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HE Minister of Supply's!

Troyplation that at least

226 million has been spent on the development of new jet and turbo-prop aircraft -all of which were sub- sequently abandoned-may Aurprise many British tax- payors. Particularly when It is coupled with the state- ment by # prominent Socialist MP, Mr George Wigg that "these failures have left the aircraft indus. try a goneration behind the Americans,"

But while there is a good deni of sense in Mr Wigg's other

Rascetion that the industry

should be "revolutionised"

to concentrate all its pro- ductive resources upon the bost designs, it is unfair to write off the developmental expenditure as p "failure." In fact, this money WAS apent in a bold bid to cap- ture leadership of the air In the Jet age. True, the Americans appear to have

gained the initiative but it is not yet possible to pro- nounce a final judgment.

tala is far behind

I

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VIIILE no one will dispute America's supremacy in the design and production of military aircraft, it is as yol untrue to say that Bris American compe.itors la the production of jet and turbo-prop airlinera. Amer. ca has plans for two long-Į

jet airliners the range Bong and the Douglas which

are impressive o paper but which have yet to prove their ability. Bri- tain has none in the same class following the decision to abandon the Vickers V-1000 project.

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RUSSIA EXPLODES AN H-BOMB

The Largest To Date

OFFICIAL U.S. STATEMENT

Washington, Nov. 23.

The Atomic Energy Commission dis- closed tonight that Russia had set off the largest hydrogen bomb since the Soviet atomic programme began. Some experts linked it with a reported "earthquake” in Siberia.

FOUR TOWNS WIPED

OUT BY FLOODS

Bogota, Colombia, Nov. 23. Four towns on the bank of the Magdalena River were reported today to have been virtually wiped out by flood of the big river, Colombia's chief inland

Lower

other towns in the reaches of the river were reported flooded, Quatmaro, Remolino, Salu- miina and Stelo Nuuvo, in Atlantico department, were Bald

have bonnie the brunt of the flood. Only 25 of Sulo Nuevo's 707 private dwellings remained habit-

able, the reports said, Mort then 15,000 DITIONI wery evacuated from the other IT flooded. towns, all in Bolivar department.

had been casualties reported but damages were wald to be heavy in homes. public utilities and crops,

Thousands of heads of

No

cuttle

were reported drowned, In the valley of the Cauca River, the country's second major waterway, the town vf Bugaiagrande was flooded and at least 1,000 persons were evacuated. — United Prest.

New Move To Delete

Make Use Of Overseas Civil Servants

In London Urges Conservative MP

COLONIAL OFFICE SYSTEM ATTACKED

OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

KOWLOON

UN Package Deal

US Easing Opposition To Outer Mongolia

New York, Nov. 28. The United States was

reported tonight to be coning

In its opposition to Outer Mongolla as a possible new member of the United Na- tions and thus brighteriing the prospects for eventual approval of a blanket list of 18 applicants.

Informed diplomatte sources

London, Nov. 23. Conservative MP Captain Henry Kerby appealed today for abolition of the system whereby advice from HM Overseas Civil Service officials passed through the Home Civil Service. He also id that as a result of talks. wanted to know what steps the Colonial Secretary, Mr Alan Lennox-Boyd, was taking to ensure that experienced officers of the overseas civil service are placed in posts in Britain so they can directly tender advice on "all important questions of

The AEC chairman, Admiral Lewis Algerian Question From UN policy."

Assembly's Agenda

Replied the Colonial Secretary:

which have been going on for the past two weeks the United States was now shitting its previous adamant position,

The sume sources said that the United States' chief pro- occupation regarding this matter persuade the Chinese Nationalist government,

WRE "I attachow

great importance to ensuring that the experience of suitably qualified members of the overseas civil service continues to be made available in London in as direct a form as is practicable."

Strauss, said the blast. latest in the Soviet 1955 test series, "was in the range of megatons". It was the first time the

United Nations, Nov. 23. Colombia and three other South American coun Commission has measured the punch of a

United Nations delete Russian explosion, indicating that the US tries today proposed that the

|from its agenda the Algorian question the issue has new devices for detecting A-blasts. which caused France to walk out of the General

Assembly.

Assembly President Jose Maza of Chile called the me in in interview: world parliament to meet Friday morning to whether it should take such action and pave the way for

A megaton represents the explosive equivalent of 1,000,000 tons of TNT. President Eisenhower, speaking about big atomic bombs on December 8, 1953, said then that they ranged up to about 500,000 tons of equivalent TNT.

Estimates of the size of the US H-bombs have run from 12,000,000 tons up to 20,000,000 tons. The Atomic Commission gave no indication of how big the Soviet hydrogen explosion might have been.

WAVES DETECTED

But the fact that the AEC-announcement referred to megatons strongly indicated that the United States now has ways of detecting Soviet explosions other than by peking up radioactive particles in the atmosphere. Such devices could measure energy waves travelling through the atmosphere or shock waves travelling through the ground.

France to return.

The South American action The was disclosed at the star of the after

Chairman

Str

decide

A relatively large number of appointments and postings has been made to this end, added Mr Lennox-Boyd.

Sald

former diplomat Kerby

"There is an immense amoun of il-feeling and bitterness about this among men serving in the colonies," caune decision to act

the efforis to persuade

Arab-Asian group,

He attacked the present

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Assembly's Main Political Com-powerful

Lestic Knox mittee's afternoon meeting by whlers had fought the Algerianten under whigh the advice Munro of Now Zealand.

He read a letter from Mr Maza discioring that the raphe sentatives of Colombla, Chile, Cuba and Ecuador this morning submitted to him a "proposal to the effect that the item enti led The Question of Algeria' should

of experienced overseas civil issue onto the agenda, to join servants was "illlered through in the effort to delete it.

the civil service in Britain and REJECTED

As then,

oflen

not India's V. K. Krishna Menon regarded.

last week entered the picture with a compromise designed to yin Arab favour, but it was inlly rejected; in a 45-minute. caucus today. Arabs made their

When the

F.O. SYSTEM

Missing Freighter PLANE SPOTS

FLOTSAM

Boston, Nov. 28. Brightly painted

poles

to

which occupies one of the Big Four seats in the Security Council, not to veto "the Outer Mongolian application it and when it comes up.

The United States had intimated its willingness to ace

tcur cept

-Soviet-sponsored candidates in the list of 19, but had opposed Outer Mongolia, In revan, the Soviet delegit.on" had declared that it must be "All or nothing

They threatened that if Outer Mongolia was not elected, the. Soviet delegation would velg all other applicants. Reuter

that could be spars of the Fortune For

missing freighter Daytona

were spotted 70 miles east Insane Killer

of Cape Cod. today, by a private air search team

New York, Nov."23. Capt. George Lambros radioed An Insane killer, who two

be deleted from the Assembly's decision, Colombia's Brindlero channels through which over. / that he and a co-pilot spotted Live |énin, ngo murdered his parents

agenda."

"I think it appropriate," Mr

loteam after the Coast Guard officially gave up its search for by serving them a polsonod the freighter missing since

heriled: $50,000 of their estatell

Office system anbuld be adopted Sunday with "24 men abochampagne “toast; today, Sha

Urrutio, who originated the move to kill the Algerian item, Maza's letter said, "to inform

decided to go ahead with his origian)

plan,

by supported you that following this request I have decided to convene A

Chile, Cuba and Ecuador. plenary meeting of the Assem-

The

under the bly on Friday at 10.30 am EST

of its procedure, never-used in urder to take up this ques-can "amend or delete any item on its agenda by a simple The South American decision majority vote. Observers fure- to put the issue squarely to the

close vote in Friday's Assembly followed woeks

of meeting with the likelihood that fruitless

negotiallons on

the Algerian Item would be formula

to erased from the agenda,

But this has caused little dis- appointment. Indeed ex perts on both sides of the Atlantic are saying that the new glants of the jet age: are likely to be so heavy, that few airports outside of London and New York have runways long enough and strong enough to inke them. Britain's Comet IV does not face the handicaps. It has a shorter

to enable France is lighter and range, bart should

efficient and competitive craft on all but the trans-Atlantic | route.

prove

an

same

With its turbo-prop aircraft

Britain is in a much better) position. America has in the course of development the medium range Lockheed

Electra-with a temporary power unit--and not much else, unlosa the Super Constellation and the Con- vairs are adapted. Britain has in prospect the long- Britannia, the range medium-range Vickers Van- guard, and in quantity pro- duction the Viscount which is selling well all over the world. And the industry has a number of jet and turbo-prop engines of proven excellence.

THERE is not quite the same

confidence In the now American power units and it has even been suggested that some of the пезу American planes should be equipped with British jet and turbo-prop engines. It is therefore wrong, to say that British commercial aircraft are a "guneration" behind the Americans. In the field of military air- craft, It is of course. A different story and it is this side of the industry to which Mr.Wigg'a remarks should more properly apply, Some Vickers Vallants are now in aquadron service but there are not nearly enough

about."

Before the Commission issued its announcements, the Weston College Observatory seismograph at Weston, Massachusetts, recorded a "strong" earthquake 6,300 miles northwest of Boston, possibly in the Kam- chatka peninsula in Siberis.

A Weston Observatory spokesman said the shock was recorded at 1.41 a.m. EST. At Fordham University, New York, the seismograph recorded a "quake" coming in two shocks at 1.41 a.m. and 1.61 a.m.

Russia announced some time ago that it had success- fully tested a hydrogen bomb.-United Press,

Bulganin

MP Checking

Slavery Reports

London, Nov. 22. Socialist MP James Johnson is obecking

-~

por. thai laves are being abducted from the Soulb Sudan through Abyssinia to Arabia,

Today in the House of. Commons ke asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether British warships etfil patroliod the Red Bea 10 counter slaving. ww 1011 that all British ships were under

Draft suspected

of carrying alaves, but that there had been no incidenta in recent your

ordels to search

Johnson said he had received reports of sodéo slave trade but that he wanted to check them before he went ADY further..

Slavery idatii legal and widely praölised · In And the Saudi Arabia. Temen-London-· · Express

Service.

ADENAUER BACK

a

vaa "ne begeon which it began on Sept. 30 when the WETAL parliament decided by a 20-27 vote to put the Algerian ques- tion on its worksheet.

Offers India Economic Aid

Bombay, Nov. 23.

Marshal Nikolai Bulganin, the Soviet Prime Minister, said at a civic reception that the Soviet Union completely sympathised with the legitimate desire of the Indian people to attain economic in- dependence and was ready to co-operate with India in the field of economic construction.

"We stand for the development of economic ties with India, for widening the trade between our coun- tries, for the exchange of scientific and technical achievements and for creating co-operation ›which, is of mutual benefit," he said.

In Its. foreign policy, Marshal' Prime Minister, Nehru in the

Di Bulganin sald, the Soviet Union cause

and, sold perce was acting in accordance with Nehru's name was closely. con- the idea which was put forward nected with the fight of the by the great Lenin of the prin- peuple of India for peace and ciple of peaceful co-existence of citors to establish. friendly re states which had different 'social lations between countries and in systems,

favour of peaceful co-existence. The foreign policy of the.

"The Prime Minister of India Soviet Union is directed toward fully knows that co-existence is further lessening of international the only way for all the states. tensions. It in directed to ¦ Otherwise there is only, one strengthening the confidence in alternative-mutual destruction. relations" "between states 31 interests, of gelibement of

of inter- mcons.'of national probicmar by men regotiations. It is directed to securing security for everybody. for attaining durable and lasting peace," Bulgarin gold,

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It was, high time, he said, that we got rid of "the morinal seas civil servants made their reports. He boloves the Ferolga by the Colonial Office,

Lambros said that beside the Harlow. Fraden, now an Under this system the Foreign wooden poles he spotted, what inmate of the Malicawan Sid

for the criminally Office diplomatic staff, he said, might be an overturned life raft. Instituto

The Coast Guard

insane, will receive all but constantly being awitched bety

amphibian PBM between London and foreign

Salem, Massachusetts, and the $10,000 of the $75,000 estate stations, thus ensuring there cutter Cook Inlet from

Wood's his parents left after he kill experienced men always

ed them. The $10,000 will be Hole. Massachusetts, to investi- in London to take decisions and

shared by 13 other relatives gate.

under the provisions

of an give expert advice.

The Coast Guard reported that wooden crates

agreement approved, today by The Colonial Office had

the Bronx Surrogate. and tarpaulin had becn fost FRENCH ATTITUDE entirely different system

dropped previously from the

Fradon is now 24 His por- everseas ptracnnel were switched Texas French sources said any pro-

Tower radar observation of the iqguey will be ad- to 10% colonial station their from one posal that could lerd to

miles post 30

westministered by an attorney. retum under full face-saving, another, but rarely, he claimed, tion condi'ions must first bo sub- were they brought back to Lon- northwest of the spot where tho fofsum was scon. How-

Under the law a murderer is mitted to Paris and it was un-

ever the boxes Were not barred from sharing any part likely that the French delega-

brightly painted and would of the estate of his victim. How- They could make reports and under tion,

ony circumstances, would be back in its seris be-recommendations but decisions not be confused with the poles evey, Fraden was proven instine is be both before and at the time of wero taken by "ime-serving" by Lambros, it civil servants in London who.

the poisoning. Under the law an Leslie read said Captain

Lambros was lying one of insome Kerby, "virtually

killer is entitled to Lono planer hired by an In- benefit. surance firm, Crels & Crea of New York City, to continue Fraden, had an accomplice, search after the Coast Dennis Weppman, 22, who is Guard abandoned hope-United porving a guol -term for second Press.

degree murder-Untied Press,

fore next week.

don.

As 500 8 Sir Mr. Maza's letter to the Com-have never been abroad." mittee, the group approved an 'Equadorian adjournment motion by a 46-0 vole.--United Press,

STOP PRESS

INVALUABLE

Overpens civil servants of proved ability should be brought back Home for a spell of duty in London where their experience would be invaluable, thought Capt. Kerby.

While urging the Colonial Office to adopt the Foreign Qffice system Capi, Koby sald ovoid the it must at all costs latter's mistake of "covering up failures." Ita coloniai ad- ministrator proved unsuccessful in one post he should not be sont to do a similar job in another [colony,

The Colonial Secretary, apart from saying that he attached great importance to the ex- perience of overseas civil ser- vants being available in Lon don, give no information as to what further-steps he proposed· to take in either of the two ponta raised by Capt. Kerby.

Britain Voted Off FAO Executive Council

Rome, Nov. 23. Tiritain was tonight voted off Lom the 24-nation executive counell rat: the United Nations Food and Agriculture Gre ganisation

conference hart.

"On behalf. of the Soviet Union I express my deep respect for the position of the govern | ment of India which is stand«. inst

for

prohibition. af atomic weapons, against the spread of AT WORK TODAY satisfaction that In the ment of

"The Soviet people note with now war and for the setic-

internacional prob Bonn, Nov. 23 salon of defence of lems by means of ne

Fol of India are The Soviet 2 syllations... | One of the fiva, European coun The West German Chancellor, pesor the people

:tha Is doubtful whether the Dr Konrad Adenauer, now renghting actively with those wife efforts of the goversament of in favour of peaceful India in the case of peace and RAF is fully satisfied with covered from his recent attack

of bronchitpróumtoala, Wi co-existence,

to convince anyone that the air force is qu yet being pro- porly equipped. for the jot age. Certainly its needs demand top priority, but it

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for solutions of unsalted prob

"the dAs a result, of thi

all three. Volass bombers resume his official duffes to Bulgariaid it was India Jems of Anlat so far designed. Once it morrow. The Chancellor was which, has made up its mind, that taken 111 de October 17/ will be the time to seek the On Friday, Dr-Adesunier Co-operation of the indus-bok his first Cabinet med trý v to 1 concaitrate; all its winde verly- Tisouroson. A bullding) da hASIN ANGEBO

will declared th

efforts; //[the): DAUNA Republic,^ India: and Uhink have stopped

Another vote on an Australian point of order requested that the validity of the volo be re- ferred to lhe conferenés gen- oral committee, and that - to- day's sertiōn be adjourned. It was passed by 82:yotes to 10. Britain abstained.

possible" that after

hearing commites's ad- conference would

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