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ROM the Shek O Noad the ter level of the Tytam reservoir appears deceptively high. For months now we have been confronted withi the sight of the steep, dry, red banka dipping down and down to the water far below like a deep bath containing |
inch of water. The reservoirs today present u healthier appearance and the
by figures supplled
the Director of Public Works-. 3,664 gallons in the re- servoirs this morning (slightly more than 60 p.c. of the total capacity)- might suggest that we had turned tho corner, no
Apeak, that with another heavy fall like last week's) and our troubles would be almost over for this year. Yet the truly frightening thought is that at the daily rate of consumption of some- thing in the nature of 26 million gallons without rain in the next four weeks our waler position would precisely the same na it was at the end of last month when the authorities must have been somewhat roll- cerned at the supply position and were more than likely! considering the prospect of
atringent
more
be
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NEW FRENCH PLAN FOR E.D.C.
Labour Football
Pools?
London, Aug. 9. The National Executive Labour of the British Party may be called on to discuss a plan by a group ot its members to raiso money for party by operating pool.
B
purposes football
The pool would be un- official and owned by its shareholders, but objections have been raised by party members who oppose gamTK- bling in principle,
Others contend that if local parties and unions Are used to distribute coupons they will be dia- tracted from the
mnin
Lask of working for the Darty,
сап
When a similar pool wal proposed recently, the Me- thodist Recorder anid: "If this scheme is launched it will involve the official aillance of the Labour Party
rambling on with the largest scale. No dis- claimers
contradict this. HOT aзy argumenta that it is not the policy of the party."
sponsorя think it would bring in £370,000 a year for the party cleo- tion fund, local orga3 KLĒJA – flons, scholarships And holidays for retired work- ers---China Mall Special,
rationing Russians
micorurca. Last month only. 11 per cent of the normal rain fell. Add to that the fact that rainfall was 44 p.c.
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Say:
'We Want
under normal in June and Attlee First
72 p.c. under normal in May and It is possible to under-
stand the gravity of the Ask Ambassador To situation. It is some slight Postpone His Party
consolation to know that this
our
is the wet moon, that freak!
Moscow, Aug. 8. rainfall may yot be
Sir William Hayter, the saviour, just as freak dry- British Ambassador, today ness in the past weeks has arranged to put back by
been our despair.
Mendes-France Working Out A Compromise
Wants Certain Phases Of Army Treaty Delayed
Paris, Aug. 9.
The French Premier, M. Mendes-France is believed to be working on a compromise European Army scheme which would be acceptable to the National Assembly.
Under such a plan the European Army treaty would be adopted but certain phases of it would not immediately become effective.
M. Mendes-France tackled the stubborn prob-
Six Killed
1|:Lu
LATEST NEWS FROM MOROCCO
In German TWO EUROPEANS
Road Smash
Berlin. Aur, 8.
Six persons were killed End 18-Injured in a collis- sion between two buses and two trucks on the nienich Berlin highway, according to an official East German Follon state- ment Immed tonight.
Recident The
occurred when
the butses early yesterday, on their way from
Berlin Munich to pollided with two' parked trucks. It
belleved
the accident may have been caused by fatigua on the part of the bus drivers.
France-Presse.
The Reds
Tried To
lem of the snagged European Army at a cabinet Knife Me'
meeting today with the same drive he used to seek a cease-fire in Indo-China.
With only 11 days to work out France's final stand on the European Army before he meets other Western European Foreign Ministers in Brussels, M. Mendes- France called a top-level conference at his hunting lodge in Arly Forest,
Long
Discussion
The Premier called in the Commerce Minister, Maurice Bourges-Maunaury, who is pro-EDC, and the National Defence Minister, General Pierre Koenig, an EDC opponent, for a long and detailed discussion of their positions.
KILLED
IN NEW RIOTS
Port Lyautey, Aug. 8.
Two Europeans, a man and a woman, were illed in a new crop of violent incidents today." The victims were a 60-year-old man and a middle- aged woman whose mutilated body was found in the Arab quarter.
The rioters set fire to a cinema, ransacked an ophthalmic centre and destroyed a European villa.
Italians Plan A Dangerous
Expedition
1 Home, Aug. 8. An Italian expedition in being prepared to pene- trate dangerous, unexplored -regions of South Americs nover before KOON by white man, it was learned today. The
expeditfozi
plunge into remote.. - explored regions of South ern Panama, Upper Colom » bla and Venesuela in an - ethnological, study of wilä native tribes.
Among the tribes to be studied are those dedicated to cannibalism, including
· the "Chothon" of Colombis, who drink blood from: the skulls of thefr' defeated enemies.
-Backed by 'the'_ Italian government and financed by various industrial firms, the hardy group of Italians Is belog organised by ex. plorer Giorgio Constanso, with scientific details being handled
by. Professor Tullio Tentorf, who holde the
Chair of American Civilisation at the Univer sity of Rome. -- · United Press.
The rioting in which thou- Later, M. Francis Lacoste, the sands took part, went on for French Resident-General, at- about three hours before order tended the mass funeral of the was restored
11 victims of yesterday's riot- Today's incidents began when ing. demonstrators clashed with
Only 800 people attended the gendermes guarding the evacu ceremony. and there were no
of Europeans from the Arub disorders, apart from the cries COLONY'S WATER quarter. of town.
Hon
of "vengeaÑES" ***nimed at the
present.
and, "resign" high officials
Tho Moroccan mcb Wan divided by the police, but r
near a maternity grouped hospital and then roamed the Feeling is running higit In the lown in binds, committing acis French part of Port Lyautey, of vandalism.
where the French consider they They included many petty have Insufficient police protec- tion in case of a general upris- ing.
Polish Stowaway Tells Escape Story thieves.
the
London, Aug. 8. Antoni Klimowicz, young Polish seaman who stowed away to freedom here aboard a mystery ship, said today the Communists tried
every-
IN ITALY
Common Police Swoop
On Big Drug Rocket
thing from bribes to knifing to force him back behind the Iron Curtain,
Kilmowicz daktig, This Bre
publie appearance since a dying of British policemen rescued him from the Folia saund
of
about British
from
t
Four Tons › Morphine Seized
Today's Hiob follows bibody sernes hero yesterday when 11 people were killed and over 30 Injured The bloodshed began whan nativo polies ordérod shopkeepers to reopen their
SITUATION
Review To Be Made This Week
The Government Public shops, shut in accordance with Relations officer said today that following the recent
a Nationalist strike call.
X
Ta day the dinner party he was rearmament be approved in principle but delayed in fired him from his States, in the biggest drug/Party ditributed loan wilay
this morning was 39
gallons.
million
A crowd collected and stoned heavy rain in the Colony, the police who retreated after the water situation will be firing into the crowd.
reviewed by the authorities RETURN OF TOUSSE early this week. It was
believed that the other European
He also said there was The strike was part of the not yet any definite truth in campaign for the return of the statements that "water powers, who have been waiting months for France and Italy to make up their minds on the European freighter Jaroslaw Dabrowski in
foriner Sultan, Sidi Mohammad Ben Youssef, exiled by the supply hours may be in- Army, would not, accept any plan which entailed the Thames River eight days
ago,
told repeaters that his only
French to Madagascar,
creased in the near future." long and difficult re-negotiations of the Brussels answer to the Reds was, "I want
Rome, Aug. 8.
As a result of last week's freedom.
The Italian police said 10-
In Rabat, police today found heavy rain and further rain and Paris treaties.
According to the influential weekly "Express," preter, the sound Pole whose had seized nearly four tons their houses would be burned take into the colony's reservoirs Speaking through an inter- day that narcotics agents notices on walls in the Aran during the week-end (96 points
town warning Moroccans that since Saturday: 8 a.m.) the In the Premier may suggest at Brussels that German rescue bone Btian police of morphine and opium, down if they failed to take part in ute 24 hours up till 8 a.m.
Communist mostly en route from the anti-French flots. Klimowicz said the Middle East to the United In Casablanca, the Communist The storage capacity therefore. to 3084........million gallons years ago scaman's job three because he refused to serve as crackdown since before the on Moroccans to commemorate which, is slightly more than 60
the "colonialist coup" last year per cent of total an informer against other mem- | war.
when the ormer Sultan "was
capacity. bers of the crew.
TYPHOON REPORT The Royal Observatory sald Klimowicz managed to get
announcement indicated deposed, Italian Customs agents In Rabat, the Sultan, Sidi today that according to their the Dabrowski in the that aboard
on the believe that they have broken Mohammed Ben Moulay of charts, there has been no in- Polish port of Gdynia
on the dication of a typhoon in the night of July 2. Ho hid under the back of the narcotics rig, Morocco, today, called
which
ду д uses Italy
trans-population to avoid rioting and vicinity of «Taipei, as stated in and a stack of bacan boxes
shipment point.
disorder. and expressed regret weather re
report from Talpel went without food for the next
Since January, police said, at the incidents which had oe- yesterday. #ix days until British dock-
they have seized 7,720 pounds correct in various parts of the The woother outlook for to- hands in London found him.
of morphine and 44 pounds of country during the past, few day is light or moderate south- knew that if I was sent opium. All but a fraction was days France Presse and Reuter, west winds and fair weather. back to Poland it would be my seized in one swoop last month: end,
"If you only But they kept quiet about it ho said. knew how I felt when the boat while they watched the move- to move slowly down ments of known narcotics agents the Thames, you would under- in Italian ports,
and my present, feeling of
weather in the next month giving for the leader of the execution until one more attempt has been made to will be the vital factor opposition Mr C. R. Attlee, determining whether or not because the Russians said negotiate the German question with Moscow. water restrictions can be they wanted to be the first United Press. cased. If the weather to honour him when he
inst month is repeated this month, how-arrives on Tuesday.
pattern
of
Sir William will now entortain Aneurin Bevan other members of the
Executive
over, dally consumption will Mr Attlee, Mr have to be kept at 26 million and six gallons.
Party
Lebour Wednesday.
The The group
on
are spending two WE advocated recently the days in Moscow on their way to
private Communist China,
WE
installation of
tanks for individual house-
that the Embassy
The Foreign Ministry said:
NO INVITATION
the host.
'Violent Fighting' In Portuguese Territory Indians Driven Out
Lisbon, Aug. 9.
started
great
Joy A
The
+
Sir William changed his plans after receiving a
telephone call holds and flats. Providing from the Soviet Foreign Minis- that these conform to all try. Earlier, he had told the necessary health regulations Russians in the Colony it would seem, wished to entertain the group The Portuguese national radio said last night
Sinco January the hune has that these corrugated iron on their first night this city that Portuguese forces had driven out of Canoel
been concentrated around the tanks, supplied with rain
"TRIED TO BRIBE'
big Italian ports and at Beirut, "We would like to give them a village, in the southern section of the Portuguese
He said that first, the ship's Lebanon, where U.S. hamoties water from roof gutterings, reception on Tuesday night." India enclave of Nagar Aveli, north of Bombay, Communist officers "tried would help to supplement the
to egents did most of the investi- bribe me to return with others gating. water supply to many house The Ambassador has not him- "Indian bands who had occupied the village." and a guarantee that no punish-
The greatest haul came en holds, as they do in the self received an invitation yet
The Goa correspondent of the Lisbon evening ment would be given to me July 18 when Italian agents Australian outback, as they to the Russian party, but it is do in Bermuda and other presumed that Mr Molotov, the newspaper Diario Popular reported "violent" when I got back to Poland. I seized 7,717 pounds of morphane said simply I want freedom. in Naples, the police sald, The British Colonies. It is no Soviet Foreign Minister, will be fighting at the village of Cancel but added that "Then they tried to threaten agents found the huge consign- simple panacen to the vexed
aboard the Turkish Mr Molotov, Andrei the situation in Goa was calm and the people there me. They said that there would ment
be people in Poland who would freighter kenderun They problem of maintaining Vyahinsky. Deputy Foreign optimistic.
know how to deal with me. They Arrested
second ofletr adequate water supply-in Minister, und other Foreign
called me traitor, swing and
aboard the
ship. terms of gallons Raved from Ministry officials will be invited Reports published In the ring Stayagraha (non-violent) dog."
Klimowicz told how the Com four Italian merchant sailors in On August 1 the arrart of reservoir supplies, the tank to Wednesday's Embassy dinner. Lisbon afternoon... newspaper methods.
Increasing tension in the past mithists then locked him up in Venice brought the total number system if operated even on The Embassy is just across the Diario de Lisboa, said informa
of one of the ship's cabins. But of arrests tion teached the Goon puthorl. few weeks over, the future a. wide scale would not river from the Kremlin.
to eight. The men Special aircraft of the Soviet
other Fortuguese day later, British police came were found in posession of 00 to much yet it Airlines, Acradot, will pick up to the effect that. Poftuguese this and the
alded by a band of settlements has now reached aboard and broke down the Swiss watches and other contra palice, would undoubtedly help Mr Attice and his party at locals, defeated the "invaders, the stage where:hostilities may cabin door.
band merchandis with which householders and flat tenants Helsinki, and fly them in to leaving
"They attocked the police," bat "many dend and occur, In the opinion of New
the Kimowicz said. "The ship's car- - 19 poller aid they were in to overcome the problem of Moscow airport on Tuesday-wounded in the village of Delhi observers.
penter,
a Greek Communist, the habit of rushing into Berit waterless taps for 21 hours Reuter.
Cancel, eight miles from Portuguese officials are fried to knife me as the English|on the southward log of the Silvassa, the enclave's capital, quoted in Indian newspapers as took me ashore, but I. walked to Tig's profitable racket.--United
the responsibilityfreedom."United Press. saying that There was 110 information for tid consequences of a cross
amount
a day. Meanwhile Govern-
ment has wisely decided to
plant at Taipo Road in
Kowloon. The reason for
this is that almost every
Mr.
Operated On
summor, the Colony's 're-] For Appendicitis The Goan authorities dented
servoirs overflow after heavy
Prose,"
the
SCOTS MARCH ON
{
10 DOWNING STREET
build a new rapid filtration Macao Governor from Silassa, where street fighting lots Gon would rest entirely
Ing was reported is mid-week, wid1 'thone: * who **violat despite reports that it fell to the Portuguese territory". invaders on August 1.
--BORDER TO BE: CLOSED
Indian
sald reports
the published reports that a curlow falls and thousands of
His Excellency, the Governor would be invoked in Con, start Portuguese border le to be off from Tuesday of Macao,
Rear-Admiraling on August 16, the day of the sealed gallons run to waste in the Joaquim Marques Esparteiro, threatened anti Portuguese and that Portuguese police, and
London, Aug. 8. much discomfort: The fanon" sea largely because of the suffered a sudden attack
of movement.
military have been given orders
A hundred angry villagers straton tool to the lack of filtration expacity. appendicitis on Saturday, while All Indio Tadio reported that to shoot on 'sight" "any und-
torta Embankment and marchod When the plant la complete on vacation
here
with
in India, wan1 În w their daughter,
"state of the
he toriitory for beating and bagpipes race she had or
Indian Clovernment, basing, marched in parade ville sted colour slégo, because they expected providing there is normal Marla Helena...
was immediately, faken to ch, on the sertlement by declared that the Portugiese Formation today to the guard Wollmmers
bagpipa playing “Tha ing Indian territory next Sun-, for. that. Hla
Minister, Sir Winston Chur- to the Prime M Grod on. Excellency's condition is good. day,
Government chill,
(No 10% Downing denice, they
(it is hoped by'next' April) Eéparteiro and the Madame Goa, chief Portuguese settlement authorised: people try to solar with colours flying, drums only the last/100-yürde on foot!
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and
LON
30
and operated on by Dr | denionă trators from the adjoin-rthorities will be serpona residence “ of tho Prime The Lost Giers.?" When Shy.cp
irkin; there will be made to who stated
available an oxtra, three ****
million gallons a day durlag,
the summier months which The Governor, who had in- should ensure that restric: tended to return home today,
'PEACEFUL MARUN
the
ful
An
aid tonat that tions of tho, quite drasties now recuperating at thi Indian reports have said that there were no hither steps the Street) to protest against a scale of this year, are not Trench Convent Hospital Under Sunday anniversary of the binh, girment could Maxsy to hat government decision to turn ury into a rib, care of his personal doctor of independent India--has been the march to God beyond ad their repeated-but" always pro-
the voluhörerek 15 uke bish viding, of course, that rain-2 Him. A. Mi Rodrigues, chosen by Goan yolunteers from
wid: 18. expected, for zaman than India to stage 'n panorfulg
| fall is nõfinal,
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