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COMMENT OF THE DAY

Washington Talks

BE importance which the

THE

British Government attaches to the meeting in Washington at the end of this week between the three power Foreign Ministers is indicated by the strength of the British contingent. Nevertheless, It Is Home- what misleading for observers, to describe the forthcoming discussions as a "Little Bermuda." Thero is no intention on the part of any of the participants to make this conference a substitute for the meeting originally proposed between President Eisenhower, Sir Winston Churchill and the Premier of France. The decision to hold the Foreign Ministers conversations

was, of course, a direct consequence of the enforced postponment of the Bermuda talks, and in that sense the Washington meeting can be regarded as a preliminary to eventual, top-level dis- cussions, although these

unlikely are now

to merialise before Septem- ber, irrespective of how rapidly Sir Winston Churchill regains his full health. But there are other

reasons for the Washington conference.

the

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Russia Has A New Plan Unexpected

To Offer To The West

CONCESSION FOR UNITED,

NEUTRAL GERMANY

Will Relinquish

Her Position

In Austria

Berlin, July 6.

A Russian plan to relinquish her "special position" in Austria to gain a big power agreement on à united, neutral Germany is to be placed before the West, according to reports reaching West Berlin from East German Liberals.

Prison For

Youth Who Strangled Girl

Stafford, July 6.

youth,

A 17-year-old described as "unversed in sex matters," was sentenced

here

Informed sources quoting Soviet circles into four years' imprisonment East Berlin said today the plan would be made known through normal diplomatic channels.

These sources said an important clause in the plan was that the Big Three Western Powers abandon any "preliminary" conference.

They believed this

slaughter of a girl who had today for the man-

upset him by her advances.

The youth, Trevor Passey,

found was

not guilty of murdering 17-year-old. Rose- mary Gough, who was found her scart tied strangled with

was a reference to the post-so tightly that it had to be cut

In the firstponed Bermuda Conference. place, us Mr Butler said when announcing decision to hold the talks, it is important to "main- tain the impetus given to British foreign policy by the Bermuda proposal." It would have been very un- fortunate if the impression had becn

that created because of Sir Winston's enforced rest things were going to be allowed simply to drift until he was well again, Secondly, this is clearly the moment at whien a joint examination and dis- cussions of

rapidly developing international situation are not only desir- able but almost imperative. REGRETTABLE are the reasons for the change,

Under the terms of the plan Russia wants agreement | to be reached on Germany between Britain, France, the United States, Russia and China.

The East German Liberal still on strike. the spokesman Party members said "the Soviet zaki, while others are carrying Union no longer considers it On slowdowns and a rash of possible-after the East German

audiden new waltrouts has out, called on behalf revolt-to get good political and broken economic results from

in The Czecho- of workers caught slovakia, Austria and East Ger- round-up of thousands many."

rebels.

off.

a clerk

Passcy.

discharged from the Air Force because of his hysterical temperament, fainted and rolled out of the witness box during the trial.

He said in an alleged stake ment read in court' that he tied the scarf round her neck while

laying to- ey were gether on a waste piece of

sin- of ground behind a school

ply to-frighten-her,

TC-

de-

"She was causing me to get very

exelted causing mo emotional feelings," the state- ment added.

Berlin polliclans sald they The world-famous Carl Zeiss hoped the West would not listen optical plant in Jenna wes to Russia's proposal because ported almost completely shut West Germany's progress has down by a strika. The spokes- gone too for In a Westward man said that, except for the

BECAME FRIGHTENED When he realised that some- direction to permit uny sudden labour trouble, the Soviet Zone thing was wrong he pulled her "neutralisation".

appeared to have returned to down the slope to a water cul- All the plan does is to "trade normal. He said the Western vert and tried to put her in but the broken down economies of Allies no longer were receiving these countries for the

was frightened. He went back wholes

reports of anti-Communist Westcm

Alliance,"

up the slope and found her the Berlin monstrations or hunger strikes. skirt and threw it down towards

West Berlin newspapers were her. politicians said.

In Berlin today sources who

having a field day with reports have been freely reporting dis-

His defending counsel said of disturbances and strikes in Passey was no in Poland between

kind of sexual was simply agency which versed in sex matters and the redampened by unl the Polish news

PAP by denial

law girl had been advancing her the official said accounts

there uprisings

were ser "on one or two nights" and Polish news

agency broadcast and

"absurd and seriteless

lies" he had simply done it to over Warsaw Radio last night.

officials Western Allled PAP'S

were frighten her. labelled as statement

"lies" re inclined to agree, and

NOT BURNE OUT

sald

thorough check on They refugee and Eastern sources did rot brar out ances in Points of disturb-

"good grounds remain for the turbans and the Soviet Army Poland. These were denied by maniac.

belief that the moment is more propitious for dis- cussion than for decision; and therefore for informa! tulka between Foreign Ministers rather than for a meeting of hends of

For

governments..

it

the

were

"absurdities"

ports of disorders ond }

state

of siege in Polish towns and said the reports were invented by "Neo-Nazi" newspapers very

the West.

happens that, at least in important

two respects, the picture of things has changed very materially since

the Bermuda proposed. There have been. unforeseen developments both in Europe and "Koren. The sudden revolt of the

conference Was

TACTICAL MOVES

in

News of the Government and

polley changes in Hungary was regarded by informed quarters as further confirmation that the new Moscow line first applied. a month ago in East

workers and the hasty con- Germany

cessions made by the East German, Hungarian and Czechoslovaklan

govern

real

as not merely

for

of martial

The newspapers sald Marshal Konstantin Rokosovsky, Soviet chiol

Polish armel at the forces, had declared martial law In Warsaw, Imkow and Silesia riter clashes between Polish and Suvist troops.

He

un-

Cleansing

Water gushing with great force from a burst' water main in a Brussels street gave the building opposite an unexpected wash down. -London Express.

'Mountain Of Death'

Conquered

Fourth Highest In World

Gilgit, July 6.

An Austro-German expedition has conquered the Himalayan "Mountain of Death" the 26,620-ft Nanga Parbat, which defeated climbers of two centuries, it was learned here today.

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£30,000,000 Trade Pact With Red China

AGREEMENT SIGNED BY BRITISH DELEGATION

London, July 6.

An unofficial British trade delegation has signed a £30,000,000 mutual trade pact with Com- munist China's National Import and Export Cor- poration, the Communist New China News Agency reported tonight.

The agency said the British businessmen would sell to China metal and metal products, machines, electrical appliances, chemical materials, tools and instruments, medicine and surgical equipment, communications and transport equipment and other goods worth £30,000,000. In return, China would self to Britain vegetable oil, all seeds, animal products, egg products, tea, silk, handi- craft products and other goods worth the same amount,

The agency said payment would totalled £2 million. Chinese ex- be made in Sterlingr

parts included bristles, tung of When the mission, represent frozen eggs and saw hair. Britain ing about 60 British manufactur exported wool tops, chemicals,

and ing companies

impart textile machinery and woollen export merchants, left Hongkong and worsted yarns. for Poking in the middle of June, rollable quarters said they might arrange trade, worth £60,000,000 without infringing United Nations embargoes on the export

In 1947, prior to the United Nations embargo on trade in strategic materials, Britain ex- ported £13 million worth of

of frategic goods to Communist goods to China-Reuter. countries.

The mission organised by the British Council for the Promotion of International Trade, a businers organisation presided over by Lord! Boyd Ort, includes a direc tor of the Couril.

Monument

The New China News Agency Defaced With

report said the commercial aizree-

rout was signed "after

cordial

negotiations on the basis of

equality and mutual benefit."

TWO-WAY' TKADÉ

ว

Lipstick

Baltimore, July 6. Swatiska

wns

The agreement provides-toy trade amounting to £30-million. A red each way, the apacy said, Fay- amenred with á lipstick on znent will be made in sterling the eight-foot granite

The businessmen, representing

about 50 Brickh manufacturing monument dedicated to the companies and import-export "Red Hunting" Senator, merchants, laft Hongkong by Joseph McCarthy, in Balti- rail for Peking in the middle of more last night.

The monument has a base culd the China relief depicting Senator McCarthy

Export wrestling with contracts

June.

The agency National Import Corporation

for

the

and

algned

Brakes,

A Baltimore car door, Mr Tomus Bright, dedicated the

with transactions

the respective members of the

themonument last Saturday, Ameri- British delegation.

can Independence Day, out the Earlier, a spokesman

cment outside his car show pavement British Council for the Promo- rooms...

of the

Lipstick had also been ated to

tion of International Trade said the conclusion of a trade pact change part of the inscriploku en with China by a party of British the monument to read "Destroyer businessmen now in Peking was of American Freedom."Reuter believed to be imminent.

sald

today The

spokesman

Heat Wave Toll

•

"He did not act like a hero in a novel or as a sensible well brought up boy should have acted," the counsel said.

"He went, as so many had, back to temptation." Police said Passey

Mummery, the British climb-, Nanga Parbat which literally had been completely spoiled by his mother, was the first man to try to translated menns Naked Moun

He always wanted his own climb it. He was swept to his tain. way and went into hysterics if death by an avalanche in 1895. he did not get Reuter.

Herman Buhl, Austrian member of the party, planted the West German and Pakistan flags on the summit of the mountain on July 4. He climbed to the top of the fourth that an agreement was expected last week but that it might have highest peak in the world at 10 o'clock in the morning been delayed by late queries from

Karachi, July 6. with a clear blue sky overhead-the peak many climbers the Chinese for additional An exceptional heat wave has

for hydro-electriz resulted in equipment

21 deaths in the had thought was unclimbable,

projects and also by new offers district of Pochawar in the last

two of produce.

days, reports in In the first three months of papers here said tonight.

Chinese exports this year

Previously published reports Britain totalled £1,500,000, had indicated a much higher while British exports to China death tall-Franco-Presse,

The Fast German press of 56 Mau Mau

WANT EX-KING

INDICTED

Terrorists

Killed

Then, in more recent years, the mountain killed at least 12| European climbers and defated

The Success makes Nanga Parbat the second highest peak to have been conquered-Everest if the highest-but the Austro The Germans in particular relegated to third ploce if the German teams feat may be made many attempts to climb It. But each time they were

American Alpine Club party beaten by the

bitter cold, now attempting to scale 28,250 nvalanches, mountain

(ML top K2

Godwin-Austen)-- storans, or just the sheer face of second highest mountain in the the peak liselt.

world-lo successful,

Nanga Parbat had never been conquered before.

wis

hinted that the martial law in East Berlin, imposed after the tactical move to gain Western bicody outbreak hot month, soon, Soviet might be lifted units proposals

soldiers and Communist pollee The ments require the whole statements that the new rulers Bring on refugees in an effert quarters repented earlier who sealed off the border were question of East-West of Russia had embarked on a to check their fight to the relations vis-a-via Europe radically changed interpretation West, Guards fired some 40

The nine-man German party to be reconsidered, for the of Marxism

which arrived here in April has for which East

+ WHICH

carbine and submachine Run

Nairobi, July 6. situation has become not Germany was

received daily weather reports to be the model shots at a 25-year-old Potsdam

SURVIVED DISASTER Fifty-six Mau Mau ter-

from Radio Pakistan and before static, but fluid. and un- for all satellite countries.

crashed through resident who and East German

The leader of the team of he left for home Colonel John predictable. It is of prime

leaders

two wooden barriers in his car rorists were killed. 17 ap- victorious climbers

the West Ho was

tured and four wounded in your-old Peter Aschenbrenner,

52- Hunt, leader of the successful importance, therefore, that Soviet political liaison officers to woode

British Everest expedition imp once Ministers of were asking factory workers the not hit by the bullets but was largescale operations in the veteran of two previous ex-

radloed them hints on the use of the United States, Britain reason for their revolt and alightly injured by splintering Fort Hall area, the Army poditions to the Westem Hima-

trying to convince them that wood, tiso police mald-United

oxygen at high altitudes, announced today.

Laya peak. and France should be able they intend implementing Gov- Press

Aschenbrenner was one of The party was accompanied by to exchange views and erment promises of better living

Many Mau Mau hideouts were the two European survivors of about 500 porters including reach a reasonable assess conditions, more food, better pay,

destroyed,

the 1934 disaster on Nanga tough Hunana for assistance at ment of the meaning of the and less pressure,

A running battle with Mau Parbat when nine lives were high altitudes--Router. dramatic

In Berlin the situation remain- ovents which

Mau men was fought last night lost after the climbers had round the Royal Lodge at reached a height of 25,000 feet. have already taken place ed calon although thousands of-

Cairo, July 0. Sazana, Kenya's £250,000 wed- Dr Kari Herrligkoffer, 36, a and are still in the process West Berliners appeared early

The Supreme Miltary Tri-ding gift to Queen Elizabeth 17 Munich gynaecologist, took the of developing behind the at the East-West border crossing

bunal today held ex-King and the Duke of Edinburgh.

Hermann Buhl, to point

organising got one day passes to

this year's Iron Curtain. It is equally visit the sealed off Soviet Zone.

land.in Farouk and members of his for- Another gang

20 miles away expedition to avenge the death old Austrian mountaincor who essential that 11 proper Although the Soviet sector macr entourage appraisal be mado in remained closed to Allied per-sponsible in Beypt reattacked the Treetops Hotel to a there of his step brother Merkh conquered Nanga Parbato

glont fig tree at Aberdare

He had nover previously climb-garded here as "the most daring Washington this week con- sonnel without diplomatic the Palestine war and suggest National Park the place where ed a mountain and there were mountaineer of the Tyrol", cerning the latest Korean special businessmen's passes and ed that he bettled in bis the Queen as Princess was stay strong objections in Germany to He has rescued several Ger- altuation which Syngman to traffic generally, Allied sources absence.

tribunal also suggesteding when she heard of the death his leadership in view of human and French climbers on the

her father, King George VI. Jack of experience. Rhee, has complicated by said there was a good chance for

northem Laco of the The Atrienn

rienn caretakers

Before at the

ho left Germany Mountain in Switzerland there is a desirability that lons between East and West Egypt should be brought to hotel are belleved to have left Heiløkoffer said he was deter-made the first winter climb of his actions. Overall, too, carly lifting of nil travel restric- that

with the gang who stole blankets, mined not to give up because the Southern slope of

"When I was 17 my stop-brother lars and a gun case will Merk! was killed by the mountain (Italy). He aino did the winter climbing at the Parbat." The East African Nagogh Herrligkoffer led the Eastern slope Mau, General Sir George

Though

Mountain Bavaria at night,

companion on

Rainer of Innsbruck also & MEHL-

the Big Three re-align

Berlin-Reuter.

their policies relating to

international problems as

STRIKES CONTINUE

Berlin, July 0.

Flash strikes were reported

whole. At this moment, today to have crippled many more than any other time, big plants in East Germany as

The

Farouk's henchmen In

trial. Reuter.

7

New Ambassador Paris, July 0.

food,

Mou

It was understood in compotent

Commander,

the pressure against

DARING MOUNTAINEER

Vienna, July

the 20 year

Elgor

and

Materolata

Watzmann

a composing of viewpoints | workers demonstrated for the circles here today that M. Servel Eraking throw his forces into expedition; tho man in charge of favourite and'a solidarity of front is release of their comrades guol-Alexandrovich. Vinogrades had the attack in three main areas -- the actual climbing · operation most of his climbs, is

can

Muno

ber of the Nanga Parbat, ex-

Fort

Hall reserve about 60 was Peter Aschenbrenner.

of Nairobi, the eu in the June anti-Communist been chosen by the Soviet Gov- required. The effect upon

ernment as the next Ambassador inlles north

OTHERS TO TRY Mi Paris in succession to El. northern locations of the Embu world opinion

be uprising.

Though Arst repórta – of the pedition. A Western Allled spokesman Alexander Pavlov.

reserve on the southern slopes

A pasionato climber since his tremendous, and would help | safa 20 days of Soviet martial M. Vinogradon, who is 43, was of Mount Kenya, 125 miles north successful, climb reaching hero probably more than any law had not completely crushed Soviet Ambassador in Ankara of the Kenya capital, and the named only Buhl as conquering early youth Buhl Ilves with his thing alue to bolster the the rebellion which swept the crom 1940 to 1948: He is under Rift Valley, for a mass combout the mountain, earlier messages German wife, in Munich, where confidence of West Germany Russian Zon on June 17. stood in be on expert on Europeap of the provincial capital of said two or three climbers would he is a sales eluks at a sports

Nakuru,—Heuter.

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