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Crisis Resolved
ST
IR Robert Black's generous BЯнrance that ho will accept the Chief Minister's advice on all constitutional matters, save his right to dissolve the Assembly and to suspend the constitution, should be suficient to re- solve Singapore's political crisis, Mr David Marshall, the Chief Minister, is ob- viously gratified with the
the
concession.
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RIOTERS STORM PRISON
5 States
Flooded:
56 Deaths
New York, Aug. 19.
turn of events, but Singa- A state of emergency porenna, like others else was proclaimed in parts of where, will be puzzled by New York, New Jersey and
ungracious reception which the Opposition has three other states today as given to the Governor's the worst floods in their history poured millions of The Opposition has had
water the muddy
into city effrontery to question the streets and claimed at least good faith behind Sir Ro- 56 lives. bert Black's promise. Mr Marshall, appreciating that he and the Assembly had millions of dollars was reported. obtained a vitally important Widespread flooding followed concession, very rightly as much as nine inches of rain condemned the Opposi in 24 hours in some places, The tion's decision to vote downpour came in the wake of against a motion thanking hurricane Dlane, fourth hurrl- the British Government for cane of the year, which has now
petered out farther north.
concessions on constitutional issues.
The fact that the
Chief
Properly damage estimated in
HELICOPTER RESCUES Helicopters lifted child campers Minister engaged in friend- and adult holiday-makers from ly talks with the Secretary istanda and isolated
spots in of State for the Colonies many parts of New England. An during this last week apormy helicopter was called out pears to have angered the to take passengers from one Opposition parties. They, it stranded train.
ferred
In
acems, would have pre- Many trains were cancelled to brow-beat Mr because of flooded lines, and the Lennox-Boyd-un exercise crack express from Montreal to which, even if attempted, Washington
halted wag would have
atterly Massachussetts, about half way. been
Two trains with 333 passengers futile.
the were stranded overnight In the of Pennsyl- Secretary of State search-vania.
MR Marshall and
Pocono mountains
Beaten Back By Tear Gas
NANTES SCENE OF VIOLENCE
Nantes, Aug. 19.
Rioting French shipyard workers, tonight attempted to storm the city gaol at Nantes on the French Atlantic seaboard, where arrested workers have been incarcerated.
They burst through the main gates of the prison, but were stopped by a heavy iron grille in the inner court. French
Republican Guards launched a counter-attack with tear gas grenades. Other workers hurled stones through the windows of the Nantes law courts shouting: "Free the men in gaol."
demands.
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UN Tackles The Problem Of Juvenile Delinquency
Geneva, Aug. 19.
A United Nations report published today stressed a strengthening of family life and morality as the greatest single factor in the pre- vention of juvenile delinquency,
to
It related the question of horror "cómics" family sense of responsibility and said that the pro- hibition of comics · would not solve the problem. Neither would the "punishment of the parents."
an The 184-page repórt
3. Educational curricula more juvenile dolinquency will be in accordance with the new discussed by the first for
world social role assigned to the school, congress on the provention of
The report stressed the neces-
Wingate story
(continued).
P. 7: Are
Maclean
Burgess responsible
and
the Russian "de-freeze"? Princess Margaret cele- brates her 28th birthday on Sunday,
P. 8: Gordon Ifang, China Mail feature writer, tells -you of the Triad socic-
ties in Hongkong. P. 13: Beverley Baxter deals with the case. of Ruth Ellis and discussÉS the question of capital punishment, P. 16 & 17:
overseas sports news,
Local and
Prison Experiment
Succeeds
New York, Aug. 19, Sergeant James Gallagher was sentenced to life impri- sonment with hard labour here today by a court mar- tial which found him guilty of killing two fellow Ameri- can servicemen in a Commu- I crime and treatment of ofegally for taking into account
nist Chinese prison camp.
which opens here
or national charac- under United Nations regional
in the formulation of auspices. The
will teristics congress concentrato on problema
policies and programmes, of juvenile delinquency, and will It eccommended clarification be attended by about 500 dele. of suos fundamental questions gates from 50 countries, mostly as the definition of Juvenile de workers in fields of crime pre-inquency, which has different
vention.
The eight-man court took almost Ave hours to reach the verdict, but only 20 minutes to fix the sentence, which is the maximum penalty for unpre- mealed murder.
Colonel Harmon Broyles, the court president, announced that
The would be dishonour-
report indicated that, meanings in different countries and sometimea even in different Galligher
speaking, generally
juvenile
parts of the mme country. Ago ably discharged from the Army
delinquency was virtually non limits applied in judging juvenile would forfeit all pay and
existent in tribal communities allowances.
and increased with the rate of delinquents also varied greatly. a country's economic develop ment.
and
Gallagher, 23, of Brooklyn
four? was
guilty on four involving charges
tho un- premeditated
mis- murder, treating
informing on andi fellow prisoners of war in a prisoner of war camp in North Korea in 1951, and collaborating with his Communist captors. He was accused of throwing follow prisoners out into the freezing cold and leaving them to die.
Police riot squads went into action to clear the square in front of the prison and law courts.
Industrial unrest at the sea-1 duress and locked the workers port of Nantes came to a head out of the shipyards and fac- earlier this week, when workers tories. invaded a building where wage
About 60 Republican Guards proceeding and
demonstrators
in- negotiations were
were and forced the employers dele-hired
when the yesterday, gates to agree to their wage workers tried to fight their way
o the factories, Later in the evening, events took
an even Braver tum when about a thousand workers attempted to storm the heavily guarded police headquarters. have put away their guns-of comrades in a prison camp
Strikers tore up paving the last prison in this coun- stones from the **Street of
The court found Gallagher not guilty of the death of a third Fifty Hostages" and bombarded try to stop using firearms.
The commissioners who run soldier, and of a charge that he the policemen with the prothe nation's prisons revealed bad told his captors, in connec- jectiles.
This today. In their report for tion with another sergeant, that last year. The prison governor "If I was in your place. I would
meant an in-shoot him." |said the change and
trust"
Subsequently, the employers anabunced they would not ac- cept an agreement signed under
ed for conciliation and "In Pennsylvania's anthracite TRAIN DISASTER
found it. Their discussions, coat region every mine was produced positive results flooded,
to the ultimate:
favourable realisation mand for full self-govern- ment. The Assembly s whole
The rainstorms spread north- of popular de- cast in the wake of hurricane Diane. New Yorkers Werc worned to expect p weekend
a heat wave to follow the rains.—
should feel grateful Reuter.
to Mr Lennox-Boyd and the
Chief Minister, for the out- come of their meetings has
been firstly, to clear up a Import Quotas
delicate misunderstanding
over interpretation of constitution,
the
and secondly.
to win the approval of the.
de-
the
Demand
4 Killed,
Injured
fast
30
1
New York, Aug. 19. Foar carriages of
Florida-bound train jumped the rails today, kill- ing four people and injuring at least 30 more.
of
Demonstrator Killed
Nantes, Aug. 19. One demonstrator killed tonight during riots at Nantes. -France-Presse.
was
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Late tonight, the dull thug of tear gas bombs being exploded the police in self-defence could be heard in various quar- the city. France-
by
United Kingdom govern-
Washington, Aug. 19. The last four carriages of the ment for a Singapore
13-car train became deralled,
The police retallated by ex- Mr A. K. Winget, President legation to visit London of the American Cotton Manu-according to one observer, with ploding tear gas bombs and two
the carriages being workers were severely injured. next year to discuss poss- facturers Institute, demanded one
against two goods Crowds of young rioters meen- ible revision of the con- today a "positive
programme of smashed
while poured through the stitution.
textile Import quotas by the wagons parked on a siding,
The train was the Kansas adjacent streets, smashing Neither of these concessions United States Government to
City Florida special of the windows and street lamps, could have been won if Mr meet foreign competition.
re- Frisen Railway. followed His statement Marshall or Mr Lennox-
the ports from Tokyo that
At least 21 passengers were Boyd had approached
and textile sent to hospital. Japancic gov
government
A dozen were treated at an subjects in an embittered Industry leaders were seeking frame of mind. The con- what they termed "Indiscri- emergency hospital set up in a ters of
church near the crash.-Reuter. Presse. stitutional issue created by minate" exports of textiles by the Governor's refusal to Japan to the Uciled States and increase ministerial offices Canada. Canada is the No. 1 required a thoughtful and calm approach if differences were to be satisfactorily composed, and quite clearly this was the atmosphere in which the subject was treated this week.
J
market for US textiles,
Mr Winget said it was
ronical to us that the Japan- ese realise the perilous nature of the current situation while our own State Department falls completely to
recognise trogle realities."--Reuter,
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Public Mass Executions
In
Ethiopia
Hargeisa, British Somaliland. "Aug. 19.
London, Aug. 19, Warders al Dortmoor, Britain's toughest gaol,
crease of between goolers angun guards
convicts. For many years, "gun have accompanied many of the parties of prisoners who go to work outside Dartmoor, grim prison for Britain's worst
the
THE FIRST Gallagher was the first Ameri- can to be accused of the murder
in the Korean war,
The trial was at Fort Jay on harbour. Governors Island in New York Three colonels, far lieutenant-colonels and a major formed the court-Reuter.
criminals amid the Swirling Emergency In
mists of the Devon moors.
Their purpose was "to net as against escaping," a deterrent the report said.
Sudan Declared
London, Aug. 19. A state of emergency in the southern provinces of the Sudan was proclaimed today following the mutiny of three companies of the Sudan Defence Force yesterday, the Sudan
agency In London stated.
The
Sir Governor-General, Knox Helm, who is on holiday Scotland, issued the pro- clamation today.
NOT EVEN NOTICED Gun guards were withdrawn in March Last year and the prison governor had reported that he believed even the prl- soners did not noilee they had gone "for close on a week."
The governor added: change had been the prisoners and staff as ain token of the times and has, am cure, contributed to an in- ercase in res
The
The by accepted
and in
trust....
Compers
showed that Britain's
report prison
population dropped to 21,200
at the end of last year the lowest figure for five years.
The report said there were fewer escapes from prisons last year-but no figures of break- outs were given.
-China Mall
The government information department here said today that refugees from Ethiopia had reported that pre-Special, parations were being made for further public mass execu tions of Somalis at Jigjigs, Genasenei and Elamhar in Ethiopia.
Seven Somalis
were report [four years following a disturb-
ed to have been publicly hang-ance over luxation In which an
ed
a week ago at Jigliga, on Ethiopian policeman was killed. the borders of the area which
He is returning immediately ts London. Reuter.
Police Officers
Wounded
Rabat, Aug. 19. Two French police inspectors ware seriously wounded when they were ambushed this even- ing at Kenitra where rioting
Heavy Casualties occurred earlier today, it was officially stated here. The names of the men have not yet been Casablanca, Aug. 19. Police reported tonight that revealed,
Kenitra is a small town about 24 people were killed and 70 wounded In Kenitra ond 83 miles from Meknes in the Casablanca during riots on the middle Atlas plateau region. of the seven injured when a mob of Sultan of Morocco, Moroccan youths ran amok #
.town's European" quarters to Mohammed Ben Yussef-Reu- the
iter.
morning-France-Presse,
WRES handed back to Ethioplu A Somali delegation leaves earlier this year
after being next week, for the United Na- eve of the second anniversary Four Moroccans were killed and under British administration tions General Assembly in Now of France's deposition
York to petition against the former since World War II.
The hanged men were sold to return of the territory have been kept in prison for Ethiopia.-Reuter.
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It said: "In a society where stancias on
and competition ceonomic success are considered social Ja having paramount
Importance, It would seem that measures intended to strengthen the family should have
device, A counter-balancing moral rather than an economic character...
LACK OF RESPECT
attf- "The general tolerant lude, vis-a-vis certairi practices in business or social rentions, the lack of respect for the law and the belief that everything. even infractions can be fixed' influence family morals and strength.
The report mld that "the" prohibition of 'comics, although often recommended, will not by liselt, solve the problem,
"Any solution shoul take into account the conditions of Ife which produce make
them
possible, comics and "Punishment of the pares" was another question relatext to of the family,
the
the
Available data did not make It possible accurately to state the extent of juvenile delinquency in the world.
It appeared that the number of delinquent boys was almost always higher than the number of girls, often by as much. 95 five to one-Router,
FIRE CAUSED BY
SABOTAGE
Singapore Aug. 1969 Fire Chief Me J.Aprus” sajā today that a dre in a coak els-.. vator of the strikebound gas works manifed by British troops. was "undoubted satiologe."
He
added that
thebad evidence the rebus had com- |plete knowledge of the layout
of the gas station,"
Police said that either petrol or paraffin was used to start the blaze which was brought under control in 30 minutes before STOTH exteru've damage.
the strike by
ed, adding deanwhile,
many Case}
"although Juvenile delinquency is the re-more than 8,000 City Council salt of parental delinquency or workers pasond its third day parental neglect, it seems dif- quietly, except for the are.
United Press, cult to draw a gene:ad conclu- alon that punishment of parents Is an adequate general measureP for the strengthening of the family or the prevention of juvenile delinquency,"
The report said that the school should be able to supplement or reinforce the functions at- tributed to the family.
THREE SUGGESTIONS In respect of the school, the report suggested;
1. Participation of medical, psychological and social wel tare services ensuring the direct co-operation of psycholo- glibs and psychiatrists, sccial werkers and counsellors.
2. Adequaty ratio.
PLANE CRASHES INTO MOUNTAIN.
A
Hawthome. Nevadi, Aug. 19.
Air twin-engined C-47 Force transport engaged on a
Air
training secret mission slammed into a moun tain top today and burst into flames, killing all seven crew members aboard.
ICECUC
The plane mashed into a 6,000-foot, rock-studded peak In the Gillis Mountain range teacher - pupil and virtually disintegrated.---
United Press.
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