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POPE PIUS XI

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1954.

U.S. ARMED FORCES CUT Nearly 500 Killed

Senator Wants Careful Investigation

ONE OF BIGGEST

POPE MAY GAMBLES KNOWN'

HAVE

Washington, Dec. 27.

Senator John C. Stennis said today that Con- gress must investigate carefully to determine

OPERATION whether the Administration's proposed cuts in

Vatican City, Dec. 27. Pope Pius XII has

responded well 10 the strength building pro increased

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Vatican sources said today,

programune

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United States armed strength can be "justified” by the modern concepts of atomic warfare.

The Mississippi Democrat is a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. He made the. statement as another Senate Democrat Senator amounts of food and exer- Mike Monroney urged that the Committee make rise prescribed by the team

a careful study of the entire defence programme of five doctors trenting him,;

emphasising the cuts in ground force manpower Under the

and the proposed reserve programme. Jossible the 78-year-old Pope

Sen. Monroney said that the cuts in Army and will become strong etuugh for

Marine strength constitute "one of the biggest gam- the doctors 10 operate and en reel

hernia of the bles" the United States has over known. He said Chaphragm which

chuse

his decreasing the strength of the Army and Marines collapse 25 days ago, the sources could be an invitation for more of the "nibbling tac-

tics" employed by the Soviet Union, The Pope made very pogress ONET enaraging"

Sen Stennis did no say he apply to the

of nibbling Christmás holiday math is

oppers the proposed cuts, in wars which have been taking ing strength stemily, the souTLES

elle

condition has im-Army, Navy and Marine armed place

announced lust

week proved so thin the doctors have strength

him the blood by the Secretary of Defence, Mr stopped giving and plasman Tasfusions begun hurles F. Wilson. He said that after his collapse in December 2. the culs must be "carefully and

the goin-

we Christines there "hus throughly" investigated.

Stre

bota no trace of the hiren 12ths that accompanied the Pontiff's gastritis, the sources sud. The Pope now is able to digest in- ereading quantities of strength bullding meats.

The

RESTFUL NIGHT

Papai physician. Prof. Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi reported after a visit this morning that his patient ent a “very restful night,** пред д The Pope heard mus seated in un armchair in

in his

study and becak fusted boiled and read the newspaper, Later Magr Angelo Dellacqua, deputy secretary of state, visiked him to discuss affairs of the Church.

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The Pontiff is working sleu‹li- ly on his 4,000-word Christmas address which he hopes will be Illness ready by New Year.

delayed iw prepished in

It will be

the

Vallinn newspaper Osservitore Romano when finished, Jin- cludes another appeal for work peter, the surens reported.

Despite the Pepe's marketi improvement

ALTER IDEAS

"There is no question but that modern warfare makes It possible to alter certain of the Ideas

kind

Mr Wilson announced Last that the United States Monday Armed Services, which at pre- GOUD number 3,218,000 will be cut to 2,815,000 by mid-1958 with the

Navy Army,

and Marie Laking reductions 10

That strength. total had been u goul for ormed strength by geeclerating the

mild-1957. bmounta have always

reduction.

had about manpower," Sep. Siennis said.

*The question will be whether these cuts can be justified on that basis."

to favour the Administration's Sou Slemmis said he is inclined

United for building plan

up States reserve forces through a continuation of the draft coupled with a sort of voluntary pro-

gramme

training.

Di universal military

The tu

new plan

RESERVE PROGRAMME

The new reserve pro- gramme, announced

three

days previously, would con- tinue the draft. law for four years to obtain young men for two-year hitches in the armed services. In addition it would set up a

to programme

mix xive months' military training to 100,000 youths a year, The

reserve programme designed to make available combat ready reserves totalling by 1990, United

We have got to build up the reserve," Sen. Stennis said, "and believe something of this soft will do the job."

that 3,000,xi agreed

Sen. Monroney sume such programme is neces- |sary to build up the reserve, but he criticised the move to cut down ground forces,

Sen. Monconey said the man- power cuts apparently are based Vatican

the SOUTTES ion

Assumption that the warned the fonti still is weak. world climate now seenis more

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line with his doclors pro-favourable for avoiding war. gramme to build his strength the "That may be true as lar 03

World Pope takes daily outings in the

War II is concerned," Vatican Gardens.- United Press, he said, "but it surely does not

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Kotelawala Wants

To Promote

World Friendship

Manila, Dec. 28.

Mr Carlos Garcia, Philippines Vice-President, and concurrently Foreign Minister, said here today. that Sir John Kotelawala, Ceylon's Premier, jms. pressed him "as one who wants to promote the friendship of all peoples, both the Communists and non-Communists, but in a showdown, he and his country will side with the Democracies."

Mr Garcia had the most contact with Sir John, accompanying him on a tour of historic places in and around Manila, and on a side trip to Baguio, in Norther Luzon.

Mr Garcia also said he was awaiting word from Sir John on his return to Ceylon on the relative pos- sibility of Ceylon's buying her sugar requirements from the Philippines.

ond

Sir John said

defensive there was no allianceS for reason why Ceylon should not economic purposes. buy the Philippines' surplus

He sald Sir John also was Impressed by the Philippines sugar.

extensive flsh culturo about which Ceylon could learn from the Philippines.

COPRA EXPERTS

Mr Garcia also urged that the Philippines should take advantage of Sir John's offer to send to the Philip- pines Ceylon copra experts to help the PhiUppines to improve the quality of its copra products,

Mr Garcia said he and Sir John discussed the feasibility of

to

FISH BREEDING

On the fight to Manila from Bagulo, he saw wide areas of lowlands and shallow waters around the conata, enclosed into ponds for breeding edible fish. Ceylon has nothing like it, Sir John said, although Coylon

purposa-Reuter.

To Cost £IM exchanging trade mission has many suitable areas for the

Madrid, Dec, 27.

United

Madrid's

new

be exchanged by the two coun- uries.

He said he would discuss with

States Embassy building the Philippines businessmen soon a plan to bolster trade between will, it is estimated, have Ceylon and the Philippines, cost 3,000,000 dollars

(over £1,000,000) by the

time

2,000 Natives Injured

Johannesburg, Dec. 27. Hospital officials unid to- day that BORO 3,000, Johannesburg nativen were

Injured ta stabbing.

and

sooldents

saulte

the period from during Christmas Eve cath

but that there wern only four deaths in the total

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They said that the 2,000- infured were an "unprece- dented" number. Sixteen persons were killed in the Union of South Africa In trafile mishaps. - United Pree.

NEW FIND

IN SOLAR

BOAT

Mr

In America Over Holidays

Chicago, Dec. 27.

Traffic accidents during the Christmas week- end killed-380 persons, a record for a two-day Yuletide period, a United Press survey showed to- day,

Mr Ned Dearborn, President

of the National Safety Council which had predictød 370 traffic” fatalliles, said:

We can only hope that the

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of this toll will result in greater core, courtesy and common BETEG in trame over

the New Year's holiday.

This is a bloody way

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colebrate a holiday dedicated INDUSTRIAL

to peace on earth, goodwill' to- ‚ward men,"

A In addition to the traffic deaths from 8 p.m. Friday to midnight Sunday, 61 persons died in fires, two in plane ao- cidents and 51 in miscellaneous mishape, for a total accidental death toll of 484.

URANIUM

Tel-Aviv, Dec. 27. Israel will soon begin to produce uranium on an in- California led the nation industrial scale. truffle deaths with 33, followedt

by Teoca 31, Tillots and Dr Ernst D. Bergmann, for- Pennsylvania, 22 each, Ohio 20, or head

of the Weizmann Now York and Michigan, 19, Institute of Science and now and Florida and North Carolina, Chairman of Laract's Atomic 15.

Energy Comunisation, partially The traffic toil was the highest lifting a 30-month blackout" for a two-day Christmas holiday on achievements

Israel's since the Council began keeping nuclear research, disclosed two records after World War II. A salient facta here recently: #pokesban. noted, however, that The exploitation of low- the previous record of 286 was grade uranium ores has now be- 9 in 1948, when

worthwhile the postwar come commercially

through a now car shortage resulted in tower

process d'avised cars being on the highway, --

by Iarroll scientists. United ProES

2. A method is

being perforledi in Israel for the production of chemical heavy water through processes rather than by the electrolytie method beyond tho reach of countries lacking cheap

electricity

Former Reds

Accused Of Blackmail

.

The two raw materials necËS- sary in an atomic pile will them. come within the grasp of one of the world's mallet countries.

It

was the former Prime Minister, Mr David Ben Gurion, now living in retirement as a who shepherd in the Negev, first prompted núclost research of in Israel nearly three

Belgrade, Dec. 27. The Vice-President the Yugoslav Communist 4go. Party Executive Council, Edouard Kardelj, „speak.

in officially in the absence

of President Josip Tito, tonight ```denounced****

"blackmail" the attacks

made

against Yugoslav Commumiem last week by Com - former leading munists Milovan Djilas

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A GAMBLE

years

crition said that if, was a gamble for the tiny country to engage in coelly {~-~"experimenta" "Ent" "whether

a bold gamble or faith in his young scientific advisers, resulta aiready obtained in- dicate that

even

countries have a contribu tion to mako

towards the force which to bound to change the course of his- tots.

Israeli uncthodox pilot-plant,

in In the laboratory and the scientists

with

mayr

Cairo, Doc. 27. and Vladimir Dedijer. Egyptian archaeologist

Mr Djilas, expelled from the Kamal El Mallakh, today-re-Yugcelav Communist Party

for his Ave January ported the discovery of emtar cars

on the deck of the views, gave an interview to the have already proved that many

solar "New York Times' last week in countries endowed only 4,000-year-old Cheop's

he declared that Yugo- low-grade uranium ores which boat when another huge time-avia chould create a now So- exploit them profitably and that stone block was lifted from the ialist Democratic Party and countries without cheap electric

cialist introduce the two-party system" power can nevertheless produce

Mr Dealjer, Président Tito's heavy water.

rock cover over the boat,

The block was the 25th to be oficial blographer, is accused of removed from the 43 making up writing similar articles in the rock cover

over the solar foreign press.

boat.

Bull

Already

Israel's discoveries the have attracted the attention, of

· raseátchers.' Buclear Freach About 18 months"neto, an agreem LET WORLD KNOW'.

ment was concluded between the Mr Mollakh suit the cars, lying

Mr Kardelj, speaking at a Atomic Energy Cothadanions of Communist. congress In Sera- the two countries, placing at the diagonally on the starboard side of the

cach jeve, said that the object of the disposes of France the methods. deck, WETU about six yards long and "Inlet the world know that they

two former Communists was to devised in Israel.

Details of the processes in very good condition.”

exist by running down volved are still a giorded secret Yugoslav democracy,

home When the solar boat was first

They havo

miscalculated Only broad descriptions could discovered, anite-yard long their blackmail," he continued. be obtained here from Dr. Berg- that soclat de- mann shortly after. a statement our was found on the centre "They realise dock.. Intended for

be blacionall- use as a mocracy cannot

by M. Jules Moch, the French cudder.

ed, especially by discredited

delegate on the Political Com politicians who have lost all mitee of the United Nations, My Mallakh said he counted 25 sense of responsibility towards who said that the Isruel inven Moscow, Dec. 27. U-shapod copper joints cen- their own people. They are tion, now under investigation in The Soviet Foreign Minister,racting the planks of the deck, hoping in vain, that they will France, had taken the initiative to wooden joints become political factors, inanics in heavy water production away was grond, but it needed further Mr Vyacheslav Molotov; today in addition study. He added the Philippines attended a reception given by used in early ancient Egyptian to the "New York, Timer and from electricity rich countries

of the the Yugoslav Ambassador, Mr dynasties.-United Pres was already a member

like Norway Reuter, "The Times"-France-Presse, United Nations and other Dorivoje Vidlich, in honour of

Mc Garcla appeared Lun❤ Impressed by Sir John's belief

Gome

Mr Garela sold Sir John's iden

it is finished next that what Asia needed was "not year.

blocs with set rules and regula- The nine-storey Embassy, ations and objectives but

liko

commonwealth functional buiriing resembling thing somewhat the United Nations which is a family." palace in New York, but only 38 metres (about 124 foet) high, Then its was begun in

1952. cost was estimated 1,250,000

nt dollars (about £420,000),

Recently, a

a sub-commission of the House of Representatives studied, the east of the building during a visit to Madrid. Re presenative Harrison Williams described the new Embassy as "born in extravaganco and based on the belief that the United States would never run out of money.

1.

There has been local criticis of the architoctaire of the new Embassy and recently the writer Rafael García Serrano: in the Spanish пожерарек "Arriba" described it as "one of the two

Three Rats

To Every Japanese

Tokyo, Dec. 28. The Japanese Welfare Miris- ugliest buildings in Madrid." ter has announced: thaf thero Other critics, however, have are three ruts for every human. oved of its light and alry in Japan and the rodent, ore character.

eating almost ng much rice as One exilio

Gold: "Spanish Japan imports every year. public offices are often built

without sufficicos, consideration A Ministry survey showed for the light and other ecditions there were about 200,000,000 in the rooms to be used by the | rots fay Japan compared to employees. The new American about 88,000,000 people." building is an example of care- ful planning in this respect."--

Houter.'

NEW HOSPITAL day. Jepan's rice

A · DOW bulltr provided Plan, has

hore,

Ministry officials estimated botaro rats were bating a total of 33,500,000 bushels of rice your, deesch rat; oto about" dovr

Imports for this your fave been|| Athens, Dec. 27. weit 35,000,000 bushels 200-bed hospital, ¿The Ministry plans to launcli notionwide compaign to enters are rats in 1955, Dooyer similar campalgie; in the

widi tunde

the Marsial

Opened

Molotov At Yugoslav Reception

a Yugoslav trade delegation which is visiting Russia.

ME:MOLOTOWA

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New Empire appeal for help in CROCODILES

road safety

Singapore Asks Hampstead

London, Dec. 27.

FRIGHTEN

LOOTERS

Kuala Lumpur, Dec. 27. There was to looting during thefoods ex› the nearby town | of Kota hengellist, wreckmat

limst not attern file" word went». rourid than two, orożodiize were myspeciing fie food in the main gged in on the heels of

Hampstead's road safety, experts have reebord four foot of water ceived another call for assistance from the Com monwealth this time from Singapore.

Also, preverit as the reception

In June, the coni mačeky (like to adopt some of your ičienu fore. Mé Anistone » Mikko/min,

(co-Presler\and' Minister, öffeur, Mde Cladeira 1. Wade, wám)| in Bingbapore MEMORAN

Zwaii: Habenoy,; Minis? | kaked for advice by Couth Cacia"

Deputyan Foreign.

publicity materi fmengatanda oladen, that no child Hampeland will be on

died on the roads there four

admitted; the D

afterwards