isabel Dinnan, whose time was 1 minute, 10-2/5 secs, equalling the record.

Express Service,

'Hush-Hush'

In an article published in a Portuguese Guard Over

Woman's magazine here, Madame Vidi declared

that the oil wells at present in production will be The Stone

the President of the American abandoned before they are dry in favour of new Viking Corporation owned by and natural energies which will "replace the black

the China International Founda

tion -- which — helps to provide gold sooner than people think." scholarships Chinese students

In the United States.

The Foundation's director is.

SECRET SYSTEM

IN ABBEY

London, Mar, G. The article, mainly concerned with predictions for 1952, has Any intruder who tries

discussed been widely

and to "liberate" the historic,

Mr Newbald Morris, a New Bank Bandit studied here since the death of Stone of Scone from West-

York attorney who was recently.

appointed by corruption in the President Truman

to investigate Government,

Mrs Konow testified that she had helped to arrange the com- plicated transaction

where used to Chinese capital was finance the sale

United of States Government-owned ships which to United Tankers, in group prominent Americans held shares,

She said she took part in the transaction purely for proit with little or no interest in the

Trapped By

King George VI, because it opened with a prophesy that Princess

Elizabeth would be come Queen in the first quarter of 1952. Under

Yard. Garden Light

London, Mar. 6. An intruder was trapped in the back garden of the National Provincia!" Bank at Staines, Middlesex, for two hours.

A powerful light prevented international complications. his coming out of hiding.

A report received here from Outside the garden walls Oslo during Mra Konow's testi-police with dogs cordoned off mony said that she was known surrounding gardens waiting for as Olga Kagsta Rapaport be him to mover fore she married Mr Konow in 1043.-Reuter.

1952 will bring to her changes makers. Toe first quarter of

a few hundred

Mrs G. A. Smith, who lives the sympathy of the whole Abbey's small Henry VII Chapel

with her husband above the bank, was awakened at 4 a.. by breaking glass. "My husband saw a man rush down the aut

.

minster Abbey, as Scottish nationalists did on Christ- mas Day, 1950, will flash an a photograph of Prin- automatic alarm to Scotland cess Elizabeth as she then was, Madame Vidi asked the ques- The Prime Minister, Mr Win- Churchill, announced on tion:

"Why is it that the figure, ston

20 that the Coronation of the gracious Princess, who Feb,

was back in its place has conquered Paris with her Stone

as the first under the Coronation Chair in smile, features person in this survey for 10529" the Abbey, but he did not men- Answering her own question, tion the fact that a new secret Madame Vidi wrote: "Because burglar alarm system has been the heavy purple mantle of installed in the Abbey to signal ermine will replace the elegant Scalland Yard, creations of the Paris dress yards away, if the building is

invaded" by

by night. Throne,

the Stone With responsibilities together again under it, is now in the with

10-foot bronze grill world and the love of her bohind a

enclosing the tomb cl that people."

Taking Madame Vidi's other predictions

a secand look at monarch and his Queen Elizabeth. The only doors in the grial are renders double-locked, and when the for 1952, Portuguese sighed with relief when they Stone was put back in its place a

·She telephoned the police read that there is unlikely to be heavy chain was strung through two iron rings on il для while Mr Smith switched on aa war this year. brilliant light on the fire escape said that the darkest clouds

Matinme Vidi, they found, had anchored. Khartoum, Mar. 6. Famine is today threatening It blazed down into the small the three quarters of a million garden, illuminating all but the would appear in the East, which would be shaken to its founda- darkest corners-in one native.

thu of population

oftlans by profound changes in its Pro- which the man was hiding. swampy South Eastern vince

of Basia el Ghazal in the When the dawn raked the dark Political and social structure."

the Sudan, according to official places under the walls

intruder mode, a dash, sources here.

P.C. Alfred Truster, 28-year- Many of the hunger-stricken natives have alreatly begun to

teetotaller, peace non-smoker, trek northwards into the neigh- and keepit enthusiast, pursued bouring provinces of Barfur and a man across fields and brought Kardofan in search of food, him down with a flying tackte.

In the bank 13 drawers had but only the been forced,

manager's whisky and elgars were inissing.

Famine In

The Sudan ·

Those left behind are facing four months of hunger before the next crops are ripened.

the population's Crops of staple diet, large millet, have fnile: completely throughout

the Province,

to the Financial Secretary in

side staircase and jump over snall wail into the garden," she

suid.

old

PLAN

Applications have been made AIRLINE Khartoum for relief funds- TOO COSTLY

Reuter.

Indian Protest,

To Pakistan

tan,

But the West would close its

Dr A. C. Don, Dean of West- Throne,

minster, cald that the and the Stone, would be returned before the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II to its customary place in the Chapel of Edward RED DEFEATS

the Confessor.

Dr Dan said that the Abbey ranks and "prepara: 10 defend would

be closed for at least at the cost of immense four months before the Corona- sacrifices of money and effort.”

Warli peace, she added, on to permit the necessary in-

be strengthened by the Stone is now would

stallations. He believes that e Fafe, and that entry of new countries Into the there will be no further attempt United Nations Organisation.

Other predictions made by

to remove It.

Scotish nationallats took the Madame Vidi are:-

Stone in 1930, claiming that it France: A great reconcilia-

righfly belongs in Scolland tion of opposing forces' will

whence King Edwan! I brought It. The Stone was found months un later in Scotland.--United Press. |

take place. civing General

Charles de Gaulle à new chunze to serve his country.

Brituda: Britolo will receive compensations for the setbacks she suffered in the International

field in 1951.

Communist China 'will suffer military reverses in July and Detober and will remind Mos- cow of its earlier promises.

In

Discussions In

Tel Aviv

Washington, Mar. 6. The Civil Aeronauties Board (CAB) has rejected, as too costly, a proposal for establish-

Tel Aviv, Mar, 6. ment of a Samon airline to 'link'

May, Soviet Russia will

Lieutenant-General

William New Delhi, Mar. 0. Isolated American Samoa with take advantage of serious inter- The Indian Government has British Samos.

not difficulties in Persia, Riley, United Nations Chief of Persia will be threatened with Staff in Palestine, today con lodged a strong protest with Mr Laurence M. Coleman Pakistan against a special 20 Honolulu, had asked for au- disorders during the Summer ferred with the Israeli Chief of

recall events

in Staff, Major-General Yigal Ya- per cent tax on the sale of thority to set up Samoan Alr- which wil Indian films in Western Pakis-lines, Inc., using a converted Czechoslovakia in 1949, when din, at the Israeli Army General

plane. the Communists seized power in Headquarters. passenger amphibian plane.

communique sald An official The Indian Government con- He proposed to carry passen-February sidered Pakistan's decision 'as gers, cargo, and mall on the 92- Spain: The Sprag will bring that the work of the Israeli- Mixed Armistice discriminatory and a violation inile run between the two island to Spain and General Franco Lebanese

favourable Commission was discussed of the trade agreement between capitals, American Pago Page events of · a very the two countries. France- and British Apin. Associated nature which will be exploited during the talles, which had

been

General requested "by". Last Thursday General Yadla the Lebanese Chief of Staff; Colonel

Tewik

Salem, at

At the Israel-Lebanese border.

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Tokyo, Mar, G. Representatives of in 3,000 eurolment school for night watchmen visited a machinery company in Tokyo on Wednes- day and asked the arm to genso making time-clocks for watch- men.

CHINESE OPTICAL COhey contended that the

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