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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1955,

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Portugal Would Defend Goa UN HOPES FOR S Brawl Trial SETTLEMENT INTERPRETER

DETERMINED TO

REMAIN IN

INDIAN ENCLAVE

Ottawa, Dec. 12,

Dr Paulo Cunha, Foreign Minister of Portugal, said today his country would de- fend Goa if it was attacked by India.

He said that Portugal alone could not possibly win a war with India over posses- sion of Goa.

"I do not believe that India will attempt to take Goa by force, he said.

Contract For Part Of Satellite

Washington, Dec. 12.

"The would be wrong unjust and would

to India'a

and

role as

be contrary a peaceful

inte and champion of inter- nations) Inw,"

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world

defend Gea by with all her power," he

Mall,

Die With Honour

The Navy today awarded would

д

"We know very well that we

bo amanied in such war. But we would defend Goa

said

A contract for construction and die there with honour," he of part of the huge rocket that will burl ALI earth-

Dr Cunha sud Gon would be circling satellite vehicle into defended because it was a pro- outer space,

of Portugal and not A

The contract werd la Also eniony as claimed by indin and

of Azusa, Cal-the Russian Communists. Geral Corp.

which

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"We have a moral reason for being there, he said. "Goa is part of Portugal and our maity reason for wanting to stay there

At pre-

Bez rocket motor for the second singe of the three-stage is not economic profit. ticket velace which wit blast et Portugal is spending some- Th satellite abunt 200 miles thing like one million dollars a above the earth's surface during Year

Grophysical Year

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Gon and receiving International nothing in return through taxes

1937:58

First Stage

De Cunha said the puple of [Portugal would be grief-stricken refused 34) The Ast stage of the rocket! Western nations

will be fullt by Glenn L.. Martin help Portuguese forces prevent

Baltimore, Maryland, Inline invaste Co

which was previously awarded

the prane

contract (2

lounching vehicle,

stabe

emtract

the

Settle Differences

the third

The loss of Goa to Portugal the launching vehicle,

be th luss ut a free which will contain the suit wouli satelite self, has not yet been entry to the Western world," awarded

he wait.

The Navy announcernent dis- There were no problems ix closed that the first-stage rocket, tween India und Cua which which

will binst the satellite off could not be solved. Portugal earth surface, will be A was ready at any time to open modified and magised Vikingongotiations with India to sellle rocket, built by Marin

differences.

the

The Viking leads the wald's

allfunky revard for a ringle-stage Present problems were being rocket of 150 miles, set in May, used by the Communists to stir 1954

up haired between the people ned Goa. The cam- of Indla

the Com- part of

to divide the Western world from Asia,

More Efficient

The major

Improvement

SOM GRIET 201

the Viking launching rocket, the munist attempt

Navy said, will be a more eff

clent rocket motor

now being

Dr Cunha also said there was

developed by the General Elve-donger that India would seek to trie Co.

fo

The Best earth satellite is due be launched sometime in 1957/58 as part of US participa tion

expand in Africa.

Any loss of

(erritory 1x1 Africa by the Western world would be serious because the continent was one

in the International of the word's major sources of

Geophysical Year. US scientists hope eventually to shoot about) 10 of the satellites into outer

this

space during

United Press.

period.

raw material resources.

He

desertbed Africa vulnerable link inost Western world Reuter

as the

in the

A British Crossword Puzzle

24

2

ACROSS

1 Lubricate (0).

7. Lofty (4).

D Fruit (5).

18 Not frosh (8),

11 Present (4).

18 Giving up hope (10).

Before

long (4).

When prefidice (4).

19 Reinforce (10).

22 Beold (4).

Dervo (5).

25 Course (5). 20 Mua (4) 27 Boxes (0),

18

Ingrid Bergman In New Renoir Film ON NEW GUINEA NOT GUILTY

News Rut director Jean Benoir 'is working on a film is always good news for lovĽTE

His current one, being shot at a studio in Paris, is based of the cinema

on the tife of Also in the east are Mel General Boulanger and stars Swedish-born actress Ingrid Bergman. Ferrer and Jean Marais.

and composer M. Renoir is shown here, left, with Miss Bergman Joseph KosITER.—Express Photo.

CHILD PRODIGY CONTROVERSY

Did

The

Blind Girl

Write

Poems And Letters?

Paris, Dec. 12.

iti France Controversy

supposed child prodigy. eight-year-old Minou Drouet. whose poems and letters were published for the first time This

boiled up again terday with the publication of "evidence" purporting doubt on the girl's

year.

Rete

to

tast

works.

1948 Letter

The coening newspaper, France Solr revealed a letter written

1948 by Mm Claudo Drouet, foster muther of the Title portes, 10 # Paris publisher, in which

she pro-

little Minou, the newspaper said, Minou wan adopted a She year later,

was at the time only one year old and

living in a Paris orphanage.

The newspaper asked, “One can pose the question-Was Mmu Claude Drouct a specialist in child prodigies?"

written the poema and letters herself.

waa

little Minou Later,

separated from

her foster mother for six days and lived with publisher Julliard, where the produced more poema,

Photostatic Copy

The controversy arose followtra

the publication of a limited | ****ONESPE edition of 500 copies of

poema

and letters attributed to the | Today's development was ac- Tittie girl by a well-known publisher. Rene Julliard,

magazine

A Paris women's

its reporters to

to interview the girl and reported that the

m Impressed them having been possibly written by Mmw Drowel rather than her adopted daughter.

issed a manuscript of "Poems Two handwriting experts came By A Little Blind Girl,"

to the BQJK conclusion, but

third

this contradicted

the and supported finding theory

hait

In 1948, Mine Drouet

did not wet know of the existence of

MIDWIFE

BATTLES

THROUGH

SNOW

But Baby Born

15

18

00

DOWN

2 Pents (5).

3 Scent (5).

4 Make certain of (8).

& Motionless. (8).

- Musical key (4).

8 Set straight (5).

12 Joint part

(G)).

13 Exclude (5).

14 Plagued (8).

17

Flower

(B).

18 Feverish (6),

20 Elegance (5).

21 Custora (0) 23 Among

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 1 Swamps, 4 Pinch, Achies, & Spook 10 Bied, 13 Remorse, 15 Vigili 10 Pool, 17- Oder, 19 Goros, 20 Sustain, 21 Ream, 23 Blone, 24 Craven, 25 *** 16 Fludes Down: 1, Shampoos, 2 Achieves 3 Pint. 5 Improper. © Choola, Felon, 11 Dlends; 13 Rigid, 18 Reserved,

ments, 18 Duster, 22. Oral

Cardiff, Dec. 12.

A

A 63-year-old midwife bourd fire engine battled through blinding patient in the snow to a Welsh Hills last night.

Twice the fire engine was dug out of snow drifts. Finally, it got through to a remote cottage in the village of Cym Burgoed, 1,243 feet up and 18 miles north of Cardiff.

But when Nurse Anna Davies hurried inside, 40-year-old Betty Harris had her baby, a; girl.

A neighbour had helped deliver it.

Three Attempts Nurse Davies had made three attempts to reach the village by ambulance from Merthyr TydЛi Drifting mow on the moun-

a

that

the child

|VODKA FLOWS

IN DELHI

New Delhi Dec. 12. THE Soviet leaders, Mar- shal Bulganin and Mr Khrushchev, tonight

the

lavish moot reception for Italian leaders that the capital has seen since Indla WAN granted her in-

Fave

dependence,

Vodka flowed freely at a buffet dinner attended by Mr Nehru, the In- dian Premier, President Rajendra Prasad #nd 1,000 guests at the In- dlan Government's guest

palace. Diplomata

offered were more than 80 dishes, in« cluding caviar, lobster, stuffed turkey. sucking And asparagus

Dis

by

meringues provided by Delhi caterers at a cost rupees per head of 50

(about £3 158), The palace was lik

Thousands of coloured lights representing_50- foot high Indian and Bo- viot fings. An

Ilium! nated peace dove red star appeared to float above the roof-Reuter.

and

tuin ronds beat them each time Tito Shoots

Then the chief of the local fire brigade, Mr Jack Davice, took

out the

Ostriches

Addis Ababa, Dec. 12. Yugoslav President Josip

fire engine. Many parts of Briton had their first snow of the winter yesterday. In Central England, nine amateur gilder pilots were today cut off in their club hond quarters on a 1,500-foot peak.

In parts of Wales BODW ploughs were wording to clear Ancalia region of Ethiopia on drifts and in Bootland three ihighland ronde were blocked-China Mull

Broz Tio shot three ostriches.

while today,

the Crossing

way to Addis

Ababa,

companied ov a photostatic copy of the 1948 letter written by Mme. Droust to a Paris publisher, offering DoCme written "by a little blind girl who reveals within them the marvellous world which she created with her heart." Minou Drouet was blind for

several year.

The publisher in 1948 rejected the poems as lacking in in- terest and of doubtful authen-*| ticity ---France-Prezic.

BROADSIDE

A

AGAINST

RELIGION

Manchester, Dec. 12. BRITISH educational- ist who rocked the na- tion earlier this year by telling a nationwide radio audience there is no God said yesterday religious training does not keep men out of gaol.

It does höstöp women from loading an immoral life gither, Mra Margaret Knight told the annual convention of the

Secular National

Society. Catholics, for instance, ri- ceive more religious training than anyone else yet have

do the highest rate. ot linquency,

It was Mrs Knight's second broadside against religion. In har first talk over BBC Last

the January

championed aclentino

humaniem against Christianity and told parents "they should not An their children's heads with religious Instruction

Stuck To Guns

The broadcast stirred storm of controversy across the country but Mre-Knight stuck to her guns. Yesterday she blasted Christianity again.

"Statistics showing that Romon Catholics religious: training reduces delinquency are un-

United Nations, Dec. 12..

The General Assembly's Main Political Committee completed its work for this year today by adopting unanimously a resolution expressing hope for "fruitful" negotiations between the Netherlands and Indonesia over Dutch New Guinea.

The resolution was declared adopted by acclamation in the absence of any objection.

Dutch-Indonesian negotiationa

on West New Guineu (known lo

the Indonesians as West Iria First Private

and other mutual problems be- gan on Saturday in The Hague.

Thus, by a rezolution care- fully worded to win approval of both Governments, the UN disposed of, in a friendly way. what had threatened the bo

the session gloning of

to be one of the Assembly's most ex- plosive sues,

Considered Question

Jet Plane

19

London, Dec:"12. Christopher Glinaki, 34-

old Polish interpreter, was today found not guilty of giving false evidenos Comer and Italian Albert at the trial of Jack “Spot” Dimes.

The jury took 88 minutes to sequit ɑlinski after the Judge- in his summing-up--had referral alleged conversation between senior detectives and Glinski and told them: "There is no minoing of words in this c030. The attitude of the defence is that those two police officers have invented, this conversation, that it is i tissue of lies from baglaning to "ond"

Saw Fight

Paris, Dec. 12. The world's first jot-powered

The prosecution had claimed Gllaski comunitted wilful that which private plane. French-built, has earned itself perjury when he gave evidence a spot on the American market, for the defence at the trial at the plane's builder, Raymond Comer and Dimos-who were both found not guilty of fighting Saunier, said at a press con-

with a man ference here today.

In Boho though, Ho said that the piane, the both were badly wounded, ... four-piace twin-je Morane Gliniki then said bo'saw tho Saulnier 700, completed more fight but did not know Comer than 700 hours of tests in the or where he Kvod,, United States with record-

At his trial, he maintained breaking minimum of mechani- that his evidenco was true cal attention.

Last week Jack Comer's wife, He said that the

for Beechcraft Margaret, was · fined, £50 the Company in the United States conspiring to rig evidence ta rt- intends to build the plane for her husband's defence. Three As tho

Novy and for speed- | other men chargod with her conscious American business- were

The resolution, sponsored by Ecuador, New Zealand, Norway and Syria goes to an Assembly plenary session for certain final approval.

As

concession to

Indonesian position, the solution stated that the sembly bad "considered" the West Irian questioi.

Actually, discussion was con- aned to arguments early in the session in the steering com- mittee and then the Assembly on October 8 voled to put the question on the 1985 agenda.

The

Dutch and Australian delegations had objected strongly to any debate

this

year. Indonesia had failed last уенг to obtain an Assembly resolution calling for bilateral negotiations on West New Guinea

The resolution approved to- day expressed hope for peaceful settlement and noted that the Dutch and Indonesian

had governments

Last week Issued a joint statement agree- ing, among other things, to talk OVCT "certain problems concerning Now...Guinea." United Press,

More German

Prisoners

Return

THE

Berlin, Dec. 12. THE Arst German prison- to return home from Russian prison

ers

camps since repatriations. came to a sudden stop on October 20 arrived in West Berlin today.

who

Part of

a batch of 416 arrived

Fuerstenwalde transit camp in East Germany last night about 150 left the camp for West Germany to- day and 53 Germans and four Austrians arrived in West BCT- 1in this morning. [

·

Red Cross officials think more

wiil

for be home in time Christmas and they are wait- ing for news of Inore trans- ports. It was believed 280 more prisoters were due to leave The Gorki agstembly camp for Germany today.

Some of the men who arrived In Berlin today said they had gone in

hunger strike against the delay in returning. them..

ц

Technical Reasons

Was

dize

to

to

Soviet officials had told them

the delay West Germany - failing "keep to its obligations” and "ta technical reasons,"

Some ex-prisoners the

thought the break in repairiations. Was duo to "glorification of earlier hamccomers, and the Socialist newspaper

Nacht

Depesche sald tonight the prisoners should in future be

received with less noise" and not it be halled heroes,

眼線

trus abe said: "Catholics |It is widely believed in West

receive intense religious train-

be/Where ha' is to be the guest of |- ing yot'they are the most de=)}

Germany that the Rumiane ragarded the agreement “on:

the Ethiopian Emperor. Halle Loquent group in Britain.meetriation reached by Chhan- Solame

Tokyo, Dec. 12. Marshei Tito left the port of Baitama Prefectural Police Headquarters reported some 300 Assab earlier today in a futura lous caravan-bus lent him by Dolion

the Emperor.

policemen

from 81 Blations today arrested (:210- criminals, including

·burglas,

The Yugoslav Prezidání des In the in raids at various placem

when he accompanied Prefecture, forth of Tokyo in s to take part in the shoot Pollon maid 1 was the biggest game Funke organized 5X)

hóhour during?bing series of raids made in the Pre foeture: thi Epecial..

"The proportion of Catholics in 4Britam, is about eight. A per cmt.: Fot1: $8 per cent of the in Holloway Goat

alior Konrad Adenauer Bioscow as part of the political deal sunder which West Ger many agreed to establish diplomatic relations.

The seven-

Germany

men.--France-Presse.

by

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