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Guatemala

TAROM the confused and

Conflicting reports issuing from Guatemala, Honduras and

the Guatemalan Embassy lu Waahington 12 the rebel advance led by Colonel Castillo Armas into Guatemala,

might be excused for believing that the country is in a state of complete narchy. that neither the "Liberation Army" of Armas, nor the Government Army of President Arbenz have con- trul of the country. Doubt- Jess the military situation will be clarified later this week, Meanwhile there are three important questions to be entisidered 001 the situation as a whole: first, the Security Council's attitude to the invasion for while it muy be 容

still un "invasion";

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Asia Policy

EDEN INDICATES

ATTITUDE

London, June 24.

"revolution" of loyalists, it Sir Winston Churchill and Mr Anthony Eden second, the United States will fly to Washington today for their talks with Arbonz President Eisenhower evidently determined to regime; and third the resist any American pressure for the immediate doubted association of the creation of a Southeast Asian security pact.

atlitude te the

United Fruit Company in the present struggle. The prosent invasion of Guate mala bears a likeness to the invasion of South Korea by the North-except that in the present struggle, the rules are reversed. The Jayulista

(presumably

This became clear in a foreign affairs debate opened by the Foreign Secretary in the House of Commons yesterday evening, 24 hours before their departure for weekend talks at the White House as the President's guests.

Mr Eden, speaking of the defence proposal, Democrats also! have said: "It could be a future safeguard, but it is

Communist not a present panacea.”

invaded

I

tainted Republic. The Security Council

At the same time, he called for a Southeast Asia "Locarno" pact to guard against aggression, running

ordered a ceasefire but it side by side with a Western defensive alliance, such

ally

Far East NATO and the existing Soviet-Chinese

Politicians here drew the conclusion that Sir Winston Churchill and Mr Eden would claim more time to test the outcome of the Geneva negotiations on Indo-China before the projected Southeast Asia pact is organised.

will be interesting to NEB whether it takes further action in the dis- | treaty. pate before the fighting has resolved itself into either victory or defeat for the present regime. Undoubted ly, if no further action is taken, the Russian bloc will make enpital of the

facting

Wellington, N.Z. June 25.

Two teen-aged giris, one of them She daughter of Britain's foremost naval research scientist in World War II, were held today in the murder of the mother of one of them.

Pollee arrested the girls after finding the body of Mrs Honora

Mary Parker

A

Lux lonely wooded valley near Christchurch. She had

been beaten and possibly

sirangled.

One

of the girls Jullet

15, Marion Hulme, daughter of H.n. Hulme, director af Operational Research for the Briush Admiralty during World War 11. The ather was

Panline Yvonne Parker.

10,

dead

Wonzan's

the daughter.

The police said a brick and a knitted stocking were found near Mrs Parker's body. Investigatory Mrs Parker and the two siris lunched together yes- terday and then went for walk in the woods after- warda. Later the girls re- turned in tears, offioers said,

reported Mrs and Parker had been burt in a fall-United Prem

Police Clash With Outlaws

Tunis, June 23.

that the United Nations was my belief is that by refrain-sity; and St Edwin Plowden, Follagha outlaws in rugged hill Mobile Police clashed with 60

not so tardy in going to the

гeseue

of

THE

INVASION OF GUATEMALA

Rebel Leader Declares,

We Shall Win

From DONALD LUDLOW

Quickly

Rebel HQ, June 22 (Delayed)

· I have just returned from the shrine of the Black Christ at Esquipulas, 25 miles inside Guatemala where Col Castillo Armas has set up advanced headquarters and base for his Opposition Government.

The Colonel is called Liberator by his raggle-taggle troops who bristle with old as well as brand new arms.

paign.

Today he gave me the first authentic progress report on his cam-

1,909,000

More Wages

London, June 24. About 1,009,000 Bet lish workers were given wago increases last month adding another £481,000, a work to Industrial costs, the

Ministry of Labour Gastite announced here today.

Workers who benefitled most were employed in building and civil gingering. tailoring, co iume And dress-making and the iron and sisel in- Austry

In the same tine 112,000 indívidasi working days Jout through. In- dustrial disputes compared. with 73,000 the previous month.----Beuter.

Man Accused

Duping Girl

Of

Until now this Guatemala war has been largely a radio affair, C

with both sides making impossible claims.

the outskirts of

But the only fighting so far was a skirmish on Esquipulas in which a few men were wounded and three killed the Government side.

This doem't mean there is no Kayage fighting abcad. Col

"I don't Armas days,

believe President Arbenz can rely on the Army. He will have to arm the peasants. We are expecting bitter fighting, but when the real clash comes, and it may be soon, I think it will be over quickly. President Arbenz doesn't have the support of the people," Col Armas added, "I

Commander-in-Chief,

the

am

greatly encouraged by the fact Enrique Diaz is under

Colonel houte arrest."

What will Col Armas do with the Communists if he wins?

His soft voice became harsh:

all on

Guatemalan Rail

Centre Attacked

Tegucigalpa, June 23.

an'

London, June 28, The story of how a pretty Australian girl was allegedly relieved of $240 by English farmer was told in a 'London police court today when Alfred Henry Ford, 85, of no fixed abode, was charged with obtaining money by false pretences

Anti-Communist rebel forces said today that from Miss Odette Jacqueline they were making a “furious air and land attack" | Adrian O'Neill of Collingham on the important railway centre of Chiquimula, 65 Place, Earls Court. miles due east of the Guatemalan capital.

An announcement from the headquarters of

"I think the top Reds will prefer the rebel leader, Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas, to fight it out rather than be claimed that the important rail centres. of captured. We would prefer that" Bananera, Morales and Gualan, which were the Rebels' two courier planes hands. single-engine Costin one of attacked yesterday, were now securely in rebel

1 How to: Esquipulasie a tiny

and chief means of communica-

tion.

SUPPLIES DROPPED

Prosecuting, Victor Durand alleged that. Ford, who it was said, is a married man with four children, posed as a wealthy man and proposed to Miss. O'Neill and was accepted,

"On the very day he suggested may be persuaded another lady marriage to this unfortunato to go and select an engagement

Mr Eden weni further in urg- Frederick Lindeman, who holds

restraint on forming n the

Chair of Experimentai Western defensive organisation Philosophy at Oxford Univor-

ring for hersel,” sald counsel. ing from any precipitate move newly-appointed

Government country 18 miles Bouth Korea. towards

west of Stax

Mr Durand said Ford met Mies the formation of u adviser on atomic energy In Southern Tunisia last night, Hence, why procrastinate NATO system in Southeast Asia.

If correct, this would give backbones of the Stare Madre, O'Neill last June and soon sug Bonisation.

the French authorities said to- about saving a "democratic we have helped to create the

extend down from gested marriage to her. He con As we came into the muddy the forces seeking to overthrow which republic" in South America? necessary conditions under which

her again in February was the biggest force of cow-pasture landing ground the regime of President Jacobo Mexico and rise in volcanic tacted both systems can possibly be

far in a within

peaks to a height of 13,812 feet, and their marriage waa fred sight of Esquípulas Arbenz control of reported so

for June 12 this year, of terrorism Cathedral another plene pok-stretch of the nation's one rail-

Guatemala's largest neigh- TROUSSEAU DEBT wave

to the south, Honduras, nose out of the clouds. uneasy protec od its

That was one of the Colonel's way.

today reported that two Guate malon dropping food,

Army planes bombed Duitotas

two

in towns

Honduras and petrol by parachute.

United Press.

THE United States' hostility brought into being."

the

American

Arbenz

continent.

This springs largely from

Of the Indo-Clilna

active

with

negolia -

ATOMIC AFFAIRS

Lord Cherwell, formerly in day the Churchill Cabinet and still outlaws

the

the

+

#

70-mile

bour

The rebels claimed yesterday

have cut

the railway in

severing

com

Rainstorm Causes

+

to Ford

Mr Durand continued that Miss O'Neill gave Ford sums of 250, 270 and £120, and had niso gone into debt for about £100 for the trousseau she had started to collect.

When she confided that her mother had telo graphed her £100 toward the wedding, said Mr. Durand, Ford persuaded her to lend him the 2120 mentioned in the charge for hire of a car for deposit the

the Con-

-claimed that Ford!

26 Deaths

Chiquimula, a town of 25,000 inhabitante 30 miles from Honduran frontler, controls

the

A

Tokyo, June 24. The death toll in the rein- storm, which swept wide areas of the country from Tuesday

*

towns

Mir

been stung for more than £12", When arrested, Ford had on him a copy of a matrimonial payer with women's names in it underlined in red.":"

the Prime Minister's honorary towards the

consultant on atomic affairs, is month-old regime is one which has fartions, Mr Eden

friend and sweeping old personal дл sald hopes of nitur ramifications than agreement would be jeopardised

travels with him on most of his torate.

The Police called trips.

for rein- But Sir Edwin Plowden, simply American-Guatemalan

operations formerly military

forcements Government

to cher

pursue the outlaw relations. The recent Carn- were intensified while negolia-

Waiting for us were a hand- to There were planner, has not

no casual- previously band. He added: сак conference of Inter- went on.

gured in the Prime Minister's ties during the skirmish, which ful of the Colonel's men in several places, American Governments de

the railroad ragged khaki shifts and tattered munications between the capital place near "If this reminder is heeded, I international atomic discusalons, took monstrated

straw sombreros. the suspicion | think there is a change-and I Other members of the party or visience in Tunisia in-

of MokassY.

mal and Puerto Barrios, the nation's Most of them carried brand: with which many South do not put it higher than that include Lord Morar, the Prime cluded rifle shots fired at a new machine pistols with fold- most important seaport, located American Foreign Ministers that

continued patience | Min ster's personal physician,

kind I have on the Caribbean coast. French settler's farm-house lasting stocks of a these long and dimeult negotia- and Foreign Office officials. treated the American pro tions will produce an acceptable Secretarial staff

35 miles never seen before, and bearing night at Bou-Ficha, posal for action against result."

brings the:

no marks of origin. south of Tunis. Soldiers guard- total number to

20-- under

I was taken for

A bone- Communist infiltration into

about half the strength of the ing the property returned the

ride in with-breaking half-hour Churchill team which went to are, and the attackers

Hinent. lorry Colpur Une into the neighbouring Jolling Bix-ton drew. The Prime Minister disclosed the Bermuda tõlks last Decem-

has risen to 26, according to a had posed as a doctor and had Armas has only two of them, republie of San Salvador.

Durand ch the fact that the majority last night that the small party |ber,

Stocks of arms discovered in but trucks mean little in this

checkup by the National Rural of these Republics are he is taking to Washington in-

The rebel announcement said Police Headquarters as of mid- also offered marriage to a Miss The Prime Minister, who will the homes of five Tunisians near land of mules,

The five

O'Creagers but she had not acutely sensitive about their cludes two of his chief atomic be 80 in November, will fly from Bizerts were seized

Into the pot-holed main street fighting for control of Chiqui- night yesterday. Independence and resent the experts suggesting that atomie London airport at 645 GMT were arrested.

we jolted. At the Hotel Modelo mula was continuing. In ad-

dition to the railway

Five others were missing and we stopped below a triumphal claimed

secured, the rebels 21 persons Injured.: orch of fir boughs,

claimed to have control of a Col Armas greeted us. He is number of smaller towns well below medium height, with inside the Guatemalan border. hawk nose, a smudge of *

MOVES HQ Gander, Newfoundland. It is

This

fine air of command. Clearly

Colonel Castillo claimed to searches in the his men worship him.

have moved Arab quarter and outskirts of (local time) on Friday,

kle headquarters Since

his men took Esquipulos After a weekend as guests at the Cit for concealed erms.

were with barely a fight-200 Gov-eeper inside the country from the White House, the British the suburbs, roadblocks

Esquipuins, mountain town emment troops ran away and statesmen will spend Monday at carried to check all cars go are now lurking miserably in where headquarters The United Fruit Company,

the British Embassy in Washing-in and cut,

the hills-Cal Armas has not tablished yesterday. The rebela an American concern, is

ton.

Many big farms in central and only been conducting a can claimed their Invasion of inextricably involved in the

Torono, June 23.

a country is moving forward They will fly to Ottawa inter northern. Tunisia are protected paign but has also started present battle for power.

A company accused of making

steadily, supported by "hundreds Undoubtedly (if for no other cough syrup with more kick for a short visit to Candian by troops so that the important battle school for recruits.

Premier Louis Saint Laurent, re wheat crops can be harvested.

of peasants. than than ita claim for June

whisky faces judgment on

on the Fellaghas hayo slready act fire 20 after ង court fight turning to New York $18 million compensation involving the tastes of Eskimos night of Jun: 30/July 1. They to a number of fiekis, One will embark for home in the outflow threw burning rogs out 1.m the Guatemalan and people in the Balkans. Government for land BX- Magistrate C. A. Thorburn liner Queen Elizabeth on July 1. of a train window into rows of They are due back in Britain wheat growing up almost to the propriation), its sympathies reserved judgment

on July 6-Reuter,

tracks, last week-United Press, will lie with those who at after defence counsel Arthur least offer more prospect of Maloney argued that only people fair negotiation of their joy the medicine anyway.

with abnormal tastes would en-

formerly

will rank importantly tonight in affairs slightest

stratocruiser,

ARMS SEARCH suggestion of for discussion, in the tallo. interference

Canopus, which has been fitted Lord Cher- in their

The experts are

with divans so that he and Mr

In Tunis, the Police arrested a domestic affairs. The US well,

Professor Eden can enjoy a proper night's man attempting to wring 30,000 Government should there-

francs out rest.

of an Arab quarter forc avold any Aug-

After D refuelling stop at shop-keeper for the Fellaghas. gestion of partiality towards elther side in the present

due at Washington at 9 a.m.,{an wider Tunly police be moustache, a gentle volee and a conflict, Rave to join with other nations to enforce

Cough Syrup

Security Council decisions With A Kick

reason

yesterday

Disclosures At Troopship Disaster Inquiry

London, June 28.

In

claim than with the Arbenz regime.

Ho pointed out that even Yet again, this Crown witnesses had admitted company should realise that they could barely swallow the the present struggle is no syrup without mixer, although ordinary South American one witness cald a Balkan Equar revolution; that today there called Ttakki tasted even worEC.

Crown Counsel are far wider issues at stake

M. M. Keleo which vitally concern overy 5ld that Maloney had no right

The revelation that the alarm was not given on the Ho to judre people's tastes.. foreign-owned industry in told tho Magistrate that he troopship Empire Windrush, which burned and sank in America, affecting probably would not enjoy whale the Mediterranean last March, until eight minutes after as they do the right of an blubber even though Sakimos it had been discovered, was made at the Court of Inquiry Administration to nation- find at a delicacy-United Press. on the disaster in London today. alise its industries or to undertake land ·reform (x3) in the present case)... Little

South

Marilyn Monroe

WILL Sayvold, fourth] appeals for assistance as the firo officer, in reply to a question approached them was given by from the chairman, J. V. Naisby, the chief radio officer, Tradein said they had no indication of | Fowler, Fowler sald: "When we the extent

of the fire until were dealing with the last

noticed falling, which rather that the receiver wials were burning. Shortly

the transmitter,

then..

if anything, can be done to

Collapses Again remove the blot which has been cast on the company's name in the past. But as

Hollywood, June 24:” the arlet engineer:Atherinden hango': Film actress Marilyn Monroe Britain has learned in the collapsed for the third Ume Christian, when anced, I he

theory me to bow the fire, last nine years, the days while, working, here yesterday when foreign enterprises and was desfered, to test for ihren Which cost four of the crew their

lyos out of the 1,408 pd could control vast, propor days by her doctor.

tions of a nation's waälth a He said she was suffering frogs and cfw.aboard,

· are" svar, and that -- future nervous schauation in

· Miss Mouros.is making the dealings demand patience, gir romantas nos out fact, and even concessions,

supporo,

Adivaly story of how the radio

the re-

FORCES GROWING In almost whispered halting

..A Guatemalan Government English he said, "My forets are growing hour by hour. They communique discounted the rebel are quick and eager to learn. claims. It said the rebel forces et Gunlan Men are coming to me not only had been defeated

Chiquimula. · Tho rebels from round here but from deep and in Guatemala. The weather were claimed by the govern- and the country are terriblement to be in headlong retreat We would be moving faster if toward the border."

it was not for the rain."

prise

"Enemy group which were He was cagey about the size of his forces, which first ca-cut off during combat have been captured without offering rés timates had put at 5,900.

The best guess is they com-stance," said the government.

of about two columns

The general oren of the fight- men each. One is in ing, slong vital railway line, is

at Esquioulas, others the. Montagua River valley National moving in the direction of the described by the

Geographie Society as one of the railway centre of Zacapa,

A fight there may be the first richest on earth. It spas, once. real test “because":"President the home of the ancient and Arbenz has reinforced the | highly, civillard. Mayans,. garrison with two companies of Infantry, making a total detence pe. 700 men, London force Expres Service.

Delegates

The river runs through à yàất plantation area producion coffee, fearn and other crops. Alogg both, conats | Casteriida fallán ott a from the pleugge platosus, of the interior to hot! and tropical fowlands.

world

The largest number of deaths was 15, in Wakayama profec- ture-Reuter,

The case is continuing. United Fresca.

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