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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1955.
BELGIAN PREMIER'S SON King Hussein
TIGHT ROPE ATTACKED
RECORD
Stockhobe, June 19.
A Swedish variety artist, Allan Lundberg today set up a new world tight rope record in the Pleasure Park of the Battle resort of Seederhamā.
He balanced on his rope for 34 hours, alternatively standing and sitting on kitchen staci. The rope was stretched about six feet above the ground and Lundberg had placed TE electric radiator under 11, to keep him warm through the night
The previous record of 33 hours and 30 minutes was held by a German, Wilhelm Heegel, Spectal.
China Mail
New Demonstrations
Over School
Reform Legislation
POLICE INTERVENE
Ostend, June 19.
Rioting Catholics demonstrating against a Government school reform bill
Norwegians today attacked Frans van Acker, son of
Prepare For Queen
Official Visit
Oslo, June 19.
EVERY hotel in Oslo i ke
and the city is getting more risitors than during the 1952 winter Olympics as it prepares to welcome Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh on Friday.
Norwegians, determined to give the young Queen a greas welcome, on her first sovereign visit to a country outside the Commonwealth, ате buying
huge quantities of Union Jacks medels "WELCOME"
and
bearing portraits of the Royal couple.
Main street shops "are vying one
another
windows with "greetings" displays, and
one Leading baker has produced 'a'five-tier cake surmounted by a croon and decorated with Tudor roses and royal emblems,
SPACE RESERVED
Belgium's Prime Minister, while he was sitting quietly in a quayside cafe in this port city.
A plainclothes policeman rushed to Mr van Acker's aid. The mob, screaming slogans, insults and anti-Government wrecked the cafe and smashed its windows in the free-for-all.
and
A patrol of State Troopers | was sitting in one of the cates
the braw! intervened in
watching the demonstrators "when Mr van Acker to escorted safety. He was not injured.
the "
STREET PARADE Nearly 25.000 Catholics were parading down wide street which parallels the harbour of this terming English Channel gateway to Europe. The cobbled street. is lined with cafes along narrow pavements,
minor The Premier's
son, a
Gift Of Boom
a group from ble home town, nearby Bruges recognised him,
They rushed toward him and tried to force him to join them in their protests against the Social-Liberal Government at tmply at school reform "which
would slash Government subsidy
of Catholic schools.
Brawling broke out when Mr van Acker cfused.
Mr Later,
a Stambroack,
Union local and member of the Demonstrating Organising Com→ nuttee, collapsed and died of a heart attack in the parade,
*
In Spain
King Hussein of Jordan and Queen Dioa, who are on an official, visit to Spain, are pictured here with General Franco (right) when they attended a bull-fight in Madrid,
Queen Dina wears a mantilla.-Express Photo...
Mystery Ships Near Philippines
OPERATION
Manila, June 19.
Special Rail Coach For
Royal Children
British
London, June 19.
French Elections
Most Senators Are Being Returned
By Harold King
Paris, June 19. Most outgoing members of the French Council of the Republica (upper house) appeared certain of re-election as results for 123 sexts con- tested today flowed in from Metropolitan France. The seats of 30 other Senators were also con- tested today in French overseas territories.
M. Maurice Bourges-Manhoury, the Interior Minister, announced [tonight that the 123 seats
Metropolitian France contested
In
in today's Senate elections had been Alled as follows,
Communists one (lões" of
000).
Socialists 3 (gain of unt). Other left wingers one (gain of one)..
Radicals 32 (gain of three): Popular Republicans
(gal of one).
Gaulliste (loss of four). Conservatives 41 (loss
one).
GOVERNMENT SUPPORT
M Bourgea Mau-oury mặt the remite showed sup- port among the electorate for the Government, Blekty-! five Senators of the 133 had been re-elected.
Conservatives 85 (36).
Social Republicans (Gaul- liate) 47 (19).
Popular Republicans (Ca- tholic) 20 (12).
Overseas Independents
(2).
Socialists 58 (30). Communists 16 (3). Non-party 3 (2).
(Normally 160 seats are con- Only 159 candidates are stand- tested in mid-term elections.
ing this time as French Incija has been transferred to the In- odian Union and no longer hos a
representative).----Reuter.
UGANDA
MISSION FULFILLED
Kampala, June 19.
Among the successful can÷ didates were the President of the Senate, M. Gaston, Monner- vite, (Radical), M. Jean Berthoin, (Radical), Minister of
Five members
of the Education and M. Roger Duchet, Minister
of Reconstruction Uganda National Congress (Conservative).
delegation, who travelled to Full results of 30 seats, re- London to demand In-
presenting overseas territories, dependence for Uganda,
were stili awaited.
Voters are
voters returned here today.
and
The Manila Chronicle reported today that "suspicious" ships had been calling at the small islands west of the Philippines which an American
Only some 52,000
They said that although the businessman is passing off as the Kingdom of A new Royal railway coach took part in the election of the
Senators whose six-year term British Colonial Secretary, Me designed specially Humanity.
for of office had expired. Half the Mr Alan Lennox-Boyd, declined Prince Charles and Princess 330 members of the Coumell to receive them,
em, they were The Chronicle said the Kingdom thus poses a Anne is being built at the are renewed every three years satisfied that their mission had
been fulfilled. They saw Mem of works railway
regaresentatives
bers of Parliament and, others, in decorating their provincial government official, leader of the Christian Trade "threat" to Philippine security.
at Wolverton, Buckingham-local assemblics and municipal bers forward their view that
comcils in both Finance and ***
and put Quoting "highly placed"shire, it was stated tonight. overseas provinces of Algeria
must achieve completa Malacanang official, the "news-
by 1960. Martinique. Reunio
They demanded that in the paper said that
of French East at one time Technicians are working seven various parts
new Legislative Council, which three
10 unidentified ships were days a week complete the and West Africa.
comes into existence on July 1, seen unloading
'coach" before the Royal Family cargo at the
Six other
Senators will be the 30 Unofficial Members should leave by train for their Scottish elected next month by Deputies be all Africans elected by the biggest of the islands,
holiday at Balmoral in August. the
of
National Assembly. people by universaż adult Three will represent Morocco, anchise. The Manila police arrested
About 50 craftsmen are and the remainding Frenchmen Morton Meads, self-styled "Con-
· gaged in building this luxury sul" of the Kingdom of Humani-coach and 'experts from private ty on Friday on a contplaint fans have made it reproof and London, June 19,
involving sale of 3,600 dollars soundproct. Washington, June 19. present proposes to
of worthless stocks. He was rê- Egypt with boom
Dr Ralph defence
majority. E. Lapp, the leased on a bond for $2.500 bail. equipment at. Adibaya, in the The show window of a liberal atomic scientist, said to- was shattered by day that the recent civil former Suez Canal Zone, worth newspaper
£21,000 sterling, according to a rocks thrown by the marchers British
Government
White and strong police forces had to defence test carried out in States termed bar all access to Socialist Party the United Paper..
It says the British Cover- local headquarters, where "Operation Alert,” was OuL ment is seeking parliamentary hundreds pro-Government of date before it started
Crowds flocking into the city from the provinces and abroad are posing the city police such a problem that they will probably have
call in to reinforcements from the countryside. A special space has been reserved for English children in Town Hall Square for Friday. Nearby the 82-year-old King Haakon of Norway will wel- come his English great niece and her husband at a quayside pavilion hung with purple draperies.
Dist
Defence Equipment
Britain
were
0
GHENT INCIDENTS
Meanwhile, several minor Incidents were reported Irem Ghent, where similar Catholle deraonstra tion paraded this afternooi, A Socialist alderman roughed up by demonstr tors who recognised him among the onlookers.
of
Socialist..
ALERT
OBSOLETE
top-
It has four bedrooms, the inner Royal rooms being for the children, and there is a bathroom and nursery.
now
But the Chronicle said ranking authorities are interested in the security prob- lem which the islands of the
Kingdom peses,
his
The panelling of the rooms is walnut, for polished Australian Queensland maple and English
Sycamore.
14
Meads, the Chronicle quoted
Mr A E. Peters, Works Super- The Royal couple's three-day approval of the gift by June 23. militaris were ready for battle. (because it did not conside the authorities as saying
A Foreign Office spokesman At several places demonstrators the menace of radioactive only
was intendent, was to have re- will include several
"incidental" to the been were pelted with tomatoes and drives through the city, trips said Egypt had already
case, tired last year but he hopes to to see the Viking ships and informed of Britain's intention. etes by
counter-ashes.
The American is believed to see the Royal coach completed the Kon Tiki raft on the out-
Shore. installations and | demonstrators.
But be added that the best have concocted the Kingdom to under his charge. skirts, visila to the National buildings of the boom depot at
business, The rioting recalled furious in which President Eisenhower promote
He recently visited Bucking- parti. Theatre
Adibaya 01. Saturday, the
transferred to demonstrations in Brussels last and his Cabinet members took cularly his sale of literature on ham Palace with materials for English church on Sunday and Egypt under the Anglo Egyptian March 28 Over the Same part had a good "psychological | sex and marriage through the Queen to choose for the Royal
October, to the British and Norwegian agreement ..of
1954, problem.
in The Foreign Minister impact"
children's coach. ̈--- awakening the postal money orders,
China Mail
war memorials.
which terminated British oc-himself, Mr Paul Henri Spaak, piste
Special to the need for civil
DID NOT REALISE They will lunch on Sunday et cupation of the Canal Zone, led the Government counter-❘ defence.
the Crown Prince's country The White Paper published demonstrators thea. — United
He did not realise that a home. The only uncertain states that it has proved in Press,
search for the Kingdomn factor in the plans now is possible to sell the boom
would furn up islands the weather, but sunshine is equipment, and that it would
suspected of being a base reported on the wayfrom be uneconomic
for an Internationaă erime syndicate, the Chronicle said.
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Mishap. 10 Smoke, 12 Roster, 14 Release, 17 Tale, 19 Scarlet 20 Chapter, 22 Rose, 22 Seasons, 27 Crusts, 29 Abels, 30 Estate, 31 Eldest, 32 Smerta Down; 1. Demur, 2 Zasel, 3 Tiara, 5 Rext, 6- Floral, T. Eyelet, 9 Possess, 11 Metres, 13 Secrete, 15 Echo, 18 Expert, 19 Lean 20 Create, 23 Ascend, 24 Asses, 25 Orat 23-Scent, 28 Uses.
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Speaking on a television pro- gramme D- Lapp said "Opera- tion-Alert did not test-radio- Its active fallout seriously.
assumptions were obsolete."
8 Killed In planning
Aden Clash
D: Lapp has repeatedly warn— ed of the leng lasting effects of radioactive ashes sifting down over thousands of square miles following the detonation of an atomic bomb.
SMALL ONE
one
It quoted sourpes as saying of the islands in the Humanity group "appeared familiar as the one in which certain fishing boats had been storing their explosives...
The daily said these activities and the proximity of the islands to the Philippines make the islands a "definite threat to rational security."
Adem, Jure 19. Final casualty figures for the 'clash between Aden Protectorate forces and rebellious tribekumen
Wednesday, confirmed bere. He said that a bomb with the today, show that eight people punch of ten million tons of were killed, not ten as stated in | PNT, "which win be a small the Government office's DIE
in a few
could years," Hminary repart,
deposit asher over 300,000 Those killed in the ambush
square miles. A week after the United Press. ashes would still be SO by Rabizi tribesmen were Act-radioactive that no ing Wing Commander Rodney stand more than
Marshall of Paignton, Devon; Flight Lieutenant J. L. Lee of Bardsley, Yorkshire; one Arab officer; two Aden Protectorate levy soldiers and three Govern- ment guards.
It was also stated that two Government guards were misse ing after the clash said to be the area's worst for many years not three as originally report ed. Both returned later. China Mad Special
ns
exposure.
one could
1
BITTER END
ving abroad.
Some... of they didildadeWe have told the whole standing today were elected by world that a multi-racial com- It introduced in proportional representation, and sillution
will be opposed to the Uganda, others had to gain an overall
bitter end," the delegates suid ·
their arrival toy had re-
NO EFFECT The results of the elec= Mots will have no effect on the French political situa- tion. The Senate is slowly raining in indirect influence but its constitutional powers
limited and a de- termined National Assembly can always override any Senate decisions hostile to its original legislation,
is The present Senate
body centre - right strongly composed of (number of seats renewed in brackets).
Radicats 71 (47).
SUDANESE INDEPENDENCE
2 Ministers Removed
From Office
Paris, June 19.
a
Britain's Governor-General in the Sudan has ousted two Sudanese Ministers, who spoke out It did not elucidate further against decisions aimed at giving the Sudan her independence from Egypt, Cairo Radio said today.
They were day or two's ISRAEL'S TURN
He said that such radioactive danger could only be detected by instruments and urged that the Government break its "108 Jaz
po such instruments and order full scale production.
Gaza, June 18.
The Egyptian-Israeli Mixed Armistice Commission today ruled that Israel was to blame for an incident in the Gam area on May 20 when an Israel patrol He ako said that in the fired on Egyptian shepherds
the Minister of Public Works Mohammed Nour Eddine, whose duties will be performed by the Communica- doas Minister, Mubarak Zarrug and the Minister of Animal Husbandry, Bulen Alier, whose job will be taken over by the Health Minister, Dr. Amin, Ea Sayed.
оп
They added that
hurned to Uganda because" "the battle must now be fought here."
Mr Alan Lennox-Bord reply- ing in April to a Congress re- quest to receive such a delc-" gation, said he did not think it would serve any useful purpose. -Reuter.
US-Guatemala Military
Aid Treaty
today
Guatemala City, June 19. Anti-Communist Guatemala Was the 12: Latin American nation to have con- cluded
aid treaty a military with the United States.
US Charge d'Affaires "Thomas Mann and Guatemala's Acting. Foreign Minister Ricardo Quinonez signed the pact yes berday or their respective countries.
A communique issued by the Tureign Ministry described the past as part of US programme to enable ether nations of the hemisphere to carry out im- and help missions
the security of the
maintai Asgjerd.com Republic" Unlied
Press
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"GIDEON GOES TO WAR"
only three Roentger. countera killing a member of their sheep, and four Geiger counters in
civil defence hands-China The Commission met in Gaza Mail-Special
late todayFrance-Presse.
Viscounts Log 57,000 Hours
Los Angeles, June 20,
Mr Peter Masefield, chict ex- ecutive of British European Airwys, said here today that Vickers Viscounts operated by clocked his country had now 57,000 atraift hours and 11,- 500,000 aircraft miles. The turboprop airliners. hod Carmed British, European. Alr« ways, nearly $3 million (£1.- 070,000), he added.ne
appointed.
was
African
and
PREMIERS REQUEST
an official care". 'published, in the Sudan capital of Khartoms, said Prime Minister Komall El Azhari had asked, the. Governor-General, Ble Alexander Behn' to relieve Eddine and Alter of their positions, Eddine
Aller made *mistakes incompatible with their functions, while Azharİ
'attending the Asian
conference held at Indonesia Bandung in
last April the communique said."
Eddine, who was acting Vice- Premier while Azhari was at Bmdung, opposed decisions on
fledged Sudan. indepen Airlines fifth international aeronautical He said the Bristol Britianla
Corporation. Has dence made, by the Parliamen conference Mr Masefield re-img-range turboprop airliner placed orders for five Vickers tary-group and the Steering lated British European Air would figure prominently in Viscount turboprop airliners, Cummitice of Azhart' Unionist ways experience of dying with the world market as a worthy according to authoritative
Party P-Royce Dart turboprop
colleagueof
s believed in Khartoum sourcer here. Viscount
It was Airline
Kew
which
The detailed - contract - is ex- that Endine would quit the essentially "Its first commercial ́service | medium range plane-Reader. „pected to be signed during Unionist bloc to set up a new
with the Vickers Viscount
AN INDIAR ORDER
the coming week: tad the party, simód at merging the V:630 prolotype fyw year ago
Hew Delhi, June 10. airtradit will be delfrered. Suder with Egypt-France- The Governmentioned. India - later next year --Reuter,
In a paper presented before the
OBJA
the
a
The inside story of the fabulous:
Major - General Orde Wingate, "Wingate of the Chindits"
appear exclusively
will
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