THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1955.
REBEL BANDS SCATTERED King Baudouin
COUNTERFEIT
CHARGES
Tokyo. May-18.
The US Army disclosed today it has arrested a 22-year-old Corporal for passing counterfeit 10 script hills in ike Best Break In
large-scale counterfèis ring here.
The spokesman said that the Corporal was arrested on Tuesday when he tried to exchange the
payment certificates, legal currency for all Service- men In the Far East, for Japanese yen at nearby Camp Drake."
Arrested later - were six persons who had a total of $58,970 In edunterfeit military currency-United Press
Unions Want
To Attend
Atomic Conference
Vienna, May 18. The Executive Committee of the anti-Communist In- ternational Confederation of Free Trade Unions today de-
Communist-Trained Veterans May Be
Leading Army Of God'
NORTH AFRICAN OFFENSIVE
tonight
Algiers, May-18. French military
warned com manders Communist-trained veterans of the Indo-China war may be leading the new "Army of God" nationalist offensive against French settlers in North Africa.
Top French military leaders meeting at Constantine with the chief administrator, M. Pierre Dupuch, reached the conclu- sion as tank-led French forces scattered rebel bands back to their mountain hideouts,
Con- community
Foreign Legion and infantry The top military commanders Army from which they had later troops, backed by armour, re met in Constantine to map descrted, in Communist Viet- pulsed strong rebel bands which strategy against the nationalist minh camps from which they fast night launched a two- Army of God's latest offensive.
have been released with the aim by The meeting, attended pronged attack against
and Leach anti- to organise dorcet, a French
several generals and other high
rebellion French
in North officers of the 10th military Africa or that they have under three miles off Batna
region of the Aures district and gone military training in other the Constantine division,
foreign countries. called begether to co-ordinate
action
against military snowballing anti-French violence before it reaches, the proportions of the 1945 uprising which cost thousands of human ning
lives. wert
REBELS CONTAINED The garrison contained the rebels, who have destroyed all telephone communica- Lions around Condorcet and called for help by radio. The French said they had no camialties in the battle. Rebel losses not immediately known,
cided to call a trade union South African
conference to discuss the "peaceful uses of atomic
energy.
It will also press for the right to send an observer to the "atoms for
con- Terence" to be attended by aver 50 countries in Geneva next August.
. This
end of the Committee's three- day session here, held to pre- pare for the fourth world con-
of grest
the Confederation opening on-Friday.
Teachers
meat
the
|
Protest
the
The meeting, held while un- rest swept neighbouring Tunisia in the cast and Morocco in the west, has reached the following conclusions;
1. The insurgents under fery Lassoued have outlay Tahar slepped up their recruiting drive among Algerian youth:
2. The insurgents are grouped into small units up to 15 men strong so as to slip unnoticed through the chain of French defence posts. They form bands to 50 or 100 men strong for
attacks diversionary
4. One of the most danger- Was ous aspects of the unrest the Year bordering panic among the civilian populations which fear reprisals if they re- main
to loyal the French. declared French Algeria was soil in 1947.
AGENT DEAD
A Valson agent for the French, Amar Drissi, was found dead with his throat slashed near Oniach, in the Aures mountains.
A train, a car, a military jeep and a series of farms were attacked at various spots of the Constantine Department, centre of insurgent activity. About 40 against suspects were rounded up at El- or gend-Milla and confessed to have belonged to a terrorist network.
Johannesburg, May 18. FURTHER protests were made: in South African univ. ailies today against a Govern- villages with army was announced at the
bill to alter the con- armerie garrisons.
3. The rebel commanders stitution, which would give
thorough knowledge Government, an Over possess a whelming majority `in the of modern military tactics. The from Morocco. Senate.
French believe they may have Altogether · 22 professors and acquired it either in the French
56 other members of the teaching staff of Johannes- burg University, associated themselves with the protests already made by the teaching stat of the Pretoria Capetown Universiles,
54M MEMBERSHIP
The Confederation has membership of
more
J
than
$4,000,000 workers in 17 coun- tries, a spokesman stated at a Press conference.
was
An important" subject dis- cussed by the executive commodity prices and wages. The
spokesman said workers
developed of highly Industrial countries should learn
that
and
Pacposed
PARTY MANOEUVRE They alleged that the
changes in the constitution wcre fect a Nationalist push
in
to
Party manoeuvre through certari Legislation bill charg- and in particular ing the elect
electoral rights coloured voters.
of
Soviet
Nuclear
Achievements
London, May 18. A representative of
the
they ought not to consume cheap tea or frult when the low prices we onto the pay and coul- This legislation requires a two-Soviet Academy of Sciences tions of the workers who pro-thirds majority in Parliament told a conference of Soviet
duced them.
Asked if this meant a boycolt on tea drinking, the speaker said it did not but it meant an effort to get better conditions for workers on
which would be assured, the constitutional were effected.
workers changes industrial
and specialists here today of Opposition to
to the Government
industrial possi- bill may force Prime Minister the vast Johannes G. Strijdon to dis- bilities created by the Soviet achievements in
solve Parliament and put the Union's plantations pro- ducing tea, rubber, copra, fruit issue to the country-France-the use of atomic energy for and so on.Reuter,
peaceful purposes.
Presse.
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He said a beginning had been made with the new energy supply and possibilities had been creat- ed for the preparation and use of various radioactive isotopes, the Soviet news agency, Tass, reported.
iLr the construction of the Kuibyshev, Gorky and Stalin grad power stations, instruments with radioactive cobalt bad. been used in the dredgers and this increased the productivity of the machines by 20 per cent,
he said
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He added, according to Tess, that the wide use of isotopes meant radical changes in technological processes.
APPEALTM
many
Fresh treat was reported In Casablanca extreme nationalist parties ordered all bus operators to stop work
Friday. They also decreed an eight day stoppage of work in all public bath establishments.
One French moblie Ferd soldier
shot dead. and was another wounded central
Casablanca today.
in
Unveils Memorial
King Bandonin salutes during the unveiling orremony of a' special memorial built at Liege, Belgium, to the memory of the men who died in the Resistance TELOVEIDEN -- Express Phola,
Princess
Visiting
Margaret
Germany
Bonn, May 19.
Princess Margaret will receive the good wishes of a newly sovereign West Germany when she arrives for her two-day visit on Monday.
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When Princess Margaret came here last year, Western Germany was still occupied and not then allied to Britain.
The British have informed Dr Theodor Heuss, the West Ger- man President, that the sister of Britain's Queen is on her way but as it is a strictly private Ty affair the Germans will play little part in the visit.
GOOD
WISHES
Dr Hess will convey his good wishes to the Royal visitor through his Secretary of State, DT Mantred Kalber and the Federal the Government" through Chiat of Protocol, Dr Ernst Mohr, who will greet the Princess at the Wahn air- port near Cologne.
The Princess, who is relying good weather for her largely out of doors activities here, will in Tuning Suret Nationale be attended by two extraordinary agents arr
arrested today Bechir aides de camp from her own Bazidi, an outlaw leader who, two regiments out here. the French said, attempted to reorganise a
Algerian nalist terrorist |
band near
be Lieutenan to They are
of close to the Richard Wilson
Romsey, Hampshire, from the 1st Bat- talion the Suffolk Regiment, and Captain Michael Dewey of the 3rd Hussars, who comes from Farnham, Surrey. Captain Dewey was ADC to the Princess on her last visit bere.
They also captured Hassen el nicknamed "Sheikh Rassen" who is credited with the savage murder of three pro French Tunisians on March 24 at the head of his terrorist gang
United Press.
Disarmament
Agreement Possible
London, May 18.
Mr Selwyn Lloyd, Britain's Defence Minister, said in an election broadcast tonight the West's efforts for a disarma ment agreement with Russia looked like "bearing fruit." The "nain matter outstanding seemed to be the machinery to ensure that an agreement was carried out, he said.
ADJOURNED
Lieutenant Wilson, who is a regiment in Malaya, where it
the
Thousands
Left In N.. Vietnam
Yalta Documents
RUSSIA BLAMES AMERICA
Moscow, May 18. The first Soviet attempt to refute the Yalta docu- ments published by the State Department earlier this year, was made by Moscow's top political magazine Inter- national Life today.
The magazine quoted docu- ments from the "Potsdam, and Teheran conferences and several other top-level International "meetings in
prove:
attempt to
1. The Soviet Union was not responsible for German partition
2. The Sovies Union, was, not. apposed to re-establishing France as a great power,
GREAT IMPORTANCE Diplomatic quarters here attached great. Importance to the article which followed on-the heels of the conclusion of "The Austrian State Treaty, which was signed at Vienna last Sum- day.
These quarters said the. Ger- man problem has now become the most important on the European Agenda.
They said the Soviet Union is taking advantage of every chance
show 'France should remain friendly to the Soviet Union.
TO
a
to
The article said the United States and not the Soviet Union bad urged the partition of Ger- many and relegating of France Paris, May 18.
subordinate position. Thousands of people eager to Diplomatic quarters here re- escape Communist rule were called that the Communist Party. reparted to have been left betone of the publication of the
newspaper
criticised the Pravda hind in North Vietnam today Yalta documents in an issue last on the expiry of a migration March 20 but did not then elite programme arranged under the documents aimed against the terms of the Indo-China armis-allegations made by the State
Department-France-Presse.
Lice.
Britain tried in vain on May ↑ to secure Soviet support for
an extension of the programme which
some 700,000
SK
people cross into South Viet- nam rather than live under the Communist Government of Ho Chi Minh
There have been claims that 400,000 other Vietnamese, most of them Roman Catholica, wanted to leave but were un- able to get away because of Communist obstruction: Red
ter.
CURIOUS DEATH
**
OF PREACHER
Accident Or Murder?
New York, May 18.
Consultative
Status For Veterans
United Nations, May 18, The United Nations Economic and Social Council decided by vote of 16 to 2 body to grant full consultative
World Veteran Federation and nins other ndes=
governmental organisations, Inchking the ternatiboal Confederation of Free
World Trade Unicus,
Federation of Trade Unions and the International Chamber of Cornmerte
The Soviet Union, which is not a member of the World Veterans
Organisation, against
voted the proposal together with Czechoslovakia
KIMTIED STATUS
The World Veterans Federa- tion formerly held a limited consultative status together with
A Coroner's Jury began an investigation to- 100 other non-governmental day of the curious death of a Negro Baptistions,
The Federation comprises 18 preacher whom the National Association for the million veterars in 121 branch Advancement of Coloured People claimed was killed organisations scattered through because he refused to surrender his right to vote.
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out 29 countries,
It's · Honorary President, France's Ex-President Vincent
regular officer, served with his
killed more bandits than any
A Justice of the Peace, Mr is investigating his death as | Auriol, was expected, to speak other British regiment there,
at a meeting of the Economie These two officers, along with J. W. Wampler, sald on inquest, well as the FBI."
and Social Couneti this after- Princess
The Justice Department in own permanent delayed two days by absent Jury
cailed to Washington said ADC Captain Michael Dawney, members, would be
that the FBI❘ noon, of the Coldstream Guards, wit through available evidence was making a preliminary in- The Federation, which has
which might explain whether wear the special lanyard of a the Rev. G. W. Lee was killed vestigation to determine whether its headquarters in Paris, will
any violation of the Federal civil rights laws might be in volved United Press,
ם!
Royal, ADC on their shoulders during the visit.
a traffic crash or died of
shotgun wounds.
B
One of their jobs will be to Mr Lee, 51, died on May 7 present to the Princes young after his car crashed tuto officers who wish to dance with house in the heavily populated her at the 3rd Hussars ball at Negro district of the Mississippi Iserlohe on Tuesday.
delta town of Belzoni Specf- mens of his fesh and metal particles found imbedded in the victim were examined in an FBI Laboratory.
men.
Princess Margaret will pre-
the Suffolks sent colours to Monday and watch a gymkhana with the 3rd Hussars on Tues-
ACTIVE IN ́ DRIVE day. The gymkhana will have Mr Leo bad been active in a dismounted as well as moimted drive to register more Negro of a local events in which all the Reg voters in Bellance
and "Citizen's Council," one of many WOID.Com
found throughout the South, whose avowed aim is to courage Negro registration.
In Birmingham,
Alabarna, Mrs Ruby Jurley, regional NAACP Secretary said, "The Rev. Lee was of course killed was active in the NAACP He and was one of the few Negroes who registered to vote,
Earlier today it was announced mental
that the Ave-cation secret children can take part-jumping disarmament conference here and racing, sack Faces and egg ... attended by Britain, the and spoon races, United States, Russia, France and Canada. had adjourned until June 1. Then it will
The conference
15
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by appealing
workers to
and
ended today Russian to
with the
Mr
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17 Requirements "[5),
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dia away
fuifl shortcomings five-year production plan ahead of schedule, Tass saki
Moscow radio reported that M Nikita Khrushchev, Secre tary of the Communist Party, addressed the final meeting of the three-day conference.
Bil-
On Monday Marshal ganin, Russlan Premier criticised the shortcomings of Soviet heavy industry at the conterence and announced top-
of level reorganisation economic planners.
SHORTCOMINGS
Today the Minister of the Chemical Industry, Mr Sergel Tishomirov admitted that con- siderable. shortcomings - existed· in his industry..
He said, according to Tars, that the stagnation and routine -prevalent among some workers must be eliminated and com- plained that the Ministry of Machine and Apparatus Build- ing was not devoting sufficient attention to the production - of up-to-date equipment for the chemical industry-Bouter,
meet in New York.
The Princess will spend buth rights of her slay at the house of Brigadier and Mrs R. H. Lloyd, formerly Britain's Batten, commander of the 5th
Infantry Brigade. représentative on the Com mission, pledged that Britain On Wednesday, after the ball, would never give up our she will drive to Guterslom efforts to obtain an agreement Boyal Air Force station, from which will include the com-where she will fly back to Lon- plete prohibition of all nuclear con in a Viking of the Queen's
Flight China lail Special, weapons."-Reuter.
He was told by the White Citizens Council to remove his name from the voting list," Mrs "The NAACP Hurley said. legal department in New York
CHURCHILL ACCUSED OF MAKING
SILLY STATEMENTS
Chorley, Lancashire, May 18.
Clement. Afflec, Labout Mr
Parly lender, tonight rebuked Sir Winston Churchill for statementys making... “slily about Labour's polley over the - hydrogen bomb
Sir Winston Churchil, be said, thought if an “exizsardinarily ** ailly idea” that Tabeer khoala I suggest that there should be na more experiments with the hydrogen bomb.: and that I
was silly to make the bomb Gand not experiment with it.
WELL KNOWN · "Ent the fact is that we know perfeally well. Use destrga, UTD power of the hydrogen
Pope-Attice said. "What|
haps in parts of the Belish Commonwealth and in Romis spiläere is a great danger of pallating OOK atmosphere with offocia "on thin bunten on race
animals, and on vegetall
CAISE
welentiate
de nos gulle know i Afri Allice said Labour was
right in flag migreriion" be that the effect of tie, ex- plosions by the experiment of Tumber of hydrogen bombs is going to do to the world. "M: you have experimenta: going on in the Unlléd States-per-
themselves did not prutes to know what the exact, results of the H- bomb experimenta would be.
FEEL FITTER·
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