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COMMENT

THE DAY

Gloucester Arcade

OF

Middle East

Defence

THE Middle East Defence

Organisation. whose

Counell has just completed a two-day conference in Baghdad,

primarily

designed R yut another perimeter bulwark against Communist expansion military ur economie.

Up to this week MEDO, us it

is known. has been

No. 36289

Established · 1845

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1955.

Price 20 Cents

Tory Peer Warns House Of Lords: We Must Beware Of.

RELAX IN

DAKS

THEN HANDLES COMFORT (830 ARTEMON WILDUTENA

Whiteaways

HONGKUNG

KOWLOON

Two Killed

A 'FIFTH COLUMN' IN BRITAIN By Falling

BURGESS MACLEAN

DEBATE

London, Nov. 22. Britain has a dedi-

little rated Communist 'Fifth

more than a paper organi-, column' with mation. Now decisions have

no

been rouched which will standards of honour, no give substance to the paci Permanent

military and political committees have

patriotism and no possi- bility of

compromise,

been established to defend Lord Astor warned the

the Middle

East against House of Lords tonight.

aggression and to develop

Lord

Astor, 48-year-old Technicnt Assistance for the region. The solidarity of Conservative poor was speak-

debate on purpose was one of the most ing in a

the

heartening features of the British diplomats Guy Bur- Baghdad conference.

goss and Donald Maclean

behind who vanished

From Mr Harold Macmilian

came an appealing proposal iron curtain in 1951.

for safeguarding Turkey,

lie kald t

the

was "remarkable" that the British people had been so slow in realising the theory and importance of Conununism.

Lord Astor urged the strictest security measures even if it meant preventing people leaving

the country.

Pakistan, Persia and Iraq from Communist economic alllaneo penetration--the of the technical skills of the West with the natural resources of the Middle Bant. Put into effect this

DRUNKEN BRAWLS would spell high prosperity for the associated countries | He alleged that Maclean was and would render futile the Involved exploitation of Communist, London with former left-wing propaganda.

friends because they had changed their opinions.

Не

THE general proposal has

still to be converted into a detailed blueprint, but that it was unanimously accepted In principle is a satisfactory Arat step towards its realisation. The economic development of the Middle East in which science and, technology combines in the work of realising the fullest value of the region's pro- ductive potential is til. This is the NITE AL way of the Middle East countries achieving a stable. and permanent economy

uspect of The military

rusher pact IS complex. Three Arabs coun

PAMUIS

יינן1

thore

in drunken brawls in

Maclean' who

Te gald that

from disappeared

Britain in

“ONE AND A HALF VICTORS.

WE NEED MORE

“WINNERS”

SAYS MR WIGG

FROM OUR own corRESPONDENT

London, Nov. 22.

WAR HERO SAFECRACKER GETS 10 YEARS' HARD

Edinburgh, Nov. 22.

A safecracker who turned commando to open Hermann Goering's Luftwaffe head- quarters safe in World War II was sent back to gaol today for practising his craft in peacetime.

Thu

skill that brought John Kamsoy, 50, the praise of Allied intelligence chiote 10 years ago brought him 10-year sentence in the High Court today.

Ramsey parachuted behind Tenemy Lines many times during the war to blast open safes and U Foret chemy war plans. One of his victims was Gotring, the Naz air chief.

He began his liv of crime as

Britain should revolutionise her aircraft in- dustry and "team up" with America to cut waste, at burglar." Then he found a Socialist MP said in Parliament today.

crowbars and nitroglycerine more useful.

He was Mr George Wigg, former Parliament- ary Private Secretary to the Minister for War ined in both the underworld and the Attlee Government.

His skill at blowing safe was so great that the became rtnown-

among the Edinburgh police.

HOUR OF TRIUMPH

Mr Wigg asked pho Minister ‹ the world-und 1 om tar from for Supply, Mr Duncan Sandys believing that Handley Page how much

been amply haven't got the facilities toto of 30 years in prison. It money had spent

11 types of aircraft - Including

elvil to produce them in the kind, of the giant numbers we would need." Princess flying boat, the Vickers The answer he thinks is for 1000 Jot airliner

and certain Britain to concentrate on a few marks of the Comets which types transport aircraft, had been scrapped before they instance.

May 1961 with Guy Burgess could be put into large-scale used to go out in the evening production. and get disgustingly

drunk" as a certain London club.

The atuswer was: almost £25

million. And that figure "He twice engaged in drun-1, a "net development cost". ken brawls wih former left-

Mr

estimates Wies wing friends in

one of which actual cost to the taxpayer for they were rolling on the floor" the whole operation 1 more

he satel

was

In each case the cause of the alfucks

that they harl "heayel their former extreme left-wing opinien."

PLANE INCIDENT

than twice that amount.

GENERATION BEHIND

the

As a result, these failures and parallel failures in military aircraft-have ieft Britain

Lord Astor said this happened generation behind the Ameri- after Maclean's "drunken con-cans". due Cutro.

Mr Wigg believes the pinch He was surprised that after | will be felt soon by BOAC this, he should have been ap which will be left with the fast pointed head of the Ameriçun but short-range Comet IV und deparing at in the Foreign the long-range but slow Bristol tries are members of MEDO, - omee.

Britannia.

those they With but one of them-rug-lias Did the Foreign Office know will have a

compete with the other commitments to the of this conduct and tolerate long-range

lan Daugias ant inter-Arab detence treaty or were they ignorant?" he Bocing jets for which orders an organisation comprising asked.

have already been taken. the eight-nation

"Everybody know there whe Arab

Overseas airlines which have Lengue. And The Arng not one incident

good pinned their faith on Brl:ish craft inay suffer in the same League has not looked with us." Lord Astor said.

: ald A member of th. much favour on the creation, women's services

way and British

aircraft ex- happened to of the Middle East Defence And herself in an aeroplane in

parts are bound to suffer.

Brypt with Organisation,

Maclean and hi haviour Low Bunda her Clearly Iraq will have to walk | various ways

was "extremely warily

her [

military | rude and unpleasant," obligations to MEDO fest these are considered by the conflict Arab League

10

with her commitments with the Arab Defence Treaty,

NOR

H

but a

CAIRO AFFAIR

in

of

Lord Reading Minister State for Foreign Affairs said of Macleon's social activities in Leden: "I dare say Maclean went to number of parties.

OR is that the only con may be true that he did in- sideration. Iraq, 13 All dulge in certain drunken bouts.

"But most

certainly we did Lord Reading also admitted

Arab nation, must support the Arabs in any conflict not know." with Israci, and this con-

In addition, says Mr Wigu, the Royal Air Force is paralysed by mill ary alrerait failures and the prospects are not bright. He blames the lack of co-ordiratizu in the aircraft industry for the fallures.

NOT POLITICAL

I

aircraft

A REVOLUTION

His arrests brought him a

wha during one of these stretches, in 1942, that the police suggested that Jolmby straight and use his talents to- forward winning the war.

BRITISH TRAFFIC LAWS BEING CHANGED

“Sensible” Drunks May Be Let Off

London, Nov. 22.

The Tus law may make things easier in future for the motorist who, having had too much to drink, realists this and turns over the control of his car to someone else.

Mr

John

Boyd-Carpenter, Minister of Transport, has

put forward a new clause for the Boad Traßio Bil, now passing througla Parliament, which deals with this point.

The

clause provides that a motorias shall not be cati- victed of an offence merely through having had too much to drink if be can prove two things, namely: (1) That at the time when the offence is charged 盛源 having been committed, i

Were

circumstances

such that there was no likel- bood of bis driving the vehicle so long as he re- mained unât to do so; and,

(2) That between beoutning

unfit to drive and the time at which the offence was alleged to have been comi- miffed, he had not driven the vehicle on a road other pabilo place.

or

Publie unesİstem has 10-

ocally been expressed over cases where motorista are found they are silli ilable to be convicted

етед though, after taking 100 much to drink, they pass over the keys of their cars La Borbone who is sober and A to drive.---China

Mali Spoolaj.

ISRAEL'S WARNING TO EGYPT: "STOP SHOOTING...OR ELSE'

Jerusalem, Nov. 22.

Israel today served a warning on Egypt to stop its acts of Hostility.

Boulder

Two men were killed and two injured one seriously ---- when a 70-ton boulder crashed down on n lorry tak. Ing sand from, a hillside In the process of demolition at Taiwan Hill Road, near Matauwel Road, Hunghom, this morning.

The lorry had backed up to the hill to take on sand when the huge crashed down warning.

boulder without

It crushed the lorry and with It the driver, while another man was buried beneath the stone, Both men are dead.

Other boulders fand a cnn- siderable quantity of earth were dislodged and they seriously in- jured one man, white another was superficially hurt,

With Love From..?

Lention, Nov. 22.

A bank today received a mysterious parcel contain- Ing enough strychnine and

cranide to kill 200 people.

There address

return

Whe on the pareci, which contained two botiles of deadly polson.

Mr J. M. Taylor, manager of the Bank (Northumber- land Avenge branch of the Standard Bank of South Africa), mid he could not imagine why the poison was mailed to the bankintas United Prem

Nasser For Sofia

Cairo, Nev. 22. Nasser has

Égyption Premier Gopal Roospled Bulgaria

on Invita

During the advance on Rome, Allied leaders wanted a look at

Foreign Ministry spokes from the territories of these secret Axis withdrawal plane. So he

bening the man Michael Elitzur sald countries. 9. he pasactuód lines, cracked the enemy com- "it is becoming clearer that on to these latest incidents

"There is only one explana- anchor) k

Egypt is benton aggres-the Egyptian Army is apparently on rom the But his real hour or triumaaboth wooh so de

under orders to harass and pro, Goverment, to visit Sola, it tonight. The spokesman | date of the visit will be er

ranged Inter-France-Presse.

and

steret safe came back with the blueprint.

,

Then when a "winner was found progliation crois could be spread over "all the available facilities."

Guter types of aircraft could came when he got late Laft-He quoted incidents during voke spell forces and civilians was announced

the Le obtained by an arrangement walte headquarters and cracked the last 30 hours to back up his continuously." with the Americans.

Goarings massivé-sale

statement. He said in that period said. United Prces. The Idea would

It was a different story when' mean a re-

"Egyptian Army forces imunched volution in

attacks the British alrerati he was arrested for cracking a four

against Israeli ausy

but

concentration safe in Glasgow recently, taking troops and civilians in the woma provide "winners" like puny £100 in cash and 80 demilitarised zone of Nitzana.. the Viscount airliner which had mulings in stampe,

attacked an Iarnell fishing boat. zola Bavond the world.

The war hero pleaded for jan Israeli outpost near Kissum The business accumulatinaleniency but the law was firm was attacked trom across Hum a few "winners" would be

The judge said: "From your border by machine gun fire. fur boiler for the Industry than conduct and history, you cannot the current range of ilops. And JU

troma wan tester on the taxpayer, too. crime."—United Press.

to

Queen's Flying Visit To Nigeria In January

London, Nov. 22.

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will leave London on January 27 for their three-week flying, visit to Nigeria, Buckingham Palace announced tonight,

The Palace announcement said they would return to London 011

February

17.

Six Killed In

21 TIMES

the

"This morning two Egyptian posts again opened fire on an Iscoeli post in the Kissuilm arta. This followed a chain af Ezypuan provocative attacks ... reached on jatur the ceasore

Nov. 4.

than three weeks since then Egyptian positions milltary

attacked Isrnell posts and patrols with automatic and artillery Are ca 21 occasions.

less

somo period

LOST AT

SEA FOR

SEVEN HOURS

Capetown, Nov. 22. Skipper Orn Hansen, 86, of Tonsberg, Norway, who arrived in Capetown yes- terday aboard the whale catcher Setter IX, is one of the luckiest men alive today. When the Seller IX was two days out of Dakar last week, he fell overboard and swam

hourg

round for more than seven before he was picked up in pitch darkness by his own vessel. Hansen fall overboard at about

"During tho there were twelve incursions by Egyptian military planes Into Israeli territory. At the same # o'clock but he was found to time Egyptian Army representa- be missing only at 11.30 p.m. tives in other Arah states, par A thorough search of the skip ticularly Jordan, have been was made but ho could not organising

conducting be found. raids against Israel The crew then realised he must have fallen overboard, and the ship was turned rounid...]

Both journeys would be by Carrier Mishap millory

air.

"This is not a political issue.

A spokesman for the British The

(given by the answers

Washington, Nov. 22. · Overseas Airways Corporation fully

Six men were killed and one minister) showed, a realised, tha there were just said later that the fighis would as many failures under tho be made in one of the Corpora was seriously injured when a fighter plane .careerod out of tion's Argonaut airliners.

control down the deck · of the Socialist Cloverment.

FIRST VISIT The trouble is simply that A

„} | aircraft carrier Ticonderoga Insi more acralted programme tingency was plainly in the that the Foreign Office did not ariain bas too many

Navy ́authorhood minds of all the delegates know at the time the diploma,

disappeared

that Meclean had frens trying to do too much." for the Royal tour will be issued night, the at the Baghdad conference, had a "drunken bout" when in

lo quoted the Victor jet Iraq, as strongly as the other Cairo.

bomber as an example, participants, urged modera- The full details were not "We have just one and a half We decided tion on the part of Egypt known at the time to the Vistors. Even If

at Cairo. Conse that that was the best aircraft in and Israel, for nothing is ambassador more calculated to embarquently they were not reported

rhas Iraq's position in MEDO

Nor

The

ኔ-

Bodyguard For Governor

in the near future.

today.

It will bo the fist vielt ki Toe accident occurred. In the a reigning British Mediterranean, where the Nigaris by monarch.

"Ticonderoga is operating witn The first announcement of the the Sixth Fleet, Queen's decision to visit Nigeria; wcs made last month, -

The last Royal visit to Nigeria was in 1925 when the Duka of Windsor, uncle of the Queen, spent several days there us Prince of Wales.

and

STOP PRESS

Cricket Latest

After á brlilient recovery this

** 14 huncha Maisy's were: 100

for 46.

Half an hour after the lanels break, Malays had scored 205 for

1

The Navy said an F-2-H Banshee pline, piloted

by | morning, Malaya, in their second. to the Foreign Office he said.

Ensign Oils Lightner, Was innings, agalist Combined. Bere were they known prior to

making a landing on the carrier vicës endured", a kisetting col- than full-scale Maclean's disappearance.

after a night navigation fight lapse, losing five, włokein for 28 hostilitios between Israo! NEEDED TREATMENT

When.. Its tall hook failed to and Egypt.

engage an arresting wire, the ambassador considered.

LARGEST TERRITORY plane bounced over a barricade for the loss of one wicket. In While there is good cause for Maclean had been overworking

London, Nov. 22.

Nigeria la Britain's largest careered down the deck und satisfaction over the Middle very considerably rnd that a A personal bodyguard for the colonial territory. It covers an over the bow, striding cight than 20 minutes after lunch

they mooren waa* 197, for ab East Defence Organisation moment had arrived "signallard Governor of Cyprus, Sir John area, including part of the

men on the dock ile v coming into being, its weak- by this particular bout of drink Harding, and

of" service in the British miles.

policemen for Cameroons, of 378,000 square The pliot was picked out Burton' was out for 91 and Webb. and some violence when special

the nem la that it is not fully Ing

water 20 minutes later by a ropresentative.

The population is more than motorwhaleboat from ") the The In he ought to have medical treat-laland colony, will be recruited

in London soon..

31,000,000, composed chiefly of destroyer Goodrich He suffered terests of the Arab nations ment

For that reason ho was sent

Four men -will form the brigans – with a minnelly of only seralchen and bruises and

Americans home for treatment in the hope Governor's bodyguard: China Europeans,

and was not piously injured vulnerable to Communist he might be cured-fleuter.

United Pricas. Lebanese-Reuter, Mail Special. aggression than those of the MEDO aignatories. Despite this, knowledge the majority of the Arab coun- tries have held aloof from MEDO, préferring to rely on their own strength, in-A adequate though it be, both economically and militarily, This is the weak link in the Middle East defence chain. It is not necessarily a fatal

in general are no leas

MOON LAND SALES LEGAL? A.G. TO INQUIRE

New York, Nov. 22 company in Glen Cove, Long Island, today was opened for business selling lend on the

moon for one dollar an Acto but the State=, | Attorney a General announced, that – he took a dim view of the enter one, but it is going to bu, prise and whs' investigating its exploited to the full by legality, and

Rusele), and its existence For a few of one dollar, buyers cannot be regarded with a received:

equanimity by the Midle Tin to kn Of land on Fast Defence Organisation, vol the

the moon, with fishing and hunting rights and winter sports facilities, but not in cluding subeolf rights like

uranium.s

Headed by Mr. Robert R. Cole, former President of 2 the Hoden. Planetarium, the com- pany is called the Society for Interplanetery Development.

A brochure describing the marvels of the moon,izla es A map permitting the buyer to take a look at his pro-dialated proper perty through a telescope. The enthrpfl'e, je which

attracted the dooptical" wobec tion of the live

Mr Cole registered the company *Wrally in the Glen Cove Town

·Hall/Heună--hia:žasociateš

has

only'da “the but on the }} Mver or proon,

· nobody

entire.

Me Cole said he hoped to be cone of the Karat travellers to

De moon 3amigo, In the;

He admitted his enterprias bad. ite bumorbus, sido, but ho maid 21. wina Recious" enotegh- Ik to the In Texas

and the Klondike

grounda, that the

A. report of this morning's play to Recorder" "will be found on paga.:6.

Enjoy "BUD

Preferred Everywhere

The Sotter

with the

IX steamed north searchlights scanning

Radar sca.

and usdle

apparatus were brought into operation. After steaming miles, the ship turned back and salied 16 miles south. Although the crew realised that

he had

опе

million one chance in a of being seen in the dark, they decided to have more look and turned the ship northwards again, They had steamed about 10 miles when the beam of one of the searchlights picked out Hansen.

One of the men threw him a line, but the skipper, who had been more than seven, hours in the water, Ignored It, and clambered aboard his vessel unaided at about 4.30 am. Although he was exhausted after

his long swim, ho made quick recovery. France. Presse.

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