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COMMENT OF

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French Revólt·

HE decision to postpone

THE

the nine-power conference has been met with general] approval of the nations con- cerned, even though a few days previously Britain's plan was acclaimed by the Rame countrice, France going to the extent of arging all possible speed. The Foreign Ministers are making preparations for the United Nations

Genera)

Assembly meeting on September 21 so that it will be some time bofore those statesmen can discuss Ger many and rearmament. The postponement

WE

On

anti-climax, but it is pleasing to learn that Mr Anthony Eden is visiting thic Alx countrica which were to have formed the European Defence Community. In the moantime tho Communist powers are jubilantly eon. fident that there in no

aolution to the problem, Hopes of disrupting the West are high again in Moscow, but wishful think- Ing 16 An occupational discase of Communism. Nevertheless it is all

too

plain that the problem is a dimeult one. We are way back in the position of 1960 when Mr. Ernest Bevin, Mr Acheson and Mr Schuman declared that pending the reunion of Germany the Federal Republic should be integrated into a community of nations, noting at the same time that this would raise the question of a com- mon European defence

front.

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Moscow Says: Remilitarisation Of Germany Might Provoke War'

NEW SOVIET WARNING TO THE WEST

European Security Talks

Demanded

Naked Man Arrested In Dublin Street

Dublin, Sept. 9.

All trailo was brought to standstill as the sight of a completely naked man walking Calmly down central

O'Connel Street, Dublin,

yesterday,

police told the conri today. A larte crowd of people began to follow the man, Patrick Ryan, 43-year-old unemployed.

The policeman snatched An olfskin coat from

-

passing motorist and

harriedly wrapped it round Kyan, who told him:

糖

דיי

have now made my pro- test against my own op- pressive treatment in Eng- land and against our own Labour Exchange officials here

Ryan was

charged with

being guilty of conduct calculated to lead to a breach of the peace and walking along a thorough- faro in such a manner as offend the morsis of the community.

to

Before being remanded for

a medical report, he teld the court he was suf- fering from persecution. After working in England he had returned horrt, spent his last pound and was unable to find a job,

-China Mail Special.

"All Possibilities Not

Yet Exhausted'

Mostow, Sept. 9.

The Soviet Foreign Ministry declared in a statement tonight that the remilitarisation of Western Germany would probably provoke a new war, Tass, the official Soviet news agency, reported.

Snake Scare In

U.S. City

'Ballímóre, Sept. 2.:

A deadly five-fool cobrs 'esospod seday from a bailid- ine where it was housed by a night-club dancer And pallos prepared to evacuate half a city block in an cffori, to capture or kill 16.

The repulle escaped from dancer Frieda Hoxer in a building on North Charles Street. Residents of the structure wete evacuated

`de soon sa police and offl- otels of the Bunsvore Zoo arrived on the scene..

After 4 two-hour search, officials decided it would be all but

Impossible to find The Soviet statement said that "the possibi- the

because shake URMETOTIS the German

boles In the building. They ordered the place fumigated,

Exterminators ther order.

lities for reaching agreement on problem" were not yet exhausted.

The statement repeated demands for East-West talks on Germany and European security and declared· her readiness, “to do all in her power to reach agree- ment on unsolved international questions.”

The new call for talks was the United State; might join, and made in a Soviet Foreign Mints-an immediate "Big Four" con- try statement welcoming ference to re-examine the Ger- French rejection of the Euro- rian problem, pean Defence Community treaty into last month as a victory for

pence,

[Diplomatic quarters said the Wort would reject four-Power talkta unless Russia first agreed "The revival of German mili- to free elections in Germany and tarism and the inclusion of a the conclusion of an Austrian remiliarised West Germany in a State treaty ending the occupa- milliary grouping would have tion regime in that country.)

tho

increased

Immeasurably

threat of a now European war, and at the same time the threat.

*BANA-WEAPONS'.'.

of

ed mirrounding · buildings evacuated so they could use deadly · cyanide gas-** United Press,

Nationalists

Again Attack Amoy

Talpei, Sept.10.

Eye-witness Accounts of Algerian Disaster

I Was Hurled Out Of Bed'

Said Earthquake Survivor

Buildings Shook, Leaned, Groaned And Crumbled'

Algiers, Sept. 9. Orleanville, a town of thirty thousand people was in ruins tonight after the worst earthquake in North Africa struck it in, the early hours of today,

Tonight rercue work went on storeys high, shook, leaned, feverishly in pitch darkness, groaned and crumbled. In the

There is no electricity, gas or midst of the debris, the art cries Film Star In Row water. Amongst the main build-of the Injured could be heard. ings totally er almost complete- A. crazed panic seized the With Hotel Manager

through

minder stones, exteamco

Ly destroyed were the prison, population. A seriously injured the hospital, the two main woman ran screaming. hotels, the boys pchool and the the streets in search of her child. An old man, railway station.

The first, impacts of the quake were described by a travelling Mr Costes, who was dazed

and shocked by his exe sadd "At Ove past one. I was literally hurled of bed

out in the Hotel Baudouing and blinded by the dust caused by the collapse of the hotel." The part of the hofed in which Costes was staying remained standing but all the rest collopes and "horrible MEDENSTIM could be heard

Chinese Nationalist planes en

convoy

Ava Gardner

Threw A

Martini Glass

for help, which did not arrive very centres in time, for the

ajd should have from which come, police and fire stations and hospitals, had themselves fallen, at least partially, in ruins.

... 139 BODIES FOUND.

Rio de Janeiro, Sept. First" police figures unofficially Ava Gardner sald today definitely accounted for 139 dead. Health services, includ- who lost her temper and Ing the military medical corns, threw a Martini glass, in a were employing all means of dispute with the Manager transportation to remove the of the Gloria Hotel, early BUNNING HALF NAKED

wounded of estimated 1,000

yesterday before she moved "I don't know how I got out

to Algiers Oriconsville

and

Lout into the street," Costea con Oran, tired, "Men, women and A fald hospital of 300 beds Word running half has been set up in Orleansville. or wrapped in sheets, The Army has dispatched 18

the open squares.

of cranes and heavy of a new world war," the state-Russia llated questions

on and warships pounded Chin- towards eye-witness of the

Communist positions at wind of the trucks carrying water cistems which she was, ready to do all ese Fient said.

Lärid

On the roads from supplies, cdicial who

described how he Orleansville 'are scends But Western Governments, her power to solve as "Ger near the China mainland

many systems of collective port of Amoy today or the was awakened by the rumbling

Fleeing their devasimed added, were now trying to or security in Europe," the swa

over to milltary authorities, military · grouping" to " répluco weapons and a reduction of A dawn attack by naval game movement, wald, E.D.C., and at the same time armaments."

heralded a further assault by the feeling that the house was inds of vehicles e toward the were hishing up Soviet propoints

Nationallet dive bombers: ac rolling. Light was cut off and low grounds of the valley of for conferences on the German

cording to oficial Nationalist my family and I rapidly Chelli problem and European security.

sources held Nationalist sound of walls

Pas drospod, we could hear the People refuse to go home but, The sources

collapalog are aléeping on the pavemente.

out in warships, including American Everyone was already

DAY OF MOURNING -*

Paris, Sept. 9. Communist

coastaliations was rising. All this happened

The French Government has under cover

of dark and at very quickly.

declared tomorrow a day her "Irish tempor", "and tier-

of The openod

zremors devastated a The bombarisment - continetoch

area

extending 100 miles from mourning throughout the French vousness resulting from wild Union for the dead and injured receptions given her by crowds Orleansville to Tanes, on

the had shown that France realised while Nationalist planes ralced

in the Algerian earthquake, that greeted her at the airport the danger which is connected Communist gun emplacementa com 28 miles to the West and Flags will be Down at half mast and the Hotel lobby upon

More Pacific anise comme now agendisive, tibition of atoute and krydrogen fikr-consecutive day @syang pertambang pamerkan krennelly, now deserted and hatred -

A-Tests Likely Next Year

Washington, Sept. 9.

ept the The Chairman United States Atomic Energy Commission, Mr IT might, therefore, be said Lewis Strauss, said today

to

the

that time was wasted and the United States would "In rejection of E.D.C. could all likelihood" continue have been more

and thermo- prompt. test atomic However, there is no use nuclear weapons dreaming

of what might Pacific next year.

have boen and the nations must press on to 'And

solution. But

there

a

la

in

Mr Strauss said that so far

REPLY THIS WERK [Octals of Britain, France and the United States met in London yesterday to complete minor amendments to the draft reply to the Russian notes of July 24 and August 4. Their reply is expected to be delivered

this week.

It cited the result of the Geneva conference, which ended the lighting in Indo-Chin as un example of how, pesce could be "consolidated provided there

interested Powers.

Jukea the population is moving by, all

was a real desire for it by the aid destroyers, moved near the streets. On all sides dust

A

The rejection of E.D.C. býwn the National Assembly in Paris

On

Ava Gardner.

She blamed the Incident on

with turning Western Germany | barracks and juni ftexts with BU_muts to the have on all pubile buildings "on" Bep-arrival ("the" most fo

establishment of an all-Europe of the

EDEN'S MISSION

-Reports of

Results of the morning's action of the break down of telephone Tory MP Arrested re

have not yet been disclosed Router.

sounded

her

into a militarist stale, the fato | rockets, then made further coma in from all

fember 10, the decres galdi ception I had ever of this

The Hotel management said it Unde (The Soviet notes proposed the or which would be in the hands aweepa to drop napalm bombe,

Pres. Bascement of German revanchista

had naked the Hollywood movie Meanwhile, Thurader)ets flew area but exact:

star to lease after other guesta collective security pact, which (revenge seckers),"

overhead to protect warships and the total of dead and injured alve-bornberg.

has not yet been made because

had complained of an "internal what coming from communications, Roads bridges have also been destroy- and

like a

a wild party; in

ed in many parts, completely

London, Sept, her rooms.

DEUNK' I WASN'T of A Conservative member cutting off several & villages,

Mias Gardner disputed this. Captain Peter K450 DEADU

Parliament,

She denied she had been drunk, Governor Roger Leonard, how. Arthur David Baker aged 38, and said that the only reasoni over, gave an estimate at a press was arrested here today on a

bana Palace Hotel before dawi Orleansville to warrant alleging the uttering of she had moved to the Copaca conference in

forged documents, 480 - dead. night of at least

yesterday was that she could. He will appear at a London not stand it any longer at the However, other authoritative

London, Sept. 9. last stages of the death of EDC Mr Anthony Eden, British can best be assuaged through Foreign Secretary, begins

(866 P..10 Leaflet-Raid)

such consultations." They may

New Typhoon In Pacific

as he knew there was no proflying visit to West European also produce constructive pro- posal to change the site of the capitals on Saturday to discuss posals preparatory to a tri-scale proving grounds in the Pacific how West Germany can bo emergency meeting of the North where atomic weapons were

This is now situated in rearmed following the collapse Atlande Council at the foreign tested.

of the European Army plan, ministers level. the Marshall Islands.

say

Water,

of

HRA00

miles 911 at

0103 GMT and within a few General Elections for the con-

off

another aspect

the of French Assembly voto

{sources later estimated that the Magistrate's court on Friday. Glor

Captain Baker, described as a which has had less attention

said that the Providing Typhoon "June" number of dead fis Orleansville

gave his address as The Foreign Once tonight :

Gloria's manager. surrounding region Mr Strauss declined to

"begged mo than it deserves. The E.D.C.

?to- Sanatorium, Virginis stay." The view is being advanced does not veer from her prosent and the had double whether new weapons would be announced that Mr Eden's aix privately among State Depart-track in the Pacific, Hongkong would reach 1,000. project

*I went to my room at the bested but he drew attention to day talks in Brussels, Bonn, ment officials that an ad hoc is not likely to be affected by The earthquake was the tenth

In May this parentage and A double an Atomic Energy Commission Rome and Paris would prepare

nine-power conference might the storm.

to have struck Algeria since noun cos that because was a Gloria to get away from the purpose. It was on one side announcement last, March that for a nine-power conference and fail to produce any constructive

to the Royal ·"Ob- | 1950, but dwarfed all others by health Captain Baker would not $rowds which, almost tore me to pieces at the airport and the Typhoon" "June" is violence. The quake struck seek re-election at the next Hotel lobby" she said. a device of recruiting Ger- the last thermonuclear tests in a later Atlantic pact Ministerial results and therefore be regarded

very Council session on West German had been The Pacifie

as the

another setback to the Free. man troops without raising

"When the Manager arrived rearmament.

World. It would also be difficult Okinawa. The actual position seconds, the centre of the city stiluency of fruitful."

South Norfolk, with, a b

a book for me to sign I said this of

Orleansvilla kad Church's for, such a conference to reach of the storm, as at a Germany army. It was

been which he has represented Sir Winston

led since I would not stay. He insisted. Mr Strauss reported that the

decided the decisione on matters which in marning, was given as 22.1 ravaged. Surrounding ga

villages 1050.

got furious and threw. B also devised and intended as United States was improving the Cobinet yesterday

*The following month he enter- Merini, glass,k a step towards European weapon posture. They had sub- Foreign Secretary should go primarily for the North Atlantic north and 138.8 cost, moving were also heavily damaged.

the Counell to decide" for itself! west north-west at eight knots. Witnessas said that the

conference unity-the creation of a stantially more atomic weapons after agreeing to postpone

conference which Anine-power

If "June" continues on, he moment of the earthquake's fui ed a mental hospital as a volun- Miss Gardner is touring South Mall America to publicles her latest than last year and they were nine-power

Special

picture-United Press. political federation in which increasing the rate of production Britain had suggested should be might therefore do more harm present course she is expected to force seemed to them to be a try patient, China

held here next week....

than good-Reuter and France bo in the vicinity of Okinawa foretaste of the Apocalypse. mdmber countries would of atomic weapons.

Priset.

within the next 48 hours,

Balldings, one of them soven largely pool their national TALKS WITH DELGIUM

BRUSSELS FIRST sovereignties. In other

Asked about negoliations" with Mr Eden, in his talks in Bonn words they would form a other nations for setting up a and Paris, will also discum how United States of Europe. It world pool for the peaceful use West Germany can be given her: Is Important to note that a of atomic energy, Mr Strauss sovereignty,

sultation with Britain.

and

sald ho expected to open Mr. Eden will fly to Brussels considerable and influential negotiations with... Belgium part of the opposition to "very shortly" and the United on Saturday where he will meel

the Netherlands glum, E.D.C. was opposition to its States was continuously in con- the Foreign Ministers of Bel- supra-national character,

Luxembourg. It was his personal opinion One of the main, themes of

le will fly to Bonn on Sunday would soon be that there M. Herriot's

perhapa multilateral talks between the and will go to Paris on Sopt. 14 to hold talks with Primler decisivo upeich was that nations concerned about agree. Pierro Mendes-France. France must retain control minta to set up an internation-

al atomic energy ugency,

"WARM WELCOME'

Egyptian Girl Friend didn't know Foreign customs

Hongkong Law Student's "Marriage' Ends In London Court

London, Sept. 9. A Hongkong law student, Jack Sing.Ip, 26, was alleged in court today to have persuaded an Egyptian sociology student to belleve that they had been married, after a brief call to a London Register. Office....

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