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U.S. UNDECIDED ON QUEMOY DEFENCE
Officials Fear Consequences Of
Fat Boys
Security Council meeting at Naughtier Than
Denver indicate that there i has been virtually no change yet in American feeling on the
of Quemoy
Thin Ones
London, Bept, 14. Fat boys and girls are naughter but happier and wuarter than thin ones. socording to kurveys of children.
That was the conclusion of two speakers among 50 who addressed the British Association for the Ad. vancement of Science in the Inst full day of its recent Annual meeting here.
defence Island. Some change may emerge from the meeting. of course, but the present polley appears to be: no definite commitment to defend Quemoy, but Ameri- can military commanders may at any time recommend extending protection. Their views may or may not be accepted by the Administrn- tion If anything emerges from Mr Dulles'a
who brief comments, It ía that Washington does not feel that an Invasion of Quemoy is imminent. The Americans certainly do not appear to br
Infected by Taipei's hysteria. Despite the extravagant reporta emanating from Formosa last week on the sinking of what was described as "an apparent invasion flool of 100 armed junks”, it would appear that local fishermen of indeterminate allegiance suffered greater losses than the Chinese People's Army. The 100 junks were in fact only ten junks and their
armament was probably no more lethal than fish-hooks. During the present tension, claims by either Ride should be treated with great reserve, but, if anything.
given accounts
out daily by the New China News Agency do appear more plausible (and cer- tainly тоге rostrained) than the Nationalists',
the
THERE
A research psychiatrist, Dr EL. W. Parnell, told the Association that boys behaved themselves were generally Ugħter than average in build.. Surveys had also shown that de-
suitable Youths and girls
for reformativo training were found to be more often stooky or tubby.
Floy of less than average muscle tended to be anxious and show off. Confidence was more usual in fat boys and aggressive. besa more common in the slocky ones
M. A Davidson, a consultant clinical psycho- forlat, said that in general Intelligence tests the fat boys and girls did better. The
thin
ones camo next the muscular types were poorest China Mal Special.
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Intervention
World
War
Π
Might Result
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT, AND REUTERS
Washington, Sept. 14.
The United States Government has not yet decided whether it should go to the defence of Quemoy Island.
Military and diplomatic officials are split on what would happen.
Some argue that World War III would be set off if the United States gets involved with Quemoy's defence.
President Eisenhower made it plain yesterday that the meeting of the National Security Council --- America's top security body at Denver, Colorado, had made no hard decision, ins
The President said was subjected to an`arlllery barrage merely a consultation at which for 11, days,
certain policies were reaffirmed, The Nationalists, who have These, he said, were to defend been replying with bombing of the vital interests of the United | the mainlond, said their planes States wherever they may arise, hit concentrations of junks and to make better partners of old (troops at Amoy and other coastal friends
and to get new friends points again today.
K.O. BLOW PLANNED wherever we can.
A high military source said Reuters sald President Elsen- hower's report on the Nationa.that they would not call off Security Council moeting sug- their air and sca asrault against gested the Government would the mainland until the enomy leave it to the military authori-is knocked out beyond recogni Les for the time being to decide
tion."
A Government spokesman- whether and at what point.
£. the United States Seventhy Fleet said the Chinese were not pre- db-pared to fight the Nationalist
to go into
Communist ottaen each Ppisnes in the air it is difficult
Anti-Negro Move ough
300 U.S. School
Military experts. appear to be satisfied that the Nationalist forces on Formosa and Quemoy are strong enough to repel any invasion attempts by the forces at present aligned by the Cam- munists on the neighbouring
GO mainland
Children
On Strike
Old - Tanker. Hulk Catches Fire
Clouds of, thick black smoke pour from the hulk of the former Japanese tanker, the Itsupushi Maru this morning and a fireman standing on the tower of a fire boat aima a jet of water at the blaze.. The fire was put out after, an hour. and a half See story "Tanker Hulk On Fire In Harbour" at the bottom of
'this page. · (Pleture by our Staff. Photographer).
Move To Bring
Italy
Into Brussels Alliance
Rome, Sept 14,
Plot To
Kill Eisenhower
"New York, Sept. 13:
A Puerto Rican · revolu= !' tionist testified today that President Eisenhower hnd been scheduled for as818= sination with the same guna (used in the shooting in the House of Representatives last Marchi,
The witness was still under examination, at the close of the court session today and had not yat testifled 'whother a day was set for the planned attack on the President. Gonzales Lebron
Ho
was
pleaded of Chicago, who has
gulty to the coditious
conspiracy on which 13 other Puerto Rican nationalists. Gru | standing_trial.
He is the brother of defendant Lolita Lebron, who has already been convicted for her part' in the Congressional shooting.
Lebron told the court that the. revolutionary movement in the
continental United States in- cluded several hundred people. and'a total; arsenal of four 50 pistols and a 123 carbine.
With these weapons ho said. the revolutionary leaders agreed
foryo a "possible 1953 re- volution in Puerto Rico in fav- ́our of attacks in various parts of the United States. The plan. he said, was
was put forward by Julia Pinto Gandia, a leader of the revolutionary movement and
á defendant,A
We were told to read the
newspapers to find out where Congress, was end the President and Fernos Isorn, realdent.com-
saloner
The-British-Foreign Secretary, Mr Anthony Eden, is expected to Lebron testined
présent to the Italian Government today plans for bringing Germany and Italy toto the five-nation Brussels alliance.
the
This past, signed in 1049, The Italian Ministers = "have or coast commanding largely as a defence against | given notico, - that they intend |entrazice to Trizata harbour a
Germany, at present embraces to raise the
of It is expected the Italian Britain, France Belgium, the
Trieste. Many
of Mini ters spport for any that in, rei' Netherlands and Luxembourg. negotiations in London are turn for, thair-
It contalba a hard commitment understood to have brought British proposals to solve the for the signatories to come to Italians and Yugoslavs to ་བ European defence "crisin-follow the defence of each other "with point near agreement.
Britain should support their resistance to there demands, Reuter,
entered
25 DEAD
through an interpreter.
The Ume was October, 1958, Lebron sald, and the
revolu tionaries found that "the Pro- sident was fahing in Colorado then.United Press,
TRAIN CRASH
IN PORTUGAL' At least 15 Dead
NEW PLAN
Lisbon," Sept 1)). Paris, Sept 17, A passenger, train was derslied”. The French Premier M. Pierre at: Odemira, between klebon Portugal. Mendes-France is preparing a and the south coast of plon which he considers will be today, and at least : 15
Elabon Radio accident, which French toll at 10 in the
the best substiŝute for the Euro- i wore befilet and relate
pran Defence to which
to estimate how much damage has been done to. Communist because enemy Brullitions units
can always be quickly repaired and replaced," ho sald.
The two ministers and three servico chiefs returned to Talpet this evening-Reuter,**
MORE BAIDS COULD BE DEPENDED
London, Sept. 18. Omelals refused to discuss The New China News Agency any detailed Interpretation of reported more raids by Na. all the military and other and But it is understood that Italy he French rejection of DC, the existing instructions to the tonalist aircraft on the main- and assistance in their power" if dnds it difficult to necept New York, Sept. 13. Seventh Fleet to defend Forland today, claiming that two any of them is the victim of men Yugo lav demands for a sligh' are certain puzzling
patrol bombers were arrned" attack in Europe. The
adjustment, which features about the recent Sulphur
About 300 pupils in White mosa and the Pescadores Islands ven away by the People's/alliance would have to be rectorritorial
Springs High from Communist attack in the
hosulities Liberation Army "Air Force" either Italy or Germany would give Yugoslavia a stri Communist campaign School, West Virginia, went light of the recent
after around Quemoy.
dropping 12
12 bombs. against Quemoy. Mr Dulles on a "student strike" today
It mentioned another air raid
It is believed here Mr Eden's statements But Mr. Dulles Baid yesterday although and paraded through the
by a lone bomber but did not proposal for a widening of the yesterday and earlier have made there
Quemoy could say what action had been taken Brussel Poet is accompanied by "considerable streets in protest against it clear that were
against it-Reuler.
suggestions for the limitation of Chinese forces around the admission of 25 Negroes theoretically be defended by the
Washington, Sept. 13 Clerman armed strength in rela- Seventh Fleet on the basis of
Senator H. Alexander Smith | tiọn to that of France. He d'a- Amoy", they were not "very to the school.
thoir existing instructions
(Republicanterence, They demanded that 23 negro And
who attended the cussed Germany's entry into the spectacular".
the
Fleet Whether the Seventh children, who were admitted to would actually precipitate such Manila
confirmed alliance with the West German
Fat Chinese air force-which is schools formerly reserved for renewal of hostiles between today that the United States had Chancellor. Dr Adenauer, equipped with modern jet white children under a new local Chinese Communist and Unite not undertaken any commit-meeting in Bonn yesterday,
Ministers, are expected Italian order, should fighters far superior to the sent to the Bolling High School back to
be States forces without referring ments about the defence of
Washington for re-
Quemoy.
to welcome their country's in- Nationalist propeller-driven at Lewisburg, the former negro enforcement is another matter.
Telling reporters about his clusion. In the
to Formosa with Mr Dulles seeing! trip to
In
a great planes has not yet appear high school.
POWERS TO NAVY The Greenbrier Courty School
commitment in the There have been suggestions and the "long talle" with Gen- British Superintendent, Mr D. D.
Continent, in the United States press that eral Chiang Kai-shek, ho sald affairs of the Harrah, said only 100 regularly to give the United States Navy the Nationalist Chinces leader Italy is also expected to sup- enrolled pupils attended classes. the final
decision was still anxious to attack the port any proposal to bring West Germany Into NATO, so long as it has the approval both of Washington and Bonn.
TRIESTE Eden arrived here yet- Mr terday after visits to Brussels and Bonn and will complete his "Little Europe tour with a visit to Paris,
ed in the present campaign. One would have thought that if a serious attempt at
government
power of
•4
Mr Harrah sald 40 students over whether to defend Quemoy Communist, mainland.Reuter, invasion was contemplated were so absent from Rupert is to give them the power to there would at least School, where 950 students, in involve the United States in a be manifestations of cluding 12 Negroes, were en- Trew war. greater activity оп the
The protests are strictly over integration," he said. He added
rolled
A
As
State are
a policy
Dow
the President and the Chinese Charges
'Fantastic of keeping that all schools, Including Negro the Communists guessing as to Intentions, institutions, were operating on the United States
Washington, Sept. 13,5 basis as last year the most that; can be inferred
U.S. officials today described nce Chinese since
the ezmo
Communist side. Were those shelling attacks, after all, just to find out how far the Americans would go in before helping. to
de fond handed down. Its anti-segregation the Security Counsell, met yes-chargon that Hugh Francis Red- Nationalist-hold jalanda? ruling,
terday 'Is
the mond of New York city is a spy.
One official described ind.
that
at least
have
not
However, he said, Neuroes military authorities. The Americans have given who sought admission to while yet advanced any specific pro- charge, the Chinese singularly schools were accepted
this year posal for action by the United "spurious #st. Redmond - os. little information of their on a "tentative" basis. “
States to repel an attack upon "He is a legitimate business- Intentions up to date apart White and Negro students Quemoy-Bouter
man," he said. from reaffirming the brand went to school together for the
QUEMOY VISIT
Redmond has been sentenced Talpel; Sept, 13. over-all policy to police Brst time in Washington today.
to life imprisonment in Shong School officials sald thera Nationalist China's Vice- |ħal-United Press," the Formosa Straits. The would be some classes with President and Defence Minister Chinese Nationalists, with members of both races in prar General Chen Cheng and Mr a large garrison on Quemoy,tically every school in the Dis-David Yu Tel-wel, flow from feel confident of holding it trict of Columbia, where white Formors to the bombarded against an amphibious and Negro pupils were prealand of Quemay tdoay with the nasault provided U.S. Nuvy viously separated. United Press, Commanders-in-chief of the and Air Force assistance is France-Presse and Router forthcoming. Noither the
large Nationalist force nor
military aid need deter the
the prospect of American 19 Escaped From
Crashed' Plane
Communists, however, and.
it would be wrong to regarð
last week's ¦ attacks - as
Rio de Janeiro, Sept. 13, The number of people who a bluff. The Communists Have patiently tolerated the escaped alive from the sea crashi Brazilian: DC-3 airliner
[of::
three-tervices,
:
Earth Tremor
Tel-Aviv, Begs, 13. An earth tramor shook the They inspected the Nationalist | Holy Land at 2345 GMT today hold island three miles off the but there were no reports of
Coast which has been casualtics-United Press.
this busents Part
Fred Astaire's Wife Dies
was rejected Parliament.
IN KIEZENThe friendship shown in thred: In the late afternoon
TYPHOON
Tokyo, Sept. 14.
the foreign
In the when an engine and three care In the trace the
Wero
BUS? a Riven the French - According to a
during the
doctor
on
Premier confidence in the result poena, there were 11 known of the tails he will, have with dead, and 20 gravely injured,
rise.
Mr Eden, starting next Wed- although there were Indicationin The typhoon June: bore day. Ditedis of the plan are the death toll: may
pèt yet known.-Franci-Premio. | United Press,
down on Honshu Island and the Japanese capital city to day after ripping through Japan's southern Islands killing 25 persons, and caus- ing heavy damage.
The storm's violent winds were reported to be weakening as it approached the Tokyo- Yokohama area; but fear, wan felt for the low-lying.arena' duo to the- storms accompanying deluge of rain;'.
.:
The Government reported more than 12,000. food „äghters were standing by, and residents were advised to expect a three- Hollywood," Sept. 13. Mrs Phyllis Astaire, wife of a state of emergency. the screen &, and stage, dancer. The latest official - ensimity Fred Astaire, died today, at the report from the southern islande Astaire" home, în Beverly Hills of Kynsing and Shikoku Usted after b long illness. Fat loss 25 dead, 60 injured and The nature of the illness was 16. missing as rescue. workers disclosed. She was 46. tolled in the flood-swept streets
Astaire, who has been rer of t
the cffles and villages." hearsing for a 20th Century-Fox picturez Deddy Long Log," was at her bedaldo,
She was the former Phyllis Livingmon-Potter-d New York socialite-United Press.
Tanker Hulk On Fire In Harbour
14
A fire broke out aboard the bulk of the Japanese tanker Itaupushi Marus early this morning while she was at anchor off Lalchikok. « The alarm, was given at 9.36 a.m.
The firo started in
domination of Amoy Bay by rose to 19 today when four a hostile Island for four passengers listed as missing years. The latest raids by were
found 10 have been Nationalist aircraft could rescued by small boats, only have added insult to The plane carried passon, the į tanker fa Injury and 'It would not be gery and four crewmenkinTwo causes
bodies have been recovered) Rnd. 1.
furprising. If, dospite the ey
Apparent absence of pre-mals for.
Con Heos the: Communists
Larry in den swoon on the dise
Krd, still gälsted Bu
Hardest hit was Miyazaki diy which will completely Inundated with -- thoumpor, of residents taking refuge on high ground, Unibod Press
Lunatic Kills 10 Children
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