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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1958.

SHAH AND Guards Visit European

PREMIER TO MEET

Effort To Settlo Personal Dispute

Teheran, Feb. 23.

Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi and Premier Mohammed Mossadegh will confer tomorrow in 1411 effort to settle the personal dispute between Chem- selves, informed

said today.

Hources

The dispute has complicated Anglo- the already confused Iranian oll problem. Predictions of a settlement came shortly after the Court Minister, Husein Ala, called on Dr Mossadegh and as Parliament met in a special neralon to study the differences between the Shah and the Prime Minister.

The American Ambassador, Mr Loy Henderson, who has been negotiating for weeks with Dr Mossadegh on the ait problem. also conferred with Mr Ala ond the Premier.

The serious dispiste between the Shah and Dr Mossadegh complicated Iran's political situation tonight. werileal moment in the negotiation on the Anglo-truniau dispute.

The Tailor

Army Dispute: Queen At The Academy

Immaculate new uniforms which Guardsmen will wear ni the Coronation are being made to Government order in a clothing factory in London. And there is the usual link between the Pleture atows taller and the well-dressed. mais—the future Guardsman G. Marshall, Grenadier Guards, being fitted with his scarici tunle-Reuterphoto.

The disagreement arose over Point Four Aid]

the alling printer's refusal to approve The X1S$180,000,000 Iloyal Ladget.

Usually well-informed souree, i

Erratened soid Dr Musabeth

to resign unless members of the Shab's Cour: stupued "lutrigues " and Opposition Deputics stopped making trouble for bin.

Dr Mossadegh said he would appeal for popular support In radio broadcast.-United Press.

Not To Get

A Hearing

Ollawa, Feb. 23. The External Affairs Com- mittee of the House of Comm- mond voted

toxlay

graming a hearing to the Com- munist-inspired Committee for a Cease Fire In Korea.

The chairman of the External Affairs Committee, Mr J. A. Bradette, said that the group was identifled with the Cana- dian Peace Congress headed by Dr James Elicott, recent win- ner of the Stalin Peace Prize,

asked permission The group to present a resolution demand- Ing an immediate cease-fire in Koma patterned on the demands of the Russian delegation at the United Nationa

A motion by Mr Tom Goode opposed granting the group a

For Egypt Announced

Cairo, Feb. 23.

Egypt and the United States are to set up a Joint eatinell for the industri- alisation of Egypt under an arrangement announced to- day.

The arrangement, signed under the Amerleza Point Four Plan to help under- developed areas, will bring experis from both countries together

to study the potentiallies of Egypt and to study her raw materials, markels communicatluna and power surplus.

The United States has authorised a large sum of maney for a preliminary survey by Egyptian and American experts and they will make a report to the Egyptian Ministry of Com. merce and Industry.

American engineers have been in Egypt for several munlls at the request of plan

Afinister

the

Government to

the surves.

The Finance and the Minister of Com- merce and Industry signed the arrangement for Egypt and Ambassador Jefferson Caffery and the Polat Four Director

Untied for the States.-Reuter,

hearing and was carried by 18 Moscow's Latest

votes_io_two.-United Press

Red Office Closed

Frankfurt, Feb. 23.

Police today closed down the central office of the Communist-

in

wearers attend for fiftinngs,

Effect Of Atom

Bombs On Homes

To Be

Be Shown

Washington, Feb. 23.

State civil defence officials will see for them- selves what an atom bomb can do to ordinary homes when the Atomic Energy Commission and Defence Department fire a test weapon at the Nevada proving grounds next month.

A joint announcement by the agencies says that an atomic "shot" tentatively arranged for March 17 would be made over a larget which will include two frame dwellings and several bomb shelters.

Talks

In Rome

ITALY

TRIES

TO MEDIATE

The

Rome, Feb. 23.

Italian Premier, Signor Alcide de Gasperi, met the French Foreign Minister, M. Georges Bidault, tonight and ar ranged n

private meeting with the West German Chancellor, Dr Konrad Adenauer, in an effort to conciliate the Franco- German dispute blocking the European Army pro- ject.

Signor de Gasperi held a 90- minute session with M, Bidault, trying to learn the minimum French terms for ratification of the European defence past,

Dr Adenauer

accepted 11 invilation to confer

with the Italian Premier tomorrow, 45 minutes before the opening of the conference of Foreign Minis- ters of the six West European States.

The Ministers assembled here tonight for series of talks ulmed at clearing up the Franco- German dispute and other unification

The Minis

of France, West Germany, Italy, Belgun, the Netherlands und Luxembourg will meet formally tomorrow for the first time since September. MAY CLEAR AIR The conference

not expected

to produce any sensational results but many felt it might clear the atmosphere.

Whispering

Campaign Against Ridgway

Paris, Feb. 23,

An apparent deliberate whispering campaign against General Matthew B. Ridgway and his SHAPE headquarters is worrying senior officers con- cerred with maintaining Allied

The United States Secretary of State, Mr John Foster Dulles, has asked for prompt and fuli reports on the talks, whose out-

may go far toward ixing unity, United States foreign polley In coming years,

Three official U.S. observers came from Parls for the con- terrace, which is due to last two days but can be extended.

The conference provides the first opportunity for the Minis- The new test will not be theters to talk over what Mr Dulles and other observers, newsmen first tune atomic tests have been had to say on his tour of their

In addition to civil defence

will be permitted to witness the | made against buildings, but will ostensible purpose of the

test.

This

during the was dene Spring series of tests in Nevasin Just year.

Will Use Force If

Necessary

Tokyo, Feb. 24. Japanese coastal-safety force frigates will return fire and use force if necessary to protect

fishing craft, it Japanese revealed by the Parliamentary Vice-Minister of the National Safety Board, the Nippon Times

Was

be the first time a representa- tive group of civilian defence meeting experts have been brought to ser exactly what would happen if an enemy bomb burst over an average Auverican city,

The 1051 series of experf» !

with full-scale ments

atomic weapons al Eniwetok atoll in- civiled 1850 *of structures | simulating, sictions of freterics, office buildings und other structures,

Technical movies of thuse tests, laken in slow motion, showed un atomic blast stripping #way portions of structures In

what looked like a fiery gale ut proportions, then early hammering bulkings dat setting then aftre.

und

1

Wi15 to consider Dutch proposal that the Euro- pean Coal and Steel Union- the Schuman Plan-be expanded to a full European Customs Union-United Press.

The Queen, accompanied by

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3. Untamed Frontier

the Duke of Edinburgh, altend- Coming Saturday (2B Fob.),

ed a private dinner party given by Sir Gerald Kelly, President of the Royal Academy, 'at Burlington House. Above is a charming study of Her Majesty taken at the dinner. — Central Press Photo.

10th

On

Hearing

Hawaii

Washington, Feb. 23.

The Secretary of the Interior Mr Douglas McKay, lodny urged Congressional action to speed the admission of Hawaii as the 49th slate of the United States. To neutral observers the cam-

He told the Territories Sub- paign seemed largely inspired by French and British. new Committee

of the House of papers. At least four stories Representatives Interior Com.. have intensified the campaign mlitee that Hawaii

was fully within the past week. They qualified for Statehood. claimed particularly that many

"The people of Hawail have British

are tired of

their duties dB serving as "office boys" in the performed 14-nation Command, allegedly over-weighted with Americans, and have sent in their resign

tions.

ofcers

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Oficial SHAPE Agures

to the

citizens in war and peace, have proven their devotion principles of our said.

nation," he

oh Mr McKay was the first wit-

Bul. The shearing 10th Congressional

the

tained today appeared to dis-ness at hearing on the Hawai

Of 16 Statehood prove these allegations. top Jobs at SHAPE seven are was held by Americans, four

by study British. four by Frenchmen qualifications

Reuter. officer,

UNITY MOVE and one by an Italian

IN SOUTH

AMERICA

Santiago, Feb. 23. The Presidents of Chile and Argentina pushed for eventual South American unity today following the signing of a treaty to wipe out trade barriers be- thetween their two countries.

-London, Fch..23. Ilya Ehrenburg, Sovlet nove- list and propagandist today pictured Mr Winston Churchill waking up one morning sur-

VARYING EFFECTS prised to and Britain at war,

Ehrenburg said in an article

The reference to two frame by . Pravdu, broadcast Moreow Radio, that the only said.

dwellings being used in

Chile's Carlos Cbanez and controlled West German Union explanation he would get from

test next anonth sitggested that The English-language - paper of Victims of Nazism.

one might be spotted close in Argentina's Juan D. Peran, the The America would

be "That's said the statement was made

the "ground zero",, read about it before pollee confiscated all documents | OK—you can

Diet committee

point above which the bombs visit, announced their agree in the papers",--Reuter.

answer to a question raised by

burst, with the other farther men on Saturday to eliminate taxes and Socialist Rightwing

Sellelif out in the radius of damage to gradually import

(other hindrances to trade. They Matsuura.

demonstrate the varying effects signed the pact during a con- Presidential offices

they found there.-Reuter,

A British Crossword Puzzle

5

19

20

ACROSS

1 Negligent (0).

7 In the centre of (4),

D Infeet (5).

10 Reigned (5),

11 London statute (4).

18 Smashing (10).

15 Rip (4).

10 Prex (4).

10 Frighten (10),

22 Frolle (4).

24 Skina (3).

25 Hard stone (5).

26 Remainder (4),

27 Constraint (8).

DOWN

2 Radiates (5),

3 Bury (5),

4 Sprinkles (0).

& Gifted (8).

6 Bathing ploco (4).

12 Walt on (3),

toward

with distance. the Mr Matsuura,

paper added demanded to know what

The same procedure seemed action CSF frigates would take likely for the bomb shelters, when they are ordered to the with the additional feature that high sens to protect Japanese they also might be located at fishing vessels.

various depths and utilise dif-

Mr Okada, the Parliamentary ferent types of construction. Vice-Minister of the National

Usually in the detonation of Safety Board, explained that in

A-bombs. the event of any foreign vasici so-called "nominal" atented to' seize a Japanese the area extending from a huli fishing boat in defiance of a CSF mile beyond ground zero is one frigate's warning the frigate will of complete destruction. take any steps necessary to pro- test the ashing craft,

chancy.

and

Jatter here on a one-week Stalc

Ierence

In the

"Foreign Minister Arturo Ola- Vartia said the treaty was open to other nations. Ife called it the first step In realising the economic unity of the two coun-

tries and said it would provide the groundwork for eventual Junication with all their neigh-

bouring states.

Laun

now-

The pro-Government paper Los Tiempos heralded the Even masonry and reinforced "historic date of the agreement buildings are destruyed

as marking a new beginning in structures cland no the life and relations of the wooden

American countries." For another mile beyond this Senor Peren in whatever force use

a speech on necessary to protect the Ashing are there is severe damage, in Sunday to exiled Peruvian poli- ships under the Japanese flag, which the average wood dwell-zal Jeadors also preisid, the the Vice-Minister sald-Asso-ing might be entirely destroyed. "new policy of unity."---Asso- cloted Press.

clated Press, -Assocluted Press.

If the foreign vessel fired the Japanese frigates would return Are and

Pacific Ocean Winning Battle With

with

Д

Volcano Over Phantom Island

Of the 81 officers who have left SHAPE since General Ridgway

of Hawall's Statehood

since 1935.

at tho

LIBERTY

of BALIn

arrived last

arri

rolated

normat

June 08 WCZ

at the end of their LAND REFORM

be- appointment, 12

cause they were not considered IN TAIWAN

suitable and only one left at his own request. He was not British.

Talpei, Feb. 23. Tho-Nationalist-Provincial

Other stories have claimed Land Bureau hes ordered pre- repeatedly that General Ridg- 'parations for carrying out the way would soon leave SHAPE "land to the tiller" programme to be completed before March in disgust-o repeatedly that

15. the Supreme Commander took the unusual step recently of hoving

all correspondents telephoned at home on a Sun- day to issue a personal dental.

The latest rumour along these lines, given front page pro- minence by the afternoon news- paper Ce Solr, was that General Ridgway would be re- placed by Marshal Alphonse Juin who is France's No. 1 Foldier but whose diplomatie pronouncements seem to keep him in hot water.-United Press.

DIAMOND ‘KING'

RESIGNS

The "land to the tiller" pro grammo is the nat phase of "land reform" which is to be- gin operating on June 20, 1953, Under the land reform prou gramune, the Nationalist gov

ernment would finance farmers to buy land so that, in a year's time, all farmers would the land they ll-Reuter,

own

Death Of A Former Colonial Governor

London, Feb 23. Sir Cecil Hunter-Radwell, former Governor of Fiji. British Gulana and Southerri Rhodesia, Johannesburg, Feb, 23.

died at his home in Holbrook, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer,

Suffolk, aged 78. South African mining "king,"

He was High Commissioner has resigned As permanent

for the Western Pacific from director of the Anglo-American 1918-1924 cd Controller of Dia Corporation of South Africa, itmonds for the Ministry of Sup- was announced tonight.

ply from 1042-1945.-Reuter. He has been elected an or- ond chairman dinery director

of the

company. His resignation, which

be- came effective on Feb. 10, does not involve any change in the administration of the company and he will not relinquish is active direction of its affairs and activities.-Reuter.

island rose 50, feel above the sea | below the surface and that Stanley Kramer's

Tho

volcanic

further "HIGH NOON“

La Jolla, Calif., Feb. 23. Scientists

that report

the and was three miles long and hoavy discolouration of the Pacific Occan la

croded water from apparently.1 miles wide. winning a battle with a volcano

Indicated It was, reduced, by pounding particles over the existence of a phantom of the waves and currents, to

disinieration. South Sen island.

shoal by 1898. In 1928, when it They estinated that several returning here was elnimed a second time in million yards of Falcon was being The ersity of California | the name of Queen Sawohe of ton nway each year and thai. expedition from tho Scripps Tongo, wae 600 foot high and unless the volcano revives, it will Institution of Oceanography. In volcanic

disappear for good. eruption. By 1038,

four of diving to examine the after other ups and downs, it

diving explorers had shrink to 30 feet elevation: returned from the South Pacific now submerged bit of land.

***** | expedition-the fourth major It is part of the Island king- Now it is gone from sight.

exploration into the Pacific from dom of Tonga, about 2,000 miles The Scripps scientists, Dr Scripps in three-years-aboard southwest of Hawait It is Waltor Munk, Philip Jackson the research ships Horizon and called Falcon Island, or in and Willard Bercom, and Dr Spencer F. Blairs. Tanga language, Fonun Fo'ou- Robert Livingston

The expedition measured the "The New Land.”

University of California at Los greatest depths yet found in the Since 1885, when I was Angeles School of Medicine, Pacific south of the Equator sighted is a sea-lashed reef reported they had to go down between 33,000 and 34,000 in th from the British worship Falcon, | 80 to feet to find Falcon great deep known as the Tonga It has had fla'úpá nid downs. Island.

Trench. Thìn ip in the same

8 Blend (5).

fold

13 Speak slowly (5).

14 Gewgawn (0).·

17 Wearies (5).

38 Washed out (6).

20 Deduce (8).

21 Wrong (5).

23 Highest point (4).

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD—Across: 3 Stumbled, 8 Ruin, Revolver, 11. Prepared, 13 Elec, 15 Radiator, 18 Humorous, 10 Type, 21 Dissects, 25 Particle, 20 Dear, 27 Displays. Downs 1 Grip, 2 Pile, 4 Tier, 0 Mool, ( Level, 7 Dirge, Rajah, 10 Vanom, 12 Ready, 14 Spurt, 18 Tunie, 17 Rouse, 10 Tepid, 20 Porco, 21 Dial, 22 Slay, 23 Chef, 24 Spry..

·

of

the

In 1804, with the volcano The report said that part of general vicinity as the phantom [spouting" laya, and rocks, thetho Island was now 300 feet Inland --Associated Press.

starring

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