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"STALIN'S DEATH"

SUNDAY MORNING SHOW

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Columbia Films presents

"A VARIETY PROGRAMME"

3 STOOGES COMEDIES & COLOUR CARTOONS

•

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FANTASTIC – EXOTIC

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ART AT ITS BEST,

Aladdin And The

Wonderful Lamp

(With English Subtitles)

BEAUTIES MUSIC

SONGS

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TO-DAY

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AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

Marilyn Monroe and NIAGARA..........a Raging Torrent of Emotion that Evon Nature Can't Control!

20th Century)

Niagara

MONROE COTTEN PETERS.

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Marriage Affair

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A.Chlnota Picturo, with dialoguo in Mandari

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1953.

Circus Service In Four Languages

The Rev. Gare Brown of Kensington, London, had to be an accomplished linguist when he held a service to bless one of London's biggest circuses. Members of the crews come from all over the world and the service was conducted in four languages-French, German, Russian antl

Engilsh.—Express Photo,

Covent Garden Rule Broken

London, Mar, 19.

The Iron rulé that a ballerina' should not make a stage speech had to be broken for the first time, la at Covent Garden

latory

ballerina Margot when Foutorn received А гар- turous

welcome from an

audience of 2,000 upon hier return after six monilis Illness.

They stood and cheered her for 15 minutes and plied the stage with flowers and presenja as she took 15 curtain calls. Then sho made a speech of thunki --- Reuter.

Warning By Turkey

To The West

Russian Planes

Believed Flying

Alaska Missions

Washington, Mar. 19.

'Voice' Was AT 2.30, 5.15,

Asked To Tone Down Broadcasts

Allegation By US Officials

Washington, Mar. 19. Two "Voice of America" officials toki Senate investi- gators today that they were urged last year by Mr Chester Bowles, then Am bassador to India, to "tone down" anti-Communist pro- paganda broadcasts to India,

The testimony came from Mr Gerald Docher, acting chief of the Volco's service in the Mid- dle East, Africa and Asia, and Mr Stanley S. Ghosh, ehlat of its Indian desk.

Mr Doober

sald that a memorandum dated last June confined that Mr Bowies "urged that we refrain from undue emphasis on anti- Communist propaganda."

The two witnesses went be- Fore the Senate Investigations Sub-Committee, headed by Senator Joseph McCarthy (RC- publican, Wisconsin), The group has been searching for alleged waste and subversion, in the State Department's Voice programme.

Mr Ghosh said he refused to comply with the directive and "had no qualms" because he believed I was unsound.

It came, he said, when the United States was under parti- air-cularly heavy allack from

"Communist

propagandists

The Air Force is convinced that Russian craft are flying reconnaissance missions near India." Alaska, Canada and Greenland, high-ranking offi- cers said today.

in

Mr Ghosh described the in- siruction variously as an "order"

He said it inter-ofce memorandum that

They disclosed that vapour trails from un-came to him as an

and a "guidance."

phasia" 011

anti Communist

identified aircraft were seen over or near the air teletype base in Southern Greenland last week during the us to avold undue em- time when Russian-built MIG jets were attacking American and British planes over Germany,

оп

statements of Indian leaders in the texts of propaganda broad- casts to India,

He never got an explanation of the reasons.

NOT WANTED

was

Mr

The vapour trails, caused by can fights that appeared the condensation of hot air from Soviet radar scopes. aircraft engines, constitute While almost the only "proof". the Air vapour trails

the investigation of at high altitudes Force has of Russian recon- has yet to prove conclusively the naissance.

presence of Russian reconnals-

Mr Dooher testlßed that he saw both the teletype message sance planes i is sometimes and the June memorandum. But oficials said that there is established that no reason to doubt that some of planes were not Russian. Re-:

the suspected "I thought then there the sightings over a number of tently, - all-weather fighters Dooher said, and added that he Puris, Mar. 10.

1 no justification for 11," The Turkish Premler, Adnan | months had been from Soviet Intercepted Menderes, said in an interview aircraft. They have been re-plane off Alaska only to discover

unidentified "felt the same way about" published here today that the ported Western powers were certain to bomber base the lant Thule that it was a commercial airliner.

on Greenland's -Valed Press. be caught napping by spacing north-western coast over or near out their plans over many years Northern Canada and of the In the belief that they were not coast of Alaska. affected by the time factor.

"The danger facing us nothing else than the threat

annihilation1,"

Is

of

Such retonnaissance flights by Russian coples of the American B-29 Superfort, equipped with long-range cameras, could gain American and Important Information on certain Polar defenè. Flights along the Polar ap- This proaches to the north and north-

M. Menderes told the evening newspaper La Monde during his

necs.

recent stay in Faris: means that we are under the

cast could originale in the Mur- obligation to make all the mansk sacrifices that are humanly and mites from Thule or in Franz arca of Russia, 1,800 logically possible to undertake Josef Land, 1,000 miles across the defence measures that are the Polar waste. called for, both collectively and individually."

an.

TO FOCUS

ATTENTION

ON

cosca where we were other asked to lone down!

anti- Communist propaganda.

"Elsewhere I was asked many times; and it was suggested many times, that we tone down broadcasts from an anti- Communist standpoint," Mr Dasher added. He did not give details.

our

Dooher agreed with Mr Ghosh that Volce broadcasts to India were conducted in "a most He

KOREA discouraging state of affairs.

Washington, Mar-19. Chairman Margaret Chase Smith announced today that her Interest in Russian air activity special sub-committee Investiga- In the Arctic and along

the ting ammunition shortages will The Premier suid Turkey North Pacific rim is the result stort hearings attached the greatest importance of the incident last Sunday in will focus attention on Korea,

next week and

to the setting up of a Middle East Command.

"As this concerns

our own security we are working with- out any respite for its erection," he said.-Router.

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SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 G 9.30 P.M.

TOM BROWN SEHOOLDA

i plks

Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake Ballet" and "Nutcracker Suite" played by the Rome Philor- monic Orchestra.

21. S. TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL

DAYS E

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The Story of Will Rogern.

3G 7, The Wid, Northi

BREARE

W. Caroline Cherie

Shah by Night

Ilanche Fury

which a Russian MIG jet fighter and on Air Force RB-50 aircraft

Mrs Smith said the investiga- exchanged fire 25 miles off the tion of shortages in Europe and Siberian peninsula of Kamchat- elsewhere may come later. K.

The Maine Republican said An Air Force spokesman said the first witness probably will that the RB-50 was a weather be General James A. Van Fleet, reconnaissance plane of the former Eighth Army Command- Strategic Air Command Orer whose testimony before ganisation.

BUILDING vr

The Air Force command from which the plane came was not

identified in the first announce-

the Senate Armed Services Com- mittee precipitated an ammun!- Alon inquiry.

were not

said the Embassy at New Delhi provided "a great deal of evidenco-that--we - Wanted on the air.

Mr Ghosh, himself an Indian, said he knew of no opposition from Indian leaders to Volce broadcasts cmphasising anti-Communist statements they might make. Reuter.

any

Heavy Cuts In Car Prices

West

"соп-

Frankfurt, Mar, 10. Price-cutting to fight Gen. Van Fleet charged that Germany's problem of there were ammunition short-called, marked the opening here stipated car market," as it was ages in Korea throughout the 22 today of the 30th International months ho was there,

Motor Show.

for

ment of the encounter. The MIG attack was the first in the recent series which has been

answered

Mrs Smith cussed plans for Two of the best-selling types with

gunare and brought sharp the ammunition investigation

of cars-the Volkswagen closed meeting of the (People's Car) and the German State Department protests to ofter a Russia. The United States note ave-member group that was ect Ford-have been cut substantial- demanded discipline of the Red up to delerinine who and what ly in price while all West pilot and assurances that the were responsible

the German tyre incident would not be repeated. "serious" shortages disclosed by have lowered their prices, by manufacturers

Russia has been building up

Gen. Van Fleet.

between five and 12 per cent, its MIG jet dorces in the arca Mrs Smith said that live tele-

At the opening ceremony Pro- where the attacks occurred and vision and television newsreels fessor Ludwig Erhard, Minis-

tip of will be permitted to record the ter for Economic Affairs, e narrow sub-committee's public sessions. pressed disquiet at the slacken- Meanwhile, Senator Robert Ing off in the demand for cars in Alasica. Hendrickson (Republican, New West Germany and referred to Russian planes have been seen Jersey) proposed an immediate the situation as "the constipated frequently on the Siberian side chock into reports of ammunt-

the Straits by American tion shortages facing

car market." General Surprises of the show include Matthew D. Ridgway's NATO a motorised rickshaw for Far Ground Tador observers on forces. He said if a preliminary East buyers and a closed-in the Alaskan side are under-check confirms such a shortage, three - wheel stood to have plotted courses of Mrs Smith's group should send designed by the former Luft- motor - scooter Russian planes taking off apa task force to Europe for en waffe fighter builder, Herr. Willy parently to investigate Ameri- the spot hearings-United Press. Messerschmitt-Reuter.

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