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ATTEMPT ON LIFE Honeymooners

The Govt OF DR ADENAUER

Replies

YOVERNMENT'S replies

several

mide yesterday to the Unociais Budget criticisms und suggestions were benignly placating. and in some instances use- fully informative. While no rush promises were made, the Government spokesmen went practically,all the way | in agreeing in principle with the

ideas advanced by the Unofficials | aimed at giving the Colony improved 'survices und amenities. Two of the most important statements related to future car park-| ing facilities in the centre] of the city, and the planned extension of Kai Tuk air- field. The Director Public Works envisaged, a car park below the future City Half capable. of facilitating four or Aive times the number of

of

vehicles now being parked in Statue Square. Ad- ditionally he forecast a new

overhead car park at the

concourse to the vehicular ferry. These, it is true, are

distant developments.

Nevertheless there is satis-- faction to be derived from

Bomb In Parcel Kills

Explosives Expert

THREE GERMAN POLICE OFFICERS WOUNDED

From DENIS MARTIN

Munich, Mar. 27.

Germany's new Nazis tonight tried to kill 76-year-old Federal Chancellor Dr Konrad Adenauer with a bomb wrapped in a brown paper parcel.

The bomb did not reach Dr Adenauer, but in the cellars of the Munich police headquarters-only a mile from the beer cellar of the famous Hitler putsch-it went off killing an explosives expert and gravely wounding three police officers.

Within minutes of the explosion police chiefs throughout Western Germany were warned "Look out for books containing lethal explosives, addressed to leading members of the Government."

the knowledge thút 11 Palice cars walt særen scream- definite plan is nader con- ing raced through the crowded

sideration which, when i city sects to seal off the police The Victim Who Escaped

eveniuntes, promises to headquarters.

bring

substantial

relief?

to the problem of car park-j ing in the central area.

THE Calonia!

Later, two boys told the Poliza President, Dr Ludwig Weltmann,

strange tode.

"On our way home to dinner," Secretary's they said, "two men stopped us prompt reply to Mrị in the square right in the centre Cassidy's

tal of the city. They asked us to post invitation. Government 10 make ala pazzel wrapped up in Brown statement on the extension proper. & felt like becks and it of Kai Tak nirport was the was addressed to Dr Adenaue: in

Bonn."

high spot of yesterday's But the boys lack the panella, #peaches. Apparently ng pelice headquarters, An explo ful progress has already gives expert was immediatly With three pelice been made towards fulfil-summoned, ment of a scheme which, offices he took the parcel into when finalised, will. im- the "bomb cellar"-a room with

walls nine feet thick. erttk- measurably improve com- A few minutes later there was ditions for aircraft. The a tremendous explosion

fact that the experts are)

new

Nazi

Police spokesmen said tonight not all agreed that the they believe the plot to originate extended runways will be from Germany's wholly adequate for jet groups. A Nazl rally is taking passenger planes is some-place in the city tonight and the what disconcerting. The chief speaker is one of General Kai Tuk extension project Ernst Otto Remer's "Gauleiters" a costly one, and the Fritz Corls-London Ex- Colony has yet to know how much of the cost it will

A

in the

press

Service, IGNITER IN BOOK Reuter reports

that have to bear. It is thus of parcel had been a book with an prime importance that the igniter which was set off by completed project should opening the wrapping, he added. not fall short of accepted The cellar of the police head- standards for handling all quarters was completely future types of air linern.tered.

shot-

were

We do not want any repeti-} The poller said they believed tion of Ping Shan, which that the boys' suspicions scheme, after being in hand, aroused because they remem

bered the parcel bomb outrages had to be abandoned

In North Germany last Novem- liecause the site was con-ber, in which two people were demned by civil air experts | killed.

The

as being inadequate.

The fire brigade expert, Kart new Kai Tak airport must. Reichert, answered the police beyond all doubt, be summons although he numojent to meet any suffering from influenza. He demands made by aircraft. put the parcel on a table in the

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Pure white absorbant

Strong a

Wüs

DR KONRAD ADENAUER -

celiar. Before starting to open it he told all others in the room to leave and close the iron door behind them,

The bomb apparently went off' too quickly, for, the policemen

Snowfalls

Europe

and two Munich newspaper In

reporters were also injured,

First eyewitness reparts sald

that several people were carried

away in stretchers.

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London, Mar. 27.

Snowfalls were reported in

Dr Weitmann has imposed a scattered occas of Europe today.

news blackout pending enquirles into the cause of the explosion. The area was cordoned off and all available police squads were called to the scene.-Reuter,

EXPRESSES REGRET

Brown

Stranded

Isle of Wight, Mar. 27. A London honeymoon couple staying in the 1ste of Wight were stranded all night on a cliff face heavy rain after being cut off by a

rising tide.

The couple, Mr And Mrs David J. Budd, of Camrose Avenue, Edgware, had set out to walk along the beach from Alum Bay to Tolland. After struggl- treacherous big, through clay. they had

to seek refuge from the tide on the clifts until five o'clocks to the morning.

As their landlady had gone to bed curly ther were not missed and no search party was sent out, -Reuter,

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Tory Govt. Tory Govt. Makes

Concession

Tones Down Health

Service

Charges

London, Mar. 27.

The Conservative Government today placated

a section of its own backbenchers by toning down proposed charges under the hitherto almost free- State health service.

The Government, which is engaged in a drastic economy drive, had announced that it intended to make the public pay up to £1 for dental treatment. The only exceptions would be nursing mothers, children up to 16 years andary needy people..

GOLD RUSH FEVER IN

AUSTRALIA

has

Bonn, Mar. 27. American officials dia- Wedderburn, Mar. 27. closed today they let an Gold rush fever accused German

double again gripped this normal

little farming agent leave Germany-to ly drowsy escape. West German au- town, where a farmer dug thorities who charge that up £A25,000 worth of gold he sold his fellow country-in his backyard two years -men-into-Russian-captivity. ago....

sub-

and

He is Hans Kemritz, ject of a long and bitter.dispute between the Americans Germans.

A former German Intelligence. officer, Kemritz served as pu the Americans agent for both and the Russians in Berlin after the war. The Americans tool. into protective custody after a Beriln court ruled in favour of a German woman who charged that Kemritz had betrayed

her husband Soviet captivity-and eventually death in prison.

But today the Health Minis- ter, Mr Harry Crookshank, on-

nounced in the House of Cam-

mons that the Government was now prepared to raise the ex-

Sorne Conservatives a

on age 10 21

have been pressing for modification of the dental charge, and there had also Been anxiety over the proposal to charge a shilling for every medical prescription. But here the Government is not giving

way.

Never Again To Be

Chief

London, Mar. 27. The House of Commons, by 308 votes to 286; today. approved the British Gov- ernment's decision to ex- clude Beretao Khama per- manently from chieftain ship of the Bamangwate tribe in Bechuanaland.

defeated A Labour (Opposition) motion criti- cising the Government's polloy.

Liberals joined the Lab- our Party in today's voting. -Reuter.

Japan's Budget Approved

Tokyo, Mar. 27.

Japan's 1952-53 Budget Mr Croolishank said that the was adopted today despite shilling charge might well save sharp opposition to costs 212,000,000 a year and help under the heading of de- keep the celling for the health fence, which had been link- services at £400,000,000.

ed with the possibility of rearmament.

-Political.....sources hero...can- the parsige of the

which will cover first

post-occupation

NEW PROPOSALS Under the new proposals it will "cost" nothing for a patient Les Hall, axed' 50, said he to have his teeth exumined but sidered

pay it found a 27-ounce gold nugget he will have to

the Budget, Ands that worth about £A450 only a few dentist

something Japan's Inches below the surface-and | hug to be done.

year after the ratification of the.

ยย trenty, Other charges just opposite to Farmer Dave

to be made peace

major Govenment

ment victory. are; Butterick's famed backyard,

A set of denture—a maximum The Budget of 852,700 million of £4, 58.

(£852,700,000)

Since Hall broke the news other hopefuls, with their eyes glued to the ground, walk the streets, kicking at stones and looking for glint.

A wig-£2, 105.

the

a

the

includes yel 05,000 million yen (£85 Surgical boots-£33, patr.. million) for joint defence ex There will be no charge for pences with the United States artlaclal arms or legs and for and 50,000 million yen (£50 Hall quitely put the nugget nearing akts

million) for national security, in his pocket, went to the local The Labour opposition, bit. The Prime Minister, Mr

opposed to into tavern and had a few. rounds of terly

new Shigeru Yoshida, defended

for self- as being, drinks with the boys. He did charges put down a motion to latter item

ᏄᎸᎩ n word until he had reject the bill to make them defence units and not rearma- formally pegged his claim.

Wedderburn had

The House then adjourned turning to its usual tranquillity their debate on the health ser since the gilded dreams of the fee to discuss

re- Seretse Khama-Reuter, "big rush of 1030" had tarnished. gretfully grown

Aller Butterick's

BITTER PROTESTS Against loud and bitter Ger- man protests, the Americans forced the Berlin court to set aside its verdict. A mixed American-German Commission

not

been

re-

of broke the news

backyard fortune-

law..

the case

of

merit,

The

Government, however, will have to face further stiff opposition when they present new legislation to replace, the Occupation

ordinances, local newspapers predicted today,

that the main

11

was saźd

was to investigate the case but which he had kept a closely Death Of Noted criticism will be directed against

met only a few times and never issued a formal.report.

be

guarded secret for 18 months the town was besieged by The affair was presumed to fortune-seeking dolics, sightseers,

Streets

gardens

Industrialist

under investgation photographers and reporters, when an American spokesman

ank back

announced today:

were dug up, shafts sunk and little

more gold was unearthed. has died Experts warned that the field Lancashire, under the town had been Vickers thoroughly worked over around from

"We have informed the Ger- mans that, after considering, all aspects. of the case, we have permitted Kemritz to Icave Germany.

"We haven't told them where he has gone und we are not telling anybody else.

"As far as the. Americans are concerned, the case 3- new closed,"

The American

spokesman

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London, Mar. 27.

G

bill

to prevent subversive activities" which the Govern- ment are to presont to the Diet almost Immediately.-Reuter, )

GOOD PROGRESS

Sir James Callander, 75, who at Newby Bridge. Was Director. of

London, Mar. 27. Limited Armstrong

A girl whore lungs were so 1046, and

of small that she could not cry when she was born 13 weeks 1895 but the residents remairied Vickers Limited from 1945 un- convinced that beneath the his retirement in 1947.

too soon 37 days ago, is making He Wha associated with good progress in a Bristol mater-

47 Vickers for years, rising nity home,

draughtsman General Manager of the Ship- building and Engineering De- partments and General Manager of the naval yard.--Reuter.

town's main street ran an un- touched gold reet worth millions ----Reuter:

New

French

predicted, however, that there Offensive In

probably would be violent pru-

text in the German Parliament

when Kemritz's departure Indo-China

becomes known,

cana

Since they also had used Kemeltz us an agent, the Ameri-

apparently

they felt couldn't let him be subjected to unrestricted German retalia- tion-Associated Press,

Eisenhower

To Resign?

}

Hanoi, Mar, 27. French Headquarters. nounced today that the offen

alvo launched

against, Com- munist robels two days ago in central Vietnam has been com- pleted and that French Union

und

troops are "mopping up" the aren west of a point some 20 miles from Hue, the capital of Central Annam, 380 miles

north of Salgon,

that

In Copenhagen, 10 - dogreos Fahrenholt of frost were regis

The Headquarters £öld the operation consisted of an amphibious landing covered by tered in the Town Hall Square

Paris, Mar, 27.

heavy are from the French the morning due to ley or blown in from the White Sen..

General Dwight Eisenhower

cruiser "Le Mall" and several plans to announce resignation battalions. of airbome- troops But in Holland bulb fields from his post as SHAPE Com- town. In from

garrisons ไก

On the Arlberg road on Aus-

here tonight.

the

head-

when Franch Union troops en- of the crack Toist Vietminh 'Regiment along. the constal area near Huu.

According to United Press began to burst into vivid colour mander-in-Chief About April Tonkin. when Dr Adenauer left the in sunshine which displaced 2, well informed. sources. ald Tho most important. battle ivilia ot President

Theodor yesterday's snow showera. Heuss later tonight, he express-

The general will make the in this attack, French ed deep regret and said, "I will Austria had heavy snowfalls announcement either the day quarters sald, took place around yesterday do what I can for the injured." Last night. The waters of the ho, submits the first annual ne-2 p.m. local time

The police descr

described the

the state of par-river Danube rore but there was port on cel as 12 inches

European defence or shortly gaged clemente land eight deep. nino widerf no incute danger of fooding,

flod with heavy

afterwards, it was added. jcord and wrapped In

This report is expected to be › According to military BOUTOES paper, The name of the sender trion bus and a French car were

some 50 rebels were killed and as written on it was Professor buried by an avalanche while published on April 2.

Since General Elsenhower's 200 wounded. A number of the drivers tried to clear the Berghot of Frankfurt.

away in road. A woman in the French successor is not expected prisoners were taken. The Chancellor was away in

named car was rescued through one of to be

until- about Franco-Vietnam losses, were Bonn, where he met the three the

General windows. Both vehicles six weeks High Commissioners **

resignation, reported to be two killed and 14 were dug out later by 80 French announced blu earlier today. He later left his Alute Chasseurs holding man- Eisenhower will probably remain wounded.

The announcement from office for dinner at the home of

neuvres in the district.

at his post until the second, balt. President Theodor Heuss...

of May, it was said, the frus known

The Atlantic Council would in attempt on Dr. Adenauer's life. few tice supplies to 1,400 half that case meet about June-1 to A Bremen nowapaper publisher starved villagers cut off by late. and a girl were killed recently winter snows on the northem choose a new Commander, these

sources pointed out. by railed bombs in North Germany. A disgruntled Joh Focker is awaiting trial on the charge of posting them-Urilted

Allied

This

An American helicopter today

Japanese mainland."."

The villagers had been with out, food for several days Houter.

aflor the

French Headquarters. Bald that fighter planes based on the French aircraft carrier "Arromanches", cruising of the of Annam, yesterday coast effected 30, sortica, plastering

the It was added that General Reds with high explosive bombs Elsenhower's successor would and napalm to soften resist undoubtedly be an American.ance for amphibiour and air- France-Press9.

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be to

The baby, daughter of Mr and Redland, Mrs Henis Green of Bristol, weighed 1 b. 13 oz. at

birth and now weighs 2 1hs, 10 oz.-Heuter.

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