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Moscow Experiments

With Traffic

Lights

Moscow, May S.

Moscow city, faced by the same problem of traffic con- gestion that worries Westerni town authorities, is intro- ducing automatically", "re- gulated traffic lights for the first time.

Most of Moscow's ・ traffic lights, including those, at all the tusiest crossroaris, are operated day and night by traffic police sitting in special look-out towers, '!

Only, some of the lights at smaller crossroads have hitherto worked automatically on 租 simple time system which la rot dependent on the amount of trafic or the approach of a

car,

EVERY CROSSING

But now the system, commTIONA in many

Western cities, la being introduced, under which cars travelling along stretches of certain mala streets at a fixed speed will find the lights at green at every crossing.

So far this system, which the Russians call the green wave." has been tried experimentally in only one place--between two points on the "Sadovaya ring,” an eight-line "inner by-pass" which circles the city.

The regulation speed is: 40 kilometres (25 miles) an hour. if a car travels faster or slower, fight,

is able to be calight by a red

Soon the "green wave," which the newspaper 'Evening Moscow

said "has great advantages, will

whole "Sadovaya ring."China

In the wake of the Bandung Conference there was very little interest throughout this area in be extended to cover almost the the internal strife which is tearing at the US-Mail Special. backed state of South Vietnam. Most of the countries were primarily concerned with domestic problems and what interest they did have in the Vietnam problem was more of a long-range in- terest than immediate concern.

Munich, May &

days in neighbouring coun- tries will in future look out of the hotel window

Jess glumly than previously when a steady downpour spoils their fun. When they get home they can the higher echelons of politics

collect a handsome sum from stayed on the front pages.

an insurance firm which in- sures against rainy holidays in t 5,000 resort towns - Germany and abroad,"

four

The firm, Allianz of Munich, started its "rain insurance" two years ago, for selected places in Germany only. Though it has lost million marks (about £335,- 000,, sterling) so far in the venture, it has now extend- to more than ed protection 2,000 resorts in seven forsign countries.

Anyone going to these resorts. In Austria, Switzerland, Hol- Luxembourg, land, Belgium, Norway and Sweden can take out an. insurance agains rain. Payments are always in German currency and the new insurance is therefore no drain on the German foreign currency reserves.

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was little

editorial Vietnam and twelve million There

in the papers of people to the Communists - comment Southeast Asia although the would, in the opinion of ex- | fighting-both with guns and in perienced observers, hit

lower levels if Diem is dropped

WATCHING-FOR SIGNS”...

The cynics and neutralista who have been contending recently that US support E- against Communist croachment in this area waE of no value were watching for the first signs of a dumping of Diem by the US.

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Friends, both openly com- mitted and privately undeclared of America, were watching with even greater interest.

American prestige throughout Southeast Asia — already at a low ebb because of the Geneva settlement which gave half

even

Veteran diplomats and ob- servers believe that another de bacle in Southeast Asia for the West will have immeasurable repercussions.

believe that for the Government to fall now would

harding be tantamount

They vietnam

ever to the Reds. For South Vietnam to go behind the Bam- boo

outside Curtain without pressure by the Reds at this time, the observers said, would force neutral nations and even those now allied with the West

to

make an agonising re- appraisal" of their own in re- gards their alignments with the US.

The importance Great Britain of and the Commonwealth places on the current diflculties.in Saigon could be seen in the dispatch of their trouble shooting Commissioner General Malcolm MacDonald to the scene,

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Seto Mee-Tong Dies In Peking

As far as the man in the Allianz plans to extend pro-

London, May 8. street here in Singapore is con- tection by June 1 also to Mr Seto Mec-tong, member of cerned, the fighting in Saigon Italy, north of the Po River, the Standing Committee of the might as well be or the moon and to Denmark. It says it National People's Congress of He is plagued with a series of is impossible so far to extend the People's Republic of China, inconvenient strikes, were registered of when uly 25,000 were still alive when the war ended. Among others 32,000 Russiana, mostly prisoners of war, were done to death.

In this camp, now turned into historical museum. 190,000 prisoners

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Today J

including

it farther south, because of ded of cerebral haemorrhage in one of bus drivers, and a drop "too unstable" weather con- Peking this evening, at the age in the economic index Singa ditiona thereChina Mail of 89, New China News Agency pare has always been a vacuum Special

reported

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and which the troubles of Southeast Asia Swirl. However, He was also a member of the the developments at the critical special memorial

second national, committee of Saigon programme as well as Las Vegas, May 8.

the was unveiled to the memory of The 14th and last atomic ex- the Chinese People's Political other developments like

are daily the Russian General Kabyshev, plosion of the current series in Consultative Conference and of Bandung conference

Affairs scrutinised by a staff of experts who was sprayed with water as the United States will not be the Overseas Chinese

in the intense

watching for signs of deteriora he stood naked

tion. cold until he became a statue of ice and died. General Kaby- sher's widow ard son were present at today's memorial

The current is fed in through contact pads attached to the service, scalp. The only sensation the patient feels is a slight pulsation

those who behind the eyes and a. pricking wreaths at the monument to the feeling in the eyelids.

10,403 Frenchmen

Among

Jald

who died in

Within half an hour even the carpp were Senator Charley and Professor Gilbert Dreyfus, people troubled with chronic

both of whom were among the Insomnia usually fall asleep,

this terrible the professor claims in the survivors from Lancet

In some cases sleep goes сп when the current is switched off, but with difficult patients it is kept on.

camp.

It was ten years today since the camp was liberated by the advancing Russian troops, Many men and women wept as they walked in solemn procession The machine is being used on through the gas chambers, the and the so-called mental patients who seem to crematorium sleep-London Express Service, and women, were done 40

set off tomorrow as arranged, Commission because of unfavourable weather conditions, it was learnt here to- day-France-Presse.

A funeral committee has been formed-Reuter.

US ALLEGATIONS

China Sells Rice But Rations Country

Washington, May 8.

Communist China has rationed the food sup- benefit from "Riy van Winkle hopital where 154,000 odd men plies of its people in order to export rice and grains

INDIANS VISIT RUSSIA

depth

VAST GRAVEYARD

The whole place was one V28*

Wreaths

· graveyard; were laid all over the ̈£71. ' fámed a "parade, ground”. where" prisoners had to w and at roll calls naked fi the old.

in exchange for materials to build heavy industry and boost its war potential, the United States In- formation Agency said today.

There is a deep-rooted prob- lem that must eventually be solved by sweeping constitutional changes, probably including the deposal of Emperor Bao Dai But right now the situation is too volatile, too explosive.

Emergency measures must be taken to reduce the fever with- out precipitating a blowup. These include 'back Digm to the

e hilt, breaking down the influence of the groups fighting them and get the people behind the government. Then when the worst has blown over a general shakeup, including constitutional reform, elections

ma land-reform..

SUPPORT WAVERED

Ever - sinelt the Korean

settlement, the uncommitted people of Southeast Asia have been moving closer to the fence. As they BASE more US retreats' and Com- munist victories their If said a Communist trade must import machines to large.

unpedionable faith in Ameri- mission in Tokyo offered the quantities to build our industrial

ERA, support wavered. Japanese "more than 120,000 bases; The main commodities tons of rice in rehan for copper, that can be exported are farm

At Banding

Chinese Com- mundat Premier Chou Ea-Lai [alumminkin, steel products, ships conf edible oils, extton and impressed my Asian leaders.

and rolling stocks...”?!

cotton cloth, have been rationed While not voicing their feel Today everywhere the motto Reparting that a campaigns Communter-China-for-many-figur

Wings openly many of these "never again was blazoned up was water bry

Pier | month = USIS asia, Reports of leaders, admit privately it woul

· on " banners, pO on walls the population's rice compecute food shortages and, in not take much more for them to India is the first country to and even wi every 50tion, the agency quoted

scattered areas, moring famine, change their bets and ge respond to the Soviet oder to all yards or to all along the road Premier Chen Yun, he stat are currently appearing in the A defest for the West South the world's parliament to Tist trud, Lina in the camp in 17 17

this (exporting Red Chimese at presUnited Vietnam could be the dichiara

United Ithe USSR-France-Press

entirely necessy, We P

Moscow, May 6. Twelve members of an, inciden. Parliamentary delegation naved at Moscow.central airport to- |mighat to visit the city and fun.

weeks.

SATURDAY'S CROSSWORD Agrosa: 1 Warmth, 4 Broundings for – about two

7 Organs, 8 Flanks, 10 Cuts, 12. Meander, 15 Tenor, 18 Tire, 17 Clan, 18 Dimes, 20. Korel, 21 Dawn, 23 Means, 24 Teuton, 25 Adult, 26 Spurns. Dewat Woodcock. 2 Regattas, & Tint, 5 Relent ed 6 Fanter, 9. Peril 11 Sertigo 1 14 Model, 12 Disaster, 14 Fem nants: 18 Legend, 22 Keen, 7

dides

The

European Armaments Community

Paris, May 8.- Permanent Armaments. Committee, the setting up' of. which was agreed upon yes- terday, by the Council of the Westem European Union (WEU) aims at eventually constituting 24 Entropean Armaments Community, 80- thoritative sources stated here today.

of

បុគ្គ The report on the setting

the Permanent Commitive, adopted yesterday, foreshadows two stages in achieving a European Armaments Com munity. These are

1. The member countries, (the seven WEU countries) may conclude bilateral or multila- teral agreements, it is hopes rapidly

will then 2. Agreements

concluded subsequently be with an increasing number of countries, members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organi- sation,

Authoritative circles emphasised.

that the report was a com- promise between the views of experts, who have been meet- ing here since January 17, France-Presse.

15 Executed

In Yemen

Cairo, May 4 Mohammed El Badr, Crown Prince of the Yemen, said here today that 15 persons were executed after the re- cent d'etat in his coZZI-

COUP try, and that when he re- turned to Sanaa, the capital, constitutional government

be formed. would be

The Prince,

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on a visit to" Cairo to thank the Egyptian

its attitude. Government for

in the crisis, suld there was good reason to believe that "a foreign, band" was behind the revolt

Addressing the Press on arrival by air, Prince El Badr added that those executed included Prince Abdullah, one-time Mirister of Foreign Affairs, and Seif Islamie Abbas;;

El of Saman. Governor

The Prince bis delegation,

and which hopes to strengthen friendly relations with Egypt, were met by Colonel Hussein El Chatel, Minister for Social Affairs representing the Fre miery Gramat Nasser, and y

renera Lengue,

the Prince

be the Government's