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THE CHINA MAIL"

Bibile GumLed Alleged Kidnapping By

To Arrest

Weillusion; N. Z., Oct. 7.

Alew frame misdemean- our for New Zealand was

tecorded officially

thin

tratilo, pollbeman, of the Napler-isbortic ligh way rald be noticed s sinsit bat alead of tim swerving from one side of the road to the other.

He brought the car to a driver ex- stop and the plained: "I WAS

chowing babble gum and whenEVET I blew bubble my giri friend tried to break 16" --China Mall Special,

BRUSSELS PACT

New Protocols

Being Drafted

Starr Brothers

GERMAN CIVILIAN

CRIED FOR HELP

NEAR BERLIN POST

Berlin, Oct. 7.

Major-General George Honnen, United States: Commandant în Berlin, said in a note to the Soviet authorities today that a German citizen had been

kidnapped from West Berlin by two Americans,

Tit

The Americans, Generai Hon- | Major-General D. A. Dibrova, snid, were the brothera Soviet Military Commandant In James and Henry William Starr, Berlin,

appealed to who

the Enst

German authorities for political General Honnen said: ""Infor asylum and appeared at a presa mation has now come to my conference in East Berlin Instattention which clearly points to the conclusion that Neugebauer Monday.

'did not leave the United States Horsera sold the sector of Berlin on September. 7--- German düzen Herr Neugeot his own free will and eblition

General

bauer, had left the Americary | but rather was abducted and

brothers,

were the Starr

London, Oct. 7. The French Ambassador to Britain, M, Rene Massigli, presided over the first meet sector of Borin on the same day further that the chief agents in ing here

of the working as the Starr brothers were sald | this abduction group of the Brussels Pact to have left. Organisation which is to

Art American spokesman said authorities had draft new protocols admit-United States

West Ger-beers informed of West Berlin ting Italy and

Police investigations into the many to membership,

Neugebauer case. On this bass General Honnen sent his note to

Besides amending the extating Brussels Treaty Text to provide for the admissions of Italy and Went

the Germany,

London

Working Group is ube charged West Germany

with working cut a constHutamí for the Brussels Pact Council of Ministers, which is to have real power to emirol armaments of continental members.

in time for

ministerial

221

The work of the London Group due

be completed by Oct 2 to

further nine-power ference Paris

it Paris is parallel that of Brussels Pact Working Group on arrnament centrot. This and a almilar NATO Group work yesterday.

now

NEW TALKS

f

started

Will

Have To Float Loans

Essen, Oct. 7, Herr Fritz Schweffer, the West German Finance Minister, said in a newspaper Interview published here today that as a result of the London

nine- would

power

ho agreemenis have

to draw heavily on his credit celling of 1,500 million marks (about £125 million) to cover the 1955 budget.

estirnoted that

На talks

9,000 fort million marks

(£750 million) would have be paid fully in cash ext year as the West

The last of the official groups which are to prepare for the set of ministerial opening 10 Paria night's time to get clown to work is the four-power group on West German sovereignty.

This will start discussions tò- morrow in Bonn.

of

German defence contribution

OCCUPATION DEBTS

A communique issued by the In addition, he expleted the Secretary General

would the allies

require 3,000 Brussels Treaty Permanent milion marks (aborit Commission

£250

after today's | million) of outstanding occupa- pession said that the next meet- tion costs within 12 months of ing of the working group would the agreement be held on Monday-Reuter.

French Population 'Increases

Paris, Oct: 7.

A census taken by the National Institute of Statistics Economic Study, last May, re vealed that the population of France has Increased by 5.01 per cent since 1940, and now numbers 42,774,000. France- Presse.

force.

coming Into

On Monday Professor Albort Norden, Secretary of State in the East German Government, had introduced the Starr brothers to the press and described them as "political refugees,"

that

re-

He had told the press Neugebauer had left his aldenco in the American sector and gone to the Soviet zone,

Hence, he was likely to need · 1,000 million

(about marks £85 million) of the credit celling towards paying them,

This million

would leave only soo marks about £41.6 million of credits the amount

about a week, West Germany normally spent in

of

Therefore, he would try to cover 1,500 million marks the budget by floating long- derma Ioana--Router.

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IN RESTAURANT

The American spukeaman said that Neugebauer was seen with the Starr brothers eating In a West Berlin restaurant on September 7 only 20 minutes before the lalter drove by car. to the Soviet sont.

A German

motorcyclist igler

claimed that he

had seen the

OCTOBER

Vas Corinne

Saved

A dramatic rescue socnet. Yes, in u`way.' It is one of the episodes in a new Bim starring Corinne Calvet, the French actrem. Here she has been rescued from the Beine, though In actual fact she never went near the river-buckets of water were poured over her!-Central Press Photo,

THEY KNOW NOT

·WHAT THEY

HAVE ACHIEVED

Kyoto, Oct. 7.

Delegates to the 12th International conference three men on the Berlin high- of the Institute of Pacific Relations, today publicly way, and that he had heard: Neugebauer screaming "Help, completed their formal functions of discussing the am being kidnapped", just be raising of living standards in Asia, but privately fore reaching the Allied con wondered what exactly they had achieved in the

conference room,' -

post of Drellinden.-Reuter de France-PresSO,

Irish Guards Band

Stranded

Ottawa, Oct. 7, The Canadian Army is providing board, lodging and transport for the band of the Irish Guards because their concert tour of the United States has collapsed, an Army spokesman said here today. -

He said the Canadian National Exhibitions in Toronto which engaged the band to play for it in August and September, had pală its fures to, and from Britain.

The band had arranged to follow its Toronto engagement with an American tour, but the arrangement fell through and it. appealed to the Canadian Army for help until it sailed from Montreal on October 10.

PICKED UP

On October 6, the band was “picked up" at Windsor, Ontario, the spokesman said, It had later givesi free co£Z» verts for troops, sód, the publio at Camp. Borden and Montreal,

LONDON DOCK STRIKE

Diverted Vessel

'Black Listed' In Welsh Port

Soviet Planes May Have Reached

San Francisco

Washington, Oct. 7.

A new type of Soviet manufactured long-range re- London, Oct. 7.

connaissance aircraft may already have carried out There was no sign of Government interven- "test fights over Alaska tion in the two London dock strikes today, but and even reached San Fran officials are keeping a close watch on developments. cisco, according to an article

1 More than 200 ships involving 26,000 workers published today is were idle. The strikes have tied up exports worth ton

magazine American Avia- £1,000,000, prevented the unloading of vital food This possibility, it said, was and raw materials and cost shipowners tens suggested by some intelligence of thousands of pounds through shipping delays.

reports which had been received.

the

A member of the staff of the Both strikes one involving

magazine said in reply to a the handling of cargoes, the threatened muss meetings; all probably, turn to diesel aircraft Vic Marney, strike leader, question that the Russians would other ship repair work over the country until the engines to achieve worsened today.

the long "empire ol the employers range which the United States crumbles"

had obtained through, norial aircraft such as the B-96.. refuelling and the use of big

In the cargo strike, 3,500 more men foined the strikers, swelling the total to about 18,000

don within the next week to

Shipowners are expected to In the ship repair strike, divent many vessels duo in Lon- leaders of 16 unione meeting in Continental ports, where food Northern England, gave the strike their official support and cargoes could be kept in cold voted strike pay for the 8,000

storage. men involved,

OFFICAL FIGURES'

Official figures tonight showed the 130 vessels were tied up by the cargo strike and about 100 in the ship repair dispute.

There was no sign tonight of Government intervention in the dispute through the Minister of Labour, Sir Walter Monckton. But his officials were keeping close watch on developments to advise misistorial action if the strike becomes a threat to Lon den's food supplies.

The London strikers hope that any cargoes diverted in this manner will be declared "black" by European dock workers.

Tonight in Cardiff, Wales. dockers refused to unload the | 4,876-don vessel Katha, when they heard that it had been diverted from Tilbury (London).

"BLACK LISTING”

The same "black listing", 1s feared by exporters who

ATO

diverting goods

other porta which Bro urgently needed overseas -|-

SOVIET COPY

Citing noturoon "in contact with developments do the Soviet Union," .... the article sald the reconnais sance craft were modified bombers the Tupolev TU- 24, which was a Bovici copy of the American B-29, and the Miaminchchev MI-13- RD.

It

said the range of the TU-4- as ,000 mlies and the MI-13-. RD almost 9,000 miles.

The diesel engings ware said to have been developed at the Moscow Khimko engine_centre from two wartime.German designs, the JUMO 223 and 224, The engines had been in pro- duction at Komsomolsk, In Siberia, for more

than 18 months.

Sir Walter Monckton did not The car Industry, which ships

The Soviet Union might be take part in the Conservative one half of its export models experimenting with in-flight re- Party annual conference at through London is seriously duelling of the two diesel aft- Blackpool, Northern England, affected by the dispute and can craft,

stood by in London, ready to find fow other outlets,

the tanker versions, of act as mediator if either the

A Tupolev four-engine diesel. Trade Union circles tonight pawer Bying-bout and a swept employers or the dockers, sought his help.

could see no early, prospect of ring jet seaplane were also 4 strike settlement as possibly destined for reconnais- permanent workers were now sance use. Bath could be refuelled joining the strikers in large by tankor submarines, numbers-Reuter,

EMBARGO

Tho British Transport Commimion declared that it had placed an embargo an all goods consigned to the London docks by rail or rest.

Fears were growing tonight that the strike would spread to

At the same time, while the International In- oulier British ports. stitute was under fire in the United States, they

also privately agreed that they would lay down their lives to defend the existence of the Interna-

tional Institute of Pacific Relations.

AN

Comment heard from many delegates was “What can any international conference achieve." -But some delegates would always add: “We hayo gained - a lot from this conference.”

The International I.PR. is aj

which private organisation debars from its membership any national organisation connected with government or sponsorship. It is formed from the representatives of political, academic and journalistic circles.

OPEN MINDS

{

Ignoring the main problem

Aquila Wants Aust, Freight

Service

London, Det. 8. A British lying boat company, of attitudes to Communism. Aqulia Airways Limited, today applied to the Air Transport mainly Advisory Cound here for per- mission to run a freight flying boat service to Australia,

Indian delegates, who with

were partian the Japanese

responsible for redrafting the agenda, said the fundamental problem in. Asia and In comi batting Communism WAS the declared conference theITNO raising living standards.

With this background, delegates privately mid the matin function of the con- ference was "behind scenes.” One Commonwealth dele- gate put it „It provided « magnificent opportunity for the meeting of like mindam. open minds to discuss Asia, and therefore ¦ world- problems."

The conference today summed up in a plenary session the third so of the conference theme of raising living standards In Asia, Delegates will meet again. tomorrow in a pubila session to ring the curtain down formally on the conference.

The service, manned by Short- Solent aying bonis, would run from Southampton to Perth with slope at Malta, Cyprus or Egypt, Bahrein or

und Boura

On the other side, however, | Ceylon, Karachi

several United States delegates said they were impressed with the difference of altitude in Asian uations, One U.S. delegata mild he had found Asian nations "more mature. They

baya.

The application is for a 10- year licence, Services would start within three months of the date of approval.

Aquile Alrways, Britain's only

inty under and Wong boat operators, runs flights

of view, perhaps after a few years of dealing with the problems themselves, they have been inclined to a more realistic attitude."!

At the sing time, these de- legates found the outstanding duture of the conferenes was; os one delegate said, “very real Tivalry "between India - and Pakistan.”

was

Before the conference

began, the Steering Committee re drafted the whole agenda' to Delegates thought that rivalry place the technical aspects of the

over Kashmir, which theme at the top. conference' and as one Western delegate said, apparent during the conference, to konee exterit discounted "sweep under the carpot the enlistic Asian policies over He added that the Canadian embarrassing question of Comillar Communist versus anti- Army was not taking advantage munian and the West's attitude Communist rivalries in a wider

to Communist China"

Hale sphere of the "cold war J cariler inter This had been food proted

by many delegates us an HOME ** attempt to keep the conference runtled. These delegates had ex- pressed fears that recent demos.

attocks on the: United States

Army

of the fact that the band had boon stranded. The “provided free transport, and lodging and the band was free to give the concerts

The Toronto Telegram salt 1FR, the main contributor, Lo

today that the promter of the International IPR funds, might band's American tour, had run

out af

money and the band Jeopardise the

director, Captain C. H. Jatger national IPR.

had arranged through - British

一●

and Canadian Army Sthe in

Washington for the bout to

ertus from Toledo, Ohio-its last hopto Windsor, Ontario.-

China Mail Special”.

whole Inter

"TOO RESTRICTED? -

Today”; & however, United Staden delegades · čri Belrod the conferenco sgunda- "Loo

THIS HARE HAS LEARNED

TO BE A MEAT EATER

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with shouts (5%

tame

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to the Zoo by a New South

Nicely to make

will; yo do the rec

KEY POSITION

(3. Western'--delegstes.... mid).

Japanese had taken the keys (position in! the "conference. They had the bigges) delegne on and were the hoef na- tion

esger - to- imprem new - Japan on foreignerken

The United States delegates sadd the Japanelo (hád Fobntasion and reticence makes it / dimcult to diefer the true feelings of the Japan

My added: conceivable that a "country Renoway, size and bechnténi

As Japon abchild, be, this fading in the Far. Xusu

to Bader, the Canary Islandis and Capri. Last February, the P. and 0.,group, the largest shipping operators on the Aus

fradían routes, bought a control- Hng interest in the airline. | Reuter.

BAT GALIM PROTEST

Cairo, Oct. 7.

the Beypt has requested United Nations Truce vallon Commission to send one

Obser of its observers to investigate the Egyptian protest that the Israeli ship Bat Galimi illegally entered territorial

waters

Bolly

had

and 'fired od Egyptiany causing injury to several persons, it was disclosed herd today Nations Security

The United Cotinell is to meet next Thuas day to examine the Israeli.com -plaint against Egypt'a seizure of

the ship-France-Presse,

ABNtsh Parilamentary and „Tirade Union': dalcatu

Téd by here by

als today, on their the Soviet nowa WIENCY,

orticlo said.-Router,

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that silken fragrance She loves to wear

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