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The Canal Zone

T is a long time Hinee

found

British Government itself in such a strange position in the House of Commons 218

that on Thursday night. On the one hand it was assailed by! Opposition left-wingers for not immediately withdraw- ing all troops from the Suez Canal Zone; on the other it received equally velement criticism from Conservative back-benchers) becauso it was nut pared น allow British forces to "stay put" inde- finitely in the disputed The obvious wenk- ness about both arguments was that ench WEB

area.

pre-

pre-

sented us the easiest solu- tion to the Anglo-Egyptian problem. Both, in fact, are too easy. They ignore, or brush aside, a combina- Lion of complex factors. The Tory critics of Govern- ment policy were correct in claiming that British troopa were no longer being kept in the Canal Zone "in the old imperialistic sense."

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Coolie Fall Indo-China The Big Problem Denmark In

Into Ship's Hold

A Chinole coolle badly injured on board tho as Glenford last night when hatch plank swinging, AL the end

derrick of a knocked him over the edge of the hatch into the No. 1 hold.

He felt about twenty foot and then struck a pile of wooden planks as a lower level in the hold which fell on top of him.

The Glenford, which la moored to A- buoy in midstream. sounded four blanks on the ship's hern and put up distress flags.

Other coolies on board the ship worked feverishly to lift the fail

failen planks from the man.

The coolic was rushed to Kowloon hospital. It ta understood hin condtion Last night WRA serious, Pulice will not releaso hin name and address until the next-of-kin have been in- formed of the accident.

Secret

but at the same time the Atom Papers

left out of their considera- tions what have long been accepted AM legitimate Egyptian national

aspira-

tions. By the same token

Missing

today

Washington, Mor. 12.

said A Congressman the that "high secret" papers were from the Hanfurti, missing Washington, atomic plant and the Congressional Atomic Com- mitter said it hud ussigned an investigator to check the situation.

the sako of nspirations

the left-wing Socialists argued that everything else should be thrown winds for Egyptian reasonable or otherwise. NE of the dominant factors in the Canal Zone issue has been, and remains, the The Committee chairman, W. security of the area. Its Sterling Cole, also said his group strategic importance to the had been checking all utomo missing free world must not be Installations

documents as "routine" matter.

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abandon the

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At Geneva

MANY INHERENT

DANGERS

London

Assess

Observers

Situation

London, Mar, 12. Indications mounted today that Indo-China, not Korea, will prove to be the prickliest problem at the Geneva conference.

Authoritative observers cautioned that com- bined Russian and Chinese tactics at the April meeting may put Western unity to a severe test on the Indo-China issue.

MIG Shoots Up

US Planes

ONE REPORTED BADLY DAMAGED

Frankfurt, Mar. 12.

Two United States Navy planes, lost on a flight to Austrin, were attacked by a Soviet-built MIG on the German-Czech frontier to- day and one was "badly shot up," an American mili- tary source said.

The spokesman Bald the propeller-driven Navy planes managed to escape and landed at Munich,

Moscow and Peking are expected to bid for scheduled a cease-fire.

Western policy advisers are warning that ar- rangements for a political settlement in Indo-China must precede a cease-fire.

If a Korea-type cease-fire comes before a political settlement, they say, Indo-China may fall under total Red domination.

the

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The reason is that the type of firm battlefront that separat ed Communist Koreans from non-Communist Koreans during the cease-fire in Korca is absent from Indo-Chine, There is no front in Indo-China,

Comununists, forgotten, much less ignore said with

aring a cease-fire, could mingle ed. For Britain precipitate-on secret documents, "It is peoples

freely among

non-Communist

Infiltrate and

the ly to

safe- secret

understandable that inevitably

country quietly but militantly guarding of the Zone, дв there could be some that cannot

to the point of domination. the Socialist extremists readily

Should the Communists at the would have the govern- Representative Thomas Pelley Far East conference in Geneva

the cease-fire, ment do, would be nothing (Republicus, Washington)

propose Commission expected, bad the Atomic Energy less than an act of

what will France's The French are faith to the Western world, tad confirmed the loss of "sub-

position be? stantial

of sccrot

weary of the war and want the Moreover Egyptian

quantities" in-

He said shooting stopped, although on ternal

papers from Hanford. has security

yut the volume of missing papers honourable terms. to be established in con- was "rather extensive," He The United States, Britain sequence of the political odded that he did not know

and France are discussing these problems currently Iz the upheavals of the last fort whether it was due to espionage

Western capitais to work out a night, and this is certainly or "poor housekeeping."

11 New Joint policy for the

tricky Representative Cole, to talk

the said he had Geneva talks with

Suviet York Repubileun, about abandoning negotia-

V. M. on the Foreign Minister, Mr no further information tlons. The British Govern- Harforth mutter. He said he did

and Red Molotov

China's ment must insist

Premier, Chou En-lat. on know whether the papers

not negollated compromise, involved were "secret or top- This is how authoritative ob- servers AS$3 at present the terms

fair and secTES,"

problems of the Geneva parley While practicable.

most

scheduled to open on April 26: the original treaty

FIRST ISSUE righta have been con- ceded, others must main operative for time being. This is asking too much of Egypt. is al-

Casablanca, Mar. 12. whose sovereignty ready

Abdal Aziz Zoung, a Moroccan fully eatablished,

"dead by a But it is a country which lawyer, was shot needs friends badly and terrorist In the old Arab quar-

ter of Casablanca today,

not

ü

Its

of

the

moment

are

He said the Committee had raised the Hanford malter with the AEC and would "take steps to ascertain the basis for Mr Pelley's inquiry." The AEC had the no immediate comment.-United not Press.

re-!

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were out

The planes were belleved to be from the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean and h carry manoeuvres over Austria.

The military source sald it the planes appeured confused and few along the

Czech-German frontier.

became

The attacking plane, apparent- Czech Air Force MIG-15,

fired several bursts of machine-

"Drug Orgy" Scandal Repercussions

+

Rome, Mar. 12.

The Italian Cabinet will meet on Tuesday cune from Czechoslovakia and faced with a nation-wide clamour for a clean-out in high places after a series of sensational dis- closures in the "drug orgy" trial, now going on before a Rome court.

gua fire before swerving back

Icy Grip

Denmark is again in the ley grip and many islands are isolated--with hundreds of ships stuck fast in the ice. These Copenhageners were able to walk on the frozen Sound between Denmark and Sweden to and from some of the ice-bound ships. London Express.

The resignation last night of Italy's police chief, Dr Tommaso Pavone, whose name was linked with the trial, was followed later by reports that the Foreign STOP PRESS Minister, Dr had also proposed to, re- Mign, but had been urged by his colleagues to stay at his post.

However difelt the Korean eastward, the Army said, issue may prove, the diplomats It was not immediately known caution that Indo-China will be If any of the Navy Alers were minitely Inore serious and wounded charged with explosives of an, spokesman for the Bavarian unpredictable power.

State border police in Munich zald several

eyewitnesses had Any slip-up here by the West reported that

one of the US may lead to the loss of Indo-planes returned the fire with China to the Rede with its several bursts" dangerous consequences for, the

The reports received by Ger- balance of power in the Far man police said several empty East. Any wavering by France, cartridge shells had been found Before the court is a 24-year democracy and promised-overe

of understanding by after the attack but their origin Britain and the United States could not be identified im- might

the damago

Western mediately.---United Press. alliance,

or lack

Mulaya may once uguin prove a hot-bed of Communist infilira- tion and activity if Indo-China go Red,

These assessments caution in particular that a cease-fire in Indo-China In advance of a political settlement would prove extremely

Russia dangerous. and China are expected to pross powerfully for it.

COMMUNIST HINTS

Murder Charge Dismissed

London, Mar. 12. A court here today dismissed charge of murder against an of a British 18-year-old wife soldier alleged to have murder- ed her baby son at Lueneburg, West Germany.

sald The magistrate evidence indicated that

old Neo-Fascist' silvano Muto, who wrote in his

of the

FIRE AT

journalist, Government measures.

The police chief's resignation PEAK HOUSE

the

son,

who been

Heavy

after

ar-

mist blanketid The Peak at the time, and the ap- pliances had to make their way carefully to the scene of the Are.

weekly newspaper that police last night followed allegations had been induced to drop in-by trial witnesses that he was

A fire, belloved to have been friendly

with the terms vestigations into the death of a on girl who, he claimed, had died Marquis Montagna. Dr Pavone caused by a short circuiting in Investigation into the electrical wiring, broke out after a drug orgy at the hunt-asked for an

o'clock this ing reserve

Marquis his private life "In order that shortly before

my honesty can be reaffirmed." at 307, The Peak, the Ugo Montagna,

residen

of Mr and Mrs Ralph Muto is being prosecuted for One of the witnesses, 23-year- N. pedition, because hla

Maria Caglio, charges old Anna

The fames damaged the roof at the rear end of the house, but she bad were made against a section of told the court

quickly subdued the Interior Ministry known as Montagna's mistress for a year, were

hod appliances the "Pubblica Sigurezza,"

charged that the Marquis organ- three fre

The rest of the house rived, the 1sed

argles for highly- Witnesses at the biggest placed friends. She also alleged escaped damage and there were scandal trial

In recent Italian that he procured an apartment no casualties. history alleged hat Dr Pavone for the police chief.--Reuter. the had helped to cover up First hints from Moscow and

the girl's death. They said that one Peking this week have indicated mother, Mrs Yvonne Margaret of those present at the orgy was that the Communists will make Morse, had not poisoned her the Foreign Minister's

Policeman Slain The first issue to be consider- "independence" of Indo-China a child with metal polish as had Piero Plecioni. ed is the

settlement. | Korean settlement prerequisite to any

In Gun Battle There is little doubt that such been alleged, but that the 21- There is no prospect for agTOG....

would

have to month-old baby had picked up ment on unifying the country independence

Seattle, Mar. 12. the be, in their view, a Communist the tin and drunk some of the along lines proposed by

and polish accidentally,

A policeman was killed West namely

through free designed pattern.

a gun "I fail to see how any reason-

one of the star witnesses was two others wounded in election of central Котал Moreover,

battle with robbers during a bank hold-up here today. The armed sia and China will in the carly of murder," he added.

It was clear that she had

She is 23-year-old Adriana

have reported to robbers are by the proceedings at Geneva raise the

wit- Bisacela, cited by other her best ones are Britain

The assassin got away

Powers @guinst further question of Peking's adroissian been at loggerheads with

husband but that supplied

nesses as among girls present at got away-France Presse. It The US has put and the rest of the

ggression. free police could find no witnesses to world.

the daylight killing-Reuter. The alternative is acceptance on record that she is attending sort of reason for her wanting the alleged orgies.

Friends with whom she had to get rid of her child-China of the status quo. This would the meeting on the clear under Mall Special,

been

suid she telephoned leave the country divided standing that it implies no re- Indefinitely, but aim to tighten cognition.

The forthcoming meeting between economic co-operation North

South

considered Korea, Cost

as probably one orth neutralise the two parts of the the most dificult big powers'

diem parleys since the war, country

and guarantee aggression while allow issues has so far left little time Preoccupation with the major ing gradual withdrawal of the non-Korean armies.

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Meanwhile, on the eve of the trial's resumption on Saturday,

overnment plus gradual with- There anticipates that both Ruk- able jury could convict this giri reported to have vanished.

big

forces

of non-Korean and a guarantee

and

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Appointment

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last night

to say she would not returning. They said sho sounded excited and that the telephone conversation was cut off before it was, finished.

In Washington, Mar. 12,

the Italian Chamber of The United States Defence Deputies Inst Wednesday, the Department today

Marlo appointed Prime Minister, Signor Lieutenant

John Scelba, declared the Government General

.

A solution oven on the latter of the conference, Including O'Daniel, army commander in would fight the "suspicions and basis is considered very difficult the place of meeting, the the Pacific, to head the United shadows" emerging from the because of American reluctance Janguages to be usexi, the States

and of voting South Korea's mony objections. facilities.—Unlied "Press.

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