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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1955.
America may speed-up combat Princess At
Rockefeller Coming To
Hongkong
UFS
Mr John D. Rockefeller 11.
plane output
AIR FORCE ASKS FOR ADDITIONAL $60,000,000
Washington, June 6.
Defence Secretary Mr Charles E. Wilson said today that the Defence Depart- ment is considering a speed-up of combat planes besides the B-52 jet bomber, presum- ably jet fighter craft.
Asserting that the Department is "taking a very good look at everything we
Palace Fair
Princess Margaret talks with Mrs Gerald Lascelles, wile of her cousin, at a charity fair in St James's Palace, The Princess wore a low-cut scooped neckline, full skirted. emerald
taffeta dress, with a tiny matching hat swathed with white mousseline.—Express Photo. Tekyo, June 6, do," Mr Wilson said specifically that pro- prominent American industrial-duction of the F-100 Super Sabre could be.
ist, arrived hern by air from the
United States on a tour of the speeded up. He said, however, that the Air
Fur Fast. He was accompanied Force has "not yet" recommended such
by his wife, son and daughter.
He was scheduled to visit Hongkong and Manila after com.
two-month pleting a Japan-Reuter.
that el
EXPEDITION
TO FIND
LOST TRIBE
The
Darwin, June 6. Australian Native
action.
Mr Wilson made the statement deliveries of the B-52 bombers similar at a news conference after going after formations of a Letere a Senate "Appropriations | Soviet bember were sighted over Subcommittee to seck a $356,- Moscow. The aim is to provide 000.000 increase in House a force of about 500 B-52's by i approved defence funds to speed some time in 1958, deliveries of the B-52, an in- tercontinental hydrogen bomber. NOT PUBLIC
Mr Wilson and' top Air Force officials also requested 560,000,000 more than the House voted to speed avia- tion research and develop- ment work. Their secret testimony Wik not made public.
The Air Force recently ordered
cent per
increase
Affairs Department 2017- a *35 nounced today that it was planning an expedition into
an almost unknown part of Fugitive From
the western desert in the
Northern Territory (appro- ximately Central Australia) to locate an oasis probably inhabited by "missing
tribe."
The most recent clues on this tribu came last week, when twe aborgines, claiming to have been banished from their
walked
into
Chain Gang
Author Dead
East Orange, N. J., Jute 6.
in
M Robert Elliot Burns: home, author of the famous book. "I the Yuendummu Was a Fugitiv: From a Georgia Native Affairs Settlement, nort-Chain Gang," died today at the west of Alice Springs.
Velerons Hospital here, follow-
EXCELLENT SPECIMENS jinga kong illness,
топ.
These two men-excellent He was 65 years old. Mr physical specimens said their Burns, where book was made tribe had seen only one white into a sqsational motion plc- William ture, escaped from a Georgia thought to be Brailing, a gold prospector, who, shall geog twice to which he in 1938, first "round" the tribe. had been gencreed for partici- Questioned today in Aliceating in an armed robbery of Springs on his venture of 17 $5 from a greedy store,
years ago, Mr Brailing described
The Defence Department originally asked for $6,100,000,- 000 for aircraft procurement in the new Ascal year 1956 begin- ning July 1. The Houre trimmed to the figurs by $150,000,000 $5,950,000,000.
Mr Wilson and the Air Force officials asked the Senate to
restore the House reductions and add $206,000,000 mere for
a
new total of $6,306,000,000 to
take account. of the accclersted B-52 programım 2.
Present Soviet Policy
BREAK GERMANY OUT OF FREE NATIONS
UNION
Washington, June 6.
Dr Henrich von Brentano, the West German Foreign Minister-designate, said in an interview published today that the real meaning of present Soviet policy was to try to break Germany out of the union of free nations and finally to push the United States out of Europe.
The new timetable would ad-
Dr ven Brentano in the in-.. vance the B-52 programme terview published by the about a year.
magazine US News and World
The Subcommittee Chairmas Report, predicted that the Soviet
he would
Mr Dennis Chaves, said feels certain Congress Will upprove the additional funds.- Losted Press.
VATICAN ACTION AGAINST
NOVEL
Vatican City, June 6. Italian authorities have begun
fall in this aim. LEAD TO ISOLATION
Dr von Brentano sal ke considered every form of neutralisation of Germany as unacceptable.
"The neutralisation of Ger- many would irrevocably lead to isolation and thereby draw Ger-
into the steam of Bolshe
he said.
Speaking of Germany's alleged choien hetween reunification and,
a divided Germany. Dr von
MEMORIAL
SERVICE TO
AIRBORNE
TROOPS
Paris, June 8.
Brentano said: "Reunification - Only 60 British relatives were only has a scund and really at Ranville, Normandy, today for durable value for the Germana mimorial people when they know that this reunified Germany can live in absolute security and without any potential danger to its tree dem.
"In other words, reunification itself is only a hollow phrase long as it is not spelled out sequences."-Reuter.
service to airborne troops killed in the Normandy landing 11 years ago the other 50 who were to have come weze kept at home by the rail strike.
The ceremony was held to pay. homeage to the 2,000 men buried in Ranville cemetery half
the tribe as friendly but timid. His back and the movie made Earlier he had reported dis- frem it was one of the factors covering deep, fresh streams which led to the abolition of flowing in a grassy valley ihahain zangs in Georgia in 1949- legal action against the novel, at the Northern Territory i restercä im Georgia in 1945 "The Keys of St Peter," byes to its ultimate factual con- mile from where the first. Bri-:
mounta, range, near the border Mr Burns' civil rights were
France-Presse.
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French author, Reger Peyrenite,
the Vatican newspaper Qзser- vatore Remano, announced here today.
Action is being taken "fur offence ag:inst the person of the
Church • sovereign Ponti, the
and religion and fer obscenity." the paper said,
as
'Marry More Wives'
Kampala, June 6. Uganda Africans should marry The newspaper said the work, by a former diplomat who had as many wives as they can afford so as to double Uganda's popula- previously created a controversy on within the next five years, with his novels entitled "The Embassies" and "The End of the President Y. Sekabanja of the Embassies" was "shameful Nationalist Party said at a meet.
ing held here inday. pamphlet."
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He said that the population The work about a young boost would safeguard Uganda's seminarian who comes to the "African nature and combat the Vatican and is engaged in in-spread of "foreign customs," trigues and adventures, is row Uganda does not want an being serialised in a condensed Indian minister or any multi- "version in an Italian weekly. racial government, he said,
France-Presse.
France-Presse.
PI-JapanReparations Agreement Near
Tokyo, June 6.
The Japanese news agency, Kyodo, said today the Philippines and Japan were expected to sign a provisional technical agreement on reparations at the end of this week or early next week.
Kyodo, quoting informed by the next available plane. A sources, said, reparations Foreign Ministry spokesman said negotiations on a technical level he might leave late tonight or here which
opened on March tomorrow.
31 between the Philippines
Japanese press reports said technical panel headed by Mr Cesar Lanuca and the Japanese Mr Urabe would lay the ground- team had reached agreement work for the coming final re- "except on the Bral version of ratiors talks with the Philip
pines. agreed minutes.”, une
The
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tish glider landed on June 6, 1944, opening the Allied invasion of Europe.
This little Norman village was the first to be liberated.
Field-Marshal Viscount Mont- commanded the gomery, who D-Day landings, laid a wreath airborne troops. today on the memorial cross in the grass-
lined cemetery.
NEVER FORGET
He told parents and friends of the men who fell. "I will never forget what happened here on the eastern side of the bridge- head. What went on here was what really mattered.
The spearhead was led by the 6th Airborne Division, the Arst British soldiers to land in Normandy. If this area had been lost there would have been a great disaster in Normandy.
That is why I come here every year in gratitude to those men who gave their lives that
we would not lose
ares"
50
the
Wearing the red beret "of the British Parachute Regiment the Fleld-Marshal chatted with the "D-Day pilgrims" as they walk- ed through the neat lines of white gravestones China Mail Special
Sympathy Strike Threat
Singapore, June 6, Trade arions representing 20,000 water-front workers have served notice that they will on a sympathy strike if the Government fails to settle the 38-day-old strike of daily rated harbour workers, all
Representatives of the unions, a meeting last night, decided to present a joint
to the memorandum
Thiết
at
reports said he would try to from cut with the Philippine reparations chic4NG Felino Neït, remaining differences between the two countries. Tacse in Minister and the Labour Meanwalic Mr Tassio Urabe, cluded the total of reparations Minister today, giving theth acting chief of the Japaneset and the period of payment, the und Wednesday to call for mission in Mandia, is due to ratio of goods and services pay- a settlement of the harbour leave here for the Philippines ments to loans-Router.
workete claipa, ali suited - Press,
CYPRIOT GETS
7 YEARS.
Nie:sia, June 6.
A 20-year-old Cypriot Greek, Panikos Nicolaou, was sentenced on Friday to seven years' imprisonment on charges of preparing to overthrow the Government of Cyprus by armed force.
The youth pleaded guilty to the charges which also accused him of possessing large quantities of expis- sfres five, hand grenades. two land mines and 50 aticks of dynamite which were found under his bed. Nicehou's lawyer, in his address to the Court. the youth pleaded that should not be convicted as a common criminal but, as a political offender. "Ile k a youth who committed the offence because he CUR- siders this island is ruled by foreigners." the lawyer said-China Mail Special.
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