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Death Of REJECTED

Dr Ernst Peking Govt Claims

Reuter

Berlin, Sept. 29. diacushions on East-West Professor Ernst Reuter, dingreements. The the Lord Mayor of West Washington advisers doubt- lens will point to the Soviet Berlin who led the city note пн but another through the Soviet block- indication that the Russians ade" of 1948-49, died here tack good intentions and suddenly tonight. have no real desire to help | 64.

He was

solve the many complex Here Reuter returned last

international problems of the present moment. It is a West German Mayors in Hap- point of view, however, burg, where he was elected which is by no means | President of the Mayoral Ass0- accepted elsewhere. Indin clation. has now thrown in her support for Sir Winston Churchill's idea which he advanced several

week-end from a conference "of

Today it was learnt that he was suffering from bronchitis, which he was believed to have contracted as a result of his trip to and from Hamburg.

RN Craft Made

First

Attack

London, Sept. 30.

Communist China has rejected a British protest against the shell- ing attack on the motor launch P 1323 about 25 miles northwest of Hong- kong on September 9, the New China News Agency said today.

The Communists also charged that the British "gunboat" first made a "surprise attack," the Agency said.

Cairo months

aro and it certainly retains substantial backing within the British Commonwealth. Even in the Ince of what has been described да "Soviet reticence" it is a proposition which should not be irrevocably rejected. OPPOSITION

to the

Doctors advised him to spend His sudden few days in bed. death al 1800 hours wie be-

ved to have been caused by

heart failure.

is

Immediately the news became known, German radio stations switched from light programmes music, interrupted

to lemn

To the Western

of

STAUNCH SUPPORTER

Alles Herr Reuter was known as a staunch supporter of a united and free Europa. To the Communists he was a "warmonger, murderer and Farcist," and a manager of Wall Street."

The Chinese rejection was contained in a letter

Trial sent yesterday by Mr Chang

Drama:

Vice Han-fu,

Foreign Minister, to the British Charge d'Affaires in Pek- ing, Mr H. Trevelyan, in reply to the British protest of September 12.

Resignation of

Of Lawyer

Calro, Sept. 29.

Six members of the British naval crew and a British observer aboard were killed when the British launch was bit by fire Churchill proposal princi- only by a speciul news bulletin

from a: Communist pairokost.

The Chibere note, ir declaring pally expresses itself in with the announcement

the British protest W115 doubts as to whether any-Mayer Rzuter's death.

The attorney appointed | "unacceptable roles" with the Lodged in turn thing positive would resalt

to defend the former Pre- China's 'strong's from a top-level conference, Obviously there could be no

mier, Abdel Hadi, charged Brian Government age the Brkish launch's "provocationa guarantee, but does this

last week by the Naguib and surprise allock," and egallas

with Justify abandonment of the

government

crimes the alleged strafing of the Com project? Sir Winston

against the State, resigned mandat patrol vessel by two Bel-

tish Mosquito fighter-bombers. Churchill has made it clear

today.

Tho Chinese note said tha that he does not expect the

The attorney, Mustafa Mares, Communist patrolboat was sails world's problems to be

said he had to, wittidraw from ing in waters within the mouth solved and all differences He Was wounded in 1917 and the case because lie was un-of the Pearl River southwest of Inner Lin Tin Island when it of opinion between the taken prisoner by the Russians. able to do his duty. Western Allies and Russia He became an active member of

Mares resigned this morning sighted "an armed gunboat, dis- trial opened be playing no national flag, sailing was shortly after to vanish as a result of such the Bolshevist Party and a meeting. But he does chosen by Lenin us the first fore the all-powerful threesman towards It." believe, and many share his Peoples Commissar of the Volga Revolutionary Tribunal. confident expectation, that Germans. n much better under- - Stalin standing of differing view- superior, points could be obtained Nationalities. from informal talks

Six between the world's four

principal leaders and Reuter

that some

"branch

WAS his immediate 39 Commissar for

Herr

After The note said that the gun- 15 minutes of brisk exchanges beat-which subsequently turn. with the Tribunal President, ed out to be British-made no Colonel Boghladi, and the pro-reply to the patrolboat's in- accuting counsel, Lt Col. quiries, made through interna- Mohammed Tabely, Marcs ask- jijanal signals. ed to withdraw,

tried:

FIRED INTO am

the

months later,

"I am completely helpless,"-{ the Communist he said. lett

It continued: "In view of the Party and joined the German

fact that pirate vessels have long He complained to the Court harassed waters in that locality, fundamental Secialists. By 1933, when Hit this morning that he had been the patrol vessel agreement on the approach ler came to power, he was Mayor Bangered in his work because he of the Chinese People's Republic of the Navy to international problems of Magdeburg.

W33 unable to examine nil reached.

fired three abots into the air, could

Sir bo

documents. Ho In 1933, after having been related

ako

the said gunboat to *Winston envisages ma twice put into a concentration charged that Abdel Hadi has now warning to-man talks and through camp, he fled to Britain through tren inte rogated before he was come to a halt.

The gunboat not only disré- them the removal of Holland. suspicions and complexes

Colonel Baghkadi, banging his garded warnings but on Then for 10 years he worked fat on the table, replied to this: contrary rushed provocatively which to date havo

in the Turkish Civil Service This is a revolutionary tri-

at the patrol vessel; the patrol hindered progress towards Academy at Ankara.

bunbl. 36 is generous our vessel of the People's Republic A settlement of inter-

After the war he returned to part to allow defendants to appear of China again fired two shots

to into national controversies. A

here and engage, lawyers

At the alt to give a warning, widesprend

moment the ad ques bellef exists Germany

defend them, personality respect:d throughout "Would you like us to follow tionable gunboat launched that there is much more to

tho West for his deliant the example cd other revolution- | surprise attack upon the patrol be gained than lost in hold sporches as Mayor of Berlin inary tribunais in other countries? vessel of the People's Republic ing top-level Big Four dis- the face of the Russian blockade United Press

of China, firing more than ten cussions.

of Berlin in 1948,-Reuter.

shots

at it." The note sald that the Com- munist bont then "fired back

defence."

Chinese letter

FACTORY

FRESH

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CADBURY

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Sensational Teheran Report

(From Our Correspondent)

London, Sept. 20.

of

4

Police Await Move By Woman Kidnapper

Kansas City, Miss., Sept. 29.

The police stood grimly in the background today' awaiting the first move by the woman kidnapper of a brown-eyed, six-year-old boy to contact the victim's millionaire father.

The kidnapper is a stockily-built, red-haired woman. She whisked Bobby Greentease, Jr.,. from an exclusive Catholic school yesterday morning, leaving his father, Robert Greenlease, 65, fighting back tears in his helpless

a doctor's care. ness and his mother, 45, in bed under Her condition was reported to be not serious.

mude Greenlease, who hos

All available delectives were milllons as a car dealer in the assigned to the case and then from the eldnapped Middle West, had received no withdrew contact from the kidnapper by victim's house after the Police then curly today. The parents sald Chief, Bernard Brannon, ex- the boy's that two Mosquito they were ready to do any pressed fears for charged bombers, "definitely identifiable thing to co-operate with the esfety. as belonging to the British Gov- kidnapper to get their child ernment," first dived and strated back unharmed.

The

The chief postponed making public the kidnapping for several shocked parents-United Press,

at the Chineza patrol vessel The polles declined to hours at the request of Bobby's

within the mouth of the Pearl River" and then intruded above Tin Island a few minutes

the launch incident

A report from Teheran says that following a full report of the true position of the Per-

The Lin siah all industry put before

to after. Premler, General Zahed, yeste occurred. day

and broadcast to

the note said, der planes, Persian people today, the away

after the island's air de- National Oil Company, which

fence units had fired "resisting runs the industry, has drafted

#hots. letter to Anglo-Iranian asking

it

TEXT OF REPLY

to send un advisory commis- The full text of the Chinese

slon of British experts.

Nothing wil bedden from reply read:

how:

So, if General Zahedi ap

"I have the honour to acknow-

CUSS "ransom" possibilities, They remained in the back- ground entirely, although one clared conference followed an- other at headquartors. -

Seeks Reduction

In Spending

Washington, Sept. 20.

Alleged Spy To Die

Berlin, Sept. 29,

East

An East German court today thom if they come because the ledge the receipt of, your letter

The United States Secretary sentenced to death Werner. Persians realise that only No. 213 dated 12th September, Anglo-Iranian the company 1053, I am instructed to me of Defence, Mr Charles Wilson, Hoffmann, alleged to have been they kicked out two years ago the following reply and request said today that his Department an American spy, the

nowa agency, ADN, can help them save their oil 101101

your Excellency to convey it to was steking a five per centʼre-German. duction in military spending reported. the British Government:

The Court "According to confirmed re-1954-85.

at Karl Marx the Central proves, the lotter will be sent ports celyed by the of

Mr. Wilson refused at a press Stadt formerly Chemnitz-In to London this week.

give preciso Saxony also sentenced three Government of the conference to People's The draft letter also asks People's Republic of China at ngures on the reduction, men to life imprisonment as his

(local time) on

and a

woman, But wher a reporter asked accomplices, Anglo-Iranian to reconsider the 1404 hours,

claimed compensation

for September a patrol vessel of whether he was. alming at a Irene Hoffmann, to 16 years im Mossadegh's seizure of Abadon the Navy of the People's Re$40,000,000,000 sponding budget prisonment.

public of China, while calling on for the Ascal year July

Werner Hoffmann was de- waters within the mouth of the 1, 1054, to Jird that the stribed by the news agency as a Pearl River, southwest of inner Wilson replied,

former

·Terrorists Kill

nctive member of the .hot. porter was "getting reduc- Nazi Party Lin Tin Island and between Lin

Island and Houng Chow, dis- This would Italian Nun

#2,000,000,000 He and his... accomplices had Fovered an armed gunboat dis-tion of between Nairobi, Sept. 29.

national flag what- and playing no

and 13,000,000,000 in the cur- "smuggled themselves by stealth An Italian num "was killed; ever

made tures.

rent rate of defence expezal into the civil service of

East German Republic, where, and an Italian priest seriously

Our patrol vessel thers

Mr Wilson scid the reductioni

the

sinco 1931, they had, done wounded during an attack by 60 enquiries through international teerceists on the Iment! Calhalid ignal. The surboat, whose could be made possible because systematic espionage and aabot mission in the Maru district on actions were questionable and of the end of fighting in Korea. ago work by order of the Ameri

"0" the agency. the castern slopes of Kenya late whose purposes: unclear, made "He added that they could not dan Intelligence, kaat night, it was announced no reply and iccreased its speed make too great a reduellos saldatang kam here today,

of approach. In view of the "because we must keep strong ADN added they were ree The mainos of the victims fact that pirate vessels have tri the Pacife until the Korean warded by the American intelligande servied wlili regular have not been announbed, long Harassed-waters in that || political discussions are, over.

---Reuter, ¿ (Comia, on kask Fare, Col. 3); France-Presse,

towards

"

.:

the

| substantial payments.---Reuter,:

- Top pleture shows Mrs Melinda Maclean, with her three children, who recently mysteriously dis appeared from Geneva in a black Chevrolet car. Above is seen the car after it had been found abandoned. In it, as the photo shows, were the children's book "Little child's Lost Lamb," a pistol, Coronation pageantry pictures, maps, and an ignition key, still in place and carrying a tab bearing the car's number. London Ex- press photos.

MCCARTHY WEDS

Washington, Sept. 20. Senator Joseph Mc- Carthy, America's number one anti-Communist 3n+ vestigator, married red- headed, Miss Jean Fraser Kerr, his former assistant, at St Matthew's Roman Catholic Cathedral here today.

Thousands crowded the Cathedral during the ceremony and reinforced squids?" of

poilco

were

Washington

Kauty!

Senator-McCarthy is 43, bis bride. 29, Their courtship Jast,

ed four years.

Mies Kerr grested photo- aphers with a brood wink as slo, arrived, at the church,

President Eisenhower had, been invited to the wedding, but sent his

regrets in a note which cald he would not be able to

to attend "because of other engagements,"

The White Hour was repre sented by Mr Richard Nixon, the Vice-President, and other, nem-' bers of the Presidential staff.- Reuter."

́LARRY" CROSBY IN-TROUBLE-

Los Angeles, Sept. 29. Larry Crosby, brother of crooner Bing Crosby, has paid $500 fine following his plea of guilty to misbehaviour and driving while drunk charges.

"The crooner's brother marked yesterday: "Whow, I didn't think it would be that much,"

10-i

Ho was arrested last week after his car hit sparked vehicle, on fashionable Wilshire Boulevard United Press,

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