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COMMENT OF

THE DAY

Labour And SEATO

THE forthcoming debate in the House of Commotis ort

the Southeast Asia Trendy Organisation may be the platform for Mr Aneur,a

Bevan to fre his frat real broadside against official Labour Party policy since he descended to the ranks.

for

An adept strategist, Mr Bevan may be expeeled to seize this opportunity garner further support his diguident group within the Party from among those known to have a vacillating mind on Southeast Ar Defence. Although Boyanite amendment pected in the Comntoma debate, criticism is sure to be bitter and loud. The main prong of their attack will, no doubt, he centred on the ment- participation of India, Ceylon, Burns and Indonesia in the

ht

IN ex-

Organisation, jant known

to vex a considerable number of rank

Ale members This

and

the Parly.

of

ment was employed In The recent Labour Party

enco debale at Scarborough in of Mr Bevan's resolu- support tion opposing the frenty Ta September, the party Slowed i no inclination to follow line sikl vuled solidly favour of SEATU by 41 million votes to 1 million However

perhaps the must

telling point

saf the tluck

against the treaty WAS

it was initiated by Americu

and supported predominantly

by European, et iis,

fict

ex-

that Communist China's clusion would embitter Peking and

make it

more even

belligerent. Even Mr Allico

was noved to observe,

What we must avoid is trying form somethilug in which you

Any JTIUST

defence

have,

if

I would Uke to see

an OT-

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"PAM" WILL MISS US BY 30 MILES

Saturday Big Typhoon Weakening

Mail Features

Herò la guide to your week-end reading:

P. 5: Did the 5th Duke of Portland lead a double life?

This the 9th

in the World's Strangest Stories series,

Michael Dy

Gannon; Gilea.

article

1. 6: Sponcer Chapman, best - selling novelist, continues his new adven- fures "And the Family

Came Too" with a vi

to the premios of Africa. P. 7: Rene MacColl turns beggar in London's smart Wens End; the

trgih about the Beauty Queen, "Cireur"; Les Armour's column.

A

P. 8: Antony Terry tells of a fashion house In Rumla It'

slavo (actually camp) where they make dresses for women of the new Russian elite; When should

woman have baby. Lam Bal-

has been at for

50 more than He tells you his years. recipe for a long healthy life. P. 13: The "allack

heung, 72,

NCA

Russian new

Heaven". 971 Kolar Waller

writes About the now Anti- religious persecutions in Russia; William Hickey.

News In Brief

had to make do with

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No Racing

The Jockey Club an- nounced thin morning: "there will be no racing today."

Western Offer

To Train

A-Scientists

posal.

Sir

Dixon, British United Nations delegnie, told the Political Committee

HURRICANE WINDS NOT EXPECTED

The centre of Typhoon Pamela will probably pass about 30 miles to the south of Hongkong this afternoon. Gale,force winds (34 knots and above) are expected in the harbour area throughout the day.

However, as the storm has weakened slightly, Hongkong is not expected to experience winds of hurricane strength (65 knots average).

Gule force winds were felt ni Wagion Lighthouse, about 18 miles from Hongkung, early to day.

about

as

Football Matches Cancelled

All looguv football matches have been cancell. ed for today, the Hongkong Football Association nounced this morning.

Lucky Escape For

Mrs Roosevelt

Bogart Injured in Studio Accident

Hollywood, Nov, 5. Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt

The former first lady

More Troops Rushed From France DESPERATE BID TO

CRUSH

RISING IN ALGERIA

Algiers, Nov. 5, Tank-led French troops marched through the sniper- infested mountains of South Algeria today to break the back of the fanatical nationalist "Army of God" threaten- Ing to plunge Algeria Into civil war.

LAWYERS

DUEL

POSTPONED

a

And

As . the columns rumbled through the rugged Aures Mountains where an estimated 1,250 terrorists have been on a rampage of bloodshed and destruction, French officials an- The Royal Observatory announced this, this morning.

nounced three more companies of Republican security guards In the New Territories, a very

would arrive in Aigeria before wide arca surrounding and

four more were due New York, Nov. 5.

beyond the Shatin airstrip was narrowly escaped injury to dawa and

tomorrow. Each company num- Britain and America both

flooded. But further inland the day on 3 motion picture

bers 200 men. A statement issued from the green valley was unaffected. offered today to train

studio sound stage, when a

Paris, Nov. 6. Royal Observatory at 9.30 am. In the squatter areas,

Officials said that 178 persons many giant movie light exploded, foreign scientists in the today said:

"Typhoon Pamela

A pistol dual scheduled were busy battening down their

have been arrested since the Humphrey lightning actor sending peaceful use of atomic which passed through Luzon ramshackled dwellings,

for tomorrow morning be WEYO of terrorism energy as first practical Strait on Thursday night passed Amorg

cople the

who were Bogart and two technicians struck through Algeria on Mon-tween two hot-blooded to Pratas Island ato in

as the sky to the studio hospital. day. A total of at least 10 French lawyers was post- response to President Eisen- very close

midnight last

night. bright the streets

were the sellers of hower' a

was persons have been killed in the poned "atom pool"

Indefinitely today pro- Seventy-knot winds were re-Puppies the wind and the rain viriting the pot of "Desperate violence.

ported

because of Pratos

the no deterrent to their doing their Hours" at Paramount Sitution from

breach of typhoon was approaching.

a good cause.

Barriers of trees and boulders eliquette. when the accident occurred Mrs set up by the rebels slowed the u mest for "ALB

today the typhoon DINNER FOSTPONED Recgveit was talking to Bogers

Lawyers Andre Bloggi was centred at about 80 miles, The Queen's College Old Boys' the picture's star, when the tank columns moving through Andre de Perpessac were to he boped south-east of Hongkong, moving | Association annual dinner, ar-heavy Ridg light blew up.

stand 12 paces from each other the Soviet Union would decide | west-north-west at 12 knots. ranged for this

evening, has Studio officials Bald

at dawn and each fire two shots Mrs to take part in the "bold and The centre will

passbcn probably

to postponed

Monday. Roosevelt

from a dusiling pistol, How- about 30 miles to the south of November 8.

Was spared stilous

APPEALS REJECTED practical Elsenhower plan.

injury because her back

ever, the combined influence of the Colony this afternoon.

turned to

French officials said that the the Paris Police Prefect and the light. Bogart, the facing

Jamy, received general Algerian population has Marcel Heraut, head of the Law

to heed

Association, ended the proposed appenis to violence coming from Cairo, "fight for honour" — at least from glass epliniets.

Tetuan Blood run down his face but Damascus,

(Spanish temporarily. Могоссо)

authorities had his condition wis

and even Budapest. reported to be "more painful than serious" But they planned to take every studying duelling rules in an

action -United Press.

possible to stop the effort to find a way to call off "Inflammatory broadcasts.

It was discovered de Perpesme In Paris, · Interior Minister, broke a rule when he asked François Mitterand said that the Haraus for advice about appoint- Government would continue 1 - By seconds to back him up. "pittle.# repression" of the when he food Blogg-who had authors of the attacks but would į been a ma

* practising. In a shooting collective duelling courtesy and is a

***Audcing

for advice is not branch of otiquette, that the rebels official said.

a polige

Wau

the

: Aures

Batno

The Queen Mothers in his head and cuts on refused training course in the out the day, veering gradually Goes Sightseeing

TRAINING SCHOOL

for a

Mr Henry Cabot Lodges the typhoon gale is occur in Hong-shey got a special preview

chier

United States

#

to study there. They were also eye of the prepared to invite us many of the town.

▪

U.S. Diplomat Dismissed

Washington, Nov. 5.

CHOTÉ

to

region around

not prisals).

Reports said

generally routed and French

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The Secretary of State in the Aures region had bee But this gave Herout the

opportunity fo : intervene John Foster Dulles today troops were in possession of all refence United Fress dismissed a career diplomat or almost all of the towns. The Mr John Paton Davies, who troops yesterday recaptured the was until recently counsellor town of Foun Tous, about 15 UK. Firm Wins

out into Big U.S. Contract

at the American embassy in Lima.

miles north-engt of Arris,

Today they fanned the hills to round up the out-

He was authorized to announce

"The wind reached gale force that

4hc British Government

(34 knots and above) early this could

immediately offer 4

morning at Waglan and

gales are mumber of

places in its four expected in the harbour through- weck radioactive Isotope school at the from north to cast. BAKERS STRIKE

Rain is ex- ! lomio energy establishment abpected to continue all day. Paris, Nov. 5.

The typhoon has weakened

Washington, Nov. 5. Paris bakery owners who cut Harwell. Other places might be

made available for three-month alightly since It entered the The Queen Mother and Mrs act European against Asia without

off the city's bread supply in o 24, hours' rake today, will be courses at the Harwell School China Sea and the wind is not Mamie Elsenhower went sight-

reach expected to

the hurricane seing today. They saw supply of Reactor Technology. tomorrow's organisation

force in Hongkong.

Smithsonian Institution and the because their active themselves not

UNUSUAL TYPHOON National Gallery of Art. participation, then the good-ployees have now decided

it im very

tamusual will of the Astatte countries, hold strike of their wril

Instead of their gold,

of the Smithsonian's trusty

delegate, kong as late In the soon as "Hall Of Ladies." The hall, loaves, 6 million Parisians have said the United States was pre- Novamber; in fact, only three when completed, will be a ro

rusks, pared

to establish Melba toast. bisculls and cake. training school early next year the last

reactor such gales had been recorded in plica of the White House ball- 70 years. The last room and will house a collec- ail planned to invite 30 to 30 November typhoon to affect tion of plaster of Parla models HUNT'S NEW CLIMB

foreign scientists and engineers Hongkong was in 1939 when the garbed in gowns which former Calcutta, Nov. 5.

storm passed near First Ladies wore at inaugural Sir John Hunt, who led the

balls. British com which last year 150 cancer research workers Typhoon signal NJ. 9 was One of the gowns they saw conquered Mount Everest, will | from overseas during 1956. hoisted at 10.15 a.m.

Was worn by Mrs Elsenhower leef in expdition which will try

It was not

until the carly less than two years ago. It is to climb unconquered Himalu- Both Britain and America

of this hours

morning that of pink taffeta, studded with the yan pok, th: Kanchenjunga, in suggested thal

proposed

began to be rhinestones

Washington, Nov. 5. Mr Dulles mid he considered | laws. Typhoon Pamela 1950

International Palmey which

The Army announced today Hongkong. Winds The Queen and Mrs Elsen- the maintenance of Mr Davies nations in all parts of the earth felt

that a $1,008,602 contract has and there were hower spent considerable time in the State Department was TROOPER'S LAST TRIP will be sylted

to join, should freshened

been awarded to the Engilah nationsi security with be linked

the United periodically strong gusts in open examining the Lincoln exhibit against the

But so far there was no In-Electric Singapore, Nov. 5.

Export and Trading and the desk at which Thomas intercats." places. us one of 15

dication that the Police have Company, Ltd., for the construc- Nevertheless

Mr Dulica sald cross-Jefferson wrote the Declaration

that before broken the back of the rebel tion of two turbines for the giving his judgment on Davies bands, although they have been Table Rock harbour ferry services, buses, of Independence.

Dam on the They tram and train services kept to

the art he had obtained the unanimous scattered arrived at

from the heavily Missouri-Arkansas border. normal schedules,

gallery ahead of schedule and approval of ave-member populated region,

The British company was the had to wadt a few minutes for special State Department security PUBLIC TRANSPORT

The Police have started an all-lower bidder for the contract In Director David E. committee, which submitted a

out attempt to locate the "brains" | competition with four American vices operated by

Star Finley and Secretary-Treasurer report on the subject,

behind the violence. They be- concerne. The other

companies The om-

This committee, Mr Dulles lleved the direction is in Algeria and their bids were: Ferry Company and the Hong-Huntington Cairns.

them on a tour of added, did not find Davies dis- although the rebels were em & Dry Dock Co. Virginia, Newport News Shipbuilding kong und Yaumati Ferry Com-clats took

running at 10 the picture halls-United Press. loyal in the sense that he leaned couraged by foreign broadcasts, pany were still

towards Communism or know- from Cairo,

$1,210,125. Allayx Chalmers NAVY TALKS

a.m. to-day, Hollywood, Nov. 5.

ingly alded an

the nemy of

(Officials in Parle

Manufacturing Co. of Memphis, and Marilyn Motiroc

Jos London, Nov, 6.

The ferry services to Cheung

United Styles-France-Pitant. officially reported preparing re- Tennessee, $1,238,640. 5, Mor- Admiral the Fleet, Sir Dimaggo had a

of

tallatory economic measures If gan Smith Co., York, Pensyl- Rhoderick McGrigor, the First week-end, the blonde admitted been suspended.

Baldwin Egypt does not stop the Cairo vanda, $1,316,208. Sea Lord, will leave Britain by today. But she insisted, "There Public road transportation on

radio from broadcasting en- Lim Hamilton Corporation, may never persuade Lasour air today for high level naval

is no reconciliation." "Joe and both sides of the harbour con-

couragement to the rebels) Philadelphia, $1,860,000, United to abandon SEATO. the talles in Canada and the United

United Press.

Presa, Attlee view may

in-States, gain creasing favour,

ganisation. all-embracing with China in II." This suggests rather striking contrast Labour feeling towards Com munism in China and Russia for Labour advocates of Russia's admission to NATO —SEATO', European counter- part are confined to a small on the extreme left. minority

however, On the

contrary, Labour's allitude towards countries is basically the bout

It was emphasised by same. Mr Bevan when he spoke in Hongkong recently it is to a dangerous polarisa- avold

of the world into two hostile cumpr. Kightly wrongly Labour believes there A chance of salvaging Western relations with China, that the de la by no means here cast as it ly with Russia where the emphasis should be reducing hostility as η μετα liminary to repairing damaged relations. While Labour back-

for SEATO ing

the la forthcoming Commons debate is assured, It would be wrong to astume tha this policy wili While the Bevanites prevall.

tont

or

on

•

The 14,000-ion troopship, Em-Nations, perhaps pire Trooper, commanded by specialised agencies-iteuter. Captain R.HA. Hond, sailed frem here for the last time to- day. The 32-year-old velerun, which has ferried thousands of British troops from Britain to Malaya, Hongkong. Japan and the Korea, is now destined for scrapyard.

.

the

Reconciliation For The cross-harbour ferry sor-rod-facad

Joe And Marilyn?

the

"date" inst Chau and fat O, however, have Former Hongkong

I are friends and I hope we'll tirnica to operate ng before, no the Admiralty

always be friendly," she said. In-

curtailment having been nounced. nounced here--All Agercies.

ROGER & GALLET

SANTAL

BOAR

ROGER GALLET

PARL

PRHA

She said that they got together

No reports of landslides or to celebrate the 12th birthday of house collapse have been Joe's son, Joc, Jr.

ball hero and America's famous

received.

ما

Governor Dead

No Saar Talks Says France

Lieutenant-General Edward Felix Norton, C.B. D.S.O. MC.,

Paris, Nov. 6. Acting Governor of Hongkong A French Foreign

Ofice from 1940-41 has died at spokesman tonight denied that Winchester aged 70. General Franco-German tälks on the Norton was a member of the Saar agreement, signed

in Mount Everest expeditions of Parly last month, would take 1922 and 1924.

place next week. make headlines with a recon-

by 1 West German cillation before her divorce de-horses" became more and more eral Norton reached a height of statement

evident as the morning pro- 28,200 feet dasts within 1,000 Government apokeaman

that cree becomes final,

feet of the summit. In 1926 ha much, grossed.

talks would be held to Founders "Interpret and Awarded the was develd of was that the former They said Yankee ball player is trying

all small craft. But early in Medal of Royal Geommande Se- ment the agreement”~ supple~" |

He WEB appointed The Frencir spokesman, salā win back the sweater girl who

then Colonel and Commandant of his "Government, considered the accused him in a divorce court

dipping its bow deep into the Hongkong of being "cold and indifferent,”

turbulent wabien,

Artillery in 1941. ---United Press,

ROUGH WATER However, friends of the base- Harbour

waters began roughen shortly after dawn blonde expect that the pair will with the high tide and "white On the second attempt, Gen- Ho was commenting on a

The harbour

the morning a motorboat braved clety. the elements, lifting and

:

Singapore

'Royal | Saar: "' agreement "calls for no interpretations."--Router.

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