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THE CHINAS MADURA
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1955.
Russian Leaders Made A
Mistake
LORD READING CRITICAL OF BURMA VISIT
London, Dec. 21.
Lord Reading, Minister of State at the Foreign Office, said today that top Soviet leaders in their Asian tour “have no doubt done their best not only to set the East against the West but to set the East against the East as well.”
Lord Reading
LAOTIAN TROOPS ATTACK
Paris, Dec 21 The Communist New Chinn News Agency state today that
Laotian Royal
troops launched "new attacks" against pro-Vietminh Pathet L.no units
province.
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On
Laotian troops
Ang attacked Pothet me tro0339
in Pachon, but were forved to withdraw after
rounded
Kuerilla
by local lighters,
said.
being
N1- antaran pract the news
Royal Laotian troops hav ON cupled six siringholds held
the Pothet Lau units se akreement signed between Laus
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described the
visits of
Premier Nikolai Bul- Kanin and Communist Party Chief. Nikita Khrushchev io Tunda Bera and Afghanistan as this peregrination in certain Baton rountries."
At the ante time, Lord Real- ing wild the House of Lords that the Soviet benchers scheduled visit to Britain in April was not
JI state visit
Official Capacity
He said on invitation had beeni extended
bestols of the
Government by the Prime Minister, to these two Hussian bruders the pay a visi in their afferal capilly to this country."
Lord Reading said he did not "think it is true DO NHY trust
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He said the Soviet lenders have not yet found out that the people of Asta are neither children nor fools, but men in the world of men When they And out that, they may and a tes hniques for kaling
better with them "---France-Presse
Arms Agreement Ratified
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Bors, De The Bono Parliament today radned the treaty under which US will help orm West Germany's new Welirmnebi.
The treaty was approved by The Bukerat
(upper house)
by an unanimous show of hands The first arms deliveries the West German armed
Cas
Fear 15 Die In Austrian Avalanche
the leader blown mountalu hom, members of one of the rescue teams look- kig for avalanche victims in the Tanctn Mountains 40 miice south of Balzburg prem
forward in their search. The avalanche, 100 metres broad, fell, burying 15 members of a construction party working 7,000 feet up on the Kaprun Dam—Expreis Photo.
GRASSHOPPER WAR
Victoria Wins Total Victory
Melbourne, Dec. 21. THE State government.j
Red Antarctic T
Expedition
Nears S. Africa
Capetown, Dec. 21.
of Victoria announced "total victory" today over a swarm of grasshoppers that invaded 365 square miles.
The battle started last weekend and today the government de- clored that it had saved crops valued at A £10,000,000,
The Russian geophysical expedition ship Ob is ex-The State Minister for Agricul- pected to reach Capatown on Saturday on her way to the Antarctic.
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The Ob. 7,400 tons, is carry- 100 scientists, helicopters, Igelubriculed
tractors. houses. Hugs and signal gear, whileh will be used to set up elaborate brses on Knox Coast, Wilkes Land, in the Antarctic.
The Ob la the most modern ship the Soviet register. She was this built in the Netherlands year. and was specially adapled for the headquarters ship Russian expedition.
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and Pather Pan in Rangoon last ones were expected to begin the Ob in the Lena, the second
October
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That
Second Ship
Following the same route as
tha expedition ship, while
November Refrigerator The amount of the first in- carrying provisione for the total
han not
of 350 scientists secious, talent
been
complement 411-
nut sailors. reported to $3,000,000.--United
Pathet wotnia
violation of the Geneva agree- / Bouneed but ment un Indle-Elia and the Run- foial
goon agreement. France-Preser
Press
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Three separate observation stations are to be set up for one year which will keep in touch with each other by alr evaft and ratio.
The expeditions arc the Soviet contribution to the Inter- national Geophysical Year.- France-Presse,
Expedition To Equitorial Africa
Moscow, Dec. 21.
The Soviet Union is prepar- Ing to send a scientific expedi- Hon to Equitorial Africa in con- nection with the International Geophysics Year, it was en- nounced today,
sald
Mr A. Bakharev, secretary of the Tadzhikistan astronomical observatory,
Soviet physicists, geophysteists, 'meteo- rologists and other scientists will participate in the expedi→ tion.
of
Meanwhile, a recent meeting
the presidium -of the
ture, Mr Gordon MacArthur, said: "It cost Us £250,000 for planes and insecticide to spray the plague area of more than 368 square miles, But It was worth it, we've won."
Stripped Fields
peratures varied from a little
above freezing point to nearly 100 degrees.
At one stage, the grasshopper clouds were within 85 miles of Melbourne. Farmers through-
the
State feared out
they would lose all their crops. But while the grasshoppers caused several hundred pounds worth of damage,
official estimates indicate that the State's total wheat crop, worth
£11,000,000, WEB saved. United Press,
Communism
Must Be Warded Off
At the wookend, the plague was at its worst and airplanes, chemicals and men word thrown into the battle to wipe out hundreds of millions of grasshoppers devouring off whent and vegetable crops along the lush Murray River Valley.
Clouds of grasshoppers swept
along this river border be tween Vittoria and New South Wales, stripping neids, Loying waste
and gardens carpeting highways. Insecticide companies worked
Overtime to
vast supply quantities of chemicals, which were sprayed by aircraft over the afflicted areas.
On
the
ground,
Bonn, Dec. 21. West Germany must ward communism to prevent
it from enslaving all of Europe, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer said in a year-end report on his government's activity, published here to- day.
Dr Adenauer said there is not any contradiction between West the Germany's membership in "free world" and renowal of Soviet-West German relations.
Dr Adenauer sald West Germany remains in the Western to ensure its future and emergency camp gangs dug ditches and filled its freedom against communism, them with
then built which huge fires in the path of the world conquest.” grasshoppers,
oll.
In the early stages of the battle, it looked as if the grasshoppers would too strong.
be
The task Was mado more dimeull by extreme weather changes in the area when tem-
he
said is "aimed at
Under-Estimates
Dr Adenauer said the West La It under- threatened because estimates "the Communist din- ger" and risks being misled by the Communist "co-existence
propaganda."
Dr Adenauer said the "dramatic" events for West Germany were: 1. Putting in effect of the Paris treatles; 2.
Didn't Blow Recovery of "German" severel
Their
Horns
Paris, Dec. 21.
Academy of Sciences decided A total of 1,664 persons
that Rusein's African
and were given summons · for
Arable studies were lasufficient, having blown their motor and resolved to expand ita
studies of southern and central car horns in Paris Idot African areas, with special at month, but 66
were
tention to history, economy, ticketed for fallure to do language and literature.
United Press.
Spies Sentenced
tribunal tlenth
To Death
soin an emergency, the Municipal Bulletin an- nounced today.
An anti-noise ordinance for- bids · hop blowing by cars C** cept when an accident appeara Immitment.
Dumam, Dec. 31.
A month's list of mis.. threo - min "military" demeanora and violationa, showe today, "sintenced to od a total of 39,528-dnostly for by: firing squad Ave parking on the wrong side of Arabe on darges of moving and the street, Four wore sued to collaboration with the coery. motorists for having spiltered
Two others were sentenced to mid on pedestrians. life imprison with
labour-
Among
bar with hard
Only soveel were fallabd for
ta drunken driving, douth was Jabr Dahlhi Droodies, more fde finanifest and publie
YESTERDAY'S OROSSWORD=—-Accom: 1 Cocker, 8. Bunch, a mambos of Israel's, Kommu |inebriation.” 6. Limon, B. Morial, 10 Timid, 11 New 11: Anow, 13 Lowes 16 (Parliament)
Autosh, 18 Autots, 20 Dalos, 22 Grip. 25 Roads, 35 Tapir 26
Elde 27 Atoné, 48 Sells 20 Twenty Down: 1 Compared, 3 have
Corporal, 3 klaus, Roadre, a Bottles 8 Unison, 7 Calma 14 ago while inalt Startoon, 15 Sympathy, 19, Asserts, 17 Student, 19 Herial, 21 amriér od
Slaw,
Enty: 3. Soviet-West Germans negotiations; and 4. The high- level Big-Four conferences held In Geneva-France-Presse,
Gifts
FOREIGN AID
Paga, 3
Nicosia Bars Guard
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SQUANDERED Against Bombing
SAYS SENATOR
Washington, Dec. 11. Senator Harty Byrd (Denvorst, Virginis) said. today thai: two hundred million dollars in foreign nia funds had been given to Britain to finance 'a Ux qul before the lust general election (lu May this year).
I told reporters that he had received confirma. tion of this from Mr Harold Slasten, former Foreign Ald Administrator.
Senator. Byrd said sho thai one hundred millga dollars foreign aid funda had been used to help pay off a Danish debt. He mid many billions of dollars had been squandered on foreign aid.
Benator Byrd's attack on foreign ald spending believed to herald some
strong opposition in Con- grens to the tion's
Administra
increased foreign ald programme for nexË year.—Chins Mall Special.
Nicosia, Dec. 21.
All shops in Nicosia sold out of chicken- wire today in the aftermath of a military order declaring bars and cabarets out of bounds until windows are covered with · wire screening.
Long queues of bar owners, hotel, keepers and cabaret proprietors stood in front of shops as they rushed to get the wire and "in bounds" notices.
The order was issued yester-{ day by the Military Polico and the Provost Marshal of the Cyprus District. It declared all places of entertainment out of
bounda after flying window glass sliced through 15 diners at the Quagies bar in Nicosia on Saturday.
Guard For Santa
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Santa Claus came to Cyprus today, but he had an armed guard and a helicopter with him. Santa (a Royal Air Forco chaplain) was greeted by hundred children of Royal Air Forco families when he arrived in Nicosia by helicopter.
He distributed premuts while
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# watchful RAF Regiment patrolled the area.
British troops went shopping 11 Ledra and Reiting Streets here today, while patrols carry- ing Sten guns stond near all shops used by British personnel, It was not unusual to ste klited Scottish soldier, with his wife and children, walking down the street carrying parcels and a Sten gun,
New Order
At the airport today, guards operated under a new order to search all passengers luggage and tum back well wishers and thoso arcing travellers off, after It was reported that more "air- crewmen" were going to Athens than woo coming in United Press
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