1954-12-29 — Page 3

MR FRANCE

BOB HOPE

BOB HOPE

GOING TO

ARCTIC

Washington, Dec. 28.

The Air Force Secretary, Mr Hold E. Talb 14, accompanied

Kroup of some 20 vnter- tainers headed by Bob Hope, will spend New Year's Eve with vfoerst and men at the remote Air Force base in Thule, Orevn- Jurut

it the second stright you at Mr Talbott, along with entertainers,

lattr celebrated

New Year's Eve

at the Arelic Air base which is approximate. 4% 800 me

the North From Poke

Bob Hope and his group, will put on two shows at Thule, a ti:alkti༥s

personnel

Historic

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1954.

CONFIDENT

Vote

Takes Place Today

WEST EUROPEAN UNION

Paris, Dec. 28.

Opponents of the Western European Union raised a new delaying demand tonight for talks first with Russia, but the Premier, M. Pierre Mendes-France, pushed confidently on for France's

historic final vote tomorrow on re-arming Ger- many.

A rightist Peasant Party Deputy, M. Georges Loustaunäu-Lacau, put down a fresh amendment calling for talks with Russia that is doomed in advance.

France's

But despite its advocates' optimism, final reluctant approval of German rearmament still is not certain.

American and Allied Embassy But it will not be a fnet until

cles were ratiously optinia- the votes are over,

Te that the Premier can finally

it through prash

In two final Confidence votes tomorrow night the French National Assembly.

PRIVATE OPTIMISM

film- Menden-France M. self is confident, informed Hources said.

The French Foreign Offer ex- whosed private optimism.

must stand alert un New Year's Eve and

evening ปร formance for the others.

GOOSE AIR BASE

peny

New Year's Day they will entertain the personnel at Gouse Air Base in Laborador.

Among the entertainers mok- ing the trip

William are Hokten, Margaret Whiting. Jerry Colonna and Brenda Mar. Shudi.

of

Tac vetel representatives have Ou French people proved once again in a week of will that they palaful debate only put their stamp of approval on re-arming Germany out of fear that the United States and Britain will isolute France if they did not.

The decision was made harder by the interminable plotting that has kept French pollties in confusiga för generations.

The Communists would gladly

M.P. OUTLINES to the support of the new

VIEWS ON

SELF-GOVT.

Brussels Dec. 28.

Mr Huy Marquand, Labour Member of the British House of

Also accompanying Mr Tal- holt will be Mrs Talbott and Commons, today outlined re -Gen. Emmett O'Donnell, Jr, Erilish, Labour Party's policy Air Force Deputy Chief of towards self-government hi Bri- Staft

Personnel.-Unitedish colonies to on international Fres

for

TITO 'SHOOTS' TIGER

Fathering of Socialist studenta which is exchanging views on conditions try under-developed | territories. He also outlined the Trade Union Organisation in the colonies.

on

M.

amendment eniling Mandes-France to approach the Russians once more and report back to Parliament before rati- Tying.

FIRST TEST

Bai

first the Premier's confidence Lent tomorrow already in almed partly at such delaying amendmenta and there was a strọng paù- siblilly that it cannot even come to a vote,

When the steel calsson of one of the dry docks at Chatham Dockyard, England, collapsed and was thrown into the dock, the dry dock was immediately flooded. The submarine Talent, undergoing repairs in the dock as the time, was swept into the river Medway and went aground on a mudbank. Four work- mon lost their lives and several wero Injured, This picture shows the wrecked dock. - Exprom Photo

CHILDREN'S FRIEND

KILLED

IN PLANE CRASH

Linz, Dec. 28.

Forecast Own Death

Lisbon, Dec, 28. A ̧05-year-old man, apparently In perfect health, forecast his own death the day before 11 happened, aobórding to the

· Llibon_newspaper "Diario de Notlefna,"

Manuel Rodrigues, who lived in Sepoos, a villago In the north of Portdgal, suddenly had the fooling that he was going, tơ die.

He went to confession and #received the

but sacramento. Then ho visited his friends to say goodbye.

After that he went horne to bed, whern he died at 3 am, the next day, the NOWSPAPER reported.

China Malt Special

SURVEY OF

ISLAND EARTHQUAKES

State

Page

Of Emergency

Declared In

Stricken Area

Messina, Dec. 28.

A state of emergency reigned on the tiny island of Salina, off the north coast of Sicily, today in the wake of yesterday's eleven-hour series of earthquake shocks.

Panicky peasants and : Gühermen'rofused

to go

| back to their homes «lthough the last earth tremor hit the 10-square-milo island at 1830 (1430 GMT) yoster- day. The 1,700 islanders campéd in the open under tenta hastily rigged by Red Cross officialı.

E. GERMAN constant fens of a new series of Stromboll volcano.

JUSTICE

In

were

BORE DRUNT

Other islands in the Lipari #roup also felt the ahock. bot Baling was hardest ħlu The lille pori af Malis on Kaluma's North shore bore the brunt of the damage.

of

Men, women and children Stromboll They said it prob- lined

linked up at flet kitchens for ably, was

with the their meals. They lived in December 0 uption of the

shocks and their fears kindled by memories of an earthquake disaster which kill ed 75,000 on December 20, 1988. Messtra today citizens commemorated into 48th anniver-- Berlin, Dec. 28. Sury of the disaster with a East German courts pilgrimage to the cemetery and have

with special Musica. sentenced four per-

Red Cross officials who re- The church of Santa Maria di sons to death, 15 to life

turned

Palermo from the Sall in the small town imprisonment and imposed island said there was hardly a Lingu caved in tonight as the a total of 2,719 years' im- house that had not Been faithful were attending a special prisonment, the West damaged in some way by the service. The congregation, ran outside as soon as the Church Berlin Information Bureau quakes.

After minor warning tremors | started rocklig.-United Press. said today,

during recent day's the quake Tho anti-Communist fact struck in earnest at 0430 yester- Anding Burcanu said in a private dai

day. Thirty, successive shocks German Justice set the survey of East

island trembling and that Communist courts held tumbled houses for 11 hours, But 230 trials in which defendants

an1s | no deaths were reported among were accused of political crimes. the earthquake-wary inhabi-

The Bureau sald its survey

tants of the volcanic isle. About only included trials It was able 20 were reported slightly injured

a systematic by falling masonry.

to trace through check of East German nows- It said the real paper reports.

of East German

trials, figuro many of which have been held secretly, higher.

We belleved

SABOTAGE

courto

were

to

be

Among the victims of East German

former Georg Foreign Minister Herr Dertinger, pentenced to 15 years for espionago, and a former Supply Minister, Herr Karl Hamann, sentenced to 10 years for sabotage,

Two

East

German Under- Secretaries of State were sent to prison for a total of 12 years on similar charges,

BLAZING

SHIP

MOVED Technical experts from the

Messina

Geophysics Instituto said the centre of the earthquake was in the Mediterranean between the islands of Salina and

The Bureau Fald that Herr Max

Germon Fechner East

An- American pilót known as "Uncle Sam" to Minister of Justice, who was thousands of children for his mercy missions fed from his post last year for and Communist throughout Austria was killed today when his appeasing

pebels, is awaiting trialUnited. plane crashed on a routine test flight.

The swing of sme of the rightists and Catholic Popular Republicans (MRP) who sup

The same little plane that ported the European Army brought acclaim to Captain John pushed through approval of Heyes. 30, of Dedham, Germany's entry into NATO Just Massachusetts, carried him to The thive-day meeting, which night uiter the Assembly had death in the hills 10 miles from Cwalur, Dec. 28.

was opened here today by Bel-thrown the whole Western Linz, An enlisted man died Mursiti Tra uf Yugoslavia

gums Socialist Prime Minister, alliance into confusion early on with Captain Hayes. but hla shut a niger laday but only Archille Van Acker, is to | Friday with an initini rejection

withheld pending! with his cancro---while on a

Socialist of the WEU. (or format

notification of his next of kin. hunt organised in

bis honour by students conferences on under-

Captain Hayes Was a U.S. devetoped territories to be held

Army aviator who became the itt July and December next

personification of the United

Marshal Th

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A former

MMP Premier and

Foreign Minister, M. Robert Schuman, the father of European unity. led 17 of the MRP in votis reluctantly for it to avokl under-wrecking Aliantle slidarity.

the Indian Govegrupid an Indian vfficer while he wus year. stor Aug The only kill of the hunt. A

reund liger

Today it exchanged views on wounded mid six others sighted | tande unionist In

which was developed areas of the British dense Shivpur! Empire, the Belgian Congo and

the French Unlon,-Router.

during the hunt, 1-ld

the

fo.est.—France-Presse.

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Then in a confused session lasting until 4 a.m., M. Mendes- France manoeuvred through sume complicated technical difficulties and called for his last confidence votes. They will take place sometime after 4

p.m.

tomorrow.

'They were:

1.

name

WIN

AUSTRIANS FREED BY RUSSIANS

,

States to Austrians of all ages, His little Army reconnaissance plane turned up when they were in trouble and they nicknamed him "Uncle Sam."

Press,

The

Fails To

Pass Resolution

J

Singapore, Doé, 28. The 5,720-ton Danish freighter Loza Maersk which has been blazing for 72 hours since. Christmas

Peace Hopes Day, was towed two miles

Brighter, Says York

York, Dec. 29. Dr Cyril Garbetty Arch bishop of York, said in his New Year letter today that the prospects for peace were brighter than they had been for some years. The world muşt be thankful for having passed through 1994 with out a major war.

been

Disputes which might have been dangerous had settled and international ten- sion was not so great as ft was a year ago.

He went on: "But there can be no secure peace unti an understanding is reached with Russia and her satellites.

PALESTINE

"The Irrational frontier

of

Last

he winter

rescued avalanche victims. Last summer the he alded sufferers during Danube floods. At various times he carried aloft more than 100 children for high altitude treat- ment of whoopping cough.

Tel-Aviv, Dec. 28, Syrian-Israeil Youngsters liked "Uncle Sam."

Mixed Commission today He liked them too. He adopted Armistice

Syrian draft an Austrian orphan and only failed to pass this month applled for a visa to resolution condemning Israel for take the child home to the intercepting a Syrian passenger United States.

airliner on December 12 and DECORATIONS

forcing it to land ut Lydda air-Palestine and its three-quarters of a million unhappy refugees Captain Hayes was a veteran port an Israel army spokesman

will present a dancer to peace, of World War II, in which he announced tonight.

The threat of the hydrogen the

The spokesman said that the received

Distinguished Vienna, Dec. 28.

Nations Commission's bomb remains unsolved and the Bronze Star, United Flying Crose, Austrians just back from the Air Medal and other decora

Chairman, Lieutenant-Colonel G. there can be no world security

abstained years in Soviet slave camps dons.

from until some effective international Stationed

Castonguay. ho here,

thu the

Syrian agredient is reached to prevent Eldriede said today that three long-married

Eggers of voting, and

motion failed to be adopted.

the tuse of this appalling adopted an gaoled Americans had been Germany and they

abstention

that the saying

security against whole separate new ratification "very soon."

Finishing up his tour of duty Armistice Commision was not

their use secma impossible un- bill which also will sat

Austria, Captain Hayes was competent to deal with the case.

less war itself is outlawed: To The French Parliamentary Commis- They also said the Soviet on a routine instrument-testing

Israeil authorities have

our stateszzen work when his 1-17 single-said that the aircraft violated this end sion to keep a running watch on gaolers had suddenly started mission how the Paris pacte are applied. giving many captives a "velvet engined monoplane crashed Israeli air-space and entered unremittingly, supported by the treatment including near the village of St Marien. Israel's control zone without prayers and hopes of millions." 2. To vote on the entire rati- sightseeing tours of Moscow United Pres. fication bill including German just before the trip home. entry into NATO, although it

reports came from Aus- already has been approved arti-

among 85 ex-prisoners cle by article. 16 included a who

today arrived

aboard clause that Germany must aptreedom train from the prove the Saar accord along Curtain. They brought news of with the other Paris parts be three captive Americans whom foro ratification becomes effer them

they Identified as Johnny Hell- muth Noble, William A. Verdine So the situation, et a glonce, and William T. Marchuk, All was this:

about 26 were described · as German entry into NATO-years of ago. Approved last night by 289 to The Austrians caid the three

Το reverse the stunning

rejection of WEU by voting promised their freedom Austrian boy.

up a

glove

Jus The

triana

ย

Iron

251 votes and up" for "inal op- Americans were held at Soviet

proval tomorrow.

SHOW-DOWN VOTE

Western European Union -Defeated early on Friday by 280 to 259 votes and up for the show-dowia 000- fidence voto tomorrow.

Restoration of Germany's

"Camp 43" near Potma, about 280 miles southeast of Moscow, and had been promised they would be freed "very so011,”...... United' Press

BRD. DIVISION

In

The Chairman explained his weapote

permission-Reuter.

Reuter

from her original position and benched on the eastern coast of Singapore shortly after noon today.

This step followed consulta- tions between the Port authori- tics and the agent's representa- tives and officials of the Harbour -

Fire Service. It was agreed It would be a danger to Mack shipping if the Lexa were to sink in her original position which is just outside the explosive anchorage.

SMOKE PALL

Thick, black smoke billowing from the blazing ship rose more than 600 feet high and could be seen for miles around.

Bloga- pore Police boats took up posi- dens round her to keep away unauthorised persons.

Meanwhile, the six American end two Australian passengera are wing accommodated in a first class hotel pending the arrival of the agent's officiala from Copenhagen who are due here tomorrow and the setting up of a court of Inquiry,

All the passengers lost prac ลม Lically their entre personal be

The two Australian longings. passengers, Mr and Mrs G. R. Standish, who are stationed in

with Singapore

a commercial firm, were able to start a new wardrobe, but the four Ameri- can girls have nothing except Aba dresses they have United PreKS.

20

Fanco To

Meet

U.S. MAY BUY FINS Pretender

TO KEEP HER w. German

SHIPS STEADY

London, Dec. 28.

Rivers

Subside

Hanover, Doc: 28.-

Ship "fine" are likely to become a big item in

Weat Germany's wollen BACK HOME Britain's dollar export trade because an Ameri-rivers rolled back toward normal

Liverpool, Dec. 28.

tho trouble there. three years

Madrid, Dec. 28. The Spanish chief of State, General Francisco Franco, is to meet the Spanish. Pretender, Don Juan de Bourbon, who In lives in Portugal, tomorrow the Spanish province of Caeeres to discurs the programme; of higher education which Don Juan's eldest son, Prince 'Juan Carlos, should follow....

The meeting a the first be tween the twò in many years. As a result of preliminary talks between their representatives, General Franco and Don Juan.

are expected to reach agreement

sovereignty—Approved early on The

high

dint water

covered 3rd British Infantry can executive was so impressed aboard one of levels tonight after two days of on the matter. Friday by 380 votes to 180,

General Franco thinks that to Egypt during Britain's latest luxury liners fitted with anti-rolling farmland blocked roads and Division, sent The agreement between

the young prince should, be Left at least two persons tend Franço and Germany

educated in on the

a number of Wide areas along the Weser, millary schools in Spain and Saar-Approved carly on Friday ago, are arriving at Liverpool devices. by 308 to 145 votes.-United cashire at the end of their term

tonight in the troopship Lan- The executive, Mr R. C. Lee, this must use American equip Lame, Main, and Neckar that his tutore should meet with Pross.

of a big ner ment. of overnous servico, China Vice-president

feet went on a 12-day cruise But thene le clause in the Rivers were spared further flood both the approval of his family Mall Special,

from London to, Casablanca in mbeidy regulations which danger when steady rains lep up and that of the state, Don Juan, the 29,000-top. Arcadipi ROYAL BIRTH.

allows ships to use Imported sharper temperatures stopped who lives in storia, Portugal,

mountains,

KANAN KE (higher educktion. Ins. IN JAPAN

tained in the United States; Rochester, Victoria, Dec, 28.

This claurs is likely to come

Two German women were Belgian univerally m A: Rochestershire. hall clerk which his shipping line are to

The latest information Tokyo, Dec. 20. looked twice when he received bulld" will be fitted with anti- to permion for the "ans, killed boar stuttgart last night

Brtid in when their small parenzen cake cakes that Donchian, Will Princess Yushido, wife of decor home wirion Chus rolling the first Amert which are blaly Princo Mikasa, Empero

vessels to carry the equipevention and development.

plunged into the swollen. Tynch General Franco's view. Il * chilgaking payment for two fox can ve youngest

by keeping ship Fuvar a tributary of the Nearer, unikely that in their brother,

will be deadlery Iri can be datur mergers, more comfort, roduse Bathion anally

b) of the Spanki there are Coman Urbicara enockers, and hays been delayed becata ve fuel because Vesel can neighboration restit

CROSSWORD-Across: 3 Suppress, Trest, Hirohito's

28 Promontory (4). "

SENON THE Churchill:murr tyd. 23,000-ton limery Squipment which cannot be ob- snow froth melting in the would like to see his son-got

8 Advocate, 10 Ornate, 18: Diocese, 15 Read, 17 Elderly, 18 gave birth to a third sơn at the Dastard, 20 Aloe, 21 Temples, 21 Resort, 27 Disparse,; 18 Trail, Pringo's residence in Tokyo the Belsh Prime Minister

carried

29 Endorses Towar 1 Blood, & Boeno, 3 State, 4 Prop, Eraser, early this morning (Wedin Win A Churchill, or man me 0 Bd. 0 Desert, 11. Rival,, 12 Acute, 13 Elders, 16 Rewos, 16 | day), The Princos now has bourne, who had been taking Alter, 18 Dewdle, 19 Houseck 22 Meets, Loral, 24 Stole, 25 two daughters throw a pan by a part inantes Chi Mi