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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30,⠀⠀ 1955,

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British Decision On Middle East Salty Liqueur Compromise

Pact Due Today

V OF IRAQ

TERMINATION

TREATY

ANTICIPATED

London, Mar. 29.

Britain is expected to announce tomorrow its decision to join the new Turco-Iraqi pact, bringing Middle East defence into closer association with the North Atlantic alliance.

Authoritative sources disclosed that negotiations are in their closing phase. The Foreign Office conceded that the con- sultations are on the point of conclusion.

Quins Rumour:,

Arrests

Made

Havana, Mar. 29.

Rural

guards in

the

Guantanamo distries

ot

Cuba have arrested several people accused of spread- int false reports that Local

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bad given

reperis

woman birth to quintuplets,

When

the reached Guantanamo officials last night AB ambulance was sent eti'to aid the mother and bring the babies to hospital. But the ambulance crew falled to find any quins, accord- ing to accounts

Ilayana

today.

Mall Special.

reaching

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ISRAEL BUYS MYSTERE

Through Britain's association with the scheme of defence authoritative quarters pacts, said the northern tier of Middle

would be more East detence

the North. closely tied Allantic Treaty Organisation.

Under the new #greement understood Eritain will be allowed to re- tain her existing air bases at Habbarliyah and Shaiba, shar- ing them with Iraq."

It was understood twin an- nouncements will be made to- morrow, provided final agree ment is reached on last points,

The Foreign Secretary, Sir Anthony Eden, or the Minister of State, Mr Anthony Nutting, were believed ready to make the announcement in the Com-with rag. mona on Britain's behalf, while the Iraqi Premier, Nuri al Said, was slated to announce in Baghdad the termination of the 1930 treaty linking Iraq to Britain.

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This statement "weuk open ie associate way for Britain to itself with the defence treaty signed between Turkey and Iraq at the end of February, despic Egyptian objections.. The ori- ginal Anglo-Iraqi pact was hove run until 1957.

NEW

TERMS.

The new British-approved 1reaty

"packet" would in-

clude:

1. Termination of the old treaty:

2. British association with Turkey and Iraq:

3. An agreemeuf on sharing two RAF bases in Iraq.

to

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Norwegian Liner Swept On Rocks By Gale

NEW ATTACK ON

Situated on a bend of the Euphrates-first river mentioned

the Holy Bible-Habboniyah - today

is the fourth largest township in Iraq. It was built by the Royal Air Force and is and almost self-contained

· self-supporting_community.

Royal Air Force officers on the spot said Habbaniyah was the nerve centre of the defence theatre nearest the Iron Curtain, One high-ranking officer com- pared its position "in the Middle East with that of Malta in the Mediterranean which is the headquarters for southern flank

*AN ISLAND

"Habbaniyah is just as much an island in the een- tre of a great land mass which could present 1. Gur de- raping Blank in fences." he said.

Conservative estimates of up-

MALENKOV

Light Industry Priority

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London, Mar. 29,

Sharp attacks in today's Moscow Press

The 6,269-ton Norwegian liner Venus was swept on to the rocks off Mount Batten, Plymouth, England, by the sixty-mile-an-hour gale which covered Southern England. The Venus is engaged on a weekly service to Madeira. She had landed 248 passen- Madeira and TEXT from Teneriffe, and was due to start the return trip in the after- noon. Two attempts to refloat the liner were unsuccessful and she Was driven even further on to the rocks by a second gale which blew up. No casualties were suncred. Picture shows: view of the

at Plymouth-Express Photo.

Tree Tips War But

NATO's on the advocates of priority for light Norwegian her off the rocks

industry and Mr Georgi Malenkov's absence from Saturday's session of the Supreme Soviet are regarded in diplomatic quarters here as further pointers to the depth of the fall of the former Soviet Prime Minister. Officials here are wondering at what point this fall will be arrested or whether, like Alexei. Rykov, who 25 years ago also Iraqk pact -- and, authoritative Sea area and most of the Black resigned from the Moscow, Premiership. French officials said that the place is will be possible to set Soviets most valuable ports and Malenkov will end up before a firing squad. A "ING", said to be

Thus there will soon be larte new pacts in existence in the Middle East as the basis of a defence Paris, Mar. 29.

organisation--between. and Pakistan, Israel

Turkey Turkey has ordered 15

and Iraq and Britain and Iraq supersonic Mystere II fight-

jet bombing ranges Pakistan is expected to be to-date

showed that Habbaniyah could er planes from France, it the next county to announce

announced

association with the Turco cover the whole of the Caspian including some of the

was

night.

here to-

15 plines now ordered are the first of a group.Israel is_nego- tiating to buy from the French Covernment.

The Mysler was the first French plane to cross the sound barrier three years ago. The latest prototype of the

plane the Mys.er: 1V ricently crossed the sound barrier on horizontal flight.

2

the third order This marks fee D'Assault Plane Works has received from a foreign nation. Seventy-seven Ouragan fighters were sold to India earlier this year and 225 Mystere IV's have been constructed under the US- NATO offshore programme-United Press.

ters said, when this takes Sea,

quarters

up 2 Secretariat for the oil refineries.

The feeling that since Stalin's meet M; Malenkov since they "northern tier organisation Twenty years

go, RAF for Middle East defence. officers said, the site on the death the power struggle in the feel that Western visitors would lost some of its naturally not be allowed to see There was reason here to be- Euphrates was empty wilder-Kremlin had

has such a "controversial figure." lieve that the United

States ness, whereas today it is a come and death features would also

of more than 15,000. est ground here as the result announce its asso-munity ciation with the "northern tier" comprising at Letet b5 nationati-of the violent strie ures in to- concept, the sources said.

Russian today's Moscow Fress. This Secretariat would be Chinese, Kurds and Afghans. allowed under Article 6 of the Alongside the actual RAF Turco-Iraqi pact, which allows station Habbaniyah has its own for other countries to join the entirely civii Community organisation.

numbering about 12,000.-United Press.

ties

Iran was said to be "moving fast" toward joining this com-- plex to complete the northern tier extending from defence Turkey around the flank of to defences procurement anti-Communist

Pakistan.

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from White

TRUCE PLAN FOR BRITISH DOCKERS

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"OPPORTUNISTS”

Without mentioning Mr Malenkov, by

Name, the Soviet Government news- paper,

Izvestia, attacked those who had put con-- sumer goods before the drive for heavy Industry as

"rightwing opportunists' and "enemies of the people."

These were far stronger terms than those used by Mr Malenkov himself when in his resignation spacch to the Supreme Soviet he confessed to errors of judg- ment and lack of experience.

Liverpool, Mar. 29. E employers today called a T

"truce" in the inter-union row which caused over 15,000 British deckers to stop work now regarded as the real ruler yesterday and again today.

The trouble flared up over a bid

But Mr Nikita Khrushchev. the Communist Party Secretary,

in the Kremlin, condemned Mr Malenkov much more forth rightly at that time. He com-

One of the Swedish delegation is reported to, have received a telegram from M Malenkov ex-- plaining that be could not receive The Swedes because he was inspecting electric plants in Siberia, One official, when tald of this report, commented "most appropriate," Reuter.

CATHOLICS

BOYCOTT

MEETINGS

Brussels, Mar. 29. Catholic Members of a Parlia mentary Committee examining a school's reform bill that touch-

the Stevedores Union, prepared his errors with those ofed off nation-wide rioting a- ously centred only in Lon-Bukharin, who in 1933 25 nounced today that they will; don, to break the monopoly of executed on charges of son- dock work held since 1947 by

the giant Transport and Gen-Spirary against Stalin dral Workers Union.

When dockers registered

boycott future meetings.

was

to

Another sign of the degree of The Catholic walk-out Mr Malenkov's disgrace is the the

latest protest against the head of Socialist Láberal Government's for promotion" over, ble

well beneath him decision to maintain a clause in work yesterday a half yearly several men

Union in the Communist hierarchy to the bill cutting subsidies routine. Stevedores men were refused "books" (in the rank of First Deputy Pre-Catholic schools by $10,000,000

anually. effect permits to work). They micr immediately struck, and the Asked today whether he had Soppage quickly spread across heard of the strange rumours”

Malerkov, the MI the Mersey river and inland about to the canal dockers of Man-Foreign Office spokesman sald chester:

he could hardly have failed to hear them." Hastily he added Two Catholic Deputies, Mr that he could not comment on Albert Gillon and Mr Albert Vernieuwe, said that they would introduce an urgent mensure to day to bring up the budget cut for immediate consideration.

100 SHIPS HALTED ·

them

By today, work on 100 ships

had been halted and had been The wildest rumor is that the former Premier has already slowed down on 22 more.

executed, but British off dock labour ciais know

been The Manchester

nothing to suggest board jumped in with a

that this is the case. an" The legal truce plan rights of

They attach little significance of the

two unions

fact that the Swedish to ths only, be settled by the Courts, they said, and as that delegation of electric power ex would take time, they would perts visiting Moscow, did not meanwhile issue "book" to

could

all registered 'dockers.

But a meeting of 1,000 Man-

Ards,

chester dockers, hearing of #greed that it was "despicable" to go back till

had won the same assurance.

The Parliamentary Committee consisted of 11 Catholics, 10 Socialists and two Liberals.

Parliament was expected to approve their motion, but whe ther further debate now would calm or incite the nation was anybody's guess-United Press.

Not Winners

$

Singapore Mar. 29. "TALKING tree",

18-year-old Javanese girl, has predicted that World War II would start in 1960-and that Malaya would not be involved. The talking tree stated that the "forces of Semcorary" would win the war,

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tree

It

The tree is a rambutan

a small coconut growing in

:Sar plantation

here started talking" a month ago. It began when a 50-year-old woman named Zaleba, work- ing late che night at a cupra kiln nearby, heard a whistling sound.

She heard it again on successive nights, and discovered that the sound came from the Tambu tan tree. She said she learned the tree's "language", and was told that the spirit of the tree. was a 18-year-old Javanese girl, who had lived nearby.. In her lifetime, she had learned witchcraft; and after: bver death she became the guardian spirit. The tree told Zaleba not to mention their conversa- tions.

NO MORE

Zaleba told several of the vil- lagens--and now the tree will not "male" to her any more. It has shifted its attentions to a young girl in the village.

Find named Lasunita Yatan, whistles tis answers to all her questions.

no

Crowds have come to listen to the tree, and electricians and police have examined it for wiring, but coull find evidence of faking. Witnesses to the tree's "talks” say it makes a sound "some- thing like Morse." But the tallding rambutan refuses. to answer any questions at all on gambling. On the subject: of horses or lottery tickets, it maintains a stubborn since and the local gamblers have gone away disappointed at getting

Hips-France- Przest

Dramatic Turn In Jelke Case

New York, Mar 29,

their comrades on Merseyside DEFENCE attorneys for Minot (Mirkey) F. Jelke suddenly, Tested their case today after presenting eight witnesses in an effort to disprove charges. compulsory prostitution against the former playboy.

Tonight the Liverpool area dock labour board, after a two and "half hours mesting, endorsed the Manchester: “trice plan."

of

If as is expected tomorrow's The defence rested in the 14th

meeting decides to resume Immediately, the sike will end before the pileup of ships loading and junloading in the sprawling seven miles of

docks on both sides of the Mersey has become acute,

Dockers on the register in the Liverpool area total about 316,000, Reuter,

"The sudden end of the case for the defence came, as a mir- prise. Mr Hers had indicated that he might have additional witnesses, and during a recess he had brought into the Court, house

wherecording machine and speaker attach

ment

Mr.

Salkeld testified under direct examination yesterday that the former playboy had received about $30,000 in loans and gifta during the period in which he shared an. apartment with Pat Ward, 31,

Mizh

Ward and Marguerite Cordova, 26, are the two women Jelke is accused of Juring or attempting to lure

into a life of prostitution Jelce was conpicted at his first trial 100 years ago but wo

day of the trial on a note of buster argument

between the FINAL WITNESBU

George The final defence witness 2009 defence attorney, WHerz

Herz, and Assistant. Dia Mr Charles F. Salkeld, an Liebler: The

oficial of the Bankers Trust trict Attorney, Bir Anthony J.

dispute use o087 Company. He spent the entire

morning under cross-examina-are-trial on the grounds that the admission in evidence of is

tion by Mr Liebler as to bánke statement pa an acc Which Jelke had at the App amounts deposited and splif

Atalon by Jelice in checking National Bank, Leice

accounts, o Illinots,

the Judge Mr Francis Valente, had closed the anerke room to the Press and public,

Waited Press,

Brest, Mar. 29. Sea water won't kill you provided you take it in tota like, liqueur.

Surgeon Commander Pierre Aury reported this today, after he and ten ather French Navy men Ind spent six days on a rubber raft in sea to find out how shipwrecked par- sons may stay alive.

Sea water-believed by many to drive men mad if they drink itwas "better than nothing at all," the Commander sild,

Only food the men ato

were raw fish and ship's biscuits. — China Mail Special

Journalists Fined For Trespassing

Stockholm, Mar. 29. Twe .Swedish journalists were Aned. 150 Crowns (£10)..

Tax Formula

Sought

Paris, Mar. 29,

Premier Edgar Faura and his Finance Minister Pierre Pimlin today sought a com- promise formula to make their tax revision pro gramme palatable to the parties of their Parliament- ary majority.

The Government is secking Parliamentary grant of special powers to issue decrees'to revise France's tax system and to take Lover its second day of debate on

this issue.

M. Faure has already made certain concessions to demands of Parliamentary backers of a Small businessmen's campaign for tax relief but was still en- countering opposition today to legislation against tax fraud.

MET CHIEFS

-M. Filmlin' met with. Parla-

and 135 Crowns (£9) respec-mentary: chiefs of the Govern- tively here today, for trespassing ment majority parties today to in a Stockholm hotel sulle ce- work out a compromise solution cupied by Ingrid Bergman and on this point, but participants in producer- husband

Roberto the session reported divergences

Rossellini.

to pay 250 Crowns £16) costs.

They were ordered still existed

The Government has agreed The Court was told that on to

to revoke a controversial law the morning after Miss Berg providing heavy penalties for

obstruction of man's first night in Honegger

tax inspection, but insists on" pulting teeth. Into Joan of Arc, the journalists

woman reporter and a male French legislation against tax photographer went up to the fraud.by

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r's

in

suite though Mr Rossellini had on the book ding a law already

he

of National would not receive them.

number said

The

the photographer Look Arrembly members Aashlight picture of the majority parties are urging the Rossellini children though their simple abrogation of the con- legislation without nursemaid had refused to allow troversial the journalists to enter.

Rossellini's claim for damages WES dismissed Special

taking any other measures to all the resulting gap in France's China Madi legal defences against fraud.-

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