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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1955.

ELECTION OF NEW ITALIAN QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

PRESIDENT

Confusion As Parties

Jockey

Their Nominations

MERZAGORA TIPPED

Rome, Apr. 27.

Confusion reigned over the Italian political scene today on the eve of the election of a new president.

Although leaders of the four centre parties: have been holding talks for a week trying to agree on a candidate likely to command popular support tomorrow nearly a dozen names are still mentioned as possibilities.

Out of all the party jockeying and, the welter of speculation the 56-year-old independent president of the Senate, Signor Cesare Merzagora, has emerged as the favourite.

He is strongly supported by past seven years, may gain re- Amintere Fanfani, a former election as a result of the split. Premier, who leads the majority He has support from Social of The Christian Democratic Democrats and Liberals but is Party and may also gain backing opposed by the RepublicaDS.—

Monarchists Reuter.

from

and the

* Assists.

COMPLICATIONS

But the complications of the party system and the haliolins may fail to produce a president tomorrow and force adjournment of the election until Monday to give the parties still more time to get together and hammer out some agree- ment

Although the president asi head of state represents national unity and is supposed to be above party politics, he is selected not directly by the but by their political re- people but presentatives in Parliament,

will

The two Houses of Parliament assemble in joint session 590 deputies

tomorrow morning. There we and 10 representatives from the parliaments of the

regional

"semi-sutonomous,

islan Sleily and Sardinia and Alpine berder

of Aosta valley and Alto Adige.

areas

of

the the

In the first three ballots a two-thirds majority-562 votes -is necessary for election and it is virtually certain that none of those mentioned in recent months has a chance of gaining such a high number of votes.

FrOCA the fourth ballot owards a simple majority of 422 votes is sufficient to elect the president.

The voting will be secret and the parties will be lobbying nor-etop while the election is ot, so surprises are possible.

Some ..newspapers thought the Christian Democrat Party, which theoretically can marshal about 390 votes might finally agrée de a candidate (onight.

Christian The

Democrat Minister, Siner Mario

Prime

|15-YEAR OLD

The most original "beard” in the world is to be seen al the

FORGERY Mar del Plata, fashionable

Stamp Collector

Expert

Sues

Paris, Apr. 27.

After 15 years; a stamp collector found out that three stamps he had bought were forged and demanded their replacement by authentic ones.

Many

seaside resort on the Atlantic It is worn by Celeste Antoniucci, a local keeper, and consists of ay 200,000 bees. To form his "beard" he fastens young Queen Bee in a tiny case to a chain on a thread. beneath his chin and imme- diately the other bees join up to the

forming the Queen beard. fie has to stay very still in ease the bees attack hakes

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"beard" is simply a matter of

cutting the thread and taking

away the Queen Bee the

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Mr Ziever, in 1940, had ag- "You have been chéated,” he quired at an auction, sale, three said.

He explained that a cur- valuable stamps showing Na-rent trick was to scratch poleon III for the large sum of figures on stamps and replace £3,000.

them by others printed on this paper. Other experts confræci his views.

WAS HAPPY

Very happy over his pur-·· chase, Mr Ziever was later bitterly disappointed when showing his collection to an expert, the latter said the three stamps were value- lesa.

Mau Mau

Penetration

Foiled

Johannesburg, Apr. 27. Scelba, and the Party organOUTH African Government both predicted failure for such officials feel that they have efforts.

successfully broken up attempt by the Mau Mau to The object of the terrorists was penetrate into South Africa.

Signor Scelba said it would be unwise for the Party to sus gest a candidate of its own.

to.

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enter South Africa to pro- pagate their ideas and, with the assistance of the locally- born native agitators, cause disturbances.

Political observers interpreted his statement as a "torpedo" against Signor Giovanni Gron- chi, 67-year-old Speaker of thei Chamber of Deputies and leader of a leftist group

It has been known in South of Christian

Africa Democrats who oppose Signor |

a long time that Fantani's group.

the

Mau Mau planned a Left-wing Socialists and Com-1.

penetration, and a careful munists are also championing Signor Gronchi's bid,

ELIMINATION

Conservative elements, of the Christian Democrats

',

may vote for, Signor Fanfani in à bli ́ ́to eliminate him from active party politics and clear the road to premiership. for Bignor Guiseppe Pella, right-wing Premier in 1953. Eighty-one-year-olf Signor Luigi Einaudi, President for the

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with

ELECTION thrills!

Kuala Lumpur, Apr. 27. The Federatiozi of Malaya Government is worrying about

He demanded not only com-election day July 27 next-for pensation but also replacement it is. groclaimed

e public

of the stamps by authentic ones, holiday, the Government will As these stamps cannot readily lose more than 5$11,000,000 be Iound on the market, he (almost. US$4,000,000) in rubbér rked for £2 compensation for and tin production alone. "each day of delay.

A

It ended in a battle of experts, pointed out that tin production Government statement contending that in most for one day amounts to S$8,000,- MSCs, examination through 000, and rubber to S$3,500,000 magnifying glass and other simple and in addition the Government means are sufficient while others, would have to pay overtime said the experts, must use up-rates for the holiday to those to-date methods such

as elec- required to work which would tronic microscopes, spectroscopes include a considerable and chemical reactor-France of the Government's 100,000 Presse.

wiployees.-France-Presse.

Terror Taken Out!

Of Warfare

London Apr. 21,

survey was made by Govern-Britain's still-unfinished £700,-

-sment officials. A number of deportations were made, in- cluding en African who posed a brother of a South African police native sergeant

Johannesburg,

as

in

SECRET Although details of the opera-

tions

are secret, much of it rends like a spy thriller. The Mau Mau agents had forged documents

and had their background stories off pat, but careful checking has broken down the stories on mpany vital points. Part of the counter-campaign is medical test which would- be immigrants have to under- go. There are certain experts in South Africa who can, as a result of these tests, identify the birthplace of immigrants accurately within 150 miles France-PressO.

POD

WALTER!

WHERES MY CHICKEN

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of warnings which would enable defence officers to track a guided missile or a rocket from almost anywhere in the earth's upper atmosphere and the tracking process could start virtually as soon as the missile had left its source. No matter how fast the object was moving within the limits of human possibility there would be plenty of: ime to set defence machinery in motion.

000 (approx) radio teleskops built to enable scientists to trace thousands of "missing" stars-is going to help take the Lerror out of modern wartare. The telescope; a Manchester University project at Jordell Bank in Cheshire, bounced radio beams off objects moving at incredible speeds and auto- matically plots their coursËS. An aeroplane flying low over the surface of the moon could be spotted and tracked within two and a half seconds. The Work on the application has mechanism is capable of track-

.. begam ing objects moving as fast as "shooting" atars"-stars whose movement far exceeds the speed of any zocket or pro- jectile conceivable on earth. Once the technique has been worked out thoroughly, scien. tisis said this week, it can be

already and Prot Bernard Lovell, the astroDO-: mer in charge of the project, told me: "When we get going we should be at least five

ahead of anybody eige including the Ameri CANS."

(London Express Servics)"

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