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Stone-Throwing Villagers Turn Back British Troops
SAXONE
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SHADE IN, SCOTLAND.
HONG RANO G KOWLOON
LIFE
SENTENCES
A New Danger WOMEN
WOMEN USED AS BARRICADE FOR 3 IRA
TCzechoslovakia to supply
WOU
THE decision by Russia and
arms to Egypt is the Intest and most important in a series of moves to extend Communist influence in the Middle Enat. But there have been other manifestations of Russia's desire to the Islamic countries. Both Col Nasser the Egyptian Prime Minister and the Shah of Pernia have accepted invitations tu Moscow; ShepRuv, editor of Pravda, who is a high Communist functionary, recently visited Cairo; a Soylet Embassy is to be net up in Libya,
Another feature of relations between the Communist bloc and the Middle East
He's Started
More Rioting Something
In Cyprus
SOLDIERS, POLICE
INJURED
Seven hundred
Nicosia, Oct. 5. screaming Greek-Cypriot now being developed and villagers, hurling stones from behind a line of commanding attention IN the extension of commercial village womenfolk, defied warnings to "disperse or contracts between the two we shoot" and forced British troops to retire in a areas. In particular, goods midnight clash at Neokhorio, 27 miles from Paphos, from the most highly indus- it was learned here tonight.
trialised countries of the
Soviet sphere-Czechvalova-
Several British soldiers and police were re- kia and East Germany--are ported injured in the incident which started when village guards rang the church bells to warn of the approach of a party of troops arriving to remove anti-British slogans.
commodities
Egypt's
being exchanged for such surplus cotton. But as yet the Soviet bloc can only
compete on a limited scale with Western exporters, In the supply of arms it is a different matter. Here the Western powers have placed voluntary restriction on themselves. The question is: how for does the Soviel govornment intend to go in this matter? Russians or Czechs pour great quantities of powder into the Middle East powder magazine they will be creating just the kind of explosive situation
IC
best of
A police party sent to remove the slogans yester- day was turned back by the villagers who posted guards near the banners and flags when they went to
bed.
When the bells rang out the The minos at Amiandos, 45 villagers poured from their mud miles from Nicosia, were at brick collages Into the dusty standstill today as the village was under house curfew until later and hastily erected road-
tomorrow morning. in the path of the the
voneing party of troops,
locks
041-
A similar curfew was ploerd Letkonico village after The troops marched forward on gun-
ralded the with des pointed carrying a masked terrorists white banner with the words: police station there last nigirt,
Elsewhere reinforced groups "disperse or we shoot". At this
their of British pushed
soldlers stepped villagers womenfolk b font screaming curser in Greek and pelted the troups with stones.
which
Tear Gas Bombs
warting
up the search for terrorists.
one-th
HAROLD WILSON
Hongkong Shirts "Bankrupting" Trinidad Industry
Our Own Correspondent
London, Oct. 5.
The Hon. Albert Gomes, Trinidad's Minister of Labour and Commerce, said in London tonight he has "found a solution to the problem of Trini- dad's shirt industry" caused by imports from Hongkong which were undercutting local factures.
manu-
He and his Assistant Commissioner of In- dustry spent two and a half hours today with Sir Hilton Poynton, Under-Secretary of State and Economic Adviser to the Colonial Secretary at which he informed HMG of the steps his govern- ment intended to take to save the industry from bankruptcy.
FRENCH CRISIS
Gaullists Demand
New Govt
Paris, Oct. 5.
MEMBERS
Reading, Oct. 5. Three young Irishmen were found guilty here today on five out of eight charges arising from armed raid military depot.
on a
an
British
23.
All three-D. Murphy, James Andrew Murphy, 20, and Joseph Doyle, 30--were sen- tured to life imprisonment,
Passing sentence the judge, Mr. Justice Cassels, told the three men: "This was an act of war on your part.",
Other sentences to run con-
were: 14 years, for
The executive of the Gaullist Party tonight de cided to ask President Reno currently, ment of national safety." for agault und Ave, yeurs for
conspiracy to reb.
Coty
to form a "govern-
The executive, which is made up of deputies, senators and provincial party secretaries, de cided to send a delegation the President with this request before
to
tomorrow's Cabinet met ing, usually reliable sources
said.
worsening in
breaking and entering and stealing
"ammunition:' two'yèzrs
The men had refused to give to plend to the charges.
evidence in their defence or
"We Are Soldiers"
But Doyle declared after sentence had been passed: - "We are soldiers of the Irish Re-
These of publican Army.
CITIS were to and ammunition
bo British army used against the of occupation 好 Ireland."
After the case for the pro-
had
closed the Judgo
This move meant a serious
the position
Edgar Fouro's Radical Premier coalition Cabinet, badly split over the Morocco problem. In an interview, Mr Gomes tion in the island's shirt Indus- I was expected that the four
ministers
one docution and alleged that the perilous post-try was caused by imports from Gaullist
Hongkong which were under-under-secretary would walk out called in turn on all three men
10 speak. cutting local manufactures. He of the government if a "govern said etme firms already had gone ment of national safety" out of business, while others not set up to handle France's were working only two or three normal African problems. · days a week.
There's Trouble
Ahead
At Labour Party
From LES ARMOUR
HQ
There were vast stocks of Bnished products piled up at warehouses which could not be disposed of owing to Hongkong, competition, he added.
London, Oct. 5.
serious row Britain's Labour Party faces a next week over its headquarters organisation, mand with Party General-Secretary Morgan Phillips as the main target for abuse..
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NO DETAILS
Fauro To Docida
were
here
Political Eibservers thought M. Faure might prefer
.on
The men were tried charges in connection with an armed raid on August 23 on the · Arborfield military en- gineering dopot near hore.
a puoliz debate to resigning. I It
At Pistol Point
had
been alleged thort
he made tus chalce, it would sentries and other soldiers were
represeimously charged Its
There was a serious amount take place towards the end of rounded up at pistol point, lett bound and gagged in a guard- of unemployment in the in- this week, dustry-un industry which, he In a communiqué kmed after room, and the armoury robbed of claimed, was capable of supply-tonight's meeting the Gaullist 65 Sten guns, 10 Brou guns, a ing the Island's entire de executive, said that, meeting, in rifle, a revolver and 95,000
the prescrice of its minitiers, it rounds of ammunition
About ten men, one of them hid
with starting disguised in British army und
said to have taken form, are Iomorrow, taking
port In the rald. Their batal The "Wilson" report on party organisation Mr Gomes would give no towards the immediate ****was recovered intact-Reuter,
letaila of his "ution" bestitution of o govemment and it was not only was published this afternoon
cause first a resolution had to natical safety, which alene Is "unexpurgated" but even stronger than most go before Trinidad's Legislative capable of facing up to the which menace the Council early next month. But oventa people expected.
indicated that
Franco-African community and his plans were far advanced that all at the
ward by the Cypriot-Greeks report was questioned about it.
-under leader,
the
he
we
from
steps
con
of
National that remained to be done was institute time the republic's
supporters and
of the
the Geneva conference was
Harding's Talks designed to avert.
Sir John Handing had a half The hope is that the Russian
hour talks in Nicosia today with and Czech governments are
The troops retaliated with tear Mufti Mehmed Dona, religious Turkish not prepared to supply arms
gus bombs but the action only leader of the island's an large enough a scale to touched off still more furious minority and later discussed jeopardise the peace of the attacks in which the villagers the Turkish community's prob- Middle East,
lems with delegation of three scized the Britons
them to Priol-Turkish leaders. There Are no grounds for banner and forced
Turks, who form about believing that Col Nasher withdraw under a fusillade of
the Colony's of
The real trouble came to the Phillips' accepts nid from Russia in every missile they could lay population, want British rule to surface when Mr Harold Wilson, members order to fall under Soviet hands on.
the investigating Executive who drew up the re- A brief Army statement co- continue and oppose the demand choirman of domination. Nevertheless, it
for union with Greece put for-committee which produced the port. firmed that the boops were is natural for some of the withdrawn at midnight following
Their blackbearded
Significantly Mr Phillips The report suggests that some Middle Eastern powers to
Makarios, power
the that Archbishop
sandal
report by: taken away announced wish to play off West and very heavy stone-throwing."
the third major incident Wits
Sir John
Harding saw from the General-Secretory and would be presented to the con- East against each other and since the arrival of Field Mar-hom
yesterday.-Reuter.
handed over
National forence for "open debate" and to the make
that no motions accepting it or both shat Sir John Harding on Mon-
Agent, worlds; and if anyone had day to take over as Governor.
Mr Wilson was asked whether rejecting it would be put to the Another Incident occurred in
he was referring to the general delegates. Famagusta this morning when a
constitutional status of the two
The National Executive, he group of masked
Mr Philps and said, would endeavour to insist officers or to Cypriot policeman.
National Agent Len Wiltims in on its right to decide the issue "considering particular.
themselves He replied: "The report refer everything that is said in the to the situation as it now exists. debate." Mr Phillip is the Party Secre-
If the decision is to be made Williams is and Mr Len London, Oct. 6.
the Nations Agent."
wholly within the confines of Minutes later Mr Phillips an- Transport House the conflict of The Lord's Day Observ
on personalities is apt to become ance Society, a strict British nounced that the debate
next stronger for Mr Phillips has Sabbatarian body, today the report-slated censured the royal family Tuesday at the Party's Margate strong friends and some enemies
conference would almost cer- on
the National Executive for joining in sport on Sun-tainly be in secret.
London Express Service, days.
the
ever profited from the embrace of the Russian bear
the Arabs could not
he
men A
shot a hospital
blamed for trying to do 80 statement Issued after an opera- But history offers no Auch tion on the policeman said he
was "dangerously ill."
examples,
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Sabbatarians Censure Royal Family
logy
for
Не was asked whether he In their quarterly magazine, was personally in favour of the He re- Joy and Light, the Society says: report or opposed it.
"It is with very deep sorrow that plied: "I am not required to be we have to record that His Royal in favour of it or opposed to it Highness the Duke of Edinburgh at this time,"
this summer frequently
has
Indulged in sport on the Lord's Day in spite of all the appeals which have been made to him,"
It added that on Sunday, July
17, the Queen, the Queen
and
Mother the Duchess Df Kent watched the Duke playing polo at Windsor. "WIN such example from the throne-and many have quoted the example to justify all manner of Sabbath desecration--is it any wonder That the nation dreade
the
broad read of ocularism?
The
magazine adds that an appeal. "oh national lines" may yet bo organised to influence the royal family-Reuter.
Gun Battle. In
Guatemala
Guatemala, Oci. 5.
Q
MORGAN PHILLIPS
after
HK Naval Court Martial·
Ruling Echo
London, Oct. 5.
Supreme Court Judges Sacked
for the resolution to go before The Goultists want a broader the Legislative Council.
geverminent because they clainy
All to the the present crie does not have Mr Gomes referred Colonial
Secretary's position enough authority to handle the
in North saying: "His position is delicate situation and I fully appreciate this fact. Router. He has to keep a balance be- tween all colundal
to
題
of
Africa
BREAK-THROUGH
A
in
north-central
territories. But we have said we are going
E do certain things and we made something must it quite clear
Rabat, Oct. 5, be done, and done immediately, for the importation of Hongkong
French Army column broke through has brought the local in- shiris
Nador Pass dustry
point bankruptcy.
Morao today after a two-day fight against rebel tribesmen, Mr Gomes is in London, to official sources said.
Chuet Jamaica's gether with
column, linked up with The winister Norman Manley, another column coming from in discuss with HMG the future the town of Aknoul, thus clear of the Caribbean islands' citrusing the road between Aknout industry, taxation problems and and the milliary post of ou consiitutional issues.
Tito Backs Bulganin
Belgrade, Oct. 5. President Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia in an
Interview published today came out in favour:
amendments of the proposed by Soviet Premier An expert on naval court Nikole Buiganin, to the plan of martial procedure, comment-United States President Eisen- ing in London today on a hower, for the exchange of recent,Hongkong naval military blueprints and mutual aerial Inspection between the court martial in which
United States and the USSR.
1
| submission, by the prosecu-
tion that only, executive Marshat Tito, in an interview officers had the right to sit published in the Yugoslav news- paper Narodna Armija (National as members of such court Army) said: The counter pro- was overruled by the judge-posal of, Bulganin is, in my advocate, said his view was opinion, fully justified, because that non-executive officers would be absurd to expect thes
USSR to accept a unilateral ex were not entitled to be mem-change of information and the |bers of such a tribunal. photographing of its territory The report also blasts the
The Naval Discipline Act was without being able to survey the One person was killed, two in bureaucracy" of the head-
encircling the Sovlet framed in 1806, he said, and bases jured and 15 suspects arrested quarters agent and suggests in Guatemala elty today, after that relations between national stated that members of courts Union:!!
clash
executive Marshal Tito said, Bulganin's armed
officers are not all they should martial shall be
officers, Guatemalan police and extreme bo.
Ho said: "In those days proposal was "real and logical leftwing conspiciclily.
It particular
By there were no such creatures while enhower's original nounced here.
office" 18
proposal wee sinetry, but nenda The Ministry of the Interior the chief woman
Jolut exinfriation" The "main arnounced it had been informed advantage and that Mr Philips "Since then there have been aing was that the United States
not being employed to the best as non-executive officers,"
no specifie & Communist group was has too much to dợ. that meeting in
10 a private house TOOTED draw up a secret plat against tho
between
It was an-
government." The police arrived
on the
ka
*
LEADERS WORRIED,
Behina
amendments
ext-
Ing that non-executive officers and the USBR"come to an
sit on courts martial," he Proemen," he said. "but recently, the NAWA
Marshal Bulgarin salain
n
the scenes, Party has removed a number of dis letter to Eisenhower that the apot and ordered the plotters to give themselves up. tenders are extremely worried tinctions between executive and United States and the USBR The plotters answered with that the report, rather than im-[non-executive officers although should bosalile to check not only arrinli-arms fire and were only proving the sluron, apt to is not known whether this base within their own countries subdued after a fight-Franco- | brood; hostilky at headquarters |affepts the issue,”----China (Mail | but also their foreign bozosam
And strong foeling between bir| Special.
Franco-P
which the rebels had cft.-France-Presse.
now
all
new
were
Buenos Aires, Oct. 5. five judges of
the Supreme Court and the Public dismissed Prosecutor
today by a government decree, The judges include a pro minent Catholic, Tomas Casares, whost dismissal is regarded here by observers as an Indien- lion of growing
leftwing
in- Auence
in
was con-
the original extreme combaten
rightwing government. th:
Although Casares sidered by Catholles as a symbol of resistance against Peron, It is understood, leftwingers, have forced hla dismissal on the ground that he remained loyal to the deposed President for nearly ten years.
New members of the Supreme sealed Court are expected to be sworn
In tomorrow --Reuter,
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