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The Litmus Test

7ITH the reopening of the

five-power talks in New York today there begins the Bitmus testing of the Geneva propoasis on international disarmament problems, A chemistry

student would remind us that a blue litmus paper would turn red if dipped in acid, and would be changed back to blue by an alkali. The world then fervently prays that the four East-West plans pro-i pounded at Genova can be converted into an alkaline

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REINFORCEMENTS RUSHED TO MOROCCAN TOWNS

New Outbreaks Of Violence Feared

Casablanca, Aug, 28.

The French High Command today began mov-

or soluble compound, that ing reinforcements into the populous lowland acidic or vituperative towns of Morocco where new anti-French demon- wrangling emerges to dis- rapt proceedings; in short,trations are feared when expected government that the litmus stays blue, changes for the protectorate are announced.

Geneva, It will be recalled,

produced four plans, the

the lcast

Roads leading into Casablanca, Rabat and other were lined with columns of tanks and most dramatic but perhaps large towns

immediately armoured cars moving to take up positions. practicable being that ofį Moroccan and European residents sat by their radio President Eisenhower. But sets for news of French Cabinet decisions on the future it is most important at of the troubled protectorate. this stage મ 8 gesture!

of faith and

trust.

The

of

token Some of

units plan are

WETE carlier towns to the

the reinforcements and many telegraph poles cut that

down, adding to the confusion In the Moroccan comununications network caused by the recent disorder's,

provides for the exchange rushed from the

hilly hinterland when trouble

of "complete blueprints of unexpectedly flared up last military establishments" weekend among the Berber with Russia and for giving tribes. both countries "fuclllties" for aerial photography for each other's territory.

Private cars coming In and out of Casablanca were checked

Police sald highways were still unsafe at night. On the much-used. Carabalanca-Rabaj motorist Was road, a French

by police for unlicensed fire-Injured when a rock was hurled

RUSSIA proposed, as its arms. Tommy gunners Avene of his windzercen. Another cat plan, inspection on a more stationed on all bridges along had its windows broken by limited scale. It envisages highways leading into the great rifleshots.

control points" at ports, port,

The French Conscience Move-

conference that M. Grandval's

rection

of

ย

railway junctions, roads and Informed French quanters saidment, an organisation of Liberal airfields to watch for "dan- agitators, including some Com-residents, wired at a news gerous concentrations" of munists, were urging urban NET military forces. At a later Arabs to follow the example of resignation might be the signal

Morocco-wide inour stage, inspection would be their Berber "brothers" by rising for carried out on a wider scale. agalest French rule if Paris con-

firms the reported offer This is a definite advance resignation of

"We maintain close daily con- the Resident tact with Moroccans and never on previous Soviet AUK General Glbert Grandval.

has tension been so high," gestions although it still re-

spokesman said. jects the Ideal of, complete Qualifted observers said the But he also feared an angry International supervision... sequence of the announcement [outburst from die-hard French Relegated to a lower position of the proposed French changes settlers if the Resident-General be a vital factor in stayed. Many European militias on the Disarmament sub-would

One, 100 Committee business sheet is deciding if new disorders topk, have been formed.

strong, at one of: Casablanca's place.

largest factories, was led by a French engineer known as the "Centurion."Router.

the proposal of Sir Anthony The predominant view was

Eden. Surprisingly perhaps that

only simultaneous or

for it is widely conceded prior announcement. of Sulten that the British plan in a Mohammed Ben Arnfa's re- far more realistic starting placement by a Regency Council point considering the cool would stave off a new wave of Soviet attitude to the Elsen-anti-French disturbances in the hower plan. Sir Anthony town.

seeks a limited experiment

in control of armaments in Europe which

envisages

joint military teams in- specting numbers and dis-;

Too Late?

Was

Other observers said it already too late to offer the positions on either side of Sultan's departure as compensa- the dividing line between tion for the departure of M. East and West, gradually Grandval,

had angered wito ngreed French settlers here by his ad- expanding to an limit.

vocacy of reforms.

The Resident-General has be the ultimate stage where come personally associated, in savings made by reduction Moroccan eyes with the reform limitation of arma- plan and his replacement, even by a liberal successor, would be be hailed as proof of French bad

The

Finally M. Faure proposes

and menta budgets cali turned

over

greatest. Becrecy

to

Surround

con-

develop.

to under-fallh, it is thought. developed countries in the form of economic ald,

In unues addition to the Russian ments at the Sultan's red stone plan mentioned above, theyuxury palace at Rabat, Journ- alists who tried to enter to have also re-proposed

check

that persistent reports Western idea that the arm-

Ben Arata was actively prepar

brusquely by white-turbanned armed guards,

ed forces of all majoring to leave, were turned back

powers be reduced by an agreed percentage. THESE are what the sub- Committee will discussS.

THE

The chief weakness of all;

plans appears to be that

Terrorism

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Destructive Three More Bodies Officials Off

Floods

From Division Street Bridge the swollen Blackstone River rages through. Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The death roll was more than 200 in the destruction which has swept New England in the wake of floods, London Express

INSURRECTION IN CONSTANTINE

Constantine, Aug. 28.

French troops killed 23 Algerian rebels in three clashes today in the Constantine Depart- ment, scene of a bloody attempt at insurrection eight days ago.

The French forces lost one killed and two wounded in the clashes at Ain Mlila, Lanney and Canrobert.

Authorities here said the Department was still in ferment after the "Black Saturday" of August 20, and there were hourly reports of murders, kidnapping and incendiarism.-Reuter.

Explosion Aboard Yacht: 8 Persons Injured

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Cannes, France,, Aug. 28.

A British sailing yacht exploded while refuelling at a dock here today, and eight persons were injured.

The 33-ton Naiad blew up just after her gas tanks were filled with 200 gallons of fuel.

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ROAD DISASTER

Conscription

Period

May Be Cut

London, Aug. 28. Sir Anthony Eden's Government may cut the two-year military draft for 18-year-olds, British news- papers said today.

The

present two-year term may be reduced by up to six months, the papers said. This would put Britain on a par with! France,

It will depend on the outcome

of the disarmament talks at the United Nations and the promised get-together of the

Big Four Foreign Ministers at Geneva, according to the political corres- pondent

of Lord Beaverbrook's mass-circulation Sunday Express..

But whether & cut is made

от not, political commentators agree that service chicts have been stung by recently pub- Icleed stories that drafters were wasting their, time, and a complete overhaul of the mili- tary training system is on the way--United Press.

Recovered To Accept

TWO CHILDREN MISSING

Surrender Of

Mutineers

Khartoum, Aug. 28. Sudan Government officials representative of

LATE THIS MORNING IT WAS the Governor General left OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED THREE here today to supervise MORE BODIES, MAKING A TOTAL OF arrangements for the aur. render of rebellious troops 24, HAD BEEN RECOVERED FROM A in the South Sudan. |MOUNTAIN STREAM AT TAIPO KAU,

Mr W.

H. Like, the NEW TERRITORIES.

Governor-General's adviser,· Me Mubarak Zarroug Sudanese

Ahmed the

Kald

Communications Minister, and

This stream was turned into a raging

Fosha torrent yesterday afternoon after a cloud-

(Office: tropps in the burst on the heights above. A foaming Sudan) went to Jubo, capital; of the southern region, to meet a wall of water rushed down the mountain- delegade from the mutineers

side swamping picnickers on the banks,

Police had recovered 21 bodies last night. This morn-

ing they found three more and ROCKET

by their reckoning two are still

missing.

"

Last night it was reported

who agreed last night to sur-

ronder unconditionally.

The Inst-minute offer to sur- render came several hours after the expiry of a second ultimatum sent by the British" Governor- General, Sir Knox Helm, and as government forces were pre-

mutineers" headquarters at Torit where mutiny broke out 11 days ago.

that 34 were missing but DOCUMENTS paring to move against the

have since been found safe,

Of the 24 drowned, 19 have вест

Identified including a teacher and 11 boys of the St. James Settlement party,

one

adult and six other children,

Police at Yauunati are sul trying to identify five bodies.

Police Search

continue

STOLEN

Deep-rooted differences bé- tween the Moslem north and south were bahind the outbreak, in which some northern officers were killed.

Tokyo, Aug. 28. Japan's top rocket expert, Professor Hideo Itakawd, who only a few days ago announced that he would be able to build to treat the mutineers as inlil- The government has promised

a space artificial #tellite in

More than 40 police aro searching the ATCA ·Bench Marine Police, launch has been posted to Tolo Harbour to search for phy

Thother victims.

search will WILL throughout the

Tokyo metropolitan police day. The St James Settlement said Professor Hokawa of Tokyo party, comprising four teachers University had reported to them and 22 boys, had been on that somebody last night had! wock's tramp

in the grounds of stolen his brief case from his the Talpo

car parked Rural Orphanage.

along Ginza, Tokyo's They were due to retum home No. 1 'street. after the plenic.

"the near future, reported to tary prisoners pending a "full a the police today that his brief and fair investigation of their

caso fea with. valuable evances-Router.

documents and bliry- rocket prints-had been stolen,

a

Professor Itokawa for the last

Schoolteacher's Body Found

Paris, Aug. 28. - The half-clad body of Miss M.

were playing in the few months has been conducting G. Marshall, a young Nocking- They creek when dienster struck.

series of

was found tests with baby" ham schoolteacher, Five survivors told the Strocktta

and "pencil" rockets today in a pine copre off a road. James authorities the tragic He said that if his brief case side near Amlen, 70 miles from story of the fate of their friends was not returned he would be Paris, later,

unable to continue his test--- Router.

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Teacher Identified

The 22 boys were among 55 unemployed Wanchal youths at- fending on annual camp at St Christopher's, Home, Talpo.

The missing foucher of the St James Identlied as

Settlement party was Lum Hung-kun, 17, a trainer,

In the second party there were 17 boys and giris, belonging to families of the Kowloon Canton Railway club,

March To

Downing St.

London, Aug. 28. Nearly 1,000 Greeks and marched through Central Lon- living in Britain. Cypriots,

don tonight to No. 10 Downing Street, where they delivered resolution to Sir Anthony Eden,,

to the Cyprus question was the granting of self-determination,

In the procession Werc children, many

they are very far from fool-activities were reported from proof, particularly against many parts of Morteco in the surprise atomic attack. But past 48 hours. In Casablanca, The yacht was destroyed and t they do offer a more, hope-four Moroccans were killed by the damage was estimated ful starting point than any unknown attackers in the now several million francs.

and a nearby shanty The ship's owner, Mrs Mary proposal that has been dis-Medina

kawn. cussed in recent years,

Rogers, 42, domiclled in South Particularly Russia's ac- Two shots were also reported Africa, and a crewman, Normen Bolzano, Italy, Aug. 20. Suspects Rounded Up declaring that the only solution

Two people were killed, 10 of to have been fred early today Swinon, were. severaly burned. ceptance of the idea

17-year-old injured and 47 slightly hurt in n Mrs Rogers' - specified manpower ceilings, on a Casablanca-Rabat train.

In Oudja, a veiled

Buenos Aires, Aug. 280- woman daughter, Miriam, and the road disaster tonight involving

Police today announced the Now, for the first time, hurled a bomb at a shop owned ship's captain, Ian Kemp, 31, a Belgian car, an Italian coach

seems to be agree by a Moroccan businessman, suffered less serious burns.

and a motor cycle.

names of 27 persons, including women End ment in principle on the Two

persons were injured. Four French pedestrians The motor cyclist, an Italian one woman, who were arrested wearing their national dress.

of raids yesterday| Others" in the march carried method to be adopted in Elsewhere crops were set on fire | strolling along the docks at policeman, swerved off the road in a series

banners, slogans and the Greek reaching agreement on the

that moment also were in-near Bolzano, north Italy, to and on Friday.

Those seized were all sus-flag- reduction of military

jurod

had

receive avoid the couch and car, whicpected of being members of a to

The resolution handed In at hospital treatment.

had collided. He

|ring which specialised in sudden No 10 Downing Street had been Cannes fishermen and a US Instantly.

early morning attacks on police, passed earlier tt a meeting Navy fire launch fretk on Celine Luise Vyvermans, 42. A large quantity of arms, and sponsored by the Provisional American squadron visiting the Belgian driver of the car, was five cars were also confiscated Cypriot National Committee- Rivier vacation capital rushed also killed China Mail Special, by authorities-United Press, Reuter

there

potential.

1.

Is there then chance of Factory Explosion: :

success?

Russia's attitude

to NATO and the evacua- tion Europe will obviously be the determining factor.

of foreign troops in

7 Lose Lives

Mexico City, Aug. 28.

and

to the scene,

on took place

was killed

when the motors were started, MAKING IT EASIER TO BECOME AN AUSTRALIAN

The explosion A firecracker factory explod- She also believes she has ed today in a blast of flame and a new ace up her sleeve black amoke, killing at least following her recently in-seven persons and seriously in- nounced intention to re-juring 28 others

duco

the Aize of har The explosion of 600 pounds armed forces. But if of gun powder demolished she expects the West tothroo apartment buildings In follow her example, there the city's slum area, tossing is bound to be dispute. For people around "like files," sho li

only beginning yewitne said,

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what the West has com The factory was located on pleted in post-war dis-the ground floor of a 284family. armament. Success, there apartment building.

► Polloid, the explosion spat fors operids largely upon

probiebly) - paqijod by burning whether Russia can match eating of which leaked under the reason, goodwill and partition from an overturned Mincerity of purpose 01- Nova Mã:ney mdjoining apartment.

but the cause of accident has not yet been determined.

It was the fifth similar ac- eldent on the Riviera within à month-United Press,

Lightning Kills „Four Men

Hamburg, Aug, 20 For men were kliind and one injured by Babtiling inýji in ffirious Ahunder- "which"added a parjod' of nited

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Canberra, Aug. 28. Recent changer in, the law to ease (allen newcomers. Into the Australian community pattern are now operating.

new sotiler, "head" not now advertise in the newspaper his intention to seek · naturalag- tion. Six months

|_ Comin before pleting his residency qualifica tkny of. fve years ke notistës.

the Immigration Department of this intention

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old two-year notice was to, give the public an opportunity. to lodge any objection on the ground" of "undesirability, but - in) 40 years there had been few objections. In any case the Government digh, not ne- cept the proters spithout quáasion but maGK ZÁCH, OUT Ingestigation,"

The Minister has power to waive

had, married Australians, and in many cases were direddy trail assimilated, at the time of marriage,

Mirors over 16 years receive their own naturalization certi- ficates instead of being, listed In that of their parenia,

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Lorries Blown

Up By Mines

Two

Tel-Aviv, Aug. 28.

Police said Miss Marshall, of 14 Danethorpe Vile, Sherwood, Nottingham, was murdered at Bellols-our-Somme as she made her way by bleycle from Paris to the port of Boulogne..

The body boro injuries to the head and strangulation, 'marks on the throat, police said. The Israeli soldiers were right shoe, dress and petticoat killed and three others seriously were missing, and the killer had wounded this afternoon, when apparently made an attempt to two. military trucks were blown hide the body.China Mall up by mines close to, the Israeli Special.. settlement of Beer, near the Gaza strip border, a military

spokesman announced in Tel- Aviv Tonight.

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An hour-long artillery duel between Egyptians and Israells Traverse City, Mich., Aug. 28, took this morning after

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The film star, Veronica Lake, Egyptians had opened fro on and Mr Joseph McCartny, the Beert settlement, Two writer and publisher, were Israella were wounded in the married here today. China Mail first incident-France-Presse, Special.

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